Re: aptitude/apt-get hangs during update (plus) on IPv6

2011-06-09 Thread Jeffrey B. Green
Rick Thomas writes: On Jun 5, 2011, at 9:46 AM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Rick Thomas a écrit : On Jun 3, 2011, at 10:46 AM, Jeffrey B. Green wrote: The RFCs say that any conforming implementation MUST handle an MTU of 1280, and may not necessarily handle anything larger. What is your point

Re: aptitude/apt-get hangs during update (plus) on IPv6

2011-06-03 Thread Jeffrey B. Green
On Fri, 03 Jun 2011 09:42:49 +0200 Pascal Hambourg pascal.m...@plouf.fr.eu.org wrote: Hello, Jeffrey B. Green a écrit : I'm seeing if there is an alternate answer here before filing a bug. (I believe) All of the servers here that have IPv6 configured hang while attempting an update

Re: aptitude/apt-get hangs during update (plus) on IPv6

2011-06-02 Thread Jeffrey B. Green
On Wed, 1 Jun 2011 10:00:17 -0400 Jeffrey B. Green j...@kikisoso.org wrote: Doing the update from the firewall works, a conversation of 29 packets in the captured pcap file. There are still 404s but none of the out of sequence/lost sequence messages. Hmmm, now to see which of the packets

Re: aptitude/apt-get hangs during update (plus) on IPv6

2011-06-01 Thread Jeffrey B. Green
Chris Brennan writes: On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 1:20 PM, Andrei Popescu andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: On Ma, 31 mai 11, 09:50:48, Jeffrey B. Green wrote: So, if anyone knows what going on here or whether this looks like an official bug, then let me know. This sounds like you might want

Re: aptitude/apt-get hangs during update (plus) on IPv6

2011-06-01 Thread Jeffrey B. Green
On Wed, 01 Jun 2011 09:18:17 -0400 Jeffrey B. Green j...@kikisoso.org wrote: Chris Brennan writes: The 404's you were getting, I got them as well on my Debian 6 VPS. No firewall in place on he VPS (yet, as I am still setting it up) but every time I run an update, I see the 404's

Re: aptitude/apt-get hangs during update (plus) on IPv6

2011-06-01 Thread Jeffrey B. Green
On Wed, 1 Jun 2011 10:00:17 -0400 Jeffrey B. Green j...@kikisoso.org wrote: Doing the update from the firewall works, a conversation of 29 packets in the captured pcap file. There are still 404s but none of the out of sequence/lost sequence messages. Hmmm, now to see which of the packets

aptitude/apt-get hangs during update (plus) on IPv6

2011-05-31 Thread Jeffrey B. Green
Hi, I'm seeing if there is an alternate answer here before filing a bug. (I believe) All of the servers here that have IPv6 configured hang while attempting an update on security.debian.org. If I turn off IPv6 by deconfiguring the IPv6 address, then the update goes through fine. When I check

Re: aptitude/apt-get hangs during update (plus) on IPv6

2011-05-31 Thread Jeffrey B. Green
On Tue, 31 May 2011 09:50:48 -0400 Jeffrey B. Green j...@kikisoso.org wrote: When I check with tcpdump to be sure the firewall isn't the culprit, I find that all of the packets that reach the firewall also make it to the server and a conversation of 20-22 packets occurs (20 on one server, 22

Re: Re: aptitude/apt-get hangs during update (plus) on IPv6

2011-05-31 Thread Jeffrey B. Green
David Erwin writes: On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 03:50:48PM CEST, Jeffrey B. Green j...@kikisoso.org said: Hi, I'm seeing if there is an alternate answer here before filing a bug. (I believe) All of the servers here that have IPv6 configured hang while attempting an update on security.debian.org

Re: aptitude/apt-get hangs during update (plus) on IPv6

2011-05-31 Thread Jeffrey B. Green
On Tue, 31 May 2011 11:15:13 -0400 Jeffrey B. Green j...@kikisoso.org wrote: On Tue, 31 May 2011 09:50:48 -0400 Jeffrey B. Green j...@kikisoso.org wrote: When I check with tcpdump to be sure the firewall isn't the culprit, I find that all of the packets that reach the firewall also

aptitude update/upgrade not syncing properly for a squeeze upgrade

2011-02-09 Thread Jeffrey B. Green
Hi, I'm posting to both lists since it seems to be relevant to both. The problem that I'm experiencing only seems to be happening on my armel (nslu2) systems. Squeeze upgrades to the i386 systems seem to be working properly. However, since aptitude is not (afaict) particularly an app

Re: aptitude update/upgrade not syncing properly for a squeeze upgrade

2011-02-09 Thread Jeffrey B. Green
On 02/09/2011 08:33 AM, Jeffrey B. Green wrote: [...snip...] Anyway, in a nutshell, I'm upgrading from a reprepro local repository that is currently up to date with the debian repositories. [...snip...] The reprepro Package list(s) seem to be the problem. Checking out the /v/l/dpkg/available

IPv6 and timing oddities

2010-09-07 Thread Jeffrey B. Green
Hi, I'm not sure if this issue has been covered here before since I don't subscribe to debian-users. Anyway, it seems that the recent minor release upgrade for lenny may have uncovered some timing issues that were not present beforehand. My inet6 configurations in /etc/network/interfaces

Re: clamscan vs. clamscan with mb2md

2010-07-18 Thread Jeffrey B. Green
In a previous msg, I wrote: Running clamscan over a PDC/BDC with roaming profiles will (obviously) generate sporadic alerts on mbox files assoicated with assorted mail clients, icedove/tbird in this case. In order to track down the specific message, I've used mbox2maildir (in the past) and

clamscan vs. clamscan with mb2md

2010-07-16 Thread Jeffrey B. Green
Hi, Running clamscan over a PDC/BDC with roaming profiles will (obviously) generate sporadic alerts on mbox files assoicated with assorted mail clients, icedove/tbird in this case. In order to track down the specific message, I've used mbox2maildir (in the past) and mb2md presently to

sympa user/group prob on list creation (possibly)

2010-04-29 Thread Jeffrey B. Green
Hi, I have my sympa web setup with a suexecusergroup to sympa sympa. However it seems that when I do a list creation via the web interface, everything in the /var/lib/sympa/expl/listname directory gets the default apache setup for the owner and group, i.e. www-data:www-data. Doing a (trimmed

Re: sympa user/group prob on list creation (possibly)

2010-04-29 Thread Jeffrey B. Green
Jeffrey B. Green wrote: Obviously, the suexecusergroup isn't being applied to the fcgi scripts. Anyone have the answer for why it is not? Or alternatively should it work and should I be digging deeper into the logs, i.e. I have a config error somewhere? A misconfig. Finding and following

Tool for immediate tabulation of [shorewall] ulog files

2009-02-02 Thread Jeffrey B. Green
Hi, I didn't find anything for immediate use to tabulate occurrences in shorewall ulog files and so I wrote the below script after doing similarly on the command line. I needed it to focus in on behavior that showed up at a higher level. I offer it below for general use via GPL. I believe there

Tool for immediate tabulation of [shorewall] ulog files

2009-02-02 Thread Jeffrey B. Green
Hi, I didn't find anything for immediate use to tabulate occurrences in shorewall ulog files and so I wrote the below script after doing similarly on the command line. I needed it to focus in on behavior that showed up at a higher level. I offer it below for general use via GPL. I believe there

Re: Processes comminicating with outside sites

2008-11-05 Thread Jeffrey B. Green
On 2 Nov 2008, Michael Iatrou wrote: When the date was Sunday 02 November 2008, Jeffrey B. Green wrote: So I'm wondering, is there a list that itemizes all outside communications and associates them with the relevant package/file? You need something like the output of: # netstat

Processes comminicating with outside sites

2008-11-02 Thread Jeffrey B. Green
Hi, I believe I've asked this question before and don't remember a response for it. Basically, I'll have a server that exhibits communication with some outside site, and I've not explicitly set up such a communication. I assume that that are many standard communications going on for some

Autonomous CPAN connections

2008-06-07 Thread Jeffrey B. Green
Hi, I'm wondering if anyone knows which packages generate autonomous CPAN connections. My connection logs show a high activity (dport 80) for several servers to one of the CPAN sites (cpan-sj.viaverio.com). When I researched it, I noticed that it has been going on for a long time. thanks,

Samba PDC LDAP NSS prob.

2007-03-28 Thread Jeffrey B. Green
Hi, I'm having a problem getting my PDC to join a domain as per the Samba By Example chap. 5 instructions. In particular, I get [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/root[5887] net rpc join -S DANA -U admin Connection failed: NT_STATUS_LOGON_FAILURE Password: Connection failed: NT_STATUS_LOGON_FAILURE Unable to

Re: Samba PDC LDAP NSS prob.

2007-03-28 Thread Jeffrey B. Green
Some additional info. I've discovered this clip from the log about a page before the error message appears: UNIX token of user 0 Primary group is 0 and contains 0 supplementary groups [2007/03/28 16:12:42, 5] smbd/uid.c:change_to_root_user(275) change_to_root_user: now uid=(0,0) gid=(0,0)

Re: Samba PDC LDAP NSS prob.

2007-03-28 Thread Jeffrey B. Green
Okay, got it... Commented out the auth methods and it works. Details details. later, -jeff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: New DVD+-R/RW/RAM drive

2006-06-09 Thread Jeffrey B. Green
So far it's okay. I was able to burn a CD and read it okay. (However cdrecord and cdrdao both have this thing about not recognizing the cd in the drive after burning; I needed to eject and reinsert the cd to get the cd to mount.) The DVD-RAM part works okay too though only if formatted with an

Re: Wacom Mouse - Footnote

2006-06-08 Thread Jeffrey B. Green
Thomas H. George wrote: On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 11:24:26AM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: [...snip...] Tom George I have edited /etc/X11/xorg.conf manually adding the following items: Section InputDevice Driver wacom Identifier eraser Option

Re: New DVD+-R/RW/RAM drive

2006-06-05 Thread Jeffrey B. Green
Curt Howland wrote: On Sunday 04 June 2006 12:25, Jeffrey B. Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: I'll be getting a new Sony DRX 820UL/T drive in within the next week. Does anyone here have any experience getting it to work (obviously I mean with debian)? I looked up the specs

Re: New DVD+-R/RW/RAM drive

2006-06-05 Thread Jeffrey B. Green
Martin A. Brooks wrote: Curt Howland wrote: How can I order hardware if I don't know if it will run on my system? Just make sure, if it doesn't work, that you return it for a FULL refund and tell them why. Surely a better approach would be to simply not buy it if you're not sure? _Then_

New DVD-R/RW/RAM drive

2006-06-04 Thread Jeffrey B. Green
Hi all, I'll be getting a new Sony DRX 820UL/T drive in within the next week. Does anyone here have any experience getting it to work (obviously I mean with debian)? I would like to use it with my pmac running sarge and plan to put testing on some spare partitions on it pretty soon. Also, I

Odd ksh+ssh interaction

2006-04-19 Thread Jeffrey B. Green
Hi, I was exploring hello-dbs from afar this morning by ssh from home to the machine at work. I did the standard dpkg-source -x, cd'ed into the directory and did a debian/rules setup. At that point the session completely started ignoring the keyboard. I had to kill the ssh connection