Re: loading huge number of rules in iptables (blocklist)

2007-03-21 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 12:09:03PM -0400, H.S. wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/21/07 10:52, H.S. wrote: H.S. wrote: Now, currently, there are around 151,000 ipranges listed in level1.gz to block. So the above function's loop goes over these

Re: X problem after upgrade

2007-03-21 Thread macondo
Joe Hart wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tommi Lantta wrote: Hi I have a strange display problem after upgrading from Sarge to Etch. In X the screen is displaced 1 cm to the left (leftmost 1 cm of screen is out of display area and there is an 1 cm wide black stripe at the

Re: spam originating from this list !

2007-03-21 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 09:18:50AM -0500, dave wrote: on Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 12:55:43PM +0100 Thomas Jollans wrote: On Wednesday 21 March 2007 11:07, Joe Hart wrote: Best thing to do with Spam is to ignore it (or eat it if you like canned meat). or feed it to spamassassin or something

Re: distro for 486 with 32 MB ram

2007-03-21 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 03:15:09PM +0800, Bob wrote: [...] What do people use for mirroring Linux partitions, tar probably but is there a better tool? to truly mirror the partition you need dd or you could cobble together a raid 1 setup and then when its done syncing pull it out (probably

Re: broken upgrade of postfix_2.3.7-3 - 2.3.8-2 (etch)

2007-03-21 Thread Michael Shuler
Jochen Schulz wrote: I had the same issue and solved it temporarily by installing OpenSSL from unstable. See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=415670. The release manager noted that unstable's version of OpenSSL won't be included in etch, though, so that downgrading postfix

Re: I do consider Ubuntu to be Debian , Ian Murdock

2007-03-21 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 12:23:54AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: it appears to me that there are two paths into testing for security fixes: sid or testing security. Is it possible for a security fix to bypass sid and make it into testing? Yes, but multiple

Re: distro for 486 with 32 MB ram

2007-03-21 Thread Bob McGowan
Michael Pobega wrote: On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 03:15:09PM +0800, Bob wrote: What do people use for mirroring Linux partitions, tar probably but is there a better tool? Why is it better? I've heard of the dd command being used, but I'm not really too knowledgable in that field. But if someone

Re: Very slow network - Ubuntu

2007-03-21 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 02:46:22AM -0400, A. Ben Hmeda wrote: [snipped ridiculous flamage] At Ubuntu forums, I found at least 8 different threads around the same subject (Slow Ubuntu) spanning about 3 versions of the distro. Did the same on Google. All suggestions were pretty much the

Re: Favorite Email/Calender/PIM and Why

2007-03-21 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 07:06:31AM -0400, Michael Pobega wrote: [...] So in short; Does anyone know of any good calender applications that dock into a system tray? I use orage a little and its okay. Don't know if it works outside xfce though... A signature.asc Description: Digital

Re: No text mode display after grub

2007-03-21 Thread J.A. de Vries
On 2007-03-04 @ 19:43:57 (week 09) Florian Kulzer wrote: I think this might be related to the framebuffer driver. Agreed. You can try to modprobe vesafb (or whatever fb module is suitable for your graphics card) from an X root console and see if this helps. I am sorry to say it didn't. It

Re: loading huge number of rules in iptables (blocklist)

2007-03-21 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 12:09 -0400, H.S. wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/21/07 10:52, H.S. wrote: H.S. wrote: Now, currently, there are around 151,000 ipranges listed in level1.gz to block. So the above function's loop goes over these

Re: loading huge number of rules in iptables (blocklist)

2007-03-21 Thread H.S.
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: nice to know that the connection is holding up, but there's got to be a better way to do this. I'm not really up on iptables, but surely there is some better way to distinguish the traffic to allow or not? Maybe even just some judicious grepping of the rule set for

Re: Browser identification to websites

2007-03-21 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Stephen Allen wrote: Joe Hart wrote: I think we've been through the whole iceweasel == || != firefox issue before. I understand the reasoning behind the name change, and I understand both sides of the issue. What I don't understand is why it

when you do an apt-get upgrade, does it matter it you do it as 'root'?

2007-03-21 Thread tom arnall
when you do an apt-get upgrade, does it matter it you do it as 'root'? tom arnall north spit, ca -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Sound on Linux?

2007-03-21 Thread Bob McGowan
Raffaele Morelli wrote: pkill is a better killall? it reminds me to the differences between top and htop (recently someone posted about it). But how is it better? Really don't know, my rule is the one which fits to your needs. I always use killall and feel comfortable

Re: when you do an apt-get upgrade, does it matter it you do it as 'root'?

2007-03-21 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 10:41 -0700, tom arnall wrote: when you do an apt-get upgrade, does it matter it you do it as 'root'? Please ask a better question. -- greg, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Novell's Directory Services is a competitive product to Microsoft's Active Directory in much the same way that

Re: when you do an apt-get upgrade, does it matter it you do it as 'root'?

2007-03-21 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 tom arnall wrote: when you do an apt-get upgrade, does it matter it you do it as 'root'? tom arnall north spit, ca Yes. You need to be root, or have sufficient sudo privileges. Otherwise you get a dpkg lock error. Joe - -- Registerd Linux

Re: Browser identification to websites

2007-03-21 Thread Wayne Topa
Joe Hart([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wayne Topa wrote: Joe Hart([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 snip Hint Joe snip more I just saw that Mozilla just

Re: ether-wake won't work anymore.

2007-03-21 Thread Joe
Bruno Buys wrote: Andy Hawkins wrote: Hi, In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Bruno Buys[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I´ve relied on etherwake to up remote machines, and it worked ok for quite some time. But recently I noticed it kind of stopped working. Since today I bumped two more

Re: Browser identification to websites

2007-03-21 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wayne Topa wrote: [snip] Hopefully the transition is complete enough that we won't run into things like losing our profiles or having 2 tabs open when we click on something. These issues are fixed in iceweasel_2.0.0.2+dfsg-3; I'm curious as to

Re: loading huge number of rules in iptables (blocklist)

2007-03-21 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 01:36:17PM -0400, H.S. wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: nice to know that the connection is holding up, but there's got to be a better way to do this. I'm not really up on iptables, but surely there is some better way to distinguish the traffic to allow or not?

bind9 prevents external access

2007-03-21 Thread Justin Hartman
Hi guys Very strange problem which I'm sure is pretty easy to fix - if you know how. I installed bind9 with lsb-base on a Debian Etch system. The problem is that as soon as bind9 is installed I can no longer ping or access external sites from the bind9 server. For example I can't ping

Re: Browser identification to websites

2007-03-21 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 01:41:30PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: Maybe I'll just start using the Sid or Etch partitions and forget about testing, for awhile. you do know that etch and testing are still the same thing, right? A signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: when you do an apt-get upgrade, does it matter it you do it as 'root'?

2007-03-21 Thread tom arnall
On Wednesday 21 March 2007 10:42, Greg Folkert wrote: On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 10:41 -0700, tom arnall wrote: when you do an apt-get upgrade, does it matter it you do it as 'root'? Please ask a better question. -- what is the problem with this one? ;o) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Favorite Email/Calender/PIM and Why

2007-03-21 Thread Michael Pobega
On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 10:30:08AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 07:06:31AM -0400, Michael Pobega wrote: [...] So in short; Does anyone know of any good calender applications that dock into a system tray? I use orage a little and its okay. Don't know

Re: No text mode display after grub

2007-03-21 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 17:10:56 +, J.A. de Vries wrote: On 2007-03-04 @ 19:43:57 (week 09) Florian Kulzer wrote: I think this might be related to the framebuffer driver. Agreed. You can try to modprobe vesafb (or whatever fb module is suitable for your graphics card) from an X

Re: when you do an apt-get upgrade, does it matter it you do it as 'root'?

2007-03-21 Thread Michael Pobega
On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 10:41:50AM -0700, tom arnall wrote: when you do an apt-get upgrade, does it matter it you do it as 'root'? As said before, if you're in the sudo group and in the /etc/sudoers file you can run apt-get upgrade. The main difference I've seen between being root and sudoing

Re: bind9 prevents external access

2007-03-21 Thread Oliver Jato
Am Mittwoch, 21. März 2007 19:10 schrieb Justin Hartman: Very strange problem which I'm sure is pretty easy to fix - if you know how. I installed bind9 with lsb-base on a Debian Etch system. The problem is that as soon as bind9 is installed I can no longer ping or access external sites from

Xen and PAE

2007-03-21 Thread Urs Thuermann
I have two separate questions, actually, concerning Xen and PAE: Today, I installed Xen on a Pentium4 machine running Debian testing. I did aptitude install xen-linux-system-2.6.18-4-xen-686 which installed besides others the two debian packages xen-hypervisor-3.0.3-1-i386-pae and

Re: when you do an apt-get upgrade, does it matter it you do it as 'root'?

2007-03-21 Thread Ken Irving
On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 11:13:13AM -0700, tom arnall wrote: On Wednesday 21 March 2007 10:42, Greg Folkert wrote: On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 10:41 -0700, tom arnall wrote: when you do an apt-get upgrade, does it matter it you do it as 'root'? Please ask a better question. -- what is the

Re: when you do an apt-get upgrade, does it matter it you do it as 'root'?

2007-03-21 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Pobega wrote: On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 10:41:50AM -0700, tom arnall wrote: when you do an apt-get upgrade, does it matter it you do it as 'root'? As said before, if you're in the sudo group and in the /etc/sudoers file you can run

Re: when you do an apt-get upgrade, does it matter it you do it as 'root'?

2007-03-21 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 11:13 -0700, tom arnall wrote: On Wednesday 21 March 2007 10:42, Greg Folkert wrote: On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 10:41 -0700, tom arnall wrote: when you do an apt-get upgrade, does it matter it you do it as 'root'? Please ask a better question. -- what is the problem

Re: when you do an apt-get upgrade, does it matter it you do it as 'root'?

2007-03-21 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 02:19:49PM -0400, Michael Pobega wrote: On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 10:41:50AM -0700, tom arnall wrote: when you do an apt-get upgrade, does it matter it you do it as 'root'? As said before, if you're in the sudo group and in the /etc/sudoers file you can run apt-get

Re: loading huge number of rules in iptables (blocklist)

2007-03-21 Thread H.S.
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: I'm sorry, but what exactly is the purpose here? I did a little poking around and it looks like just a massive list of ip's to block, but for what purpose? I'm not trying to say that this is not the right solution for whatever your problem is, but it

Re: ..voice recognition, was: To be M$ free....

2007-03-21 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 10:48:37 +0100, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote in [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 19.03.07 21:54, Arnt Karlsen wrote: ..try play with these searches in your CLI: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/Independent-Reformer $ apt-cache search recogni |wc -l 123 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/Independent-Reformer

Re: bind9 prevents external access

2007-03-21 Thread Justin Hartman
On 3/21/07, Oliver Jato [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you'll probably have to tell bind to use recursion for fetching adresses which are not in his authority. in options, set allow-recursion { 127.0.0.1; };. if you want others on your network to use your bind, too, also add 192.168.1/24;, for

Re: Browser identification to websites

2007-03-21 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 09:54:29 +0100 Joe Hart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] Personally, I've found that some websites will block me because of my location, and that's something I cannot change. Unfortunately my ISP identifies me as being here. Perhaps I need to look into anonymizers. I

Re: distro for 486 with 32 MB ram

2007-03-21 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 14:14:22 -0500 Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] I never could run Sarge's installer re memory so went with Woody and upgraded. I can try that with Etch but want to have a fall-back position in case the attempt hoses. I'm on very slow dialup so getting

Re: bind9 prevents external access

2007-03-21 Thread Oliver Jato
Am Mittwoch, 21. März 2007 19:48 schrieb Justin Hartman: On 3/21/07, Oliver Jato [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you'll probably have to tell bind to use recursion for fetching adresses which are not in his authority. in options, set allow-recursion { 127.0.0.1; };. if you want others on your

Re: What do I use to reconfigure the network /after/ initial install on Etch?

2007-03-21 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 15:10:00 -0500 John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wrote: You will be offered the choice of keeping your version or replacing it with the new version. Celejar writes: Yes, but neither choice is entirely satisfactory; if I keep my version, I don't get any

Re: loading huge number of rules in iptables (blocklist)

2007-03-21 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 02:30:06PM -0400, H.S. wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: I'm sorry, but what exactly is the purpose here? I did a little poking around and it looks like just a massive list of ip's to block, but for what purpose? I'm not trying to say that this is not

Re: Browser identification to websites

2007-03-21 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Celejar wrote: On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 09:54:29 +0100 Joe Hart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] Personally, I've found that some websites will block me because of my location, and that's something I cannot change. Unfortunately my ISP identifies

Re: I do consider Ubuntu to be Debian , Ian Murdock

2007-03-21 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 10:36:23 +0100 Joe Hart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Steve Lamb wrote: Joe Hart wrote: If you Run Sid, you don't have to worry about that *ever* happening. Yes, you do. If you think otherwise I'll ask where the

Re: I do consider Ubuntu to be Debian , Ian Murdock

2007-03-21 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 10:45:10 +0100 Joe Hart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] Yes, Etch install includes security. I assumed that is because it is about to become stable. According to the debian-reference, testing does not normally get security updates, unstable does, and they filter down to

Re: how to switch between different network configurations?

2007-03-21 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 21:56:13 +0800 Zhengquan Zhang mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have to switch the network configurations between the lab, the dorm and the home ones. Normally I manullay edit /etc/network/interfaces and restart the networking. Is there any easier and smarter way

Re: when you do an apt-get upgrade, does it matter it you do it as 'root'?

2007-03-21 Thread tom arnall
On Wednesday 21 March 2007 11:34, Greg Folkert wrote: On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 11:13 -0700, tom arnall wrote: On Wednesday 21 March 2007 10:42, Greg Folkert wrote: On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 10:41 -0700, tom arnall wrote: when you do an apt-get upgrade, does it matter it you do it as 'root'?

Re: Browser identification to websites

2007-03-21 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 20:15:30 +0100 Joe Hart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Celejar wrote: On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 09:54:29 +0100 Joe Hart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] Personally, I've found that some websites will block me because of my

Re: Installation - deselect standard task ???

2007-03-21 Thread Joey Hess
Erik Cummings wrote: - 'ps' output from the period of hung install below. - on a whim, I killed the last process (31402). Especially since I knew the install was whacked anyhow. - After the kill, the install proceeded perfectly...too bad I hadn't actually chosen all the

Re: distro for 486 with 32 MB ram

2007-03-21 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 18:20:40 -0400 Douglas Allan Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 04:48:11PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: True enough. You can minimize the effort, though, (if you already haven't) by only using main. Done. Main is still HUGE. What *does* happen

Re: Sneakernet .deb packages by usb thumb?

2007-03-21 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 20:07:54 -0700 charles norwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2007-03-18 at 19:32 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My desktop debian system is at home with no available internet connection. Work provides internet with no linux. is there any way to aquire .deb

Re: Sneakernet .deb packages by usb thumb?

2007-03-21 Thread charlie derr
Celejar wrote: On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 20:07:54 -0700 charles norwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2007-03-18 at 19:32 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My desktop debian system is at home with no available internet connection. Work provides internet with no linux. is there any way to aquire

Anyway to change the password for debian-sys-maint

2007-03-21 Thread Justin Hartman
Hi I restored a backup for my mysql table however in doing so debian-sys-maint no longer has access to start/stop/restart/check mysqld. I thought that if I change the mysql password for debian-sys-maint this would solve it but it seems there is a password stored somewhere on the machine.

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-21 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 15:58:56 -0400 (EDT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 18 Mar, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 02:04:42AM +0100, Arnt Karlsen wrote: ..peace. First we need to hang all our war criminals, then they have to hang theirs, all under the strictest

Re: Sneakernet .deb packages by usb thumb?

2007-03-21 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 15:53:19 -0400 charlie derr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Celejar wrote: On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 20:07:54 -0700 charles norwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2007-03-18 at 19:32 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My desktop debian system is at home with no available

Re: bind9 prevents external access

2007-03-21 Thread Justin Hartman
On 3/21/07, Oliver Jato [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: sorry, i forgot that you'll have to add recursion yes; to enable recursion. the allow-recursion part was only to filter for whom your bind will resolve recursive queries. you'll have to add both inside the options { ... }; part of your

Re: how to switch between different network configurations?

2007-03-21 Thread H.S.
Wackojacko wrote: H.S. wrote: Zhengquan Zhang mailing list wrote: I have to switch the network configurations between the lab, the dorm and the home ones. Normally I manullay edit /etc/network/interfaces and restart the networking. Is there any easier and smarter way of doing this?

Re: bind9 prevents external access

2007-03-21 Thread Soma R
On 3/21/07, Justin Hartman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/21/07, Oliver Jato [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: sorry, i forgot that you'll have to add recursion yes; to enable recursion. the allow-recursion part was only to filter for whom your bind will resolve recursive queries. you'll have to add

Re: loading huge number of rules in iptables (blocklist)

2007-03-21 Thread H.S.
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 02:30:06PM -0400, H.S. wrote: okay, I follow... and you want otherwise unfettered p2p operating, but security from these particular sites. ugh. nasty problem. Nasty problem, yes. But I can live without it since I don't do much p2p. But

Re: Browser identification to websites

2007-03-21 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Celejar wrote: On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 20:15:30 +0100 Joe Hart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Celejar wrote: On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 09:54:29 +0100 Joe Hart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] Personally, I've

Re: I do consider Ubuntu to be Debian , Ian Murdock

2007-03-21 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Celejar wrote: On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 10:36:23 +0100 Joe Hart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Steve Lamb wrote: Joe Hart wrote: If you Run Sid, you don't have to worry about that *ever* happening.

Re: Browser identification to websites

2007-03-21 Thread Wayne Topa
Andrew Sackville-West([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 01:41:30PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: Maybe I'll just start using the Sid or Etch partitions and forget about testing, for awhile. you do know that etch and testing are still the same thing, right?

Re: No text mode display after grub

2007-03-21 Thread J.A. de Vries
On 2007-03-21 @ 19:12:39 (week 12) Florian Kulzer wrote: Let me just quickly correct my earlier statement: I think the Debian Linux source packages have the modular vesafb option removed anyway because it caused trouble in the past. I half remembered this and then I mixed things up a bit when

Re: loading huge number of rules in iptables (blocklist)

2007-03-21 Thread Ken Irving
On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 04:39:57PM -0400, H.S. wrote: I am not going to follow up on my current method. A better one is definitely needed. Googling on the shorewall home page yielded the following: http://www.shorewall.net/ipsets.html ... ...Ipsets provide an effecient way to

Re: bind9 prevents external access

2007-03-21 Thread Justin Hartman
Soma thanks for your input - by removing bind and playing with resolv.conf it is apparent that this file was causing certain issues. I have now installed resolvconf and after rebooting resolvconf configured only one line in resolv.conf file as follows: nameserver: 127.0.0.1 Prior to installing

Re: Anyway to change the password for debian-sys-maint

2007-03-21 Thread Dave Ewart
On Wednesday, 21.03.2007 at 22:10 +0200, Justin Hartman wrote: Hi I restored a backup for my mysql table however in doing so debian-sys-maint no longer has access to start/stop/restart/check mysqld. I thought that if I change the mysql password for debian-sys-maint this would solve it

Re: bind9 prevents external access

2007-03-21 Thread Jeff D
On Wed, 21 Mar 2007, Justin Hartman wrote: Soma thanks for your input - by removing bind and playing with resolv.conf it is apparent that this file was causing certain issues. I have now installed resolvconf and after rebooting resolvconf configured only one line in resolv.conf file as

Re: Anyway to change the password for debian-sys-maint

2007-03-21 Thread Justin Hartman
On 3/21/07, Dave Ewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is a password stored in /etc/mysql/debian.cnf for the debian-sys-maint user. Dave you are a genius Thanks a million! -- Regards Justin Hartman PGP Key ID: 102CC123 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: bind9 prevents external access

2007-03-21 Thread Justin Hartman
On 3/21/07, Jeff D [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: so with a clean bind install you still are not able to do lookups? Correct. Clean install what does host google.com 127.0.0.1 give you? $ host google.com 127.0.0.1 ;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached $ nslookup google.com

Re: Anyway to change the password for debian-sys-maint

2007-03-21 Thread Dave Ewart
On Wednesday, 21.03.2007 at 23:17 +0200, Justin Hartman wrote: On 3/21/07, Dave Ewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is a password stored in /etc/mysql/debian.cnf for the debian-sys-maint user. Dave you are a genius Thanks a million! One aims to please :-) Dave. -- Please don't CC me

Re: bind9 prevents external access

2007-03-21 Thread Justin Hartman
Could this issue also not have something to do with the way in which my interfaces is setup? I'm thinking aloud here because I don't really know but in order for me to be able to setup two nameservers I was assigned a new IP range which I had to configure in the /etc/network/interfaces file. My

Re: bind9 prevents external access

2007-03-21 Thread Jeff D
On Wed, 21 Mar 2007, Justin Hartman wrote: On 3/21/07, Jeff D [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: so with a clean bind install you still are not able to do lookups? Correct. Clean install what does host google.com 127.0.0.1 give you? $ host google.com 127.0.0.1 ;; connection timed out; no servers

Re: bind9 prevents external access

2007-03-21 Thread Justin Hartman
On 3/21/07, Jeff D [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ok, check /etc/bind/named.conf , make sure you have : zone . { type hint; file /etc/bind/db.root; }; Yes I do. I also have the following rdns entries directly below that: zone 127.in-addr.arpa { type master; file

Re: broken upgrade of postfix_2.3.7-3

2007-03-21 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 08:17:06 -0400, Carl Fink wrote: Pardon the thread hijack, but for several versions now the postinst script hasn't been able to start Postfix on my box. I get Stopping Postfix Mail Transport Agent: postfixpostfix/postfix-script: fatal: usage: postfix start (or

Re: how to switch between different network configurations?

2007-03-21 Thread Wackojacko
H.S. wrote: Wackojacko wrote: H.S. wrote: Zhengquan Zhang mailing list wrote: I have to switch the network configurations between the lab, the dorm and the home ones. Normally I manullay edit /etc/network/interfaces and restart the networking. Is there any easier and smarter way of doing

Re: input output error(5)

2007-03-21 Thread Chris Parker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Pobega wrote: On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 07:54:38PM -0400, Chris Parker wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 hello all, I've got a dell power edge 2400 with an adaptec scsi card. Attached to the card are 2 16G disks on

Re: loading huge number of rules in iptables (blocklist)

2007-03-21 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 20 Mar 2007, H.S. wrote: Now, currently, there are around 151,000 ipranges listed in level1.gz to block. So the above function's loop goes over these many times inserting See ipset and nf-hipac at http://www.netfilter.org for support for heavy-duty, huge rulesets. -- One disk to

Re: X problem after upgrade

2007-03-21 Thread Tommi Lantta
On Wed, 21 Mar 2007, Joe Hart wrote: I don't have the same monitor as you do, but I found that pushing the button on my monitor that autosets the display will fix that. Almost all monitors made in the last few years have such a button. There is such a button and I think I have tried it

Re: how to switch between different network configurations?

2007-03-21 Thread Michael Shuler
Zhengquan Zhang mailing list wrote: Is there any easier and smarter way of doing this? There should be no need to edit interfaces every time you want to change network profiles - there are lots of tools out there to try, or you could use something a little simpler, such as native debian

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-21 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 16:13:41 -0400, Celejar wrote in [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 15:58:56 -0400 (EDT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 18 Mar, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 02:04:42AM +0100, Arnt Karlsen wrote: ..peace. First we need to hang all our war

RE: Installation - deselect standard task ???

2007-03-21 Thread Erik Cummings
-Original Message- From: Joey Hess [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2007 12:40 PM To: Erik Cummings Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Installation - deselect standard task ??? Erik Cummings wrote: - 'ps' output from the period of hung install

Re: how to switch between different network configurations?

2007-03-21 Thread Michael Pobega
On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 09:56:13PM +0800, Zhengquan Zhang mailing list wrote: I have to switch the network configurations between the lab, the dorm and the home ones. Normally I manullay edit /etc/network/interfaces and restart the networking. Is there any easier and smarter way of doing

Speeding up boot time

2007-03-21 Thread Michael Pobega
I'm looking to speed up my Debian Etch boot speed, but I have no idea where to start. Currently I have everything default, but I'd like to remove a few things (Like networking, because networking tries to connect to my Ethernet and my wireless drivers are loaded separately). Are there any easy

Re: Speeding up boot time

2007-03-21 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/21/07 19:39, Michael Pobega wrote: I'm looking to speed up my Debian Etch boot speed, but I have no idea where to start. Currently I have everything default, but I'd like to remove a few things (Like networking, because networking tries to

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-21 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 11:08:42PM +, Arnt Karlsen wrote: On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 16:13:41 -0400, Celejar wrote in [EMAIL PROTECTED]: It is not at all obvious that the fourth convention applies to 'unlawful combatants'. The (current US) administration has claimed that it does not. Can

Re: Speeding up boot time

2007-03-21 Thread John Schmidt
On Wednesday 21 March 2007 18:39, Michael Pobega wrote: I'm looking to speed up my Debian Etch boot speed, but I have no idea where to start. Currently I have everything default, but I'd like to remove a few things (Like networking, because networking tries to connect to my Ethernet and my

Re: Speeding up boot time

2007-03-21 Thread Michael Pobega
On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 08:12:37PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 03/21/07 19:39, Michael Pobega wrote: Are there any easy tools to look through my startup programs, or will I have to sort through everything manually? It's not as much as you think. And if I remove networking, how do I

Re: Speeding up boot time

2007-03-21 Thread Michael Pobega
On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 07:32:26PM -0600, John Schmidt wrote: On Wednesday 21 March 2007 18:39, Michael Pobega wrote: I'm looking to speed up my Debian Etch boot speed, but I have no idea where to start. Currently I have everything default, but I'd like to remove a few things (Like

Re: Speeding up boot time

2007-03-21 Thread John Schmidt
On Wednesday 21 March 2007 19:45, Michael Pobega wrote: On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 07:32:26PM -0600, John Schmidt wrote: On Wednesday 21 March 2007 18:39, Michael Pobega wrote: I'm looking to speed up my Debian Etch boot speed, but I have no idea where to start. Currently I have

Re: Speeding up boot time

2007-03-21 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/21/07 20:44, Michael Pobega wrote: On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 08:12:37PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 03/21/07 19:39, Michael Pobega wrote: Are there any easy tools to look through my startup programs, or will I have to sort through everything

Re: Speeding up boot time

2007-03-21 Thread Michael Pobega
On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 07:54:09PM -0600, John Schmidt wrote: On Wednesday 21 March 2007 19:45, Michael Pobega wrote: On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 07:32:26PM -0600, John Schmidt wrote: On Wednesday 21 March 2007 18:39, Michael Pobega wrote: I'm looking to speed up my Debian Etch boot speed,

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-21 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/21/07 20:21, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: [snip] The Taliban occupied 95% of the territory, called the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. The remaining 5% belonged to the rebel forces constituting the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan,

Re: ANSI art with X terminal emulator

2007-03-21 Thread Jeremy Cyrus
does anyone have any useful information concerning this issue? thanx On 3/18/07, Jeremy Cyrus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i am trying to run scrollz irc client in an xterm, with a colorful ansi art script loading that produces very eye catching graphics. (the reason i have always used scrollz

Re: Speeding up boot time

2007-03-21 Thread Michael Pobega
On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 09:05:55PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/21/07 20:44, Michael Pobega wrote: On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 08:12:37PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 03/21/07 19:39, Michael Pobega wrote: Are there any easy tools to look

Re: Speeding up boot time

2007-03-21 Thread Michael Pobega
Also, I forgot to ask. Would it be safe to remove networking from /etc/init.d, and just switch to using ifupdown? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Unable to change tty /dev/tty1

2007-03-21 Thread Mr. Suhas Ghosh
Hi, Thank you very much Joe and Florian for your response. Actually this is part of a Embedded system. So my total root file system will be in flash which is read only. So I can not make root read write. I have another RW root also. but there is no problem like Unable to change tty /dev/tty1 :

Re: ANSI art with X terminal emulator

2007-03-21 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 06:12:39PM -0800, Jeremy Cyrus wrote: does anyone have any useful information concerning this issue? the fontpath directives in your /etc/X11/xorg.conf are pointing to directories that don't exist, probably as a result of the transition from xf86 to xorg. I'm not sure how

Re: how to switch between different network configurations?

2007-03-21 Thread L . V . Gandhi
On 3/21/07, Michael Pobega [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 09:56:13PM +0800, Zhengquan Zhang mailing list wrote: I have to switch the network configurations between the lab, the dorm and the home ones. Normally I manullay edit /etc/network/interfaces and restart the

Re: how to switch between different network configurations?

2007-03-21 Thread Michael Pobega
On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 07:41:56PM -0700, L.V.Gandhi wrote: On 3/21/07, Michael Pobega [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Packages: network-manager-gnome / network-manager-kde Executables: nm-applet / kdenetworkmanager You'll need a system tray to be able to use those programs though, if you're

Re: Speeding up boot time

2007-03-21 Thread John Schmidt
On Wednesday 21 March 2007 20:19, Michael Pobega wrote: On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 09:05:55PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/21/07 20:44, Michael Pobega wrote: On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 08:12:37PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 03/21/07 19:39,

Re: Speeding up boot time

2007-03-21 Thread John Schmidt
On Wednesday 21 March 2007 20:24, Michael Pobega wrote: Also, I forgot to ask. Would it be safe to remove networking from /etc/init.d, and just switch to using ifupdown? I would just install ifplugd and configure it and see if it doesn't help alievate the time delay that occurs if you don't

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