Re: LUKS partition?
On 21.9.2011 7:15, Perry Thompson wrote: ... What are the pros and cons to creating a partition on the decrypted drive? I would like to know which to do before proceeding with backing up my /home. Thank you very much. Hi, I don't see any pros or cons since both methods seem to work. If you wanted to use the data on a Windows box, you might need to reconsider because the luks/lvm/ext-tools there aren't as flexible as on Linux. -- Juha Tuuna -- 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/4e7979eb.4070...@iki.fi
Re: Tracing Filesystem Accesses
On 12.5.2011 13:19, Rainer Dorsch wrote: Hello, I added an SSD in my system and moved the root filesystem to the SSD (which includes now also most of /home in my system). I spin down the regular hard disks and the system is a lot more quiet than before :-) Sometimes though something is accessing data on the disk drives, which I do not understand. Is there a way to trace all accesses to a directory tree (e.g. /mnt/disk) ? Is there another way to find out which data are accessed and if possible by which process? Thanks, Rainer You could try installing auditd. http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/auditd -- Juha Tuuna -- 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/4dcbb83c.6070...@iki.fi
Re: iceweasel 4 on squeeze?
On 23.3.2011 14:01, Brad Alexander wrote: Too soon? I had thought about grabbing the one from experimental (rc2?), but decided against that for a squeeze system. --b I've used the original package from Mozilla and installed it in /opt. Works fine... -- Juha Tuuna -- 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/4d89f00d.6090...@iki.fi
Re: php4 on Squeeze?
On 10.2.2011 16:07, Ed Curtis wrote: Is there a way I can install php4 on my fresh install of Debian 6.0? I will also need many php4 mods such as gd, mysql, etc. Thanks in advance. Hi, iirc PHP4 was ditched after Etch so no luck there. Maybe compile from sources? http://www.web-tech-india.com/articles/php/compiling_php_apache/ -- Juha Tuuna -- 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/4d53f3ee.1070...@iki.fi
Re: Hard disk high avalibity
On 20.1.2011 14:02, Jesus arteche wrote: Hey guys, I have two servers...and I need that a folder in one of the servers will be updated every time to another server, in case the first server go down...the second will be able to replace it. anyone has any idea? thanks Hi, cron rsync would do the trick. -- Juha Tuuna -- 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/4d3824c0.1040...@iki.fi
Re: Question related to FDE (Full Disk Encryption) solution under Linux Debian Lenny
On 19.1.2011 9:21, Thomas Nguyen Van wrote: Good evening, Our company needs to encrypt hard drives on our machines running under Linux Debian Lenny. Seagate proposes FDE solutions with Momentus 5400 and/or 7200 (http://www.seagate.com/docs/pdf/fr-FR/whitepaper/mb595_2_momentus_fde_sed_ii_sq_kit.pdf) This solution is very interesting because the password or the passphrase is not stored on the hard drive but in the BIOS in their case. So that a server can reboot without any human intervention. However, this solution only works under windows !! They don't plan to support under linux such a disk. :o( So my question is : could you suggest another FDE solution compliant with a Lenny distribution? Hi, you can check this out: http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Encrypted-Root-Filesystem-HOWTO/ Also, when installing a fresh Lenny, the installer program let's you encrypt the root partition. This is a very easy and simple way to do it. Just needs an unencrypted /boot but there's hardly any sensitive or secret information there. -- Juha Tuuna -- 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/4d36a5a6.7040...@iki.fi
Re: linux on windows
On 13.1.2011 9:07, abdelkader belahcene wrote: Hi, I have 2 pbs: I have installed for a friend of me, ubuntu on windows, (ubuntu has this option). I lost the password, and tried to fix it, so I tried booting from CD, to fix the problem as usual, (I mean mount HD, and chroot ). There is no linux partition visible, just the ntfs partition, ( in fact the linux partition ???!!! if any is in the ntfs partition!!). any idea to fix it. On my laptop, running debian (same problem with ubuntu and al) the CAPS key is enabled I can't disable it, to do it , I go to the text screen, (ctrl+alt+F1), to disable it, after that I come back to the graphical interface. What is the problem ?? thanks a lot best regards Ubuntu is installed on the windows parition (C:\ubuntu iirc). The linux filesystem is located in a container file that you can mount as loopback. I guess the file command should identify the container file if you can't find it (should be easy, it's the large one...) -- Juha Tuuna -- 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/4d2eb709.60...@iki.fi
Re: Autorun installation CD
On 11.1.2011 11:41, Kousik Maiti wrote: Hi List, I want to create a CD that can run automatically on Linux system and start installation from a .jar file. Is it possible? I googled it but don't get any proper answer. Thanks in advance. Hi, afaik Gnome and KDE run CDs automatically (if configured to do so). Normal autorun.inf should do the trick. Other desktops or window managers may or may not run CDs but anyways users can disable that feature if they wish. Some people even prefer manual mounting of CDs. -- Juha Tuuna -- 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/4d2c31ac.3090...@iki.fi
Re: rendering foreign characters in apache?
On 7.1.2011 10:51, Zachary Uram wrote: Running apache2 on Debian testing. What do I need to install/configure to get Chinese or Japanese text to render in apache? I cut/pasted some text from a RTF document and when I load the document via http://server/document.html it is a bunch of gibberish and the foreign characters (in this case Japanese) is not rendered. I even added: ?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8? meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=text/html; charset=utf-8 / to the HTML file but this made no difference. Zach Apache itself does not render any text, it just outputs text to your browser. You have to define the used character set in HTML and make sure your browser can use the desired font. If you don't have chinese or japanese fonts installed in your system, yuo cannot see them. -- Juha Tuuna -- 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/4d26dbdc.5060...@iki.fi
Re: External hdd changing device node mid-use
On 20.12.2010 9:15, Panayiotis Karabassis wrote: I have an external usb 2.0 LG hard disk. It is part of an md array which is in turn part of an lvm array. The strange thing is that while the drive is in use, it will suddenly change device nodes, for example from /dev/sda to /dev/sdb. This will cause the md driver to mark it as faulty. This is very disruptive. Why is this happening and how to solve it? Difficult to say without access to the logs, maybe if you posted a piece of your syslog and output of dmesg from around the moment the nodes changes. This is a good place for long logs and stuff: http://pastebin.com/ -- Juha Tuuna -- 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/4d0f0833.60...@iki.fi
Re: compare two directory trees
On 14.12.2010 10:15, Yuwen Dai wrote: Dear all, I burn DVD/CDs from ISO files. In order to verify the burning is correct, I wrote a script working like this: 1. mount the DVD and ISO files onto two mount points 2. calculate every file's md5sum in each directory, and save and sort them in two separate files 3. compare the above two files. The above method does work, but too time consuming because of the md5sum calculating. Do you have any suggestion to improve the efficiency? Best regards, Yuwen Hi, my guess is that there is none (or a faster hash algorithm) unless you use a programs that first detects different file sizes and calculates the hash only if the file names and size match. Of course, this does not speed up things if the data on both trees are equal. I personally use fdupes for this purpose. But in your case I'd calculate the hash from the ISO image file and the DVD device so there's no overhead from travelling the directory tree(s). -- Juha Tuuna -- 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/4d072cbf.8040...@iki.fi
Re: Getting the memory used by a process
On 8.12.2010 12:59, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: Hi there, I am trying to find out the memory used by a process (peak memory actually). I found the command 'pmap', howeverI cannot find a way to retrieve the PID of a process when execution time is really short. For instance, this does not work: /bin/ls (ps ax | grep ls) Any other tool, other than pmap to do find that information ? I would also like to avoid something as heady as valgrind --tool=massif. Thanks ! Try this: the_program_to_measure pmap $! or maybe this: https://gist.github.com/526585 -- Juha Tuuna -- 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/4cff740e.1080...@iki.fi
Re: Directory and file permissions
On 8.12.2010 14:17, Lisi wrote: My google foo seems to have deserted me completely. Could someone take pity? :-( Is it possible for a directory to have lower permissions than the files it contains? And could those who have permissions for the files, but not the directory, gain access to the files? My instinct says no. But it would not be for the first time if my instinct is wrong. Thanks for any help anyone feels able to give, Lisi I'm not absolutely sure if I understood your problem but here's something: You can write to a file already (with write permission) in a non-writable directory but you can't delete or create a file. If your directory has the read bit on (r--) then it's possible to list the contents but not possible to enter the directory and not possible to read a file otherwise readable. If your directory the the execute bit on (--x) then it's NOT possible to list the contents but it's possible to read the file if the filename is known. Both bits on (r-x) enable listing of contents and entering the directory. -- Juha Tuuna -- 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/4cff7c5a.6020...@iki.fi
Re: Can't acquire dchp lease while Windows can
On 31.8.2010 7:48, T o n g wrote: Hi, What might be the problem that my laptop can't acquire dchp lease from Linux while Windows can? ... You can use Wireshark (among others) to record the conversations between your Windows/Linux box and the DHCP server and then compare the results. It should give you a hint of what's going on and what's not. -- Juha Tuuna -- 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/4c7cd2f2.5090...@iki.fi
Re: Backing up email
On 29.8.2010 19:38, James Stuckey wrote: Hi all, I have several email accounts that I'd like to back up. I access them through imap or webmail. I thought I could just copy over a directory on my box through scp but it turns out that the webmail is hosted on another box that I can't ssh into. How can I backup the email? You might want to try fetchmail. I'm not subscribed to this list. Please reply directly to me. I cc'd you but usually it's preferable to answer to the list so that all the other list users see who has answered and what in order to prevent people from sending you 2^n messages saying the same. Thanks, James -- Juha Tuuna -- 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/4c7b5133@iki.fi
Re: Wine installation fails
On 25.8.2010 0:42, Gary Roach wrote: I just installed wine 1.0.1, Debian squeeze. The package never registered with the menu system. When I attempted to install MATLAB from disk, I got the following error: r...@supercrunch:/home/wine# wine /media/cdrom0/setup.exe No protocol specified No protocol specified No protocol specified No protocol specified No protocol specified Application tried to create a window, but no driver could be loaded. Make sure that your X server is running and that $DISPLAY is set correctly. My X server is definely running. I am using a KDE desktop environment. Winecfg errored out with the following: r...@supercrunch:/home/wine# winecfg No protocol specified No protocol specified fixme:mixer:ALSA_MixerInit No master control found on HD-Audio Generic, disabling mixer No protocol specified No protocol specified No protocol specified Application tried to create a window, but no driver could be loaded. Make sure that your X server is running and that $DISPLAY is set correctly. Application tried to create a window, but no driver could be loaded. Make sure that your X server is running and that $DISPLAY is set correctly. err:ole:apartment_createwindowifneeded CreateWindow failed with error 1114 I've looked at some of the web sites but haven't found much help. Does anyone have a clue where to start fixing this. Thanks for any support. Gary R. You should not run X11-programs straight as root, use gksudo or similar to achieve that. Actually you can install a Windows program as a regular user into your own $HOME/.wine -- Juha Tuuna -- 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/4c7556cd.6040...@iki.fi
Re: invisible console
On 30.4.2010 13:47, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: I like an old-fashioned VGA text look on the console; in /etc/default/console-setup I have FONTFACE=VGA FONTSIZE=16 This used to work. ... I'm running Debian Stable (kernel 2.6.26-2-amd64) with a framebuffer console working ok with the following settings: /etc/default/console-setup does not exist in /etc/console-tools/config I have: BLANK_TIME=30 BLANK_DPMS=off POWERDOWN_TIME=30 SCREEN_FONT=lat0-sun16 SCREEN_FONT_vc2=lat0-sun16 SCREEN_FONT_vc3=lat0-sun16 SCREEN_FONT_vc4=lat0-sun16 SCREEN_FONT_vc5=lat0-sun16 SCREEN_FONT_vc6=lat0-sun16 and in /boot/grub/menu.lst I have: title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.26-2-amd64 root(hd0,0) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26-2-amd64 root=/dev/sda1 ro vga=XXX initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.26-2-amd64 where XXX is something from: (0x0312 would give me 640x480 with 24 bits per pixel) % sudo hwinfo --framebuffer 02: None 00.0: 11001 VESA Framebuffer snip Mode 0x0300: 640x400 (+640), 8 bits Mode 0x0301: 640x480 (+640), 8 bits Mode 0x0303: 800x600 (+800), 8 bits Mode 0x0305: 1024x768 (+1024), 8 bits Mode 0x0307: 1280x1024 (+1280), 8 bits Mode 0x030e: 320x200 (+640), 16 bits Mode 0x030f: 320x200 (+1280), 24 bits Mode 0x0311: 640x480 (+1280), 16 bits Mode 0x0312: 640x480 (+2560), 24 bits snip Mode 0x0348: 1400x1050 (+2800), 16 bits Mode 0x0352: 2048x1536 (+8192), 24 bits Config Status: cfg=new, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown This configuration has been working for me for years with practically any 2.6.x kernel in Debian and Ubuntu. For more fonts see /usr/share/consolefonts -- Juha Tuuna -- 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/4bdac10a.1010...@iki.fi
Re: mkfifo question
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 07:36:05AM -0400, Mag Gam wrote: ... I was wondering if anyone has a clever idea how I can avoid having all 10 in /tmp and have a pipe or a virtual file so the program things there is actually a file there. Is it possible to fake out the OS like that? I'm not 100% sure if I understand you correctly, but if you just need 10 700MB files, just hardlink one 9 times more. -- Juha Tuuna -- 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/20100427105124.ga19...@linux.utu.fi
Re: Opportunistic apt sources?
On 19.4.2010 1:52, Ron Johnson wrote: On 2010-04-18 17:20, Richard Hartmann wrote: Hi all, I was wondering if there was any such thing as an opportunistic apt source. ... Does anything like the above exist? I'd use symlinks, where sources.list points to either sources.list.home, sources.list.work or sources.list.internet, and a short script to flip between them. In addition to Ron's flip script maybe use some heuristics to determine which network you're connected to and write a small wrapper to apt-get/aptitude or a script to /etc/network/if-up.d that flips the symlink to correct sources.list automagically. -- Juha Tuuna -- 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/4bcc0c59.1040...@iki.fi
Re: New notebook
pch0317 wrote: Hi Is possible that Debian testing will run on this machine: Hewlett-Packard Compaq 615 VC289EA (AMD Turion X2 Dual-Core RM-76, 2 GB DDR2, ATI Radeon HD 3200, Broadcom 802.11b/g with Bluetooth® 2.1, Marvell 10/100 ethernet, internet camera) Thanks I'd say it's indeed possible. Furthermore I'd be surprised if Debian Testing did not run at all on that computer. You may experience difficulties with some piece of equipment but generally Debian (Stable/Testing) will run on almost any modern PC. -- Juha Tuuna -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: virus on linux?
abdelkader belahcene wrote: Hi, I am asking if there is a virus on my machine how to detect it. Try scanning with Clamav the command ps aux gives all running processes, all really all? or it may be a hidden process running on background. There might be a hidden process using rootkit techniques. For rootkits, try chkrootkit, rkhunter and unhide. Until now, I considered that a virus doen't affect a system if you work as simple user, and can't damage system without root permission, am I right, or virus can get root privileges ?? A malware program can get root access via a security hole in the system. One reason to install security updates frequently. another thing on linux, the program can't run if it not executable, it must have the x permission, if we copy a file normally it looses the x permission. This is what I believe up now, am I right?? thanks for help bela Usually yes but some interpreters (like php and perl) run scripts without the execute bit set. -- Juha Tuuna -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Inquiry:How to add a command to Debian server ?
hadi motamedi wrote: ... please let me have the link to try for adding a command (like dmidecode) to my Debian server ? Let me thank you in advance sudo aptitude install dmidecode If aptitude is not installed, try apt-get instead. For future needs, try apt-cache search your-favourite-program-here -- Juha Tuuna -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Lenny Backports problem
Dale wrote: ... The following packages have unmet dependencies: libc6-i386: Breaks: lib32asound2 (= 1.0.20-2) but 1.0.16-2 is to be installed Breaks: lib32gcc1 (= 1:4.4.0-6) but 1:4.3.2-1.1 is to be installed Breaks: lib32stdc++6 (= 4.4.0-6) but 4.3.2-1.1 is to be installed E: Broken packages /snip Does anyone have any ideas what going on here and how to fix it? ... Hi, the contents of the following files might help finding the problem: /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/preferences -- Juha Tuuna -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Unable to upgrade my kernel
Scarletdown wrote: ... Also, is there any way to do a dist-upgrade without being forced into KDE 4? I don't really care for 4 and would prefer to stay with 3.5. However, it looks like apt-get dist-upgrade is going to force 4 on me. http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/ch-apt-get.en.html See 3.10 How to keep specific versions of packages installed (complex) -- Juha Tuuna -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: How to create an image file system that grows
T o n g wrote: Hi, How can I create an image file system that can grow bigger as required? Vmware, qemu, kvm, etc all can create file systems in an image file which is initially small, but grow bigger as required. I want to do that too, but dd if=/dev/zero of=file-fs.ext2 bs=1k count=20k mke2fs file-fs.ext2 would only create an image file initially as big as the full size. please help, thanks With this you cannot automagically grow the filesystem every time it runs out of space but hope this helps even a bit: 1. Backup and umount the container file 2. Add enough space to the container file (in this example 8 MiB) dd if=/dev/zero of=file-fs.ext2 bs=8M count=1 conv=notrunc oflag=append 3. Check the filesystem e2fsck -f file-fs.ext2 4. Resize filesystem resize2fs file-fs.ext2 5. Enjoy our extra megabytes. -- Juha Tuuna -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: broken HD (sector 0)
Jesus arteche wrote: Hello, I have a hard disk broken, it doesnt boot and if i put it as a slave gives me a lot of errors. It has several partitions (ext3, fat32 ntfs) i'd like to recovery some data from it. Someone knows how can I do it? Thanks Try dd_rescue. -- Juha Tuuna -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Boot from 2.6.26-2-686 fails - unable to find root device
Bruce Ward wrote: I have a problem with the new linux-image (2.6.26-2-686) provided as an update to Lenny. I have no problem with booting from the old image (2.6.26-1-686). The boot fails with messages: Gave up waiting for root device. ALERT! /dev/disk/by-label/D5root does not exist. Dropping to a shell! At that stage there is no /dev/disk directory (let alone a by-label subdir!) I use labels for my partitions because I have a mix of SATA and SCSI disks and Etch and Lenny find them in different order! I have exactly equivalent GRUB stanzas for both kernels; 2.6.26-1-686 has no problem. Any ideas would be appreciated. Bruce Try editing /boot/grub/menu.lst You'll have entries like this: title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.26-2-amd64 root(hd0,0) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26-2-amd64 root=/dev/sda1 ro vga=ask initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.26-2-amd64 Look at the working 2.6.26-1 entry and then match the root= in 2.6.26-2 entry accordingly. That should be it. -- Juha Tuuna -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Debian RAM supporting.
Daniel Suleyman wrote: Dear ALL. I have HP proliant DL380 G4 with 12 GB ram. I want to install debian lenny on it. Orocessors are 32bit. Installing debian from standard small cd debian-500-i386-netinst.iso will allow me to use whole 12 GB or additional setup will be needed? Thank you in advance. The kernel package linux-image-686-bigmem supports 4-64G RAM. -- Juha Tuuna -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Can you recommend a game in etch?
Freedroid is fun. Of course you can install Dosbox and play old DOS games. -- Juha Tuuna -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: database.php
hadi motamedi wrote: Dear All Can you please let me know how I can open the database.php file on my MS Windows client ? Regards H.Motamedi Try http://support.microsoft.com/ -- Juha Tuuna -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: New installation can only boot to command line as root
Ray Lozano wrote: ... I discovered after booting into the single user mode, that I can log in to the command line as root. After I exit root, the machine then hangs just like it did upon reboot as described above with a blank monitor. ... In single user mode try to let Xorg to do the configuration: # Xorg -configure This will write /root/xorg.conf.new Try it: # Xorg -config /root/xorg.conf.new This method usually gives a reasonably good configuration file to edit and tweak. If Xorg fails you should at least get some error messages to point you to the right direction. -- Juha Tuuna -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Serious aptitude upgrade problem
Flo wrote: Hi, I think I am running into a serious upgrade problem. I am running debian testing and I did the following: aptitude update aptitude -d upgrade Now I have downloaded the packages but instead of saying 'aptitude upgrade' to finish the upgrade I did: aptitude update aptitude upgrade In the meantime I got another package to install but all previously downloaded packages are marked to be uptodate but they are not. Does anyone know how to correct this? Thanks for your help. Try aptitude reinstall package -- Juha Tuuna -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: downloading hotmail emails
Daniel Dalton wrote: Hi, Has anyone had any luck with gotmail and hotmail? Or what other programs do this? Can someone tell me the best way to download my hotmail emails into the mbox format locally on my computer? If you are using gotmail, could you please either provide a config file or the command line arguments you invoke gotmail or whatever tool you are using with? Thanks for any help, Daniel. Quoting the package information: Although the team behind Gotmail tries to keep it working, every few months Hotmail makes changes which break this until they have time to fix it. Have a backup plan for email access in case that happens. I myself get this error: Page doesn't contain any form action field! Maybe something has changed (again). -- Juha Tuuna -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Password security/Weak Password lockout
Paul Gupta wrote: By what mechanism does debian decide whether or not a password is too weak etc. ... What is it exactly? AND How would one configure it to be stricter or more lenient with password selection? I use libpam-cracklib to protect from dictionary attacks. Also installed some dictionaries, see apt-cache search dictionary | grep /usr/share/dict /etc/pam.d/common-password: password required pam_cracklib.so retry=3 minlen=10 difok=3 3 retries, minimum length of password 10 characters, 3 characters is allowed to match with the previous password. Hope that gets you started. Maybe check this out, too. http://www.linuxsecurity.com/resource_files/host_security/securing-debian-howto/ap-checklist.en.html -- Juha Tuuna -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: sandisk 8Gb card
Paul Cartwright wrote: I can't figure out how to mount this SD card in debian. My dell desktop has a slot in front to put in an SD card, and when I do, the light comes on the front panel, so I ASSUME it is inserted correctly, but I don't see anything in lsusb or lspci that says SANDISK, and I'm not sure what the mount command would be.. any clues? Any luck with fdisk -l or dmesg? -- Juha Tuuna -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: DD command
rjubio wrote: How long does a dd command take for an 80 GB IDE hd? It depends on your hardware, are you writing or reading and other possible I/O on that disk. On a laptop I got 3MiB/s on average. You do the math. -- Juha Tuuna -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: stopping rhythmbox from coming up at start up
Daniel Dalton wrote: Hi, How can I stop rhythmbox from coming up at startup? I already checked the sessions or startup pages in gnome, but rhythmbox isn't there... What files start programs when a user logs in? Thanks, Danny There are many places that you make your programs start when you login/start session/etc I'd run grep -ir rhythmbox ~ | less and grab a cup of coffee. -- Juha Tuuna -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: GUI Looks Like Safe Mode
lee wrote: It looks like gnome, not KDE, and gnome always looked like that. ... If you take a look at the bottom left corner you'll see the K-menu button. Of course it's possible to make Gnome look like KDE and vice versa but my guess would be it's KDE. -- Juha Tuuna -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: GUI Looks Like Safe Mode
lee wrote: Of course it's possible to make Gnome look like KDE and vice versa but my guess would be it's KDE. It is? Like I said, that's just how these programs look since gnome became available in Debian, they never looked any different. How are they supposed to look? You can even make them look like Windows 95. Afaik they are supposed to look the way you want them to look ;) There are 2^n+m (n and m are positive integers) themes around... -- Juha Tuuna -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how do i change to lenny?
raman narasimhan wrote: i have installed debian from etch dvds. now i'd like to change to lenny or sid how do i do it??? i tried adding the following line to sources.list deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian lenny main then in terminal i typed apt-get update; but i got error.. (pls see below) ... E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room E: Error occurred while processing roundcube-pgsql (NewVersion1) E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.de.debian.org_debian_dists_lenny_main_binary-i386_Packages E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened. It looks like you don't have enough memory configured for apt, edit /etc/apt/apt.conf and add: APT::Cache-Limit 1; Or some other big value ;) Works for me. -- Juha Tuuna -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?
Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: Here's a template where you can fill in your favourites; feel free to add missing categories. Please don't add what you haven't really used (like I used to). More than piece can be given per category. Oh, and there's a couple of nice editions to last year's categories: audio editor: audacity audio player: xmms cd-ripper: kaudiocreator desktop OR window manager: kde DBMS: mysql development: lazarus, quanta+ disc burner: k3b e-mail client: icedove/thunderbird, mutt file manager: zsh, star commander in some rare cases finance: ftp client: whatever makes the job done (ftp, browser, mc, etc.) games: nethack, frozen bubble, freedroid image editor: gimp image viewer: display/image magick instant messenger: kopete mathematics: misc utilities: 7zip p2p: bittornado package manager: aptitude pdf-reader: kpdf spreadsheet: gnumeric tag editor: terminal emulator: konsole text editor: nano video player: xine web browser: iceweasel/firefox word-processor: open office writer anything unreleased and highly anticipated: Debian Lenny (as stable) anything FLOSS deserving great honours (EG. Linux, GCC): cc65 any organisation/community deserving great honours (EG. GNU, Debian): gnu, debian, apache, mysql, postgresql, vice any FLOSS developer deserving great honours (max 5 at most, unless you insist): Joe Forster/STA, the author of Star Commander, Igor Pavlov, the author of 7-Zip -- Juha Tuuna -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Extract .war File
Zaki Akhmad wrote: Hello, Can I extract .war file? How do I do it? Thanks jar and war files are actually zip files. Unzip should do the trick. -- Juha Tuuna -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to disable unused sound chip
Damon L. Chesser wrote: ... How to I use udev (and hotplug?) to disable this unused ATI sound chip and to select my onboard Nvidia sound chip? Try /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist Add the ATI module to the list, that should do it. -- Juha Tuuna -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Issue with URL and firefox (iceweasel)
Mathieu Malaterre wrote: Could someone please try and report ? Windows XP Pro SP3, Firefox 3.0.3 The first link usually works, not always though. The second one is just the opposite, it usually doesn't work but sometimes it does. Random generator? -- Juha Tuuna -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: chmod, or better solutions ?
Jochen Schulz wrote:
The only idea that pops into my mind would be chroots for every user.
But I don't see a point in doing that.
Maybe just one chroot with absolute minimal software available for all users
or perhaps use ${YOUR_FAVOURITE_VIRTUALIZATION_SOFTWARE_HERE}?
--
Juha Tuuna
--
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian Stole My Name!
Hal Vaughan wrote: I'm setting up a new Etch system and just got to the point where it asks me for a username. All my life I've used my first name, Hal, as a username (although in all lower case). Etch won't let me do this. I did it in Sarge, did it in earlier versions, did it in Mandrake, Redhat, and also use it in Ubuntu. And now Etch won't let me use hal as a login name. ... I'm running Etch and it lets me add user hal: % sudo adduser hal Adding user `hal' ... Adding new group `hal' (1003) ... Adding new user `hal' (1003) with group `hal' ... Creating home directory `/home/hal' ... Copying files from `/etc/skel' ... New UNIX password: ... % getent passwd ... hal:x:1003:1003::/home/hal:/bin/bash Uname says: Linux viilipytty 2.6.22-4-amd64 #1 SMP Tue Feb 12 10:29:27 UTC 2008 x86_64 GNU/Linux and /etc/debian_version: 4.0 Tried that on another Etch box. Works ok, too. :/ -- Juha Tuuna -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to block 'rogue' attemps from China
Thierry Chatelet wrote: fail2ban? hmm ... looks interesting. What about the cpu usage? My router is an old Debian machine, intel 450 MHz and 375 MB RAM. I run fail2ban on a 262MHz Amd K6-2 with 48MiB of RAM. Works nicely. -- Juha Tuuna -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: CD has not been seen in debian40r3 console
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I do not mount cd rom successfully. It seems that CD has not been seen in debian40r3 console, but when the cd rom icon can be seen on the desktop after lunch X window by startx. How can I see cd outside X window? $ grep cdrom /etc/fstab /dev/hdc/media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0 $ ls -l /dev/cdrom lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 2008-05-14 00:05 /dev/cdrom - hdc $ su -c 'mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /cdrom' Password: mount: No medium found $ Thank you for your time. What about: mount /media/cdrom0 Does this 'No medium found' occur with every CD or just one/some? When you insert the CD, try as root: dd if=/dev/hdc bs=256 count=1 | hd anything or error again? PS. sorry about the private mail I sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] earlier. My bad. -- Juha Tuuna -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Common home with multiboot
Sudev Barar wrote: I have three different flavours of Linux on my laptop...Ubuntu, Debian and Ubuntu Beta. The third really is changed from time to time to Fedora/CentOs/Suse etc... for testing. Common problem was how to keep mail/browser and my ssh keys etc. working when I switch from distro to distro. I solved this by making a link to the following directories in my home of second and third OS (note the .) .ssh .mozilla .mozilla-thunderbird .gnupg .tomboy This way which ever distro I boot in to I do not loose my browser tabs or my mail settings or my tomboy notes. Of course ssh keys and gnupg also works. Is there any other directory I need to be linking? Yes and no. If your programs work the way they should work then you're ok. If not, make more links. You can even mount /home and use the same username/uid on every distro. But be careful as different versions of different programs might screw things up pretty badly. I've tried sharing KDE settings on Sarge and some version of Ubuntu. Didn't work out very well IMHO. -- Juha Tuuna -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian is losing its users
Wei Chen wrote: Hi, The search volume for Debian has been continuously decreasing in the recent years, as shown in the search trend statistics of one of the most famous search engines. This indicates that Debian is losing its users, e.g. about 50% in the last 3 years. Do 'losing users' correlate 1:1 (or with some other ratio) to using the word 'Debian' as a search word in your search engine here? Maybe someone maintaining a _major_ mirror could tell something about installer downloads. -- Juha Tuuna -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ASP.NET
Diego Antonio Lucena Pumar wrote: Hi list: On first time, sorry for my english, is very poor. I can't run asp.net on my Debian Etch. I process to install the following packages; apt-get install mono-xsp2 libapache2-mod-mono mono So, when y can look in my browser the page, the server return the page for download (the code). For example I can look the box to download my file .aspx, no process the page with mono. Why? Regards, Diego Antonio Lucena Pumar Make sure that you have enabled the apache module. Basically its a symlink /etc/apache2/mods-available - /etc/apache2/mods-enabled. There's a command for it too, a2enmod or a2moden. Something like that. Reload/restart the server to make the change effective. -- Juha Tuuna -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ASP.NET
Diego Antonio Lucena Pumar wrote: Hi list: On first time, sorry for my english, is very poor. I can't run asp.net on my Debian Etch. I process to install the following packages; apt-get install mono-xsp2 libapache2-mod-mono mono So, when y can look in my browser the page, the server return the page for download (the code). For example I can look the box to download my file .aspx, no process the page with mono. Why? Regards, Diego Antonio Lucena Pumar Make sure that you have enabled the apache module. Basically its a symlink /etc/apache2/mods-available - /etc/apache2/mods-enabled. There's a command for it too, a2enmod or a2moden. Something like that. Reload/restart the server to make the change effective. P.S. sorry if this message is posted on the list more that once, I'm experiencing terrible network problems and I'm not sure if the last transmission was successful or not. -- Juha Tuuna -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: List of packages in a stable i386 base install?
SpamHog wrote: I am selecting a set of add-on packages for a small service rescue install. I would like to know what is already included in the base install, and in general I'd like to see the latest version of this list of thigs. My guess is that it might not be included in the minimal net-install boot images but that it should be in a base install .iso, designed to be run all from CD. I looked into the latter (CD1, e.g. debian-40r2-i386-CD-1.iso, right?) and searched online but could not find it. I hope I'm not the only one who ever wondered . . . dpkg-query -W or dpkg -l With the last one you'll see removed packages with configurations still on the system marked with 'rc' -- Juha Tuuna -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: password protect file befor emailing
On Friday, 12. October 2007 15:48, BartlebyScrivener wrote: I want to send a longish pdf file to an unsophisticated Windows user. If possible I would like to password protect it. Is there a way to password protect files on Etch? Thanks, rd In my opinion GPG/PGP would be an optimal solution but since the receiving end is not very technically oriented, I'd go with an encrypted zip file. zip -e archive.zip file.pdf This way you must of course deliver the password in a secure way. -- Juha Tuuna -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: adduser not interactive
On Friday, 12. October 2007 15:24, Florian Lindner wrote: Hello, is it possible to use adduser non interactive? I've searched the manpage but found no switch. I know about useradd but I've read that adduser tries to be more Debian like. Thanks, Florian sudo adduser foo --disabled-password --gecos Full Name,Room Number,Work Phone,Home Phone,Other or just empty gecos sudo adduser foo --disabled-password --gecos -- Juha Tuuna -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: wireless keyboard encryption
On Friday 21 September 2007 11:23, Nate Duehr wrote: I think the more important question for the original poster is really -- how far away do you think your keyboard can be reliably received (just walk away from the computer and see where you can go One should consider the question 'how much worth is my typing?' If it's just your average irc/email among friends/etc, fine. If it's about serious business, one might want to consider the (monetary) value to other parties. It is possible to spy an old crt from a very far distance (a few hundred meters, that's what I've been told to, haven't seen/used any spy gizmos myself. Newer monitors not included, afaik). I wouldn't be surprised to find out that some wireless keyboards could be easily spied on, too. Paranoid? That's the question one should ask him/herself. It's just the question about the value of the information being typed vs. how much one should spend resouces on preventing the information from leaking. -- -=[JT]=-
Re: Systemmonitor im KDE Kicker aktivieren?
On Friday, 21. September 2007 11:03, Gebhardt Thomas wrote: Hallo, ich habe verschiedene Etch-Rechner (und auch diverse Kubuntu-Varianten). Bei einigen dieser Rechner wird bei der Auswahl der verfügbaren Miniprogramme der Systemmonitor angeboten, bei anderen nicht. Ich grüble nun darüber nach, was ich tun muss, damit auf allen Rechnern der Systemmonitor verfügbar ist. Soweit ich es erkennen kann, entspricht dem Miniprogramm das Plugin /usr/lib/kde3/systemtray_panelapplet.so aus dem kicker-Paket, das bei allen Rechnern vorhanden ist. ldd /usr/lib/kde3/systemtray_panelapplet.so zeigt auch jeweils, dass alle Lib-Abhängigkeiten aufgelöst werden können. Hat jemand einen Tipp, woran es liegen könnte, dass trotzdem z.Tl. der Systemmonitor nicht in der Liste der verfügbaren Miniprogramme angeboten wird? Danke, Th. Gebhardt http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/#codeofconduct http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/ http://lists.debian.org/debian-user-german/ -- Juha Tuuna
Re: Which deb package contains the C Lib Reference manual?
On Friday, 14. September 2007 09:49, Michael Yang wrote: I wanna to reference the help of C library using man command, i.g. man strcpy, what package should I have? I have had gcc gcc-base gcc-doc gcc-4.1 gcc-base-4.1 gcc-doc-4.1 installed on my system. What should I add for the help available on my system? your help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. try manpages-dev, glibc-doc and glibc-doc-reference. You might find apt-file quite useful when searching files that are not installed, for example: # apt-file update % apt-file search strcpy | grep man -- Juha Tuuna -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: why sarge is so noisy
On Friday, 7. September 2007 09:45, Serena Cantor wrote: I have sarge, I use it all the time (it's server) The machine is my bedroom and scsi disk make noise from time to time (it's read/writing) which script cause reading/writing? Let's assume it's default installation. I don't start any program myself. One a bit 'noisy' one is updatedb, which updates the locate database. Other candidates might include logrotate and other stuff in /etc/cron.* Then there's swap possibly and a ton of other stuff. My very low end PC makes noise each time I log in with ssh. With 'sudo lsof' you'll get a list of open files. Maybe someone else is able to give you more detailed information. -- -=[JT]=- I'd crawl over an acre of 'Visual This++' and 'Integrated Development That' to get to gcc, Emacs, and gdb. Thank you. (By Vance Petree, Virginia Power) PGP Public key http://users.utu.fi/jukatu/juha_tuuna_utu.asc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to verify installed files?
On Friday, 7. September 2007 13:32, Erik Persson wrote: Hello, I'm trying to figure out how to verify the files installed from a package by apt-get, ie I have installed a package A and want to verify that the files installed from the package are correct at some later time. Thus some process could have changed some of the files after I installed them, so the checking that is done at install time is *not* what I'm looking for. extract control from the deb-package (into working directory): % dpkg-deb -e package.deb You'll get a dir/file named 'DEBIAN/md5sums' which contains (you guessed right!) the md5sums of the files in the package. You can compare the md5sums agains your current files % cd / % md5sum -c /path/to/the/DEBIAN/md5sums A related question. If I want to check that a package (in the archive - /var/cache/apt/archives) is correct compared to the same package located on a repository. How do I do this in the simplest way. I assume that md5sum is correct. Thanks in advanced, Erik. I don't know if this is the easiest but it works for me: % md5sum package.deb % apt-cache show package | grep -i md5sum The apt-cache show will list many entries if you have multiple versions available for installation (like stable/testing/unstable) -- -=[JT]=- Alimony and bribes will engage a large share of your wealth. PGP Public key http://users.utu.fi/jukatu/juha_tuuna_utu.asc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to verify installed files?
On Friday, 7. September 2007 14:17, David wrote: debsums This is a nice piece of software. Thank you for the tip! -- -=[JT]=- And what will you do when you grow up to be as big as me? asked the father of his little son. Diet. PGP Public key http://users.utu.fi/jukatu/juha_tuuna_utu.asc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Unblocking sound card, or adding stream (newbie)
On Friday, 7. September 2007 06:30, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: ... If theres no way to do this, bummer i guess. But my problem is that sometimes i seem to have something blocking the sound card and i cant figure out what it is. I dont THINK im running any sound thing ,but then if i try to run xmms i get a something's blocking your sound card message, or if i play a YouTube video i just get no sound at all. When this happens, how do i find out what's blocking hte sound card, and how do i kill this so i can play what i want? Thanks. Jen If you're using ALSA, run sudo /etc/init.d/alsa force-reload But be careful, it'll kill the applications using alsa. -- -=[JT]=- It doesn't matter whether you win or lose -- until you lose. PGP Public key http://users.utu.fi/jukatu/juha_tuuna_utu.asc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SSHD
On Wednesday, 22. August 2007 11:32, Алексеев Олег wrote: Как (с помощью каких команд) после базовой установки Debian 4.0 открыть к нему доступ по ssh? -- 916-58-12 Алексеев Олег Компания ЗАОТКИнтелком If i understood you correctly: run as root: apt-get install openssh-server Btw, using english would be nice on this list -- -=[JT]=- Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. -- Sigmund Freud PGP Public key http://users.utu.fi/jukatu/juha_tuuna_utu.asc
Re: browser display of accented characters
On Wednesday, 22. August 2007 13:29, Haines Brown wrote: I'm not sure when this problem came up, but perhaps when I upgraded to etch. Put simply, my browsers no longer can display accented characters. For example, I create a little test file with a and u umlaut and e ecute: This is a test ä ü é Xterm can display them, but in galeon and iceweasal they are broken: This is a test ä ü é I try to use the browser defaults, and the default for both browsers is serif. I'm not sure what my system interprets that as (Times New Roman?), but I'd assume it is with a font that supports normal accented characters. -- Haines Brown, KB1GRM Looks like a UTF-8 problem. ä etc are UTF-8 characters and perhaps you're using some ISO-8859-X encoding. try as root: dpkg-reconfigure locales select the locales you need and set the system default. See also /etc/environment http://www.infodrom.org/Debian/doc/maint/Maintenance-sysadmin.html (5.4 Systemwide environment configuration and forward) -- -=[JT]=-
Re: automagically mounting cdrom with discover
Mathieu Malaterre wrote: Hello, In the past I clearly remember that my cdroms where automagiclly mounted in /media/cdrom by -I think- discover. Today when I put a cd in the cdrom I have to manually mount them. Is there something I need to setup ? Thanks for any documentation I don't know about discovery but ivman does the trick you're after. It should be ok out-of-the-box. -- -=[JT]=- http://users.utu.fi/jukatu/juha_tuuna_utu.asc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Start booting hard drive, from a CD
On Friday, 3. August 2007 15:12, Masatran, R. Deepak wrote: I am unable to boot from my hard drive due to some problem. As a temporary solution, I want to make a CD, and use it to start booting the hard drive. How can I make such a CD? Thanks! -- Masatran, R. Deepak http://research.iiit.ac.in/~masatran/ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. This works, just tried it myself: http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/html_node/Making-a-GRUB-bootable-CD_002dROM.html You may want to configure menu.lst and device.map in /boot/grub on your CD according to your setup. -- -=[JT]=- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: undeleteable file
On Wednesday 18 July 2007 05:27, Frank McCormick wrote: The leanup from a mini HD crash this week ( I suspect the drive is dying) left an undeletable file in lost+found. No combination of rm or shred will kill it, sudo or no- sudo - chown reports its owned by an unknown owner and unknown group. Anybody have any ideas to get rid of it ? If the HD is physically broken you can expect any sorts of weird behaviour from it. Maybe you can't read from the disk as expected and writing may be impossible (for some parts of the disk at least) -- -=[JT]=- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problem installing Wine
On Tuesday 12 June 2007 13:54:40 Udo Klein wrote: Dear all, I've tried unsuccessfully to install wine. I've included the result of doing aptitude install wine. I'd be very thankful for your help. Udo BEGIN debian:~# aptitude install wine Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Reading task descriptions... Done Building tag database... Done The following packages have been kept back: bind9-host dnsutils gimp gimp-data gnome-core gnome-desktop-environment libbind9-0 libfreetype6 libgimp2.0 libisccfg1 libsmbclient libwine liferea liferea-gtkhtml linux-image-2.6-686 nautilus nautilus-cd-burner nautilus-data samba samba-common smbclient The following NEW packages will be installed: wine 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 21 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/10.2MB of archives. After unpacking 45.8MB will be used. Writing extended state information... Done (Reading database ... 164181 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking wine (from .../wine_0.9.38~winehq0~debian~4.0-1_i386.deb) ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/wine_0.9.38~winehq0~debian~4.0-1_i386.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/wine/mapi32.dll.so', which is also in package libwine dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/wine_0.9.38~winehq0~debian~4.0-1_i386.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) A package failed to install. Trying to recover: END To me it seems that you have mixed regular Debian repository with Wine's repository in /etc/apt/sources.list Maybe if you installed Wine from Debian repository (0.9.25 for Etch) or removed the package libwine (Debian package) and then tried to install from the Wine repository (0.9.38), (hopefully) you'd get the job done. -- -=[JT]=- Riches: A gift from Heaven signifying, This is my beloved son, in whom I am well pleased. -- John D. Rockefeller, (slander by Ambrose Bierce) PGP Public key http://users.utu.fi/jukatu/juha_tuuna_utu.asc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: logging apache2
On Tuesday 22 May 2007 21:49:47 mess-mate wrote: Hi, i've installed apache2 on a new server but can't log appache2. There is no problem to reach the webpage; only /var/log/apache2/access.log and warn.log are desperate empty. what have i omit todo ? mess-mate Do you have something like CustomLog /var/log/apache2/access.log combined in your virtualhost? See http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_log_config.html#customlog -- -=[JT]=- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [OT] Re: SSH versus SSHFS
On Friday, 27. April 2007 11:46, Paul Johnson wrote: Which is better? Diet cola or antilock brakes? Both are worse, diet cola is a really bad choice for brake fluid because it contains gas and antilock brakes taste like s**t and do not ease one's thirst at all. -- -=[JT]=- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: rootkit hunter and dhclient
On Thursday 26 April 2007 15:04, Tyler Smith wrote: ... [07:42:52] Warning! Process /sbin/dhclient (25175) listening [07:42:52] Warning! Process /sbin/dhclient (25096) listening ... weren't a problem. The dhclient warning is new though. Is this a problem? I couldn't find anything on google. It is possible that ... It's not a problem, it's a normal situation when your network interface is dynamically configured by DHCP. -- -=[JT]=- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to install debian if I can only boot from harddisk ?
On Wednesday 28 March 2007 08:44, Ken Hu wrote: Dear All: I found myself in a strange situation. The dvd rom of my notebook is broken(can not read anything), and there's no other removable devices like floppy or usb pen that can be used on that notebook. The only way I can boot is from the existed WindowsXP on 1 of my 2 partitions. So , if I want to install debian on the other partition , what can I do ? I just want to know is this the end that I should not go any further to find some solutions ? Thanks ! Ken One solution is to attach the notebook's hard disk into another computer and perform the installation on that computer. Also some ethernet cards are able to boot from network. http://www.linux-sxs.org/internet_serving/pxeboot.html -- -=[JT]=- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian shutdown
On Thursday, 8. February 2007 10:18, gunnar wrote: I've carried out a network-installation of debian-31r4-i386-netinst.iso and my problem is that I cannot shut it down. The only way of shutting it down seems to be to press the Reset-button, choose my Windows-partition in GRUB and carry out the shutdown from Windows. Thank God for my Windows-partition, without it I would have to pull the plug to shut down Debian. Can anybody tell me a better way of shutting down Debian? Gunnar Sjöö When you hit the reset button Debian is gone. No need to start Windows and shutdown. It's got _nothing_ to do with Debian and it's filesystem(s). Try following commands as root: init 0 halt Should do the trick. -- -=[JT]=-
Re: large characters in console after switching back from X11
On Monday, 29. January 2007 15:34, J. Wuttke wrote: ... altctrlF1 brings me to a console which is in an anomalous state: everything is printed in HUGE CHARACTERS, and it does not scroll. ... The problem might be a funny screen mode. Add vga=ask as a kernel parameter in your bootmanager configuration (lilo, grub) and try different scrreen modes in console. grub: kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.8-2-386 root=/dev/sda1 ro vga=ask You might want to test some framebuffer modes also. Install hwinfo and run hwinfo --framebuffer as root and try vga=mode (0x301 for example) Hope this helps. -- -=[JT]=- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: USB memory stick and flashcard mount failure
On Friday, 12. January 2007 16:47, Herb Howe wrote: I'm having problems mounting either a memory stick or a flashcard using Debian, kernel 2.6.8. ... There are lots of questions on the web about this problem but few simple answers. If there is a known workable solution online, could someone supply the URL? Thanks, Herb I had exactly the same problem. I copied the files on the Windows box, inserted the stick into the Debian box and zeroed the whole stick (/dev/sda) dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda Then I created a single primary partition with cfdisk on the usb stick cfdisk /dev/sda formatted it mkfs.vfat /dev/sda1 and copied the files back. At the moment the stick works fine under both Debian and Windows XP. -- -=[JT]=- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: A question about Timestamp and Created Time
On Friday, 1. December 2006 15:25, Eduardo wrote: Yeap, anyways...the Last Modified is in the current date too, any ideas? This solution may be quite lame and difficult to implement but you could use extended attributes on some filesystems. See package attr and man pages for mount. -- -=[JT]=- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: non-free
On Friday, 13. October 2006 10:17, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: I think you misunderstood the question. He asked, which one should he have included in sources.list. Yes, true. I noticed that my self just _after_ having sent the mail. Sorry about that. -- -=[JT]=- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: non-free
On Thursday, 12. October 2006 13:13, Roger Johansen wrote: Hi, Could someone please tell me the difference between: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib non-free and deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib I have the last one in my sources.list, should i change it to include non-free too? No. you can remove the non-non-free line because both main and contrib are included in the upper line. deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib non-free Means you fetch packages from stable's upgrades, components main, contrib and non-free. The second line just tells the same without the non-free so main and contrib are redundant info and therefore not needed. -- -=[JT]=- Green light in A.M. for new projects. Red light in P.M. for traffic tickets. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian Old Toshiba Laptop
On Wednesday, 11. October 2006 08:07, Kai wrote: I have a very old Toshiba laptop and I am looking to put Debian or some other form of linux on it. Details: CPU: Pentium I HD: ~700MB RAM: 16MB ... I want to use Xfce or IceWM-lite as a GUI That might be too little for Xfce4 or IceWM-lite(??). I have a Pentium I with 96MiB ram and Xfce4 doesn't run on it very smoothly. I use OpenBOX Instead. ... I can boot and install from a large stack of floppys (20-25 disks), ... http://www.debian.org/distrib/floppyinst http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/apas02.html.en#howto-getting-images-floppy Those links might come in handy. -- -=[JT]=- Does someone from PEORIA have a SHORTER ATTENTION span than me? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: check .deb dependency without installing?
On Monday, 4. September 2006 14:48, Hoehle, Joerg-Cyril wrote: Hi, Aptitude's highlighting of installed/not installed packages is great! I've downloaded a .deb, not from /etc/apt/sources.list. I wish to check without running dpkg --install foo.deb whether all dependencies for this .deb are satisfied, or whether I need to install more packages. try dpkg-deb -I package.deb -- -=[JT]=- It is much easier to be critical than to be correct. -- Benjamin Disraeli -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Replying to list
On Wednesday, 21. June 2006 15:55, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: If it's not an FAQ, why doesn't this list use the Reply-to field in the address headers? A couple of times recently I've hit Reply and sent a response to the originator, rather than the list - for which I apologise. All other - non-Debian - lists to which I subscribe use this field and it enables one to concentrate on the message, rather than the postman:-) Peter HB I'd use .procmailrc to fix things: :0 * (^To|^Cc):[EMAIL PROTECTED] | formail -a Reply-To: debian-user@lists.debian.org That should do pretty much what you wished for. -- -=[JT]=- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: CONNESSIONE IN RETE
Vincenzo Manzi wrote: Gradire fossero eliminati dall'archivio i miei 2 post risalenti al 2001 http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2001/07/msg02632.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2001/07/msg02621.html Grazie Cordiali saluti Mitähän sä mahdat kysyä? Sopisko suomi, mä ymmärän sitä melko lailla paremmin ku italiaa? Or maybe english? -- -=[JT]=- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: floppy disks for netinstall
gustavo halperin wrote: This is a page with not any link, did you check this link or just wrote it ?? Thank you any way, Gustavo Halperin Look closer, there IS a link. You'll find a manual and installation floppies for your system (what ever that may be) -- -=[JT]=- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: console screen size
On Thursday, 1. June 2006 00:33, Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote: Alan Ianson wrote: On this particular machine I am working on I get a text screen size of 80x25. I'd like to change it to 80x30, or perhaps I need a 640x480 frame buffer. Is there a way I can change that from the command line, or in grub's menu.list maybe? Yes, with the 'vga=' option in grub's menu.lst. These are some of the url's that provide some clarity: http://www.colug.net/pipermail/colug432/2005-October/001613.html http://ruslug.rutgers.edu/~mcgrof/grub-images/configs/linux/menu.lst 'vga=ask' seems to provide a list of choices. Never tried it myself though. As far as I'm concerned it lists only some of the possible modes and not any framebuffer modes at all. On some display adapters some of the probed modes actually do work but on every adapter. Install hwinfo and probe your framebuffer: # hwinfo --framebuffer That should give a comprehensive list of available modes. They've worked for me quite well this far. There is a change that you'll be experiencing some weird stuff on some hardware and Sarge (at least) if you're using the the same mode in console and X (Xfree86). -- -=[JT]=- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Grep
On Saturday, 27. May 2006 20:21, Richard wrote: This would be great, but I think mp3info, only works with id3 1 tags, and not 1.1 of 1.2 or 2.2 or 2.3 tags Rich Check this out http://www.codeproject.com/audio/mp3info-by-shoonya.asp Maybe it helps, maybe it doesn't. -- -=[JT]=- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: eterm / gnome window position
On Wednesday 24 May 2006 10:04, Ivan Glushkov wrote: That would mean that I have to create four different icons on my desktop for each specific Eterm geometry, but I don't want to have four icons for Eterm... You might want to make a shell script that launches all 4 Eterms: One script, 4 shells... -- -=[JT]=- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Grep
On Friday, 26. May 2006 02:04, Richard wrote: Is there a way to read mp3 ID3 tags using greg?, to find a certain information. ie. joint stereo, and being able to select those, and delete them, from the folder. Regards Rich install and try mp3info It's capable of finding all sorts of information (if it's joint stereo etc) from MP3s this will list your joint stereo files: mp3info -p %f\t%o\n *mp3 | grep \bjoint stereo$ | cut -f1 this removes them (asks confirmation): rm -i `mp3info -p %f\t%o\n *mp3 | grep \bjoint stereo$ | cut -f1` Forget the -i if you're 101% sure ;) -- -=[JT]=- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: eterm / gnome window position
On Tuesday, 23. Mayta 2006 10:07, Ivan Glushkov wrote: Hi all, I prefer to have 4 Eterms open on my desktop. The problem is that every time I have to rearrange them such, that they precisely fit to my screen. I looked at man pages for Eterm, googled a little bit, but I could not find to get first Eterm on the upper left corner, second on upper right, etc. Any ideas how one can do that? Cheers, Ivan man Eterm says: -g geom, --geometry geom Window geometry as Width x Height+X coord+Y coord, i.e 100x200+0+100 On my 1280x1024 screen the following looks quite ok: Eterm -g 102x35+0+0 Eterm -g 102x35+0+512 Eterm -g 102x35+640+0 Eterm -g 102x35+640+512 -- -=[JT]=- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
