Is it possible to have temperature and fan speed readings on modern hardware?

2017-11-27 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
Hello everyone. The goal I trying to accomplish is to have full temperature monitoring and speed control of PWM fans. I have somewhat modern hardware. Here is partial output from "sensors-detect" (lm-sensors package):     $ sudo sensors-detect # sensors-detect revision 6284 (2015-05-31 14:00:33 +0

Bug (?) affecting dramatically laptop battery life introduced in the latest debian testing updates

2017-11-27 Thread Pietro Vischia
Dear All, I apologize in advance if this is not the correct forum: I am following the instructions at https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting.en.html in the case in which the user is not sure of which package is affected. I have a Lenovo T460P, and with stretch I enjoyed a reasonable battery life (

unsure how to track down kernel stack traces in debian 9.2 on vmware ESXi

2017-11-27 Thread Tom Stocker
Hello dear Debian folks We run a Debian 9.2 build server on top of a vmware ESXi install on a quite powerful server (Dell Poweredge R730 with 2x Xeon E5-2683v4 (16 cores per CPU makes 64 vCPUs with HT enabled). Bot installations are fully updated. Also Dell firmwares are up to date. Now I do s

Re: Bug (?) affecting dramatically laptop battery life introduced in the latest debian testing updates

2017-11-27 Thread Anders Andersson
On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 5:19 PM, Pietro Vischia wrote: > I have a Lenovo T460P, and with stretch I enjoyed a reasonable battery > life (~4 hours). At the beginning of November I switched to buster, > and things were still OK. > > Last week I made an upgrade as usual, and since reboot the battery >

Re: Bug (?) affecting dramatically laptop battery life introduced in the latest debian testing updates

2017-11-27 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 11/27/17, Pietro Vischia wrote: > Dear All, > > I apologize in advance if this is not the correct forum: I am > following the instructions at > https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting.en.html in the case in which the > user is not sure of which package is affected. > > I have a Lenovo T460P, and

Re: unsure how to track down kernel stack traces in debian 9.2 on vmware ESXi

2017-11-27 Thread deloptes
Tom Stocker wrote: > Hello dear Debian folks > > We run a Debian 9.2 build server on top of a vmware ESXi install on a > quite powerful server (Dell Poweredge R730 with 2x Xeon E5-2683v4 (16 > cores per CPU makes 64 vCPUs with HT enabled). Bot installations are fully > updated. Also Dell firmware

Re: [rkhunter] coyote.coyote.den - Daily report

2017-11-27 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 27 November 2017 14:35:17 root wrote: Installed new firefox-esr yesterday, from the wheezy repos. Today, rkhunter has a cow: > Warning: The command '/sbin/chkconfig' has been replaced by a script: > /sbin/chkconfig: Perl script, ASCII text executable Warning: The > command '/bin/which'

Re: [rkhunter] coyote.coyote.den - Daily report

2017-11-27 Thread Brian
On Mon 27 Nov 2017 at 15:46:55 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Monday 27 November 2017 14:35:17 root wrote: > > Installed new firefox-esr yesterday, from the wheezy repos. Today, > rkhunter has a cow: [rkhunter nonsense snipped] > How should I restore? Restore what? -- Brian.

Re: Cannot copy files from usb source

2017-11-27 Thread Pétùr
Le 20/10/2017 à 10:47, Pétùr a écrit : > Le 20/10/2017 à 03:32, Tom Furie a écrit : >>> I cannot copy files from my laptop (with SSD formated in ext4) to my >>> external HDD (formated also in ext4). I have an input/outpur error. The >>> I can do the opposite, i.e. transfert files from my laptop to

Re: [rkhunter] coyote.coyote.den - Daily report

2017-11-27 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 27 November 2017 15:57:34 Brian wrote: > On Mon 27 Nov 2017 at 15:46:55 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Monday 27 November 2017 14:35:17 root wrote: > > > > Installed new firefox-esr yesterday, from the wheezy repos. Today, > > rkhunter has a cow: > > [rkhunter nonsense snipped] > > >

Can somebody explain the benefits of .d directories

2017-11-27 Thread Hans-Peter
Hi everyone, I am a tech writer, as part of my job I also have to maintain a number of servers, various UNIX systems. Yes, I am a dev as well I have used Debian since 2001 and I do not want to be understood as some UNIX nerd or fanatic. I have an honest question which is dead-simple: W

Re: [rkhunter] coyote.coyote.den - Daily report

2017-11-27 Thread deloptes
Gene Heskett wrote: > Warning: The following suspicious shared >> memory segments have been found: Process: >> /usr/lib/firefox-esr/firefox-esr    PID: 16994    Owner: gene Process: >> /usr/lib/firefox-esr/firefox-esr    PID: 16994    Owner: gene Warning: do you have this same today? the message

Re: [rkhunter] coyote.coyote.den - Daily report

2017-11-27 Thread Brian
On Mon 27 Nov 2017 at 16:56:15 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Monday 27 November 2017 15:57:34 Brian wrote: > > > On Mon 27 Nov 2017 at 15:46:55 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > On Monday 27 November 2017 14:35:17 root wrote: > > > > > > Installed new firefox-esr yesterday, from the wheezy repos

Re: Can somebody explain the benefits of .d directories

2017-11-27 Thread Nicolas George
Hans-Peter (2017-11-27): > I have an honest question which is dead-simple: Why do we have ".d" > directories To allow packages to provide configuration snippets. Packages work at the file level, they provide sets of files. When a package needs to provide a configuration snippet, for example when

Re: Can somebody explain the benefits of .d directories

2017-11-27 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 05:09:49PM -0500, Hans-Peter wrote: >I have an honest question which is dead-simple: Why do we have ".d" >directories, such as "sources.d" or "grub.d", note that with grub, the >defaults are in another directory tree - this is simply beyond insane. >(Sorry to

Re: Can somebody explain the benefits of .d directories

2017-11-27 Thread Ben Finney
Hans-Peter writes: > I have an honest question which is dead-simple: Why do we have ".d" > directories, such as "sources.d" or "grub.d", note that with grub, the > defaults are in another directory tree - this is simply beyond insane. Your question there seems less than an honest enquiry – askin

Re: [rkhunter] coyote.coyote.den - Daily report

2017-11-27 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 27 November 2017 17:32:44 deloptes wrote: > Gene Heskett wrote: > > Warning: The following suspicious shared > > > >> memory segments have been found: Process: > >> /usr/lib/firefox-esr/firefox-esr    PID: 16994    Owner: gene > >> Process: /usr/lib/firefox-esr/firefox-esr    PID: 16994

Re: [rkhunter] coyote.coyote.den - Daily report

2017-11-27 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 27 November 2017 17:39:45 Brian wrote: > On Mon 27 Nov 2017 at 16:56:15 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Monday 27 November 2017 15:57:34 Brian wrote: > > > On Mon 27 Nov 2017 at 15:46:55 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > On Monday 27 November 2017 14:35:17 root wrote: > > > > > > > >

Re: software to do drawings of houses, gardens, etc.

2017-11-27 Thread Erik Christiansen
On 23.11.17 21:35, Doug wrote: > > On 11/23/2017 05:06 PM, Emanuel Berg wrote: > > Joe wrote: > > > > > What you won't be given is a dialog box with > > > X and Y size and coordinates, and invited to > > > edit them, it doesn't work that way. > > > That's how an object-oriented drawing program >

Re: Can somebody explain the benefits of .d directories

2017-11-27 Thread Michael Milliman
On 11/27/2017 04:31 PM, Nicolas George wrote: Hans-Peter (2017-11-27): I have an honest question which is dead-simple: Why do we have ".d" directories To allow packages to provide configuration snippets. Packages work at the file level, they provide sets of files. When a package needs to prov

Re: [rkhunter] coyote.coyote.den - Daily report

2017-11-27 Thread deloptes
Gene Heskett wrote: > [21:15:19]          Process: /usr/lib/firefox-esr/firefox-esr    PID: > 16994    Owner: gene > [21:15:19]          Process: /usr/lib/firefox-esr/firefox-esr    PID: > 16994    Owner: gene the only reason for using esr is flash - do you have it enabled active or running - mig

Re: software to do drawings of houses, gardens, etc.

2017-11-27 Thread Eric S Fraga
On Tuesday, 28 Nov 2017 at 15:37, Erik Christiansen wrote: > After trying to get various GUI drawing packages to function at the most > basic level, and failing to produce anything, I'm just finishing the 8 > drawings for my new house build (floor plan, elevations, sections, and > site plan), using