Re: root password

On 04/12/2013 05:20 AM, Guido Martínez wrote: > You can, by booting from some other media and changing the /etc/shadow > file. Or running a chroot, but I would suggest you take a look at your > keymap configuration. > If your password has non alphanumeric characters then it's likely that > what you

Re: root password

95% of the time, replies go to the list only, you need to be subscribed. (Silly, I know -- since it's an open list!) It is also list policy that you don't CC posters unless requested. I assume new posters expect a personal reply. On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 06:14:48AM -0400, Robert B McKittrick wrote:

Re: wheezy still missing php5-suhosin

On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 09:11:27AM +0100, Joe wrote: > turn it off if so configured. Later and later versions of PHP have > become much stricter in many ways, and have offered features like > Perl's optional variable discipline, so many of the Suhosin features are What does "optional variable disc

Re: Strange load average

Darac Marjal writes: > Probably not. It's probably just a rounding/display issue. Rounding issues cannot explain the numbers. When the load average for the last minute, sampled every 10s, is 0.00 a each sample, it cannot be higher when averaged over a longer time. > Remember that you're asking

Re: copy onto cifs-utils samba mount maxes out at 100KiB/s on 100Mib/s eth link

PS, Running samba version 3.blah older version (standard package) not samba4. Although I think it's just cifs-utils that's needed anyway. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

copy onto cifs-utils samba mount maxes out at 100KiB/s on 100Mib/s eth link

Hi, I can't get a normal lan-speed copy from debian wheezy client to xp "server": Server is WindowsXP SP3, client is debian testing (updated as at about a week or two ago). Fresh boot: $ sudo mount -t cifs -o file_mode=0666,dir_mode=0777,setuids,credentials=mycreds //server.ip.address/git /x $ rs

RE: iperf / ftp / http TCP poor performance in one direction (UDP good)

Thanks again for your help with this. I've run 500 pings (-c 500 -i 0) in both directions, and got zero loss. Ill try running tcpdump on both servers, and re-testing to check the segments. Swapping the servers would be extremely difficult ;) (They are over 1000k's apart, and one is in an unmanned

Re: iperf / ftp / http TCP poor performance in one direction (UDP good)

On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 1:16 AM, Guido Martínez wrote: > Did you check if A acknowledges every received segment? Sorry, what I meant by this is if every sent segment from B reaches A. You can run an instance of wireshark on each host to check this. Basically you need to check for packet loss at hi

Re: debian-6.0.7-amd64 how to set resolution and refresh for free NVIDIA X drivers?

up at 1024x768 @ 60 Hz. Please see no.xorg.conf-Xorg.0.log, at URL below. http://holgerdanske.com/users/dpchrist/bug-reports/debian/squeeze/amd64/X/a64x23800p/20130411-2107/ A "diff" of the two log files follows. If X pukes on an empty xorg.conf, I don't know how I'm going t

Re: iperf / ftp / http TCP poor performance in one direction (UDP good)

It's probably not the memory then, but you can make sure by running 'free -m' and seeing if the system is too loaded. >starts at win=6912 and grows to 165504 (This is where I start to see a heap of >TCP Dup ACK and TCP segment of a reassembled PDU)), then increases to 353408 >(Again, more TCP Du

Re: Serveur with encrypted partition : 2 steps boot.

On Apr 11, 2013, at 11:58 AM, Erwan David wrote: Le 11/04/2013 20:53, Rick Thomas a écrit : On Apr 11, 2013, at 12:22 AM, Erwan David wrote: On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 08:25:56AM CEST, Bob Proulx said: Erwan David wrote: 2) add at the beginning of each /etc/init.d/myserv a test to stop if

RE: iperf / ftp / http TCP poor performance in one direction (UDP good)

Thanks for the reply. POPB MEM - 2Gb POPA MEM - 4Gb Wireshark: (During a wget) #tcp window size in the "bad" direction: starts at win=6912 and grows to 165504 (This is where I start to see a heap of TCP Dup ACK and TCP segment of a reassembled PDU)), then increases to 353408 (Again, more TCP Dup

RE: Having troublh working out how to STOP monitor detection.

I (sort of) solved it! I gave up on blocking monitor events and worked from the other end of the cable - leave the screens 'hard-on' all the time and use DPMS signals from cron to soft-power up/down. That approach has a few issues, but it seems to work well enough as far as keeping the monitors

Re: root password

On Fri, 2013-04-12 at 00:20 -0300, Guido Martínez wrote: > You can, by booting from some other media and changing the /etc/shadow > file. Or running a chroot, but I would suggest you take a look at your > keymap configuration. > If your password has non alphanumeric characters then it's likely that

Re: iperf / ftp / http TCP poor performance in one direction (UDP good)

Hi >Provider of the link is stating it is a tcp window issue I think that would be a bit weird, TCP is a very robust protocol capable to adapt pretty much any bandwidth / latency situations. What are the specifications on the hosts? Maybe POPA has too little RAM and can't allocate a big enough TCP

Re: limits.conf

I can confirm this. I wasn't sure if it was expected behaviour so I did a quick google search and came to this http://www.chrissearle.org/blog/technical/increasing_max_number_open_files_glassfish_user_debian. If you want 'su' to set the user limits you need to modify /etc/pam.d/su and uncomment th

iperf / ftp / http TCP poor performance in one direction (UDP good)

Hi Guys, I have a 40Mb connection between 2 POPs, and 2 Debian servers connected at each end(L2, same broadcast domain) - I am seeing consistent poor performance with TCP in only one direction. Latency between the POP's is ~67m/sec POPA->POPB UDP(IPERF) - consistent 38.5Mb/sec POPA->POPB TCP(I

Re: root password

You can, by booting from some other media and changing the /etc/shadow file. Or running a chroot, but I would suggest you take a look at your keymap configuration. If your password has non alphanumeric characters then it's likely that what you inputted during the install is not what you really mean

Re: Finding a working udev rule for a device

Franz Zinn wrote: > Hi, > > I have tried making a udev rule for the device > http://www.syscompdesign.com/WGM201.html, such that it is group owner > is "plugdev" and has group read/write permissions. However every thing > I tried does not seem to work. The device nodes (/dev/ttyUSB0) group > alway

RE: Having troublh working out how to STOP monitor detection.

Thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately it doesn't seem to have had any effect. :( Regards, Glenn Alexander Technical Officer Digital Media Centre From: Another Sillyname [mailto:anothersn...@googlemail.com] Sent: Thursday, 11 April 2013 6:05 PM To: Glenn Alexander Subject: Re: Having troublh w

Finding a working udev rule for a device

Hi, I have tried making a udev rule for the device http://www.syscompdesign.com/WGM201.html, such that it is group owner is "plugdev" and has group read/write permissions. However every thing I tried does not seem to work. The device nodes (/dev/ttyUSB0) group always stays as "dialout". I would be

Re: BTRFS Kernel Panic

On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 03:50:19PM -0500, Alex Robbins wrote: > So it looks like btrfs really is still experimental. > > I have / and /var on two separate btrfs partitions and I consistently get > a kernel panic when I run "aptitude update" (see the end). I also managed > to get the same results

BTRFS Kernel Panic

So it looks like btrfs really is still experimental. I have / and /var on two separate btrfs partitions and I consistently get a kernel panic when I run "aptitude update" (see the end). I also managed to get the same results by using find and dd to read every file in /var. Although my oops outp

Re: scp non root

Bonno Bloksma wrote: > Of course root cannot login via ssh and that is no problem. A simple > su - is enough to make myself root after that and perform the > necessary tasks. But... I often see people advise to disable root ssh login access. But I disagree that it is beneficial. In fact it can m

Re: root password

Robert B McKittrick wrote: > my system 6.0.7 does not recognize the root password I gave it when > installing. is there any way to reset root without reinstalling? Use the installer disk in "rescue mode". Here is the official documentation for it: http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch0

Re: Information not on relavant man page - where to find on WEB?

Richard Owlett wrote: [snip] I saw that mentioned in passing once. This time I browsed its man page. By the breadth of options it may be overkill but it appears capable. I am impressed with the additional documentation available. So far I've had a quick look at http://wiki.debian.org/SettingUpSi

Re: wheezy still missing php5-suhosin

On Fri, 12 Apr 2013 03:56:31 +1000 Andrew McGlashan wrote: > > If data is passed via forms or via GET or POST and that data isn't > properly handled by php itself, then it may produce a buffer overrun > situation ... possibly before the data gets passed through to the > webpage code; if this c

Re: Serveur with encrypted partition : 2 steps boot.

Le 11/04/2013 20:53, Rick Thomas a écrit : On Apr 11, 2013, at 12:22 AM, Erwan David wrote: On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 08:25:56AM CEST, Bob Proulx said: Erwan David wrote: 2) add at the beginning of each /etc/init.d/myserv a test to stop if the encrypted partition is not mounted Neither of th

Re: Serveur with encrypted partition : 2 steps boot.

On Apr 11, 2013, at 12:22 AM, Erwan David wrote: On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 08:25:56AM CEST, Bob Proulx said: Erwan David wrote: 2) add at the beginning of each /etc/init.d/myserv a test to stop if the encrypted partition is not mounted Neither of those solutions seems acceptable for me. So

Re: wheezy still missing php5-suhosin

On 11/04/2013 6:11 PM, Joe wrote: > A working commercial PHP programmer probably could, but I'm not sure it > would help. PHP is a programming language, running on a web server, > which needs to access the server's databases, drives, memory etc. > There's no way it can be made secure, any more than

Re: Starting Iceweasel

On 04/11/2013 10:42 AM, Verde Denim wrote: On 04/11/2013 12:41 AM, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: Dear list - Thanks for all your help. Finally, I can start Iceweasel from the command line [sort of]: iceweasel -no-remote localhost/choice.php width $1280 height $800 The above works. But ... in a

Re: slow ssh prompt

11/4/2013 5:48 ??, ?/? Jaikumar Sharma ??: On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 4:15 PM, binary dreamer mailto:dreamer.bin...@gmail.com>> wrote: >Hi. I am running debian 6.0.7 and i am facing a problem with slow response when asking to ssh. once i do a ssh root@192.168.1.77

Re: which operation leads to the close all opening terminals

On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 12:42:12PM +0800, lina wrote: > > Without data, we can only speculate. Here's my wild speculation: > > > > You thought you had multiple terminals open, but what you had > > was a single master process with multiple sub-processes. A > > I did have multiple terminals open.

Re: root password

On 27/03/13 12:44 PM, Robert B McKittrick wrote: my system 6.0.7 does not recognize the root password I gave it when installing. is there any way to reset root without reinstalling? bob Boot from a rescue CD (such as your install CD, or system rescue CD). mkdir /mnt (if it doesn't exist) mount

Re: slow ssh prompt

On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 4:15 PM, binary dreamer wrote: > >Hi. I am running debian 6.0.7 and i am facing a problem with slow > response when asking to ssh. once i do a ssh root@192.168.1.77 then the > prompt for the passwd it takes around 30 secs to respond. after >that > everything is fine. is the

Re: slow ssh prompt

On 4/11/13 5:16 PM, binary dreamer wrote: [snip] > here is the output > > /etc/ssh# more ssh_config [snip] > any ideas? That's ssh_config, for the client. The file to look in is sshd_config, which is for the server. It will be on the machine you are connecting to, rather than on the machine you

Re: Information not on relavant man page - where to find on WEB?

On 04/10/2013 10:05 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: > Linux-Fan wrote: >> Often the info-pages do not give any additional details (I have just >> verified this for "dpkg-scanpackages" where both info and manpage seemed >> equal after a quick glance). > > Uhm... Are you sure you were looking at info pages?

Re: Starting Iceweasel

On 04/11/2013 12:41 AM, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: > Dear list - > > Thanks for all your help. > > Finally, I can start Iceweasel from the command line [sort of]: > iceweasel -no-remote localhost/choice.php width $1280 height $800 > > The above works. > > But ... in a store.desktop multiple window

Re: slow ssh prompt

On 04/11/2013 02:46 PM, Lars Noodén wrote: On 4/11/13 1:45 PM, binary dreamer wrote: Hi. I am running debian 6.0.7 and i am facing a problem with slow response when asking to ssh. once i do a ssh root@192.168.1.77 then the prompt for the passwd it takes around 30 secs to respond. after that ever

Re: scp non root

On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 12:04:38PM +, Bonno Bloksma wrote: > > I sometimes need to copy some files from the server to my machine and want to > use scp but… as my default user I do not have access to the files that I just > have been able to access as root. So I need to: > > - cp the file

Re: slow ssh prompt

Hello binary, Excerpt from binary dreamer: > Hi. I am running debian 6.0.7 and i am facing a problem with slow > response when asking to ssh. once i do a ssh root@192.168.1.77 then the > prompt for the passwd it takes around 30 secs to respond. after that > everything is fine. is there a way

Re: scp non root

On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 12:04:38PM +, Bonno Bloksma wrote: >Hi, > >  > >Our Linux servers have no users configured except for the default first >use besides root. These servers provide a service and do not require users >to log on to the machine. > >Of course root can

Re: root password

On 11 Apr 2013, Darac Marjal wrote: > On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 12:44:27PM -0400, Robert B McKittrick wrote: > > my system 6.0.7 does not recognize the root password I gave it when > > installing. is there any way to reset root without reinstalling? > > bob > > Yes. First of all, how are you attempt

scp non root

Hi, Our Linux servers have no users configured except for the default first use besides root. These servers provide a service and do not require users to log on to the machine. Of course root cannot login via ssh and that is no problem. A simple su - is enough to make myself root after that and

Re: slow ssh prompt

On 4/11/13 1:45 PM, binary dreamer wrote: > Hi. I am running debian 6.0.7 and i am facing a problem with slow > response when asking to ssh. once i do a ssh root@192.168.1.77 then > the prompt for the passwd it takes around 30 secs to respond. after > that everything is fine. is there a way to fi

RE: slow ssh prompt

Hi dreamer, > Hi. I am running debian 6.0.7 and i am facing a problem with slow response > when asking to ssh. > once i do a ssh root@192.168.1.77 then the prompt for the passwd it takes > around 30 secs to respond. > after that everything is fine. is there a way to fix that delay? This might b

Re: root password

The Wednesday 27 March 2013 17:44:27, Robert B McKittrick wrote : > my system 6.0.7 does not recognize the root password I gave it when > installing. is there any way to reset root without reinstalling? > bob What about a on the net, something like lost root password debian? It would have give yo

slow ssh prompt

Hi. I am running debian 6.0.7 and i am facing a problem with slow response when asking to ssh. once i do a ssh root@192.168.1.77 then the prompt for the passwd it takes around 30 secs to respond. after that everything is fine. is there a way to fix that delay? sincerely yours, -- To UNSUBSC

Re: root password

On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 12:44:27PM -0400, Robert B McKittrick wrote: > my system 6.0.7 does not recognize the root password I gave it when > installing. is there any way to reset root without reinstalling? > bob Yes. First of all, how are you attempting to use the root password? SSH is usually con

root password

my system 6.0.7 does not recognize the root password I gave it when installing. is there any way to reset root without reinstalling? bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http:/

root password

my system 6.0.7 does notm recognize the root password I gave it when installing. is there any way to reset root without reinstalling? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://l

Re: Strange load average

On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 09:55:22AM +0200, Urs Thuermann wrote: > I run Debian testing/amd64 with current kernel on an Intel Core2Duo: > > $ uname -a > Linux bit 3.2.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.2.41-2 x86_64 GNU/Linux > > When the system is idle even for long periods, the 5-minute load > ave

Re: wheezy still missing php5-suhosin

On Thu, 11 Apr 2013 15:57:03 +1000 Andrew McGlashan wrote: > On 11/04/2013 3:21 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: > > Andrew McGlashan wrote: > >> Yes, but insecure code is so easy to make and even the so called > >> experts are making them. There is even an O'Reilly book that has > >> wrong information tha

Strange load average

I run Debian testing/amd64 with current kernel on an Intel Core2Duo: $ uname -a Linux bit 3.2.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.2.41-2 x86_64 GNU/Linux When the system is idle even for long periods, the 5-minute load average and 15-minute load average don't drop: $ while sleep 10; do uptime;

Re: Serveur with encrypted partition : 2 steps boot.

On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 08:25:56AM CEST, Bob Proulx said: > Erwan David wrote: > > 2) add at the beginning of each /etc/init.d/myserv a test to stop if > > the encrypted partition is not mounted > > > > Neither of those solutions seems acceptable for me. > > > > So if someone has an idea, I'm li