Adding a dash and then a number

2008-09-19 Thread jmdennis @dslextreme.com
I am using Debian Lenny Beta 2 as well as the sidux updates. I was wondering why a hypen is added such as kmymoney2 is listed as kmymoney2 0.9-3 instead of the version number that should be used. Because of this I do not know if I am using 0.9.2 or not. I just wanted to know how to fix this so I

Re: A simple question about the "Security Advisories"

2008-09-19 Thread Thomas Preud'homme
Saturday 20 September 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote : > Hello, > I am new bee to Debian. > I notice the "Security Advisories" on the main page of Debian. > > Is there an auto-update tool in the debian system > which can auto update software and auto fix some > bugs make me needn't to take care

Want to use hot keys using [Win] key and the like

2008-09-19 Thread Arrus
Hello. My handle is Arrus. In Debian 4.0 (etch) with Gnome, I want to be able to use it with hot key as follows. [Win]The indication of the Gnome menu [Ctrl] +[Esc]The indication of the Gnome menu [Win] +[D] Desktop indication / return it to the origin [Win] +[M]

Re: openoffice3 and spell check

2008-09-19 Thread Charlie
On Sat, 20 Sep 2008, Daniel Dalton engaged keyboard and shared this with us all: >--} On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 11:59:07AM +1000, Charlie wrote: >--} >--} > >--} > There does appear to be: >--} > >--} > myspell-en-au - English_australian dictionary for myspell >--} > >--} >--} I already have it inst

Re: A simple question about the "Security Advisories"

2008-09-19 Thread Jeff Soules
Generally, when you see an advisory, run (as root, or using sudo if you have it installed): apt-get update && apt-get upgrade and that should update you. You should generally pay attention to Security Advisories, because as you learn more about the system, you'll understand them more : ) and mor

A simple question about the "Security Advisories"

2008-09-19 Thread RobinShi
Hello, I am new bee to Debian. I notice the "Security Advisories" on the main page of Debian. Is there an auto-update tool in the debian system which can auto update software and auto fix some bugs make me needn't to take care about the "Security Advisories"? Thanks.

How to set "print PDF" work

2008-09-19 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi folks, Debian Etch CUPS PDF printer I have cups-pdf installed. $ apt-cache policy cups-pdf cups-pdf: Installed: 2.4.2-3 Candidate: 2.4.2-3 Version table: *** 2.4.2-3 0 500 http://ftp.au.debian.org etch/main Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status On Gnome desktop File ->

Re: openoffice3 and spell check

2008-09-19 Thread Daniel Dalton
On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 11:59:07AM +1000, Charlie wrote: > > There does appear to be: > > myspell-en-au - English_australian dictionary for myspell > I already have it installed, however, the openoffice version I am using is a deb I got from the internet from a debian server. Since I need the

when is the file /etc/profile and /etc/environment loaded

2008-09-19 Thread lucky.rand
I use the mldonkey-sever, which started by /etc/rc2.d/S98mldonkey- server. And the locale is set in the file /etc/profile: export LC_CTYPE=zh_CN.UTF-8 However, it seems that the file /etc/profile has not been loaded when the mldonkey-server starts.As a result, mldonkey don't use the right loc

Re: Problem on MAC address

2008-09-19 Thread Stephen Liu
--- Jeff D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: - snip - > To change or set the mac address in /etc/network/interfaces the > syntax is: > > hwaddress ether 00:16:3e:0a:c0:fb > > But, you really shouldn't have to do this in xen, xen should take > care of > that for you and present the mac address to yo

Re: openoffice3 and spell check

2008-09-19 Thread Charlie
On Sat, 20 Sep 2008, Daniel Dalton engaged keyboard and shared this with us all: >--} Hi, >--} >--} I placed a missed spelt word in my openoffice writer document on >--} purpose to test the spell checker. When I ran spell check with the "f7" >--} key, it said nothing was spelt incorrectly and it d

openoffice3 and spell check

2008-09-19 Thread Daniel Dalton
Hi, I placed a missed spelt word in my openoffice writer document on purpose to test the spell checker. When I ran spell check with the "f7" key, it said nothing was spelt incorrectly and it did a document check. So: - Why won't spell check work? - Am I missing a package? If so which one? It

Re: Best methods?

2008-09-19 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 12:25:19AM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Thu,18.Sep.08, 23:02:35, Sven Joachim wrote: > > > > What about 'aptitude purge ~c'? > > > > Indeed that's easier, thanks. With the caveat that I had to use "~c", > > since otherwise zsh wants to expand ~c to a username: > > z

Re: SSH/SSHD local LAN only

2008-09-19 Thread S.D.Allen
On 2008-09-19, Jeff Soules <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, one option is to just set a rule-pair in your firewall: > > iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 22 -s 192.168.1.0/24 -j ACCEPT > iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 22 -j DROP Good suggestion. I think I'll try all 3 suggestions. Thanks to Na

Re: SSH/SSHD local LAN only

2008-09-19 Thread S.D.Allen
On 2008-09-19, Mumia W.. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 09/19/2008 12:32 PM, Lubos Vrbka wrote: >> well, if i understood the question correctly, this should do. >> >> put to file /etc/hosts.allow: >> ALL:ALL >> >> put to file /etc/hosts.deny: >> sshd: .your.domain.com allowed_ip_addresses allowe

Re: SSH/SSHD local LAN only

2008-09-19 Thread Mumia W..
On 09/19/2008 12:32 PM, Lubos Vrbka wrote: well, if i understood the question correctly, this should do. put to file /etc/hosts.allow: ALL:ALL put to file /etc/hosts.deny: sshd: .your.domain.com allowed_ip_addresses allowed_networks allowed_hostnames you can put more or less anything on the

Re: Is Novel Suse not friendly to real linux world? and how about Red hat and Debian?

2008-09-19 Thread Mumia W..
On 09/19/2008 12:58 AM, Sebastian Günther wrote: * Star Liu ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [19.09.08 06:46]: 4. Do Debian has the danger of IP lawsuits "created" by microsoft? I would say no, and just because there is no money to get from Debian. Remember this is just about money... No, it's about

Re: Problem when reading SD card

2008-09-19 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2008-09-19 20:50:44 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > I've tried to read a SD card (used in a camera) with my PowerBook and > got the following in /var/log/syslog: > > Sep 19 20:37:01 ay kernel: [70398.753418] pccard: PCMCIA card inserted into > slot 0 > Sep 19 20:37:01 ay kernel: [70398.757405]

MCP & MailScanner

2008-09-19 Thread Jason Voorhees
Hi people: I'm running Debian Etch up to date and MailScanner-4.55.10-3 among other packages to control spam in my mailserver. I always use MCP feature in MailScanner running on SuSE, RedHat and CentOS, but I can see that MCP checks are not working on Debian Etch. I enabled "MCP Checks = yes"

Re: WPA/TKIP with Debian Lenny and Broadcom 4328 via ndiswrapper

2008-09-19 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Carl Fink ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [19.09.08 21:33]: > > > > A hidden ESSID is *not* standard compliant, so actually noone has to > > care about such situations. I ran into this with my iwl3945. > > There's a difference between "standards compliant" and "common". If we only > cared about standards

Re: wpa_supplicant and dhclient

2008-09-19 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On Friday 19 September 2008 10:53:39 Dominique Dumont wrote: > Urs Thuermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > As Andrei wrote, read /usr/share/doc/wpa_supplicant/README.Debian. > > There you'll find everything explained how to use roaming with DHCP > > or static addresses and more. > > I understand

Re: WPA/TKIP with Debian Lenny and Broadcom 4328 via ndiswrapper

2008-09-19 Thread Carl Fink
On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 06:29:54AM +0200, Sebastian G?nther wrote: > * Carl Fink ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [16.09.08 22:15]: > > > > > > Is the ESSID hidden? Then you have a won't fix bug. > > > > Nah, the ESSID is public, but that's ridiculous if so. How can it be "wont' > > fix" for such an ordinary

Re: Which package for libawt.so

2008-09-19 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 18 Sep 2008 21:48:29 -0700 "David Fox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > package. It's quite useful in building packages, you search for the > missing header files until you run out of compiler complaints :). Whenever you run out, I'll be glad to send you some :) Celejar -- mailmin.sourc

Re: Miss Manners (Debian Edition): Release Critical Bugs

2008-09-19 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 19 Sep 2008 13:19:06 -0400 Eric Gerlach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > And kudos and thanks to Daniel Baumann for his work on open-vm-tools and > about 150 other packages (wow). Had I looked harder at who the > maintainer was and how many packages he maintained, I probably wouldn't > h

Problem when reading SD card

2008-09-19 Thread Vincent Lefevre
I've tried to read a SD card (used in a camera) with my PowerBook and got the following in /var/log/syslog: Sep 19 20:37:01 ay kernel: [70398.753418] pccard: PCMCIA card inserted into slot 0 Sep 19 20:37:01 ay kernel: [70398.757405] cs: memory probe 0x8000-0x9fff: excluding 0x8000-0x

Automação de Usinas de Alcool

2008-09-19 Thread Balanças Saturno
Balanças Saturno com 25 anos de experiência, lider no mercado de pesagem rodoviária, tendo fabricado as maiores balanças existentes e a única com pesagem dinâmica ferroviária com precisão de 02% agora está atuando também na Automação de usinas de Alcool e Açúcar. Possui contro

Automação de Usinas de Alcool

2008-09-19 Thread Balanças Saturno
Balanças Saturno com 25 anos de experiência, lider no mercado de pesagem rodoviária, tendo fabricado as maiores balanças existentes e a única com pesagem dinâmica ferroviária com precisão de 02% agora está atuando também na Automação de usinas de Alcool e Açúcar. Possui contro

Re: High frequency of laptop drive load/unload cycles: is Debian affected?

2008-09-19 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 1:35 PM, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > Dear Debian Users, > > In short: is a default Debian installation affected by this bug? (I > know I am not affected, but just wanted to make sure...). Sorry, the question is made irrelevant now, thanks to this: (fixed bug): http://bugs.debia

High frequency of laptop drive load/unload cycles: is Debian affected?

2008-09-19 Thread Kumar Appaiah
Dear Debian Users, In short: is a default Debian installation affected by this bug? (I know I am not affected, but just wanted to make sure...). Thanks. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: SSH/SSHD local LAN only

2008-09-19 Thread nate
Lubos Vrbka wrote: > you can put more or less anything on the line and control who's allowed > to connect (man hosts.deny). i'd say it is straightforward and works > immediatelly without a need to (re)configure a firewall. You mean people actually still use tcp wrappers after all these years? :)

Re: SSH/SSHD local LAN only

2008-09-19 Thread Lubos Vrbka
You might also have a look at hosts.allow and hosts.deny (http://linux.about.com/od/commands/l/blcmdl5_hostsal.htm is just the first google result; the man pages certainly have more info, but I don't use hosts.* myself so I can only really provide a pointer). I'm not sure that really adds anythin

Re: Miss Manners (Debian Edition): Release Critical Bugs

2008-09-19 Thread Eric Gerlach
Sven Joachim wrote: P.S. If the maintainer of the package in question is reading this right now, and you just haven't had a chance to get a freeze-exception yet, that's okay! I just want to know that it will make it for release! Thanks for your hard work! You're being rather vague, mentioning

Re: SSH/SSHD local LAN only

2008-09-19 Thread Jeff Soules
Well, one option is to just set a rule-pair in your firewall: iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 22 -s 192.168.1.0/24 -j ACCEPT iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 22 -j DROP That way connections from the internal network are accepted; all other traffic to the ssh port is dropped. If you go this rout

Re: SSH/SSHD local LAN only

2008-09-19 Thread nate
S.D.Allen wrote: > Greetings; > > I can seem to figure out which config file to edit and what to enter > to allow only hosts on the LAN to connect via SSH. I'll have the box > in question available to the entire Internet and want to disable > global access to SSH. Presently I'm using password authe

Re: about Intel Ethernet Controller lenny compatibility

2008-09-19 Thread Winfried Tilanus
On 09/19/2008 03:19 PM, Osamu Aoki wrote: Hi, > 1. Check via google Which kernel version support Intel 82567V, 82566DC > 82567LF ethernet controller (INTEL site may be good) I run a board here with an Intel 82566DC-2, works out of the box with Lenny: lspci | grep -i network 00:19.0 Ethernet c

Re: Problem on MAC address

2008-09-19 Thread Jeff D
On Fri, 19 Sep 2008, Stephen Liu wrote: > Hi folks, > > > Debian Etch (both Host and Guest) > Xen > > > On cloning disk.img I suppose it also copies the MAC address of the > original image to the new image resulting in "ping hostname" unable to > find the new hostname. > > > Following is my test;

SSH/SSHD local LAN only

2008-09-19 Thread S.D.Allen
Greetings; I can seem to figure out which config file to edit and what to enter to allow only hosts on the LAN to connect via SSH. I'll have the box in question available to the entire Internet and want to disable global access to SSH. Presently I'm using password authentication, and would prefer

Re: SMTP to an ISP _via_ an OpenVPN tunnel.

2008-09-19 Thread nate
PETER EASTHOPE wrote: > Can anyone suggest an adjustment? > Is bridging the home and work networks > through the tunnel, for example, likely to > solve it? Your firewall setup seems fairly complicated. I just setup OpenVPN for the first time last weekend to connect my home to my co-located serve

SMTP to an ISP _via_ an OpenVPN tunnel.

2008-09-19 Thread PETER EASTHOPE
Folk, Thanks for the info about ssh. I'm working on it. My tunnel & etc. are described here. "http://carnot.yi.org/DebianPage.html#Network"; shawmail.gv.shawcable.net accepts a message by SMTP from Heaviside. shawmail does not accept a message through the tunnel from Dalton. I want to adju

Mechanism application of ProEWildfire 3.0 crashs on lenny

2008-09-19 Thread Altamir Dias
Hi, I have got in trouble running proe 3.0 on linux. I used Debian testing (lenny). Recently, after some updates the mechanism application inside of proewidfire3.0 stopped to work. Strangely, that in some computer with the same configuration, running lenny, it works properly. The problem a

Re: Remote administration of a machine behind NAT - VM for support

2008-09-19 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri,19.Sep.08, 16:17:11, Dexter Filmore wrote: > Extra paranoia: forward a different port than 22, lets say (inet) to 22 > (lan/vm) and conf the client script to connect to that port. reduces port 22 > attacks a great deal. Security by obscurity, but what the heck... (I was already doing

Re: Which package for libawt.so

2008-09-19 Thread M.Reza Qurbani
On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 9:11 AM, hce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 12:02 PM, M.Reza Qurbani > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 5:43 AM, hce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >> Hi, > >> > >> I am running opera 9.52, there is an error "ERROR: ld.so: obje

Re: Remote administration of a machine behind NAT - VM for support

2008-09-19 Thread Dexter Filmore
Am Mittwoch, 10. September 2008 20:03:08 schrieb Andrei Popescu: > On Wed,10.Sep.08, 19:50:04, Dexter Filmore wrote: > > I use a virtual machine for support and have my router forward ssh there. > > Something simple with fluxbox or even no X at all, should fit a 32MB VM > > and come up within a bli

Re: WPA/TKIP with Debian Lenny and Broadcom 4328 via ndiswrapper

2008-09-19 Thread Carl Fink
Just getting back to this after being absurdly busy for a few days. On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 09:34:41PM +0200, Guillaume Delacour wrote: > A simple documentation/how-to can be found here: > http://doc.ubuntu-fr.org/bcm4328 > tested and approuved (even if i'll prefer native driver for this device)

Re: about Intel Ethernet Controller lenny compatibility

2008-09-19 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 01:47:36PM +0800, Deephay wrote: > Greetings all, > > I am planning to buy a new board with one of Intel 82567V, 82566DC, > 82567LF ethernet controller, does anyone know the lenny compatibility > status of these controller? TIA! I do not know the direct answer but this i

Finally build 2.6.26 that works, more

2008-09-19 Thread David Baron
Second bootup did produce ide1 problem, once again. Could it be that the presence of kqemu or vboxdrv modules effected this? Probably not because previous builds got this problem before I ever tried to build them. I also got an error from isapnp errors references source code line numbers that w

SAMBA problems

2008-09-19 Thread Gerard Hooton
Hello All, We are using Samba to provide a windows Domain login The problem is that some of the users that I create (using smbpasswd -a are not working when I do a login from the windows machines(RPC errors) and some work fine. Q: Are there restrictions on what user names I can use such as the min

Re: wpa_supplicant and dhclient

2008-09-19 Thread Dominique Dumont
Urs Thuermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > As Andrei wrote, read /usr/share/doc/wpa_supplicant/README.Debian. > There you'll find everything explained how to use roaming with DHCP > or static addresses and more. I understand better now. Thanks Thierry and you for the explanations. In fact, I ne

Finally build 2.6.26 that works

2008-09-19 Thread David Baron
2.6.26.5 with the rt9 real-time patch. No problems with the IDE1 line this time around (previous ones killed DMA, 32-bit access, etc, a rendered the disk temporary unreadable to BIOS!! on reboot). Now to try to use the thing. Build kqemu, vboxdrv, squashfs, no sweat. Nvidia always a proble

Re: Setting proxy server addres on non graphics interface Debian-etch

2008-09-19 Thread Tim Edwards
Andrei Popescu wrote: On Thu,18.Sep.08, 18:20:08, Oscar Corte wrote: Thanks a lot. I'm looking for a way to make this setting permanent. What would it be the right place to add this export statement? .bashrc Regards, Andrei Or assuming you want the settings to apply for any user who lo

Re: mutt & backscatter clues

2008-09-19 Thread Steve Lamb
Steve Kemp wrote: > I believe it is possible to sign outgoing messages to detect legitimate > bounces and dump bogus ones - but I've not tried that. You mean something like this in Exim? deny hosts = !+relay_from_hosts senders = : message = Joe-job protection - Learn

Re: mutt & backscatter clues

2008-09-19 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 05:09:23PM +0100, Steve Kemp wrote: > On Mon Sep 15, 2008 at 11:00:47 -0500, Mark Copper wrote: > > > What strategies are other people using? > > A bounce message will have an empty envelope sender, so I file > those separately via procmail. This is the rule I use: >