TFTPD-HPA permissions

2020-11-18 Thread AW
Im having a strange problem with tftpd-hpa. Ive not changed anything in its config other than added -vv to get it to log whats going on. Im trying to copy from a Cisco router to the tftp server The log on the server log shows WRQ from the routers ip with the filename then 'sending NAK (1, file

Re: TFTPD-HPA permissions

2020-11-18 Thread AW
A vague memory but does the file not need to already exist on the server with some older cisco kit? Try touching the file on the server first. Mike. -- Michael Howard Your memory served you well, that sorted it, thanks Mike. Regards Andrew

Driver issues with GDM & wifi on Intel

2020-11-25 Thread AW
Ive got a new Dell Lattitude 3410 with "Integrated Intel UHD for 10th Generation Intel Core i3-10110U graphics" and Intel wifi but I cannot get either of them working properly on Debian 10. Ive tried installing firmware-linux-nonfree and firmware-linux but it still wont progress past 'Starting

Re: Driver issues with GDM & wifi on Intel

2020-11-27 Thread AW
On 26/11/2020 09:58, Andrei POPESCU wrote: Most likely the package you need is firmware-iwlwifi, possibly the version in buster-backports. https://packages.debian.org/firmware-iwlwifi Kind regards, Andrei Thanks everyone Ive upgraded it to testing which got GDM working and the firmware-iwlw

Re: Skype access cancelled for Debian versions before 7

2014-08-02 Thread AW
I've tried linphone once or twice. The basic issue with SIP phones is that it's not really possible to jump networks. It's kind of like a cellphone network where you can only dial other subscribers of the same network. http://en.flossmanuals.net/linphone/ So, for many users a Skype client is ne

Re: Skype access cancelled for Debian versions before 7

2014-08-02 Thread AW
tly if you'd like... On Sun, 3 Aug 2014 08:11:22 +0800 Bret Busby wrote: On 03/08/2014, Bret Busby wrote: > On 03/08/2014, AW wrote: >> > > > >> So, for many users a Skype client is necessary... unless Microsoft >> decided to work on making Skype full

Re: The Fine Art of Making a Bootable Drive

2014-08-03 Thread AW
"Martin G. McCormick" writes: Copy MBR only of a hard drive: dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb bs=446 count=1 The last 64 bits of the 512 mbr contain partition information and this is where I may be all wet. I thought the disk-copy process took care of that but if not, this is why

Re: Threading using digest and kmail (was Re: Exim4 not routing local mail ... )

2014-08-03 Thread AW
On Sun, 3 Aug 2014 16:41:17 +0100 Brad Rogers wrote: >Quite an achievement, given that >99.% of MUAs quote correctly "out of the box". I'm fairly old to Debian. I run a few email servers. I know the ins and outs of lots of things. And yet, I've rarely posted to mailing lists. So, I don

Re: What is the connection between Microsoft and systemd?

2014-08-03 Thread AW
On Sun, 3 Aug 2014 13:31:24 -0700 "" wrote: >It doesn't work with BSD or Hurd, This is my main gripe. HURD is a great project. The microkernel is a truly great architecture... extensibility built right into the most basic user visible OS component. I sometimes wish Linus didn't create Linux..

Re: The Fine Art of Making a Bootable Drive

2014-08-04 Thread AW
On Mon, 04 Aug 2014 06:33:35 -0500 "Martin G. McCormick" wrote: >a working boot sector is that mkfs doesn't do that. That's correct. However there is another program called 'makefs' that will create an image file from a user defined directory tree. The 'makefs' program is not the long name ve

Re: Device mac addy keeps changing

2014-08-04 Thread AW
On Mon, 04 Aug 2014 18:55:36 -0400 Maureen L Thomas wrote: >Everytime wifi goes down I go back into the network tools and a >different dma is there. I change it back to my router and it works >until I shut down. When I reboot it, it is back to their dma. I'm not sure what you mean here...

Re: Help needed with wireless on a Thinkpad X40

2014-08-04 Thread AW
On Mon, 4 Aug 2014 19:47:45 -0400 Alef Farah wrote: >Thinkpad does a single blink every >~5s. Fn+F5, which should toggle the wi-fi, seems to have no effect >whatsoever. Try: tail -f -n 150 /var/log/syslog And then press the Fn+F5 keys... what shows in the log? --Andrew -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Help needed with wireless on a Thinkpad X40

2014-08-04 Thread AW
On Mon, 4 Aug 2014 22:51:49 -0300 Alef Farah wrote: >Nothing is logged. Though Fn + other F keys (such as lowering screen brightness, >which works) also don't trigger any log entry. It's possible the key combo is being caught by the BIOS ... However, even in that case, if the wireless interface

Re: End of hypocrisy, beginning of reason

2014-08-05 Thread AW
On Tue, 5 Aug 2014 12:32:48 -0400 Steve Litt wrote: >When I switch to systemd, I'd like to have it as isolated as humanly >possible, just because I'm a modularity kind of guy. I've been watching the thread here... and I understand the thought of not changing from sysvinit because sysvinit work

Re: Debian php5 (Can't get download when doing apt-update)

2014-08-05 Thread AW
On Tue, 5 Aug 2014 13:41:34 -0400 Matthew Brown wrote: >Can you provide some insight, if you've done this successfully can you >share the fix? >"E: Unable to locate package php5" Does your internet work? ping yahoo.com for example... If so, what's in your sources.list file? cat /etc/apt/sou

Re: Debian php5 (Can't get download when doing apt-update)

2014-08-05 Thread AW
On Tue, 5 Aug 2014 14:36:38 -0400 Matthew Brown wrote: >- sources.list ># > ># deb http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main contrib >deb-src http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main contrib > ># deb http://packages.dotdeb.org stable all >deb-src http://packages.dotdeb.org st

Re: Mongodb smallfiles option

2014-08-05 Thread AW
On Tue, 5 Aug 2014 12:27:16 -0700 S Tan wrote: >I keep getting "ERROR: Insufficient free space for journal >filesPlease make at least 3379MB available in >/var/lib/mongodb/journal or use --smallfiles." I am trying to run >mongodb with smallfiles option. Looked in /etc/mongodb.conf but I d

Re: End of hypocrisy, beginning of reason

2014-08-05 Thread AW
On Tue, 5 Aug 2014 15:44:50 -0400 Steve Litt wrote: >I hear PAM now depends on >systemd, for what reason I haven't a clue. I'd bet last Tuesday's burrito special that you could compile and install a version of PAM without systemd... However, it's not all surprising that PAM pulls in a systemd

Re: Debian php5 (Can't get download when doing apt-update)

2014-08-05 Thread AW
On Tue, 5 Aug 2014 16:08:49 -0400 Matthew Brown wrote: >One quick question, I have the php config file pointed to the web root >(www) and put a test php file in it, but it is not working. I just >see all the text. Any help with this will be appreciated! If you are using php in a webserver e

Re: Debian php5 (Can't get download when doing apt-update)

2014-08-05 Thread AW
On Tue, 5 Aug 2014 16:32:43 -0400 Matthew Brown wrote: > php5-cgi - server-side, HTML-embedded scripting language (CGI binary) > php-auth-http - HTTP authentication > libapache2-mod-php5 - server-side, HTML-embedded scripting language I would install these three. sudo apt-get install php5-cg

Re: Debian php5 (Can't get download when doing apt-update)

2014-08-05 Thread AW
On Tue, 5 Aug 2014 16:42:14 -0400 Matthew Brown wrote: > I did that and now get internal server error. :-( The internal server error is usually not so internal. Many times it means you have a misconfigured apache site or have incorrect file permissions in your web directory tree. Are you usi

Re: Debian php5 (Can't get download when doing apt-update)

2014-08-05 Thread AW
On Tue, 5 Aug 2014 16:48:46 -0400 AW wrote: > and what's in the /var/www directory? > ln -l /var/www oops! That should be 'ls' not 'ln' ... I guess not enough coffee today -- and my 3 year old child ripped a few keys off my keyboard too... --Andrew -- To UN

Re: End of hypocrisy, beginning of reason

2014-08-05 Thread AW
On Tue, 5 Aug 2014 17:57:02 -0400 Tom H wrote: > journalctl SYSLOG_FACILITY=4 Thanks! But why '4'? Why not '42'? Or even better... journalctl show auth journalctl show apache2 journalctl show postgresql or even better still journalctl show -v postgresql and I found the '-o verbose' option to

Re: End of hypocrisy, beginning of reason

2014-08-05 Thread AW
On Tue, 5 Aug 2014 19:01:57 -0400 AW wrote: > But why '4'? Why not '42'? Or even better... This makes the number '4' meaningful... ... SyslogFacility= Sets the syslog facility to use when logging to syslog. One of kern, user, mail, daemon, auth, syslog

Re: End of hypocrisy ?

2014-08-06 Thread AW
On Wed, 6 Aug 2014 22:15:08 +0300 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > The advantage of journald is that it captures more information because > it runs much earlier and also because it captures stdin (?!) and stderr > of daemons. The data has more metadata and is also better structured and > indexed (h

Re: End of hypocrisy ?

2014-08-06 Thread AW
On Wed, 6 Aug 2014 16:25:21 -0400 Tom H wrote: > So, yeah, /var/log/messages sucks, and journalctl is better at > generating a compatible output that that file ever was in itself. I definitely agree. --Andrew -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: End of hypocrisy ?

2014-08-07 Thread AW
On Tue, 05 Aug 2014 23:43:09 +0300 David Baron wrote: > Seems I got it with > the new 64bit installation, wheezy upgraded to Sid. On Thu, 07 Aug 2014 15:03:50 +0300 David Baron wrote: > Offered for upgrade today are a bunch of old-style?? init components, > initscripts, sysv-rc, etc Are

Re: End of hypocrisy ?

2014-08-07 Thread AW
On Thu, 7 Aug 2014 16:19:03 +0100 Darac Marjal wrote: > Consider it to be another database format. You wouldn't necessarily try > to cat a MySQL or PostgreSQL datastore; you'd use the appropriate tools > to select all from it. Yes. But it's not. Although it should and could be an easily que

Re: End of hypocrisy ?

2014-08-07 Thread AW
On Thu, 7 Aug 2014 15:28:08 -0400 Rob Owens wrote: > I do miss the ability to grep my bookmarks.html file. Maybe there's a > way to do it with sqlite, but I never learned. > > One thing that attracted me to Linux many years ago was that due to its > Unix heritage, You use the SQL langua

Re: End of hypocrisy ?

2014-08-07 Thread AW
On Thu, 7 Aug 2014 16:44:39 -0400 Tom H wrote: > journalctl has output options: > > -o, --output= > > Controls the formatting of the journal entries that are shown. Takes > one of the following options: Seems fine to me after letting go of first impression of distrust in new things... H

Re: End of hypocrisy ?

2014-08-07 Thread AW
On Fri, 8 Aug 2014 09:03:56 +0900 Joel Rees wrote: > You do understand the chicken-and-egg nature of what you're asking for? > > You're needing to output logs to but up servers, but you have to boot > a server as complex as anySQL server to get there. I wasn't going to continue on this thre

Re: Partitioning of new machine

2014-08-08 Thread AW
On Fri, 8 Aug 2014 12:14:31 +0200 "B. M." wrote: > optimal partitioning scheme which should last for the > next 10 years :-) I've found that using lvm is a great idea. Resizing volumes is incredibly easy. You can even easily resize a volume to occupy a portion of a new HDD. So, my recommenda

Re: End of hypocrisy ?

2014-08-08 Thread AW
On Fri, 8 Aug 2014 20:50:14 -0400 Steve Litt wrote: > Seventh, there's 40 years of experience with text logs. Are they > perfect? No. The thread that doesn't die --- misinformation all over the place, and some it that my misinformation -- sorry 'bout that. Anyway, I feel prodded, so rebuttal.

Re: par2

2014-08-09 Thread AW
On Sat, 09 Aug 2014 15:24:49 -0400 Gary Dale wrote: > Assuming you have both a backup copy and a live copy plus some par2 > files, you should be safe with the 5% to 10% I suggested. If going with an external backup and pars... I'd also add md5sums to the list. I've had great success using ex

Re: par2

2014-08-09 Thread AW
On Sat, 09 Aug 2014 16:08:41 -0400 Gary Dale wrote: > Whatever for? There are better checksums and md5 doesn't provide error > correction? Even the MD5 man page advises using sha checksums instead. md5sum provides a relatively quick check... if it fails, then use the "real" check, i.e. pars.

Re: Irony

2014-08-09 Thread AW
On Sat, 9 Aug 2014 16:26:40 -0400 Steve Litt wrote: > Hi all, > > Some of the reasons I switched my desktop from Ubuntu to Debian were: > > 1) To do more config by editor and less by magical binary program. > > 2) To get rid of gratuitous boot gunge (in this case Plymouth) > > 3) To

Re: par2

2014-08-09 Thread AW
On Sat, 09 Aug 2014 16:37:52 -0400 Gary Dale wrote: > The speed of the check is usually limited by the speed of reading the > file(s) from disk. A par2 check is more direct and will also > automatically repair any bit rot that has developed. Definitely not. For very small files nearly all

Re: par2

2014-08-10 Thread AW
On Sun, 10 Aug 2014 10:50:42 -0400 Gary Dale wrote: > Your results... The test was only a very simple comparison. If you want a more thorough test, it's certainly much better to break everything out the way you have listed... and it's probably best done on the chosen and completed hardware con

Re: End of hypocrisy ?

2014-08-11 Thread AW
On Mon, 11 Aug 2014 22:15:02 +1000 Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > Don't confuse GNU and GNOME. HINT: What does GIMP stand for? > > GNOME Image Manipulation Package? Oh come on man! Stop with the silly FUD... It doesn't become anyone here... The GIMP has been around a long long time. GIMP: http

Re: par2

2014-08-11 Thread AW
On Mon, 11 Aug 2014 17:30:14 +1200 Chris Bannister wrote: > Here in New Zealand - *ONE* Raspberry Pi $55.00, 16GB SD $20.00, cases Well, you do have some of the most picturesque land recorded in 48 frames per second... and Hobbits... :) > That's dammned expensive and not useful at all!!! It

Re: Egad stumped by fetchmail ...

2014-08-11 Thread AW
On Mon, 11 Aug 2014 09:01:07 -0400 Harry Putnam wrote: > Fetchmail is never a problem... and yet: > I've been moving my main work host, (Debian jessie), to a vm running on a > windows hosts. Did you ensure the fetchmail daemon is running? ps -A |grep fetchmail It's possible you will need to

Re: Egad stumped by fetchmail ...

2014-08-11 Thread AW
On Mon, 11 Aug 2014 09:24:06 -0400 AW wrote: > It's possible you will need to enable the service daemon... > > sudo systemctl enable fetchmail > > in order for it to start on host boot. And I forgot about the /etc/default/fetchmail Make sure START_DAEMON=ye

Re: Egad stumped by fetchmail ...

2014-08-11 Thread AW
On Mon, 11 Aug 2014 11:25:52 -0400 Harry Putnam wrote: > And yet something seems to be causing the verbose setting to produce > insufficient output on the new host. > harry > fetchmail -vvvac > fetchmail: Old UID list from pop.newsguy.com: > fetchmail: Old UID list from pop.newsguy.c

Re: The Fine Art of Making a Bootable Drive; more

2014-08-13 Thread AW
On Wed, 13 Aug 2014 08:09:41 -0500 "Martin G. McCormick" wrote: > but I am curious as to why the first method simply has never booted? 1. As far as I know, it's not possible to simply copy a working /dev tree. These are special files which are generated with the mknod utility. 2. Booting a c

Re: default layout for web server (jessie)

2014-08-14 Thread AW
On Wed, 13 Aug 2014 22:42:12 -0400 John Bleichert wrote: > Apache on Debian Jessie = Apache 2.4 Wheezy = Apache 2.2 Apache 2.4 is very different than 2.2... Many things have changed including variable names, SSL cert configuration, and many others... this is not a Debian thing. --Andrew --

Re: par2

2014-08-14 Thread AW
On Thu, 14 Aug 2014 08:18:21 +0900 Joel Rees wrote: > Did you mean 3xiTB, by any chance? There will be blood... err.. typos. --Andrew -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: htt

Re: par2

2014-08-14 Thread AW
On Thu, 14 Aug 2014 08:44:16 +0900 Joel Rees wrote: > this is not a situation where we are worried about > attackers Crypto is crypto... and md5, sha1, sha256 are cryptographic hashes. And a cryptographic hash is only as good as its slowness in reverse computation and its uniqueness [collisio

Re: Irony

2014-08-14 Thread AW
On Thu, 14 Aug 2014 14:14:28 -0600 Paul E Condon wrote: > Andrew, are your cookies virtuous (lo-cal) or virtual? ;) Neither. I prefer homemade chocolate chip using 1/2 cup butter and 1/2 cup Crisco... Just like my grandmother used to make... > Comments (opinion) supporting your position tha

Re: Irony

2014-08-14 Thread AW
On Fri, 15 Aug 2014 09:11:19 +0900 Joel Rees wrote: > When you're grep- or sed-searching a textual log file, you don't care > whether all the log entries fit any particular relation or structure > definition, and you don't have to think sideways to search on the > keywords buried in the text

Re: Irony

2014-08-14 Thread AW
On Thu, 14 Aug 2014 21:16:16 -0400 Jerry Stuckle wrote: > It NEVER > contains just one table, even if that table has multiple columns (and > the database is properly normalized). See step 1... selecting the table = selecting the log file... A multiple table database is precisely the same as

Re: Irony

2014-08-15 Thread AW
On Fri, 15 Aug 2014 13:37:38 +0900 Joel Rees wrote: > What columns? Who defined those columns? There are way way too many wrong items to respond to here... However, if you've customized your logs then you have decided the table column headers. There is precisely no difference in the logic nor,

Re: Irony

2014-08-15 Thread AW
On Fri, 15 Aug 2014 09:51:52 -0400 Steve Litt wrote: > ou've made it clear, you don't mean a program should exist > to copy text file logs into a Postgres database, you mean that they go > right into Postgres, and then the user must run programs to see them. > What could *possibly* go wrong?

Re: Irony

2014-08-15 Thread AW
On Sat, 16 Aug 2014 10:51:03 +1000 Zenaan Harkness wrote: > improvements to Andrew moment I'm quite perfect and need no improvements. Much like systemd, of course. SQL logging module notwithstanding... > because most of us are deranged Well then! I've come to the right place! --ANDREW -

Re: Anybody know who user-65534 is?

2014-08-16 Thread AW
On Sat, 16 Aug 2014 12:59:24 +0200 david wrote: > Can this delay be eliminated? After all it did not used to happen before > systemd was implemented. OP is running Sid. So there are problems with stability in the unstable version of Debian... and? ... Oh well. ps -u 65534 will show any ra

Re: system-config-printer

2014-08-22 Thread AW
On Fri, 22 Aug 2014 15:12:21 -0400 Ric Moore wrote: > Is it something I need when I use the cups web frontend? I believe you can safely remove system-config-printer and use the cups web interface on port 631 instead. Although you may have issues with reverse depends: Reverse Depends: task-

Re: I hate network-manager (was /etc/rc.local and systemd)

2014-08-24 Thread AW
On Sun, 24 Aug 2014 18:00:52 -0400 (EDT) Stephen Powell wrote: > network-manager! Is there anything I can do to make > it leave eth0 totally in the control of ifupdown and to not > touch it at all The settings in /etc/network/interfaces are automatically used instead of network-manager. Or

Re: Choose your side on the Linux divide

2014-08-26 Thread AW
On Tue, 26 Aug 2014 16:52:45 -0400 Steve Litt wrote: > Hey Tom H, > > When I start posting about my cat, or my car, or who I'll vote for for > governor, you can give me that "OT list" BS. But how your Linux > operating system is started, and whether it becomes more modular or more > entang

Re: Choose your side on the Linux divide

2014-08-27 Thread AW
On Wed, 27 Aug 2014 19:43:35 +0100 Martin Read wrote: > On 27/08/14 19:07, Brian wrote: > > Please join him on the site where his article is published; there is a > > comments section. Perhaps other like-minded people would like to > > accompany you. > > Encouraging the balkanization of th

Re: Choose your side on the Linux divide

2014-08-28 Thread AW
On Thu, 28 Aug 2014 14:27:09 +0200 B wrote: > this shift (schism?) It seems to me that the 'schism' is a figment of the imagination, as all major GNU/Linux distributions are actively porting, using, and integrating systemd. So, it's not so much a schism as a branch of non-conformists. Whil

Re: Choose your side on the Linux divide

2014-08-28 Thread AW
On Thu, 28 Aug 2014 15:15:10 +0200 B wrote: > Treating sysV of "overly complex" against systemd is… quite intriguing > (to stay polite and avoid referring to brain and other things;) All of the above is opinion, not source code based, and has nothing at to do with anything other than -- I

Re: Choose your side on the Linux divide

2014-08-28 Thread AW
On Thu, 28 Aug 2014 15:46:28 +0200 B wrote: > In other words: we won't have this choice very long. Yes... because I'm very sure that the official Debian repo is the only publicly available remote hosted location to find sysvinit source code... And, let's not forget that the sysvinit source

Re: Choose your side on the Linux divide

2014-08-28 Thread AW
On Thu, 28 Aug 2014 16:02:02 +0200 B wrote: > As all I stand up for is _freedom_ (of any kind) and as what I hate most > is fundamentalism (of any kind), this thread is terminated for me. AKA. I don't want to take the time to either learn systemd or try my hand at writing excellent sysvin

Re: Choose your side on the Linux divide

2014-08-28 Thread AW
On Fri, 29 Aug 2014 00:12:22 +1000 Zenaan Harkness wrote: > Anyway... I suggest we all shake hands and make up ... systemd seems > to be a ... how shall I say it? A somewhat -touching- experience. Hear! Hear! Ignore the total ad-hominem. And *hug* And stop posting troll baiting nonsense about

Re: Choose your side on the Linux divide

2014-08-28 Thread AW
On Thu, 28 Aug 2014 21:25:37 +0200 Erwan David wrote: > it is IMPOSSIBLE to keep a debian without systemd. $man systemd For compatibility with SysV, if systemd is called as init and a PID that is not 1, it will execute telinit and pass all command line arguments unmodified. That means ini

Re: Choose your side on the Linux divide

2014-08-28 Thread AW
On Fri, 29 Aug 2014 07:45:12 +0900 Joel Rees wrote: > Are you a sockpuppet arguing ironically? If so, which side do you > support? Microsoft? I guess you're not interested in the previous post about ad-hominem... and... Oh! You mean unix sockets... hahaha! that's funny. I'm on the FOSS side.

Re: Choose your side on the Linux divide

2014-08-29 Thread AW
On Sat, 30 Aug 2014 02:10:28 +0900 Joel Rees wrote: > "think system" Off topic... on topic... and unthinking... systemd has already won. Fork sysvinit or don't. End of comment. Forever. For me... and leaving behind this useless mailing list -- too much spam. Take it as you like. However, I

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