Re: no SMART support for western digital drive

On Thu, 2015-11-19 at 21:29 +, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > Just to report, I've actually done this. I've uploaded a package of > the > new upstream version today; but I uploaded it to the 'DELAYED-7' > queue > to give the maintainer an opportunity to block the upload if they > aren't > happy with

Re: dear lazyweb: looking for a special backup tool

Hey guys. Thanks for the suggestions... I'll have a look at them :) Cheers, Chris. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature

Re: Your attempts to communicate

On Tue, 2015-11-17 at 13:40 -0500, Bob Bernstein wrote: > Aha. Did evolution verify my smime sig in the message I just > sent to the list? Nope, your cert has expired on 2015-03-12. Chris. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature

Re: Your attempts to communicate

On Tue, 2015-11-17 at 14:18 +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > I can live without being able to read emails form one individual > ever. Gosh... I never got so much meta-answers around one of my mails itself... In any case, if your MUA crashes based on whichever mail it reads,... than it's likely a bug, a

Re: Your attempts to communicate

On Tue, 2015-11-17 at 00:42 +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > My email client chokes on your signature.  If I make any attempt to > reply, my > email client freezes. Well... than it's very likely a bug in your MUA. > Try: sorting out your signature (I don't know what is wrong with it), > or > omitting

dear lazyweb: looking for a special backup tool

Hey. Maybe someone can help me with this... I'm looking for a backup solution with quite some specific needs,... the idea is basically to backup my main data vaults (which are already on RAID and regularly btrfs-sent/received to other HDDs) to optical media (or smaller HDDs with e.g. another fs).

Re: no SMART support for western digital drive

On Mon, 2015-11-16 at 09:34 +, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > https://www.smartmontools.org/wiki/Supported_USB-Devices But note that Debian's smartmontools are pretty outdated and many USB bridges supported already in the newest version won't work in Debian. Cheers, Chris. smime.p7s Description: S

Re: SSHD AllowUsers not limiting users anymore

On Wed, 2015-11-11 at 20:20 -0200, Paulo Roberto wrote: > The option AllowUsers of /etc/ssh/sshd_config stopped working. I did a small check, and it still works here, as expected... anything special with your PAM? Are you sure that you checked on the right hosts with the right sshd_config in place?

Re: Cinnamon crashing on Stretch

Could be https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=787345 . Cheers. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature

Re: hosts file entry for 127.0.1.1

On Sat, 2015-02-28 at 15:23 -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: > Software there asks, who am I? They then pass the > IP address around. Software doing this is simply broken. Nothing guarantees (nor any standard demands) that the hostname actually resolves to anything, not to talk about a valid public IP a

Re: Joey Hess is out?

On Fri, 2014-11-07 at 21:48 -0800, Kelly Clowers wrote: > Personally I wonder what specifically he thinks makes the > Debian Constitution a "toxic document". Me too,... I had never considered the constitution as that problematic,... I rather thing the Code of Conduct is going to cause major issues

Re: Kernel 3.14.x bug? rm, mv root-owned files

On Thu, 2014-06-05 at 17:39 -0700, jimmy wrote: > Problem description: With normal/common file permission usage, in a > directory owned by non-root user, the user can rename or delete root-owned > files using: > >/bin/mv >/bin/rm > > Within such directory, that non-root user can also

Re: systemd: some questions

On Thu, 2014-02-13 at 15:16 +0100, Hans wrote: > Is there something known about using encrypted partitions? I have the root- > partition ( = "/ ") and the partition, where the kernel resides ( = /boot) > unencryptetd. They work well. But when the boot will get access to the > encrypted partitions

Re: TRIM support with XFS

No... what you mean is alignment... and that is not only dependant on the partitions..but every block layer from the file system to the physical medium. TRIM depends on support from all the layers as well... from the fs to the physical medium, including LVM, RAID or dmcrypt. Chris. "Hans-J.

Re: Debian full disk encryption

Trim is disabled peer default for security reasons. Cheers, Chris. green schrieb: >John Thoe wrote at 2013-05-05 19:45 -0500: >> For starters, I am using a laptop for SSD so I read that using LUKS >> is not a good option since it disables TRIM. > >I am using cryptsetup, LUKS, and ext4 on a SS

Re: How APT signs packages

On Fri, 2012-10-19 at 12:27 +0200, Florian Ernst wrote: > There aren't any. That is, there aren't any such plans *anymore*, as > SHA256 is already in use and that page is partially misleading, cf. I recently started a discussion on debian-devel about moving to even stronger hashes like SHA512 or K

Re: Evolution: A warning about mbox data corruptions

On Wed, 2012-10-17 at 14:49 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > The only data losses I experienced > were not too dramatically and caused by bad hardware or by myself > *knocking on wood*. Good luck > Fortunately you didn't lost your mails, "just" some > might be really unreadable, regarding to the broke

Re: Evolution: A warning about mbox data corruptions

On Wed, 2012-10-17 at 05:59 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > You didn't notice this yourself in recent years and you're aware of the > GNU General Public License's disclaimer of warranty ;). > > Don't get me wrong, I would be pissed off too. Yeah I know... guess I came down a bit over the night. I fu

Evolution: A warning about mbox data corruptions

Hi. This is intended as a warning on all users of the Evolution MUA that it contains a bug since years that leads to irrecoverably corruptions on any "From_" lines in mails. I've opened a bug[0] in the BTS whith some information and a link to the upstream bug report (and warnings about my very ru

Re: SERPENT implementation in debian

On Thu, 2010-08-26 at 18:29 -0400, Perry E. Metzger wrote: > > I plan to use them stacked ... so that shouldn't be a problem IMO. > > Is your machine too speedy? There are other things you could do to > slow it down if that's important to you. *g* ... I'm already using mprime for that ;) > Yes,

Re: SERPENT implementation in debian

On Thu, 2010-08-26 at 17:43 -0400, Perry E. Metzger wrote: > I presume you mean the cipher by Anderson, Biham and Knudsen. Yep was there another one of the same name? > I'm unaware of one, but I think it is a fairly bad move to use > algorithms other than standard ones. Unless you have very

SERPENT implementation in debian

Hi. Is there a implementation of SERPENT (for file encryption, not disk) in Debian, except mcrypt (which is buggy and orphaned according to its package description)? I mean a finished tool, not just a library. Cheers, Chris. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org w

Re: Debian way to set up iptables rules?

On Mon, 2009-01-05 at 12:31 -0800, Ken Teague wrote: > Which script(s) are you referring to? I had to create my own. Uhm until iptables 1.2.7-8 or so a init.d script was provided with the package... Chris. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature

Debian way to set up iptables rules?

Hi. Which is the default/designated way in Debian to set up iptables rules on system boot? I mean the /etc/init.d scripts is long gone... ;) Thanks, Chris. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature

gpg unusable from within an initrd

Hi. I have to use gpg from within an initrd. /dev/tty is not available (an won't be) only /dev/console is here. But whatever I do gpg complains: Without --no-tty it complains that /dev/tty isn't there (gpg: cannot open '/dev/tty': No such device or address) With it, in complains "gpg: Sorry, no

Re: grub on USB-Problems [partially solved]

For any of you who is interested in this issue. It seems that this is a bug with grub. If I do the same thing with reiserFS on the USB-stick, everything works, but (at least) with ext2/ext3... it doesn't. I wrote to the bug-mailing-list from the grub guys,.. but it seems that they do no longer c

Re: Blu Ray LG GGW-H20L crashes Linux [Solved]

On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 20:13 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > The only solution is to take out that excess RAM and send it to me! Sorry,.. I've already threw it away ;-P Chris. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature

Re: Blu Ray LG GGW-H20L crashes Linux [Solved]

On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 20:27 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > Are you sure that Linux supports Blu-Ray? Being chock full of > proprietary DRM, I'd be shocked if it were. Well,... yes and no,.. Yes: First of all, the DRM works on file level,... (ok, there are things like HDCP), and the drive itself shou

grub on USB-Problems

Hello. I've just tried to install grub1 on an USB-stick in order to boot from it, but it continues to fail: Following situation: -BIOS is definitely able to boot from USB -the system has one harddisk /dev/sda -USB-stick has one partition /dev/sdb1, type 0x83, filesystem ext3 -Debian sid => grub 0

Blu Ray LG GGW-H20L crashes Linux

Hi everybody. I've just bought and installed a LG GGW-H20L Blu-Ray burner,... This is an SATA device, I'm running a 2.6.23.10 kernel (not the Debian version) on Debian sid (AMD64) and I use the proprietary nvidia drivers (169.07). The system is an Dual (!) DualCore AMD Opteron machine. (Please ask

Strange ATA problems

rite cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA ata1/sda is my harddisk (at least one of them) What do does errors mean? Is this probably a hardware failure? And how can the CD/DVD problem relate to this? Any ideas? Thanks and best wishes, Christoph Anton Mitterer.

Re: Strange X problem--right mouse kills X

Hi. I can confirm this problem,... yesterdays updates broke my X,... mouse settings and keyboard settings are no longer detected. Regards, Chris. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Strange write errors on FAT32 partition (maybe an FAT32 bug?!)

Hi. I've got a very strange problem which I'm going to try to explain here in detail. As one could easily suppose that issue results from hardware problems I'm going to explain it very very detailed because the facts let me think that my hardware is ok (unfortunately I've got no other computer to

Strange problem when copying files

Hi. I've just had the following strange problem. (using kernel 2.6.18.1) On a FAT32 partition I copied a directory with some big files (about 1,5GB at all) with cp -a . Afterwards i diffed the results (diff -q -r) and one file was different!!! I copied again,... this time another file was differ

Re: GNOME 2.14 released :-)

Magnus Therning wrote: >I hope we'll see it in Debian Sid soon. Go GNOME team! Go! > >Anyway I can help? > >/M > > > How long took it the last time? About 5 months or so? *g* Chris. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: DNS: inverse lockup returning multiple host names --- allowed or not allowed?

. wrote: The BIND ARM (http://www.isc.org/sw/bind/arm93/Bv9ARM.ch06.html#id2566487) says that it's ok to have mutliple PTRs Chris. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Questions about jabber-muc

Hi. I'm running a jabberd (1.4.3 from Debian sarge) on hilbert.scientia.net. I force the use of SSL. It servers several virtual hosts: scientia.net mitterer.name christoph.anton.mitterer.name (all of these domains point either via A or SRV RR to hilbert.scientia.net) What I'd like to have is ab

Re: Howto setup my own CA the right way?

Pascal Huisman wrote: >Afterwards I wish to create certs for apache, ssl, openvpn, freeradius, >clients and more. > > One way is to dig through the openssl documentation ;-) . When I put up my first CA I used the apache docs (you may have a look at http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/ssl/ssl_faq.ht

Re: 32bit debian on 64bit hardware

dpkg --print-architecture shows you the hardwired arch setting in your package system. Chris. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Problem with apt-get and gpg key

Sergio Cuéllar Valdés wrote: >Yesterday I didnt have this problem. > > Ask google,.. view the archieve. Chris. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Where to download Sid from Http?

Chong Zan Kai wrote: > Hi, > Anyone know where to download Debian Sid from http instead of ftp What do you mean? ISO images? Package repositories? Have a look at the following,... you'll find all different ways of getting Debian (including via http). http://www.us.debian.org/distrib/ Chris. -

Re: rpc.statd paranoia

Greg Norris wrote: >Weird... I tried it about a week ago, and got the behaviour described in >the bugreport. What version do you have installed? Mine was 2.7.0-8 >from sid. > > Yes,.. I have the same version. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: rpc.statd paranoia

Greg Norris wrote: >Unfortunately, fam will fail to start if portmap isn't running. > > http://bugs.debian.org/332790 > > I cannot confirm this bug, I'm using sid and fam but don't have portmap installed,.. it it starts fine :-) Chris. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: rpc.statd paranoia

BTP wrote: > I did not remove the gnome package or fam, just out of the init > scripts. From what you mentioned I imagine we should blame the fam. No, IIRC fam needs portmap only for some of its network functionallity,... so if you don't use that you'll be just ok to use it without portmap. Chri

Re: rpc.statd paranoia

Marty wrote: >gnome-desktop-environment requires portmap through dependency on fam. Did you >by any chance remove gnome-desktop-environment in the meantime? > > IIRC fam does not _depend_ on portmap but only recommends it... Chris. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subj

Re: quickly add jfs support to kernel?

Matt Price wrote: >add jfs support without recompiling the whole kernel? > > You can configure jfs to be compiled as module. Chris. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: AMD64 "Etch" Net-Install Help

Roni Rachi wrote: > I have the net-install Debian "Etch" AMD64 version. When I select any > of the US servers, it will download some files but then stop and say > Could not find security updates at security.debian.org > , so then I continue and it asks me if I > want t

Re: apt and etch: keys

Nic Ferrier wrote: >When I do an: > > apt-get update > >I'm getting this: > > W: GPG error: http://ftp.ticklers.org etch Release: The following signatures > couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY > 010908312D230C5F > W: GPG error: http://ftp.ticklers.org test

Network/PPPoE problems with Tyan K8WE mainboard

Hi everybody. I'm using a Tyan Thunder K8WE (S2895) mainboard with two 2,2 GHz DualCore Opterons (AMD Model 275). The mainboard has two GigaBit Ethernet Network Cards (one from Nvidia nForce Professional 2200 chipset - attached to CPU 1, and one from Nvidia nForce Professional 2050 - attached