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The packages geoip-database in Debian relies on static databases which are no longer being updated.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: 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

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

Re: Lenny (Debian 5.0) approaching end of life

2012-01-09 Thread francis picabia
On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 7:20 AM, Camaleón wrote: > On Fri, 06 Jan 2012 19:33:42 -0500, Tony Baldwin wrote: > >> On Thu, Jan 05, 2012 at 04:36:49PM +0100, Camaleón wrote: > > (...) > >>> > Why can't you use squeeze? >>> > -- >>> > Sent from my Android phone with GMX Mail. Please excuse my brevity. >

Re: rootdelay=9 kernal option - why?

2012-01-06 Thread francis picabia
On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 12:28 PM, Camaleón wrote: > On Thu, 05 Jan 2012 08:12:03 -0400, francis picabia wrote: > >> On most of my older systems, I've needed to add the option rootdelay=9 >> to make the system boot when upgrading to the kernel and such for >> squee

Re: rootdelay=9 kernal option - why?

2012-01-06 Thread francis picabia
On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 8:36 AM, Alexey Eromenko wrote: > Do you need this only for upgrade to squeeze or to run squeeze afterwards ? > > I am running Squeeze (amd64) on 4 PCs here (fresh install from DVD), > and no problems. We need the kernel option from then on for the kernel used by squeeze.

rootdelay=9 kernal option - why?

2012-01-05 Thread francis picabia
On most of my older systems, I've needed to add the option rootdelay=9 to make the system boot when upgrading to the kernel and such for squeeze. Without it, the root file system is not found and it drops you into the initramfs prompt. I've fixed this on about 5 or more systems, and it has come to

Lenny (Debian 5.0) approaching end of life

2012-01-04 Thread francis picabia
There was discussion here a few months ago about there being no official date for end of life on Lenny.  This has changed.  I just noticed this item on the security announcement mailing list: http://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2011/msg00238.html No new Lenny updates after 6 February

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

2011-12-08 Thread francis picabia
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 > > I'll see... > > JFYI, there is also: > > > http://lists.ali

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

2011-12-07 Thread francis picabia
Maybe this isn't the best list to discuss grid cluster software, but I'll see... Oracle has discontinued the development of the open source Sun Grid Engine. It is currently distributed in Debian 6 in packages beginning with grid-engine-* The open source fork continues as Open Grid Scheduler. htt

Re: Choosing a distribution (was: Just a simple query)

2011-10-28 Thread francis picabia
On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 6:55 PM, francis picabia wrote: > I can't find docs which say you can do a major version upgrade without booting > installation media in SUSE. > > I do see this: > > http://www.novell.com/documentation/opensuse114/book_opensuse_reference/?page=/do

Re: Choosing a distribution (was: Just a simple query)

2011-10-28 Thread francis picabia
On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 5:00 PM, Camaleón wrote: > On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 16:10:53 -0300, francis picabia wrote: > >> On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 12:52 PM, Camaleón wrote: >>> On Thu, 27 Oct 2011 14:41:46 -0300, francis picabia wrote: >> >>>> However I don&#x

Re: Choosing a distribution (was: Just a simple query)

2011-10-28 Thread francis picabia
On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 12:52 PM, Camaleón wrote: > On Thu, 27 Oct 2011 14:41:46 -0300, francis picabia wrote: >> However I don't use Suse so I wouldn't be on top of the latest here. I >> am talking about major upgrades, like 11 to 12, not 11.3 to 11.4. > > Fo

Re: Choosing a distribution (was: Just a simple query)

2011-10-27 Thread francis picabia
On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 2:36 PM, Anthony Campbell wrote: > A distribution that does everything with the GUI certainly makes things > easier for beginners, but I think that unless you take the plunge and > become comfortable with the command line you are likely to progress > only slowly. Yes, how

Re: Choosing a distribution (was: Just a simple query)

2011-10-27 Thread francis picabia
On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 10:10 AM, Camaleón wrote: > On Thu, 27 Oct 2011 09:04:02 -0300, francis picabia wrote: > >> On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 6:03 PM, Camaleón wrote: > >>>> The problem with most "reviews" is they base it on a fresh install and >>>&g

Re: Choosing a distribution (was: Just a simple query)

2011-10-27 Thread francis picabia
On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 6:03 PM, Camaleón wrote: > On Wed, 26 Oct 2011 15:40:00 -0300, francis picabia wrote: > >> On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 2:43 PM, Camaleón wrote: >>> On Wed, 26 Oct 2011 22:55:40 +0530, Linux Tyro wrote: >>> >>>> I am beginner in Li

Re: Choosing a distribution (was: Just a simple query)

2011-10-26 Thread francis picabia
On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 2:43 PM, Camaleón wrote: > On Wed, 26 Oct 2011 22:55:40 +0530, Linux Tyro wrote: > >> I am beginner in Linux and do another job. But I use computer very less. >> Just a simple doubts regarding the selection. Please suggest me >> regarding the following: >> >> "Debian vs ope

Re: [OT] advice re Western Digital WD1002FAEX Caviar Black 1 TB 7200 RPM Internal Hard Disk Drive

2011-09-26 Thread francis picabia
On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 11:32 AM, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > Hi, > > Lisi wrote: >> >> Is the Western Digital WD1002FAEX Caviar Black 1 TB 7200 RPM Internal Hard >> Disk Drive worth the extra money over the Blue ranges? >> >> And would you recommend it?  I don't want to cause myself complications >

Re: New SATA drive installation question

2011-09-26 Thread francis picabia
On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 11:17 AM, francis picabia wrote: > On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 12:48 AM, Marc Shapiro wrote: >> I'm feeling really dumb right now.  Okay, I'm not dumb, I'm just lacking the >> information that I need at this time. >> >> I just instal

Re: New SATA drive installation question

2011-09-26 Thread francis picabia
On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 12:48 AM, Marc Shapiro wrote: > I'm feeling really dumb right now.  Okay, I'm not dumb, I'm just lacking the > information that I need at this time. > > I just installed a new SATA 1TB Seagate Barracuda drive in my Lenny box with > FVWM as my window manager.  This is the fi

Re: Getting a large file onto DVD

2011-09-23 Thread francis picabia
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 3:08 PM, Frank McCormick wrote: > >  I am having trouble getting a large (2.7 gigs) file onto a DVD. Brasero > warns me that such a large file is only supported by the 3rd standard for > iso9660...but then won't burn it even after I say OK. > It ejects the DVD saying an err

Re: No iceweasel support for google+

2011-09-23 Thread francis picabia
2011/9/23 Dejan Ribič : > Dne 23.9.2011 14:22, piše francis picabia: >> >> On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 9:09 PM, Scott Ferguson >>  wrote: >>> >>> Works fine for me with Iceweasel 6.0.2 on Squeeze >> >> Where was this package from? >> &

Re: No iceweasel support for google+

2011-09-23 Thread francis picabia
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 9:09 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: >> > Works fine for me with Iceweasel 6.0.2 on Squeeze Where was this package from? I have 3.5.16 in squeeze with no testing/unstable, only "squeeze main non-free contrib". In comment from Bob perhaps I should install the browser from outsi

Re: No iceweasel support for google+

2011-09-22 Thread francis picabia
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 10:28 AM, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Thu, 22 Sep 2011 10:06:57 -0300 > francis picabia wrote: > > Hello francis, > >> I could trick it into identifying as another browser, but I wondered >> if it will be supported anyway without hacking the identi

Re: No iceweasel support for google+

2011-09-22 Thread francis picabia
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 10:20 AM, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Thu, 22 Sep 2011 09:36:19 -0300 > francis picabia wrote: > > Hello francis, > >> I must remember to launch google chrome to use google+, as it >> does not support iceweasel.  Is this something expected to c

Re: No iceweasel support for google+

2011-09-22 Thread francis picabia
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 9:54 AM, Camaleón wrote: > On Thu, 22 Sep 2011 09:36:19 -0300, francis picabia wrote: > >> I must remember to launch google chrome to use google+, as it does not >> support iceweasel.  Is this something expected to change? Perhaps I >> simply have

No iceweasel support for google+

2011-09-22 Thread francis picabia
I must remember to launch google chrome to use google+, as it does not support iceweasel. Is this something expected to change? Perhaps I simply have a problem searching for articles about google+ in google search, as I see on rants.org article. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@l