Re: Early access to a console (during runlevel 1)

2014-06-24 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Jun 22, 2014 at 11:52:46PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > > A proactive admin should be aware of these things and schedule > appropriate preventative maintenance. May I suggest Qualitative Maintenance as a better strategy. http://assetinsights.net/Glossary/G_Qualitative_Maintenance.html (as

Re: mail client question?

2014-06-24 Thread Bret Busby
On Tue, 24 Jun 2014, Karen Lewellen wrote: greetings folks, Going to ask this question very carefully and I hope tight enough to stay focused on the question smiles. My nonprofit organization has a hosting account with dream host. www.dreamhost.com As a part of the account we get a shell plat

Re: raid/mdadm help

2014-06-24 Thread Bzzzz
On Tue, 24 Jun 2014 22:03:54 -0400 "Rodney D. Myers" wrote: > Yes, see reply from Francois Patte Then kick off the 500GB HD and stay with 3 HDz; of course, you won't have no spare, but in this case it's almost useless (if you plan to stock a lot of data). Also, depending on what you plan to us

Re: raid/mdadm help

2014-06-24 Thread Rodney D. Myers
On Tue, 24 Jun 2014 17:47:18 -0600 Bob Proulx wrote: > Rodney D. Myers wrote: > > it's been 3 hours since I attempted to create the raid array, and > > it's stopped. This is what I see; > > > > /sbin/mdadm --detail /dev/md0 > > That was good information. Additionally can you post the mdstat

Re: raid/mdadm help

2014-06-24 Thread Rodney D. Myers
On Wed, 25 Jun 2014 02:00:48 +0200 B wrote: > On Tue, 24 Jun 2014 19:24:45 -0400 > "Rodney D. Myers" wrote: > > > Array Size : 1464763392 (1396.91 GiB 1499.92 GB) > > Used Dev Size : 488254464 (465.64 GiB 499.97 GB) > > One question: why are there 3 HDz with a 1.3TB partition > wh

Re: Where is the log for deja-dup

2014-06-24 Thread John R Song
On Wed, 25 Jun 2014 00:10:17 +0100 Brian wrote: > On Tue 24 Jun 2014 at 16:29:58 -0400, John Song wrote: > > > On Tue, 24 Jun 2014 17:57:52 +0100 > > Brian wrote: > > > > > On Tue 24 Jun 2014 at 12:11:38 -0400, John R Song wrote: > > > > > > > I am trying deja-dup to backup to a 32G usb stick

Re: raid/mdadm help

2014-06-24 Thread Bzzzz
On Tue, 24 Jun 2014 19:24:45 -0400 "Rodney D. Myers" wrote: > Array Size : 1464763392 (1396.91 GiB 1499.92 GB) > Used Dev Size : 488254464 (465.64 GiB 499.97 GB) One question: why are there 3 HDz with a 1.3TB partition when the 4th only has 465GB? (which is not logical, as the RAID array

Re: raid/mdadm help

2014-06-24 Thread Bob Proulx
Rodney D. Myers wrote: > it's been 3 hours since I attempted to create the raid array, and it's > stopped. This is what I see; > > /sbin/mdadm --detail /dev/md0 That was good information. Additionally can you post the mdstat output? It would be useful before rendering an opinion. cat /proc/m

Re: raid/mdadm help

2014-06-24 Thread Rodney D. Myers
On Tue, 24 Jun 2014 19:38:27 +0200 François Patte wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Le 24/06/2014 18:43, Rodney D. Myers a écrit : > > > I suggest: use fdisk to create a partition on your 500Gb disk and save > it as fd type (raid autodetect), then dupplicate this par

Re: Where is the log for deja-dup

2014-06-24 Thread Brian
On Tue 24 Jun 2014 at 16:29:58 -0400, John Song wrote: > On Tue, 24 Jun 2014 17:57:52 +0100 > Brian wrote: > > > On Tue 24 Jun 2014 at 12:11:38 -0400, John R Song wrote: > > > > > I am trying deja-dup to backup to a 32G usb stick. I get a message > > > "not all files backed up", I would expect

Re: mail client question?

2014-06-24 Thread davidson
hi karen. On Tue, 24 Jun 2014, Karen Lewellen wrote: greetings folks, My nonprofit organization has a hosting account with dream host. www.dreamhost.com As a part of the account we get a shell platform, text based fortunately for me. Because dreamhost uses debian for its accounts, the shell opt

Re: Where is the log for deja-dup

2014-06-24 Thread John Song
On Tue, 24 Jun 2014 17:57:52 +0100 Brian wrote: > On Tue 24 Jun 2014 at 12:11:38 -0400, John R Song wrote: > > > I am trying deja-dup to backup to a 32G usb stick. I get a message > > "not all files backed up", I would expect to find details in a log but can't > > find anything in /var/log/mess

Re: Debian on a Dell Latitude E7440

2014-06-24 Thread Stanislav Bocinec
Hello Craig, i'm using Ubuntu 14.04LTS on E7440 (i7, 16GB Ram, SSD disk, intel GPU) without any major issues. Only thing i experienced problem with was that external monitor was sometimes losing signal from display port ( https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1062571). I'm not sure whether i

Re: raid/mdadm help

2014-06-24 Thread Rodney D. Myers
On Tue, 24 Jun 2014 19:38:27 +0200 François Patte wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Le 24/06/2014 18:43, Rodney D. Myers a écrit : > > > I suggest: use fdisk to create a partition on your 500Gb disk and save > it as fd type (raid autodetect), then dupplicate this par

Re: chkrootkit message

2014-06-24 Thread Brian
On Tue 24 Jun 2014 at 15:56:48 +, Curt wrote: > On 2014-06-24, Doug wrote: > > On 06/24/2014 05:46 AM, Curt wrote: > >> On 2014-06-24, Darac Marjal wrote: > >>> Are you saying that rootkits don't exist on "modern" Linux? > >>> > >> I believe he's saying chrootkit is unlikely to find one. > >

Re: chkrootkit message

2014-06-24 Thread Bzzzz
On Tue, 24 Jun 2014 21:09:50 +0100 Tom Furie wrote: > To be fair, I think it would be far easier to detect a pink > elephant at the bottom of your garden (or anywhere else, for that > matter) than a rootkit, with or without specialist equipment. :) I wouldn't be so categorical 'cos there's signi

Re: chkrootkit message

2014-06-24 Thread Tom Furie
On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 05:33:38PM +0100, Brian wrote: > I'll add that I generally resist buying devices to detect pink elephants > at the the bottom of my garden. But not because I don't think elephants > don't exist. To be fair, I think it would be far easier to detect a pink elephant at the bo

Re: No MD5SUM for old stable live debian

2014-06-24 Thread davidson
On Tue, 24 Jun 2014, david...@ling.ohio-state.edu wrote: On Tue, 24 Jun 2014, laur...@leboucher.net wrote: May I ask why there is no MD5SUM for the old stable version of live debian? it sounds like, somewhere on the internet, you've managed to find a live install image of squeeze. may i ask

Re: mail client question?

2014-06-24 Thread Francesco Ariis
On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 03:38:02PM -0400, Karen Lewellen wrote: > Is there a comparative mail client to alpine that is text focused > and comes standard in the console edition of debian that I might > explore? Mutt [1] should come with default Debian installation. It's text based, CLI interface -

Re: No MD5SUM for old stable live debian

2014-06-24 Thread davidson
On Tue, 24 Jun 2014, laur...@leboucher.net wrote: May I ask why there is no MD5SUM for the old stable version of live debian? it sounds like, somewhere on the internet, you've managed to find a live install image of squeeze. may i ask where? knowing the answer to that might help answer your

Re: apt configuration question from new user

2014-06-24 Thread Floris
Op Tue, 24 Jun 2014 16:12:49 +0200 schreef P Perazim : Migrating from fedora to debian. I need to have apt use the latest version of cups (1.7.3) that I can see in the pool directory on the web. I don't really understand the apt logic at this point so I don't know what to do so I am asking. Ru

mail client question?

2014-06-24 Thread Karen Lewellen
greetings folks, Going to ask this question very carefully and I hope tight enough to stay focused on the question smiles. My nonprofit organization has a hosting account with dream host. www.dreamhost.com As a part of the account we get a shell platform, text based fortunately for me. Because

Re: chkrootkit message

2014-06-24 Thread Floris
Op Mon, 23 Jun 2014 10:03:30 +0200 schreef François Patte : -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bonjour, I get this alert message (concerning lightdm) from chkrootkit ! RUID PID TTYCMD ! root 3153 tty7 /usr/bin/X :0 -seat seat0 -auth /var/run/lightdm/root/:0

Re: No MD5SUM for old stable live debian

2014-06-24 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Tuesday 24 June 2014 19:29:48 Bob Proulx wrote: > Please no HTML email.  It is terribly difficult to read. So some of us don't try. I am impressed, Bob! Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.d

Re: No MD5SUM for old stable live debian

2014-06-24 Thread Bob Proulx
laur...@leboucher.net wrote: > Please no HTML email. It is terribly difficult to read. > May I ask why there is no  style="font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #4d4d4d; > line-height: 15px; white-space: pre;">MD5SUM class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Helvetic

Re: Progress on my new Debian box

2014-06-24 Thread Bob Proulx
Joseph Loo wrote: > B wrote: > > Andrew McGlashan wrote: > > ... > ... > > I think you are missing the problem associated with SSd. The wear problem is > associated with the amount of free space. If the drive is 99.99% full, you > could probably wear the drive out in no time at all. The wear pr

No MD5SUM for old stable live debian

2014-06-24 Thread laurent
May I ask why there is no MD5SUM for the old stable version of live debian? Cheers Laurent   -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/1210259407.215746.1

Re: raid/mdadm help

2014-06-24 Thread François Patte
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Le 24/06/2014 18:43, Rodney D. Myers a écrit : I suggest: use fdisk to create a partition on your 500Gb disk and save it as fd type (raid autodetect), then dupplicate this partition on your other disks like this: sfdisk -d /dev/sdb | sfdisk /dev/sdc

Re: Where is the log for deja-dup

2014-06-24 Thread Bzzzz
On Tue, 24 Jun 2014 17:57:52 +0100 Brian wrote: > You favorite search engine: "deja-dup log". On the other hand, IMHO rsync is much more efficient. -- it must be odd to have somebody inside you… ask your girlfriend rho I wasn't speaking in this direction! Ah, ask your brother then signat

Re: Where is the log for deja-dup

2014-06-24 Thread Brian
On Tue 24 Jun 2014 at 12:11:38 -0400, John R Song wrote: > I am trying deja-dup to backup to a 32G usb stick. I get a message > "not all files backed up", I would expect to find details in a log but can't > find anything in /var/log/messages syslog or my home directory. > > Help or suggestions

Re: raid/mdadm help

2014-06-24 Thread Rodney D. Myers
On Tue, 24 Jun 2014 14:27:53 +0200 François Patte wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Le 24/06/2014 12:12, Rodney D. Myers a écrit : > > On Tue, 24 Jun 2014 09:45:06 +0200 François Patte > > wrote: > > > >> How did you create your partitions on these disks? > > You di

Where is the log for deja-dup

2014-06-24 Thread John R Song
I am trying deja-dup to backup to a 32G usb stick. I get a message "not all files backed up", I would expect to find details in a log but can't find anything in /var/log/messages syslog or my home directory. Help or suggestions please. John Song - via Penguin Powered Desktop. Key fingerprint

Re: chkrootkit message

2014-06-24 Thread Brian
On Tue 24 Jun 2014 at 11:08:49 -0400, Doug wrote: > On 06/24/2014 05:46 AM, Curt wrote: > >On 2014-06-24, Darac Marjal wrote: > >>Are you saying that rootkits don't exist on "modern" Linux? > >> > >I believe he's saying chrootkit is unlikely to find one. > > > > > That begs the question. Is it un

Re: Debian on a Dell Latitude E7440

2014-06-24 Thread ken
On 03/22/2014 01:29 PM Craig L. wrote: I found folks running other distros on the E7440, so we're going with it. If I have any problems I will pass them along for anyone else that is interested in this. One of the nice things about GNU/Linux is that, if one distro works on a particular ma

Re: apt configuration question from new user

2014-06-24 Thread Curt
On 2014-06-24, B wrote: > >> I need to have apt use the latest version of cups >> (1.7.3) that I can see in the pool directory on >> the web. > > You can't; if you're in stable (wheezy), you'll only > get the stable version. > Maybe if we knew why he needed the latest version of cups, we coul

Re: chkrootkit message

2014-06-24 Thread Curt
On 2014-06-24, Doug wrote: > On 06/24/2014 05:46 AM, Curt wrote: >> On 2014-06-24, Darac Marjal wrote: >>> Are you saying that rootkits don't exist on "modern" Linux? >>> >> I believe he's saying chrootkit is unlikely to find one. >> >> > That begs the question. Is it unlikely to find one because

Re: chkrootkit message

2014-06-24 Thread Doug
On 06/24/2014 05:46 AM, Curt wrote: On 2014-06-24, Darac Marjal wrote: Are you saying that rootkits don't exist on "modern" Linux? I believe he's saying chrootkit is unlikely to find one. That begs the question. Is it unlikely to find one because nobody tries to implement a rootkit on Linu

[HITB-Announce] #HITB2014KUL round 1 CFP submission deadline in < 1 week

2014-06-24 Thread Hafez Kamal
The deadline to submit your papers for the the 12th and FINAL HITB Security Conference in Malaysia is just around the corner! Paper selection will be done in two rounds: ROUND 1 DEADLINE: 30th June 2014 FINAL DEADLINE: 31st July 2014 HITBSecConf2014 - Malaysia takes place at Intercontinental Kua

Re: ntp problem

2014-06-24 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 24 Jun 2014, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > ==> ntpq -p > remote refid st t when poll reach delay offset > jitter > > == > outbound-smtp.n 192.93.2.20 2 u 53 64 377 29.858

Re: apt configuration question from new user

2014-06-24 Thread Bzzzz
On Tue, 24 Jun 2014 17:12:49 +0300 "P Perazim" wrote: > Migrating from fedora to debian. Excellent. > I need to have apt use the latest version of cups > (1.7.3) that I can see in the pool directory on > the web. You can't; if you're in stable (wheezy), you'll only get the stable version. > I

apt configuration question from new user

2014-06-24 Thread P Perazim
Migrating from fedora to debian. I need to have apt use the latest version of cups (1.7.3) that I can see in the pool directory on the web. I don't really understand the apt logic at this point so I don't know what to do so I am asking. Running 7.5.0 and have checked the software sources and ther

Re: apt-get issues with download speed and server access

2014-06-24 Thread Brad
I've always used ftp://mirror.anl.gov/pub/debian/ for my Debian mirror. It's fast and up to date, I routinely see speeds of 1M/s on downloads. If you are a US citizen it is partially funded with your tax dollars so why not use it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.o

Re: ntp problem

2014-06-24 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Tue, 24 Jun 2014, Darac Marjal wrote: . . . ntp_gettime() error 5 is, according to the man page, "TIME_ERROR (clock not synchronised". So, in that case, look to your ntpd. Run "ntpq -p" to see the status of your peers and/or "ntpq -c assoc" for more details. The information there can be compl

Re: chkrootkit message

2014-06-24 Thread Brian
On Tue 24 Jun 2014 at 09:46:04 +, Curt wrote: > On 2014-06-24, Darac Marjal wrote: > > > > Are you saying that rootkits don't exist on "modern" Linux? > > > > I believe he's saying chrootkit is unlikely to find one. Close. If I, in my guise as a medical doctor, insisted on inoculating you

Re: raid/mdadm help

2014-06-24 Thread François Patte
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Le 24/06/2014 12:12, Rodney D. Myers a écrit : > On Tue, 24 Jun 2014 09:45:06 +0200 François Patte > wrote: > >> How did you create your partitions on these disks? You did not answer this question... >> >> Every partition should have the same size

Re: raid/mdadm help

2014-06-24 Thread Rodney D. Myers
On Tue, 24 Jun 2014 09:45:06 +0200 François Patte wrote: > How did you create your partitions on these disks? > > Every partition should have the same size if you want to put them in > an array. ah, I have 3 x 1gig hard drives, and 1 x .5 gig hard drive -- Rodney D. Myers They that can give

Re: chkrootkit message

2014-06-24 Thread Curt
On 2014-06-24, Darac Marjal wrote: > > Are you saying that rootkits don't exist on "modern" Linux? > I believe he's saying chrootkit is unlikely to find one. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.deb

Re: ntp problem

2014-06-24 Thread Darac Marjal
On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 09:53:07AM +0200, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > hi eveybody, > I recently discovered that the time on my desktop was wrong by several > minutes, > although it is running ntpd. On my laptop, which has exactly the same > ntp.conf, > the time correct. > Here are the output of ntpt

Re: chkrootkit message

2014-06-24 Thread Darac Marjal
On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 07:28:15PM +0100, Brian wrote: > On Mon 23 Jun 2014 at 19:56:15 +0400, Reco wrote: > > > On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 10:03:30AM +0200, François Patte wrote: > > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > > > Bonjour, > > > > > > I get this alert message (co

Re: apt-get update: unnecessary use of disk space

2014-06-24 Thread Pascal Hambourg
B a écrit : > Bob Proulx wrote: > >> What do you mean when you say "these blocks won't be free ..." >> without defragmenting? Please explain. If you have references to >> share that explained the details that would be great. > > Just think about this: > * HD original = 1000 > * HD -5%.

Re: Reply To settings - was - Re: Debian 7.5 amd64 xfce GUI shutdown and restart do not work

2014-06-24 Thread Bret Busby
On 23/06/2014, Bob Proulx wrote: > Bret Busby wrote: >> Tom H wrote: >> > Bret Busby wrote: >> >> Bob Proulx wrote: >> >>> This is one of those religious wars that has been fought and won and >> >>> lost many times across the Internet. Please don't start it up again >> >>> here. If you do really w

ntp problem

2014-06-24 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
hi eveybody, I recently discovered that the time on my desktop was wrong by several minutes, although it is running ntpd. On my laptop, which has exactly the same ntp.conf, the time correct. Here are the output of ntptime on the 2 machines laptop: ntp_gettime() returns code 0 (OK) time d75

Re: raid/mdadm help

2014-06-24 Thread François Patte
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Le 24/06/2014 03:00, Rodney D. Myers a écrit : > On Mon, 23 Jun 2014 13:05:08 -0600 Bob Proulx > wrote: > >> Rodney D. Myers wrote: >>> Linux-Fan wrote: Rodney D. Myers wrote: > Is there a debian specific mail list or online forum to get >>>

Re: chkrootkit message

2014-06-24 Thread Reco
On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 07:28:15PM +0100, Brian wrote: > There is no well-documented case of chrootkit ever giving a true > positive; false positives are its stock in trade. What do you expect of > a program which searches for things which do not exist or which have no > relevance (if they ever had