Update on problem mounting NFS share

I gave up on the NFS business and went back to good old buggy but reliable SAMBA (LOL), which is what I was using when I was on Debian 8, and which worked fine. Except for one thing, everything's great. In /etc/fstab, I have: //192.168.1.156/BigVol1 /mnt/bigvol1 civs

Can't mount NFS NAS after major upgrade

I upgraded a version 8 system to version 11 from scratch--e.g., I totally reinitialized the internal drive and laid down an entirely fresh install of 11. Then 12 came out about a week later, but I haven't yet upgraded to 12 because I have a show-stopper on 11 which I absolutely must solve

O/T question, but not completely

Please reply privately, unless you really think it's on-topic. Me, I'm not sure. I trying to build a package using automake (aclocal). I have all the tools installed that I need--autotools, autotools-dev, libtool, etc After patching the package's configure script, I attempted to regenerate the

Re: Networking nonfunctional on 8.0

wrote: > Hi. > >On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 04:44:09AM -0400, Steve Matzura wrote: >> 2: eth0: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast >> state DOWN group default qlen 1000 > >Check your Ethernet cable. NO-CARRIER either means that the cable is

Re: OK to upgrade to 8.5?

That article talks about upgrading from 7 (Weezy) to 8 (Jessie). I am already on 8--8.0 specifically. I was thinking of updating, maybe upgrade is the wrong term, to 8.5. On Thu, 28 Jul 2016 12:38:12 +0300, you wrote: >Steve Matzura [2016-07-28 05:21:59-04] wrote: > >> Sho

Re: OK to upgrade to 8.5?

I am running 8.0; 8.5 is out. Came out on June 24. Are you saying I should wait for 9 to become stable release and then upgrade to that version? I thought by going to 8.5 would be a good idea. Maybe not? On Thu, 28 Jul 2016 11:34:01 +0200, you wrote: >Steve Matzura: >> >>

OK to upgrade to 8.5?

Should I follow the standard procedure--edit sources.list to include the DVD drive (if it's not there already), then 'apt-get upgrade' followed by 'apt-get full-upgrade'?

Re: Networking nonfunctional on 8.0

On Wed, 27 Jul 2016 20:46:23 +0200, you wrote: >Le 27/07/2016 à 15:43, Steve Matzura a écrit : >> My 8.0 system has been running great up until Monday evening when >> users started reporting they were unable to connect. Sure enough, I >> couldn't even connect from my LA

Networking nonfunctional on 8.0

My 8.0 system has been running great up until Monday evening when users started reporting they were unable to connect. Sure enough, I couldn't even connect from my LAN. I rebooted, looked at messages from dmesg, and saw nothing unusual--nothing that said networking couldn't start, or there was a

Upgrading from 8.2 to 8.4

Are 'apt-get update' and 'apt-get dist-upgrade' sufficient?

Re: Timing issue with fstab NFS mounts

Dan, On Fri, 13 May 2016 05:12:56 -0400, you wrote: >The options field in fstab should include "_netdev" for devices >which cannot be mounted until networking is stable. I have never heard of that option. I'll try it and report back. Now, what about the lines for the binds that immediately

Timing issue with fstab NFS mounts

While the rest of my system is just cherry, I have not yet been able to solve the problem of why an NFS mount and associated binds don't work unless and until I wait a minute or two after the system comes up, then issue a 'mount -a'. I have tried putting 'mount -a' into /etc/init.d/rc.local, and

Re: Portable Debian?

On Wed, 27 Apr 2016 23:00:53 +0100, Lisi wrote: >Did you discover the Adriane version? Now available as an alternative boot on >the mainstream disk. It is specifically for the blind and partially sighted, >and has things like Daisy Player there, as well as screen readers and speech.

Re: Portable Debian?

Joe: On Wed, 27 Apr 2016 19:05:26 +0100, you wrote: >The most versatile system that I know of is Debian-based Knoppix, but >the development effort goes into hardware detection and driving, with >the result that it is not maintainable. It is installable to a hard >drive, but you throw it away and

Re: Portable Debian?

On Mon, 25 Apr 2016 19:04:40 -0700, David Christensen wrote: >Alternatively, make your own Debian Live images (hybrid ISO -- can put >on optical discs or USB drives): > > https://www.debian.org/devel/debian-live/ Good solution. It solves the drivers problem for

Re: Portable Debian?

On Mon, 25 Apr 2016 20:22:48 +0100, Joe wrote: >I've found that a minimal installation, then dpkg --get-selections and >--set-selections and a bit of judicious /etc copying, to be a fairly >painless way to get a clean near-copy of an existing installation. I >migrated a server, I think lenny or

Re: Portable Debian?

Joe: On Mon, 25 Apr 2016 15:17:08 +0100, you wrote: >I run ssh on a non-standard port, and my router redirects to 22 of my >server, alternatively ssh itself will listen wherever you tell it to. That's probably what I should be doing. As you say, it keeps the logs clean and the riff-raff at

Portable Debian?

My system that I built late last year/early this year is running great, except for the occasional overrun of inbound ssh from such addresses as 59.*.*.*, 213.*.*.* and others, but that's only because I have not put any blockers in place, either on my home gateway device or my Debian system, but

Re: Windows Shares Abound Continuously

Martin: On Sun, 28 Feb 2016 08:44:07 +, you wrote: >Ever since Windows 3.11 its networking has been just awful and prone to >malfunction without notice, they originally lifted the network stack from >FreeBSD but managed to completely screw it, and it is still awful now, both >in sharing and

Windows Shares Abound Continuously

Just when I thought it was safe to let my Debian 8.2 system alone for a few days, I started getting emails from users of the service I provide which uses that system that they could not access any content on the shared-mounted drives on one of my Windows machines. Sure enough, I tried an 'ls' and

Re: Trouble mounting nfs share

On Sun, 7 Feb 2016 17:27:11 -0500, Carlos Kosloff wrote: >There was a package installed liblockfile1, which was causing grief. I wonder if this might be my problem as well, but I don't find any such package installed on my system.

Windows share problem is back

After a couple system reboots for various things, mostly some hardware changes, adding disks, etc., my Windows shares aren't mounting any more, plus I'm getting a console error that the mount failed error connecting to socket, error 115 mount operation in progress, etc. What I want to know, aside

A heart-felt thank-you to all

Thanks to all who've helped me climb the learning curve of Debian 8.2 to get my system up and running. Specific thanks go, in no particular order, to Daniel, Gary, Reco, Lisi, Dan, Mudongliang, Joe, the Wanderer, Rick Thomas, and many others who took the time and had the patience to bootstrap my

Re: DenyHosts

Reco: On Sat, 16 Jan 2016 12:57:30 +0300, you wrote: >>-j, --jump target >> This specifies the target of the rule; i.e., what to do >> if the packet matches it. The target can be a user-defined >> chain (other than the one this rule is in), one of the special

Re: ssh Problem using it for SFTP

Daniel, On Sat, 16 Jan 2016 14:50:20 -0300, you wrote: >I'm sorry. I Had forgotten of the detail of the accessibility :( No worries. Things are in a sorry state at the moment because of other things I did without realizing I did them, but I've already told my usership that Voyager will have to

Re: DenyHosts

On Sat, 16 Jan 2016 20:16:28 +0300, you wrote: >> What'd I do? >> > >Exactly this: > >iptables -F INPUT >iptables -I INPUT -p tcp --dport 22 -m conntrack --ctstate NEW \ > -m hashlimit --hashlimit 1/hour --hashlimit-burst 16 \ > --hashlimit-mode srcip --hashlimit-name ssh \ >

Re: ssh Problem using it for SFTP

/16 13:10, Steve Matzura wrote: > >> Failing connection: >> (...) >> no matching cipher found: client >> aes192-cbc,3des-cbc,blowfish-cbc,aes128-cbc,aes256-cbc,rijndael128-cbc,rijndael192-cbc,rijndael256-cbc,rijndael-...@lysator.liu.se,des-cbc,des-...@ssh.com >> server

Re: Mounting a Windows Share

After a reboot, one of my shares will no longer mount. And of course, it's the big one, the NAS box. Here is output from `strace mount.cifs //DISKSTATION1/BigVol1 /mnt/bigvol1 -o vers=2.1,username=***,password=*** (*** is real username and password covered up): execve("/sbin/mount.cifs",

Re: DenyHosts

Reco: On Sat, 16 Jan 2016 23:49:57 +0300, you wrote: >Reverse the order of these two rules. As I wrote in another part of this >thread, I mistook rules' sequence. Like this? iptables -I INPUT -p tcp --dport 22 --tcp-flags SYN,RST,ACK SYN \ -j DROP iptables -I INPUT -p tcp --dport 22 -m

Re: DenyHosts

Reco: On Sat, 16 Jan 2016 23:48:54 +0300, you wrote: >Correct sequence would be: > >iptables -F INPUT >iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 22 -m conntrack --ctstate NEW \ > -m hashlimit --hashlimit 1/hour --hashlimit-burst 16 \ > --hashlimit-mode srcip --hashlimit-name ssh \ >

Re: Mounting a Windows Share

Emanuel, On Sun, 17 Jan 2016 00:41:11 +0100, you wrote: >modprobe cifs maybe can help you. What is supposed to happen when I enter that command? All I got was another shell prompt.

Re: DenyHosts

Well, I thought I was doing so well. I discover now that no one, including me, can get into my system any more via ssh. Here are the current iptables rules: *filter :INPUT ACCEPT [0:0] :FORWARD ACCEPT [0:0] :OUTPUT ACCEPT [0:0] -A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --dport 22 --tcp-flags SYN,RST,ACK SYN -j DROP

Re: DenyHosts

I tried redoing the tables: *filter :INPUT ACCEPT [0:0] :FORWARD ACCEPT [0:0] :OUTPUT ACCEPT [0:0] -A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --dport 22 --tcp-flags SYN,RST,ACK SYN -j DROP -A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --dport 22 -m conntrack --ctstate NEW -m hashlimit --hashlimit-upto 1/hour --hashlimit-burst 16

DenyHosts

My new fledgling server is being slammed, and I mean slammed like Sandy slammed New York, by root login attacks from 59.46.71.36, ShenYang, China. Of course, I don't allow root logins except from the console or via ssh key pair, so I presume I'm safe that way, but I'd sure like to cut down on the

Re: OT - gap -Re: Using bind mount

On Fri, 15 Jan 2016 14:36:24 +, you wrote: >:-) O.K. Please, no group "hugs" among friends I haven't met yet. ;-) Let's >wait until we know each other better. ;-) My arms are at my sides where they belong. :-)

Re: DenyHosts

Reco: All of this is an excellent learning opportunity for me. Please bear with me just a bit as I ask the following: On Sat, 16 Jan 2016 01:55:38 +0300, you wrote: >A simple solution: > >iptables -I INPUT -p dcp -s 59.46.71.0/24 -j DROP `-p dcp'? manpages says: [!] -p, --protocol

Re: DenyHosts

On Sat, 16 Jan 2016 01:55:38 +0300, Reco wrote: >A complex one: > >iptables -I INPUT -p tcp --dport 22 -m conntrack --ctstate NEW \ > -m hashlimit --hashlimit 1/hour --hashlimit-burst 16 \ > --hashlimit-mode srcip --hashlimit-name ssh \ > --hashlimit-htable-expire 6 -j

Re: DenyHosts

On Sat, 16 Jan 2016 01:55:38 +0300, Reco wrote: >A simple solution: > >iptables -I INPUT -p dcp -s 59.46.71.0/24 -j DROP iptables v1.4.21: unknown protocol "dcp" specified Try `iptables -h' or 'iptables --help' for more information. Should I try the complex solution, or find out what went wrong

Re: ssh Problem using it for SFTP

I decided to put the two logs from `sshd -d' side-by-side to try to figure out where the differences are. Both logs have the following lines immediately after the connection request: debug1: Client protocol version 2.0; client software version FTP-Voyager-15.2.0.15 debug1: no match:

Re: OT - gap -Re: Using bind mount

Whoa folks, let's apply the brakes. The fact is, if you think about it, Lisi is quite correct, but for a reason she may not even realize. Visually impaired people, at least those of us whose visual impairment is to the point where we don't use print at all, don't hear in paragraphs, but anybody

Re: ssh Problem using it for SFTP

One more piece of the puzzle. The working system is Red Hat Fedora 20, the non-working one is Debian 8.2.

Re: OT - gap -Re: Using bind mount

On Wed, 13 Jan 2016 22:08:02 +, Lisi wrote: >On Wednesday 13 January 2016 09:38:12 Steve Matzura wrote: >> And once again, I ask you to hand me the spatula so's I can scrape the >> egg off my face. I completely forgot I needed to `mkdir -p' the mount >> point directory! I

Re: Using bind mount

Jonathan, On Wed, 13 Jan 2016 16:07:47 +, you wrote: >On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 04:38:12AM -0500, Steve Matzura wrote: >> Now to look up the syntax for putting it into fstab to make it >> permanent. THANK YOU AGAIN EVER SO MUCH! > >The syntax is > /

Re: ssh Problem using it for SFTP

Tomas, On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 07:13:57PM -0500, Steve Matzura wrote: >> I hope this isn't off-topic by too much. If it is, a word to me >> privately and I'll wait for responses to queries I've made elsewhere. >I'm not as much of an SSH guru to "get" what's going on

Re: ssh Problem using it for SFTP

Tomas, On Thu, 14 Jan 2016 05:32:04 -0500, I wrote: >debug1: Enabling compatibility mode for protocol 2.0 >debug1: Local version string SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_6.7p1 Debian-5 >debug1: permanently_set_uid: 107/65534 [preauth] >debug1: list_hostkey_types: >ssh-rsa,ssh-dss,ecdsa-sha2-nistp256,ssh-ed25519

Re: ssh Problem using it for SFTP

Lars, On Thu, 14 Jan 2016 12:45:09 +0200, you wrote: >Can you update the client to one that uses the safer ciphers and avoids >the deprecated ones? You and I came to the same conclusion with the same lines of log as evidence at about the same time. Amazing. Many of my users use Voyager version

Re: ssh Problem using it for SFTP

More info. I used getenforce' and found SELinux is installed but disabled on the system where FTP Voyager can connect using SFTP over ssh, and not installed at all on the system where FTP Voyager cannot connect. In fact, using either the `getenforce' or `'sestatus' on the no-connect system yields

Re: ssh Problem using it for SFTP

Daniel, On Thu, 14 Jan 2016 09:05:36 -0300, you wrote: >Hi, Steve. > >On 14/01/16 08:45, Steve Matzura wrote: > >> This is clearly the problem area. I tried some ssh option settings in >> Voyager with no success. Should this client be retired? It's not >> *that* old

Re: Using bind mount

On Wed, 13 Jan 2016 10:01:03 +0300, you wrote: >strace is used for tracing system calls, it does not influence your >problem per se. Please install it first, run mount via strace second. In between your message and now, my mount problem was solved, but I installed strace anyway for future use.

Re: SFTP via ssh and symlink permissions

Tomas, On Wed, 13 Jan 2016 08:26:16 +0100, you wrote: >Those are totally meaningless. Just ignore them (BTW there was a >discussion about this not long ago in this mailing list: if you're >interested I can dig it out for you). I would be very interested. So as not to clutter up the list, please

Re: Using bind mount

On Tue, 12 Jan 2016 23:49:02 -0500, you wrote: >On 12/01/16 10:23 PM, Steve Matzura wrote: >> On Tue, 12 Jan 2016 18:12:11 -0300, Daniel wrote: >> >>> M... I used the following syntax: >>> >>> mount --bind /mnt/nas/doc /home/steve/doc >>> &

ssh Problem using it for SFTP

I hope this isn't off-topic by too much. If it is, a word to me privately and I'll wait for responses to queries I've made elsewhere. I maintain two FTP servers and support four Windows-based FTP clients for users of those servers--FTP Voyager, FlashFXP, Filezilla, and WinSCP. One server accepts

Re: Using bind mount

Reco: On Wed, 13 Jan 2016 00:21:19 +0300, you wrote: >Please post the output of: > >strace mount -B /mnt/nas/doc /home/steve/doc I *knew* I was missing something. I get 'command not found".

Re: Using bind mount

Gary: >I just tried something similar with an NFS share and was able to do it. >My situation was I have ///mnt mounted in ~/mnt. I was then >able to (as root) mount -o bind ./mnt/archives ./mnt1 while in my normal >~ folder. > >You could also try mounting the share locally or sharing the "doc"

Re: Using bind mount

On Tue, 12 Jan 2016 18:12:11 -0300, Daniel wrote: >M... I used the following syntax: > >mount --bind /mnt/nas/doc /home/steve/doc > > >That works for you? Sorry ... mount: mount point docs does not exist

Re: Using bind mount

On Tue, 12 Jan 2016 22:56:28 +0100, you wrote: >Le 12/01/2016 22:12, Daniel Bareiro a écrit : > >> mount --bind /mnt/nas/doc /home/steve/doc >> >> >> That works for you? > >I use such syntax failry often > >jdd Even on a virtual filesystem like a Windows share or NAS volume? Am I maybe missing a

Using bind mount

I am trying to get around the restriction of symlinks not resolving in FTP when the account is DefaultRoot'ed and CHRoot'ed. I mounted a NAS volume, some directories of which I want to appear as being rooted elsewhere, thus: # mkdir -p /mnt/nas # mount.cifs //ds1/vol1 /mnt/nas -o [various

SFTP via ssh and symlink permissions

My SFTP setup works, almost. Local file access is OK. However, symlinks can be seen but not followed. The symlink itself is owned by root and in the root group, but the thing to which the symlink points I have changed to the owner and group names associated with the login username I'm using for

Re: Generating ssh key pairs

Dan, On Mon, 11 Jan 2016 14:15:53 -0500, Dan wrote: >In general, you want your SFTP users to send you their own >public keys, and you drop them into ~user/.ssh/authorized_keys That's going to be difficult, as most of my users wouldn't know a public key from their house key (LOL). I was hoping

FTP with all files elsewhere

I asked this question on the ProFTPD list, but I thought it might be more of a system question than an FTP server question. The more I look at the message, I think it's probably both. My system, which is now working correctly after reboot testing following fstab changes discussed elsewhere, will

Re: Welcome to emergency mode!

On Mon, 11 Jan 2016 11:35:22 +0100, Sven wrote: >There seems to be quite a few bug reports about problems with fstab and >dropping into emergency mode, so worth a shot. > >(Always make a backup before changing stuff in /etc!) Oh, I did; I simply forgot about that change, mostly because with all

Re: Welcome to emergency mode!

Joe: On Mon, 11 Jan 2016 08:23:27 +, you wrote: >My best guess is a typo in fstab, as you said that was the next thing >to modify. The very first time I ran a systemd-enabled Debian, I got >that rather cheerful message, as I had removable drives there that were >suddenly a problem. Ya know,

Generating ssh key pairs

In order to use SFTP, I will be needing to generate key pairs for all my users, all of whom will log into the same directory structure. It seems no one on the system has keys generated, or they're not in what I think is the normal place, ~/.ssh - Should I just create this directory and use

Re: Welcome to emergency mode!

Tim, On Sun, 10 Jan 2016 22:33:03 -0600, you wrote: >If you are using Debian Jessie a static IP address is set using >/etc/dhcpcd.conf and the much debated "systemd". I just worked my way >through this on a Raspberry Pi which uses "Raspian" Jessie, a port of >Debian. The details can be found

Re: Welcome to emergency mode!

Gary: On Sun, 10 Jan 2016 23:40:28 -0500, you wrote: >What messages are you seeing in dmesg or syslog (or the new SystemD >versions)? What do you see on the screen before you get the emergency >mode messages? dmesg shows no errors. /var/log/syslog's last message has a time stamp of just

Re: Welcome to emergency mode!

On Sun, 10 Jan 2016 23:40:28 -0500, Gary wrote: >On 10/01/16 07:15 PM, Steve Matzura wrote: >> After solving all my mount problems and changing from dynamic to >There are lots of things that can go wrong, but if you had been booting >normally, it's likely something you've done si

Re: Still Can't Mount Windows Share

ware="rsyslogd" swVersion="8.4.2" x-pid="569" x-info="http://www.rsyslog.com;] rsyslogd was HUPed >And perhaps also run mount with the -v flag (or possibly -vvv). # mount.cifs //box1/d /mnt/d -v -overs=2.1,username="Steve Matzura",password="" mount

Re: Still Can't Mount Windows Share

I added the "Everyone" username object to the list of those permitted to access the drives, and it worked. No username or password required. Now I have to get it into fstab and I'm totally done with system setup!

Welcome to emergency mode!

After solving all my mount problems and changing from dynamic to static addressing by editing /etc/network/interfaces, I reboot the system and was greeted with: Welcome to emergency mode. "systemctl default", "systemctl reboot" to try again, or press Control-D to continue: That's a mild

Re: Still Can't Mount Windows Share

On Sat, 9 Jan 2016 21:05:40 +, Joe wrote: >> I've not heard cifs mounting without password but this is interesting >> > >Yes, it can be arranged, but of course it's a bad idea unless the >network is guaranteed (!) to be secure. Not sure what would mean "guaranteed" for you, but two

Still Can't Mount Windows Share

The Windows username is my own name, I have no password set on that acount. It mounts flawlessly from another Windows machine, but when I try: # mount -t cifs //box1/d /mnt/d -o username="Steve Matzura",password="" I get: mount error(121): Remote I/O error Refer to the mount

Re: Still Can't Mount Windows Share

will, but having Windows automatically log me in and restart all the applications I normally run after reboot is important enough to me not to. On Sat, 09 Jan 2016 20:52:35 +0100, you wrote: >On Sat, 2016-01-09 at 13:59 -0500, Steve Matzura wrote: >> I tried it, but nothing changed. And it's not even

Re: FDisk Help

Sven: On Thu, 7 Jan 2016 16:12:51 +0100, you wrote: >You said in your first mail that /dev/sda6 was swap. And since Linux >always numbers the logical partitions beginning from 5 and /dev/sda1 was >/, /dev/sda2 can only be the extended partition, containing sda5-8. >Simple deduction (and

Re: wget log from Jigdo

I have a sneaky suspicion it's a writing-style thing. I'll make 'em shorter next time. On Thu, 7 Jan 2016 12:51:53 +, you wrote: >On Thursday 07 January 2016 12:36:25 Steve Matzura wrote: >> Lisi, >> >> On Thu, 7 Jan 2016 11:04:33 +, you wrote: >> >I don

Re: Still Can't Mount Windows Share

On Sat, 09 Jan 2016 17:53:38 +0100, Sven wrote: >On Sat, 2016-01-09 at 11:04 -0500, Steve Matzura wrote: >> The Windows username is my own name, I have no password set on that >> acount. It mounts flawlessly from another Windows machine, but when I >> try: >> >>

Re: Still Can't Mount Windows Share

Let me rephrase/clarify that. There are lots of things on which screenreaders can be blamed, but this one wasn't one of them. On Sat, 09 Jan 2016 20:49:59 -0500, you wrote: >On Sat, 9 Jan 2016 22:46:20 +, Lisi wrote: > >>On Saturday 09 January 2016 22:00:46 Steve Matzura wrote: &

Re: Still Can't Mount Windows Share

On Sat, 9 Jan 2016 22:46:20 +, Lisi wrote: >On Saturday 09 January 2016 22:00:46 Steve Matzura wrote: >> Mea culpa. I didn't read far enough down the page. > >The fact you have to do so is clearly the result of your screen reader, >Steve - the link actually opens at th

Re: FDisk Help

Sven: On Thu, 7 Jan 2016 08:29:46 +0100, you wrote: >/dev/sda5 to /dev/sda8 are logical partitions inside an extended >partition. The extended partition is /dev/sda2. How did you know that? sda6 isn't even a mounted filesystem--sda1, 5, 7 and 8 are the mounted filesystems for /, /tmp, /var, and

fstab syntax question

I have two things that need to go into /etc/fstab. One's a network share with a username and password. The other is a Windows share which is public, no username and password for that one. Both shares will bmnounted on the Debian system read-only. I know how to do this with mount and the -t switch,

Re: wget log from Jigdo

Richard: On Mon, 04 Jan 2016 05:53:15 -0600, you wrote: >On 1/4/2016 5:07 AM, Chris Bannister wrote: >> On Sun, Jan 03, 2016 at 09:32:36AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: >>> >>> A side question to Steve, "Is this post screen reader friendly?" >> >> That reminds me of the lecturers who say 'Hands

Re: fstab syntax question

Thanks Gary. I was overdoing it (as usual). I put in things like the `-t' in front of `cifs' and the `-o' in front of the options list. All fixed now. On Wed, 6 Jan 2016 13:13:31 -0500, you wrote: >On 06/01/16 12:25 PM, Steve Matzura wrote: >> I have two things that need to go into /

Re: Problem installing ProFTPD

You were. Standalone is best for my purposes. On Sat, 2 Jan 2016 23:18:07 -0500 (EST), you wrote: >On Sat, 2 Jan 2016, Steve Matzura wrote: > >> Hope I was right! > >What was your choice? Inet or standalone?

Re: Problem installing ProFTPD

I figured it out after much playing around and gnashing of teeth. When I pressed TAB, the OK button turned a different color, and then the up- and down-arrow keys let me make a choice as to which type of install I wanted, standalone or inet. I assumed the one with colors other than gray was the

Mounting a Windows Share

I have a Windows machine called 'box' with a directory called 'users' which is shared publicly with no access username or password as 'users2'. On my Jessie system, I created the mount point successfully: mkdir -p /mnt/users I then installed the cifs-utils package as instructed by a Website with

Re: wget log from Jigdo

On Sun, 3 Jan 2016 06:22:11 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: >> You would do well to read *all* of Steve Matzura's posts before >> bemoaning your lot. You'll come across "speech synthesis" and >> "screen reader". > >In that case, mails in html must be almost impossible

Problem installing ProFTPD

The following is purely a visual impairment issue. When installing ProFTPD, a dialog box is displayed wherein I must choose whether to run it as a standalone service or via inet. I don't know which is the default choice, and there's no graphic next to the choices to indicate which one is checked

Re: Mounting a Windows Share

ning it as non-root, IIRC the "specify >>> both mount point and device to mount" will be rejected as "only >>> root can do that". Either way, this doesn't look quite right. >> >> I'm running it as root all right. I also tried '-o user="

Re: wget log from Jigdo

On Sat, 2 Jan 2016 23:06:29 +, Lisi wrote: >My blind friend with his screen reader seems to have much less trouble with >messy HTML than I (partially sighted) do. His screen reader just reads it to >him. I stare at the mess of "pretty" colours and fancy writing, with >blotches and swirls

Re: Mounting a Windows Share

On Sat, 2 Jan 2016 18:10:19 -0500, you wrote: >There are lots of things that can go wrong. What I found worked recently >when I had a similar problem was: > >#mount -t cifs -o username=,password= >//192.168.1.19/images /mnt/images > >Using the DNS name returned errors but the IP address of the

Re: Mounting a Windows Share

t. I'm running it as root all right. I just now tried: mount -t cifs //box/users2 /mnt/share -o username:"Steve Matzura" and got back: Username specified with no parameter >> The system responds: >> >> mount error(13): Permission denied >> >> Is there a def

Re: Putting It All On a Stick

accessibility and I may put a bug report in about it. After I solved that problem with amixer, it's all OK now. On Wed, 30 Dec 2015 17:11:14 -0800, you wrote: > >> On Dec 30, 2015, at 1:34 PM, Thomas Schmitt <scdbac...@gmx.net> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> Stev

Re: RIP and Thank You.

42! How sad. On Wed, 30 Dec 2015 22:44:26 +, you wrote: >http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/12/30/ian_murdock_debian_founder/ >

Re: Putting It All On a Stick

that was created as soon as the process started was expanded to 20.9GB and never changed, so it's probably full of a lot of 0's toward the end. On Thu, 31 Dec 2015 16:12:44 +, you wrote: >On Thu 31 Dec 2015 at 10:37:22 -0500, Steve Matzura wrote: > >Thanks for that; I was thinking

Re: Recommendation for FTP server

On Thu, 31 Dec 2015 17:37:09 +0100, you wrote: >Le primidi 11 nivôse, an CCXXIV, Steve Matzura a écrit : >> ProFTPD? VSFTP? Something else? I'm needing a secure connection, >> non-SSH, because a lot of ssh built into FTP clients let you go >> wandering around outside your hom

Re: wget log from Jigdo

On Thu, 31 Dec 2015 15:57:38 +, Lisi wrote: >Some years ago a friend complained to me that I ignored his advice and never >listened. I said, not at all. I always listen avidly to advice. I always >think about advice. I just don't always follow advice. ;-) LOL. I always find something

Re: Putting It All On a Stick

Fascinating stuff. The one thing I forgot is cp and dd are not the same. Now, does this mean I should run the ISO I made with Jigdo through isohybrid now that I have a running Linux system? On Thu, 31 Dec 2015 17:25:39 +0100, you wrote: >Hi, > >Steve Matzura: >> Thomas, j

Re: Putting It All On a Stick

to put a sock in this discussion, I have, in fact, gone to one or two locations where there was *NO* Internet at all because the person who wanted an accessible computer had no idea that in this day and age a network connection is a virtual requirement to do anything useful. They were quite happy

Re: wget log from Jigdo

It doesn't help, but it *does* make sense. If that were documented in the Jigdo quick-start, that would be helpful. I'll write in and see about having it added as a cautionary note. On Wed, 30 Dec 2015 17:58:20 -0800, you wrote: > >> On Dec 30, 2015, at 1:13 PM, Steve M

Re: Putting It All On a Stick

Joe, On Thu, 31 Dec 2015 15:43:12 +, you wrote: >No, it's the very opposite of knowing where things go. The dd command >is a very simple, completely unintelligent copier. But an ISO file is >an image, literally every byte stored on some medium being scraped up >in order, with the intention

Re: wget log from Jigdo

Now everything's fixed, up, running, etc., it's quite time to thank everyone who made suggestions, at least 99% of which were helpful in some way, if not directly, then indirectly by putting my mind onto a different thinking path.

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