Re: Debian 8 how to install and run init.d scripts?

2019-10-21 Thread Peter Wiersig
Steffen Dettmer writes: > So you propose not to use init.d scripts. I usually prefer a simple shell > script that is easy to test, systemd is just way to complex. But probably > for Debian you are right, if I understood correctly, newer versions do not > even support init.d / LSB anymore, so using

Re: Debian 8 how to install and run init.d scripts?

2019-10-20 Thread Peter Wiersig
5.) Instead of init.d scripts create systemd units. https://wiki.debian.org/systemd#Creating_or_altering_services https://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/ About your gitlab-runner.service failure: https://wiki.debian.org/systemd#Failed_units HINT: Extensive debugging information about sys

Re: awstats problem

2019-07-26 Thread Peter Wiersig
Greg Wooledge writes: Thu, Jul 25, 2019 at 11:48:46AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: >> root@coyote:~$ su www-data >> This account is currently not available. > > If you want a shell as a system account, use sudo instead. > > sudo -s -u www-data or set the shell using su: su -s /bin/bash -u www-data

Re: Need help analyzing (kernel?) memory usage and reclaiming RAM (Debian Stretch)

2019-04-16 Thread Peter Wiersig
Martin Schwarz writes: > > Here's the output from some commands I hope to be helpful: > > The machine in this example is a RADIUS server but has not even gone > productive ... no incoming client requests yet. (But the problem is not > related to the RADIUS server software - OSC Radiator - since t

Re: Need help analyzing (kernel?) memory usage and reclaiming RAM (Debian Stretch)

2019-04-16 Thread Peter Wiersig
Reco writes: Hi Reco, > On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 04:39:32PM +0200, Peter Wiersig wrote: >> VSZ is the Virtual Memory Size. (...), >>including memory that is swapped out, >> memory that is allocated, but not used, >> and

Re: Need help analyzing (kernel?) memory usage and reclaiming RAM (Debian Stretch)

2019-04-16 Thread Peter Wiersig
Martin Schwarz writes: > root@rad-m2m-srv02:~# ps aux --sort=-rss | head -15 you're choosing the wrong sort field to debug your problem here: man ps: """ rss RSS resident set size, the non-swapped physical memory that a task has used (in kiloBytes).

Re: Exploring package interrelationships

2019-04-15 Thread Peter Wiersig
Richard Owlett writes: > Long term goal: *personal* definition of a minimalist Debian > > current goal: grok how packages interact http://www.macfreek.nl/memory/Dependency_Graph_Debian_Packages TLDR: $ apt-cache dotty mate-desktop > dependency-graph.dot $ dot -Tpng dependency-graph.dot That eit

Re: BTRFS snapshot space consumption (was: New laptop: need advice on choice...)

2019-04-14 Thread Peter Wiersig
Dan Ritter writes: > Peter Wiersig wrote: > > ZFS is now in two incompatible versions: Oracle's, and ZFSonLinux, > which is now effectively the parent for all the other efforts including > FreeBSD's ZFS. The biggest problem is the incompatible license which makes t

Re: BTRFS snapshot space consumption (was: New laptop: need advice on choice...)

2019-04-14 Thread Peter Wiersig
Matthew Crews writes: > > Here is a good talk on the subject by Michael Lucas, one of the premier > experts on ZFS. Its worth noting that a lot of the concepts apply to > BTRFS to varying degrees: > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9A0dX2WqW8 I don't have time yet, I think I will watch the whol

Re: BTRFS snapshot space consumption (was: New laptop: need advice on choice...)

2019-04-13 Thread Peter Wiersig
Peter Wiersig writes: > > I would be pissed if my OS removes snapshots I might or might not need > in the future. That's a release critical bug in my eyes. Yeah, I know > Microsoft and Apple do that automatically if your capacity runs out, but > that's also why I do

Re: BTRFS snapshot space consumption (was: New laptop: need advice on choice...)

2019-04-13 Thread Peter Wiersig
Felix Miata writes: > Anders Andersson composed on 2019-04-13 17:31 (UTC+0200): > >> Felix Miata wrote: > >>> Because of its snapshotting, BTRFS requires considerably more space than >>> older >>> filesystems, as much as double. > >> A btrfs snapshot takes approximately zero space. Where did you

Detour: notmuch advertisement (was: emacs save and kill buffer for (neo)mutt)

2019-04-12 Thread Peter Wiersig
Pétùr writes: > I use neomutt with emacs. If you're using the kitchen sink, why not stay completely in emacs? https://emacs.stackexchange.com/q/12927 (Disclaimer: I wrote one of the answers to that meta question) I used mutt for decades, I still think it's a fine tool, but I found more happines

Re: terminal with right-click = paste?

2019-04-10 Thread Peter Wiersig
Lee writes: > > How does one tell if putty (0.67-3+deb9u1) has all the security fixes > that are in 0.71? I think that's what p.d.o is trying to communicate with the bold red [SECURITY] badge I cut out while pasting the info. Peter

Re: terminal with right-click = paste?

2019-04-10 Thread Peter Wiersig
Lee writes: > > But again.. wow. And not in a good way. Install putty on debian, run > putty, right click on the putty menu bar (title bar?) and the menu is > lacking _anything_ to do with how putty behaves. I never tried PuTTY on linux, but I also grew up with X so middle mouse paste is my def

Re: terminal with right-click = paste?

2019-04-10 Thread Peter Wiersig
Lee writes: > > How do I find out what other terminal programs are already installed > that I can try? Installed? I don't know your package list Installable? see below. > What terminal programs are available that have a 'right click pastes > text' option _and_ has a scroll bar that is > 1. easil

Re: putty go slow

2019-04-10 Thread Peter Wiersig
Michael Stone writes: > There's more debugging that could be done if needed, but for .01% I'd > write it off as a momentary blip, maybe related to load during startup > of a network service, and ignore it unless it started growing. Yeah, currently I'm working as a monitoring specialist and after

Re: putty go slow

2019-04-10 Thread Peter Wiersig
mick crane writes: > Just looking I had a misspelled entry in hosts file on windows for the > PC that is name server which can't have been helping matters. No, but problems that arise from that manifest in different ways contrary to what you posted in the initial mail. > I'll get some decent c

Re: putty go slow

2019-04-10 Thread Peter Wiersig
Michael Stone writes: > On Wed, Apr 10, 2019 at 12:00:01PM +0200, Peter Wiersig wrote: >>> /sbin/ifconfig >>> enp0s25: flags=4163 mtu 1500 >>> inet 10.0.0.3 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 10.0.0.255 >>> inet6 fe80::219:d1f

Re: putty go slow

2019-04-10 Thread Peter Wiersig
mick crane writes: > On 2019-04-09 07:46, Peter Wiersig wrote: >> >> Is anything else connected to this hub? If your problems occur, is >> anything else using the hub concurrently? Can you reduce the >> connections only to server and client and maybe a internet upli

Re: putty go slow

2019-04-08 Thread Peter Wiersig
mick crane writes: > > the PCs are physically adjacent connected with the RJ45 ( isn't it ) > cables through what is supposed to be a switch I got in B&Q several > years ago. Almost, RJ-45 is the specification for the plug and jacks, what you're having here is ethernet wiring in twisted pairs be

Re: Tracking the next Stable release

2019-04-08 Thread Peter Wiersig
Francisco M Neto writes: > Sometimes people ask me when is Debian going to release its next Stable; > that is not an easy answer, since it is not time-based but rather based on the > number of Release-Critical bugs. It's done when it's done and https://lists.debian.org/debian-announce/ get

Re: putty go slow

2019-04-08 Thread Peter Wiersig
You'd at least have to explain the type of connection from the putty client to the server. But your symptoms don't ring a bell over here aside from a saturated uplink. Peter

Re: php.ini ignored

2019-03-31 Thread Peter Wiersig
Andrew Wood writes: > Configuration File (php.ini) Path /etc/php/7.0/apache2 > Loaded Configuration File /etc/php/7.0/apache2/php.ini > Scan this dir for additional .ini files /etc/php/7.0/apache2/conf.d IIRC the latter files override the main config file. So if your changes in apac

Re: chroot jail for user with rssh

2019-03-28 Thread Peter Wiersig
basti writes: > On 28.03.19 08:21, Peter Wiersig wrote: >> basti writes: > Try scp: > > /usr/sbin/sshd -d -p > > Starting session: command for alice from 2.206.185.146 port 45296 id 0 So that reads as if all is fine, but then the next line indicates that the c

Re: chroot jail for user with rssh

2019-03-28 Thread Peter Wiersig
basti writes: > > Files inside chroot: > > /home/user# find ./ > ./ > ./bin > ./bin/ls > ./bin/date > ./bin/bash > ./.ssh > ./.ssh/authorized_keys > ./lib > ./lib/x86_64-linux-gnu > ./lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libattr.so.1 > ./lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncurses.so.5 > ./lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/librt.so.1 > .

Re: chroot jail for user with rssh

2019-03-28 Thread Peter Wiersig
basti writes: > sftp -vv u...@example.com > Transferred: sent 2508, received 2260 bytes, in 0.2 seconds > Bytes per second: sent 15924.1, received 14349.5 > debug1: Exit status 1 > Connection closed > > > scp -vv u...@example.com:/foo /tmp > Transferred: sent 2508, received 2304 bytes, in 0.2 sec

Re: add IGNORE_SMTP_LINE_LENGTH_LIMIT macro to Exim

2018-09-12 Thread Peter Wiersig
Lucio writes: > > undocumented line IGNORE_SMTP_LINE_LENGTH_LIMIT=1 found in > /etc/exim4/update-exim4.conf.conf, generating exim macro > > and that does not sound good to me. Yeah, remove that. I think there is quite a lot of *.Debian.gz documentation in the various exim4 packages. > What's th

Re: a dh keys question?

2018-08-03 Thread Peter Wiersig
Karen Lewellen writes: > 1. > I am not using Linux, but an ssh client compiled from a combination of > tools, Linux and otherwise, including putty. Putty has a "Event Log" entry in its system menu. Peter

Re: apache 2.4 envvars ? Deb 9.4

2018-07-16 Thread Peter Wiersig
Dave writes: > when i run apache2, i get an error APACHE_PID_FILE missspelled or > unknown var. > > and how do i include the "envvars" in the apache2.conf file ? > > please advise. /usr/share/doc/apache2/README.Debian.gz: Apache2 Configuration under Debian GNU/Linux =

Re: Have blkid reports on newly added devices

2011-08-05 Thread Peter Wiersig
On Thu, 4 Aug 2011 17:55:19 + (UTC), T o n g wrote: > > $ blkid | grep sdc || echo no found > no found > > Any workaround? sudo blkid -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive

Re: diff original .conf files in packages with the ones installed

2011-07-01 Thread Peter Wiersig
On Fri, 1 Jul 2011 09:44:41 +0200, alberto fuentes wrote: > > The easier way it comes to mind is to dpkg --get-selections, debootstrap, > chroot and install the selection and then make the diff. dpkg-repack and the debdiff command from the package devscripts? Perter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Features Missing in Debian's Package Management System

2011-06-15 Thread Peter Wiersig
On Wed, 15 Jun 2011 19:32:13 +0200, "Hans-J. Ullrich" wrote: > Additional to this, my suggestion: > > 1. An option, to read the changelog BEFORE a package is installed or upgraded. apt-listchanges > 2. An option, to see, which files will be installed BEFORE the first > installation or at rene

Re: Proper Use of adduser.conf

2011-06-14 Thread Peter Wiersig
On Fri, 10 Jun 2011 06:29:26 -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: > Peter Wiersig writes: > > What result is printed on "getent passwd testuser"? > > # getent passwd testuser > testuser:x:28000:28000:a b c,,,:/srv/backups/testuser:/bin/bash looking ok. > > what

Re: X host will not connect

2011-06-10 Thread Peter Wiersig
On Fri, 10 Jun 2011 06:11:09 +0200, Mark Panen wrote: > > "synaptic > X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication. > > (synaptic:12730): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: localhost:10.0" Try "ln -sf /home/mark/.Xauthority /root/" as root if mark is the user logged in via ssh -X.

Re: Proper Use of adduser.conf

2011-06-10 Thread Peter Wiersig
On Thu, 09 Jun 2011 15:13:27 -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: > > When I ran adduser, it appeared to work and placed the > home directory in /srv/backups but if you su - testuser, it > complains that there is no home directory. What result is printed on "getent passwd testuser"? what's the

Re: A dpkg puzzle on debian testing.

2011-03-07 Thread Peter Wiersig
On Mon, 07 Mar 2011 11:53:00 -0500, rvclay...@verizon.net (R. Clayton) wrote: > > Thus the puzzle: how is it that a package that's not installed prevents an > installed package from being purged? smbclient != sambaclient Peter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org