Re: Offline systems

2020-09-20 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 21 sep 20, 08:04:58, Peter wrote: > Hi, > > >These are up to 70 > > real, physical servers and not VMs? You might want to look at automated > > ways to deploy and build that many servers. > > All 70 will be physical. I think about making 1 single server then using > hdclone or acronis to m

Re: Two questions about LUKS in a file container

2020-09-20 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 19 sep 20, 09:57:37, David Wright wrote: > > Do you know if fuse exFAT is a stopgap, and support in the kernel is > eventually coming, or was a fuse implementation necessarily chosen > to support exFAT on account of some particular problem. It seems odd > that pmount, for example, doesn't s

Re: LEAN Debian install: Exploring task selection menu

2020-09-20 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 19 sep 20, 20:41:05, Brian wrote: > On Sat 19 Sep 2020 at 14:12:08 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > Best to keep it as simple as possible. > > Keep to what we have? Glad you agree. Well, having GNOME installed after un-checking it is quite the opposite of intuitive in my opinion, so fo

Re: linux isn't robust enough to handle bad sector??

2020-09-20 Thread Reco
Hi. On Sun, Sep 20, 2020 at 08:53:20PM -0700, David Christensen wrote: > > Second, > > > > SATA Phy Event Counters (GP Log 0x11) > > ID Size Value Description > > 0x000a 22 Device-to-host register FISes sent due to a COMRESET > > 0x0001 20 Command fai

Re: weird behaviour of quotes in dash variable assignments

2020-09-20 Thread Gary Dale
On 2020-09-20 20:36, David Christensen wrote: On 2020-09-20 15:14, The Wanderer wrote: On 2020-09-20 at 17:27, Gary Dale wrote: I have the same bash script on two different Debian/Buster AMD64 servers. However on one it refused to run. I tracked it down quickly to a variable substitution probl

Re: Offline systems

2020-09-20 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-09-20 22:04, Peter wrote: Hi, >These are up to 70 > real, physical servers and not VMs? You might want to look at automated > ways to deploy and build that many servers. All 70 will be physical. I think about making 1 single server then using hdclone or acronis to make copy of it to

Re: Offline systems

2020-09-20 Thread Peter
Hi, >These are up to 70 > real, physical servers and not VMs? You might want to look at automated > ways to deploy and build that many servers. All 70 will be physical. I think about making 1 single server then using hdclone or acronis to make copy of it to the rest. Then write a small bash sc

Re: weird behaviour of quotes in bash variable assignments

2020-09-20 Thread Gary Dale
On 2020-09-20 18:14, The Wanderer wrote: On 2020-09-20 at 17:27, Gary Dale wrote: I have the same bash script on two different Debian/Buster AMD64 servers. However on one it refused to run. I tracked it down quickly to a variable substitution problem. The line causing the problem reads: report

Re: weird behaviour of quotes in dash variable assignments

2020-09-20 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-09-20 20:52, Gary Dale wrote: On 2020-09-20 22:55, David Christensen wrote: 2020-09-20 19:50:55 dpchrist@tinkywinky ~/sandbox/sh $ cat debian-user-20200920-1727-gary-dale.sh #!/bin/sh doublequote="/root/clamscan-report" echo $doublequote singlequote='/root/clamsc

Re: weird behaviour of quotes in dash variable assignments

2020-09-20 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-09-20 20:38, David wrote: From the perspective of not knowing how these bash scripts were deployed, it's worth confirming that what we are assuming is the "same bash script" are indeed exactly identical. $ cmp script1 script2 If somehow the double quotes in the problem script have beco

Re: linux isn't robust enough to handle bad sector??

2020-09-20 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-09-20 01:40, Reco wrote: Hi. Hello. :-) On Sun, Sep 20, 2020 at 01:32:47AM -0700, David Christensen wrote: On 2020-09-20 00:49, Long Wind wrote: On Sunday, September 20, 2020, 2:15:21 PM GMT+8, David Christensen First, backup your data. Please run the following comma

Re: weird behaviour of quotes in dash variable assignments

2020-09-20 Thread David
On Mon, 21 Sep 2020 at 11:18, Gary Dale wrote: > >>> I have the same bash script on two different Debian/Buster AMD64 > >>> servers. However on one it refused to run. I tracked it down quickly > >>> to a variable substitution problem. > >>> The line causing the problem reads: report="/root/clams

Re: weird behaviour of quotes in dash variable assignments

2020-09-20 Thread David Christensen
uotes, single quotes, and no quotes have the same behavior on my machine: 2020-09-20 19:50:55 dpchrist@tinkywinky ~/sandbox/sh $ cat debian-user-20200920-1727-gary-dale.sh #!/bin/sh doublequote="/root/clamscan-report" echo $doublequote singlequote='/root/clamscan-report' ec

Re: spurious CR/LF on tty (was: how to remove GUI)

2020-09-20 Thread David
On Mon, 14 Sep 2020 at 21:56, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sun, Sep 13, 2020 at 09:14:54PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > > On Sat 12 Sep 2020 at 21:45:34 (+1000), David wrote: > > > And regarding "just hit the enter key ... and all is fine", this > > > behaviour does not just occur at a login prompt.

weird behaviour of quotes in bash variable assignments

2020-09-20 Thread Gary Dale
I have the same bash script on two different Debian/Buster AMD64 servers. However on one it refused to run. I tracked it down quickly to a variable substitution problem. The line causing the problem reads: report="/root/clamscan-report" On one server  echo $report  prints  /root/clamscan-repor

Re: weird behaviour of quotes in bash variable assignments

2020-09-20 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-09-20 15:14, The Wanderer wrote: On 2020-09-20 at 17:27, Gary Dale wrote: I have the same bash script on two different Debian/Buster AMD64 servers. However on one it refused to run. I tracked it down quickly to a variable substitution problem. The line causing the problem reads: report

Re: [SOLVED] Re: VirtualBox - vboxpci

2020-09-20 Thread l0f4r0
Hi Klaus/all, So is everything alright now? By the way, why do you think you have to sign vboxpci as well? You certainly need to sign vboxdrv if you have enabled Secure Boot, probably vboxnetadp & vboxnetflt, but not necessarily vboxpci... >From what I saw, Virtualbox setup scripts are designed

Re: Offline systems

2020-09-20 Thread deloptes
Peter wrote: > Do you see any drawbacks if I copy the 3 DVD of Debian 10 on each > machine initially, mount them and use them if I want to to install > something e.g nano at some point ? I don't see any issue with that. I copy the iso images, mount them and add them as source. I think 1-5Mbps is

Re: weird behaviour of quotes in bash variable assignments

2020-09-20 Thread The Wanderer
On 2020-09-20 at 17:27, Gary Dale wrote: > I have the same bash script on two different Debian/Buster AMD64 > servers. However on one it refused to run. I tracked it down quickly > to a variable substitution problem. > > The line causing the problem reads: report="/root/clamscan-report" > > On

Re: ssh fingerprint mismatch for one single client

2020-09-20 Thread Fabien Roucaute
Le 20/09/2020 à 18:59, Beco a écrit : > I mean the numbers are completely different. > PUTTY: not only different, but it appears to get a ED25519 which is not > on the server. > SSH powershell: It gets ECDSA, which is the algorithm accepted, but a > completely different hex code. > > If I run on

Re: ssh fingerprint mismatch for one single client

2020-09-20 Thread Reco
On Sun, Sep 20, 2020 at 01:59:41PM -0300, Beco wrote: > I mean the numbers are completely different. > PUTTY: not only different, but it appears to get a ED25519 which is not on > the server. > SSH powershell: It gets ECDSA, which is the algorithm accepted, but a > completely different hex code. T

Re: ssh fingerprint mismatch for one single client

2020-09-20 Thread Beco
On Sun, 20 Sep 2020 at 13:59, Beco wrote: > I also asked him to bring his notebook to a neighbor to try to connect > from there. We'll see his reply soon. > > > > Update: He went to his neighbor with his notebook in hand, tried there and he got the correct fingerprint and connected to the serv

Re: ssh fingerprint mismatch for one single client

2020-09-20 Thread Beco
Thank you all so much for thid new batch of input Mick, LARAC, David, Tomas and Reco Bellow I'll try to answer in a brief way all at once: On Sun, 20 Sep 2020 at 00:34, mick crane wrote: > Is this Putty or something with keys on student's PC ? No keys on PUTTY. Log in with password. > If wor

Re: Linphone contacts.

2020-09-20 Thread peter
From: Reco Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2020 10:49:52 +0300 > A quick look at linphone's source reveals that it should be sqlite, > version 3. BTW there's file(1) that could tell you the same: > > file -sL ~/.linphone-friends.db OK, thanks. > Install sqlite3, point it to your .linphone-friends.db, execute

Re: Offline systems

2020-09-20 Thread Andrew Cater
Myself - I might use the 16G stick as install medium - see conversations elsewhere in this list on how to use jigod. That gives you the contents of more than DVD 1 to DVD 3 in one small format. These are up to 70 real, physical servers and not VMs? You might want to look at automated ways to deploy

Re: linux isn't robust enough to handle bad sector??

2020-09-20 Thread Miles Fidelman
On 9/19/20 10:37 PM, Long Wind wrote: i'm creating FS on problem disk though it has passed short and long tests by smart tool i meet bad sector, mkfs complains forever Ctrl+C can't kill it, what should i do NOW?? [ 2719.089156] ata4.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen

Re: Offline systems

2020-09-20 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, mick crane wrote: > What's the best appropriate means then to fetch mirror and then only fetch > differences to local copy ? wget does that doesn't it ? That's indeed an old selling point of Jigdo: No need to download packages which you already have. But you need a pair of .jigdo and .templa

Re: Offline systems

2020-09-20 Thread mick crane
On 2020-09-20 16:31, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, mick crane wrote: Somebody mentioned jigdo which looked like a good thing. Jigdo is used for making ISO images from a frame of ISO 9660 metadata and other non-packaged stuff (the .template file), and the .deb packages on a mirror, or in a repo

Re: Offline systems

2020-09-20 Thread Peter
Hi , I will be administering all the servers. I can trust them, I just cannot have internet in that net. The number of servers can go up to 70. Also servers are in different location with relatively slow(1-5 Mb/s) connections. Do you see any drawbacks if I copy the 3 DVD of Debian 10 on each

Re: Offline systems

2020-09-20 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, mick crane wrote: > Somebody mentioned jigdo which looked like a good thing. Jigdo is used for making ISO images from a frame of ISO 9660 metadata and other non-packaged stuff (the .template file), and the .deb packages on a mirror, or in a repository, or in an older ISO image. The .jigdo fil

Re: Offline systems

2020-09-20 Thread mick crane
On 2020-09-20 15:46, Peter wrote: Hi, I want to setup a few servers(30+) on intranet network and NONE(not even a master server or anything like that) of them having internet access. What is best approach so I can still install packages on demand ? Try to make custom repo ? But in this case

Re: Offline systems

2020-09-20 Thread Dan Ritter
Peter wrote: > Hi, > > I want to setup a few servers(30+) on intranet network and NONE(not > even a master server or anything like that) of them having internet access. > > What is best approach so I can still install packages on demand ? > > Try to make custom repo ? But in this case what wi

Re: Offline systems

2020-09-20 Thread Hans
Am Sonntag, 20. September 2020, 16:46:04 CEST schrieb Peter: Hi, I would install with the full-install dvd, not netinst. Then you could setup an own repo (by mirroring the one you need). At last point the servers to your own repo server. However, besides, i personally would never trust those s

Offline systems

2020-09-20 Thread Peter
Hi, I want to setup a few servers(30+) on intranet network and NONE(not even a master server or anything like that) of them having internet access. What is best approach so I can still install packages on demand ? Try to make custom repo ? But in this case what will be the proper procedure t

Re: linux isn't robust enough to handle bad sector??

2020-09-20 Thread deloptes
Long Wind wrote: > Thank David and Reco!data cable isn't marked with 3Gbps, but it works fine > with other 300G disk it's easy to buy sata2 data cable, but does mainboard > support sata2?can't sata2 disk work compatibly in old pc that supports > sata1 only?it's too bad if it can't. i've left home

[SOLVED] Re: libvirt guest bridge configuration

2020-09-20 Thread Lucio Crusca
Il 19/09/20 16:42, Fabien Roucaute ha scritto: Need the output of 'systemctl status networking.service' Using the console I could find the culprit: the datacenter uses ethernet switches that filter MAC addresses, so I had to set the virbr10 mac address to the same as eno1 interface. It now

Re: Bad homepage reference for xorriso

2020-09-20 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Richard Owlett wrote: > > https://packages.debian.org/buster/xorriso reports its homepage to be > > http://libburnia-project.org/. That gives a 404 error. I wrote: > If the situation does not get better until the next upstream release i will > change the "Homepage:" entry in the debian/contro

Re: ssh fingerprint mismatch for one single client

2020-09-20 Thread Reco
Hi. On Sun, Sep 20, 2020 at 10:40:35AM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Sat, Sep 19, 2020 at 06:28:29PM -0300, Beco wrote: > > Dear linuxers, > > > > I've a server and one of my students is getting a wrong fingerprint when > > trying to connect via SSH. > > Lots of wild guessing and w

Re: ssh fingerprint mismatch for one single client

2020-09-20 Thread tomas
On Sat, Sep 19, 2020 at 06:28:29PM -0300, Beco wrote: > Dear linuxers, > > I've a server and one of my students is getting a wrong fingerprint when > trying to connect via SSH. Lots of wild guessing and we still don't know the problem. There are different fingerprints involved, so we don't know e

Re: linux isn't robust enough to handle bad sector??

2020-09-20 Thread Reco
Hi. On Sun, Sep 20, 2020 at 01:32:47AM -0700, David Christensen wrote: > On 2020-09-20 00:49, Long Wind wrote: > > On Sunday, September 20, 2020, 2:15:21 PM GMT+8, David Christensen > > First, backup your data. > > Please run the following command and post your complete console sessio

Re: linux isn't robust enough to handle bad sector??

2020-09-20 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-09-20 00:49, Long Wind wrote: On Sunday, September 20, 2020, 2:15:21 PM GMT+8, David Christensen First, backup your data. Please run the following command and post your complete console session -- prompt, command, output.  Substitute DISKID as appropriate:     # smartctl -x /dev

Re: linux isn't robust enough to handle bad sector??

2020-09-20 Thread Reco
Hi. On Sun, Sep 20, 2020 at 02:37:32AM +, Long Wind wrote: > i'm creating FS on problem disk > though it has passed short and long tests by smart tooli meet bad sector, > mkfs complains foreverCtrl+C can't kill it, what should i do NOW?? > [ 2719.089156] ata4.00: exception Emask 0x0

Re: Linphone contacts.

2020-09-20 Thread Reco
Hi. On Sat, Sep 19, 2020 at 06:01:58PM -0700, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > Hi, > > In Debian 10, linphone contacts are likely stored in > ~/.linphone-friends.db. Documentation that I've found doesn't explain. A quick look at linphone's source reveals that it should be sqlite, version 3. B