Re: wireless without network-manager... is it still possible?

2016-05-21 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, May 21, 2016 at 09:02:15PM -0800, Britton Kerin wrote: > somehow network-manager makes it work. But I've had it with gnome, and none > of the command line tools or references I've found work. That > includes /etc/network/interfaces, > direct

Re: What can AppArmor do?

2016-05-21 Thread cbannister
On Sat, May 21, 2016 at 10:17:22PM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Saturday 21 May 2016 16:56:31 cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz wrote: > > On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 04:08:05PM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > On Friday 20 May 2016 15:57:27 Richard Owlett wrote: > > > > That statement reminds me of one of Geo

Wee squares [was: What can AppArmor do?]

2016-05-21 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, May 22, 2016 at 03:56:31AM +1200, cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz wrote: > On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 04:08:05PM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Friday 20 May 2016 15:57:27 Richard Owlett wrote: > > > That statement reminds me of one of George Orwell's

wireless without network-manager... is it still possible?

2016-05-21 Thread Britton Kerin
somehow network-manager makes it work. But I've had it with gnome, and none of the command line tools or references I've found work. That includes /etc/network/interfaces, direct use of ifconfig,iw,ip,rfkill,wpa_supplicant,dhclient, and wicd-client (though it's not really what I want. Is this ev

Re: OSS Versus ALSA Modules

2016-05-21 Thread Martin McCormick
Jude DaShiell writes: > There are log tracks if you run dmesg|grep -i snd you may find > them. Not quite, but my face is still bright red. dmesg just reports that Plug&Play found both cards but tells nothing else. I had looked in syslog and found that dispnp also writes the same messages

Re: Pulseaudio not starting, after no obvious changes

2016-05-21 Thread T.J. Duchene
Hello, Jennifer! (With your kind indulgence, I prefer informality.) I would try purging and then reinstalling Pulseaudio in the event that your /etc/pulse/default.pa file has somehow gotten mangled. As root, "su -c" or using sudo: apt-get purge pulseaudio apt-get install pulseaudio Then, as mu

Re: What can AppArmor do?

2016-05-21 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 21 May 2016 16:56:31 cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz wrote: > On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 04:08:05PM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Friday 20 May 2016 15:57:27 Richard Owlett wrote: > > > That statement reminds me of one of George Orwell's characters > > > saying "It means whatever I want it to

Suggested Change for Debian Wiki, Simple backport creation

2016-05-21 Thread T.J. Duchene
I'd like to suggest a change to the "Simple Backport" wikipage at https://wiki.debian.org/SimpleBackportCreation The page suggests using: dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc. I've found that backporting from unstable goes much more smoothly if you use: debuild -us -uc instead. The package scripts seem t

Re: OSS Versus ALSA Modules

2016-05-21 Thread Jude DaShiell
There are log tracks if you run dmesg|grep -i snd you may find them. On Sat, 21 May 2016, Martin McCormick wrote: Date: Sat, 21 May 2016 14:39:42 From: Martin McCormick To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: OSS Versus ALSA Modules Resent-Date: Sat, 21 May 2016 18:40:01 + (UTC) Re

Re: Pulseaudio not starting, after no obvious changes

2016-05-21 Thread cbannister
On Sat, May 21, 2016 at 05:21:21PM +, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: > Hi, > I just returned home after a short vacation to my running, completely > up-to-date jessie system, and discovered that Pulse had stopped running, and > I dont know how to get it going again. > Various of the startup com

Re: OSS Versus ALSA Modules

2016-05-21 Thread Martin McCormick
cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz writes: > On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 07:55:54AM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: > > I had a thread going on this list with the subject of > > "Plug and Pray; my Life with Linux Sound." Thanks to several good > > answers, I am on the right track to fixing a problem but t

Re: Customizing/repository question

2016-05-21 Thread cbannister
On Sat, May 21, 2016 at 12:42:09PM -0400, Ralph Sanchez wrote: > Good morning. I was just wandering, is it safe to use packages from another > Debian based district repositories by adding them to my sources file, > specifically Kali Linux? No. Therein lies madness! -- The media's the most powerf

Apt-Pinning Preferences ignored when Ign InRelease Files

2016-05-21 Thread entr0py
I have a 3rd Party Repository added to apt sources, pinned via apt preferences so that Stable = 800, Testing = -1 apt-cache policy shows that this is the case. Several months of usage has also confirmed that it is working as intended. Recently, I ran apt-get update while my network connection wa

Customizing/repository question

2016-05-21 Thread Ralph Sanchez
Good morning. I was just wandering, is it safe to use packages from another Debian based district repositories by adding them to my sources file, specifically Kali Linux? My dual boot failed, and while I don't mind having to boot into Kali for the tough stuff, I'd rather get what functionality out

Re: Got that network problem solved, now a new one

2016-05-21 Thread cbannister
[Please don't top post] On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 11:09:02PM +, John L. Ries wrote: > I guess my first question would be why the script below has anything to do > with /opt. I don't see a change of directory to anything under that > directory and I would assume this is running in some directory

Re: What can AppArmor do?

2016-05-21 Thread cbannister
On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 10:45:03AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 5/20/2016 10:08 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > >On Friday 20 May 2016 15:57:27 Richard Owlett wrote: > >>That statement reminds me of one of George Orwell's characters > >>saying "It means whatever I want it to mean." > > > >No, Lewis Ca

Re: What can AppArmor do?

2016-05-21 Thread cbannister
On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 04:08:05PM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Friday 20 May 2016 15:57:27 Richard Owlett wrote: > > That statement reminds me of one of George Orwell's characters > > saying "It means whatever I want it to mean." > > No, Lewis Carol, Humpty Dumpty in Alice Through The Looking Gl

Re: OSS Versus ALSA Modules

2016-05-21 Thread cbannister
On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 07:55:54AM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: > I had a thread going on this list with the subject of > "Plug and Pray; my Life with Linux Sound." Thanks to several good > answers, I am on the right track to fixing a problem but there > is, of course, one more question. T

Re: Squid security

2016-05-21 Thread Rob van der Putten
Hi there heqami...@runbox.com wrote: No need to build a backport. Just use the sid/unstable testing version on apt-get I didn't check the library compatibility. Thanks. It's a bit odd though. Every version patched except stable. Regards, Rob

Re: Got that network problem solved, now a new one

2016-05-21 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 19 May 2016 05:48:19 Gene Heskett wrote: [...] > > What I'd do > > > > Consider making a subdirectory of /opt dedicated to whatever you > > are doing with these scripts and setting its ownership to gene > > (start as restricted as possible with that and widen as necessary, > > e.g. to

Re: Squid security

2016-05-21 Thread heqami...@runbox.com
No need to build a backport. Just use the sid/unstable testing version on apt-get H. On 05/21/2016 12:12 PM, Rob van der Putten wrote: > Hi there > > > This puzzles me a bit: Information on source package squid3; > https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/squid3 > > Do I n

Squid security

2016-05-21 Thread Rob van der Putten
Hi there This puzzles me a bit: Information on source package squid3; https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/squid3 Do I need a to build a backport to be safe? Regards, Rob

Re: Repository problem

2016-05-21 Thread J Mo
I was having some similar problems the other day. It cleared up after awhile. On 05/21/2016 12:00 AM, Hans wrote: Dear debian-team, I suppose there is a problem with one of your repos. Please take a look: LANG=C aptitude update . .. Hit ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian stable Rele

Re: Grub won't install

2016-05-21 Thread J Mo
That's pretty awesome. Thanks to everyone for the lilo comments. On 05/19/2016 04:54 PM, Stephen Powell wrote: On Wed, May 18, 2016, at 14:57, Marc Shapiro wrote: Lilo definitely still works with current kernels. I started out using lilo 17 or 18 years ago and I am still using it now under

Re: Repository problem

2016-05-21 Thread Hans
Am Samstag, 21. Mai 2016, 09:00:03 schrieben Sie: > Dear debian-team, > > I suppose there is a problem with one of your repos. Please take a look: > > LANG=C aptitude update > . > .. > Hit ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian stable Release > Get: 2 ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian testing/main

Re: Repository problem

2016-05-21 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 21 May 2016 08:00:03 Hans wrote: > Dear debian-team, > > I suppose there is a problem with one of your repos. Probably just that mirror. Try a different mirror. Lisi > Please take a look: > > LANG=C aptitude update > . > .. > Hit ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian stable Rele

Re: Re: precompiled parallelfdtd solver for debian

2016-05-21 Thread Abdelkader Belahcene
Thanks to every body I know scilab and octave, but this seems doing some special features. Anyway I want to use it, for example to install scilab , you 've just to select from the synaptic, scilab and that 's it. I want to do something like this, I somebody has an experience on this software. Tha

Repository problem

2016-05-21 Thread Hans
Dear debian-team, I suppose there is a problem with one of your repos. Please take a look: LANG=C aptitude update . .. Hit ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian stable Release Get: 2 ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian testing/main amd64 DEP-11 Metadata [1657 kB] Err ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian