Re: Cannot authenticate with DSA-pubkey in Etch

2008-02-08 Thread Jonathan Wilson
On Friday 08 February 2008 04:43:15 Christopher Bianchi wrote: i wish to connect my laptop to my server with a ssh pubkey and no password. The procedure that i use to create the key pair and setting permission on the directories (.ssh/) on laptop and server, are correct. I think that it's a

Re: low-MHz server

2008-02-04 Thread Jonathan Wilson
On Sunday 03 February 2008 21:18:50 Bob wrote: Douglas A. Tutty wrote: Hello, I have an unusual situation and problem at which I've been chipping away. The base technology predates my IT experience. My wife is sensitive to what she describes as electromagnetic fields. She gets

Repository mirror ftp.us.debian.org 204.152.191.39 gone bad?

2008-01-18 Thread Jonathan Wilson
Hello, Because I live in the US I prefer to use ftp.us.debian.org as my mirror of choice in my apt source, however every once in a while I have problems with it, which makes me think I should give up and use a different mirror. I think the correct solution though is to fix the bad mirror,

Re: sed -i turns link into file

2008-01-17 Thread Jonathan Wilson
On Thursday 17 January 2008 10:48:41 Johannes Wiedersich wrote: I encountered something rather odd and in my eyes disturbing: if I edit a symlinked file with an ordinary editor (nano, kate, ...) the editor edits the file instead and leaves the symlink intact. I Tried this on SuSE and it

Re: 3rd SATA scrambles drive order? Begin: Waiting for root file system . . . . . .

2008-01-03 Thread Jonathan Wilson
On Wednesday 02 January 2008 23:40, Paul Johnson wrote: On Jan 2, 2008 9:37 PM, Jonathan Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there something I can do about this? To make the new drive be sdc, I mean? Why not mount by filesystem label instead of device name? The filesystem label doesn't

Re: 3rd SATA scrambles drive order? Begin: Waiting for root file system . . . . . .

2008-01-03 Thread Jonathan Wilson
On Thursday 03 January 2008 13:02, Ron Johnson wrote: On 01/03/08 11:52, Jonathan Wilson wrote: Someone else said using IDs in fstab only works with ext2/3, obviously tune2fs does, and I use ReiserFS. What then? I'm interested in thre Maybe part, since UUIDs won't work for my situation. I

Recommended way to upgrade from Sarge to Etch

2008-01-02 Thread Jonathan Wilson
Please excuse the dumb question, but: Is this still the recommended way to upgrade from Sarge to Etch?: http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html That page makes it out like using aptitude is somehow better than apt-get. I've never used aptitude, only

Re: Recommended way to upgrade from Sarge to Etch

2008-01-02 Thread Jonathan Wilson
On Wednesday 02 January 2008 20:28, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: Then again, my upgrade ended up killing libc6 in the middle which gave the system a heart attack. I reinstalled. And since I know from experience that these things happen, that's why I double-checked. Also, sometimes the pros have

3rd SATA scrambles drive order? Begin: Waiting for root file system . . . . . .

2008-01-02 Thread Jonathan Wilson
I have a computer with an Intel mainboard (Ill look up the exact model later if it matters) running Etch. / is an 80G SATA on SATA1. /data is a 500G SATA drive on SATA2. I've never had any trouble with the system. I ran out of space on /data so I've installed a 3rd drive, 750G. I've only got

Re: Correct way to add multiple secondary IPsto one dev/interface in /etc/network/interfaces?

2007-12-21 Thread Jonathan Wilson
Does anyone know the correct way to add multiple secondary IPs (in other words, a base device IP, and 2 or more additional IPs) to one device interface, in this case, eth0. I accidently sent the original post before I finished typing. When I use a config like the last example, networking

Re: Correct way to add multiple secondary IPsto one dev/interface in /etc/network/interfaces?

2007-12-21 Thread Jonathan Wilson
On Friday 21 December 2007 12:49, Jonathan Wilson wrote: Does anyone know the correct way to add multiple secondary IPs (in other words, a base device IP, and 2 or more additional IPs) to one device interface, in this case, eth0. I accidently sent the original post before I finished typing

Correct way to add multiple secondary IPsto one dev/interface in /etc/network/interfaces?

2007-12-21 Thread Jonathan Wilson
Note: this email is purposely NOT word-wrapped butcause I'm having trouble with a conf file, and don't want word-wrapping in the wrong place adding confusion) Does anyone know the correct way to add multiple secondary IPs (in other words, a base device IP, and 2 or more additional IPs) to

Re: Correct way to add multiple secondary IPsto one dev/interface in /etc/network/interfaces?

2007-12-21 Thread Jonathan Wilson
On Friday 21 December 2007 13:42, Adrian Levi wrote: On 22/12/2007, Jonathan Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's the most important example from the original post. It works as-is. If I uncomment the commented up and down lines, everything breaks. Yes, I have real numbers and not nnn

Re: Correct way to add multiple secondary IPsto one dev/interface in /etc/network/interfaces?

2007-12-21 Thread Jonathan Wilson
On Friday 21 December 2007 15:00, Cameron Hutchison wrote: Orig-To: Jonathan Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Here's the most important example from the original post. It works as-is. If I uncomment the commented up and down lines, everything breaks. Can you describe in more detail what everything

Re: Correct way to add multiple secondary IPsto one dev/interface in /etc/network/interfaces?

2007-12-21 Thread Jonathan Wilson
On Friday 21 December 2007 14:56, Cameron Hutchison wrote: Adrian Levi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: AFAIK ip, route et al are called my ifconfig to do the work. This is not right. ifconfig uses the old ioctl interface to control the network interfaces. ip uses the new netlink protocol. Creating

Etch-compatible PCIe X4 network card?

2007-11-27 Thread Jonathan Wilson
Does anyone know of a PCIe X4 (please note the e) NIC that works out-of-the-box with Debian Etch? When I say out-of-the-box I mean no kernel recompiles, no installing of additional third-party drivers. I really only need a 10/100BT card but I'm guessing no one makes such a slow card with a

How to debug network lockups and test /etc/network/interfaces config?

2007-10-23 Thread Jonathan Wilson
Short Summary: I have an Etch install that does not behave like all my other etch installs it locks up when I restart the networking, even if I haven't changed the configuration. I can't find anything strange in /etc/network/interfaces, and nothing helpful in the logs. I'd also like to know

iptables --list is very slow

2007-10-15 Thread Jonathan Wilson
I just tried using iptables --list on one of my servers and it took about 4 minutes for it to list all the rules, pausing several seconds between each batch of lines. There are a lot of rules, but if all those lines were in a text file it would only take a fraction of a second to cat them. So

Re: HELP! can't become root

2007-10-11 Thread Jonathan Wilson
On Wednesday 10 October 2007 13:04, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Tue, Oct 09, 2007 at 05:25:17PM -0700, tom arnall wrote: Well, I got a list of perm's for stuff in /dev (from a sarge system. I'm on etch). There were only two diff's: two sound devices. But there are lots of insane

Re: HELP! can't become root

2007-10-11 Thread Jonathan Wilson
On Thursday 11 October 2007 13:04, Jonathan Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 10 October 2007 13:04, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: I seem to recall once I did a chown -R something and it followed the /. and /.. links in the directory so that it started walking up the directory tree. luckily I

Re: HELP! can't become root

2007-10-11 Thread Jonathan Wilson
On Thursday 11 October 2007 13:16, Jonathan Wilson wrote: It does indeed climb up one level - just one, I don't know why. Well, I guess I do know why: because it's using ../ I'll crawl back under my rock now . . . JW -- -- System Administrator - Cedar Creek

Should /etc/hostname contain the whole FQDN?

2007-08-31 Thread Jonathan Wilson
I have been trying to find out the exact and proper way to set the host and domain name on Debian and it's clear as mud. Searching the internet gives all sorts of conflicting answers. First, I thought the way to do it was to put the FQDN in /etc/hostname. Then I ended up with

ip / iproute obeleted? Secondary IPs vs. IP Aliases

2007-08-31 Thread Jonathan Wilson
I'm trying to install some software that is able to add secondary IP addresses to the computer. I've alway used to useing ip aliases, with ifconfig, for example.: eth0:1 The docs I'm reading recommend using secondary ips instead of aliases. It says that IP Aliases are deprecated in favor of

How do I add a gateway to eth1?

2007-05-09 Thread Jonathan Wilson
I need help figuring out how to add a second gateway to eth1, so that ping -I eth1 www.google.com works as well as through the default gw on eth0 I need it because I'm I have a server with 2 NICs: eth0 is an external IP, eth1 is connected to the private LAN (192.168.0.) and this server is

Re: audacity number fonts

2007-04-26 Thread Jonathan Wilson
On Thursday 26 Apr 2007, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 09:53:19PM +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: On Friday 20 Apr 2007, Bob McGowan wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: to your problem. I'd guess its more of a font issue than an audacity issue. I know that

Re: daylight saving

2007-03-29 Thread Jonathan Wilson
Hi all, I'm intrigued about how linux changes the time according to the daylight saving time rules. I know that those rules are stored in /usr/share/zoneinfo/ but I don't know which process does this change, I'm pretty sure it can't be a cron task that does this change, am I wrong?

Re: What do I use to reconfigure the network /after/ initial install on Etch?

2007-03-16 Thread Jonathan Wilson
Etherconf disappeared in Etch - I don't know why. Does any utility exist in Etch for [re]configuring the basic network settings? None that I am aware of. You have to do it by hand. Interesting trend. I suppose eventually we'll see the elimination of alsaconf, printconf, installation

What do I use to reconfigure the network /after/ initial install on Etch?

2007-03-14 Thread Jonathan Wilson
Hello, On Debian Sarge, I used to use dpkg-reconfigure etherconf to reconfigure the network settings after the basic install was finished (if I needed to change the settings). Just in case you don't know, dpkg-reconfigure etherconf brought up an ncurses interface for configuring network

Etherconf gone? What do I configure NICs with?

2006-12-20 Thread Jonathan Wilson
Hello, Main question: What should I use to setup network cards in Etch? Details: For the last year or so I've been using the package etherconf to set up secondary network cards and whenever I needed to change the initial configuration. Typically I apt-get install ethconf and for subsequent

Can't boot stable/sarge on new Intel D102GGC2L mainboard while USB is enabled

2006-09-14 Thread Jonathan Wilson
For the archives: The local company I've been purchasing workstations from has recently begun using a newer model of mainboard, the Intel D102GGC2L mainboard. As best I can tell these are pretty new. They use the LGA775 chipset ,RC410 Northbridge and IXP 450 Southbridge - I don't know if these

apt-file will not update: bad link to the file list on security.debian.org

2006-05-03 Thread Jonathan Wilson
I am used to using apt-file to look at some information about packages before I install them - specifically the list of what file they provide ( apt-file list ). apt-file has to be updated with apt-file update just like apt-get does. For the last few days I've been trying to update apt-file