Re: Cracking SSL passwords for fun and profit

2008-11-26 Thread Richard Hartmann
On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 01:27, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Do you know what keyspace you used for your password? i.e. how many > (roughly) characters, were they letters, numbers, punctuation, etc? I do remember I chose a lowsec one. I.e. it should be [a-zA-Z0-9]{6-8} > Use yo

Re: advice on cloning system

2008-11-26 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-11-27 07:03 +0100, tom arnall wrote: > At the bottom of this post is a description of my last attempt > at 'cloning' my old system to my new machine. I put 'cloning' in > quotes because it's not really that, otherwise I could just > use 'dd'. The procedure left me with a system that see

Re: Erase cache, clean registry in Linux

2008-11-26 Thread Johan Grönqvist
lee skrev: On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 05:46:29PM -0800, Kelly Clowers wrote: Hm, that is not a fix, it's a poor workaround. And when I start nautilus and look at the preferences dialog, there is no mentioning of caching thumbnails whatsoever. When I start nautilus and look at the preferences dia

Re: Erase cache, clean registry in Linux

2008-11-26 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 19:09, lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 05:46:29PM -0800, Kelly Clowers wrote: >> On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 16:25, lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >You probably have been using applications that create thumbnails more >> >than I did. I'm using some

Re: advice on cloning system

2008-11-26 Thread tom arnall
On Wednesday 26 November 2008 18:49, Andrew Reid wrote: > On Wednesday 26 November 2008 03:39, tom arnall wrote: > > I want to put linux on a new computer, without having to > > rebuild all my applications. Following are the steps I plan > > to take: > > > > Install a base system with the same

Etch and a half in commercial package

2008-11-26 Thread jeffry killen
Hello: Is it possible to get a commercially packaged dc/dvd with Etch and a half? I have a set that is Etch 4.0 r1 but have a newer laptop that this set will not install on. I subscribed to the laptop list and was advised to download Etch and a half. I did that as business card cd. I had to connec

Re: .bash_history duplicates

2008-11-26 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Wed, 26 Nov 2008, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Wednesday 2008 November 26 16:28, Robert Holtzman wrote: I've been going thru a number of bash related web sites looking for the way to eliminate duplicates in ~/.bash_history. So far I've turned up I use: export HISTCONTROL=ignoredups:era

advice on cloning system

2008-11-26 Thread tom arnall
At the bottom of this post is a description of my last attempt at 'cloning' my old system to my new machine. I put 'cloning' in quotes because it's not really that, otherwise I could just use 'dd'. The procedure left me with a system that seemed fine until I tried to run kdm. The system did thi

Re: Dhcp problem...what is the msitake?

2008-11-26 Thread Adrian Levi
2008/11/27 Jesus arteche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > hey, > > I've implemented a dhcp server, I want to cretae several subnets inside the > same subnet using net mask, at teh same time i want to give the ip by mac. > The problem is that when the server get the mac dont give the correct ip to > the cli

encrypted fs, ensure pw correct to continue boot?

2008-11-26 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
Hello all, I have encrypted partitions on my new box (/home, swap, (tmp on tmpfs), /var/local, /var/tmp). The cryptsetup initscripts prompt for the passphrase during boot. If you type the wrong passphrase, it says that it didn't work but the boot continues anyway. I'd like the boot to stop (p

Re: udev causing data loss?

2008-11-26 Thread ghe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 lee wrote: > On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 01:22:21AM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: >> On Sat,15.Nov.08, 13:41:15, lee wrote: >> >>> It might work on the first >>> and second and fifth reboot and suddenly stop working, leaving him >>> with an unbootable sy

Re: GUI Looks Like Safe Mode

2008-11-26 Thread lee
On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 02:44:42PM +1100, Jaime Tarrant wrote: > * lee ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 07:45:46PM -0600, Reikoshea wrote: > > > > > > For a graphical example see: > > > http://reikoshea.com/Screenshot.png > > > > > > Before upgrading to Lenny my windows look

Re: Screen blanker & Mouse

2008-11-26 Thread lee
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 08:54:52PM +0100, Manon Metten wrote: > On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 7:15 PM, lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > How do you know for sure if the screen saver stops to show graphics > > when DPMS turns off the signal to the monitor? It's what keeps me from > > using a screen s

Re: Screen blanker & Mouse

2008-11-26 Thread lee
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 10:58:19AM -0800, Kelly Clowers wrote: > On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 10:15, lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 12:49:57PM -0800, Kelly Clowers wrote: > >> > >> http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/faq.html#kde > > > > How do you know for sure if the screen sav

Re: GUI Looks Like Safe Mode

2008-11-26 Thread Jaime Tarrant
* lee ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 07:45:46PM -0600, Reikoshea wrote: > > > > For a graphical example see: > > http://reikoshea.com/Screenshot.png > > > > Before upgrading to Lenny my windows looked exactly like they do on my > > Ubuntu desktop at work (very clean). > > >

Re: udev causing data loss?

2008-11-26 Thread lee
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 01:22:21AM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sat,15.Nov.08, 13:41:15, lee wrote: > > > It might work on the first > > and second and fifth reboot and suddenly stop working, leaving him > > with an unbootable system and no clue what might have gone wrong. > > AFAICT recent

Re: GUI Looks Like Safe Mode

2008-11-26 Thread lee
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 07:45:46PM -0600, Reikoshea wrote: > > For a graphical example see: > http://reikoshea.com/Screenshot.png > > Before upgrading to Lenny my windows looked exactly like they do on my > Ubuntu desktop at work (very clean). > > Any advice would be appreciated. What is wrong

Re: only root can unmount

2008-11-26 Thread lee
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 07:20:12PM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Wednesday 26 November 2008, lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: > only root can unmount': > >On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 09:30:03PM +, T o n g wrote: > >> $ grep dvd /etc/fstab > >> /dev/dvd /mnt/dvd auto user,noauto

Re: Erase cache, clean registry in Linux

2008-11-26 Thread lee
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 05:46:29PM -0800, Kelly Clowers wrote: > On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 16:25, lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >You probably have been using applications that create thumbnails more > >than I did. I'm using some gnome applications, but I'm not using > >gnome ... > > I probably

Re: advice on cloning system

2008-11-26 Thread Andrew Reid
On Wednesday 26 November 2008 03:39, tom arnall wrote: > I want to put linux on a new computer, without having to rebuild > all my applications. Following are the steps I plan to take: > > Install a base system with the same network installer > that I used for the source machine and wit

x11vnc java error

2008-11-26 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
If I run x11vnc as follows: x11vnc -tightfilexfer -ssl -usepw -ncache 10 and then try to connect with firefox to https://localhost:5900 I get the following error: RFB 003.008 I'm thinking this has something to do with a wrong or missing .jar file, but I don't want to report a bug if thi

Re: /var/log growing rapidly

2008-11-26 Thread s. keeling
Michael Wagner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > * s. keeling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 26.11.2008 > > Paul Cartwright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > > so... what is xconsole? > > > > In practice, it's very difficult to get X to let root put a root > > owned process on a user's display, and once you get it goin

GUI Looks Like Safe Mode

2008-11-26 Thread Reikoshea
I upgraded my distro to Lenny a few weeks ago, and after the upgrade it all of my applications look horrible (not as clean as they used to). Its not a huge issue, but its really odd. I use OpenBox WM with Kicker. The open box stuff looks fine, and kicker looks fine, all the rendered stuff in icew

Re: Erase cache, clean registry in Linux

2008-11-26 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 16:25, lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >You probably have been using applications that create thumbnails more >than I did. I'm using some gnome applications, but I'm not using >gnome ... I probably just have more pics than you. gthumb is probably the only app I use regularl

Re: /var/log growing rapidly

2008-11-26 Thread s. keeling
Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wed, 26 Nov 2008 00:46:41 +0100 (CET) "s. keeling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Paul Cartwright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > so... what is xconsole? > > > > A very useful app if you can get it to work. It puts a small window > > on your display that scr

Re: only root can unmount

2008-11-26 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 26 November 2008, lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: only root can unmount': >On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 09:30:03PM +, T o n g wrote: >> $ grep dvd /etc/fstab >> /dev/dvd /mnt/dvd auto user,noauto,exec,ro 0 0 > >There seems to be a comma missing, and you seem to have tried to >

Re: only root can unmount

2008-11-26 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 05:38:40PM -0600, lee wrote: > On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 09:30:03PM +, T o n g wrote: > > > $ grep dvd /etc/fstab > > /dev/dvd /mnt/dvd auto user,noauto,exec,ro 0 0 > > > > and moreover, I mounted /mnt/dvd as myself, not root. > > > > What could be wrong? > > There s

Re: Cracking SSL passwords for fun and profit

2008-11-26 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 11:54:05PM +0100, Richard Hartmann wrote: > I lost the password for my router ages ago. As I will move in the > foreseeable future, I need to reconfigure it. Now, I could be boring > and just replace the password/the OS, but I thougt I would try > something a little more fun

Re: NFS Not mounting at boot

2008-11-26 Thread bugs . debian
Sven Joachim wrote: >>> Tue Nov 25 18:49:47 2008: Starting portmap daemon...Already running.. > > This is the problem, portmap is not actually running, causing rpc.statd... > >>> Tue Nov 25 18:49:47 2008: Starting NFS common utilities: statd failed! >>> Tue Nov 25 18:50:09 2008: mount.nfs: rpc.st

Re: Erase cache, clean registry in Linux

2008-11-26 Thread lee
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 07:26:42PM -0500, H.S. wrote: > So my ~/.thumbnails is using 1.1 GB of memory. I am thinking of deleting > this data unless there is some practical use for this. As others have > posted, they do not really any different with or without this data so I > am not sure whether t

Re: Erase cache, clean registry in Linux

2008-11-26 Thread H.S.
Kelly Clowers wrote: > On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 13:20, lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Imho it's better to design software so that it doesn't waste >> resources. I probably haven't used 99.99% of the 350MB thumbnails in >> more than two years, but now I'm supposed to spend $500+ on getting >> new

Re: Erase cache, clean registry in Linux

2008-11-26 Thread lee
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 02:35:22PM -0800, Kelly Clowers wrote: > 350 MB? I have not cleaned my thumbnails since early 2007 or so > and I had 1.6 GB. You probably have been using applications that create thumbnails more than I did. I'm using some gnome applications, but I'm not using gnome ... >

Re: Dhcp problem...what is the msitake?

2008-11-26 Thread lee
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 11:16:50PM +0100, Jesus arteche wrote: > hardware ethernet xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:50; > hardware ethernet xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:51; > hardware ethernet xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:54; > hardware ethernet xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:55; You actually have addresses ending with 50-

Re: only root can unmount

2008-11-26 Thread lee
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 09:30:03PM +, T o n g wrote: > $ grep dvd /etc/fstab > /dev/dvd /mnt/dvd auto user,noauto,exec,ro 0 0 > > and moreover, I mounted /mnt/dvd as myself, not root. > > What could be wrong? There seems to be a comma missing, and you seem to have tried to specify "auto"

Re: Cannot boot with latest Lenny kernel 2.6.26

2008-11-26 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 01:42:04PM -0600, lee wrote: > On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 11:15:41AM -0800, Neil Gunton wrote: > > > an Adaptec zero channel SmartRaid V card (the drive appears as > > /dev/i2o/hda1, so it's using the i2o_block driver). > > > > Begin: Waiting for root file system... > > > >

Re: .bash_history duplicates

2008-11-26 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2008-11-26 15:28:47, schrieb Robert Holtzman: > I've been going thru a number of bash related web sites looking for the > way to eliminate duplicates in ~/.bash_history. So far I've turned up > > export HISTCONTROL=ignoredups > export HISTCONTROL=erasedups > awk '!x[$0]++' .bash_history > .bas

Cracking SSH passwords for fun and profit (was: Cracking SSL passwords for fun and profit)

2008-11-26 Thread Richard Hartmann
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 23:54, Richard Hartmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [stuff] Sorry, s/L/H/. I brain typoed, there :( Richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

laptop does not resume after suspend

2008-11-26 Thread Vladimir Komendantsky
Hi, Some days ago, following a normal package update, I noticed that my Dell Inspiron 1525 laptop doesn't resume after suspend any more. Now the only way to quit the suspended state is to switch the laptop off by pressing the power button. In fact I have no clear idea what package can cause this b

Cracking SSL passwords for fun and profit

2008-11-26 Thread Richard Hartmann
Hi all, I lost the password for my router ages ago. As I will move in the foreseeable future, I need to reconfigure it. Now, I could be boring and just replace the password/the OS, but I thougt I would try something a little more fun. Namely, I want to brute-force the password via SSH. Unfortunate

Re: .bash_history duplicates

2008-11-26 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 2008 November 26 16:28, Robert Holtzman wrote: > I've been going thru a number of bash related web sites looking for the > way to eliminate duplicates in ~/.bash_history. So far I've turned up I use: export HISTCONTROL=ignoredups:erasedups My .bash_history doesn't have any adjacent d

Re: Why packages in testing/unstable require the newer shared libraries ?

2008-11-26 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 13:00, Boris Toloknov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Eugene, > Thank you for the answers. Now it's more clear to me. I wish every package > was in backports or at least packages which can be put there easily because > typical home user ( including me ) doesn't want to wait for

Re: Erase cache, clean registry in Linux

2008-11-26 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 13:20, lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 11:40:38AM -0800, Kelly Clowers wrote: >> On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 10:42, lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > That shouldn't be there in the first place. You end up with hundreds >> > of megabytes of totally usel

Re: .bash_history duplicates

2008-11-26 Thread Nelson Castillo
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 5:28 PM, Robert Holtzman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been going thru a number of bash related web sites looking for the way > to eliminate duplicates in ~/.bash_history. So far I've turned up > > export HISTCONTROL=ignoredups > export HISTCONTROL=erasedups > awk '!x[$0

.bash_history duplicates

2008-11-26 Thread Robert Holtzman
I've been going thru a number of bash related web sites looking for the way to eliminate duplicates in ~/.bash_history. So far I've turned up export HISTCONTROL=ignoredups export HISTCONTROL=erasedups awk '!x[$0]++' .bash_history > .bash.tmp && mv -f .bash.tmp .bash_history export HISTCONTROL=ig

Dhcp + Active Directory

2008-11-26 Thread Jesus arteche
hey, someone knows if the dhcp server from debian can update the active directory tree (computers tree)? thanks

Dhcp problem...what is the msitake?

2008-11-26 Thread Jesus arteche
hey, I've implemented a dhcp server, I want to cretae several subnets inside the same subnet using net mask, at teh same time i want to give the ip by mac. The problem is that when the server get the mac dont give the correct ip to the client, its like i didnt define it in conf file. The syslog

Re: only root can unmount

2008-11-26 Thread Mirco Piccin
Hi all >> I get the following error when unmounting dvd: >> >> $ umount /mnt/dvd >> umount: only root can unmount /dev/dvd from /mnt/dvd >> >> Strange is that, I have "user" in my fstab: >> >> $ grep dvd /etc/fstab >> /dev/dvd /mnt/dvd auto user,noauto,exec,ro 0 0 >> >> and moreover, I mounted /mn

Re: only root can unmount

2008-11-26 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-11-26 22:30 +0100, T o n g wrote: > I get the following error when unmounting dvd: > > $ umount /mnt/dvd > umount: only root can unmount /dev/dvd from /mnt/dvd > > Strange is that, I have "user" in my fstab: > > $ grep dvd /etc/fstab > /dev/dvd /mnt/dvd auto user,noauto,exec,ro 0 0 > > and

only root can unmount

2008-11-26 Thread T o n g
Hi, I get the following error when unmounting dvd: $ umount /mnt/dvd umount: only root can unmount /dev/dvd from /mnt/dvd Strange is that, I have "user" in my fstab: $ grep dvd /etc/fstab /dev/dvd /mnt/dvd auto user,noauto,exec,ro 0 0 and moreover, I mounted /mnt/dvd as myself, not root. Wha

Re: Erase cache, clean registry in Linux

2008-11-26 Thread lee
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 11:40:38AM -0800, Kelly Clowers wrote: > On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 10:42, lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > That shouldn't be there in the first place. You end up with hundreds > > of megabytes of totally useless thumbnails > > They are not useless, they keep thumbnail displ

Re: Why packages in testing/unstable require the newer shared libraries ?

2008-11-26 Thread Boris Toloknov
Eugene, Thank you for the answers. Now it's more clear to me. I wish every package was in backports or at least packages which can be put there easily because typical home user ( including me ) doesn't want to wait for the next release or to compile everything. Boris Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote

Re: Erase cache, clean registry in Linux

2008-11-26 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 11:57, Johannes Wiedersich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Kelly Clowers wrote: >> On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 10:42, lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 12:09:27PM -0800, Kelly Clowers wrote: >>> That shoul

Re: /var/log growing rapidly

2008-11-26 Thread Michael Wagner
* s. keeling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 26.11.2008 > Paul Cartwright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > 99.999% of the lines were comments.. except for this: > > # The named pipe /dev/xconsole is for the `xconsole' utility. To use it, > > #$ xconsole -file /dev/xconsole [...] > > *.=notice;*.=warn

Re: Erase cache, clean registry in Linux

2008-11-26 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kelly Clowers wrote: > On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 10:42, lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 12:09:27PM -0800, Kelly Clowers wrote: >> That shouldn't be there in the first place. You end up with hundreds >> of megabytes of totally us

Re: Screen blanker & Mouse

2008-11-26 Thread Manon Metten
Hi Kelly, Lee, > On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 12:49:57PM -0800, Kelly Clowers wrote: > > Personally, I trust xscreensaver a lot more than the KDE or Gnome > screensavers. > > http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/faq.html#kde > http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/toolkits.html Hmm. Interesting stuff to read. Ne

Re: Why packages in testing/unstable require the newer shared libraries ?

2008-11-26 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 10:53, Boris Toloknov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I read http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Program-Library-HOWTO/shared-libraries.html, > http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-sharedlibs.html and some other > articles however I don't understand: Why packages in testing/unstable

Re: HELP - Run two commands at the same time, in the same window on the terminal

2008-11-26 Thread lee
On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 11:16:42PM +0100, Jose Hernandez wrote: > Hi, i would like to use macros (xnee) for answering my commands: > > For example (sh script): this is for encrypt a file with gpg > > gpg --e /directories/file -> This encrypt the file > cnee --replay output /file.xnl -> This is fo

Re: Cannot boot with latest Lenny kernel 2.6.26

2008-11-26 Thread lee
On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 11:15:41AM -0800, Neil Gunton wrote: > an Adaptec zero channel SmartRaid V card (the drive appears as > /dev/i2o/hda1, so it's using the i2o_block driver). > > Begin: Waiting for root file system... > > It just hangs there. Looks like the module for the raid controller i

Re: Erase cache, clean registry in Linux

2008-11-26 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 10:42, lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 12:09:27PM -0800, Kelly Clowers wrote: > >> And a lot of programs (Dolphin, Nautilus, gthumb, eog, etc) have thumbnail >> caches, which are not always cleanable from in the application. Luckily, >> many of these

Re: Erase cache, clean registry in Linux

2008-11-26 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 26 November 2008, lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: Erase cache, clean registry in Linux': >The tendency in Debian to split up configuration files --- like for >apache and exim4 --- and to spread them over several directories and >to have the system automatically mess with them

Re: Erase cache, clean registry in Linux

2008-11-26 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 11:07, lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 11:56:51AM -0800, Kelly Clowers wrote: > >> Still, the reg offers many opportunities for fun. Nothing like doing a deep >> reg dive to manually remove tricky spyware - though it is probably better >> to just do

Re: Why packages in testing/unstable require the newer shared libraries ?

2008-11-26 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
Boris Toloknov wrote: > Will my system be broken after upgrading libc6* along with locales, > tzdata and binutils from testing(lenny) repository ? It probably won't. Lenny is in freeze for several months now. > If not then it > means that other programs ( for example bash ) are able to work with >

Re: Erase cache, clean registry in Linux

2008-11-26 Thread John Hasler
lee writes: > If that doesn't help, I'll change ownership to root, and if that doesn't > help either, I might have to resort to enable ACLs or to making the > directory a symlink to a partition that is mounted r/o Just symlink ~/.thumbnails to /dev/null. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Why packages in testing/unstable require the newer shared libraries ?

2008-11-26 Thread Boris Toloknov
Hi All, I have debian stable (etch). Sometimes I want to install the newest versions of some packages from testing/unstable. Typically I can only install some package with the newer version of the shared libraries it depends on. For example dash (0.5.3-7) from etch depends on libc6

Re: Erase cache, clean registry in Linux

2008-11-26 Thread lee
On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 11:56:51AM -0800, Kelly Clowers wrote: > Still, the reg offers many opportunities for fun. Nothing like doing a deep > reg dive to manually remove tricky spyware - though it is probably better > to just do a reinstall in those cases. They made the same mistake IBM did with

Re: Screen blanker & Mouse

2008-11-26 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 10:15, lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 12:49:57PM -0800, Kelly Clowers wrote: >> >> Personally, I trust xscreensaver a lot more than the KDE or Gnome >> screensavers. >> >> http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/faq.html#kde >> http://www.jwz.org/xscreensav

Re: How to use e1000e driver

2008-11-26 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 09:27, Ben Olive <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > I am attempting to install Debian on computer with an Intel DQ45CB > motherboard. After some research it looks like I need the e1000e > network card driver to use the onboard lan. How do I get this into the > installer?

Re: Erase cache, clean registry in Linux

2008-11-26 Thread lee
On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 12:09:27PM -0800, Kelly Clowers wrote: > And a lot of programs (Dolphin, Nautilus, gthumb, eog, etc) have thumbnail > caches, which are not always cleanable from in the application. Luckily, > many of these programs now share the FD.O standard ~/.thumbnails/ > directory, i

Re: Help with mail configuration

2008-11-26 Thread lee
On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 06:41:38AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 11/24/08 20:38, lee wrote: >> On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 10:29:25PM +, Alexandre Cardoso wrote: >> >>>Can you help me with the configuration of a electronic mail >>>server based on Postfix, using Apache, POP,IMAP,SMTP and LD

Re: Screen blanker & Mouse

2008-11-26 Thread lee
On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 12:49:57PM -0800, Kelly Clowers wrote: > > Personally, I trust xscreensaver a lot more than the KDE or Gnome > screensavers. > > http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/faq.html#kde > http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/toolkits.html How do you know for sure if the screen saver stops

Re: Fw: shorewall newbie Revisit: new IP

2008-11-26 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 07:47:36AM -0800, Phillipus Gunawan wrote: > well well well > it works... > > then, how can i use 10.1.1.4 for DNS as well? > putting: > DNS/ACCEPT ALL ALLon rules didnt have any effect, cant resolve DNS > is there anyway i can make the debian for local DNS reso

How to use e1000e driver

2008-11-26 Thread Ben Olive
Hello, I am attempting to install Debian on computer with an Intel DQ45CB motherboard. After some research it looks like I need the e1000e network card driver to use the onboard lan. How do I get this into the installer? --Ben -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "un

Re: shutdown -r hangs

2008-11-26 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Wed November 26 2008, François Cerbelle wrote: > > why won't it reboot, or what can I look at? > > Do you have the acpi module loaded in kernel ? > > I have similar problems (for halt) and solved it with the acpi module. It > might be the apm module too. oops, I didn't get to finish my last ema

Re: shutdown -r hangs

2008-11-26 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Wed November 26 2008, François Cerbelle wrote: > Do you have the acpi module loaded in kernel ? > > I have similar problems (for halt) and solved it with the acpi module. It > might be the apm module too. I found this: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-software-2/linux-acpi-and-bios

Re: advice on cloning system

2008-11-26 Thread subscriptions
On Wed, 2008-11-26 at 17:25 +0100, François Cerbelle wrote: > > Le Mer 26 novembre 2008 09:39, tom arnall a écrit : > > Copy to the new machine from old with: > > su > > mount /dev/sda3 /sD > > cp -dRvpu / /sD > > The drive on the new machine

Re: advice on cloning system

2008-11-26 Thread François Cerbelle
Le Mer 26 novembre 2008 09:39, tom arnall a écrit : > Copy to the new machine from old with: > su > mount /dev/sda3 /sD > cp -dRvpu / /sD > The drive on the new machine is bigger and of a > different brand. For the copy, the new drive is

Re: [:ascii:] character class

2008-11-26 Thread Andre Majorel
On 2008-11-25 01:49 -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Monday 2008 November 24 10:54, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: > > Andre Majorel wrote: > > > I seem to remember that the non-standard [:ascii:] character class > > > was once supported. Now grep and sed give the error "Invalid > > > characte

advice on cloning system

2008-11-26 Thread tom arnall
I want to put linux on a new computer, without having to rebuild all my applications. Following are the steps I plan to take: Install a base system with the same network installer that I used for the source machine and without getting anything from the network. Co

Re: USB mount with multiple users broken - SOLVED

2008-11-26 Thread Jussi Nurminen
Paul Cartwright-4 wrote: > > well, guess what, after my reboot ( another issue), now update manager > says > there is a new update available. gnome-volume-manager... > if I do that update , will it break our fix? > Don't do the update. It's not really an update anyway, it's the old Debian pac

Re: shutdown -r hangs

2008-11-26 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Wed November 26 2008, François Cerbelle wrote: > > why won't it reboot, or what can I look at? > > Do you have the acpi module loaded in kernel ? I think so, see daemon.log entries: Nov 23 11:00:33 paulandcilla acpid: client connected from 4576[0:0] Nov 23 11:00:34 paulandcilla acpid: client co

Re: Fw: shorewall newbie Revisit: new IP

2008-11-26 Thread Phillipus Gunawan
well well well it works... then, how can i use 10.1.1.4 for DNS as well? putting: DNS/ACCEPT ALL ALLon rules didnt have any effect, cant resolve DNS is there anyway i can make the debian for local DNS resolver? how about the route command problem? Surely its inconvenient to type the c

Re: /var/log growing rapidly

2008-11-26 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 26 Nov 2008 10:12:20 +0200 Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue,25.Nov.08, 18:58:19, Celejar wrote: > > On Wed, 26 Nov 2008 00:46:41 +0100 (CET) > > "s. keeling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Paul Cartwright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > ... > > > > > > so... what i

Re: Fw: shorewall newbie Revisit: new IP

2008-11-26 Thread subscriptions
On Wed, 2008-11-26 at 16:07 +0100, Phillipus Gunawan wrote: > > > using 10.1.1.5, gw/dns = 10.1.1.4 You have a DNS on 10.1.1.4? > C:\>ping www.yahoo.com > Ping request could not find host www.yahoo.com. Please check the name > and try again. No DNS on 10.1.1.4, so the ip of www.yahoo.com can n

Re: USB mount with multiple users broken - SOLVED

2008-11-26 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
Jussi Nurminen wrote: > > FYI, > I checked the gnome-volume-manager bugs and this solution was given > by somebody in a related bug report (#305846) five months ago. Since there > has been no response from the maintainer, I'm submitting another bug report. Just follow-up into existing, using repor

Re: Fw: shorewall newbie Revisit: new IP

2008-11-26 Thread Phillipus Gunawan
> route -n Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface 192.168.1.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 00 eth1 10.0.0.00.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 00 eth0 > route -n Kernel IP routing t

Re: USB mount with multiple users broken - SOLVED

2008-11-26 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Wed November 26 2008, Jussi Nurminen wrote: > Logout and login all users, or kill and restart all gnome-volume-manager > processes. > And hopefully, there is no more hotplug trouble for you. well, guess what, after my reboot ( another issue), now update manager says there is a new update avail

Re: USB mount with multiple users broken - SOLVED

2008-11-26 Thread Jussi Nurminen
Good. I think it's best to place the modified package on hold with #aptitude hold gnome-volume-manager so it doesn't get automatically updated, at least until the bug is fixed. For anyone trying to recompile the package, note that you also need to add the lenny source repository to /etc/apt/so

Re: shutdown -r hangs

2008-11-26 Thread François Cerbelle
Le Mer 26 novembre 2008 15:39, Paul Cartwright a écrit : > why won't it reboot, or what can I look at? Do you have the acpi module loaded in kernel ? I have similar problems (for halt) and solved it with the acpi module. It might be the apm module too. If acpi is not loaded, try : modprobe acpi

shutdown -r hangs

2008-11-26 Thread Paul Cartwright
I have had this issue for a long time, never resolved it. If I type: shutdown now the machine turns off if I type shutdown -r now it starts to shut down, and then it sits with these last messages on the screen: [4426.174309] ACPI:PCI interrupt for device :00:19.0 disabled [4426.189849] Restar

Re: Fw: shorewall newbie Revisit: new IP

2008-11-26 Thread subscriptions
On Wed, 2008-11-26 at 13:41 +0100, Phillipus Gunawan wrote: > > > route -n > Destination GatewayGenmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface > 10.20.20.125 0.0.0.0255.255.255.255 UH0 00 ppp0 > 192.168.1.0 0.0.0.0255.255.255.0 U 0 00 eth1 > 10.0.0.

Re: USB mount with multiple users broken - SOLVED

2008-11-26 Thread Jussi Nurminen
FYI, I checked the gnome-volume-manager bugs and this solution was given by somebody in a related bug report (#305846) five months ago. Since there has been no response from the maintainer, I'm submitting another bug report. yours, Jussi -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/

Re: SMART error (OfflineUncorrectableSector) detected on host:

2008-11-26 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Wed November 26 2008, Dominique Dumont wrote: > This means that one sector of your disk can't be read. So one of your > files has a 512 bytes hole. > > See SMART FAQ to fix the problem: > > http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/faq.html#selftest-failed > http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/faq.h

Re: USB mount with multiple users broken - SOLVED

2008-11-26 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Wed November 26 2008, Jussi Nurminen wrote: > Logout and login all users, or kill and restart all gnome-volume-manager > processes. > And hopefully, there is no more hotplug trouble for you. and it also worked for me. I logged us both out, logged us both back in, as her I inserted my USB stick

Re: Shorewall & network/interfaces

2008-11-26 Thread Clifford W. Hansen
On Wednesday 26 November 2008 02:54, Tom Allison wrote: > Andrei Popescu wrote: > > On Tue,25.Nov.08, 06:04:52, Tom Allison wrote: > >> I too am trying to set-up Shorewall as a firewall box. > >> And I ran into some peculiar problems that are related to shorewall > >> and not related to shorewall.

Re: Shorewall & network/interfaces

2008-11-26 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 10:05:00AM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Tue,25.Nov.08, 19:54:30, Tom Allison wrote: > > >> Do they *need* to be on the same network? > >> > > They don't need to be on the same network, but I only have one for > > now. > > It's better and simpler to have separate net

Re: Fw: shorewall newbie Revisit: new IP

2008-11-26 Thread Phillipus Gunawan
Ah at last, someone asking about the routing I am bit suspicious that this is the problem (before everything started) > route -n Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface 192.168.1.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0

Re: USB mount with multiple users broken - SOLVED

2008-11-26 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Wed November 26 2008, Jussi Nurminen wrote: > Run 'debuild -uc -us' to compile the package, which is created in the > parent directory. dpkg-checkbuilddeps: warning: can't parse dependency ooobasis30-en_us-res dpkg-checkbuilddeps: warning: can't parse dependency ooobasis30-en_us-help dpkg-check

Re: /var/log growing rapidly

2008-11-26 Thread François Cerbelle
Le Mer 26 novembre 2008 12:16, Paul Cartwright a écrit : >> In practice, it's very difficult to get X to let root put a root owned >> process on a user's display, and once you get it going, the next >> Debian release breaks your tweak, at least in my experience. > > great, thanks! > at least I fou

Re: /var/log growing rapidly

2008-11-26 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Tue November 25 2008, s. keeling wrote: > >  so... what is xconsole? > > A very useful app if you can get it to work.  It puts a small window > on your display that scrolls /var/log/messages constantly in real > time.  It's very nice if you're changing something and want to know > the immediate

Re: USB mount with multiple users broken - SOLVED

2008-11-26 Thread Jussi Nurminen
I think I've resolved this problem. The root of the issue is indeed gnome-volume-manager. Looking at the sources (src/manager.c) reveals the following -- #ifdef ENABLE_MULTIUSER guint32 result = 0; if (gvm_query_console_kit (USER_IS_ACTIVE, &result) != -1) -- i.e. gnome-volu

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