Re: upgrade? broke exim4

2014-06-04 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Tuesday 03 June 2014 22:19:22 Mike McClain wrote: > PS: I suspect I'm breaking the mail chain but see no choice. I'm > subscribed to the digest and don't know how to get Webmail to reply > to the list so am replying to my first message that is in mutt's sent > mail. Thread intact here. Your se

Re: fastest linux distro

2014-06-04 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Jun 01, 2014 at 09:10:53AM -0400, Celejar wrote: > On Sat, 31 May 2014 17:11:16 +1200 > Chris Bannister wrote: > > ... no HDMI cable, doesn't play .webm videos. You have to use youtube-dl > > not 'cclive -s best' to download the video from youtube yielding in > > a 'lower quality' exoerien

Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies

2014-06-04 Thread Darac Marjal
On Tue, Jun 03, 2014 at 03:50:38PM -0700, Horatio Leragon wrote: >-- > >From: Brian >To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >Sent: Wednesday, June 4, 2014 2:22 AM >Subject: Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files an

Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies

2014-06-04 Thread Horatio Leragon
From: Ralf Mardorf To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Wednesday, June 4, 2014 7:54 AM Subject: Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies > A note to the OP. Yet you might not be able to understand the syntax of a > man(ual)page, but you need

Re: Post-installation: how to auto-configure network adapter (ie. enable internet access)?

2014-06-04 Thread Horatio Leragon
From: Jerry Stuckle To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Wednesday, June 4, 2014 9:48 AM Subject: Re: Post-installation: how to auto-configure network adapter (ie. enable internet access)? > Maybe you need to look at current information.  The blog you re

Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies

2014-06-04 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2014-06-04 at 04:18 -0700, Horatio Leragon wrote: > How do I learn it? Learning by doing ;). $ chown --help Usage: chown [OPTION]... [OWNER][:[GROUP]] FILE... or: chown [OPTION]... --reference=RFILE FILE... [snip] Examples: chown root /uChange the owner of /u to "root". c

Should I install chkrootkit?

2014-06-04 Thread Horatio Leragon
I received a security update advisory [SECURITY] [DSA 2945-1] today. Package    : chkrootkit CVE ID : CVE-2014-0476 I am shocked to learn that Debian is vulnerable to rootkits. That's why there's a package to check for them. I switched to Debian from Microsoft Windows OS because of

Re: package recommendation for daily journal

2014-06-04 Thread Tazman Deville
On Tue, Jun 03, 2014 at 11:16:51PM -0700, Rusi Mody wrote: > On Sunday, June 1, 2014 12:30:01 PM UTC+5:30, lina wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am looking for a package, which can act as a smart diary or > > journal to help me remember the records of small things, such as > > "obtain a licensed softwar

Re: upgrade? broke exim4

2014-06-04 Thread Brian
On Tue 03 Jun 2014 at 14:19:22 -0700, Mike McClain wrote: > Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote: > > Does your Exim listen on IPv4 localhost? > > I think so. At leastwhen I run 'do netstat -tlpn | grep :25', I see: > tcp0 0 127.0.0.1:250.0.0.0:* LISTEN 22669/exim4 > until

Re: Should I install chkrootkit?

2014-06-04 Thread Ralf Mardorf
If you like more uncertainty, you should read about e.g. "heartbleed", "Unity Lenses" and "Hans Reiser" ;). You are aware that Linux is from this planet? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.or

Re: Should I install chkrootkit?

2014-06-04 Thread Slavko
Ahoj, Dňa Wed, 4 Jun 2014 04:38:45 -0700 (PDT) Horatio Leragon napísal: > I am shocked to learn that Debian is vulnerable to rootkits. That's > why there's a package to check for them. Yes, there are bad boys on this world, which attempt to compromise foreign computers. In some countries it a n

Re: Should I install chkrootkit?

2014-06-04 Thread David Guyot
Keep calm and carry on, Horatio. Using software, whatever it is, may expose you to software flaws. It is inherent to software code. Anyone who really knows Debian, as any Linux distro, will never say that it is impervious to malware ; instead, he or she will explain you that, due to its open source

Re: upgrade? broke exim4

2014-06-04 Thread Filip
Mike McClain writes: > Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote: >> Does your Exim listen on IPv4 localhost? > > I think so. At leastwhen I run 'do netstat -tlpn | grep :25', I see: > tcp0 0 127.0.0.1:250.0.0.0:* LISTEN 22669/exim4 > until exim4 quits since it can't connect to

Re: Should I install chkrootkit?

2014-06-04 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2014-06-04 at 14:24 +0200, Slavko wrote: > Yes, there are bad boys on this world, which attempt to compromise > foreign computers. In some countries it a normal government practice. Yes, AFAIK in Ponyland, aka Friendship Gardens, it's _not_ normal government practise. Horatio, please subs

When bug fixes are applied on stable ?

2014-06-04 Thread Prunk Dump
Hello, Excuse my simple question but I try to understand how the Debian Bug tracking system works. My debian wheezy clients are all affected by the following bug in gdm-3.4.1 : https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=683338 This bug is marked as Fixed, because it does not appear in gd

Re: Should I install chkrootkit?

2014-06-04 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2014-06-04 at 14:37 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Wed, 2014-06-04 at 14:24 +0200, Slavko wrote: > > Yes, there are bad boys on this world, which attempt to compromise > > foreign computers. In some countries it a normal government practice. > > Yes, AFAIK in Ponyland, aka Friendship Gard

Re: upgrade? broke exim4

2014-06-04 Thread Curt
On 2014-06-03, Mike McClain wrote: > Howdy, > I hadn't rebooted since dist-upgrade last January then something > caused a lockup, no video, no keyboard such that I did a hard power off. > That was 2 days ago and since I've rebooted exim4 can't connect to > 127.0.0.1:25 hence fetchmail can'

how to use l2tp-ipsec-vpn ?

2014-06-04 Thread 釋淨明
dear everyone, i installed l2tp-ipsec-vpn and l2tp-ipsec-vpn-daemon in my debian wheezy 7.5 with gnome3, then i got the "l2tp ipsec vpn manager" icon in the system tools category, i double click it and input my root password, after that, it says: Failed to run L2tpIpsecVpn 'connectioneditor' 'des

Re: Post-installation: how to auto-configure network adapter (ie. enable internet access)?

2014-06-04 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 6/4/2014 7:29 AM, Horatio Leragon wrote: *From:* Jerry Stuckle *To:* debian-user@lists.debian.org *Sent:* Wednesday, June 4, 2014 9:48 AM *Subject:* Re: Post-installation: how to auto-configure network adapter (ie. enab

Re: package recommendation for daily journal

2014-06-04 Thread Curt
On 2014-06-04, Tazman Deville wrote: > > Here is a bash script for writing and managing a personal log, > by Tony, who is also on this list. > I'm surprised he didn't mention it himself. > https://github.com/tonybaldwin/mylog read -p "Shall we have a look in your a browser now? (y/n): " Shouldn

MATE 1.8: issues with sound control

2014-06-04 Thread Ghislain Vaillant
Following the recent announcement of the availability of MATE 1.8 in Debian, I went ahead and installed it on my Debian unstable install, alongside GNOME 3. Performance is great and I am seriously considering switching my old workstations to it. Amongst the issues I encountered, one concerns the s

serious system slow down when adjusting brightness on a Dell E6440 laptop

2014-06-04 Thread Ghislain Vaillant
I am running Debian unstable with GNOME 3 and MATE 1.8 on a Dell Latitude E6440 laptop. In both, brightness controls (Fn + up/down) systematically put the system to a crawl. This is even more pronounced in MATE 1.8, where the energy saving settings are much more aggressive and keep switching betwee

Re: MATE 1.8: issues with sound control

2014-06-04 Thread Matthias Fraidl
On 04.06.2014 17:34, Ghislain Vaillant wrote: > Any thoughts on a possible solution ? I had the same issues! Go and try volti[1], it worked fine for me. (apt-get install volti) cheers, matthias [1] https://code.google.com/p/volti/ -- PGP KeyID: 0xF7BEDB94 Fingerprint: 15B1 56D8 8F67 FAAF 3FA2 7

bridges with multiple static IPs or DHPC - how to configure?

2014-06-04 Thread Steffen Dettmer
Hi, how to configure a bridge with multiple static IPs and/or DHPC via /etc/network/interfaces? I tried many combinations, but I didn't find any working one. Of course everything works as expected when configuring manually with "ip", "brctl" etc. Any working example would be great! The rest of

High %wa, irregular blocking

2014-06-04 Thread b-misc
Hi, Some weeks ago I installed Testing on my wife's iMac [1] from 2008. Unfortunately it has one issue: There are irregular periods of very high %wa, maybe 3-5 times per hour, not directly related to a certain user action. They last for some seconds up to even a minute or so and render the machin

Re: When bug fixes are applied on stable ?

2014-06-04 Thread Slavko
Ahoj, Dňa Wed, 4 Jun 2014 14:44:17 +0200 Prunk Dump napísal: > My question is when this bug will be fixed on Debian Stable ? > -> On the next wheezy release ? > -> Never on wheezy, I need to wait for the stable Jessie ? > -> When the bug will be fixed by the gdm maintainers in the 3.4.1 > versio

Re: bridges with multiple static IPs or DHPC - how to configure?

2014-06-04 Thread Bzzz
On Wed, 4 Jun 2014 20:00:49 +0200 Steffen Dettmer wrote: > I tried many combinations, but I didn't find any working one. From what I understand, bridge act as a too low level to do what you want. However, I was able to add another I/F to my own bridge (br0 basically aggregates eth0 & wlan0 unde

Re: bridges with multiple static IPs or DHPC - how to configure?

2014-06-04 Thread Curt
On 2014-06-04, Steffen Dettmer wrote: > Hi, > > how to configure a bridge with multiple static IPs and/or DHPC > via /etc/network/interfaces? > > I tried many combinations, but I didn't find any working one. > You looked here already? https://wiki.debian.org/BridgeNetworkConnections -- To UNS

Re: MATE 1.8: issues with sound control

2014-06-04 Thread lostson
On 06/04/2014 12:19 PM, Matthias Fraidl wrote: > On 04.06.2014 17:34, Ghislain Vaillant wrote: >> Any thoughts on a possible solution ? > > I had the same issues! > Go and try volti[1], it worked fine for me. > (apt-get install volti) > > cheers, > matthias > > [1] https://code.google.com/p/vol

Re: Post-installation: how to auto-configure network adapter (ie. enable internet access)?

2014-06-04 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 4:43 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: > Horatio Leragon wrote: >> >> #dhcpcd eth0 > > There isn't a "dhcpcd" command in Debian. You must be using a > different system with the above notes. It's created via the alternatives system by the dhcpcd/dhcpcd5 postinsts. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Post-installation: how to auto-configure network adapter (ie. enable internet access)?

2014-06-04 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 7:05 PM, Horatio Leragon wrote: > From: Bob Proulx >> >> On Debian that would be "isc-dhcp-client". > > The writer of the guide states that it (the guide) is for Debian users. And > you're telling me he's wrong. > > I'm really confused. > > I think I need a second opinion.

Re: bridges with multiple static IPs or DHPC - how to configure?

2014-06-04 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
Hi On Wed, Jun 04, 2014 at 08:00:49PM +0200, Steffen Dettmer wrote: > Hi, > > how to configure a bridge with multiple static IPs and/or DHPC > via /etc/network/interfaces? > > I tried many combinations, but I didn't find any working one. > > Of course everything works as expected when configuri

Re: interpreting Gkrellm charts

2014-06-04 Thread Gary Roach
On 06/01/2014 11:51 AM, Gary Dale wrote: On 01/06/14 02:20 PM, Curt wrote: On 2014-06-01, Gary Dale wrote: Curious. I noticed that nepomuk-server and dolphin both had a number of zombie processes (around 16 each) attached. I killed the parent processes then did a reinstall of dolphin and libne

Re: High %wa, irregular blocking

2014-06-04 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
Hi On Wed, Jun 04, 2014 at 08:49:44AM +0200, b-m...@gmx.ch wrote: > Hi, > > Some weeks ago I installed Testing on my wife's iMac [1] from 2008. > Unfortunately it has one issue: > > There are irregular periods of very high %wa, maybe 3-5 times per hour, not > directly related to a certain user a

Re: Should I install chkrootkit?

2014-06-04 Thread Bob Holtzman
On Wed, Jun 04, 2014 at 04:38:45AM -0700, Horatio Leragon wrote: > I received a security update advisory [SECURITY] [DSA 2945-1] today. > > Package    : chkrootkit > CVE ID : CVE-2014-0476 > Assuming what you wrote isn't tongue in cheek, and from most of your posts it may not be a go

Re: Should I install chkrootkit?

2014-06-04 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2014-06-04 at 14:18 -0700, Bob Holtzman wrote: > BTW you would be well served to read this site: > > http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html > > I'm surprised that you haven't been steered to it before, way before. https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2014/06/msg00185.html ;

Re: package recommendation for daily journal

2014-06-04 Thread Tony Baldwin
On Wed, Jun 04, 2014 at 01:47:47PM +, Curt wrote: > On 2014-06-04, Tazman Deville wrote: > > > > Here is a bash script for writing and managing a personal log, > > by Tony, who is also on this list. > > I'm surprised he didn't mention it himself. > > https://github.com/tonybaldwin/mylog > >

Re: Post-installation: how to auto-configure network adapter (ie. enable internet access)?

2014-06-04 Thread Bob Holtzman
On Wed, Jun 04, 2014 at 09:15:13AM -0400, Jerry Stuckle wrote: ...snip... > > Yes, it is in my nature to call a spade a spade. And you have > already shown you have little background in Linux, It's not only linux he has no background in. That's forgivable. More importantly it's

Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies

2014-06-04 Thread Bob Holtzman
On Wed, Jun 04, 2014 at 01:16:26AM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: snip > > "Before You Ask > > Before asking a technical question by e-mail, or in a newsgroup, or on a > website chat board, do the following: > > 1. Try to find an answer by searching the archives of the foru

Re: bridges with multiple static IPs or DHPC - how to configure?

2014-06-04 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 2:00 PM, Steffen Dettmer wrote: > how to configure a bridge with multiple static IPs and/or DHPC > via /etc/network/interfaces? > > I tried many combinations, but I didn't find any working one. > > Of course everything works as expected when configuring manually > with "ip

Re: bridges with multiple static IPs or DHPC - how to configure?

2014-06-04 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 4:25 PM, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > On Wed, Jun 04, 2014 at 08:00:49PM +0200, Steffen Dettmer wrote: >> >> For an ordinary ethernet interface, the following works: >> >> auto eth3.10 >> iface eth3.10 inet static >> address 10.72.9.17 >> netmask 255.255.255.248 >>

debian trend package deficiency

2014-06-04 Thread Jude DaShiell
the package cannot work in a command line environment. The freeglut package which is one of trend's dependencies requires a display to be set. Has anyone managed to do what the trend package does using asciicharacters down in the printable set between 21H-7Fh for graphics and text labels usi

Re: cryptsetup problem

2014-06-04 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On 4/06/2014 6:17 AM, Bob Proulx wrote: > Andrew McGlashan wrote: >> [ 3839.679711] INFO: task kworker/3:3:392 blocked for more than 120 seconds. > > This message and the ones that follow seem the most concerning to me. > > First, I don't know. If I were having those messages I would suspect > t

Re: cryptsetup problem

2014-06-04 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On 4/06/2014 11:35 AM, Jochen Spieker wrote: > Bob Proulx: >> Andrew McGlashan wrote: >>> [ 3839.679711] INFO: task kworker/3:3:392 blocked for more than 120 seconds. >> >> This message and the ones that follow seem the most concerning to me. >> >> First, I don't know. If I were having those messa

zabbix over lighttpd

2014-06-04 Thread Philippe Clérié
Hello, I'm trying to install zabbix-server over lighttpd. I believe I have zabbix-server and php5-fpm working correctly. The bottom of the log files do not show any errors. But every time I hit the web server I get a 403 Forbidden error. It's most likely a lighttpd configuration error but I c

Re: upgrade? broke exim4 [SOLVED]

2014-06-04 Thread Mike McClain
On Wed, Jun 04, 2014 at 02:34:23PM +0200, Filip wrote: > > It tries to bind to the ipv6 adress of the local interface. > > Maybe ipv6 is disabled in your system. Do you see the ::1 address when > you run 'ip addr' ? Hi Filip, You hit the nail on the head. I didn't understand that in the messa

Re: Post-installation: how to auto-configure network adapter (ie. enable internet access)?

2014-06-04 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 6/4/2014 5:36 PM, Bob Holtzman wrote: On Wed, Jun 04, 2014 at 09:15:13AM -0400, Jerry Stuckle wrote: ...snip... Yes, it is in my nature to call a spade a spade. And you have already shown you have little background in Linux, It's not only linux he has no background in. Tha

Re: Should I install chkrootkit?

2014-06-04 Thread Horatio Leragon
From: Ralf Mardorf To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Wednesday, June 4, 2014 7:50 PM Subject: Re: Should I install chkrootkit? > If you like more uncertainty, you should read about e.g. "heartbleed", "Unity > Lenses" and "Hans Reiser" ;). You are aware

Re: Resizing LVM issue

2014-06-04 Thread Miroslav Skoric
On 06/01/2014 11:03 PM, emmanuel segura wrote: i think the correct steps are: resize2fs /dev/mapper/localhost-home -2G lvresize --size -2G /dev/mapper/localhost-home Thank you. I tried with the first command but it did not work (it returned an error). However later I managed to resize t

Re: Resizing LVM issue

2014-06-04 Thread Miroslav Skoric
On 06/01/2014 11:36 PM, Jochen Spieker wrote: If you don't have a backup you can try to resize the LV again to its original size and hope for the best. BTW, I found it to be good practice to initially use less than 100% of available space on my PVs for the LVs. That way I can grow filesystems

Re: Should I install chkrootkit?

2014-06-04 Thread Horatio Leragon
From: Slavko To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Wednesday, June 4, 2014 8:24 PM Subject: Re: Should I install chkrootkit? > In some countries it a normal government practice. Yeah, my government denies that it is collecting massive amounts of data on i

Re: Should I install chkrootkit?

2014-06-04 Thread Horatio Leragon
From: David Guyot To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Wednesday, June 4, 2014 8:29 PM Subject: Re: Should I install chkrootkit? Thank you, David, for your time to write this rather detailed explanation.

Re: Should I install chkrootkit?

2014-06-04 Thread Horatio Leragon
From: Ralf Mardorf To: d-community-offto...@lists.alioth.debian.org Cc: debian-user Sent: Wednesday, June 4, 2014 8:37 PM Subject: Re: Should I install chkrootkit? > Horatio, please subscribe to > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community

Re: Post-installation: how to auto-configure network adapter (ie. enable internet access)?

2014-06-04 Thread Horatio Leragon
From: Jerry Stuckle To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Wednesday, June 4, 2014 9:15 PM Subject: Re: Post-installation: how to auto-configure network adapter (ie. enable internet access)? > YOU aren't.  You refuse to learn.  The rest of us use CURRENT DOC

Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies

2014-06-04 Thread Horatio Leragon
From: Bob Holtzman To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Thursday, June 5, 2014 5:45 AM Subject: Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies > Ralph, I think your wasting bandwidth on this guy. He's been told this more > than once yet he comes b

Re: Post-installation: how to auto-configure network adapter (ie. enable internet access)?

2014-06-04 Thread Horatio Leragon
From: Jerry Stuckle To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Thursday, June 5, 2014 11:18 AM Subject: Re: Post-installation: how to auto-configure network adapter (ie. enable internet access)? > No arguments there, Bob. If I were you, Jerry Stuckup, I would

Re: Should I install chkrootkit?

2014-06-04 Thread Doug
On 06/05/2014 12:45 AM, Horatio Leragon wrote: *From:* Ralf Mardorf *To:* debian-user@lists.debian.org *Sent:* Wednesday, June 4, 2014 7:50 PM *Subject:* Re: Should I install chkrootkit? > If you like more uncertainty, yo

Re: Sawfish and Openbox: was fastest linux distro

2014-06-04 Thread Bob Proulx
Brian wrote: > The fact though is that most users do not avoid startx or a > DM. Anyone who uses xinit has gone to some trouble to avoid either > of these two ways of getting X running. You would expect them to > know what they are doing. But people using xinit have not gone to any trouble to avoi

Re: Post-installation: how to auto-configure network adapter (ie. enable internet access)?

2014-06-04 Thread Bob Proulx
Horatio Leragon wrote: > Brian wrote: > > I wish the Debian Reference told us things like this and was > > available on t'internet. :) > > I'm puzzled by your weird behavior, Brian. The above statement of > yours contradicts what you advised me earlier in 2 replies of 1 June > and 1 reply of 2 Jun

Re: Post-installation: how to auto-configure network adapter (ie. enable internet access)?

2014-06-04 Thread Bob Proulx
Horatio Leragon wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > > dmesg | grep -i Eth > > That assumes you have that hardware. Other hardware will show up > > with their own id strings. > > Sorry, I don't understand. What do you mean by "That assumes you > have that hardware" ? I have the network card install

where is my WiFi card? (ThinkPad T61)

2014-06-04 Thread Stanisław Findeisen
Hi I am trying to configure WiFi on a Lenovo ThinkPad T61 laptop. I installed NetworkManager and in /var/log/syslog I can see: Jun 5 07:41:42 t61whe NetworkManager[2490]: WiFi enabled by radio killswitch; enabled by state file Jun 5 07:41:42 t61whe NetworkManager[2490]: WWAN enabled by radio

Debian Testing Jess: Server Randomly Reboots - No Logs / Indication - Rsyslog Issue?

2014-06-04 Thread Adam Brenner
Howdy List, I am a recent "convert" from the RHEL/CentOS community and I am running a server of Debian Testing "Jess." I am running the latest 3.14.4-1 kernel and apt-get update && apt-get upgrade have no pending installs. The issue I am facing is that at random, unrepeatable times, the serve

Re: Resizing LVM issue

2014-06-04 Thread Richard Hector
On 05/06/14 10:17, Miroslav Skoric wrote: > On 06/01/2014 11:03 PM, emmanuel segura wrote: > >> >> i think the correct steps are: >> >> resize2fs /dev/mapper/localhost-home -2G >> lvresize --size -2G /dev/mapper/localhost-home >> >> > > Thank you. I tried with the first command but it did not wor