Re: How can I secure a Debian installation?

On 01/27/2014 09:41 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: > > Keep updated, subscribe to the security list, read and follow the fine > manual:- > https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/securing-debian-howto/ Thanks Scott, that's just what I was looking for. Jon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@

Re: i915: wheezy / jessie freeze under X

On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 11:53:28AM +0100, Ralf wrote: > > Could you explain this a litte better? Which file did you > > chmod, and how > > do you launch X in recovery mode? > > under init2/3 here are the laptop's values: > > tty [1-6] have group set "tty" in "rw" > tty0 re

Re: Port 123 and ipv6

On 28/01/14 18:00, lina wrote: >>> I read something online, and wonder: >>> 1] shall I close the port 123 >> >> Probably you should, unless you're providing ntp to some other hosts.s > > I have disabled the ntp. Here is other two things: > > 1] about port 631, can I turn it off? since I only prin

how to remove ? directory

ls: cannot access .gvfs: Permission denied d? ? ?? ?? .gvfs a# rm -rf .gvfs rm: cannot remove `.gvfs': Is a directory any advice, I think the .gvfs being introduced long time ago when I tried to mount the iphone. Thanks ahead for your advice, Best regards,

Re: How to Downgrade from Wheezy to Squeeze

Reposting on-list, my apologies Gary for accidentally replying off-list On 28/01/14 17:56, Garry wrote: > > > >> On Jan 27, 2014, at 11:50 PM, "Scott Ferguson" >> wrote: >> >> >> >> >>> On 28/01/14 15:12, Garry wrote: >>> >>> Is it possible to downgrade from Wheezy to Squeeze? >>> >>> The rea

Re: Port 123 and ipv6

>> I read something online, and wonder: >> 1] shall I close the port 123 > > Probably you should, unless you're providing ntp to some other hosts.s I have disabled the ntp. Here is other two things: 1] about port 631, can I turn it off? since I only print very occasionally, I don't know the real

Re: Port 123 and ipv6

Hi. On Tue, 28 Jan 2014 13:43:17 +0800 lina wrote: > Hi, > > I read something online, and wonder: > 1] shall I close the port 123 Probably you should, unless you're providing ntp to some other hosts. > 2] disable ipv6 Is there something malfunctioning on this host? Or is there any service t

Installing gconf

Hi I am new to debian, and I accidentally removed gconf2, so that I could install gconf-service_3.2.6. But so many stuff got uninstalled and now I cant access my desktop. No commands like dpkg, sudo etc are working when the system boots to command line. How can I get back my desktop by reinstalling

Re: How to Downgrade from Wheezy to Squeeze

Re-sending, accidentally sent off-list On 28/01/14 15:12, Garry wrote: > > Is it possible to downgrade from Wheezy to Squeeze? > > The reason I want to downgrade is because I am trying to install Openfire and > unfortunately: > > openfire pre-depends on sun-java5-jre | sun-java6-jre | default-

Re: PXE install, without internet?

On 28/01/14 14:54, Anubhav Yadav wrote: > On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 4:02 PM, Klaus wrote: >> Didn't we have a recent thread about this? I seem to remember that there >> might be a bug in the current installer, and you have to escape the >> installer process at that point. Then, enter a shell and edi

Re: Beginner info on Qt

On Tuesday 28,January,2014 10:58 AM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > I dabbled in Qt a *long* time ago. I have a book on Qt3, but I see > that what's installed now is Qt5. > My book has never been updated. > > So I'm looking for info on what Qt looks like today, and how to best > develop a new app with i

Port 123 and ipv6

Hi, I read something online, and wonder: 1] shall I close the port 123 2] disable ipv6 Shall I follow the advice from https://wiki.debian.org/DebianIPv6 to turn off the ipv6 in wheezy as in squeeze, Thanks, # netstat -nltpu Active Internet connections (only servers) Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Ad

Re: How can I secure a Debian installation?

On 28/01/14 15:24, Jon Danniken wrote: > Hello list, > > I recently came across a posting by an individual who got his > Debian machine compromised due to a number of security problems, one of > which was the default installation and running of sshd with > "PermitRootLogin = > Yes". in /etc/ssh/s

Re: Beginner info on Qt

On 28/01/14 13:58, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > I dabbled in Qt a *long* time ago. I have a book on Qt3, but I see > that what's installed now is Qt5. > My book has never been updated. > > So I'm looking for info on what Qt looks like today, and how to best > develop a new app with it. > > Anybody wi

Re: How can I secure a Debian installation?

2014-01-28 Jon Danniken > Hello list, > > I recently came across a posting by an individual who got his > Debian machine compromised due to a number of security problems, one of > which was the default installation and running of sshd with > "PermitRootLogin = > Yes". in /etc/ssh/sshd_config. >

Re: How to Downgrade from Wheezy to Squeeze

2014-01-28 Garry > > Is it possible to downgrade from Wheezy to Squeeze? > > The reason I want to downgrade is because I am trying to install Openfire > and unfortunately: > > openfire pre-depends on sun-java5-jre | sun-java6-jre | > default-jre-headless | openjdk-6-jre > > - - I would prefer dow

Re: Beginner info on Qt

On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 6:58 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > I dabbled in Qt a *long* time ago. I have a book on Qt3, but I see > that what's installed now is Qt5. > My book has never been updated. Hi Kevin, There was a book by Blanchette and Summerfield for Qt 3 that went through at least 2 editio

How can I secure a Debian installation?

Hello list, I recently came across a posting by an individual who got his Debian machine compromised due to a number of security problems, one of which was the default installation and running of sshd with "PermitRootLogin = Yes". in /etc/ssh/sshd_config. So I checked the Debian installation tha

How to Downgrade from Wheezy to Squeeze

Is it possible to downgrade from Wheezy to Squeeze? The reason I want to downgrade is because I am trying to install Openfire and unfortunately: openfire pre-depends on sun-java5-jre | sun-java6-jre | default-jre-headless | openjdk-6-jre - - I would prefer downgrading if it’s possible. - - I

Re: PXE install, without internet?

On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 4:02 PM, Klaus wrote: > Didn't we have a recent thread about this? I seem to remember that there > might be a bug in the current installer, and you have to escape the > installer process at that point. Then, enter a shell and edit the file > /etc/apt.conf.d/proxy (this is n

Beginner info on Qt

I dabbled in Qt a *long* time ago. I have a book on Qt3, but I see that what's installed now is Qt5. My book has never been updated. So I'm looking for info on what Qt looks like today, and how to best develop a new app with it. Anybody with ideas? -- Kevin O'Gorman programmer, n. an organism

Re: Viber on Debian

On 28/01/14 11:45, Stefan Monnier wrote: >> LMGTFY I understand and agree with, but why the URL shortening? You only >> saved... >> http://lmgtfy.com/?q=viber >> ... 2 characters and you also hit innocent bystanders like me :p > > BTW, LMGTFY was OK for the "What's viber?" part, but for the "Is >

Re: Viber on Debian

> LMGTFY I understand and agree with, but why the URL shortening? You only > saved... > http://lmgtfy.com/?q=viber > ... 2 characters and you also hit innocent bystanders like me :p BTW, LMGTFY was OK for the "What's viber?" part, but for the "Is it libre?" it's a bit trickier since proprietary s

Re: notify if a process take more than X time

On 27 January 2014 17:43, Pol Hallen wrote: > Hi all, > > I need add to my script a notify if a process take more than X time, so > using ps I can see what time take a process: > > ps -ao cmd,etime|grep backup > /bin/sh ./backup03:44:55 > > what's the easy way to do a notify by email? > > redi

Re: Gnome "unrunnable" after upgrade to Wheezy (Was: "Gnome 3 fail scenario")

On Mon, 27 Jan 2014, Bob Bernstein wrote: > [snip] > > I have MATE running, evidently very nicely, on a home wheezy > machine, so _real soon now_ I will put it on my new wheezy on the > vpn. I looked at cinnamon but, unlike MATE, they have not yet seen > fit to create a repo of debs that I cou

Re: notify if a process take more than X time

Hello Lars and thanks for your reply Maybe use timeout(1) to send a signal (e.g. USR1) and have your script trap that signal and send a mail when it receives it? something like it, yep if a process take long time, I need have a notification by email without change executing of that process.

jessie/kde, outbursts of mouse and keyboard input, which package may be responsible?

I've installed Jessie with KDE on a Dell E7440. Impressive hardware and most stuff works out of the box. But, occasionally the GUI spews out mouse and keyboard input very rapidly and clearly without my own input. The event may last one or a few seconds, and I estimate there may be houndreds of key

zenbook not booting after failed suspend/resume (debian/testing)

Dear all, First of all let me state that I believe that what I am experiencing is not necessarily a Debian problem. I direct my questions to this list because I expect the most relevant answers here and I have been using Debian now for more than 10 years. I have been using this ASUS Zenbook (UX3

Re(2): bootpd usage and the server address.

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Re(2): bootpd usage and the server address.

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Re: Gnome "unrunnable" after upgrade to Wheezy (Was: "Gnome 3 fail scenario")

On Sun, 26 Jan 2014, Patrick Bartek wrote: Or does your VPS use the system's hardware you're logging in from to display the VPS desktop? Yes. Do you own the hardware your VPS runs on... No. or does a "service" and you just purchase space. Yes. Since I think they do a bang-up job, here'

Re: notify if a process take more than X time

Hi On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 06:43:20PM +0100, Pol Hallen wrote: > Hi all, > > I need add to my script a notify if a process take more than X time, > so using ps I can see what time take a process: > > ps -ao cmd,etime|grep backup > /bin/sh ./backup03:44:55 > > what's the easy way to do a not

Re: notify if a process take more than X time

On 27.01.2014 19:43, Pol Hallen wrote: > Hi all, > > I need add to my script a notify if a process take more than X time, so > using ps I can see what time take a process: [snip] Maybe use timeout(1) to send a signal (e.g. USR1) and have your script trap that signal and send a mail when it receiv

notify if a process take more than X time

Hi all, I need add to my script a notify if a process take more than X time, so using ps I can see what time take a process: ps -ao cmd,etime|grep backup /bin/sh ./backup03:44:55 what's the easy way to do a notify by email? redirect output of ps to file and use sed for analize the past t

Re: fastest linux distro

On Sb, 25 ian 14, 11:16:45, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > Le 25.01.2014 07:02, Zenaan Harkness a écrit : > > >I hear rumours that with a modern PeeCee with fast graphics card, > >running a compositing "3D" window manager can be higher performance > >than our old window managers, since the

Re: fastest linux distro

On Vi, 24 ian 14, 21:21:03, tom arnall wrote: > > how does icewm compare to xfce and lxde? I've used IceWM in the past and would recommend LXDE to replace it. It adds more features without sacrificing much speed. Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser Offtopic discus

Re: Viber on Debian

On Sb, 25 ian 14, 11:07:07, Jerry Stuckle wrote: > On 1/25/2014 1:03 AM, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > >On 1/25/14, Man_Without_Clue wrote: > >>Has anyone successfully installed Viber opn Debian? > > > >What's viber? > > > >Is it libre? > > > >Or is it proprietary? > > http://bit.ly/wzvQ1N LMGTFY I u

Re: Confused about dist-upgrade

On Sb, 25 ian 14, 15:25:18, Brian wrote: > On Sat 25 Jan 2014 at 20:51:46 +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > > I think we are doing our best avoid complications but the canonical > > place for the recommended way is the Release Notes. Nothing else. > > > > So as a baseline, process you described is fi

Re: Using loop devices in Debian

On Du, 26 ian 14, 02:53:25, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > *) > If you want or need to increase the maximum number of loopback devices > available _by_default_ when you next boot, edit > /etc/modules > and make sure there is a line like the following (I have 11 by default): > loop max_loop=11 I'd rat

Re: fastest linux distro

On Mon, 27 Jan 2014, Pete Orrall wrote: > On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 9:17 PM, tom arnall > wrote: > > I am looking for the fastest Linux distro for the following > > purposes. > > > Currently I am running ubuntu 12.04. I am unhappy with the speed of > > it. > > > > Any info/suggestions will be grea

Re: Using loop devices in Debian

On Vi, 24 ian 14, 08:06:15, Richard Owlett wrote: > Andrei POPESCU wrote: > >On Vi, 24 ian 14, 11:50:25, David wrote: > >> > >>So where you have several dvd iso files, then ordinarily you would > >>need several separate loop mounts. Unless you create a filesystem in > >>one huge file, copy all the

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Re: Poll: Which Init-System should Debian use in the future?

On Mon, 27 Jan 2014 12:36:07 + (GMT) Holger Vogt wrote: > I've found a interesting poll on heise.de (german it news) today. Its a > survey which init system Debian Users would prefer for future releases. > > > You can find the Poll here:  > > http://pollator.com/polls/which-init-system-sh

Re: fastest linux distro

On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 9:17 PM, tom arnall wrote: > I am looking for the fastest Linux distro for the following purposes. > Currently I am running ubuntu 12.04. I am unhappy with the speed of it. > > Any info/suggestions will be greatly appreciated. I run Debian Wheezy with a stock kernel on my

Re: fastest linux distro

> On Jan 27, 2014, at 6:09 AM, "Jeff Bauer" wrote: > > > > > >>> On 01/25/2014 05:17 AM, tom arnall wrote: >>> Currently I am running ubuntu 12.04. I am unhappy with the speed of it. >>> Any info/suggestions will be greatly appreciated. I had similar issues and that's one of the reasons why

Re: bootpd usage and the server address.

On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 04:31:36PM -0800, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > With this one line in /etc/bootptab, > > root@dalton:~# tail --lines=1 /etc/bootptab > sparc2:sa=172.25.2.1:td=/tftpboot:hd=/:bf="AC190202.SUN4C":rp=/export/sparc2/root/: > > bootp complains about the address. > > root@dalton:

Re: Poll: Which Init-System should Debian use in the future?

Holger Vogt writes: > I've found a interesting poll on heise.de (german it news) today. Its a > survey which init system Debian Users would prefer for future releases. > > > You can find the Poll here:  > > http://pollator.com/polls/which-init-system-should-debian-use-in-the-future/votes

Re: Poll: Which Init-System should Debian use in the future?

Op Mon, 27 Jan 2014 13:36:07 +0100 schreef Holger Vogt :http://pollator.com/polls/which-init-system-should-debian-use-in-the-future/votes/newfrom: http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/...SpellingYes, it is written systemd, not system D or System D, or even SystemD. And it isn't system d ei

Poll: Which Init-System should Debian use in the future?

I've found a interesting poll on heise.de (german it news) today. Its a survey which init system Debian Users would prefer for future releases. You can find the Poll here:  http://pollator.com/polls/which-init-system-should-debian-use-in-the-future/votes/new The result is quite surprising.

Re: fastest linux distro

On 01/25/2014 05:17 AM, tom arnall wrote: Currently I am running ubuntu 12.04. I am unhappy with the speed of it. Any info/suggestions will be greatly appreciated. As the automotive mechanic said to the (pick your least favorite make/model car) owner: "I'd suggest you jack up the gas cap a

Re: Connecting Debian to Android phone

I just installed: apt-get install mtp-tools mtpfs and it worked. Markos On 26-01-2014 06:45, Anubhav Yadav wrote: Have you tried go-mtpfs? On 26 Jan 2014 12:54, "Csanyi Pal" > wrote: ken mailto:geb...@mousecar.com>> writes: > On 01/25/2014 04:35 PM Csa

Re: i915: wheezy / jessie freeze under X

there's a second issue after correcting tty0 by hand: If I don’t boot in recovery, but launch standard init2 mode (without X) change tty0 values (grp to tty, g+rw) launch X -> everything should work, but the keyboard doesn’t (trackpad is OK): the console delivers warnings and errors from xkbcomp:

Re: i915: wheezy / jessie freeze under X

Hello Chris, Thanks for your attention pls hereafter the answers: Le lundi 27 janvier 2014 à 11:24 +0100, Ralf Kaiser a écrit : > > > > > 2014-01-27 Chris Bannister > On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 09:09:43PM +0100, Ralf wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Three days ago wheezy b

Re: Connecting Debian to Android phone

2014-01-26 Csanyi Pal > > > > Have you tried go-mtpfs? > > Yes, but when I'm trying to install it on Debian SID, I get the > following bugreport, so I'm not installing it: > > Retrieving bug reports... Done > Parsing Found/Fixed information... Done > grave bugs of mtpfs (→ 1.1-4.1) > #654939 -