Re: OT: Help with a search and replace script in Perl for a big file with no line breaks

2018-01-24 Thread deloptes
David Christensen wrote: > I used to subscribe to Perl Beginners, but the administrator got draconian > about discussing other languages, I dropped, and now I appear to be > banned: > > https://lists.perl.org/list/beginners.html > > >> I've never used Perl, but I'm hoping Perl can do the job fo

Re: OT: Help with a search and replace script in Perl for a big file with no line breaks

2018-01-24 Thread David Christensen
> On Jan 24, 2018, at 11:14 AM, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > This is OT, but I thought I'd start with this list as it is the list that I > deal with more than any other. If no one here can help, suggestions for a > better list to try will be appreciated. > I used to subscribe to Perl Begin

Re: Question on CVE-2017-5754 on Debian 8.9

2018-01-24 Thread Michael Fothergill
On 24 January 2018 at 22:32, Michael Lange wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, 24 Jan 2018 20:07:07 + > Michael Fothergill wrote: > > (...) > > > ​I tried installing the headers file and it says I have dependency > > > problems:​ > > > > > > > > > root@mikef-PC:/home/mikef/Downloads# dpkg -i > > > linu

Re: Question on CVE-2017-5754 on Debian 8.9

2018-01-24 Thread Michael Lange
Hi, On Wed, 24 Jan 2018 20:07:07 + Michael Fothergill wrote: (...) > > ​I tried installing the headers file and it says I have dependency > > problems:​ > > > > > > root@mikef-PC:/home/mikef/Downloads# dpkg -i > > linux-headers-4.15.0-rc8-all- amd64_4.15~rc8-1~exp1_amd64.deb > > Selecting pr

Re: OT: Help with a search and replace script in Perl for a big file with no line breaks

2018-01-24 Thread rhkramer
On Wednesday, January 24, 2018 03:21:19 PM to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 02:14:42PM -0500, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > This is OT, but I thought I'd start with this list as it is the list that > > I deal with more than any other. If no one here can help, suggestions > > for a

Re: Question on CVE-2017-5754 on Debian 8.9

2018-01-24 Thread Michael Fothergill
On 24 January 2018 at 18:12, Michael Fothergill < michael.fotherg...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On 24 January 2018 at 18:00, Michael Fothergill < > michael.fotherg...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> >> >> >> >> >> W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8105e-1.fw for >> module r8169 >> >> >>

Re: OT: Help with a search and replace script in Perl for a big file with no line breaks

2018-01-24 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 02:14:42PM -0500, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > This is OT, but I thought I'd start with this list as it is the list that I > deal with more than any other. If no one here can help, suggestions for a > better list to try will b

RE: Travel Executive

2018-01-24 Thread Kai Jonah
Did you get a chance to review my previous email? Let me know if we can schedule a call to discuss further. Look forward to hearing back Regards, Kai From: Kai Jonah Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2018 3:35 PM To: 'debian-user@lists.debian.org' Subject: Travel Executive Hi, Would you be intereste

Fingerprint displayed by scp (new host) and in debian-installer

2018-01-24 Thread David Wright
The stretch version of scp displays fingerprints using a SHA256 hash, but of course a jessie machine has no idea of what its fingerprint is except using an MD5 hash. A question and suggestion: Is there a way to get stretch scp to show the fingerprint in MD5 when connecting to a new (jessie) host?

OT: Help with a search and replace script in Perl for a big file with no line breaks

2018-01-24 Thread rhkramer
This is OT, but I thought I'd start with this list as it is the list that I deal with more than any other. If no one here can help, suggestions for a better list to try will be appreciated. I've never used Perl, but I'm hoping Perl can do the job for me. What I need to do: I have multiple lar

Aptitude package manager "package" Solved

2018-01-24 Thread OECT T
Hi all: I appreciate everyone’s answer, now I’m clear that “aptitude” is still one of the main tool for package managing. I installed from a CD Rom created by jigdo and I verified myself the iso image with md5sum and sha1sums. The only different thing I did from previous installations is that

Re: Packages web page, was Re: Aptitude package manager "package"

2018-01-24 Thread David Wright
On Wed 24 Jan 2018 at 16:38:24 (+), Curt wrote: > On 2018-01-24, wrote: > > > >> > [1] https://packages.debian.org/ > >> > [2] > >> > https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=aptitude&searchon=names&suite=all§ion=all > >> > >> Hm. I had occasion to go to ¹ yesterday. (In passing, if I re

Re: Question on CVE-2017-5754 on Debian 8.9

2018-01-24 Thread Michael Fothergill
On 24 January 2018 at 18:00, Michael Fothergill < michael.fotherg...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8105e-1.fw for > module r8169 > > > There is a gripe in there about the linux headers file not being installed > for it. > > There is a linux h

Re: Question on CVE-2017-5754 on Debian 8.9

2018-01-24 Thread Michael Fothergill
On 24 January 2018 at 17:38, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 04:51:35PM +, Michael Fothergill wrote: > > root@mikef-PC:/etc/apt# apt-get -t experimental install > > linux-headers-4.15.0-rc8-all-amd64 > > Reading package lists... Done > > > > ​and got the following error:​ > > >

Re: Debmirror - 3rd Party Repo Error (Kali)

2018-01-24 Thread Curt
On 2018-01-23, Derek Murphy wrote: > > Package: debmirror > Version: 1:2.16+deb8u1 > > When I run debmirror to sync the Kali repo, I get several errors regarding > uninitialized value $size. I've included a copy of the script that I run to > sync below. You will also notice a blank -r, this is due

Re: Question on CVE-2017-5754 on Debian 8.9

2018-01-24 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 10:06 AM, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > Jonathon Dowland the Great Lutenist wrote: >> Sylvestre Ledru has uploaded the script to the Debian archive (package >> spectre-meltdown-checker in sid). I haven't checked but they might have >> made any necessary alterations for it to p

Re: Question on CVE-2017-5754 on Debian 8.9

2018-01-24 Thread Michael Fothergill
On 24 January 2018 at 17:38, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 04:51:35PM +, Michael Fothergill wrote: > > root@mikef-PC:/etc/apt# apt-get -t experimental install > > linux-headers-4.15.0-rc8-all-amd64 > > Reading package lists... Done > > > > ​and got the following error:​ > > >

Re: Question on CVE-2017-5754 on Debian 8.9

2018-01-24 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 04:51:35PM +, Michael Fothergill wrote: > root@mikef-PC:/etc/apt# apt-get -t experimental install > linux-headers-4.15.0-rc8-all-amd64 > Reading package lists... Done > > ​and got the following error:​ > > > E: The value 'experimental' is invalid for APT::Default-Rele

Re: Question on CVE-2017-5754 on Debian 8.9

2018-01-24 Thread The Wanderer
On 2018-01-24 at 11:51, Michael Fothergill wrote: > ​I fired up Debian stretch here and ran the following:​ > > > ​r​ > oot@mikef-PC:/etc/apt# apt-get update > Ign:1 http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian stretch InRelease > Hit:2 http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian stretch Release > Hit:3 http://security.

Re: Question on CVE-2017-5754 on Debian 8.9

2018-01-24 Thread Michael Fothergill
On 24 January 2018 at 16:19, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 03:49:08PM +, Michael Fothergill wrote: > > If you can be sid and experimental together then I guess [...] > > Experimental is not a release. You can't "be experimental". It is > merely a place where individual pack

Re: Packages web page, was Re: Aptitude package manager "package"

2018-01-24 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 1/24/18, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 09:05:08AM -0600, David Wright wrote: >> So forget using this page for anything really vague like kernel-image, >> even if you set suite, section and then architecture; it can't even >> show you the most basic generic versions like lin

Re: Question on CVE-2017-5754 on Debian 8.9

2018-01-24 Thread Michael Fothergill
On 24 January 2018 at 16:19, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 03:49:08PM +, Michael Fothergill wrote: > > If you can be sid and experimental together then I guess [...] > > Experimental is not a release. You can't "be experimental". It is > merely a place where individual pack

Re: Packages web page, was Re: Aptitude package manager "package"

2018-01-24 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
Good morning.. :) I just noticed Webmaster was CC'd here. I left that in place because who knows when it comes to various Debian features evolving their perks over time.. :) On 1/24/18, David Wright wrote: > On Wed 24 Jan 2018 at 10:53:17 (+0100), to...@tuxteam.de wrote: >> On Wed, Jan 24, 2018

Re: Packages web page, was Re: Aptitude package manager "package"

2018-01-24 Thread Curt
On 2018-01-24, wrote: > >> > [1] https://packages.debian.org/ >> > [2] >> > https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=aptitude&searchon=names&suite=all§ion=all >> >> Hm. I had occasion to go to ¹ yesterday. (In passing, if I remove the >> word "index", I end up at a different page ² but the r

Re: Question on CVE-2017-5754 on Debian 8.9

2018-01-24 Thread Michael Fothergill
On 24 January 2018 at 15:49, Michael Fothergill < michael.fotherg...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On 24 January 2018 at 14:15, Michael Fothergill < > michael.fotherg...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> >> On 24 January 2018 at 14:11, Vincent Lefevre wrote: >> >>> On 2018-01-24 14:44:18 +0100, Sven Hartge wro

Re: Question on CVE-2017-5754 on Debian 8.9

2018-01-24 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 03:49:08PM +, Michael Fothergill wrote: > If you can be sid and experimental together then I guess [...] Experimental is not a release. You can't "be experimental". It is merely a place where individual packages are uploaded, when they are considered "not ready to be

Re: Aptitude package manager "package"

2018-01-24 Thread davidson
On Tue, 23 Jan 2018, OECT T wrote: Hi all: I just installed Debian Stretch 9.3.0 and noticed that the Aptitude package was not installed by default. I searched into Synaptics package manager and noticed that the package is not marked with the Debian icon indicating that the package is not sup

Re: Packages web page, was Re: Aptitude package manager "package"

2018-01-24 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 09:05:08AM -0600, David Wright wrote: > On Wed 24 Jan 2018 at 10:53:17 (+0100), to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 10:21:45AM +0100, Floris wrote: > > > Op Tue, 23 Jan 2018 20:44:19 +0100 schreef OECT T : > > >

Re: Question on CVE-2017-5754 on Debian 8.9

2018-01-24 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
Jonathon Dowland the Great Lutenist wrote: > Sylvestre Ledru has uploaded the script to the Debian archive (package > spectre-meltdown-checker in sid). I haven't checked but they might have > made any necessary alterations for it to perform properly on Debian > systems. It might be worth trying tha

Re: Question on CVE-2017-5754 on Debian 8.9

2018-01-24 Thread Michael Fothergill
On 24 January 2018 at 14:15, Michael Fothergill < michael.fotherg...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On 24 January 2018 at 14:11, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > >> On 2018-01-24 14:44:18 +0100, Sven Hartge wrote: >> > Michael Fothergill wrote: >> > > On 24 January 2018 at 12:58, Sven Hartge wrote: >> > >> >

Packages web page, was Re: Aptitude package manager "package"

2018-01-24 Thread David Wright
On Wed 24 Jan 2018 at 10:53:17 (+0100), to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 10:21:45AM +0100, Floris wrote: > > Op Tue, 23 Jan 2018 20:44:19 +0100 schreef OECT T : > > [...] > > > >I searched into Synaptics package manager and noticed that the > > >package is not marked with the Deb

Re: Question on CVE-2017-5754 on Debian 8.9

2018-01-24 Thread Michael Fothergill
On 24 January 2018 at 14:11, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2018-01-24 14:44:18 +0100, Sven Hartge wrote: > > Michael Fothergill wrote: > > > On 24 January 2018 at 12:58, Sven Hartge wrote: > > > > >> Michael Fothergill wrote: > > > > >> > The link within the above one: > > >>> https://gcc.gnu.or

Re: Question on CVE-2017-5754 on Debian 8.9

2018-01-24 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2018-01-24 14:44:18 +0100, Sven Hartge wrote: > Michael Fothergill wrote: > > On 24 January 2018 at 12:58, Sven Hartge wrote: > > >> Michael Fothergill wrote: > > >> > The link within the above one: > >>> https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2018-01/msg00148.html > >>> also has a link to the ftp down

Re: Question on CVE-2017-5754 on Debian 8.9

2018-01-24 Thread Sven Hartge
Michael Fothergill wrote: > On 24 January 2018 at 12:58, Sven Hartge wrote: >> Michael Fothergill wrote: >> > The link within the above one: >>> https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2018-01/msg00148.html >>> also has a link to the ftp download for the release candidate version of >>> gcc 7.3 ie 7.3.0rc1

Re: Question on CVE-2017-5754 on Debian 8.9

2018-01-24 Thread Michael Fothergill
On 24 January 2018 at 12:58, Sven Hartge wrote: > Michael Fothergill wrote: > > > The link within the above one: > > https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2018-01/msg00148.html > > also has a link to the ftp download for the release candidate version of > > gcc 7.3 ie 7.3.0rc1 which does actually work for

Re: Question on CVE-2017-5754 on Debian 8.9

2018-01-24 Thread Sven Hartge
Michael Fothergill wrote: > The link within the above one: > https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2018-01/msg00148.html > also has a link to the ftp download for the release candidate version of > gcc 7.3 ie 7.3.0rc1 which does actually work for spectre and retpoline. Debian Sid got gcc-7.3.0rc2 last nig

Re: Question on CVE-2017-5754 on Debian 8.9

2018-01-24 Thread Michael Fothergill
On 24 January 2018 at 11:52, Michael Fothergill < michael.fotherg...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On 24 January 2018 at 11:21, Michael Fothergill < > michael.fotherg...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> >> On 24 January 2018 at 10:53, Michael Fothergill < >> michael.fotherg...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> >>> >>>

Re: Problem using "dpkg -i"

2018-01-24 Thread Richard Owlett
On 01/22/2018 09:57 AM, Karol Augustin wrote: On 2018-01-15 9:17, Richard Owlett wrote: On 01/15/2018 02:25 AM, Bernd Gruber wrote: Richard Owlett wrote: Received error message: dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of amaya: amaya depends on libssl0.9.8 (>= 0.9.8m-1); however:

Re: Question on CVE-2017-5754 on Debian 8.9

2018-01-24 Thread Michael Fothergill
On 24 January 2018 at 11:21, Michael Fothergill < michael.fotherg...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On 24 January 2018 at 10:53, Michael Fothergill < > michael.fotherg...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> >> >>> >>> The neowin link above has a link to a Phoronix article[1], which >>> suggests you need GCC 8.0, o

Re: Question on CVE-2017-5754 on Debian 8.9

2018-01-24 Thread Michael Fothergill
On 24 January 2018 at 10:53, Michael Fothergill < michael.fotherg...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> >> The neowin link above has a link to a Phoronix article[1], which >> suggests you need GCC 8.0, or maybe 7.3 if a backport succeeds. That was >> 9 days ago, of course ... Stretch only has 6.3, and eve

Re: Aptitude package manager "package"

2018-01-24 Thread Brian
On Tue 23 Jan 2018 at 19:44:19 +, OECT T wrote: > I just installed Debian Stretch 9.3.0 and noticed that the Aptitude > package was not installed by default. The correct conclusion to draw from this is that aptitude does not have a Priority: higher than optional in stretch. > I searched int

Re: Question on CVE-2017-5754 on Debian 8.9

2018-01-24 Thread Michael Fothergill
> > The neowin link above has a link to a Phoronix article[1], which > suggests you need GCC 8.0, or maybe 7.3 if a backport succeeds. That was > 9 days ago, of course ... Stretch only has 6.3, and even sid only has > 7.2, so I don't see it hitting debian soon. > > Richard > > [1] > https://www.pho

Re: Aptitude package manager "package"

2018-01-24 Thread Brad Rogers
On Tue, 23 Jan 2018 19:44:19 + OECT T wrote: Hello OECT, >I just installed Debian Stretch 9.3.0 and noticed that the Aptitude >package was not installed by default. With a Priority of 'optional', it won't be installed at installation time unless you specifically request that it be. >I sear

Re: Aptitude package manager "package"

2018-01-24 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 11:08:52AM +0100, Floris wrote: > Op Wed, 24 Jan 2018 10:53:17 +0100 schreef : > >Folks, learn to use the web site [...] > Thanks for explaining how to use the internet /s Always glad to help. > >For aptitude, it turns out t

Re: Aptitude package manager "package"

2018-01-24 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 07:44:19PM +, OECT T wrote: I just installed Debian Stretch 9.3.0 and noticed that the Aptitude package was not installed by default. I searched into Synaptics package manager and noticed that the package is not marked with the Debian icon indicating that the package

Re: Question on CVE-2017-5754 on Debian 8.9

2018-01-24 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 05:07:15PM -0600, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: Sorry, should have added that the string "Linux version" also does not appear in the dmesg results after a reboot. So despite the check script's advice, a reboot doesn't change the results here. Sylvestre Ledru has uploaded the

Re: Aptitude package manager "package"

2018-01-24 Thread Floris
Op Wed, 24 Jan 2018 10:53:17 +0100 schreef : -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 10:21:45AM +0100, Floris wrote: Op Tue, 23 Jan 2018 20:44:19 +0100 schreef OECT T : [...] >I searched into Synaptics package manager and noticed that the >package is not mark

Re: Aptitude package manager "package"

2018-01-24 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 10:21:45AM +0100, Floris wrote: > Op Tue, 23 Jan 2018 20:44:19 +0100 schreef OECT T : [...] > >I searched into Synaptics package manager and noticed that the > >package is not marked with the Debian icon >indicating that the >

Re: Aptitude package manager "package"

2018-01-24 Thread Floris
Op Tue, 23 Jan 2018 20:44:19 +0100 schreef OECT T : Hi all: I just installed Debian Stretch 9.3.0 and noticed that the Aptitude package was not installed by default. I searched into Synaptics package manager and noticed that the package is not marked with the Debian icon >indicat