Re: Installing testing: can't get cable Internet after reboot

2005-12-29 Thread Marty
Edward C. Jones wrote: How can I solve my problem? Do I need to install dnsmasq on T? If so, can I download it to K then copy it somewhere in T? Take a incremental backup of T, noting which files which have changed since yesterday's daily backup, then restore T from yesterday's backup.

samba won't dance

2005-12-20 Thread Marty Landman
] path = /tmp read only = no valid users = dad marty ;[web] ; path = /mnt/web ; read only = no ; valid users = dad marty UNCLELEO:~# cat /etc/smbpasswd dad:1001:42110F925EAFD4CDAAD3B435B51404EE:D5EC2F34658F6BAA862ADE8B799FC5B7:[U ]:LCT-43A761D8: marty:1000

Re: Need help with backing up a Windows 98/2000 computer using rsync on a Debian Server running ssh

2005-12-20 Thread Marty
TAC Forums wrote: Hi I have a Debian server running ssh which performs the job of a Backup Server. All the GNU/Linux workstations / servers on the network have a bash script that run in the cron to rsync the data folders to the main backup server at night. However, I am having difficulting

samba won't dance

2005-12-20 Thread Marty Landman
Got it - turns out I had my smb.conf on the wrong path. Marty Landman, Face 2 Interface Inc. 845-679-9387 Webmaster's Bulletin Board: http://bbs.face2interface.com/ Web Installed Formmail: http://face2interface.com/formINSTal -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Install kernel-source-2.6.8 update

2005-12-17 Thread Marty
Marcel Stoop wrote: On Fri, 2005-12-16 at 23:37 -0500, Marty wrote: So in other words, if you like to inform other (beginning) users, or just answer their questions about kernels on the list. Please make sure they use it the way they should, in debian that is. The method I proposed works just

Re: install samba from binary

2005-12-16 Thread Marty Landman
At 02:40 PM 12/12/2005, Juergen Fiedler wrote: On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 02:33:43PM -0500, Marty Landman wrote: At 01:48 PM 12/12/2005, Andrei Popescu wrote: [...] UNCLELEO:~# ping -c 1 google.com ping: unknown host google.com What do you get if you do (for example) 'ping -c 1 64.233.187.99

Re: Install kernel-source-2.6.8 update

2005-12-16 Thread Marty
Marco wrote: Hi all, I have installed Debian Sarge and I have an custom kernel. Yesterday, I downloaded from security.debian.org the kernel-source-2.6.8 (DSA 922) update with a apt-get update and after apt-get upgrade. This is the output of command: dpkg -l | grep kernel-source ii

Re: Install kernel-source-2.6.8 update

2005-12-16 Thread Marty
Roberto Sanchez wrote: Marty wrote: New kernel in 5 easy steps! 1) untar /usr/src/kernel-source-2.6.8.tar.bz2 Check. 2) Add your .config (e.g. from /proc/config.gz) Check. 3) make oldconfig;make bzImage Why not use make-kpkg from kernel-package? If you have just one kernel, or don't use

Re: What would I do without partimage?

2005-12-14 Thread Marty
William Ballard wrote: I literally would be unable to use Microsoft Windows if I couldn't stay mostly booted in Debian and manage that godawfulness with partimage. Every time I boot into it I restore a clean partimage of XP, let it puke all over itself, then restore the cleanness. It's the

Re: kernel has null dereference during boot

2005-12-13 Thread Marty
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While booting my newly installed woody system (Why not sarge? It's a long story which will be told another time) the kernel crashes, recovers, and fails to make one of my hard disk accessible. Here's the relevant part of the dmesg output: ... ... Uniform

Re: kernel has null dereference during boot

2005-12-13 Thread Marty
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OOPS. Forgot to identify the kernel. This problem occurs with kernels 2.4.18-1-386 2.4.18-1-586tsc With kernel 2.2.20 I get the complaint about the invalid number of physical heads, but not the crash. It used to work properly before I did the forced

Re: kernel has null dereference during boot

2005-12-13 Thread Marty
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 02:39:11PM -0500, Marty wrote: First I would save copies of the partition table and bootloader for future forensic purposes. Too late! I'll try and remember that next time. By the way, how *do* you save copies of the partition table

install samba from binary

2005-12-12 Thread Marty Landman
Hi, I've downloaded Samba as a .deb file. Is there an easy way for me to install from that? Marty Landman, Face 2 Interface Inc. 845-679-9387 Webmaster's Bulletin Board: http://bbs.face2interface.com/ Web Installed Formmail: http://face2interface.com/formINSTal -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: install samba from binary

2005-12-12 Thread Marty Landman
!) I've got a hosed up woody install on a marginal pc - 166Mhz/48MB ram and broken cdrom although it worked for the mini-iso install. OTOH if I can get samba working that'll be okay enough to keep this on my network. Thanks in advance. Marty Marty Landman, Face 2 Interface Inc. 845-679-9387

Re: install samba from binary

2005-12-12 Thread Marty Landman
: samba_3.0.20b-1woody1_i386.deb UNCLELEO:~# . I guess the problem is that I put the deb on my /root/debs directory. Where should it go? Marty Marty Landman, Face 2 Interface Inc. 845-679-9387 Webmaster's Bulletin Board: http://bbs.face2interface.com/ Web

Re: install samba from binary

2005-12-12 Thread Marty Landman
. dpkg: error processing samba (--install): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Errors were encountered while processing: samba UNCLELEO:~# Now what? Marty Marty Landman, Face 2 Interface Inc. 845-679-9387 Webmaster's Bulletin Board: http

Re: install samba from binary

2005-12-12 Thread Marty Landman
as the floppies to boot and start installation from. But my cd wouldn't work when booting from the RH floppies either so assumed it was the drive itself. Marty Marty Landman, Face 2 Interface Inc. 845-679-9387 Webmaster's Bulletin Board: http://bbs.face2interface.com/ Web Installed Formmail

Re: install samba from binary

2005-12-12 Thread Marty Landman
google.com ping: unknown host google.com UNCLELEO:~# route add default 192.168.0.1 SIOCADDRT: No such device UNCLELEO:~# Just do: # aptitude install samba and it will get and install all packages automagicaly. UNCLELEO:~# aptitude install samba bash: aptitude: command not found UNCLELEO:~# Marty Marty

Re: install samba from binary

2005-12-12 Thread Marty Landman
At 02:40 PM 12/12/2005, Juergen Fiedler wrote: What do you get if you do (for example) 'ping -c 1 64.233.187.99'? Network unreachable. I'm going to work on that first, then work on Johannes suggestion try to use Aptitude. Marty Marty Landman, Face 2 Interface Inc. 845-679-9387

Re: gcc internal error

2005-12-10 Thread Marty Landman
on a LAN so could reinstall maybe. Marty Marty Landman, Face 2 Interface Inc. 845-679-9387 Webmaster's Bulletin Board: http://bbs.face2interface.com/ Web Installed Formmail: http://face2interface.com/formINSTal -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

gcc internal error

2005-12-09 Thread Marty Landman
from scratch that might be the easiest way to go. Marty Landman, Face 2 Interface Inc. 845-679-9387 Webmaster's Bulletin Board: http://bbs.face2interface.com/ Web Installed Formmail: http://face2interface.com/formINSTal -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: remove a page about us on your site please

2005-12-08 Thread Marty Landman
transcripts of a public speech be destroyed. Not to mention http://www.archive.org/. :) Marty Marty Landman, Face 2 Interface Inc. 845-679-9387 Webmaster's Bulletin Board: http://bbs.face2interface.com/ Web Installed Formmail: http://face2interface.com/formINSTal -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: jerks

2005-12-08 Thread Marty
Glenn English wrote: I'm trying to make a Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) out of a SUN W2100z (dual AMD64). Every few seconds, at seemingly random times, everything freezes for ~50ms. Even the mouse. Sometimes. Reliable at the first card moved in Aisle Riot Solitaire and when Jack is running.

Re: installing a nic

2005-12-05 Thread Marty Landman
At 03:10 PM 12/5/2005, Ryan Nowakowski wrote: On Sun, Dec 04, 2005 at 09:07:44PM -0500, Marty Landman wrote: I've got Woody installed from the mini-iso and owing to problems with the old nic which never got recognized have swapped in a Linksys LNE100TX which will take the tulip driver iirc

installing a nic

2005-12-04 Thread Marty Landman
and running. Pinging only works for localhost and netstat shows nothing in particular. Marty Marty Landman, Face 2 Interface Inc. 845-679-9387 Webmaster's Bulletin Board: http://bbs.face2interface.com/ Web Installed Formmail: http://face2interface.com/formINSTal -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Filesharing on small LAN

2005-11-28 Thread Marty
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Linux NFS is pretty unreliable in my experience, randomly failing in spite of network connectivity every couple months or so -- but I haven't used it seriously in a while (since 2.4.10 or so maybe), and it may have improved. (I've waited for some improvement since

Stock Sarge segfaults, and later crashes!

2005-11-23 Thread Marty
I think this is the first time I have gotten segmentation faults using Debian stable, on stable hardware. I got them while, or after, reading several 1.44M floppy disks, mounted using mount or fdmount. Before the segfaults, I may have lost track of what I was doing and tried to mount a floppy

Re: Stock Sarge segfaults, and later crashes!

2005-11-23 Thread Marty
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: It sounds like you may have a bad memory module. Go grab a Knoppix CD or DVD and boot it with the memtest or memtest86 command. You can check the cheat codes with F2 or F3 to see which it is exactly. Then let the box run for at least 12 hours on all the tests.

Re: Stock Sarge segfaults, and later crashes!

2005-11-23 Thread Marty
Following up, after some research I found this c.o.l.m. thread may describe the same problem:

Re: Fileserver performance

2005-11-23 Thread Marty
Cliff Flood wrote: Hi all, I just got a new Dell[0] workstation yesterday and have Debian Testing running on it. What I intend using this machine for is a file server (an iTunes share using a DAAPd, store time-shifted TV etc.), to replace an ancient PC running OpenBSD 3.5. I'm moving the

Re: Deleting XP and installing Debian

2005-11-07 Thread Marty
Scott Rebman wrote: Hi, I have recently acquired an older (Pentium II 350MHz) computer from my work and I was planning on getting rid of Win XP home that is currently on it and installing Debian. We use Debian at school and I was looking to play around with it at home to develop a

Re: Remote X login

2005-11-01 Thread Marty
marc wrote: Now it all works, I've got to say that this is a killer feature - although it would be nice to have multiple connects active simultaneously, even better with each as a virtual desktop in, say, KDE. You can use multiple virtual X displays for this purpose. Use startx in a virtual

mysterious change in X authorization behavior

2005-10-31 Thread Marty
On one of my Sarge systems, if X access control is enabled, i.e. xhost yields the following output: access control enabled, only authorized clients can connect then if I su to root, X apps now start normally, as if I had previously executed xhost +. All my sarge systems are up to date, but

Re: The client-server terminology when referring to X (was: Remote X login)

2005-10-31 Thread Marty
Maxim Vexler wrote: The X server (which is running on the local laptop) obeys the demands of the application and draws what was requested from him, that is why the laptop in question is the SERVER. Not draws, but *displays* the client's output. Draw has a much narrower meaning in X or

marillat false alarm?

2005-10-31 Thread Marty
Since the Oct 29 update of realplayer: # chkrootkit -q /usr/lib/realplay-10.0.6/share/default/.realplayerrc Besides having no idea what chkrootkit is complaining about, what really bothers me is having no way to validate marillat packages, since I'm running stable. (That's another issue which

Re: marillat false alarm?

2005-10-31 Thread Marty
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: I'm not sure about the chkrootkit complaint. However, if you don't like Marillat's packages, or that you can't verify them, then quit using them. They are unofficial anyway, so I don't see the problem. I don't know of any official counterparts with equivalent

Update on mysterious change in X authorization behavior

2005-10-31 Thread Marty
Marty wrote: On one of my Sarge systems, if X access control is enabled, i.e. xhost yields the following output: access control enabled, only authorized clients can connect then if I su to root, X apps now start normally, as if I had previously executed xhost +. All my sarge systems

Re: Network Stress Testing

2005-10-31 Thread Marty
Nelson Castillo wrote: Hi, I want to debug several ethernet links between PCs in the same subnet. Which tools should I use? What should I read about TCP/UDP stress testing? nttcp is good for simple tests, especially for testing raw throughput. You will want to watch your error counts with

Re: Soundcard: via82xx and alsa

2005-10-30 Thread Marty
micobros wrote: Hello all, I've been trying to install this soundcard for a couple days now. Its an Onboard VIA82xx chip. I tryed it on different kernels (2.6.0, 2.6.10 and 2.6.14) with this configuration: snip When i try to launch alsamixer: # alsamixer alsamixer: function

OT: Mirroring via disk image file

2005-10-30 Thread Marty
I plan to mirror then replace a hard drive, using an identical model drive. Instead of a device-device copy e.g. cp /dev/hda /dev/hdb I hope to do cp old drive image followed by cp image new drive where image is a disk image file of the original drive. Will the physical sector arrangment be

Re: OT: Mirroring via disk image file

2005-10-30 Thread Marty
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: If the drives are *exactly* identical, you can move your old drive to be the slave on the secondary ide channel, which makes it hdd. Then place the new drive on hda. Boot Knoppix, or another suitable live CD distro, and then do this: dd if=/dev/hdd of=/dev/hda

Re: Apt Needs Counseling

2005-10-22 Thread Marty
Marty wrote: Freddie Witherden wrote: Here is the result of using that command: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo dpkg --force-all -P webmin-core (Reading database ... 75153 files and directories currently installed.) Removing webmin-core ... /etc/webmin/webmin.acl: No such file or directory dpkg

Re: Ready to join the club..

2005-10-21 Thread Marty
Greg wrote: I'm a noob to Debian but I'm ready to install Debian to my current machine. (PIII, 512MB Ram, 2 HDs; 60 MB - main and 80 MB secondary). The first HD contains WinME (don't laugh) and the second will contain Debian in one partition and Windows files (mp3s, JPEGs) in the other. I've

Re: Ready to join the club..

2005-10-21 Thread Marty
Antony Gelberg wrote: He is new to Debian but sounds like he has a decent understanding of PCs. If he is stupid enough to delete his Windows partition during the install, it will certainly be the kind of mistake he learns from. :) d-i is very friendly and I think he should proceed with both

Re: Bourn Shell Script While Loop Problems

2005-10-21 Thread Marty
Martin McCormick wrote: Roberto C. Sanchez writes: Why not just use wc and sed? A good idea and also a good idea from Rick Pasotto [EMAIL PROTECTED] to use head -n -6. There is, however, a problem with that last suggestion in that the script is actually being run on a FreeBSD system

Re: Bourn Shell Script While Loop Problems

2005-10-21 Thread Marty
Marty wrote: zlength='wc -l $zonename|(read len fname; echo $len;)' Sorry, those single quotes should be backticks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OT: Damaged harddisk and/or disk controller - ps

2005-10-20 Thread Marty
Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: On torsdag 20 oktober 2005, 01:27, Marty wrote: It could be a spin-up problem due to a worn out motor. Right. It is actually something like that that's my primary suspect. This would probably be reported by smartctl from the package smartmontools. Ah, thanks

Re: apt-0.6 off line usage

2005-10-20 Thread Marty
Brian Nelson wrote: Marty [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But again the main point is that the dist-upgrade option is not a supposed to be a routine procedure. Whatever gave you that idea? Switching to stable. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: apt-0.6 off line usage

2005-10-19 Thread Marty
Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 09:38:58PM -0700, Brian Nelson wrote: Marty [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: golfer wrote: The only way I seem to be able to get packages installed is to go back on line and do the 'apt-get dist-upgrade'. For one or two packages, this may be ok

Re: apt-get update problems

2005-10-19 Thread Marty
Jan C. Nordholz wrote: Hi! 1) several errors of followig form Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY i used suggestions from http://lists.debian.org/deity/2005/08/msg00178.html to remedy the problem. what

Re: Apt Needs Counseling

2005-10-19 Thread Marty
Freddie Witherden wrote: Here is the result of using that command: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo dpkg --force-all -P webmin-core (Reading database ... 75153 files and directories currently installed.) Removing webmin-core ... /etc/webmin/webmin.acl: No such file or directory dpkg: error processing

Re: OT: Damaged harddisk and/or disk controller - ps

2005-10-19 Thread Marty
Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: And I have done nasty things to the system, just to see. For example doing aide --update, updatedb, an intensive write process and a CPU-intensive computation process simultaneously. It should put maximum stress on the system, both power-wise, disk use and CPU... Never

Re: Apt Needs Counseling

2005-10-17 Thread Marty
Freddie Witherden wrote: Hi, none of those worked. It seems to be because it can not remove (--purge) a package which does not have ant files and when I try to reinstall it apt tries to configure the packages which need it. I need a way of totally nuking those packages from apt's list so that

Re: apt-0.6 off line usage

2005-10-17 Thread Marty
golfer wrote: The only way I seem to be able to get packages installed is to go back on line and do the 'apt-get dist-upgrade'. For one or two packages, this may be ok, but it's not something I want to waste time doing routinely. The dist-upgrade option is not intended for routine use.

Re: exploring a M$ network

2005-10-14 Thread Marty
Joe Mc Cool wrote: The college I work for is an M$-only shop :-( I don't know if it is XP, or 2000 or whatever. I can plug my beloved sarge notebook into the network and use firefox etc no problem. But, how do I avail of the M$ disk spaces, printers etc ? Is samba (under the sarge) the way

Re: How to use old CPUs (Not Debian Specific)

2005-10-14 Thread Marty
Marc Shapiro wrote: OK. Like I'm guessing is the case with many of the users on this list, I have a multitude of PCs around the house. Four to be exact. I used to have three of them up and running, but that was before we moved. Now, since I have a DSL connection, I no longer have my desktop

Re: How to use old CPUs (Not Debian Specific)

2005-10-14 Thread Marty
Graham Smith wrote: The problem is there is a world of difference between doing up and old car as a hobby and trying to use a 486 as a desktop machine. You're ignoring the uses in between those two extremes. For example, why use a modern machine, which uses 3 or 4 times the power, just for a

Re: How to use old CPUs (Not Debian Specific)

2005-10-14 Thread Marty
Hendrik Boom wrote: Actually, I've tried using old klunkers to do backups, and discovered that they can't take large hard disks. One of mine won't go beyond about 128 gig, tha other gets stuck somewhere between 2.5G and 80 G. I don't know if it will work for all old machines, but when I ran

Re: SSH attack

2005-10-11 Thread Marty
Alvin Oga wrote: On Tue, 11 Oct 2005, Marty wrote: Thanks, you just reminded me of two more items for my ssh hardening plan: -deny root login -turn off sshd access after a specified number of failed login attempts, or any attempts outside the specific IP address range. those should

Re: SSH attack

2005-10-11 Thread Marty
Dick Davies wrote: On 11/10/05, Marty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If your machines are all exposed to the internet or to an insecure LAN, then I don't see how you can safely use ssh at all. I would never attempt such a thing, so you are much braver than I. What I would do instead is limit ssh

Re: No Sound

2005-10-11 Thread Marty
Scarletdown wrote: On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 22:42 -0400, [KS] wrote: Scarletdown wrote: What do I need to modprobe to get this working? I tried modprobe es688, modprobe es1688, and modprobe ymf262, but those all failed with FATAL: Module not found. Try modprobe snd-es1688 and read the

Re: SSH attack

2005-10-10 Thread Marty
Alvin Oga wrote: On Tue, 4 Oct 2005, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Mon, 03 Oct 2005, Marty wrote: Correction -- it's in the hosts.deny man page. As others have already pointed out, sshd must be configured to start via inetd. Must it? It uses tcp-wrappers natively, it should

Re: SSH attack

2005-10-10 Thread Marty
Alvin Oga wrote: On Mon, 10 Oct 2005, Marty wrote: simple test ... ( use your positive or negative logic equivalents for these files ) /etc/hosts.deny ALL : ALL I'm not sure that will work with the manpage example I gave. works for me ... no services coming in that is not supposed

Re: SSH attack

2005-10-10 Thread Marty
Alvin Oga wrote: On Tue, 11 Oct 2005, Marty wrote: grep whatever you like from the gazillion log files for ssh this and ssh that I don't know what you're getting at here. The idea is to get a realtime email alert. one can get any and all kinds of alerts till you're blue ( satisfied

Re: Laptop clock is localtime, system time is off

2005-10-09 Thread Marty
Nate Bargmann wrote: I use a laptop that multiboots with XP and I just set up a second hard disk for it with Sid installed. As a result, the hardware clock is set to local time and I can't seem to change Sid's mind on this. Per the Debian GNU/Linux Administrator's Manual, the UTC variable in

Re: Debian Compatable UPS?

2005-10-08 Thread Marty
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Sat, 08 Oct 2005, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: all UPS's are Debian compatible as long they have an rs232 interface. Which statement I don't understand. Why is USB bad? What do I do with M$ code that is shipped with most? USB is not bad (but good luck trying

Re: Debian Compatable UPS?

2005-10-08 Thread Marty
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Sat, 08 Oct 2005, Marty wrote: I've never heard of power surge insulators, and a web search turns up nothing. Are these specific to serial connections? Could you supply more information and maybe some web site links? I have no idea how they are called

Re: Audio player error (amarok)

2005-10-08 Thread Marty
Jeremy Merritt wrote: I have recently been having an error with several audio players, including amarok and xmms. Amarok produces the following error message: Did you recently convert to udev? (See below) [GStreamer error] Could not open device '/dev/dsp' for writing. **

Re: Upgraded from 512 to 1024 ram. Now, how to fine tune the system?

2005-10-07 Thread Marty
Ron Johnson wrote: On Fri, 07 Oct 2005 14:10:58 -0300 Bruno Buys [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On Fri, 7 Oct 2005 16:45:21 +0300 Bogdan Rotariu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Bruno, Friday, October 7, 2005, 12:41:33 AM, you wrote: Just bought an extra 512mb ram module, to add

Re: Upgraded from 512 to 1024 ram. Now, how to fine tune the system?

2005-10-07 Thread Marty
Bruno Buys wrote: Marty wrote: Due to kernel address map limitations, unless your kernel is configured for at least 4GB, only about 900MB will be recognized. You can tell if you have this problem by running cat /proc/meminfo. The first line of output should be: MemTotal: 1034116 kB

Re: How to completely reinstall a package?

2005-10-07 Thread Marty
Steve Block wrote: On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 03:47:29PM -0500, Tim McDonough wrote: I'm running Debian (Sarge) and had used X-Windows very little on what's primarily a file server when I got a larger, nicer monitor for the system. It was not obvious to me how to reconfigure the system for the

Re: How to completely reinstall a package?

2005-10-07 Thread Marty
Marty wrote: This is a good lesson on keeping logs of of your apt-get session, or at least keeping a list of installed packages by running dpkg --get-selections *. Sorry, make that dpkg --get-selections (no asterisk). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

testing memory (was Re: Upgraded from 512 to 1024 ram. Now, how to fine tune the system?)

2005-10-07 Thread Marty
Bruno Buys wrote: Marty wrote: Finally you may want to think about testing the memory, especially if you suspect any instability, but that's a different thread. I did. That was the very first thing I did after hooking up the module. I was afraid what a defective module could do to my

Re: boot stalls on ntpdate [was bootlog, control of modules]

2005-10-05 Thread Marty
Matt Price wrote: On 10/3/05, Edward J Shornock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Edward J. Shornock wrote: A moot point now... sysvinit (2.86.ds1-4) unstable; urgency=low this is great, thank you. I now have bootlogd running! (found htis out when I finally had an opportunity to reboot, bit of a

Re: SSH attack

2005-10-03 Thread Marty
Jared Hall wrote: It looks like I am being rooted right now. How do I toss this guy off of my system. he has an IP address of 210.95.212.131 It's a kid! Whois returns Hanguk Kwangsan Technoledge High School. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: SSH attack

2005-10-03 Thread Marty
Alvin Oga wrote: - if it was a hole in ssh, ALL and i mean ALL other Debianites and possibly other Linuxites will be equally susceptable and some of of them will have noticed that they too were successfully attacked == == time for you ( marty ) change the way you use ssh and/or the way you

Re: playing midi with timiditySOLVED

2005-10-03 Thread Marty
Joe Mc Cool wrote: So, I started again. aptitude remove timidity and, to be sure to be sure, as root: find . -name timidity* -exec rm {} \; That won't necessarily work. You need to follow up with dpkg --purge timidity To do it all in one operation, use the purge option of

Re: SSH attack

2005-10-03 Thread Marty
Landy Bible wrote: Marty wrote: -configure the ssh server to report any successful ssh login using email, and/or send a page or cell phone alert I can only guess at this point because I've not tried it. A crude example might be using a login script to detect whether the shell is starting

Re: SSH attack

2005-10-03 Thread Marty
Marty wrote: The inetd man page gives an example for use with a specific service: /etc/hosts.deny: in.tftpd: ALL: (/usr/sbin/safe_finger -l @%h | \ /usr/bin/mail -s %d-%h root) Correction -- it's in the hosts.deny man page. As others have already pointed

Re: pointer for home networking

2005-09-28 Thread Marty
I forgot to add that for DNS and DHCP I recommend dnsmasq, which is very easy to set up. (For me just one line added to the config file.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: pointer for home networking

2005-09-27 Thread Marty
michael wrote: I've had a look about but can't find a basic guide to setting up a home network. There seems much discussion of 'deeper' stuff but I'm stymied for setting up my first home Debian/Linux network. I've a computer that did have Internet connection via ethernet to a modem router. It's

Re: NUM Lock , Home, End

2005-09-23 Thread Marty
John Hasler wrote: Marty writes: Some init scripts use configation files in /etc/default, and I guess the script's stop routine could store the NUMLOCK state upon system shutdown, if that state is accessable from the system. That would set it globally, not for each user. I agree, and I see

Re: NUM Lock , Home, End

2005-09-22 Thread Marty
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you have numlock enabled for every console? and HOME return you in begining of command promt and END in the end? i have to press ctrl+a or ctrl+e for VC's use setleds for X use numlockx home and end work as expected for me. -matt zagrabelny uhhh i know how to set

Re: NUM Lock , Home, End

2005-09-22 Thread Marty
Seth Goodman wrote: From: Marty [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2005 6:10 PM ... I never set them, and these keys work for me both in VTs and X apps, on my Sarge systems. Earlier versions of Debian and X had problems like this. Well, my BIOS sets NUMLOCK

Re: NUM Lock , Home, End

2005-09-22 Thread Marty
Ron Johnson wrote: On Thu, 2005-09-22 at 18:29 -0500, Seth Goodman wrote: From: Marty [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2005 6:10 PM ... I never set them, and these keys work for me both in VTs and X apps, on my Sarge systems. Earlier versions of Debian and X had

Re: NUM Lock , Home, End

2005-09-22 Thread Marty
John Hasler wrote: Marty writes: I was thinking it should be handled during boot by an init script like keymap.sh (just a guess). How would that set it correctly for each user? Some init scripts use configation files in /etc/default, and I guess the script's stop routine could store

Re: backup plan bare metal

2005-09-20 Thread Marty
Rodney Richison wrote: Would be interested in seeing what some of you use for a backup plan. Mainly for servers. Tar? Easy/quick way to restore bare metal? Rsync? Can it do bare metal? what about hard links? It's possible using a rescue floppy or knoppix. Again, easy/quick way to restoe

Re: Network (pcmcia card) not enabled after boot [newbie alert]

2005-09-20 Thread Marty
-Original Message- From: Marty [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] snip If you have cardctl then I assume you are running pcmcia-cs. It's not clear to me why you would need both that and hotplug, because it seems that their functions overlap (although hotplug is listed in the recommended

Re: eth0 problem

2005-09-19 Thread Marty
Deephay Z wrote: Greetings all, since I need to install the wireless device driver for the Debian system, so I compiled and installed the 2.6.13.2 version kernel, but the eth0 (wired-ethernet card) now cannot be found using the newer kernel. Some kinda :eth0: no such device is displayed on

Re: Network (pcmcia card) not enabled after boot [newbie alert]

2005-09-19 Thread Marty
Peter Coppens wrote: All, I have installed the 'latest stable' Debian version on an (old) Dell laptop Cpi D300XT. The initial install was done with the laptop in a docking station and using the network adaptor that comes with that docking station. Everything went fine. Later I removed

Re: Install USB Mouse, Lose Keyboard

2005-09-19 Thread Marty
Mike McCarty wrote: Recently, my girlfriend decided to try the jump to Linux. I helped her build a dual-boot system with Windows and Debian on it. She has run it fine for a couple of weeks, except that her mouse goes crazy sometimes. This occurs both with Debian and with Windows. So I suggested

Re: minicom display problems

2005-09-16 Thread Marty
Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Marty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any way to get minicom to properly display the color graphics of an ncurses app like iptraf? I am using the multi GNOME terminal as my X terminal, but xterm seems to have the same problems. So

Re: absurdly simple LAN problem

2005-09-16 Thread Marty
Anthony Campbell wrote: iface eth1 inet dhcp address 192.168.0.22 auto eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp address 192.168.0.20 I could be missing something but why do you specify DHCP as well as a static address? I thought these options were mutually exclusive and I'm surprised you

minicom display problems

2005-09-15 Thread Marty
Is there any way to get minicom to properly display the color graphics of an ncurses app like iptraf? I am using the multi GNOME terminal as my X terminal, but xterm seems to have the same problems. So far I've tried: -setting the minicom terminal type to ANSI -setting the remote shell TERM

Re: announcing the beginning of security support for testing

2005-09-12 Thread Marty
Could a list of md5sums be provided for this archive, like the file /debian/indices/md5sums.gz in the main (debian) archive? With the help of a simple script, this file allows me to check the package integrity in my mirror of the main debian archive. I am hoping that this method can be used for

Re: OT iptables question

2005-09-04 Thread Marty
Glenn English wrote: I'm updating a RH ipchains packet filter script from the dim past to iptables on Debian stable. I noticed that when I specified the network the host is on (by IP/mask), the iptables listing called it localnet. So I tried using localnet in the rule, and iptables seems to

OT: help with security question

2005-08-25 Thread Marty
Unfortunately there is a windows box on my network which is running Norton Firewall, with logs, documentation and a user interface that seem ambigious, simplistic and confusing, as if written in some kind of technical pigeon language. I was surprised when it reported an incoming ICMP packet by

Re: Kernel panics when booting off SCSI

2005-08-22 Thread Marty
Joel Barker wrote: I have been using two hard drives, an old IDE mounted at / and a brand new SCSI mounted on /home. A few days ago the IDE drive died. Fortunately, I had just copied all the data over to the SCSI drive (/dev/sda1). But when I try to boot off the SCSI drive, I get the following

Re: Printer localhost:631 -- Don't Give Up Yet

2005-08-19 Thread Marty
Charlie wrote: My /etc/hostname file is:- ariestao my netaddress for this machine This is incorrect. It should just be your hostname, with no IP address. (Could this be the cause of your problem?) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Re: resolved Re: sarge package installation segfaults

2005-08-16 Thread Marty
Marty wrote: Marty wrote: I reported Bug#301912, consisting of repeated perl warnings and segfaults during package installation. It turns out to likely be hardware data corruption caused by a new memory module or changed timing. I caught it by the venerable burnit kernel compile loop script

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