Re: NTP insecure defaults

2017-01-08 Thread Mart van de Wege
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh writes: > > For client-only, openntpd is likely a better choice, yes. Better yet, > use "chrony", which is optimized for desktop/laptops (which get > disconnected/powered off/suspended often). > > ntp - time servers, high-precision time clients. > opentpd - always-on

Re: NTP insecure defaults

2017-01-08 Thread Mart van de Wege
Michael Luecke writes: > On 01/07/2017 09:33 AM, Mart van de Wege wrote: >> Turns out the Debian default is indeed to provide time service if you >> install NTP. Shouldn't that be limited to localhost only, so that an >> admin must deliberately open up the service if they want to provide NTP >> s

Aw: Bash different behaviour of read / strings in jessie versus stretch (regression?)

2017-01-08 Thread foo fighter
Hi, there is further different behaviour (error exit in jessie, no exit in stretch), I posted in debian-devel. https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2017/01/msg00331.html Yours lopiuh

Re: Fresh install gives no graphical login

2017-01-08 Thread Richard Owlett
On 1/8/2017 10:10 PM, Tama McGlinn wrote: Dear Debian volunteers, I hope you can help me with a problem I've been experiencing since Debian Jessie; After doing a new installation, debian boots, but only presents me with a tty1 login screen, and no graphical session started. Here's what I've trie

Failure searching forfile known to exist

2017-01-08 Thread Richard Owlett
Environment: Jessie with Mate DE Background: Doing an atypical install of SeaMonkey using the generic Linux version. I could not remember where "profiles.ini" was stored. As my reference information was on another system, it appeared easier to use the search function of the file manager. I

Fresh install gives no graphical login

2017-01-08 Thread Tama McGlinn
Dear Debian volunteers, I hope you can help me with a problem I've been experiencing since Debian Jessie; After doing a new installation, debian boots, but only presents me with a tty1 login screen, and no graphical session started. Here's what I've tried so far: -Different versions of debian: ne

Re: NTP insecure defaults

2017-01-08 Thread Celejar
On Sat, 7 Jan 2017 09:30:55 -0200 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: ... > For client-only, openntpd is likely a better choice, yes. Better yet, > use "chrony", which is optimized for desktop/laptops (which get > disconnected/powered off/suspended often). > > ntp - time servers, high-precision

Re: GNU C Library version

2017-01-08 Thread David Wright
On Mon 09 Jan 2017 at 01:05:35 (+), Mike wrote: > Hi, > > Firstly thanks to everyone for their time and effort in coming up > with and maintaining these fantastic alternatives to Windows, its > very much appreciated. I have been using Ubuntu and other Linux > based operating systems for numbe

GNU C Library version

2017-01-08 Thread Mike
Hi, Firstly thanks to everyone for their time and effort in coming up with and maintaining these fantastic alternatives to Windows, its very much appreciated. I have been using Ubuntu and other Linux based operating systems for number of years now, and will never return to Windowsno way

Re: Monitor switched off after resume from hibernation

2017-01-08 Thread David Wright
On Sun 08 Jan 2017 at 07:59:39 (+0100), solitone wrote: > On Saturday, January 7, 2017 1:35:07 PM CET David Wright wrote: > > you could go on to combine it with the > > hibernation process to make sure that the monitor was on just before > > hibernation started. (There might be some sort of seriali

Re: systemd requires "plymouth" on server? (was: Systemd: no error but "maintenance mode")

2017-01-08 Thread David Wright
On Sun 08 Jan 2017 at 15:56:36 (+0100), Steffen Dettmer wrote: > Hi, > > main problem was the disk indeed! Apparently there was a typo in > fstab, probably leading to a parse error (which isn't shown > unfortunately) then the value "0" in the "pass" row for fsck > apparently is ignored and "1" is

Re: cannot register @forum

2017-01-08 Thread Keith Bainbridge
Oliver, sweethome On the face of it, you have registered. I doubt I'd have seen your notes if you weren't. Keith Bainbridge 0447667468 keithrbaugro...@gmail.com Sent from my APad On 9 Jan 2017 06:30, "sweethome" wrote: > cannot register in debian forum, whenever I am trying to register

Re: NFS 4 id mapping does not work on auto mount

2017-01-08 Thread Mini Trader
So for whatever reason. It seems that there is a slight delay after boot for the ids to be pulled. They come after around 10 minutes or so. Issuing nfsidmap -c will cause them to be loaded immediately. On Sat, Jan 7, 2017 at 2:40 PM Mini Trader wrote: > Hello all, > > I am having some issues wi

Re: kworker eats 45% from first cpu

2017-01-08 Thread deloptes
Jochen Spieker wrote: > Jochen Spieker: >> deloptes: >>> >>> I moved my system to an SSD two days ago. I applied recommendation to >>> use "discard" >> >> What do you mean by that? If you are talking about the mount >> option, discard it. (Sorry for the pun.) Use a weekly cron job with >> 'fstri

Re: cannot register @forum

2017-01-08 Thread Joel Rees
On Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 4:07 AM, sweethome wrote: > cannot register in debian forum, forums.debian.net is, I believe, a separate organization. > whenever I am trying to register after > filling the form , i am getting a message " your ip is black listed " > without doing anything wrong with the w

Re: python time module

2017-01-08 Thread lists
On Sun, Jan 08, 2017 at 09:49:24PM +0100, Nicolas George wrote: Le nonidi 19 nivôse, an CCXXV, li...@rickv.com a écrit : re 1: It's not a bad thing to use a separate package manager for your Python projects if you're getting into development with Python. Actually, it is a bad thing. Package ma

Re: kworker eats 45% from first cpu

2017-01-08 Thread Jochen Spieker
Jochen Spieker: > deloptes: >> >> I moved my system to an SSD two days ago. I applied recommendation to >> use "discard" > > What do you mean by that? If you are talking about the mount > option, discard it. (Sorry for the pun.) Use a weekly cron job with > 'fstrim -a' instead. If you are using L

Re: kworker eats 45% from first cpu

2017-01-08 Thread Jochen Spieker
deloptes: > > I moved my system to an SSD two days ago. I applied recommendation to > use "discard" What do you mean by that? If you are talking about the mount option, discard it. (Sorry for the pun.) Use a weekly cron job with 'fstrim -a' instead. If you are using LVM, set issue_discards=1 in /e

kworker eats 45% from first cpu

2017-01-08 Thread deloptes
Hi community, I moved my system to an SSD two days ago. I applied recommendation to use "discard" when I noticed that one kworker is using exactly 45% of the first cpu. I tried to find out some solution in google already, but nothing alike my issue. It seems it is tricky to find out what exactly is

Re: python time module

2017-01-08 Thread Nicolas George
Le nonidi 19 nivôse, an CCXXV, li...@rickv.com a écrit : > re 1: It's not a bad thing to use a separate package manager for your > Python projects if you're getting into development with Python. Actually, it is a bad thing. Package managers specialized for one language are convenient for the devel

Re: autofs config

2017-01-08 Thread Sven Hartge
Reco wrote: > [1] http://blog.tomecek.net/post/automount-with-systemd/ Note: this only works with static mounts. If you want to use any kind of automatic mapping you can't do this with systemd. Grüße, S° -- Sigmentation fault. Core dumped.

offlineimap is slow so I tried mbsync but got an IMAP store error...

2017-01-08 Thread Michael Fothergill
Dear Folks, I tried running mbsync with following mbsyncrc file: IMAPAccount gmail # Address to connect to Host imap.gmail.com User usern...@gmail.com Pass *** # To store the password in an encrypted file use PassCmd instead of Pass # PassCmd "gpg2 -q --for-your-eyes-only --no-tty -d

Re: python time module

2017-01-08 Thread Rick Valenzuela
On Sat, Jan 07, 2017 at 08:29:05PM -0700, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: (2) More seriously, I'm getting the following error and traceback trying to run my very first script: nowball:13$ python box1.py Traceback (most recent call last): File "box1.py", line 1, in from OCC.Display.SimpleGui import init

Re: cannot register @forum

2017-01-08 Thread sweethome
cannot register in debian forum, whenever I am trying to register after filling the form , i am getting a message " your ip is black listed " without doing anything wrong with the website.!!! how to register, please let me know.

Re: autofs config

2017-01-08 Thread Reco
Hi. On Sun, 08 Jan 2017 13:37:32 -0500 Harry Putnam wrote: > I've edited /etc/auto.master by adding this line: > > /projects-nfs /etc/auto.master.d/prj-nfs.autofs --timeout=180 And it gone haywire from here. Autofs has a concept of master map ( auto.master(5) ) which can con

autofs config

2017-01-08 Thread Harry Putnam
, | NOTE: A similar post was accidently posted to gentoo list but was | intended to be posted here ` Setup: Running Debian jessie-stable I've never used autofs and am trying to get it setup. Following the debian wiki and an Ubuntu howto. Also this site: http://www.linuxtechi.com/

Re: Systemd: no error but "maintenance mode"

2017-01-08 Thread Joe
On Sun, 8 Jan 2017 14:28:09 +0100 Steffen Dettmer wrote: > Hi, > > What happened before: > I had issue with a Debian server SATA bus [1]. I noticed because > apt-get upgrade hung, because initramfs updater calls "sync" which > hang because of [1]. All operations accessing a certain (backup) disk

Re: Systemd: no error but "maintenance mode"

2017-01-08 Thread Joe
On Sun, 8 Jan 2017 14:28:09 +0100 Steffen Dettmer wrote: > Hi, > > What happened before: > I had issue with a Debian server SATA bus [1]. I noticed because > apt-get upgrade hung, because initramfs updater calls "sync" which > hang because of [1]. All operations accessing a certain (backup) disk

Re: python time module

2017-01-08 Thread lists
re 2: time is in the Python standard library; you should have it. re 1: It's not a bad thing to use a separate package manager for your Python projects if you're getting into development with Python. More or less, users simply maintaining a system that uses Python should be OK with installs fr

$spam_score value change in exim + spamassassin

2017-01-08 Thread Mark Copper
Would anyone know offhand what might be changing the value of variable $spam_score in the acl/40_exim4-config_check_data section of the exim4 configuration file exim4.conf.template? It's an idle question but I'm curious why I would be getting a header like this: X-Spam_score: 10.8 X-Spam_score_in

Re: Icedove calendar not syncing to google calendar

2017-01-08 Thread didier gaumet
Le 08/01/2017 à 15:39, Boyan Penkov a écrit : > Super, good point — I am on stretch, and the relevant versions are > > icedove: 1:45.5.1-1 > calendar-google-provider: 1:45.5.-1-1 > > Would the extension be more up to date? no, that is the same version as in Jessie, I think that is version 2.6 of

Re: hotpluggable member of a bridge

2017-01-08 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 08/01/2017 à 17:15, Reco a écrit : Pascal Hambourg wrote: Actually I had in mind the behaviour of Linux bridge, not openvswitch. I have no knowledge nor experience with openvswitch. However, I can see that the openvswitch package adds a script in /etc/network/if-pre-up.d, so it is likely t

Re: hotpluggable member of a bridge

2017-01-08 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 08/01/2017 à 17:10, Reco a écrit : Pascal Hambourg wrote: Le 06/01/2017 à 13:15, Reco a écrit : DHCP is L4, IP is L3 and openvswitch cares about L2 mostly. Self-correction. DHCP is L7. Why ? DHCP deals with IP configuration, so I'd rather classify it as part of layer 3, with IP and I

Re: hotpluggable member of a bridge

2017-01-08 Thread Reco
On Sun, 8 Jan 2017 19:10:31 +0300 Reco wrote: > Furthermore, there are lots of dhcp options (ntp-server, > local-proxy-config to name a few that are actually used) that deal with > client's configuration that's not related to IP configuration directly. And dns-servers, of course. Should not for

Re: hotpluggable member of a bridge

2017-01-08 Thread Reco
Hi. On Sun, 8 Jan 2017 16:48:02 +0100 Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Le 05/01/2017 à 22:36, Reco a écrit : > > > > Pascal Hambourg wrote: > > > >>> Bridged interfaces retain their MACs, so they would get different IPv6 > >>> ULAs, which are provided by radvd from the different host. > >> > >>

Re: hotpluggable member of a bridge

2017-01-08 Thread Reco
Hi. On Sun, 8 Jan 2017 16:59:39 +0100 Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Le 06/01/2017 à 13:15, Reco a écrit : > >> > >> DHCP is L4, IP is L3 and openvswitch cares about L2 > >> mostly. > > > > Self-correction. DHCP is L7. > > Why ? DHCP deals with IP configuration, so I'd rather classify it as

Re: hotpluggable member of a bridge

2017-01-08 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 06/01/2017 à 13:15, Reco a écrit : DHCP is L4, IP is L3 and openvswitch cares about L2 mostly. Self-correction. DHCP is L7. Why ? DHCP deals with IP configuration, so I'd rather classify it as part of layer 3, with IP and ICMP. AFAIK, it does not provide any service to any application b

Re: hotpluggable member of a bridge

2017-01-08 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 05/01/2017 à 22:36, Reco a écrit : Pascal Hambourg wrote: Bridged interfaces retain their MACs, so they would get different IPv6 ULAs, which are provided by radvd from the different host. Not if they are bridged before they are brought UP I'm not that familiar with openvswitch to make

Re: Missing linux-headers-4.7.8-1~bpo8+1

2017-01-08 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 08/01/2017 à 15:32, Graham McNeil-Watson a écrit : | $ sudo apt-get install linux-headers-generic (...) | Package linux-headers-generic is not available, but is referred to by another package. | This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or is only available from another

Re: systemd requires "plymouth" on server? (was: Systemd: no error but "maintenance mode")

2017-01-08 Thread Steffen Dettmer
Hi, main problem was the disk indeed! Apparently there was a typo in fstab, probably leading to a parse error (which isn't shown unfortunately) then the value "0" in the "pass" row for fsck apparently is ignored and "1" is assumed instead, BUT systemd does not call fsck! fsck parsed the line as in

Fwd: installation problem

2017-01-08 Thread Filippo Faldetta
Hi, i've got the error message NMI watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#2 stuck for 23s! [plymouthd:305] on the startup of my system (even live-cd). My pc is a dell inspiron 7559 with intel graphic and nvidia. please help me...i don't want to use windows anymore. Greetings Filippo Faldetta

Missing linux-headers-4.7.8-1~bpo8+1

2017-01-08 Thread Graham McNeil-Watson
I'm having trouble getting VirtualBox to work on Debian on my laptop: Manufacturer: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. Product Name: UX305CA Version: 1.0 | $ VirtualBox | WARNING: The character device /dev/vboxdrv does not exist. | Please install the virtualbox-dkms package and the appropriate | headers, most

Re: Icedove calendar not syncing to google calendar

2017-01-08 Thread Boyan Penkov
Super, good point — I am on stretch, and the relevant versions are icedove: 1:45.5.1-1 calendar-google-provider: 1:45.5.-1-1 Would the extension be more up to date? Cheers! -- Boyan Penkov www.boyanpenkov.com > On Jan 8, 2017, at 3:59 AM, didier gaumet wrote: > > > Hello, I do not know for S

Re: Icedove calendar not syncing to google calendar

2017-01-08 Thread Boyan Penkov
This is not the same as the debian package for “google-calendar-provider” ? Cheers -- Boyan Penkov www.boyanpenkov.com > On Jan 8, 2017, at 7:10 AM, Tom Ashley wrote: > > > On 01/08/2017 03:59 AM, didier gaumet wrote: >> Hello, I do not know for Stretch and Sid, but the Jessie version of the >

systemd requires "plymouth" on server? (was: Systemd: no error but "maintenance mode")

2017-01-08 Thread Steffen Dettmer
Hi, I think I found some more information. In short: "Failed at step exec spawning /bin/plymouth: no such file or directory" but I have no clue why it is suddenly missing or suddenly required. I found postings in the internet that simply installing plymouth seems not to solve this issue. What ca

Systemd: no error but "maintenance mode"

2017-01-08 Thread Steffen Dettmer
Hi, What happened before: I had issue with a Debian server SATA bus [1]. I noticed because apt-get upgrade hung, because initramfs updater calls "sync" which hang because of [1]. All operations accessing a certain (backup) disk blocked. Shutdown over network. It was reported server power LED still

[´Solved] Re: More info, still urgent :-) [was: Re: Urgent help needed - Debian boot hangs]

2017-01-08 Thread Lisi Reisz
I received the following private reply. Since it says "and all others" I am sending it to the list! (with the subject header taken from my private reply) Glad you got it solved, Hans. Lisi -- Hi Lisi & all others, Am 08.01.2017 um 13:09 schrieb Lisi Re

Re: Icedove calendar not syncing to google calendar

2017-01-08 Thread Tom Ashley
On 01/08/2017 03:59 AM, didier gaumet wrote: Hello, I do not know for Stretch and Sid, but the Jessie version of the calendar-google-provider package is not the last stable from upstream. In my case, deinstalling the debian package and installing the upstream thunderbird extension solves the pro

Re: More info, still urgent :-) [was: Re: Urgent help needed - Debian boot hangs]

2017-01-08 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Sunday 08 January 2017 09:56:34 h...@hanswkraus.com wrote: > Hi, > > I've found a monitor which was able to display the Grub menu. In the > "Advanced options for Debian GNU/Linux" I found the entries: > > Debian GNU/Linux with Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 > Debian GNU/Linux with Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (sy

Re: python time module

2017-01-08 Thread Michael Lange
Hi, On Sat, 07 Jan 2017 20:29:05 -0700 Joe Pfeiffer wrote: (...) > (2) More seriously, I'm getting the following error and traceback trying > to run my very first script: > > nowball:13$ python box1.py > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "box1.py", line 1, in > from OCC.Disp

Re: Little question grep

2017-01-08 Thread John L. Ries
That strikes me as being just a touch too complex for grep. It may well be doable, but you'll probably have an easier time using AWK (possibly not what you wanted to hear, but it's well worth learning). The object of the game would be to count the number of signs on each line and print only those

Re: More info, still urgent :-) [was: Re: Urgent help needed - Debian boot hangs]

2017-01-08 Thread deloptes
h...@hanswkraus.com wrote: > How do I mount the LVM2 volumes from a current Debian Live DVD? to activate all volumes vgchange -ay to activate specific one vgchange -ay VOLGROUP

More info, still urgent :-) [was: Re: Urgent help needed - Debian boot hangs]

2017-01-08 Thread hans
Hi, I've found a monitor which was able to display the Grub menu. In the "Advanced options for Debian GNU/Linux" I found the entries: Debian GNU/Linux with Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 Debian GNU/Linux with Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (sysvinit) Debian GNU/Linux with Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (recovery mode) Debia

Re: Little question grep

2017-01-08 Thread Reco
On Sun, 8 Jan 2017 12:40:34 +0300 Reco wrote: > or, if you need whole words (i.e. need to exclude spaces): > > egrep '^[^ ]$' file1 Self-edit. Of course it's: egrep '^[^ ]{5}$' file1 Reco

Re: Little question grep

2017-01-08 Thread Reco
Hi. On Sun, 08 Jan 2017 10:11:26 +0100 Hans wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a little problem with using grep. > > The problem: > > I have a wordlist with 3,5 Mio words in ASCII. No I want filter out all words > with 5,6, > 7, 8, 9 and 10 signs in seperate lists. The wordlist contains

Little question grep

2017-01-08 Thread Hans
Hi all, I have a little problem with using grep. The problem: I have a wordlist with 3,5 Mio words in ASCII. No I want filter out all words with 5,6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 signs in seperate lists. The wordlist contains all sort of signs, like alphanumeric, control signs like "^", "]" and others.

Re: Icedove calendar not syncing to google calendar

2017-01-08 Thread didier gaumet
Hello, I do not know for Stretch and Sid, but the Jessie version of the calendar-google-provider package is not the last stable from upstream. In my case, deinstalling the debian package and installing the upstream thunderbird extension solves the problem. YMMV...