Re: Multiple host names for a single server?

Hi Tom, On Mon, Jan 07, 2019 at 11:42:28AM -0600, Tom Browder wrote: > On Mon, Jan 7, 2019 at 10:24 AM john doe wrote: > > Any reasons why you can't use 'cname' record? > > Um, you're right Though do note that the right hand side of MX and NS records should not point to a CNAME alias (RFC 2181

Re: Why choose Debian on server

Hi Gene, On Fri, Jan 04, 2019 at 03:27:11PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Friday 04 January 2019 13:46:28 deloptes wrote: > > Fore example see "The Boot" here > > https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/39959/raspbian-boot-pr > >ocess-and-the-partition-table > > One HUGE problem with

Re: Upgrade Problem

Hello, On Fri, Jan 04, 2019 at 02:47:52AM +, Matthew Crews wrote: > My guess? /home is on the same partition as /, which is a common setup > for most end users. Running lsblk is one way to tell if this is the case. >From one of Stephen's earlier emails: root@AbNormal:/home/comp# df -hl

Re: Upgrade Problem

Hello, On Thu, Jan 03, 2019 at 10:47:26PM -0500, Felix Miata wrote: > Stephen P. Molnar composed on 2019-01-03 15:39 (UTC-0500): > > > root@AbNormal:/home/comp# df -hl > > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > ... > > /dev/sda123G 23G 0 100% / > > As others have

Re: Fwd: Upgrade Problem

On Thu, Jan 03, 2019 at 10:27:30PM +0100, Nicolas George wrote: > > > Then ask your sysadmin. > > > I have no sysadmin. > > Then you are not "only a user", you are a sysadmin, and you are trying > to be one without acquiring the required knowledge. I Have No Sysadmin And I Must Sudo

Re: handling lists in perl

Hi Mick, On Wed, Dec 19, 2018 at 09:23:59AM +, mick crane wrote: > just to be a bit clearer. > given a list A of *unique* numbers > and a list B of possible pairings find which pairs you can make from the > list A. > 6 can pair with 100 and 15 can pair with 100 but they cannot both be > in

Re: Setting up a chroot on a Jessie system to compile a program using sid

Hi, On Fri, Dec 07, 2018 at 10:36:43PM -0500, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > One of the partitions I could free up is 16 GB, the other is 54 GB -- I'd > rather free up and use the smaller one, but I'm wondering if that will be big > enough? I would be amazed if 16GB wasn't enough. All you'll be

Re: Recommendation for Virtual Machine and Instructions to set it up?

Hi, On Thu, Dec 06, 2018 at 10:37:51PM -0500, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > just for the record, the programmer did fine -- he modified the > program and got it working on his Ubuntu system, and created a > binary for me. The problem now is to get the binary to work on my > Wheezy or Jessie

Re: [OT?] home partition vs. home directory

Hi, On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 07:26:33PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > If you are going to put you /home on a separate partition, put it > on a different disk. > > Unfortunately that has NOT been acceptable to the installer for most of a > decade now. Strange, I've been putting /home on a

Re: lpic certification courses

Hello, On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 09:50:05AM +0100, mj wrote: > Any tips for other good online lpic prep courses..? My early dealings with LPI as an organisation put me off of it for life so I am unable to make any recommendations I'm afraid. Admittedly that was more than 10 years ago. As someone

Re: Looking for a "friendly" e-mail service

Hello, On Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 09:55:17AM -0500, The Wanderer wrote: > On 2018-11-26 at 09:37, Mark Neidorff wrote: > > If you know of an e-mail service that allows me POP3 and SMTP > > connections, would you please post it in a reply. > > I use Fastmail, which supported both (as well as IMAP)

Re: Install & restore backup: what if I use LVM?

Hello, On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 07:01:07AM +0100, solitone wrote: > Thanks to the back2l utility I have a full backup of Debian. Now I > would reinstall it and recover all the backed up files. However, I > didn’t use LVM and now I would. In this case, would the > adjustments needed from the

Re: Debian 8 install via pxe-boot

Hi Latif, On Fri, Nov 16, 2018 at 11:02:05AM +0530, Latif Shaikh wrote: > By mirroring via internet, its install properly, I want to install > debian OS by mounting dvd of debian 8.7 on pxe-server means install mirror > by local pxe server. That would have been very useful information to have

Re: Debian 8 install via pxe-boot

Hi Latif, On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 06:40:14PM +0530, Latif Shaikh wrote: > Does anyone have proper steps/documents/links for install Debian 8.7 > Jessie via pxe-server? > > I have tried this link but not luck. https://wiki.debian.org/PXEBootInstall It works for me. Where do you get stuck with

Re: IT IS A BUG -- Re: Strangeness when binary executable overwritten by text -- bug or feature?

Hello, On Mon, Nov 05, 2018 at 06:18:17AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 11/04/2018 07:34 AM, Andy Smith wrote: > >I don't think the login shell setting has anything to do with it. > > You obviously could not be bothered trying it! I don't run any of the same software as

Re: Recommendation on partition sizes

Hello, On Sun, Nov 04, 2018 at 02:31:14PM +0100, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Le 04/11/2018 à 13:53, Andy Smith a écrit : > > > >On Sun, Nov 04, 2018 at 10:19:59AM +0100, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > >>Le 04/11/2018 à 05:45, Andy Smith a écrit : > >>Why don't you include

Re: IT IS A BUG -- Re: Strangeness when binary executable overwritten by text -- bug or feature?

On Sun, Nov 04, 2018 at 07:24:04AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > Turns out there was a *YUCKY* choice for a default setting. > In the default profile for mate-terminal there is a choice titled >"Run command as a login shell". > The option is *not* enabled. > > That makes the choice

Re: Recommendation on partition sizes

Hello, On Sun, Nov 04, 2018 at 10:19:59AM +0100, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Le 04/11/2018 à 05:45, Andy Smith a écrit : > Why don't you include the swap in LVM ? I don't see the point as it will never change in size. But in the case where encryption is used, it would have to be

Re: Recommendation on partition sizes

Hi, On Sun, Nov 04, 2018 at 03:20:11AM +, D Dimov wrote: > does this seem like an adequate space allocation: You're probably going to receive as many different opinions as there are different people responding, but my recommendation in nearly any situation is to have a reasonable /boot and

Re: An appropriate directory search tool?

Hello, On Fri, Oct 19, 2018 at 10:00:25AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > The "MATE Search Tool" comes close. > > It can: > Select a starting directory. > Search for a specific extension. > Search for a keyword in file content. > > It cannot: >Search ONLY the specified directory. >

Re: filesystem slowdown with backports kernel

Hi Jens, On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 01:41:56PM +0200, Jens Holzkämper wrote: > We get the following results (with a variance within a few seconds) > > 4.9 ext4: > real 2m13.303s […] > 4.18 ext4: > real 4m3.276s Absent anyone being able to make a suggestion of exactly what broke here, perhaps

Re: (solved) Re: any program that search for same files?

Hello, On Sun, Oct 14, 2018 at 10:37:10PM +, Long Wind wrote: > Thank The Wanderer! > i've just installed rdfind, and i'll try it. Also rmlint: https://rmlint.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html > > i'm about to write it in java, it can be completed in a few hours but > > i think

Re: having issue installing any package. i get 403 forbidden messsage.

Hello, On Wed, Oct 03, 2018 at 01:04:03PM -0400, bw wrote: > On Wed, 3 Oct 2018, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > > *root@king:/zok/k-backup# apt install nfs-kernel-server* > > *Reading package lists... Done* > > *Building dependency tree * > > *Reading state information... Done* > > Here's

Re: Permission issues - operator error?

Hello, On Sun, Sep 23, 2018 at 01:18:25PM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > Is this not creating a partition? > >root@debian8-6:/home/richard# mkfs.ext4 root_owner=1000:1000 -L > >2018Sept23tst1 /dev/sdb1 > >mke2fs 1.42.12 (29-Aug-2014) Nope. The error you got from this command is consistent with

Re: Permission issues - operator error?

Hello, On Sun, Sep 23, 2018 at 09:11:44AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > I had thought I had created a partition table with Gparted. Nowhere in your previously posted session did you show yourself calling gparted or any other partitioning tool. Cheers, Andy

Re: Decrypting LUKS from initramfs; was: Re: ext2 for /boot ???

Hello, On Mon, Sep 17, 2018 at 08:00:50PM +0200, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Le 16/09/2018 à 00:39, Andy Smith a écrit : > > > >The obvious problem there is an attacker who gets hold of the > >initramfs in order to be able to use the credentials to request the >

Decrypting LUKS from initramfs; was: Re: ext2 for /boot ???

Hello, On Sat, Sep 15, 2018 at 11:52:01PM +0200, deloptes wrote: > I also wish I knew how to get ssh into initrd and the whole networking, so > that I could do it remotely when needed. I've never done it myself, as I have IPMI access to anything I care about, but it appears to be as simple as

Re: "accept_ra 1" vs "accept_ra 2" in interfaces configuration-file

Hi Martin, On Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 01:06:32AM +0300, Martin T wrote: > In addition, "accept_ra" with a value of 2 should ensure that RA > messages are accepted even if forwarding for that interface is > enabled, shouldn't it? Yes, it should. That's the way it's documented and our use case is

Re: "accept_ra 1" vs "accept_ra 2" in interfaces configuration-file

Hi Martin, On Mon, Aug 20, 2018 at 03:58:36PM +0300, Martin T wrote: > On Mon, Aug 20, 2018 at 7:55 AM Andy Smith wrote: > > Back in 2011 this was a hard-won battle: > > > > > > http://strugglers.net/~andy/blog/2011/09/04/linux-ipv6-router-advertisements-and

Re: "accept_ra 1" vs "accept_ra 2" in interfaces configuration-file

Hi Martin, On Mon, Aug 20, 2018 at 05:12:56AM +0300, Martin T wrote: > According to "man interfaces" "accept_ra 1" makes interface to accept > IPv6 RA messages. "accept_ra 2" does the same and in addition, it also > enables forwarding. What does the forwarding mean in this context? One > could

Re: does btrfs have a feature?

Hello, On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 07:56:57AM +0200, Anders Andersson wrote: > With btrfs you can just throw any block devices together and it will > automatically use whatever it can, restricted to the level of > redundancy you requested. This is what originally led me to give btrfs a try at home.

Re: Question about /proc/loadavg

Hi Martin, On Tue, Jul 31, 2018 at 09:31:42AM +0200, Martin Drescher wrote: > I'm running a bunch of HTTP servers, most of them running a RHEL > 6, which is a kernel version 2.6. All patches applied, so that > Meltdown and Spectre stuff should be included. Some of the servers > where migrated to

Re: Re: Select between 686-pae and amd64 kernel in Grub?

Hello, On Wed, Jul 25, 2018 at 07:51:11PM +0200, Reiner Buehl wrote: > bilbo:~# awk -F"'" '/menuentry/ {print $2}' /boot/grub/grub.cfg > > Debian GNU/Linux > > Advanced options for Debian GNU/Linux […] > Debian GNU/Linux, with Linux 4.9.0-7-amd64 > > Debian GNU/Linux, with Linux

Re: Stretch 9.5 amd64 kernel panic

Hello, On Sat, Jul 14, 2018 at 08:48:18PM -0400, Chuck Zmudzinski wrote: > I captured a little bit of what was written to the xen console > when the kernel panics which is shown below. > > Anyone else seen this? Seems the new point release kernel broke Xen PV:

Re: increasing size of /run

Hello, On Fri, Jul 13, 2018 at 12:29:56PM +0200, Nicolas George wrote: > Adam Weremczuk (2018-07-13): > > What's the safest and quickest way to temporarily triple the size of /run ? > > Do not. > > Instead, change your program to put its tons of data somewhere else, > preferably in a directory

Re: Editing a piped in stream?

Hello, On Sun, Jul 08, 2018 at 07:39:07AM +0200, john doe wrote: > The issue here is that we don't know what the OP wants A situation sadly familiar when dealing with this particular poster's threads. Also in the general case, if you ever find yourself parsing the output of "ls", you will

Re: Kernel Live Patching

Hi Aleksey, I'm sorry, I don't have useful answers to your questions, so if that is all you're after you may as well skip this email. On Thu, Jun 28, 2018 at 10:53:58AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > Given the history of ksplice, and my innate paranoia, I don't have a pole > long enough to reach

Re: What is "discover -t" saying?

On Sun, Jun 24, 2018 at 11:08:44AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > What is your actual question, here? Welcome to an Owlett performance art "happening". Pull up a comfortable seat; this show is going to last a while. Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Expired GPG keys of older release

Hello, On Tue, Jun 19, 2018 at 09:52:42PM +0200, john doe wrote: > Reading: > > https://wiki.debian.org/DebianKeyring > > you could try: > > "# Fetch a key from the keyring > $ gpg --keyserver keyring.debian.org --recv-key 0xkeyid" It won't help because the problem isn't that the keys are

Re: netboot images for Debian 9 seems is broken?

Hello, On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 02:26:20PM +0100, Mike wrote: > On Fri, Jun 15, 2018 at 01:43:50AM +0000, Andy Smith wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 03:29:28PM -0400, mizuki wrote: > > > "No kernel modules were found. This probably is due to a mismatch betwee

Re: netboot images for Debian 9 seems is broken?

Hi, On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 03:29:28PM -0400, mizuki wrote: > "No kernel modules were found. This probably is due to a mismatch between > the kernel used by this version of the installer and the kernel version in > the archive. In my experience, the above is correct. That is, I've experienced

Re: USB "null modem" cables and related Linux driver questions

Richard, On Fri, Jun 01, 2018 at 02:16:47PM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 06/01/2018 09:01 AM, Michael Stone wrote: > >I can't think of any applications where that's going to be better > >over a pair of USB-Serial dongles than a pair of USB-Ethernet > >dongles. > > Please read my stated

Re: package won't configure, stuck in queue

Hello, On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 05:39:58PM -0500, Charles Zeitler wrote: > sudo dpkg --dry-run -r initramfs-tools > dpkg: dependency problems prevent removal of initramfs-tools: > linux-image-4.9.0-6-amd64 depends on initramfs-tools (>= > 0.120+deb8u2) | linux-initramfs-tool; however: To be

Re: package won't configure, stuck in queue

Hi Charles, On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 09:24:44AM -0500, Charles Zeitler wrote: > it froze before fully configured, and i killed apt. > now I get the message to do "sudo dpkg --configure -a" > whenever i use apt/synaptic. > > when I try "sudo dpkg --configure -a", however, it also freezes before >

Re: making more room in root partition for distribution upgrade

Hello, On Sun, May 20, 2018 at 07:59:48PM -0400, songbird wrote: > Pascal Hambourg wrote: > > Then LVM is your friend. You can create as many logical volumes as you > > like with minimal sizes and easily extend them when needed. This way you > > don't waste space in overprovisioning. > >

Re: Securing development environment

Hello, On Sat, May 19, 2018 at 12:03:37PM +0200, Hubert Hauser wrote: > On 19/05/18 07:29, Chris wrote: > > Make those services listen to localhost and do port forwarding in your > > SSH client. > > It might be a good idea but I am not sure whether fail2ban with nginx > basic_auth mechanism is a

Re: Securing development environment

Hello, On Sat, May 19, 2018 at 07:29:28AM +0200, Chris wrote: > Make those services listen to localhost and do port forwarding in your > SSH client. This would be my suggestions also. Have sshd as the only public service, and require login by public key. It's basically a VPN but a little bit

Re: making more room in root partition for distribution upgrade

Hello, On Fri, May 18, 2018 at 04:00:45AM -0700, Rick Thomas wrote: > Contrary to Andy’s recommendation, though, I would also > put swap on LVM — if only just to simplify things when I do find > myself needing to adjust it Well, OK. But… Should I need more swap then I don't really find adding

Re: NetworkManager.service: Start request repeated too quickly

Hello, On Thu, May 17, 2018 at 09:31:26PM -0400, Dan Norton wrote: > In another (non-minimal) system with a working DNS: > > root@debU:~# apt search libjansson > [snip] > libjansson4/stable,now 2.9-1 amd64 [installed,automatic] > C library for encoding, decoding and manipulating JSON data > >

Re: making more room in root partition for distribution upgrade

Hi, On Thu, May 17, 2018 at 06:06:46PM -0500, Mark Copper wrote: [sda1 root partition got too small; extended partition on sda2 fills remainder of disk] > This must be a FAQ. But there appear to be two ways forward. > > 1. Back-up /home, enlarge / partition, copy back-up back to new, smaller >

Re: Backup problem using "cp"

Hello, On Mon, May 07, 2018 at 07:51:23AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > I'll likely abandon further immediate investigation of cp. I've other > projects to complete It would still be good to establish why "cp -x" was seemingly able to cross filesystem boundaries as that would be a bug.

Re: pointless systemd dependencies

Hi David, On Mon, May 07, 2018 at 06:32:16AM +, David Griffith wrote: > How many packages are there that could possibly need to be linked against > systemd? Are you going to provide us with any examples of packages you think are needlessly linked against systemd? I expect there are some, but

Re: pointless systemd dependencies

Hello, On Mon, May 07, 2018 at 01:47:51AM +, David Griffith wrote: > Could we start the process of identifying packages that have dependencies on > systemd in some way that is are not actually required? Nothing has been stopping anyone from doing this since the day the first package in

Re: Debian glossary?

Hello, On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 06:46:01AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > Man pages by their nature/purpose assume a certain level of expertise. > They can be daunting for the uninitiated. > > Comments? https://www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/misc/nipple.html : The only "intuitive" interface is the

Re: gstreamer-1.0/libgstlame.so what is this?

Hello, On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 11:34:13AM +0900, A_Man_Without_Clue wrote: > E: > /tmp/apt-dpkg-install-6Cr5xr/03-gstreamer1.0-plugins-good_1.14.0-4_amd64.deb: > trying to overwrite > '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gstreamer-1.0/libgstlame.so', which is also > in package

Re: [Progress Report1] Re: Using debootstrap

Hi Richard, On Sun, Apr 29, 2018 at 06:43:42AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 04/29/2018 12:59 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: > >On 04/28/2018 10:57 PM, Kushal Kumaran wrote: > >>You can try it out to verify after you fix the mount options to not > >>include nodev. […] > The man page for mount

Re: Strange .bashrc Problem

Hello, On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 03:34:02PM -0400, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > Whie the additional lines are necessary for the execution of HEX they seem > to have wiped oour all of the alias entries I have in .bashrc. Rebooting > the system does not eliminate the problem! Bu bumbling about I

Re: How to execute user's scripts when upgrading a certain package via apt/aptitude

Hi Mikhail, On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 06:29:06PM +0200, Mikhail Morfikov wrote: > Is there a way to pass some extra commands/script to apt/aptitude so when the > firefox package is to be upgraded, it would recreate the links automatically? I've never tried it but looking at "man apt.conf" it seems

Re: some questions about cfengine3

Hi, On Tue, Mar 27, 2018 at 08:30:44PM +0200, deloptes wrote: > I don't have experience with puppet. I am in the process of migrating a Puppet setup that's been in use and development for ~8 years to Ansible. Although it is a fairly simple manifest, managing only 47 hosts, the rate of change

Re: Debian v.9.2.1 DVDs - how long are they good for?

Hello, On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 02:58:45PM +, Brian wrote: > On Wed 14 Mar 2018 at 13:03:14 +, Joe wrote: > > Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > That's a wee bit overly optimistic. In practice, you will find it > > > rather challenging to upgrade from a version of Debian

Re: Re: [partial resolution] Re: Problem withj dd

Hi Jacques, On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 02:46:47AM +0100, Rodary Jacques wrote: > 1/ No the same removable device doesn't always receive the same /dev/sdX.If > you unmount it ( umount /dev/sdX) and plug it again, it can be called > /dev/sdY (I suppose the kernel keeps tne name in memory for some

Re: Wheezy to Stretch

Hello, On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 08:17:43AM +0100, deloptes wrote: > Jimmy Johnson wrote: > > I never said that!  But I do know what I'm talking about because I do > > what I'm talking about constantly. > > you have said that, because in the official upgrade notes, as Roberto > pointed out, 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 +0000, 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? […] >

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

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 if you wanted > > to see if the "spectre-2" fix has arrived in debian, for this

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

that. On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 01:23:25PM +, Michael Fothergill wrote: > ​Checkout the debian backports suite (kindly resourcefully suggested by > Andy Smith) Please note that I provided these details to Michael Fothergill as part of Michael's general query about how a user could obtain a

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

Hello, On Sat, Feb 17, 2018 at 10:34:10PM +0300, Reco wrote: > Weird, isn't it? Someone responsible to wiki.debian.org blocked the > whole 78.192.0.0/10 subnet (AS12322), so it seems. In it was suggested to report such things to

Re: wiki

Hello, On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 10:38:49AM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > There have been several similar complaints in #debian IRC over the last > year or two, with random people coming in and saying that they get a > "403 Forbidden" on the Debian wiki, but the one thing they all have in > common

Re: wiki

Hi Rodary, On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 02:42:14AM +0100, Rodary Jacques wrote: > Why can't I access wikis from a Debian box: > Forbidden > You are not allowed to access this! > is the message I get. On this list we enjoy a challenge and I'm afraid that trying every version of every different browser

Re: How to safely hold kernel packages ?

Hello, On Tue, Feb 06, 2018 at 06:00:16PM +0100, Stéphane Rivière wrote: > So, after an aptitude search ~i~linux- I hold theses meta-packages : > > aptitude hold linux-image-amd64 > aptitude hold linux-headers-amd64 I think you also would need to hold package linux-image-4.9.0-4-amd64. >

Re: Kernel for Spectre and Meltdown

Hi Michael, On Sat, Feb 03, 2018 at 11:44:39PM +, Michael Fothergill wrote: > On 3 February 2018 at 23:14, Andy Smith <a...@strugglers.net> wrote: > > If you want to make genuine constructive suggestions for how things > > could be improved, I think you should star

Re: Kernel for Spectre and Meltdown

Hello, On Sat, Feb 03, 2018 at 09:43:33PM +, Michael Fothergill wrote: > I am trying to suggest one would want to move faster than the approximate > cycle time of new stable releases here. You have been repeatedly told that the updates will appear as security updates in Debian stable when

Re: Kernel for Spectre and Meltdown

Hello, On Thu, Feb 01, 2018 at 11:53:36AM +, Michael Fothergill wrote: > Thus for anyone in the entire world who is new to linux,the most > efficient route at present could well be to install Fedora and be > stable and spectre protected out of the box rather than taking on > the indefatigable

Re: comment and new question--when do upgrades take effect (was: Re: Kernel for Spectre and Meltdown)

Hi, On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 08:18:35AM -0500, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > iiuc, the fixes for Spectre and Meltdown have been "backported" > (probably not the right word) to Wheezy (which is my "everyday" > machine). If I'm wrong about that, somebody can let me know. The confusion here is that

Re: (resend) trouble installing Debian 8.10 via netboot

Hi, On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 04:24:32PM -0500, mizuki wrote: > since the netboot kernel was updated in Dec 5 2017 for Debian 8.10, we were > not able to install any of the physical systems (vms works). […] > 2) The attempt to mount a file system with type ext4 in SCSI1(1,0,0), > partition #7

Re: IPv6 SLAAC and RFC 7217

Hi John, On Sun, Jan 21, 2018 at 07:29:23PM +0100, John Naggets wrote: > I was wondering if there is a "standard" way in Debian 9 through the > /etc/network/interfaces file to enable/force using a stable private > IPv6 address using SLAAC as specified in RFC 7217? I have never tried it but

Re: Experiences with BTRFS -- is it mature enough for enterprise use?

Hello, On Mon, Jan 01, 2018 at 11:15:00AM +1300, Joel Wirāmu Pauling wrote: > The reason Redhat dropped btrfs support is because it currently has no > native cryptographic function. Red Hat's former filesystem maintainer Josef Bacik said it was simply because Red Hat now lacks engineers familiar

Re: Experiences with BTRFS -- is it mature enough for enterprise use?

Hello, On Thu, Dec 28, 2017 at 07:35:27PM +, Glenn English wrote: > Is there something wrong with ext4 in a RAID1? Not if you don't need any of the features of ZFS that ext4 lacks, no. But if you do, then ext4 is not an option. The killer feature of ZFS is its checksumming of all data and

Re: Experiences with BTRFS -- is it mature enough for enterprise use?

Hi Rick, On Tue, Dec 26, 2017 at 11:37:32AM -0800, Rick Thomas wrote: > Is btrfs mature enough to use in enterprise applications? Not in my opinion. I've dabbled with it at home and based on those experiences I will not be using it professionally any time soon. > If you are using it, I’d like

Re: Reporting a bug that affects more than one package

Hello, On Thu, Dec 21, 2017 at 06:30:52PM -0600, Terry Roy wrote: > […] reported the bug. I've just run across it again on a fresh > install of another package. I've reported that bug but clearly > this seems to be an issue involving the use of "su -" in postinst. > > My problem is that I have

Re: LVM: how to avoid scanning all devices

Hi Steve, On Fri, Dec 15, 2017 at 01:19:46PM +0100, Steve Keller wrote: > When calling LVM commands it seems they all scan all disks for > physical volumes.  This is annoying because it spins up all disks that > are currently idle and causes long delays to wait for these disks to > come up. Can

Re: Serial Ports and Perl

Hi Martin, On Thu, Oct 26, 2017 at 07:37:07PM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: > If anybody has gotten the perl Device::SerialPort to > work, I am interested to know what I am doing or not doing. I have been using it successfully for a long time, but all I do is read whole lines from the

Re: reconstitute /boot on stretch

Hi Harry, On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 09:06:40PM -0400, Harry Putnam wrote: > I managed to delete /boot and all contents, on a `stretch' system. > > Of course it will not boot now. So maybe work from a live cd or > install media... Did you reboot? If not then you should be able to fix this

Re: One-line password generator

Hello, On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 12:40:48PM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Originally Curt wrote: > > > > https://www.2uo.de/myths-about-urandom > > Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > Really great myth-debunking article > > Up to now i found no credible expert opinion which would clearly > contradict it.

Re: One-line password generator

Hello, On Mon, Aug 28, 2017 at 12:04:51PM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > And again, the argumentation of Theodore is that there is always enough > entropy at hand. I understand that in this situation there is no difference > between /dev/random and /dev/urandom. > The difference appears only when

Re: One-line password generator

Hello, On Sun, Aug 27, 2017 at 09:05:41PM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Curt wrote: > > So this is wrong: > > https://www.2uo.de/myths-about-urandom/ > > Dunno. I took my info from the man page. The article at 2uo.de is correct. The relevant Linux man pages were recently updated to clarify

Re: How to Keep Track of Changes to the System

Hi, On Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 08:14:52PM -0700, ray wrote: > I would really like to hear how others track their changes or suggestions how > I may tack changes. I configure almost everything with configuration management like puppet or ansible. Then the configuration is treated like code, can be

Re: [OT] Valid DKIM signature (Was: Re: I want to rejoice like a queen. Pauline)

Hi, On Sun, Aug 13, 2017 at 11:21:04PM +0900, Byung-Hee HWANG (황병희, 黃炳熙) wrote: [snipped spam] > By the way the mail got valid DKIM signature. It came from a real person so why wouldn't it? DKIM says nothing of content. > Please explain to me why the mail is here. It's odd. Please Please

Re: How to Troubleshoot Xen VM Failure 1stpvguest

Hi Ray, On Fri, Aug 11, 2017 at 06:52:21PM -0700, ray wrote: > on Debian 9 with latest Xen on a laptop, I tried to build a pv guest. I > would like to understand how to determine what the failure was. > > *** This is how the image was created: > # xen-create-image --hostname=1stpvguest

Re: Btrs vs ext4. Which one is more reliable?

Hello, On Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 07:04:09AM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: > On Wed, Aug 09, 2017 at 09:46:09PM -0400, David Niklas wrote: > > On Sat, 29 Jul 2017 04:59:40 + > > Andy Smith <a...@strugglers.net> wrote: > > > > Also, my use case is at home where the

Re: RE : ... blah lbah blah ... spam

Hello, On Sun, Aug 06, 2017 at 03:56:35PM +0200, Nicolas George wrote: > Your Occam's razor is definitely blunted. These mails are spams > masquerading as legitimate answers to bypass automated filters and catch > the reader's attention, nothing more. That is the simplest explanation, >

Re: Btrs vs ext4. Which one is more reliable?

Hello, On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 04:27:32PM +0200, Dan wrote: > I have a NFS4 server with ext4. I'm moving to Debian Stretch. I wonder if I > should switch to Btrfs. I personally wouldn't. I do use btrfs at home and wish I didn't, will be moving away from it soon. Take a look at the archives of

Re: stop your mail

Hi Joe, On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 12:51:20PM -0600, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: > Andy Smith <a...@strugglers.net> writes: > > On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 05:18:54PM +0200, Sébastien Gautrin wrote: > >> The proof of this is that they all have nearly the exact same content (some >

Re: stop your mail

Hello, On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 05:18:54PM +0200, Sébastien Gautrin wrote: > The "stop your mail" and "PLEASE STOP YOUR MAILS" messages are definitely > not created by the owners of the email, though it might be done by a mobile > app as suggested. I've replied off-list to some of them to explain

Re: stop your mail

Hello, On Sat, Jul 08, 2017 at 07:50:38PM +0200, Nicolas George wrote: > These messages are the spam, themselves. The pretend "leave me > alone" prologue is just to disguise that status and attract your > attention until you read the quoted text. I think it is far more likely that these people

Re: Debian 9

Hello, On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 05:41:57PM -0400, Fungi4All wrote: > Is this [booting a live distribution] all it takes to hack the > root account of a secure debian system? If an attacker has physical access to your running hardware then you have always lost. In some cases not even encryption

Re: Why does no one care that Brad Spengler of GRSecurity is blatantly violating the intention of the rightsholders to the Linux Kernel?

Hello, On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 10:38:07PM +0200, deloptes wrote: > I do however think GRSec are wrong as the OP states, they clearly violate > the license agreements. > IMO everyone in the linux community should know the background of that story > same as the background of systemd ... but there

Re: apt-cacher-ng related program and package suggestion

Hello, On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 09:57:50PM +0200, tuxderlinuxfuch...@gmail.com wrote: > apt-cacher-switch add :> > apt-cacher-switch add :> > > Then at university: > apt-cacher-switch enable > > At home: > apt-cacher-switch enable > > In an environment where no cacher is on the network >

Introductory iproute2 documentation (Was Re: ifconfig network resolution)

Hi Richard, On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 05:11:47AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > Can you recommend a good introduction to iproute2 which ignores the > existence of net-tools (start newbies with good habits)? Unfortunately I don't think I actually can. Being someone who started off with the

Re: ifconfig network resolution

Hi Joel, On Sun, Jun 11, 2017 at 07:55:50AM +0900, Joel Rees wrote: > # If the address to be assigned is given first, which I think everyone > # pretty much does: > > myadm@mycomp:~$ env LANG=en_US.UTF-8 sudo ifconfig eth0:1 down > myadm@mycomp:~$ env LANG=en_US.UTF-8 sudo ifconfig eth0:1 >

Re: Encrypted RAID1 for storage with Debian Jessie

Hello, On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 11:41:30PM +, commentsab...@riseup.net wrote: > I'm a complete noob when it comes to this kind of operations, so, sorry for > the dumb question : following tv.debian@'s advises, I purchased a cheap SSD > and installed my system on it (the SSD, and one pair of

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