Re: Debian as My home firewall/router

2016-02-28 Thread David Christensen
On 02/27/2016 01:29 PM, Reco wrote: On Sat, 27 Feb 2016 12:54:52 -0800 David Christensen wrote: On 02/27/2016 10:40 AM, Reco wrote: On Sat, 27 Feb 2016 09:41:47 -0800 David Christensen wrote: 3. What is your opinion of pfSense? https://pfsense.org/ I'm by no means an expert on

Re: Windows Shares Abound Continuously

2016-02-28 Thread Martin Smith
On 28/02/2016 01:21, Steve Matzura wrote: Just when I thought it was safe to let my Debian 8.2 system alone for a few days, I started getting emails from users of the service I provide which uses that system that they could not access any content on the shared-mounted drives on one of my Windows

Re: user History File.

2016-02-28 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
Thanks Alot for your input Tomas. I don't know exactly what your problem is, but take into account that bash > only appends its (in-memory) history to .bash_history at exit (so while > the shell is active you won't see any changes) Actually i never worked on multi user environment. this is the f

Re: XFS on root

2016-02-28 Thread Saša Janiška
David Christensen writes: > Been there, done that, and lost data. If you can't afford 2 @ 2 TB > disks right now, get a replacement 1 TB disk until you can. Thanks for sharing...well, I'll use 2TB disk in the btrfs mirror with old 1TB disk and the remaining space use for partion along with rsync

lxde/openbox temp. deactivate touchpad?

2016-02-28 Thread BerndSchmittNews
Hello, under debian7 I was using gpoint to temporarily deactivate touchpad. My acer laptop drives me crazy, after a while the pointer is running wild. I hoped that this would not happen in debian8, but maybe it is a hardware failure, so I have to live/deal with it. thanks Bernd

Re: user History File.

2016-02-28 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 01:52:25PM +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > Thanks Alot for your input Tomas. > > I don't know exactly what your problem is, but take into account that bash > > only appends its (in-memory) history to .bash_history at exit

Re: lxde/openbox temp. deactivate touchpad?

2016-02-28 Thread Haines Brown
On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 11:56:53AM +0100, BerndSchmittNews wrote: > Hello, > under debian7 I was using gpoint to temporarily deactivate touchpad. > My acer laptop drives me crazy, after a while the pointer is running wild. > I hoped that this would not happen in debian8, but maybe it is a hardw

Re: lxde/openbox temp. deactivate touchpad?

2016-02-28 Thread Adam Wilson
On Sun, 28 Feb 2016 07:42:13 -0500 Haines Brown wrote: > On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 11:56:53AM +0100, BerndSchmittNews wrote: > > Hello, > > under debian7 I was using gpoint to temporarily deactivate > > touchpad. My acer laptop drives me crazy, after a while the pointer > > is running wild. I h

Re: lxde/openbox temp. deactivate touchpad?

2016-02-28 Thread Haines Brown
On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 03:51:11PM +0300, Adam Wilson wrote: > On Sun, 28 Feb 2016 07:42:13 -0500 Haines Brown > wrote: > > > On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 11:56:53AM +0100, BerndSchmittNews wrote: > > > Hello, > > > under debian7 I was using gpoint to temporarily deactivate > > > touchpad. My acer

Re: lxde/openbox temp. deactivate touchpad?

2016-02-28 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 03:51:11PM +0300, Adam Wilson wrote: > On Sun, 28 Feb 2016 07:42:13 -0500 Haines Brown > wrote: > > > On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 11:56:53AM +0100, BerndSchmittNews wrote: > > > Hello, > > > under debian7 I was using gpoint to

Re: lxde/openbox temp. deactivate touchpad?

2016-02-28 Thread lostson
On 02/28/2016 04:56 AM, BerndSchmittNews wrote: Hello, under debian7 I was using gpoint to temporarily deactivate touchpad. My acer laptop drives me crazy, after a while the pointer is running wild. I hoped that this would not happen in debian8, but maybe it is a hardware failure, so I have

Re: XFS on root

2016-02-28 Thread Adam Wilson
On Sat, 27 Feb 2016 23:56:59 +0100 Saša Janiška wrote: > Adam Wilson writes: > > > My solution to this (because XFS is my favourite filesystem next to > > ReiserFS) has been to use ext2 for /boot and XFS for / and /home. I > > can confirm this configuration works tickety-boo- I use it on my > >

Re: lxde/openbox temp. deactivate touchpad?

2016-02-28 Thread Adam Wilson
On Sun, 28 Feb 2016 08:11:12 -0500 Haines Brown wrote: > On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 03:51:11PM +0300, Adam Wilson wrote: > > On Sun, 28 Feb 2016 07:42:13 -0500 Haines Brown > > wrote: > > > > > On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 11:56:53AM +0100, BerndSchmittNews wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > under debian7 I

Re: XFS on root

2016-02-28 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 05:34:18PM +0300, Adam Wilson wrote: > On Sat, 27 Feb 2016 23:56:59 +0100 Saša Janiška > wrote: > > > Adam Wilson writes: > > > > > My solution to this (because XFS is my favourite filesystem next to > > > ReiserFS) has been

Re: user History File.

2016-02-28 Thread Dan Ritter
On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 01:52:25PM +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > Thanks Alot for your input Tomas. > > I don't know exactly what your problem is, but take into account that bash > > only appends its (in-memory) history to .bash_history at exit (so while > > the shell is active you won't see

Re: Problem with TP-Link network card

2016-02-28 Thread Daniel Bareiro
Hi, Dan. On 17/01/16 18:33, Dan Ritter wrote: >> That is, it seems that the communication notebook <---> router works >> well regardless of the type of negotiation on the notebook side. >> >> But when I reconnect the firewall to the router, I lose again the link, >> regardless of whether on the f

Re: lxde/openbox temp. deactivate touchpad?

2016-02-28 Thread Charlie Kravetz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 28 Feb 2016 17:42:11 +0300 Adam Wilson wrote: >On Sun, 28 Feb 2016 08:11:12 -0500 Haines Brown >wrote: > >> On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 03:51:11PM +0300, Adam Wilson wrote: >> > On Sun, 28 Feb 2016 07:42:13 -0500 Haines Brown >> > wrote: >> >

Re: lxde/openbox temp. deactivate touchpad?

2016-02-28 Thread Haines Brown
On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 08:27:34AM -0700, Charlie Kravetz wrote: > Removing synaptic touchpad manager does not remove a package manager. > What used to be called synaptics-touchpad is now called > xserver-xorg-input-synaptics, which is Synaptics Touchpad driver. Thanks for the correction. I must

Re: XFS on root

2016-02-28 Thread Saša Janiška
Adam Wilson writes: > Let me get this straight- /boot on XFS, with GRUB, working flawlessly? No, but root under btrfs without extra /boot works. Here is my simplified /etc/fstab: # / was on /dev/sda3 during installation /dev/sda3 / btrfs noatime,autodefrag,compress-force=lzo,subvo

Re: lxde/openbox temp. deactivate touchpad?

2016-02-28 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 28 February 2016 08:04:01 lostson wrote: > On 02/28/2016 04:56 AM, BerndSchmittNews wrote: > > Hello, > > under debian7 I was using gpoint to temporarily deactivate > > touchpad. My acer laptop drives me crazy, after a while the pointer > > is running wild. I hoped that this would no

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Re: lxde/openbox temp. deactivate touchpad?

2016-02-28 Thread Joel Roth
A "hardware" solution is to make a cardboard cover for the touchpad. BerndSchmittNews wrote: > Hello, > under debian7 I was using gpoint to temporarily deactivate touchpad. > My acer laptop drives me crazy, after a while the pointer is running wild. > I hoped that this would not happen in debi

Re: lxde/openbox temp. deactivate touchpad? solved

2016-02-28 Thread BerndSchmittNews
Thanks to everyone who responded. I got all the information I needed to solve my problem. Am 28.02.2016 um 11:56 schrieb BerndSchmittNews: under debian7 I was using gpoint to temporarily deactivate touchpad. synclient TouchpadOff=1 synclient TouchpadOff=0 are doing the job. My acer lap

Re: lxde/openbox temp. deactivate touchpad?

2016-02-28 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 28 February 2016 08:11:12 Haines Brown wrote: > On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 03:51:11PM +0300, Adam Wilson wrote: > > On Sun, 28 Feb 2016 07:42:13 -0500 Haines Brown > > > > > > wrote: > > > On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 11:56:53AM +0100, BerndSchmittNews wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > under debian

Re: lxde/openbox temp. deactivate touchpad?

2016-02-28 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 28 February 2016 10:27:34 Charlie Kravetz wrote: > On Sun, 28 Feb 2016 17:42:11 +0300 > > Adam Wilson wrote: > >On Sun, 28 Feb 2016 08:11:12 -0500 Haines Brown > > > >wrote: > >> On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 03:51:11PM +0300, Adam Wilson wrote: > >> > On Sun, 28 Feb 2016 07:42:13 -0500 Hain

Re: lxde/openbox temp. deactivate touchpad?

2016-02-28 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 28 February 2016 12:31:46 Joel Roth wrote: > A "hardware" solution is to make a cardboard cover for the > touchpad. > In the Ripley's Believe it or Not category, that was tried, and the &%$# thing could still see a thumb resting on it. Thru a piece of cereal box taped over it. > Bernd

Re: user History File.

2016-02-28 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On 29/02/2016 2:19 AM, Dan Ritter wrote: > There is the ttysnoop package, but I strongly advise consulting > with a knowledgeable local lawyer before using it. If your laws > protect privacy at all, using it on a user without their > explicit consent is likely to be a crime. # aptitude show tty

Re: XFS on root

2016-02-28 Thread mj
On 02/28/2016 03:34 PM, Adam Wilson wrote: Let me get this straight- /boot on XFS, with GRUB, working flawlessly? I think we have been running root xfs, without a seperate boot partition for ages. This has been working at least since wheezy, but I guess even earlier. Just try it.

Re: lxde/openbox temp. deactivate touchpad?

2016-02-28 Thread David Wright
On Sun 28 Feb 2016 at 11:37:05 (-0500), Gene Heskett wrote: > On Sunday 28 February 2016 08:04:01 lostson wrote: > > On 02/28/2016 04:56 AM, BerndSchmittNews wrote: > > > Hello, > > > under debian7 I was using gpoint to temporarily deactivate > > > touchpad. My acer laptop drives me crazy, afte

Re: Debian as My home firewall/router

2016-02-28 Thread Stuart Longland
On 28/02/16 18:10, David Christensen wrote: > 1. The pfSense installer wanted to use the whole disk. The only way I > could get it to use only part of the disk was to create a slice for > pfSense and create another slice that ate up all remaining free space. > Then every time I booted, the boot l

Re: lxde/openbox temp. deactivate touchpad?

2016-02-28 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Sun, 2016-02-28 at 11:56 +0100, BerndSchmittNews wrote: > Hello, > under debian7 I was using gpoint to temporarily deactivate > touchpad. > My acer laptop drives me crazy, after a while the pointer is running > wild. > I hoped that this would not happen in debian8, but maybe it is a > hardwa

Re: lxde/openbox temp. deactivate touchpad?

2016-02-28 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
By the way, the touchpad package name ends in "synaptics" while the packet manager name lacks the trailing "s". A good starter for configuration is the file /usr/share/doc/xserver-xorg-input-synaptics/README.Debian (as for many packages is /usr/share/doc//README.Debian) On the web it is documen

Re: user History File.

2016-02-28 Thread Dan Ritter
On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 05:48:42AM +1100, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > > > > What is the difference between these two tools, they /seem/ to do the same? > I haven't used or researched conspy, but it looks like the mechanism there might be specific to the virtual console system, rather than ttysno

how to autologin with systemd?

2016-02-28 Thread Gregor Zattler
Dear debian users, I configured systemd according to https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/automatic_login_to_virtual_console#Virtual_console in order to automatically log me in at system startup. This worked fine till a few weeks ago: /etc/systemd/system/getty@tty1.service.d/override.conf: [Se

Re: lxde/openbox temp. deactivate touchpad?

2016-02-28 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 28 February 2016 16:24:12 David Wright wrote: > On Sun 28 Feb 2016 at 11:37:05 (-0500), Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Sunday 28 February 2016 08:04:01 lostson wrote: > > > On 02/28/2016 04:56 AM, BerndSchmittNews wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > under debian7 I was using gpoint to temporar

Re: Windows Shares Abound Continuously

2016-02-28 Thread Steve Matzura
Martin: On Sun, 28 Feb 2016 08:44:07 +, you wrote: >Ever since Windows 3.11 its networking has been just awful and prone to >malfunction without notice, they originally lifted the network stack from >FreeBSD but managed to completely screw it, and it is still awful now, both >in sharing and e

Re: how to autologin with systemd?

2016-02-28 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 28.02.2016 um 23:38 schrieb Gregor Zattler: > Dear debian users, I configured systemd according to > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/automatic_login_to_virtual_console#Virtual_console > in order to automatically log me in at system startup. This > worked fine till a few weeks ago: > > >

Re: how to autologin with systemd?

2016-02-28 Thread Austin Adams
On Sun, 2016-02-28 at 23:38 +0100, Gregor Zattler wrote: > /etc/systemd/system/getty@tty1.service.d/override.conf: > > [Service] > ExecStart=-/sbin/agetty -a my-user-name --noclear %I $TERM > Type=idle Like the ArchWiki page you linked suggests, you'll need to add an empty ExecStart= line into `o

Re: how to autologin with systemd?

2016-02-28 Thread Lotek
On 02/28/2016 02:38 PM, Gregor Zattler wrote: Dear debian users, I configured systemd according to https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/automatic_login_to_virtual_console#Virtual_console in order to automatically log me in at system startup. This worked fine till a few weeks ago: /etc/systemd

ZFS on Debian GNU/Linux

2016-02-28 Thread David Christensen
On 02/28/2016 02:40 AM, Saša Janiška wrote: > I'd like to use zfs, but, it's still lacks proper distro support to > fiddle with it. I believe the crux issue is incompatible licenses between Linux (GPL) and OpenZFS (CDDL): http://open-zfs.org/wiki/FAQ#Licensing I believe some Linux distri

Re: Debian as My home firewall/router

2016-02-28 Thread David Christensen
On 02/28/2016 01:35 PM, Stuart Longland wrote: On 28/02/16 18:10, David Christensen wrote: 1. The pfSense installer wanted to use the whole disk. The only way I could get it to use only part of the disk was to create a slice for pfSense and create another slice that ate up all remaining free s