T o n g:
Further onto the thread stitching together 2 pdf files, of all the
tools mentioned, which one do you think (no guess please) can stitch 2
pages together side by side from the same pdf file. I.e., think of doing
the 2-up printing (onto the paper), that's the effect that I want to
shawn wilson:
could someone please tell me how i'm messing up? i know they didn't
remove vimdiff from debian stable:
\h:\w\$ vimdiff
This Vim was not compiled with the diff feature.
There are several vim packages with different features compiled in. Try
running 'dpkg -l vim\*' to see
D G Teed:
It is finicky. I played with various repo sources and once did
see clamav package group appear as possible. I said 'n' to abort
because I wanted to understand exactly where the package was
coming from.
You can use 'apt-cache policy $package' to see which source apt chooses
for
Colin:
Wow ... now I have a lot to do :-)
Hey, it's only about seven comands, plus some file editing. :) Don't let
my lengthy explanations scare you from doing it that way. It's a great
feeling to shuffle an OS around under your butt while it's running!
Just glancing through I'm thinking if I
Colin:
I want to move the crypto volume to new disk so I can use it and boot
from the new.
Thanks for the information. Now I know what your setup looks like. I am
still a bit unsure about your exact partition layout, because I didn't
ask for that either, but AFAICS you have at least this:
-
Bonno Bloksma:
This bash script has been doing it's job for the past few years but
suddenly stopped working in squeeze. Each part seems to work but the
complete script does not. :-(
I must admit that I am not really inclined to try to understand what
your scripts should do and and why they
Colin:
So I have this machine with a lvm crypto volume done with a debian
testing install. This is on a disk with 160GB.
But now I would like to clone it to a new disk: 500GB.
What are my options?
What's the order of the block layers?
- LVM on top of dm-crypt on top of raw device, or
-
Colin:
I don't remember the specifics when I did the install but here's what I got:
Thanks. Now please add the output of 'pvs', 'lvs'. And just to make
sure: you only want to move the encrypted volume to the new disk and
keep the old one?
J.
--
I use a Playstation to block out the existence
Jochen Schulz:
Colin:
I don't remember the specifics when I did the install but here's what I got:
Thanks. Now please add the output of 'pvs', 'lvs'.
Erm, that probably sounded rude. What I forgot to add is that I should
have asked for this information in the first place. Sorry!
J
Steve McIntyre:
We will cease support for Lenny early next year,
Funny that you mention it. We just yesterday discussed whether this news
item is still relevant today:
/ http://www.debian.org/News/2009/20090729
| Since Debian's last release happened on Feb. 14th 2009, there will
| only be
Steve McIntyre:
On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 04:13:28PM +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote:
I argued that upgrading from 5.0 to 7.0 will not actually be supported
(and hence, lenny will not be supported for longer than one year after
squeeze release) because 6.0 wasn't released ahead of time. Did I get
D G Teed:
I wonder if my previous problem was triggered by the
time of day as it was just around midnight.
I noticed this in the aptitude output:
Setting up gdm3 (2.30.5-6squeeze3) ...
Scheduling reload of GNOME Display Manager configuration: gdm3.
That only means that gdm3 will
Camaleón:
On Wed, 29 Jun 2011 00:07:23 +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote:
NACK. Security support for stable releases ends one year after stable+1:
http://www.debian.org/security/faq#lifespan
Lenny will reach its EOL in January 2012.
Hey, but that was not my understanding for lenny. I know
Camaleón:
I prefer installing from scratch, in-site upgrades is something I avoid
as much as I can :-)
Forget your experiences with SuSE. This is Debian. :)
(Disclaimer: I am still running one lenny system as well, but that's
mostly because I need to prod my hosting provider to install a
Scott Ferguson:
On 28/06/11 00:54, Jochen Schulz wrote:
No, dist-upgrades aren't different.
If you believe that then file a bug report.
ref: man apt-get
Apparently we are talking at cross-purposes, but your quote doesn't
refute my claim: apt-get's upgrade and dist-upgrade only differ
Jozef Dunajčan:
I want Debian only command promt without grafics(X, window).
Please help me choose Debian distribution.
I have industrial computer:
HDD: IDE 2GB
CPU: 486 66MHz
RAM: 64MB
The installer for i386 should work:
http://www.debian.org/releases/squeeze/debian-installer/
But keep
lee:
Jochen Schulz m...@well-adjusted.de writes:
Depending on what you want to use the machine for, you may be better
off using something like Damn Small Linux or even OpenWrt. When using
Debian, you will have to tweak the system quite a bit to ensure it
runs as fast as possible.
Would
Camaleón:
I will try to keep lenny until reaches its end of life, which should
happen when wheezy comes out.
NACK. Security support for stable releases ends one year after stable+1:
http://www.debian.org/security/faq#lifespan
Lenny will reach its EOL in January 2012.
Now I feel old.
I
Scott Ferguson:
I've never had a desktop (KDE) session crash from an upgrade,
dist-upgrades are different.
No, dist-upgrades aren't different.
The only difference between aptitude's safe-upgrade and full-upgrade
is that they use different algorithms for dependency resolution. The
upgrade
AG:
What on earth is going on here? Applications don't install
correctly, or they crash when opened?
Welcome to testing! :)
What have I done wrong on this, why would an ordinary safe-update of
Amarok crash?
Your question appears to imply that the word safe in safe-ugrade
gives any
Waqar Ali:
Waqar ali from pakistan. little confusion about downloading iso
image of debian i386. tell me is debian on 7 dvds kindly tell me how to
download debian on 1 dvd waiting for your quick response
You only need to download all DVDs if you actually need the complete set
of
Tapas Mishra:
I've been having a problem where when our vps provider decides to
restart the server (running Debian 5.0.8), the server fails to
remember changes to /etc/hosts. All I need is an database alias that
is used for the webapps on the server which points to 127.0.0.1
localhost.
I
David Baron:
Luckily, using the live-CD, I was able to download and re-install the
testing packages for libc6 and friends and finally get my system working
again.
What problem are you referring to? The breakage from the missing
symlinks on amd64? That issue has been fixed some weeks ago.
Mark Panen:
why is X running at runlevel 2 and not 5?
As Dave said: in Debian, there's no difference between runlevels 2-5.
J.
--
Thy lyrics in pop songs seem to describe my life uncannily accurately.
[Agree] [Disagree]
http://www.slowlydownward.com/NODATA/data_enter2.html
AG:
These are some of the issues:
1. Windows manager is unknown and no configuration tool is registered
2. windows are launched at the top of the screen I cannot drag
these elsewhere
3. clicking a mouse on a window does not bring it to the fore
4. there are no longer multiple workspaces
[CC'ed as per request]
Charlie Derr:
mount: special device /dev/fd0 does not exist
Your friend probably needs to load the 'floppy' module manually. To make
the system auto-load it on boot, just add a line containing 'floppy' to
/etc/modules.
J.
--
After the millenium I will shoot to kill.
Peter Beck:
Now I've got a 1TB disk which I would like to use instead of the
160GB disk. My question: Can I just clone the small disk to the new
large disk and then resize the LV on it ? Does that work ? I would
say yes, but I've never done that, so I am not sure... ;)
What I would probably
Gilles Mocellin:
On dim. 05 juin 2011 16:51:26 CEST, Jochen Schulz m...@well-adjusted.de
wrote:
What I would probably do is:
- install new disk alongside the old one
- put one big partition on the new disk and pvcreate the partition
- vgextend the existing VG with the new partition
Peter Beck:
On 06/05/2011 04:51 PM, Jochen Schulz wrote:
What I would probably do is:
- install new disk alongside the old one
- put one big partition on the new disk and pvcreate the partition
- vgextend the existing VG with the new partition
- vgreduce the VG, removing the old disk's
Hello list,
[…] I saved my package list by dpkg --get-selections package.txt, and
after the fresh installation, I could reinstall them again. I did this with
the command: apt-get install $(cut -f1 package.txt), which worked fine.
Just as a side note: This procedure has the probably
lina:
when I tried AutoDockTools, which showed me something like
IndexError: list index out of range
Is it something relevant to driver or Pmv or ?
It's a programming error in the application. Either a real bug or only
missing error handling.
J.
--
If I was Mark Chapman I would have
Gorka:
I am looking for the best way of appending commands to obtain the global
amount of Mb of the modified files of my PC.
Something like this:
find ./ -mtime -7 | du -Sch
In bytes:
find ./ -mtime -7 -ls | awk 'BEGIN { s=0 } { s+=$7 } END { print s } '
You can use 'print s/1024' in
Bob McConnell:
Before we go any further, lets get a couple of things sorted out.
What type of SSD (Solid State Drive) are you all talking about here?
If it contains Flash memory,
What else do you have in mind?
then yes, there is a limit to the
number of ERASE cycles each sector can do.
I made a fresh install of debian squeeze just after its release and
dutifully installed the updates suggested by the package manager
whenever necessary.
What's the content of your sources.list?
2) The only thing that worked was switching between x (ctrl+alt+f7) and
the terminal
Simon Hoerder:
deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian sid main contrib
That line points to unstable, aka sid. Sid is the permanent alias for
the unstable distribution, unlike the rolling aliases for testing and
stable.
Assuming Sven is correct:
B) Am I correct that the easiest way to return to
Simon Hoerder:
Is there an easy way to remove all unstable packages?
No, at least no easy way I could come up with. You could use aptitude
search to identify installed packages from unstable, remove them and
reinstall them from squeeze. But since you apparently already have libc
from unstable,
Javier Barroso:
So, why not, simply wait one month without upgrading, remove sid from
your sources.list (and keep only wheezy), and then aptitude update;
aptitude safe-upgrade; aptitude full-upgrade ?
Because the OP would still run some kind of more or less mixed
wheezy/sid system even
KS:
Surprisingly, dpkg does not show 2.6.38 whereas apt says that it exists!
Dpkg doesn't know packages that were never installed. Apt does.
J.
--
I wish I had been aware enough to enjoy my time as a toddler.
[Agree] [Disagree]
George:
On 5/6/11, Jochen Schulz m...@well-adjusted.de wrote:
If you only allowing key-based authentication and install security
patches in a timely manner, the risk from running a public OpenSSH
server is low. Expect brute-force attempts to login using weak
passwords, though. If you only
George:
On 5/6/11, Jochen Schulz m...@well-adjusted.de wrote:
You can authenticate to an OpenSSH server using a password, or using a
keyfile. On the client side, simply run 'ssh-keygen' to create a
keypair.
So the attacker needs to guess my private key instead of my password.
Exactly
George:
I have a computer at home that I'm doing some research on and I set up
an SSH server on it so I can access it from other computers at home. I
haven't opened up the network to the internet yet though, as I'm not
confident enough that it is safe.
If you only allowing key-based
Paul E Condon:
[…] I can see good reasons for DHCP, but I have never
understood how I could get my four Debian hosts to talk to each other
under DHCP. I see some things that can be configured to have DHCP
assign fixed IPs to certain devices based on their MAC address, but is
that what needs
Jimmy Wu:
$ PS1='\W '
~ cd /home
hmee cd /media
meiia cd /boot
Same here, on squeeze and sid (both amd64, just as yours). It's already
reported as #589084. A link to a patch is included, in case you want to
rebuild bash yourself.
J.
--
I worry about people thinking I have lost direction.
Ravi Roy:
This might be a stupid question becuase of my ignorance, in case it is,
please excuse me.
:)
Debian 6.0 Squeeze is stabe and Lenny (last point rel. 5.0.8) is old stable.
As per the posts I have come through so far, says that oldstable are moved
to http://archive.debian.org
sdc:
My beginner question is, why doesn't Debian remove the proprietary software
hosted on it's servers?
Because Debian currently thinks keeping proprietary packages serves
their users better than removing the offending packages. Officially,
proprietary packages aren't part of Debian anyway
Andrei Popescu:
On Mi, 27 apr 11, 12:03:41, Jochen Schulz wrote:
In short: no. Debian follows the DFSG, the FSF follows its own rules.
^^^
You probably meant the Social Contract here ;)
I actually even wrote that but later on changed it to DFSG in order
Klistvud:
And here's what I need advice for:
I'm planning to purchase a wired (consumer grade) switch since I've
heard they're inherently more robust than (consumer grade) routers,
and I'm planning to connect it *directly* to our cable broadband
modem. Then, the two families would connect
Klistvud:
Dne, 20. 04. 2011 11:25:27 je Jochen Schulz napisal(a):
Klistvud:
I'm planning to purchase a wired (consumer grade) switch since I've
heard they're inherently more robust than (consumer grade) routers,
and I'm planning to connect it *directly* to our cable broadband
modem
Тира Шюпаст:
I am new at sending bug reports to Debian, so please bear with me, and my
English too.
No problem. You just need to know that this list is not the right place
to report bugs to Debian Developers, that's what the BTS is for
(bugs.debian.org). But anyway, you mail's content suits
Michaël Grünewald:
But anyway I try it again: is there a kernel command line option
that disables parallelization of initialization and fixes the order
of it?
Not a kernel option, but you can edit /etc/default/rcS and set
CONCURRENCY=none. That should prevent init scripts from being run in
tux:
I'm using squeeze, and I want to hutplug an sata device.
Someone said to me that sata and scsi is the same in linux.
That's true to some extent, yes. Device naming is (and always was) the
same, for example.
I searched the web, the way of hot plug for scsi is echo an string to
T o n g:
Is there any way that I can kill all those kernel processes associated
with the mount?
For NFS run:
/etc/init.d/nfs-kernel-server stop
J.
--
All participation is a myth.
[Agree] [Disagree]
http://www.slowlydownward.com/NODATA/data_enter2.html
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Slicky Johnson:
I simply mark threads ignored and I don't seen anymore mails regarding
that topic. I currently use claws-mail, and I see you're using mutt.
If I remember correctly you should easily be able to mark a thread as
ignored.
Unfortunately, this isn't the case. You can mark
Lisi:
The Debian computers can be neither pinged nor ssh'd to. This is presumably
because of some setting that Debian puts in place by default, but I can't
find where or what.
Debian doesn't install a firewall/packet filter by default. You just
need to install openssh-server in the
L V Gandhi:
When ever I close iceweasel 4 in squeeze, process is not closing.
How did you install Iceweasel 4? It isn't part of squeeze.
J.
--
I no longer believe in father christmas but have no trouble
comprehending a nuclear apocalypse.
[Agree] [Disagree]
tv.deb...@googlemail.com:
On Sid:
aptitude show cant
Paquet : cant
État: non installé
Version : 0.8.15-1
Priorité : supplémentaire
Section : admin
Responsable : Alexander Reichle-Schmehl toli...@debian.org
This installs the following shell script as /usr/bin/cant:
|#!/bin/bash
|
bars0 bars0:
I recently bought an OCZ VERTEX 2 SSD. What precautions should I take
when installing Debian on it?
You don't strictly need to do anything special. You may want to read the
advice here anyway:
Geronimo:
From a closer look to dpkg.log - there has been updates of python and grub
uses python. Could this lead the different behaviour?
Looking at your dpkg.log again, I notice that grub-pc has been purged
and replaced by grub-legacy. Which version of grub are we talking about
again? :)
be a graphics problem. See this bug
report:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=594967
It looks like the fix didn't make into stable, but you can try setting
GRUB_TERMINAL=console.
Jochen Schulz wrote:
Can you still make the system bootable again just by removing the extra
SATA controller
Geronimo:
Jochen Schulz wrote:
a hint that this *might* actually be a graphics problem. See this bug
report:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=594967
It looks like the fix didn't make into stable, but you can try setting
GRUB_TERMINAL=console.
You ARE my hero :D
All
Geronimo:
Tom H wrote:
It looks like you've found a gem, especially given the external card
and this post by Colin Watson (#54):
I don't think that's related. The issue cannot be resolved by removing
the external card.
You can also verify this at a lower level by trying 'lspci' at a GRUB
Geronimo:
Jochen Schulz wrote:
Geronimo:
As every of my drives had an installed grub in mbr,
Ok, I forgot that. (BTW, I find this setup really strange, but if it
worked in the past with grub2 it should of course continue to work.)
LOL - let me clarify, that this setup has not been
Kaushal Shriyan:
is there a way to automatically restart the OpenVPN session while i switch
to and fro from Wireless to Wired Network on Debian Squeeze ?
Do you use network-manager?
If not: you can add lines for OpenVPN to your entries for wired and
wireless networks in
Kaushal Shriyan:
I have multiple VPN Configs. is the below setting correct ?
iface eth0 inet dhcp
openvpn vpnname1 vpnname2 vpnname3
iface wlan0 inet dhcp
openvpn vpnname1 vpnname2 vpnname3
I guess that should work, but I haven't tested it and I don't find an
example for
Geronimo:
Jochen Schulz wrote:
- Which disks are connected to which controller?
As told above, the system disks are attached to the main board. The system
disks are the three SSDs and a WD VelociRaptor (sdb)
Ok, so to sum up: You have trouble booting from disks connected to your
Geronimo:
Jochen Schulz wrote:
AFAICS, we can rule out the kernel as the cuplrit completely, as grub
doesn't even get that far.
VETO - after reboot, you might be right, but what happens during update-grub?
update-grub only creates the configuration file, it doesn't write the
MBR
Geronimo:
the last update of debian broke my system completely!
I am very sorry for your wasted time and loss of data. I see why you
need to let off steam. Nevertheless I think this threads leads nowhere
unless you are more specific about the hardware in use and what kind of
upgrade you
Geronimo:
Jochen Schulz wrote:
Geronimo:
the last update of debian broke my system completely!
I am very sorry for your wasted time and loss of data. I see why you
need to let off steam.
Thank you very much! - usually I'm not that coarse.
That's ok. I am glad my mail didn't anger you
Γιώργος Πάλλας:
A short question: I have two 500GB HDDs and I want to use their space as
one. Should I aggregate them with software RAID, or using LVM in regard
to data safety? If one of them malfunctions, is one of the two
approaches better?
If your goal is to use the disks as a single 1TB
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.:
Buy another 500GB disk and do software RAID 5 if you really need 1TB of
space.
It won't be great, but it'll be a LOT safer than what you are proposing.
mdadm can even do RAID10 on three drives (IBM calls it RAID 1E). You'll
get 750GB of space with three 500GB
Yassine Ehssan:
I have tried to I install the Debian operating system on a hard disk
partitioned using windows vista hard disk partition manager and I have
specified a primary partition of a capacity of 100 GB
You most probably don't need that much space for Debian, but of course
it doesn't
Dotan Cohen:
I need to dd or cp my laptop's harddrive over the LAN. For a reason
that I'd rather not get into I cannot remove the drive from the
laptop.
What do you want to achieve? Cloning a filesystem that is in use always
has some drawbacks, depending on the method.
If you use LVM: use
Please don't top-post.
waterloo:
In gentoo, I set battery thresh in
/sys/devices/platform/smapi/BAT0/start_charge_thresh .
But in Debian 6 I can not find that file .
module-assistant auto-install tp-smapi-source
J.
--
The news at ten makes me peevish but animal hospital makes me cry.
green:
Jochen Schulz wrote at 2011-02-24 11:07 -0600:
waterloo:
In gentoo, I set battery thresh in
/sys/devices/platform/smapi/BAT0/start_charge_thresh .
But in Debian 6 I can not find that file .
module-assistant auto-install tp-smapi-source
In squeeze, all that is necessary
Heddle Weaver:
looking at the collective knowledge factor, what's the best disc encryption
package?
What's everybody using?
Two examples of Xzibit this week and hash changes showing up in the logs.
No damage, just nosy kids.
I am not sure what you are saying, but be aware that disk
Qi Qi:
I have been using debian unstable. After debian 6.0 released, aptitude
upgrading asks me to remove gnome, gnome-core, and
gnome-desktop-enviroment,etc.
I doubt that you are using (safe-)upgrade. You are probably having
trouble using full-upgrade which you didn't have if you used a
Heddle Weaver:
On 16 February 2011 20:06, Jochen Schulz m...@well-adjusted.de wrote:
Qi Qi:
I have been using debian unstable. After debian 6.0 released, aptitude
upgrading asks me to remove gnome, gnome-core, and
gnome-desktop-enviroment,etc.
I doubt that you are using (safe-)upgrade
Please don't top-post. Instead, trim the quotes and write your reply
below or in-between.
Radhakrishna Bhat:
Not sure, but I think you need to be running 'gpm' daemon for middle button
paste to work.
Gpm is only needed for mouse support in the VTs. X doesn't need that.
J.
--
Atrocities
John Jason Jordan:
Does anyone know of a place that has a fairly detailed but not too
technical list of why one would want to use LibreOffice over OOo,
disregarding the open source issues.
I would be surprised to find something like this. The fork has purely
political reasons and as it is
Adrian Levi:
On 16 February 2011 02:47, Jochen Schulz m...@well-adjusted.de wrote:
I would be surprised to find something like this. The fork has purely
political reasons and as it is still quite young, it shouldn't have
deviated from OOo by much until now.
LibreOffice includes
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.:
If you just want a .deb to install, I've heard there's a makefile target in
the kernel tarball that works fine. I believe but can't confirm that the
.debs generated by the makefile in the kernel tarball will properly invoke
the postint scripts that are used to
Allan Wind:
On 2011-02-09T09:31:51, Brandon Ros wrote:
What is the bottom line with:
mount options (TRIM, noatime)
All I did was ensuring that I was on a recent enough kernel for
TRIM support (2.6.33 and I think Debian added it to 2.6.32-12),
and added noatime and nodiratime in
Andrei Popescu:
Of course, a ThinkPad is not perfect for everyone,
True.
here are some possible cons:
- battery life is not very good
Depends on the model and the battery.
- quite heavy
Dito. My 12 X200 weighs less than 1.5kg. Quite portable, I would say.
- many models have only a
hamed hosseini:
i want buy labtop,tell me best labtop for debian os?
900$-1300$
my choice is lenovo labtop
I have been using an X200 for the last two years and I am still very
pleased with it. The X201 is a bit more expensive and features more
recent CPUs, but you might want to consider
Tony van der Hoff:
I have a headless VPS running Lenny. For the time being, until I get
some time to attend to it, I wish to keep it that way. However, my
sources.list points to stable:
Then change that to lenny and run apt-get update. If you didn't
install any packages from squeeze (which
Hugo Vanwoerkom:
Doing a dist-upgrade in Sid this morning wants to remove all xserver
packages. Wait a bit?
That's why I always preach not to run dist-upgrades (or full-upgrades,
as aptitude calls them) but simple upgrades. That way you won't have to
fear removing half of your system.
J.
--
T o n g:
I can't figure out how to use the remount option of mount.crypt from its
man page. All the following that I've tried have failed:
mount.crypt -o remount ro /dev/sdaxx /mnt/point
mount.crypt -v -o remount=ro /dev/sdaxx /mnt/point
Use a comma to separate mount options, just like
Nick Lidakis:
On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 01:49:10AM +0100, Jochen Schulz wrote:
Java includes tons of alternatives, not only java. I guess you still
have other alternatives pointing to openjdk. Use
'update-java-alternatives' to fix them all at once and try again.
This is what I get:
phobos
Nick Lidakis:
In trying to track down what was going on, I realized I had the Sun Java jre
installed from the non-free repository and openjdk-6-jre
openjdk-6-jre-headless. I tried using update-aletrnatives --config java to
pick between the two to no avail. I removed the openjdk packages and
shawn wilson:
second, where do i find the cause of this alarm? i looked in my the log
files of when it started (well, kern, messages, syslog) and sent along the
only thing i saw... now, this was a $400 supermicro motherboard when i
bought it a few years ago,
I have a Supermicro board as
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh:
On Fri, 28 Jan 2011, Alfonso Ruiz wrote:
The ST2000DL003 is 4096 bytes per sector, can this have problems with
squeeze?
Squeeze tries to align everything to 1MB boundaries, so it shouldn't cause
problems.
Do you refer to the installer only, or does that apply
Andrew McGlashan:
Vu Ngoc VU wrote:
As sun-java5-jre doesn't exist on Squeeze, there is no clue.
But if you want to install some package that have the same name on
both distros, you can use option -t with apt-get.
If sun-java5 continues to be important, then why not have a port in
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh:
On Fri, 28 Jan 2011, Jochen Schulz wrote:
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh:
Squeeze tries to align everything to 1MB boundaries, so it shouldn't cause
problems.
Do you refer to the installer only, or does that apply to the usual
tools (parted/cfdisk, LVM
Sjoerd Hardeman:
Celejar schreef:
Oh, basically the Evil Maid attack. Fair enough. But then you have to
make sure the attacker can't flash the BIOS ...
Bother to explain how it works? If you have an encrypted partition,
no adapted kernel will ever be able to access it.
Of course it can.
Celejar:
On Tue, 25 Jan 2011 07:58:28 +0100
A single core get's used 100% by the kworker thread. But actually it's
not 20MB/s, but 25MB/s while reading (decrypting) and 35MB/s while
writing (encrypting). I just tested it again.
So does that mean that your wireless throughput with
Celejar:
Brad Alexander stor...@gmail.com wrote:
Linux admins used LUKS, and as a further step, I put /boot (the only
partition that cannot be encrypted) on a USB stick, so that if anyone
got the laptop, they had no access to the data.
Why does putting /boot on a USB stick gain you
Celejar:
Jochen Schulz m...@well-adjusted.de wrote:
Celejar:
Why does putting /boot on a USB stick gain you anything?
Because an unencrypted /boot may be altered by an attacker without you
noticing it. Theoretically, the kernel may be replaced by another one
that reports your passphrase
Celejar:
I'm somewhat confused about this. My system has 2GB of RAM, and I have:
$ uptime
20:46:09 up 5 days, 5:30, 9 users, load average: 0.06, 0.09, 0.25
$ free
total used free sharedbuffers cached
Mem: 206517210473121017860
Bob Proulx:
Jochen Schulz wrote:
Modern browsers appear to support that TLS extension:
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Server_Name_Indication#Browser\
s
I will implement this in a test installation and get some experience
with this feature. The future looks brighter
(Ccing the OP since I am unsure whether he reads the list.)
Thomas Nguyen Van:
Our company needs to encrypt hard drives on our machines running under
Linux Debian Lenny. […]
Instead of reposting your question from last Wednesday, it would be more
polite to answer to the replies you already
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