mouse wheel spurious events (too sensitive) with evdev

The wheel of my new mouse is very sensitive: when I click on it (middle button), it also often generates a scroll event (button 4 or 5). This is also sometimes the case when I'm just touching the wheel. How can I prevent these events from occurring? For instance, the driver could start generating

Re: file/directory name usage under /

On 2013-08-24 23:20:39 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > Bob Proulx wrote: > > > Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > > > Is it OK that anyone who has a write access in this directory can > > > > become root on the machine? > > >

Re: file/directory name usage under /

On 2013-08-24 18:51:09 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > Is it OK that anyone who has a write access in this directory can > > become root on the machine? > > That question is ambiguous. Do you mean that someone who can write to > /foo can use that t

file/directory name usage under /

Consider some arbitrary name under /, say "/foo", which doesn't exist on your system and which is non-standard (not part of the FHS). It may belong to some Debian packages, but you don't intend to ever install such packages. The question is: is such a name free for any use? e.g. create a directory

[Solved] Ethernet suddenly limited to 100 Mbps

On 2013-08-18 19:13:12 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > But it is negotiating a 100Mb/s connection. Your card thinks the > other end can only do 100. It is just as Stan said. There is likely > a problem with your connector, cable, or the device at the other end. > > Do you have another GigE network d

Re: Ethernet suddenly limited to 100 Mbps

On 2013-08-18 15:55:20 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > I think it would be useful to double check the settings using ethtool > to dump the current values. Maybe there will be a clue in your > output. Here is an example from my machine. I get the following: xvii:~> ethtool eth0 Settings for eth0:

Re: Ethernet suddenly limited to 100 Mbps

On 2013-08-18 12:25:59 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 8/18/2013 10:31 AM, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > On my laptop, Ethernet has been limited to 100 Mbps for a few days. > > Nothing changed on the network side. Just a few upgrades on the laptop > > (Debian/unstable). Any expl

Ethernet suddenly limited to 100 Mbps

On my laptop, Ethernet has been limited to 100 Mbps for a few days. Nothing changed on the network side. Just a few upgrades on the laptop (Debian/unstable). Any explanation? xvii:~> zgrep e1000e: /var/log/{kern.log.4.gz,kern.log.3.gz,kern.log.2.gz,kern.log.1,kern.log} /var/log/kern.log.4.gz:Jul

Re: Dotfiles

On 2013-07-03 00:43:39 +, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Tue, 02 Jul 2013 19:02:08 -0400, shawn wilson wrote: > > > Y'all are really taking all of the fun out of this. > > > > Here's the point - this is an exercise. There is no good reason to do > > this. What, you've got a 10 meg disk that is at 9

Re: Sid wants to remove lots of packages

On 2013-06-05 07:46:54 -0500, John Hasler wrote: > Andrei writes: > > Not necessarily. The package being installed might conflict with them > > (for good reasons) and aptitude doesn't always suggest the option with > > fewer removals. > > In that case Aptitude would be stating that it proposed to

Re: Sid wants to remove lots of packages

On 2013-06-04 09:56:15 +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > If I try to install any package I see a list of some 80 packages which ^^^ > were automatically installed and are no longer required. The list > includes apt, grub-pc-bin, and grub2-common. How? aptitude often wa

Re: telling apt-get not to remove potentially useful packages?

On 2013-06-02 20:10:43 +0200, Erwan David wrote: > You may get a look at the changelog/News before installing by using > apt-listchanges package configured to show both news and changelog > and using it in a pager, which allows to type Ctrl-c and abort the > upgrade process. But the whole packages

Re: telling apt-get not to remove potentially useful packages?

On 2013-06-03 04:39:08 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Sun, Jun 02, 2013 at 05:24:57PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > What I was wondering initially was: is libapache2-svn still needed > > (in which case I should wait for a new version) or are its features > > int

Re: Dangerously high Load_Cycle_Count on my Thinkpad T61 Hitachi drive

On 2013-06-02 11:04:07 -0400, Celejar wrote: > Hi, > > Prompted by another thread on this list, I decided to check my drive's > Load_Cycle_Count, and it seems that my drive is living on borrowed time: > > 193 Load_Cycle_Count0x0012 031 031 000Old_age Always > - 69

Re: telling apt-get not to remove potentially useful packages?

On 2013-06-02 23:28:22 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Sun, Jun 02, 2013 at 01:12:46AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > On 2013-06-02 07:08:53 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > > > On Sat, Jun 01, 2013 at 03:16:32PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > > > How can I

Re: telling apt-get not to remove potentially useful packages?

On 2013-06-02 07:08:53 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Sat, Jun 01, 2013 at 03:16:32PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > How can I tell apt-get not to break the system by removing > > potentially useful packages? > > By using "apt-get upgrade" instead of "a

telling apt-get not to remove potentially useful packages?

How can I tell apt-get not to break the system by removing potentially useful packages? Note: removing packages like orphaned libraries or packages whose features are provided by other installed packages (e.g. due to rename or merge) is fine. -- Vincent Lefèvre - Web: 1

Re: Why does my ssh session terminate immediately?

On 2013-04-28 21:43:19 +0200, Andreas Leha wrote: > I have no file '/var/log/messages' Is there anything interesting in other log files? > PS: I'd still be grateful for more pointers Try a newer kernel (say, 3.9)? Try screen on the remote side: ssh -t root@192.168.2.109 screen The c

Re: Why does my ssh session terminate immediately?

On 2013-04-24 23:19:19 +0200, Andreas Leha wrote: > So it says 'disconnected by user'? I might mention, that can login to > (all) other machines with that client without problems. It can be a bug on the remote side thinking that. I don't have any other idea... -- Vincent Lefèvre - Web:

Re: Why does my ssh session terminate immediately?

On 2013-04-24 23:38:06 +0200, Andreas Leha wrote: > Vincent Lefevre writes: > > On 2013-04-24 05:03:53 +0200, Andreas Leha wrote: > >> Vincent Lefevre writes: > >> >> BTW, does "ssh -t localhost" work on both machines? > >> > >> I

Re: Why does my ssh session terminate immediately?

On 2013-04-24 05:03:53 +0200, Andreas Leha wrote: > Vincent Lefevre writes: > >> BTW, does "ssh -t localhost" work on both machines? > > I am not sure. On the 'client' it does. On the 'server' I get this: > , > | > ssh root@192.168

Re: Why does my ssh session terminate immediately?

On 2013-04-24 00:24:16 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2013-04-23 23:05:27 +0200, Andreas Leha wrote: > > Here is what I get: > > , > > | > ssh -t root@192.168.2.109 bash > > | Connection to 192.168.2.109 closed. > > ` > > So, it seems that t

Re: Why does my ssh session terminate immediately?

On 2013-04-23 23:05:27 +0200, Andreas Leha wrote: > Vincent Lefevre writes: > > > On 2013-04-22 22:49:23 +0200, Andreas Leha wrote: > >> thanks for that. Here is what I get: > >> , > >> | + '[' -z '' ']' > >> | +

Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?

On 2013-04-23 07:57:11 +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 22 Apr 2013, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > > > > It would be nice if you could trim that to one line. > > > > > >>> [snip] > > > > Yes, it would, but I use Yahoo mail for this list, and that is Yahoo's > > reply header.  I cannot have my

Re: Why does my ssh session terminate immediately?

On 2013-04-22 22:49:23 +0200, Andreas Leha wrote: > thanks for that. Here is what I get: > , > | + '[' -z '' ']' > | + return > | Connection to 192.168.2.109 closed. > ` You said earlier: > (I can, for instance, run a crippled bash with 'ssh root@192.168.2.109 bash') So, perhaps that's

Re: Why does my ssh session terminate immediately?

On 2013-04-22 17:27:26 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > An additional hint: If you are logged out immediately you can still > use sftp to transfer files. Or run a command (e.g. mv) via ssh, since the OP said he could do that. -- Vincent Lefèvre - Web: 100% accessible validat

Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?

On 2013-04-21 22:52:39 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Sunday 21 April 2013 17:03:18 Chris Bannister wrote: > > Using dist-upgrade can > > remove half your sysytem before you can say OMG! > > I use aptitude not apt-get, so cannot comment on apt-get, but the > "aptitude full-upgrade" command does not

Re: what's your Debian uptime?

On 2013-04-20 19:24:00 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > That's theory. In practice, old machines get no longer supported... > > I submitted a bug report (and a patch), but AFAIK the bug has never > > been fixed. I upgraded everything except the kernel

Re: Image viewer with geotagging support

On 2013-04-20 12:40:56 -0300, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > I'm looking for an image viewer that can read the geotagging information > from EXIF and display where the pictures were taken in a map, and > perhaps have the ability to edit that information (but I can live > without that). > > digiKam

Re: what's your Debian uptime?

On 2013-04-18 10:56:53 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > I don't think uptime challenges are useful. It makes people want to > do something that they shouldn't want to do. When kernel security > upgrades come along just install them and reboot. That's theory. In practice, old machines get no longer sup

Re: what's your Debian uptime?

On 2013-04-17 17:22:32 +1030, John Elliot wrote: > $ uptime 16:51:12 up 1136 days, 17:01, 1 user, load average: 0.22, 0.12, > 0.08 I got on 2012-11-01: 10:48:16 up 1150 days, 8:00, 1 user, load average: 0.83, 0.69, 0.31 But then there was a disk failure and the machine is no longer worki

Re: tar -> unresponsive machine

On 2013-02-28 16:39:23 +, Claudius Hubig wrote: > IOW, some more information on your setup (disk type, output of free > -m etc) might be helpful. I could reproduce the problem when Firefox was running. Here are two outputs of "free -m" while tar was running: ypig:~> free -m tota

Re: Keyboard remapping

On 2013-03-01 14:49:09 +1100, Daniel Dalton wrote: > On Fri, Mar 01, 2013 at 03:38:23AM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > On 2013-03-01 12:07:07 +1100, Daniel Dalton wrote: > > > I've ran showkeys and found that the fn key has a key code. > > > > > > How

Re: Keyboard remapping

On 2013-03-01 12:07:07 +1100, Daniel Dalton wrote: > On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 07:36:24PM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > /lib/udev/keymap is probably better, though it is buggy. > > Ok, so I haven't made any changes in there yet. > > I've ran showkeys and found

Re: tar -> unresponsive machine

Dear Claudius, On 2013-02-28 16:39:23 +, Claudius Hubig wrote: > Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > the whole machine becomes unresponsive, e.g. several dozens of seconds > > to do some operation (e.g. starting an xterm, or making Firefox react)? > > Depending on the IO priori

Re: Keyboard remapping

On 2013-02-28 14:21:30 +, Harvey Kelly wrote: > > On Thu, 2013-02-28 at 09:09 +, Daniel Dalton wrote: > > Is it possible to make the fn key act as a control key inside of linux? > > (I'd like to keep the functions of the fn key combinations if > > possible). > > Are the keys recognised? Ha

Re: tar -> unresponsive machine

Thanks to all who replied. To answer some questions, it is a spinning hard drive, and here's mount information: /dev/disk/by-uuid/e3631277-c4d0-460e-a2a3-6de16013e050 on / type ext3 (rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro,barrier=1,data=ordered) and there was plenty of free RAM as usual (the machine has

tar -> unresponsive machine

Is it normal that when using the "tar" command to create a big archive, the whole machine becomes unresponsive, e.g. several dozens of seconds to do some operation (e.g. starting an xterm, or making Firefox react)? htop shows that there is still plenty of memory and atop shows nothing special, exc

Re: C Compiler

On 2012-11-13 18:22:17 -0600, John Hasler wrote: > Samuel Morgan writes: > > Where do I get a C Compiler built for DEBIAN Squeeze so I can build > > other packages? > > As others have said, install the "build-essentials" package. It [...] build-essential (without an s). -- Vincent Lefèvre - W

Re: X can't find nvidia module

On 2012-11-13 15:51:11 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > But when I startx, X can't find the nvidia module: > > ... > (EE) Failed to load module "nvidia" (module does not exist, 0) > ... > > Any suggestions as to what to do next? You probably need xserver-xorg-video-nvidia (as in addition to the N

nouveau driver bugs (was: Advice on system purchase)

On 2012-10-30 12:53:24 -0400, Worrier Poet wrote: > The guys developing free drivers for the Nvidia graphics cards seem to > have a lot harder job to do, but they also seem to be up to the task. > It's coming along slowly, but the nouveau drivers are most certainly > working well enough for me. I a

Re: obsolete df (file system disk space usage) values and NFS

On 2012-10-25 13:27:33 -0200, Pedro Eugênio Rocha wrote: > Maybe the file was opened by another user? Did you check lsof? I didn't check with lsof, but did a "ls -la" to see whether there were .nfs* files (usually created after removing a file that is already open, and there wasn't any). I would

obsolete df (file system disk space usage) values and NFS

Hi, Yesterday, I removed a 700 MB directory over NFS with rm -rf, and I invoke "df" several times before and after the removal, but the "Used" value only decreased by 3 MB, including more than one hour after the operation. Before: Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted o

Re: Screenshots

On 2012-10-24 11:21:18 +0200, lee wrote: > You may want to use "scrot -s" instead of import so you can select a > window or an area to take a screenshot of. I think I'll switch to scrot > because import blacks out parts of windows that are below other windows > ... "import" sometimes also adds bl

Re: multiple DHCP servers and /etc/resolv.conf

On 2012-10-23 06:48:37 -0400, Tom H wrote: > You seem to have hit a resolvconf bug. I'll try to investigate and report a bug. I need to do the same tests with the wicd daemon stopped (though I don't see how it could interfere, because it doesn't track the n900 interface). -- Vincent Lefèvre -

Re: multiple DHCP servers and /etc/resolv.conf

On 2012-10-21 16:11:28 -0400, Tom H wrote: > On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 9:46 AM, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > Thanks. This seems to do what I want, with a minor problem: when the > > DHCP client is killed, resolvconf doesn't remove the corresponding > > nameserver lin

Re: multiple DHCP servers and /etc/resolv.conf

On 2012-10-21 16:36:27 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > I see. Could you please also mention what network managing software > you are using right now? I'm guessing Network Manager, but want to > make sure. No, I mainly use ifupdown (together with other tools like guessnet and netplug), and wicd for

Re: multiple DHCP servers and /etc/resolv.conf

On 2012-10-19 01:32:10 -0400, Tom H wrote: > WAG: Isn't resolvconf meant for situations like this one? Thanks. This seems to do what I want, with a minor problem: when the DHCP client is killed, resolvconf doesn't remove the corresponding nameserver line from the generated "/etc/resolv.conf". --

Re: please put not all into multiarch!

On 2012-10-21 13:00:00 +0200, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: > What I do not understand: Why does skype want to install lots of new 32-bit > libs, when the package (and this is the 32-bit one) already can use either > ia32-libs and ia32-libs-gtk (which are also used by other applications). Are you sure

Re: multiple DHCP servers and /etc/resolv.conf

On 2012-10-21 12:08:51 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Vi, 19 oct 12, 01:19:08, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > My Debian laptop has several ways to have network connection: Ethernet, > > wifi and USB (the latter is used together with my Nokia N900, which has > > a DHCP server).

multiple DHCP servers and /etc/resolv.conf

My Debian laptop has several ways to have network connection: Ethernet, wifi and USB (the latter is used together with my Nokia N900, which has a DHCP server). I have the following problem, when doing: 1. Connect via wifi, using DHCP (as usual). /etc/resolv.conf is modified accordingly, as expe

Re: xml editor ?

On 2012-08-13 14:57:45 +0200, Johann Spies wrote: > On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 02:08:07AM -0700, mike67...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: > > On Sunday, June 3, 2012 1:00:03 AM UTC+1, Frank McCormick wrote: > > > I am trying out a window manager which uses XML (uugh!) for it's > > > > > > configuration file. > >

Re: disabling slowkeys in gdm3

On 2012-08-12 14:02:01 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Fri, 10 Aug 2012 13:17:43 -0600, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: > > > I've also run into the problem with slowkeys automatically turning > > itself on when I hold the shift key too long, as described in > > > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?b

Re: slow hibernate after upgrade

On 2012-08-04 05:03:01 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2012-08-01 02:40:26 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > On 2012-07-31 16:08:12 -0500, hvw59601 wrote: > > > After wheezy dist-upgrade desktop hibernate is twice as slow as before. > > > > I've also found

Re: slow hibernate after upgrade

On 2012-08-01 02:40:26 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2012-07-31 16:08:12 -0500, hvw59601 wrote: > > After wheezy dist-upgrade desktop hibernate is twice as slow as before. > > I've also found that putting the by Debian/unstable laptop into sleep > with Fn+F1 takes

Re: slow hibernate after upgrade

On 2012-07-31 16:08:12 -0500, hvw59601 wrote: > After wheezy dist-upgrade desktop hibernate is twice as slow as before. I've also found that putting the by Debian/unstable laptop into sleep with Fn+F1 takes much longer than before. But this is more several dozens of seconds vs a few seconds in the

nouveau (was: systemd)

On 2012-07-26 10:52:42 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > AFAIU nv was unmaintainable because of code obfuscation. nouveau is > still quite young, of course it has problems. The only way to fix such > problems is for users to report them and follow-up with information as > needed, since developers c

Re: systemd

On 2012-07-25 23:38:57 +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: > On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 06:16:11PM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > On Ma, 24 iul 12, 12:38:12, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > I'm confused, will Debian or will Debian not switch to systemd? > > > > Definitely not for wheezy, it's already frozen. As I

Re: Rotation of Xorg log files

On 2012-06-17 17:42:07 +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: > On 17/06/12 12:53, Camaleón wrote: > >On Sun, 17 Jun 2012 06:23:44 +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: > > > >>Can anyone tell me what is supposed to be rotating (and cleaning Xorg > >>log files). I've just noticed /var/log contains about 540 versions o

Re: Problem with Iceweasel and low-quality fonts

On 2012-06-15 16:00:10 +, Camaleón wrote: > For the sample page you mention in the report, I get the proper results, > I mean, Firefox loads "Lucida Sans Unicode" which is the second > alternative font face specified by the CSS style and I have it installed > in my system. > > sm01@stt008:~

Re: Problem with Iceweasel and low-quality fonts

On 2012-05-28 14:17:08 +, Camaleón wrote: > I wonder why is that this is still needed because Firefox should > respect the system font settings. It seems that Firefox and fontconfig have different ways of dealing with missing fonts, and fontconfig works better. The bug I reported with some rec

Re: libmx-1.0-2 : Depends: libmx-common (= 1.4.5-1) but 1.4.6-1 is installed

On 2012-05-30 15:22:17 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 29 May 2012 13:24:30 +0800, Hor Jiun Shyong wrote: > > >> (...) Can you retry now? "libmx-1.0-2" seems to require the proper > >> libmx-common package version so it could be an outdated repo :-? > >> http://packages.debian.org/sid/libmx-1.0-2

Re: Problem with Iceweasel and low-quality fonts

On 2012-05-27 11:06:18 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 27 May 2012 03:55:30 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > In the Iceweasel preferences, I have the "Allow pages to choose their > > own fonts, instead of my selections above" option enabled. But the > > quality of

Problem with Iceweasel and low-quality fonts

In the Iceweasel preferences, I have the "Allow pages to choose their own fonts, instead of my selections above" option enabled. But the quality of the fonts is sometimes very low, a bit like bitmap fonts, without antialiasing. For instance on http://www.allocine.fr/ see what I get on the image I'

Re: why does control-4 generate SIGQUIT in X?

On 2012-05-22 17:02:56 -0400, Eric Cooper wrote: > Unfortunately, I'd still like ^\ to generate SIGQUIT, but > "stty quit ^\" also enables ctrl-4 as an alias. > > Thanks for the reference -- I'm surprised I never noticed this before. I wonder whether this is recent. One of the side effects is rec

Re: why does control-4 generate SIGQUIT in X?

On 2012-05-22 17:02:56 -0400, Eric Cooper wrote: > On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 07:42:14AM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > > Yes, stty quit "" works!! > > Unfortunately, I'd still like ^\ to generate SIGQUIT, but > "stty quit ^\" also enables ctrl-4 as an alias. Ctrl-4 generating ^\ is a keyboard conf

Re: about DSA-2452-1 apache2 -- insecure default configuration

On 2012-04-24 16:57:52 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 24 Apr 2012 18:19:11 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > This is just a workaround. The real problem hasn't been fixed. And this > > means that it is no longer possible to read arbitrary documentation from > > doc di

Re: Is 1600x1200 screen better than 1440x900?

On 2012-04-25 09:13:35 -0400, Gary Dale wrote: > I replaced my old 21" CRT (I had been running it at 1792x1344x32@75hz) in > favour of a 24" LED monitor running at 1920x1080. That's a drop of .4M > pixels but the really high resolution LCD screens cost a lot more. Unfortunately the loss in vertica

Re: about DSA-2452-1 apache2 -- insecure default configuration

On 2012-04-24 15:48:38 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 24 Apr 2012 17:06:27 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > You assume that there is just a user Apache configuration for each > > virtual host. This is not the case. If a site decides to make script > > contents available

Re: about DSA-2452-1 apache2 -- insecure default configuration

On 2012-04-23 15:06:44 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Mon, 23 Apr 2012 12:51:58 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > > On 2012-04-20 14:37:11 +, Camaleón wrote: > > >> The user is the admin of his/her site and so the ultimate resposible > >> for his/her site secur

Re: about DSA-2452-1 apache2 -- insecure default configuration

On 2012-04-20 14:37:11 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Fri, 20 Apr 2012 01:50:29 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > On 2012-04-19 15:08:55 +, Camaleón wrote: > >> >> I can be wrong but the bug seems aimed to correct the package which > >> >> contains the

Re: about DSA-2452-1 apache2 -- insecure default configuration

On 2012-04-19 15:08:55 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Wed, 18 Apr 2012 18:24:34 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > On 2012-04-17 15:39:48 +, Camaleón wrote: > >> On Mon, 16 Apr 2012 14:25:17 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > >> > IMHO, the real bug is in mod_php o

Re: about DSA-2452-1 apache2 -- insecure default configuration

On 2012-04-17 15:39:48 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Mon, 16 Apr 2012 14:25:17 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > IMHO, the real bug is in mod_php or mod_rivet, that shouldn't be active > > (at least concerning the scripting features) by default unless this is > > explicit

about DSA-2452-1 apache2 -- insecure default configuration

There has been the following change in apache2: apache2 (2.2.22-4) unstable; urgency=high * CVE-2012-0216: Remove "Alias /doc /usr/share/doc" from the default virtual hosts' config files. If scripting modules like mod_php or mod_rivet are enabled on systems where either 1) some fron

Re: how to increase space for tmpfs /tmp

On 2012-04-03 13:54:55 +0200, Claudius Hubig wrote: > Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > On 2012-03-28 18:32:25 +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: > > FYI, Firefox/Iceweasel uses /tmp for that. For instance, click on > > a link to a PDF file to view it with a PDF viewer; the file is > &g

Re: how to increase space for tmpfs /tmp

On 2012-03-28 19:12:27 +0100, Brian wrote: > But defaults are defaults. Files in /etc/default can be altered. This is OK for system-wide settings, such as: > Do I really want portmap to listen on all interfaces? Do I want CUPS > to load a driver for a parallel port printer when I do not have one.

Re: how to increase space for tmpfs /tmp

On 2012-03-28 18:32:25 +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: > Applications should not be selfish, and should not blindly fill it. > Take the streaming media example from earlier today. Is it > appropriate to dump potentially limitless streams of data to /tmp? > /Obviously/, it's going to be filled to capacit

Re: how to increase space for tmpfs /tmp

On 2012-03-27 14:13:23 +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: > A common (and very persuasive) argument for not mounting a tmpfs > on /tmp and instead using the root filesystem is that by default > we install with a single large root filesystem, and /tmp gets to > use all the free space there. This is certainl

Re: how to increase space for tmpfs /tmp

On 2012-03-25 10:51:07 +, Camaleón wrote: > Sorry for not having attached the link, I was a bit hurry. Here it is: > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2011/11/msg02155.html > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2012/02/msg01614.html > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2012/03/msg00277.ht

Re: how to increase space for tmpfs /tmp

On 2012-03-24 11:00:49 -0600, Javier Vasquez wrote: > You can always configure as you wish. Take a look at: > > /etc/default/tmpfs The file says: # NOTE: This file is deprecated. Please see rcS(5) for details on how # to configure tmpfs size limits. -- Vincent Lefèvre - Web:

Re: Emacsclient problem after upgrade

After upgrading what? A Debian/unstable machine? If this is the case and libglib2.0-0 was upgraded, you might be affected by the following bug: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=91 (note that I wasn't using emacsclient, just emacs). -- Vincent Lefèvre - Web:

Re: A question about ssh-agent

On 2012-02-06 11:03:12 -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: > This is a problem of opposing goals. One group wants the system to be > popular and easy to use for novices. The other group wants it to have > technical excellence. It is exactly with issues such as this that > they are opposing goals. But inst

Re: A question about ssh-agent

On 2012-02-06 12:53:03 -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: > On 20120206_121205, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > On 2012-02-06 11:39:47 +0100, Erwan David wrote: > > > On Mon, Feb 06, 2012 at 11:33:25AM CET, Vincent Lefevre > > > said: > > > > On 2012-02-04 09:35:44 +0

Re: egrep oddity

On 2012-02-06 11:50:16 -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: > Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > But the grep man page still says: > > > > Within a bracket expression, a range expression consists of two > > characters separated by a hyphen. It matches any single character tha

Re: A question about ssh-agent

On 2012-02-06 11:39:47 +0100, Erwan David wrote: > On Mon, Feb 06, 2012 at 11:33:25AM CET, Vincent Lefevre > said: > > On 2012-02-04 09:35:44 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > > > Nope, this is the script that starts the ssh *server*. The agent is > > > starte

Re: Gnome-keyring problem

On 2012-02-06 12:22:15 +0200, Johann Spies wrote: > The following problem is preventing me from printing: > > WARNING: gnome-keyring:: couldn't connect to: /tmp/keyring-SkXSYp/pkcs11: No > such file or directory > HP_LaserJet_P3005_15CFFF is not ready > > There are two (probably the same thing)

Re: egrep oddity

On 2012-02-05 17:55:48 -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: > The collation sequence of [a-z] in dictionary ordering is really > "aAbBcC...xXyYzZ" and not "abc...z". So when you say "[a-z]" you are > getting "aAbBcC...xXyYz" without 'Z' and when you say "[A-Z]" you are > really getting "AbBcC...xXyYzZ" with '

Re: A question about ssh-agent

On 2012-02-04 09:35:44 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > Nope, this is the script that starts the ssh *server*. The agent is > started in /etc/X11/Xsession.d/90x11-common_ssh-agent, sourced from > /etc/X11/Xsession (see Xsession(5). But it shouldn't. It should be the user who decides whether he wants

Re: lpr command not found

On 2012-02-02 11:43:24 +0800, lina wrote: > which package contains the lpr command for printing. There are several ones: $ apt-file -x search 'bin/lpr$' cups-bsd: /usr/bin/lpr cups-dbg: /usr/lib/debug/usr/bin/lpr gnuspool: /usr/bin/lpr lpr: /usr/bin/lpr lprng: /usr/bin/lpr Not sure what's the be

Re: Accented Characters - How to type from standard keyboard?

On 2012-02-01 14:37:42 +, Curt wrote: > No, the _OP_ said he had a standard _US_ keyboard, which doesn't have a > compose key, which is why this thread exists in the first place (that, > and the OP's shaky Google Fu). > > But it's all right because all he has to do is the following (I think):

Re: xserver-xorg vs. xserver-xorg-video-nouveau

On 2012-01-31 15:28:19 -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: > Gilbert Sullivan wrote: > > Brian wrote: > > > Sven Joachim wrote: > > >> Sven, > > >> maintainer of the "borked" package > > > > > > Seeing as you mention it - it is time to say 'thank you'. > > > > + 1 to this. > > +1 from me as well. I a

Re: second display

On 2012-01-31 18:21:22 +, Camaleón wrote: > But you will have more information and specific command line examples by > Googling around. For instance, I found this article very useful ("Adding > undetected resolutions"): > > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Config/Resolution This article suggests p

Re: second display

Hi, On 2012-01-31 21:26:22 +1100, Pastor ALexander wrote: > I am lost on the site, > installing to my laptop the 42inch sharp tv screen comes up in 1024 > instead of 1360 I had a similar problem a few weeks ago. You might want to do something like that. Note: this is just an example; you need to

Re: /usr/lib/mutt/mailto-mutt

On 2012-01-29 15:30:42 -0700, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: > Given a current Squeeze with Iceweasel and mutt. Suppose Iceweasel > displays a page with a mailto link. To illustrate, each archived > message in http://lists.debian.org/ has a "Reply to:" heading followed > by three mailto links. A cl

Re: search for specific pattern

On 2012-01-14 14:08:36 -0500, Tony Baldwin wrote: > ls -Rt | grep .cmap > would list all such files under the current dir, showing the most > recently edited first. There are two problems with that. First, by default with grep, "." will match any character and you may get too much output. So, inst

Re: utility to downgrade a package with its dependencies?

On 2012-01-05 16:38:04 +, Darac Marjal wrote: > On Thu, Jan 05, 2012 at 03:43:22PM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > For Debian/unstable: > > > > Does there exist a utility to downgrade a package with its > > dependencies and reverse-dependencies? The old packages w

utility to downgrade a package with its dependencies?

For Debian/unstable: Does there exist a utility to downgrade a package with its dependencies and reverse-dependencies? The old packages would be taken from /var/cache/apt/archives, and the tool should be able to find automatically which packages/versions are needed to satisfy all the dependencies

Re: Order of cron.daily jobs

On 2012-01-04 16:59:27 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Wed, 04 Jan 2012 01:18:35 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > The point is that the behavior can depend on the locales. To avoid that, > > users should use only lowercase letters for the name of these scripts > > and be

Re: what's the nice package to open eps file

On 2012-01-04 20:31:37 +0800, lina wrote: > I tried acroread and evince before also. You should have told that. > >If you tried Inkscape, was there any problem? Note: for > >Debian/unstable (and perhaps testing too) users, there's currently a > >bug (with potential security implications) in Inksc

Re: what's the nice package to open eps file

On 2012-01-04 17:58:45 +0800, lina wrote: > On Wednesday 04,January,2012 05:47 PM, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > >On 2012-01-04 08:45:27 +, Lisi wrote: > >>The OP was using the GIMP and it failed her, so she asked for > >>something else. But until it failed her she had

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