Re: nm-applet reports 802.11 connected, but can't actually communicate over network?

2014-02-11 Thread Dan Purgert
On 11/02/2014 15:18, Selim T. Erdogan wrote: Carl Fink, 10.02.2014: [...] Output of route: -v Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface default 192.168.1.1 0.0.0.0 UG0 00 wlan0 192.168.1.0 *

Re: more than 12G of RAM

2014-02-12 Thread Dan Purgert
On 12/02/2014 11:26, Gary Dale wrote: On 12/02/14 07:40 AM, Roberto Scattini wrote: On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 2:25 AM, Gary Dale garyd...@torfree.net mailto:garyd...@torfree.net wrote: Sorry everyone, but the memory sticks all work fine. Memtest+ shows 8G working when I run it against

Re: ssh host ip/id management for dynamic dns servers

2014-02-12 Thread Dan Purgert
On 12/02/2014 13:30, Paul E Condon wrote: On 20140212_200320, Lars Noodén wrote: On 02/12/2014 07:34 PM, Paul E Condon wrote: ... Question: Suppose I encounter this situation of the 'known host' having moved to a different IP address (or a different URL?), is there a way to discover whether

Re: Monitor Resolution Problems

2014-02-16 Thread Dan Purgert
On 16/02/2014 14:09, Marc Shapiro wrote: I purchased a new monitor and I am having problems with the resolution. It is a Samsung SyncMaster S24B150 with an optimal resolution of 1920 x 1080 @ 60 Hz. The highest resolution that I am offered under System/Preferences/Monitor Settings (in

Re: Monitor Resolution Problems

2014-02-16 Thread Dan Purgert
On 16/02/2014 15:40, Marc Shapiro wrote: On 02/16/2014 11:47 AM, Dan Purgert wrote: On 16/02/2014 14:09, Marc Shapiro wrote: I purchased a new monitor and I am having problems with the resolution. It is a Samsung SyncMaster S24B150 with an optimal resolution of 1920 x 1080 @ 60 Hz

Re: Disk heads won't park

2014-02-17 Thread Dan Purgert
On 17/02/2014 08:09, Nuno Magalhães wrote: Greetings, [...] Short of unplugging the drives one by one, is there a way i can a) discover/confirm which one is thrashing about? and b) make it stop? I've seen hdparm -s is not recommended, and i'm not sure if whichever drive it is it supports

Re: squirrelmail and smtp authentication

2014-02-18 Thread Dan Purgert
On 18/02/2014 07:01, Pol Hallen wrote: Hi all :-) for long years I using squirrelmail without authentication (smtp). Now I'd like migrate to smtp with ssl authentication, I already configured postfix to do this, so... Do I need enter manually each credetials for each user? Or can I

Re: squirrelmail and smtp authentication

2014-02-18 Thread Dan Purgert
On 18/02/2014 07:26, Dan Purgert wrote: On 18/02/2014 07:01, Pol Hallen wrote: Hi all :-) for long years I using squirrelmail without authentication (smtp). Now I'd like migrate to smtp with ssl authentication, I already configured postfix to do this, so... Do I need enter manually each

Re: debootstrap etch unknown key

2014-02-19 Thread Dan Purgert
On 19/02/2014 09:15, Ron Leach wrote: On 19/02/2014 09:56, Darac Marjal wrote: You should probably try and find a source that you trust that tells you what they key for Etch was and then fetch that manually (it may still be on keyservers etc). I still have a box in the corner running Etch.

Re: resolv.conf misbehaving

2014-02-20 Thread Dan Purgert
On 20/02/2014 10:17, Danny wrote: Hi guys, The past weekend I upgraded from Debian v3.0 to the latest Debian stable (7.0 or something) ... (wish I never did) ... However, I have noticed that my resolv.conf gets overwritten by something after every reboot. The Debian server resolves

Re: Physically have install DVD set. Want ISO's from which they came.

2014-02-21 Thread Dan Purgert
On 21/02/2014 07:32, Richard Owlett wrote: I have *NO* internet connectivity. I have Squeeze installed. I have complete DVD install set. I want to re-create the ISO files from which they came. I suspect I'm missing something obvious ;/ HELP ; First off ... why're you looking

Re: How to configure eth0 with static ip and eth1 dhcp

2014-02-22 Thread Dan Purgert
On 22/02/2014 18:11, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 23/02/14 09:58, Stephen Powell wrote: On Sat, 22 Feb 2014 17:22:16 -0500 (EST), Markos wrote: I'm trying to configure a machine with two network cards to share Internet access to an internal network the /etc/network/interface is: # The

Re: How to configure eth0 with static ip and eth1 dhcp

2014-02-23 Thread Dan Purgert
On 23/02/2014 06:28, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Sb, 22 feb 14, 20:55:28, Dan Purgert wrote: Now, the downside to this approach is that devices connected to the Wifi AP of the Huawei device will not be able to communicate with the stuff behind the *nix server. An easier solution (IMO) would

Re: 32 and 64 bit

2014-02-23 Thread Dan Purgert
On 23/02/2014 19:04, erosenb...@hygeiabiomedical.com wrote: Dear List - I am now trying to repoair my X-Window-less computer. I now have a 64 bit Lenovo box on which I have loaded testing [enough tragedies with unstable]. How do I safely move the files and executables from the 32 bit system

Re: day two question on installing packages on wheezy

2014-02-26 Thread Dan Purgert
On 26/02/2014 12:11, Kirt Odle wrote: Can I get someone to clearly explain to me ( a Debian newbie ) how to make aptitude download tshark and ALL of its dependencies, in a single operation ?? thanks Kirt Odle sudo apt-get install tshark Should do the trick (assuming tshark is the

Re: HELP !!! confused trying to install tshark on wheezy

2014-02-26 Thread Dan Purgert
On 26/02/2014 16:38, Kirt Odle wrote: I am very new to Debian ( and any other linux ) and I'm trying to install tshark. I've downloaded tshark and have run the command ... dpkg -i tshark_1.8.2-5wheezy9_i386.deb This printed out a lot of errors and listed missing libraries and other

Re: Re^2: Mutt: SSL Certificate check ... SASL authentication failed

2014-03-01 Thread Dan Purgert
On 01/03/2014 00:38, Peter Easthope wrote: References: 2b8c71ec0272453c696df1a5d4ad9c87.squir...@easthope.ca 53115869.3090...@gmail.com From: Scott Ferguson scott.ferguson.debian.u...@gmail.com Date: Sat, 01 Mar 2014 14:47:53 +1100 Shouldn't that certificate be for domain from which you are

Re: Test

2014-03-02 Thread Dan Purgert
On 02/03/2014 07:24, Brian wrote: On Sun 02 Mar 2014 at 09:54:01 +, Tom Furie wrote: If you look at the headers on your posts (or anyone else's for that matter), you can track the progress from origin to destination. In this instance the messages were received by the Debian mail system

Re: DHCP quickie

2014-03-04 Thread Dan Purgert
On 04/03/2014 12:32, Danny wrote: Hi Guys, Is it possible to only give leases at a certain time of day for a certain IP or MAC? Say from 06:00 till 10:00 and then from 18:00 till 22:00? Just wondering Thank You Danny Need some more information about what you're trying to do

Re: unable to renew ip

2014-03-07 Thread Dan Purgert
On 07/03/2014 06:35, lina wrote: Hi, I use dhclient and just switch to google dns server. For months, I have bees stuck with the eth0 ip address 172.21.100.159 Uh, that's part of the private class-B range (172.16.0.0/12). You're getting it from your local DHCP server. Only way to change

Re: unable to renew ip

2014-03-07 Thread Dan Purgert
On 07/03/2014 07:42, Jerome BENOIT wrote: Hi, On 07/03/14 13:31, Dan Purgert wrote: On 07/03/2014 06:35, lina wrote: Hi, [...] Not sure how/why Jerome decided that the DHCP server is a windows box though. As a matter of fact, it was meant to be a private email (sorry): I know

Re: unable to renew ip

2014-03-07 Thread Dan Purgert
On 07/03/2014 09:12, lina wrote: Your IP address should have no effect on your connection speed (i.e. getting a new one won't help you any). You have to find out what's causing your connection's throughput to be slow. After changing IP, I don't need to wait a hellish time to open a

Re: unable to renew ip

2014-03-07 Thread Dan Purgert
On 07/03/2014 09:49, lina wrote: On Friday 07,March,2014 10:35 PM, Dan Purgert wrote: [...] Something really weird, my icedove, 6 hours ago popped up an email which was 2 months ago as unread, couple of mins ago, it also popped up another email as unread also from that thread, the same

Re: unable to renew ip

2014-03-07 Thread Dan Purgert
On 07/03/2014 11:37, Lina wrote: On 8 Mar, 2014, at 12:13 am, Dan Purgert d...@djph.net wrote: On 07/03/2014 09:49, lina wrote: On Friday 07,March,2014 10:35 PM, Dan Purgert wrote: [...] I received that two emails last month. It is more like re-sent. I sent an SMS to her to check

Re: Network install

2015-01-30 Thread Dan Purgert
On 30/01/2015 14:36, Rodolfo Medina wrote: Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk writes: By install Debian do you mean you go all the way through the installer menu and then finish the install by booting into the new system? I'll try to explain better (strange, it seems so clear to me). T[...]

Re: Ethernet NIC renegotiation problem.

2015-02-18 Thread Dan Purgert
On Wed, 18 Feb 2015 20:46:20 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: On Wednesday, February 18, 2015 07:01:19 PM BUCH wrote: [...] ...sure learned a lot about installing the plugs on a piece of cat5. Cheers, Gene Heskett Good stuff in the whole post. Point of contention -- if the BUCH is only using

Re: Advise on setup of small office locally or via VPS

2015-03-18 Thread Dan Purgert
On Wed, 18 Mar 2015 09:05:12 +, Linux4Bene wrote: Op Wed, 18 Mar 2015 03:58:02 +, schreef Dan Purgert: [snip] You've already got a frontend for them (hint - roundcube) Yes, I just need to find a good plugin allowing for the users to change their password. Dunno about roundcube

Re: Advise on setup of small office locally or via VPS

2015-03-17 Thread Dan Purgert
On Tue, 17 Mar 2015 16:02:31 +, Linux4Bene wrote: Op Tue, 17 Mar 2015 13:38:26 +, schreef Dan Purgert: snip Didn't you just say that you were using a Debian box as your firewall/ router? Not yet. I'm still employed ... Currently I have my own VPS running but no business

Re: Cool things to do with server

2015-03-17 Thread Dan Purgert
On Tue, 17 Mar 2015 12:30:24 -0700, Joris Bolsens wrote: On 03/17/2015 06:05 AM, Dan Purgert wrote: Set your t-bird to use STARTTLS for the outgoing server. Fixed it for me when I ran into that problem. There's probably a fix in either postfix or dovecot, but from what I can see, there's

Re: Cool things to do with server

2015-03-17 Thread Dan Purgert
On Wed, 18 Mar 2015 03:29:07 +, Dan Purgert wrote: On Tue, 17 Mar 2015 12:30:24 -0700, Joris Bolsens wrote: On 03/17/2015 06:05 AM, Dan Purgert wrote: Set your t-bird to use STARTTLS for the outgoing server. Fixed it for me when I ran into that problem. There's probably a fix

Re: Cool things to do with server

2015-03-15 Thread Dan Purgert
On Sat, 14 Mar 2015 19:43:46 -0700, Joris Bolsens wrote: I have a guide on my website[1] for setting up Postfix that is secure. If you google, you'll find many more for different configurations[2]. Use them as guides and review the documentation on the proper Postfix/Exim/etc websites and man

Re: Cool things to do with server

2015-03-16 Thread Dan Purgert
On Sun, 15 Mar 2015 11:42:38 -0700, Joris Bolsens wrote: Confirming mail server will keep you busy - especially the initial configuration (there will be a lot of WTF, now what'd I do!? moments, if you're like me). But yeah, postfix + dovecot (or other sasl agent) is pretty 'secure' in

Re: Cool things to do with server

2015-03-16 Thread Dan Purgert
On Mon, 16 Mar 2015 10:07:23 -0700, Joris Bolsens wrote: On 03/16/2015 09:14 AM, Dan Purgert wrote: --lots of snippage-- Thanks a ton, I will definitely look into all those things xD I've got a few days to kill and an entire week off next week. ~Joris Good deal :) I found

Re: Cool things to do with server

2015-03-16 Thread Dan Purgert
On Mon, 16 Mar 2015 12:23:43 -0700, Joris Bolsens wrote: [snip...] I'm assuming they moved it to here: https://www.linode.com/docs/email/postfix/email-with-postfix-dovecot- and-mysql Yup, that's the one. Gonna have to update my link then (wrote the note in 2014, didn't think to check it

Re: Cool things to do with server

2015-03-17 Thread Dan Purgert
On Mon, 16 Mar 2015 16:38:27 -0700, Joris Bolsens wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/16/2015 02:59 PM, Dan Purgert wrote: On Mon, 16 Mar 2015 12:23:43 -0700, Joris Bolsens wrote: [snip...] I'm assuming they moved it to here: https://www.linode.com/docs/email

Re: Cool things to do with server

2015-03-17 Thread Dan Purgert
On Mon, 16 Mar 2015 22:54:34 -0700, Joris Bolsens wrote: On 03/16/2015 10:24 PM, Joris Bolsens wrote: [snip] Been googling for hours and I cannot for the life of me find what the problem is. ~Joris I can connect just fine to IMAP, it's SMTP that gives me issues. the response when

Re: Advise on setup of small office locally or via VPS

2015-03-17 Thread Dan Purgert
On Tue, 17 Mar 2015 11:22:29 +, Linux4Bene wrote: Hi, Local setup === I would connect a Debian box with 3 nics to the ISP router to serve as firewall. 1 nic for WAN, 1 for LAN, 1 for DMZ. I have always used iptables to do this. The wan nic would have 1 public IP, LAN

Re: Installing Jessie on a computer that current has Windows 7 on it

2015-03-10 Thread Dan Purgert
On Mon, 09 Mar 2015 22:07:17 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: I have NO interest in dual boot. I simply want to wipe the disk and install Jessie. I have last weeks weekly build of debian-testing-i3k6-xfce-CD-1.iso. I starts nicely like I have seen many times before, but when I get to partitoning

Re: Installing Jessie on a computer that current has Windows 7 on it

2015-03-10 Thread Dan Purgert
On Tue, 10 Mar 2015 15:00:13 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: On 20150310_1410+, Dan Purgert wrote: On Mon, 09 Mar 2015 22:07:17 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: [ ... snip ... ] suggestion of running CHKDSK wasn't tried in the manner that I'm sure was intended because by the time I got it, I

Re: iceweasal vs long urls. Long url wins, iceweasal doesn't

2015-03-10 Thread Dan Purgert
On Tue, 10 Mar 2015 16:31:31 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: [lotsa snipping] Now, I gotta go find some PVC fittings. Anybody know where I can find a circular saw that can cut an 19 diameter hole in a 40+ yo concrete floor? That will at least start the 23 deep, 18 diameter sump pit needed.

Re: NFS client in 'rescue shell' from install DVD?

2015-03-13 Thread Dan Purgert
On Fri, 13 Mar 2015 08:15:24 +, Ron Leach wrote: List, good morning, I started and continuing with a separate thread about a boot problem but have a specific query about the rescue shell and NFS, which I thought worth having as a separate short topic. It's a wheezy system, running

Re: Very slow downloads when doing dist-upgrade.

2015-03-13 Thread Dan Purgert
On Fri, 13 Mar 2015 10:46:41 +, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: [...] If you have more than a few servers, it is really beneficial to use a caching HTTP proxy (e.g. squid configured to cache big files) on your local network ... Then you'll only have to download things once (usually) hope

Re: Need help with CUPS printing

2015-03-30 Thread Dan Purgert
On Mon, 30 Mar 2015 14:31:15 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: [snip...] It does, network-mangler is totally incapable of dealing with a local /etc/hosts file based network. I've added hosts to /etc/hosts with no problem whilst sill having Network Manager do its thing. However, I DID comment out

Re: Redirect HTTPS with Squid3+Squidguard

2015-03-26 Thread Dan Purgert
On Thu, 26 Mar 2015 08:49:37 -0500, John Hasler wrote: Why don't you just get rid of the computers? I tried that route one time ... got looked at like I had 7 heads for even suggesting that the kids go back to textbooks and paper. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Redirect HTTPS with Squid3+Squidguard

2015-03-27 Thread Dan Purgert
On Thu, 26 Mar 2015 15:53:04 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: rog...@queernet.org wrote: Michael Graham wrote: As MITM proxies in school/business seem to be pretty common in the US and the UK. I bet your proxy firewall does it too. I bet not! I think you are confusing https with http. We

Re: running kodi (xmbc) on debian

2015-02-22 Thread Dan Purgert
On Sun, 22 Feb 2015 14:27:33 -0600, Matthew Moore wrote: [...] For whatever reason, Netflix and Amazon video only seem to work happily inside of a browser these days. I know that in the past Netflix explicitly didn't work on Linux, and required doing some virtualization if you wanted to use

Re: Config vsftpd 2.3.5-3 on Debian 7.8

2015-02-25 Thread Dan Purgert
On Wed, 25 Feb 2015 12:38:50 +, Sascha Steinmann (adremes GmbH Co KG) wrote: Hi, i got a problem using the option chroot_local_user=yes. When I activate this option to jail the users in their home directories, they login to / directorie with a ftp-client and not to their home directorie

Re: Network install

2015-01-29 Thread Dan Purgert
On 29/01/2015 15:39, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Hello, Rodolfo Medina a écrit : To connect to Internet, I use ppp and a pendrive as modem. I doubt so. A pendrive is not a modem, it is a storage device. Bet he's referring to 3g/4g cell card as a pendrive modem or perhaps is using a wired USB

Re: Network install

2015-01-30 Thread Dan Purgert
On 30/01/2015 03:18, Rodolfo Medina wrote: [...] To connect to Internet, I use ppp and a pendrive as modem. I doubt so. A pendrive is not a modem, it is a storage device. Sorry, it's something similar to a pendrive. What is it exactly? Is it a 3/4g cell card (such as provided by a phone

Re: free cloud

2015-04-03 Thread Dan Purgert
On Fri, 03 Apr 2015 14:24:04 +0200, Petter Adsen wrote: [...] Then you could set up something like OwnCloud... So, not being nearly as deep in the roll my own solution as some people around here ... I've learned something now too :) Now I just need to get a less bad box as a server (have

Re: free cloud

2015-04-03 Thread Dan Purgert
On Thu, 02 Apr 2015 22:17:02 +0200, Pol Hallen wrote: Hey all :-) I looking for a free cloud with almost rsync server-side (or other good services to automatically sync data) no http/s transfer. What's the best online (and free or chip cost) service? thanks! Pol Probably not the

Re: free cloud

2015-04-03 Thread Dan Purgert
On Fri, 03 Apr 2015 15:12:34 +0200, Petter Adsen wrote: On Fri, 3 Apr 2015 12:55:12 + (UTC) Dan Purgert d...@djph.net wrote: Buy an extra disk and start playing :) Petter now that you mention it ... /dev/sdc is 200G and pretty empty ... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user

Re: Video Compression

2015-04-08 Thread Dan Purgert
On Wed, 08 Apr 2015 16:30:16 -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: I need an beginer's guide to video compression. The man page for ffmpeg is daunting and I can find no explanations of the tools in libav-tools I have short avi HD video clips, 1280x720@30fps, which I would like to compress to a

Re: Free GNU/Linux intro class for teens advice? Purchase box? Squeak/Smalltalk programming

2015-07-06 Thread Dan Purgert
On Mon, 06 Jul 2015 20:12:10 -0400, Marc D Ronell wrote: I am working toward teaching a free introductory class to teens on GNU/Linux and the philosophy of free software at the Newton Free Library in MA this coming September. For the class, the participants will need access to

Re: New user having trouble with new install

2015-07-14 Thread Dan Purgert
On 2015-07-13, Jonathan Levine jonathan.canuck.lev...@gmail.com wrote: [snip] ... [the ISP] allows us 50G traffic (that's up *plus* down) Have you looked at potentially signing up with a WISP in your area, or perhaps setting up your own PTP link from somewhere in town that you can obtain

Re: Cron not working

2015-07-12 Thread Dan Purgert
On Sun, 12 Jul 2015 13:02:43 -0400, Haines Brown wrote: This may be a FAQ, but it has me stumped. I try to do a weekly backup with this, but nothing happens, and there is nothing in syslog: # crontab -l 0 4 * * 0 /home/haines/scripts/backup I can run the script manually with #

Re: Cron not working

2015-07-12 Thread Dan Purgert
On Sun, 12 Jul 2015 14:22:22 -0400, Haines Brown wrote: On Sun, Jul 12, 2015 at 05:11:21PM +, Dan Purgert wrote: On Sun, 12 Jul 2015 13:02:43 -0400, Haines Brown wrote: This may be a FAQ, but it has me stumped. I try to do a weekly backup with this, but nothing happens

Re: enable telnetd?

2016-06-02 Thread Dan Purgert
Felix Miata wrote: > I have no interest in answers explaining ssh and security risk. These are > understood. All I'm interested in is capturing dmesg and logs from a test > installation while normal logins are busy with segfaulting or otherwise > inaccessible. well, if /dev/tty# is shot

Re: ssh-ing in inside private network

2016-06-02 Thread Dan Purgert
David Wright wrote: > On Wed 01 Jun 2016 at 14:47:11 (-), Dan Purgert wrote: >> [snip] >> >> I came "late" to the party myself, and missed the post where I imagine >> why Lisi is after runlevel 1. >> >> Personally, with the exception of m

Re: Ideas to obtain text file list of emails in an IMAP folder?

2016-06-03 Thread Dan Purgert
6304:2,S | Subject: Re: Thanks | From: Peter | Date: Wed, 25 May 2016 20:52:23 -0400 | To: Dan Purgert <d...@djph.net> | | = | | [next message ...] HTH, and happy hacki

Re: rkhunter -c, doesnt show any rootkit

2016-06-09 Thread Dan Purgert
David Wright wrote: > On Wed 08 Jun 2016 at 22:16:03 (-), Dan Purgert wrote: >> David Wright wrote: >> > On Wed 08 Jun 2016 at 20:51:55 (+0300), Nikos Macheras wrote: >> >> On 06/07/2016 01:50 PM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: >> >> >On Tue, Jun 07, 2016

Re: rkhunter -c, doesnt show any rootkit

2016-06-08 Thread Dan Purgert
David Wright wrote: > On Wed 08 Jun 2016 at 20:51:55 (+0300), Nikos Macheras wrote: >> On 06/07/2016 01:50 PM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: >> >On Tue, Jun 07, 2016 at 01:29:28PM +0300, perlj...@gmail.com wrote: >> >>There is a problem to a computer, >> >>It loses files, not very often, files

Re: Lose Files, rkhunter -c, doesnt show any rootkit, healthy hard disk

2016-06-07 Thread Dan Purgert
perlj...@gmail.com wrote: > Hello to list, > > There is a problem to a computer, > It loses files, not very often, files downloaded from internet. > rkhunter -c, doesnt show any rootkit, smartctl --all /dev/sdX , shows a > healthy hard disk. > > Any suggestion? Where's your "Download" target?

Re: Linux startup, Wheezy -- a required script won't run on startup, but can run manually without any trouble

2016-06-09 Thread Dan Purgert
Andrew McGlashan wrote: > On 10/06/2016 5:06 AM, Dan Purgert wrote: >> Andrew McGlashan wrote: >>> [snip] >>> Now, I want the archiving script to run on system startup, I don't >>> want dovecot or exim4 to be running when the script starts, it >>> s

Re: Linux startup, Wheezy -- a required script won't run on startup, but can run manually without any trouble

2016-06-09 Thread Dan Purgert
Andrew McGlashan wrote: >[snip] > The script does have #! /bin/sh at the top and /bin/sh does point to > /bin/dash as follows: > > # ls -l /bin/sh > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Feb 21 17:40 /bin/sh -> dash Try running it as 'sh ' or 'dash ' -- you're probably doing "bashisms" in there somewhere

Re: Linux startup, Wheezy -- a required script won't run on startup, but can run manually without any trouble

2016-06-09 Thread Dan Purgert
Andrew McGlashan wrote: > Hi, > > In the Solaris world and most SYSV systems like it, there was a very > simple startup system; it was not systemd, nor is it the "modern day" > sysvinit. It was much simpler and worked very, very well and extremely > reliably. How can we get that back on modern

Re: Ideas to obtain text file list of emails in an IMAP folder?

2016-06-03 Thread Dan Purgert
Ron Leach wrote: > On 03/06/2016 17:31, Dan Purgert wrote: >> Ron Leach wrote: >>> Have any debian-user readers ever tried to create a list of all the >>> email messages stored in an IMAP folder? > >> Do the same here (Dovecot + Postfix), not 100% ce

Re: jessie install cd no network

2016-06-03 Thread Dan Purgert
Javier Marcon wrote: > Hello, I downloaded the Jessie install cd and added a preseed file to > automatically install some packages, but running the install cd does not > recognize the realtek network cards, telling me that no network hardware > was detected. They probably need "non-free" drivers,

Re: enable telnetd?

2016-06-03 Thread Dan Purgert
Felix Miata wrote: > Dan Purgert composed on 2016-06-02 19:57 (UTC): > >> Felix Miata wrote: > >>> I have no interest in answers explaining ssh and security risk. These are >>> understood. All I'm interested in is capturing dmesg and logs from a test >>>

Re: Ideas to obtain text file list of emails in an IMAP folder?

2016-06-04 Thread Dan Purgert
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Re: Running without X was: Re: ssh-ing in inside private network

2016-06-03 Thread Dan Purgert
Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Friday 03 June 2016 10:07:13 Lisi Reisz wrote: >>  I wanted to log in without X >> and runlevel 1 has no X. > > So I next tried to shut X down. I have tried this before without success, so > I googled again, and gathered that what I needed to do in fact was shut down > my

Re: Advice sought re HDD --> SSD migration

2016-06-04 Thread Dan Purgert
Mark Fletcher wrote: > --001a114056c6ba860d053471e7cb > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > Hi > > I've recently decided to upgrade my main PC, running Debian Jessie, to use > SSDs instead of HDDs. Right now I am halfway through the process, having > done what I consider the easy part, and

Re: ssh-ing in inside private network

2016-06-01 Thread Dan Purgert
Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Tuesday 31 May 2016 23:56:02 Richard Hector wrote: >> On 01/06/16 07:31, Lisi Reisz wrote: >> > Now to do what I really wanted to do all along, and ssh in to run level >> > one as root: >> > >> > lisi@Tux-II:~$ ssh root@192.168.0.5 >> > ssh: connect to host 192.168.0.5 port

Re: ssh-ing in inside private network

2016-06-01 Thread Dan Purgert
Mark Fletcher wrote: > --001a114056c6437ae5053437ad41 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > On Wed, Jun 1, 2016 at 9:10 PM Dan Purgert <d...@djph.net> wrote: > >> Lisi Reisz wrote: >> > On Tuesday 31 May 2016 23:56:02 Richard Hector wrote: >&

Re: ssh again

2016-06-15 Thread Dan Purgert
Lars Noodén wrote: > On 06/15/2016 02:54 AM, emetib wrote: > [snip] >> dan has a good point about having your own nameserver. yet with only >> three computers in your home network it's not necessarily needed. >> >> wait i did that before. >> >> they are easy to set up and > [snip] > > Even

Re: ssh again

2016-06-15 Thread Dan Purgert
emetib wrote: > [snip] > dan has a good point about having your own nameserver. yet with only > three computers in your home network it's not necessarily needed. Not "necessary", no -- but it's really helpful. In my case, I've only got a handful of "PCs" running, but since they move around

Re: USB printer CUPS stalls on "Sending data to printer"

2016-06-22 Thread Dan Purgert
Emanuel Berg wrote: > printer laser now printing laser-528. enabled since Wed 22 Jun 2016 > 16:42:55 CEST > Filter failed > Seems the input (or output) filter failed. You'll likely need to check if it's trying to call any 32-bit libraries (my brother does this), and add the relevant i386

Re: ssh again

2016-06-15 Thread Dan Purgert
Leon.37428 wrote: > On 06/15/2016 10:00 AM, emetib wrote: >> jorg wrote- >> >> Better command >> >> scp /home/whatever/file.jpg remote@hostname:/home/user/Pictures/ >> --- >> >> one thing that i've learned is that you should get in the habit when >> cping or mving is to add a ./ when copying,

Re: ssh again

2016-06-14 Thread Dan Purgert
Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Tuesday 14 June 2016 18:08:45 Brian wrote: >> With avahi-daemon installed on both machines >> >> ssh hostname.local >> >> should just work. No messing with config files or anything like that. >> >> /etc/hosts is fine if you are more comfortable with it but an IP address >>

Re: Mailing-list configuration

2016-06-16 Thread Dan Purgert
Nicolas George wrote: > Now, finally, how do we achieve automation? > > The ideal solution would be to have a real header telling us what to do: > "List-Reply-To: list" or "List-Reply-To: sender, list". Unfortunately, the > people in charge of that messed it up, they invented these useless headers

Re: How to download over https

2016-06-16 Thread Dan Purgert
Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Le 16/06/2016 18:18, Dan Purgert a écrit : > 1) >> So, the fact that HTTPS doesn't ~actually~ provide you with any security >> when a "malicious party" has root accesss to the webserver, > > >> AND that it >> adds overhead to t

Re: cron, sshfs and sudo

2016-06-17 Thread Dan Purgert
Wim Bertels wrote: > use case: use cron to mount a sshfs share (with automatic key auth) > > on 1 installation this is working fine: > [snipped the script] > > on the other it keeps failing because the passphrase needs to be entered > to unlock the key, it doesn't fail however without sudo and a

Re: ThinkPad fan

2016-06-17 Thread Dan Purgert
Francesco Montanari wrote: > I recently installed Jessie on a Lenovo ThinkPad T420. The fan usage looks > reasonable. However, high temperatures (96 C) are reached when CPUs are > running intensively for more than one minute or so. The fan speed at those > temperatures is about 4500 rpm. > > Do

Re: How to download over https

2016-06-17 Thread Dan Purgert
Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote on 06/16/16 15:12: >> Did you take a look here: https://www.debian.org/CD/verify , "Verifying >> authenticity of Debian CDs"? >> >> The https protocol would add quite some overhead to the download of the >> iso-files which are already big by them

Re: How to download over https

2016-06-20 Thread Dan Purgert
Nicolas George wrote: > > --9jxsPFA5p3P2qPhR > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 > Content-Disposition: inline > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > Le tridi 3 messidor, an CCXXIV, Dan Purgert a =E9crit=A0: >> Because the TCP "stream"

Re: USB printer CUPS stalls on "Sending data to printer"

2016-06-23 Thread Dan Purgert
Brian wrote: > On Wed 22 Jun 2016 at 15:21:45 +0000, Dan Purgert wrote: > >> Emanuel Berg wrote: >> > printer laser now printing laser-528. enabled since Wed 22 Jun 2016 >> > 16:42:55 CEST >> >Filter failed >> > >> >> Seems the i

Re: How to download over https

2016-06-20 Thread Dan Purgert
Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Le 18/06/2016 18:19, Dan Purgert a écrit : >> Pascal Hambourg wrote: >>> Le 17/06/2016 21:52, Jochen Spieker a écrit : >>>> Pascal Hambourg: >>>>> >>>>> Hmm. I don't know how SSL works, but HTTPS runs on to

Re: Mailing-list configuration

2016-06-16 Thread Dan Purgert
Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Thursday 16 June 2016 13:47:54 Dan Purgert wrote: >> In addition, I feel that both parties in the original problem >> (apparently Lisi and Nicolas -- please correct me if I'm wrong) each >> have some fault in the matter.  Mainly, this seems to ste

Re: How to download over https

2016-06-16 Thread Dan Purgert
matthew wrote: > [snip] > > There are MD5 and SHA sums in that same directory. However I can only > access those checksums through unencrypted connections. Therefore they > cannot be used to check against 3rd party tampering. (Since someone > who has the ability to tamper with the .iso can also

Re: How to download over https

2016-06-18 Thread Dan Purgert
Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Le 17/06/2016 21:52, Jochen Spieker a écrit : >> Pascal Hambourg: >>> >>> Hmm. I don't know how SSL works, but HTTPS runs on top of TCP so I doubt >>> that it cares about IP packet size. The task of splitting the TCP payload >>> stream into IP packets is done by the TCP

Re: Use of attachments

2016-04-07 Thread Dan Purgert
Gary Roach wrote: > I have tried to use an attachment to this site a couple of times and the > email seems to go into a black hole. Are attachments not allowed on this > site? I not, how do I pass along things like screen shots. Im using > icedove email client. > > Gary R. Link to an external

Re: Throughput riddle

2016-03-21 Thread Dan Purgert
On 2016-03-18, Celejar wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to understand the throughput across the different links of > my little home network, and am perplexed by the measured wireless > throughput. > > The three main devices I'm interested in: > > Router: Buffalo WZR-HP-G300NH

Re: can you boot a dvd iso file from a tv dvd player?

2016-03-22 Thread Dan Purgert
On 2016-03-22, Michael Fothergill wrote: > --001a11c3193add3a72052ea30a72 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > Dear Folks, > > I own a Samsung BD-C5900 Blu ray/DVD player. > > It's meant to be used for viewing movies etc recorded on blu ray discs etc. >

Re: Got that network problem solved, now a new one

2016-05-19 Thread Dan Purgert
Gene Heskett wrote: > On Thursday 19 May 2016 09:04:54 Lisi Reisz wrote: >> [snip] >> Will reply to Gene off-list as well in order to send a screenshot. >> But no, it is still not working. Tried in Chromium and Firefox. >> >> Lisi > > For those following along, I had apache2 listening on port

Re: Customizing/repository question

2016-05-22 Thread Dan Purgert
Ralph Sanchez wrote: > --94eb2c0807a2726ee105335ce34f > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > Good morning. I was just wandering, is it safe to use packages from > another Debian based district repositories by adding them to my > sources file, specifically Kali Linux? Nope, not packages

Re: Customizing/repository question

2016-05-23 Thread Dan Purgert
T.J. Duchene wrote: > On Sun, 22 May 2016 22:20:38 - (UTC) > Dan Purgert <d...@djph.net> wrote: >> [snip] >> Nope, not packages ... but you could always build from source. >> > [snip] > I usually substitute "dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc" with &q

Re: Laptop wireless problem - very slight tangent

2016-07-04 Thread Dan Purgert
Nicolas George wrote: > > --RnlQjJ0d97Da+TV1 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 > Content-Disposition: inline > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > Le septidi 17 messidor, an CCXXIV, Dan Purgert a =E9crit=A0: >> As I recall it ... >>=20 >

Re: Laptop wireless problem - very slight tangent

2016-07-04 Thread Dan Purgert
Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > [snip] > [...] "wlp2s0" on Sid Unstable. > > [...] > > PS enp1s0 is now my other one, as well. > As I recall it ... - prefix ("en" | "wl") indicates whether it's [e]ther[n]et or [wl]an. - p# indicates the PCI Bus it's on - s# indicates the slot on that PCI Bus

Re: Why packets (from my ISP to me) on the WAN VC side of my router are twice the size of packets on the Ethernet (and a corresponding twice as many bytes)

2017-02-07 Thread Dan Purgert
rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Monday, February 06, 2017 06:24:40 PM Dan Purgert wrote: >> Could be MTU differences, and the router needing to do something (e.g. >> 1500 on the LAN side, and 1452 on the WAN, which is usually typical for >> DSL / PPPoE connections). > &g

Re: Why packets (from my ISP to me) on the WAN VC side of my router are twice the size of packets on the Ethernet (and a corresponding twice as many bytes)

2017-02-07 Thread Dan Purgert
rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > > IIUC, data that I download from Earthlink is labeled "Data Out" on the > WAN VC side, and is labeled "Data In" on my LAN / Ethernet side. "Possibly". I don't have either that service or that modem. However, in general terms (on a linux-based device), - "IN"

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