BTRFS and debian

2018-07-09 Thread Ge
Hi there! I am new here. I am trying to install debian on a VM to test it before i install it on my laptop. Since its a laptop i would like to encrypt the hard drive. I would also like to be able to return my whole system to a previous state or just my home directory. I would like to ask 1. What

Apparmor: 1 processes are unconfined but have a profile defined

2018-07-13 Thread Ge
Hello Im trying to make my own profiles for apparmor. I made a profile for firefox-esr but for some reason i cant get apparmor to confine it. I run aa-enforce firefox-esr but nothing change. Any ideas? Thanks in advance for your help. $sudo aa-status apparmor module is loaded. 21 profiles are l

Re: Apparmor: 1 processes are unconfined but have a profile defined

2018-07-13 Thread Ge
Hi! Thanks for your detail reply. On 07/13/2018 11:42 PM, Reco wrote: > Hi. > > I accept on-list communication only. > > On Fri, Jul 13, 2018 at 11:09:19PM +0300, Ge wrote: >> Hi i couldn't figure out so i delete all Firefox profiles and i started >> agai

X Windows security

2004-10-15 Thread Sherman, Michael (GE Energy)
Hi all. I have a quick question. I know that a machine is much less secure when X Windows is running. Does it apply in the same way when X stuff is installed, but the desktop is not actually running? How secure are vncserver sessions and X over ssh? Thanks in advance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

binary compatibility between 2.4 and 2.6 kernels

2004-09-28 Thread Sherman, Michael (GE Energy)
Hello. I have an application, currently running on SUSE 7.0 woth 2.4.4 kernel. I wanted to move this application to Sarge 2.6.3. I set everything up, including the same libg++ , however the application fails to retrieve the serial number of the machine (I don't know what function they used, it's a

Lilo question

2004-10-06 Thread Sherman, Michael (GE Energy)
Hi. I am having a little problem with LILO. I have a machine with Win2000 on the first IDE drive and I want install Debian on the other drive, which happens to be SCSI. If in /etc/lilo.conf I specify boot=/dev/hda -asking LILO to install itself into the MBR, how will I make it aware that Debian ke

cron activates early

2004-11-18 Thread Sherman, Michael (GE Energy)
Hi all. I have a little problem. The date command shows the right time, however the cron scheduler activates 5 hours earlier than needed. I am pretty sure I set the time to US Eastern during installation, and I even reran base-config to verify that. Any ideas? Thanks in advance Mike -- To UNSU

ftp vs samba

2004-09-24 Thread Sherman, Michael (GE Energy)
Hi all. Just wanted to know what your experience was with samba and ftp with regards to speed. I have a Sarge on the local Windows network and I have both (samba and ftp) and I am wondering which one is staying. Also speedwise how does Debian compare with FreeBSD? (Don't want to start any wars, jus

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Cannot apt-add repository

2016-10-05 Thread Rasku, Stephen (GE Digital)
When I try and add-apt-repository, I get the following: $ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:git-core/ppa [sudo] password for srasku: Sorry, try again. [sudo] password for srasku: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/add-apt-repository", line 11, in from softwareproperties.SoftwareP

RE: Cannot apt-add repository

2016-10-06 Thread Rasku, Stephen (GE Digital)
So, what is the best practice to get the latest (or at least newer) version of git? Compile from source? I want to use some of the `git bisect` features that were introduced in 2.7. ...Stephen -Original Message- From: Sven Hartge [mailto:s...@svenhartge.de] "Rasku, Stephe

DVD image creation.

2005-08-23 Thread Sherman, Michael (GE Energy)
Good day all! I've been trying to get mkisofs to create a DVD image for me on my Sarge machine, in order to be able to burn it on Nero (Windows 2000). The utility does create an ISO image rather quickly, however when I open it with Nero, the program refuses to recognize it as a DVD image, despi

how to build custom XEN kernels

2006-11-09 Thread Csillag, Kristof (GE Healthcare, consultant)
Hi thers! How do I build custom XEN kernels? I did read the documentation, but it did not help much. /usr/share/doc/xen-utils-3.0.3-1/README.Debian.gz says this: Should you want to roll your own kernel this is the way yo

XEN sound emulation locks device exclusively

2006-11-09 Thread Csillag, Kristof (GE Healthcare, consultant)
Hi there! My problem is the following: I am experimenting with virtualization with XEN. I am running WinXP in a HVM host with a Debian Gnu/Linux (Etch) dom0. I am also using audio emulation (sb16). This way, sounds from WinXP work fine. And here comes the problem: The HVM guest completely res