Re: Using serial console as a poor mans IP kvm?

2016-09-08 Thread Lars Noodén
On 09/08/2016 10:26 PM, Jarle Aase wrote: >... > So I'm thinking about serial consoles. My gateway router will reboot > after an outage, and it can act as a VPN endpoint. So I can access IP > devices. With a rasberry pi and some relays, I can probably trigger a > cold reboot whenever I need to. If

Re: SSH Connection Behind A Router/Firewall

2016-09-08 Thread Tim McDonough
On 9/8/2016 1:42 PM, Joe wrote: On Thu, 8 Sep 2016 12:49:56 -0500 Tim McDonough wrote: I have a very straightforward Debian Jessie machine on my network. For SSH it uses the standard/default Port 22 and accessing it via ssh works just fine from anywhere on the local network. I also have a Net

Problems communicating with and between servers after upgrade

2016-09-08 Thread Clive Menzies
Hi We've suffered a series of seemingly disconnect problems on 4 machines since upgrading jessie on Monday: apt/log: Start-Date: 2016-09-05 12:17:10 Commandline: apt-get upgrade Upgrade: libgcrypt20:i386 (1.6.3-2+deb8u1, 1.6.3-2+deb8u2), gnupg:i386 (1.4.18-7+deb8u1, 1.4.18-7+deb8u2), linux-

Re: libnss3, currently in testing

2016-09-08 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Thu, 08 Sep 2016, Gene Heskett wrote: > Has anyone an idea of a schedule of when that will put this security > update into the wheezy repo's? https://wiki.debian.org/LTS Please contact the Debian LTS people, and if this fix is not already in the priority queue, you could offer to sponsor the

Re: Problems communicating with and between servers after upgrade - correction

2016-09-08 Thread Clive Menzies
On 08/09/16 23:07, Clive Menzies wrote: Hi We've suffered a series of seemingly disconnect problems on 4 machines since upgrading jessie on Monday: apt/log: Start-Date: 2016-09-05 12:17:10 Commandline: apt-get upgrade Upgrade: libgcrypt20:i386 (1.6.3-2+deb8u1, 1.6.3-2+deb8u2), gnupg:i386 (

Re: Using serial console as a poor mans IP kvm?

2016-09-08 Thread Don Armstrong
On Thu, 08 Sep 2016, Jarle Aase wrote: > Does anyone here have any experience with remote control with Debian boxes > over serial? Will it work reliable? It's fairly reliable; I actually prefer it to using KVM in almost all cases. You just need to get it configured properly in grub, the bios, and

Re: libnss3, currently in testing

2016-09-08 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 08 September 2016 17:51:43 Michael Lange wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, 8 Sep 2016 09:28:33 -0400 > > Gene Heskett wrote: > > Greetings all; > > > > Has anyone an idea of a schedule of when that will put this security > > update into the wheezy repo's? > > > > I believe this is why I cannot

Re: Using serial console as a poor mans IP kvm?

2016-09-08 Thread Neal P. Murphy
On Thu, 8 Sep 2016 15:43:31 -0600 Glenn English wrote: > For remote access, the RPi sounds like a good idea to me. I've had one on the > 'Net for several years, doing things not requiring major CPU power. It's on > my UPS, and it's had no reliability problems. > > A relatively small dedicated

Re: libnss3, currently in testing

2016-09-08 Thread Michael Lange
Hi, On Thu, 8 Sep 2016 09:28:33 -0400 Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings all; > > Has anyone an idea of a schedule of when that will put this security > update into the wheezy repo's? > > I believe this is why I cannot use the paypal account I just opened. Maybe you could try the version from j

Re: [resolved] FireFox broken,

2016-09-08 Thread Michael Lange
On Thu, 8 Sep 2016 19:54:55 +0100 Brian wrote: > Maybe you could post the URLs of two or three web sites which are now > available to you without security-related error messages which you had > trouble with before. Jessie users would be interested whether they too > have to install libnss3 from u

Re: Using serial console as a poor mans IP kvm?

2016-09-08 Thread Glenn English
For remote access, the RPi sounds like a good idea to me. I've had one on the 'Net for several years, doing things not requiring major CPU power. It's on my UPS, and it's had no reliability problems. A relatively small dedicated UPS would likely keep your border router and an RPi going for quit

Re: Using serial console as a poor mans IP kvm?

2016-09-08 Thread Neal P. Murphy
On Thu, 8 Sep 2016 22:26:59 +0300 Jarle Aase wrote: > I want to set up a few servers at home. Unfortunately, as I live in > Bulgaria at the moment, the electric power is gone pretty often for > longer periods than my UPS'es can deal with. So my servers will have to > be started at least a few

Re: Using serial console as a poor mans IP kvm?

2016-09-08 Thread Miles Fidelman
On 9/8/16 3:26 PM, Jarle Aase wrote: I want to set up a few servers at home. Unfortunately, as I live in Bulgaria at the moment, the electric power is gone pretty often for longer periods than my UPS'es can deal with. So my servers will have to be started at least a few times every quarter.

Re: Re: Re: Re: [xfce] - power management

2016-09-08 Thread Herbert Fortes
Hi, I do not have 'qdbus' command installed. Regards, Herbert

Re: Using serial console as a poor mans IP kvm?

2016-09-08 Thread Dan Ritter
On Thu, Sep 08, 2016 at 10:26:59PM +0300, Jarle Aase wrote: > I want to set up a few servers at home. Unfortunately, as I live in Bulgaria > at the moment, the electric power is gone pretty often for longer periods > than my UPS'es can deal with. So my servers will have to be started at least > a f

Using serial console as a poor mans IP kvm?

2016-09-08 Thread Jarle Aase
I want to set up a few servers at home. Unfortunately, as I live in Bulgaria at the moment, the electric power is gone pretty often for longer periods than my UPS'es can deal with. So my servers will have to be started at least a few times every quarter. Another challenge with living in Bulgar

Re: Jessie & Fixed IP Address

2016-09-08 Thread Brian
On Thu 08 Sep 2016 at 18:08:04 +0100, David wrote: > I am working with a Raspberry PI running Jessie and I'm not happy about > the solutions I found to change it from DHCP to a fixed IP address. That's a shame. > Editing the file /etc/dhcpcd.conf does not seem to work correctly. Nobody in thei

Re: [resolved] FireFox broken,

2016-09-08 Thread Brian
On Thu 08 Sep 2016 at 09:30:54 -0500, Mark Allums wrote: > On 09/07/2016 05:23 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > >Maybe this is related to libns3 that someone mention, but we have to get > >it from unstable? On wheezy, how? > > > >Thanks. > > > >Cheers, Gene Heskett > > > > Installing libnss3 from si

Re: SSH Connection Behind A Router/Firewall

2016-09-08 Thread Joe
On Thu, 8 Sep 2016 12:49:56 -0500 Tim McDonough wrote: > I have a very straightforward Debian Jessie machine on my network. > For SSH it uses the standard/default Port 22 and accessing it via ssh > works just fine from anywhere on the local network. > > I also have a NetGear router configured so

SSH Connection Behind A Router/Firewall

2016-09-08 Thread Tim McDonough
I have a very straightforward Debian Jessie machine on my network. For SSH it uses the standard/default Port 22 and accessing it via ssh works just fine from anywhere on the local network. I also have a NetGear router configured so that a connection from the outside world using Port 1024 gets

Re: Jessie & Fixed IP Address

2016-09-08 Thread Tim McDonough
On 9/8/2016 12:08 PM, David wrote: I am working with a Raspberry PI running Jessie and I'm not happy about the solutions I found to change it from DHCP to a fixed IP address. Editing the file /etc/dhcpcd.conf does not seem to work correctly. Can I go back to the old method of editing /etc/netwo

Re: SMTP relay issue with emails to specific domain

2016-09-08 Thread Daniel Bareiro
On 08/09/16 13:56, Daniel Bareiro wrote: > I recently set up an relay SMTP server on a host of Digital Ocean, using > Debian and Postfix. > > The main reason for setting up this relay is that the cPanel VPS is > hosted at Godaddy, and they force everyone to send email through their > shared SMTP

Re: Jessie & Fixed IP Address

2016-09-08 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Thu, Sep 08, 2016 at 06:08:04PM +0100, David wrote: > I am working with a Raspberry PI running Jessie and I'm not happy about > the solutions I found to change it from DHCP to a fixed IP address. > > Can I go back to the old method of editing /etc/network/interfaces If it's Debian Jessie, then

Jessie & Fixed IP Address

2016-09-08 Thread David
Hi Everybody, I am working with a Raspberry PI running Jessie and I'm not happy about the solutions I found to change it from DHCP to a fixed IP address. Editing the file /etc/dhcpcd.conf does not seem to work correctly. Can I go back to the old method of editing /etc/network/interfaces Or is t

SMTP relay issue with emails to specific domain

2016-09-08 Thread Daniel Bareiro
Hi all! I recently set up an relay SMTP server on a host of Digital Ocean, using Debian and Postfix. The main reason for setting up this relay is that the cPanel VPS is hosted at Godaddy, and they force everyone to send email through their shared SMTP relay. As expected, that shared relay is cont

Re: Debian Jessie : regular console instead of a hi-res one!

2016-09-08 Thread Felix Miata
David Wright composed on 2016-09-08 09:08 (UTC-0500): On Thu 08 Sep 2016 at 04:36:42 (-0400), Felix Miata wrote: Nicolas George composed on 2016-09-08 10:07 (UTC+0200): >Felix Miata composed: >>The simplest way is to direct KMS's framebuffer to use a lower resolution >>than the native h

Re: [resolved] FireFox broken,

2016-09-08 Thread Mark Allums
No, I have installed Flash, and I keep it up to date. My problem is not YouTube, that was just an example. I get error messages telling me that the web sites are not secure, coincidentally after updating crypto packages and Firefox. I don't believe that YouTube is insecure, hence the proble

Re: [resolved] FireFox broken,

2016-09-08 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 08 September 2016 10:30:54 Mark Allums wrote: > On 09/07/2016 05:23 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Wednesday 07 September 2016 16:43:40 Mark Allums wrote: > >> On 09/07/2016 03:01 PM, Gary Dale wrote: > >>> On 07/09/16 03:03 PM, Mark Allums wrote: > On 09/07/2016 01:39 PM, Gene He

[resolved] FireFox broken,

2016-09-08 Thread Mark Allums
On 09/07/2016 05:23 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Wednesday 07 September 2016 16:43:40 Mark Allums wrote: On 09/07/2016 03:01 PM, Gary Dale wrote: On 07/09/16 03:03 PM, Mark Allums wrote: On 09/07/2016 01:39 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: Greetings all; Online business seems to have hit a roadblock.

Re: GNU

2016-09-08 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, (i maintain GNU xorriso but do not speak for GNU or FSF) Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > their objection to some of Debian might be easily fixable The Debian position is that one should help people to install on hardware of which the manufacturer imposed unsurpassable obstacles for pure FSF-compli

Re: Debian Jessie : regular console instead of a hi-res one!

2016-09-08 Thread David Wright
On Thu 08 Sep 2016 at 04:36:42 (-0400), Felix Miata wrote: > Nicolas George composed on 2016-09-08 10:07 (UTC+0200): > > >Felix Miata composed: > > >>The simplest way is to direct KMS's framebuffer to use a lower resolution > >>than the native hi-res one by including a video= parameter on the ker

Re: GNU (was Re: Decentralized reliable instant messaging?)

2016-09-08 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 9/8/16, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > > If GNU can get people into using GNU software without giving up its > core values, then it normally does. > E.g. there is absolutely no ban on offering GNU software for proprietary > OSes. > > The FSF does not force GNU programs to fully follow the political go

libnss3, currently in testing

2016-09-08 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings all; Has anyone an idea of a schedule of when that will put this security update into the wheezy repo's? I believe this is why I cannot use the paypal account I just opened. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo.

Re: Decentralized reliable instant messaging?

2016-09-08 Thread Byung-Hee HWANG (황병희)
Hellow Darac! Darac Marjal 께서 쓰시길, 《記事 全文 <20160908114300.k4ss4l63okr62...@darac.org.uk> 에서》: > [...snip long lines...] > This is where Debian differs from the "ideals" of the Free Software > Foundation. (...) So i prefer Debian to FSF, thanks! -- ^고맙습니다 _地平天成_ 감사합니다_^))//

GNU (was Re: Decentralized reliable instant messaging?)

2016-09-08 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Darac Marjal wrote: > I'm surprised that Grub (A GNU program) deigns to load Windows :) If GNU can get people into using GNU software without giving up its core values, then it normally does. E.g. there is absolutely no ban on offering GNU software for proprietary OSes. The FSF does not forc

Re: Decentralized reliable instant messaging?

2016-09-08 Thread Darac Marjal
On Thu, Sep 08, 2016 at 11:29:21AM -, Dan Purgert wrote: Ben Finney wrote: Byung-Hee HWANG writes: My meant is that 100% rules/policy is not easy to keep for FSF-like Free Software by the definition. [snip] Do you believe “keep 100% rules/policy” is necessary for a person using free sof

Re: Decentralized reliable instant messaging?

2016-09-08 Thread Dan Purgert
Ben Finney wrote: > Byung-Hee HWANG writes: > >> My meant is that 100% rules/policy is not easy to keep for FSF-like >> Free Software by the definition. > [snip] > > Do you believe “keep 100% rules/policy” is necessary for a person using > free software? What does that mean? I think he means he d

Re: Debian Jessie : regular console instead of a hi-res one!

2016-09-08 Thread Nicolas George
Le tridi 23 fructidor, an CCXXIV, Felix Miata a écrit : >as they are generally produced with many more pix > than typical GUI fonts. You said, quite rightly, "usually 16x9". That does not make many more pixels, that is rather typical of what is used with GUI fonts too. >

Re: Debian Jessie : regular console instead of a hi-res one!

2016-09-08 Thread Felix Miata
Nicolas George composed on 2016-09-08 10:07 (UTC+0200): Felix Miata composed: The simplest way is to direct KMS's framebuffer to use a lower resolution than the native hi-res one by including a video= parameter on the kernel cmdline. The lower the resolution, the larger the standard (usually

Re: Debian Jessie : regular console instead of a hi-res one!

2016-09-08 Thread Nicolas George
Le tridi 23 fructidor, an CCXXIV, Felix Miata a écrit : > The simplest way is to direct KMS's framebuffer to use a lower resolution > than the native hi-res one by including a video= parameter on the kernel > cmdline. The lower the resolution, the larger the standard (usually 16x9) > framebuffer fo

Re: Debian Jessie : regular console instead of a hi-res one!

2016-09-08 Thread Felix Miata
The simplest way is to direct KMS's framebuffer to use a lower resolution than the native hi-res one by including a video= parameter on the kernel cmdline. The lower the resolution, the larger the standard (usually 16x9) framebuffer font becomes. On a 1920x1200 display I typically use video=144

Re: Testing/Unstable Synaptic broken again.

2016-09-08 Thread Brad Rogers
On Wed, 7 Sep 2016 23:58:56 -0700 Jimmy Johnson wrote: Hello Jimmy, >okay. It looks like "gtk-3" is the culprit. When the other 4 systems Indeed. I've upgraded everything other than those myself. Again, without ill effect. Just have to keep a weather eye out for upgraded, bugfixed (natch)