Re: Sunrise and Sunset from terminal
On Wed, Sep 27, 2023 at 11:12:02AM +0100, Carles Pina i Estany wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> sudo apt install python3-ephem
>
> And in one line:
>
> """
> (LATITUDE=51.5; LONGITUDE=0.12; python3 -c "import ephem; o=ephem.Observer();
> o.lat, o.lon = $LATITUDE, $LONGITUDE; print('Sunrise:',
> o.next_rising(ephem.Sun()).datetime(), 'Sunset:',
> o.next_setting(ephem.Sun()).datetime())")
> """
>
Some more options for the fun of it:
python3-suntime / https://github.com/SatAgro/suntime
I converted that code into a Lua script [1] to run it
on OpenWrt based systems, in case someone is up for something to
run in more constrained environments.
https://git.sven.stormbind.net/?p=sven/scripts.git;a=blob_plain;f=weblogpro/suntime.lua;hb=HEAD
Cheers,
Sven
Re: PXE booting EFI client
On Tue, Sep 06, 2022 at 07:21:59PM +0200, john doe wrote: > Debians, > > I'm trying to pxe boot a client with UEFI BIOS to no avail. > > Everything works with legacy BIOS but if I use those two lines in my > dnsmasq.conf: > > "dhcp-boot=bootnetx64.efi > pxe-service=X86-64_EFI, "Boot UEFI PXE-64", bootnetx64.efi" Maybe you've a host which sents as architecture "7" instead of "9" via DHCP and this pxe-service is not matched at all. You can figure that out if you look with wireshark at the DHCP traffic. According to my notes the protocol option field is 93 you've to look at. I ran into such an issue a few years back with HPE DL360G10 vs DL120G9. Config setting to try out would be: pxe-service=BC_EFI, "Boot UEFI PXE-64", bootnetx64.efi" Sven
Re: Out of memory killer misconfigured?
On Tue, Mar 29, 2022 at 10:34:19AM +0100, piorunz wrote: > Hello, > > I use Debian Testing on AMD64, on a workstation with Ryzen 5800X - 16 > CPU cores and 64GB of ECC DDR4 RAM. > > Today, Windows application I run on Wine for work has decided to eat all > available memory, CPU and HDD I/O. I don't have swapfile, so Linux > kernel must kill something to remain online when all RAM is taken by > rogue application. > That's where problem I noticed comes in - Debian oom-kill has killed > EVERYTHING and actual offending memory hungry application at the end. > Why?! It destroyed working KDE session and I had to hard reset the PC. The in kernel oom killing is a constant issue. If you look through the lwn.net articles of the past years there is work done to improve the situation, but I believe that's not in a default setup yet. E.g. we now have PSI as an information source https://lwn.net/Articles/759781/ which can be used with the Facebook oomd or systemd-oomd to have userland control over which process to kill. If you really want to fine tune your system this should give you a lead what to look for. Sven
Re: SD card, exfat, file mtime wrong
On Tue, Dec 14, 2021 at 10:32:08AM +0100, Reiner wrote: > the timestamp problematic is still not solved in the upstream linux kernel. > > As a workaround you could use the exfat-fuse implementation, but it must be > a newer version then the latest stable in debian. > > There is no newer stable release in upstream either. Must be build from git! Hi, I'm a bit late but I took this thread as motivation to upload a snapshot of the exfat fuse driver to experimental. The package should also build on bullseye if that is a target platform for you. I still plan to drop the package asap from the Debian archive, because I believe the in kernel driver is the way to move on, but for now there might be a niche case for the fuse driver. If you can give it a try please let me know if it works for you. Sven
Re: Lenovo S205 boot
On Tue, Aug 11, 2020 at 09:57:47AM +0200, Sven Hoexter wrote: > It's a AMD CPU-GPU package, I've documented the hardware in > the wiki as I already pointed out earlier: > https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/Lenovo/ideapadS205/wheezy I've updated that page with some more information. For one the grub2 shell input to boot amd64 from Russel and my steps on how to finish a i386 based installation with grub-legacy. That actually brings me up to a booting and working XFCE installation with X and all the glitter. > One of the things that could prevent the X start is a firmware issue. > I documented that in this page back then, and it's likely you could > not do anything without the proper non-free firmware installed. Russel, I believe what you're missing on your installation to get X working is just an apt install firmware-linux-nonfree That depends on some firmware package for the AMD/ATI GPU. The required firmware for the ralink wlan ship is installed by default if you based on your install on the non-free netinstall images. Otherwise also apt install firmware-misc-nonfree via a cable connection. Sven
Re: Lenovo S205 boot
On Tue, Aug 11, 2020 at 01:19:46PM +1000, David wrote: > On Tue, 11 Aug 2020 at 09:48, Russell L. Harris wrote: > > > So is my processor AMD or Atom? > > The best way to answer this question is to run the command > cat /proc/cpuinfo > > and perhaps share its output with us here. It's a AMD CPU-GPU package, I've documented the hardware in the wiki as I already pointed out earlier: https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/Lenovo/ideapadS205/wheezy One of the things that could prevent the X start is a firmware issue. I documented that in this page back then, and it's likely you could not do anything without the proper non-free firmware installed. It's a nice device with quite good hardware support but you had to get all the non-free firmware parts together to get it going. Sven
Re: Lenovo S205 boot
On Tue, Aug 04, 2020 at 05:52:10PM +, Russell L. Harris wrote: > On Tue, Aug 04, 2020 at 07:04:13PM +0200, Sven Hoexter wrote: > > so far I can only confirm that the grub installation fails with > > both stable and testing. It seems something is at odds with writing > > the efivars. I did not yet get around to try again if I can switch > > the installation back to using grub-legacy somehow. > > I would not mind going back to Wheezy, if necessary. If going back to i386 is an option for you, the department of workarounds has an option. I could install with the i386 non-free bullseye iso from https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/bullseye_di_alpha2/i386/iso-cd/ Basically that forces a BIOS mode installation, but be aware grub2 also in BIOS mode does not boot on this device. So what I did was just before the installer asks for your confirmation to reboot I switched to the shell on tty and did roughly the following: mount -o bind /sys /target/sys mount -o bind /dev /target/dev mount -o bind /proc /target/proc chroot /target /bin/bash apt install grub-legacy dpkg --purge grub-pc grub-pc-bin grub2-common update-grub grub-install /dev/sda exit & reboot. That basically replaces the known to not work grub2 with the old grub which already worked in the past. Did not yet move on from here. So in my bug that is so far two bugs: a) the touchpad does not work in the graphical installer b) grub2 does not work in EFI and BIOS mode You can probably afterwards also install an amd64 kernel image so you have a i386 userland with at least a 64bit kernel running. For the sake of random testing I also tried Ubuntu 20.04 and Fedora 32 and in both cases the grub2 efi installation fails as well. Quite sure that is a general issue between the UEFI on this device and grub2 which for some unknown reason worked or was workaround in the old grub. Not sure if that helps you to move on in any direction with this device. Sven
Re: Lenovo S205 boot
On Thu, Jul 30, 2020 at 10:04:18AM +0200, Sven Hoexter wrote: > On Thu, Jul 30, 2020 at 04:38:20AM +, Russell L. Harris wrote: > > On an older Lenovo S205 on which I never have managed to get Debian > > running, I did a netinstall of > > debian-bullseye-DI-alpha2-amd64-netinst.iso > > Uh it's been a while since > https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/Lenovo/ideapadS205/wheezy > > But lately I repurposed that for some test and had > Alpine installed, so in general it's still well supported by > Linux. Maybe I managed some time next week to give it a try with > Debian again. Hi, so far I can only confirm that the grub installation fails with both stable and testing. It seems something is at odds with writing the efivars. I did not yet get around to try again if I can switch the installation back to using grub-legacy somehow. Sven
Re: Lenovo S205 boot
On Thu, Jul 30, 2020 at 04:38:20AM +, Russell L. Harris wrote: > On an older Lenovo S205 on which I never have managed to get Debian > running, I did a netinstall of > debian-bullseye-DI-alpha2-amd64-netinst.iso Uh it's been a while since https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/Lenovo/ideapadS205/wheezy But lately I repurposed that for some test and had Alpine installed, so in general it's still well supported by Linux. Maybe I managed some time next week to give it a try with Debian again. > grub dummy failed, but the boot process terminates with the grub> > prompt. I tried the ls command: > > grub> ls > (proc) (hd0) (hd0,gpt3) (hd0,gpt2) (hd0,pt1) > > and I am able to boot manually by typing in grub commands: > > grub> root=(hd0,gpt2) > grub> linux /vmlinuz root=dev/sda2 > grub> initrd /initrd.img > grub> boot Ok so the grub issues are still there one way or another. Maybe you can take a look at what got generated in /boot/grub/grub.cfg > The boot now proceeds, but the stream of messages terminates with the > line: > > IPV6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): enp2so: link becomes ready Ignore it, probably link local auto configuration. Nothing to worry about. > and the GUI interface does not start. Did you install a complete desktop environment? Sven
Re: exfat usb stick mounted only as root
On Tue, Jan 01, 2019 at 09:36:27AM +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: Hi, > Instead, as root, I can mount it without problems. How can I have it mounted > *also* as normal user...? Short answer: it's not supported Longer answer: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=916987#35 There are patches for pmount floating around and I used a locally build and patched pmount. Depending on your local security requirements you might be also fine with adding the suid flag but that's not something I can recommend for everyone. Cheers, Sven
Re: Status of java-package
On Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 04:10:29PM +0200, Erwan David wrote: Hi, > Thanks. Alas I have some mangement console for (surprise ?) oracle SAN > storage which only work with oracle Java. I'll keep an working one for > this... I hope it's not something based on Webstart? Because Webstart will no longer be part of Java 11. So I guess at least some of us will have to keep a copy of a JRE with javaws around for some time. That is also the reason why the Java 8 support in the current java-package shipped in Debian is kind of sufficient. Java 9 and 10 are only short term releases and starting with Java 11 quite a few things will change, and I think there is no real need for this repackaging of Oracle JREs anymore. Cheers, Sven
Re: Status of java-package
On Tue, Aug 21, 2018 at 12:30:49PM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: Hi, > Incidentally, it has been a long time since I encountered any Java that > would run on the Oracle JVM but not on OpenJDK. Are you sure you need > to even bother with the Oracle JVM? The main point so far was to aid debugging because you could be certain on which code base you build and run it. If everyone is using a slightly different build it's quite hard to track down bugs. In one of my past jobs someone actually found three bugs in the JVM and we once were victim of a regression in the expat parsers in a few Java releases. If you can not say for sure at which exact version your developers are, and which one you use in production, and that often across Windows, OS X, and various Linux distributions, the situation can be quite unpleasant. I actually do not care for my desktop system at home, but if you run a lot of stuff on the JVM in production, it can be an issue. Sven
Re: Status of java-package
On Tue, Aug 21, 2018 at 05:49:19PM +0200, Erwan David wrote: > Hi, > > This package makes a .deb from oracle .tar.gz It does not package java > 9 nor java 10. Is there a problem with those versions ? Is the > packaged abandonned, and in this case is there anotehr method to uses > oracle JRE on debian ? I'm currently maintaining my own fork because I did not get around to properly hijack the package. I had at some point contact with one of the prior maintainers but we could not get around merging my Java 9 changes at that point. So for now my fork is here: https://git.sven.stormbind.net/?p=sven/java-package.git;a=summary Usage instruction if you do not want to build a Debian package out of it: https://sven.stormbind.net/blog/posts/deb_java-package-oracle-jdk9/ It's not completely polished but I'm reluctant to invest more time because I assume we all move on to OpenJDK in some form in Januar 2019. Context: As far as I know Oracle JRE/JDK builds will be only available for paying customers on a contract by September 2018 for Java 11 and January 2019 for Java 8. At that point everyone else will propably migrate to some form of OpenJDK. If it's the one shipped by your distro or 3rd parties like Azul needs to be determined on a case by case basis I guess. There will still be reference binary OpenJDK builds published on jdk.java.net but I'm not sure if it's worth to provide support for them in java-package. Cheers, Sven
Re: update bios from debian
On Wed, Mar 07, 2018 at 09:22:06PM -0800, Don Armstrong wrote: Hi, > sudo apt install grub-imageboot; > sudo cp 7wuj43uc.iso /boot/images; > sudo update-grub2; > > then reboot, and select the right cd image in your grub menu. That's a nice approach. Added it to https://wiki.debian.org/Firmware/Updates which already collects a few other ways on how you can handle BIOS/EFI/Firmware updates. Sven
Re: 404 trying to use stretch/backports
On Thu, Jan 11, 2018 at 07:35:59AM -0500, Felix Miata wrote: Hi, >I don't know what the intent is in the existence of: > http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/m/mc/mc_4.8.19-1_i386.deb & > http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/m/mc/mc-data_4.8.19-1_all.deb Those are the packages available and build on unstable. This is a combined package pool. > especially with 4.8.20 having been released in November, but I downloaded > manually and installed 4.8.19 with dpkg, and it works just fine compared to > the > broken 4.8.18 that had been installed. Well someone has to update the package for unstable first. Then it can migrate at some point to testing and then someone could build a backport base on this work. This does not happen on its own. Using the package from unstable can work but it can also break at any time due changes in libraries. Cheers, Sven
Re: 404 trying to use stretch/backports
On Thu, Jan 11, 2018 at 09:52:00AM +0100, john doe wrote: > On 1/11/2018 8:08 AM, Felix Miata wrote: > > Trying to get a non-broken recent version of mc, the instructions on > > https://backports.debian.org/Instructions/ fail[1]. How can I get a > > non-broken > > relatively recent mc package installed, e.g. patched 4.8.19, or 4.8.20? > > Breakage > > was fixed 15 months ago[2]. > What lines do you have in 'sources.list'? > > The following URL is working for me: > > deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian stretch-backports main Hey guys, there is no backport of the mc package available, so someone has to backport it first. There is no automatic backport process running because that's technically not really possible and that's not how backports are intendet to work. $ rmadison mc mc | 3:4.8.3-10| oldoldstable | source, amd64, armel, armhf, i386, ia64, kfreebsd-amd64, kfreebsd-i386, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, s390x, sparc mc | 3:4.8.13-3| oldstable | source, amd64, arm64, armel, armhf, i386, mips, mipsel, powerpc, ppc64el, s390x mc | 3:4.8.13-3| oldstable-kfreebsd | source, kfreebsd-amd64, kfreebsd-i386 mc | 3:4.8.18-1| stable | source, amd64, arm64, armel, armhf, i386, mips, mips64el, mipsel, ppc64el, s390x mc | 3:4.8.19-1| testing| source, amd64, arm64, armel, armhf, i386, mips, mipsel, ppc64el, s390x mc | 3:4.8.19-1| unstable | source, amd64, arm64, armel, armhf, hurd-i386, i386, kfreebsd-amd64, kfreebsd-i386, mips, mipsel, powerpc, ppc64el, s390x mc | 3:4.8.19-1| unstable-debug | source mc | 3:4.8.19-1+b1 | testing| mips64el mc | 3:4.8.19-1+b1 | unstable | mips64el So 4.8.19 is available in unstable, that would be something someone could backport. Cheeers, Sven
Re: virtualbox - missing packages
On Sat, Sep 30, 2017 at 09:16:59AM +0200, Hans wrote: Hi, > maybe you need to add this entry in sources.list: > > deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian stretch contrib Or you just use the packages from stretch-backports? Those should be the best fit for now. https://backports.debian.org/Instructions/ The original error message looked a bit like OP tried to use the packages from testing/unstable in stretch which actually worked for some time. Sven
Re: ssl isues are Eating me alive.
On Sat, Apr 15, 2017 at 08:11:13PM +0300, Reco wrote: Hi, > AFAIK jessie is the last Debian release that provides curl linked with > openssl. We've three flavour of libcurl in the archive and the current "default" is the one linked against openssl. libcurl3 - easy-to-use client-side URL transfer library (OpenSSL flavour) libcurl3-gnutls - easy-to-use client-side URL transfer library (GnuTLS flavour) libcurl3-nss - easy-to-use client-side URL transfer library (NSS flavour) That's also the case for wheezy and I did not check older releases, but it's like that for a few years. The curl binary itself is build against the libcurl3 - so the openssl flavour. That is also the case for the upcoming stretch release. Sven
Re: ssl isues are Eating me alive.
On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 09:04:01PM +0100, Darac Marjal wrote: > It looks[1] like Squid can do SSL Interception. I imagine it should be > possible, therefore, for squid to perform the HTTPS connection and > either downgrade it to HTTP or to re-encrypt it with a lower grade. YMMV Well automatic downgrade to HTTP could work, not sure how to implement it, but often you'll experience issues due to missing SNI support. For example in the case of elinks you can find the following open wishlist bug https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=797968 So that issue will continue to exist in stretch but that's not the fault of GNUTLS but an application issue. In regards of cipher support at least GNUTLS from jessie should work with most public sites. For wheezy the situation might be more complicated. Regarding Squid I *think* it's also missing SNI support at the moment and for sure in wheezy. Long story short: You need a somewhat recent GNUTLS release (jessie should be fine) and application level support en par with that. Sven
Re: OpenSSL squeeze - support TLS 1.2
On Tue, Jun 02, 2015 at 02:26:59PM +0200, For@ll wrote: Hi, It's possible to upgrade in squeeze openssl to 1.0.x versiob, because I have one client with this debian version who need support TLS 1.2. Now I have only 0.9.8 openssl. I'd recommend to update to jessie instead of trying to bringt decent openssl to that release. I assume compiling and installing to /usr/local or /opt shouldn't be an issue. Then you've to link your software with the TLS 1.2 requirement against this copy of openssl. If you really need it, that could be a way to go. Keep in mind that LTS support for squeeze will also run out at some point in a not too distant future. Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150602134858.ga1...@timegate.de
Re: H.264 on Iceweasel
On Thu, Feb 05, 2015 at 10:12:08AM -0200, Bruno Schneider wrote: I'm trying to make H.264 encoding work on Iceweasel 35. I'm using Debian testing (Jessie) with Iceweasel from the Mozilla team because many sites complain that the official testing version is too old. In the about:buildconfig, I see the --enable-gstreamer=0.10 flag. I have gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg and gstreamer0.10-plugins-base installed. There must be some configuration I'm missing. IIRC gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad and libgstreamer-plugins-bad0.10-0 should bring you the mp4 / H.264 support. Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150205152842.ga25...@timegate.de
Re: H.264 on Iceweasel
On Thu, Feb 05, 2015 at 07:49:25PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: I rather think it's gstreamer1.0-libav and gstreamer1.0-plugins-good. At least these are the packages which iceweasel in experimental recommends. Seems to be accurate - I now actually tried it. So one of the later iceweasel builds in jessie picked up the 1.0 gstreamer release. gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad actually lists some video/x-mp4-part support and rtmp. I somehow think I needed it for something in the past but maybe that's also just blurred memory and totally off. ATM I'm running the following selection of gstreamer packages + iceweasel gstreamer1.0-libav:amd64 gstreamer1.0-plugins-base:amd64 gstreamer1.0-plugins-good:amd64 gstreamer1.0-x:amd64 libgstreamer1.0-0:amd64 That at least works out for youtube and vimeo without further quirks. Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150205193641.gd30...@timegate.de
Re: Worry about entropy?
On Mon, Dec 01, 2014 at 04:48:36PM -0400, francis picabia wrote: Hi, Has anyone experience with seeing significant performance boost, or at least avoiding timeouts when under load, related to keeping entropy fed some how? I've already read the articles discussing use of /dev/random etc., but I'm talking about things I implement, not things I code. I can imagine encrypted file system or owncloud and that sort of thing being aided, but could it also be important for SSL? I've seen applications that block due to missing entropy, but those were not DNSSEC related. I'd recommend to try usage of haveged to see if the situation improves. If you really need a lot of entropy you can think about using the Simtec entropy key daemon with ekeyd. I bought one a few years back just to try it and can confirm that it's easy to integrate. Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20141203085207.ga5...@timegate.de
Re: SFTP chroot and FileZilla question
On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 10:33:16AM -0400, David Parker wrote: Hi, However, if I connect using FileZilla, I see that I am in /home and I can freely navigate the rest of the filesystem. What's up with that? I would really like for this user account to be jailed regardless of the client, and it seems to me like it should be, since this is a server-side configuration. I usually start up a sshd in debug mode on a different port with otherwise the same configuration. That usually gives you a hint why the matching does not work. Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140921170939.ga7...@timegate.de
Re: Best SFTP (w/chroot): vsftpd vs mysecureshell vs other ??
On Mon, Jan 06, 2014 at 03:47:59PM -0600, Bob Goldberg wrote: On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 7:26 AM, Sven Hoexter s...@timegate.de wrote: I'm not sure how the OpenSSH implementation handles ACLs, maybe that's an option but I did not test it. my first problem is successfully logging in with sftp-only and chroot'ing in place. AFAIK - ACL's would only come into play afterward. Yes, but that should work. I read your mail as it does not work if you enhance to the $HOME to group writeable or something like that. I did not verify that case at all. So I would start with setting it up user access only and try to add ACLs to make it group writeable or whatever is required later on. proftpd: 1) wheezy does not have an sftp module No, $ cat /etc/debian_version 7.3 $ dpkg -L proftpd-basic|grep sftp /usr/lib/proftpd/mod_sftp.so /usr/lib/proftpd/mod_sftp_sql.so /usr/lib/proftpd/mod_sftp_pam.so 2) proftpd appears to rely on openssh for sftp, so appears to add no value. No, it's a standalone implementation. 3) IF proftpd did provide working sftp - appears that it can not share port 22 w/ openssh (which i do still need for full-access users unrelated to SFTP). True, you can of course do nasty quirks with iptables to NAT to different ports depending on the source IP. But that is really nasty. scponly: does not appear to be provided in wheezy !?!? can't find out why [Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2012 22:09:19 +] [ftpmaster: Luca Falavigna] Removed the following packages from unstable: scponly |4.8-4.1 | source, amd64, armel, armhf, hurd-i386, i386, ia64, kfreebsd-amd64, kfreebsd-i386, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc scponly-full |4.8-4.1 | amd64, armel, armhf, hurd-i386, i386, ia64, kfreebsd-amd64, kfreebsd-i386, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc Closed bugs: 650590 --- Reason --- RoQA; RC buggy, unmaintained, replacement exists -- from https://ftp-master.debian.org/removals-2012.txt Though nothing prohibits you from building a package based on the last version found on snapshot.debian.org or just use the source Luke. ;) rssh/rush: 1) not sure what is: diff rssh rush (searches come up worthless to answer this) Different implementation/software for a similar/same task. 3) mixed security record is a big concern. Well I can mostly speak for the scponly case: Parsing commandline arguments in a safe way for different tools like svn, rsync etc. is hard. If you disable most of that and only stick to the sftp support it's quite solid. Still if I've a chance I would try to rely on the sftp-internal and chroot() functionallity of OpenSSH. Sven -- we live we love we learn and breathe each breath we take makes me believe that we can take this road forever if we take this road together [ AZ0 - Endless Roads ] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20140107094032.ga3...@timegate.de
Re: Best SFTP (w/chroot): vsftpd vs mysecureshell vs other ??
On Fri, Jan 03, 2014 at 04:14:42PM -0600, Bob Goldberg wrote: so my question now very simply becomes: what do demanding admin's choose as a preferred SFTP server, that allows chrooting WITH group w access I'm not sure how the OpenSSH implementation handles ACLs, maybe that's an option but I did not test it. Then there is Proftpd which has a mod_sftp extension. And there are still the solutions which predate the chroot() and sftp-internal implementation possible with OpenSSH like - scponly - rssh - rush All of them have a somewhat mixed security record and have some cost in terms of chroot setup and mainting them properly. Sven -- There we were, the three of us, the thief the king and I. Finally, we were forced to see, we were equals in the night. [Streetlight Manifesto - The three of us] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20140104132658.ga3...@garkbit.lan
Re: Software Update from Debian Backports
On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 11:12:17PM +0600, Muntasim-Ul-Haque wrote: Hi, I installed Linux Kernel 3.11 from Debian Backports repo. Now, would I get the kernel upgrade automatically as soon as it is available? Or, I have to install the upgraded kernel like this one, manually? There are meta packages e.g. linux-image-amd64 which in turn depend on the latest kernel image. As far as I remember Ben also updates those meta packages for the backports repository. Sven -- There we were, the three of us, the thief the king and I. Finally, we were forced to see, we were equals in the night. [Streetlight Manifesto - The three of us] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20131217204857.ga3...@garkbit.lan
Re: debian-multimedia.org
On Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at 02:02:22PM +0100, Andre Majorel wrote: Am I the only one who sees cyrillic script and photos of bikes at http://www.debian-multimedia.org/ ? Has Christian Marillat's repo moved ? http://deb-multimedia.org/ There was a dispute over the usage of the name 'Debian' and the associated confusion if it's something endorsed by the Debian Project or not. HTH Sven -- There we were, the three of us, the thief the king and I. Finally, we were forced to see, we were equals in the night. [Streetlight Manifesto - The three of us] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20131130131634.ga5...@garkbit.lan
Re: Stable Package: PostgreSQL 9.1 to 9.3 ?
On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 08:43:51PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: Hi, It is always best to stick to the official Debian package when possible. Upstream debs are sometimes not very high quality. 9.3 is now in In this special case https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Apt / apt.postgresql.org is backed by at least one DD (I expect more but know for sure only one). So I would expect those packages to be of a very similar quality then those in the Debian archive. In a lot of other cases you're right. :-/ Sven -- There we were, the three of us, the thief the king and I. Finally, we were forced to see, we were equals in the night. [Streetlight Manifesto - The three of us] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20131129221322.ge3...@garkbit.lan
Re: courier pop3 ssl/tls
On Tue, May 07, 2013 at 01:10:03PM +0200, Pol Hallen wrote: Hi, Anyone has a complete guide or howto about create of certificates to use it within courier pop3 ssl? Self signed certificate? You can google that yourself I guess. Beside that the construction of the pem file to feed courier looks like this: cat my.key my.crt /etc/courier/pop3d.pem openssl gendh /etc/courier/pop3d.pem HTH Sven -- we live we love we learn and breathe each breath we take makes me believe that we can take this road forever if we take this road together [ AZ0 - Endless Roads ] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130509134122.gb16...@timegate.de
Re: java plugin, is does it have any security vulnerabilities ?
On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 06:23:58PM -0400, Andrew Reid wrote: Hi, You can switch to OpenJDK, or remove your sun-java6 packages and install the JRE from the Oracle-provided binaries. I would rephrase it a little bit to 'You _should_ switch to OpenJDK and the icedtea browser plugin'. If you can't, because you've to e.g. use the KVM console of Dells iDRAC cards in various incarnations, you can convert the Oracle .bin packages to a .deb package. There is a helper tool in sid, which works fine on Debian/Squeeze aswell, called make-jpkg. You can find it in the java-package Debian package http://packages.debian.org/sid/java-package Sven -- We are what you say We are not what you think [ Dead Sara - We are what you say ] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120715075406.GB10910@colin
Re: ssh sessions with pseudo terminal hang when in kernel events thread hangs
On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 02:04:34PM +0100, Sven Hoexter wrote: Hi, since about December we see machines where interactive ssh sessions hang or logins are no longer possible. The machine itself is still alive and using ssh without pseudo terminal allocation works fine (ssh -T). To follow this up (I only received one private reply so far), I've filled bug #670398 with more information. Short summary: I currently think it's an issue with Intel Nehalem CPUs. So far we've evidence for the following CPUs (all Lynnfield as far as I know): - X3430 - X3450 - L3426 In case someone experiences those issue on CPUs beyond the 3400 series I'd be interested to know about that. HTH Sven -- And I don't know much, but I do know this: With a golden heart comes a rebel fist. [ Streetlight Manifesto - Here's To Life ] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120425180703.GA4133@marvin
ssh sessions with pseudo terminal hang when in kernel events thread hangs
Hi, since about December we see machines where interactive ssh sessions hang or logins are no longer possible. The machine itself is still alive and using ssh without pseudo terminal allocation works fine (ssh -T). What we have so far is that this happens on systems with Linux 2.6.32. (Mostly Debian but we've seen this on one RHEL 6.1 system aswell but there the patch level was too far off to open a support case.) Sometimes ssh logins work for a short time, e.g. you see motd and get no prompt or you can execute a few commands and suddenly it hangs. Pseudo terminals are allocated just fine and device nodes can bee seen in /dev/pts/. When it happens we can see one of the in kernel [events/$x] processes to be in state D and the number of context switches and interrupts goes up by factor 6. Most of those interrupts seem to be generated by hpet on the CPU where the events/$x process is running ($x = number of the CPU/CPU core of this system). Has someone seen a similar behaviour? We currently have no idea how and why it happens. It's all Dell Hardware we're running on (R210, 410, 710). Regards, Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120319130434.gb2...@sho.bk.hosteurope.de
Re: Re: vsftp problems
On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 10:11:34AM -0500, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: From: Sven Hoexter s...@timegate.de Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2012 07:49:46 +0100 There are at least two options. ;) 1) Stop inetd all together if you don't run any services through inetd (or xinetd). To what purpose? There is no harm in letting inetd run vsftpd. Well back in the old days we had the tradeoff between startup time and RAM capacity. Nowdays we have none of that except for high traffic sites with a lot of connections. As rule of thumb I'd say if you don't know inetd and the benefits you might have, don't use it and simply stop it. In the end you're free to choose but it seems that a running inetd causes some confusion from time to time. Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120319132401.ga10...@sho.bk.hosteurope.de
Re: Re: vsftp problems
On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 02:21:35PM -0700, Gary Roach wrote: Hi, COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME inetd 1946 root8u IPv4 130958 0t0 TCP *:ftp (LISTEN) The good machine shows that vsftpd is attached to the port. I'm not sure how to correct this but it is definitely a step in the right direction. There are at least two options. ;) 1) Stop inetd all together if you don't run any services through inetd (or xinetd). 2) Or just edit /etc/inetd.conf (or a file in /etc/xinet.d/ if you run xinetd) to let it not listen on port 21. Sven -- I don't know much, but I do know this: With a golden heart, comes a rebel fist [ Streetlight Manifesto - Here's To Life ] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120318064946.GA1796@colin
Re: Resolved: Can't write to external usb drive as normal user despite efforts
On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 04:08:31PM -0800, kei...@strucktower.com wrote: Hi, I still haven't found a good explanation for the umask option- nothing in man pages under umask, very little under pam_umask or pam ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umask man 2 umask is in manpages-dev in case that's not installed on your system currently. 'help umask' and/or the manpage of your shell might be of some help too. HTH Sven -- I don't know much, but I do know this: With a golden heart, comes a rebel fist [ Streetlight Manifesto - Here's To Life ] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/2027081927.GA1741@colin
Re: Subversion in sid / QA page
On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 01:52:30PM -0500, Farmbuyer wrote: Hi, - Every release since 2006 has dfsg on it. It's been too long since I used Debian and I don't remember what is indicated by dfsg in a package name, but I vaguely recall it being unusual. DFSG == Debian Free Software Guidelines Usually this tag in the name is a hint, that the upstream released tarball had to be modified. Usually some files had to be remove whic are not distributable under the DFSG. None of that especially worries me, but it does make me wonder: has anyone tried building 1.7.* on a sid system? Is there anything in the build rules from 1.6.* that caused you trouble? I'd love to avoid solving the same issues from scratch if I can. Try it yourself and read the upstream release notes/changelogs. That's the way to go in most cases. And a meta-question: where might I look for discussions about future SVN package plans? Searching debian-user archives didn't find anything. I'm hoping the maintainer is just on holiday for a bit. There are few people noted as uploaders in the current package but the main maintainer is still Peter Samuelson as you can see here http://packages.qa.debian.org/s/subversion.html debian-user is still a user mailinglist so that's not the point to search for packaging related issue. Anyway if you use subversion, or just click yourself through the webvc of the subversion packaging repo, you'll find a part of the repo which looks like someone is working on 1.7.x packaging: http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/pkg-subversion/src/1.7.x/ So I'd say checkout that repo and start to build the package to see what the current state is. HTH Sven -- And I don't know much, but I do know this: With a golden heart comes a rebel fist. [ Streetlight Manifesto - Here's To Life ] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/2026192111.GB2183@marvin
Re: using kernel 3.0.1+
On Tue, Nov 01, 2011 at 06:44:41PM +1000, yudi v wrote: I will be getting a new desktop with intel i5 2500k CPU, it's got an integrated GPU, I would like to install debian but read that the i5 GPU works without any issues only with the latest kernel. I've a system with a i5 2520m (Intel Sandybridge) and written down a few notes about it in the Debian wiki. http://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/Dell/LatitudeE6420/squeeze In short, as other people all ready wrote, you'll have to use at least the kernel from backports (2.6.39 currently) but I guess you'll also need the X.org backport (thanks to KiBi for providing it). The most annoying part is the requirement of a new kernel+non-free to get at least ethernet working. After that it's a lot easier to get the rest going. HTH Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/2001154122.ga1...@sho.bk.hosteurope.de
Re: iceweasel based on firefox 6.0 for squeeze
On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 01:45:42PM +, Camaleón wrote: Hi, I've always wondered why Mozilla products are not integrated into squeeze-updates (the old volatile repo), it seems to fit perfectly there :-? As far as I remember in the past new Firefox/Iceweasel releases did not always build on all architectures Debian released with and/or required a newer gtk release. That makes it impossible to integrate such a package into the next point release, and that is where the packages from squeeze-updates should end up. So a backports repository is a much better place to keep them. Sven -- And I don't know much, but I do know this: With a golden heart comes a rebel fist. [ Streetlight Manifesto - Here's To Life ] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110925150325.GA4934@marvin
Re: linux-kbuild-3.1.0 ?
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 04:14:31PM +, Camaleón wrote: Well, then who/what is the target of linux-headers-3.1.0-rc4-amd64 package? I mean, if it is not installable -on purpose- because of the broken dependency, what is it aimed for? Just curious :-? You can try out the kernel image, so to speak the kernel itself, and check if it works on your hardware. It's just the surounding toolchain to build e.g. dkms modules etc. which is missing. But that doesn't prevent you from checking if $latest-fix-in-upstream-rc fixes one of your reported or not reported problems. Sven -- And I don't know much, but I do know this: With a golden heart comes a rebel fist. [ Streetlight Manifesto - Here's To Life ] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110914201632.GB2500@marvin
Re: udev warning
On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 11:17:51PM +0300, it...@nospammail.net wrote:
Hi,
udevd[451]: SYSFS{}= will be removed in a future udev version, \
please use ATTR{}= to match the event device, or ATTRS{}= to \
match a parent device, in \
/etc/udev/rules.d/z60_xserver-xorg-input-wacom.rules:59
To me those lines are cryptic.
So please advise: what to do?
It's just an outdated rule file. You can ignore it, it won't do any
harm. In case you don't even use a wacom tablet you can purge the driver
which contains the rule file.
apt-get purge xserver-xorg-input-wacom
should do it.
HTH
Sven
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Re: USR 5633 Robotics Modem in Debian
On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 02:11:12PM -0500, Antonio Cruz wrote: Hi, I'm cuban and I'm new here. Recently I bought a USB Modem (USR 5633 Robotics for dial-out), I'm using Debian Wheezy at home but I don't know how configure it. I used modemmanager but it doesn't work. If anybody can help me I will appreciate it. According to a short google search it looks like this is a 'winmodem' which is not supported by Linux. Maybe you can find some more information on http://linmodems.org Sven -- And I don't know much, but I do know this: With a golden heart comes a rebel fist. [ Streetlight Manifesto - Here's To Life ] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110524190622.GB14459@marvin
Re: utube move is very slow after upgrading to squeeze
On Tue, May 03, 2011 at 01:28:36PM +0200, l...@lfweb.dk wrote: After upgrading my debian to Squeeze, the moving picture in utube site is played very slowy. I have the same problem. Also with streaming video from other sites. The information you've given is very sparse. First of all I guess you're talking about youtube.com and sister sites, right? Which browser do you use and which version? Do you use the gnash plugin or the non-free flashplugin and in which version? Do you use a browser from a thrid party repository with HTML5? Maybe pin down, with tools like top, if there's a process and if yes which one, consuming a lot of resources while playing a video? Which video cards do you have and which driver do you use? Sven -- And I don't know much, but I do know this: With a golden heart comes a rebel fist. [ Streetlight Manifesto - Here's To Life ] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110503115643.GD2099@marvin
Re: Anyone know now long backports.org will be down?
On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 01:07:39PM -0700, Mark wrote: If I missed an announcement somewhere, I apologize, but backports.org is down and I'd like to know when it will be back up? Never? backports.debian.org is where you want to go. Sven -- I don't know much, but I do know this: With a golden heart, comes a rebel fist [ Streetlight Manifesto - Here's To Life ] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110430202249.GC1780@colin
Re: Openjdk vs. sun-java in Debian
On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 08:37:39PM +0200, Klistvud wrote: 1. The site http://ndt.switch.ch/ warns me about a missing Java Runtime Environment and prompts me to install it. I checked with aptitude, and sure enough, openjdk-6-jre is installed. Works here with the openjdk from Squeeze. The browser plugin package is called icedtea6-plugin. In most browsers 'about:plugins' lists all installed plugins, might be worth to check if it's listed and thus properly installed aswell. If for any reason it's required to have the 'original' Sun JRE and plugins installed you've to add the non-free part of the archive to your sources list. The browser plugin package is called sun-java6-plugin. HTH Sven -- I don't know much, but I do know this: With a golden heart, comes a rebel fist [ Streetlight Manifesto - Here's To Life ] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110422190601.GA1732@colin
Re: Installing LaTeX (or any other software) without documentation
On Thu, Apr 07, 2011 at 09:42:31AM +0200, bars0 bars0 wrote: I need to install LaTeX in my machine, but without documentation. Documentation packages are really big and I have limited download per day so I need only programs. How can I achieve this via aptitude or apt-get? For apt-get '--no-install-recommends' can help you a bit. See man 8 apt-get. Sven -- And I don't know much, but I do know this: With a golden heart comes a rebel fist. [ Streetlight Manifesto - Here's To Life ] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110407075715.GA2143@marvin
Re: how to give priority to local repository
On Thu, Apr 07, 2011 at 09:39:27AM +0200, abdelkader belahcene wrote: Hi, Sometimes I have the same version of sofware in my local repository and the remote repos, of course I want to install the soft from the local, plaease HOW TO tell this to apt-get . You can achieve that with pinning. You've to increase the priority for your repository over the 500 default. See 'apt-cache policy' and 'man 5 apt_preferences' for the details. Sven -- And I don't know much, but I do know this: With a golden heart comes a rebel fist. [ Streetlight Manifesto - Here's To Life ] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110407080517.GB2143@marvin
Re: how to give priority to local repository
On Thu, Apr 07, 2011 at 11:05:32AM +0200, abdelkader belahcene wrote: Thanks for answer, I did it but there is an extra line ( the first 900 http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ squeeze/main Translation-fr ) Those are the translated package descriptions. That shoudn't have any effect on the package selection process but you somehow hit them with the empty origin definition. Sven -- And I don't know much, but I do know this: With a golden heart comes a rebel fist. [ Streetlight Manifesto - Here's To Life ] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110407093041.GE2143@marvin
Re: Let's say you never want to upgrade from Lenny...
On Tue, Apr 05, 2011 at 11:42:42AM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: If you need more support than Debian provides and = 5 years, install an Ubuntu LTS. That won't buy you that much AFAIK since the LTS 5 years support it's limited to the server version and doesn't include universe(?). Ok at least you've some baseline with a kernel and some core libs but that's it. Sven -- And I don't know much, but I do know this: With a golden heart comes a rebel fist. [ Streetlight Manifesto - Here's To Life ] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110405165116.GK19401@marvin
Re: Certification for Debian
On Sat, Apr 02, 2011 at 09:37:13PM +0530, Kaushal Shriyan wrote: Hi, Are there certification courses available for debian ? As far as I know LPI[0] is the closest you can get. Sven [0] http://www.lpi.org/ -- And I don't know much, but I do know this: With a golden heart comes a rebel fist. [ Streetlight Manifesto - Here's To Life ] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110402164112.GI4512@marvin
Re: What happened to smlnj?
On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 02:48:54PM -0500, Tyler Curtis wrote: Hi, Squeeze doesn't appear to have a package for smlnj. Lenny did. What happened? http://packages.qa.debian.org/s/smlnj.html http://packages.qa.debian.org/s/smlnj/news/20110227T104227Z.html --- Reason --- RoQA; orphaned rc buggy -- HTH Sven -- And I don't know much, but I do know this: With a golden heart comes a rebel fist. [ Streetlight Manifesto - Here's To Life ] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110314200959.GD2187@marvin
Re: counter strike
On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 10:11:50AM +0100, Alex PADOLY wrote: Hello, I would like to know How I can play to counter strike on Debian 6.0. That requires wine nit Squeeze ships with wine 1.0 and according to http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=versioniId=3731 wine 1.3 has improved it a lot. So you've to compile that from source for now. Sven -- And I don't know much, but I do know this: With a golden heart comes a rebel fist. [ Streetlight Manifesto - Here's To Life ] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110303095327.GC2113@marvin
Re: upgrading linux kernel
On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 11:28:06AM +, Steven Ayre wrote: Hi, I know squeeze has only just been released but it uses kernel 2.6.32 while sid uses 2.6.37. Does anyone know if/when 2.6.37 will become available in squeeze, or will it probably not be until wheezy gets released? It won't, you've indeed to wait for wheezy. Though there is a chance that at some point in the wheezy development process someone uploads a recent kernel to backports.d.o. If I take the 2.6.37 package from sid and install it on squeeze, is that likely to give me any problems? Or would I be better off using sid, even though it's the testing distribution and this is for a production server? Currently it could work but better be safe and try to rebuild the source package in a squeeze chroot or on a squeeze system. But be aware of the fact that you've to take care of security fixes for yourself if you switch away from the default kernel image. Sven -- And I don't know much, but I do know this: With a golden heart comes a rebel fist. [ Streetlight Manifesto - Here's To Life ] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110224113756.GB2087@marvin
Re: selecting old machines for firewall/router use
On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 11:42:37PM +1100, Andrew McGlashan wrote: Well NAT does have it's advantages, one being that it can act as a reasonably good barrier as a NATural firewall. Sure, it's not perfect, but if you have every device with IPv6 (or v4 for that matter) being addressable from any location, then personal firewalls will become much more important. Fix the border gateway. It's a strange myth that suddenly with IPv6 all the security falls down. I'd recommend [1] for a good overview of the NAT and security implications, and for this case here section 4.2. Since most of these routers used at home need at least a firmware update there's the chance to roll out some stateful firewall for IPv6 as a default. I see some oportunity here to get back to kind of a 'real' internet. On the other hand a lot of these devices seem to be Linux based nowdays, Linux 2.4.x that is, so I guess only the diverse hardware it's running on holds back mass exploitation. :-/ Sven [1] http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-v6ops-nap-06 -- And I don't know much, but I do know this: With a golden heart comes a rebel fist. [ Streetlight Manifesto - Here's To Life ] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110223130936.GC2058@marvin
Re: Chrome somehow gets started as standard browser -- how do I get Iceweasel instead?
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 08:16:41PM +, Sven Marnach wrote: How can I get rid of this behaviour? I somehow consider this a bug, but I don't know which package I should report it to. Maybe this one? (Still unsolved though) http://bugs.debian.org/612876 HTH Sven -- I don't know much, but I do know this: With a golden heart, comes a rebel fist [ Streetlight Manifesto - Here's To Life ] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110213220124.GA1778@colin
Re: tun device creation on boot
On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 10:44:56AM -0300, Daniel Bareiro wrote: Hi, I'm using OpenVPN to connect two departments with a central department. For this I'm using routing. In the central department I have an OpenVPN server which is using the /dev/net/tun1 and /dev/net/tun2 devices that I've created manually. Debian only creates a /dev/net/tun device. How I can achieve that on boot these devices to be created? I had thought of adding lines to create in /etc/rc.local, but there may be a more appropriate way to do it. Long time since I've been working with OpenVPN and routed interfaces but I always used the dynamic approach to setup the needed interfaces. You can create the interfaces for static tunnels with e.g. openvpn --mktun --dev tun0 Maybe there's also a way to do this via udev rules but I'm not sure how viable that is. I think I would bring them up with the physical interface they use via /etc/network/interface running 'up openvpn...' Sven -- And I don't know much, but I do know this: With a golden heart comes a rebel fist. [ Streetlight Manifesto - Here's To Life ] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110116142133.GA1786@marvin
Re: how to scan a book
On Tue, Jan 04, 2011 at 06:20:24PM -0500, Long Wind wrote: I have a digital camera I want to scan a book how to convert image files to pdf or other formats? which software should I use? I've recently been told that there is a software called 'unpaper' to help in such cases with the processing. Sven -- And I don't know much, but I do know this: With a golden heart comes a rebel fist. [ Streetlight Manifesto - Here's To Life ] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110105085256.ga5...@marvin
Re: curator replacement
On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 08:01:24PM +, Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 27 Dec 2010 13:09:26 -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote: What's a good replacement for the curator photo album generating package? It was dropped from Debian at least a couple of years ago. (...) I dunno if photon (python based), imageindex (perl) or jigl (perl) can make use of multi-core/multi-threading capabilities but their features look pretty similar to curator. I've replaced curator with jigl for myself. Though I think I still have the last package I uploaded to Debian around. If someone dares to use it (I think jigl is much better) mail me and I'll dig it out but this should not go back into Debian. It's dead upstream and IIRC it still had some open issue. Sven -- I don't know much, but I do know this: With a golden heart, comes a rebel fist [ Streetlight Manifesto - Here's To Life ] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20101227214909.gb8...@colin
Re: Wayland Unity -- any repercussions on Debian?
On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 11:54:17PM +0100, Jochen Schulz wrote: Sven Hoexter: Hi, There've been times in the past when Debian was the playground to introduce new cool technology. When was that the case? I use Debian since potato and I never had this impression. But I might have missed that particular image in the first one or two years. I think there are areas where Debian still is a playground for new or at least non mainstream technology. See e.g. the kfreebsd, Hurd or even Minix 3 porting efforts. There is also ongoing support for new hardware architectures and improvement for existing once like armhf. There are other things like the mime-support integration which as far as I remember started around Debian. Or other helpful efforts like debconf. I guess there's a lot more I just missed. It's strange that nowdays people expect Debian to stay away from it. It even reverts the upstream/downstream relationship with Ubuntu. That's not true anymore for many packages. Ubuntu tried to make cutting-edge solutions usable by everyone almost from the start. Well yes while Ubuntu and Fedora provides more recent software I don't see why Debian should avoid to experiment with it? Nobody claimed that wayland should be the default display server for the next stable release. Even for Ubuntu I think Mark suggested to try it and see if it works. I am unsure whether this is about manpower only. Debian's answer usually is we just need someone to package it, but there's more to it. People will probably name a lot of counterexamples, but my impression is that Debian is currently unable to push any big changes forward. Even internals like multiarch don't happen. Maybe package maintainers have too much power over their packages, maybe it's just too much bikeshedding or personal attacks. And one could probably argue that the decision making process isn't designed for big changes in the first place. I don't know. Get involved and help. [Maybe I should just have spent the time to participate in this thread with packaging LyX 2. *sigh*] Sven -- And I don't know much, but I do know this: With a golden heart comes a rebel fist. [ Streetlight Manifesto - Here's To Life ] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20101110181934.ga12...@marvin.lan
Re: Wayland Unity -- any repercussions on Debian?
On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 09:13:04PM +0100, Jochen Schulz wrote: But I tend to agree with what another poster said: Ubuntu may be the right place to try things like this. Debian isn't, but it still may profit from the experience. Without being a Ubuntu fanboy, I hope this experiment won't damage their reputation. There've been times in the past when Debian was the playground to introduce new cool technology. It's strange that nowdays people expect Debian to stay away from it. It even reverts the upstream/downstream relationship with Ubuntu. I'm not sure if I'd call that an improvement but it somehow demonstrates a lack of manpower in Debian because otherwise someone would've already packaged wayland for Debian. As long as you've a choice I don't even see a problem with offering two solutions for one problem. Sven -- And I don't know much, but I do know this: With a golden heart comes a rebel fist. [ Streetlight Manifesto - Here's To Life ] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20101109204812.gb9...@marvin.lan
Re: Debian 506 not supporting ext4
On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 12:27:50PM +0200, Johan Scheepers wrote: Hi, I am new to debian 506 ** not ** opensuse and ubuntu. Please is there an easy way to make debian support ext4? You need at least a new kernel (IIRC 2.6.30+), backports.d.o provides 2.6.32. See http://backports.debian.org/Instructions/ For mounting that should be enough. For creating/fscking etc. you might need some new e2fsprogs aswell but I'm not sure on that part. Sven -- And I don't know much, but I do know this: With a golden heart comes a rebel fist. [ Streetlight Manifesto - Here's To Life ] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20101007132534.ga1...@marvin.lan
Re: Debian 506 not supporting ext4
On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 07:04:12PM +0200, Johan wrote: On Thu, 2010-10-07 at 15:25 +0200, Sven Hoexter wrote: You need at least a new kernel (IIRC 2.6.30+), backports.d.o provides 2.6.32. See http://backports.debian.org/Instructions/ This now is beyond me. Well then the hint to try out Squeeze might be the best way to go for you. Sven -- And I don't know much, but I do know this: With a golden heart comes a rebel fist. [ Streetlight Manifesto - Here's To Life ] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20101007171853.gb1...@marvin.lan
Re: Help with Sun Ultra45
On Thu, Sep 09, 2010 at 09:37:44AM +0300, Ben George wrote: Hi, i got a Sun Ultra45 mechine(Sparc)..my client want to install LInux Oracle.. if there any Debian available for that hardware.? http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/sparc/ HTH Sven -- And I don't know much, but I do know this: With a golden heart comes a rebel fist. [ Streetlight Manifesto - Here's To Life ] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100909070642.ga3...@marvin.lan
Re: Help with Sun Ultra45
On Thu, Sep 09, 2010 at 09:37:44AM +0300, Ben George wrote: i got a Sun Ultra45 mechine(Sparc)..my client want to install LInux Oracle.. Hm looking through the Oracle website I don't think Oracle provides their database for Linux on Sparc the architecture. Looks like they support Linux only on x86 so this combination won't work as desired. Sven -- And I don't know much, but I do know this: With a golden heart comes a rebel fist. [ Streetlight Manifesto - Here's To Life ] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100909071210.gb3...@marvin.lan
Re: unknown skype traffic
On Thu, Sep 09, 2010 at 02:18:52PM +, T o n g wrote: I notice a strange 15K inbound and 15K outbound traffic just now (they should both be zero normally). iftop shows connections from sites that I never know before. netstat reveals that all such traffic are from skype: I guess you're directly connected (no NAT) so you're now a super node. http://www.skype.com/intl/en-us/security/universities/ Sven -- And I don't know much, but I do know this: With a golden heart comes a rebel fist. [ Streetlight Manifesto - Here's To Life ] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100909143910.gd3...@marvin.lan
Re: Lenny on HP DL 380 G5 with P400 (SAS HBA) / CCISS vs. HPSA
On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 11:40:41AM +0200, Laurent CARON wrote: Hi, A new driver (HPSA) is making its way into the kernel for more than a year now (intended to replace the CCISS driver). Hm, seems that it entered mainline post 2.6.32 (early December 2009 ...) so unfortunately it's not in the bpo Kernel and currently won't be part of Squeeze. I don't know how much work it is to backport the driver to 2.6.32 but you might want to try to open a wishlist bug against linux-2.6 and ask for the inclusion of the driver. So you've at least two choices now for Lenny which should work without too much hassle: a) Grab the 2.6.35 source package from experimental and rebuild it on Lenny. b) Use make-kpkg to build your own Kernel image. Regarding the hardware I don't have experience with the G5 servers nor with the new driver but a working (and charged) BBWC could do some smaller wonders in the past. Bottleneck analysis is hard sometimes though and highly depends on the workload, disk setup (RAID? Which level?) and filesystems (noatime?). Sven -- There's no need for tears, cause there's no need to cry. That love that you leave will never be denied. [ Flogging Molly - Laura ] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100829102829.ga7...@marvin.lan
Re: Netinst ISO fü r eigene belange anpassen
On Sat, Aug 07, 2010 at 02:25:18PM +0200, Helmut Backhaus wrote: Ist es überhaupt sinnvoll, eine eigene Netinst zu erstellen? Das muss man selber entscheiden. PXE boot ist ggf. einfacher zu handhaben. Kommt aber auf den Anwendungsfall an. Was das remastern anbelangt guck dir debian-cd an. Ggf. lohnt es sich da auch schonmal sich die aktuellen scripte aus dem svn zu holen. Dazu brauchst Du dann noch debmirror um einen lokalen Mirror zu erstellen. http://wiki.debian.org/DebianCustomCD mag vielleicht auch noch nett zu sein und ein Blick in das ganze Debian Blends Umfeld. Bin mir nicht sicher ob da nicht mitlerweile ggf. noch andere Tools neben debian-cd entstanden sind. HTH, Sven -- If God passed a mic to me to speak I'd say stay in bed, world Sleep in peace [The Cardigans - 03:45: No sleep] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100807140555.ga7...@marvin.lan
Re: Alternative to snapshot.debian.net
On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 02:37:21PM +, T o n g wrote: Hi, Since the snapshot.debian.net has stopped updating, is there any other debian snapshot servers that I can use? http://snapshot.debian.org/ Sven -- If God passed a mic to me to speak I'd say stay in bed, world Sleep in peace [The Cardigans - 03:45: No sleep] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100717154033.ga3...@marvin.lan
Re: fp10.amd64.pgp.asc.INSECURE?
On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 07:20:16PM +0200, Jozsi Avadkan wrote: # apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree ... wget failed to download http://people.debian.org/~bartm/flashplugin-nonfree/fp10.amd64.pgp.asc Try again later with update-flashplugin-nonfree --install. Under Debian Lenny. Why? Because Adobe doesn't provide the 64bit beta plugin anymore. unstable got a new flashplugin-nonfree upload recently to warn you but I'm not sure if it already got uploaded to backports.org aswell. See also http://wiki.debian.org/FlashPlayer#Troubleshooting Sven -- If God passed a mic to me to speak I'd say stay in bed, world Sleep in peace [The Cardigans - 03:45: No sleep] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100619173830.ga12...@marvin.lan
Re: Acer Aspire One wireless issue
On Tue, Jun 08, 2010 at 10:09:17AM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: ABSDoug wrote: I'm new to Debian, over from Ubuntu. Wireless on the AA1 does not pick up my router. Any advice? TIA I see in http://www.sudhian.com/index.php?/forums/viewthread/104489/ after googling for Acer+Aspire+One+debian wireless ... Now wireless does’nt seem to work out of the box so you need to: At least for the older AAO models like the 110 I'd recommend to use the 2.6.32 kernel from backports.org. The ath5k driver is much more stable for me. Beside that you'll need the acpid from backports.org aswell. Sven -- If God passed a mic to me to speak I'd say stay in bed, world Sleep in peace [The Cardigans - 03:45: No sleep] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100608154913.ge21...@colin.lan
Re: Recommended method to install Firefox 3.6 in Lenny (64 bits)
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 09:39:27PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2010-01-22 21:02 +0100, Camaleón wrote: As Mozilla has stopped the support (no more security patches) for Firefox releases 3.5 (in August 2010, 3.5 will also be dropped), and Lenny is shipped with 3.0.6 (this situation was properly advised on Releases Notes), I wonder what could be the best way to install the latest Firefox 64 bits version. I'm afraid the answer is build it from source yourself. There's no official 64-bit tarball (and most likely there won't be any before Firefox 4.0), and builds from other distributions will likely require newer libraries than available in Lenny. Alexander Reichle-Schmehl added Iceweasel 3.5 and the complementing xulrunner release to backports.org a few days ago. So far I can see build packages for amd64 and ppc. https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=iceweaselsuite=lenny-backports If and when backports of Iceweasel 3.6 will be available depends on when it will enter testing and if it's possible to build it on lenny. Sven -- If God passed a mic to me to speak I'd say stay in bed, world Sleep in peace [The Cardigans - 03:45: No sleep] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: clive doesn't extract youtube file
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 11:35:09PM +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: Hi to all Debian users. I installed clive in my Lenny partition with: `aptitude install clive', but it seems that it does not manage to download the video I installed it for: There is a more recent package of clive on backports.org that works. Sven -- If God passed a mic to me to speak I'd say stay in bed, world Sleep in peace [The Cardigans - 03:45: No sleep] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: backports security
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 02:16:15PM +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: Good day. I have searched backport, wiki web sites and still can not understand: does debian security team works with its packages or not? In other words, using stable only and desiring the same security quality, I would not use the backports repo? Am i correct? backports.org is not under the hands of the Debian security team. Usually backports are based on packages from testing, in case of security issue uploads based on packages from unstable are allowed aswell. It's usually the uploader of the backport who is responsible to care for uploads in case of security issue. So it doesn't hurt if you keep an eye on the backports aswell that you install. Since you should install only selected backports where needed you've to monitor just those very few selected packages. Additionaly there is a backports-security-announce list where backporters announce security relevant uploads. Gerfried: Maybe that's something that should be noted in the FAQ aswell? Sven -- If God passed a mic to me to speak I'd say stay in bed, world Sleep in peace [The Cardigans - 03:45: No sleep] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: xorg modifications don't take place
On Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 11:24:18AM -0500, Juan Fernando Jaramillo Botero wrote: Hello I have sid, and I change the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file to add the lines to change the variant and options of the keyboard, like: Section InputDevice Identifier Generic Keyboard Driver kbd Option XkbRules xorg Option XkbModel pc104 Option XkbLayout us Option XkbVariant alt-intl Option XkbOptions compose:lwin EndSection But don't take place after restart xorg. But if I use the command: setxkbmap -variant alt-intl -option compose:lwin it's work. Some body know why? Input devices are now managed via hal. There is a page about it somewhere at wiki.debian.org. Adding Section ServerFlags Option AutoAddDevices off Option AllowEmptyInput off EndSection should take you back to the old kbd/mouse input stuff. Sven -- They're the cowards We are rebels We got the power to fight the devil [ AIV - We are rebels ] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Installing SId version of Xorg
On Sun, Oct 04, 2009 at 04:49:52PM -0400, Frank wrote: Hi, I'm running Squeeze and having a lot of trouble with Xorg freeze with my Intel video, so I'd like to install the Xorg version of Sid, while keeping the option to go back to the testing version. Don't forget that you need the latest linux-image from sid aswell. Beside the hints given for pinning and setting the default release I'd consider, for a one time pick, to just change your sources.list to unstable, apt-get update apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-intel xserver-xorg-core linux-image-2.6.30-2-yourarch. Afterwards just switch your sources.list back to squeeze and apt-get update. Sven -- They're the cowards We are rebels We got the power to fight the devil [ AIV - We are rebels ] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: java6update15 - how, where,..?
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 09:53:40AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: On Sat, 2009-09-19 at 11:01 +0200, Sven Hoexter wrote: Beside that the Sun Java packages are orphaned since a week or so because OpenJDK seems to be a viable working replacement nowdays. Tell that to OpenStreetMap. JOSM doesn't work in OpenJDK. Open bugreports, ITA #544629 and act on it. Sven -- They're the cowards We are rebels We got the power to fight the devil [ AIV - We are rebels ] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: java6update15 - how, where,..?
On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 07:45:44AM +1000, Alex Samad wrote: On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 07:09:28AM +1000, Alex Samad wrote: Hi, does that mean they have all the java moved over to openjdk classpath, last time I looked openjdk was still not a drop in replacement for sun jdk - it has been a while I just installed the latest openjdk and icedtea plugin and then went to http://www.java.com/en/download/help/testvm.xml which failed I'm not involved in the Java packaging so I can only speak for myself. Yes, I have problems with the IceadTea browser plugin aswell but there is at least an open bug for missing proxy support (still have to try it again without the proxy to confirm that it's not a different bug). Beside that Eclipse (Galileo and Ganimed builds), freemind (0.9rc4) and some other java applications work fine with OpenJDK. So there seem to be some issue with the browser plugin but overall the effects seem to be low. So I, personally, don't have any big issue with the switch. So one has to see what happens next, crucial fixes in the SUN JDK or improvements in the OpenJDK browser plugin. Sven -- If God passed a mic to me to speak I'd say stay in bed, world Sleep in peace [The Cardigans - 03:45: No sleep] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: java6update15 - how, where,..?
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 11:43:51PM +0200, Dexter Filmore wrote: I need java6update15 or later (if there be) on a lenny machine. Now, 6-12 is in lenny and no later in backports. ideas? Install the version from unstable or use java-package (hm donno if it's still actively maintained). Beside that the Sun Java packages are orphaned since a week or so because OpenJDK seems to be a viable working replacement nowdays. That just as a hint that there might be no further uptdates to the Sun java packages in unstable. Sven -- If God passed a mic to me to speak I'd say stay in bed, world Sleep in peace [The Cardigans - 03:45: No sleep] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: missing updates :(
On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 02:36:12AM -0700, Eugene Apolinary wrote: Lenny: Iceweasel: 3.0.6 See e.g. http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1873 and http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/ch-choosing.en.html#s3.1. Beside that the Mozilla.org security support policy is a bit problematic for stable distributions. Flash Player: 10,0,22,87 Why??? Because you installed it. It's not part of Lenny. Sven -- They're the cowards We are rebels We got the power to fight the devil [ AIV - We are rebels ] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: crc32 sum
On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 06:25:06PM +0200, pch0317 wrote: Hi How to check crc32 sum for file. I have md5sum, sha256sum command but I can't see crc32sum. libarchive-zip-perl: /usr/bin/crc32 apt-file helped to locate it. HTH Sven -- They're the cowards We are rebels We got the power to fight the devil [ AIV - We are rebels ] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Acer Aspire One A110 16GB Linux
On Fri, May 01, 2009 at 08:56:58PM +0100, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: Or I can install Debian - I know there's a Wiki page but can anybody give me clear advice on support for the Wifi / any other devices under Lenny. I've the older model with the 8GB SSD and to be honest the SSD sucks. It's awful slow. I'd prefer the HDD version if possible. - wifi works with the non-free madwifi driver. - Everything else works out of the box except for the cardreaders. I didn't bother with it but I remember some kernel oopses when I had a XD card in the left reader and tried to boot. - It's a bit more complex to get the wifi to support the european channels 12+ but works after some fiddling and searching. Sven -- forevermore -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: web monitoring tool?
On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 08:58:47AM -0500, Stackpole, Chris wrote: From: Depo Catcher [mailto:depocatc...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, April 24, 2009 12:38 AM Subject: web monitoring tool? I'm looking for a web based monitoring tool. mrtg isn't supported any longer? I tried rtg, but it seemed like it was really complex to setup. Well I don't find it very complex plus there are a lot of sample scripts and cfg files around on the net. I just want a simple monitor that will graph cpu, memory, disk, etc. I use Zabbix and I love it. http://zabbix.com/wiki/doku.php?id=howto:installing_zabbix_on_debian Well Zabbix is not what I would call simple or lightweight. Still a very usefull tool. I use it at $workplace to monitor some boxes and network equipment. At home or standalone systems I'm still using mrtg, mrtg-rrd (cgi script) with thttpd and some small shell scripts. Compared to a complete zabbix installation I'd call it rather simple. My configuration is here http://sven.stormbind.net/debian/alix/mrtg-scripts.tar.gz and looks like this http://sven.stormbind.net/debian/alix/mrtg-alix.png Sven -- forevermore -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Instal sun java 1.5 jdk or jre and tomcat 5.5.25
On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 06:03:48PM -0300, Pablo Augusto wrote: hello, im new in at linux administration, i have to install java (1.5 [jre or jdk] ) and tomcat 5.5.25 Can anyone help me? Any goot step-step guide? Hm no real idea about tomcat and the requirements but for Java you just need to add non-free to your /etc/apt/sources.list. Then you can apt-get update and install the required Java packages. apt-cache search sun-java should give you the list of available packages and versions. tomcat 5.5.26 is packaged in the tomcat5.5 package so if there is no absolute strict requirement for 5.5.25 that package might be fine aswell. If something doesn't work you should ask more specific questions. Sven -- forevermore -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: xorg upgrade in Sid causes jerky display
On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 09:29:25AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: Hi, I'd revert if I could but I don't think it's possible. It's possible but requires some 'force'. ;) Warning: You shouldn't do this within a running X instance. a) Remove all xserver-xorg packages. b) Download x11-common 7.3+18 from your mirror of choice and dpkg -i --force-all it into the system. c) Switch your sources.list to testing for the moment. d) Install the xserver-xorg packages you removed with a) again. e) Maybe set the xserver-xorg-core and xserver-xorg-video package to hold if it works. No guarantee though. Sven -- forevermore -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: keyboard layout in xserver-xorg (1:7.4+1)
On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 11:30:22AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: Hi, I had a similar problem following the upgrade - us keyboard instead of gb. That has now gone away after a reboot. But I can no longer quit X with Ctrl-Alt-Del and there are other issues with xmodmap as well. Should've been Ctrl-Alt-Backspace and that's been something changed upstream. Should be restorable with something like: Section ServerFlags Option DontZap false EndSection http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.freedesktop.xorg.devel/430 With the xmodmap stuff I'm still fighting (and the now borked intel driver acceleration). Currently my old configuration is braking my left cursor key. Sven -- forevermore -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: keyboard layout in xserver-xorg (1:7.4+1)
On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 11:30:22AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: Hi, with Ctrl-Alt-Del and there are other issues with xmodmap as well. Regarding the xmodmap issue it looks like some keycodes have changed. For me the left alt key moved from keycode 113 (which is now the left cursor key) to 108. xev is your friend to maybe find out similar rotations. Sven -- forevermore -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Upgrading from linux-image-2.6.18-686 to linux-image-2.6.24-686 breaks on AMD Geode LX CPU
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 11:11:15AM +0100, Paul Richards wrote: Hi, I don't have proposed-updates in my sources.list. Is it advisable to add proposed-updates for a stable system? No usually not. But in this case the patch in question should be included since the -8 release of the package and default for stable is -13 so you should've the -13 release installed. If it's not fixed in this package you've hit a different bug I'd guess or the issue wasn't solved completly. I haven't checked the changelog for -13lenny2 but I doubt that it includes a fix relevant for this case. Sven -- forevermore -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Upgrading from linux-image-2.6.18-686 to linux-image-2.6.24-686 breaks on AMD Geode LX CPU
On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 04:03:18PM +0100, Paul Richards wrote: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=464962 Turns out the AMD Geode LX is affected by the same problem, and there is already a fix in the pipeline. I've just taken a fresh look at this to see if I'm now able to move back to a normal 686 kernel, but I see that the fixed version 2.6.26-8 is not available on Lenny. Currently Lenny still has 2.6.26-1. Is there any chance this will become available on Lenny eventually? Hm currently there's -13 with -13lenny2 scheduled for the next stable release available for Lenny. s...@arthur:~$ rmadison linux-image-2.6.26-1-686 linux-image-2.6.26-1-686 | 2.6.26-13 |stable | i386 linux-image-2.6.26-1-686 | 2.6.26-13 | testing | i386 linux-image-2.6.26-1-686 | 2.6.26-13lenny2 | proposed-updates | i386 If you've still something older than that you should check your system and maybe the mirror why this is the case. Personally I decided to run my Geode LX system with the 486 kernel image. Donno how much of a performance penalty there is but I guess for usual system usage it doesn't matter. Sven -- forevermore -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: DCHP Server Monitoring
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 02:09:28PM +0800, rjubio wrote: Hi, I am wondering how can I monitor the leases that my dhcp server is giving to its clients. Thanks! Maybe there is an existing software that I can use. Try Google. There are several CGI scripts around that generate html pages from the ISC dhcpd lease files. Sven -- If God passed a mic to me to speak I'd say stay in bed, world Sleep in peace [The Cardigans - 03:45: No sleep] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Unannounced kernel update today? (etch)
On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 08:26:30AM -0700, nate wrote: My systems informed me of a kernel update today, but I can't find any indication either on the security web site or the security-announce list that there has been one recently. On the website it seems to be still missing but the mailinglist archive has it. http://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2008/msg00216.html Sven -- If God passed a mic to me to speak I'd say stay in bed, world Sleep in peace [The Cardigans - 03:45: No sleep] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian S390
On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 07:59:00PM +0100, David Goodenough wrote: On Wednesday 25 June 2008, Beard, Rick wrote: I have installed Debian in a Linux image under z/VM. I only have the basic Linux and was wondering where I can get JAVA for this install? Do you already have a version that I can just download and install? I have a version that is in an RPM package and I'm not sure how or if I should convert it. Well if you include non-free in your list, sun-java6-jre claims to be an all architecture package. It might be worth a try. That requires a _bin package and that is only avaible for amd64 and i386. I'd guess that the only avaible Java distribution for a z series will be one from IBM. If they don't provide a .bin I'd try the alien conversion or use rpm2cpio javafoo.rpm|cpio -id to extract it and put everything in place by hand. Sven -- If God passed a mic to me to speak I'd say stay in bed, world Sleep in peace [The Cardigans - 03:45: No sleep] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian S390
On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 09:21:02PM +0200, Sven Hoexter wrote: On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 07:59:00PM +0100, David Goodenough wrote: On Wednesday 25 June 2008, Beard, Rick wrote: I have installed Debian in a Linux image under z/VM. I only have the basic Linux and was wondering where I can get JAVA for this install? Do you already have a version that I can just download and install? I have a version that is in an RPM package and I'm not sure how or if I should convert it. Well if you include non-free in your list, sun-java6-jre claims to be an all architecture package. It might be worth a try. That requires a _bin package and that is only avaible for amd64 and i386. I'd guess that the only avaible Java distribution for a z series will be one from IBM. If they don't provide a .bin I'd try the alien conversion or use rpm2cpio javafoo.rpm|cpio -id to extract it and put everything in place by hand. Oh and there is stilla java-package available. Sven -- If God passed a mic to me to speak I'd say stay in bed, world Sleep in peace [The Cardigans - 03:45: No sleep] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: where is xmms?
On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 10:35:43AM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: After reading this thread, I was irritated to find that audacious isn't in Lenny. audacious |1.5.0-2 | testing | source, alpha, amd64, arm, armel, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc Well 1.5.1 has some bugs fixed but 1.5.0 is available. Sven -- If God passed a mic to me to speak I'd say stay in bed, world Sleep in peace [The Cardigans - 03:45: No sleep] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: where is xmms?
On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 05:00:46PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: On Thu, 2008-06-19 at 19:24 -0400, Curt Howland wrote: It has been replaced by Audacious, which looks and works exactly the same. I liked XMMS, and am happy with Audacious. Wow, that package changes names every few years, doesn't it? It was X11Amp, then XMMS, now Audacious... Audacious is a different piece of software forked from bmp and not XMMS. It's just what most people in search for a small - just player - software use as a replacement. There are other players around with more features and different user interfaces like amarok or rythmbox. Sven -- If God passed a mic to me to speak I'd say stay in bed, world Sleep in peace [The Cardigans - 03:45: No sleep] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Squid for apt.
On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 04:38:55AM -0700, pgega wrote: Hi, I am running plenty of small debian installation on vmserver and I wish I could you squid for caching apt-get's downloads. I recently set squid , but as far as I can understand access.log my squid is always downloading files from internet , not from its cache. Would you have some experience in 'caching apt' ? Works fine here. Setting 'maximum_object_size 100 MB' or even higher and a 'cache_dir' big enough is important. Or maybe you set 'minimum_object_size' too high? HTH, Sven -- If God passed a mic to me to speak I'd say stay in bed, world Sleep in peace [The Cardigans - 03:45: No sleep] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Renewing openssl certificate(for newbies???)
On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 07:11:06AM -0700, phobot wrote: Sorry if this is too annoying, but I'm kind-a new and have some auto generated certificates which I need to replace since the openssl issues. If someone can help me out I'll be very thankful. http://wiki.debian.org/SSLkeys HTH Sven -- If God passed a mic to me to speak I'd say stay in bed, world Sleep in peace [The Cardigans - 03:45: No sleep] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Proftpd and Debian
On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 02:12:22AM -0700, sadsjon wrote: Well Francesco doesn't advertise a VCS within the package so that's the only thing you can grab ATM. You maybe would like to join #proftpd on freenode and ask him yourself (User frankie) or write him a mail. sorry Sven, I am not sure which of these is abbreviation for a sentence or has another meaning. Can you just clarify what VCS and ATM are, I can probably google and find freenode - something else I have not heard of. ATM = At The Moment VCS = Version Control System (e.g. CVS, SVN, GIT ...) freenode = http://freenode.net/ However, I have always tried to avoid contacting developers directly as they must get bombarded and as a developer myself, I know what that must be like. Asking a question on IRC[1] or writing a short mail is nothing bad as long as you keep it short and don't ask the same question every day. Cheers, Sven [1] Internet Relay Chat, that's what the freenode stuff is about. -- If God passed a mic to me to speak I'd say stay in bed, world Sleep in peace [The Cardigans - 03:45: No sleep] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Proftpd and Debian
On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 06:23:20AM -0700, sadsjon wrote: Hi, I urgently need to use the very latest Proftpd to support some of my customers using passive FTP on Windows. Hum which change do you refer to? This is the rc1 release. Even Debian unstable isn't up to this version. Well it's a release candidate not a final release so I'd consider that as more or less normal. Is there some way that I can work out from the Debian build (that I managed to build from source) what specific make options are required for Debian? Add a deb-src line to your sources.list for your favourite mirror and apt-get source proftpd Now you've the source of the Debian package. Reading new-maint guide would be a good place to start and the rest of the information is in the debian/rules file. Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Proftpd and Debian
On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 07:28:23AM -0700, sadsjon wrote: Hi, Add a deb-src line to your sources.list for your favourite mirror and apt-get source proftpd won't that get the latest release that is being worked on by Debian developers - it won't get me the source for rc1 yet will it? Well Francesco doesn't advertise a VCS within the package so that's the only thing you can grab ATM. You maybe would like to join #proftpd on freenode and ask him yourself (User frankie) or write him a mail. Cheers, Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Not sure who this should be sent too.....?
On Fri, May 02, 2008 at 09:51:01AM +0200, Nyizsnyik Ferenc wrote: Hi, I get this error message when trying to open a recent document in LyX [..] See also: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=478998 (So you don't need to report it anywhere.) The right report is #475523 which is already solved with the -2 package in unstable. We're just waiting for arm, mips and ppc buildds to build the package so that it can migrate to testing. So the solution for most users will be to wait a month or use the already build packages from unstable. Sven -- If God passed a mic to me to speak I'd say stay in bed, world Sleep in peace [The Cardigans - 03:45: No sleep] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
