Failed to restart network

2010-01-24 Thread S.Ali zahiri
Hi dear all, Today i had changed network config.then i was trying to restart my network i got following error : /etc/network# /etc/init.d/networking restart Reconfiguring network interfaces...SIOCADDRT: File exists Failed to bring up eth0. # /etc/network/interfa

Re: trying to restrict postfix use of port

2010-01-24 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 25 Jan 2010 01:15:25 +, Adam Hardy wrote: > One small problem having postfix listen unnecessarily to the whole world > is that syslog logs all spam merchants attempts to abuse my postfix as > an open relay. I guess I can ignore them but I wish I didn't even get > them. If your provide

Re: Organize Debian mail lists page, please, thanks :)

2010-01-24 Thread giovanni_re
Thanks, Boyd :) I'd sent that to listarchi...@debian.org, the address suggested for list related management correspondence, & cc'd the user list so people would be aware of this issue, as it affects the entire user community when looking for a list to join. Thanks for the suggestion about the

Re: console resolution

2010-01-24 Thread s. keeling
Jeffrey Cao : > On 2010-01-22, Nima Azarbayjany wrote: > > > > I have recently installed Squeeze on my laptop and most things > > seem to work fine right now. > > > > I used to add vga=xxx to the kernel parameters line to adjust the > > console resolution but this is now deprecated as a message p

Re: Iceweasel repeatedly hangs for 5 seconds

2010-01-24 Thread Jack Dodds
To close this thread: I removed the torbutton addon taken directly from mozilla.org and installed the Debian torbutton package. It works. No more hangs. Jack Dodds wrote: > Hello Sun, > > Thank you for telling me about safe mode - I did not know about it. > > Sure enough, the problem seems to

Re: How to grab music from remote cdrom?

2010-01-24 Thread s. keeling
Sthu Deus : > Thank You for Your time and answer, Camale: > > >Export the CD share via samba or nfs and mount it locally into the > >target machine where you are going to run the ripper. And let the > >program doing its work. This is a somewhat annoying problem. You'd think, understanding X Win

Re: Warning: "Illegal" hostnames no longer work

2010-01-24 Thread s. keeling
David Baron : > For ever, I was getting a bootup message that by hostname was illegal. After > that, everything, I mean everything, worked with that hostname 100% > > As of the latest upgrades off Sid, the illegal hostname is no longer > accepted > by the system and there is then no hostnam

Re: trying to restrict postfix use of port

2010-01-24 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Adam Hardy put forth on 1/24/2010 7:15 PM: > Adam Hardy on 21/01/10 17:36, wrote: >> Camaleón on 21/01/10 16:27, wrote: >> The point is that I don't want to have port 25 open to the world, >> since I don't want to receive any emails on this system, I just want >> to send. >>> [snipped]

Re: Highmem and lowmem

2010-01-24 Thread Stephen Powell
On 2010-01-24 at 18:18:28 -0500, Brian Ryans wrote: > I just do what several of my friends did to me when I first switched to > Debian, and back to *nix, after having been assimilated for so long by > the Borg: Just link to http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html. > After a couple weeks, it

Re: Lenny installation

2010-01-24 Thread Stephen Powell
On 2010-01-24 at 16:52:51 -0500, John Williams wrote: > Stephen, thanks for your prompt reply. There was no problem installing > the base OS from the net install .iso When the installer found I had no > internet access it allowed me to continue to install the basic bit. It > works well, even has

Re: Highmem and lowmem

2010-01-24 Thread Stephen Powell
On 2010-01-24 at 15:08:57 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > I guess I'm just kinda down on Roman after he sent that Gmail invite to this > list a while ago. And it seems that he's using debian-users as a personal > tutor > while building his system, asking here first thing every time he runs into a >

Re: trying to restrict postfix use of port

2010-01-24 Thread Adam Hardy
Adam Hardy on 21/01/10 17:36, wrote: Camaleón on 21/01/10 16:27, wrote: The point is that I don't want to have port 25 open to the world, since I don't want to receive any emails on this system, I just want to send. [snipped] That is the standard setup for Postfix. But that does not mean your

Fwd: trying to update PowerEdge BIOS "Make sure the following utilities are in the path ..."

2010-01-24 Thread Albretch Mueller
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 8:43 PM, Robert David wrote: > I updated dell poweredge bios once and I think I used > > procmail > > Next try to search package accoarding to file: > > http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=contents&keywords=lockfile&mode=path&suite=stable&arch=any > > Regards, > Robe

chrooted rssh

2010-01-24 Thread Vadkan Jozsef
Does someone has an easy howto for only allowing e.g.: scp with rssh [chrooted]? Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Re: Re: console resolution

2010-01-24 Thread Chris Jones
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 05:52:22AM EST, Nima Azarbayjany wrote: > I was able to achieve the desired resolution of 1280x800 (equivalent > to, I think, 0x361) by manually editing grub.cfg but the grub menu > does not show correctly. It only fills the left top quarter of the > screen and parts of

Re: adding application software after base installation

2010-01-24 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On Sunday 24 January 2010 22:35:11 Stephen Powell wrote: > On 2010-01-24 at 15:53:03 -0500, John Williams wrote: > > Hello, this is my first post to the list. I have installed the Debian > > Lenny base system using a net install iso but without access to the > > internet. Now I have internet access

only sftp

2010-01-24 Thread Vadkan Jozsef
Now this is funny. All the years pass, and theres no _NORMAL_ solution for this: e.g.: 1 - theres a webmin on a server, an admin creates a domain on it. 2 - another admin [who manages _one_ domain] creates e.g.: a new user in the domain. 3 - missing thing: that they can only use chrooted sftp [

Re: How to shrink a LVM partition

2010-01-24 Thread Tony Nelson
On 10-01-24 14:27:21, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Sunday 24 January 2010 11:25:19 vitaminx wrote: > > I'd like to shrink a LVM partition on my harddisk. > > > > Is it possible without any data loss? > > Yes, but it is tricky. > > Check your file systems. Make sure they are clean before t

Group - users, GID 100 - intenstion

2010-01-24 Thread gn643202
What is the purpose and intent of the Group "users", GID #100? Is this to be populated with all normal users? I have such a purpose, but not sure whether to use Group "users" or create a new Group (like "everyone") for that purpose. I do assume that some files are created by the syst

Re: Highmem and lowmem

2010-01-24 Thread Brian Ryans
Quoting Stan Hoeppner on 2010-01-24 14:08:57: > And it seems that he's using debian-users as a personal tutor while > building his system, asking here first thing every time he runs into a > small gotcha, even the really simple stuff. Look at his posts, and the > volume of such, for the past month.

Re: Monitoring Memory Utilization

2010-01-24 Thread Javier Barroso
Hi, On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 2:52 PM, Mike Ayers wrote: > On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 06:25:44AM -0500, Roman Gelfand wrote: > > Is there a tool, background process, in linux to monitor memory > > utilization over a period of time? > > > > Thanks in advance > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to d

Re: Memory

2010-01-24 Thread Freeman
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 10:17:47AM -0800, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: > On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 11:37:41PM -0800, Freeman wrote: > > > Writes to a swap file on your drive. Or a swap file on your ram drive > > in memory if you have one. :) > > There are probably some edge cases where a swap file on a RA

Re: FreeRapid downloader - Network is unreachable, on Debian Squeeze

2010-01-24 Thread Jan Hlodan
Hi Eduardo, thanks for the tip. I can confirm that: sudo sed -i 's/net.ipv6.bindv6only\ =\ 1/net.ipv6.bindv6only\ =\ 0/' \ /etc/sysctl.d/bindv6only.conf && sudo invoke-rc.d procps restart solved my problem. Regards, Jan Hlodan On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 5:48 PM, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > On 0

Re: Highmem and lowmem

2010-01-24 Thread John Hasler
Stan Hoeppner writes: > Look at his posts, and the volume of such, for the past month. Don't you have a killfile? -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: adding application software after base installation

2010-01-24 Thread Stephen Powell
On 2010-01-24 at 15:53:03 -0500, John Williams wrote: > Hello, this is my first post to the list. I have installed the Debian > Lenny base system using a net install iso but without access to the > internet. Now I have internet access and want to continue the > installation to add a "productivi

Re: adding application software after base installation

2010-01-24 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On Sunday 24 January 2010 21:53:03 John Williams wrote: > Hello, this is my first post to the list. I have installed the Debian > Lenny base system using a net install iso but without access to the > internet. Now I have internet access and want to continue the > installation to add a "productivit

adding application software after base installation

2010-01-24 Thread John Williams
Hello, this is my first post to the list. I have installed the Debian Lenny base system using a net install iso but without access to the internet. Now I have internet access and want to continue the installation to add a "productivity" group of application software. I could start from scratc

Re: trying to update PowerEdge BIOS "Make sure the following utilities are in the path ..."

2010-01-24 Thread Robert David
I updated dell poweredge bios once and I think I used procmail Next try to search package accoarding to file: http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=contents&keywords=lockfile&mode=path&suite=stable&arch=any Regards, Robert. Dne neděle 24 ledna 2010 20:31:07 Albretch Mueller napsal(a): >

Re: Highmem and lowmem

2010-01-24 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Chris Bannister put forth on 1/24/2010 5:50 AM: > On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 11:37:13PM -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >> Roman Gelfand put forth on 1/23/2010 10:27 PM: >>> What is the difference between them and why does debian distinguish the two? >> >> Debian-users isn't a personal tutor, is it? Many

trying to update PowerEdge BIOS "Make sure the following utilities are in the path ..."

2010-01-24 Thread Albretch Mueller
~ While trying the update the BIOS of a PowerEdge 1850 using Linux/Debian/knoppix 6.2, I got: ~ spsetup.sh: line 124: source: buildVer.sh: file not found spsetup.sh: Cannot find utilities on the system to execute package. Make sure the following utilities are in the path: sed stty cut fmt st

Re: How to shrink a LVM partition

2010-01-24 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Sunday 24 January 2010 11:25:19 vitaminx wrote: > I'd like to shrink a LVM partition on my harddisk. > > Is it possible without any data loss? Yes, but it is tricky. Check your file systems. Make sure they are clean before the process starts. Take backups. First make sure you have enough f

Re: Retrieving latest version of a file for a specified distribution

2010-01-24 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Sunday 24 January 2010 09:45:08 Malte Forkel wrote: > Given a file name (e.g. "/etc/dhclient.conf") and a distribution name > (e.g. "etch"), I would like to programmatically retrieve the file's > latest version for that distribution. Not possible in general because of the alternatives system an

Re: Memory

2010-01-24 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Saturday 23 January 2010 22:10:51 Roman Gelfand wrote: > What happens when debian is out of memory? The Linux kernel has two main ways to deal with an OOM situation. The most commonly encountered in the oom-killer. Sometimes, a request for a memory mapping is assigned an address, but is not

Re: crontab permissions problem on /var/spool/cron/crontabs/*

2010-01-24 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 01:00:13PM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: > /var/spool/cron/crontabs/ac: Permission denied The crontabs directory should be owned by root:crontab, not root:root. > I don't have any such file in /tmp. Nor should you. /usr/bin/crontab works like sudoedit, and uses temp fi

Re: expanding a luks volume

2010-01-24 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Sunday 24 January 2010 03:31:02 Alex Samad wrote: > I did some more research, amazingly I found more stuff than before... > Seems like cryptosetup has a resize options > > so for me > > lvresize > cryptosetup resize While a backup is recommended in these cases, I haven't taken one yet when

Re: Security Support for Debian 4.0 to be terminated

2010-01-24 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Sunday 24 January 2010 04:26:11 Bret Busby wrote: > On Sat, 23 Jan 2010, green wrote: > > Bret Busby wrote at 2010-01-23 00:03 -0600: > >> On Thu, 21 Jan 2010, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl wrote: > > [H]ave you tried editing the lilo.conf file as suggested? > > And, what changes do I need to make

Re: Monitoring Memory Utilization

2010-01-24 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 06:25:44AM -0500, Roman Gelfand wrote: > Is there a tool, background process, in linux to monitor memory > utilization over a period of time? /usr/bin/sar from the sysstat package. -- "Oh, look: rocks!" -- Doctor Who, "Destiny of the Daleks" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Memory

2010-01-24 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 11:37:41PM -0800, Freeman wrote: > Writes to a swap file on your drive. Or a swap file on your ram drive > in memory if you have one. :) There are probably some edge cases where a swap file on a RAM drive is valid, but I can't think of any that don't involve misbehaving ap

How to shrink a LVM partition

2010-01-24 Thread vitaminx
Hello, I'd like to shrink a LVM partition on my harddisk. My current setup is like that: NameFlags Part Type FS Type [Label] Size (MB) -- sda1BootPrimary Linux ext3

Re: FreeRapid downloader - Network is unreachable, on Debian Squeeze

2010-01-24 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On 01/24/2010 01:38 PM, Jan Hlodan wrote: Hello, could you try to run FreeRapid downloader? http://wordrider.net/freerapid/download.html I'm getting this error on Debian testing (Squeeze): $ uname -a Linux 2.6.30-2-amd64 #1 SMP Mon Dec 7 05:21:45 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux $ java -version java v

Re: crontab permissions problem on /var/spool/cron/crontabs/*

2010-01-24 Thread Wayne
Anthony Campbell wrote: I get an error when running crontab as user: /var/spool/cron/crontabs/ac: Permission denied Googling shows a few people with a similar problem but either no solution or one that doesn't work here (crontab not having setguid or not in the crontab group). The permissions

Re: Monitoring Memory Utilization

2010-01-24 Thread Wayne
Roman Gelfand wrote: Is there a tool, background process, in linux to monitor memory utilization over a period of time? I would suggest that you install the debian-reference package. Most of you questions are answered in that document and, if not, will help you in learning more about your Deb

Retrieving latest version of a file for a specified distribution

2010-01-24 Thread Malte Forkel
Hi, Given a file name (e.g. "/etc/dhclient.conf") and a distribution name (e.g. "etch"), I would like to programmatically retrieve the file's latest version for that distribution. If the local machine is running the distribution in question, the start is probably relatively simple. I can find out

FreeRapid downloader - Network is unreachable, on Debian Squeeze

2010-01-24 Thread Jan Hlodan
Hello, could you try to run FreeRapid downloader? http://wordrider.net/freerapid/download.html I'm getting this error on Debian testing (Squeeze): $ uname -a Linux 2.6.30-2-amd64 #1 SMP Mon Dec 7 05:21:45 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux $ java -version java version "1.6.0_16" Java(TM) SE Runtime Enviro

Re: Highmem and lowmem

2010-01-24 Thread Roman Gelfand
Point well taken. My appologies. On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 6:50 AM, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 11:37:13PM -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >> Roman Gelfand put forth on 1/23/2010 10:27 PM: >> > What is the difference between them and why does debian distinguish the >> > two? >> >

Re: Monitoring Memory Utilization

2010-01-24 Thread Mike Ayers
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 06:25:44AM -0500, Roman Gelfand wrote: > Is there a tool, background process, in linux to monitor memory > utilization over a period of time? > > Thanks in advance > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe"

Re: Monitoring Memory Utilization

2010-01-24 Thread Roman Gelfand
got it. sorry about the bother. On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 6:27 AM, Nick Douma wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 24-1-2010 12:25, Roman Gelfand wrote: >> Is there a tool, background process, in linux to monitor memory >> utilization over a period of time? >> >> Thanks

Re: trouble playing streaming video

2010-01-24 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 23 Jan 2010 17:24:51 -0500, Steve Kleene wrote: > I'm having trouble accessing streaming video from a local website. If I > click on a video in iceweasel (up-to-date Lenny), I see that > MPlayer-Plugin is called, and the browser also shows: > > Connecting to server 70.61.148.132[70.61.

crontab permissions problem on /var/spool/cron/crontabs/*

2010-01-24 Thread Anthony Campbell
I get an error when running crontab as user: /var/spool/cron/crontabs/ac: Permission denied Googling shows a few people with a similar problem but either no solution or one that doesn't work here (crontab not having setguid or not in the crontab group). The permissions are: drwx-wx--T 2 root ro

Re: crontab permissions problem on /var/spool/cron/crontabs/* - SOLVED

2010-01-24 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 24 Jan 2010, Anthony Campbell wrote: Sorry to follow-up to myself but I solved the problem simply by reinstalling cron. I don't know what had happened previously but anyway it's now working correctly. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU

Re: occorrenze stringa

2010-01-24 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On 01/23/2010 07:28 PM, roberto wrote: ciao a tutti c'e' qualche utility che permette di contare quante volte una parola si ripete in un file di testo ? [How to count words in a text file?] Una possibilità è tr ' ' '\n' < FILE | sort | uniq -c In questa lista si parla inglese, però c'è

Re: File system for linux and windows

2010-01-24 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 23 Jan 2010 22:19:44 +, Joe wrote: > Bhasker C V wrote: >> Camaleón wrote: >>> I wonder if nowadays UDF could be used to deal with this problematic >>> :-? >>> >> Tried it. UDF from udftools(1.0.0b2 ) on etch creates an UDF which is >> not working with windows. >> I am then lef

Re: Monitoring Memory Utilization

2010-01-24 Thread Nick Douma
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 24-1-2010 12:25, Roman Gelfand wrote: > Is there a tool, background process, in linux to monitor memory > utilization over a period of time? > > Thanks in advance > http://lmgtfy.com/?q=debian+memory+monitoring+tool -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-

Re: Security Support for Debian 4.0 to be terminated

2010-01-24 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bret Busby wrote: > Why, in the time that Debian 5 has replaced Debian 4 as Debian "stable", > especially, as Debian 4 will no longer be supported, has a workable > process of upgrading from Debian 4 to Debian 5, not been released? It has been release

Monitoring Memory Utilization

2010-01-24 Thread Roman Gelfand
Is there a tool, background process, in linux to monitor memory utilization over a period of time? Thanks in advance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Re: Re: console resolution

2010-01-24 Thread Nima Azarbayjany
I was able to achieve the desired resolution of 1280x800 (equivalent to, I think, 0x361) by manually editing grub.cfg but the grub menu does not show correctly. It only fills the left top quarter of the screen and parts of it cannot be seen. The rest was fine (the boot up of linux I mean) wit

Re: Highmem and lowmem

2010-01-24 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 11:37:13PM -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Roman Gelfand put forth on 1/23/2010 10:27 PM: > > What is the difference between them and why does debian distinguish the two? > > Debian-users isn't a personal tutor, is it? Many/most of the questions you've > been asking have ans

Re: Security Support for Debian 4.0 to be terminated

2010-01-24 Thread Bret Busby
On Sat, 23 Jan 2010, green wrote: Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2010 16:19:54 -0600 From: green To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Security Support for Debian 4.0 to be terminated Bret Busby wrote at 2010-01-23 00:03 -0600: On Thu, 21 Jan 2010, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl wrote: 1: http://www.d

Re: ext3 mkfs issues with a fresh file system ?

2010-01-24 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 09:53:00PM +, Bhasker C V wrote: > Bhasker C V wrote: > >Bhasker C V wrote: [ 41 lines sniped] > hardware issue ... please ignore... Could you please trim your replies on this list. -- Chris. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with

Re: Which virtualization is the best for Debian?

2010-01-24 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 12:56:20AM +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: > Thank You for Your time and answer, Boyd: > > >With Xen/KVM/Qemu the guests are not fully protected from the host, but even > >kernel-level tasks/processes in the guests cannot affect the host unless > >there > >is a security issue wi

Re: expanding a luks volume

2010-01-24 Thread Alex Samad
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 08:17:32PM +1100, Alex Samad wrote: > On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 09:56:11PM -0500, Tim Tebbit wrote: > > Alex Samad wrote: > > > Hi > > > [snip] > > > > > > Alex > > > > No not at all. Treat it as any other volume and simply extend it. > > I think you might have miss uder

Re: ddrescue-like tool at filesystem level

2010-01-24 Thread ludovico van
On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 7:20 PM, T o n g wrote: > On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 18:14:08 +0100, ludovico van wrote: > so, is there a tool like ddrescue, which ignores errors (and maybe retries to read the bad blocks), but working at the filesystem level, so i can copy only selected files? > >

Re: expanding a luks volume

2010-01-24 Thread Alex Samad
On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 09:56:11PM -0500, Tim Tebbit wrote: > Alex Samad wrote: > > Hi > > > > subject says it all I have a lv, which i have used luks to encrypt and > > now I would like to extend it. > > > > I am guessing the process is going to involve coping the files over to > > another parti

Re: HTTP Filter Proxy

2010-01-24 Thread ajm
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 07:32:27AM -0500, Gregory Seidman wrote: > On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 11:15:07AM +, Liam O'Toole wrote: > > On 2010-01-21, Glenn English wrote: > > > On Jan 20, 2010, at 8:13 PM, Kun Niu wrote: > > >> Roman Gelfand wrote: > > >>> Can somebody recommend HTTP filter proxy so