On Sat, Nov 09, 2019 at 01:20:40PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Saturday 09 November 2019 10:07:43 Andy Smith wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 08, 2019 at 10:55:33PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > > unforch, reinstalling apache2 is not a workable situation because it
> > >
Hello,
On Sat, Nov 09, 2019 at 01:34:11PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Saturday 09 November 2019 10:10:53 Andy Smith wrote:
> > You've repeatedly been advised to block these bots in Apache by
> > their UserAgent. Have you tried that yet? It would be a lot simpler
> > th
Hello,
On Sat, Nov 09, 2019 at 08:43:25AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> I've done that with the help of a previous responder and now have 99% of
> the pigs that ignore my robots.txt blocked. semrush is extremely
> determined and has switched to a 4th address I've not seen before, but
> is no
Hello,
On Fri, Nov 08, 2019 at 10:55:33PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> unforch, reinstalling apache2 is not a workable situation because it was
> built for the repos w/o libwrappers support. Dumb and forces me to run
> iptables to block the bots that are DDOSing my site.
This is a really odd
Hi Gene,
On Sun, Nov 03, 2019 at 11:40:23AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> I just installed fail2ban but setting it up looks daunting. Looking for a
> tut.
Yes, that could be quite involved. Fail2Ban parses logs, so you'd
first have to decide what constitutes logging of an unwanted
condition (or
Hello,
On Sun, Nov 03, 2019 at 10:04:46AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> I am developing a list of broken webcrawlers who are repeatedly
> downloading my entire web site including the hidden stuff.
[…]
> How do I get their attention to stop the DDOS? Or is this a war you
> cannot win?
Hosting
Hi,
I noticed a few hours ago that a particular piece of firewall
management software wasn't working correctly with my Debian 10
hosts.
After quite a lot of investigation I worked out that the software in
question was looking at the content of /proc/net/ip_tables_names to
determine the names of
Hello,
On Thu, Oct 03, 2019 at 08:05:27AM -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
> On Thursday, October 03, 2019 06:23:20 AM Andrew McGlashan wrote:
> > There have been numerous bugs with LookOut (otherwise known as
> > Outlook), running scripts and having other vulnerabilities due to
> > preview pane
Hello,
On Sun, Sep 29, 2019 at 07:28:45PM -0700, pe...@easthope.ca wrote:
> From: pe...@easthope.ca
> Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2019 08:15:07 -0700
> > Opening a terminal emulator in default configuration on localhost, ...
>
> Localhost; not hosts.
It's easy to get confused because your posting style
On Sun, Sep 29, 2019 at 10:51:22PM +, Andy Smith wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 29, 2019 at 02:36:02PM -0700, pe...@easthope.ca wrote:
> > An interactive shell session with minimal overhead. (Or maximal
> > efficiency.)
> I am old enough to remember how we used to remotely manage mac
Hello,
On Sun, Sep 29, 2019 at 02:36:02PM -0700, pe...@easthope.ca wrote:
> From: Reco
> > I have to ask - what are you trying to achieve?
>
> An interactive shell session with minimal overhead. (Or maximal
> efficiency.) The telnet client in the Oberon subsystem is noticeably
> faster than
Hello,
On Fri, Sep 13, 2019 at 06:57:11AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
> I think what is needed is an essay comparing/contrasting the proper usage of
> "sudo" versus "su" versus "su -". It should also include a discussion of the
> change from "su" to "su -".
A lot has already been written about
Hello,
On Wed, Sep 11, 2019 at 11:37:11AM +0200, Grzesiek Sójka wrote:
> Is there any utility to calculate crc16 (not the crc32) in Debian?
It should be trivial in almost any scripting language available in
Debian. Here is a Perl example.
$ sudo apt install libdigest-crc-perl
Reading package
Hi,
On Wed, Aug 14, 2019 at 05:43:42PM +0200, Jean-Baptiste Thomas wrote:
> Can anyone recommend a command line program that could tell me
> the length of the video stream in a .avi or .mpg file ?
ffprobe from the ffmpeg package can extract the duration, and offers
programmatically-friendly
On Sat, Aug 10, 2019 at 10:53:29PM +, Randy Demerchant wrote:
> I like to know can I install and use Debian on eithers of these two system
> with out ant problems
I've never had ant problems with Debian, but maybe stop eating over
the keyboard unless you want ants, because that's how you
Hello,
On Sat, Aug 10, 2019 at 11:18:49AM -0700, David Christensen wrote:
> But, as others have said, two HDD's and one SDD in JBOD (or RAID)
> is not optimal.
On the other hand it's probably not going to be worse than 3 HDDs.
All the ways of trying to exploit the speed of the SSD are quite
Hi Pavel,
On Sat, Aug 10, 2019 at 01:03:10PM +0200, Pavel Vlček wrote:
> I have computer with 3 hdds. One is ssd, 2 others are hdd. I want to install
> Debian 10 to all 3 disks as one big system. What to use, raid or lvm?
Personally I would use the three devices as a RAID-10 which would
result
Hi,
On Thu, Jul 25, 2019 at 02:55:13AM +, J.W. Foster wrote:
E: initramfs-tools: installed initramfs-tools package post-installation script
subprocess returned error exit status 1
There can be many reasons why this package's post-installation
script may have failed. I don't think you have
Hello,
On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 11:00:20AM -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
> Anybody know what these no content messagess are about? Just spam?
I haven't seen one without content, but I haven't read them as the
quoting is so broken it's too hard to read. Maybe check with the archives
and see if
Hi Mick,
On Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 09:50:47PM +0100, mick crane wrote:
> I have wondered about this, the actual infrastructure. I've noticed that the
> fiber optic cable is in places strung along with the electricity pylons.
> Presumably if you could somehow attach to that then you could be anybody
Hi Mick,
On Tue, Jul 16, 2019 at 10:39:57PM +0100, mick crane wrote:
> well when I became aware of all this stuff, I thought this is great,
> everybody can connect and do what they like, if of course following
> protocols.
> But you can't do that can you ? you have to connect through a service
>
Hello,
On Mon, Jul 15, 2019 at 03:48:50PM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > 3) It spurs me to ask: So, if not via LSB, what is the canonical way to
> > programatically determine the version of an installed Debian setup?
>
> Why would a program want to know?
Being able to programmatically query
Hi Pierre,
On Sun, Jul 14, 2019 at 06:17:50PM +0200, Pierre Frenkiel wrote:
> I tried with mail.mailutils, and I get the following error:
>
><< 550-5.7.1 [2a01:e35:8a7f:9c50:2e4d:54ff:fed0:5806] Our system has
> detected that
><<< 550-5.7.1 this message does not meet IPv6 sending
Hi Thierry,
On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 11:13:13PM +0200, Thierry Leurent wrote:
> I'm beginning to work with Ansible to configure my hosts.
> What is the best practice to run playbooks on all of my Linux host ?
> I must define a specific user ?
Usually you have a specific user that can SSH in and
On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 05:12:03PM +0300, Reco wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 12:03:53PM +0000, Andy Smith wrote:
> > I think the wiki article at
> > https://wiki.debian.org/BoottimeEntropyStarvation really shows that
> > currently there is no such consensus availab
Hi Greg,
On Wed, Jul 10, 2019 at 09:03:16AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> The primary thing that's lacking is someone who actually knows all of
> this stuff and can explain it properly. Everyone on this mailing list is
> grasping at straws that are lying around in various places, of different
>
Hi Curt,
On Wed, Jul 10, 2019 at 09:26:31AM -, Curt wrote:
> On 2019-07-10, Andy Smith wrote:
> > But, let's say this use of RDRAND to supply boot-time entropy is as
> > serious as you argue. What would be your suggested configuration
>
> I would like Debian to make it
Hi Curt,
On Tue, Jul 09, 2019 at 07:59:53AM +, Curt wrote:
> I think these reserves are relevant and pertinent to the patch
> itself and should be revealed to the user, whom we cannot assume
> or expect to follow the technical discussions of the development
> team, in the release-notes for
Hi Nicholas,
On Mon, Jul 08, 2019 at 04:49:00PM -0500, Nicholas Geovanis wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 8, 2019 at 3:45 PM Andy Smith wrote:
> > Flash forward to 2017 and T'so himself wrote a patch to add a
> > configure option to allow RDRAND to be used early on to bootstrap
> >
Hello,
On Mon, Jul 08, 2019 at 02:50:18PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Monday 08 July 2019 14:14:10 Andy Smith wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 08, 2019 at 05:48:24PM -, Curt wrote:
> > > it "amounts to trusting that CPU manufacturer (perhaps with the
> > > insistenc
Hi Curt,
On Mon, Jul 08, 2019 at 05:48:24PM -, Curt wrote:
> it "amounts to trusting that CPU manufacturer (perhaps with the
> insistence or mandate of a Nation State's intelligence or law
> enforcement agencies) has not installed a hidden back door to
> compromise the CPU's random number
Hello,
On Mon, Jul 08, 2019 at 04:18:28PM -, Curt wrote:
> Well, looking at Ted Ts'o short patch, where he mentions the security
> implications of the thing at some length, *twice*
I think that some of Ted's stance might not be because Ted thinks it
is dangerous but because there has been in
Hello,
On Mon, Jul 08, 2019 at 02:40:16PM -, Curt wrote:
> But as an innate altruist (just kidding), I'm wondering whether the
> regular user is aware of the implications of all this. What about people
> in Nation States ... Well, you get the idea.
Thing is, if you can't trust that your
Hello,
On Sat, Jul 06, 2019 at 10:36:02AM +0700, Bagas Sanjaya wrote:
> Since the datacenter is far from the audiences, I expected that my
> website speed will be somewhat slower than if I choose hosting
> provider which offer datacenters in Indonesia or Singapore.
[…]
> Any suggestions?
Host
Hello Curt and Matthew,
On Tue, Jul 02, 2019 at 12:04:36PM -, Curt wrote:
> On 2019-07-02, Richard Owlett wrote:
> >
> > A restatement of my question might be:
[…]
> What do we win if we provide the correct answer? A year's supply of
> invective?
I do feel sorry for you Matthew. You have
On Sat, Jun 22, 2019 at 07:34:52PM +, Andy Smith wrote:
> That is why the stance that, "I have IPv4 so I don't need to do
> anything" is not completely correct: it's not urgent for much of the
> world at present, but we will get into a situation where either one
> or bo
On Mon, Jun 24, 2019 at 12:42:37PM -, Curt wrote:
> On 2019-06-22, Andy Smith wrote:
> > I am not aware of any other compression tool that offers to do what
> > gzip's --rsyncable option does, but I owuld be interested if there
> > are some that I overlooked.
Hello,
On Mon, Jun 24, 2019 at 12:34:36PM +1200, Richard Hector wrote:
> On 23/06/19 12:07 PM, Andy Smith wrote:
> > andy@debtest1:~$ su - bob
> > Password:
> > bob@debtest1:~$ whoami
> > bob
> > bob@debtest1:~$ sudo -i
> > [sudo] password for bob:
> &
Hello,
On Sat, Jun 22, 2019 at 04:44:40PM -0700, Jimmy Johnson wrote:
> Some one mentioned mounting drives, all that and what they need can be
> configured.
Also note that anyone who can use "mount" as root can trivially become
root. If countenancing allowing users to run "mount" as root I would
Hello,
On Sat, Jun 22, 2019 at 07:59:18PM +0400, Jerome BENOIT wrote:
> I was refering to the long option --rsyncable of gzip(1).
I am not aware of any other compression tool that offers to do what
gzip's --rsyncable option does, but I owuld be interested if there
are some that I overlooked.
Hi Erik,
On Fri, Jun 21, 2019 at 03:02:46PM +0200, Erik Josefsson wrote:
> Maybe flashbench cannot tell me anything about that anyway?
>
> Are there other tools?
I'm not familiar with flashbench. I like fio. It's available in
Debian.
I like to do the following tests. Example fio command line
On Fri, Jun 21, 2019 at 10:01:47PM -0500, David Wright wrote:
> On Wed 19 Jun 2019 at 04:23:15 (+1200), Richard Hector wrote:
> > On 19/06/19 4:12 AM, David Wright wrote:
> > > On Mon 17 Jun 2019 at 10:38:27 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote:
> >
> > >> But that opens yet another container of worms. If
Hello,
On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 08:45:13PM +0100, Brian wrote:
> At least 2000,000, hosts on the internet. You reckon you will be in
> the first tranche of targets?
I don't know about "amongst the first" but there are multiple
services scanning every port of the entire IPv4 space now and
Hi Erik,
On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 02:26:57PM +0200, Erik Josefsson wrote:
> As far as I understand, it is quite recent that SD cards are fast and large
> enough to be able to carry and run an entire Debian instance.
Not really recent. I've run Debian sarge on a 128MiB CompactFlash
card and I'm
Hi Bob,
On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 12:07:16AM -0400, Bob Bernstein wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Jun 2019, Andy Smith wrote:
> >What happens if you try to ping something? Like:
[…]
> PING linode.com(2600:3c00::22 (2600:3c00::22)) 56 data bytes
> 64 bytes from 2600:3c00::22 (2600:3c00::22): ic
Hi Bob,
On Mon, Jun 17, 2019 at 09:21:57PM -0400, Bob Bernstein wrote:
> iface eth0 inet static
> address 192.168.1.40
> netmask 255.255.255.0
> gateway 192.168.1.1
> dns-nameserver 8.8.8.8
[…]
> 2: eth0: mtu 1500 qdisc mq state UP mode
> DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
>
Hello,
On Mon, Jun 17, 2019 at 08:39:32PM -0400, Bob Bernstein wrote:
> So, any hints about networking?
Possibly your network interface has changed name due to persistent
naming? In any case, please can we see the contents of your
/etc/network/interfaces file, and the output of:
$ ip link
$ ip
Hello,
On Mon, Jun 17, 2019 at 04:11:32PM -0400, Robin Hammond wrote:
> The size of such a routing table gives me nightmares ! Thank goodness you
> have to advertise networks of a reasonably sized prefix length!
I wouldn't worry too much about the number of v6 routes. In terms of
addressing and
Hi Peter,
On Tue, Jun 11, 2019 at 07:28:12PM -0700, pe...@easthope.ca wrote:
> E: Failed to fetch file:/full/path/to/build/packaging/deb/./Packages File
> not found - /full/path/to/build/packaging/deb/./Packages (2: No such file or
> directory)
> E: Some index files failed to download. They
Hello,
On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 08:48:36AM -0500, Jason wrote:
> On Wed, May 29, 2019 at 11:46:50PM +0000, Andy Smith wrote:
> > How did you install this system?
[…]
> > One other person in this thread said they used (a script which
> > ultimately uses) debootst
Hello,
On Thu, May 30, 2019 at 09:08:38AM +0300, Reco wrote:
> Easy. You run debootstrap, set some --include options (which pull
> libcap2-bin by dependency), and then you tar the whole resulting
> filesystem.
> tar never understood file capabilities, so they are lost in the process.
Sure, tar
Hi Cindy,
On Wed, May 29, 2019 at 09:48:44PM -0400, Cindy Sue Causey wrote:
> So, yeah, at least for Debootstrap. "iputils-ping" is in there at the
> absolute very first start where the Developers have picked the very
> first packages that get the party started before the User then picks
>
Hi Jason,
On Wed, May 29, 2019 at 04:18:51PM -0500, Jason wrote:
> On Mon, May 27, 2019 at 08:12:32AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> > While I didn't mention it in this thread, ping had indeed somehow lost
> > its capabilities on my system. 'dpkg-reconfigure iputils-ping' fixed it.
>
> That
Hello,
On Tue, May 28, 2019 at 10:16:27PM +0100, Liam O'Toole wrote:
> On 2019-05-27, Patrick Bartek wrote:
> > Needing to convert this box from wired ethernet to wireless, I searched
> > for a suitable network manager and wicd looked good: No desktop
> > environment dependencies (I use a
Hi Jimmy,
On Tue, May 28, 2019 at 10:15:28AM -0700, Jimmy Johnson wrote:
> >On Mon, May 27, 2019 at 10:13:12AM -0700, Jimmy Johnson wrote:
> >>On 05/26/2019 11:03 PM, Andy Smith wrote:
> >>>There doesn't seem to be any point in interacting further.
> >>
&g
Hello,
On Mon, May 27, 2019 at 10:13:12AM -0700, Jimmy Johnson wrote:
> On 05/26/2019 11:03 PM, Andy Smith wrote:
> >There doesn't seem to be any point in interacting further.
>
> Andy that's the most helpful thing you've said,
I guess you missed the response where the very fi
Hello,
On Mon, May 27, 2019 at 12:41:36AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Sunday 26 May 2019 10:09:49 pm Andy Smith wrote:
> > On Sat, May 25, 2019 at 11:25:26AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > > No Andy, it didn't drink my last beer (Murphy does that), or kill
> > > any
Hello,
On Mon, May 27, 2019 at 08:12:32AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> On Lu, 27 mai 19, 02:15:49, Andy Smith wrote:
> >
> > Glenn, and Andrei, do you do anything out of the ordinary to
> > install?
>
> https://salsa.debian.org/amp-guest/pine64/blob/master/pine6
Hello,
On Sun, May 26, 2019 at 07:41:41AM -0600, ghe wrote:
> On 2/21/19 11:12 AM, ghe wrote:
>
> > Another Busterism, BTW: ping now requires root privileges. It does on my
> > computer, anyway. Maybe I made a mistake when I installed -- somebody
> > sure did.
>
> Fix: 'alias ping="sudo ping"'
Hello,
On Sat, May 25, 2019 at 11:25:26AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Saturday 25 May 2019 07:33:01 am Andy Smith wrote:
> > My recollection was that none of that was ever established in any of
> > the threads you posted here, so that is a really weird thing to keep
> >
On Sat, May 25, 2019 at 06:52:00AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> the installer locked me to ipv6, and the nearest ipv6 connectivity
> is probably in Pittsburgh PA, 140 some miles north of me. The
> installer hasn't brains enough to try ipv4 when it can't find
> anything working in ipv6.
My
Hi Gene,
[You asked how to do this so I am answering, but for the record I
don't believe it is a good idea to disable the current version of
the Internet protocol and rely on the legacy Internet protocol. If
there are problems with IPv6 then I think they should be fixed, not
disabled.]
On Sat,
Hi Rory,
On Wed, May 08, 2019 at 06:32:43PM +0100, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote:
> Is there a clever way of downgrading the installation to stable while
> keeping the testing kernel and associated ixgbe module?
If you run the daily netinst in expert mode doesn't it let you
pick the release you want
Hi Erik,
On Wed, May 01, 2019 at 11:35:48AM +0200, Erik Josefsson wrote:
> I have tried to document my personal preferences before, but I have always
> ended up with unreadable handwritten notes.
>
> This time I thought I should do it in a more systematic way by somehow
> capture the difference
Hello,
On Wed, Apr 17, 2019 at 10:53:34AM +0500, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote:
> It looks like Synaptic starts with user privileges as a wrapper and
> PolicyKit asks for root privileges to spawn actual synaptic process.
Ah okay, my mistake. Synaptic is another piece of software I've
never really
Hi,
On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 01:15:07PM +0500, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote:
> On 16.04.2019 12:08, Andy Smith wrote:
> > I don't have seamonkey installed so haven't tried myself, but does
> > it even run as root?
> >
> I don't use SeaMonkey either, but I'm pretty su
Hello,
On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 04:54:02PM +1000, Keith Bainbridge wrote:
> I say this is NOT freedom.
>
> Of course new users accept the defaults on a fresh install - I guess that
> like me 20 years ago, they presume the defaults will work best.
>
>
> So, I am asking that gnome be dropped as
Hello,
On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 04:39:06AM +0500, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote:
> You can add SeaMonkey config manually if you want, but you will have to
> track the changes after that.
> $ sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/x-www-browser
> x-www-browser /your/path/to/seamonkey 100
I
Hello,
On Mon, Apr 08, 2019 at 01:32:48PM -, Curt wrote:
> How about:
>
> Subject: SSD for frequent edits of large text files?
It's really hard for me to imagine any form of human editing of a
text file that could wear out a modern SSD. Natural language text
files just aren't that big, and
Hi,
On Sat, Apr 06, 2019 at 01:39:27PM -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
> Background: I am considering buying a new disk (and will write an email later
> with some other questions or observations about the process), but I know
> that,
> at least often for SSD drives, they now specify what I
Hi Abhishek,
The Debian Indian Community may also be able to provide more local
knowledge. - may even be some of them at your institution.
https://wiki.debian.org/DebianIndia
Cheers,
Andy
--
https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting
Hello,
On Fri, Apr 05, 2019 at 07:44:32AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
> I installed Buster *only* because an application I'm investigating requires
> the version of Python in Buster.
Another option may be to use "virtualenv" or a similar trick to run
just the upstream Python and required
Hello,
On Sun, Mar 31, 2019 at 04:35:44PM -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
>* Aside: what the heck does errorackage mean / stand for and what is it
> telling me? Who came up with that "word"?
Ah, I thought you were aware of what it was printing. It was printing
"Bus error" over the top of
Hi Manikanta,
On Sun, Mar 31, 2019 at 09:51:32PM +0530, manikanta bandaru wrote:
> Err http://deb.debian.org jessie-updates/main amd64 Packages
jessie-updates doesn't exist any more; remove any lines referring to
"jessie-updates" (NOT "jessie/updates") from your
/etc/apt/sources.list and do "apt
Hi,
On Sat, Mar 30, 2019 at 04:12:05PM -0400, rh kramer wrote:
> I found a post that told me what the content of
> /etc/apt/sources.list should be for Jessie LTS.
LTS updates (for a limited set of architectures) make their way into
the /updates suite that is found on
security.debian.org, just
Hello,
On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 11:44:15AM -0400, deb wrote:
> Are there list-suggested ways to help verify non-free / out-of-stable-distro
> or even seldomly updated in-distro tools, PRE-INSTALL?
If in your /etc/apt/sources.list you stick to one distribution and
don't include "contrib" and
Hello,
On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 11:31:07AM -0400, deb wrote:
> For someone trying to pull Windows (and Mac) users into Linux
> does anyone have:
>
> Preferred other email lists, for new users?
Honestly I don't recommend mailing lists for technical support.
Especially this one where moderation is
Hi Erwan,
On Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 10:28:55PM +0100, Erwan David wrote:
> > How to get back the EUI64 Mac based address ?
[…]
> So maybe it is network-manager which does this ? (privacy extensions set
> to Default)
Before we go on too much of a wild goose chase, can you confirm that
you do
Hi Greg,
On Sun, Mar 03, 2019 at 10:01:58AM +0100, Grzesiek Sójka wrote:
> Since sensord was removed I would like to ask what do you use to log sensors
> readings to rrd database.
As I want to monitor multiple hosts I use an external monitoring system,
but if you want to store metrics locally,
specific to Debian and tell you
Debian-specific things that you need to know.
But apparently you know best so I'm sorry for wasting your time.
Andy
> > On Mar 2, 2019, at 9:17 AM, Andy Smith wrote:
> >
> >> On Sat, Mar 02, 2019 at 05:14:25PM +, Andy Smith wrote:
> >
On Sat, Mar 02, 2019 at 05:14:25PM +, Andy Smith wrote:
> Having a read through the release notes at:
>
> https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/release-notes/
>
> is often worthwile even for those more familiar with Debian.
Oh, and The Debian Administrator's Hand
Hi Josef,
On Fri, Mar 01, 2019 at 10:40:19PM -0800, Josef Bailey wrote:
> Is there anything else I should know that can help me find answers quick and
> help me maintain my system
Having a read through the release notes at:
https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/release-notes/
is
Hello,
On Wed, Feb 27, 2019 at 09:37:58AM +0300, Reco wrote:
> Running parted on a logical volume is definitely not the best of ideas.
As an aside, I do this all the time and it works fine.
The logical volumes are exported to virtual machines as their main disk,
so they may appear as
Hi Damon,
On Thu, Feb 21, 2019 at 03:55:16PM +, Damon Bakker wrote:
> http://security-cdn.debian.org/dists/jessie/updates/main/binary-amd64/Packages
>
> is now missing. It is used in the pipelines of bitbucket and now it seems
> they're broken.
Can it not use the .gz or .bz2 versions?
Hello,
On Thu, Feb 21, 2019 at 10:55:44AM +0300, Reco wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 21, 2019 at 02:30:48AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > On Thursday 21 February 2019 01:14:03 w...@corrlinks.com wrote:
> > >
> >
> > Whats worse is that my isp is rightfully rejecting some of this bs as
> > spam, but I
Hello,
On Sat, Feb 16, 2019 at 01:08:01PM +0800, Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 15, 2019 at 10:10 PM Dan Ritter wrote:
> > 50TB is a lot of data. Do you actually have it right now, or are
> > you projecting into the future? How are you storing it?
>
> Using external
Hi Steve,
On Fri, Feb 15, 2019 at 09:35:27AM +0100, steve wrote:
> >for i in /dev/sd{b..f}; do echo "DISK: ${i}"; smartctl -l scterc "${i}";
> >sleep 3; done
>
> I get this for sdb and sdc
>
> SCT Error Recovery Control:
> Read: Disabled
> Write: Disabled
>
> and this for
Hello,
On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 04:23:56PM -0500, Dan Ritter wrote:
> "Over-provisioning often takes away from user capacity, either
> temporarily or permanently, but it gives back reduced write
> amplification, increased endurance, and increased performance."
>
> Increased endurance is increased
Hello,
On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 01:14:36PM -0800, David Christensen wrote:
> A swap partition is faster than a swap file.
Has something changed in this regard since kernel version 2.6 then?
http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0507.0/1690.html
Cheers,
Andy
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Hi,
On Tue, Feb 12, 2019 at 06:40:01PM -0500, Lee wrote:
> What are people using these days to
> 1. have dnssec enabled lookups
> 2. filter external dns answers
I use Unbound for resolvers.
I understand that Unbound can do some RPZ-like things with its
local-data and local-zone directives, but
On Sun, Feb 10, 2019 at 03:49:00PM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote:
> On 02/10/2019 03:26 PM, Andy Smith wrote:
> >So what changes are you making and how are you checking for them?
I note you have neglected to explain what changes you are making, which
would be essential for us to help you
Hello,
On Sun, Feb 10, 2019 at 02:57:22PM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote:
> I used "grep -r /usr/local/games /etc" which yielded "/etc/login.defs" and
> "/etc/profile". Editing those two files had no effect.
How are you determining that changes to /etc/profile had no effect?
Because changes there
Hi,
On Mon, Feb 04, 2019 at 02:42:51PM -0600, sel...@midwest.net wrote:
> Play one game and
>
> This entry found in /var/log/{messages,syslog,user.log}:
> Jan 26 00:55:23 debian quadrapassel[5542]:
> ../../../../../gdk/x11/gdkwindow-x11.c:5611
> drawable is not a native X11 window
[…]
>
Hi Pete,
On Fri, Jan 25, 2019 at 12:23:27PM -0500, Pete Geenhuizen wrote:
> I am mainly a Centos user and am quite a novice when it comes to Debian and
> I have a computer which is currently running Stretch 9.6 and I recently
> install apt 1.4.9.
So you already have version 1.4.9? What does:
Hello,
On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 03:29:33PM +, BREBION Freddy wrote:
> It’s not fit because I can’t find « binutils » or « libc6-dev » package for
> exemple.
If you know the date the system was installed then you can use
http://snapshot.debian.org/ to look up and download contemporary
Hello,
On Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 10:29:49AM +, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
> For those of you with decades of experience of CVS, you might as well
> stick with it.
>
> For someone entirely new to VCSes, I would absolutely not recommend
> CVS at all.
Yes. After reading the various diversions into
Hello,
On Wed, Jan 16, 2019 at 08:07:02PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Wednesday 16 January 2019 17:15:48 Andy Smith wrote:
> > For bonus points investigate ways to back up the config files of
> > your whole computer.
>
> I hate to spoil your attempt at levity, but amand
Hello,
I second the suggestion to learn version control, specifically git,
and then force yourself to use it when editing your work. The
discipline will pay dividends.
That solves the problem of making accidental/incorrect changes.
Don't forget to back up the git repository though, to protect
Hi Dennis,
On Tue, Jan 15, 2019 at 04:56:31PM -0600, Dennis Wicks wrote:
> I have copied my boot, root and home partitions to a larger
> device but I think I need to run grub to actually make the
> disk boot.
# dpkg-reconfigure grub-pc
will normally take care of that.
Cheers,
Andy
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Hello,
On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 10:33:39PM +0300, Reco wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 08:28:18PM +0100, basti wrote:
> > is there a way to monitor processes that access /dev/urandom
>
> auditctl -w /dev/urandom -r
>
> remove it with
>
> auditctl -D
Note also that one should not really be
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