Re: Weird server mystery: self-reset, mostly

2011-01-27 Thread will trillich
That's quite an assertion. How can I confirm it HAS been compromised, as opposed to thinking it's a possibility? On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 9:44 AM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh h...@debian.org wrote: On Tue, 25 Jan 2011, will trillich wrote: In kern.log there's only Jan 23 23:04:59 darth

Re: Weird server mystery: self-reset, mostly

2011-01-26 Thread will trillich
Ooh, hadn't noticed that. I'm sorry, Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that... :) So... Nobody else has had a weird shut-down-all-user-processes-and-all-daemons event? I must be special! On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 1:58 PM, elbbit elb...@gmail.com wrote: On 26/01/11 01:26, will trillich wrote

Weird server mystery: self-reset, mostly

2011-01-25 Thread will trillich
Never seen this before -- all daemons and all user processes killed. Zap. It happened around 23:17 Sunday, Chicago time (that's when /var/log/* abruptly stopped). Any idea what might cause this? I was ssh'd in to my Debian server and... disconnected. No problem, I was using *screen* to *vim*

Weird server mystery: self-reset, mostly

2011-01-23 Thread will trillich
Never seen this before -- all daemons and all user processes killed. Zap. It happened around 23:17 Chicago time (that's when the log-daemons quit logging). What would cause this? I was ssh'd in to my Debian server and... disconnected. No problem, I was using screen to vim some Catalyst modules,

Re: how to get past apt-get errors? is there a manual workaround? SOLVED

2009-03-16 Thread will trillich
, Mar 11, 2009 at 03:26:39PM -0600, will trillich w...@serensoft.com was heard to say: Hi debianites -- a question for DPKG and APT experts: We're stuck with apt-get and haven't found a way past it yet -- any ideas would be welcome: Our postgresql-client-7.4 is missing its libpq.so.3 file

apt-get BROKEN (postgresql-client-7.4 lost its libpq.so.3)... ideas?

2009-03-11 Thread will trillich
) From: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. b...@iguanasuicide.net On Monday 09 March 2009 15:31:23 will trillich wrote: # /etc/init.d/postgresql-7.4 stop Stopping PostgreSQL 7.4 database server: mainError: pid file is invalid, please manually kill the stale server process. failed! Have you followed

how to get past apt-get errors? is there a manual workaround?

2009-03-11 Thread will trillich
...?) # locate libpq.so.3 nothing # locate libpq.so /usr/lib/libpq.so.4.1 /usr/lib/libpq.so.4 (and there's nothing in lost+found on the partition where /usr/lib is located...) -- will trillich -- http://faq.serensoft.com/ With a burning yes around your high priorities you can easily say

Re: how to get past apt-get errors? is there a manual workaround?

2009-03-11 Thread will trillich
apt-get clean (and autoclean) don't seem to help any, either. argh! On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 3:26 PM, will trillich w...@serensoft.com wrote: Hi debianites -- a question for DPKG and APT experts: We're stuck with apt-get and haven't found a way past it yet -- any ideas would be welcome

apt-get upgrade trouble (with postgresql-client-7.4)

2009-03-09 Thread will trillich
) A package failed to install. Trying to recover: Press return to continue. Argh! Any help would be gratefully appreciated. Thanks! -- will trillich -- http://faq.serensoft.com/ With a burning yes around your high priorities you can easily say no to things that are urgent but not important. -- S

apt-get upgrade... and now postgres 7.4 won't start!

2009-01-25 Thread will trillich
? -- will trillich -- http://faq.serensoft.com/ Less is only more where more is no good. -- Frank Lloyd Wright -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

exim: too many connections?

2008-03-13 Thread will trillich
-bV Exim version 4.69 #1 built 30-Jan-2008 09:41:07 -- will trillich -- http://faq.serensoft.com/ The truth is that many people set rules to keep from making decisions. -- Mike Krzyzewski -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

lsof -- No such file or directory...?

2007-07-20 Thread will trillich
` -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 106324 2006-05-15 18:09 /usr/bin/lsof* eh? any ideas? -- will trillich The only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work -- and the only way to do great work is to love what you do. -- Steve Jobs -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: lsof -- No such file or directory...?

2007-07-20 Thread will trillich
. On Fri, 2007-07-20 at 10:16 -0500, will trillich wrote: # apt-get install lsof Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done The following NEW packages will be installed lsof 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/205kB of archives

RAD tool for debian?

2007-07-06 Thread will trillich
(not mysql) backend, and phppgadmin for setting up the tables... any ideas? -- will trillich The only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work -- and the only way to do great work is to love what you do. -- Steve Jobs -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: RAD tool for debian?

2007-07-06 Thread trillich
Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: On Fri, Jul 06, 2007 at 03:50:45PM -0500, will trillich wrote: RAD/rapid-application-development tool sought... (web page forms interface to a database we define) For RAD, here's what I do: write the documentation, then write the program in Python (possibly

rock solid

2007-06-30 Thread will trillich
:42:12 up 190 days, 23:42, 2 users, load average: 1.05, 1.05, 1.00 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc Sat Jun 30 15:42:12 # ho hum, serves files, backs up, yada yada, all in a year's work. -- will trillich Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty. -- Doris Von Kappelhoff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

uptimes 50.0, dmesg says 'race' a lot...?

2006-08-24 Thread will trillich
, batch 1 cpu 0 cold: low 0, high 2, batch 1 Normal per-cpu: cpu 0 hot: low 32, high 96, batch 16 cpu 0 cold: low 0, high 32, batch 16 HighMem per-cpu: empty will a reboot-with-fsck fix this, maybe? or is there deeper doo-doo to wade through? -- will trillich The great enemy of clear language

apt-get install: x11-common vs xfree86-common: trying to overwrite /etc/X11/Xsession

2006-03-29 Thread will trillich
: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/x11-common_6.9.0.dfsg.1-4_all.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) ideas? -- will trillich Their iz ate errers in these sentance.

php won't connect to postgresql

2006-03-10 Thread will trillich
to be something simple i'm missing. any help would be appreciated! -- will trillich Their iz ate errers in these sentance.

Re: moodle config tips? (or, PHP vs POSTGRES?)

2006-03-09 Thread will trillich
On 3/8/06, Roberto C. Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: will trillich wrote: having a bit of trouble getting moodle off the ground -- any pointers are welcome. This may sound dumb, but did you bother to read the README.Debian file? I just took a look at it and it gives reasonably clear

Re: moodle config tips? (or, PHP vs POSTGRES?)

2006-03-09 Thread will trillich
On 3/8/06, will trillich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: having a bit of trouble getting moodle off the ground -- any pointers are welcome. after installing it we browse to localhost/moodle/admin and get NOTHING. here's a telnet session to illustrate: telnet localhost 80 snip GET /moodle/admin

moodle config tips? (or, PHP vs POSTGRES?)

2006-03-08 Thread will trillich
libapache2-mod-php4 and libapache2-mod-php5, same results. php[45]-pgsql are both installed. aaugh! -- will trillich Their iz ate errers in these sentance.

Re: apache2 -t... can't find Apache.pm?

2006-02-05 Thread will trillich
isn't removed. reasonable approach, but: # cat /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/perl.conf PerlModule Apache2 # even if it isn't needed, why can't it find it in the @INC listed (below) but i *can*? On 2/6/06, will trillich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: okay -- on a debian/stable system with apache2/mod-perl2

apache2 vs mod_perl2: Can't locate Apache.pm in @INC

2006-02-04 Thread will trillich
/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.8 /usr/share/perl/5.8 /usr/local/lib/site_perl . /etc/apache2) so why can't it get its electronic hands on /usr/lib/perl5/Apache.pm? argh! (and, isn't that second-to-last dot entry a security breach lying-in-wait?) -- will trillich Their iz ate errers in these sentance.

where to point JAVA_HOME?

2005-12-07 Thread will trillich
how does a newbie learn where best to point environment variable $JAVA_HOME to? and what packages are likely candidates to install (debian sarge) in order to have the ingredients needed to point JAVA_HOME to? any pointers hungrily welcomed. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

OSPORTFOLIO install troubles: any java/tomcat gurus familiar with this on debian?

2005-12-02 Thread will trillich
osportfolio.org looks like a neat setup, so we thought we'd give it a whirl... but we can't find the cliffs notes on getting java up and running. apt-cache search java brings up a BUNCH of stuff and we don't know one from another. from instrux at

trouble with apt-get install apache-ssl

2005-08-19 Thread Will Trillich
after finally giving up (insert frustrated sigh here) trying to configure ssl with apache, we tried apache-ssl and had more trouble -- as if the install script did something screwy: # apt-get install apache-ssl answer dialog re: certificate creation Generating a 1024 bit RSA private key

plone vs siteroot -- where's the config?

2005-08-19 Thread Will Trillich
okay, i need a whap with the clue stick. how do i remove the configs for zope/plone? --purge remove does NOT do the trick. long version: apt-get update yada yada apt-get install plone yada yada, coupla questions, yada yada three notices popped up with tips and

Re: plone vs siteroot -- where's the config? SOLVED: _SUPPRESS_SITEROOT

2005-08-19 Thread Will Trillich
Will Trillich wrote: okay, i need a whap with the clue stick. how do i remove the configs for zope/plone? --purge remove does NOT do the trick. but http://localhost:9673/_SUPPRESS_SITEROOT/manage was a nice workaround and very* easy* to find. *very easy, as in sarcasm, as in not at all

php4 vs php4-gd (dotproject: no gantt charts)

2005-07-21 Thread w trillich
hiya. haven't posted in a while, trying to keep the noise down. :) of course, i'm about to make up for lost time-- short version: apache: PHP Warning: gd: Unable to register functions, unable to load in Unknown on line 0 long version: we're trying to get dotproject (see dotproject.org)

Re: php4 vs php4-gd (dotproject: no gantt charts)

2005-07-21 Thread w trillich
On Thu, July 21, 2005 5:31 pm, Darryl Clarke said: On 7/21/05, w trillich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: apache: PHP Warning: gd: Unable to register functions, unable to load in Unknown on line 0 # grep -r gd.so /etc/php4 /etc/php4/apache/php.ini:extension=gd.so /etc/php4/apache

tomcat on sarge (for magnolia)

2005-06-03 Thread w trillich
-L libservlet2.3-java | grep -v share/doc /. /usr /usr/share /usr/share/java /usr/share/java/servlet-2.3.jar so there's one java thingie-ma-bob in that package; all else is documentation, which looks like developer info. where's tomcat? -- will trillich will at serensoft.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: can't change saslpasswd2 via squirrelmail plugin SOLVED

2005-05-09 Thread w trillich
On Sun, May 8, 2005 7:10 pm, Herisanu Alexandru said: Since nobody replied to this message, I will. /etc/sasldb2 is owned by root:sasl. If you change it to cyrus:sasl, it will work. ruffle ruffle, click click boy this was from a LONG time ago. :) the whole paradigm there is nefarious, the

configuring horde3: authentication troubles

2005-05-07 Thread w trillich
we're having a dickens of a time figuring out how to get horde off the ground-- apt-get install horde3 turba2 mip4 ingo1 apt-get install php4-{gd,ldap,mcrypt} pear install mail_mime pear install auth_sasl http_request services_weather net_url pear install cache pear install net_sieve pear

how to mount a windows 'share' under linux

2004-11-27 Thread will trillich
we'd like to automate backups from the office windo~1 box using rsync. we can do it usnig samba and the ftp-like interface, but all timestamps are lost this way (unless there's an option we've missed). we googled for things like 'mount windows share under linux filesystem' and get .exe

using parted -- safely on /dev/md*?

2004-09-25 Thread Will Trillich
TIP #54 from Will Trillich [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Tired of SLOW BROWSING THROUGH THE ONLINE APACHE MANUAL? Get your own local copy and never worry about bandwidth again: apt-get install apache-doc Then browse /usr/share/doc/apache/manual.html, quick like a bunny. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

disabling root logins -- HOWTO

2004-09-08 Thread Will Trillich
, and then sudo and su when necessary. delightful! === if there's other intervening traps to look for, we'd like to know about it. comments welcome. -- I use Debian/GNU Linux version 3.0; Linux boss 2.4.18-bf2.4 #1 Son Apr 14 09:53:28 CEST 2002 i586 unknown DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #48 from Will Trillich

sarge vs spamassassin

2004-09-08 Thread Will Trillich
we're getting X-Spam-Status: No but with identified this incoming email as possible spam anyhow. huh? this is from a plain vanilla sarge install, running exim4 with cyrus21 delivery. there's a setting in need of repair... get a load of this-- ==8===

sarge dist-upgrade Package is in a very bad inconsistent state

2004-09-06 Thread Will Trillich
f.y.i. in trying an upgrade (dist-upgrade) from woody to sarge, we ran into trouble with the following sympoms: [EMAIL PROTECTED] apt-get -f install postgresql Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these: The

automating sa-learn via cyrus mailbox?

2004-08-28 Thread Will Trillich
i've been thinking again, so to avoid doing something dangerous i thought i run it past y'all'uns-- :) we're running cyrus21 and exim4 for email services, and would like to automate the sa-learn feature system-wide. so why not create a user.spam cyrus mailbox, BOUNCE any spams there and have

Re: repartitioning software raid1 -- remotely?

2004-08-25 Thread Will Trillich
On Sat, Aug 21 at 04:09AM +0100, David Leggett wrote: Doing stuff like this remotely is fun ;) I would recommed that you use LVM to manage the size of your partitions so you can simply assign space to wherever you store your data easily. Also I would recommend upgrading the kernel to the

Re: security updates

2004-08-20 Thread Will Trillich
unknown DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #63 from Will Trillich [EMAIL PROTECTED] : What's the best way to GET RESPONSES ON DEBIAN-USER? There are several things to keep in mind: 1) Debians are all volunteers because they enjoy what they do; they don't owe you diddly (and you'll be one of us

Re: security updates

2004-08-20 Thread Will Trillich
On Thu, Aug 19 at 11:49AM -0400, Nori Heikkinen wrote: right, but i can't do that. the rest of my message went on to say that when i try to apt-get upgrade (i've already apt-gotten updated), because i haven't done it in so long, apt tries to upgrade 500+ packagest for me, which i don't have

Re: screen saves life, all in a day's work

2004-08-20 Thread Will Trillich
On Thu, Aug 19 at 10:06AM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: Will Trillich wrote: very, very sexy, this screen thing. very! You can also start it up at, say, boot time running, for example, user-mode-linux or Hercules. what's that all about? curious minds wanna know. sounds like a handy idea

Re: RE : What is the current stable version

2004-08-20 Thread Will Trillich
unknown DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #52 from Will Trillich [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Would you like to GET APACHE TO HIDE CERTAIN FILES? It's as easy as adding this to your /etc/apache/httpd.conf: PerlModule Apache::Constants FilesMatch \.hide$ SetHandler perl-script PerlInitHandler Apache::Constants

repartitioning software raid1 -- remotely?

2004-08-20 Thread Will Trillich
short version: how to repartition a software raid 1 (mirroring) remotely? long version: so the client (hundreds of miles away) has a fresh debian woody running on a software raid1 (mirroring) setup. but the partitioning needs an overhaul: Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted

Re: screen saves life, all in a day's work

2004-08-20 Thread Will Trillich
On Fri, Aug 20 at 01:09PM +0100, Thomas Adam wrote: On Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 02:35:53AM -0500, Will Trillich wrote: On Thu, Aug 19 at 10:06AM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: You can also start it up at, say, boot time running, for example, user-mode-linux or Hercules. what's that all

Re: screen saves life, all in a day's work

2004-08-20 Thread Will Trillich
On Fri, Aug 20 at 08:43PM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: Will Trillich wrote: On Thu, Aug 19 at 10:06AM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: You can also start it up at, say, boot time running, for example, user-mode-linux or Hercules. what's that all about? curious minds wanna know. sounds like

maxqueries dns error resolving spamcop.net

2004-08-19 Thread Will Trillich
boss 2.4.18-bf2.4 #1 Son Apr 14 09:53:28 CEST 2002 i586 unknown DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #14 from Will Trillich [EMAIL PROTECTED] : What's a RUNLEVEL? It's simply a big-time setting group; runlevel 2 might have a full-blown web server plus X running, and runlevel 3 might be ssh-only, for secure logins

Re: software RAID1: oops!

2004-08-18 Thread Will Trillich
On Tue, Aug 17 at 10:04PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: On Tue, 17 Aug 2004, Will Trillich wrote: so it's best to have a raid1 disk on each bus -- but do they both have to be primary? snip best config: hda + hdd and hdb + hdc - both raid has a primary disk and a slave that's four drives

Re: on RAID1: is HDA+HDD okay? c: d:

2004-08-18 Thread Will Trillich
On Tue, Aug 17 at 10:46PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: On Tue, 17 Aug 2004, Alvin Oga wrote: On Tue, 17 Aug 2004, Will Trillich wrote: lemme check to make sure i grok the recommendation -- HDA and HDB are primary and secondary on the first bus (C: and D: in windows parlance), and HDC

Re: Filesystem recovery with ReiserFS

2004-08-17 Thread Will Trillich
On Mon, Aug 16 at 02:43PM -0700, Marc Wilson wrote: On Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 12:47:10AM -0500, Will Trillich wrote: - is there significant reason to shun reiserfs? - what's the optimal/recommended recovery method? Best reason to shun it is that when the filesystem inevitably goes bad (*all

Re: Reverse DNS?

2004-08-17 Thread Will Trillich
CEST 2002 i586 unknown DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #1 from Will Trillich [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Looking to use your Debian machine as a FIREWALL? No problem! Try apt-get install ipmasq... After you've got your /etc/network/interfaces file set up properly, ipmasq will save you lots of work, setting up rudimentary

Re: Debian equivalent of /etc/profile.d

2004-08-17 Thread Will Trillich
On Tue, Aug 17 at 09:32AM -0300, Leandro Guimaraens Faria Corsetti Dutra wrote: Em Tue, 17 Aug 2004 05:20:06 +0200, Jeremy Brown escreveu: does all initialization I want to do need to go directly into the file /etc/profile? sorta. according to man bash there's /etc/profile (login) and

on RAID1: is HDA+HDD okay?

2004-08-17 Thread Will Trillich
On Sun, Aug 15 at 09:53PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: On Sun, 15 Aug 2004, Will Trillich wrote: $ sfdisk -d # partition table of /dev/hda unit: sectors /dev/hda1 : start= 63, size= 192717, Id=83, bootable /dev/hda2 : start= 192780, size= 1959930, Id=82 /dev/hda3 : start

Re: woody - installed on DUAL-PROCESSOR software RAID!

2004-08-16 Thread Will Trillich
On Sun, Aug 15 at 09:53PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: On Sun, 15 Aug 2004, Will Trillich wrote: $ sfdisk -d # partition table of /dev/hda unit: sectors /dev/hda1 : start= 63, size= 192717, Id=83, bootable /dev/hda2 : start= 192780, size= 1959930, Id=82 /dev/hda3 : start

calendar server recommendations?

2004-08-16 Thread Will Trillich
. hmm? -- I use Debian/GNU Linux version 3.0; Linux boss 2.4.18-bf2.4 #1 Son Apr 14 09:53:28 CEST 2002 i586 unknown DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #50 from Will Trillich [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Want to specify EDITOR SETTINGS WHEN LAUNCHING FROM MUTT? Put something like this in your ~/.muttrc file: set

Re: screen vs. multiple xterm's

2004-08-16 Thread Will Trillich
On Mon, Aug 16 at 12:24AM -0700, Paul Scott wrote: Will Trillich wrote: okay, it's a bit of hyperbole. but MAN i don't remember what life was like a few weeks ago without screen! there i was, minding my own business... (snip) Sounds great in this case! very, very sexy, this screen

Re: screen vs. multiple xterm's + remote connection

2004-08-16 Thread Will Trillich
On Mon, Aug 16 at 03:58AM -0700, Paul Scott wrote: Will Trillich wrote: you can now switch to console (alt-ctl-f1) or another xterm or another tty anywhere (other computers, possibly on other continents) :) and do screen -D -R to reattach to your original session! My editor was emacs

Re: I hate it when that happens...

2004-08-15 Thread Will Trillich
On Sat, Aug 07 at 12:07PM +0200, John L Fjellstad wrote: Paul Gear [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: And *always* use 'set -u' in shell scripts. :-) What does that do? I looked in bash manual, and couldn't find anything... (always ready to learn something new:-) ) man bash it's in shell

Re: Linux help system (Was: -= Re: I hate it when that happens...)

2004-08-15 Thread Will Trillich
On Fri, Aug 13 at 05:05AM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: Documentation is a much-ignored standard. Some is in man format: man man THe GNU project likes info info info Some projects prefer HTML: links /usr/share/doc/postgresql-doc/html/index.html Others think postscript is cool gv

Re: I hate it when that happens...

2004-08-15 Thread Will Trillich
2002 i586 unknown DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #53 from Will Trillich [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Tired of MESSING WITH THREE APACHE CONFIG FILES? Put everything into your /etc/apache/httpd.conf file, and add these two lines: ResourceConfig /dev/null AccessConfig /dev/null Now it's all together. Of course, you

screen saves life, all in a day's work

2004-08-15 Thread Will Trillich
okay, it's a bit of hyperbole. but MAN i don't remember what life was like a few weeks ago without screen! there i was, minding my own business... i noticed my /home partition filling up, so i started a laborious copy sendnig the files to another box across town so i could reswizzle my

woody - installed on DUAL-PROCESSOR software RAID!

2004-08-15 Thread Will Trillich
On Mon, Aug 09 at 04:15PM +0200, Hans Wilmer wrote: Thus, at least one of them will be dual CPU systems, but I´m lacking experience with multi processor machines. Both should have SATA RAID controllers from 3ware, thus mainboards providing 64bit PCI slots make sense. i've got a client whose

Filesystem recovery with ReiserFS

2004-08-15 Thread Will Trillich
to shun reiserfs? - what's the optimal/recommended recovery method? -- I use Debian/GNU Linux version 3.0; Linux boss 2.4.18-bf2.4 #1 Son Apr 14 09:53:28 CEST 2002 i586 unknown DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #27 from Will Trillich [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Would you like RXVT to have more than 80 COLUMNS OR 24 ROWS

crack attempt?

2004-08-10 Thread Will Trillich
updated 2004-08-09 19:10 # Enter ? for additional hints on searching ARIN's WHOIS database. -- I use Debian/GNU Linux version 3.0; Linux boss 2.4.18-bf2.4 #1 Son Apr 14 09:53:28 CEST 2002 i586 unknown DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #50 from Will Trillich [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Want to specify EDITOR SETTINGS WHEN

Re: Pick up a shell session after ssh timeout

2004-08-09 Thread Will Trillich
On Thu, Jul 08 at 09:50AM -0500, Alan Shutko wrote: Right, it won't work for this time. But if one uses screen every time they log in, one will always be able to resume, whether it times out because of ping, whether the phone line gets cut, whether the client machine reboots but not if

use screen to Pick up a shell session after ssh timeout

2004-08-09 Thread Will Trillich
On Thu, Jul 08 at 04:15PM +0200, Dennis Stosberg wrote: Sure, this is not a solution this time. But maybe it is a solution for the next time: $ ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] Welcome to remotehost $ screen $ long_task When you press C-a C-d now, you detach yourself from your screen session,

tips for using screen?

2004-08-09 Thread Will Trillich
you can learn other cool stuff and add to the mix. :) -- I use Debian/GNU Linux version 3.0; Linux boss 2.4.18-bf2.4 #1 Son Apr 14 09:53:28 CEST 2002 i586 unknown DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #48 from Will Trillich [EMAIL PROTECTED] : To peruse your CURRENT VIM SETTINGS (there's LOTS of them) from within

colored bash prompt

2004-08-09 Thread Will Trillich
On Tue, Jul 13 at 09:16AM -0500, Reid Priedhorsky wrote: On Tue, 13 Jul 2004 09:30:18 +0200, Silvan wrote: Also look into the tput program. You tell it what you want (bold, green, etc.) and it outputs appropriate magic for your current terminal. great idea -- i'll have to snoop around in

Re: Bash equivalent to DOS /p

2004-08-09 Thread Will Trillich
Debian/GNU Linux version 3.0; Linux boss 2.4.18-bf2.4 #1 Son Apr 14 09:53:28 CEST 2002 i586 unknown DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #28 from Will Trillich [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Would you like to have rxvt show you useful information in the TITLE BAR of its X window? For example, to see your present working

Re: Bash equivalent to DOS /p

2004-08-09 Thread Will Trillich
version 3.0; Linux boss 2.4.18-bf2.4 #1 Son Apr 14 09:53:28 CEST 2002 i586 unknown (5 matched scroll) DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #6 from Will Trillich [EMAIL PROTECTED] : How do you keep text from SCROLLING BY TOO DAMN FAST? :) Before pressing the ENTER key of a command that you know will generate a lot

apt-get install = remove?

2004-07-13 Thread Will Trillich
thought this was weird: # apt-get upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following packages have been kept back webmin-core webmin-ssl 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.

Re: apt-get install = remove?

2004-07-13 Thread Will Trillich
On Tue, Jul 13 at 01:10PM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 12:18, Will Trillich wrote: thought this was weird: # apt-get install webmin-ssl Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following packages will be REMOVED

Re: automatically restarting dying daemons?

2004-07-01 Thread Will Trillich
On Thu, Jul 01 at 10:55AM -0400, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: $ apt-cache policy restartd restartd: Installed: 0.1.a-3 Candidate: 0.1.a-3 Version Table: *** 0.1.a-3 0 990 http://http.us.debian.org sarge/main Packages 80 http://http.us.debian.org sid/main Packages

Re: automatically restarting dying daemons?

2004-07-01 Thread Will Trillich
On Wed, Jun 30 at 11:20PM -0500, Jacob S. wrote: On Wed, 30 Jun 2004 22:43:54 -0500 Will Trillich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: at http://backports.org, i search for restartd and get Sorry, no packages found. At the risk of starting a flamewar about whether djb's tools are a good way

Re: automatically restarting dying daemons?

2004-07-01 Thread Will Trillich
On Thu, Jul 01 at 08:58AM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: Mark Ferlatte wrote: Will Trillich said on Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 04:34:06PM -0500: questions: 1) what's the best way (e.g. debian way) to monitor active daemons and restart them when necessary? maybe some utility

Re: fast, tabbed, gnome/wm- compliant terminal

2004-07-01 Thread Will Trillich
version 3.0; Linux boss 2.4.18-bf2.4 #1 Son Apr 14 09:53:28 CEST 2002 i586 unknown DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #49 from Will Trillich [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Looking to ENCODE OR DECODE SOME ROT-13 TEXT? No problem. Vg'f rnfl jvgu Ivz. It's a simple alphabet substitution where each letter changes to its counterpart

tips on using screen?

2004-07-01 Thread Will Trillich
On Thu, Jul 01 at 02:34PM +0200, Kai Grossjohann wrote: I've started using screen recently. It's way cool. same here. kahuna powerful for us command-line folks. The best part about screen is that you can set it up such that each xterm is just a new window showing the existing list of

Re: Creating own installer images

2004-07-01 Thread Will Trillich
On Thu, Jul 01 at 06:41PM +0200, Robert Waldner wrote: I need to create special Debian installer images, as we have machines here with Promise PDC20378 S-ATA RAID controllers and need to install Woody on them. The driver for this controller was opensourced, but it's only available as a module,

Re: automatically restarting dying daemons?

2004-07-01 Thread Will Trillich
On Thu, Jul 01 at 05:59PM +0100, Thomas Adam wrote: --- Will Trillich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: #!/bin/bash /etc/init.d/some-daemon-here restart Better to use 'invoke-rc.d' here: invoke-rc.d script restart for daemon-config-file-settings, i'm more comfortable specifying

Re: automatically restarting dying daemons?

2004-07-01 Thread Will Trillich
On Wed, Jun 30 at 06:25PM -0400, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 04:34:06PM -0500, Will Trillich wrote: | problem: xinetd, after working just fine and dandy for weeks at | a time, gets dozens of unexpected signal (source unknown) | and gives up the ghost

restartd (resurrecting dead daemons)

2004-07-01 Thread Will Trillich
On Thu, Jul 01 at 02:46PM -0500, Will Trillich wrote: On Wed, Jun 30 at 06:25PM -0400, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: restartd. aha. not available for woody, but it's available for sarge... snip [hmm -- must look into the /etc/init.d/restartd script to make sure it's properly launched

Re: tips on using screen?

2004-07-01 Thread Will Trillich
On Thu, Jul 01 at 06:00PM +0100, Thomas Adam wrote: --- Will Trillich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: we'd love to hear more about your setup. ~/.bashrc aliases or settings, any keyboard macros, ~/.screenrc coolness... we're not picky. There's a _plethora_ of information about this already

Re: restartd (resurrecting dead daemons)

2004-07-01 Thread Will Trillich
On Thu, Jul 01 at 09:34PM +0100, Thomas Adam wrote: --- Will Trillich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: shouldn't that use start-stop-daemon to do its work? Quite possibly... but as long as it works... :) sorta. the output from the restart (or cancellation) scripts as set up in /etc

Re: automatically restarting dying daemons?

2004-07-01 Thread Will Trillich
On Thu, Jul 01 at 09:31PM +0100, Thomas Adam wrote: --- Will Trillich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: for daemon-config-file-settings, i'm more comfortable specifying the whole path. less chance of intervention or misdirection based on $PATH mungings... /etc/init.d is not in $PATH

automatically restarting dying daemons?

2004-06-30 Thread Will Trillich
CEST 2002 i586 unknown DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #51 from Will Trillich [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Interested in CUSTOMIZING MUTT to work the way you'd like? Visit Tom Gilbert's site at http://linuxbrit.co.uk/mutt/ and download his .muttrc to your home directory (save it under a different name if you're paranoid

Re: automatically restarting dying daemons?

2004-06-30 Thread Will Trillich
On Wed, Jun 30 at 03:43PM -0700, Mark Ferlatte wrote: Will Trillich said on Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 04:34:06PM -0500: questions: 1) what's the best way (e.g. debian way) to monitor active daemons and restart them when necessary? maybe some utility already exists

Re: automatically restarting dying daemons?

2004-06-30 Thread Will Trillich
On Wed, Jun 30 at 06:25PM -0400, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 04:34:06PM -0500, Will Trillich wrote: | problem: xinetd, after working just fine and dandy for weeks at | a time, gets dozens of unexpected signal (source unknown) | and gives up the ghost

trouble getting BRICOLAGE off the ground

2004-06-29 Thread Will Trillich
we did apt-get to install it (it's not the most current, but we just want to get it started) with sources.list thus: # /etc/apt/soruces.list for bricolage deb http://people.debian.org/~erich/bricolage / without the two added httpd.conf directives, apache works like a champ (so

Re: interfaces lo:1 lo:2 lo:3? (for remote ssh tunnels)

2004-06-29 Thread Will Trillich
On Sat, Jun 26 at 08:33PM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: I don't understand why the server would be making the connexion request. By definition, the client does that. it's not by definition -- it's in the VAST majority of cases. as in very seldom, and it's surely suspicious behavior that

apache-perl: BRICOLAGE troubles

2004-06-29 Thread Will Trillich
wow, this is confusing! On Tue, Jun 29 at 12:57PM -0500, Will Trillich wrote: without the two added httpd.conf directives, apache works like a champ (so apache-perl is working just fine). then we add these two lines, and... PerlSetEnv BRICOLAGE_ROOT /etc/bricolage PerlModule

Re: interfaces lo:1 lo:2 lo:3? (for remote ssh tunnels)

2004-06-25 Thread Will Trillich
On Fri, Jun 25 at 01:24PM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: Will Trillich wrote: On Fri, Jun 25 at 11:46AM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: Will Trillich wrote: can linux have multiple 127.0.0.1 interfaces? if so, how? I'm not talking to myself, I'm talking to someone else. Therefore I

Re: interfaces lo:1 lo:2 lo:3? SOLVED

2004-06-25 Thread Will Trillich
On Fri, Jun 25 at 07:43AM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 10:18:39PM -0500, Will Trillich wrote: can linux have multiple 127.0.0.1 interfaces? if so, how? As far as I know, every IP number from 127.0.0.1 ro 127.255.255.255 does a loopback. -- hendrik hmm. could

Re: interfaces lo:1 lo:2 lo:3? (for remote ssh tunnels)

2004-06-25 Thread Will Trillich
On Fri, Jun 25 at 09:56PM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: Will Trillich wrote: turns out the vast majority of these connections will be coming from beyond a remote firewall (remote from where the server is located on the 'net): Cool. That's the problem tunneling (port forwarding) solves. So

interfaces lo:1 lo:2 lo:3? (for remote ssh tunnels)

2004-06-24 Thread Will Trillich
can linux have multiple 127.0.0.1 interfaces? if so, how? okay -- not sure how to word this, but here goes... a friend of mine is working with a college to establish remote-to-local ssh tunnels -- we've got an application that runs on office computers that listens for a connection from the

Re: interfaces lo:1 lo:2 lo:3? (for remote ssh tunnels)

2004-06-24 Thread Will Trillich
On Fri, Jun 25 at 11:46AM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: Will Trillich wrote: can linux have multiple 127.0.0.1 interfaces? if so, how? I'm sure it can, but loc is for intra-host traffic - that is, I'm talking to myself. exactly what's needed. remote tunnelling port X to client (us) port

Re: need simple imap server to serve up some maildirs

2004-06-22 Thread Will Trillich
On Tue, Jun 22 at 12:26AM -0500, Will Trillich wrote: On Mon, Jun 21 at 03:31PM -0400, Bojan Baros wrote: I have found courier-imap to be easy to set up and use. I am using squirrelmail as an imap client, with imapproxy added into the mix to speed up things. any chance you have

Re: requesting freebies

2004-06-21 Thread Will Trillich
On Wed, Jun 09 at 02:22PM -0400, Dazie wrote: What I do is contact companys like yours and ask for freebies such as Boxed distros teeshirts stuffed animals Hats, books, stickers. and this is too promote your items and let people know you are out there in the linux world long with many other

setuid(UID) and chmod 4550 misbehaving

2004-06-21 Thread Will Trillich
TASK: allow USER1 to run a program AS USER2. SOLUTION: setuid bit (in theory, right?) PROBLEM: theory not matching execution... we've got a little C program that must be RUN AS a certain user (cyrus) BY another user (www-data) so we figured turning on the SETUID bit would work: # cd

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