Re: Finding the appropriate manpage [Re: Can't find the DNS Servers]

2017-09-27 Thread Lck Ras
On 09/27/2017 06:16 AM, Don Armstrong wrote: > In almost every case, if you don't know the right man page, apropos (or > man -k) will help you find it. If that's not good enough, man -K > dhclient will eventually find all of them. > > dhclient (8) - Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol

Re: On another (but related) note: Zip files

2017-08-29 Thread Lck Ras
On 08/30/2017 07:57 AM, James H. H. Lampert wrote: > I know that the tradition for Linux is GZipped tarballs, but I also know > that, at least from the Gnome desktop, I can open a PKZip-compatible Zip > file, and create a (presumably also) PKZip-compatible Zip file. > > I don't, however, see a

Re: One-line password generator

2017-08-23 Thread Lck Ras
On 08/24/2017 02:11 AM, Brian wrote: > You should never reveal how your passwords are generated. In detail, > that is; in principle there might be no harm done. But how do you know how much you can reveal about it until there is real harm done? You can't really know for sure how much entropy your

Re: One-line password generator

2017-08-22 Thread Lck Ras
On 08/23/2017 07:31 AM, Brian wrote: > On Tue 22 Aug 2017 at 15:14:37 -0500, Mario Castelán Castro wrote: > You can recommend what you want but give me > > IhaveaMemorablePasswordwhichIwillnotforget! > > as opposed to > > WVAq7XLM4va6e1A4Bb4+Zw > > You will now explain why the first one will

Re: Limiting resource usage

2017-08-22 Thread Lck Ras
On 08/23/2017 06:48 AM, ju...@tutanota.com wrote: > - i cannot change the default setting. > is it a secure feature/the best option or a sign that something is wrong. limits.conf contains the "default" ulimits if it is set as "soft", and absolute limits if set as "hard", so if you want to change

Re: How to get sha256 digest for jessie, without a dist-upgrade?

2017-08-10 Thread Lck Ras
On 08/10/2017 06:08 PM, Neo wrote: > Hi folks > > How to get sha256 digest for jessie, without a dist-upgrade? > I'd use sha256sum, but if you must use openssl, the version in jessie-security has sha256. > $ openssl version > OpenSSL 1.0.1t 3 May 2016> $ echo test | sha256sum >

Re: cannot get node dns program to work externally

2017-08-05 Thread Lck Ras
On 08/06/2017 10:42 AM, Aaron Gray wrote: > Hi, > > I have a node.js based dns program on port 53 and have it working as > localhost on debian 8.5 but I cannot seem to get it to work externally > despite getting the firewall rules right having tested them with Bind9. Check if it's listening on

Re: determining which apps have entries in the applications menu in xfce

2017-08-02 Thread Lck Ras
On 08/02/2017 02:12 PM, Dan Hitt wrote: > There's a program that i have on my system whose name i cannot find in > the Applications menu. > > However, that might just be because i conducted a defective search. > > So i'm wondering if there's a systematic way to determine if the > program is in

Unstable WiFi

2017-07-30 Thread Lck Ras
Hello list, I'm running Debian 9, and I'm having issues with WiFi being occasionally unstable. It will run just fine for a while, but sometimes it will suddenly fail. /etc/network/interfaces: > allow-hotplug wlo1 > iface wlo1 inet manual > wpa-roam /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf >

Re: Cannot read my draft emails.

2017-07-29 Thread Lck Ras
On 07/30/2017 08:13 AM, Ken Heard wrote: > I now in Drafts emails which I now want to edit and send. When I try to > open them for editing in the text section nothing appears except this > message: This is controlled by the "Encrypt draft messages on saving" setting in your account settings,

Re: Q: systemd is restarting demons?

2017-07-20 Thread Lck Ras
On 07/20/2017 07:23 PM, Hans wrote: > Hello, > > I am wondering, if it is normal, that systemd is restarting a service, which > I as root did > stop. In may case it is laptools-mode. > > See the output of syslog: > Jul 20 12:16:47 localhost laptop-mode: enabled, not active

Re: user shutingdown/rebooting system w/wo sudo

2017-07-20 Thread Lck Ras
On 07/20/2017 05:39 PM, Fungi4All wrote: > Apart from what different wm/dm do, should a user without sudo > priviledges be able to stop or restart a system? > In most wm I have seen the user is able to do this without being > asked for root priviledges and I believe this is wrong and should > not