Re: See what a weak password will get ya?

2004-07-22 Thread Joost De Cock
Quoting "s. keeling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Incoming from Scarletdown: > > > > An example of a good password (though since I'm posting it here, it can > > no longer be considered good) is: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I disagree. A cracking program is going to attempt to match > permutations of

Re: See what a weak password will get ya?

2004-07-22 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 07:24:01PM -0700, Scarletdown ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Paul Stolp wrote: > >I checked in on some bittorrent progress today at lunch, noticed my > >I'm not sure the July 19 log snippet is related, but seems likely. > >Anyways, I've re-downloaded the files the attacker use

Re: which package owns system busy icon

2004-07-22 Thread Paul Johnson
"J.S.Sahambi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I would like to know which package owns the icon which is displayed > when system is busy. Not exactly giving us much to work with. What software are you specifically talking about? Have you tried finding the icon files and looking them up on http://p

truetype fonts in Mozilla - only good when page is UTF-8, bad otherwise

2004-07-22 Thread Miernik
I use latest Debian unstable, GNU/Linux system. I would like to use only truetype fonts for webpages in my Mozilla browser, because the PCF fonts look ugly. These are the only packages that have anything to do with fonts, that I have installed: defoma fontconfig gsfont

Re: enable duplex

2004-07-22 Thread Joost De Cock
Quoting Jacob Friis Larsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > When I enable both eth0 and eth1 the network only works after boot when > I do /etc/init.d/networking restart That's odd. Check the dmesg output to see what goes wrong suring boot. [...] > Also when I set up bonding I can not use the network. This

Documentation for NetJuke

2004-07-22 Thread cep welly
Anybody got documentation for NetJuke ??? I think it's gonna be a nice web apps package but unfortunely I can't get any good documentation on it ( even after browsing in its official site ) cheers, --me-- -- -BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) mQGiBEDato0RBADHD8bK

Re: cracking - Re: See what a weak password will get ya?

2004-07-22 Thread Alvin Oga
On Thu, 22 Jul 2004, s. keeling wrote: > Incoming from Alvin Oga: > > > > - and hopefully, they don't have the passwd file from /etc/shadow > > to compare against > > Agreed. Once they're in, all bets are off. best to assume they are already in and sniffing .. 24x7 and work knowing

Re: how to edit a pdf file in linux

2004-07-22 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 06:28:15AM -0500, Nate Bargmann ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > * Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004 Jul 22 06:09 -0500]: > > The point should be reiterated, however, that PDF is a *display* format, > > not a preferred for for modifying texts, and in general, your best b

Configuring mozilla-plugin-vlc to use esd

2004-07-22 Thread Bill Wohler
I was happy to see that the mozilla-plugin-vlc package is able to do some nifty things. However, I'd like it to speak to my esd daemon. I went to: http://tvplex.go.com/buenavista/ebertandroeper/popmp3_2.html?040719-metallicasomekindofmonster and there wasn't any sound until I ran "esdctl off".

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Connection Timeouts with Polaroid DC700 - Serial

2004-07-22 Thread Scarletdown
Up until a few months ago, gphoto2 worked great with my Polaroid PDC700 camera, which is connected to the first serial port (/dev/ttyS0). After doing a dist-upgrade, I can no longer download pictures out of my camera. I know the port is good, as I can reboot to the Windows-98 side of my syste

which package owns system busy icon

2004-07-22 Thread J.S.Sahambi
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Re: cracking - Re: See what a weak password will get ya?

2004-07-22 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Alvin Oga: > > - and hopefully, they don't have the passwd file from /etc/shadow > to compare against Agreed. Once they're in, all bets are off. Why bother to crack if you can sniff? -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*)

it was supposed to be my first DVD

2004-07-22 Thread Dan Jacobson
It's my first DVD, and # mplayer dvd://1 libdvdread: Using libdvdcss version 1.2.5 for DVD access libdvdread: Could not open /dev/dvd with libdvdcss. libdvdread: Can't open /dev/dvd for reading Couldn't open DVD device: /dev/dvd Does this mean the physical device, # cat /proc/ide/ide1/hdd/m* cdrom

cracking - Re: See what a weak password will get ya?

2004-07-22 Thread Alvin Oga
On Thu, 22 Jul 2004, s. keeling wrote: > > > I disagree. A cracking program is going to attempt to match > > > permutations of dictionary words. This will not add much more time to ... how fast can a cracking system go thru dictionary words that are mispelled with various digits and special

Re: See what a weak password will get ya?

2004-07-22 Thread Tim Connors
Mathieu Ducharme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Thu, 22 Jul 2004 23:33:48 -0400: > I'm pretty sure dictionary attack also look for this. (?) > > Use other characters that will make the word absolutely not dictionar- related > > x[([EMAIL PROTECTED])~(w0rD)]x > > Still as easy to remember (longer to

Re: See what a weak password will get ya?

2004-07-22 Thread Monique Y. Mudama
On 2004-07-22, Paul Stolp penned: > > Anyways, I've re-downloaded the files the attacker used and removed > (for posterity.) I changed all passwords, IP Address, I found the > evidence at about 12:24. Just wanted to share the need for strong > passwords. I'd add the suggestion to not use obvious

Re: See what a weak password will get ya?

2004-07-22 Thread Greg Folkert
On Thu, 2004-07-22 at 22:59, s. keeling wrote: > Incoming from Scarletdown: > > > > An example of a good password (though since I'm posting it here, it can > > no longer be considered good) is: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I disagree. A cracking program is going to attempt to match > permutat

Re: winbind and pam_mount

2004-07-22 Thread Greg Folkert
On Thu, 2004-07-22 at 14:42, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I am configuring a system to authenticate users against an AD windows > 2003 server, and if the user does not have a homedir it will > automatically be created on the Linux server. > > Ive managed to do all this using the winbind d

SOLVED: /bin/sh: line 1: root: command not found

2004-07-22 Thread Christopher L. Everett
Christopher L. Everett wrote: People, I keep getting these emails, from multiple servers relating to entries in /etc/crontab. AFAIK, I'm doing everything right (maybe not the best way technically, but following what the documentation says): -- using crontab -e -- looks the same to me as a workin

Re: OT: Re: See what a weak password will get ya?

2004-07-22 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Paul Stolp: > * s. keeling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-07-22 22:03]: > > Incoming from Paul Stolp: > > > look for damage, whew, I was O.K. -- I'm sure it helps to be up to date > > ... > > > > How did you manage to verify that? Are you running chkrootki

Re: See what a weak password will get ya?

2004-07-22 Thread charlie derr
Paul Stolp wrote: * dircha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-07-22 21:48]: Scarletdown wrote: |< == K < == X |> == P Anyone else care to add to this little list? 0 == O $ == S |-| == H |_| == U |_ == L \/\/ == W /\/\ == M |V| == M |\| == N |-o-| == tie fighter {-o-} == tie interceptor Good plan, I need t

Re: See what a weak password will get ya?

2004-07-22 Thread Paul Stolp
* Chris Metzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-07-22 22:18]: > On Thu, 22 Jul 2004 17:42:53 -0500 > Paul Stolp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > shutdown -h now ! > > Believe it or not, this is often a bad idea. It's often easier to > determine the scope of a compromise by watching the intrude for a

Re: OT: Re: See what a weak password will get ya?

2004-07-22 Thread Paul Stolp
* s. keeling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-07-22 22:03]: > Incoming from Paul Stolp: > > I checked in on some bittorrent progress today at lunch, noticed my > > process monitor showing full activity. Ran top, saw user "guest" logged > > on, running 4 instances of a program named "t", and short term loa

Re: See what a weak password will get ya?

2004-07-22 Thread Paul Stolp
* dircha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-07-22 21:48]: > Scarletdown wrote: > >|< == K > > >< == X > >|> == P > > > >Anyone else care to add to this little list? > > 0 == O > $ == S > |-| == H > |_| == U > |_ == L > \/\/ == W > /\/\ == M > |V| == M > |\| == N > |-o-| == tie fighter > {-o-} == tie inter

Re: See what a weak password will get ya?

2004-07-22 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Mathieu Ducharme: > On July 22, 2004 10:59 pm, s. keeling wrote: > > Incoming from Scarletdown: > > > An example of a good password (though since I'm posting it here, it can > > > no longer be considered good) is: > > > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > I disagree. A cracking program i

Re: See what a weak password will get ya?

2004-07-22 Thread Mathieu Ducharme
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On July 22, 2004 10:59 pm, s. keeling wrote: > Incoming from Scarletdown: > > An example of a good password (though since I'm posting it here, it can > > no longer be considered good) is: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I disagree. A cracking program is

Re: See what a weak password will get ya?

2004-07-22 Thread Chris Metzler
On Thu, 22 Jul 2004 17:42:53 -0500 Paul Stolp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I checked in on some bittorrent progress today at lunch, noticed my > process monitor showing full activity. Ran top, saw user "guest" logged > on, running 4 instances of a program named "t", and short term load > average

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Re: Multihead display without a desktop on second monitor

2004-07-22 Thread Alvin Oga
On 22 Jul 2004, Frank H. Baker wrote: > at the top and bottom on a uniform background. I have not enabled > Xinerama in XF86Config-4. that should give you one desktop .. but also allow you to drag xterms across the monitor which is NOT the same as DISPLAY=localhost:0.1 with xinerama off > Do

Re: See what a weak password will get ya?

2004-07-22 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Scarletdown: > > An example of a good password (though since I'm posting it here, it can > no longer be considered good) is: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] I disagree. A cracking program is going to attempt to match permutations of dictionary words. This will not add much more time to re

OT: Re: See what a weak password will get ya?

2004-07-22 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Paul Stolp: > I checked in on some bittorrent progress today at lunch, noticed my > process monitor showing full activity. Ran top, saw user "guest" logged > on, running 4 instances of a program named "t", and short term load > average over 4. AAGGGHHH! > shutdown -h now ! > pull

Re: Building 2.6.x kernel

2004-07-22 Thread Wayne Topa
[EMAIL PROTECTED]([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Maybe my last message went astray. > > Has anyone had any success using a 2.6.[67] kernel built themselves? > Yes. Using the old fashoned way and using make-kpkg. : uname -a Linux buddy 2.6.7 #1 Sat Jul 17 21:15:34 EDT 2004 i686 G

Re: See what a weak password will get ya?

2004-07-22 Thread dircha
Scarletdown wrote: |< == K >< == X |> == P Anyone else care to add to this little list? 0 == O $ == S |-| == H |_| == U |_ == L \/\/ == W /\/\ == M |V| == M |\| == N |-o-| == tie fighter {-o-} == tie interceptor 8~~ ? 8-) ... ! --dircha -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subjec

Re: iptables filter rules Question??

2004-07-22 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > [s. keeling:] > > > > I use exactly the same rule here: > > > > iptables -A INPUT -i ppp0 -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT > > EULER:~# iptables -A INPUT -i ppp0 -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j > ACCEPT > iptables: No chain/target/match by

Re: See what a weak password will get ya?

2004-07-22 Thread Scarletdown
Paul Stolp wrote: I checked in on some bittorrent progress today at lunch, noticed my I'm not sure the July 19 log snippet is related, but seems likely. Anyways, I've re-downloaded the files the attacker used and removed (for posterity.) I changed all passwords, IP Address, I found the evidence at

[Fwd: (GASP!) Looking for commercial quality financial software]

2004-07-22 Thread Ralph Katz
Original Message Subject: (GASP!) Looking for commercial quality financial software Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 17:53:06 -0500 From: Bradley Pursley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: linux.debian.user I am converting everything from Windows to Linux in high hopes of eliminating

Re: Debian install breaks on 'Configuring Locales'

2004-07-22 Thread Kent West
John Hechtman wrote: I moved from Suse to Slackware, because the stock Suse was WAY slow. And then from Slackware to Debian because no one can tell me why my floppy drive mounts in read-only in Slackware when using any GUI. Now I've dl'd the Debian CD iso images and burned them to disks. This is wi

See what a weak password will get ya?

2004-07-22 Thread Paul Stolp
I checked in on some bittorrent progress today at lunch, noticed my process monitor showing full activity. Ran top, saw user "guest" logged on, running 4 instances of a program named "t", and short term load average over 4. AAGGGHHH! shutdown -h now ! pull network cable reboot look for damage,

Re: iptables filter rules Question??

2004-07-22 Thread fbrian
> Incoming from [EMAIL PROTECTED]: >> >> This is my rule set: >> >> 1 iptables -P INPUT DROP >> 2 iptables -A INPUT -p icmp -j ACCEPT >> 3 iptables -A INPUT -i lo -j ACCEPT >> 4 iptables -A INPUT -i ppp0 -p tcp --dport 22 -j ACCEPT >> 5 iptables -A INPUT -i ppp0 -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED

Re: Debian install breaks on 'Configuring Locales'

2004-07-22 Thread Simon Kitching
On Fri, 2004-07-23 at 09:15, John Hechtman wrote: > Now I've dl'd the Debian CD iso images and burned them to disks. > This is with the 'Woody' 30r2-i386 set of seven CD's, plus the updates > CD. Are you intending this installation to be used for a production server, or for a personal desktop? I

Re: /cdrom vs. /media/cdrom

2004-07-22 Thread Kaj Wiik
On Fri, 2004-07-23 at 02:32, Joey Hess wrote: > Paul Johnson wrote: > > I don't have a /media, and my laptop, which I just installed Debian on, > > also doesn't have a /media. ??? > > Then you didn't install sarge using a current version of the installer. Continuing from this, is there a way to

Webmin dies on startup

2004-07-22 Thread Jonathan Melhuish
Since upgrading my system on 10th July, webmin hasn't worked. When I try running "/etc/init.d/webmin start", it says "Starting webmin: webmin" and returns control to the command line - but no processes persist and no ports stay open. What's more, I don't even get any log output in /var/log/web

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Debian install breaks on 'Configuring Locales'

2004-07-22 Thread John Hechtman
Below is a copy of my most recent post to LinuxQuestions.  Can you help withthis?I moved from Suse to Slackware, because the stock Suse was WAY slow.And then from Slackware to Debian because no one can tell me why my floppydrive mounts in read-only in Slackware when using any GUI.Now I've d

Abwesenheitsnotiz: {Spam?:12.78} Postcard

2004-07-22 Thread Schneider, Kerstin
Liebe Kollegen, liebe Chefs - oder wer sonst noch versucht hat, mich zu erreichen! Ich bin bis einschließlich 31. Juli im Urlaub. Auch über Handy bin ich nicht zu kriegen. In dringenden Fällen wenden Sie sich bitte an das Berliner Stern-Büro, Tel: 030-20 224 220. Oder haben Sie einfach ein bißch

Re: Sarge

2004-07-22 Thread Ralph Katz
On 07/21/04 22:40, Haines Brown wrote: "Jerry Wong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: What is the meaning of "SARGE" and how to pronounce it. -- Jerry Wong I was hoping someone would provide an authoritative response, but not so far. I'll reply at a simple level, and await someone to jump in to correct

Netscape seems to default to Postscript(tm of Adobe), but I don't have a postscript printer

2004-07-22 Thread J F
Printing from Netscape seems to default to Postscript(tm of Adobe), but I don't have a postscript printer. Is there a way to set up 2 print spools? One called hpprinter and one called hpprinter-P? Both would be the same except hpprinter-P would go thru a postscript to raster converter to emulate

Re: dpkg/apt question

2004-07-22 Thread Monique Y. Mudama
On 2004-07-22, Preston Boyington penned: > i have "inherited" an existing debian box and want to change the > packages to suit me and the office that it will now be used. > > i would like to take the installed packages listed from: > > dpkg --get-selections > packages.txt > > and edit the file to r

Mail Services "Opinion"

2004-07-22 Thread Support
Hi! Debian Users Need some info about Mail Server. There are some request from my management about Mail Services.Below are the list. Need your opnion. 1). Must can support multiple domain. I have Domain for abc.com.my and cde.com.my 2). The email user must can be control to become a local user o

Multihead display without a desktop on second monitor

2004-07-22 Thread Frank H. Baker
I have a 3 head system: one display for the console and two others for showing graphics on a clean (unadorned) screen that I control simply using xlib functions. This configuration has been working as prescribed under Mandrake 9.0, but when I tried installing it on Debian sarg/Linux 2.6, the unif

Re: Detaching and reattaching a process to different terminals?

2004-07-22 Thread Micha Feigin
On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 09:00:46AM -0400, Stephen Touset wrote: > I'm running a program for a research study I'm involved in, but I've run > into a slight problem. I executed it on an xterm (and it's been running > for a few days now, so I don't want to stop it mid-calculation), but > today is a wo

Re: Xeon HT or not HT

2004-07-22 Thread David Purton
On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 01:33:50PM -0400, Dragan Cvetkovic wrote: > Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Thu, 2004-07-22 at 05:10, nx13372 wrote: > >> I'm using kernel 2.4.26-1-686-smp. > >> I have a dual xeon box. If in the bios i enable the HT i'll get 4 cpus, > >> if not i'll get

Re: flash and mozilla (and firefox and epiphany)

2004-07-22 Thread Carl Johnson
Paul Yeatman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I now am convinced that the problem resides with the appearance that > Flash accesses /dev/dsp directly creating a conflict anytime another > application has already locked the dsp device first, such as esd. The > Mozilla wrapper that seems to offer a wa

Re: Continue asking about RSH on Linux?

2004-07-22 Thread Sam George
On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 22:41:42 -0700 (PDT) Hai Nguyen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > What can I do to corect this problem? > (My machine is an ALPHASERVER with 6 node, the Linux version is > Red Had Linux reales 6.2 (Zoot) - Kernel 2.2.14-6.0 on an alpha). humm, this lis

Building 2.6.x kernel

2004-07-22 Thread dbarker
Maybe my last message went astray. Has anyone had any success using a 2.6.[67] kernel built themselves? I have now built a 2.6.6 and a 2.6.7 using make_kpkg. Both have apparently installed OK but panicked because they couldn't mount my root partition. Said partition is an ext3 created during a s

Re: Xeon HT or not HT

2004-07-22 Thread Dragan Cvetkovic
Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, 2004-07-22 at 05:10, nx13372 wrote: >> I'm using kernel 2.4.26-1-686-smp. >> I have a dual xeon box. If in the bios i enable the HT i'll get 4 cpus, >> if not i'll get 2 cpus. >> What is bettter? [snip] > > Without hyperthreading you have 2 Thi

Re: modules not found after kernel recompile

2004-07-22 Thread CW Harris
On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 08:41:31PM +0200, Wim De Smet wrote: > On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 12:17:40 -0600, CW Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 07:55:27PM +0200, Wim De Smet wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > [...] > > > > > > You normally don't need a modprobe.conf, everything should b

Re: modules not found after kernel recompile

2004-07-22 Thread Wayne Topa
Wim De Smet([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 17:02:07 -0400, Wayne Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Wim De Smet([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > > On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 12:17:40 -0600, CW Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Wed,

RE: Testing + Reiserfs + quota support.

2004-07-22 Thread Michael Bellears
> > I've been through this the morning and as far as I can find > out reiser doesn't support quotas without patches to 2.4. No > idea on the stat of 2.6 patches Happy to patch the kernel - Does anyone have a patch location for 2.4.26 kern? Following only has up to 2.4.21.. ftp://atrey.karlin

Re: /cdrom vs. /media/cdrom

2004-07-22 Thread Joey Hess
On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 11:29:13AM +0200, Frank Uepping wrote: > on Sarge there are many duplicating mount points for peripherals, > like: > /cdrom > /cdrom0 > /floppy > /media/cdrom > /media/cdrom0 > /media/floppy > etc. > > Why are the dup

Re: USB disk drive

2004-07-22 Thread Bill Moseley
On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 05:15:42PM +0300, Micha Feigin wrote: > > Try modprobe sd-mod (scsi disk support). Yep! That solves the problem. It mounts vfat with only a Recycled directory and in that directory some odd looking files: bumby:/mnt/Recycled# ls [EMAIL PROTECTED]Åÿì{Á??8.üxd [EMAIL

Re: mkinitrd: RAID support requires raidtools2

2004-07-22 Thread Richard Weil
What do you mean you've installed raidtools2 but are using mdadm? I believe the problem could be this: o initrd-tools works on the assumption you're using devfs o if you're not using devfs, but you are using raidtools2 to manage your array, then software RAID should still work (I say this based

/bin/sh: line 1: root: command not found

2004-07-22 Thread Christopher L. Everett
People, I keep getting these emails, from multiple servers relating to entries in /etc/crontab. AFAIK, I'm doing everything right (maybe not the best way technically, but following what the documentation says): -- using crontab -e -- looks the same to me as a working crontab on another server -

Re: Need a Traffic Shaping Crash Course Please

2004-07-22 Thread frizzgrig
On Wed, 2004-07-21 at 23:50, Scarletdown wrote: > For some reason, this isn't showing up on lists.debian.user, so I will > go ahead and repost it here... > This time, however, it will need to be done on two fully operational > systems, so a failure will be more "catastrophic".  Therefore, I will >

Re: USB disk drive

2004-07-22 Thread Micha Feigin
On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 07:33:13PM -0700, Bill Moseley wrote: > I'm trying out a FireLite USB drive. It's been used on Windows (from > what the owner tells me and has data on it). > > I'm running kernel 2.6.6. > > When I plug it in I see this in syslog: > > Jul 21 17:18:50 bumby kernel: usb 1-2

Re: How to de-Grub?

2004-07-22 Thread Micha Feigin
On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 12:47:14AM +, Stephen Cradock wrote: > Well, it's a long story!!! > > I started trying to install Woody (see "Starting up.." thread a couple of > weeks ago) - found Woody wouldn't recognize my Intel 845 video chipset. > Switched to "vesa" but that would only give me 6

RE: Debian installer beta 4 can't mount ext3 partitions

2004-07-22 Thread Steven Satelle (Service Desk)
Jason Rennie wrote: > Hello, > > I just did a Debian Sarge install using the beta 4 installer. I had > an existing ext3 paritition that I wanted to mount as /home, but after > "manually partitioning" and telling Debian to use the existing format, > Debian complained that the ext2 filesystem had s

Filter scan result notification from enocmrh1

2004-07-22 Thread Sendmail Switch User
This is a filter detection notice generated by Sendmail Attachment Filter v2.5.0 at enocmrh1. The original message was being transferred from async217.kaynet.net.tr (212.174.242.17), and was ultimately accepted. The scanned parts of this message contained 1 infection(s), 0 of which were succes

Re: /cdrom vs. /media/cdrom

2004-07-22 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Frank Uepping (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > on Sarge there are many duplicating mount points for peripherals, > like: > /cdrom > /cdrom0 > /floppy > /media/cdrom > /media/cdrom0 > /media/floppy > etc. > > Why are the duplicates? On

Re: /cdrom vs. /media/cdrom

2004-07-22 Thread Leandro Guimaraens Faria Corsetti Dutra
Em Thu, 22 Jul 2004 11:50:08 +0200, Frank Uepping escreveu: > on Sarge there are many duplicating mount points for peripherals, > like: > /cdrom > /cdrom0 > /floppy > /media/cdrom > /media/cdrom0 > /media/floppy > etc. > > Why are the dupli

Re: enable duplex

2004-07-22 Thread Jacob Friis Larsen
When I enable both eth0 and eth1 the network only works after boot when I do /etc/init.d/networking restart /etc/network/interfaces: auto lo iface lo inet loopback auto eth0 iface eth0 inet static address 81.7.167.226 netmask 255.255.255.240 gateway 81.7.167.225 auto eth1

Wacom Tablet Setup

2004-07-22 Thread anlace
Greetings All, I had my Wacom Graphire tablet working reasonably well in kernel 2.4 but haven't yet attempted to set it up in the 2.6 kernel. Has anyone had any success doing that? All the resources I've gathered from Google and the web are for the 2.4 kernel. The man pages on Wacom are usel

Re: Xeon HT or not HT

2004-07-22 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 10:10:28AM +0100, nx13372 wrote: | Hi all, | | I'm using kernel 2.4.26-1-686-smp. | I have a dual xeon box. If in the bios i enable the HT i'll get 4 cpus, | if not i'll get 2 cpus. You have 2 Physical CPUs regardless. With HT each physical CPU is divided into 2 Logical

Re: Webmin dies on startup

2004-07-22 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Jonathan Melhuish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I usually run the stable version, but I have also tried installing the > testing > version, to no avail. I have tried removing and re-installing both > versions. paste the output of: bash -x /etc/init.d/webmin start -- Thomas Adam = "Th

Re: printing to remote ip through firewall

2004-07-22 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 11:30:39AM -0400, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: | Some times it is necessary to print a document in a printer | behind a firewall. The internal ip of the printer and the outer ip of | the firewall are known. How can this be done? If you run the firewall, you can use NAT (sometim

Re: KVM (kernel memory interface)

2004-07-22 Thread Jon Dowland
On Thu, 22 Jul 2004 13:53:18 -0700, Mark Ferlatte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > stan said on Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 04:45:12PM -0400: > > On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 05:43:36PM -0400, Stewart Flood wrote: > > > Is there a package that I need to install? If not, what do I use to get the > > > functionalit

Re: Debian-Fluxbox Q

2004-07-22 Thread Jon Dowland
On Thu, 22 Jul 2004 15:17:11 -0400, Tony Uceda Velez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Changing my default desktop manager in Debian has proven a little more > cumbersome than I thought. I edited my > /etc/X11/default-display-manager file to the absolute path of where the > fluxbox binary file is. f

Webmin dies on startup

2004-07-22 Thread Jonathan Melhuish
Since upgrading my system on 10th July, webmin hasn't worked. When I try running "/etc/init.d/webmin start", it says "Starting webmin: webmin" and returns control to the command line - but no processes persist and no ports stay open. What's more, I don't even get any log output in /var/log/webmin

mkinitrd: RAID support requires raidtools2

2004-07-22 Thread Alec Berryman
I'm trying to do software raid on a fresh install of Woody with a 2.4.26 kernel. In order to load the software raid I need to make an initrd image, so I installed initrd-tools. However, when I run mkinitrd, I get the following message: # mkinitrd -o /boot/initrd.img-2.4.26 2.4.26 /usr/sbin/mkini

Re: modules not found after kernel recompile

2004-07-22 Thread awais
Hi, You can use either modprobe.conf or the modprobe.d directory-or both, both of which are replacements for the old modules.conf. When migrating to the newer module-init-tools, you should move required entries from modules.conf to the newer modprobe.conf or modprobe.d directory. I've picked thi

Re: your mail

2004-07-22 Thread Alex Derkach
Do you want to use kde? Or do you want to use fluxbox exclusively? If so just change /etc/X11/default-display-manager like this: echo `which xdm` > /etc/X11/default-display-manager * Tony Uceda Velez ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I tried that with no success. I left the default-display manager e

RE: Debian-Fluxbox Q

2004-07-22 Thread Tony Uceda Velez
Ok...looking further into my startup scripts, I see that the flag in the /etc/init.d/xdm file has a flag for using this default-display-manager file. It's called HEED_DEFAULT_DISPLAY_MANAGER=true and as shown above it's set to true. If set to false, is it safe to say that the .xinitrc and .xsess

Re: dpkg/apt question

2004-07-22 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Preston Boyington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > dpkg --set-selections < packages.txt > > then: > > apt-get install ^^^ Wrong. You want to do: apt-get dselect-upgrade -- Thomas Adam = "The Linux Weekend Mechanic" -- http://linuxgazette.net "TAG Editor"

Re: Detaching and reattaching a process to different terminals?

2004-07-22 Thread awais
Also- nohup setsid is a simple and quick way to acheive this for new processes. Cheers Awais Ahmad - Original Message - From: "Jon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Stephen Touset" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2004 3:37 PM Subject: Re: Detaching and r

Re: flash and mozilla (and firefox and epiphany)

2004-07-22 Thread Paul Yeatman
->>In response to your message<<- --received from Wim De Smet-- > > On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 14:14:03 -0700, Paul Yeatman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I just noticed something I didn't notice before. Since I have learned > > I need to kill esd before going to a flash-enabled web site to see the > >

Re: KVM (kernel memory interface)

2004-07-22 Thread Mark Ferlatte
stan said on Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 04:45:12PM -0400: > On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 05:43:36PM -0400, Stewart Flood wrote: > > I'm starting a project to port a very large application from FreeBSD to > > Debian. I've gotten past some of the initial porting issues, but I'm stuck > > on this one: under Fr

Re: KVM (kernel memory interface)

2004-07-22 Thread stan
On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 05:43:36PM -0400, Stewart Flood wrote: > Greetings... > > I'm starting a project to port a very large application from FreeBSD to > Debian. I've gotten past some of the initial porting issues, but I'm stuck > on this one: under FreeBSD we used the kernel memory interface

RE: your mail

2004-07-22 Thread Tony Uceda Velez
I tried that with no success. I left the default-display manager entry to xdm. Simply creating that file and adding 'exec fluxbox' (without the quotes). Upon starting X and getting my login window (under KDE) it halts and can't get past loading any of the other services under X. I deleted the

cross compiling

2004-07-22 Thread Tom Vier
is there an easy way to build a cross compiler? i'm using testing/. i saw there's a toolchain-source and a binutils-multiarch package. now that i have them installed, what do i do? i want to build an x86 -> ppc toolchain (and sparc, in the future). tia! -- Tom Vier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> DSA Key ID

Re: none

2004-07-22 Thread Paul Johnson
Tony Uceda Velez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Changing my default desktop manager in Debian has proven a little more > cumbersome than I thought. I edited my > /etc/X11/default-display-manager file to the absolute path of where the > fluxbox binary file is. Upon restarting X, no dice. Any sug

Re: Confounded by Firestarter "Issues"... (update)

2004-07-22 Thread listcomm
Okay... I've figured out a couple of things. I'll post them here in case anyone else gets in the same trouble. There are hints of solutions to all this in various places scattered around the Web, but nothing explicit or in one place, that I could find. Basically, I just spent enough time trying

dpkg/apt question

2004-07-22 Thread Preston Boyington
i have "inherited" an existing debian box and want to change the packages to suit me and the office that it will now be used. i would like to take the installed packages listed from: dpkg --get-selections > packages.txt and edit the file to reflect what i actually want/need on the box. after i

Re: your mail

2004-07-22 Thread Alex Derkach
Add 'exec fluxbox' (without quotes) to the last line of your .xinitrc file (should be in $HOME/.xinitrc, if not, make one) * Tony Uceda Velez ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Greetings - > > Changing my default desktop manager in Debian has proven a little more > cumbersome than I thought. I edited

Backports vs. Sarge

2004-07-22 Thread Matthew T. Atkinson
'ello, I am in a bit of a quandary with my Woody server and was wondering what people's thoughts are. I wanted to compile mod_python so that my MoinMoin Wiki would go faster. This required that I install the apache2-threaded-dev package. Unfortunately, the version of apache2 from backports.org

Debian-Fluxbox Q

2004-07-22 Thread Tony Uceda Velez
In my excitement, I forgot a subject in my last envoy of this msg. Apologies. Greetings - Changing my default desktop manager in Debian has proven a little more cumbersome than I thought. I edited my /etc/X11/default-display-manager file to the absolute path of where the fluxbox binary file is.

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2004-07-22 Thread Tony Uceda Velez
Greetings - Changing my default desktop manager in Debian has proven a little more cumbersome than I thought. I edited my /etc/X11/default-display-manager file to the absolute path of where the fluxbox binary file is. Upon restarting X, no dice. Any suggestions to any fellow Debian-Fluxbox fan

Re: Burner app with ISO validation

2004-07-22 Thread Paul Johnson
Please turn your word wrap on to something like 72 columns instead of 1 paragraph; we shouldn't have to reformat just to read it on a standard 80-column window. Marcus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Can anyone recommend a DVD burning program which can vaildate the ISO > checksum after completion?

winbind and pam_mount

2004-07-22 Thread koolguy
Hi,   I am configuring a system to authenticate users against an AD windows 2003 server, and if the user does not have a homedir it will automatically be created on the Linux server.   Ive managed to do all this using the winbind daemon, samba, kerboros (for autherntication) to the AD server.

Re: /cdrom vs. /media/cdrom

2004-07-22 Thread Paul Johnson
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Paul Johnson wrote: >> I don't have a /media, and my laptop, which I just installed Debian on, >> also doesn't have a /media. ??? > > Then you didn't install sarge using a current version of the installer. OK, I just wasn't paying close attention and didn'

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