Re: [OT] Breaking WPA2 by forcing nonce reuse

2017-10-19 Thread Ron Leach
On 19/10/2017 16:56, Dan Purgert wrote: Brian wrote: [...] Isn't it sufficient to fix one end of the connection to dispose of the vulnerability? KRACK is an attack against the *client* side. It MUST (rfc2119) be that device that is patched against the attack. Dan, I'm not sure it's that s

Re: Power draw from UPS

2017-07-27 Thread Ron Leach
On 27/07/2017 11:27, g wrote: Hi all, I want to get the power draw from a APC USB UPS. I have managed [...] But I dont't have such a port neither a cable. Our APC UPSs included a USB cable in the box. The cable uses a USB plug at one end (into the linux machine) and a different plug at th

Re: TCP proxy for host on subnet

2017-06-10 Thread Ron Leach
On 06/06/2017 18:03, Greg Wooledge wrote: Once you're ready to deploy it, you would want to set it up as an automatically respawning service, under systemd or one of the other service managers. I seem to be having a problem stopping socat under Wheezy LTS using /etc/init.d. I've created a s

Re: TCP proxy for host on subnet

2017-06-06 Thread Ron Leach
On 06/06/2017 14:22, Henning Follmann wrote: On Tue, Jun 06, 2017 at 10:59:30AM +0100, Ron Leach wrote: I was also unsure whether socat would hold open a connection to name.server.tld even if no transactions were taking place, or whether socat would only open the connection each time traffic

Re: TCP proxy for host on subnet

2017-06-06 Thread Ron Leach
On 05/06/2017 14:08, Henning wrote: socat Henning, thank you for that. socat seems a very flexible package. Have you used it yourself, at all? I couldn't see from the documentation how to terminate socat. I was planning to use a variation of one of their examples, like this: socat -d

TCP proxy for host on subnet

2017-06-05 Thread Ron Leach
List, good morning, I'm looking for a way to provide a tcp proxy, which can run as a service on a Wheezy-LTS host, for a single (higher-order) port. I have looked at two packages, but neither is quite suitable. Connect-proxy ( https://packages.debian.org/wheezy/connect-proxy ) works well ex

Re: Adding Date & Time to a script's output log

2017-06-01 Thread Ron Leach
People are so generous with their time. I hadn't realised that spaces were sometimes semantically relevant. (And I liked Nicolas's detox joke, well done.) Thanks very much for all the advice. I'm using webmail, and I cannot reply in thread to any one message (the inbound messages have been fe

Syslog: rpc.imapd and nss_getpwnam “does not map into [ourdomain.tld]”

2017-05-02 Thread Ron Leach
List, good evening, We have set up a new server intended only to serve archival and current files to other users on our network. The primary applications are nfs and samba; sshd and exim (only for system mail to route to our on-site MTA on another machine) are also operating. Syslog is show

Re: continual acpid and gdm3 messages in syslog

2017-04-27 Thread Ron Leach
On 27/04/2017 21:57, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2017-04-27 19:48 +0100, Ron Leach wrote: In syslog there are pretty much continuous messages (extract below) issued by acpid and gdm. The gdm3 message warns that GdmDisplay is lasting a very short time. How about just stopping these services

continual acpid and gdm3 messages in syslog

2017-04-27 Thread Ron Leach
List, good evening, Syslog is logging thousands of reports that I've not seen before, and I wonder if anybody on the list could advise how I should deal with these reports. In syslog there are pretty much continuous messages (extract below) issued by acpid and gdm. The gdm3 message warns th

Installer: problem installing onto LVM on RAID1

2017-04-09 Thread Ron Leach
List, good evening, I am trying to install Debian onto an LVM, and I want the LVM to use a pair of disks in a RAID1 configuration. I'm having difficulty instructing the partitioner to do this. I have a new, empty, machine with 2 x 3TB disks. This new machine is intended to replace our exis

Re: Deb-Installer: Possible to set IP using a boot parameter?

2017-03-31 Thread Ron Leach
On 28/03/2017 18:15, Brian wrote: Any combination of preseed directives can be used as boot parameters. For example: netcfg/get_ipaddress=192.168.1.42. AFAIK, not on the website. You can generate all the preseed options for yourself. Search the wiki for "preseed". Brian, thanks for the rep

Deb-Installer: Possible to set IP using a boot parameter?

2017-03-28 Thread Ron Leach
List, good afternoon, Does anyone know whether there is a Debian-Installer boot parameter that enables a specific, static, IP to be set for use during the installation process? I've checked the Installer guide, s 5.3 boot parameters [1], where a parameter to disable DHCP autoconfig is descri

Re: Ideas to obtain text file list of emails in an IMAP folder?

2016-06-03 Thread Ron Leach
On 03/06/2016 17:31, Dan Purgert wrote: Ron Leach wrote: Have any debian-user readers ever tried to create a list of all the email messages stored in an IMAP folder? Do the same here (Dovecot + Postfix), not 100% certain if this'll match your setup, but it should be pretty close.

Re: Something never understood: see USB storage in CLI & mc

2016-05-18 Thread Ron Leach
First, may I, at the top of the post and before replying to Brian, acknowledge the plethora of information in all the thread replies. I really would like to express my thanks to so many users who took the time to help explain and suggest. On 18/05/2016 17:25, Brian wrote: On Wed 18 May 2016

Re: Something never understood: see USB storage in CLI & mc

2016-05-18 Thread Ron Leach
On 18/05/2016 10:40, Felix Miata wrote: Ron Leach composed on 2016-05-18 10:30 (UTC+0100): I'd be grateful for any advice on where to find the physical device to use in a mount command. # lsscsi ... [9:0:0:0] disk FLASH Drive SM_USB20 1100 /dev/sdg... # blkid /dev/sdg # mount -t aut

Something never understood: see USB storage in CLI & mc

2016-05-18 Thread Ron Leach
List, good morning, One aspect of Debian I've never managed to 'get', is how to 'see' any temporarily plugged-in USB storage device, from the command line or in mc. The machines in question are using Wheezy. I often use a machine (with only cli) to download overnight - this works well. But

Re: mutt attachment error

2016-05-13 Thread Ron Leach
On 13/05/2016 12:10, Haines Brown wrote: I'm still having no luck increasing maximum attachment size. I create file: /etc/exim4/exim4.conf.localmacros I leave it default permissions: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root It has a single line: MESSAGE_SIZE_LIMIT = 200M followed by CR. I am no expert on line e

Re: Can not dial mobile broadband with Network-manager

2016-05-12 Thread Ron Leach
On 12/05/2016 17:25, Wang wrote: I try to use Network-manager in GNOME to dial a mobile broadband connection. My provider is China Unicom, and no username and password is need. But when I complete the setting and try to dial, a dialog is showed to input a password. If no password is inputed, t

Re: Openssl -showcerts "verify error"

2016-05-05 Thread Ron Leach
On 05/05/2016 00:13, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Wednesday 04 May 2016 23:58:56 Ron Leach wrote: But ... following some other earlier posts by folk using a web browser to reach the url (and seeming to have success) Curiouser and curiouser - I didn't just reach it successfully, I logg

Re: Openssl -showcerts "verify error"

2016-05-04 Thread Ron Leach
On 04/05/2016 23:22, Reco wrote: Considering that https://secure.gateway.gov.uk tells me about *selecting* a valid certificate - it could mean that your *client* became expired recently. I wondered. The application is a Python package distributed by UK TAX authority and intended for electron

Openssl -showcerts "verify error"

2016-05-04 Thread Ron Leach
List, good afternoon, I'd appreciate some advice about how to fix an SSL error I'm hitting while accessing a government website required for online filing. Oddly, this error has just occurred, but we've been using the service without difficulty for a few years. The SSL failure is reported by

Re: [ A little off topic] Best e-mail client for Android

2016-04-11 Thread Ron Leach
On 11/04/2016 13:02, German wrote: I wonder what Debian users use on their phone/tablet. K-9, here; using IMAP to reach Dovecot on Debian. Took a little setting up to limit the display of mailbox folders to only those I want/need to use on the phone/tablet. Solid performance, though. Ron

Live CD - boot option for static IP?

2016-04-03 Thread Ron Leach
List, good morning, Is there a way to set a static IP at the boot dialog when starting from a Live CD? I've got a Wheezy server that is a bit broken and I'm trying to run a Wheezy live CD so that I can see what's gone wrong. The Live CD starts perfectly, so the machine will boot and, though

Re: chroot directory, and sshd

2016-03-11 Thread Ron Leach
On 10/03/2016 21:41, Sven Hartge wrote: Ron Leach wrote: I haven't been able to find out how to check the permissions on "/", and I'd appreciate a suggestion how to do that # ls -ld / drwxr-xr-x 29 root root 4096 Mar 10 13:07 / Sven, tks. I'd used "

chroot directory, and sshd

2016-03-10 Thread Ron Leach
List, good evening, AIUI, sshd requires that a chroot directory, and all directories above it, including "/", must be owned by root, and not be writable except by root. '755' permissions. While trying to set up an sftp-only service, and using this stanza in /etc/ssh/sshd_config : Match Gr

Re: Does anyone know how to configure a Brother MFC-J5720DW with cups?

2016-03-08 Thread Ron Leach
On 08/03/2016 14:56, Jarle Aase wrote: The printer display says that it is receiving data. Then nothing happens. So the comm-link is OK. I had a Brother MFC around 6 years ago and remember having difficulty setting it up. In the end, if I remember correctly, the issue was that the printer

Re: Squid3 doesn't listen on any port on Jessie

2016-02-08 Thread Ron Leach
On 08/02/2016 10:20, Willy Ted MANGA wrote: Hello, I just upgraded my server from wheezy to jessie and my squid3 doesn't listen to any port . :-\ We just had a similar problem with a new squid 3 install on another distro. (For historical reasons we have one old server running Fedora, just

Re: Boxed W8/W10 PC; must anything be done, first, to enable dual-bootable later?

2015-09-26 Thread Ron Leach
On 26/09/2015 17:53, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Ron Leach a écrit : On 26/09/2015 16:40, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Does "lspci -nnk" show any SATA/IDE/AHCI/RAID controller and associated kernel module ? I think so. The machine is not networked, but redirecting the output to /home lets m

Re: Boxed W8/W10 PC; must anything be done, first, to enable dual-bootable later?

2015-09-26 Thread Ron Leach
On 26/09/2015 17:53, Pascal Hambourg wrote: If you boot Windows, open the device manager and select "display by connection" (or so), can you see the device chain up to the disk ? Hehe. Pascal, this is before Windows has ever run; my objective is to image the SDD HD *before* I run Windows fo

Re: Boxed W8/W10 PC; must anything be done, first, to enable dual-bootable later?

2015-09-26 Thread Ron Leach
On 26/09/2015 17:58, The Wanderer wrote: On 2015-09-26 at 12:42, Ron Leach wrote: I see: SD host controller Intel .. MIPI-HSI controller [8086:0f50] Subsystem HP company device [103c:8023] Kernel driver: sdhci-pci This is not a SATA/etc. controller; it appears to be an SD-card controller

Re: Boxed W8/W10 PC; must anything be done, first, to enable dual-bootable later?

2015-09-26 Thread Ron Leach
On 26/09/2015 16:40, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Does "lspci -nnk" show any SATA/IDE/AHCI/RAID controller and associated kernel module ? I think so. The machine is not networked, but redirecting the output to /home lets me view the file, and I see: SD host controller Intel .. MIPI-HSI control

Re: Boxed W8/W10 PC; must anything be done, first, to enable dual-bootable later?

2015-09-26 Thread Ron Leach
On 22/09/2015 02:30, David Christensen wrote: On 09/19/2015 05:17 AM, Eike Lantzsch wrote: First of all I'd do a complete disk image +1 Do this before you boot Windows for the first time. with e.g. Clonezilla. I typically use 'dd' and/or 'gzip', as they are included in the rescue tool

Boxed W8/W10 PC; must anything be done, first, to enable dual-bootable later?

2015-09-19 Thread Ron Leach
List, good morning, I have purchased a Windows 8.1 (optional W10) notebook and I wondered what, if anything, I ought to do *first* before letting Windows start after first switch-on, and then also installing Debian to make a dual boot system. I have installed Debian to dual boot on several Win

Timeout, on access to MTA/25, from offsite over SSH tunnel

2015-08-03 Thread Ron Leach
List good morning, I am trying to access our MTA from offsite over an SSH tunnel, but the MUA (Thunderbird) is reporting a timeout on accessing the MTA. The server is Wheezy; sshd is running; the tunnel is set up to terminate on the same server that runs the MTA (exim), as well as running ot

(D7) Xsane not seeing HPAIO on local network segment

2015-07-01 Thread Ron Leach
List, good afternoon, We have an HP All In One (C7280, includes flatbed/ADF scanner) connected on a network segment (192.168.0/24) local to a laptop running Xsane (0.998) under Wheezy. Hplip contains the hpaio backend for Sane and is installed; /etc/sane.d/dll.d/hplip exists, and contains th

Re: [SOLVED] Could do with some help - Wheezy, Kernel updated, now cannot boot

2015-03-15 Thread Ron Leach
On 14/03/2015 22:45, Bob Proulx wrote: Normally the idea in rescue mode is that you are presented with a shell with the root in your main system. At that point you can mount the rest of your system. It would normally be like this: # mount -a However seeing those large numbers 121 and 121

NFS client in 'rescue shell' from install DVD?

2015-03-13 Thread Ron Leach
List, good morning, I started and continuing with a separate thread about a boot problem but have a specific query about the rescue shell and NFS, which I thought worth having as a separate short topic. It's a wheezy system, running under the rescue shell provided by the install DVD. I want

Re: Could do with some help - Wheezy, Kernel updated, now cannot boot

2015-03-13 Thread Ron Leach
Some progress. The CDROM problem that was preventing the D7.7 install DVD from running in rescue mode was due to a defective USB DVD device. Replacing that enables the rescue mode of the install DVD to run properly. Rescue mode has assembled 7 raid partitions, and '/' was on the 2nd partitio

Re: Could do with some help - Wheezy, Kernel updated, now cannot boot

2015-03-12 Thread Ron Leach
[Sorry I cannot cite or credit the help messages I'm responding to.] There are around 6 partitions on these disks, I think separate /tmp, /var, maybe a separate /srv, I cannot recall exactly because this machine was first built with Lenny a few years ago. (And without any way to look at what'

Could do with some help - Wheezy, Kernel updated, now cannot boot

2015-03-12 Thread Ron Leach
List, good evening, Been adding some security upgrades on a Wheezy server, these included upgrading the kernel to the latest - I cannot be precise but I think it changed from --u5 to --u7. It's pae 386. 3.65, I think, but that's from memory. I can't check any of this because I cannot boot

Re: Digital noise from USB DAC device

2015-03-02 Thread Ron Leach
On 02/03/2015 19:45, Teemu Likonen wrote: But with high-dynamic classical music I need to turn amplifier's volume up more than usually and it reveals some sort of digital noise. Here's a short recording of the sound (file size 1.2MB): http://koti.kapsi.fi/~dtw/usb-dac-digital-noise.flac That's

Re: SOLVED Fetchmail; continually losing authentication with gmx.net

2014-11-29 Thread Ron Leach
On 26/11/2014 07:50, Frédéric Marchal wrote: Fetchmail certainly uses the system ssl library and SSLv3 was recently disabled system wide for security reasons (see the poodle attack). [snip] You'll have to investigate a bit but my theory is that fetchmail is requesting SSLv3. As it is disabled

Exim config: possible to use AUTH *only* on port 587?

2014-11-28 Thread Ron Leach
List, good evening, Been setting up Exim and Dovecot to work together. Inbound mail is working, stored in maildirs and served by Dovecot using IMAP over SSL. Exim is also working as an authenticated (only) relay for when our users want to send or reply to email while offsite, and set up so t

Re: Fetchmail (long); continually losing authentication with gmx.net

2014-11-25 Thread Ron Leach
On 24/11/2014 21:02, Frédéric Marchal wrote: The best thing to do when debugging that kind of problem is to have a look at the content of /etc/init.d/fetchmail, find the actual fetchmail command started by the script and run the command manually from the shell. Don't forget to remove the option

Fetchmail; continually losing authentication with gmx.net

2014-11-24 Thread Ron Leach
List, good evening, We use Fetchmail to collect email from various addresses and providers. The incoming mail is passed to Exim for delivery to mailboxes, and served to local MUAs on the network using IMAP provided by Dovecot. We've had this architecture in place since Debian Etch (D4) and

Re: [OT] alternative to dnsdynamic.com?

2014-11-24 Thread Ron Leach
On 24/11/2014 14:23, Ron Leach wrote: First, If you are looking for (1) a free domain name with (2) the capability to automatically update the dns record whenever the IP address of a host changes, such as the dyndns free service previously did, then I wonder if it may be possible to 1. use a

Re: [OT] alternative to dnsdynamic.com?

2014-11-24 Thread Ron Leach
On 24/11/2014 13:40, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, It seems dsndynamic.com bit the dust this weekend of the 23 of November. Is there an alternative of a free dsn server? Two ideas: First, If you are looking for (1) a free domain name with (2) the capability to automat

Re: ssh_keygen : command not found

2014-11-16 Thread Ron Leach
On 16/11/2014 17:01, Ron Leach wrote: ron@d7server:~$ ssh-keygen -bash: ssh_keygen : command not found ron@d7server:~$ Idiot. I've been typing ssh_keygen . Apologies to the list. And thanks to Lisi and Ansgar. Don't you ever only see it after it's too late. Sor

ssh_keygen : command not found

2014-11-16 Thread Ron Leach
I hesitate to trouble the list with this but, when trying to generate a key pair on a (lenny) system recently upgraded to wheezy, 7.7, I am seeing this: ron@d7server:~$ ssh-keygen -bash: ssh_keygen : command not found ron@d7server:~$ Aptitude says that openssh-client, version 1:6.0p1-4+deb7 is

Re: Rescue mode: cannot fix boot after raid1 repair

2014-11-07 Thread Ron Leach
On 06/11/2014 20:46, Don Armstrong wrote: On Thu, 06 Nov 2014, Ron Leach wrote: Tried the grub-install, but it failed complaining (loosely) that the 'image was too large for embedding, but the embedded image was needed for raid or lvm systems'. I'd mounted /boot2 to retain com

Re: Rescue mode: cannot fix boot after raid1 repair

2014-11-06 Thread Ron Leach
Don, thank you for a very comprehensive sequence. I wanted to skip the part where the new disk was re-synced because that's going to take some 8 hours or so and I rather need to have the basic server up, albeit in degraded raid1 state, and then let it resync, so that the (few) users can access

Rescue mode: cannot fix boot after raid1 repair

2014-11-06 Thread Ron Leach
List, good afternoon, We had a raid 1 failure on our (one remaining) Lenny system this morning, /dev/sda failed, and I've replaced it with a new disk, which is unformatted and unpartitioned at the moment. We're unable to boot from the second (original) disk in the machine, /dev/sdb. Guessing

Re: Suggestions? A small webserver for file upload

2014-09-27 Thread Ron Leach
On 27/09/2014 15:35, Miles Fidelman wrote: Joel Rees wrote: On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 10:53 PM, Ron Leach wrote: List, good afternoon, What package would list members suggest for a small webserver that would enable co-workers to upload files to us? Oh. Well, look at webdav. This is something

Suggestions? A small webserver for file upload

2014-09-24 Thread Ron Leach
List, good afternoon, What package would list members suggest for a small webserver that would enable co-workers to upload files to us? We exchange files with people we work with through email and attachments - that normally works well. During a recent weekend, a co-worker's email service f

UEFI Secure Boot and enabling W8/Linux dual boot - some links/refs

2014-08-29 Thread Ron Leach
Here are some links to articles discussing UEFI's secure Boot and some implications for configuring a dual-boot Windows 8 & Linux system. 1. What is the UEFI Secure Boot loading process? http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows8_1-security/uefi-secure-boot-in-windows-81/65d74e19

Re: Troubles installing alongside Windows 8.1

2014-08-28 Thread Ron Leach
On 28/08/2014 19:34, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: Windows can't be the culprit -- it did not get control between the grub-update and the reboot, and even the first reboot went right to Windows. So there's something that GRUB failed to do. That's a compelling remark. But, might it be that Secure Boo

Re: Troubles installing alongside Windows 8.1

2014-08-28 Thread Ron Leach
On 28/08/2014 16:58, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: On reboot, it went unconditionally to Windows 8.1. No signs of GRUB. It seems I'm still missing something. I wonder what. Kevin, is it worth cross-checking that the boot/BIOS is set up like this: http://d-i.debian.org/manual/en.amd64/ch03s06.html#

Re: Surprisingly cheap HP 255 G2 laptop; Wheezy possible?

2014-08-26 Thread Ron Leach
On 24/08/2014 18:58, Joe wrote: On Sun, 24 Aug 2014 17:01:09 +0100 Ron Leach wrote: (iii) Dual booting with Windows (this has W8.1) does seem, generally, to be problematic; [...]I searched quite a lot for more details about Debian, even Linux generally, dual-booting with W8.1, but the only

Re: Surprisingly cheap HP 255 G2 laptop; Wheezy possible?

2014-08-24 Thread Ron Leach
On 22/08/2014 18:05, Joe wrote: I couldn't be bothered messing about with dual boot, so I carry a pocket USB hard drive containing a sid installation, and also have a sid on a VM in Windows. I use the latter for Linux-only software, and the former for using public wi-fi. First, may I thank ev

Surprisingly cheap HP 255 G2 laptop; Wheezy possible?

2014-08-22 Thread Ron Leach
List, good morning, There's an attractive offer in UK for an HP 255 G2 laptop, from Misco: http://www.misco.co.uk/product/Q730917/ and I wondered whether anybody had had good experience running Wheezy on it? I had two queries, touchpad, and UEFI, Searching revealed that its Synaptics touchp

Re: Exim4 not routing local mail, even after exim4-config (was New 64bit installation: Exim4 Send to Root)

2014-07-28 Thread Ron Leach
On 28/07/2014 17:01, David Baron wrote: ~$ sudo exim4 -bt root R: system_aliases for r...@dovidhalevi.homelinux.net R: system_aliases for system_notificat...@dovidhalevi.homelinux.net R: userforward for system_notificat...@dovidhalevi.homelinux.net R: procmail for system_notificat...@dovidhalevi.

Re: Lenny -> Squeeze -> Wheezy; no eth0 on Squeeze reboot

2014-07-21 Thread Ron Leach
On 21/07/2014 15:22, Curt wrote: I think to move forward you should solve those apt errors, which are probably the source of many, if not all, of the problems you are encountering. Curt, I thought the same. The sources list is now fixed. In case anyone hits the same problem in copying the

Re: Lenny -> Squeeze -> Wheezy; no eth0 on Squeeze reboot

2014-07-21 Thread Ron Leach
On 20/07/2014 21:21, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Ron Leach a écrit : Method 1: But Plugging in a USB CD-ROM isn't recognised on this (not quite working) Squeeze installation, What do you mean exactly ? Is there a /dev/srX device node ? If yes, try to manually mount it with mount on any temp

Re: Lenny -> Squeeze -> Wheezy; no eth0 on Squeeze reboot

2014-07-21 Thread Ron Leach
On 20/07/2014 21:21, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Ron Leach a écrit : cannot fetch over the network Can't you just configure and activate eth0 manually ? If by DHCP : # dhclient eth0 If statically : # ifconfig eth0 netmask # route add default gw # echo nameserver >> /etc/resolv.conf

Re: Lenny -> Squeeze -> Wheezy; no eth0 on Squeeze reboot

2014-07-20 Thread Ron Leach
On 20/07/2014 19:08, Sven Joachim wrote: It looks like the ifupdown package was removed during the upgrade. Reinstall it and the network should come back after "ifup eth0". Sven, thanks, cannot fetch over the network, but found ifupdown deb file on a Squeeze CD. I think it's on an XFCE insta

Lenny -> Squeeze -> Wheezy; no eth0 on Squeeze reboot

2014-07-20 Thread Ron Leach
List, good afternoon, During an upgrade attempt of a Lenny server to Wheezy (the Debian docs say do this via Squeeze) I can't restart the Squeeze system after executing # apt-get upgrade # apt-get dist-upgrade The machine is awkward to see, or get at, so I'm fairly keen to have an SSH link to

Re: Clone GPT partition table - with Lenny ?

2014-07-06 Thread Ron Leach
On 06/07/2014 22:49, B wrote: On Sun, 06 Jul 2014 22:35:03 +0100 Apparently, this is very easy: http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/12986/how-to-copy-the-partition-layout-of-a-whole-disk-using-standard-tools I mentioned Lenny, because it matters. I'd found that page before posting,

Re: Clone GPT partition table - with Lenny ?

2014-07-06 Thread Ron Leach
On 06/07/2014 21:56, B wrote: I think you also read too fast, apparently he just wanna have the same partition table. Which RAID doesn't care, eg: dsk0 partition = 100 (sectors, GB, whatever) dsk1 " = 101 or 4242.42 RAID will only pick 100 on dsk1 partition to achieve its work. Su

Re: Clone GPT partition table - with Lenny ?

2014-07-06 Thread Ron Leach
On 06/07/2014 21:25, B wrote: On Sun, 06 Jul 2014 20:54:10 +0100 Ron Leach wrote: Oops, I read a tiny bit too fast. machine to Wheezy. So I need to partition the new disk, and I'd like it to be an exact clone of the existing RAID1 member, so that each partition starts on the same s

Clone GPT partition table - with Lenny ?

2014-07-06 Thread Ron Leach
List, good evening, We have a RAID1 server running Lenny, one of whose two 2TB discs comprising the RAID arrays has failed. The discs were partitioned into 8 partitions during the Debian Lenny installation, and separate RAID1 arrays were built on 7 of those partitions, again during Debian in

Re: Setting up a home gateway/router

2014-05-23 Thread Ron Leach
On 23/05/2014 16:52, csanyi...@gmail.com wrote: csanyi...@gmail.com writes: So I tried with this setup: iface eth0 inet static address 217.17.111.173 netmask 255.255.255.0 but it doesn't work. Say, the output of the command 'ping gnu.org' is: ping: unknown host gnu.org My ISP

Re: Should hostname always be lower case?

2014-05-12 Thread Ron Leach
On 12/05/2014 19:00, Nemeth Gyorgy wrote: 2014-05-12 16:03 keltezéssel, Ron Leach írta: May I ask whether the 'case' of the hostname is important, in the sense that use of any upper-case characters may disrupt name resolvers? We have a server running wheezy, and we named it D7S

Re: SOLVED: Filespace exhaustion on '/' partition

2014-05-12 Thread Ron Leach
On 12/05/2014 14:45, Ron Leach wrote: and I think I can delete everything within, and beneath, /mnt/test/mnt/backupserver So I did that. server4:/home/ron# df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/md1 2.8G 170M 2.7G 6% / tmpfs 501M

Should hostname always be lower case?

2014-05-12 Thread Ron Leach
List, May I ask whether the 'case' of the hostname is important, in the sense that use of any upper-case characters may disrupt name resolvers? We have a server running wheezy, and we named it D7Server (not d7server). Could this matter to any resolver attempting to look up D7Server? (It mi

Re: Filespace exhaustion on '/' partition

2014-05-12 Thread Ron Leach
On 11/05/2014 22:07, Sven Joachim wrote: A simple "mount --bind / /mnt" makes all those files visible under /mnt, and you can delete them at your leisure. I mounted the root partition at /mnt/test and used du. server4:/home/ron# du /mnt/test/mnt -hx --max-depth=1 2.7G/mnt/test/mnt/backups

Re: Filespace exhaustion on '/' partition

2014-05-11 Thread Ron Leach
On 11/05/2014 22:07, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2014-05-11 22:46 +0200, Carl Johnson wrote: Another possibility to look into is that there might be files under your mount points. For example, you might have saved files under /usr on your root filesystem, but later mounted a /usr filesystem on top

Re: Filespace exhaustion on '/' partition

2014-05-11 Thread Ron Leach
On 11/05/2014 17:11, Sven Joachim wrote: # lsof | grep deleted | wc -l # lsof | grep deleted | wc -l 3 # But it took 3 or 4 seconds to count them. :) I was beginning to think, gosh, there must really be a lot of those. But it's a good point, Sven, because there still might be some issue that

Re: Filespace exhaustion on '/' partition

2014-05-11 Thread Ron Leach
On 11/05/2014 16:10, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Du, 11 mai 14, 15:33:38, Ron Leach wrote: We seem to have filled the available space on the '/' partition of our NFS server. Because most of the server's variable data is on separate partitions, I'm not sure what I could remov

Re: Cron 101: SOLVED "/bin/sh: root: command not found"

2014-05-11 Thread Ron Leach
On 11/05/2014 13:42, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Du, 11 mai 14, 12:07:47, Ron Leach wrote: /var/spool/cron/crontabs/root indeed contains exactly the error you mention: # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall. [ ... ] Filip, the comment suggests that I shouldn't edit this

Filespace exhaustion on '/' partition

2014-05-11 Thread Ron Leach
List, We seem to have filled the available space on the '/' partition of our NFS server. Because most of the server's variable data is on separate partitions, I'm not sure what I could remove from '/' partition. df shows the problem, and the space available on the other partitions: server4

Re: Cron 101: Cron message "/bin/sh: root: command not found"

2014-05-11 Thread Ron Leach
On 11/05/2014 11:43, Filip wrote: On Sun, 11 May 2014 10:37:31 +0100 Ron Leach wrote: I'm missing some aspect of cron configuration, or perhaps some other cron file somewhere. root doesn't have a /home directory, so there isn't a crontab in it, and the only user existin

Re: Cron 101: Cron message "/bin/sh: root: command not found"

2014-05-11 Thread Ron Leach
On 11/05/2014 10:48, Martin Steigerwald wrote: Look into - /etc/cron.d - crontab -l It would not make much sense, but maybe someone added a call to /etc/cron.hourly there. server4:/# crontab -l # /etc/crontab: system-wide crontab # Unlike any other crontab you don't have to run the `crontab

Cron 101: Cron message "/bin/sh: root: command not found"

2014-05-11 Thread Ron Leach
List good morning, I do regret asking such a basic question about cron, but I cannot seem to get rid of what I think is a mis-configured entry, somewhere. We have a server running Lenny (still), its role is solely to provide a network file system. Every 17 mins past the hour, root is sending

Re: Mobile Broadband with Btooth

2014-04-26 Thread Ron Leach
On 26/04/2014 10:30, Gábor Hársfalvi wrote: I have installed all bluetooth packages - bluez and the others - it works with the phone succesfully when I send/receive files. So I think bluethooth works almost fully. I'm not sure that's true. In the past (with Fedora, actually) I found that wh

Re: Q: nfs server fails to mount own exported resource, but other client able to mount

2014-04-24 Thread Ron Leach
Escaped from list (: On 24/04/2014 09:49, Snow Leopard wrote: Hi, I came across strange "mount" problem on nfs server -- it refuses to mount it's own directory while other nfs clients able mount nfs server exported directoryjust fine 1. nfs server name: install.myclub.com OS: wheeze (Debian) i

Re: Compromised ext4 filesystem after mdadm manipulation error

2014-04-23 Thread Ron Leach
On 22/04/2014 20:50, L.M.J wrote: I would like to know if there is a last chance to recover ma data ? The people that will know are on the linux-raid list, here: http://vger.kernel.org/vger-lists.html#linux-raid I haven't seen a reply to your message so, if you still have the problem, (i)

Re: Help with network topology/setup

2014-04-07 Thread Ron Leach
On 07/04/2014 14:04, Diogo Martins Silva wrote: I'll have a remote server, with 2 radio connections: 1 wifi (probably a ubuiquity bullet) and one ppp through usb2ttl adapter and RFD900. I'd like to setup an openvpn link between my laptop (which will also have both radios) and the server that ca

Re: Puzzled: synaptic wants to install 'unauthenticated' ssh (and others)

2014-04-07 Thread Ron Leach
On 07/04/2014 10:53, Joel Rees wrote: I understand that every now and then, less well managed mirrors (or perhaps less well-funded?) get cross-wise of their updates. In the meantime, you might clear your cache and try again? It seems to work fine this morning, so it may have been a cache pro

Puzzled: synaptic wants to install 'unauthenticated' ssh (and others)

2014-04-06 Thread Ron Leach
List, I must have done something odd or, maybe, missed a Debian release certificate change, or something. But I'm not sure how to reinstate security for software upgrades or installations. Wheezy 64, using synaptic, on a laptop with a pretty normal set of desktop applications. Synaptic marke

OT: visible TLS config (was: About not receiving email)

2014-04-04 Thread Ron Leach
On 04/04/2014 02:06, Scott Ferguson wrote: Your mail setup is a little, um, odd; *no* TLS configured or SPF records, and other [...] Sorry to go off-topic but, since I'm in the process of setting up a new domain and mailserver, could I ask how you 'knew' or were able to 'see' that a mailser

Re: Debian and Unicode line drawing

2014-04-01 Thread Ron Leach
On 01/04/2014 12:14, Aleksander Kurczyk wrote: Hello, I am using PuTTY, [...] I noticed that every frame in default Debian configuration in PuTTY is displayed as the rows of p and qq instead of those frame ASCII characters. PuTTY and every of my Debian installation is set to

Re: Was I deleted?

2014-03-31 Thread Ron Leach
On 31/03/2014 19:22, Hans wrote: Hmm, I guess, you are right. It has something to do with "bounced", as I remember to have got an info mail from debian about some bounced mails. This mail advised me nothing to do, as it appeared the first time. Sorry, I do not quite remember the complete content

Re: Was I deleted?

2014-03-31 Thread Ron Leach
On 31/03/2014 18:55, Hans wrote: Hmm, looks like my provider (which is o2 aka o2online) here in Germany blocks the domain "debian.org" completely. There is no mail in my incoming folder, nor one in spam or elsewhere. I guess you have checked and have found the cause. The same 'symptom' could

Re: modem hangup problems continue

2014-03-23 Thread Ron Leach
On 23/03/2014 00:43, Mike McClain wrote: In /etc/ppp/options lcp-echo-interval 30 and lcp-echo-failure is unset. I've got ppp error logging going to tty12 and /var/log/debug and often see entries such as this: Mar 22 16:03:23 playground pppd[20465]: sent [LCP EchoReq id=0x2 magic=0x8

Re: modem hangup problems continue

2014-03-23 Thread Ron Leach
On 22/03/2014 18:04, Ron Leach wrote: On 21/03/2014 23:10, Mike McClain wrote: I'm running Squeeze on a P3 board and dialup. My modem gets hungup after 2.5 minutes about 30% - 40% of the time I connect. Being idle, in the middle of fetching email or loading a webpage seems to make no diffe

Re: modem hangup problems continue

2014-03-22 Thread Ron Leach
On 21/03/2014 23:10, Mike McClain wrote: I'm running Squeeze on a P3 board and dialup. My modem gets hungup after 2.5 minutes about 30% - 40% of the time I connect. Being idle, in the middle of fetching email or loading a webpage seems to make no difference. Is there any way to log all transactio

Re: Time Zone Questions

2014-03-21 Thread Ron Leach
On 21/03/2014 20:21, John Hasler wrote: Other way around. TAI does *not* include leap-seconds. It is a continuous stream of numbered seconds with no gaps and no insertions. UTC *does* include leap seconds. It is TAI adjusted to stay within one second of Earth rotation time. Leap seconds acco

Re: Time Zone Questions

2014-03-21 Thread Ron Leach
On 21/03/2014 02:58, Don Armstrong wrote: [,,,] due to the 35 second difference between TAI and UTC. (The latter approximates UT1 (earth revolution about its axis), and the former is absolute time in SI seconds). You can read about it in /usr/share/doc/tzdata/README.Debian. Interesting. The

Re: Time Zone Questions

2014-03-21 Thread Ron Leach
On 21/03/2014 09:38, Lisi Reisz wrote: It is standard "good practice" to keep system time ("hardware clock") at UTC, and desktop time can be local time if you wish. Hadn't realised any of this, so thank you. If 'system time' and 'desktop time' differ - such as is suggested - what 'timestamp

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