Strange problem after upgrading from Buster to testing.
Hi all, I am wondering if this should be sent to the Debian accessibility list, but any way, I am in the prosses of installing Debian buster, but wanted to upgrade to testing. I have a very strange problem happens where the system will not boot, so tried to install the bulzie testing with the latest alfa image which has worked fine in the past, but now it will not boot from usb. I do not have sited help so not sure what has changed. I am installing on an hp notebook with the nonfree firmware image. I am wondering if there is a change somewhere. Buster works fine. Thanks all. Matthew
Update on my update problem with gnome system.
Mornning all, A few days ago I reported a problem whare the gnome testing system which I am now using to write this message. Here is the resault. I did a clean install of the system using the alfa testing image. I then edited the sources list and changed the lines from buster to testing. I then did a sudo apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade which installed the securety updates it found yesterday. his morning I did the same command and here is the output from that update. root@matt-the-cat:/home/matthew# apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade Hit:1 http://security.debian.org/debian-security testing/updates InRelease Hit:2 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian testing InRelease Reading package lists... Done Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Calculating upgrade... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. root@matt-the-cat:/home/matthew# Any ideas on why this is happens? If any one has any ideas on how to fix this without having to reinstall. root@matt-the-cat:/home/matthew# apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade Hit:1 http://security.debian.org/debian-security testing/updates InRelease Hit:2 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian testing InRelease Reading package lists... Done Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Calculating upgrade... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. root@matt-the-cat:/home/matthew# n reinstall please let me know as it is really strange. My mate system does not have this problem. Thanks. Matthew
Can't find external drives
I'm having problems when attempting to locate directories on my USB drives, and 1 external drive. When using Konquerer, a messageBox pops up saying error-KDE mediamanager not running. I'm new to this, and the forums haven't answered my post yet. I need to get to this usb drive so I can install the broadcam driver so my wireless will work. Also, my eth0 connection won't work. It runs through a Lynksys router and I can't figure out how to configure it. My ISP uses a DHCP server I believe. Any response would be greatly appreciated as I'm new to Linux, mailing lists, and that sort of thing. Thanks in advance.
Re: tapes best for backup?
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: So I guess, for me, only from personal experience, I'd have to say that the most reliable, longest lived, backup media has to be IBM floppies. Of course, the 7 GB backup would take 5120 floppies which would more than pay for a new LTO drive. Progress. Yep! And I take the implicit point about personal experience too, of course. While the DLTs are rated for 30 years, some of the gold archival DVDs are rated for 200 (and also some of the archival CDs I was using before that). I wish my experience with floppies were that good; the Microsoft floppies with my original copy of the Microsoft Font Pack for Windows 3.whatever was unreadable when I tried it a couple of years back. -- David Dyer-Bennet, [EMAIL PROTECTED]; http://dd-b.net/ Snapshots: http://dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/data/ Photos: http://dd-b.net/photography/gallery/ Dragaera: http://dragaera.info -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: tapes best for backup?
s. keeling wrote: David Dyer-Bennet [EMAIL PROTECTED]: s. keeling wrote: I've never run across a CD I couldn't still read, and I've a few old ones. DVD, I would expect to be even better. For me, tape's Why would you expect DVD to be better? I'd expect it to be worse, for the obvious reasons -- smaller physical bit representations, packed Because it's newer technology which ought to have incorporated lessons learned from the CD history. Perhaps that's wishful thinking. Ah; well, perhaps it is, but it's not *crazy* I don't think, either. I feel like it's not really new tech, since it's so very similar to CD-R. To me it feels like old tech pushed very hard to achieve the much higher densities. The disk layering and the dyes are to the best of my knowledge *very* similar. -- David Dyer-Bennet, [EMAIL PROTECTED]; http://dd-b.net/ Snapshots: http://dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/data/ Photos: http://dd-b.net/photography/gallery/ Dragaera: http://dragaera.info -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: tapes best for backup?
Paul Cartwright wrote: On Fri January 4 2008, Ron Johnson wrote: So I wasn't trying to denigrate your 7GB of important data, but to express that, in today's world, tape would be a radically cost- inefficient means of storing only 7GB. so, what would be a good method.. say for instance MY system. my /home is 164 Gb, with 50 Gb free, so I've used 110 Gb. Right now I do the rsync to a 500Gb Mybook USB drive. But I don't keep the drive connected, so I don't do it often enough.. What I think of as minimum acceptable backup is two offline volumes to accept backups, used alternately. Anything less leaves you with all copies of your data online and vulnerable at once -- to a power surge, lightning strike, malware, or idiot sysadmin (rm -rf /). I've got a nightly cron job that does the rsync; it looks for either of the two volumes (mine are named wrack and ruin) and uses whichever is present, or if both are present has a day-based preference so it would alternate if I just left them connected. I have to swap the cords each day, to put the right one online before I go to bed. Yes, that's not 100% reliable, but getting the reminder message in the morning has helped me remember to do it. I'm going to make a little sign that hangs on the spine of the MyBook (from the perforated top plate) to indicate which one I used last, rather than depending on my memory (though the scheme isn't totally ruined if I mess up the alternation now and then). Depending on what you use the system for, lower levels of backup can be fine. If you know for sure the only significant work done, and remember to do it, a manual backup whenever you did any significant work would be enough. My server is storing files for the rest of the household too, so I can't count on knowing, and just go ahead and do backups every day. I'm using rsync to get the files from the server to the backup volume, sounds like you made the same choice. Rsync is pretty cool for this. You *could* use an X10 computer-controlled power controller and a couple of appliance modules to put the power to the two external drives under computer control. Or you could use an independent external timer (have to have a 48-hour or better timer though to alternate days). -- David Dyer-Bennet, [EMAIL PROTECTED]; http://dd-b.net/ Snapshots: http://dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/data/ Photos: http://dd-b.net/photography/gallery/ Dragaera: http://dragaera.info -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: tapes best for backup?
s. keeling wrote: I've never run across a CD I couldn't still read, and I've a few old ones. DVD, I would expect to be even better. For me, tape's good enough. Why would you expect DVD to be better? I'd expect it to be worse, for the obvious reasons -- smaller physical bit representations, packed tighter. Also we don't have as much experience with it, so I take what information we *do* have with larger quantities of salt. (Mind you, I'm using DVDs for my photo archives; CDs are simply too small to contemplate. Two copies, stored separately, and all the files stay on the disk (which is mirrored) and get backed up to external disks regularly. I can pretty easily afford for any *one* of the backups to fail.) -- David Dyer-Bennet, [EMAIL PROTECTED]; http://dd-b.net/ Snapshots: http://dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/data/ Photos: http://dd-b.net/photography/gallery/ Dragaera: http://dragaera.info -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: tapes best for backup?
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 09:12:19AM -0800, David Brodbeck wrote: On Jan 4, 2008, at 7:38 AM, Larry Irwin wrote: I would not buy a used tape drive. They're finicky mechanical devices and you really want a warranty. Every time I've bought a used tape drive thinking I was getting a good deal it's died within a month. Which puts DLTs out of reach for the home user. Which means that either I archive to less reliable media (CD/DVD, hard disk) or keep everything online and only do backups with no archives. Why do you think DLTs are more reliable than optical media or hard drives? My experience with tapes in general (not DLTs) certainly does not predispose me towards that view, but I suppose DLTs could be different. I've never had a CD or DVD go bad once it passed verification, and some of my cds are from the early 1990s (Kodak Photo CDs). I *have* had tapes in every format I've ever used, from 7-track up to DDS, go bad or be unreadable for other reasons. I've also had a lot of the *drives* go bad, which means I'd probably want two or three before storing anything important on the tape format. -- David Dyer-Bennet, [EMAIL PROTECTED]; http://dd-b.net/ Snapshots: http://dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/data/ Photos: http://dd-b.net/photography/gallery/ Dragaera: http://dragaera.info -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: tapes best for backup?
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 04:18:11PM -0600, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: hat I think of as minimum acceptable backup is two offline volumes to accept backups, used alternately. Anything less leaves you with all copies of your data online and vulnerable at once -- to a power surge, lightning strike, malware, or idiot sysadmin (rm -rf /). Right, but this is on-line (or near-line) backup. The data on the media doesn't have to last long, only between backup cycles. What about archives? Or, do you just keep everything on-line (buy more disks for the computer and bigger USB drives for backups) and do backups and never archive anything? I've been relying primarily on offline archives until very recently, but I'm *now* primarily relying on the mirrored disks in the server plus two external backup drives. I keep everything online, disk is so cheap it's silly not to, and keeping track of all the little bits and pieces is much easier in the computer than as physical CDs I have to find to look at an old photo. I currently expect I'll keep making at least one copy of the optical media archives (I used to make two, and I haven't formally stopped making two*yet*) for the off-site copy. Every few years some of it needs to be rethought, since prices and available sizes keep fluctuating. -- David Dyer-Bennet, [EMAIL PROTECTED]; http://dd-b.net/ Snapshots: http://dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/data/ Photos: http://dd-b.net/photography/gallery/ Dragaera: http://dragaera.info -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: tapes best for backup?
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 04:18:11PM -0600, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: Paul Cartwright wrote: On Fri January 4 2008, Ron Johnson wrote: so, what would be a good method.. say for instance MY system. my /home is 164 Gb, with 50 Gb free, so I've used 110 Gb. Right now I do the rsync to a 500Gb Mybook USB drive. But I don't keep the drive connected, so I don't do it often enough.. What I think of as minimum acceptable backup is two offline volumes to accept backups, used alternately. Anything less leaves you with all copies of your data online and vulnerable at once -- to a power surge, lightning strike, malware, or idiot sysadmin (rm -rf /). Right, but this is on-line (or near-line) backup. The data on the media doesn't have to last long, only between backup cycles. What about archives? Or, do you just keep everything on-line (buy more disks for the computer and bigger USB drives for backups) and do backups and never archive anything? Archives are on CDs (older) and DVDs (newer), one copy here, one copy at my mother's house. That's a manual process, but I keep it fairly current. -- David Dyer-Bennet, [EMAIL PROTECTED]; http://dd-b.net/ Snapshots: http://dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/data/ Photos: http://dd-b.net/photography/gallery/ Dragaera: http://dragaera.info -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: spamcop
On 9/27/06, Kamaraju Kusumanchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 20 September 2006 08:21, John Kelly wrote: For the second time in the past few days, spamcop has listed murphy.debian.org. That's it. I'm done with spamcop! If murphy is sending spamtraps, it deserves to be listed. period. Um, nonsense. Best practice for any mailing list is to require email confirmation, based on a message sent to the subscribed address (whether the initial subscribe request came via email or over the web). Thus, I can make any mailing list server send email to a spamtrap address trivially -- I just fake a subscribe message from the spamtrap address, or enter the spamtrap address into the subscription form on the web. -- David Dyer-Bennet, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/ RKBA: http://www.dd-b.net/carry/ Pics: http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/ Dragaera/Steven Brust: http://dragaera.info/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Apache2::Util not getting installed?
Colin Ingram [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: David Dyer-Bennet wrote: However, that file doesn't exist: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -F /usr/lib/perl5/Apache2/ Apache/ APR/ APR.pm auto/ ModPerl/ mod_perl.pm It is located at /usr/lib/perl5/Apache2/Apache/Util.pm At least in my installation Ah. Mine too. Which means it's been renamed back to Apache::Util for purposes of actually using it, which is what threw me off; I hadn't expected renaming. Thanks! -- David Dyer-Bennet, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/ RKBA: http://noguns-nomoney.com/ http://www.dd-b.net/carry/ Pics: http://dd-b.lighthunters.net/ http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/ Dragaera/Steven Brust: http://dragaera.info/ Much of which is still down -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Apache2::Util not getting installed?
I installed Sarge/3.1/Stable whatever you want to call it, and installed Apache and mod_perl, and they work for very simple things (like the trivial hello program in the Apache documentation). However, I'm running into missing files trying to get to anything more advanced. For example, the Apache documentation says there's an Apache2::Util module, and apt-file says it's in libapache2-mod-perl2: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-file list libapache2-mod-perl2 | grep Apache2/Util libapache2-mod-perl2: usr/lib/perl5/Apache2/Util.pm That package is installed: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo apt-get --reinstall install libapache2-mod-perl2 Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/642kB of archives. After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] (Reading database ... 42770 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace libapache2-mod-perl2 1.999.21-1 (using .../libapache2-mod-p erl2_1.999.21-1_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement libapache2-mod-perl2 ... Setting up libapache2-mod-perl2 (1.999.21-1) ... [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dpkg --status libapache2-mod-perl2 Package: libapache2-mod-perl2 Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: web Installed-Size: 2356 Maintainer: Thom May [EMAIL PROTECTED] Architecture: i386 Version: 1.999.21-1 However, that file doesn't exist: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -F /usr/lib/perl5/Apache2/ Apache/ APR/ APR.pm auto/ ModPerl/ mod_perl.pm And this in turn means that I can't access many of the basic utility functions, so I'm not getting much of anywhere making my CGI run under mod_perl. What gives? I can't really believe that the mod_perl package in Stable is completely nonfunctional, but I haven't done anything weird (like building apache, perl, or anything vaguely related from source), and I've reinstalled the package allegedly containing the file and it's not showing up. -- David Dyer-Bennet, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/ RKBA: http://noguns-nomoney.com/ http://www.dd-b.net/carry/ Pics: http://dd-b.lighthunters.net/ http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/ Dragaera/Steven Brust: http://dragaera.info/ Much of which is still down -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Plonking
Hal Vaughan said: On Friday 10 June 2005 10:17 pm, Paul Johnson wrote: On Friday June 10 2005 8:08 am, Phil Dyer wrote: plonk! Oh, please. Can we possibly get any more childish? Please don't advertise your filters, it tends to cause headers to evolve. Even the emotionally disturbed junior high students I used to teach know that is about the same as jamming your fingers in your ears and singing loudly -- and they know how childish that is, too. oh, geez. lighten up guys. I'm on this list to see if I can help some newbies on some *debian* problems. After an OT for this long, I get my dander up a little. I apologize. and now back to our regularly scheduled off topic extravaganza. -- /phil signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: KDE 3.4
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Piero Piutti said: deb http://pkg-kde.alioth.debian.org/kde-3.4.0/ ./ There's a kde-3.4.1 there now too. - -- /phil -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (MingW32) iD8DBQFCqW9zGbd/rBLcaFwRAl42AKDVMYWA3xe8KqmYFfP2WBG2q1FyRQCdHelG +wzNKPkBKtce0O8L4K1L5UA= =fedq -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Dns resolving from linux pc in windows network
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 debian said: We use windows 2003 servers and various linux application servers, DNS is on windows and we have a suffix say; test.tralala So when i perform the command Host 192.168.0.10 i must get a reply that this host is pipo.test.tralala (the FQDN). Is this possible to do ? If this works, my reports will also be correct. Sure, just create a reverse zone on the windows dns server. Since this is a linux ml, I won't go into how to do it. :) - -- /phil -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (MingW32) Comment: Public Key: http://www.dyermaker.org/gpgkey iD8DBQFCqZC4Gbd/rBLcaFwRAlqrAKCQci8rfcJJA7n1OZjo/w2lf9p0zACfSEPq PR6y6pNQ7awTYGP20o6lQcs= =7cyX -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SPAM:Re: Dns resolving from linux pc in windows network
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 debian said: Thnx for the reply. My windows has reverse zone. Can you see the rev entry in windows dns for a specific box? - From the windows box, can you nslookup the ipaddress with correct results? This is an error: [EMAIL PROTECTED] sarg-2.0.5]# host 10.51.10.10 Host 10.10.51.10.in-addr.arpa not found: 3(NXDOMAIN) [EMAIL PROTECTED] sarg-2.0.5]# Is the debian box using the windows server to resolve? Look at /etc/resolv.conf. it should have the windows NS in there... first. - -- /phil -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (MingW32) Comment: Public Key: http://www.dyermaker.org/gpgkey iD8DBQFCqZRXGbd/rBLcaFwRAmFBAKCBI18Z3eifJObQCaXRYvFJnxlk0wCgwUVk aFA+LEIypCF9I3dfZGg7kKs= =julr -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Top posting (a different point of view)
I agree with that point exactly. PS: 2 points for anybody that can figure out which point, or even which poster I'm agreeing with. (I really did try to stay out of this...) phil Mark said: Paul Johnson wrote: On Thursday June 9 2005 5:10 pm, Patrick Wiseman wrote: I completely agree. Whoever (the attribution is not clear to me) wrote that crap about top posters vs bottom posters is an arrogant idiot. Processing information in reverse order is much more efficient Do you drive in reverse on the freeway, too? After all, doing it backwards is more efficient. Wait a minute, When you read a book. You start on page one and read right to the back of the book (Or bottom of the book) when you finish. Right? Same (should) go for emails, you start at the top with reading, and end up at the bottom where youre email answer begins. Is that not the best way of making it easier for other people to understand your email? Still, bottom posters may be fighting a lost battle. In all the companies i've worked for so far, there has not been a single company with a bottom post policy of any kind. These companies are usually the exchange server kind... Thanks, Mark p.s. Sorry Paul, for replying to you alone... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Top posting
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Re: IP Address assigned by ISP, dns set as static?
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I've been having a few problems with dns lookups and have been given a
new set up dns servers and not the same ones placed into resolv.conf by
dhcp.
Obviously if I make a change to resolv.conf, it will be soon-after be
updated back to the original dns servers by dhcp.
I do it by editing/creating /etc/dhclient-enter-hooks like so:
# redefine the function which changes resolv.conf to do nothing
make_resolv_conf() {
return
}
The other way would be to edit /etc/dhclient.conf and tell it to prepend
to the list of dns servers
prepend domain-name-servers x.x.x.x;
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Re: i think I switched to Etch without knowing it
John Hasler said: Marty writes: This is all very mysterious to me, all these people lacking an apt.conf file. toncho/~ 1 ls /etc/apt apt-file.conf apt.conf.d listchanges.conf sources.list [EMAIL PROTECTED] pad]$ ls /etc/apt apt.conf.d sources.list -- /phil -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sudden constant spoofing of my address
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Roberto C. Sanchez said: Pretty much. And since most now do S/MIME and PGP/MIME instead of the old ASCII inline, if they don't it shows up as some random attachment, instead of a bunch of crap at the top and bottom of a message. The thing with PGP/MIME is that it eats mailing list footers a lot. I notice it in t-bird and mutt. Not really a big deal, but annoying. Personally, I like the bunch of crap at the top and bottom. :) - -- /phil -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (MingW32) iD8DBQFCqhMhGbd/rBLcaFwRAsstAJwMmmBKVz6HCH90RDvw1v0OFtTsEwCgvayH F4aq8lMIxYTJsMmgD+AQ1qk= =cmIM -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: apt-get problems
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jason G Skala said: I am running woody still and if I do any apt-get command from update to upgrade I get the following apt-get update gives apt-get update Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org stable/main Packages Since sarge is now stable, I'm sure that's the problem. Try s/stable/woody/g in your sources.list. - -- /phil -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (MingW32) Comment: Public Key: http://www.dyermaker.org/gpgkey iD8DBQFCp0MlGbd/rBLcaFwRAg5lAJwM2Rcmh855Y1V36JShGlN8r4CdKQCfaL4L IJZRxj15s5Z1F9CW0TKurVM= =c//t -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Confused-New Stable Sarge Dist-Upgrade
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Leonard Chatagnier said: tar: ./lib/modules/2.6.8-2-686/modules.symbols: Cannot write: No space left on device tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors I chacked partition space with df and seem to have ample room as shown ChatagnierL-Home:~# df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda2 14114049 18722 86% / Your / partition is where /lib lives, and you've only got ~18MB. I'd say your modules directory should take up more than that. 30MB+. Prolly not enough space. - -- /phil -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (MingW32) iD8DBQFCpjPMGbd/rBLcaFwRAgcaAJ9hXp+aR0WdwN90+uPS6AiEpz2deQCfbWoS cslOOt338kIVzZ2kezNH96g= =nTnj -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Only root access the internet
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 xxx xxx said: Hi all, I'm trying for the last 6 months to connect to the Internet as an ordinary user but only root can! I gave full permissions to pppd, all /etc/ppp files, kppp, wvdial. I can connect but when I open Mozilla I can't connect anywhere. Only root can! I tried to use pon with no result. I'm using Debain Woody v3 r2 k2.4.18 Any advice would be appreciated! add your normal user to the group dip. adduser user dip - -- /phil -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (MingW32) Comment: Public Key: http://www.dyermaker.org/gpgkey iD8DBQFCoGg1Gbd/rBLcaFwRAgsoAJwOEwKb0JKVVVsIGxkCXZoRhEcu4gCfSIOW wcA2N4nVsdgUEtjHEuUfzSw= =WCxK -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Only root access the internet
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Phil Dyer said: xxx xxx said: Hi all, I'm trying for the last 6 months to connect to the Internet as an ordinary user but only root can! I gave full permissions to pppd, all /etc/ppp files, kppp, wvdial. I can connect but when I open Mozilla I can't connect anywhere. Only root can! I tried to use pon with no result. I'm using Debain Woody v3 r2 k2.4.18 Any advice would be appreciated! add your normal user to the group dip. adduser user dip Now that you've modified pppd permissions and files, I'd go ahead and reinstall pppd as well to fix all the permissions. - -- /phil -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (MingW32) Comment: Public Key: http://www.dyermaker.org/gpgkey iD8DBQFCoGrTGbd/rBLcaFwRAn06AJ0bXk61ISt96Ntq2Ozxl0+wMgWUAQCgjVOV 0Oc6tMwDeh1I0vDvUjydvWo= =B9ZU -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: root compromise on debian woody
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Joey Hess said: Well to choose one security hole at random out of dozens to hundreds that remain unfixed in woody's kernels, this one allows anyone to go from a normal user account to root: CAN-2005-1263 [Linux kernel ELF core dump privilege escalation] - kernel-source-2.6.11 2.6.11 2.6.11-4 - kernel-source-2.6.8 2.6.8-16 - kernel-source-2.4.27 2.4.27-10 I'm a little confused on this. First, I don't see that 2.6.x or 2.4.27 is available in woody - at least from the debian.org packages page for woody. Also, are we saying that the stable (woody) debian is full of security holes? Aren't kernel 'sploits fixed in security updates. I may just not be reading correctly. - -- /phil -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (MingW32) iD8DBQFClxIFGbd/rBLcaFwRAuN+AKCN4FrE8CTcwuRrEanQI/6SrPQxiwCgli5P x/G/bDYUVPRYsUg5Ki64kOY= =cO5P -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OT Required Options?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Martin Dickopp said: John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Martin writes: Apparently, command line programs exist for Microsoft Windows which can only be run successfully if at least one command line option is provided to them. That's true of Unix and Linux as well. Can you cite a Unix or GNU/Linux command line program which has this property? I cannot think of even one, but maybe that's just my lack of imagination. :) [EMAIL PROTECTED] scripts]# tar tar: You must specify one of the `-Acdtrux' options - -- /phil -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (MingW32) iD8DBQFCl2eFGbd/rBLcaFwRAq4DAKCYVSLJXLFOIfY+PvxZUEuAkALy4gCglSm6 XVjExjTyEgE+4Uo4bGmsZzY= =aWjH -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Custom kernel building and mkinitrd
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ibrahim Mubarak said: OK. So I went ahead and downloaded the latest kernel off of kernel.org, compiled it and installed it. Still mkinitrd doesn't output the image. So I tried to mkinitrd of the running kernel. Still nothing. I am guessing it is an initrd-tools bug. But not really sure. I tried the -k option to see if it does anything. And yes. The tmp directory gets filled. But I don't know what to do from there to start debugging. If you are not going to respond to this, can you at least tell me where I should go with this problem? Thanks. I'm guessing that you do have initrd enabled in the kernel? Block Devices - RAM Disk Support - Initial RAM disk (initrd) phil -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (MingW32) Comment: Public Key: http://www.dyermaker.org/gpgkey iD8DBQFClNovGbd/rBLcaFwRAqWJAJwKaK1sK21TIZEb+hW72vXujmFirQCg1c6B DtOTTopHgR1iLUP5dzC0Vh0= =2jbW -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: html to pdf conversion
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Deboo ^ said: Is there a html to pdf converter utility/script or any such thing available for debian? I could not find using apt search. you can use a combination of html2ps and ps2pdf. They are both available as deb packages. - -- /phil -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (MingW32) Comment: Public Key: http://www.dyermaker.org/gpgkey iD8DBQFCkjZtGbd/rBLcaFwRAkNFAKCiz7AnK+MoA3W3QjuNU7pQ2E5zRACePGEH m2axAubqEH753gePNJ9e8R0= =28DK -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Network scan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alexandar Angelov said: Mark Roach wrote: Do you know any command(script) to scan range from 192.168.35.1 to 92.168.35.255 and return if port :80 , :21 and MAC Addr. nmap MAC? Sure. nmap will return the mac...if the scanned machine is on your subnet. - -- /phil -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (MingW32) iD8DBQFCh8+GGbd/rBLcaFwRAmBzAJ0ZJkIgZcwKhkX+m9KzgxLA6CfWJQCgk9ln rgI3eOhsL4tggH0sxWH4LiM= =dw+8 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: something unclear with sed for me
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andras Lorincz wrote: I want to replaces all multiple spaces with one space. My first attempt was this: sed -e 's/\ */\ /g' This replaced all multiple spaces with one but as a side effect, sed inserted a space between all characters. You told sed replace 0 or more whitespace characters with 1 whitespace character. sed -e 's/[\ ]\ */\ /g' and this works. The fact is that I don't understand why the first one doesn't work. Can someone explain me that? This time you told sed replace 1 or more whitespace characters with 1 whitespace character. - -- /phil -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (MingW32) Comment: Public Key: http://www.dyermaker.org/gpgkey iD8DBQFCgkw/Gbd/rBLcaFwRAtUqAKCu8C+iNH53011Lq3NGX680H/P4xwCdGUBZ e78WXTGi3RGpm3uoGFBv04I= =ZkNQ -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: bash command substitution problem
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Pollywog said:
I have a function defined in my .bashrc as:
function lf { /bin/ls -l | grep ^- ; }
It prints the files in the CWD without listing other directories.
Suppose I want to 'chmod 600' all the files in the CWD without affecting
directories, I try this:
chmod 600 `lf`
but I get this error:
chmod: invalid character `w' in mode string `-rw---'
yeah, the ls -l listing is getting you when you display.
try this one.
function lsf {
for i in *; do
if [ -f $i ]; then
echo $i
fi;
done;
}
lsf | xargs chmod 600
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logrotate
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Been getting these emails from cron lately... running sarge. /etc/cron.daily/logrotate: /tmp/logrotate.qRrfw3: line 4: kill: (880) - No such process /tmp/logrotate.nnWbEs: line 4: kill: (880) - No such process any clues? - -- /phil -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (MingW32) iD8DBQFCfmbeGbd/rBLcaFwRArFfAJ90MBIW2kD27rO2nHGNnljNEviHTQCfb1Fz pX+9OlSYgdOkY+0xmQgpjt0= =5XE8 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Auto Disconnecting...
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jerzy Wolowik said: telnet daemon: in.telnetd in /usr/sbin/ it's 0.17-18woody2 according to dpkg managed by inted and indirectly by tcpd daemon as stated in inetd.conf: [snip...] Watch out! Please, think at first of all that obvious things newbies always forget or don't know at all! Without giving you an answer as to why telnet is diconnecting.. my first response is turn off telnet. Forget that it exists. Throw it away. Use ssh2. - -- /phil -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (MingW32) Comment: Public Key: http://www.dyermaker.org/gpgkey iD8DBQFCe2x5Gbd/rBLcaFwRAoVJAJ9lZfdjZvvh5Pk1nMpVjTxQXXIVDQCePlB0 OkxKLO/LEcKfT6vx2X0HzTw= =y1v8 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Auto disconnecting time
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jerzy Wolowik said: Yeah, I've been doing so. But problem persists. OK, so if I've got this straight - you're having problems with not only telnet disconnecting, but also ssh? Do you have autolog installed? Anything in /var/log concerning the logout? - -- /phil -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (MingW32) Comment: Public Key: http://www.dyermaker.org/gpgkey iD8DBQFCe4K7Gbd/rBLcaFwRArHeAKCr6ghr7NW20WjyjTd4T89lTi62mgCgsH4c Z9GofSdBSUBIpya6Y8t+488= =++2E -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to determine WAN IP address from behind a NAT router?
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A.Melon said:
I searched for information on this and found only solutions by
parsing the output of websites that display the HTTP REMOTE_ADDR.
But I don't want to rely on an external website.
I know there must be a way to do this because Gnutella-type
programs (client) display my outside IP address. How do they
do it?
they rely on an external site. :)
1) use dyndns.org client on your linux box and then never have
to worry what your ip is.
2) You could use www.whatismyip.com and grep and sed for the ip.
I guess that site is pretty reliable..
not very elegant, but this should work.
wget www.whatismyip.com -o /dev/null \
grep 'displaycopy' index.html | \
sed s/displaycopy('\([0-9]*\.[0-9]*\.[0-9]*\.[0-9]*\).*/\1/
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Re: sarge apt and init daemons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Miquel van Smoorenburg said: OK, although both solutions work, (I guess - I haven't tried the second solution) it still seems kludgy to me. If I use the debian supplied tool to remove a service from startup _totally_, and I use a debian supplied tool to update the system, shouldn't the latter honor my current config? Nope. Because that is not how it works or has ever worked. Your expectation is skewed from reality (sorry). Hate to keep beating this. But my response is: Just because it's not how it's ever worked doesn't mean it's right. Can you give me reasoning as to *why* it works like that? Any docs you can point me to on this? My expectation, I guess, comes from other systems, like redhat, that won't turn on a service during an upgrade. Of course that was not perfect either, as I don't think up2date would restart the services you *were* running. I don't think I should have to remeber to chmod this or fake out that. I have no problems doing either, it just seems odd that the best system update tool available can check to see if my conf files have been modified and let me choose whether to overwrite, but it doesn't check to see how I've configured services. It does. It does... what? If it checked to see if I've turned off a service and prompted me for action, then I don't think I would have started this thread. :) Again, I'd just like some reasoning on this. - -- /phil -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (MingW32) Comment: Public Key: http://www.dyermaker.org/gpgkey iD8DBQFCeNNDGbd/rBLcaFwRAjTuAJ4pemYUBbKWHMpr2HOta5HBrD7pfACfRTHJ KY03OhAngJWTD7fbH14JKWA= =lejg -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sarge apt and init daemons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Hasler said: It won't restart the service if you have left at least one K link in place. Debian provides several tools for turning services on and off. My favorite is sysvconfig (since I wrote it). thanks, John. I'm checking out sysvconfig now. - -- /phil -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (MingW32) Comment: Public Key: http://www.dyermaker.org/gpgkey iD8DBQFCePwUGbd/rBLcaFwRAs5KAJ9/mZEW3PMqwieADroByFn3WD+9/wCfSbnk /JvrkJB2Wm0uv4gyXmoDRoI= =8QSx -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sarge apt and init daemons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Miquel van Smoorenburg said: If you want to keep updates from starting the daemon, just chmod 644 it. That sounds reasonable...and simple. :) thanks. Reasonable, simple, and wrong :) As long as one start or stop link is still present, update-rc.d will not change the configuration. So just remove all start/stop links except in, say, runlevel 5 or so. Since the default runlevel is 2, the service will not be started ever. OK, although both solutions work, (I guess - I haven't tried the second solution) it still seems kludgy to me. If I use the debian supplied tool to remove a service from startup _totally_, and I use a debian supplied tool to update the system, shouldn't the latter honor my current config? I don't think I should have to remeber to chmod this or fake out that. I have no problems doing either, it just seems odd that the best system update tool available can check to see if my conf files have been modified and let me choose whether to overwrite, but it doesn't check to see how I've configured services. - -- /phil -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (MingW32) iD8DBQFCdtxZGbd/rBLcaFwRAjvyAJ9NXXuX3nLJD6PUsXYXMBX8lMin6ACfR+9u 7Xi1JV5IJdVNqiWwsDn6k6E= =f3dP -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Potential Virus or System Message?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 s. keeling wrote: Incoming from Faithful John: I got this weird message, when I left my email through Telnet/Pine running when I left my house. I'd say someone got in, and they got in far enough to shutdown the machine, which generally means root. Time to reinstall. Next time, go through the ps fax list, and anything that shouldn't be running, disable it. Uh, I'd say he had a telnet session opened to a remote host, and that remote host shutdown. Doesn't have anything to do with his box. - -- /phil -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (MingW32) iD8DBQFCdQFyGbd/rBLcaFwRAqw7AKCpH+/ipvHSIYX7KFoFuCnS07qeqgCgm1gp 0HF56fT8ydISuY9jalXq91U= =ZI+A -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Potential Virus or System Message?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Faithful John said: So this gives me a second question. I'm pretty sure that I disabled the remote access ability stuff (though I'm not 100% on that at this moment). Is there a chance someone could still get into my system in any way and do anything? (e.g.if firewalls disabled) My impression was that linux was immune to viruses and resistance to personal attacks since you needed a root password to do any sort of real changes. more complicated than they need root to get me. escalation of privileges, where a user gets onto your box via some sort of non-root user thru apache, ssh or whatever and then gains root via some local program that is vulnerable. You should run a portscan on yourself with nmap or similar. If you don't have access to another box, you can go to somewhere like dshield.org and run a portscan. Always good to do when setting up a new box. good learning when you get to say what in the heck is that port open for? - -- /phil -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (MingW32) iD8DBQFCdV0KGbd/rBLcaFwRAjM3AKCFEADz5GwK2j7u7O2773Z/HHgSkQCgqP6n pknLL8zBFzsIdyie5hlmaEs= =6JVa -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: that hes lost
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apt-file fails???
After installing apt-file, it doesn't work; erroring out, in fact. Is there some missing dependency, perhaps? Here's the install, the failure, and a check: player ddb# apt-get install apt-file libapt-pkg-perl Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: apt-file libapt-pkg-perl 0 packages upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/87.2kB of archives. After unpacking 401kB will be used. Selecting previously deselected package apt-file. (Reading database ... 17219 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking apt-file (from .../apt-file_0.2.3-4_all.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package libapt-pkg-perl. Unpacking libapt-pkg-perl (from .../libapt-pkg-perl_0.1.4_i386.deb) ... Setting up apt-file (0.2.3-4) ... Setting up libapt-pkg-perl (0.1.4) ... player ddb# apt-file update Can't locate object method host via package URI::_foreign (perhaps you forgot to load URI::_foreign?) at /usr/bin/apt-file line 189. player ddb# apt-get check apt-file Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done -- David Dyer-Bennet, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/ RKBA: http://noguns-nomoney.com/ http://www.dd-b.net/carry/ Pics: http://dd-b.lighthunters.net/ http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/ Dragaera/Steven Brust: http://dragaera.info/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: apt-file fails???
Adam Aube [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: David Dyer-Bennet wrote: After installing apt-file, it doesn't work; erroring out, in fact. Is there some missing dependency, perhaps? player ddb# apt-file update Can't locate object method host via package URI::_foreign (perhaps you forgot to load URI::_foreign?) at /usr/bin/apt-file line 189. player ddb# apt-get check apt-file Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done A quick check of the BTS (querybts apt-file) turned up Bug #229540, which may apply to your issue here - check it out (querybts 229540). That bug refers to an entry in /etc/apt/backup. There is no such file or directory on my system. The symptom, however, appears to be exactly what I'm experiencing, and I have in fact run the apt-cdrom command, so it's likely that this is exactly the problem I'm experiencing. It's just, the workaround documented isn't applicable here. Making the obvious guess, and commenting out the cdrom line in /etc/apt/sources-list appears to have worked. Thanks! So now, how do I report the bug against the bug report? -- David Dyer-Bennet, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/ RKBA: http://noguns-nomoney.com/ http://www.dd-b.net/carry/ Pics: http://dd-b.lighthunters.net/ http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/ Dragaera/Steven Brust: http://dragaera.info/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Where is the PATH set?
On a standard install woody system, in particular. Particularly, where does it get set on console login, and where does it get set for an ssh session? And where does it get set for an xterm? And where does it get set for an Emacs shell window? I'd prefer these to be the same, but And then, where is it set for a root session? And for a zup-initiated root session? Is it in /etc/profile? Is it in /etc/bash.bashrc? (or equivalent for other shells)? Is it in /etc/login.defs? Or might it be in /etc/pam.d/login, or /etc/pam.d/ssh? Or maybe /etc/security/pam_env.conf? It *looks like* it's set in /etc/profile. But *why* it's set there I haven't a clue. That's later than the more sensible places, so will override them. And it's shell-specific, and only gets executed on certain kinds of shell startups. Why *isn't* it set in /etc/login.defs? Does that not work? Same question for pam_env.conf. And how do those two compete with each other, by the way? This rather looks like it's starting to open a can of worms -- how user processes are started up. Is this documented anywhere in enough detail to be of any use? I'm afraid of deciding to do things one way, only to discover that that's on its way out and Debian is moving towards doing things another way, and the stuff I chose to standardize on was vestigial. -- David Dyer-Bennet, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/ RKBA: http://noguns-nomoney.com/ http://www.dd-b.net/carry/ Pics: http://dd-b.lighthunters.net/ http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/ Dragaera/Steven Brust: http://dragaera.info/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Colorized ls problem
The default setup seems to alias ls to ls --color. When this is run in an emacs shell window (on a character cell terminal in my test; though I think it does the same thing under X), the output comes out colorized -- even though the terminal type is set to DUMB there, and DUMB isn't on the list of colorizable terminals built into dircolors, and in fact LS_COLOR is set to null. It seems to me that, if running dircolors in a shell with TERM set to be *not* one of the colorizable terminal types, the LS_COLOR settings resulting should actually stop ls from colorizing! I'm running ls and dircolors from fileutils 4.1, current woody package. Am I overlooking something? I can see ways to hack around it; for example the ~/.emacs_bash file is sourced when a shell window is opened in emacs, and that could muck around with the alias on ls to make this problem go away. But I'd also like to see it fixed at the source. And the other problem there is that /usr/doc/fileutils and the info pages don't seem to give me any clue where to report bugs to. -- David Dyer-Bennet, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/ RKBA: http://noguns-nomoney.com/ http://www.dd-b.net/carry/ Pics: http://dd-b.lighthunters.net/ http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/ Dragaera/Steven Brust: http://dragaera.info/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Gallery 1.4 claims newer PHP version
Jacob S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Do you really need version 1.4 of gallery? There's a (slightly older) version of Gallery in Debian Woody. apt-get install gallery. Then not only would you not need to upgrade php, but even gallery would take advantage of Debian's advanced package management system. It's very often this level of package that ends up driving system upgrades, in my experience. End-users are very sensitive to features. Gallery is moving forward fairly fast. I certainly wouldn't want to downgrade from 1.4 myself. I'm curious how Gallery works as a package; on my system it's installed in at least 3 separate directories that I know of (you need to do that to have multiple galleries on the server). -- David Dyer-Bennet, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/ RKBA: http://noguns-nomoney.com http://www.dd-b.net/carry/ Photos: dd-b.lighthunters.net Snapshots: www.dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/ Dragaera/Steven Brust: http://dragaera.info/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Securing it properly
Jacob S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, 08 Feb 2004 00:12:32 -0600 David Dyer-Bennet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The apt-get tool, from what little I've seen so far, is quite nice. I didn't find dependencies especially hard to manage in RedHat, though, and apt-get seems to sacrifice the *really really useful* rpm -ql and rpm -qf capabilities (asking for all the files in a package, and asking for what package a file came from). At least I haven't found how to do it yet. dpkg -L package_name - lists the files installed by 'package_name' dpkg -S file_name - lists the package(s) that contain files matching the 'file_name' you entered. man dpkg for some more really helpful tools. It's not part of apt, but still uses Debian's great package management system. Both dpkg and apt have their own distinct and wonderful uses in my arsenal of tools. Excellent, thanks. I'd been thinking of there being only one tool! oops. As I say, despite having some troubles on the initial learning curve, I'm still favorably inclined and expect to eventually convert my systems to Debian. The fastest way I've found to learn Debian is to install it on your desktop machine and force yourself to use it, instead of resorting to whatever other OS may be installed to dual-boot. :-) I've never actually had any dual-boot system. And I can't seriously consider any of the Unix systems for my desktop; they don't support color management or photoshop. Oops. that's not true, I *could* consider a Mac, which is now a Unix system. But not willing to pay the price in hardware and rebuying all the software. And I can't really throw myself in at the deep end by converting a server without experimenting; too many people and organizations are dependent on these servers (the web server is pushing out more than 2 gigabytes per *day* of stuff). -- David Dyer-Bennet, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/ RKBA: http://noguns-nomoney.com http://www.dd-b.net/carry/ Photos: dd-b.lighthunters.net Snapshots: www.dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/ Dragaera/Steven Brust: http://dragaera.info/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Securing it properly
Henrik Johansson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: A final comment: The install procedure is not half as hard as everyone said! Refreshing actually! Glad you found it that way. Personally, my experience has been less than good. (I'm still experimenting, and am by no means ready to give up yet.) I've run Linux since kernel 0.99pl13, and Red Hat since 4.2 I think, and am now seriously considering moving to Debian; it seems to be the local favorite among serious users. I'm running two internet servers, not a desktop workstation. So far, I've had three complete failures to get Debian to install, on two different systems (both of which installed fine with RedHat 7.3). On my third try on the second system, I've gotten an apparent install, except that it won't boot from the hard drive. Since I've got a rescue disk and a boot disk, and even a theory on what the problem is, I actually expect to get over this hurdle the next time I have time to work on it, maybe this weekend yet. The installation programs seem to be *very much* not ready for prime time, and the documentation is horrid; containing little useful information and none of the most important thing to document, namely the overall framework of how things *work* (which I need to know to debug anything that goes wrong). One thing that's helped a lot is falling back to stable. At least the documentation isn't outright *wrong* so often there. However, stable contains rather outdated things like perl 5.6.1; which is now old enough that the perl community is starting to tell me that the first thing I need to do is get to a more recent perl when I have trouble with things. The apt-get tool, from what little I've seen so far, is quite nice. I didn't find dependencies especially hard to manage in RedHat, though, and apt-get seems to sacrifice the *really really useful* rpm -ql and rpm -qf capabilities (asking for all the files in a package, and asking for what package a file came from). At least I haven't found how to do it yet. The layers of sources is *really good* design, and will make my life easier, and use less net bandwidth, and generally be a very good thing. As I say, despite having some troubles on the initial learning curve, I'm still favorably inclined and expect to eventually convert my systems to Debian. -- David Dyer-Bennet, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/ RKBA: http://noguns-nomoney.com http://www.dd-b.net/carry/ Photos: dd-b.lighthunters.net Snapshots: www.dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/ Dragaera/Steven Brust: http://dragaera.info/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mouse Wheel/Screen Saver
I've noticed that xscreensaver doesn't count mouse wheel movements when deciding whether to blank the screen or not, so if I've been paging through a web page for enough time without moving the mouse, the screen blanks. Can anyone suggest how to fix this? If it is a bug, which package is likely to be the culprit? cheers, Nick
Re: XFree86 4.0.2 - Very low resolution - how to increase?
On 15 Feb 2001 19:55:06 +1100, hogan wrote: Any ideas? It says my card (actually on board S3) isn't supported but that SVGA driver should handle it.. What S3 card exactly? if you check http://www.xfree86.org/current/Status28.html, you'll find that only the S3 Trio3D, and Virge and Savage variants, are actually supported at all in XFree86 4.0.2. The drivers for earlier chips (such as Trio variants) have been ported from 3.3.6 yet. I checked your XFree86 log, and it's telling me that it's treating your card as a generic VGA card, hence the 64K of RAM and 320x240 pixel screen. I'm pretty certain this is because your chipset isn't supported in 4.0.2. However, you can still install and use 3.3.6 X servers (apt-get install xserver-svga), though I think this takes some fiddling. Thanks Leigh
Re: Kernel patching
Ronald Castillo wrote: Greetings... When I apply a patch to my kernel (from 2.2.12 to 2.2.13), do I need to do any other step after I do the gzip -cd patchxx.gz | patch -p0? Thanks.. The sources are now patched. (assuming you were in the /usr/src directory when you unzipped and patched.) I assume you are using the docs in /usr/src/linux/README. You now need to rebuild the kernel. hth dyer
Re: Compiling Kernel with debian
Jens Helweg wrote: Hi, I've just installed my first debian disrtibution (Potato 2.2) and I wanted to compile a new kernel but get the following error message when I execute make menuconfig: rm -f include/asm ( cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm) make -C scripts/lxdialog all make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux/scripts/lxdialog' gcc -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -DLOCALE -DCURSES_LOC=curses.h -c -o lxdialog.o lxdialog.c In file included from lxdialog.c:22: dialog.h:29: curses.h: No such file or directory make[1]: *** [lxdialog.o] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux/scripts/lxdialog' make: *** [menuconfig] Error 2 Jens, You need to install libncurses5-dev. It's only necessary for menuconfig. May I also suggest using the kernel-package utility. It simplifies building and maintaining kernels. There's good documentation to get you going. # apt-get install libncurses5-dev kernel-package Also, for a lot of questions you can find answers in the Mailing List Archive. This question about ncurses.h pops up all the time. www.debian.org/List-Archives has a sweet search tool at the bottom. good luck dyer
Re: kdm User List ?
Oliver Schoenknecht wrote: Hey everyone, in my KDM-login-screen I've got two users available, let's call them root and test. Well then, how may I add and / or delete users on this list ? Thanks in advance ! Log in to kde as root. Open the KDE Control Center. Go to Applications, then Login Manager. dyer
Re: X Fonts
Marcio Rosa da Silva wrote: Hi! I installed debian on my laptop (yes, I know that there is a laptop list, but I think the topic is more general) and I had a problem. The default font in X (used in netscape and jpilot) are too big. It's good when you use 1024x768 resolution, but my laptop only supports 800x600. I looked for the file to change this behavior, but couldn't solve the problem. So, how can I change this? In your XF86Config file, swap the 75dpi and 100dpi lines so that 75dpi comes first. FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled dyer
Re: Connection terminated after 481.1 minutes
Antonio Rodriguez wrote: Can someone help me fix this annoying feature? No matter at what time I connect, after 481.1 minutes I get disconnected. Is it the script, or is it the ATT server? Here is my plog: Jun 29 05:46:17 debian pppd[241]: Modem hangup Jun 29 05:46:17 debian pppd[241]: Script /etc/ppp/ip-down started (pid 384) Jun 29 05:46:17 debian pppd[241]: Connection terminated. Jun 29 05:46:17 debian pppd[241]: Connect time 481.1 minutes. Jun 29 05:46:17 debian pppd[241]: Sent 8673069 bytes, received 72974652 bytes. Jun 29 05:46:18 debian pppd[241]: Waiting for 1 child processes... Jun 29 05:46:18 debian pppd[241]: script /etc/ppp/ip-down, pid 384 Jun 29 05:46:18 debian pppd[241]: Script /etc/ppp/ip-down finished (pid 384), status = 0x0 Jun 29 05:46:18 debian pppd[241]: Exit. I've had ISP's before with the 'feature' of disconnecting you after a certain amount of time. Since the time is very close to 8 hours, (nice round number) I suspect that to be the case. dyer
Re: ssh1-ssh2
Geza GYORGYI wrote: In potato I would like to have ssh2 with ssh1 compatibility. I installed ssh-nonfree for ssh1, also installed ssh2, and set in /etc/ssh2_config the option Ssh1AgentCompatibility to traditional.Both daemons were fired up by the installer, and they are now running simultaneously. Is this right? The situation now is that two potato PC-s having both ssh1 and 2 refuse to link up by ssh2, the error msg being Incorrect protocol version However, they accept ssh1 connection from each other. If anyone has an idea how to revive ssh2, please let me know. I believe that ssh2 is running on port instead of the normal port 22. (Cant have both using same port!) If you try to connect with the ssh2 client using the default port (22) then the sshd1 is going to answer and you get a protocol error. Try specifying the port. #ssh -p host dyer
Re: Suggest net trafic analyser pls!
Alex V. Toropov wrote: Hi all I having problem with qmail mail server. I hold some incoming smtp connection for a long time without any messages received from them :-( I'd like to analyse this situation. For this I need some kind of sniffer. Can anyone suggest me a kind of such app which is able to sniff from ppp interface ? I've tried sniffit from slink. The problem is: it seams not able to analyse ppp trafic On my debian box I have 3 ethernet card and one modem acting as default internet connection When I try sniffit -i -F eth2 I see active sesions and etc. But if change eth2 to ppp1 (I find this using ifconfig) I don't see anything. But I'm sure that ppp1 interface is active and I have real traffic on it. I really like ethereal. Graphical, nice breakdown of packets and datagrams and you can follow packet streams. Are you sure it's not ppp0? do you have 2 ppp connections? dyer
Re: Compiling the Kernel.
Marc Miron wrote: Hi Everybody!! I'm trying to build a new kernel that has IP masqing/port forwarding abilities and I've followed all the directions in the How-TOs and I just can't seem to get it to work as after runing make config and setting it all up, I run make clean;make install; make and after it has been working for probably over an hour it just stops saying there is a file not found error. I do not understand this because I would have thought that all the files would have been included in the original .tar.gz file. If there is some other way of doing this, I'd be very gratefull of knowing about it. Otherwise, If someone knows of a site with a decent selection of pre-build kernels I'd also be grateful. Otherwise, if anyone is interested in building such a site, I've got plenty of room on my machine to host it. Marc, Please post the error about what file it cannot find. Also, you should not be running 'make install'. Take a look at the README in the /usr/src/linux directory. You should be running: make mrproper make config (or menuconfig or xconfig) make dep make bzImage make modules make modules_install Again, look at the readme. dyer
Re: setting up ipmasq
Shao Zhang wrote: Hi, I have recompiled my kerenel to have all the required modules for ipmasq. Then I apt-get installed ipmasq package. My impression is that things should work straight away... But I am getting network unreachable when trying to access internet from a box behind the firewall. I can ping the firewall with no problem. /snip With a network unreachable, it sounds more like you dont' have the firewall set up as the gateway for the workstation. What does 'route' show? You probably need to add a default route for the box behind the firewall. dyer
Re: html2ps
Goeman Stefan wrote: Hello everybody, Somebody probably encountered this problem before. You download a manual from the Internet but this manual is in html format or better you get 100 or 200 html files. You have to browse this manual with a html viewer (netscape). This browsing through the online manual is usefull but I would also like a paper version of the manual. So, I found that with html2ps you can convert html to ps. This is interesting but I don't like to do this for every file separately. I would rather like to issue one command to create the complete manual (in ps format) at once. how 'bout html2ps -o output.ps file1.html file2.html file3.html ... will create one big ps file containing all the html files. hope that helps, dyer
Re: /var/log/syslog entries
Matthew Thompson wrote: Hello, I'm getting TONS of this: Jun 12 06:30:03 doma kernel: Packet log: input REJECT eth0 PROTO=17 216.39.146.44:513 216.39.146.255:513 L=88 S=0x00 I=56637 F=0x T=64 (#5) Jun 12 06:33:03 doma kernel: Packet log: input REJECT eth0 PROTO=17 216.39.146.44:513 216.39.146.255:513 L=88 S=0x00 I=56656 F=0x T=64 (#5) Jun 12 06:33:37 doma kernel: Packet log: input REJECT eth0 PROTO=17 216.39.146.44:138 216.39.146.255:138 L=254 S=0x00 I=56659 F=0x T=64 port 138 is NetBIOS windows stuff. port 513 is for whod nothing bad, but annoying. You may just want to stop logging them. ;) dyer
Re: Debian Potato and Helix Gnome
J. Glyn Hughes wrote: New to Debian, I am a happy convert from RH, MDK, SuSE et al. Having had quite a scoot around, I am having trouble getting hold of Helix Gnome for Potato - they only seem to have a binary release for Woody. I have seen references by those clearly more talented than I to installing (perhaps shoe-horning) Helix onto Debian Potato, I know it's possible. Quite happy to investigate / play myself, perhaps someone could point me in the right direction - for what where should I look if I want (the very wonderful, apparently) Helix Gnome on my Debian 'Potato'. The only thing I found that required woody was a dependency on libguile6 1:1.3.4-3. Potato provides 1.3.4-2. This was only for the games I think. I upgraded libguile6 to the woody version and all was well. Running nicely on potato. dyer
Re: gv
BTW, what kind of tool do you use to convert .ps to .pdf? gv can do .pdf to .ps, acroread does the same thing too. Oki Strangely enough, it's called ps2pdf. I think it's in the gs package. Works great, just used it today. dyer
unable to start X after upgrade to potato
Peter Mickle wrote: I have recently upgraded to potato, and after doing so, I can no longer open an X session, either from xdm or from startx. The version is 3.3.6-6. At boot time, the last two lines of the messages generated by the boot process are: Checking for valid XFree86 Server configuration...unable to check Not starting X display manager If I try to start with startx, I get the following message: XSession: unable to start X sessions: no /path/.xsession found, no window managers, and no terminal emulators found. I have rerun xf86config. I have looked over all the related problems which have shown up on this list over the last week or so, and none of the fixes to other problems work for me. I'm lost or stuck, and I need X for my work, so any help will be appreciated. Thanks, Peter Peter Mickle Peter, I bet you are running kdm, right? Some changes were made to Xfree 3.3.6, including the removal of parse-xf86config. /etc/rc.d/kdm calls parse-xf86config, but since it no longer exists, the script exits with the error, Can't check config or whatever. I just removed the offending line from the kdm script. Works for me. As far as the startx problem, potato has changed how it handles window mangers, look at update-alternatives to register your window manager. That _may_ be your problem. You did do a dist-upgrade, right? dyer
Re: DVD-ROM
Goeman Stefan wrote: I have a DVD-ROM in PC. The problem with this DVR-ROM is that it is possible to mount software cdrom's using the usual mount command. But I don't know how to play a music CDROM. Clicking the CDROM icon in GNOME gives an error message. What is the error message? Probably, the cd player app is looking for the cdrom in /dev/cdrom. You should point it to your actual device, or make a symlink from your cdrom device to /dev/cdrom ln -s /dev/hdx /dev/cdrom# where x is your actual device. hth dyer
Re: Basic PPP dialup to ISP question
Alex Kwan wrote: Hi! I have configured the ppp dialup connection with pppconfig, (for example the connection named: MYISP), Now how do I establish and shut down the ppp dialup connection (not under GNOME)? pon MYISP poff note that if you only use one ISP, you can use the name 'default' for the connection, and only need to issue the command: pon hth dyer
Re: Basic PPP dialup to ISP question
note that if you only use one ISP, you can use the name 'default' for the connection and only need to issue the command: pon Not 'default', 'provider'. -- whoops! Need more coffee! dyer
Re: Woody: missing parse-xf86config? /etc/init.d.xdm wants it!
Brian Boonstra wrote: Hi Something blew away a program called parse-xf86config this weekend. I suspect it was when I did my apt-get upgrade. This is a problem because /etc/init.d/xdm won't run properly without it. Any clues as to how I can get it back? - Brian Yeah, I noticed that too. It seems that parse-xf86config has been removed from xserver-common (and removed altogether). My kdm init script was complaining. I just changed the kde.config(?) file to not check for or parse an XF86Config file. Probably not the best solution, but it works. Maybe Brandon will respond and tell us what the future is for this. dyer
Re: permission denied
Beavis wrote: i am trying to runfp_install.sh i get a bash errorbash: /usr/local/fp_install.sh: Permission denied anyone know why? tamnkx beavis make sure the script is executable. man chmod and also, could you post messages in plain text? Many people on the list don't use htmlable mail readers. ;) dyer
Re: ssh loading at startup
Beavis wrote: trying to get ssh to load at boot i have created a script in /etc/init.d called ssh i have also created a symbolic link to it from /etc/rc2.d called S20ssh but upon bootup the log says /etc/init.d/rc: /etc/rc2.d/S20ssh: Permission denied anyone know why, or maybe an easier way then the one explained? You need to make it executable. chmod 755 /etc/init.d/ssh dyer
Re: apt kde
Joe Gofton wrote: can anyone tell me how to install KDE using APT? Thanks Joe(new user) Joe, here's a link to a site that will give you a bunch of available aptable sites for kde. http://kde.tdyc.com/Debian/ dyer
Re: TkMan
David S. Jackson wrote: Hi, I don't see the TkMan package anywhere in Slink. Is that because of some Tcl incompatibility with Tk8.0 or something? -- David S. Jackson http://www.dsj.net =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free. --Charles Evans Hughes It's in non-free. You can get it from debian.org dyer
Re: libxpm4, libz1 - not found
matthschulz wrote: Hi all, I tried to upgrade grace 5.01 by grace_5.0.5-1.2.deb. It says it depends on ...,libxpm4, libz1,... I couldnt. find those packages at debian.org packetsearch? Any ideas? Matth They're libc5 based libs. You can find them in oldlibs/ dyer
Re: 128 MB but only 64 MB
Ron Rademaker wrote: My computer (Athlon 500) has 128 MB of memory, but linux says that there's only 64 MB. At bootup the bios says 128 MB... I want to use the other 64 MB as well... how??? Ron in /etc/lilo.conf add: append=mem=128M run lilo, reboot dyer
Re: Happy.exe
Antonio Rodriguez wrote: I was browsing with my windows box when I got the email with happy, which made me very sad. What is the best way to get ridd of it? I just deleted the message, without further actions, but I assume that the happy fellow is somewhere in my winbox. Thanks, Antonio. yeah, you'll need to do a couple of things. I got it at work a couple of months ago. Mcafee has a page telling you how to remove it. http://vil.mcafee.com/vil/vpe10144.asp that'll teach ya for using windows. ;-) dyer
Re: ipchains firewall rules
Ethan Benson wrote: hi, snip what i tried was adding 3 new rules to the very beginning of the input chain ipchains -I input 1 -p tcp -i ppp0 -d 0.0.0.0/0 53 -j ACCEPT ipchains -I input 2 -p tcp -i ppp0 -d 0.0.0.0/0 113 -j ACCEPT ipchains -I input 3 -l -p tcp -y -i ppp0 0.0.0.0/0 :1023 -j REJECT but as i mentioned i get DENY logs for various ports below 1024 from IPs which i presume are from my ISP. any pointers to good books and such on firewalling would be nice too. /snip Are the deny's perhaps UDP packets? dyer
Re: themes
pplaw wrote: debs, anyone have luck using themes from themes.org? using icewm in my slink box, i downloaded the themeblueheart, gunzipped it, and moved it to the directory with the other icewm themes. how do i actually get the theme (blueheart) to come up? thx. bentley taylor. there are docs on icewm.themes.org that explicitly tell you how to make use of themes. dyer
Re: dependency questions
john smith wrote: Hello!, I wanted to install sawmill with slink.when I checked their website, it instructed me that it needs librep, rep-gtk,gtk and imlib so I downloaded some of those and then when I tried to install the first one rep-gtk , it said that it depended on libglib1.2.6 but libglib1.2.6 is not in the stable distribution but is instead in the unstable. Can I use those packages in unstable dists to slink? Furthermore, when i checked libglib1.2.6, it too depends on other packages as well, and it seems like it's never ending. can somebody please give me a link on where I can get more information on how to do this properly? Not sure if it will solve _all_ your dependecy problems, but you may want to check www.debian.org/~vincent there are updates for gnome (gtk, imlib, glib) that are apt-able. Worth a shot.
Re: help with linux
jd wrote: hello im hoping you can help me im trying to down load linux and i dont no where to start i know you probly have better things to do than to help linux dummies but if you can give me any help i would be thankfull james ward email [EMAIL PROTECTED] I think the easiest way to get going is to buy a cd. Look on www.debian.org for cd distributers. They only cost a few bucks. Long downloads over slow lines can be a nightmare. Also look around debian's site... lots of good documentation, links, etc. hth dyer
Re: modem problem
Joseph de los Santos wrote: Greetings! I need help...I can ping ip addresses but can't seem to ping the equivalent domain name. any help would be greatly appreciated. you'll need to add the ip addresses of your ISP's nameservers in /etc/resolv.conf nameserver xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx Or you could install bind. hth -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= dyer[EMAIL PROTECTED] =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Re: cvs behind a firewall?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I'm trying to access a cvs server from behind a firewall. I don't think I'm making it through our firewall. Can anyone give me any tips or pointers to how I can do this. I can't seem to track down the ports/protocols that cvs uses, so I don't know how to change our ipchains script. Thanks, Edgar. from /etc/services I get that it uses tcp port 2401. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= dyer[EMAIL PROTECTED] =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Re: In trouble
Robert Thrall wrote: I have the deluxe Mandrake OS of Linux installed this week on my computer. But, none of the command references from the readme files work in the root or user modes. I can type in all the commands I want, but I keep getting no access to such files. For instance, I would lie to install the Star Office from the CD-ROM. I follow the instructions given in the manual, but the Mandrake edition will not recognize the instructrions. What is going on. How can I get these applications into the system? Is there something wrong with the space I have still left (about 550MB). I am missing something for sure. I did note that I could not get into some files because the answer given was that I need 5M for the temporary files. What does that mean? Your help would be appreciated. Robert Robert, This is a Debian mailing list. Please visit www.linux-mandrake.com. The have support there. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= dyer[EMAIL PROTECTED] =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Re: Modem does not work
I have bought (two day ago) a modem, it says (in the windows software) that it is a Motorols SM56 PCI, Speakerphone Modem and it is on COM4. That says it all. Speakerphone Modem = Winmodem. Take it back and get a real modem. -- Now I have an Supra 2260 PCI Modem Enumerator/Supra Max 56i Voice PCI (dual personality!?), but no luck ... :( It is an internal PCI modem, Windows says that it is on COM3, IRQ10, so it should be in /dev/ttyS3, but I only have two serial connections working, I think you bought another winmodem. To expand on the last response, I would go by the _general_ rule: PCI Modem = Winmodem Real Modem = External Modem Now I'm sure you can get some PCI's to work, but I'm just betting you're tired of going to the store. ;-) Take a look at the hardware compatability docs. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= dyer[EMAIL PROTECTED] =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Re: lo disappeared after 2.1-2.2 upgrade
Svante Signell wrote: Has the network interface scripts changed from slink to potato? After upgrading my loop interface is not working any longer. ifconfig shows both my lo and eth0 interface, but route does not report lo. Trying to activate results in: route add -net 127.0.0.0 SIOCADDRT: Invalid argument ifconfig lo up/down works OK. The kernel image installed is 2.2.12-4 It's the 2.2.x kernel. It automagically sets the route. Remove the route add -net 127.0.0.0 line in /etc/init.d/network and you should be OK.
Re: Setting up PPP on Debian
Denis J. Cirulis wrote: Hello ! I'm a little new to Debian and i want to setup dialup client on Linux to make a dialup connection to my workplace What is the easyest way to make this connection I don't want to make it from X using something like KPPP or similar. Simple script based connection . Is there any good guide to read and teach myself to make a PPP client [ excluding PPP-HOWTO ] ? pppconfig (as root) It will guide you through everything, then you use the pon, poff commands to connect, disconnect HTH -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= dyer[EMAIL PROTECTED] =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Re: @Home Cable Modem
Jon Hughes wrote: I just recently got hookoed up with the ATT @Home cable modem service. It's great, finally able to play fast games and stuff :) Unfortunatnly it's only setup with Windows 95 right now. Has anyone had any experience with getting this to work with linux or can anyone give me some advice on what I can do? Thanks Jon, take a look at the cable modem HOW-TO http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Cable-Modem.html -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= dyer[EMAIL PROTECTED] =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Re: idle user
Attila Csosz wrote: What packeage does it? ( from the official binary slink cd-s ) You've been idle for 68 min. You'll be logged off in 30sec unless you hit a key. Then I was logged off. idled sounds like the culprit. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= dyer[EMAIL PROTECTED] =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Re: passwd
Vincent Deffontaines wrote: I just found out something I find freak on my debian 2.1 system My root password used to be panoramix2021... Today by mistake I typed panoramix, and got in!!! how comes? is that normal? I dont find it normal actually is that a bug? is that supposed to be working that way? how many characteers are passwords supposed to be limited by??? 9??? 8 characters now I tried something else I set my password to a 9 characters one lets say poipoipoi which is 9 charaters you can type poipoipoi followed by anything... you just get in as well... I think there's a problem about that too (I guess its the same...) so please tell me Hope that can help... Vincent Deffontaines France -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= dyer[EMAIL PROTECTED] =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Re: Copying to a floppy; www connection
Antonio Rodriguez wrote: Silly-Newbie questions: 1. How do I read what is in a floppy - Cdrom? I have tried ls -F /dev/fd0 but shows nothing? You must first mount the device--either floppy or cdrom. read the mount man pages. Man pages are our friend. 2. How do I copy a file to a floppy? mount the floppy (you read the mount manpage, right?) ;-) cp foo.bar /floppy or /dev/floppy 3. Follow-up with previous questions regarding www connection: After reviewing my ppp.log I discovered that some times the connection reaches the point of sending my password to the att network (ip), after that there is hangup. The password is correct (case and all), so the problem is not there. What could the problem be? Didn't see your initial post. How are you connecting? (pon, etc...) How did you configure your connection? (pppconfig,etc..) -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= dyer[EMAIL PROTECTED] =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Re: www connection again
Antonio Rodriguez wrote: I believe the problem is somewhere in what happens after I send the password to the service provider. According to the plog that is what happens: (You can tell I learned to read and write with floppies, thanks to all:) Any way, here goes a copy of what is happening, I changed the password, everything else is the same. Please help, I am sending this from my win98 box, but I want to go completely LINUX. Thanks, Antonio. Oct 10 04:45:11 arc pppd[287]: Connect: ppp0 -- /dev/ttyS0 Oct 10 04:45:11 arc pppd[287]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 asyncmap 0x0 magic 0xbabc0cd5 pcomp accomp] Oct 10 04:45:11 arc pppd[287]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 mru 1514 asyncmap 0x0 auth chap 05 magic 0xe216e595 pcomp accomp 11 04 05 ea 13 03 00] Oct 10 04:45:11 arc pppd[287]: sent [LCP ConfRej id=0x1 11 04 05 ea 13 03 00] Oct 10 04:45:11 arc pppd[287]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x2 mru 1514 asyncmap 0x0 auth chap 05 magic 0xe216e595 pcomp accomp] Oct 10 04:45:11 arc pppd[287]: sent [LCP ConfNak id=0x2 auth pap] Oct 10 04:45:12 arc pppd[287]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x3 mru 1514 asyncmap 0x0 auth pap magic 0xe216e595 pcomp accomp] Oct 10 04:45:12 arc pppd[287]: sent [LCP ConfAck id=0x3 mru 1514 asyncmap 0x0 auth pap magic 0xe216e595 pcomp accomp] Oct 10 04:45:14 arc pppd[287]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 asyncmap 0x0 magic 0xbabc0cd5 pcomp accomp] Oct 10 04:45:14 arc pppd[287]: rcvd [LCP ConfAck id=0x1 asyncmap 0x0 magic 0xbabc0cd5 pcomp accomp] Oct 10 04:45:14 arc pppd[287]: sent [LCP EchoReq id=0x0 magic=0xbabc0cd5] Oct 10 04:45:14 arc pppd[287]: sent [PAP AuthReq id=0x1 user=rodriga password=SORRY.HOPE YOU DONT MIND] Oct 10 04:45:14 arc pppd[287]: rcvd [LCP EchoRep id=0x0 magic=0xe216e595] Oct 10 04:45:14 arc pppd[287]: rcvd [PAP AuthNak id=0x0 55 73 65 72 20 64 6f 6d 61 69 6e 20 6d 69 73 73 69 6e 67 2f 75 6e 6b 6e 6f 77 6e 2f 69 6e 68 69 62 69 74 65 64] Oct 10 04:45:17 arc pppd[287]: sent [PAP AuthReq id=0x2 user=rodriga password=SORRY] Have you tried using chap instead? Do pppconfig and try that. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= dyer[EMAIL PROTECTED] =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
how's kde2 look?
Anybody running the kde 2.0 debs for slink at tdyc.com? any regrets, blair witch-like evilness? -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= dyer[EMAIL PROTECTED] =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Re: /dev/lp1 bad configured
Krosigk, Lorenz Von wrote: Hello, when i try printing (debian 2.1 with kernel 2.2.4 and magicfilter lp, PC-StyleHardware in kernel) lpq gives back: /dev/lp1 doesn`t support this action (or something similar) tunelp /dev/lp1 -i 7 gives the same. Does anybody know how to get lp1 that supports printing? 2.2.x kernels use lp0. Change from lp1 to lp0 in /etc/printcap dyer
Re: Kppp
Eber de Castro Diniz wrote: The I execute kppp, it shows the following message after connect: ppp died unexpectly Does anyone know how to fix it? You may try using an empty /etc/ppp/options file. It fixed it for me. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= dyer[EMAIL PROTECTED] =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Re: KDE
Jean-Yves BARBIER wrote: Hi all, I'm seeking for KDE (debianized version) stable version to install. Do you know an URL from where I could apt-get it?? deb http://kde.tdyc.com slink kde This question has been asked many, many times. Please check the archives before posting. http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/ There is a search at the bottom of the page. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= dyer[EMAIL PROTECTED] =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Re: mail and security
tf wrote: Hey all, I'm reading with intrest several threads, and have a bunch of questions about mailing (like, what exactly is exim or sendmail actually doing...) but I have a better question first. I was online a few minutes ago, when I noticed alot of disk activity. I checked top and saw that user nobody issued a find command. I just disconnected. Guess I should change my password. May be wrong, but it was probably cron running your locate database update. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= dyer[EMAIL PROTECTED] =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Re: xfree 3.3.4 debianized, where can I found it pls?
Jean-Yves BARBIER wrote: Any URL? Thanx in advance. JY I assume you are talking about slink packages. http://samosa.debian.org/~branden/ you can apt-get with deb http://samosa.debian.org/%7Ebranden/ xfree86-334-slink/ hth -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= dyer[EMAIL PROTECTED] =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Re: What is required for Kernel 2.2.12 ?
Salman Ahmed wrote: Can someone tell me exactly what packages I will need to run the 2.2.x kernel ? I know that I will need some packages from unstable but that's ok. the minimum requirements are included in the kernel source. Look in the Documentation/Changes file. Very straight forward. It even tells you the commands to issue to get version numbers. BTW, on a somewhat related note what problems should I expect when I start mixing up packages from unstable ? I am doing this on my home system which is a standalone system. I use it for doing some development and to browse the WWW and read this list. You may run into problems here. Potato is based on libc6 2.1 and slink uses 2.0. you may have to grab the source and compile. I'm running slink, and upgraded necessary packages before potato went to 2.1. Maybe someone who has done this recently on slink could be more help here. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= dyer[EMAIL PROTECTED] =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Re: Xemacs problem
David Kanter wrote: When I try to start xemacs, I occasionally get this error message: Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by server Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server emacs: Cannot connect to X server :0.0. Check the DISPLAY environment variable or use `-d'. Also use the `xhost' program to verify that it is set to permit connections from your machine. I'll bet you're trying to launch while your'e su'd root. Check out xauth. (if security is not an issue, look at xhost) Again, it doesn't happen all the time. However, nox-emacs works fine. Doesn't need to use your xserver. What is going on? -Dave
