Re: Viruses and rootkits WAS Re: weird problem with one mail account in Thunderbird....ISP or what ?

2015-05-28 Thread Reco
Hi. On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 01:42:14PM -0400, Deb wrote: > > > On 05/28/2015 01:23 PM, John Hasler wrote: > >Frank writes: > >>It's the ISP security guys who are insisting in their words "the > >>account or perhaps your whole computer is infected". > >The only Linux malware in the wild attacks

Re: weird problem with one mail account in Thunderbird....ISP or what ?

2015-05-28 Thread Petter Adsen
On Fri, 29 May 2015 08:31:49 +0200 Petter Adsen wrote: > On Thu, 28 May 2015 09:21:05 -0400 > Frank wrote: > > > On 05/28/2015 02:44 AM, Emil Payne wrote: > > > On 05/27/2015 10:16 PM, Charlie wrote: > > >> On Wed, 27 May 2015 21:06:10 -0400 Frank sent: > > >> > > >>> When I went into Thunderbi

Re: weird problem with one mail account in Thunderbird....ISP or what ?

2015-05-28 Thread Petter Adsen
On Thu, 28 May 2015 09:21:05 -0400 Frank wrote: > On 05/28/2015 02:44 AM, Emil Payne wrote: > > On 05/27/2015 10:16 PM, Charlie wrote: > >> On Wed, 27 May 2015 21:06:10 -0400 Frank sent: > >> > >>> When I went into Thunderbird at mid-day one of my accounts with my > >>> ISP Videotron.ca registere

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2015 #603

2015-05-28 Thread Kushal Kumaran
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Re: make oldconfig bzImage with GCC 4.9.2 on debian 8

2015-05-28 Thread Dhiraj Bhor
Can anyone help me out. On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 12:47 PM, Dhiraj Bhor wrote: > Hi Sven, > > I applied the patch suggested but it did not worked for me. > I wanted to let you know that i am compiling kernel version 2.6.20 and > given link has patch applicable for 2.6.27 which is not working for

dmesg BIOS error

2015-05-28 Thread Deb
What does this error listing in my dmesg mean: [0.00] ACPI BIOS Warning (bug): 32/64X FACS address mismatch in FADT: 0xCF7E4E40/0xCF7E4D40, using 32-bit address (20140424/tbfadt-283) Deb -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "uns

Re: wheezy: need help with serial port

2015-05-28 Thread briand
On Thu, 28 May 2015 16:52:18 -0600 "D. R. Evans" wrote: > Prior to installing debian, I have used several releases of *buntu on a > machine on which /dev/ttyS4 is used; *buntu always detected and allowed me to > use the port automagically. > > Wheezy, however, sees only ttyS0, S1, S2 and S3. As

Re: Missing audio notifications

2015-05-28 Thread briand
On Thu, 28 May 2015 17:17:52 -0500 Jose Martinez wrote: > I am a relatively new Debian user. I had my system set up properly and > everything seemed to be working well. I used the Pithos front-end for > the pandora service (which I like fairly well, by the way) which caused > all of my audio

Re: NFS drive uids/gids completely broken- for a little while

2015-05-28 Thread briand
On Thu, 28 May 2015 13:40:21 -0600 Bob Proulx wrote: > > I would tend to be more concerned that something glitchy is happening > on your physical network connections that you saw something one moment > and then it went away on another moment. This may be an indicator of > something else happeni

Re: weird problem with one mail account in Thunderbird....ISP or what ?

2015-05-28 Thread David Christensen
On 05/27/2015 06:06 PM, Frank wrote: I access all my mail through Thunderbird using IMAP. It has always been flawless until yesterday. When I went into Thunderbird at mid-day one of my accounts with my ISP Videotron.ca registered a logon failure..despite the fact nothing had changed. They keep ch

Re: Viruses and rootkits WAS Re: weird problem with one mail account in Thunderbird....ISP or what ?

2015-05-28 Thread Frank
On 28/05/15 06:39 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Thursday 28 May 2015 21:42:51 Frank wrote: On 28/05/15 04:22 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Thursday 28 May 2015 17:52:33 Frank wrote: On 28/05/15 12:37 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Thursday 28 May 2015 17:26:31 Darac Marjal wrote: On Thu, 28 May 2015 11:34:4

Re: jessie: need help with serial port

2015-05-28 Thread Stuart Longland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 29/05/15 08:55, D. R. Evans wrote: > Re-send, with the correct subject line. I keep getting wheezy and > jessie mixed up. Sorry. > > > > Prior to installing debian, I have used several releases of *buntu > on a machine on which /dev/ttyS4 i

Re: Viruses and rootkits WAS Re: weird problem with one mail account in Thunderbird....ISP or what ?

2015-05-28 Thread Deb
On 05/28/2015 06:39 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: I once told a lawyer that she couldn't do arithemetic. She was put out and said that she had an A in A level Mathematics. I said that she still couldn't do arithmetic. Lisi A mathematician told me that, once you start doing fourth-year university mat

Re: Debian/MIPS Jessie doesn't resolve hostnames?

2015-05-28 Thread Stuart Longland
On 28/05/15 07:26, deloptes wrote: > Stuart Longland wrote: >> Now there isn't yet installation media for Jessie on the Qube, so I used >> the Wheezy installation media to install Debian Wheezy, then updated my >> sources.list and did an `apt-get dist-upgrade` to get to Jessie. >> > > The upgrade

Re: Mousepad Not Saving Prefs

2015-05-28 Thread Stephen R Guglielmo
On Mon, 18 May 2015 11:31:50 -0400 Stephen R Guglielmo wrote: > Hi list, > > I'm running Debian Stretch/testing (updated daily). I use Xfce4 and > Mousepad as my GUI text editor. It seems that Mousepad is no longer > saving my preferences. > > If I open a text document (either by File->Open or d

jessie: need help with serial port

2015-05-28 Thread D. R. Evans
Re-send, with the correct subject line. I keep getting wheezy and jessie mixed up. Sorry. Prior to installing debian, I have used several releases of *buntu on a machine on which /dev/ttyS4 is used; *buntu always detected and allowed me to use the port automagically. Jessie, however, sees o

wheezy: need help with serial port

2015-05-28 Thread D. R. Evans
Prior to installing debian, I have used several releases of *buntu on a machine on which /dev/ttyS4 is used; *buntu always detected and allowed me to use the port automagically. Wheezy, however, sees only ttyS0, S1, S2 and S3. As far as I have been able to determine, none of these is associated wi

Re: Viruses and rootkits WAS Re: weird problem with one mail account in Thunderbird....ISP or what ?

2015-05-28 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Thursday 28 May 2015 21:42:51 Frank wrote: > On 28/05/15 04:22 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Thursday 28 May 2015 17:52:33 Frank wrote: > >> On 28/05/15 12:37 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > >>> On Thursday 28 May 2015 17:26:31 Darac Marjal wrote: > On Thu, 28 May 2015 11:34:44 -0400 > Frank w

Missing audio notifications

2015-05-28 Thread Jose Martinez
I am a relatively new Debian user. I had my system set up properly and everything seemed to be working well. I used the Pithos front-end for the pandora service (which I like fairly well, by the way) which caused all of my audio notifications from the gnome system to stop. I no longer get th

Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-05-28 Thread Dalios
On 05/28/2015 11:53 PM, Dalios wrote: > > [snip] > > > When on Debian 6 I used the following two ways: > > Method 1: While on grub menu: press "e" from the keyboard and then use > the arrow keys to go to the kernel line and add the word "text" at the > end of the line. After doing whatever it is

Re: Need SAS HBA for Debian Jessie

2015-05-28 Thread Don Armstrong
On Fri, 22 May 2015, Leslie Rhorer wrote: > On Monday, May 18, 2015 at 3:10:05 PM UTC-5, Don Armstrong wrote: > > I personally am using an LSI SAS2008-based HBA with two HP MSA60 > > enclosures; I then run standard mdraid on top of that: > > And there are ports for the management software in Jessi

Re: weird problem with one mail account in Thunderbird....ISP or what ?

2015-05-28 Thread Janis Hamme
Hello Frank, I'dont thing you should be too worried about the security of your system. I had a similar problem with my own mail server - I'm running Dovecot on Debian Wheezy. At first, I was very suspicious why Thunderbird didn't accept my password any more but there is a simple explanation: The m

Re-establishing remote-X access.

2015-05-28 Thread R. Clayton
For the past n years I've been running X-capable programs on this system remote$ uname -a FreeBSD AngkorWat 9.2-RELEASE-p10 FreeBSD 9.2-RELEASE-p10 #0: Tue Jul 8 10:48:24 UTC 2014 r...@amd64-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 remote$ using this system as the d

Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-05-28 Thread Dalios
On 05/28/2015 07:56 PM, Curt wrote: > On 2015-05-28, Lisi Reisz wrote: > >>> If you want to boot to the console and start your graphical environment >>> from there ('startx" and company) you must either disable or uninstall >>> the display manager IMHO. >> >> Can you not just boot into level 1 in

Re: Viruses and rootkits WAS Re: weird problem with one mail account in Thunderbird....ISP or what ?

2015-05-28 Thread Frank
On 28/05/15 03:00 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Thursday 28 May 2015 11:34:44 Frank wrote: On 28/05/15 09:21 AM, Frank wrote: On 05/28/2015 02:44 AM, Emil Payne wrote: On 05/27/2015 10:16 PM, Charlie wrote: On Wed, 27 May 2015 21:06:10 -0400 Frank sent: When I went into Thunderbird at mid-day

Re: Viruses and rootkits WAS Re: weird problem with one mail account in Thunderbird....ISP or what ?

2015-05-28 Thread Frank
On 28/05/15 03:20 PM, John Hasler wrote: Brad writes: In any event, you're not obliged to use your ISP's mail service. With plenty of other choices out there for email, many of them free, I wonder why you're putting yourself through this on/off aggravation. I've been with newsguy.com for year

Re: Viruses and rootkits WAS Re: weird problem with one mail account in Thunderbird....ISP or what ?

2015-05-28 Thread Frank
On 28/05/15 04:22 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Thursday 28 May 2015 17:52:33 Frank wrote: On 28/05/15 12:37 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Thursday 28 May 2015 17:26:31 Darac Marjal wrote: On Thu, 28 May 2015 11:34:44 -0400 Frank wrote: [cut] One more thing on this problem: Are there in

Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-05-28 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Thursday 28 May 2015 17:56:51 Curt wrote: > On 2015-05-28, Lisi Reisz wrote: > >> If you want to boot to the console and start your graphical environment > >> from there ('startx" and company) you must either disable or uninstall > >> the display manager IMHO. > > > > Can you not just boot into

Re: Viruses and rootkits WAS Re: weird problem with one mail account in Thunderbird....ISP or what ?

2015-05-28 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Thursday 28 May 2015 17:52:33 Frank wrote: > On 28/05/15 12:37 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Thursday 28 May 2015 17:26:31 Darac Marjal wrote: > >> On Thu, 28 May 2015 11:34:44 -0400 > >> Frank wrote: > >> > >> [cut] > >> > >>> One more thing on this problem: > >>> > >>> Are there in f

Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-05-28 Thread Rick Thomas
On May 27, 2015, at 1:15 AM, Bret Busby wrote: > > How do I boot into a text only session, without the GUI being loaded, > if that is possible, so that I can be able to perform this awkward > installation? Two ways that I can think of… First way: # as root do the following: mv /etc/X11/de

Re: NFS drive uids/gids completely broken- for a little while

2015-05-28 Thread Bob Proulx
bri...@aracnet.com wrote: > aha. sounds like my problem. interesting that it's enabled by default. > i'm assuming that for my rinky-dink set-up with 5 users i don't need it ? The number of users is not the determinating factor. It is the number of groups for any particular user. There is an arra

Re: Viruses and rootkits WAS Re: weird problem with one mail account in Thunderbird....ISP or what ?

2015-05-28 Thread John Hasler
Brad writes: > In any event, you're not obliged to use your ISP's mail service. With > plenty of other choices out there for email, many of them free, I wonder > why you're putting yourself through this on/off aggravation. I've been with newsguy.com for years. I'm very pleased with their service

Re: Viruses and rootkits WAS Re: weird problem with one mail account in Thunderbird....ISP or what ?

2015-05-28 Thread Frank
On 28/05/15 12:55 PM, Brad Rogers wrote: On Thu, 28 May 2015 11:34:44 -0400 Frank wrote: Hello Frank, Are there in fact any viruses that can infect Linux systems? I know AIUI, there are a few viruses but, by and large, the exist as "proof of concept" and have rarely, if ever, been seen

Re: Viruses and rootkits WAS Re: weird problem with one mail account in Thunderbird....ISP or what ?

2015-05-28 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 28 May 2015 11:34:44 Frank wrote: > On 28/05/15 09:21 AM, Frank wrote: > > On 05/28/2015 02:44 AM, Emil Payne wrote: > >> On 05/27/2015 10:16 PM, Charlie wrote: > >>> On Wed, 27 May 2015 21:06:10 -0400 Frank sent: > When I went into Thunderbird at mid-day one of my accounts with

Re: Viruses and rootkits WAS Re: weird problem with one mail account in Thunderbird....ISP or what ?

2015-05-28 Thread Frank
On 28/05/15 01:08 PM, Brian wrote: On Thu 28 May 2015 at 12:52:33 -0400, Frank wrote: On 28/05/15 12:37 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Thursday 28 May 2015 17:26:31 Darac Marjal wrote: On Thu, 28 May 2015 11:34:44 -0400 Frank wrote: [cut] One more thing on this problem: Are there in

Re: Viruses and rootkits WAS Re: weird problem with one mail account in Thunderbird....ISP or what ?

2015-05-28 Thread Deb
On 05/28/2015 01:23 PM, John Hasler wrote: Frank writes: It's the ISP security guys who are insisting in their words "the account or perhaps your whole computer is infected". The only Linux malware in the wild attacks Web sites via vulnerabilities in things like PHP. Aside from the difficult

Re: Viruses and rootkits WAS Re: weird problem with one mail account in Thunderbird....ISP or what ?

2015-05-28 Thread John Hasler
Frank writes: > It's the ISP security guys who are insisting in their words "the > account or perhaps your whole computer is infected". The only Linux malware in the wild attacks Web sites via vulnerabilities in things like PHP. Aside from the difficulty there is no motivation for creating malwar

Re: Viruses and rootkits WAS Re: weird problem with one mail account in Thunderbird....ISP or what ?

2015-05-28 Thread Curt
On 2015-05-28, Frank wrote: > >It's not Firefox we're talking about ..it's Thunderbird and it only > affects one account, even though I have 3 on the same ISP. > No connection with booting - no connection with anything other > than that one account not being able to logon using IMAP. > Have

Re: Viruses and rootkits WAS Re: weird problem with one mail account in Thunderbird....ISP or what ?

2015-05-28 Thread Brian
On Thu 28 May 2015 at 12:52:33 -0400, Frank wrote: > On 28/05/15 12:37 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > >On Thursday 28 May 2015 17:26:31 Darac Marjal wrote: > >>On Thu, 28 May 2015 11:34:44 -0400 > >>Frank wrote: > >> > >>[cut] > >> > >>> One more thing on this problem: > >>> > >>> Are there in f

Re: Viruses and rootkits WAS Re: weird problem with one mail account in Thunderbird....ISP or what ?

2015-05-28 Thread Brad Rogers
On Thu, 28 May 2015 11:34:44 -0400 Frank wrote: Hello Frank, >Are there in fact any viruses that can infect Linux systems? I know AIUI, there are a few viruses but, by and large, the exist as "proof of concept" and have rarely, if ever, been seen in the wild. >about rootkits but I gather

Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-05-28 Thread Curt
On 2015-05-28, Lisi Reisz wrote: >> If you want to boot to the console and start your graphical environment >> from there ('startx" and company) you must either disable or uninstall >> the display manager IMHO. > > Can you not just boot into level 1 in the first place if you want to run > comple

Re: Viruses and rootkits WAS Re: weird problem with one mail account in Thunderbird....ISP or what ?

2015-05-28 Thread Frank
On 28/05/15 12:37 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Thursday 28 May 2015 17:26:31 Darac Marjal wrote: On Thu, 28 May 2015 11:34:44 -0400 Frank wrote: [cut] One more thing on this problem: Are there in fact any viruses that can infect Linux systems? I know about rootkits but I gather they a

Re: DHCPv6 and DDNS

2015-05-28 Thread Philippe Clérié
. On May 27, 2015 3:21 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: > > Philippe Clérié wrote: > > So far I have not seen any trace of an attempt by the DHCPv6 server to > > update the DNS. > > > > Thanks in advance for any suggestion... > > Does the dhcp *server* update dynamic dns?  I always thougth it was > the

Re: Printer prints ppd-File

2015-05-28 Thread Janis Hamme
/etc/cups/ppd/OKI_B430.ppd: PPD file, version "4.3" But I have found a solution. I downloaded the MacOS driver, extracted the MacOS PPD file from the .dmg archive and pasted some updated procedures into the Linux PPD. Seems to work so far ... Am 28.05.2015 um 16:39 schrieb Brian: > On Thu 28 May

Re: Viruses and rootkits WAS Re: weird problem with one mail account in Thunderbird....ISP or what ?

2015-05-28 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Thursday 28 May 2015 17:26:31 Darac Marjal wrote: > On Thu, 28 May 2015 11:34:44 -0400 > Frank wrote: > > [cut] > > > One more thing on this problem: > > > > Are there in fact any viruses that can infect Linux systems? I > > know about rootkits but I gather they are rare. But the guys a

Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-05-28 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Thursday 28 May 2015 16:46:27 Curt wrote: > On 2015-05-27, Lisi Reisz wrote: > >> If you use gdm or similar I think that usually just leads to the display > >> manager restarting. > > > > Yes, that is my experience. It doesn't get rid of X. > > > > Lisi > > If you want to boot to the console a

Re: Viruses and rootkits WAS Re: weird problem with one mail account in Thunderbird....ISP or what ?

2015-05-28 Thread Darac Marjal
On Thu, 28 May 2015 11:34:44 -0400 Frank wrote: [cut] > > One more thing on this problem: > > Are there in fact any viruses that can infect Linux systems? I > know about rootkits but I gather they are rare. But the guys at my > ISP are so insistent I am beginning to wonder There are vi

Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-05-28 Thread Curt
On 2015-05-27, Lisi Reisz wrote: >> >> If you use gdm or similar I think that usually just leads to the display >> manager restarting. > > Yes, that is my experience. It doesn't get rid of X. > > Lisi If you want to boot to the console and start your graphical environment from there ('startx" an

Viruses and rootkits WAS Re: weird problem with one mail account in Thunderbird....ISP or what ?

2015-05-28 Thread Frank
On 28/05/15 09:21 AM, Frank wrote: On 05/28/2015 02:44 AM, Emil Payne wrote: On 05/27/2015 10:16 PM, Charlie wrote: On Wed, 27 May 2015 21:06:10 -0400 Frank sent: When I went into Thunderbird at mid-day one of my accounts with my ISP Videotron.ca registered a logon failure..despite the fact n

Re: Netinst with preseed

2015-05-28 Thread Brian
On Wed 27 May 2015 at 08:06:33 -0700, Charles Chambers wrote: > The objective is a unattended USB install with an edittable preseed.cfg, > and optionally additional packages and firmware files included on the > media. Windows does it with a customizable unattended.txt (I think) and > a system int

Re: Printer prints ppd-File

2015-05-28 Thread Brian
On Thu 28 May 2015 at 00:35:29 +0200, Janis Hamme wrote: > I'm sorry, this mail was actually intended for the debian-user-german > list. I'll provide a translation below: > > I've set up a printer (OKI-B430d) on Jessie using a ppd-file directly > provided by the manufacturer > (http://www.oki.de/

Quote Request!!

2015-05-28 Thread PC Solutions
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Re: weird problem with one mail account in Thunderbird....ISP or what ?

2015-05-28 Thread Frank
On 05/28/2015 02:44 AM, Emil Payne wrote: On 05/27/2015 10:16 PM, Charlie wrote: On Wed, 27 May 2015 21:06:10 -0400 Frank sent: When I went into Thunderbird at mid-day one of my accounts with my ISP Videotron.ca registered a logon failure..despite the fact nothing had changed. I have no answ

Re: Laptops, UEFI, Secure Boot and Debian

2015-05-28 Thread Deb
On 05/28/2015 01:41 AM, Patrick Bartek wrote: On Wed, 27 May 2015, Deb wrote: On 27/05/15 05:21 PM, deloptes wrote: Patrick Bartek wrote: Researching a laptop purchase (within the next 6 months or so) to replace my aging Desktop (1 to 8.5 years depending on which parts). Going to abandon

RE: debian-user-digest Digest V2015 #603

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Re: Broadcom TG3 network drops, cannot recover without reboot

2015-05-28 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, May 27, 2015, at 13:06, Toan Pham wrote: > > Alternatively, try to get yourself an Intel NIC that works with the igb > > driver (don't get an Intel NIC that needs the e1000e driver) to replace > > the hardlock-prone bcm5720 + tg3 combination. > > I ended up with an intel NIC instead, but w

Re: Laptops, UEFI, Secure Boot and Debian

2015-05-28 Thread Steve McIntyre
nemomm...@gmail.com wrote: >On Wed, 27 May 2015, Deb wrote: > >> I just want to add that my Jessie 8.0 is fully UEFI-compatible and >> boots UEFI with zero issues. So did the netinstaller. But I don't >> remember whether I've ever seen Wheezy installed for UEFI boot. > >Figured Jessie was, just NOT

Re: Broadcom TG3 network drops, cannot recover without reboot

2015-05-28 Thread Justin Catterall
> On 27 May 2015, at 17:06, Toan Pham wrote: > > Justin, > > > I've observed a similar symptom on the bcm5762 chip, not the 5720, and > not sure if the bugs they are related. I've filed a bug report > (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1447664), and > actively working with

Re: Backup services and Debian

2015-05-28 Thread Konstantinos Pachnis
Hi Peter, On 26-05-2015, Petter Adsen wrote: > I'm still messing with trying to get a good backup routine, and I'm > (slowly) coming to the conclusion that other people are better at it > than I am, and I need a way to store data remotely anyway. > > Right now, I'm testing AltDrive on an Ubuntu m

Re: Backup services and Debian

2015-05-28 Thread Konstantinos Pachnis
On 26-05-2015, Petter Adsen wrote: > I'm still messing with trying to get a good backup routine, and I'm > (slowly) coming to the conclusion that other people are better at it > than I am, and I need a way to store data remotely anyway. > > Right now, I'm testing AltDrive on an Ubuntu machine. The