Re: [CONFUSED NEWBIE] Cron

2004-11-05 Thread Ali Alphan Bayazit
On Fri, 2004-11-05 at 12:54 -0700, Justin Guerin wrote: > > 0 0 * * * root /usr/lib/cgi-bin/send_hit_count.cgi > > > Oops. Check out the man page for cron and especially crontab(5). > > > 1. send_hit_count.cgi apparently is not being executed. It works > > interactively, but there are no messages

Re: apache-ssl understands no MIME

2004-11-05 Thread Carl Fink
Okay, new data point: apparently apache-ssl can serve images (JPEG) fine, it just can't leave /var/www. I can display any image in that directory using apache-ssl, but it can't follow any link (or direct entry of URL) to another directory. Non-SSL apache can handle those URL's just fine. This w

Xlib

2004-11-05 Thread Rick Pasotto
Why am I getting the following error message? Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: Maximum number of clients reached How many clients are available? Is that configurable? How can I find out which clients are currently active? When I get that error message I can no longer open wind

Re: Permanent disabling sound in X isn't possible (Re: Sounds off in bash)

2004-11-05 Thread Robert Storey
> On Fri, 5 Nov 2004 21:38:25 +0100 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Otto Wyss) wrote: > > > It's now 2 weeks later, I've asked in 2 different newsgroups, poked > > around every possible place on the net and still don't know how to > > permanenty disable the sound in X. How can Linux ever become a > > conten

Re: Going from stable to testing

2004-11-05 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jacob Friis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Most of the packages I use are from the testing release. > > Can I upgrade my system to be all testing just by adjusting > /etc/apt/sources.list? Yup, then doing an apt-get update so apt knows what's going on

Re: vote: best webmail !

2004-11-05 Thread ms linux
beware if you mention something about email stuffs in this list ;-) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Amit Poddar wrote: >u can get gmail. if ur interested in it i have many invites. please >email me bak i am will sell it to u for $5. thanks u for ur time > > >On Fri, 5 Nov 2004 13:50:04 +0800 (CST), ms linux >

apache-ssl understands no MIME? (Shows only HTML docs)

2004-11-05 Thread Carl Fink
I apologize for double-posting. I already sent this to the debian-apache list, but I've gotten no answer, and tomorrow (Saturday) is when I have time to work on this. I am running a Woody-based server that nonetheless has lots of backported packages (as you would expect). I just set up apache-ss

Re: ppp dynamic dns need /etc/resolv.conf to work, a bug?

2004-11-05 Thread Paul Dufresne
Well, before filling a new bug, I searched bugs on Firestarter package and found that bug #277496 is already there (for 16 days long) describing the problem of using /etc/ppp/ip-up.local, and the maintainer of the package working on a patch for this. --Paul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTE

Re: 32-bit pcmcia in an old laptop?

2004-11-05 Thread Jacob S
On Thu, 4 Nov 2004 22:47:58 -0600 Jacob S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello List, > > I've got an old Toshiba Tecra 720CDT (133Mhz w/96MB ram). I just > bought a Netgear WG511 802.11g wireless card to put in it. The pcmcia > card is(obviously) a 32bit card. Up to this point I've only used 16bit

Re: ppp dynamic dns need /etc/resolv.conf to work, a bug?

2004-11-05 Thread Paul Dufresne
Thanks for your help. First, I now understand that /etc/resolv.conf is dynamically created when using usepeerdns option of pppd. It took me some time, because I had others things to do. It turned out that Firestarter have created an ip-up.local file, that was stopping ip-up script. I guess I should

Re: [OT?] recreating lost iPod database

2004-11-05 Thread Jules Dubois
On Fri, 05 Nov 2004 12:01:36 -0500, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > i managed to write the blank database that gtkpod was displaying to my > iPod -- at least, that's what i think has happened. What is the output of 'ls -l ~/.gtkpod`? > now, when i start up gtkpod, sometimes it'll give me an error about

Re: How to activate a theme look of gtk/gnome application when I usen't gnome session ?

2004-11-05 Thread Jules Dubois
On Fri, 05 Nov 2004 11:48:18 +, Jon Dowland wrote: > On Fri, 5 Nov 2004 10:29:20 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> When I'm on KDE, the gnome/gtk application aren't theme. >> > Do you have gnome-theme-manager program? If you run that, and set a > theme, is it then p

Re: ppp dynamic dns need /etc/resolv.conf to work, a bug?

2004-11-05 Thread Pigeon
On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 01:15:00PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > Pigeon writes: > > Also worth checking /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/000usepeerdns which ought to be > > detecting that you've used pppconfig and leaving all the work to > > .../0-dns-up. > > Here is usepeerdns-up: Ah, things have changed. I

Re: Problems with RealPlayer10GOLD

2004-11-05 Thread "Sergio Cuéllar"
Thanks, it worked. But do you know how can avoid that realplayer takes control of the audio device ? I think this is not correct, because I have a machine with FC2 and it works fine, i dont have to disable anything. On Fri, 5 Nov 2004 16:16:57 -0800, Stephen Le <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fr

Multiple IP networks in exports and hosts.allow

2004-11-05 Thread William Ballard
I don't use DNS at home, I only have a few machines. I just use a.b.c.0/255.255.255.0 in /etc/exports and /etc/hosts.allow to setup NFS exports. Now I have wireless, as well as wired subnets. Can I define a group that includes both subnets and use a single entry for both in hosts.allow and exports

Re: mystery file spotted in /

2004-11-05 Thread Wayne Topa
Dan Jacobson([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Say if we spot a file, > # ls -l /root-n > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 2004-03-24 00:31 /root-n > and we can't tell what package(s) made it, > # dpkg -S /root-n > dpkg: /root-n not found. > nor is it mentioned in debian-policy/fhs, > how do

Re: Problems with RealPlayer10GOLD

2004-11-05 Thread Stephen Le
On Fri, 5 Nov 2004 17:55:46 -0600, Sergio Cuéllar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi everybody, I hope you can help me with my problem. I have installed > RealPlayer10GOLD in my debian sarge machine, but it doesnt work. When > I type: > > $ realplay > > nothing happens, i dont get even a window or

Re: Can't use kb3 to copy cd's.

2004-11-05 Thread Stephen Le
On Fri, 05 Nov 2004 17:50:58 -0600, Damon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>emulation. I am using a 2.6.8.1-k7 image from debian, so maybe somehow According to the k3b website[1], the author warns against using any kernel version greater than 2.6.7: "A patch that was introduced into the kernel shor

Re: Can't use kb3 to copy cd's.

2004-11-05 Thread Damon
Justin Guerin wrote: On Friday 05 November 2004 15:21, Damon wrote: Justin Guerin wrote: On Thursday 04 November 2004 16:09, Damon Chesser wrote: I have two devices: hdc > cd writer, hdd > cd reader. I can play audio cd's from hdd, I can mount cd's with mp3's and play them. I can b

Problems with RealPlayer10GOLD

2004-11-05 Thread "Sergio Cuéllar"
Hi everybody, I hope you can help me with my problem. I have installed RealPlayer10GOLD in my debian sarge machine, but it doesnt work. When I type: $ realplay nothing happens, i dont get even a window or something, the same problem is when i start it from Applications -> Multimedia -> RealPlaye

Re: kernel-image-2.6.8-1-686 unable to mount root

2004-11-05 Thread Justin Guerin
On Thursday 04 November 2004 20:11, Eddy Jacob wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I'm running debian, sarge. I installed the OS from Knoppix 3.4. I want > to use kernel 2.6.8, but I've got a problem on booting > kernel-image-2.6.8-1-686. I got this: > > Kernal panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-

Re: Limiting User Commands

2004-11-05 Thread Stephen Le
On Sat, 6 Nov 2004 00:13:28 +0100, Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is there an easy way to limit the commands a certain group of users > > can execute? I've looked at chroot, and it's too complicated for my > > needs and seems too easy to circumvent; users will be able to upload > > their

Re: Memory Management in Linux

2004-11-05 Thread Eric Gaumer
On Fri, 2004-11-05 at 23:17 +0100, Silvan Villiger wrote: > Thank you for this fast answer. Let's forget the thing with the > memory-leak for a moment. I'm more interested in understanding the > memory management. Does anyone knows a guide which introduces me into > the meaning of the expression

Re: Limiting User Commands

2004-11-05 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 09:31:21AM -0800, Stephen Le wrote: > Hello all, > > Is there an easy way to limit the commands a certain group of users > can execute? I've looked at chroot, and it's too complicated for my > needs and seems too easy to circumvent; users will be able to upload > their own

Re: ignoring dependencies

2004-11-05 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 07:13:09PM +0100, Filip Moritz wrote: > > > > Dave Ewart wrote: > > > > On Friday, 05.11.2004 at 15:38 +0100, Filip Moritz wrote: > > > > > Now, is there any means to apt-get install A, ignoring it's alleged > > > dependencies to B and C, not affecting it's remaining d

Re: mystery file spotted in /

2004-11-05 Thread Carl Fink
On Sat, Nov 06, 2004 at 03:57:40AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: > Say if we spot a file, > # ls -l /root-n > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 2004-03-24 00:31 /root-n > and we can't tell what package(s) made it, > # dpkg -S /root-n > dpkg: /root-n not found. > nor is it mentioned in debian-policy/fhs, > how

Re: Memory Management in Linux

2004-11-05 Thread Silvan Villiger
Thank you for this fast answer. Let's forget the thing with the memory-leak for a moment. I'm more interested in understanding the memory management. Does anyone knows a guide which introduces me into the meaning of the expressions I mentioned in my first post? Greetings... Silvan -- To UN

Re: Can't use kb3 to copy cd's.

2004-11-05 Thread Damon
Justin Guerin wrote: On Thursday 04 November 2004 16:09, Damon Chesser wrote: I have two devices: hdc > cd writer, hdd > cd reader. I can play audio cd's from hdd, I can mount cd's with mp3's and play them. I can burn ISO's on hdc or make data cd's with hdc using k3b. I never or almost never

Re: Can't use kb3 to copy cd's.

2004-11-05 Thread Justin Guerin
On Friday 05 November 2004 15:21, Damon wrote: > Justin Guerin wrote: > >On Thursday 04 November 2004 16:09, Damon Chesser wrote: > >>I have two devices: hdc > cd writer, hdd > cd reader. I can play audio > >>cd's from hdd, I can mount cd's with mp3's and play them. I can burn > >>ISO's on hdc or

mystery file spotted in /

2004-11-05 Thread Dan Jacobson
Say if we spot a file, # ls -l /root-n -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 2004-03-24 00:31 /root-n and we can't tell what package(s) made it, # dpkg -S /root-n dpkg: /root-n not found. nor is it mentioned in debian-policy/fhs, how do we know it is safe to remove it, or must we just let it sit there for eter

Re: framebuffer problem in 2.6.9?

2004-11-05 Thread Thomas Stivers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 04:32:48 PM -0500, H. S. wrote: > I just downloaded and compiled the kernel-source 2.6.9 of Debian after > applying swsusp2 patches. First I tried with my current config file > (2.6.7) but the frambuffer seemed not be working

[SOLVED] Re: ppp0 fails to start at boot, only when pppoeconf is ran

2004-11-05 Thread H. S.
Apparently, _Andreas Janssen_, on 05/11/04 16:14,typed: Hello H. S. (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: Apparently, _Andreas Janssen_, on 05/11/04 15:26,typed: H. S. (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: When I reboot Debian Sarge, kernel 2.6.7, ppp0 fails with this message: pppd[4989]: Plugin rp-pppoe.so loaded.

Re: Limiting User Commands

2004-11-05 Thread Stephen Le
On Fri, 5 Nov 2004 18:40:59 +0100, Benedict Verheyen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sounds like you want sudo. I don't think sudo is appropriate for what I'm trying to do. I'd like users to have limited shell access; I'm not trying to give them access to special commands. Besides, telling users to p

Re: [OT?] recreating lost iPod database

2004-11-05 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Fri, 05 Nov 2004 01:06:46PM -0800, Brian Nelson insinuated: > Nori Heikkinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > the iPod itself shows that i have no music, no artists, no > > anything. it also shows that i have 18.5G used, and 2.8G > > available. all consistent. > > > > so what i need to do is

Re: Permanent disabling sound in X isn't possible (Re: Sounds off in bash)

2004-11-05 Thread Cybe R. Wizard
On Fri, 5 Nov 2004 21:38:25 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Otto Wyss) wrote: > It's now 2 weeks later, I've asked in 2 different newsgroups, poked > around every possible place on the net and still don't know how to > permanenty disable the sound in X. How can Linux ever become a > contender in the desk

Re: Limiting User Commands

2004-11-05 Thread Stephen Le
On Fri, 5 Nov 2004 19:53:33 +0200 (EET), [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes, you can make something like that: addgroup(access), then change > groupname of commands that you want with that group (access), remember to > remove "execute/search by others" from commands that are with >

Re: ppp0 fails to start at boot, only when pppoeconf is ran

2004-11-05 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello H. S. (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > Apparently, _Andreas Janssen_, on 05/11/04 15:26,typed: >> H. S. (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: >>> >>> When I reboot Debian Sarge, kernel 2.6.7, ppp0 fails with this >>> message: pppd[4989]: Plugin rp-pppoe.so loaded. >>> pppd[4989]: Linux kernel does not

Re: ALSA Default Card

2004-11-05 Thread Anes Lihovac
On Friday 05 November 2004 21:43, Shawn D'Alimonte wrote: > I recently started having some trouble with ALSA and possibly hotplug. > > I noticed some problems with playing sounds and it looks like ALSA has > placed my TV card as hw:0,0 instead of the VIA driver (which gets > hw:1,0). This is a big

Re: user-friendly mp3/cd player combination

2004-11-05 Thread Brian Nelson
Matt Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > our cd player died so I'm converting my old laptop to a part-time > mp3-player/ cdp player. I usually use xmms & groovycd to play music, > but that combination is a little clumsy for my family members. here's > what I want: > > -an mp3 organizer that make

Re: [OT?] recreating lost iPod database

2004-11-05 Thread Brian Nelson
Nori Heikkinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > the iPod itself shows that i have no music, no artists, no anything. > it also shows that i have 18.5G used, and 2.8G available. all > consistent. > > so what i need to do is recreate the table, if possible. my only > other option, afaict, is to delet

Re: Permanent disabling sound in X isn't possible (Re: Sounds off in bash)

2004-11-05 Thread robin
Otto Wyss wrote: --- Otto Wyss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Creating the above .xsession files disables the default XFCE4 startup and I get only an empty X screen. So what now? You want to have a file such as this:

Re: ppp0 fails to start at boot, only when pppoeconf is ran

2004-11-05 Thread H. S.
Apparently, _Andreas Janssen_, on 05/11/04 15:26,typed: Hello H. S. (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: When I reboot Debian Sarge, kernel 2.6.7, ppp0 fails with this message: pppd[4989]: Plugin rp-pppoe.so loaded. pppd[4989]: Linux kernel does not support PPPoE -- are you running 2.4.x? pppd[4989]: Exit

Permanent disabling sound in X isn't possible (Re: Sounds off in bash)

2004-11-05 Thread Otto Wyss
> --- Otto Wyss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Creating the above .xsession files disables the default XFCE4 startup > > and I get only an empty X screen. So what now? > > You want to have a file such as this: > = > #!/bin/sh > > #type any additional

ALSA Default Card

2004-11-05 Thread Shawn D'Alimonte
I recently started having some trouble with ALSA and possibly hotplug. I noticed some problems with playing sounds and it looks like ALSA has placed my TV card as hw:0,0 instead of the VIA driver (which gets hw:1,0). This is a big problem for OSS based programs since the (record only) TV card g

Re: ppp0 fails to start at boot, only when pppoeconf is ran

2004-11-05 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello H. S. (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > When I reboot Debian Sarge, kernel 2.6.7, ppp0 fails with this > message: pppd[4989]: Plugin rp-pppoe.so loaded. > pppd[4989]: Linux kernel does not support PPPoE -- are you running > 2.4.x? pppd[4989]: Exit. > > After booting up, starting it also fails

Re: Memory Management in Linux

2004-11-05 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Friday 05 November 2004 12:37, Silvan Villiger wrote: > My goal is to write a script to monitor the memory-usage of a program > and to detect memory-leaks using the ps-command. How would you detect > memory leaks with it? You wouldn't. A memory leak, in a nutshell, is a call to malloc() witho

Re: [CONFUSED NEWBIE] Cron

2004-11-05 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Friday 05 November 2004 12:49, Joseph wrote: > I added a new line to crontab: > 0 0 * * * root /usr/lib/cgi-bin/send_hit_count.cgi > > 1. send_hit_count.cgi apparently is not being executed. 9 times out of 10 when this happens to me, it's because I forgot to add an extra blank line to the end

Seahorse and Gedit

2004-11-05 Thread Bill Thompson
The new version of Seahorse appeared in Unstable today, but it does not seem to include the Seahorse/GPG plugin for Gedit. I can't seem to find any Debian references to the plugin to verify if it has been left out of the Seahorse package or not. Before I bother the maintainer directly, does anyone

Re: How to uninstall?

2004-11-05 Thread Chris Lale
On Thu, 2004-11-04 at 06:05, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Wednesday 03 November 2004 08:08 pm, Vegard Lundby Rekaa wrote: > > I installed a program using a .tar.gz file. Can I remove this program and > > how? > > > I read everyone else's post bu

Re: AW: ignoring dependencies

2004-11-05 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
> > > Now, is there any means to apt-get install A, ignoring it's alleged > > > dependencies to B and C, not affecting it's remaining deps? > > > > Doing so is a really stupid idea, since the dependencies are > > there to ensure that the intended package you install will > > work. > > Assuming

Re: Debian Commands

2004-11-05 Thread Chris Lale
On Thu, 2004-11-04 at 06:17, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > On Friday 29 October 2004 10:13 pm, Patrick Albuquerque wrote: > > The `configure-debian' package gives a nice frontend to > > dpkg-reconfigure. > > Thank you very much for letting me know about this great package. :-) You can do the same t

Re: [CONFUSED NEWBIE] Cron

2004-11-05 Thread Justin Guerin
On Friday 05 November 2004 11:49, Joseph wrote: > Hi folks. > > This is probably very simple stuff, but I'm thoroughly confused. I > have an "off-the-shelf" Debian installation provided by my ISP. When > I do a ps -ef I get > (amongst other things) the following > root 195 1 0 Oct28 ?

user-friendly mp3/cd player combination

2004-11-05 Thread Matt Price
hi folks, our cd player died so I'm converting my old laptop to a part-time mp3-player/ cdp player. I usually use xmms & groovycd to play music, but that combination is a little clumsy for my family members. here's what I want: -an mp3 organizer that makes it really easy to design & play mp3/og

Re: Bug#237377: unsure if I am suffering the same tihng

2004-11-05 Thread Richard Lyons
On Friday 05 November 2004 15:53, Adam Conrad wrote: > Dave Ewart wrote: > > > > FWIW, for me, a manual '/etc/init.d/apache reload' *does* cause the > > problem too. My difficulty therefore reduces completely to be > > "/etc/init.d/apache reload makes Apache die". > > > > Apache is version 1.3.2

ppp0 fails to start at boot, only when pppoeconf is ran

2004-11-05 Thread H. S.
When I reboot Debian Sarge, kernel 2.6.7, ppp0 fails with this message: pppd[4989]: Plugin rp-pppoe.so loaded. pppd[4989]: Linux kernel does not support PPPoE -- are you running 2.4.x? pppd[4989]: Exit. After booting up, starting it also fails with the same message. I have to reconfigure ppp0 with

Re: lvm and initrd

2004-11-05 Thread Richard Weil
Does the system run on LVM2 w/o a custom compiled kernel? If so, then this comment will not be helpful. If not, then ... As I understand it, by default the Debian mkinitrd will create an initrd based on the current root device. So, if you're using a non-LVM2 root device to build an initrd suitable

Memory Management in Linux

2004-11-05 Thread Silvan Villiger
Hi, Can anyone give me a link to a guide which introduces into memory management? I need to understand expressions like "rss", "sz", "shared memory", "memory leak", "core image of a process", "data section", "kernel stack", "virtual size". I've googled a lot and have red the man page of ps. But it

[CONFUSED NEWBIE] Cron

2004-11-05 Thread Joseph
Hi folks. This is probably very simple stuff, but I'm thoroughly confused. I have an "off-the-shelf" Debian installation provided by my ISP. When I do a ps -ef I get (amongst other things) the following root 195 1 0 Oct28 ?00:00:01 /usr/sbin/cron Now, according to the manual

Re: Limiting User Commands

2004-11-05 Thread Doug Griswold
Take a look at sudo. >>> Stephen Le <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 11/5/2004 12:31:21 PM >>> Hello all, Is there an easy way to limit the commands a certain group of users can execute? I've looked at chroot, and it's too complicated for my needs and seems too easy to circumvent; users will be able to upload

AW: ignoring dependencies

2004-11-05 Thread Filip Moritz
> Thomas Adam wrote: > > --- Filip Moritz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Now, is there any means to apt-get install A, ignoring it's alleged > > dependencies to B and C, not affecting it's remaining deps? > > Doing so is a really stupid idea, since the dependencies are > there to ensure th

AW: ignoring dependencies

2004-11-05 Thread Filip Moritz
> Dave Ewart wrote: > > On Friday, 05.11.2004 at 15:38 +0100, Filip Moritz wrote: > > > Now, is there any means to apt-get install A, ignoring it's alleged > > dependencies to B and C, not affecting it's remaining deps? > > First, manually install "it's remaining deps"; then install > the p

Re: Limiting User Commands

2004-11-05 Thread ea
> Hello all, > > Is there an easy way to limit the commands a certain group of users > can execute? I've looked at chroot, and it's too complicated for my > needs and seems too easy to circumvent; users will be able to upload > their own Perl scripts, so it seems that they'll be able to access > co

Re: 32-bit pcmcia in an old laptop?

2004-11-05 Thread Greg Madden
On Thursday 04 November 2004 07:47 pm, Jacob S wrote: > Hello List, > > I've got an old Toshiba Tecra 720CDT (133Mhz w/96MB ram). I just > bought a Netgear WG511 802.11g wireless card to put in it. The pcmcia > card is (obviously) a 32bit card. Up to this point I've only used > 16bit cards in the l

RE: Limiting User Commands

2004-11-05 Thread Benedict Verheyen
>-Oorspronkelijk bericht- >Van: Stephen Le [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Verzonden: vrijdag 5 november 2004 18:31 >Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Onderwerp: Limiting User Commands > > >Hello all, > >Is there an easy way to limit the commands a certain group of users >can execute?

Limiting User Commands

2004-11-05 Thread Stephen Le
Hello all, Is there an easy way to limit the commands a certain group of users can execute? I've looked at chroot, and it's too complicated for my needs and seems too easy to circumvent; users will be able to upload their own Perl scripts, so it seems that they'll be able to access commands outsid

Trouble installing Perl GD module on Debian

2004-11-05 Thread Barry Moore
I'm not sure if this is a debian issue or not, but I'm starting to suspect that it might be. I'm trying to install the perl GD 2.16 library and make is failing. I have tried all of the suggestions in Linclon's README (except I haven't reinstalled perl). This does not appear to be a problem wi

Re: Kernel 2.6.8 and usb

2004-11-05 Thread Freddy Freeloader
JohnOfArc wrote: On Thu, 04 Nov 2004 08:48:47 -0800, Freddy Freeloader wrote: As an update to this I just did an apt-get upgrade this morning and a new hotplug package version was installed. I was booted into the 2.6.8 kernel at the time and decided to do an "/etc/init.d/hotplug rest

[OT?] recreating lost iPod database

2004-11-05 Thread Nori Heikkinen
hey all, been using gtkpod with my iPod happily for about a month+ now. love it. yesterday, i forgot to plug in the 'pod before starting up gtkpod, so it (naturally) couldn't find the database to read. somehow, in unplugging and replugging, and starting and restarting gtkpod (this should have b

logrotate and format of files

2004-11-05 Thread Matthias Eichler
Dear List, I am trying to use logrotate to rotate our logfiles on a multi-vhost-webserver. For usability, scriptability and so on we want to use the following formats: Now: _access.log Yesterday: _access_YYMMDD.log I read A LOT of docu, as well of logrotate and rotatelogs. Unfortunately logrota

Re: Can't use kb3 to copy cd's.

2004-11-05 Thread Justin Guerin
On Thursday 04 November 2004 16:09, Damon Chesser wrote: > I have two devices: hdc > cd writer, hdd > cd reader. I can play audio > cd's from hdd, I can mount cd's with mp3's and play them. I can burn > ISO's on hdc or make data cd's with hdc using k3b. I never or almost > never copy a cd. When

RE: Bug#237377: unsure if I am suffering the same tihng

2004-11-05 Thread Adam Conrad
Dave Ewart wrote: > > FWIW, for me, a manual '/etc/init.d/apache reload' *does* cause the > problem too. My difficulty therefore reduces completely to be > "/etc/init.d/apache reload makes Apache die". > > Apache is version 1.3.26-0woody5 and included PHP support (version > 4.1.2-7.0.1) - on a W

Re: vote: best webmail !

2004-11-05 Thread Alexei Chetroi
On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 02:42:55PM +0100, Lukas Ruf wrote: > Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2004 14:42:55 +0100 > From: Lukas Ruf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Eric d'Alibut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: Debian User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: vote: best webmail ! > > > Eric d'Alibut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-11

Re: Auth.log

2004-11-05 Thread Raquel Rice
On Fri, 5 Nov 2004 07:23:40 +0100 Andrea Vettorello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 5 Nov 2004 12:34:38 +1100, Matthew Joyce > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Hi, > > > > I was just checking some logs on a woody box and just want to > > clarify something. > > > > Stuff like this :

Re: ignoring dependencies

2004-11-05 Thread Dave Ewart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday, 05.11.2004 at 15:38 +0100, Filip Moritz wrote: > hope I don't bug with an old question, but I couldn't find a > satisfactory solution to this problem anywhere. > > I want to install package A (subversion here), which depends on B > (perl)

Re: gdm and root

2004-11-05 Thread Jerome BENOIT
I have noticed these points too, hence my email. I guess that for, security reasons, the policy in gdm.conf must be applied, but why it is not applied by default. As a matter of fact, I want the login greeter to run xscreeensaver and I encounter some problem, so I am investigating. Jerome Matt Zagr

Re: ignoring dependencies

2004-11-05 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Filip Moritz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Now, is there any means to apt-get install A, ignoring it's alleged > dependencies to B and C, not affecting it's remaining deps? Doing so is a really stupid idea, since the dependencies are there to ensure that the intended package you install will

Re: Auth.log

2004-11-05 Thread Shreyas Ananthan
"Matthew Joyce" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have ssh configured so root cannot login, but I want to show some > stats to management to elevate the need to be security conscious, are > there any packages which will analyse these logs and produce a nice > report, a summary perhaps ? apt-cache s

ignoring dependencies

2004-11-05 Thread Filip Moritz
Hi, everyone. hope I don't bug with an old question, but I couldn't find a satisfactory solution to this problem anywhere. I want to install package A (subversion here), which depends on B (perl) and C (python) for sake of features, I don't need. Those in turn depend on D, E, ... opening up whol

Re: Using more than one driver for a laser printer?

2004-11-05 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Fri, 2004-11-05 at 07:58 +, Adam Funk wrote: > On Friday 05 November 2004 04:20, Rich Rudnick wrote: > > > After looking over the bug reports, cupsys-bsd will create a link > > from /var/run/cups/printcap to /etc/printcap _if_ it doesn't exist or > > dangles, http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin

Re: unsure if I am suffering the same tihng

2004-11-05 Thread Dave Ewart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday, 05.11.2004 at 11:46 +, Jon Dowland wrote: > I am not sure if what I am suffering is due to the same bug. > > Firstly, if this is a known problem, I have only been experiencing it > since Oct 25. > > It is not intermittent for me and

lvm and initrd

2004-11-05 Thread Benedict Verheyen
Title: lvm and initrd Hi, i installed Sarge and opted to have all partitions including root on lvm2. /boot is not on lvm2 but plain ext2. However when i try to compile my own kernel, the kernel is unable to mount /root. After i compile the kernel, i do this:     mkinitrd -k -o /boot/in

Re: vote: best webmail !

2004-11-05 Thread Lukas Ruf
> Eric d'Alibut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-11-05 08:06]: > > On Fri, 5 Nov 2004 13:50:04 +0800 (CST), ms linux > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > squirrelmail ? openwebmail ? or ... > > Hands down, no contest, category-killer, industrial strength, don't > try this at home kids: > > IMP > > http://ww

Re: vote: best webmail !

2004-11-05 Thread Ralph Crongeyer
I like egroupware at: http://www.egroupware.org/ It even has a connector for outlook clients here: http://www.egroupware.org/index.php?page_name=&category_id=38&wikipage=Outlook+Integration And it's been packaged for debian, so just (apt-get install egroupware) Ralph -- Linux, to keep you hu

Re: gdm and root

2004-11-05 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
> who may run gdm, the gdm user or the root user ? > $ ps -ef | grep gdm root 3068 1 0 Oct20 ?00:00:00 /usr/bin/gdm root 3069 3068 0 Oct20 ?00:00:00 /usr/bin/gdm root 3074 3069 5 Oct20 ?20:01:53 /usr/X11R6/bin/X :0 -audit 0 -auth /var/lib/gdm/:0.Xau

Re: [OT] lftp not using cached directory listings

2004-11-05 Thread Alex Polite
I installed sitecopy which seems to be more better for this task. alex -- Alex Polite http://polite.se -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: vote: best webmail !

2004-11-05 Thread John M Flinchbaugh
On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 01:50:04PM +0800, ms linux wrote: > which one is the best webmail ??? I've been looking > for this ... > squirrelmail ? openwebmail ? or ... on my debian unstable box a year or 2 ago, squirrelmail kept breaking (just got stuck sending mail, etc), and it was hard to get it t

Re: change IP and default route.

2004-11-05 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
Jonathan Colaco wrote: On Thu, 04 Nov 2004 18:53:15 +, Dr. David Kirkby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I installed a system on a company network with a fixed IP (213.78.42.115), but recently bought a small router. The PC will now have to use the router as the default route, and I will mak

Bug#237377: Info received (was unsure if I am suffering the same tihng)

2004-11-05 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Thank you for the additional information you have supplied regarding this problem report. It has been forwarded to the package maintainer(s) and to other interested parties to accompany the original report. Your message has been sent to the package maintainer(s): Debian Apache Maintainers <[EMAI

Re: Bizarre NFS Problem

2004-11-05 Thread Ben Hutchings
Derek "The Monkey" Wueppelmann wrote: Hello All, I'm currently running debian 3.0 r3 and have run into an interesting issue with my NFS mounts. On one of my debian systems (I have just done an apt-get update/upgrade on all my systems) when copying or creating a file on one of the NFS mounted direct

unsure if I am suffering the same tihng

2004-11-05 Thread Jon Dowland
I am not sure if what I am suffering is due to the same bug. Firstly, if this is a known problem, I have only been experiencing it since Oct 25. It is not intermittent for me and happens consistently at night. I believe this is due to logrotation, it appears at least that apache dies at roughly

Re: How to activate a theme look of gtk/gnome application when I usen't gnome session ?

2004-11-05 Thread Robert Vangel
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, When I'm on gnome session, my application have theme industrial. When I'm on KDE, the gnome/gtk application aren't theme. How to activate this theme always ? Thanks for your help Stéphane KLEIN I've noticed this myself as well, but just figured it's because KDE is

Make Python use libmysqlclient14

2004-11-05 Thread Jacob Friis
I'm running a mix of stable, testing and experimental and would like Python to use libmysqlclient14 instead of libmysqlclient10. Is that possible? Thanks, Jacob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to activate a theme look of gtk/gnome application when I usen't gnome session ?

2004-11-05 Thread Jon Dowland
On Fri, 5 Nov 2004 10:29:20 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > When I'm on gnome session, my application have theme industrial. > > When I'm on KDE, the gnome/gtk application aren't theme. > > How to activate this theme always ? > > Thanks for your help > > Stépha

Re: vote: best webmail !

2004-11-05 Thread Adam Funk
On Friday 05 November 2004 06:00, ms linux wrote: > which one is the best webmail ??? I've been looking > for this ... > squirrelmail ? openwebmail ? or ... If you want an administrator's point of view, I don't know. As a user I prefer SquirrelMail over IMP (although they are both good). -- T

apt-cacher transition from apache to apache2

2004-11-05 Thread Alexandros Papadopoulos
On a sarge system, I was using apt-cacher with apache. No problems there. Once I replaced apache with apache2, apt-cacher works but no longer accepts any configuration changes. I.e. changing /etc/apt-cacher/apt-cacher.conf and then reloading/restarting apache2 does not honor the changes. I thi

Re: dhclient: how to fill the dhclient.lease data file ?

2004-11-05 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Thanks for the reply, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: my `/var/lib/dhclient.lease' file is obsolutely empty. I tried to figure out how it can be filled, but I found nothing: any idea ? Dhclient is a DHCP client. Its role is to send a request for an IP adress, which is given by a DHCP server for a certain

RE: permissions problems in ssh session as root (WAS: apt-get install and upgrade errors)

2004-11-05 Thread james derry
Title: RE: permissions problems in ssh session as root (WAS: apt-get install and upgrade errors) -Original Message- From: Joost Witteveen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Fri 11/5/2004 3:36 AM To: james derry Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: permissions problem

Re: permissions problems in ssh session as root (WAS: apt-get install and upgrade errors)

2004-11-05 Thread Joost Witteveen
james derry wrote: #hi, bela, #thanks for your reply. as a sanity check, i made sure that as root to run `apt-get upgrade` from root directory (/). same problem. #looking further, it seems the problem may have to do with root permissions problems, and not with apt-get or dpkg at all. logged in a

Re: vote: best webmail !

2004-11-05 Thread Alexei Chetroi
On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 02:06:18AM -0500, Eric d'Alibut wrote: > Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2004 02:06:18 -0500 > From: Eric d'Alibut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: Eric d'Alibut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: vote: best webmail ! > > On Fri, 5 Nov 2004 13:50:04 +0800 (CST), ms linux > <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: dhclient: how to fill the dhclient.lease data file ?

2004-11-05 Thread vincent . tournebise
> my `/var/lib/dhclient.lease' file is obsolutely empty. > I tried to figure out how it can be filled, > but I found nothing: > any idea ? Dhclient is a DHCP client. Its role is to send a request for an IP adress, which is given by a DHCP server for a certain time (in general about 6 hours). After

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