Re: loading huge number of rules in iptables (blocklist)

On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 07:07:01PM -0400, H.S. wrote: > I am playing round with the blocklist file obtained from peerguardian > (level1.gz). I have written a bash function which I call in my iptables > script to load these rules. Have you tried inserting them as null routes into your routing tab

Re: Reconnect to a specific TTY session?

On Sat, Mar 24, 2007 at 08:50:59PM -0400, Jim Hyslop wrote: > Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > but you > > might want to look at the "screen" program (see package "screen") for the > > next time you need terminals you want to reattach to. > Thanks for the suggestion. It didn't work, unfortuna

Re: Mysql clustering

On Mon, Jul 09, 2007 at 02:51:01PM +1000, Will Parkinson wrote: >Cluster Configuration >- >[ndbd(NDB)] 2 node(s) >id=2@202.***.**.01 (Version: 5.0.32, starting, Nodegroup: 0) >id=3@202.***.**.02 (Version: 5.0.38, starting, Nodegroup: 0) The abo

Re: Lost /home partition

On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 02:34:55AM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: > Maybe something additional was corrupted, bu I only remember seeing > references to sda4, which is /home. Any idea how to get the data back? It may have been placed in /home/lost+found named after its inode number, i.e. filenames that

Re: less, exit but left content on screen

On Sat, Aug 04, 2007 at 09:06:19PM -0400, Tong Sun wrote: > I remember that I used to be able to exit 'less' by command key 'x' or > something so that the content just viewed is left on screen, instead of > being cleared and restored to the screen before invoking 'less'. But I > found there is no s

Re: xen kernel security

Hi Frank, On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 02:33:38PM +0200, Frank wrote: > I'm wondering about the old xen kernel. What's about the security > patches which are implemented in the standard kernel? Do the debian xen > packages contains this patches or is it only the old kernel 2.6.18.5? Debian's Xen ker

Re: xen-pae and headerfiles

Hi Frank, On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 01:43:13PM +0200, Frank wrote: > By default the xen-pae version is installed but I don't need it because > the maschine has only 512MB. All x86 Debian kernels are PAE. > Should I still use pae and how could I get rid of pae packages? If you're using x86 (and

Re: domU fan and thermal error - blacklist creation for domU need?

Hi Frank, On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 07:50:39PM +0200, Frank wrote: > How can I get rid off this messages during a domU boot? > I'm using etch > > FATAL: Error inserting fan > (/lib/modules/2.6.18-5-xen-686/kernel/drivers/acpi/fan.ko): No such > device > FATAL: Error inserting thermal > (/lib/mod

Re: how to show all loop devices? losetup -a doesn't work

Hi Frank, On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 08:04:13PM +0200, Frank wrote: > I've seen that my domU is only booting if I set "loop max_loop=64" in > /etc/modules. The default is "max=8" right? I don't use more than 8 loop > devices. So I want to know where they are. It's not possible to see it > with los

Re: A sane way to merge config file differences during package installation?

Hi, On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 11:55:05AM +0200, Richard Hartmann wrote: > Configuration file `/etc/sysctl.conf' > ==> Modified (by you or by a script) since installation. > ==> Package distributor has shipped an updated version. >What would you like to do about it ? Your options are: > Y

Re: how to compile a xen dom0 kernel the debian way

Hi Jonas, On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 04:33:43AM +0200, Jonas Meurer wrote: > > hello, > > i would like to give xen a try, but i didn't manage to compile a dom0 > host kernel yet. Do you need to? What is wrong with Debian's xen kernels? > that's because i would like to use a recent linux kernel (

Re: how to compile a xen dom0 kernel the debian way

Hi Jonas, On Sun, Sep 09, 2007 at 03:03:09PM +0200, Jonas Meurer wrote: > On 09/09/2007 Andy Smith wrote: > > Hi Jonas, > > Hey Andi, > > > > i would like to give xen a try, but i didn't manage to compile a dom0 > > > host kernel yet. > > >

Re: unable to install mysql (lamp) (post-installation script returned error exit status 1)

Hi Jabka, On Sat, Sep 29, 2007 at 06:38:14PM +0200, Jabka Atu wrote: > Sep 29 18:34:30 acerium mysqld[16628]: 070929 18:34:30 [ERROR] Can't > start server: Bind on TCP/IP port: Cannot assign requested address > Sep 29 18:34:30 acerium mysqld[16628]: 070929 18:34:30 [ERROR] Do you > already have an

Re: Nagios For Debian

Hi, Firstly please do not hijack other threads. If you want to start a new thread, do it as a new email. On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 08:17:02AM -0600, Joel Roberts wrote: > Is anyone else using Nagios on Debian Etch? I am. > I've got it set up for monitoring Linux and Windows servers, but > the ch

Re: SNMP Issues on Debian Etch

Hi, On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 09:22:35AM -0600, Joel Roberts wrote: > When I try to run the snmpwalk command, I'm told it doesn't exist. > Has this been taken out of Debian Etch or is it in some other > package? $ apt-file search bin/snmpwalk snmp: usr/bin/snmpwalk Cheers, Andy -- http://bitfolk

Re: can ping only with sudo

Hi David, On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 05:46:58PM -0700, David Fox wrote: > On 10/6/07, tom arnall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > lately i inadvertently did 'chmod 777 -R /dev' on my system (as root, of > > course!). now i find that to ping anyone i have to do it as sudo, else i > > get: > > > >

Re: lvreduce - no such file or directory?

Hi Andy, On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 05:52:28PM +0100, Andy Hardy wrote: > Wesley J. Landaker wrote: > > On Sunday 07 October 2007 07:46:42 Andy Hardy wrote: > >> debian:/home/andy# lvreduce -v -r -L -50g /dev/debian/home > >> Finding volume group debian > >> Executing: fsadm check /dev/debian

Re: postgres install fails on sid

Hi John, On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 06:05:42PM +, John Masters wrote: > I've chmod 666 /dev/null and now postgres installs OK. However I > hesitate to go further as this server is on a VPS. Could that be why the > perms were not set properly? I can think of no reason why anyone would provision a

Re: raid1 mdadm v's lvm

Hi Alex, On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 08:53:09PM +1000, Alex Samad wrote: > Interesting, I have a habit though of keeping root out of LVM, > very easy to get access to root in emergency when its a raid1 > parition Agree. However, I personally use a much smaller root, say 1G or less, and then have /u

Re: Quota Headache

Hi Brian, On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 09:22:41AM +, Brian Platt wrote: > I'm having bit of a nightmare trying to get quota to work with > directadmin and debian sarge Server is VPS /etc/fstab > shows/dev/xvda1 / ext3 rw,noatime 0 1/dev/xvdb1 none swap defaults > 0 0I tried adding usrquota,grp

Re: Connect to remote CVS server

Hi Rocky, On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 01:11:54AM -, rockymaxsource wrote: > Can any of you tell me how to use SSH to connect to remote CVS > repository with user name and password please? Set the CVS_RSH variable to 'ssh' and then use :ext:username as your username in the cvs root specification.

Re: how to read http mails in mutt mail reader (vim)?

Hi Jim, On Sun, Nov 04, 2007 at 07:31:53PM +1100, hce wrote: > I've just installed mutt in Debian, one problem is there are some > mails from news lists with HTTP format, it was fine when I use Mozilla > mail reader, but with mutt and vim, I could not read the HTTP format > mails. One solution I c

Re: Adding a new HDD - how do I move /var/lib/mysql ?

On Sun, Jan 14, 2007 at 11:34:02AM +0600, Abu Zaher wrote: >My question is slightly related to this post, so I'm posting it here. >I'm currently running my Sid on a 40GB hdd which is running out of >life, In a few days I'll buy a new 80GB. Now what is the best way 2 >dump my whole /

Re: Server recommendations?

On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 11:05:04PM +0100, Stefan Bellon wrote: > I'm looking for server hardware with the following contraints: dual or > quad core 64-bit CPU at >2.5 GHz and more than 16 GB of RAM. And of > course it should run Debian GNU/Linux without problems. Everything else > is not that impor

Re: top post fixer?

On Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 07:43:05AM -0800, Francis Healy wrote: >Why is it that most mail clients default to a top post? When you hit >reply, There is a blank space where your cursor it, followed by . >wrote: and then the message you are replying to. Yes, quoted. What else should

Re: top post fixer?

On Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 09:13:53PM -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: > Thanks to all those emacs folks that pointed out this function! > If I can only translate the gnus function to a mutt function... > Now if only I would switch from mutt to gnus :-) Could you not just use emacs as the editor for mutt? -

Re: about host registration

(Please don't top post or use HTML, thanks) On Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 11:25:07AM -0800, Nevruz Mesut Sahin wrote: > >There is an error evidently. but how can people fid the site when >they write www.cabukmarket.com in their web browser. even the name >server does not repond. You'll ne

Re: Xen DomU won't boot

On Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 10:24:41AM -0700, Bjorn Meyer wrote: > I am having a problem with my guest sessions booting. I am running etch, and > the etch flavor of Xen and utilities. I get the following when I start the > guest. How did you build the etch filesystem? > --snip-- > XENBUS: Timeout c

Re: applications, users, groups, permissions

On Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 11:15:38PM -0800, Peter Michaux wrote: > In my apache2.conf file I have the user and group directives which are > fairly self explanatory. > > User www-data > Group www-data > > When apache tries to serve a file it must have permission to access > that file. Apache will ha

Re: applications, users, groups, permissions

On Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 08:43:16AM -0800, Peter Michaux wrote: > On 1/21/07, Andy Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 11:15:38PM -0800, Peter Michaux wrote: > >> When apache tries to serve a file it must have permission to access > >> that

Re: top post fixer?

On Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 07:56:23AM -0800, Francis Healy wrote: >If top posting is realy the bane of everyone's existance that certian >voceriferous individuals claim it is, what is wrong with the mail >client putting the cursor at the at the botttom of the reply and >letting you mov

Re: undelete

On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 01:44:17PM -0500, Tony Heal wrote: > OK, how about some preventative stuff. If there is not real way to > 'undelete' files. How about adding a script named 'rm' that passes the same > switches to from the script to /bin/rm but moves the files to tmp before > deleting them.

Re: boot + lvm ?

On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 11:26:55PM +0100, Gilles Mocellin wrote: > I had to repartition an create a separate /boot. > I do that systematically since, 100Mo as the first partition. So that I can > use grub again, which is less dangerous. I also like having a small RAID-1 /boot and keep it mounted

Re: local network with twisted rj45

On Sat, Feb 03, 2007 at 10:38:09AM -0800, christop wrote: > On 18 jan, 05:20, Evan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I would first change the IP address so that one workstation does not > > have a broadcast address(.0) Try a simple scheme like .1 and .2. > > > > Sorry not having answered before. > Wh

Re: New server: Sarge or Etch?

On Sat, Feb 03, 2007 at 09:33:03AM +, Marco De Vitis wrote: > in the next few days I'll have to replace an old server running Debian > Sarge with a new machine, and I was wondering: maybe I should directly > install Etch on it, now that it almost reached its "stable" status? Yes, am using e

Re: howto build debian xen kernel?

On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 03:58:45PM +0100, Jonas Meurer wrote: > I've installed xen-hypervisor-3.0.3-1-amd64, which includes > /boot/xen-3.0.3-1-amd64.gz. > > Do i still need a xen-enabled host kernel, or may i use the current > self compiled kernel? You need a kernel with xen patches and configur

Re: SATA Raid Difficulty

On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 07:14:03PM +0100, Albert Dengg wrote: > Rob Wright wrote: > ... > >Specifics: > >3 74.5GB SATA drives > >Serial ATA AHCI BIOS version iSirc 1.08.sm0 > >Intel Matrix Storage Manager Rom v5.6.2.1002 ESB2 > > > >Is there support for this in Debian, and if so what do I need to d

Re: mysql server won't start,

On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 02:29:54PM -0800, tom arnall wrote: > thanks for idea, but didn't work. here is session after change: > > debian:/var/log/mysql# ls my*dex > mysql-bin.index > debian:/var/log/mysql# mysqld > mysqld: File '/var/log/mysql/mysql-bin.index' not found (Er

Re: mysql server won't start,

On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 04:45:02PM -0800, tom arnall wrote: > On Saturday 10 February 2007 16:36, Andy Smith wrote: > > Please post your /etc/mysql/my.cnf and the output of: > > > > # ls -la /var/log/mysql [...] > total 849 > drwxr-s--- 2 kloro adm1104 2007-02-

Re: mysql server won't start,

On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 09:51:35AM -0800, tom arnall wrote: > On Sunday 11 February 2007 02:12, Raffaele Morelli wrote: > > Hi, > > > > quoting from your my.cnf > > > > # WARNING: Using expire_logs_days without bin_log crashes the server! See > > README.Debian! > > expire_logs_days= 10 > >

Re: Runaway BIND

On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 10:17:49AM -0500, Rich Johnson wrote: > What is surprising is that such an event brought down _another_ machine. > > Would it be fair to say that excessive loggers are ill-behaved? It sounds like your bind was misconfigured and didn't know what the IPs of the root servers

Re: Smells like Debian spirit

On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 09:12:32PM +0100, ciol wrote: > You seem right and I would really like to trust you, but why there are > some developers demotivated ? Why there is this weird atmosphere ? Some people like drama. It's a lot more attractive to them than actual useful work, paid or not. --

Re: Best File System for partitions over 600GB

On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 07:27:22PM -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: > Sergio Cuéllar Valdés wrote: > >maybe you should read about LVM [1]. It is not about file systems, but > >it can help you :) > > I'd rather deal with a case of the Clap. > > LVM is worse than useless for most installations. It makes

Re: Configure error: C compiler cannot create executables

On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 10:44:45PM -0500, Ken Heard wrote: > Now that I am using Debian Etch, I want to install the latest dosemu > version. After downloading the tarball and unpacking it, I ran > "./configure". The result was the error message quoted in the subject > line above. (I have several

Re: [Debian-User] Xen

On Sat, Feb 17, 2007 at 12:07:47AM -0700, Admin wrote: > The Debian distribution is installed in a large partition so it > can be added to in the future. Other distributions and/or > specific Debian applications (derived from the primary > distribution in the large partition) can be installed in

Re: [Debian-User] Xen and LVM

On Sun, Feb 18, 2007 at 01:28:52PM -0700, Archive wrote: > So I am not arguing aginst LVM. Those that use it and recommend it keep > telling me I should plan on using it. I will do that if these same > people start explaining the features in way that makes sense to the > kinds of things I have

Re: Xen-enabled kernel sources for etch

On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 12:10:42PM +0300, Иванов Михаил wrote: > Where can I find debian etch kernel sources patched for xen? This bug report contains a fix and instructions for using make-kpkg to rebuild your own kernel with the xen patch: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=382699

Re: [Debian-User] Nice Job Andrew

On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 11:57:36PM -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: > ps. could you use something other than 'Admin' in the From line, I'd > prefer 'Ted' or even a nickname. But that's just me. I associate people > by their From line and Admin is not something I'd associate with a > person. Also replying

Re: OT: sponge burning!

On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 05:18:47AM -0500, Stephen wrote: > On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 01:26:33PM -0800 or thereabouts, Paul Johnson wrote: > > > > So...the question BEGS. Why exactly do you have an e-mail address of > > > "baloo" at something? > > > > @ursine.ca (ursine being latin for bear). I'm a

Re: debian in combination with Supermicro PDSMi+

On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 02:14:52PM +0100, Max Waaijers wrote: >We are a small company and are currently using debian on >all of our servers. We ordered two new servers at some hosting >company, but they claim Debian does not support the motherboard >of the new servers. It is a Super

Re: passwd in chroot / You may not view or modify password information for USER

On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 04:35:18PM -0500, Nelson Castillo wrote: > CHROOT> passwd userx > passwd: You may not view or modify password information for userx. Er, you ARE doing that as root, right? Cheers, Andy -- http://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting Encrypted mail welcome - keyid 0x604

Re: mdadm Raid1 Striped Reads

Hi, On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 05:16:31PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 01:24:53PM -0500, Sam Leon wrote: > > Is there anyway to get mdadm to stripe disk reads in raid1? Some of the > > documentation I read makes me think that it does this by default but in > > my tests

Hyper-threading (was Re: ext3 or xfs for desktop laptop)

On Sat, Jun 10, 2006 at 10:14:41PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > Nate Bargmann wrote: > > I have been considering an HT based machine and would like to > > learn of any potential pitfalls. > > The h/w emulates 2 CPUs. Thus, even more than a single CPU > switching contexts, the HT-enabled CPU adds t

Re: What does this mean (A SMART error of hard disk)?

On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 08:13:21PM +0800, Wang Xu wrote: > The following message was reported by smartd daemon several times, > it seems to be a hard disk error, but does this mean I should purchase > a new disk as soon as possible? It means that a sector of your disk was unreadable, probably due

Re: windows in xen on intel core-duo?

On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 01:56:37PM +0300, Linas Žvirblis wrote: > 1.4. Does Xen support Microsoft Windows? > > The paravirtualized approach we use to get such high performance has > not been usable directly for Windows to date. However Xen 3.0 added > Intel VT-x support to enable the runnin

Re: OT: Linux or Cisco

On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 09:05:57AM +0530, CCNAStuff wrote: > Hello all, > > I have started studying for CCNA using CBTNuggets. They're pretty good. I crammed my CCNA with that. No substitute to real world experience of course. > Meanwhile I looked for options in the Linux world and there are >

Re: to allow root logins or not?

On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 03:53:50PM -0500, Default User wrote: > Gee, I hate to ask another question, but - > > During an Etch install, it asks if I want to allow root logins. If not, > no root account is set up (I guess as a security measure), and all admin > access is done by sudo. Now I norma

Re: swap

On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 01:09:51PM +0200, Michael Dominok wrote: > Am Montag, den 07.05.2007, 02:53 -0700 schrieb Francesco Pietra: > > Is it conceivable to add a low-quality 300GB HD (for > > swap file) to a raid1 system? > > I guess an non-mirrored drive will have a better performance than a > r

Re: I/O Wait and CPU Usage

On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 07:43:50PM -0400, Grok Mogger wrote: > I have a question about the "wa" fields in vmstat, top, and the > like. I and someone else I know have both read a great deal > about its meaning, and have come to two different conclusions. > Here are our interpretations. Could so

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 04:41:49PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > I'm writing the listmasters because reading debian-user has become > nearly unbearable for me (one of the sadly few DDs who bothers to read > our user lists) due to volume and offensiveness/repetativeness of > offtopic posts there. I've i

Re: Creating a local repos

Hi Douglas, On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 05:34:02PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > Just curious, why not use apt-proxy? After having some unexplained problems with apt-proxy I switched to apt-cacher. I'm pretty happy with that although I did only realise recently that it stores files based on th

Re: limiting monthly network traffic

Hi Cameron, On Fri, May 25, 2007 at 09:10:38PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The new bandwidth allocation is about 8x what I've been using. > But if I get slashdotted and have a 10x month, it will > cost too much. > What's the Debian way to monitor total network traffic > and throttle down if

Re: Creating a local repos

Hi Alex, On Sun, May 27, 2007 at 02:19:16PM +1000, Alex Samad wrote: > On Fri, May 25, 2007 at 04:51:35PM +0000, Andy Smith wrote: > > After having some unexplained problems with apt-proxy I switched to > > apt-cacher. > > I did the same thing, but I have been noticing s

Re: Shared apt archives

Hi Chaim, On Mon, May 28, 2007 at 11:24:02AM +0300, Chaim Keren Tzion wrote: > I have several debian installations and use a lot of bandwidth when doing > apt-get updates etc. Would it break anything if I share > the /var/cache/apt/archives/ directory between the machines? I have ~50 debian and

Re: Can you connect to a MySQL database on a server from a workstation?

Hi Eric, On Sat, Jun 09, 2007 at 05:19:14PM -0400, Eric A. Bonney wrote: > I want to use mysql for my storage in Amarok. I have created a db down > on my server (in the basement), but now I can't figure out how to get my > other workstations to connect to the server. Bear in mind that by defau

Re: Can you connect to a MySQL database on a server from a workstation?

Hi Eric, On Sun, Jun 10, 2007 at 10:07:29AM -0400, Eric A. Bonney wrote: > Andy Smith wrote: > >Bear in mind that by default, Debian's mysql server packages only > >listen on localhost so are not available across the network until > >you change that. > > I thought

Re: Expanding subnets

Hi kj, On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 09:35:15AM +0100, kj wrote: > I need to feed subnets into a database in the format 192.168.0.% or > 192.168.%.% Whenever I find myself trying to do something like this, I stop and consider if my database design is optimal. You can store an IPv4 address as a 32-bit

Re: Encrypting incoming messages with GnuPG

Hi Harry, On Sat, May 09, 2009 at 11:14:14AM +0100, Harry Rickards wrote: > I was wondering if anyone knew of a way, perhaps using /etc/aliases, so > that all incoming mail addressed to my username (hrickards) is encrypted > with *my* public key, so that when I read it only I can read it using > *

Re: Apache2 Still Dying

Hi Raquel, On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 07:56:45PM -0800, Raquel wrote: > I ran mtest86+ and the memory checked out ... no errors. > > I ran strace /usr/sbin/apache2 and can see no errors. Once it dies, what happens if you do a "ps" to find the running apache children (by default running under userna

Re: (solved)Re: Can I resize partition?

Hi Serena, On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 06:22:17PM -0800, Serena Cantor wrote: > Sorry, my memory fails. > > After entering fdisk, I find free disk space is just before /dev/sda2, not > after it. > > It seems that I can't resize it. Thanks anyway! It isn't much use to you right now, but you may wan

Re: repeated rejection of lookups of bad name

Hi Ross, On Sun, Nov 11, 2007 at 10:47:13AM -0800, Ross Boylan wrote: > A few days ago I received a message with a return path of > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > exim4's data ACL rejected the message. [...] > Since then, every hour at 2 minutes after the hour I get the > named[]: unexpected RCODE (REF

Re: (solved)Re: Can I resize partition?

Hi, On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 02:43:25PM +0800, H.H. Ding wrote: > Will I lost all my data if one of my physical partitions in LV failed? The short answer you are probably loking for is "Yes, maybe. At least some. This isn't what LVM is for. Use RAID." The longer answer is: LVs don't have phys

Re: named server question

Hi Chloe, On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 11:33:39AM -0500, chloe K wrote: > Hi all > > What is the rescurive client? Your machine is the dns client (or libraries in its OS are). The resolver(s) it has configured should be recursive in that they will recursively ask questions of other nameservers. The

Reports of (Debian?) Linux kernel 2.6.32 livelocking when notified of leap second

Hello, Has anyone been seeing this sort of thing in the last 22-ish hours? http://serverfault.com/questions/403732/anyone-else-experiencing-high-rates-of-linux-server-crashes-today I've run adjtimex -p on all of my servers and they're all reporting status 17, which as far as I can tell means the

Re: if you have no swap in your installation this is what you do??? Why???

Hi, On Sun, Apr 09, 2017 at 02:58:00PM +, GiaThnYgeia wrote: > 1 What is the difference functionally of having a swap partition from > having a swap file? Is it that you can use a separate physical disk > that will take the wear and tear of swaping? As long as the filesystem can support

Re: Installer: problem installing onto LVM on RAID1

Hi Ron, On Sun, Apr 09, 2017 at 06:43:32PM +0100, Ron Leach wrote: > What partitions - I think I mean logical volumes - might I be best > using for my installation, keeping in mind that I will need to extend > whatever logical volume houses the 'users-files'? I think you are making a conceptual e

Re: Firefox: security vs flexibility or rtfm?

Hi Mark, I think Mozilla's position is reasonable since if you allow this sort of thing to remain possible, nobody will fix anything. Broken software will ship with instructions for the users to "just make an exception". Would it be feasible to put a proxy in front of the HTTP-only service, that

Re: SATA hotplug + mdadm raid

Hi Sam, It doesn't matter what your devices are called. In fact you are best advised to avoid use of the /dev/sd* names where possible as these names may change for reasons other than drives being hotplugged. For example if your storage controller needs a module to detect drives, then order of mod

Re: buying ssl certificate

Hello, On Fri, May 26, 2017 at 10:04:42PM +, kc atgb wrote: > I will have to buy/renew some certificates we have at my job. > > There are a certain number of certificates providers. The question I have is > which one do I have to consider ? Domain-validated (i.e. they just check you can r

Re: Encrypted RAID1 for storage with Debian Jessie

Hello, On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 11:41:30PM +, commentsab...@riseup.net wrote: > I'm a complete noob when it comes to this kind of operations, so, sorry for > the dumb question : following tv.debian@'s advises, I purchased a cheap SSD > and installed my system on it (the SSD, and one pair of HDD

Re: ifconfig network resolution

Hi Joel, On Sun, Jun 11, 2017 at 07:55:50AM +0900, Joel Rees wrote: > # If the address to be assigned is given first, which I think everyone > # pretty much does: > > myadm@mycomp:~$ env LANG=en_US.UTF-8 sudo ifconfig eth0:1 down > myadm@mycomp:~$ env LANG=en_US.UTF-8 sudo ifconfig eth0:1 > 10.19

Introductory iproute2 documentation (Was Re: ifconfig network resolution)

Hi Richard, On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 05:11:47AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > Can you recommend a good introduction to iproute2 which ignores the > existence of net-tools (start newbies with good habits)? Unfortunately I don't think I actually can. Being someone who started off with the net-tools

Re: apt-cacher-ng related program and package suggestion

Hello, On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 09:57:50PM +0200, tuxderlinuxfuch...@gmail.com wrote: > apt-cacher-switch add :> > apt-cacher-switch add :> > > Then at university: > apt-cacher-switch enable > > At home: > apt-cacher-switch enable > > In an environment where no cacher is on the network > apt

Re: Why does no one care that Brad Spengler of GRSecurity is blatantly violating the intention of the rightsholders to the Linux Kernel?

Hello, On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 10:38:07PM +0200, deloptes wrote: > I do however think GRSec are wrong as the OP states, they clearly violate > the license agreements. > IMO everyone in the linux community should know the background of that story > same as the background of systemd ... but there is

Re: Debian 9

Hello, On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 05:41:57PM -0400, Fungi4All wrote: > Is this [booting a live distribution] all it takes to hack the > root account of a secure debian system? If an attacker has physical access to your running hardware then you have always lost. In some cases not even encryption wil

Re: stop your mail

Hello, On Sat, Jul 08, 2017 at 07:50:38PM +0200, Nicolas George wrote: > These messages are the spam, themselves. The pretend "leave me > alone" prologue is just to disguise that status and attract your > attention until you read the quoted text. I think it is far more likely that these people ar

Re: stop your mail

Hello, On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 05:18:54PM +0200, Sébastien Gautrin wrote: > The "stop your mail" and "PLEASE STOP YOUR MAILS" messages are definitely > not created by the owners of the email, though it might be done by a mobile > app as suggested. I've replied off-list to some of them to explain

Re: stop your mail

Hi Joe, On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 12:51:20PM -0600, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: > Andy Smith writes: > > On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 05:18:54PM +0200, Sébastien Gautrin wrote: > >> The proof of this is that they all have nearly the exact same content (some > >> add the list mail,

Re: Btrs vs ext4. Which one is more reliable?

Hello, On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 04:27:32PM +0200, Dan wrote: > I have a NFS4 server with ext4. I'm moving to Debian Stretch. I wonder if I > should switch to Btrfs. I personally wouldn't. I do use btrfs at home and wish I didn't, will be moving away from it soon. Take a look at the archives of th

Re: RE : ... blah lbah blah ... spam

Hello, On Sun, Aug 06, 2017 at 03:56:35PM +0200, Nicolas George wrote: > Your Occam's razor is definitely blunted. These mails are spams > masquerading as legitimate answers to bypass automated filters and catch > the reader's attention, nothing more. That is the simplest explanation, > consistent

Re: Btrs vs ext4. Which one is more reliable?

Hello, On Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 07:04:09AM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: > On Wed, Aug 09, 2017 at 09:46:09PM -0400, David Niklas wrote: > > On Sat, 29 Jul 2017 04:59:40 + > > Andy Smith wrote: > > > > Also, my use case is at home where the power can and *does* fail. I

Re: How to Troubleshoot Xen VM Failure 1stpvguest

Hi Ray, On Fri, Aug 11, 2017 at 06:52:21PM -0700, ray wrote: > on Debian 9 with latest Xen on a laptop, I tried to build a pv guest. I > would like to understand how to determine what the failure was. > > *** This is how the image was created: > # xen-create-image --hostname=1stpvguest --vcpus

Re: [OT] Valid DKIM signature (Was: Re: I want to rejoice like a queen. Pauline)

Hi, On Sun, Aug 13, 2017 at 11:21:04PM +0900, Byung-Hee HWANG (황병희, 黃炳熙) wrote: [snipped spam] > By the way the mail got valid DKIM signature. It came from a real person so why wouldn't it? DKIM says nothing of content. > Please explain to me why the mail is here. It's odd. Please Please Pleas

Re: IPv6 SLAAC and RFC 7217

Hi John, On Sun, Jan 21, 2018 at 07:29:23PM +0100, John Naggets wrote: > I was wondering if there is a "standard" way in Debian 9 through the > /etc/network/interfaces file to enable/force using a stable private > IPv6 address using SLAAC as specified in RFC 7217? I have never tried it but

Re: (resend) trouble installing Debian 8.10 via netboot

Hi, On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 04:24:32PM -0500, mizuki wrote: > since the netboot kernel was updated in Dec 5 2017 for Debian 8.10, we were > not able to install any of the physical systems (vms works). […] > 2) The attempt to mount a file system with type ext4 in SCSI1(1,0,0), > partition #7 (sda

Re: comment and new question--when do upgrades take effect (was: Re: Kernel for Spectre and Meltdown)

Hi, On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 08:18:35AM -0500, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > iiuc, the fixes for Spectre and Meltdown have been "backported" > (probably not the right word) to Wheezy (which is my "everyday" > machine). If I'm wrong about that, somebody can let me know. The confusion here is that "S

Re: Kernel for Spectre and Meltdown

Hello, On Thu, Feb 01, 2018 at 11:53:36AM +, Michael Fothergill wrote: > Thus for anyone in the entire world who is new to linux,the most > efficient route at present could well be to install Fedora and be > stable and spectre protected out of the box rather than taking on > the indefatigable

Re: Kernel for Spectre and Meltdown

Hello, On Sat, Feb 03, 2018 at 09:43:33PM +, Michael Fothergill wrote: > I am trying to suggest one would want to move faster than the approximate > cycle time of new stable releases here. You have been repeatedly told that the updates will appear as security updates in Debian stable when the

Re: Kernel for Spectre and Meltdown

Hi Michael, On Sat, Feb 03, 2018 at 11:44:39PM +, Michael Fothergill wrote: > On 3 February 2018 at 23:14, Andy Smith wrote: > > If you want to make genuine constructive suggestions for how things > > could be improved, I think you should start by identifying what

Re: How to safely hold kernel packages ?

Hello, On Tue, Feb 06, 2018 at 06:00:16PM +0100, Stéphane Rivière wrote: > So, after an aptitude search ~i~linux- I hold theses meta-packages : > > aptitude hold linux-image-amd64 > aptitude hold linux-headers-amd64 I think you also would need to hold package linux-image-4.9.0-4-amd64. > Hopefu

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