Why 2 dhclient processes running for eth0 (IPv4)?

2017-03-07 Thread Clark Wang
See following output from my system (Debian 8.6): root@debian:~# cat /etc/debian_version 8.6 root@debian:~# pgrep -af dhc 506 dhclient -v -pf /run/dhclient.eth1.pid -lf /var/lib/dhcp/dhclient.eth1.leases eth1 447 dhclient -v -pf /run/dhclient.eth0.pid -lf /var/lib/dhcp/dhclient

why does latest jessie apache2 reject _ in http request path?

2017-03-07 Thread Juha Heinanen
My web app stopped working in apache2 2.4.10-10+deb8u8 and looks like the reason is this: * CVE-2016-8743: Enforce more HTTP conformance for request lines and request headers, to prevent response splitting and cache pollution by malicious clients or downstream proxies. If this causes

Re: Some help with dd backing up into an iso

2017-03-07 Thread David Christensen
On 03/07/2017 07:53 PM, GiaThnYgeia wrote: Once you install a system like debian, does the information in the hidden part of the disk ever change, of can I just copy the file system partition as a backup and replace it if it breaks? AFAIK when using MBR partitioning, the partition table (blocks

Re: https://wiki.debian.org/WiFi/HowToUse#wpa_supplicant

2017-03-07 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 07 Mar 2017 20:39:22 -0800 pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > In the page cited in the Subject line, this example of output > from the wpa_passphrase command is given. > > network={ > ssid="myssid" > #psk="my_very_secret_passphrase" > psk=ccb290fd4fe6b22935cbae31449e050e

https://wiki.debian.org/WiFi/HowToUse#wpa_supplicant

2017-03-07 Thread peter
In the page cited in the Subject line, this example of output from the wpa_passphrase command is given. network={ ssid="myssid" #psk="my_very_secret_passphrase" psk=ccb290fd4fe6b22935cbae31449e050edd02ad44627b16ce0151668f5f53c01b } Appears this is for an authentication w

Re: Some help with dd backing up into an iso

2017-03-07 Thread David Christensen
On 03/07/2017 12:26 AM, Teemu Likonen wrote: David Christensen [2017-03-06 21:05:31-08] wrote: # dd if=/dev/sda | gzip > myimage.img What's the point of using dd? gzip myimage.img Habit -- I use 16 GB SSD or USB flash drives for my system drives, with 10% under-provisioning. 'dd'

Re: Some help with dd backing up into an iso

2017-03-07 Thread GiaThnYgeia
Thomas Schmitt: > Hi, > > GiaThnYgeia wrote: >> 2.1 Block by block, [...] erased data on >> an empty block can be recovered because they are not zero. Correct? > > If not the filesystem overwrote the content of deleted files > the problem will still be to find the content you are interested in.

Re: procmail, when were the last rights administered?

2017-03-07 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 07 March 2017 17:16:28 David Wright wrote: > On Tue 07 Mar 2017 at 14:21:41 (-0500), Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Tuesday 07 March 2017 11:16:55 David Wright wrote: > > > On Tue 07 Mar 2017 at 09:43:17 (-0500), Henning Follmann wrote: > > > > On Mon, Mar 06, 2017 at 09:59:16PM -0500, Gene

Re: procmail, when were the last rights administered?

2017-03-07 Thread David Wright
On Tue 07 Mar 2017 at 14:21:41 (-0500), Gene Heskett wrote: > On Tuesday 07 March 2017 11:16:55 David Wright wrote: > > > On Tue 07 Mar 2017 at 09:43:17 (-0500), Henning Follmann wrote: > > > On Mon, Mar 06, 2017 at 09:59:16PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > On Monday 06 March 2017 21:47:42 And

Re: wlan0 hw address changes

2017-03-07 Thread Dominik George
Hi, > How do I check the systemd-networkd thing? ps aux… ;) The MAC changing would also have to be configured in /etc/systemd/network . -nik -- PGP-Fingerprint: 3C9D 54A4 7575 C026 FB17 FD26 B79A 3C16 A0C4 F296 Dominik George · Hundeshagenstr. 26 · 53225 Bonn Mobile: +49-1520-1981389 · http

Re: alexa-app-server problem - resolved

2017-03-07 Thread Thomas H. George
For anyone who read the original message the solution was to move to Debian testing which installs nodejs 4.7.2. Then everything works On 03/05/2017 06:03 PM, Thomas H. George wrote: Has anyone had success using alexa-app-server? I got a clone from https://github.com/matt-kruse/alexa-app-serve

Re: Some help with dd backing up into an iso

2017-03-07 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, David Wright wrote: > Forgive me for asking, but have you read the OP? Yep. It's a daredevil situation. "Damn the torpedos, full speed ahead" > I can't see > the sense of backing up a filesystem to an image file and then, for > the sake of it, using the image file to overwrite the original

Problem with WiFi on latest Debian Stretch

2017-03-07 Thread Martin Konecny
I'm here because I'm unsure which package to submit my bug to. My issue is that ever since upgrading my Thinkpad T540P from Jessie about a month ago, my wireless ( 04:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Wireless 7260 (rev 83) ) consistently disconnects and the wlan1 interface f(rom typing `

Re: Some help with dd backing up into an iso

2017-03-07 Thread David Wright
On Tue 07 Mar 2017 at 20:25:30 (+0100), Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > i wrote: > > > It has its use cases. E.g. before you put a Debian installation ISO > > > onto an USB stick, it can be used to backup the old stick content > > David Wright wrote: > > Why would you now copy the old stick conte

Re: Some help with dd backing up into an iso

2017-03-07 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i wrote: > > It has its use cases. E.g. before you put a Debian installation ISO > > onto an USB stick, it can be used to backup the old stick content David Wright wrote: > Why would you now copy the old stick content onto the stick again? When you no longer need the installation ISO because

Re: procmail, when were the last rights administered?

2017-03-07 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 07 March 2017 11:16:55 David Wright wrote: > On Tue 07 Mar 2017 at 09:43:17 (-0500), Henning Follmann wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 06, 2017 at 09:59:16PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > On Monday 06 March 2017 21:47:42 Andy Smith wrote: > > > > Hi Gene, > > > > > > > > On Mon, Mar 06, 2017 a

Re: Some help with dd backing up into an iso

2017-03-07 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, GiaThnYgeia wrote: > 1 So an img file does not matter what extension it has, It's the data content which matters, not the name. dd or cp don't care about name extensions. > 2.1 Block by block, [...] erased data on > an empty block can be recovered because they are not zero. Correct? If

Re: Some help with dd backing up into an iso

2017-03-07 Thread David Wright
On Tue 07 Mar 2017 at 18:05:48 (+0100), Thomas Schmitt wrote: > David Wright wrote: > > no one has pointed out the recklessness of the > > action in the first place. > > Making a backup and then immediately copying it back over the top of > > the original is an obvious recipe for data-loss. > > It

Re: wlan0 hw address changes

2017-03-07 Thread Lucio Crusca
Dominik George wrote: Assuming you do not have macchanger or something like that installed (guessing you wouldn't be asking if you had taken such measures ;)), I only know of systemd-networkd having such a feature. No macchanger and nothing like that I'm aware of. How do I check the systemd-n

Re: Some help with dd backing up into an iso

2017-03-07 Thread GiaThnYgeia
I'd like to thank in advance ALL that responded, I think this is valuable for an archive of a manual for the nearly illiterate. Thomas Schmitt: > GiaThnYgeia wrote: >>> I used dd if=/dev/sdb of=usbfilename.iso >>> The resulting image was the full size of the disk. > > That's the job of dd: Copyin

Re: Some help with dd backing up into an iso

2017-03-07 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, tomás wrote: > But yes dd is a dinosaur from olden times where block sizes were a > thing It is also about EBCDIC and byte sex. Last century's topics. Love, 36 bit, and punched cards. David Wright wrote: > no one has pointed out the recklessness of the > action in the first place. > Making

Re: `Filter failed' no print error message (was: Printing packages)

2017-03-07 Thread Brian
On Tue 07 Mar 2017 at 15:41:54 +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Brian writes: > > > On Sun 05 Mar 2017 at 20:07:22 +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > > > >> Rodolfo Medina writes: > >> > >> > >> I installed: > >> > >> cups cups-bsd cups-client libcupsimage2 printer-driver-gutenprint > > > > For

Re: wlan0 hw address changes

2017-03-07 Thread Lucio Crusca
Hans wrote: Do you have package "macchanger" installed? Nope... # apt-cache policy macchanger macchanger: Installed: (none) Candidate: 1.7.0-5.3+b1 I can add my system is a Debian GNU/Linux 9 amd64 that went through tons of upgrades in the years (it started as a testing version of wheez

Re: mdraid will no start at boot

2017-03-07 Thread Patrick Zaloum
I suspect you may need to rebuild your initrd image by running update-initramfs to reflect any changes in the mdadm.conf that may involve md2. Also check your DEVICE entry in mdadm.conf that it includes the correct wildcard. Good luck Patrick On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 12:59 PM, deloptes wrote: >

Re: Failing disk advice

2017-03-07 Thread Patrick Zaloum
In my experience, you will likely be able to pull a few more weeks / months of life out of the drive but it will die. Mirko's suggestion of migrating to a n=3 raid1 setup is also what I would recommend. You will notice in your smartctl output that Reallocated_Sector_Ct is 41. That means that the

Re: procmail, when were the last rights administered?

2017-03-07 Thread Jude DaShiell
formail can also force correct formatting on incoming email. On Tue, 7 Mar 2017, Henning Follmann wrote: Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2017 09:43:17 From: Henning Follmann To: Gene Heskett Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: procmail, when were the last rights administered? Resent-Date: Tue, 7

Re: procmail, when were the last rights administered?

2017-03-07 Thread David Wright
On Tue 07 Mar 2017 at 09:43:17 (-0500), Henning Follmann wrote: > On Mon, Mar 06, 2017 at 09:59:16PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Monday 06 March 2017 21:47:42 Andy Smith wrote: > > > > > Hi Gene, > > > > > > On Mon, Mar 06, 2017 at 09:29:37PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > And what repla

Re: wlan0 hw address changes

2017-03-07 Thread Hans
Do you have package "macchanger" installed? Best Hans

`Filter failed' no print error message (was: Printing packages)

2017-03-07 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Brian writes: > On Sun 05 Mar 2017 at 20:07:22 +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > >> Rodolfo Medina writes: >> >> >> I installed: >> >> cups cups-bsd cups-client libcupsimage2 printer-driver-gutenprint > > For what purpose do you need cups-bsd? > > cups-client and libcupsimage2 are Depends: of

Re: Some help with dd backing up into an iso

2017-03-07 Thread David Wright
On Tue 07 Mar 2017 at 10:55:01 (+0200), Teemu Likonen wrote: > to...@tuxteam.de [2017-03-07 09:35:06+01] wrote: > > > dd comes in handy whin you know how much to copy. So this idiom makes > > sense > > > > dd if=/dev/zero of=lotsofnull bs=1024 count=1024 # copy 1M of zeros > > That particular t

Re: Some help with dd backing up into an iso

2017-03-07 Thread David Wright
On Tue 07 Mar 2017 at 00:11:00 (+), GiaThnYgeia wrote: > I am not very confident I am doing this right and it seems wrong, I > can't locate any documentation that results into proper options. > I tried backing up an 8gb USB that has 2 partitions in it, one had 1.7gb > of data on it. > I used d

Re: procmail, when were the last rights administered?

2017-03-07 Thread Henning Follmann
On Mon, Mar 06, 2017 at 09:59:16PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Monday 06 March 2017 21:47:42 Andy Smith wrote: > > > Hi Gene, > > > > On Mon, Mar 06, 2017 at 09:29:37PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > And what replaces it in the MTA dept? > > > > procmail is still in Debian stretch and if it

Re: wlan0 hw address changes

2017-03-07 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Mar 07, 2017 at 03:07:11PM +0100, Dominik George wrote: > > I need to tell a network admin the hardware address of my wlan0 > > interface, so that he gives me access to the wifi network. The problem > > is that the hw address is changing everyt

Re: Some help with dd backing up into an iso

2017-03-07 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* GiaThnYgeia [2017-03-07 00:11 +]: > I am not very confident I am doing this right and it seems wrong, I > can't locate any documentation that results into proper options. > I tried backing up an 8gb USB that has 2 partitions in it, one had 1.7gb > of data on it. > I used dd if=/dev/sdb of=

Re: wlan0 hw address changes

2017-03-07 Thread Dominik George
> I need to tell a network admin the hardware address of my wlan0 > interface, so that he gives me access to the wifi network. The problem > is that the hw address is changing everytime I use the wlan0 hardware > switch... So, first of all, use this as another argument to explain to your admin tha

Re: Some help with dd backing up into an iso

2017-03-07 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On Seg, 06 Mar 2017, GiaThnYgeia wrote: Is there someway one can avoid creating such a large iso for no reason, when the filesize is a fraction of the whole disk. One way I thought of was to shrink the partitions to just about 99% full, and leave the blank part of the disk as not allocated. Wou

wlan0 hw address changes

2017-03-07 Thread Lucio Crusca
I need to tell a network admin the hardware address of my wlan0 interface, so that he gives me access to the wifi network. The problem is that the hw address is changing everytime I use the wlan0 hardware switch... # ifconfig wlan0 wlan0: flags=4098 mtu 1500 ether b2:ad:31:c5:86:36

Re: [SOLVED] Re: Security hole in LXDE?

2017-03-07 Thread Brian
On Tue 07 Mar 2017 at 09:05:03 +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Mon, Mar 06, 2017 at 08:53:39PM +, Brian wrote: > > [...] > > > I'll reconstruct my previous response. If there is no root password, > > (a bad idea, see my other post) > > > sudo is installed and the "first user" is put in

Re: Some help with dd backing up into an iso

2017-03-07 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Tue, Mar 07, 2017 at 12:11:00AM +, GiaThnYgeia wrote: > I am not very confident I am doing this right and it seems wrong, I > can't locate any documentation that results into proper options. > I tried backing up an 8gb USB that has 2 partitions in it, one had 1.7gb > of data on it. > I used

Re: procmail, when were the last rights administered?

2017-03-07 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Mon, Mar 06, 2017 at 09:29:37PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > And what replaces it in the MTA dept? I still use procmail myself, but I do think about moving away one day. If you are using Exim, and if your mail arrival route is via your Exim (you mention fetchmail in follow-up email but I am no

Re: Some help with dd backing up into an iso

2017-03-07 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Tue, Mar 07, 2017 at 10:26:25AM +0200, Teemu Likonen wrote: > What's the point of using dd? > > gzip myimage.img > > I don't know about you but many people seem to think that dd is some > kind of special tool for reading and writing block device files. But > after all the devices are just

Re: Some help with dd backing up into an iso

2017-03-07 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Mar 07, 2017 at 10:55:01AM +0200, Teemu Likonen wrote: > to...@tuxteam.de [2017-03-07 09:35:06+01] wrote: > > > dd comes in handy whin you know how much to copy. So this idiom makes > > sense > > > > dd if=/dev/zero of=lotsofnull bs=1024 cou

Re: Some help with dd backing up into an iso

2017-03-07 Thread Teemu Likonen
to...@tuxteam.de [2017-03-07 09:35:06+01] wrote: > dd comes in handy whin you know how much to copy. So this idiom makes > sense > > dd if=/dev/zero of=lotsofnull bs=1024 count=1024 # copy 1M of zeros That particular thing can be made faster without transferring any data: $ dd obs=1M count

Re: Some help with dd backing up into an iso

2017-03-07 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Mar 07, 2017 at 10:26:25AM +0200, Teemu Likonen wrote: > David Christensen [2017-03-06 21:05:31-08] wrote: > > > # dd if=/dev/sda | gzip > myimage.img > > What's the point of using dd? > > gzip myimage.img > > I don't know about you

Re: Some help with dd backing up into an iso

2017-03-07 Thread Teemu Likonen
David Christensen [2017-03-06 21:05:31-08] wrote: > # dd if=/dev/sda | gzip > myimage.img What's the point of using dd? gzip myimage.img I don't know about you but many people seem to think that dd is some kind of special tool for reading and writing block device files. But after all th

Re: [SOLVED] Re: Security hole in LXDE?

2017-03-07 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Mar 06, 2017 at 08:53:39PM +, Brian wrote: [...] > I'll reconstruct my previous response. If there is no root password, (a bad idea, see my other post) > sudo is installed and the "first user" is put into the sudo group. I've no proof

Re: [SOLVED] Re: Security hole in LXDE?

2017-03-07 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Mar 06, 2017 at 08:58:25PM +, Joe wrote: [...] > A member of the sudo group has permanent root privileges. He might as > well simply login as root every day, and not bother with another user. Sorry, I've to disagree. It's a question of e