On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 03:23:50PM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 01:16:56PM -0600, Aaron Toponce wrote:
> > Three POSIX-compliant shell functions that rely on no extra utilities
> > shuff () {
> > if [ $(command -v shuf) ]
>
>
On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 10:04:59AM -0500, Mario Castelán Castro wrote:
> I have the following line in my Bash init file:
>
> “alias gen-password="head -c 16 /dev/urandom | base64 | head -c 22 && echo"”
>
> This generates a password with just above 128 bits of entropy. You may
> find it useful.
T
On Mon, Dec 01, 2014 at 04:48:36PM -0400, francis picabia wrote:
> I'm looking at DNSSEC implementation. One guide
> points out haveged as a way to speed up performance
> of dnssec-keygen. It certainly did. I'm wondering if
> anyone has noticed performance improvement by running
> haveged on sys
On Tue, Dec 02, 2014 at 06:47:38PM -0300, Renaud OLGIATI wrote:
> Another way to look at it is "forward planning for the release after Jessie,
> when systemd may well become compulsory..."
Most would call that FUD.
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On Tue, Dec 02, 2014 at 09:40:20PM +0100, Märk Owen wrote:
> It's a waste. They shouldn't have left. I'm pretty neutral about
> systemd as I'm only an end user but I disklike having it forced upon me
> this way.
# apt-get install upstart
# apt-get install sysvinit-core
# apt-get install openrc
No
On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 09:10:59PM -0400, Jerry Stuckle wrote:
> It is the LANGUAGE that is STRUCTURED - not the data. SQL was created
> to deal with relational data, not structured data.
When interleaving or bottom-posting your reply (++), please make sure to also
trim out irrelevant content.
T
On Thu, Dec 06, 2012 at 01:18:38PM -0300, Roberto Scattini wrote:
> hi, i have a new dell r720 server with 5 600gb disks.
> his function will be a postgresql server (the size of the databases is
> really small with 600gb we should be fine for a long time).
>
> which raid configuration would you re
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 01:26:14PM -0300, Beco wrote:
> Last month I signed a netflix account just to be amazed it did not
> work nor give support to linux.
There's plenty of proprietary software that has poor or no functionality at
all in Debian.
> After calling the call center and get the news,
On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 12:33:47PM -0700, Scarletdown wrote:
> On 9/22/2012 12:20 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> >dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/yourdrive bs=1M
>
> But does that remove the partitions themselves? I thought the OP
> was wanting to actually delete the MS partitions, which are used to
> resto
On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 10:40:10PM -0400, Nick Lidakis wrote:
> Anybody using an 83 key IBM model M keyboard with a modern PC?
> Clickykeyboards.com has info about a key codes adapter here:
> http://www.clickykeyboards.com/index.cfm/fa/items.main/parentcat/11298/subcatid/0/id/500722
>
> Was wonder
On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 09:09:14AM +0100, Jon Dowland wrote:
> It's a problem if you ever want help if/when there's a bug or problem with the
> module, since the kernel will be marked 'tainted'.
If it's a problem with the module, contact the module maintainers. If it's a
problem with the kernel, u
On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 02:32:54PM +0100, Jon Dowland wrote:
> Yes that's what I was referring to. The CDDL is incompatible with the GPL, but
> it is fine with the BSD license, so Debian GNU/KFreeBSD doesn't have those
> problems.
And it's not a problem as a kernel module either, seeing as though
On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 02:43:37PM +0100, Lists wrote:
> Is Time Slider a feature for ZFS or (Open)Solaris? It seems to be
> the latter.
It is a feature of ZFS native. It's available in the http://zfsonlinux.org
project.
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On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 07:07:51PM +0100, Lists wrote:
> I'm looking at using ZFS for a box that will serve as a
> storage/backup box. I'm aware of Debian/kFreeBSD, which seems to be
> the best solution if I want to use Debian, but it does introduce
> some limitations, so I haven't decided on it (
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 09:35:25AM +0100, Jon Dowland wrote:
> For me, it became yesterday's technology when it became apparent that
> the hypervisor model (putting an entirely new kernel between Linux and
> the hardware) created all sorts of performance problems, and neglected
> the decades of wor
On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 09:51:28AM +0100, Jon Dowland wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 01:04:57PM +0800, Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) wrote:
> > When will Debian 7.0 be released? Debian with Linux Kernel 3.x
> > release seems very slow when all the other Linux distros already
> > have the latest Linu
On Sun, Jan 08, 2012 at 04:54:51PM -0800, Freeman wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 04:13:37PM -0800, evenso wrote:
> > On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 10:01:09PM +0400, Roman Khomasuridze wrote:
(snip)
> > (Starting the bottom post protocol used here.)
(snip)
Note, that you haven't properly bottom-post
On Sat, Jan 07, 2012 at 05:35:39PM -0600, green wrote:
> Aaron Toponce wrote at 2012-01-07 17:15 -0600:
> > Personally, I don't understand why there are any characters printed on the
> > keys to begin with.
>
> I type fairly well with the Dvorak, but I *do* like the key
On Sat, Jan 07, 2012 at 11:22:09PM +, Lisi wrote:
> On Saturday 07 January 2012 23:15:01 Aaron Toponce wrote:
> > Competent musicians don't keep the notes on their instruments,
>
> What about incompetent musicians?
Off-topic.
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On Fri, Jan 06, 2012 at 06:44:22PM +, Raf Czlonka wrote:
> I guess I wasn't clear enough. This should have been:
> What's wrong with simply re-arrange the keys on your existing keyboard
> and changing the layout at the same time (I'm aware it won't be 100%)?
> This way one can try it out withou
On Thu, Dec 01, 2011 at 03:50:55PM -0500, doug wrote:
> Tried this in pclos. There is no chmod in the info file.
> There is also no man chmod.
I don't know what "pclos" is, but chomd(1) is part of the "coreutils"
package. If you have cat(1), you have chmod(1).
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On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 12:23:10AM -0700, Aaron Toponce wrote:
> ECB (electronic code block) out performs the other block ciphers,
> but it suffers from a pattern attack [1].
>
> 1. http://ae7.st/s/i.pr
My apologies on the short URL. It is the wrong one. Rather than copy/paste,
I
Because this is a subject near and dear to my heart, I feel the urge to
chime in.
On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 10:45:29AM +0530, J. Bakshi wrote:
> I am always interested in Full disk encryption for my laptop ( i5 + 3 GB ),
> but what makes me stop
> is the thinking of performance lag. Recently I have
On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 01:04:28PM +0800, lina wrote:
> I want to download a software, which only provided the below options
> except Windows:
>
> 1] RedHat Enterprise Linux 4 (64 bit)
> 2] RedHat Enterprise Linux 5 (64 bit)
> 3] Suse Linux Enterprise 10/11 (64 bit).
>
> I am not sure which one wil
On 10/06/2011 06:32 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
All of the off topic crap the last couple of days is making it more
difficult to assist those who actually need help with Debian.
If you are using an MUA that supports threading, then I don't see the
issue. It's all contained in one thread, and it d
On Thu, Apr 07, 2011 at 01:31:27AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> Having the first 3 characters all be "$6$" makes sense based upon
> the explanation in your other email. I thought that was the salt.
> Each user's salt is definitely different.
Ah, those first 3 characters. Yeah, that tells you that
On Wed, Apr 06, 2011 at 11:52:04PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> Is the salt just bits that are either pre- or suffixed to your
> password before being run through the hashing function?
The salt is generally appended to the password. For the specific case of
passwd(1), I'm not entirely sure, without
On Wed, Apr 06, 2011 at 06:37:38PM -1000, Joel Roth wrote:
> So is the salt a fixed number of characters?
From system to system, it varies. On my Fedora 14 virtual machine, it's 16
characters. On Debian 6.0 stable, it's 8.
> Otherwise, how would a process know which portion of the
> string is the
On Thu, Apr 07, 2011 at 06:52:42AM +0200, Martin Ågren wrote:
> In this particular scheme, it appears ('foo','salt') has the same hash
> as ('foosalt',''). In a serious application, hopefully the wheel
> wouldn't be reinvented in this way, but some well-studied, thoroughly
> scrutinized approach wo
On Wed, Apr 06, 2011 at 09:02:10PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> The OS must store the salt somewhere, in order to correctly
> authenticate the user when he logs in. But I've never heard of
> /etc/hashsalt so what am I misunderstanding?
Yes, the salt and the password are both stored in the /etc/sha
On Wed, Apr 06, 2011 at 06:18:45PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 04/06/2011 01:42 PM, johhny_at_poland77 wrote:
> >http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/10326/does-openbsd-use-bcrypt-by-default
> >
> >Why doesn't every modern Linux Distribution use BCRYPT?
> >
> >http://codahale.com/how-to-safel
On Wed, Apr 06, 2011 at 08:35:08AM +1000, Charlie wrote:
> I upgrade my Debian Wheezy system with aptitude and it upgrades all but
> one application file.
>
> Redo: "aptitude update" and it shows that file hangs around for
> several days and doesn't get upgraded when I do aptitude
> "safe-upgrade"
On Sat, Apr 02, 2011 at 02:23:31PM +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote:
> Why not use the Debian standard??
> Reasoning - it's already been extensively debated *and* voted on, it's a
> system already in place, it's the "Debian" way.
>
> (Is there more than one (Debian standard)?)
>
> >From :-
> http://www.
On Fri, Apr 01, 2011 at 12:17:52PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote:
> On 20110401_051637, Jerome BENOIT wrote:
> > Hello List,
> >
> > right now, the Official Debian site seems hacked by The Canterbury
> > Distribution.
> >
> > I guess it is a joke.
>
> Apparently not a joke.
... except tomorrow, when
On Fri, Apr 01, 2011 at 09:01:41PM +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote:
> On 01/04/11 20:17, Lisi wrote:
> > On Friday 01 April 2011 10:05:54 Liam O'Toole wrote:
> >> On 2011-04-01, Freeman wrote:
> >>> 04/01/11 !
> >>
> >> What does the 4th of January have to do with it??
> >
> > Perhaps on an intern
I'm sure everyone has read the following from LWN [1]. I was just thinking
that Debian has had package signing for a while, and the top users of the
PGP Strong Set [2] (maybe even most of it) are Debian developers. Seeing as
though Debian has such a strong history with OpenPGP and package signing,
On 02/28/2011 12:47 PM, Jason Hsu wrote:
> Are there any rankings of the most popular Linux distros for the enterprise
> desktop? My guess is that the most popular enterprise desktop distros are
> Ubuntu, RedHat, and SUSE.
>
> What features/characteristics are needed for an enterprise desktop c
On 02/26/2011 03:56 PM, Jason Hsu wrote:
> I've learned how to turn an old computer into a firewall and DHCP server for
> my tiny home network.
>
> I understand that I can install an SSH server on this machine so that I can
> access it from outside. Once I have this SSH server connected to the
On 02/25/2011 06:35 PM, shawn wilson wrote:
> i don't think your examples are very good / secure. however, if you want
> security, you might go with openbsd.
http://allthatiswrong.wordpress.com/2010/01/20/the-insecurity-of-openbsd/
Security isn't a binary function, and it's not something that is
On 02/25/2011 06:16 PM, shawn wilson wrote:
> 'nothing but time' - you know that businesses spend tons of money to get
> more 9s of uptime.
> if a website grosses $500 an hour (for ads or for what they sell) and
> you wipe the box and reinstall, you might have lost $2k (if you're real
> good at set
After updating from Lenny to Squeeze, my Apache2 server has been acting
really weird. Hundreds of pids will have been spawned, filling up RAM
and filling up swap, causing the kernel OOM killer to start. Nothing in
/var/log/messages or dmesg gives any indication of what is happening.
Nothing in /var
On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 12:42:51PM +0100, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote:
> SQL injecting and web forms will not work for ssh directly, unless
> you have a very poorly configured apache+mysql-config. Of course
> there are ways of obtaining someone's password.
Heh. SQL injections can get you all sorts of th
On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 04:51:30PM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> For example, you might let one user "sudo" without a password, disable root
> logins via ssh, have every other user (including root) be disabled in
> /etc/shadow, disable password logins via ssh, and have all other non-root
On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 05:21:51PM +0100, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote:
> No, it is not. When root logins are allowed, you only need to know
> one password. When root-logins are not allowed, you need to know two
> passwords *and* a user name.
You assume that the only way into an SSH server is through us
On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 10:18:20AM +0100, Klistvud wrote:
> 4. The sshd daemon allows root logins by default.
Oh brother. The ssh daemon also allows logins via passwords. I assume
you think this is less secure as well, as ssh keys should be the
preferred method. We should also change the port off
On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 10:26:12PM +0100, Alex Declent wrote:
> is it so simple
>
> aptitude update
> aptitude upgrade
>
> and squeeze/sid becomes stable?
>
> are there any package repositories which must be added?
That's not upgrading. That's downgrading. Upgrading would be going
stable -> tes
On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 10:27:31PM +0200, David Baron wrote:
> Should I go to a 64-bit kernel? Benefits vs. Risks?
> Will 64bit enable kvm functionality on this box?
I've made these arguements on this list here before:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2010/05/msg01055.html
In terms of enablin
On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 04:21:00PM +0100, François TOURDE wrote:
> Or cssh from the clusterssh package.
I was also going to recommend the clusterssh package. That has made my
day-to-day administration of 300+ SSH servers an absolute joy.
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On 11/27/2010 07:14 AM, Rob Owens wrote:
> Is this theme in the repos, or does it have to be installed manually?
It's already in the repositories for Sid. Dunno if it's made it to
testing yet.
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On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 04:12:47PM -0500, Mark Allums wrote:
> The master key to HDCP was leaked and it has been reported that it
> is legitimate, meaning it is now possible to crack Blu-Ray.
>
> I'm not interested in that, but I wondered if that meant that we
> would eventually be able to play Bl
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 05:05:11PM +0100, Lisi wrote:
> On Tuesday 14 September 2010 16:48:46 Bret Busby wrote:
> > Because the Debian people (I believe) omitted iceape and iceweasel from
> > Debian 5, I had to search, and installed the previous release packages.
>
> Iceweasel is there:
>
> l...@
On Thu, Sep 09, 2010 at 10:30:35PM -0400, Doug wrote:
> I just downloaded debian-testing i386 Net Inst and burned the
> .iso onto disk. Before I do something silly, I want to make sure
> that this is designed to live with other os's on the hd. (I remember
> one older version of Ubuntu that took ov
On Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 05:56:41PM -0600, Aaron Toponce wrote:
> I never said they would die. I only said that Microsoft is putting more
> effort into HTML5 for IE than Silverlight. It's evident by the lack of
> even Silverlight pages on Microsoft's own site, as well as par
On 9/8/2010 5:22 PM, Angus Hedger wrote:
> I highly doubt Silverlight, .Net, and thus by extension moonlight and
> mono will die, for example MS's new phone OS is pretty much all
> Silverlight and .Net
I never said they would die. I only said that Microsoft is putting more
effort into HTML5 for IE
On 9/8/2010 3:07 PM, Angus Hedger wrote:
> Flash might be one of the "evils" of the web, but it better than
> moonlight as most silverlight stuff wont work in moonlight 2.2 where
> as flash v10.1 works with pretty much everything (ignoring the total
> lack of a good 64bit plug-in and the instabilit
On 09/07/2010 02:55 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> In <20100907151244.gk7...@poseidon.cocyt.us>, Aaron Toponce wrote:
>> Your browser is caching
>> all the pages for each tab you use. The more the tabs, the more the
>> cache. The more the cache, the more the RA
On 09/07/2010 10:15 AM, Morgan Gangwere wrote:
> Normally, I use Iceweasel as my normal browser, but on the poor box I
> have (a 1Ghz p3 Coppermine w/256MiB of RAM) I get this odd problem...
> It just eats memory like candy, and I don't even /have/ flash
> installed!
You must not use Chromium/Chro
On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 09:16:26AM -0400, B. Alexander wrote:
>I'm just wondering, since firefox/iceweasel seems to be getting unusable.
What is unusable about Iceweasel?
>I have a 2.2GHz C2D box with an nvidia card at home, and a 3.0GHz C2D with
>a (lame) ATI card at work. I find tha
On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 03:47:00PM +0200, Klistvud wrote:
> Epiphany is (marginally) better than Iceweasel/Firefox. Internet
> browsing on GNU/Linux, frankly, just plain sucks -- I mean, it sucks
> up all my CPU and all my RAM, permanently. It also makes my
> machine(s) heat up and my fans roar lik
On Wed, Sep 01, 2010 at 11:43:02PM +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote:
> What mainboar, CPU and case do you use? I am currently searching for a
> similar solution as well. I am considering to buy a Mini-ITX Atom board,
> but it's hard to find a decent case with enough space for 3-4 hard
> disks.
CPU: AMD
On Wed, Sep 01, 2010 at 11:06:57PM +0200, Francisco Borges wrote:
> I am thinking about buying a new NAS box. Not a DIY box, but a ready
> to use NAS (2 to max 4 trays) for home use (it has to be *small* and
> quiet).
>
> As I had a lot of trouble with my ReadyNas Duo (Debian based but now
> unsup
On Wed, Sep 01, 2010 at 05:04:37PM +0200, Julien Vehent wrote:
> I know this is kind of off-topic on a Debian mailing list, but since
> there's no Debian certification, I was considering taking RHCE.
> The thing is, RHCE fast track course is $3000, and so far,
> everything I've seen or read is pret
On Wed, Sep 01, 2010 at 07:44:36PM +0200, Julien Vehent wrote:
> Well, I understood the exam was multiple choices questions, isn't it ?
No. The exam is 100% hands-on. In other words, if you are asked to setup
a DHCP server, then you are expected to do just that, on a box, with
RHEL installed. Chec
On 08/30/2010 03:48 PM, François TOURDE wrote:
> One reply line...
>
> 20 noise lines...
>
> What a signal/noise ratio 1/20 :(
Some haven't learned the value of trimming your relpies.
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On 08/30/2010 01:00 PM, Jordan Metzmeier wrote:
> Your reply seems to have removed all newline characters making it
> unreadable.
I had no problems reading the HTML version of the mail.
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On 08/29/2010 05:10 AM, Александр Аносов wrote:
> добрый день подскажите пожалуйста как прописать сканер эпсон 1670 если
> можно по шагово заранее благодарен
Это английский список рассылки. Пожалуйста, проверьте
http://lists.debian.org/debian-russian/ для вашего языка.
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On 8/27/2010 9:52 PM, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=594512
>
> I just updates most gross errors in CVS so updated page will show up
> soon.
Ah yes. The page should describe more of why aptitude vs apt-get, and
let the user decide.
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Why isn't /usr/share/dict/words managed by alternatives? Why does it
point to /etc/dictionaries-common/words which in turn points back to
/usr/share/dict/american-english (for me)? Wouldn't the alternatives
system be perfect for this? Just curious.
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On 08/27/2010 01:16 AM, Celejar wrote:
> Or use Sylpheed, where you can subscribe to a newsgroup and read it
> with an MUA ...
... or use Icedove/Thunderbird for reading not only news://, but RSS as
well as mail.
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On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 08:51:29AM -0500, Tom Browder wrote:
> Aside, can you post another blog (or another thread here) about why
> you use both Ubuntu and Debian?
http://pthree.org/2009/02/19/server-migration-from-ubuntu-804-to-debian-50/
Long story short- Debian does a better job at package qu
On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 10:27:58PM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 06:23:56PM -0600, Aaron Toponce wrote:
> > http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-faq/ch-pkgtools.en.html#s-aptitude
>
> This needs update. This is very old.
Why is this old? What is out-of
On 08/26/2010 06:09 AM, David Baron wrote:
> Dead in the water. What to do keeping data in lvm partitions?
I'm assuming that you have more than one disk? Are they the same size?
If so, you should have been using Linux software RAID to prevent the
volume from losing data. Not much you can do at thi
On 08/26/2010 12:37 AM, Jangita wrote:
> Hello List,
>
> When it comes to graphics and linux, is there a Eye Candy window manager
> out there; for me if I'm to go GUI and I have a powerful graphics card
> humming under the hood; I'd like something that looks nice, shadows,
> transparent well drawn
On 08/26/2010 05:37 AM, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote:
>> noela...@gmail.com :
>>> In Kmail, and probably some other MUAs, you can select the text first
>>> and then hit reply, and only the selected section will be quoted.
>> Yep. "Pan" (a nntp newsreader) has such option.
>
> So does Claws-mai
On 08/25/2010 10:52 AM, Gary Roach wrote:
> This is kind of an embarrassing question considering I have been
> subscribed to this list for several years. What is the protocol for a
> reply. Though I have bumbled through the process in the past, I am not
> sure how it should really be done. I search
On 08/25/2010 01:09 PM, T o n g wrote:
> I used to use either apt-get or aptitude to install packages. Is it OK to
> do so?
Yes. However, aptitude is a much more powerful program. Check my blog
post on the many reasons to use aptitude over apt:
http://pthree.org/2007/08/12/aptitude-vs-apt-get/
On 08/22/2010 12:57 PM, Peter Tenenbaum wrote:
> I'll open a report today or tomorrow on this item.
Can you fix your MUA so it doesn't start a new thread every time you hit
'reply'?
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On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 03:59:29PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> It's called "do-not-feed-the-troll".
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On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 01:56:44PM -0500, Timothy Legg wrote:
> I just installed a stable Debian package that advertises to perform so
> many wonderful tasks, but in reality, it does little more than provide an
> attractive graphical interface for a segmentation fault.
>
> I searched google and in
On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 03:06:09PM -0400, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> Are any MAC systems integrated into Debian other than SELinux?
> (Also, does this differ between Lenny and Squeeze?)
grsecurity exists for stable. You can google the differences between
SELinux and grsecurity if you wish.
AppArmo
On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 05:04:56PM +, Daniel Trebbien wrote:
> Does this problem always occur after bringing your netbook out of standby?
Yes. When after coming out of standby is the question. Sometimes
immediate, sometimes a few minutes later.
> In addition to the blank, blue screen, do you
On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 02:31:49AM -0400, John A. Sullivan III wrote:
> Very interesting and helpful post. Thank you. I've snipped most of it
> out for the sake of those for whom long emails are a problem or
> expensive.
You should ALWAYS trim your messages, cutting out the irrelevant cruft,
lea
On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 11:41:26PM +, Daniel Trebbien wrote:
> > So why didn't Nautilus start after I selected a window manager?
>
> I figured it out. For some reason, the X session manager was set to
> `/usr/bin/choosewm` by default when it needed to be `/usr/bin/gnome-session`.
> I
> correc
On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 12:58:13PM -0400, Jordan Metzmeier wrote:
> - From what I understand, it works with testing but not stable. I have
> also used it with other distributions without issue.
Ah, the only stable install I have is a headless server. All of my
graphical installs are either testing
On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 12:18:57PM -0400, Jordan Metzmeier wrote:
> I am a regular help on the Debian IRC channel, and I can say that I am
> not sure unetbootin works for anyone. I have tested once myself, and I
> had the same issue has the floods of users on IRC. "failed to find cdrom
> devices".
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 10:42:34AM +0100, Nuno Magalhães wrote:
> Red Hat and Ubuntu come to mind.
This is a Debian mailing list, so I'm surprised you didn't recommend:
http://debian.org/consultants
Just because we're a community-driven operating system, doesn't mean we
can't offer world-class s
On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 04:13:42AM +0800, jida...@jidanni.org wrote:
> I was told to "MSN" somebody. So which MSN replacement program do you
> folks recommend of
> $ apt-cache search MSN | wc -l
> 53
> given that I don't use KDE etc. but just nodm.
Bitlbee.
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On Fri, Aug 06, 2010 at 04:27:31PM +0200, Brent Clark wrote:
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-annou.../msg9.html
>
> Flippen AWESOME.
Now to get kfreebsd into shape with gnu. To me, that's what is making
this release stellar.
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On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 10:43:05PM +0100, Tingez Unknown wrote:
>I am looking for any suggestions regarding Anti virus and firewall
>software that is suitable with your Debian 5 64bit operating system.
>Wanting to add as much security as possible to our server to reduce any
>problem
On Mon, Aug 02, 2010 at 10:59:00PM +0200, Jozsi Vadkan wrote:
> are there any working keyloggers, written in c, that works under Debian
> Lenny?
>
> Does anyone has one ready? :P or just an url?
I would suggest you look at strace for starters.
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On Mon, Aug 02, 2010 at 01:23:28PM -0400, S Scharf wrote:
>I am running Squeeze with two 1.5 TB disks. Each disk has a /boot
>partition and a swap partition. The rest of each disk
>is 1/2 of a mdadm raid1 (/dev/md0). md0 is then used as the physical
>volume for lvm which hosts my 10
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 10:00:30PM +0530, Madhurya Kakati wrote:
>Is there any good native linux app for streaming online radio? I
>prefer shoutcast.
Do you want a native GNU/Linux application, or an online streaming site?
Shoutcast isn't an installable application. Shoutcast is an online
On 7/26/2010 11:46 AM, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Lu, 26 iul 10, 12:42:05, Steve McIntyre wrote:
>>
>> As an ex-DPL and the guy who puts together the official release Debian
>> CDs, I can vouch for his work. It's been very useful for me in the past.
>
> You forgot to GPG sign the mail :p
Maybe th
On 7/27/2010 11:20 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
> Aaron Toponce put forth on 7/27/2010 10:41 AM:
>
>> XFS has also had a history for randomly corrupting data. While this
>> might have improved over time, I don't trust it.
>
> Can you cite or reference anything to back y
On 7/27/2010 1:23 AM, Lisi wrote:
> On Tuesday 27 July 2010 08:10:15 Stan Hoeppner wrote:
>> XFS which is superior to all other Linux filesystems.
>
> Stan -
>
> Have you the time to give a rationale for this?
Except XFS filesystems can't shrink, only grow. Sucks when you need to
resize parti
On 07/24/2010 07:35 PM, Dirk wrote:
> #!/usr/bin/expect -f
>
> spawn rsync -r --progress a u...@bla.com:/b
> expect "assword:"
> send "password\r"
> expect "hostname"
>
> why does this script stop while rsync is still transferring?
>
> (hostname is the name of the host in the prompt)
>
> and, y
On 07/23/2010 11:29 AM, Bruno Costacurta wrote:
> /etc/init.d/functions is missing.
> How / where to grab it ?
/etc/init.d/functions is a Red Hat developed script for SYSVR4 init on
GNU/Linux. It has carried on to other systems that use RPM as their
package backend.
If you want the Debian-equival
On 07/21/2010 06:39 AM, Sergey Spiridonov wrote:
> I found yesterday that some files in /etc/ (/etc/shells and
> /etc/default/default/schroot) are changed. They contain data which I was
> typing on keyboard. Strange enough, this files are not overwritten, but
> contain data they should contain + so
On 7/19/2010 12:16 PM, Ron Johnson wrote:
> Why aren't they recommended?
>
> $ sudo adduser Guest
> [sudo] password for ron:
> adduser: Please enter a username matching the regular expression configured
> via the NAME_REGEX configuration variable. Use the `--force-badname'
> option to relax this
On 7/19/2010 10:49 AM, Panayiotis Karabassis wrote:
> In Ubuntu it was possible to yank some lines of text, exit Vim, open a
> new Vim instance and paste the yanked lines. In debian it is necessary
> to use the * register. How can I reproduce the Ubuntu behavior?
Not sure what "the * register" is,
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