How to install Debian on 3TB drive.

2015-11-11 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
Dear All, I have 3TBx2 drives and want to install debian on them as RAID1. i know rest of the thing. i have been creating software raid on less then 2TB drives for years but now since HD size is growing as per the market trend i need to go with it. Both drives are detected in the manual partition

Re: LXDE Display Coordination

2015-11-11 Thread Felix Miata
ray composed on 2015-11-11 17:46 (UTC-0800): >> > # cat /proc/cmdline >> > placeholder root=/dev/mapper/mycomp--vg-root ro >> > initrd=/install/gtk/initrd.gz quiet >> Rather sparse, with nothing attempting to impact display configuration, other >> than hiding init messages (quiet). Did you do th

Xorg reconfigure on keyboard/VGA screen connect with systemd?

2015-11-11 Thread martin f krafft
Hello, Can I use systemd to automatically run scripts as the owner of an X session when a USB keyboard or a VGA screen are connected to the local machine? Or what other mechanism would you use? In the past, doing so automatically would involve some sort of hook in /etc (invoked as root), which wo

Re: Tip of the hat to Michael Biebl

2015-11-11 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 10:00:54PM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: > Am 10.11.2015 um 02:37 schrieb Philippe Clérié: > > I just caught the YouTube video of Michael Biebl's presentation at > > systemd.conf. It was good and informative and reminded me of the hard > > and many faceted work Debian develope

Re: LXDE Display Coordination

2015-11-11 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 04:45:19PM +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 08:12:11AM -0700, Charlie Kravetz wrote: > > [...] > > > I have to agree with Felix here [...] > > I'm rather with "post here" -- if we are setting up a vote :-) +1 -- "If you're not careful, the newsp

Re: Ransomware meets Linux - on the command line!

2015-11-11 Thread Joel Rees
W-e-e-e-ll-ll-ll, ... 2015/11/12 10:47 "Lisi Reisz" : > > On Thursday 12 November 2015 01:32:21 Stuart Longland wrote: > > On 12/11/15 08:24, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > https://www.sophos.com/en-us/support/knowledgebase/118624.aspx > > > Comments. please - I'm not sure how to evaluate this or

Re: Ransomware meets Linux - on the command line!

2015-11-11 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 11/11/15, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > > For fun, I checked my inbox for any references to the ransomware. > There are ZERO references in what's probably at least 150,000 emails > or more. For that reason, I'm adding the name here: Ransm-C and > Linux/Ransm-C so this thread becomes searchable for

Re: Ransomware meets Linux - on the command line!

2015-11-11 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 11/11/15, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Thursday 12 November 2015 01:32:21 Stuart Longland wrote: >> On 12/11/15 08:24, Lisi Reisz wrote: >> > https://www.sophos.com/en-us/support/knowledgebase/118624.aspx >> > Comments. please - I'm not sure how to evaluate this or how to react. >> >> I don't see any

Re: LXDE Display Coordination

2015-11-11 Thread ray
Felix, Thank you for descriptions. > > # cat /proc/cmdline > > placeholder root=/dev/mapper/mycomp--vg-root ro > > initrd=/install/gtk/initrd.gz quiet > > Rather sparse, with nothing attempting to impact display configuration, other > than hiding init messages (quiet). Did you do that as user

Re: Ransomware meets Linux - on the command line!

2015-11-11 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Thursday 12 November 2015 01:32:21 Stuart Longland wrote: > On 12/11/15 08:24, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > https://www.sophos.com/en-us/support/knowledgebase/118624.aspx > > Comments. please - I'm not sure how to evaluate this or how to react. > > I don't see any mention of ransomware threats on that

Re: Ransomware meets Linux - on the command line!

2015-11-11 Thread Stuart Longland
On 12/11/15 08:24, Lisi Reisz wrote: > https://www.sophos.com/en-us/support/knowledgebase/118624.aspx > Comments. please - I'm not sure how to evaluate this or how to react. I don't see any mention of ransomware threats on that page. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my

Re: Tip of the hat to Michael Biebl

2015-11-11 Thread Philippe Clérié
On 11/11/15 16:00, Michael Biebl wrote: Am 10.11.2015 um 02:37 schrieb Philippe Clérié: I just caught the YouTube video of Michael Biebl's presentation at systemd.conf. It was good and informative and reminded me of the hard and many faceted work Debian developers and maintainers put in. Work fo

Ransomware meets Linux - on the command line!

2015-11-11 Thread Lisi Reisz
https://www.sophos.com/en-us/support/knowledgebase/118624.aspx Comments. please - I'm not sure how to evaluate this or how to react. Thanks, Lisi

SSHD AllowUsers not limiting users anymore

2015-11-11 Thread Paulo Roberto
Dear list, I need some help. After upgrading the openssh-server package to the version: ii openssh-server1:6.9p1-2+b1 amd64 secure shell (SSH) server, for secure access from remote machines The option AllowUsers of /etc/ssh/sshd_config stopped working. Any

Re: Tip of the hat to Michael Biebl

2015-11-11 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 10.11.2015 um 02:37 schrieb Philippe Clérié: > I just caught the YouTube video of Michael Biebl's presentation at > systemd.conf. It was good and informative and reminded me of the hard > and many faceted work Debian developers and maintainers put in. Work for > which I don't often enough show m

Re: Debian 8.1 ext4 directory sizes

2015-11-11 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, David Wright wrote: > I think we've been here before; starts at > https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2015/04/msg00651.html Ah yes. At that time i was still running Reiser FS on SuSE. (Now you got me nostalgic about the qualities of kernel 2.6 and easily killable hald processes. Sneef.) H

Re: umask for GUI applications?

2015-11-11 Thread David Wright
On Tue 10 Nov 2015 at 20:06:16 (+0200), Tapio Lehtonen wrote: > [presumably tomás wrote: ] > > > > For desktopless users (like me, Fvwm), the "classic" X session mechanism > > applies, rooted in /etc/X11/Xsession. > /etc/X11/Xsession would affect all users. Unless there is some stuff > there that

Re: LXDE Display Coordination

2015-11-11 Thread Felix Miata
Brian composed on 2015-11-11 19:36 (UTC): > The less information provided, the easier it is to help someone? If s/less information provided/less noise provided/ then yes. -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation)

Re: Debian 8.1 ext4 directory sizes

2015-11-11 Thread David Wright
On Tue 10 Nov 2015 at 16:08:21 (+0100), Thomas Schmitt wrote: > i am riddling about the size of directories in Jessie's ext4, > as listed with ls -ld. They always grow and never shrink, even > if they become completely empty. My record holder had 7.5 MB, > currently i am having an empy one of 1.5 M

Re: LXDE Display Coordination

2015-11-11 Thread Brian
On Wed 11 Nov 2015 at 08:12:11 -0700, Charlie Kravetz wrote: > On Wed, 11 Nov 2015 09:38:53 -0500 > Felix Miata wrote: > > >Lisi Reisz composed on 2015-11-11 12:36 (UTC): > > > >>> Pasting logs and configs into email puts it wasting space in the mailing > >>> list archive forever. > > > >>> Pa

Re: LXDE Display Coordination

2015-11-11 Thread Brian
On Wed 11 Nov 2015 at 12:36:23 +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Wednesday 11 November 2015 02:23:38 Felix Miata wrote: > > >> Pastebin your current /boot/grub/grub.cfg > > > > Pastebin means upload the information to > > > > http://paste.debian.net/ > > > > or > > > > http://pastebin.com/ > >

Re: Openbox without other desktop environments.

2015-11-11 Thread Brian
On Wed 11 Nov 2015 at 15:28:25 +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 02:51:30PM +, Darac Marjal wrote: > > [...] > > > "man startx" tells us that startx is a frontend to xinit. It also > > states that configuration should be done in ".xsession". So, open > > the file "~/.x

Re: Persistence

2015-11-11 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 11 November 2015 15:51:37 Matilda Fins wrote: > Is there a way to create a Debian live usb flash drive with persistence? If > so, how? Are you subscribed? You have had replies which you seem not to have seen. Lisi

Re: Openbox without other desktop environments.

2015-11-11 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Wed, 11 Nov 2015, Rene Funck wrote: > I have a virgin installation of Jessie v.8.2 and i want to run Openbox > without other desktop environments. So my situation is almost > identical to Dwijesh Gajadurs who posted to this list yesterday. > > I followed the advises to Dwijesh: Installed Xorg,

Re: i3 Window manager without any other desktop environment

2015-11-11 Thread Curt
On 2015-11-10, Dwijesh Gajadur wrote: > > Yes it worked. After installing Xorg and typing 'startx' , i3 session > started. > It really, really, really, really worked.

Re: Persistence

2015-11-11 Thread Michael Fothergill
I have made a standard usb stick installation boot and run OK from my PC. The USB drive was slow and rather old so there were pauses between issuing commands and things happening. But it did work. A faster usb drive should work a lot better I think. If you would try the Debian live idea, I gue

Re: LXDE Display Coordination

2015-11-11 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 08:12:11AM -0700, Charlie Kravetz wrote: [...] > I have to agree with Felix here [...] I'm rather with "post here" -- if we are setting up a vote :-) - -- t -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) i

Persistence

2015-11-11 Thread Matilda Fins
Is there a way to create a Debian live usb flash drive with persistence? If so, how?

opening a backup.adi file in debian

2015-11-11 Thread Michael Fothergill
Dear Folks, As well using Debian I also run Windows 10. I had been making what I thought were decent backup DVDs on Windows. But something has gone funny. I can't seem to restore the files from the DVDs. Windows keeps wanting to read in a different DVD with a different date on it but when I f

Re: LXDE Display Coordination

2015-11-11 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 11 November 2015 15:12:11 Charlie Kravetz wrote: > I have to agree with Felix here. The more logs to wade through, the > less likely it will help someone else down the road. Have any of us > waded through all the logs just from this post? If so, congratulations! > You are much more pat

Re: LXDE Display Coordination

2015-11-11 Thread Charlie Kravetz
On Wed, 11 Nov 2015 09:38:53 -0500 Felix Miata wrote: >Lisi Reisz composed on 2015-11-11 12:36 (UTC): > >>> Pasting logs and configs into email puts it wasting space in the mailing >>> list archive forever. > >>> Pastebinning is temporary, a week or month or whatever the particular paste >>> ho

Re: Persistence

2015-11-11 Thread Gerard ROBIN
Yes, install the package live-build and read the documentation. The mailing-list debian-live can help you. -- Gerard ___ *** * Created with "mutt 1.5.23" * * under Debian Linux JESSIE version 8.1 * * R

Re: Openbox without other desktop environments.

2015-11-11 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 02:51:30PM +, Darac Marjal wrote: [...] > "man startx" tells us that startx is a frontend to xinit. It also > states that configuration should be done in ".xsession". So, open > the file "~/.xsession" in your favourite edi

Re: Openbox without other desktop environments.

2015-11-11 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 03:34:52PM +0100, Rene Funck wrote: > Hello Users > > I have a virgin installation of Jessie v.8.2 and i want to run Openbox > without other desktop environments. So my situation is almost identical to > Dwijesh Gajadurs who po

Re: Openbox without other desktop environments.

2015-11-11 Thread Darac Marjal
On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 03:34:52PM +0100, Rene Funck wrote: Hello Users I have a virgin installation of Jessie v.8.2 and i want to run Openbox without other desktop environments. So my situation is almost identical to Dwijesh Gajadurs who posted to this list yesterday. I followed the advise

Re: LXDE Display Coordination

2015-11-11 Thread Felix Miata
Lisi Reisz composed on 2015-11-11 12:36 (UTC): >> Pasting logs and configs into email puts it wasting space in the mailing >> list archive forever. >> Pastebinning is temporary, a week or month or whatever the particular paste >> host is configured for. > Yes, so the archives are incomplete. Fo

Openbox without other desktop environments.

2015-11-11 Thread Rene Funck
Hello Users I have a virgin installation of Jessie v.8.2 and i want to run Openbox without other desktop environments. So my situation is almost identical to Dwijesh Gajadurs who posted to this list yesterday. I followed the advises to Dwijesh: Installed Xorg, installed Openbox (my own idea, hope

[ANNOUNCE] apt-offline 1.7 Released

2015-11-11 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
Hello World, It gives me immense pleasure to announce the release of apt-offline, version 1.7. For a detailed release announcement, please visit: http://www.researchu t.com/blog/apt-offline-17 This is an important release with an important Security Fix. Thanks to Bernd Dietzel. The release deta

Re: LXDE Display Coordination

2015-11-11 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 11 November 2015 02:23:38 Felix Miata wrote: > >> Pastebin your current /boot/grub/grub.cfg > > Pastebin means upload the information to > > http://paste.debian.net/ > > or > > http://pastebin.com/ > > or > > http://paste.opensuse.org/ > > or > > http://paste.ub

Re: Tip of the hat to Michael Biebl

2015-11-11 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 11 November 2015 12:10:28 Stephen Allen wrote: > On Mon, Nov 09, 2015 at 08:37:36PM -0500, Philippe Clérié wrote: > > I just caught the YouTube video of Michael Biebl's presentation at > > systemd.conf. It was good and informative and reminded me of the hard and > > many faceted work D

Re: Tip of the hat to Michael Biebl

2015-11-11 Thread Stephen Allen
On Mon, Nov 09, 2015 at 08:37:36PM -0500, Philippe Clérié wrote: > I just caught the YouTube video of Michael Biebl's presentation at > systemd.conf. It was good and informative and reminded me of the hard and > many faceted work Debian developers and maintainers put in. Work for which I > don't of

Re: How to make "headless" system?

2015-11-11 Thread Himanshu Shekhar
You can also set up a headless system, and use Webmin like tools if ssh, or VNC appears troublesome. Regards Himanshu Shekhar