Re: Holy Shee-it
On Sunday 15 February 2004 09:15 pm, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > On 2004-02-16, Christian Schnobrich penned: > > [btw, for all that didn't follow the link: it says there's to be a > > Microsoft Office for Linux] > > But provided by IBM, not MS, right? (At least, that's what I recall > from the slashdot summary ... I confess to not reading the details.) Correct. Personally, I think the time and money would be better spent improving OpenOffice.org so it bridges that last 10% gap between it and MS Office. But then again, it's IBM's time and money, not mine. Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Kde gone
On Sunday 15 February 2004 09:02 pm, Dan Weikert wrote: > I recently started exploring Debian. I installed Woody and after a day > or so upgraded to Sarge. > While monitoring the progress of the apt-get install xearth I > saw some disturbing lines indicating kde was being removed The archives (http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/) are your friend: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2004/debian-user-200402/msg02327.html Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to install an ftp server
On Saturday 14 February 2004 03:11 pm, Marty Landman wrote: > Ok, I got it from apt. Now what? > > I've uncommented the following line from my /etc/inetd.conf > > ftp stream tcp nowait root/usr/sbin/tcpd > /usr/sbin/vsftpd > > > and discovered that there is no vsftpd in my /etc/init.d directory. There doesn't need to be. Inetd handles starting vsftpd when an ftp connection is made. As long as inetd starts at system boot, you're fine. Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to install an ftp server
On Saturday 14 February 2004 12:47 pm, Marty Landman wrote: > This is new to me. An apt-cdrom add seems to have worked, but apt-get > update seems to have failed. > woody:~# cat /etc/apt/sources.list > deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 _Woody_ - LordSutch.com MiniCD i386 > Binary-1 (20020920)]/ unstable main non-US/main > deb ftp://ftp.us.debian.org doc pool main project dpkg > I'm guessing that my addition on line two isn't right, or not enough. > What do I need to have a usefull sources.list? Remove the first line and make the second line: deb ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free You'll also want to add this line for security updates: deb http://security.debian.org/ woody/updates main contrib non-free Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to install an ftp server
On Saturday 14 February 2004 11:56 am, Marty Landman wrote: > now I want to have an ftp server running. > > woody:~# which ftpd > woody:~# whereis ftpd > ftpd: > > Is this telling me that there is no ftp daemon currently installed? Probably. A better check would be: dpkg -l | grep "ftpd" > What do I do to get this going? apt-get install vsftpd Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Linux Compatibility Issue
On Saturday 14 February 2004 11:58 am, Abdul Latip wrote: > Once in a while, users are asking me about the compatibilty problem of > Linux. They reasoning that M$Office can be installed anywhere like > Win98, WinME, WinNT, et. al. Actually, many Windows app CDs come with multiple installers for the various versions of Windows. The installer just detects the version of Windows and runs the correct installer - it's transparent to the user. The same thing could be done on Linux, but there's not much point. Most CDs come from the distro itself (and are therefore packaged correctly), and download sites usually carry packages for most of the distros (if the distro doesn't already provide it). > Whereas it is hard to install a RedHat package into Debian, and so on. Mostly because a RedHat and Debian package that provides the same thing may have a slightly different name, version number, or feature set. Factor in the dependencies a package has, and you can see where the difficulty comes in. > It seems they are not so backward compatible? Mostly because of changes in dependencies (including glibc). However, many Linux distributions (including Debian) backport newer versions of packages, so backwards compatibility issues don't come up that often. Even if you have to upgrade an application, the upgrade usually costs nothing but time, which is more than I can say for most Windows apps. Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mount tempfs error on start up
On Thursday 12 February 2004 05:17 pm, ThanhVu Nguyen wrote: > I received this msg "mount: wrong fs, bad option etc on tmpfs " while > start up. There's nothing about tmpfs on my /etc/fstab, what can cause > this error ? Thanks ... Have you checked this (from the archives): http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2004/debian-user-200402/msg00489.html Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: enable smp support
Please send your replies to the list, not to me personally. On Thursday 12 February 2004 04:18 pm, saravanan wrote: > no, after changing the option, I got kernel panic error. > What to do? Having the exact panic message would be helpful. Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: enable smp support
On Thursday 12 February 2004 03:43 pm, saravanan wrote: > I didn't manually edit the file. While installing > kernel-image-2.4*..-smp.deb, it gives two options > 1) use existing lilo conf > 2) Create new lilo conf > I selected second option & it automatically creates the file. The new file was saved as /etc/lilo.conf, right? > 'boot' line was set as /dev/hda in earlier. Ok. Your problem is that LILO was installed in the MBR originally, and this new config file puts LILO in the first partition. You have LILO installed in two places, and the version in the MBR (the old version) is being used. Change the "boot" line to /dev/hda instead of /dev/hda1, re-run lilo, and it should work. Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: enable smp support
On Thursday 12 February 2004 03:17 pm, saravanan wrote: > I 've updated my lilo. > > my lilo config file as > > boot=/dev/hda1 > root=/dev/hda1 > compact > install=/boot/boot.b > map=/boot/map > vga=normal > delay=20 > image=/vmlinuz > label = Linux > read-only > initrd=/initrd.img > > where /vmlinuz --> boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-686 -smp > /initrd.img ---> /boot/initrd.img-2.4.18-686-smp > > Any other problems? Did you change the "boot" line when you added the new kernel, or was it set to /dev/hda1 originally? Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: enable smp support
Posting in HTML makes your message barely readable, which greatly reduces your chances of getting useful answers. Please set your mail client to plain text when posting to a mailing list. On Thursday 12 February 2004 03:00 pm, saravanan wrote: > I 've installed debian3.0 on my rackable systems c1000. > Since it doesn't support smp by default, I 've installed > kernel-image-2.4.22***-smp.deb. But the kernel is still the same as the > old one. (uname -a , shows the kernel without smp). > What's the problem? Did you set LILO/GRUB to boot the new kernel instead of the original kernel? If using LILO, did you run /sbin/lilo after making this change? Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sarge dist-upgrade wants to remove KDE
On Thursday 12 February 2004 11:20 am, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: > I'm tracking Sarge now, and for the past couple of days, when I tried > dist-upgrade, it has wanted to remove pretty much every KDE package on > my system... KDE is currently broken in Sarge. The 3.1.5 packages coming from Sid should fix this soon, but in the meantime you can do what I did. I found this solution in the mailing list archive somewhere. Add this to your sources.list: deb http://snapshot.debian.net/archive pool lm-sensors The problem is a dependency of ksysguardd was removed from Sarge, which this line will provide. Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Fonts, one more time
On Thursday 12 February 2004 05:50 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > If you install Windows, you don't have to know > anything about fonts, really. Text just looks good in > all applications. You become aware that different > fonts exist by choosing different fonts in apps like > Office. They all look good. > If you install Debian Woody, text looks like shit, if > you are used to Windows quality. > What does it take to fix this problem? Wait for the next release - the fonts in Sarge look great out of the box. Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Newbie install question re: Mouse
On Thursday 12 February 2004 02:36 am, Peter Samuelson wrote: > [Adam Aube] > > > > 2. How can I get into a command line interface from the graphical > > > login window without the mouse? > > > > Alt+F1 > > Errr, from inside X that's Ctrl-Alt-F1 Oops! Thanks for the correction. Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: AIDE problems
On Wednesday 11 February 2004 12:49 pm, Keith Nasman wrote: > When my cronjob is run, it reports that it could not access > /var/lib/aide.db. > Here are what I think the relative lines are in /etc/cron.daily/aide > CONFFILE="/floppy/aide/aide.conf" > DATABASE=`grep "^database=file:/" $CONFFILE | head -1 | cut -d: -f2` > [ -z "$DATABASE" ] && DATABASE="/var/lib/aide/aide.db" The -z test returns true if the variable being tested is unset. The fact that DATABASE is getting the default value indicates that the script is having problems reading your configuration file. Are you mounting the floppy drive via autofs (or similar)? If not, are you ensuring the floppy is mounted before the script gets run? What happens if you run this script from the command line? Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: whew
On Wednesday 11 February 2004 05:26 pm, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > Whoa, wait a minute, how can Lou provide FTP hosting when earlier he > said he and 90% of the world doesn't know how to FTP? Go figure. Another "go figure" - a Linux server running Apache hosts his site: http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph/?host=www.louwho.com Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Howto reinstall corrupted package?
On Wednesday 11 February 2004 03:01 pm, Frank A. Uepping wrote: > After the corrupted package is identified, how can I reinstall the > package? Of course, I can uninstall/install the package but this will > force me to uninstall/install all dependents? apt-get install --reinstall [package name] Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: linux 2.6 + samba 3.0 + setuid smbmnt = local root vulnerability ---- what to do?@fatooh.org
On Wednesday 11 February 2004 03:04 pm, Corey Hickey wrote: > this affects any Debian installation that uses Linux 2.6 And has smbfs installed - that is the package with smbmnt setUID root. > Following the instructions on the original report to gain root on a > vulnerable system (the client) is quite easy. Provided the attacker is able to introduce a rogue Samba server onto the network and has a shell account on the target. > On a temporary basis, this problem can be easily mitigated: > # chmod u-s `which smbmnt` > ...but this prevents regular users from smbmounting. Unless the admin puts the share in /etc/fstab with the "users" option, which is far better than allowing local users to mount random network filesystems. You could file a bug against the smbfs package (since there doesn't seem to be one already) that /usr/bin/smbmnt being setUID root opens a security hole, and include the link to the BugTraq report. Note that if this requires Samba 3 on the client side, then Woody isn't affected (Woody uses a patched Samba 2.2.3a). Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Failure mounting extra partition on boot
On Wednesday 11 February 2004 12:20 am, Bruce wrote: > I have a rather strange problem that I can't figure out. I have two > ext3 partitions on my Sid system, with the following lines in > /etc/fstab: > > /dev/hda3 / ext3 defaults,noatime 1 1 > /dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1 ext3 defaults,auto,users,exec,noatime,notail 0 0 > > hda3 is my root partition; hda1 was a Windows partition, reformatted to > ext3. Problem is, only the / partition will mount on boot. > > Once I have booted, I try the following: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mount /mnt/hda1 > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda1, >or too many mounted file systems You have a bad mount option. "notail" is an option for ReiserFS, not ext3. Remove the "notail" option from /etc/fstab. Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to tell if anything evil lurking in an .xls file?
On Tuesday 10 February 2004 07:11 pm, Nano Nano wrote:
> You know you can set "Security Level = {Medium,High}" in Office right?
Yes, but I was trying to give the OP a solution he could implement on his
end. He probably can't control the macro settings the recipients of the
file have.
> I think it would be safer to save the files as the ancient Lotus 1-2-3
> format.
Perhaps, though the OP may have the same problem as with CSV - loss of
essential content.
Adam
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Re: how to tell if anything evil lurking in an .xls file?
On Tuesday 10 February 2004 05:02 pm, Dan Jacobson wrote: > But if I convert it to .cvs format, all the "=..." formulas of the > spreadsheet are lost. All I am left with is just a snapshot of what > it looked like on the face of it. Ok. I have another idea, then. You could save it in the native format of Gnumeric or OpenOffice.org Calc, then convert it back to xls. That will likely strip out any nastiness hiding in the original xls file. Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Newbie install question re: Mouse
On Tuesday 10 February 2004 04:45 pm, Bob Mills wrote: > 1.How can I get either the serial mouse or PS2 mouse configured? dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 This will take you back through the configuration of X, including mouse support. > 2. How can I get into a command line interface from the graphical > login window without the mouse? Alt+F1 Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SSL SMTP Relay in DMZ
On Saturday 07 February 2004 03:10 pm, Curtis Vaughan wrote: > I would like to set up a mail server in a DMZ that would accept mail > only from those clients who have authenticated using SSL. Do you mean authenticate using username/password over SSL, or authenticate using an SSL certificate? If the former, setup SMTP AUTH to handle the authentication, and if your MTA supports TLS, use that to wrap the authentication in SSL. If not, use Stunnel. If the latter, have the MTA only listen on localhost. Setup Stunnel to only accept certain certificates, then forward those connection over localhost to the listening MTA. > Given that they have successfully passed that criteria, then this DMZ > mail server would pass the mail off to an internal mail server for > further delivery. Most MTAs support forwarding all mail to another server - just set this up for your MTA of choice. Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian, Knoppix, and other varients
On Monday 09 February 2004 03:49 pm, Mike M wrote: > What I want is an up-to-date hardware configurator and all the > blessings of stable. This will most likely never be available. It > seems impossible. You could try MEPIS. It can be freely downloaded, and can be installed or run as a Live CD. MEPIS produces their own updates, so you can keep up to date that way. Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Two Apache instances; IPTables to redirect ports
On Monday 09 February 2004 01:41 pm, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: > Oh, OK... Isn't it a viable alternative to run apache with -f config, > with another config file...? I'd forgotten about that. > I thought that would be the most elegant path to take Definitely. > but I have no clue on how to implement it practically Same concept applies - make sure they use different ports, PID files, etc. Then just copy the init.d script and edit it so that it launches your demo server using the alternate configuration file. Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Open office + mounting Auto MSDOS floppy drive.
On Monday 09 February 2004 09:53 am, Gregory Machin wrote: > Could someone please advise mo on how to setup the automount for MSDOS > in fstab. I need Open Office to write to msdos floppy disks. Using > Mandrake 9.0 + KDE .. This is a Debian list, not a Mandrake list. And that functionality is usually provided by an automounter (such as amd, automount, or autofs), not in fstab itself. See what automounter your distribution provides, and check its documentation for how to set it up. Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Two Apache instances; IPTables to redirect ports
On Monday 09 February 2004 07:43 am, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: > So, how do I set up my box to run two different Apache instances...? Install your demo system from Apache source in /usr/local/apache, and make sure it uses a different port, log & pid files, etc. > The other question is related: I have to run the demo server at a > different port, say 8081. But, I figured it should be easy with > IPTables to redirect this so that incoming traffic to my demo server > test.skepsis.no at port 80 is redirected to 8081, without interfering > with the other traffic to the other virtual hosts on this machine. Impossible. IPTables works at too low of a level to see the hostname in the request sent to the server. What you need is a reverse proxy. I know Squid can be used for this, but I've never done it, so I can't give you any advice on how to go about it. Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian, Knoppix, and other varients
On Monday 09 February 2004 11:37 am, Mike M wrote: > Does this mean that the only way to get a system that just works is to > mix and match software from all branches? That depends on how you define "just works". All branches except stable have a chance of broken packages, so based on that stable is the only branch that "just works". The mix of the branches provides a system that "just works" while supporting newer hardware that stable does not currently support. However, this same mixing makes it difficult to keep a system updated from the Debian archive, as a package that worked when the Knoppix CD was made may be broken currently in the branch it is drawn from. I would not use Knoppix for anything other than a Live CD for this reason. Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: md5 failed inside 3.0r2 ISOs
On Monday 09 February 2004 11:20 am, AIRCOMP, S.L. wrote: > This happens with at least two ISO images (1-NONUS and 2) downloaded > from the .es mirror (ftp.es.debian.org/debian-cd/3.0_r2/i386/). If this > is abnormal (and I believe it is) then there's something *very* wrong > at that mirror. Have you tried a different mirror? If this behavior is specific to this mirror only, then yes, there is definitely something wrong there. Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: md5 failed inside 3.0r2 ISOs
On Monday 09 February 2004 07:35 am, AIRCOMP, S.L. wrote: > I just downloaded the 7 ISO images. The MD5 check of the images is fine > but when I mount it -o loop and do a second check using /md5sum.txt > hundreds files fail or are zero size. So the MD5 on the images themselves is fine, but when you check individual files in the image it fails? What if you copy files out to your main filesystem and check them there? I have seen behavior like this with CDs - if I try to verify the MD5 hash generated when the file was on the hard drive, it doesn't match. If I copy the file from the CD to my hard drive, the hashes match again. Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Knoppix is Not Debian
On Monday 09 February 2004 02:50 am, Katipo wrote: > Yes, I read that article. I'm afraid that I don't place much credence > in the reviewers' assessment ability. To quote the author from the final article in the series: "Another thing for certain: just looking at the score doesn't begin to do justice to the distributions. They are all very good." > He finished by stating that Libranet was totally unsuitable for a > newbie. Actually, he said "This distro is not the best choice for noobies." Here are some of the good things he said about LibraNet: "I cannot fault LibraNet for their selection of default applications...I think they made good choices." "What they did was provide AdminMenu, a wonderful tool which in my eyes is their great piece de resistance. It handles just about all the system admin chores I am likely to ever need" "[LibraNet] has the single most impressive configuration tool of any distribution I've seen - not just the ones included in this series. The LibraNet AdminMenu is a clean, elegant, powerful tool for tuning just about every aspect of your system." As for why LibraNet did not score so well compared to the others: "LibraNet does not do all the hand-holding and babysitting the others do, and it is that babysitting and hand-holding that form the basis for comparison." Of course, that is just the author's opinion - he openly stated that someone with different criteria would likely put LibraNet at the top. > I have friends that have extolled the virtues of Mepis, and not having > tried it, I am in no position to judge, but as a distro that introduces > the newbie to aspects like partitioning, installation (incorporating > familiarisation with your hardware), and finishing up with a stable, > secure and very comprehensive system, I think that Libranet would be > very hard to beat. So is MEPIS, and MEPIS has the bonus of being easier for the average end-user to install, without hiding the advanced control more skilled users would want. Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian, Knoppix, and other varients
On Monday 09 February 2004 01:10 am, Krikket wrote: > LibraNet looks good, but I don't want to pony up some cash until I know > which branch it's based on. Similar difficulties with Mepis and > Xandros. You can download a "classic" (older) version of LibraNet for free, and MEPIS can be downloaded for free as well. No need to pony up cash just to see if you like them. Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to tell if anything evil lurking in an .xls file?
On Sunday 08 February 2004 04:13 pm, Dan Jacobson wrote: > How can one tell if anything evil is lurking in an .xls file? Safest way: Convert it to CSV before sending it along. However, if the XLS file has no macros, then it is probably safe. Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Knoppix is Not Debian
On Sunday 08 February 2004 03:19 pm, Sneferu wrote: > I'd say that the solutions to all this problems is mepis.org ;-) Agreed - MEPIS is the Linux distro I would recommend to a newbie. In a "Spawn of Debian" faceoff, it beat Lindows, Xandros, and Libranet. http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=04/01/28/2334247 Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ifupdown configuration
On Friday 06 February 2004 05:28 pm, Paladin wrote: > I think there should be a way for us to select the command line > options of the used dhcp client. Or at least the package maintainers > of the dhcp client should create a script for reading command line > options from the "/etc/default" directory. You should probably report this as a bug at bugs.debian.org (probably as a wishlist item), if you really want to see this behavior changed in a future release. Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: apache won't start although no errors
On Saturday 07 February 2004 05:20 pm, Kevin Coyner wrote: > Through a lot of trial and error, I did manage to get back into a > running state. Actually, more like a limping state. > However, if now I go back into httpd.conf, and add the following line > to a virtual host directive: > SetEnv SQWEBMAIL_TEMPLATEDIR /home/vmail/sqwebmail > and restart once more, it all falls apart. It's because you commented out the line loading the env_module, which the SetEnv directives rely on. Uncomment the LoadModule line for mod_env.so, and the SetEnv directives should start working again. Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Securing it properly
On Saturday 07 February 2004 04:54 pm, Jacob S. wrote: > This will not work in Woody. Apache2 is in Unstable and/or Testing, for > Debian. But the OP could check www.backports.org - it probably has a backport of Apache 2 for Woody. Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Loop mounting a Linux raid autodetect
On Friday 06 February 2004 09:34 pm, Rus Foster wrote: > I've got a dd of 1/2 of a RAID-1 set which was definded on disk as a > Linux raid autodetect. Can anyone give me some idea of how I can mount > it. mkdir test mount -o loop dd.img test Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: restrict users from seeing each other
On Friday 06 February 2004 05:24 pm, Kevin Coyner wrote: > Also, separate, but related question: If a user has access via ssh, is > there any way to restrict him/her to just their /home directory? I have heard (but not tried) that specifying the home directoy in /etc/ passwd like this: /home/username/. will accomplish this. Again, I haven't tried this, but it might be worth a shot. Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: kernel question
On Friday 06 February 2004 04:23 am, David Baron wrote: > The new kernel image would not boot up because of "missing" modules.dep > references. Does one need to build the whole thing or is there a way to > simply use the newer kernel with the modules that are already on the > system? Try running "depmod -a [kernel version #]". -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Soundcard probs and total novice - update - and only a minor problem now
On Friday 06 February 2004 09:09 am, Steve Hargreaves wrote: > OK - thanks to those who replied - you gave me some clues, and now I've > got the soundcard working using OSS ensuring that the correct modules > are used. Good. > Now the minor problem. I use an S99local file to insmod required > modules (don't go suggesting that I compile my own kernel - last time I > tried that I nearly trashed my system), which at the moment looks like > this:- [snipped] > However - sound and i810_audio don't get inserted. If I open a console > and do it manually after boot then there's no problem, and the sound > works wonderfully after re-starting X (restarting the sound server > doesn't do it). Try this instead: echo "ac97_codec" >> /etc/modules echo "ac97_plugin_wm97xx" >> /etc/modules echo "i810_audio" >> /etc/modules Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: flash plugin
On Friday 06 February 2004 05:42 am, Daniel Ferreira wrote: > Em Fri, 6 Feb 2004 00:08:55 -0500 > > Adam Aube <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escreveu: > > What does the output of "ldd libflashplayer.so" show? [snipped] It seems to resolve all of the flash plugin's symbols. You said it still doesn't work - does it give the same error as before, or does it do something else? Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: flash plugin
On Wednesday 04 February 2004 10:44 am, Daniel Ferreira wrote: > Em Tue, 3 Feb 2004 14:31:18 -0500 > Adam Aube <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escreveu: > > If you do have it, you could try running ldconfig as root to see if > > that makes Mozilla Firebird find it. If not, you could just create > > it as a symbolic link to libstdc++-3-libc6.2-2-2.10.0.so, or do > > "apt-get install --reinstall libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2". > > > > Adam > > I did it, but it didn't work out.I still don't have the flash plugin > working. What does the output of "ldd libflashplayer.so" show? Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: problem with scsi emulation
On Thursday 05 February 2004 11:16 pm, j smith wrote: > i have Debian 3.0 and CD-Writer, so i have to use scsi > emulation. i compile the kernel and cdrecord works, > but with scsi emulation i can't use CD-Writer to read > CD. i enter the command: > > mount /dev/scd0 /cdrom > > it complains that /dev/scd0 is not valid device. What if you try one of the following: mount /dev/sr0 /cdrom mount /dev/sg0 /cdrom Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Reboot a distant server with a new kernel
On Thursday 05 February 2004 11:03 pm, Thomas wrote: > I am about to upgrade the kernel of a distant server remotely. There > are massive changes and i am scared that it won't boot anymore. > I was wondering if there is a way to reboot just for once on the new > kernel and if it doesn't work then it would reboot on the working one. man lilo - check out the -R option. Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: kernel question
On Thursday 05 February 2004 05:44 pm, Matt Richardson wrote: > Sorry to ask such a silly question, but I haven't found a good answer > for it on google. I've got a Dell GX115 box running a basic Debian > system from the 3.0r2 installation cds, with kernel 2.2. I tried the > bf24 install, but it failed with a bad eic value, which after some > searching seems to be a problem with that particular kernel and the > bios on the box. The 2.2 kernel runs fine, but it doesn't have agp > gart support, which is preventing the x server from running. Can > anyone suggest a kernel version to try? You can boot to a console and use "apt-get install kernel-image" to see a list of available kernel images (with versions). Pick a newer kernel from the list and install that. Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: USB devices and usb-storage module.
On Thursday 05 February 2004 01:24 pm, Adam wrote: > Aha. I thought I was supposed to edit only the /etc/modutils/* but it's > OK to edit /etc/modules too; just not /etc/modules.conf because that > one is generated by update-modules. Right? Right. Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Printing
On Thursday 05 February 2004 06:37 am, Michael W. Cole wrote: > I am reading the Print HOWTO. If lpd is listening to port 515, does > this mean that I can send a file to be printed over this port and it > will be seen by lpd as something that needs to be printed? Normally you send the file to a local program that understands printing over an IP port, and it handles the printing for you. That said, provided it's just a plain text file and less than a page, you should be able to print this way. It might work with documents over a page - I've just never tried it. Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: debian sucks aka i cant get it to install
On Wednesday 04 February 2004 10:15 pm, Ian L wrote: > I posted it yesterday i think around 6pm pacific time. I just sorted the postings by date (which also sorts by time), and I looked at posts from 2 PM PST to 9 PM PST, and your post isn't there. Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: debian sucks aka i cant get it to install
On Wednesday 04 February 2004 09:39 pm, Ian Lipsky wrote: > Yesterday i posted the same message and didnt get any replies. I can't find your original post in the archives. Odd. Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Need help, dual NICs, don't know whether this /etc/network/interfaces file is correct
On Wednesday 04 February 2004 09:39 pm, Joseph Jones wrote: > Could someone just check over this for me please? I'm having no end of > trouble trying to get my nforce's onboard interface working. > > If this isn't the problem, could someone suggest what is? The forcedeth > patch installed cleanly, and appears to be trying to work. > /etc/network/interfaces follows: [snipped] Your interfaces file looks fine. Exactly what happens when you try to get your network interface working, and how do you try to do it? Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: usb cd-rw not found by cdrecord
On Wednesday 04 February 2004 12:11 pm, Brian wrote: > I have searched around the web and the little I found contradicted each > other. I at least these have sr_mod, scsi_mod, sg_mod, usb-storage, > ide-scsi, loop, ide-cd, cdrom. Which are important for a usb cd-rw? I've never used a USB CD-RW, so I can't say for sure. I would guess it's sg_mod and scsi_mod, because those are what it uses to access an IDE CD-RW (plus ide-scsi, which isn't relevant here), and Linux tends to use the SCSI subsystem for access to USB storage devices. Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: using SUDO in bash script
On Wednesday 04 February 2004 04:09 pm, Rick Weinbender wrote: > Can I avoid typing sudo before myprogram at the commandline? Yes - it works just like the article you quoted describes it. Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: using SUDO in bash script
On Wednesday 04 February 2004 03:23 pm, Rick Weinbender wrote: > Can I use SUDO within a bash script? Absolutely, though be aware that if sudo is set to require a password, you won't be able to run it in the background. By putting NOPASSWD before the command in /etc/sudoers, sudo will not require a password to run that command. Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: USB devices and usb-storage module.
On Wednesday 04 February 2004 01:30 pm, Adam wrote: > What I want to know is how to force a single module to load at boot. This should do the trick: echo "usb-storage" >> /etc/modules Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: being hacked? - hatches/hardening
On Wednesday 04 February 2004 11:56 am, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > I strongly recomend Hacking Linux Exposed, a book whose website is at > http://www.hackinglinuxexposed.com Another good book is Real World Linux Security, by Bob Toxen. Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ping problem: Why one but not the other?
On Tuesday 03 February 2004 10:30 pm, Wm.G.McGrath wrote: > I've got two boxes (A&B) behind a third (C) acting as a firewall. > All three boxes are working normally. > All three boxes can access each other on the local lan no problem. > I can use A normally and access the net through C no problem. > But I cannot access the net from B through C. I assume that "access each other" includes "B can ping C". > /etc/hosts /etc/resolv.conf and /etc/host.conf all look normal on B. > Ipforwarding is enabled. Take a look at the firewall rules in C, especially any forwarding rules. Make sure B is being allowed to forward through C. Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: being hacked?
On Sunday 01 February 2004 07:34 pm, @(none) wrote: > Any other packages recommended for battening down the hatches? - AIDE or Tripwire will maintain a list of checksums of binary files and libraries - so you can tell if anything's changed - Snort can detect some attempts to hack your box over the network (though it requires tuning to be useful) - You should also see the Securing Debian Manual http://www.debian.org/doc/user-manuals#securing Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Apache won't start
On Tuesday 03 February 2004 02:17 pm, Stephen wrote: > On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 01:37:01PM -0500 or thereabouts, Adam Aube wrote: >> Could you post the full line in question from httpd.conf? > > Sure, does this help? > #ServerName new.host.name > barnyard.sweetpig.dyndns.org Absolutely. You have a syntax error. That line should be: ServerName barnyard.sweetpig.dyndns.org Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: flash plugin
On Tuesday 03 February 2004 01:52 pm, Daniel Ferreira wrote: > Sorry, I had some problems with my mail. That certainly would explain it. No need to apologize - I just wanted to make sure you had tried the suggestions that had been already given. > I've already have the following packages installed: [snipped] > but when I try to run Mozilla Firebird 0.7 I receive the msg: > > LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library > /home/daniel/.mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so [libstdc++.so: cannot > open shared object file: Arquivo ou diretório não encontrado] > > > It means that Firebird couldn't find libstdc++.so Have you checked to see if /usr/lib/libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3 exists (it's what the flash plugin is looking for)? You should have it (it's part of libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2), but you might want to make sure. If you do have it, you could try running ldconfig as root to see if that makes Mozilla Firebird find it. If not, you could just create it as a symbolic link to libstdc++-3-libc6.2-2-2.10.0.so, or do "apt-get install --reinstall libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2". Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Promise 20376
On Tuesday 03 February 2004 10:41 am, Ian Goodall wrote: > I am looking to purchase a msi motherboard (k7n2 ISLR) with a promise > sata raid 20376chipset on it. I have searched the internet to see if it > is supported on debian testing (any kernel-image). I've never uses SATA, so I can't help you directly, but I can point you to this: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2004/debian-user-200401/msg06750.html It's a discussion about SATA support in general - nothing specific to the Promise controller, though. There may be more discussions like this in the archives. If you don't have the link already, the search page is at: http://lists.debian.org/search.html Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Apache won't start
On Tuesday 03 February 2004 01:31 pm, Stephen wrote: > As the subject says, it won't start. > This is the error message: > Starting web server: apacheSyntax error on line 313 of > /etc/apache/httpd.conf: > Invalid command 'barnyard.sweetpig.dyndns.org' Could you post the full line in question from httpd.conf? Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mapping stanzas in interfaces file not working
On Tuesday 03 February 2004 12:37 pm, Chris Eisley wrote: > On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 07:46, Adam Aube wrote: >> Have you tried manually running "ifup -v eth0"? If so, what was the >> output? > > Did just now; What I get is: > > Running mapping script /etc/network/show-role.sh -q -l on eth0 > Ignoring unknown interface eth0=eth0. So ifup claims it is running the script. >>> The script I designate in the script line of the mapping stanza is >>> never being executed >> >> How do you know? > > I put the following in the script as the first line of execution: > > echo 1 > '/etc/network/blah' > > And the test file wasn't created; it was if I ran the script myself. That's generally a good indicator that the script is not being run. > Here are the contents of the script, which has 755 perms and root:root > ownership: Nothing looks wrong here. > When I run the role script as /etc/network/show-roles.sh -q -l eth0", > "INTERNAL-CEPHEUS" is the output. Which is the correct output, according to the man page. One thought - what if ifup stops parsing the script line after the first space? Try putting the path to the script and its arguments in quotes in /etc/network/interfaces. If that doesn't work, try altering the script so that, given no arguments other than the interface name, it acts as though -l -q were given as arguments. Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: flash plugin
On Tuesday 03 February 2004 11:07 am, Daniel Ferreira wrote: > I'm trying to install the flash plugin (6.0.79.0) but it isn't > working. When I try to acces some webpage which contains some flash, > the browser is closed. I'm using mozilla-firebird 0.6.1 but the same > problem happens when I'm using mozilla 1.4. You asked this same question on Jan 26, and didn't reply to any of the suggestions given to you. http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2004/debian-user-200401/msg06252.html Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Worrying message at boot re. mount error
On Tuesday 03 February 2004 11:04 am, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 03 Feb 2004, Adam Aube wrote: > > Can you post the contents of /etc/fstab? [/etc/fstab snipped] I have only two suggestions, and likely neither one will make a difference, but they might be worth checking out anyway. - On the /gentoo line, there is an extra comma after noauto - On the / line, try removing "defaults," (comparing to mine, it's the only difference) Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Worrying message at boot re. mount error
On Tuesday 03 February 2004 10:37 am, Anthony Campbell wrote: > I've noticed a worrying message at boot. It comes just after > "Cleaning /tmp /var/run /var/lock" > and reads: > "mount: wrong fstype, bad option, bad superblock on tmpfs, or > too many mounted filesystems" > In spite of this, everything seems to work as it should Can you post the contents of /etc/fstab? Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mapping stanzas in interfaces file not working
On Tuesday 03 February 2004 04:42 am, Chris Eisley wrote: > The problem is that when I put the mapping entry in, ifup gives the > error "Ignoring unknown interface eth0=eth0." Have you tried manually running "ifup -v eth0"? If so, what was the output? > The script I designate in the script line of the mapping stanza is never > being executed How do you know? > Here's what I'm trying. The iface lines you see below all work > perfectly when they use physical interface names instead of logical > ones (ie eth0 instead of eth0-whatever); in the past I was simply > uncommenting the one I wanted to use at the time. Can you also post the contents of /etc/network/show-role.sh? As far as I can tell (from the man page), your interfaces syntax is fine. Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Postgresql is not accepting TCP/IP connections.
On Tuesday 03 February 2004 08:28 am, Hans Steinraht wrote: > The only waht not is working is that I cannot connect to postgresql > through TCP/IP. > In /etc/postgresql.conf I have: tcpip_socket = true, but its not > working. You specified that you restarted postgresql - I assume that you did it AFTER making the configuration change. If not, try restarting it again. Next, try: $ netstat -a -n | grep "tcp" | grep "LISTEN" Look for the port postgresql is supposed to listen on to make sure that it's really listening. If postgresql is listening, but you can't connect to it, make sure your firewall isn't interfering. Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mirrors of security.debian.org???
On Tuesday 03 February 2004 03:43 am, Tim Connors wrote: > Of course, that DWN issue could have been forged :) > The truly paranoid wouldn't use it, but the rest of us can. The truly paraniod can check the signatures. Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: bind vs. bind9
On Monday 02 February 2004 02:26 pm, Bernd Prager wrote: > I just replaced bind with bind9: > "apt-get install bind9" and it told me that bind was removed and bind9 > was installed. But bind is still listed in my package list. > "dpkg -l" now reports: > rc bind 8.3.3-2.0woody Internet Domain Name Server > ii bind9 9.2.1-2.woody. Internet Domain Name Server > ii bind9-host 9.2.1-2.woody. Version of 'host' bundled with BIND > 9.X > I assume the're still open dependecies with the old bind!? If there were dependencies, apt-get wouldn't have removed bind. > How do I find out what's wrong and fix that? If you look at the top of a dpkg -l output (try "dpkg -l | less"), you'll notice that status "rc" means that the package was removed, but some configuration files were left. You can get rid of those configuration files with "dpkg -P bind". Also, when removing packages, you can use "apt-get remove --purge [package name]" to do this in one step. Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mirrors of security.debian.org???
On Monday 02 February 2004 01:15 pm, Brent Miller wrote: > I've seen the previous posts about klecker being down > and all, but is there no mirror of security? There was a post sent out to debian-news which listed one as: http://ftp.rfc822.org/debian-security/ There was also a mirror given for nonus.debian.org: http://ftp.rfc822.org/debian-non-US/ Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: security.debian.org
On Monday 02 February 2004 12:36 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Is there a problem with security.debian.org? http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2004/debian-user-200402/msg00145.html > Am I missing something obvious? The list archives at http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/ - where this question has been asked and answered several times now. Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: aol art files:
On Monday 02 February 2004 11:43 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > How can I remove aol art files from my PC ? find ~/ -name "*.art" | xargs -n 20 rm Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Cleanup and OpenOffice (was: Windows and Printing Systems)
On Monday 02 February 2004 11:26 am, Marius Amado Alves wrote: >>I didn't see in this thread if you were running stable, testing, or >>unstable. > That's part of the problem. I had to try several versions to try to get > e.g. kde and gnome (which failed). I whish there was some *really* > stable network source. > I still have hope, but I'm having really a lot of trouble to install > and run even the simplest things. You may want to consider starting over, and staying within a single release (stable or testing). Mixing releases can make a mess of your system quickly unless you really know what you're doing. Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debain on the rise ! - However ....
On Monday 02 February 2004 07:23 am, Uwe Dippel wrote: > How about creating sub-topics ? Newbies, X, Kernel (2.6), Applications, > Advocating, General Discussion, Printing, you-name-it. I think a separate General Discussion list would be a good idea - it would keep debian-user focused on user support. Perhaps call it debian-talk or debian-chat? Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Apt-Get Update Stalling
On Monday 02 February 2004 09:55 am, David Thurman wrote: > We are trying to get an apt-get update and it seems to stall here > > 38% [Connecting to non-us.debian.org (194.109.137.218)] [Connecting to > security.debian.org (194.109.137.218)] > > Any ideas?? http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2004/debian-user-200402/msg00145.html Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Cleanup and OpenOffice (was: Windows and Printing Systems)
On Saturday 31 January 2004 05:44 pm, Marius Amado Alves wrote: > But I suspect my system is in a mess now from trying all sorts of > source.list entries and apt-get installs that totally or partially > failed (gnome, kde, cups-client...) Do I suspect right or can I trust > apt-get to have done the right thing? apt-get remove tends to leave some configuration files lying around - if you look at a listing from dpkg -l, all the packages with a status of "rc" are removed, but with configuration files left installed. You can clean those up with "dpkg -P [package name]". > I think not because new installs always look for gnome and fallback to > Dialog. How do I clean up? dpkg-reconfigure debconf > Next I'd like to have OpenOffice. Any advice? I didn't see in this thread if you were running stable, testing, or unstable. If you are running testing or unstable, just use "apt-get install openoffice.org". If you are using stable, see Debian Backports (www.backports.org) for a source for the OpenOffice.org backports to stable (Latest News, 2003/12/17). Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: stable or testing?
On Sunday 01 February 2004 05:37 pm, Simon Buchanan wrote: > Should i be using stable or testing for the live servers? Be aware i am > only just getting to grips with 'the debian way'... I guessing 'stable'? You guessed correctly - production servers definitely should use stable. If you need a more updated version of a program for one of your servers, you can check out Debian Backports (www.backports.org). Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 2.4.24+ kernels do not recognize my ide hard drives.
On Sunday 01 February 2004 12:53 am, B. L. Jilek wrote: > I've come across a strange problem. I upgraded from 2.4.21 to 2.4.24 > and now my ide hard drives are not recognized. It gives me an error > that /dev/hda and /dev/hdc are not valid block devices. Are you using the Debian kernel images? Maybe compiled-in support for your IDE chipset was removed in 2.4.24. If both 2.4.21 and 2.4.24 are installed, you could try something like: diff /boot/config-2.4.21 /boot/config-2.4.24 | less to see what changed. Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Package troubles. Apache won't start or uninstall, or anything.
On Sunday 01 February 2004 09:56 am, Russ Schneider wrote: > How do I actually uninstall apache, postgresql, etc? Removing through > dselect doesn't seem to actually uninstall them. I need them wiped. > Every trace of them gone, so I can try to reinstall them fresh. This should do the trick: apt-get remove --purge apache postgresql Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cdrecord 2.01a16 and ATAPI CD/R
On Sunday 01 February 2004 12:04 pm, Soumyadip Modak wrote: > cdrecord --version shows 2.01a16. Kernel is the stock Debian > 2.4.21-5-k7. For some reason, i've not been able to setup SCSI > emulation for my ASUS CRW-5224A cd writer (hdd). I did append > hdd=ide-scsi to the kernel boot parameters in lilo.conf. Modprobing > ide-scsi doesn't show any errors. The sg module is also needed. Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Screen fonts in X
On Saturday 31 January 2004 07:01 pm, G. Crimp wrote: > Secondary question. In more than one place I have read that in v4 of > X, font serving is integrated, so a font server is not necessary unless > one wishes to make fonts available off thte workstation. Correct. > Anyone know why x-window-system seems to depend on xfs, in that case ? > I tried to uninstall xfs in my attempts to solve my font pb. I don't know why the dependency still exists, but I just used update-rc.d to remove all the symlinks so it won't start. Remember to comment out the line referring to xfs (local font server) in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 - otherwise X will take a while to start (tries to connect and waits until it times out). Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Turn Debian into a Desktop-System what to do
On Saturday 31 January 2004 08:04 pm, Thorsten Haude wrote: > My advice: If you have to ask, don't try it at all. Logging ist an > important base functionality and shouldn't be given up without knowing > what you might be up against. Agreed. The best solution for the OP would be to just configure logrotate to rotate everything daily, and only keep one or two backlogs. That would keep the log files from piling up, but would keep logging around for the times when it's needed. Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Windows and Printing Systems
On Saturday 31 January 2004 12:10 pm, Mario Vukelic wrote: > Gnome 2.2 I get from the evilgeniuses backport > http://www.debianplanet.org/node.php?id=992 > There probably is something similar for KDE too KDE for Woody is available from download.kde.org. Add this to your sources.list: deb http://download.kde.org/stable/3.1.5/Debian/ stable main Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Windows and Printing Systems
On Saturday 31 January 2004 05:56 am, Kent West wrote: > I'd love to help you, but printing on Linux is _still_ a black art. > I've been using Debian exclusively on my boxes for about four years > now, and I generally just avoid printing if I can. > And I'm not a stupid person. So the short answer is, "Good luck!" I don't know about other desktop environments, but under KDE, with the kdeprint package you configure all your printers under Settings -> Printing Manager, then have your applications just use /usr/bin/kprinter as the print command. Printing Manager has a wizard for adding printers, and supports both local and networked printers (via CUPS, lpr, SMB, etc). If you prefer another desktop environment, the KDE developers claim that kdeprint can be used outside of KDE (though I've never tested this). Hope this helps. Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Exim vs Procmail (was: Sendmail vs Exim vs Others)
On Friday 30 January 2004 07:09 pm, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > However, procmail isn't perfect. The main problem is that it isn't > very powerful and may need other tools (mainly formail, but also > perl for the most complicated filters). A 100% perl-based solution > (with primitives for MIME decoding) would probably better for me. Have you looked at maildrop? I've never used it myself, but others have highly recommended it over procmail. I know it comes with various mail processing utilities (including MIME processing). Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Send output to file & printer
On Friday 30 January 2004 04:59 pm, James Horvath wrote: > Not new to linux per say, but have done almost no shell scripting or > programming with it, so consider me a complete rookie. There are probably some good shell scripting HOWTOs you could find using Google. > Using lpd, is there a simple way using the command line to send the > output of a process to both a file and a printer at the same time? I believe the "tee" command does something like this - see its man page. > Optionally, how might I go about saving a copy of a print job to file > before it prints (without disabling the print queue itself)? > As an example, if I issue a command like "ls -laF" on a directory ls -laF > dirlist.txt; lpd [options] < dirlist.txt Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: /etc/init.d/ - add/remove services
On Friday 30 January 2004 04:36 pm, Ben Yau wrote: > I don't know if there is a preferred way. There are many ways and > choose the one you like. The convention I use is to rename the > file/link with a "no" in front. That reminds me of another way - rename the capital S or K to a lower case. Same benefits/drawbacks as the method you describe. Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: /etc/init.d/ - add/remove services
On Friday 30 January 2004 03:15 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > What is the preferred way to add or remove a /etc/init.d/ service from > certain runlevels? For adding, use the update-rc.d script. To remove, just manually delete the symlink. You can use update-rc.d to remove, but you would need to first remove all the symlinks, then add the set that you want. Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SSL certificates
On Thursday 29 January 2004 09:24 pm, Matthew Joyce wrote: > Can anyone comment on www.instantssl.com certs ? > any problems with them ? > In fact can anyone recommend cheap ssl certs ? I've looked at using Thawte - I don't know what your definition of "cheap" is, but they are cheaper than VeriSign. One think you'll want to check is if the client programs (web browser, mail client, etc) comes with the SSL cert provider's root certificates installed. If not, you'll have to manually install the root certificate to get it to work seamlessly, and in that case you might as well just use openssl and self-signed certificates. Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Kde Open Office + setting up printing..
On Friday 30 January 2004 07:38 am, Gregory Machin wrote: > Please could you advise me as to how i can go about setting up Open > Office to print to a windows machine with an HP printer. The Os is > Mandrake, And the Gui is KDE. (Please note that this is a Debian list, not a Mandrake list.) I would recommend you setup OpenOffice.org's printing to call kdeprint, then setup your printers there. Go to OpenOffice.org Printer Administration, and set your default printer to the command "kprinter". Then, on the KDE menu, go to Settings and Printing Manager, and setup your printer there. KDE has an Add Printer wizard that will walk you through setting up a new printer (you'll probably want the SMB-shared option). > I also have a problem with saving Open Office files (from with in OO) > to floppy (M$ fat) nonexistent object, nonexistent file. I've never had this problem before - can you read/write the disk from other programs? If not, then you're not setup to mount the disk properly. Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sendmail vs Exim vs Others
On Friday 30 January 2004 02:59 am, Steve Lamb wrote: > Queue maintenance? Correct me if I'm wrong but is this FUD. > > Removing a message from Exim's queue: > exim -Mrm > > Removing a message from qmail's queue: > Issue command to shut down qmail. > Sometimes wait up to 20m for it to completely shut down. > Manually find and delete messages. > Run the queue fix utility (which, if memory serves, is not part of the > base qmail package by the original author) > Start up qmail Try downloading qmhandle from qmail.org. It's a Perl script that automates the entire process for you, and you don't have to run queue fix afterwards. The queue fix script is almost never needed unless the admin has been playing around in the queue manually. > How about searching the logs for meaningful information on a > message? > In qmail > Grep for the address in the logs and look for the basic timeframe of > the message you want to isolate. > Realize that qmail's timestamps are not meant for mortals so pipe it > through tai64nlocal to get meaningful times. Only if you use multilog (part of daemontools). If you use syslog, then the timestamps are perfectly human-readable. > Grab the message ID. > Grep the logs (remembering to pipe this time) for that message ID to > see what comes up. > Get a buttload of beginning delivery status messagess > for multiple messages since the inode had about 30 messages in it > in the past couple of hours. > Grab instead the delivery ID of each attempt and grep manually > (remembering to pipe this time). > In the several years of using Exim I have done far more perusing > of logs and have never seriously gotten outside of grep and less. In > the 3 months of using QMail I've given up and written a tool just to do > basic searches for email addresses and the associated deliveries. I've never needed anything more than grep or less to search qmail's logs. > By the same token I find simple queue maintenance of Exim a breeze while > qmail is a chore which, again, requires external tools which had to be > written by other people just to get simple operations done. I hardly find it that difficult to download one Perl script. > Tell me how any of that is FUD and not fact. If you think it's hard to manage qmail's queue and search its logs, then that's your opionion. The FUD was labelling it "the Windows of MTAs" without giving any specifics. Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sendmail vs Exim vs Others
On Friday 30 January 2004 12:40 am, Steve Lamb wrote: > > qmail, by default, will not relay AT ALL, and I have found it very > > easy to install and setup. > o.O I've had to work with QMail and I have to say that it is one > big giant headache. I disagree, but we are each entitled to our opinions. > To get any decent security requires that you need to patch in at least > 6-7 different patches because the license forbids redistribution of > modified source. I've added patches for various purposes, but not for security. What security problems were you patching against? > Speaking of the source every single person I've ever heard look at it > thinks it is atrociously written and hates working on it. Fo some > reason I believe them because of the atrocious logging that it does as > well as the idiotic ideas which are ingrained into the system. What "idiotic" ideas? qmail is designed to be secure, fast, and simple - and it achieves those goals quite well. It does show its age, though - many features common to other MTAs are missing and need to be patched in. That's the only real complaint I have about it, and it's only a hassle at installation time. At the same time, qmail's flexibility (due to its modular design) has allowed me to do things I don't think I could do with other MTAs. > In short, QMail is the Windows of MTAs. No, I think Sendmail holds that title, and probably will for the forseeable future. Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sendmail vs Exim vs Others
On Thursday 29 January 2004 11:50 pm, Ian Perry wrote: > I know this question is subjective to personal preferences Is > there an advantage to exim over sendmail or vice versa for ease of > setup/maintenance etc ? I would be interested in comments from those > who have used both. > Is there something better than either of them ? My personal preference is qmail. Not sure if it's available in the Debian archive or not, but you can check out www.qmail.org for more info - look for the links to netqmail. I also know that many people are happy with Postfix (which is in the Debian archive). I have no experience with it. > I have very little experience with either of them, and have found > nothing in the archives on the subject. I need something extremely > simple to simply send and receive mail, but not to be an open relay. qmail, by default, will not relay AT ALL, and I have found it very easy to install and setup. Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: New Kernel Hangs on Init: Version 2.84 Booting
On Thursday 29 January 2004 10:45 pm, Damian wrote: > I've successfully downloaded and installed Debian Woody, yeah! However > after installation I needed to rebuild the kernel to support my sound > card (Soundblaster Live! 5.1). I also have a 200 gb IDE HDD and read > that I needed to use the 2.4 kernel to support the lba48 addressing > that the drive needs to use. At the moment the drive only shows up as > 137gb. Your hard drive has likely been partitioned as if it were 137 GB. Installing a new kernel won't fix that - you'll have to repartition your drive, which means a complete reinstall. I think you need to reinstall Woody and select the bf24 kernel at installation time. This will detect your large hard drive correctly, allowing you to partition it correctly. Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: DHCP client unable to see external net
On Thursday 29 January 2004 07:59 pm, Christopher Blough wrote: > Here is an updated capture of route -n > -- > Kernel IP routing table > DestinationGateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref > Use Iface > 209.112.193.120 *255.255.255.248 U 0 0 > 0 eth0 Ok. The problem is that you have a route to your network, but no gateway route. See my route -n output for comparison: $ /sbin/route -n Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface 10.0.0.00.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 00 eth0 0.0.0.0 10.0.0.10.0.0.0 UG0 00 eth0 I think the root cause of your problem is that your router and your network have the same IP address. Subnetting reserves the address with the host bits all set to 0 (in this case, 120) as the network address. Bump your router's internal IP address up to 209.112.193.121 (and adjust its DHCP server settings accordingly) and see if that fixes your problem. Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: DHCP client unable to see external net
On Thursday 29 January 2004 01:47 pm, Christopher Blough wrote: > I have recently made my first foray into Debian. Welcome. > I am able to ping the other three Windows-based boxes on my LAN (same > subnet as this box). However, any attempt to resolve an internet > address or to go outside of the router meets with a generic 'network is > unreachable' error. Can you post the unedited output of "/sbin/route -n" on your Linux box, and "route print" on one of the Windows boxes? The comparison will likely show where the problem lies. Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: different hard drive size showing
On Thursday 29 January 2004 12:57 am, SEAN KIM wrote: > Someone asked me a really challenging question regarding a hard drive > size. Why there are 2 different sizes showing on a same hard drive when > someone looks for its hard drive size through its BIOS and through its > Window Operating System? (Odd question to be asking on a Debian list) I can think of a few possibilities: 1) Unformatted vs formatted size 2) k=1000 vs k=1024 (and M=1000^2 vs M=1024^2) 3) Often when a disk is partitioned a bit of unused space is left before and after the partitioned space. The BIOS can count it, but the OS (which really sees the partition(s), not the drive itself) cannot. What kind of discrepancy are you seeing? Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: If Linux Becomes More Prevalent -> was Re: FW: registration confirmation...
On Thursday 29 January 2004 12:47 am, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 08:50:38PM -0500, Adam Aube wrote: > > Migrating them to a new OS won't help - only education will. > > No, but it'll likely go a long way in limiting damage if they're not > root. It may limit the damage - but it will not completely alleviate the problem. For example, imagine a technically clueless user receives a message similar to this: "Check out this great game! It requires root access to install, though, so when prompted, enter your root password to install the game!" If a user will open a random zip file they received in their email and run its contents, they will certainly enter their root password when prompted to do so. Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mailbox problem... messgae too large
On Wednesday 28 January 2004 11:10 pm, Ian Perry wrote: > After the telnet session... what's the command to leave pop3 ? IIRC, it is the same as in SMTP: quit Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
