Re: apt-mark hold issue (apt Installed: 1.8.2 armhf)

The Wanderer wrote: > On 2020-04-19 at 12:46, Michael Howard wrote: >> On 19/04/2020 17:34, Michael Lange wrote: >>> But then, I noticed that sudo-ldap is not actually installed here, >>> and in fact it appears to conflict with sudo so apparently both >>> cannot coexist. >>> >>> So maybe the

Re: Forwarding to report-listspam.d.o vs bounce [was: Kind reminder: please don't reply to and/or quote spam, ever]

to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Sun, Apr 19, 2020 at 01:27:40PM +0200, Sven Hartge wrote: >> Andrei POPESCU wrote: >>> As far as I know "forwarding as attachment" does not affect the >>> original message (though this may depend on the client), however it >>

Re: Kind reminder: please don't reply to and/or quote spam, ever

Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Du, 19 apr 20, 11:41:52, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: >> On Sun, Apr 19, 2020 at 12:21:02PM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: >>> Apparently the "official" name (to be confirmed) is "remailing" and >>> it involves resending the message (mostly untouched) to another >>> address.

Re: apt-mark hold issue (apt Installed: 1.8.2 armhf)

Michael Howard wrote: > root@bamford:/etc# apt-mark hold sudo sudo-ldap > sudo set on hold. > sudo-ldap set on hold. > root@bamford:/etc# apt-mark showhold > bash > dash > sudo > sudo-ldap > Still good, but then, > root@bamford:/etc# apt-mark hold xterm > xterm set on hold. >

Re: apt-mark hold issue (apt Installed: 1.8.2 armhf)

Michael Howard wrote: > I've not used apt-mark much (or it's previous methods) so I'm a bit > confused by what I'm seeing. > If I use 'apt-mark hold ' and then 'apt-mark > showhold' I get ' ' listed. > If I then do 'apt-mark hold ' followed by 'apt-mark showhold' > I get only '' listed.

Re: Debian is testing Discourse

Brad Rogers wrote: > On Tue, 14 Apr 2020 12:01:44 -0500 John Hasler wrote: >> Surely the Discourse server would be under direct Debian control. I was > TBH, I 'm not certain. I /thought/ Discourse was a service similar > to, say, google groups. Of course, if it's software, then yes, it >

Re: Debian is testing Discourse

Curt wrote: > On 2020-04-13, Brad Rogers wrote: >> On Mon, 13 Apr 2020 18:33:13 - (UTC) Curt wrote: >>> There could be a channel to connect the pools >> >> There have, in the past existed gateways between mailing lists and usenet >> newsgroups. They worked well, for the most part. > I'm

Re: Debian is testing Discourse

Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Lu, 13 apr 20, 22:38:11, Sven Hartge wrote: >> Same example from my circle of friends and aquaintances: >> >> - some use WhatsApp >> - some use Facebook >> - some use Mail (like me) > https://xkcd.com/1782/ Yes. S! -- Sigmentation fault. Core dumped.

Re: Debian is testing Discourse

Dan Purgert wrote: > On Apr 13, 2020, Sven Hartge wrote: >> Dan Purgert wrote: >>> On Apr 13, 2020, Sven Hartge wrote: >>>> And I've also witnissed this in other contexts, be it in an >>>> Enterprise setup (where one group flocks to Confluence

Re: Debian is testing Discourse

Dan Purgert wrote: > Not necessarily. More like that communication tends to fall apart when > there are multiple methods of communication. > Take this entirely anecdotal situation that happened to us this year: > - most of the family is on facebook / email, so sent them an electronic >

Re: Debian is testing Discourse

Dan Purgert wrote: > On Apr 13, 2020, Sven Hartge wrote: >> And I've also witnissed this in other contexts, be it in an >> Enterprise setup (where one group flocks to Confluence and the other >> stay in the mailinglist) or a MMO guild, where one group prefers to >

Re: Moderation (not!) [was: Debian is testing Discourse]

Brad Rogers wrote: > On Mon, 13 Apr 2020 17:50:54 +0200 Sven Hartge wrote: >> Yes, but the sender of a message has to actively do that and all >> others have to follow it. Also you can't retroactively split of a >> part of a thread into a new one. > Although not cle

Re: Debian is testing Discourse

Curt wrote: > On 2020-04-13, Sven Hartge wrote: >> Michael Howard wrote: >>> On 13/04/2020 17:49, John Hasler wrote: >>>> Michael Howard writes: >>>>> In your opinion. Total rubbish in my opinion. Far better to have >>>>> mo

Re: Debian is testing Discourse

Michael Howard wrote: > On 13/04/2020 17:49, John Hasler wrote: >> Michael Howard writes: >>> In your opinion. Total rubbish in my opinion. Far better to have >>> more channels open than just one where possible. >> Not when the channels connect to different pools. > Sorry, which different

Re: Debian is testing Discourse

John Hasler wrote: > Michael Howard writes: >> In your opinion. Total rubbish in my opinion. Far better to have more >> channels open than just one where possible. > Not when the channels connect to different pools. Exactly my point. Grüße, Sven. -- Sigmentation fault. Core dumped.

Re: Unstable ==> Testing ==> Stable

John Hasler wrote: > Sven writes: >> It is of note that "experimental" in itself is not a complete set of >> packages like "unstable" is, it is intended as an addon to "unstable" >> and has to be used in conjunction with it. > It is also of note that Unstable is unstable in that it is

Re: Debian is testing Discourse

Nate Bargmann wrote: > If the project wants to implement Discourse as an adjunct to existing > communications channels, fine, I've no problem with that. If, > however, the goal is arbitrary and wholesale replacement of all lists > with the jumbled mess that is my experience of Discourse, then I

Re: Moderation (not!) [was: Debian is testing Discourse]

Brad Rogers wrote: > On Mon, 13 Apr 2020 11:05:05 +0200 wrote: >> On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 09:56:24AM +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: >>> You can close threads, so no further messages can be added (stops >>> hi-jacking, drift, etc.) >> I don't see why mailing list software (technically) can't offer

Re: Unstable ==> Testing ==> Stable

Kushal Kumaran wrote: > There is an experimental "distribution" that is for trying all kinds of > new and weird things. It is of note that "experimental" in itself is not a complete set of packages like "unstable" is, it is intended as an addon to "unstable" and has to be used in conjunction

Re: Why isn't there /etc/apache2/extra?

to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Sat, Mar 14, 2020 at 06:59:29PM +0700, Bagas Sanjaya wrote: >>> Debian's decisions on apache layout were made years earlier. >>> >>> Extra configuration for apache2 should be put in conf.d >> Hmmm, seems contradictory here. >> >> You say extra apache2 configuration

Re: usr-merge

David Wright wrote: > On Thu 02 Jan 2020 at 19:49:45 (+0100), Sven Hartge wrote: >> But, to summarize: I'd have liked for this change to be done in a >> different way with *all* systems-maintainers in board. > Reading #914897, that didn't seem likely as views were somewhat &

Re: usr-merge, was Re: Back to systemd [was: Re: New list for Raspbian? (was: Re: systemdq)]

David Wright wrote: > On Wed 01 Jan 2020 at 18:48:00 (+0100), Sven Hartge wrote: >> David Wright wrote: >>> But this does follow the (snipped) comment 'the "/usr Merge" that >>> might hit a fan someday'. For those *not* preparing packages for >>>

Re: usr-merge, was Re: Back to systemd [was: Re: New list for Raspbian? (was: Re: systemdq)]

David Wright wrote: > But this does follow the (snipped) comment 'the "/usr Merge" that > might hit a fan someday'. For those *not* preparing packages for > Debian and/or other distributions, can anyone express a downside > to usr-merge, ie for typical "user/consumers". For me the biggest

Re: Back to systemd [was: Re: New list for Raspbian? (was: Re: systemdq)]

ghe wrote: > Sven and Andrei, I told you lies. The script's not a daemon. I added > Sven's suggested lines to the .service file, re-enabled it, rebooted, > and it came up exactly as I wanted it to. Aha! Thought as much. While I myself have written daemons in bash, doing so is at least unusual.

Re: Back to systemd [was: Re: New list for Raspbian? (was: Re: systemdq)]

ghe wrote: > On 12/31/19 6:09 AM, Sven Hartge wrote: >> Care to share your Shell-Script? > I'd have no problem with that -- it's been very useful to me over the > years, and I'd be glad for someone to use it. > However. It was written 20 years ago when I was just fi

Re: Back to systemd [was: Re: New list for Raspbian? (was: Re: systemdq)]

tony wrote: > On 31/12/2019 15:34, Sven Hartge wrote: >> Kenneth Parker wrote: >> >>> +1 for information, on where System Files are stored on Debian, as well as >>> for the reminder of the "/usr Merge" that might hit a fan someday. >> >&g

Re: Back to systemd [was: Re: New list for Raspbian? (was: Re: systemdq)]

to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Tue, Dec 31, 2019 at 03:34:34PM +0100, Sven Hartge wrote: >> Kenneth Parker wrote: >>> +1 for information, on where System Files are stored on Debian, as >>> well as for the reminder of the "/usr Merge" that might hit a

Re: Back to systemd [was: Re: New list for Raspbian? (was: Re: systemdq)]

Kenneth Parker wrote: > +1 for information, on where System Files are stored on Debian, as well as > for the reminder of the "/usr Merge" that might hit a fan someday. The usr-merge is already here, if you install Debian Buster. The installer creates a usr-merged filesystem and you, short of

Re: Back to systemd [was: Re: New list for Raspbian? (was: Re: systemdq)]

ghe wrote: > On 12/31/19 1:05 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: >>> I guess I misunderstood the term 'daemon.' I thought it was just a >>> piece of software that, when run, stays run until it's through -- when >>> it's started at boot and has no exit, hangs around in the background >>> doing stuff.

Re: Back to systemd [was: Re: New list for Raspbian? (was: Re: systemdq)]

ghe wrote: > On 12/30/19 3:54 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: >> Please show us the full output of >> >> systemctl status YOUR_SERVICE_UNIT > root@test:~# systemctl status ipfilter > ● ipfilter.service - packetFilter >Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/ipfilter.service; enabled; >

Re: nftables and libvirt bridge network

Benedikt Tuchen wrote: > I use nftables as my firewall and setup the nftables.conf today. My > firewall rules are based on whitelisting. Everything is dropped from > INPUT and FORWARD as long as there is no specific rule for it. For > my libvirt network interface virbr1 there are also some

Re: Best/Proper way to dist-upgrade Debian Testing except the kernel?

riveravaldez wrote: > Because updating the kernel requires to reboot the system -AFAIK- in > many cases I would prefer to 'dist-upgrade' (all packages) except the > kernel -until a moment in which I can reboot the system-, so: > 1. Is this something right/viable/acceptable to do? You don't

Re: Correct way to configure network

Mimiko wrote: > On one answer in Internet I've found this mode to configure bonding: > auto bond0 > iface bond0 inet manual > down ip link set $IFACE down > post-down rmmod bonding > pre-up modprobe bonding mode=4 miimon=200 > up ip link set $IFACE up mtu 9000 >

Re: alternatives to gmail?

Mark Rousell wrote: > On 19/11/2019 08:34, juh wrote: >> open source software like roundcube. > Do you know if Roundcube works well without Javascript? Yes: It does not. Roundcube very heavily uses JavaScript. Webmail-Frontends which does not use JavaScript for its main functionality are

Re: debian snort and systemd bug?

Eero Volotinen wrote: > Any clue why systemctl start snort is not running start section of init > script? (if start is already run once?) Don't use the snort package from the Debian repository, it is ancient (last upload was in 2015) and might as well be orphaned or better yet removed from

Re: failed upgrade to Buster

Charlie Gibbs wrote: > On Mon Oct 28 11:19:13 2019 Tony van der Hoff wrote: >> I've just attempted to upgrade from Jessie to buster. All went well >> until the dist-upgrade stage, when it ran out of space in my /usr >> partition. which has 14G allocated. 1.4G of this appears to be the >> doc/

Re: Compatibility with DELL PowerEdge R440 Server

Aylwin wrote: > I am planning to order 4 units of Dell PowerEdge R440 Servers > . > Can you please advise me if Debian 9 64-bit can be installed without > any conflicts. If you plan on using the PERC RAID controller, you will most

Re: Python 3 as default

Glenn Holmer wrote: > Is it safe to set Python 3 as the default in Buster, or are there > system programs that still need to run under Python 2? Setting python3 as the default python interpreter is not supported in Buster. Doing so will break your system. Besides: /usr/bin/python is defined as

Re: to install libpng12.so.0

Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2019-10-05 11:20 +0200, Sven Hartge wrote: >> Étienne Mollier wrote: >>> Now, if the software is closed source, then you will have to get a >>> libpng12 targeting your system. >> In Debians case, the best way to do this, is to i

Re: to install libpng12.so.0

Étienne Mollier wrote: > Now, if the software is closed source, then you will have to > get a libpng12 targeting your system. In Debians case, the best way to do this, is to install the version from Jessie. It should not conflict with any libraries in the current version and resolve the

Re: to install libpng12.so.0

merlin verdecia wrote: > I have debian 10 and i need to install libpng12.so.0, but i can not do > it. How i can? > I have installed the libpng16.so.0. What problem exactly are you trying to solve? Are you trying to use a program compiled for an ancient PNG library version? Grüße, Sven. --

Re: testing security updates

Greg Wooledge wrote: > YOU DO NOT MIX TESTING WITH UNSTABLE. > If you use one of these, you use that one only. No mixing. > No Frankendebians. But you *can* mix Unstable with Testing. (Not the order here.) Normally no package from Testing will get pulled in, but sometimes this is the only

Re: NSS-LDAP group preventing proper boot

Marc Franquesa wrote: > Thanks for the feedback, I might give it a try to sssd (I was already > planning to take a look). > I seen many docs recommending to move to nss/pam-ldapd however (also for > sssd) this requires installing many other packages and run multiple daemons > while I could

Re: Remove package file from cache as soon as it is installed

André Rodier wrote: > Th partition is 20G, with the big files option, perhaps it was the > reason of the small number of inodes? Yes, of course. Why did you chose this option when mkfs'ing the filesystem? Besides: Those special options are more or less a thing of the past, where you really had

Re: buster to testing

mick crane wrote: > If I want to change one to testing is it *just* a question of changing > the sources list ? Yes. Grüße, Sven. -- Sigmentation fault. Core dumped.

Re: Xfce 4.12 to 4.14: high Xorg CPU usage

Stefan Pietsch wrote: > On 27.08.19 17:04, Sven Hartge wrote: >> Stefan Pietsch wrote: >>> I upgraded Xfce to 4.14 recently (Debian unstable) and noticed >>> slightly delayed rendering of UI elements. >> >>> Firefox and Thunderbird behave sluggishly

Re: freeradius-dialupadmin -- debian9

SISSOKHO Adama wrote: > I can't install *freeradius-dialupadmin *on* debian9*. > Is there a substitute or a special way to do the installation? > Thanks in advance for your help. There is no and there was never a package named "freeradius-dialupadmin" in Debian. The upstream documentation on

Re: Xfce 4.12 to 4.14: high Xorg CPU usage

Stefan Pietsch wrote: > I upgraded Xfce to 4.14 recently (Debian unstable) and noticed > slightly delayed rendering of UI elements. > Firefox and Thunderbird behave sluggishly and CPU usage by Xorg is > significantly higher as compared to Xfce 4.12. > Did anyone who is using Xfce 4.14 observe

Re: latest snort for debian stable

Eero Volotinen wrote: > Is there any reliable source that offers latest 2.9.x snort for debian 10? > Or instructions how to package it. compiling snort from source does not > sound good solution. Because of the constant updates by upstream to snort and its rules files, it really is a pain to

Re: systemd not seeing my user units after reboot

Victor A. Stoichita wrote: > I wasn’t aware that it would also have *obsolete* packages that had > been dropped from testing or stable. But of course, those obsolete > packages might still be the "latest packages" available. Packages are removed from Sid mostly when the DD (or the QA team as

Re: systemd not seeing my user units after reboot

Victor A. Stoichita wrote: > Le 23 Aug 2019, Sven Hartge a écrit : >> Victor A. Stoichita wrote: >>> Could it be relevant that my home folder is encrypted with >>> ecryptfs? How can I check whether it is now decrypted before or >>> after systemd star

Re: systemd not seeing my user units after reboot

Victor A. Stoichita wrote: > Could it be relevant that my home folder is encrypted with > ecryptfs? How can I check whether it is now decrypted before or > after systemd starts its user instance? ecryptfs is not included nor supported in Debian 10.

Re: Does Debian crontab support the @NumberOfSeconds scheduling syntax?

Judah Richardson wrote: > In FreeBSD and derived OSes, you can use @n, where n is a number, to > indicate that a task should be started n seconds after its previous > invocation completed. > I couldn't find anything like that in the Debian crontab > documentation. Is it supported or possible?

Re: Re (2): Arrow annotation in GIMP.

pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > No References in the "header" of the Web page this replies to. > Consequently I snagged the Messge-Id (Message-id?) from the Web page > for my original message. Let's see how References comes out. >8~| Broken: References: <[?0;] E1hxhmC-0004v6-DR@dalton.invalid>

Re: dbus-deamon avoiding reboot after upgrade

Reco wrote: > 1) libpam-systemd, loginctl and friends. > Useful for a workstation, useless for a server. I wouldn't go this far. libpam-systemd and loginctl can be useful on a server, depening on its job and role. Grüße, Sven. -- Sigmentation fault. Core dumped.

Re: libnss-ldap, pam_groupdn

jul...@kotysch.de wrote: > I have a Debian 10 system that uses libnss-ldap to authenticate against > an LDAP server. This is working very well. To confirm: You are using "libnss-ldap" and *not* "libnss-ldapd", correct? If yes, then could you please try "libnss-ldapd"? It is a (in my opinion)

Re: Virtual Box

Nate Bargmann wrote: > On 2019 02 Aug 12:11 -0500, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: >> Given that VBox is no longer in the Buster repositories I tried to >> install the Stretch .deb package from the VBox web site. dpkg failed >> because of dependency problems, including libvpx4 that is not in the >>

Re: Update Two Problems

Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > More serious. however is the other error: > [Connecting to prod.debian.map.fastly.net (2a04:4e42:3e::204)] Your system thinks to have IPv6 connectivity while it has not. Find out why this is the case and you solve this problem. A different (unelegant) workaround

Re: Document removal of ecryptfs-utils from Buster

Andrea Borgia wrote: > Il 30/06/19 11:52, Curt ha scritto: >> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=928956 >> >> Due to #765854 ecryptfs-utils has been removed from Buster. >> The kernel module (ecryptfs.ko) is still built but depending on the >> upgrade path users will be

Re: cannot install from backports

Brian Cary wrote: > Thank you! That makes sense now. I'm new to Debian (*long* time Ubuntu > user), so I didn't realize the difference. > SO, since Gimp version 2.10 is in "testing", and version 2.8 is in stable,* > is there a way to install Gimp 2.10 (from "Debian testing") onto my "Debian >

Re: Ping as normal user

Greg Wooledge wrote: > I asked on IRC, and got this answer: > The archive (Packages) and individual .debs can disagree on Priority. It's > mostly a field that has no meaning these days. > I'm not 100% sure how to interpret that. Are different mirrors giving > out different Packages files

Re: NIC Bonding 802.3ad LACP without switch

basti wrote: > On 27.05.19 17:32, Sven Hartge wrote: >> basti wrote: >> >>> also on a network card with 2 NIC's >> >>> srv-a nic ens2f0 ens2f0 srv-b >>> ens2f1 ens2f1 >> >>> Can I use a switch that only supoo

Re: NIC Bonding 802.3ad LACP without switch

basti wrote: > also on a network card with 2 NIC's > srv-a nic ens2f0 ens2f0 srv-b > ens2f1 ens2f1 > Can I use a switch that only supoort static LAC to speedup my > connection? For example tp-link TL-SG108E ? Or must it support LACP? For this direct connection you should

Re: NIC Bonding 802.3ad LACP without switch

Reco wrote: > On Mon, May 27, 2019 at 01:48:39PM +0200, basti wrote: >> Can this mode be used in this setup? > AFAIK standard linux bonding can only use Passive LACP in 802.3ad. No, it does active LACP. >> How must I configure the other side? > That's means you have to use openvswitch on

Re: NIC Bonding 802.3ad LACP without switch

basti wrote: > I have 2 Servers both of them has an dual port nic, I want to bond this > and try to configure this in 802.3ad mode. There are no switch beween, > and there is no crossover cable installed. "and there is no crossover cable installed"? Beside the point that Gigabit Ethernet does

Re: Is Debian 9 supposed to work on a Geode?

Brad Rogers wrote: > On Sun, 28 Apr 2019 18:43:48 +0200 Björn Persson > wrote: >> 4.9.0-8-686 and 4.9.0-9-686 appear to hang early in the boot process. > I'm no expert, (and perhaps I'm being naive) but don't you want a 386 > kernel, not a 686 one? There has not been a i386 Kernel in Debian

Re: Is Debian 9 supposed to work on a Geode?

Björn Persson wrote: > I have a small server with a Geode processor – Geode LX 500 MHz > according to the BIOS boot screen – which I needed to upgrade from > Debian 8 to Debian 9. I know that Debian has dropped support for i586, > but I haven't been able to find a definitive answer to how that

Re: pi question

ghe wrote: > A little looking around showed a directory called /run/user/1000/gvfs > with permissions == d?, owner == ?, and group == ?. That would > definitely cause a permissions problem. > I assumed the SD was corrupt and built a new one -- same thing. That directory is not a "real"

Re: php.ini ignored

Andrew Wood wrote: > Im using PHP 7 with Apache on Stretch. According to phpinfo() the ini > file is /etc/php/7.0/apache2/php.ini but changes to this file are not > reflected in the output of phpinfo() (I am restarting Apache). > Ive even tried creating a synax error in there and it didnt

Re: Setting up a VLAN tagged bonding device

John W. M. Stevens wrote: > 2) Does anybody have a working example configuration for such a thing? Sure. Please not I don't use any configuration for int0, int1, ext0 and ext1. You need to do that on Ubuntu because of something they broke. It is not needed in Debian. This is the fill working

Re: PHP 7.1 for debian stretch

gro.nai...@lagelagelage.ch wrote: > Does anyone know when PHP 7.1 becomes to a stable version in debian stretch? PHP7.1 will *never* come to Debian Stretch. You can get an up-to-date version of PHP for Debian from the external repository of Ondřej Surý at deb.sury.org. Ondřej is the DD

Re: Recommended way to install Docker in Stretch

Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Wed, Mar 27, 2019 at 02:03:43PM +0100, Sven Hartge wrote: >> Luís Gomes wrote: >>> However, I could not find a docker.io package on the main stretch >>> repository or in stretch-backports, which makes me ask what is the >>&g

Re: Recommended way to install Docker in Stretch

Luís Gomes wrote: > However, I could not find a docker.io package on the main stretch > repository or in stretch-backports, which makes me ask what is the > Debian-recommended-way to install Docker on Stretch? The recommended way to install Docker for Stretch is to use the upstream Docker

Re: mdadm started before disks are detected

Mimiko wrote: > On 25.03.2019 21:23, Sven Hartge wrote: >> Please update your system, Debian 6.0 Squeeze is severely out of date >> and should NOT be used for any production systems and even less when >> connected to the public Internet. > Yes I know. But this is not

Re: mdadm started before disks are detected

Mimiko wrote: > Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 #1 SMP Tue May 13 16:34:35 UTC 2014 x86_64 GNU/Linux Please update your system, Debian 6.0 Squeeze is severely out of date and should NOT be used for any production systems and even less when connected to the public Internet. Grüße, Sven -- Sigmentation

Re: amd64 stable netinstall failing repeatedly 'scanning the mirror'

Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: > On 24/03/19, Rory Campbell-Lange (r...@campbell-lange.net) wrote: >> Hi. I'm stuck in the DC and it's getting cold! >> >> I'm trying to install debian-9.8.0-amd64-netinst.iso using the >> non-graphical installer. All is fine till I hit the 'configure apt' >> stage,

Re: mdadm started before disks are detected

Mimiko wrote: > I came across a problem when booting. In the server is installed 4 > disks connected to raid controller and 2 disks connected to > motherboard sata interfaces. During booting disks connected to raid > controller are detected before md raid assembling process, while the 2 > disks

Re: systemd error

Default User wrote: > I will just have to either ignore the problem and pretend it doesn't > exist, or just purge the minissdpd package completely, and hope > nothing really needs it. Decisions, decisions . . . "Nothing really needs it." is the answer here. It speeds up some operations in some

Re: Group thoughts on: Anti-virus tools

deb wrote: > a. What does the group suggest running on debian beyond >     - chkrootkit Useless. >     - rkhunter Crap, unmaintained. Both tools produce more false positives than finding anything, just creating a false sense of security while providing no security benefit whatsoever.

Re: systemd bacula-director.service masked

Hodges wrote: > I installed Debian 10 through synaptic. I previously had a jumbled up > sources.list having accidentally moved from jessie to buster so on > advice from the forum I reduced the entries to two both referring to > 'buster' > Synaptic uninstalled quite a few packages, and then

Re: Stretch kernel vulnerable to meltdown

Peter Steinmetz wrote: > This kernel is running as a Dom0-kernel on Xen. Might that be the reason? Yes. PTI has been disabled on Xen. S° -- Sigmentation fault. Core dumped.

Re: password hash in shadow file

to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 05:25:18PM +0100, Sven Hartge wrote: >> Adam Weremczuk <ad...@matrixscience.com> wrote: >>> I think it was me invoking "passwd" as root and aborting (ctrl+D) >>> without making any changes. Would t

Re: password hash in shadow file

Adam Weremczuk wrote: > I think it was me invoking "passwd" as root and aborting (ctrl+D) > without making any changes. Would that be enough to update the shadow > file? No. You can't reverse a hash and to generate a new hash the code needs the password for the user

Re: Open socket not connected to any real process

Roberto C. Sánchez <robe...@debian.org> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 07, 2018 at 11:08:05PM +0100, Sven Hartge wrote: >> This is why you use libpam-ldapd (instead of libpam-ldap) in >> combination with libnss-ldapd (instead of libnss-ldap). >> >> Its design wit

Re: Open socket not connected to any real process

David Parker wrote: > Well, crap. It turns out this isn't a problem. PAM is configured for > LDAP authentication and so it opens a connection each time I log in, > owned by my sshd process, even though it's not using LDAP > authentication for root. And the other LDAP

Re: Some tasks very slow after upgrade from Jessie to Stretch

Curt wrote: > On 2018-03-01, deloptes wrote: >> David Christensen wrote: >>> So, now I do the latter.  This is facilitated by, and integrated >>> into, my backup/ restore, archive, and imaging processes.  I have >>> confidence in the results. >> >> I have been

Re: Origin of /var/run contents

Mart van de Wege wrote: > Eh. It's in the docs. /run is for runtime generated, ephemeral units > and other files. > What stumped me at first is that /etc has priority over /run This is because /etc is designed to override (or amend) anything from the system, either static

Re: Origin of /var/run contents

Don Armstrong wrote: > Stuff that runs as a user should use that user's home directory. [I have > a ~/var/ for this purpose, but other things use environmental variables > or ~/.something/foopid or similar.] $HOME/.cache/foobar would be the (current) canonical place, I think.

Re: Origin of /var/run contents

Martin S. Weber wrote: > In which of the three, /{etc,run,usr/lib}/tmpfiles.d ? According to > systemdese, > the distribution files belong in /usr/lib/ (check the directory, I believe you > won't find it empty), administrator adjustments in /etc (so no surprise a > vanilla

Re: Origin of /var/run contents

Dave Sherohman wrote: > I've just made my first foray into creating systemd service files, > and, although I got them to work with manual startup, they failed > miserably on reboot. A short investigation revealed that this is > because /var/run is not persistent across

Re: lftp breakage upcoming

Brian wrote: > On Mon 12 Feb 2018 at 14:56:35 -0500, Jude DaShiell wrote: >> If debian users can download torrents with lftp now, expect as >> systemd gets upgraded systemd will break lftp and make it no longer >> useable. The archlinux distribution is on the bleeding edge

Re: Certbot 0.21 in Stretch?

Jesper Dybdal wrote: > How do I see which version is available in, e.g., unstable when > unstable is not in my sources.list because I do not want to risk > installing anything from unstable in my stable system? You can either look at the PTS

Re: Debian buster & gnucash

Jimmy Johnson <field.engin...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 02/08/2018 10:05 AM, Sven Hartge wrote: >> Donald F. Emery <dem...@vermontel.net> wrote: >> >>> I am new to debian and was hoping someone could tell me why GNUCASH was >>> not in debian testing. >

Re: apt-get update error

Forest Dean Feighner wrote: > On Thu, Feb 8, 2018 at 3:36 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote: >> On Thu, Feb 08, 2018 at 03:26:40PM -0500, Forest Dean Feighner wrote: >>> W: >>> http://security.debian.org/debian-security/dists/stretch/updates/InRelease: >>>

Re: Debian buster & gnucash

Donald F. Emery wrote: > I am new to debian and was hoping someone could tell me why GNUCASH was > not in debian testing. Because of https://tracker.debian.org/news/859896 and https://bugs.debian.org/790204 Grüße, S° -- Sigmentation fault. Core dumped.

Re: How to safely hold kernel packages ?

Stéphane Rivière wrote: > I wanted to avoid kernel updates after the Spectre/Meltdown 'bug', also > known as KPTI or kaiser CPU flaw. No, it is not known as this. > In my specific context, these patches are useless or even harmful. Possible. You do know you can just add

Re: systemd 237-1: problem starting dnsmasq

Stefan Pietsch wrote: > after the systemd upgrade from 236-3 to 237-1 (Debian sid) the dnsmasq > service does not start correctly. I reported this as https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=889144 It also affects munin-node

Re: Got tired of waiting for suspend/resume (something like that)

Curt wrote: > Maybe an encrypted swap is overkill in a home alone machine; I am now > idly wondering whether there exists any documented (and successful) remote > unencrypted swap attacks. I use it on all my systems, beause it is cheap to setup and just works behind the

Re: Got tired of waiting for suspend/resume (something like that)

Curt wrote: > Still, I'm uncertain what goes into /etc/fstab. >/dev/mapper/swap none swap sw 0 0 > ? Yes, this is correct. With crypted-swap you need to use the device mapper device, because the UUID changes on every boot, as you discovered. (Which is the point of having a

Re: minissdpd failure in update

Sven Joachim <svenj...@gmx.de> wrote: > On 2018-02-01 19:55 +0100, Sven Hartge wrote: >> Frank M <debianl...@videotron.ca> wrote: >>> Feb 01 13:39:07 franklin minissdpd[9152]: Error: please specify LAN >>> network interface by name instead of IPv4 address

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