Fwd: Re: sound problem debian wheezy

2014-07-30 Thread Ric Moore
Original Message Subject: Re: sound problem debian wheezy Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2014 21:52:46 -0400 From: Ric Moore To: tom arnall On 07/30/2014 12:37 AM, tom arnall wrote: Ric, thanks for getting back to me? rest of message inline to yours. Tom On 7/29/14, Ric Moore wrot

Re: hp server hardware monitoring

2014-07-30 Thread Claudio Kuenzler
On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 9:50 PM, Bonno Bloksma wrote: > Hi, > >> [...] > >> What may be relevant too is that on the g6 server Debian uses the > >> CCISS drivers for the raid hardware, the volume shows up as > >> /dev/cciss/c0d0 > >> On the g7 and g8 hardware the raid volume simply shows up as /de

Re: New 64bit Installation--Next Round: /var

2014-07-30 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 30 July 2014 08:05:32 David Baron wrote: > 1. Now that I have / on a large enough place to not worry over it (and /opt > and /usr/local are bound to folders on the over-sized home partition), now > time to deal with /var. Given a mere 2.7g, enough for a couple of KDE users > and a numb

Re: laptop with two-finger gestures with a free OS

2014-07-30 Thread Bzzzz
On Wed, 30 Jul 2014 19:28:32 -0700 Dan Hitt wrote: > So . . . i'd like to get a laptop for my personal use, but of > course running a free OS. > > Does this exist, with the two finger gesture use? MSI has such machines (at least in EU); it uses a synaptics touchpad with this feature (strange wh

Re: Pin package to "any version, don't remove"?

2014-07-30 Thread The Wanderer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 07/30/2014 04:05 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Ma, 29 iul 14, 22:52:15, The Wanderer wrote: > >> >> Package: removal-prevention >> Pin: version 1.0 >> Pin-Priority: 1001 >> >> >> produces no change in behavior; dist-upgrade s

laptop with two-finger gestures with a free OS

2014-07-30 Thread Dan Hitt
Hi Debian List, At work, i've got a mac book pro laptop, which for the first time in my life is a laptop that i can use like a serious computer. Prior to this, i refused to use a laptop because they are so much worse than desktops. Part of the appeal for me is the two-finger gestures for scrolli

Packagekitd

2014-07-30 Thread David Baron
This baby seems to start up for no reason, slowing whatever was being done at the time. Have to manually kill it. Somewhere to set its priorities, i.e. nice it? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.

Re: iptables firewall

2014-07-30 Thread Joe
On Wed, 30 Jul 2014 21:34:07 +0200 Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Joe a écrit : > > > > Something else you might do now is to place temporary logging rules > > before your 'DROP' rules, to confirm whether it is indeed iptables > > which is blocking those packets. > > Or just run tcpdump while the por

Re: iptables firewall

2014-07-30 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Joe a écrit : > > Something else you might do now is to place temporary logging rules > before your 'DROP' rules, to confirm whether it is indeed iptables > which is blocking those packets. Or just run tcpdump while the port scan is running. > No logs, it's somebody or something > else. And if y

RE: hp server hardware monitoring

2014-07-30 Thread Bonno Bloksma
Hi, >> [...] >> What may be relevant too is that on the g6 server Debian uses the >> CCISS drivers for the raid hardware, the volume shows up as >> /dev/cciss/c0d0 >> On the g7 and g8 hardware the raid volume simply shows up as /dev/sda > > cciss has been superseded by hpsa, "The hpsa driver is in

Re: Threading using digest and KMail (was Re: Exim4 not routing local mail ... )

2014-07-30 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 30 July 2014 08:14:20 David Baron wrote: > I do not understand the difference. If I hit reply, so I get the title of > the digest which I replace with the desired re: Should not this be OK. No. It gives rise to a new thread, with the digest data, which is not the same as the he

Re: iptables firewall

2014-07-30 Thread Nemeth Gyorgy
2014-07-30 09:18 keltezéssel, Joe írta: > Something else you might do now is to place temporary logging rules > before your 'DROP' rules, to confirm whether it is indeed iptables > which is blocking those packets. No logs, it's somebody or something > else. Perhaps it is not needed. iptables -L -v

Re: iptables firewall

2014-07-30 Thread Nemeth Gyorgy
2014-07-30 17:33 keltezéssel, Mike McClain írta: >> And as someone else asked, why are you worried about this 'stealth'? As >> long as the bad packets don't get in, what does it matter? > > Why is there a DROP instruction in iptables as well as REJECT? To allow you to do what you want. e.g DROP c

Re: iptables firewall

2014-07-30 Thread Sven Hartge
Mike McClain wrote: > On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 08:18:51AM +0100, Joe wrote: >> And as someone else asked, why are you worried about this 'stealth'? >> As long as the bad packets don't get in, what does it matter? > Why is there a DROP instruction in iptables as well as REJECT? Sometimes you want

Re: iptables firewall

2014-07-30 Thread Sven Hartge
Sven Hartge wrote: > If I try to connect to a system on (for example) IP 192.168.40.60 and > port 80 and there is no system with that IP, the router for the > network will tell me via an "ICMP host unreachable" package. Erm, please replace "package" with "packet" while reading, thanks. Grüße, S

Re: iptables firewall

2014-07-30 Thread Sven Hartge
Mike McClain wrote: > On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 01:09:24AM +0200, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > >> You can safely ignore that "stealth" FUD. > block:REJECT::Stealth:DROP > Why do you say it can be ignored? If I try to connect to a system on (for example) IP 192.168.40.60 and port 80 and there is no s

Re: iptables firewall

2014-07-30 Thread Mike McClain
On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 08:18:51AM +0100, Joe wrote: > Something else you might do now is to place temporary logging rules > before your 'DROP' rules, to confirm whether it is indeed iptables > which is blocking those packets. No logs, it's somebody or something > else. And if you have anything ot

Re: iptables firewall

2014-07-30 Thread Mike McClain
On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 01:09:24AM +0200, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > You can safely ignore that "stealth" FUD. block:REJECT::Stealth:DROP Why do you say it can be ignored? > Use iptables-save instead. I do. Thanks for your thoughts, Mike -- Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? --

Re: iptables firewall

2014-07-30 Thread Mike McClain
On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 10:20:57PM +0100, Mark Carroll wrote: > > Use iptables --list-rules to check what rules are actually in force, > applying in what order. > > -- Mark I've been using iptables-save which gives nearly the same output but fails to explain why 2 online scanners show those ports

Re: iptables firewall

2014-07-30 Thread Mike McClain
On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 11:19:18PM +0200, Sven Hartge wrote: > > Maybe your ISP already filters those ports? > Now that's a thought I hadn't considered. If the ISP is REJECTing those ports that would explain the responces I'm seeing. Thanks I'll look into it. Mike -- Who knows what evil lurks in th

Ignoring the Release 'Valid_Until' option in the preseed file

2014-07-30 Thread Alvaro Alonso Jiménez
Hi all, I have just configured a preseed file to include a local repository. # Debian mirrors d-i apt-setup/local0/comment string local mirror d-i apt-setup/local0/repository string http:// d-i apt-setup/local0/key string http:// The main issue I am facing here is that the repo is not added to t

Re: Threading using digest and kmail (was Re: Exim4 not routing local mail ... )

2014-07-30 Thread Brad Rogers
On Wed, 30 Jul 2014 08:26:04 -0400 The Wanderer wrote: Hello The, >(References: and In-Reply-To:, surely?) You are, of course, right. My brain was waaay ahead of my fingers at the time. My apologies for any confusion caused. -- Regards _ / ) "The blindingly obvious is

Re: Threading using digest and kmail (was Re: Exim4 not routing local mail ... )

2014-07-30 Thread The Wanderer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 07/30/2014 04:42 AM, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Wed, 30 Jul 2014 10:14:20 +0300 David Baron > wrote: > > Hello David, > >> Or is there some header or marker I should be hitting as well? > > Reference and/or Reply-To headers. (References: and In

Re: 'strictatime' vs. 'relatime' for /tmp

2014-07-30 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 4:12 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > When mounting a tmpfs on /tmp systemd sets 'strictatime'. I was > wondering whether this is really needed. Does anybody know of software > that would break with 'relatime' (the default) or even 'noatime'? > > I'd be happy to RTFM if anybod

Re: 'strictatime' vs. 'relatime' for /tmp

2014-07-30 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 30 Jul 2014, B wrote: > > When mounting a tmpfs on /tmp systemd sets 'strictatime'. I was > > wondering whether this is really needed. > > From what I found on the web, it seems to be related to busybox > that apparently needs it. They added it to BusyBox *because* systemd passes str

Re: 'strictatime' vs. 'relatime' for /tmp

2014-07-30 Thread Bzzzz
On Wed, 30 Jul 2014 11:12:09 +0300 Elvire POPESCU wrote: > When mounting a tmpfs on /tmp systemd sets 'strictatime'. I was > wondering whether this is really needed. From what I found on the web, it seems to be related to busybox that apparently needs it. I've found a post about adding the BB s

Re: In dire need of assistant desperate lively hood involved.

2014-07-30 Thread berenger . morel
Le 29.07.2014 22:32, Joe a écrit : On Tue, 29 Jul 2014 16:16:44 +0100 Lisi Reisz wrote: On Tuesday 29 July 2014 15:11:38 Zenaan Harkness wrote: > i also downloaded a creative cloud setup-exe. from photo shop and > > > it wont install You can't install Windows programs directly on Linux - no

Re: /var partition seems locked or read only

2014-07-30 Thread berenger . morel
Le 29.07.2014 18:22, Paul E Condon a écrit : On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 11:08:41AM +0200, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Le 28.07.2014 22:36, Andrei POPESCU a écrit : >On Lu, 28 iul 14, 11:24:31, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: >>Le 27.07.2014 01:42, PaulNM a écrit : >> >>>Inodes are

Re: Threading using digest and kmail (was Re: Exim4 not routing local mail ... )

2014-07-30 Thread Brad Rogers
On Wed, 30 Jul 2014 10:14:20 +0300 David Baron wrote: Hello David, >Or is there some header or marker I should be hitting as well? Reference and/or Reply-To headers. The digest, depending on /exactly/ how it as constructed and /exactly/ how you reply, won't necessarily carry the right headers

Re: tune2fs: last write time is weeks or even months ago, moreover before last reboot

2014-07-30 Thread David Guyot
Le vendredi 25 juillet 2014 à 15:46:29 +0200, Jörg-Volker Peetz a écrit: > This version is a little bit outdated (Feb 2013). At least concerning ext4. > I would try if a newer version shows something different. > Have you tried smartctl (smartmontools) and seen anything striking? Yes, I tried smart

'strictatime' vs. 'relatime' for /tmp

2014-07-30 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 29 iul 14, 18:20:42, Rick Thomas wrote: > > On Jul 29, 2014, at 2:05 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > Sure, it's a tmpfs, and the penalty for updating atime is probably much > > lower than any other conventional storage (though /tmp contents might > > end up being swapped), but is there a

Re: [SOLVED] /root is full

2014-07-30 Thread Joe
On Tue, 29 Jul 2014 23:10:48 -0400 The Wanderer wrote: once every few years, and nothing > seems to do it automatically.) > > Admittedly I have ridiculous amounts of local storage space, but even > when I install Debian in a VM on a 40GB virtual hard disk, I wouldn't > consider allocating less

Re: Pin package to "any version, don't remove"?

2014-07-30 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 29 iul 14, 22:52:15, The Wanderer wrote: > > > Package: removal-prevention > Pin: version 1.0 > Pin-Priority: 1001 > > > produces no change in behavior; dist-upgrade still wants to remove > removal-prevention, and the packages it depends on. > > Similar things happen wit

Re: hp server hardware monitoring

2014-07-30 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello, On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 05:28:10AM +, Bonno Bloksma wrote: > [...] > What may be relevant too is that on the g6 server Debian uses the > CCISS drivers for the raid hardware, the volume shows up as > /dev/cciss/c0d0 > On the g7 and g8 hardware the raid volume simply shows up as /dev/sda

Re: iptables firewall

2014-07-30 Thread Joe
On Tue, 29 Jul 2014 14:04:23 -0700 Mike McClain wrote: > I've run into a difficulty with iptables in that both GRC.com and > PCFlank.com's firewall scans show ports 137-139 and 445 as blocked but > not stealthed in spite of the fact that I have these statements in my > firewall script: > ipta

Re: Threading using digest and kmail (was Re: Exim4 not routing local mail ... )

2014-07-30 Thread David Baron
On Wednesday 30 July 2014 02:52:38 debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: > > When you reply threading is broken. Surely you can see that. Could be > > kmail of course. > > Replying from the digest breaks threads. I eschew KDE 4, so I don't know > about KMail in KDE4, but KDE3 KMail

New 64bit Installation--Next Round: /var

2014-07-30 Thread David Baron
1. Now that I have / on a large enough place to not worry over it (and /opt and /usr/local are bound to folders on the over-sized home partition), now time to deal with /var. Given a mere 2.7g, enough for a couple of KDE users and a number of apt downloads. Can easily go over 90% for large upgra