On 2020-02-26 23:34, Lee wrote:
On 2/26/20, Peter Ehlert wrote:
On 2/26/20 7:20 PM, Lee wrote:
On 2/26/20, John Kaufmann wrote:
For my Thinkpad, I burned CDs with:
(1) debian-10.3.0-amd64-netinst.iso
(2) firmware-10.3.0-amd64-netinst.iso
and (3) firmware-edu
On 2020-02-26 22:49, Peter Ehlert wrote:
On 2/26/20 7:20 PM, Lee wrote:
On 2/26/20, John Kaufmann wrote:
For my Thinkpad, I burned CDs with:
(1) debian-10.3.0-amd64-netinst.iso
(2) firmware-10.3.0-amd64-netinst.iso
and(3) firmware-edu-10.3.0-amd64-netinst.iso [just in case]
A. Dis
On 2020-02-26 22:20, Lee wrote:
On 2/26/20, John Kaufmann wrote:
For my Thinkpad, I burned CDs with:
(1) debian-10.3.0-amd64-netinst.iso
(2) firmware-10.3.0-amd64-netinst.iso
and (3) firmware-edu-10.3.0-amd64-netinst.iso [just in case]
A. Disk (1) begins without problem, th
On 2020-02-26 19:48, Greg Marks wrote:
When using scp to copy files from my server to my laptop (both running
Debian 10 and both with the same directory tree), I like to back up
the files in case I discover that I've overwritten a newer version of
a file with an older version. (I seem to make th
* Greg Marks [20-02/26=We 21:48 -0600]:
> [...] if I accidentally copy an older version of
> a file on my laptop to a newer version of the
> file on my server, the newer version is lost.
>
> Is it possible to configure my server so that [it creates a
> backup on the server of any existing file tha
On Wednesday 26 February 2020 23:25:53 Lee wrote:
> On 2/26/20, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > On Wednesday 26 February 2020 16:00:35 to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> >> On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 09:54:09PM +0300, Reco wrote:
> >> > Hi.
> >> >
> >> > On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 01:50:40PM -0500, Lee wrote:
> >>
> >
On 2/26/20, Peter Ehlert wrote:
>
> On 2/26/20 7:20 PM, Lee wrote:
>> On 2/26/20, John Kaufmann wrote:
>>> For my Thinkpad, I burned CDs with:
>>> (1) debian-10.3.0-amd64-netinst.iso
>>> (2) firmware-10.3.0-amd64-netinst.iso
>>> and (3) firmware-edu-10.3.0-amd64-netinst.iso [just in case]
On 2/26/20, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Wednesday 26 February 2020 16:00:35 to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 09:54:09PM +0300, Reco wrote:
>> >Hi.
>> >
>> > On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 01:50:40PM -0500, Lee wrote:
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> > > Have you considered REJECT instead of DROP?
>
On 2/26/20 7:20 PM, Lee wrote:
On 2/26/20, John Kaufmann wrote:
For my Thinkpad, I burned CDs with:
(1) debian-10.3.0-amd64-netinst.iso
(2) firmware-10.3.0-amd64-netinst.iso
and (3) firmware-edu-10.3.0-amd64-netinst.iso [just in case]
A. Disk (1) begins without problem, t
When using scp to copy files from my server to my laptop (both running
Debian 10 and both with the same directory tree), I like to back up
the files in case I discover that I've overwritten a newer version of
a file with an older version. (I seem to make this mistake about once
or twice a year.)
On 2/26/20, John Kaufmann wrote:
> For my Thinkpad, I burned CDs with:
> (1) debian-10.3.0-amd64-netinst.iso
> (2) firmware-10.3.0-amd64-netinst.iso
> and (3) firmware-edu-10.3.0-amd64-netinst.iso [just in case]
>
> A. Disk (1) begins without problem, then stops for wifi firmware:
T
Brad writes:
> I update daily, but 'cherry pick' in the event of transitions that
> _might_ have repercussions.
So you *don't* "track" testing by doing automatic full upgrades every
day. That is the practice that I'm arguing against.
--
John Hasler
jhas...@newsguy.com
Elmwood, WI USA
Andrei writes:
> An entire month without security updates is not the best idea in my
> opinion.
I follow the security list and do security updates as required, of
course. Those rarely (if ever) require full upgrades. There is no
need to do daily full upgrades just to stay up with security.
> A
On 26/02/2020 17:54, Stefan K wrote:
Hello,
we're looking for a nftables gui/frontend.
We want to create a simple firewall (port/ip blocking) I took a look at
vuurmuur[1], but it just support iptables. Does exist some other solutions?
We don't want to config it via cli or config-files.
Thanks
On 27/2/20 8:54 am, Keith Bainbridge wrote:
Thanks for the positive responses. I am interested now because I am
about to buy a new drive. I guess the answer to these will be obvious
when I choose LVM at the disk selection stage, but do I need to keep
system partitions separate? as I install t
On Wed, 26 Feb 2020 at 19:59:33 +0100, john doe wrote:
> I don't understand why I get this error, the file is there
Did you triple-check that? :-) `sudo cryptdisks_start sda1_crypt` will
do the checking logic for you, but you can also run the cryptsetup(8)
binary manually:
$ sudo cryptsetup
On 27/2/20 3:46 am, Charles Curley wrote:
On Thu, 27 Feb 2020 00:15:44 +1100
Keith Bainbridge wrote:
Is LVM viable? I can see the benefit of re-sizing on the fly. I use
multi-boot. I can see the possibility of /dev/sda1 and LVM using the
rest. But is it viable, please?
Yes, it is viable. I
On Wednesday 26 February 2020 16:00:35 to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 09:54:09PM +0300, Reco wrote:
> > Hi.
> >
> > On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 01:50:40PM -0500, Lee wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > > Have you considered REJECT instead of DROP?
> >
> > A neat idea for your LAN. A bad idea
On Wednesday 26 February 2020 14:57:18 deloptes wrote:
> Gene Heskett wrote:
> > over the last 90 days or so, we seem to have been plauged with a new
> > breed of bots scanning our web pages, and they are not just indexing
> > our web pages I don't mind that, but they are ignoring our
> > robots.t
Exactly, i wan't reformulate the question.
What should I change there to get these errors disappear?
I'm trying to change some values for example in
/etc/iptables/rules.v6
# Generated by xtables-save v1.8.2 on Mon Aug 5 19:42:00 2019
*filter
:INPUT ACCEPT [0:0]
:FORWARD ACCEPT [0:0]
:OUTPUT AC
For my Thinkpad, I burned CDs with:
(1) debian-10.3.0-amd64-netinst.iso
(2) firmware-10.3.0-amd64-netinst.iso
and (3) firmware-edu-10.3.0-amd64-netinst.iso [just in case]
A. Disk (1) begins without problem, then stops for wifi firmware:
"Some of your hardware needs non-free
On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 09:54:09PM +0300, Reco wrote:
> Hi.
>
> On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 01:50:40PM -0500, Lee wrote:
[...]
> > Have you considered REJECT instead of DROP?
>
> A neat idea for your LAN. A bad idea in this case.
Exactly.
> You *want* that other side to retry, wasting their
On Wed, 26 Feb 2020 15:19:06 -0500
John Kaufmann wrote:
From my experience with my small herd of Thinkpads
> - Where does the installation script derive the list of "missing
> firmware files"?
I am guessing here that it detects an Intel controller that requires one
of the binary blobs in
> You misunderstood. David is saying that /bin may be a symlink,
> instead of a directory.
Indeed I did, and indeed they are:
root@sbox:~# ls -lh / | egrep bin
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root7 Jan 16 10:39 bin -> usr/bin
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root8 Jan 16 10:39 sbin -> usr/sbin
--
Glenn Eng
For my Thinkpad, I burned CDs with:
(1) debian-10.3.0-amd64-netinst.iso
(2) firmware-10.3.0-amd64-netinst.iso
and (3) firmware-edu-10.3.0-amd64-netinst.iso [just in case]
A. Using either the default Graphical Install, or just Install, (1) begins
without problem, then stops fo
On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 12:52:09PM -0700, ghe wrote:
> On Wednesday, February 26, 2020 9:10 AM, David Wright
> wrote:
> > You may be running a system where even /bin and /sbin have ceased
> > to exist as directories, and are merely symlinks to /usr/bin and
> > /usr/sbin. Evolution? Tidying up? …
>
Gene Heskett wrote:
> over the last 90 days or so, we seem to have been plauged with a new
> breed of bots scanning our web pages, and they are not just indexing our
> web pages I don't mind that, but they are ignoring our robots.txt and
> are mirroring anything apache2 can reach, including stuff
‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐
On Wednesday, February 26, 2020 9:10 AM, David Wright
wrote:
> > Looks to me like it means 'link to '
>
> Indeed. This means that an old script which tries to run
> /usr/bin/X11/foo will succeed in running /usr/bin/foo,
> which is where foo will have been placed.
On 2/26/20, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Wednesday 26 February 2020 13:50:40 Lee wrote:
>
>> On 2/26/20, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> > over the last 90 days or so, we seem to have been plauged with a new
>> > breed of bots scanning our web pages, and they are not just indexing
>> > our web pages I don't m
On Wednesday 26 February 2020 14:21:31 Reco wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 02:15:18PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > On Wednesday 26 February 2020 13:54:09 Reco wrote:
> > > Hi.
> > >
> > > On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 01:50:40PM -0500, Lee wrote:
> > > > On 2/26/20, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > > > >
On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 02:15:18PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Wednesday 26 February 2020 13:54:09 Reco wrote:
>
> > Hi.
> >
> > On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 01:50:40PM -0500, Lee wrote:
> > > On 2/26/20, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > > > over the last 90 days or so, we seem to have been plauged wit
On Wednesday 26 February 2020 13:54:09 Reco wrote:
> Hi.
>
> On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 01:50:40PM -0500, Lee wrote:
> > On 2/26/20, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > > over the last 90 days or so, we seem to have been plauged with a
> > > new breed of bots scanning our web pages, and they are not just
On Wednesday 26 February 2020 13:50:40 Lee wrote:
> On 2/26/20, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > over the last 90 days or so, we seem to have been plauged with a new
> > breed of bots scanning our web pages, and they are not just indexing
> > our web pages I don't mind that, but they are ignoring our
> >
john doe wrote:
> I install Debian with the 'C' local and build extra locales that are
> needed. Then in the CLI I use the desired local using 'LANG' and LANGUAGE'
> in the files mentioned in this thread. If you have a desktop environment
> (gnome mate ...) you also need to install language packag
On Wednesday 26 February 2020 10:43:13 Roger Price wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Feb 2020, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > This just showed up this morning, but no clue what it might be.
> > Blocked it anyway. 46th rule.
> >
> > coyote.coyote.den:80 91.160.218.196 - - [25/Feb/2020:19:06:58 -0500]
> > "-" 408 0 "-"
On 2/26/2020 3:54 PM, Guilhem Moulin wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> On Wed, 26 Feb 2020 at 07:37:33 +0100, john doe wrote:
>> But here, I need to reenter the password for a second time.
>> […]
>> I'm just starting here, so any input is welcome.
>
> Let me try to rephrase what I wrote already in private. T
Hi.
On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 01:50:40PM -0500, Lee wrote:
> On 2/26/20, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > over the last 90 days or so, we seem to have been plauged with a new
> > breed of bots scanning our web pages, and they are not just indexing our
> > web pages I don't mind that, but they are ig
On 2/26/20, Gene Heskett wrote:
> over the last 90 days or so, we seem to have been plauged with a new
> breed of bots scanning our web pages, and they are not just indexing our
> web pages I don't mind that, but they are ignoring our robots.txt and
> are mirroring anything apache2 can reach, inc
On Tue, 25 Feb 2020 19:18:10 -0600
John Hasler wrote:
Hello John,
>*Don't* "track" Testing or Unstable by upgrading nightly.
I'm with songbird (and others). It can be done, with care;
I subscribe to the 'Testing Changes' mailing list.
I subscribe to the 'Debian Developers' mailing list.
I sub
On Feb 26, 2020, James H. H. Lampert wrote:
> One of our Linux boxes is behaving oddly. If I ssh into it, I can connect
> easily, and I get:
> [...]
>
> But if I go into the server cage, and punch it up on the KVM switch,
> and try to sign on as root, I get:
Are you ssh'ing in as root? If not, i
One of our Linux boxes is behaving oddly. If I ssh into it, I can
connect easily, and I get:
The programs included with the Debian GNU/Linux system are free software;
the exact distribution terms for each program are described in the
individual files in /usr/share/doc/*/copyright.
Debian GNU/Lin
On Thu, 27 Feb 2020 00:15:44 +1100
Keith Bainbridge wrote:
> Is LVM viable? I can see the benefit of re-sizing on the fly. I use
> multi-boot. I can see the possibility of /dev/sda1 and LVM using the
> rest. But is it viable, please?
Yes, it is viable. I use an encrypted partition with LVM on
On Tue 25 Feb 2020 at 13:23:19 (-0700), ghe wrote:
> What does, in /usr/bin/X11, 'X11 -> .' mean?
That symlink is actually in /usr/bin/, so your example here
has already followed it once.
> Looks to me like it means 'link to '
Indeed. This means that an old script which tries to run
/usr/bin/X1
On Wed, 26 Feb 2020, Gene Heskett wrote:
This just showed up this morning, but no clue what it might be. Blocked it
anyway. 46th rule.
coyote.coyote.den:80 91.160.218.196 - - [25/Feb/2020:19:06:58 -0500] "-"
408 0 "-" "-"
No clue, butt dial? PROXAD.net someplace in France.
That's my ISP.
John Hasler wrote:
...
> *Don't* "track" Testing or Unstable by upgrading nightly. I don't
> understand why people want to do this. A full upgrade (after a test
> upgrade) about once a month is plenty.
different people have different purposes. :)
my reasons for my morning routine is to det
Hi there,
On Wed, 26 Feb 2020 at 07:37:33 +0100, john doe wrote:
> But here, I need to reenter the password for a second time.
> […]
> I'm just starting here, so any input is welcome.
Let me try to rephrase what I wrote already in private. The document
you linked to (which I wrote and which is i
On 2/26/2020 1:34 PM, Albretch Mueller wrote:
> I have searched for a solution to a problem which apparently many
> people have, but all I find are problems while tryng to do it. I think
> there should be a straight forward way to do that:
>
> Most of us are multilingual. I want to set up differe
On Wednesday 26 February 2020 08:27:33 Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 03:57:51AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > over the last 90 days or so, we seem to have been plauged with a new
> > breed of bots scanning our web pages, and they are not just indexing
> > our web pages I don't mi
On Wednesday 26 February 2020 06:40:39 Roger Price wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Feb 2020, Dan Ritter wrote:
> > If you find yourself needing to add lots more rules, you might want
> > to generate a "set" instead of individual rules:
> >
> > http://ipset.netfilter.org/
> > https://www.linuxjournal.com/conte
Roger Price wrote:
> I find ipsets the natural way of setting up rules. I run a script which
> blocks whole countries, taking the country data from
> http://ipverse.net/ipblocks/data/countries/
Not a bad idea, but the database is sometimes wrong. Examples:
Duplicates (shall not be possible, but
Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Wednesday 26 February 2020 04:05:53 john doe wrote:
>
> > On 2/26/2020 9:57 AM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > > Be my guest folks, reclaim the net, we are paying for the bandwidth
> > > these jerks are burning up.
> >
> > The above is the way the OP has choosen to go about it b
On Wednesday 26 February 2020 04:21:09 Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> Quoting Gene Heskett (2020-02-26 09:57:51)
>
> > over the last 90 days or so, we seem to have been plauged with a new
> > breed of bots scanning our web pages, and they are not just indexing
> > our web pages I don't mind that, but t
On Wednesday 26 February 2020 04:05:53 john doe wrote:
> On 2/26/2020 9:57 AM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > over the last 90 days or so, we seem to have been plauged with a new
> > breed of bots scanning our web pages, and they are not just indexing
> > our web pages I don't mind that, but they are ign
On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 01:34:13PM +0100, Albretch Mueller wrote:
> Most of us are multilingual. I want to set up different users with
> different languages as default and then when I su into a shell as a
> particular user and start, say, libreofice, firefox and Eclipse as a
> certain user that wo
On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 01:50:30PM +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 01:34:13PM +0100, Albretch Mueller wrote:
> > Most of us are multilingual. I want to set up different users with
> > different languages as default and then when I su into a shell as a
>
Hi.
On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 12:15:44AM +1100, Keith Bainbridge wrote:
> Is LVM viable? I can see the benefit of re-sizing on the fly. I use
> multi-boot. I can see the possibility of /dev/sda1 and LVM using the rest.
> But is it viable, please?
Yes. LVM does not care if your drive was d
Further to lvm snapshots, I have read about 10 articles explaining the
concept of LVM and how to set them up. All of them talk about using
/dev/sdb, c, d or more for LVM. None uses /dev/sda
I am running a laptop and raspberry pi's, all with only 1 prime 'disk' and
USB attached disks/sticks.
Is LV
On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 03:57:51AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> over the last 90 days or so, we seem to have been plauged with a new
> breed of bots scanning our web pages, and they are not just indexing our
> web pages I don't mind that, but they are ignoring our robots.txt
I can believe this.
On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 01:03:08PM -, Curt wrote:
> On 2020-02-26, wrote:
[language environment]
> I suppose for libreoffice and Firefox you would need to install the
> appropriate language packages at least as well
>
> libreoffice-l10n-ast - office productivity suite -- Asturian languag
On 2020-02-26, wrote:
>
> On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 01:34:13PM +0100, Albretch Mueller wrote:
>> I have searched for a solution to a problem which apparently many
>> people have, but all I find are problems while tryng to do it. I think
>> there should be a straight forward way to do that:
>> Mo
On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 01:34:13PM +0100, Albretch Mueller wrote:
> I have searched for a solution to a problem which apparently many
> people have, but all I find are problems while tryng to do it. I think
> there should be a straight forward way to do that:
>
> Most of us are multilingual. I w
I have searched for a solution to a problem which apparently many
people have, but all I find are problems while tryng to do it. I think
there should be a straight forward way to do that:
Most of us are multilingual. I want to set up different users with
different languages as default and then w
Hello,
we're looking for a nftables gui/frontend.
We want to create a simple firewall (port/ip blocking) I took a look at
vuurmuur[1], but it just support iptables. Does exist some other solutions?
We don't want to config it via cli or config-files.
Thanks for help!
best regards
Stefan
[1] ht
On Wed, 26 Feb 2020, Dan Ritter wrote:
If you find yourself needing to add lots more rules, you might want to
generate a "set" instead of individual rules:
http://ipset.netfilter.org/
https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/advanced-firewall-configurations-ipset
might be useful.
I find ipsets t
Gene Heskett wrote:
> over the last 90 days or so, we seem to have been plauged with a new
> breed of bots scanning our web pages, and they are not just indexing our
> web pages I don't mind that, but they are ignoring our robots.txt and
> are mirroring anything apache2 can reach, including st
On 2020-02-26, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
>
> Debian testing already has checks and delays in place to filter out
> (most of the) problems. Updates fixing security issues are prioritised.
I used testing once; I found 'apt-listbugs' to be quite helpful in
obviating potential disaster (it was invariably
Quoting Gene Heskett (2020-02-26 09:57:51)
> over the last 90 days or so, we seem to have been plauged with a new
> breed of bots scanning our web pages, and they are not just indexing
> our web pages I don't mind that, but they are ignoring our robots.txt
> and are mirroring anything apache2 ca
On 2/26/2020 9:57 AM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> over the last 90 days or so, we seem to have been plauged with a new
> breed of bots scanning our web pages, and they are not just indexing our
> web pages I don't mind that, but they are ignoring our robots.txt and
> are mirroring anything apache2 can r
over the last 90 days or so, we seem to have been plauged with a new
breed of bots scanning our web pages, and they are not just indexing our
web pages I don't mind that, but they are ignoring our robots.txt and
are mirroring anything apache2 can reach, including stuff thats there
but not reac
On Ma, 25 feb 20, 19:18:10, John Hasler wrote:
> Sam writes:
> > I will give Testing a spin and will definitely take another look at
> > the Debian derivatives. You also made me admire the Debian community,
> > so that's a big plus on the
> > reasons-why-I-definitely-need-to-switch-to-Debian list :
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