Re: selinux: audit2allow missing module

2006-06-14 Thread Olafur Jens Sigurdsson
Þann 2006-06-14, 12:22:27 (+0200) skrifaði Bruno Costacurta: > Hello, > audit2allow (from package policycoreutils) returns the following error: > > > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/usr/bin/audit2allow", line 27, in ? > import commands, sys, os, pwd, string, getopt, re, selinux > Imp

Re: /dev/fuse has wrong permissions?

2006-06-13 Thread Olafur Jens Sigurdsson
Þann 2006-06-12, 17:18:25 (+) skrifaði Olafur Jens Sigurdsson: > Hi, I just installed fuse-source and used module-assistant to compile > it and install it (all done as root) and now i cant access /dev/fuse as a > regular user (even though I am a member of the fuse group as id and >

Re: Installing a dual-boot Linux and Windows system with two hard drives...

2006-06-12 Thread Olafur Jens Sigurdsson
Þann 2006-06-12, 14:45:10 (-0700) skrifaði Redefined Horizons: > I'm currently running Debian Sarge and MS Windows XP Office on the > same 8GB hard drive. I talked my IT guy out of a 20 GB hard drive. I'd > like to install Debian on the new 20GB harddrive, and install MS > Windows on the 8 GB hard

Re: Sound issues

2006-06-12 Thread Olafur Jens Sigurdsson
Well, assuming you are running alsa modules to run your hardware, then you can use alsaconf (found in the alsa-utils package) to configure the sound levels of your sound card. If you are not using alsa modules you can just get any other mixer (KDE should have one) and fiddle around with the setting

/dev/fuse has wrong permissions?

2006-06-12 Thread Olafur Jens Sigurdsson
Hi, I just installed fuse-source and used module-assistant to compile it and install it (all done as root) and now i cant access /dev/fuse as a regular user (even though I am a member of the fuse group as id and groups show) since /dev/fuse looks like this: crw-rw 1 root root 10, 229 2006-06-

Re: kernel problems

2006-06-12 Thread Olafur Jens Sigurdsson
Þann 2006-06-12, 12:45:36 (-0400) skrifaði Roberto Sanchez: > Before you do that, what are the contents of /etc/kernel-img.conf? do_symlinks = yes relative_links = yes do_bootloader = no do_bootfloppy = no do_initrd = yes link_in_boot = no thats it. Oli -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PRO

Re: kernel problems

2006-06-12 Thread Olafur Jens Sigurdsson
Well, never mind, I solved it. What was wrong was that the /boot/initrd.img symlink didnt get updated. Why is that? Should I file a bug against this package? Oli Þann 2006-06-12, 16:28:12 (+) skrifaði Olafur Jens Sigurdsson: > Hi list > > I am having problems booting into my 2.6

kernel problems

2006-06-12 Thread Olafur Jens Sigurdsson
Hi list I am having problems booting into my 2.6.16-2-486 kernel, it stops at some error messages the look like the following (this is pasted from another web page where someone had a similar problem and didnt get any answeres, it is edited to fit my case). modprobe: Can't open dependencies file

Re: Can't find libselinux1

2006-06-12 Thread Olafur Jens Sigurdsson
Hi Allen, try to read the man page for apt-cdrom, it tells apt-get to fetch packages from the cdrom instead of from the net if that is what you really want (it is best to fetch packages from the net since then you allways have access to the lates packages), read the man page for apt-cdrom and perha

Re: Mozilla-mplayer Problem

2006-06-12 Thread Olafur Jens Sigurdsson
Þann 2006-06-11, 17:56:11 (-0400) skrifaði Thomas H. George: > Mozilla can no longer display Windows media. Sounds like a missing codec, see mplayers site about how to install the right codecs (dont know why that particular codec was removed). Oli -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: local (parallel) printer does not show up when configuring cups

2006-06-10 Thread Olafur Jens Sigurdsson
Þann 2006-06-10, 18:12:58 (-0400) skrifaði Eike Lantzsch: > Somehow my parallel devices /dev/lp0 to /dev/lp2 have evaporated. No hardware > problem - I can print with that unloved "OS" from Redmond. > I got devices in /dev/.static/dev/lp0 but I cannot "cat printtest.txt > > /dev/.static/dev/lp0"

Re: dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg fails

2006-06-09 Thread Olafur Jens Sigurdsson
Þann 2006-06-09, 08:57:21 (-0400) skrifaði [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg > > which complains > > xserver-xorg postint warning: not updating /etc/X11/X; file has been > customised Hmm, seem to remember someone else posting about this a short while ago (within a month), ha

Re: Target filesystem

2006-06-09 Thread Olafur Jens Sigurdsson
Þann 2006-06-09, 13:33:12 (+0100) skrifaði Digby Tarvin: > Looks more like a problem with booting to the wrong filesystem. We > probably need to know what the first few error messages were rather > that the final result. Have you changed to boot config recently? > What is the kernel command line?

Re: Reading /VAR/LOG Files????

2006-06-09 Thread Olafur Jens Sigurdsson
Þann 2006-06-09, 05:27:46 (-0700) skrifaði Leonard Chatagnier: > How does one read in human readable terms a log file > that is a binary file such a faillog? There are other > binary log files that I would like to check but don't > know how. > I'm sure debian wouldn't put the file there if it > cou

Re: source code editor

2006-06-04 Thread Olafur Jens Sigurdsson
Þann 2006-06-01, 10:12:46 (+0200) skrifaði Ivan Glushkov: > Hi all, > > I would like to know which is the best & lightest editor for source code > editing, which supports syntax highlighting. Currently when I want to > edit fast some C/C++ file I am opening it with pico. I looked around, > but

Re: how to detect if a jpeg file is progressive or not

2006-05-31 Thread Olafur Jens Sigurdsson
Þann 2006-05-31, 17:12:36 (-0400) skrifaði H.S.: > > Hello, > > I have searched google but haven't found an answer I was looking for. I > want to upload some family pics to share among relatives. Some have > dialup connections. To facilitate image downloads in their browsers, I > want to upload p

Re: keyboard not working anymore in Xorg

2006-05-28 Thread Olafur Jens Sigurdsson
Þann 2006-05-28, 11:15:51 (+0200) skrifaði Bart Schelstraete: > > -- > > > > More information is in /etc/X11/xkb/README.config. Another possible > > approach is to temporarily remove /etc/X11/xorg.conf (by renaming it) > > and trying if "dpkg-reconfigure -plow xserver-xorg" comes up with a > > Thi

Re: How to test a hard drive

2006-05-27 Thread Olafur Jens Sigurdsson
Þann 2006-05-28, 00:36:45 (+0200) skrifaði thierry: > Is there any way to test an HD before installing an new system on it? > I haave a strong suspiion about the reability of this HD, but money is > still a problem in disregarding it right away I guess you could just format it with a ext2 partiti

Re: keyboard not working anymore in Xorg

2006-05-27 Thread Olafur Jens Sigurdsson
Þann 2006-05-27, 08:23:09 (+0200) skrifaði Bart Schelstraete: > debian:/etc/X11# dpkg-reconfigure -plow xserver-xorg > xserver-xorg config warning: failed to infer keyboard layout from layout/lang >'10 debian-installer/keymap doesn't exist--' > xserver-xorg postinst warning: not updating /etc/X

Re: keyboard not working anymore in Xorg

2006-05-26 Thread Olafur Jens Sigurdsson
Þann 2006-05-26, 12:09:20 (+0200) skrifaði Bart Schelstraete: > Hi, > > I'm using the current Debian 'unstable', and since yesterday my X > doesn't accept the key inputs anymore. When I press a key, nothing > happens. So my X is unusable. > > I noticed the log below, somebody who knows what I can

Re: rdate, ntp configuration

2006-05-26 Thread Olafur Jens Sigurdsson
Þann 2006-05-26, 15:33:29 (+0200) skrifaði Hans du Plooy: > On Thu, 2006-05-25 at 14:41 +, Olafur Jens Sigurdsson wrote: > > Have you tried to grep through the /etc directory to search for the IP > > for instance? Or just grep for rdate and see what you get. > > That&#x

Re: is it a bad idea to use unstable on a server ?

2006-05-26 Thread Olafur Jens Sigurdsson
Þann 2006-05-26, 19:08:47 (+0200) skrifaði Felix C. Stegerman: > Hi, > > I've been using unstable on my desktop for several years now, and I'm > very happy with it. I don't mind the occasional breakage, and > actually think fixing bugs can be fun ;-). What I am planning to do > now, is to set up

Re: mount a cd with /dev/scd0

2006-05-26 Thread Olafur Jens Sigurdsson
Þann 2006-05-26, 13:35:01 (+0200) skrifaði Mark Walter: > Hi, > > I'am using a vanilla kernel and I'am trying to mount a cd with: > > mount -t iso9660 /dev/scd0 /mnt > > but I receive the error message: > > mount: /dev/scd0 is not a valid block device What does dmesg tell you? Is the drive rea

Re: Installation

2006-05-26 Thread Olafur Jens Sigurdsson
Þann 2006-05-26, 04:39:55 (-0400) skrifaði N A: > Is it possible to install Debian as a dual-boot on an Intel Celeron > system using only the existing windows partition and a removable hard > drive ~250MiB? If so, how would one do so? Yes, you can do that by using a virtual machine (see http://

Re: Grep

2006-05-26 Thread Olafur Jens Sigurdsson
Þann 2006-05-25, 19:04:36 (-0400) skrifaði Richard: > Is there a way to read mp3 ID3 tags using greg?, > to find a certain information. > ie. joint stereo, and being able to select those, and delete them, > from the folder. You have to use an external tool (something like eyed3 on the mp3 files) a

Re: rdate, ntp configuration

2006-05-25 Thread Olafur Jens Sigurdsson
Þann 2006-05-24, 23:22:19 (+0200) skrifaði Hans du Plooy: > Hi guys, > > I'm getting a mail every now and then (a few times a day, it seems): > > Subject: > Cron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /usr/sbin/rdate 128.2.136.71 | logger -t NTP > > Body: > rdate: connect: Connection refused > > For the life of m

Re: Can I safely remove gconf and gconf2?

2006-05-25 Thread Olafur Jens Sigurdsson
Þann 2006-05-24, 14:18:10 (-0700) skrifaði Marc Shapiro: > I do NOT run gnome (or KDE), I use fvwm. > > I am trying to clean up my system and eliminate unnecessary packages. > > I have previously removed quite a few gnome applications, but some > things remain. > > I note that gconfd-2 is runni

Re: Installing TBSS after Debian Packages

2006-05-06 Thread Olafur Jens Sigurdsson
Þann 2006-05-05, 18:56:50 (-0400) skrifaði Gil Citro: > I'm running Debian sarge on an AMD64 processor (but only running 32 > software due to caring more about compatibility than performance) and > am trying to install FSL. I installed from the Debian packages which > worked fine. > > The documen

Re: Audio don't work without DM

2006-05-05 Thread Olafur Jens Sigurdsson
Þann 2006-05-05, 20:28:36 (+0200) skrifaði Andrea Ganduglia: > I'm becoming a true geek, I removed wdm and now after login I type > `startx', but audio don't work without {X,D}DM. Why? Could have something to do with settings of your mixer. Try out alsamixer (or some other audio mixer) and play a

Re: Converting from rgb to cmyk

2006-05-05 Thread Olafur Jens Sigurdsson
Þann 2006-05-05, 19:43:08 (+0200) skrifaði Søren Christensen: > I have some jpg-graphics, that I need to use in a leaflet-folder, that > shall be printed in offset. > > The jpg-graphics are in rgb-colormodel, but the printer would like to > have them in the cmyk-model. > > How can I convert betwe

Re: newbie question on finding and keeping customized files with dpkg or apt

2006-04-14 Thread Olafur Jens Sigurdsson
Hi Marco, if it is enough for you to just check for MD5 sums then use the debsums program, it does that for you. Cheers Oli Þann 2006-04-14, 18:04:03 (+0200) skrifaði Marco Prandini: > > Hello, > I'm switching to Debian after a long time on RedHat, and I haven't been > able to find a couple of

Re: HP Lightscribe and Etch

2006-04-14 Thread Olafur Jens Sigurdsson
Þann 2006-04-14, 05:47:50 (-0400) skrifaði Simon Meelich: > Hi list, > > is there any product for Linux, which can print to a HP Lightscribe DVD > burner? Umm, have you tried out any of the cd-burning programs (dont know if they work)? Here are a few: arson, cdrbq, eroaster, gcdw, k3b, nautilus

Re: Problem with ikeygen and ssh-keygen

2006-04-14 Thread Olafur Jens Sigurdsson
Þann 2006-04-13, 15:13:09 (+0200) skrifaði Jörg Herzinger: > I installed Debain Sarge on an old Pentium II machine. No I got the problem > that these 2 packages (ssh and pidentd) return an "invalid machine command" > (translated from german so the exact english error may differ a bit). > I alrea

Re: Release cycle

2006-03-12 Thread Olafur Jens Sigurdsson
Þann 2006-03-11, 22:07:44 (-0500) skrifaði Mark Fletcher: > gawab wrote: > > > Steve Lamb wrote: > > > >> Marc Shapiro said: > >> > >> > >>> Personally, my theory on the REAL reason that the release cycles have > >>> been getting so long is that we are running out of "Toy Story" > >>> character

Re: Hardware

2006-03-11 Thread Olafur Jens Sigurdsson
Þann 2006-03-10, 22:55:03 (-0500) skrifaði William Roca: > Hi, my name is William. I am about to install Debian Operating System, but > I have a problem. While trying to install, I got a message that said: "no > Ethernet card detected". Could you help? Is your case perhaps that you dont have an

Re: xine under sarge

2006-03-11 Thread Olafur Jens Sigurdsson
Þann 2006-03-11, 10:58:38 (+0100) skrifaði Mark Walter: > I mount the DVD with: > > mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt Uhh, why do you mount the DVD? Xine should just read the DVD unmounted just like with a music CD right? > The first time I started xine there was a player where it was able to >

Re: I can not lock screen.

2006-03-11 Thread Olafur Jens Sigurdsson
Þann 2006-03-11, 19:22:22 (+0700) skrifaði Surachai Locharoen: > I use debian testing and Gnome 2.12. I can not lock screen. How to fix > it? Is this problem related to the xscreenserver? because I have > initialize xscreenserver and see the xscreenserver demo. Do you get any error messages? Oli

Re: Files piling up in /var/* directories

2006-03-11 Thread Olafur Jens Sigurdsson
Þann 2006-03-11, 04:52:27 (-0700) skrifaði Charles: > I've noticed that I have files piling up in /var/cache, /var/log, and > /var/lib. These three folders now have 100 mb of files in them. > > > Which of these must be present for the machine to run? This is (at the > moment) a home machine;

Re: Re: udev doesn't creat /dev/audio

2006-03-11 Thread Olafur Jens Sigurdsson
Þann 2006-03-11, 04:47:40 (-0800) skrifaði belahcene abdelkader: > thanks, > right > but in my case 2.6.8 there is no snd-hda-intel.ko > > dpkg -S snd-hda-intel.ko > dpkg : *snd-hda-intel.ko* not found > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ uname -a > Linux debian21 2.6.8-2-386 #1 Thu May 19 17:40:50 JST > 2005

Re: RADEONDRIScreenInit failed because of a version mismatch

2006-03-11 Thread Olafur Jens Sigurdsson
No wonder you cant find any radon.o kernel modules since the modules name is radeon.ko (notice the extra e and k) and are located in /lib/modules/(kernel-version)/kernel/drivers/char/drm/ Try upgrading your kernel to 2.6.14, dont know if it has the desired version of the radeon module but it is wo

Re: definition of global variables

2006-03-10 Thread Olafur Jens Sigurdsson
Þann 2006-03-10, 12:49:57 (+0100) skrifaði Marco Calviani: > Hi list, >i would like to define global variables for all the user of a > Debian system, for example the following: > > CERN=/usr/local/cernlib > CERN_LEVEL=2005 > CERN_ROOT=/usr/local/cernlib/2005 > PATH=/usr/local/cernlib/2005/bin

Re: Page crashes mozilla: BadAlloc

2006-03-10 Thread Olafur Jens Sigurdsson
It crashed my firefox, 1.0.7-1 running on sid. File a bug report I would say. Oli Þann 2006-03-09, 14:09:22 (-0500) skrifaði Winston Smith: > Could someone check if this link crashes mozilla and firefox as it does > for me? Thanks. Win > > $ mozilla > 'http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/find

Re: Problem with pc, kernel oops, applications crashed

2006-03-09 Thread Olafur Jens Sigurdsson
A few suggestions. Make sure that everything is in its slots (memory, even though you have checked it, PCI cards, plugs etc etc). Then try removing thins bit by bit and see what happens. Or you might try out another kernel to begin with :-) Everthing fails, mail to the kernel guys .. http://www.ke

Re: Block messages for a mailbox from outside

2006-03-09 Thread Olafur Jens Sigurdsson
Þann 2006-03-09, 14:10:17 (+0200) skrifaði Chavdar Videff: > Dear List, > > I am using sendmail on a debian box to provide e-mail services for a small > domain. > One of the mailboxes gets spammed heavily. > I would like to find out whether I can achieve the following task: > I want to allow only

Re: xserver-xorg fatal configuration

2006-03-07 Thread Olafur Jens Sigurdsson
Hi Tore, just as a final clarification to this problem. The reason that debconf (and then dpkg) failed was that root (the user that you use when running apt-get and dpkg) is not allowed to connect to the X server by default if it is run by another user. I know this sounds strange since root is the

Re: xserver-xorg fatal configuration

2006-03-07 Thread Olafur Jens Sigurdsson
Þann 2006-03-07, 08:04:42 (-0600) skrifaði Kent West: > Now I see two possible problems: 1) the libkdecore.so.4 file, which I > still suspect, so I really would encourage you to try the things I > suggested earlier which you thought had no bearing on your problem. 2) > Apparently you have your syst

Re: xserver-xorg fatal configuration

2006-03-06 Thread Olafur Jens Sigurdsson
Try purging the package and then reinstalling it, removing does just like you say, it doesnt delete the configuration files but purging does, try dpkg --purge xserver-xorg Or you can allso try out apt-get -f ... the -f switch is --fix-broken (it is usually used to fix broken dependencies but just

Re: mount previously formatted linux drive

2006-03-04 Thread Olafur Jens Sigurdsson
Þann 2006-03-04, 15:35:43 (-0500) skrifaði Marty Landman: > I have installed woody on hda and also mounted hdd. hdc is my cdrom and hdb > is a 250gb linux drive from an old redhat installation on this box which > has data on it I would like to keep. During the Woody install I attempted > to moun

Re: Help with apt-get upgrade .

2006-03-03 Thread Olafur Jens Sigurdsson
Hmm, seems that the apt-get upgrade process is trying to open a connection to the X server and is of course refused to do so. Try to type in the xterm, before you do su, xhost + (this gives anyone access to your X server, not very secure though), then su and do the apt-get upgrade, then exit from

Re: What do you do with a .jar file?

2006-03-02 Thread Olafur Jens Sigurdsson
Þann 2006-03-02, 12:53:54 (-0800) skrifaði ke6isf: > Running Sarge with the Sun Java package installed, per the instructions > provided on the IRC channel. > > OK, so I have this .jar file. If I open it using 'java > hidejournal-0.3.1.jar', it gives me: > > Exception in thread "main" java.lang

Re: loading modules (or not!)

2006-03-02 Thread Olafur Jens Sigurdsson
Þann 2006-03-02, 11:53:50 (+0100) skrifaði Renato Serodio: > Hello all, > > I'm puzzled by the module system for kernel 2.6. Everything's working > fine, that's a point, but still.. > > I used make-kpkg to create my kernel and modules, in this case ipw2100 > and ieee_sth. After installing them, I

Re: User And Group create failures - sarge

2006-03-02 Thread Olafur Jens Sigurdsson
Þann 2006-03-02, 12:29:19 (+0200) skrifaði Marlon v/d Linde :: Clue: > # addgroup --system bind > Adding group `bind' (111)... > Done. > > Obviously this worked: > > # getent group bind > bind:x:111: > > > but now I have to create a user, in that group: > > # adduser --system --home /var/cache

Re: xorg sdk

2006-03-02 Thread Olafur Jens Sigurdsson
Þann 2006-03-02, 04:50:52 (-0500) skrifaði Kevin Mark: > On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 10:27:23AM +0100, Lubos Vrbka wrote: > > hi guys, > > > > which packages i need to install to have 'xorg sdk'? i need it to build > > wacom_drv for graphire4 tablet (btw, does anyone have experience with > > making

Re: printing problem

2006-03-02 Thread Olafur Jens Sigurdsson
Þann 2006-03-01, 12:54:20 (-0500) skrifaði Kevin B. McCarty: > Olafur Jens Sigurdsson wrote: > > > Þann 2006-02-13, 13:07:46 (+) skrifaði Olafur Jens Sigurdsson: > >> Hi > >> > >> I have a problem printing to a network printer here at school. > &

Re: printing problem

2006-03-01 Thread Olafur Jens Sigurdsson
. How do I tell lp (or lpr) to use the localhost cups server and not the one that the school provides? Cheers Oli Þann 2006-02-13, 13:07:46 (+) skrifaði Olafur Jens Sigurdsson: > Hi > > I have a problem printing to a network printer here at school. > > The spool that the sch

cupsdconf wont start

2006-02-28 Thread Olafur Jens Sigurdsson
Hi I am having some major problems here with CUPS. The first thing I want to find out is why I cant start cupsdconf, when I try to start it as either normal user or root I get the message: Unable to retrieve configuration file from the CUPS server. You probably don't have the access permissions

Re: printing problem

2006-02-13 Thread Olafur Jens Sigurdsson
Þann 2006-02-13, 11:56:01 (-0500) skrifaði Patrick Wiseman: > Have you installed cups-bsd, which replaces lp, etc. with CUPS-aware > substitutes? Yes. Why should that be an issue by the way? I should be able to use lp and other CUPS programs to communicate with the printer shouldnt I? I mean, I a

Re: about tar

2006-02-13 Thread Olafur Jens Sigurdsson
Þann 2006-02-13, 05:41:18 (-0800) skrifaði Nevruz Mesut Sahin: > > > Dear Friends I wrote tar -czvf > /disk1/data/folders/disk1/data/xyz but gives error > below: The destination for the archive should be the first argument to tar from the man page: tar -cvvf foo.tar foo/

printing problem

2006-02-13 Thread Olafur Jens Sigurdsson
Hi I have a problem printing to a network printer here at school. The spool that the school provides is no good so I am trying to create my own on my computer and talk directly to the printer (then I allso have better control over my printing, I like that more). The printer is a HP Color LaserJe

Re: smp: am i seeing double?

2004-11-12 Thread Jens Bech Madsen
On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 17:14:28 -, linux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A quick question about hardware. I'm 99% sure my box has 2 Xeon processors in > it. I had installed the sarge kernel then got the > kernel-image-2.4.27-1-686-smp_2.4.27-1.backports.org.1_i386.deb > package and installed smoo

Re: evolution and web-browser ??

2004-09-13 Thread Jens Koegler
not find the place/file where to tell evolution this > changement > > Any hints on this topic?? > > yours, > > Richard Try "gnome-default-applications-properties". -- Jens Koegler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) sebnitzer fensterbau GmbH -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: WEB-Browser with links in evolution ??

2004-09-09 Thread Jens Koegler
Try "gnome-default-applications-properties" as user. -- Jens Koegler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Fon: +49 35791 59476gnome-default-applications-properties Fax: +49 35971 59429 IT sebnitzer fensterbau GmbH -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe&quo

re: backport(s) site

2004-05-25 Thread Jens Simmoleit
> > M > > Thanks for your help. > I added to sources.list > deb http://www.backports.org/debian stable > deb-src http://www.backports.org/debian stable > > and apt-get update came up with error 404, what else is needed to write > after stable? or what am i doing wrong?. > > Thanks again > Hector >

RE: apache/php/mysql help

2004-05-24 Thread Jens Simmoleit
> > > I have been running apache/php/mysql successfully for a very long > > time. Suddenly this morning my php web pages return > > > > Fatal error: Call to undefined function: mysql_connect() > > > > I can process the web page from the command line but not from apache. > > > > OK, I've found the p

RE: firewall considerations

2004-05-24 Thread Jens Simmoleit
Hi James,   Top post as I can't get this nasty thing to answer without the blue lines in front, sry   Take a look at this FW, www.ipcop.org, AFAIK it's also buildable on an existing Debian machines. This baby has everything, I guess it also should be possible to enter your special rules to

problems with smbclient & tar option - file size limitation?

2004-05-21 Thread Jens Simmoleit
Hi List, I'm setting up a small backup script using the smbclient command with the tar option. The machine that needs to be backuped is a W2K-Server. I thought it might be a good idea to test if the backup will work properly, to my surprise it won't. smbclient //192.168.1.150/hhwwwroot "" -N -Tc

RE: Escputil --raw-device and CUPS

2004-05-21 Thread Jens Simmoleit
> I don't think CUPS has that much to do with anything escputil does. At > least I've thought that it communicates directly with the printer, not > through CUPS. > If that's true you might also check if this has something to do with the bios settings. AFAIK all modern printers (from 3-5 years back

RE: MySQL Server Setup Problems

2004-05-19 Thread Jens Simmoleit
> > I'm not even certain its a debian problem, its just a brand new install > so I figured I'd start here and ask around. A search of the mailing list > archive turned up nothing usefull so here I am. :) > > Thanks in advance! > > James Hi James, did you make sure the database user has all the r

RE: malicious scans

2004-05-19 Thread Jens Simmoleit
http://ports.tantalo.net/index.php Try it with 445, you'll see the "normal" programs/services for this port and also listed e.g. (in RED) the Sasser worm. is that what you meant? Greets, Simmel P.S.: Combined with the previous urls you should have some material now I guess :-) -- To UNS

RE: Back up a Windows box w/o Samba?

2004-05-19 Thread Jens Simmoleit
> > That went very badly. Ended up with her crying, literally, and snuffling > things like "So I can't do what the other 97% of the world can do?" > Well at least you could tell her that the other 97% can get viruses and worms, ending up in having NO system at all, which might be worth overthinki

RE: Harddisk not recognized

2004-05-17 Thread Jens Simmoleit
> > Hi, > > the BIOS if my motherboard doesn't recognize my > new 160GB harddisk correctly. I'd like to boot from this > device. > Is there a way to overcome this problem with lilo etc. ? > > Thanx. > > Regards, > > Christian > Hi Chris, go to the page of the vendor for your motherboard and downl

RE: malicious scans

2004-05-17 Thread Jens Simmoleit
> > Hi, > > Anybody know where I can get some detailed info on the > characteristics of trojans/viruses that scan for vulnerabilities ? > Specifically, I'm trying to determine if a pattern of scanned ports I have > noticed on my machine is characteristic of any particular > trojan/virus/mali

RE: what is available for reading mail stored in mysql

2004-05-17 Thread Jens Simmoleit
> > Jens Simmoleit wrote: > >>Hi Deb-users, > >>I am started to work on a new email solution where I used a text file DB > >>to store my sorting preferences and then inside procmail, it move > >>my mail to the correct MBOX. > >>But I got bored wi

RE: Back up a Windows box w/o Samba?

2004-05-17 Thread Jens Simmoleit
>She's learning how to use a > computer for the very first time, and learning Linux from day one. Kinda > cool. :) > Cool indeed :-) my Mom doesn't even like pc's :-/ > > The trouble is Samba. I started setting that up, and it didn't take long > before I got sick to my stomach. I know it can

RE: [OT] Might this be a symptom of a virus/worm?

2004-05-17 Thread Jens Simmoleit
> > > > I wouldn't worry about it. It was likely stripped out of some > > previous message header. > > That's what I thought most likely, just that Googling for "chipster > robert virus" (without the quotes) failed to turn up any references to > a virus using those fake user names, so I was wonde

RE: what is available for reading mail stored in mysql

2004-05-17 Thread Jens Simmoleit
> > Hi Deb-users, > I am started to work on a new email solution where I used a text file DB > to store my sorting preferences and then inside procmail, it move > my mail to the correct MBOX. > But I got bored with it. Now I have my > mail being sent to both an MBOX and a mysql DB. The idea is to

RE: postfix not connecting to mysql

2004-05-14 Thread Jens Simmoleit
> > I am trying to set up postfix to use mysql, and I seem to be having a few > issues. Here are some of the errors I am getting. > > May 13 10:10:39 debian postfix/trivial-rewrite[942]: warning: connect to > mysql server localhost: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket > '/var/run/mys

View Samba file permissions from Linux?

2004-05-13 Thread Jens Benecke
require syncing UIDs/GIDs between our Linux machines, which is close to impossible because we are running different distributions (Debian and SuSE) and different machines have different groups of accounts. Thanks! -- Jens Benecke (jens at spamfreemail.de) http://www.hitchhikers.de - Europaweite k

RE: ppp/diald networking dying under heavy IDE (or CPU?) load

2004-05-11 Thread Jens Simmoleit
> I am getting occasional "kernel: PPP: VJ decompression error" in my > logs. Might that result from dropped characters from a buffer > overrun (e.g., if the CPU is too busy doing PIO disk I/O to service > the serial port frequently enough)? > Hi Daniel, the ppp error message is coming up becaus

RE: ppp/diald networking dying under heavy IDE (or CPU?) load

2004-05-10 Thread Jens Simmoleit
> > Could it be by any chance that the NIC and the ide controller > and also the > > serial port controller are hooked up on the same IRQ? > > At least according to /proc/interrupts, the serial port doesn't seem to > be sharing interrupts: > > # more /proc/interrupts > CPU0 CPU1

RE: [OT] Soemone was looking for an ---> UK <--- ENGLISH keyboard

2004-05-10 Thread Jens Simmoleit
> > P.S.: It's a rock solid PS/2 HP-UX Server Keyboard, vey nice ^^ > Sorry forgot to say that it is --->UK<--- English with British Pounds, etc Simmel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: AW: Debian Server with IPCop

2004-05-10 Thread Jens Simmoleit
> > Yes, you'll need three ports on your firewall for RED/ORANGE/GREEN > respectively. > Yes you can host a website, but you probably should spend some time > learning about apache in more details. It's pretty feature rich. > > > -- Damn right, but for a small setup these tips might give you some

[OT] Soemone was looking for an ENGLISH keyboard

2004-05-10 Thread Jens Simmoleit
and guess what? I've found one in my pile of keyboards I've got @ home If you still would like to have one, you can have this one for free, you'll only need to pay for the shipment. I have no use for it anyway... Drop me some lines with your address and I'll send it straight ahead :-) Sim

AW: Debian Server with IPCop

2004-05-10 Thread Jens Simmoleit
> > Does any one know how to deal with that, my debian is plugged on my green > interface with dhcp, but i don't know how to setup apache, and if > i can host > with that setup .. ? Any suggestions .. ? > Hmh, you should consider using an orange interface called DMZ which was especially build to

AW: PHP4-CLI deb Paket?

2004-05-03 Thread Jens Simmoleit
> > I have it as a command-line tool on my system. Here's what I found: > > home:/etc/exim4# apt-file search '/usr/bin/php4' > php4-cgi: usr/bin/php4 > > > > Ah, so the CLI is in the CGI package, okay :-) Thanks Monique, Simmel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subj

RE: PHP4 apt package with SSL support?

2004-05-03 Thread Jens Simmoleit
> > Create a document containing this: > > phpinfo(); > ?> > yes and to be more precise name it e.g. test.php and call it up like http://myserver.de/test.php You'll find the configure variable there, NEVER leave this on a open server ! Just so that other people know what to do when searchin

AW: Debian security for home user

2004-04-21 Thread Jens Simmoleit
> > Debian certainly has lots of help files for security, > so many that I got overwhelmed. > > Can someone point me to a simple document for a home > user using Debian 3.0 testing on one machine with > dialup connection? That is, just a simple intro or > maybe checklist with pointers. > > Iptables

Re: Debian Slow?

2004-03-25 Thread Jens Benecke
Edward Murrell wrote: > On Sat, 2004-03-06 at 07:16, Jens Benecke wrote: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >> > I'm starting to wonder how much difference gentoo's optimization >> > actually makes. The labs at uni where I'm writing this from have near

Re: Grep only mail headers via STDIN?

2004-03-05 Thread Jens Benecke
Joost De Cock wrote: > On Friday 05 March 2004 10:37, Jens Benecke shoved this in my mailbox: >> I want to create a script that greps for a specific mail header coming >> from STDIN. "mailgrep" and "mboxgrep" don't work, they need files to work >>

Grep only mail headers via STDIN?

2004-03-05 Thread Jens Benecke
am-Flag: YES" BUT where grep would "exit 1;" and not search any further when it encounters the first empty line (the end of the mail headers) Backgroud: I want to filter SPAM but I don't want to filter attached SPAM that people forward to me to analyze. So I can't just gr

Re: SSL capable FTP _client_?

2004-02-10 Thread Jens Benecke
Colin Watson wrote: > On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 05:02:52PM +0100, Jens Benecke wrote: >> Hi, >> >> our department server allows FTP sessions only via SSH2 tunnel (which >> only commercial SSH.com SSH2 can do) > > OpenSSH can open SSH2 tunnels too, surely? OpenSS

Re: SSL capable FTP _client_?

2004-02-10 Thread Jens Benecke
mburg.de Connected to backftp.unibw-hamburg.de. 220 Welcome on UniBwH NetGroup SafeSpace ! Name (backftp.unibw-hamburg.de:XXX): 234 AUTH SSL successful 421 Service not available, remote server has closed connection Login failed. No control connection for command: Success ftp> --

Re: SSL capable FTP _client_?

2004-02-09 Thread Jens Benecke
Sven Hoexter wrote: > On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 07:23:55PM +0100, Jens Simmoleit wrote: >> > >> > So: anybody know a graphical (preferably) client, that can do FTP over >> > SSL or tunneled via SSH? >> > > lftp > yftp > gftp gftp can not do SSH tunne

Re: sftp sources?

2004-02-05 Thread Jens Rantil
h harddrive space such a mirror would take up? /Jens -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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2004-02-05 Thread Jens Simmoleit
will ask my question again @ hppa group :-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: being hacked? - hatches/hardening

2004-02-04 Thread Jens Simmoleit
eally good wall, prebuilt, etc, very nice. the iso is about 40 megs large, so just steal back the old box you gave your little sister to play with, because you thought it would never get a second chance to do anything usefull :-) Greets, Jens P.S.: I'm using a PII with M

Re: Gnome on Debian-HPPA

2004-02-04 Thread Jens Simmoleit
That would be rather nice... normally I just administrate server and I avoid putting too much trash on the hdd, but this time I really need graphics and tasksel won't do the job.. HEEELP :o) Greets, Jens P.S.: I tried to fire up GNOME already but the server won't start up .

Re: SSL capable FTP _client_?

2004-02-04 Thread Jens Simmoleit
somebody there knows more about that topic. HTH, Jens > > Thanks! > > -- > Jens Benecke (jens at spamfreemail.de) > http://www.hitchhikers.de - Europaweite kostenlose Mitfahrzentrale > http://www.spamfreemail.de - 100% saubere Postfächer - garantiert! > http://www.rb

Gnome on Debian-HPPA

2004-02-04 Thread Jens Simmoleit
nk so though, but who knows)? Any help is greatly appreciated, Jens a.k.a. Simmel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

SSL capable FTP _client_?

2004-02-04 Thread Jens Benecke
something called "Webdrive" for Windows as a client and they don't have enough resources to support Linux. So: anybody know a graphical (preferably) client, that can do FTP over SSL or tunneled via SSH? Thanks! -- Jens Benecke (jens at spamfreemail.de) http://www.hitchhikers.d

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