GeoIP free databases and Geo::IP

2019-03-20 Thread francis picabia
The packages geoip-database in Debian relies on static databases which are no longer being updated. https://support.maxmind.com/geolite-legacy-discontinuation-notice/ All I need from this is a quick way on the shell to look up a country from an IP. On Debian I could do that with geoiplookup or u

Re: Why choose Debian on server

2019-01-11 Thread francis picabia
Both Debian and CentOS are good choices for a server OS. We use both in my workplace. We don't install a desktop. It is not required and it is a waste of resources. Debian is a good fit for developers, as there is a great breadth of packages, and often more recent. CentOS is easier to manage as

Re: Why doesn't new linux kernel appear from security two days after release?

2018-10-03 Thread francis picabia
le in /boot and uptime tells me I'm not running that new kernel. Mystery as to why it has not auto-scheduled a reboot. On Wed, Oct 3, 2018 at 10:58 AM francis picabia wrote: > > When I do apt-get update && apt-get upgrade to get > the new kernel which is part of DSA-430

Why doesn't new linux kernel appear from security two days after release?

2018-10-03 Thread francis picabia
When I do apt-get update && apt-get upgrade to get the new kernel which is part of DSA-4308-1 (released Oct 1), I get nothing available. I have in sources.list: deb http://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/debian/ stretch main contrib non-free deb-src http://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/debian/ stretch ma

Re: Converting from iscsitarget to targetcli-fb

2018-07-30 Thread francis picabia
ortunately, I don't have enough first hand experience with > iSCSI to offer a better suggestion. It's possilbe downgrading to Debian 8 > might be the fastest way. > > On Mon, Jul 30, 2018 at 5:09 PM, francis picabia > wrote: > >> Of the packages you mention tgt is th

Re: Converting from iscsitarget to targetcli-fb

2018-07-30 Thread francis picabia
iscsi setup in Debian 9. I don’t think iscsitarget is a > supported package anymore? Do you have tgt, open-iscsi, lvm2 installed? > > Get Outlook for iOS <https://aka.ms/o0ukef> > > > > On Mon, Jul 30, 2018 at 2:54 PM -0400, "francis picabia" < > fpica...@gmail

Converting from iscsitarget to targetcli-fb

2018-07-30 Thread francis picabia
This is with Debian 9 system which had been upgraded from Debian 8 a month or so ago. I have an existing iscsi target blockio device with /dev/md1 Somehow it continued working under Debian 9 until a recent reboot introduced a kernel update and then the module wasn't found: FATAL: Module iscsi_trg

Re: CVE-2017-5754 - ETA?

2018-01-10 Thread francis picabia
On Mon, Jan 8, 2018 at 5:20 PM, Richard Hector wrote: > On 09/01/18 04:36, francis picabia wrote: > > I have the option to install > > the stretch kernel and run in a hybrid version for awhile, but I'm not > sure > > if there will be problems with that workaround. &g

Re: CVE-2017-5754 - ETA?

2018-01-08 Thread francis picabia
On Thu, Jan 4, 2018 at 4:47 PM, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Thu, 04 Jan 2018, francis picabia wrote: > > Redhat, Ubuntu and others have kernel updates available today for this > > kernel patch that has been worked on since November. Normally Debian > > has been quick out of t

Re: “Meltdown” and “Spectre”: Every modern processor has unfixable security flaws

2018-01-04 Thread francis picabia
On Thu, Jan 4, 2018 at 1:22 PM, Curt wrote: > https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/01/meltdown-and-spectre-every-modern- > processor-has-unfixable-security-fladdws/U > > > TL;DR > > Windows, Linux, and macOS have all received security patches that > significantly alter how the operating systems

CVE-2017-5754 - ETA?

2018-01-04 Thread francis picabia
Redhat, Ubuntu and others have kernel updates available today for this kernel patch that has been worked on since November. Normally Debian has been quick out of the gate with security measures. Is there an ETA when Debian will update kernel packages? https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/C

Re: What in /var/logs shows system reboot?

2017-01-25 Thread francis picabia
On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 9:47 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 08:28:08PM -0400, francis picabia wrote: > > Here is the exercise anyone reading can try: > > > > Prove to yourself exactly when you rebooted your Debian system(s) > > arc3:~$ uptime >

Re: What in /var/logs shows system reboot?

2017-01-23 Thread francis picabia
On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 4:04 PM, Joe wrote: > On Mon, 23 Jan 2017 14:28:33 -0400 > francis picabia wrote: > > > On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 2:18 PM, Greg Wooledge > > wrote: > > > > > On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 02:12:04PM -0400, francis picabia wrote: > >

Re: What in /var/logs shows system reboot?

2017-01-23 Thread francis picabia
On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 2:18 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 02:12:04PM -0400, francis picabia wrote: > > I'm running Debian 8.6, and looking at old logs. I'd like to confirm > when > > the system was rebooted to invoke the newer kernel which

What in /var/logs shows system reboot?

2017-01-23 Thread francis picabia
I'm running Debian 8.6, and looking at old logs. I'd like to confirm when the system was rebooted to invoke the newer kernel which fixed the Dirty COW bug. With systemd, I'm not seeing the old signs like the announcement of the kernel version. If I have a complete copy of my /var/log from last O

Re: problem with Samba on Jessie

2016-08-09 Thread francis picabia
On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 11:10 AM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh < h...@debian.org> wrote: > On Thu, May 7, 2015, at 16:23, Roger Howard wrote: > > Having done some research on my problem with Samba 4.1.17 as provided by > > Debian Jessie, it seems that it is documented as bug 10604 on the Samba > >

Re: updating debian 8 (jessie) stable to permanent testing - SOLVED?

2016-01-26 Thread Francis Gerund
On 1/26/16, Jochen Spieker wrote: > John Hasler: >> Adam Wilson writes: >>> You should be running dist-upgrades in stable. apt-get upgrade only >>> gets new package versions, leaving out upgrades which require new >>> packages, old packages to be removed, dependency changes, etc. >>> dist-upgrade

Re: updating debian 8 (jessie) stable to permanent testing - SOLVED?

2016-01-26 Thread Francis Gerund
On 1/26/16, Brian wrote: > On Tue 26 Jan 2016 at 14:07:42 -0500, Francis Gerund wrote: > >> After carefully considering the warm, supportive, heartfelt posts of >> support and encouragement in this and the other thread, I decided that >> maybe testing isn't for me. &g

Re: updating debian 8 (jessie) stable to permanent testing - SOLVED?

2016-01-26 Thread Francis Gerund
On 1/26/16, John Hasler wrote: > Francis Gerund writes: >> So I upgraded to unstable. > >> Let the breakage begin! > >> Uptime: 1:53 . . . and no breakage yet. Jealous? :-) > > I've been running Unstable ever since it was invented. You should > subsc

Re: updating debian 8 (jessie) stable to permanent testing - SOLVED?

2016-01-26 Thread Francis Gerund
On 1/26/16, John Hasler wrote: > I wrote: >> You do not need dist-upgrade in Stable. The only changes to Stable are >> new versions of packages already in it. > > Brian writes: >> You are not expecting a Jessie-and a-half, then? > >> https://www.debian.org/News/2008/20080726 > >Installation o

Re: updating debian 8 (jessie) stable to permanent testing - SOLVED?

2016-01-25 Thread Francis Gerund
On 1/25/16, John Hasler wrote: > Francis Gerund writes: >> sudo apt-get --download-only dist-upgrade >> sudo apt-get dist-upgrade > >> I presume that's what you meant. Is the answer yes, then? But if so, >> wouldn't that only have to be done once, followed

Re: updating debian 8 (jessie) stable to permanent testing - SOLVED?

2016-01-25 Thread Francis Gerund
e I stand behind my opinion that upgrading is unnecessarily difficult and error-prone. Whew! Now that that's out of the way, let me ask: When (and why would you use full-upgrade, as opposed to dist-upgrade (and how does aptitude figure into that)? I don't use aptitude, I'm u

Re: updating debian 8 (jessie) stable to permanent testing - SOLVED?

2016-01-25 Thread Francis Gerund
r yes, then? But if so, wouldn't that only have to be done once, followed by periodically doing: sudo apt-get update && apt-get upgrade ??? On 1/25/16, Francis Gerund wrote: > Hi, Jochen. > > 1) You are correct. It should have been: > >>Then, I did: > >

Re: updating debian 8 (jessie) stable to permanent testing - SOLVED?

2016-01-25 Thread Francis Gerund
xercise for the reader . . . ;-) On 1/25/16, Jochen Spieker wrote: > Francis Gerund: >> >> Then, I did: >> >> sudo check >> sudo update >> sudo upgrade >> clean >> autoclean >> autoremove > > What are these supposed to do? I suppose they

Re: updating debian 8 (jessie) stable to permanent testing - SOLVED?

2016-01-25 Thread Francis Gerund
l disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] " BTW, in my earlier proposed changes to /etc/apt/sources.list, I thought that I had clearly indicated that the jessie-backports lines were to be "commented out", and thus inactive. I am sorry if there was any confusion on t

Re: updating debian 8 (jessie) stable to permanent testing

2016-01-24 Thread Francis Gerund
>> >> -- or, would something else be better? >> > > Something else would be better- not using jessie-backports. If you're > already using testing, enabling jessie-backports is pointless and will > put you halfway into FrankenDebian territory. Beware. > > I would do something like this: > > deb http

Re: updating debian 8 (jessie) stable to permanent testing

2016-01-24 Thread Francis Gerund
Hello . . . Is this mic on?

updating debian 8 (jessie) stable to permanent testing

2016-01-24 Thread Francis Gerund
Hi, If I run debian 8 (jessie) stable, and this is my /etc/apt/sources.list : # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 8.2.0 _Jessie_ - Official amd64 NETINST Binary-1 20150906-11:09]/ jessie main deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ jessiemain contrib non-free deb-src http://ftp.us.debi

Re: Can't connect to outside world using openbox

2016-01-18 Thread Francis Gerund
manager considers an alternate login (even the same actual person, from the same machine) as a different "user". I never would have thought of that. Thanks to ansgar for the suggestion. And thanks to all who replied about this! On 1/18/16, Francis Gerund wrote: > On 1/18/16, Joe wrote

Re: Can't connect to outside world using openbox

2016-01-18 Thread Francis Gerund
On 1/18/16, Joe wrote: > On Mon, 18 Jan 2016 13:04:38 -0500 > Francis Gerund wrote: > >> . . . Okay. >> >> The problem may be with dhcp, since xfce has no problem getting to the >> outside world, but openbox refuses to go any further than localhost. >> &g

Re: Can't connect to outside world using openbox

2016-01-18 Thread Francis Gerund
. . . Okay. The problem may be with dhcp, since xfce has no problem getting to the outside world, but openbox refuses to go any further than localhost. So, does dhcp functionality need to be installed and/or set up separately for openbox? And if so, how?

can't connect to outside world using openbox

2016-01-16 Thread Francis Gerund
Hello! I have been running Debian 8 64-bit xfce. Networking works fine. Then I added openbox. So now at the desktop manager screen I can choose between xfce and openbox. Networking still works fine using xfce (network-manager). But if I start up into openbox, or startup into xfce and then log

Re: gufw problem

2015-12-10 Thread Francis Gerund
[re: "Most people who post here subscribe to the list, so they will receive any response you make to the debian-user list. If you send to the list and to them, they get two copies of each message."] Just a note on email addressing: I was using gmail, with it's built-in interface. Although the

Re: gufw problem

2015-12-08 Thread Francis Gerund
the same way (I don't use XFCE, so I don't know). BTW, I really think that "blocking" line in the desktop.gufw was deliberate. I think they knew exactly what they were doing. Thanks again to all for the help. On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 9:46 PM, Jape Person wrote: > On 12/0

Re: gufw problem

2015-12-08 Thread Francis Gerund
ue, Dec 8, 2015 at 8:40 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Wednesday 09 December 2015 01:32:39 Jape Person wrote: > > On 12/08/2015 04:57 PM, Francis Gerund wrote: > > > Hello! > > > > > > I just installed Debian 8.2, 64-bit, Gnome desktop, using the > > > netinst

gufw problem

2015-12-08 Thread Francis Gerund
Hello! I just installed Debian 8.2, 64-bit, Gnome desktop, using the netinst.iso. Used Synaptic to install Gufw (and ufw as dependency). Ufw works fine. But gufw does not show in the application menu or in the favories menu of Gnome. The only way to run it seems to be in Gnome terminal (non-log

Re: debian 8.2 live "standard" install - how to set up wifi?

2015-11-27 Thread Francis Gerund
uot;clean-up". There's quite a bit of it, but it often feels like it is written "by technicians, for technicians", and it's not always user friendly. Thanks again for your time. On Fri, Nov 27, 2015 at 2:58 PM, Brian wrote: > On Fri 27 Nov 2015 at 21:16:40 +03

Re: debian 8.2 live "standard" install - how to set up wifi?

2015-11-26 Thread Francis Gerund
On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 9:30 AM, Brian wrote: > On Thu 26 Nov 2015 at 05:06:49 +, Francis Gerund wrote: > > > I just installed debian 8.2 stable, using the live "standard" 64-bit iso. > > The install was done using wifi, with no problem. > > > > Rebo

debian 8.2 live "standard" install - how to set up wifi?

2015-11-25 Thread Francis Gerund
Hello! I just installed debian 8.2 stable, using the live "standard" 64-bit iso. The install was done using wifi, with no problem. Rebooting, I get a CLI interface (okay, for now), but it did not install networking (NOT ok)! ifconfig shows only an "lo" entry. So, how do I install wifi? I could

Re: convert Jessie stable to pure testing

2015-06-09 Thread Francis Gerund
Hi. I did work with both hinting and sub-pixel order. Full hinting was the best setting for hinting. The sub-pixel order did not seem to make any difference. On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 9:13 PM, Mike Kupfer wrote: > Francis Gerund wrote: > > > And the display doesn't look

Re: convert Jessie stable to pure testing

2015-06-08 Thread Francis Gerund
Well, it's on a laptop, so there's no (external) data cable involved. And the resolution seems to be set correctly at maximum, 1366 x 768, IIRC. And the display doesn't look defective or mis-calibrated, just more like 1995 than 2015. I think it just lame fonts in XFCE, not the physical display.

Re: convert Jessie stable to pure testing

2015-06-08 Thread Francis Gerund
Actually, I have been using Debian (off and on), since the 1990's. My first real GNU/Linux distribution was Debian 2.0 - "Hamm"! "I wish I could quit you." - from the movie, Brokeback Mountain I have dabbled a little with testing before, but mostly stayed with stable, when I was usin

Re: convert Jessie stable to pure testing

2015-06-08 Thread Francis Gerund
me - unconfigureable, but looks better. On Sun, Jun 7, 2015 at 3:36 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Sunday 07 June 2015 19:38:45 Francis Gerund wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 7, 2015 at 5:23 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > On Sunday 07 June 2015 02:54:56 Francis Gerund wrote: > > >

[OT] Is Devuan a hoax?

2015-06-07 Thread Francis Gerund
Does anyone here have any inside information on what is happening (or not happening) with the Devuan project? It seems to be dead, or at least dying. I am (more than) starting to think the whole thing was just a sick, sleazy hoax/disinformation campaign by you-know-who to confuse and disillusion

Re: convert Jessie stable to pure testing

2015-06-07 Thread Francis Gerund
Well, too late now! Guess I'll just fight with testing, until it breaks. Or Devuan gets released (Hurry!!) On Sun, Jun 7, 2015 at 5:23 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Sunday 07 June 2015 02:54:56 Francis Gerund wrote: > > upgrading in place sounds good in theory, but > > nev

Re: convert Jessie stable to pure testing

2015-06-06 Thread Francis Gerund
ly to the last poster in the thread (that's you) also. I don't know why. Gmail sucks. If it wasn't free . . . On Sat, Jun 6, 2015 at 3:01 PM, Brian wrote: > On Sat 06 Jun 2015 at 12:56:38 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > > > Francis Gerund wrote: > > > > Yes

convert Jessie stable to pure testing

2015-06-05 Thread Francis Gerund
Hello! It should be so simple . . . 1) I have a new installation of Debian 8 stable (Jessie). 2) I want to convert it to a pure Debian testing setup, to track testing indefinitely. here is my current /etc/apt/sources.list: ---

Re: Migrating to a second subnet, multi-homed for a short time

2015-04-30 Thread francis picabia
On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 2:14 PM, francis picabia wrote: > We have a subnet running our legacy and primary DNS server > where it remains as the last system on that subnet. > Many things are pointing to that IP in resolv.conf, etc., > > We want to put the DNS server on the new subnet

Migrating to a second subnet, multi-homed for a short time

2015-04-30 Thread francis picabia
We have a subnet running our legacy and primary DNS server where it remains as the last system on that subnet. Many things are pointing to that IP in resolv.conf, etc., We want to put the DNS server on the new subnet with all the other systems, to simply configuration on the new Fortinet firewall.

Re: Authentication breakdown

2015-04-07 Thread francis picabia
On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 6:48 PM, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > Hi > > On Tue, 2015-04-07 at 10:02 -0300, francis picabia wrote: >> I'm having a perplexing problem around authentication on my home system. >> >> It has been running 32 bit Debian for years, and up to d

Re: Authentication breakdown

2015-04-07 Thread francis picabia
On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 6:30 PM, francis picabia wrote: > On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 10:02 AM, francis picabia wrote: >> I'm having a perplexing problem around authentication on my home system. >> >> It has been running 32 bit Debian for years, and up to date with Debian 7.

Re: Authentication breakdown

2015-04-07 Thread francis picabia
On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 10:02 AM, francis picabia wrote: > I'm having a perplexing problem around authentication on my home system. > > It has been running 32 bit Debian for years, and up to date with Debian 7. > > Nothing new had been installed or configured for months, only &

Authentication breakdown

2015-04-07 Thread francis picabia
I'm having a perplexing problem around authentication on my home system. It has been running 32 bit Debian for years, and up to date with Debian 7. Nothing new had been installed or configured for months, only aptitude update and aptitude safe-upgrade. This morning, checking email, I found thund

Re: Worry about entropy?

2014-12-03 Thread francis picabia
On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 2:38 PM, Aaron Toponce wrote: > 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 certai

Worry about entropy?

2014-12-01 Thread francis picabia
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 systems with certain applications. Commonly found advice on the net is to loo

Re: XFCE + Konsole - sorting by terminal title?

2014-10-17 Thread francis picabia
On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 10:23 AM, Martin Read wrote: > On 17/10/14 14:10, francis picabia wrote: > >> The problem is with finding terminals. I often have over 60 >> open at once. The task bar or whatever it is called >> in XFCE stacks the open Konsoles, but the listin

XFCE + Konsole - sorting by terminal title?

2014-10-17 Thread francis picabia
This might be one of those scenarios where I have not found the best search terms for google. I'm running XFCE and Konsole for terminal. When I ssh into a system, the title for the Konsole updates to the hostname of the remote system. Even works for Solaris, so this is good. The problem is with f

Re: alpine status?

2014-10-14 Thread francis picabia
On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 2:42 PM, Bret Busby wrote: > On 15/10/2014, Bret Busby wrote: >> On Tue, 14 Oct 2014, francis picabia wrote: >> >>> >>> On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 2:47 PM, Bret Busby wrote: >>>> On 04/09/2014, Karen Lewellen wrote: >>

Re: alpine status?

2014-10-14 Thread francis picabia
On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 1:44 PM, Bret Busby wrote: > On Wed, 15 Oct 2014, Bret Busby wrote: > >> Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2014 00:35:47 >> From: Bret Busby >> To: debian-user >> Subject: Re: alpine status? >> >> >> On Tue, 14 Oct 2014, francis picabia

Re: alpine status?

2014-10-14 Thread francis picabia
On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 2:47 PM, Bret Busby wrote: > On 04/09/2014, Karen Lewellen wrote: >> Can anyone confirm if development continues on alpine? >> I am getting mixed messages about this, one from my web hosting company >> suggesting I join the developer's list, and another from an end user >>

Re: Too many emails

2013-05-08 Thread francis picabia
On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 9:04 AM, Valaki Valahol wrote: > Hello ... > > Since I have subscribed to Your email list I am getting any kind > of emails, not only those concerning my question... > Is this normal and how can I stop receiving all emails, only > the answers to my question ? > > Regards >

Re: Debian 7 Wheezy Stable Relelased

2013-05-06 Thread francis picabia
1. Listen to the advice from knowledge. 2. There is no guessing. It really is documented how to upgrade. Follow instructions. http://www.debian.org/releases/wheezy/amd64/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html (or whatever link suits your platform) If you follow this guide, and stop reading junk

Re: what's your Debian uptime?

2013-05-02 Thread francis picabia
Having a long uptime is fine if you run a system not on the Internet. If you are on the Internet, then a long uptime is like being proud of not having read a newspaper for that many days. Uptime used to be significant over a decade ago, when some systems were recommended to reboot periodically.

Wget difference

2013-05-02 Thread francis picabia
I often download packages to servers using wget and the "Direct Link" feature on the sourceforge projects. For example, today, I downloaded scamp: $ wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/scamp/scamp/scamp-5.6/scamp-5.6.tar.gz?r=&ts=1367500908&use_mirror=superb-dca3 On Redhat, this produc

Re: update of clamav fails - bad variable errors

2013-04-02 Thread francis picabia
On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 4:28 PM, francis picabia wrote: > > I am going to leave the reinstall to another hour of the day when users > won't be impacted much. In the meantime, I thought I'd test the > freshclam run from the command line. First I need to stop > the curren

Re: update of clamav fails - bad variable errors

2013-04-02 Thread francis picabia
On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 3:58 PM, Shane Johnson wrote: > > > > On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 12:47 PM, francis picabia wrote: >> >> On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 3:29 PM, Shane Johnson >> wrote: >> > >> > >> > >> > On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 12:20

Re: update of clamav fails - bad variable errors

2013-04-02 Thread francis picabia
On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 3:29 PM, Shane Johnson wrote: > > > > On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 12:20 PM, francis picabia wrote: >> >> >> The following packages will be upgraded: >> clamav-daemon >> The following partially installed packages will be configured:

update of clamav fails - bad variable errors

2013-04-02 Thread francis picabia
Hey, What do you make of this error with upgrade while running stable on amd64: It should be upgrading 0.97.6 to 0.97.7. # aptitude safe-upgrade clamav-base Resolving dependencies... open: 2; closed: 2; defer: 0; conflict: 0 The following packages will be upgraded: clamav-daemon The following p

Re: Console showing control characters for input on console keyboard

2013-03-21 Thread francis picabia
On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 7:30 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: > francis picabia wrote: >> reset won't work as I cannot login to the tty. >> >> If there is a way to direct the reset to another tty >> or tset has a way to do that it could help because only >> ssh logins

Re: Console showing control characters for input on console keyboard

2013-03-20 Thread francis picabia
reset won't work as I cannot login to the tty. If there is a way to direct the reset to another tty or tset has a way to do that it could help because only ssh logins are working. The keyboard is not the issue as I've attached this system to three different KVMs and they all enter wacky character

Console showing control characters for input on console keyboard

2013-03-20 Thread francis picabia
After some random keys were hit on a KVM, the console is showing control characters as the input. We switched KVM console and the PS/2 KVM adapter, but the problem sticks with the system/OS. Killing all getty to allow them to respawn has not helped. ssh logins are fine. Only the console input i

Re: Python 2.7 packages from testing - 2.6 equivalents not available

2013-03-07 Thread francis picabia
On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 9:30 AM, francis picabia wrote: > > A developer wanted packages python-networkx python-numpy python-scipy > python-matplotlib > amongst others. Then I learned he had developed everything in Ubuntu > where 2.7 is > the standard version. > > No

Python 2.7 packages from testing - 2.6 equivalents not available

2013-03-06 Thread francis picabia
A developer wanted packages python-networkx python-numpy python-scipy python-matplotlib amongst others. Then I learned he had developed everything in Ubuntu where 2.7 is the standard version. No problem, add a repo for testing and install python2.7 There are two problems with the shopping list w

freshclam on debian extracts daily.cld file

2012-11-20 Thread francis picabia
I've noticed the freshclam run on Debian will extract the daily.cld file into the many little daily.* files. If I run freshclam on Redhat in daemon mode, it doesn't do that. Is freshclam set up with some option at build time to use sigtool? I can't see anything in freshclam.conf to explain the d

Re: Compiling libtiff support in Kakadu - not finding header file?

2012-09-10 Thread francis picabia
On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 1:53 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2012-09-10 18:26 +0200, francis picabia wrote: > >> Strangely, we're not getting many answers on this from the support >> (creator) of Kakadu, but maybe anyone with some code porting savvy can help. >> >>

Compiling libtiff support in Kakadu - not finding header file?

2012-09-10 Thread francis picabia
Strangely, we're not getting many answers on this from the support (creator) of Kakadu, but maybe anyone with some code porting savvy can help. This is Linux x86_64, building in the Kakadu apps part of the build tree. It builds fine with default Makefile. When libtiff4-dev is installed and we att

Re: systemd

2012-09-06 Thread francis picabia
On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 12:47 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Wed, 2012-07-25 at 17:32 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >> On Wed, 2012-07-25 at 17:29 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >> > PS: Even the Wiki shows him taking a photo from himself: >> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lennart_Poettering >> >> You thin

Re: Xen vs KVM

2012-08-21 Thread francis picabia
On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 2:59 AM, Tom H wrote: > Unless there's a fedora-devel thread where this was discussed, there's > probably no way to know why RHEL6 switched to kvm except to assume > that kvm's in-kernel and xen isn't. This has changed in the latest > kernels so xen support might very well

Re: Random lockups

2012-07-06 Thread francis picabia
The golden rule with random, that is, not reproducible by doing something, is you are looking at a hardware problem, not an OS problem. The way to diagnose the hardware is to replace with known good parts until the problem is resolved. Power supplies and motherboards are common culprits. Memory

Re: Filezilla a security risk

2012-06-29 Thread francis picabia
The posts about how there are other risks from malware and keyloggers is true enough. I never claimed that avoiding filezilla would make the Windows system secure. But if you have your doors and windows open, and want to reduce the chance of theft, then I'd say filezilla is like a patio door wide

Re: Filezilla a security risk

2012-06-28 Thread francis picabia
On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 12:35 PM, Shane Johnson wrote: > > Please remember that FTP by nature is insecure.  All it would take is > for someone to packet sniff the connection and they would have the > user name and password to the account as they are transmitted in plain > text. Yes, this is all

Re: Filezilla a security risk

2012-06-28 Thread francis picabia
On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 5:37 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Mi, 27 iun 12, 20:58:39, francis picabia wrote: >> >> We have to do what ever possible to reduce the size of the target to >> the hacker.   In this case we advise users to uninstall Filezilla >> and use somet

Re: Filezilla a security risk

2012-06-28 Thread francis picabia
On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 5:03 AM, Claudius Hubig wrote: > Your users, your _Windows_ users, are certainly your problem and not > one that should be discussed on the debian-user ML. I have a Debian system I administer that was compromised this way. If the hacker uses two mirrors and shaving cream

Re: Filezilla a security risk

2012-06-27 Thread francis picabia
On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 4:46 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Mi, 27 iun 12, 16:26:48, francis picabia wrote: >> I've just learned Filezilla is a security risk.  It stores saved >> passwords and the last used password in a plain text file. > > As do many other progra

Filezilla a security risk

2012-06-27 Thread francis picabia
I've just learned Filezilla is a security risk. It stores saved passwords and the last used password in a plain text file. Malware commonly scoops up this info and hacks web sites or shell accounts. The developer refuses to incorporate a solution such as master password and encryption into filez

Re: What could a regular user do with a .rpmdb directory uploaded?

2012-06-06 Thread francis picabia
On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 1:45 PM, Camaleón wrote: > On Wed, 06 Jun 2012 12:20:51 -0300, francis picabia wrote: > >> I think I've found a compromised user account. > > Wow :-( > > How they got into (unpatched application, password steal...)? In many cases, phishing - s

Re: User logins not appearing in wtmp?

2012-06-06 Thread francis picabia
On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 1:14 PM, Camaleón wrote: > On Wed, 06 Jun 2012 11:36:09 -0300, francis picabia wrote: > >> Today I see from logwatch report 28 sshd logins from one user at an IP >> address in a different continent than usually seen here. >> >> When I look up

What could a regular user do with a .rpmdb directory uploaded?

2012-06-06 Thread francis picabia
I think I've found a compromised user account. This is on Debian but alien is installed. The attackers have not made a move yet, but have done some tests and kept their connections to scp/sftp to be unnoticed by last. There is a directory .rpmdb uploaded to their home directory. How could this

User logins not appearing in wtmp?

2012-06-06 Thread francis picabia
Today I see from logwatch report 28 sshd logins from one user at an IP address in a different continent than usually seen here. When I look up this user with last command to see if this is part of a travel pattern or perhaps their account is compromised, I don't get any matches. I've used last and

Re: Xen vs KVM

2012-03-29 Thread francis picabia
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 1:44 PM, Hilco Wijbenga wrote: > On 28 March 2012 06:43, Aaron Toponce wrote: >> 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

Re: How do you approach the problem of "MaxClients reached" with apache?

2012-03-20 Thread francis picabia
On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 2:56 AM, Bob Proulx wrote: > francis picabia wrote: >> Bob Proulx wrote: >> > francis picabia wrote: >> >> One of the most frustrating problems which can happen in apache is to >> >> see the error: >> >> >&

Re: How do you approach the problem of "MaxClients reached" with apache?

2012-02-22 Thread francis picabia
On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 12:39 PM, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > On Wed, 2012-02-22 at 14:05 +0000, francis picabia wrote: > > Hello, > > One of the most frustrating problems which can happen in apache is to > see the error: > > server reached MaxClients setting > &g

Re: How do you approach the problem of "MaxClients reached" with apache?

2012-02-22 Thread francis picabia
On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 3:49 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: > francis picabia wrote: >> One of the most frustrating problems which can happen in apache is to >> see the error: >> >> server reached MaxClients setting > > Why is it frustrating? Yes, maybe you don't

How do you approach the problem of "MaxClients reached" with apache?

2012-02-22 Thread francis picabia
Hello, One of the most frustrating problems which can happen in apache is to see the error: server reached MaxClients setting After it, the server slowly spirals down. Sometimes it mysteriously recovers. This is difficult to diagnose after the problem appeared and went away. What have we for a

installation ppc mac

2012-02-13 Thread Bud Francis
Hi there debian folks, I got my hands on a power mac g4 with a 32 bit ppc processor.  After trying to install many versions of Linux on it I have come to the conclusion that it comes up fine in text mode but as soon as the xserver starts it messes up.  My machine has an ATI  Rage 128 in a pci s

Re: SGE (grid-engine-*) versus open grid scheduler

2012-01-25 Thread francis picabia
On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 4:04 PM, francis picabia wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 2:23 PM, Camaleón wrote: >> >> On Wed, 07 Dec 2011 12:08:55 -0400, francis picabia wrote: >> >> > Maybe this isn't the best list to discuss grid cluster software, but >

Re: Thunderbird 9.0.1 does not launch

2012-01-12 Thread francis picabia
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 2:58 PM, francis picabia wrote: > I normally have no problem with this.  I install thunderbird > update when prompted by the app and it is normally > able to update itself.  Today it seemed to update, but > then nothing came back up.  Manually launching it &g

Thunderbird 9.0.1 does not launch

2012-01-11 Thread francis picabia
I normally have no problem with this. I install thunderbird update when prompted by the app and it is normally able to update itself. Today it seemed to update, but then nothing came back up. Manually launching it failed to do anything - no error. I downloaded a fresh bzipped tar and installed

Re: rootdelay=9 kernal option - why?

2012-01-10 Thread francis picabia
On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 7:22 PM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > francis picabia a écrit : >> On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 10:11 AM, Pascal Hambourg >> wrote: >> >> I'm sure I didn't learn of the solution initially through the debian >> release notes. > > Y

Re: rootdelay=9 kernal option - why?

2012-01-09 Thread francis picabia
On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 10:11 AM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Hello, > > Camaleón a écrit : >> >> I wonder how did you finally reached the conclusion for the "rootdelay", >> I wouldn't either have imagined so after finding any clue over Internet, >> forums and mailing lists... even after reading the R

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