Re: apache as a system shell ( Debian Wheezy Compromised - www-data user is sending 1000 emails an hour)

2014-01-01 Thread Joel Rees
On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 1:52 AM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: > On 1/1/2014 7:20 AM, Joel Rees wrote: >> >> On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 7:30 PM, Jerry Stuckle >> wrote: >>> >>> On 1/1/2014 2:52 AM, Joel Rees wrote: [...] On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 11:51 AM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: > > On

Re: Sources.list file for Debian Wheezy

2014-01-01 Thread Bob Proulx
Muntasim-Ul-Haque wrote: > I use two repositories for Debian Wheezy for the same purpose. One > of them is "HTTP" and another one is "FTP". My two alternatives > sources.list are as follows: > "*/deb http://http.debian.net/debian wheezy main/**/ > /**/deb-src http://http.debian.net/debian wheezy m

Sources.list file for Debian Wheezy

2014-01-01 Thread Muntasim-Ul-Haque
Hi, I use two repositories for Debian Wheezy for the same purpose. One of them is "HTTP" and another one is "FTP". My two alternatives sources.list are as follows: "*/deb http://http.debian.net/debian wheezy main/**/ /**/deb-src http://http.debian.net/debian wheezy main/**/ /**/ /**/deb http://

Re: Disable ipv6.......

2014-01-01 Thread Charlie
On Thu, 02 Jan 2014 07:58:24 +0100 Ivan Jurišić sent: > Try this: > > 1. open file /etc/default/grub > > nano /etc/default/grub > > 2 add "ipv6.disable=1" in variable GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT, > example: > > GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet ipv6.disable=1" > > 3. last step, update gru

Disable ipv6.......

2014-01-01 Thread Charlie
Apologies, let me say this before I resend it: Running Jessie: 3.11-2-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.11.10-1 (2013-12-04) x86_64 GNU/Linux Toshiba c500/A00L w8 laptop Another thing I would like to do is to disable ipv6 on this system as satellite doesn't use ipv6 Without doing ifd

Re: Disable ipv6.......

2014-01-01 Thread Ivan Jurišić
Try this: 1. open file /etc/default/grub nano /etc/default/grub 2 add "ipv6.disable=1" in variable GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT, example: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet ipv6.disable=1" 3. last step, update grup and reboot PC: update-grub reboot Dana 02/01/2014 07:47, Charlie je na

Disable ipv6.......

2014-01-01 Thread Charlie
Another thing I would like to do is to disable ipv6 on this system as satellite doesn't use ipv6 Without doing ifdown eth0 to see if I was using ipv6, I did: # rmmod ipv6 libkmod: ERROR ../libkmod/libkmod-module.c:1802 kmod_module_get_holders: could not open '/sys/module/ipv6/holders': N

Re: Wheezy/Xfce Gnome keyring problem

2014-01-01 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello, On 02/01/14 04:31, Bob Proulx wrote: > Paul E Condon wrote: >> Bob Proulx wrote: >>> The path of least resistance then would seem to be to install >>> gnome-keyring to include that file. If it existed then you wouldn't >>> get the error any longer. YMMV. >> >> I installed gnome-keyring an

Re: [OT] non technical Q: bad or worse. Was: To do the same as Windows safe mode...........

2014-01-01 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 02/01/14 13:46, John Hasler wrote: > Scott Ferguson writes: >> Can someone nitpick if they don't have lice?. > > One does not pick one's own nits. > What sort of people volunteer for the job? Kind regards -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: packages status

2014-01-01 Thread Bob Proulx
Diogene Laerce wrote: > Is there a simple way to get the list of packages installed since the fresh > installation of deby ? How long ago was your fresh installation? There are backups of the dpkg package status kept in /var/backups that go back a week. And if you have a system backup you could

Re: Wheezy/Xfce Gnome keyring problem

2014-01-01 Thread Bob Proulx
Paul E Condon wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > The path of least resistance then would seem to be to install > > gnome-keyring to include that file. If it existed then you wouldn't > > get the error any longer. YMMV. > > I installed gnome-keyring and it pulled in several other packages. With these

Re: Debian Wheezy Compromised - www-data user is sending 1000 emails an hour

2014-01-01 Thread Bob Proulx
Jerry Stuckle wrote: > Raffaele Morelli wrote: > > Bob Proulx wrote: > > > 2) The ownership of the files by root are safe. The default owner is > > > root. Files owned by root with the default permissions are not > > > writable by the web process. Files in the default configuration are > > > not

Re: [OT] non technical Q: bad or worse. Was: To do the same as Windows safe mode...........

2014-01-01 Thread John Hasler
Scott Ferguson writes: > Can someone nitpick if they don't have lice?. One does not pick one's own nits. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debi

Re: how to configure pulseaudio to use analog speaker on motherboard not hdmi on video card

2014-01-01 Thread Mitchell Laks
On 22:53 Wed 01 Jan , Klaus wrote: > > > So, even just after reboot and as it would be expected, the two > cards are listed by alsa, and yet, first time round PA doesn't find > them both. When you restart PA, they are correctly identified and > subsequently functional through PA. How odd. > >

Re: Debian Wheezy Compromised - www-data user is sending 1000 emails an hour

2014-01-01 Thread Bob Proulx
Raffaele Morelli wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > 2) The ownership of the files by root are safe. The default owner is > > root. Files owned by root with the default permissions are not > > writable by the web process. Files in the default configuration are > > not exploitable by that vulnerabilit

Re: [OT] non technical Q: bad or worse. Was: To do the same as Windows safe mode...........

2014-01-01 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 02/01/14 05:22, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Wed, 2014-01-01 at 18:02 +, Lisi Reisz wrote: >> On Wednesday 01 January 2014 17:49:59 Brian wrote: >>> If 'less worse' is a colloquialism it has no charm or character to >>> lift it out of the lazy speaking category. >> >> :-) >> >> Lisi > > Wow, su

Re: nano vs VI

2014-01-01 Thread Paul Cartwright
On 01/01/2014 08:01 PM, John Hasler wrote: > man select-editor man select-editor No manual entry for select-editor that's OK, I already did the .bashrc EDITOR=vi -- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux User #367800 and new counter #561587 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.deb

Re: mtp://[usb:001,022]/131074

2014-01-01 Thread Andreas Weber
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2014-01-02 01:13, Sharon Kimble wrote: > What I need to do is to be able to back it up to the external SD > card, which I can then dismount, remove it from the mobile and > mount it on my linux box. From there I can rsync it, but I was > hoping for

Re: nano vs VI

2014-01-01 Thread John Hasler
man select-editor -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87d2kb9oz1@thumper.dhh.gt.org

Re: Debian Wheezy Compromised - www-data user is sending 1000 emails an hour

2014-01-01 Thread Bob Proulx
Jerry Stuckle wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > The default for phpmyadmin is that the files are owned by root not > > www-data. If they were owned by www-data then they would be unsafe. > > (If, and this is a hypothetical if, you told me the files were owned > > by a special phpmyadmin-data account,

Re: [OT] non technical Q: bad or worse. Was: To do the same as Windows safe mode...........

2014-01-01 Thread Brian
On Thu 02 Jan 2014 at 00:26:17 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > There for sure are more philosophically reasoned "opuses" (ouch, I > learned Latin and to use "opuses" for the plural is a PITA for me ;) ... Use 'opera' for the latin plural of 'opus'; nobody will think the worse (or even the less worst

Re: nano vs VI

2014-01-01 Thread Paul Cartwright
On 01/01/2014 07:00 PM, Richard Hector wrote: > Also perhaps: > > aptitude purge nano :-) > > Richard thanks, I might do that also, since I use either VI or gedit.. -- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux User #367800 and new counter #561587 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.de

Re: Debian Wheezy Compromised - www-data user is sending 1000 emails an hour

2014-01-01 Thread Bob Proulx
Raffaele Morelli wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > The default for phpmyadmin is that the files are owned by root not > > www-data. If they were owned by www-data then they would be unsafe. > > (If, and this is a hypothetical if, you told me the files were owned > > by a special phpmyadmin-data accou

Re: mtp://[usb:001,022]/131074

2014-01-01 Thread Sharon Kimble
On Wed, 1 Jan 2014 19:21:05 +0100 Siard wrote: > Robin wrote: > > http://askubuntu.com/questions/87667/getting-mtp-enabled-devices-to-work-with-ubuntu > > > > Reply entitled : Connecting your Android phone or tablet to Ubuntu > > with MTPFS > > OP already had her phone connected. Apparently, n

Re: [OT] non technical Q: bad or worse. Was: To do the same as Windows safe mode...........

2014-01-01 Thread Eike Lantzsch
On Wednesday 01 January 2014 17:59:21 Lisi Reisz wrote: > Previously sent in error to OP. Sorry, Eike. :-( One day I shall > succeed in making my recalcitrant fingers type "l" rather than click > on anything. :-( Oh don't worry - I'm not finnicky - actually I'm not even finnish. Or is that "finic

Re: nano vs VI

2014-01-01 Thread Richard Hector
On 02/01/14 04:20, Markus Schönhaber wrote: > 01.01.2014 15:09, Andreas Rönnquist: >> On Wed, 01 Jan 2014 08:59:24 -0500, >> Paul Cartwright wrote: >> >>> ok, so I have a wheezy setup. When I do a crontab -e to EDIT my >>> crontab, it brings up a nano session. I'm a VI kind guy, how do I >>> change

Re: [OT] non technical Q: bad or worse. Was: To do the same as Windows safe mode...........

2014-01-01 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2014-01-02 at 00:26 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > I never ever will watch a modern Hollywood movie Is "Crank" a modern Hollywood movie? If so, than there might be some exceptions (for my taste). However, the nice about "Crank" isn't philosophy, it simply is a film with a consistent action p

Re: [OT] non technical Q: bad or worse. Was: To do the same as Windows safe mode...........

2014-01-01 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2014-01-01 at 23:04 +, Brian wrote: > On Wed 01 Jan 2014 at 22:04:15 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > On Thu, 2014-01-02 at 07:53 +1100, Charlie wrote: > > > If people understand the meaning, then that's communication. > > > > This is what is said by the Spencer Tracy film :). > > Sp

Re: [OT] non technical Q: bad or worse. Was: To do the same as Windows safe mode...........

2014-01-01 Thread Brian
On Wed 01 Jan 2014 at 22:04:15 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Thu, 2014-01-02 at 07:53 +1100, Charlie wrote: > > If people understand the meaning, then that's communication. > > This is what is said by the Spencer Tracy film :). Spenser Tracey rules! He had the knowse. (Work that out). -- T

Re: [OT] non technical Q: bad or worse. Was: To do the same as Windows safe mode...........

2014-01-01 Thread Brian
On Thu 02 Jan 2014 at 07:53:11 +1100, Charlie wrote: > On Wed, 1 Jan 2014 18:42:42 + Brian sent: > > > The context and the subtlety (and maybe as said, the age range) are > > all important. But advocates of 'less worse' are presumably relaxed > > with 'less iller' and 'less wealthier'. > > T

Re: how to configure pulseaudio to use analog speaker on motherboard not hdmi on video card

2014-01-01 Thread Klaus
On 01/01/14 05:57, Mitchell Laks wrote: Ok here is the data. I Did a fresh reboot of machine mlaks@Rashi:~$ aplay -l List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices card 0: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 0: VT1708S Analog [VT1708S Analog] card 1: HDMI [HDA ATI HDMI], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0] -

Re: [OT] non technical Q: bad or worse. Was: To do the same as Windows safe mode...........

2014-01-01 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2014-01-02 at 07:53 +1100, Charlie wrote: > If people understand the meaning, then that's communication. This is what is said by the Spencer Tracy film :). > the only silly question is the one not asked. Yesno. If you are an expert and you don't know something, it's better to ask, while

Re: [OT] non technical Q: bad or worse. Was: To do the same as Windows safe mode...........

2014-01-01 Thread Charlie
On Wed, 1 Jan 2014 18:42:42 + Brian sent: > The context and the subtlety (and maybe as said, the age range) are > all important. But advocates of 'less worse' are presumably relaxed > with 'less iller' and 'less wealthier'. That goes on further, who is iller? Less ill than another who is simi

Re: [OT] non technical Q: bad or worse. Was: To do the same as Windows safe mode...........

2014-01-01 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2014-01-01 at 19:08 +, Brian wrote: > On Wed 01 Jan 2014 at 19:22:24 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > However, please watch "Inherit the Wind" with Spencer Tracy. I try to > > translate the German version from memory to English: "We should use > > every word we know, since there are much

Re: Possible to add an LVM to existing Wheezy box

2014-01-01 Thread Ron Leach
On 01/01/2014 16:33, Chris Davies wrote: If the backup is really this important, I would strongly recommend that you make additional backups elsewhere (offsite). [] I'd also suggest that you replace the local singleton disk with a RAID1 pair. I agree. Actually, the disk we are rescuing i

Re: [OT] non technical Q: bad or worse. Was: To do the same as Windows safe mode...........

2014-01-01 Thread John Hasler
Ed Jabbour writes: > What I find particularly galling is "I could care less" when what is > meant is "I couldn't care less." That was originally meant to be ironic, though most who say it now don't know what irony is. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: [OT] non technical Q: bad or worse. Was: To do the same as Windows safe mode...........

2014-01-01 Thread Miles Fidelman
Ed Jabbour wrote: On Wednesday, January 01, 2014 01:27:09 PM Doug wrote: > I think it's useless to try and teach anybody English on the 'net > here. I've been trying to correct "loose" for "lose" for years > with no result. What I find particularly galling is "I could care less" when what is

Re: [OT] non technical Q: bad or worse. Was: To do the same as Windows safe mode...........

2014-01-01 Thread Brian
On Wed 01 Jan 2014 at 13:27:09 -0500, Doug wrote: > I think it's useless to try and teach anybody English on the 'net > here. I've been trying to correct "loose" for "lose" for years > with no result. This sub-thread may be OT, but how did we get on to discussing 'women'? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Re: [OT] non technical Q: bad or worse. Was: To do the same as Windows safe mode...........

2014-01-01 Thread Brian
On Wed 01 Jan 2014 at 19:22:24 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Wed, 2014-01-01 at 18:02 +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Wednesday 01 January 2014 17:49:59 Brian wrote: > > > If 'less worse' is a colloquialism it has no charm or character to > > > lift it out of the lazy speaking category. > > > >

Re: [OT] non technical Q: bad or worse. Was: To do the same as Windows safe mode...........

2014-01-01 Thread Ed Jabbour
On Wednesday, January 01, 2014 01:27:09 PM Doug wrote: > I think it's useless to try and teach anybody English on the 'net > here. I've been trying to correct "loose" for "lose" for years > with no result. What I find particularly galling is "I could care less" when what is meant is "I couldn't

Re: mtp://[usb:001,022]/131074

2014-01-01 Thread Robin
On 1 January 2014 18:21, Siard wrote: > Robin wrote: >> http://askubuntu.com/questions/87667/getting-mtp-enabled-devices-to-work-with-ubuntu >> >> Reply entitled : Connecting your Android phone or tablet to Ubuntu >> with MTPFS > > OP already had her phone connected. Apparently, nemo (file manage

Re: [OT] non technical Q: bad or worse. Was: To do the same as Windows safe mode...........

2014-01-01 Thread Brian
On Wed 01 Jan 2014 at 17:59:21 +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > I am a native English speaker living in England. I too have never > heard "less worse" and the expression jarred. But there are four > possibilities: 1) It is an expression that is age dependant > (like "cool" or "wicked" meaning "goo

Re: nano vs VI

2014-01-01 Thread Paul Cartwright
On 01/01/2014 10:20 AM, Markus Schönhaber wrote: > ... and if you rather want to change the system default, do > > update-alternatives --config editor > > as root. > > P.S.: Sorry Andeas for the PM. Shouldn't have happened, but the brain > controlling my fingers seems to be still stuck in 2013... t

Re: [OT] non technical Q: bad or worse. Was: To do the same as Windows safe mode...........

2014-01-01 Thread Doug
On 01/01/2014 12:49 PM, Brian wrote: [OT indeed. But it's New Year's day here, so what the hell! A bit of frivolity is good for the soul]. On Wed 01 Jan 2014 at 09:24:36 -0300, Eike Lantzsch wrote: I found "less worse" somewhat funny. Is that part of modern English? Bad grammar always sounds

Re: mtp://[usb:001,022]/131074

2014-01-01 Thread Siard
Robin wrote: > http://askubuntu.com/questions/87667/getting-mtp-enabled-devices-to-work-with-ubuntu > > Reply entitled : Connecting your Android phone or tablet to Ubuntu > with MTPFS OP already had her phone connected. Apparently, nemo (file manager for the Cinnamon desktop) is able to do this.

Re: [OT] non technical Q: bad or worse. Was: To do the same as Windows safe mode...........

2014-01-01 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2014-01-01 at 18:02 +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Wednesday 01 January 2014 17:49:59 Brian wrote: > > If 'less worse' is a colloquialism it has no charm or character to > > lift it out of the lazy speaking category. > > :-) > > Lisi Wow, super-irrelevant to send a smiley as a comment to

Re: Wheezy/Xfce Gnome keyring problem [Solved]

2014-01-01 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20131231_221413, Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Tue, 31 Dec 2013 09:11:26 -0700 > Paul E Condon wrote: > > > > Ok, now it is starting to get interesting. gnome-keyring by itself is a > > > process which should store user credentials. gnome-keyring-pkcs11.so is > > > a library that (judging by name

Re: [OT] non technical Q: bad or worse. Was: To do the same as Windows safe mode...........

2014-01-01 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 01 January 2014 17:49:59 Brian wrote: > If 'less worse' is a colloquialism it has no charm or character to > lift it out of the lazy speaking category. :-) Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact list

Re: [OT] non technical Q: bad or worse. Was: To do the same as Windows safe mode...........

2014-01-01 Thread Lisi Reisz
Previously sent in error to OP. Sorry, Eike. :-( One day I shall succeed in making my recalcitrant fingers type "l" rather than click on anything. :-( On Wednesday 01 January 2014 12:24:36 Eike Lantzsch wrote: > Sorry I got this honest question 'cause I'm not a native English > speaker and wha

Re: [OT] non technical Q: bad or worse. Was: To do the same as Windows safe mode...........

2014-01-01 Thread Brian
[OT indeed. But it's New Year's day here, so what the hell! A bit of frivolity is good for the soul]. On Wed 01 Jan 2014 at 09:24:36 -0300, Eike Lantzsch wrote: > I found "less worse" somewhat funny. Is that part of modern English? Bad grammar always sounds (or should sound) that way. Part of mo

Re: Possible to add an LVM to existing Wheezy box

2014-01-01 Thread Chris Davies
Howard wrote: > [...] one partition of 1.7TB purely for filesystem backup data [...] > The data partition contains several years' worth of incremental backups > [...] It also provides the historical context of what data was available > to us during our projects, which can be important. If the ba

Re: [OT] non technical Q: bad or worse. Was: To do the same as Windows safe mode...........

2014-01-01 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 1/1/2014 7:24 AM, Eike Lantzsch wrote: On Wednesday 01 January 2014 22:31:58 Charlie wrote: On Wed, 01 Jan 2014 18:59:36 +1100 Scott Ferguson sent: Less worse. You meant less worse. :) Yes, less worse. Sorry I got this honest question 'cause I'm not a native English speaker and what

Re: apache as a system shell ( Debian Wheezy Compromised - www-data user is sending 1000 emails an hour)

2014-01-01 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 1/1/2014 7:20 AM, Joel Rees wrote: On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 7:30 PM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 1/1/2014 2:52 AM, Joel Rees wrote: [...] On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 11:51 AM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 12/31/2013 8:43 PM, Joel Rees wrote: On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 12:58 AM, Raffaele Morelli wrote:

Re: mtp://[usb:001,022]/131074

2014-01-01 Thread Robin
On 1 January 2014 15:05, Sharon Kimble wrote: > > On Tue, 31 Dec 2013 15:58:10 + > Robin wrote: > > > On 31 December 2013 13:29, Sharon Kimble > > wrote: > > > > > How can I mount something like this 'mtp://[usb:001,022]/131074'? I > > > can mount it in 'nemo' and access its SD card, and its

Re: nano vs VI

2014-01-01 Thread Markus Schönhaber
01.01.2014 15:09, Andreas Rönnquist: > On Wed, 01 Jan 2014 08:59:24 -0500, > Paul Cartwright wrote: > >> ok, so I have a wheezy setup. When I do a crontab -e to EDIT my >> crontab, it brings up a nano session. I'm a VI kind guy, how do I >> change that so VI comes up?? >> > > It gets the editor f

Re: mtp://[usb:001,022]/131074

2014-01-01 Thread Sharon Kimble
On Tue, 31 Dec 2013 15:58:10 + Robin wrote: > On 31 December 2013 13:29, Sharon Kimble > wrote: > > > How can I mount something like this 'mtp://[usb:001,022]/131074'? I > > can mount it in 'nemo' and access its SD card, and its internal SD > > card, but it doesn't show up in 'mount' at the

Re: moving buffers/caching from RAM to SSD

2014-01-01 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 1/1/2014 12:43 AM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > Thanks all, it was probably be my misunderstanding with both technologies > (RAM and SSDs). i have been told that SSDs are fast enough like RAMs and to > show the performance that person refer his OS boot time which was > dramatically minimized.

Re: nano vs VI

2014-01-01 Thread Carson Chittom
Paul Cartwright writes: > ok, so I have a wheezy setup. When I do a crontab -e to EDIT my crontab, > it brings up a nano session. I'm a VI kind guy, how do I change that so > VI comes up?? Most generally, you should set the environmental variable EDITOR to be your favorite editor. For example,

Re: nano vs VI

2014-01-01 Thread Andreas Rönnquist
On Wed, 01 Jan 2014 08:59:24 -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote: >ok, so I have a wheezy setup. When I do a crontab -e to EDIT my >crontab, it brings up a nano session. I'm a VI kind guy, how do I >change that so VI comes up?? > It gets the editor from the EDITOR environment variable - to change to vi,

nano vs VI

2014-01-01 Thread Paul Cartwright
ok, so I have a wheezy setup. When I do a crontab -e to EDIT my crontab, it brings up a nano session. I'm a VI kind guy, how do I change that so VI comes up?? -- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux User #367800 and new counter #561587 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.o

Re: [OT] non technical Q: bad or worse. Was: To do the same as Windows safe mode...........

2014-01-01 Thread Joel Rees
On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 9:24 PM, Eike Lantzsch wrote: > On Wednesday 01 January 2014 22:31:58 Charlie wrote: >> On Wed, 01 Jan 2014 18:59:36 +1100 Scott Ferguson sent: >> >> >> >> > Less worse. You meant less worse. :) >> >> >> >> Yes, less worse. >> > Sorry I got this honest question 'cause I'm

[OT] non technical Q: bad or worse. Was: To do the same as Windows safe mode...........

2014-01-01 Thread Eike Lantzsch
On Wednesday 01 January 2014 22:31:58 Charlie wrote: > On Wed, 01 Jan 2014 18:59:36 +1100 Scott Ferguson sent: > > > > > Less worse. You meant less worse. :) > > > > Yes, less worse. > Sorry I got this honest question 'cause I'm not a native English speaker and what is worse: I don't live i

Re: apache as a system shell ( Debian Wheezy Compromised - www-data user is sending 1000 emails an hour)

2014-01-01 Thread Joel Rees
On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 7:30 PM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: > On 1/1/2014 2:52 AM, Joel Rees wrote: >> >> [...] >> On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 11:51 AM, Jerry Stuckle >> wrote: >>> >>> On 12/31/2013 8:43 PM, Joel Rees wrote: On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 12:58 AM, Raffaele Morelli wrote: >

Re: To do the same as Windows safe mode...........

2014-01-01 Thread Charlie
On Wed, 01 Jan 2014 18:59:36 +1100 Scott Ferguson sent: > Less worse. You meant less worse. :) Yes, less worse. Thank you everyone for your suggestions and thank you Scott for your excellent help. It's much appreciated. Charlie -- Registered Linux User:- 329524

Re: packages status

2014-01-01 Thread Diogene Laerce
Is there a simple way to get the list of packages installed since the fresh installation of deby ? I saw etckeeper in the doc (it's a bit late for that :( ) and I know I can go through the logs : /var/log/dpkg.log, /var/log/apt/term.log, /var/log/aptitude but Christmas was only 7 days ago, mayb

Re: apache as a system shell ( Debian Wheezy Compromised - www-data user is sending 1000 emails an hour)

2014-01-01 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 1/1/2014 2:52 AM, Joel Rees wrote: Are we going to find ourselves talking around each other again, Jerry? Only if you insist. On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 11:51 AM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 12/31/2013 8:43 PM, Joel Rees wrote: On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 12:58 AM, Raffaele Morelli wrote: [...]

Re: To do the same as Windows safe mode...........

2014-01-01 Thread Joel Rees
On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 1:21 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 01/01/14 14:56, Charlie wrote: >> On Wed, 01 Jan 2014 14:03:45 +1100 Scott Ferguson sent: >> >>> On 01/01/14 13:07, Charlie wrote: On Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:31:00 +1100 Scott Ferguson sent: [...] > You can also speed things up consid

(solved) Re: need help on config grub

2014-01-01 Thread Long Wind
Thank Brian's timely help! On 1/1/14, Brian wrote: > > Boot into the OS on sda2. Then do > >update-grub > > as root. > > > -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lis

Re: packages status

2014-01-01 Thread Joe
On Wed, 01 Jan 2014 10:12:07 +0700 Diogene Laerce wrote: > > >> Is there a simple way to get the list of packages installed since > >> the fresh > >> installation of deby ? > >> > >> I saw etckeeper in the doc (it's a bit late for that :( ) and I > >> know I can > >> go through the logs : /var/l

Re: need help on config grub

2014-01-01 Thread Brian
On Wed 01 Jan 2014 at 04:58:39 -0500, Long Wind wrote: > I have a disk running wheezy on sda2 > Now I have added another disk (hdc or hdd (I'm not sure which one)) > the disk also has wheezy > I want to add menu entry for it in grub.cfg Boot into the OS on sda2. Then do update-grub as root.

need help on config grub

2014-01-01 Thread Long Wind
I have a disk running wheezy on sda2 Now I have added another disk (hdc or hdd (I'm not sure which one)) the disk also has wheezy I want to add menu entry for it in grub.cfg how can I do it? Thanks! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe

Re: To do the same as Windows safe mode...........

2014-01-01 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 01 January 2014 01:31:00 Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 01/01/14 11:56, Charlie wrote: > > So can someone please tell me how I might do windows safe mode > > equivalent? > > There isn't an equivalent mode with Linux. Sorry. My knowledge of Windows is scarcely encyclopaedic, but is Windows

Re: To do the same as Windows safe mode...........

2014-01-01 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 01/01/14 18:22, Charlie wrote: > On Wed, 01 Jan 2014 15:21:24 +1100 Scott Ferguson sent: > > > >> Don't know if you check here, but your ISP was having some recent >> problems:- https://www.skymesh.net.au/advisories/ > > Thanks again Scott. > > I think that my ISP is a lot of the problem, b