Re: chkrootkit found lkm trojan ?

2003-10-29 Thread Thomas R. Shemanske
See also bug report filed on chkrootkit: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=217278 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: chkrootkit found lkm trojan ?

2003-10-28 Thread Thomas R. Shemanske
Micha Feigin wrote: I got the following output from chkrootkit but couldn't find any explenation on what processes don't appear: Checking `lkm'... You have 4 process hidden for ps command Warning: Possible LKM Trojan installed I recently (two weeks) built a new box behind a firewall. A friend

Re: PHP Fatal error: Unable to start session mm module in Unknownon line 0

2003-07-09 Thread Thomas R. Shemanske
/usr/share/doc/php4/README.Debian.gz suggests not only the things you have tried (although on my system the file is called /tmp/session_mm_apache0.sem (with 600 perms)), but also that it may be related to php4-cgi Other caveats - * Problem with module and php4-cgi PHP

Re: Upgrading to Sid Via Apt-Get

2003-03-21 Thread Thomas R. Shemanske
non-free deb http://ftp.rutgers.edu/pub/debian/ stable main non-free deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main non-free #deb http://www.fs.tum.de/~bunk/debian woody/bunk-1 main contrib non-free Is there anything I'm missing (other then mirrors.kernel.org)? -- .''`. Thomas R

Re: squirrelmail users can't login after 1.3.2 update

2003-01-15 Thread Thomas R. Shemanske
. anyone else come across this? When you configured libc-client2002, did you disallow plaintext passwords. This will cause the login to fail TRS -- Thomas R. Shemanske (Mailing Address) (Office/Internet Information) Department of Mathematics 203 Choate House 6188

Re: Imp3/Horde2 just dumps me back to the login screen

2002-12-11 Thread Thomas R. Shemanske
Joe Emenaker wrote: Okay... I *had* horde2/imp3 working about a few weeks ago. My guess is libc-client2002 (2002rc10debian-1) is the problem In an upgrade around the beginning of November, the default for this package was to disable plaintext passwords. As IMP does not use IMAPS (i.e. an

Re: remote printing

2002-12-01 Thread Thomas R. Shemanske
Raymond Gree wrote: Hello Debian community I installed Debian to replace my RedHat on my server and have the following problem I can't print anymore on my remote Debian printer from my other Redhat machine am I missing something in the upgrade Thanks for the help Ray I assume you are

Re: Any updates on Bonobo/unstable?

2002-11-29 Thread Thomas R. Shemanske
Mark L. Kahnt wrote: I saw some messages about part of Bonobo (iirc, bonobo-activation) being, ummm, less than entirely compliant with smoothly functional software (aka microsofted) recently on Sid, and was wondering if it is still *to be avoided*, or is it safe now? I was going to pull in

pam_limits message in auth.log

2002-11-26 Thread Thomas R. Shemanske
I am running sid, and have the .76-8 version of pam installed. I have noticed that since the upgrade from .76-7, everytime I ssh into my box from another, a pam_limits message (such as below) is logged in /var/log/auth.log pam_limits[5134]: setrlimit limit #7 to soft=-1, hard=-1 failed:

pam .76.5 and xscreensaver lockouts

2002-10-14 Thread Thomas R. Shemanske
I have seen no bug reports nor discussion on this list about recent trouble with libpam* 0.76.4/5 on sid and xlock/xscreensaver. I have a current sid system (except for the pam modules and libraries which I have had to downgrade to 0.72-35). When I first accepted the pam upgrades to .76.4

Re: pam .76.5 and xscreensaver lockouts

2002-10-14 Thread Thomas R. Shemanske
It works fine here. steve:~$ dpkg -l libpam0g ii libpam0g 0.76-5 Pluggable Authentication Modules library steve:~$ cat /etc/pam.d/xscreensaver # # /etc/pam.d/xscreensaver - PAM behavior for xscreensaver # auth required pam_unix_auth.so steve:~$ cat

Re: X-server won't start on 3.0

2002-10-08 Thread Thomas R. Shemanske
Cuno Sonnemans wrote: Hi, I installed Debian 3.0 today, but X won't work. I've put my XF86Config-4 and Log file in the email. I have an Club3d ATI Radeon 8500 Pro video card. I hope someone can help me out ??? Cuno Xfree 4.2.1 supports the following chipsets (II) RADEON: Driver

Re: pcmcia problem (3Com 3c575)

2002-09-25 Thread Thomas R. Shemanske
Lars Jensen wrote: I just upgraded my kernel, using the debian pre-compiled kernel image for kernel 2.4.18, I also installed the corresponding kernel-pcmcia-modules-2.4.18 package. The packages installed fine, but I can't get pcmcia to see my 3Com PC card. The card is a 10/100 LAN CardBus,

Re: syncronizing two directories

2002-09-09 Thread Thomas R. Shemanske
Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: Hello, I need to syncronize a directory which exists in two machines. This directory is the one I use to do my work, and I have a copy at home and another at work. I need to syncronize them. Does exist any application to do this task? Thanks in advance

Re: ssh2 sftp problems

2002-09-06 Thread Thomas R. Shemanske
Roman Joost wrote: I try to connect to a remote server using gftp with the ssh2 option. The connection fails with: 3: Protocol Initialization Error: Message size 825440307 too big from server and than ssh2 hangs :( Did i something wrong?? Thanks Roman From a gftp FAQ: I'm

Re: OpenOffice: failure at first start!

2002-09-05 Thread Thomas R. Shemanske
Vittorio wrote: I don't know if it is a bit OT, anyway. Using the deb packages found in www.linux-debian.de I've just installed OpenOffice and created the corresponding workstation installation under my favourite user. Now, when I FIRST start ./soffice it opens and crashes

squirrelmail -- php4 -- imp login failure

2002-05-28 Thread Thomas R. Shemanske
Both squirrelmail and imp are installed on several machines in our department, but they are used infrequently. The last time I used them was in March when they worked fine; a few days ago, I was unable to login on any installation with either squirrelmail or imp. One setup is sid with

php session_start problems squirrelmail

2002-05-28 Thread Thomas R. Shemanske
Squirrelmail is installed on several machines in our department, but it is used infrequently. The last time I used it was in March when it worked fine; a few days ago, I was unable to login on any installation. The imap setup is fine. One setup is sid with squirrelmail 1.2.6-1 apache

Re: XFree 4.1 on ATI Rage 128 Ultra Pro II

2002-05-22 Thread Thomas R. Shemanske
We just set up 6 new Dell's with the following ATI card (output from lspci) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage 128 Pro TF XFree86 4.1 also fails to work with this card, but as I researched it on the web, I was sure that I read XFree86 logs for 4.1 which listed the

Re: USB 2. 4 kernels

2002-05-06 Thread Thomas R. Shemanske
USB modules (for keyboard and mouse (HID devices)) need to be compiled staticly into the kernel (not loaded as modules) so they are available at boot time. You can do this with dynamically modules but only if you run an initrd kernel (such as the stock Debian kernels). Other USB modules such

Re: Can't connect to internet with new kernel

2002-04-23 Thread Thomas R. Shemanske
Sridhar M.A. wrote: On Sat, Apr 20, 2002 at 03:03:59PM -0800, Greg C. Madden wrote: I missed the Config_Filter option myself for awhile, nic card could not be activated during boot. Kernel config file (.config) # Networking options # CONFIG_PACKET=y

php spurious output

2002-04-23 Thread Thomas R. Shemanske
Every once in a while, a html page generated by php will have spurious data displayed at the top of the page such as: HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 20:57:04 GMT Server: Apache/1.3.23 (Unix) Debian GNU/Linux PHP/4.1.2 X-Powered-By: PHP/4.1.2 Keep-Alive: timeout=15, max=96 Connection:

Re: USB Mass Storage in 2.4.18-686

2002-04-07 Thread Thomas R. Shemanske
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Re: bootable floppy

2002-02-20 Thread Thomas R. Shemanske
Ralph Boisvert wrote: I loaded linux without making a bootable floppy. I am trying to make a bootable floppy with cd-rom support. Is this possible, if so how can it be done? Ralph I am guessing you mean a boot disk (one that will boot your existing kernel). In that case use the

Re: Creating boot floppies

2002-02-06 Thread Thomas R. Shemanske
Might it be the initrd issue? You seem to be using a prebuilt kernel which uses initrd. I just tried mkboot with a 2.4.17 kernel, and it works just fine. Try examing the lilo.conf file on the floppy to see if there is an appropriate initrd line. T Bill Wohler wrote: Martin Wuertele

Re: pcmcia support in r3.0

2002-01-31 Thread Thomas R. Shemanske
You did not mention what version of boot-floppies you were using I did a network install with pcmcia using boot-floppies 3.0.17. Modules were fine. In the initial install phase, the network was found, but not on reboot. For me, this was fixed by adding the line DHCP=y after the line saying

Re: woody iso

2002-01-31 Thread Thomas R. Shemanske
For intel (i386), they are available at http://linuxiso.org/debian.html or ftp://ftp.fsn.hu/pub/CDROM-Images/debian-unofficial/woody Bostjan Muller wrote: Hi! Can someone please tell me where to get the latest woody (testing) working woody iso image. Regards/Lep pozdrav Boštjan Müller

Re: General Update Hints Potato-Woody

2002-01-29 Thread Thomas R. Shemanske
Check out http://www.debian.org/releases/woody/, in particular the release notes. In addition, there are somewhat general rules (which others on the list will no doubt improve upon): Change your sources.list to point to woody (realizing you may actually have to pull a few things from sid

Re: New woody machine, can't ssh to it.

2002-01-24 Thread Thomas R. Shemanske
From /usr/share/doc/ssh/README.Debian.gz : SSH now uses protocol 2 by default -- This means all your keyfiles you used for protocol version 1 need to be re-generated. The server keys are done automatically, but for RSA authentication, please read the ssh-keygen

Re: base files for woody?

2002-01-15 Thread Thomas R. Shemanske
I did not see mentioned in this long thread, the possibility of woody CD installs. iso images are available at http://www.debian.org/CD/http-ftp/#testing You need only the first image to do a base install, but burning the rest will allow a complete CD install. If you cannot burn images,

Re: base files for woody?

2002-01-15 Thread Thomas R. Shemanske
Will this allow one to install a 2.4.x kernel as the default kernel upon installation? Or will the default kernel be in the 2.2.x series? No; these CD's are built with boot-floppies, hence uses the 2.2.x series kernel. The 2.4.x kernel images will be on the CD (which you can install

Re: How to clear confused package state

2001-12-31 Thread Thomas R. Shemanske
Just use dselect and put the stock kernel-image-2.2.19 package on hold Then it won't fuss Christopher Wolf wrote: I downloaded a 2.2.19 kernel and source a while back, and modified then built a new 2.2.19_di30 kernel from it that supports my tape drive. For some reason, dselect has

Re: 2.2 kernel vs. 2.4 kernel, please help!

2001-12-31 Thread Thomas R. Shemanske
As far as XFree86 version 4.1, you can see http://people.debian.org/~cpbotha/xf410_potato/ Penguin wrote: Given that I am super paranoid, maybe my old Debian 2.2r2 Potato is the best bet for me. Is there any reason why I may not be able to upgrade X to XFree 4.1 with this version of

Re: Woody on CD

2001-12-21 Thread Thomas R. Shemanske
ftp://ftp.fsn.hu/pub/CDROM-Images/debian-unofficial/woody Andrew Pritchard wrote: Is it possible to get (or build using the pseudo image kit) a snapshot of woody on CD(s)? Cheers, Andrew I do not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. Francois Marie

Re: usb mass storage problem

2001-11-23 Thread Thomas R. Shemanske
You did not say whether you had compiled SCSI (disk) support into your kernel. You need to do this even if you have no scsi card to enable the usb mass storage stuff CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDESCSI=m CONFIG_SCSI=m Also, when I mount my usb storage devices, I just mount it as /dev/sda1 with an auto

Re: allowing root to display to a user's X session

2001-11-19 Thread Thomas R. Shemanske
Are you exporting your .Xauthority file? In .bashrc should be a line like: export XAUTHORITY='/home/login_name/.Xauthority' This should allow you X access as root without xhost TRS David Wright wrote: When troubleshooting on RedHat, I often log in to a X session as a user, then su to root

Re: dhcp with kernel 2.4?

2001-11-16 Thread Thomas R. Shemanske
Carl Fink wrote: In order to get support for a Netgear FA311 NIC, I've upgraded to kernel 2.4.2 (on Potato). It's working okay, except it's useless. That is, I can use tcpdump and see that the card is receiving packets, but none of the three DHCP clients in Potato (pump, dhclient,

apt-get download for remote machine

2001-11-09 Thread Thomas R. Shemanske
I have a very slow internet connection at home, but a fast one at work. What I would like to do is an apt-get update on the home machine, take some ouputted list of files which need to be updated, use the machine at work to download those on the list, and transfer the files (say via CD, zip or

Re: Is it possible to install a few testing packages on a stable machine?

2001-11-09 Thread Thomas R. Shemanske
that the version I have (from progen) is broken. The developers of this package say the version in testing is fine. Probelm is it depends on one more package from testing. Is there a way I can get this to work? If so, how? -- Thomas R. Shemanske (Mailing Address) (Office/Internet

Re: startx crashing with xserver-xfree86-4.1.0-7, not with 4.1.0-6

2001-10-15 Thread Thomas R. Shemanske
] | by stupidity. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ -- Thomas R. Shemanske (Mailing Address) (Office/Internet Information) Department of Mathematics 203 Choate House 6188 Bradley Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dartmouth College http

Apache Out of Memory

2001-10-05 Thread Thomas R. Shemanske
: Could the cgi scripts be responsible for this? I am guessing this is the case, but I have no idea how to gather evidence. They are in use at many institutions, so things are not so clear. Any ideas on how to track the source of this problem down would be appreciated. Thanks TRS -- Thomas R

Re: Old BIOS does not support bootable cdroms

2001-09-06 Thread Thomas R. Shemanske
not support it. It is trivial to install and compile. http://btmgr.webframe.org/index.php3 Thomas R. Shemanske (Mailing Address) (Office/Internet Information) Department of Mathematics 203 Choate House 6188 Bradley Hall [EMAIL

latex2html/netpbm/undefined symbol: pm_optParseOptions2

2001-04-30 Thread Thomas R. Shemanske
appreciated. Many thanks, Tom -- Thomas R. Shemanske (Mailing Address) (Office/Internet Information) Department of Mathematics 203 Choate House 6188 Bradley Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dartmouth College http

RE: Processed: help

2000-12-15 Thread Thomas R. Shemanske
://www.onShore.com/ -- Thomas R. Shemanske (Mailing Address) (Office/Internet Information) Department of Mathematics 203 Choate House 6188 Bradley Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dartmouth College http://www.math.dartmouth.edu/~trs/ Hanover

sendmail MD5 errors

2000-11-30 Thread Thomas R. Shemanske
an outgoing mail server username, but then the question is why did Netscape suddenly get fussy, especially since Mozilla is not? It is not a serious problem, except that it shows up in my hourly logcheck summaries. Any ideas appreciated. Thanks Tom -- Thomas R. Shemanske (Mailing

XF4.0.1, ct65554 16bpp @ 1024x768?

2000-11-10 Thread Thomas R. Shemanske
: 5 -- Thomas R. Shemanske (Mailing Address) (Office/Internet Information) Department of Mathematics 203 Choate House 6188 Bradley Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dartmouth College http://www.math.dartmouth.edu/~trs/ Hanover, NH

XFree 4.0.1 and ct65554

2000-11-07 Thread Thomas R. Shemanske
After upgrading Friday(?) to XFree 4.0.1, I have been unable to get my xserver working. The chip is a Chips and Technology ct65554 (in a laptop), and the X server crashes hard. I have read what documentation is distributed, but the start up process seems to abort without an error being written

cgi-bin security

2000-10-22 Thread Thomas R. Shemanske
/cgi-bin/userX/cgi-bin/script_name.cgi Since apache runs as www-data, does www-data own the cgi script? Does the user own the script? If the script executes rm -rf /*, what happens? Thanks for any advice. Thomas R. Shemanske Department of Mathematics Dartmouth College

who shows phantom users

2000-07-28 Thread Thomas R. Shemanske
does not show them as logged on. Is there a way to get /var/log/wtmp to update itself? Any ideas what the cause of this might be? (ssh shutting down impoperly?) It's not a huge problem, but an annoyance. Thanks for any input -- Thomas R. Shemanske (Mailing Address

UPS setup problems (apcuspd and genpower)

2000-03-22 Thread Thomas R. Shemanske
for interface - defaults to 1999 #HTTPPORT 1999 -- Thomas R. Shemanske (Mailing Address) (Office/Internet Information) Department of Mathematics 203 Choate House 6188 Bradley Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dartmouth College http

Re: Install problem - Locks up during boot off of rescue disk

1999-09-14 Thread Thomas R. Shemanske
The problem is a conflict between the aic7xxx driver for the 2940 card and the other SCSI drivers on the standard rescue disk. See http://www.debian.org/~adric/aic7xxx/slink/5.1.15/ for a set of install rescue and driver disks which should get you over the hump. Best, T. R. Shemanske

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V99 #801

1999-05-04 Thread Thomas R. Shemanske
- Subject: HP 895 e 4 pages by papers Date: Tue, 4 May 1999 12:58:45 -0300 From: Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi all, Is there support for printing in HP 895