Re: MUA CLI IMAP and SMTP without ncurses interface

2020-01-04 Thread Steve Kemp
> As far as I can tell, Mutt uses the ncurses interface Yes. > Can I use Mutt without ncurses? No. > If no, is my only alternative Sup/Notmuch? https://aerc-mail.org/ is new, and golang-based. No ncurses. Though it has to be said it seems like an odd-requirement, is there a

Re: Replacement for lineakd?

2019-12-04 Thread Steve Kemp
> Well, it’s long gone, and while I have it still installed, I’m wondering > what kind of replacement is used today for this functionality? I personally use `xbindkeys`. Configure it to be launched as part of your desktop-session and you can make it toggle music, etc, via multimedia

Re: A followup on github discussion

2019-07-26 Thread Steve Kemp
> Today it was brought to my attention that GitHub has restricted access > to users who live in countries that have US sanctions applied - [1]. Shockingly companies often have to obey the laws which apply in the country in which they are based. While it is definitely unfortunate for

Re: Choosing an image for my cloud server,

2019-03-19 Thread Steve Kemp
> I have a cloud server , but my debian seems a cloned image > and not a new installation. Common for a lot of providers; they create a "master image" and just allow that to be written to a newly provisioned server. > My provider doesnt provide a panel to choose an image at will to > install.

Re: roundcube installer web helper problem

2019-03-02 Thread Steve Kemp
> when click create config button there is no text in the code box and > says cannot write config file which is writable by the www-data and the > temp and log directories are OK to write to according to installer web > page. Probably www-data doesn't have permission to write to the *parent*

Re: firefox does not redirect to login page

2019-02-13 Thread Steve Kemp
> > > > > > Try going to http://192.168.1.1 > > > > I don't think one can assume that that's the correct address. > > It's better if that is *not* a correct address. What we want is > for the browser to make a request that won't be https, so that > the router can hijack it to redirect to the

Re: E: Unable to locate package zimlib . . .

2019-01-15 Thread Steve Kemp
> Why is it I can't install zimlib? Because there is no package named zimlib available: https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=zimlib You probably want libzim-dev, which does exist: https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=libzim Note that libzim 2.x is only available

Re: Python issue?

2019-01-02 Thread Steve Kemp
> File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/psutil/_pslinux.py", line > 1088, in read_procfs > raise ValueError("not sure how to interpret line %r" % line) > > Any hint/clue? > _pslinux.py opens /proc/diskstats, and tries to parse the contents. It finds a line "8 0 sda ..." which it

Re: Package install history - logs etc ?

2018-12-03 Thread Steve Kemp
> I'm trying to review the history of installing packages on this system. > All my installs are done Synaptic or apt-get. > I want to review the time order of installs to jog my memory on an > unrelated issue. > Is there anywhere else I should look? Take a look at /var/log/dpkg.log* too.

Re: openvpn over ipv6 /65

2018-11-23 Thread Steve Kemp
> Hi. > > > This will need to be repeated at every reboot, > > No, it won't. OP has two stanzas regarding eth0 in e/n/i already - one > for inet and another one for inet6. You're right; I'm clearly not having a good day! Thank-you for the correction. Steve --

Re: openvpn over ipv6 /65

2018-11-23 Thread Steve Kemp
> with this: > > iface eth0 inet6 static >address 2a03:9800:10:54::2 >netmask 65 >gateway 2a03:9800:10:54::1 > > Leave all the other entries intact. > Then invoke this as root (one-time only): > > ip a d dev eth0 2a03:9800:10:54::2/64 > ip a a dev eth0

Re: fetchmail

2018-11-18 Thread Steve Kemp
> Anybody know: am I wrong somehow; why fetchmail went away; if Buster'd > be upset with the Stretch package? Yup - see this bug for details: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=768843 You might consider an alternative such as getmail, or isync. Steve --

Re: apache2: Could not open configuration file /etc/apache2/apache2.conf: Permission denied

2018-10-16 Thread Steve Kemp
To recap you reported the original error: > apache2: Could not open configuration file /etc/apache2/apache2.conf: > Permission denied Now you've provided more details, from your audit-log: > type=AVC msg=audit(1539750555.347:77): apparmor="DENIED" > operation="open"

Re: apache2: Could not open configuration file /etc/apache2/apache2.conf: Permission denied

2018-10-16 Thread Steve Kemp
> > ls -l /etc/apache2/apache2.conf > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7224 jun 2 10:01 /etc/apache2/apache2.conf > > > Getting nuts. Probably the permissions on /etc/apache2, or /etc are broken for the user www-data. Assuming you have sudo installed you can become "www-data", and test: sudo

Re: bless hex editor - unexpectedly ends

2018-09-26 Thread Steve Kemp
> program - Bless hex editor > When I export to a text file I have the following error and the > program ends unexpectedly Please report your issue upon the Debian bug-tracker, rather than sending it to all users upon this list. If you've never reported a bug this page will be helpful:

Re: unable to install nginx-full package

2018-09-17 Thread Steve Kemp
> The nginx-full package fails to install on Debian stable (Stretch). Looks like it does install, but then it fails to start. > Does anyone know why? Is this a bug? You should be able to see why it fails to start by looking at the nginx error-log, explore beneath /var/log/nginx. I would

Re: Kernel hang in Xen (4.9)

2018-08-20 Thread Steve Kemp
> I have a xen guest that hangs after a while if running 4.9 kernel > (since upgrade to stretch) You might try the 4.9.110-3 kernel from stretch-proposed-updates, which I noticed is required to fix a reboot-loop on stretch: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=903767 That

Re: Lite SMTP server/daemon

2018-05-08 Thread Steve Kemp
> >qpsmtpd? It is small, plugin-based, and also written in Perl. > I couldn't discern, BTW, whether it supports TLS / SSL to an > upstream MTA? I did find this thread: > > http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.qpsmtpd/2005/07/msg3404.html That thread, I think, is about presenting TLS to

Re: SSH session audit

2018-02-19 Thread Steve Kemp
> Do you know about that solution? Or could you suggest something similar? You could install "snoopy", which will log all command-executed to syslog. Then configure your syslog to forward logs to a remote host. It is not fool-proof, but requires no setup for a user.. Steve --

Re: sources.list

2017-10-19 Thread Steve Kemp
> >#A sudo vi /etc/apt/sources.list > >shows this: > >deb http://cdn-aws.deb.debian.org/debian stretch main Lines beginning with "deb" are used for binary packages. For "source" packages you need a "deb-src" prefix. Something like this: deb-src

Re: DNS hits

2017-02-11 Thread Steve Kemp
On Sat Feb 11, 2017 at 10:58:54 -0700, Glenn English wrote: >Is anyone else getting thousands of hits on DNS? Yes, but that's because I host DNS for popular domains. >But AWS isn't the whole problem -- just the worst offender. And my little >T1 has been, sometimes, DoS'ed by the

Re: is sshd really restarting?

2014-12-18 Thread Steve Kemp
On Thu Dec 18, 2014 at 12:13:47 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: Setup: very new install of gentoo I suggest you ask for assistance on the gentoo mailing lists in the future. I see very little output. Should it be more verbose? No. Can I get more verbose output? Yes. systemctl status

Re: missing LSB tags and overrides

2014-07-24 Thread Steve Kemp
On Thu Jul 24, 2014 at 14:40:14 +0100, Brian wrote: How do I join this output into the purge command to save typing in each package name? A=$(dpkg -l | sed '1,5d' | grep ^rc | awk -F '{print $2}') That seems needlessly complex, using both sed and awk. Removing sed you could use

Re: Copy machine?

2014-07-18 Thread Steve Kemp
is it possible to rsync a virtual machine to a physical machine? Depends on how the initrd is built. This is pretty much it. I've migrated from Xen, and KVM, to real physical machines. If you perform the fixups it should work. Off the top of my head the changes you'll need to make

Re: Window Maker - what is it written in?

2011-04-10 Thread Steve Kemp
On Sun Apr 10, 2011 at 17:24:38 +0100, Lisi wrote: Does anyone happen to know what programming language Window Maker is written in? I have spent hours trying to find out! apt-get source wmaker - then look for yourself? (The answer is C.) Steve -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: A dpkg puzzle on debian testing.

2011-03-07 Thread Steve Kemp
On Mon Mar 07, 2011 at 11:53:00 -0500, R. Clayton wrote: I'm running a debian testing system updated weekly. In the last update I noticed samba packages being updated. Because I have no need of samba, I wanted to get rid of them: $ sudo dpkg --purge samba-common samba-common-bin

Re: Where is the disk label stored?

2011-03-05 Thread Steve Kemp
On Sat Mar 05, 2011 at 21:48:33 +0100, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: Sorry, I forgot to mention, the filesystem is now fat32. So those tools will not work. If you're willing to re-format you can set the label at the time you do that: # mkfs.vfat /dev/sdc1 -n mylabel Otherwise checkout the

Re: 05_debian_theme in unstable's grub-pc

2010-12-31 Thread Steve Kemp
On Fri Dec 31, 2010 at 11:44:01 +, Brian wrote: I understand what its purpose is but am unclear as to the meaning of . . . if they haven't been touched by the user. as it doesn't appear possible to alter the sha1sum of a file by touching it. It's a shorthand way of saying

Re: Rules to .procmailrc

2010-11-26 Thread Steve Kemp
On Thu Nov 25, 2010 at 21:33:09 +0100, Simon Hollenbach wrote: Under recipes there is a sample of a filter used on To and CC at the same time, that should suit your needs. Indeed - but you can do better than that if you want to handle many Debian lists: # Sort debian mailing lists

Re: Why is troubleshooting Linux so hard?

2010-11-15 Thread Steve Kemp
On Mon Nov 15, 2010 at 13:51:55 -0500, Borden Rhodes wrote: What would it take to get some error message standards in place so that troubleshooting Linux is possible for those of us who aren't computer science PhD candidates? 1. Make a list of all the programs which exist, but which do not

Re: Why is troubleshooting Linux so hard?

2010-11-15 Thread Steve Kemp
On Mon Nov 15, 2010 at 15:19:27 -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote: Actually, that does suggest a policy-level, or perhaps kernel-level approach -- creating a stronger framework for logging, error-reporting, tracebacks, etc. The further upstream that's implemented, the more likely developers are to

Re: apt-get install -- packet list from a file

2010-11-01 Thread Steve Kemp
On Mon Nov 01, 2010 at 11:13:53 +0100, getting.li...@googlemail.com wrote: I want to install many packets at once with apt-get. So I wrote a file, like file-list: htop vim apache2 apt-get install $(cat file-list) Steve -- Let me steal your soul? http://stolen-souls.com -- To

Re: Updating files in /etc Remotely (and automated)

2010-09-12 Thread Steve Kemp
On Sun Sep 12, 2010 at 16:24:59 -0400, Rob Owens wrote: If you run sudo somescript, then the script runs as root, so every command inside it will run as root. I think it is generally considered smarter, security-wise, to run somescript and then include sudo inside the script as necessary.

Re: Backing up email to a CD

2010-09-05 Thread Steve Kemp
On Sat Sep 04, 2010 at 18:34:28 +0200, James Stuckey wrote: Hi, I asked a question a week or so ago about backing up e-mail. What I meant was that I wanted to back it up to a CD. The responses I got talked about backing it up to an IMAP server. Does anyone know how to back it up to

Re: apache2 php5 error

2010-08-18 Thread Steve Kemp
On Tue Aug 17, 2010 at 18:52:32 -0400, Paul Cartwright wrote: # tail /var/log/apac*/error.log (This is good. Looking at error logs is the way you solve problems yourself.) [Tue Aug 17 18:49:40 2010] [error] (2)No such file or directory: could not open transfer log file

Re: apache2 php5 error

2010-08-17 Thread Steve Kemp
On Tue Aug 17, 2010 at 16:00:44 -0400, Paul Cartwright wrote: from httpd.conf: LoadModule php5_module/usr/local/apache2/modules/libphp5.so Remove that line. The debian way of loading modules is to use the tools: a2enmod a2dismod These will create symlinks in

Re: thttpd CGI pattern specified in thttpd.conf fails to match

2010-06-25 Thread Steve Kemp
On Thu Jun 24, 2010 at 00:43:34 -1000, Joel Roth wrote: Spending an inordinate amount of time, I find no setting for the cgi-pat variable in thttpd.conf including the default would allow CGI script to execute. For reference, the full command line I used is: thttpd -C /dev/null -u www-data

Re: segfault in strlen

2010-06-08 Thread Steve Kemp
On Tue Jun 08, 2010 at 10:55:03 +, a...@renevier.net wrote: its correct place (so, what's wrong with strlen?). I'm going to guess hardware problem. Code looks valid, code works for me. Run memtest on your machine and see if that throws out any errors? Steve -- Let me steal your

Re: Lite SMTP server/daemon

2010-05-01 Thread Steve Kemp
On Sat May 01, 2010 at 22:24:13 -0400, Celejar wrote: I couldn't discern, BTW, whether it supports TLS / SSL to an upstream MTA? I did find this thread: http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.qpsmtpd/2005/07/msg3404.html but I have no idea what the current status of this is. It seems like

Re: Lite SMTP server/daemon

2010-04-30 Thread Steve Kemp
On Fri Apr 30, 2010 at 16:20:40 -0400, Celejar wrote: Hm, I had thought that at least some of the small, relaying MTAs accepted connections on port 25. On closer perusal, it looks like they don't. .. I was sufficiently intrigued by the (apparent) absence of a simple MTA that does the

Re: Epiphany browser continues to get worse and worse

2010-04-17 Thread Steve Kemp
On Sat Apr 17, 2010 at 13:17:40 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: I am continuing to suffer the on-going de-volution of the once-decent epiphany browser under Debian Squeeze. First they broke file downloading. They still haven't fixed that. I'll bet it's been six months or more. They

Re: Epiphany browser continues to get worse and worse

2010-04-17 Thread Steve Kemp
On Sat Apr 17, 2010 at 15:00:15 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: They probably haven't fixed it since it hasn't been reported as a bug. As for the download problem, I didn't report a bug because someone else got there first: Debian bug report number 563056. Your message initially didn't

Re: Transferring files over SSH in the console

2010-03-21 Thread Steve Kemp
On Mon Mar 22, 2010 at 01:27:22 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: I had considered fuse, but there is no real advantage. I still need two terminal windows open: one for transferring files (sftp) and the second for running commands (ssh). gnu screen. One terminal. Multiple programs. Steve --

Re: What's wrong with the permissions?

2010-03-01 Thread Steve Kemp
On Mon Mar 01, 2010 at 23:11:50 +0100, Jack Knowlton wrote: dsrv:~# ls -alh /var/mail/virtual/domain.com/jo0atj50/ total 0 drwxrwsrwx 5 vmail vmail 120 2010-03-01 21:16 . drwx--S--- 3 vmail vmail 72 2010-03-01 21:16 .. drwxrwsrwx 2 vmail vmail 48 2010-03-01 21:16 cur drwxrwsrwx 2 vmail

Re: Controlling User Logins Using Pam

2010-02-21 Thread Steve Kemp
On Sun Feb 21, 2010 at 15:46:34 +0200, David Baron wrote: The good old parental control problem. How might one control user login times and periods using pam (or polkit)? Use /etc/security/time.conf, as described here:

Re: How to turn off all APT security checking?

2010-02-06 Thread Steve Kemp
On Sun Feb 07, 2010 at 00:47:10 +0800, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: I can't take it any more, day after day various incomplete apt-get updates, e.g., bug 564829 and Bug#553533: Seeing BADSIG 9AA38DCD55BE302B frequently. What apt-get -o option can I use to turn off all this security or whatever

Re: remove an HTML tag and all its children from commandline

2010-01-31 Thread Steve Kemp
On Sun Jan 31, 2010 at 10:54:46 +0800, Zhang Weiwu wrote: I want to remove all advertisements in my 100 html files. They are pretty neatly classed, like the following: div class=advertisement ... /div You might enjoy my html-tool command which would do the job for you via:

Re: Which virtualization is the best for Debian?

2010-01-14 Thread Steve Kemp
On Thu Jan 14, 2010 at 18:43:07 +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: One of the reasons I would like to use virtualization is security... What kind of security? Instead of having N applications installed on one host you could move to having 3+ virtual machines. That would suggest you'd need to

Re: Which virtualization is the best for Debian?

2010-01-14 Thread Steve Kemp
On Thu Jan 14, 2010 at 19:32:16 +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: I want to separate diver services and make NAT to them - so that it be more secure in case if one of them will be hacked - I still Right so you want a host which has a public IP (or more than one) and each guest will have private IPs

Re: Which virtualization is the best for Debian?

2010-01-13 Thread Steve Kemp
On Wed Jan 13, 2010 at 21:58:37 +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: As I have heard that vserver package does not work well in Debian, I would like to hear Your opinion (if any) on what is working more stable (well for use in production systems): 1. vserver 2. openvz 3. something else You need to

Re: /dev/random rate

2010-01-13 Thread Steve Kemp
On Thu Jan 14, 2010 at 01:43:39 +0100, Stanis??aw T. Findeisen wrote: I am trying to generate an SSL key using OpenSSL and /dev/random . However, it looks that the entropy generation rate is very low. .. Any ideas? You can try this: You can see the amount of available entropy via:

Re: building a custom kernel:IT WORKED

2009-12-27 Thread Steve Kemp
On Sun Dec 27, 2009 at 20:37:49 -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote: P.S. If you care to diff the files or just manually browse for differences, here's the .config that results in my 1.5MB kernel package. Seriously there's no need to post such a huge .config file to the list. Next time please

Re: could not chroot with debootstrap

2009-12-24 Thread Steve Kemp
On Fri Dec 25, 2009 at 08:46:30 +0800, Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: i'm trying to create a 64-bit environment on my debian lenny 32-bit to create a 64-bit deb package the command i'm using is: # debootstrap --arch=amd64 lenny lenny64/ http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ failure

Re: can only resolve dns names as root or with explicit nameserver address

2009-11-23 Thread Steve Kemp
On Mon Nov 23, 2009 at 09:08:26 -0800, Kelly Clowers wrote: Using Sid here, I suddenly cannot resolve DNS names normally. My web browsers, ping and dig do not work with names (ping works with an ip address), but sudo ping and sudo aptitude resolve normally and dig works as my user if I give

Recent sid problems - proompting for removal of lvm/dmsetup/cryptsetup

2009-10-31 Thread Steve Kemp
For the past few days my sid system (AMD64) has been trying to remove LVM, cryptsetup, and dmsetup. Given that my system is based upon LVM and I have several encrypted volumes I've not yet accepted these decisions. This is current output: # apt-get upgrade Reading package lists...

Re: Recent sid problems - proompting for removal of lvm/dmsetup/cryptsetup

2009-10-31 Thread Steve Kemp
On Sat Oct 31, 2009 at 13:07:42 -0400, Tim Tebbit wrote: Please bear in mind my root filesystem, amongst others, are LVM-mounts: /dev/mapper/gold--vol-root on / type ext3 (rw,noatime,nodiratime,errors=remount-ro) This is being discussed lately.

Re: find LVM volume group of a volume

2009-10-18 Thread Steve Kemp
On Sun Oct 18, 2009 at 22:15:19 +0200, Guillaume CHARDIN wrote: #lvdisplay /dev/mapper/VGNAME-LVNAME | grep VG Name = the previous command should return the value of the VG name of my LV but... Not because it fails :) Works for me: r...@gold:~# lvdisplay /dev/mapper/gold--vol-home

Re: find LVM volume group of a volume

2009-10-18 Thread Steve Kemp
On Sun Oct 18, 2009 at 21:56:50 +0200, Guillaume CHARDIN wrote: But, when i try to use it with lvdisplay with '/dev/mapper/VGNAME-LVNAME' as argument, the command fail. Try running lvdisplay with no arguments to see a list. Then you'll see output like this: --- Logical volume --- LV

Re: remove package by hand ?

2009-09-28 Thread Steve Kemp
On Mon Sep 28, 2009 at 16:16:58 +0200, Frank Bonnet wrote: Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y (Reading database ... 36967 files and directories currently installed.) Removing ldap-account-manager ... dpkg: error processing ldap-account-manager (--remove): subprocess post-removal script

Re: Lightweight alternative MTA? [was: Re: Starting MTA:]

2009-09-21 Thread Steve Kemp
On Mon Sep 21, 2009 at 11:06:25 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Mon,21.Sep.09, 00:48:29, Steve Lamb wrote: Andrei Popescu wrote: Besides (someone please correct me if I'm wrong) cron doesn't need an MTA listening on port 25, it uses /sbin/sendmail. Ok, first response was that

Re: Lightweight alternative MTA? [was: Re: Starting MTA:]

2009-09-21 Thread Steve Kemp
On Mon Sep 21, 2009 at 15:04:57 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: http://www.steve.org.uk/Software/skxmail/ Works for me on my laptops.. That looks very interesting. Why isn't it available from official Debian repos? Because exim, postfix, nullmailer, ssmtp, all exist already

Re: executing commands from pop/imap messages on local linux machine and then sending the results back to the requestor?

2009-08-13 Thread Steve Kemp
On Thu Aug 13, 2009 at 09:05:16 -0600, John Haggerty wrote: I was wondering if there is any software package do run commands on the linux machine and then send the results back to the requesting address? Take a look at 'grunt', as introduced here:

Re: MTA

2009-07-07 Thread Steve Kemp
On Tue Jul 07, 2009 at 18:16:33 +0100, kj wrote: Does anyone know of a up-to-date report of MTA market share? I'm only finding fairly old ones. Most people don't care - they pick one and stick with it. Its a religious argument and one that gets repeated every six months or so. Pick

OT: Re: Gmail filtering. NOT OT

2009-06-30 Thread Steve Kemp
On Tue Jun 30, 2009 at 07:05:36 -0400, Daryl Styrk wrote: This way, when I receive or send messages from/to the list, they are _all_ labelled as debian-user, including the one stored in Sent Mail. This works well, for me at least. Hope this helps, How do you access your mail?

Re: OT: Re: Gmail filtering. NOT OT

2009-06-30 Thread Steve Kemp
On Tue Jun 30, 2009 at 05:07:26 -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: Steve Kemp wrote: Seriously this is way off-topic for the list. Yeah, you couldn't be more wrong on that. If somebody : * Fails to understand how their webmail works. * Fails to use the available help

Re: compiling ZSNES from source

2009-06-27 Thread Steve Kemp
On Sat Jun 27, 2009 at 13:59:55 +0800, Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: *** The test program failed to compile or link. See the file config.log for the exact error that occured. You've already had the answer - but next time you could work this out yourself by reading the config.log file, as

Re: is it possible to install a desktop-manager without python and perl?

2009-06-22 Thread Steve Kemp
On Mon Jun 22, 2009 at 18:02:28 +0800, ?...@k4 wrote: no problem with perl, I just want to keep my system simple so that I will be able to modify them someday in the future, without learning any other programming languages. You will not be able to run a Debian desktop system without Perl.

Re: Automatically creating user accounts from exim

2009-06-17 Thread Steve Kemp
On Wed Jun 17, 2009 at 16:51:33 +0200, David wrote: This info is needed, because our software needs to hook into the exim mail life cycle at various points. Mainly for things like converting between email and non-email messaging systems. Basically, the idea is to use exim as the core engine

Re: pptp on a virtual machine

2009-06-05 Thread Steve Kemp
On Fri Jun 05, 2009 at 04:42:05 +0300, Toba wrote: But there is nothing in /lib/modules vps2:~# ls /lib/modules/ vps2:~# vps2:~# uname -a Linux vps2.samyount.info 2.6.24-vz-hostnoc-4.0.0-i386-libata #1 SMP Wed Dec 3 19:08:12 EST 2008 i686 GNU/Linux vps2:~# So how can I install ppp

Re: dhcpd

2009-05-27 Thread Steve Kemp
On Wed May 27, 2009 at 21:21:07 +0200, pch0317 wrote: Can I use two range entry in dhcpd.conf? What happened when you tried it? or can I use two range in pool bracket? What happened when you tried it? Seriously the time it takes to test this has got to be less than the time it took

Re: Alt-F7 fails

2009-05-24 Thread Steve Kemp
On Sun May 24, 2009 at 13:50:39 +0200, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: 2-Feeling a little bit guilty about running X without xorg.conf, (Don't feel guilty!) ran dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg. I expected to get the well- know litany of questions. You can dump a skeleton xorg.conf file by

Re: Xen Host Virtual Console missing

2009-05-20 Thread Steve Kemp
On Tue May 19, 2009 at 23:39:29 +, Tim Dobson wrote: I'm having an issue that when I run xm console vm name everything displays fine up until right before where the login prompt should appear, where nothing does appear. I suspect it relates to

Re: Looking for Lenny to keep the spam away...

2009-04-30 Thread Steve Kemp
On Thu Apr 30, 2009 at 06:29:19 -0700, Phillipus Gunawan wrote: If possible, I would prefer a conf like: ***Internet*** ??? Spam Filter ??? Exchange Server ??? LAN This is pretty standard - the main two questions are: 1. What do you want listening on port 25 of the machine that

Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

2009-04-24 Thread Steve Kemp
On Fri Apr 24, 2009 at 08:14:52 -0400, machiner wrote: This list is not exclusive to developers. Many people read it. Sure, I'd love a dev or 2, and I clearly asked, to contribute to the site. Why wouldn't I? But, I'd be just as happy, and I think the community the site serves would be

Re: Admit that the typical Debian machine has tons of cruft(8)

2009-04-24 Thread Steve Kemp
Is there an option to autoremove unused files? deborphan can be used to remove packages that were installed for dependencies alone and are no longer needed. http://www.debian-administration.org/article/Removing_unnecessary_packages_with_deborphan apt-get and aptitude both have

Re: Samba

2009-04-23 Thread Steve Kemp
On Thu Apr 23, 2009 at 06:23:11 -0400, Lynn Kilroy wrote: As far as I can tell, there are no errors. Is there like a log or something somewhere that I can look at? And if I find it, and there are no errors, then what? You specify the logfile to use in the samba configuration

Re: Samba

2009-04-23 Thread Steve Kemp
On Thu Apr 23, 2009 at 05:38:30 -0400, Lynn Kilroy wrote: And I still can't log in from the client computers. Now what? Read the documentation available, and examine the errors which are logged by samba. Increase debugging levels until they show up. Samba is mostly simple to

Re: need a new smtp setup in exim4, help please

2009-04-22 Thread Steve Kemp
On Wed Apr 22, 2009 at 16:07:06 -0700, pecon...@mesanetworks.net wrote: My ISP is making some changes in email service. I have been using fetchmail to get my mail and exim4 to send mail to their smarthost. Now, their new smarthost requires authentication. Edit the file

Re: tftpd-hpa fails to start.

2009-04-17 Thread Steve Kemp
On Fri Apr 17, 2009 at 17:14:52 +0100, Nuno Magalh??es wrote: The thing is, to use the articles example, instead of: r...@itchy:~# /etc/init.d/tftpd-hpa start Starting HPA's tftpd: in.tftpd. r...@itchy:~# itchy! I remember that machine .. I'm using unstable's tftp-hpa 0.49 and don't see

Re: tftpd-hpa fails to start.

2009-04-17 Thread Steve Kemp
On Fri Apr 17, 2009 at 19:34:52 +0100, Nuno Magalh??es wrote: Usually I'd say look at /var/log/daemon.log - if that doesn't work I'd add set -x to the init script and see how far it gets. Ah, daemon.log it's a socket issue: Apr 17 19:12:57 box in.tftpd[15899]: cannot bind to local

Re: tftpd-hpa fails to start.

2009-04-17 Thread Steve Kemp
On Fri Apr 17, 2009 at 19:59:22 +0100, Nuno Magalh??es wrote: Still no results... why wouldn't a process list itself? The socket is there but there's no process listening on it? Very odd. Could be that it is listed in /etc/inetd.conf and is just not running at the instance that you look

Re: Disabling RSA host key check temporarily

2009-04-10 Thread Steve Kemp
On Fri Apr 10, 2009 at 08:10:50 +, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: (We contantly install test systems on our LAN and we opted not to try to complicate things by preserving the ssh host keys) For things like that you can add ~/.ssh/config with: Host 192.168.1.* StrictHostKeyChecking no

Re: spam/virus filter

2009-04-09 Thread Steve Kemp
On Wed Apr 08, 2009 at 20:40:52 +0200, michal krajcirovic wrote: It must be assumed that the role of anti-spam gateway to perform no one mailserver, but for several mailserver, it is therefore necessary to define something which he has subsequently served mails. Does not someone with some

Re: Disabling RSA host key check temporarily

2009-04-08 Thread Steve Kemp
On Wed Apr 08, 2009 at 02:03:03 +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: $ ssh -X u...@x.x.x.x @@@ @WARNING: REMOTE HOST IDENTIFICATION HAS CHANGED! @ @@@ IT IS POSSIBLE THAT SOMEONE IS

Re: sudoer security problem on server

2009-03-29 Thread Steve Kemp
On Sun Mar 29, 2009 at 10:41:57 -0300, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: This will allow them to run make as root. Not only they will be able to install anywhere (not only under /usr/local), but they can run any command by creating a Makefile that does what they want to do. Indeed. If one wants

Re: Delete 4 million files

2009-03-18 Thread Steve Kemp
On Wed Mar 18, 2009 at 16:37:53 +, kj wrote: Now, I've been running the usual find . -type f -exec rm {} \; but this is going at about 700,000 per day. Would simply doing an rm -rf on the Maildir be quicker? Or is there a better way? That executes /bin/rm for each file group. YOu

Re: sed :(

2009-03-04 Thread Steve Kemp
On Wed Mar 04, 2009 at 18:14:54 +0100, josep wrote: why isn't it working? :( sed -i s/#send host-name andare.fugue.com;/send host-name $(cat /etc/hostname)/g /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf Because you've got nested quotes. e.g. This fails: sed -i s/bob/chris/g /tmp/blah You need

Re: OT: Bush quotes

2009-02-05 Thread Steve Kemp
Regardless of how much people might enjoy debating this issue it is clearly off-topic for this list. Please take the discussion elsewhere. Steve -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: OT: Bush quotes

2009-02-05 Thread Steve Kemp
On Thu Feb 05, 2009 at 18:05:53 -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: The thread is marked 'OT'. Indeed. That's fine for a little while; but people come here for Debian assistance, help, and experience. I'm certain you're not suggesting that I'd be OK to write multiple posts every day about my

Re: Debian VPN

2009-02-04 Thread Steve Kemp
Is there any debian package offer such thing like that? A deb linux VPN server to serve wind0e$ client? There are several alternatives, perhaps the most widely used is openvpn which you can find documented here: http://www.openvpn.org/ In the future you might save yourself some time

Re: [OT] improving the mailing lists WAS: Re: Debian VPN

2009-02-04 Thread Steve Kemp
On Wed Feb 04, 2009 at 09:30:00 -0600, Stackpole, Chris wrote: I just don't see the point in the less-then-helpful comments in this case. I believe I: a. Suggested openvpn as the most likely candidate. b. Offered the suggestion of using a search engine, and apt-cache, which

Re: xen domU read only filesystem

2009-02-04 Thread Steve Kemp
On Wed Feb 04, 2009 at 09:10:27 -0800, Freddy Freeloader wrote: [7.149690] ReiserFS: xvda2: warning: bad value remount-ro for option errors There's your problem. Remove remount-ro from /etc/fstab, after remounting it read/write via: mount -o remount,rw / Or mounting it

Re: xen domU read only filesystem

2009-02-04 Thread Steve Kemp
On Wed Feb 04, 2009 at 11:10:21 -0800, Freddy Freeloader wrote: OK. That was stupid of me not to look at /etc/fstab. Ignoring the error message was an oversight, but not a stupid one. But, why are xen-tools creating a read only domU file system by default in the first place?

Re: xen domU read only filesystem

2009-02-04 Thread Steve Kemp
On Wed Feb 04, 2009 at 11:44:47 -0800, Freddy Freeloader wrote: So, you're telling me that if someone uses ext3 they will get a default file system that's read/write, but if they choose any other available file system it will be read only by default even though xen-tools.conf doesn't

Re: Xen problems in Lenny

2009-02-03 Thread Steve Kemp
On Tue Feb 03, 2009 at 09:57:17 -0800, Freddy Freeloader wrote: I know this isn't strictly a Debian issue but this has really got me stumped. I've installed the following Xen packages on a Lenny machine and cannot successfully create a working guest using xen-create-image. Exec Format

Re: I don't need an MTA

2009-01-31 Thread Steve Kemp
On Sat Jan 31, 2009 at 21:58:01 +, Nuno Magalh??es wrote: How can i work around this? Regardless of how much resources it requires i find it irritating. The real nudge is having Starting MTA: lagging by boot by half a minute or so. You need one, as far as the system is concerned, to

Re: 'who am i' command does not produce output in 'mrxvt'

2009-01-23 Thread Steve Kemp
On Fri Jan 23, 2009 at 20:44:42 +, Countable Infinity wrote: hum...@nifty:~$ who am i humptypts/22009-01-24 02:12 (:0.0) However, in mrxvt, it does not produce any output. hum...@nifty:~$ who am i hum...@nifty:~$ What could be the reason for this? Is this a bug?

Re: stuff in ~/bin won't run

2009-01-13 Thread Steve Kemp
On Tue Jan 13, 2009 at 21:08:02 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: Why is that dangerous? Because if your account is compromised then critical system programs (ls, cd, and the like) can be easily replaced with compromised versions. Putting your own bin at the end of the path is meant to thwart this.

Re: Free alternative for Plesk on Debian

2009-01-06 Thread Steve Kemp
On Tue Jan 06, 2009 at 16:36:49 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: The CLI will do everything that Plesk does and more. The learning curve is only slightly higher, but with Google and this list you will find it _easier_ in the long run. There are open-source hosting panels. In my experience all of

Re: logrotate and apache virtual domains

2008-12-30 Thread Steve Kemp
On Tue Dec 30, 2008 at 12:18:35 -0500, Rick Pasotto wrote: I have several domains with their log files in separate directories under /var/log/apache2. Logrotate is rotating only files in /var/log/apache2 and not in the subdirectories. Where/how do I get logrotate to rotate the virtual host

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