Testing my network for vulnerabilities

I would like to tighten my internal network security and to protect against rouge computers on my LAN. Anybody knows of a good tool to scan my network for vulnerabilities ? ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il

Re: Testing my network for vulnerabilities

use Kali Linux which come preloaded with many security tools, and check out OpenVAS. -- Rabin On 24 December 2015 at 12:21, Erez D wrote: > I would like to tighten my internal network security and to protect > against rouge computers on my LAN. > > Anybody knows of a good

Debian Testing (was: Re: Summary: Which Linux distribution is stable yet up-to-date)

Actually, Debian Testing is a bad alternative when wishing to trade off stability vs. being up-to-date. On one hand, while Debian Testing is mostly stable, things break all the time (and get fixed within few days). Not good when you depend upon a working system for your work. The worst breakages

Testing

Test message. -- - Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ http://www.shlomifish.org/humour/bits/Can-I-SCO-Now/ - Can I SCO Now? Buffy will always find a wooden stake to slay vampires, even if it means she will have travelled

Re: Disabling the Suhosin patch by default in Debian Wheezy (Debian Testing)

: Hi Omer, On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 11:21:38PM +0200, Omer Zak wrote: Today, when I upgraded my old PC, which is running Debian Testing (currently Debian Wheezy), I was informed of the following: php5 (5.3.9-4) unstable; urgency=low * The Suhosin patch is now disabled

Re: Disabling the Suhosin patch by default in Debian Wheezy (Debian Testing)

25, 2012 at 11:21:38PM +0200, Omer Zak wrote: Today, when I upgraded my old PC, which is running Debian Testing (currently Debian Wheezy), I was informed of the following: php5 (5.3.9-4) unstable; urgency=low * The Suhosin patch is now disabled in the default build. If you

Disabling the Suhosin patch by default in Debian Wheezy (Debian Testing)

Today, when I upgraded my old PC, which is running Debian Testing (currently Debian Wheezy), I was informed of the following: php5 (5.3.9-4) unstable; urgency=low * The Suhosin patch is now disabled in the default build. If you want to re-enable it again for your installation, you can set

Re: Disabling the Suhosin patch by default in Debian Wheezy (Debian Testing)

I suspect that digging Debian's usurious tracking site would give you more definitive answers than speculations on a general mailing lists. On Feb 26, 2012 8:42 AM, Omer Zak w...@zak.co.il wrote: Today, when I upgraded my old PC, which is running Debian Testing (currently Debian Wheezy), I

Re: Disabling the Suhosin patch by default in Debian Wheezy (Debian Testing)

definitive answers than speculations on a general mailing lists. On Feb 26, 2012 8:42 AM, Omer Zak w...@zak.co.il wrote: Today, when I upgraded my old PC, which is running Debian Testing (currently Debian Wheezy), I was informed of the following: php5

Re: Disabling the Suhosin patch by default in Debian Wheezy (Debian Testing)

, which is running Debian Testing (currently Debian Wheezy), I was informed of the following: php5 (5.3.9-4) unstable; urgency=low * The Suhosin patch is now disabled in the default build. If you want to re-enable it again for your installation, you can set the option PHP5_SUHOSIN=yes in debian

Re: Disabling the Suhosin patch by default in Debian Wheezy (Debian Testing)

Hi Omer, On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 11:21:38PM +0200, Omer Zak wrote: Today, when I upgraded my old PC, which is running Debian Testing (currently Debian Wheezy), I was informed of the following: php5 (5.3.9-4) unstable; urgency=low * The Suhosin patch is now disabled in the default build

TelFOSS Soliciting a Talk about Automated Software Testing

Hi all, following on Sawyer's talk about version control, I've been thinking of doing another talk about a different software best practice: automated software testing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test_automation Since I'm a big practitioner and advocate of writing automated tests and test

Re: Automated GUI testing with JS and AJAX

the bicycle. Someone here surely has an experience with that. We have a regressions testing lab. As a part of the testing we have to work with the web-interface of our product. (I'm intentionally vague, the details are quite irrelevant to the problem). The testing scenario includes action items

Re: Automated GUI testing with JS and AJAX

, all, At my work we encountered a problem and it looks like we are re-inventing the bicycle. Someone here surely has an experience with that. We have a regressions testing lab. As a part of the testing we have to work with the web-interface of our product. (I'm intentionally vague, the details

Re: Automated GUI testing with JS and AJAX

, Sep 3, 2009 at 3:48 PM, Leonid Podolny leonidp.li...@gmail.comwrote: Hi, all, At my work we encountered a problem and it looks like we are re-inventing the bicycle. Someone here surely has an experience with that. We have a regressions testing lab. As a part of the testing we have to work

Re: Automated GUI testing with JS and AJAX

Hi, On 09/03/2009 03:48 PM, Leonid Podolny wrote: Hi, all, At my work we encountered a problem and it looks like we are re-inventing the bicycle. Someone here surely has an experience with that. We have a regressions testing lab. As a part of the testing we have to work with the web

Re: [Linux-il] testing

2009/1/25 Ely Levy elyl...@cs.huji.ac.il: Moved to mailman, please report problems :-) Halleluya brother! :) --Amos ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il

[Linux-il] testing

Moved to mailman, please report problems :-) Ely Levy System group Computer Science Hebrew University Jerusalem Israel ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il

[Linux-il] testing again

If you see this email, please email me back:) Ely Levy System group Computer Science Hebrew University Jerusalem Israel ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il

Re: [Linux-il] testing

Ely Levy wrote: Moved to mailman, please report problems :-) And update your filters.. Problem: the list prepends [Linux-il] to the subject line. Shachar ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il

Re: [Linux-il] testing again

da .::. Amichai Rotman UIN#: 6401746 Registered Linux User#: 201192 [http://counter.li.org/] Registered Ubuntu User #12851 [http://ubuntucounter.geekosophical.net]

Re: [Linux-il] testing

Hello Eli Can you add the flag: X-list: linux-il It use to be and I'm using it in my procmailrc Rami Ely Levy wrote: Moved to mailman, please report problems :-) Ely Levy System group Computer Science Hebrew University Jerusalem Israel

Re: [Linux-il] testing

Quoting Shachar Shemesh shac...@shemesh.biz: Ely Levy wrote: Moved to mailman, please report problems :-) And update your filters.. Problem: the list prepends [Linux-il] to the subject line. One man's problem is another (wo)man's blessing. I prefer all my mailing lists to have such a

Re: [Linux-il] testing

Hi, On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 14:03, Shachar Shemesh shac...@shemesh.biz wrote: Ely Levy wrote: Moved to mailman, please report problems :-) And update your filters.. Problem: the list prepends [Linux-il] to the subject line. This is not a problem - it is a feature ;-) Seriously

Re: [Linux-il] testing

I don't see it as a problem... I am more troubled by the default reply-to field - it shoulfd be the list's post address, not the original poster... .::. Amichai Rotman UIN#: 6401746 Registered Linux User#: 201192 [http://counter.li.org/]

Re: [Linux-il] testing

On Sun, 25 Jan 2009, Arie Skliarouk wrote: Problem: the list prepends [Linux-il] to the subject line. This is not a problem - it is a feature ;-) This was discussed (a few times) and the consensus reached was for no subject line tag. I hope this tag does not sneak in on a technicality.

Re: [Linux-il] testing

On Sunday 25 January 2009 14:38:53 Rami Addady wrote: Hello Eli Can you add the flag: X-list: linux-il It use to be and I'm using it in my procmailrc Now you have List-Id: which is more standard. Regards, Shlomi Fish Rami Ely Levy wrote: Moved to mailman, please

Re: [Linux-il] testing

I see on the header something very similar: List-Id: The linux Israeli users list linux-il.cs.huji.ac.il List-Unsubscribe: http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/options/linux-il, mailto:linux-il-requ...@cs.huji.ac.il?subject=unsubscribe List-Archive:

Re: [Linux-il] testing

On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 03:51:32PM +0200, Arie Skliarouk wrote: Seriously though - it is a very good feature I have missed for for a long time. So far my filter filtered emails based on whether To or Cc field contained the linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il email. The approach missed a lot of email

Re: [Linux-il] testing

Ely Levy wrote: Moved to mailman, please report problems :-) As soon as Ely send me the list password (right now, I'm only getting the spams and moderator requests), I'll try to restore things to backward compatible as much as possible. Please your patience in the mean while. We twice missed

Re: Penetration testing tools?

. Having said that, I do like web application scanners and use them often, just that they are no replacement for manual testing. Receiving a clean report from an automated scanner often gives clients a false sense of security. Its important that they understand the limitations involved in both manual

Re: Penetration testing tools?

Josh Amishav-Zlatin wrote: It sounds like you agree with my original statement that if the web app is high risk, then manual testing should be used in conjunction with automated testing. The only thing I disagree with is the relevance to this thread. Amos specifically asked about automatic

Re: Penetration testing tools?

On Thursday, 16 October 2008 07:11:52 Amos Shapira wrote: Hello, I need to find tools to run penetration testing on our external web interfaces (a web application and an HTTP-based data interface). The idea is to be able to run automatic tests on new releases before deployment. Stress

Re: Penetration testing tools?

On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 04:11:52PM +1100, Amos Shapira wrote: Hello, I need to find tools to run penetration testing on our external web interfaces (a web application and an HTTP-based data interface). The idea is to be able to run automatic tests on new releases before deployment. Stress

Re: Penetration testing tools?

On Thursday, 16 בOctober 2008 07:49, Aviram Jenik wrote: Thanks for the plug ;) Our service starts at $30 per month, so only do that if your time for finding the tool, installing it, running it, weeding out the false positives and compiling a report from the results costs more than $30. I

Re: Penetration testing tools?

On Thursday 16 October 2008 Ariel Biener wrote: On Thursday, 16 בOctober 2008 07:49, Aviram Jenik wrote: Thanks for the plug ;) Our service starts at $30 per month, so only do that if your time for finding the tool, installing it, running it, weeding out the false positives and

Re: Penetration testing tools?

yours, that finds all (or even most) blind SQL injection vulns. The truth is automated scanning is good at catching the low hanging fruit. It can be a useful tool when used in conjunction with proper manual testing. However, it would be naive to believe that an application is free from high risk

Re: Penetration testing tools?

BODY { font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px; } While I disagree with Aviram's reply to your mail I do agree that this list sometimes (too often in my taste) suffers from over-religiousness and your mail (Ariel) is perfect example of this. Your mail (Ariel) is built

Re: Penetration testing tools?

fruit. It can be a useful tool when used in conjunction with proper manual testing. As far as I know, that is precisely what Beyond is doing (not for $30, though). However, it would be naive to believe that an application is free from high risk vulns just because it passed some automated scan

Penetration testing tools?

Hello, I need to find tools to run penetration testing on our external web interfaces (a web application and an HTTP-based data interface). The idea is to be able to run automatic tests on new releases before deployment. Stress is automatic. Has anyone here got good experience with such tools

Re: Penetration testing tools?

On Thursday 16 October 2008 Amos Shapira wrote: Hello, I need to find tools to run penetration testing on our external web interfaces (a web application and an HTTP-based data interface). [...] (and yes Aviram, I mentioned BeyondSecurity to my CTO, maybe we'll contact you :). Thanks

Re: running testing patterns on block devices

Quoting Gilad Ben-Yossef, from the post of Thu, 17 May: The tool would be useless. The underlying flash (probably NAND technology) storage works in erase blocks sizes, each of which can be written x (for value of x somewhere around 100,000 writes) before it becomes unreliable. The more

running testing patterns on block devices

I have a flash card which I suspect has a defect. every time I go out and take photos with it, at least one image file comes back corrupted. to make sure it's not the cammera or something else, I thought it would be nice to have a memtest-like tool that wrote patterns and tried to read them again,

Re: running testing patterns on block devices

Ira Abramov wrote: I have a flash card which I suspect has a defect. every time I go out and take photos with it, at least one image file comes back corrupted. to make sure it's not the cammera or something else, I thought it would be nice to have a memtest-like tool that wrote patterns and

Re: running testing patterns on block devices

On Thu, May 17, 2007, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote about Re: running testing patterns on block devices: The more writes, the lesser the useful life expetency. To combat this the Compact Flash hardware does something called uses a wear leveling algorithm to virtualize the low level sectors the OS

Re: running testing patterns on block devices

Nadav Har'El wrote: On Thu, May 17, 2007, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote about Re: running testing patterns on block devices: The more writes, the lesser the useful life expetency. To combat this the Compact Flash hardware does something called uses a wear leveling algorithm to virtualize the low

Re: running testing patterns on block devices

On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 11:06:35AM +0300, Nadav Har'El wrote: I have a question unrelated to the original question (and to Linux...): How does this wear leveling work if a card is mostly full? E.g., my typical situation is that I have a 512 MB card, but 450 MB of it is full (with pictures I

Re: Stress testing windows using samba

On Sunday 13 May 2007 19:34, Tzahi Fadida wrote: Hi, I wish to simulate a stressfull environment of a windows server using linux. The aim is to access a windows server and download a small file but using 1000 users to do so. I thought about using smbclient in a loop (constantly downloading

Connectivity testing for specific gateway on a multi gateway machine

Hi, I have X default getaways on my machine, I would like to test for reachability from my machine outside using gw X1. All gateways exist on the Internet. The way I'm thinking to solve this is by configuring a specific route via gw X1 IP address to some host on the Internet (say 194.90.1.5)

Re: Connectivity testing for specific gateway on a multi gateway machine

On Sunday 22 April 2007 20:11, Maxim Veksler wrote: Hi, I have X default getaways on my machine, I would like to test for reachability from my machine outside using gw X1. All gateways exist on the Internet. The way I'm thinking to solve this is by configuring a specific route via gw X1 IP

Re: Connectivity testing for specific gateway on a multi gateway machine

On 4/22/07, shimi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 22 April 2007 20:11, Maxim Veksler wrote: Hi, I have X default getaways on my machine, I would like to test for reachability from my machine outside using gw X1. All gateways exist on the Internet. The way I'm thinking to solve this is

smoke testing of the Linux kernel

Can someone point me to some web pages that will explain how smoke and regression testing of the Linux kernel is handled? Is there an aggregator of the smoke test results one could see? I looked at http://www.osdl.org/ but could not locate this information. I looked at http://ltp.sourceforge.net

[SOLVED] Re: Initrd woes after upgrade from vanilla Debian Testing

On Wed, 2006-03-15 at 09:14 +0200, Omer Zak wrote: Several days ago I complained about being unable to boot from newer kernels after doing a routine upgrade of Debian Etch (Testing). Now, I found document about initrd replacements in Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/InitrdReplacementOptions I

Initrd woes after upgrade from vanilla Debian Testing

Several days ago I complained about being unable to boot from newer kernels after doing a routine upgrade of Debian Etch (Testing). Now, I found document about initrd replacements in Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/InitrdReplacementOptions -- Every good master plan involves building a time

Re: Initrd woes after upgrade from vanilla Debian Testing

afraid I cannot help you. Question to anyone who uses Debian Testing and is successful in running kernel 2.6.15 in his installation (especially after having gone the path of upgrading to Debian Etch [Testing] from Debian Sarge [stable]): What exactly did you do to accomplish this feat

Re: Initrd woes after upgrade from vanilla Debian Testing

Omer Zak wrote: Thanks also to Gilboa Davara, Gilad Ben-Yossef and Muli Ben-Yehuda for responding to this. Now, I need the techl's: 1. What (if any) should I write in the grub.conf file in my laptop to properly boot from /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.15-1-686? 2. Is there any other configuration, which I

Re: Initrd woes after upgrade from vanilla Debian Testing

I'm using debian testing with a 2.6.15 kernel. I'm using (almost) standard yaird initrd file to boot, except I patched it to support software suspend 2. -- Haggai Eran On 3/6/06, Omer Zak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Question to anyone who uses Debian Testing and is successful in running kernel

Re: Initrd woes after upgrade from vanilla Debian Testing

Let me try and summarize for the non-kernel hackers: Traditionally, the way to boot linux was by setting attributes inside the kernel image that would hardcode the location of the root partition. This would either be picked by the kernel build system and copied from the machine on which the

Re: Initrd woes after upgrade from vanilla Debian Testing

Hello Haggai, Can you please let me (and if not too long - also the Linux-IL members) know how exactly you invoke yaird and what other steps you need to do to get 2.6.15 to boot from Debian Testing? [I do not think I'll need the software suspend 2 patch, so if there is clean separation

Re: Initrd woes after upgrade from vanilla Debian Testing

Shachar Shemesh wrote: IIRC, they are using a new mechanism to generate an initrd replacement (this is NOT an initrd in the usual sense of the word, but something understood by the kernel directly). Sadly, I don't know the precise details of the change. Perchance one of the kernel devs on this

Re: Initrd woes after upgrade from vanilla Debian Testing

Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: This approach will allow in the future to throw out all the code in the kernel that has anything to do with finding the root file system, mounting NFS as root fs, kernel DHCP and IP setting (aka autoconfiguration) and replacing them will early user space - user space

Re: Initrd woes after upgrade from vanilla Debian Testing

On Sun, Mar 05, 2006 at 05:01:24PM +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote: In short, I don't understand why a new technology was necessary. http://lwn.net/Articles/14776/ http://lwn.net/Articles/14448/ It provides an early userspace environment to do a bunch of things in that used to be done in the

Re: Initrd woes after upgrade from vanilla Debian Testing

? Notes: 1. I still have /boot/initrd.img-2.6.15-1-686 2. I do not have any /boot/initramfs* files 3. The package initramfs-tools is installed (version 0.53). 4. My laptop's installation is vanilla Debian Etch (Testing). When googling for 'initramfs grub', I saw a Wiki page which mentioned

Re: Initrd woes after upgrade from vanilla Debian Testing

Shachar Shemesh wrote: Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: This approach will allow in the future to throw out all the code in the kernel that has anything to do with finding the root file system, mounting NFS as root fs, kernel DHCP and IP setting (aka autoconfiguration) and replacing them will early

Re: Initrd woes after upgrade from vanilla Debian Testing

On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 08:47:32AM +0200, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: I wonder if enough people are interested in a talk about early user space. +1 from me. I'm always interested in kernel talks. Cheers, Muli -- Muli Ben-Yehuda http://www.mulix.org | http://mulix.livejournal.com/

Re: Initrd woes after upgrade from vanilla Debian Testing

On Fri, 2006-03-03 at 22:50 +0200, Omer Zak wrote: Today, after few days, I upgraded the Debian Testing (Etch) installation on ThinkPad R40e laptop to have the most recent package versions. The laptop has few kernels - among them I have 2.6.15-1, 2.6.12-1 and 2.6.8-2. The 2.6.15-1 never

Re: Initrd woes after upgrade from vanilla Debian Testing

Omer Zak wrote: Does anyone know what happened and how to repair the initrd.img? The current version of initrd-tools is 0.1.84. Should I try to downgrade it to a previous version? Quite frankly, I'm no longer using Sid/Testing as a primary platform, so I'm not entirely up to speed

Initrd woes after upgrade from vanilla Debian Testing

Today, after few days, I upgraded the Debian Testing (Etch) installation on ThinkPad R40e laptop to have the most recent package versions. The laptop has few kernels - among them I have 2.6.15-1, 2.6.12-1 and 2.6.8-2. The 2.6.15-1 never worked for me, when I try to boot it, it locks up sometime

It was not my private hallucination (was: Trouble with Gnome 2.12 after upgrade to current Debian Testing packages)

Someone else reported a problem with Gnome 2.12 in Debian Testing, too: http://www.nuxified.com/dropping-debian-etch-in-favor-of-fedora-my-reasons --- Omer On Sun, 2006-02-26 at 06:08 +0200, Omer Zak wrote: On Sat, 2006-02-25 at 16:21 +0200, Amit

Re: RESEND: Trouble with Gnome 2.12 after upgrade to current Debian Testing packages

In Desktop-Preferences-Keyboard-Layout Optionsthere's the Group Shift/Lock behaviour droplist with all the normal key combinations to choose from.At least it's there on my machine - I have version 2.12.3-2 of gnome-control-center (that's the current default for unstable).btw, if your'e messing

Re: More Data (was: Re: Trouble with Gnome 2.12 after upgrade to current Debian Testing packages)

he_IL is for locale.AFAIK the correct xorg layout name is il. At least that's what's in my (working) config...

Re: RESEND: Trouble with Gnome 2.12 after upgrade to current Debian Testing packages

in Debian SID (unstable) but not in the version used in Debian Etch (Testing) [the computer where it is installed is turned off at the moment, so I did not verify sub-version]. At least it's there on my machine - I have version 2.12.3-2 of gnome-control-center (that's the current default for unstable

RESEND: Trouble with Gnome 2.12 after upgrade to current Debian Testing packages

(With apologies to anyone who may have received the following message twice. I was not sure if the previous E-mail made it to the Linux-IL mailing list.) HELP! I performed routine upgrade to the most recent versions of Debian Testing packages in my laptop. Among other things, Gnome got upgraded

Re: RESEND: Trouble with Gnome 2.12 after upgrade to current Debian Testing packages

On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 09:51:06AM +0200, Omer Zak wrote: If Gnome 2.12 no longer has the GUI, what configuration file/s should I manually edit to restore the functionality I need for Hebrew+English work? I couldn't find it either and ended up editing /etc/X11/xorg.conf. Note that even then

More Data (was: Re: Trouble with Gnome 2.12 after upgrade to current Debian Testing packages)

On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 10:11 +0200, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 09:51:06AM +0200, Omer Zak wrote: If Gnome 2.12 no longer has the GUI, what configuration file/s should I manually edit to restore the functionality I need for Hebrew+English work? I couldn't find it

Thanks, it now works! (was: Re: More Data (was: Re: Trouble with Gnome 2.12 after upgrade to current Debian Testing packages))

On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 13:51 +0200, Maxim Kovgan wrote: On 2/21/06, Omer Zak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 10:11 +0200, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 09:51:06AM +0200, Omer Zak wrote: If Gnome 2.12 no longer has the GUI, what configuration file/s

Trouble with Gnome 2.12 after upgrade to current Debian Testing packages

HELP! I performed routine upgrade to the most recent versions of Debian Testing packages in my laptop. Among other things, Gnome got upgraded to version 2.12. Unfortunately, I found no preferences dialog to specify that I want to use left-shift and right-shift combination as the hot key

Re: Experience of upgrade from Debian Sarge (stable) to Debian Etch (testing)

On Sat, Oct 08, 2005 at 12:55:40AM +0300, Omer Zak wrote: Today I upgraded my laptop from Debian Sarge to Debian Etch. After editing the /etc/apt/sources.list file, I used: apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade And then I ran few upgrade rounds through aptitude. I encountered the

Re: Experience of upgrade from Debian Sarge (stable) to Debian Etch (testing)

On 10/8/05, Ira Abramov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Omer Zak, from the post of Sat, 08 Oct: 1. There is an old problem with the way aptitude displays information: In my computers, apt-listbugs is enabled, and when I upgrade, the bugs in new packages are listed. The problem is that

Re: Experience of upgrade from Debian Sarge (stable) to Debian Etch (testing)

neglected to ask for clarification previously, so I'll ask now. I was under the impression that Debian Unstable is for developers, as it has no guarantees about the quality of packages. However, Debian Testing is meant for packages, which were tested and are supposed to be stable

Re: Experience of upgrade from Debian Sarge (stable) to Debian Etch (testing)

/me flashes quickly a Debian id card Omer Zak wrote: Today I upgraded my laptop from Debian Sarge to Debian Etch. After editing the /etc/apt/sources.list file, I used: apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade And then I ran few upgrade rounds through aptitude. Not sure how much it really

Re: Experience of upgrade from Debian Sarge (stable) to Debian Etch (testing)

, you warned me. I neglected to ask for clarification previously, so I'll ask now. I was under the impression that Debian Unstable is for developers, as it has no guarantees about the quality of packages. However, Debian Testing is meant for packages, which were tested and are supposed

Re: Experience of upgrade from Debian Sarge (stable) to Debian Etch (testing)

On Sat, 2005-10-08 at 18:15 +0300, Lior Kaplan wrote: Omer Zak wrote: I neglected to ask for clarification previously, so I'll ask now. I was under the impression that Debian Unstable is for developers, as it has no guarantees about the quality of packages. However, Debian Testing

Re: Experience of upgrade from Debian Sarge (stable) to Debian Etch (testing)

Testing is meant for packages, which were tested and are supposed to be stable. This was the situation for Debian Sarge, before it was turned into stable. Are the roles of Unstable and Testing reversed for Etch? The names of Debian's flavors represent the package archive. Unstable - changes a lot

Experience of upgrade from Debian Sarge (stable) to Debian Etch (testing)

Today I upgraded my laptop from Debian Sarge to Debian Etch. After editing the /etc/apt/sources.list file, I used: apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade And then I ran few upgrade rounds through aptitude. I encountered the following problems: 1. The udev package could not be upgraded, because

Re: Gcc 4 in Debian Testing?

will replace the gcc 3. To remind you - I'm on Testing (etch?). I'm on testing as well, but I use dselect to do my upgrades so I don't know what aptitude will do. And since I already have everything installed I can't really try it out myself. I'd suggest that you just go for it, you can always

Re: Gcc 4 in Debian Testing?

concurrent versions but it looks like the gcc 4 package will replace the gcc 3. To remind you - I'm on Testing (etch?). did you try to just install gcc-4.0 ? 'gcc' now requires gcc-4.0 in Etch rather than gcc-3.3 . But gcc-3.3 is still there. Could you point out to the exact point of conflict

Re: Gcc 4 in Debian Testing?

On 8/19/05, Baruch Even [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd suggest that you just go for it, you can always apt-get anything you want and they will not conflict for apt-get. I went for it after seeing that aptitude promises not to remove gcc-3.3. I was mixing up the front-end with the back-end. The

Gcc 4 in Debian Testing?

Hi, My workplace desktop is Debian testing, I try to keep it up to date. Last week or so gcc 4.0.1 and friends (g++, cpp etc) turned up and wanted to replace good old 3.x. I wonder if anyone has experience with these packages - are they reliable? Do they produce good code? Should I upgrade? I

Re: Gcc 4 in Debian Testing?

PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, My workplace desktop is Debian testing, I try to keep it up to date. Last week or so gcc 4.0.1 and friends (g++, cpp etc) turned up and wanted to replace good old 3.x. I wonder if anyone has experience with these packages - are they reliable? Do they produce good

Re: Gcc 4 in Debian Testing?

Amos Shapira wrote: Hi, My workplace desktop is Debian testing, I try to keep it up to date. Last week or so gcc 4.0.1 and friends (g++, cpp etc) turned up and wanted to replace good old 3.x. I wonder if anyone has experience with these packages - are they reliable? Do they produce good

Re: Gcc 4 in Debian Testing?

On 8/18/05, Baruch Even [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You will find that some programs that compiled with earlier gccs do not compile any more. The fixes are simple, but if you don't care about gcc 4, you probably don't want the mess, however small it is. OK, I'll wait with this then. You can

Re: Gcc 4 in Debian Testing?

workplace desktop is Debian testing, I try to keep it up to date. Last week or so gcc 4.0.1 and friends (g++, cpp etc) turned up and wanted to replace good old 3.x. I wonder if anyone has experience with these packages - are they reliable? Do they produce good code? Should I upgrade? I do

Re: Gcc 4 in Debian Testing?

Amos Shapira wrote: On 8/18/05, Baruch Even [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can always use alternatives to keep gcc 3.3 as your default. That's actually the original source of my question - aptitude lists gcc 4 as REPLACING the current gcc 3.x, not as coming in addition to it, (possibly

Re: Gcc 4 in Debian Testing?

will replace the gcc 3. To remind you - I'm on Testing (etch?). --Amos To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]

kde 3.3.1-1 in debian testing

good news kde 3.3.1-1 got into Debian testing... wow... the days were Debian had really old software are vanishing from earth... way cool :) hamakor is giving me around 40kbs instead of 180kbs... I assume many of you are updating. Good night. -- diego, kde-il translation team, http

Re: Frequent lock-ups of Debian Testing Linux when connected to theInternet

list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2004 2:18 AM Subject: Frequent lock-ups of Debian Testing Linux when connected to theInternet Recently I have been experiencing very frequent lock-ups of my PC. I had to press the RESET button to release the lockup. When the lockup occurs

Re: Frequent lock-ups of Debian Testing Linux when connected to the Internet

On Thu, 2004-12-02 at 05:01, Ira Abramov wrote: Quoting Omer Zak, from the post of Thu, 02 Dec: Any clues? Is it a known problem of kernel 2.6.8 (after having been patched by Debian)? What can I do to trap the failure which causes the kernel to lockup? no problems at this end... does

Re: Frequent lock-ups of Debian Testing Linux when connected to the Internet

On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 10:30:11AM +0200, Omer Zak wrote: Where can I find that little CPU burn-in proggie? There is a live CD called stresslinux. I played with it very little. My purpose in asking the mailing list was mainly to find if anyone knows about any issue with 2.6.8, which could

Frequent lock-ups of Debian Testing Linux when connected to the Internet

Recently I have been experiencing very frequent lock-ups of my PC. I had to press the RESET button to release the lockup. When the lockup occurs, neither the keyboard nor the mouse respond. My software configuration: Kernel: 2.6.8-1-686 pptp-linux 1.5.0-4 pptpd 1.2.1-2 xfree86

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