On 8/6/19 10:29 PM, Steven Mainor wrote:
Hi all,
I'm looking for advice on how to build a home server with a primary focus on
security.
Have you considered OpenBSD? Security is their top priority.
I plan to run nextcloud and a mail server that will serve 3 to 5
people at most.
Have you
On Mi, 07 aug 19, 10:21:25, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
>
> Disregarding OSHW I agree that above options are good highlights.
> Additionally I suggest Olimex A64-Olinuxino and ESPRESSObin, both
> (unlike above options) known to be mainlined and work with Debian
> Buster.
The Rock64Pro (possibly wi
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Hi,
On 8/8/19 2:27 pm, Shahryar Afifi wrote:
> Very well said. If debian free is not using amd64 microcode, so
> what kernel module runs my cpu as 64bit?
Here's part of the problem.
The CPU has it's own microcode, when you buy it; the motherbo
On Thu, Aug 08, 2019 at 08:50:05AM +0200, john doe wrote:
[...]
> None-free is a repository that you enable if you need to, it is not the
> default in Debian if I am not mistaking.
This is correct, and I, for one am glad Debian has kept up to pressure
to changing it ("but... but... Ubuntu can do
Yesterday I installed my new graphics card but when I rebooted the system
stopped just before the lightdm login box, and just stayed with a cursor
blinking at the top left of the screen. I'm assuming that I need new drivers
for it, so my question is -
What do I need to install to get a - Nvidia
On 2019-08-05, Dennis Wicks wrote:
>
>
> So anyway, I typed in "sudo mount /dev/sdb2 /wa1" and it
> seemed to finish successfully, but "ls /wa1" indicated that
> in fact it had not. Nothing mounted on wa1! Many other tests
> told me the same thing. "umount /wa1" said "not mounted"!
Would this
On 2019-08-08, Curt wrote:
> On 2019-08-05, Dennis Wicks wrote:
>>
>>
>> So anyway, I typed in "sudo mount /dev/sdb2 /wa1" and it
>> seemed to finish successfully, but "ls /wa1" indicated that
>> in fact it had not. Nothing mounted on wa1! Many other tests
>> told me the same thing. "umount /w
deloptes (12019-08-08):
> Well strictly speaking two different things are referred as server:
I have observed that contributors on this mailing-list have a tendency
to fall in two categories:
- those who try to understand what the original poster says in order to
reply in the most helpful mann
Thank you Joe.
Le 07/08/2019 à 19:45, Joe a écrit :
On Wed, 7 Aug 2019 18:37:05 +0200
rudu wrote:
Thank you Dan for your input.
Le 07/08/2019 à 17:28, Dan Purgert a écrit :
rudu wrote:
Hi all,
Until recently my machines running debian testing used to send me
e-mails as reports from cron t
Hello,
I just updated a jessie system to buster. Kudos to the packagers of
lxc, the upgrade script worked and the containers work like a charm.
However, I have an issue with some lxc munin plugins I use. Namely
they don't show anything.
It reduces to the following problem:
lxc-cgroup -n 11 c
On 2019-08-08 09:06 +0100, Sharon Kimble wrote:
> Yesterday I installed my new graphics card but when I rebooted the
> system stopped just before the lightdm login box, and just stayed with
> a cursor blinking at the top left of the screen. I'm assuming that I
> need new drivers for it, so my ques
Hi.
On Thu, Aug 08, 2019 at 11:01:15AM +0200, Marc SCHAEFER wrote:
> I found this reported here: https://github.com/lxc/lxc/issues/2742
> and here: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=929926
> however, this is supposedly fixed in 1:3.1.0+really3.0.3-8 which
> is what is insta
On Thu, Aug 08, 2019 at 12:23:15PM +0300, Reco wrote:
> lxc-cgroup -n 11 -o /dev/stdout -l INFO cpuacct.stat
> And you'll probably have to apply some amount of sed to the output.
> Try it, you'll see what I'm talking about.
Oh, yes. Should I have read the manpage more closely (for me
a log file is
Hi,
Curt wrote:
> Did you show your /etc/fstab file (cut and paste)? If so, I must've missed
> it.
See https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2019/08/msg00295.html
where the attachments are kindly attached to the body text.
Results from "mount" without arguments or the contents of /etc/mtab
and /p
On Thu, Aug 8, 2019, 4:50 AM Nicolas George wrote:
> deloptes (12019-08-08):
> > Well strictly speaking two different things are referred as server:
>
>
> I have observed that contributors on this mailing-list have a tendency
> to fall in two categories:
>
> - those who try to understand what th
Hi.
On Thu, Aug 08, 2019 at 11:48:03AM +0200, Marc SCHAEFER wrote:
> Additional questions: should I contact the Debian maintainer of munin
> plugins, or the upstream, to contribute my lxc scripts (actually
> they are not mine, I modified them, found them on a mailing-list
> originally, I w
Shahryar Afifi writes:
> Very well said. If debian free is not using amd64 microcode, so what
> kernel module runs my cpu as 64bit?
That microcode package contains bug fixes and updates for the microcode
that the manufacturer shipped the cpu with. The cpu will run without it
but the spyware code
On Wednesday, August 07, 2019 11:03:46 PM John Hasler wrote:
> Joe Pfeiffer writes:
> > The LICENCE.amd-ucode file
> >
> > includes the paragraph:
> >You may not reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble this
> >Software or any portion thereof.
>
> Quite unenforceable, of course.
When
tomas writes:
> This is one of those cases: if you're using a piece of non-free
> software, you should know about it, and you should know which buy
> decision led to it (so you can take that into account at your next buy
> decision).
There is also a practical reason to keep non-free for the benefi
Quoting Kenneth Parker (2019-08-08 12:39:35)
> On Thu, Aug 8, 2019, 4:50 AM Nicolas George wrote:
>
> > deloptes (12019-08-08):
> > > Well strictly speaking two different things are referred as
> > > server:
> >
> >
> > I have observed that contributors on this mailing-list have a
> > tendency
On Thursday, August 08, 2019 04:50:31 AM Nicolas George wrote:
> deloptes (12019-08-08):
> > Well strictly speaking two different things are referred as server:
>
>
> I have observed that contributors on this mailing-list have a tendency
> to fall in two categories:
>
> - those who try to unders
On Thu, 8 Aug 2019 07:51:00 -0400
rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello rhkra...@gmail.com,
> * that statement / requirment is illegal (or not supported by (US?)
> law)
A brief internet search resulted in me reading an article stating that,
in the USA at least, the EULA supersedes the user's legal a
On 2019-08-08, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The central riddle is how mount(8) can fail to make the filesystem
> available without visibly reporting an error.
Nothing to do with these swaps spaces (I took a gander at the /etc/fstab)?
/wa1/Swap5 ...
/wa2/Swap6 ...
"I can mou
On Thu, Aug 08, 2019 at 11:52:41AM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
The central riddle is how mount(8) can fail to make the filesystem
available without visibly reporting an error.
A question about "mount -v" and its exit value is pending.
Maybe one should also look at dmesg output after such a silen
On 2019-08-08, Brad Rogers wrote:
>
> So, when a person agrees to the terms of the EULA, they waive their
> legal right to reverse engineer. If you wish to NOT waive your rights,
> then you don't accept the EULA. Of course you then won't be able to
> install, never mind use, the software. Catch
On 2019-08-08, Michael Stone wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 08, 2019 at 11:52:41AM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
>>The central riddle is how mount(8) can fail to make the filesystem
>>available without visibly reporting an error.
>>A question about "mount -v" and its exit value is pending.
>>Maybe one should
Joe Pfeiffer wrote:
> You may not reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble this
> Software or any portion thereof.
deloptes writes:
> The irony here is that AMD started by reverse engineering Intel.
Legally. Reverse-engineering is not illegal in the USA.
> And unfortunately the US has been p
Steven Mainor wrote:
> I'm looking for advice on how to build a home server with a primary
> focus on security. I plan to run nextcloud and a mail server that
> will serve 3 to 5 people at most.
David Christensen writes:
> Have you considered a mail hosting provider? The Internet is a war
> zon
On Thu, Aug 08, 2019 at 06:06:24AM -0700, Shahryar Afifi wrote:
> On Thu, 2019-08-08 at 17:37 +1000, Andrew McGlashan wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On 8/8/19 2:27 pm, Shahryar Afifi wrote:
> > > Very well said. If debian free is not using amd64 microcode, so
> > > what kernel module runs my cpu as 64bit?
On Wed 07 Aug 2019 at 21:27:34 (-0700), Shahryar Afifi wrote:
> On Wed, 2019-08-07 at 23:11 -0500, David Wright wrote:
> > On Wed 07 Aug 2019 at 17:33:52 (-0700), Shahryar Afifi wrote:
> > > With respect to all the contributors, developers, hobbyist and
> > > users,
> > > who made GNU/Linux and Deb
On 2019-08-08 at 09:06, Shahryar Afifi wrote:
> On Thu, 2019-08-08 at 17:37 +1000, Andrew McGlashan wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 8/8/19 2:27 pm, Shahryar Afifi wrote:
>>
>>> Very well said. If debian free is not using amd64 microcode, so
>>> what kernel module runs my cpu as 64bit?
>>
>> Here's p
On Thu, Aug 08, 2019 at 09:20:29AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote:
I'm not familiar with that particular product, but the BIOS isn't the
CPU firmware, although it may implicitly contain and apply files which
update the CPU firmware; the BIOS is the motherboard firmware, which is
a different kettle of
John Hasler writes:
> Joe Pfeiffer writes:
>> The LICENCE.amd-ucode file
>> includes the paragraph:
>
>>You may not reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble this
>>Software or any portion thereof.
>
> Quite unenforceable, of course.
When discussing questions like "how free is this sof
On Wed, 7 Aug 2019 23:59:44 -0700
David Christensen wrote:
...
> Get at least four internal SATA 6 Gbps ports -- boot disk, optical disk,
> two data disks (mirrored). I prefer six.
Do most people running servers really want / need an optical disk? As
long as the machine can boot via USB, is a
On Thu, 08 Aug 2019 06:22:41 -0500
John Hasler wrote:
> Shahryar Afifi writes:
> > Very well said. If debian free is not using amd64 microcode, so what
> > kernel module runs my cpu as 64bit?
>
> That microcode package contains bug fixes and updates for the microcode
> that the manufacturer shi
On Thu 08 Aug 2019 at 08:19:22 (-), Curt wrote:
> On 2019-08-05, Dennis Wicks wrote:
> > So anyway, I typed in "sudo mount /dev/sdb2 /wa1" and it
> > seemed to finish successfully, but "ls /wa1" indicated that
> > in fact it had not. Nothing mounted on wa1! Many other tests
> > told me the
Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> Quoting Kenneth Parker (2019-08-08 12:39:35)
> > On Thu, Aug 8, 2019, 4:50 AM Nicolas George wrote:
> >
> > > deloptes (12019-08-08):
> > > > Well strictly speaking two different things are referred as
> > > > server:
> > >
> > >
> > > I have observed that contributor
Celejar wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Aug 2019 23:59:44 -0700
> David Christensen wrote:
>
> ...
>
> > Get at least four internal SATA 6 Gbps ports -- boot disk, optical disk,
> > two data disks (mirrored). I prefer six.
>
> Do most people running servers really want / need an optical disk? As
> long a
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On 8/8/19 11:06 pm, Shahryar Afifi wrote:
> Thank you for this acknowledgment. Currently I have X61 with
> Middleton BIOS that claims to be free. Is that also not the case?
You can have a free BIOS, "Core boot, or similar?" ... but the CPU
itself
Quoting Dan Ritter (2019-08-08 16:19:37)
> Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> > Question was not "please advice on buying what you consider a
> > server" but "please advice on buying what original poster considers
> > a server".
>
> A bit of elucidation was in order, since to many people "server
> hard
Quoting Dan Ritter (2019-08-08 16:22:07)
> Celejar wrote:
> > On Wed, 7 Aug 2019 23:59:44 -0700
> > David Christensen wrote:
> >
> > ...
> >
> > > Get at least four internal SATA 6 Gbps ports -- boot disk, optical
> > > disk, two data disks (mirrored). I prefer six.
> >
> > Do most people ru
On Thu, Aug 08, 2019 at 09:04:00AM -0500, David Wright wrote:
wren 08:50:11 ~# lsblk -f | grep sda7
├─sda7 ext4swan07 4a4e352f-2180-4083-92b4-f46e4e0104b4
/wrenbk
wren 08:50:26 ~# mkdir /wa1 /somethingelse
wren 08:50:49 ~# mount /dev/sda7 /somethingelse
mount: /dev/sda7 is alr
Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> Indeed.
>
> Reading the whole initial post (not only first half) is good too ;-)
But please, I tried to make the statement more precise, cause the first half
contradicts the second. Of course you could use any hardware that runs
linux as a server, but putting those dema
Hi.
On Thu, Aug 08, 2019 at 04:54:17PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> > > > Then Intel stopped making desktop boards and I wanted ZFS. ZFS
> > > > wants ECC memory. It was time to migrate to server hardware.
> > >
> > > My understanding is that ZFS's need / desire for ECC is something
Quoting deloptes (2019-08-08 17:13:03)
> Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> > Reading the whole initial post (not only first half) is good too ;-)
>
> But please, I tried to make the statement more precise, cause the
> first half contradicts the second. Of course you could use any
> hardware that runs li
Quoting Reco (2019-08-08 17:25:02)
> Hi.
>
> On Thu, Aug 08, 2019 at 04:54:17PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> > > > > Then Intel stopped making desktop boards and I wanted ZFS. ZFS
> > > > > wants ECC memory. It was time to migrate to server hardware.
> > > >
> > > > My understanding
I am trying to fit all the pieces together in a project I
need to do which is to capture VGA video text screens and turn
them in to ASCII text via OCR.
The OCR program is meant for people to feed in video from
a camera or flat-bed scanner which will process the images and
decode te
On Thu 08 Aug 2019 at 10:56:46 (-0400), Michael Stone wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 08, 2019 at 09:04:00AM -0500, David Wright wrote:
> > wren 08:50:11 ~# lsblk -f | grep sda7
> > ├─sda7 ext4swan07 4a4e352f-2180-4083-92b4-f46e4e0104b4
> > /wrenbk
> > wren 08:50:26 ~# mkdir /wa1 /somethin
On Thu, Aug 08, 2019 at 12:09:11PM -0500, David Wright wrote:
> But the 2-1 vote wasn't whether error messages were emitted, but
> whether the system should mount an already-mounted partition onto
> another mount point. I get error messages and the mount fails.
> Others get no error messages (thoug
Raspbian sets its system clock on power up.
Is it possible to manually make a 24/7 Raspbian set its clock
periodically?
Thanks,
John
--
John Conover, cono...@rahul.net, http://www.johncon.com/
On Thu, Aug 08, 2019 at 12:09:11PM -0500, David Wright wrote:
On Thu 08 Aug 2019 at 10:56:46 (-0400), Michael Stone wrote:
On Thu, Aug 08, 2019 at 09:04:00AM -0500, David Wright wrote:
> wren 08:50:11 ~# lsblk -f | grep sda7
> ├─sda7 ext4swan07 4a4e352f-2180-4083-92b4-f46e4e01
On Thursday 08 August 2019 13:46:00 John Conover wrote:
> Raspbian sets its system clock on power up.
>
> Is it possible to manually make a 24/7 Raspbian set its clock
> periodically?
>
> Thanks,
>
> John
It can run ntp just fine.
Cheers, Gene Heskett
--
"There are four boxes to be use
On 2019-08-08 14:18 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Thursday 08 August 2019 13:46:00 John Conover wrote:
>
>> Raspbian sets its system clock on power up.
>>
>> Is it possible to manually make a 24/7 Raspbian set its clock
>> periodically?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> John
>
> It can run ntp just fi
Martin McCormick wrote:
> The video capture device is an Epifan AVIO-HD video
> digitizer and one of it's modes is VGA conversion with all video
> sent in the .uvc or webcam format.
>
> The part I don't know yet is what needs to happen to
> convert .uvc in to something that looks li
Thanks Sven.
timedatectl(1) yields:
Local time: Thu 2019-08-08 12:16:51 PDT
Universal time: Thu 2019-08-08 19:16:51 UTC
RTC time: n/a
Time zone: America/Los_Angeles (PDT, -0700)
Network time on: yes
NTP synchronized: yes
RTC in local TZ: no
On Thu, Aug 08, 2019 at 12:28:32PM -0700, John Conover wrote:
> timedatectl(1) yields:
>
> Local time: Thu 2019-08-08 12:16:51 PDT
> Universal time: Thu 2019-08-08 19:16:51 UTC
> RTC time: n/a
>Time zone: America/Los_Angeles (PDT, -0700)
> Network time
My experience with Linux forums over the years is that more effort is spent
trying to find reasons to call people asking questions lazy and stupid (or
dissing Windows/Windows users when the OP never even mentioned either) than
actually helping them.
So far this mailing list is below average on tha
Sven Joachim writes:
> Or systemd-timesyncd, which is shipped with systemd since version 213
> and enabled by default in Debian since version 219-1.
>
> Cheers,
>Sven
>
>
I have a Raspberry Pi 2 which was running jessie in 2016
and then I upgraded to stretch in 2018. The Pi run
On 2019-08-08, Dan Ritter wrote:
>>
>> I think you are missing the point: When someone asks a question on this
>> list, then that someone gets to decide what the question is.
>
> Sure. But they also bear the burden of communicating precisely
> what it is that they are asking for, and accepting
Dan Ritter writes:
> UVC means USB Video Class. The Video For Linux 2 driver system
> should recognize it as a V4L2 device.
>
> fswebcam is a package that captures images from V4L2 devices.
> It's command-line driven and has a few useful features like
> resizing, averaging multiple frames, and sk
So is the general consensus that there are no modern SBCs powerful enough to
run nextcloud on (apache, mariadb, php) or a mail server (typical postfix,
dovecot, opendkim, SpamAssassin etc... ) for a handful of people? That seems
hard to believe.
--
Steven Mainor
On August 8, 2019 12:14:23 PM
Brad writes:
> A brief internet search resulted in me reading an article stating
> that, in the USA at least, the EULA supersedes the user's legal
> allowance for reverse engineering (case cited in the article) the
> software.
> So, when a person agrees to the terms of the EULA, they waive their
>
Shahryar Afifi wrote:
> Currently I have X61 with Middleton BIOS that claims to be free. Is
> that also not the case?
We are talking about the microcode that is stored inside the cpu, not
the BIOS which is x86 code stored in NVRAM on the motherboard. In Intel
64 bit cpus this currently includes a
Steven Mainor wrote:
> So is the general consensus that there are no modern SBCs powerful enough to
> run nextcloud on (apache, mariadb, php) or a mail server (typical postfix,
> dovecot, opendkim, SpamAssassin etc... ) for a handful of people? That seems
> hard to believe.
>
I would certain
On Thu, Aug 08, 2019 at 04:49:06PM -0400, Steven Mainor wrote:
So is the general consensus that there are no modern SBCs powerful enough to
run nextcloud on (apache, mariadb, php) or a mail server (typical postfix,
dovecot, opendkim, SpamAssassin etc... ) for a handful of people? That seems
hard
On Wed, 7 Aug 2019 at 08:47, deloptes wrote:
>
> Read https://dslrdashboard.info/introduction/
> Install dependencies.
>
> The application is written in C++ using the Qt Framework. It uses the
> OpenCV
> library for image processing, LibRaw library for RAW image processing and
> the libusb librar
Martin McCormick wrote:
> Thank you very much. I started using unix-like OS's 30
> years ago in June but the digital video field is new to me so I
> still have a lot of learning to do.
>
> As an electronics and amateur radio enthusiast, I am
> astounded at how fast that A/D converter has to work
> On 2019-08-08 09:06 +0100, Sharon Kimble wrote:
>
>> Yesterday I installed my new graphics card but when I rebooted the
>> system stopped just before the lightdm login box, and just stayed with
>> a cursor blinking at the top left of the screen. I'm assuming that I
>> need new drivers for it, so
On 8/8/19 7:22 AM, Dan Ritter wrote:
To summarize: if you're running ZFS, it can protect you from
lots of sources of data corruption. It can't protect you from
RAM errors without ECC, so you should opt for ECC if integrity
is your goal.
None of the other filesystems protect you against RAM error
John Hasler wrote:
>> The irony here is that AMD started by reverse engineering Intel.
>
> Legally. Reverse-engineering is not illegal in the USA.
>
>> And unfortunately the US has been protecting monopoly and fake
>> competition for years. Such things as Microsoft, Apple and Google
>> should
Johann Spies wrote:
> Thanks for your reply. I have install the opencv-stuff but it also needs
> libjasper and libjpeg8 which is not available for Debian. There are
> Ubuntu packages available but there are conflicts with Debian
> libjpeg-stuff and I do not want to break my Debian.
both packag
Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> You might theoretically be helping millions of others reading along who
> appreciate your continued inout about a derived subject - but it is more
> sensible to me, and more visible to those who want that help, if you
> change the subject line to match your derived topic.
deloptes writes:
> So you mean after AMD reverse engineered Intel, they make it illegal
> for their own, by license agreement?
They can't make it illegal. They can make it a breach of contract for
anyone who agreed to their terms to reverse engineer it and sue them for
damages if they do.
I can
deloptes wrote:
>
> I still don't get it how you want to capture and process video to text to
> audio - perhaps deduplicate frame content etc. - how many frames per second
> do you want to process, cause I did not get this with the 4Mhz and how it
> is relevant. I was thinking your display is run
On 09/08/2019 12:05, John Hasler wrote:
There is a lot wrong with the patent system. Twenty years is too long.
Fees are too high. Processing is too slow. The language used in the
disclosures is arcane (the disclosure is supposed to teach the invention
to someone "skilled in the art", but the a
deloptes writes:
> I still don't get it how you want to capture and process video to text to
> audio - perhaps deduplicate frame content etc. - how many frames per
> second
> do you want to process, cause I did not get this with the 4Mhz and how it
> is relevant. I was thinking your display is ru
Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> Disregarding OSHW I agree that above options are good highlights.
> Additionally I suggest Olimex A64-Olinuxino and ESPRESSObin, both
> (unlike above options) known to be mainlined and work with Debian
> Buster.
The ESPRESSObin would fulfill my requirements, but does n
On Thursday 08 August 2019 21:17:25 Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote:
> On 09/08/2019 12:05, John Hasler wrote:
> > There is a lot wrong with the patent system. Twenty years is too
> > long. Fees are too high. Processing is too slow. The language used
> > in the disclosures is arcane (the disclosure is
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On 9/8/19 6:59 am, John Hasler wrote:
> Shahryar Afifi wrote:
>> Currently I have X61 with Middleton BIOS that claims to be free.
>> Is that also not the case?
>
> We are talking about the microcode that is stored inside the cpu,
> not the BIOS
It looks like there are some ESPRESSOBIN v7s on Amazon right now.
--
Steven Mainor
On August 8, 2019 11:16:44 PM EDT, John Hasler wrote:
>Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
>> Disregarding OSHW I agree that above options are good highlights.
>> Additionally I suggest Olimex A64-Olinuxino and ESPRESSObin,
On 8/8/19 4:39 AM, Kenneth Parker wrote:
> I also hear stories about people, using Raspberry Pi Systems as Servers.
At least a 3+, on a T1, with a good UPS, well backed up, and with clones
of hardware and software near at hand. And running Debian.
Under those conditions, they do just fine.
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