date:20051108


Ron Johnson wrote:

On Tue, 2005-11-08 at 12:02 -0600, Mike McCarty wrote:


Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote:


Advanced implies being closer to some destination.  I don't know if
everyone agrees on what that destination is.  Features or complexity is
not a sign of being advanced.

If your goal is video editing, Solaris is not as advanced as other
operating systems.



Excellent answer!!!



Solaris is great at what it is designed for, and Sun's moves toward open
source should be embraced.



What is it designed for exactly?


When I used it extensively there were two areas which they targeted:

workstations
high availability apps (like banks and telecom)



Do you see clustering and Carrier-Grade Linux chipping away at
this in any significant way?


Well, I may not be the best one to ask, since I've been out of
telecom for about three years. But so far, I do not see Linux
making much if any entry into telecom. Blue Hat has made some
progress, but not much. The availability requirements in telecom
are so far beyond what most system engineers consider, that
proprietary solutions are still mostly the choice.

Back some years ago when I was making recommendations for action
in regards to OS selection for telecom equipment, I recall talking
with the president of a company, who proudly boasted that his
company's product was so reliable that it was used in fighter
planes by the military. I responded that his boast meant nothing
to me, what I wanted to know was "Will it stay up?" He didn't understand
the difference between a jet plane flight control computer which
had to stay up for perhaps 24 hours max before a reboot could be
done, and a telephone switch which was allowed to have only
5 (five) 5 minutes per year unscheduled downtime.

I don't see Linux making *any* headway as an "open source supported"
product *ever* in telecom. The only reason for telecom to abandon
proprietary home-grown OS is so that they can get out of OS
support altogether. They already have proprietary OS which suit their
needs far better than Linux does. If another company is going to do
the support, then Linux has a long way to go in availability.

The availability requirements cannot be met by reliability, even if
the OS provably *never* would crash, because the hardware can't meet
them. So they have to be met via redundancy. So far, no commercial
OS I have reviewed (and I have reviewed quite a few) can handle
the redundancy needed by telecom on its own.

We tried and tried to abandon proprietary OS and database (both
home-grown) and could not because the off-the-shelf stuff just can't
meet the availability and performance requirements.

As an example, I tried to find a database which could support

client-server architecture, client and server
on separate computers
8 million records
ten byte unique key, ~50 byte records
8500 probes per second, most of which would fail
to find a matching record, so would
plumb the entire depth of the database
automatic fail-over to another server when server goes down
fail-over must take place in 10ms or less
database can be updated at rate of 100+ records
per second while actively being probed

and could not find one. So we could not abandon our home-
grown DBMS, which met these requirements. I interviewed
quite a few people who came to me convinced that they could
meet our requirements. All shook their heads
saying it couldn't be done. I'd point out to them that I
had shown them telephone switches doing it, and they'd
leave shaking their heads, saying that they couldn't do it.

So it's not just a matter of "Linux" not meeting requirements.
There is a whole other infrastructure not present in commercial
OS. If all that must also be maintained, then the OS is not
much more work to maintain.

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Re: keyboard quit working after kde upgrade, testing

2005-11-08 Thread Mike Chandler

The problem is solve by doing:

#apt-get remove --purge kdm
#apt-get install kdm


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keyboard quit working after kde upgrade, testing

2005-11-08 Thread mailmanmike

Debian testing, after a dist-upgrade a few days ago which included lots of 
kde upgrades, the keyboard no longer works in X.
It will work in a console. It seems to be not working with KDM. I have 
googled and found no solution.

Ideas are appreciated.
Thanks 




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Re: New Linux worm crawls the web

2005-11-08 Thread Ron Johnson

On Tue, 2005-11-08 at 20:50 +0100, Jochen Schulz wrote:
> Realos:
> > > Mike McCarty wanted us to know:
> > 
> > >http://www.securityfocus.com/brief/38?ref=rss
> > >
> > 
> > I have rpc.statd and portmap running on my system. Are they vulnerable
> > to this security hole/worm?
> > 
> > As I do not use nfs on my debian server, doesn't it make sense to
> > disable both portmap and rpc.statd on my system?
> 
> If you don't need them, remove them. Or at least block access to them
> with the help of iptables.

Or, better yet, bind them to localhost or the internal eth device.

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Re: Solaris: The Most Advanced OS?

2005-11-08 Thread Ron Johnson

On Tue, 2005-11-08 at 12:02 -0600, Mike McCarty wrote:
> Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote:
> >>Advanced implies being closer to some destination.  I don't know if
> >>everyone agrees on what that destination is.  Features or complexity is
> >>not a sign of being advanced.
> >>
> >>If your goal is video editing, Solaris is not as advanced as other
> >>operating systems.
> >  
> > Excellent answer!!!
> >  
> >>Solaris is great at what it is designed for, and Sun's moves toward open
> >>source should be embraced.
> >  
> > What is it designed for exactly?
> 
> When I used it extensively there were two areas which they targeted:
> 
> workstations
> high availability apps (like banks and telecom)

Do you see clustering and Carrier-Grade Linux chipping away at
this in any significant way?

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Re: OpenOffice.org Help File??

2005-11-08 Thread Paul Scott


[KS] wrote:


Rick Friedman wrote:
 


Simply put... I have OpenOffice.org 2.0 installed via Sid. It works fine
except there appears to be no Help system for it. Am I wrong? Is anyone
out there running OpenOffice.org 2.0 (installed from Sid) and DOES have
Help? If so, where did you get it??

Thanks,
Rick
   



dpkg -l openoffice.org-help* will list all the help packages available
in various languages.
 

All of which seem to be for OpenOffice.org 1.1 and will break my OOo 2.0 
installation.


Paul Scott



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Re: Freezing, SMP Kernel and P4

2005-11-08 Thread David R. Litwin

I haven't had the pleasure of running an smp kernel. Those are for Symmetricmulti processing if I'm not mistaken, and you need two processors or maybe a
dual core cpu.I have a multithreading processor. After doing more research, I finaly figured out that the smp is the kernel for me.So, I highly doubt that it is this which is causing the freezing. This freezing is sporadic: Some times it comes six minutes after boot-up; other times, hours. I wish I could give more information. Is there some log or script which wold record what was happening when the freeze occured?
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Re: Freezing, SMP Kernel and P4

2005-11-08 Thread David R. Litwin

But, I do not know how> to start KDE from a console: Doing startx gives Gnome, which is not what I
> use.IIRC it's startkde (or possibly start-kde, it's been a while).This may be totally off the wall but I was recently unable to log onvia kdm after an upgrade and, to cut a long story short, it eventually
turned out to be a full root partition. (I imagine it would bewhichever partition /tmp lives in).I'm not too sure what you mean. Are you saying that the root partition ( / ) was not properly formated when you upgraded? 
I'm not 100% sure what the support position the the more exoticfacitilies of the recent  chips is. Is this a hyperthreading chip or
multicore?Hyperthreading. It's a Pentium four. I did much research and it seems that the P4 is quite capable of running an smp. In fact, I recently tried to use the non smp kernel I still have. It did freeze (but, in an odder fashion; it was thinking so much that I could only move the mouse sporadically. It was useless.) but it was far slower. So, the smp is deffinetly the kernel for me.
Hope this is of some helpPerhaps it has been. I shall try out the startkde or start-kde soon and tell you the results.
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Re: cannot get into X - after testing dist-upgrade 11-03-05

2005-11-08 Thread mailmanmike


Did the keyboard work during the KDE setup?
> I would create a new user and log into KDE as that user, to make 
absolutely sure that the problem is not in your user's settings. (I 
doubt that's the problem, now, but still, it's an easy test.)



Assuming the new user has the same problem . . .
I'd check the KDE Control Panel / Regional & Accessibility / Keyboard 
Layout settings.


Then I'd google for "kde keyboard" to look for anything interesting. 
Hopefully others on this list will have better suggestions.


--
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Thanks again Kent,
The setup is done entirely with the mouse. 
I have no way to create a new user at this point, with no keyboard.

I will google and see if I can find anything relevant.

In the meantime, if anyone else has a cure, please let me know.



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Re: highpoint raiddriver hpt374 compiling. Someone has experience?

2005-11-08 Thread Jules Dubois

On Tuesday 08 November 2005 19:48, pascal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
(<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote:

> Does someone have any experience in compiling the hpt374 driver for
> recent 2.6 kernel?

To compile the HPT code, just 'make config' (or its equivalent) and enable
the driver.  In any case, the HPT 374 is not a hardware RAID controller.

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kernel panic upgrading Dell PE 1750 to kernel 2.13.3

2005-11-08 Thread Mark Hansen


I'm getting this error and can't boot the 2.13.3 kernel that I built:

VFS: Cannot open root device "801" on unknown-block(8,1).

This box boots using 2.6.7.  I think maybe it has something to do with 
the SCSI drive??  Any help will be appreciated.


Here is the lilo.conf:

# global options:
boot=/dev/sda
prompt
timeout=100
root=/dev/sda1
lba32
#compact
read-only
vga=normal
#append="rootfstype=ext3"
default=2.6.13.3
#
# bootable kernel images:
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.13.3
label=2.6.13.3
image=/boot/bzImage-2.6.7-20050427
label=2.6.7-20050427
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.7.20050426.2
label=2.6.7.20050426
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.7-20041008
label=2.6.7-20041008
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.7-20040930
label=2.6.7-20040930


Here is the .config
#
# Automatically generated make config: don't edit
# Linux kernel version: 2.6.13.3
# Tue Nov  8 23:01:44 2005
#
CONFIG_X86=y
CONFIG_MMU=y
CONFIG_UID16=y
CONFIG_GENERIC_ISA_DMA=y
CONFIG_GENERIC_IOMAP=y

#
# Code maturity level options
#
CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL=y
CONFIG_CLEAN_COMPILE=y
CONFIG_LOCK_KERNEL=y
CONFIG_INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT=32

#
# General setup
#
CONFIG_LOCALVERSION="n"
CONFIG_SWAP=y
CONFIG_SYSVIPC=y
# CONFIG_POSIX_MQUEUE is not set
# CONFIG_BSD_PROCESS_ACCT is not set
CONFIG_SYSCTL=y
# CONFIG_AUDIT is not set
CONFIG_HOTPLUG=y
# CONFIG_KOBJECT_UEVENT is not set
# CONFIG_IKCONFIG is not set
# CONFIG_CPUSETS is not set
# CONFIG_EMBEDDED is not set
CONFIG_KALLSYMS=y
# CONFIG_KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS is not set
CONFIG_PRINTK=y
CONFIG_BUG=y
CONFIG_BASE_FULL=y
CONFIG_FUTEX=y
CONFIG_EPOLL=y
CONFIG_SHMEM=y
CONFIG_CC_ALIGN_FUNCTIONS=0
CONFIG_CC_ALIGN_LABELS=0
CONFIG_CC_ALIGN_LOOPS=0
CONFIG_CC_ALIGN_JUMPS=0
# CONFIG_TINY_SHMEM is not set
CONFIG_BASE_SMALL=0

#
# Loadable module support
#
CONFIG_MODULES=y
# CONFIG_MODULE_UNLOAD is not set
CONFIG_OBSOLETE_MODPARM=y
CONFIG_MODVERSIONS=y
# CONFIG_MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL is not set
CONFIG_KMOD=y

#
# Processor type and features
#
CONFIG_X86_PC=y
# CONFIG_X86_ELAN is not set
# CONFIG_X86_VOYAGER is not set
# CONFIG_X86_NUMAQ is not set
# CONFIG_X86_SUMMIT is not set
# CONFIG_X86_BIGSMP is not set
# CONFIG_X86_VISWS is not set
# CONFIG_X86_GENERICARCH is not set
# CONFIG_X86_ES7000 is not set
# CONFIG_M386 is not set
# CONFIG_M486 is not set
# CONFIG_M586 is not set
# CONFIG_M586TSC is not set
# CONFIG_M586MMX is not set
# CONFIG_M686 is not set
# CONFIG_MPENTIUMII is not set
# CONFIG_MPENTIUMIII is not set
# CONFIG_MPENTIUMM is not set
CONFIG_MPENTIUM4=y
# CONFIG_MK6 is not set
# CONFIG_MK7 is not set
# CONFIG_MK8 is not set
# CONFIG_MCRUSOE is not set
# CONFIG_MEFFICEON is not set
# CONFIG_MWINCHIPC6 is not set
# CONFIG_MWINCHIP2 is not set
# CONFIG_MWINCHIP3D is not set
# CONFIG_MGEODEGX1 is not set
# CONFIG_MCYRIXIII is not set
# CONFIG_MVIAC3_2 is not set
# CONFIG_X86_GENERIC is not set
CONFIG_X86_CMPXCHG=y
CONFIG_X86_XADD=y
CONFIG_X86_L1_CACHE_SHIFT=7
CONFIG_RWSEM_XCHGADD_ALGORITHM=y
CONFIG_GENERIC_CALIBRATE_DELAY=y
CONFIG_X86_WP_WORKS_OK=y
CONFIG_X86_INVLPG=y
CONFIG_X86_BSWAP=y
CONFIG_X86_POPAD_OK=y
CONFIG_X86_GOOD_APIC=y
CONFIG_X86_INTEL_USERCOPY=y
CONFIG_X86_USE_PPRO_CHECKSUM=y
# CONFIG_HPET_TIMER is not set
CONFIG_SMP=y
CONFIG_NR_CPUS=32
CONFIG_SCHED_SMT=y
CONFIG_PREEMPT_NONE=y
# CONFIG_PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY is not set
# CONFIG_PREEMPT is not set
# CONFIG_PREEMPT_BKL is not set
CONFIG_X86_LOCAL_APIC=y
CONFIG_X86_IO_APIC=y
CONFIG_X86_TSC=y
# CONFIG_X86_MCE is not set
# CONFIG_TOSHIBA is not set
# CONFIG_I8K is not set
# CONFIG_X86_REBOOTFIXUPS is not set
# CONFIG_MICROCODE is not set
# CONFIG_X86_MSR is not set
CONFIG_X86_CPUID=y

#
# Firmware Drivers
#
# CONFIG_EDD is not set
# CONFIG_NOHIGHMEM is not set
# CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G is not set
CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G=y
CONFIG_HIGHMEM=y
CONFIG_X86_PAE=y
CONFIG_SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL=y
CONFIG_FLATMEM_MANUAL=y
# CONFIG_DISCONTIGMEM_MANUAL is not set
# CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_MANUAL is not set
CONFIG_FLATMEM=y
CONFIG_FLAT_NODE_MEM_MAP=y
# CONFIG_HIGHPTE is not set
# CONFIG_MATH_EMULATION is not set
CONFIG_MTRR=y
CONFIG_IRQBALANCE=y
CONFIG_HAVE_DEC_LOCK=y
# CONFIG_REGPARM is not set
CONFIG_SECCOMP=y
# CONFIG_HZ_100 is not set
CONFIG_HZ_250=y
# CONFIG_HZ_1000 is not set
CONFIG_HZ=250
CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START=0x10
# CONFIG_KEXEC is not set

#
# Power management options (ACPI, APM)
#
# CONFIG_PM is not set

#
# CPU Frequency scaling
#
# CONFIG_CPU_FREQ is not set

#
# Bus options (PCI, PCMCIA, EISA, MCA, ISA)
#
CONFIG_PCI=y
# CONFIG_PCI_GOBIOS is not set
# CONFIG_PCI_GOMMCONFIG is not set
# CONFIG_PCI_GODIRECT is not set
CONFIG_PCI_GOANY=y
CONFIG_PCI_BIOS=y
CONFIG_PCI_DIRECT=y
# CONFIG_PCIEPORTBUS is not set
# CONFIG_PCI_MSI is not set
# CONFIG_PCI_LEGACY_PROC is not set
CONFIG_PCI_NAMES=y
CONFIG_ISA_DMA_API=y
CONFIG_ISA=y
# CONFIG_EISA is not set
# CONFIG_MCA is not set
# CONFIG_SCx200 is not set
# CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU is not set

#
# PCCARD (PCMCIA/CardBus) support
#
# CONFIG_PCCARD is not set

#
# PCI Hotplug Support
#
# CONFIG_HOTPLUG_PCI is not set

#
# Executable file formats
#
C

Re: Testing weekly iso image generation

2005-11-08 Thread David E. Fox

On Mon, 7 Nov 2005 10:22:30 +0200
Andras Lorincz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I'm interrested when are the testing iso images regenerated. I'm interested
> in this because I want to avoid to download some cds corresponding to a week
> and the other cds to be from the next week.

Hi Andras,

They're supposed to be regenerated weekly. But since the first one I
did on 10/19/2005, "weekly" has been subject to interpretation.

:)

But good news - there has been a regeneration of testing ISOs (I just
use the jigdo-dvd) and (based on a sample size of 1 test) it seems that
it is indeed able to just download the parts that are different,
regenerating the .iso's (again, only 1 in my case, since I only grabbed
the first testing DVD .iso) from the existing source(s).

Go here:

http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/dvd/jigdo-area/i386/

You'll see that one was generated Nov 8. (Guess that means update
time...)

Also see this URL for info on particular packages waiting to go into
testing:

http://bjorn.haxx.se/debian/

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Re: Freezing, SMP Kernel and P4

On Sun November 6 2005 06:30 pm, David R. Litwin wrote:
> I have a Pentium Four processor with 3.06GHz speed. As far as I can tell,
> this means that I am eligible to use a 686-smp kernel. Though in comparison
> to the non smp kernel it seems to be much faster, an odd thing is also
> happening which I can only attribute to the smp (since I have not really
> seen it on the non smp kernel). My computer is doing some big-time
> freezing. It seems to be random, happening a few hours after I turn on my
> laptop; or only a few minutes. I have to manually do a hard reboot, which
> means it needs to run fsck which means data can be lost or corrupted (aside
> from it possibly damaging the whole computer and generally being a very big
> pain in the arse).
>
> I'd like to know your opinions. Is this freezing due to the smp? If so,
> why? How can I fix it?
>
> I thank you kindly in advance.

I haven't had the pleasure of running an smp kernel. Those are for Symmetric 
multi processing if I'm not mistaken, and you need two processors or maybe a 
dual core cpu. That's from what I understand, more than what I know.. ;)


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Re: Can anyone get premail -makenym to work?

2005-11-08 Thread Anton


Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 12:32:13PM -, Thrasher Remailer написал:

inf  6:32% grep newnym rlist
$remailer{"blackhol"} = "<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> newnym pgp klen1024";
$remailer{"hod"} = "<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> newnym2 pgp klen1024 DH/DSS";
$remailer{"komite"} = "<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> newnym2 pgp klen1024 DH/DSS";
$remailer{"nym"} = "<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> newnym pgp klen1024";
$remailer{"nymph"} = "<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> newnym2 pgp klen1024
DH/DSS";
$remailer{"pantanym"} = "<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> newnym2 pgp klen1024";
Capability String Indicator: newnym2.



None of those are listed in my rlist file: that's probably my problem!

Could you post your sources lines from ~/.premail/preferences?

 $config{'pubring-mix-url'} =
 $config{'rlist-url'}   =
 $config{'type2-list-url'}  =
 $config{'pubring-url'} =


Here they are:
=
$config{'rlist-url'} = 'http://bikikii-remailer.noneto.com/stats/rlist';
$config{'pubring-url'} = 
'http://bikikii-remailer.noneto.com/stats/pubring-rsa.asc ';
$config{'type2-list-url'} = 'http://bikikii-remailer.noneto.com/stats/rlist2';
$config{'pubring-mix-url'} = 
'http://bikikii-remailer.noneto.com/stats/pubring_mix.txt';
===   

Also , you can type 'dpkg-reconfigure mixmaster' ,chose 'bikikii' and 
update statistics .

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Re: Setting up a File Server


White-Hat` (sent by Nabble.com) wrote:

I wanted to set up a file server using Samba--I thought the idea of 
creating a small, home network using my old box's would be sort of 
neat. I'd hate to see them go to waste anyway. I'm pretty new to 
networking on Linux also, so feel free to give me any and all pointers 
towards any related subjects, not exluding security and telling me how 
stupid I am for doing something a certain way.


I installed the base Debian, along with the file server packages. Then 
I went ahead and downloaded X and fluxbox for a light GUI, since it is 
an older machine.


Which you might not want, since this is a "file server" rather than a 
workstation. You don't need X for a simple file server, and the 
additional packages just introduces complexity that increases the risk 
of a vulnerability/hole showing up in your server, not to mention the 
extra drive space it takes.


I tinkered with the samba configuration file, putting in some options 
that another online site said I should. 
http://www.aboutdebian.com/lan.htm is the site if you're wondering 
(and by the way, the conf file looked nothing like the one listed there).


Now my question is.. What next? What do I need to do to make sure it 
will correctly connect to the network?


Do you mean the computer is not on the network? Or do you mean how do 
you make sure that the Samba setup is working?


If the former, your NIC was probably recognized automagically. You may 
need to edit "/etc/networking/interfaces" to set up dhcp or static 
addressing; then you can (re)start networking with 
"/etc/init.d/networking [re]start".


This is probably unnecessary, as all this was probably done for you 
during the installation. Just ping something, or fire up a web browser, 
to see if you're seeing the network.


What files should I edit? Any tips and pointers are definitely 
welcome. I would also like to know how to make SSH the default 
everything. Meaning, I want it required in order for someone to FTP to 
the box.


"aptitude install ssh" for starters. ssh is, of course, not ftp. Don't 
install any ftp servers. Once ssh is installed, you can use sftp to 
"ftp" in.



Hell,


Shh. See Point 11 of the "Code of conduct" 
(http://www.us.debian.org/MailingLists/).



any type of remote calling I want guided by SSH.


Don't install anything other than ssh, and you should be pretty safe. Of 
course, there are some other firming up things you can do, but I don't 
have any references handy; google for "debian security" and you'll 
probably find all you need.


I don't really entirely understand what you're asking for, so I've just 
kind of responded generically, but perhaps it'll give you some feedback 
for asking other questions that can get you closer to the info you want.


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Re: how can i unintsll gcc-base

2005-11-08 Thread Marc Wilson

On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 03:45:02PM +0800, ?? wrote:
> hi now there are gcc-3.3-base gcc-3.4-base gcc-4.0-base if i am unintsll
> anyone of them it will uninstall 100 packages at the fewest how can i do
> that

You don't.  You have no reason to.

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Re: cannot get into X - after testing dist-upgrade 11-03-05


[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:



Well, I renamed all the .kde stuff in my home dir, and booted up...KDE 
setup walked me through the setup, but still- no keyboard.

Any idea where to look next?
Thanks.



Did the keyboard work during the KDE setup?

I would create a new user and log into KDE as that user, to make 
absolutely sure that the problem is not in your user's settings. (I 
doubt that's the problem, now, but still, it's an easy test.)


Assuming the new user has the same problem . . .

I'd check the KDE Control Panel / Regional & Accessibility / Keyboard 
Layout settings.


Then I'd google for "kde keyboard" to look for anything interesting. 
Hopefully others on this list will have better suggestions.


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Re: Freezing, SMP Kernel and P4

2005-11-08 Thread David R. Litwin

On 06/11/05, David R. Litwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I have a Pentium Four processor with 3.06GHz speed. As far as I can tell, this means that I am eligible to use a 686-smp kernel. Though in comparison to the non smp kernel it seems to be much faster, an odd thing is also happening which I can only attribute to the smp (since I have not really seen it on the non smp kernel). My computer is doing some big-time freezing. It seems to be random, happening a few hours after I turn on my laptop; or only a few minutes. I have to manually do a hard reboot, which means it needs to run fsck which means data can be lost or corrupted (aside from it possibly damaging the whole computer and generally being a very big pain in the arse).
I'd like to know your opinions. Is this freezing due to the smp? If so, why? How can I fix it?I thank you kindly in advance.To add a bit to the fun, I can no longer log in under my user name from KDM (I've not tried GDM). I can, however, from a console. But, I do not know how to start KDE from a console: Doing startx gives Gnome, which is not what I use.
I believe that the problem is with X. I could be completely mistaken. I'm thinking of purging all of it (apt-get remove --purge xserver-xorg xserver-xorg-dbg and maybe xserver-xfree86). Is this a good idea?
I would be very grateful for any help whatsoever as my system is really becoming unusable. Not to mention data is being corrupted every time I must do a hard re-boot. And it hampers me from doing my work.I thank you most kindly in advance.
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Booting 2.6.8 on x686 Sarge without initrd: VFS: Unable to mount root fs

2005-11-08 Thread KokHow Teh

Hi;
  I am building 2.6.8 kernel source on my x686 Sarge system wihtout
using initrd. The kernel-patch.2.6.8 only applies to the prebuilt 2.6.8_2
kernel package and not a prestine kernel. So, I am not using initrd for my
2.6.8 kernel build. The system boots up but cannot mount teh root fs. What
am I missing?
  Any advice and insight is appreciated.

Regards,
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Re: cannot get into X - after testing dist-upgrade 11-03-05

2005-11-08 Thread mailmanmike



Well, I renamed all the .kde stuff in my home dir, and booted up...KDE setup 
walked me through the setup, but still- no keyboard.

Any idea where to look next?
Thanks. 




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highpoint raiddriver hpt374 compiling. Someone has experience?

2005-11-08 Thread pascal

Hi list,

Does someone have any experience in compiling the hpt374 driver for
recent 2.6 kernel?

Thx
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Re: openoffice woes


michael wrote:


As far as I can tell both are versions 1.1-3.9 so I'm lost to what is
going on... (not sure how to list the actual versions etc apart from
using 'apt-cache show openoffice.org')
 



ooffice --version

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Setting up a File Server

2005-11-08 Thread White-Hat` (sent by Nabble.com)


First off, I'd like to say that I'm relatively new to Debian and some Linux, but have been using computers for a decade now, so feel free to use technical terms with me. Smile

I wanted to set up a file server using Samba--I thought the idea of creating a small, home network using my old box's would be sort of neat. I'd hate to see them go to waste anyway. I'm pretty new to networking on Linux also, so feel free to give me any and all pointers towards any related subjects, not exluding security and telling me how stupid I am for doing something a certain way.

I installed the base Debian, along with the file server packages. Then I went ahead and downloaded X and fluxbox for a light GUI, since it is an older machine. I tinkered with the samba configuration file, putting in some options that another online site said I should. http://www.aboutdebian.com/lan.htm is the site if you're wondering (and by the way, the conf file looked nothing like the one listed there).

Now my question is.. What next? What do I need to do to make sure it will correctly connect to the network? What files should I edit? Any tips and pointers are definitely welcome. I would also like to know how to make SSH the default everything. Meaning, I want it required in order for someone to FTP to the box. Hell, any type of remote calling I want guided by SSH. And any tips on editing securetty properly and securely are welcome as well. Thanks for your tips!

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Re: New Linux worm crawls the web

2005-11-08 Thread Steve Lamb

Mike McCarty wrote:
> http://www.securityfocus.com/brief/38?ref=rss

Ha.  You can tell that the individual writing that article has an axe to
grind.  At the end they cite 2 worms on Linux and staates "its variants as an
indication that web-based worms that target Linux and Unix applications are
becoming much more commonplace."  Ok, I've heard of... 2 so far, both cited
here.  Now, when was the last time there were only 2 worm concerns for Windows
in the same month?  *crickets*  Hell, Windows has had 2 scares in a *week*.
"Becoming much more commonplace" because of 2 examples?  Commonplace?
*Common*place!?  That's still bloody fookin' uncommon in my not-so-humble 
opinion!

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Re: Publicaly used Debian box

2005-11-08 Thread Mitja Podreka


Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:


Google for "linux kiosk" and you will find much information.

-Roberto



I was reading about kiosk before, but I thought it doesn't fit my needs, 
as they are usualy too restrictive.

I added KDE to your search suggestion and found out exactly what I need.
The tool is called kiosktool and it is a part of KDE Extragear.
In Debian is available just for testing and unstable, but I found an old 
Debian package on

http://download.kde.org/download.php?url=stable/apps/KDE3.x/admin
It works well enough for now. Later on I will try to install a newer 
version.


thanks


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Compiled 2.6.14, seeing strange things...

2005-11-08 Thread Curt Howland

Hi.

I compiled 2.6.14 since I like having the framebuffer support and the 
Debian pre-packaged kernels don't have it in with 2.6.14, as well as 
headaches with yaboo (or whatever the heck it is) initrd generator. 
So I built it without initrd, and with ext3 compiled in.

When I enabled preemption, I noticed that the system (2.8GHz P4 
laptop) became very jerky and pulling the mouse across the screen was 
an exercise in patience.

I recompiled without preemption, and while mouse/keyboard response has 
improved almost to Debian-precompiled quality, now something else is 
happening:

Top:

top - 20:12:52 up 26 min,  1 user,  load average: 1.14, 0.92, 0.77
Tasks: 108 total,   1 running, 107 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s):  1.0% us,  3.0% sy,  0.0% ni, 50.8% id,  0.0% wa, 31.8% hi, 
13.4% si
Mem:513592k total,   507528k used, 6064k free, 3124k 
buffers
Swap:  1510068k total,4k used,  1510064k free,   359196k 
cached

  PID USER  PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEMTIME+  COMMAND
  837 root  16   0 000 S 17.3  0.0   1:25.21 kjournald
 4759 curt  15   0 51244 8812 7116 S  5.7  1.7   1:05.52 kio_ftp
 4670 curt  15   0 23340 2932 1688 S  1.0  0.6   0:02.96 
dcopserver
 4710 curt  15   0 28560  14m  11m S  0.3  3.0   0:02.54 konsole
 4755 curt  16   0 48912  27m  20m S  0.3  5.6   0:02.75 kmail

17% kjournald? Now, true, it's running an ftp, but it's only 300kBps. 
I have done full 100Mbps ethernet dumps that didn't blink an eye.

Not only that, but every 5 seconds, the commit time for the ext3 
journal, there is a noticable 1/2 second pause in keyboard/software 
response. This has not happened at all with the Debian compiled 
kernels.

If someone wants to discuss this, I would love to share kernel build 
config files and such to try and find where this is "going wrong".

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Re: corrupted sources.list (file below)

2005-11-08 Thread Sam Rosenfeld

My sources.list file is listed in its entirety below.

On Sun, 6 Nov 2005, Sam Rosenfeld wrote:

> My version of debian 3.1 was downloaded via the net, and the original
> files, which contained the info for the sources.list file, have been lost.
> When I try to install package pkg with "apt-get install pkg" I get the
> following message:
>
> W: Couldn't stat source package list http://security.debian.org
> stable/updates/contrib Packages
> (/var/lib/apt/lists/security.debian.org_dists_stable_updates_contrib_binary-i386_Packages)
> - stat (2 No such file or directory)
>
> W: Couldn't stat source package list http://security.debian.org
> stable/updates/non-free Packages
> (/var/lib/apt/lists/security.debian.org_dists_stable_updates_non-free_binary-i386_Packages)
> - stat (2 No such file or directory)
>
> W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems
> E: Package pkg has no installation candidate
>
I have running apt-get update with zero results.
>
>
> In addition, I have a strange (to me) problem with my "man" bin file; it
> doesn't get and display the contents of manpages (though they exist in my
> /usr/share/man/man1-8/ folders).  Is it possible that this man problem is
> related to the sources.list problem?
>
> Will appreciate any clear doc (or explanation) dealing with either or both
> of the above problem(s).
>

>
# See sources.list(5) for more information, especially
# Remember that you can only use http, ftp or file URIs
# CDROMs are managed through the apt-cdrom tool.
deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free
deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org stable/updates main contrib non-free

# Uncomment if you want the apt-get source function to work
deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free
deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib 
non-free


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cannot run /bin/sh ./config.sub?

2005-11-08 Thread Tom

Hey all,

Lately I've been getting the error mentioned in the subject when I try
to compile stuff. I've never had something similar before. Googling it
suggests silly stuff such as /bin/sh not being there; a search on this
list doesn't bring up anything, either.

There's nothing modified from defaults, as far as the auto-stuff is
concerned.

/etc/alternatives/automake: symbolic link to `/usr/bin/automake-1.4'
/etc/alternatives/aclocal: symbolic link to `/usr/bin/aclocal-1.4'

Just as an example, I tried to rebuild E17 a couple of minutes ago; it
ended like:

[00:53 tom ~/Bin/src/e17/libs/eet] ./autogen.sh --prefix=/home/tom/Bin 
Running aclocal...
Running autoheader...
Running autoconf...
Running libtoolize...
Running automake...
configure: error: cannot run /bin/sh ./config.sub

Sorry if I provide way too little information. I wouldn't know what else
to mention...

Cheers, and thanks for any help,
Tom

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Re: Publicaly used Debian box

2005-11-08 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez

On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 12:40:00AM +0100, Mitja Podreka wrote:
> I'm setting up few computers in a multimedia center wich will be available 
> for 
> everybody to use.
> I'm using KDE desktop on Debian.
> Most of the time the computers will be used to surf on internet, for which I 
> want to set up an anonymous account with little rights, but I still want the 
> users to be able to use KDE, run other programs, so that they can get used of 
> KDE and Linux.
> Some of the users will have their own accounts with some hard disk space to 
> save their files.
> 
> Does anybody have some experiences in setting up this kind of environment? As 
> far as I know the normal user cannot compromise the system, but is there 
> something that I should take care of? Maybe squtch off some program? Hide 
> some 
> file?
> Can you recomend some software for monitoring the usage of this computers.
> 

Google for "linux kiosk" and you will find much information.

-Roberto

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Publicaly used Debian box

2005-11-08 Thread Mitja Podreka

I'm setting up few computers in a multimedia center wich will be 
available for everybody to use.

I'm using KDE desktop on Debian.
Most of the time the computers will be used to surf on internet, for 
which I want to set up an anonymous account with little rights, but I 
still want the users to be able to use KDE, run other programs, so that 
they can get used of KDE and Linux.
Some of the users will have their own accounts with some hard disk space 
to save their files.


Does anybody have some experiences in setting up this kind of 
environment? As far as I know the normal user cannot compromise the 
system, but is there something that I should take care of? Maybe squtch 
off some program? Hide some file?

Can you recomend some software for monitoring the usage of this computers.

Links would be greatly appreciated.

thanks

Mitja


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openoffice woes

2005-11-08 Thread michael

Until this w/end I've been able to work on a text document
interchangably with the OpenOffice on my unstable box and that on my
stable box. However, now if I create one on the unstable box and copy it
over to the stable box it opens then throws an error on the first
keystroke or mouse click.

>From the cmd line I get:

$ ooffice test.sxw 
sh: line 1: crash_report: command not found

and then OpenOffice hangs and responds to nothing (except 'kill -9' on
the PID).

As far as I can tell both are versions 1.1-3.9 so I'm lost to what is
going on... (not sure how to list the actual versions etc apart from
using 'apt-cache show openoffice.org')

All clues most welcome!

Thanks, Michael


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Re: OpenOffice.org Help File??

2005-11-08 Thread [KS]

Rick Friedman wrote:
> Simply put... I have OpenOffice.org 2.0 installed via Sid. It works fine
> except there appears to be no Help system for it. Am I wrong? Is anyone
> out there running OpenOffice.org 2.0 (installed from Sid) and DOES have
> Help? If so, where did you get it??
> 
> Thanks,
> Rick

dpkg -l openoffice.org-help* will list all the help packages available
in various languages.

/KS


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openoffice woes

2005-11-08 Thread michael

Until this w/end I've been able to work on a text document
interchangably with the OpenOffice on my unstable box and that on my
stable box. However, now if I create one on the unstable box and copy it
over to the stable box it opens then throws an error on the first
keystroke or mouse click.

>From the cmd line I get:

$ ooffice test.sxw 
sh: line 1: crash_report: command not found

and then OpenOffice hangs and responds to nothing (except 'kill -9' on
the PID).

As far as I can tell both are versions 1.1-3.9 so I'm lost to what is
going on... (not sure how to list the actual versions etc apart from
using 'apt-cache show openoffice.org')

All clues most welcome!

Thanks, Michael


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Re: broken /var/lib/dpkg/status

2005-11-08 Thread Aaron Stromas

On 11/8/05, Roberto C. Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Is there a graceful way to fix it? TIA,>Edit the file and change it to "libsm6 | xlibs (>> 4.1.0)"
just plain editor? no fancy tools? worked, though. thanks!

-a

Re: broken /var/lib/dpkg/status

2005-11-08 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez

On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 05:04:43PM -0500, Aaron Stromas wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> apt-get complains:
> dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 18124 package
> `ksysguard':
> `Depends' field, reference to `xlibs': version contains ` '
> 
> Indeed, the status file at that line looks like this
> 
> Replaces: kdebase (<< 4:3.0.0), kdebase-doc (<< 4:3.0.0), kpm (<< 4:3.0.0)
> Depends: kdelibs4 (>= 4:3.3.2-6.2), libart-2.0-2 (>= 2.3.16), libc6 (>=
> 2.3.2.ds1-21), libfam0c102, libgcc1 (>= 1:3.4.1-3), libice6 | xlibs (>>
> 4.1.0), libidn11 (>= 0.5.13), libpng12-0 (>= 1.2.8rel), libqt3c102-mt (>= 3:
> 3.3.4), libsm6 | xlibs (>> 4.1.0- version of `%.250s' to allow
> reinstallation of backup copy), libstdc++5 (>= 1:3.3.4-1), libx11-6 | xlibs
> (>> 4.1.0), libxext6 | xlibs (>> 4.1.0), libxrender1, zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.1),
> ksysguardd (= 4:3.3.2-1sarge1)
> 
> 
> Is there a graceful way to fix it? TIA,
> 
Edit the file and change it to "libsm6 | xlibs (>> 4.1.0)"

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custom initrd on stock kernel installation (cdrom problems)

2005-11-08 Thread kristian kvilekval


Background:
Having discovered that my cdrom disappeared a while ago,
I tracked down that the loading order of modules
determines whether I have a Cdrom device or not.
Specifically I need to force 

ide-core
cdrom
ide-cd
ide-disk
ide-generic

to load before any scsi drivers load specifically by
placing them in the initial ramdisk used during the kernel load.
I accomplished this by placing the above list in 
  /etc/mkinitrd/modules

Question:

   I would like to run debian stock kernels from unstable.
However I would like a custom initrd instance to be installed
while installing the standard kernel. Is this possible?

It appear that kernel-img.conf allows set a ramdisk command,
but this fails even with mkinitrd (documentation says it must
be compatible with mkinitrd?)

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OpenOffice.org Help File??

2005-11-08 Thread Rick Friedman

Simply put... I have OpenOffice.org 2.0 installed via Sid. It works fine
except there appears to be no Help system for it. Am I wrong? Is anyone
out there running OpenOffice.org 2.0 (installed from Sid) and DOES have
Help? If so, where did you get it??

Thanks,
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Re: Image background

On Tue November 8 2005 02:15 pm, Matt Zagrabelny wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-11-08 at 12:59 -0800, Alan Ianson wrote:
> > Hello List,
> >
> > I am trying to make the background of an image transparent, so that if I
> > change the background colour of my web page the image looks more like it
> > belongs, instead of being a white square. In this case I am trying to do
> > that with the jhe061.gif image from the standard debian apache install.
> >
> > I have never been one to mess with graphics, but I have tried a few times
> > with gimp and kolourpaint. I have been able to change the colour with
> > kolourpaint to match the current background (mostly) but would like the
> > background to be transparent so I don't need to change the image if I
> > decide to change the background colour. Any help would be much
> > appreciated.
>
> here are the steps i used:
>
> $ gimp jhe061.png
>
> (in gimp)
>
> > image -> mode -> RGB
> > filters -> colors -> color to alpha...
>
> save file.
>
> see:
>
> http://www.d.umn.edu/~mzagrabe/debian/
>
> for a look.

Thank you kindly, that's just what I was looking for. :)


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Re: Image background

2005-11-08 Thread Matt Zagrabelny

On Tue, 2005-11-08 at 12:59 -0800, Alan Ianson wrote:
> Hello List,
> 
> I am trying to make the background of an image transparent, so that if I 
> change the background colour of my web page the image looks more like it 
> belongs, instead of being a white square. In this case I am trying to do that 
> with the jhe061.gif image from the standard debian apache install.
> 
> I have never been one to mess with graphics, but I have tried a few times 
> with 
> gimp and kolourpaint. I have been able to change the colour with kolourpaint 
> to match the current background (mostly) but would like the background to be 
> transparent so I don't need to change the image if I decide to change the 
> background colour. Any help would be much appreciated.

here are the steps i used:

$ gimp jhe061.png

(in gimp)
> image -> mode -> RGB
> filters -> colors -> color to alpha...

save file.

see:

http://www.d.umn.edu/~mzagrabe/debian/

for a look.

-matt zagrabelny



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Re: Problems configuring wu-ftpd

2005-11-08 Thread Romulo Sousa

sure you did. but could you explain me why the 'ls' command into a ftp
server?? further, which directory it should be copied?

thanks,

Romulo

On 11/8/05, Alan Ianson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue November 8 2005 01:14 pm, Romulo Sousa wrote:
> > On 11/8/05, Alan Ianson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > On Tue November 8 2005 12:16 pm, Romulo Sousa wrote:
> > > > Hi folks,
> > > >
> > > > I'm configuring a guest ftp server. The user is authenticated
> > > > normally. When the user try to view the context of the directory,
> > > > nothing show them up after an upload of a file. But when I list this
> > > > directory via ssh, I notice the file is there (though I can't see it
> > > > neither via ftp client nor via browser).
> > > > The unique howto that I've see about this told me the following:
> > > >
> > > > "NOTE WELL: if you cannot see the directory contents after you login
> > > > as the guest user, the 'ls' program that you installed is not working.
> > > > If you use an 'ls' linked for dynamic libraries, and you do not have
> > > > the required libraries and/or devices installed properly in the guest
> > > > tree, 'ls' will not work and you will not see the contents of the
> > > > guest directory."
> > > >
> > > > source: http://www.wu-ftpd.org/HOWTO/guest.HOWTO
> > > >
> > > > Sorry, but it didn't help to figure out this problem. Doesn't my 'ls'
> > > > work? If so, how should I reinstall it?
> > > >
> > > > I would be glad if somebody could help me w/ any documentation or even
> > > > w/ tips about what I might be doing for the context of my directory
> > > > simply is refusing to show me up.
> > >
> > > I use wu-ftpd here also, and haven't had any problems. It could be that
> > > the user doesn't have permission to view the incoming directory? I have
> > > never used it as yet, my server is an anonymous server so various folks
> > > can grab files and I've not had problems with that.
> > >
> > > No one has ever uploaded anything here, so I have never gotten any
> > > reports of problems, but then no one has ever tried. :)
> > >
> > > Is it files in your incoming directory that your having problems with?
> >
> > should i create "/../../incoming" directory w/ this exactly name? or
> > directories such as:
> > /home/user/bin
> > /home/user/etc
> > /home/user/dev
> > must be created for any purpose?
> >
> > i'm trying to understand the logic involved. first look, i thought it
> > would be a closer configuration regarding squid.but for a guest is
> > one and anonymous is another...then i'm dummed! :-P
> >
> > for a guest configuration i've done the following (w/ commands to be
> > shortly ok?) :
> > - adduser user
> > - addgroup client
> > - mkdir /home/user/directory (this is the default directory when users
> > access my box).
> > - chmod properly the directories created as well as their groups.
> > -> i've read about chroot usersbut i didn't understand about it.
> > man pages didn't help me very much
> > "chroot - run command or interactive shell with special root directory"
> > - configure my ftpaccess as i've read at
> > http://www.wu-ftpd.org/HOWTO/guest.HOWTO
>
> wu-ftpd only has access to it's home directory, it is chrooted or jailed there
> so no one can access the rest of your system from there. On my setup public
> files (for anyone, nobody cares who) go into the pub directory off wu-ftpd's
> home directory. If you want to give certain users access to certain
> directories you'll need to create those directories in wu-ftpd's home also
> with the appropriate permissions and setup in wu-ftpd's config.
>
> Hope that helps.. :)
>
>
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broken /var/lib/dpkg/status

2005-11-08 Thread Aaron Stromas

Greetings,

apt-get complains:
dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 18124 package `ksysguard':
 `Depends' field, reference to `xlibs': version contains ` '

Indeed, the status file at that line looks like this

Replaces: kdebase (<< 4:3.0.0), kdebase-doc (<< 4:3.0.0), kpm (<< 4:3.0.0)
Depends: kdelibs4 (>= 4:3.3.2-6.2), libart-2.0-2 (>= 2.3.16),
libc6 (>= 2.3.2.ds1-21), libfam0c102, libgcc1 (>= 1:3.4.1-3),
libice6 | xlibs (>> 4.1.0), libidn11 (>= 0.5.13), libpng12-0
(>= 1.2.8rel), libqt3c102-mt (>= 3:3.3.4), libsm6 | xlibs
(>> 4.1.0- version of `%.250s' to allow reinstallation of backup
copy), libstdc++5 (>= 1:3.3.4-1), libx11-6 | xlibs (>> 4.1.0),
libxext6 | xlibs (>> 4.1.0), libxrender1, zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.1),
ksysguardd (= 4:3.3.2-1sarge1)


Is there a graceful way to fix it? TIA,

-a

Re: Wireless card...

2005-11-08 Thread Martin Fluch

It will be a 2.6.13.x kernel (since vmware has problems on the 2.6.14 kernel).

It is strange that there is so little known about how the current
wireless cards awailable at Verkkokauppa or Tietoasema (thanks for
this hint, I didn't know the shop  before) can be used under linux.

I think we will take the safe side and buy a D-Link DWL-810+. Then
there will not be any driver issues. :-)

Btw, for some reason I could not find any wireless cards for desktop
computers listed in the Hardware HOWTO. Strange. Or I might be blind.

Thanks for all hints! :-)
- Martin

On 11/7/05, Simo Kauppi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Which kernel is s/he running, 2.4 or 2.6? Which standard is the access
> point (a/b/g) s/he is using? PCI-cards seem to be able to handle all
> three, so that might not be the limiting factor.
>
> Verkkokauppa carries mostly D-Link wireless products. There seems to be
> one 3Com 11A/B/G card (3Com product number 3CRDAG675) but I couldn't
> find that particular card in the 2.6.14 wireless drivers.
>
> There is also some Buffalo, Linksys and ZyXEL PCI-cards in Verkkokauppa,
> so anybody with experience with those, please jump in.
>
> I have an external wireless adapter (D-Link DWL-810) which is great
> because it can be connected to anything which has a NIC. There is the
> standard network connector and it has a web based setup, so it is really
> compatible with anything.
>
> PS: Does it have to be from Verkkokauppa? I'm using Tietoasema nowadays,
> as I noticed that the service is really professional and the prices are
> sometimes even cheaper than in Verkkokauppa.
>
> Simo
> --
> :r ~/.signature
>
>
> -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-
> Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux)
>
> iD8DBQFDb2rJ4RQe7Exc22QRAkspAJ4rLGnwgLEwUe82ir+KgMG/LAjz5gCfa/iK
> 1JS2LH//7xO8IJzmyqi6ePI=
> =0RbH
> -END PGP SIGNATURE-
>
>
>

Re: can I delete /mnt ?

2005-11-08 Thread Aaron Sinclair





Sure you can.  In the latest Filesystem Hierarchy Standard it states that /media should be used for removable media, for example CD/DVD and USB keys, and /mnt should be used for mounting a filesystem temporarily, ie mounting an NFS share to copy files, or mounting an old hard drive to copy stuff from it.

Cheers,
Aaron
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Re: Problems configuring wu-ftpd

On Tue November 8 2005 01:14 pm, Romulo Sousa wrote:
> On 11/8/05, Alan Ianson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Tue November 8 2005 12:16 pm, Romulo Sousa wrote:
> > > Hi folks,
> > >
> > > I'm configuring a guest ftp server. The user is authenticated
> > > normally. When the user try to view the context of the directory,
> > > nothing show them up after an upload of a file. But when I list this
> > > directory via ssh, I notice the file is there (though I can't see it
> > > neither via ftp client nor via browser).
> > > The unique howto that I've see about this told me the following:
> > >
> > > "NOTE WELL: if you cannot see the directory contents after you login
> > > as the guest user, the 'ls' program that you installed is not working.
> > > If you use an 'ls' linked for dynamic libraries, and you do not have
> > > the required libraries and/or devices installed properly in the guest
> > > tree, 'ls' will not work and you will not see the contents of the
> > > guest directory."
> > >
> > > source: http://www.wu-ftpd.org/HOWTO/guest.HOWTO
> > >
> > > Sorry, but it didn't help to figure out this problem. Doesn't my 'ls'
> > > work? If so, how should I reinstall it?
> > >
> > > I would be glad if somebody could help me w/ any documentation or even
> > > w/ tips about what I might be doing for the context of my directory
> > > simply is refusing to show me up.
> >
> > I use wu-ftpd here also, and haven't had any problems. It could be that
> > the user doesn't have permission to view the incoming directory? I have
> > never used it as yet, my server is an anonymous server so various folks
> > can grab files and I've not had problems with that.
> >
> > No one has ever uploaded anything here, so I have never gotten any
> > reports of problems, but then no one has ever tried. :)
> >
> > Is it files in your incoming directory that your having problems with?
>
> should i create "/../../incoming" directory w/ this exactly name? or
> directories such as:
> /home/user/bin
> /home/user/etc
> /home/user/dev
> must be created for any purpose?
>
> i'm trying to understand the logic involved. first look, i thought it
> would be a closer configuration regarding squid.but for a guest is
> one and anonymous is another...then i'm dummed! :-P
>
> for a guest configuration i've done the following (w/ commands to be
> shortly ok?) :
> - adduser user
> - addgroup client
> - mkdir /home/user/directory (this is the default directory when users
> access my box).
> - chmod properly the directories created as well as their groups.
> -> i've read about chroot usersbut i didn't understand about it.
> man pages didn't help me very much
> "chroot - run command or interactive shell with special root directory"
> - configure my ftpaccess as i've read at
> http://www.wu-ftpd.org/HOWTO/guest.HOWTO

wu-ftpd only has access to it's home directory, it is chrooted or jailed there 
so no one can access the rest of your system from there. On my setup public 
files (for anyone, nobody cares who) go into the pub directory off wu-ftpd's 
home directory. If you want to give certain users access to certain 
directories you'll need to create those directories in wu-ftpd's home also 
with the appropriate permissions and setup in wu-ftpd's config.

Hope that helps.. :)


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Re: New Linux worm crawls the web


Ralph Crongeyer wrote:
Jochen Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 


Realos:


Mike McCarty wanted us to know:



http://www.securityfocus.com/brief/38?ref=rss



I have rpc.statd and portmap running on my system. Are they vulnerable
to this security hole/worm?

As I do not use nfs on my debian server, doesn't it make sense to
disable both portmap and rpc.statd on my system?


If you don't need them, remove them. Or at least block access to them
with the help of iptables.

J.
--
I cannot comprehend the idea of chemical and biological weapons.
[Agree]   [Disagree]
   



I like Firehol firewall. It's easy to set up and use. It works great for my
home server.



Specifics how firehol protects against this worm?

H


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Re: New Linux worm crawls the web


Mike McCarty wrote:

http://www.securityfocus.com/brief/38?ref=rss




How to detect whether infection has occurred?

H


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Re: Mozilla Backup


webguytx wrote:

Hey Group,

Is there a backup program for the Mozilla (Firefox, Thunderbird, Mozilla)
clients? In Winxp I have a excellent program, MozBackup, that backs up using
zip.



Why not use one backup program, like mondo, for everything? If not, I 
need MozBackup for mozilla and  for everything else.


H


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Re: Problems configuring wu-ftpd

2005-11-08 Thread Romulo Sousa

On 11/8/05, Alan Ianson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue November 8 2005 12:16 pm, Romulo Sousa wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > I'm configuring a guest ftp server. The user is authenticated
> > normally. When the user try to view the context of the directory,
> > nothing show them up after an upload of a file. But when I list this
> > directory via ssh, I notice the file is there (though I can't see it
> > neither via ftp client nor via browser).
> > The unique howto that I've see about this told me the following:
> >
> > "NOTE WELL: if you cannot see the directory contents after you login
> > as the guest user, the 'ls' program that you installed is not working.
> > If you use an 'ls' linked for dynamic libraries, and you do not have
> > the required libraries and/or devices installed properly in the guest
> > tree, 'ls' will not work and you will not see the contents of the
> > guest directory."
> >
> > source: http://www.wu-ftpd.org/HOWTO/guest.HOWTO
> >
> > Sorry, but it didn't help to figure out this problem. Doesn't my 'ls'
> > work? If so, how should I reinstall it?
> >
> > I would be glad if somebody could help me w/ any documentation or even
> > w/ tips about what I might be doing for the context of my directory
> > simply is refusing to show me up.
>
> I use wu-ftpd here also, and haven't had any problems. It could be that the
> user doesn't have permission to view the incoming directory? I have never
> used it as yet, my server is an anonymous server so various folks can grab
> files and I've not had problems with that.
>
> No one has ever uploaded anything here, so I have never gotten any reports of
> problems, but then no one has ever tried. :)
>
> Is it files in your incoming directory that your having problems with?

should i create "/../../incoming" directory w/ this exactly name? or 
directories such as:
/home/user/bin
/home/user/etc
/home/user/dev
must be created for any purpose?

i'm trying to understand the logic involved. first look, i thought it
would be a closer configuration regarding squid.but for a guest is
one and anonymous is another...then i'm dummed! :-P

for a guest configuration i've done the following (w/ commands to be
shortly ok?) :
- adduser user
- addgroup client
- mkdir /home/user/directory (this is the default directory when users
access my box).
- chmod properly the directories created as well as their groups.
-> i've read about chroot usersbut i didn't understand about it.
man pages didn't help me very much
"chroot - run command or interactive shell with special root directory"
- configure my ftpaccess as i've read at
http://www.wu-ftpd.org/HOWTO/guest.HOWTO

thanks a lot!

Romulo Sousa

Image background

Hello List,

I am trying to make the background of an image transparent, so that if I 
change the background colour of my web page the image looks more like it 
belongs, instead of being a white square. In this case I am trying to do that 
with the jhe061.gif image from the standard debian apache install.

I have never been one to mess with graphics, but I have tried a few times with 
gimp and kolourpaint. I have been able to change the colour with kolourpaint 
to match the current background (mostly) but would like the background to be 
transparent so I don't need to change the image if I decide to change the 
background colour. Any help would be much appreciated.


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Re: Editing the Fluxbox menu?

2005-11-08 Thread Jon Dowland

On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 01:30:10PM -0600, Josh Battles wrote:
> It does, but I've got my menu file in ~/.fluxbox/menu.  There is a
> basic menu created when Fluxbox is installed, just edit it you see
> fit.  The documentation on fluxbox is actually very good.

Indeed it is, and the debian system is not without limitations; however,
any changes you make within that system apply to any window manager you
might switch to in Debian.

-- 
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advances partition selection bug in some 2.6 kernels?

2005-11-08 Thread axolx

I recently installed Debian (Sid) on a laptop and compiled kernel 2.6.14
from kernel.org. The kernel would not recognize my partition scheme
(created with the debian installer). It took me a while until I found
someone else in a forum who had solved the same problem by not compiling
into the kernel the "Advance partition Selection" option. In his case,
he was dealing with a 2.6.4 kernel. 

The problem showed as :

hda: unknown partition table
followed by the infamous VFS cannot mount root

I'm just putting this here in case anyone runs into  a similar problem.

martin


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Re: Subversion repository permissions

2005-11-08 Thread Kjetil Kjernsmo

On mandag 07 november 2005, 06:20, Joey Hess wrote:
> The simplest solution is to switch it to use the fsfs backend, which
> uses some simple tricks (and a much more sensible design) to utterly
> avoid the whole class of permissions issues that affect bdb.

OK, cool! After reading up, it does indeed seem like migrating to fsfs 
is the most sensible thing to do. Thanks!

Cheers,

Kjetil
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apt-get update connecting to (1.0.0.0)

2005-11-08 Thread Fred J.

Hello

I have a problem, I can brows the web fine but my
#apt-get is not
downloading any thing at all.
my system is
testing/unstable
2.6.13
adsl router/modem to a switch to the debian box.

my /etc/apt/sources.list
deb
http://secure-testing.debian.net/debian-secure-testing
etch/security-updates main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian testing main
non-free contrib

deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian unstable main
non-free contrib
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian experimental main
non-free contrib

# apt-get update
Err http://ftp.us.debian.org testing/main Packages
Could not connect to ftp.us.debian.org:80 (1.0.0.0),
connection timed out
Err http://secure-testing.debian.net
etch/security-updates/main Packages
Could not connect to secure-testing.debian.net:80
(1.0.0.0), connection timed out
Err http://ftp.us.debian.org testing/main Release
Could not connect to ftp.us.debian.org:80 (1.0.0.0),
connection timed out
Err http://secure-testing.debian.net
etch/security-updates/main Release
Could not connect to secure-testing.debian.net:80
(1.0.0.0), connection timed out
0% [Connecting to secure-testing.debian.net (1.0.0.0)]
[Connecting to ftp.us.debian.org (1.0.0.0)]
[1]+ Stopped apt-get update


# netselect -vv http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian
ftp.us.debian.org/debian ftp.au.debian.org/debian
Running netselect to choose 1 out of 1 address.

http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian 265 ms 21 hops 90% ok
( 9/10) [ 914]
914 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian


thanks







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Re: Problems configuring wu-ftpd

On Tue November 8 2005 12:16 pm, Romulo Sousa wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I'm configuring a guest ftp server. The user is authenticated
> normally. When the user try to view the context of the directory,
> nothing show them up after an upload of a file. But when I list this
> directory via ssh, I notice the file is there (though I can't see it
> neither via ftp client nor via browser).
> The unique howto that I've see about this told me the following:
>
> "NOTE WELL: if you cannot see the directory contents after you login
> as the guest user, the 'ls' program that you installed is not working.
> If you use an 'ls' linked for dynamic libraries, and you do not have
> the required libraries and/or devices installed properly in the guest
> tree, 'ls' will not work and you will not see the contents of the
> guest directory."
>
> source: http://www.wu-ftpd.org/HOWTO/guest.HOWTO
>
> Sorry, but it didn't help to figure out this problem. Doesn't my 'ls'
> work? If so, how should I reinstall it?
>
> I would be glad if somebody could help me w/ any documentation or even
> w/ tips about what I might be doing for the context of my directory
> simply is refusing to show me up.

I use wu-ftpd here also, and haven't had any problems. It could be that the 
user doesn't have permission to view the incoming directory? I have never 
used it as yet, my server is an anonymous server so various folks can grab 
files and I've not had problems with that.

No one has ever uploaded anything here, so I have never gotten any reports of 
problems, but then no one has ever tried. :)

Is it files in your incoming directory that your having problems with?


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Re: Suspend to disk


Matt Price wrote:

On 11/8/05, Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


Antonio Paiva wrote:


Hi all.

I'm currently using Debian testing (started with Sarge and upgraded to
Etch), and I would like to know if anyone was able to reliably suspend
its computer to disk. If so, could you tell me how?

Thanks,


Please, if you get any progress or regress, let us know! I'd
love to be able to have my UPS make my computer suspend to
disc when it started to run down.




for that I'm pretty sure you would want both suspend2 (suspends very
reliably, make your kernel w/out initrd though which means ext2 & ext3
as pats of kernel, not as modules) & acpi (reads power-related signals
from power button etc).  I have both working on a desktop w/ 2.6.13.4
kernel, I love it!  Now if only I could get suspend2, acpi, and pcmcia
all working in the smae kernel build, my laptop would be just as good
(sigh).


Unfortunately, I can't boot with acpi on. I'm using 2.6.10 kernel.
Wouldn't like to have to rebuild the kernel just to make my UPS
suspend to disc.

Mike
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Mozilla Backup

2005-11-08 Thread webguytx

Hey Group,

Is there a backup program for the Mozilla (Firefox, Thunderbird, Mozilla)
clients? In Winxp I have a excellent program, MozBackup, that backs up using
zip.

Robert


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Problems configuring wu-ftpd

2005-11-08 Thread Romulo Sousa

Hi folks,

I'm configuring a guest ftp server. The user is authenticated
normally. When the user try to view the context of the directory,
nothing show them up after an upload of a file. But when I list this
directory via ssh, I notice the file is there (though I can't see it
neither via ftp client nor via browser).
The unique howto that I've see about this told me the following:

"NOTE WELL: if you cannot see the directory contents after you login
as the guest user, the 'ls' program that you installed is not working.
If you use an 'ls' linked for dynamic libraries, and you do not have
the required libraries and/or devices installed properly in the guest
tree, 'ls' will not work and you will not see the contents of the
guest directory."

source: http://www.wu-ftpd.org/HOWTO/guest.HOWTO

Sorry, but it didn't help to figure out this problem. Doesn't my 'ls'
work? If so, how should I reinstall it?

I would be glad if somebody could help me w/ any documentation or even
w/ tips about what I might be doing for the context of my directory
simply is refusing to show me up.

Best regards,

Romulo Sousa

Re: Suspend to disk

2005-11-08 Thread Matt Price

On 11/8/05, Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Antonio Paiva wrote:
> > Hi all.
> >
> > I'm currently using Debian testing (started with Sarge and upgraded to
> > Etch), and I would like to know if anyone was able to reliably suspend
> > its computer to disk. If so, could you tell me how?
> >
> > Thanks,
>
> Please, if you get any progress or regress, let us know! I'd
> love to be able to have my UPS make my computer suspend to
> disc when it started to run down.
>

for that I'm pretty sure you would want both suspend2 (suspends very
reliably, make your kernel w/out initrd though which means ext2 & ext3
as pats of kernel, not as modules) & acpi (reads power-related signals
from power button etc).  I have both working on a desktop w/ 2.6.13.4
kernel, I love it!  Now if only I could get suspend2, acpi, and pcmcia
all working in the smae kernel build, my laptop would be just as good
(sigh).

matt

Re: help needed installing Debian

2005-11-08 Thread webguytx


- Original Message -
From: "Goran Dimovksi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; 
Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2005 12:58 PM
Subject: help needed installing Debian


> Hello every body,
>
> I have some problems installing Debian.
> I did download  Debian 3.1 i386 netinst. And the systmes is :
> mobo-Tyan S5112
> CPU-Intel Pentium 4 3.0Ghz/800Mhz
> HDD--3x250GB SATA conected to 3ware RAID controler card.
> With RAID-5 configured
> memory-2x512Mb DDR nonEcc-nonReg
>
> That is the configurantion on the system.
> So I boot Debian form the CD, I do the partition, it starts reading and
> uploading the packets.
> But the problem is when it comes to a point (Installing the base system)
> It stops on ' configuring the network...1%'
> Then it freezes on that point and that's it.
>
> I was wondering is there something that i'm doing wrong or did i missed
> something?
> I do apreciate your help on this one.
>
> Best Regards,
>  Goran Dimovksi
>
Goran,

Did you make a swap partition?  What kind of Internet connection do you
have?

Robert


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Re: quake4 installation

2005-11-08 Thread debianista.deb

ok thanks for your answers :D how can I do a chroot ? please 
I haven't the game totally yet ;P but then I will test inside the cds folder
yes I have enough space 

thanks
regards
debianista.debOn 11/6/05, Darryl Clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 11/5/05, debianista.deb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> hello>> I'm run the quake4 for linux and it gives me this:>>  Verifying archive integrity... All good.
>  Uncompressing Quake> IV..
>  ./setup.sh: line 207: /root/.setup10040: No such file or directory>  ./setup.sh: line 207: /root/.setup10040: No such file or directory>  The setup program seems to have failed on x86_64/glibc-2.0
>>  Fatal error, no tech support email configured in this setup>> how can I fix it ? please>>  thanks>  debianista.deb>>Is there enough space in /root/ ? It appears that the files aren't
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Re: New Linux worm crawls the web

2005-11-08 Thread Ralph Crongeyer

Jochen Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 
>Realos:
>> > Mike McCarty wanted us to know:
>> 
>> >http://www.securityfocus.com/brief/38?ref=rss
>> >
>> 
>> I have rpc.statd and portmap running on my system. Are they vulnerable
>> to this security hole/worm?
>> 
>> As I do not use nfs on my debian server, doesn't it make sense to
>> disable both portmap and rpc.statd on my system?
>
>If you don't need them, remove them. Or at least block access to them
>with the help of iptables.
>
>J.
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> 
>
>
I like Firehol firewall. It's easy to set up and use. It works great for my
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Re: New Linux worm crawls the web

2005-11-08 Thread Jochen Schulz

Realos:
> > Mike McCarty wanted us to know:
> 
> >http://www.securityfocus.com/brief/38?ref=rss
> >
> 
> I have rpc.statd and portmap running on my system. Are they vulnerable
> to this security hole/worm?
> 
> As I do not use nfs on my debian server, doesn't it make sense to
> disable both portmap and rpc.statd on my system?

If you don't need them, remove them. Or at least block access to them
with the help of iptables.

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Re: New Linux worm crawls the web

2005-11-08 Thread Joseph Clark

Looking at the Security focus
page:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14088/ , it looks like only
systems running PHP versions up to 4.3.11 are affected. Which should
make testing not affected, as it's at version 4.4.0. But stable would
be because it's still at 4.3.10. Can anyone confirm this?

On 11/8/05, Realos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Mike McCarty wanted us to know:
>
> >http://www.securityfocus.com/brief/38?ref=rss
> >
>
> I have rpc.statd and portmap running on my system. Are they vulnerable
> to this security hole/worm?
>
> As I do not use nfs on my debian server, doesn't it make sense to
> disable both portmap and rpc.statd on my system?
>
>
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Re: New Linux worm crawls the web

2005-11-08 Thread Chris Boot


Realos wrote:

Mike McCarty wanted us to know:




http://www.securityfocus.com/brief/38?ref=rss




I have rpc.statd and portmap running on my system. Are they vulnerable
to this security hole/worm?

As I do not use nfs on my debian server, doesn't it make sense to
disable both portmap and rpc.statd on my system?


This has nothing to do with portmap or rpc.statd, they use the old 
fashioned SysV RPC mechanism. XML-RPC is a very different beast and 
relies on a web server and, in this case, PHP, to do the remote 
procedure call.


More info at:
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14088/ (linked from the above article)

HTH,
Chris

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Re: New Linux worm crawls the web

2005-11-08 Thread Joey Hess

Realos wrote:
> I have rpc.statd and portmap running on my system. Are they vulnerable
> to this security hole/worm?

No, that is not a php xml-rpc based service.

The holes this worm reportedly exploits were fixed in Debian when they
were discovered several months ago. If you've installed third party
insecure software such as phpnuke, you could be vulnerable.

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Re: DVR software for linux

2005-11-08 Thread Josh Battles

Colin Ingram said:
>
> Hey thanks for the suggestions but I was really looking for something
> with "liveTV" like functionality to go in a media center box

MythTV will do this.  If you have the time and patience you can set it up to
work like any other DVR on the market. (pause live TV, etc...)  Look into the
Hauppuage PVR-250, it's one of the better supported TV tuner cards out there
for Myth.

It's been a tedious process that I'm still in the middle of but I'm making
good progress and should have it up and running by the end of the week.

This FAQ was a good resource that got me started.
http://www.slg.org/index.cgi?MythTV

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Re: Editing the Fluxbox menu?

2005-11-08 Thread Josh Battles

Jon Dowland said:
> On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 10:37:42AM +0100, Marc Br?nink wrote:
>> On Dienstag, Nov 8, 2005, at 10:11 Europe/Berlin, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
>> wrote:
>>
>> >Hello,
>> >Is there a way to edit the 'fluxbox' right-click menu?. Thanks...
>>
>> Yes.
>> http://fluxbox.sourceforge.net/docbook.php
>
> Debian answer: create your own menu entry files, overriding existing
> ones if necessary, in ~/.menu and manually call update-menus from time
> to time. Use the ones in /usr/{lib,share}/menu as a basis, or read the
> docs in /usr/share/doc/menu.
>
> (working on the assumption that the fluxbox package still uses the
> debian menu system)

It does, but I've got my menu file in ~/.fluxbox/menu.  There is a basic menu
created when Fluxbox is installed, just edit it you see fit.  The
documentation on fluxbox is actually very good.

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Follow up to (bug?) : Strange Bind9 behavior.

2005-11-08 Thread Account for Debian group mail

I figured out what the problem was. I had put in my bind9 option area the
statement: (numbers missing to protect the innocent.)
allow-recursion {
  209.102.xxx.xx;
  209.102.xxx.xx;
};

To allow 2 mail servers to do recursion to this name server.  This seem to
cause the problem.  When I removed the 2 mail servers and put in this
statement:
allow-recursion {
 any;
};
It started working again.

Then the name server when queried on the name server machine, ie. dig
bozo.com 127.0.0.1, could query it self and get a reply even though the
URL was not cached on that machine. Before this change all I could query
was what was in the name server cache. Maybe you need to put in the
127.0.0.1 address in the allow-recursion statement as well?

This seems like a bug to me.

Ken Rea

On Mon, 7 Nov 2005, Account for Debian group mail wrote:

>
> I'm getting a strange behavior (for me anyway...) on Bind9. I just set up
> a new Debian Sarge server with bind9. Anyway, I can do a dig lookup on a
> domain name from this new server using 127.0.0.1 (# dig bozo.com 127.0.0.1)
> and it will not find the address. Then I can go to another server and
> direct the dig at the new server and it will find this address. Then I go
> back to the new server where I could not resolve that same address in the
> first place and now it will resolve it.
>
> I can resolve any address from the new server as long as another server
> has already looked it up from this new server.
>
> Any Ideas? BTW there is no firewall involved.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ken Rea
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Re: Useful GUI apps on low-mem computers?

2005-11-08 Thread C. Hurschler

On Wednesday 02 November 2005 16:56, Mitch Wiedemann wrote:
> Greetings all,
>
> Our local Free Software User Group has a large number of donated
> computers, each having 64MB of RAM and a PII or PIII processor.  We are
> intending to configure these computers with a useful set of software and
> make them available for use by low-income people in our community.  We
> have no budget for buying more memory.
>
> My question is, if you had a computer with 64 MB of RAM, and you wanted
> to give the novice user the ability to browse the web, use e-mail,
> instant messaging, create documents and spreadsheets, etc.   What window
> manager and GUI applications would you choose?
>
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I've set up an old 233 MHz laptop with XFCE.  It really has alot of the 
features one needs.  Rox-Filer is a nice file manager to use with it.  I seem 
to remember reading that you can set up XFCE in kiosk mode too.

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Re: New Linux worm crawls the web

2005-11-08 Thread Realos


> Mike McCarty wanted us to know:

>http://www.securityfocus.com/brief/38?ref=rss
>

I have rpc.statd and portmap running on my system. Are they vulnerable
to this security hole/worm?

As I do not use nfs on my debian server, doesn't it make sense to
disable both portmap and rpc.statd on my system?


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Re: DHCP server problem??

2005-11-08 Thread Don Hayward


On Tue, 8 Nov 2005, Anthony Walters wrote:



Otherwise you could use dhcpdump to see what is being sent and recieved from 
the server


This worked -- I found a rogue server on the network NACKing the XP
REQUEST before the real server could ACK it.  Thanks Anthony

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Re: Solaris: The Most Advanced OS?


Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote:

Advanced implies being closer to some destination.  I don't know if
everyone agrees on what that destination is.  Features or complexity is
not a sign of being advanced.

If your goal is video editing, Solaris is not as advanced as other
operating systems.



Excellent answer!!!



Solaris is great at what it is designed for, and Sun's moves toward open
source should be embraced.



What is it designed for exactly?


When I used it extensively there were two areas which they targeted:

workstations
high availability apps (like banks and telecom)

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Re: Solaris: The Most Advanced OS?


Nate Bargmann wrote:

* Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005 Nov 04 13:20 -0600]:



And this has what relevance to the thread about Solaris?



Since this thread is already pretty much off-topic for DebU, what
difference does it make if my post is off-topic?

- Nate >>


LOL and ROFLMAO!

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Re: Suspend to disk


Antonio Paiva wrote:

Hi all.

I'm currently using Debian testing (started with Sarge and upgraded to 
Etch), and I would like to know if anyone was able to reliably suspend 
its computer to disk. If so, could you tell me how?


Thanks,


Please, if you get any progress or regress, let us know! I'd
love to be able to have my UPS make my computer suspend to
disc when it started to run down.

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Re: Solaris: The Most Advanced OS?


Michel Loos wrote:


As many posts showed, Solaris is NOT the most "advanced" OS.
All pro-Solaris posts insist on reliability (granted), and superior
support (valid only in a very few countries).
 
"Advanced" has a meaning of bleeding-edge which Solaris definitively is

not.

In fact I suspect that the recent commitment of Sun to OpenSource is
recognition of the superiority of the OpenSource Model in matters of 
fast, research grade, development of an OS.

In house refinement for reliability by Sun could then give them the best
of both worlds.


Sounds like Red Hat's Fedora Core Project.

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Re: DHCP server problem??

2005-11-08 Thread Don Hayward


Hi Anthony,

On Tue, 8 Nov 2005, Anthony Walters wrote:


Hi don,


I have a new Dell Optiplex XP system (Broadcom NetXtreme NIC) I set up
as a DHCP client.  When I enable the LAN interface on it, hundreds of
lines of the following show up in the server syslog.


A BIOS upgrade on the offending PC could fix your problem - it has helped us 
in the past with DHCP problems with a batch of fujitsu siemens PC's




Thanks for the ideas -- The installed bios is the latest available from
the Dell site.

Otherwise you could use dhcpdump to see what is being sent and recieved from 
the server


I will try this.

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backbone of a large-file streaming system

2005-11-08 Thread Nick I


Hi,I
help maintain a Web site at www.clusterbuilder.org.  
You might have seen before that I have a section called Ask the
Cluster Expert, where I am building a knowledgebase of cluster and
grid information.  When someone asks a question I am researching
the answer to build this knowledgebase out.  I received the
following question: "I am looking for a variety of
solutions to be a backbone of a large-file streaming system providing
thousands of concurrent download streams. Preferably commodity
hardware and Linux, though I'm open to commercial solutions."I
am wondering if anyone here has suggestions of what applications will
work best for this type of setup. You can respond to the question at
www.clusterbuilder.org/FAQ
or respond in email.
 Thanks,Nick

OO2.0 .debs installed! (was: OpenOffice 2.0 install from .deb?)

2005-11-08 Thread Opus


Opus wrote:


So, how do I get the OpenOffice 2.0 .deb files installed on my
system?


Many thanks to Steef, Felix, and Anthony, all of whom replied
that "dpkg -i " as root was the answer.  It worked
perfectly and I now have OpenOffice.org 2.0 running on my Debian
Sarge system with 2.6 kernel.

Because there were several (okay, a lot) of .deb files involved,
I actually used "dpkg -i -R " and it just worked.

I am once again pleasantly amazed by both this mailing list and
Debian.

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Re: DHCP server problem??

2005-11-08 Thread Anthony Walters


Hi don,


I have a new Dell Optiplex XP system (Broadcom NetXtreme NIC) I set up
as a DHCP client.  When I enable the LAN interface on it, hundreds of
lines of the following show up in the server syslog.


A BIOS upgrade on the offending PC could fix your problem - it has 
helped us in the past with DHCP problems with a batch of fujitsu siemens 
PC's


Otherwise you could use dhcpdump to see what is being sent and recieved 
from the server


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Re: Editing the Fluxbox menu?

2005-11-08 Thread Jon Dowland

On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 10:37:42AM +0100, Marc Br?nink wrote:
> On Dienstag, Nov 8, 2005, at 10:11 Europe/Berlin, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe 
> wrote:
> 
> >Hello,
> >Is there a way to edit the 'fluxbox' right-click menu?. Thanks...
> 
> Yes.
> http://fluxbox.sourceforge.net/docbook.php

Debian answer: create your own menu entry files, overriding existing
ones if necessary, in ~/.menu and manually call update-menus from time
to time. Use the ones in /usr/{lib,share}/menu as a basis, or read the
docs in /usr/share/doc/menu.

(working on the assumption that the fluxbox package still uses the
debian menu system)

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Re: Network Interfaces Not Initialized On Boot

2005-11-08 Thread Patrick Wiseman

On 11/8/05, Patrick Wiseman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 11/7/05, mikepolniak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

On 16:40 Sun 06 Nov , Cloaked Hunter wrote:> I'm running the testing release of Debian. I recently updated my Debian> packages, and I also built and installed a new 2.6.14 kernel. Now,> regardless of what kernel I boot, none of my network interfaces will
> initialize during boot, not even the loopback interface. If I manually> start them using ifup -a, everything works perfectly, but I cannot> identify what is preventing them from initializing automatically during
> boot. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.Check if you still have a /etc/network/options file. That has beendeprecated. If you remove or rename that file, networking should start again.

That didn't work for me (I was having the same problem, but on a laptop).  I had to edit /etc/pcmcia/network.opts so:

# Extra stuff to do after setting up the interface
#    start_fn () { return; }
    start_fn () { ifup $1; }
# Extra stuff to do before shutting down the interface
#    stop_fn () { return; }
Oops - sorry - missed a line in my copy and paste:

    stop_fn () { ifdown $1; }

Patrick

Re: Network Interfaces Not Initialized On Boot

2005-11-08 Thread Patrick Wiseman

On 11/7/05, mikepolniak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 16:40 Sun 06 Nov , Cloaked Hunter wrote:> I'm running the testing release of Debian. I recently updated my Debian> packages, and I also built and installed a new 2.6.14 kernel. Now,> regardless of what kernel I boot, none of my network interfaces will
> initialize during boot, not even the loopback interface. If I manually> start them using ifup -a, everything works perfectly, but I cannot> identify what is preventing them from initializing automatically during
> boot. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.Check if you still have a /etc/network/options file. That has beendeprecated. If you remove or rename that file, networking should start again.

That didn't work for me (I was having the same problem, but on a laptop).  I had to edit /etc/pcmcia/network.opts so:

# Extra stuff to do after setting up the interface
#    start_fn () { return; }
    start_fn () { ifup $1; }
# Extra stuff to do before shutting down the interface
#    stop_fn () { return; }

Those lines appear at the end of the file.

Patrick

Re: cannot get into X - after testing dist-upgrade 11-03-05


Mike Chandler wrote:


On Monday 07 November 2005 09:26 pm, Kent West wrote:
 


I'd try firing up KDE as a different user (or, if you don't have any KDE
settings you with to preserve, rename/delete ~/.kde and ~/.kderc and/or
other KDE-related files in your home directory).
   



in my /home directory I have a
.kderc
...that is the only "file" like that I find. There is a folder 
named .kde...should I rename that too, as you suggest? 

 

Yes. When I referred to "other KDE-related files", I was using the word 
"files" in the Unix sense, in that "everything is a file" in Unix. So, 
yes, rename the .kde directory also.


Although as I've thought about it, I think I'd start by creating a new 
user and trying as that user first; that will take your settings 
completely out of the picture, not just your KDE settings.


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Re: Solaris: The Most Advanced OS?

2005-11-08 Thread Ron Johnson

On Tue, 2005-11-08 at 11:49 +, Yuriy Kuznetsov wrote:
> There's lots of improvements in Solaris that make it faster than
> linux (eg. we completely *smoke* linux in terms of TCP/IP performance)
> but also a few places where linux appears much faster, esp. filesystem
> operations. Usually that's because linux has fairly intensive disk
> caching turned on by default (so despite the fact that commands that
> write to disk finish much quicker, often the data isn't actually written
> to disk ! So if you have a power outage just after one of these commands
> has finished, on Solaris your disk will be in a consistent state (and
> the , whereas on linux you're screwed...)
> 
> - it's not always about performance, reliability also comes into it.

This is quite amusing, and a bit sad..

Back when VAX/VMS was king, and Sun was the snot-nosed new kid on
the block, these *exact* same arguments were going on.

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Re: cannot get into X - after testing dist-upgrade 11-03-05

2005-11-08 Thread Mike Chandler

On Monday 07 November 2005 09:26 pm, Kent West wrote:
> Mike Chandler wrote:
> >Thanks so much Kentthe numlock light is "on" and stays on...you cannot
> >turn it off. None of the other (caps lock etc) buttons do anything.
> >(All this in KDE.)
> >
> >I think it has to do with the "newer" KDE version 3.4.2 which, when I
> >dist-upgraded caused all the problems here... the reason I think that is I
> >changed to  the "vesa" driver again, and go into X with Gnome...keyboard
> >works fine.
> >So--- the keyboard works fine in Gnome, but not in KDE. I guess that sums
> > it up.
> >Ideas?
>
> I'd try firing up KDE as a different user (or, if you don't have any KDE
> settings you with to preserve, rename/delete ~/.kde and ~/.kderc and/or
> other KDE-related files in your home directory). The problem may just be
> user settings, instead of system-wide KDE settings.
>
> --
> Kent

Kent, you are invaluable to this list, thanks a lot...
in my /home directory I have a
.kderc
...that is the only "file" like that I find. There is a folder 
named .kde...should I rename that too, as you suggest? 
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Re: DHCP server problem??

2005-11-08 Thread Don Hayward


On Mon, 7 Nov 2005, Dave Ewart wrote:


On Monday, 07.11.2005 at 12:10 -0500, Don Hayward wrote:


This is probably more of a Windows question (apologies for any
offense), but I'm running a Sarge system with dhcp3-server, and maybe
someone out there has seen this or has an idea.

I have a new Dell Optiplex XP system (Broadcom NetXtreme NIC) I set up
as a DHCP client.  When I enable the LAN interface on it, hundreds of
lines of the following show up in the server syslog.



Is it possible that a firewall on the Windows XP box is blocking the
return DHCPACK?



Thanks for the suggestion.  I tried turning off the XP firewall but it
made no difference.  I spent 3 hours on the phone with Dell yesterday
and they didn't have an answer either.

Don

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Re: Solaris: The Most Advanced OS?

2005-11-08 Thread Marc Brünink


"Advanced" has a meaning of bleeding-edge which Solaris definitively is
not.


I guess it's a question of definition. So the whole discussion is at a 
dead end now. The posts of the pro-SUN people suggested a definition of 
advanced=reliable. I couldn't figure out how the other people define 
advancement, yet. But I really dislike the definition of 
advancement=bleeding-edge. Because it doesn't define anything! What's 
the bleeding-edge? I guess Solaris is really on the bleeding-edge in 
point of reliability. :-p


However I just assume you mean "support most hardware, have flashy 
things everywhere, be fool-friendly". With this definition Solaris 
isn't the most advanced OS. And in this case I don't want to have the 
most advanced OS!


You have to ask: Advanced? In what direction?
This is the only question today.
And after you answered this question the only thing left is to ask 
yourself which direction you like most.


This is the first and last posting I'll write about this topic.

regards
Marc


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Re: Strange Bind9 behavior.

2005-11-08 Thread Meni Shapiro

Please post /etc/resolv.conf, /etc/host.conf, /etc/bind/named.conf

MeniOn 11/8/05, Account for Debian group mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'm getting a strange behavior (for me anyway...) on Bind9. I just set upa new Debian Sarge server with bind9. Anyway, I can do a dig lookup on adomain name from this new server using 
127.0.0.1 (# dig bozo.com 127.0.0.1)and it will not find the address. Then I can go to another server anddirect the dig at the new server and it will find this address. Then I go
back to the new server where I could not resolve that same address in thefirst place and now it will resolve it.I can resolve any address from the new server as long as another serverhas already looked it up from this new server.
Any Ideas? BTW there is no firewall involved.Thanks,Ken Rea--To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Re: Solaris: The Most Advanced OS?

2005-11-08 Thread Michel Loos

Em Ter, 2005-11-08 às 11:49 +, Yuriy Kuznetsov escreveu:
> There's lots of improvements in Solaris that make it faster than
> linux (eg. we completely *smoke* linux in terms of TCP/IP performance)
> but also a few places where linux appears much faster, esp. filesystem
> operations. Usually that's because linux has fairly intensive disk
> caching turned on by default (so despite the fact that commands that
> write to disk finish much quicker, often the data isn't actually written
> to disk ! So if you have a power outage just after one of these commands
> has finished, on Solaris your disk will be in a consistent state (and
> the , whereas on linux you're screwed...)
> 
> - it's not always about performance, reliability also comes into it.
> 
> As regards "most advanced os on the planet", that may sound subjective,
> but I'd say that SUN's implementations of DTrace, Zones, TCP/IP stack,
> Service Management Facility, Fault Management Architecture and probably
> other stuff I'm missing out make Solaris a better OS that anything else
> out there at the moment.

As many posts showed, Solaris is NOT the most "advanced" OS.
All pro-Solaris posts insist on reliability (granted), and superior
support (valid only in a very few countries).
 
"Advanced" has a meaning of bleeding-edge which Solaris definitively is
not.

In fact I suspect that the recent commitment of Sun to OpenSource is
recognition of the superiority of the OpenSource Model in matters of 
fast, research grade, development of an OS.
In house refinement for reliability by Sun could then give them the best
of both worlds.

Michel.

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Re: Can anyone get premail -makenym to work?

2005-11-08 Thread Thrasher Remailer

> inf  6:32% grep newnym rlist
> $remailer{"blackhol"} = "<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> newnym pgp klen1024";
> $remailer{"hod"} = "<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> newnym2 pgp klen1024 DH/DSS";
> $remailer{"komite"} = "<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> newnym2 pgp klen1024 DH/DSS";
> $remailer{"nym"} = "<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> newnym pgp klen1024";
> $remailer{"nymph"} = "<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> newnym2 pgp klen1024
> DH/DSS";
> $remailer{"pantanym"} = "<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> newnym2 pgp klen1024";
> Capability String Indicator: newnym2.


None of those are listed in my rlist file: that's probably my problem!

Could you post your sources lines from ~/.premail/preferences?

  $config{'pubring-mix-url'} =
  $config{'rlist-url'}   =
  $config{'type2-list-url'}  =
  $config{'pubring-url'} =

I copied the URLs from the ones that mixmaster and mixmaster-update
use.

Thanks.


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Re: dialup modem recommendation for debian sagre?


Bruno Buys wrote:
   I moved recently, and there´s no easy/cheap broadband in the new 
address. So, what do I need to run a dialup modem on my debian sarge?
   Guess the best model I can find would be a hard pci us-robotics or 
similar (there are winmodems available, but I´m avoiding these). Are 
they debian friendly? Does anybody here have one of these? What packages 
do I need?

Thanks!


The only dialup modem to get is an external USRobotics 56K modem. It 
hooks up to your serial port and is always recognized w/o driver needs. 
I will never ever get another modem. I also live where there is no 
broadband.


H


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Re: Suspend to disk