Re-exec dhclient without stopping network?

2016-02-23 Thread Richard Hector
Anyone know if/how I can restart dhclient without stopping the network? It's the only process left holding open the old libc after the upgrade, and I'd rather avoid restarting the network (or rebooting), since I'm working remotely. This is on a wheezy box. It shouldn't be using dhcp, really, but

Re: Need a downgrade :(

2016-02-23 Thread Tixy
On Wed, 2016-02-24 at 02:39 -0500, brian wrote: > Anybody know anywhere where I can download a Wheezy live image, or > even just installation disks, for (preferably) 64-bit Wheezy with an > XFCE desktop? Top google hit for me for 'wheezy iso' is... https://www.debian.org/releases/wheezy/debian-i

Need a downgrade :(

2016-02-23 Thread brian
My PC is running Jessie with no problems, and I finally persuaded my wife to let me upgrade her PC. Disaster! There's some incompatibility with her machine (an eMachines cheap-and-nasty) and Jessie will run for about 10-15 minutes then something becomes corrupted, the display is filled by a weird

Re: I Couldn't install geany-plugin-gdb in jessie.

2016-02-23 Thread EenyMeenyMinyMoa
Thank you, Reco. After $ sudo apt-get install geany-plugin-debugger ,the Debug tab appeared at the below partof Geany. In the "Build"/"Set Build Commands" menu, I've set compile: gcc -Wall -g -c "%f" build: gcc -Wall -g -o "%e" "%f" I tried to do debugging the following code for a test. #include

Re: Inferior sound quality

2016-02-23 Thread Johann Spies
Banshee has got an equaliser with a few useful presets. I do not have access to Windows, but I found that using different presets or adjusting the equaliser makes a marked difference in sound quality. Johann -- Because experiencing your loyal love is better than life itself, my lips will praise

point of information re Debian 8, gnome, and fglrx

2016-02-23 Thread jesse mckeown
The release notes for debian 8, released in April of 2015, say https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/release-notes/ch-information.en.html#gnome-3d > ## 5.11. The GNOME desktop does not work with the AMD proprietary FGLRX driver > > Unlike other OpenGL drivers, the AMD FGLRX driver for Radeo

Re: Inferior sound quality

2016-02-23 Thread Himanshu Shekhar
The soundcard is Realtek ALC3234 with Waves MaxxVoice. That's what Dell says Inspiron 15 3543 Specifications http://downloads.dell.com/manuals/all-products/esuprt_laptop/esuprt_inspiron_laptop/inspiron-15-3543-laptop_reference%20guide_en-us.pdf On Feb 24, 2016 2:55 AM, "anonymous" wrote: >> > >

Re: BIND problem

2016-02-23 Thread Glenn English
> On Feb 23, 2016, at 2:46 PM, Reco wrote: > > Why, it's worth a shot. But doing it by hand would be > counter-productive. They have invented 'debsums' for cases like this, > after all. OK. Sounds reasonable. I'll try it in the morning. -- Glenn English

Re: BIND problem

2016-02-23 Thread Reco
On Tue, 23 Feb 2016 14:04:52 -0700 Glenn English wrote: > > > On Feb 23, 2016, at 8:56 AM, Reco wrote: > > > > First things first, unless someone deliberately customized > > it, /etc/rc.local should contain exactly one meaningful line - 'exit > > 0'. > > It does. See below. > > > Your result

Re: pam_tally2 with sshd

2016-02-23 Thread Reco
Hi. On Tue, 23 Feb 2016 14:52:59 -0600 Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > Debian 8 jessie. > The goal is to block SSH logins with multiple incorrect password tries. > I've added these lines to my /etc/pam.d/sshd file: > > authoptionalpam_echo.so Before sshd pam_tally > authrequi

Re: BIND problem

2016-02-23 Thread Glenn English
> On Feb 23, 2016, at 8:56 AM, Reco wrote: > > First things first, unless someone deliberately customized > it, /etc/rc.local should contain exactly one meaningful line - 'exit > 0'. It does. See below. > Your result shows entirely different thing though. Well, I just asked egrep to look for

Re: Inferior sound quality

2016-02-23 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Wed, 2016-02-24 at 01:26 +0530, Himanshu Shekhar wrote: > SRS settings are by default disabled, and in my case too. > Is it due to hardware drivers or something else? Okay, if we can rule that out I would figure out exactly what sound chip your hardware's got and see if there are any known issu

Re: Inferior sound quality

2016-02-23 Thread Henning Follmann
On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 11:15:07PM +0530, Himanshu Shekhar wrote: > My sound card is Intel Broadwell HD audio for Dell Inspirion 15 3543. > The sound quality on Debian Jessie seemed to be okay to me (I use Rhythmbox > as music player, and VLC occasionally). > Today, I used Windows for a while, and

pam_tally2 with sshd

2016-02-23 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
Debian 8 jessie. The goal is to block SSH logins with multiple incorrect password tries. I've added these lines to my /etc/pam.d/sshd file: authoptionalpam_echo.so Before sshd pam_tally authrequiredpam_tally2.so file=/var/log/tallylog deny=3 audit onerr=fail authoptiona

Re: Unable to connect to higher wifi channels with Broadcom BCM4360

2016-02-23 Thread Himanshu Shekhar
Try changing your regulatory. One should not, but that's the solution. I am using it. Try "iw reg set uk".

Unable to connect to higher wifi channels with Broadcom BCM4360

2016-02-23 Thread Simon Brandmair
Hi everyone, I have a Broadcom BCM4360 wireless card (Archer T8E), which uses the wl module (version 6.30.223.248 on jessie). I am unable to connect to channel 100 or higher on the 5GHz band. The problem seems to be: `iwlist wlan0 chan` returns: wlan0 32 channels in total; available freque

Re: Inferior sound quality

2016-02-23 Thread Himanshu Shekhar
On Feb 24, 2016 1:05 AM, "Sven Arvidsson" wrote: > > I think Windows Media Player is using this? > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_Retrieval_System > > -- > Cheers, > Sven Arvidsson > http://www.whiz.se > PGP Key ID 6FAB5CD5 > SRS settings are by default disabled, and in my case too. Is it du

Re: Warning Linux Mint Website Hacked and ISOs replaced with Backdoored Operating System

2016-02-23 Thread David Wright
On Tue 23 Feb 2016 at 16:58:38 (+0100), Nicolas George wrote: > Le quintidi 5 ventôse, an CCXXIV, David Wright a écrit : > > 1) I do what fdupes does, ie identify files (in a benevolent > >environment) using the MD5 signature to detect duplicate > >contents. > > You did not specify the ave

Re: Inferior sound quality

2016-02-23 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Wed, 2016-02-24 at 00:20 +0530, Himanshu Shekhar wrote: > I tried Windows Media Player. All I have extra is Dell Audio > (downloaded > from Dell driver center). No plugin or EQ. > I would rather like to know, how to use EQ for Linux. :) I think Windows Media Player is using this? https://en.wik

Re: Warning Linux Mint Website Hacked and ISOs replaced with Backdoored Operating System

2016-02-23 Thread Christian Seiler
On 02/23/2016 07:52 PM, Nicolas George wrote: > What you quote is about signing a summary of files at once versus signing > each file individually. This is not what I was talking about. What I was > talking about was signing the file contents itself versus signing the hash > of the file. But if yo

Re: help using apt-build

2016-02-23 Thread Michael Fothergill
Sorry about that I replied to your personal account by mistake. MF

Re: Inferior sound quality

2016-02-23 Thread Ric Moore
On 02/23/2016 01:42 PM, Pete Orrall wrote: On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 12:45 PM, Himanshu Shekhar wrote: My sound card is Intel Broadwell HD audio for Dell Inspirion 15 3543. The sound quality on Debian Jessie seemed to be okay to me (I use Rhythmbox as music player, and VLC occasionally). Today, I

Re: Warning Linux Mint Website Hacked and ISOs replaced with Backdoored Operating System

2016-02-23 Thread Nicolas George
Le quintidi 5 ventôse, an CCXXIV, Christian Seiler a écrit : > You have _emphasized_ it, but you haven't _explained_ it, nor provided > any search term one could use to look up an explanation for it. Explaining takes time, I do not want to do it if nobody will read it. > Why is what Debian does a

Re: Inferior sound quality

2016-02-23 Thread Himanshu Shekhar
On Feb 24, 2016 12:12 AM, "Pete Orrall" wrote: > > Can you please provide more info regarding the Windows music app? Do > you have any plugins or EQ enabled? > > Thanks and I look forward to hearing from you. I tried Windows Media Player. All I have extra is Dell Audio (downloaded from Dell dri

Re: help using apt-build

2016-02-23 Thread Javi Barroso
Hello, El 23 de febrero de 2016 18:08:32 CET, Michael Fothergill escribió: >Dear Folks, > >I tried using apt-build to install a source file: > >root@rhubarb:/home/michaelmikef/Downloads# ls -l adun* > >-rw-r--r-- 1 michaelmikef michaelmikef 1395 Feb 23 16:36 >adun.app_0.81-6.dsc > >root@rhubarb:

Re: Inferior sound quality

2016-02-23 Thread Pete Orrall
On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 12:45 PM, Himanshu Shekhar wrote: > My sound card is Intel Broadwell HD audio for Dell Inspirion 15 3543. > The sound quality on Debian Jessie seemed to be okay to me (I use Rhythmbox > as music player, and VLC occasionally). > Today, I used Windows for a while, and experie

Re: Warning Linux Mint Website Hacked and ISOs replaced with Backdoored Operating System

2016-02-23 Thread Christian Seiler
On 02/23/2016 04:49 PM, Nicolas George wrote: > Le quintidi 5 ventôse, an CCXXIV, Thomas Schmitt a écrit : >> If the SHA512SUMS.sign > > Stop right there. Signing a bunch of hashes is a beginner's mistake, I have > already emphasized that in this thread. You have _emphasized_ it, but you haven't

Inferior sound quality

2016-02-23 Thread Himanshu Shekhar
My sound card is Intel Broadwell HD audio for Dell Inspirion 15 3543. The sound quality on Debian Jessie seemed to be okay to me (I use Rhythmbox as music player, and VLC occasionally). Today, I used Windows for a while, and experienced far better and more dynamic sound quality on same earphone and

Re: Warning Linux Mint Website Hacked and ISOs replaced with Backdoored Operating System

2016-02-23 Thread Nicolas George
Le quintidi 5 ventôse, an CCXXIV, Thomas Schmitt a écrit : > You have unsurpassable objections against variants which might not > much weaken the strength of PGP ? > Not even willing to consider the constraints of such variants ? I have no idea what you are trying to express. > Despite leading de

help using apt-build

2016-02-23 Thread Michael Fothergill
Dear Folks, I tried using apt-build to install a source file: root@rhubarb:/home/michaelmikef/Downloads# ls -l adun* -rw-r--r-- 1 michaelmikef michaelmikef 1395 Feb 23 16:36 adun.app_0.81-6.dsc root@rhubarb:/home/michaelmikef/Downloads# apt-build install adun.app_0.81-6.dsc W: Unable to locate

Re: Warning Linux Mint Website Hacked and ISOs replaced with Backdoored Operating System

2016-02-23 Thread arian
> The collisions are not known, and very unlikely, but "absolute" means > absolute, not "very likely". from the way you stated: > These are all cryptographic hash functions: too strong for a preliminary > test, insufficient for absolute certainty. I understood you suggest there is a relevant leve

Re: Warning Linux Mint Website Hacked and ISOs replaced with Backdoored Operating System

2016-02-23 Thread Nicolas George
Le quintidi 5 ventôse, an CCXXIV, arian a écrit : > where do you get that these are "insufficient for absolute certainty"? > (beside maybe md4) > there are no known collisions in sha1 and better, and even md4's preimage > attack has complexity 2^102. [1,2] There are collisions for SHA1 as soon as

Re: Warning Linux Mint Website Hacked and ISOs replaced with Backdoored Operating System

2016-02-23 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Nicolas George wrote: > Signing a bunch of hashes is a beginner's mistake, You have unsurpassable objections against variants which might not much weaken the strength of PGP ? Not even willing to consider the constraints of such variants ? I assume this was discussed among DDs and they weigh

Re: Warning Linux Mint Website Hacked and ISOs replaced with Backdoored Operating System

2016-02-23 Thread arian
> and even md4's preimage attack has complexity 2^102. [1,2] sorry, forgot the quotes: [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preimage_attack [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MD4#Security signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Warning Linux Mint Website Hacked and ISOs replaced with Backdoored Operating System

2016-02-23 Thread arian
> These are all cryptographic hash functions: too strong for a preliminary > test, insufficient for absolute certainty. where do you get that these are "insufficient for absolute certainty"? (beside maybe md4) there are no known collisions in sha1 and better, and even md4's preimage attack has

Re: Warning Linux Mint Website Hacked and ISOs replaced with Backdoored Operating System

2016-02-23 Thread Nicolas George
Le quintidi 5 ventôse, an CCXXIV, Seeker a écrit : > If you take security out of the equation, simple true or false. > > 1. A corrupted download is better able to be detected when using MD5 than it > is with CRC32. > > 2. A corrupted download is better able to be detected when using SHA than it >

Re: Warning Linux Mint Website Hacked and ISOs replaced with Backdoored Operating System

2016-02-23 Thread Seeker
On 2/23/2016 3:08 AM, Nicolas George wrote: Le quintidi 5 ventôse, an CCXXIV, Thomas Schmitt a écrit : The ISO checksums are provided more for transport verification than for the fight against intentional mainpulation. If that were true, CRC32 would be enough. Is that a 'Law of averages' t

Re: BIND problem

2016-02-23 Thread Reco
On Tue, 23 Feb 2016 07:42:59 -0700 Glenn English wrote: > > > On Feb 23, 2016, at 1:45 AM, Reco wrote: > > > I'd start with rkhunter check first. Just to be sure. > > Checking for enabled inetd services [ Warning ] > > That's AmandaClient, the backup software. Harml

Re: Warning Linux Mint Website Hacked and ISOs replaced with Backdoored Operating System

2016-02-23 Thread Nicolas George
Le quintidi 5 ventôse, an CCXXIV, David Wright a écrit : > 1) I do what fdupes does, ie identify files (in a benevolent >environment) using the MD5 signature to detect duplicate >contents. You did not specify the average size of files nor how sure you want to be. If the files are large, I

Re: Warning Linux Mint Website Hacked and ISOs replaced with Backdoored Operating System

2016-02-23 Thread David Wright
On Tue 23 Feb 2016 at 16:04:37 (+0100), Nicolas George wrote: > Le quintidi 5 ventôse, an CCXXIV, David Wright a écrit : > > Any faster ones that you recommend from the lists below? (I've rolled > > my own implementation of fdupes (which uses MD5) in python.) > > Nobody can recommend anything with

Re: Warning Linux Mint Website Hacked and ISOs replaced with Backdoored Operating System

2016-02-23 Thread Nicolas George
Le quintidi 5 ventôse, an CCXXIV, Thomas Schmitt a écrit : > Only as far as use cases for Debian ISO image hashs are concerned. > No hash collisions among all Debian ISOs (or better all ISOs in the > world) is a valuable property. ??? I have no idea what you are talking about. > If the SHA512SUMS

Re: Warning Linux Mint Website Hacked and ISOs replaced with Backdoored Operating System

2016-02-23 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Nicolas George wrote: > > You are changing the terms of the problem at each messages, Only as far as use cases for Debian ISO image hashs are concerned. No hash collisions among all Debian ISOs (or better all ISOs in the world) is a valuable property. i wrote: > > > I could imagine that PGP

Re: Warning Linux Mint Website Hacked and ISOs replaced with Backdoored Operating System

2016-02-23 Thread Nicolas George
Le quintidi 5 ventôse, an CCXXIV, David Wright a écrit : > Any faster ones that you recommend from the lists below? (I've rolled > my own implementation of fdupes (which uses MD5) in python.) Nobody can recommend anything without knowing the intended use. Regards, -- Nicolas George signatur

Re: BIND problem

2016-02-23 Thread Glenn English
> On Feb 23, 2016, at 1:45 AM, Reco wrote: > I'd start with rkhunter check first. Just to be sure. Checking for enabled inetd services [ Warning ] That's AmandaClient, the backup software. Checking if SSH root access is allowed [ Warning ] It is

Re: Warning Linux Mint Website Hacked and ISOs replaced with Backdoored Operating System

2016-02-23 Thread David Wright
On Tue 23 Feb 2016 at 13:15:38 (+0100), Nicolas George wrote: > Le quintidi 5 ventôse, an CCXXIV, Thomas Schmitt a écrit : > > i wrote: > > > > The ISO checksums are provided more for transport verification than > > > > for the fight against intentional mainpulation. > > > Nicolas George wrote: >

Re: Warning Linux Mint Website Hacked and ISOs replaced with Backdoored Operating System

2016-02-23 Thread Nicolas George
Le quintidi 5 ventôse, an CCXXIV, Thomas Schmitt a écrit : > i have to revoke some of my criticism towards Debian's signed > hash value lists. > Together, MD5, SHA1, SHA256, and SHA512 provide up to 132 bytes of > uniqueness (assumed that they have no systematic correlations). This is irrelevant.

Re: Warning Linux Mint Website Hacked and ISOs replaced with Backdoored Operating System

2016-02-23 Thread Nicolas George
Le quintidi 5 ventôse, an CCXXIV, Thomas Schmitt a écrit : > i wrote: > > > The ISO checksums are provided more for transport verification than > > > for the fight against intentional mainpulation. > Nicolas George wrote: > > If that were true, CRC32 would be enough. > For detecting most glitches

Re: Warning Linux Mint Website Hacked and ISOs replaced with Backdoored Operating System

2016-02-23 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i wrote: > > The ISO checksums are provided more for transport verification than > > for the fight against intentional mainpulation. Nicolas George wrote: > If that were true, CRC32 would be enough. For detecting most glitches, yes. But not if we want to use it for identifying files in benev

Re: Warning Linux Mint Website Hacked and ISOs replaced with Backdoored Operating System

2016-02-23 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 12:02:50PM +0100, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > Nicolas George wrote: > > Of course, that does not mean MD5 and SHA-1 should be used nowadays. New > > theoretical attacks are found, keeping using hashes with known weaknesses is > > stupid. > > The ISO checksums are provi

Re: Warning Linux Mint Website Hacked and ISOs replaced with Backdoored Operating System

2016-02-23 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i have to revoke some of my criticism towards Debian's signed hash value lists. Together, MD5, SHA1, SHA256, and SHA512 provide up to 132 bytes of uniqueness (assumed that they have no systematic correlations). I could imagine that PGP is easier to surpass than that. Well, according to wikipe

Re: Warning Linux Mint Website Hacked and ISOs replaced with Backdoored Operating System

2016-02-23 Thread Nicolas George
Le quintidi 5 ventôse, an CCXXIV, Thomas Schmitt a écrit : > The ISO checksums are provided more for transport verification than > for the fight against intentional mainpulation. If that were true, CRC32 would be enough. > Signing the hash lists by PGP still seems a bit weak as protection. Signi

Re: Warning Linux Mint Website Hacked and ISOs replaced with Backdoored Operating System

2016-02-23 Thread jdd
Le 23/02/2016 12:02, Thomas Schmitt a écrit : Most important seems a permanent supervision of the web site content from not publicly known client machines. if I followed right this, there was a redirect to an external site. How can this be possible? html links is the first thing spam uses

Re: Warning Linux Mint Website Hacked and ISOs replaced with Backdoored Operating System

2016-02-23 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Nicolas George wrote: > Of course, that does not mean MD5 and SHA-1 should be used nowadays. New > theoretical attacks are found, keeping using hashes with known weaknesses is > stupid. The ISO checksums are provided more for transport verification than for the fight against intentional mainp

Re: Warning Linux Mint Website Hacked and ISOs replaced with Backdoored Operating System

2016-02-23 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Darac Marjal wrote: > It's difficult to provide a malicious ISO with the same MD5 as another, but > not impossible. You can just append a certain amount of junk data until the > hashes match. Or you manipulate a dedicated byte array in your evil add-on. This would avoid suspicious size change

Re: Warning Linux Mint Website Hacked and ISOs replaced with Backdoored Operating System

2016-02-23 Thread Nicolas George
Le quintidi 5 ventôse, an CCXXIV, Darac Marjal a écrit : > It's difficult to provide a malicious ISO with the same MD5 as another, but > not impossible. You can just append a certain amount of junk data until the > hashes match. Similarly, you CAN do the same with SHA-1 (hash collisions ARE > possi

Re:[Solved] opengl problem with avidemux

2016-02-23 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Mon, 22 Feb 2016, Sven Arvidsson wrote: From what I can tell from Google, avidemux comes in both GTK+ (2.x?) and Qt flavours. If you got it from deb-multimedia it's probably qt4, so you'll probably need to figure out how to set the fonts with something like qt4-qtconfig? Hi Sven, I neve

Re: Warning Linux Mint Website Hacked and ISOs replaced with Backdoored Operating System

2016-02-23 Thread Darac Marjal
On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 09:39:24AM +0800, Gener Badenas wrote: On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 3:23 AM, Thomas Schmitt <[1]scdbac...@gmx.net> wrote: Hi, > [2]http://thehackernews.com/2016/02/linux-mint-hack.html A virus of 1.5 GiB size. Does anybody know a download URL for such an infec

Re: BIND problem

2016-02-23 Thread Reco
Hi. On Mon, 22 Feb 2016 20:44:23 -0700 Glenn English wrote: > > > On Feb 22, 2016, at 3:58 PM, Reco wrote: > > > > First one is 'ls -ald /var/cache'. > > root@log:~# ls -ald /var/cache > drwxr-xr-x 14 root root 4096 Oct 12 2013 /var/cache > > > Second one is 'sudo -u touch /var/cac