Re: Linuxträffar Halmstad

2015-06-15 Thread Jeremiah Foster
2015-06-14 17:05 GMT+02:00 Andreas Ronnquist 
gusnan.mailingli...@openmailbox.org:

 Hej!


Hej Andreas,


 Finns det något Linuxfolk i Halmstad som är sugna på att träffas för
 att snacka Linux över en fika eller matbit?


Is it okay to forward your email to the FOSS Göteborg group? I.e.
foss-...@lists.pelagicore.com? I think there are people from Varberg and
Halmstad on that list.



 Om ni är engagerade i Debian så kan ni vara intresserade av
 nyckelsignering, jag är DD och kan erbjuda nyckelsignering -
 https://wiki.debian.org/Keysigning

 Alla är så klart välkomna, oberoende av distribution man kör.

 Förslag och idéer välkomnas.

 (Det är fritt fram att vidarebefordra detta meddelande till andra media
 där intresserade kan tänkas finnas).

 Finns det något intresse för detta?


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 gus...@openmailbox.org


Cheers,

Jeremiah


Re: [01/05] Embedded with systemd: systemd and SIL

2014-11-17 Thread Jeremiah Foster
On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 7:52 PM, Robert debembed...@gmail.com wrote:

 By choosing packages carefully, it is possible to use linux in
 applications that need to meet SIL1 or SIL2 criteria [1].


No. At least this is my understanding of the situation today. SIL, or
System Integrity Level, is something that needs to be certified by a third
party and I don't believe that has ever been done for Debian. It is usually
done for proprietary RTOSes like QNX.


 I personally
 don't have any applications that need to meet SIL2, but it is possible
 to meet SIL1 by taking a normal installation and removing a bunch of
 stuff (initramfs, udev and inetd amongst others) until the system is
 deterministic enough (see the methodology in [2]). /sbin/init functions
 OK with a few static devices in/dev


It is not enough. You need to demonstrate that you meet the SIL level you
claim through certification.


 Given the tight udev/systemd marriage and the undeterministic nature of
 socket activation, I suspect that systemd will never be suitable for
 SIL applications.

 Are there any other debian embedded developers that need to meet SIL
 criteria? How are you planning to manage the fact that there are very
 few non-systemd distros left, or do we have to resign ourselves to a
 life of OpenEmbedded and buildroot?


The two issues are orthogonal. Init processes don't really need to meet the
SIL level since they're mostly a part of userland. OpenEmbedded is almost
certainly not used by the current SIL certified OSes out there. There is
however a project at OSADL which is planning to take a kernel and a very
small userland, essentially Debian's net install as defined by
debbootstrap. This work is being done in OSADL with the support of numerous
companies since industries like the automotive industry find the current
crop of SIL certified operating systems too inflexible to do many of the
things they'd like to do on modern silicon. Look at the SIL2LinuxMP project
for more: http://www.osadl.org/SIL2LinuxMP.sil2-linux-project.0.html


Regards,

Jeremiah



 [1] http://www.reliableembeddedsystems.com/pdfs/2010_03_04_rt_linux.pdf
 [2] http://www.hse.gov.uk/research/rrpdf/rr011.pdf


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Re: Embedded with systemd

2014-11-17 Thread Jeremiah Foster
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 Embedded with systemd: systemd and kernel upgrades

 This was recently posted on #systemd-devel:

 To make this clear, we expect that systemd and kernels are updated in
 lockstep. We explicitly do not support really old kernels with really
 new systemd. So far we had the focus to support up to 2y old kernels
 (which means 3.4 right now), but even that should be taken with a grain
 of salt, as we already made clear that soon after kdbus is merged into
 the kernel we'll probably make a hard requirement on it from the systemd
 side.

 This is a very onerous requirement in the embedded world. There are many
 embedded platforms sold today that only have 2.6.X BSPs.


But I highly doubt those devices have modern userlands.



 While I agree
 that the BSP from vendors should be better (and it is getting better
 thanks to devicetree), it seems that we are doomed to run ancient
 userspace to match our ancient kernels.

 This change will probably hit me the hardest and for me it really cuts
 into what linux means. It used to be that I could run the same userspace
 on my tiny embedded device, my desktop or on the server --- the only
 difference being the kernel.


I find it unlikely that you'd be able to run Jessie on your desktop and
Jessie on your device, at least, not without a little bit of work. I think
that work shouldn't be that hard actually, depending on what you've got for
embedded hardware (you haven't been very specific yet.) Things like the
Beagle Board run Debian out-of-the box, so depending on your hardware,
things might be pretty easy.


 It seems like the only solution here is to abandon debian and fall back
 to OpenEmbedded or buildroot.


OE, yocto, buildroot, etc. are always options. But iwith OE once you've
built your image, you're on your ow, the vendor won't help you without a
support contract and many of the userlands are maintained by large
companies that will ignore you. With debian, you have a large community of
support, including those working in Linaro. The big shadow hanging over
embedded is not OE, but Android, which many embedded developers see as
winning against GNU/Linux. This will mean a much more proprietary, or
restricted, userland.

Cheers,

Jeremiah



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 Embedded with systemd: systemd and realtime

 Given the existence of
 (
 http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/MyServiceCantGetRealtime/
 ),
 it seems that realtime and systemd is problematic. Has anyone tried the
 workarounds mentioned with a PREEMPT_RT kernel? How did it go?


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Re: XBMC med ION

2011-10-04 Thread Jeremiah Foster
2011/10/3 Uncurbed uncur...@swipnet.se

 Jag körde förut Ubuntu 10.10 med XBMC + nvidia drivisar.
 Maskinen är en Asrock ION 330.
 Nu kör jag Debian sqeeze med samma upplägg, XBMC  nvidia's drivrutiner.
 Anledningen till att jag bytte var att jag ville kompilera moduler till ett
 DVB-S kort.

 I Ubuntu var det kristallklar bild med .mkv filmer utan lag, i Debian är
 bilden sunkig, matt  kornig  det laggar som aldrig förr.

 Ska inte ION grafiken ta hand om all kodning via hårdvaran?

 Hjälper inte ens att spela upp en .wmv fil, det blir samma dåliga resultat.

 Jag har installerat w32codecs + allt som har med Debian multimedia att
 göra.Kört nvidia-xconfig, kollat inställningar, dammsugit på nätet efter
 lösningar men det verkar inte finnas nån lösning?


Debian does not include proprietary binary blobs the way Ubuntu does. This
means that you have to enable the non-free repo in your apt/sources.list
file if you want to pull in that type of software. Nvidia has a lot of
closed source software - they're very negative towards Free Software and
they are very unhelpful. That said, there should be drivers to do the kind
of stuff you want to do, look at the nouveau driver for example.

Hope that helps,

Jeremiah


Re: SMTP autentiseringsproblem med PAM

2011-09-26 Thread Jeremiah Foster
On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 9:10 PM, Philip Lundqvist
philiplundqv...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hej!

 Tack för snabbt svar!
 Vad jag vet har jag konfigurerat saslauthd, dvs. om /etc/default/saslauthd
 är dess konfigurationsfil;

Have you created all the users that need to use the various resources?
For example, postfix will need to write to every system user's spool
file that gets mail and at the very least will need to su to root and
therefor will have to have its own entry into /etc/passwd. Do you have
all the required users? I.e. postfix, cyrus, sasl, etc? Do those users
have correct system permissions to access the correct resources?
Permission denied seems to me that you've not given one of the users
the correct rights to the correct resource.

Regards,

Jeremiah


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Re: SMTP autentiseringsproblem med PAM

2011-09-25 Thread Jeremiah Foster
2011/9/25 Philip Lundqvist philiplundqv...@gmail.com:
 Hej allihop!

 Under en dryg veckas tid har jag försökt få igång en egen mailserver här i
 hemmet. Jag har däremot stött på ett litet problem, det vill säga
 autentiseringen till SMTP-servern fungerar inte.

 Jag använder Postfix med Courier IMAP/POP3 samt virtuella e-postkonton som
 lagras i en MySQL-databas.

 Det här är ett utdrag ur /var/log/auth.log;
 Sep 25 00:30:33 hostname saslauthd[3166]: PAM pam_parse: expecting return
 value; [...sufficent]
 Sep 25 00:30:33 hostname saslauthd[3166]: DEBUG: auth_pam: pam_acct_mgmt
 failed: Permission denied
 Sep 25 00:30:33 hostname saslauthd[3166]: do_auth : auth failure:
 [user=u...@example.com] [service=smtp] [realm=example.com] [mech=pam]
 [reason=PAM acct error]

But what is logging in your auth.log file is saslauthd. Has that been
configured? That is the missing glue that is causing your problems
right now.

 Ovan har jag ersatt mitt hostname med “hostname” och domännamnet med
 “example.com.

 Min /etc/pam.d/smtp ser ut som följer;
 auth    required  pam_mysql.so user=mail_admin passwd=mail_admin_password
 host=localhost db=mail table=mail.users usercolumn=email
 passwdcolumn=password crypt=1
 account sufficent pam_mysql.so user=mail_admin passwd=mail_admin_password
 host=localhost db=mail table=mail.users usercolumn=email
 passwdcolumn=password crypt=1

 Jag har en liten aning om att problemet med att autentisera kan ha något med
 första raden i /var/log/auth.log att göra. Det som väcker mina misstankar är
 sambandet mellan “account sufficent” och “expecting return value:
 [...sufficent] samt det faktum att om jag tar bort en bokstav från det
 förstnämnda sker motsvarande förändring i loggfilen.

 En annan tanke är att PAM använder en annan krypteringsalgoritm än när jag
 skriver in lösenordet i databasen med MySQL ENCRYPT().

 Någon som har några tips om vart jag kan leta efter lösningen på detta
 problem, eller rent av hur jag kan lösa det?

Postfix / Courier uses SASL usually for authentication. Look at your
SASL configuration and I imagine you'll be a lot closer to solving
this problem.

Regards,

Jeremiah


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Re: Debian testing

2011-08-08 Thread Jeremiah Foster
2011/8/4 mattias m...@mjw.se

 Itne sjutton kan debian squeeze och debian  testing för exempel
 sammexistera på samma dator?


Som andra har sagt, det finns sätt att installera vissa packet från testing
till stable, alltså wheezy till squeeze. Detta kan fungera med apt-pinning
till exemple men jag recommender Debian backports, mycket smidigare.

Men om du vill har två helt separat operativ system på samma maskin det vill
säga squeeze och wheezy en sak du kan göra är att köra en chroot. Använder
verktyget schroot vilken är i Debian redan och är jätte lätt att configure.
Då kan du har två userlands med en kernel. Det finns andra sätt också som
Linux Containers, virtual machines via qemu eller kvm och så vidare.

mvh

Jeremiah





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Re: virtualbox

2011-07-01 Thread Jeremiah Foster
My experience with using VirtualBox for years and then switching to
VMWare fusion is that fusion is much, much faster than VBox. But this
is a very specific case, i.e. Apple hardware running VMWare with
Debian testing, YMMV.


On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 11:56 PM, mattias m...@mjw.se wrote:
 hur kan virtualox va snabbare än vmware?
 så är det iaf


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Fwd: Två olika apache-servrar till olika domänadresser på samma lan

2011-04-20 Thread Jeremiah Foster
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From: Jeremiah Foster jeremiah.fos...@pelagicore.com
Date: 2011/4/20
Subject: Re: Två olika apache-servrar till olika domänadresser på samma lan
To: Philip Lundqvist philiplundqv...@gmail.com


2011/4/13 Philip Lundqvist philiplundqv...@gmail.com

 Jag vill köra olika maskiner för att fördela lasten.


If you're looking for load balancing you probably don't want to do that in
Apache. You want to look into round-robin DNS or other ways, like proxying,
to balance the load.


 Just nu verkar det som om proxy är den bästa lösningen på mitt problem
 hittills. Jag kör däremot samma programvara (Apache) på båda servrarna, som
 någon var inne på.


A proxy is likely going to be the best solution. Look at Varnish and Squid,
both of which have excellent support for this type of situation.


 Som det också nämnts tidigare så vill jag att första servern ska kunna nås
 på ett domännamn och den andra servern via ett annat. Båda står däremot
 bakom samma WAN-ip.


Now you are no longer doing load balancing, you are serving different
virtual hosts. This is trivial to do in Apache the documentation explains it
clearly. But, if you proxy www.example.com and send it to both servers, you
will have to have both servers serve up data for www.example.com. Of course
you can have different subdomains like www1 and www2, but that is not nice
to clients that use bookmarks.


 Fungerar proxyn även för subdomäner? Dvs. kan jag skicka requests på
 http://sub.example.comsub.example.com och http://www.example2.com
 www.example2.com till samma server även genom proxyn?


Yes. Squid är din kompis!
http://wiki.squid-cache.org/ConfigExamples/Reverse/MultipleWebservers

Regards,

Jeremiah



 Med Vänlig Hälsning
 Philip Lundqvist

 13 apr 2011 kl. 14:53 skrev Anders Jackson  anders.jack...@gmail.com
 anders.jack...@gmail.com:

 Tjat, DU är inte Cc:ad, som du påstod, om vi skall vara noggrann.
 Ja, jag vet att den är sub-optimal Androids Gmail-klient, det var inte det
 jag frågade om...

 Det går utmärkt att köra på vhost, och det framkom inte i frågan någon
 anledning att använda någon annan lösning.
 Snarare att frågeställaren missat den möjligheten.

 Sitter man bakom NAT så är det troligen mycket större problem med det om
 man har hög last på servern. Det är då troligen mer begränsande med trafiken
 genom den. Om det inte är så, så finns det troligen andra lösningar som är
 effektivare än att köra två servrar istf en med vhost. Som att komprimera
 trafiken från servern eller indexera databasen. Inte slänga på mer
 hårdvara...

 Den 13 apr 2011 14.22, Olof Johansson  o...@ethup.se o...@ethup.se
 o...@ethup.se skrev:

 On 2011-04-13 14:14 +0200, Anders Jackson wrote:
  (Är du CC:ad? Kan jag inte se. :-)
  Jag sitter f...
 (
  To: Olof Johansson  o...@ethup.se o...@ethup.seo...@ethup.se

 Cc: 
 debian-user-swedish@lists.debian.orgdebian-user-swedish@lists.debian.org
 debian-user-swedish@lists.debian.org
   Dålig klient ;-)

 )

  Jag såg att han ville köra två web-siter. Vilket man ju inte normalt
 löser
  med två Apatche-se...
 Ofta kan man lösa det med vhosts, men det är dumt att köra tunga
 applikationsservrar på samma maskin som annat, om man kan undvika
 det.

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Re: Nu får det räcka. (Was: RE: unattended)

2011-03-24 Thread Jeremiah Foster
 On Sun, 20 Mar 2011 21:59:21 +0100
 Martin Leben mar...@leben.nu wrote:

 Hej!

 Med risk att få skit är det några saker jag nu MÅSTE säga. SNÄLLA läs HELA 
 brevet och fundera MINST ett dygn innan någon bestämmer sig för att svara.

Not necessarily bad advice. ;) However, it is considered flaming
when you use all caps, keep your use of caps to a minimum if you can.


 - Det Magnus skrev, som satte igång detta, var klumpigt formulerat, men 
 korrekt i sak. Jag är tydligen inte ensam om att tycka att somliga borde 
 lägga ner några minuter på att hitta information själva istället för att 
 bara slänga iväg ett brev till listan. (Jag nämner inga namn, för jag är 
 inte intresserad av smutskastning.)

If you don't want to answer a mail to the list, you don't have to.
Others like to using mailing lists to get info, even if they may be
able to Google it or find it through another means.

 Vad är det egentligen för regler som gäller på den här listan?
 Jag har sett förhållningsregler på debian-sidan -

 http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/#codeofconduct

 och gissar att det är det som gäller, men det kanske det inte är?

Debian is an open project. You can't force people in Debian to behave
a certain way, even with codes of conduct. Trolling is a fact of life,
sadly. So if we want a healthy debian sweden mailing list we have to
put up with a little skit now and then. You can of course have
certain email addresses banned, but that is a slow process because
Debian is a volunteer project and the lists are run by volunteers. I
should know the process on how to ban people from the mailing list but
I don't off the top of my head.

Regards,

Jeremiah


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Re: Inget svenskt tangentbord vid nyinstallation av Squeeze

2011-02-25 Thread Jeremiah Foster
Hej Peter,

Har du testat att kör om locale configuration? Det är vad jag gör
när jag jar problem med svenska tecken. Titta på dpkg-reconfigure
locale eller liknande, då får du chansen att specificera vilken
locale du vill använda.

HTH,

Jeremiah

2011/2/24 Peter Krefting pe...@softwolves.pp.se:
 Hej!

 Av olika orsaker rensade jag min lilla laptop och installerade Squeeze
 rent. Under installationen valde jag svenskt tangentbord, och det
 fungerade fint fram till omstart, men sedan har jag varken svenskt
 tangentbord i konsolen eller i X (LXDE).

 /etc/console/boottime.kmap.gz pekar mot en svensk tangentbordslayout, och om
 jag startar loadkeys mot den filen blir det svenska tangenter i konsolen,
 men inte i X, ens efter att jag tagit ner och startat om gdm.

 Tangentbordskonfigurationen i LXDE har inte tangentbordslayout-val, och min
 gamla Xmodmap-fil jag skrev till min eeepc fungerar inte under Lenny (se
 tidigare postning).

 Har flera haft problem med detta med installationsprogrammet i Squeeze? Vad
 skall jag skriva om jag vill ha mina svenska tecken tillbaka?

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Moving from Fedora to Debian

2005-05-26 Thread Jeremiah Foster
OK, I have had enough. I am interested in moving from a Fedora box to a 
debian machine. Is there a way to do this without destroying my old 
info? Like downloading kernel sources, building a new kernel and then 
using apt-get? I thought I heard about a web site that talked about 
moving from Red Hat to debian once, anyone remember that link?


Thanks!

Jeremiah Foster


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Re: undelete

2003-03-30 Thread Jeremiah Foster
I have foolishly deleted a file I did not want to.
It was created this morning, so it is not backed up.

is there an undelete util ?

thanks

Matt

Matt,

There is not an undelete utility as you might find under a proprietary
operating system. However, if you were editing that file, in Emacs for
example, there may have been an automatic back-up made. Emacs does this
to whatever file you are editing, (unless you tell it not to,) and
creates a file of the same name that you were editing. It names it file~
(file with a tilde.) Other editors do this as well I believe. 

The file is not gone even if you deleted it, it has just been
unlinked. This means the bits of the file are still in the file
system, you just have destroyed the pointer to it. It is now non-trivial
to retrieve it unfortunately. If you used the command shred to delete
the file it has been overwritten and even the FBI should be unable to
retrieve it.

There are ways to get the file back, but they often require advanced
knowledge and sometimes money to buy data-recovery services or software.

Cheers,

Jeremiah


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