Re: Re: Graphical Interface Crashes
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 07:56:28AM -0500, Curtis Tyndall wrote: I use just an analog cable (no DVI on monitor). I will try playing with the buttons on the monitor and see what happens and report back. That's nice. What does it refer to? -- Please come home with me ... I have Tylenol!! signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: To synchronize system time witn NTP-server with no winter time shift whole year - how to?
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 04:47:38PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: Now, I want to stop arguing about the descriptions. But just one last shot. I believe it is factually incorrect to say that you 'lose an hour' in switching from standard to summer time. It is conventional wording, it is manifestly untrue. But if people say it often enough, it becomes something that is used in syllogisms as if it were a fact. To be slightly pedantic about it, if you go to bed at whatever your usual time is before the clocks change and still have to get up at the same (clock) time in the morning as you did the day before, then you do lose an hour of sleep, that night. Then again, by the same argument, seven months or so later you get that hour back, so it all balances anyway. Cheers, Tom -- I once decorated my apartment entirely in ten foot salad forks!! signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: rkhunter on Etch
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 04:01:40AM +0100, Sam Kuper wrote: 2008/8/27 Chris Bannister [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 03:30:37AM +0100, Sam Kuper wrote: (4) Request the Debian Etch rkhunter maintainers to upgrade rkhunter in Etch to version 1.3.2. If successful, this would undoubtedly be the best solution. Dear Micah and Julien, how about it? Sysadmins will love you even more than they do already! :) Not a chance. Why do you think its called stable? Perhaps naively, I thought it was called stable because it was for systems that had to be stable, stable in this case meaning reliable. To me, this suggests that stable releases should not have the latest toys packaged (most people don't need a Mozilla Ubiquity beta on their production servers), nor even necessarily the latest utilities, in order to minimise potential conflicts between packages. What it should have, however, are up-to-date security packages. A rooted server is not a stable one: it could be brought down, outside of its sysadmin's control, at any minute. I'm not familiar with rkhunter, but wouldn't this kind of situation make it a candidate for volatile? Cheers, Tom -- Out of register space (ugh) -- vi signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: how to configure users X setup?
On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 05:04:14PM +, M-L wrote: #!/bin/sh # # My creation .Xsession file # # To remove the cursor after a short break unclutter -idle 1 # To get up the Rox panel rox -b=MyPanel # Have gkrellm working gkrellm # Start Fluxbox, maybe it should be up top. Not according to Liam's example exec /usr/bin/fluxbox Try without the in the above line. Cheers, Tom -- Anti-trust laws should be approached with exactly that attitude. signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: FW: Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r0 Etech - could not setup syslog
On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 09:43:19AM +0300, Kuruvilla, Chindu wrote: The sysklogd.conf is supposed to contain the term (SYSLOG= ) which needs to be converted to (SYSLOG=r -m0) since that command sets syslog to listen remotely put marks. Now the sysklog.conf does not contain the above term I put the term manually in the file saved it. But after I restarted the daemon, I did a netstat the system does not listen for remote notifications (udp 514). Add the options to the /etc/default/syslogd file. Cheers, Tom -- [I plan] to see, hear, touch, and destroy everything in my path, including beets, rutabagas, and most random vegetables, but excluding yams, as I am absolutely terrified of yams... Actually, I think my fear of yams began in my early youth, when many of my young comrades pelted me with same for singing songs of far-off lands and deep blue seas in a language closely resembling that of the common sow. My psychosis was further impressed into my soul as I reached adolescence, when, while skipping through a field of yams, light-heartedly tossing flowers into the stratosphere, a great yam-picking machine tore through the fields, pursuing me to the edge of the great plantation, where I escaped by diving into a great ditch filled with a mixture of water and pig manure, which may explain my tendency to scream, Here come the Martians! Hide the eggs! every time I have pork. But I digress. The fact remains that I cannot rationally deal with yams, and pigs are terrible conversationalists. signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Gallery (web based photo album organizer)
On Mon, May 28, 2007 at 05:09:54PM -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote: Gallery2 is the newer program. You need something to point to /usr/share/gallery (or gallery2). In the root directory of your server (/var/www/server) create a symbolic link to /usr/share/gallery: ln -s /usr/share/gallery /var/www/server/gallery or you can create an alias in your httpd.conf. Alternatively, you can uncomment the relevant lines in /etc/gallery/apache.conf and reload apache. Cheers, Tom -- Do not meddle in the affairs of troff, for it is subtle and quick to anger. signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Etch Xorg memory leak?
On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 12:17:34PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 10:22:00AM -0500, Mumia W.. wrote: On 05/13/2007 06:51 AM, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: Try out the VESA driver and see if the problem recurs. Would if I could. On the i386, dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg asks if I want automatic video device yes/no, saying that no allows me to choose the appropriate driver. I choos no and still get no choice. I change trident to vesa in the xorg.conf and startx complains no such driver. I read man xorg.conf and under see also, it lists vesa(4) as well trident(4). I try man vesa, no manual entry. I try man trident and get a man page. It seems that debian's i386 Etch doesn't include vesa or something else screwy is going on. What xserver-xorg-video-* packages do you have installed? Cheers, Tom -- Thou hast seen nothing yet. -- Miguel de Cervantes signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: debian way to start firewall
On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 08:04:53AM -0700, Octavio Alvarez wrote: You might as well put some iptables-restore at the endo of the up of each interface in /etc/network/interfaces. This lets you control your firewall per interface and have only the needed rules alive. Wouldn't you be better putting the iptables-restore stuff in the pre-up line? That way the firewall rules are in place before the interface is live. Cheers, Tom -- poisoned coffee, n.: Grounds for divorce. signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: resolving host
On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 08:05:03PM -0400, Ralph Katz wrote: On 09/30/04 23:21, Haines Brown wrote: $ time host www.debian.org www.debian.org A 194.109.137.218 real 0m0.027s user 0m0.000s sys 0m0.000s The man and info time did not make clear to me what real, user and sys refer to. Would you inlighten me? What is the A? Why zero time for the user and sys? Haines, Beats me, I'm the average Joe that sits in this Ferrari called debian GNU/Linux and says, wow! :) As far as I understand, and I could be wrong - real is the real world time taken for the command to run. user is how long the command spent processing user-space code. sys is how long the command spent processing kernel-space code. Cheers, Tom -- But Officer, I stopped for the last one, and it was green! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Trouble with ifup
Hi Ian, On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 05:43:30PM -0400, Ian Thomas wrote: auto eth0 iface eth0 inet static\ address 192.168.2.3\ netmask 255.255.255.0\ gateway 192.168.2.1 When running 'ifup -a', I get the following error, /etc/network/interfaces:12: too many parameters for iface line ifup: couldn't read interfaces file /etc/network/interfaces Removing the escapes should fix it. Cheers, Tom -- Slous' Contention: If you do a job too well, you'll get stuck with it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Source files
On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 01:42:59PM +0100, nx13372 wrote: How can i dowload the source file: #apt-get install apt-get source package Cheers, Tom -- If you took everyone who's ever been to a Dead show, and lined them up, they'd stretch halfway to the moon and back... and none of them would be complaining. -- a local Deadhead in the Seattle Times -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: kill process by name
On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 07:58:02PM +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote: On Tue, 2004-08-03 at 19:29, Muratorio, Diego wrote: Hello Rick, I am looking for the same, did you find something about kill process by name? You want killall, from the psmisc package. Or, another option is kill `pidof processname`. Cheers, Tom -- Do Miami a favor. When you leave, take someone with you. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Help Installing / Upgrading Cron
On Wed, Jul 28, 2004 at 10:44:12PM -0700, Roy Pluschke wrote: I gather that you are running unstable as I am. Just wait a day or two and a new fixed cron package will magically appear. Running unstable will have the odd bump in the road. If it really has to be fixed right now I would suggest examining the install script and see what its doing wrong (perhaps it should be /etc/crontab rather than /usr/bin/crontab -- just a guess). /usr/bin/crontab is the program for handling user crontab files. It appears to have not made it into the 3.0pl1-84 build. Cheers, Tom -- Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing. -- Phyllis Diller There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse. -- Quentin Crisp -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: yay! I can print!
On Sun, Jul 25, 2004 at 03:31:19PM -0300, Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: On Sun, Jul 25, 2004 at 12:40:05PM -0400, Jason Rennie wrote: mpage? Or enscript? or a2ps? -- It's raisins that make Post Raisin Bran so raisiny ... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: delete mbox mail from command line
On Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 06:42:31AM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: You can look at just read messages leaving unread messages untouched by finding only in the new directory. find ~/Mail/Maildir/new -type f -mtime +7 -print Don't you mean the cur directory? Cheers, Tom -- They ought to make butt-flavored cat food. --Gallagher -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [OT Why GB English is different] Re: Mozilla firefox en-gb
On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 09:57:50AM -0700, William Ballard wrote: Do you also say one million and fourteen thousand and two hundred and thirty seven? That would be one million, fourteen thousand, two hundred and thirty seven Cheers, Tom -- Consider the following axioms carefully: Everything's better when it sits on a Ritz. and Everything's better with Blue Bonnet on it. What happens if one spreads Blue Bonnet margarine on a Ritz cracker? The thought is frightening. Is this how God came into being? Try not to consider the fact that Things go better with Coke. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [OT Why GB English is different] Re: Mozilla firefox en-gb
On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 06:38:46PM -0400, David P James wrote: But that's not a replacement for won't - it's a replacement of am not, as in I am not going to do that. I can't think of a case where ain't can replace won't/will not/shan't/shall not. Which was my point since I'm not going to do that and I won't do that mean the same thing, though I certainly didn't put it across clearly. I probably still haven't. Cheers, Tom -- I love children. Especially when they cry -- for then someone takes them away. -- Nancy Mitford -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Problems building kernel with make-kpkg
Hi folks, Running potato I have been able to build kernels in the past using kernel-package. This time round however things are different. I installed kernel-source-2.2.17pre6-1, when I got to building the kernel_image an error came back saying that i386-linux-gcc could not be found. Thinking this was odd, I tried with kernel-source-2.2.15-3 but got the same error. The last time I built a kernel was with 2.2.15-2 which went fine. Nothing has changed on my system, just upgrades to keep current with potato. Anyone got ideas on what the problem might be. Oh, gcc is 2.95.2-13 Cheers, Tom -- Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education. -- Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar pgpgpxYDi5hPF.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: what's 224.0.0.0 -- and other newbie net-questions
On Thu, Jun 22, 2000 at 01:08:02AM -0500, Will Trillich wrote: Q: what's the 224.0.0.0 ip/netmask for? That's for multicast. I don't know much about multicast, maybe someone else can help there. Q: what's the scheme behind ports '* - *'? From any port to any port. Jun 20 00:18:00 server kernel: IP fw-in deny eth0 ICMP/10 172.146.51.93 224.0.0.2 L=28 S=0x00 I=50959 F=0x T=128 Jun 20 00:18:03 server kernel: IP fw-in deny eth0 ICMP/10 172.146.51.93 224.0.0.2 L=28 S=0x00 I=51215 F=0x T=128 Jun 20 00:17:57 server kernel: IP fw-in deny eth0 ICMP/10 172.146.51.93 224.0.0.2 L=28 S=0x00 I=50191 F=0x T=128 there's that 224.0.0.* address, which may be unrelated. the other address is always a 172.*.*.* number; the addresses change, but for each 172.*.*.* address there's always four to twleve hits or so. The 172.146.51.93 resolves to AC92335D.ipt.aol.com and 224.0.0.2 resolves to ALL-ROUTERS.MCAST.NET, so it looks as though something at AOL is broadcasting something to all multicast routers. Cheers, Tom -- Do you guys know what you're doing, or are you just hacking? pgpfMwpKcDbPS.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: pgp setup
On Sun, Jun 18, 2000 at 10:48:09AM +0200, Sven Burgener wrote: Anyone that's got gnupg / pgp5 installed, could they be so generous as to assist me in setting it up? I have gpg with the following in .muttrc set pgp_default_version=gpg set pgp_receive_version=default set pgp_send_version=default set pgp_key_version=default There should be some links from http://www.mutt.org that might be of help. Cheers, Tom. -- Everyone is entitled to an *informed* opinion. -- Harlan Ellison pgpaFKtkBuHQ9.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Hey
On Sat, Jun 17, 2000 at 09:34:25AM +0200, Sven Burgener wrote: On this subject: how do you do that in mutt? As I saw, it doesn't do this by default... That's something you would have to configure in whatever editor you use for mutt. Cheers, Tom -- He who is content with his lot probably has a lot. pgp3iedpoYhcO.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Changing alternatives
On Wed, Jun 14, 2000 at 06:51:09PM +0200, Joost Claessen wrote: back to less. How can I keep pager on most and not having to set it to manually ervery time? If you don't want less, then why not just uninstall it? Cheers, Tom pgpuAm1GVSRFp.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Setting hwclock time
On Mon, Jun 12, 2000 at 10:20:46AM +0900, Jack Morgan wrote: haven't been installed yet. I believe that hwclock and date commands should help but I haven't got them to work. and no man pages :-( Question: how can I set my bios clock to this century? or a workaround for the future time stamp error from tar? Use date to set the system time, the format is date MMDDhhmm[[CC]YY][.ss] Then use hwclock --systohc to set the hardware clock from system time. Cheers, Tom pgpZQWXi4s7EL.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: sawfish problem
On Mon, Jun 12, 2000 at 11:27:49PM +, Joseph de los Santos wrote: what is unstable or woody is using right now (libreadline.so.4).is there a way I can get sawfish to use libreadline.so.4 instead of 3? or maybe get sawfish Compiling from source will link against the libraries you have installed. Cheers, Tom pgpoGCY4f7RNG.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Compiling kernels
On Mon, Jun 12, 2000 at 12:41:21AM +0100, Lee Elliott wrote: This seems to work ok - SMP is enabled and the SCSI controller works - but during the load process, immediately after Calculating module dependencies I get a lot of insmod *** unresolved symbols in lib/modules/x.x.x/misc/abcde messages displayed. I haven't been able to There are probably old modules that you are no longer using lying around in the /lib/modules/x.x.x/ tree. I found that removing (or renaming) the existing directory stops these errors. Apart from this, I would recommend using kernel-package as this allows the package management system to know what's going on. Cheers, Tom -- Please, won't somebody tell me what diddie-wa-diddie means? pgpYNWPbwXzDg.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: enexpected EOF problem
On Sat, Jun 10, 2000 at 03:53:31PM +, Pollywog wrote: Although I have only used vi to edit a file, I keep getting this when I execute it: /etc/iptables.sh: line 247: syntax error: unexpected end of file Some pieces of software expect a linefeed on the last line and break if there isn't one there. That might be what's happening, usually safest to always make sure you have a blank line at the end of the file. If that's not the problem then you could start vi with the -b option, that should show any non-printable characters in the file (I think). Cheers, Tom -- Class, that's the only thing that counts in life. Class. Without class and style, a man's a bum; he might as well be dead. -- Bugsy Siegel pgpc1TyUYRbO9.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Demand Dialing with pppd and ipmasq
On Wed, Jun 07, 2000 at 09:05:45PM +0200, Vitux wrote: Did you add the user that's trying to run pon to the dip-group? Strong indications of a permissions error ;-P Actually, I think it is something to do with the way ipmasq works. If you don't have the ppp interface available on boot then ipmasq doesn't set any rules to allow traffic over it. I think it works fine if pon dials immediately, but for some reason not with dial-on-demand. Cheers, Tom -- There are two kinds of pedestrians... the quick and the dead. -- Lord Thomas Rober Dewar pgprO8nNXheAT.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: vga=ask
On Fri, Jun 02, 2000 at 09:39:22AM -0500, A. Scott White wrote: I've set vga=ask in my lilo.conf and run lilo. I've specified the kernel image along with the command line vga=auto at the lilo prompt. I set vga=ask in my lilo.conf global section with no mention of vga=auto anywhere and it works fine. After running lilo and rebooting I get a prompt along the lines of Press RETURN to see available modes or SPACE to continue. When I press return it brings up a list of available resolutions. -- The last time I saw him he was walking down Lover's Lane holding his own hand. -- Fred Allen pgpXEyFxfOTTl.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Ethernet Error
Hi folks, It's possible that the original poster has been allocated a block of 32 IP addresses from someone in which case the mask of 255.255.255.224 is correct, changing from a 27-bit to 24-bit mask would cause more problems than it cures. Your netmask doesn't look good to me, try editing your /etc/init.d/network (or /etc/network/interfaces, I don't know which one you are using) and change the netmask of your localnet to 255.255.255.0 DestinationGatewayGenmaskFlagsMetricRef UseIface locatnet* 255.255.255.224U 0 01 eth0 127.0.0.0 * 255.0.0.0U 0 01 lo Cheers, Tom
Re: rsync
On Wed, May 31, 2000 at 05:19:28PM +0200, Allan Andersen wrote: rsync -av ftp.sunet.se::pub/os/Linux/distributions/debian/dists/potato/ /home/ftp/linux/distributions/debian/dists/ This line should be enough since from the man page: -a, --archive This is equivalent to -rlptg. It is a quick way of saying you want recursion and want to preserve everything. Note: if the user launching rsync is root then the -o (preserve uid) and -D (preserve devices) options are also implied. Also, you probably don't want to use the verbose option if running from cron unless you are redirecting output. Cheers, Tom
Re: ip masquerading on debian slink
On Fri, May 26, 2000 at 01:32:42PM -0700, Pann McCuaig wrote: 2.0.x kernels don't use ipchains, but its predecessor, whose name escapes me at the moment. That would be ipfwadm. Cheers, Tom -- The University of California Statistics Department; where mean is normal, and deviation standard.
Re: [Fwd: Installing debian with Win98]
ARG! I can't find the file to replace for Win98! Anyone know where it is or what it is called? If there isn't a 'logo.sys' in the root of your C: drive, then it's using the default. Just put logo.sys in the root. Cheers, Tom.
