Re: Upgrading debian to specific minor version

2015-09-10 Thread Joris Schoolmeesters
Thanks for all replies. Didn't know about about snapshot.debian.org Looks like the best way to go in this situation. 2015-09-09 14:15 GMT+02:00 songbird : > Joris Schoolmeesters wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> With Debian 7.9 out in the wild, apt-get will upgrade you >> automatically to 7.9 on Debian

Re: who/w/finger/last printing ip address

2015-09-10 Thread Reco
Hi. On Wed, Sep 09, 2015 at 11:44:18PM +0100, Michael Grant wrote: > > $ ls -al /usr/bin/w > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 Feb 11  2014 /usr/bin/w -> /etc/alternatives/w > $ ls -al /etc/alternatives/w > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Feb 11  2014 /etc/alternatives/w -> > /usr/bin/w.procps > $ w -V > w f

upgrading debian 8.1 to 8.2

2015-09-10 Thread Himanshu Shekhar
i have debian jessie 8.1 on my laptop and wish to upgrade it to 8.2 without messing with the much configuration i have done and without losing any of the packages installed. please don't give any suggestion or method you are not confident of. -- Himanshu Shekhar IIIT-Allahabad IRM2015006

Re: upgrading debian 8.1 to 8.2

2015-09-10 Thread Peter Ludikovsky
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, Updating between point releases is the same as any other update: apt-get update apt-get upgrade Regards, /peter Am 10.09.2015 um 10:17 schrieb Himanshu Shekhar: > i have debian jessie 8.1 on my laptop and wish to upgrade it to > 8.2 without m

aptitude full-upgrade causes lots of errors (debian/testing)

2015-09-10 Thread Hans
Dear mainainers, it looks like aptituide full-upgrade cannot be done at the moment (and upgrading fro stable to testing, too). The reason is for a lot of dependency problems as you see below. Is there anything the user can do or must it be fixed by the repository maintainers? Here is the outp

xenix (sysv) filesystem

2015-09-10 Thread Mohsen Pahlevanzadeh
Dear All, I need to mount a old unix (xenix filesystem) , maybe kernel removed it. Do you have any solution? --best regards Mohsen

Re: adobe flash player in iceweasel does not work anymore in jessie

2015-09-10 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-09-09, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Wednesday 09 September 2015 20:46:42 Paul van der Vlis wrote: >> When I need a package from deb-multimedia, I use wget and dpkg. > > A constructive suggestion! That is obviously a good idea. I would call it a kludge, at best. Using wget and dpkg is to invite

Re: xenix (sysv) filesystem

2015-09-10 Thread Alexis
Mohsen Pahlevanzadeh writes: I need to mount a old unix (xenix filesystem) , maybe kernel removed it. Do you have any solution? The man page for mount(8) on Jessie says: The argument following the -t is used to indicate the filesystem type. The filesystem types which are currently

Re: PCI-DSS compliant instalation guide for latest Debian

2015-09-10 Thread claude juif
Hi, If your server is directly connected to Internet, you will fail PCI-DSS compliance. You need at least to put a proxy between internet and your server. IMO, the best way to accomplish this, is to hold credit card data on a separate server (this server will only store data, not more), not conne

Re: PCI-DSS compliant instalation guide for latest Debian

2015-09-10 Thread Eero Volotinen
Well, that is not simply true. PCI DSS requires to comply all requirements. See: https://www.pcisecuritystandards.org/documents/PCI_DSS_v3-1.pdf For example requirement 6.6 requires WAF (on public facing web applications). In simple way, you need also hardening on os or, not just security update

Re: aptitude full-upgrade causes lots of errors (debian/testing)

2015-09-10 Thread Sven Hartge
Hans wrote: > it looks like aptituide full-upgrade cannot be done at the moment (and > upgrading fro stable to testing, too). This is correct. There are some very intrusive library and compiler transitions happening at the moment. I think it will take about another month before Testing/Unstable

Re: adobe flash player in Iceweasel does not work anymore in Jessie

2015-09-10 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Thursday 10 September 2015 10:33:20 Liam O'Toole wrote: > On 2015-09-09, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Wednesday 09 September 2015 20:46:42 Paul van der Vlis wrote: > >> When I need a package from deb-multimedia, I use wget and dpkg. > > > > A constructive suggestion! That is obviously a good idea.

Re: xenix (sysv) filesystem

2015-09-10 Thread Dan Ritter
On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 07:38:41PM +1000, Alexis wrote: > > Mohsen Pahlevanzadeh writes: > > >I need to mount a old unix (xenix filesystem) , maybe kernel > >removed it. > > > >Do you have any solution? > > The man page for mount(8) on Jessie says: > >The argument following the -t is used

Re: adobe flash player in iceweasel does not work anymore in jessie

2015-09-10 Thread Brian
On Wed 09 Sep 2015 at 23:41:45 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Wednesday 09 September 2015 20:31:50 Paul van der Vlis wrote: > > > > flashplayer-mozilla will install the same flashplayer as > > flashplugin-nonfree. But there is a big difference between the > > flashplayer what't installed in Chromiu

Extracting directories from an ISO image, command line tool?

2015-09-10 Thread Richard Owlett
Environment: Using dd I have copied physical [NO INTERNET AVAILABLE ;] Debian DVD's to /media/distributionA resulting in /media/distributionA/DVD1.iso /media/distributionA/DVD2.iso . . /media/distributionA/DVDn.iso Goal: Extract pool directory (and all of its sub-directories) resulting in /medi

Re: Extracting directories from an ISO image, command line tool?

2015-09-10 Thread Brian
On Thu 10 Sep 2015 at 08:06:36 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > Environment: > Using dd I have copied physical [NO INTERNET AVAILABLE ;] Debian DVD's to > /media/distributionA resulting in > /media/distributionA/DVD1.iso > /media/distributionA/DVD2.iso > . > . > /media/distributionA/DVDn.iso > > Go

Re: Extracting directories from an ISO image, command line tool?

2015-09-10 Thread The Wanderer
On 2015-09-10 at 09:06, Richard Owlett wrote: > Environment: > Using dd I have copied physical [NO INTERNET AVAILABLE ;] Debian > DVD's to > /media/distributionA resulting in > /media/distributionA/DVD1.iso > /media/distributionA/DVD2.iso > . > . > /media/distributionA/DVDn.iso > > Goal: > Extra

Re: Extracting directories from an ISO image, command line tool?

2015-09-10 Thread Darac Marjal
On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 08:06:36AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > Environment: > Using dd I have copied physical [NO INTERNET AVAILABLE ;] Debian DVD's to > /media/distributionA resulting in > /media/distributionA/DVD1.iso > /media/distributionA/DVD2.iso > . > . > /media/distributionA/DVDn.iso > >

Re: Extracting directories from an ISO image, command line tool?

2015-09-10 Thread Richard Owlett
Brian wrote: On Thu 10 Sep 2015 at 08:06:36 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: Environment: Using dd I have copied physical [NO INTERNET AVAILABLE ;] Debian DVD's to /media/distributionA resulting in /media/distributionA/DVD1.iso /media/distributionA/DVD2.iso . . /media/distributionA/DVDn.iso Goal:

Re: Extracting directories from an ISO image, command line tool?

2015-09-10 Thread Richard Owlett
The Wanderer wrote: On 2015-09-10 at 09:06, Richard Owlett wrote: Environment: Using dd I have copied physical [NO INTERNET AVAILABLE ;] Debian DVD's to /media/distributionA resulting in /media/distributionA/DVD1.iso /media/distributionA/DVD2.iso . . /media/distributionA/DVDn.iso Goal: Extract

Re: Extracting directories from an ISO image, command line tool?

2015-09-10 Thread Eduard Bloch
Hallo, * Richard Owlett [Thu, Sep 10 2015, 09:18:18AM]: > >if you need to automate it as non-root it looks like you can do that > >with orrisox (part of the xorriso package): > > > >orrisox -indev /path/to/file.iso -extract . -subdir > >/path/to/output/directory > > > > Browsing man page suggests

Re: Extracting directories from an ISO image, command line tool?

2015-09-10 Thread The Wanderer
On 2015-09-10 at 10:06, Richard Owlett wrote: > Brian wrote: > >> On Thu 10 Sep 2015 at 08:06:36 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: >> >>> Environment: >>> Using dd I have copied physical [NO INTERNET AVAILABLE ;] Debian >>> DVD's to /media/distributionA resulting in >> I'd also dispense with the dd

Re: Extracting directories from an ISO image, command line tool?

2015-09-10 Thread Richard Owlett
Darac Marjal wrote: On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 08:06:36AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: Environment: Using dd I have copied physical [NO INTERNET AVAILABLE ;] Debian DVD's to /media/distributionA resulting in /media/distributionA/DVD1.iso /media/distributionA/DVD2.iso . . /media/distributionA/DVDn.i

Re: Extracting directories from an ISO image, command line tool?

2015-09-10 Thread The Wanderer
On 2015-09-10 at 10:18, Richard Owlett wrote: > The Wanderer wrote: > >> On 2015-09-10 at 09:06, Richard Owlett wrote: >> >>> Environment: >>> Using dd I have copied physical [NO INTERNET AVAILABLE ;] Debian >>> DVD's to >>> /media/distributionA resulting in >>> /media/distributionA/DVD1.iso >>>

Re: Extracting directories from an ISO image, command line tool?

2015-09-10 Thread The Wanderer
On 2015-09-10 at 10:20, The Wanderer wrote: > On 2015-09-10 at 10:06, Richard Owlett wrote: > >> Brian wrote: >> >>> On Thu 10 Sep 2015 at 08:06:36 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: >>> Environment: Using dd I have copied physical [NO INTERNET AVAILABLE ;] Debian DVD's to /media/distr

Re: Extracting directories from an ISO image, command line tool?

2015-09-10 Thread The Wanderer
On 2015-09-10 at 10:23, Richard Owlett wrote: > Darac Marjal wrote: > >> On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 08:06:36AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: >> >>> Environment: >>> Using dd I have copied physical [NO INTERNET AVAILABLE ;] Debian DVD's to >>> /media/distributionA resulting in >>> /media/distributionA/

display problem from wheezy=>jessie upgrade.

2015-09-10 Thread Peter Easthope
Any ideas about this? https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=796113 No such problem for wheezy. Thanks, ... Peter E.

Re: Extracting directories from an ISO image, command line tool?

2015-09-10 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, my two cents: for i in /media/distributionA/DVD*.iso do xorriso -osirrox on:auto_chmod_on -overwrite nondir \ -indev "$i" \ -extract /pool /media/distributionA/poolA done The setting -osirrox auto_chmod_on enables writing to read-only directories which were

Re: display problem from wheezy=>jessie upgrade.

2015-09-10 Thread Dan Ritter
On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 07:20:18AM -0700, Peter Easthope wrote: > Any ideas about this? > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=796113 > > No such problem for wheezy. Read /var/log/Xorg.0.log to determine what video driver X is using. Set the right one - savage, maybe? - in /etc/xorg

Re: Extracting directories from an ISO image, command line tool?

2015-09-10 Thread Brian
On Thu 10 Sep 2015 at 09:06:42 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > Brian wrote: > >On Thu 10 Sep 2015 at 08:06:36 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > >>Environment: > >>Using dd I have copied physical [NO INTERNET AVAILABLE ;] Debian DVD's to > >>/media/distributionA resulting in > >>/media/distribution

Re: How to Boot with LVM

2015-09-10 Thread Pascal Hambourg
ray a écrit : > I have only been able to boot the HDD instance. When I navigate to > the SSD instance, nothing is there. Sorry, I should have mentionned that I never used rEFInd (fortunately never needed it) and don't know how it works and what it looks like. Could you describe what it displays s

Re: PCI-DSS compliant instalation guide for latest Debian

2015-09-10 Thread claude juif
Hi, 2015-09-10 12:00 GMT+02:00 Eero Volotinen : > Well, that is not simply true. > > PCI DSS requires to comply all requirements. See: > https://www.pcisecuritystandards.org/documents/PCI_DSS_v3-1.pdf > PCI DSS said this : Network segmentation of, or isolating (segmenting), the cardholder data

Re: Extracting directories from an ISO image, command line tool?

2015-09-10 Thread David Wright
Quoting Richard Owlett (rowl...@cloud85.net): > Environment: > Using dd I have copied physical [NO INTERNET AVAILABLE ;] Debian > DVD's to > /media/distributionA resulting in > /media/distributionA/DVD1.iso > /media/distributionA/DVD2.iso > . > . > /media/distributionA/DVDn.iso > > Goal: > Extract

Re: Extracting directories from an ISO image, command line tool?

2015-09-10 Thread Richard Owlett
Brian wrote: On Thu 10 Sep 2015 at 09:06:42 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: Brian wrote: On Thu 10 Sep 2015 at 08:06:36 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: Environment: Using dd I have copied physical [NO INTERNET AVAILABLE ;] Debian DVD's to /media/distributionA resulting in /media/distributionA/DVD1

Re: Extracting directories from an ISO image, command line tool?

2015-09-10 Thread Richard Owlett
Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, my two cents: for i in /media/distributionA/DVD*.iso do xorriso -osirrox on:auto_chmod_on -overwrite nondir \ -indev "$i" \ -extract /pool /media/distributionA/poolA done The setting -osirrox auto_chmod_on enables writing to rea

Re: Extracting directories from an ISO image, command line tool?

2015-09-10 Thread Richard Owlett
The Wanderer wrote: [snip] And/or similar, more-complex twiddlings if you have other /media/distribution* directories which you want to handle. (Note that this will not work as expected if the two ISOs have any pathnames in common.) A problem. ALL ISO's have the same directory structures but

Re: Extracting directories from an ISO image, command line tool?

2015-09-10 Thread The Wanderer
On 2015-09-10 at 11:36, Richard Owlett wrote: > The Wanderer wrote: > >> [snip] >> >> And/or similar, more-complex twiddlings if you have other >> /media/distribution* directories which you want to handle. (Note >> that this will not work as expected if the two ISOs have any >> pathnames in comm

Re: Upgrading debian to specific minor version

2015-09-10 Thread songbird
Joris Schoolmeesters wrote: > Thanks for all replies. > > > Didn't know about about snapshot.debian.org > Looks like the best way to go in this situation. much easier than another method (get specific package version numbers and force upgrades to those versions). songbird

Re: How to Boot with LVM

2015-09-10 Thread David Wright
Quoting ray (r...@aarden.us): > On Wednesday, September 9, 2015 at 2:10:04 PM UTC-5, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > > ray a écrit : [...] > > > A baffling point: In rEFInd the path is /boot/efi/EFI/debian/grubx64.efi > > > > How is it baffling ? The EFI system partition is mounted on /boot/efi > > and

Re: Extracting directories from an ISO image, command line tool?

2015-09-10 Thread Brian
On Thu 10 Sep 2015 at 10:17:22 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > Brian wrote: > >On Thu 10 Sep 2015 at 09:06:42 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > >>Brian wrote: > >>> > >>>I'd also dispense with the dd part and just mount the media somewhere. > >> > >>VIOLATES 1st line of "Environment". Please note

Re: Extracting directories from an ISO image, command line tool?

2015-09-10 Thread Hans
Maybe you want to give "isomaster" a try. It is in the repos and it is easy to handle. Happy hacking. Hans

Re: Extracting directories from an ISO image, command line tool?

2015-09-10 Thread Brian
On Thu 10 Sep 2015 at 10:07:23 -0500, David Wright wrote: > Were I to use mc as suggested, I would do this as a user. I'm not > willing to use such a tool as root. One of the downsides of mc > (there are lots of ups) is that it will only query a duplicate > when it occurs and when you've made a fi

Re: Extracting directories from an ISO image, command line tool?

2015-09-10 Thread Brian
On Thu 10 Sep 2015 at 18:26:52 +0200, Hans wrote: > Maybe you want to give "isomaster" a try. It is in the repos and it is easy > to > handle. Does it prevent making the mistake of not capitilising proper nouns?

Re: Extracting directories from an ISO image, command line tool?

2015-09-10 Thread Hans
Am Donnerstag, 10. September 2015, 19:43:25 schrieb Brian: > Does it prevent making the mistake of not capitilising proper nouns? Don't know, but maybe the op will test it himself? Best Hans

Re: Extracting directories from an ISO image, command line tool?

2015-09-10 Thread Brian
On Thu 10 Sep 2015 at 21:02:36 +0200, Hans wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 10. September 2015, 19:43:25 schrieb Brian: > > > Does it prevent making the mistake of not capitilising proper nouns? > > Don't know, but maybe the op will test it himself? The OP isn't given to testing and reporting back on su

Re: Extracting directories from an ISO image, command line tool?

2015-09-10 Thread Curt
On 2015-09-10, Brian wrote: > On Thu 10 Sep 2015 at 18:26:52 +0200, Hans wrote: > >> Maybe you want to give "isomaster" a try. It is in the repos and it is easy >> to >> handle. > > Does it prevent making the mistake of not capitilising proper nouns? > > Or the mistake of not spelling capitaliz

Re: display problem from wheezy=>jessie upgrade.

2015-09-10 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Thu, 2015-09-10 at 07:20 -0700, Peter Easthope wrote: > Any ideas about this? > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=796113 > > No such problem for wheezy. Hi, Sounds like this bug: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=768958 You should probably reassign your bug t

Iceweasel 38.2 seems broken

2015-09-10 Thread Haines Brown
After a Wheezy upgrade to iceweasel 38.2.1esr-1~deb7ui, iceweasel does not display when started. An iceweasel process starts, but X server does not pick it up. The terminal gives me: console.error: [CustomizableUI] Custom widget with id loop-button does not return a valid node

Re: Extracting directories from an ISO image, command line tool?

2015-09-10 Thread David Wright
Quoting Thomas Schmitt (scdbac...@gmx.net): > for i in /media/distributionA/DVD*.iso > do > xorriso -osirrox on:auto_chmod_on -overwrite nondir \ > -indev "$i" \ > -extract /pool /media/distributionA/poolA > done > > The setting -osirrox auto_chmod_on enables wri

Re: Extracting directories from an ISO image, command line tool?

2015-09-10 Thread Brian
On Thu 10 Sep 2015 at 20:03:53 +, Curt wrote: > On 2015-09-10, Brian wrote: > > On Thu 10 Sep 2015 at 18:26:52 +0200, Hans wrote: > > > >> Maybe you want to give "isomaster" a try. It is in the repos and it is > >> easy to > >> handle. > > > > Does it prevent making the mistake of not capit

Re: adobe flash player in iceweasel does not work anymore in jessie

2015-09-10 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Thursday 10 September 2015 13:37:03 Brian wrote: > > Nonetheless, flashplayer-mozilla works on my desktop and > > flashplugin-nonfree doesn't.  FOR THIS SPECIFIC CHANNEL. > > Intriguing. Are the HAL packages installed? All the ones you mention plus hal-trinity. But so has my husband's compute

Re: adobe flash player in iceweasel does not work anymore in jessie

2015-09-10 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Thursday 10 September 2015 22:57:36 Lisi Reisz wrote: I have: > Path: > /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so,/usr/lib/flashplayer-mozilla/lib >flashplayer.so,/home/lisi/.mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so Version: > 11.2.202.350 My husband has: > Path: /usr/lib/flashplayer-mozilla/libflas

/etc/bluetooth/audio.conf obsolete?

2015-09-10 Thread Mark Fletcher
Hello I'm currently trying to set up my Jessie system to play audio from my iPhone by bluetooth through my PC speakers. I've been following an online guide to doing so and it wants me to edit /etc/bluetooth/audio.conf to make the PC advertise itself as an A2DP sink. Trouble is, I have no /etc/bl

Re: adobe flash player in iceweasel does not work anymore in jessie

2015-09-10 Thread Charlie Kravetz
On Thu, 10 Sep 2015 23:22:51 +0100 Lisi Reisz wrote: >On Thursday 10 September 2015 22:57:36 Lisi Reisz wrote: > >I have: >> Path: >> /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so,/usr/lib/flashplayer-mozilla/lib >>flashplayer.so,/home/lisi/.mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so Version: >> 11.2.202.350

road warrior VPN with IPCop2

2015-09-10 Thread rlharris
I am trying to understand the options for accommodating a "road warrior" who, as a VPN client, needs to connect to one or more machines which reside at the home office, in a LAN protected by a stand-alone firewall. The road warrior is running Debian on a laptop. The firewall protecting the LAN is

Re: {SOLVED}virtualbox-usb printer not recognized

2015-09-10 Thread Whit Hansell
On 08/25/2015 06:19 PM, Whit Hansell wrote: On 08/25/2015 12:48 AM, Seeker wrote: On 8/24/2015 6:27 PM, Whit Hansell wrote: Well, I've got the new virtualbox set up and all is good except my usb hP 5600 series printer is not recognized so I can print and scan with it. My webcam works. M

Ethernet not working after waking from sleep

2015-09-10 Thread Himanshu Shekhar
My network adapter is by Realtek and I have installed the appropriate firmware from synaptic. The ethernet network works fine, but shows cable unplugged after waking from sleep. Also, I have Broadcom bluetooth device BCRM43142 and have downloaded firmware (some bcrm-***-dkms) but bluetooth doesn't

problems with moving the toolsbars of Inkscape

2015-09-10 Thread Joerg Desch
I'm using Inkscape from Jessie and have some trouble with the arrangement of the toolbars. I've written a bug report (#797148) two weeks ago, but without reactions for now. The positioning of the toolbars is only in some (rare) cases possible. It is very hard to find a place where the moved too

Re: Ethernet not working after waking from sleep

2015-09-10 Thread Riley Baird
On Fri, 11 Sep 2015 10:06:40 +0530 Himanshu Shekhar wrote: > My network adapter is by Realtek and I have installed the appropriate > firmware from synaptic. The ethernet network works fine, but shows cable > unplugged after waking from sleep. > Also, I have Broadcom bluetooth device BCRM43142 and

Re: Iceweasel 38.2 seems broken

2015-09-10 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Thu, 10 Sep 2015, Haines Brown wrote: > > After a Wheezy upgrade to iceweasel 38.2.1esr-1~deb7ui, iceweasel does > not display when started. An iceweasel process starts, but X server > does not pick it up. > > The terminal gives me: > > console.error: > [CustomizableUI] > Custo

Re: Iceweasel 38.2 seems broken

2015-09-10 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Have you tried to kill all iceweasel processes before starting a new one with a command like this one killall iceweasel ? Regards, jvp.

Re: URGENTLY need help on using VPN

2015-09-10 Thread Frédéric Marchal
On Thursday 10 September 2015 15:05:36 Li Wei wrote: > I have got info of remote IP, account name and password > I have installed debian/linux and openvpn > but how to start VPN?? I have no openvpn any more to test it but if I remember well, it would connect by simply running the following comman