apt-get issue(s)
I'm cross-posting this to user and security, because there are really two (possibly-related) issues here. Feel free to take replies to just one list or the other. On my firewall (running potato), I have been using these apt sources.list entries: deb http://security.debian.org potato/updates main contrib non-free deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ potato main non-free contrib deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US/ potato/non-US main contrib non-free However, suddenly, 'apt-get update' started failing with errors of the form: Err http://security.debian.org potato/updates/main Packages Could not connect to security.debian.org (132.229.131.40). for each of the entries. I've finally worked around this by using these sources.list entries: deb ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security potato/updates main contrib non-free deb ftp://http.us.debian.org/debian/ potato main non-free contrib deb ftp://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US/ potato/non-US main contrib non-free First question: any idea why the original http source.list entries suddenly stopped working? The URLs that apt-get complains about seem to be available via lynx, so connectivity is apparently not the issue. Running strace on 'apt-get update' shows me an error 400 URI Failure, but I'm not sure where that leads me. I can go dig through the code next, but... Second question: what's up with the security URL that I needed for FTP? I would have expected to use ftp://security.debian.org;, but the dists directory exists under ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security; instead. Thanks in advance for the information. I guess I've worked around this for now, but I'd like to know what happened. KEN -- Kenneth J. Pronovici [EMAIL PROTECTED] Personal Homepage: http://www.skyjammer.com/~pronovic/ I have zero tolerance for zero-tolerance policies. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: apt-get issue(s)
Kenneth Pronovici, 2001-Aug-12 21:49 -0500: Err http://security.debian.org potato/updates/main Packages Could not connect to security.debian.org (132.229.131.40). My guess is that this was a temporary server or network outage. I just did an apt-get update with this same source. It hung and 99% the first try and I Ctrl C to break and immediately ran it again and it worked fine. jc -- Jeff CoppockNortel Networks Systems Engineerhttp://nortelnetworks.com Major Accts.Santa Clara, CA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
strangelog
Hello, This weekend I got a strange log: Unusual System Events =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Aug 11 06:25:03 alhandra su[3584]: + ??? root-nobody Aug 11 06:25:03 alhandra PAM_unix[3584]: (su) session opened for user nobody by +(uid=0) I'm sure I was asleep at that time... What is this? Did someone log in? Or was it a service who su'ed? (I doubt it). Anybody have some tips for me? Thanks, -- Rudy Gevaert -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Beifeld's Principle: The probability of a young man meeting a desirable and receptive young female increases by pyramidical progression when he is already in the company of (1) a date, (2) his wife, (3) a better-looking and richer male friend. -- R. Beifeld
Re: strangelog
On 2001-08-12, Rudy Gevaert wrote: This weekend I got a strange log: [...] Aug 11 06:25:03 alhandra su[3584]: + ??? root-nobody Aug 11 06:25:03 alhandra PAM_unix[3584]: (su) session opened for user nobody by +(uid=0) [...] I'm sure I was asleep at that time... What is this? Did someone log in? Nope, noone logged in. Or was it a service who su'ed? (I doubt it). It was one of your cron jobs, I suppose. Jakub. -- (0 Jakub Jankowski Beauty is skin deep; //\ [EMAIL PROTECTED]ugly goes right V_/_ [EMAIL PROTECTED]to the bone.
Re: strangelog
On Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 05:33:34PM +0200, Rudy Gevaert wrote: This weekend I got a strange log: Unusual System Events =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Aug 11 06:25:03 alhandra su[3584]: + ??? root-nobody Aug 11 06:25:03 alhandra PAM_unix[3584]: (su) session opened for user nobody by +(uid=0) This is root (uid=0) becoming nobody. It's surely a cron job that is setup to change user to nobody before running. The locate package runs updatedb as nobody every day, for example. -- Steven Barker [EMAIL PROTECTED] Woolsey-Swanson Rule: People would rather live with a problem they cannot solve rather than accept a solution they cannot understand. PGP Key Fingerprint: 272A 3EC8 52CE F22B F745 775E 5292 F743 EBD5 936B Get it at http://www.students.uiuc.edu~/scbarker/pubkey.asc
Re: strangelog
On Sun, 12 Aug 2001, Steven Barker wrote: On Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 05:33:34PM +0200, Rudy Gevaert wrote: This weekend I got a strange log: Unusual System Events =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Aug 11 06:25:03 alhandra su[3584]: + ??? root-nobody Aug 11 06:25:03 alhandra PAM_unix[3584]: (su) session opened for user nobody by +(uid=0) This is root (uid=0) becoming nobody. It's surely a cron job that is setup to change user to nobody before running. The locate package runs updatedb as nobody every day, for example. Ah, k! Thanks for the quick reply! -- Rudy Gevaert -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Beifeld's Principle: The probability of a young man meeting a desirable and receptive young female increases by pyramidical progression when he is already in the company of (1) a date, (2) his wife, (3) a better-looking and richer male friend. -- R. Beifeld
apt-get issue(s)
I'm cross-posting this to user and security, because there are really two (possibly-related) issues here. Feel free to take replies to just one list or the other. On my firewall (running potato), I have been using these apt sources.list entries: deb http://security.debian.org potato/updates main contrib non-free deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ potato main non-free contrib deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US/ potato/non-US main contrib non-free However, suddenly, 'apt-get update' started failing with errors of the form: Err http://security.debian.org potato/updates/main Packages Could not connect to security.debian.org (132.229.131.40). for each of the entries. I've finally worked around this by using these sources.list entries: deb ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security potato/updates main contrib non-free deb ftp://http.us.debian.org/debian/ potato main non-free contrib deb ftp://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US/ potato/non-US main contrib non-free First question: any idea why the original http source.list entries suddenly stopped working? The URLs that apt-get complains about seem to be available via lynx, so connectivity is apparently not the issue. Running strace on 'apt-get update' shows me an error 400 URI Failure, but I'm not sure where that leads me. I can go dig through the code next, but... Second question: what's up with the security URL that I needed for FTP? I would have expected to use ftp://security.debian.org;, but the dists directory exists under ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security; instead. Thanks in advance for the information. I guess I've worked around this for now, but I'd like to know what happened. KEN -- Kenneth J. Pronovici [EMAIL PROTECTED] Personal Homepage: http://www.skyjammer.com/~pronovic/ I have zero tolerance for zero-tolerance policies.
