Reg: Mysql used instead of MariaDB

2013-08-03 Thread Balamurugan
Dear Team, I am a highly admired fan of free software movement and its philosophy. I am having a doubt in Debian 7.1 stable release about MySQL addition. Since MariaDB has become the open source replacement for MySQL, why was MariaDB not included in the latest release? Is there any reason beh

SSHD Keys

2013-08-03 Thread Jerry Stuckle
Hi, all, A rather newbie question (which describes me perfectly!) I was just renewing my SSHD keys (dpkg-reconfigure openssh-server) and noticed it is generating 512 bit RSA keys. This isn't all that secure. How can I get it to generate better keys? TIA Jerry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Missing Makefile

2013-08-03 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 8/3/2013 10:30 AM, Tom H wrote: On Fri, 02 Aug 2013 19:59:57 -0400 > Thanks for trying to help. You're welcome. > No, the make fails with a missing Makefile, as indicated > in my original post. Do the following four symlinks exist on your box (for 3.2 of course). /lib/modules/3.10-1-

Re: Wheezy upgrade - php5-suhosin missing?

2013-08-03 Thread David Guntner
Claudius Hubig grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > Dear David, > > David Guntner wrote: >> Anyone know why it was removed, and if/when it will be restored? > > the functionality of Suhosin was merged into core PHP, hence it is > not ‘needed’ anymore and was removed. I doubt that it will be > restored

Re: Wheezy upgrade - php5-suhosin missing?

2013-08-03 Thread Claudius Hubig
Dear David, David Guntner wrote: > Anyone know why it was removed, and if/when it will be restored? the functionality of Suhosin was merged into core PHP, hence it is not ‘needed’ anymore and was removed. I doubt that it will be restored. Best, Claudius -- Please don’t CC me. -- To UNSUBSCRI

Wheezy upgrade - php5-suhosin missing?

2013-08-03 Thread David Guntner
I've just finally gotten to upgrading from squeeze to wheezy (and am still doing the cleanup of various kinks, etc.), and it would appear that php5-suhosin has gone missing. Anyone know why it was removed, and if/when it will be restored? --Dave smime.p7s Description: S/MIME C

Re: Deleting chromium DNS cache entry doesn't seem to help.

2013-08-03 Thread Selim T. Erdogan
Hendrik Boom, 3.08.2013: > > Every other program on my laptop finds the right IP number for slashdot. > It's just Chromium that doesn't. Even Chrome gets it right. Somewhere > Chromium has hidden state I can't expunge. You could try purging the package ("apt-get remove --purge ...") and g

Re: acpi problem

2013-08-03 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
> Reading and understanding the following may get you closer to your goal, > specifically the section on volume control: > > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Acpid Hi Stan! Yeah, that's what I was looking for. Great! It will help me a lot. I think, I will now be able to get this thing to

Re: new install - not booting solved - but questions remain

2013-08-03 Thread Miles Fidelman
Miles Fidelman wrote: Miles Fidelman wrote: Miles Fidelman wrote: Just did a new install of Wheezy on a server, but having problems trying to boot. Basic setup: - PXEboot into installer - a pretty standard install - had to fiddle a little at the end to get the MBR into the right places (RAID

Re: encrypted USB backup.

2013-08-03 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Wed, 03 Jul 2013 01:03:39 +, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Tue, 02 Jul 2013 17:00:35 -0400, Rob Owens wrote: > >> - Original Message - >>> From: "Hendrik Boom" >>> >>> What is the recommended way to set up part of a USB volume as an >>> encrypted volume, so that I can back up those fe

Re: Re: Missing Makefile

2013-08-03 Thread Tom H
On Fri, 02 Aug 2013 19:59:57 -0400 > Thanks for trying to help. You're welcome. > No, the make fails with a missing Makefile, as indicated > in my original post. Do the following four symlinks exist on your box (for 3.2 of course). /lib/modules/3.10-1-amd64/build -> /usr/src/linux-headers-3

Re: Dotfiles

2013-08-03 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Tue, 02 Jul 2013 23:20:31 -0400, shawn wilson wrote: > The point about mentioning browsers is that you don't generally look > there. The other point about browsers is that when I look at my home directory with firefox, the dotfiles take up most of the visual space. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBS

Re: new install - not booting, a little more info, and yet more

2013-08-03 Thread Miles Fidelman
Miles Fidelman wrote: Miles Fidelman wrote: Just did a new install of Wheezy on a server, but having problems trying to boot. Basic setup: - PXEboot into installer - a pretty standard install - had to fiddle a little at the end to get the MBR into the right places (RAIDed disks, USB stick mou

Re: Dotfiles

2013-08-03 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Thu, 04 Jul 2013 23:55:38 +0100, Chris Davies wrote: > Slavko wrote: >> Dňa 02.07.2013 23:32 John Hasler wrote / napísal(a): >>> Look at the access times. Dotfiles that have not been accessed in >>> years can probably be safely removed. > >> Sure, but do not forget, that the "relatime" (defau

Re: Dotfiles

2013-08-03 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Thu, 04 Jul 2013 03:12:40 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Wed, Jul 03, 2013 at 01:08:05AM +, Hendrik Boom wrote: >> On Tue, 02 Jul 2013 16:06:17 -0500, Yaro Yaro wrote: >> >> > Package managers don't track .dotfiles. >> >> No, they don't. That, of course, is part of the problem. > >

Re: Deleting chromium DNS cache entry doesn't seem to help.

2013-08-03 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Fri, 19 Jul 2013 06:45:26 -0400, Stephen Allen wrote: > On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 04:43:07PM +, Hendrik Boom wrote: >> It's been most of a week now, and the problem persists. >> Chromium still insists on going to the website normally known as >> topoi.pooq.com when I request slashdot.org. >>

Re: new install - not booting, a little more info

2013-08-03 Thread Miles Fidelman
Miles Fidelman wrote: Just did a new install of Wheezy on a server, but having problems trying to boot. Basic setup: - PXEboot into installer - a pretty standard install - had to fiddle a little at the end to get the MBR into the right places (RAIDed disks, USB stick mounts as /dev/sda) - now

new install - not booting

2013-08-03 Thread Miles Fidelman
Hi Folks, Just did a new install of Wheezy on a server, but having problems trying to boot. Basic setup: - PXEboot into installer - a pretty standard install - had to fiddle a little at the end to get the MBR into the right places (RAIDed disks, USB stick mounts as /dev/sda) - now it boots,

Re: acpi problem

2013-08-03 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 8/3/2013 2:07 AM, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: > My Acer 7520G has got a volume knob aside, and when I turn it, volume is > getting higher or lower (it is just a digitally stepping wheel). > > But in my syslog I find thus messages: > > Aug 3 08:58:38 localhost logger: acpid: action VOLUP is not d

acpi problem

2013-08-03 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Hi folks, I am looking for a solution of a little problem. My Acer 7520G has got a volume knob aside, and when I turn it, volume is getting higher or lower (it is just a digitally stepping wheel). But in my syslog I find thus messages: Aug 3 08:58:38 localhost logger: acpid: action VOLUP is