Re: XServer Randomly restarting

2005-06-18 Thread Mr Mike
On Sun, 19 Jun 2005 00:29:46 -0400 Marty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mr Mike wrote: > > A while back I was running a pure sarge system with several upgrades from > > the sid branch.. At some point my X Server began to 'restart' on it's own > > for no real apparent rhyme or reason. ie, the act

Re: XServer Randomly restarting

2005-06-18 Thread Mr Mike
On Sat, 18 Jun 2005 23:33:37 -0500 Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mr Mike wrote: > > >At some point my X Server began to 'restart' on it's own for no real > >apparent rhyme or reason. ie, the action that triggered the restart one > >session could not always be duplicated in another one

Re: XServer Randomly restarting

2005-06-18 Thread Ryan Schultz
On Saturday 18 June 2005 11:57 pm, Mr Mike wrote: > A while back I was running a pure sarge system with several upgrades from > the sid branch.. At some point my X Server began to 'restart' on it's own > for no real apparent rhyme or reason. ie, the action that triggered the > restart one session

Re: Sarge: mondo problems

2005-06-18 Thread Robert S
> I've had a stock Sarge install going since it was "testing". Mondo has > worked flawlessly, including after it went stable (of course). My kernel > is > 2.4.26-1-386. Keep us posted as to what you get worked out - I find Mondo > invaluable and wouldn't want to lose it with a kernel or other ch

Re: cd -> iso

2005-06-18 Thread ABrady
Rogério Brito wrote: On Jun 18 2005, Joerg Rossdeutscher wrote: cp /dev/hdc image.iso And yet another option for those interested in it is using the readcd program, available in the cdrecord package. The usage is something like this, under a 2.6 kernel: readcd dev=/dev/your/cd f=/whe

Re: partition magic-ally

2005-06-18 Thread David E. Fox
On 8 Jun 2005 12:05:38 -0700 "prash" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hello, > i have a spanking new machine with a 40 gb hard disk - all for my > favorite distro! of course too much space is a bad thing too > (especially when you don't know how to allocate it). > i have decided on this scheme to

Re: XServer Randomly restarting

2005-06-18 Thread Kent West
Mr Mike wrote: >At some point my X Server began to 'restart' on it's own for no real apparent >rhyme or reason. ie, the action that triggered the restart one session could >not always be duplicated in another one... Simple things like clinking the >'x' to close the window or clicking the back

Re: XServer Randomly restarting

2005-06-18 Thread Marty
Mr Mike wrote: A while back I was running a pure sarge system with several upgrades from the sid branch.. At some point my X Server began to 'restart' on it's own for no real apparent rhyme or reason. ie, the action that triggered the restart one session could not always be duplicated in ano

Re: removing white space in viewed web pages

2005-06-18 Thread Rob Brenart
dm wrote: Hello, I was wondering is there anyway to remove white space from pages while viewing them. For example on the http://www.theinquirer.net/ despite my big screen i am wasting over half of the space i usally have dedicated to the browser on whitespace on the side. Is there a proxy

XServer Randomly restarting

2005-06-18 Thread Mr Mike
A while back I was running a pure sarge system with several upgrades from the sid branch.. At some point my X Server began to 'restart' on it's own for no real apparent rhyme or reason. ie, the action that triggered the restart one session could not always be duplicated in another one... Simp

Laptop install

2005-06-18 Thread Rob Brenart
With the old installer I was able to choose "Laptop" at the stage where I can choose what "type of computer" (or something) I have... the place where it says, mail server, web server, desktop, etc. I didn't notice that option with the new installer (I just did a fresh install because I was toy

removing white space in viewed web pages

2005-06-18 Thread dm
Hello, I was wondering is there anyway to remove white space from pages while viewing them. For example on the http://www.theinquirer.net/ despite my big screen i am wasting over half of the space i usally have dedicated to the browser on whitespace on the side. Is there a proxy or plugin th

Re: KDE 3.4.1 .ICEauthority

2005-06-18 Thread Mr Mike
On Sat, 18 Jun 2005 10:00:51 -0500 Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Wackojacko wrote: > > > I am running the Unstable AMD64 port and have just upgraded to KDE > > 3.4.1 from alioth and KDE failed to start with an error stating > > '/home/user/.ICEAuthority permission denied'. I have fixed

Re: Fixing Mistake in grub config.lst; Need Rescue Disk

2005-06-18 Thread Mr Mike
On Sat, 18 Jun 2005 14:47:51 -0500 Martin McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I successfully installed Debian from a CDROM burned from the image > > debian-31r0a-i386-binary-1.iso > > I then tried to install a 2.6.5 kernel on that system and must > have incorrectly modified /boot/

Re: cd -> iso

2005-06-18 Thread Rogério Brito
On Jun 18 2005, Joerg Rossdeutscher wrote: > cp /dev/hdc image.iso And yet another option for those interested in it is using the readcd program, available in the cdrecord package. The usage is something like this, under a 2.6 kernel: readcd dev=/dev/your/cd f=/where/you/want/your/image.iso This

Re: i need space in /root partition

2005-06-18 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Sat, Jun 18, 2005 at 09:44:17PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Sat, Jun 18, 2005 at 02:13:01PM -0400, j j wrote: > > well then i can install everything in /home/nwn and symlink it > > usr/local/nwn. > > jj6419 > > > > What I did was to make /usr/local/games its own partition and instal

Re: i need space in /root partition

2005-06-18 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Sat, Jun 18, 2005 at 02:13:01PM -0400, j j wrote: > well then i can install everything in /home/nwn and symlink it usr/local/nwn. > jj6419 > What I did was to make /usr/local/games its own partition and install NWN into /usr/local/games/nwn and America's Army into /usr/local/games/armyops. Ba

Re: annoying iptables messages

2005-06-18 Thread Robert S
> Have you tried using ulog? You need to patch your kernel. It allows all > firewall logs to go into a nominated log file, and does not put them in > the dmesg. Correction - no kernel patch is required. It works correctly "out of the box". -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

ide dma doesn't work

2005-06-18 Thread Glenn English
I'm running a vanilla sarge install on a 2.8GHz P4, booting from a SCSI disk. There's a SATA disk and an IDE. The IDE disk is hda. The motherboard is an Intel 865. When writing a big file to hda, the CPU usage goes to 100% and stays there for a long time. And it takes a lot longer to write to hda

How to activate USR 7902 Gbit nic?

2005-06-18 Thread Mart Frauenlob
Hello, guess this is kind of a newbie question :/ I have a Debian sarge [1] with several ethernet network interfaces. Most of them get detected at boot. But I also have two U.S.Robotics 7902 Gbit. I activated the module 'r8169' within /usr/sbin/modconf. It loads fine at boot or runtime, but I do

Re: adding multiple users, name format?

2005-06-18 Thread Almut Behrens
On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 12:23:32PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I'm in the process of adding thousands of users to our system. > Our users have a short life span on the system and we get many new > users every year. > We have a small script that will add many users to our system. > We can g

USB cdr

2005-06-18 Thread Andy Streich
I'm running Sarge with the 2.4 kernel and need help accessing my USB cdr drive. I have this line in /etc/fstab: usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs defaults 0 0 mount tells me it is mounted: polar:/etc/hotplug# mount usbfs mount: usbfs already mounted or /proc/bus/usb busy mount: according to

Re: Nagios CGI permissioning problem

2005-06-18 Thread Cam
I got it to work but i had to edit the /etc/apache/conf.d/nagios file. just comment out the crap that is in there now, and then replace it w/ the stuff in the nagios documentation (i would copy/paste... but i don't have that file here at home) Good luck, Cameron Matheson On 6/18/05, Christian Sc

USB 802.11G recommendation? (iBook)

2005-06-18 Thread Mason Loring Bliss
Hi, all! I'm very happy to have Sarge dual-booting alongside MacOS X on my 12" iBook G4, but I'm desperate for wireless 'Net access under Debian. Can someone recommend a USB wireless adapter that will work for me with wpasupplicant? I'm guessing that ndiswrapper will be useless for me, given that

locales: tr_TR.ISO-8859-9...LC_MONETARY: value of field `int_curr_symbol' does not correspond to a valid name in ISO 4217

2005-06-18 Thread Alan Ezust
I just did an upgrade today, and locales fails to install, when it is working with tr_TR. Preparing to replace locales 2.3.2.ds1-21 (using .../locales_2.3.5-1_all.deb) ... Unpacking replacement locales ... Setting up locales (2.3.5-1) ... Generating locales... [...]   tr_TR.ISO-8859-9...LC_MONETAR

Nagios Problems

2005-06-18 Thread Robert Wolfe
Hey all. Just installed Nagios via apt-get install and am having the following problems when Nagios starts up: Error: Could not connect to PostgreSQL database '' on host '' using username '' and password 'XX'. Status data will not be saved! Error: Could not connect to PostgreSQL database

Re: cd -> iso

2005-06-18 Thread Joerg Rossdeutscher
Am Samstag, den 18.06.2005, 16:37 -0400 schrieb Strake: > Hi ppl, > > I have a cd that i want to make an iso image of. How do i do this? cp /dev/hdc image.iso Use the correct device instead hdc. Bye, Ratti -- -o) fontlinge | Fontmanagement for Linux | Schriftenverwaltung in Linux /\\ http:

Re: cd -> iso

2005-06-18 Thread kalasala
well then you must figure out on which /dev/ special file corresponds to your cd-rom. if you have IDE cdrom then its /dev/hd[a-z] something.. command : dmesg | grep hd should give sufficient output to figure it out..On 6/19/05, Strake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 6/18/05, Jochen Schulz < [EMAIL

Re: cd -> iso

2005-06-18 Thread Strake
On 6/18/05, Jochen Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Strake:>> I have a cd that i want to make an iso image of. How do i do this?Everything is a file:dd if=/dev/cdrom of=~/my-cdimage.isoSee manpage of dd for more options. When using dd, always be sure you don't confuse if= (input file) and of= (out

Re: cd -> iso

2005-06-18 Thread Jochen Schulz
Strake: > > I have a cd that i want to make an iso image of. How do i do this? Everything is a file: dd if=/dev/cdrom of=~/my-cdimage.iso See manpage of dd for more options. When using dd, always be sure you don't confuse if= (input file) and of= (output file). Typos can have devastating effect

Re: Can't Defrag Ext3 File System

2005-06-18 Thread Steve Lamb
steef wrote: > Vincent Lönngren wrote: >> Actually, it refuses to defrag ext3 filesystems, because they have >> "unsupported features". > why would you do that for heaven's sake? Vincent was replying to an old thread. Already discussed at length. Check archives. :) -- Steve C. L

Re: i need space in /root partition

2005-06-18 Thread Marc Shapiro
j j <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: well then i can install everything in /home/nwn and symlink it usr/local/nwn. On 6/18/05, Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: j j wrote: I am running out of HD space on my root partition (7GB). i have a /home partition (30GB) and a huge unpartition section to

Re: Nagios CGI permissioning problem

2005-06-18 Thread Christian Schmidt
Hello Martynas, Martynas Brijunas, 14.06.2005 (d.m.y): > on a clean Sarge installation I am trying to configure nagios-text. > During the install it suggested to add the required settings to the > Apache's config. However Nagios refuses to let me see any of the host > details pages with the "CGI

Re: cd -> iso

2005-06-18 Thread Christian Schmidt
Hello Strake, Strake, 18.06.2005 (d.m.y): > I have a cd that i want to make an iso image of. How do i do this? Try "dd if=/dev/cdrom of=~/cdimage.iso". man dd ;-) Regards, Christian -- Christian Schmidt | Germany No HTML Mails, please! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

cd -> iso

2005-06-18 Thread Strake
Hi ppl, I have a cd that i want to make an iso image of. How do i do this?-- No place like ~/

VNC Won't Let Me Connect

2005-06-18 Thread Robert Wolfe
Hi all! I am having a time trying to get a web browser to connect to the Java-based VNC server I have running on my Sun Ultra 5. I have the server and I THINK Java server running but when I go to connect to the appropriate port (5800) I get a "Page Cannot be Displayed" message. Any ideas? -

cannot set background in icewm

2005-06-18 Thread Andras Lorincz
I'm trying to set a background image in icewm with icepref but when I press the reload button I can see this error in the console from where I started icepref: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/gtk-1.2/gtk.py", line 111, in __call__ ret = apply(self.fu

Re: Fixing Mistake in grub config.lst; Need Rescue Disk

2005-06-18 Thread Jochen Schulz
Martin McCormick: > > I then tried to install a 2.6.5 kernel on that system and must > have incorrectly modified /boot/grub/menu.lst because the system > doesn't boot. If you know the correct parameters (or know how to guess it), you can edit the boot entries by pressing 'e' in the grub men

Fun with grub

2005-06-18 Thread Rob Bochan
So it finally happened. The hard drive on my old Dell CP 233 laptop that's been running Debian Sid for about 3 years now finally bit the dust. Fortunately, I had a spare drive to put in it. So, I've done a fresh install of Sid via the Sarge installer, and everything is working pretty well. Ever

Re: Can't Defrag Ext3 File System

2005-06-18 Thread steef
Vincent Lönngren wrote: Actually, it refuses to defrag ext3 filesystems, because they have "unsupported features". why would you do that for heaven's sake? regards, steef -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Problem to use external h-d

2005-06-18 Thread steef
Hannuman Bull wrote: Christer, I just got a Maxtor OneTouch II external usb hd and I'm also running sarge 2.6 on a p4 system. I'm mounting the drive using the new udev system. Depending on what programs you have installed you should be able to see your usb devices using one of the followin

Re: i need space in /root partition

2005-06-18 Thread kalasala
Whats taking so much room in root partition? If its installed software  then probably /usr/ is most space consumig directory. Fastest way would be to create new partition and move /usr/ directory there. And if you do so then reboot your machine to initlevel 1. On 6/18/05, j j <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> w

Fixing Mistake in grub config.lst; Need Rescue Disk

2005-06-18 Thread Martin McCormick
I successfully installed Debian from a CDROM burned from the image debian-31r0a-i386-binary-1.iso I then tried to install a 2.6.5 kernel on that system and must have incorrectly modified /boot/grub/menu.lst because the system doesn't boot. I did think to make a backup of the orig

Re: How can I install my ATI driver?

2005-06-18 Thread Michael Ott
Hello Li! > I have installed Debian(sid) on my thinkpad T42.I want to install "fglrx" > dirver for my ATI Mobility Radeon 9600. > > But when I type "debian -i fglrx-4-3-0_8.12.10-2_i386.deb",there is a error as > below: > > (Reading database ... 105166 files and directories currently installed.)

Re: Sarge: mondo problems

2005-06-18 Thread John Fleming
Unfortunately mondo is a tricky beast to get to work. In the past I've had to try multiple versions from the above source, until something works. I'd like to be able to upgrade my work server to sarge, but I'll need to sort these issues out first. I've had a stock Sarge install going since i

Re: [Solved]: Re: stopping ssh attacks

2005-06-18 Thread Philip Christian
I don't bother with that stuff. One my usernames has a /home/username/.ssh/authorized_keys which has a public rsa key in it then i use the corresponding private key to log in from another machine (put it in /home/username/.ssh/id_rsa on a linux box, or configure a key file in putty for a windows b

Re: i need space in /root partition

2005-06-18 Thread j j
well then i can install everything in /home/nwn and symlink it usr/local/nwn. jj6419 On 6/18/05, Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > j j wrote: > > >Hi > >I am running out of HD space on my root partition (7GB). i have a > >/home partition (30GB) and a huge unpartition section to be used as >

Re: i need space in /root partition

2005-06-18 Thread Kent West
j j wrote: >Hi >I am running out of HD space on my root partition (7GB). i have a >/home partition (30GB) and a huge unpartition section to be used as >needed(100GB). >I am trying to install Neverwinter Nights. And will need about 3GB of >space. I want to install it in /usr/local/nwn but i only

i need space in /root partition

2005-06-18 Thread j j
Hi I am running out of HD space on my root partition (7GB). i have a /home partition (30GB) and a huge unpartition section to be used as needed(100GB). I am trying to install Neverwinter Nights. And will need about 3GB of space. I want to install it in /usr/local/nwn but i only have 54MB of space

Re: Setting IP address not working

2005-06-18 Thread Alan Chandler
On Thursday 16 June 2005 07:48, Alan Chandler wrote: > On Wednesday 15 June 2005 22:12, Kent West wrote: > ... > > > I can't understand why your /etc/network/interfaces file is being > > ignored. It makes no sense to me. Maybe the permissions on the file? > > It is not being ignored - the ifupdown

Strangeness in name resolution

2005-06-18 Thread Nicos Gollan
Hi all, since recently, there seems to be a strange phenomenon going on with DNS resolution. From time to time, some domain names seem to be redirected to a domain broker/squatter (domainmonkeys or something), or today to myfamily.com. This is completely new behaviour from a system that has bee

Re: PROMISE Fasttrak 100TX2PRO

2005-06-18 Thread kalasala
Since there says it supports RedHat Linux 6.2/7.0 I'm sure you can get it work with every newer distro. Even if they only provide binary module for specific redhat kernels it can be done. _May_ require little hacking though...On 6/18/05, Landy Bible < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Has anyone ever had an

PROMISE Fasttrak 100TX2PRO

2005-06-18 Thread Landy Bible
Has anyone ever had any luck with the Promise Fasttrak 100TX2PRO?* *http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16816102049 It says it supports Redhat 6.2/7.0 but Redhat isn't Debian, so before I buy I'd like to know if anyone else has had success. -- Landy J. Bible The University of

Re: KDM Error - no screens found

2005-06-18 Thread Wackojacko
I have exactly the same problem, but I'm using 32 bit kernel on a AMD64 cpu, xfree86 and an ATI card. I always thought that the problem is the driver from ATI, but now I guess is something with kde. I wil try another graphical login (gdm maybe) to see what happens. Regards, Toshiro. Just trie

Re: editors on which CDs

2005-06-18 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sat, Jun 18, 2005 at 03:07:06PM +0100, Lee Braiden wrote: > On Saturday 18 Jun 2005 15:10, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > Does anyone know which sarge CD contains emacs? pico or nano? microemacs? > > > > -- hendrik > > Emacs would presumably be on the first CD. Nano certainly is; it's part of > the

No joystick device nodes

2005-06-18 Thread Wackojacko
Final problem for today at least. I cannot get my sidewinder precision pro to work with Linux. I have a Asus A8N-SLI NF4 motherboard and I am using the latest Nvidia drivers (0301 I think) but no device nodes are created. I've tried creating the device nodes manually and modprobe sidewinder/j

Re: KDE 3.4.1 .ICEauthority

2005-06-18 Thread Kent West
Wackojacko wrote: > I am running the Unstable AMD64 port and have just upgraded to KDE > 3.4.1 from alioth and KDE failed to start with an error stating > '/home/user/.ICEAuthority permission denied'. I have fixed this by > chown user:user /home/user/.ICEAuthority but is this the correct > soluti

Re: how to read apache or apache2 documentation

2005-06-18 Thread Joerg Beyer
John covici wrote: > Hi. I would like to know how to read the apache or apache2 > documentation in a given language without renaming the files. The > filenames end in a language extension and the references point to the > wrong thing. Also, nothing I have reads the xml files (including > intern

Re: KDM Error - no screens found

2005-06-18 Thread Toshiro
I have exactly the same problem, but I'm using 32 bit kernel on a AMD64 cpu, xfree86 and an ATI card. I always thought that the problem is the driver from ATI, but now I guess is something with kde. I wil try another graphical login (gdm maybe) to see what happens. Regards, Toshiro. > Using AM

Re: newbie pointers request

2005-06-18 Thread Josh Battles
Andy Streich said: > Can anyone point me to web-based documentation for newbies that would contain > tips, hints, and lead-me-by-the-hand directions on configuring my new Sarge > install? Or have I just made a big mistake in choosing Debian over, say, any > one of the 100's of other distributions

KDM Error - no screens found

2005-06-18 Thread Wackojacko
Using AMD64 Unstable, Xorg and KDE 3.4.1 I have a problem with kdm when I first boot. kdm.log shows that the Nvidia driver is not loaded and no screens are found. The strange thing is if I try startx, of kill kdm and restart it, everything is fine. dmesg shows that the nvidia driver is loade

KDE 3.4.1 .ICEauthority

2005-06-18 Thread Wackojacko
I am running the Unstable AMD64 port and have just upgraded to KDE 3.4.1 from alioth and KDE failed to start with an error stating '/home/user/.ICEAuthority permission denied'. I have fixed this by chown user:user /home/user/.ICEAuthority but is this the correct solution? Is it a bug? FYI I

Re: apache 1.3 to 2.0 migration

2005-06-18 Thread Almut Behrens
On Sat, Jun 18, 2005 at 11:44:02AM +0100, Lee Braiden wrote: > On Saturday 18 Jun 2005 11:42, Kevin Coyner wrote: > > I now have a need to switch to apache 2.0 (have started using python > > and cherrypy in my sites, the latter of which does have more > > functionality under apache 2.0). > > > > Ar

Re: Is 'rename' missing or is it just me?

2005-06-18 Thread Clive Menzies
On Sat, 2005-06-18 at 09:37 -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Sat, Jun 18, 2005 at 01:35:25PM +0100, Clive Menzies wrote: > > On (18/06/05 00:10), Carl Fink wrote: > > > On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 09:05:03PM -0500, Alex Malinovich wrote: > > > > On Fri, 2005-06-17 at 21:49 -0400, Roberto C. Sanche

Re: editors on which CDs

2005-06-18 Thread Lee Braiden
On Saturday 18 Jun 2005 15:10, Hendrik Boom wrote: > Does anyone know which sarge CD contains emacs? pico or nano? microemacs? > > -- hendrik Emacs would presumably be on the first CD. Nano certainly is; it's part of the base packages. However... why do you care? To install, you at most need o

Mailscanner Installation Problem after upgrade to Sarge

2005-06-18 Thread Fabian Hugelshofer
Hello I'm having problems upgrading Mailscanner from Woody to Sarge. I did a dist-upgrade for my system which broke (because of Mailscanner) without upgrading all packages. Further i removed Mailscanner to complete dist-upgrade. Mailscanner can't still be installed. The Output is: # aptitude -f

Re: X session startup/shutdown scripts?

2005-06-18 Thread Almut Behrens
On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 07:04:28AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > I am using GDM and have need for some things to start up and shut down > based on me logging into/out of my X session. I've done a basic check of > documentation but unless I am missing some DEEP MAGIC I didn't find anything > too f

Re: xmms skips all files

2005-06-18 Thread Josh Battles
Guillaume TESSIER said: > Kent West wrote: > >>Francisco Borges wrote: >> >> >> >>>» On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 01:50PM +0100, michael wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>If I load a list of existing files into xmms it just keeps going through >>the list endlessly, like if the files didn't exist. >>

Re: bash not running ~/.bash_profile

2005-06-18 Thread Almut Behrens
On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 11:32:07PM +1000, James Buchanan wrote: > > For some reason my ~/.bash_profile and ~/.bashrc are not being executed > by bash. Is there some way I can fix this problem? I tried to add a > script S10sourceprofile to /etc/rc2.d/ but that didn't work. Not exactly sure I u

Re: [Solved]: Re: stopping ssh attacks

2005-06-18 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Sat, Jun 18, 2005 at 11:15:25AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2005-06-16 11:51:01 -0500, Thomas Stivers wrote: > > I ended up going with port knocking and just installed knockd. Too > > cool, i always thought it was harder to set up than it is. I even > > have it playing nice with shorewall

editors on which CDs

2005-06-18 Thread Hendrik Boom
Does anyone know which sarge CD contains emacs? pico or nano? microemacs? -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Exim4 sendmail problem {permission denied}

2005-06-18 Thread Almut Behrens
On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 12:54:57PM +0200, Michal Sedlak wrote: > Hello > I have problem with exim4. It looks like exim do not have permission > to write to log files. I have googled and find out to check if it is > runned with root suid, or something, but I do not know how. Just check the file pe

Re: Re: Can't Defrag Ext3 File System

2005-06-18 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Sat, Jun 18, 2005 at 10:04:16AM +0200, Vincent Lönngren wrote: > Actually, it refuses to defrag ext3 filesystems, because they have > "unsupported features". There is no need to defrag modern *nix filesystems. Why even bother? -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~sanchez

Re: SATA and RAID5 software

2005-06-18 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 09:30:42PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Quoting Andrea Ganduglia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > >I'm skipping RAID HARDWARE for RAID SOFTWARE for two reasons: 1) > >Backups can be made slowly, because it happen on night time. 2) I have > >more trust into RAID HOWTO that into

Re: Is 'rename' missing or is it just me?

2005-06-18 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Sat, Jun 18, 2005 at 01:35:25PM +0100, Clive Menzies wrote: > On (18/06/05 00:10), Carl Fink wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 09:05:03PM -0500, Alex Malinovich wrote: > > > On Fri, 2005-06-17 at 21:49 -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > > > > > Of course, the difference between it and the la

Re: Where is th HD installer for sarge

2005-06-18 Thread John Smith
On Sat, 18 Jun 2005 08:51:21 +0100 belahcene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I want to install the sarge from the harddisk instead of CD, I 've > downloaded the official version (sarge) CD's. But I can't find the > vmlinuz for installing from HD. The one I found is old ( 05 Mar O5) > which

Re: tar fun

2005-06-18 Thread Almut Behrens
On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 11:32:49AM +0200, nodata wrote: > I have a gzipped tar archive in /tmp/test/ > > $ tar ztvf file.tgz | head -1 > dr-xr-xr-x root/sys 0 2004-04-19 15:15:15 ./ > > I'm not running as root. I run an extract: > > $ tar zxvf file.tgz > ./ > somedir/ > tar: somedir: Ca

Re: Problem to use external h-d

2005-06-18 Thread Hannuman Bull
Christer, I just got a Maxtor OneTouch II external usb hd and I'm also running sarge 2.6 on a p4 system. I'm mounting the drive using the new udev system. Depending on what programs you have installed you should be able to see your usb devices using one of the following commands. # usbvie

Re: Login as a root

2005-06-18 Thread Clive Menzies
On (17/06/05 20:30), David E. Fox wrote: > On 13 Jun 2005 23:27:30 -0700 > "puishor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I really need that, because I use linux as a desktop , on a single > > machine, so there is no need for any security issues ;I'm the only user > > and the only admin... so I do

Re: Is 'rename' missing or is it just me?

2005-06-18 Thread Clive Menzies
On (18/06/05 00:10), Carl Fink wrote: > On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 09:05:03PM -0500, Alex Malinovich wrote: > > On Fri, 2005-06-17 at 21:49 -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > > > Of course, the difference between it and the lame MS-DOS version is that > > > you use a perl-compatible regexp to speci

Re: FireFox annoyances

2005-06-18 Thread Mitja Podreka
Michal Simovic wrote: the second problem is most probably connected with the webserver configuration you're running on localhost. if you running Apache, search for "AddDefaultCharset" string in your httpd.conf and set it to "Off". I have setted it to off, but nothing changed. The special cha

Re: apache 1.3 to 2.0 migration

2005-06-18 Thread Lee Braiden
On Saturday 18 Jun 2005 11:42, Kevin Coyner wrote: > I now have a need to switch to apache 2.0 (have started using python > and cherrypy in my sites, the latter of which does have more > functionality under apache 2.0). > > Are they any special gotcha's that I need to watch for in the > migration p

apache 1.3 to 2.0 migration

2005-06-18 Thread Kevin Coyner
I'm presently a number of php/mysql driven websites on a production box using apache 1.3. Apache was installed via apt-get on this Sarge based box. I now have a need to switch to apache 2.0 (have started using python and cherrypy in my sites, the latter of which does have more functionality unde

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2005-06-18 Thread Catherine
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RE: root floppy image ... shared libraries problem

2005-06-18 Thread Alvin Oga
> --- Stephane Durieux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > > > hello > > > > I am trying to make my own floppy root image fun project .. but not for the beginners, at least in order to be successful at it > > But I don t know how to do > > I should probably make an ext2 floppy and include > > m

Re: stopping ssh attacks

2005-06-18 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2005-06-16 12:08:02 -0300, Rogério Brito wrote: > On Jun 16 2005, michael wrote: > > I set up sshd_config to use a different port. That stopped them (for > > now...) > > That's only a palliative solution, as you noted. And some providers filter some ports. However, port 22 is sometimes filtere

Re: [Solved]: Re: stopping ssh attacks

2005-06-18 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2005-06-16 11:51:01 -0500, Thomas Stivers wrote: > I ended up going with port knocking and just installed knockd. Too > cool, i always thought it was harder to set up than it is. I even > have it playing nice with shorewall. Thanks for the suggestions. The problem with port knocking is that it

RE: root floppy image ... shared libraries problem

2005-06-18 Thread Stephane Durieux
For those, who like me were rookies and who wonder about shared library path a good how to http://users.actcom.co.il/~choo/lupg/tutorials/libraries/unix-c-libraries.html --- Stephane Durieux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > hello > > I am trying to make my own floppy root image > But I do

Sarge: mondo problems

2005-06-18 Thread Robert S
I have just upgraded from woody to sarge. I was previously able to get mondo to work by hand-installing mondo/mindi from http://www.sorcerer.mirrors.pair.com/sources/ (the woody version caused problems). I have just upgraded from woody to sarge and have removed my custom mondo/mindi installat

Re: Re: Can't Defrag Ext3 File System

2005-06-18 Thread Vincent Lönngren
Actually, it refuses to defrag ext3 filesystems, because they have "unsupported features". -- Vincent Lönngren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Problem to use external h-d

2005-06-18 Thread Lee Braiden
On Saturday 18 Jun 2005 06:06, Christer wrote: > There seems to be no chance to get my external h-d (Maxtor) with usb2 > interface to get recognized by the system p4 and sarge 2.6 kernel on my > Fedorainstallation there is no problem to mount/automount the same,,any > suggestions about how to do??

Re: Firewall

2005-06-18 Thread Lee Braiden
On Saturday 18 Jun 2005 06:50, Christer wrote: > How to reach the firewall and manage the same as well in sarge?? default > installed on a desktop connected to a router I looked around and found > no way to get in touch with the firewallsettings You need to install and configure a firewall of your

SOLVED (kind of) (was Re: OT: inaccessable Advansys SCSI driver)

2005-06-18 Thread Marty
Marty (I) wrote: Even in a new default kernel, make [x/menu]config disables the Advansys SCSI option from selection and omits its label CONFIG_SCSI_ADVANSYS from the .config file. Thanks for any help turning on this driver option. On a hunch, I deselected the "Select only cleanly compiling dri

Where is th HD installer for sarge

2005-06-18 Thread belahcene
Hi, I want to install the sarge from the harddisk instead of CD, I 've downloaded the official version (sarge) CD's. But I can't find the vmlinuz for installing from HD. The one I found is old ( 05 Mar O5) which doesn't find the corresponding iso CD. thanks for help best regards bela -- To

Re: newbie pointers request

2005-06-18 Thread Kent West
Andy Streich wrote: >One thing I'm can't find is how to make a "recovery disk" floppy. It was not >part of the install procedure I used. > > Perhaps http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2003/05/msg05246.html I've never bothered to make a rescue floppy. I have enough Knoppix / Kanotix / Debian

Re: movie pb on totem ??

2005-06-18 Thread Kent West
Mr Mike wrote: >On Fri, 17 Jun 2005 12:23:37 -0500 >Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>belahcene wrote: >> >> >> >>>In general the movies require mplayer and realplayer. Here I send an image >>>of the error >>> >>> >>Error Message: Totem could not play >>'mmx://198.239.32.15

Re: Current stable kernel 2.6.11?

2005-06-18 Thread Jochen Schulz
Roberto C. Sanchez: > On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 11:44:50PM +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote: > > > > (Although, currently the security system is currently broken anyway, > > AFAIK.) > > I believe that this is not correct. Security support held back the > Sarge release at one point. It was working befor

Re: newbie pointers request

2005-06-18 Thread Andy Streich
On Friday 17 June 2005 07:28 pm, Kent West wrote: > These might be a good start: > http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/system-administrator/index.html#contents > http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/user/ > http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/network-administrator/ > http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/ Thank