What is libc5-i686 | lib32gcc1 (for proliant)

2021-10-26 Thread Alessandro Vesely
Hi all, I have a .deb package from HP (hp-health) that has this requirement, and doesn't install because of it. It got damaged somehow during the last dist-upgrade. I think I'd better re-install it. I have both libc6:i386 and lib32gcc-s1 (on an AMD 64bit machine). libc6-i686:i386 is tagged

What is libc5-i686 | lib32gcc1 (proliant package dependencies)

2021-10-27 Thread Alessandro Vesely
Hi all, I have a .deb package from HP (hp-health) that has this requirement, and doesn't install because of it. It got damaged somehow during the last dist-upgrade. I think I'd better re-install it. I have both libc6:i386 and lib32gcc-s1 (on an AMD 64bit machine). libc6-i686:i386 is tagged

Re: please do *never* use GitHub for free software, was Re: Salsa vs Github

2019-05-18 Thread Alessandro Vesely
On Fri 17/May/2019 17:52:02 +0200 rhkramer wrote: > On Friday, May 17, 2019 03:28:51 AM Dominik George wrote: >> >> please do*never* use GitHub for free software >> > >> >Please explain, in detail, why. >> >> If discrimination against parts of the community is not enough for you, >> here's why:

Re: Setting up bind9/DNS

2019-07-02 Thread Alessandro Vesely
On Fri 28/Jun/2019 22:02:52 +0200 Joe wrote: > On Fri, 28 Jun 2019 11:44:54 -0500 Dennis Wicks wrote: > >> I was thinking that I could setup a nameserver on my machine >> with enries in it for the virtual hosts and have my local >> network address in the list of nameservers in my >> modem/rout

Re: Flatpak or repository apps

2019-07-15 Thread Alessandro Vesely
On Fri 12/Jul/2019 13:27:08 +0200 Reco wrote: > On Fri, Jul 12, 2019 at 09:33:44AM +0300, Georgios wrote: >> Hi there! >> >> Based on security and stability i was wondering what is more preferable? >> >> Installing apps through flatpak or through debian repositories? > > I trust Debian at packagin

Re: How free is Debian

2019-08-09 Thread Alessandro Vesely
On Thu 08/Aug/2019 15:02:38 +0200 John Hasler wrote: > These sorts of "licenses" are actually attempts at a civil contract. > They really have nothing to do with patent or copyright law. A civil > contract requires agreement in advance, though. I had always considered those must-reply-yes que

Re: How free is Debian

2019-08-09 Thread Alessandro Vesely
On Thu 08/Aug/2019 13:50:40 +0200 John Hasler wrote: > 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). > >

Re: Debian Wiki and LSB (https://wiki.debian.org/LSB)

2019-08-17 Thread Alessandro Vesely
On Sat 17/Aug/2019 04:13:28 +0200 Steffen Dettmer wrote: > - https://wiki.debian.org/LSBInitScripts > - https://wiki.debian.org/LSBInitScripts/DependencyBasedBoot > > It would be great if someone experienced could take a look. Especially > the last two pages could need more updating, since AFAIK i

Re: webmail and email from command line

2019-08-19 Thread Alessandro Vesely
On Mon 19/Aug/2019 03:15:45 +0200 Celejar wrote: > I think terming Google's decision to call software that doesn't > implement OAuth "less secure" "evil" is hyperbole that doesn't help our > broader cause of opposing its breaking of standards, imposing various > sorts of lock-in, invasions of priv

Re: webmail and email from command line

2019-08-19 Thread Alessandro Vesely
On Mon 19/Aug/2019 18:05:57 +0200 Celejar wrote: > On Mon, 19 Aug 2019 17:21:40 +0200 > wrote: > >> On Mon, Aug 19, 2019 at 10:06:33AM -0400, Celejar wrote: >> >> [...] >> >>> I'd love to run my own mail stack, and I think I could handle the >>> software deployment reasonably well, but from every

Re: Solution to "pathetic email complaints"

2019-08-21 Thread Alessandro Vesely
On Tue 20/Aug/2019 19:26:23 +0200 Michael Stone wrote: >> If you are not spamming people you also will not end up on a blacklist. > > Well, actual real-world experience shows that to not be true. You should (noisily) bring out that case! Blacklists have to balance between reliability and comple

Re: Solution to "pathetic email complaints"

2019-08-21 Thread Alessandro Vesely
On Tue 20/Aug/2019 23:11:27 +0200 Michael Stone wrote: > On Tue, Aug 20, 2019 at 11:10:08PM +0300, Reco wrote: >> On Tue, Aug 20, 2019 at 03:45:31PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: >>> On Tue, Aug 20, 2019 at 08:39:43PM +0300, Reco wrote: Unless a blacklist adds victims by AS number, a change of M

Is Buster ready?

2019-09-02 Thread Alessandro Vesely
Hi, I've been trying to install 10.0 via netinst. It cannot reach the screen card (the laptop is HP-G62), but it also has some funny behavior, like not adding /sbin to the PATH after a successful su command. I never installed Buster before. Am I better off installing Stretch and then upgrade?

Re: Is Buster ready?

2019-09-03 Thread Alessandro Vesely
On Tue 03/Sep/2019 16:28:48 +0200 Greg Wooledge wrote: >> On Mon, 2 Sep 2019 22:50:41 +0200 Alessandro Vesely wrote: >>> I've been trying to install 10.0 via netinst. but it also has >>> some funny behavior, like not adding /sbin to the PATH after a >>> suc

Re: AMD Vega 6 on Debian 10

2019-09-05 Thread Alessandro Vesely
On Wed 04/Sep/2019 20:12:55 +0200 Étienne Mollier wrote: > Sven, on 2019-09-03: >> On 2019-09-03 21:49 +0200, Étienne Mollier wrote: >>> It is possible that your hardware is a wee bit too recent for >>> Debian 10 vanilla: Vega support for the amdgpu driver landed in >>> Linux 4.20, but Debian 10 sh

Re: AMD Vega 6 on Debian 10

2019-09-08 Thread Alessandro Vesely
On Thu 05/Sep/2019 22:00:58 +0200 Étienne Mollier wrote: > Ale, on 2019-09-05: >> On Wed 04/Sep/2019 20:12:55 +0200 Étienne Mollier wrote: >> > Thank you Sven for pointing this out! You're right, I've been >> > confused by personal experience with other chips. Installation >> > of "firmware-amd-g

Re: Debian 9 network management

2018-08-16 Thread Alessandro Vesely
On Wed 15/Aug/2018 08:31:32 +0200 mick crane wrote: > On 2018-08-14 09:08, Remigio wrote: >> [...] >> Could you help me please to understand where are network configuration >> files and how to manage them? > > I too have been wondering about this and the wiki seems clear. > https://wiki.debian.org

Re: Debian 9 network management

2018-08-18 Thread Alessandro Vesely
On Thu 16/Aug/2018 14:02:08 +0200 Reco wrote: > On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 12:04:28PM +0200, Alessandro Vesely wrote: >> On Wed 15/Aug/2018 08:31:32 +0200 mick crane wrote: >>> >>> I too have been wondering about this and the wiki seems clear. >>> https://

Re: Micro-report: using Stable without systemd

2018-10-16 Thread Alessandro Vesely
On Tue 16/Oct/2018 17:52:15 +0200 Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 04:18:52PM +0200, john doe wrote: >> Hopefully, both parties (Debian/Devian) will come back to there senses >> and will find a way to accomodate supporting Systemd and an alternative >> init daemon. > > In the case

Re: Micro-report: using Stable without systemd

2018-10-17 Thread Alessandro Vesely
On Tue 16/Oct/2018 16:54:57 +0200 Morel Bérenger wrote: > Le Sun, 14 Oct 2018 10:23:15 -0400, > Dan Ritter a écrit : > >> I have encountered no problems that can be attributed to my choice of >> init system. > > Doing the same. Works fine, except the fact network interfaces that are > using DHCP

Heck, why did the server freeze?

2018-10-25 Thread Alessandro Vesely
Hi all, early this morning a network card burned out. A few hours later, the server was not responding on any network address, nor on the system console. I had to power it down. Upon rebooting, network errors were detected an I arranged the server to work with the available hardware. The last l

Re: Heck, why did the server freeze?

2018-10-26 Thread Alessandro Vesely
On Thu 25/Oct/2018 20:30:27 +0200 Brian wrote: > On Thu 25 Oct 2018 at 19:53:26 +0200, Alessandro Vesely wrote: > >> Hi all, >> early this morning a network card burned out. A few hours later, the server >> was not responding on any network address, nor on the syste

Re: Heck, why did the server freeze?

2018-10-26 Thread Alessandro Vesely
On Fri 26/Oct/2018 11:27:36 +0200 Reco wrote: > On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 11:23:39AM +0200, Alessandro Vesely wrote: >> The problem is that the server froze. I don't think that's what it is >> supposed >> to do when a card fails. > > It's my impressio

Re: Why choose Debian on server

2019-01-04 Thread Alessandro Vesely
On Thu 03/Jan/2019 18:53:14 +0100 Miles Fidelman wrote: > [...] > And then there was all the bullshit about how systemd was handled - > including resignations of core developers over it. Given the current cooperation between Devuan and Debian maintainers on init-diversity, I'd say that issue is f

Re: Group thoughts on: Anti-virus tools

2019-03-12 Thread Alessandro Vesely
On Tue 12/Mar/2019 09:39:53 +0100 didier gaumet wrote: > Wikipedia makes a comparison of Linux antivirus: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_antivirus_software#Linux It's astonishing that there is an "Email Security" column, with random yes/no contents. I wrote a note on that: http

Re: DMARC reports after emails sent to list

2019-10-15 Thread Alessandro Vesely
Hi, On 13/10/2019 14:09, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > Hi, > > Thanks Reco. > > On 13/10/19 9:59 pm, Reco wrote: > [...] > >> I'd send a mail to postmas...@noloop.tana.it, IIRC one of this >> list members is behind it. Didn't get it > Hopeful

Re: DMARC reports after emails sent to list

2019-10-15 Thread Alessandro Vesely
Hi again, On 14/10/2019 16:04, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > Hi, > > On 14/10/19 9:42 pm, 황병희 wrote: >> Andrew McGlashan writes: > >> There was related discussion: it's very seriosus... >> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=754809 > > Okay, well, I have p=quarantine for my setup, n

Re: enigmail

2019-11-22 Thread Alessandro Vesely
On Mon 18/Nov/2019 21:15:41 +0100 Reco wrote: > On Mon, Nov 18, 2019 at 12:57:16PM -0700, D. R. Evans wrote: >> I see that the update to debian stable that I was going to do today >> wants to update thunderbird but remove enigmail. That seems to affect oldstable too, but kept back. I have: ~# ap

Iptables at boot, was fail2ban for apache2

2019-12-02 Thread Alessandro Vesely
On Mon 02/Dec/2019 10:35:26 +0100 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > You might want to install iptables-persistent, otherwise you'll have to > roll-out your own solution. I'm not using iptables-persistent, but just looked at it out of curiosity. Its LSB: ### BEGIN INIT INFO # Provides: netfil

Re: looking for a replacement for debian since systemd

2019-12-14 Thread Alessandro Vesely
On Sat 14/Dec/2019 03:18:39 +0100 Kenneth Parker wrote: > > I use Devuan, especially on older hardware.   Works well.  Good to know. For the time being, I see SysV is working. I'm on old-stable Debian. As, in a few months, it will be time to migrate, I'll have to decide on Devuan (current) vs

What mirrors serve upgraded package version? (firefox-esr 52.2.0esr-1~deb8u1)

2017-06-20 Thread Alessandro Vesely
Hi all! https://packages.debian.org/jessie/firefox-esr says version 52.2.0esr-1~deb8u1 However, after running apt-get update, I get root@pcale:~# apt-cache policy firefox-esr firefox-esr: Installed: 45.9.0esr-1~deb8u1 Candidate: 45.9.0esr-1~deb8u1 Version table: *** 45.9.0esr-1~deb8u1 0

Re: What mirrors serve upgraded package version? (firefox-esr 52.2.0esr-1~deb8u1)

2017-06-20 Thread Alessandro Vesely
On Tue 20/Jun/2017 14:14:56 +0200 Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 10:38:05AM +0200, Alessandro Vesely wrote: >> root@pcale:~# apt-cache policy firefox-esr >> firefox-esr: >> Installed: 45.9.0esr-1~deb8u1 >> Candidate: 45.9.0esr-1~deb8u1 >> V

Re: Clarifying what 'systemd' actually means

2017-07-02 Thread Alessandro Vesely
On Sun 02/Jul/2017 12:37:33 +0200 Christian Seiler wrote: > On 07/02/2017 11:24 AM, Michael Fothergill wrote: >> ​Could this be exploited to force people to use sysvinit instead of systemd ? :-) > This bug has nothing to do with systemd as the init system, it's in an > optional component that's d

Re: Clarifying what 'systemd' actually means

2017-07-03 Thread Alessandro Vesely
On Sun 02/Jul/2017 15:13:06 +0200 Christian Seiler wrote: > (To clarify: I'm not saying that people who don't like systemd > can't be rational, but I do think that anyone who claims to see > a conspiracy here is not taking a rational position.) Admittedly it was somewhat tongue-in-cheek, although

Re: funding & viability questions of GPL enforcement.

2017-07-16 Thread Alessandro Vesely
There are salient discrepancies in copylefting collective work —as there are mismatches in working as a free software developer in a western economic model. Let me just say that this discussion, working out the legal details of the problem, is very interesting. I guess that's how every inch of fr

Re: funding & viability questions of GPL enforcement.

2017-07-19 Thread Alessandro Vesely
On Sun 16/Jul/2017 17:17:21 +0200 Martin Read wrote: > On 16/07/17 12:47, Alessandro Vesely wrote: >> May I ask, in passing, why Debian (for packages like apt, say) as well as >> Linux >> did not switch to GPLv3? Would such switch ease enforcement? > > Switching a p

Re: funding & viability questions of GPL enforcement.

2017-07-20 Thread Alessandro Vesely
On Wed 19/Jul/2017 23:14:35 +0200 Martin Read wrote: > On 19/07/17 12:17, Alessandro Vesely wrote: >> One my wonder why GRSecurity is not (optionally) included in Linux. > > For a variety of reasons relating to the personalities and opinions of the > people who would be involv

Re: funding & viability questions of GPL enforcement.

2017-07-21 Thread Alessandro Vesely
On Thu 20/Jul/2017 22:18:25 +0200 Fungi4All wrote: >> > On 19/07/17 12:17, Alessandro Vesely wrote: >> >> Of course, nobody dislikes security. Making it neat and clear is another >> question, and that"s why experiments are needed. Can we consider Linux and >&

Re: What mirrors serve upgraded package version? (enigmail 2:1.9.8.1-1~deb8u1)

2017-07-29 Thread Alessandro Vesely
On Tue 20/Jun/2017 14:14:56 +0200 Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 10:38:05AM +0200, Alessandro Vesely wrote: >> root@pcale:~# apt-cache policy firefox-esr >> [... output snipped ...] > > You appear to be missing your security.debian.org source. Adding secur

Re: What mirrors serve upgraded package version? (enigmail 2:1.9.8.1-1~deb8u1)

2017-07-29 Thread Alessandro Vesely
On Sat 29/Jul/2017 12:31:03 +0200 Frank wrote: > Op 29-07-17 om 12:20 schreef Alessandro Vesely: >> (I tried ``deb http://security.debian.org/ jessie-security main'' but got W: >> Failed to fetch >> http://security.debian.org/dists/jessie-security/main/binary-a

Re: Secure email server setup

2018-01-15 Thread Alessandro Vesely
On Mon 15/Jan/2018 00:19:24 +0100 Brian wrote: > On Sun 14 Jan 2018 at 16:43:53 -0500, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > >> On Sunday, January 14, 2018 02:26:03 PM Brian wrote: >>> On Sun 14 Jan 2018 at 12:49:46 -0500, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday, January 14, 2018 10:36:40 AM J.W. Foster wr

Re: Secure email server setup

2018-01-15 Thread Alessandro Vesely
On Mon 15/Jan/2018 16:23:54 +0100 rhkramer wrote: > On Monday, January 15, 2018 04:39:17 AM Alessandro Vesely wrote: >> Since most email messages are sent in cleartext, it is also worth to note >> explicitly the difference in terms of privacy between receiving and >> col

Re: Iptables at boot

2018-01-25 Thread Alessandro Vesely
On Sun 21/Jan/2018 20:53:43 +0100 Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: > On 21/01/18 16:05, Mark Fletcher wrote: >> To get you started [addressing the OP], here is the service file I use: > > Mine is slightly different and has the commands inline: > > > $ cat /etc/iptables/iptables.service > [Unit] > Descr

Re: reportbug - debian SMTP HELO forged

2018-05-24 Thread Alessandro Vesely
On Thu 24/May/2018 03:33:52 +0200 bw wrote:  > On Thu, 24 May 2018, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: >> On 24/05/18 12:40, bw wrote: >>> Okay, I must have something misconfigured. Yes, ~/.reportbugrc >>> [...] >>> Connecting to packages.debian.org via SMTP... >>> SMTP send failure: {'m...@packages.debia

X crashes in stretch

2017-09-10 Thread Alessandro Vesely
Hi, after upgrading to sretch, no graphics work anymore. The upgrade brought in systemd-sysv instead of sysvinit-core, which I had in jessie. I don't know which other packages, if any, went that route... Gdm3 wasn't even able to display anything readable. It worked well in jessie. In s

Re: X crashes in stretch (hint: kernel)

2017-09-10 Thread Alessandro Vesely
fferent code depending on the kernel version? Or does the bad kernel return null pointers in places where the old kernel returned valid stuff? (BTW, now I've been using X for a couple of hours, and didn't see any kernel messages since.) Ciao Ale On Sun 10/Sep/2017 13:26:43 +0200 Ale

Re: Weird graphical glitches bug with gdm3 and gnome on stretch

2017-09-11 Thread Alessandro Vesely
Interesting... My system seems to be worse than yours, as it crashes outright rather than producing inconsistent behavior. I also use radeon, but don't know if that issue is hw-related. Try booting an old 3.* kernel, if you still have one. That restored my system's reliability. Check dmesg dif

Re: estamated number of Linux users?

2017-10-27 Thread Alessandro Vesely
On Fri 27/Oct/2017 05:21:48 +0200 John Hasler wrote: > Celejar writes: >> https://www.linuxcounter.net/ >> I don't know how meaningful its data are. > > Utterly useless. Er... why was the OP looking for that data? Ale --