Re: firefox keeps grabbing huge chunks of my system
On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 12:50:40PM -0700, tom arnall wrote: On Tuesday 11 September 2007 10:55, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 09:00:09AM -0700, tom arnall wrote: firefox keeps grabbing huge chunks of my system: 97% cpu, 20% memory. the cpu is 2.3GH and mem is 512M. more info. what pages? what plugins are installed etc etc etc A i assume by pages you mean what web pages. no pages in particular. after 10-15 minutes it's just grabbing most of the cpu. as to plugins, i don't know how to determine these. as for plugins, are these the items which come up with firefox's tools/addons choices? You can determine your installed plugins by typing about:plugins in the URL bar. Another question: Do you usually have many tabs open at once? --j signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: how to force the NIC to 1000M full duplex
On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 01:42:12PM -0400, chloe K wrote: Hi all How do I force the NIC to 1000M full duplex it seems that it can't do it in mii-tool? Have you tried ethtool yet? In some respects, it seems to be more flexible than mii-tool. Good luck, ~Juergen signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Lightweight RTF Editor in Debian?
On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 08:17:33PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 09:45:08AM -0400, Juergen Fiedler wrote: I have been looking for a lightweight RTF text editor for Lenny for quite a while now. Currently, I am using AbiWord, but all the dependencies on Gnome libraries are somewhat unpleasant (I'm using FluxBox as my WM). I have tried Ted, but I can't even get it to open a document. Are there any other lightweight editors that speak RTF? What about latex2rtf for outputing rtf and wv, catdoc, or unrtf to get latex? I'd considered that, but I think having to install Latex to create documents when all my boss wants is page breaks, centered text and different font sizes runs counter to my intention to keep it as small as possible. I suppose the question is, in what way do you create non-rtf documents and can that method also work with rtf? There's a thought. I create my 'regular' text files in vim, and it looks like RTF is a text based markup language. Maybe I could just learn to write it directly. Searching aptitude, re Ted it says that going the other way i.e. opening existing documents is more difficult. I'm not surprised. But I can't even start a new document in Ted. Still no idea what I am doing wrong. Thanks, -Juergen signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Lightweight RTF Editor in Debian?
On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 09:55:53PM +0300, David Baron wrote: [...] did you test TED? Just did. Brings in the right overall format but font sizes are not necessarily correct. Main problem is that it not handle the character codepages (for a Windows Hebrew document). Probably decent for good old English. You got Ted to work? How did you do it? What version of Debian are you using? Did it work right out of the box? Thanks, ~Juergen signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Lightweight RTF Editor in Debian?
On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 11:42:17AM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: Do you do other formats for other than your boss? I don't really generate any documents except for him. Does you boss want RTF of is it just page breaks, centered text, and different fonts? What file formats will your boss accept? Will he accept pdf or ps? Would enscript do? It will output in RTF if you like. He wants something that he can edit in MS Word if necessary, that can be read and printed in OS X and that lets you organize the text with page breaks and large headers. If it wasn't for the page breaks (and those are mostly to maintain a separate cover sheet), even HTML would probably do. I had, at one point, thoughts of doing stuff in HTML and just keeping the cover page in a separate file, but I don't think that that would fly... Thanks, ~Juergen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Lightweight RTF Editor in Debian?
On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 09:01:04PM +0300, David Baron wrote: On Thursday 31 May 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: did you test TED? Just did. Brings in the right overall format but font sizes are not necessarily correct. Main problem is that it not handle the character codepages (for a Windows Hebrew document). Probably decent for good old English. You got Ted to work? How did you do it? What version of Debian are you using? Did it work right out of the box? Installed it off Sid. Worked right out of the box. Dang... Tried it on my sid machine ad it worked without a hitch. Maybe I'll have to see whether I can install the sid packages on my lenny machine or something. Thanks, -Juergen signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Lightweight RTF Editor in Debian?
On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 08:37:45PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 01:51:59PM -0400, Juergen Fiedler wrote: On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 11:42:17AM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: Does you boss want RTF of is it just page breaks, centered text, and different fonts? What file formats will your boss accept? Will he accept pdf or ps? Would enscript do? It will output in RTF if you like. He wants something that he can edit in MS Word if necessary, that can be read and printed in OS X and that lets you organize the text with page breaks and large headers. If it wasn't for the page breaks (and those are mostly to maintain a separate cover sheet), even HTML would probably do. I had, at one point, thoughts of doing stuff in HTML and just keeping the cover page in a separate file, but I don't think that that would fly... Presumably, he not only wants to edit (which he could latex) but to then regeneratet it (which he can't unless he has latex for MS and OSX). Since I've never used MS Word or OSX, I don't know what your choices are. RTF is pretty much it, really. If it wasn't for the critical importance of page breaks, HTML might be fine, but as it is, RTF is the 'standard' that's used in my office and that's what I have to deliver. By stipulating that he wants both typeset output and the ability to edit and regenerate it, this becomes a problem of distributed text processing. In acedemia the standard has been LaTex until MS invaded. I think that in debian you're limited to lout, latex, OO, Koffice, Lyx, and a few other markup language processors. You'll have to see what is available for the other OSs and what he's willing to put on his computer. What is the editor in OSX that he uses and what formats can it work with? If he _doesn't_ need to regenerate the file, just change a few words, then give him latex source and pdf output and he can edit it directly and give it back to you to regenerate. I considered going the Latex rute - I'd just create my RTF files from the Latex source - but I think that that would take up even more space than AbiWord. It's a tough call; I would still prefer plain text or maybe troff, but that's not my decision to make. Well, we'll see what comes from it; I still hope that I can make Ted work on my Lenny box. Thanks, -Juergen signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Lightweight RTF Editor in Debian?
Hello, I have been looking for a lightweight RTF text editor for Lenny for quite a while now. Currently, I am using AbiWord, but all the dependencies on Gnome libraries are somewhat unpleasant (I'm using FluxBox as my WM). I have tried Ted, but I can't even get it to open a document. Are there any other lightweight editors that speak RTF? Thanks, -Juergen signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Lightweight RTF Editor in Debian?
On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 06:51:56PM +0300, David Baron wrote: Hello, I have been looking for a lightweight RTF text editor for Lenny for quite a while now. Currently, I am using AbiWord, but all the dependencies on Gnome libraries are somewhat unpleasant (I'm using FluxBox as my WM). I have tried Ted, but I can't even get it to open a document. Are there any other lightweight editors that speak RTF? I have not tried AbiWord. Probably should. It is a good and decent word processor; the only thing that bugs me is that it requires massive amounts of libraries that I don't otherwise need. Problem with RTF is that it's Microsoft's language and they will do with it whatever they please and you'd better learn to like it.[...] Yes. AbiWord exports to two different versions of RTF and there is still a lot that's liable to get lost. But the alternative would be to use OpenOffice's Word export - and I've had nothing but trouble with that. My boss likes his MS Office and his 'rich' formatting - otherwise, I'd gladly hand in all my papers in plain text. *shrugs* All things considered, AbiWord is the lesser of the available evils. I just wish it didn't come with all the stuff I really don't need or want. Thanks, -Juergen signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Trouble running Ted (Was: Lightweight RTF Editor in Debian?)
On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 02:07:16PM -0300, Mat?as Palomec wrote: On 5/30/07, Juergen Fiedler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have been looking for a lightweight RTF text editor for Lenny for quite a while now. Currently, I am using AbiWord, but all the dependencies on Gnome libraries are somewhat unpleasant (I'm using FluxBox as my WM). I have tried Ted, but I can't even get it to open a document. Are there any other lightweight editors that speak RTF? did you test TED? Yep. Just doesn't work for me: If I try (for example) 'ted Network.rtf', I get much output on my console, looking roughly like this: - docRtfUtil.c(1302) rrc-rrcCurrentLine=3 controlWord=fttruetype docRtfUtil.c(1302) rrc-rrcCurrentLine=4 controlWord=fttruetype [...] docRtfUtil.c(1302) rrc-rrcCurrentLine=95 controlWord=abinodiroverride appFont.c(812) aff-affFontFamilyName=Times afe-afeXfontFamilies=0x0 appFont.c(813) encoding=8 PS_Encodings[encoding].fcX11Registry=iso8859 appFont.c(814) encoding=8 PS_Encodings[encoding].fcX11Encoding=15 appFont.c() psf-affFontFamilyName=Times dsf-apfFontEncoding=8 appFont.c(1167) 1=1 tedLayout.c(995) attributeNumber=0 sfl-sflAttributeToScreen[attributeNumber]=-1 tedLayout.c(1022) part=0 textAttr=0 tedLayout.c(852) 1=1 docLayoutParagraphs.c( 82) 1=1 docLayoutParagraphs.c(142) 1=1 docLayoutParagraphs.c(494) 1=1 docLayout.c(825) 1=1 docLayout.c(805) 1=1 docLayoutSect.c(148) i=0 docLayout.c(836) 1=1 docLayout.c(732) 1=1 docLayout.c(797) 1=1 docLayout.c(932) 1=1 tedLayout.c(1071) 1=1 tedPage.c(332) 1=1 tedDocument.c(571) 1=1 appDocument.c(579) ed-edFilename=/root/Network.rtf appDocument.c(752) filename=/root/Network.rtf - I see the main window with the menu bar, but the document itself never opens. Getting that to work would definitely be a splendid thing. Would you happen to be able to tell from the output I pasted what I might be doing wrong? Thanks, -Juergen signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: [Fwd: Trying to figure out a USB wireless stick]
On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 11:23:07AM -0700, Arthur Barlow wrote: I thought I'd try this list as well. From: Arthur Barlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Trying to figure out a USB wireless stick I'm using an older Dell Latitude which has always worked great with Debian. I'm currently using the lenny or testing version. I'm trying to set up a Linksys wireless card or stick. When I boot the computer the BIOS sees the stick on the USB port, but there's nothing to tell it to configure it as a network device. The output of lsusb is: Bus 001 Device 002: ID 13b1:0020 Linksys Bus 001 Device 001: ID : My kernel is 2.6.17. I've downloaded the wireless-tools package. Any advise would be appreciated. Ah, yes... USB WiFi dongles. Unfortunately, there are a great many different drivers around - and even different versions of the same dongle may require different drivers. *And* because it would be boring otherwise, not every driver can be controlled by iwconfig et al. Your first step would be to take a look at http://linux-wless.passys.nl/query_hostif.php?hostif=USB and see whether your card is supported and what driver is required. With a Linksys adapter, I'd guess that there is a fair chance that you'll get it going. If the links provided at http://linux-wless.passys.nl/ don't provide the information you need, you can always come back here with version numbers, drivers and such. Good luck! (you'll need it) -Juergen signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Bug in acroread?
On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 04:30:52PM -0400, Celejar wrote: On Tue, 13 Mar 2007 16:12:39 -0400 Juergen Fiedler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] For documents on the web I have this inelegant and heinous trick: I google for them. If a doc is in PDF format, Google will give you the option to view it as HTML. The converted version is not always pretty, but more often than not sufficient to get the information I need. Obviously doesn't work all the time, but it has helped me out occasionally. Why not just use a software pdf to text / html / whatever converter, such as pdftotext (in xpdf-utils)? Celejar I typically only use Google on computers that don't belong to me and that don't have a PDF reader installed - and most of those don't have xpdf-utils installed, either. --j signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Bug in acroread?
On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 07:39:09PM +0100, Joe Hart wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mike McCarty wrote: Joe Hart wrote: [snip] context Noone is forcing you to use pdf files /context I disagree about it being forced on us. Many documents on the web are PDF format. Most hardware comes without manuals and the documents are pdf files. You have an odd definition for the word force. If I want to read the manual I have to have a way to view pdf files, thus that is force by my definition. Perhaps not in the true since of the word since to don't _have_ to read manuals, it's just that I am one of the type of people who do. I RTFM and STFW so I don't ask stupid questions. I wish more people did. For documents on the web I have this inelegant and heinous trick: I google for them. If a doc is in PDF format, Google will give you the option to view it as HTML. The converted version is not always pretty, but more often than not sufficient to get the information I need. Obviously doesn't work all the time, but it has helped me out occasionally. $0.02, --j signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: sendemail with gmail?
On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 12:21:00PM -0300, Bruno Buys wrote: Anyone succeeded using sendemail (its not sendmail) with gmail? I installed the tls related packages, enabled -tls=yes in the command line, but no go. And I already did what this guy at http://caspian.dotconf.net/menu/Software/SendEmail/ said, under 'tls support'. Other smtp's do work. Any help is appreciated! In sid, the following works for me: sendEmail -f [EMAIL PROTECTED] -t [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ -u test -m this is a test \ -s smtp.gmail.com \ -o tls=yes \ -xu my.account -xp mypasswd With the appropriate values for -f, -t, -xu and -xp, the mail is sent successfully and arrives as expected. Good luck, --j signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: sendemail with gmail?
On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 02:59:33PM -0300, Bruno Buys wrote: [...] Hi Juergen, thanks for replying. I tried your line, and here's the output: Mar 09 14:58:26 cestudos sendEmail[3111]: WARNING = Name/Value pair [tls=yes] will be ignored: unknown key [tls] Mar 09 14:58:27 cestudos sendEmail[3111]: ERROR = Received:530 5.7.0 Must issue a STARTTLS command first b12sm3710770ana Shall I generate a tls key first? How? Are you sure that your version od sendemail supports TLS? It rather looks like it doesn't. The version that I have installed is 1.55-1, TLS is only supported in 1.54 and later. --j signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Woody not supported?
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 11:46:56AM -0500, Ed Curtis wrote: I get this error when I apt-get update: Err http://ftp.debian.org woody/main Packages 404 Not Found Ign http://ftp.debian.org woody/main Release Apparently, the repository no longer exists? That appears to be so. From http://www.debian.org/releases/woody/: 'Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 has been obsoleted by Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge). Security updates have been discontinued as of the end of June 2006.' And a quick look at ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists confirms that there is no woody repository anymore. --j -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
aptitude and /etc/apt/apt.conf.d
Hello, Does aptitude read /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/*? I have seen a few scripts that seem to rely on that, yet it doesn't seem to be the case for me. If I, for example, echo 'Aptitude::Recommends-Important false;'\ /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/recommends.conf and try to install minicom, aptitude will try to also install lrzsz. If I append the same string to /etc/apt/apt.conf, lrzsz (only being a recommendation) will not be installed. This works like that for me on both etch and sid. Is it something I am doing or does aptitude really not read /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/*? Thanks, --j signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: static IP
On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 02:10:22AM +0100, pobox wrote: On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 08:54:36AM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: Try it from outside your LAN -- use a friends machine or a library machine or get yourself a free shell account somewhere and use links from that. Where can I get free shell account with enabled newtworking(links)? SDF accounts (available at www.freeshell.org) offer many of the standard tools, including links. For access to some tools, you have to pay a one-time fee of $1, others are only available after you upgrade your membership for $35. I have the $1 membership and get links (but not screen and ssh, and irc only on Sundays (I kid you not!)). Don't remember whether links was accessible before I payed my $1. HTH, --j signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Firestarter VS Shorewall
On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 08:41:10AM -0800, Jordi wrote: Hello I saw two good firewalls: - Firestarter wich is easy - Shorewall wich seems versatile Wich is best for a single server pc? Does the complexity of shorewall worth the effort or is firestarter as good as shorewall? The fact that Firestarter has a GUI tipped the scales for me - towards Shorewall. While it may be nice to do the initial setup in a GUI, being able to make modifications from anywhere over SSH has proven valuable enough to justify the initial learning curve. And once you 'got it', Shorewall isn't actually that hard to work with. Just my 2 cents --j signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Debian Installation on a cybercafe PC
On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 02:14:10PM -0600, Kent West wrote: Deboo ^ wrote: which distro goes in to a USB stick? A quick Google came up with: This open source project puts Live Linux distributions in packages ready to load onto and boot from USB flash drives. This includes DSL Embedded, Knoppix, PCLinuxOS, SLAX, MiniMe+ SLAX, and Ubuntu! Yes, you can run Ubuntu easily from a USB key! http://chris.pirillo.com/2007/01/26/live-linux-on-usb/ I'm sure there are several others also. My most recent Linux-on-a-Stick is SLAX, as my stick is only 256MB. Before that I had used DSL (IIRC) on a 64MB stick. I'm missed the start of this particular conversation. Has anybody mentioned grml (www.grml.org) and the Debian Live Project yet? USB support in the latter is rather new and for me it took some fiddling, but in the end it ran just like a real Debian (mostly). --j signature.asc Description: Digital signature
OT: Odd traffic on my firewall
Hello, I am seeing an inordinate amount of packages dropped on my firewall - all coming from the same source and hitting a very limited range of ports (as reported by psad): =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Mon Feb 19 10:34:03 2007 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Danger level: [1] (out of 5) Scanned tcp ports: [10258: 1 packets] tcp flags: [SYN: 1 packets, Nmap: -sT or -sS] Iptables chain: INPUT (prefix Shorewall:net2all:DROP:), 1 packets Source: 65.173.218.96 DNS: maverick14.sans.org Destination: XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX DNS: my.firewall.at.home Syslog hostname: firewall Current interval: Mon Feb 19 10:33:58 2007 (start) Mon Feb 19 10:34:03 2007 (end) Overall scan start: Mon Feb 19 08:19:11 2007 Total email alerts: 6 Complete tcp range: [10256-10258] chain: interface: tcp: udp: icmp: INPUTeth0 10 0 0 --- Similar scans have been happening for weeks now, always from the same address. I realize that except for the fact that my firewall is running Debian (Sarge with some packages from Etch) this question is probably off-topic, but if anyone knows why I might be getting all this traffic, I would appreciate any hints. Thanks --j signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Remastering LiveCDs - how to
Good point. Turns out grml already comes with localepurge - but being that the modified CD would be just for me, I think I can tighten up the locale.nopurge file a bit more. Thanks, --j On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 01:02:20AM +0100, anticapitalista wrote: You could remove some of the locales, man pages and use debophan to get rid of old libs. anticapitalista Philosophers have interpreted the world in many ways; the point is to change it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Remastering LiveCDs - how to keep unnecessary data out
On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 02:11:57AM +, ][ wrote: On Thu, 08 Feb 2007 15:15:49 -0500, Juergen Fiedler wrote: what other files and directories can I leave out of the squashfs to make the whole thing a bit smaller? From my personal archive: A 'clean-up' script called 'remaster-clean' will be included with this [...] retrieved from http://www.knoppix.net/wiki/Remaster_From_Hd_Install_HowTo less than a year ago. check out the rest there. Eep. Even after running the cleanup script, the process of doing an apt-get update and reinstalling one package increases the size of the squashfs from 685M to 1.1G. It seems like all it does in terms of cleaning up after apt/dpkg is to call 'apt-get clean' which apparently only removes .deb files from /var/cache/apt/archives - the meta-information sticks around, and that is quite huge in Debian. The cleanup script does provide a nifty tool to build upon, though! Thanks, --j signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Remastering LiveCDs - how to keep unnecessary data out
On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 11:30:59AM -0500, Juergen Fiedler wrote: On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 02:11:57AM +, ][ wrote: On Thu, 08 Feb 2007 15:15:49 -0500, Juergen Fiedler wrote: what other files and directories can I leave out of the squashfs to make the whole thing a bit smaller? From my personal archive: A 'clean-up' script called 'remaster-clean' will be included with this [...] retrieved from http://www.knoppix.net/wiki/Remaster_From_Hd_Install_HowTo less than a year ago. check out the rest there. Eep. Even after running the cleanup script, the process of doing an apt-get update and reinstalling one package increases the size of the squashfs from 685M to 1.1G. It seems like all it does in terms of cleaning up after apt/dpkg is to call 'apt-get clean' which apparently only removes .deb files from /var/cache/apt/archives - the meta-information sticks around, and that is quite huge in Debian. The cleanup script does provide a nifty tool to build upon, though! Public service announcement: Unmounting /proc in your chroot before you squash it is probably one of the more useful ways of keeping it small. --j (who doesn't feel overly smart right now) signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Remastering LiveCDs - how to keep unnecessary data out
Hi, I would like to remaster a Debian based live CD (grml - www.grml.org, in this case) by copying the system from the squashfs image, chrooting to it, making the necessary modifications and squashing the resulting system back up. It works nicely enough, BUT: All manners of cache files, .deb files and such are left lying around and increase the size of the final ISO quite dramatically. So, the question is this: How do I prevent those files from making it into the squashfs? This far, I have deleted the contents of /var/cache/apt /var/lib/apt and /var/lib/dpkg. That, of course, renders apt and dpkg unusable, but that's mostly OK. I thought about bind-mounting directories external to the directory structure to those directories so the changes I make would be preserved but not written to the CD. Would that be a good idea? And what other files and directories can I leave out of the squashfs to make the whole thing a bit smaller? Any input will be much appreciated. Thanks, --j signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Switching to amd64 - is it worth it?
Hello, This is not really a problem as such, merely a request for input and interesting anecdotes: I am currently running an x86 sid on a Sempron based machine. On one hand, I am happy with it because just about everything I could ever need installs without a problem; on the other hand, it feels like a waste not to run an amd64 kernel. I have used this very machine with an amd64 kernel under Gentoo, but it was a bit of a hassle: I do like things like Flash or the Java plugin and while I managed to get all of them to run, it did turn out to be a bit of a hassle to figure out what compatibility libraries to use and to get everything to cooperate nicely with the 64-bit libraries. I don't do anything that needs vast computing power - I mostly use that machine for web browsing, email and the occasional movie, all of which works quite nicely with the x86 kernel and libraries. Is there any good reason to switch to an amd64 kernel and if so, would I be setting myself up for major headaches? Any input will be much appreciated. Thanks, -juergen signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: software for making a web site......
On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 10:31:01PM +, Michael Fothergill wrote: Dear Debianists, [...] If I would try to make the web site what software would you guys recommend using under Debian to make the web pages and road test them? All other aspects having been discussed already, I thought I'd give this one a stab: Personally, I would either go with a text editor like vim or emacs and do eveything by hand or use nvu for a rather decent approximation to WYSIWYG editing. For testing, I hardly ever use anything but Apache these days, unless I definitely know that the final product is going to be deployed on a radically different server (like, for example, Zope). Depending on your needs, you may of course need a bevy of other applications, like an FTP server or BBS software, but that is something you'll have to decide as the project takes shape. Good Luck, --j signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: webbased SSH server/client
On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 11:39:58PM +0100, Mark wrote: Hi List, I'm looking for a ssh client that runs on a webserver. Something I can connect to using a regular web browser and then connect to a ssh server from that server (Instead of the connection originating from the client) [...] ajaxterm works OK for me, and it is in etch, if I am not mistaken. Not like I have to bypass any firewalls, but it is nice to be able to ssh to my home machine from any computer that has a web browser installed. Good luck, --j signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Really stupid mutt question
On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 10:40:08PM +0800, JerryKwok wrote: [...] This has been a question to me for a long time.Why do we use mutt when many other better manager(evolution) especially when mutt's so complex and difficult to remeber the binds. For me, the answers are: - Running Evolution over ssh is excruciatingly slow. - Once you have learnt your key bindings, you can get things done much faster than in evolution. - Mutt is much more customizable than Evolution, including the option to pipe mail through external programs such. I also believe that Mutt is more standards compliant when it comes to handling GPG/PGP signed and/or encrypted mail, but don't quote me on that one. Just my two cents --j signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Really stupid mutt question
On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 10:59:34AM -0400, Kevin Coyner wrote: On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 10:40:08PM +0800, JerryKwok wrote.. 2006/7/31, Heimdall Midgard [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I've been banging my head for the past six hours trying to figure out how to write a message in Mutt. (So I've given up and used GMail instead.) This has been a question to me for a long time.Why do we use mutt when many other better manager(evolution) especially when mutt's so complex and difficult to remeber the binds. There are plenty of great email clients out there. But I like mutt because: 1. It is infinitely configurable. Now, of course, I have the mad urge to configure it to dim the light in the living room when I get mail from my girlfriend. Which would actually be doable with some X10 hardware and a matching command line tool. This is trouble. --j signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Upcoming Release of Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 - a beginner's query/request
On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 11:13:30AM -0400, Matej Cepl wrote: Jon Dowland wrote: Please note that you are advised to *not do this*, but to *always* read the release notes for the relevant you certainly noticed that I had there aptitude upgrade (not dist-upgrade), right? It should be noted that the names for the operations are somewhat misleading: 'aptitude upgrade' will happily upgrade your packages across release boundaries (i.e., from woody to sarge). If I remember correctly, 'dist-upgrade' got its name because it is smarter about resolving the vast numbers of potentially altered dependencies; thus, it makes upgrading to a new release easier (typically), but it is certainly not the only tool to do it. Good luck, --j signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: command question
On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 05:44:48PM +0300, Michael F wrote: apt-get install for installing a package and apt-cache search for searching package. man apt-get for many information:) Btw, witch is the diference berween apt and aptitude? I think the main difference is that apt has super cow powers and aptitude doesn't. Also, aptitude has a fancy UI (well, the curses kind of fancy). My main reason for using aptitude, though, is that it handles dependencies intelligently: It will uninstall automatic dependencies if every package that depends on them is uninstalled. Cuts down on clutter a lot if you are in the habit of trying out a lot of software and then decide not keeping it. --j signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: just some thoughts
On Mon, Jul 24, 2006 at 07:04:43PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: [...] Them: Can I run my games? Me: Let me see 'em. No. Them: I guess I'll have to stick with Windows. You can't imagine how frustrating that can be. Point them in the direction of Cedega and ask them why they're still wasting money on Windows. That would be because Cedega is still far from supporting all games that people want to play. For example, I looked up the next game I am going to get, Prince of Persia: Warrior Within. Turns out the installer works OK, but the game doesn't run at all. And no, I am not inclined to limit my choice of games based on mostly political considerations. I guess I'll stick with my tried and true solution: I'll use my game console for gaming and Linux for the rest. Just my $0.02 --j signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: problem installing tdsodbc
On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 10:21:50AM -0500, kenn wrote: [...] servertwo:/etc# apt-get install tdsodbc [...] The following packages have unmet dependencies: tdsodbc: Depends: odbcinst1debian1 (= 2.2.11-3) but it is not going to be installed E: Broken packages In my opinion, the next step ought to be 'apt-get install odbcinst1debian1' to se what it says. There may be a dependency for odbcinst1debian1 that you'll have to resolve. Good luck, --j signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: problem installing tdsodbc
On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 11:02:55AM -0500, kenn wrote: Juergen Fiedler wrote: [...] When I try to install odbcinst1debian1 I get [...] W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems E: Couldn't find package odbcinst1debian1 Does 'apt-get update' report any errors? signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: problem installing tdsodbc
On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 11:43:34AM -0500, kenn wrote: Leinier C. Salfran wrote: Hi. The first you must to do after change '/etc/apt/sources.list' is execute 'apt-get update' .. After, 'apt-get instal xxx' Yes, I did that, and the update was performed without error. Weirdness. Did you try specifying the target repository explicitly (i.e., 'apt-get -t unstable install ...')? signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: just some thoughts
On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 11:10:20AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: Get coding then. They let you contribute to their CVS. I don't see the point. There are very few (if any) games I would be interested in playing for either Windows or Linux that I can't get for my PS2. Is Katamari Damacy available on Windows yet? signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Text File Prints at Physical Page Boundary
On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 04:23:17PM -0400, Gil Citro wrote: [...] My problem is I want to print a plain text file from the command line, but when I give the command lpr file or lp file the output starts at the physical page boundary, and since the printer can't print to the physical page boundary, some of the output is cut off. I've always just used lpr to print text files under Unix, but am new to Debian. Is there another way to print text files with an appropriate margin? Thanks. When it comes to printing plain text files with some basic formatting (like reasonable margins), I tend to rely on enscript. It's even available as a .deb Good luck! --j signature.asc Description: Digital signature
squirrelmail-configure changed mysteriously
Hi, I am running Squirrelmail 1.4.6-1 on a system that is mostly sarge with some etch packages. This morning, tripwire reported that /usr/sbin/squirrelmail-configure has changed and indeed, in line 388, 'Organization Title' was changed to 'Organization Ditle'. I am not aware of upgrading Squirrelmail recently, and even if I had, the introduction of this typo as the only change to squirrelmail-configure seems quite odd. The times tamp on the file was March 10th - quite a while ago. Now, of course, I am quite concerned that someone may have been tampering with my system - though, again, it would seem odd to do something that obvious, yet pointless. Can anyone offer any alternative explanations as to what may have happened there? Any input would be appreciated. Thanks, --j signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Sxxxxs and Kxxxxs in /etc/rc(*).d/
On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 10:00:00PM +0800, Deephay wrote: Greetings all, I read the debian references and there are some sentences like this: scripts whose names begin with K are run with the argument stop. Scripts beginning with S are run with the argument start. So, the corresponding services whose names begin with K will not be started? But I have a K23ntp-server in my /etc/rc(2-5).d/ , it will be started though. Anyone can tell me why? thx! Deephay Do you, by any chance, also have a SXXntp-server in those directories? If you do, that might do that. --j signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Replacement for Nessus
On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 08:36:03PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: On Thursday 23 February 2006 16:46, Sergio Cu?llar Vald?s wrote: There is Snort, but I don't know whether it will do all you ask. Remote network security auditor != Flexible Network Intrusion Detection System Agreed. Portsentry and tcpwrappers, along with iptables, has kept me safe and invisible for the last 4 years, hooked to a dsl 24/7/365. My problem is that I do expose certain services (SMTP, IMAP, HTTP, etc.) to the outside world and would like to make sure that I am doing that as safely as possible - which more often than not means that not only the firewall rules but also the application configuration has to be adjusted. For example, Nessus made me aware that my default Apache installation served up an index of /usr/share/doc, making the versions of all software I have installed on my system known to everyone who cared to look - not something that I necessarily need. --j signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: proxy for APT
On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 09:24:53PM +0800, Deephay wrote: Greetings all, I want to know that if I can set a proxy for the APT utilities such as apt-get? thx! Deephay You could try apt-cacher, which is basically a caching proxy. HTH, --j signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Replacement for Nessus
Hello, I used to run Nessus on a semi-regular basis to make sure that my firewall is still doing what it is supposed to do. With the latest version of Nessus not actually being all that free anymore, I find myself looking for alternatives: Something that looks for open ports on my system and also gives me an overview of the risks the software listening on those ports may pose. For example, Nessus didn't just observe that I have an HTTPS server running, but also that I was allowing weak encryption schemes. Do you know of anything out there that might serve a similar purpose? It would be really, really nice if such a program would run in a text console (which was possible with Nessus, but a bit of a pain). Thanks, Juergen signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Replacement for Nessus
On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 09:30:18PM +, Chris Lale wrote: Juergen Fiedler wrote: [looking for alternatives to nessus] There is Snort, but I don't know whether it will do all you ask. Chris. This far, I have only used Snort as an IDS. I hear that it can be used for other purposes, too, but is it actually suitable for actively scanning a host? I'd hate to have to wait for the script kiddies to knock on my front door (or back door, as the case may be) to be made aware of a vulnerability in my system. Thanks, --j signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: How to say package yet provided
On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 03:49:40PM +0100, Romnea Kolap Pin wrote: Hello: I have the next problem, is there any way to say to Debian this package is yet provided?. I mean, if I compile mplayer and I want to install the mozilla-mplayer package, which depends on mplayer, how could I say to my distro hey! man, I have also one mplayer?. Is there any configuration file?. I could make a package with my own mplayer, but I think it would be really difficult because it happens in sereval cases, for instance: in java virtual machine, in ati drivers, etc. Romnea. The best solution I have found this far is equivs. It allows you to create pseudo packages in order to circumvent package restrictions in apt. The process is comparatively staight-forward; you can typically get a pseudo package installed in a few minutes. As a little side note, you may want to look at java-package for your Java VM needs. It's quite handy, actually. HTH --j signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: source for downloadable music?
On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 10:54:09AM -0800, Ross Boylan wrote: On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 12:58:22AM -0600, Matthew Lenz wrote: www.emusic.com no drm. not going to have every last song you'll want but they ahve a decent selection. or did last time I looked -Matt Thanks for the tip. I found 0 or 4 songs I looked for there, unfortunately. The music locator at altavista.com seems to work pretty well, though downloading stuff from random unknown sites makes me a bit nervous. Ross It may be that there is no good, legal solution for Linux yet: emusic.com works very well, but reminds me of public libraries around here: It can be enjoyable if you aren't looking for anything specific. On the other hand, most of what altavista.com finds appears to be illegal. For me, the solution right now is to just buy the CDs and rip the songs myself. Not the cheapest solution, but probably the best compromise between convenience and honesty. It is cool, by the way, that rhapsody.com works on Linux these days. Who knows: Maybe one day, they'll even support burning your stuff to CD on Linux. just my 2 cents --j signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: bash scripts: how to determine directory of 'source'd file
On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 02:26:27PM +, michael wrote: Presuming I have a file setEnvVars.sh that I wish to source, . path/setEnvVars.sh How do I, within the script, determine the actual directory within which the setEnvVars.sh file sits? The sourcing seems to disallow me access to $0 etc thanks, M If I understand your question correctly, the '$_' variable should do the trick. --j signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Automating Dial-up
On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 11:17:21AM -0800, Tyson Varosyan wrote: [...] This is what happens on bootup: /etc/init.d/rc: line 30: /etc/rc2.d/S20startwvdial: Permission Denied Did you remember to make the startup script executable (chmod a+x /etc/init.d/startwvdial)? signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Urgent problem with ext3 filesystem!!!
On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 01:38:19PM +0100, G-Point wrote: hello, when i boot my pc, it stops on root filesystem check, because it says that a file has 6 multiply-claimed block(s), shared with 0 file(s) so i can't boot linux. i don't want to delete that file, how can i solve my problem? copying that file to another partition? running fsck or ex2fsck? This might just be another case of 'Knoppix to the rescue'. You seem to know which file contains the offending block, right? Just boot into Knoppix (or Morphix, DSL, whatever), see whether you can read the file OK and save it to a removable medium. After that, running ex2fsck and letting it delete the file should do the trick. Good luck, --j signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: New install-Broken X-modprobe mousedev-now X Works, but no mouse
On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 03:17:24PM -0700, Ed Young wrote: Thanks for the reply. It's a standard PS/2 mouse with a scroll wheel. The mouse works fine under Windows XP(dual boot system) and when I cat /dev/input/mice and move the mouse, I get the random characters. The system is a cheapo MicroCenter PowerSpec, but I've had it running Linux and X successfully in the past. As a matter of fact, I installed Ubuntu on it the other day just to see if everything worked under Ubuntu and it did. X and the mouse worked fine. Very frustrating how much trouble I've been having with this. Any other ideas. Ed Well, the thing that normally works for me is to play around with the Protocol setting in the InputDevice section for my mouse. Right now, I only have a USB mouse and the protocol is ImPS/2. I forget what the other possible values are. Apparently, PS/2 mice do actually require different protocol settings depending on make and manufacturer. Do you own/could you borrow or procure an USB mouse? I found them to be much less painful to configure. You could play around with one of those to make sure that it's a problem with that particular mouse and not something more fundamental with X. Oh and one little anecdote from my vast store of experiences, a cautionary tale, if you will: Once upon a time, I had a very similar problem; kept me looking for answers for quite a while. In the end, it turned out that I had two mouse devices defined in my xorg.conf, but only one of them (the one that wasn't actually connected) was added to the ServerLayout section. Things to ponder... --j signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: FAT patents. Do we need to revive non-US?
On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 10:40:19AM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: Mike McCarty wrote: John Hasler wrote: richard writes: Regrettably, the individuals who control armies and police forces make more difference. Armies and police forces consist of individuals who individually choose to take individual actions. Thank you. Precisely my point. And more to the point when it comes to democratic republics, individuals collectively choose the individual with whom control of the armies and police forces rests. Sometimes, though, they pick from a very limited set of choices, none of which may be satisfactory, who they would like to recommend to the people who do the real choosing. This pick is typically based on incomplete and occasionally false information and on promises that are almost guaranteed to be broken. Yum. --j -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: New install-Broken X-modprobe mousedev-now X Works, but no mouse
On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 02:31:40PM -0700, Ed Young wrote: I did a new install of Debian 3.1r1 and X failed out with a /dev/input/mice no device found error. I issued modprobe mousedev and then startx got x running, but the mouse still doesn't work. I added mousedev to /etc/modules and now when I reboot, X starts but still no mouse. I've run dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 and experimented with various mouse configs but still no mouse. Do you get anything interesting when you type 'cat /dev/input/mice' and wiggle the mouse? You should get a stream of random characters - if not, your problem is not with X but with the mouse. What type of mouse is it, anyway? --j signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Corrupted ulogd pcap files
Hello, I am running ulogd 1.02-2 with the pcap plugin on a 2.6.12 kernel. The problem is that on a rather regular basis, the pcap files seem to become corrupted: # tcpdump -r /var/log/ulog/ulogd.pcap gives me only tcpdump: bad dump file format If I stop ulogd, remove the offending file and restart it, it works OK - for about the rest of the day. I wonder whether maybe logrotate has a hand in this: I normally notice the corruption in files that have been rotated recently. Does anyone have any experience with This kind of behavior? Is there any additional information that might be important? This really bugs me and I would truly appreciate any ideas as to what to do about it. Thanks, --j signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Compatible VoIP software on Debian
On Fri, Dec 30, 2005 at 03:49:11PM -0500, Chris Howie wrote: [...] I've been searching for a while, with no luck, for some combination of software that will let me have a VoIP conversation with someone while I am on Debian and they are on Windows. Someone in #debian said Linphone. It looks nice, but I haven't found any Windows software yet that will play nice with it. Can anyone recommend a good pair? I've been looking at OpenWengo as a possible choice -- same client on both systems. Is the .deb release on their site stable enough for voice chat? (Not interested in their video features.) [...] I don't know about OpenWengo, but would Gizmo (www.gizmoproject.com) work for you? Beware, though, that it is only free as in beer. --j signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Re: USB flash drive problem
On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 06:55:06AM +, Tatsuya Kobayashi wrote: [...] Did you try /dev/sdc ? I tried to mount /dev/sdc but I couldn't mount it. It's still saying No medium found or special device /dev/sdc1 does not exist. Have you tried using just /dev/sdc, not /dev/sdc1? signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Shutdown w/o root password.
On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 11:19:45AM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: [...] if I log in CLI as non-root user, run startx, then what does gdm run as? root again? just curious. Running startx should not start gdm at all - unless you have a very odd .xinitrc indeed. signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Corrupted ulogd pcap files - a logrotate issue?
Hello,
I am running ulogd 1.02-2 with the pcap plugin on a 2.6.12 kernel.
The problem is that on a rather regular basis, the pcap files seem to
become corrupted: A
# tcpdump -r /var/log/ulog/ulogd.pcap
gives me only
tcpdump: bad dump file format
If I stop ulogd, remove the offending file and restart it, it works OK
- for about the rest of the day. This makes me wonder whether maybe
logrotate has a hand in this. My /etc/logrotate.d/ulogd looks like
this:
---
/var/log/ulog/*.log {
missingok
sharedscripts
postrotate
/etc/init.d/ulogd reload
endscript
}
/var/log/ulog/ulogd.pcap {
weekly
missingok
prerotate
/etc/init.d/ulogd stop
endscript
postrotate
/etc/init.d/ulogd start
endscript
}
---
I am stopping ulogd before rotating the pcap files in the hopes that
this would remedy the problem - but that doesn't seem to be the case,
so maybe it's something completely different.
At this point, I am only dumping dropped packets, so the traffic
should not be that outlandishly high. The machine in question is
directly connected to the Internet and to a tiny LAN, but all in all,
it is leading a comparatively quiet life.
Has anybody experienced these issues before, and does anyone know what
to do about them? Any input would be much appreciated.
Thanks,
Juergen
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Re: install samba from binary
On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 01:30:34PM -0500, Marty Landman wrote: At 01:09 PM 12/12/2005, Hodgins Family wrote: I was wondering why you plunked the file into /root/deb. Why not just move it to /home and retry the dpkg command (as root obviously!) UNCLELEO:~# dpkg -i /root/debs/samba_3.0.20b-1woody1_i386.deb Selecting previously deselected package samba. (Reading database ... 12262 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking samba (from .../samba_3.0.20b-1woody1_i386.deb) ... dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of samba: samba depends on samba-common (= 3.0.20b-1woody1); however: Package samba-common is not installed. [...] Errors were encountered while processing: samba UNCLELEO:~# Now what? Marty Unfortunately, you will have to hunt down all the packages that are mentioned in the error messages. And the ones upon which those depend. And so on. Then you can either install all of them by hand or put them in one directory, go there and 'dpkg -i *.deb'. Not much fun, I'm afraid. But at least it's not any worse than using RPM. HTH, --j signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: install samba from binary
On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 02:33:43PM -0500, Marty Landman wrote: At 01:48 PM 12/12/2005, Andrei Popescu wrote: [...] UNCLELEO:~# ping -c 1 google.com ping: unknown host google.com What do you get if you do (for example) 'ping -c 1 64.233.187.99'? UNCLELEO:~# route add default 192.168.0.1 SIOCADDRT: No such device UNCLELEO:~# What does a 'route' all by itself show? signature.asc Description: Digital signature
LogWatch + Postfix = TMI
Hello, I am running an almost pure sarge system with logwatch 5.2.2-5 and postfix 2.2.4-1.0.1. All is well, except for the fact that logwatch produces a bit too much output for my taste in the postfix section. Specifically, all the statistics that Anvil prints are added to the report as unmatched entries: **Unmatched Entries** statistics: max connection rate 1/60s for (smtp:x.x.x.x) at Dec 5 +00:04:02 statistics: max connection count 1 for (smtp:x.x.x.x) at Dec 5 00:04:02 statistics: max cache size 1 at Dec 5 00:04:02 [and so on for several pages] I tried to create /etc/logwatch/conf/ignore.conf with the following contents: .*max connection rate.* .*max connection count.* .*max cache size.* No idea whether the location or the contents are correct - I found the documentation a tad light in that respect. Is there a way to suppress those log messages without having to modify the postfix filter? Would ignore.conf be the right approach? Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks, Juergen signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Whence cometh grove.log
I have a file, 'grove.log' in my root folder: -rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 65 Oct 28 22:24 /grove.log It contains just one line: 20041028 22:24:51 grove: client (pid 20227) exited with 1 status Does anyone know where such a file may come from and what it means? Log files in the root directory tend to make me a bit nervous. Any hints would be greatly appreciated. Thanks --j -- Juergen Fiedler JID [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG Key ID B06D4779 signature.asc Description: Digital signature
bittorrent troubles was: Re: Sharing dfsbuild experiences.
On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 10:36:01PM -0500, Juergen Fiedler wrote: Alright... bittorrent is running, wondershaper has (hopefully) done its magic - I should be good. Could you or someone just like you please hit http://www.fiedlerfamily.net/juergen/files/dfs.jf-12202004.iso.torrent and see what happens? Looks like nothing would happen. I noticed that btdownloadcurses (or headless, for that matter) gives me an error after a little while: Problem connecting to tracker - HTTP Error -1: That's all. I have the tracker running: bttrack --port 6880 --dfile /service/bttrack/dstate I created the torrent file: btmakemetafile /home/juergen/bittorrent/dfs.jf-12202004.iso \ http://www.fiedlerfamily.net:6880/announce I copied it to my web server and tried btdownloadcurses --url \ http://www.fiedlerfamily.net/juergen/files/dfs.jf-12202004.iso.torrent \ --saveas /home/juergen/bittorrent/dfs.jf-12202004.iso It completes the 'download' and then gives me the aforementioned error every few minutes. What am I doing wrong here? Any input *will* be appeciated. Thanks --j -- Juergen Fiedler JID [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG Key ID B06D4779 signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Sharing dfsbuild experiences.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sam Watkins wrote: | On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 08:58:41AM -0500, Juergen Fiedler wrote: | |A bittorrent would certainly be a start. I wonder how much trouble I |could get into if I tried hosting that on my machine (upstream ~ 96 |KB/s). The file is pretty close to 200MB, being that I am trying to |optimally fill a mini CD. | | | If you do that, make sure you're running wonder shaper, or you won't be | able to download anything while your upload link is saturated. Wonder | shaper rocks :) | | http://lartc.org/wondershaper/ | | I can run bt on my server to support it if you like. | (I hate having all this bandwidth which I'm not using !!) Alright... bittorrent is running, wondershaper has (hopefully) done its magic - I should be good. Could you or someone just like you please hit http://www.fiedlerfamily.net/juergen/files/dfs.jf-12202004.iso.torrent and see what happens? Thanks ~ --j - -- Juergen Fiedler JID [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG Key ID B06D4779 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFByOuhhqmlHrBtR3kRAspVAKCiVkBB/u8N+A468qVMyoCtbCpH3wCeI3MC eODf+v4AS4xZ38VNHVbg3MQ= =F7qx -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sharing dfsbuild experiences.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sam Watkins wrote: |I would love sharing the ISO file, too, but with my DSL connection it |would take hours to download it. | | | I have a bored server on which I could host a bit-torrent for you, so long as | the demand is not too high. How big is the ISO? A bittorrent would certainly be a start. I wonder how much trouble I could get into if I tried hosting that on my machine (upstream ~ 96 KB/s). The file is pretty close to 200MB, being that I am trying to optimally fill a mini CD. Thanks ~ --j - -- Juergen Fiedler JID [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG Key ID B06D4779 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBxDeQhqmlHrBtR3kRAmYgAJwP0EFlg4EpCHJquN2vLioT/cZ9QwCeOkGT dYfDo5h8SW6apEDFX6fVsNU= =pVwH -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
building linux-wlan-ng modules for 2.6.9
Hi, I am trying to compile the linux-wlan-ng modules for kernel 2.6.9. The kernel itself was built with kernel-package; the sources for the modules (installed with 'apt-get source linux-wlan-ng') are in /usr/src/modules/linux-wlan-ng-0.2.0+0.2.1pre21. From rom /usr/src/kernel-source-2.6.9, I issue a 'make-kpkg --revision=juergen.1 modules_image'. A lot of text runs by, finally followed by: --- make[5]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.6.9' CC [M] /usr/src/modules/linux-wlan-ng-0.2.0 +0.2.1pre21/src/p80211/p80211conv.o /usr/src/modules/linux-wlan-ng-0.2.0+0.2.1pre21/src/p80211/p80211conv.c: In function `skb_p80211_to_ether': /usr/src/modules/linux-wlan-ng-0.2.0 +0.2.1pre21/src/p80211/p80211conv.c:502: error: union has no member named `ethernet' make[6]: *** [/usr/src/modules/linux-wlan-ng-0.2.0 +0.2.1pre21/src/p80211/p80211conv.o] Error 1 make[5]: *** [_module_/usr/src/modules/linux-wlan-ng-0.2.0 +0.2.1pre21/src/p80211] Error 2 make[5]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.6.9' make[4]: *** [default] Error 2 make[4]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/modules/linux-wlan-ng-0.2.0 +0.2.1pre21/src/p80211' make[3]: *** [all] Error 2 make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/modules/linux-wlan-ng-0.2.0 +0.2.1pre21/src'make[2]: *** [all] Error 2 make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/modules/linux-wlan-ng-0.2.0 +0.2.1pre21' make[1]: *** [build] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/modules/linux-wlan-ng-0.2.0 +0.2.1pre21' Module /usr/src/modules/linux-wlan-ng-0.2.0+0.2.1pre21 failed. --- And that is as far as I get. Do those modules not compile with the 2.6.9 kernel or am I doing something wrong. I have to assume the latter and would be very grateful for any pointers on how to get it right. TIA --j signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: xprint - why?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wayne Topa wrote: | Jacob S([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: | |On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 15:52:03 -0500 |Wayne Topa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | |Jacob S([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: | |On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 11:17:29 -0500 |Wayne Topa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | |Jacob S([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: | |On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 06:41:32 -0600 |Nate Bargmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | |* Bill Wohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004 Nov 23 06:12 -0600]: | |Anyway, if someone could explain or point me to a document |or thread(which I couldn't find) that explains why we need |xprint, how it fits in, and what programs it replaces, I'd |appreciate it. | |I'm probably not alone ;-). | |snip | |Since they still depend on xprt I've continued to use the |mozilla.org packages. | |snip | |Actually, that's not true. apt-cache show mozilla-firefox |reveals that xprt is now only in the recommended line, instead |of the Depends line. In mozilla-browser it's in the Suggests |line. I have been following the latest Mozilla browser in Sarge |while keeping xprt and friends uninstalled. Works great, no |special tricks necessary. | | |Just checked and you are correct, so I uninstalled xprt*, |restarted mozilla-firefox 1.0-2, brought up a page, clicked print, |waited ~30 seconds, clicked print, waited ~15 seconds, watched the |'preparing' message appear and the bar scroll, then firefox |crashed. The page had some jpegs on it. Nothing was printed. | |Restarted and watched the same as above on a text only page and it |did print and firefox did _not_ crash. | |Looks like getting firefox from mozilla is a better choice. The |current debian package has some issues. :-) | |Since Firefox is not my primary browser, I usually upgrade it pretty |fast to check out the new features and don't follow the Debian |packages. But I just tried installing it via apt-get to see if I |experienced the same problem and printing worked great for me. Pages |with .jpgs, .gifs, text, it didn't seem to matter - Firefox printed |to cups just fine using the Postscript/default option. Same with the |tarball from Mozilla.org, but then you already knew that. | |Printing has been working great in Mozilla-browser and galeon for |me, as well. No complaints at all. | |I'm running Sarge, btw. | |It seems that the page I can't print with firefox (with or without |xprt) prints fine with mozilla-browser. I tried firefox with xprt and |postscript and it continues to crash, without printing. This is with |with the Debian package _and_ the 1.0 version downloaded from |mozilla.org. A bug report to mozilla.org was submitted. | |The page is one of mine and I thought it was odd that I had printed |copies of it but could not print it with firefox. | |http://www.capital.net/~brittman/puppypic/puppies.html |for those that might want to try it for themselves. | |Interesting. Anything special on the page (sorry, didn't look at the |source)? | | | A small javascript scroll message, which doesn't print with | mozilla-browser 1.7.3-5 (deb package), but I didn't expect it to. | |It crashed both Firefox (from Mozilla.org) and mozilla-browser (from |Sarge) on my machine, when I tried to print. Firefox wanted to install a |plugin, mozilla-browser simply displayed the page. | | | It is looking for java, for the scroller. I have java enabled in the | deb package but didn't enable it, yet, in the moz.org package. | Doesn't make a difference tho as they both crash when trying to print | the page. | | Gee, maybe I should remove the Get Firefox link from the site/ :- | | Thanks for confirming my findings Jacob. At least I know it's not | something else I configured wrong. | | Cheers | WT | FWIW, it prints fine in my Firefox 1.0 RC1 on a sarge/sid hybrid (Java enabled, xprt-xprintorg 0.0.9.final.001-7 installed). All it does is to omit the ticker and stop the animated GIF - which is probably just as well ;) - --j -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBo73iYFE+dpEf2hQRAqNmAJ4lT4/Z72oeSQNEjRxiG6taZ08GuACghlaQ R26uvj6K922KlaT94Y0/G3Q= =3fnP -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: eclipse install
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Do you get the same error if you run the startup script from the directory where the jar file is located? If not, it might help to add a 'cd /location/of/jar/file' near the top of the startup script. I have had that happen before. - --j Eduard Pauna wrote: | Hi to all, | | Did somebody succeded in running eclipse on debian? | I got the eclipse-platform-SDK-3.0-linux-gtk.zip package, unzip it and | when I run eclipse I obtain this error | | The Eclipse executable launcher was unable to locate its | companion startup.jar file (in the same directory as the executable). | | but startup.jar is in the same directory... | | Thanks for any help! | | Cheers, | Eduard -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBonEpYFE+dpEf2hQRAlneAJ0c5+P+2q0vNxpsbF+nhPuIkwkidQCeLAlI Ic8HD1PrhrT3wrsTmojG7Yo= =sWII -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sarge questions on aptitude and GRUB
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have been running Sarge (rc2) for quite a while and have little or no problems with make-kpkg created kernels. IIRC, they are inserted after the older kernels in menu.lst, thus retaining the old one as default when rebooting, but that is easily changed. - --j Mauro Darida wrote: | Some questions on coming Sarge release: | 1. I know GRUB will be the default: will make-kpkg support it? | 2. Automatic installing of Recommends and Suggested packages will be | default in aptitude behaviour? | Saluti, Mauro. | -- | On this laptop no Windows system survives and LINUX POWER reigns UNLIMITED. | GnuPG key ID: 28A61681 | | -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBnclvYFE+dpEf2hQRAsoIAJ9SqbGCT25+Ljfy8GG4/auGhn6CfQCgq90q tgQerMk9gwQuWfdx0D+1Ih4= =8R2X -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian and spam
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul Johnson wrote: | William Ballard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | | |Including nospam in your email name helps a lot. | | | http://www.interhack.net/pubs/munging-harmful/ While I agree that address munging is Not A Good Thing, I find the attempt to draw parallels between spamming and terrorism in that article inaccurate and offensive. I wonder what the author thinks about spam filtering (which happens to be my favorite method to deal with UCE). - --j -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBlpDWYFE+dpEf2hQRAqyBAJ9rNwScG2eFAcOVgNB8/xdYHcNhjQCgiCmP kJi4hV5Zojrc49z+NQ0a7us= =w7+b -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Need help playing mp3 files and /or configuring sound
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sean wrote: | I've attached two files which may shed some light when I try to play an | amp3 file with mpg321. No I don't know if my sound system even works. | Discover detects the es1370 as my sound card and I've installed the os | modules into the kernel using modconf. When I used modconf to do this, | I gave the os module no suplimental arguments. I have libio and mpg321 | installed. The error message you'll see from mpg321 asks if the device | is in use? When I tried to play the file, there was nothing using my | sound card. | See the attached files mpg.log, script output from running mpg321 and | dmesg.log the dmesg output. If don't know if it makes a difference, | these files were created as my user not root. | Sean The first thing I normally do when testing my sound card is to issue a 'cat /etc/passwd /dev/dsp'. If it tells me that I don't have the necessary permissions (as it often will), I add my user account to the 'audio' group. Have you tried that yet? - --j -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBfmHRYFE+dpEf2hQRAjalAJ4sF25rPFgXuCtJjvnQEygJn7AssgCgljpx VQs86nk9uixQEQ8nuh12D54= =gXxF -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Playing a wav
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Around here, the play command s contained in the sox package. HTH - --j Michael Satterwhite wrote: | I didn't see this message come through, so I think I had a glitch on my mail | server. If someone does see it twice, I apologize. | | Back on SuSE, I could play a wav file just by entering play file from the | command line. I liked this for script end notifications. Play isn't installed | by default, and there are hundreds of hits if I enter apt-cache search | play. | | Would someone be so kind as to suggest a command line tool for this that's | available on Debian? | -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBfndWYFE+dpEf2hQRApFwAJ46Am2fNyccvvGTIurUZHQBSCQlUgCgjd8P E7kUfpinvzbEdJmIPhkkbZM= =kmX1 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Problems with mkinitrd-cd / mkbootimg
Hello, I am trying to create a bootable CD with mkinitrd-cd 0.22, but this far, I've had no luck. The procedure looks like this: mkinitrd-cd /lib/modules/2.4.18-bf2.4/ initrd.img full mkbootimg 2880 /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-bf2.4 initrd.img boot.img mkisofs -b boot.img -c boot.cat -o ../test.iso . When I burn the resulting iso file, the syslinux screen comes up and it even loads the kernel and the initrd image. After that, though, it prints: --- Gibraltar 0.99.5 loading, searching for CD trying to locate cdrom: --- and then sits there like a dead fish. The kernel that I used here is the one that's installed during the installation of the official Woody. I also tried a handmade kernel, making sure that all requirements mentioned in /usr/share/doc/mkinitrd-cd/README.gz are met. Does anyone have experience with mkinitrd-cd that they would be willing to share? Thanks in advance --j msg04454/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Problems adding extra packages to a PGI installer
I am trying to create a Debain installer with pgi 0.9.6.3. If I use the base-conf configuration, everything works OK, but if I try a configlets install, I get error messages about conflicts when pgi is trying to figure out package dependencies: --- python /usr/share/pgi/tools/pgi-calc-deps.py /root/./pgi-root/misc/extra_packages.in /root/./pgi-root/misc/extra_packages.tmp BAD: Dep of defoma conflicts with approved package. Current dep alternatives: dialog Current stack contents: configlet-frontends python-configlet python-gnome libgnomeprint15 libgnomeprint-data gs gs-common defoma Current approved packages: fileutils debconf debconf-utils libc6 libncurses5 psmisc discover-data libdiscover1 ash discover grub libdb3 libreadline4 libssl0.9.6 zlib1g python2.1 python libglib1.2 libgtk1.2-common debianutils xfree86-common libfreetype6 xlibs libgtk1.2 libjpeg62 libpng2 libtiff3g libgdk-pixbuf2 python-gtk imlib-base libungif4g gdk-imlib1 python-gdk-imlib libart2 libaudiofile0 esound-common libesd0 libgnomesupport0 gnome-libs-data libgnome32 libgnomeui32 cpp-2.95 cpp libwrap0 liborbit0 libgnorba27 libgnorbagtk0 base-passwd gnome-bin libcapplet0 libgal19 libpopt0 liboaf0 libxml1 oaf gconf libgconf11 libgdk-pixbuf-gnome2 libglade0 libglade-gnome0 libgnomeprint-bin libgimpprint1 libpaperg Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/share/pgi/tools/pgi-calc-deps.py, line 303, in ? raise RuntimeError --- Sorry for the long list, but I figured it might actually be relevant. Does anybody know what I may be doing wrong? I have a local package mirror, but it is far from complete. Could this be causing that error message? Thanks --j -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Snort on Debian - no alerts? no reports?
On Mon, 2002-06-24 at 07:53, T. wrote: Hi, Debian Unstable snort: Installed: 1.8.6-3 Candidate: 1.8.6-3 I have installed snort and I'm getting no email alerts, and the daily reports are blank. The version of snort-stat that is packaged with that one is somewhat messed up: The regular expressions that it uses for scanning the syslog file (you are logging to auth.log, right?) don't match the format that snort uses by default. There are more elegant solutions, I am sure, but I just downloaded the latest snort-stat from www.snort.org and it works flawlessly. HTH --j signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: can't acces https with mozilla
On Mon, 2002-06-24 at 13:27, Ben Thompson wrote: Hello, I am unable to connect to secure websites using mozilla on my debian system. Try installing mozilla-psm. PSM stands for Personal Security Manager and is the part of Mozilla that handles, encryption 'n' stuff. HTH --j signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: multiple servers in gdm
Given the described behaviour (you can log in, the server resets, GDM comes back up), it would seem that whatever session is being spawned is exiting. Stands to reason. I wonder whether there is a good way to figure out wheter _what_ is called is wrong or whether what is called is misconfigured. Try any failsafe sessions in the GDM Sessions menu (on vt8, of course). Do any of those work? Which ones were there? :) None of them (failsafe-gnome and failsafe-xterm) do. Neither do other sessions like kde2 or fluxbox. One thing that _does_ work is running multiple sessions with kdm. Wonder what's up with that... --j signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
multiple servers in gdm
Hi, I am trying to run multiple X servers simultaneously from gdm. I changed the [servers] section in gdm.conf to look like this: [servers] 1=/usr/bin/X11/X vt8 0=/usr/bin/X11/X vt7 Now, the server on vt7 works OK, but although there is a login screen on vt8, I can't really log in: After entering the password, the screen flashes a couple of times and then returns to the login screen. /var/log/gdm/:1.log has the following to say about this topic: (==) ATI(0): Write-combining range (0xfd00,0x80) (**) ATI(0): DPMS enabled PEXExtensionInit: Couldn't open default PEX font file Roman_M (==) ATI(0): Write-combining range (0xfd00,0x80) (**) ATI(0): DPMS enabled PEXExtensionInit: Couldn't open default PEX font file Roman_M So... the server on vt7 can find the font files, but the one on vt8 can't? Could that be some kind of locking issue, or is the problem somewhere else entirely. Any input would be appreciated. Thanks in advance, Juergen pgpEffB1ULLiO.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: multiple servers in gdm
On Sat, Jun 22, 2002 at 10:52:56AM -0400, Juergen Fiedler wrote: Hi, I am trying to run multiple X servers simultaneously from gdm. I changed the [servers] section in gdm.conf to look like this: [servers] 1=/usr/bin/X11/X vt8 0=/usr/bin/X11/X vt7 Ack! That's me being stupid again. I found a line in /var/log/gdm/:0.log that looks like it could be more relevant than complaints about missing fonts: AUDIT: Sat Jun 22 10:54:30 2002: 2266 X: client 4 rejected from local host I've never seen this line before and don't know what it means. Could it have anything to do with the display on vt8 not coming up? And double duh! I forgot the specs: I'm trying this on an up-to-date sid system with xserver-xfree86 4.1.0-17. --j pgpqf0OiHRUwY.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: multiple servers in gdm
On Sat, 2002-06-22 at 13:21, Hubert Chan wrote: Juergen Now, the server on vt7 works OK, but although there is a login Juergen screen on vt8, I can't really log in: After entering the Juergen password, the screen flashes a couple of times and then returns Juergen to the login screen. So the X server starts properly on vt8. It looks like it might be an error in your user configuration. Did you have a look through your ~/.xsession-errors? ~ being the home directory of the user who is trying to log in, I assume? Nope, nothing. Thanks for replying --j signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: cfingerd always hangs
On Sat, May 18, 2002 at 08:20:34PM +0200, Matijs van Zuijlen wrote: Also, I wonder whether someone could try to finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] to see whether the problem is specific to this particular host. I would appreciate it. Works fine for me. I got your name and public key back. That's probably due to the fact that I got impatient and switched to efingerd. That one handles ident responses (or the lack thereof) in a way that I can actually follow :) Thanks --j pgpwOmS5m1UTC.pgp Description: PGP signature
cfingerd always hangs
Hi, I installed cfingerd 1.4.3-1.1 on a Woody system and opened port 79 in my firewall. I'm trying to finger myself from another host that's also behind a firewall. The messages I get in daemon.log look like this: May 17 12:41:20 fiedlerfamily cfingerd[5616]: connect from somewhereelse May 17 12:44:29 fiedlerfamily cfingerd[5616]: rfc1413-connect: Connection timed out May 17 12:44:29 fiedlerfamily cfingerd[5616]: juergen fingered from [EMAIL PROTECTED] I don't get anything back. Also note the long interval between the original request and the realisation that the other machine is not going to come across with a response. I replaced '-ALLOW_NONIDENT_ACCESS' with '+ALLOW_NONIDENT_ACCESS' in cfingerd.conf, but it didn't help. I'm hitting my head against the wall here. Why does it look like it's insisting on an ident respons when I told it not to? Is there anything else I have to change? Also, I wonder whether someone could try to finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] to see whether the problem is specific to this particular host. I would appreciate it. TIA --j pgpGCrYFUQOHs.pgp Description: PGP signature
SNMP problems
Hi, I am using an up-to-date snmp/snmpd on Woody (i.e. both are version 4.2.3-2). If I do an 'snmpwalk localhost public system', it diplays everything up to system.sysORTable.sysOREntry.sysORUpTime.9 and then gives me a timeout. After that, snmpd stays unresponsive for a long time. Even with /etc/init.d/snmpd stop, it takes about halp a minute until snmpd actually shuts down. A simple 'snmpget localhost public system.sysUpTime.0' works OK and doesn't tie up snmpd forever. Does anybody know what my problem could be? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance --j pgp5uhc7N6rki.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: SNMP problems
RTFFAQ? Turns out that the problem doesn't occur if I specify a really long timeout for smtpwalk. After the 'system.sysORTable.sysOREntry.sysORUpTime.9' line, it just gives me an 'End of MIB' and does not stay busy after that. So I know a workaround, but I'd still like to know why it takes so long and why snmpd stays busy when snmpwalk receives a timeout. --j pgp2UGBvt4HQO.pgp Description: PGP signature
snort-mysql and xml output
Hi, I have a Woody system with snort-mysql 1.8.4beta1-2 installed. My snort.conf contains (among others) the following lines: === output alert_fast: alert output xml: alert, file=/perl/snort.pl protocol=http host=localhost port=80 === I can call http://localhost/perl/snort.pl and OK, but if I pound the host with nmap, the corresponding messages get written to /var/log/snort/alert, but snort.pl is never called. A 'snort -c /etc/snort/snort.conf -T' gives me: === ProcessFileOption: /var/log/snort/alert xml_plugin: Logging to /perl/snort.pl xml_plugin: Using http protocol xml_plugin: Host set to localhost xml_plugin: Port set to 80 xml_plugin: Using the alert facility [...] === Looks like the XML plugin is initialized correctly. Does anybody know what I have to do to get it to actually do something? Thanks in advance --j pgpWac61Hi043.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: can't get .shosts authentication to run
Just figured it out: I need to set HostbasedAuthentication _and_ UsePrivilegedPort to yes. This way, I can get it to at least try host based auth. Now, I get an error that may actually originate on the server side: --- [...] debug1: authentications that can continue: publickey,password,keyboard-interactive,hostbased debug3: start over, passed a different list publickey,password,keyboard-interactive,hostbased debug3: preferred hostbased,publickey,keyboard-interactive,password debug3: authmethod_lookup hostbased debug3: remaining preferred: publickey,keyboard-interactive,password debug3: authmethod_is_enabled hostbased debug1: next auth method to try is hostbased debug2: userauth_hostbased: chost myclient.mydomain.net. debug2: we sent a hostbased packet, wait for reply debug1: authentications that can continue: publickey,password,keyboard-interactive,hostbased debug2: userauth_hostbased: chost myclient.mydomain.net. debug2: we sent a hostbased packet, wait for reply debug1: authentications that can continue: publickey,password,keyboard-interactive,hostbased debug1: userauth_hostbased: no more client hostkeys debug2: we did not send a packet, disable method [...] --- I wonder what that means... pgpbpNcixpS7O.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: screen messes up ncurses
On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 04:54:49PM -0500, dman wrote: gnome-terminal doesn't draw the line-drawing characters correctly. It's why I (sometimes) have 'ascii_chars' set in mutt. gnome-terminal draws the line characters correctly when I'm not using screen - that's the weird part. Anyways, $TERM is : xterm Yes. This is true for the Gnome terminals, xterm and Konsole (which displays the line characters OK). Well, I switched over to KDE for now, anyway, so I don't even have to worry about getting screen to work with Gnome. Thanks --j pgpyg27gNmTKF.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: screen messes up ncurses
On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 01:05:51PM -0500, dman wrote: | gnome-terminal draws the line characters correctly Odd. I wonder how your setup is different from mine. Just for demonstration, here's two screen shots of my gnome-terminal : http://dman.ddts.net/~dman/screenshot/gnome-term-noscreen.png Nope... without screen, I get line drawing characters instead of the boxes. http://dman.ddts.net/~dman/screenshot/gnome-term-screen.png Yes - that's what it looks like for me when I'm running screen. My LANG is C, btw. --j pgp8wzpZUJZDj.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: screen messes up ncurses
On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 10:22:25AM -0700, Grant Bowman wrote: Try this in your .screenrc defbce on term screen-bce Nope, didn't do a thing :( --j pgpEQHE3QLeWb.pgp Description: PGP signature
screen messes up ncurses
Hello, I am running screen 3.9.5-9 on a sid box. The problem is this: When I use curses based applications like mc or mutt, all line drawing characters are displayed as regular letters. Looks like the 8th bit is stripped off the char or something. Does anybody know what to do about that? Thanks, --j pgphSbBaccIGC.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: screen messes up ncurses
Update: This only seems to occur under X, using the Gnome terminals (gnome-terminal 1.4.0.8-2, multi-gnome-terminal 1.4.1-1 or powershell 0.9-6). Regular xterm works OK. Sorry for not investigating that upfront. --j pgpID6oAxkwne.pgp Description: PGP signature
can't get shosts auth working
Hello, I am trying to connect to a machine on our LAN with the .shosts method, but it seems that my ssh client is not even willing to try that. My $HOME/.ssh/config looks like this: --- Host myserver HostName myserver.mydomain.net Protocol 2 RhostsRSAAuthentication yes RhostsAuthentication yes HostbasedAuthentication yes --- When I try to connect with ssh -v, I get the following output: --- OpenSSH_3.0.2p1 Debian 1:3.0.2p1-9, SSH protocols 1.5/2.0, OpenSSL 0x0090603f debug1: Reading configuration data /home/juergen/.ssh/config debug1: Applying options for cavemaus debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config debug1: Applying options for * debug1: Seeding random number generator debug1: Rhosts Authentication disabled, originating port will not be trusted. debug1: restore_uid debug1: ssh_connect: getuid 1000 geteuid 0 anon 1 debug1: Connecting to myserver.mydomain.net [XXX.XX.XX.XXX] port 22. [...] --- I then get logged in via public key authentication. Am I correct in assuming that the 'Rhosts Authentication disabled' line means that the client isn't even going to try the .shosts method? If so, is there anything I can do to remediate that? The client system is sid, the server woody and ssh is installed SUID root on both. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance, Juergen pgps55tCFTQSe.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Reverse Depends on packages
On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 06:31:03PM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote: [...] Is there a tool, or series of commands that'll help me find packages that are not depended on anymore in the debian packaging system? [...] Check out deborphan. --j pgpI4jriUC0QZ.pgp Description: PGP signature
Cupsys doesn't play nice(ly)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I am running an up-to-date version of unstable with cupsys 1.1.4-3. My problem is that if I try to print from external programs (i.e. Konqueror , enscript), the print margins come out all wrong. I have set up an HP LJ4000 as an lpd printer called syc2. If I do a 'lpr -Psyc2 test.txt', the file will come out OK. 'enscript -Psyc2 test.txt' cuts off the top and bottom of the page. Same goes for Konqueror and other programs. I tried adjusting the margins in kups. Again, lpr uses the changed margins, enscript doesn't. I tried cupsys 1.1.6 directly from the CUPS web site, but the .deb doesn't fit in well with the related packages. I got it installed, but handling packages that rely on the Debian version is a pain. Does anyone know how I can make CUPS behave? TIA, Juergen -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE60zxLRioLhcc1F0gRAt3dAJ4mva1IIFOHcn//YO4ZmWH/zf12lACgxa9m nOJBgkccxWyjYo/rCPCZVCo= =5sj9 -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: Lunar lander game?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 06 April 2001 10:18, Stan Brown wrote: Can anyone sugest a good lunar lander game for use on a Debian system? I found Lunar Lander 200, and it looks just perfect, but I can't seem to get it to compile on my Debian stable machine. What's wrong with good old xlander? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6zfuYRioLhcc1F0gRAu/uAJ9dv1DqfAZimQKD6m3v4rWH2vzy1ACcC7CJ PXPSuORAfNtFooAjSq9aDxE= =ZBbe -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: Java install problems
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Actually, sun doesn't make a jvm for linux. Instead they signed an NDA with the blackdown people, and the blackdown people make it instead. If there is a link on sun's site (wasn't last time I checked, but it's been a while) it is to the blackdown site. -D http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/download-linux.html doesn't link to blackdown in any way. It's not much of a secret that the code of Sun's JVM for Linux is Blackdown with minor modifications. But they still keep their own local copy. I like Blackdown Java better, though, because it comes in .deb form. j -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6w4e0RioLhcc1F0gRAk+qAKCu8p+D5HtBMVD8NqVRQGxjbFHbwACfWjj4 fCa2sXbSVsf7ysYEqw11Pu0= =PeOO -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: need help with ncurses...
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 29 March 2001 13:06, Jake R. Johnson wrote: how do i install ncurses? Do an 'apt-cache search ncurses', pick out the latest version and 'apt-get install latest-version'. In unstable latest-version == libncurses5, in stable it might still be libncurses4. If you want to compile applications with ncurses support, you'll also have to 'apt-get install latest-version-dev'. j -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6w4phRioLhcc1F0gRAuBYAKCngaP0X8ztrcOWZdYSuAYg912qNACgv2yq MDt901NVEM17U6EgynsDV6s= =UDz2 -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: Upgrade advantage in Debian vrs. RedHat
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 27 March 2001 11:17, Alan Shutko wrote: CaT [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Let me give you today's example: Nit: your example wasn't comparing apples and apples. You were running an up-to-date Debian system and an old RedHat system, which didn't ship ssh in the first place. With a current RH system, it would have been something like * ftp to favorite rh mirror * grovel through directory structure to find the 7.0 updates * download openssh rpms * rpm -Uvh them [...] ReNit: Your example assumes that the dependencies for openssh are unchanged. If they are not, the hunt is on - especcially since rpm has this nasty habit of telling you that it needs a newer version of a library, but gives no indication as to which package this library is in. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6wM2RRioLhcc1F0gRAhGhAJ9wDXDkR0ntdSdzuCkscq9XCaL2mACgpqio zUP7UXv0NW2ZtXuaVAuWGyE= =36c1 -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: staroffice..
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 24 March 2001 03:22, Roberto Diaz wrote: [...] Yes but for kpresenter to work I have to install kde 2.x I even havent installed kde 1.x and since I am using windowMaker I am a little bit afraid of KDE mostly due to last Nick Croft [EMAIL PROTECTED] posting about Subject: Re: kde virus-like menu masher [...] FWIW, IIRC, you don't have to install the KDE binaries, just the libraries. Try 'apt-get install kpresenter' and look at the list of additional packages that it wants to install. You should only find library packages there. And those won't try to take over your menu system. Not like I had any problems with the binaries... -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6vhRsRioLhcc1F0gRAkZ5AJ9vfCGrwkrts38nSvf5Uz/yf7gUAACg2Xcg dYy5TqtPlLdhPUUp67q00vs= =+XOm -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: printer setup
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 23 March 2001 16:13, Chris Howells wrote: From: jens [EMAIL PROTECTED] I installed 1.1.6 the same way you are suggesting and all went fine. I then tried installing kups which is a nicer interface as part of snip Did you have the same problem ? Do you use kups ? How did you resolve the issue ? Sorry, no, I simply use the web interface. I find that quite adequate for my needs (I generally use it via Lynx, since Konqueror doesn't seem capable of it). Chris Howells Which Konqueror? Version 2.1 works fine for me. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6u8CERioLhcc1F0gRAk4aAJ43bYn47Gq7KmxXPUg9bvLJl14xBQCeI5w1 u/+V6WkHSahzOFWFuospWfI= =/f4E -END PGP SIGNATURE-
mod_ssl won't load
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I installed libapache-mod-ssl on an up-to-date unstable system this morning. I followed the instructions in libapache-mod-ssl-doc (I think), but mod-ssl won't load. I get this error message: - --- Syntax error on line 242 of /etc/apache/httpd.conf: Cannot load /usr/lib/apache/1.3/mod_ssl.so into server: /usr/lib/apache/1.3/mod_ssl.so: undefined symbol: dbm_firstkey - --- Line 242 is the one that says 'LoadModule ssl_module /usr/lib/apache/1.3/mod_ssl.so'. Does anyone know what the problem might be? Google brought up nothing. Thanks, j -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6uiQ4RioLhcc1F0gRAmd7AKDSZ3LIYdTot2hnEVHN0CnekN5SNwCeJRP7 4qBDllQe+MNzVI9aSSJiByg= =G4oT -END PGP SIGNATURE-
