Re: netcat usage.

2014-02-24 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 24/02/14 15:44, Peter Easthope wrote: > References: > <530a9882.4040...@gmail.com> > > From: Scott Ferguson > Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2014 11:55:30 +1100 >> NOTE: there four different "netcats" available in Wheezy. > > I found three. > netcat-openbsd, netcat-traditional, netcat6. OK. I miscounted

Re: netcat usage.

2014-02-24 Thread Zenaan Harkness
I'd include socat in the list, but perhaps it's command line options are different? socat is my preferred network swiss army knife. A little different, but there are also netsed, netrw etc. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troubl

Multiple monitors - one screensaver

2014-02-24 Thread Ric Moore
Has anyone managed to get one screensaver stretched across multiple monitors? I use the nvidia driver with four monitors using two nvidia cards. Ric -- My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: "There are two Great Sins in the world... ..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity. Only the

PROBLEMA DE IMPRESSÃO NO DEBIAN

2014-02-24 Thread Vanderlei Gouvêa
Prezados, As impressoras de rede brother e HP na empresa que eu trabalho está muito lento no SO DEBIAN. E parece que este problema sempre ocorreu no DEBIAN e nos fóruns na web ninguém conhece a solução. Att. Vanderlei -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org w

Re: netcat usage.

2014-02-24 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 24/02/14 20:07, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > I'd include socat in the list, but perhaps it's command line options > are different? socat is my preferred network swiss army knife. > > A little different, but there are also netsed, netrw etc. > > And the excellent crypcat - but I just counted the

Re: Multiple monitors - one screensaver

2014-02-24 Thread Gian Uberto Lauri
Ric Moore writes: > Has anyone managed to get one screensaver stretched across multiple > monitors? I use the nvidia driver with four monitors using two nvidia > cards. Ric Which screensaver? I use dual heading, no DE, only X11, window manager & shell. The old venerable xlock does what you a

Re: netcat usage.

2014-02-24 Thread Brian
On Mon 24 Feb 2014 at 20:18:16 +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 24/02/14 20:07, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > I'd include socat in the list, but perhaps it's command line options > > are different? socat is my preferred network swiss army knife. > > > > A little different, but there are also netsed

Re: Installing nodejs binaries as a .deb package

2014-02-24 Thread Darac Marjal
On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 11:40:51AM +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 22/02/14 11:39, Scott Ferguson wrote: > > On 22/02/14 09:49, Blaine LaFreniere wrote: > >> Hi, I was wondering how I might be able to install the nodejs binaries > >> as a .deb package, so I could easily uninstall it later. > > >

Re: [WARNING] libc6 upgrade from 2.17.97 to 2.18.1 (unstable) fails -now segfaults on apt-get etc.

2014-02-24 Thread Robin
On 22 February 2014 01:52, Robin wrote: > **This of course may apply only to my PC but just in case it is not**: > > Just done dist-upgrade 01:30 22/02/2014 and upgrade fails whilst > updating libc6. Applications that were open are still functioning but > everything else segfaults. > Looks like a

Re: [WARNING] libc6 upgrade from 2.17.97 to 2.18.1 (unstable) fails -now segfaults on apt-get etc.

2014-02-24 Thread Darac Marjal
On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 01:52:27AM +, Robin wrote: > **This of course may apply only to my PC but just in case it is not**: > > Just done dist-upgrade 01:30 22/02/2014 and upgrade fails whilst > updating libc6. Applications that were open are still functioning but > everything else segfaults.

Re: disk quota

2014-02-24 Thread emmanuel segura
yes 2014-02-22 22:32 GMT+01:00 Pol Hallen : > Hi folks! > > Reading some howtos about quota disk I'm not sure about this topic > (because is very old): > > "checking quotas regularly - Linux doesn't check quota usage each time a > file is opened, you have to force it to process the aquota.user a

Am I paranoid?

2014-02-24 Thread ha
I have a relatively new installation (2 months) of Debian Wheezy, and not many additionaly packages installed. I *never* installed any virtual machine on this computer, however, after some problems (that I first though were hardware related) I found that vmtoolsd is installed on this computer.

Re: Am I paranoid?

2014-02-24 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
Hi On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 01:14:10PM +0100, ha wrote: > I have a relatively new installation (2 months) of Debian Wheezy, > and not many additionaly packages installed. I *never* installed any > virtual machine on this computer, however, after some problems (that > I first though were hardware re

Re: PROBLEMA DE IMPRESSÃO NO DEBIAN

2014-02-24 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Boas, Esta lista é em inglês, e é considerado má etiqueta usar CAPS. Se quiseres continuar em português, usa a https://lists.debian.org/debian-user-portuguese/ 2014-02-24 8:34 GMT+00:00 Vanderlei Gouvêa : > As impressoras de rede brother e HP na empresa que eu trabalho está muito > lento no SO DE

cron.daily logrotate beating up my server

2014-02-24 Thread Tazman Deville
I have a little server running here in my office, and logrotate kept running at c. 7am, and using up 100% CPU. I changed the line in /etc/crontab to run cron.daily scripts at 4:15am, instead of 7:whateveritwas am. 15 4 * * * Also, in cron.daily/logrotate I added nice -n 15 I made these changes two

Re: PROBLEMA DE IMPRESSÃO NO DEBIAN

2014-02-24 Thread Tazman Deville
On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 12:40:56PM +, Nuno Magalhães wrote: > Boas, > > Esta lista é em inglês, e é considerado má etiqueta usar CAPS. > Se quiseres continuar em português, usa a > https://lists.debian.org/debian-user-portuguese/ > > 2014-02-24 8:34 GMT+00:00 Vanderlei Gouvêa : > > As impress

Authentication problem which ejabberd using ODBC

2014-02-24 Thread Daniel Bareiro
Hi all. Some time ago, I decided to migrate from a compiled ejabberd 2.0 to version 2.1.5 from Debian GNU/Linux repositories. After that, everything was working, although the weekend I was checking some things of setup and I noticed that was running with a version of MySQL modules I compiled at

Re: resolv.conf misbehaving

2014-02-24 Thread Danny
Hi, My apologies, I must have missed your reply > Warning : this setup is wrong and may not work as you expect. All listed > nameservers should be equivalent. Multiple nameservers are only for > redundancy, not to provide multiple sources. > > If you query the first server for an information out

Re: Am I paranoid?

2014-02-24 Thread ha
Hi I cannot see a package named "vmtoolsd" in the debian archives. But I can see a package named "open-vm-tools", which has files named like that: Yes, I know. No, I do not have "open-vm-tools" package. This package seems to be the VMware Tools bit intended to be installed on a guest VM - i

Re: cron.daily logrotate beating up my server

2014-02-24 Thread Tazman Deville
On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 01:57:02PM +0100, Tazman Deville wrote: > I have a little server running here in my office, > and logrotate kept running at c. 7am, and using up 100% CPU. > I changed the line in /etc/crontab to run cron.daily scripts > at 4:15am, instead of 7:whateveritwas am. > 15 4 * * *

RE: resolv.conf misbehaving

2014-02-24 Thread Bonno Bloksma
Hi Danny, > My apologies, I must have missed your reply > >> Warning : this setup is wrong and may not work as you expect. All >> listed nameservers should be equivalent. Multiple nameservers are only >> for redundancy, not to provide multiple sources. >> >> If you query the first server for an

ethernet and wifi together

2014-02-24 Thread S3v3ran .
Hello My scenario is the following. I'm connected to the wired network, which is the default network i'm using. The default gateway, DNS server and everything else is via this interface. On the other side i have some virtual machines inside and i need them to use the bridged wifi connection (becau

Re: ethernet and wifi together

2014-02-24 Thread Reco
Hi. On Mon, 24 Feb 2014 15:32:08 +0100 "S3v3ran ." wrote: > Is there a way how to connect > dynamically to both interfaces, using the eth0 as default route? Thanks in > advance. Sure, there's a way. Remove NetworkManager and wicd as both of them are unsuitable for managing network settings any

Re: Am I paranoid?

2014-02-24 Thread berenger . morel
Le 24.02.2014 13:14, ha a écrit : I have a relatively new installation (2 months) of Debian Wheezy, and not many additionaly packages installed. I *never* installed any virtual machine on this computer, however, after some problems (that I first though were hardware related) I found that vmtoo

Re: Am I paranoid?

2014-02-24 Thread ha
FYI, this was a log entry that caught my attention: vmusr[3785]: [ warning] [vmtoolsd] The vmusr service needs to run inside a virtual machine. ... And I repeat once again: This is not a virtual machine and I did not install any VM software. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...

Re: Am I paranoid?

2014-02-24 Thread ha
Hi! Try to find that file. ( run something like "find / -name vmtoolsd" ) I did. It only shows that files are there: /etc/pam.d/vmtoolsd /usr/bin/vmtoolsd dpkg ( or apt, aptitude, synaptic, etc ) is not the only way to install things. It's only the most efficient ( on Debian ) and secure. I

Re: Am I paranoid?

2014-02-24 Thread Reco
Hi. On Mon, 24 Feb 2014 16:24:19 +0100 ha wrote: > Hi! > > > Try to find that file. ( run something like "find / -name vmtoolsd" ) > > > > I did. It only shows that files are there: > /etc/pam.d/vmtoolsd > /usr/bin/vmtoolsd <…> > echo $PATH > does not shows my home directory > > I did not i

Re: Am I paranoid?

2014-02-24 Thread yaro
On Monday, February 24, 2014 04:40:39 PM ha wrote: > On 02/24/14 16:24, ha wrote: > > Hi! > > > >> Try to find that file. ( run something like "find / -name vmtoolsd" ) > > > > I did. It only shows that files are there: > > /etc/pam.d/vmtoolsd > > /usr/bin/vmtoolsd > > By the way, there is also

Re: Am I paranoid?

2014-02-24 Thread ha
On 02/24/14 16:24, ha wrote: Hi! Try to find that file. ( run something like "find / -name vmtoolsd" ) I did. It only shows that files are there: /etc/pam.d/vmtoolsd /usr/bin/vmtoolsd By the way, there is also /etc/vmware-tools folder -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@list

Re: Am I paranoid?

2014-02-24 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
Hi On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 09:43:39AM -0600, y...@marupa.net wrote: > On Monday, February 24, 2014 04:40:39 PM ha wrote: > > On 02/24/14 16:24, ha wrote: > > > Hi! > > > > > >> Try to find that file. ( run something like "find / -name vmtoolsd" ) > > > > > > I did. It only shows that files are t

Re: Am I paranoid?

2014-02-24 Thread yaro
On Monday, February 24, 2014 03:48:04 PM Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > Hi > > On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 09:43:39AM -0600, y...@marupa.net wrote: > > On Monday, February 24, 2014 04:40:39 PM ha wrote: > > > On 02/24/14 16:24, ha wrote: > > > > Hi! > > > > > > > >> Try to find that file. ( run something

Accessing Glipper in testing (Jessie)

2014-02-24 Thread David Parker
Hello, I was running Wheezy for a while, with a little bit of tweaking, I came to enjoy the new Gnome interface (I had been a KDE fan for years until I upgraded to Wheezy). In installed the Glipper clipboard manager and could access it by placing the mouse cursor into the lower right corner of th

Re: Am I paranoid?

2014-02-24 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 09:43:39AM -0600, y...@marupa.net wrote: > This rather highlights why I like Arch's package manager (Pacman.) more than > APT. Pacman features a command (pacman -Qo ) that explicitly checks a > file > you specify for package ownership. Interesting. "I don't have a

Re: Am I paranoid?

2014-02-24 Thread ha
I did. It only shows that files are there: /etc/pam.d/vmtoolsd /usr/bin/vmtoolsd By the way, there is also /etc/vmware-tools folder This rather highlights why I like Arch's package manager (Pacman.) more than APT. Pacman features a command (pacman -Qo ) that explicitly checks a file you spec

Re: Am I paranoid?

2014-02-24 Thread ha
debsums -ac -r /mnt Great, thanks! I didn't know about debsums. However, it does not report anything when started from the debian live usb. 4) If, and only if debsums won't report anything unusual - purge vmtoolsd, cleanup anything in /usr/local, change root password, remove any ssh public

Re: Am I paranoid?

2014-02-24 Thread John W. Foster
On Mon, 2014-02-24 at 16:17 +0100, ha wrote: > FYI, this was a log entry that caught my attention: > > vmusr[3785]: [ warning] [vmtoolsd] The vmusr service needs to run inside > a virtual machine. > > > ... And I repeat once again: This is not a virtual machine and I did not > install any VM

Re: Am I paranoid?

2014-02-24 Thread Reco
On Mon, 24 Feb 2014 17:28:32 +0100 ha wrote: > > > > > debsums -ac -r /mnt > > > Great, thanks! I didn't know about debsums. > However, it does not report anything when started from the debian live usb. Well, that's good. Meaning, that's simply a misuse of root, not a rooted host. No reinstall

Re: netcat usage.

2014-02-24 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On 24/02/2014 10:21, Brian wrote: > the OP could consider doing (as root) > >setcap cap_net_bind_service=+ep /usr/bin/ncat > > as a solution to his problem. If they do, they should be aware that would essentially permit any user on the machine to bind to any port; since nc is a redirection s

Re: Am I paranoid?

2014-02-24 Thread Nemeth Gyorgy
2014-02-24 18:05 keltezéssel, Reco írta: > Well, that's good. Meaning, that's simply a misuse of root, not a > rooted host. No reinstall in necessary, probably, simple removal of: > > /etc/init.d/vmtoolsd > /etc/pam.d/vmtoolsd > /usr/bin/vmtoolsd > > should do it. Or simply apt-get purge open-vm

Re: The case of the read-only USB sticks.

2014-02-24 Thread Frank Miles
On Sat, 22 Feb 2014 15:40:01 +0100, Hendrik Boom wrote: > I have a problem with my USB sticks mysteriously becoming read-only. > > I decided to investigate. I bought three identical 8G USB sticks, > identical except for colour). None of them appear have any switches on > them. > > The first I

Re: Am I paranoid?

2014-02-24 Thread Reco
On Mon, 24 Feb 2014 18:26:30 +0100 Nemeth Gyorgy wrote: > 2014-02-24 18:05 keltezéssel, Reco írta: > > Well, that's good. Meaning, that's simply a misuse of root, not a > > rooted host. No reinstall in necessary, probably, simple removal of: > > > > /etc/init.d/vmtoolsd > > /etc/pam.d/vmtoolsd >

Re: Am I paranoid?

2014-02-24 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2014-02-24 at 09:51 -0600, y...@marupa.net wrote: > Thank you. Using that command it'd be trivial to see if those files > were installed by the package manager, maybe a dependency, which is > more likely than being compromised, in all honesty. When something is installed as a dependency, t

DHCP request IP address

2014-02-24 Thread Ric Moore
Which file do you edit to request an IP address from a DHCP server? It's been awhile! Ric -- My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: "There are two Great Sins in the world... ..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity. Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad. /https://linuxcounter.

Re: Am I paranoid?

2014-02-24 Thread Brian
On Mon 24 Feb 2014 at 19:23:29 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Mon, 2014-02-24 at 09:51 -0600, y...@marupa.net wrote: > > Thank you. Using that command it'd be trivial to see if those files > > were installed by the package manager, maybe a dependency, which is > > more likely than being compromis

very slow Xorg and/or bash

2014-02-24 Thread Morel Bérenger
Hello. Since few days, say 4 or 5, my netbook is *really* slow when a terminal starts. After taking a look with top, it seems that it's bash itself which is the problem: it makes the terminal freezing for at least 15s on login, and almost the same when using auto-completion. There is also xorg, w

Re: Wireless AP setup: RTL8188CUS

2014-02-24 Thread Csanyi Pal
Hi Selim, "Selim T. Erdogan" writes: > Csanyi Pal, 3.02.2014: >> Csanyi Pal writes: >> >> > Csanyi Pal writes: >> > >> >> Scott Ferguson writes: >> >> >> >>> On 02/02/14 09:14, Csanyi Pal wrote: >> Scott Ferguson writes: >> >> > On 01/02/14 21:57, Csanyi Pal wrote: >> >>

Re: Wireless AP setup: RTL8188CUS

2014-02-24 Thread Csanyi Pal
Csanyi Pal writes: > Hi Selim, > > "Selim T. Erdogan" writes: > >> Csanyi Pal, 3.02.2014: >>> Csanyi Pal writes: >>> >>> > Csanyi Pal writes: >>> > >>> >> Scott Ferguson writes: >>> >> >>> >>> On 02/02/14 09:14, Csanyi Pal wrote: >>> Scott Ferguson writes: >>> >>> > On 01/02

bandwidth whole use

2014-02-24 Thread Pol Hallen
Hi folks! I'm searching for a tool that evaluate a total bandwidth (i.e.) from month/year interval any idea about that tool? thanks! -- Pol -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: DHCP request IP address

2014-02-24 Thread digiphoenix
Am Montag, 24. Februar 2014, 14:07:22 schrieb Ric Moore: > Which file do you edit to request an IP address from a DHCP server? It's > been awhile! Ric Try execute "dhclient xxx0 IP-of-Server" as root. For example dhclient eth0 192.168.1.1 or dhclient wlan0 192.168.1.1 you You can request ea

Re: How to configure eth0 with static ip and eth1 dhcp

2014-02-24 Thread Markos
On 22-02-2014 23:57, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 23/02/14 13:09, Markos wrote: On 22-02-2014 20:11, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 23/02/14 09:58, Stephen Powell wrote: On Sat, 22 Feb 2014 17:22:16 -0500 (EST), Markos wrote: I'm trying to configure a machine with two netw

Re: Wireless AP setup: RTL8188CUS

2014-02-24 Thread Csanyi Pal
Csanyi Pal writes: > Csanyi Pal writes: > >> Hi Selim, >> >> "Selim T. Erdogan" writes: >> >>> Csanyi Pal, 3.02.2014: Csanyi Pal writes: > Csanyi Pal writes: > >> Scott Ferguson writes: >> >>> On 02/02/14 09:14, Csanyi Pal wrote: Scott Ferguson

Re: bandwidth whole use

2014-02-24 Thread Daniel Bareiro
On Monday, 24 February 2014 20:46:50 +0100, Pol Hallen wrote: > Hi folks! Hi, Pol. > I'm searching for a tool that evaluate a total bandwidth > (i.e.) from month/year interval > > any idea about that tool? Take a look on Cacti. http://www.cacti.net/ It's in the Debian repositories. Regards

Re: bandwidth whole use

2014-02-24 Thread Steve
> Hi folks! I'm searching for a tool that evaluate a total bandwidth > (i.e.) from month/year interval > > any idea about that tool? http://www.debian-administration.org/article/330/Monitoring_your_bandwidth_usage_with_vnstat Steve -- http://www.steve.org.uk/

Re: bandwidth whole use

2014-02-24 Thread Pol Hallen
Take a look on Cacti. http://www.cacti.net/ It's in the Debian repositories. Thanks Daniel :-) Pol -- 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/530ba93b.5090...

Re: cron.daily logrotate beating up my server

2014-02-24 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 24 feb 14, 15:06:48, Tazman Deville wrote: > On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 01:57:02PM +0100, Tazman Deville wrote: > > I have a little server running here in my office, > > and logrotate kept running at c. 7am, and using up 100% CPU. > > I changed the line in /etc/crontab to run cron.daily scripts

Re: [Fwd: Re: Re: Third-Party Software Needs Non-Debian Format for Kernel Version]

2014-02-24 Thread Thomas Vaughan
>> What I'm wondering is whether I can get uname to return the desired >> format by somehow compiling a custom kernel. > > Yes you can, by getting the source code from kernel.org. > If you simply copy the config from the Debians kernel, then IIRC > # make-kpkg --initrd kernel-image kernel-headers >

Re: resolv.conf misbehaving

2014-02-24 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Danny a écrit : > >> Warning : this setup is wrong and may not work as you expect. All listed >> nameservers should be equivalent. Multiple nameservers are only for >> redundancy, not to provide multiple sources. >> >> If you query the first server for an information out of its scope, it >> may re

Re: cron.daily logrotate beating up my server

2014-02-24 Thread André Nunes Batista
On Mon, 2014-02-24 at 13:57 +0100, Tazman Deville wrote: > I have a little server running here in my office, > and logrotate kept running at c. 7am, and using up 100% CPU. > I changed the line in /etc/crontab to run cron.daily scripts > at 4:15am, instead of 7:whateveritwas am. > 15 4 * * * > Also,

Re: DHCP request IP address

2014-02-24 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 24 February 2014 19:22:38 digiphoenix wrote: > auto io eth0 > > iiface eth0 dhcp surely: auto eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http:/

Re: DHCP request IP address

2014-02-24 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 2/25/14, digiphoenix wrote: > Am Montag, 24. Februar 2014, 14:07:22 schrieb Ric Moore: >> Which file do you edit to request an IP address from a DHCP server? It's >> been awhile! Ric > > Try execute "dhclient xxx0 IP-of-Server" as root. For example > dhclient eth0 192.168.1.1 > or > dhclient wl

Re: Am I paranoid?

2014-02-24 Thread Scott Ferguson
Yes - you are paranoid. There is no conspiracy. Those files were installed by the operator/user/sysadmin. So relax. :) If you want to remove them:- # apt-get remove open-vm-tools open-vm-toolbox On 25/02/14 03:04, ha wrote: > >> I did. It only shows that files are there: >> /etc/pam.d/

Re: Am I paranoid?

2014-02-24 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 25/02/14 04:44, Reco wrote: > On Mon, 24 Feb 2014 18:26:30 +0100 > Nemeth Gyorgy wrote: > >> 2014-02-24 18:05 keltezéssel, Reco írta: >>> Well, that's good. Meaning, that's simply a misuse of root, not a >>> rooted host. No reinstall in necessary, probably, simple removal of: >>> >>> /etc/init

Re: Wireless AP setup: RTL8188CUS

2014-02-24 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 25/02/14 07:03, Csanyi Pal wrote: > Csanyi Pal writes: > >> Csanyi Pal writes: >> >>> Hi Selim, >>> >>> "Selim T. Erdogan" writes: >>> Csanyi Pal, 3.02.2014: > Csanyi Pal writes: > >> Csanyi Pal writes: >> >>> Scott Ferguson >>> writes: >>>

open files/ forcing dismount

2014-02-24 Thread Zenaan Harkness
One long term "non-easy" issue that keeps coming up a few times a year, is attempting to dismount an external drive/usb stick and this failing due to a file being opened. lsof is a good start, and sometimes advised in the error message with some other command. However, what ends up the case is gv

Re: open files/ forcing dismount

2014-02-24 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 25/02/14 14:21, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > One long term "non-easy" issue that keeps coming up a few times a > year, is attempting to dismount an external drive/usb stick and this > failing due to a file being opened. > > lsof is a good start, and sometimes advised in the error message with > som

Re: Am I paranoid?

2014-02-24 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 25/02/14 11:03, Scott Ferguson wrote: > Yes - you are paranoid. There is no conspiracy. Those files were > installed by the operator/user/sysadmin. > So relax. :) > > If you want to remove them:- > # apt-get remove open-vm-tools open-vm-toolbox and # apt-get remove zerofree open-vm-dkms libdumb

Re: open files/ forcing dismount

2014-02-24 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 2/25/14, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 25/02/14 14:21, Zenaan Harkness wrote: >> One long term "non-easy" issue that keeps coming up a few times a >> year, is attempting to dismount an external drive/usb stick and this >> failing due to a file being opened. >> >> lsof is a good start, and sometime

Re: open files/ forcing dismount

2014-02-24 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 25/02/14 14:58, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > On 2/25/14, Scott Ferguson wrote: >> On 25/02/14 14:21, Zenaan Harkness wrote: >>> One long term "non-easy" issue that keeps coming up a few times a >>> year, is attempting to dismount an external drive/usb stick and this >>> failing due to a file being

Re: Am I paranoid?

2014-02-24 Thread Reco
Hi. On Tue, 25 Feb 2014 11:07:23 +1100 Scott Ferguson wrote: > Am I missing part of the thread? Probably no, as you've replied in it: https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2014/02/msg01346.html > Where did the OP check to see if > open-vm-tools and open-vm-toolbox were installed. I see wher

Re: Am I paranoid?

2014-02-24 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 25/02/14 16:16, Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Tue, 25 Feb 2014 11:07:23 +1100 > Scott Ferguson wrote: > >> Am I missing part of the thread? > > Probably no, as you've replied in it: > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2014/02/msg01346.html > > >> Where did the OP check to see if >> open

Re: Am I paranoid?

2014-02-24 Thread Reco
Hi. On Tue, 25 Feb 2014 16:48:37 +1100 Scott Ferguson wrote: > Please note the difference between *are/is* installed, and *were* installed. There's a difference, indeed. > I would expect dpkg -S to fail if those packages had been wrongly > removed (corrupting dpkg database) but the pam and m

Re: Am I paranoid?

2014-02-24 Thread John L. Ries
On Mon, 24 Feb 2014, Scott Ferguson wrote: Yes - you are paranoid. There is no conspiracy. Those files were installed by the operator/user/sysadmin. So relax. :) Besides, we're not scheduled to come after you until next month. --| John L. Ries | Salford Sy

Re: Am I paranoid?

2014-02-24 Thread Zenaan Harkness
>> > debsums -ac -r /mnt >> > >> Great, thanks! I didn't know about debsums. >> However, it does not report anything when started from the debian live >> usb. Hopefully you realise that should take quite a while to run, and you correctly mounted etc for your check... > Well, that's good. Meaning

Re: Am I paranoid?

2014-02-24 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 2/25/14, Zenaan Harkness wrote: >>> > debsums -ac -r /mnt >>> > >>> Great, thanks! I didn't know about debsums. >>> However, it does not report anything when started from the debian live >>> usb. > > Hopefully you realise that should take quite a while to run, and you > correctly mounted etc fo

Re: Am I paranoid?

2014-02-24 Thread Scott Ferguson
Thanks for replying On 25/02/14 17:10, Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Tue, 25 Feb 2014 16:48:37 +1100 > Scott Ferguson wrote: > >> Please note the difference between *are/is* installed, and *were* installed. > > There's a difference, indeed. > > >> I would expect dpkg -S to fail if those packages

Re: Am I paranoid?

2014-02-24 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 25/02/14 17:22, John L. Ries wrote: > On Mon, 24 Feb 2014, Scott Ferguson wrote: > >> Yes - you are paranoid. There is no conspiracy. Those files were >> installed by the operator/user/sysadmin. >> So relax. :) >> > Besides, we're not scheduled to come after you until next month. That's what y

3.13 Kernel

2014-02-24 Thread David Baron
Is it just my very subjective impression or are these significantly faster than 3.12?? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/16043228.LCojq5odpY@dovidhalev