Re: where is mount.cifs

Hi, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com writes: Where is the mount.cifs tool? $ apt-file search mount.cifs samba-doc: /usr/share/doc/samba-doc/htmldocs/manpages/mount.cifs.8.html samba-doc: /usr/share/doc/samba-doc/htmldocs/manpages/umount.cifs.8.html smbfs: /sbin/mount.cifs

Re: how to run debsums for 'ps' and 'readline'

Hi, oneman li...@onemanifest.net writes: chkrootkit is complaining about processes hidden from ps and readdir. So I'd like to run debsums on them to test the integrity of ps and readdir. However, 'debsums ps' doesn't work. Wich package name should I use to check the integrity of these two? $

Re: Debian on Blu-ray media

Hi, Ken Teague ktea...@pobox.com writes: Since Blu-ray burners and media has come down in price (burners are as low as $150 and media is down to $8 for 25GB media and $13 for 50GB (dual layer) media), would it be possible for the Debian folks to create the ISOs to also make a Blu-ray ISO

Re: Emacs22: how do I get the info file?

Hi, Charles Blair [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On previous emacs versions, control-H-i gave me access to an impressive collection of emacs documentation as info files. When I try that now, all I have been able to get is an emacs faq. Is there a separate package that has the info files for

Re: adding a web user?

Hi, Zach Uram [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I would like one of my friends to host some files on my apache webserver, but I only wish him the ability to upload files into the web directory, but don't want to run an FTP server since that is very risky. Any solution? You can create a normal

Re: LDAP and POSIX groups

Alex Samad [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: plus I started to use libnss-ldapd, found it a bit more stable I gave libnss-ldapd a try and it's now working fine without changes on the configuration. Thanks. Ansgar -- PGP: 1024D/595FAD19 739E 2D09 0969 BEA9 9797 B055 DDB0 2FF7 595F AD19 -- To

Re: LDAP and POSIX groups

Hi, frank [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, 2008-11-02 at 15:48 +0100, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: I'm having problems setting up LDAP with POSIX groups. I can see groups and members with getent group mygroup, but am not a member after logging in. The ldap documentation is very rare. Have you

LDAP and POSIX groups

Hi, I'm having problems setting up LDAP with POSIX groups. I can see groups and members with getent group mygroup, but am not a member after logging in. To configure LDAP, I added nss_base_group ou=Group,dc=example,dc=com?sub to /etc/libnss-ldap.conf and pam_ldap.conf. This made the

Re: The Flash plugin is NOT installed.

Hi, admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: this keeps coming up when trying to install flash plugin to epiphany flashplugin-nonfree was removed from Debian Etch[1]. There are packages available from backports.org if you wish to install it. Regards, Ansgar [1] http://bugs.debian.org/458550 [2]

Re: openssl Vs perl encode

Hi, Bhasker C V [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am trying to encode using base64 to get data for SMTP authentication which i am experimenting upon. I stumbled upon this issue. I am not sure why this is happening. Say the text to be encoded is [EMAIL PROTECTED] $ perl use MIME::Base64;

Re: setting the system time?

Hi, Zach Uram [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My new install of Debian 4.0 seems to have the wrong time, it says right now: Tue Aug 12 09:42:34 UTC 2008 but the correct time is: Tue Aug 12 05:42:00 EST 2008 The time itself seems to be correct. Note that it says UTC, not EST. You can change

Re: need sarge

Hi, Vwaju [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I downloaded Contents-i386.gz from http://ftp.debian.org/dists/sarge/. As I understand it, this is not an archive, but a single compressed file. I gunzipped it, which yields an 111MB file. I am not sure what I have now. If this is sarge, how do I

Re: How dose a package create a database?

Hi, Adam Wakerhauser [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am packaging an application that needs to create a database. By default it uses mysql. What is the debian way of letting a package create a database and database user? Would I use /etc/mysql/debian.cnf? Take a look at dbconfig-common.

Re: wireless LAN problems with recent kernels

Hi, Shachar Or [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Friday 01 August 2008 21:26, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: I admit having sometimes connection problems running the older kernel as well, but the network works again after a few moments (and without any manual intervention). The link quality given

Re: wireless LAN problems with recent kernels

Hi, Robin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 2008/8/1 Ansgar Burchardt [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [problems with RT2500 and newer kernel version] I'm not sure if you mean the rt2500 drivers as in the debian packages. Also I have a rt73 so what follows may not apply. I think the rt* series have been

Re: how to close port 113 ident xinetd

Hi, Jimmy Wu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I tried doing an nmap scan on myself the other day and found that tcp port 113 was open. Nmap listed the service as ident. I am trying to remove this service since I don't think I need it, but I can't figure out how. I removed the package pidentd,

Re: error messages from apt-get

Hi, Vwaju [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am setting up an internet server as a training exercise, using the O'Reilly book referenced at the top of this thread. The server is only for training (to learn Debian and networking). Therefore, maybe I could install the version of Debian that was

wireless LAN problems with recent kernels

Hi, I'm using a RaLink RT2500 (PCI) wireless NIC. It works without problems with a 2.6.20.1 kernel and the rt2500 drivers. I did try to update to the Debian 2.6.25 kernel, but there the WLAN connection makes problems: Sometimes the connection just drops. dmesg shows this message: wlan0: No

Re: .deb compilation

Hi, Please do not put your answer before the quoted text (and only quote the relevant part). It makes you mail easier to read. Jerônimo Bezerra [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I made apt-src install courier-maildrop. It downloaded 3 files and 1 folder: There isn't a config.log or another file

Re: Cron jobs and root account locked on Lenny

Hi, Andrei Popescu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Interesting, the manpage passwd(1) says that 'passwd -l' should also set account expiry to 1, but it doesn't. Either passwd or the manpage is wrong, so I think this should be reported against the package passwd. It sets a value to 1 in my

Re: Iceweasel upgrade - can I go back?

Hi! Alan Chandler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yes - sorry my mistake - its firebug. It says the version is not compatible with 3.0 - so has been disabled, and there doesn't seem to be an upgrade version yet. There seems to be a version of Firebug compatible with Firefox 3.0: Firebug 1.2

Re: DRM PDFs

Hi, Adam Hardy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Just thought I'd ask, even though my web searches don't reveal anything but Adobe promises and work-arounds involving printing to postscript on a windows box first - but is there software for linux to read DRM pdfs? Kpdf has an option to ignore DRM

Re: [OFF] Sudo

Hi, Raj Kiran Grandhi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Márcio Luciano Donada wrote: I wonder if it is possible using the sudo leave with only the user can edit the files that are in /etc/squid. A better option would be to chmod g+w the files in /etc/squid and then add the relevant users to that

Re: Fetchmail

Hi, Tero Mäntyvaara [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How do I set fetchmail to automatically fetch mails of all user? Every user have to give command fetchmail -a at the moment to get their mails. Instead of setting up a cron job for every user as suggested by Ron, you could also setup a system-wide

iBook multimedia keys and KDE

Hi, I recently switched from GNOME to KDE on my iBook G4, but don't know how to get the multimedia keys working. They worked fine under GNOME, but under KDE only the monitor brightness keys work, albeit with no visual feedback. I tried assigning global shortcuts in kcontrol, but the keys are

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