Re: Synaptic- status is shown as local or obsolete

[Liam O'Toole]

On Mon, 11 Jun 2007 09:29:14 +0530
arijit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

[...]

> These packages are common in Synaptic(local/obsolete) section as well
> as in 'deborphan'.
> 
> libbind9-0
> liblwres9
> libntfs-3g0

Libraries identified by deborphan can be removed.

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Re: RAW image file

[Adrian Chapela]

Kevin Mark escribió:

On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 05:25:10PM -0400, Bernard wrote:
  

Hi,

What kind of applications can open and use RAW image file created by
digital cameras?  Does such applications exist for Linux?

Thanks,


Like all good companies, they did not make the RAW format universal,
only the term RAW. So nikon RAW image is not the same as a canon RAW
image. Luckily some kind developer found this out and after bugging the
companies, got the needed specs. There was a story about this maybe 2
years ago.
  

This is true! The companies are bad!!

Look for UFRAW and DCRAW.

Good luck!


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Re: sharing home directories for UML's

[Benedict Verheyen]

Karl E. Jorgensen schreef:


Then i'm stuck with either samba or nfs.


They should work. Or perhaps a clustered file system that allows the 
same disk to be mounted read-write simultaneously by multiple hosts.  

Such a disk could be located on the underlying host (=more ubd devices 
on the uml linux command line) or remotely using network block devices.


I *think* that the oracle clustered filesystem would do the trick, 
although it is more geared towards holding oracle databases.  One 
problem though: The kernel in the user-mode-linux package has not got 
ocfs2 enabled, so you'll need to recompile the package, but it *should* 
work...


Hope this helps


Yep,

that's another thing i could try, thanks !

Regards,
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Re: Find out host of IP

[andy]

Ralph Katz wrote:

On 06/10/2007 05:13 PM, andy wrote:

[...]
  

Ralph

What does fail2ban actually do. As my machine is behind an OBSD
firewall, would it still be relevant?

Cheers




andy -- It's relevant if you're under attack!  ;)

fail2ban doesn't care if the attack is from North Korea or an old pc on
your internal network (if you use the default config).

Wayne is correct; please use the tools. Also, please see
http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/#codeofconduct
"Never send your messages in HTML; use plain text instead."

Regards,
Ralph


  

Thanks Ralph - wasn't aware it was HTML. My bad!

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Re: Revert to simple Window Manager

[Sudev Barar]

On 11/06/07, Telly Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Sudev Barar wrote:
> On 11/06/07, Telly Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I'm currently using the Gnome Desktop environment.  As I learn to
>> use Linux/GNU more, I find that I want to slim down my computer as much
>> as possible.  Hence, I would like to use just a window manager instead
>> of a full GUI.  Is it possible to revert (maybe, apt-get remove gnome)
>> my GUI and simply use a window manager, or will I need to do a complete
>> reinstall?  Will removing the GUI (Gnome) break my system?  Are there
>> any links on the web that anyone has that discusses this issue?  Thanks.
>
> Additionally you will also have to look at using something other than
> gdm...maybe xdm or ??
But, that's only if I have more than one X-server, correct?  I
understood that only one X-server is needed.  Am I thinking about that
right? ~Telly


Replying on the list as this may end up in more learning for me as well.

Since the objective is to reduce resource pressure on the system you
may use alternative X-server. I do not know answers but gurus on the
list may give more pointers as to which X-server is most efficient.

As far as only use of alternative display managers is concerned you
can just do apt-get install icewm or xfce4 or matchbox.

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Re: Find out host of IP

[andy]

Wayne Topa wrote:

andy([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said:
  

Ralph Katz wrote:


On 06/10/2007 12:26 PM, David Baron wrote:
 
  
What does fail2ban actually do. As my machine is behind an OBSD 
firewall, would it still be relevant?




Use the tools Luke (andy)

aptitude | apt-cache show fail2ban

Wayne

  

LOL Wayne - thanks!!

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Re: Revert to simple Window Manager

[Jochen Schulz]

Telly Williams:
> 
> I'm currently using the Gnome Desktop environment.  As I learn to
> use Linux/GNU more, I find that I want to slim down my computer as much
> as possible.  Hence, I would like to use just a window manager instead
> of a full GUI.  Is it possible to revert (maybe, apt-get remove gnome)
> my GUI and simply use a window manager, or will I need to do a complete
> reinstall?

Neither. You may just install any window manager you choose and, when
logging in with gdm, pick the appropriate session. Gdm will ask you
whether your choice should be the default session for future logins. You
can switch back and forth any time you like.

Deinstalling gnome is a little more complicated since it consists of a
lot of packages. 'gnome' (or 'gnome-desktop-environment') are just
metapackages that don't contain useful software themselves. They just
depend on a whole lot of packages. That means when you remove them, you
do not necessarily remove the stuff you are interested in.

> >  Will removing the GUI (Gnome) break my system?  Are there
> any links on the web that anyone has that discusses this issue?  Thanks.

It will not break your system and there are no webpages discussing this
topic that I know of. What you are about to do is a really easy thing to
do and completely harmless.

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Re: Revert to simple Window Manager

[Mumia W..]

On 06/10/2007 11:33 PM, Telly Williams wrote:

Hi,

I'm currently using the Gnome Desktop environment.  As I learn to 
use Linux/GNU more, I find that I want to slim down my computer as much 
as possible.  Hence, I would like to use just a window manager instead 
of a full GUI.  Is it possible to revert (maybe, apt-get remove gnome) 
my GUI and simply use a window manager, or will I need to do a complete 
reinstall?  Will removing the GUI (Gnome) break my system?  Are there 
any links on the web that anyone has that discusses this issue?  Thanks.

~Telly




You don't have to uninstall anything. Just install a lightweight window 
manager such as IceWm and change the preferred x-session-manager to 
icewm-session, e.g.:


# aptitude install icewm
# update-alternatives --config x-session-manager
(Select icewm-session from the list.)




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Re: Revert to simple Window Manager

[Sudev Barar]

On 11/06/07, Telly Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

I'm currently using the Gnome Desktop environment.  As I learn to
use Linux/GNU more, I find that I want to slim down my computer as much
as possible.  Hence, I would like to use just a window manager instead
of a full GUI.  Is it possible to revert (maybe, apt-get remove gnome)
my GUI and simply use a window manager, or will I need to do a complete
reinstall?  Will removing the GUI (Gnome) break my system?  Are there
any links on the web that anyone has that discusses this issue?  Thanks.


Additionally you will also have to look at using something other than
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Re: exim4 config (?)

[William Pursell]

Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:

On Sun, Jun 10, 2007 at 09:30:59PM +0100, William Pursell wrote:

I normally use icedove and pop my mail from gmail, and things
work fine.  When I tried to send mail using:

$ mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] < file

The mail was returned to me with:
SMTP error from remote mail server after MAIL FROM:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
SIZE=2522:

host gmail-smtp.l.google.com [64.233.183.109]:
530 5.5.1 Authentication Required d23sm9741312nfh

I was a bit surprised that mailx was trying to contact google,
so I looked through /etc/exim4 and didn't find any references
at all to google.  I then added my gmail account to
/etc/exim4/email-addresses and sent an email
using mailx to my google account.  After about 12 hours,
that mail has disappeared.  (ie, I haven't gotten a Mail delivery
failure, and I haven't received the email.)


I don't use gmail but my dial-up ISP requires SMTP auth over an
unencrypted connection.

You need your email address in /etc/email-addresses so that exim will
rewrite your from line correctly.

You need a correct line in /etc/exim4/passwd.client

I also needed to add a file to /etc/exim4/conf.d/main called 
	000_localmacros


which contains the line:

AUTH_CLIENT_ALLOW_NOTLS_PASSWORDS = TRUE

Without which, exim will not send a password since the connection is not
encrypted; the password goes out in the clear.

Good luck.


Thanks.  I realized that by having my google account in
/etc/email-addresses, any mail delivery failures will
go to gmail instead of /var/mail, so I've done the following:


I followed Anoton's suggestion to run dpkg-reconfigure,
added a line to /etc/exim4/passwd.client, and then sent
an email that has gone away.  (I expect to get a
mail delivery failure soon in /var/mail.)  I then
ran strace on "mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] < foo" (the complete wrong
approach to system administration, but
I figure it's best to use the tools you know...:), but
this was unenlightening.

I'm still confused as to why gmail is in the picture at
all when I run mailx.  I did set smtp.gmail as my smtp
smarthost when I ran dpkg-reconfigure, but the only
reference to gmail in /etc/exim4 is in
update-exim4.conf.conf (via grep -iRe 'gmail\|google' *)
Surely the only affect that
file has is on execution of dpkg-reconfigure, no?

Which exim4 config file is telling it to contact google
for smtp?


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Re: Find out host of IP

[Roberto C . Sánchez]

On Sun, Jun 10, 2007 at 10:35:56PM -0600, Telly Williams wrote:
> 
> When you talk about logging into the computer without a password,
> are you talking about SSH?  If so, how do you handle doing that in, say,
> an internet cafe?  Thanks. ~Telly
> 
Yes, I am talking about ssh without a password.  To answer the question
about the Internet café, I would say “don't.”  Something like a one-time
password would be best since it is an untrusted environment.

Regards,

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Re: what wants to remove gcc?

[Kushal Kumaran]

On 6/10/07, Rick Pasotto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

On Sun, Jun 10, 2007 at 11:20:04AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 06/10/07 10:43, Rick Pasotto wrote:
> >On Sun, Jun 10, 2007 at 08:51:39AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> >>On 06/10/07 08:23, Rick Pasotto wrote:
> >>>Currently 'apt-get upgrade' wants to upgrade 289 packages. Rather
> >>>than do them all at once, I like to do smaller groups packages.
> >>It will save you time by running "# apt-get -d -y upgrade" while you
> >>go eat breakfast.  Once all the packages are downloaded, run "#apt-get
> >>upgrade" interactively.
> >
> >The -d option is a good idea but my main question still has not been
> >answered. What wants to *remove* gcc and why?
>
> If this were happening to me, and I *really* cared, I'd use a binary
> search algorithm to narrow it down.

Huh? Every individual package I've tried to upgrade wants to remove gcc
yet the whole collection does not.



You might notice that upgrading everything also includes an upgrade for gcc...





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Re: Find out host of IP

[Telly Williams]

Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 10, 2007 at 08:33:21PM -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote:
>   
>> Somehow, I am not comfortable with this. I have read in many places that key
>> authentication is the most secure method and I agree with them. However it
>> is not very convenient. Consider this situation.
>>
>> Say, I ssh into machineA from machineB. However machineB is not always known
>> apriori. I can go to my friend's machine and want to ssh into machineA. In
>> that case, how do I obtain get the key? Carrying the key with a USB stick
>> is one option. But again that is also inconvenient for me. I guess
>> convenience and security are opposite ends of the spectrum.
>>
>> 
> Quite right.  In your case, it may not work.  If you use your friend's
> machine frequently enough, you might want to install a key on it (make
> sure to protect it with a strong passphrase).  If you are always
> bouncing around, that may not be good enough, however.  If you have a
> laptop and normally use that, then a key-only scheme can probably work
> for you.
>
> It all depends on your circumstances.
>
> Regards,
>
> -Roberto
>
>   
Roberto,

When you talk about logging into the computer without a password,
are you talking about SSH?  If so, how do you handle doing that in, say,
an internet cafe?  Thanks. ~Telly


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Revert to simple Window Manager

[Telly Williams]

Hi,

I'm currently using the Gnome Desktop environment.  As I learn to
use Linux/GNU more, I find that I want to slim down my computer as much
as possible.  Hence, I would like to use just a window manager instead
of a full GUI.  Is it possible to revert (maybe, apt-get remove gnome)
my GUI and simply use a window manager, or will I need to do a complete
reinstall?  Will removing the GUI (Gnome) break my system?  Are there
any links on the web that anyone has that discusses this issue?  Thanks.
~Telly


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Re: epiphany: how enable pdf output?

[Eric d'Alibut]

On 6/10/07, Ralph Katz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


Using cups?  Install cups-pdf, then just "print" to printer cups-pdf.
Pretty simple.  Works for me on etch.


I have resorted to that. Is there a way to pass a proper filename to
the pdf output? All I get is ~/PDF/__.pdf

Firefox's print dialog offers a 'print to file' checkbox, which brings
up a dialog for naming the output file. I don't see any way of doing
this with epiphany.


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Re: Synaptic- status is shown as local or obsolete

[arijit]

On Sun, 2007-06-10 at 18:58 +0100, Liam O'Toole wrote:


> Those are packages which you have built yourself (local) or which are
> no longer in the repositories listed in /etc/apt/sources.list, or which
> are in a repository which you have removed from that list (obsolete in
> both cases).

Ok, i got it. I've installed skype through .deb packages from skype site
not through their repository. So it's listed there. 



> What are the packages? Do you still need them? Are any of them listed
> in the output of the 'deborphan' command?
> 
> -- 
> 
> Liam
> 


These packages are common in Synaptic(local/obsolete) section as well as
in 'deborphan'.

libbind9-0
liblwres9
libntfs-3g0

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Re: sed fails to upgrade on debian sid; file date of 1969?

[Douglas Allan Tutty]

On Sun, Jun 10, 2007 at 08:36:13PM -0400, Nick Lidakis wrote:
> Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
> >On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 01:50:00PM -0400, Nick Lidakis wrote:
> >>Joey Hess wrote:
> Any ideas? I am not even allowed to move or delete the file via the 
> shell.
> 
> >>>You have a corrupted filesystem. Suggest going to single user mode and
> >>>fscking.
> >>>  
> >>Thanks. That did the trick. Even though fsck claimed to have fixed a 
> >>bunch of stuff (inodes & other things), should I worry or take care with 
> >>anything else?
> >
> >As always, it depends.  What caused the filesystem to corrupt?  Is there
> >anything in lost+found?
> >
> 
> Two files. One is a makedev text file (from /usr/share/doc?) about the 
> program and the author. The other is a binary file. Can run it.

MAKEDEV is in /sbin and is a shell script (text file) that creates
device nodes in /dev

There is /usr/share/doc/makedev that has a changelog and copyright file.

Do these files still exist where they should?

If you can run that binary, run it as --help or -h.  If that doesn't
tell you what it is, try viewing ith with mc's viewer and search for
english phrases (things like built-in error messages); try searching for
"usage".

What this all means is that while e2fsck has fixed the filesystem so
that it is consistant and mountable, in the process you have lost files.
The problem is that unless you're running something like samhain or
tripwire you won't know exactly what has changed.  This is one reason
that I run samhain.  

Its also why I switched from ext3 to JFS.

In any event, unless you can track everything down, be prepared for a
reinstall.  In fact, I would plan ahead for one: ensure that you create
a new full backup of your data and DO NOT overwrite your most recent
backup prior to this corruption.  Your system may run for some time
until a missing or corrupted file needs to be accessed then BOOM.  So
plan for it.  You could even take the time now to make a custom CD
(using debian-cd) of all the packages that you have installed so that
the reinstall only takes 20 minutes or so.  

Good luck.

Doug.


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Re: did my message get through?

[Mumia W..]

On 06/10/2007 05:02 PM, Zach wrote:

[...]
I just upgraded my kernel in Debian testing release from 2.4.27 to
2.6.18 and ran into some problems I would appreciate help with.

I built the kernel from the Debian kernel source package which has
some bug fixes and patches not found in the upstream (official) kernel
sources but I asked around and these don't seem to be related to my
problems. I built the .config from scratch (took 3.5 hours).
Total time for the kernel project was 9 hours heh!

Problem 1:
Since devfs has been replaced by udev (dynamic device naming) there is
no longer a /dev/ttyS0 for my serial modem. 


On my Etch system, with udev, /dev/ttyS0 exists. I see that you have "# 
CONFIG_SERIAL_8250 is not set" in your .config (line 987 of 
). That would explain the missing device entry.



Also this was symlinked to
/dev/modem and that device is also no longer present in 2.6.18. Do I
just need to change /var/lib/setserial/autoserial.conf so it uses
/dev/tty0? How can I create a /dev/modem block device?



Don't do that. /dev/tty0 is definitely not right for the serial modem. 
You can either learn about creating udev rules, or you can create a 
startup script that creates the desired symbolic link in /dev.


Or you can do what I did: create another directory for persistent 
devices, e.g. /usr/local/dev, and put your specialized device nodes and 
symbolic links there. Mknod is useful for this (man mknod).



Problem 2:
Something weird is happening with my CDROM.

[...]
Jun  8 16:02:38 netrek kernel: hdc: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
Jun  8 16:02:38 netrek kernel: ide: failed opcode was: unknown
Jun  8 16:02:38 netrek kernel: hdc: ATAPI reset complete

However when I removed the file in /tmp and copied it over again this
time it worked instantaneously as it should. So i think my ide/ATAPI
is setup wrong but the .config has so many options i'm not sure which
ones i may have set wrong, I can send you my kernel .config if that 
would help.

[...]


Configuring 2.6 kernels was one of the most complicated things I'd ever 
done before I got smart and began tweaking the default .config. There 
are many things that one can forget, and many parts of the kernel have 
complicated dependencies and relationships to one another.


Try to get a Debian stock kernel running on your system first, then 
tweak it to your liking and build an optimized kernel if you like. 
Probably you left something out of the kernel that allows for 
motherboard and/or ide reliability.


Also, try to present only a single issue per help query. Your post is 
too big and complicated, and so I'll stop reading here.



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Re: Find out host of IP

[Ralph Katz]

On 06/10/2007 05:13 PM, andy wrote:

[...]
> Ralph
> 
> What does fail2ban actually do. As my machine is behind an OBSD
> firewall, would it still be relevant?
> 
> Cheers


andy -- It's relevant if you're under attack!  ;)

fail2ban doesn't care if the attack is from North Korea or an old pc on
your internal network (if you use the default config).

Wayne is correct; please use the tools. Also, please see
http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/#codeofconduct
"Never send your messages in HTML; use plain text instead."

Regards,
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Re: Find out host of IP

[Raquel]

On Sun, 10 Jun 2007 20:20:05 -0400
Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> David Baron wrote:
> 
> > Someone is trying to ssh on to my system. Trying on several
> > ports. Not the first time, either. Thankfully, he does not have
> > a password. Besides a bunch of Deprecated option
> > ReverseMappingCheck, so far no harm done.
> > 
> > Since my logs have this IP number, how do I find out who it is?
> 
> Not exactly answering your question. But I do see a lot of IPs
> performing dictionary attacks on my machine. What I do is go
> through /var/log/auth.log periodically and add the offending IPs
> to /etc/hosts.deny . That way, in future, the offending IPs cannot
> perform any dictionary attacks. I currently have around 85 IPs in
> this list (starting Apr 10, 2007) :-)
> 
> You should also disable remote root logins to make the machine
> more secure.
> 
> hth
> raju
> -- 

If you use Shorewall to help create a firewall, just add:

  -   -   1/min:2

after the entries that open ports for ssh.

It limits anyone to 2 tries during any 1 minute interval, then drops
them.

Sorry.  I don't know how to handle that using plain IPTables.

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Re: sed fails to upgrade on debian sid; file date of 1969?

[Nick Lidakis]

Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:

On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 01:50:00PM -0400, Nick Lidakis wrote:
  

Joey Hess wrote:



  

Any ideas? I am not even allowed to move or delete the file via the shell.


You have a corrupted filesystem. Suggest going to single user mode and
fscking.
 
  
Thanks. That did the trick. Even though fsck claimed to have fixed a 
bunch of stuff (inodes & other things), should I worry or take care with 
anything else?



As always, it depends.  What caused the filesystem to corrupt?  Is there
anything in lost+found?

Doug.


  


Two files. One is a makedev text file (from /usr/share/doc?) about the 
program and the author. The other is a binary file. Can run it.



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Re: Find out host of IP

[Roberto C . Sánchez]

On Sun, Jun 10, 2007 at 08:33:21PM -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote:
> 
> Somehow, I am not comfortable with this. I have read in many places that key
> authentication is the most secure method and I agree with them. However it
> is not very convenient. Consider this situation.
> 
> Say, I ssh into machineA from machineB. However machineB is not always known
> apriori. I can go to my friend's machine and want to ssh into machineA. In
> that case, how do I obtain get the key? Carrying the key with a USB stick
> is one option. But again that is also inconvenient for me. I guess
> convenience and security are opposite ends of the spectrum.
> 
Quite right.  In your case, it may not work.  If you use your friend's
machine frequently enough, you might want to install a key on it (make
sure to protect it with a strong passphrase).  If you are always
bouncing around, that may not be good enough, however.  If you have a
laptop and normally use that, then a key-only scheme can probably work
for you.

It all depends on your circumstances.

Regards,

-Roberto

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Re: Find out host of IP

[Kamaraju S Kusumanchi]

Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:

> On Sun, Jun 10, 2007 at 08:20:05PM -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote:
>> David Baron wrote:
>> 
>> > Someone is trying to ssh on to my system. Trying on several ports. Not
>> > the first time, either. Thankfully, he does not have a password.
>> > Besides a bunch of Deprecated option ReverseMappingCheck, so far no
>> > harm done.
>> > 
>> > Since my logs have this IP number, how do I find out who it is?
>> 
>> Not exactly answering your question. But I do see a lot of IPs performing
>> dictionary attacks on my machine. What I do is go through
>> /var/log/auth.log periodically and add the offending IPs to
>> /etc/hosts.deny . That way, in future, the offending IPs cannot perform
>> any dictionary attacks. I currently have around 85 IPs in this list
>> (starting Apr 10, 2007) :-)
>> 
>> You should also disable remote root logins to make the machine more
>> secure.
>> 
> The best thing you can do is to disable password logins altogether.
> Using public keys is much more secure and makes it *impossible* for a
> dictionary attack to succeed.
> 

Somehow, I am not comfortable with this. I have read in many places that key
authentication is the most secure method and I agree with them. However it
is not very convenient. Consider this situation.

Say, I ssh into machineA from machineB. However machineB is not always known
apriori. I can go to my friend's machine and want to ssh into machineA. In
that case, how do I obtain get the key? Carrying the key with a USB stick
is one option. But again that is also inconvenient for me. I guess
convenience and security are opposite ends of the spectrum.

raju

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Re: Find out host of IP

[Roberto C . Sánchez]

On Sun, Jun 10, 2007 at 08:20:05PM -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote:
> David Baron wrote:
> 
> > Someone is trying to ssh on to my system. Trying on several ports. Not the
> > first time, either. Thankfully, he does not have a password. Besides a
> > bunch of Deprecated option ReverseMappingCheck, so far no harm done.
> > 
> > Since my logs have this IP number, how do I find out who it is?
> 
> Not exactly answering your question. But I do see a lot of IPs performing
> dictionary attacks on my machine. What I do is go through /var/log/auth.log
> periodically and add the offending IPs to /etc/hosts.deny . That way, in
> future, the offending IPs cannot perform any dictionary attacks. I
> currently have around 85 IPs in this list (starting Apr 10, 2007) :-)
> 
> You should also disable remote root logins to make the machine more secure.
> 
The best thing you can do is to disable password logins altogether.
Using public keys is much more secure and makes it *impossible* for a
dictionary attack to succeed.

Regards,

-Roberto

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Re: Find out host of IP

[Kamaraju S Kusumanchi]

David Baron wrote:

> Someone is trying to ssh on to my system. Trying on several ports. Not the
> first time, either. Thankfully, he does not have a password. Besides a
> bunch of Deprecated option ReverseMappingCheck, so far no harm done.
> 
> Since my logs have this IP number, how do I find out who it is?

Not exactly answering your question. But I do see a lot of IPs performing
dictionary attacks on my machine. What I do is go through /var/log/auth.log
periodically and add the offending IPs to /etc/hosts.deny . That way, in
future, the offending IPs cannot perform any dictionary attacks. I
currently have around 85 IPs in this list (starting Apr 10, 2007) :-)

You should also disable remote root logins to make the machine more secure.

hth
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Re: reorder files with a mouse in a file browser and rename them

[H.S.]

Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote:

H.S. wrote:


Hello,

This may be a little odd question. Can any of the file browsers
(konqueror, nautilus) let a user reorder the files in a folder by
dragging them to a certain position and then to rename the ordered files
automatically with a file pattern?

This problem arose because I have a few hundred of images which are
jumbled up in time order. I have seen a friend do something similar in
XP's Windows Explorer. I am hoping it can be done in Linux too in some
way: order the image files by dragging them to their position in the
file browser and to run a script on the newly ordered files to rename
them numerically in that order.

thanks,
->HS



Dont use GUI for this sort of thing. Write a shell script which contains all
the necessary commands for performing the task. To get list of files, use
vim. You probably need to use commands such as

:!ls -rt *jpg

inside vim. Once the list is generated in your desired order, then generate
the list of new file names.

changing

file2.txt
file3.txt
file1.txt

to

001_file2.txt
002_file3.txt
003_file1.txt


The example I gave above was trivial to say the least.


is pretty trivial in vim if you know about registers etc., I know I am not


If you could elaborate on that a bit, it would be helpful to understand 
what you mean. But keep in mind that we are talking about some hundreds 
of files which appear in random order and one cannot judge where a file 
is supposed to be in a time line without first looking at the image file.


->HS





giving you complete answers, but those pointers should help you to get
started.

hth
raju




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Re: Find out host of IP

[Wayne Topa]

andy([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said:
> Ralph Katz wrote:
> >On 06/10/2007 12:26 PM, David Baron wrote:
> >  
> 
> What does fail2ban actually do. As my machine is behind an OBSD 
> firewall, would it still be relevant?


Use the tools Luke (andy)

aptitude | apt-cache show fail2ban

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Re: X-Rc-Spam

[Raquel]

On Sun, 10 Jun 2007 19:17:39 -0400
Roberto C. Sánchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Sun, Jun 10, 2007 at 07:08:14PM -0400, Tom Allison wrote:
> > Anyone what what application drops this header into the email?
> > 
> 
> I am going to go with spamassassin.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> -Roberto
> 

Well, spamassassin doesn't put it into the headers of my mail.

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Re: [Request for Help] Recommender system for Debian packages

[Diego Pereira]

Greetings list,

Firstly, I'd like to greatly thank everyone who installed and used the
system so far.

Secondly, I'd like to ask another bit of help. I've put a poll online in
order to find out what is the impression you are getting from the
recommendations/suggestions received. It can be reached through the project
wiki http://debommender.sourceforge.net/  via
the "Poll" link.

Thank you again for your attention.

Diego Pereira.

On 5/25/07, Diego Pereira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


Dear All,

I'm currently working in my graduation project, which is a recommendersystem 
for Debian packages.

The purpose of the system is to evaluate which packages are mostly used,
much like what popularity-contest does, but then go one step further and
suggest packages which might possibly be of interest to you.

The implementation is done, but the system would require real user
information (the more, the better) so the degree of success in generating
recommendations could be assessed. Therefore, I would like to humbly request
your help in providing such information.

Details on how to deploy and use the system can be found in
http://debommender.sf.net/ it's really easy. The sources are available via
anonymous sourceforge cvs access, if you wish.

Any doubts, comments or suggestions, please feel free to contact me
privately.

Thank you very much for your attention,
Diego Pereira.
Instituto de Informática - UFRGS (www.ufrgs.br)

Re: reorder files with a mouse in a file browser and rename them

[Kamaraju S Kusumanchi]

H.S. wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> This may be a little odd question. Can any of the file browsers
> (konqueror, nautilus) let a user reorder the files in a folder by
> dragging them to a certain position and then to rename the ordered files
> automatically with a file pattern?
> 
> This problem arose because I have a few hundred of images which are
> jumbled up in time order. I have seen a friend do something similar in
> XP's Windows Explorer. I am hoping it can be done in Linux too in some
> way: order the image files by dragging them to their position in the
> file browser and to run a script on the newly ordered files to rename
> them numerically in that order.
> 
> thanks,
> ->HS


Dont use GUI for this sort of thing. Write a shell script which contains all
the necessary commands for performing the task. To get list of files, use
vim. You probably need to use commands such as

:!ls -rt *jpg

inside vim. Once the list is generated in your desired order, then generate
the list of new file names.

changing

file2.txt
file3.txt
file1.txt

to

001_file2.txt
002_file3.txt
003_file1.txt

is pretty trivial in vim if you know about registers etc., I know I am not
giving you complete answers, but those pointers should help you to get
started.

hth
raju

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Re: X-Rc-Spam

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On Sun, Jun 10, 2007 at 07:08:14PM -0400, Tom Allison wrote:
> Anyone what what application drops this header into the email?
> 

I am going to go with spamassassin.

Regards,

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Re: exim4 config (?)

[Douglas Allan Tutty]

On Sun, Jun 10, 2007 at 09:30:59PM +0100, William Pursell wrote:
> I normally use icedove and pop my mail from gmail, and things
> work fine.  When I tried to send mail using:
> 
> $ mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] < file
> 
> The mail was returned to me with:
> SMTP error from remote mail server after MAIL FROM:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
> SIZE=2522:
> host gmail-smtp.l.google.com [64.233.183.109]:
> 530 5.5.1 Authentication Required d23sm9741312nfh
> 
> I was a bit surprised that mailx was trying to contact google,
> so I looked through /etc/exim4 and didn't find any references
> at all to google.  I then added my gmail account to
> /etc/exim4/email-addresses and sent an email
> using mailx to my google account.  After about 12 hours,
> that mail has disappeared.  (ie, I haven't gotten a Mail delivery
> failure, and I haven't received the email.)

I don't use gmail but my dial-up ISP requires SMTP auth over an
unencrypted connection.

You need your email address in /etc/email-addresses so that exim will
rewrite your from line correctly.

You need a correct line in /etc/exim4/passwd.client

I also needed to add a file to /etc/exim4/conf.d/main called 
000_localmacros

which contains the line:

AUTH_CLIENT_ALLOW_NOTLS_PASSWORDS = TRUE

Without which, exim will not send a password since the connection is not
encrypted; the password goes out in the clear.

Good luck.

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Re: did my message get through?

[Zach]

On 6/10/07, Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


I don't recall seeing it.  What was the problem?


Hello Douglas,

I guess my message was too long so the list software rejected it.
I recently upgraded from 2.4.27 to 2.6.18 kernel in Debian testing
and had 4 issues. I will append my original post at the end of this email.


Boot into your 2.4.27 and give us uname -a


Linux 2.6.18-686 netrek


Give us your /boot/grub/menu.list


I use LILO.


Give us your /etc/apt/sources.list


I use local mirror pair.com and all references are to "testing"


Give us your /etc/modules


Ok will get that next time I boot. Here is a link to my kernel .config:
http://pastebin.ca/557205

Zach

--- original email -

I just upgraded my kernel in Debian testing release from 2.4.27 to
2.6.18 and ran into some problems I would appreciate help with.

I built the kernel from the Debian kernel source package which has
some bug fixes and patches not found in the upstream (official) kernel
sources but I asked around and these don't seem to be related to my
problems. I built the .config from scratch (took 3.5 hours).
Total time for the kernel project was 9 hours heh!

Problem 1:
Since devfs has been replaced by udev (dynamic device naming) there is
no longer a /dev/ttyS0 for my serial modem. Also this was symlinked to
/dev/modem and that device is also no longer present in 2.6.18. Do I
just need to change /var/lib/setserial/autoserial.conf so it uses
/dev/tty0? How can I create a /dev/modem block device?

Problem 2:
Something weird is happening with my CDROM.

netrek:~# mount /dev/hdc /cdrom
mount: block device /dev/hdc is write-protected, mounting read-only

netrek:~# cd /cdrom

netrek:/cdrom# df
Filesystem   1K-blocks  Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda2  9906644   9240328163080  99% /
tmpfs   128628 0128628   0% /lib/init/rw
udev 1024044 10196   1% /dev
tmpfs   128628 0128628   0% /dev/shm
/dev/hdc693330693330 0 100% /cdrom

netrek:/cdrom# ls
0001.tmp  dxsetup  movies01.mix  scores.mixsizzle1.vqa
autoplay.wav  install  multi.mix setup ts1.dsk
autorun.exe   license.doc  readme.docsetup.exe westwood.hlp
autorun.inf   maps01.mix   readme.txtsidecd01.mix  wolapi

netrek:/cdrom# ls -l /tmp/license.doc
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 26112 Jun  8 16:02 /tmp/license.doc

It took a very long time for such a small file (nearly 40 seconds) and
/var/log/messages showed:

Jun  8 16:02:38 netrek kernel: hdc: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
Jun  8 16:02:38 netrek kernel: ide: failed opcode was: unknown
Jun  8 16:02:38 netrek kernel: hdc: ATAPI reset complete

However when I removed the file in /tmp and copied it over again this
time it worked instantaneously as it should. So i think my ide/ATAPI
is setup wrong but the .config has so many options i'm not sure which
ones i may have set wrong, I can send you my kernel .config if that would help.

Further I noticed some other messages, possibly related, from boot up
in my /var/log/syslog:

Jun  8 15:47:57 netrek kernel: ide-cd: cmd 0x28 timed out
Jun  8 15:47:57 netrek kernel: hdc: DMA interrupt recovery
Jun  8 15:47:57 netrek kernel: hdc: lost interrupt
Jun  8 15:47:57 netrek kernel: hdc: status error: status=0x58 {
DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest }
Jun  8 15:47:57 netrek kernel: ide: failed opcode was: unknown
Jun  8 15:47:57 netrek kernel: hdc: drive not ready for command
Jun  8 15:47:57 netrek kernel: hdc: status timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
Jun  8 15:47:57 netrek kernel: ide: failed opcode was: unknown
Jun  8 15:47:57 netrek kernel: hdc: DMA disabled
Jun  8 15:47:57 netrek kernel: hdc: drive not ready for command
Jun  8 15:47:57 netrek kernel: hdc: ATAPI reset complete
Jun  8 15:47:59 netrek kernel: Warning: /proc/ide/hd?/settings
interface is obsolete, and will be removed soon!

Note that I get no such problems with my 2.4.27 kernel. And what
should I do about /proc/ide/hd?/settings?

Problem 3:
In my /var/log/syslog I see tons of messages on boot dealing with
"class_uevent" and "class_device_create_uevent" is this a problem or
not? Below I have included the logfile excerpt.

Problem 4:
Something is wrong with gconfd. Note I do not have NFS installed nor
supported in the kernel. From /var/log/syslog:

Jun  8 15:49:36 netrek gconfd (zu22-3557): starting (version 2.16.1),
pid 3557 user 'zu22'
Jun  8 15:49:36 netrek gconfd (zu22-3555): starting (version 2.16.1),
pid 3555 user 'zu22'
Jun  8 15:49:36 netrek gconfd (zu22-3555): Failed to get lock for
daemon, exiting: Failed to lock '/tmp/gconfd-zu22/lock/ior': probably
another process has the lock, or your operating system has NFS file
locking misconfigured (Resource temporarily unavailable)
Jun  8 15:49:36 netrek gconfd (zu22-3557): Resolved address
"xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory" to a read-only
configuration source at p

Re: Anyone have success with bootsplash package?

[Eric A. Bonney]

Stephen Patterson wrote:

On Mon, 04 Jun 2007 12:00:18 +0200, Eric A. Bonney wrote:

  
I have tried installing this package on two of my three machines and had 
no success with it.  I have verified that I have frame buffer support 
compiled into the kernal and I have also even installed the patch that 
is listed in apt-get, but nothing seems to work.  At one point I was 
able to get text size change during the boot up, but then machine locked 
up during the boot process.


So I was wondering if anyone had any tips if they got it working on 
their machines.


Eric



I've tried it, with a few different vga=parameters using the debian
bootsplash & bootsplash-themes packages and although it changes resolution
and loads the frambuffer at boot (verified via dmesg) it doesn't display
any splash image but boots normally as framebuffer-text.

  
Yea this is what I am seeing also.  I tried downloading the patch to the 
kernel from bootshplash.de but the latest kernal patch they had was for 
2.6.15 and I am running 2.6.18 and it wouldn't compile.  I would love to 
get this working now, most just b/c I haven't figured it out than 
anything else. :)  I haven't given up, but it has been put on the back 
burner



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Logitech Quickcam Communicate STX

[David Dawson]

Logitech Quickcam Communicate STX:

After a recent upgrade to Debian Testing, support for this camera has been
downgraded, with the result that VLC can now only display the stream at a
much lower resolution.

Formerly the resolution was an acceptable 640x480, now it is only 320x240.

Suspecting the spca5xx driver, I downgraded it to the level in Debian
Stable, but this is evidently not the issue.

The camera ID (lsusb) is: 046d:08ad Logitech, Inc.

Does anybody have an Idea how to get back the lost resolution?
Is this a Debian issue or upstream?

Thanks
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puzzling network connection issue.

[Caoilte O'Connor]

Hi,
I've had this problem with my computer across a couple of networks
recently and I was wondering if anyone here could shed light on it.

When I turn my computer on, it detects the network correctly (be it
ether or wireless)

Jun 10 21:51:15 heidl kernel: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlan0: link becomes ready
Jun 10 21:51:17 heidl dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to
255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8
Jun 10 21:51:17 heidl avahi-daemon[2952]: Registering new address
record for fe80::20a:e9ff:fe0c:bced on wlan0.*.
Jun 10 21:51:19 heidl dhclient: DHCPOFFER from 192.168.1.254
Jun 10 21:51:19 heidl dhclient: DHCPREQUEST on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
Jun 10 21:51:19 heidl dhclient: DHCPACK from 192.168.1.254
Jun 10 21:51:19 heidl avahi-daemon[2952]: Joining mDNS multicast group
on interface wlan0.IPv4 with address 192.168.1.69.
Jun 10 21:51:19 heidl avahi-daemon[2952]: New relevant interface
wlan0.IPv4 for mDNS.
Jun 10 21:51:19 heidl avahi-daemon[2952]: Registering new address
record for 192.168.1.69 on wlan0.IPv4.
Jun 10 21:51:19 heidl dhclient: bound to 192.168.1.69 -- renewal in
37236 seconds.

At this point I can connect to the internet and surf, etc fine. The
problem is that other computers on the network cannot see me (mostly
windows machines using Windows Networking).

When I do an ifconfig it turns out that despite the above, the listed
"inet adr" is always the same one as the broadband router and not the
same one i was assigned.

If I then do a:
ifdown wlan0
ifup wlan0

exactly the same network address gets assigned to me but this time, it
turns up correctly in my ifconfig and other computers in my network
can see me.

How can this be?

thanks for any help, am quite puzzled.

c


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Re: Anyone have success with bootsplash package?

[Stephen Patterson]

On Mon, 04 Jun 2007 12:00:18 +0200, Eric A. Bonney wrote:

> I have tried installing this package on two of my three machines and had 
> no success with it.  I have verified that I have frame buffer support 
> compiled into the kernal and I have also even installed the patch that 
> is listed in apt-get, but nothing seems to work.  At one point I was 
> able to get text size change during the boot up, but then machine locked 
> up during the boot process.
> 
> So I was wondering if anyone had any tips if they got it working on 
> their machines.
> 
> Eric

I've tried it, with a few different vga=parameters using the debian
bootsplash & bootsplash-themes packages and although it changes resolution
and loads the frambuffer at boot (verified via dmesg) it doesn't display
any splash image but boots normally as framebuffer-text.

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Re: Find out host of IP

[andy]

Ralph Katz wrote:

On 06/10/2007 12:26 PM, David Baron wrote:
  
Someone is trying to ssh on to my system. Trying on several ports. Not the 
first time, either. Thankfully, he does not have a password. Besides a bunch 
of Deprecated option ReverseMappingCheck, so far no harm done.


Since my logs have this IP number, how do I find out who it is?



Other replies address the question, but you could install fail2ban to
throttle the attacks from anywhere.  fail2ban is a wonderful solution!

Ralph


  

Ralph

What does fail2ban actually do. As my machine is behind an OBSD 
firewall, would it still be relevant?


Cheers

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Re: exim4 config (?)

[Anton Piatek]

On Sunday 10 June 2007 21:30, you wrote:
> I'm not sure if the following problem is an exim4 configuration
> issue, and I'm hoping for some pointers on where to look.
>
> I normally use icedove and pop my mail from gmail, and things
> work fine.  When I tried to send mail using:
>
> $ mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] < file
>
> The mail was returned to me with:
> SMTP error from remote mail server after MAIL FROM:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> SIZE=2522:
>  host gmail-smtp.l.google.com [64.233.183.109]:
>  530 5.5.1 Authentication Required d23sm9741312nfh
>
> I was a bit surprised that mailx was trying to contact google,
> so I looked through /etc/exim4 and didn't find any references
> at all to google.  I then added my gmail account to
> /etc/exim4/email-addresses and sent an email
> using mailx to my google account.  After about 12 hours,
> that mail has disappeared.  (ie, I haven't gotten a Mail delivery
> failure, and I haven't received the email.)
>
> What am I missing?  Bottom line: I want
> the ability to send email by redirecting a file into
> /usr/bin/mail.  The easiest solution that allows me
> to do that is welcome.

Have you tried grepping the /etc/exim dir's for "google".
The easiest way to setup exim in debian is to "run dpkg-reconfigure 
exim4-config" and select the right option for you.

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Re: Can you connect to a MySQL database on a server from a workstation?

[Andy Smith]

Hi Eric,

On Sun, Jun 10, 2007 at 10:07:29AM -0400, Eric A. Bonney wrote:
> Andy Smith wrote:
> >Bear in mind that by default, Debian's mysql server packages only
> >listen on localhost so are not available across the network until
> >you change that.
>
> I thought I read somewhere that tcp/ip was set on by default.  I will 
> have to configure it to turn it on then.  Is this just a configuration 
> flag or do I need to recompile the source?

Normally you find this part in /etc/mysql/my.cnf:

# Instead of skip-networking the default is now to listen only on
# localhost which is more compatible and is not less secure.
bind-address   = 127.0.0.1

This causes mysql to only listen on localhost.  If you comment it
out and restart it will listen on all interfaces.

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Re: shell or fileutils commands and whitespaced filenames

[Michael]

That's somehow the enlightenment i asked for :) and after all,
it's good news. Thx, Mathias. I really didn't expect something
to be screwed up, but assume now something went south.
I'm gonna track this ASAP.


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exim4 config (?)

[William Pursell]

I'm not sure if the following problem is an exim4 configuration
issue, and I'm hoping for some pointers on where to look.

I normally use icedove and pop my mail from gmail, and things
work fine.  When I tried to send mail using:

$ mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] < file

The mail was returned to me with:
SMTP error from remote mail server after MAIL FROM:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
SIZE=2522:

host gmail-smtp.l.google.com [64.233.183.109]:
530 5.5.1 Authentication Required d23sm9741312nfh

I was a bit surprised that mailx was trying to contact google,
so I looked through /etc/exim4 and didn't find any references
at all to google.  I then added my gmail account to
/etc/exim4/email-addresses and sent an email
using mailx to my google account.  After about 12 hours,
that mail has disappeared.  (ie, I haven't gotten a Mail delivery
failure, and I haven't received the email.)

What am I missing?  Bottom line: I want
the ability to send email by redirecting a file into
/usr/bin/mail.  The easiest solution that allows me
to do that is welcome.


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Re: [SOLVED] Re: selecting default browser under icedove

[William Pursell]

andy wrote:

Florian Kulzer wrote:

On Sun, Jun 10, 2007 at 09:48:48 +0100, andy wrote:


I am wanting Icedove to launch Galeon or Iceweasel as the external browser, 
but it launches Konqueror instead. 





See Arthur Marsh's recent message:

http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2007/06/msg00810.html

  
Thanks. I fiddled with that for a while, without any luck, so tried this 
instead:


sudo dpkg-reconfigure icedove
> 


Another solution is to use update-alternatives:
% sudo update-alternatives --config x-www-browser



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Re: Find out host of IP

[David Baron]

On Sunday 10 June 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Someone is trying to ssh on to my system. Trying on several ports. Not
> > the first time, either. Thankfully, he does not have a password. Besides
> > a bunch of Deprecated option ReverseMappingCheck, so far no harm done.
> >
> > Since my logs have this IP number, how do I find out who it is?
>
> dig
>
> To look at, for example, 68.99.123.13 do this:
>    $ dig 13.123.99.68.in-addr.arpa
>
> Note how I reversed the numbers and appended ".in-addr.arpa".
> ..
>I sometimes use this little script. 
>
>=
>
>#!/bin/bash
>lynx -dump "http://api.hostip.info/rough.php?ip=$1";
>
>nslookup $1

They both give me nameservers with similar IPs and the script gives me a host 
name. What do I do with it?

Re: Find out host of IP

[Ralph Katz]

On 06/10/2007 12:26 PM, David Baron wrote:
> Someone is trying to ssh on to my system. Trying on several ports. Not the 
> first time, either. Thankfully, he does not have a password. Besides a bunch 
> of Deprecated option ReverseMappingCheck, so far no harm done.
> 
> Since my logs have this IP number, how do I find out who it is?

Other replies address the question, but you could install fail2ban to
throttle the attacks from anywhere.  fail2ban is a wonderful solution!

Ralph


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Re: epiphany: how enable pdf output?

[Ralph Katz]

On 06/10/2007 06:38 AM, Magnus Therning wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 09, 2007 at 16:24:25 -0400, Eric d'Alibut wrote:
>> My epiphany instance (2.14.3-2) appears to offer the option of
>> printing to a pdf, but when that is tried, informs me that such
>> printing is not supported.
>>
>> What do I need to get that option working?
> 
> AFAIK there is no way to get it working.  It's a shame and what makes it
> even worse it that Epiphany isn't the only program suffering from this.
> What you can do is print to a file (.ps) and later convert the resulting
> file to PDF.
> 
>> Does the package 'epiphany-extensions' do that for me? Its deb page
>> doesn't mention pdf...
> 
> That package contains useful extensions (plugins) for epiphany.
> 
> /M
> 

Using cups?  Install cups-pdf, then just "print" to printer cups-pdf.
Pretty simple.  Works for me on etch.

Ralph


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Re: RAW image file

[jesus_arocho]

Just got krita to import with dcraw; it would not work with ufraw.

On Sunday 10 June 2007 11:49, KS wrote:
> Bernard wrote:
> > What kind of applications can open and use RAW image file created by
> > digital cameras?  Does such applications exist for Linux?
>
> I was in the same situation a few days ago. Here are a few options
> (including non-OSS):
>
> 1.RAWstudio – OSS, GTK+ interface, little CMS, basic EXIF reading, very
> young but looks promising http://rawstudio.org/
> 2.blueMarine – OSS, Apache License http://bluemarine.tidalwave.it
> 3.Qtpfsgui – License?, http://qtpfsgui.sourceforge.net
> 4.Raw Therapee – free/ non-OSS www.rawtherapee.com/
> 5.bibble – http://www.bibblelabs.com/ proprietary, demo
> 6.Lightzone -  proprietary, 2.4 (penultimate version available for
> Linux), no support, uses Java (and so does Openoffice.org!)
> http://www-old.lightcrafts.com/linux/
> 7.digikam – OSS, little CMS http://digikam.org/ (more a photo management
> application than RAW editor)
> 8.f-spot – OSS, Gnome project http://f-spot.org/Main_Page more a photo
> management application than RAW editor)
> 9.lphoto – OSS, possibly no raw support http://lphoto.com (just a photo
> management app)
> 10.Picasa – Google, non-OSS, free, http://www.google.com/picasa (photo
> management, read RAW, no RAW editing)
> 11.krita - photo editor, can read RAW using one of dcraw or ufraw.
> 12.gimp - photo editor, needs dcraw plugin to read RAW files
>
> I wonder if RAW Therapee could be made to have a change of mind and made
> an OSS.
>
> HTH,
> /KS

Re: Find out host of IP

[Roberto C . Sánchez]

On Sun, Jun 10, 2007 at 12:10:29PM -0700, Mike Bird wrote:
> On Sunday 10 June 2007 09:29, David Baron wrote:
> > SSH is not exposed from local to internet!
> > It is to a "VMZ" which is a virtual machine that may have been running at
> > the time. But who is this IP (virtual machines are like 10.0.2.15 or such)
> > ??
> 
> If the attacker addesss is 10.0.2.15 then it is either an attacker on your
> LAN or it is an attacker receiving assistance (SNAT) from your firewall.
> 
> If the attacked address is 10.0.2.15 then SSH is probably being port-
> -forwarded (DNAT) by your firewall.
> 
Unless he happens to have an ISP which gives out RFC1918 addresses
(e.g., as happens often in college dorms).

Regards,

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Re: Aptitude wants to remove OpenOffice.org

[Manon Metten]

Hi Douglas,

On 6/10/07, Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Wow, you need a whole partition for /opt!  What all packages have you

needed for which there isn't a deb?



It's only 5 Gb, but it's a little oversized now I know of backports etc.
I had Adobe Acrobat, Firefox, Netscape Navigator and Sunbird in there.
And Ooo occupied some space. Now there's only Netscape and Sunbird
left. I don't know what else I will use it for, but whenever I encounter a
tarball, I extract it to /opt.

Manon.

Re: Find out host of IP

[Mike Bird]

On Sunday 10 June 2007 09:29, David Baron wrote:
> >Someone is trying to ssh on to my system. Trying on several ports. Not the
> >first time, either. Thankfully, he does not have a password. Besides a
> > bunch of Deprecated option ReverseMappingCheck, so far no harm done.
> >
> >Since my logs have this IP number, how do I find out who it is?

Why do you have sshd binding to several ports?

Suppose attacker's IP address is 1.2.3.4.  Then "host 1.2.3.4" and
"whois 1.2.3.4" will give you some information.

Unless the neighbor kid is really stupid, the attacker is probably
operating from a foreign country via a chain of several hacked PCs.
You will most likely never know who it is.  The attacker is probably
simultaneously attacking thousands of systems.

> SSH is not exposed from local to internet!
> It is to a "VMZ" which is a virtual machine that may have been running at
> the time. But who is this IP (virtual machines are like 10.0.2.15 or such)
> ??

If the attacker addesss is 10.0.2.15 then it is either an attacker on your
LAN or it is an attacker receiving assistance (SNAT) from your firewall.

If the attacked address is 10.0.2.15 then SSH is probably being port-
-forwarded (DNAT) by your firewall.

In /etc/ssh/sshd_config you can cause ssh to bind only to 127.0.0.1, and/or
enable many other kinds of protection.  RTF "man 5 sshd_config" for details.

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Re: Aptitude wants to remove OpenOffice.org

[Manon Metten]

Hi Daniel,

On 6/10/07, Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

 Alien is very useful if all you have is an .rpm.  It can't solve all

possible problems, but it's generally better than using rpm directly
on a Debian system: the main thing that springs to mind for me is that
dpkg silently clobbers files in system directories that it doesn't know
about, and I would assume rpm also does.

  This means that if you install a package with rpm, and later a .deb
containing the same files is installed, the package system will replace
the rpm's files with the deb's files, but neither rpm nor dpkg will know
this happened.  The effects of this can be pretty dire; using alien
avoids them.




Thank you for explaining. I wasn't actually planning on using .rpm
directly on Debian. Instead, I converted OOo 2.2.0 from .rpm to .deb
using Alien. But then I got warned that even this could harm my system
in unexpected ways and I better use backports (I'm running Etch). So
I removed the .rpm stuff and installed the OOo 2.2.0 backport. It's
running fine now.

Manon.

Re: [SOLVED] Re: Can you connect to a MySQL database on a server from a workstation?

[Atis]

Well I found the answer to this finally.  It appears that in MySQL's
config file there is a line bind-address 127.0.0.1.  Well I wanted it to
be bound to more than one address, but it doesn't appear that you can do
that. (If someone knows how, please let me know. :) ).  So I just
commented out that particular line and all is working as planned.


Well, usually you bind to 0.0.0.0 meaning all interfaces or specific
one (i.e. 192.168.0.5). 127.0.0.1 is on loopback interface, so you are
able to access it only from localhost.

Regards,
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[SOLVED] Re: Can you connect to a MySQL database on a server from a workstation?

[Eric A. Bonney]

Eric A. Bonney wrote:
I want to use mysql for my storage in Amarok.  I have created a db 
down on my server (in the basement), but now I can't figure out how to 
get my other workstations to connect to the server.  I have tried 
typing in the name of the server and I have tried using the actual ip 
address of that machine and it won't work.  I have checked and made 
sure that the user connecting to the database is allowed to connect 
from any source and still nothing.


I have also tried connecting to the MySQL server using MySQLAdmin from 
my laptop and I can't figure that out either.  Anyone know how to do 
this?


Thanks,
-Eric




Well I found the answer to this finally.  It appears that in MySQL's 
config file there is a line bind-address 127.0.0.1.  Well I wanted it to 
be bound to more than one address, but it doesn't appear that you can do 
that. (If someone knows how, please let me know. :) ).  So I just 
commented out that particular line and all is working as planned.


-Eric


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Re: Find out host of IP

[Miles Fidelman]

David Baron wrote:
Someone is trying to ssh on to my system. Trying on several ports. Not the 
first time, either. Thankfully, he does not have a password. Besides a bunch 
of Deprecated option ReverseMappingCheck, so far no harm done.

Since my logs have this IP number, how do I find out who it is?



SSH is not exposed from local to internet!
It is to a "VMZ" which is a virtual machine that may have been running at the 
time. But who is this IP (virtual machines are like 10.0.2.15 or such) ??
  

if SSH is blocked at your firewall, then the traffic is coming from either:
a. your firewall (e.g., if there's a port opened to the outside world)
b. somewhere on your internal network
c. a process on your own machine

and, to add to this, addresses in the range 10.0.0.0-255 are reserved 
for use on internal networks


so... this would seem to be more likely a virus scanning its 
environment, or some kind of legitimate internal port scannner being 
used for network management purposes


a few things you might try:

dig -x 10.0.2.15
(same as dig 15.2.0.10.in-addr.arpa)
will give you a reverse lookup on the address, if one is registered - 
but... it's unlikely a reverse pointer will be registered


traceroute to the address - it might show you something useful

netstat - will show you what connections are open on your machine, and 
give you some idea of what programs are behind them - might show you if 
a program on your machine has bound that address (if have a small 
network, you could run netstat on each machine) - read the man page and 
play with the different options


Miles


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Re: what wants to remove gcc?

[Rick Pasotto]

On Sun, Jun 10, 2007 at 11:20:04AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 06/10/07 10:43, Rick Pasotto wrote:
> >On Sun, Jun 10, 2007 at 08:51:39AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> >>On 06/10/07 08:23, Rick Pasotto wrote:
> >>>Currently 'apt-get upgrade' wants to upgrade 289 packages. Rather
> >>>than do them all at once, I like to do smaller groups packages.
> >>It will save you time by running "# apt-get -d -y upgrade" while you
> >>go eat breakfast.  Once all the packages are downloaded, run "#apt-get
> >>upgrade" interactively.
> >
> >The -d option is a good idea but my main question still has not been
> >answered. What wants to *remove* gcc and why?
> 
> If this were happening to me, and I *really* cared, I'd use a binary 
> search algorithm to narrow it down.

Huh? Every individual package I've tried to upgrade wants to remove gcc
yet the whole collection does not.

> >Also, what does it mean to run "apt-get upgrade" *interactively*?
> 
> Huh?  How *else* do you run "apt-get upgrade"?

If there is no other way or if you mean in the normal way then the
modifier "interactively" is redundant and only causes confusion.

> 
> You don't run "apt-get upgrade" blindly thru cron, do you?
> 

When I run 'rm -i' it prompts before each removal. *That's* what
"interactively" means to me.

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Re: Problem sasl2-sql.

[Semih Gokalp]

Thanks Roberto.I will read your document and try make a customize
package.Thanks again.



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Re: Synaptic- status is shown as local or obsolete

[Liam O'Toole]

On Sun, 10 Jun 2007 20:46:22 +0530
arijit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> In synaptic window, i've one status named Installed (local or
> obsolete). There are few packages under this status. Why these are
> so? I am confused with "obsolete" status.

Those are packages which you have built yourself (local) or which are
no longer in the repositories listed in /etc/apt/sources.list, or which
are in a repository which you have removed from that list (obsolete in
both cases).

> How can I remove that status message?

Only by restoring the lines which you removed
from /etc/apt/sources.list, if that was the case.

What are the packages? Do you still need them? Are any of them listed
in the output of the 'deborphan' command?

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Re: [OT] Re: installing tutos2 - almost solved

[csanyipal]

On Sun, Jun 10, 2007 at 09:12:25AM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:

> > > > I run the [tutos_dir]/tutos/php/admin/scheme.php and create 
> > > > successfully the tables in the tutos database, & create the superuser 
> > > > with password "tutos".
> > > > 
> > > > But I can't to change the superusers password!
> > > > 
> > > Hmm.  How are you trying to change the password?
> > 
> > Login as superuser (I can to login only with the superuser account.) 
> > Then click on the Settings on the navigation bar.
> > So, I can't to find any place where I can to change the superusers 
> > password.
> > 
> I'm sorry I don't understand,  but which application are you using for
> this?

With iceweasel browser I login to TUTOS.

> > I try to change this password with the phppgadmin, but there, in the 
> > people table in tutos database the password is stored in an encrypted 
> > way. 
> > 
> IIRC, phppgadmin has a user management function.  You should not need to
> modify the users table directly.
> 
> > So, in this version of tutos-2 on Etch how can I change the superusers 
> > password?
> > 
> I usually change the user's passowrd by logging in using the command
> line client and using the 'ALTER USER' SQL statement.  It supports
> encrypting the password as well.

There isn't there the "superuser" user in the postgresql tutos 
database. I think that that the superuser is the user that can to 
administer with php the TUTOS users, objects, etc.


> > > > And can't to login as "demo" with password "guest".
> > > > 
> > > Does it log an error in this case?
> > 
> > Yes. In the tutos error log I can find these messages:
> > -->
> > DateTime:   10.Jun.2007 10:38:32 CEST
> > Errno:  8

..

> > STACKTRACE:
> >   php_error (8,Undefined index:  \
> > Bug,/usr/share/tutos/php/layout/layout.pinc,\
> > 564,Array)

..

> The stacktrace mentions a PHP error.  I would try and track that one
> down first.  Additionally, you might find better help on the debian-isp
> list.  At least, I think you are more likely to find someone actually
> running tutos2 on that list.

I will to do that. Thanks! :)

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udev rule writing help needed

[Don Hayward]

I have a new Seagate FreeAgent usb hard drive.  After install, it
spins down and when one tries to write to it, it gets marked read only.
This can be prevented by running the following command line:

echo 1 > /sys/class/scsi_disk/14\:0\:0\:0/allow_restart

where this bit^^^
varies with each connection.

I'd like to get udev to set this for me, so I tried the following rule:

SYSFS{model}=="FreeAgentDesktop",RUN+="/bin/echo 1 > 
/sys/class/scsi_disk/%k/allow_restart"

It doesn't work.  Allow_restart is always 0 after a connection.

I've also tried:
SYSFS{model}=="FreeAgentDesktop",RUN+="/bin/echo 1 > 
/sys/class/scsi_disk/%b/allow_restart"
SYSFS{model}=="FreeAgentDesktop",RUN+="/bin/echo 1 > 
'/sys/class/scsi_disk/%k/allow_restart'"
SYSFS{model}=="FreeAgentDesktop",RUN+="/bin/echo 1 > 
'/sys/class/scsi_disk/%b/allow_restart'"

because I'm confused about 1) which string substitution holds the
identifier I need, and 2) the need for quoting or escaping the ':' in
the line.

udevtest shows this:
parse_file: reading '/etc/udev/rules.d/10-local.rules' as rules file
and this
main: run: 'socket:/org/freedesktop/hal/udev_event'
so my rule seems to be picked up.

udevinfo -a -p /sys/block/sdd
shows:
  looking at parent device 
'/devices/pci:00/:00:06.0/:02:0b.2/usb5/5-3/5-3:1.0/host14/target14:0:0/14:0:0:0':
KERNELS=="14:0:0:0"
   ATTRS{model}=="FreeAgentDesktop"
...

So my questions are: 
1) what string substitution do I use to get the needed bit into my command?

2) do I need quoting in the rule?
3) can this work anyway?

Thanks for any help.

Don

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Re: what wants to remove gcc?

[Douglas Allan Tutty]

On Sun, Jun 10, 2007 at 09:23:58AM -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote:
> Currently 'apt-get upgrade' wants to upgrade 289 packages. Rather than
> do them all at once, I like to do smaller groups packages. Right now it
> seems that for every package I try to upgrade, apt-get wants to REMOVE
> gcc yet upgrading all the packages at once does not. I don't understand.
> Why should upgrading python, for example, result in apt-get wanting to
> remove gcc?
> 
> How can I find the package(s) that, once upgraded, will allow the
> upgrading of the others *without* trying to remove gcc? None of the
> files that gcc depends on are in the upgrade list.
> 

I don't know.  I always use aptitude interactively so I can see exactly
what it wants to do and why.

Without further info, I would guess that your new python depends on a
newer libc which then breaks your version of gcc; I would guess shifting
dependencies.

Aptitude was designed to handle dependencies in a richer, more nuanced,
way but lets not start the apt-get/aptitude argument.  Suffice it to
refer to the Etch release notes that say that aptitude is now the
preferred way to handle packages.

Doug.


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Re: USB PORT BEHAVIOUR

[Douglas Allan Tutty]

On Sun, Jun 10, 2007 at 03:56:36AM +, Oscar Blanco wrote:
> 
> I've got a question for quite a long time. When I remove a memory
> stick, MP3 Player or IPod from an USB port running debian, first I
> umount device but power supply still. It does not happen in WinXP. Is
> it dangerous for the USB Device, how could I mend it?
> 

I've only used memory sticks which don't give an indication that the
power is still on.  Since USB is designed for hotplugging, I don't see
why having the power to the port on is a bad thing.  On my box, the
power is on to the USB ports even if the computer is on; great for
charging things.

As long as the filesystem is unmounted there should be no problem.

Doug.


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Re: Find out host of IP

[Raquel]

On Sun, 10 Jun 2007 19:26:46 +0300
David Baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Someone is trying to ssh on to my system. Trying on several ports.
> Not the  first time, either. Thankfully, he does not have a
> password. Besides a bunch  of Deprecated option
> ReverseMappingCheck, so far no harm done.
> 
> Since my logs have this IP number, how do I find out who it is?
> 
> 

I sometimes use this little script. 

=

#!/bin/bash
lynx -dump "http://api.hostip.info/rough.php?ip=$1";

nslookup $1


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Re: boot problem with custom kernel

[Robert D. Crawford]

"Nelson Castillo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

>> 12.  make-kpkg --append-to-version=.powertop kernel_image
>
> Hi, you missed the "--initrd" option. That way the package will make the
> initrd when installed and the kernel will use it at boot time.

Thanks, that did the trick.  Not sure why I never had to do this
before... it is possible that I used to compile the necessary drivers
into the kernel.  This was a first run to see if the kernel would
compile with the patches and therefore I did not really do any kernel
configuration.  

Thanks again,
rdc

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Re: shell or fileutils commands and whitespaced filenames

[Mathias Brodala]

Hi Michael.

Michael, 10.06.2007 18:01:
> Mathias Brodala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>> OK. So where’s the problem? The tools mentioned can handle names with
>> whitespaces (and even stranger characters) since … a long time ago.
> 
> It looks like a workaround to me.
> 
> I am  wondering for many years now when whitespace handling will be managed 
> automatically, natively, just out of the box. 
> Do i understand it right now, and it's still just not implemented ? 

I have no idea why you are quoting me without reading what I wrote but: IT DOES
WORK. Something with your system must be wrong.

> I'm talking about this: chown -R me:you /deepfolder 

Yep, runs trough just fine. No complaints, no errors, no nothing.


Regards, Mathias

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Re: which package in sarge and which package in etch can convert mpeg to avi? and 2 more questions

[Oscar Blanco]

If you try SOX, you may need this also:
http://sox.sourceforge.net/

Kind regards.

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Re: Find out host of IP

[Ron Johnson]

On 06/10/07 11:26, David Baron wrote:
Someone is trying to ssh on to my system. Trying on several ports. Not the 
first time, either. Thankfully, he does not have a password. Besides a bunch 
of Deprecated option ReverseMappingCheck, so far no harm done.


Since my logs have this IP number, how do I find out who it is?


dig

To look at, for example, 68.99.123.13 do this:
  $ dig 13.123.99.68.in-addr.arpa

Note how I reversed the numbers and appended ".in-addr.arpa".

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Re: USB PORT BEHAVIOUR

[Oscar Blanco]

Almost everything looks fine, because some usb devices shows up on their
screens symbols meaning "DO NOT UNPLUG" until power supply remains. So, many
user are worried to unplug it, not having on mind this warning. I used to
set my Laptop in Stand-by mode, it seems to cut the power supply for
external devices but there most be a better way, a proper way to do it.

2007/6/10, Orestes Leal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:



> I've got a question for quite a long time. When I remove a memory stick,
> MP3
> Player or IPod from an USB port running debian, first I umount device
but
> power supply still. It does not happen in WinXP. Is it dangerous for the
> USB
> Device, how could I mend it?
Yeah, work like that at least in my experiencie, I guess that in the end
this could be directly caused by the way of the OS (or the layer) treat
this devices, I have been used several types of usb players and data usb
(but no IPods) from long time ago and never have a problem, so looks like
everithing it's good no?
> Kind regards,
The same for you.
> Ciao.
Greetings.
*olr





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Re: reorder files with a mouse in a file browser and rename them

[Ron Johnson]

On 06/10/07 11:15, H.S. wrote:

Ron Johnson wrote:

The way that I would do it is:
As you view an image in one window, use exiv2 in another window to add 
(or change) the exif timestamp.


It would require extremely huge amount of time -- doing this by hand for 
every file and all.


With bash and the "up arrow", it doesn't seem to me that this would 
take a lot of time.


Also, the jpegs do not have an exiv2 header in them 
(at least not that I know of; scanned from negatives), but I would 
suppose it is easy to add an empty header via a shell script.


:)

Remember, even though Linux has GUI, most "Unix people" don't 
reflexively go for the GUI solution.


(Then, after doing that to all the files, I would use exiv2 to rename 
them based upon the timestamp.  But that's just me.)


I don't know is MS Windows "resets" the file order when you log off or 
change directories thus forcing you not to be able to do anything else 
in Explorer until you complete that task, but the method I propose 
definitely does not force you to keep that window open the whole time.




Well, how I get around this problem is to distribute the images in a 
number of folders (around 20 in my case) based on the time-line (or 
event) once. This is done by drag and drop using the thumbnail view. 


Clever.

If it helps, Nautilus has a thumbnail viewer.  (As does, presumably, 
Konq.)


gqview is also *perfect* for such a task.

That way I just have to sort contents of one folder at a time (involving 
around 20~60 or so images). This makes the problem much more tractable 
in Windows.


It seems to me that this is a messy problem no matter which OS you use.

Within that one folder, I drag and drop the images into 
their proper order and then rename them (they get renamed in the order I 
had placed them) so that they have a name something like event_.jpeg 
where  is a sequence starting from 0001.


Once you get them renamed to event_hhmmss.jpeg, a script can rename 
them to event_.jpeg, if you want.


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Re: Find out host of IP

[David Baron]

>Someone is trying to ssh on to my system. Trying on several ports. Not the 
>first time, either. Thankfully, he does not have a password. Besides a bunch 
>of Deprecated option ReverseMappingCheck, so far no harm done.

>Since my logs have this IP number, how do I find out who it is?

SSH is not exposed from local to internet!
It is to a "VMZ" which is a virtual machine that may have been running at the 
time. But who is this IP (virtual machines are like 10.0.2.15 or such) ??


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Find out host of IP

[David Baron]

Someone is trying to ssh on to my system. Trying on several ports. Not the 
first time, either. Thankfully, he does not have a password. Besides a bunch 
of Deprecated option ReverseMappingCheck, so far no harm done.

Since my logs have this IP number, how do I find out who it is?


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Re: shell or fileutils commands and whitespaced filenames

[Michael]

Mathias Brodala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> OK. So where’s the problem? The tools mentioned can handle names with
> whitespaces (and even stranger characters) since … a long time ago.

It looks like a workaround to me.

I am  wondering for many years now when whitespace handling will be managed 
automatically, natively, just out of the box. 
Do i understand it right now, and it's still just not implemented ? 

I'm talking about this: chown -R me:you /deepfolder 

Why doesn't it work this way, given that whitespaced filenames are quite common 
since many years especially in multimedia ?

My hope was that i simply missed to learn the easy way (for example, 
configuring the IFS?) 
I mean, file management is one of the most frequent jobs i can think of.









   °
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Re: what wants to remove gcc?

[Ron Johnson]

On 06/10/07 10:43, Rick Pasotto wrote:

On Sun, Jun 10, 2007 at 08:51:39AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:

On 06/10/07 08:23, Rick Pasotto wrote:

Currently 'apt-get upgrade' wants to upgrade 289 packages. Rather
than do them all at once, I like to do smaller groups packages.

It will save you time by running "# apt-get -d -y upgrade" while you
go eat breakfast.  Once all the packages are downloaded, run "#apt-get
upgrade" interactively.


The -d option is a good idea but my main question still has not been
answered. What wants to *remove* gcc and why?


If this were happening to me, and I *really* cared, I'd use a binary 
search algorithm to narrow it down.



Also, what does it mean to run "apt-get upgrade" *interactively*?


Huh?  How *else* do you run "apt-get upgrade"?


You don't run "apt-get upgrade" blindly thru cron, do you?


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Re: reorder files with a mouse in a file browser and rename them

[H.S.]

Ron Johnson wrote:

The way that I would do it is:
As you view an image in one window, use exiv2 in another window to add 
(or change) the exif timestamp.


It would require extremely huge amount of time -- doing this by hand for 
every file and all. Also, the jpegs do not have an exiv2 header in them 
(at least not that I know of; scanned from negatives), but I would 
suppose it is easy to add an empty header via a shell script.


(Then, after doing that to all the files, I would use exiv2 to rename 
them based upon the timestamp.  But that's just me.)


I don't know is MS Windows "resets" the file order when you log off or 
change directories thus forcing you not to be able to do anything else 
in Explorer until you complete that task, but the method I propose 
definitely does not force you to keep that window open the whole time.




Well, how I get around this problem is to distribute the images in a 
number of folders (around 20 in my case) based on the time-line (or 
event) once. This is done by drag and drop using the thumbnail view. 
That way I just have to sort contents of one folder at a time (involving 
around 20~60 or so images). This makes the problem much more tractable 
in Windows. Within that one folder, I drag and drop the images into 
their proper order and then rename them (they get renamed in the order I 
had placed them) so that they have a name something like event_.jpeg 
where  is a sequence starting from 0001.


->HS



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Re: cryptsetup: Source device /dev/sda7 not found

[du . lists]

On Sun, 10 Jun 2007 06:19:45 +0200
Valentin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Small correction: 
> Changing the kernel version *does* make it bootable again. The kernel
> under the first one was just another 2.6.21 ;)

That's a shame. 8-) I would have had a hint for you otherwise...

I must somehow have messed up my partitiontable when i put Debian on my Laptop. 
Now every time i let grub handle a new kernel it "rearranges" my partitions 
(just their number/order in grub.conf) so that i have to manually edit its 
boot-options.
This _could_ have happened to you, too. But not if you're booting all your 
kernels with the same grub-configuration...

Cheers

Michael


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Re: did my message get through?

[Douglas Allan Tutty]

On Sat, Jun 09, 2007 at 09:02:16PM -0400, Zach wrote:
> please help, i posted 2 days ago with 4 specific problems i have after
> upgrading from 2.4.27 kernel to 2.6.18 kernel and i've not received a
> single reply. i really would appreciate some help with this.
> 

I don't recall seeing it.  What was the problem?

Boot into your 2.4.27 and give us uname -a
Give us your /boot/grub/menu.list
Give us your /etc/apt/sources.list
Give us your /etc/modules

Doug.


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Re: RAW image file

[KS]

Bernard wrote:


What kind of applications can open and use RAW image file created by
digital cameras?  Does such applications exist for Linux?



I was in the same situation a few days ago. Here are a few options 
(including non-OSS):


1.RAWstudio – OSS, GTK+ interface, little CMS, basic EXIF reading, very 
young but looks promising http://rawstudio.org/

2.blueMarine – OSS, Apache License http://bluemarine.tidalwave.it
3.Qtpfsgui – License?, http://qtpfsgui.sourceforge.net
4.Raw Therapee – free/ non-OSS www.rawtherapee.com/
5.bibble – http://www.bibblelabs.com/ proprietary, demo
6.Lightzone -  proprietary, 2.4 (penultimate version available for 
Linux), no support, uses Java (and so does Openoffice.org!) 
http://www-old.lightcrafts.com/linux/
7.digikam – OSS, little CMS http://digikam.org/ (more a photo management 
application than RAW editor)
8.f-spot – OSS, Gnome project http://f-spot.org/Main_Page more a photo 
management application than RAW editor)
9.lphoto – OSS, possibly no raw support http://lphoto.com (just a photo 
management app)
10.Picasa – Google, non-OSS, free, http://www.google.com/picasa (photo 
management, read RAW, no RAW editing)

11.krita - photo editor, can read RAW using one of dcraw or ufraw.
12.gimp - photo editor, needs dcraw plugin to read RAW files

I wonder if RAW Therapee could be made to have a change of mind and made 
an OSS.


HTH,
/KS


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Re: Is this a bug?

[Douglas Allan Tutty]

On Sat, Jun 09, 2007 at 10:06:26PM +0530, Mahesh M wrote:
> 
> Once I tried using the deluser commmand and while trying to see how well it
> works, I tried the following command:
>deluser root
> And to my surprise, root was deleted. Is that good? Self-termination,
> suiside!!!
> I dont know if this is a bug, or if it has been kept for some kind of
> flexibility.
> 
> I feel that deluser should not delete the root, even though it may be able
> to delete other priviledged users.

There are all kinds of suicidal things the root user can do.  Don't
become root unless ALL of the following are true:

You are sober
You are not fatigued
You are not distracted
You know exactly what you want to do and why
You are competent to do this
You are able to forsee the problems that could devleop 
and competent to deal with those problems
You cannot do this without becomming root.

Other suicidal actions include:

/bin/rm -Rf /
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda

and others.

You can't expect a system written by hackers to have in place for every
app capable of wrecking the system to include confirmation for
everything.  It would get in the way of efficient use of the system.


Be careful.

Doug.


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Re: what wants to remove gcc?

[Rick Pasotto]

On Sun, Jun 10, 2007 at 09:30:46AM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> Ron Johnson wrote:
> >On 06/10/07 08:23, Rick Pasotto wrote:
> >>Currently 'apt-get upgrade' wants to upgrade 289 packages. Rather than
> >>do them all at once, I like to do smaller groups packages.
> >
> >It will save you time by running "# apt-get -d -y upgrade" while you go 
> >eat breakfast.  
> 
> ...and lunch and dinner and have a good night's sleep and...

Actually it took only 13m56s.

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Re: what wants to remove gcc?

[Rick Pasotto]

On Sun, Jun 10, 2007 at 08:51:39AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 06/10/07 08:23, Rick Pasotto wrote:
> >Currently 'apt-get upgrade' wants to upgrade 289 packages. Rather
> >than do them all at once, I like to do smaller groups packages.
> 
> It will save you time by running "# apt-get -d -y upgrade" while you
> go eat breakfast.  Once all the packages are downloaded, run "#apt-get
> upgrade" interactively.

The -d option is a good idea but my main question still has not been
answered. What wants to *remove* gcc and why?

Also, what does it mean to run "apt-get upgrade" *interactively*?

> >Right now it seems that for every package I try to upgrade, apt-get
> >wants to REMOVE gcc yet upgrading all the packages at once does not.
> >I don't understand. Why should upgrading python, for example, result
> >in apt-get wanting to remove gcc?
> >
> >How can I find the package(s) that, once upgraded, will allow the
> >upgrading of the others *without* trying to remove gcc? None of the
> >files that gcc depends on are in the upgrade list.

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Re: reorder files with a mouse in a file browser and rename them

[Ron Johnson]

On 06/10/07 09:28, H.S. wrote:

Ron Johnson wrote:

On 06/09/07 23:29, H.S. wrote:
[snip]


Last time I checked, it did not support reordering the files using 
drag and drop. It only supported up and down arrow keys; which can be 
quite a drag if I have many files!


Just out of curiosity: what is the "root problem" you are trying to 
solve?  Get them in date-order, maybe?




Yes, to get the proper time-line. These are many image files which were 
scanned from negatives but not in proper order.


The way that I would do it is:
As you view an image in one window, use exiv2 in another window to 
add (or change) the exif timestamp.


(Then, after doing that to all the files, I would use exiv2 to 
rename them based upon the timestamp.  But that's just me.)


I don't know is MS Windows "resets" the file order when you log off 
or change directories thus forcing you not to be able to do anything 
else in Explorer until you complete that task, but the method I 
propose definitely does not force you to keep that window open the 
whole time.


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Synaptic- status is shown as local or obsolete

[arijit]

Hi all,

In synaptic window, i've one status named Installed (local or obsolete).
There are few packages under this status. Why these are so? I am
confused with "obsolete" status.
How can I remove that status message?

thanks,

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Re: Aptitude wants to remove OpenOffice.org

[Douglas Allan Tutty]

On Sat, Jun 09, 2007 at 03:42:22PM +, Manon Metten wrote:
> On 6/9/07, Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> ...  I used mc (midnight commander)
> >to poke into the rpm just as if (maybe it is) a tarball and installed
> >everything under /usr/local.  This was before /opt was in the hier.
> >
> >Now that /opt is in the hier, I would suggest that you would install the
> >whole shebang manually under /opt/$PACKAGENAME which makes removal later
> >much easier.
> 
> I have a long way to go before I am that far.
> But I have already adapted to the habit of installing such packages in /opt.
> In fact, I have a separate partition for /opt.

Using mc is dead simple.  On one panel, cd to the target directory; if
it doesn't exist, cd to the parent, hit F7 and enter the name, then cd.
You can also use lynx-like directories.  To open up the .rpm, just move
the cursor to it and hit enter; it then appears to be its own
filesystem.  Find the directory you want and hit F5 to copy it over.

Wow, you need a whole partition for /opt!  What all packages have you
needed for which there isn't a deb?  

Doug.


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[SOLVED] Re: selecting default browser under icedove

[andy]

Florian Kulzer wrote:

On Sun, Jun 10, 2007 at 09:48:48 +0100, andy wrote:
  

Hi all

I am wanting Icedove to launch Galeon or Iceweasel as the external browser, 
but it launches Konqueror instead. Under preferences, I haven't seen 
anything obvious to select this behaviour, and under advanced 
configuration/browsers section, references are to Netscape (?). I am sure 
that it is something quite straight forward, but I just haven't come across 
it yet.


Any pointers, please?



See Arthur Marsh's recent message:

http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2007/06/msg00810.html

  
Thanks. I fiddled with that for a while, without any luck, so tried this 
instead:


sudo dpkg-reconfigure icedove

Which brings up the ncurses screen. I then selected Gnome to handle the 
preference and that now works just fine.


Thanks for the input folks

A


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Re: boot problem with custom kernel

[Nelson Castillo]

12.  make-kpkg --append-to-version=.powertop kernel_image


Hi, you missed the "--initrd" option. That way the package will make the
initrd when installed and the kernel will use it at boot time.

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boot problem with custom kernel

[Robert D. Crawford]

I am running sid on a thinkpad t40.  I've been using the powertop
utility to check on power consumption and needed to install a custom
kernel with a few patches.  Here is the process I went through:

1.  d/l the sources for 2.6.22-rc1 from kernel.org

2.  d/l the patches from the powertop site, making sure that I fetched
the patch for the  correct kernel.

3.  mv the sources and patches to the  /usr/src directory

4. tar xjvf linux-2.6.22-rc1.tar.bz2 

5.  ln -s linux-2.6.22-rc1 linux

6.  cd linux

7.  patch -p1 < ../kernel-2.6.22-rc1.patch 

8.  patch -p1 < ../hpet_patches_45.patch 

9.  cp /boot/config-2.6.21-1-686 .config

10.  make oldconfig

11.  make-kpkg  clean  

12.  make-kpkg --append-to-version=.powertop kernel_image

13.  dpkg -i
.../linux-image-2.6.22-rc1.powertop_2.6.22-rc1.powertop-10.00.Custom_i386.deb 

by the way, I am not sure why this filename is so long.  They did not
used to be this long, but it has been a while since I have built a
custom kernel.

14.  cd /boot ; depmod -v 2.6.22-rc1.powertop 

15.  mkinitrd -o /boot/initrd-img-2.6.22-rc1.powertop
2.6.22-rc1.powertop

16. update-grub

17.  reboot

At this point, I get 

kernel panic - not syncing: vfs

and something about not being able to mount the root device.  I cannot
remember the whole message and cannot find something to write with that
will write large enough I can read it (I am legally blind).  If I need
to post the whole error I can find someone that can help me to copy it
down.  

Is there something I have missed here?  I have built both with and
without the patches from powertop and get the same error.

Thanks for your help,
rdc
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Re: what wants to remove gcc?

[Hugo Vanwoerkom]

Ron Johnson wrote:

On 06/10/07 08:23, Rick Pasotto wrote:

Currently 'apt-get upgrade' wants to upgrade 289 packages. Rather than
do them all at once, I like to do smaller groups packages.


It will save you time by running "# apt-get -d -y upgrade" while you go 
eat breakfast.  


...and lunch and dinner and have a good night's sleep and...

Hugo

Once all the packages are downloaded, run "#apt-get

upgrade" interactively.


   Right now it
seems that for every package I try to upgrade, apt-get wants to REMOVE
gcc yet upgrading all the packages at once does not. I don't understand.
Why should upgrading python, for example, result in apt-get wanting to
remove gcc?

 >

How can I find the package(s) that, once upgraded, will allow the
upgrading of the others *without* trying to remove gcc? None of the
files that gcc depends on are in the upgrade list.





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Re: [SOLVED] Re: KDE clock showing 1 hour ahead

[arijit]

> sudo joe /etc/init.d/hwclock.sh
> 
> At first line: HWCLOCKPARS= was blank, so added, with quotes:
> "--directisa"
> 
> and saved.
> 
> I then ran sudo hwclock --directisa --systohc
> 
> and then rebooted.



thanks all. i was facing the same problem in Gnome, since i am using
debian. now it's solved. thanks everybody.

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Re: reorder files with a mouse in a file browser and rename them

[H.S.]

Ron Johnson wrote:

On 06/09/07 23:29, H.S. wrote:
[snip]


Last time I checked, it did not support reordering the files using 
drag and drop. It only supported up and down arrow keys; which can be 
quite a drag if I have many files!


Just out of curiosity: what is the "root problem" you are trying to 
solve?  Get them in date-order, maybe?




Yes, to get the proper time-line. These are many image files which were 
scanned from negatives but not in proper order.


->HS



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Re: Can you connect to a MySQL database on a server from a workstation?

[Eric A. Bonney]

Andy Smith wrote:

Hi Eric,

On Sat, Jun 09, 2007 at 05:19:14PM -0400, Eric A. Bonney wrote:
  
I want to use mysql for my storage in Amarok.  I have created a db down 
on my server (in the basement), but now I can't figure out how to get my 
other workstations to connect to the server.



Bear in mind that by default, Debian's mysql server packages only
listen on localhost so are not available across the network until
you change that.

Once you have changed it and have added a user with privileges to
connect from your workstation(s), you probably want to test that
access from the workstation with the mysql client:

$ mysql -h your.mysql.server.host -u username -p databasename

Until this part works, you haven't got it set up correctly.

Cheers,
Andy

  


Thanks  Andy,

I thought I read somewhere that tcp/ip was set on by default.  I will 
have to configure it to turn it on then.  Is this just a configuration 
flag or do I need to recompile the source?


Thanks,
-Eric


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Re: Need a little help with my network configuration

[Chris]

On Wednesday 06 June 2007 01:54, Celejar wrote:
> On Sun, 3 Jun 2007 16:34:48 +0200
>
> Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have a box with a usb-nic which uses the zd1211rw module.  The box is
> > dist-upgraded to the testing level.  I can connect to the router using
> > network-manager and from kde with network-manager-kde just fine.
> >
> > eth1  IEEE 802.11b/g  ESSID:"cjwlan"  Nickname:"zd1211"
> >   Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.437 GHz  Access Point:
> > 00:04:0E:96:0F:37 Bit Rate=11 Mb/s
> >   Encryption key: XXX   Security mode:open
> >   Link Quality=34/100  Signal level=28/100
> >   Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
> >   Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0
> >
> > Every time I boot, I have to re-enter the passphrase again, but I want it
> > to
>
> What sort of passphrase? What security protocol (WEP, WPA, WPA2, etc)
> are you using? What does ifconfig show when you boot before you enter
> the passphrase?

I'm using WEP and entering the passphrase as hex in network-manager-kde. If I 
boot with:

cat /etc/network/interfaces >>

# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).

# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

# The primary network interface
# allow-hotplug eth0
# iface eth0 inet dhcp

Then:

ifconfig >>

eth0  Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:02:A5:F7:26:6A  
  UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
  RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
  TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
  collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
  RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

eth1  Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:02:72:56:84:A9  
  UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
  RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
  TX packets:104 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
  collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
  RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:4368 (4.2 KiB)

loLink encap:Local Loopback  
  inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
  inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
  UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
  RX packets:12 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
  TX packets:12 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
  collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
  RX bytes:732 (732.0 b)  TX bytes:732 (732.0 b)



After I log in as user and enter the passphrase in network-manager-kde:

ifconfig >>

eth0  Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:02:A5:F7:26:6A  
  UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
  RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
  TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
  collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
  RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

eth1  Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:02:72:56:84:A9  
  inet addr:192.168.178.27  Bcast:192.168.178.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
  inet6 addr: fe80::202:72ff:fe56:84a9/64 Scope:Link
  UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
  RX packets:3570 errors:0 dropped:43 overruns:0 frame:0
  TX packets:2092 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
  collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
  RX bytes:4986730 (4.7 MiB)  TX bytes:130461 (127.4 KiB)

loLink encap:Local Loopback  
  inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
  inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
  UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
  RX packets:57 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
  TX packets:57 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
  collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
  RX bytes:3700 (3.6 KiB)  TX bytes:3700 (3.6 KiB)

iwconfig >>

eth1  IEEE 802.11b/g  ESSID:"essid"  Nickname:"zd1211"
  Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.437 GHz  Access Point: 00:04:0E:96:0F:37   
  Bit Rate=11 Mb/s   
  Encryption key:"passphrase"   Security mode:open
  Link Quality=99/100  Signal level=32/100  
  Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
  Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

And everything is ok. The interface as such works, but I'm having trouble 
getting eth1 up automatically either:

1) using network-manager which should actually automatically do it, but always 
askes for the passpharse instead; or 

2) by having eth1 start from auto eth1 in /etc/network/interfaces which fails 
either statically or dhcp, why I don't know.

Thanks for any suggestions.  I need to be able to have this box come up and 
attach to the network over eth1 without any intervention.

Chris


> > connect automatically at boot.  I tried to set up an interface
> > in /etc/network/interfaces (I don't really need network-manager).  But I
> > can't for the life of me get it working!  Here is my
> > /etc/network/interfaces:
> >
> > # This fil

Re: reorder files with a mouse in a file browser and rename them

[Ron Johnson]

On 06/09/07 23:29, H.S. wrote:
[snip]


Last time I checked, it did not support reordering the files using drag 
and drop. It only supported up and down arrow keys; which can be quite a 
drag if I have many files!


Just out of curiosity: what is the "root problem" you are trying to 
solve?  Get them in date-order, maybe?


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Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good!


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Re: what wants to remove gcc?

[Ron Johnson]

On 06/10/07 08:23, Rick Pasotto wrote:

Currently 'apt-get upgrade' wants to upgrade 289 packages. Rather than
do them all at once, I like to do smaller groups packages.


It will save you time by running "# apt-get -d -y upgrade" while you 
go eat breakfast.  Once all the packages are downloaded, run 
"#apt-get upgrade" interactively.



   Right now it
seems that for every package I try to upgrade, apt-get wants to REMOVE
gcc yet upgrading all the packages at once does not. I don't understand.
Why should upgrading python, for example, result in apt-get wanting to
remove gcc?

>

How can I find the package(s) that, once upgraded, will allow the
upgrading of the others *without* trying to remove gcc? None of the
files that gcc depends on are in the upgrade list.


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Re: Install which Linux? (or avoiding dirty birds)

[Wayne Topa]

Gayle Lee Fairless([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said:
>Although I would have replied sooner; there was a death in the family.
> 

Sorry for your loss.
> 
> 
> Gayle Lee Fairless([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said:
> >
> > Wayne Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>  replied:
> >
<>

> >
> >>Then I hope the US Robotics card will work, or I get lucky with the
> >> Belkin adapter!
> 
> >You may be in luck after all.
> 
> > A google for "US Robotics USR5410 Linux" came up with a review that
> > wasn't too good, but the second one you might like. The headline is
> > "US Robotics goes Linux" and your 5410 in included in the writeup.
> > 
> 
> 
> I found it and the reference to Linuxant and their product, DriverLoader:
> 
> (quote off www.Linuxant.com)
> 
> DriverLoader is a revolutionary compatibility-wrapper allowing standard 
> Windows NDIS (Network Driver Interface Specification) drivers shipped by 
> hardware vendors to be used as-is on Linux x86 systems  
> 
> (end of quote)
> 
> It appears that the program supports both the Belkin USB wireless device 
> and
> the US Robotics USR5410 PCMIA card.  I have to hook it up and find out 
> under
> both Linux and Windows XP Pro.

I try to stay away from the NDIS wrappers but if you have a card
and thats the only way

<>

> I learned enough vi to naviage through a text file and make simple 
> changes.  
> Although I have mutt on my Debian sarge box, I do not understand it as well
> as I do vi.  The messages to root go through mutt.  I also have seen and 
> used
> a version of emacs on the Amiga.

Mutt is a command line Mail User Agent (MUA) and it uses vim, an
expandad vi, to write/reply to mail.  IMHO these are 2 of the most
useful apps.

Try "aptitude show mutt" | "apt-cache show mutt"  & "aptitude|apt-cache
show vi".  

IIRC the netinstall uses the nano editor because of its small size.  
>
<>
>
> I was able to install a baic Debian GNU/Linux etch system on the 
> Thinkpad with the official network installation CDROM.  Since I was
> not connected to the Internet, I need to know how to get network setup
> working and start installing packages. 
>

'If' the drivers were installed correctly: iwconfig Should show something
installed.


{TP 770, running a USB wireless adapter }

$ iwconfig
lono wireless extensions.

sit0  no wireless extensions.

wlan0 IEEE 802.11-b  ESSID:"Mtntop_AP"  Nickname:"Mtntop_AP"
  Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.437 GHz  Access Point: 00:0F:B5:11:37:1F
  Bit Rate:11 Mb/s   Tx-Power:18 dBm
  Retry min limit:8   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
  Encryption key:off
  Link Quality=25/92  Signal level=-66 dBm  Noise level=-91 dBm
  Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
  Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0



If a device shows up then the driver is loaded.  Then you have to configure 
your /etc/network/interfaces file.  See man interfaces.


{ the above 770's interfaces file}

$cat /etc/network/interfaces

# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).

# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
   up route add -net 127.0.0.0 netmask 255.0.0.0 dev lo
down route del -net 127.0.0.0 netmask 255.0.0.0 dev lo


# The primary network interface
# Ashton USB Dongle
#   NOTE:  all setup for this USB Dongle is is in /etc/wlan/
#   and the startup script in /etc/network/if-pre-up.d/linux-wlan-ng-pre-up
#   and down with the /etc/network/if-post-down.d/linux-wlan-ng-post-down
auto wlan0
iface wlan0 inet dhcp


Once you have the above interfaces file done then to connect to your
AP do first.
/etc/init.d/networking force-reload
then
$ ifup (interface name from iwconfig)

>
> I looked
> at Martin Kraft's Debian maintainer notes on fluxbox.  Did you have to 
> install a patch
> to get yours working?

I did not install any flux patches.  Note I am running lenny/Testing not
etch/stable.

I'll leave it there until we know if the wrappers got the drivers installed
correctly.

I'll mention some other stuff for you to ponder.

There, usually, is no need to reboot the system.  When working on
networking you can restart networking, after making changes to the
interfaces file by doing as root  /etc/init.d/networking restart.

$ ifconfig (show what interfaces are up)

The dhcp, in the interfaces file, is the command to get access to your
AP. I have to assume that the netinstall includes the dhcp client.

Wayne

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what wants to remove gcc?

[Rick Pasotto]

Currently 'apt-get upgrade' wants to upgrade 289 packages. Rather than
do them all at once, I like to do smaller groups packages. Right now it
seems that for every package I try to upgrade, apt-get wants to REMOVE
gcc yet upgrading all the packages at once does not. I don't understand.
Why should upgrading python, for example, result in apt-get wanting to
remove gcc?

How can I find the package(s) that, once upgraded, will allow the
upgrading of the others *without* trying to remove gcc? None of the
files that gcc depends on are in the upgrade list.

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Re: problems with totem

[Marcelo Chiapparini]

On Sat, 2007-06-09 at 23:51 +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 09, 2007 at 17:27:59 -0300, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote:
> > On Sat, 2007-06-09 at 14:52 -0400, Andrew J. Barr wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
> > > Please try either player using the standard XPutImage driver--e.g.
> > > disable Xvideo--and tell us what that does. Usually the video
> > > output driver is called "x11" or "xshm". VLC should have GUI for this,
> > > in Totem you can change the output in ~/.gnome2/totem_config for the
> > > xine-lib version, or using the GNOME control center application for the
> > > Gstreamer version.
> > 
> > Andrew
> > 
> > I tried with VLC first. In the video output module section the video
> > output module field was "default". Which didn't work. The are many
> > options, but the only one which works is "X11 video output". With this
> > option I can play videos with VLC now! thank you very much!
> > 
> > Regarding totem (I am running totem-xine), well, in totem_config there
> > are many lines, all commented out. I can't figure out which line changes
> > the video output, sorry... any suggestion? 
> > 
> > 
> > As you suggested in another email, I tried mplayer too:
> > 
> > mplayer -vo x11 
> > 
> > and all clips played fine! 
> > 
> > but when I do:
> > 
> > mplayer -vo Xvideo 
> > 
> > I only get sound, no video...
> > 
> > How can I define the correct video output for all applications? is it
> > possible to do it in some configuration system file?
> 
> I think you have to configure that separately for each multimedia
> player, in either a "settings" menu or a configuration file.
> 
> I am still puzzled that your Xvideo does not work; your Xorg.log and
> output of xvinfo did not look so bad. If you can use Xvideo you will get
> better video playback quality with less CPU usage.
> 
> You could try to install the "xvattr" package and then run the following
> command:
> 
> xvattr -a XV_SWITCHCRT -v 1

Florian, that was my problem! I discovered it googling before your email
arrives. Thank you very much for your help!

> Maybe that will activate Xvideo on your display. (I am only guessing
> since I have no experience with ATI cards. However, I have a similar
> issue with the Intel 855GM video card of my laptop: By default it
> directs the Xvideo output to the external CRT display, even if there is
> no external monitor connected. This means that I only see a blue square
> on the LCD screen unless I use xvattr to change that. With my card the
> relevant Xvideo attribute is XV_PIPE; maybe XV_SWITCHCRT does the same
> for your card.)

and it does. I wrote a script with the xvattr command. The only thing is
that I have to run that scrip every time I boot the system. I have to
learn how to ask the system to run it automatically...

> You could also try to play around with other "suspicious" attributes
> reported by xvinfo, e.g.
> 
> xvattr -a XV_DEVICE_ID -v 0
> 
> etc. (See "man xvattr" for further details.)

As I reported before, the XV_SWITCHCRT attribute was the problem. But I
will study the man to learn more.

Thank again for your help and time! Now I am happy with my Xvideo
working correctly

with the best regards

Marcelo


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Re: [OT] Re: installing tutos2 - almost solved

[Roberto C . Sánchez]

On Sun, Jun 10, 2007 at 11:11:50AM +0200, csanyipal wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 09, 2007 at 06:34:29PM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
> 
> > > I run the [tutos_dir]/tutos/php/admin/scheme.php and create 
> > > successfully the tables in the tutos database, & create the superuser 
> > > with password "tutos".
> > > 
> > > But I can't to change the superusers password!
> > > 
> > Hmm.  How are you trying to change the password?
> 
> Login as superuser (I can to login only with the superuser account.) 
> Then click on the Settings on the navigation bar.
> So, I can't to find any place where I can to change the superusers 
> password.
> 
I'm sorry I don't understand,  but which application are you using for
this?

> I try to change this password with the phppgadmin, but there, in the 
> people table in tutos database the password is stored in an encrypted 
> way. 
> 
IIRC, phppgadmin has a user management function.  You should not need to
modify the users table directly.

> So, in this version of tutos-2 on Etch how can I change the superusers 
> password?
> 
I usually change the user's passowrd by logging in using the command
line client and using the 'ALTER USER' SQL statement.  It supports
encrypting the password as well.

> > > > What errors?
> > > 
> > > Fatal error: Call to undefined function: loadlayout() in 
> > > /usr/share/tutos/php/admin_show.php on line 16
> > > 
> > > I get this error message above when click with mouse on the navigation 
> > > bar on the "Administrator" link, when I'm logged in as superuser.
> > > 
> > Looks like a PHP problem.
> 
> What can I do to solve this problem?
> 
I'm not sure.  I am not a PHP expert.

> > > And can't to login as "demo" with password "guest".
> > > 
> > Does it log an error in this case?
> 
> Yes. In the tutos error log I can find these messages:
> -->
> DateTime:   10.Jun.2007 10:38:32 CEST
> Errno:  8
> Undefined index:  Bug
> LastQuery:  INSERT into messages (ts,message) \ 
> values ('06-10-2007 10:38:31','not unique 0 Result \ 
> for demo / guest (127.0.0.1)')
> File:   /usr/share/tutos/php/layout/layout.pinc +564
> Browser:Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; hu; \
> rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070310 Iceweasel/2.0.0.3 \
> (Debian-2.0.0.3-1)
> Language:   hu-hu,hu;q=0.8,en-us;q=0.5,en;q=0.3
> URL:/tutos/php/mytutos.php
> Request:/tutos/php/mytutos.php
> POST:   uname   --> demo
> POST:   pw  --> xxx
> POST:   dbnr--> 0
> POST:   login   --> Bejelentkezés
> RemoteAddr: 127.0.0.1
> Referer:http://csanyi-pal.info/tutos/php/\
> mytutos.php?msg=goodbye
> TUTOS Version:  2.0-dev
> Database:   POSTGRES: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:5432 as csanyipal
> DB Alias :  Postgres database
> PHP Version:4.4.4-8+etch3 Linux
> PHP Config: /etc/php4/apache2/php.ini
> APACHE Version: Apache/2.2.3 (Debian) \
> PHP/4.4.4-8+etch3 mod_perl/2.0.2 Perl/v5.8.8
> STACKTRACE:
>   php_error (8,Undefined index:  \
> Bug,/usr/share/tutos/php/layout/layout.pinc,\
> 564,Array)
>   layout_stop   ->  /usr/share/tutos/php/\
> layout/layout.pinc +564
>   layout_stop ()->/usr/share/tutos/php/\
> layout/layout.pinc +621
>   display ()   ->/usr/share/tutos/php/\
> auth/auth.pinc +91
>   login_form (/tutos/php/mytutos.php,\
> Bejelentkezés sikertelen)  ->   /usr/share/tutos/php/\
> permission.p3 +358
>   check_user () /usr/share/tutos/php/calendar.p3 +18
>   include_once (/usr/share/tutos/php/\
> calendar.p3) /usr/share/tutos/php/mytutos.php +10
> --<
> 
The stacktrace mentions a PHP error.  I would try and track that one
down first.  Additionally, you might find better help on the debian-isp
list.  At least, I think you are more likely to find someone actually
running tutos2 on that list.

> > > This tutos version for the Etch is 2 years old. :(
> > > If this version works, then I would be happy.
> > > 
> > Are you able to try the upstream version?
> 
> How can I do that? I try to update tutos with update-php script, but I 
> don't know the database ID. I follow the instructions in the 
> install_easy.html : "...
> call the http://[yourserver]/tutos/php/admin/update.php?id=XX page 
> where XX is our database index from config.php"
> 
> I try to use for XX the numbers: 00, 01, but with no success.
> 
What I mean is to simply download the whole tutos distribution from
upstream and follow their instructions for installing from scratch.

Regards,

-Roberto

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Re: cryptsetup: Source device /dev/sda7 not found

[Valentin]

Now I tried putting the references to disks in the crypttab by
using /dev/disk/by-uuid/* instead of /dev/sda and did update-initramfs
-k  -u, but it still can't find the device. What am I doing
wrong?


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Re: selecting default browser under icedove

[Nigel Henry]

On Sunday 10 June 2007 10:48, andy wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I am wanting Icedove to launch Galeon or Iceweasel as the external
> browser, but it launches Konqueror instead. Under preferences, I haven't
> seen anything obvious to select this behaviour, and under advanced
> configuration/browsers section, references are to Netscape (?). I am
> sure that it is something quite straight forward, but I just haven't
> come across it yet.
>
> Any pointers, please?
>
> Thanks
>
> A

Go to /usr/share/applications , and click on "default applications.desktop" .

You can set default webbrowser, and email client for Gnome based apps here.

Nigel.


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