Tools in Debian to create whole disk image (multiple partitions)?

2012-07-22 Thread Andrei POPESCU
Hello list, My Raspberry Pi arrived a few days ago and yesterday I finally managed to run the installer for Raspbian (Debian wheezy armhf recompiled for the Raspberry Pi). Since the installation is not very fast due to the speed of the SD card (and I may want to contribute images anyway) I wan

Re: Why have d-community-offtopic? (Re: What does group consider to be "on topic"?)

2012-07-22 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 11:32:14AM +, Camaleón wrote: > On Sat, 21 Jul 2012 23:19:07 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > > > On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 02:46:43PM +, Camaleón wrote: > >> But I wouldn't post there how to configure an Oracle database with the > >> current Debian stable. Hope you se

is it rational to close the 139 port

2012-07-22 Thread lina
Hi, strangely my netstat showed my 139 and 445 ports are open. tcp0 0 0.0.0.0:445 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN tcp0 0 0.0.0.0:139 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN Do I need specify -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 139 -j REJECT in iptables? For all INP

Re: What does this mean?

2012-07-22 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 11:58:52AM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > I'm running a computer box that is recently purchased second hand - > new to me, but not new. While running a script that does a disk to > disk copy with some reformatting on a file of a few GB, I got this > burst of lines on all ope

SOLVED: Re: need simply CLI only live ISO

2012-07-22 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 7/22/2012 12:36 AM, Alex Mestiashvili wrote: > On 07/22/2012 07:00 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >> Look'n for a small ISO that'll boot CLI only and allow me to run dd. I >> simply need to wipe the first few KB/MB of a drive. It's an SSD >> otherwise I'd just use DBAN. >> >> Thanks. >> >> > I wo

Re: is it rational to close the 139 port

2012-07-22 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 7/22/2012 2:25 AM, lina wrote: Hi Lina, > strangely my netstat showed my 139 and 445 ports are open. > > tcp0 0 0.0.0.0:445 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN > tcp0 0 0.0.0.0:139 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN These ports are used by Samba. If

Re: is it rational to close the 139 port

2012-07-22 Thread lina
On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 3:36 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 7/22/2012 2:25 AM, lina wrote: > > Hi Lina, Hi, > >> strangely my netstat showed my 139 and 445 ports are open. >> >> tcp0 0 0.0.0.0:445 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN >> tcp0 0 0.0.0.0:139

Re: is it rational to close the 139 port

2012-07-22 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 22 iul 12, 15:41:16, lina wrote: > > Thanks, I don't have some basic understanding about samba, > will read something about it. > just a short quick question, is it necessary to keep it? Only you can tell since we don't know what you use/need. Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions

Re: is it rational to close the 139 port

2012-07-22 Thread lina
On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 3:49 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Du, 22 iul 12, 15:41:16, lina wrote: >> >> Thanks, I don't have some basic understanding about samba, >> will read something about it. >> just a short quick question, is it necessary to keep it? > > Only you can tell since we don't know w

Re: is it rational to close the 139 port

2012-07-22 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 7/22/2012 2:59 AM, lina wrote: > On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 3:49 PM, Andrei POPESCU > wrote: >> On Du, 22 iul 12, 15:41:16, lina wrote: >>> >>> Thanks, I don't have some basic understanding about samba, >>> will read something about it. >>> just a short quick question, is it necessary to keep it?

Re: is it rational to close the 139 port

2012-07-22 Thread Joe
On Sun, 22 Jul 2012 15:59:29 +0800 lina wrote: > On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 3:49 PM, Andrei POPESCU > wrote: > > On Du, 22 iul 12, 15:41:16, lina wrote: > >> > >> Thanks, I don't have some basic understanding about samba, > >> will read something about it. > >> just a short quick question, is it ne

Re: is it rational to close the 139 port

2012-07-22 Thread lina
On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 4:30 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 7/22/2012 2:59 AM, lina wrote: >> On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 3:49 PM, Andrei POPESCU >> wrote: >>> On Du, 22 iul 12, 15:41:16, lina wrote: Thanks, I don't have some basic understanding about samba, will read something about it

Re: is it rational to close the 139 port

2012-07-22 Thread Joe
On Sun, 22 Jul 2012 16:37:16 +0800 lina wrote: > > P.S I also found > > tcp0 0 127.0.0.1:631 0.0.0.0:* > LISTEN tcp0 0 127.0.0.1:25 > 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN tcp0 0 > 0.0.0.0:538 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN > > > 631 is fo

Re: is it rational to close the 139 port

2012-07-22 Thread lina
On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 4:35 PM, Joe wrote: > On Sun, 22 Jul 2012 15:59:29 +0800 > lina wrote: > >> On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 3:49 PM, Andrei POPESCU >> wrote: >> > On Du, 22 iul 12, 15:41:16, lina wrote: >> >> >> >> Thanks, I don't have some basic understanding about samba, >> >> will read someth

Re: is it rational to close the 139 port

2012-07-22 Thread lina
On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 4:44 PM, Joe wrote: > On Sun, 22 Jul 2012 16:37:16 +0800 > lina wrote: > >> >> P.S I also found >> >> tcp0 0 127.0.0.1:631 0.0.0.0:* >> LISTEN tcp0 0 127.0.0.1:25 >> 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN tcp0 0 >> 0.0.0.0:538

Re: is it rational to close the 139 port

2012-07-22 Thread lina
sorry, this one is easy to read # netstat -tupan | grep 538 tcp0 0 0.0.0.0:538 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 2366/gdomap udp0 0 0.0.0.0:538 0.0.0.0:* 2366/gdomap Thanks, -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: is it rational to close the 139 port

2012-07-22 Thread Joe
On Sun, 22 Jul 2012 16:44:13 +0800 lina wrote: > > Checked, now only 22 80 open with 443 closed. > another thing is that the nmap can scan my MAC address correctly. > is it bad? (I guess I will feel comfortable if the MAC address is > hidden) > All network communication is actually based on MA

Re: is it rational to close the 139 port

2012-07-22 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Hello, lina a écrit : > root@debian:/etc/iptables# dpkg --get-selections | grep gdomap > > no gdomap installed, > # dpkg -L gdomap > Package `gdomap' is not installed. > Use dpkg --info (= dpkg-deb --info) to examine archive files, > and dpkg --contents (= dpkg-deb --contents) to list their conte

Re: is it rational to close the 139 port

2012-07-22 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 7/22/2012 3:37 AM, lina wrote: > P.S I also found > > tcp0 0 127.0.0.1:631 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN > tcp0 0 127.0.0.1:250.0.0.0:* LISTEN > tcp0 0 0.0.0.0:538 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN Instead of

Re: is it rational to close the 139 port

2012-07-22 Thread Joe
On Sun, 22 Jul 2012 16:58:33 +0800 lina wrote: > sorry, this one is easy to read > > # netstat -tupan | grep 538 > tcp0 0 0.0.0.0:538 0.0.0.0:* > LISTEN 2366/gdomap > udp0 0 0.0.0.0:538 0.0.0.0:* > 2366/gdomap > > > gdomap appear

Re: is it rational to close the 139 port

2012-07-22 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Joe a écrit : > > All network communication is actually based on MAC addresses No. Communication over an ethernet network is, but not all network communication is. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lis

Re: is it rational to close the 139 port

2012-07-22 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hello lina, this is a rather strange name :) lina wrote: > BTW, why need allow ping? from outside? > 59 # Allow ping > 60 -A INPUT -p icmp -m icmp --icmp-type 8 -j ACCEPT It doesn’t help to block ICMP echo requests: - if you block them by dropping them, the other party knows that you are (

Re: is it rational to close the 139 port

2012-07-22 Thread lina
On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 5:31 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 7/22/2012 3:37 AM, lina wrote: > >> P.S I also found >> >> tcp0 0 127.0.0.1:631 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN >> tcp0 0 127.0.0.1:250.0.0.0:* LISTEN >> tcp0 0 0.0.

Re: is it rational to close the 139 port

2012-07-22 Thread Lars Noodén
On 07/22/2012 01:08 PM, lina wrote: > Thanks, I only know 22, 25, 631 80 for ssh, email, cups and http, > respectively, > > Best regards, > > P.S I will be glad to know more. You can get the official list of what goes where from the file /etc/services Regards /Lars -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: is it rational to close the 139 port

2012-07-22 Thread lina
On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 5:14 PM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Hello, > > lina a écrit : >> root@debian:/etc/iptables# dpkg --get-selections | grep gdomap >> >> no gdomap installed, >> # dpkg -L gdomap >> Package `gdomap' is not installed. >> Use dpkg --info (= dpkg-deb --info) to examine archive files

Re: Epson Perfection 1240U USB scanner device not found

2012-07-22 Thread Chris Davies
Joel Roth wrote: > This scanner is supposed to be fully supported by SANE. > But scanimage --list-devices only show my notebook camera. I see further down the thread that you have determined that scanimage needs root. I have also found that my Perfection 2480 needed a firmware upload ("esfw41.bi

Re: is it rational to close the 139 port

2012-07-22 Thread Joe
On Sun, 22 Jul 2012 11:32:58 +0200 Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Joe a écrit : > > > > All network communication is actually based on MAC addresses > > No. Communication over an ethernet network is, but not all network > communication is. > > I realise that, but there are only so many levels of c

Re: Tools in Debian to create whole disk image (multiple partitions)?

2012-07-22 Thread Sthu Deus
Good time of the day, Andrei. You worte: > Any suggestions? Why don't You copy Your installation w/ "cp -a" and reconfiguring then grub for the copy - to another disk (USB one?). OR I'm missing something? Sthu. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subjec

Re: is it rational to close the 139 port

2012-07-22 Thread lina
On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 5:18 PM, Joe wrote: > On Sun, 22 Jul 2012 16:44:13 +0800 > lina wrote: > >> >> Checked, now only 22 80 open with 443 closed. >> another thing is that the nmap can scan my MAC address correctly. >> is it bad? (I guess I will feel comfortable if the MAC address is >> hidden)

Re: is it rational to close the 139 port

2012-07-22 Thread Brian
On Sun 22 Jul 2012 at 18:08:25 +0800, lina wrote: > On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 5:31 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > > On 7/22/2012 3:37 AM, lina wrote: > > > >> P.S I also found > >> > >> tcp0 0 127.0.0.1:631 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN > >> tcp0 0 127.0.0.1:25

Optimal Storage Server

2012-07-22 Thread Shaffin Bhanji
Hello, I am trying to put together a 2U storage server for data. I have previously invested in NAS equipment such as the Netgear NAS 1100 that I have been disappointed in to say the least - data write speed of 5MB/s. This time around I want to build something that I have control over hardwar

installion problem

2012-07-22 Thread Mohd Asif
hello,while installing debian os, after providing partitioning and applying it some error is occuring(unable to partition error: /dev/sda).                         or without providing partition too, its viewing read errorhoping for a solution to this problem                                  

Re: is it rational to close the 139 port

2012-07-22 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Claudius Hubig a écrit : > > While it is technically possible to block these requests for IPv4, > you should never block ICMPv6, since it is necessary to do SLAAC. Not only SLAAC (which is optional) but also neighbour discovery, which is mandatory in most cases on a shared medium such as ethernet

Re: Per user "gnome-shell.css"

2012-07-22 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 21 Jul 2012 19:42:29 +0200, Julio wrote: > El 21/07/2012 13:43, Camaleón escribió: >> Hello, >> >> I would like to use a customized "gnome-shell.css" file instead having >> to edit the system wide file located in >> "/usr/share/gnome-shell/theme/gnome- shell.css" because on every >> "gnome

Re: What does this mean?

2012-07-22 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 21 Jul 2012 11:58:52 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > I'm running a computer box that is recently purchased second hand - new > to me, but not new. While running a script that does a disk to disk > copy with some reformatting on a file of a few GB, I got this burst of > lines on all open gno

Re: Daemons in schroot or how to start chroot automatically

2012-07-22 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Sam, 2012-07-21 at 22:05 +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: > On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 04:52:24PM +, Ramon Hofer wrote: > > On Sat, 21 Jul 2012 11:54:58 +, Ramon Hofer wrote: > > > > > I found what I did wrong: In the init.d script I used chroot instead of > > > schroot: > > > http://pastebin.com

Re: Iceweasel disables Java plugin, demands non-Debian package

2012-07-22 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 21 Jul 2012 18:46:02 -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > If I want to use Java applets (needed, for instance, to watch PBS > video), I can install icedtea-7-plugin, which depends on openjdk. > > Then Iceweasel disables it with no option to re-enable it and says, "For > your safety, Firefox has disa

Re: Why have d-community-offtopic? (Re: What does group consider to be "on topic"?)

2012-07-22 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 22 Jul 2012 19:06:48 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 11:32:14AM +, Camaleón wrote: >> On Sat, 21 Jul 2012 23:19:07 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: >> >> > On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 02:46:43PM +, Camaleón wrote: >> >> But I wouldn't post there how to configure a

Re: Tools in Debian to create whole disk image (multiple partitions)?

2012-07-22 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 22 Jul 2012 10:10:04 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: (...) > A web search seems to indicate CloneZilla might do the trick, but it's > not in Debian. > > Any suggestions? CloneZilla did a good job for me time ago and it can be run from a live medium, nothing needs to be installed. Greeti

Re: is it rational to close the 139 port

2012-07-22 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sun, 22 Jul 2012, lina wrote: > strangely my netstat showed my 139 and 445 ports are open. > > tcp0 0 0.0.0.0:445 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN > tcp0 0 0.0.0.0:139 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN > > Do I need specify > > -A INPUT -p tcp --dp

Re: is it rational to close the 139 port

2012-07-22 Thread Stephan Seitz
On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 06:44:04PM +0800, lina wrote: Thanks, packet looks for the IP address first or MAC address first? (seems I read something before, it's a book/document written in 2001, kinda of aged? still don't understand.) IPv4 hasn’t change since then, and IPv6 is working quite simili

Re: is it rational to close the 139 port

2012-07-22 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 22 Jul 2012 15:25:03 +0800, lina wrote: > strangely my netstat showed my 139 and 445 ports are open. > > tcp0 0 0.0.0.0:445 0.0.0.0:*LISTEN > tcp0 0 0.0.0.0:139 0.0.0.0:*LISTEN > > Do I need specify > > -A INPUT

Re: is it rational to close the 139 port

2012-07-22 Thread lina
On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 7:32 PM, Brian wrote: > On Sun 22 Jul 2012 at 18:08:25 +0800, lina wrote: > >> On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 5:31 PM, Stan Hoeppner >> wrote: >> > On 7/22/2012 3:37 AM, lina wrote: >> > >> >> P.S I also found >> >> >> >> tcp0 0 127.0.0.1:631 0.0.0.0:*

Re: is it rational to close the 139 port

2012-07-22 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sun, 22 Jul 2012, Brian wrote: > The ssh and webserver daemons are available on the network. Presumably > this is what you want. Their security will depend on how you have > configured them. Debian sshd can be run safely with the default install. Sort of. The recommended "almost worry-free" co

Re: installion problem

2012-07-22 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 22 Jul 2012 04:37:05 -0700, Mohd Asif wrote: (please, no html posts, thanks...) > hello,while installing debian os, What exactly... stable, testing (weekly, daily)? What ISO... CD, DVD, netinst? > after providing partitioning and applying it some error is occuring > (unable to partiti

Re: Showing hidden files (.) in gnome-shell with desktop enabled

2012-07-22 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 21 Jul 2012 11:37:04 +, Camaleón wrote: > Is there a way to see the hidden files (".myfile") in gnome-shell when > the old desktop with icons is enabled? I finally filed a bug report: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=680395 Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Re: is it rational to close the 139 port

2012-07-22 Thread lina
On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 10:09 PM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Sun, 22 Jul 2012, Brian wrote: >> The ssh and webserver daemons are available on the network. Presumably >> this is what you want. Their security will depend on how you have >> configured them. Debian sshd can be run safely

Re: Optimal Storage Server

2012-07-22 Thread Shaffin Bhanji
Hello Ramon, Thanks, and how much did the server cost you? Sam. On 22/07/2012 8:49 AM, Ramon Hofer wrote: On Sun, 22 Jul 2012 07:41:32 -0400, Shaffin Bhanji wrote: I am trying to put together a 2U storage server for data. I have previously invested in NAS equipment such as the Netgear NAS 1

Re: is it rational to close the 139 port

2012-07-22 Thread Erwan David
On 22/07/12 16:09, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Sun, 22 Jul 2012, Brian wrote: >> The ssh and webserver daemons are available on the network. Presumably >> this is what you want. Their security will depend on how you have >> configured them. Debian sshd can be run safely with the default

Re: installion problem

2012-07-22 Thread Gary Dale
On 22/07/12 07:37 AM, Mohd Asif wrote: hello, while installing debian os, after providing partitioning and applying it some error is occuring(unable to partition error: /dev/sda). or without providing partition too, its viewing read error hoping for a solution to this

Re: Daemons in schroot or how to start chroot automatically

2012-07-22 Thread Roger Leigh
On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 03:25:49PM +0200, Ramon Hofer wrote: > On Sam, 2012-07-21 at 22:05 +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: > > > > Firstly, add schroot to Required-(Start|Stop), since you do > > need it to be set up prior to starting new sessions. > > Thanks for the hint! > I added $schroot at the end

Re: Optimal Storage Server

2012-07-22 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Son, 2012-07-22 at 10:34 -0400, Shaffin Bhanji wrote: > Hello Ramon, > > Thanks, and how much did the server cost you? Please don't top post, Sam. It cost me the case €387.94, the LSI hba CHF 281.45, the Intel SAS expander CHF 110.25 and four new WD black 2TB drives 4x CHF 190.65. Plus some

Re: Daemons in schroot or how to start chroot automatically

2012-07-22 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Son, 2012-07-22 at 15:58 +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: > On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 03:25:49PM +0200, Ramon Hofer wrote: > > On Sam, 2012-07-21 at 22:05 +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: > > > > > > Firstly, add schroot to Required-(Start|Stop), since you do > > > need it to be set up prior to starting new se

Re: is it rational to close the 139 port

2012-07-22 Thread Brian
On Sun 22 Jul 2012 at 11:09:26 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Sun, 22 Jul 2012, Brian wrote: > > The ssh and webserver daemons are available on the network. Presumably > > this is what you want. Their security will depend on how you have > > configured them. Debian sshd can be run

Re: is it rational to close the 139 port

2012-07-22 Thread Brian
On Sun 22 Jul 2012 at 22:01:50 +0800, lina wrote: > On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 7:32 PM, Brian wrote: > > > > Heaven above knows why you need a firewall. These services are quite > > capable of getting on with life without iptables being involved. So are > > you. > > Just today one website I cared ab

Re: is it rational to close the 139 port

2012-07-22 Thread lina
On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 11:53 PM, Brian wrote: > On Sun 22 Jul 2012 at 22:01:50 +0800, lina wrote: > >> On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 7:32 PM, Brian wrote: >> > >> > Heaven above knows why you need a firewall. These services are quite >> > capable of getting on with life without iptables being involved

Re: To pulse or not to pulse?

2012-07-22 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2012-07-21 at 01:33 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 07:41:20AM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > However, here's the instruction how to build a dummy package for Debian > > based distros: > > http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/ch-helpers.en.html > > APT HOWTO

Re: Daemons in schroot or how to start chroot automatically

2012-07-22 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Sam, 2012-07-21 at 22:18 +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: > On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 11:54:58AM +, Ramon Hofer wrote: > > On Fri, 20 Jul 2012 17:32:14 +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: > > > > > On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 12:48:49PM +, Ramon Hofer wrote: > > >> On Fri, 20 Jul 2012 10:42:58 +0100, Roger Le

Re: is it rational to close the 139 port

2012-07-22 Thread Mike McClain
Hi Lina, On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 03:25:03PM +0800, lina wrote: > > BTW, why need allow ping? from outside? > 59 # Allow ping > 60 -A INPUT -p icmp -m icmp --icmp-type 8 -j ACCEPT > > I know so little, thanks very much for your expilanation, > I've found www/grc.com/ and his 'ShieldsUp' sca

Re: is it rational to close the 139 port

2012-07-22 Thread Mark Allums
On 7/22/2012 11:09 AM, lina wrote: On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 11:53 PM, Brian wrote: On Sun 22 Jul 2012 at 22:01:50 +0800, lina wrote: On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 7:32 PM, Brian wrote: Heaven above knows why you need a firewall. These services are quite capable of getting on with life without ipta

Re: is it rational to close the 139 port

2012-07-22 Thread Erwan David
> However, I have noticed a tendency for things to be installed or > started that open new ports, and it's easy to overlook them. Aptitude > in particular will install extra packages that you don't need or want. For this, first thing is to disable automatic installation of recommended packages, it

Disabling Recommends [was: Re: is it rational to close the 139 port]

2012-07-22 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 22 iul 12, 18:58:36, Erwan David wrote: > > > However, I have noticed a tendency for things to be installed or > > started that open new ports, and it's easy to overlook them. Aptitude > > in particular will install extra packages that you don't need or want. > For this, first thing is to d

Re: is it rational to close the 139 port

2012-07-22 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 22 iul 12, 22:33:49, lina wrote: > > Another thing I am a little concern, > > I can ssh from remote server back to laptop without password. Passphraseless keys? > but on the remote server, actually someone who has root privilege can > easily su lina and ssh to my laptop (sorry to assume

Debian 5 - was Re: Query abouut root account

2012-07-22 Thread Bret Busby
On Mon, 16 Jul 2012, Denis Witt wrote: On 16.07.2012 10:01, Bret Busby wrote: I have forgotten the root password, and have not logged into root on that computer, or updated the system, for about a year, I think. Do you have physical access to this machine? Or can you get someone to boot i

Re: Disabling Recommends [was: Re: is it rational to close the 139 port]

2012-07-22 Thread Erwan David
On 22/07/12 19:29, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Du, 22 iul 12, 18:58:36, Erwan David wrote: >>> However, I have noticed a tendency for things to be installed or >>> started that open new ports, and it's easy to overlook them. Aptitude >>> in particular will install extra packages that you don't need

Re: Tools in Debian to create whole disk image (multiple partitions)?

2012-07-22 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 22 iul 12, 17:38:58, Sthu Deus wrote: > Good time of the day, Andrei. > > You worte: > > > Any suggestions? > > Why don't You copy Your installation w/ "cp -a" and reconfiguring then > grub for the copy - to another disk (USB one?). OR I'm missing > something? The Raspberry Pi can only b

Re: Disabling Recommends [was: Re: is it rational to close the 139 port]

2012-07-22 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 22 iul 12, 19:51:33, Erwan David wrote: > > > Yes, indeed. But I've seen too many packages where recommends leeds to > installing full gnome where I do not want it, that I prefer having more > control (and thus more responsibility). Please do file bugs where appropriate. Kind regards, Andr

Re: Debian 5 - was Re: Query abouut root account

2012-07-22 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 23 iul 12, 01:49:21, Bret Busby wrote: > > I have a Samsung MFP printer thing; a CLX-3185FW, and I had been > able to use it with a Debian 5 system that I had been using. Then, > the Debian 5 system went awry (a separate system from the firewall > system), and became apparently unusable. >

Re: Disabling Recommends [was: Re: is it rational to close the 139 port]

2012-07-22 Thread Erwan David
On 22/07/12 20:07, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Du, 22 iul 12, 19:51:33, Erwan David wrote: >> Yes, indeed. But I've seen too many packages where recommends leeds to >> installing full gnome where I do not want it, that I prefer having more >> control (and thus more responsibility). > Please do file

Re: Disabling Recommends [was: Re: is it rational to close the 139 port]

2012-07-22 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 22 iul 12, 20:15:33, Erwan David wrote: > On 22/07/12 20:07, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > Please do file bugs where appropriate. > > > In the past I was too often attacked or mocked, when doing such bug > reports that I stopped. Would you care to provide some examples? Kind regards, Andrei --

Re: Disabling Recommends [was: Re: is it rational to close the 139 port]

2012-07-22 Thread Erwan David
On 22/07/12 20:29, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Du, 22 iul 12, 20:15:33, Erwan David wrote: >> On 22/07/12 20:07, Andrei POPESCU wrote: >>> Please do file bugs where appropriate. >>> >> In the past I was too often attacked or mocked, when doing such bug >> reports that I stopped. > Would you care to

Re: Why have d-community-offtopic? (Re: What does group consider to be on topic"?)

2012-07-22 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 01:38:27PM +, Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 22 Jul 2012 19:06:48 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > > But, it **IS** ON TOPIC if they are not looking for Oracle support, so > > marking it [OT] is counter productive. > > And when is that to happen? What's the line that makes th

Re: is it rational to close the 139 port

2012-07-22 Thread lina
On 23 Jul, 2012, at 0:44, Mark Allums wrote: > On 7/22/2012 11:09 AM, lina wrote: >> On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 11:53 PM, Brian wrote: >>> On Sun 22 Jul 2012 at 22:01:50 +0800, lina wrote: >>> On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 7:32 PM, Brian wrote: > Heaven above knows why you need a firewall. The

Re: is it rational to close the 139 port

2012-07-22 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 10:01:50PM +0800, lina wrote: > Just today one website I cared about failed to open, certainly it's > under attack. And how does a firewall help in that case. If you don't want your intranet web server being accessed from outside, then that's what a firewall is for. It

Re: What does this mean?

2012-07-22 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20120722_132033, Camaleón wrote: > On Sat, 21 Jul 2012 11:58:52 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > > > I'm running a computer box that is recently purchased second hand - new > > to me, but not new. While running a script that does a disk to disk > > copy with some reformatting on a file of a few G

wifi vanished today

2012-07-22 Thread Hendrik Boom
It was working this morning. I have an ASUS HE1000 EEE netbook. It runs testing. Early this morning at home the wifi worked fine. Later thsi mornign I was at a location where there was no usable wifi signeal, and rather than ahve it wasting battery looking for a connection, I right-clicked o

Re: What does this mean?

2012-07-22 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 04:18:07PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > I have already downloaded Knoppix v7.0.1, per Chris' suggestion, but > have not yet found out what to do with it. Does it have memory, > component test software on it? Yes. At boot prompt read help screens. :) -- "If you're not ca

Re: Tools in Debian to create whole disk image (multiple partitions)?

2012-07-22 Thread Rick Thomas
If all the empty space is filled with something redundant (like, zeroes?) then you can use almost any compress program (gzip comes to mind...) and it will all be compressed out. If the empty space is filled with random junk, it will depend on just how "random" the junk is. Does that hel

Re: Tools in Debian to create whole disk image (multiple partitions)?

2012-07-22 Thread Gary Dale
On 22/07/12 02:05 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Du, 22 iul 12, 17:38:58, Sthu Deus wrote: Good time of the day, Andrei. You worte: Any suggestions? Why don't You copy Your installation w/ "cp -a" and reconfiguring then grub for the copy - to another disk (USB one?). OR I'm missing something?

pidgin ym protocol over ssl

2012-07-22 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
hi, is it possible to configure pidgin to connect to ym via ssl this is because there's an issue at my office where a colleague's message had been logged by a network staff -- Regards, Umarzuki Mochlis http://debmal.my -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: is it rational to close the 139 port

2012-07-22 Thread Celejar
On Sun, 22 Jul 2012 18:58:36 +0200 Erwan David wrote: > > > However, I have noticed a tendency for things to be installed or > > started that open new ports, and it's easy to overlook them. Aptitude > > in particular will install extra packages that you don't need or want. > For this, first thin

Re: What does this mean?

2012-07-22 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20120723_110432, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 04:18:07PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > > I have already downloaded Knoppix v7.0.1, per Chris' suggestion, but > > have not yet found out what to do with it. Does it have memory, > > component test software on it? > > Yes. At b

linux cash register software, i.e, a simple point of sale?

2012-07-22 Thread Nick Lidakis
I'd like to transition our medium sized coffee/shop bakery to some kind of open Linux cash register. I say register because I don't need the advanced features of a POS, i.e., inventory control, invoices, etc. I'd like to replicate what we have now which is this: http://www.cashregisterstore.com/xca

Re: is it rational to close the 139 port

2012-07-22 Thread Richard Hector
On 22/07/12 21:31, Stan Hoeppner wrote: ~$ netstat -ant|grep LISTEN ... or ~$ netstat -lnt :-) Richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/500cdfda.

Re: Why have d-community-offtopic? (Re: What does group consider to be on topic"?)

2012-07-22 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 23 iul 12, 08:03:06, Chris Bannister wrote: > > Are you suggesting that some posts to d-community-offtopic be marked as > [OT] ? Of course, Debian stuff is offtopic on -offtopic :p Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.

Re: Tools in Debian to create whole disk image (multiple partitions)?

2012-07-22 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 22 iul 12, 22:41:52, Gary Dale wrote: > So what you really need is a copy of the files on /boot and /. You > don't need the swap space and you don't need the empty space in the > main partition. Nope, what I really need is something that would fit here: http://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads

Re: Tools in Debian to create whole disk image (multiple partitions)?

2012-07-22 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 22 iul 12, 19:28:35, Rick Thomas wrote: > > If all the empty space is filled with something redundant (like, > zeroes?) then you can use almost any compress program (gzip comes to > mind...) and it will all be compressed out. > > If the empty space is filled with random junk, it will depen

Re: Disabling Recommends [was: Re: is it rational to close the 139 port]

2012-07-22 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 22 iul 12, 20:51:04, Erwan David wrote: > > > bug 375500, but you do not have the whole discussion > Note that rephrasing it in 505662 leads to silence. > > SOme other but I cannot find them back, since they are old : I now > prefer directly installing non packaged programs when I encounter

Re: is it rational to close the 139 port

2012-07-22 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 23 iul 12, 04:14:10, lina wrote: > > Thanks for your suggestions. I didn't realize aptitude would install > something else, and sometimes I treated the recommended as something > complimentary. Many times I left the laptop to install and myself run > outside to take a break. I don't

Re: linux cash register software, i.e, a simple point of sale?

2012-07-22 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 23 iul 12, 01:03:42, Nick Lidakis wrote: > > Any simple Linux cash registers out there? My brother tested several POS programs for his restaurant, but found nothing that matched his needs (he needed a software that could do recipes as well), but in his opinion LemonPOS was quite good.