Re: HELP! can't become root

tom arnall wrote the following on 06.10.2007 20:13 -snip- Indeed. From now on, I am not going to work as root without first making an entry in my system log as to what I'm going to do. sudo will do that for you without extra modifications from you. *But* sudo will only make syslog entries

Re: HELP! can't become root

tom arnall wrote the following on 06.10.2007 20:30 Realistically, is there any way I can fix my system so I can log in as root, without reinstalling the OS? Thanks, tom Well see: in /etc there is mosly everything 644 *BUT* there are specific files that are 440 or 755. And there maybe

Re: HELP! can't become root

David Fox wrote the following on 06.10.2007 20:52 -snip- Or, boot a rescue cd/environment such as knoppix, mount your root partition and do a chroot into there, do whatever needed to clean up. You mean something like checking each and every directory´s and file´s permission compare them with

Re: console-setup package

Michael Biebl wrote the following on 05.10.2007 18:17 -snip- I noticed that this happpened since the upgrade of xserver-xorg. Can you confirm that? I can´t confirm it is because of xserver-xorg since there were to much updates at that time here. But i can confirm this bug and allready

Re: HELP! can't become root

tom arnall wrote the following on 03.10.2007 21:12 I got impatient with an aumix error and did 'chmod -R /dev' (and ctl-C'ed out of it after ~3 min's.) now I can't become root. Some examples: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/bin$ sudo /usr/src/modules/alsa-driver/snddevices sudo: /etc/sudoers

Re: A problem with netinstall (pppoe, Etch, no DHCP)

Aleksei wrote the following on 30.09.2007 14:12 -snip- My internet is through pppoe, but at no point netinstall asks login and parol. So apparently I should install just base system, then configure pppoe and then go on with apt-get. You need to enter: install modules=ppp-udeb at the boot

Re: firefox slows system

Carl Fink wrote the following on 18.06.2007 19:19 I've noticed that if I open multiple tabs in iceweasel, firefox-bin bloats significantly, but xorg bloats ENORMOUSLY. I mean, it bloats from 200 megs or so to 1.7 gigabytes of RAM footprint. Three times now, after very large numbers of tabs

Re: Menu question

Joe Hart wrote the following on 13.05.2007 18:26: snip Right click on the menu item in question and choose edit item. That will launch KDE's menu editor. There you can change the name. While you are there, you can change any other menu item, you don't have to endlessly right click on each

Re: Menu question

Joe Hart wrote the following on 13.05.2007 20:58: snip I don't see how that could be easier, but I guess there's more than one way to skin a cat. There are some people that probably think the best way to go about it would be to run kmenuedit from a terminal (or by pressing alt-f2) and be

Re: Slow DNS Lookups on Debian Etch AMD 64

Kushal Kumaran wrote the following on 12.05.2007 10:26: snip This is not really a solution, just a workaround, but have you tried installing a local DNS cache? pdnsd requires no configuration to set up. pdnsd is neat. thanks. bye Thilo -- i am on Ubuntu 2.6 KDE - some friend of mine gpg

Re: UUID vs /dev

Joe Hart wrote the following on 24.04.2007 18:28: snip I can understand the usage of UUID on removable drives, but it seems the new way of dealing with *all* disks is UUID. Why this needs to be so for normal hard drives remains a mystery to me. First I had used the LABEL in fstab even

Re: Sudo instead of SU

Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote the following on 21.04.2007 02:02: Masatran, R. Deepak wrote: How can I replace SU with Sudo (like Ubuntu), in Gnome and other applications? I will mention this since sooner or later (I think) you will hit this. su - gives you a root shell so you can execute

Re: Sudo instead of SU

Joe Hart wrote the following on 21.04.2007 21:02: snip Note that doing things with sudo the way Ubuntu does it is dangerous because if someone hacks into your computer (not likely if you have good security set up) or someone happens to come by your computer while sudo still keeps the

Re: Sources list for upgrade from sarge to etch?

Michelle Konzack wrote the following on 18.04.2007 19:46: Am 2007-04-09 23:35:38, schrieb Thilo Six: afaik Deb ftp://ftp.usdebian.org/debian/ oldstable main contrib. non-free ^ This SLASH should

Re: teTeX -- TeX live: When to migrate?

Johannes Wiedersich wrote the following on 11.04.2007 19:37: I know, sooner or later I will have to migrate from my present teTeX to TeX live (currently running etch). Both are available for etch. I'm a happy user of teTeX, not missing any features and just wondering of when is the best time

Re: teTeX -- TeX live: When to migrate?

Johannes Wiedersich wrote the following on 11.04.2007 19:49: Thilo Six wrote: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2007/04/msg6.html From there, I get: the Debian TeX Task force is currently preparing an upload of TeX Live 2007 to unstable. Doesn't

Re: network problem on a dell machine

William Xu wrote the following on 10.04.2007 07:09: snip | net.ipv4.tcp_window_scaling = 1 this might be worth a try. http://lwn.net/Articles/92727/ Do the working machines have the same value in net.ipv4.tcp_window_scaling? Oh, his machine is unreachable for me currently.. ...and just

Re: network problem on a dell machine

William Xu wrote the following on 09.04.2007 14:22: snip This doesn't work for me. hmm let us summarize you are able to establish http connections via telnet? (you received the plain html code in terminal?) you said you can ping google.com? - name resolution works your mtu looks fine ..but

Re: network problem on a dell machine

Greg Folkert wrote the following on 09.04.2007 20:27: snip you said you can ping google.com? - name resolution works I doubt it. Unless he has a /etc/hosts entry for it. I believe his /etc/resolv.conf is screwed. After thinking about it that would explain this curiosity but then he has

Re: Sources list for upgrade from sarge to etch?

Michael Kerwin wrote the following on 09.04.2007 22:45: I am trying to upgrade a computer from sarge to etch snip afaik Deb ftp://ftp.usdebian.org/debian/ oldstable main contrib. non-free ^^^ ^^ | | |

Re: network problem on a dell machine

William wrote the following on 08.04.2007 06:11: snip This looks fine too. , | ~$ telnet google.com 80 | Trying 64.233.167.99... | Connected to google.com. | Escape character is '^]'. | GET / HTTP/1.1\r | GET / HTTP/1.1\r | ^D | | ^Z | | Connection closed by foreign host. |

Re: Relabel partition didn't work

Douglas Allan Tutty wrote the following on 06.04.2007 02:34: snip a partition lable and a mount point are two totally unrelated things, That´s absolutly correct. almost. Almost because there is a way (I don't do it, so I'll be vague) to use disk lables in fstab to refer to partitions

Re: network problem on a dell machine

Joe Hart wrote the following on 06.04.2007 13:08: snip this paragraph is self-contradictory; Are your problems limited to the world wide web ? If so, have you tried using a different web browser ? maybe ipv6 activated in browser config? Thomas Exactly. If ping works, then internet

Re: network problem on a dell machine

Thilo Six wrote the following on 06.04.2007 13:30: Joe Hart wrote the following on 06.04.2007 13:08: snip this paragraph is self-contradictory; Are your problems limited to the world wide web ? If so, have you tried using a different web browser ? maybe ipv6 activated in browser config

Re: Very slow network - Ubuntu

Joe Hart wrote the following on 19.03.2007 07:30: snip What is this supposed to mean? Ubuntu 2.6 KDE is like a smart way of saying Ubuntu GNU/Linux 2.6 refers to linux kernel and kde is obviously not ubuntu although when it was created it was a mistake by a newcomer i like the deeper

Re: Very slow network - Ubuntu

Douglas Allan Tutty wrote the following on 18.03.2007 20:24: Ben, I've been following this thread but not commenting since I don't do gnome. Do I understand correctly that you boot stright to gnome, start a download and get poor network components but if you do a gnome network setup

Re: Very slow network - Ubuntu

Thilo Six wrote the following on 18.03.2007 20:43: snip hmm wait may it be network manager? What when you stop it Ben? sudo /etc/dbus-1/event.d/26NetworkManagerDispatcher stop sudo /etc/dbus-1/event.d/25NetworkManager stop But this would only apply to releases after dapper afaik. what

Re: Very slow network - Ubuntu

Marty wrote the following on 18.03.2007 21:22: Thilo Six wrote: what gives you $ cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_window_scaling ? It should be 0 It's 1 on my system. From ip-sysctl.txt: tcp_window_scaling - BOOLEAN Enable window scaling as defined in RFC1323. This seems

Re: Very slow network - Ubuntu

Joe Hart wrote the following on 18.03.2007 21:11: Thilo Six wrote: Douglas Allan Tutty wrote the following on 18.03.2007 20:24: Ben, I've been following this thread but not commenting since I don't do gnome. Do I understand correctly that you boot stright to gnome, start a download

Re: Cleaning up alternatives

David Baron wrote the following on 30.01.2007 17:38: My /etc/alternatives directory is chock full of dangling symlinks. Is there any neat way of servicing this or must I manually rm each one? $ man update-alternatives HTH Thilo -- gpg key: 0x4A411E09 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Debian Etch RC1 installation problem(tcpd package)

David Shultz wrote the following on 30.01.2007 18:52: I was trying to install Debian Etch RC1(x86 version) using netinstaller. It downloads all the packages successfully but while installing one of those packages my computer hangs for indefinite amount of time. It displays the

Re: Debian Etch RC1 installation problem(tcpd package)

David Shultz wrote the following on 30.01.2007 21:59: hi ;) snip this is just a thought(please forgive my ignorance). no problem, you are welcome. is it possible to install debian EtchRC1 without using the dhcp assigned ip address? Yes it is, but not with netinstall image. Since i use

debian-installer, pppoe

Hello I have very happily read in recent dwn that online installation with pppoe works out of box with debian-installer. I got the netinstall image from 25th jan. 2007 and tried it today. Basically it works - yay ;) but i got the error message that release file could not be retrieved

aditional partition parameter

Hello I am on the way to try/test debian etch. During instaltion in partition tool one could set special parameters for partition My question: I use ext3 and have /var and /tmp on seperate partitions and would specifically know about noexec and nosuid flags on these partitions. Is it a good

Re: aditional partition parameter

Sven Arvidsson wrote the following on 27.01.2007 20:13: snip See the excellent Securing Debian Manual, especially this section, and the one following. http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/securing-debian-howto/ch4.en.html#s4.10 Thank you. bye Thilo -- gpg key: 0x4A411E09 -- To

Re: aditional partition parameter

Roberto C. Sanchez wrote the following on 27.01.2007 21:02: snip There are a variety of programs that will fail if /tmp is not executable. In general, the noexec flag is really not very useful because it is trivial to work around. Yes that´s what the harden howto also say. I am just

Re: aditional partition parameter

Sven Arvidsson wrote the following on 27.01.2007 23:51: There are a variety of programs that will fail if /tmp is not executable. In general, the noexec flag is really not very useful because it is trivial to work around. At least the /lib/ld-linux.so.2 work around shouldn't work anymore

Re: pppoe configuration - unable to ping outside

Anuj Singh wrote the following on 25.12.2006 06:28: snip I have eth0 connected to my adsl router and eth1 to my local network. I configured my adsl with pppoeconf, logs shows me I am connected, and ifconfig gives me ppp0 address too. I you use a router to connect over dsl, this router will

Re: Mit Thunderbird auf ListenMails antworten

Mechtilde wrote the following on 12.11.2006 09:06: Hallo Das Problem ist, wenn ich auf eine Mail aus _dieser_ Liste antworten will und auf den Antworten-Button drücke, wird die Mail als PM und nicht an die Liste verschickt. Ich nutze hier nntp über Gmane und dabei funktioniert der

Re: Package installation history.

Bob Bosiljevac wrote the following on 10.11.2006 18:12: Is there a way to tell when a particular package was installed or upgraded or a way to look at the install/upgrade history of a package on a particular machine? Bob. less /var/log/dpkg.log HTH Thilo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Prompt

José Pablo Fernández wrote the following on 03.11.2006 21:43: Hello snip I've connected thru SSH and it seems that file is not loaded. I've set a prompt there and it is not used. Sourcing /etc/bash.bashrc made the prompt look like I wanted, so the code on the file is right. Once i had the

linux-image-k7 nvidia-glx

Hello I have installed Debian and upgraded to unstable. Then i installed nvidia-glx on linux-image-k7 but i get an error screen when gdm starts that Xorg can´t be loaded. With linux-image-486 no problems. Is this a bug and should it be reported? bye Thilo -- i am on Ubuntu 2.6 KDE - some

SOLVED: linux-image-k7 nvidia-glx

Andrew Sackville-West wrote the following on 05.11.2006 19:26: Hello First thanks for the fast and helpful replies. Hello I have installed Debian and upgraded to unstable. Then i installed nvidia-glx on linux-image-k7 but i get an error screen when gdm starts that Xorg can´t be loaded.

Re: eth* devices (again)

Rick Reynolds wrote the following on 05.06.2006 14:40: snip As it seems you allready found the answer i just want to give a hint. Have a look at /etc/iftab: --- # This file assigns persistent names to network interfaces. # See iftab(5) for

Re: eterm / gnome window position

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Ivan Glushkov wrote the following on 24.05.2006 09:04: snip On my 1280x1024 screen the following looks quite ok: Eterm -g 102x35+0+0 Eterm -g 102x35+0+512 Eterm -g 102x35+640+0 Eterm -g 102x35+640+512 That would mean that I have to

Re: Kleine Schrift von GTK-Programmen

Andreas Pakulat wrote the following on 23.05.2006 19:55: snip Was/Ob du was gewinnst dabei weiss ich nicht, da a) Ich deine benutzten Fonts nicht kenne Bitstream Vera b) Deine Gnome-Konfiguration diesbzgl. nicht kenne muss ich selbst erst wieder reinschauen c) die Qualitaet deiner

Re: Kleine Schrift von GTK-Programmen

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Andreas Pakulat wrote the following on 22.05.2006 22:31: snip Mist jetzt versteh ich noch weniger als vorher. Wäre es möglich die Fonts noch (deutlich) besser lesbar darzustellen? *Hint* Ich benutze Gnome mit einigen KDE-Apps. Ich drucke

Re: Kleine Schrift von GTK-Programmen

Andreas Pakulat wrote the following on 22.05.2006 16:59: snip GTK nicht. Du kannst das korrigieren indem z.B. in der /etc/X11/xorg.conf im Abschnitt Monitor eine Zeile DisplaySize x y einträgst, wobei x die horizontale und y die vertikale Ausdehnung des Bildschirms in mm (ohne die Einheit)

Re: Xorg Fehlermeldung/Warnung Tastatur/Keypad

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Andreas Kroschel wrote the following on 07.05.2006 14:57: snip Derzeit gibt es gar keinen Unterschied, doch als ich irgenwann im Zuge der 6.9-7.0-Transition meine xorg.conf komplett neu erstellen ließ, etschied sich debconf für kbd. Ob das

Re: Xorg Fehlermeldung/Warnung Tastatur/Keypad

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Andreas Pakulat wrote the following on 07.05.2006 16:11: snip Das ist eine Änderung die X.org vorgenommen hat. Die haben den Standard Tastaturtreiber umbenannt. In xorg ist kbd die richtige Bezeichnung. Falsche Zeitform, Futur waere

Re: Devicenamen vertauscht nach Löschen einer Partition? GRUB?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Michael Lansche wrote the following on 30.04.2006 10:48: snip Du kannst die Partition auch anhand der UUID mounten. $ man fstab Instead of giving the device

Re: Devicenamen vertauscht nach Löschen einer Partition? GRUB?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Andreas Pakulat wrote the following on 29.04.2006 22:45: snip Nach der Aktion mit gparted habe ich rebootet und der Rechner wollte nicht mehr starten. Also habe ich mit einer ubuntu live-cd gebootet und herausgefunden, dass mein

Re: dpkg-reconfigure list

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Bruce Byfield wrote the following on 27.04.2006 21:40: As many users probably know, dpkg-reconfigure can be used to reconfigure installed packages. In some cases, such as locales and alsa-base, it also opens a series of text-based dialogs to

Re: DSL Howto?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Gibt es ein Update? Funktioniert es? Ich bin echt gespannt auf Neuigkeiten! ;) MfG Thilo - -- i am on Ubuntu 2.6 KDE - - some friend of mine -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird

Re: pppoe und ip-up.d: Skript wird nicht ausgefü hrt

Claus Malter schrieb am 25.03.2006 15:41: Hallo Ich habe den wondershaper auch ausprobiert. Die scripte Guten Tag, ich habe versucht unter /etc/ppp/ip-up.d ein Skript abzulegen, dass bei Verbindungsaufbau vom pppoe ausgeführt werden soll: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (/etc/ppp/ip-up.d) # ll

Re: DSL Howto?

Ich leite hier mal eine PM weiter: Hallo Thilo, vielen Dank erstmal für Deine Hilfe. So weit, wie Du das beschrieben hast, ist das am Rechner und am Modem meines Freundes auch alles in Ordnung und gegeben. Mit Ausnahme des

Re: DSL Howto?

Hallo liste, Hallo Willi So weit, wie Du das beschrieben hast, ist das am Rechner und am Modem meines Freundes auch alles in Ordnung und gegeben. Mit Ausnahme des ACT-LED's, weil das Ding halt nicht agieren will. IMHO müsste auch bei einem mißglückten Anmeldeversuchen die ACT blinken. Kann

Re: DSL Howto?

Daniel Leidert schrieb am 22.03.2006 18:50: snip Allerdings könnte es sein, dass du bei Arcor die DNS-Server selber angeben musst. Ich habe da so etwas im Hinterkopf (war bis vor einem Jahr Arcor-Kunde). Ich benutze hier usepeerdns (sprich die /etc/resolv.conf, wird bei Einwahl automatisch

Re: DSL Howto?

Wolfgang Lonien schrieb am 21.03.2006 15:13: Claus Malter wrote: Hallo Wolfang, Hi Claus (und List und Willi), Wolfgang Lonien wrote: [pppoe-Probleme des Bruders] Wäre hilfreich zu wissen was für Schwierigkeiten der Freund hat. Woran fehlt es denn? Arcor läßt sie nicht

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