Re: Am I being attacked? Domain name and DNS server problem
On Sat, 18 Mar 2006, Robert MannI wrote: But then, when I try to resolve the ip address back to a domain, using either host xx.xx.xx.xx on mac os x, or /usr/bin/resolveip xx.xx.xx.xx on linux, the ip address is resolved to a domain name that is a little bit suspicious: ns2.decayandcorrupt.com Is this an attack? Not necessarily. It could be your client uses decayandcorrupt.com for their hosting, which itself is hosted within ev1servers.com. I recommend using dig to find out where everything is, if you want the real story. 'dig a $hostname' will turn up the IP address, 'dig ns $hostname' will turn up the name server. If you want the whole zone file for inspection and to doublecheck, do 'dig @ns2.decayandcorrupt.com axfr $hostname' to get the whole zone file (and if it denies you, use ns1 instead), and doublecheck the whois record for the domain name. -Dennis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
What do you do with a .jar file?
Running Sarge with the Sun Java package installed, per the instructions provided on the IRC channel. OK, so I have this .jar file. If I open it using 'java hidejournal-0.3.1.jar', it gives me: Exception in thread main java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: hidejournal-0/3/1/jar If I open it from Nautilus (I run Gnome), it pops it open in File Roller. Just what should I be using to run this? -Dennis Carr -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What do you do with a .jar file?
On Thu, 2 Mar 2006, Olafur Jens Sigurdsson wrote: This is a zipped file of java files, you can use the jar utility to unzip it, see man jar. This is nice, but it simply unpacks, and I'm at a loss as to how to run it. -Dennis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: debian pine source build 4.62
On Sat, 18 Feb 2006, Jude DaShiell wrote: A little earlier today I lost something on the order of 15,000 messages after having initially viewed them with a new build of pine. Define lost. Were they deleted from /var/spool/mail/$user entirely, or did pine put them in a different directory? This is, in short, not a Debian problem, but likely a Pine config problem as I'm using Pine 4.64 as we speak, which reads directly from the spool. This version is pulled in directly from braincells (do a google search for pine on debian). -Dennis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Why maybe you should bother
I'm going to jump in as well. I've been using Sarge since shortly after its release as stable in June. Previous experience with Woody (3.0) was lackluster, being unable to make it talk to my networking hardware. My advice is to get Sarge, and go from there - aside from the fact that it seems to be driving you up a wall, it will likely stop being supported as of June. -Dennis Carr -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
USB is fickle
Running Sarge with Linux 2.6.8-2-k7. It might be pertinent to know that I'm using Gnome under XFree for my GUI. When mounting a digital camera on my machine, I get one of two reactions from the system - the camera mounts, allows me to copy (but not remove) files, and if I unplug without unmounting the device, the entire system will freeze; or, I will plug in the camera, and the camera will come to life, however the system will not acknowledge the existence of the camera. The latter case is generally reproducible if the system is up for longer than maybe a day, however I've noted it can happen at any time. The former case is interesting - I cannot delete images from the camera by way of the prompt or wm (the session will hang if I attempt it, and I can't even 'kill -9' the session), and if I unplug the camera in this state, the entire system will wedge hard. If I'm in a console, I will get an error resembling ohci::00:07.00: wakeup or something like that. (The exact error text is on a slip of paper in front of my keyboard at home; I'm logged in remotely.) In short, what should I look for to solve these problems? Nothing is popping up in the syslog othe than an address failure occasionally, but that doesn't seem to necessarily be connected. -Dennis Carr -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: help with Debian
On Fri, 10 Feb 2006, Cuthbert Smith Consulting wrote: I am not a computer programmer, but feel fairly confident in my computer skills, I have created my website using FrontPage. I need to know how to now upload my website to our webpage. Not being one to support Frontpage (and, in fact, considering it extremely harmful), I can tell you that, under its default configuration, Apache will expect your HTML data to livein /var/www/html somewhere. You can get clues on exactly where by perusing /etc/apache/httpd.conf. Upload accordingly. -Dennis Carr -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: help with Debian
On Fri, 10 Feb 2006, Cuthbert Smith Consulting wrote: First off, Im not sure what you mean to persue /etc/apache/httpd.conf, do I type that in the web browser or look for it in my explorer. Neither. You'll have to be logged into your web server in order to locate this file, preferably by way of ssh or direct access at the console. You now have me curious, what's this server's history, and how did you get your hands on it? Vaguely important, how familiar are you with Unix-like environments? Secondly, if you dont support Frontpage, what do you recommend I use, bearing in mind I dont know how to write programs, I am pretty much a wisywig type person or window environment. I personally prefer emacs, but it doesn't really have a graphical HTML edit mode that I'm aware of. Perhaps somebody else here on the list can make a better suggestion for a GUI HTML editor. -Dennis Carr -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: help with Debian [How to upload a website to a debian web server]
On Fri, 10 Feb 2006, Cuthbert Smith Consulting wrote: Thank you, I have tried contacting my host, but have not had much luck which was why I went to Debian/Apache. I will keep trying, thanks for your information. Glad to help, but could you please not send your emails as XML? When you do that, it runs all your paragraphs together and makes the message difficult tor ead. -Dennis Carr -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: THE END OF THE WAR IN IRAQ!
On Thu, 26 Jan 2006, Steve Block wrote: On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 04:05:18AM -0800, Jerry and/or Susan Atlansky wrote: THE END OF THE IRAQ WAR UNITED STATES PETITION No one gets my support by spamming. Spam? On this list?! Surely you jest! -Dennis Carr -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cron and at behavior in X
Using Sarge, current updates. Based on conversations I've had on the IRC channel, I know that entering a line into crontab such as 'x-app:0.0' will fire off an X application without returning an error that it can't find a display, or similarly if I set DISPLAY=:0.0 at the top of the crontab. Am I correct then in assuming that this behavior will be the same if I do something similar for an at job? -Dennis Carr -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Voice recognition software?
Ran into a local who is a partial quadriplegic, and is using Dragon Naturally Speaking on a Windows system, and has exhibited curiousity about Linux. Due to the nature of her paralysis, she requires voice recognition software, so with that in mind, is there anything in Debian (or, for that matter, Linux in general) that does such a thing? -Dennis Carr -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Getting a list of installed packages
On Tue, 27 Dec 2005, J Merritt wrote:
Is there a way to get a list of installed packages in Debian, preferably from
the command line and preferably in a text file?
COLUMNS=200 dpkg -l |awk '/^[hi]i/{print $2}'
This will generate a list of only the names of packages that are
installed. I use this to back things up so that, in the event I need to
do a bare metal reinstall, I can just restore my sources.list, apt-get
update, and 'apt-get install package-listing'.
-Dennis Carr
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Re: moving across tabs in firefox
On Wed, 14 Dec 2005, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: Is there any way to circulate around the tabs (ie go the next/previous tab) in firefox? Ctrl-Tab moves right, Ctrl-Shift-Tab moves left. -Dennis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Looking for a one-time change this password script for login
Every now and again, as is prone to happening on any server, I will create a new account for users, and set a generic password for them, and thusly instruct them on how to change it - ssh in, 'passwd', use the password I just issued them, and have them come up with a better password than the generic thing I just issued them. Problem is, though, that most of my users are a little intimidated by the environment. So that said, what I'm looking for is a simple script that, on creation of an account, this script will wait for the new (l)user to log in via ssh, welcome them, give them instructions on what precisely to do (Change your password now!), ask for other miscellaneous options, and never come up again, favoring the typical motd and whatever shell they want. Is there a package I should look for, or is there a different (or otherwise fairly standard) way I should go about doing this? -Dennis Carr -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sarge 3.10
On Fri, 4 Nov 2005, List wrote: Is there an easy way to get X Windows working out of the box on Debian Sarge? X, when installed here, Just Worked. What are the symptoms? -Dennis Carr -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: BIND 9 Question
On Wed, 12 Oct 2005, Timothy Spear wrote: Hi all, Quick question, I hope. I am migrating a data center from RedHat/Suse/Mandrake to Debian (as the new single standard). When I migrated from Mandrake to Debian, I simply copied the named.conf over, made a single adjustment (on Mandrake, named.conf lives in /etc - in Debian, it lives in /etc/bind), regen'ed my rndc.conf, and fired it up with success - note the config is particularly exotic, being that I'm the authority for two TLDs in OpenNIC. -Dennis Carr -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to completely reinstall a package?
On Fri, 7 Oct 2005, Tim N9PUZ wrote: dpkg-reconfigure x-window-system didn't do anything obvious. Try 'dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86' instead. -Dennis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Panda, Beware!
On Fri, 23 Sep 2005, Wm Stanley wrote: Yes, I have used Panda Anti-virus software for several years now and had paid for two more that will Never be used! Why? Because their otherwise excellent programs were impossible to reconcile with Windows XP, to which I recently upgraded, and because of their robotic treatment of their loyal clients, I have disconnected from Panda with ill feelings. I was not even allowed credit for the two years of paid service that will now never be used. Well, that's horrible, but why are you posting a gripe about Windows products to a Debian list? It's sort of like preaching to the choir. -Dennis Carr -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Newbie Problems!
On Thu, 22 Sep 2005, Sean Whitton wrote: 2) I want a domain to point to the server. During installation I selected DNS server, and I need to know how to set this up. A link to a tutorial would be appreciated. Like another responder said, assuming you have a domain and a static IP, check around. dyndns is pretty good for a free service. Generally speaking, if you ever need to run your own DNS, you'll know - and this isn't quite one of those times. 3) What do I need to do to set up an ftp server? proftpd seems to Just Work with minimal to no tweaking. =Dennis Carr -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: New install, no desktop
On Wed, 21 Sep 2005, Albert wrote: Do I actually have a desktop installed? And how would I invoke it? Go back to the first grub entry that you list, and do 'dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86'. If that doesn't work, you'll need to install the xserver package - and probably gnome or KDE while you're at it. -Dennis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: kill someone logged on
On Wed, 7 Sep 2005, debian wrote: Perhaps this is one of those zombie process thingamajigs ! Try 'ps -A | grep joe', find the ssh process for pts/2, and kill -HUP the bugger. -Dennis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: apt-get upgrade - excessive list?
On Wed, 17 Aug 2005, Yoav Felberbaum wrote: Output is (notice the apache2-common which I don't want to do) (dump cut for brevity) Why are you running sid on a production server? -Dennis Carr -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: UNSUBSCRIBE confirm
On Sat, 13 Aug 2005, ChPh wrote: UNSUBSCRIBE confirm You might check for instructions in the footer of each of the messages posted to this list. These instructions will tell you how to unsubscribe rather than clutter the list with your requests. -Dennis Carr -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Swap always full
On Wed, 3 Aug 2005, David Berg wrote: It seems that with in 15 minutes of logging into my account I'm out of swap and low on physical memory. Swap partition is 64 Meg and I have 128 Megs of Physical. I'm upgrading to 1Gig very shortly but would still like to know why I'm swapping so much. First reaction for me would be to see what's running so intently. Top, here, is your friend - I would suspect you're running services that you don't actually need. -Dennis Carr -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Troubling security news for sarge users of mozilla, firefox, thunderbird...
On Tue, 2 Aug 2005, Ralph Katz wrote: Yet I'm wondering how other sarge users are going to address the security concerns? Backport, install from Mozilla tarball, upgrade to unstable, change to kmail/konqueror? It would seem that the easiest way to deal with this is to go off tree and use the tarball. -Dennis Carr -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Why not a Desktop on a GNU/Linux Server
On Mon, 25 Jul 2005, Anthony Simonelli wrote: I am planning on running a Squid Proxy, Postfix, Apache, webmail server here at my company and I was wondering if it was alright to run a Desktop or just X-Windows on this server. Of course it's perfectly fine. Did this for ages myself. -Dennis Carr -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Why not a Desktop on a GNU/Linux Server
On Mon, 25 Jul 2005, ke6isf wrote: Of course it's perfectly fine. Did this for ages myself. Caveat to what I said here - sent prematurely. =O.o= While it's fine (functionally), it's discouraged for security reasons. -Dennis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: postgresql on Sarge
On Fri, 22 Jul 2005, Daniel Ramaley wrote: How do i install postgresql on Sarge? I did an aptitude update then ran aptitude and selected postgresql for installation. But aptitude refuses to install it, claiming that it is broken. I don't know how i broke it, but now that it is broke, how do i fix it? 'apt-get install postgresql' should work; if it doesn't, respond with the error dump. -Dennis Carr -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sarge + 2.6.12 kernel panic
On Thu, 21 Jul 2005, Gayle Lee Fairless wrote: I have a box upgraded from woody to sarge. Are you using grub or lilo? (Although I didn't do a fresh install, I suspect grub. Forgive me for this, but which one of these lines are from the original post? The message is confusing. At any rate, this has been popping up on the IRC channel as well - people upgrading kernel from 2.6.8 to beyond on sarge have invariably experienced problems and I suspect that this is the reason that the current kernel image source and tree are still at 2.6.8, backports notwithstanding. Just my $.42. -Dennis Carr -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
A little something quirky....
I just realized that every time I do an apt-get update - and I mean EVERY time - the repository over on purdue.edu always gets the Packages and Release data files. Most recent test was today, and I did two updates in less than five minutes. (I had added contrib and non-free to a handful of mirrors in the file.) Is this a bug, or a feature? -Dennis Carr -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
