Re: How to override fuse args to ntfs-3g to set permissions?
On 29 November 2014 at 17:06, Rick Macdonald wrote:
> On 28/11/14 05:21 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote:
>> On 28 November 2014 at 16:08, Rick Macdonald wrote:
On 25/11/14 08:46 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote:
>>
>>
>
> Hey, thanks for all this!
No worries. Thanks for the feedback.
>
> I created a thumb drive for testing. Using the actual drive takes too long,
> as the cable is awkward, the drive spins up and down, etc.
>
> I added my uid/gid to the rule for jollies, so it mounts as me instead of
> root.
I'm uncertain of the advantage if you are a member of user. You can
use the USER tag in the rule to run commands as someone other than
root.
> Plex should work in either case with wide-open 777 mode.
>
Agreed
> ACTION=="add", PROGRAM=="/sbin/blkid -o value -s TYPE /dev/%k",
> RESULT=="ntfs",
> ENV{mount_options}="%E{mount_options},utf8,uid=1000,gid=1000,umask=000"
Oddly uid=N and gid=N in the ntfs-3g man (rather than uid= and
gid=) I'm not sure if that's why mount | grep $SomeNTFSSlice
reports single digit uid and gid [puzzled]
>
> There was a problem in the dir_name,
Could you expand on that?
> so I changed these two lines:
>
> #ACTION=="add", PROGRAM=="/sbin/blkid -o value -s TYPE %E{device}",
> RESULT=="ntfs",
> ENV{mount_options}="%E{mount_options},utf8,gid=100,umask=002"
> ACTION=="add", PROGRAM=="/sbin/blkid -o value -s TYPE /dev/%k",
> RESULT=="ntfs",
> ENV{mount_options}="%E{mount_options},utf8,gid=100,umask=002"
What do you get from "mount -L | grep Win"?
> # Get label if present, otherwise assign one
> #PROGRAM=="/sbin/blkid -o value -s LABEL %E{device}", ENV{dir_name}="%c"
> PROGRAM=="/sbin/blkid -o value -s LABEL /dev/%k", ENV{dir_name}="%c"
>
> When I unmount the drive, the directory is not deleted. The
> owner/permissions change from me/777 to root/755. I see you have commands
> for umount and rmdir ("Clean up after removal"), but I'm not sure what is
> meant to kick those off.
That /media/$NFTSSliceLABEL dir will remain. That the notoriously
fickle NTFS 'might' be damaged if the mounted NTFS device is suddenly
removed (more likely you might just get into a futile tug-of-war).
Belt and suspenders?
> I pulled out the drive without umounting first, not
> that I think you had that in mind, but that didn't change the behaviour
> (much).
Did a program have access to that file system at the time?
>
> It seems that only root can umount the drive, but I've seen mention of that
> for NTFS, or maybe it was udisks in general?
NTFS-3G. After digging through policy kit it 'seems' if a non-root
user who is not a member of the disk group wants to umount NTFS they
need to recompile ntfs-3g with build-in FUSE and then setuid the
resulting binary.
>
> Almost there!
Lots of room for improvement - if I had time I'd refine the rule to
*only* apply to a unique NTFS slice, and figure out a way so that the
slice icon that appears on XFCE desktop and in the sidebar of Thunar
*is* the mounted NTFS slice.
An alternative approach to solving the above two niggles would be to
hide the dysfunctional icons, and automagically (using udev) add an
icon to the desktop - which when clicked would umount the (WinBackup)
slice (gksudo or similar - if you use sudo that wouldn't be
necessary).
>
> Regards,
> Rick
>
Kind regards
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Re: SOLVED Fetchmail; continually losing authentication with gmx.net
On 26/11/2014 07:50, Frédéric Marchal wrote: Fetchmail certainly uses the system ssl library and SSLv3 was recently disabled system wide for security reasons (see the poodle attack). [snip] You'll have to investigate a bit but my theory is that fetchmail is requesting SSLv3. As it is disabled by wheezy but is accepted by etch it works with the latter but not the former. Fetchmail should have an option to force the ssl protocol to be TLSv1. I think it should be --sslprotoversion tlsv1 or something similar. Astute, Frederick. I altered the poll details for ...@gmx.net to say: poll pop.gmx.net with proto POP3 timeout 100 and options auth password no dns uidl user '[...]@gmx.net' there with password '[...]' is '[...]' here options sslproto 'TLS1' keep stripcr fetchlimit 5 [the 'keep' parameter is only there while I am testing, so as not to lose any mails after architecture changes or rebuilds etc. In the production system the 'keep' will be absent.] This has been running for 3 days, now, without missing a beat. You solved it. Thank you for the insights. regards, Ron -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/5479b5fe.2070...@tesco.net
missing dependency of "lprng"?
Hi, Today I have noticed this (on Wheezy). When I do lp some.pdf I see the following error message: p11-kit: couldn't load module: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/pkcs11/gnome-keyring-pkcs11.so: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/pkcs11/gnome-keyring-pkcs11.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory A trivial querry apt-file search /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/pkcs11/gnome-keyring-pkcs11.so yields: gnome-keyring: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/pkcs11/gnome-keyring-pkcs11.so I would like to ask, whether this is on purpose or a bug. I mean, I can print test page via CUPS just fine, isn't there a way to print stuff without installing "gnome-keyring"? Kind regards, -- Matej Kosik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/5479ca83.9010...@gmail.com
Re: Help understanding error: skb rides the rocket
SL writes: > On one of our quite busy (virtual) Debian 6 servers we are seeing a lot of > messages in the syslog like this: > > kernel: xen_netfront: xennet: skb rides the rocket: 19 slots I've had some of these messages with the backports kernels. Since the backports kernels don't boot when the root fs is on an LVM volume, I'm currently using the default kernel and am not seeing these messages anymore (yet). Do you see any martian sources in your firewall log? -- Again we must be afraid of speaking of daemons for fear that daemons might swallow us. Finally, this fear has become reasonable. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/877fyeazsz@gulltop.yagibdah.de
automation of xrandr
https://wiki.debian.org/XStrikeForce/HowToRandR12 helped to establish a usable multi-screen configuration. Now what is the recommendation to automate? Put the xrandr command in .profile? Odd that the wiki page has no mention of this question. Thanks, ... Peter E. -- 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 12 Tel +1 360 639 0202 http://carnot.yi.org/ Bcc: peter at easthope. ca -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/E1XujTt-0005AT-SC@dalton.invalid
Re: Creating a peculiar Live-CD
Scott Ferguson wrote: On 29 November 2014 at 08:17, Richard Owlett wrote: Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: On 11/28/14, Richard Owlett wrote: I've just proved ( again ;/ ) that my writing lacks clarity. It's hard to describe a custom live CD in a single, small post. Not really. I did it in a single sentence - see 3rd sentence down. The eject command indeed works as expected. The BIOS on my machines are set to automatically boot from any CD in the tray. My question was creating a Live-CD to only execute a specific script when booted and prevent anything else from being executed. The script would be of the form: run_foo eject /dev/cdrom shutdown -hP now Put the script in /etc/rc.local? Create a user that is autologged-in put the script in their autorun? I've found: http://www.debian-administration.org/article/ 212/An_introduction_to_run-levels http://www.debian-administration.org/article/ 28/Making_scripts_run_at_boot_time_with_Debian https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-opersys.html#s-sysvinit Other recommended reading material. Additional question: You got me looking at the contents of /etc/rc2.d . Is there a utility that would list the script name and a least the content of the "#Description:" field. Some of the descriptions are terse, to say the least. Dependant on what you mean by "anything else"... find out where "anything else" is triggered and remove the trigger. Ugh ;/ That's "shutting the barn door...". Don't install door in first place. If helps I've previously created a number of different "auto" USB Flash key builds that were designed to be used as "plug, power-on, do a certain job automagically" tools without user intervention. Some of the processes 'might' be useful for what it 'sounds' like you want to do. I hope that helps a little. Perhaps if you gave more details of all that you want to do. e.g. a flow chart, what will this script do? Kind regards -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/5479e693.3020...@cloud85.net
Re: Creating a peculiar Live-CD
On 2014-11-29, Richard Owlett wrote: > > The script would be of the form: > > run_foo > eject /dev/cdrom > shutdown -hP now > >> I thought of the "kiosk" live cds when you asked your peculiar question. Instead of starting a browser, it would run "run_foo." It might be pertinent to know what run_foo consists of. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/slrnm7jvpc.233.cu...@einstein.electron.org
Image cloning software
Is there a good software for Debian 7.7 as well as for Debian 6.10 that is capable to produce a multi DVD/CD image of a working system, in a way that such image can be used later as a DVD/CD installation media for 'cloning' on the other comps (or on itself, in case of an irreparable failure of a working machine)? Thanks. M. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/547a04d4.2000...@eunet.rs
Re: automation of xrandr
On Sat 29 Nov 2014 at 06:58:41 -0800, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > https://wiki.debian.org/XStrikeForce/HowToRandR12 > helped to establish a usable multi-screen configuration. > > Now what is the recommendation to automate? Put the > xrandr command in .profile? .profile is a non-X thing. > Odd that the wiki page has no mention of this question. I'd be thinking in terms of putting the command in a ~/.xsessionrc. All I would have to do to implement it is convince myself it fits in with the idea of "environment variables ". -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/29112014185158.bc4c87c02...@desktop.copernicus.demon.co.uk
Problem with a RAID partitions
My setup has eight RAID 1 partitions, md0 to md7, that should mount on /, sawp, /boot, /usr, /var, /clz, /home and /home/storage, the first seven on one pair of HDs, the last one on a second pair. The problem: At each boot time, /dev/md7 fails to start, I have to give the root passwd, comment out in /etc/fstab the line for /dev/md7 and reboot. Then, once started, uncomment /dev/md7, create anew the RAID pair, and mount it, whereupon it will spend the next couple hours syncing. Is there a way to tell the system to create md7 at the same time as the others ? Where should I look ? Cheers, Ron. PS Is there a way to make vi available in the rescue console ? -- Il est dangereux d'avoir raison dans des choses où des hommes accrédités ont tort. -- Voltaire -- http://www.olgiati-in-paraguay.org -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20141129174645.4b8ed...@ron.cerrocora.org
clamav-daemon broken after latest upgrade
I'm running a stock-standard installation of debian (7.7). I do regular security updates. Now when I try to run clamav-milter I get hundreds of these in my log: Nov 30 08:55:25 debian clamav-milter[2561]: No clamd server appears to be available Nov 30 08:55:37 debian clamav-milter[2561]: Failed to initiate streaming/fdpassing Nov 30 08:55:37 debian clamav-milter[2561]: connect failed: No such file or directory Nov 30 08:55:37 debian clamav-milter[2561]: Probe for slot 1 returned: failed the clamav-daemon won't start, and when I try to reconfigure it I get # dpkg-reconfigure clamav-daemon /usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure: clamav-daemon is broken or not fully installed # apt-get upgrade gives me The following packages have been kept back: clamav clamav-freshclam clamav-milter libclamav6 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 4 not upgraded. How can I resolve this? I've tried most of the usual tricks. Is it possible to downgrade something?? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/m5dfka$avn$1...@ger.gmane.org
Re: How to mount an iPod Touch
On 11/26/2014 01:05 AM, Scott Ferguson wrote: 'Now' I regret not keeping the notes when I setup an iPhone rule for someone last year! :/ This time I will. I still get no device under /dev when I plug in the iPod, but ifuse does seem to be successfully mounting the device. I can traverse the fs and ls the files just fine. Unfortunately, rhythmbox and gtkpod now see the device, but they both insist that it is uninitialized and want to initialize it. Since it *has* been initialized and used for several months, this would be a *Bad Thing*. From what I am seeing when I google the error it seems that the problem lies with the fact that Apple keeps changing the database format to make sure that you have to use iTunes and that the libimobiledevice2 that is in Wheezy is still using a much older version of the database. I'm not sure if libimobiledevice4 (in Jessie and Sid) is current enough, or if I need to wait for libimobiledevice5, which is in Experimental). There is nothing in Wheezy-Backports for the library. Am I interpreting this correctly, or am I way off base? Marc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/547a4a9f.20...@gmail.com
Re: clamav-daemon broken after latest upgrade
On Sun, 30 Nov 2014 08:59:36 +1100 Robert S sent: > I'm running a stock-standard installation of debian (7.7). I do > regular security updates. Now when I try to run clamav-milter I get > hundreds of these in my log: > > Nov 30 08:55:25 debian clamav-milter[2561]: No clamd server appears > to be available > Nov 30 08:55:37 debian clamav-milter[2561]: Failed to initiate > streaming/fdpassing > Nov 30 08:55:37 debian clamav-milter[2561]: connect failed: No such > file or directory > Nov 30 08:55:37 debian clamav-milter[2561]: Probe for slot 1 > returned: failed > > the clamav-daemon won't start, and when I try to reconfigure it I get > > # dpkg-reconfigure clamav-daemon > /usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure: clamav-daemon is broken or not fully > installed > > # apt-get upgrade gives me > The following packages have been kept back: > clamav clamav-freshclam clamav-milter libclamav6 > 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 4 not upgraded. > > How can I resolve this? I've tried most of the usual tricks. Is it > possible to downgrade something?? > Maybe apt-get dist-upgrade Charlie -- Registered Linux User:- 329524 *** We need only travel enough to give our intellects an airing. .Henry David Thoreau *** Debian GNU/Linux - just the best way to create magic - -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20141130094130.2fd36b03@taogypsy
Re: Creating a peculiar Live-CD
Curt wrote: On 2014-11-29, Richard Owlett wrote: The script would be of the form: run_foo eject /dev/cdrom shutdown -hP now I thought of the "kiosk" live cds when you asked your peculiar question. ME? Would *I* ask peculiar questions ;/ 2 of my 4 primary projects might have features in common with kiosks. Live kiosk CD authors might differ. Application 1: Local church providing enrichment to local "at risk" pre-teens in inner-city. *ALL* internet connectivity explicitly defeated - homework/education being goal. Application 2: Extremely secure browsing and email for me on my personal machine. In CASE 1, there exists much software which assumes KDE. In Case 2, I like Gome2. Interesting links having *ONLY* Squeeze dependencies? Instead of starting a browser, it would run "run_foo." It might be pertinent to know what run_foo consists of. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/547a4ca9.9080...@cloud85.net
Re: Problem with a RAID partitions
On 29/11/14 03:46 PM, Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI wrote: My setup has eight RAID 1 partitions, md0 to md7, that should mount on /, sawp, /boot, /usr, /var, /clz, /home and /home/storage, the first seven on one pair of HDs, the last one on a second pair. The problem: At each boot time, /dev/md7 fails to start, I have to give the root passwd, comment out in /etc/fstab the line for /dev/md7 and reboot. Then, once started, uncomment /dev/md7, create anew the RAID pair, and mount it, whereupon it will spend the next couple hours syncing. Is there a way to tell the system to create md7 at the same time as the others ? Where should I look ? Cheers, Ron. PS Is there a way to make vi available in the rescue console ? This is a strange setup to say the least. Did you consider creating only one RAID array per disk pair and partitioning them? Then you would only need to use a normal partitioning tool to resize partitions. As it is, you have to adjust the RAID partitions then the partitions on the RAID arrays to change the partition sizes. However, I suspect the problem you are having is you didn't add the /dev/md7 to /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf. As root try: mdadm --detail --scan >> /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf Afterward you need to: update-initramfs -u in order to have the boot process correctly start the arrays. | | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/547a4ab8.7070...@gmail.com
Re: Problem with a RAID partitions
Renaud OLGIATI wrote: > Is there a way to tell the system to create md7 at the same time as > the others ? > > Where should I look ? Is it listed in /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf file along with the rest? I expect that it is missing from that file and that is why it isn't being started. The mdadm.conf file is used by the initrd at early boot time. After making any modifications to that file the initramfs needs to be updated so that it will incorporate the new changes. There are many ways to do this. I usually recommend this since it will always do the right thing. dpkg-reconfigure linux-image-3.2.0-4-amd64 Where linux-image-3.2.0-4-amd64 is your current installed kernel. The above would be for Wheezy 7.7 Stable. Alternatively you could run 'mkinitramfs' directly. > PS Is there a way to make vi available in the rescue console ? Yes. You didn't say why it isn't available for you. I can only guess that it is probably because you have many partitions and they are not mounted. That is fine. But then you need to manually mount those from the rescue shell. Try 'mount -a' to read the /etc/fstab and mount all of the listed partitions there. Bob signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Image cloning software
On 29/11/14 12:39 PM, Miroslav Skoric wrote: Is there a good software for Debian 7.7 as well as for Debian 6.10 that is capable to produce a multi DVD/CD image of a working system, in a way that such image can be used later as a DVD/CD installation media for 'cloning' on the other comps (or on itself, in case of an irreparable failure of a working machine)? Thanks. M I can't answer your question directly because I believe in using technology to make hard things easy. In this case, rather than relying on CD/DVD sets, why not just use BD-RE or BD-R discs to make a complete image of your root (and boot) partition(s)? BR rewriters are cheap enough these days and can also be used to handle CDs and DVDs. Unless you've got more than 24G on your root, you don't need to split the image file. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/547a4bc9.8070...@torfree.net
Re: Image cloning software
On 30 November 2014 at 04:39, Miroslav Skoric wrote: > Is there a good software for Debian 7.7 as well as for Debian 6.10 that is > capable to produce a multi DVD/CD image of a working system, in a way that > such image can be used later as a DVD/CD installation media for 'cloning' on > the other comps (or on itself, in case of an irreparable failure of a > working machine)? Thanks. The Live-CD project? Packages are in the Debian repositories:- http://mklivecd.sourceforge.net/ http://live.debian.net/ I haven't used it in recent years, but I suspect with some tinkering it could do what you want - rescue cd, with a backup of your customisations, configurations, and home, an archive of main packages (space providing), and a copy of "dpkg --get-selections > selection" which could be scripted to rebuild and/or clone a box. "aptoncd" AFAIK not in the Debian repositories - but you could try mkCDrec:- http://mkcdrec.sourceforge.net/ ...and it's "successor" - http://relax-and-recover.org/ There is also Debian-based Live CD, it's name escapes me, which is kind-of Norton Ghost and it includes the ability to clone to DVD. A simple clone (dd) would limit you to reinstalls on disks the same size or larger - whereas cp (with the appropriate switches) will, in most cases, work fine - if you first partition and format the new disk. You'd need to change the UUIDs in GRUB. I've used that method and "dpkg --set-selections < selections" and customised /etc/skel to do what you describe but only from disks not optical media. A little bash scripting and bashburn or similar should make it possible to put that onto optical media. Start the restore/clone process with a tiny rescue cd booted toram? Generally the process you describe is done with something like puppet/chef etc, or preseeding PXE installs, on a larger scale (SOE deployment). > > M. > > Kind regards -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/CAMt2cQO6pTchy1JHiLOQ20e=bad7chg3cn+yr0pfehpxpb6...@mail.gmail.com
Re: clamav-daemon broken after latest upgrade
On 30 November 2014 at 08:59, Robert S wrote: > I'm running a stock-standard installation of debian (7.7). I do regular > security updates. > > # dpkg-reconfigure clamav-daemon > /usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure: clamav-daemon is broken or not fully installed > > # apt-get upgrade gives me > The following packages have been kept back: > clamav clamav-freshclam clamav-milter libclamav6 > 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 4 not upgraded. > > How can I resolve this? I've tried most of the usual tricks. Including "apt-get -s dist-upgrade | less"?? If not - try it, and it looks OK run it for real:- "apt-get dist-upgrade" - which will install the packages that have been held back. I suspect that will "fix" the problem. If that doesn't look like fixing your problem, then look at:- "apt-get -sf install | less" - which will "probably" offer to remove the clamav packages that are not fully-installed. Kind regards -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/camt2cqn7zmcsgep0gxk_t4g3bd+k-hhn31grf61bisswqrj...@mail.gmail.com
Re: Image cloning software
On Nov 30, 2014 1:26 AM, "Scott Ferguson" < scott.ferguson.debian.u...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 30 November 2014 at 04:39, Miroslav Skoric wrote: > > Is there a good software for Debian 7.7 as well as for Debian 6.10 that is > > capable to produce a multi DVD/CD image of a working system, in a way that > > such image can be used later as a DVD/CD installation media for 'cloning' on > > the other comps (or on itself, in case of an irreparable failure of a > > working machine)? Thanks. > > The Live-CD project? Packages are in the Debian repositories:- > http://mklivecd.sourceforge.net/ > http://live.debian.net/ > I haven't used it in recent years, but I suspect with some tinkering > it could do what you want - rescue cd, with a backup of your > customisations, configurations, and home, an archive of main packages > (space providing), and a copy of "dpkg --get-selections > selection" > which could be scripted to rebuild and/or clone a box. > > "aptoncd" > > AFAIK not in the Debian repositories - but you could try mkCDrec:- > http://mkcdrec.sourceforge.net/ > ...and it's "successor" - http://relax-and-recover.org/ > > There is also Debian-based Live CD, it's name escapes me, which is > kind-of Norton Ghost and it includes the ability to clone to DVD. > > A simple clone (dd) would limit you to reinstalls on disks the same > size or larger - whereas cp (with the appropriate switches) will, in > most cases, work fine - if you first partition and format the new > disk. You'd need to change the UUIDs in GRUB. I've used that method > and "dpkg --set-selections < selections" and customised /etc/skel to > do what you describe but only from disks not optical media. A little > bash scripting and bashburn or similar should make it possible to put > that onto optical media. Start the restore/clone process with a tiny > rescue cd booted toram? > > Generally the process you describe is done with something like > puppet/chef etc, or preseeding PXE installs, on a larger scale (SOE > deployment). > > > > > > M. > > > > > > > Kind regards > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: https://lists.debian.org/CAMt2cQO6pTchy1JHiLOQ20e=bad7chg3cn+yr0pfehpxpb6...@mail.gmail.com > Clonezilla?
Re: clamav-daemon broken after latest upgrade
Hi (sorry about top post). When I tried "dist-upgrade" I only had security updates enabled. Since I allowed all repositories in my sources.list this has fixed it. Many thanks. Robert. "Scott Ferguson" wrote in message news:camt2cqn7zmcsgep0gxk_t4g3bd+k-hhn31grf61bisswqrj...@mail.gmail.com... On 30 November 2014 at 08:59, Robert S wrote: I'm running a stock-standard installation of debian (7.7). I do regular security updates. # dpkg-reconfigure clamav-daemon /usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure: clamav-daemon is broken or not fully installed # apt-get upgrade gives me The following packages have been kept back: clamav clamav-freshclam clamav-milter libclamav6 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 4 not upgraded. How can I resolve this? I've tried most of the usual tricks. Including "apt-get -s dist-upgrade | less"?? If not - try it, and it looks OK run it for real:- "apt-get dist-upgrade" - which will install the packages that have been held back. I suspect that will "fix" the problem. If that doesn't look like fixing your problem, then look at:- "apt-get -sf install | less" - which will "probably" offer to remove the clamav packages that are not fully-installed. Kind regards -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/m5dngv$2ns$1...@ger.gmane.org
Re: How to mount an iPod Touch
On 30 November 2014 at 09:37, Marc Shapiro wrote: > On 11/26/2014 01:05 AM, Scott Ferguson wrote: >> >> 'Now' I regret not keeping the notes when I setup an iPhone rule for >> someone last year! :/ >> This time I will. > > I still get no device under /dev when I plug in the iPod, but ifuse does > seem to be successfully mounting the device. 'Should' be a /media/i$Something directory created. All I know about ifuse is what I've read in the man page:- http://manpages.debian.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ifuse&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=Debian+7.0+wheezy&format=html&locale=en Is their an info page for ifuse? What does "man -k ifuse" give? The --debug option may provide more useful information > I can traverse the fs and ls > the files just fine. Unfortunately, rhythmbox and gtkpod now see the > device, but they both insist that it is uninitialized and want to initialize > it. Since it *has* been initialized and used for several months, this would > be a *Bad Thing*. Unfortunately, that's only to be expected from Apple... > From what I am seeing when I google the error it seems > that the problem lies with the fact that Apple keeps changing the database > format to make sure that you have to use iTunes and that the > libimobiledevice2 that is in Wheezy is still using a much older version of > the database. Yes - one work-around (a bit like trimming your toes so you can fit into cool shoes too small for your feet) is to use a udev rule to launch a VirtualBox Windoof machine. The VM can be launched in seamless mode and iTunes can be automagically be started. That will require waiting a few minutes for iTunes to become available, but with USB pass-though, it will allow you to access the full functionality of your Apple device from your Debian device. > I'm not sure if libimobiledevice4 (in Jessie and Sid) is > current enough, or if I need to wait for libimobiledevice5, which is in > Experimental). There is nothing in Wheezy-Backports for the library. You 'might' be able to simply install the Testing/Unstable/Experimental version - backports are not always necessary to have the latest version of a Debian package. Looking at the dependencies and their minimum versions will tell you. > > Am I interpreting this correctly, or am I way off base? Seems correct to me. Thank you for the information. > > Marc > > Kind regards -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/camt2cqo+yyzq3tmmz5jcqsvrr6k3vzvccvjuts_upc5h3pb...@mail.gmail.com
Re: Image cloning software
On 30 November 2014 at 10:53, Catalin Soare wrote: > > On Nov 30, 2014 1:26 AM, "Scott Ferguson" > wrote: >> >> On 30 November 2014 at 04:39, Miroslav Skoric wrote: >> > Is there a good software for Debian 7.7 as well as for Debian 6.10 that... >> There is also Debian-based Live CD, it's name escapes me, which... >> > > Clonezilla? That's the one I was trying to wat-ya-ma-call-it! Thank you Catalin. Kind regards -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/camt2cqn_pvmsdqqvrvbuyvpt6mzakgpmmiefzkycgmqpyhn...@mail.gmail.com
Re: Creating a peculiar Live-CD
On 30 November 2014 at 02:30, Richard Owlett wrote: > Scott Ferguson wrote: >> >> On 29 November 2014 at 08:17, Richard Owlett wrote: >>> >>> Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: On 11/28/14, Richard Owlett wrote: > > >> >>> >>> >>> I've just proved ( again ;/ ) that my writing lacks clarity. >> >> >> It's hard to describe a custom live CD in a single, small post. > > > Not really. I did it in a single sentence - see 3rd sentence down. How you want to achieve something?? Not what (objectives) - which you have expanded on in a subsequent reply to Curt. I'm still not clear on "why". This may be an xy problem - certainly based on the expanded objectives placing a script in /etc/rc.local to do what you describe is not the solution - nor is placing it in init. I believe Curt has the right idea - you want a "locked-down" desktop (limits user action, wipes previous session). Depending on what your objectives are (as opposed to "how I want to do what I don't know how to do") there are two approaches:- *1*. If you do *not* control the hardware the end-user will run the CD on - Build a Live-CD (see the debian packages of the same name). Modify the live CD to install the packages you want the user to have. "lock" the permission on any configuration files in their home directory you don't want them to be able to change. Be sure to lock down applications that allow extension/plugin additions (i.e. Iceweasel). Modify the logout button so that only two choices are possible - halt, and lock screen. A Live CD will eject during the shutdown process (you might find "man halt" informative). Setup autologin without password for a single user. e.g. "student" Use sudo to limit that users permissions. Setup ssh for remote administration. Configure the networking defaults. That's it (apart from documentation and testing, and internet access control which I'll cover later). Every time the users boots from the CD they are automagically logged into a pristine desktop with limited applications and rights. They can install, change, or go/save/browse nowhere, that you haven't allowed. When they shutdown the CD ejects and the box is powered off. *2.* If you do control the hardware - why bother with the CD? Just follow the same steps as *1.* with the additional steps of locking down GRUB and setting boot delay to 1, copying the modifications (locked permissions and customisation) to /etc/skel, and adding a script to the shutdown services that runs "deluser --remove-all-records student". The added advantage is that it'll be easier to update (and if you are allowing internet access you need to apply updates - *even* if you use the Live CD option). Network/Internet restriction policy. If you have a LAN that these "users" will be connected to - the best option IMO is to restrict browing at the access point using white lists (or blacklists if you enjoy playing pop-a-mole). Dans Guardian (for squid) is ideal. If that's not possible and you need to apply internet access control at the local box level (LiveCD or HDD) the simplest approach for an unskilled admin is to install either:- ;Parental Control GUI (which uses tinyproxy and Dans Guardian) https://launchpad.net/webcontentcontrol/ ;WebCleaner http://webcleaner.sourceforge.net/ ;privoxy (it's in the Debian repository). > >> >> Dependant on what you mean by "anything else"... find out where >> "anything else" is triggered and remove the trigger. > > > Ugh ;/ That's "shutting the barn door...". Don't install door in first > place. I have no idea what you are trying to say there. Could you expand on that please. Kind regards -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/camt2cqpr6rn0noc-7qzeeztxpy+esbbmazemk+ngu7pftvo...@mail.gmail.com
Re: Linux entropy pool / random number benchmark
debian-user:
I found some more information on Intel's Secure Key:
https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-digital-random-number-generator-drng-software-implementation-guide
As shown in Figure 3, the DRNG can be thought of as three logical
components forming an asynchronous production pipeline: an entropy
source (ES) that produces random bits from a nondeterministic
hardware process at around 3 Gbps, a conditioner that uses AES (4)
in CBC-MAC (5) mode to distill the entropy into high-quality
nondeterministic random numbers, and two parallel outputs:
A deterministic random bit generator (DRBG) seeded from the
conditioner.
An enhanced, nondeterministic random number generator (ENRNG)
that provides seeds from the entropy conditioner.
I've improved my Linux entropy pool / random number benchmark script
(see below):
1. Waits for enough entropy before starting.
2. Runs at maximum speed until entropy pool gets low.
3. Continues running only as fast as the entropy pool is refilled.
4. Added more columns of information, notably "cost" (entropy bits per
random number) and "efficiency" (random number bytes per entropy bit).
5. Tuned the script parameters for my Wheezy 7.7 i386 machine with a
Pentium 4 3.4E GHz HT processor (no Secure Key). (Note that I needed to
wiggle the mouse for stages #1 and #3.)
6. Added statistics to help measure random number generation rates for
stages #2 and #3.
I invite other people to run the script and post the results.
David
$ cat entropy-random-bench
#!/usr/bin/perl
# $Id: entropy-random-bench,v 1.11 2014/11/30 02:25:20 dpchrist Exp $
###
# Argument defaults -- edit to suit:
my $entropy = '/proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail';
my $random = '/dev/urandom';
my $start_entropy = 0.8 * 4096; # bits
my $continue_entropy= 0.2 * 4096; # bits
my $min_cost= 64; # bits
my $length = 8; # bytes
my $max_trials = 80; # each
###
# The rest of the script should not be edited:
use strict;
use warnings;
use Data::Dumper;
use Getopt::Longqw( :config
auto_help
auto_version );
use List::Util qw( min max sum );
use Pod::Usage;
use Time::HiRes qw( sleep time );
$| = 1;
our $VERSION= sprintf("%d.%03d", q$Revision: 1.11 $ =~ /(\d+)/g);
my $debug = 0;
sub get_random
{
open(my $fh, $random) or die "error opening $random: $!";
my $buf;
my $n = sysread($fh, $buf, $length);
die "nor reading $fh: $!" unless defined $n && $n;
return $buf;
}
sub get_entropy
{
open(my $fh, $entropy) or die "error opening $entropy: $!";
my $e = <$fh>;
chomp $e;
return $e;
}
sub print_header
{
print "trial e1 length timeratecost
efficiency\n",
"- bitsbytes seconds bytes/secondbits
bytes/bit\n",
"== == == == == ==
==\n";
}
sub print_row
{
my $trial = shift;
printf "%6i %6i %6i %14e %14e %6i %14e\n",
$trial->{trial},
$trial->{e1},
$trial->{length},
$trial->{time},
$trial->{rate},
$trial->{cost},
$trial->{efficiency},
@_;
}
sub lower
{
my @a = sort @_;
my $n = scalar @a;
pop @a for ( 1 .. $n/2 );
return @a;
}
sub middle
{
my @a = sort @_;
my $n = scalar @a;
shift @a for ( 1 .. $n/4 );
pop @a for ( 1 .. $n/4 );
return @a;
}
sub upper
{
my @a = sort @_;
my $n = scalar @a;
shift @a for ( 1 .. $n/2 );
return @a;
}
sub mean
{
return sum(@_) / scalar @_;
}
sub print_statistics
{
my $trials = shift;
my %stats;
my @rates = map { $_->{rate} } @$trials;
$stats{n_rates} = scalar @rates;
$stats{max_rate}= max @rates;
$stats{mean_rate} = mean @rates;
$stats{min_rate}= min @rates;
$stats{max_middle_rate} = max middle @rates;
$stats{mean_middle_rate}= mean middle @rates;
$stats{min_middle_rate} = min middle @rates;
$stats{max_middle_upper_rate} = max middle upper @rates;
$stats{mean_middle_upper_rate} = mean middle upper @rates;
$stats{min_middle_upper_rate} = min middle upper @rates;
$stats{max_middle_lower_rate} = max middle lower @rates;
$stats{mean_middle_lower_rate} = mean middle lower @rates;
$stats{min_middle_lower_rate} = min middle lower @rates;
print "\n";
for my $k (sort keys %stats) {
printf "%32s = %s\n", $k, $sta
fsck fails with "partition in use" error after partition umount'ed
I notice that /dev/sdb1, an ext4 partition on a USB drive has remounted read-only. I try umount /dev/sdb1 then fsck /dev/sdb1 fsck from util-linux 2.25.2 e2fsck 1.42.12 (29-Aug-2014) /dev/sdb1 is in use. e2fsck: Cannot continue, aborting. Is there a way that a volume can be in use without being mounted? I don't have a desktop environment, so it's only vanilla (sid) here. I suppose I should investigate lsof. I also wonder, if changes in udev could be involved. The underlying issue is that the driver detects an I/O error. Regards, Joel -- Joel Roth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20141130064757.GA23729@sprite
Re: fsck fails with "partition in use" error after partition umount'ed
On 30 November 2014 at 17:47, Joel Roth wrote: > I notice that /dev/sdb1, an ext4 partition on a USB drive has remounted > read-only. > > I try > > umount /dev/sdb1 > > then > > fsck /dev/sdb1 > > fsck from util-linux 2.25.2 > e2fsck 1.42.12 (29-Aug-2014) > /dev/sdb1 is in use. > e2fsck: Cannot continue, aborting. > > Is there a way that a volume can be in use without being > mounted? Yes. If you have disk errors (not data, disk). It'll be prominent in your logs (if it's a SATA grep for ATA). For your sake I hope I'm wrong or that it's just a loose connection. You may find that the device had problems during boot, and the fsck is 'trying' to fix them - but is unable to access the disk. > > The underlying issue is that the driver detects an I/O > error. See comment above. > > Regards, > > Joel > > > -- > Joel Roth > Kind regards -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/camt2cqo8c16y+_cfshrzuc8hjyx59cf50ed8dyykmzvagwr...@mail.gmail.com
