Re: buster VM does not always start sshd

2019-05-04 Thread Florian Weimer
* Steve McIntyre: > f...@deneb.enyo.de wrote: >>I've got a buster VM (upgraded from stretch) which does not launch >>sshd (and Unbound) until a login attempt happens on a TTY. (An >>unsuccessful attempt appears to be enough.) >> >>At that point, both sshd and Unbound start successfully, and

buster VM does not always start sshd

2019-05-04 Thread Florian Weimer
I've got a buster VM (upgraded from stretch) which does not launch sshd (and Unbound) until a login attempt happens on a TTY. (An unsuccessful attempt appears to be enough.) At that point, both sshd and Unbound start successfully, and network login is possible. I don't think I have changed the

Re: intermittent name resolution failures

2018-12-28 Thread Florian Weimer
* kamaraju kusumanchi: > On Fri, Dec 28, 2018 at 3:51 AM wrote: >> >> Whenever your DNS fails try a "traceroute 8.8.8.8". Compare its results >> to what you get when you do it at times where your DNS works. Perhaps >> this sheds some light on it. > > That is tough to capture because the problem

Xfce: Apply keyboard settings on USB plug

2016-10-02 Thread Florian Weimer
I'm using the Xfce desktop environment on Debian jessie. The keyboard is plugged into a KVM switch which issues a USB disconnect if I switch to another machine. Once I switch back, the USB connection comes back again, but the keyboard settings are gone. This affects both the changes in keyboard

Re: Debian Compatibility for CISCO UCS Servers

2015-10-12 Thread Florian Weimer
* Dilan Wijesooriya: > We need to install (bare metal ) Dabian 7 and Dabian 8 for bellow CISCO > Server model (Quantity 2) , can you pls let us know the compatibility > Of this , much appreciated your kind support and help for this project . Dear Dilan, you need to ask your hardware provider

Re: Understanding DNS, Create an Failover

2014-10-29 Thread Florian Weimer
If the DNS information does not change frequently, then you can make the changes to both databases manually. You may be able to just copy the zone files, I'm not sure, but you will need to update the serial numbers. Basti asked about resolvers, you are talking about authoritative servers.

Re: EFI SecureBoot and Trusted Computing in Debian

2014-10-27 Thread Florian Weimer
* Marty: What I call the manifesto [1] claims that UEFI SecureBoot is needed in a post Snowden World. I don't think it's true. Apple and some Android devices are already locked down very tightly, and it is not clear that this has helped to protect users' privacy and prevent access to stored

Re: UEFI Secure Boot and enabling W8/Linux dual boot - some links/refs

2014-08-30 Thread Florian Weimer
* Steve Litt: I've personally disabled Secure Boot from a cold boot to the BIOS, and then installed Ubuntu, and had both OS's work. I've done this at least twice, maybe more. That being said, perhaps the reason I failed to install a *Debian* dual-boot was because I shut off Secure Boot from

Re: MIT discovered issue with gcc

2013-11-26 Thread Florian Weimer
* Bob Proulx: In those systems the zero page is initially bit-zero and reading from the zero point will return zero values from the contents there. If the program writes to the zero page then subsequent reads will return whatever was written there. This is bad behavior that was the default

Re: Is this OK in C++ and C?

2013-01-01 Thread Florian Weimer
* Zbigniew Komarnicki: Is this OK or is this a bug, when the wariable 'n' is initializing by negative value? There no any warning. Is this normal? I know that value -5 is converted to unsigned but probably this should by printed a warning, when this is a constant value. What do you think

Using multiarch on wheezy

2012-11-04 Thread Florian Weimer
I'm trying to install the i386 version of openjdk-7-jre on an amd64 system. So I did: # dpkg --add-architecture i386 # apt-get update This appears to have been successful. But I still cannot install packages: # apt-get install openjdk-7-jre:i386 Reading package lists... Done Building

Re: Network Security Services Update question

2012-06-10 Thread Florian Weimer
* ricccardo: ric@ricmbp:~$ dpkg -l | grep libnss ii libnss3 2:3.13.4-3~bpo60+1 Network Security Service libraries ii libnss3-1d 2:3.13.4-3~bpo60+1 Network Security Service libraries - transitional package These packages do not come from the stable distribution. You're using

Re: Corrupted security update package files

2011-12-04 Thread Florian Weimer
* Bill Wohler: When updating lenny this morning (yes, upgrading is on my todo list), I got the following error: E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/security.debian.org_dists_lenny_updates_main_binary-i386_Packages E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or

fcron as cron

2011-09-23 Thread Florian Weimer
to local time and our current workarounds aren't nice (hourly execution with an additional check, or edit the entries twice a year). -- Florian Weimerfwei...@bfk.de BFK edv-consulting GmbH http://www.bfk.de/ Kriegsstraße 100 tel: +49-721-96201-1 D-76133 Karlsruhe

Re: Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) firmware

2011-09-23 Thread Florian Weimer
that this technology was pioneered on Android devices (which tend to lock out alternative operating systems, not just custom kernels). -- Florian Weimerfwei...@bfk.de BFK edv-consulting GmbH http://www.bfk.de/ Kriegsstraße 100 tel: +49-721-96201-1 D-76133

Re: fcron as cron

2011-09-23 Thread Florian Weimer
with this use case, but it has been some time since I last read through its full documentation. The documentation suggests that it's supported. -- Florian Weimerfwei...@bfk.de BFK edv-consulting GmbH http://www.bfk.de/ Kriegsstraße 100 tel: +49-721-96201-1 D-76133

Re: What is the future for Debian on (Android) tablets?

2011-07-17 Thread Florian Weimer
* Brad Alexander: Have you looked at the Maemo distribution? It came out for the Nokia Nseries tablets (n770/800/810/900), and is Debian-based. I have (briefly) started looking at whether this supports tablets. Since it was designed for (smaller) tablets, hopefully, it will work on the larger

Re: mails to t...@security.debian.org - no ACK?

2011-05-15 Thread Florian Weimer
* Fresel Michal: just wanted to get some feedback on mailing to t...@security.debian.org any knowledge why there is no answer or any ACK of recieve after 8h? There is no autoresponder, so all replies you receive are written by hand. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: How up-to-date is Debian's stable release kept to fix published kernel security vulnerabilities?

2011-05-08 Thread Florian Weimer
* Kelly Dean: http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2010-2943 was published Sept 30, 2010, and says that Linux 2.6.32.5 is vulnerable. Squeeze uses 2.6.32-5, built on Jan 12, 2011. Is Squeeze's kernel fixed, or does it have the vulnerability? According to our records, this

Re: Reverting to an old version of libstdc++6

2011-04-19 Thread Florian Weimer
* Joe Riel: This weekend I upgraded, and libstdc++6 went from 4.5.2-4 - 4.6.0-2. This has broken a commercial package I use; I now get By the way, this a bug in GCC 4.6.0, possibly related to http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=48465. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Unattended installation of KVM virtual machines

2011-04-18 Thread Florian Weimer
* T. o. n. g.: On Sun, 06 Feb 2011 18:20:45 +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: I would like to automate the process of setting up KVM virtual machines (containing lenny and squeeze images). The straightforward doesn't work because the installer does not seem to support a serial console

Unattended installation of KVM virtual machines

2011-02-06 Thread Florian Weimer
I would like to automate the process of setting up KVM virtual machines (containing lenny and squeeze images). The straightforward doesn't work because the installer does not seem to support a serial console, and automating VNC is a bit difficult. A debootstrap variant which results in a

Re: what about acroread in squeeze i386?

2010-03-01 Thread Florian Weimer
* Francesco Pietra: Unfortunately, for dealing with most editors of scientific journals, and for personal use of the scientific literature, either as author or referee, neither the readers you mention, nor any one other I know except acroread, are enough. Because of these problems (which are

Re: Upgrade to Lenny?

2010-02-27 Thread Florian Weimer
* Hadi Motamedi: Thank you so much . At now , my Lenny has access to Internet . I wanted to install ethereal on my Lenny by trying as : #apt-get install ethereal But it cannot find it . Ethereal has been renamed to Wireshark, so just install the latter. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: how to renew a security certificate?

2009-11-28 Thread Florian Weimer
* Boyd Stephen Smith, Jr.: Who set up the dovecot installtion? Dovecot doesn't use a certificate by default, so the person that generated the cert and got it signed would be the best source of information on the cert. dovecot-common's postinst in etch automatically generates a certificate

Re: Debian PCI Question

2009-11-13 Thread Florian Weimer
* Matt McCants: Does anyone here have PCI audits being done on their Debian boxes? Yes, we hear about that from time to time. The company I work for uses TrustKeeper and the one Debian box I've managed to get my boss to allow keeps failing unjustly. Usually they fail us due to version

Re: Security.debian.org confused?

2009-11-01 Thread Florian Weimer
* Andrew Reid: http://security.debian.org//srv/security-master.debian.org/ftp/pool/updates/main/e/expat/libexpat1_2.0.1-4+lenny1_amd64.deb This should have been fixed by now. During an internal migration, incorrect package metadata was pushed to the security mirror network. Sorry about

Re: Courier Font package

2009-10-06 Thread Florian Weimer
* J. Hwan Kim: I hope to install Courier font in my lenny but I did not find the proper package. Whant package should I install ? ttf-liberation contains a monospaced Truetype font which is fully compatible with Courier New on Windows systems. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Inquiry:Incorrectly built binary

2009-08-22 Thread Florian Weimer
* hadi motamedi: Can you please do me favor and let me know what is the cause of the following error message that I got when trying to run my application on the Linux server : Incorrectly built binary which accesses errno, h_errno or _res directly. Needs to be fixed. You need to include

Re: DNS Spoof query

2009-08-09 Thread Florian Weimer
* Daniel D. Jones: After doing that, my Snort report from my Debian server started showing the following: 62 192.168.2.10 209.170.146.89 DNS SPOOF query response with TTL of 1 min. and no authority This Snort rule appears to be complete bogus. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: How to install Java in Lenny?

2009-08-09 Thread Florian Weimer
* Edward C. Jones: I installed sun-java5-bin from sid non-free. I still get the error message. This works, even with OpenJDK: appletviewer 'http://radar.weather.gov/radar.php?rid=lwxproduct=N0Roverlay=1110loop=yes' -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with

Re: [OT] Hosting a DNS

2009-06-03 Thread Florian Weimer
What do you think is the main reason or the importance of hosting your own DNS when your ISP and/or Domain Registrar can host it for you for FREE? You remain reachable when your DNS provider is under a DoS attack. Such attacks happen from time to time to large providers (check the news). If

Re: Old PHP on new Debian

2009-03-08 Thread Florian Weimer
* Adrian Levi: 2009/3/8 Florian Weimer f...@deneb.enyo.de: * Pet: /etc/apt/sources.list This looks fine.  How did you figure out that you had installed PHP 5.1.6? He doesn't have it installed, he wants it installed. Ah, stupid me. Pet, PHP 5.1.6 is out of security support by upstream

Re: Old PHP on new Debian

2009-03-07 Thread Florian Weimer
* Pet: I'd like to install newest version of Debian available, but with one of older releases of PHP (5.1.6). Is it possible? How can I accomplish this? For a while, PHP 5.1.6 hasn't been available in a released Debian distribution. Could you post your /etc/apt/sources.list file? -- To

Re: Old PHP on new Debian

2009-03-07 Thread Florian Weimer
* Pet: /etc/apt/sources.list This looks fine. How did you figure out that you had installed PHP 5.1.6? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: ECC RAM failure data - jre

2009-02-26 Thread Florian Weimer
* john re: What rates do you have? Zero with appropriate cooling, more without it. I fully agree with Stefan's comment below. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Debian VPN

2009-02-04 Thread Florian Weimer
* Phillipus Gunawan: Is there any debian package offer such thing like that? A deb linux VPN server to serve wind0e$ client? OpenVPN is typically used for that. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: hard crash on leap second

2009-01-02 Thread Florian Weimer
* Travis Crump: I had a hard crash of my lenny system precisely when the leap second was added. While X has flaked in the past, I've never had a hard crash before. I have no other evidence they were related, but I wasn't doing anything unusual at the time. Any ideas? Do you run Oracle

Re: Tying debsecan Zabbix (or RT) together?

2008-12-14 Thread Florian Weimer
* Richard Hartmann: How are you handling this? Self-baked scripts to parse your daily mail? Are you doing it by hand? Not at all? What would be required for Zabbix integration? What kind of data does Zabbix need? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: Tying debsecan Zabbix (or RT) together?

2008-12-14 Thread Florian Weimer
* Richard Hartmann: What kind of data does Zabbix need? It can collect, and then trigger on, arbitrary data. In this case, it would probably make sense to collect CVE number, remote/local, the package in question, the version in question, the severity and if there is a fix available. The

Re: [Secure-testing-team] Re: announcing the beginning of security support for testing

2005-09-16 Thread Florian Weimer
* Jiann-Ming Su: On 9/9/05, Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: deb http://secure-testing.debian.net/debian-secure-testing etch/security-updates main contrib non-free How is this different from deb http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main? Is testing/updates actually used? I don't

Re: Do we still need libc5?

2005-09-03 Thread Florian Weimer
* Jeroen van Wolffelaar: Fact is though that libc6 has been in Debian stable for over 7 years, since hamm was releaed mid-1998, This suggests that we should give it three more years or something like that. However, if the packages aren't covered by security support anyway, it probably doesn't

Re: Noteedit, Finale, and testing

2004-08-27 Thread Florian Weimer
* Daniel Burrows: Okay. I avoided stating my personal opinion, but here it is: I think upstream is tired of the project and just using this as an excuse to shut it down. If you go to the webpage, it contains a single sentence stating that it is shut down due to a port of Finale, and a

Re: Cite for print-to-postscript exploit in Mozilla?

2004-07-12 Thread Florian Weimer
* Kevin B. McCarty: On 07/10/2004 12:18 PM, Florian Weimer wrote: 1.7 incorporates some other security fixes, apparently in the area of cross-domain scripting vulnerabilities. So you probably should upgrade anyway. Does anyone know if there is some reason these fixes haven't been

Re: Cite for print-to-postscript exploit in Mozilla?

2004-07-10 Thread Florian Weimer
* Kevin B. McCarty: I admit this last question is a bit rhetorical. My point is that, as sysadmin of a physics cluster running Debian/woody on which people frequently look at downloaded PS files anyway, I want to know whether it is really worth my time to upgrade Mozilla [currently running

Re: Mozilla/Firefox PostScript/default security problems

2004-07-10 Thread Florian Weimer
* Don Armstrong: Perhaps I've missed something, but everything that I've read in the threads so far amounts to people either assuming that there's an issue and not defining it, or attempting to figure out where the issue is. This summary is correct as far as I can see. No real security issue

Re: why must Debian call Taiwan a Province of China?

2004-04-06 Thread Florian Weimer
Miles Bader wrote: I'm not sure what this has to do with the original question, but the simplified chinese characters used in the PRC can look _very_ different from the traditional forms used in Taiwan (anyway, it's not accurate to say the difference is `close to bold-versus-normal'). It's

Re: Reading PGP with GPG

2002-04-01 Thread Florian Weimer
of softwarepatents, please visit the website | | http://www.noepatents.org | | The new URLs are: | | http://www.gnupg.dk/pub/contrib-dk/idea.c | http://www.gnupg.dk/pub/contrib-dk/idea.c.sig | | Thanks. -- Florian Weimer[EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Stuttgart http

GDB from unstable and GCC 3.1 (on x86)

2002-02-12 Thread Florian Weimer
GDB from unstable (x86) is unable to read debugging information generated by current GCC 3.1 CVS (using the -g) switch. Is this a known problem? Are there any workarounds? I thought that GDB 5.1 finally supported DWARF2, which is needed by more recent GCC versions. -- Florian Weimer

Re: egcs 1.1.2 for kernel compilation

2001-10-09 Thread Florian Weimer
Steve Kowalik [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: At 10:04 am, Tuesday, October 9 2001, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) mumbled: On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 12:36:27 +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: Has anybody packaged egcs 1.1.2 for kernel compilation? I did some work on it, but abandoned it as I've encountered

egcs 1.1.2 for kernel compilation

2001-10-08 Thread Florian Weimer
Has anybody packaged egcs 1.1.2 for kernel compilation? It's still the official compiler for the Linux kernel, and there are definitely problems when using GCC 2.95.x instead. -- Florian Weimer[EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Stuttgart http://cert.uni-stuttgart.de

Re: undelete for ext2

2001-08-05 Thread Florian Weimer
). -- Florian Weimer[EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Stuttgart http://cert.uni-stuttgart.de/ RUS-CERT +49-711-685-5973/fax +49-711-685-5898

Re: About PGP signatures

2001-05-31 Thread Florian Weimer
, and probably MS-Exchange-based solutions) cannot implement RFC 2015 since it's a MIME application. -- Florian Weimer[EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Stuttgart http://cert.uni-stuttgart.de/ RUS-CERT +49-711-685-5973/fax +49-711-685-5898

Upgrading from Debian 2.1 to unstable

2001-02-04 Thread Florian Weimer
The direct attempt (editing /etc/apt/sources.list, 'apt-get update') does not succeed, 'apt-get update' results in the following error messages: E: Line 97707 in package file /var/state/apt/lists/source.rfc822.org_debian_dists_sid_main_binary-i386_Packages is too long.(2) E: Line 97707 in

Re: Upgrading from Debian 2.1 to unstable

2001-02-04 Thread Florian Weimer
Tibor D. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Unfortunately, the apt packages in stable and unstable depend on glibc 2.1.x, resulting in a chicken-and-egg problem. Which is the easiest way to upgrade to unstable under this circumstances? Recompiling apt for glibc 2.0.7? Editing the Package file?

Re: instalation of 'potato'

2000-12-06 Thread Florian Weimer
CD (if you adjust your BIOS settings). No drivers are required for that. -- Florian Weimer[EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Stuttgart http://cert.uni-stuttgart.de/ RUS-CERT +49-711-685-5973/fax +49-711-685-5898

Re: latex question

2000-11-06 Thread Florian Weimer
could use scrlettr.cls? It supports putting some material at the bottom of the first page (and perhaps subsequent ones, I'm not sure about that). -- Florian Weimer[EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Stuttgart http://cert.uni-stuttgart.de/ RUS-CERT

Re: OT: gecko rendering engine and galeon/skipstone

2000-11-06 Thread Florian Weimer
of the OpenSSL library (BSD-style license *with* advertising clause), and code under the GPL and LGPL. In addition, the license doesn't permit you to change the start page URL. All in all, these terms seem quite incompatible to me. -- Florian Weimer[EMAIL PROTECTED] University