Re: [arch-general] Cisco VPN config
On Monday 27 July 2009 04:27:45 Angel Velásquez wrote: On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 3:33 PM, Thomas B�chlertho...@archlinux.org wrote: Rafa Griman schrieb: I know it sucks, had to patch it and patch it again when I used openSUSE because it didn't work. AFAIK they have no 64 bit VPN client, they have no up to date Linux VPN client, ... I'm not a Cisco fan, but my company has Cisco gateways/firewalls/whatever and I have no voice into that matter :( Many companies have that - which worries me because of the very obvious security problems, at least in the xauth protocol. Unfortunately their publicity is powerful than their products, I really hate cisco and those all noobs who claim about the cisco training... in the real world, cisco is attached to a their restrictive, not efficient and expensive platform, and that is the truth. Marketing ... There's another company ... can't remember it's name. Think it starts with an M and ends with a t. IIRC, they're also very strong in marketing but the products ... ;) I will save this mail when my boss will decide to buy any cisco crap :S. Good luck Rafa! Thanks. I'll check it out tomorrow (I hope) and let you all know. Thanks !!! Rafa -- We cannot treat computers as Humans. Computers need love. rgri...@skype.com rgri...@jabberes.org
Re: [arch-general] how to migrate installs between hard drives?
if think dd is the worst way to copy data between disk or partition i used to copy data from one partition to another the old way by using tar and a pipe tar -C /myfirst partition -csSf -|tar -C /mysecondpartition -xSsp rsync is not bad too.
Re: [arch-general] how to migrate installs between hard drives?
Excerpts from solsTiCe d'Hiver's message of Mon Jul 27 10:16:21 -0400 2009: if think dd is the worst way to copy data between disk or partition Why, out of curiosity? -- Andrei Thorp, Developer: Xandros Corp. (http://www.xandros.com)
Re: [arch-general] Where can I find the boot log to find out what failed on boot?
David C. Rankin wrote: Weeks ago, I learned that kdm doesn't belong in the DAEMONS LINE and moved it to inittab. ? That's always worked fine for me. (At least with both kdm3 and slim.) Can you elaborate? What's the issue? DR
Re: [arch-general] Where can I find the boot log to find out what failed on boot?
On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 5:56 PM, David Rosenstrauchdar...@darose.net wrote: David C. Rankin wrote: Weeks ago, I learned that kdm doesn't belong in the DAEMONS LINE and moved it to inittab. ? That's always worked fine for me. (At least with both kdm3 and slim.) Can you elaborate? What's the issue? DR archwiki is your friend : http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Adding_a_login_manager_%28KDM,_GDM,_or_XDM%29_to_automatically_boot_on_startup#Configure_loading_the_Display_Manager
Re: [arch-general] Where can I find the boot log to find out what failed on boot?
Xavier wrote: On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 5:56 PM, David Rosenstrauchdar...@darose.net wrote: David C. Rankin wrote: Weeks ago, I learned that kdm doesn't belong in the DAEMONS LINE and moved it to inittab. ? That's always worked fine for me. (At least with both kdm3 and slim.) Can you elaborate? What's the issue? DR archwiki is your friend : http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Adding_a_login_manager_%28KDM,_GDM,_or_XDM%29_to_automatically_boot_on_startup#Configure_loading_the_Display_Manager The inittab method is recommended for various reasons, one being that it will allow you to boot directly into framebuffer mode from GRUB. This is an advantage should the graphics driver crash in X, for example, you would not be forced to fix your system from a live cd or through other needlessly complex means. With the inittab method all you would have to do is to press 'e' for edit at the GRUB prompt and just add: 3 to the end of the 'kernel' line to boot directly into framebuffer mode in order to fix your system/X (This is also described more thoroughly descriptive below.) Hmmm ... still not sure I get what the problem is. Any time I've ever run into a situation where either X or the DM crashes, it leaves me at a console login prompt. So I can just login to the console and fix things from there - no live CD needed. Incorrect/misleading Wiki page, methinks ... DR
Re: [arch-general] how to migrate installs between hard drives?
solsTiCe d'Hiver wrote: if think dd is the worst way to copy data between disk or partition i used to copy data from one partition to another the old way by using tar and a pipe tar -C /myfirst partition -csSf -|tar -C /mysecondpartition -xSsp rsync is not bad too. I also prefer to handle this type of things using tar, though without the pipe. I generally will generate a full tar archive of the original partition, then copy it over to the other disk and either fully untar it, or untar portions of it. The reason I go for the full archive is because I like to keep the tarball around afterwards in case I need to repeat the process, need to untar additional portions of it, etc. DR
Re: [arch-general] Where can I find the boot log to find out what failed on boot?
2009/7/27 David Rosenstrauch dar...@darose.net: With the inittab method all you would have to do is to press 'e' for edit at the GRUB prompt and just add: Is that pretty much the same as adding single to the kernel line? Least that's how I normally do it.
Re: [arch-general] How do I re-create a DVD from the backup created by vobcopy?
David C. Rankin wrote: Listmates, How do I re-create a DVD from the backup created by vobcopy? I have searched and I have read howto after howto and I still am stuck. Between ffmpeg this, dvdauthor that, qdvdauthor this to, I'm confused. FYI - I've found acidrip to be a good, reasonably user-friendly app for burning DVD's from VOB files. HTH, DR
Re: [arch-general] Where can I find the boot log to find out what failed on boot?
On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 19:07, David Rosenstrauchdar...@darose.net wrote: Xavier wrote: On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 5:56 PM, David Rosenstrauchdar...@darose.net wrote: David C. Rankin wrote: Weeks ago, I learned that kdm doesn't belong in the DAEMONS LINE and moved it to inittab. ? That's always worked fine for me. (At least with both kdm3 and slim.) Can you elaborate? What's the issue? DR archwiki is your friend : http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Adding_a_login_manager_%28KDM,_GDM,_or_XDM%29_to_automatically_boot_on_startup#Configure_loading_the_Display_Manager The inittab method is recommended for various reasons, one being that it will allow you to boot directly into framebuffer mode from GRUB. This is an advantage should the graphics driver crash in X, for example, you would not be forced to fix your system from a live cd or through other needlessly complex means. With the inittab method all you would have to do is to press 'e' for edit at the GRUB prompt and just add: 3 to the end of the 'kernel' line to boot directly into framebuffer mode in order to fix your system/X (This is also described more thoroughly descriptive below.) Hmmm ... still not sure I get what the problem is. Any time I've ever run into a situation where either X or the DM crashes, it leaves me at a console login prompt. So I can just login to the console and fix things from there - no live CD needed. Incorrect/misleading Wiki page, methinks ... Yep, the wiki gives wrong reasoning. The only advantage of inittab over DAEMONS may be http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Start_X_at_boot#Starting_X_as_preferred_user_without_logging_in but some login managers allow automatic login as well (at least GDM does). -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)
Re: [arch-general] Cisco VPN config
Hi! I don’t want to get your hopes down, but we used to have Cisco’s vpnclient at our university. I tried it eventually and got it to compile even under x84_64 but it would only run for some minutes or so and then kernel panic! What helped were -- I think -- patches from www.tuxx-home.at and I also found some patched 64 bit version from some university. I have it lying around somewhere. If you want I can send it to you. Good luck! Edgar Am oder ungefähr am Sonntag, 26. Juli 2009, um 21:52:54 schrieb Rafa Griman: Hi :) On Sunday 26 July 2009 18:57:07 Thomas Bächler wrote: Rafa Griman schrieb: Got a Cisco VPN connection with my office, but can't manage to get it running. I've seen that there's a: - vpnc package: installed it, but it doesn't import the .pcf file, says it can't find the file. pcf2vnc /path/to/file.pcf Didn't know of that command 0:) Seems easy. When it says it can't find the file, then you specified the wrong file. So what exactly is the problem? Well the problem is (hope I could write was, but haven't tried it yet ;) that the path is right and so's the file. I'll try now with the pcf2vpnc command. Thanks for the tip !!! - cisco-vpnclient: but it's out-dated This software is the greatest piece of shit ever published from what I know. But what do you expect from Cisco? A company that solves security problems by preventing the details from being published can not be taken seriously. And a company that sells a VPN appliance that is insecure by design can't either. I know it sucks, had to patch it and patch it again when I used openSUSE because it didn't work. AFAIK they have no 64 bit VPN client, they have no up to date Linux VPN client, ... I'm not a Cisco fan, but my company has Cisco gateways/firewalls/whatever and I have no voice into that matter :( Thanks once again for your help :) Rafa signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [arch-general] Cisco VPN config
On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 3:52 PM, Rafa Grimanrafagri...@gmail.com wrote: Hi :) On Sunday 26 July 2009 18:57:07 Thomas Bächler wrote: Rafa Griman schrieb: Got a Cisco VPN connection with my office, but can't manage to get it running. I've seen that there's a: - vpnc package: installed it, but it doesn't import the .pcf file, says it can't find the file. pcf2vnc /path/to/file.pcf Didn't know of that command 0:) Seems easy. When it says it can't find the file, then you specified the wrong file. So what exactly is the problem? Well the problem is (hope I could write was, but haven't tried it yet ;) that the path is right and so's the file. I'll try now with the pcf2vpnc command. Thanks for the tip !!! - cisco-vpnclient: but it's out-dated This software is the greatest piece of shit ever published from what I know. But what do you expect from Cisco? A company that solves security problems by preventing the details from being published can not be taken seriously. And a company that sells a VPN appliance that is insecure by design can't either. I know it sucks, had to patch it and patch it again when I used openSUSE because it didn't work. AFAIK they have no 64 bit VPN client, they have no up to date Linux VPN client, ... I'm not a Cisco fan, but my company has Cisco gateways/firewalls/whatever and I have no voice into that matter :( Thanks once again for your help :) I usually recommend strongSwan (which is in AUR) for interoperability with Cisco concentrators. It works quite well, but it's not simple to set up initially. I still believe it to be the best technical solution, but it would be beyond me to explain how to do it, via email, and for an unfamiliar situation.
Re: [arch-general] Cisco VPN config
Ray Kohler schrieb: I usually recommend strongSwan (which is in AUR) for interoperability with Cisco concentrators. It works quite well, but it's not simple to set up initially. I still believe it to be the best technical solution, but it would be beyond me to explain how to do it, via email, and for an unfamiliar situation. I was under the impression the only thing that worked with Cisco's proprietary xauth protocol was vpnc. (Apart from authentication, it is only IPSEC IIRC) I am so glad now that I don't need that shit anymore, because my university is now offering an OpenVPN server as an alternative. It's not only free and secure, but also compatible with virtually any platform or operating system you could think of - if not, it can be ported to it. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [arch-general] Cisco VPN config
On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 1:38 PM, Thomas Bächlertho...@archlinux.org wrote: Ray Kohler schrieb: I usually recommend strongSwan (which is in AUR) for interoperability with Cisco concentrators. It works quite well, but it's not simple to set up initially. I still believe it to be the best technical solution, but it would be beyond me to explain how to do it, via email, and for an unfamiliar situation. I was under the impression the only thing that worked with Cisco's proprietary xauth protocol was vpnc. (Apart from authentication, it is only IPSEC IIRC) strongSwan supports XAUTH, though I've never tested that feature. It also supports certificate-based authentication, which vpnc doesn't, and which I actually do use.
[arch-general] Regression in PC Beep when updating to 2.6.30
Is anyone experiencing this too? http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13651 The noise is quite irritating, I'm looking forward a workaround or a way to shut it down. -- Flávio Coutinho da Costa
Re: [arch-general] Regression in PC Beep when updating to 2.6.30
On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 21:27, Flavio Costaflavio@gmail.com wrote: Is anyone experiencing this too? http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13651 The noise is quite irritating, I'm looking forward a workaround or a way to shut it down. Hm, I do remember hearing irritating PC speaker beep during installation, but not after my system was configured. Did you try to rebuild your kernel with CONFIG_SND_HDA_INPUT_BEEP=n and muting the PC speaker in alsamixer? Anyway it seems that this partially fixed in 2.6.31-rc1 (the irritating frequency). -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)
Re: [arch-general] Cisco VPN config
On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 4:12 PM, Rafa Grimanrafagri...@gmail.com wrote: Hi :) Got a Cisco VPN connection with my office, but can't manage to get it running. My office uses Cisco for VPN as well. The official Cisco VPN client would give me a kernel panic every few days. I was able to use vpnc successfully, following this walkthough here: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=49502 Good luck, Slash
Re: [arch-general] Regression in PC Beep when updating to 2.6.30
Flavio Costa 提到: Is anyone experiencing this too? http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13651 The noise is quite irritating, I'm looking forward a workaround or a way to shut it down. just forbid modules !snd_pcsp !pcspkr within rc.conf this will turn off your pc speaker permanently. - b4.
Re: [arch-general] Regression in PC Beep when updating to 2.6.30
The noise that used to come from 'pcspkr' isn't annoying, but apparently, for some specific Intel hardware, the soundcard is taking over the beep and using a very annoying sound. On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 10:10 PM, b4283 da.mi.spi...@gmail.com wrote: Flavio Costa 提到: Is anyone experiencing this too? http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13651 The noise is quite irritating, I'm looking forward a workaround or a way to shut it down. just forbid modules !snd_pcsp !pcspkr within rc.conf this will turn off your pc speaker permanently. - b4. -- Flávio Coutinho da Costa
Re: [arch-general] Regression in PC Beep when updating to 2.6.30
Muting the PC Beep in alsamixer mutes the beep, but the internel speaker doesn't come back to life On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 10:13 PM, Flavio Costa flavio@gmail.com wrote: The noise that used to come from 'pcspkr' isn't annoying, but apparently, for some specific Intel hardware, the soundcard is taking over the beep and using a very annoying sound. On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 10:10 PM, b4283 da.mi.spi...@gmail.com wrote: Flavio Costa 提到: Is anyone experiencing this too? http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13651 The noise is quite irritating, I'm looking forward a workaround or a way to shut it down. just forbid modules !snd_pcsp !pcspkr within rc.conf this will turn off your pc speaker permanently. - b4. -- Flávio Coutinho da Costa -- Flávio Coutinho da Costa
