Debian 6.0.0 DVD (1) installation unable to complete setup of package manager due to corrupt ftp/ mirror repositories

Have spent the last several days trying to get a usable BitTorrent download of Debian 6.0.0. Since yesterday, the automated setup has been unable to complete setup of the package manager, from various ftp/ mirror sites. Have tried multiple sites in multiple locations including Singapore, Australia,

Re: xterm question [SOLVED]

On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 01:19:49PM -0500, Chris Jones wrote: > On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 12:39:39PM EST, Mike McClain wrote: > > > I work mainly on the commandline and have setup my own inputrc and > > a script that calls loadkeys for readline editing functions in bash such > > as ^Home --> bash:bac

Re: [slightly OT] I'm thinking about this piece of kit - how well will Debian work with it? [ really OT ]

On 20110217_174340, Gilbert Sullivan wrote: > On 02/17/2011 04:11 PM, AG wrote: > >Hello list > > > >I'm seriously considering this laptop > >http://3dguy.tv/toshiba-3d-enabled-laptop/ and wiping it clean of > >Windows (or dual booting) with Debian. > > > >Given the specs of the hardware, what is t

Re: Console resolution

> I am not new to the linux way of things but I am new to the debain > way of things and I have some questions that need to be answered. To > start, I need to ket rid of nouveau as it's screwing with uvesafb > (produces an 'Error -22'). I added it to > /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf but it's stil

Re: Mdadm device reassignment

On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 10:03 PM, Garrett Reid wrote: > On Feb 17, 2011, at 6:43 PM, Tom H wrote: >> On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 6:40 PM, Garrett Reid wrote: >>> >>> Hi all, I just installed the new stable Squeeze system, and moved over a >>> raid5 from an older system. For some reason, it now wants

Re: Is this statement correct?

On Thu, 17 Feb 2011 22:12:42 -0500 (EST), Jesús M. Navarro wrote: > On Friday 18 February 2011 02:54:03 Stephen Powell wrote: >> ... >> The longer, more formal name of Debian is "Debian GNU/Linux". >> ... > > Unless it isn't, of course. > > As it's the case for Debian GNU/kFreeBSD. And Debian GN

Re: Cleaning DHCP and Host Info for New LAN

On 02/18/2011 02:23 AM, Hal Vaughan wrote: On Feb 17, 2011, at 6:40 AM, Bob wrote: On 02/17/2011 12:24 PM, Hal Vaughan wrote: On Feb 16, 2011, at 10:22 PM, Bob wrote: On 02/17/2011 06:38 AM, Hal Vaughan wrote: 8< snip system image pushed onto a CF card, sounds like a firewall, VPN or aster

Re: Is this statement correct?

Hi, Stephen: On Friday 18 February 2011 02:54:03 Stephen Powell wrote: > On 17:37 Thu 17 Feb, Lisi (lisi.re...@gmail.com) wrote: > > Is this statement correct? It comes in the textbook for a course I am > > doing. > > Grub (Grand Unified Bootloader) is the boot program of the GNU project. > > >

Re: Mdadm device reassignment

On Feb 17, 2011, at 6:43 PM, Tom H wrote: > On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 6:40 PM, Garrett Reid wrote: >> >> Hi all, I just installed the new stable Squeeze system, and moved over a >> raid5 from an older system. For some reason, it now wants to mount as md127 >> instead of md0. I've been unable to ma

Re: nameserver issues involving *.debian.org SOLVED!

On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 11:26:37AM -1000, Joel Roth wrote: > Hi all, > > Some nslookup oddities have been bothering me. Does it look > to you like my ISP is blocking certain DNS queries? [nslookup output deleted] I contacted my ISP today. The tech said he resolved the problem by resetting the

Re: Mdadm device reassignment

On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 6:40 PM, Garrett Reid wrote: > > Hi all, I just installed the new stable Squeeze system, and moved over a > raid5 from an older system. For some reason, it now wants to mount as md127 > instead of md0. I've been unable to map it back to md0. >> >> root@jupiter:~# mdadm --st

Re: squeeze fails to install

On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 8:07 PM, Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: > on 19:30 Thu 17 Feb, Neal Hogan (nealho...@gmail.com) wrote: >> On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 6:40 PM, Dr. Ed Morbius >> wrote: >> > I'll generally constrain my followup to the earlier thread rather than >> > propogating two separate ones. >> >

Re: squeeze fails to install

on 19:30 Thu 17 Feb, Neal Hogan (nealho...@gmail.com) wrote: > On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 6:40 PM, Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: > > I'll generally constrain my followup to the earlier thread rather than > > propogating two separate ones. > > > > on 18:11 Thu 17 Feb, Neal Hogan (nealho...@gmail.com) wrote: >

Re: Is this statement correct?

On 17:37 Thu 17 Feb, Lisi (lisi.re...@gmail.com) wrote: > Is this statement correct? It comes in the textbook for a course I am doing. > > Grub (Grand Unified Bootloader) is the boot program of the GNU project. > > > If so, where does LILO fit in? The longer, more formal name of Debian is "Deb

Re: Mdadm device reassignment

> Hi all, I just installed the new stable Squeeze system, and moved over a > raid5 from an older system. For some reason, it now wants to mount as md127 > instead of md0. I've been unable to map it back to md0. [ Details elided...] > > root@jupiter:~# mdadm --assemble /dev/md0 /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdc1

Re: Squeeze vulnerable to CVE-2010-2943 (xfs+NFS unlinked inode access)

On Thu, 17 Feb 2011, dann frazier wrote: > > http://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2010-2943 > > It is supposed to be vulnerable. > > I've backported a fix for this, but it was too late to make the > initial release of squeeze. The fix is queued for the first update to > squeeze, see: >

Re: Console resolution

On Thu, 17 Feb 2011 20:07:51 -0500 (EST), Chris Brennan wrote: > > I am not new to the linux way of things but I am new to the debain > way of things and I have some questions that need to be answered. To > start, I need to ket rid of nouveau as it's screwing with uvesafb > (produces an 'Error -2

Re: squeeze fails to install

On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 6:40 PM, Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: > I'll generally constrain my followup to the earlier thread rather than > propogating two separate ones. > > on 18:11 Thu 17 Feb, Neal Hogan (nealho...@gmail.com) wrote: >> On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 12:39 PM, Dr. Ed Morbius >> wrote: >> > on

Console resolution

I am not new to the linux way of things but I am new to the debain way of things and I have some questions that need to be answered. To start, I need to ket rid of nouveau as it's screwing with uvesafb (produces an 'Error -22'). I added it to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf but it's still being loa

cannot aptitude -t experimental install perl

Gentlemen, I find no way to install the experimental version of perl. # aptitude -t experimental install ~i~nperl The following packages will be upgraded: perl perl-base perl-doc perl-modules 4 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 89 not upgraded. The following packages have

Re: Squeeze install hangs reading CD drive

For the record, I did submit a bug report on this (bug #613835). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/loom.20110218t015004-...@post.gmane.org

Re: Failed logins isn't logged?

on 17:13 Thu 17 Feb, Daniel Andersson (l...@daniel-gr-andersson.com) wrote: > On 02/17/2011 04:27 PM, Camaleón wrote: > >On Thu, 17 Feb 2011 13:49:32 +0100, Daniel Andersson wrote: > > > >>I'm curious why failed logins isn't logged by default. This is basic > >>security? > > > >(...) > > > >It is e

Re: squeeze fails to install

I'll generally constrain my followup to the earlier thread rather than propogating two separate ones. on 18:11 Thu 17 Feb, Neal Hogan (nealho...@gmail.com) wrote: > On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 12:39 PM, Dr. Ed Morbius > wrote: > > on 21:01 Wed 16 Feb, Neal Hogan (nealho...@gmail.com) wrote: > >> I h

Re: squeeze fails to install

On 02/17/2011 07:11 PM, Neal Hogan wrote: On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 12:39 PM, Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: on 21:01 Wed 16 Feb, Neal Hogan (nealho...@gmail.com) wrote: I have another thread started that is not getting much traffic given the significance of the situation: installation. Every installati

Re: How long has your Lenny -> Squeeze upgrade taken?

On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 4:14 PM, shawn wilson wrote: > However, let's just say <1 hour all inclusive. > Thanks Shawn, I was trying to figure out if this was something I could do one night or if I needed to schedule a whole day for it. Will give it a go and see what happens.

Re: squeeze fails to install

On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 12:39 PM, Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: > on 21:01 Wed 16 Feb, Neal Hogan (nealho...@gmail.com) wrote: >> I have another thread started that is not getting much traffic given >> the significance of the situation: installation. >> >> Every installation medium that I've tried fails.

Re: Gnash killing my CPU

On 16 February 2011 22:49, Noah Duffy wrote: > I finally noticed a tend today.  Whenever I have a web browser open, > my laptop's fan goes nuts and the temperature shoots up to a level I > don't like it to be at when I'm ONLY browsing the web.  I opened up > the system monitor and one of my proces

Re: How long has your Lenny -> Squeeze upgrade taken?

On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 3:40 PM, shawn wilson wrote: > bandwidth? processor? other processes running? > > i didn't time it, but i'd guess ~10 min after download on modern hardware > if nothing messes up. > > > On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 6:33 PM, Mark wrote: > >> Realizing this is dependent on compu

Re: squeeze fails to install

On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 1:06 PM, David Christensen wrote: > On 02/15/2011 04:43 PM, Neal Hogan wrote: >> I've tried the mini.iso and full net-iso for both the >> gnu/bsd and gnu/linux system (i386) and no matter what I try it fails >> to partition my drive. >>    eg. >>       "[!!] Partition disks

Re: Installing Debian from NFS

On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 6:12 PM, Martin Habets < errandir_n...@mph.eclipse.co.uk> wrote: > > The way my boot server is setup is, that it has tftp, /etc/ethers and > > /etc/hosts files all setup. > > You'll also need either bootparamd or dhcpd set up. > I don't believe that's required by Debian. B

Mdadm device reassignment

Hi all, I just installed the new stable Squeeze system, and moved over a raid5 from an older system. For some reason, it now wants to mount as md127 instead of md0. I've been unable to map it back to md0. Below is all the terminal commands I thought of as relevant, along with my commentary. I'm do

Re: How long has your Lenny -> Squeeze upgrade taken?

bandwidth? processor? other processes running? i didn't time it, but i'd guess ~10 min after download on modern hardware if nothing messes up. On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 6:33 PM, Mark wrote: > Realizing this is dependent on computer specs, just curious what some of > the people on this list have e

aptitude error-lenny confused

ok, so I screwed up & reinstalled a package from the lenny CD. # aptitude upgrade The following packages have unmet dependencies: libkrb5-3: Depends: libc6 (>= 2.9) but 2.7-18lenny7 is installed. libc-bin: Breaks: libc6 (< 2.10) but 2.7-18lenny7 is installed. libgfortran3: Depends: gcc-4.4-b

How long has your Lenny -> Squeeze upgrade taken?

Realizing this is dependent on computer specs, just curious what some of the people on this list have experienced for how much time it took to do the Lenny to Squeeze upgrade, (assuming a fully up-to-date Lenny system). Thanks, Mark

Re: Squeeze vulnerable to CVE-2010-2943 (xfs+NFS unlinked inode access)

On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 07:59:16AM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Wed, 16 Feb 2011, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > > Johan Grönqvist a écrit : > > > 2011-02-15 22:46, Kelly Dean skrev: > > >> http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2010-2943 was > > >> published Sept 30, 2010,

Re: Installing Debian from NFS

On Wed, Feb 02, 2011 at 01:49:47PM -0500, RR wrote: > Hello, > > this may be a very obvious one of those things that I should just "Google" > but given my last experience, and unsuccessful Googling, I figured maybe I > should ask the community as to what the CORRECT way to install Debian on a > S

Re: Failed logins isn't logged?

Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote at 2011-02-17 10:37 -0700: > Camaleón wrote: > >On Thu, 17 Feb 2011 13:49:32 +0100, Daniel Andersson wrote: > > > >>I'm curious why failed logins isn't logged by default. This is basic > >>security? > > > >(...) > > > >It is enabled by default in Lenny: > > > >sm01@stt008:~$ g

Re: [slightly OT] I'm thinking about this piece of kit - how well will Debian work with it?

On 02/17/2011 04:11 PM, AG wrote: Hello list I'm seriously considering this laptop http://3dguy.tv/toshiba-3d-enabled-laptop/ and wiping it clean of Windows (or dual booting) with Debian. Given the specs of the hardware, what is the likely quality of experience for the user with a Debian testin

Re: Gnash killing my CPU

On 17/02/11 04:49, Noah Duffy wrote: I finally noticed a tend today. Whenever I have a web browser open, my laptop's fan goes nuts and the temperature shoots up to a level I don't like it to be at when I'm ONLY browsing the web. I opened up the system monitor and one of my processors was was 10

[slightly OT] I'm thinking about this piece of kit - how well will Debian work with it?

Hello list I'm seriously considering this laptop http://3dguy.tv/toshiba-3d-enabled-laptop/ and wiping it clean of Windows (or dual booting) with Debian. Given the specs of the hardware, what is the likely quality of experience for the user with a Debian testing installation and what would

Re: Using /etc/apt/*.d directories

Interesting little factoid: My workstation runs sid, and I am seeing something wierd. At 11:16am, apticron ran on it and I had the expected 109 packages ready to install. I wanted to wait until I got home to do the upgrade, because one of the packages was the new kernel. Well, when I got home and

Re: Gnash killing my CPU

On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 10:15 AM, Camaleón wrote: > On Wed, 16 Feb 2011 22:49:02 -0600, Noah Duffy wrote: > > (...) > >> I killed it and >> probably will uninstall it because I need to run Flash for certain >> sites, but I'm still curious if anyone else has this problem with Gnash. > > JFYI, there

Re: Hibernate works, but resume reboots midway

On 02/17/2011 01:21 AM, Rakhesh Sasidharan wrote: On 02/16/2011 06:33 PM, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: Rakhesh Sasidharan schreef: Hi, I am using Squeeze (Linux) on a netbook (an Ideapad S10). Pretty standard install from the first CD, using GNOME, custom partitions - with /boot an a primary partiti

Re: cannot build-essentials-SOLVED

On 02/17/2011 02:22 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: My crystal ball tells me that the filesystem where you ran this is mounted with the "noexec" option. Fix this and retry. I am not sure what to do about those filesystems, as far as the noexec. It doesn't show that in /etc/fstab. copying the sourc

Re: Is this statement correct?

The first Linux I installed (that was back to 2003) defaulted to GRUB as bootloader and GRUB (legacy) is the only bootloader I've installed -and tweaked- since then. While I've seen "LILOs" when testing another distributions, true is that I have not a deep knowdledge of how it works. But, for wha

Re: cannot build-essentials

On 02/17/2011 02:21 PM, Camaleón wrote: I think I am having some repository issue?? > > aptitude update gives me this: > Errhttp://ftp.us.debian.org lenny/updates/contrib Sources ^ ^ ^ I can't see that stanza in your "/etc/apt/sources.list" bu

Re: What Would Cause Poor Performance (Remmina) Over SSH?

On 02/17/2011 03:04 PM, Camaleón wrote: On Thu, 17 Feb 2011 14:33:08 -0500, Gilbert Sullivan wrote: I really like remmina, but I have run into an inconvenience. If I use remmina directly on a local system the remote desktop sessions on Windows clients are very responsive. But when I use an SSH

Re: What Would Cause Poor Performance (Remmina) Over SSH?

On Thu, 17 Feb 2011 14:33:08 -0500, Gilbert Sullivan wrote: > I really like remmina, but I have run into an inconvenience. If I use > remmina directly on a local system the remote desktop sessions on > Windows clients are very responsive. But when I use an SSH -X session to > connect to my remote

Re: Is Blackboxwm web site down

on 12:57 Thu 17 Feb, Johnny (digitalmodeu...@gmail.com) wrote: > Is Blackboxwm web site down just wondering I have tried about 4 days > many times I keep getting this > > Website database is down. Will attempt to fetch a static page > version from cache instead. > I could not find a cached version

What Would Cause Poor Performance (Remmina) Over SSH?

Hi, Folks. I'm tracking Debian testing on my personal systems and on a desktop system I use for remote admin chores. This past week I saw the venerable tsclient get reclassified by aptitude as obsolete, so I removed it and its dependencies, then installed remmina and its dependencies. I real

Re: Is this statement correct?

on 12:55 Thu 17 Feb, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. (b...@iguanasuicide.net) wrote: > On Thursday 17 February 2011 12:44:05 Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: > > LILO was an earlier bootloader. For Linux. Hence: LInux LOader. > > It was a successor to LoadLin, a program to LOAD LINux. That is a DOS executable: L

Re: cannot build-essentials

On 2011-02-17 20:02 +0100, Paul Cartwright wrote: > # apt-get install build-essentials > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state information... Done > E: Couldn't find package build-essentials > > > I think I am having some repository issue?? The above error is no

Re: cannot build-essentials

On Thu, 17 Feb 2011 14:02:52 -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote: > # apt-get install build-essentials ^ Remove the last "s"... is "build-essential" sm01@stt008:~$ apt-cache search build-essential devscripts - scripts to make the life of a Debian Package maintainer ea

Re: Is this statement correct?

On Thu, 17 Feb 2011 12:35:04 -0600, Kent West wrote: > On 02/17/2011 12:04 PM, Camaleón wrote: >> LILO is another bootloader available for Linux. >> >> What was your concern? The sponsor? :-) >> >> >> >> > LILO was the boot loader used a version or few back. It can still be > used, but it's n

Re: squeeze fails to install

On 02/15/2011 04:43 PM, Neal Hogan wrote: > I've tried the mini.iso and full net-iso for both the > gnu/bsd and gnu/linux system (i386) and no matter what I try it fails > to partition my drive. >eg. > "[!!] Partition disks >Failed to create a file system >The ufs file sy

Re: Is Blackboxwm web site down

Johnny writes: > Is Blackboxwm web site down just wondering I have tried about 4 days > many times I keep getting this > > Website database is down. Will attempt to fetch a static page version > from cache instead. > I could not find a cached version for this page. Sorry. Please go back > and try

cannot build-essentials

# apt-get install build-essentials Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done E: Couldn't find package build-essentials I think I am having some repository issue?? aptitude update gives me this: Err http://ftp.us.debian.org lenny/updates/contrib Sou

Is Blackboxwm web site down

Is Blackboxwm web site down just wondering I have tried about 4 days many times I keep getting this Website database is down. Will attempt to fetch a static page version from cache instead. I could not find a cached version for this page. Sorry. Please go back and try other pages. Just wonde

Re: Is this statement correct?

On Thursday 17 February 2011 12:44:05 Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: > LILO was an earlier bootloader. For Linux. Hence: LInux LOader. It was a successor to LoadLin, a program to LOAD LINux. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) IC

Re: Is this statement correct?

on 17:37 Thu 17 Feb, Lisi (lisi.re...@gmail.com) wrote: > Is this statement correct? It comes in the textbook for a course I am doing. 1: Why does this matter? > > Grub (Grand Unified Bootloader) is the boot program of the GNU project. > > > If so, where does LILO fit in? 2: The GNU projec

Re: fresh squeeze install fails to partition

on 18:43 Tue 15 Feb, Neal Hogan (nealho...@gmail.com) wrote: > Hi list, > > My goal was to install the debian GNU/bsd system, but things seemed to > be messed up. I've tried the mini.iso and full net-iso for both the > gnu/bsd and gnu/linux system (i386) and no matter what I try it fails > to part

Re: Icedove filters

On Thu, 17 Feb 2011 07:37:58 -0800, tony mollica wrote: (...) > Any ideas on where the filter definitions are stored? Or why the > modified filters don't stick? Filters are stored in "~/.icedove/profile.default/Mail/[Local Folders| ImapMail]/msgFilterRules.dat". BTW, I've just tested by copyi

Re: squeeze fails to install

on 21:01 Wed 16 Feb, Neal Hogan (nealho...@gmail.com) wrote: > I have another thread started that is not getting much traffic given > the significance of the situation: installation. > > Every installation medium that I've tried fails. Those trials include > net-install-iso, mini-iso, full-diskOne

Re: Cleaning DHCP and Host Info for New LAN

On Feb 17, 2011, at 6:40 AM, Bob wrote: > On 02/17/2011 12:24 PM, Hal Vaughan wrote: >> On Feb 16, 2011, at 10:22 PM, Bob wrote: >>> On 02/17/2011 06:38 AM, Hal Vaughan wrote: > > 8< snip system image pushed onto a CF card > >>> rm -f /mnt/src/etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules >>> rm -f

Re: Is this statement correct?

On 02/17/2011 12:04 PM, Camaleón wrote: On Thu, 17 Feb 2011 17:37:37 +, Lisi wrote: Is this statement correct? It comes in the textbook for a course I am doing. Grub (Grand Unified Bootloader) is the boot program of the GNU project. Yep, is correct. If so, where does LILO

Re: Is this statement correct?

Lisi wrote: Is this statement correct? It comes in the textbook for a course I am doing. Grub (Grand Unified Bootloader) is the boot program of the GNU project. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_GRUB If so, where does LILO fit in? Well, LILO is short for "LInux LOader" ... for starters.

Re: Is this statement correct?

On Thu, 17 Feb 2011 17:37:37 +, Lisi wrote: > Is this statement correct? It comes in the textbook for a course I am > doing. > Grub (Grand Unified Bootloader) is the boot program of the GNU project. > Yep, is correct. > If so, where does LILO fit in? LILO is another bootloader available

Re: Failed logins isn't logged?

Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: sm01@stt008:~$ grep FAILLOG_ENAB /etc/login.defs FAILLOG_ENAByes I don't see that in Squeeze. Just copy that to etc? I do. # grep FAILLOG+ENAB /etc/login.defs FAILLOG_ENAByes # uname -a Linux XXX 2.6.32-5-amd64 #1 SMP Wed Jan 12 03:40:32 UTC

Re: Failed logins isn't logged?

On Thu, 17 Feb 2011 11:37:29 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Camaleón wrote: >> It is enabled by default in Lenny: >> >> sm01@stt008:~$ grep FAILLOG_ENAB /etc/login.defs FAILLOG_ENAByes >> >> > I don't see that in Squeeze. Just copy that to etc? Let me check... test@debian:~$ gr

Re: Is this statement correct?

On Thursday 17 February 2011 11:37:37 Lisi wrote: > Is this statement correct? > Grub (Grand Unified Bootloader) is the boot program of the GNU project. Yes. > If so, where does LILO fit in? LILO isn't a GNU project. LILO is licensed under the GNU GPL. The GNU GPL is the license that GNU reco

Re: Failed logins isn't logged?

Daniel Andersson wrote: How do I view the log file? /var/log/faillog # faillog -h Cheers -- Kind Regards AndrewM Andrew McGlashan Broadband Solutions now including VoIP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact list

Re: ClamAV update to 0.97

On Thu, 17 Feb 2011 11:20:44 -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Thursday 17 February 2011 11:05:42 Camaleón wrote: >> > From what I understand, the clamav binaries are only updated in >> > stable (even in stable/volatile or stable-updates) when a new version >> > is needed in order to use

Re: Failed logins isn't logged?

Camaleón wrote: On Thu, 17 Feb 2011 13:49:32 +0100, Daniel Andersson wrote: I'm curious why failed logins isn't logged by default. This is basic security? (...) It is enabled by default in Lenny: sm01@stt008:~$ grep FAILLOG_ENAB /etc/login.defs FAILLOG_ENAByes I don't see tha

Is this statement correct?

Is this statement correct? It comes in the textbook for a course I am doing. Grub (Grand Unified Bootloader) is the boot program of the GNU project. If so, where does LILO fit in? Thanks, Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: Failed logins isn't logged?

On 02/17/2011 05:31 PM, Camaleón wrote: On Thu, 17 Feb 2011 17:13:14 +0100, Daniel Andersson wrote: On 02/17/2011 04:27 PM, Camaleón wrote: On Thu, 17 Feb 2011 13:49:32 +0100, Daniel Andersson wrote: I'm curious why failed logins isn't logged by default. This is basic security? (...) It i

Re: I want beep in urxvt terminal

Csanyi Pal writes: > Csanyi Pal writes: > >> Joe Riel writes: >> >>> I started a similar thread about two weeks ago. Finally resolved it >>> by switching from the nvidia driver to the nouveau driver. Why that >>> made a difference is beyond me, but it did. >> >> I'm using nvidia driver now.

Re: ClamAV update to 0.97

On Thursday 17 February 2011 11:05:42 Camaleón wrote: > On Thu, 17 Feb 2011 10:38:24 -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > On Thursday 17 February 2011 09:41:43 Camaleón wrote: > >> Since a week (or so) ago, my ClamAV log is urging me to upgrade to the > >> lastest stable version available -as a

Re: ClamAV update to 0.97

On Thu, 17 Feb 2011 10:38:24 -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Thursday 17 February 2011 09:41:43 Camaleón wrote: >> Since a week (or so) ago, my ClamAV log is urging me to upgrade to the >> lastest stable version available -as always- but I see no update in >> volatile repo... is that exp

Re^3: UVC cameras

* From: Sjoerd Hardeman * Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 21:24:00 +0200 > Better, try luvcview or guvcview, specialised programmes to just grab > the output of the camera. They also allow to alter the settings, maybe > you can fix things. "luvcview -L" lists formats MJPEG, RGB3, BGR3, YU12 an

Re: ClamAV update to 0.97

On Thu, 17 Feb 2011 11:27:55 -0500, mark wrote: >> Since a week (or so) ago, my ClamAV log is urging me to upgrade to the >> lastest stable version available -as always- but I see no update in >> volatile repo... is that expected to be done? :-? >> >> (running lenny here) >> > > If having the lat

Re: Debootstrap

On Thursday 17 February 2011 10:20:31 Peter Smith wrote: > Is all Debian > packages stored in ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/ and then the > package management system on ex. Squeeze only sees the packages > intended for this system? Yes-ish.

Re: ClamAV update to 0.97

On Thursday 17 February 2011 09:41:43 Camaleón wrote: > Since a week (or so) ago, my ClamAV log is urging me to upgrade to the > lastest stable version available -as always- but I see no update in > volatile repo... is that expected to be done? :-? From what I understand, the clamav binaries are o

Icedove filters

Hello. I've pulled the Thunderbird directory from my old Lenny and placed it in the Icedove dir in the new squeeze-amd64. Everything works except the filters that were previously defined in Lenny. It seems any changes I make to the filters are not stored after Icedove is shutdown and restar

Re: Failed logins isn't logged?

On Thu, 17 Feb 2011 17:13:14 +0100, Daniel Andersson wrote: > On 02/17/2011 04:27 PM, Camaleón wrote: >> On Thu, 17 Feb 2011 13:49:32 +0100, Daniel Andersson wrote: >> >>> I'm curious why failed logins isn't logged by default. This is basic >>> security? >> >> (...) >> >> It is enabled by default

Re: ClamAV update to 0.97

> Hello, > > Since a week (or so) ago, my ClamAV log is urging me to upgrade to the > lastest stable version available -as always- but I see no update in > volatile repo... is that expected to be done? :-? > > (running lenny here) > > Greetings, Hi, If having the latest and greatest ClamAV is imp

Re: Debootstrap

On the adress ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/f/fakechroot/ i found a newer package that i tried to install on the Squeeze system and now everything is working as expected. Now i am wondering if the package was built on a Squeeze system or if the packages in these directories get security up

Re: Failed logins isn't logged?

On 02/17/2011 04:27 PM, Camaleón wrote: On Thu, 17 Feb 2011 13:49:32 +0100, Daniel Andersson wrote: I'm curious why failed logins isn't logged by default. This is basic security? (...) It is enabled by default in Lenny: sm01@stt008:~$ grep FAILLOG_ENAB /etc/login.defs FAILLOG_ENAB

Re: Gnash killing my CPU

On Wed, 16 Feb 2011 22:49:02 -0600, Noah Duffy wrote: (...) > I killed it and > probably will uninstall it because I need to run Flash for certain > sites, but I'm still curious if anyone else has this problem with Gnash. JFYI, there is no need to remove the package, gnash can co-exist with Ado

Re: Failed logins isn't logged?

Daniel Andersson wrote at 2011-02-17 05:49 -0700: > I'm curious why failed logins isn't logged by default. This is basic > security? > http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/securing-debian-howto/ch4.en.html#s4.10 >FAILLOG_ENAByes It might help to mention the file: /etc/login.defs Th

Re: Moving Lenny from Virtual Machine to Physical

On Thu, 17 Feb 2011 15:32:42 +, Camaleón wrote: (...) > You can then return to GRUB menu (Esc) and (e)dit the line accordingly > and (b)oot. Once you're in, edit "/etc/fstab" to update the new device ^^ Hum... my bad. That should read "Once you're

Re: no network connection with Wheezy

On Wed, 16 Feb 2011 21:55:19 +, I wrote: > I installed Wheezy (testing) with a netinst CD, at which point it obviously > had a network connection. On booting, though, it does not. If I transfer > the Ethernet cable to the adjacent Lenny machine, the connection is fine. > > /etc/network/in

Re: I want beep in urxvt terminal - SOLVED

On Thu, 17 Feb 2011 09:16:16 -0600 Ron Johnson wrote: Hello Ron, > Yes, I use nvidia, and no I won't use nouveau. Entirely your prerogative of course, but might I ask why? -- Regards _ / ) "The blindingly obvious is / _)radnever immediately apparent" Drum

Re: Debootstrap

On Wednesday 16 February 2011 17:57:32 Peter Smith wrote: > Is there any chance that this defective package will be updated in Squeeze? Unlikely. The severity is "normal". According to release.d.o point releases for stable "include security and other important fixes only." -- Boyd Stephen Smit

ClamAV update to 0.97

Hello, Since a week (or so) ago, my ClamAV log is urging me to upgrade to the lastest stable version available -as always- but I see no update in volatile repo... is that expected to be done? :-? (running lenny here) Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@l

Re: Moving Lenny from Virtual Machine to Physical

On Thu, 17 Feb 2011 10:24:44 -0500, Roman Gelfand wrote: > I used clonezilla to take a disk image of debian lenny vm. I > successfully restored it to physical machine. Now when I boot, the grub > is working. However, when trying to load lenny (in initramfs), it fail > to mount the hard drive.

Re: Failed logins isn't logged?

On Thu, 17 Feb 2011 13:49:32 +0100, Daniel Andersson wrote: > I'm curious why failed logins isn't logged by default. This is basic > security? (...) It is enabled by default in Lenny: sm01@stt008:~$ grep FAILLOG_ENAB /etc/login.defs FAILLOG_ENAByes Gretings, -- Camaleón -- To

Moving Lenny from Virtual Machine to Physical

I used clonezilla to take a disk image of debian lenny vm. I successfully restored it to physical machine. Now when I boot, the grub is working. However, when trying to load lenny (in initramfs), it fail to mount the hard drive. After doing some reading, I found that most probably /etc/fstab ha

Re: I want beep in urxvt terminal - SOLVED

On 02/17/2011 08:44 AM, Brad Rogers wrote: On Thu, 17 Feb 2011 08:20:25 -0600 Ron Johnson wrote: Hello Ron, Exactly... (And yes, I do have module pcspkr loaded.) Same here. Maybe Joe's suggestion of using nouveau rather than nvidia would help. Assuming you use the NVidia driver, of cours

Re: dig knows while ping doesn't

On Thu, 17 Feb 2011 03:59:55 +, T o n g wrote: > On Thu, 17 Feb 2011 03:20:58 +, T o n g wrote: > >> I can't explain the following myself: . . . >> >> -- dig knows the host maroon. >> -- yet ping doesn't know the host maroon. > > - It actually happens to all of my local hosts short name

Re: I want beep in urxvt terminal - SOLVED

On Thu, 17 Feb 2011 08:20:25 -0600 Ron Johnson wrote: Hello Ron, > Exactly... (And yes, I do have module pcspkr loaded.) Same here. Maybe Joe's suggestion of using nouveau rather than nvidia would help. Assuming you use the NVidia driver, of course. I've yet to try it myself. -- Regards

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