notoneofmyseeds wrote:
Bob Proulx wrote:
I must say you have written a book here on this topic, Rob. I've learned a
lot. I printed it out. To your questions now.
Sometimes people say I write too much. But the details are important. :-)
And this is a large book again with this message.
I
The Wanderer wrote:
In which case I return to my original comment on that point: although
there might be situations where this setup could make sense, they would
_not_ be for the casual user. As a setup for a sole computer intended to
be administered by its sole user, this is simply a crazy
Celejar wrote:
Running wheezy. I've been suspending to ram (hibernate-ram --force) my
ThinkPad T61 for several years with no problems. Recently, I installed
acpi-support to enable suspending via lid closure (by enabling
LID_SLEEP=true in /etc/default/acpi-support). I still tend to enter the
Mayuresh wrote:
On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 01:27:10PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote:
# hdparm -B255 /dev/sda
I had disabled this when I wrote the OP, but had not set it in
/etc/hdparm.conf. Today I did that and the Load_Cycle_Count seems steadied
at 3781, though it is still under observation
incal wrote:
incal writes:
mpsyt of mps-youtube suddenly stopped working.
Google changed the Youtube API recently. The change in Youtube API
broke downstream applications that used it such as mpsyt.
You didn't say what version of Debian you are using.
In Sid a newer version packaged for
Emanuel Berg wrote:
Bob Proulx writes:
You didn't say what version of Debian you are using.
How do I check this? 'lsb_release -a' says:
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Debian
Description:Debian GNU/Linux 8.0 (jessie)
Release:8.0
Codename
Mayuresh wrote:
Bob Proulx wrote:
hdparm -B /dev/sda
/dev/sda:
APM_level = 128
man hdparm
-B Get/set Advanced Power Management feature, if the drive supports
it. A low value means aggressive power management and a high
value means better
notoneofmyseeds wrote:
one ethernet interface that you sometimes connect to one wired network and
sometimes to a different wired network?
For now, this is a laptop that is located in one place.
All networks are DHCP.
Those are good clarifications. Let me mention a few problems to be
notoneofmy wrote:
I have three separate networks, ip addresses, etc.
One wireless and two hard wired, ethernet.
The wireless must connect to the internet.
As is necessary, I will need to physically swap the ethernet cables
between networks.
You say networks. Is that the same as ethernet
Mayuresh wrote:
Bob Proulx wrote:
Is your Load_Cycle_Count continuously increasing?
Doesn't look like. It was 3634 when I started watching and over last few
minutes it changed only to 3635.
That still seems like a rather high load_cycle_count. And if it is
increasing every minute then I
Mayuresh wrote:
I am a new Debian user.
Welcome! :-)
On a freshly purchased laptop I installed Debian jessie and I am facing a
constant recurring disk noise.
Is your Load_Cycle_Count continuously increasing? You mention a
laptop and at one time there was a big problem with disk drives
Sven Hartge wrote:
Reco wrote:
Sven Hartge wrote:
Maybe the USB hardware implementation is better in the N900? The one
in the Pi is quite bad and finicky.
I am coming to this discussion late but I had to confirm that the USB
chip in the Raspberry Pi is very limiting. It has a maximum
notoneofmyseeds wrote:
do I need to remove/purge NetworkManager Applet 0.9.10.0 to manually
configure my interfaces?
It is not necessary. However I recommend doing so anyway.
It is not necessary because NetworkManager and wicd ignore any
interface with a configuration in
Proxy One wrote:
Why use /dev/shm/user-php.sock as the socket path? The Jessie-style
location would be in /var/run/user-php.sock AFAICS. (I don't see how
that would be related to your socket dissappearing.)
I used that path on Centos machines and it worked. I saw that Debian
uses
Curt wrote:
Richard Owlett wrote:
For example, to set the time and date to 15:00 on 1st February 2014:
sudo date 020115002014
That worked - it took effect after a reboot.
That's strange; I always thought you had to set the hardware clock
(hwclock) for the modified date and time to
Mark Allums wrote:
Dwijesh Gajadur wrote:
I recently bought and installed a PCI ATI Rage 128 Video card on my pc.
...
And then the screen goes black..nothing appears.
I have tested the video card on windows and it works well.
I also want to run debian on non-graphical mode..I did not
Proxy One wrote:
I installed Jessie on my new server few days ago and moved website
that run previously on Centos 5.
Welcome! :-)
I'm using Apache and PHP-FPM.
I have become an Nginx + php5-fpm advocate in recent years. If you
decide you would like to give it a try post something and I will
notoneofmyseeds wrote:
Bob, thanks for your very informed response, from which I'm learning a lot.
Happy to help.
Bob Proulx wrote:
You haven't really included enough information in the thread yet. You
are mounting an ext4 file system over a USB disk. What, in general,
is on the disk
Michael Fothergill wrote:
I looked at this file - it is quite big; I need to think what files to
search for within it
I have made a pastebinit link to the dpkg.log file:
http://paste.ubuntu.com/11731677/
Looking only at entries related to the xserver and filtering out
status and
Markos wrote:
My Debian Squeeze can read burned DVDs but doesn't detect blank DVDs, so I
can't burn iso images.
Any suggestion?
When I ran into that very same problem the problem was the new media I
bought. There are only a very few manufacturers of blank media. Be
that as it may be at least
notoneofmyseeds wrote:
Reco wrote:
Any other ideas please, this is driving me nuts!!!
This is something to be expected. You're using ext4 filesystem, which
carefully preserves files (directries, etc) permissions.
So you can mount the filesystem as a user, but it's
Bob Proulx wrote:
Check /var/log/dpkg.log for a trace of what was installed previously
and what was removed and what was recently installed. I think it
likely your xserver driver was removed due to a conflict. Figure out
what had been running and install it again.
In order to reduce
Michael Fothergill wrote:
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
Note that it will log errors with EE at the front. This is where the
errors start:
[15.104] (II) [KMS] drm report modesetting isn't supported.
[15.104] (EE) open /dev/dri/card0: No such file
Reco wrote:
linuxthefish wrote:
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
address 172.16.0.4
gateway 172.16.0.1
netmask 255.255.0.0
allow-hotplug wlan0
iface wlan0 inet static
wpa-conf /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant0.conf
address 172.16.0.5
Martin Read wrote:
Bob Proulx wrote:
In the old days computers would use ECC ram throughout.
ECC (in the strict sense) has never been ubiquitous.
At one time every computer I interfaced with had ECC. It was very
popular with me and everyone else I knew. :-)
Parity was quite common
linuxthefish wrote:
It looks like Debian will only connect to a wireless network when the
ethernet cable has been plugged in and unplugged.
No. If you are seeing this it is either a bug or a configuration or
use problem. Works fine for most of us. So my guess is a
configuration or use
arnuld uttre wrote:
I wanted to download all Debian 8.1 DVD images at my friend's place because
I don't have net at home. but all I see are 3 DVD ISO images available on
Have you considered using apt-offline?
apt-cache show apt-offline
apt-offline is an Offline APT Package Manager.
Paul Ausbeck wrote:
I recently replaced the hard disk in my ThinkPad R51 with a solid
state drive
The ThinkPad R51 is a solid machine. Don't let anyone tell you
otherwise.
The symptom is that as time goes on more and more programs will cause a
segmentation fault while loading. For instance,
to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
Bob Proulx wrote:
[...]
I debootstrapped a Jessie chroot in order to test your case.
[...]
Bob, just a lurker here. Thanks for this very instructive and well-
written walkthrough!
I am glad you found it useful. As long as I am on the topic I should
add a small
Reco wrote:
Bob Proulx wrote:
That use of socat was clever. I didn't like the pkill socat though.
Wouldn't be good if there were another one running at the same time.
Yes, there's a room for an improvement. Presumably socat can write own
pid to a user-specified pidfile, but I was lazy
Julian Brooks wrote:
All seems well, valuable lesson(s) learnt.
Seriously thought it was terminal, appreciate the wisdom people.
Glad to hear you solved your problem. In the future with a similar
problem you would be able to restore your current system permissions
from your backup. Not the
Julian Brooks wrote:
Cheers Bob :)
Uuummm - work files yes, system configs/settings not really.
Any top tips, like where are the permission file/s?
I think you are asking what backup software would be recommended?
There are many different ones. Let me point to a reference.
Anatoly A. Kazantsev wrote:
P.S: I'm not on the list, please keep me CCed
Will do.
I'm trying to install owncloud with lighttpd on stable release
Noting that Stable is Jessie 8 at this time.
Depends: apache2 | httpd, fonts-font-awesome, fonts-liberation,
Either apache2 or httpd will be
Fekete Tamás wrote:
I use wheezy 7.8 on x86_64 architecture and I'm simply unable to modify the
umask settings of the system. I have read many webpages for solution (even
helps specified for debian) but didn't find the answer what to do.
Now, my umask is the default umask: 0022. I want it
Joe wrote:
Francis Gerund wrote:
Or, I can always reinstall. The XFCE didplay is so fuzzy, it hurts
my eyes (even after woring with the gui adjustments). Maybe I will
go back to being a slave to Gnome - unconfigureable, but looks better.
That's generally a sign that a non-CRT monitor
Erwan David wrote:
Note also that using testing give you the advantage of not having to
upgrade all software at the same time, but gradually.
Yes. This is just like removing a bandage. You don't have to take it
off all at once. You can pull it off very slowly and savor the
feeling of each
Leslie Rhorer wrote:
Reco wrote:
Don't depend on curl. Use good old socat combined with wget:
That use of socat was clever. I didn't like the pkill socat though.
Wouldn't be good if there were another one running at the same time.
Why? The -L option in curl did the trick. Is there some
Lisi Reisz wrote:
Bob Proulx wrote:
Every file. File by file. I liked this presentation and found it
quite interesting.
http://marc.merlins.org/perso/linux/post_2014-01-06_My-Live-Upgrading-Many-Thousands-of-Servers-ProdNG-talk-at-Linux_conf_au-2014.html
That one definitely works
Linux4Bene wrote:
schreef Bob Proulx:
thanks for your reply and the time invested. Much appreciated.
It does indeed seem tricky unless you go the full monty and replace the
whole installation except for the special dirs like dev as you noted.
In my test, I didn't get any strange results
Michael Fothergill wrote:
I changed from jessie to stretch in my sources.list file and then did
Testing is a development track. It isn't released. Welcome to the
process of making the release. Remember that when running Testing or
Unstable that you are part of the development process. You
Francis Gerund wrote:
FWIW, here is the new /etc/apt/sources.list:
#
# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 8.0.0 _Jessie_ - Official Multi-architecture
amd64/i386 NETINST #1 20150$
# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 8.0.0 _Jessie_ - Official Multi-architecture
amd64/i386 NETINST #1 20150$
FWIW I
Linux4Bene wrote:
I am in the process of moving my server to another VPS.
The goal is to keep the old VPS around and convert it to backup MX DNS
amongst other things. I will purchase the new VPS from another company so
I can't just copy the vm file/container.
As a start, I would do a
Francis Gerund wrote:
It should be so simple . . .
It is simple. :-)
1) I have a new installation of Debian 8 stable (Jessie).
2) I want to convert it to a pure Debian testing setup, to track testing
indefinitely.
Beware that Testing is entering the most volatile time in its
lifecycle.
Jose Martinez wrote:
Marc Shapiro wrote:
Jose Martinez wrote:
Yeah, there's nothing like making an antique useful. I remember the
days of the PDP-11 running *nixWhat I wouldn't give to come up with
one of those old things!!
My first programming class, back in 1976 was on a
Reco wrote:
On Wed, Apr 08, 2015 at 01:17:15PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote:
David Wright wrote:
Reco wrote:
So, in the case of doubt - you use curl or rebuild wget against
openssl. It's that simple.
I know that people have strong feelings for and against curl and wget.
I haven't
Anatoly A. Kazantsev wrote:
P.S: I'm not on the list, please keep me CCed
...
I have installed lighttpd (same for nginx) on stable/testing,
but it doesn't provide httpd virtual package.
But it did. It showed as Provides: httpd in your data. That is how
it provides that virtual name.
Jochen Spieker wrote:
Petter Adsen:
I'm starting to suspect that it is. Either that, or the controller on
the motherboard, which would be even worse.
Or just the cable (if we are not talking about a laptop). I got rid of
similar errors in the past by replacing the SATA cable.
If it were
michael-spree-michael wrote:
It used to be that one can use two network cards at the same time, after
configuring /etc/network/interfaces and making the networks static.
Yes. This is a standard and widely used feature.
This I did.
The results; the wifi card won't connect and the wired
bri...@aracnet.com wrote:
aha. sounds like my problem. interesting that it's enabled by default.
i'm assuming that for my rinky-dink set-up with 5 users i don't need it ?
The number of users is not the determinating factor. It is the number
of groups for any particular user. There is an array
Glenn English wrote:
apparmor.
Ah! I would not have thought of that one.
In the recent Debians (Wheezy++, I think), there is a directory
/etc/apparmor.d. In there is a file called user.sbin.named. That
Yes. But it isn't enabled by default. On a recently installed Debian
Jessie 8 system:
Petter Adsen wrote:
OK, this is veering off-topic - apologies in advance. From what I
understand, LD_LIBRARY_PATH contains additional places to look for
libraries that aren't in ld.so.conf.
Off the original topic maybe but definitely a technical discussion of
something important to Debian and
Petter Adsen wrote:
Reco wrote:
May I suggest using etckeeper for this? The tool is invaluable if one
needs to answer a question such as what exactly did I changed a
couple of days ago?. The usual caveat is that using etckeeper
requires at least casual knowledge of any RCS that's
Philippe Clérié wrote:
So far I have not seen any trace of an attempt by the DHCPv6 server to
update the DNS.
Thanks in advance for any suggestion...
Does the dhcp *server* update dynamic dns? I always thougth it was
the client that made the dynamic dns update. I didn't look and this
is
bri...@aracnet.com wrote:
This is a weird one.
That is a little weird that it was a transient glitch of a failure.
Tried to use ssh and saw a bad permissions error on my .ssh/config file.
I do ls -l and i see uids/gids of 2^32-1 or a similar very large integer.
WTF ?!
Are you using
Deb wrote:
I'm intimidated by the bug reporting system and kind of afraid to use it,
but I'll read up on it thoroughly and see whether I can file a bug report
without getting yelled at (or filing a duplicate by mistake).
LOL! I have been yelled at in so many bug reports that I am
desensitized
Deb wrote:
I ran cruft through sudo in my three-day-old Jessie amd64 install on my
personal home tower, and redirected output to a text file. This error
message displayed on standard console output and was absent from the file:
find: `/run/user/1000/gvfs': Permission denied
I don't think
Deb wrote:
Jessie complained that the markauto option is deprecated and I should use
apt-mark auto instead. So I did and was informed that the library package
was already marked auto.
Oh, that is just me being slightly behind. Things change and I am
used to typing in the old way and if the
Glenn English wrote:
root@srv:~# ps -ef | grep named
bind 2098 1 0 May10 ?00:00:36 /usr/sbin/named -u bind
root 10498 1 0 May10 ?00:00:50 /usr/sbin/named -c
/etc/bind/named.conf
There are two of them running? That doesn't seem right. The first
one looks
David Wright wrote:
Quoting Petter Adsen:
PS: What _are_ the security implications of having a PATH set to
/foo/bar:?
...
$ cd /home/evilperson/malicious-programs/
$ emaca (oops, I mistyped emacs. Funny, why are my files disappearing?)
(oh dear, their file emaca contains
Eike Lantzsch wrote:
DHCP failover on a small network does not seem to be worth the
effort, except for training purposes. Exactly that is why this
thread was very informative for me. Just for kicks (training) I was
trying for a while to set up two dhcp servers on my network. One
OpenBSD on a
Petter Adsen wrote:
On Sat, 23 May 2015 09:36:31 -0400
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/mopac/MOPAC2012.exe:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
This is an obvious thing that jumps out at me, this line should be:
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/mopac:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
as LD_LIBRARY_PATH is meant to contain directories where
Rainer Dorsch wrote:
Nevertheless I am still wondering why it has the failed status,
rc.local has an hard exit 0 return code (?) :
Look at the first line of /etc/rc.local script.
rd@nanette:/etc$ cat rc.local
#!/bin/sh -e
The set -e ^^ here is what sets the -e flag for the shell.
Bob
Bret Busby wrote:
And, with Debian 6 LTS, in /etc/apt/sources.list, I have, apart from
the commented out lines,
deb http://http.debian.net/debian/ squeeze main contrib non-free
deb-src http://http.debian.net/debian/ squeeze main contrib non-free
deb http://http.debian.net/debian squeeze-lts
Lisi Reisz wrote:
Bob Proulx wrote:
The newest latest kernel installed is on the bottom.
Not here. I have the oldest on the bottom.
lisi@Tux-II:~$ dpkg -S /boot/vmlinuz-*
linux-image-3.16.0-0.bpo.4-amd64: /boot/vmlinuz-3.16.0-0.bpo.4-amd64
linux-image-3.16-0.bpo.2-amd64: /boot/vmlinuz
German wrote:
I am shopping locally here for a good KVM switch. For now, I am not
even sure what type should I get. What are advantages to have DVI
instead of VGA interface? Are there any justifications in price? VGA
KVM is about $20, where is DVI is $100. If money is no object, DVI KVM
is
Emil Payne wrote:
'Debian GNU/Linux, with Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64'
'Debian GNU/Linux, with Linux 3.2.0-0.bpo.4-rt-amd64'
'Debian GNU/Linux, with Linux 3.2.0-0.bpo.4-amd64'
'Debian GNU/Linux, with Xen 4.1-amd64 and Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64'
'Debian GNU/Linux, with Xen 4.1-amd64 and Linux
Bret Busby wrote:
... so, upon checking (using Synaptic) the tzdata package(s), and
finding they needed updating, apparently without depending on the
kernel update(s), I have now updated the tzdata packages. There are
tzdata and tzdata-java, both of which had updates available.
The tzdata
Darac Marjal wrote:
Gary Roach wrote:
When I start a download, it starts at 50M for the first few
seconds and then drops to 500K to 100K range.
Finally, don't rule out the possibility that your ISP is throttling
you. While you may be synced at 50M and may be able to transfer at that
for
Iain M Conochie wrote:
Bret Busby wrote:
I have today seen the news report below, and wonder whether it needs
some kind of patch for Debian Linux, and, if so, whether it has
already been done, or is pending.
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=679882#87
Good to see that
Pol Hallen wrote:
On same network 192.168.1.0/24 I can put 2 AP with each one own dhcp server?
(obviously with different range but on same network).
router IP 192.168.1.1
AP1 IP 192.168.1.2 (dhcp 192.168.100-149)
AP2 IP 192.168.1.3 (dhcp 192.168.150-199)
What is the purpose for doing such
Glenn English wrote:
I'm getting (and have been for a while) log entries from my slave
nameservers like:
dumping master file: /var/cache/bind/tmp-0EIP3LrP0G: open: permission
denied
...
drwxrwxr-x 2 bind bind 4096 May 21 10:09 /var/cache/bind/
Good.
Any ideas?
The first reason that
Bob Holtzman wrote:
Ric Moore wrote:
Please don't top post. Thanx, Ric
That's standard format on Earth, Sol system,
Alpha quadrant, Milky Way galaxy, Virgo supercluster
Sorry but it's not. Top posting isn't the standard format on
technical mailing lists. The standard format is
David Wright wrote:
Quoting Bob Proulx (b...@proulx.com):
When the program looks up the ftp.us.debian.org name it will get all
three of the above in some order. If your system is IPv6 capable it
...
Thanks for that clear exposition. I myself have had no problem with
these differences
Tony van der Hoff wrote:
Bob Proulx wrote:
If you didn't think of http://www.monoprice.com/ for that 100 foot
cable let me make a mention of it here for the future. I am a happy
customer of them.
http://www.monoprice.com/Category?c_id=105cp_id=10208cs_id=1020814
Beware
Gary Dale wrote:
To elaborate, declaring them RAID in the BIOS will make them look
like one drive. This would prevent mdadm from operating
entirely. You would be relying on the motherboard's firmware to
handle the RAID, which is generally not a good idea.
One general problem with BIOS raid is
Anil Duggirala wrote:
Im a newbie and would like to know why libraries in Jessie are some much
more up to date than in wheezy ? If the libraries have been tested and
are stable then why arent they available in the wheezy repositories. I
had a terrible time, trying to get a newer version of
Darac Marjal wrote:
Andrew Wood wrote:
Ive got 2 disks in a RAID1 mirror and am trying to setup Grub 2 so that I
can boot from either disk if one fails.
Ive tried using dd to copy the MBR over but when booting from one of the
disks I just get the word GRUB which I guess is because its
Brian wrote:
Bob Proulx wrote:
You are currently using:
deb http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian jessie main
That is okay. Good! But for the purpose of this task change that to
a different but still valid mirror. This would be a good time to try
out the new http redirector which
Raymond Jennings wrote:
I wound up buying a 100 foot cat5 cable and running it from the house to
the trailer :P
My perspective is that nothing is as reliable as hardline wire! It
will be much more immune to radio noise trouble. Speedy and
reliable. Wire will almost always be my choice if
Charlie wrote:
A question about alternatives in stretch:
$ update-alternatives --config x-www-browser
* 1 /usr/bin/chromium 40 manual mode
...
In claws-mail press a URL and it opens in iceweasel.
Sounds like claws does not call x-www-browser but instead calls
iceweasel directly. However I
David Wright wrote:
I noticed that on repeating the former, I got a very different file,
and this might be because ftp.us.debian.org had resolved to a different
IPv4 address (but IPv6 was the same).
$ host ftp.us.debian.org
ftp.us.debian.org has address 128.61.240.89
ftp.us.debian.org
Paul E Condon wrote:
I go into this seeming unnecessary detail because the behavior ot ssh
in this environment is very strange:
I think it makes sense and can be explained.
Sitting at Big, logged in as user pec, I can:
connect to pec@gq without giving any password
connect to root@gq also
Pierre Frenkiel wrote:
I have still the same problem with Hash Sum mismatch
Do you have any idea on how to fix it?
Is your system behind a proxy cache of some sort? This problem is one
sometimes seen when files of different ages are cached and served
causing the entire set of files to be
B.R. wrote:
What could be the problem? How should I investigate this?
Just guessing...
In your nginx configuration are you specifying a resolver that is
different or unavailable?
http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_core_module.html#resolver
Another guess but likely installing a local
B.R. wrote:
I managed to solve the problem with some help from debian IRC channel.
Great! Glad to hear you have it solved.
The problem lied in the /etc/network/interfaces, where my eth0 interface
was set up with the 'allow-hotplug' directive.
Still wondering why I ever did that... oO
Both
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
The bathtub curve also applies for software systems, in practice. When
you aim for realiability, you need to consider the general maintenance
state of the underlying kernel code (bitrot that crept in as other parts
of the kernel changed and evolved, general
Pierre Frenkiel wrote:
Get: 11 http://linux.dropbox.com wheezy/main i386 Packages [1,150 B]
why these references to wheezy?
Check for additional configuration files in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/*
which I expect you to find a file referencing linux.dropbox.com
wheezy.
At a guess I expect that
Marco Stoecker wrote:
If I've read the thread carefully and I thought that I indeed have a similar
problem as Daniel has, which in summary means If you disable the default
site via a2dissite, it will nevertheless show the index.html in
/var/www/html, when you call localhost or the dedicated IP
Paul E Condon wrote:
The following is just a few examples from kern.log:
May 8 11:32:49 cmn kernel: [4880283.861051] end_request: I/O error, dev sda,
sector 16136192
Ouch! You have a disk that is crying out for help. Oh the pain and
suffering of it!
All of them have the same sector
Michael Biebl wrote:
Bob Proulx:
Charlie wrote:
I had never even known about apt-mark and when Matthias pointed it out,
tried it, read the man page and was amazed.
The functionality of 'apt-mark hold' was new in Wheezy 7. Squeezy 6
didn't include that functionality.
Sort
Petter Adsen wrote:
Now the question becomes; AFAIK, I could do this with ssh tunnels and
forward the ports on my router/firewall, or I could use something like
openvpn or IPsec (strongswan).
Yes. Exactly.
Also 'stunnel4' is useful too.
I would avoid IPsec. Last I looked there were more
Charlie wrote:
I had never even known about apt-mark and when Matthias pointed it out,
tried it, read the man page and was amazed.
The functionality of 'apt-mark hold' was new in Wheezy 7. Squeezy 6
didn't include that functionality. Squeeze 6 only included controls
to mark and unmark the
Christian Seiler wrote:
Bill wrote:
what uses them and why shouldn't I close them?
(I'm assuming there must be a good reason to have wide open ports.)
It is debatable whether the old Sun RPC services should be installed
by default. I do use and manage NFS but I wouldn't install it by
German wrote:
Bob Proulx wrote:
ddrescue if=/dev/sdX of=/dev/sdY /var/tmp/rescuelogfile
Hmm.. The Wanderer suggest that *if= and of=* is the wrong syntax.
Argh! I have made two typos in the space of the last two messages. I
can't believe I made a mistake this silly.
He says
Marco Stoecker wrote:
Bob Proulx wrote:
I am unable to recreate your problem on wheezy. I just now installed
...
Go back and double check everything.
But what happens to the mailman site, if I disable listening on port 80?
Will the mailman site still be available?
(Me rattles my head
David Christensen wrote:
Juha Heinanen wrote:
On Partition settings screen, I choose Use as Ext2, Mount point /boot, and
Bootable flag on. Then I choose Done setting up the partition.
Why ext2? I use ext4.
I always use and recommend ext2 for /boot. It avoids wasting space in
the
Juha Heinanen wrote:
Bob Proulx writes:
Why no LVM? Using LVM is the way I always do it because that allows
I didn't have any particular reason to avoid LVM. I just tried if
encrypted installation succeeds without it. Now that I tried with LVM,
installation was simple and worked without
Sven Hartge wrote:
If you know, how to pull yourself out of the mud, are able to file bug
reports, read bug reports und know how to use apt-listchanges and
apt-listbugs, _then_ you can use Sid. (Been doing that for over 15 years
myself.)
(Chuckle.) I'm good to go. Specifically the reason I
Mark Allums wrote:
I have some packages that did not install correctly. One in particular is
giving me fits. It can't be upgraded. It can't be removed. It can't be
reinstalled. It can't be reconfigured. The error message states that it is
in an inconsistent state and needs to be
The Wanderer wrote:
Gary Dale wrote:
I think Wanderer may be overstating the problem a little. If the two
drives are exactly the same size, you can use ddrescue to duplicate
the failed drive onto the new drive (ddrescue if=/dev/sdb
of=/dev/sdc). However this will limit you to recovering
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