Re: Relative stability of Testing vs Unstable

My experience, solely as a user, has been that sometimes the unstable distribution breaks and you're hosed. I can't remember when I was last burned by running testing.

Re: Spam on Debian lists

Joel Rees writes: > On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 6:52 AM, Patrick Bartek wrote: >> On Thu, 20 Apr 2017 22:40:56 +0200 Jochen Spieker >> wrote: >> >>> fc: >>> > >>> > Actually -- does anyone monitor this list for this type of stuff?

Re: Spam on Debian lists

Patrick Bartek writes: > On Thu, 20 Apr 2017 22:40:56 +0200 Jochen Spieker > wrote: > >> fc: >> > >> > Actually -- does anyone monitor this list for this type of stuff? >> >> You have no idea *how much* spam is blocked by the work of the list >>

debugging TLS alert

I'm trying to use exim4 to send email to another site. My host connects, negotiates a TLS connection and sends what seems to be a reasonable amount of application data. I then get an encrypted alert from the other host, the connection shuts down, and the email doesn't get delivered. I don't get

Re: aptitude is dangerous - any replacement?

Vincent Lefevre writes: > On 2017-03-21 21:39:40 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: >> On 2017-03-21 21:19 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: >> > aptitude ignores the apt preferences. >> >> Huh? At least on my systems, it obeys them. > > Perhaps with your configuration. And this is

Re: aptitude is dangerous - any replacement?

Vincent Lefevre writes: > I've just noticed that aptitude upgraded packages from unstable to > experimental versions (just with 'U' from the UI) without any warning!!! > Again. > > Is there any replacement? Or a way to make aptitude ignore > experimental packages? > > Note: I

Re: A minimal relational database in Debian

Curt writes: > On 2017-03-03, GiaThnYgeia wrote: > >> I will top-post as it is meaningless to comment specifically. >> I do have 5 and have not used base since I don't know when, on this >> installation it was firsts. I am made fun of having large

Re: How to fix I/O errors?

David Christensen writes: > On 02/04/17 07:18, Ric Moore wrote: >> I'm looking at a Seagate 750 gig drive that went south on me with a pile >> of errors. Good luck getting Seagate to give a good gosh darn. In the >> past I have had mixed results replacing the drive

python time module

I'm starting to try to learn pythonOCC (a wrapper on the OpenCascade 3d modeling library) as an excuse to learn python itself, and am running into some problems right off the bat. (1) pythonOCC wants to be installed using a package manager called conda (see http://www.pythonocc.org/download/

Re: Why I can not install software on debian easily?

john cusey writes: > Why I can not download a .deb file, click it and it installs? > > I tried to install opera on Debian. Did you look at https://wiki.debian.org/Opera ?

Re: Python Alternatives?

Ben Finney writes: > Michael Milliman writes: > >> I currently have both Python 2.7 and Python 3.4 installed on my debain >> 8.5 (jessie) system. The default Python interpreter on the system is >> Python 2.7 (as linked by /usr/bin/python). > >

Re: parted is ALMOST suitable

Brian writes: > On Wed 09 Nov 2016 at 11:27:11 +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > >> On Wed, Nov 09, 2016 at 10:12:13AM +, Brian wrote: >> > >> > That gives "-bash: /dev/sda2: Permission denied" for me with a fixed >> > disk. It's the same for a removable disk. The

Re: parted is ALMOST suitable

Felipe Salvador writes: > On Mon, Nov 07, 2016 at 06:37:53AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: >> On 11/7/2016 6:20 AM, Felipe Salvador wrote: >> > On Mon, Nov 07, 2016 at 06:11:50AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: >> > > *HOWEVER* parted requires root privileges. That is not

Re: w3m stack smashing?

Reco <recovery...@gmail.com> writes: > Hi. > > On Sat, 05 Nov 2016 19:22:02 -0600 > Joe Pfeiffer <pfeif...@cs.nmsu.edu> wrote: > >> Recently, I've been getting email messages that look like this: >> >> *** stack smashing detected ***: /usr/bin/

w3m stack smashing?

Recently, I've been getting email messages that look like this: *** stack smashing detected ***: /usr/bin/w3m terminated === Backtrace: = /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(+0x70bcb)[0x7f03ee523bcb] /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(__fortify_fail+0x37)[0x7f03ee5ac0e7]

Re: kernel header for 4.6.0-1-686

Harry Putnam <rea...@newsguy.com> writes: > Joe Pfeiffer <pfeif...@cs.nmsu.edu> writes: >> >> Any particular reason you need that particular version? Could you >> upgrade your virtualbox VM to a different kernel and use the headers >> for that kernel

Re: kernel header for 4.6.0-1-686

Harry Putnam writes: > Juanjo Benages writes: > >> El 25/10/16 a las 19:48, Harry Putnam escribió: >>> Where can I get the kernel headers for my kernel 4.6.0-1-686? >>> >>> apt-get does not show that version. >>> >>> Googling for awhile here and not

Re: url redirected in chrome/chromium, but working fine, according to ping/traceroute, lynx, w3m, iceweasel.

Richard Hector writes: > > It appears that Montenegro only came into existence (most recently) in > 2006 - it was part of Yugoslavia, then 'Serbia and Montenegro'. So all > the 'good' codes were presumably taken. I'd imagine .me would, like .tv (Tuvalo) be one that a small

Re: A psgmlx that plays nice with emacs24?

Johann Spies writes: > On 27 September 2016 at 23:34, Tony Baldwin > wrote: > > > > > Emacs?! People still use the crusty old thing? > Perhaps he consider dumping that monstrosity and joining the rest > of us in the 21st

Re: Network issue........

Charlie writes: > Hello Debian Users, > > I have a network issue that I find perplexing: > > When I do: # netstat -r -n > > or > > # route > > Kernel IP routing table > Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt Iface > 0.0.0.0 10.80.2.85 0.0.0.0

Re: laptop power management

Nicolas George <geo...@nsup.org> writes: > Le quintidi 25 fructidor, an CCXXIV, Joe Pfeiffer a écrit : >> I'm using an old 32 bit laptop (Samsung N120) running Debian testing; up >> until recently I've been able to configure it so when I close the lid it >> turns

laptop power management

I'm using an old 32 bit laptop (Samsung N120) running Debian testing; up until recently I've been able to configure it so when I close the lid it turns off the screen, but leaves the laptop running. With a recent update (possibly this morning, but I couldn't swear to it) I'm not able to do this

Re: mount MTP phone

Ivan Petrov <ip...@yandex.ru> writes: > 06.09.2016 22:19, Joe Pfeiffer пишет: >> Curt Howland <howl...@priss.com> writes: >> >>> I've never been able to mount any MTP phone to Linux. Different >>> phones, different Android versions, different Linux

Re: mount MTP phone

Tony Baldwin writes: > On 09/04/2016 09:22 PM, Carl Fink wrote: >> On 09/04/2016 09:13 PM, Tony Baldwin wrote: >>> I'm at a loss, friends: >>> I have a phone (Motorola Droid Turbo), which functions as an MTP >>> device, and auto-mounts on Win7, but not on Debian 8. >>>

Re: mount MTP phone

Curt Howland writes: > I've never been able to mount any MTP phone to Linux. Different > phones, different Android versions, different Linux installations, > nada. I've only been able to do it using jmtpfs (I don't have it set up to automount using that). -- "Erwin, have

Re: Resolved: mount MTP phone

Anthony Baldwin writes: > Sorry for top-posting. > Iḿ no t even sure what it was that DID solve this but the phone is now > mounting at mtp://[usb:005,012]/ > Must have something to do with installing the jmtpfs pkg, > because that's the only thing I can think of that I

Re: Advice on downloading software please

Brian writes: > On Sat 27 Aug 2016 at 09:15:50 -0500, limpia wrote: > >> On 2016-08-27 08:55, Steve Greig wrote: >> >I would like to download a programme (opencpn) onto my laptop which is >> >running debian. It is so long since I have done this I can not >> >remember how to

Re: Any idea when CVE-2016-5696 is going to get fixed?

"John T. Haggerty" writes: > On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 9:11 PM, Perry E. Metzger > wrote: > >On Fri, 26 Aug 2016 21:06:15 +0200 Frederic Marchal > wrote: > > > The download must be long > > enough (more

Re: epub files and debian?

Ben Finney writes: > Dan Ritter writes: > >> evince cannot handle epub at all. Your statement about "many epub >> files don't open correctly in evince" should read "no epub files are >> opened by evince". > > Bah, you're right. This is a

Re: Terminal

Темир Урокбаев writes: > Hello. Tell me, is there a > comprehensive list of terminal > commands, and where to find it > or download. Others have given good information; I'll just add that there can't be a comprehensive list: in addition to the built-in shell commands and the

Re: ThinkPad fan

Francesco Montanari writes: > Hi, > > I recently installed Jessie on a Lenovo ThinkPad T420. The fan usage > looks reasonable. However, high temperatures (96 C) are reached when > CPUs are running intensively for more than one minute or so. The fan > speed at those

Re: Big dummy at work again

cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz writes: > On Sat, Jun 11, 2016 at 10:04:27PM -0500, David Wright wrote: >> On Sat 11 Jun 2016 at 20:49:27 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: >> > On Saturday 11 June 2016 17:35:11 Lisi Reisz wrote: >> >> > > No, Gene. All created because you didn't trust the package

Re: pam_smbpass.so

Sven Hartge <s...@svenhartge.de> writes: > Joe Pfeiffer <pfeif...@cs.nmsu.edu> wrote: > >> I'm seeing a large number of entries in my /var/log/syslog that look >> like this: > >> Feb 16 09:07:31 snowball auth: PAM unable to dlopen(pam_smbpass.so): >&

Re: pam_smbpass.so

Christian Seiler <christ...@iwakd.de> writes: > Hi, > > On 02/17/2016 05:11 PM, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: >> Christian Seiler writes: >>> [Suggesting journalctl -o verbose to debug this] >> I'm running a current Debian testing installation, and journal is >&

pam_smbpass.so

I'm seeing a large number of entries in my /var/log/syslog that look like this: Feb 16 09:07:31 snowball auth: PAM unable to dlopen(pam_smbpass.so): /lib/security/pam_smbpass.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Feb 16 09:07:31 snowball auth: PAM adding faulty module:

Re: Meta key for 'emacs -nw'

Bob Bernstein writes: > On Tue, 2 Feb 2016, Lisi Reisz wrote: > >> :-) "There are no dumb questions. Only dumb answers." > > Okay. Here's one -- I was going to post it in gnu.emacs.help, but you > changed my mind! Emacs running in X honors Alt as its Meta key. But if

Re: RIP and Thank You.

Martinx - ジェームズ writes: > Rest in Peace Ian! > > I wanna know exactly what happened with him. > > On 30 December 2015 at 20:44, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/12/30/ian_murdock_debian_founder/ Yes. The story as

Re: grub2 security problem

Michael Fothergill writes: > Dear Folks, > > I noticed some articles suggesting that there is a security problem in > grub2. > > E.g. > > http://thehackernews.com/2015/12/hack-linux-grub-password.html > > ​Is there any substance to this? Yes, for the

Re: command not found

Bob Holtzman writes: > Running Wheezy (7.9) on a reinstall after launching Jessie thru a wall. > Reinstalled all my s/w including msmtp and fetchmail. I brought > .fetchmailrc over from my backup as well as .msmtprc. Both had been > working flawlessly on the previous install. Now

Re: Slow Display of Graphics in Chrome

moxalt writes: > On Fri, 27 Nov 2015 19:32:25 +, Alan Chandler > wrote: > >> Just recently, I notice a sudden slowing down of the display of areas of >> the screen in Chrome when it fully maximised ( but still with toolbar >> etc on display)

Deleting i386 packages

For historical reasons, my x86-64 architecture computers have a large number of i386 packages on them that I'd just as soon be rid of. is there a good way to simply tell a package manager that I want everything involving that architecture deleted? The best answer I've found on my own has been to

Re: Coder friendly font Anonymous Pro (ttf-anonymous-pro)

David Wright <deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk> writes: > Quoting Joe Pfeiffer (pfeif...@cs.nmsu.edu): >> Looks interesting -- I've been using Terminus for quite a while -- it's >> another fixed-width programmer-friendly font, Comparing it with >> Anonymous Pro, it seems a b

Re: Coder friendly font Anonymous Pro (ttf-anonymous-pro)

Cindy-Sue Causey writes: > One more then I hear my bird feeders calling. Couple days ago I was > trying to find a pirate friendly font via an "apt-cache search" > inquiry. No pirates (that weren't part of a *2GB* package, yar!), > but stumbled on a font called

Re: Coder friendly font

rlhar...@oplink.net writes: > On Mon, September 21, 2015 11:33 am, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: >> a font called "Anonymous Pro" that is billed as a "fixed width sans serif >> font designed for coders". >> Further description is: "Anonymous Pro (2009) is a family of four >> fixed-width fonts designed

Re: pulseaudio module to mute other sources?

rlhar...@oplink.net writes: On Wed, August 12, 2015 9:46 pm, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: Is there a pulseaudio module that will detect when an audio source isn't silent, and mute other sources in that cases? It does not directly address your need, but I think that pulseaudiovolumecontrol

Re: pulseaudio module to mute other sources?

rlhar...@oplink.net writes: On Wed, August 12, 2015 10:22 pm, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: On Wed, August 12, 2015 9:46 pm, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: ... Is there a pulseaudio module that will detect when an audio source isn't silent, and mute other sources in that cases? ... In the realm

Re: pulseaudio module to mute other sources?

doug dmcgarr...@optonline.net writes: On 08/12/2015 10:46 PM, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: I'm reasonably confident there must be a better place to post this than this newsgroup, so answers telling me where to look will be just as welcome as any that address the question! I'm a Debian user, so

Re: pulseaudio module to mute other sources?

Ralph Katz ralph.k...@rcn.com writes: On 08/12/2015 10:46 PM, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: I'm reasonably confident there must be a better place to post this than this newsgroup, so answers telling me where to look will be just as welcome as any that address the question! I'm a Debian user, so

pulseaudio module to mute other sources?

I'm reasonably confident there must be a better place to post this than this newsgroup, so answers telling me where to look will be just as welcome as any that address the question! I'm a Debian user, so this is where I'm trying first Is there a pulseaudio module that will detect when an

Re: CPU overheating then shutting down while encoding video with ffmpeg

Chris Bannister cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz writes: On Sun, Jul 19, 2015 at 10:17:31AM -1000, Joel Roth wrote: In addition, you could put your laptop up on some blocks, so the airflow is better, or use an external fan or vaccuum cleaner to help. I'd be a bit hesitant to recommend to use a

Re: CPU overheating then shutting down while encoding video with ffmpeg

I'll echo the advice on cleaning the fan(s), air vents, and any ducts. I've seen laptops which have been used in enviroments like sitting on a blanket which whose vents have become completely blocked. Also, of course, make sure the fans are actually turning, and haven't failed! I'll also echo

Re: IP address

John J. Boyer john.bo...@abilitiessoft.org writes: None of these solutions work. ifconfig is not available on Jessie. ip seems to be inapropriate. dig produces nothing. I have used ifconfig on other distros. John On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 05:41:27PM +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: * John

Re: IP address

John J. Boyer john.bo...@abilitiessoft.org writes: Why isn't ifconfig available on Jessie? There id no package. The command produces an error message that it has not been found. John On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 01:44:35PM -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote: John J. Boyer wrote: I have Jessie set up

Re: IP address

Patrick Wiseman pwise...@gmail.com writes: On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 2:25 PM, John J. Boyer john.bo...@abilitiessoft.org wrote: I have net-tools. ifconfig works only for root. WHY? On other distros ordinary users can use it. You haven't been listening to what others have been telling you.

Re: YAGF is a seriously screwed package

Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI ren...@olgiati-in-paraguay.org writes: On Fri, 10 Jul 2015 11:15:17 -0400 The Wanderer wande...@fastmail.fm wrote: If you substitute in madams for mesdames (since, AFAIK, mesdames is just the French equivalent of the same word), it makes more sense. remember that madam

Re: Foolproof disk device name in fstab

andmalc andm...@gmail.com writes: I have a Jessie VPS with external disks attached. The disks are specified in /etc/fstab with traditional /dev/sdXX naming. I recently made changes to the disks that made a device name invalid but didn't notice. When I rebooted, the disk couldn't be found

Re: remove me from this list

Talitha Thalya ravencoun...@gmail.com writes: My name was never meant to show up on a google search like this linked to Debian. and dated back in 2001 Not Ok it was meant to go to the cause. this is a misuse of trust. please remove me. name stated in this email address. Thanks Taliban

Re: FW: Time for compassion and the Init GR

Jerry Stuckle jstuc...@attglobal.net writes: The tone is subtle, and not necessarily something a native English speaker would see. But I see it there. Are you seriously claiming that a non-native speaker would be likelier to pick up on subtle, and quite possibly subconcious, cues than a

Re: Joey Hess is out?

Carl ca...@panix.com writes: Really? I may have unthinkingly assumed everyone reading was a native speaker is American English. In my dialect, out means openly homosexual far more often than quitting. The joke had nothing to do with Mr. Hess and everything to do with mocking my own first

Re: umask has no man page?

Carl Fink c...@finknetwork.com writes: When I wanted the options for umask, I typed 'man umask' and got the man page for it as a C header diretive? (I'm not a C programmer, but it seemed to be for C header files and came from section 2.) This is darn confusing for a new user. I have been

Re: apache2 what is the standard way to enable modules?

Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com writes: googling to learn how to enable modules in apache2-2.4.10-1+b1 I'm getting a little too much input to really see what to do. what is the name of cgi module? That would be very useful for the `a2enmod' cmd. And for something real simple like making

Re: since demise of encfs what to use for encrypting dir

B lazyvi...@gmx.com writes: On Sat, 02 Aug 2014 18:10:10 -0600 Joe Pfeiffer pfeif...@cs.nmsu.edu wrote: Do you have more information on encfs being declared a security hazard? Your post is the first I've heard of it. http://defuse.ca/audits/encfs.htm (You'll note that dangerous

Re: since demise of encfs what to use for encrypting dir

Harry Putnam wrote: I guess encfs and its companion on windows of truecrypt have been declared serious security hazards... encfs is not even available .. at least in jessie repos. What are people using as a replacement? Hopefully something as easy to use and encfs was. Do you have more

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

Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com writes: Note: I'd probably have the same problem with nvidia-driver, but my aptitude is not suggesting removals as first option anymore due to: // tweak Aptitude to not suggest removals as first option Aptitude::ProblemResolver::SolutionCost removals;

Re: android connection

Esther Carillo ecarillo1...@gmail.com writes: On 2014-07-12, François Patte francois.pa...@mi.parisdescartes.fr wrote: I don't know anything to android but I have to connect an android device to a computer. I run a smbd server on my desktop and ES File Explorer app on my phone. Scanning my

Re: simple database solution without root access

Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com writes: 2014/07/07 5:08 Nuno Magalhães nunomagalh...@eu.ipp.pt: On Sun, Jul 6, 2014 at 9:03 PM, kamaraju kusumanchi raju.mailingli...@gmail.com wrote: I am still exploring all the suggestions given by others. But SQLite looks very promising. There is a Perl

Re: simple database solution without root access

Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com writes: 2014/07/07 10:39 Joe Pfeiffer pfeif...@cs.nmsu.edu: Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com writes: 2014/07/07 5:08 Nuno Magalhães nunomagalh...@eu.ipp.pt: On Sun, Jul 6, 2014 at 9:03 PM, kamaraju kusumanchi raju.mailingli...@gmail.com wrote: I am still

Re: simple database solution without root access

Joel Rees writes: 2014/07/07 10:39 Joe Pfeiffer pfeif...@cs.nmsu.edu: Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com writes: 2014/07/07 5:08 Nuno Magalhães nunomagalh...@eu.ipp.pt: On Sun, Jul 6, 2014 at 9:03 PM, kamaraju kusumanchi raju.mailingli...@gmail.com wrote: I am still exploring all

Re: preferred overlay/union filesystem?

Chris Angelico ros...@gmail.com writes: On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 3:21 PM, Kushal Kumaran kushal.kumaran+deb...@gmail.com wrote: Chris Angelico ros...@gmail.com writes: On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 5:47 AM, Joe Pfeiffer pfeif...@cs.nmsu.edu wrote: Well, I don't want to keep two separate files

Re: preferred overlay/union filesystem?

Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com writes: On Tue, 27 May 2014 11:27:56 +0530 Kushal Kumaran kushal.kumaran+deb...@gmail.com wrote: Joe Pfeiffer pfeif...@cs.nmsu.edu writes: First, here's what I'm trying to do: I'm using encfs to give myself an encrypted home directory, and I'm

preferred overlay/union filesystem?

First, here's what I'm trying to do: I'm using encfs to give myself an encrypted home directory, and I'm successfully mounting it automatically using pam_mount when I log in. My email is processed by a .procmailrc file in my home directory, and I'm passing the email through bogofilter. So, at

Re: 'box' as noun, was: wireless can DHCP but not DNS?

Tom Roche tom_ro...@pobox.com writes: Lisi Reisz Fri, 23 May 2014 17:10:49 +0100 box is a verb, so I found it confusing. You are indeed confused. As a native speaker of English, I can assure you, 'box' is both noun and verb. Also, having been in computing in the US for decades, I can assure

Re: Systemd

Ralf Mardorf info.mard...@rocketmail.com writes: On Fri, 2014-04-25 at 21:49 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Fri, 2014-04-25 at 15:12 -0400, Steve Litt wrote: Kinda seems like the (de) evolution of cars, doesn't it? As a kid, I could tune up my beater flat head 6 1959 Plymouth in 20 minutes

Re: Systemd

staticsafe m...@staticsafe.ca writes: On 4/24/2014 19:15, latin...@vcn.bc.ca wrote: Hello list: Have you read this stupid things? http://boycottsystemd.org/ https://igurublog.wordpress.com/2014/04/03/tso-and-linus-and-the-impotent-rage-against-systemd/ What a waste of bits indeed. But

Re: Source.list URL

ray r...@aarden.us writes: Marc, Thank you for your efforts. I tried it again and reached http://debian.uchicago.edu/debian/ which seems like the URL in source.list is just a relay. ray One small note -- it would be helpful to include a little bit of context in your messages (like I

Re: Source.list URL

ray r...@aarden.us writes: The URL in the default source.list doesn't seem correct: /etc/apt/sources.list - deb http://http.debian.net/debian/ wheezy main contrib non-free The above path is to a directory with other folders. But Wheezy is a subdirectory of dists, not debian. So it

Re: clean upgrade 32 - 64?

Darac Marjal mailingl...@darac.org.uk writes: On Mon, Mar 03, 2014 at 05:08:37PM -0700, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: I'm about to replace one of my old 32-bit x86 Debian boxes with a 64-bit; I'll actually just be moving the disk drives out of the old box into the new one and doing any minor

clean upgrade 32 - 64?

I'm about to replace one of my old 32-bit x86 Debian boxes with a 64-bit; I'll actually just be moving the disk drives out of the old box into the new one and doing any minor configuration changes that'll be neede (which will be very minor). So, while I'm at it, I'm curious -- is there any clean

Re: Netflix on Sid, no wine.

Hugo Vanwoerkom hvw59...@care2.com writes: Hi, A few days ago Google News carried this: http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/easily-enable-silverlight-watch-netflix-linux/ I tried it and it works as advertized, an easy installation and Netflix works. IMO the latter is overrated: mostly old hat

Re: Determine IP Adrress from MAC Address

Muntasim-Ul-Haque tranjees...@inventati.org writes: Hi, How can I determine the IP address if I already have the MAC address or Hardware Address? What is the most convenient way? -Muntasim Ul Haque The fact that you already have the MAC address doesn't matter in finding out your IP address.

Re: Determine IP Adrress from MAC Address

Joe Pfeiffer pfeif...@cs.nmsu.edu writes: Muntasim-Ul-Haque tranjees...@inventati.org writes: Hi, How can I determine the IP address if I already have the MAC address or Hardware Address? What is the most convenient way? -Muntasim Ul Haque The fact that you already have the MAC address

Re: GPT + RAID + boot

Sven Hartge s...@svenhartge.de writes: PaulNM deb...@paulscrap.com writes: snip Thank you both for your help -- your suggestions were exactly what I needed (I delayed responding until I was confident I had everything working). I'm puzzled as to why parted refers to these partition types as

GPT + RAID + boot

My goal here is to be able to have a bootable, running system in the event of a disk failure. I've been running two disks in a RAID-1 configuration, with grub installed on both disks, for some time. My /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf is essentially empty, as mdadm has been successfully finding my RAID

Re: MIT discovered issue with gcc

Robert Baron robertbartlettba...@gmail.com writes: Aren't many of the  constructs used as examples in the paper are commonly used in c programming.  For example it is very common to see a function that has a pointer as a parameter defined as: int func(void *ptr)     {     if(!ptr) return

Re: MIT discovered issue with gcc

Robert Baron robertbartlettba...@gmail.com writes: Second question: Doesn't memcpy allow for overlapping memory, but strcpy does not?  Isn't this why memcpy is preferred over strcpy? According to the man page for memcpy, The memory areas must not overlap. Use memmove(3) if the memory

Re: sudo and UNIXes

Curt cu...@free.fr writes: On 2013-11-02, Joe Pfeiffer pfeif...@cs.nmsu.edu wrote: Again -- isn't basically equivalent to giving everyone uid=0. Permits someone who *has* sudo access to avoid retyping a password. Not only that. Permits someone who already has sudo access to continue

Re: sudo and UNIXes

Reco recovery...@gmail.com writes: Hi. On Sat, 2 Nov 2013 11:46:48 -0500 Cybe R. Wizard cybe_r_wiz...@earthlink.net wrote: How about this bug: http://www.sudo.ws/sudo/alerts/sudo_debug.html Impact: Successful exploitation of the bug will allow a user to run arbitrary commands

Re: sudo and UNIXes

Reco recovery...@gmail.com writes: On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 10:19:43AM -0600, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: Reco recovery...@gmail.com writes: You also have to add to the picture such a vulnerability, and I haven't noticed any. If we're speaking of public vulnerabilities: CVE-2010-0427

Re: sudo and UNIXes

Reco recovery...@gmail.com writes: On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 09:28:51PM -0600, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: Reco recovery...@gmail.com writes: True, you need to add to the picture that curious user who just read on Bugtraq or Full Disclosure about fresh vulnerability in sudo. Or that disgruntled

Re: sudo and UNIXes

Reco recovery...@gmail.com writes: Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 9:16 PM, Reco recovery...@gmail.com wrote: Considering that primary usage of sudo is to provide controlled privilege escalation to uid=0, using unsupported (therefore - not updated unless local

Re: endianness (was Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude))

Jonathan Dowland j...@debian.org writes: On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 05:29:33PM +0200, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Speaking about endianness, it really is hard to manage: void myfunction( ... ) { #ifdef BIG_ENDIAN move_bytes_in_a_specific_order #else

Re: Printer brand recommendations

Doug dmcgarr...@optonline.net writes: On 09/09/2013 06:16 PM, David Christensen wrote: On 09/09/13 14:42, ken wrote: I've used Epson with success, but won't another one. The cost of the cartridges is so high, it's like I'm buying the printer over and over again every year. HP cartridges

Re: please read i am not getting satisfaction from mytablet l got it in april i dont download anything on it and it is slow take long to load so what should i do please tell me thank you.

phillip johnson jamaicabarne...@gmail.com writes: silence When your subject line is three lines long (on my display, anyway) maybe you should move it to the body of your post. When the body of your post is empty, you should *definitely* move something in there. Does your table run Debian Linux?

Re: strange bash behavior

William Hopkins we.hopk...@gmail.com writes: On 09/03/13 at 03:45pm, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: Stephen Powell zlinux...@wowway.com writes: Interesting. If break appears out of context, you should get an error message something like: bash: break: only meaningful in a 'for', 'while

Re: strange bash behavior

David Guntner da...@guntner.com writes: Darac Marjal grabbed a keyboard and wrote: On Mon, Sep 02, 2013 at 08:06:17AM -0700, David Guntner wrote: Matej Kosik grabbed a keyboard and wrote: Hello, This morning I have been puzzled by bash. After typing the following command: for i in

Re: strange bash behavior

Stephen Powell zlinux...@wowway.com writes: Interesting. If break appears out of context, you should get an error message something like: bash: break: only meaningful in a 'for', 'while', or 'until' loop You didn't get an error message, so part of bash thinks it is in context. Yet it

Re: Thanks

Thod Motte tmo...@mail.com writes: Thanks to debian and Gnome 3 for making my desktop as buggy and unstable as Windows 95 was in 1997 and less customizable. I'm just going to revert to squeeze, that desktop actually worked. Another vote for xfce. I switched to it quite a while ago, and

Re: How to get rid of an entry in grub?

David Guntner da...@guntner.com writes: Hugo Vanwoerkom grabbed a keyboard and wrote: David Guntner wrote: Hmmm. I wonder if the MBR for the drive sill has a loader on it, even though I removed all partitions and repartitioned it? Is there a utility out there that can wipe the MBR of a

Re: How to get rid of an entry in grub?

David Guntner da...@guntner.com writes: Joe Pfeiffer grabbed a keyboard and wrote: David Guntner da...@guntner.com writes: Hugo Vanwoerkom grabbed a keyboard and wrote: David Guntner wrote: Hmmm. I wonder if the MBR for the drive sill has a loader on it, even though I removed all

Re: Moved MAC addresses

M.Atıf CEYLAN meh...@atifceylan.com writes: On 07/25/2013 03:14 AM, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: You haven't said a lot about your topology; are both interfaces visible to the firewall through whatever series of switches you might have? Yes Actually, that pretty much has to be the case, otherwise

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