Re: Restrict server access

[Joe Hart]

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Will Parkinson wrote:
> Raquel wrote:
>> On Mon, 16 Apr 2007 11:26:43 +1000
>> Will Parkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>  
 
>>> The reason i ask is that recently a server that i was working on
>>> was  sending spam emails for some other company that i've never
>>> even heard  of.  I'm just looking at ways to avoid this from
>>> happening in the  future. As i am new to server security, i'm
>>> looking for a way to block  non Australian ips while i figure out
>>> how this company came to be  sending emails from our server.
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>>
>>> Will
>>>
>>> 
>>
>> I don't suppose that was a Windows server that was sending out spam?
>>
>>   
> No it was our sever that was sending the spam, so there must of been a
> script placed on our server by someone else (ie we were hacked or
> something)
> 

Read the message that Mike Bird sent.  It is very important that if your
system has been compromised that you take appropriate actions.  Plugging
the hole is only half of the work.

It is possible that there are files on your system that can circumvent
any holes you plug.  You need to clean the file system first, then plug
the holes, and do it off-line.

Joe
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Re: Further problems with OOo

[Greg Folkert]

On Mon, 2007-04-16 at 01:26 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 04/16/07 00:55, Greg Folkert wrote:
> > On Sun, 2007-04-15 at 23:44 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> >> On 04/15/07 22:56, Greg Folkert wrote:
> >> [snip]
> >>> Indeedly. If you want to make a OO.o v2.2 backport, it really isn't that
> >>> tough. But I doubt you will at the moment.
> >> According to the debian-oppenoffice list, a backport of v2.2 is
> >> coming Soon.
> > 
> > Thatsa-dubble-plahss-guud!
> 
> Obviously an ethnic stereotype, but I don't recognize it.  Italian?

Just my adaptation of Ron White and his "meerfuraminnit" stuff.

> > Err, I hope you meant debian-openoffice
> 
> Yup.

What what? 
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Re: really dumb question

[steef]

Greg Folkert wrote:

On Mon, 2007-04-16 at 07:59 +0200, steef wrote:
  

hi,

where can i find the driver for a rtl8139 (chip) realtek networkcard 
under etch?


[i used to load them under woody from the modconf list, but cannot find 
the driver there]



8139too
  

thanks,  greg, i know that: i didnot ask my question clear enough.
where in etch can i find the driver for that chip? i could not find it 
in modconf.


reg.,

steef


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Openoffice won't display whole document word count in document over 73,763 characters

[David Dawson]

I'm not sure if this is a bug in OOo, or what, but it suddenly stopped
displaying the word count in my document, when I went on typing and checked
it. I found that by selecting all text, I could get a count, but not unless
I did so; it would otherwise display 0 words 0 characters for the total.

If this is a bug I'd appreciate help filing a report. I checked the
issuezilla site and a search did not turn up this problem.

I think it might be safer to cut the document in pieces. Any advice?

Thanks
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Re: Can I move the content of all threads below one topic in the maillist into one single txt file?

[Ron Johnson]

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On 04/16/07 12:11, wangxu wrote:
> Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 04/16/07 09:32, wangxu wrote:
>   
>>> I am using thunderbird.
>>> Is there anything I can do to achieve this?
>>> 
>> Create a temporary mbox folder and move the thread into that folder.
>>  That folder is a single text file.
>
>
> Do you mean files in ~/.thunderbird/ddp3v1xs.default/Mail/Local
> Folders/Inbox.sbd/... ?

Highlight /Local Folders/ and then right-click and choose New Subfolder.

> but how can I restore the encoded chars into readable text?

Hmmm.  That's not what you originally asked, and I don't know the
answer at 01:30.  :(

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Re: Further problems with OOo

[Ron Johnson]

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On 04/16/07 00:55, Greg Folkert wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-04-15 at 23:44 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
>> On 04/15/07 22:56, Greg Folkert wrote:
>> [snip]
>>> Indeedly. If you want to make a OO.o v2.2 backport, it really isn't that
>>> tough. But I doubt you will at the moment.
>> According to the debian-oppenoffice list, a backport of v2.2 is
>> coming Soon.
> 
> Thatsa-dubble-plahss-guud!

Obviously an ethnic stereotype, but I don't recognize it.  Italian?

> Err, I hope you meant debian-openoffice

Yup.

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Re: Restrict server access

[Kamaraju S Kusumanchi]

Will Parkinson wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> I was wondering if there was any way to restrict server ssh, ftp and
> even http access to certain countries / ip ranges?  I've been using
> debian for a while at home but am pretty new to the security side of
> things.
> 
> Any help much appreciated

You can use /etc/hosts.allow, /etc/hosts.deny to allow and block certain
range of IPs. Both the files are very easy to configure. I don't know how
to allow/block access based on the country of origin.

hth
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Re: really dumb question

[Greg Folkert]

On Mon, 2007-04-16 at 07:59 +0200, steef wrote:
> hi,
> 
> where can i find the driver for a rtl8139 (chip) realtek networkcard 
> under etch?
> 
> [i used to load them under woody from the modconf list, but cannot find 
> the driver there]

8139too
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Re: Further problems with OOo

[Greg Folkert]

On Sun, 2007-04-15 at 23:44 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 04/15/07 22:56, Greg Folkert wrote:
> [snip]
> > 
> > Indeedly. If you want to make a OO.o v2.2 backport, it really isn't that
> > tough. But I doubt you will at the moment.
> 
> According to the debian-oppenoffice list, a backport of v2.2 is
> coming Soon.

Thatsa-dubble-plahss-guud!

Err, I hope you meant debian-openoffice
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really dumb question

[steef]

hi,

where can i find the driver for a rtl8139 (chip) realtek networkcard 
under etch?


[i used to load them under woody from the modconf list, but cannot find 
the driver there]



thanks  and
regards,

steef


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RE: Xen 3.0.4 on Debian

[Andrey Dmitriev]

I have tried installing it from Xen's site, but I kept getting..


xen:~/dist# ./install.sh
Installing Xen from './install' to '/'...
 - installing for udev-based system
 - modifying permissions
All done.
Checking to see whether prerequisite tools are installed...
Xen CHECK-INSTALL  Sun Apr 15 21:46:57 EDT 2007
Checking check_brctl: OK
Checking check_crypto_lib:
 *** Check for crypto library FAILED
Checking check_iproute: OK
Checking check_libvncserver: unused, OK
Checking check_python: OK
Checking check_python_xml: OK
Checking check_sdl: unused, OK
Checking check_udev: OK
Checking check_zlib_lib:
 *** Check for zlib library FAILED
All done.


Upon further investigation:

ldconfig -v
ldconfig: Can't stat /lib32: No such file or directory
ldconfig: Path `/usr/lib32' given more than once

This is a 64bit system (AMD) 

-Original Message-
From: Andrey Dmitriev 
Sent: Sunday, April 15, 2007 1:41 AM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Xen 3.0.4 on Debian

Are there are plans for 3.0.4 to be available on Debian?
I see it's been around since December.

I primarily need it to get around the problem I've been having with a 
broadcom network card.
http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg24469.html

Thanks,
Andrey

Re: teTeX --> TeX live: When to migrate?

[Tyler Smith]

On 2007-04-15, Russell L. Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Johannes Wiedersich escribió:
>>> Are there any issues to be aware of or is it just an 'aptitude install
>>> texlive'?
>
> Very important!  For TeXLive to operate properly, it appears that you
> must purge all the teTeX configuration files before installing
> TeXLive.  
>

Damn, I just went through the same thing, but I think it might be
avoidable. I used aptitude to install texlive, which automatically
uninstalled the core tetex stuff. I couldn't get latex to work from
the command line or through auctex, so I tried a couple variations of
purge and reinstall. Eventually I realised that it was hung up on a
directory that somehow was not purged when I cleaned out tetex:

~/.texmf-var

I moved that to .texmf-var-old, and now it seems to be working ok. I
didn't end up reinstalling, but it did take me a few hours to realise
what was wrong.

hth,

Tyler

> I failed to do so, and ended up reinstalling Debian (which was not a
> bad experience, but it took a full day for me to get all the packages
> installed and everything configured).
>
> RLH
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Re: Etch NetInst Thinkpad 600

[Matthew K Poer]

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Andrew J. Barr wrote:
> Matthew K Poer wrote:
>> On my old Thinkpad 600, I am attempting to install Etch via NetInst CD.
>> I am having trouble with pcmcia detection, which means I cannot properly
>> detect my network hardware.
>>
>> The main modules seem to load (pcmcia-core, pcmcia, yenta_socket), as
>> well as the module for my wireless card (bcm43xx), yet "lcpcia" does not
>> show my wireless card.
> 
> This card also requires non-free firmware that needs to be extracted
> from any number of sources, including the Windows driver bcmwl5.sys
> file, the Mac OS X Airport Extreme driver, or the various Linux/MIPS
> drivers that have come from router vendors' "GPL release" tarballs
> (generally called something like wl_apsta.o)
> 
> The bcm43xx-fwcutter tool facilitates this task, I don't know how or if
> that will work with the debian-installer however, because that software
> is in 'contrib' and not 'main'.
> 
> Andrew
> 
well, dmesg | grep "Yenta"
...yada yada yada...
something about not detecting... check BIOS settings or ACPI settings...

BIOS didn't do anything odd...

boot# install acpi=off

That did the trick. Automatically found bcm43xx as well. Even found my
network.

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Re: php failure with iceweasel

[Russell L. Harris]

* Kushal Kumaran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070415 23:28]:
> You don't need to install any of the php packages if you yourself do
> not write php scripts.

Thanks, Kushal.  I wish I had found that simple explanation in my searches
with Google.  


It turns out that my ISP uses cPanel and the problem is caused by a
bug in cPanel.  But I never encountered the bug until this weekend,
after I installed Lenny.

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Re: Can I move the content of all threads below one topic in the maillist into one single txt file?

[wangxu]

Ron Johnson wrote:
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>> I am using thunderbird.
>> Is there anything I can do to achieve this?
>> 
>
> Create a temporary mbox folder and move the thread into that folder.
>  That folder is a single text file.
>
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Do you mean files in ~/.thunderbird/ddp3v1xs.default/Mail/Local
Folders/Inbox.sbd/... ?
but how can I restore the encoded chars into readable text?


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Re: how to get curses/termcap liberay?

[Ron Johnson]

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On 04/16/07 11:04, wangxu wrote:
> I was configuring mysql manually.

Why?  What's wrong with the mysql package in Debian?

> it says.
> checking for termcap functions library... configure: error: No
> curses/termcap library found
> 
> 
> what package should i install?

mysql-client-5.0 mysql-server-5.0

That will pull in all the needed dependencies.

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Re: dpkg: I refuse to do it and you can't make me!

[Ron Johnson]

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On 04/15/07 21:56, Carl Fink wrote:
> I can't make it, either.
> 
> I'm trying to upgrade my testing installation.  I get this:
> 
> (Reading database ... 124364 files and directories currently installed.)
> Removing navigator-smotif-477 ...
> update-alternatives: internal error: /var/lib/dpkg/alternatives/navigator
> corrupt: priority /usr/lib/netscape/477x/navigator/navigator-smotif 477x0
> update-alternatives: internal error: /var/lib/dpkg/alternatives/netscape
> corrupt: priority /usr/lib/netscape/477x/navigator/navigator-smotif 477x0
> dpkg: error processing navigator-smotif-477 (--remove):
>  subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 2
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  navigator-smotif-477
> 
> 
> That's a fine example of useless messages.  How is anyone supposed to know
> what to do about that?  The alternatives file for Netscape 4.77 is corrupt,
> which means that it can't be removed...how do I fix that?  Why can't the
> stupid message tell me?  Why can't multiple web searches tell me?

It turns out that the files in /var/lib/dpkg/alternatives are all
text, so regenerating it might be easy.

> It turns out that deleting the file /var/lib/dpkg/alternatives/netscape
> fixes this problem -- but why should I have to figure that out?  The average
> user, especially a new user, will react by freezing up.

Because it so rarely happens?

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Re: Further problems with OOo

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On 04/15/07 22:56, Greg Folkert wrote:
[snip]
> 
> Indeedly. If you want to make a OO.o v2.2 backport, it really isn't that
> tough. But I doubt you will at the moment.

According to the debian-oppenoffice list, a backport of v2.2 is
coming Soon.

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Re: Can I move the content of all threads below one topic in the maillist into one single txt file?

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On 04/16/07 09:32, wangxu wrote:
> I am using thunderbird.
> Is there anything I can do to achieve this?

Create a temporary mbox folder and move the thread into that folder.
 That folder is a single text file.


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Re: Etch upgrade and keyboard in WindowMaker

[csanyipal]

Hello!

On Sun, Apr 15, 2007 at 05:14:28PM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
> Hello all.  I upgraded my workstation from Sarge to Etch this weekend.
> The biggest annoynce I have encountered is that my keyboard is "broken"
> in WindowMaker.  That is, alt+tab no longer switches between windows.
> F12 no longer brings up the menu.  F11 no longer brings up the window
> list and alt+# (where # is a number 0-9) no longer switches to the
> appropriate workspace.  I have gone into WPrefs and tried rebinding the
> key combinations.  However, this still does not seem to work.  Has
> anyone else encountered something similar?  If so, can this problem be
> solved?

I use also WindowMaker and I encountered this error too.

If I can rememer correctly, I solve this problem so so I reconfigure 
xserver-xorg and set up again my keyboard.

$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

So I have in my xorg.conf in the Section "InputDevice" this:

Identifier  "Generic Keyboard"
Driver  "kbd"
Option  "CoreKeyboard"
Option  "XkbRules"  "xorg"
Option  "XkbModel"  "pc105"
Option  "XkbLayout" "hu,hr,cs"
Option  "XkbVariant""nodeadkeys"

and now I can use alt+tab on my Hungarian keyboard to switch 
between windows and alt+# to switch to the approppriate workspace.

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Re: php failure with iceweasel

[Kushal Kumaran]

On 4/16/07, Russell L. Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

I am unable to log into the web mail screen of my hosting provider,
because iceweasel doesn't know how to handle the php script
"login.php".  iceweasel asks if I wish to open the script or save the
it as a file.


It is really not an iceweasel problem.  It is not supposed to run php
scripts.  They are run on the server to generate HTML, which is sent
to you.  You should save the file when it asks you to and examine it
to see if it is actually php or html.  Look for a '

In its previous incarnation running Etch, the machine was able to log
into the web mail screen.


Could be just a coincidence.  Maybe someone there changed the
configuration in the meantime.



This is a fresh installation of Debian Lenny on an i386 desktop
machine.  I did not knowingly install any of the various PHP packages,
and I cannot find my notes from the previous installation to see what
I may have done to get this working.



You don't need to install any of the php packages if you yourself do
not write php scripts.
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Re: Any good and high quality music player?

[David E. Fox]

On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 09:24:52 -0400
Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I attach my desktop to my stereo amplifier which has real speakers and
> then fiddle with alsaconf setting. Thus to get 'better' sound, you need
> better equipment, which excludes using tiny laptop speakers :-)

Yep, I do the same thing. I had cheap satellite speakers that I used to
use, but they had too many shorts, so I decided that I could just get a
halfway decent (and long enough) cable that had two male RCA-type
connectors to two other male RCA-type connectors, and connect the
soundcard to the aux input (my 1994-ish vintage receiver doesn't have
digital inputs, sadly). Still I get pretty decent sound.

Way back when, people used to invest in hardware equalizers to help the
sound and attach them to their receivers. Nowadays the equalizers are
all free and open-source :).

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Re: dpkg: I refuse to do it and you can't make me!

[Greg Folkert]

On Sun, 2007-04-15 at 22:56 -0400, Carl Fink wrote:
> I can't make it, either.
> 
> I'm trying to upgrade my testing installation.  I get this:
> 
> (Reading database ... 124364 files and directories currently installed.)
> Removing navigator-smotif-477 ...
> update-alternatives: internal error: /var/lib/dpkg/alternatives/navigator
> corrupt: priority /usr/lib/netscape/477x/navigator/navigator-smotif 477x0
> update-alternatives: internal error: /var/lib/dpkg/alternatives/netscape
> corrupt: priority /usr/lib/netscape/477x/navigator/navigator-smotif 477x0
> dpkg: error processing navigator-smotif-477 (--remove):
>  subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 2
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  navigator-smotif-477
> 
> 
> That's a fine example of useless messages.  How is anyone supposed to know
> what to do about that?  The alternatives file for Netscape 4.77 is corrupt,
> which means that it can't be removed...how do I fix that?  Why can't the
> stupid message tell me?  Why can't multiple web searches tell me?
> 
> It turns out that deleting the file /var/lib/dpkg/alternatives/netscape
> fixes this problem -- but why should I have to figure that out?  The average
> user, especially a new user, will react by freezing up.

How many newbies would be running Netscape 4.77... a (what>) 7 year old
release, on a something that won't even support the non-posix threading
application due to a glibc upgrade coming about?

I'd be willing to be unless the netscape it statically compiled, that it
dunnah even run right on Lenny now that glibc is migrating to 2.5
something... or maybe the "corrupt" alternatives wasn't statically
linked and relied on linux-threads rather than posix-threads...

Coincidentally, did you know that Anything libc 2.4 or newer dropped
linux-thread support? 
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Re: System crash with oom-killer message

[Guillermo Garron]

On 4/15/07, Guillermo Garron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

On 4/15/07, Guillermo Garron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Here are the facts,
>
> System
> Debian Etch (upgraded from Sarge)
> Kernel 2.6.8-3-386
> x386 arch.
> Running
> Apache2 2.2.3-4
> mysql-server 5.0.32-7etch1
> php4 4.4.4.-8+etch1
>
> running everything ok, until 3 hour ago when I got this message at the
> console, and logged in /var/log/messages
>
> and it stop working suddenly,
>
> please help 'cause I really have no idea, i have found in google, that
> this could be a bug problem with the kernel (but that was for Centos
> in 2005) also somebody told could be an apache problem asking too much
> memory.
>
> Here are the logs. (not all)
Hi again,

it seems that the problems caused by apache2, as I entered with
(recovery mode Kernel)

turned on mysql and all was ok.
turned on apache2 and I got a lot of process opened by www-data, and
my webpage is not that popular! and all crashed again, I thought it
could be a DOS attact, so I configured my firewall for not accepting
the tcp:80 connections, and restart system, once again it crashed!

what can I do?
uninstall and reinstall apache?

please help me.
regards,
Guillermo.

>
>
> Apr 15 06:18:22 linux kernel: oom-killer: gfp_mask=0x1d2
> Apr 15 06:18:23 linux kernel: DMA per-cpu:
> Apr 15 06:18:23 linux kernel: cpu 0 hot: low 2, high 6, batch 1
> Apr 15 06:18:23 linux kernel: cpu 0 cold: low 0, high 2, batch 1
> Apr 15 06:18:23 linux kernel: Normal per-cpu:
> Apr 15 06:18:23 linux kernel: cpu 0 hot: low 30, high 90, batch 15
> Apr 15 06:18:23 linux kernel: cpu 0 cold: low 0, high 30, batch 15
> Apr 15 06:18:23 linux kernel: HighMem per-cpu: empty
> Apr 15 06:18:23 linux kernel:
> Apr 15 06:18:23 linux kernel: Free pages:1880kB (0kB HighMem)
> Apr 15 06:18:23 linux kernel: Active:26341 inactive:29404 dirty:0
> writeback:0 unstable:0 free:470 slab:3693 mapped:56970 pagetables:1466
> Apr 15 06:18:23 linux kernel: DMA free:956kB min:32kB low:64kB
> high:96kB active:5932kB inactive:5464kB present:16384kB
> Apr 15 06:18:23 linux kernel: protections[]: 16 256 256
> Apr 15 06:18:23 linux kernel: Normal free:924kB min:480kB low:960kB
> high:1440kB active:99432kB inactive:112152kB present:245760kB
> Apr 15 06:18:23 linux kernel: protections[]: 0 240 240
> Apr 15 06:18:23 linux kernel: HighMem free:0kB min:128kB low:256kB
> high:384kB active:0kB inactive:0kB present:0kB
> Apr 15 06:18:23 linux kernel: protections[]: 0 0 0
> Apr 15 06:18:23 linux kernel: DMA: 1*4kB 1*8kB 7*16kB 2*32kB 0*64kB
> 0*128kB 1*256kB 1*512kB 0*1024kB 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 956kB
> Apr 15 06:18:23 linux kernel: Normal: 13*4kB 1*8kB 0*16kB 1*32kB
> 1*64kB 0*128kB 1*256kB 1*512kB 0*1024kB 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 924kB
> Apr 15 06:18:23 linux kernel: HighMem: empty
> Apr 15 06:18:23 linux kernel: Swap cache: add 441894, delete 441892,
> find 2162904/2196712, race 4+52
> Apr 15 06:24:55 linux kernel: oom-killer: gfp_mask=0x1d2
> Apr 15 06:24:55 linux kernel: DMA per-cpu:
> Apr 15 06:24:55 linux kernel: cpu 0 hot: low 2, high 6, batch 1
> Apr 15 06:24:55 linux kernel: cpu 0 cold: low 0, high 2, batch 1
> Apr 15 06:24:55 linux kernel: Normal per-cpu:
> Apr 15 06:24:55 linux kernel: cpu 0 hot: low 30, high 90, batch 15
> Apr 15 06:24:55 linux kernel: cpu 0 cold: low 0, high 30, batch 15
> Apr 15 06:24:55 linux kernel: HighMem per-cpu: empty
> Apr 15 06:24:55 linux kernel:
> Apr 15 06:24:55 linux kernel: Free pages:1968kB (0kB HighMem)
> Apr 15 06:24:55 linux kernel: Active:26559 inactive:25986 dirty:0
> writeback:0 unstable:0 free:492 slab:3416 mapped:57038 pagetables:1459
> Apr 15 06:24:55 linux kernel: DMA free:1024kB min:32kB low:64kB
> high:96kB active:5452kB inactive:5532kB present:16384kB
> Apr 15 06:24:55 linux kernel: protections[]: 16 256 256
> Apr 15 06:24:55 linux kernel: Normal free:944kB min:480kB low:960kB
> high:1440kB active:100784kB inactive:98412kB present:245760kB
> Apr 15 06:24:55 linux kernel: protections[]: 0 240 240
> Apr 15 06:24:55 linux kernel: HighMem free:0kB min:128kB low:256kB
> high:384kB active:0kB inactive:0kB present:0kB
> Apr 15 06:24:55 linux kernel: protections[]: 0 0 0
> Apr 15 06:24:55 linux kernel: DMA: 3*4kB 1*8kB 5*16kB 5*32kB 0*64kB
> 0*128kB 1*256kB 1*512kB 0*1024kB 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 1028kB
> Apr 15 06:24:55 linux kernel: Normal: 0*4kB 8*8kB 1*16kB 1*32kB 1*64kB
> 0*128kB 1*256kB 1*512kB 0*1024kB 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 944kB
> Apr 15 06:24:55 linux kernel: HighMem: empty
> Apr 15 06:24:55 linux kernel: Swap cache: add 619420, delete 619419,
> find 2171682/2224451, race 5+134
> Apr 15 06:24:55 linux kernel: oom-killer: gfp_mask=0x1d2
> Apr 15 06:24:55 linux kernel: DMA per-cpu:
> Apr 15 06:24:55 linux kernel: cpu 0 hot: low 2, high 6, batch 1
> Apr 15 06:24:55 linux kernel: cpu 0 cold: low 0, high 2, batch 1
> Apr 15 06:24:55 linux kernel: Normal per-cpu:
> Apr 15 06:24:55 linux kernel: cpu 0 hot: low 30, high 90, batch 15
> Apr 15 06:24:55 linux kernel: cpu 0 cold: low 0, high 30,

how to get curses/termcap liberay?

[wangxu]

I was configuring mysql manually.
it says.
checking for termcap functions library... configure: error: No
curses/termcap library found


what package should i install?


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Re: Further problems with OOo

[Greg Folkert]

On Sun, 2007-04-15 at 19:03 +0100, andy wrote:
> Jonathan Kaye wrote: 
> > andy wrote:
> > 
> >   
> > > My wife, using Etch, was writing a long document in OOo, went to
> > > go and
> > > save it as *.doc (for transport to work) and the document crashed.
> > > Now
> > > everything except the very earliest save is gone! She is *not*
> > > impressed
> > > (so much for my Linux advocacy!).
> > > How can I recover the document - the auto-recovery of OOo only
> > > retrieved
> > > the earlier stuff, but all changes she has made over the last few
> > > hours
> > > are gone.
> > > 
> > > Any guides on how I can rescue and resuscitate the document as
> > > close to
> > > when it crashed as possible and save my wife's emotional sanity?
> > > 
> > > A BIG thanks
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > Hi Andy,
> > Again, it would be helpful if you indicate which version of OOo you
> > are
> > using. What was the backup frequency set to in Tools -> Options ->
> > Load/Save -> "Save Autorecovery every . minutes"? That will
> > determine
> > with what frequency your work is backed up. I don't have much
> > experience
> > with M$ Word but I suppose it works in much the same way. I'm not
> > sure what
> > you mean when you say "the document crashed". Do you mean OOo
> > crashed? You
> > might want to describe what exactly happened because I don't think
> > this is
> > normal behaviour. My girlfriend is an editor/translator and has used
> > OOo
> > for several years. She typically gets long and complicated docs that
> > need
> > to be sent back (with the changes recored) in .doc format. She has
> > never
> > experienced this kind of problem. You might also post your query to
> > the
> > comp.openoffice.questions newsgroup. That's probably the best place
> > for the
> > recovery issue and why OOo crashed on saving as a .doc file.
> > Cheers,
> > Jonathan 
> > 
> > 
> >   
> Jonathan
> 
> Thanks for the reply.
> Sorry it is OOo-2.0.4. The auto back-up feature was not enabled (!!).
> Yes, I meant that OOo as an app crashed - spontaneously closed. When
> she went to reopen OOo, she agreed to the recovery option and the
> earlier version was recovered while her work was lost (she was trying
> to save it when the app crashed).
> 
> I have since found out (after searching and joining a couple of other
> mailing lists) that the data is inevitably dead and gone ... at least
> as far as OOo is concerned. I have now adjusted the auto back-up to
> every 5 minutes and a back-up will be created.

Yes, pretty much.

>  I have also been advised to save the file in native *.odt before
> trying to save it as *.doc.

THIS is the single best piece of advice you have gotten. Do all work in
ODF (.odt and the like). It is the best tested piece. It also does *MUCH
MUCH MUCH* better auto-saving.

>  Apparently OOo document recovery function isn't much good - i.e. not
> reliable - and one is warned to stay away from it.

That would be when saving by default as a MSWORD .doc.

>  I have also come across some discussion that one should uninstall the
> distro-version of OOo and install the native version.

Distro-version would be the "native" version. The OO.o build is
statically linked, much larger and would use much more memory than the
Debian version. And SINCE you have now set you saving defaults better
than what you had been using... things should clear up and become a much
better behaved.

You need to read you discussions on "non-distro" sight as fan-boyism, or
bigots for "built the right way" from the suite packagers.

Remember, Debian supports your version currently installed. If you go
outside Debian and something goes wrong... Debian and its community will
likely point and laugh, that is if you dare ask... 

There are those of us, that will still answer, with some helpful
pointers, but will still admonish for going outside Debian.

> Anyway, there's not much to do now. Why OOo crashed and why the
> recovery didn't ...  will probably never know. Was a right royal PITA
> I can tell you - for both of us!

Indeedly. If you want to make a OO.o v2.2 backport, it really isn't that
tough. But I doubt you will at the moment.

If you do, contact me offlist.
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php failure with iceweasel

[Russell L. Harris]

I am unable to log into the web mail screen of my hosting provider,
because iceweasel doesn't know how to handle the php script
"login.php".  iceweasel asks if I wish to open the script or save the
it as a file.

In its previous incarnation running Etch, the machine was able to log
into the web mail screen.

This is a fresh installation of Debian Lenny on an i386 desktop
machine.  I did not knowingly install any of the various PHP packages,
and I cannot find my notes from the previous installation to see what
I may have done to get this working.

RLH






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Re: Restrict server access

[Mike Bird]

On Sunday 15 April 2007 19:47, Will Parkinson wrote:
> No it was our sever that was sending the spam, so there must of been a
> script placed on our server by someone else (ie we were hacked or
> something)

This is somewhat unusual; relaying is much more common.  I assume you
have carefully checked the spam headers to verify that they originated
on your server and are not forgeries or relays.

The next and urgent step is to shut the server down.  While the server is
potentially or actually compromised, you don't know what the attacker can
do.  For example, the attacker may have a script which (a) hides itself
from ls and ps and (b) notes any passwords you use to access the system
whether remotely or locally and (c) repeatedly attempts to mail them out
at random intervals perhaps days or weeks apart.

Remove the disks from the server, attach them to a known secure system,
and mount them read-only and noexec.  Without booting from them or
executing any programs or scripts on them, verify that they have no
material that should not be there.

If that is impossible or impractical (and it usually is) then copy off
the portion that you can verify is safe - perhaps some email messages
and/or some web pages - and completely wipe the suspect drives.  Then
reinstall Linux and copy only the safe saved data back.

If possible, before wiping the drives, and again without booting or
executing, attempt to determine the attack vector from your logs and
from changed files.  File a bug report if the attack used a previously
unknown vector.

Limiting your firewall to AU IP addresses, even if the attacker can't
circumvent it, is not an option.  You do not know what attacks your
box may be perpetrating against other innocent parties.  If in doubt,
turn it off, consult a good lawyer, and ask him or her if it's OK to
turn it back on.

--Mike Bird


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Re: Further problems with OOo

[Greg Folkert]

On Mon, 2007-04-16 at 04:58 +0200, Jonathan Kaye wrote: 
> My commiserations, Andy. The good news is that failure to set the auto-save
> feature happens only once. Once you get burned  you're unlikely to
> forget it.
> You're using a somewhat oldish version of OOo, 2.0.4.

The STABLE ETCH version is 2.0.4.

>  The current version is
> now 2.2. I realise that the Debian packages for testing are still at the
> 2.0.4 stage which is one reason I don't use them.

STABLE VERSION == ETCH == v2.0.4

> You can install OOo
> directly from the Openoffice website. Openoffice releases are in rpm format
> but it's no big deal (using alien) to convert them to .deb files. Remember
> that 2.2 is NOT some unstable beta release, it is the latest released
> version of OOo and quite safe to use. It may also deal with your crashing
> problem although as I said before I've never experienced that particular
> problem.

Sure, move to a "native" OO.o (that would actually be foreign, static
builds from OO.o).

Sorry, but I don't agree with you on this. Many reasons I could but not
this one.
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Re: Further problems with OOo

[David Dawson]

andy wrote:

> My wife, using Etch, was writing a long document in OOo, went to go and
> save it as *.doc (for transport to work) and the document crashed. Now
> everything except the very earliest save is gone! She is *not* impressed
> (so much for my Linux advocacy!).
> How can I recover the document - the auto-recovery of OOo only retrieved
> the earlier stuff, but all changes she has made over the last few hours
> are gone.
> 
> Any guides on how I can rescue and resuscitate the document as close to
> when it crashed as possible and save my wife's emotional sanity?
> 
> A BIG thanks
> 
> 
> 
Out of interest, how long (in characters) was the document?

I have a 73,763 character document (13,318 words) and in .odt format it has
not had a problem. I *have* had problems with docs containing different
versions in .sxw format, though. I decided not to bother doing that again.

As I was writing this, I saved it as a .doc file and no problems in OO 2.04
-- 
If you wrestle in the mud with a pig.
you both get dirty, and the pig likes it.

-- Dave Dawson


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where is libptp2?

[Bruno Buys]

Anyone here use the libptp2 package? It talks to usb ptp devices. I am
quite sure I used it under sarge x86. But running etch amd64 now, and I
can't find it anywhere. Neither apt-cache search, google, apt-get.org or
packages.debian.org (and I looked under oldstable also).
The sf page for libptp seem to be not very active, the tar.gz file is a
bit old and won't compile ok. Is this the end for libptp?


Bruno


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Re: Really annoying! Volume % window that won't go away. After etch upgrade.

[A. F. Cano]

On Sat, Apr 14, 2007 at 02:11:32PM +0200, Sven Arvidsson wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-04-13 at 21:05 -0400, A. F. Cano wrote:
> > The most annoying and urgent is that on login with kdm, a window
> > pops up right in the middle of the screen (quite large too) with
> > "Volume" in extremely large letters and a % status bar which
> > remains at 0 no matter what I do with the mixer volume control.
> 
> I haven't used KDE, so this is just a guess, it sounds like the kind of
> window that pops up if you use the multimedia keys commonly found on
> some keyboards. 
> 
> If you have such keys, maybe something keeps one of them pressed down,
> or something thinks it is being pushed down?

Good call!  After searching blindly for a while, it turned out that
Kmilo, the KDE special key notifier was running.  Unselecting the
check box in the KDE control center->KDE components->Service Manager
got rid of the annoying window.  Now I need to figure out how to
configure it properly for the 8600 extra keys.  A quick google search
has turned out a total lack of documention on kmilo.

Thanks for replying!

A.


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Re: OpenOffice.org spellchecks

[charles norwood]

On Sun, 2007-04-15 at 13:14 +0100, andy wrote:
> I am using OOo on Etch with the English (UK) dictionaries enabled. 
> However, I am finding that when I have the spell check enabled for when 
> I type, there are no errors being picked up nor does the manual spell 
> check find any errors either, despite me entering deliberate neologisms 
> like "ggftr" and so on. KWriter finds the errors just fine so the 
> dictionaries are evidently loading just fine.
> I have fiddled around with the language and writing aids in OOo and 
> still zippo.
> 
> Any thoughts?
> 
> -- 
> 
> "If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry 
> about the answers." - Thomas Pynchon, "Gravity's Rainbow"
> 
> 
Some programs need the package gnome-spell. OO may or may not be one of
these.  OO may also need aspell and aspell-en.
Chuck


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Re: Restrict server access

[Will Parkinson]

Raquel wrote:

On Mon, 16 Apr 2007 11:26:43 +1000
Will Parkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

  
  
  

The reason i ask is that recently a server that i was working on
was  sending spam emails for some other company that i've never
even heard  of.  I'm just looking at ways to avoid this from
happening in the  future. As i am new to server security, i'm
looking for a way to block  non Australian ips while i figure out
how this company came to be  sending emails from our server.

Cheers

Will




I don't suppose that was a Windows server that was sending out spam?

  
No it was our sever that was sending the spam, so there must of been a 
script placed on our server by someone else (ie we were hacked or something)

Re: Etch NetInst Thinkpad 600

[Andrew J. Barr]

Matthew K Poer wrote:

On my old Thinkpad 600, I am attempting to install Etch via NetInst CD.
I am having trouble with pcmcia detection, which means I cannot properly
detect my network hardware.

The main modules seem to load (pcmcia-core, pcmcia, yenta_socket), as
well as the module for my wireless card (bcm43xx), yet "lcpcia" does not
show my wireless card.


This card also requires non-free firmware that needs to be extracted 
from any number of sources, including the Windows driver bcmwl5.sys 
file, the Mac OS X Airport Extreme driver, or the various Linux/MIPS 
drivers that have come from router vendors' "GPL release" tarballs 
(generally called something like wl_apsta.o)


The bcm43xx-fwcutter tool facilitates this task, I don't know how or if 
that will work with the debian-installer however, because that software 
is in 'contrib' and not 'main'.


Andrew


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Re: Further problems with OOo

[Jonathan Kaye]

andy wrote:

>>> 
>> Hi Andy,
>> Again, it would be helpful if you indicate which version of OOo you are
>> using. What was the backup frequency set to in Tools -> Options ->
>> Load/Save -> "Save Autorecovery every . minutes"? That will determine
>> with what frequency your work is backed up. I don't have much experience
>> with M$ Word but I suppose it works in much the same way. I'm not sure
>> what you mean when you say "the document crashed". Do you mean OOo
>> crashed? You might want to describe what exactly happened because I don't
>> think this is normal behaviour. My girlfriend is an editor/translator and
>> has used OOo for several years. She typically gets long and complicated
>> docs that need to be sent back (with the changes recored) in .doc format.
>> She has never experienced this kind of problem. You might also post your
>> query to the comp.openoffice.questions newsgroup. That's probably the
>> best place for the recovery issue and why OOo crashed on saving as a .doc
>> file. Cheers,
>> Jonathan
>>
>>
>>   
> Jonathan
> 
> Thanks for the reply.
> Sorry it is OOo-2.0.4. The auto back-up feature was not enabled (!!).
> Yes, I meant that OOo as an app crashed - spontaneously closed. When she
> went to reopen OOo, she agreed to the recovery option and the earlier
> version was recovered while her work was lost (she was trying to save it
> when the app crashed).
> 
> I have since found out (after searching and joining a couple of other
> mailing lists) that the data is inevitably dead and gone ... at least as
> far as OOo is concerned. I have now adjusted the auto back-up to every 5
> minutes and a back-up will be created. I have also been advised to save
> the file in native *.odt before trying to save it as *.doc . Apparently
> OOo document recovery function isn't much good - i.e. not reliable - and
> one is warned to stay away from it. I have also come across some
> discussion that one should uninstall the distro-version of OOo and
> install the native version.
> 
> Anyway, there's not much to do now. Why OOo crashed and why the recovery
> didn't ...  will probably never know. Was a right royal PITA I can tell
> you - for both of us!
> 
My commiserations, Andy. The good news is that failure to set the auto-save
feature happens only once. Once you get burned  you're unlikely to
forget it.
You're using a somewhat oldish version of OOo, 2.0.4. The current version is
now 2.2. I realise that the Debian packages for testing are still at the
2.0.4 stage which is one reason I don't use them. You can install OOo
directly from the Openoffice website. Openoffice releases are in rpm format
but it's no big deal (using alien) to convert them to .deb files. Remember
that 2.2 is NOT some unstable beta release, it is the latest released
version of OOo and quite safe to use. It may also deal with your crashing
problem although as I said before I've never experienced that particular
problem.
Cheers,
Jonathan


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Re: Etch NetInst Thinkpad 600

[Andrew J. Barr]

Matthew K Poer wrote:

On my old Thinkpad 600, I am attempting to install Etch via NetInst CD.
I am having trouble with pcmcia detection, which means I cannot properly
detect my network hardware.

The main modules seem to load (pcmcia-core, pcmcia, yenta_socket), as
well as the module for my wireless card (bcm43xx), yet "lcpcia" does not
show my wireless card.


What kind of Broadcom wireless card do you have? Most of the PCMCIA form 
factor bcm43xx cards are in fact CardBus cards, in which case they would 
show up via lspci, as they are regular PCI devices to the system.


16-bit true PCMCIA Broadcom WLAN cards exist, however: a) they are 
generally in the CompactFlash form factor, and b) they are not supported 
by the bcm43xx driver in the mainline kernel.


The 'dmesg' output from the bcm43xx driver would be most helpful in 
diagnosing your exact failure.


Andrew


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dpkg: I refuse to do it and you can't make me!

[Carl Fink]

I can't make it, either.

I'm trying to upgrade my testing installation.  I get this:

(Reading database ... 124364 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing navigator-smotif-477 ...
update-alternatives: internal error: /var/lib/dpkg/alternatives/navigator
corrupt: priority /usr/lib/netscape/477x/navigator/navigator-smotif 477x0
update-alternatives: internal error: /var/lib/dpkg/alternatives/netscape
corrupt: priority /usr/lib/netscape/477x/navigator/navigator-smotif 477x0
dpkg: error processing navigator-smotif-477 (--remove):
 subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
 navigator-smotif-477


That's a fine example of useless messages.  How is anyone supposed to know
what to do about that?  The alternatives file for Netscape 4.77 is corrupt,
which means that it can't be removed...how do I fix that?  Why can't the
stupid message tell me?  Why can't multiple web searches tell me?

It turns out that deleting the file /var/lib/dpkg/alternatives/netscape
fixes this problem -- but why should I have to figure that out?  The average
user, especially a new user, will react by freezing up.
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Etch NetInst Thinkpad 600

[Matthew K Poer]

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On my old Thinkpad 600, I am attempting to install Etch via NetInst CD.
I am having trouble with pcmcia detection, which means I cannot properly
detect my network hardware.

The main modules seem to load (pcmcia-core, pcmcia, yenta_socket), as
well as the module for my wireless card (bcm43xx), yet "lcpcia" does not
show my wireless card.

I think I recall once, when etch was "testing" around a year ago, having
similar trouble using a PCMCIA NIC on this computer. It was the reason I
went back to Sarge. I did see one error in dmesg about a kernel module
no longer supporting something I was trying to use. I believe it was this:
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pcmcia: Detected deprecated PCMCIA ioctl usage.
pcmcia: This interface will soon be removed from the kernel; please
expect breakage unless you upgrade to new tools.
pcmcia: see
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/pcmcia/pcmcia.html for details.
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(from the dmesg output on http://www.fabbnet.net/390.htm)


So, does kernel 2.6.18 use something different for older PCMCIA
devices? If so, why isn't it running, how can I fix it (recompile?) or
use a different kernel in Etch (2.4.27?)?

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Can I move the content of all threads below one topic in the maillist into one single txt file?

[wangxu]

I am using thunderbird.
Is there anything I can do to achieve this?


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Re: Restrict server access

[Raquel]

On Mon, 16 Apr 2007 11:26:43 +1000
Will Parkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> >
> >   
> The reason i ask is that recently a server that i was working on
> was  sending spam emails for some other company that i've never
> even heard  of.  I'm just looking at ways to avoid this from
> happening in the  future. As i am new to server security, i'm
> looking for a way to block  non Australian ips while i figure out
> how this company came to be  sending emails from our server.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Will
> 

I don't suppose that was a Windows server that was sending out spam?

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Compiz and button 8

[Jerome BENOIT]

Hello List,

I use Compiz on my Lenny box with a wireless mighty mouse:
I would like to take advantage of the side buttons (button 8)
which seems to be recognized by `xev':
how can we associate this extra button to a compiz function ?

Thanks in advance,
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Re: Restrict server access

[Will Parkinson]

Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:

On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 10:03:02AM +1000, Will Parkinson wrote:
  

Hi All,

I was wondering if there was any way to restrict server ssh, ftp and 
even http access to certain countries / ip ranges?  I've been using 
debian for a while at home but am pretty new to the security side of things.


Any help much appreciated



I don't see any way of configuring sshd for that so if this is something
you need, you'll need to use a firewall.  I suggest shorewall.

But lets review why you think you need this since its not a standard
requirement.

Doug.


  
The reason i ask is that recently a server that i was working on was 
sending spam emails for some other company that i've never even heard 
of.  I'm just looking at ways to avoid this from happening in the 
future. As i am new to server security, i'm looking for a way to block 
non Australian ips while i figure out how this company came to be 
sending emails from our server.


Cheers

Will

Re: Restrict server access

[Douglas Allan Tutty]

On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 10:03:02AM +1000, Will Parkinson wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I was wondering if there was any way to restrict server ssh, ftp and 
> even http access to certain countries / ip ranges?  I've been using 
> debian for a while at home but am pretty new to the security side of things.
> 
> Any help much appreciated

I don't see any way of configuring sshd for that so if this is something
you need, you'll need to use a firewall.  I suggest shorewall.

But lets review why you think you need this since its not a standard
requirement.

Doug.


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Re: Time/Date via Gnome clock app (sid)

[Ron Johnson]

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On 04/15/07 17:05, Andrea S. Gozzi wrote:
> Hi.
> I've set up my primary sid desktop to update time with NTP via the Gnome
> clock application.
> Now it seems that the NTP server has gone offline and the displayed time
> has a -5min difference with the real one. I wanted to use the servers
> pool instead but I can't access the menu.
> Every time I try to obtain privileges the password is rejected and I
> typed it in enough times to be sure it's the correct one..
> This happens only with the Time/Date app, everything else works
> perfectly (synaptic, disks, gparted, ..) .
> Has this happened to somebody else?

Just checked.  Using GNOME from Experimental, it happens to me to.  :(

But... it doesn't matter to me since I run ntpdate from cron every
few hours.  Keeps the system time correct even if no one is logged
in.  I suggest you try ntpdate or ntp, which continuously keeps the
clock correct.

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Re: how to scp from one box to another with no root ssh?

[Alex Samad]

On Sat, Apr 14, 2007 at 12:53:57PM +0300, Atis wrote:
> On 4/14/07, Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >In the past, to move config or script files from one box to another on
> >my home network I've used scp or rsync.
> >
> >However, recent discussions on the list have pointed out that root login
> >with ssh should not be allowed.
> >
> >How then to copy files that either only root can read or only root can
> >place, or that need owner/permissions to be unchanged?
> >
> >I have sshd setup to only allow ssh based on pre-existing keys (no
> >password login allowed), and it only listens on the local interface, and
> >I've got shorewall running and doesn't allow ssh to/from the net.
> 
> Well, the main idea behind "root login shouldn't be allowed" is, that
> root is known to exist on every linux system, so bruteforcing is one
> step easier (you already know username), plus if root gets
> compromised, all the system gets. So, there shouldn't be simple way
> how you can get root access with only one authentication.
> 
> While private key seems to be ok, you should make sure the private key
> is stored on furthest machine (so, if machine with public interface is
> lost, you don't loose local machine automatically)
> 
> But i'm thinking of a bit different scenario:
> >From destination machine you can make key based ssh setup to access
> source machine as limited user. On source machine setup sudo to allow
> only one command (i.e. tar with some attribute-preserving parameters)
> to be executed as root. tar file could be with mask 600 (so not
> readable by other users). Then trough ssh transfer that tar file, and
> decompress as root.
> Drawbacks? If public machine get's compromised, it get's read access
> to local machine.. but you got copy of it's config's on public machine
> anyway.
> 
> Regards,
> Atis
> 

what I have done is allow root remote ssh access by key only and for specific
keys which are used to do backups etc I further limit it by placing
resetrictions on what commands are allow via ssh. look at command= for
authorized_keys



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Re: Restrict server access

[Roberto C . Sánchez]

On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 10:03:02AM +1000, Will Parkinson wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I was wondering if there was any way to restrict server ssh, ftp and 
> even http access to certain countries / ip ranges?  I've been using 
> debian for a while at home but am pretty new to the security side of things.
> 
Shorewall allows you tou blacklist specific IPs or blocks of IPs.
Conversely, you can block everything and then whitelist only the ones
you want to get through.

Regards,

-Roberto

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Restrict server access

[Will Parkinson]

Hi All,

I was wondering if there was any way to restrict server ssh, ftp and 
even http access to certain countries / ip ranges?  I've been using 
debian for a while at home but am pretty new to the security side of things.


Any help much appreciated

Cheers

Will


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Re: bash prompt won't wrap properly

[Tyler Smith]

On 2007-04-15, Gerard Robin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I encountered the same problem and I solved it adding \]\n[\ in my PS1.
>
> my PS1:
>
> PS1="${magenta}[\[$TIME\] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> \[${BLUE}\]\#\[$NC\]]\w\$ "
>
> hth.


That's interesting. If I put the \n at the end of my prompt it works
right. If I put it at the beginning or in the middle I get the same
problem - the first line wraps at 66 characters, and overwrites the
line rather than spilling onto the next line. I've discovered that the
second and presumably all subsequent lines wrap correctly at 80
characters and spill onto the following line, rather than overwriting
the current line.

So the only functional option so far is to add the \n at the end of my
prompt. However, I'd rather have my prompt on the same line as the
input, which doesn't seem like an unreasonable demand. Any other
suggestions?

Thanks,

Tyler


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Re: Problems with sarge to etch upgrade

[Michael Pobega]

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On Sun, Apr 15, 2007 at 05:37:37PM -0400, Patrick Cummings wrote:
> > Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2007 14:28:32 -0400> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > CC: debian-user@lists.debian.org> Subject: Re: Problems with sarge
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> > computer was working perfectly since almost 1 year before the> >
> > upgrade and as far as I know there is no hardware problem with it.>
> > > Thanks for your time> > Well, there's a problem with your RAM
> > > memory, try with another memory> and check if the error persists,
> > > that's a warning only, you can start> normally commenting the line
> > > you mentioned before but there'll be> probably some crashes
> > > because of this.> > Regards,> Jose Luis.> - --> > ghostbar on
> > > Linux/Debian 'sid' i686 - #382503> Weblog: http://ghostbar.ath.cx/
> > > - http://talug.org.ve> http://debian.org.ve - irc.debian.org
> > > #debian-ve #debian-devel-es> San Cristóbal, Venezuela.
> > > http://chaslug.org.ve> Fingerprint = 3E7D 4267 AFD5 2407 2A37 20AC
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>  
> I will check my RAM with memtest when I can afford a downtime, however
> this problem appeared exactly after I upgraded from sarge to etch, so
> I find it weird it might be hardware related.  Right now I'm running
> with my /tmp(was xfs) in the same partition as /(currently ext3), and
> it is stable.
>  

I don't have anything to add, but I just wanted to warn you that your
MUA ruined the thread. Everything became garbled garbage.

If you're not already try switching to a graphical client, like
Icedove/Evolution/Sylpheed. If you're comfortable with the command line
Mutt is a really amazing MUA, it speeds up the process of checking and
responding to email, especially when combined with Vim.
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Re: Soundcard issues

[Michael Pobega]

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On Sat, Apr 14, 2007 at 05:22:41PM -0400, Barry F Smith wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 14, 2007 at 11:36:03AM -0400, Ralph Katz wrote:
> > On 04/13/2007 03:50 AM, Raffaele Morelli wrote:
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 2007/4/12, Ralph Katz <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >:
> > 
> > 
> > > I have the same issue for an isapnp soundcard on etch.  alsaconf sets 
> > > it
> > > up, writes to /etc/modprobe.d/sound, but even after alsactl store,
> > > reboot requires re-doing the steps.
> > > 
> > > Anyone else?  Ideas?
> > > 
> > > Thanks,
> > > Ralph
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Did you look at alsa-project web sites? Search specific tips for your
> > > card there, isapnp sound card require isapnp tools/packages to deal
> > > with. Have a look.
> > > 
> > > cheers
> > > raffaele
> > 
> > I only see outdated stuff there, but thanks.  Besides, the sound card
> > works fine, alsa works fine, I just have to repeat the alsaconf steps
> > EACH reboot.  Update-modules after doing this didn't help either.
> > Nothing gets loaded at boot:
> > 
> > ~$ grep -i alsa /var/log/boot
> > Sat Apr 14 11:15:50 2007: ^[[9;30]^[[14;30]Setting up ALSA...done (none
> > loaded).
> > 
> > Very, very frustrating.  And when this is done, then I get to tackle
> > making esd (esound) work with alsa for mixing.
> > 
> > You can tell I'm really ready to get past this etch upgrade.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Ralph
> > 
> > --1e1c94ce6334cecf9b45d8dce1e521fb
> 
> I had a similar problem when I upgraded to etch. I'm not sure if this was
> mentioned yet, but what I had to do was:
> 1. Run alsaconf
> 2. Run alsactl store
> 3. Add my soundcard kernel module in /etc/modules, so that the module would
> be loaded at boot. In my case I added the module snd_cs4236.
> 
> I know that's frustrating - took me a few weeks before I had it figured
> out. Best of luck.
> 
> Regards,
> Barry Smith
> 
> 

How do I figure out what the module name is for my sound card? I've
never really used modules besides my ipw3945 one, so I'm inexperienced
when it comes to them.

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Re: ls may be broken

[Michael Pobega]

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On Sun, Apr 15, 2007 at 05:40:08PM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> I download podcasts with podracer and had set up a subscriptions file for 
> podracer that under original circumstances made a directory for a podcast 
> under the date directory and put the actual mp3 files into that directory. 
> I don't know if it's changes in python or some subdirectories creation 
> limit but recently podracer has been leaving mp3's on the drive using what 
> were oriinally directory names for naming those podcasts.  A few minutes 
> ago the washing machine had an overflow and maintenance came back and 
> vacuumed up the floor and now I check today's incoming podcasts and one I 
> know is not a directory appears when I use ls -d * in that 2007-04-15 
> directory.  I played it earlier using mpg321 so I know.  For whatever 
> reason ls appears unable to tell the difference between a directory name 
> and a file name anymore.
> 
> 
> 

Try figuring out what type of file it is using the program "file".

And a little nitpick, try to avoid run on sentences; It makes it very
hard to understand what you're saying.

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Re: upgrade sarge2etch: sendmail doesn't work correctly

[Micha Borrmann]

Zitat von Micha Borrmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:


I've one problem with sendmail. I'm using a certificate based relaying.
The clients are verified from the system, but the SMTP connection are
not used to sent mail.

In /var/log/mail.info the following lines are logged:

Apr 12 12:47:50 etch sm-mta[13211]: STARTTLS=server, relay=client
[10.1.1.1], version=TLSv1/SSLv3, verify=OK, cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA,
bits=256/256
Apr 12 12:47:50 etch sm-mta[13211]: l3CAlnL8013211: AUTH decode64 error
[1 for "="]

It's an up-to-date etch but with a sarge kernel
(kernel-image-2.6.8-2-686), because a reboot of the system is not a
good option.


I've installed a new etch from scratch, with a current 2.8.18-4  
Kernel. The problem is the same. Is anybody here using certificate  
based relaying with sendmail on etch?


Bye,
Micha



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etch: truetype mit defoma

[Boris Andratzek]

Moin zusammen,


manchmal ist es schwer...

Ich versuche, entsprechend einer Anleitung, die mit Sarge immer
funktioniert hat, ein paar Truetype-Fonts einzubauen. Das geht nicht
(s.u.). Google sagt mir, dass ich nahezu der erste Mensch bin, der das
Wort 'HintGenerator' jemals in seiner Konsole gesehen hat.
Kann jemand 'was damit anfangen

nl-lt-boris:/home/boris/Kielius-Font# defoma-hints -c --no-question
truetyp /usr/local/share/fonts/truetype/* >
/etc/defoma/hints/eigeneschriften.hints
Wait for second...
HintGenerator Library for truetyp not found.

Boris


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Time/Date via Gnome clock app (sid)

[Andrea S. Gozzi]

Hi.
I've set up my primary sid desktop to update time with NTP via the Gnome
clock application.
Now it seems that the NTP server has gone offline and the displayed time
has a -5min difference with the real one. I wanted to use the servers
pool instead but I can't access the menu.
Every time I try to obtain privileges the password is rejected and I
typed it in enough times to be sure it's the correct one..
This happens only with the Time/Date app, everything else works
perfectly (synaptic, disks, gparted, ..) .
Has this happened to somebody else?

Andrea


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Re: bash prompt won't wrap properly

[Gerard Robin]

On Sun, Apr 15, 2007 at 09:15:52PM +, Tyler Smith wrote:

From: Tyler Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: bash prompt won't wrap properly
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Hi,

I've modified my bash prompt to display the number of minutes of
battery time left. I use the following code in my .bashrc:

##

alias bt="acpi | awk '{print \$5}' | awk -F : '{print \$1*60 + \$2}'"

# set a fancy prompt (non-color, unless we know we "want" color)
case "$TERM" in
xterm)
   
PS1='\033[01;31m\]$(bt)\033[00m\]|\033[01;32m\]\u\[\033[00m\]:\[\033[01;34m\]\W\[\033[00m\]->
 '
   ;;
*)
   PS1='\u:\W-> '
   ;;
esac

###

This works as expected, except that now if I enter a line that is
longer than the screen width, instead of continuing on the *next* line
it continues on the *same* line, over-writing  what is there. I can
still pass the line to bash, which interprets it correctly, but it is
confusing and pretty much impossible to edit. What did I do wrong?

Tyle

I encountered the same problem and I solved it adding \]\n[\ in my PS1.

my PS1:

PS1="${magenta}[\[$TIME\] [EMAIL PROTECTED] \[${BLUE}\]\#\[$NC\]]\w\$ " 


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Re: Fwd: Re: Sarge packages have disappeared

[zfh]

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

> On Sun, 15 Apr 2007 22:21:12 +0200
> Nigel Henry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > This is a bit sad. Christian has trashed all the
> available
> > multimedia packages  for Sarge since Etch has gone
> stable.

Christian, 

Since Sarge will be supported by debian until it is
moved to archive status (probably in about a year), do
you think you could put the sarge packages back?



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Re: dnsmasq in debian

[Micha Feigin]

On Sun, 15 Apr 2007 16:27:48 -0500
"Andrew Bassett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On 4/15/07, Jochen Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Gunnar Björkdahl:
> > >
> > > I'm trying to setup dnsmasq on my LAN. I configured the adresses in
> > > /etc/hosts and I can ping them fine. But I am unable to ping the outside
> > > world. What have I done wrong or missed?
> >
> > There is no way to know. You didn't tell us what you wanted to use
> > dnsmasq for (DNS, DHCP?), how you configured it and what error message
> > you got.
> >
> > J.
> > --
> 
> 
> Could you post the ouput of cat /etc/resolv.conf?
> 
> Also, how did you configure your LAN? Did you set up a box to act as a
> router with 2 NICs?
> 

Also, can you ping the outside world from the server (the one running dnsmasq)?

> 

Re: How to set up Logitech Quickcam Chat in Debian Testing

[David Dawson]

Florian Kulzer wrote:

> On Sun, Apr 15, 2007 at 18:28:03 +, David Dawson wrote:
>> Magnus Pedersen wrote:
>> 
>> > David Dawson wrote:
>>   
>> >> Thanks! ...
>> >>> What does dmesg give your right after:
>> >>>
>> >>> - you plug in the device?
>> >> This:
>> >> usb 4-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3
>> >> usb 4-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
>> >> 
>> >> 
>> >>> - you modprobe the module?
>> >> This:
>> >> Linux video capture interface: v2.00
>> >> usbcore: registered new driver spca5xx
>> >> /usr/src/modules/spca5xx/drivers/usb/spca5xx.c: spca5xx driver
>> >> 00.60.00 registered
>> > 
>> > And even after this you dont get /dev/video ?
>>
>> That's correct.
>> I tried using MAKDEV, but it only created stuff in /dev/.static/dev
> 
> That happens because udev should normally handle the device nodes
> automatically. What messages do you get if you start
> 
> udevmonitor
> 
> and then plug in the camera?
I get the following:
UEVENT[1176670280.086049] add@/devices/pci:00/:00:13.1/usb4/4-2
UEVENT[1176670280.086132]
add@/devices/pci:00/:00:13.1/usb4/4-2/usbdev4.3_ep00
UEVENT[1176670280.089077]
add@/devices/pci:00/:00:13.1/usb4/4-2/4-2:1.0
UDEV  [1176670280.089077] add@/devices/pci:00/:00:13.1/usb4/4-2
UEVENT[1176670280.089137]
add@/devices/pci:00/:00:13.1/usb4/4-2/4-2:1.0/usbdev4.3_ep81
UEVENT[1176670280.089149] add@/class/usb_device/usbdev4.3
UDEV  [1176670280.124411]
add@/devices/pci:00/:00:13.1/usb4/4-2/usbdev4.3_ep00
UDEV  [1176670280.127800]
add@/devices/pci:00/:00:13.1/usb4/4-2/4-2:1.0
UDEV  [1176670280.219247]
add@/devices/pci:00/:00:13.1/usb4/4-2/4-2:1.0/usbdev4.3_ep81
UDEV  [1176670280.260397] add@/class/usb_device/usbdev4.3

> 
> One other thing: Is your system old enough to have been upgraded from a
> version of Debian which still used hotplug? In that case you have to
> make sure that the hotplug package is now purged (not just removed).
> 
It is old enough, but I have removed and purged hotplug some time ago.
I was aware of that issue.

That is: apt-get remove hotplug --purge

As a parenthetical note, I have an elcheapo webcam which is detected, the
module is loaded and the /dev/video0 device created just perfectly, so I am
sure udev is doing its job, in the case of that device
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Re: Network Performance Issues.

[Michael Pobega]

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On Sun, Apr 15, 2007 at 11:09:29AM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 15, 2007 at 08:06:02AM -0400, Michael Pobega wrote:
> > On Sat, Apr 14, 2007 at 11:02:17PM +0100, Alan Chandler wrote:
>  > 
> > > Downloading a video from youtube onto Machine D's desktop I get a 
> > > download speed of about 7Kbytes/sec. Which is very low.  If I try to 
> > > download the same one by ssh'ing into mahcine S and running wget on the 
> > > same url, I get a download speed of 80Kbytes/sec (ie more than 10 times 
> > > faster).
> > > 
>  
> > I'm having some problems too. YouTube just doesn't load for me, no
> > matter what network I'm connected to. It works under Epiphany and
> > Iceweasel but under Galeon (My main browser) it just doesn't load.
> > 
> > I've tried clearing cookies, cleaning the cache, but nothing works. I
> > haven't purged it yet because I customized Galeon a lot, but if anyone
> > thinks it would help I'd purge/reinstall.
> > 
> 
> Before you purge/reinstall, try creating a new user (one without all
> your personal customizing) and try again.  Purge/reinstall doesn't touch
> config files in the home directories.
> 
> OTOH, for various reasons, I've given up on all the geko-based browsers
> (zilla/galeon/ice) and use Konqueror.  It seems much more functional
> (getting things done) in addition to nicer configs and bookmark editor.
> 
> Doug.
> 
> 

Nope, does the same thing for guest/root. So purging and reinstalling it
my last option, I hope this works.

But it still does the same thing. Even with a fresh install of Galeon it
doesn't want to load YouTube. Should I file a bug against the Galeon
package or call this one of those 1/1,000,000 things?

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ls may be broken

[Jude DaShiell]

I download podcasts with podracer and had set up a subscriptions file for 
podracer that under original circumstances made a directory for a podcast 
under the date directory and put the actual mp3 files into that directory. 
I don't know if it's changes in python or some subdirectories creation 
limit but recently podracer has been leaving mp3's on the drive using what 
were oriinally directory names for naming those podcasts.  A few minutes 
ago the washing machine had an overflow and maintenance came back and 
vacuumed up the floor and now I check today's incoming podcasts and one I 
know is not a directory appears when I use ls -d * in that 2007-04-15 
directory.  I played it earlier using mpg321 so I know.  For whatever 
reason ls appears unable to tell the difference between a directory name 
and a file name anymore.




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RE: Problems with sarge to etch upgrade

[Patrick Cummings]

> Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2007 14:28:32 -0400> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: 
> debian-user@lists.debian.org> Subject: Re: Problems with sarge to etch 
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> working perfectly since almost 1 year before the> > upgrade and as far as I 
> know there is no hardware problem with it.> > Thanks for your time> > Well, 
> there's a problem with your RAM memory, try with another memory> and check if 
> the error persists, that's a warning only, you can start> normally commenting 
> the line you mentioned before but there'll be> probably some crashes because 
> of this.> > Regards,> Jose Luis.> - --> > ghostbar on Linux/Debian 'sid' i686 
> - #382503> Weblog: http://ghostbar.ath.cx/ - http://talug.org.ve> 
> http://debian.org.ve - irc.debian.org #debian-ve #debian-devel-es> San 
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I will check my RAM with memtest when I can afford a downtime, however this 
problem appeared exactly after I upgraded from sarge to etch, so I find it 
weird it might be hardware related.
Right now I'm running with my /tmp(was xfs) in the same partition as 
/(currently ext3), and it is stable.
 
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bash prompt won't wrap properly

[Tyler Smith]

Hi,

I've modified my bash prompt to display the number of minutes of
battery time left. I use the following code in my .bashrc:

##

alias bt="acpi | awk '{print \$5}' | awk -F : '{print \$1*60 + \$2}'"

# set a fancy prompt (non-color, unless we know we "want" color)
case "$TERM" in
xterm)

PS1='\033[01;31m\]$(bt)\033[00m\]|\033[01;32m\]\u\[\033[00m\]:\[\033[01;34m\]\W\[\033[00m\]->
 '
;;
*)
PS1='\u:\W-> '
;;
esac

###

This works as expected, except that now if I enter a line that is
longer than the screen width, instead of continuing on the *next* line
it continues on the *same* line, over-writing  what is there. I can
still pass the line to bash, which interprets it correctly, but it is
confusing and pretty much impossible to edit. What did I do wrong?

Tyle


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Re: Fwd: Re: Sarge packages have disappeared

[Raquel]

On Sun, 15 Apr 2007 22:21:12 +0200
Nigel Henry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> This is a bit sad. Christian has trashed all the available
> multimedia packages  for Sarge since Etch has gone stable. In
> effect. if we want multimedia  packages we are being forced to
> upgrade to, at least Etch. I have 1 Sarge,  and 2 Etch installs.
> One of my Etch installs I'm soon going to put back on  testing to
> see how lenny goes, but don't understand why packages that were 
> available for Sarge from Christian Marillat's repo are now no
> longer  available!!.

I think that's "sad" too.  I'm waiting for a couple of weeks while
the dust settles before upragding to etch.  In the meantime I'm
getting errors because I can't get an acroread upgrade for Sarge.

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them.
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Re: Daily Updates

[David E. Fox]

On Sun, 15 Apr 2007 21:39:06 +0200
Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> This is just a consequence of the fact that the package "base-files"
> (which contains /etc/debian_version) is the same for Unstable and

I see. Thanks for the explanation, it makes sense now.

>   Florian


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Re: dnsmasq in debian

[Andrew Bassett]

On 4/15/07, Jochen Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


Gunnar Björkdahl:
>
> I'm trying to setup dnsmasq on my LAN. I configured the adresses in
> /etc/hosts and I can ping them fine. But I am unable to ping the outside
> world. What have I done wrong or missed?

There is no way to know. You didn't tell us what you wanted to use
dnsmasq for (DNS, DHCP?), how you configured it and what error message
you got.

J.
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Could you post the ouput of cat /etc/resolv.conf?

Also, how did you configure your LAN? Did you set up a box to act as a
router with 2 NICs?


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Re: Soundcard issues

[Ralph Katz]

On 04/15/2007 11:55 AM, Colin wrote:
> Barry F Smith wrote:
>> I had a similar problem when I upgraded to etch. I'm not sure if this was
>> mentioned yet, but what I had to do was:
>> 1. Run alsaconf
>> 2. Run alsactl store
>> 3. Add my soundcard kernel module in /etc/modules, so that the module would
>> be loaded at boot. In my case I added the module snd_cs4236.
> 
> Step 3 should at least be asked as a question as part of alsaconf.  I
> have no idea why Debian doesn't do this.
> 
> 

Colin,

It's a bug!  4 months old...

#402601: alsa-utils: Module no automatically added to /etc/modules after
running alsaconf

Regards,
Ralph


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Re: dnsmasq in debian

[Jochen Schulz]

Gunnar Björkdahl:
> 
> I'm trying to setup dnsmasq on my LAN. I configured the adresses in
> /etc/hosts and I can ping them fine. But I am unable to ping the outside
> world. What have I done wrong or missed?

There is no way to know. You didn't tell us what you wanted to use
dnsmasq for (DNS, DHCP?), how you configured it and what error message
you got.

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Etch upgrade and keyboard in WindowMaker

[Roberto C . Sánchez]

Hello all.  I upgraded my workstation from Sarge to Etch this weekend.
The biggest annoynce I have encountered is that my keyboard is "broken"
in WindowMaker.  That is, alt+tab no longer switches between windows.
F12 no longer brings up the menu.  F11 no longer brings up the window
list and alt+# (where # is a number 0-9) no longer switches to the
appropriate workspace.  I have gone into WPrefs and tried rebinding the
key combinations.  However, this still does not seem to work.  Has
anyone else encountered something similar?  If so, can this problem be
solved?

Regards,

-Roberto

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Unwanted Printer Test

[Thomas H. George]

On bootup - Etch, stock 2.6.18 kernel - my Brothers HL-730 laser printer 
prints a partial test page and stops with the error light flashing.


I don't need or want this test page.  The printer is almost 10 years old 
but it works fine on those rare occasions (like income tax preparation) 
when I must sin (aka boot to windows).


It always worked fine with CUPS too and probably would still if it were 
not locked up on an error.


I haven't been able to track down the reason this test page prints.  I 
have looked at some of the rc2.d files at .gconf (the test print starts 
just as gdm is loading) without success.


Any hints as to where to look next?


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Re: Sarge packages have disappeared

[Sven Arvidsson]

On Sun, 2007-04-15 at 15:53 -0400, Matthew K Poer wrote:
> If sarge is now old-stable (and I think it is), how would we access
> Woody packages?

Here,
http://archive.debian.org/


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problems to install postfix 2.3.8-2+b1 on etch

[Christian Meissner]

Hi,

i upgraded my sarge box to etch and now i'm not able to installing
postfix 2.3.8-2+b1. dpkg failed with error 139


Running newaliases
Stopping Postfix Mail Transport Agent: postfix.
Starting Postfix Mail Transport Agent: postfixinvoke-rc.d: initscript
postfix, action "restart" failed.
dpkg: error processing postfix (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 139
Errors were encountered while processing:
postfix
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install.  Trying to recover:
Setting up postfix (2.3.8-2+b1) ...
Use of uninitialized value in scalar chomp at
/var/lib/dpkg/info/postfix.config line 192.
Use of uninitialized value in join or string at
/usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Client/ConfModule.pm line 121.
Use of uninitialized value in scalar chomp at
/var/lib/dpkg/info/postfix.config line 256.
Use of uninitialized value in join or string at
/usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Client/ConfModule.pm line 121.
setting inet_protocols: ipv4

Postfix is now set up with the changes above.  If you need to make changes, edit
/etc/postfix/main.cf (and others) as needed.  To view Postfix configuration
values, see postconf(1).

After modifying main.cf, be sure to run '/etc/init.d/postfix reload'.

Running newaliases
Stopping Postfix Mail Transport Agent: postfix.
Starting Postfix Mail Transport Agent: postfixinvoke-rc.d: initscript
postfix, action "restart" failed.
dpkg: error processing postfix (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 139
Errors were encountered while processing:
postfix


I try to fix the problem by rebuilding the package from source. After
installing the new packages i run aptitude upgrade so the
installtation of postfix seems to be ok.
But now i does not start

I try

postfix -v start

But here i get a Segmentation fault.

Does anybody have a solution for me, 'cause i don't receive any email
since friday :-(

thx and cu
Chris


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kernel panic upgrading from 2.4.27 to 2.6.8 kernel related to initrd and devfs

[steve doerr]

Does anyone know how I can get around the following error?

VFS: Can't find ext3 filesystem on dev hda1
cramfs: wrong magic
pivot_root: No such file or directory
/sbin/init: 432: cannot open dev/console: No such file
Kernal panic: Attempted to kill init!

When I ran LILO I got the warning below but it added the image anyway.
Warning: '/proc/partitions' does not match '/dev' directory structure
Name change: '/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc' -> '/dev/hda'

I have procps installed but not devfsd or udev.  /dev/console is there after 
boot and I tried mounting / on /mnt and it created /dev/concole as a c type 
file there too.

The box started with a 2.2 or earlier kernel that I have upgraded over time to 
Sarge.  etc/fstab and lilo.conf are identical to another box that is running 
2.6.8 with no problems.

I'm just trying to install the stock 2.6.8 kernel image with initrdtools.

Thanks for any assistance.
Steve


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dnsmasq in debian

[Gunnar Björkdahl]

Hi all
I'm trying to setup dnsmasq on my LAN. I configured the adresses in
/etc/hosts and I can ping them fine. But I am unable to ping the outside
world. What have I done wrong or missed?

Fwd: Re: Sarge packages have disappeared

[Nigel Henry]

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Subject: Re: Sarge packages have disappeared
Date: Sunday 15 April 2007 21:50
From: Christian Marillat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Nigel Henry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Nigel Henry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Sunday 15 April 2007 20:53, you wrote:
>> nigel henry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> > What's happened to the repo for Sarge Christian. Folks are getting 404's
>> > when trying to access it?
>>
>> Sarge the stable distribution is now called etch.
>>
>> Christian
>
> I appreciate that Christian. Stable is now asigned to Etch. But do we have
> access to the Sarge repo, before Etch became stable? I think this equates
> as old-stable now. it would be a shame to think that all these packages for
> Sarge were now in the trash, and no longer available.

Too late. Users should ask before the stable release (even if asked
months before) to have an old-stable repository.

Christian

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for Sarge since Etch has gone stable. In effect. if we want multimedia 
packages we are being forced to upgrade to, at least Etch. I have 1 Sarge, 
and 2 Etch installs. One of my Etch installs I'm soon going to put back on 
testing to see how lenny goes, but don't understand why packages that were 
available for Sarge from Christian Marillat's repo are now no longer 
available!!.

Sometimes I wonder if I'm wasting my time working with computers. It might 
just be better taking my dog for a walk. Throwing a stick for him to fetch, 
and seeing him bringing it back to you. There's certainly more peace of mind 
when playing with a dog, than trying to resolve problems with the infernal 
machine.

Apologies. Perhaps I'm just a bit T'd off at the mo.

Nigel.


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Debian/Etch/4.0 upgrade experience

[James D. Freels]

Essentially flawless !  I have upgraded two i386 and one amd64 machines
from sarge to etch.  Except for configuration files that I changed
myself, it was clean and straight forward.  I am VERY impressed.  

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Re: Sarge packages have disappeared

[Matthew K Poer]

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Nigel Henry wrote:
> On Sunday 15 April 2007 20:53, you wrote:
>> nigel henry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>> What's happened to the repo for Sarge Christian. Folks are getting 404's
>>> when trying to access it?
>> Sarge the stable distribution is now called etch.
>>
>> Christian
> 
> I appreciate that Christian. Stable is now asigned to Etch. But do we have 
> access to the Sarge repo, before Etch became stable? I think this equates as 
> old-stable now. it would be a shame to think that all these packages for 
> Sarge were now in the trash, and no longer available.
> 
> Nigel.
> 
> 
If sarge is now old-stable (and I think it is), how would we access
Woody packages?

Not that I can think of a particularly good reason to want Woody packages...

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Re: How to set up Logitech Quickcam Chat in Debian Testing

[Florian Kulzer]

On Sun, Apr 15, 2007 at 18:28:03 +, David Dawson wrote:
> Magnus Pedersen wrote:
> 
> > David Dawson wrote:
>   
> >> Thanks! ...
> >>> What does dmesg give your right after:
> >>>
> >>> - you plug in the device?
> >> This:
> >> usb 4-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3
> >> usb 4-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
> >> 
> >> 
> >>> - you modprobe the module?
> >> This:
> >> Linux video capture interface: v2.00
> >> usbcore: registered new driver spca5xx
> >> /usr/src/modules/spca5xx/drivers/usb/spca5xx.c: spca5xx driver 00.60.00
> >> registered
> > 
> > And even after this you dont get /dev/video ?
>
> That's correct.
> I tried using MAKDEV, but it only created stuff in /dev/.static/dev

That happens because udev should normally handle the device nodes
automatically. What messages do you get if you start 

udevmonitor

and then plug in the camera?

One other thing: Is your system old enough to have been upgraded from a
version of Debian which still used hotplug? In that case you have to
make sure that the hotplug package is now purged (not just removed).

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Sarge->Etch upgrade breaks cupsys network printing

[Ralph Katz]

With sarge on two computers, this worked smoothly to print from either box:
Sarge box -> Sarge box with printer

Now:Sarge box -> Etch box with printer

With Etch now running on the box with the HP5L printer, only local jobs
print.  Print jobs from the sarge box are not accepted.

Using the old sarge's /etc/cups/cupsd.conf on the etch box, Sarge box
sees the printer, but the etch box sees no sarge print jobs.  The sarge
box cups error log shows jobs queued to the HP5L.

Using etch's new /etc/cups/cupsd.conf, we have local printing and
communication with sarge, but no printing:
[sarge box] $ lpstat -a
cups-PDF accepting requests since Jan 01 00:00
HP5L not accepting requests since Jan 01 00:00 -

I've searched the net and read the local docs to no avail.

How can I configure the new cupsd.conf on etch to enable printing from
sarge?  Thanks for any suggestions or pointers!

Regards,
Ralph


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# Only listen for connections from the local machine.
Listen localhost:631
Listen /var/run/cups/cups.sock
# Listen @LOCAL or 192.168.1.103 gave errors.

# Show shared printers on the local network.
Browsing On
BrowseOrder allow,deny
BrowseAllow @LOCAL

# Default authentication type, when authentication is required...
DefaultAuthType Basic

# Restrict access to the server...

  Order allow,deny
  Allow localhost
  Allow 192.168.1.103
 



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Re: Sarge packages have disappeared

[Nigel Henry]

On Sunday 15 April 2007 20:53, you wrote:
> nigel henry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > What's happened to the repo for Sarge Christian. Folks are getting 404's
> > when trying to access it?
>
> Sarge the stable distribution is now called etch.
>
> Christian

I appreciate that Christian. Stable is now asigned to Etch. But do we have 
access to the Sarge repo, before Etch became stable? I think this equates as 
old-stable now. it would be a shame to think that all these packages for 
Sarge were now in the trash, and no longer available.

Nigel.


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Re: Daily Updates

[Florian Kulzer]

On Sun, Apr 15, 2007 at 11:27:50 -0700, David E. Fox wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 23:05:08 -0400 Greg Folkert wrote:
> 
> > "Lenny/Sid", it used to say "Etch/Sid" until about November of 2006. I
> > am sure it will say Lenny/Sid until a few weeks until the (set, but not
> > met) release of Lenny.
> 
> But what's the rationale behind that?

This is just a consequence of the fact that the package "base-files"
(which contains /etc/debian_version) is the same for Unstable and
Testing most of the time. As far as I know there is no mechanism to keep
different versions of this package in the two branches, unless one wants
to file some sort of semi-permanent blocking bug.

(I have a vague recollection that someone pointed this out already, but
 this thread is now so chaotic that I cannot find the relevant message
 quickly enough.)

>   I mean, at any one time, the
> release is either Etch, or Lenny, or whatever comes next. Unless
> someone has mixed sources (testing and unstable, like knoppix, mepis,
> or other derived distros), it should be either etch, or lenny or
> whatever. It shouldn't be Lenny/Sid. That implies mixed sources, and
> it's a potential (and real) source of confusion. 

It is at least less scary than "testing/unstable" which was the version
string for quite a while.

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Re: How to set up Logitech Quickcam Chat in Debian Testing

[David Dawson]

Magnus Pedersen wrote:

> David Dawson wrote:
  
>> Thanks! ...
>>> What does dmesg give your right after:
>>>
>>> - you plug in the device?
>> This:
>> usb 4-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3
>> usb 4-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
>> 
>> 
>>> - you modprobe the module?
>> This:
>> Linux video capture interface: v2.00
>> usbcore: registered new driver spca5xx
>> /usr/src/modules/spca5xx/drivers/usb/spca5xx.c: spca5xx driver 00.60.00
>> registered
> 
> And even after this you dont get /dev/video ?
That's correct.
I tried using MAKDEV, but it only created stuff in /dev/.static/dev
> 
> /Magnus
> 
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Re: Further problems with OOo

[Glen Pfeiffer]

On 04/15/2007 10:31 AM, andy wrote:
> My wife, using Etch, was writing a long document in OOo, went
> to go and save it as *.doc (for transport to work) and the
> document crashed. Now everything except the very earliest save
> is gone! She is *not* impressed (so much for my Linux
> advocacy!).

As for recovering, I think you are out of luck.

But it is very naive to write a document without saving often.
One of the first things users *should* learn is to save often. I
rarely write more than a paragraph or two before I hit Ctrl-S.

Also, there is an option in OOo to save AutoRecovery information
every N minutes. It is off by default on my etch system, so it
probably is on yours as well. Go to Tools -> Options and select
Load/Save -> General on the left. The fourth check box is for
saving AutoRecovery information. Sure, I think it should probably
be on by default, but it isn't, so I deal with it.

I believe this feature is on by default in MS Word, but that
doesn't make it superior.

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Re: Soundcard issues-RESOLVED

[Ralph Katz]

On 04/15/2007 12:22 PM, Barry F Smith wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 14, 2007 at 11:36:03AM -0400, Ralph Katz wrote:
>> On 04/13/2007 03:50 AM, Raffaele Morelli wrote:
>>>
>>> 2007/4/12, Ralph Katz <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >:
>>
>>> I have the same issue for an isapnp soundcard on etch.  alsaconf sets it
>>> up, writes to /etc/modprobe.d/sound, but even after alsactl store,
>>> reboot requires re-doing the steps.
>>>
>>> Anyone else?  Ideas?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Ralph
>>>
>>>
[snip]
> 
> I had a similar problem when I upgraded to etch. I'm not sure if this was
> mentioned yet, but what I had to do was:
> 1. Run alsaconf
> 2. Run alsactl store
> 3. Add my soundcard kernel module in /etc/modules, so that the module would
> be loaded at boot. In my case I added the module snd_cs4236.
> 
> I know that's frustrating - took me a few weeks before I had it figured
> out. Best of luck.
> 
> Regards,
> Barry Smith
> 

WORKS! I'm not the OP, but this resolves my particular problem.

Thank you, Barry.  I've spent hours and hours searching on this and
modify config files.  I had done those steps, but not in that ORDER.
And Colin is right, can't imagine why this isn't handled nor mentioned
by the debian pkgs.

Now, my remaining sound issue is the fixing esound or other playing
sounds simultaneously solution.

Regards,
Ralph


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Re: Daily Updates

[David E. Fox]

On Sat, 14 Apr 2007 22:30:41 GMT
"s. keeling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> As it was explained to me, following an aptitude upgrade with aptitude
> dist-upgrade solves this.  Leave your sources.list as it is and do a

OK, it seems to be installing those extras now.

It seems aptitude dist-upgrade has a few uses outside of upgrading one
release to the other.

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Re: Daily Updates

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On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 23:05:08 -0400
Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> "Lenny/Sid", it used to say "Etch/Sid" until about November of 2006. I
> am sure it will say Lenny/Sid until a few weeks until the (set, but not
> met) release of Lenny.

But what's the rationale behind that? I mean, at any one time, the
release is either Etch, or Lenny, or whatever comes next. Unless
someone has mixed sources (testing and unstable, like knoppix, mepis,
or other derived distros), it should be either etch, or lenny or
whatever. It shouldn't be Lenny/Sid. That implies mixed sources, and
it's a potential (and real) source of confusion. 

> 


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Re: Problems with sarge to etch upgrade

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> The computer was working perfectly since almost 1 year before the
> upgrade and as far as I know there is no hardware problem with it.
> Thanks for your time

Well, there's a problem with your RAM memory, try with another memory
and check if the error persists, that's a warning only, you can start
normally commenting the line you mentioned before but there'll be
probably some crashes because of this.

Regards,
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Re: Gnome and root permission (bug?)

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On Sun, 2007-04-15 at 19:46 +0200, Joe Hart wrote:
> That looks more like a Ubuntu type thing to me.  Debian's gnome should
> be asking for the root password to perform administrative functions, not
>  a the user password, unless of course it is actually calling gksudo to
> do the functions.
> 
> Since I don't use gnome, I could be wrong, but KDE always wants the root
> password when doing things like mentioned above.

The gnome-system-tools are set up to use gksu by default, if run
directly (not through gksu) they request the root password.

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Re: Further problems with OOo

[andy]

Jonathan Kaye wrote:

andy wrote:

  

My wife, using Etch, was writing a long document in OOo, went to go and
save it as *.doc (for transport to work) and the document crashed. Now
everything except the very earliest save is gone! She is *not* impressed
(so much for my Linux advocacy!).
How can I recover the document - the auto-recovery of OOo only retrieved
the earlier stuff, but all changes she has made over the last few hours
are gone.

Any guides on how I can rescue and resuscitate the document as close to
when it crashed as possible and save my wife's emotional sanity?

A BIG thanks





Hi Andy,
Again, it would be helpful if you indicate which version of OOo you are
using. What was the backup frequency set to in Tools -> Options ->
Load/Save -> "Save Autorecovery every . minutes"? That will determine
with what frequency your work is backed up. I don't have much experience
with M$ Word but I suppose it works in much the same way. I'm not sure what
you mean when you say "the document crashed". Do you mean OOo crashed? You
might want to describe what exactly happened because I don't think this is
normal behaviour. My girlfriend is an editor/translator and has used OOo
for several years. She typically gets long and complicated docs that need
to be sent back (with the changes recored) in .doc format. She has never
experienced this kind of problem. You might also post your query to the
comp.openoffice.questions newsgroup. That's probably the best place for the
recovery issue and why OOo crashed on saving as a .doc file.
Cheers,
Jonathan 



  

Jonathan

Thanks for the reply.
Sorry it is OOo-2.0.4. The auto back-up feature was not enabled (!!).
Yes, I meant that OOo as an app crashed - spontaneously closed. When she 
went to reopen OOo, she agreed to the recovery option and the earlier 
version was recovered while her work was lost (she was trying to save it 
when the app crashed).


I have since found out (after searching and joining a couple of other 
mailing lists) that the data is inevitably dead and gone ... at least as 
far as OOo is concerned. I have now adjusted the auto back-up to every 5 
minutes and a back-up will be created. I have also been advised to save 
the file in native *.odt before trying to save it as *.doc . Apparently 
OOo document recovery function isn't much good - i.e. not reliable - and 
one is warned to stay away from it. I have also come across some 
discussion that one should uninstall the distro-version of OOo and 
install the native version.


Anyway, there's not much to do now. Why OOo crashed and why the recovery 
didn't ...  will probably never know. Was a right royal PITA I can tell 
you - for both of us!


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Re: Complete system freeze from virtual terminals / terminal emulators

[Florian Kulzer]

On Sat, Apr 14, 2007 at 21:09:16 -0700, Pat Primate wrote:
> Florian Kulzer wrote earlier:

[...]

> > It looks like your X setup is OK as far as the graphics card is
> > concerned (see my remarks below). Maybe the problem is in some weird way
> > related to the pcspkr module which controls the system bell. You could
> > try to (un)load the module and see if that makes any difference. The
> > whole thing might be a very rare coincidence of several factors;
> > tracking it down might be difficult and not really worth it.
> >
> > [...]
> 
> Brilliant Florian, the problem does seem to be the pcspkr module. I
> modprobe -r pcspkr and the terminal works fine, then I modprobe pcspkr and
> everything freezes again. So I suppose all I have to do is blacklist the
> pcspkr module or something like that and my problems should be over.
> 
> Should I file a bug report for this with the kernel team then??

I would first test if the pcspkr module works (beeps) on the TTYs. This
bug could very well be somewhere in KDE (or X) and the absence of the
pcspkr module might "fix" things only because it leads to KDE/X skipping
some buggy code.

You can check "dmesg | grep -i speaker" for clues while playing around
with the module. It would be especially interesting to see if the magic
switch X->TTY->X changes anything in /dev/input. (Don't ask me why the
device node of the speaker is generated in "input".)

Anyway, if all else fails you can simply use

echo "blacklist pcspkr" > /etc/modprobe.d/pcspkr

to blacklist the pcspkr module during boot.

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Re: How to set up Logitech Quickcam Chat in Debian Testing

[Magnus Pedersen]

David Dawson wrote:
 

Thanks! ...

What does dmesg give your right after:

- you plug in the device?

This:
usb 4-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3 
usb 4-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice




- you modprobe the module?

This:
Linux video capture interface: v2.00
usbcore: registered new driver spca5xx
/usr/src/modules/spca5xx/drivers/usb/spca5xx.c: spca5xx driver 00.60.00
registered


And even after this you dont get /dev/video ?

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Re: Network Performance Issues.

[Mike Bird]

On Sunday 15 April 2007 08:20, Alan Chandler wrote:
> Now when I look at a similar exchange when I am using the gateway
> machine just as a hop and there is a machine behind the gateway I get a
> different pattern
>
> youtube->me http cont seq 4344 next seq 5792
> me->youtube tcp ack seq 5792
> youtube->me http cont seq 7240 next seq 8688
> me->youtube dup ack seq 5792
> youtube->me http cont seq 10136 next seq 11584
> me->youtube dup ack seq 5792
> youtube->me http cont seq 5790 next seq 7240
> me->youtube tcp ack seq 8688
> youtube->me http cont seq 8688 next seq 10136
>
>
> As you can see, in this case, it appears that some packets are being
> lost and have to repeated via a dup ack.

Check "cat cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/default/forwarding" is 1.
(Earlier kernels used /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward.)

Check your routing table with "ip route show".

Make sure "ip rule show" has only three lines, or check what the
additional lines are doing.

As a previous poster suggested, see how "iptables -L -nv" changes
during a download.  Also check "iptables -L -nv -t nat".

Try temporarily turning off your firewall, except for any rules needed
for NAT or masquerading.  (If you have any insecure services, stop them
before turning off your firewall.)

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Re: libc6 testing

[Seb]

On Sun, 15 Apr 2007 19:17:37 +0200,
Elimar Riesebieter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

[...]

> Still wait until tzdate is build against the new glibs. Sofar, do an
> apt-get upgrade instead of an apt-get dist-upgrade.

Thanks, I understand.


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Re: Installing alpine on a system which already has pine

[Patrick Wiseman]

On 4/15/07, Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


It must be noted that you should not manually remove files that are part
of a package.



I really know better than to do that :)  But it was just a man page, so I
figured it would do no serious harm if I tried it.

The dpkg --force-overwrite command did the trick; I then did 'dpkg -r pine',
which removed pine but not the files in common with alpine, and all is well.

Patrick

Re: Gnome and root permission (bug?)

[Joe Hart]

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> On Sun, 2007-04-15 at 11:07 -0400, Greg Folkert wrote:
>> On Sun, 2007-04-15 at 16:04 +0200, Mauro wrote:
>>
>>> I've just installed debian SID and I've chosen to try GNOME. Now
>>> everytime I execute an administration application (time-admin,
>>> services-admin, etc.) I must specify the root password. The
>>> applications always say "Wrong password". If I login root with gdm the
>>> problem persist.
>>>
>> It is not asking for the root password. It is asking for your password.
>> This is a feature of using things like "sudo"
> 
> The "root" things, I failed to see in my last response. But the user
> logged in, and t asking for a password is aimed at having an "sudo"
> mechanism in place.

That looks more like a Ubuntu type thing to me.  Debian's gnome should
be asking for the root password to perform administrative functions, not
 a the user password, unless of course it is actually calling gksudo to
do the functions.

Since I don't use gnome, I could be wrong, but KDE always wants the root
password when doing things like mentioned above.

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Re: Installing alpine on a system which already has pine

[Kevin Mark]

On Sun, Apr 15, 2007 at 11:57:14AM -0400, Patrick Wiseman wrote:
> Hello:
> 
> I'm trying to install alpine, the free successor to pine, but aptitude 
> reports:
> 
> Unpacking alpine (from .../alpine_0.83+dfsg-2_i386.deb) ...
> dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/alpine_0.83+dfsg-2_i386.deb
> (--unpack):
>  trying to overwrite `/usr/share/man/man1/rpdump.1.gz', which is also in
> package pine
> dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  /var/cache/apt/archives/alpine_0.83+dfsg-2_i386.deb
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> A package failed to install.
> 
> I don't want to remove pine until I'm sure alpine is an appropriate
> replacement.  I removed the offending file, but the error remains.  Is there a
> way I can force alpine to be installed?  I read the aptitude manual, but could
> find no way to override its refusal to install.
It must be noted that you should not manually remove files that are part
of a package. As you found out, removing it yourself did not fix the
error. This is because dpkg does NOT search for the actual file but it
looks, iirc, at /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.list for the conflict.
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Re: Idea for weekly/monthy wallpaper/themes package

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On Sun, Apr 15, 2007 at 01:52:28AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi list/group, (I seem to be in a slashy mood...)
> 
> I've had an idea for a while to make a package of wallpaper and/or
> other theme elements and put it in a repository, updated weekly or
> monthly--maybe one package for each--so people could install the
> package, set their wallpaper to /usr/share/wallpapers/the-monthly-
> wallpaper.png, and get automatically updated wallpaper every so
> often.  Perhaps there could even be some debconf and virtual package
> magic to let the user decide to install the last X-months worth of
> wallpapers, or something like that...you get the idea.
> 
> So my question is, would anyone be interested in something like that?
> Do you have any ideas for how to do it better, or what to include?
> Maybe different themes, like scenery, urban, art, Linux-related,
> water, sky, macro, etc.  What do you think?
> 
Sounds like something to dicuss at the new debian-community.org site!
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Re: libc6 testing

[Elimar Riesebieter]

On Sun, 15 Apr 2007 the mental interface of
Seb told:

[...]

> I see that tzdata replaces libc6, but I've had these two installed
> for a long time without this problem.  Anybody got any idea what
> the issue is?

Still wait until tzdate is build against the new glibs. Sofar, do an
apt-get upgrade instead of an apt-get dist-upgrade.

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Re: ftp.us.debian.org not responding

[Wayne Topa]

Carl Fink([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said:
> Over the past few days, the above server has refused downloads at least 19
> of 20 times when using apt-get.  Am I the only one experiencing this
> problem?

Downloading from there right now.  It's not very fast and thars saying
something.  The fastest I get downloads is 2.6kbs and it is currently
running at 1.2kbs.  Only upgrading 11 packages so not to big a worry
here.

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Re: ftp.us.debian.org not responding

[Andrew J. Barr]

Celejar wrote:

On Sun, 15 Apr 2007 11:06:14 -0400
"Andrew J. Barr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I've been using debian.mirrors.tds.net, which is extremely fast. I 
typically get 620 kB/sec downloads, which is about as fast as my 
Internet connection can handle.


kB(ytes) or kb(its)?


kilobytes


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