Am Di, Apr 02, 2024 at 13:30:43 +0200 schrieb Marc Haber:
from being vulnerable to the current xz-based attack. Just having to
dump an ALL: ALL into /etc/hosts.deny is vastly easier than having to
maintain a packet filter.
Stupid question, but if you put „ALL: ALL” into hosts.deny, couldn’t
Am So, Dez 24, 2023 at 10:06:09 +0100 schrieb Gioele Barabucci:
After the installation there would be no /usr/bin/gpg. Once the user
installs, say, ggp-is-gnupg then /usr/bin/gpg will point to
/usr/bin/gpg-gnupg. Users (and scripts) are still free to install the
And if you want to change it,
Am Mi, Sep 14, 2022 at 08:41:32 -0400 schrieb Jeremy Bicha:
I believe you are significantly overstating the consequences of this
switch. It is just a dependency swap in meta-gnome3. The vast majority
Maybe, but I remember when pulseaudio was forced upon us, even when it
was not really ready
Am Mi, Jan 19, 2022 at 13:34:13 -0600 schrieb Richard Laager:
For people that want something more than systemd-timesyncd, e.g. to get
NTS, I think either are acceptable choices. It seems that the consensus
Well, most people will use the default NTP server of the package and
don’t have a NTP
Am Di, Jan 18, 2022 at 23:16:46 +0100 schrieb Marco d'Itri:
I have no objections if somebody wants to work on packaging ntpsec, but
I do not think that either ntp or ntpsec should be promoted over chrony
nowadays.
Besides from the fact that ntpsec is already packaged: Does chrony
support NTS?
Am Di, Mär 30, 2021 at 12:15:54 +0200 schrieb Stephan Lachnit:
It's supposed to represent everyone who fights for a future where
You will never be able to represent everyone.
Calling for RMS to step back, and everyone who was involved in that
decision, really has nothing to do with cancel
Am Sa, Dez 12, 2020 at 20:27:16 + schrieb Steve McIntyre:
It's still quite new, but we have a package in the archive for this now:
https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/debian-crossgrader
Well, yes, but it is only in unstable.
I tried to install it but apt wanted to replace many packages. Using
Am Sa, Dez 12, 2020 at 18:09:02 +0200 schrieb Adrian Bunk:
4. People who wrongly installed i386 on amd64-capable hardware.
Well, some releases ago befor multi-arch I used to install i386 even on
am64-capable hardware if ram was quite low (=< 8GB) and if the chance
wasn’t that low that you
On Do, Okt 08, 2020 at 22:54:32 -0400, calumlikesapple...@gmail.com wrote:
is probably very handy. Even more handy is the fact that you don't
really need to learn the command name of your image viewer and your pdf
viewer and your html viewer and you .dia viewer and your .mp3 player
and every
On Do, Feb 06, 2020 at 13:25:06 +0100, Ansgar wrote:
Given you wrote earlier that you moved all but one of your machines
away from Debian, whatever Debian installs by default doesn't affect
you anyway.
Well, I still use Debian. In Testing you have elogind now as a complete
systemd
On Mi, Jan 08, 2020 at 02:57:51 -0500, Noah Meyerhans wrote:
visible to administrators. IMO the migration to systemd timers can be
done more smoothly, so it's still preferable.
Well, since you need to support non-systemd systems as well (like mine)
the cron script is still needed (I don’t
from grub. So installing a newer kernel from backports won’t
delete the kernel from the stable release.
This won’t work for systemd.
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On Fr, Aug 09, 2019 at 11:00:03 +0200, Ondřej Surý wrote:
Unprivileged access to port < 1024. The socket-activated services can
start as user since the port binding is done by the systemd, not the
daemon.
If the daemon supports different platforms, it needs a wrapper to bind to
a port <
/
It is not part of Debian, but I managed to use it.
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On Mi, Jul 17, 2019 at 12:32:31 +0100, Thomas Pircher wrote:
# iptables-translate -A INPUT -s 1.2.3.4 -p tcp --dport 587 -j DROP
nft add rule ip filter INPUT ip saddr 1.2.3.4 tcp dport 587 counter drop
Ah, thank you very much!
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On Di, Jul 16, 2019 at 11:23:43 +0200, Guillem Jover wrote:
On Tue, 2019-07-16 at 11:07:15 +0200, Arturo Borrero Gonzalez wrote:
as you may know, Debian 10 buster includes the iptables-nft utility by
default, which is an iptables flavor that uses the nf_tables kernel
subsystem. Is intended to
On Mo, Nov 26, 2018 at 11:05:02 +0100, W. Martin Borgert wrote:
I personally don't care about usrmerge, but if it is useful to a
relevant minority, we should not reject it.
Who says we should reject the usrmerge package? The minority who wishes
for it can install it for years.
But I don’t
On Mo, Nov 26, 2018 at 03:08:09 +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote:
snapshot as well) would be hard and I disagree that the benefits of
merged-/usr would be minor.
There are no benefits of a merged /usr for users who don’t want to export
/usr via NFS or want to use clusters/docker images/etc. And this
On Mo, Nov 26, 2018 at 09:24:40 +0100, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote:
usrmerge is in the archive for 3+ years now. What seems to be needed now
is for a lot of us to actually _try_ it, find and report bugs, and get
this through.
Why, if it was intended as an optional package for people who want
On Fr, Nov 23, 2018 at 03:14:44 +0100, Matthias Klumpp wrote:
There are always unforseen issues to be expected when upgrading. And
Of course, and since a dist-upgrade will bring newer software you may
already have to fix configuration files.
at the moment, the only issues that are known
On Fr, Nov 23, 2018 at 03:02:00 +0100, Hans wrote:
Am Freitag, 23. November 2018, 14:47:28 CET schrieb Stephan Seitz:
And how do you revert this change? As far as I have understand you
can’t remove the usrmerge package and have your system in the old
state again.
Making an image of the whole
On Fr, Nov 23, 2018 at 02:04:05 +0100, Matthias Klumpp wrote:
If there are actual issues encountered, we can always revert a change
And how do you revert this change? As far as I have understand you can’t
remove the usrmerge package and have your system in the old state again.
As others in
On Mi, Nov 21, 2018 at 01:09:47 +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
Debian, is, btw, also losing quickly for not keeping pace with the
world around it.
Or maybe it scares people away with its bullshit decisions.
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On Do, Jul 26, 2018 at 01:59:08 +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
Stephan Seitz - 26.07.18, 11:10:
I don’t understand the problem. No one forces anyone to keep the
package in Debian. Upstream made clear it isn’t interested in
changing the names.
The point is that it currently is in Debian
On Do, Jul 26, 2018 at 09:32:34 +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
Adam Borowski - 26.07.18, 03:09:
I for one don't protest inclusion of the Bible in Debian, despite that
text having been the cause of 100M deaths, nor Quran with its 75M. I
That text did not *directly* cause anything. It were
On Mi, Jul 25, 2018 at 09:25:11 +0200, Ole Streicher wrote:
Obviously we renamed packages (which made us incompatible with the rest
of the world) already if needed. Rememver iceweasel or icedove?
Yes, I do. And I remember the problems with this renaming. And do you
remember the reason? This
On Di, Jul 24, 2018 at 01:19:35 +0100, Matthew Vernon wrote:
Stephan Seitz writes:
He certainly should NOT rename any parts of the package without
upstream consent.
Why not? I can see an argument about not confusing users (though
transitional packages / a weboob-offensive could be made
On Di, Jul 24, 2018 at 11:49:55 +0100, Matthew Vernon wrote:
accept that they are authoritative in this regard. Therefore, you should
rename the offensive parts of this package.
He certainly should NOT rename any parts of the package without upstream
consent. If upstream doesn’t approve (and
On Fr, Mai 04, 2018 at 09:12:39 +0200, Moritz Mühlenhoff wrote:
Same as all previous extension breakages incurred by ESR transitions;
not at all. Apart from enigmail those are all not updated along
in stable, this doesn't scale at all. If you want your extensions
to be kept compatible, get them
On Mi, Apr 25, 2018 at 07:30:15 -0400, The Wanderer wrote:
The simple, obvious means of installing Python in Debian - either
manually, or as a dependency of another package - is via the package
named 'python'. At present, in current testing, doing this will pull in
I don’t think you can see it
On Do, Apr 19, 2018 at 11:00:37 +0200, Christoph Biedl wrote:
But being human I prefer names over numbers, even if it's just for
aesthetic reason - "buster" is just more comfortable than "debian10".
No, it’s not. I know that my systems are running Debian 8 or 9, but
I always have to think if
On Mi, Apr 18, 2018 at 08:52:25 +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote:
On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 11:14:50AM -0400, Michael Stone wrote:
specifically, what locale sorts english words differently than LANG=C?
Estonian (et_EE) sorts z between s and t.
Boah, thanks for all the examples. I didn’t know you could
On Mi, Apr 18, 2018 at 11:14:50 -0400, Michael Stone wrote:
specifically, what locale sorts english words differently than LANG=C?
Since English words (or texts) can have 8bit characters you may get
a different sorting in in different locales.
If you mean ASCII words I don’t know of any
On Mi, Apr 18, 2018 at 02:47:11 +, Holger Levsen wrote:
On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 10:23:29AM -0400, Michael Stone wrote:
really? there's more than one alphabetical order for english words?
yes, sorting depends on the locale... :)
Can you please give an example for the sorting difference in
On Mo, Aug 07, 2017 at 08:52:41 +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
I think that I live in a real enough world (commercial web hosting), and
my customers have been asking for a while to disable at least TLS 1.0
Well, if I understand it correctly, apache/openssl in SLES11 SP4 only
support TLSv1.
Long
On Mo, Aug 07, 2017 at 11:18:38 -0500, Michael Lustfield wrote:
Is there an actual need for the removal of TLS v1.{0,1}? Are either
considered broken or unsupported by upstream? If not, I'd be much more
That’s I like to know as well.
Doing a quick check on my appliances I could find the
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On Fr, Nov 25, 2016 at 10:34:32 +0100, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote:
FWIW certbot from jessie-backports has been working fine for me in
several contexts.
Yes, here as well.
The only problem was the renaming from letsencrypt to certbot.
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On Mi, Nov 16, 2016 at 02:31:28 +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote:
ChaCha20 is hardly obscure: if it is to you then I fear that your
opinion on this issue is not informed enough to be useful.
It doesn’t matter in the end.
If no one wants to delay the next release until all applications support
the grml images yourself and you need
the space to save the images in /boot/grml.
Shade and sweet water!
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new that I wanted to have grml in /boot are having
enough space.
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interfaces.
You can do this with the ip command but you have to do everything
manually.
The same goes for the ifenslave package.
So, yes, someone can file a bug.
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/interfaces in an easy way.
The packages vlan and ifenslave are working very well.
That said I think it would be very cool if I could configure VLANs and
bonds with the Debian installer.
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SLES is using some strange interface names like em1 or p1p2, but I hate
it. I prefer my eth0 name.
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On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 04:00:42PM +0100, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
On Fri, 28 Nov 2014, Stephan Seitz wrote:
Of course not. syslog-ng was not replaced by rsyslog when Debian
changed the default syslog.
Note that syslog-ng was not the default, but sysklogd (which was)
wasn’t replaced either
the files should be moved backed to /etc. In the second
case changed defaults should be documented in the changelog or readme.
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generalised statements about people by
assuming that all people are thinking like you.
If you don’t want choices you can stay with Windows. There is no reason
to make Linux like Windows.
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the correct expression
for cron? cron-daemon|cron?
Is this a release critical bug? As a testing user I now have problems
using bcron.
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Hi!
I sent the attached message to debian-release, but I was told to ask in
debian-devel.
So here is the mail.
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software to replace systemd?
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switched to dependency-based boot. Which did cause
We still have init scripts without LSB headers in our environment. No one
is planning to fix them. There is even new third party software shipping
init scripts without LSB headers.
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teaching XFCE.
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On Fri, Apr 04, 2014 at 04:13:27PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote:
Le vendredi 04 avril 2014 à 15:25 +0200, Stephan Seitz a écrit :
and modern hardware.
This is no longer a requirement in jessie, at least on x86 where
llvmpipe is now accepted as a GL engine.
Ah, thank you.
The default
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forwarded a patch upstream.
I did a „setcap cap_sys_ptrace+eip /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_procs”,
but a normal user can’t still check for running programs of another user.
What did I wrong?
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@osgiliath]: file /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_procs
/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_procs: ELF 64-bit LSB shared object…
If I do a „chmod u+s check_procs” it works. But I think capabilities are
a safer solution than s-bit.
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is always working with auto completion.
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And how is this problem solved? The library which most software can use
or the library which has a maintainer?
I’m using the Multimedia repository anyway because I want MythTV which is
only available there. So I have ffmpeg.
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less than 10 seconds to reconfigure the sound device in the application.
So why should I use pulseaudio?
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setups to find bugs.
Users (at least users from Debian Stable) are not beta testers.
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answer from a judge in the end.
Or do we need to ask different lawyers in different countries? Is the
answer in one country enough? This may affect mirror operators.
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it on others. There are
no features in systemd that I would dump the well known sysvinit.
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to include XEN 4.2 in Wheezy?
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And if it has, it doesn’t mean you can reach the keyserver.
So you can use something like „fping -q keyserver”, if the keyserver is
pingeable. Any other check is not really usefull.
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and do a „pon umts”. No need for NM and Co.
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On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 02:19:19PM +0200, Bjørn Mork wrote:
Stephan Seitz stse+deb...@fsing.rootsland.net writes:
On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 01:08:53PM +0200, Bjørn Mork wrote:
Never mind wireless lan where you've got a well defined kernel API. Try
to configure a modern 3G/LTE modem using
to
use it. And I would wish those people would go away to Windows. There
they can play with shiny new software which doesn’t really work.
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running at the end of
the boot process), but for now I still don’t see any reason to change.
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On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 11:43:03PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 03:46:16PM +0200, Stephan Seitz wrote:
So most of your Debian systems have several users working at the
same time on the same system? Okay, then you have a different user
base.
webserver.
Sorry, I
shouldn’t use discard in fstab, but you need the
option in crypttab and lvm.conf (or TRIM requests are filtered)? Or don’t
you need any discard options in any layer to get fstrim to work?
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Yes, it is, but if tmpfs is seen as an advantage because /tmp can’t block
the system anymore and prevent DOS attacks (among others), this doesn’t
sound so good anymore if you can as easily block the system by filling
/var/tmp or /var/log.
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temporary directory they belong today.
Besides if you set TMPDIR to /home/tmp, you don’t need /tmp at all, no
matter if tmpfs or not. If you want a system tmp create one and set
TMPDIR for these system services.
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shortlived temporary files to use /tmpfs
instead in Debian. But by default we should not give up disk based /tmp
for a default installation.
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to the setting of TMPTIME. You need
tmpreaper to clean /tmp on systems which rarely reboot. And then you have
the same problem with tmpfs.
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On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 07:12:11PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
]] Stephan Seitz
Will Wheezy support SSDs out of the box with all trimming functions,
even if your SSD partition is using LUKS and LVM?
Depends on what you mean by out of the box. I suspect you still need to
turn on discard
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 02:28:59AM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote:
On 06/10/2012 11:55 PM, Stephan Seitz wrote:
Well, if I start Virtual Box on my notebook (4 GB RAM), the system
uses the swap partition.
Frankly, I don't know what the fuck virtualbox is doing
with its memory management, but I
mount”
says, this option is not sufficiently tested yet.
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without
problems as well.
Both things are nothing a standard desktop user can do by its own, but
the standard desktop user will certainly have more disk space than RAM,
so I’m glad this tmpfs for tmp crap is off by default.
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On Wed, Jun 06, 2012 at 11:09:31AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
Stephan Seitz stse+deb...@fsing.rootsland.net writes:
Don’t you think this is getting quite ridiculous? Big temporary
files belong in your $HOME, but small temporary files in /tmp? Only to
switch /tmp from disk to RAM?
No, I
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wishes to change the setting to
keep files in /tmp even after reboot, you can’t use tmpfs, even if you
don’t have enough space left. You can only print a warning message but
not ignore the local configuration.
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(and
so getting problems with databases or logs), /var/tmp is always a link to
/tmp.
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more.
If this is not the meaning of /tmp, then rename it.
Diskspace is cheap and easier to spare than my RAM. So, yes, if someone
has one 3TB partition which is writeable, then /tmp belongs to disk not
to RAM.
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be
used. But for a default installation /tmp belongs to a disk which will be
far bigger than the memory. If a user thinks tmpfs will get him an
advantage in his setup, then he can switch.
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with about 10 or 20 GB, much
easier to spare than RAM.
So I don’t see the advantage of using tmpfs as default, but d-i should
offer the option to put /tmp on tmpfs if the admin wishes it.
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c:\temp. ;-)
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think we can force one of the cases as rule via policy, so the
etc-directory should contain a README (e.g. in /etc/udev/rules.d)
explaining how to change the default configuration.
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or sysctl.
Shade and sweet water!
Stephan
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, without any kind of default anywhere else.
Yes, because I know that something is wrong when it breaks. This is
better than the software is working but not anymore as you expect.
Shade and sweet water!
Stephan
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