Re: hostname

On 20/02/18 05:32, Greg Wooledge wrote: > You appear to be concerned that your hostname contains secret information, > and that having your hostname "leaked" to the rest of the world will be > an issue for you? > > If that's the case, try not putting secret information into your > hostname. E.g.

Re: troubleshooting Kmail

On Tuesday, February 20, 2018 08:57:27 PM Gene Heskett wrote: > Not so good. The woof is back in the shop. Woof? The dog?

Re: domain names, was: hostname

On 2018-02-20 19:36, Jeremy Nicoll wrote: ,snipped> Other than that, opinion seems divided on whether for a home LAN it makes more sense to leave domain name unset, or to provide a value (picked carefully, perhaps ending ".test" or ".invalid"). In some ways I like the idea of providing a

Re: domain names, was: hostname

On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 12:33 AM, Dan Purgert wrote: > ".local" is out too -- reserved for mDNS (bonjour / avahi ). How about .lan, .dmz, and .wan? (Not allowed to or from the 'Net, of course.) -- Glenn English

Re: troubleshooting Kmail

On Tuesday, February 20, 2018 12:20:46 PM Gene Heskett wrote: > On Tuesday 20 February 2018 09:54:28 rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > I wouldn't post any information like that in an unencrypted post / > > email. > > twasn't too smart... And I should have sent that sentence to you privately, and

Re: domain names, was: hostname

Jeremy Nicoll wrote: > Thanks to everyone who replied, not just Dan... > > So... > > On Mon, 19 Feb 2018, at 13:30, Dan Purgert wrote: >> Jeremy Nicoll wrote: > >> > What, on a home LAN, is that used for? >> >> In general terms, supplying domain information at setup time adds a >> "helper" record

Re: domain names, was: hostname

On 2018-02-21 00:33, Dan Purgert wrote: mick crane wrote: On 2018-02-20 19:36, Jeremy Nicoll wrote: ,snipped> Other than that, opinion seems divided on whether for a home LAN it makes more sense to leave domain name unset, or to provide a value (picked carefully, perhaps ending ".test" or

Specifying a device for sox output.

This system has three snd devices. peter@dalton:~$ ls /dev/snd/by-id/* /dev/snd/by-id/usb-046d_0807_C9748B60-02 /dev/snd/by-id/usb-0d8c_C-Media_USB_Audio_Device-00 /dev/snd/by-id/usb-0d8c_C-Media_USB_Headphone_Set-00 peter@dalton:~$ ls /dev/snd/by-path/*

Re: domain names, was: hostname

mick crane wrote: > On 2018-02-20 19:36, Jeremy Nicoll wrote: > ,snipped> >> Other than that, opinion seems divided on whether for a home LAN it >> makes more sense to leave domain name unset, or to provide a value >> (picked carefully, perhaps ending ".test" or ".invalid"). In some >> ways >>

Re: troubleshooting Kmail

On Tuesday, February 20, 2018 2:07:29 AM EST deloptes wrote: > Hi, > <<>> > > I am a long time kmail user. I have noticed significant improvment in > > stability and the filtering of incoming mail. I use the filtering > > extensively. > > Before the last release, at the beginning of a KDE

Re: troubleshooting Kmail

On Tuesday 20 February 2018 20:29:07 rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Tuesday, February 20, 2018 12:20:46 PM Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Tuesday 20 February 2018 09:54:28 rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > > I wouldn't post any information like that in an unencrypted post / > > > email. > > > > twasn't

Re: BIOS Can Not Find Disk

As the OP, I want to try to clear up some of the confusion. I have caused plenty of it. :-) I drop-kicked the partitions I had set up and started over with a bare (nothing but free space) sda block device. At some point I have expressed doubt that my PC could handle UEFI correctly. This is not

Re: troubleshooting Kmail

Mark Neidorff wrote: > I respect your opinion, and the many contributions that you have made to > this list.  You and I have both been more than annoyed with bad attitudes, > you with KDE me with my bank.  I pointed out the problem that I had and > how it has been mishandled, IMO. You mentioned

Re: domain names, was: hostname

Hi. On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 01:05:41AM +, mick crane wrote: > On 2018-02-21 00:33, Dan Purgert wrote: > > mick crane wrote: > > > On 2018-02-20 19:36, Jeremy Nicoll wrote: > > > ,snipped> > > > > Other than that, opinion seems divided on whether for a home LAN it > > > > makes more

Re: Is Debian Linux protected against the Meltdown and Spectre security flaws?

On 20 February 2018 at 05:09, Andy Smith wrote: > Hello, > > On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 09:03:20PM +, Michael Fothergill wrote: > > On 19 February 2018 at 19:10, Michael Lange > wrote: > > > no, I meant to say that you were looking at the wrong place

Re: how to offer Internet connection?

What is it, packet forwarding and nat? I've heard about that but never had occassion to try that myself before. On Tue, 20 Feb 2018, john doe wrote: Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2018 01:54:19 From: john doe To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: how to offer Internet

Re: how to offer Internet connection?

Hi back, Am 2018-02-20 hackte Long Wind in die Tasten: > Thank Michelle Konzack and John Doe! > maybe the easy way is buy a wireless card for pc and connect it to cell > phone If you have time, you can get for less then 5 Euro USB Wireless adapters from eBay... Do not expect, they are working

Re: Is Debian Linux protected against the Meltdown and Spectre security flaws?

Hi, On Tue, 20 Feb 2018 08:05:19 + Michael Fothergill wrote: > ​For me at any rate if the new version of gcc 4.9 makes it easier for a > new user to get access to that portion of Spectre vulnerability jointly > with the the availability of Meltdown as is, then

Re: Stretch net install on EeePC - unable to resolve mirror host address

Hi. On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 12:23:06PM +0100, Roger Price wrote: > Later the installation hangs with the message: > > in-target: Failed to fetch > http://debian.mirrors.ovh.net/debian/dists/stretch/main/i18n/Translation-en > Cannot initiate the connection to debian.mirrors.ovh.net:80

Re: how to offer Internet connection?

you can connect your PC with usb cable to the phone. on your smartphone you need to enabling "sharing by usb" and your smartphone will become router and dhcpd server for your PC. on your pc, you will have usb0 interface (with 0 can be more), or unpredictable interface name like enx.

Python/ansible - strange memory management?

I have strange problem: there is an ansible playbook. And on some some computers this playbooks takes < 500M RAM, on 2 others more than 3-4GG. I cannot see any corelations between python versions, ansible versions, or python modules. Any thoughts (I do not know, libc version or kernel memory

Re: troubleshooting Kmail

On 2018-02-19, Gene Heskett wrote: > > That would result in my 5 digit balance being moved. However a phone call > generally resolves the problem, but the threat is there, and they know > it. Five digits, huh? Like $102.55? Of course here they don't have those quaint

Re: how to offer Internet connection?

I'm pretty sure part of the software side of this will be setting up sshd-server as securely as possible and installing the fail2ban package for those who make too many mistakes entering passwords for private accounts. If what's envisioned is a public internet site that has its own set of

Re: Is Debian Linux protected against the Meltdown and Spectre security flaws?

On Di, Feb 20, 2018 at 05:09:12 +, Andy Smith wrote: CVE-2017-5753 is Spectre v1. There is no fix for Spectre v1 anywhere yet, not even in Linux upstream. Are you sure? CVE-2017-5753 [bounds check bypass] aka 'Spectre Variant 1' * Mitigated according to the /sys interface: YES (kernel

Re: Stretch net install on EeePC - unable to resolve mirror host address

Thanks again for your suggestions. On Sun, 18 Feb 2018, Gene Heskett wrote: Is the machine fully uptodate? The netinst CD is freshly downloaded and identifies as << Debian GNU/Linux 9.3.0 "Stretch" - Official i386 NETINST 20171209-13:03 >>. Is there a newer CD? On Sun, 18 Feb 2018, Brian

Re: how to offer Internet connection?

Hi back, Am 2018-02-20 hackte Long Wind in die Tasten: > Thank Michelle Konzack  and John Doe! > maybe the easy way is buy a wireless card for pc and connect it to cell > phone If you have time, you can get for less then 5 Euro USB Wireless adapters from eBay... Do not expect, they are working

Re: how to offer Internet connection?

On 2/20/2018 10:41 AM, Long Wind wrote: Thank err404! it's too hard for me to make a linux pc become router In that case something like the following could be considered (they are other alternatives out there): http://www.ipcop.org/ The only thing that would need to be done behind that

Re: troubleshooting Kmail

On Tuesday 20 February 2018 06:08:05 Curt wrote: > On 2018-02-19, Gene Heskett wrote: > > That would result in my 5 digit balance being moved. However a phone > > call generally resolves the problem, but the threat is there, and > > they know it. > > Five digits, huh? Like

Re: how to offer Internet connection?

On Tuesday, February 20, 2018 09:45:15 AM john doe wrote: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_address_translation > > https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/14056/what-is-kernel-ip-forwarding > > The URLs might be folded by my mailer. I guess it is my day to make extraneous comments: It

Re: Is Debian Linux protected against the Meltdown and Spectre security flaws?

Hi Stephen, On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 10:09:52AM +0100, Stephan Seitz wrote: > On Di, Feb 20, 2018 at 05:09:12 +, Andy Smith wrote: > >CVE-2017-5753 is Spectre v1. There is no fix for Spectre v1 anywhere > >yet, not even in Linux upstream. > > Are you sure? […] > >STATUS: NOT VULNERABLE

Re: Is Debian Linux protected against the Meltdown and Spectre security flaws?

On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 04:52:45AM +, Andy Smith wrote: > Versions of gcc that have the retpoline feature backported into them > have already hit stable and oldstable (and maybe others; haven't > checked), Just oldstable, actually. Not stable yet.

Re: Is Debian Linux protected against the Meltdown and Spectre security flaws?

On 20 February 2018 at 10:01, Michael Lange wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, 20 Feb 2018 08:05:19 + > Michael Fothergill wrote: > > > ​For me at any rate if the new version of gcc 4.9 makes it easier for a > > new user to get access to that

Re: how to offer Internet connection?

On Tue 20 Feb 2018 at 06:30:11 (+), Long Wind wrote: > i have a debian pc that is on 2 networks: > 1) connected to cell phone access point, cell phone offers Internet > connection2) connected to router, thru ethernet interface > is it possilble for debian pc to offer Internet connection to

Re: Stretch net install on EeePC - unable to resolve mirror host address

On 2018-02-20, Reco wrote: > >> Is there some way >> of telling the installer not to use IPv6? I have read >> https://wiki.debian.org/DebianIPv6#How_to_turn_off_IPv6 but the >> installer does not have file /etc/sysctl.conf I looked up the router (I've now lost the page

Re: how to offer Internet connection?

On 2/20/2018 12:58 PM, Jude DaShiell wrote: What is it, packet forwarding and nat?  I've heard about that but never had occassion to try that myself before. From a Google search: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_address_translation

Re: Stretch net install on EeePC - unable to resolve mirror host address

On Tue 20 Feb 2018 at 13:39:25 +, Curt wrote: > On 2018-02-20, Reco wrote: > > > >> Is there some way > >> of telling the installer not to use IPv6? I have read > >> https://wiki.debian.org/DebianIPv6#How_to_turn_off_IPv6 but the > >> installer does not have file

Re: Were is gapcmon?

On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 05:26:41PM +, Juan R. de Silva wrote: > I've been using gapcmon GUI to control my APC UPS backup units for years. > I cannot find it in Debian Stretch repos. Was the package removed? For > what reason? What can I use in its stead? >

Re: Were is gapcmon?

On Tue, 20 Feb 2018 13:04:20 -0500, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 05:26:41PM +, Juan R. de Silva wrote: >> I've been using gapcmon GUI to control my APC UPS backup units for >> years. >> I cannot find it in Debian Stretch repos. Was the package removed? For >> what

Re: ThinkSystem RAID 930-8i driver/module for Debian 9

On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 08:37:45AM +0100, John Naggets wrote: > Thanks Dan for suggesting some alternatives. Unfortunately most of > them are not really convenient or simple. What about a 5th alternative > which would be simply to "Install Debian 10 (buster/testing)" ? In > theory as it has a more

Re: Sound devices.

* From: deloptes delop...@gmail.com * Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2018 23:24:25 +0100 > I am not 100% sure but I think you need > alsa-oss - ALSA wrapper for OSS applications > to be able to use dsp. root@dalton:/home/peter# dpkg -l | grep alsa-oss ii alsa-oss 1.0.28-1 i386 ALSA wrapper

DTrace GPLed?

Of interest to some? https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/02/19/oracle_open_sources_dtrace_changes_licence_to_gpl/ Cheers! -- `The difference between friendship and love is how much you can hurt each other’. ― Ashleigh Brilliant Registered Linux User: 554515

Re: Were is gapcmon?

"Juan R. de Silva" writes: >I've been using gapcmon GUI to control my APC UPS backup units for years. >I cannot find it in Debian Stretch repos. Was the package removed? For >what reason? What can I use in its stead? > >Thanks. I've always use apcupsd which still

Were is gapcmon?

I've been using gapcmon GUI to control my APC UPS backup units for years. I cannot find it in Debian Stretch repos. Was the package removed? For what reason? What can I use in its stead? Thanks.

Re: Lancer un script shell linux lors de la fermeture du terminal, avec la croix

G2PC writes: > Comment lancer un script shell linux lors de la fermeture du terminal, > avec la croix. ... ? L’appeler dans .bash_logout ? -- Raphaël

Re: navegador predeterminado

Dos opciones: 1. Desde las opciones de Chrome mismo configurarlo como navegador predeterminado. 2. Desde las opciones de Thunderbird configurar qué navegador utiliza. Saludos 2018-02-15 14:38 GMT-03:00 Felix Perez : > El 15 de febrero de 2018, 13:14, Marcelo Giordano

Re: troubleshooting Kmail

On Tuesday 20 February 2018 09:54:28 rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Tuesday, February 20, 2018 09:35:33 AM Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Tuesday 20 February 2018 06:08:05 Curt wrote: > > > On 2018-02-19, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > That would result in my 5 digit balance being

Re: navegador predeterminado

> 2018-02-15 14:38 GMT-03:00 Felix Perez : >> El 15 de febrero de 2018, 13:14, Marcelo Giordano >> escribió: >>> >>> >>> El 14/02/18 a las 10:51, Felix Perez escribió: El 14 de febrero de 2018, 09:06, Marcelo Giordano

Re: how to offer Internet connection?

On Tuesday 20 February 2018 09:45:15 john doe wrote: > On 2/20/2018 12:58 PM, Jude DaShiell wrote: > > What is it, packet forwarding and nat?  I've heard about that but > > never had occassion to try that myself before. > > From a Google search: > >

Re: Supprimer docker de debian avec un script

Clés de dépôts Lister les clés : apt-key list pub rsa4096 2015-07-14 [SCEA] 5811 8E89 F3A9 1289 7C07 0ADB F762 2157 2C52 609D uid [ unknown] Docker Release Tool (releasedocker) Supprimer une clé : apt-key del Supprimer la clé du dépôt de Docker : apt-key del 2C52609D

Re: troubleshooting Kmail

On Tuesday, February 20, 2018 09:35:33 AM Gene Heskett wrote: > On Tuesday 20 February 2018 06:08:05 Curt wrote: > > On 2018-02-19, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > That would result in my 5 digit balance being moved. However a phone > > > call generally resolves the problem, but

[SOLVED]Re: My site has become unreachable when I've implemented SSL

I've edited /etc/hosts adding a line where I put the IP address of the server and the name of site. Now everything works with SSL :-) Thank you to all, Aldo Il giorno Tue, 20 Feb 2018 21:23:52 +0100 Aldo Maggi ha scritto: > Thank you for answering! > I'm really sorry

Re: DTrace GPLed?

Hi. On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 11:27:20AM -0800, Weaver wrote: > Of interest to some? > > https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/02/19/oracle_open_sources_dtrace_changes_licence_to_gpl/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16375938 Brendan Gregg, author of DTrace Toolkit, has this to say

Problem with suspend-to-disk

Hi folks, I am working on a little problem. Just let me shortly describe: When I am running suspend-to-disk, I can see, that the RAM is saved to the partition (in my case I defined the swap partition). Everything is working fine, after that writing to disk, the computer is shutting down. So

Re: domain names, was: hostname

Thanks to everyone who replied, not just Dan... So... On Mon, 19 Feb 2018, at 13:30, Dan Purgert wrote: > Jeremy Nicoll wrote: > > What, on a home LAN, is that used for? > > In general terms, supplying domain information at setup time adds a > "helper" record to /etc/resolv.conf (or whatever

Re: Sound devices.

Hi, On Tue, 20 Feb 2018 10:40:59 -0800 pe...@easthope.ca wrote: (...) > > [Better; but shouldn't modules load automatically?] I guess the developers figured that these modules are not necessary, since most apps today of course play well together with the alsa drivers. A simple extra line

Re: domain names, was: hostname

On Tue, 20 Feb 2018, at 19:42, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 07:36:49PM +, Jeremy Nicoll wrote: > > Do you mean when someone outside the LAN is trying to connect to my > > machine? > > No. It's for when you try to look up a hostname without a domain. > > For example, if

Re: DTrace GPLed?

eBPF makes dtrace less interesting. On 21 February 2018 at 08:27, Weaver wrote: > Of interest to some? > > https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/02/19/oracle_open_ > sources_dtrace_changes_licence_to_gpl/ > > Cheers! > > -- > `The difference between friendship and love is how

Re: My site has become unreachable when I've implemented SSL

Thank you for answering! I'm really sorry but it seems not to be a SSL or Apache problem, today, while I was away from home and I was using my laptop, I tried to open my site and I was successful! So I can open "mysite. com" from outside my Lan but if I try to connect to "mysite. com" from a Lan

Instalar python-nest

Buenas a todos, Quiero probar a utiliza la API de Nest mediante el paquete "python-nest". El problema es que no acierto a instalarlo al estilo Debian, que sea sencillo. He probado esto: apt-get install python3-pip pip install python-nest -bash: pip: no se encontró la orden Pero me dice que

Re: domain names, was: hostname

On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 07:36:49PM +, Jeremy Nicoll wrote: > > In short, the "helper" record appends the domain name to a hostname, so > > you don't have to type out a FQDN when you're trying to get to a remote > > host. > > Do you mean when someone outside the LAN is trying to connect to my