Re: wiki

Hi Rodary, On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 02:42:14AM +0100, Rodary Jacques wrote: > Why can't I access wikis from a Debian box: > Forbidden > You are not allowed to access this! > is the message I get. On this list we enjoy a challenge and I'm afraid that trying every version of every different browser

Re: wiki

Hello, On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 10:38:49AM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > There have been several similar complaints in #debian IRC over the last > year or two, with random people coming in and saying that they get a > "403 Forbidden" on the Debian wiki, but the one thing they all have in > common i

Re: Stretch net install on EeePC - unable to resolve mirror host address

Hello, On Sat, Feb 17, 2018 at 10:34:10PM +0300, Reco wrote: > Weird, isn't it? Someone responsible to wiki.debian.org blocked the > whole 78.192.0.0/10 subnet (AS12322), so it seems. In it was suggested to report such things to w...@de

Re: Is Debian Linux protected against the Meltdown and Spectre security flaws?

bout that. On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 01:23:25PM +, Michael Fothergill wrote: > ​Checkout the debian backports suite (kindly resourcefully suggested by > Andy Smith) Please note that I provided these details to Michael Fothergill as part of Michael's general query about how a user coul

Re: Is Debian Linux protected against the Meltdown and Spectre security flaws?

Hello, On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 09:03:20PM +, Michael Fothergill wrote: > On 19 February 2018 at 19:10, Michael Lange wrote: > > no, I meant to say that you were looking at the wrong place if you wanted > > to see if the "spectre-2" fix has arrived in debian, for this one you > > will have to

Re: Is Debian Linux protected against the Meltdown and Spectre security flaws?

Hi Stephen, On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 10:09:52AM +0100, Stephan Seitz wrote: > On Di, Feb 20, 2018 at 05:09:12 +0000, Andy Smith wrote: > >CVE-2017-5753 is Spectre v1. There is no fix for Spectre v1 anywhere > >yet, not even in Linux upstream. > > Are you sure? […] >

Re: Wheezy to Stretch

Hello, On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 08:17:43AM +0100, deloptes wrote: > Jimmy Johnson wrote: > > I never said that!  But I do know what I'm talking about because I do > > what I'm talking about constantly. > > you have said that, because in the official upgrade notes, as Roberto > pointed out, it says

Re: Re: [partial resolution] Re: Problem withj dd

Hi Jacques, On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 02:46:47AM +0100, Rodary Jacques wrote: > 1/ No the same removable device doesn't always receive the same /dev/sdX.If > you unmount it ( umount /dev/sdX) and plug it again, it can be called > /dev/sdY (I suppose the kernel keeps tne name in memory for some ti

Re: Debian v.9.2.1 DVDs - how long are they good for?

Hello, On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 02:58:45PM +, Brian wrote: > On Wed 14 Mar 2018 at 13:03:14 +, Joe wrote: > > Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > That's a wee bit overly optimistic. In practice, you will find it > > > rather challenging to upgrade from a version of Debian that has been > > > archi

Re: some questions about cfengine3

Hi, On Tue, Mar 27, 2018 at 08:30:44PM +0200, deloptes wrote: > I don't have experience with puppet. I am in the process of migrating a Puppet setup that's been in use and development for ~8 years to Ansible. Although it is a fairly simple manifest, managing only 47 hosts, the rate of change wit

Re: How to execute user's scripts when upgrading a certain package via apt/aptitude

Hi Mikhail, On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 06:29:06PM +0200, Mikhail Morfikov wrote: > Is there a way to pass some extra commands/script to apt/aptitude so when the > firefox package is to be upgraded, it would recreate the links automatically? I've never tried it but looking at "man apt.conf" it seems

Re: Strange .bashrc Problem

Hello, On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 03:34:02PM -0400, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > Whie the additional lines are necessary for the execution of HEX they seem > to have wiped oour all of the alias entries I have in .bashrc. Rebooting > the system does not eliminate the problem! Bu bumbling about I disco

Re: [Progress Report1] Re: Using debootstrap

Hi Richard, On Sun, Apr 29, 2018 at 06:43:42AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 04/29/2018 12:59 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: > >On 04/28/2018 10:57 PM, Kushal Kumaran wrote: > >>You can try it out to verify after you fix the mount options to not > >>include nodev. […] > The man page for mount hin

Re: gstreamer-1.0/libgstlame.so what is this?

Hello, On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 11:34:13AM +0900, A_Man_Without_Clue wrote: > E: > /tmp/apt-dpkg-install-6Cr5xr/03-gstreamer1.0-plugins-good_1.14.0-4_amd64.deb: > trying to overwrite > '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gstreamer-1.0/libgstlame.so', which is also > in package gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly:amd6

Re: Debian glossary?

Hello, On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 06:46:01AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > Man pages by their nature/purpose assume a certain level of expertise. > They can be daunting for the uninitiated. > > Comments? https://www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/misc/nipple.html : The only "intuitive" interface is the n

Re: pointless systemd dependencies

Hello, On Mon, May 07, 2018 at 01:47:51AM +, David Griffith wrote: > Could we start the process of identifying packages that have dependencies on > systemd in some way that is are not actually required? Nothing has been stopping anyone from doing this since the day the first package in Debian

Re: pointless systemd dependencies

Hi David, On Mon, May 07, 2018 at 06:32:16AM +, David Griffith wrote: > How many packages are there that could possibly need to be linked against > systemd? Are you going to provide us with any examples of packages you think are needlessly linked against systemd? I expect there are some, but

Re: Backup problem using "cp"

Hello, On Mon, May 07, 2018 at 07:51:23AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > I'll likely abandon further immediate investigation of cp. I've other > projects to complete It would still be good to establish why "cp -x" was seemingly able to cross filesystem boundaries as that would be a bug. Cheers,

Re: making more room in root partition for distribution upgrade

Hi, On Thu, May 17, 2018 at 06:06:46PM -0500, Mark Copper wrote: [sda1 root partition got too small; extended partition on sda2 fills remainder of disk] > This must be a FAQ. But there appear to be two ways forward. > > 1. Back-up /home, enlarge / partition, copy back-up back to new, smaller >

Re: NetworkManager.service: Start request repeated too quickly

Hello, On Thu, May 17, 2018 at 09:31:26PM -0400, Dan Norton wrote: > In another (non-minimal) system with a working DNS: > > root@debU:~# apt search libjansson > [snip] > libjansson4/stable,now 2.9-1 amd64 [installed,automatic] > C library for encoding, decoding and manipulating JSON data > > S

Re: making more room in root partition for distribution upgrade

Hello, On Fri, May 18, 2018 at 04:00:45AM -0700, Rick Thomas wrote: > Contrary to Andy’s recommendation, though, I would also > put swap on LVM — if only just to simplify things when I do find > myself needing to adjust it Well, OK. But… Should I need more swap then I don't really find adding an

Re: Securing development environment

Hello, On Sat, May 19, 2018 at 07:29:28AM +0200, Chris wrote: > Make those services listen to localhost and do port forwarding in your > SSH client. This would be my suggestions also. Have sshd as the only public service, and require login by public key. It's basically a VPN but a little bit les

Re: Securing development environment

Hello, On Sat, May 19, 2018 at 12:03:37PM +0200, Hubert Hauser wrote: > On 19/05/18 07:29, Chris wrote: > > Make those services listen to localhost and do port forwarding in your > > SSH client. > > It might be a good idea but I am not sure whether fail2ban with nginx > basic_auth mechanism is a

Re: making more room in root partition for distribution upgrade

Hello, On Sun, May 20, 2018 at 07:59:48PM -0400, songbird wrote: > Pascal Hambourg wrote: > > Then LVM is your friend. You can create as many logical volumes as you > > like with minimal sizes and easily extend them when needed. This way you > > don't waste space in overprovisioning. > > adde

Re: package won't configure, stuck in queue

Hi Charles, On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 09:24:44AM -0500, Charles Zeitler wrote: > it froze before fully configured, and i killed apt. > now I get the message to do "sudo dpkg --configure -a" > whenever i use apt/synaptic. > > when I try "sudo dpkg --configure -a", however, it also freezes before > f

Re: package won't configure, stuck in queue

Hello, On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 05:39:58PM -0500, Charles Zeitler wrote: > sudo dpkg --dry-run -r initramfs-tools > dpkg: dependency problems prevent removal of initramfs-tools: > linux-image-4.9.0-6-amd64 depends on initramfs-tools (>= > 0.120+deb8u2) | linux-initramfs-tool; however: To be hones

Re: USB "null modem" cables and related Linux driver questions

Richard, On Fri, Jun 01, 2018 at 02:16:47PM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 06/01/2018 09:01 AM, Michael Stone wrote: > >I can't think of any applications where that's going to be better > >over a pair of USB-Serial dongles than a pair of USB-Ethernet > >dongles. > > Please read my stated goals

Re: netboot images for Debian 9 seems is broken?

Hi, On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 03:29:28PM -0400, mizuki wrote: > "No kernel modules were found. This probably is due to a mismatch between > the kernel used by this version of the installer and the kernel version in > the archive. In my experience, the above is correct. That is, I've experienced thi

Re: netboot images for Debian 9 seems is broken?

Hello, On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 02:26:20PM +0100, Mike wrote: > On Fri, Jun 15, 2018 at 01:43:50AM +0000, Andy Smith wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 03:29:28PM -0400, mizuki wrote: > > > "No kernel modules were found. This probably is due to a mismatch between > &

Re: How to blocks clients between them in subnet

Hi Pol, On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 02:18:03PM +0200, Pol Hallen wrote: > I've a network 192.168.2.0/24 connected by routing to 192.168.1.0/24 > > I'd like blocks clients on 192.168.2.0/24 between then in same network. > > So, client1 can go to 192.168.1.0/24 but can't see other clients in > 192.168

Re: Hot swapping failed disk /dev/sda in RAID 1 array

Hi Urs, On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 04:01:39PM +0200, Urs Thuermann wrote: > 2. Can I hotplug the new drive and rebuild the RAID array? It should work, if your SATA port supports hotplug. Plug the new drive in and see if the new device node appears. If it does then you're probably good to go. You ca

Re: w, who, finger, last, and netstat and ipv6

Hi Michael, On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 11:57:32PM +0100, Michael Grant wrote: > Why is it w, who, and finger truncate an ipv6 address just after the first > 4 characters of the address (the first :)? It isn't a great answer but I'm guessing the honest one is that it's because they come from a time b

Re: w, who, finger, last, and netstat and ipv6

On Sat, Jul 23, 2016 at 01:53:07AM +, Andy Smith wrote: > On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 11:57:32PM +0100, Michael Grant wrote: > > netstat does a little better still but not much: > > > > tcp6 0 2640 2600:3c00:::9:22 2a00:23c4:6d10:4d:36663 > > EST

Re: w, who, finger, last, and netstat and ipv6

Hi Michael, On Sun, Jul 24, 2016 at 12:08:34AM +0100, Michael Grant wrote: > > > % who > > > mgrant pts/12016-07-18 06:15 (2a00:S.1) > > > > I type "who" on Debian jessie and I do get the full IPv6 address: > > > > $ who > > andy pts/62016-07-23 01:42 (2001:ba8:1f1:f019::2)

Re: nosh and redo have moved

Hello, On Fri, Aug 05, 2016 at 07:52:54PM +0200, Andre Majorel wrote: > In a nutshell, Virgin Media shut http://homepage.ntlworld.com/ > down without warning. A poster child for the virtues of serving content you care about under a domain name you control (as much as one can control a domain name

Re: How to blocks clients between them in subnet

Hello, On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 01:26:42PM +0100, Darac Marjal wrote: > (you can't assume that eth0 talks to 192.168.1.0/24 and eth1 talks > to 192.168.2.0/24, for example). It's not impossible, but needs a > bit more care. ebtables could enforce that but I agree it is much more hassle than physic

Re: A minimalist network

Hi Richard, On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 05:27:13PM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > The WinXP machine no longer reported a disconnected cable. > The Jessie Mate machine now reported it was attempting to establish a > connection. > > IOW both machines recognized a PHYSICAL connection. > *NOTHING MORE*

Re: A minimalist network

Hi Richard, On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 07:41:56AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > As I had said in last paragraph of > https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2016/08/msg00609.html : > "Why would I be interested in ssh as both machines are sitting on my > desk and _neither_ will be connected to the inter

Linux source address selection (Was Re: url redirected in chrome/chromium, but working fine, according to ping/traceroute, lynx, w3m, iceweasel.)

Hi rhkramer, On Sun, Oct 09, 2016 at 04:23:45PM -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > I'm not the OP, and I'm sort of piggybacking and going somewhat (or a lot?) > OT, In that case it would be good to change the subject of the email. I've done so here. > but I am curious about how old inet4 (right

Re: What is the correct way to configure networking card on a Debian 8.6 Jessie server?

Hi Ronnie, On Fri, Oct 14, 2016 at 05:24:14PM +0100, Ronnie Jorgensen wrote: > Just installed Debian 8.6 with Cinnamon desktop i am seem to have > some network config problems. I also had the same on another server > without a desktop environment. Either using /etc/network/interfaces or NetworkMa

Re: dd - proper use or more suitable program

Hi Richard, On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 10:49:37AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > I was considering using dd to copy the entire drive to a *SINGLE* > partition of a 1 TB drive with the intention making a "byte perfect" > of of the defective drive to a new 300 GB drive at a later time to > then attempt

Re: dd - proper use or more suitable program

Hi Richard, On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 03:31:21PM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > How big might the logfile be when trying to recover a known flaky 300 > GB drive. I've lots of space? Some convienient, some not. TL;DR: this depends on how many bad sectors you expect to find. If the number is likely t

Re: wheezy, cannot change the address of eth1

Hello, On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 09:13:26PM +, Darac Marjal wrote: > To cut a long story short, you can't add a default route if you already > have one (well, technically you can, but you'd need to provide more > information). You probably have a default route sending traffic over eth0. Yes, I

Re: set domain name in Debian `

Hi Glenn, On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 01:27:28PM -0700, Glenn English wrote: > I have to change the domain name of a Jessie server I'm working on. How do > you do it? (Aside from putting the FQDN in /etc/hostname, which kinda works.) I normally put the short name in /etc/hostname and then the:

Re: set domain name in Debian `

Hi Glenn, On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 11:13:02PM -0700, Glenn English wrote: > > On Nov 11, 2016, at 9:58 PM, Andy Smith wrote: > > After you have done that, what command are you using which shows you > > the old/incorrect values? > > Mostly hostname - f. That's what I

Re: set domain name in Debian `

saw this copy on-list. > > On Nov 11, 2016, at 11:45 PM, Andy Smith wrote: > > > > Okay. So I think we should focus on why "hostname -f" returns the > > wrong/outdated info. I'm not sure yet. > > > > Out of interest what does "hostname -d&quo

Re: trouble setting up raid1

Hi Bill, On Sat, Nov 12, 2016 at 10:56:11AM -0800, Bill wrote: > I'd guess that it's highly unlikely that there's a maximum number of > Raid partitions, although I could live with it, but why is Partman > rejecting my overtures? Can you try switching to the virtual console and setting up the RAID

Re: Is preseed.cfg flexible enough?

Hi Richard, On Sat, Nov 26, 2016 at 06:56:23AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > Can preseed.cfg handle those and similar in an D.E. agnostic manner? If you can't find a feature or setting built in to d-i's preseed, then you can always preseed a program or shell script and run it at the end of the i

Re: mdadm - two questions

Hi Kamil, On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 01:26:55AM +0100, Kamil Jońca wrote: > My first plan was somehow migrate to RAID10. I thought that is simply > "raid0 over some raid1 arrays" so it should be legal to use 2*1TB + > 2*1GB devices and then extend 2*1G => 2*1TB. But it not work that > way. All device

Re: ssh doesn't work.

Hi, On Tue, Dec 06, 2016 at 01:33:07PM +0900, EenyMeenyMinyMoa wrote: > But when I execute either of these commands > $ ssh -p testac@192.168.0.5 > $ ssh -p -l testac -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa_test 192.168.0.5 > , the terminal doesn't resopnd for minutes and finally gives this message. > ssh: con

Re: Advantages of Debian "backports" over "testing"?

Hi Martin, On Thu, Dec 08, 2016 at 01:06:55PM +0200, Martin T wrote: > is it a good practice to prefer latest versions from > backports(jessie-backports) by default while using stable(jessie) > distribution? […] > Or is it a better practice to cherry-pick packages from "jessie-backports"? Perso

Re: chgrp with user

Hi Xen, On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 06:24:59PM +0100, Xen wrote: > I am trying to get a webserver to run under my regular user, or at > least to have the website's files under control of my regular user, > but the webserver runs as www-data. You've been shown how to put yourself in the www-data group

Re: "No space left on device" error, but df shows plenty of space

Hi Kynn, On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 08:01:00AM -0500, Kynn Jones wrote: > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > /dev/sda5 381993164 206410036 156155956 57% / […] > # dpkg-reconfigure ntp > Error: No space left on device > > How can I troubleshoot this

Re: "No space left on device" error, but df shows plenty of space

Hi Kynn, On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 06:42:39PM -0500, Kynn Jones wrote: > After the machine rebooted, I was able to run `dpkg-reconfigure ntp` > without error. > > Unfortunately, I'll never know what the problem was. Do you use btrfs? What does "df -i" report now, after your reboot when things are

Re: What file system to use?

Hi Dennis, On Wed, Feb 01, 2017 at 02:23:13AM -0600, Dennis Wicks wrote: > I have several ext? and a few with Reiserfs. Is there a better choice > than Reiser now? What are your requirements or typical usage? > Also, is there any way to convert from my existing > fs to the recommended one? I do

Re: "No space left on device" error, but df shows plenty of space

Hi Kynn, On Wed, Feb 01, 2017 at 10:43:37AM -0500, Kynn Jones wrote: > On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 7:24 AM, Andy Smith wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 06:42:39PM -0500, Kynn Jones wrote: > > > Unfortunately, I'll never know what the problem was. > > > > Do you us

Re: how to deploy common ssh_config and sshd_config settings on all hosts?

Hi Harald, On Thu, Feb 02, 2017 at 09:40:48AM +0100, Harald Dunkel wrote: > Problem: Deploying a custom ssh authentication scheme common to > all Debian hosts in the lan appears to be apita, esp. since the > next openssh upgrade might put the default config files upside > down again. When you do

Re: how to deploy common ssh_config and sshd_config settings on all hosts?

Hi Harald, On Thu, Feb 02, 2017 at 02:50:09PM +0100, Harald Dunkel wrote: > On 02/02/17 11:17, Andy Smith wrote: > > Also through the use of override config files that are included into > > the main config file, you can avoid being prompted about changes to > > the main conf

Re: logrotate - got compressed log

Hi Kamil, On Sat, Feb 04, 2017 at 10:11:00AM +0100, Kamil Jońca wrote: > I have logrotate with config (excerpt) > --8<---cut here---start->8--- > compress […] > And since some days I started to receive *compressed* old syslog files > :( instead uncompressed on

archive.debian.org returning 403 Forbidden

Hello, Some time in the last 24 hours, archive.debian.org started returning 403 Forbidden when used as an APT repository: $ sudo apt-get update Ign http://archive.debian.org squeeze Release.gpg Ign http://archive.debian.org/debian/ squeeze/contrib Translation-en Ign http://archive

Re: archive.debian.org returning 403 Forbidden

On Sat, Feb 11, 2017 at 01:18:31PM +, Andy Smith wrote: > Is this intentional? > > If not, who should the problem be reported to? Took a stab at reporting it to ftpmas...@debian.org for now. Cheers, Andy

Re: archive.debian.org returning 403 Forbidden

Hello, On Sat, Feb 11, 2017 at 11:23:00PM +, GiaThnYgeia wrote: > Andy Smith: > > Took a stab at reporting it to ftpmas...@debian.org for now. […] > ohh ... wait it just came back UP again > http://archive.debian.org/debian/dists/squeeze/main/binary-amd64/ > It is all the

Re: DNS hits

Hi Glenn, On Sat, Feb 11, 2017 at 04:11:13PM -0700, Glenn English wrote: > Does your DNS answer recursive queries? > > > > Oh, my lord. I didn't think it did -- I tried to configure BIND to do > recursion only from my net. I just tried it from an external IP, and sure > enough, it gave me an addr

Re: Fstab Problem

Hi Stephen, On Sun, Feb 19, 2017 at 07:37:50AM -0500, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > # […] > #UUID=d65867da-c658-4e35-928c-9dd2d6dd5742 /dev/sdb1 ext4 > errors=remount-ro 0 1 > #UUID=007c1f16-34a4-438c-9d15-e3df601649ba /dev/sdb2 ext4 > errors=remount-ro 0 1 You've put the dev

Re: mdraid will no start at boot

Hi basti, On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 10:21:51AM +0100, basti wrote: > on one of my debian machine i have a error with one md raid. > > There are > md0 => / > md1 => /backup > md2 => /samba > > md2 is not start/assemble after reboot, I had a similar issue when I did not include the driver for some

Re: Failing disk advice

Hello, On Sun, Mar 05, 2017 at 08:38:27PM -0800, David Christensen wrote: > On 03/05/2017 01:02 PM, Gregory Seidman wrote: > >I have a disk that is reporting SMART errors. What are the errors? Some are more serious, some less so. > >It is an active disk in a (kernel, not hardware) RAID1 > >confi

Re: procmail, when were the last rights administered?

Hi Gene, On Mon, Mar 06, 2017 at 09:29:37PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > And what replaces it in the MTA dept? procmail is still in Debian stretch and if it still works for you then it should continue to work for you. More modern alternatives include Sieve: http://sieve.info/clients and ma

Re: procmail, when were the last rights administered?

On Tue, Mar 07, 2017 at 02:47:42AM +, Andy Smith wrote: > On Mon, Mar 06, 2017 at 09:29:37PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > And what replaces it in the MTA dept? Oh, and procmail is not an MTA (and neither is maildrop…), but more correctly a Mail Delivery Agent, but I got what

Re: How to restart root sending emails?

Hi Sharon, On Sun, Mar 12, 2017 at 10:55:05AM +, Sharon Kimble wrote: > In an effort to get gnus to read root emails I've chowned > /var/mail/mail, added myself to the 'mail' group, changed the > permissions of /var/mail/mail, and generally frigged around with it. That is not a good way to go

Re: How to restart root sending emails?

Hello, On Sun, Mar 12, 2017 at 10:49:50PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > On Mon 13 Mar 2017 at 03:05:31 (+), Andy Smith wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 12, 2017 at 10:55:05AM +, Sharon Kimble wrote: > > > In an effort to get gnus to read root emails I've chowned > > >

Re: If Linux Is About Choice, Why Then ...

Hello, On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 01:48:28PM -0700, Miles Fidelman wrote: > That might be because all of those who run servers - the traditional > realm of Debian - have given up and migrated elsewhere. We can't > afford to run a poorly designed load of crap, that takes over one's > machine, as an i

Re: MBR partitioning, and content after partition table but before first partition

Hello, On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 08:36:59PM -0700, David Christensen wrote: > Is anyone aware of a utility that can walk a file system and replace > identical files with hard links? As an alternative to doing this, you could consider using a filesystem with block-level de-duplication support. ZFS

Re: installer defaults for desktops (was Re: Suggested edit)

Hello, On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 01:25:20PM +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 12:16:54PM +, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > > This thread is a great example of why I really despise debian-user > > sometimes. > > There's no reason to be so hostile, you simply disagree with each

Re: installer defaults for desktops (was Re: Suggested edit)

Hi Jonathan, On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 10:16:16AM +, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 06:29:35AM +0000, Andy Smith wrote: > > It can be useful to note the names of people who can't seem to > > prevent themselves from writing argumentative and massively >

Re: ipv6 apt issue

Hi, On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 01:24:39PM -0500, Matt Zagrabelny wrote: > I've got a dual stack host and when doing various apt-y things I attempt to > connect to: > > # apt update > 0% [Connecting to ftp-chi.osuosl.org (2600:3402:200:227::2) > > but it hangs and doesn't seem to complete its connec

Is it possible to conduct a Debian install over wifi (iwlwifi)?

Hi, I've got a ThinkPad X1 Carbon gen 4 which I'd like to try installing Debian on. Preferably stable, but I'll try with testing if necessary. The machine has an Intel 8260 wifi which will require non-free firmware. Although it has an eth0 (e1000e), physically using that requires an adaptor, so t

Re: Is it possible to conduct a Debian install over wifi (iwlwifi)?

Hello, On Mon, Mar 07, 2016 at 03:39:26AM +, Andy Smith wrote: > As per > http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/ > I wrote an ISO of the current amd64 netinst including non-free > firmware to a USB and booted from it. > > At no point do

Re: Is it possible to conduct a Debian install over wifi (iwlwifi)?

Hi Brian, On Mon, Mar 07, 2016 at 10:46:47AM +, Brian wrote: > 1. Stop at the 'Detect network hardware' stage and switch to a console. > > 2. Unpack the .deb for the firmware you want: > > ar -x /cdrom/pool/non-free/f/firmware-nonfree/ Because I was using the non-free firmware installer

GNOME 3, how do you ensure windows are grouped in the dash?

Hi, I'm experimenting with moving to GNOME 3 from Unity but there is a particular behaviour I'm having trouble replicating and although it's a small thing, I don't think I can live without it. My workflow generally results in me having many (15+) rxvt-unicode terminal windows each connected to di

Re: GNOME 3, how do you ensure windows are grouped in the dash?

Hello, On Wed, Mar 09, 2016 at 09:18:52AM +, Liam O'Toole wrote: > On 2016-03-09, Andy Smith wrote: > > The thing is, I really like urxvt! And I really like having one > > urxvt window for each host, using screen to have multiple sessions > > within each one. >

Re: GNOME 3, how do you ensure windows are grouped in the dash?

Hi Sven, On Wed, Mar 09, 2016 at 11:05:14AM +0100, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > On Wed, 2016-03-09 at 09:18 +, Liam O'Toole wrote: > No surprise as gnome-terminal is well integrated with GNOME :) > > But xterm also have its windows grouped in the shell. Hmm... > > I examined the window hints set

Re: GNOME 3, how do you ensure windows are grouped in the dash?

Hello, On Wed, Mar 09, 2016 at 11:36:18AM +0100, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > On Wed, 2016-03-09 at 10:17 +0000, Andy Smith wrote: > > It would be a real shame if this could not be achieved with > > arbitrary applications, as I find urxvt a lot faster than > > gnome-terminal. :(

Re: HWRAID

Hi, This is more of a debian-user question as it is off-topic on debian-project. I've sent a copy there. On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 05:50:56PM +0200, bortunadr...@gmail.com wrote: > Is there any chance to install Debian8 over hardware raid 10 ? If > true please give a list of compatible cards. It

Re: What is cisco-sccp?

Hi Gábor, On Sun, Apr 03, 2016 at 09:04:44PM +0200, Gábor Hársfalvi wrote: > How could I know what program uses the port 2000? You keep asking "how can I get rid of it?" and "how can I close it?" and "why is it in Debian?" but you haven't yet shown us why you think you have something related to c

Re: No ext4 in netinstall debian wheezy

Hi Jonas, On Tue, Apr 05, 2016 at 03:21:10PM +0300, jonas wrote: > I`m trying to install debian wheezy 64bit via pxe and i`m using > netinstall image (i have installed a lot of servers via that pxe and > first time i got this problem) and in manual partitioning i cant find > filesystem ext4, i hav

Re: PXE install

Hi Ethan, On Thu, Apr 07, 2016 at 11:50:57PM -0400, Ethan Rosenberg wrote: > Dear List - > > After a little bit of searching the problem causing the "no boot > filename found" error is the lack of a PXE server. Please back up a bit and tell us what exactly you're trying to do, what works and wha

Re: VPN over IPv6

Hi Philippe, On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 07:42:06PM -0500, Philippe Clérié wrote: > This morning, on my Planet Debian feed, I saw a post from someone > using OpenVPN on IPv6. I thought it somewhat strange since I believe > IPv6 essentially removes the need for VPN. So what might be a use > case for VP

Re: btrfs: mixing raid0 and raid1 - How?

Hello, On Sat, Apr 16, 2016 at 01:35:20PM +0200, Luis Felipe Tabera Alonso wrote: > Still btrfs is quite young, I am not sure if there are serious issues in > 3.17, > I would make some experiments before actual use. If you are going to use btrfs I would consider it essential to be subscribed to

Re: btrfs: mixing raid0 and raid1 - How?

Hi Matthias, On Sat, Apr 16, 2016 at 08:15:43PM +0200, Matthias Bodenbinder wrote: > I am using Mint LMDE2 with debian backports. So I do have kernel > 4.4+71~bpo8+1 running. > btrfs tools are from debian stable, which has version 3.17. I am wondering if > it would make sense to also get the too

Re: searching for hosts in domain local

Hi Dan, On Sat, Apr 16, 2016 at 10:14:29PM -0700, Dan Hitt wrote: > I would like to drop the '.local' because it's an extra six characters > with absolutely no value. > > In principle, i think it should be possible to by just adding > search local > to my /etc/resolv.conf, but this absolutel

Re: searching for hosts in domain local

Hi Dan, On Sat, Apr 16, 2016 at 11:56:11PM -0700, Dan Hitt wrote: > On Sat, Apr 16, 2016 at 10:42 PM, Andy Smith wrote: > > What doesn't work about it? > > It has no effect. > > So, if i do > ping second_host > i get "unknown host" from ping. OK.

Re: TCP/IP over Bluetooth

Hi Peter, On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 08:27:38PM -0700, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > …TCP/IP inside PPP on a Bluetooth connection is hypthetically > possible. > > Has anyone tried it with a debian system on one end at least? Yes; around 4 years ago I used to occasionally pair my Nokia E90 and use it a

Re: ghost partition

Hi Haines, On Sun, May 08, 2016 at 07:48:16PM -0400, Haines Brown wrote: > # ncdu -rx / > 425.5MiB [##] sde1 > $ > 198.3MiB [ ] /lib > 193.8MiB [ ] /mnt > ... I am not familiar with ncdu but looking at its manual

Re: ghost partition

Hi Haines, On Mon, May 09, 2016 at 06:43:59AM -0400, Haines Brown wrote: > I had been inserting a sequence of USB keys to see what was on them, and > pretty sure the sde1 interface was used at some point. But no keys are > inserted at present. I also just did a cross installation onto an […] >

Re: Shell - escapes

Hello, On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 11:18:06AM +0200, Die Optimisten wrote: > How can I escape a ' inside '...' > e.g. perl -e 'print '$ and a' '# I don't want to use " You can't, so if it were me I would use one of perl's alternatives for single-quoted strings, such as: perl -e 'print q{$ and a}

Re: Jessie unable to install DEB

Hi Frank, On Sun, May 15, 2016 at 09:52:37AM -0400, Frank Pikelner wrote: > I'm trying to install DEB so that I can install backports and get > letsencrypt going. At no point on: http://backports.debian.org/Instructions/ does it mention installing a [package called "deb". What instructions

Re: Jessie unable to install DEB

Hi Frank, On Sun, May 15, 2016 at 10:32:06AM -0400, Frank Pikelner wrote: > When I try to run "deb" by itself as sudo or as root I get > > " bash: deb: command not found" > > Am I missing something obvious? At no point in my email, nor in the link I provided, does it tell you to run a command c

Re: need to make an eth0:1 net interface

Hi Gene, On Sun, May 15, 2016 at 07:38:46PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > Do we have a utility that makes it easy to add a :1 to an existing eth0 > interface? It depends what exactly you are trying to achieve. If you just want to add an additional IP address to an interface then you can do that

Re: need to make an eth0:1 net interface

Hi Gene, On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 09:09:15PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Monday 16 May 2016 15:55:33 Brian wrote: > > On Mon 16 May 2016 at 14:45:12 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > Thanks for the interest Andy, but I got it working and its been > > > re-installed in place of the router that wa

Re: /etc/init.d/networking does not start everything in /etc/network/interfaces

Hi Gene, On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 03:12:45PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > Configuring interface eth1=eth1 (inet) > run-parts --verbose /etc/network/if-pre-up.d > run-parts: executing /etc/network/if-pre-up.d/wireless-tools > run-parts: executing /etc/network/if-pre-up.d/wpasupplicant > ip addr add

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