On Sat, 2007-01-27 at 19:45 +0100, Thilo Six wrote:
My question:
I use ext3 and have /var and /tmp on seperate partitions and would
specifically know about noexec and nosuid flags on these partitions.
Is it a good advice to use these two flags on these partitions?
Are there any programms
Sven Arvidsson wrote the following on 27.01.2007 20:13:
snip
See the excellent Securing Debian Manual, especially this section, and
the one following.
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/securing-debian-howto/ch4.en.html#s4.10
Thank you.
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On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 07:45:58PM +0100, Thilo Six wrote:
Hello
I am on the way to try/test debian etch.
During instaltion in partition tool one could set special parameters for
partition
My question:
I use ext3 and have /var and /tmp on seperate partitions and would
specifically know
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote the following on 27.01.2007 21:02:
snip
There are a variety of programs that will fail if /tmp is not
executable. In general, the noexec flag is really not very useful
because it is trivial to work around.
Yes that´s what the harden howto also say.
I am just
Ron Johnson wrote:
On 01/26/07 23:18, Hal Vaughan wrote:
On Friday 26 January 2007 23:19, Angelo Bertolli wrote:
Piotr Dziubinski wrote:
Ex-Debian user...
... back to the Gentoo
If going to the Mozilla website to download and install Firefox is
too much work for you, Debian is
On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 09:14:09PM +0100, Thilo Six wrote:
Yes that´s what the harden howto also say.
I am just wondering if this still applies today because this howto seems
to be from 2000/2001 that must have been pre woody and we are now on the
way to etch.
Are the implications that
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
I think that automatically upgrading people to Iceweasel is better than
leaving the stagnant Firefox package since:
- The security team can't support
- Debian is not allowed to continue redistributing
- People may not know to go looking for it
Not to mention the
On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 10:08:39AM -0500, celejar wrote:
Hi list,
I plan to do a netinstall on a new laptop (Acer AS3960). There's
internal wifi, and I have an Atheros PC card, but I have to assume
that neither will be supported during installation. Ethernet directly
into my gateway /
On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 10:22:55AM -0600, Kevin Monceaux wrote:
I'm teetering on the fence between Arch Linux and Debian Linux. So, I
thought I'd post an intro in hopes that someone will give me a gentle nudge
in the right direction. Forgive me if I ramble a bit.
I've been a Linux user
On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 07:31:08PM +0100, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote:
On 23.01.07 01:49, Bruno Voigt wrote:
I'm running debian/unstable on my laptop and often the LAN/WLAN is not
connected (yet) when the system is starting up - including NTPD.
NTPD then seems to discard all unreachable
On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 09:27:07PM -0500, Steve C. Lamb wrote:
On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 08:57:07PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
Personally, I feel this hardcoding of colors in the application is a
downside of X.
One of the few visual things I miss from OS/2. There I had my apps set to
On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 09:33:37AM -0500, Juergen Fiedler wrote:
This is not really a problem as such, merely a request for input and
interesting anecdotes: I am currently running an x86 sid on a Sempron
based machine. On one hand, I am happy with it because just about
everything I could
On Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 10:03:30PM -0500, Jim Hyslop wrote:
OK, this latest discussion about logging in as root got me thinking. I'm
fairly new to Linux. Occasionally, when I need to set up something (as
an example, my recent DNS questions) I will need to edit a config file,
and restart the
On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 04:52:53PM +0200, WireSpot wrote:
Can anyone recommend a piece of software that will watch a file or a
directory and tell me what processes mess with the files in there? In
particular, I'd like it to react when a file is removed.
I tried dnotify but it only tells me
On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 03:52:51PM -0500, Angelo Bertolli wrote:
I'm not clear on why Firefox couldn't be put in non-free though. (I
just figured it was for upgrades.)
Probably because of portability. I don't think mozilla provides
official binaries for s390 and probably hppa and some of
hi all,
what about VirtualBox ?
has anyone used this before ?
any idea whether it's as good as vmware or worse than qemu ?
On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 09:40:52PM +0100, Norbert Preining wrote:
Otherwise I would like to see what kind of OPERATIONAL difference you
have found:
- you still can fall iceweasel as firefox on the command line
- you can browse the web *IN THE EXACT SAME WAY*
You can even use the same
On Sam, 27 Jan 2007, Piotr Dziubinski wrote:
Iceweasel and Firefox are a different products, very similar, but different.
Can YOU please explain me what *important* differences there are?
If you miss the firefox logo, and the word firefox in the title bar,
then ok, well, run stable.
Otherwise
On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 02:41:40PM -0600, Mike Myers wrote:
Hi all,
I'm still trying to adjust from Gentoo's way of doing things (do it
manually) to debian's (apt-something) way. So far everything has been
great, but i'm having trouble finding docs on a couple of issues I'm
having. Both
On Saturday 27 January 2007 16:31, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 03:52:51PM -0500, Angelo Bertolli wrote:
I'm not clear on why Firefox couldn't be put in non-free though.
(I just figured it was for upgrades.)
Probably because of portability. I don't think mozilla
On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 12:03:27AM -0500, Zach wrote:
Hi,
I am having a problem in Debian (testing) and wonder if you could help me.
In
Windoze I can stat a download program and left unattended it will run
for 5 hours before the ISP automatically disconnects, however in Linux
when I am
On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 05:20:04PM -0600, Owen Heisler wrote:
On 1/23/07, Zach [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
40C is quite fine, my drives idle at nearly that (spinning but idle).
Sometimes they get up to almost 70C when they are really busy. Maybe
that's too hot? Comments...
My Seagate
Angelo Bertolli wrote:
I'm not clear on why Firefox couldn't be put in non-free though.
Because no DD felt like doing it.
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For console, you can use lokkit:
lokkit - basic interactive firewall configuration tool (console interface)
But I don't think it gives you as much control as iptables.
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I am hoping that someone can direct me to the best instructions on the web
for setting up a dual-boot system running Debian and NT.
Most of the HOW-TOs I've looked at assume that you already have Windows
running; my case is the reverse.
The computer already has Debian and LILO running.
If I
On Sat, 2007-01-27 at 21:14 +0100, Thilo Six wrote:
There are a variety of programs that will fail if /tmp is not
executable. In general, the noexec flag is really not very useful
because it is trivial to work around.
At least the /lib/ld-linux.so.2 work around shouldn't work anymore
On Sat, 27 Jan 2007 14:42:42 -0800
Mitchell Verter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am hoping that someone can direct me to the best instructions on the web
for setting up a dual-boot system running Debian and NT.
Most of the HOW-TOs I've looked at assume that you already have Windows
running; my
On Sat, 27 Jan 2007 17:21:36 -0500
Angelo Bertolli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
For console, you can use lokkit:
lokkit - basic interactive firewall configuration tool (console
interface)
But I don't think it gives you as much control as iptables.
My point was that it would be very difficult
Mitchell Verter wrote:
The computer already has Debian and LILO running.
If I want to put NT on the computer too, would I just partition the
disk (how do you partition in linux?) and then install NT on the new
partition and expect LILO to notice?
I like to use cfdisk for partitioning.
Be
On Sat, 27 Jan 2007 14:42:42 -0800
Mitchell Verter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am hoping that someone can direct me to the best instructions on
the web for setting up a dual-boot system running Debian and NT.
Most of the HOW-TOs I've looked at assume that you already have
Windows running; my
Douglas Allan Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I used to run chrony (with difficulty) but ran into a problem with my
new box: it couldn't access the hwclock. If I told it not to, (so that
the hwclock shutdown script could work), it really messed up my time.
So I switched to ntp. I access the
On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 05:30:08PM -0500, Roby wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 10:26:31PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 01:37:11PM -0500, Roby wrote:
Only a guess, but is the USB_STORAGE module loaded?
No. it isn't. I guess a
Mitchell Verter wrote:
I am hoping that someone can direct me to the best instructions on the web
for setting up a dual-boot system running Debian and NT.
Most of the HOW-TOs I've looked at assume that you already have Windows
running; my case is the reverse.
The computer already has Debian
Hal Vaughan wrote:
On Saturday 27 January 2007 12:01, Marc Shapiro wrote:
Hal Vaughan wrote:
On Saturday 27 January 2007 10:58, Danesh Daroui wrote:
Hi all,
I have tried to install JDK5 on debian and it installed without
problem by running:
apt-get install sun-java5-jdk
Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On 01/26/07 19:28, s. keeling wrote:
Gnome, KDE, and XFCE are not the only choices available.
Yes they are.
Unless you want to be investigated by Them. The NSA the RCMP are
suspicious of anyone running desktop Linux (too many freethinkers),
and are
On Sat, 2007-01-27 at 16:47 -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote:
Are there plans to eventually replace some features in
Iceweasel with open source versions that could eventually find their
way into the Firefox source tree -- eventually replacing all the
non-free features? And is any functionality
Sven Arvidsson [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Sat, 2007-01-27 at 01:28 +, s. keeling wrote:
And I would imagine any of them could be used if you chose to avoid
those three. Try out some of the other wm's. You might like them.
Gnome, KDE, and XFCE are not the only choices available.
Rob Sims [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 01:08:20AM +, s. keeling wrote:
He's suggesting a nickel would get him a better computer than what he's
using. That's a pretty damning indictment. A nickel can't buy a
computer in any way, shape or form.
Are you kidding? I
to create a default set of rules that would work for many people.
The default set of rules only needs to get people through the
installation safely. After that, they can alter them with their
favourite program, as needed.
The rules here:
On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 05:54:34PM +, Hans du Plooy wrote:
Hi guys,
I'm having no luck following this howto:
http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch04s04.html.en
I just get the following:
Non-System disk or disk error
replace and strike any key when ready
I tried both
On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 02:49:52PM +0100, Mark wrote:
Hello all,
I was hoping you may have an idea what to use for the following
problem:
At work we have a 1Mbit line download and upload. But still
sometimes people here try to download 350Mb or more over that little
tiny wire.
We have
On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 03:30:48AM +, Tyler wrote:
In the meantime, how does one check for bad blocks and bad ram? I have
the pre-installed fsck running every 30th boot, and so far no errors
have ever been reported.
Check the man page for the filesystem-specific fscker (honest, I'm
PLEASE! Do NOT send HTML messages on this group. I'm not the only one
who has issues with them! Some mail readers can't deal with them.
On Saturday 27 January 2007 18:37, Danesh Daroui wrote:
Hal Vaughan wrote:
On Saturday 27 January 2007 12:01, Marc Shapiro wrote:
Hal Vaughan wrote:
Thanks for all the dual boot advice.
Now I need to partition the disk and move the Linux partition to the second
partition
I am looking at the Linux Partition HOWTO (http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Partition/)
and the parted manual (
http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/manual/parted.html#Introduction) I
On Saturday 27 January 2007 18:34, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 02:49:52PM +0100, Mark wrote:
I was hoping that there are programs/webinterfaces out there that
can take this load off of our shoulders and download things during
the night?
If user's can append a url
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Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On 01/26/07 19:28, s. keeling wrote:
Gnome, KDE, and XFCE are not the only choices available.
Yes they are.
Unless you want to be investigated by Them. The NSA the RCMP are
Greetings,
After attempting to do changeover from Ubtunu 6.06 to Debian Etch by
changing sources.list and doing a #apt-get dist-upgrade, I ended up
having to grab the net-install image and do the installation that way.
I ran into several problems that become hard to overcome. Some crutial
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On 01/27/07 18:00, s. keeling wrote:
Sven Arvidsson [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Sat, 2007-01-27 at 01:28 +, s. keeling wrote:
[snip]
Not necessary with any sort of net connection. It doesn't take
long to apt-get/aptitude/synaptic install a wm.
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On 01/27/07 19:00, Mitchell Verter wrote:
[snip]
I bought the laptop with Debian installed, so I know little about
it. I don't think there is much data on it and I probably don't
care about keeping old data, just preserving important system
On Saturday 27 January 2007 18:09, Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Sat, 27 Jan 2007 14:42:42 -0800
- resize linux partitions (cfdisk, parted, ...)
For non destructively resizing partitions, I have previously used qtparted and
I found that the GUI is pretty neat and intuitive. I have no qualms in
I have just done an install on a Sony r505 laptop and have some issues
that I have never seen concerning the touchpad.
Pointer motion is painfully slow. I have tried reconfiguring the
xserver, changing the corepointer from the configured mouse to the
synaptics, changing the acceleration in
I used to work with this wifi comfortably in sarge with ndiswrapper. In etch
i have problems.
first bcm43xx driver didn't work with the firmware extracted automatically
while installation and also from the working driver in windows. I copied the
files as read in /lib/hotplug/firmware. I have read
On 1/27/07, Douglas Allan Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I don't suppose you told pppconfig to make it an on-demand connection?
Hi Douglas,
Exactly how can I enable this?
Personally, I also use the persist option so that it redials if the
connection dies.
Cool. How can I enable this
On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 10:01:43PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
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On 01/26/07 19:03, Hodgins Family wrote:
Many people are installing Debian from the internet. Yet, the Securing
Debian Manual suggests no contact with the internet until the
On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 09:41:59AM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 02:26:01AM -0800, Land Haj wrote:
Hi!
I decided to try etch out and use raid-1. All went fine until I mounted one
of the raid disks from another debian installation on the same computer, to
On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 02:42:42PM -0800, Mitchell Verter wrote:
I am hoping that someone can direct me to the best instructions on the web
for setting up a dual-boot system running Debian and NT.
Most of the HOW-TOs I've looked at assume that you already have Windows
running; my case is the
Sven Arvidsson wrote the following on 27.01.2007 23:51:
There are a variety of programs that will fail if /tmp is not
executable. In general, the noexec flag is really not very useful
because it is trivial to work around.
At least the /lib/ld-linux.so.2 work around shouldn't work anymore
On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 10:49:06PM -0500, Zach wrote:
On 1/27/07, Douglas Allan Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I don't suppose you told pppconfig to make it an on-demand connection?
Hi Douglas,
Exactly how can I enable this?
Personally, I also use the persist option so that it redials
On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 01:49:39PM +, John Talbut wrote:
As I understand it, Gnome Volume Manager, invokes pmount-hal which passes
back settings from hal and hal gets settings from udev. I have looked
through the various udev rules files and anything to do with hal and I
cannot work
Zach writes:
Exactly how can I enable [dial on demand]?
Change-provider name-Advanced-Demand
How can I enable [persist] also?
Change-provider name-Advanced-Persist
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On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 12:15:19AM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote:
On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 12:12:44PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
use aptitude interactively and ':' will hold a package at its current
level. also, '?' within apt-listbugs allows you to pin the packages,
but I've not
On Jan 27, 2007, at 2:19 PM, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
I used to run chrony (with difficulty) but ran into a problem with my
new box: it couldn't access the hwclock. If I told it not to, (so
that
the hwclock shutdown script could work), it really messed up my time.
So I switched to ntp.
John Kerr Anderson wrote:
Hello everyone,
I have a very annoying problem. I am trying to download some new
programs via aptitude and notice that my modem connection keeps dropping
out after 5 - 10 minutes. The connection keeps dropping esp. if I try
to check a web-page out while it is
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