Re: which files took the space

2016-03-03 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On 4/03/2016 3:07 AM, Adam Wilson wrote: > On Fri, 4 Mar 2016 03:03:53 +1100 Andrew McGlashan > <andrew.mcglas...@affinityvision.com.au> wrote: >> It also may have been files in the file system, but where another file >> system mount hides them > > What does

exim4 maildir_tag

2016-03-07 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Hi, I want to use this feature of dovecot [1]. But it requires that each Maildir filename include ",S=$message_size" in the file names. How can I get exim4 to create all new emails using the maildir_tag format? I believe that I need to add this in to my config, but I've tried to do so and am

Re: exim4 maildir_tag

2016-03-07 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On 8/03/2016 4:31 AM, Darac Marjal wrote: > On Tue, Mar 08, 2016 at 02:48:56AM +1100, Andrew McGlashan wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I want to use this feature of dovecot [1]. >> >> But it requires that each Maildir filename include ",S=$message_size" in &

Re: exim4 maildir_tag

2016-03-07 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On 8/03/2016 4:31 AM, Darac Marjal wrote: > On Tue, Mar 08, 2016 at 02:48:56AM +1100, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > Probably the easiest way is to get dovecot to create the files. Look at > either http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA/Exim or > http://wiki.dovecot.org/LMTP/Exim for how to tell Exi

Re: Is it possible to conduct a Debian install over wifi (iwlwifi)?

2016-03-07 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On 8/03/2016 6:30 AM, Nicolas George wrote: > L'octidi 18 ventôse, an CCXXIV, Brian a écrit : >>> dpkg --fsys-tarfile /path/to/file.deb | tar x >> >> You've tried using dpkg from a console in the installer at the install >> stage we are considering? Feel free to report back on your experience. >

Re: Converting to Maildir

2016-03-05 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Hi, On 5/03/2016 6:12 AM, Joel Roth wrote: > What is interesting, is that mb2md prepends a '.' to all of > the existing mbox folder names it converts. Also, dots in > existing folder names are converted to underscore. > > Is there something magical about the dot in the Maildir format? Yes, it

Re: page up down keys fail to work in gmail

2016-04-02 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Just quickly, I think you will find that gmail intercepts keystrokes and gives them their own "function", rather nasty I think, to break standard UI interface of a browser tab. A.

old /dev/mapper entries -- sort of fixed with "vgscan --mknodes"

2016-04-02 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Hi, I removed a bunch of no longer required logical volumes from lvm, using lvremove (mostly with -f option to save answering every time when I was already sure it was right). The symlinks remain in /dev/mapper /and /dev/vgname/ for them. Having since created a new logical volume, there is

Re: on-demand mounting of filesystems via Systemd (e.g. /backup)

2016-04-24 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On 24/04/2016 8:10 PM, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: > Could you please keep your cancer to lists where people are not expected > to follow a minimal code of conduct[1]? I call jelly fish on your entire post. systemd continues to cause much more trouble than it is worth for so many people -- I really

Re: Posts don't show on list

2016-04-22 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On 22/04/2016 11:02 PM, Mimiko wrote: > On 22.04.2016 11:59, Gene Heskett wrote: >> What you Mimiko, should be doing is using your own ISP's mail server, >> which on this mailing list I am, by setting up your own email agent. >> There are quite a few available for linux. > > I don't want to use

Re: Posts don't show on list

2016-04-22 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On 23/04/2016 3:39 AM, John Hasler wrote: > David writes: >> I only use my ISP sending from home, and never for receiving mail. > > I pay my ISP to connect me to the Net. They do a pretty good job of > that. I pay Newsguy to handle email for me. They do an excellent job. > I pay Gandi to

Re: My script almost works but spams the terminal its launched from if useing dash.

2016-04-21 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On 17/04/2016 3:11 AM, Aero Maxx wrote: >> bin/mailwatcher > /dev/null 2>&1 & Perhaps better still... bin/mailwatcher >& /dev/null & Without specifying STDOUT or STDERR you get both. ;-) AndrewM signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Viber 6

2016-04-27 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On 27/04/2016 12:23 AM, Man_Without_Clue wrote: > Once again, problem with the Viber. > > Debian Jessie, 64 bit. LXDE desktop > > Viber version 6 downloaded from their site. Why? Use something else, a tox client maybe, but not Viber and definitely not Skype either. Viber's terms and

Re: jessie systemd shutdown sequence

2016-04-27 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Hi, On 27/04/2016 1:21 AM, Vladislav Kurz wrote: > reason ignores the ACPI button, and does not shut down. Yeah systemd will > kill > it eventually (5 minutes or so), but I would prefer to log into such machine > and issue correct shutdown. Unfortunately the neworking was gone at that >

Re: on-demand mounting of filesystems via Systemd (e.g. /backup)

2016-04-23 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On 21/04/2016 7:19 AM, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: > Here is a quick example in an interactive shell: > > +--- > | # umount /boot; ls /boot > | [empty] > | # unshare -m Wheezy seems to need: # unshare -m /bin/bash Jessie gives you the shell by default (perhaps your default). Cheers AndrewM

Re: on-demand mounting of filesystems via Systemd (e.g. /backup)

2016-04-23 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On 21/04/2016 5:44 AM, John L. Ries wrote: >> Thanks! I think we need to share more examples on how to use systemd >> properly. A lot of the criticism stems from the simple fact that people >> just need to learn what the new tools can do for them. > > That would be an indication that systemd is

Re: TCP/IP over Bluetooth

2016-04-23 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On 23/04/2016 10:33 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Saturday 23 April 2016 07:52:06 Curt wrote: >> http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/10915 >> >> works fine here. Yes, other pages worked fine too. > I finally did get to the article, but had to clear it with privacy badger > and ghostery and

Re: all at a sudden Firefox

2016-04-28 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On 29/04/2016 9:43 AM, Juan R. de Silva wrote: > All at a sudden Firefox started opening all websites with tiny fonts. I > have to hit Ctl++ several times on each new page to be able to reed it. > > The only thing changed before the problem showed up - Google Chrome was > updated to the

mjg59 | Skylake's power management under Linux is dreadful and you shouldn't buy one until it's fixed

2016-04-14 Thread Andrew McGlashan
This looks like a very big OUCH for latest generation of Intel based laptops! -- desktops might be okay though. http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/41713.html Kind Regards AndrewM signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: ssh again

2016-06-19 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On 15/06/2016 12:32 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > scp /path/to/file username@a:/path/to/destination use: scp -p source destination Without -p, you get a new date/timestamp at the very least. Always a good idea(tm) to use -p when copying, even locally. Cheers A. signature.asc Description:

boot problem after updating dropbear

2016-09-25 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Hi, After dropbear update as follows: < ii dropbear 2012.55-1.3 amd64lightweight SSH2 server and client --- > ii dropbear 2012.55-1.3+deb7u1 amd64lightweight SSH2 server and client Debian Version 7.11 (Wheezy) Before

Re: boot problem after updating dropbear [solved -- MANUAL initrd works required]

2016-09-26 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Hi, Okay, it turns out that the only files that were missing were ones that I had in the /etc/initramfs-tools/root/ directory. The only files in the faulty initrd image were from the /etc/initramfs-tools/root/.ssh/ directory, so missing .profile and other required files. I modified the

Re: My iso may have been hacked, too!

2016-08-22 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On 10/08/2016 2:38 PM, Andrew F Comly 康大成 wrote: > $ gpg --verify SHA512SUMS.sign SHA512SUMS > gpg: Signature made 2016年06月05日 (週日) 23時59分09秒 CST using RSA key > ID 6294BE9B > gpg: Good signature from "Debian CD signing key > >" >

Re: Question about Running rsnapshot

2018-05-04 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Hi, On 05/05/18 03:40, Martin McCormick wrote: > rsnapshot hard-links files that haven't changed to save space. I > am doing two half-day backups and a daily each day. Shouldn't > the inode number as in ls -i filename stay the same for all the > backups? There is a daily.0 file plus a

Re: Question about Running rsnapshot

2018-05-04 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On 05/05/18 05:52, Martin McCormick wrote: > Andrew McGlashan <andrew.mcglas...@affinityvision.com.au> writes: >> Have you got your backup areas on different file systems? > > I do. The backup file system resides on a pair of 256 GB usb > drives which are ganged toge

Re: Question about Running rsnapshot

2018-05-05 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Hi, On 05/05/18 07:45, Martin McCormick wrote: > I just realized that I goofed when I wrote the name of > the application that combines multiple drives in to one large > drive. I meant > mhddfs for example: > mhddfs /rsnapshot1,/rsnapshot2 /var/cache/rsnapshot -o mlimit=100M >

Re: pointless systemd dependencies

2018-05-07 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On 08/05/18 04:52, songbird wrote: > David Griffith wrote: > ... >> I found someone who has already done most if not all of this analysis and = >> has set up a repo containing non-systemd-using packages=2E Perhaps this ca= >> n be used as a foundation for something official=2E > > devuan is

Re: Get the external IP address from a Linux box

2018-05-27 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Hi, On 27/05/18 22:14, André Rodier wrote: >> My script also does the Google DNS lookup. > I have four IP addresses, and Goodle DNS returns the first one, > although I query from the second one. Are you sure that isn't a problem at your end? How your firewall is identifying and routing the

Get the external IP address from a Linux box

2018-05-27 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Hi, On 26/05/18 20:53, André Rodier wrote: > The code is on github, as part of my small homebox project. I am not > sure it deserves a dedicated repository ;-). > > https://github.com/progmaticltd/homebox/blob/dev-arodier/install/playbo > oks/roles/system-prepare/files/external-ip My take from

Re: painted into a corner

2018-08-20 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On 20/08/18 05:40, Gene Heskett wrote: > Whats the recommended way to do these mounts so I can maintain as much > continuity as possible? Those other areas, are they logical volumes perhaps? lvms. Cheers A.

Re: Thunderbird always launching 2 copies.

2018-07-15 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Hi, On 15/07/18 14:54, Octopus Octopus wrote: > I'm having this confusing bug where I launch thunderbird and it instead > launches 2 copies of it, I originally had an extra .desktop file for the > thunderbird-beta deleting it had no effect. No, it's not launching two copies; it is doing what

Re: trusting .deb packages

2018-07-24 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 25/07/18 04:31, john doe wrote: > Also verifying signature using gnupg and checksum is a must > (sha512). Such verification is suspect, anyone can create gpg keys for anyone (so trust in the keys used is essential, but more difficult to

Re: trusting .deb packages

2018-07-24 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 25/07/18 12:17, Rick Thomas wrote: > On Jul 24, 2018, at 2:41 PM, Matthew Crews > wrote: >> Personally, I have a low degree of trust for Mega.nz, so caveat >> emptor. > Why do you say that? (serious question!) Have there been reports > of

Re: trusting .deb packages

2018-07-24 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi, On 25/07/18 07:41, Matthew Crews wrote: > In addition to this, be sure not to break Debian: > > https://wiki.debian.org/DontBreakDebian > https://wiki.debian.org/DebianSoftware#Footnotes "Broken" many of us strongly believe that once

Re: trusting .deb packages

2018-07-25 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 25/07/18 23:52, Darac Marjal wrote: >> I'm not sure you understand how Debian works, then. Debian is a >> political animal as much as it is technical. There was a >> technical requirement for a better init system, so there was a >> political

Re: encryption

2018-04-23 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Hi, On 23/04/18 15:52, Richard Hector wrote: > BTW, if you're still interested in the original question, did you find > 'shc'? It encrypts your script and creates a binary executable. I don't > know how current/good the encryption is, though. It's in debian. I would say, "not safe enough"

Re: Password Manager opinions and recommendations

2018-03-30 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On 31/03/18 05:57, der.hans wrote: > Captcha is still annoying and needs an "I am a cyborg" option. Cloudfare is an issue, I'm growing to hate it as much as Google, perhaps more. CF relies upon Google for captcha, why can't they use and create their own? I would prefer a captcha from DDG, at

Re: any program that search for same files?

2018-10-15 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Hi, On 15/10/18 09:06, Long Wind wrote: > given two directories, the program can print files that are in both > directories > > to make it easy, if file name and size are same, then they are same > > i've to admit my memory is poor, if good, who need such program? > > i'm about to write it in

Re: An appropriate directory search tool?

2018-10-21 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi, On 21/10/18 06:05, Brian wrote: > On Sat 20 Oct 2018 at 07:19:50 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: >> Had never heard of 'zenity'. I browsed the text of the page. To >> read it as intended I'll have to use an alternate profile -- it >> expects

Re: firefox palemoon waterfox baselisk problem, not on chromium

2018-10-20 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi, On 20/10/18 11:16, arne wrote: > While browsing on stock updated Debian stretch I get several times > a day: > > Secure Connection Failed > > The connection to www.google.com was interrupted while the page was > loading. > > The page you are

Re: ssh

2018-11-12 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 13/11/18 12:49 am, Alan Taylor wrote: > Greetings, > > I have an ssh problem - one user can use it successfully, another > cannot. I have checked and rechecked permissions until I am blue in > the face … At the moment just trying to ssh into

Re: ssh

2018-11-12 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Okay, show us the user's home directory permissions and that of their own .ssh directory please. Also, the permissions of the authorized_keys file. And there are no typos in /etc/group for the users allowed by "AllowUsers" ? Nothing in the

Re: Password policy.

2018-11-14 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 14/11/18 8:44 pm, Brian wrote: > On Tue 13 Nov 2018 at 18:50:35 -0800, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brute-force_attack > > Security is already breached if a password database can be attacked > in that way. A six

Re: Password policy.

2018-11-14 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On 14/11/18 10:25 pm, Corey Manshack wrote: > So using the file uploader tool we can inject many more dangerous scripts and > codes to gain higher access than just “reading” /etc/shadow if the uploader > tool is running as privileged user or we gained privilege escalation another > way.

Re: Password policy.

2018-11-14 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On 14/11/18 9:28 pm, Corey Manshack wrote: > If they have /etc/shadow why would they need to brute force :) I can’t think > of a vuln that would give that up without them already having root. A website file uploader tool, apparantly there has been one there for about 10 years using jquery.

Re: Password policy.

2018-11-14 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On 14/11/18 10:19 pm, Brian wrote: > There are two situations I can think of which could lead to /etc/shadow > becoming vulnerable: > > 1. The machine's administrator causes it to happen. > 2. There is a flaw in one the OS's components. > > The least said about cause 1, the better. There is

Re: Password policy.

2018-11-14 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On 14/11/18 11:09 pm, Corey Manshack wrote: > It may be that the Debian team is more in tune with their users. I’ve caught > hell trying to convince old timers that their password of mark1 was > incredibly horrible. People even tried to get me fired over my “strict” > password policy. There

Re: Password policy.

2018-11-14 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On 15/11/18 2:51 am, Brian wrote: > And what is the value to an attacker in having /etc/shadow, assuming it > can be decrypted in a sensible time frame? Remotely logging in? Surely > not in these days of ssh keys? Well re-use of passwords. We all know that if you have a username (often

Re: how to backup to an encrypted usb drive?

2018-11-14 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi, On 15/11/18 2:01 am, Lee wrote: > What are you using to backup your files to an encrypted usb drive? In an ideal world: 1. Don't use TrueCrypt any longer, VeraCrypt is the natural replacement in the Winblows world. TrueCrypt hasn't been

Re: "passwd username" asks for current password of user even tho I'm root

2018-10-10 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi, On 11/10/18 00:17, Mariusz Gronczewski wrote: > On previous releases, and on our CentOS systems I could change > password of user by just sudo-ing to root and typing "passwd > testuser" > > In current Debian release, doing that asks me to

Re: Where is xfce.org?

2018-09-30 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 30/09/18 11:06, Dennis Wicks wrote: > What has happened to xfce.org? It seems to have disappeared and > left no tracks. # whois xfce.org Domain Name: XFCE.ORG Registry Domain ID: D2054147-LROR Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.networksolutions.com

Re: Decrypting LUKS from initramfs; was: Re: ext2 for /boot ???

2018-09-30 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi, On 30/09/18 16:44, deloptes wrote: > Celejar wrote: > >> But grub itself and its configuration can't be encrypted, so an >> attacker could still compromise that code / data. IIUC, your >> solution basically just implies moving some of the

Re: Where is xfce.org?

2018-09-30 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 30/09/18 11:06, Dennis Wicks wrote: > What has happened to xfce.org? It seems to have disappeared and > left no tracks. If there is something you need from archive, you might find it here: https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://xfce.org

Re: Decrypting LUKS from initramfs; was: Re: ext2 for /boot ???

2018-09-19 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 09/19/2018 02:57 AM, Andy Smith wrote: > For sophisticated attackers who could do the clever thing, and had > physical access to the server for enough time, it would be simpler > to get a key for an encrypted file system by using hardware

Re: Decrypting LUKS from initramfs; was: Re: ext2 for /boot ???

2018-09-27 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 27/09/18 03:17, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 06:14:42PM +0200, deloptes wrote: >> so how can we do it with initram and without some external key >> server? Imagine I have only boot not encrypted on the server. I >> want to

Re: after Stretch VLC is ugly

2018-12-08 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On 8/12/18 8:24 pm, Felmon Davis wrote: > Greets! > > I decided to upgrade from Jessie to Stretch last night. it seems to have > worked though there are some oddities. High DPI changes perhaps? A.

Re: ext2 for /boot ???

2018-09-15 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 15/09/18 16:48, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Le 15/09/2018 à 00:45, Matthew Crews a écrit : >> On Friday, September 14, 2018 10:58 AM, Pascal Hambourg >> wrote: >> >>> Actually you can have / including /boot on LUKS with GRUB. It >>> is just not

Re: Decrypting LUKS from initramfs; was: Re: ext2 for /boot ???

2018-09-18 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi, On 18/09/18 04:15, deloptes wrote: > I wanted to have a look at this link, that someone mentioned: > https://hamy.io/post/0009/how-to-install-luks-encrypted-ubuntu-18.04.x - -server-and-enable-remote-unlocking/ > > It seems to address the

ext2 for /boot ??? -- WAS: Re: root on ZFS

2018-09-11 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Hi, On 11/09/18 22:48, Matthew Crews wrote: > My recommendation is to use a separate /boot partition and make it EXT2. Why not at least ext3? I don't baulk at ext4 btw for /boot -- I can never understand why ext2 is recommended when ext4 gives no trouble and has other advantages, even ext3 has

Re: Systemd files on a Raspberry Pi

2019-02-12 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi, On 13/2/19 3:14 am, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Sun, Feb 10, 2019 at 09:24:39AM +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: >> On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 01:47:20AM +1000, Andrew McGlashan >> wrote: > > Did I miss 4 years of posts or

Re: Systemd files on a Raspberry Pi

2019-02-10 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi, On 10/2/19 10:28 am, chris wrote: > so relevant https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_AIw9bGogo I've seen references to that video and have not yet watched it. I also understand that people have differing views on what the presenter concludes or

Re: Systemd files on a Raspberry Pi

2019-02-10 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi, On 10/2/19 6:44 pm, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > On 10/2/19 10:28 am, chris wrote: >> so relevant https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_AIw9bGogo > > I've seen references to that video and have not yet watched it. > > I also u

Re: Systemd files on a Raspberry Pi

2019-02-10 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi, On 10/2/19 11:17 pm, Reco wrote: >> Okay, I've watched it now. I am not convinced that his idea of >> "create this or that yourself" is a fair retort. > > There are historical precedents. AIX's init inspired Solaris' SMF > which in turn

Re: Systemd files on a Raspberry Pi

2019-02-10 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi, On 11/2/19 4:40 am, Reco wrote: > On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 03:55:04AM +1100, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > Which, in turn, has xml, central database, socket activation and > very rudimentary dependency resolution. I don't remember off-han

Re: use mailx instead of sendmail in apt-listchanges

2019-06-03 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi, On 3/6/19 5:40 am, Martin T wrote: > What could be the most elegant workaround in this situation? Create > a /usr/sbin/sendmail wrapper script which processes the > "/usr/sbin/sendmail -oi -t" command called by apt_listchanges.py > and sends

Re: paste.debian.net discontinued ?

2019-06-03 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 3/6/19 7:40 pm, Jérôme BATAILLE wrote: > Hi dear debian users. > > Does someone knows if paste.debian.net is discontinued ? It's back so it must have been a temp issue. Cheers A. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-

Re: blocking 465 connections to mail server for specific IP address without using fail2ban

2019-06-22 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi, On 22/6/19 6:24 pm, john doe wrote: >> I've blacklisted quite a number of IP addresses and CIDR blocks >> from delivering email to my server with entries in the >> /etc/exim4/local_host_blacklist file. >> >> Is there any config file that I

Re: blocking 465 connections to mail server for specific IP address without using fail2ban

2019-06-22 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Slightly improved shell script, uses iprange once and conflates both lists together. #!/bin/bash declare -a tcp25_set tcp465_set tcp_25_465_set banned_ports_list=25,465,993,995 logwatch_file=/var/log/exim4/logwatch-email-20190622a.eml # NB

Exim latest update reports to world as 4.89, which the world thinks is vulnerable.

2019-06-20 Thread Andrew McGlashan
't be able to do successfully due to up to date patch status. [1] This Showdan query needs a login: https://www.shodan.io/search?query=product%3Aexim+-4.92 [2] https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/millions-of-exim-mail-ser vers-exposed-to-local-remote-attacks/ - -- Kind Regards Andre

Re: Exim latest update reports to world as 4.89, which the world thinks is vulnerable.

2019-06-20 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 20/6/19 11:45 pm, Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 11:26:08PM +1000, Andrew McGlashan wrote: >> Is there a way to provide version of "4.92" easily or some other >> text to stop the likeliho

Re: Exim latest update reports to world as 4.89, which the world thinks is vulnerable.

2019-06-20 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi, On 21/6/19 4:49 am, Reco wrote: >> Thank you, I've changed the banner for now let's hope that >> lessens the problem. > > Please share the results if possible. > > On this particular MTA I've counted whopping 4 attempts to exploit >

Re: Exim latest update reports to world as 4.89, which the world thinks is vulnerable.

2019-06-20 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 20/6/19 11:57 pm, Brian wrote: > On Thu 20 Jun 2019 at 23:26:08 +1000, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > >> # dpkg-query -l|grep \ exim|awk '{print $2,$3}'|column -t exim4 >> 4.89-2+deb9u4 exim4-base 4.89-2+deb9u4 exim

Re: Does 32-bit x86 support (aka [multilib] ) have a future with Debian after Buster

2019-06-21 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi, On 20/6/19 4:28 pm, Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 01:03:50AM +0200, Matthew Crews wrote: >> On 6/19/19 3:30 PM, Lazar Tadić wrote: >>> Don't worry Mathew, 32-bit arch is currently 2nd most popular >>> arch on Debian. There's no

Re: Exim latest update reports to world as 4.89, which the world thinks is vulnerable.

2019-06-21 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 21/6/19 4:08 pm, Reco wrote: > What I'm most interested is here is the time distribution. I.e. has > the number of exploitation attempts lowered after the Exim banner > change? Stayed the same? Not a single one since, so far. Although I

Re: Does 32-bit x86 support (aka [multilib] ) have a future with Debian after Buster

2019-06-21 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 21/6/19 11:44 pm, Felix Miata wrote: > Andrew McGlashan composed on 2019-06-21 20:03 (UTC+1000): > >> Most, if not all 32 bit arch machines are probably going to >> consume far more energy than newer machines of far gre

blocking 465 connections to mail server for specific IP address without using fail2ban

2019-06-22 Thread Andrew McGlashan
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Re: blocking 465 connections to mail server for specific IP address without using fail2ban

2019-06-22 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 The script needs more work it is not exim4-exploiters, it is for repeated failed logins. As it is now, it will treat any single failure as one to ban and that is only going to cause trouble. Although users should be logged in normally and will

Re: gnupg / enigmail excessive processing times

2019-07-02 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi, > On 24/6/19 12:14 am, The Wanderer wrote: >> The short version of this is that I think I need to clear out a >> lot of irrelevant keys / signatures, et cetera, from my gnupg >> configuration - but I don't want to do anything which risks losing

Re: gnupg / enigmail excessive processing times

2019-07-02 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi, On 24/6/19 12:14 am, The Wanderer wrote: > The short version of this is that I think I need to clear out a > lot of irrelevant keys / signatures, et cetera, from my gnupg > configuration - but I don't want to do anything which risks losing >

Re: history/history.db files appearing

2019-08-09 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi, On 10/8/19 1:32 pm, David wrote: > I don't know the answer, but you might find some clues here: > https://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=history.db=1 Note > the list of package names at the top of the page. Why is it not accessible via the

DKIM, multiple domains, same server -- want to always sign, not just for remote delivery

2019-08-22 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi, I have DKIM setup, however, it only signs messages that are being delivered via SMTP to another server. Why is it not valid to sign to the same domain name and/or other domain names served by the same mail server and NOT having to make an SMTP

Re: DKIM, multiple domains, same server -- want to always sign, not just for remote delivery

2019-08-24 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 24/8/19 7:51 pm, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > but most already email users won't have a clue. ... but most *ordinary* email users ... And an Enigmail setting gives me the confirmation before sending (not TB itself). A. -BEGIN

Re: DKIM, multiple domains, same server -- want to always sign, not just for remote delivery

2019-08-24 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi, On 24/8/19 7:24 pm, Reco wrote: > On Sat, Aug 24, 2019 at 03:27:09PM +1000, Andrew McGlashan wrote: >> Okay, I've changed the the DKIM_SIGN_HEADERS ... let's see if >> this is good, thanks > > This e-mail passed DKIM check

Re: DKIM, multiple domains, same server -- want to always sign, not just for remote delivery

2019-08-23 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi, On 22/8/19 7:52 pm, Reco wrote: > On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 07:27:23PM +1000, Andrew McGlashan wrote: >> I have > DKIM setup, however, it only signs messages that are being >> delivered via SMTP to another server. &g

Re: How free is Debian

2019-08-08 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi, On 8/8/19 2:27 pm, Shahryar Afifi wrote: > Very well said. If debian free is not using amd64 microcode, so > what kernel module runs my cpu as 64bit? Here's part of the problem. The CPU has it's own microcode, when you buy it; the

Re: How free is Debian

2019-08-08 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 8/8/19 11:06 pm, Shahryar Afifi wrote: > Thank you for this acknowledgment. Currently I have X61 with > Middleton BIOS that claims to be free. Is that also not the case? You can have a free BIOS, "Core boot, or similar?" ... but the CPU itself

Re: How free is Debian

2019-08-08 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi, On 9/8/19 6:59 am, John Hasler wrote: > Shahryar Afifi wrote: >> Currently I have X61 with Middleton BIOS that claims to be free. >> Is that also not the case? > > We are talking about the microcode that is stored inside the cpu, > not the

Re: Email based attack on University

2019-10-02 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 3/10/19 3:32 am, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Wed, 2 Oct 2019 10:38:44 -0400 Lee wrote: > > Hello Lee, > >> Thanks for the link! >> >>> But the email program used by Client 0 is unspecified. >> >> As is the operating system - or did I miss

Re: KISS gpg

2019-10-31 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On 1/11/19 2:34 am, Nicolas George wrote: > At the very least, to trust gpg with its agent, I would require options > to explicitly set the path of the agent's socket and to print the path > of the socket that was used. reply-list works perfectly this end, forget what's in the headers for

Re: KISS gpg

2019-10-31 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On 1/11/19 2:51 am, Nicolas George wrote: > Andrew McGlashan (12019-11-01): >> reply-list works perfectly this end > > reply-list requires paying attention to whether it is a list or a > private e-mail. That would be acceptable, but since there is a solution > that does n

Re: KISS gpg

2019-10-31 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 1/11/19 2:26 am, Nicolas George wrote: > Andrew McGlashan (12019-11-01): >> So, perhaps the agent is restarted by systemd -- perhaps you can >> disable it using systemctl commands to stop it restarting ... >> then the

Re: Reply-default etiquette (was Re: KISS gpg)

2019-10-31 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 1/11/19 3:10 am, Nicolas George wrote: > Possible with Mutt: > > send-hook . "unmy_hdr Reply-To:" send-hook > ~cdebian-u...@lists.debian.org my_hdr "Reply-To: > debian-user@lists.debian.org" Do you also have "ignore list-post:" in your muttrc

Re: KISS gpg

2019-10-31 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 1/11/19 2:36 am, Nicolas George wrote: > Andrew McGlashan (12019-11-01): >> btw doesn't "reply list" work for you? I get all list messages >> okay. > > If you do not want to be on copy, use the standard reply-

Re: KISS gpg

2019-10-31 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 1/11/19 2:22 am, The Wanderer wrote: > On 2019-10-31 at 11:18, Greg Wooledge wrote: > >> On Fri, Nov 01, 2019 at 02:12:54AM +1100, Andrew McGlashan >> wrote: >> >>> If you kill all agents to stop them interfer

Re: KISS gpg

2019-10-31 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi, On 1/11/19 2:21 am, Nicolas George wrote: > Andrew McGlashan (12019-11-01): >> If I understand correctly, the agent is getting in your way. >> >> Killing the agent /might/ be your answer: > > Unfortunately no: u

Re: KISS gpg

2019-10-31 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi, On 31/10/19 5:58 am, Nicolas George wrote: > Is there somewhere in Debian a KISS version of GnuPG or something > compatible? > > The current default version of GnuPG, since 2015, necessarily uses > a client-server agent to access the private

Re: KISS gpg

2019-10-31 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 1/11/19 2:26 am, Nicolas George wrote: > Andrew McGlashan (12019-11-01): >> So, perhaps the agent is restarted by systemd -- perhaps you can >> disable it using systemctl commands to stop it restarting ... >> then the

Re: looking for a replacement for debian since systemd

2019-12-14 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On 15/12/19 7:53 am, ghe wrote: >> On Fri, Dec 13, 2019, 17:12 Britton Kerin wrote: >> >>> I see from below vote that we're working on dumping other init systems >>> now as expected. Luckily I've given up on debian since systemd in the >>> first place and am in long process of finding a

Re: Adobe Flash Player on Debian Buster

2019-10-20 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi, On 21/10/19 2:36 am, Berkhan Berkdemir wrote: > Yesterday I was looking away to install Flash Player for Firefox on > Debian Buster and followed a Debian Wiki page [0]; however, I > didn't make Flash Player work. I also found this script [1],

Re: What every programmer should know about memory, in 2019?

2019-10-27 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi, On 25/10/19 1:22 am, Boyan Penkov wrote: > Hello, > > Ulrich Drepper's piece on on-chip memory architectures is a > fantastic read, and I recently had the chance to revisit it -- > https://people.freebsd.org/~lstewart/articles/cpumemory.pdf >

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