Re: how to change root passwd (if forgotten)
Le Wed, 10 Aug 2011 18:10:02 +0200, Thierry Chatelet a écrit : > On Wednesday 10 August 2011 17:53:26 Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: >> if i'm not mistaken you can just go to single user mode on centos by >> appending "1" or "single" (without quotes) on boot parameter, no need >> for any live cd >> > Not with debian, but lots of trail if you google it. Thierry But "init=/sbin/bash" should work, then mount, modify, dont forget to umount everything and reboot -- Francois -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4e43814f$0$16474$426a7...@news.free.fr
Re: restoring MBR
Hi All, What about the mbr package and the "install-mbr " command ? This MBR is wonderfull, it does exactly what is waited if you dont press any key : boot on the flaged partition, but you can also press a key and choose another partition (not flagged) to boot from (even a floppy). Have a nice day -- Francois -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4e350739$0$18106$426a7...@news.free.fr
Re: acroread key bindings do not work.
Le Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 04:52:13PM +0100, Francisco Borges ecrit : > » On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 09:47PM -0500, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > > Francisco Borges wrote: > > >Acroread "control" based key bindings (e.g. C-q or C-w) do not work on > > >my sarge box. > > Do you happen to have NumLock on? If so, try turning it off and > > see if that fixes it. > That indeed fixed it. Thank you very much for the help! ---end quoted text / fin de citation--- If you use fvwm as window manager, just add the following line in the config file : IgnoreModifier L25 I use it, but I can not help you for other WM. Fanfan -- Quand on aime quelqu'un, on a toujours quelque chose à lui dire ou à lui écrire, jusqu'à la fin des temps. [Christian Bobin] signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Partition Resizing
Le Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 08:57:20AM +0200, David Baron ecrit : > On Monday 13 December 2004 06:33, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > > I suggest you to download the Knoppix CD and use QTparted which is > > some sort of PartitionMagic clone. > > Back it up first. > PartitionMagic, if it does not complain about the partitions, will > usually do just fine. QTparted is a very dangerous program. > Back it up first! Did you have some bad experiences with it ? Due to the program or to the usage ? I ask because I used it but never got some troubles. Fanfan -- Plaisirs et peines sont ainsi, en fait, ce sur quoi roule la vertu morale. [Aristote] signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Partition Resizing
Le Sun, Dec 12, 2004 at 01:22:33PM +, Leonard Chatagnier ecrit : > Trying to upgrade to Sarge and discovered that on my last reinstall > of woody that I switched the partition sizes on /var and /home. Now > /var is too small to hold packages when doing apt-get dist-upgrade. > My question is: Can I resize the partitions without losing data? I > have the Woody 7 CD install CD's and no Partition Magic. > Please copy any response to [EMAIL PROTECTED] as I can't cope with > all the lists messages when subscribed. ---end quoted text / fin de citation--- I suggest you to download the Knoppix CD and use QTparted which is some sort of PartitionMagic clone. Fanfan -- La trentaine est un âge difficile. La vie est finie, l'existence commence. [André Bay] signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Deleted Partition Recovery ?
Le Sun, Dec 12, 2004 at 07:08:51AM -0600, Ron Johnson ecrit : > > You could also try gpart, a tool that scans your disk looking for known > > filesystem beginnings. However, if he also formatted the new partition, > > I guess it will be difficult. > Yeah, that's the problem. There already *is* a valid partition. ---end quoted text / fin de citation--- If the formatting was "quick", gpart might work. the tools that might help you are dd_rescue, dd_rhelp and gpart. Fanfan -- L'amour, c'est d'abord aimer follement l'odeur de l'autre. [Pascal Quignard] signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Regex help
Le Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 07:15:50AM -0800, Alex Barylo ecrit :
> #!/usr/bin/perl
> for (<>) {
> s!\{_(Start|End)Range_\}!!;
> while (s!\{_Index\s+([^}]+)\s+_\}!!) { print "%s/$1//g\n" }
> }
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I already had something similar on another list. But thanks you for
helping me, it is very kind. I'll keep your piece of code, it could be
useful later.
Have a nice day
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Re: Regex help
Le Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 04:47:56PM +0100, Maurits van Rees ecrit : > > I've never been called a regex expert, but I hope this code does the > trick. ---end quoted text / fin de citation--- Thanks a lot, I had another answer with a perl program which fits my needs. Anyway, I'll keep your code, it can be useful. Thanks again Have a nice day Fanfan -- - Conduire ou choisir, il faut boire. [Dicton Breton] signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Regex help
--- Begin Message ---
Hi debian-users,
I am translating an O'Reilly book to French and the source code is in
FrameMaker format. The textual part is already translated but I still
have to translate the index entries. I have to be consistent and to
always use the same words across the document. As there are a great
number of line and numerous entries, I thought to using regexp to
extract the strings to translate in a file, add the translation next
to the strings and use sed to interpret this translation. It would be
a great gain for me.
My source file looks like :
Text {_Index blabla:we _} bla {_Index {_StartRange_} bla _} bla
vla
stuff
bbgfd {_Index {_EndRange_} bla _}
I would like to have this :
{_Index blabla:we _}
{_Index {_StartRange_} bla _}
{_Index {_EndRange_} bla _}
Or better:
blabla:we
bla
bla
or even better :
%s/blabla:we//g
%s/bla//g
%s/bla//g
So, I would just have to delete the strings not to be translated and
double strings, to insert translations and to feed sed with the file.
I am very bad in regex and I dont succeed. But I know regex can help
me a lot, reducing the amount of work and keeping consistency in the
translations.
Is there a regex expert here ? Please help me.
Thanks
Fanfan
PS: if it is done with a Perl program, it doesnt matter. Whatever the
way, I just want to have the output in the specified format.
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Re: Mirroring a remote server on a local server (Debian Woody and Sarge)
Le Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 03:07:21PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ecrit : > We would like to mirror a remote server of ours on a local server through > broadband (2Mb). > We would like to mirror the whole server disk, including installation, /boot > and so on, for carrying over local test installations before going live on > the server. > We did not find an easy way of doing it. Does anybody know about a good way? > We are using Debian Woody plus some manually upgraded packages (from Sarge). ---end quoted text / fin de citation--- - install sshd on the original server - boot from a live CD (I recommand Knoppix) - create your partitions as they are on the original server (for exemple with cfdisk) - Create the filesystems like on the original server (with mke2fs, mk???fs, ...) - create a mount point (for example : /mnt/server) - mount the root partition on this (mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/server) - create the mount points for every sub partition like on the original server (look the original /etc/fstab file) - manually mount every sub-filesystem on each directory - run : (ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] "(cd /; tar cjplf - )") | sudo (cd /mnt/server ; tar xvjplf -) it should copy everything after asking you for the root password - chroot on the copy : sudo chroot /mnt/server - reinstall either lilo or grub : # lilo -v or # grub-install /dev/hd?? - type exit to quit the chroot environement - unmount every sub-partition under /mnt/server - umount /mnt/server - reboot without the CDROM Fanfan -- Une personne peut d'autant plus facilement être abusée qu'elle est à la recherche de reconnaissance. [François Proust] signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Boot-time loading of modules...
Le Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 04:54:54PM -0500, Colin Alie ecrit : > - I remved the parameter vga=xxx from my kernel command line; it now > stands as root=/dev/hda1 ro ---end quoted text / fin de citation--- Instead of removing it, try to put : vga=normal or vga=extended Francois -- Le travail c'est la santé ; ne rien faire, c'est la conserver. [Henri Salvador] signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Grub menu.lst
Le Sun, Nov 28, 2004 at 12:36:57AM -0800, Freddy Freeloader ecrit : > Francois Cerbelle wrote: > >Except one thing : both kernel certainly dont have support for you > >root partition filesystem, but the Debian one can find the appropriate > >module in its initrd. I bet that your kernel doesnt have either an initrd > >image or the filesystem support ! ;-) > > Well, I have another Debian machine with both the 2.4 and the 2.6 > kernels on it. I compiled the 2.6.9 kernels for both machines and > included the ext3 file system support in both. The 2.6.9 kernel in the > one machine boots fine, this one won't. I actually supported more file > systems in the kernel for the machine that doesn't boot than I did in > the machine that does. > So, it might be the hardware support. You might have the good support for one of your computers, but not for the other (IDE chipset, SCSI chipset, ...) Are you sure you compiled all the hardware support for your second computer ? Is it in module or in the kernel itself ? In the boot messages before the panic, can you see your hard drives and their partitions recognized by the kernel ? Fanfan -- Il n'y a pas d'amour, il n'y a que des preuves d'amour. [Pierre Reverdy] signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Grub menu.lst
Le Sat, Nov 27, 2004 at 03:42:27PM -0800, Freddy Freeloader ecrit : > I made a dual boot system out of a Win2K box I had. I installed sarge > and everything worked great. I could boot to both Debian and Win2K. > I did that install with the sarge installer and the 2.4.26 kernel. I > later installed the 2.6.9 kernel from source. My problem is that now I > get a kernel panic message on boot saying "VFS: unable to mount root fs > on unknown block" when trying to boot to the 2.6 kernel. > What's strange about this is that in the menu.lst file everything is > exactly the same for both kernels. Except one thing : both kernel certainly dont have support for you root partition filesystem, but the Debian one can find the appropriate module in its initrd. I bet that your kernel doesnt have either an initrd image or the filesystem support ! ;-) Fanfan -- - Froid de novembre, range ton membre. [Dicton Breton] signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Newbie looking for some answers please...........
Le Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 09:17:02AM -0800, Chad ecrit : > I just installed Debian 3.0 r3. I'm a newbie and looking for some > anwers to some of my questions...if someone can anwser one, some, or > all Please Welcome to our fabulous world ! > 1. I know that apt-get is the main utility to add and remove > programs (in Debian anyways), also to veiw what is installed on your > OS. But what about other packages or applications that are not > installed through apt-get. Is there a another utility to tell you > want is all installed on your OS, or to keep track of all > software/packages/applications installed? Everything installed throught the package system is given by : COLUMNS=150 dpkg -l | more Everything installed by its own system shoud be installed either in a special directory in /opt or dispatched in /usr/local/* or installed throught a wrapper which record the changes to the system. > 2. How do you check for all running services and how to start/stop > system services that are unused? If you want to know what are the current processes running, use "ps ax". There are many options, you will find them in the help system : "man ps" If you want to know what are the services normally started, they are listed in /etc/rc2.d . filenames beginning with S for Start and K for Kill. The files are only shortcuts to the real files in /etc/init.d. You can see exactly what I means by typing "ls -l" in the rc2.d directory. You can manage these services with different programs : update-rc.d sysvconfig sysv-rc-conf To have more precision on a package : apt-cache show sysv-rc-conf Once installed, to have the help : man sysv-rc-conf > 3. How do you check for all open ports and what programs are using > the ports. You can use netstat with the following options (my favourites) : netstat -taupen You will see every connection (TCP, UDP, sockets), which can be listening, established, waiting... who is connected, and which process is listening > 4. What is the common folder Where most software/packages/applications > installed into? /bin and /sbin for the system critical programs /usr/bin and /usr/sbin for the system programs /usr/local/bin and /usr/local/sbin for the program you added * * you can prefer to add programs in /opt to have a directory for each applicationn > 5. Anyone has a good site for descriptions of the configuration > files on a linux system. For Example XF86Config-4. I have no idea of > what configuration files do what or where they are located. Choose a file in /etc and try the help command : man XF86Config-4 > 6. Where is the boot files? So I can control or know what programs > start at boot. The boot process begins with the "S" scripts in /etc/rcS.d and usually continue with thoses in /etc/rc2.d the shutdown process with the "K" scripts from rc2.d, then from rcS.d Fanfan -- La santé se mesure à l'amour du matin et du printemps. [Henry David Thoreau] signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: sarge gdm language entry, howto add language?
Le Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 03:12:28PM +, Joao Clemente ecrit : > I had already tried this (or emulated this) and it seemed to do > nothing... gdm in fact sets the LANG variable, but KDE (at least in > sarge) seems to ignore it.. > I tried it like this: > opened up konsole, checked LANG by doing "env | grep LANG" ... > > 1 - LANG was set to "C", I started a konqueror from that console, it > started with a portuguese interface... (I had defined in kde control > center to use portuguese) > 2 - exported LANG=en_US and started konqueror... it also started with > portuguese... > > So I concluded that KDE is ignoring LANG and using some internal value > (not even environment variables as "env" displays nothing with "pt" values) > > > ? Toughts ? Maybe we need to setup kde with multiple possibilites in > control center, so that he reads LANG? Maybe KDE use the following algorithm : IF KDELanguage == Default (or C or POSIX or NULL) THEN KDELanguage <- LANG ELSE nothing FI so, try the same tests, but without forcing the language in the control panel (setting language to default) Maybe KDE dont use LANG but LC_* environement variables. I dont thinkg so. Francois -- Le mariage des esprits est plus grand que celui des corps. [Didier Erasme] signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: sarge gdm language entry, howto add language?
Le Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 02:52:22PM +, Joao Clemente ecrit : > Is there any workaround known, so that I can have a "interface language" > chooser in gdm/kdm/whatever that changes the language displayed by kde? It might be possible to set and export the LANG environement variable somewhere in /etc/environement or in the /etc/X/gdm scripts. Fanfan -- On ne se retourne pas quand on marche sur la corde du rêve. [Fatou Diome] signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Automating wifi setup
Look the package ifplugd it can help you Fanfan -- Les âmes se rencontrent sur les lèvres des amants. [Percy Bysshe Shelley] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: firewall + mail gw
Le Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 12:20:05PM -0300, Carlos Alberto Pereira Gomes ecrit : > I've a home network connected to internet with an ADSL link, and with 4 > users sharing two computers (windows machines). Each user has at least > two mail accounts in different providers. > I've already set up a linux firewall and it's running ok. > I'd like to set up some kind of email server (in the firewall machine) that > collects all the emails for each user and let them read it with webmail or > outlook from the internal network, and let me use some kind of > spam/virus filter. > What is the best combination of software that I should use to get this > solution? If your users agree to give you their login/passwd for thier different email accounts, you could use fetchmail to collect emails and then a bogofilter or a spamassassin with a clamav for viruses. Otherwise, if they dont want to give you the passwords, you can block POP3 with your firewall and ask them to use popfile (mail proxy that filter spams). Fanfan -- L'art d'être tantôt très audacieux et tantôt très prudent est l'art de réussir. [Napoléon Bonaparte] signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Help
Le Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 11:01:53PM +0200, Olav Sindre Vik Støylen ecrit : > I've just installed Debian on my computer laptop, but the screen size is > disapointingly small.. > What can i do, i've searched all over the web for drivers, but cannot find > anything. > I have a "Standard PCI graphic card". Try using framebuffer. You should try to add a parameter to the kernel line either in /etc/lilo.conf, cut and paste the default section, renamme the copy and add the following line to it before running "lilo" and rebooting : vga=0x315 or in /boot/grub/menu.lst, add a new alternative (a special comment line) in the file with the option "vga=0x315" and run the script "upgrade-grub" To know the different possible values, consult the /usr/share/doc/kernel-documentation/Documentation/fb/vesafb.txt (apt-get install kernel-doc-x.y.z) Fanfan -- Puissent les dieux te donner un mari, un foyer et la grâce de la paix, car il n'y a rien de plus grand et de meilleur que cela. [Homère] signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Is there a stable mail client for linux?
Le Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 10:41:22AM -0700, Brian Nelson ecrit : > On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 04:30:15PM +0200, Francois Cerbelle wrote: > > Le Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 10:02:52AM -0400, Ed Sutherland ecrit : > > > had to log-out and reboot in order to regain control. Is there a > > > secure, solid and stable e-mail client built for linux? I don't want > > > applications to have a mind of their own. ;) > > You can try mutt, it is textbased, but it is powerfull, never crash, > Never crashes? I crash mutt at least once per day. It never crashed for me since I use it, ie several years. > > never loose mails, never complain about mailbox size. > It might not complain, but it'll take its sweet ass time loading a large > mailbox. I use it for opening Huge gziped mailboxes and the only drawback I had is that it wants to unpack the file in $TMPDIR, which is a 128Mb tmpfs on my computer. That's all, otherwise, it is the best speed/quality/stability/conviviality/useability tools I found. I use it with vim, gpg, aspell, procmail, fetchmail, and bogofilter. Regards Fanfan -- Les cimetières sont les vestiaires de la résurrection. [André Frossard] signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Software
Le Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 05:14:54PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ecrit : > Macromedia Studio MX 2004 - 180.00 > Adobe Photoshop 7.0 - 60.00 [...] > and more http://www.hotoem.info/ Arf, Netcraft told me : http://www.hotoem.info was running Apache on Linux when last queried at 1-Oct-2004 08:19:48 GMT Fanfan -- La santé, c'est d'avoir mal tous les jours à un endroit différent. [Michel Chrestien] signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: SSH Cracking Attempts
Le Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 09:55:59PM +0200, Matthijs ecrit : > Some applications were named in the article - if you want, I can look > them up and post the names. I am interested too by theses apps. Event if secret based protection isn't secure. :-S -- Mourir n'est pas mourir ; mes amis ! C'est changer ! [Alphonse de Lamartine] signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: installed but not installed according to dpkg
Le Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 01:10:12AM +0200, Jerome BENOIT ecrit : > I have just observed something strange on my Sarge box: > the pacake telnet is installed but according the tool dpkg it is not: > so I cannot purge, among other thing I guess. > How can we satinize our box ? apt-get install --reinstall telnet apt-get remove --purge telnet Fanfan -- Les enfants sont des énigmes lumineuses. [Daniel Pennac] signature.asc Description: Digital signature
