setting up static ip classically?

Can someone please tell me how I can setup my new DSL from Speakeasy (Nidhog - a Verizon reseller - no longer does residential DSL so i needed a new ISP) using just static IP (no DHCP) and entering the info manually? Service should be on in 3 days (still waiting for modem and self-install kit to

help: can no longer ssh into my vps server!

I installed some packages an hour ago and then rebooted the remote system (my VPS system) and now I can no longer ssh back into it! ssh is my *only* access to my vps server so this is really upsetting. It isn't ssh problem because I checked and my website (which I host on my vps system) is also

setting up firefox to use usbdisk java?

I need to access my VPS's VNC over the web but when I try to connect it says I need a plugin and prompts me to manually install a Java Runtime Environment (JRE). I only have like 10MB of space on the ramdisk I run (I use LiveCD since my hard disk controller died and my BIOS is not USB-aware) so I

setting up vhost for external DNS?

I wish to take over a wiki so I am setting it up on my machine however it will use the DNS hosted by someone else so they will setup a CNAME record pointing wiki.foo.org to my machine's ip. I have no control over foo.org. So how exactly should I set up the name based vhost in apache or should I

adding secure accounts for remote users?

I want to give some friends accounts on my server so that they can 1) ssh in to the sever 2) have web space on the apache2 webserver such as $HOME/public_html so they would be http://www.server.org/~user How exactly can I setup these 2 things? Also how can I restrict the users to *only* their

Re: adding secure accounts for remote users?

Shams and Eric, Thanks for the replies, I decided to go with just SFTP for now. I suppose they could also use SCP? Regards, Zach -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: serving wrong index.html ? SOLVED

I was able to get my name based virtual hosts everything working correctly by making 2 files: /etc/apache2/sites-available/000_default (my defaults) /etc/apache2/sites-available/001_default (my vhosts) Now it works as I expected :) http://www.jesujuva.org or http://jesujuva.org serves

serving wrong index.html ?

Hi, I added name based vhosts to my Apache2 install on Debian lenny, but now when I go to my site: http://www.jesujuva.org or http://jesujuva.org instead of serving up /var/www/index.html it serves /var/www/bach/index.html ! Here are my files: debian:/etc/apache2# ls sites-available/ bach darcs

locale broken

running testing, how can i fix my locale? http://pastebin.com/f453bb540 zach -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

apache2 vhost error

I'm trying to add a name-based virtual host in apache2 on my debian etch system. Here is my vhost config: /etc/apache2/sites-available/darcs VirtualHost *:80 ServerName darcs.jesujuva.org ServerAlias darcs.jesujuva.org DocumentRoot /var/www/darcs ErrorLog

update on printing problem

I have exhausted every solution I could find :( As a last resort I tried running lpadmin to set the printer manually and I get that stupid ambiguous error message again, same one I got in the cups web interface. Does anyone know what this error message means and how I can get my printer (HP

Re: update on printing problem

On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 9:20 AM, Javier Barroso javibarr...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Hi, Which solutions have you tried ? I tried gnome-cups-manager which calls gnome-cups-add, I tried lpadmin, I tried the cups web interface. I suppose this is a silly question, but .. has you got free space in

problem with CUPS

I am using http://localhost:631/admin and click Add Printer and select HP960C and the hplip driver then when I apply it says: 413 Request Entity Too Large I am running firefox as root so I don't know why it is failing. I also tried running gnome-cups-manager as root which calls gnome-cups-add and

Printer setup not working

I hope it is ok to post this in here, the packages are the same in Debian. Here is what I've done to get my HP Deskjet 960c color inkjet printer working in Ubuntu 6.06 (Dapper Drake): Booted up, hooked my printer up to the parallel port and powered it on, added paper, printer's green light is

VPS?

Can someone recommend a good, cheap VPS provider in the US? I am very unhappy with my current provider crissic.com. Every month there is anywhere from 1 to 4 total outages where I cannot access my vps. Currently it is some nebulous IP issue which prevents me from using ssh to access. Other times

Printer in Linux?

I got an HP Deskjet 960c printer for Christmas and would like to set it up in Debian testing, but I've never setup a printer in Linux before. What should I do? Zach -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

iptables: banning ip ranges?

How can I use iptables to: 1) ban a specific ip address 2) ban a specific subnet such as 128.2.0.xxx Also how could I un-ban them at a later date? Thanks, Zach -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

problem with apache log file and awstat

Running apache2 on Debian testing. I use awstat to generate statistics from my /var/log/apache2/access.log but logrotate keeps archiving it so I have /var/log/apache2/access.1.gz, /var/log/apache2/access.2.gz etc. How can I have awstat run once per month and generate the statistics based on

adding a web user?

I would like one of my friends to host some files on my apache webserver, but I only wish him the ability to upload files into the web directory, but don't want to run an FTP server since that is very risky. Any solution? Zach -- J.S. Bach - Primus inter pares Soli Deo Gloria

iptables logs?

I am running Debian testing with 2.6.18 kernel and iptables. Does anyone know how I can have iptables log to a seperate file such as /var/log/iptables and I want them saved with logrotate. I want to try out some iptables log analysis programs. Also I am interested in seeing what rules different

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Re: cgi-bin stopped working in apache ?! please help SOLVED

On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 5:19 AM, André Warnier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] I just felt like telling you the above because I have the impression that a misunderstanding of the above is the source of 90% of the problems encountered by people unfamiliar with Virtual Hosting in general. I hope

apache2 in Debian - adding vhost - which file to edit?

I am trying to add a name based virtual host to apache2-mpm-prefork version 2.2.9-7 on Debian lenny/sid. First I read to edit /etc/apache2/httpd.conf but this file it seems is empty and not used in Debian. Then I read to edit /etc/apache2/apache2.conf but it seems that is also not the right

Re: apache2 in Debian - adding vhost - which file to edit? SOLVED

I just called it darcs in /etc/apache2/sites-available and in /etc/apache2/sites-enabled did: ln -s /etc/apache2/sites-available/darcs darcs Then I restarted apache2 and it works :-) Zach -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

cgi-bin stopped working in apache ?! please help

This is really baffling because CGI was working last week and now when I try it again and it is not working. All I did was add a name based virtual host in /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/ and /etc/apache2/sites-available/ I am running apache2-mpm-prefork version 2.2.9-7 on Debian lenny/sid.

Re: cgi-bin stopped working in apache ?! please help SOLVED

On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 3:54 PM, André Warnier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just a guess : 1) the new entry you have added to /etc/apache2/sites-available (and sites-enabled) is called e.g. darcs, which for some reason precedes default in the directory. 2) in the apache.conf, there is something

Re: ssh X11 forwarding problem SOLVED

I didn't have xauth installed. Zac -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

ssh X11 forwarding problem

Ok from my local host I can ssh into a host on network A with 'ssh -X [EMAIL PROTECTED]' and it works, I tested by running xeyes. It automagically sets the DISPLAY to 'localhost:10.0' (it actually shows the word localhost). Now when I try the same thing on a host on network B with 'ssh -X [EMAIL

Re: ssh X11 forwarding problem

Thierry Chatelet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did you enable X in /etc/ssh/ssh_conf ForwardX11 yes Salut Thierry, Non, I did not have that set. I just modified /etc/ssh/ssh_conf. Here is what it has now: Host * ForwardX11 yes SendEnv LANG LC_* HashKnownHosts yes

pdf conversion?

This may sound strange but I am looking for a Linux utility that will let me: 1) convert from pdf to html and save any images, diagrams etc. 2) convert from pdf to ASCII text Zach -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Running a script automatically on system boot?

Hello, I installed the darktstat package in Debian lenny/sid and want to know the canonical way to set it up so that every time there is a reboot of my server it will run /etc/init.d/darkstat start automatically? Please be very specific, I've never done this before. Running kernel 2.6.18

hidden processes?

I used the unhide package and found this result, should I be worried? How can I stop these hidden processes? bach:~# unhide proc Unhide 20080519 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [*]Searching for Hidden processes through /proc scanning bach:~# unhide sys Unhide 20080519 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [*]Searching for

fixing the time?

My Debian box keeps showing the wrong time, I reconfigured the tzdata package and selected America and New York and it still shows the time as 2 hour behind the real time. I just did it now: bach# date Fri Aug 29 17:39:33 EDT 2008 bach# dpkg-reconfigure tzdata Current default timezone:

limiting a user?

I wish to add a user account for my friend on my Apache2 webserver (running in Debian lenny/sid with 2.6.18 kernel). How can I limit how much disk space he can use and limit how much bandwidth? Also I would like it so he cannot explore the filesystem and is limited to his $HOME directory only.

starting apache at boot?

I manually compiled apache2 since the version packaged for Debian is the threaded version which causes fatal memory errors on my VPS host and it works great but now I need to tell it to start every time my system boots. Running Debian lenny/sid (testing release) with 2.6.18 Linux kernel. How

Apache adding users?

I have Apache 1.3 and now as root to add content I add files into /var/www I have a regular user /home/bob but how do I allow him to a have space on the webserver and what will his URL be? Also how do I enable PHP and cgi-bin for normal users and what directory will they use to put their CGI

mirroring a site locally using wget?

How exactly can I do this: There is a website I wish to mirror. It has many pages and images and it uses CSS. I wish to run wget and have it: 1) download all HTML/CSS/images 2) uses local references so A HREF=http://site.org/images/image.jpg; will be saved as A HREF=images/image.jpg 3) do the

Chinese console fonts?

I downloaded a chinese webpage onto my remote server using wget (where I host my webserver - running Debian 4.0) and when I view it the Chinese haracters have been replaced with ASCII gibberish. Yet the original Chinese page displays fine in Firefox on my local machine (Ubuntu 6.06) and I can even

Re: PHP on Apache

On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 12:42 AM, Shachar Or [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There's libapache-mod-php5 and libapache2-mod-php5. Shalom Shachar, Are you sure all I need to do to support PHP on my webserver is to install libapache-mod-php5? Zach -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

setting the system time?

My new install of Debian 4.0 seems to have the wrong time, it says right now: Tue Aug 12 09:42:34 UTC 2008 but the correct time is: Tue Aug 12 05:42:00 EST 2008 How can I set this? I want it set once and for all so even after server reboot it shall still be correct. Thanks, Zach -- To

running CGI scripts in apache? please help

I noticed darcsweb put the CGI file in /usr/lib/cgi-bin/darcsweb.cgi /usr/share/doc/darcsweb/README.Debian says I should be able to access my darcs repo which i made in /var/ww/darcs/ by going to http://www.mydomain.org/darcsweb yet when I do nothing happens, so how do I get it to use the file in

transferring directories with scp/rsync?

Hello, I have a directory /tmp/foo on my local host alpha.org and I wish to transfer it to user Bob (/home/bob) in dirctory $HOME/www/bar on remote host beta.org. How precisely can I do this 1) using scp 2) using rsync? I would like to see the commands for doing this with both methods. Ssh is

weird find error on fresh etch system

I just installed Debian 4.0 and whenever I use find on / I see: find: WARNING: Hard link count is wrong for ./proc/sys/net: this may be a bug in your filesystem driver. Automatically turning on find's -noleaf option. Earli er results may have failed to include directories that should have

locale errors

Hi, I'm running Debian 4.0, getting these errors almost everytime install a package. Anyone know what I must do to fix this? I want the locale set to be US English. perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LANGUAGE = (unset),

problem with gnu emacs

When I run emacs I see this error: emacs: /usr/local/lib/libpng12.so.0: no version information available (required by emacs) It happens even if I just open an empty buffer or a text file. Running in console. This is a Debian 4.0 system and the package versions installed are: bach:~# dpkg

PHP on Apache

I want to install PHP (I am running Apache) but when I went to install package php5 it had all these dependencies for apache2 packages! I can't run apache2 beause it dies with memory errors. So next I tried php4 and even that has the same dependencies on apache2 packages. How can I get PHP working

Problem with Python script on Apache

I installed the darcsweb package, I am running apache on Debian 4.0. But when I go to http://www.mydomain.org/darcs/ it shows only the regular listing. I read /usr/share/doc/darcsweb/README.Debian and it says: if you are running a flavour of apache(2), put your darcs repositories in