Re: openvpn question

2013-08-18 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 01:07:06PM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: I wrote: > > actually want is to give one ip address out of that /29 to the > > laptop. The laptop is an endpoint in itself. It doesn't have any other > > You need to question yourself, imagine an isolated network of three computers:

Re: boot: can't find root=/dev/mapper/vgHDB-HDBB

2013-08-18 Thread emmanuel segura
Did you tryed rootdelay grub option? 2013/8/19 Hugo Vanwoerkom > Hi, > > Booting the latest Debian stock kernels stop in initramfs saying that > /dev/mapper/vgHDB-HDBB does not exist as root device. > > But the kernel that I built myself has no such problem. > > This refers to 3.10.4, and later

Re: A strange new phenomena

2013-08-18 Thread Harry Putnam
Zenaan Harkness writes: [...] >> Right, and do we know the video hardware, kernel, video driver, etc. ... > > Dear OP, do you know the video hardware, kernel, video driver, etc. > ... my sliver of memory from ~6 or more years ago is not in any way > definitive, of course. >From lspci -vk 01:

Re: openvpn question

2013-08-18 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 8/19/13, Gregory Nowak wrote: > On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 10:26:14AM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: >> The key I think is the word "routable" which you use. > > Yes, exactly. > >> After a successful VPN setup, your VPS becomes analogous to your home >> internet modem router - the router has a publ

Re: unable to get /etc/resolv.conf and /etc/network/interfaces configured properly in wheezy

2013-08-18 Thread Bob Proulx
Mark Copper wrote: > With resolvconf package installed and configured for dynamic > generation of /etc/resolv.conf, I was *unable* to get any non-local > nameservers written into /etc/resolv.conf. Works for me. What version of Debian are you using? Stable Wheezy 7? Other? There have been recent

Re: openvpn question

2013-08-18 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 10:26:14AM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > The key I think is the word "routable" which you use. Yes, exactly. > > After a successful VPN setup, your VPS becomes analogous to your home > internet modem router - the router has a public address dedicated to > _all_ of your

Re: UPS monitoring with nut

2013-08-18 Thread Ash Narayanan
Thanks for the explanation Darac. Makes more sense now. I had a look at the user manual that comes with nut-doc. In the configuration section, it requires you to access files under /usr/local/ups. I do not have this directory. >If you find that THAT is out of date, then file a bug report. Is tha

unable to get /etc/resolv.conf and /etc/network/interfaces configured properly in wheezy

2013-08-18 Thread Mark Copper
With resolvconf package installed and configured for dynamic generation of /etc/resolv.conf, I was *unable* to get any non-local nameservers written into /etc/resolv.conf. I tried a dns-nameservers line in the /etc/network/interfaces stanza for the network interface card, and I tried nameserver li

Re: Ethernet suddenly limited to 100 Mbps

2013-08-18 Thread Bob Proulx
Vincent Lefevre wrote: > xvii:~> ethtool eth0 > ... > Supported link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full > 100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full > 1000baseT/Full > Advertised link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full >

Re: sudo questions

2013-08-18 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 8/19/13, Bob Proulx wrote: > Joel Rees wrote: >> Maybe I need to file a feature request (for my own satisfaction, even >> if it gets rejected). >> >> What I lean towards is providing the installing user >> (1) the opportunity to set the root password, >> (2) the opportunity to set a separate ad

wireless problem

2013-08-18 Thread Robert Holtzm
I have a wireless connection that disconnects sponaneously. NM claims I'm connected but I'm not. Can't ping the router (operation not permitted). Ethernet connection is no problem when wireless is down. Tried installing wicd with no luck. Not only no luck but with wicd I couldn't turn on the xciev

Re: openvpn question

2013-08-18 Thread Zenaan Harkness
Sometimes it is easy to be unintentionally ambiguous. I shall clarify a couple things below... On 8/19/13, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > On 8/19/13, Gregory Nowak wrote: >> On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 04:29:16PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: >>> Your vpn will be connected to the public address. It will estab

boot: can't find root=/dev/mapper/vgHDB-HDBB

2013-08-18 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, Booting the latest Debian stock kernels stop in initramfs saying that /dev/mapper/vgHDB-HDBB does not exist as root device. But the kernel that I built myself has no such problem. This refers to 3.10.4, and later versions. What am I missing? Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-use

Re: openvpn question

2013-08-18 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 8/19/13, Gregory Nowak wrote: > On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 04:29:16PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: >> Your vpn will be connected to the public address. It will establish a >> private address for the encrypted traffic. > > Yes, except that it's a public address I'm actually after. More below. > > I wr

Re: Ethernet suddenly limited to 100 Mbps

2013-08-18 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2013-08-18 15:55:20 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > I think it would be useful to double check the settings using ethtool > to dump the current values. Maybe there will be a clue in your > output. Here is an example from my machine. I get the following: xvii:~> ethtool eth0 Settings for eth0:

Re: Loopback filesystems for mail storage

2013-08-18 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 8/19/13, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 8/18/2013 12:16 AM, Zenaan Harkness wrote: >> BTRFS and perhaps XFS are starting now to look at the >> internal-consistency assurance problem too finally (from what I read a >> month or so ago), due to necessity as we now hit multi-TiB >> filesystems. > The

Re: openvpn question

2013-08-18 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 04:29:16PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > Your vpn will be connected to the public address. It will establish a > private address for the encrypted traffic. Yes, except that it's a public address I'm actually after. More below. I wrote: > > I want to have the ability to conne

Re: Wheezy installer problem

2013-08-18 Thread Robert Holtzm
On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 03:40:00PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: snip... > > And all of the while I kept hearing Pink Floyd in my head. > > We don't need no education. > We don't need no thought control > > Interlaced with the Blazing Saddles' parody of the Bogart movie. > >

Re: openvpn question

2013-08-18 Thread Bob Proulx
Gregory Nowak wrote: > Since attempting to establish an ipsec connection is one of the two > things so far that crashes my VPS (earlier thread on this > list), Ouch! > I've been looking at other alternatives for possible > workarounds. Let me backup, and describe what I want to do. > I have a pu

Re: lxde and focus follow mouse... not happening

2013-08-18 Thread Bob Proulx
Harry Putnam wrote: > Bob Proulx writes: > > Ralph Katz wrote: > >> Also of course: > >> ~$ ls -l /etc/alternatives/x-window-manager > > > > I think the alternatives tool is better. > > $ update-alternatives --list x-window-manager > > $ update-alternatives --list x-session-manager > > Then to

openvpn question

2013-08-18 Thread Gregory Nowak
Hi all. Since attempting to establish an ipsec connection is one of the two things so far that crashes my VPS (earlier thread on this list), I've been looking at other alternatives for possible workarounds. Let me backup, and describe what I want to do. I have a publicly routable /29 subnet with

Re: Ethernet suddenly limited to 100 Mbps

2013-08-18 Thread Bob Proulx
Vincent Lefevre wrote: > Stan Hoeppner wrote: > > Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > > On my laptop, Ethernet has been limited to 100 Mbps for a few days. > > > Nothing changed on the network side. Just a few upgrades on the laptop > > > (Debian/unstable). Any explanation? > > > > Gigabit ethernet is full

Re: Wheezy installer problem

2013-08-18 Thread Bob Proulx
Chris Bannister wrote: > holtzm wrote: > > Chris Bannister wrote: > > > holtzm wrote: > > > > The problem was a bad cd. Another installed w/ no problem. "We don't > > > > need no stickin' checksum." No sir. Not us. uh, uhright! > > > > > > Isn't it "... need no stinkin' checksum." or am I wit

Re: sudo questions

2013-08-18 Thread Bob Proulx
Joel Rees wrote: > Maybe I need to file a feature request (for my own satisfaction, even > if it gets rejected). > > What I lean towards is providing the installing user > (1) the opportunity to set the root password, > (2) the opportunity to set a separate admin account and password > (member of

akonadi-server defaults to MySQL backend irregardless of which backend is installed

2013-08-18 Thread Peter Baranyi
Hi, this is on Debian unstable, using KDE. I have akonadi-backend-sqlite installed, and not akonadi-backend-mysql, and starting akonadi-server is not possible because it tries to use the mysql backend. I don't have an /etc/xdg/akonadi/ directory so this default does not come from there. When I try

Re: Is heimdall capable of flashing to s5670 froyo?

2013-08-18 Thread Steve Langasek
Hi Luther, On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 04:42:53PM -0300, Luther Blissett wrote: > Hello all, > I've been trying to flash freer and newer firmware to a Samsung Galaxy > Fit s5670b, Froyo, 2.2.1 using a jessie box. > The official install procedure on xda-devel forums only support windows, > through Od

Re: CD checksums

2013-08-18 Thread David Christensen
On 08/18/13 10:18, Mike McClain wrote: I downloaded the 7.1.0 net install CD last night but spent over half an hour trying to find the checksum on Debian's website. Though I finally found it at http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/7.1.0/i386/iso-cd/MD5SUMS I'd like to suggest that a lin

Re: Ethernet suddenly limited to 100 Mbps

2013-08-18 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2013-08-18 12:25:59 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 8/18/2013 10:31 AM, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > On my laptop, Ethernet has been limited to 100 Mbps for a few days. > > Nothing changed on the network side. Just a few upgrades on the laptop > > (Debian/unstable). Any explanation? > > Gigabit

Re: CD checksums

2013-08-18 Thread Brian
On Sun 18 Aug 2013 at 10:18:55 -0700, Mike McClain wrote: > I downloaded the 7.1.0 net install CD last night but spent over > half an hour trying to find the checksum on Debian's website. > Though I finally found it at > http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/7.1.0/i386/iso-cd/MD5SUMS Far be

CD checksums

2013-08-18 Thread Mike McClain
I downloaded the 7.1.0 net install CD last night but spent over half an hour trying to find the checksum on Debian's website. Though I finally found it at http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/7.1.0/i386/iso-cd/MD5SUMS I'd like to suggest that a link show up on these pages: http://www.debian

Re: logrotate: file size changed while zipping

2013-08-18 Thread Slavko
Hi, I am sorry for blank post - my mistake. Dňa 18.08.2013 11:00 Pertti Kosunen wrote / napísal(a): > On Thu, 26 Jul 2012 10:42:30 +0200, Slavko wrote: >> in last days (perhaps weeks) i get daily mail from cron's logrotate task >> with this: >> >> /etc/cron.daily/logrotate: >> gzip: stdin: file

Re: logrotate: file size changed while zipping

2013-08-18 Thread Slavko
> rotating pattern: /var/log/samba/log.nmbd weekly (7 rotations) > empty log files are not rotated, old logs are removed > considering log /var/log/samba/log.nmbd > log needs rotating > rotating log /var/log/samba/log.nmbd, log->rotateCount is 7 > dateext suffix '-201

Re: Ethernet suddenly limited to 100 Mbps

2013-08-18 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 8/18/2013 10:31 AM, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On my laptop, Ethernet has been limited to 100 Mbps for a few days. > Nothing changed on the network side. Just a few upgrades on the laptop > (Debian/unstable). Any explanation? Gigabit ethernet is fully auto negotiating at the hardware level--a sof

Re: Loopback filesystems for mail storage

2013-08-18 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 8/18/2013 12:16 AM, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > PS: My suggestion to use git as an email filesystem store was in jest. > ZFS however is a serious consideration for myself, for TiB+ size > filesystems at least. > BTRFS and perhaps XFS are starting now to look at the > internal-consistency assurance

Ethernet suddenly limited to 100 Mbps

2013-08-18 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On my laptop, Ethernet has been limited to 100 Mbps for a few days. Nothing changed on the network side. Just a few upgrades on the laptop (Debian/unstable). Any explanation? xvii:~> zgrep e1000e: /var/log/{kern.log.4.gz,kern.log.3.gz,kern.log.2.gz,kern.log.1,kern.log} /var/log/kern.log.4.gz:Jul

Re: Loopback filesystems for mail storage

2013-08-18 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 03:11:38PM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > On 8/18/13, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > > On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 02:52:05AM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > >> In GahNU, answer find you :) > >> > >> But you ought to do your bit and find duckduckgo while you're at it. > > > > I am doi

Re: sudo questions

2013-08-18 Thread Joel Rees
On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 7:32 PM, Brian wrote: > On Sun 18 Aug 2013 at 06:51:04 +0900, Joel Rees wrote: > >> On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 4:03 AM, Brian wrote: >> > On Sun 18 Aug 2013 at 03:12:39 +0900, Joel Rees wrote: >> > >> >> But debian's installer tries to encourage the user to not enable root, >

Re: sudo questions

2013-08-18 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2013-08-18 at 21:40 +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > On 8/18/13, Chris Bannister wrote: > > On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 12:17:46PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > >> On Sun, 2013-08-18 at 21:33 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > >> > On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 09:25:23PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > >>

Re: How to use the debian installation iso for installing packages using aptitude

2013-08-18 Thread Chris Bannister
Having trouble sending some mail -- trying again. Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2013 23:26:00 +1200 From: Chris Bannister To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: How to use the debian installation iso for installing packages using aptitude On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 04:31:14PM +0530, Anubhav Yadav wrot

Re: sudo questions

2013-08-18 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 8/18/13, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 12:17:46PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >> On Sun, 2013-08-18 at 21:33 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: >> > On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 09:25:23PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >> >> > > > [snip] >> > > too long, didn't read >> > >> > IOW, tl;dr >

Re: sudo questions

2013-08-18 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 12:17:46PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Sun, 2013-08-18 at 21:33 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 09:25:23PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > > > [snip] > > > too long, didn't read > > > > IOW, tl;dr > > In my opinion it won't add more sane s

Re: How to use the debian installation iso for installing packages using aptitude

2013-08-18 Thread Anubhav Yadav
> > That would of course defeat the purpose of having an official key, if > anyone could sign packages officially. > > Your key only. > > I found a key on this page? Can you help me now, by telling me how to add that particular key into my repository. I have mounted the iso in /media/dvd1-mountpoi

Re: How to use the debian installation iso for installing packages using aptitude

2013-08-18 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 8/18/13, Anubhav Yadav wrote: >> OK, So because of that I'm guessing you need an entry like: >> gpg: key cxdfddey: "Local Repository Key" >> blah blah blah. >> >> So following the adage -- teach a man to fish ... >> >> Googling "how to authenticate a local repository Debian" >> (leave off the

Re: How to use the debian installation iso for installing packages using aptitude

2013-08-18 Thread Anubhav Yadav
> > OK, So because of that I'm guessing you need an entry like: > gpg: key cxdfddey: "Local Repository Key" > blah blah blah. > > So following the adage -- teach a man to fish ... > > Googling "how to authenticate a local repository Debian" > (leave off the quotes in the search box.) > > Returns, e

Re: A strange new phenomena

2013-08-18 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 18 Aug 2013, Harry Putnam wrote: > Zenaan Harkness writes: > > > On 8/18/13, Harry Putnam wrote: > >> I've been seeing something entirely new and unexpected during boot up > >> lately. > >> > >> Every few boots, something happens that prevents me logging in. > > .. > >> It appears to be a mas

Re: update-rc.d question

2013-08-18 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2013-08-18 at 12:35 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Sun, 2013-08-18 at 12:26 +0200, François Patte wrote: > > update-rc.d: warning: start and stop actions are no longer supported; > > falling back to defaults > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=717553 What packages did yo

Re: update-rc.d question

2013-08-18 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2013-08-18 at 12:26 +0200, François Patte wrote: > update-rc.d: warning: start and stop actions are no longer supported; > falling back to defaults http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=717553 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: sudo questions

2013-08-18 Thread Brian
On Sun 18 Aug 2013 at 06:51:04 +0900, Joel Rees wrote: > On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 4:03 AM, Brian wrote: > > On Sun 18 Aug 2013 at 03:12:39 +0900, Joel Rees wrote: > > > >> But debian's installer tries to encourage the user to not enable root, > > > > No, it doesn't. > > Perhaps you would rather I

update-rc.d question

2013-08-18 Thread François Patte
Bonjour, While installing some packages, I get this message: update-rc.d: warning: start and stop actions are no longer supported; falling back to defaults What does it mean? Thank you -- François Patte UFR de mathématiques et informatique Laboratoire CNRS MAP5, UMR 8145 Université Paris Desc

scanner and usb-2 usb-3 connections

2013-08-18 Thread François Patte
Bonjour, 1- I have usb2 and usb3 ports on my computer. When I plug my usb2 scanner in an usb3 port, xsane cannot start. Is it correct? My (usb2) mouse and keyboard work perfectly when plugged in an usb3 port. 2- If I start xsane from a terminal, I get this message: Failed cupsGetDevices What d

Re: sudo questions

2013-08-18 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2013-08-18 at 21:33 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 09:25:23PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > On Sun, 2013-08-18 at 03:12 +0900, Joel Rees wrote: > > > johndoe sounds like a great name for an admin account. > > > > There's a Debian BSD port ;), so how about "Charlie

Re: Fake fulfilled dependency without dummy package

2013-08-18 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 8/18/13, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Sat, 2013-08-17 at 16:36 -0700, Gregory Nowak wrote: >> On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 06:10:52PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >> > IIRC there's a command that can fake, that an unmet dependency is >> > fulfilled. I already searched for apt, dpkg, aptitude regarding to

Re: A strange new phenomena

2013-08-18 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 8/18/13, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 03:18:22PM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: >> >> Yes. The only sliver was "upgrade to sid, ... > > Ouch! That's bad advice, the point of no return. :) It was just a "sliver" :/ And another sliver: I think once I got it going (with the r

Re: How to use the debian installation iso for installing packages using aptitude

2013-08-18 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 10:54:56AM +0530, Anubhav Yadav wrote: > > root@Innovator:~# apt-key update > gpg: key B98321F9: "Squeeze Stable Release Key > " not changed > gpg: key 473041FA: "Debian Archive Automatic Signing Key (6.0/squeeze) > " not changed > gpg: key 65FFB764: "Wheezy Stable Release

Re: sudo questions

2013-08-18 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 09:25:23PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Sun, 2013-08-18 at 03:12 +0900, Joel Rees wrote: > > johndoe sounds like a great name for an admin account. > > There's a Debian BSD port ;), so how about "Charlie Root"? > > > [snip] > too long, didn't read IOW, tl;dr -- "If

Re: A strange new phenomena

2013-08-18 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 03:18:22PM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > Yes. The only sliver was "upgrade to sid, ... Ouch! That's bad advice, the point of no return. > or the latest xorg-driver Apparently it was working at some stage and it was an UPGRADE which CAUSED the OP's problem? So upgradi

Re: logrotate: file size changed while zipping

2013-08-18 Thread Pertti Kosunen
samba/log.nmbd log needs rotating rotating log /var/log/samba/log.nmbd, log->rotateCount is 7 dateext suffix '-20130818' glob pattern '-[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]' renaming /var/log/samba/log.nmbd.7.gz to /var/log/samba/log.nmbd.8.gz (rotatecount 7, logstar

Re: Fake fulfilled dependency without dummy package

2013-08-18 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2013-08-18 at 00:37 +0100, "Karl E. Jørgensen" wrote: > Are you implying that pulseaudio is badly designed? Just > curios; I have no intention of re-igniting the pulseaudio debates I've > seen on the mailing lists and forums in the past... Without discussing the source code, the way pulse

Re: Fake fulfilled dependency without dummy package

2013-08-18 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2013-08-17 at 16:36 -0700, Gregory Nowak wrote: > On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 06:10:52PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > IIRC there's a command that can fake, that an unmet dependency is > > fulfilled. I already searched for apt, dpkg, aptitude regarding to this > > subject, but had no success.

Re: Wheezy installer problem

2013-08-18 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 01:25:08PM -0700, holtzm wrote: > On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 02:34:40PM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 05:47:32PM -0700, holtzm wrote: > > > The problem was a bad cd. Another installed w/ no problem. "We don't > > > need no stickin' checksum." No sir.