Re: help in purging old packages

2015-01-14 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 09 ian 15, 16:54:39, Darac Marjal wrote: > On Fri, Jan 09, 2015 at 11:23:17AM -0500, Comer Duncan wrote: > >Hi, > > > >I have a situation in which I am running wheezy 7.7 and for various > >reasons now want to purge all packages which for some reason are still > >present fro

Re: Tip: Search Command Line Commands w/First Letters And Tab

2015-01-14 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 09 ian 15, 20:33:41, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > > Very cool. My thoughts are always that maybe someone else doesn't know > it exists, and maybe they know of just the right wish list where this > feature or a tweak of it would be perfect for the next upgrade of > something else Debian out the

Re: netwok issues

2015-01-14 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 10 ian 15, 13:10:07, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Francesco Pietra a écrit : > > Replaced defective Tyan-double-opterons server mainboard with a minimal > > asus H81M-K-intel i3, maintaining the same two mirror-raid HDs with debian > > amd64 wheezy. > > > > Now, network is only establised at a

Re: unable to boot with systemd (works with sysvinit)

2015-01-14 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 10 ian 15, 12:33:36, Johannes Schauer wrote: > Hi, > > I'm not subscribed, so please keep me CC-ed. > > I'm unable to boot my laptop with systemd which worked before. I'm unable to > tell the changes I made since the last time it worked because according to my > uptime, the last time I reb

Apache or Radius crash

2015-01-14 Thread Carsten Czerner
Hi, I installed an Apache with Radius-Authentification on my Debian7. An authentification is requested when entering a directory (Mitarbeiter) and the access was granted if I typ in the correct credentials. All fine! But I would like to make it more secure and enabled https, and now a progr

Re: Have I been hacked?

2015-01-14 Thread Joel Rees
2015/01/13 5:17 "Brian" : > > On Sun 11 Jan 2015 at 16:43:34 -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: > > > Brian wrote: > > > Bob Proulx wrote: > > > > Complete agreement. I want to go further and say that a password that > > > > you can remember without needing to write it down is probably not a > > > > good pa

Recent upgrade 'broke' sleep & hibernate in KDE Plasma Battery Monitor

2015-01-14 Thread Alex
Hi I ran the following upgrade through Synaptic (see relevant excerpt from /var/log/apt/history.log below) and ever since that upgrade KDE Plasma Battery Monitor now no longer functions as it used to do. Choosing 'sleep' causes the laptop to do what appears to be an emergency 'shutdown -h' w

Re: Recent upgrade 'broke' sleep & hibernate in KDE Plasma Battery Monitor

2015-01-14 Thread Mike McGinn
See Bug#774461. Download the kernel patch and see if it fixes your problem. Send an email to 774...@bugs.debian.org if it does. I had the same problem and used "reportbug" to report a bug against the kernel - which led me to the fix. Don't complain about my top post. I don't care and will ignore

Re: Recent upgrade 'broke' sleep & hibernate in KDE Plasma Battery Monitor

2015-01-14 Thread Ron
On Wed, 14 Jan 2015 06:58:00 -0500 Mike McGinn wrote: > Don't complain about my top post. I don't care and will ignore you. We'll complain about not trimming the post. Cheers, Ron. -- 99 percent of lawyers give the rest a bad name.

Re: Disable server so it does not start on reboot (even after upgrade)?

2015-01-14 Thread Tony Baldwin
On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 11:49:38PM +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Vi, 09 ian 15, 15:02:34, Xavi wrote: > > First I do: > > > > sudo update-rc.d -f apache2 remove > > > > and then, to assert the rc.d links are not recreated, > > I recreate them stopped in all runlevels: > > > > sudo update-rc

Re: Have I been hacked?

2015-01-14 Thread John Hasler
Bob Proulx writes: > So what you really need is something other than what a human would > produce. And pwgen does that just fine: a different 12 character random password for every site. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.d

Directories changing their side when copied!

2015-01-14 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Hi all. I realized that the same directory, once copied onto vfat pendrive with `cp' or also `rsync', have a size (detected with `du') that doesn't match with the source. Please help. Thanks, Rodolfo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscr

Re: Directories changing their side when copied!

2015-01-14 Thread The Wanderer
On 01/14/2015 at 09:16 AM, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Hi all. > > I realized that the same directory, once copied onto vfat pendrive > with `cp' or also `rsync', have a size (detected with `du') that > doesn't match with the source. > > Please help. This is probably because du reports "size on dis

Re: Directories changing their side when copied!

2015-01-14 Thread Pertti Kosunen
On 14.1.2015 16:16, Rodolfo Medina wrote: Hi all. I realized that the same directory, once copied onto vfat pendrive with `cp' or also `rsync', have a size (detected with `du') that doesn't match with the source. diff -r /original/dir /pendrive/dir -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-req

Re: Find obsolete packages without using aptitude?

2015-01-14 Thread Fredrik Jonson
Bob Proulx wrote: > Try this: > >apt-show-versions | grep -v uptodate > > Or read my answer posted here Saturday: > >https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2015/01/msg00358.html Thanks, excellent. I'll try to improve the variety of my search phrases, and digging deeper in the archive

Re: Directories changing their side when copied!

2015-01-14 Thread Ric Moore
On 01/14/2015 09:16 AM, Rodolfo Medina wrote: Hi all. I realized that the same directory, once copied onto vfat pendrive with `cp' or also `rsync', have a size (detected with `du') that doesn't match with the source. Different block sizes. http://lists.slug.org.au/public/slug/2004/07/msg3.

problem with corrupted root password

2015-01-14 Thread Comer Duncan
I recently got wheezy up and running. I installed xfce4 and like it. However, today in the process of trying to spawn a root terminal (in Accessories) and going through a cycle of trying to get authorized but being prevented by repeated complaints that the system password I used was not correct,

Re: problem with corrupted root password

2015-01-14 Thread Rob Owens
On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 03:07:09PM -0500, Comer Duncan wrote: > I recently got wheezy up and running. I installed xfce4 and like it. > > However, today in the process of trying to spawn a root terminal (in > Accessories) and going through a cycle of trying to get authorized but > being prevented

Re: Have I been hacked?

2015-01-14 Thread Brian
On Tue 13 Jan 2015 at 22:16:12 -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: > Brian wrote: > > Seeing that my argument that enforcing (if it is possible) an > > unmemorable password is not in the best interests of security doesn't > > gain any tracton, let me try a different tack. > > > > The password > > > > Twa

Re: Have I been hacked?

2015-01-14 Thread Brian
On Wed 14 Jan 2015 at 18:52:06 +0900, Joel Rees wrote: > 2015/01/13 5:17 "Brian" : > > > > strikes me as a pretty good one for an ssh login. (I have capitalised > > some letters for readability, not to add complexity). Personally, I find > > it easy to remember and associate with ssh and my accoun

Re: Have I been hacked?

2015-01-14 Thread John Hasler
Brian writes: > I can remember "TwasBrilligAndTheSlithyToves" and associate it with an > account. > Before signing up I do >echo TwasBrilligAndTheSlithyToves | sha1sum | base64 | cut -c -30 > The output is what I give to a site as a password. > Furthermore, before any future logins I can ru

Re: problem with corrupted root password

2015-01-14 Thread Gary Dale
On 14/01/15 04:26 PM, Rob Owens wrote: On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 03:07:09PM -0500, Comer Duncan wrote: I recently got wheezy up and running. I installed xfce4 and like it. However, today in the process of trying to spawn a root terminal (in Accessories) and going through a cycle of trying to get

Re: Have I been hacked?

2015-01-14 Thread Bob Proulx
Brian wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > Brian wrote: > I am still going to maintain that "TwasBrilligAndTheSlithyToves" is a > more than adquate password for logging in *on-line*. If I were to lack > trust in the maintenence of security at a site I might consider a change > of heart. But then - what w

Re: Disable server so it does not start on reboot (even after upgrade)?

2015-01-14 Thread Bob Proulx
Tony Baldwin wrote: > Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > Xavi wrote: > > > First I do: > > > > > > sudo update-rc.d -f apache2 remove > > > > > > and then, to assert the rc.d links are not recreated, > > > I recreate them stopped in all runlevels: > > > > > > sudo update-rc.d apache2 stop 80 0 1 2 3 4 5

Re: problem with corrupted root password

2015-01-14 Thread Bob Proulx
Comer Duncan wrote: > However, today in the process of trying to spawn a root terminal (in > Accessories) and going through a cycle of trying to get authorized but > being prevented by repeated complaints that the system password I used was > not correct, I now find that I can not get logged in in