about apt and aptitude update

I use both apt and cmdline aptitude. Mostly cmdline aptitude I'm curios if when I call `apt update' or `aptitude update', if they are refreshing the same database files... wondering if I could do just one update on either tool and that would do both.

Re: debian exim4 smarthost and relay

> Reco writes: > David Wright writes: > Brian writes: Thanks to all for the succinct and helpful answers Sometimes googling excessively can confuse me a bit.

debian exim4 smarthost and relay

I hope this is the correct group for debian exim4 questions. I'm sure someone will point me elsewhere if not - Setup: New install of debian 10, in VBox vm attempting to get exim4 working. - Internet host with no recognized or dns resolvable name, or domain - Receives dhcp address, but made

Re: uefi boot install and disk partitions

Bonno Bloksma writes: > Hi, > > > > I have been creating a small (300MB) primary /boot partition at the > beginning of the disk for as long as I can remember... That is after > disks got to be too big for the BIOS to reach all of the disk to be > able to boot from a file anywhere on the disk. >

What program is capturing key press on root window of X?

cat /etc/os-release PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch)" NAME="Debian GNU/Linux" VERSION_ID="9" VERSION="9 (stretch)" ID=debian (running LXDE desktop) Somewhere in the last few months my Debian OS has acquired an input box on upper right of base window (in X) that appears to

Re: Not finding openssl during a pkg build (mailsend)

Greg Wooledge writes: > On Mon, Oct 01, 2018 at 12:47:01PM -0400, Harry Putnam wrote: >> cat /etc/debian_version >> 9.4 > >> I do have openssl and libssl-dev installed; > > In stretch, libssl-dev is the development package for OpenSSL version 1.1. > This is a

Not finding openssl during a pkg build (mailsend)

cat /etc/debian_version 9.4 Summary: Trying to compile a tool called `mailsend' (https://github.com/muquit/mailsend/releases/) (Which does not appear to be available in the regular repo). But cannot get it to find openssl. I do have openssl and libssl-dev installed; --- ---

What is available for setting services to run levels

What tools do we have for setting services to run levels

[OT] debian (or debian like) terminal program for android

aside: , | Having such a time trying to google this. It seems google has been | dumbed down to the point where +word or "these words" no longer force | those things to be in the hits. ` Can anyone tell me if there is a serious terminal program for android phones? I mean a full OS and

preferences > openbox configuration manager no start

setup: OS = Debian Testing (running as guest in a Vbox vm on an openindiana (solaris-11 offshoot [illumos powered])) Virtualbox-5.6.2 desktop=lxde I've reported a problem about the desktop icons unable to display their *.png images in another thread... the problem described below is probably

testing running lxde cannot diplay desktop icon images

Setup Testing running as guest in vbox vm on a Solaris (openindiana) host. This OS has been in operation since before the release of stretch ... It sees little use and has exibited very few problems. I run the lxde desktop. The problem I am seeing is that the desktop starts but only diplays a

testing running lxde cannot diplay desktop icon images

Setup Testing running as guest in vbox vm on a Solaris (openindiana) host. This OS has been in operation since before the release of stretch ... It sees little use and has exibited very few problems. I run the lxde desktop. The problem I am seeing is that the desktop starts but only diplays a

Following full-upgrade panel icons cannot display the image files

Setup: Running stretch as guest vm on Openindiana (a solaris 11 off shoot) inside Virtualbox Using lxde desktop, but set to boot into console mode, and I use startx to get to X with I want it. Following a startx, I see the buttons on bottom panel just show a white rectangle with red X in it. I

Re: vbox cannot find headers, although they are installed

Eike Lantzsch <zp6...@gmx.net> writes: > On Saturday, January 6, 2018 8:36:38 PM -03 Harry Putnam wrote: >> Having a problem getting the vbox guest additions on a `testing' >> install to allow for larger monitor resolution. >> >> When I attempt to install the a

Re: vbox cannot find headers, although they are installed

Eike Lantzsch writes: Harry wrote: >> What am I missing? > Eike Replied: > Did you by any chance install a kernel higher than 4.14.0-2 to check it out, > then went back to 4.14.0-2 or installed 4.14.0 and then went back to 4.9.0? > In that case VBox is most probably still

Re: vbox cannot find headers, although they are installed

"x9p" <deb...@x9p.org> writes: > On Sat, January 6, 2018 11:36 pm, Harry Putnam wrote: > ... >> (Look at /var/log/vboxadd-install.log to find out what went wrong) > ... > > the line above can explain a lot. Looked at that for some length before posting... i

vbox cannot find headers, although they are installed

Having a problem getting the vbox guest additions on a `testing' install to allow for larger monitor resolution. When I attempt to install the additions the ouput says it cannot find the headers for the running kernel. I have checked, rechecked and reinstalled the headers but still get the

reconstitute /boot on stretch

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... How can I go about reconstituting the /boot directory and contents that match my install? Not sure how to create the initrd, Sysmap, grub

on non-running OS find all installed pkgs

The hosts in this query are both on vbox vms. One not running but with OS disk mounted on a different host. How can I get a list of all debian pkgs installed on the OS that is not running? That is, when I have the debian OS disk mounted on a different HOST. Is there something in var (or

Re: Peculiar problem with root login

Tom Dial writes: [...] >From Harry's settings: >> LoginGraceTime 120 >> PermitRootLogin without-password Tom D wrote: > This will prevent root login using a password. Only other methods, such > as RSA authentication are to be permitted. That turned out to be exactly the

Re: Peculiar problem with root login

Harry Putnam <rea...@newsguy.com> writes: >> >> # ls -1 /root/.ssh >> Sorry ... I managed to overlook this one: root # ls -la .ssh total 12 drwx-- 2 root root 4096 May 30 21:44 . drwx-- 6 root root 4096 Jun 18 11:35 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 666 May 30 22:17 known_hosts

Re: Peculiar problem with root login

Harry Putnam <rea...@newsguy.com> writes: >> >> # ls -1 /root/.ssh >> Sorry ... I managed to overlook this one: root # ls -la .ssh total 12 drwx-- 2 root root 4096 May 30 21:44 . drwx-- 6 root root 4096 Jun 18 11:35 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 666 May 30 22:17 known_hosts

Re: Peculiar problem with root login

David Christensen <dpchr...@holgerdanske.com> writes: > On 06/12/2017 06:39 AM, Harry Putnam wrote: >> Running debian jesse in a vbox vm on a Solaris host >> >> I have what seems like an unusual problem with root login on this >> host. [...] >> I'm fresh

Peculiar problem with root login

Running debian jesse in a vbox vm on a Solaris host I have what seems like an unusual problem with root login on this host. I've done the normal things one does to allow root login; that is, add PermitRootLogin yes to /etc/ssh/sshd_config Restart ssh, and in fact this host has been

Re: Unable to compile newest emacs with gnutls

Harry Putnam <rea...@newsguy.com> writes: [...] Reco <recovery...@gmail.com> writes: [...] > ... >> I suspect it might be the dev pkgs that is needed: >> >> libgnutls-dev > > Indeed, but not this one. Not unless you're using wheezy. >

Unable to compile newest emacs with gnutls

Attempting to build latest emacs I run into a problem gnutls not being available. ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/src/vcs/git/test --with-x=yes --with-x-toolkit=athena --with-imagemagick --with-gpm --with-sound=no [...] configure: error: The following required

Re: How to >>COMPLETELY<< remove an application?

Cindy-Sue Causey writes: > Do Synaptic, Aptitude, and possibly anything else of that family have > similarly close but still different flags/commands? I haven't seen this mentioned in the thread... but may have missed it. I've noticed that some times aptitue purge

Re: -dec-terminal fonts

Siard writes: [...] > So, tech14.pcf.gz etc. are the fonts you're looking for. Thanks for the leg work.. gives a good start. Except I think you may have meant to say: /usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/fonts.dir:termB14.pcf.gz and

-dec-terminal fonts

I have these fonts as displayed by xlsfonts xlsfonts|grep dec [...] -dec-terminal-bold-r-normal--0-0-75-75-c-0-dec-dectech -dec-terminal-bold-r-normal--0-0-75-75-c-0-iso8859-1 [...] -dec-terminal-medium-r-normal--14-140-75-75-c-80-iso8859-1

Re: autofs config

Reco writes: [...] >> ls /prj/d0 or ls /prj/dv both fail. However another share on that >> same setup on the solaris host `gv' and 2x comes up as expected. > > You lost me here. If 'd0' and 'dv' are share names, you should use > auto.net like this: This problem is

Re: autofs config

Reco writes: [...] Harry wrote: >> So maybe that has something to do with the problem... Reco replied: > Hardly. The way you're doing on Solaris it you provide NFS shares to > everyone and their dog in read-write mode with sec=sys by NFS versions > ranging from two to

Re: autofs config

Reco writes: > To workaround #828217 please comment out the line with '-host' in > /etc/auto.master. Just wanted to get back to you right away about this part. Still looking into the other things you mentioned. The `-hosts' line in auto.master has been commented out

Re: autofs config

Reco writes: [...] > Won't it be fun otherwise? > > The good thing is - autofs is working as intended. > The bad thing is - mount is failing. , | NOTE: I've rearranged your post to put the next question and answer at | the bottom of this reply ` [...] missing q

Re: autofs config

Reco writes: [...] > And it gone haywire from here. Hehe... thats a good description... > Autofs has a concept of master map ( auto.master(5) ) which can contain > lines referring to either direct or indirect maps ( autofs(5) ). > > /etc/auto.master.d is intended for

autofs config

, | NOTE: A similar post was accidently posted to gentoo list but was | intended to be posted here ` Setup: Running Debian jessie-stable I've never used autofs and am trying to get it setup. Following the debian wiki and an Ubuntu howto. Also this site:

Re: kernel header for 4.6.0-1-686

Joe Pfeiffer <pfeif...@cs.nmsu.edu> writes: > Harry Putnam <rea...@newsguy.com> writes: > >> Joe Pfeiffer <pfeif...@cs.nmsu.edu> writes: >>> >>> Any particular reason you need that particular version? Could you >>> upgrade you

Re: kernel header for 4.6.0-1-686

Joe Pfeiffer <pfeif...@cs.nmsu.edu> writes: > Harry Putnam <rea...@newsguy.com> writes: > >> Juanjo Benages <jua...@benages.eu> writes: >> >>> El 25/10/16 a las 19:48, Harry Putnam escribió: >>>> Where can I get the kernel headers f

Re: kernel header for 4.6.0-1-686

Juanjo Benages <jua...@benages.eu> writes: > El 25/10/16 a las 19:48, Harry Putnam escribió: >> Where can I get the kernel headers for my kernel 4.6.0-1-686? >> >> apt-get does not show that version. >> >> Googling for awhile here and not finding it ei

kernel header for 4.6.0-1-686

Where can I get the kernel headers for my kernel 4.6.0-1-686? apt-get does not show that version. Googling for awhile here and not finding it either Trying to install vbox guest additions and it needs those headers.

Re: exim4 some config error causing error how to pinpoint

Liam O'Toole writes: [...] >> When I try to send a message from USER@HOST2 to USER@HOST1, instead of >> just delivering to USER@HOST1 it appears to be sending that message on >> to the gmail smtp server. >> >> The local lan is not a real FQDN so not suprising that the

Re: exim4 some config error causing error how to pinpoint

Liam O'Toole writes: >> Mail never appears at HOST1 /var/spool/mail/user2 >> >> > > Does user2 appear in the file /etc/aliases on HOST1? Is there a No > /home/user2/.forward file on that host? Either of those would cause mail No > Is there anything suspicious in the

Re: exim4 some config error causing error how to pinpoint

Liam O'Toole writes: > dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config Thanks, that was pretty painless. And thanks for the url to the documentation section. I've now progressed on to where I was aiming for. I wanted to have one debian box as main mail client. Yet be able to send

exim4 some config error causing error how to pinpoint

I've attempted to setup exim4 on a second debian OS, using the working configuration from the older one. Before getting too detailed I think I see something in output of my debug technique that indicated somewhere my host is telling exim the wrong host name. (dv is host with working config ) I

Re: How to arrange for booting to console

The Wanderer <wande...@fastmail.fm> writes: > On 2016-09-11 at 17:04, Harry Putnam wrote: > >> How can I arrange to boot to console mode rather than X. With the >> ability to startx when I feel like it. >> [...] > The way I usually do it is to uninstal

How to arrange for booting to console

How can I arrange to boot to console mode rather than X. With the ability to startx when I feel like it. I'm not familiar with grub2 and the debian vm I'm using on a solaris host appears to be using grub2. Can anyone stear me to the files I'd need to edit?

Re: odd internal mail failure

David Wright writes: > The obvious candidate is /etc/mailname which I don't see > any reference to your changing. /etc/mailname appears to be the culprit ... thanks.

odd internal mail failure

On a recently installed jessie OS I've found an odd situation happing with the internal mail. root is getting a message from root. At least that is what appears in >From and To. However the message is showing up in users directory as a file named `$'. Here is the header: From

Re: Long neglected OS ... updating

Stefan Monnier writes: > [ Speaking as someone who re-installs as rarely as possible, and whose > machines almost all derive (via upgrades like yours) from an install > from around 2006. ] OK, now were talking Thanks again to all posters... really good expert

Long neglected OS ... updating

Resurrecting a neglected OS, need a little coaching about the output of `aptitude full-upgrade'. I want to know if this output is fairly typical or what one might expect after neglecting an OS a good while... but mostly if going ahead is likely to land my subpar skilled behind in hot water.

How to find pkg specific font belongs to

I want to find the exact package font: -dec-terminal-medium-r-normal--14-140-75-75-c-80-iso8859-1 belongs to. I did search `find /usr/share/fonts -iname '*dec*' /usr/share/fonts/X11/misc/deccurs.pcf.gz /usr/share/fonts/X11/misc/decsess.pcf.gz

change sources.list to follow testing, not jessie

My current sources.list: , | deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free | deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free | | deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ jessie-updates main contrib non-free | deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian/

Re: how to debug this fuse problem

Guanqing.lu guanqing...@gameloft.com writes: Hi I met the same error message today and got it fixed in following way: root@myhost01 grub]# dmesg |grep fuse [5174104.384024] fuse: disagrees about version of symbol iov_iter_get_pages [5174104.384027] fuse: Unknown symbol iov_iter_get_pages

encfs quit wrking after full upgrade (jessie)

Following a fairly recent `full-upgrade', I'm no longer able to mount and enfs directory I've had for a good while. I installed it on jessie using wheezy on my sources.list. That worked for some months... but my most recent `full-upgrade' has done something that causes it to fail now. Error

Re: how to debug this fuse problem

Eduard Bloch e...@gmx.de writes: searching with `aptitudue search ckt7' (or ckt4) finds nothing at all. It's just an arbitrary version string. It can be (almost) anything, even 1.2.3.myCuteVersion-10.9.8. I suspect I could/should be running i686 with pae. Not sure why the installer

how to debug this fuse problem

Running `jessie' I've been using encfs, drawn from wheeze for months. But following a `full upgrade' I can no longer mount an encfs file system. The error message from mount attempt: , | fuse: device not found, try 'modprobe fuse' first | fuse failed. Common problems: | - fuse kernel

Re: how to debug this fuse problem

Eduard Bloch e...@gmx.de writes: [...] Attempting to modprobe fuse gets this error: , | root # modprobe fuse | modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'fuse': Invalid argument Something is wrong with your modules installation. Run dmesg to see what happened there. Run depmod -a once, it

Been out of it, when will there be a new `testing'

I've been dinking with gentoo and not paying attention here. I see no upgrades and we are in a freeze with jessie I guess. Can anyone hazard a guess when there will be a new `testing'? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

puzzling aptitude full-upgrade outptu

I get this from 2 separate debian installs of jessie host1 aptitude full-upgrade The following partially installed packages will be configured: gnome-icon-theme sgml-base sgml-data No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed. 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0

is sshd really restarting?

Setup: very new install of gentoo When I restart ssh like so: sudo /etc/init.d/ssh restart I see very little output. Should it be more verbose? , |harry sudo /etc/init.d/ssh restart | Restarting ssh (via systemctl): ssh.service ` Can I get more verbose output? -- To

Re: is sshd really restarting?

berenger.mo...@neutralite.org writes: Le 18.12.2014 18:13, Harry Putnam a écrit : Setup: very new install of gentoo Why not asking on a gentoo list, instead of a Debian one? Sorry that setup info is wrong... it is a debian (jessie) install where I get that brief output that makes me think

Re: is sshd really restarting?

Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com writes: Setup: very new install of gentoo TYPE ALERT: Setup: not so new install of debian (jessie) When I restart ssh like so: sudo /etc/init.d/ssh restart I see very little output. Should it be more verbose? , |harry sudo /etc/init.d/ssh

Re: [minor bitch] about the panel (taskbar) LXDE

Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com writes: Some mnths ago (not sure how many) the icons (running program indicators) that appear in the bottom (taskbar like ) panel changed from showing icons of the running program such as the emacs icon, xterm icon, vim icon etc. to just showing a generic icon

Re: [minor bitch] about the panel (taskbar) LXDE

Jape Person jap...@comcast.net writes: On 12/11/2014 01:56 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com writes: On Mi, 10 dec 14, 13:57:01, Harry Putnam wrote: Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com writes: So far every application *except xterm* I have tried has

Re: [minor bitch] about the panel (taskbar) LXDE

Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com writes: On Mi, 10 dec 14, 13:57:01, Harry Putnam wrote: Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com writes: So far every application *except xterm* I have tried has the same icon in the top left corner of its window as well as the taskbar. I tried GTK

Re: [minor bitch] about the panel (taskbar) LXDE

Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com writes: On Ma, 09 dec 14, 11:05:23, Harry Putnam wrote: Further, some indicators still show the regular icon. One I notice is iceweasel. I'd like the old behavior back but have no idea how to start digging into it. I'm guessing the icon is set

Re: [minor bitch] about the panel (taskbar) LXDE

Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com writes: [...] Hugo Vanwoerkom hvw59...@care2.com writes: [...] Tixy t...@yxit.co.uk writes: [...] Whoops, forgot the promised screen grab:

Re: [minor bitch] about the panel (taskbar) LXDE

Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com writes: So far every application *except xterm* I have tried has the same icon in the top left corner of its window as well as the taskbar. I tried GTK as well as Qt applications. To me this seems to indicate a bug in xterm rather than lxpanel. I

Re: [minor bitch] about the panel (taskbar) LXDE

Hugo Vanwoerkom hvw59...@care2.com writes: Harry Putnam wrote: Running jessie Using an lxde desktop... for a long time now (Note: for lack of a fuller vocabulary, the word icon is used to cover a few different things below:) (Attached at bottom is a screen grab showing what I'm

Re: [minor bitch] about the panel (taskbar) LXDE

Tixy t...@yxit.co.uk writes: On Wed, 2014-12-10 at 07:25 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: Tixy t...@yxit.co.uk writes: A (possibly wild) speculation is there's some race condition where the task bar button gets created before the application sets it's icon and then doesn't get notice or act

[minor bitch] about the panel (taskbar) LXDE

Running jessie Using an lxde desktop... for a long time now (Note: for lack of a fuller vocabulary, the word icon is used to cover a few different things below:) (Attached at bottom is a screen grab showing what I'm talking about) Some mnths ago (not sure how many) the icons (running

Re: Haven't seen this ssh output before

Jochen Spieker m...@well-adjusted.de writes: Harry Putnam: harry-on-REMOTE-sol ssh REMOTE-deb no common kex alg: client 'diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha1,diffie-hellman-group1-sha1', server 'curve25519-sha...@libssh.org,ecdh-sha2-nistp256,ecdh-sha2-nistp384,ecdh-sha2

Re: Haven't seen this ssh output before

Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com writes: I'm not at all clear on how one would go about making an adjustment in sshd_config to allow the algs used by my REMOTE-sol to be recognized. REMOTE-sol does not appear to be using OpenSSH .. maybe a solaris version of SSH. In light of the comments

Haven't seen this ssh output before

Running debian jessie I have one openindiana (solaris) host on my home lan. That host has had no updates or changes recently. Following a `full-upgrade' yesterday on a debian host, I am now seeing an ssh failure with output I have not seen before, when ssh from openindian host to debian host

Re: moving from 3.16-3-486 to 686

Pascal Hambourg pas...@plouf.fr.eu.org writes: Harry Putnam a écrit : My question is whether continuing to use the 486 versions of kernels has any down sides? The -486 kernel lacks support for multiprocessing/hyperthreading and PAE (which is required for NX/XD bit). I see in my latest

moving from 3.16-3-486 to 686

Months ago, installing jessie as guest on win7-64, I somehow ended up with a 486 kernel. In other previous installs it was a 686 kernel... not sure what I did. But no doubt I selected it without realizing or the like. My question is whether continuing to use the 486 versions of kernels has any

no C-h i m emacs ??

[NOTE: Originally miss-posted on ... emacs.help] , | From: Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com | Subject: no C-h i m emacs ?? | Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help | To: help-gnu-em...@gnu.org | Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 13:29:46 -0500 (2 minutes, 9 seconds ago) | Message-ID: 87egt14r51

Re: [exim4] rewrite left hand of email on outgoing mail

Jonathan Dowland j...@debian.org writes: My sympathies, I don't think it's an obvious location (ie outside of /etc/exim4) and I recall feeling similar when I eventually stumbled over it. On 18 Oct 2014, at 00:52, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: So, I just insert things the way I

[exim4] rewrite left hand of email on outgoing mail

Just now ran thru the ncurses interface you get with dpkg-reconfigure exim4.config On question you are asked is if you want to put a different domain on outgoing email I chose yes and inserted `newsguy.com' I never saw a way to rewrite the lefthand side of outgoing email. I need it to be

Re: [exim4] rewrite left hand of email on outgoing mail

Jonathan Dowland j...@debian.org writes: iirc it's /etc/email-addresses. See also man etc-email-addresses Oh man don't tell me its that easy... I've been fussing around with this for a good while. I've read a good bit about it, Been thru several key documents, but never heard mention of

[sendmail] outgoing mail leaves dead letter

I managed to get sendmail sort of working on one of my vbox guest debian vms. It was kind of rough sledding and still not really working properly. I use a smarthost from fastmail.fm where I have accounts. Finally seems to have gotten the auth working thru access.db. But an odd thing is

Re: [exim4] Testing and making sense of smtp output

lee l...@yagibdah.de writes: [...] Thanks for the tips. SMTP EHLO 2xd That's an invalid helo string. Is a valid one made up of just the full fqdn? And if so, is that not acquired from /etc/hosts? /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1dv.local.lan dvlocalhost 10.0.0.9

Re: [exim4] Testing and making sense of smtp output

lee l...@yagibdah.de writes: I accidentally let my prior response get away before I remembered to ask these questions. [...] LOG: MAIN = ha...@2xd.local.lan U=harry P=local S=569 $ delivering 1Xauru-0003TT-Fh R: smarthost for rea...@newsguy.com T: remote_smtp_smarthost for

Re: [exim4] Testing and making sense of smtp output

Martin Read zen75...@zen.co.uk writes: On 12/10/14 14:52, lee wrote: Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com writes: Can any of you experienced exim4 hands interpret this output? Reading RFC-821 would tell you more. Reading RFC 2821 would be even better, since RFC 821 is obsoleted by RFC 2821

Re: [exim4] Testing and making sense of smtp output

Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com writes: lee l...@yagibdah.de writes: [...] Thanks for the tips. SMTP EHLO 2xd That's an invalid helo string. Is a valid one made up of just the full fqdn? And if so, is that not acquired from /etc/hosts? /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1dv.local.lan

Re: [exim4] Testing and making sense of smtp output

: On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 02:45:44PM -0400, Harry Putnam wrote: And if so, is that not acquired from /etc/hosts? snip Egad ... I just noticed that was from a different machine... but the format is the same on all of mine. So still should stand as something to critique/ Debian's exim4

Re: [exim4] mixed up about terminology

Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com writes: So they would all be sending mail by way of server host. I guess that is not what is meant by relaying? I think that's relaying, but not open relay (if you get it set up right). But you should consider why you want to send out through a central server,

[exim4] Fresh config of lan smtp server question

Setup: Running 64bit Jessie Exim4-daemon-heavy pkg installed I'm working my way thru the `dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config' question answer session. It must be about the 2nd screen where it asks you the address of any hosts you expect to accept mail from. dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config: │ Please

[exim4] mixed up about terminology

when running `dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config' I've run accross a few of the questions that are confusing to me... The current one I'm stumbling over is 1) A question about listing of host IPs the smtp listener will listen for... And then later on there is 2) A question about which hosts

What problem does this log indicate?

System: 64bit jessie running as vbox vm guest Running on HOST Solaris (x86) (openindiana) I'm getting lots of lines in logs like below. Can anyone tell me what kind of a problem this log output is pointing to? /var/log/syslog:Oct 5 06:53:35 2xd systemd[1]: \

Re: [exim4] mixed up about terminology

Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk writes: On Sun 05 Oct 2014 at 12:01:48 -0400, Harry Putnam wrote: when running `dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config' I've run accross a few of the questions that are confusing to me... The current one I'm stumbling over is 1) A question about listing of host IPs

Re: [exim4] mixed up about terminology

Simon Hollenbach ionpowe...@gmail.com writes: Hello Harry, On 05/10/14 18:01, Harry Putnam wrote: when running `dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config' I've run accross a few of the questions that are confusing to me... The current one I'm stumbling over is 1) A question about listing

Re: What problem does this log indicate?

Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk writes: On Sun 05 Oct 2014 at 13:19:01 -0400, Harry Putnam wrote: System: 64bit jessie running as vbox vm guest Running on HOST Solaris (x86) (openindiana) I'm getting lots of lines in logs like below. Can anyone tell me what kind of a problem this log output

[exim4] Testing and making sense of smtp output

Setup: jessie 64 bit Freshly configured exim4 I'm quite new to exim4 although I've had it running on another Debian install for few months now. At any rate I'm not experienced enough to know how to find the source of a problem once I've gotten to the point where I'm attempting to send mail.

Re: [exim4] mixed up about terminology

Jerry Stuckle jstuc...@attglobal.net writes: On 10/5/2014 4:38 PM, Brian wrote: On Sun 05 Oct 2014 at 16:16:22 -0400, Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 10/5/2014 12:01 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: I'm pretty sure I'm leaving out some major piece of the smtp puzzle but not at all sure what it might

Re: [exim4] mixed up about terminology

Jerry Stuckle jstuc...@attglobal.net writes: The first question - why do you think you need to relay to other networks, even if they're your own? Do you have other SMTP servers running on those networks? Good question and apparently thee is no reason. It stemmed from a deep seated confusion

32/64 bit ... downloading install images

I want to download a jessie weekly build for 64 bit PC. What is the appropriate architecture on the downloads? My machine has nothing to do with amd but that is the only thing listed as 64 bit on the pages including jessie or testing. However, at https://www.debian.org/distrib/ the starting

Re: 32/64 bit ... downloading install images

Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com writes: My machine has nothing to do with amd Well, AMD created the x86-64 architecture we are all using (Intel's IA-64 never became really popular), so actually it does ;) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amd64 That is interesting. I would not have

bash vulnerability jessie

After an `aptitude full-upgrade' this morning. I still get the `VULNERABLE' answer to `x='() { :;}; echo VULNERABLE' bash -c :' I hope that is the correct string... (extracted while googling on vulnerability) I did ssh to my user from the same shell I ran aptitude in to make sure I had a new

Re: bash vulnerability jessie

The Wanderer wande...@fastmail.fm writes: On 09/26/2014 at 11:56 AM, Harry Putnam wrote: After an `aptitude full-upgrade' this morning. I still get the `VULNERABLE' answer to `x='() { :;}; echo VULNERABLE' bash -c :' I hope that is the correct string... (extracted while googling

Re: bash vulnerability jessie

Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com writes: So little mention?? There have been three threads. I said little... I did not say none. Compared to systemd cyclone of threads and posts, it is `little' and probably much more important at least right now. I guess I expected more than I see here. --

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