Re: Securing debian box

2007-02-24 Thread Alexander Wasmuth
* Jim Hyslop wrote: PermitRootLogin no RSAAuthentication no PubkeyAuthentication yes IgnoreRhosts yes RhostsRSAAuthentication no HostbasedAuthentication no PermitEmptyPasswords no ChallengeResponseAuthentication no PasswordAuthentication no UsePAM yes Subsystem sftp

Re: Securing debian box

2007-02-24 Thread Franck Joncourt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alexander Wasmuth wrote: * Jim Hyslop wrote: PermitRootLogin no RSAAuthentication no PubkeyAuthentication yes IgnoreRhosts yes RhostsRSAAuthentication no HostbasedAuthentication no PermitEmptyPasswords no ChallengeResponseAuthentication no

Run out of disk space on LVM

2007-02-24 Thread Justin Hartman
Hi guys I must say I'm a little confused here. In the past I just created one large partition for my debian install but for this one machine I setup seperate partitions using LVM. I may be way off the mark here but I thought that with lvm I could resize partitions if it ran out of space? My

Weird USB problem after Kernel update

2007-02-24 Thread Justin Hartman
Hi, me again... Yesterday I upgraded my linux kernel from linux-image-2.6.18-4-686 (2.6.18.dfsg.1-10) to linux-image-2.6.18-4-686 (2.6.18.dfsg.1-11). What was weird already when I upgraded was a notification I received from apt telling me that I was trying to upgrade an already installed version

Xen: blktap-based file support

2007-02-24 Thread Philip Frei
Hello, I'm running dom0 with linux-image-2.6.18-3-xen-686 from testing. I want to use file-backed VBDs with blktap driver but it's disabled in Debian's Xen kernel: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=402969 Is there a possibility to do it anyhow? regards Philip -- To

dev

2007-02-24 Thread pinniped
Just make sure you have the (empty) directories /dev and /dev/pts. The system DOES need a few devices before udev does its magic - for those create the device nodes the usual way. (have a look at the makedevices script for clues) I remember reading instructions on this months ago but can't

who's who

2007-02-24 Thread pinniped
Do you have different users for your normal and chroot environments? The next thing to check is the permissions on the /etc directory - does it have the 'x' bit set so you can see what's in that directory? Remember that chroot does not switch the entire system - libraries loaded continue to

Re: Run out of disk space on LVM

2007-02-24 Thread Gilles Mocellin
Le samedi 24 février 2007 09:58, Justin Hartman a écrit : Hi guys I must say I'm a little confused here. In the past I just created one large partition for my debian install but for this one machine I setup seperate partitions using LVM. I may be way off the mark here but I thought that with

Re: Using courier-imap (was Re: Very disturbing feature in icedove)

2007-02-24 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 05:45:21PM +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote: Am 2007-02-14 16:45:42, schrieb Chris Bannister: That would be great! Would this be ok: # Mailboxes which get new mail. mailboxes `echo $HOME/.Maildir/*` No it would not since you have to setup: set

Re: Debian on ancient machines

2007-02-24 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 01:19:27PM -0500, Michael Pobega wrote: My friend has a 128MB RAM/10GB HDD computer that runs fine with Fluxbox, XDM, and his wireless card (NIC). Luxury!!. # less /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 5 model : 2

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-02-24 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 06:55:31PM +0100, Joe Hart wrote: It never occurred to me to stop KDM while I am in X, because it is the service that starts X and I just logically concluded (assumed) that shutting down kdm from within X would cause problems. Are you confusing KDE with KDM? -- Chris.

Re: Ubuntu vs. Debian (was Re: Introduction)

2007-02-24 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 10:13:39PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/21/07 22:05, Steve Lamb wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: There's no Law Of Nature that says you can't have your greenbar printout next to your terminal. I prefer 2 screens

Re: latex (was Re: Ubuntu vs. Debian (was Re: Introduction))

2007-02-24 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 11:45:09AM -0800, tom arnall wrote: what about a WYSIWIG which produces latex files? You rough out or do easy stuff with the wysiwig, then modify the latex files if there's stuff not easily handled by a wysiwig. Lyx, but why? Discovered 'gnuhtml2latex'. What a *neat*

Re: Command Line (was Re: a dumb query? pls humor me)

2007-02-24 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 09:22:41AM +0100, Joe Hart wrote: Because Debian probably sets $EDITOR and $VISUAL to nano instead of [el|n]vi[m|s]. Thank you. Learn something new again. This is so fun. I probably can find things like that out in a book or manual or faq, but there is _so

Re: Firefox/Iceweasel's weird close/quit behaviour

2007-02-24 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 06:53:06PM +0100, Joe Hart wrote: One of the things that draws me to KDE is the fact that _almost_ everything is configurable (I can't change the foreground text color on the items in the taskbar :( ). Oh well. You will love fvwm where everything _is_ configurable[1].

Re: Run out of disk space on LVM

2007-02-24 Thread Justin Hartman
On 2/24/07, Gilles Mocellin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 0) You must tell us what filesystems you use on / and /var. I suppose it's ext3 for now. Yes it's ext3 1) If there's space on the VG debian, just extend the root LV : To see space used on the debian VG : # vgs debian There is no space so

Re: dell poweredge 2400

2007-02-24 Thread Dave Ewart
On Friday, 23.02.2007 at 19:51 -0500, Chris Parker wrote: Nope this one has a 10/100 onboard. Wish it had a dual gigabit card. It has 2 866 processors with 512 ram. 6 small scsi drives so I was figuring on raid 1. Any recommendations? Depends how much space you need and the disk

Re: smbldap tools

2007-02-24 Thread Dave Ewart
On Saturday, 24.02.2007 at 00:47 +0100, Pascal Huisman wrote: Hi, When using openldap-useradd I wish to add the newly created user to multiple groups. In smbldap.conf I wish to specify multiple groups a user becomes a member of. # Default User (POSIX and Samba) GID

Re: Firefox drop-down menus problem

2007-02-24 Thread Nyizsnyik Ferenc
On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 21:09 -0600, Default User wrote: Running Debian stable, with Foxfire 1.04. In Firefox, there is a problem with the drop-down menus. Unhighlighted items show as black text against a grey background (as expected). But items highlighted by moving the mouse cursor over them

Re: Run out of disk space on LVM

2007-02-24 Thread Gilles Mocellin
Le samedi 24 février 2007 10:41, Justin Hartman a écrit : On 2/24/07, Gilles Mocellin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 0) You must tell us what filesystems you use on / and /var. I suppose it's ext3 for now. Yes it's ext3 1) If there's space on the VG debian, just extend the root LV : To see

Re: HP a1540n

2007-02-24 Thread Nu-Genoa
On Feb 22, 3:50 am, Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 03:28:53PM +0100, Joe Hart wrote: Nu-Genoa wrote: Good Morning, I am just wondering if anyone has had trouble installing Debian (sarge) onto a HP a1540n machine. I am looking for other users

Re: Debian livecd

2007-02-24 Thread Oliver Jato
Am Freitag, 23. Februar 2007 21:33 schrieb José Pablo Fernández: I need to do FS maintenance, mdadm and fsck, and I'd be booting with a CD only to have root not even mounted as read only, so this is not really an option. Recovery Is Possible handles mdadm plus lvm2 setups very good. Plus it's

Re: driver for graphiccard don't work correctly

2007-02-24 Thread Jonathan Kaye
Tobias wrote: Hello, i have new hardware in my pc. Therefore exists new problems. The graphiccard will not work correctly. HW: CPU:AMD Athlon64 4000+ Mainboard:Asus A8R-MVP HDD: 160GB SATA graficcard: Sapphire Radeon X1900GT (ATI) PCIe OS: Debian/Sarge actually using kernel

Re: Debian livecd

2007-02-24 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Joe Hart wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 José Pablo Fernández wrote: On Friday 23 February 2007 16:36, Greg Folkert wrote: Then chroot into the system image. Most if not all system maintenance can be done right from the system itself. Of course there are some issues you

Re: Run out of disk space on LVM

2007-02-24 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On Saturday 24 February 2007 10:30, Gilles Mocellin wrote: Le samedi 24 février 2007 09:58, Justin Hartman a écrit : Hi guys I must say I'm a little confused here. In the past I just created one large partition for my debian install but for this one machine I setup seperate partitions

Re: Firefox drop-down menus problem

2007-02-24 Thread Freddy Freeloader
Nyizsnyik Ferenc wrote: On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 21:09 -0600, Default User wrote: Running Debian stable, with Foxfire 1.04. In Firefox, there is a problem with the drop-down menus. Unhighlighted items show as black text against a grey background (as expected). But items highlighted by moving

Re: Recovering OOo rapid starter update-notifier on Gnome panel

2007-02-24 Thread andy
Sven Arvidsson wrote: On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 23:19 +, andy wrote: To be honest Andrew, I am not at all sure what I did! :( I used to have the OOo quickstart, and the update-notifier in the notification area of the Gnome panel. However, I seem to have deleted them, even though the actual

Re: HP a1540n

2007-02-24 Thread Andrei Popescu
On 24 Feb 2007 02:27:03 -0800 Nu-Genoa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yea. I just tried to install sarge and it didn't detect the ethernet card or the hard drive. I guess I have to either wait for etch or get another distro. Why wait? Etch is almost stable and already has security support.

Re: Recovering OOo rapid starter update-notifier on Gnome panel

2007-02-24 Thread Linas Žvirblis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 andy wrote: Thanks Sven. This a.m. update-notifier reappeared as it should in the notification area. Now all the notification area is missing is the OOo quickstart app. I've dug around in various menus but can't see that particular option. You

Re: Run out of disk space on LVM

2007-02-24 Thread Marcus Blumhagen
On Sat, Feb 24, 2007 at 10:30:46AM +0100, Gilles Mocellin wrote: [...] 2) You've got space on /var, so reduce it to give space to root : # resize2fs /dev/debian/var 2G # lvextend -L 350M /dev/debian/root # resize2fs /dev/debian/root [...] You forgot the lvreduce step. Without it there won't

Re: OT: sponge burning!

2007-02-24 Thread Paul Johnson
Greg Folkert wrote: On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 16:16 -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: Greg Folkert wrote: But, we now know, whom to rely upon for Curry Customs, Practices, Instincts and Hunches. I know nothing about curry. Not much for spicy food. Yeah, umm well... erm uhh a typo. Yew new that.

Re: REALLY OT: News Flash

2007-02-24 Thread Paul Johnson
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 04:32:04PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: That was my point. I just don't understand why Californian voters don't get this, especially after catapulting Reagan into a 4 trillion dollar spend-a-thon, and his successor's son into a 6 trillion

Re: REALLY OT: News Flash

2007-02-24 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Sat, Feb 24, 2007 at 12:33:55AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: Reagan had good reasons for spending as much as he did. - military needed rebuilding (Vietnam had taken a heavy toll on equipment and he had to fix Carter's ridiculous parity mistake) OK,

Re: nvidia driver and monitor with wqxga 2560 x 1600

2007-02-24 Thread Adam Hardy
A. F. Cano on 22/02/07 03:08, wrote: On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 08:39:05PM -0500, Greg Folkert wrote: On Thu, 2007-02-22 at 01:31 +, Adam Hardy wrote: Would it be reasonable to assume that the nvidia driver will run with a new video card and monitor with 2560 x 1600 resolution? In etch? I'm

Re: nvidia driver and monitor with wqxga 2560 x 1600

2007-02-24 Thread Adam Hardy
RParr on 22/02/07 20:48, wrote: Adam Hardy wrote: Would it be reasonable to assume that the nvidia driver will run with a new video card and monitor with 2560 x 1600 resolution? In etch? I'm not finding the information on nvidia's website, or on the web at all for that matter. I am driving

Re: latex (was Re: Ubuntu vs. Debian (was Re: Introduction))

2007-02-24 Thread Stephen
On Sat, Feb 24, 2007 at 10:54:30PM +1300 or thereabouts, Chris Bannister wrote: On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 11:45:09AM -0800, tom arnall wrote: what about a WYSIWIG which produces latex files? You rough out or do easy stuff with the wysiwig, then modify the latex files if there's stuff not

pre-compiled unisim for debian

2007-02-24 Thread Mourad Bouache
Hello, I am looking for a compiled version Debian for Unisim (Unified Processor Simulator). I've downloaded the source but i have a dependances pbs at the installation. I'm using a Debian Etch. Thank you for any help. M.Bouache

Re: Recovering OOo rapid starter update-notifier on Gnome panel

2007-02-24 Thread andy
Linas Žvirblis wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 andy wrote: Thanks Sven. This a.m. update-notifier reappeared as it should in the notification area. Now all the notification area is missing is the OOo quickstart app. I've dug around in various menus but can't see that

Re: Run out of disk space on LVM

2007-02-24 Thread Justin Hartman
Ok I managed to resize my root partition but in doing so I have a problem with my var partition now. The message I get at boot time when fsck runs is: # The filesystem size (according to the superblock) is 750592 blocks The physical size of the device is 687104 blocks Either the superblock or

Re: etch; possibly just mkfs problem [The problem vanished almost by itself? Why?]

2007-02-24 Thread Glenn Moeller-Holst
At 18:56 -0500 23/02/07, Matthew K Poer wrote: On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 22:41 +0100, Glenn Moeller-Holst wrote: Hi! For some reason I do not understand, it now works, and I do not know why. Please tell me why it works now: ... I can see number of cylinders has changed. But I do not know

Re: REALLY OT: News Flash

2007-02-24 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 23 February 2007 21:54, Roberto C. Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: Of course, nobody faults FDR for spending massive amounts of money on the New Deal. Don't speak so quickly on a subject you do not know. The New Deal in One

Re: REALLY OT: News Flash

2007-02-24 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Sat, Feb 24, 2007 at 10:05:11AM -0500, Curt Howland wrote: On Friday 23 February 2007 21:54, Roberto C. Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: Of course, nobody faults FDR for spending massive amounts of money on the New Deal. Don't speak so quickly on a subject you do not know.

Re: Run out of disk space on LVM

2007-02-24 Thread Marcus Blumhagen
On Sat, Feb 24, 2007 at 05:16:34PM +0200, Justin Hartman wrote: Ok I managed to resize my root partition but in doing so I have a problem with my var partition now. The message I get at boot time when fsck runs is: # The filesystem size (according to the superblock) is 750592 blocks The

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-02-24 Thread Steve Lamb
Paul Johnson wrote: Self service prices in Oregon are comparable to what they are in Washington, and about 30 cents a gallon more than minimum service. Why make such a big deal about doing the gas station's job for them when it just costs more? Paul, why do you post this lie again when I

Re: Firefox drop-down menus problem

2007-02-24 Thread Mark Grieveson
Subject: Firefox drop-down menus problem Running Debian stable, with Foxfire 1.04. In Firefox, there is a problem with the drop-down menus. Unhighlighted items show as black text against a grey background (as expected). But items highlighted by moving the mouse cursor over them show as

Re: Run out of disk space on LVM

2007-02-24 Thread Justin Hartman
On 2/24/07, Marcus Blumhagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried to run: # resize2fs /dev/debian/var As well as: # resize2fs -f /dev/debian/var [...] When did you try to run resize2fs? Was it before or after lvreduce? Or could you provide more detail on how you managed to grow / and shrink

Re: REALLY OT: News Flash

2007-02-24 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/24/07 09:05, Curt Howland wrote: On Friday 23 February 2007 21:54, Roberto C. Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: Of course, nobody faults FDR for spending massive amounts of money on the New Deal. Don't speak so quickly on a

Re: pre-compiled unisim for debian

2007-02-24 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/24/07 08:56, Mourad Bouache wrote: Hello, I am looking for a compiled version Debian for Unisim (Unified Processor Simulator). I've downloaded the source but i have a dependances pbs at the installation. I'm using a Debian

Re: REALLY OT: News Flash

2007-02-24 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/24/07 02:33, Paul Johnson wrote: Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 04:32:04PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: [snip] - he decided to outspend the Soviets to bankrupt them Never mind that the Soviet Union would have

Strange Exim errors

2007-02-24 Thread Leonid Grinberg
Hello, I recently set up a mail server in my home network as an experiment. We have a dynamic IP given to us by Comcast, but I registered with DynDNS for a DNS name, and told my router to update it when the IP changed. The idea was that one could send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and it would

Re: pre-compiled unisim for debian

2007-02-24 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Mourad Bouache wrote: Hello, I am looking for a compiled version Debian for Unisim (Unified Processor Simulator). I've downloaded the source but i have a dependances pbs at the installation. I'm using a Debian Etch. You're not giving enough info. What was the exact error? What exactly

Latest Nvidia Drivers

2007-02-24 Thread David Baron
Just installed their 9631. End of the line of my older GEForce. Latest 9700 series drivers are only for newer car OK, they want us to buy their latest and greatest but the older GEForce is perfectly more than adequate for the most resource hungry stuff like flightgear. Runs everything just fine

setting-up a dmz

2007-02-24 Thread mess-mate
Hi list, tought isn't easy setting-up a dmz ? Well..nor at all (for me) My config is as follows: modem---boxA=router/firewall/proxyswitchmylan and also from boxA-dmz---web-server. boxA is equiped with 3 ethernet-cards: ppp0---eth0, eth1, eth2. The modem is initialised from boxA with

Re: REALLY OT: News Flash

2007-02-24 Thread Francis Healy
Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/24/07 02:33, Paul Johnson wrote: Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 04:32:04PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: [snip] - he decided to outspend the Soviets to bankrupt them Never mind

Re: setting-up a dmz

2007-02-24 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Sat, Feb 24, 2007 at 06:22:30PM +0100, mess-mate wrote: What did i wrong ?? No use shorewall? Not provide any actual log messages? Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Latest Nvidia Drivers

2007-02-24 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/24/07 12:10, David Baron wrote: Just installed their 9631. End of the line of my older GEForce. Latest 9700 series drivers are only for newer car OK, they want us to buy their latest and greatest but the older GEForce is perfectly more than

Re: setting-up a dmz

2007-02-24 Thread Franck Joncourt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 mess-mate wrote: Hi list, Hi, A '/etc/init.d/networking start' give an error about eth2: eth2: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device. What about dmesg | grep eth2 ? Does it give to you more information on the interface ? Are you

Can't scan by xscanimage or xsane

2007-02-24 Thread Tomoo Nomura
Hello, I can scan by scanimage but can't by xscanimage or xsane. Scan finish normally but hardware don't work and result image is black. Xscanimage asks me which device to use, there are tv tuner, camera and scanner, and I explicitly choose plustek:libusb:002:002 for CanoScan N676U.

documentation for kphone

2007-02-24 Thread Peter Easthope
The kphone package does not include a man page; at least man kphone does not reveal one. Can anyone tell me where documentation can be found? Specifically, I want to prevent the automatic attempt at registration---which never works. Thanks, ... Peter E. -- Desktops.OpenDoc

udev bug?

2007-02-24 Thread Benjamí Villoslada
I have udev 0.103-2 in hold due the #409503, but is 20 days old and I suspect that is not a general error. Someone with new udev 0.105-1? Problems? -- Benjamí http://blog.bitassa.cat .

Re: Run out of disk space on LVM

2007-02-24 Thread Marcus Blumhagen
On Sat, Feb 24, 2007 at 07:01:06PM +0200, Justin Hartman wrote: On 2/24/07, Marcus Blumhagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] When did you try to run resize2fs? Was it before or after lvreduce? Or could you provide more detail on how you managed to grow / and shrink /var? Well let me detail

Re: sound problems on debian

2007-02-24 Thread Steve Kleene
References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have no sound on my Etch system with alsa-1.0.13. The sound is on the Intel motherboard (chipset ICH7). On Mon Feb 12 06:48:27 2007, steef wrote: somewhere i saw you use alsadriver 1.0.11 . that sounddriver of hda_intel can give some pronlems for reasons i will

Re: REALLY OT: News Flash

2007-02-24 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sat, 24 Feb 2007 10:58:38 -0800 (PST), Francis wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/24/07 02:33, Paul Johnson wrote: Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 04:32:04PM -0800, Paul

Re: REALLY OT: News Flash

2007-02-24 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 24 February 2007 14:06, Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: People don't give a right rat's ass about prices and wages correcting when they (and their families) are hungry and being tossed out of their homes. That's the

Re: Weird USB problem after Kernel update

2007-02-24 Thread Michael Pobega
On Sat, 24 Feb 2007 11:12:18 +0200 Justin Hartman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, me again... Yesterday I upgraded my linux kernel from linux-image-2.6.18-4-686 (2.6.18.dfsg.1-10) to linux-image-2.6.18-4-686 (2.6.18.dfsg.1-11). What was weird already when I upgraded was a notification I

Re: udev bug?

2007-02-24 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Feb 24, 2007 at 08:47:12PM +0100, Benjamí Villoslada wrote: I have udev 0.103-2 in hold due the #409503, but is 20 days old and I suspect that is not a general error. have you read this bug? its pretty specific to a xen system during initial install. Are you in that situation?

Re: Run out of disk space on LVM

2007-02-24 Thread Justin Hartman
They say we learn through our mistakes. It's a tough one to learn but one that'll probably never do again... :) I'm trying out testdisk to see if I can recover anything. Thanks! On 2/24/07, Marcus Blumhagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Feb 24, 2007 at 07:01:06PM +0200, Justin Hartman

Re: Strange Exim errors

2007-02-24 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Feb 24, 2007 at 01:07:47PM -0500, Leonid Grinberg wrote: Hello, I recently set up a mail server in my home network as an experiment. We have a dynamic IP given to us by Comcast, but I registered with DynDNS for a DNS name, and told my router to update it when the IP changed. The

Re: Address-less ethernet interface

2007-02-24 Thread Anand Buddhdev
On 23/02/07 17:40, Scott Reese wrote: Hello Scott, I don't need any IP address on eth0, but I need it to be up. I can manually run ifconfig eth0 up, but I can't figure out how to do this automatically at boot time. I have tried to put in the following in /etc/network/interfaces: auto eth0

Re: nvidia driver and monitor with wqxga 2560 x 1600

2007-02-24 Thread RParr
Adam Hardy wrote: RParr on 22/02/07 20:48, wrote: Adam Hardy wrote: Would it be reasonable to assume that the nvidia driver will run with a new video card and monitor with 2560 x 1600 resolution? In etch? I'm not finding the information on nvidia's website, or on the web at all for that

Re: Strange Exim errors

2007-02-24 Thread Leonid Grinberg
I am using Exim. The addresses do appear in /var/log/exim4/mainlog. Using dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config, I made blank the fields regarding mail relaying, but the problem happens anyways. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: OT: sponge burning!

2007-02-24 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 09:41:10PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/23/07 21:20, Andy Smith wrote: On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 05:18:47AM -0500, Stephen wrote: On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 01:26:33PM -0800 or thereabouts, Paul Johnson wrote: So...the question BEGS. Why exactly do you have an

Re: OT: sponge burning!

2007-02-24 Thread Michael Pobega
On Sat, Feb 24, 2007 at 01:45:33PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 09:41:10PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/23/07 21:20, Andy Smith wrote: On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 05:18:47AM -0500, Stephen wrote: On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 01:26:33PM -0800 or thereabouts, Paul

Re: OT: sponge burning!

2007-02-24 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Sat, Feb 24, 2007 at 01:45:33PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: What I am curious about is how this thread revivied itself after being out of use for a couple of weeks. amazing. it mus be going on 3 or 4 months now (just a guess). A I think Michelle, who posts infrequently but

udev issues backing up /dev

2007-02-24 Thread rir
On Sat, Feb 24, 2007 at 09:59:35AM +0100, pinniped wrote: Just make sure you have the (empty) directories /dev and /dev/pts. The system DOES need a few devices before udev does its magic - for those create the device nodes the usual way. (have a look at the makedevices script for clues)

Re: OT: sponge burning!

2007-02-24 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 09:31:39PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 04:21:34PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: I must admit the vast majority of my exposure to Canada is BC and Alberta, which I understand are a bit more progressive than most of Canada. I'm actually a

Re: OT: sponge burning!

2007-02-24 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Feb 24, 2007 at 04:51:08PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Sat, Feb 24, 2007 at 01:45:33PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: What I am curious about is how this thread revivied itself after being out of use for a couple of weeks. amazing. it mus be going on 3 or 4 months

Re: Strange Exim errors

2007-02-24 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Feb 24, 2007 at 04:36:53PM -0500, Leonid Grinberg wrote: I am using Exim. The addresses do appear in /var/log/exim4/mainlog. okay, more specifically, do they appear as outgoing or relayed messages? or just incoming? IOW, if an email is really being relayed through your system, then one

Re: Strange Exim errors

2007-02-24 Thread Leonid Grinberg
OK, here: $ tail /var/log/exim4/mainlog 2007-02-24 12:06:31 1HKgol-Tw-CA ** [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Unrouteable address 2007-02-24 12:06:33 1HKgol-Tw-CA ** [EMAIL PROTECTED] R=dnslookup T=remote_smtp: SMTP error from remote mail server after RCPT TO:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: host

built-in ethernet?

2007-02-24 Thread pinniped
If you have a built-in ethernet, make sure it is activated in the BIOS. Older versions of the kernel will not activate a device disabled by BIOS (but newer versions will give you an option). Otherwise, check the 'dmesg' logs as already suggested to see what the device drivers print out. --

Re: OT: sponge burning!

2007-02-24 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/24/07 15:45, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 09:41:10PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/23/07 21:20, Andy Smith wrote: On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 05:18:47AM -0500, Stephen wrote: On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 01:26:33PM -0800 or

Re: smtp time spam filtering

2007-02-24 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 03:33:00PM +, David Hart wrote: I must be missing something here. In order to scan an email you must receive the email (I don't mean accept). How can rejecting/accepting emails at this stage make any significant difference in bandwith used (let alone

Re: How to install from hard disk on ia64 system?

2007-02-24 Thread b smyt
Roberto C. Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 04:11:57PM -0500, b smyt wrote: My cd-rom is not recognized by the debian installer because of the intel 965 chipset on my asus p5b mainboard. I know there is a way to install from an iso image on the hard drive but I am

Re: Securing debian box

2007-02-24 Thread Jim Hyslop
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alexander Wasmuth wrote: I've also added Protocol 2 to omit ssh 1 and I set UsePam to no because I wasn't able to prohibit password authentication with PAM enabled. I'm currently not planning on using PAM, but I'll disable it anyway - that way if

Re: How to install from hard disk on ia64 system?

2007-02-24 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
My cd-rom is not recognized by the debian installer because of the intel 965 chipset on my asus p5b mainboard. I know there is a way to install from an iso image on the hard drive but I am having problems understanding how to get this to work. I currently have mandriva installed and lots of

Re: OT: sponge burning!

2007-02-24 Thread John Hasler
Andrew Sackville-West writes: I'm a very wildly-liberal guy and I'm all in favor of the draft. Conscription is slavery. 1) it spreads the load throughout the population -- barring corruption, the Bush twins have just as much chance as any body else of ending up in the military. 2) we end up

Re: OT: sponge burning!

2007-02-24 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Sat, Feb 24, 2007 at 01:52:56PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: I'm a very wildly-liberal guy and I'm all in favor of the draft. Why? couple of reasons. 1) it spreads the load throughout the population -- barring corruption, the Bush twins have just as much chance as any body else of

Re: latex (was Re: Ubuntu vs. Debian (was Re: Introduction))

2007-02-24 Thread tom arnall
On Saturday 24 February 2007 01:54, Chris Bannister wrote: On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 11:45:09AM -0800, tom arnall wrote: what about a WYSIWIG which produces latex files? You rough out or do easy stuff with the wysiwig, then modify the latex files if there's stuff not easily handled by a

Re: setting-up a dmz

2007-02-24 Thread mess-mate
Roberto C. Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | On Sat, Feb 24, 2007 at 06:22:30PM +0100, mess-mate wrote: | | What did i wrong ?? | | No use shorewall? Not provide any actual log messages? | No shorewall, i prefer a own debian iptables firewall :) The only bad error messages are these i

Re: REALLY OT: News Flash

2007-02-24 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sat, 24 Feb 2007 11:05:59 -0600, Ron wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/24/07 09:05, Curt Howland wrote: On Friday 23 February 2007 21:54, Roberto C. Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: Of course, nobody faults FDR for

Re: setting-up a dmz

2007-02-24 Thread mess-mate
Franck Joncourt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | mess-mate wrote: | Hi list, | | Hi, | | A '/etc/init.d/networking start' give an error about eth2: | eth2: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device. | | | What about dmesg | grep eth2 ? Does it give to you more information on | the

Daemonizing Wifi-Radar

2007-02-24 Thread Michael Pobega
After around a week of toying with my system, I've successfully migrated from GNOME (Which was feeling too full) to Window Maker, mostly because I wanted a lighter, quicker system. My only problem right now is that I can't Daemonize Wifi-Radar. I tried putting wifi-radar --daemon in my /etc/rcS.d

Re: setting-up a dmz

2007-02-24 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 mess-mate wrote: Franck Joncourt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | mess-mate wrote: | Hi list, | | Hi, | | A '/etc/init.d/networking start' give an error about eth2: | eth2: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device. | | | What

Re: Firefox/Iceweasel's weird close/quit behaviour

2007-02-24 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chris Bannister wrote: On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 06:53:06PM +0100, Joe Hart wrote: One of the things that draws me to KDE is the fact that _almost_ everything is configurable (I can't change the foreground text color on the items in the taskbar :(

Re: latex (was Re: Ubuntu vs. Debian (was Re: Introduction))

2007-02-24 Thread Russell L. Harris
* tom arnall [EMAIL PROTECTED] [070224 17:28]: On Saturday 24 February 2007 01:54, Chris Bannister wrote: On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 11:45:09AM -0800, tom arnall wrote: what about a WYSIWIG which produces latex files? You rough out or do easy stuff with the wysiwig, then modify the latex files if

Re: latex (was Re: Ubuntu vs. Debian (was Re: Introduction))

2007-02-24 Thread tom arnall
On Saturday 24 February 2007 16:15, Russell L. Harris wrote: * tom arnall [EMAIL PROTECTED] [070224 17:28]: On Saturday 24 February 2007 01:54, Chris Bannister wrote: On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 11:45:09AM -0800, tom arnall wrote: what about a WYSIWIG which produces latex files? You rough out or

Re: OT: sponge burning!

2007-02-24 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/24/07 16:51, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Sat, Feb 24, 2007 at 01:52:56PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: [snip] Here is an idea. Why don't voters just make it a point to only elect military vets or retirees to federal public office?

audio recorder in linux ... what's its name?

2007-02-24 Thread H.S.
I remember there is an application to record audio (mic or line-in) and IIRC it had the X11 interface. What I also remember is the level meters it had, they were two dials, one for each channel, and had needles showing the levels (something like a speedometer on dashboards of a vehicle). But

Re: smtp time spam filtering

2007-02-24 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sat, 2007-02-24 at 23:24 +0100, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 03:33:00PM +, David Hart wrote: I must be missing something here. In order to scan an email you must receive the email (I don't mean accept). How can rejecting/accepting emails at this

Re: REALLY OT: News Flash

2007-02-24 Thread Paul Johnson
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Sat, Feb 24, 2007 at 12:33:55AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: Reagan had good reasons for spending as much as he did. - military needed rebuilding (Vietnam had taken a heavy toll on equipment and he had to fix Carter's

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