date:20051201

On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 04:08:16PM +0800, Li Weichen wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have encountered a question about tftpd.  I use tftpd-hpa to set up a tftp
> server in my Debian sarge 3.1.  If I start the tftpd use
> '/etc/init.d/tftpd-hpa start' command, I will get the "file not found"
> message after I input tftpboot command at client but the file I want to
> transfer is definitely right there.

Are you sure your files in /var/lib/tftpboot are readable by the tftp
daemon? (in case of doubt make them world-readable).
How exactly is the client side requesting the files (any path component)?
AFAICT, the server is started with option "-s /var/lib/tftpboot", which
sets up a chroot, so file requests are supposed to be relative to that...

Almut

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ldconfig /lib/libgtkhtml.so.6 is not a symbolic link

2005-12-01 Thread TAC Forums

Hi

I have a Debian computer running LTSP and it's been going nuts every
now and then since the past 2-3 weeks.

The load average shoots up like crazy and I'm not able to see anything
unusual with the hardware inside the logs ...

I thought I'd hit apt-get update / upgrade just to make sure it's not
some software that needs to be updated. I saw smb4k using up a lot of
resources when it goes nuts. The thing is that by stopping kdm and then
starting it back up, the problem goes away for a few days again.

When I did apt-get upgrade.. it started spitting this error message

===
ldconfig /lib/libgtkhtml.so.6 is not a symbolic link
===

Any idea what this means and how to fix? Is it fatal? Should I
re-install Debian again?

Regards

TAC

Power button not shuting down debian

2005-12-01 Thread Neil Dugan

Hi I have an old compaq computer, when it had Fedora on it I could do a 
short press of the power button, and the computer would shut-down nicely.


I have since upgraded to Debian, the problem is that pressing the power 
button no longer shuts the computer down.


Any help in this would be appreciated.

Regards Neil.


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Re: ALL my email vanished

On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 10:27:14PM -0500, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 04:56:09PM -0700, Nate Duehr wrote:
> > Clive Menzies wrote:
> > >On (01/12/05 18:21), Hendrik Boom wrote:
> > >>On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 10:55:10AM -0500, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> > >>>Last nighe all my email in /var/spool/mail/hendrik vanished
> > >>>without a trace.  Some new mail has appeared since the vanishing.
> > >>>Everyone else's email in intact.
> > >>>
> > >>I don't mean I sent a message and it disappeared.
> > >>I mean all my email in /var/spool/mail/hendrik
> > >>vanished.
> > >
> > >Have you looked in /var/mail? 
> > >
> > >Although they aren't linked, both /var/spool/mail and /var/mail contain
> > >the mail here.
> > 
> > Also did you fire up any software that copied it into a 
> > /home//mail or /home//Mail or /home//Maildir directory?
> > 
> > (Like when you exit mutt -- would you like to move your messages to ?)
> 
> That's the first place I looked.  That's where I found all the mail from
> before November, but not the November mail.  Thank god I accidentally
> let it move my messages to mbox by accident at the start of November,
> or I might have lost a lot more.

That other problem you mentioned in your original post makes me think
there might be a problem with the filesystem/harddisk -- in which case
those files could be lost forever, unless you have a recent backup...
Have you run a filesystem check?  Any other files missing?

Almut


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Re: vesa mode for MPlayer compile problem

On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 10:36:04PM +0100, Dirk wrote:
> which package containes  ?
> 
> MPlayer needs it for the vesa mode output...

Just grepped in the mplayer sources for a reference of "vbe.h", but
couldn't find anything -- so, not sure what exactly you need...

Normally, for the "true" VESA mode (running under LRMI (Linux real-mode
interface)) there's a library "vbelib" that comes with the mplayer
sources.  The respective header file is osdep/vbelib.h.  Maybe that's
what you need?

Which mplayer source version do you have?  Which of your source files
is referencing ?  What errors do you get, i.e. which symbols is
the compiler complaining about? -- that might help to figure out which
vbe.h/driver/library you need... (there's most likely more than one in
this world... :)

As a first approximation, I'd just try editing the respective file to
include something like "osdep/vbelib.h" instead (make sure the relative
path is correct, so it is found...).  That would seem to make more
sense to me (maybe it's just a typo in the sources you have).

HTH,
Almut

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Re: watch my /var/log/messages log !

2005-12-01 Thread Edward Shornock

On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 11:19:31PM +0100, Zouari Fourat wrote:
> Hello,
> When doing tail -f /var/log/messages i get an unlimited number of
> lines like this :
> 
> Dec  1 23:12:49 fourat kernel: codec_write 1: semaphore is not ready
> for register 0x54
> Dec  1 23:12:49 fourat kernel: codec_semaphore: semaphore is not ready
> [0x1][0x700304]
> Dec  1 23:12:49 fourat kernel: codec_write 1: semaphore is not ready
> for register 0x54
> Dec  1 23:12:49 fourat kernel: codec_semaphore: semaphore is not ready
> [0x1][0x700300]
> Dec  1 23:12:49 fourat kernel: codec_write 1: semaphore is not ready
> for register 0x54
> Dec  1 23:12:49 fourat kernel: codec_semaphore: semaphore is not ready
> [0x1][0x700300]
> Dec  1 23:12:49 fourat kernel: codec_write 1: semaphore is not ready
> for register 0x54
> 
> 
> and it's adding those lines every second ! this is an old issue on my
> Sarge 3.1, what's the problem ?
> it's affecting my system's speed.
> 

See if this thread might help you:

http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/6/20/69


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merging Openoffice docs in unison

2005-12-01 Thread Matt Price

Hi folks, 

I'm experimenting with Unison to keep my computers in sync with each
other.  Unison has this cool "merge" feature which allows you to
compare file versions in an external program & reconcile changes.  It
would be great if I could do this with my OOo docs, where most of my
work takes place, and where most of my synchronization comfusion comes
from.  Has anyone tried anything of this kind?  Any hints?

thanks,

matt


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where did clamav go?

2005-12-01 Thread Tom Allison


I did an upgrade to my mail server today.
It's all based on stable.

And it removed clamav.
dependency violations.

The best I can get is clamscan back on.

WTF?

What do I do now?
I'm looking at running a mail server without a virus scanner.


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mozilla-player for firefox 1.4...

I just upgraded to firefox in Sid.  It removed my old version of
firefox and took some plugins with it.

Is there a mozilla-player like plugin for the new firefox?

I run icewm (not KDE) so I'm not sure if kaffeine would work.  Plus it
seems not to be installable on my machine.


Hey, foXpose is fun:  http://viamatic.com/firefox/



# apt-get install kaffeine
Reading package lists... . Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.

Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  kaffeine: Depends: kdelibs4c2 (>= 4:3.4.2-1) but it is not going to be 
installed
Depends: kaffeine-xine but it is not going to be installed or
 kaffeine-gstreamer but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages



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Re: Debian 1.3.1 (Bo) ISO files

2005-12-01 Thread Mark Kahnt

On Mon, 2005-28-11 at 21:06 +0100, Manou J.M. Eifes wrote:
> I only want to know, if there is someone who has a backup of the old Debian 
> 1.3.1 ISO files (binary and source). I need it for an intern backup server 
> for old Debian distributions.
> 
> Greetings,
> Manou 
> 
> 
> 

I went digging - I knew I had my first successful Linux install with
Debian GNU/Linux 1.3.1 - I've put images of the InfoMagic Linux
Developer's Resource (grammatically, that should be Developers' - as
there is more than one involved) from August 1987 on my ftp server:

ftp://hosehead.dyndns.org/pub/InfoMagic*

and the server does support anonymous ftp. The bulk of it is GPL or
other free licenses, but there may be a file or two on each iso that is
actually under All Rights Reserved copyright InfoMagic - I emailed
InfoMagic to double check that, but no response and their website now is
only a placeholder.

This is a DSL service on the box, so please be kind on your bandwidth
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where did clamav go?

2005-12-01 Thread Tom Allison


I did an upgrade to my mail server today.
It's all based on stable.

And it removed clamav.
dependency violations.

I managed to get it reinstalled by pointing to testing.
But now I can't seem to get postfix to talk to it again.

Everything worked 100% for months/years prior to this.

I'm kind of lost and pissed.  This is the first kind of surprise I've 
had like this under Debian and unfortunately I'm not sure what the next 
step is...  It's been a while since I fiddled with this.


my current master.cf shows:
(These are the lines I've had to remove in order to get it working again)
#scan  unix  -   -   n   -   16  smtp
#   -o smtp_send_xforward_command=yes
# for injecting mail back into the postfix stream
#127.0.0.1:10025 inet n  -   n   -   16  smtpd
#   -o content_filter=
#   -o 
receive_override_options=no_unknown_recipient_checks,no_header_body_checks

#   -o smtpd_helo_restrictions=
#   -o smtpd_client_restrictions=
#   -o smtpd_sender_restrictions=
#   -o smtpd_recipient_restrictions=permit_mynetworks,reject
#   -o mynetworks_style=host
#   -o smtpd_authorized_xforward_host=127.0.0.0/8

I seem to think that the key phrase in all this is the unix type.
from main.cf:
#content_filter = scan:127.0.0.1:10026
Which is consistent with the clamd.conf

TCPSocket 10026
TCPAddr 127.0.0.1


Unfortunately I was getting this error:
Dec  1 22:35:16 cling postfix/smtp[16565]: 7F8A04C0ED: 
to=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, relay=none, delay=180, status=deferred
 (connect to 127.0.0.1[127.0.0.1]: server dropped connection without 
sending the initial SMTP greeting)
Dec  1 22:36:10 cling postfix/smtp[16587]: connect to 
127.0.0.1[127.0.0.1]: server dropped connection without sending the 
initial SMTP greeting (port 10026)


Which I don't know how to address.



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Re: Understanding "Depends: Package <= Version"

2005-12-01 Thread Hubert Chan

On Thu, 01 Dec 2005 21:36:35 -0500, "David A. Cobb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:

> However, a number of Debian packages, notably OpenOffice.org
> Python-Uno, have a dependency "Depends: Python <= 2.4".  Now, if I

The line says: python (<< 2.4); not <=.

The python package is dependency package that depends on the default
version of Python for Debian.  The actual Python interpreters are in the
packages python2.3, python2.4, etc.

> parse that according to the usual human language rules, it says I must
> have an earlier Python; and it would be satisfied because I have both
> 2.3 and 2.4.

It says that you need a version of the package that is named "python"
that is less than 2.4.  This is independent of whether you have the
Python 2.4 (which is in the package named "python2.4") installed.
Presumably, this is because the package named "python" has a symlimk
from /usr/bin/python to /usr/bin/pythonX.X, and python-uno depends on
/usr/bin/python pointing to the right place.

> But 'apt' evidently interprets this as though it said: "Conflicts:
> Python >= 2.4" and is UNSATISFIED because of the presence of my 2.4.

The presence of the python2.4 package, which is where the python
interpreter is, will not cause any problems with this dependency.  The
only thing that matters is the version of the package that is named
"python".  Run "dpkg -l python" to see what version of that you have
installed.  If it has version >= 2.4, then this obviously does not
satisfy the dependency for python (<< 2.4).  Since only one version of
any single package can be installed at a time, the only way to resolve
this dependency is to install the python package with the correct
version.

> Along with my "English language" interpretation, it would seem strange
> that the presence of a newer package which does not directly conflict
> with the older is not likely to break an application.

> Is this a bug in apt?  If so, is it a known bug?

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Re: ALL my email vanished

On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 11:36:58PM +, Clive Menzies wrote:
> On (01/12/05 18:21), Hendrik Boom wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 10:55:10AM -0500, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> > > Last nighe all my email in /var/spool/mail/hendrik vanished
> > > without a trace.  Some new mail has appeared since the vanishing.
> > > Everyone else's email in intact.
> > > 
> > I don't mean I sent a message and it disappeared.
> > I mean all my email in /var/spool/mail/hendrik
> > vanished.
> 
> Have you looked in /var/mail? 
> 
> Although they aren't linked, both /var/spool/mail and /var/mail contain
> the mail here.

On my system, they are linked:

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -l /var/spool/mail
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 7 Jun 22 14:19 /var/spool/mail -> ../mail
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$


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Re: ALL my email vanished

On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 04:56:09PM -0700, Nate Duehr wrote:
> Clive Menzies wrote:
> >On (01/12/05 18:21), Hendrik Boom wrote:
> >>On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 10:55:10AM -0500, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> >>>Last nighe all my email in /var/spool/mail/hendrik vanished
> >>>without a trace.  Some new mail has appeared since the vanishing.
> >>>Everyone else's email in intact.
> >>>
> >>I don't mean I sent a message and it disappeared.
> >>I mean all my email in /var/spool/mail/hendrik
> >>vanished.
> >
> >Have you looked in /var/mail? 
> >
> >Although they aren't linked, both /var/spool/mail and /var/mail contain
> >the mail here.
> 
> Also did you fire up any software that copied it into a 
> /home//mail or /home//Mail or /home//Maildir directory?
> 
> (Like when you exit mutt -- would you like to move your messages to ?)

That's the first place I looked.  That's where I found all the mail from
before November, but not the November mail.  Thank god I accidentally
let it move my messages to mbox by accident at the start of November,
or I might have lost a lot more.

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Understanding "Depends: Package <= Version"

2005-12-01 Thread David A. Cobb





I don't know whether this is the right place to ask
this.  Someone, perhaps, will "straighten me out."

It is not usually a problem to have both Python-2.3 and Python-2.4 on
the same machine.  In fact, when Python gets pulled down as a
dependency, it's pretty likely to happen.

However, a number of Debian packages, notably OpenOffice.org
Python-Uno, have a dependency "Depends: Python <= 2.4".  Now, if I
parse that according to the usual human language rules, it says I must
have an earlier Python; and it would be satisfied because I have both
2.3 and 2.4.

But 'apt' evidently interprets this as though it said: "Conflicts:
Python >= 2.4" and is UNSATISFIED because of the presence of my
2.4.  Along with my "English language" interpretation, it would seem
strange that the presence of a  newer package which does not directly
conflict with the older is not likely to break an application.  

Is this a bug in apt?  If so, is it a known bug?

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aoe and vblade

2005-12-01 Thread Dan Sheffner

I'm trying to share hard drives out using vblade and aoe.  I have
linux kernel 2.4.27-2 running vblade which exports the device
fine.  I have another box running linux kernel 2.6.14.2 with the
aoe module compiled in. When I run modprobe aoe it gives an error
stating unknown partion table.  Does the partion that I'm sharing out need to be a special format through fdisk? right now it is set to 83 for linux.

Re: Kerberos acl permission

On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 02:00:49PM -0800, Curtis Vaughan wrote:
> Trying to set up keberos5 on a Debian Sarge server. As a note I am going 
> by the instructions provided by a Linux Journal article, which may be 
> found at: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7336
> 
> Regardless, setting it up has been otherwise easy. But now I'm at the 
> part where I want to add other users. At one point in the set up, 
> however, the instructions said that you need to enable the administrator 
> to have all permissions (privileges), which is done by editing a 
> kadm5.acl file. But there is no such file. Because there is no such 
> permission file, apparently, I can't add users as the administrator. So, 
> I tried creating a kadm5.acl file (under /var/lib/krb5kdc/) but it that 
> didn't seem to help.

You could try /etc/krb5kdc/kadm5.acl instead -- at least that's what
is set up in kdc.conf.template (ends up as /etc/krb5kdc/kdc.conf after
postinst has run) as default:

   ...
   acl_file = /etc/krb5kdc/kadm5.acl
   ...

(not sure though, if the linuxjournal article suggested a different
directory layout..., so YMMV)

Cheers,
Almut


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Re: PC Slowdowns and Lock-ups

2005-12-01 Thread Steven Wheelwright

On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 04:45:52PM +, James Caldow wrote:
>It is by no means a high spec computer, (Athlon 900MHz, 512Mb PC133 SDRAM, 80Gb
> Hard Drive, ATI Radeon 9250 128Mb Graphics Card), but as I say it has been
> running well for months now.

I am no expert on hardware failures, but you may consider cleaning the
dust out of your case.  Try running the computer for a while with the
case open and see if the fans on the graphics card and CPU are spinning.

> I suspect it may have more to do with Hardware than the OS as I have also run
> Knoppix on it out of curiosity. It was equally slow.

Good idea.  It does sound like a hardware problem.  You didn't do any
major software changes, though, did you?

I have never tried them, but I know that there are many programs that
can diagnose hardware problems or at least make the hardware work
extremely hard and fail if it is defective.

Some words to search are memtest or mem86 and GIMPS (Great Internet
Mersenne Prime Search) torture test.

> The problems begin as soon as I am logged into the system. The cursor
> will move very, very slowly, if at all.

This sounds like a graphics card problem.  Try turning off X and doing
something non-graphics intensive like compiling a kernel or running a
torture test for GIMPS.

Good luck.
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Re: Ubuntu's unstable vs Debian unstable

2005-12-01 Thread David A. Cobb





I haven't read the whole thread, so please pardon me if
I repeat something.

One area that causes many conflicts has Ubuntu "ahead" of Debian. 
Ubuntu is stabilized on Python 2.4, whereas Debian packages all demand
<2.4 (Python 2.3 is "official").  

The problem is exacerbated because 'apt' interprets the dependency on
what seems a "broken" manner.  "Depends: Python < 2.4" would seem to
be satisfied by the presence of Python-2.3.  However, apt is
interpreting this as "Conflicts: Python >= 2.4".  (I'll try  to say
more on that subject elsewhere and later).

Anyway, it's very difficult to pick and choose on the basis of who is
more or less stable (speaking, of course, only of the software).  It's
bound to vary from week to week.  

Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote:

  Hello,
>From what I read on the lists it seems that Ubuntu's unstable is
generally more broken than Debian's, making me feel safer using Sid.
Could anyone confirm this.
Thanks...

  


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How to submit bug re: kcontrol printers stops cups working

2005-12-01 Thread John Stumbles


[Sarge with KDE]

I've found what I think are 2 bugs in the way kcontrol sets up 
cupsd.conf which stops cupsd running.


kde control center (kcontrol)
 Peripherals
   Printers
   [note 1]
 [Administrator mode]
   Print Server
 Configure Server
   Network
 Listen to (by default contains Listen: *.631)
   Add
 enter an address
 leave port set at default 631 [2]

This will write an erroneous /etc/cups/cupsd.conf file with lines like

Listen *:631
Listen foobar:631

and attempt to restart cupsd which will give an error in 
/var/log/cups/error_log:


StartListening: Unable to bind socket for address c0a8010a:631 - Cannot 
assign requested address.



So I think this is a bug with kcontrol, that it writes a broken 
configuration file which stops cupsd running.


I think it is also a bug(-ette) in cups that the error message it gives 
is unhelpful, and in /etc/init.d/cupsys that it happily reports that it 
has restarted cupsd when it hasn't.


(Sorry if this sounds like a rant: you shold see how little hair I now 
have left :-)


[1] Incidentally at this point a box pops up saying:
"""
Unable to retrieve the printer list. Error message
received from manager:
Connection to CUPS server failed. Check that the CUPS
server is correctly installed and running. Error:
connection refused.
"""
Why does this happen and what does it mean?


[2] yes, I know - now - but I didn't at the time. Anyway the system 
should check erroneous user input rather than silently bork the print 
system. IMnshO :-)



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Re: very weird firefox behaviour

2005-12-01 Thread d

On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 02:45:13PM -0800, Rodney D. Myers wrote:
> On Thu, 01 Dec 2005 22:27:36 +0100
> Renee Klawitter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > Hi!
> > I recently installed the firefox 1.5, (1.4.99+1.5  to be perfectly 
> > accurate).
> > Now, when I try to start firefox via the applications menu or via 
> > console, logged in as a normal user, it won't start and gives me this 
> > nice little message instead:
> > 
> > Firefox is already running, but is not responding. To open a new
> > window, you must first close the existing Firefox process, or restart
> > your system.
> > 
> > But there is no other firefox process. And the curious thing is,
> > logged in as root I can start firefox, and as long as the root
> > firefox process is running, I am able to start a new window as a
> > normal user!!

Perhaps you have somehow started firefox in a user directory as root,
causing the lock file to have the wrong permissions.  Or perhaps the
lock is just there; firefox as root will presumably use /root's .mozilla
directory, and thus root's lock file, unless you've preserved your HOME
variable.  See if
'ls -l .mozilla/firefox/*/lock' shows a lock file when no firefox-bin is
running, and if so remove it.

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Re: very weird firefox behaviour

2005-12-01 Thread d

On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 02:45:13PM -0800, Rodney D. Myers wrote:

> open a shell and type -> ps aux | firefox <- and you will probably see
> another session of firefox running.

Of course, he means 'ps aux|grep firefox'.


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Ati x800pro video card with x-windows on amd64

2005-12-01 Thread Tom Moore


Hi guys.
Just installed a friend's machine today and tried to get x to see his video 
card.

What do I need to do to getthe card to work peroperly?

Thanks,
Tom


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Re: ALL my email vanished

2005-12-01 Thread Nate Duehr


Clive Menzies wrote:

On (01/12/05 18:21), Hendrik Boom wrote:

On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 10:55:10AM -0500, Hendrik Boom wrote:

Last nighe all my email in /var/spool/mail/hendrik vanished
without a trace.  Some new mail has appeared since the vanishing.
Everyone else's email in intact.


I don't mean I sent a message and it disappeared.
I mean all my email in /var/spool/mail/hendrik
vanished.


Have you looked in /var/mail? 


Although they aren't linked, both /var/spool/mail and /var/mail contain
the mail here.


Also did you fire up any software that copied it into a 
/home//mail or /home//Mail or /home//Maildir directory?


(Like when you exit mutt -- would you like to move your messages to ?)

Nate


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Re: ALL my email vanished

2005-12-01 Thread Clive Menzies

On (01/12/05 18:21), Hendrik Boom wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 10:55:10AM -0500, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> > Last nighe all my email in /var/spool/mail/hendrik vanished
> > without a trace.  Some new mail has appeared since the vanishing.
> > Everyone else's email in intact.
> > 
> I don't mean I sent a message and it disappeared.
> I mean all my email in /var/spool/mail/hendrik
> vanished.

Have you looked in /var/mail? 

Although they aren't linked, both /var/spool/mail and /var/mail contain
the mail here.

Regards

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Re: illegal access using ssh

2005-12-01 Thread Clive Menzies

On (01/12/05 14:02), H.S. wrote:
> Amish Rughoonundon wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I was looking at my auth.log file and I saw a bunch of these things:
> > Nov 28 16:22:41 localhost sshd[11363]: Illegal user nobody from 212.0.148.2
> > 
> > I was wondering if there is a way to filter the ip allowed to access the
> > computer and allow only 1 ip (mine) to do so. Thanks a lot,
> > Amish
> > 
> 
> 
> To deal with such kind of attacks, I have:
> 
> 1. Using iptables, limited the number of ssh login attemts' rate to 5
> per minute (it is my home machine and I do not have many users, so this
> rate limitation does not affect me in any negative way).
> 
> 2. Made sure users have strong passwords.
> 
> 3. Limited who can log in via ssh by specifying the authorized uses in
> sshd_config using a line similar to this:
> AllowUsers tom dick harry
> 
> and restarting sshd. This line disallows all users other than Tom, Dick
> and Harry.
> 
> So, even if you do not something like 1 above, the rest of the points
> will keep you safe. Earlier I used to allow only certain IPs(my school
> IPs) via iptables, but then I realized its limitation when I wanted to
> login from my relatives computer in another city.
> 
> So, these steps in conjunction with the other suggestions you have in
> other posts will make quite nice layers of security for this situation.

Thanks, this is really useful :)

Regards

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Re: PCMCIA USB cards under linux?

2005-12-01 Thread Justin Guerin

On Thursday 01 December 2005 13:29, Martin Fluch wrote:
> Hi!
>
> >From my search sofar the result doesn't look promissing. But is there
>
> any PCMCIA USB 2.0 card which works under Linux. My IBM T30 has only
> an USB 1.1 port and it would be nice to a USB 2.0 adapter to transfer
> faster data between my T30 and my iPod.
>
> Can anybody maybe proove my observation wrong? Maybe? ;-)
>
> With best wishes,
> - Martin

Hi Martin,

This thread would seem to indicate your search will not be in vain.  
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?s=&postid=1756217#post1756217

However, note that if you're looking for a manufacturer to expressly state 
they are Linux compatible, you're a few years too early.  Still, with the 
return policy clarified beforehand, you should be able to get something 
that will work.

Also, check pricewatch.com for a list of cards.  There's quite a lot to 
choose from, and though I didn't look at all of the cards, of the ones I 
did, none of them said Linux compatible.  It doesn't mean they aren't, just 
that it isn't guaranteed.

Good luck,
Justin

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ALL my email vanished

I don't mean I sent a message and it disappeared.
I mean all my email in /var/spool/mail/hendrik
vanished.

On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 10:55:10AM -0500, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> Last nighe all my email in /var/spool/mail/hendrik vanished
> without a trace.  Some new mail has appeared since the vanishing.
> Everyone else's email in intact.
> 
> I read my mail with mutt.
> 
> I use the exim that comes with sarge, undoctored except for a minimal
> configuration done at installation time, waying I receive and send
> messages by SMTP and will forward messages for one or two other sites.
> 
> Does any one have an idea
>   how this could have occurred?
>   how I can track down the problem?
> or. most importantly,
>   how I can prevent it in the future?
> 
> -- hendrik
> 
> I don't know if this is relevant (but if not it is likely another problem)  
> but after the disappearance I did receive
> a message of over 5 lines from root, apparently on behalf of
> scrollkeeper, with messages like
> 
> /etc/cron.monthly/scrollkeeper:
> I/O error : Attempt to load network entity 
> http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/docbookx.dtd
> /usr/share/gnome/help/gdm/zh_CN/legal.xml:9: parser error : Entity 'ldquo' 
> not defined
>
> 
> binary gibberish on the line after .
> 
> Here's another from further down.
> 
> 
> /usr/share/gnome/help/drivemount/de/drivemount.xml:47: parser error : Failure 
> to process entity legal
>&legal;
>   
> 
> 
> And another
> 
> /usr/share/gnome/help/command-line/de/command-line.xml:307: parser error : 
> Entity 'auml' not defined
>   Vom Benutzer abfragbare 
> Befehls-Vervollständigungsfunkt
>  
> 
> It ends with
> 
> I/O error : Attempt to load network entity 
> http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/docbookx.dtd
> I/O error : Attempt to load network entity 
> http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/docbookx.dtd
> I/O error : Attempt to load network entity 
> http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/docbookx.dtd
> I/O error : Attempt to load network entity 
> http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/docbookx.dtd
> I/O error : Attempt to load network entity 
> http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/docbookx.dtd
> I/O error : Attempt to load network entity 
> http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/docbookx.dtd
> I/O error : Attempt to load network entity 
> http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/docbookx.dtd
> I/O error : Attempt to load network entity 
> http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/docbookx.dtd
> I/O error : Attempt to load network entity 
> http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/docbookx.dtd
> I/O error : Attempt to load network entity 
> http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/docbookx.dtd


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Re: very weird firefox behaviour

2005-12-01 Thread Justin Guerin

On Thursday 01 December 2005 14:27, Renee Klawitter wrote:
> Hi!
> I recently installed the firefox 1.5, (1.4.99+1.5  to be perfectly
> accurate).
> Now, when I try to start firefox via the applications menu or via
> console, logged in as a normal user, it won't start and gives me this
> nice little message instead:
>
> Firefox is already running, but is not responding. To open a new window,
> you must first close the existing Firefox process, or restart your
> system.
>
> But there is no other firefox process. And the curious thing is, logged
> in as root I can start firefox, and as long as the root firefox process
> is running, I am able to start a new window as a normal user!!
>
> Any suggestions ?
> Thanks in advance, Renee!

Hi Renee,

Do you have a lock file in your profile folder?  If so, you may need to 
delete it.  According to 
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_folder#Where_is_my_profile_folder.3F, 
your profile is located at ~/.mozilla/firefox//, unless you 
manually changed it.  You might also find more helpful information at 
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_in_use.

None of this seems to explain why you can start a new window as a normal 
user once root is running Firefox, but it may be worth a shot.

Hope that helps,
Justin

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2005-12-01 Thread Dan Sheffner

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Re: very weird firefox behaviour

2005-12-01 Thread Renee Klawitter


Roberto C. Sanchez schrieb:


On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 02:45:13PM -0800, Rodney D. Myers wrote:
 


open a shell and type -> ps aux | firefox <- and you will probably see
another session of firefox running.

   



You probably want:

ps aux |grep [f]irefox

Otherwise, you will run firefox with the output of `ps' as an argument.

-Roberto
 



nope, thats what I did immediatly after that message came up the first 
time. Also, I cannot find a lock file, but thanks!

Renee.


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Re: very weird firefox behaviour

2005-12-01 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez

On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 02:45:13PM -0800, Rodney D. Myers wrote:
> 
> open a shell and type -> ps aux | firefox <- and you will probably see
> another session of firefox running.
> 

You probably want:

ps aux |grep [f]irefox

Otherwise, you will run firefox with the output of `ps' as an argument.

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Re: very weird firefox behaviour

2005-12-01 Thread Rodney D. Myers

On Thu, 01 Dec 2005 22:27:36 +0100
Renee Klawitter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hi!
> I recently installed the firefox 1.5, (1.4.99+1.5  to be perfectly 
> accurate).
> Now, when I try to start firefox via the applications menu or via 
> console, logged in as a normal user, it won't start and gives me this 
> nice little message instead:
> 
> Firefox is already running, but is not responding. To open a new
> window, you must first close the existing Firefox process, or restart
> your system.
> 
> But there is no other firefox process. And the curious thing is,
> logged in as root I can start firefox, and as long as the root
> firefox process is running, I am able to start a new window as a
> normal user!!
> 
> Any suggestions ?
> Thanks in advance, Renee!

open a shell and type -> ps aux | firefox <- and you will probably see
another session of firefox running.

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Re: impossible to connect to DNS

2005-12-01 Thread Arafangion

On Fri, 2 Dec 2005 08:59 am, Alexandru Cabuz wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have been using Debian testing on my laptop for a while now, and
> networking-wise everything went smooth until today it all of a sudden
> refused to connect to the DNS server and therefore refused to connect to
> anything else unless provided with the IP address.

Are you using static ip addresses, or dynamic?

In either case, what is in your /etc/resolv.conf file?


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watch my /var/log/messages log !

2005-12-01 Thread Zouari Fourat

Hello,
When doing tail -f /var/log/messages i get an unlimited number of
lines like this :

Dec  1 23:12:49 fourat kernel: codec_write 1: semaphore is not ready
for register 0x54
Dec  1 23:12:49 fourat kernel: codec_semaphore: semaphore is not ready
[0x1][0x700304]
Dec  1 23:12:49 fourat kernel: codec_write 1: semaphore is not ready
for register 0x54
Dec  1 23:12:49 fourat kernel: codec_semaphore: semaphore is not ready
[0x1][0x700300]
Dec  1 23:12:49 fourat kernel: codec_write 1: semaphore is not ready
for register 0x54
Dec  1 23:12:49 fourat kernel: codec_semaphore: semaphore is not ready
[0x1][0x700300]
Dec  1 23:12:49 fourat kernel: codec_write 1: semaphore is not ready
for register 0x54


and it's adding those lines every second ! this is an old issue on my
Sarge 3.1, what's the problem ?
it's affecting my system's speed.

I have been using Debian testing on my laptop for a while now, and
networking-wise everything went smooth until today it all of a sudden
refused to connect to the DNS server and therefore refused to connect
to anything else unless provided with the IP address.

For example, I can set up IP adresses with the corresponding names in
/etc/hosts and it connects just fine (this is what I did for
ftp.fr.debian.org) but it for some reason cannot connect to the dns
server. The
server itself is fine because all the other machines on my LAN use it
no problem.

When trying to probe with nslookup it gave this error:

nslookup: undefined symbol: isc_net_pton

I therefore thought I got hacked, also keeping in mind the fact that I
have not done a dist-upgrade for about two months because it kept
trying to wipe lyx and I absolutely needed lyx. So maybe there was some
security bug that got fixed but that I was exposed to because I didn't
upgrade.

So I did

apt-get update
apt-get dist-upgrade

this took a while because there were about 300 packages to install or upgrade. Then

apt-get clean
apt-get install --reinstall [all packages on which nslookup depends, meaning all the libraries it links to]

There's maybe about 9 of them, the most notable of which is libc6.
But the same thing happens. No DNS, except now I don't get the
weird undefined symbol error anymore. ping just gives unknown host
unless you give it an IP address

Anybody have any idea what could be wrong?

I have also tried purging and reinstalling the resolvconf package. No change.
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Re: stereo component from laptop?

2005-12-01 Thread Andy Wettstein

On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 01:17:56PM -0500, Matt Price wrote:
> PLAYER:
> The idea would be to play mp3's and cd's off of this thing.  
> 
> My family hates using xmms; they find it hard to look at and a little
> disconcerting, I think mostly because ofthe multiple windows.  Also
> there's no built-in playlist manager, which confuses them.  
> 
> I've lately taken to using Amarok on my desktop, which I find a pretty
> satisfying experience (though occacionally buggy, e.g. crashes when it
> encounters a radio stream it doesn't like).  But I hesitate to install
> something that depends so heavily on the kde environment to work.
> Haven't used Rhythmbox for a while, but it used to crash on my all the
> time when I did use it.  BMP is easier to look at than xmms is, but it
> still doesn't have a playlist manager (far as I can tell).  [by
> playlist manager I mean a usable GUI that lets you choose among
> playlist you've created.  Not sure this is the right term...]
> 
> So none of the options with which I'm familiar seem perfect.  Does
> anyone have any suggestions?  Like, can amarok work without loading
> hundreds of megs of kde/qt stuff into memory?  Is there a playlist
> manager plugin for bmp?  
> 
> It would be great if all of this worked well enough for a 10-year-old
> to be able to use it.  

We have a headless computer at work to manage our music playing and run
musicpd (http://www.musicpd.org/) on it.  It seems to work pretty well
and has several different interfaces to it.  Although I'm not sure if it
will play cd's.


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Kerberos acl permission

2005-12-01 Thread Curtis Vaughan

Trying to set up keberos5 on a Debian Sarge server. As a note I am going 
by the instructions provided by a Linux Journal article, which may be 
found at: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7336


Regardless, setting it up has been otherwise easy. But now I'm at the 
part where I want to add other users. At one point in the set up, 
however, the instructions said that you need to enable the administrator 
to have all permissions (privileges), which is done by editing a 
kadm5.acl file. But there is no such file. Because there is no such 
permission file, apparently, I can't add users as the administrator. So, 
I tried creating a kadm5.acl file (under /var/lib/krb5kdc/) but it that 
didn't seem to help.


Here is the specific error when trying to add a user:

# kadmin
Authenticating as principal **/[EMAIL PROTECTED] with password.
Password for **/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
kadmin:  addprinc curtis
NOTICE: no policy specified for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; assigning "default"
Enter password for principal "[EMAIL PROTECTED]":
Re-enter password for principal "[EMAIL PROTECTED]":
add_principal: Operation requires ``add'' privilege while creating 
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]".

kadmin:  help


Any help appreciated!

Curtis


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Re: CUPS and samba intergration problem

2005-12-01 Thread Hendrik Sattler

Am Donnerstag, 1. Dezember 2005 22:12 schrieb Tom Vier:
> On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 07:27:34PM +0100, Hendrik Sattler wrote:
> > Did you try without the last three command lines? Ususally, you do not
> > need to set anything like that for cups, there is special support for
> > cups in samba and it would be bad it did not have the right commands for
> > all that.
>
> When i try without that, and comment out "passwd backend" (set to "guest"
> before, which i don't think is valid) it gets this far:
>
>
> [2005/12/01 16:09:32, 0] printing/print_cups.c:cups_queue_get(790)
>   Unable to get jobs for ipp://localhost/printers/printers -
> client-error-not-found
> [2005/12/01 16:09:38, 1] smbd/service.c:make_connection_snum(642)
>   triad-laptop (192.168.255.82) connect to service printers initially as
> user nobody (uid=65534, gid=65534) (pid 24695)
> [2005/12/01 16:09:39, 0] printing/print_cups.c:cups_job_submit(643)
>   Unable to print file to printers - client-error-not-found
> [2005/12/01 16:09:43, 1] smbd/service.c:close_cnum(830)
>   triad-laptop (192.168.255.82) closed connection to service printers

Looks like that CUPS does not listen on where you want to address it.
What is "netstat -lp"  (or "netstat -lnp") is telling you about the situation?

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very weird firefox behaviour

2005-12-01 Thread Renee Klawitter


Hi!
I recently installed the firefox 1.5, (1.4.99+1.5  to be perfectly 
accurate).
Now, when I try to start firefox via the applications menu or via 
console, logged in as a normal user, it won't start and gives me this 
nice little message instead:


Firefox is already running, but is not responding. To open a new window, 
you must first close the existing Firefox process, or restart your system.


But there is no other firefox process. And the curious thing is, logged 
in as root I can start firefox, and as long as the root firefox process 
is running, I am able to start a new window as a normal user!!


Any suggestions ?
Thanks in advance, Renee!


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Re: [root user] How to disable root account?

2005-12-01 Thread Christian Folini

On Thu, 1 Dec 2005 19:49:10 +0100 Wim De Smet wrote:
> sudo passwd lets you set the root password of course. :-)

Yeah, that's why we distribute the hash of the root password 
via a debian package. :) 
(And the machines do an update/upgrade regularly.)

I think this approach works quite well in a desktop 
environment. Of course publishing the root password
hash is insecure. But installing the hash on a machine
people have physical access to, is just as insecure.

cheers,

Christian

P.S. Thx for the hint Marc. I thought it was save to translate
1:1 from German. The 2 languages are so diverse in many ways.

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Re: CUPS and samba intergration problem

2005-12-01 Thread Tom Vier

On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 07:27:34PM +0100, Hendrik Sattler wrote:
> Did you try without the last three command lines? Ususally, you do not need 
> to 
> set anything like that for cups, there is special support for cups in samba 
> and it would be bad it did not have the right commands for all that.

When i try without that, and comment out "passwd backend" (set to "guest"
before, which i don't think is valid) it gets this far:


[2005/12/01 16:09:32, 0] printing/print_cups.c:cups_queue_get(790)
  Unable to get jobs for ipp://localhost/printers/printers -
client-error-not-found
[2005/12/01 16:09:38, 1] smbd/service.c:make_connection_snum(642)
  triad-laptop (192.168.255.82) connect to service printers initially as
user nobody (uid=65534, gid=65534) (pid 24695)
[2005/12/01 16:09:39, 0] printing/print_cups.c:cups_job_submit(643)
  Unable to print file to printers - client-error-not-found
[2005/12/01 16:09:43, 1] smbd/service.c:close_cnum(830)
  triad-laptop (192.168.255.82) closed connection to service printers


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how to debug USB firmware loading?

2005-12-01 Thread michael

would some kind soul point me to documentation on how to debug firmware
that should be loaded when hotplug detects a new USB device? this is for
2.6.11 kernel. thanks,
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Re: [Familiar] Pitfalls


Hi all,
my bad, this was intended for the familiar list. I am Multitasking too much 
here :)

Amish

- Original Message - 
From: "Amish Rughoonundon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

To: "debian mailing list" 
Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2005 3:56 PM
Subject: Re: [Familiar] Pitfalls



Hi,
I just got an Ipaq bought on Ebay. I thought it would be an Ipaq H5500
since that is what was listed but when I checked the Model ID of the 
device

it says hp Ipaq h. As you can guess this is very unfamiliar (Pun
intended) territory for me. Is there any major difference between 
following

the instruction to install familiar on the handheld.org website for h5400
and for h. I am currently reading the website but any input from 
someone

who has done it before would be highly appreciated. By the way thanks for
the info Eric. I will definitly upgrade any drivers for the hardware and
double check on the WPA thingy. Thanks
Amish

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To: "Familiar Mailing list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2005 1:39 PM
Subject: Re: [Familiar] Pitfalls



On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 10:39:39AM -0500, Amish Rughoonundon wrote:

Hi,
I will soon be getting an Ipaq H5500 with the idea of installing 
familiar
on it and messing around with the wifi module. I was wondering if 
anybody

had done this previously and may have some insight into the possible
pitfalls I should look into. Thanks in advance,


This list and the h5400-port list are full of threads regarding this
device.

The wiki page on this port is accurate:
http://handhelds.org/moin/moin.cgi/HpIpaqH5400

Before flashing linux, make sure you get the latest atmel firmware
installed for the wireless device. Note that there are two firmware
blobs. One is for those who do not need WPA and the other is for
those who do. If you don't need WPA now, I strongly suggest using the
non-WPA firmware. hp says it may cause problems for none WPA networks
and another poster has reported that it had breakage for him.

Just so it is said, familiar 0.8.2 does not support WPA for that
wireless device. It isn't familiar's issue, but the driver in familiar
for that device. The same poster who reported the firmware breakage is
also trying to sort out the WPA issue. You could make friends by helping
him sort that out.

E

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Re: [Familiar] Pitfalls


Hi,
I just got an Ipaq bought on Ebay. I thought it would be an Ipaq H5500
since that is what was listed but when I checked the Model ID of the device
it says hp Ipaq h. As you can guess this is very unfamiliar (Pun
intended) territory for me. Is there any major difference between following
the instruction to install familiar on the handheld.org website for h5400
and for h. I am currently reading the website but any input from someone
who has done it before would be highly appreciated. By the way thanks for
the info Eric. I will definitly upgrade any drivers for the hardware and
double check on the WPA thingy. Thanks
Amish

- Original Message - 
From: "Erik Hovland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

To: "Familiar Mailing list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2005 1:39 PM
Subject: Re: [Familiar] Pitfalls



On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 10:39:39AM -0500, Amish Rughoonundon wrote:

Hi,
I will soon be getting an Ipaq H5500 with the idea of installing familiar
on it and messing around with the wifi module. I was wondering if anybody
had done this previously and may have some insight into the possible
pitfalls I should look into. Thanks in advance,


This list and the h5400-port list are full of threads regarding this
device.

The wiki page on this port is accurate:
http://handhelds.org/moin/moin.cgi/HpIpaqH5400

Before flashing linux, make sure you get the latest atmel firmware
installed for the wireless device. Note that there are two firmware
blobs. One is for those who do not need WPA and the other is for
those who do. If you don't need WPA now, I strongly suggest using the
non-WPA firmware. hp says it may cause problems for none WPA networks
and another poster has reported that it had breakage for him.

Just so it is said, familiar 0.8.2 does not support WPA for that
wireless device. It isn't familiar's issue, but the driver in familiar
for that device. The same poster who reported the firmware breakage is
also trying to sort out the WPA issue. You could make friends by helping
him sort that out.

E

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Re: hello

2005-12-01 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi


sohan kisna wrote:


Hai,
I am a user of Debian linux.I am trying to use it as extecively as 
possibly with all the pacakages it providies. I am a student studying 
B.Tech final year from Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India. I recently 
came to know about "wajiz" which is used as another prompt in the 
terminal. I dont know exactly what it is and how to use this. I am 
much eager to know about it.


Do you mean wajig? Just store its documentation in a file by

wajig -vv help > wajig_doc.txt

Afterwards read its documentation by opening it in your favorite editor

gvim wajig_doc.txt

The documentation for wajig is very well written and easy to understand 
(at a first glance itself). Try it out and you will enjoy.


bye
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vesa mode for MPlayer compile problem

2005-12-01 Thread Dirk

which package containes  ?

MPlayer needs it for the vesa mode output...

Thanks!
Dirk


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Re: web collaboration tool

2005-12-01 Thread Katipo


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Dear list,

what is the "best" web based collaboration-tool for debian-stable?
Calender, ToDo-Lists etc is important, Webmail not so.

 


This is a good one...

http://www.cps-project.org/

Then there's Plone, also built on Zope, and also Drupal, - available as 
a Debian package set.


Which you choose depends on your project, really.


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PCMCIA USB cards under linux?

2005-12-01 Thread Martin Fluch

Hi!

>From my search sofar the result doesn't look promissing. But is there
any PCMCIA USB 2.0 card which works under Linux. My IBM T30 has only
an USB 1.1 port and it would be nice to a USB 2.0 adapter to transfer
faster data between my T30 and my iPod.

Can anybody maybe proove my observation wrong? Maybe? ;-)

With best wishes,
- Martin

Re: [root user] How to disable root account?

2005-12-01 Thread marc

Christian Folini said...
> On Thu, 1 Dec 2005 09:24:28 -0600 Dave Sherohman wrote:
> > sudo is great for tracking who does what as root and for preventing
> > yourself from accidentally doing something with greater powers than
> > intended, but it can very easily be counterproductive if your intent
> > is to increase resistance to unauthorized access.
> 
> The sudo/wheel approach is also a handy one when you want to update 
> the root password regularly, but you do not want to  tell it to 
> everyone. Say you work in an heterogenous enterprise

I hope you meant heterogeneous! Though it would be true to say that many 
sys admins are heterogenous. It's usually safer to say 'diverse' to 
avoid this one ;-)

Handy tip, though.

> with lots of 
> admins having their unix workstation. They need root permissions on 
> their desktop machine, but you do not want to distribute the root
> password (lacking the encrypted channel to reach everyone for example).
> 
> Then you can add them to the wheel group and give them a root
> shell that way. Meanwhile you can update the root password 
> without any problem.

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Re: Now xinerma is busted (Was: Xorg Memory Leak)

Whew.  Panic time is over.

The drivers from the Matrox site fixed everything.  Yea Matrox!

Xorg put my monitors back in the right order and both monitors are
working.

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Re: illegal access using ssh

2005-12-01 Thread H.S.

Amish Rughoonundon wrote:
> Hi,
> I was looking at my auth.log file and I saw a bunch of these things:
> Nov 28 16:22:41 localhost sshd[11363]: Illegal user nobody from 212.0.148.2
> 
> I was wondering if there is a way to filter the ip allowed to access the
> computer and allow only 1 ip (mine) to do so. Thanks a lot,
> Amish
> 

To deal with such kind of attacks, I have:

1. Using iptables, limited the number of ssh login attemts' rate to 5
per minute (it is my home machine and I do not have many users, so this
rate limitation does not affect me in any negative way).

2. Made sure users have strong passwords.

3. Limited who can log in via ssh by specifying the authorized uses in
sshd_config using a line similar to this:
AllowUsers tom dick harry

and restarting sshd. This line disallows all users other than Tom, Dick
and Harry.

So, even if you do not something like 1 above, the rest of the points
will keep you safe. Earlier I used to allow only certain IPs(my school
IPs) via iptables, but then I realized its limitation when I wanted to
login from my relatives computer in another city.

So, these steps in conjunction with the other suggestions you have in
other posts will make quite nice layers of security for this situation.

HTH,
->HS

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Problems installing mplayer

2005-12-01 Thread Sergio Cuéllar Valdés

Hi,

I have some problems trying to install mplayer from Marillat's
repository. I am running Etch. (I have previously made apt-get
update).

-
# apt-get install mplayer-nogui

Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.

Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  mplayer-nogui: Depends: libbio2jack0 but it is not going to be installed
 Depends: libdirectfb-0.9-20 but it is not installable
 Depends: libjack0.80.0-0 (>= 0.99.0) but it is not installable
E: Broken packages
-

In sources.list I have:

deb http://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ etch main


Is this the correct way of installing mplayer ?

Cheers,
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Re: [root user] How to disable root account?

2005-12-01 Thread Wim De Smet

On 12/1/05, Christian Folini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 1 Dec 2005 09:24:28 -0600 Dave Sherohman wrote:
> > sudo is great for tracking who does what as root and for preventing
> > yourself from accidentally doing something with greater powers than
> > intended, but it can very easily be counterproductive if your intent
> > is to increase resistance to unauthorized access.
>
> The sudo/wheel approach is also a handy one when you want to update
> the root password regularly, but you do not want to  tell it to
> everyone. Say you work in an heterogenous enterprise with lots of
> admins having their unix workstation. They need root permissions on
> their desktop machine, but you do not want to distribute the root
> password (lacking the encrypted channel to reach everyone for example).
>
> Then you can add them to the wheel group and give them a root
> shell that way. Meanwhile you can update the root password
> without any problem.
>
> Ubuntu follows this road a bit further by setting a random root
> password nobody actually knows. This seems consequent to me. But
> having to explain to my boss why i do not know the root password of
> our linux workstations did not seem that attractive.

sudo passwd lets you set the root password of course. :-)

greets,
Wim

Re: Stock Sarge segfaults, and later crashes!

2005-12-01 Thread Thomas Adam

--- Felix Karpfen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I attributed the crashes to my non-standard setup - fvwm2 XWindows
> Manager
> and Gnome Session Manager.  
> 
> So I flagged the problem with the "fvwm user group".
> 
> And was advised -  "it sounds like a faulty HD".

Indeed.  I still stand-by that as a proper diagnosis, since I have seen
it happen so many times before.

> Which is possible.  But the computer is 18 months old and my
> recent (repeat) crashes only started a few weeks ago.

I'd like to say that 18 months is recent, but that's rarely the case
where computer components are concerned.   They're mechanical, like
most things, so they're bound to wear out eventually -- especially if
they get used all the time.It could be that you get unlucky with
your particular drive.

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Re: How to remove exim4 when aptitude doesnt think its installed?

2005-12-01 Thread Thomas Adam


--- Andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I had previously replaced exim4 with postfix, but because the file 
> system restore process only creates and over-writes files, but
> doesn't 
> deletes unnecessary ones, the exim4 files remain.

Usually, anything that provides the virtual package:

mail-transport-agent

is sufficient.
 
> I cannot use aptitude to remove the package's files as normal because
> 
> aptitude's state has been restored from backup along with everything 
> else; it doesn't think the package is installed.

Supplying us with the command you've tried using, along with any output
would be a start.  Indeed, at this stage, I'd use dpkg:

# dpkg -P --forget-old-unavail exim4

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Re: Shell Script (If and Else) problem

2005-12-01 Thread Thomas Adam

--- Paul Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> if [ ... ];
>   then command;
>   else other_command;
> fi

I much prefer:

[ ... ] &&
{
  foo
} || {
  bar
}

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Re: hello

2005-12-01 Thread Steve Block


On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 11:10:22PM +0530, sohan kisna wrote:

Hai,
I am a user of Debian linux.I am trying to use it as extecively as possibly
with all the pacakages it providies. I am a student studying B.Tech final
year from Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India. I recently came to know about
"wajiz" which is used as another prompt in the terminal. I dont know exactly
what it is and how to use this. I am much eager to know about it.
I would be very thankfull if you provide me the detalied information and
help me out to us the linux more efficiently.I will be very thankful for
your help.


I'm taking a guess that you're actually referring to "wajig" which is 
essentially a unified command line interface to the collection apt tools 
such as apt-get, apt-cache, dpkg, etc.


I use it myself for the most part, though occasionally I will use 
aptitude (big dist-upgrades on unstable for example). The basic commands 
are similar to the commands for apt-get, such as update, install, 
remove, purge, upgrade, dist-upgrade, etc. Other commands I use 
frequently include search and whichpkg.


Documentation is available at 
http://www.togaware.com/linux/survivor/wajig.shtml


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Now xinerma is busted (Was: Xorg Memory Leak)

Pardon me for a second.  Shit, shit shit!

Ok, Now after a fresh dist-upgrade and a reboot only one of my
monitors is running.

This really sucks.  For one thing when I upgraded to Xorg it decided
to make my "main" monitor (the screen that comes up in text mode
before running the xserver) the "secondary" monitor when Xorg is
running.  For the life of me, I couldn't get the config to do it the
other way, so I swapped my monitor cables on my G550 card.

But, now with the second monitor not starting with xinerama, without
xinerama running Xorg using the secondary port on the card for the
main monitor (which isn't working) and I get a window manager-less
screen on the working monitor.

In other words, I have to use xinerama, and poke around in the dark
(literally) with my mouse to find windows that open on what xorg thinks
is my main window.

Enough with the ranting.

What can I use to test my second monitor port on the G550 card to see
if it's just xorg now enabling the second port, or if the card if
busted?

Is there a good place to get xorg support?

Thanks,

Here's my xorg.conf, if anyone is curious.


# XF86Config-4 (XFree86 X server configuration file) generated by dexconf, the
# Debian X Configuration tool, using values from the debconf database.
#
# Edit this file with caution, and see the XF86Config-4 manual page.
# (Type "man XF86Config-4" at the shell prompt.)
#
# This file is automatically updated on xserver-xfree86 package upgrades *only*
# if it has not been modified since the last upgrade of the xserver-xfree86
# package.
#
# If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically updated
# again, run the following commands as root:
#
#   cp /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 /etc/X11/XF86Config-4.custom
#   md5sum /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 > /var/lib/xfree86/XF86Config-4.md5sum
#   dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86

Section "Files"
FontPath"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo"
FontPath"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc"
FontPath"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi"
FontPath"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi"
EndSection

Section "Module"
Load"GLcore"
Load"bitmap"
Load"dbe"
Load"ddc"
Load"dri"
Load"extmod"
Load"freetype"
Load"glx"
Load"int10"  # not in old bumby
Load"record"
Load"speedo"
Load"type1"
Load"vbe"  # not in old bumby
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier  "Generic Keyboard"
Driver  "keyboard"
Option  "CoreKeyboard"
Option  "XkbRules"  "xfree86"
Option  "XkbModel"  "pc104"  # pc105 on bumby
Option  "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier  "Configured Mouse"
Driver  "mouse"
Option  "CorePointer"
Option  "Device""/dev/psaux"
Option  "Protocol"  "ImPS/2"
Option  "Emulate3Buttons"   "true"
Option  "ZAxisMapping"  "4 5"
EndSection

# Video Card-

Section "Device"
Identifier  "Matrox G550[0]"
Driver  "mga"
Screen  0
BusID   "PCI:1:0:0"
Option  "AGPMode"   "4"
Option  "HWcursor"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier  "Matrox G550[1]"
Driver  "mga"
Screen  1
BusID   "PCI:1:0:0"
Option  "AGPMode"   "4"
Option  "HWcursor"
EndSection

#- Monitors -

Section "Monitor"
Identifier  "SonyG500"
HorizSync   30-107
VertRefresh 50-85
Option  "DPMS"
DisplaySize 400 300 # 15.57" x 11.76
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier  "Dell21"
HorizSync   30-107
Option  "DPMS"
VertRefresh 50-85
#VertRefresh 50-80
DisplaySize 362 273 # 14.25 x 10.75
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier  "LeftScreen"
Device  "Matrox G550[0]"
Monitor "SonyG500"
DefaultDepth24
SubSection "Display"
Depth   24
Modes   "1280x960" "1024x768"
EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier  "RightScreen"
Device  "Matrox G550[1]"
Monitor "Dell21"
DefaultDepth24
SubSection "Display"
Depth   24
Modes   "1280x960" "1024x768"
EndSubSection
EndSection


Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier  "Default Layout"
#   Option  "Xinerama"  "on"
Screen  0   "LeftScreen" 0 0
Screen  1   "RightScreen" RightOf "LeftScreen"

hello

2005-12-01 Thread sohan kisna

Hai,
I am a user of Debian linux.I am trying to use it as extecively as
possibly with all the pacakages it providies. I am a student studying
B.Tech final year from Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India. I recently
came to know about "wajiz" which is used as another prompt in the
terminal. I dont know exactly what it is and how to use this. I am much
eager to know about it.
I would be very thankfull if you provide me the detalied information
and help me out to us the linux more efficiently.I will be very
thankful for your help.

With Best Regards,

Sohan Krishna D.-- Sohan Krishna.Dplot no-12,vanitha co-operative society,Bapujinagar, Bowenpally,Secunderabad,Andhra Pradesh,india-500011.phone number: +91 98855 32732
  
+9140 2775 8112

GPG error with Debian archives

2005-12-01 Thread Ross Boylan

aptitude update gives the errors
W: GPG error: http://http.us.debian.org testing Release: The following
signatures were invalid: BADSIG F1D53D8C4F368D5D Debian Archive
Automatic Signing Key (2005) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
W: GPG error: http://http.us.debian.org unstable Release: The following
signatures were invalid: BADSIG F1D53D8C4F368D5D Debian Archive
Automatic Signing Key (2005) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

apt-key still shows
pub   1024D/4F368D5D 2005-01-31 [expires: 2006-01-31]
uid  Debian Archive Automatic Signing Key (2005)
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

This just started yesterday; perhaps something magic happened Dec 1?  It
was working before.

I'm surprised there don't seem to be any reports of this; I found some
messages when apt first started using keys, but nothing recent.

I tried apt-key update, but do not have debian-keyring installed.

Before I start randomly installing things (from untrusted archives) I
thought I'd check what's going on.  Does anybody know?

If you could cc this edress I'd appreciate it, as I'm  not subscribed
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Re: illegal access using ssh

Thanks for the answer. I have not tried accessing debian from another 
computer yet but from the information I gathered on the internet and your 
response, it seems tcp wrappers should do the job.

Amish

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From: "Kevin B. McCarty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

To: 
Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2005 11:32 AM
Subject: Re: illegal access using ssh

Amish Rughoonundon wrote:

I was looking at my auth.log file and I saw a bunch of these things:
Nov 28 16:22:41 localhost sshd[11363]: Illegal user nobody from
212.0.148.2

I was wondering if there is a way to filter the ip allowed to access
the computer and allow only 1 ip (mine) to do so. Thanks a lot,

Sure!  You could set up a firewall (iptables), but tcpwrappers is
probably easier.  On the server, put this line into /etc/hosts.allow :

sshd: 1.2.3.4

(of course, replace 1.2.3.4 with the IP of the computer you want to
permit to log in)

and this line into /etc/hosts.deny :

sshd: ALL

When a new connection attempt is made, the ssh daemon will first check
hosts.allow to see if the host is permitted.  Hence your client system
will be allowed to log in.  If the host isn't listed in hosts.allow,
sshd next checks hosts.deny to see if the host is forbidden.  Since that
file has the entry "ALL", all other hosts will be rejected.  The man
page for hosts_access(5) has more information.

By the way, you can replace the daemon name "sshd" with "ALL" in both
config files, to make this behavior occur for all daemons on the server
that use tcpwrappers.

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Re: remote desktop and VPN

2005-12-01 Thread Ryan Nowakowski

On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 08:16:07PM +, Bob Hynes wrote:
> Hello, does anyone have a recommendation as far as a good VPN client
> goes? My plan is to use a VPN to connect to work, then a Windows-like
> remote desktop client to do a remote control. 

If all you need is remote desktop, just use ssh with port forwarding
and krdc or rdesktop for remote control.

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Re: .bash_history

2005-12-01 Thread anoop aryal

On Monday 21 November 2005 06:07 pm, Adam Hardy wrote:
> Roberto C. Sanchez on 21/11/05 22:30, wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 10:00:33PM +, Adam Hardy wrote:
> >>thanks for the tips about C-r Is there some sort of documentation on
> >> this? I'd like to see how much history it keeps. It's a seperate program
> >> from history, right?
> >
> >HISTSIZE
> >   The number of commands to remember in the command  history 
> > (see HISTORY below).  The default value is 500.
> >
> > [...]
> >
> >To  find  other matching entries in the history list, type
> > Control-S or Control-R as appropriate.  

ctrl-s will suspend your term in some cases. ctrl-q is your friend.


> > This will search backward or 
> > forward in  the history  for  the  next  entry matching the search string
> > typed so far. Any other key sequence bound to a readline command will 
> > terminate  the search  and  execute that command.  For instance, a
> > newline will termi- nate the search and accept the line, thereby
> > executing the command from the history list.
>
> OK thanks.

by default the keybindings are from emacs -- helpful if you use emacs. can be 
changed to work like the keystrokes in vi. read the section 'READLINE' in 
'man bash'.

>
> I assume that my .bash_history gets converted to binary at some point by
> bash. I can see that bash is using .bash_history now, but it's not clear
> why the file should become binary on my system.
>
>
> Adam

anoop.


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Re: Shell Script (If and Else) problem

2005-12-01 Thread Paul Smith

%% Joachim Fahnenmüller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

  jf> It should read:

  jf> if [ ... ];
  jf>   then command;
  jf>   else other_command;
  jf> fi

  jf> (mind the semicolons!)

Actually, you don't need ANY of those semicolons.

Bourne syntax is very regular, so it's pretty easy to know when you need
a semicolon and when you don't.  Put overly simply, semicolons replace
newlines.  In your example you have newlines so you don't need
semicolons.  All of these are equivalent in Bourne shell syntax (and
that includes sh, ksh, bash, and zsh):

if [ ... ];
then command;
else other_command;
fi

-

if [ ... ]
then command
else other_command
fi

-

if [ ... ]; then
command
else
other_command
fi

-

if [ ... ]; then command
else other_command; fi

-

if [ ... ]; then command; else other_command; fi

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Re: [root user] How to disable root account?

2005-12-01 Thread Christian Folini

On Thu, 1 Dec 2005 09:24:28 -0600 Dave Sherohman wrote:
> sudo is great for tracking who does what as root and for preventing
> yourself from accidentally doing something with greater powers than
> intended, but it can very easily be counterproductive if your intent
> is to increase resistance to unauthorized access.

The sudo/wheel approach is also a handy one when you want to update 
the root password regularly, but you do not want to  tell it to 
everyone. Say you work in an heterogenous enterprise with lots of 
admins having their unix workstation. They need root permissions on 
their desktop machine, but you do not want to distribute the root
password (lacking the encrypted channel to reach everyone for example).

Then you can add them to the wheel group and give them a root
shell that way. Meanwhile you can update the root password 
without any problem.

Ubuntu follows this road a bit further by setting a random root 
password nobody actually knows. This seems consequent to me. But 
having to explain to my boss why i do not know the root password of 
our linux workstations did not seem that attractive.

regs,

Christian Folini

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PC Slowdowns and Lock-ups

2005-12-01 Thread James Caldow

Hi All,

I am running Debian Sarge on my work PC and over the past couple of weeks I have
noticed it getting slower and slower. The PC had been running very well for
months previously using both Sarge and Sid.
It is by no means a high spec computer, (Athlon 900MHz, 512Mb PC133 SDRAM, 80Gb
Hard Drive, ATI Radeon 9250 128Mb Graphics Card), but as I say it has been
running well for months now.
The problems begin as soon as I am logged into the system. The cursor will move
very, very slowly, if at all. If I manage to open an application there is a good
chance it will lock-up the computer completely. If not, I have to either use
extreme patience and SLOWLY drag the cursor to the quit button, (which can take
many minutes) or use ALT+F4. The slowdowns and lock-ups appear completely random
and I can go for hours or sometimes days without any occurring, though I spent
three days last week when the PC was completely unusable due to the slowness.
I suspect it may have more to do with Hardware than the OS as I have also run
Knoppix on it out of curiosity. It was equally slow.
If anyone has any ideas or suggestions I would be very grateful.

James Caldow


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Re: Ubuntu's unstable vs Debian unstable

2005-12-01 Thread Steve Lamb

Derek Broughton wrote:
> Why is a legitimate question a troll?  Sid & Dapper _are_ both routinely
> "testy" (I prefer not to say "broken" - it's not as if it shouldn't be
> expected).  Asking which is less broken may be naive but there's no reason
> to assume it's malicious.  And asking of only _one_ of these groups would
> be sure to get a biased response.

Because the best trolls are legitimate questions.  For example, ahem...
mme memememeee...

Which is better, Emacs or vi?

It's a legitimate question but you know the hell that fires up whenever it
is mentioned.  Imagine it crossposted between a vim mailing list, emacs list
and XEMacs mailing list (just for giggles).  Sure, asking on any one list
would give a biased answer but asking on all at once where the biases clash is
a surefire way to start some serious crap; the very definition of a troll.

Ubuntu and Debian are like that in a way.  Not saying either user base is
as staunchly set in their ways but there has been some friction between the
projects.

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Re: Shell Script (If and Else) problem

2005-12-01 Thread Joachim Fahnenmüller

On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 03:23:32PM +0800, Louie Miranda wrote:
> Im having troubles on my shell script. When i run it, im having this errors.
> 
> ./runXML3.sh: line 18: syntax error near unexpected token `fi'
> ./runXML3.sh: line 18: `fi'
> 
> Im a bit confused how to overcome the problem here. I hope somebody knew
> what can i do here.
> 
> The Code
> 
> #!/bin/sh -x

I'm assuming you use bash (you don't specify).

> (...)
> 
> if [ -d "$XML_NETWORK_SHARE" ]
> then
> cp $XMLPARSEDFILES/*.xml $XML_FOR_TRANSFER
> cp $XMLPARSEDFILES/*.xml $XML_COPY
> mv $XMLPARSEDFILES/*.xml $XML_NETWORK_SHARE
> else
> mv $XMLPARSEDFILES/*.xml $XML_FOR_TRANSFER
> echo "no network share, not generating XML files"
> mail -s "BCARD V2, no network share - error on XML
> FEED" [EMAIL PROTECTED] < email_noshare
> fi

It should read:

if [ ... ];
then command;
else other_command;
fi

(mind the semicolons!)

HTH
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Re: illegal access using ssh

2005-12-01 Thread Kevin B. McCarty

Amish Rughoonundon wrote:

> I was looking at my auth.log file and I saw a bunch of these things: 
> Nov 28 16:22:41 localhost sshd[11363]: Illegal user nobody from
> 212.0.148.2
> 
> I was wondering if there is a way to filter the ip allowed to access
> the computer and allow only 1 ip (mine) to do so. Thanks a lot,

Sure!  You could set up a firewall (iptables), but tcpwrappers is
probably easier.  On the server, put this line into /etc/hosts.allow :

sshd: 1.2.3.4

(of course, replace 1.2.3.4 with the IP of the computer you want to
permit to log in)

and this line into /etc/hosts.deny :

sshd: ALL

When a new connection attempt is made, the ssh daemon will first check
hosts.allow to see if the host is permitted.  Hence your client system
will be allowed to log in.  If the host isn't listed in hosts.allow,
sshd next checks hosts.deny to see if the host is forbidden.  Since that
file has the entry "ALL", all other hosts will be rejected.  The man
page for hosts_access(5) has more information.

By the way, you can replace the daemon name "sshd" with "ALL" in both
config files, to make this behavior occur for all daemons on the server
that use tcpwrappers.

regards,

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web collaboration tool

2005-12-01 Thread perl


Dear list,

 what is the "best" web based collaboration-tool for debian-stable?
Calender, ToDo-Lists etc is important, Webmail not so.

Thanks for any hint
D.


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my email vanished

Last nighe all my email in /var/spool/mail/hendrik vanished
without a trace.  Some new mail has appeared since the vanishing.
Everyone else's email in intact.

I read my mail with mutt.

I use the exim that comes with sarge, undoctored except for a minimal
configuration done at installation time, waying I receive and send
messages by SMTP and will forward messages for one or two other sites.

Does any one have an idea
  how this could have occurred?
  how I can track down the problem?
or. most importantly,
  how I can prevent it in the future?

-- hendrik

I don't know if this is relevant (but if not it is likely another problem)  but 
after the disappearance I did receive
a message of over 5 lines from root, apparently on behalf of
scrollkeeper, with messages like

/etc/cron.monthly/scrollkeeper:
I/O error : Attempt to load network entity 
http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/docbookx.dtd
/usr/share/gnome/help/gdm/zh_CN/legal.xml:9: parser error : Entity 'ldquo' not 
defined
   

binary gibberish on the line after .

Here's another from further down.


/usr/share/gnome/help/drivemount/de/drivemount.xml:47: parser error : Failure 
to process entity legal
   &legal;
  


And another

/usr/share/gnome/help/command-line/de/command-line.xml:307: parser error : 
Entity 'auml' not defined
  Vom Benutzer abfragbare Befehls-Vervollständigungsfunkt
 

It ends with

I/O error : Attempt to load network entity 
http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/docbookx.dtd
I/O error : Attempt to load network entity 
http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/docbookx.dtd
I/O error : Attempt to load network entity 
http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/docbookx.dtd
I/O error : Attempt to load network entity 
http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/docbookx.dtd
I/O error : Attempt to load network entity 
http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/docbookx.dtd
I/O error : Attempt to load network entity 
http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/docbookx.dtd
I/O error : Attempt to load network entity 
http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/docbookx.dtd
I/O error : Attempt to load network entity 
http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/docbookx.dtd
I/O error : Attempt to load network entity 
http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/docbookx.dtd
I/O error : Attempt to load network entity 
http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/docbookx.dtd


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illegal access using ssh


Hi,
I was looking at my auth.log file and I saw a bunch of these things:
Nov 28 16:22:41 localhost sshd[11363]: Illegal user nobody from 212.0.148.2

I was wondering if there is a way to filter the ip allowed to access the 
computer and allow only 1 ip (mine) to do so. Thanks a lot,
Amish 



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Re: multi-gnome-terminal in sid

2005-12-01 Thread Ric Otte

Hi,
I tried things like:
multi-gnome-terminal --font=adobe-helvetica
But got the following:
The font "adobe-helvetica" does not support all the required
character sets for the current locale "en_US"
(Missing character set "ISO8859-1")
(Missing character set "ISO8859-1")
In .gnome/MultiTerminal I see a line:
font=-*-fixed-medium-r-normal--14-*-*-*-*-*-*-*,*-r-*
But I don't know any other way to set the font, other than by the
command line I tried above.
Interestingly, my machine is a dual boot and it works when I boot into
sarge.
Thanks,
Ric

On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 04:09:26AM -0600, Christopher L. Everett wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
> >Hi,
> >
> >I installed multi-gnome-terminal in sid, but when I start it up, the
> >characters in the terminal are not standard ascii characters; they are
> >unusual characters, some with accents , and some are simply boxes.
> >Furthermore, there is no blank space in the terminal window, but it is
> >filled with these characters.I did a search and read through some of
> >the manual, but don't know what might be causing this.  Any
> >suggestions on how to get it working?  Thanks,
> >
> >Ric
> >
> Dis you try changing the font settings?
> 

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Re: [root user] How to disable root account?

2005-12-01 Thread Dave Sherohman

On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 11:23:17PM -0500, gnrfan wrote:
> Ubuntu uses sudo. I also use it in my Debian box. Basically most
> unices have a "wheel" group. You can add your account to that group
> and then run the "visudo" to leave /etc/sudoers with a line like
> this one:
> 
> %wheel  ALL=(ALL)   NOPASSWD: ALL
> 
> Or this (if you want your account's (not root) password to be asked
> for every time you want to run commands like root:
> 
> %wheelALL=(ALL)   ALL

I don't know what your objective is in disabling root, but, if it's
to make your system more secure against attackers, be aware that this
(or any sudo-based approach, really) will make matters worse, not
better.  If you have 5 user accounts in wheel (or who otherwise have
unlimited access to superuser powers via sudo), then that's five
accounts which can be cracked and used to take over your machine
rather than just one.  (Some improvement is possible in that an
attacker won't know the name of the account(s) he needs to crack,
but, if he has any way of retrieving your system's valid user names
(say, from email addresses), then this is an extremely flimsy
defense.)

sudo is great for tracking who does what as root and for preventing
yourself from accidentally doing something with greater powers than
intended, but it can very easily be counterproductive if your intent
is to increase resistance to unauthorized access.

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White Hats over the past several millennia, and it is vitally important that
we don't give them up now, only because we are frightened.
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Re: stereo component from laptop?

2005-12-01 Thread Matt Price

On 12/1/05, Rumble, Lee Craig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I understand you want to use debian or some variant there of. Have you
> thought about QNX ? You can run/install that live from cd or onto Hard
> drive and it works on most pc's! Granted its in development and more can
> be done to improve it, but its is very powerful and has a decent music
> player, and is very easy to use.
>
>

huh, interesting.  I hadn't thought about it at all -- I'm pretty
familiar with Debian & have a version thereof on this system already
-- I was thinking my main objective would be to pare down the system
I've got, rather than install something altogether new...

Are you saying there's a live CD? Maybe once I get through the
registration process on the website I'll figure out how to find it

Anyway thanks!  I will consider it.  Though if someone had some
suggestions about debian-based players, I'd also welcome them...

Matt

>
> -Original Message-
> From: Matt Price [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: 30 November 2005 20:10
> To: debian users; debian-laptop@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: stereo component from laptop?
>
> On 11/30/05, Matt Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > as a result of various events, I have an extra laptop and no cd
> > player, so I would like to convert the laptop into a stereo
> > component.  It's an HP Omnibook 4100, PII MMX 266, with 96 megs RAM, a
> > pretty big hard drive (30 megs) and a CD-ROM (no DVD).  I'm trying to
>   ^ er, thats 30 gigs, sorry!
>
>

Re: update-grub on aptitude install of new linux image...

2005-12-01 Thread Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas

On 12/1/05, Florian Ernst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello *,
>
> On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 08:52:37PM -0600, Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas wrote:
> > I'm wondering how to make update-grub automatically when ever a new
> > linux image gets installed, whether from debian stock or generated
> > through make-kpkg.  Might be just editing a config file or something?
>
> /etc/kernel-img.conf is the one you want.
>
> If you have the kernel-package package installed you'll find further
> information in "man kernel-img.conf" and a sample configuration in
> /usr/share/doc/kernel-package/examples/sample.kernel-img.conf
>
> I personally use
> | do_symlinks = no
> | postinst_hook = /sbin/update-grub
> | postrm_hook = /sbin/update-grub
> | do_bootloader = no
> | do_bootfloppy = no
>
>
> HTH,
> Flo

You're right it looks like the one...  I'll give a shot, and of course
can try it on next image installation, :)

Thanks a lot,

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Re: screen blanking

2005-12-01 Thread Dave Sherohman

On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 07:13:08AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> The best I get disabling dpms is 20 minutes with either:
> Option  "BlankTime"  "3600"
> in "ServerLayout"
> 
> or -s 3600 in the start options for the server.

Have you considered simply turning dpms off?  `xset -dpms` should
prevent it from ever blanking, then `xset +dpms` to turn it back on
if you want blanking to resume.

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Re: Ubuntu's unstable vs Debian unstable

2005-12-01 Thread Derek Broughton

Steve Lamb wrote:

> Michael Beattie wrote:
>> That may be so, but why are you using dapper instead of breezy anyway?
> 
> More important questions are:
> 
> a: why is he crossposting what looks to be a troll to both mailing lists
> and...
> 
> b: why are people replying to what looks like a troll to both mailing
> lists?  :)

Why is a legitimate question a troll?  Sid & Dapper _are_ both routinely
"testy" (I prefer not to say "broken" - it's not as if it shouldn't be
expected).  Asking which is less broken may be naive but there's no reason
to assume it's malicious.  And asking of only _one_ of these groups would
be sure to get a biased response.
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Xorg Memory Leak

Top reports Xorg using 90% of RAM and processes get killed.  All swap
is being used, but vmstat isn't showing that much so and si paging.
Load average every once in a while will shoot up to 25 or so.

I can find a few posts about memory leaks, but not may responses.  And
one memory leak bug report in xserver-xorg.  I do have a script that
updates my root window with an image every five minutes, which is
also what but 326956 reports.

Anyone else experiencing Xorg eating memory?


http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=326956

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Re: Ubuntu's unstable vs Debian unstable

2005-12-01 Thread Johannes Wiedersich


Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote:

I'm not. I like Debian 'testing' except when it has missing and broken
packages (like it does now) so I switched to Debian 'unstable'. This
is very recent and so far/therefore I haven't experienced much
trouble. I was wondering about an alternative switch to Dapper
'unstable'.

It was also a matter of choice:
I love Ubuntu, but the thought of having updates (bar security) half
yearly was unfavourable; Debian 'testing' is more favourably busy; it
was a choice of Ubuntu 'stable' or Debian 'testing' but that was
diverted to Debian 'unstable' since I'm afraid of Ubuntu 'unstable'.
Also an upgrade to Dapper is far more painful since the 2 projects
divert so much and a fresh install of Breezy is not acceptable, even
though it has GNOME 2.12.



First you should make up your mind:

- Do you want something stable, then stick to a stable release.
- do you want something that updates frequently and occasionally breaks, 
than stick to 'unstable'


It's probably pointless to splitt hairs between different kinds of 
'unstable'; you should always be prepared of things that might break.


You could also try to compile your own version of current software you 
need. Then at least, when it's broken, you know who's fault it is :-)


Johannes

PS: sorry for replying, Steve :-)


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HOWTO write a udev rule to awaken fetchmail after eth0 is up

2005-12-01 Thread Paulo M C Aragão

Hi,

I'm trying to write a udev rule to awaken a system-wide fetchmail daemon 
whenever eth0 is brought up, but I'm lost about which event to capture.

Before udev, I did this in /etc/network/interfaces:

iface eth0 inet dhcp
post-up /etc/init.d/fetchmail start || true
pre-down /etc/init.d/fetchmail stop || true

I'd like to do functionally the same with udev.

I've read the docs that come with udev and changed this line in 
/etc/udev/hotplug.rules:

RUN+="/lib/udev/logger.agent"

to get a feeling of what events are produced, but I'm still not sure of what 
event I should capture.

Has anybody done this and could share the tips ?

Thanks
Paulo


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Re: SSH is disconnecting at random