Re: gnats user

2018-03-06 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
On 07/03/2018 11:46, Reco wrote: Hi. On Wed, Mar 07, 2018 at 05:57:36AM +, Adam Weremczuk wrote: Thanks, a useful read. But all it says regarding gnats is "." :) Nothing's perfect ☺. I suggest thinking about it this way: Along with other uid<100 users, 'gnats' is there for a long

Re: Origin of /var/run contents

2018-03-06 Thread deloptes
Jonathan de Boyne Pollard wrote: >> Wheezy used sysvinit and related pacakges, not systemd. Jessie does >> have the file-hierarchy(7) man page that Jonathan mentioned. >> > Debian 7 had systemd, and the sharp-eyed who read the URL will have > noticed that I pointed to the Debian 7 version of that

Re: gnats user

2018-03-06 Thread Reco
Hi. On Wed, Mar 07, 2018 at 05:57:36AM +, Adam Weremczuk wrote: > Thanks, a useful read. > But all it says regarding gnats is "." :) Nothing's perfect ☺. I suggest thinking about it this way: Along with other uid<100 users, 'gnats' is there for a long time, nobody's sure what will br

Re: gnats user

2018-03-06 Thread Adam Weremczuk
Thanks, a useful read. But all it says regarding gnats is "." :) On 2018-03-06 16:57, Reco wrote: [1], chapter 12.1.12.1. Reco [1]https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/securing-debian-howto/ch12.en.html

Re: adsl bridge mode

2018-03-06 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 06/03/2018 à 23:17, Gokan Atmaca a écrit : I got ADSL bridge mode. I can get ip address from DHCP from the service provider. How do I configure it ? Configure what ? Please elaborate.

Multifunction (printer + scanner) recommendation?

2018-03-06 Thread Kamil Jońca
I am not sure if it is best group for this question but I am tired with searching over numerous web pages :( I need to buy device to scan and print which: - can scan with sane - can print from my debian box (strongly prefer without binary/closed drivers[1], I'm not sure about hplip[2]) - no bigge

Re: How to use a particular kernel for only one boot

2018-03-06 Thread Marc Auslander
Roberto C. Sánchez writes: >On Tue, Mar 06, 2018 at 07:35:37PM +, John wrote: >> I am still looking for a clean way to upgrade my Debian box. >> >> Background is that the m/c is the interface to the world from the LAN, >> runs headless, and is fairly difficult to access physically. My >> at

Re: File and directory permissions

2018-03-06 Thread epsilon491
On 07/03/18 13:56, epsilon...@tutanota.com wrote:   > Do you have any network filesystems involved in this test? No network fs. It is a local LUKS encrypted disk with ext4 filesystem. Kernel is latest. Debian 9.3

Re: File and directory permissions

2018-03-06 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
On 07/03/18 13:56, epsilon...@tutanota.com wrote: On terminal A, chown root:root /opt/experiment/ chmod 700 /opt/experiment On terminal B, whoami #aristo touch bbb # OK bbb is created in /opt/experiment/ cd /opt/experiment/ # Gives permission denied ls -la # Gives correct listing pwd # Gives /opt

File and directory permissions

2018-03-06 Thread epsilon491
For example, on terminal window A, su whoami # root mkdir /opt/experiment/ chown aristo:aristo /opt/experiment/ Now on another terminal window, B, su aristo whoami # aristo cd /opt/experiment/ touch aaa # OK aaa is created On terminal A, chown root:root /opt/experiment/ chmod 700 /opt/experime

Origin of /var/run contents

2018-03-06 Thread Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
Greg Wooledge: Wheezy used sysvinit and related pacakges, not systemd. Jessie does have the file-hierarchy(7) man page that Jonathan mentioned. Debian 7 had systemd, and the sharp-eyed who read the URL will have noticed that I pointed to the Debian 7 version of that manual page. Have a manu

adsl bridge mode

2018-03-06 Thread Gokan Atmaca
Hello I got ADSL bridge mode. I can get ip address from DHCP from the service provider. How do I configure it ? thanks...

Re: (solved) Re: wireless fail after stretch installation

2018-03-06 Thread Charlie S
On Tue, 6 Mar 2018 13:46:24 -0500 (EST) bw sent: > On Tue, 6 Mar 2018, Ian Jackson wrote: > > > Brian writes ("Re: (solved) Re: wireless fail after stretch > > installation"): > > > #694068, #696755, #727740 and #777439. > > > > Thanks. > > > > I have read the bug logs and Trent Buck's mess

Re: WTF does Firefox 58?

2018-03-06 Thread deloptes
Michelle Konzack wrote: > My systems are since 11 years on UTF-8 well, there is characater mangling - called double conversion, which we've seen and then some HTML entities. Usually it happens when you have wrong iconv or whatever translation mechanism from one charset to another implemented in t

Re: Beeping after power irregularities?

2018-03-06 Thread James H. H. Lampert
It's the RAID controller card. Naturally. -- JHHL

Re: Beeping after power irregularities?

2018-03-06 Thread Roger Price
On Tue, 6 Mar 2018, Dan Ritter wrote: On Tue, Mar 06, 2018 at 10:50:52AM -0800, James H. H. Lampert wrote: Our AC power just blinked several times. one-second beeps, approximately every two seconds That really sounds like a UPS. Do you have diagnostics access for it? Sounds to me like a UPS

Re: (solved) Re: wireless fail after stretch installation

2018-03-06 Thread Brian
On Tue 06 Mar 2018 at 18:34:27 +, Ian Jackson wrote: > bw writes ("Re: (solved) Re: wireless fail after stretch installation"): > > I think the idea needs to be talked over a little better, because using > > e/n/i for wireless by default after first boot has implications if the > > user (who

Re: Beeping after power irregularities?

2018-03-06 Thread Dan Ritter
On Tue, Mar 06, 2018 at 10:50:52AM -0800, James H. H. Lampert wrote: > Our AC power just blinked several times. More or less concurrently with > that, something in our server cage (we think it's a Debian box); it doesn't > appear to be an AS/400, any network gear, or our UPS) began emitting > one-s

Re: Beeping after power irregularities?

2018-03-06 Thread Joe
On Tue, 06 Mar 2018 10:50:52 -0800 "James H. H. Lampert" wrote: > Our AC power just blinked several times. More or less concurrently > with that, something in our server cage (we think it's a Debian box); > it doesn't appear to be an AS/400, any network gear, or our UPS) > began emitting one-seco

Re: How to use a particular kernel for only one boot

2018-03-06 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Tue, Mar 06, 2018 at 07:35:37PM +, John wrote: > I am still looking for a clean way to upgrade my Debian box. > > Background is that the m/c is the interface to the world from the LAN, > runs headless, and is fairly difficult to access physically. My > attempt to upgrade from Whezzy to Jes

How to use a particular kernel for only one boot

2018-03-06 Thread John
I am still looking for a clean way to upgrade my Debian box. Background is that the m/c is the interface to the world from the LAN, runs headless, and is fairly difficult to access physically. My attempt to upgrade from Whezzy to Jessie broke as it would not run/load the 3.16.0-4-amd64 kernel, an

Re: (solved) Re: wireless fail after stretch installation

2018-03-06 Thread Brian Potkin
On Tue 06 Mar 2018 at 18:27:29 +, Ian Jackson wrote: > Brian writes ("Re: (solved) Re: wireless fail after stretch installation"): > > #694068, #696755, #727740 and #777439. > > Thanks. > > I have read the bug logs and Trent Buck's message here > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.c

Re: Multichannel audio listening (was: Live recording)

2018-03-06 Thread Joel Roth
On Mon, Mar 05, 2018 at 10:39:19AM +0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Hi all. > > After learning, some months ago, thanks to listers' help, how to live record > into a multi channel audio file, I was wondering about the reverse problem: > now > I have my multi channel audio file, e.g. composed by thr

Re: Beeping after power irregularities?

2018-03-06 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, Mar 06, 2018 at 10:50:52AM -0800, James H. H. Lampert wrote: > Our AC power just blinked several times. More or less concurrently with > that, something in our server cage (we think it's a Debian box); it doesn't > appear to be an AS/400, any network gear, or our UPS) began emitting > one-s

Beeping after power irregularities?

2018-03-06 Thread James H. H. Lampert
Our AC power just blinked several times. More or less concurrently with that, something in our server cage (we think it's a Debian box); it doesn't appear to be an AS/400, any network gear, or our UPS) began emitting one-second beeps, approximately every two seconds (i.e., a one-second beep alt

Re: desktop icons locked

2018-03-06 Thread rv riveravaldez
>> Desktop icons on Debian 4.9.65-3+deb9u2 are locked. >> >> Please provide work around on how to fix this problem. >> >> Thanks, >> >> >> Eugenia Lemberg >> On Tue, Mar 6, 2018 at 3:29 PM, Hans wrote: > Am Dienstag, 6. März 2018, 18:10:01 CET schrieb Eugenia: > Please check your windowmanager set

Re: (solved) Re: wireless fail after stretch installation

2018-03-06 Thread Ian Jackson
bw writes ("Re: (solved) Re: wireless fail after stretch installation"): > I think the idea needs to be talked over a little better, because using > e/n/i for wireless by default after first boot has implications if the > user (who is clueless) later installs a desktop environment. If installing

Re: desktop icons locked

2018-03-06 Thread Hans
Am Dienstag, 6. März 2018, 18:10:01 CET schrieb Eugenia: Please check your windowmanager settings. Good luck! Hans > Desktop icons on Debian 4.9.65-3+deb9u2 are locked. > > Please provide work around on how to fix this problem. > > Thanks, > > > Eugenia Lemberg > > elemb...@yahoo.com 408 54

Re: (solved) Re: wireless fail after stretch installation

2018-03-06 Thread Ian Jackson
Brian writes ("Re: (solved) Re: wireless fail after stretch installation"): > #694068, #696755, #727740 and #777439. Thanks. I have read the bug logs and Trent Buck's message here https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=694068#47 seems to suggest a way forward. Perhaps someone would

cant configure drawing tablet in debian stretch cinnamon

2018-03-06 Thread Thomas Waldl
Hello there! I  just installed the latest debian stretch net installer with cinnamon, and I happen to not be able to configure my wacom tablet throught the menu options. Configuring it manually via console and xsetwacom commands works perfectly. I have not found something online to help me

Re: WTF does Firefox 58?

2018-03-06 Thread Michelle Konzack
Good evening deloptes, Am 2018-03-05 hackte deloptes in die Tasten: > I think you should check your setup or your client - perhaps older > libs > still somewhere. > > look forward to setup UTF-8 and keep it consistent My systems are since 11 years on UTF-8 > regards Thanks in advance -- Miche

Re: (solved) Re: wireless fail after stretch installation

2018-03-06 Thread Brian
On Tue 06 Mar 2018 at 15:01:03 +, Ian Jackson wrote: > Brian writes ("Re: (solved) Re: wireless fail after stretch installation"): > > The plain and simple fact is that a user who installs over a wireless > > link and does not have network-manager does not have any connectivity > > to the inte

Re: gnats user

2018-03-06 Thread Reco
Hi. On Tue, Mar 06, 2018 at 04:32:03PM +, Adam Weremczuk wrote: > Hi all, > > Can somebody explain why gnats user comes even with a minimalistic > netinstall Debian? [1], chapter 12.1.12.1. Reco [1] https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/securing-debian-howto/ch12.en.html

gnats user

2018-03-06 Thread Adam Weremczuk
Hi all, Can somebody explain why gnats user comes even with a minimalistic netinstall Debian? I briefly used Gnats Bug-Reporting System long time ago but AFAIR this project died in 2005. It just feels weird for me to see it in /etc/passwd all the time. Thanks Adam

Re: (solved) Re: wireless fail after stretch installation

2018-03-06 Thread Ian Jackson
Brian writes ("Re: (solved) Re: wireless fail after stretch installation"): > The plain and simple fact is that a user who installs over a wireless > link and does not have network-manager does not have any connectivity > to the internet after first boot. Long Wind solved the issue by taking > the

Re: nagios

2018-03-06 Thread Gokan Atmaca
> show us your nagios host definition Hello as follows: define host { use linux-server host_nameexampletest0 alias exampletest0 address 88.99.84.60 contacts

Re: there’s something wrong with your site :(

2018-03-06 Thread Louise Levine
Hi, I understand you are a busy person and your time is valuable but did you have some time to look at my last email? (see above). Would be great to hear from you. If you’re short on time right now — no worries. I won’t bug you about it again. Many thanks Louise Levine UKWebHostRevie

Re: nagios

2018-03-06 Thread emmanuel segura
show us your nagios host definition 2018-03-06 14:26 GMT+01:00 Gokan Atmaca : > > Been a while since I've dealt with nagios, but don't you have to restart > > / reload it in order for it to read teh config files again? > > hello > > I restarted and reloaded. Nothing changed. > > thanks. > > On Tu

Re: nagios

2018-03-06 Thread Gokan Atmaca
> Been a while since I've dealt with nagios, but don't you have to restart > / reload it in order for it to read teh config files again? hello I restarted and reloaded. Nothing changed. thanks. On Tue, Mar 6, 2018 at 2:40 PM, Dan Purgert wrote: > Gokan Atmaca wrote: >> hello >> >> I added 5 se

Re: nagios

2018-03-06 Thread Dan Purgert
Gokan Atmaca wrote: > hello > > I added 5 servers to Nagios. When I add the sixth, I can not see it in > the web interface. But when I check it, it seems to exist. What would > be the reason ? Been a while since I've dealt with nagios, but don't you have to restart / reload it in order for it to r

Re: requesting assistance troubleshooting Kmail

2018-03-06 Thread charlie derr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On Sat, 24 Feb 2018 15:28:37 -0500 m...@neidorff.com wrote: > This may or may not be helpful to Charlie, but others might find it > helpful > > For the sake of others with a similar problem with the stock kmail from within debian 9 stretch, I

Format for rsyslog configurations

2018-03-06 Thread CamZie
Hi, Which format should I use for the rsyslog configuration on Debian 9? According to the rsyslog documentation, I should use the new "advanced" format, but I saw that the default rsyslog.conf uses some of the "obselete legacy" (with $) format but sometimes it does not. Is both format still possi