Hi.
On Mon, Nov 05, 2018 at 06:18:00AM +0100, Harald Dunkel wrote:
> On 11/3/18 4:42 PM, Reco wrote:
> > Hi.
> >
> > On Sat, Nov 03, 2018 at 03:37:06PM +0100, Harald Dunkel wrote:
> >>
> >> I don't see a short release cycle as a bad feature. Its a sign of
> >> active and agile develop
On 11/3/18 4:42 PM, Reco wrote:
> Hi.
>
> On Sat, Nov 03, 2018 at 03:37:06PM +0100, Harald Dunkel wrote:
>>
>> I don't see a short release cycle as a bad feature. Its a sign of
>> active and agile development.
>
> And in Debian stable that also means that it's close to impossible to
> backp
The 8.7 and 9.3 installers had no difficulty recognizing the SiS 900
PCI Fast Ethernet NIC. The 9.5 installer complains that no NIC is
available. If the driver is chosen from the list presented, the NIC
is still not recognized. Any ideas about this?
Thanks, ... Peter E.
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On Sun, 04 Nov 2018 20:49:21 +0300
Богачев Константин wrote:
> I like it a lot Debian but I have one problem. Adapter tp-link
> tl-wn722n v3.0 can not go to monitor mode and can't do injection. Do
> you plan to fully support this device in the future? The problem is in
> the chipset (rtl8188eu) o
On 11/4/18 12:59 AM, Joel Wirāmu Pauling wrote:
Kvm QED. The ONLY reason to use virtualbox on linux is if you have a need
to have cross platform containers for VM's for say windows and osx.
I run VirtualBox on Windows, MacOS, and Debian.
David
On 11/4/18 7:25 AM, David Wright wrote:
On Fri 02 Nov 2018 at 23:09:02 (-0700), David Christensen wrote:
... I researched commercial products, asked around on Linux and
BSD lists, and bought Ubiquiti Networks UniFi stuff: ...
Most of the eye-watering prices have 3 or 4 figures.
Checking pric
On 11/4/18 7:29 AM, pe...@easthope.ca wrote:
How is this for archiving the content of a directory?
pushd ;
printf "Insert blank DVD-R."; read t ;
tar -vcpzf - * | xorriso -indev /dev/sr0 -add -- -commit ;
xorriso -indev /dev/sr0 -du / -- -toc 2>&1 ;
xorriso -indev /dev/sr0 -eject
>> [ Sadly --resizefs doesn't work on a swap partition, AFAICT. ]
> Because there is no swap resizing tool.
There is no "online" swap resizing tool, but `mkswap` should work to
resize a (currently unused) swap.
Stefan
Le 04/11/2018 à 20:56, Stefan Monnier a écrit :
I use LVM volumes for my swap space, which is yet another option, one
that can be grown and shrunk easily, online.
You can resize a logical volume online, but AFAIK you cannot resize a swap
area online (while in use) ;
Indeed, in the general case
On 11/4/18 5:45 AM, Steve McIntyre wrote:
Sven wrote:
On 2018-11-04 00:19 +, Steve McIntyre wrote:
which suggests there may be a problem with overrides in the security
archive. The overrides file for security isn't available to look at
directly to check...
Is there even an override file
On 11/4/18 4:21 AM, Michael Stone wrote:
On Sat, Nov 03, 2018 at 06:49:59PM -0700, David Christensen wrote:
When trouble shooting, it is useful to have a means to elicit the
failure mode on demand.
Sure. That's just not it.
You are deleting too much context in your replies.
If dbench(1) is
Nov 4, 2018, 4:52 AM by pas...@plouf.fr.eu.org:
> You'll get UUID collisions. Whenever a partition is searched by UUID and both
> drives are connected, you may find (and use !) the partition on either the
> original or backup one. This applies specially at boot time.
>
>> I guess my issue comes
>> I use LVM volumes for my swap space, which is yet another option, one
>> that can be grown and shrunk easily, online.
> You can resize a logical volume online, but AFAIK you cannot resize a swap
> area online (while in use) ;
Indeed, in the general case you'll need to do it like:
lvcreate
I like it a lot Debian but I have one problem. Adapter tp-link tl-wn722n v3.0
can not go to monitor mode and can't do injection. Do you plan to fully support
this device in the future? The problem is in the chipset (rtl8188eu) of the
device.
On Sun 04 Nov 2018 at 16:53:19 +0100, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
> Le 04/11/2018 à 16:44, David Wright a écrit :
> > On Sun 04 Nov 2018 at 15:51:21 (+0100), Pascal Hambourg wrote:
> > > Le 04/11/2018 à 14:52, Steve McIntyre a écrit :
> > > > Pascal Hambourg wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > Do you mean that
Hi,
pe...@easthope.ca wrote:
> printf "Insert blank DVD-R."; read t ;
> tar -vcpzf - * | xorriso -indev /dev/sr0 -add -- -commit ;
Writing the tar stream to DVD-R is a classical use case of cdrecord or wodim.
So:
tar -vcpzf - * | xorriso -as cdrecord -v dev=/dev/sr0 -eject fs=16m -
This w
On Sun, Nov 04, 2018 at 10:45:04AM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote:
/swap, encrypted, 16GB (same as RAM)
Hugely overkill. You do not need for your swap to be as large as
your RAM unless you are intending to hibernate to disk. If you are
intending to do that, fair enough, but if not, that's probably
Le 04/11/2018 à 16:45, Stefan Monnier a écrit :
Andy Smith writes:
Seems excessive. Without service-specific data or /var, my servers
generally use under 2GiB for /, so dedicating 40GiB to it is likely
to be wasteful.
IMO on a server setup service specific data should be stored in a
separat
Le 04/11/2018 à 16:44, David Wright a écrit :
On Sun 04 Nov 2018 at 15:51:21 (+0100), Pascal Hambourg wrote:
Le 04/11/2018 à 14:52, Steve McIntyre a écrit :
Pascal Hambourg wrote:
Do you mean that all packages with Priority: standard and their
dependencies are supposed to be present in instal
How is this for archiving the content of a directory?
pushd ;
printf "Insert blank DVD-R."; read t ;
tar -vcpzf - * | xorriso -indev /dev/sr0 -add -- -commit ;
xorriso -indev /dev/sr0 -du / -- -toc 2>&1 ;
xorriso -indev /dev/sr0 -eject ;
echo "Content of archived in DVD-R." ;
popd
Andy Smith writes:
I definitely stand by your recommendation of LVM and most of what you
said, but you seem to assume a "server" context, whereas we're talking
about a laptop, so there are a few differences:
> Seems excessive. Without service-specific data or /var, my servers
> generally use und
On Sun 04 Nov 2018 at 15:51:21 (+0100), Pascal Hambourg wrote:
> Le 04/11/2018 à 14:52, Steve McIntyre a écrit :
> > Pascal Hambourg wrote:
> > In article you write:
> > > Le 04/11/2018 à 01:23, Steve McIntyre a écrit :
> > > >
> > > > As I just wrote elsewhere, it looks like a bug in
> > > >
On Fri 02 Nov 2018 at 23:09:02 (-0700), David Christensen wrote:
> On 11/2/18 8:49 PM, David Wright wrote:
> > On Fri 02 Nov 2018 at 20:11:03 (-0700), David Christensen wrote:
> > > On 11/2/18 6:24 PM, David Wright wrote:
> > > > On Fri 02 Nov 2018 at 07:05:16 (-0400), Michael Stone wrote:
> > > >
Le 04/11/2018 à 14:43, Andy Smith a écrit :
On Sun, Nov 04, 2018 at 02:31:14PM +0100, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
Le 04/11/2018 à 13:53, Andy Smith a écrit :
On Sun, Nov 04, 2018 at 10:19:59AM +0100, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
Le 04/11/2018 à 05:45, Andy Smith a écrit :
Why don't you include the swap
Le 04/11/2018 à 14:52, Steve McIntyre a écrit :
Pascal Hambourg wrote:
In article you write:
Le 04/11/2018 à 01:23, Steve McIntyre a écrit :
As I just wrote elsewhere, it looks like a bug in
the security.d.o infrastructure. I'm chasing that now.
Do you mean that all packages with Priorit
On Sun, Nov 04, 2018 at 03:20:11AM +, D&P Dimov wrote:
Considering that I will be installing Debian 9.5 Stable on a new Dell laptop
with 512 GB SSD and 16 GB RAM, and intend to also run Windows 10 as a virtual
machine from the /home partition (so it doesn't get affected during kernel
updates
On Sat 03 Nov 2018 at 19:02:50 -0700, David Christensen wrote:
> On 11/3/18 1:35 PM, Brian wrote:
> > On Sat 03 Nov 2018 at 12:29:15 -0700, David Christensen wrote:
> >
> > > On 11/3/18 8:35 AM, Brian wrote:
> > > > On Fri 02 Nov 2018 at 20:01:59 -0700, David Christensen wrote:
> > > >
> > > > >
Pascal Hambourg wrote:
In article you write:
>Le 04/11/2018 à 01:23, Steve McIntyre a écrit :
>>
>> As I just wrote elsewhere, it looks like a bug in
>> the security.d.o infrastructure. I'm chasing that now.
>
>Do you mean that all packages with Priority: standard and their
>dependencies are
Sven wrote:
>On 2018-11-04 00:19 +, Steve McIntyre wrote:
>>
>> which suggests there may be a problem with overrides in the security
>> archive. The overrides file for security isn't available to look at
>> directly to check...
>
>Is there even an override file on security.debian.org, or uses i
Hello,
On Sun, Nov 04, 2018 at 02:31:14PM +0100, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
> Le 04/11/2018 à 13:53, Andy Smith a écrit :
> >
> >On Sun, Nov 04, 2018 at 10:19:59AM +0100, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
> >>Le 04/11/2018 à 05:45, Andy Smith a écrit :
> >>Why don't you include the swap in LVM ?
> >
> >I don't s
On Sun, Nov 04, 2018 at 07:24:04AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote:
> Turns out there was a *YUCKY* choice for a default setting.
> In the default profile for mate-terminal there is a choice titled
>"Run command as a login shell".
> The option is *not* enabled.
>
> That makes the choice "given"(si
Le 04/11/2018 à 13:53, Andy Smith a écrit :
On Sun, Nov 04, 2018 at 10:19:59AM +0100, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
Le 04/11/2018 à 05:45, Andy Smith a écrit :
Why don't you include the swap in LVM ?
I don't see the point as it will never change in size.
Why not ? You could decide that you don't n
On 10/31/2018 09:14 AM, Richard Owlett wrote:
Debian 9.1 with MATE installed from DVD set.
Due a non-reproducible sequence of events, a binary executable was over
written by the contents of a man page in pure text format. For unknown
reason, the resulting file was tagged as executable.
A cus
Hello,
On Sun, Nov 04, 2018 at 10:19:59AM +0100, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
> Le 04/11/2018 à 05:45, Andy Smith a écrit :
> Why don't you include the swap in LVM ?
I don't see the point as it will never change in size.
But in the case where encryption is used, it would have to be inside
the encrypte
On Sat, Nov 03, 2018 at 06:49:59PM -0700, David Christensen wrote:
When trouble shooting, it is useful to have a means to elicit the
failure mode on demand.
Sure. That's just not it.
On Sat, Nov 03, 2018 at 07:04:00PM -0700, David Christensen wrote:
On 11/3/18 1:41 PM, Michael Stone wrote:
On Fri, Nov 02, 2018 at 08:01:59PM -0700, David Christensen wrote:
My intent was to install just what was on the CD onto a machine in
my LAN. I was unaware that d-i connected to the Inte
On 2018-11-04 00:19 +, Steve McIntyre wrote:
> Right. But if you compare the metdata for mutt in the relevant
> Packages files, there is a mismatch. From current stable:
>
> Package: mutt
> Version: 1.7.2-1
> Installed-Size: 6104
> Maintainer: Mutt maintainers
> Architecture: amd64
> ...
> Pr
Le 03/11/2018 à 18:28, local10 a écrit :
The problem I have with grub is that there is a lot of contradictory
information on the net as to how to use it. For example, here [1] it is said
that just running grub-install is not enough.
I did not read the referenced thread, but indeed it is not
Le 03/11/2018 à 18:06, songbird a écrit :
Pascal Hambourg wrote:
...
2) The partitions on the backup disk have different UUIDs but config
files such as /etc/fstab, /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/resume and
/boot/grub/grub.cfg reference UUIDs of the original disk partitions and
must be adjusted.
Le 04/11/2018 à 04:20, D&P Dimov a écrit :
Considering that I will be installing Debian 9.5 Stable on a new Dell laptop
with 512 GB SSD and 16 GB RAM, and intend to also run Windows 10 as a virtual
machine from the /home partition (so it doesn't get affected during kernel
updates and upgrades)
Le 04/11/2018 à 05:45, Andy Smith a écrit :
You're probably going to receive as many different opinions as there
are different people responding, but my recommendation in nearly any
situation is to have a reasonable /boot and swap and then the rest
of the space inside an LVM volume group.
(...)
Hi.
Please do not hijack the thread, start your own.
On Sun, Nov 04, 2018 at 03:32:25AM +, D&P Dimov wrote:
> I need to install and run Windows 10 as a virtual machine on the latest
> Debian Stable (9.5). I would much, much rather use a free (as in freedom)
> GPL-licensed software d
Le 04/11/2018 à 01:23, Steve McIntyre a écrit :
As I just wrote elsewhere, it looks like a bug in
the security.d.o infrastructure. I'm chasing that now.
Do you mean that all packages with Priority: standard and their
dependencies are supposed to be present in installation CD images ?
On 11/3/18 8:20 PM, D&P Dimov wrote:
Considering that I will be installing Debian 9.5 Stable on a new Dell laptop with 512 GB SSD and 16 GB RAM,
Dell Service Tag?
and intend to also run Windows 10 as a virtual machine from the /home partition
(so it doesn't get affected during kernel update
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