Re: How to find system configuration vulnerabilities; was: Thank you Debian

2024-02-21 Thread Timothy Butterworth
On February 21, 2024, at 4:08 PM, Michael Kjörling <2695bd53d...@ewoof.net> wrote: >On 21 Feb 2024 19:03 +, from an...@rodier.me (Andre Rodier): >> - What is the best approach to check if there is any vulnerability in the >> packages configuration ? >> - Is there any service that could

Re: PATH question

2023-11-11 Thread Timothy Butterworth
On November 11, 2023, at 11:16 PM, David wrote: >On Sat, 11 Nov 2023 at 18:42, Thomas George wrote: >> I downloaded the google-chrome deb file to /opt/ Why did you put the chrome.deb in /opt? You found have just kept it in your downloads folder. When you use apt to install the chrome.deb

Re: PATH question

2023-11-11 Thread Timothy Butterworth
On November 11, 2023, at 8:51 PM, Thomas George wrote: >I downloaded the google-chrome deb file to /opt/ >used dpkg to install the program. Use sudo apt install ./filename.deb you may need to run sudo apt update first. > >initial attempt failed, two lib files missing. >added the sbin

Re: Part II BIN=? AW: Anybody familiar with dd (copy)?

2023-11-11 Thread Timothy Butterworth
On November 11, 2023, at 5:54 PM, Pocket wrote: > > >On 11/11/23 17:42, Timothy Butterworth wrote: > >On November 11, 2023, at 5:21 PM, Schwibinger Michael wrote: > >> >> >>dd if=/dev/sr0 of=/tmp/dvd.bin bs=1M >> >>Good afternoon >> >&g

Re: Part II BIN=? AW: Anybody familiar with dd (copy)?

2023-11-11 Thread Timothy Butterworth
On November 11, 2023, at 5:21 PM, Schwibinger Michael wrote: > > >dd if=/dev/sr0 of=/tmp/dvd.bin bs=1M > >Good afternoon > >This did work > >Thank You. > >But now the bin. > >I did > >chmod +x dvd.bin > >./dvd.bin > >This did not work. Are you trying to copy a DVD movie? If so you should try

Re: netmask question

2023-05-22 Thread Timothy Butterworth
On May 22, 2023, at 8:08 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote: >On Tue, May 23, 2023 at 07:39:21AM +0800, Tom Reed wrote: >> For a given ipv4, if I know net addr and broadcast addr, how will I >> calculate the netmask? >I hope this is a theoretical question, because this is backwards. >Normally you would

Re: how to change default nameserver?

2023-04-09 Thread Timothy Butterworth
After you edit resolv.conf make the file immutable with chattr. Chattr +i makes immutable chattr -i removes immmutable. On April 9, 2023, at 4:51 AM, Christoph Brinkhaus wrote: Am Sun, Apr 09, 2023 at 04:20:49PM +0800 schrieb cor...@free.fr: > greetings, > > I know I can edit the entries in

Re: Strange application menus (File, Edit…) behaviour since last update

2023-03-09 Thread Timothy Butterworth
Try running apt fully upgrade On March 9, 2023, at 2:33 AM, Yvan Masson wrote: Le 09/03/2023 à 04:19, Vincent Lefevre a écrit : > On 2023-03-08 18:02:42 +0100, Yvan Masson wrote: >> Using testing with KDE, I have an issue since last update: for many QT >> applications and some GTK

Re: I am stuck with this while installing devian on my IMac early 2006

2022-05-29 Thread Timothy Butterworth
On May 29, 2022, at 2:30 PM, Nusrath Moin wrote: > > >Whenever i login after installing debian on my imac early 2006 it shows >"debian gnu/linux comes with absolutely no warranty, to the extent permitted >by applicable law" on some command screen and i am stuck what should i do >please tell