Re: ssh-agent, keychain, xsession bash_profile scripting

2010-01-15 Thread Jeff D
On Fri, 15 Jan 2010, Adam Hardy wrote: I've been chasing my tail trying to work this one out following different examples off the web, but can't sort it out and keep getting the old Could not open a connection to your authentication agent. from ssh-add, and nothing but inaction from

Re: IPv4 localhost network problem

2009-12-29 Thread jeff d
Sent from my coffee machine On Dec 29, 2009, at 7:36 AM, martin martin.juh...@home.se wrote: On Tuesday 29 December 2009 14.26.51 jeff dickison wrote: On Dec 29, 2009, at 7:07 AM, martin martin.juh...@home.se wrote: Hi, I have problem with IPv4 on my local network. Applications that is

Re: keeping the two latest files on a folder

2009-10-13 Thread Jeff D
On Tue, 13 Oct 2009, Israel Garcia wrote: Hi List, It's a simple question but difficult to me :-). How can I delete all files on a folder / but keeping only the two latest (newest) files? how about something like this to start: for file in $(ls -tA | egrep -v $(ls -tA |head -n 2)) ;

Re: NIS woes.. Ubuntu nis client doesn't ping Debian nis Server

2009-08-14 Thread Jeff D
On Fri, 14 Aug 2009, raman narasimhan wrote: So what could be the problem?? We have no problems in logging into Debian Server from Debian clients. Have you looked at the firewall on the ubuntu servers? https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuFirewall -- 8 out of 10 Owners who Expressed a Preference

Re: Query on IP connections security

2009-07-24 Thread Jeff D
On Fri, 24 Jul 2009, AG wrote: I was going through the hardinfo application and when I got to IP connections I noticed the following connections have the Established status using TCP and both on port 443 (SSL and HTTPS). One of these connections is to 71.62.0.176 (which doesn't seem to have

Re: specific network traffic

2009-03-22 Thread Jeff D
On Sun, 22 Mar 2009, Lorenzo Bettini wrote: sorry If I get back on this, but neither iftop nor iptraf show information about the specific process that produces that traffic... lately I've noticed some continuous traffic on port 1712, and I'd like to figure out who's generating this...

Re: any tool to produce a report of bad sectors of my harddisk?

2009-03-19 Thread Jeff D
On Fri, 20 Mar 2009, 明覺 wrote: As my machine crashed 2 times in the last 10 days, both caused by file system issues, so I want to get a report of my harddisk to know whether my harddisk is really in a very bad situation.(though currently my harddisk works fine, but I'm afraid it will crash in

Re: USB networking

2009-02-20 Thread Jeff D
On Fri, 20 Feb 2009, Mark Neidorff wrote: I just saw an ad for a IOGear GUN262WV. It is a USB network cable to connect 2 PCs directly. Its listed as working with Vista XP only. If anyone has this cable working with Debian (I'm using Etch) would someone please tell me how to make it

Re: scp GUI?

2009-02-20 Thread Jeff D
On Fri, 20 Feb 2009, Nagy Daniel wrote: Is there a GUI for SCP? I mean like browsing through scp just like in a folder, in Midnight Commander. Thank you! filezilla will do sftp -- 8 out of 10 Owners who Expressed a Preference said Their Cats Preferred Techno. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Apache2 confused by index.php after Lenny upgrade

2009-02-19 Thread Jeff D
On Thu, 19 Feb 2009, Kent West wrote: I'm ignorant when it comes to Apache/php, etc. I had a working etch server with Apache2 and PHP5, but after the upgrade to Lenny, whenever I point my web browser to a simple index.php file: the web browser opens a dialog window asking what I want to do

Re: MySQL Clustering; Load balancing is not working.

2009-02-19 Thread Jeff D
On Thu, 19 Feb 2009, Stackpole, Chris wrote: I wanted to learn more about MySQL clustering so I looked around and found this guide [1]. It was the newest guide I found (8 months old), so I decided to give it a shot. I went through the guide with a little deviation and I end up with mostly the

Re: Browsing offline filesystems

2009-02-10 Thread Jeff D
On Tue, 10 Feb 2009, Dotan Cohen wrote: Is there a tool that I can use to browse an offline file system, ie, to cache it's directory structure and have it browsable? I have a small home network with a laptop, and often I need to know what's on any particular machine that is not present at the

Re: No way to disable Google safebrowsing in IceWeasel?

2009-02-07 Thread Jeff D
On Sat, 7 Feb 2009, S D wrote: Is there a way to disable Google safebrowsing feature in IceWeasel? I want to have as little as possible with Google, even if it only means repeatedly downloading some black-list file from their servers. Thanks type in about:config in the address bar ,in

Re: umask problem

2009-02-04 Thread Jeff D
On Thu, 5 Feb 2009, Ding Honghui wrote: Hello list, I encounter a problem and can't finger out why it is: For hostA 1. ssh u...@hosta umask shows 0022 2. ssh r...@hosta umask shows 0022 For hostB 3. ssh u...@hostb umask shows 0077 4. ssh r...@hostb umask shows 0022 md5sum for files

Re: Re: Configuring wlan on Debian Base installation

2009-02-03 Thread Jeff D
On Tue, 3 Feb 2009, Jack wrote: As for /etc/network/interfaces, I have attempted inserting auto wlan0 iface wlan0 inet static address 192.168.2.138 netmask 255.255.255.0 gateway 192.168.2.1 However, this results in the same problems as I am having. So currently, I have

Re: [medium OT]

2009-01-23 Thread Jeff D
On Fri, 23 Jan 2009, Adrian Chapela wrote: Hello again! I am looking for a good cvs, control version for web developing. Some of my web developments was in ASP and because that I need some cvs for use with it, on windows or in Debian. Do you know a good version to use with web development

Re: C compiler cannot create executables (Ubuntu 8.04)

2009-01-22 Thread Jeff D
On Thu, 22 Jan 2009, Bernard wrote: However, it failed to work here. In the appropriate directory, I first typed './configure'. Things seemed to start all-right, but after a short while it said : C compiler cannot create executables What do I miss so that I get such a reply ? I also get

Re: How to see the output of a custom init script on Lenny?

2009-01-21 Thread Jeff D
On Tue, 20 Jan 2009, Sander Marechal wrote: Hello, I have written a simplistic custom init script that makes a backup of my entire system using `rsync -vv`. I have symlinked this script as /etc/rc0.d/K00backup and /etc/rc6.d/K00backup so that the backup occurs whenever I reboot or shut

Re: mounting two disks on the same mount point (not at the same time)

2009-01-17 Thread Jeff D
On Sat, 17 Jan 2009, Reid Priedhorsky wrote: I have a couple of USB disks that I use for backups. I rotate them so only one is attached at the same time. I have a nightly cron that mirrors the directories of interest onto whichever one is attached using rsync. I'd like to mount whichever one

Re: Labeling backup DVD+RW's

2009-01-16 Thread Jeff D
On Fri, 16 Jan 2009, Chris Jones wrote: On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 12:41:42AM EST, Ron Johnson wrote: [..] Even they are now standardized. http://www.newegg.com/Store/SubCategory.aspx?SubCategory=380name=Laptop-Hard-Drives Thanks, but it looks like they're all SATA and that's probably

Re: [OT] iptables q

2009-01-15 Thread Jeff D
On Thu, 15 Jan 2009, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, I have Firehol for iptables front-end and WordPress on Apache. Access to WP is restricted to me only, like this: interface ppp0 internet policy drop protection strong ... server http accept src

Re: Question about LVM and volume images on loop

2009-01-13 Thread Jeff D
On Tue, 13 Jan 2009, Paul E Condon wrote: I want to allocate several large blank files on HD, and make them into virtual hard disk which I mount using loop. I then want to treat them as 'physical volumes' under LVM, and collect them into a single volume group. Then, I intend to define a

Re: extract package name given a filename

2009-01-07 Thread Jeff D
On Wed, 7 Jan 2009, Harry Putnam wrote: Last time I ran debian was several yrs ago.. back then I learned a way using dpkg to extract the packagename of files found on the machine... Assuming they came in using apt and dpkg. I even kept a note about it which of course is no where to be found

Re: Restrict Access Virtual Host on Apache2

2009-01-07 Thread Jeff D
On Tue, 6 Jan 2009, Zaki Akhmad wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 8:06 AM, Jeff D wrote: you could add something like this to your vhost conf: Order Deny,Allow Deny from all Allow from 1.2.3.4 I am using Apache 2, so I add

Re: Restrict Access Virtual Host on Apache2

2009-01-05 Thread Jeff D
On Tue, 6 Jan 2009, Zaki Akhmad wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, I am trying to restrict access on one of my virtual host which is running on Apache2 web server. What should I do so that only specific IP can access this virtual host? you could add something

Re: Missing Ethernet Interface

2009-01-05 Thread Jeff D
On Tue, 6 Jan 2009, rjubio wrote: Thierry Chatelet wrote: On Tuesday 06 January 2009 04:08:36 rjubio wrote: Hello I would just like to ask how can i make my machine recognize the other eth interface. Here is the result of lspci 00:19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation

Re: Missing Ethernet Interface

2009-01-05 Thread Jeff D
On Tue, 6 Jan 2009, rjubio wrote: Jeff D wrote: On Tue, 6 Jan 2009, rjubio wrote: Thierry Chatelet wrote: On Tuesday 06 January 2009 04:08:36 rjubio wrote: Hello I would just like to ask how can i make my machine recognize the other eth interface

Re: Missing Ethernet Interface

2009-01-05 Thread Jeff D
On Tue, 6 Jan 2009, rjubio wrote: Jeff D wrote: On Tue, 6 Jan 2009, rjubio wrote: Yes. Now it change to 00:19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82566DM-2 Gigabit Network Connection (rev 02) from being unrecognized. But still my ifconfig -a doesnt show

Re: apt-get cannot conect to server

2009-01-02 Thread Jeff D
On Sat, 3 Jan 2009, oxy wrote: Hi all, similar posts around refer to wrong proxy configuration, wrong /etc/apt/sources.list files etc. None seems to be my case. Look: # apt-get update Err http://security.debian.org etch/updates Release.gpg Could not connect to security.debian.org:80

Re: Intel GM965 on Etch

2008-12-28 Thread Jeff D
On Sun, 28 Dec 2008, Nishita Desai wrote: On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 10:10 PM, Justin Piszcz jpis...@lucidpixels.com wrote: Try i810 Thank you for your reply Justin. But i810 does not work. It gives me an error saying No matching Device for instance (BusID :0:2:1) found I get the same

Re: ssh time to see if remote server is up

2008-12-26 Thread Jeff D
On Fri, 26 Dec 2008, H.S. wrote: Hello, If I try to ssh to a remote server which is down, SSH takes some minutes to determine if it really up or not. Does SSH have an option to fix this time interval during which ssh client is trying to make a connection to the remote server? Thanks.

Re: iPod

2008-12-23 Thread Jeff D
On Tue, 23 Dec 2008, JoeHill wrote: lostson wrote: On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 11:24:28PM -0500, JoeHill wrote: Daryl Styrk wrote: and bookmarks them for transfer to the ipod on next connect, etc. etc. ...and will also pull down the _entire_ KDE desktop with it. thats

Re: ip conflict detection

2008-12-22 Thread Jeff D
On Tue, 23 Dec 2008, linuksos wrote: Hi guys, is there and tool/daemon in a standard Debian repository which would be able to detect ip conflict on the local network? thanks arpwatch will do that for ya -- 8 out of 10 Owners who Expressed a Preference said Their Cats Preferred Techno.

Re: iPod

2008-12-20 Thread Jeff D
On Sat, 20 Dec 2008, Raquel wrote: Okay, I've gotten rid of the Creative Zen and ordered the iPod Nano as a gift to Trish, my spouse. What do I need to manage the iPod Nano? I'd just as soon not use a command line to do it, largely because Trish is going to be managing her own iPod after I

Re: tcpip stops working after some time

2008-12-19 Thread Jeff D
On Fri, 19 Dec 2008, Micha Feigin wrote: On Sat, 13 Dec 2008 01:07:12 +0200 subscriptions subscripti...@rdegraaf.nl wrote: On Fri, 2008-12-12 at 22:10 +0100, Micha Feigin wrote: For some reason after a few days of uptime , tcp stops working on my machine. Ping and dns lookups

Re: need help with net configuration

2008-12-13 Thread Jeff D
On Fri, 12 Dec 2008, raman narasimhan wrote: sir, me and a friend of mine had installed debian etch together. i configured my Internet while installing itself but my friend didn't. both of us have ADSL broadband connections. i'm now able to browse the net freely but his net settings haven't

Re: POWER FAILURE

2008-12-11 Thread Jeff D
On Fri, 12 Dec 2008, rjubio wrote: I am experiencing some kind of error regarding a recent power failure in our campus. When I try sshing to on of our server I get an error message: POWER FAILURE then I get thrown back to the login prompt. Any suggestions how to go on this. Thanks!

Re: I need to see open connections this moment - With Iptables i can only see logs

2008-12-09 Thread Jeff D
On Tue, 9 Dec 2008, Carlos Carrero Gutierrez wrote: Hi, i use Iptables and i would like to find a tool or software in order to see my open connections. In doesn't care if it's a gui or not, and it can be not interactive (of course). Wireshark capture paquets but i can't be constantly

Re: where is postgresql-8.3's packager's instructions?

2008-12-05 Thread Jeff D
On Sat, 6 Dec 2008, 中和刘 wrote: I'm learnimg to use postgresql-8.3 database server on debian sid, and I have installed it successfully from debian package, then when i read the document from postgresql to learn to manage it, it says: (If you are installing a pre-packaged distribution, such as

Re: change loading order of modules in apache

2008-11-12 Thread Jeff D
On Wed, 12 Nov 2008, Freddy Freeloader wrote: I am experiencing something with Apache that hasn't been a problem on three previous Etch builds. We use Ajaxterm as a proxy to reach another server as part of our web application. On all previous builds Apache has loaded all related proxy

Re: nmap package obsoleted?

2008-10-31 Thread Jeff D
On Fri, 31 Oct 2008, rex wrote: Hello, I'm trying to install nmap, and so I did apt-get install nmap, but I get this: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Package nmap is not available, but is referred to by another package. This may mean

Re: How to start chroot BIND automatically at boot

2008-10-30 Thread Jeff D
On Thu, 30 Oct 2008, Stephen Liu wrote: Hi folks, Debian Etch bind-9.5.0 compiled on source chrooted Which file I have to edit adding; /etc/init.d/bind9 start so bind9 will start automatically at boot. TIA B.R. Stephen L make sure you have the sysv-rc package installed and run

Re: can't build um architecture linux image on lenny

2008-10-30 Thread Jeff D
On Thu, 30 Oct 2008, Brad Brock wrote: I've been using user-mode-linux (UML) since 3 years ago. I enjoyed its costumizable guest kernel until last week when I realize that building custom guest kernel on previous kernels version (I've tried 2.6.18 and 1.6.22) is no longer available due

Re: vsftpd problem 500 OOPS: cannot change directory

2008-10-29 Thread Jeff D
On Wed, 29 Oct 2008, lau wrote: Hi everyone, I've been trying to set up a ftp server using vsftpd. I would like to create two accounts, namely ftpmovies and ftpmusic pointing respectively to /home/lau/movies and /home/lau/music. According to my /etc/passwd file, those accounts are like

Re: how to start postgresql server at machine startup?

2008-10-28 Thread Jeff D
On Tue, 28 Oct 2008, Star Liu wrote: On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 10:58 AM, Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/27/08 21:07, Star Liu wrote: I installed postgresql server in my machine, but i does not start automatically at startup time, so i need to mannually type these commands to

Re: How to mirror a server installation?

2008-10-21 Thread Jeff D
On Tue, 21 Oct 2008, Arnau wrote: Hi all, I'd like to mirror all the packages installed in a production server with the same versions. The idea is to have a enviroment test the upgrades before apply those upgrades to the real production server. What is the best way to do this? Thank you

Re: How to mirror a server installation?

2008-10-21 Thread Jeff D
On Tue, 21 Oct 2008, Arnau wrote: Hi all, Jeff D wrote: On Tue, 21 Oct 2008, Arnau wrote: Hi all, I'd like to mirror all the packages installed in a production server with the same versions. The idea is to have a enviroment test the upgrades before apply those

Re: iptables problems

2008-10-19 Thread Jeff D
On Sun, 19 Oct 2008, Jerry Stuckle wrote: Hi, all, I'm trying to get iptables to work on a new debian vps. This worked before my hosting company changed to virtuozzo for their vm. On the new system I'm getting the following error: iptables: No chain/target/match by that name This is a

Re: Problem on MAC address

2008-09-19 Thread Jeff D
On Fri, 19 Sep 2008, Stephen Liu wrote: Hi folks, Debian Etch (both Host and Guest) Xen On cloning disk.img I suppose it also copies the MAC address of the original image to the new image resulting in ping hostname unable to find the new hostname. Following is my test; # dd

Re: Need to reboot Debian frequently

2008-04-05 Thread Jeff D
On Sat, 5 Apr 2008, Pete Kay wrote: Hi, Here is my w,free, top results when my linux server's network become too slow again ( it just happened). snip w output: 19:41:19 up 1 day, 20:07, 6 users, load average: 1.46, 1.85, 1.86 USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU

Re: localtime and UTC

2008-04-04 Thread Jeff D
On Fri, 4 Apr 2008, Rage Callao wrote: Hi, I just installed Lenny Beta 1 and everything installs nicely. However, my system time and hwclock are swapped. The output of date is: Fri Apr 4 20:40:29 PHT 2008 (should be 12:40:29) The output of date -u is: Fri Apr 4 12:41:28 UTC 2008

Re: Xen in Etch, basic setup

2008-04-03 Thread Jeff D
On Thu, 3 Apr 2008, Steve Lamb wrote: Hello, Does anyone know of a web page that describes a basic setup of Xen in Etch? I've seen several at howtoforge and each of them, while fairly simple, do not match my experience at all. I follow the directions exactly and after a time what those

Re: Urgent: upgrading ipw3945 to 2.6.24

2008-04-01 Thread Jeff D
On Tue, 1 Apr 2008, Anthony Campbell wrote: On 01 Apr 2008, Thierry Chatelet wrote: On Tuesday 01 April 2008 05:26, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: Hi, I am running Lenny. I usually accept all the upgrades im offered, so i upgraded my kernel recently. Now my Intel wireless card

Re: SSH through wireless router

2008-04-01 Thread Jeff D
On Tue, 1 Apr 2008, Haines Brown wrote: I have a laptop (sidux on Thinkpad X61s) that connects via wi-fi to the wireless router connected to my desktop machine (etch) via CAT5, which has the name teufel. I can connect to the router, which I name router, by: $ ssh router but then I'm

Re: Urgent: upgrading ipw3945 to 2.6.24

2008-03-31 Thread Jeff D
On Mon, 31 Mar 2008, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: Hi, I am running Lenny. I usually accept all the upgrades im offered, so i upgraded my kernel recently. Now my Intel wireless card doesnt work, because i had been using the ipw3945-modules-2.6.22 package, and now im running kernel version

Re: windows partition not usable

2008-03-27 Thread Jeff D
Hans-Gerhard Schrick wrote: Am Montag, den 24.03.2008, 22:45 + schrieb Hans-Gerhard Schrick: # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # file system mount point type options dump pass proc/proc procdefaults0 0 /dev/hda4 /

Re: open-ssh keypair Auth

2008-03-27 Thread Jeff D
Rich Healey wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, i've got a whole bunch of linux machines (mainly debian, with etch, testing, sid, and a frankenstein machine with mental pinning). Keypairs work fine except on the frankenstein machine, with the same keypair as works on my

Re: open-ssh keypair Auth

2008-03-27 Thread Jeff D
Rich Healey wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jeff D wrote: Rich Healey wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, i've got a whole bunch of linux machines (mainly debian, with etch, testing, sid, and a frankenstein machine with mental pinning). Keypairs

Re: Merging all 30+ Debian CD's onto hard drive

2008-03-20 Thread Jeff D
Michael Paulsen wrote: Hi ya, Debian Etch now has over 30 CD's. I'm bored with CD swapping every time I want to install a new package. Is it possible to merge the CD's to my hard drive and direct APT or DPKG to use the hard drive instead of all the CD's when installing new packages? What would

Re: cron and command quote

2008-03-18 Thread Jeff D
T o n g wrote: On Tue, 18 Mar 2008 03:40:35 +0100, s. keeling wrote: I.e., somehow, the 'ps | grep' was able to find something in cron, whereas when executed directly under shell: $ ps -eaf | grep -E 'cdrecord.* -[dts]ao |cdrdao *write|growisofs.*speed=' $ /bin/sh -c ps -eaf | grep -E

Re: cron and command quote

2008-03-18 Thread Jeff D
Bob McGowan wrote: Jeff D wrote: || will not return true for you here, ever. you need to use or use an if statement. Also, if you are going to be using a shell script you have to make sure that it exits properly. I would recommend putting the whole thing into a shell script: if ps -eaf

Re: Why Red Hat is the business distro

2008-03-17 Thread Jeff D
Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: Paul Johnson wrote: On Monday 17 March 2008 07:29:17 am Ron Johnson wrote: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/16/AR2008031602168.html Looks like the article is about Elliot Spitzer. Same here. I do not know how it is related to Red

Re: Difficulty setting up gcc packages.

2008-03-16 Thread Jeff D
Luca Renaud wrote: I set up gcc,gcc-4.1 using apt,which installed the necessary packages (I think) and now running the configure script of opensource software(not in Debian) I have this message: configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables,see config.log for more details. I cannot

Re: What's the problem with this cron command

2008-03-15 Thread Jeff D
T o n g wrote: Hi, Please take a look at the following cron task: * * * * * rootps -eaf | grep -E 'cdrecord.* -[dts]ao |cdrdao *write|growisofs.*speed=' /dev/null || logger get executed. It bewilders me that it is not doing what I want. Here is the syslog when it is run: Mar 15

Re: Mistaken partition and format process

2008-03-09 Thread Jeff D
hce wrote: On 3/10/08, Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 05:32:25PM +1100, hce wrote: I am partitioning and formating an external HDD. I made a stupid mistake, I called mkfs.ext3 /dev/md0 before calling fdisk /dev/md0. Now it seems that the process stopped

Re: Mistaken partition and format process

2008-03-09 Thread Jeff D
hce wrote: On 3/10/08, Jeff D [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hce wrote: On 3/10/08, Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 05:32:25PM +1100, hce wrote: I am partitioning and formating an external HDD. I made a stupid mistake, I called mkfs.ext3 /dev/md0 before

Re: Brower cannot open some web pages in Debian

2008-03-07 Thread Jeff D
hce wrote: Hi, I have installed Debian 2.6.18-4-686 in my two computers, both have difficultis to run web brower to connect to some web pages. I thought it is a brower problem so I have tried different browsers, firefox, icewealsel and opera, etc. All encountered difficultis to run some web

Re: rotating a rectangular image in Gimp

2008-03-06 Thread Jeff D
PETER EASTHOPE wrote: Folk, To rotate a rectangular image by 90 degrees in Gimp, I followed these steps. * Expand the canvas to a square containing the image, centered. * Rotate 90 degrees. * Contract the canvas to the boundary of the image. If I just rotate without changing the canvas, the

Re: Tweaking /boot/grub/menu.lst to use 2GB RAM

2008-02-29 Thread Jeff D
andy wrote: Hi all I'm seeking some advice on the best option to enable my 2.6.22-3-686 kernel to utilise the 2Gb RAM properly. What is the best tweak to the /boot/grub/menu.lst file in order to enable my kernel to recognise and utilise the additional RAM? Looking through this file, the

Re: IceWeasel and IceDove or other OS?

2008-02-28 Thread Jeff D
Sunnz wrote: I never tried, but I suppose there should be no difficulty in grabbing the Debian source packages and compiling them in Ubuntu. Actually there already exist a package for Ubuntu, just click and install. Yes I am aware that it is just a rebrand of the Mozilla Firefox, I got my

Re: SSH (what's this!!!)

2008-02-28 Thread Jeff D
Márcio Luciano Donada wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Today in the morning when I give a verified in the processes of a given server noticed the following procedures for ssh, I found a little strange as: root 21274 1.0 0.0 9856 3384 ?Ss 09:14 0:00

Re: curious entries in apache2 log

2008-02-27 Thread Jeff D
Vikki Roemer wrote: On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 5:20 PM, Richard Lyons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone enlighten me what is going on here? ::1 - - [27/Feb/2008:14:05:21 +] GET / 400 1063 - - ::1 - - [27/Feb/2008:14:05:25 +] GET / 400 1063 - - ::1 - - [27/Feb/2008:14:06:02 +] GET

Re: Unable to su as a user, I get: Cannot execute /bin/bash: Permission denied

2008-02-25 Thread Jeff D
Nuno Magalhães wrote: Cannot execute /bin/bash: Permission denied Er... have you by any chance tried checking out the permissions for that file? It'll be executed by the user, not root. Try 766. That should probably be 755 , not 766, you really dont want /bin/bash writeable by anyone but

Re: How to sort files in a directory?

2008-02-24 Thread Jeff D
Rodolfo Medina wrote: Hi. I want to sort all files with, say, .txt extension that are in the directory `/path/to/dir' and all its subdirectories, and I want to perform this search starting from the directory itself: how can I do that? I didn't manage with `find'. Thanks for any suggestion

Re: switching to DHCP in a clean manner ...

2008-02-24 Thread Jeff D
Glenn Becker wrote: Hi all - I just moved from the NY metro area to the Boston metro area, and in the process changed ISPs. My service is now significantly faster and cheaper, but my account now assigns IPs dynamically -- previously, I'd had a static IP. I have the /option/ with the new

Re: Cannot remove thttpd

2008-02-23 Thread Jeff D
Peter Robinson wrote: Hi, I would like to remove the package thttpd but get the following error message. I do not see the process running (with ps aux for instance). How can I get rid of it. Here is the message I get from aptitude: Preconfiguring packages ... (Reading database ... 276185

Re: Why can't I scp inside my own router??

2008-02-21 Thread Jeff D
Beartooth Sciurivore wrote: I have a new install of 4.0 on my laptop and want to scp the configuration for Alpine from my main machine to it. I tried an scp -r from the laptop; failed on a refusal by the laptop. Tried it from the main machine. Same result. Finally tried going into the

Re: php and apache?

2008-02-19 Thread Jeff D
Zach wrote: 2008/2/19, Sergio [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello, do you have a line like this in your config files: AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .phtml .php3 I think it is in the file: /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/php5.conf That should do the trick. Hello Sergio, Yes everything seems fine

Re: New User-Network Problem Still

2008-02-17 Thread Jeff D
Mitch Crawford wrote: OK I've reinstalled Debian 4.0r2, removed network-manager, dhcdbd, and the libnm-glib0 and libnm-util0 stuff. I have a static IP 10.0.0.6 255.255.255.0 There are NO proxies running anywhere that i'm aware of. I have 3 other machines connected to this 4 port router all

Re: New User- Network Problem

2008-02-15 Thread Jeff D
Mitch Crawford wrote: On 15 Feb, John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: sudo apt-get remove --purge zeroconf package zeroconf is not installed, so not removed. On 15 Feb, Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just try aptitude purge zeroconf. the following packages have been kept back:

Re: New User- Network Problem

2008-02-15 Thread Jeff D
Mitch Crawford wrote: OK I've tried setting up the dhcp server and am still having similar results so I've gone back to fixed IP nos. I can ping local machines by name number I can ping www.debian.org using the web browser epiphany i can't connect using the IP no for debian.org or by name.

Re: New User- Network Problem

2008-02-15 Thread Jeff D
Mitch Crawford wrote: ok i've rebooted and now have: ip route show 10.0.0.0/24 dev eth0 protp kernel scope link src 10.0.0.6 default via 10.0.0.254 dev eth0 or if you dont have the iproute2 package installed ifconfig eth0 eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:E0:4C:69:13:15 inet

Re: New User- Network Problem

2008-02-15 Thread Jeff D
Mitch Crawford wrote: On 15 Feb, Jeff D [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, that all looks good, is everything working now? No ping? seems to be fine names IP nos. browsing web? I canconnect to www.debian.org and www.google.co.uk serching google for debian comes up with a list, i can select

Re: Apache2 config errors on previously good setup

2008-02-15 Thread Jeff D
gary turner wrote: Mike Bird wrote: On Thu February 14 2008 10:31:10 gary turner wrote: koko:/home/gt# dpkg -s libapache2-mod-php5 Package: libapache2-mod-php5 Status: install ok installed Please post that to the list again but this time with all the headers. You can skip the description if

Re: New User- Network Problem

2008-02-14 Thread Jeff D
Paul Cartwright wrote: On Thu February 14 2008, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: My guess is that in your particular installation, there is a conflict of boot dependancies, e.g. networking can't start until a module is loaded but that happens in a later init script. This manual booting procedure will

Re: Most recent linux-image-2.6.18-6-686 fails to install debian-user@lists.debian.org,

2008-02-14 Thread Jeff D
Steve Mazurek wrote: I have been trying to install on etch the most recent linux-image-2.6.18-6-686 on an IBM Thinkpad T23 with a Pentium 3 and on a Gateway desktop also running a Pentium 3 using aptitude update aptitude upgrade. Every time I do this, I get the error message: dpkg: error

Re: modsecurity

2008-02-13 Thread Jeff D
Freddy Freeloader wrote: Schiz0 wrote: On Feb 13, 2008 2:13 PM, Freddy Freeloader [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, Can anyone tell me why the modsecurity2_module is not in the Debian repositories? I understand that parts of it might not be GPL'ed, but why can't it be carried in the

Re: Serious local root exploit in linux kernel

2008-02-10 Thread Jeff D
Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: Please see: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=464945 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.22/+bug/190587 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=432229 A local root exploit has been discovered in the linux kernel yesterday.

Re: Shell script function problems

2008-02-08 Thread Jeff D
phillinux wrote: At 11:33 PM 2/8/2008, you wrote: phillinux [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm trying to write a bash shell script to create user accounts that calls 2 functions. I can't call these functions from the script or Why? the command line. Why? The set command seems to show

Re: Cannot authenticate with DSA-pubkey in Etch

2008-02-08 Thread Jeff D
Christopher Bianchi wrote: Emh, sorry, but i didn't past the config and the errors because I thought that attach to the mail was better. Anyway, the default sshd_config is NOT right for the authentication with pubkey, because the Password Authentication is set to 'yes' in default config. I

Re: Shell script function problems

2008-02-08 Thread Jeff D
phillinux wrote: I'm trying to write a bash shell script to create user accounts that calls 2 functions. I can't call these functions from the script or the command line. The set command seems to show the loaded script in the shell (loaded with . FunctionName at command line) with other

Re: how to install sun java plugin for iceweasel in Debian?

2008-01-07 Thread Jeff D
Amogh Hooshdar wrote: How can I install the Sun Java plugin for Icewesel in Debian Lenny? I tried copying the libjavaplugin_oji.so as shown below. cp /opt/jdk1.6.0_01/jre/plugin/i386/ns7-gcc29/libjavaplugin_oji.so ~/.mozilla/plugins/ cp /opt/jdk1.6.0_01/jre/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so

Re: PAM failure?

2008-01-03 Thread Jeff D
Craig Hurley wrote: Hello, When looking at /var/log/auth.log PAM seems to be logging a large amount. For example, every 30 minutes cron runs a script as root. It appears to me that each time the script is run, PAM adds 4 entries to auth.log, recording a the session open and close along

Re: debian 3.1 - how make it to support 2G memory

2007-11-26 Thread Jeff D
ann kok wrote: Hi all I want to increase the memory from 1G to 2G debian 3.1 - how make it to support 2G memory thank you Do you have 2G of ram installed? What kernel do you have installed? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: how to run scripts uniquely

2007-11-22 Thread Jeff D
cs wrote: I thought I'd worked out how to ensure only 1 instance of a shell script was running (using grep and wc) but I now see that sometimes the script name appears twice in the list of processes - any ideas? eg (apols for wrapping) when running /home/michael/bin/backup-rsync-VERI we get the

Re: Filesize limit exceeded on ext3

2007-11-16 Thread Jeff D
André Wendt wrote: Hi, I'm running a benchmark program on Lenny that writes into a file and repeatedly exits once the filesize reaches 2,099,204 bytes. This is on ext3. $ ulimit -f unlimited $ uname -a Linux think 2.6.22-2-686 #1 SMP Fri Aug 31 00:24:01 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux This doesn't

Re: Apache2 Still Dying

2007-11-08 Thread Jeff D
Raquel wrote: On Wed, 07 Nov 2007 23:03:59 -0800 Jeff D [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Raquel wrote: On Wed, 07 Nov 2007 21:31:28 -0800 Jeff D [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Raquel wrote: I ran mtest86+ and the memory checked out ... no errors. I ran strace /usr/sbin/apache2 and can see no errors. I

Re: Apache2 Still Dying

2007-11-07 Thread Jeff D
Raquel wrote: I ran mtest86+ and the memory checked out ... no errors. I ran strace /usr/sbin/apache2 and can see no errors. I have googled until my eyes are red and sore. Apache2 is still dying (stops delivering pages) after anywhere from 15 minutes to 5 hours. I cannot find a reason in any

Re: Apache2 Still Dying

2007-11-07 Thread Jeff D
Raquel wrote: On Wed, 07 Nov 2007 21:31:28 -0800 Jeff D [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Raquel wrote: I ran mtest86+ and the memory checked out ... no errors. I ran strace /usr/sbin/apache2 and can see no errors. I have googled until my eyes are red and sore. Apache2 is still dying (stops

Re: mySQL and 'testing'

2007-10-26 Thread Jeff D
ieb wrote: Sorry if this repeats a previous query I did scan the list of topics but couldn't spot this. I am running the 'testing' version. I came back from 3 weeks offline and simply let synaptic gather all the updates and apply them (OK.. yes , that was probably a bit dumb... but too

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