Re: no network/eth0 with etch
On 7/11/07, Ralph Katz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 07/11/2007 11:49 AM, Robert Cates wrote: > Hello Debian Users, > > Does Etch (i386/i486) with the (standard) 2.6.18 kernel have a problem > recognizing (some) network cards? > > I have a problem ever since apt-get dist-upgrade from Sarge to Etch. > Etch with the standard 2.6.18 kernel does not find/recognize my network > cards. Sarge (3.1) did and ran fine, Etch does not, and I even bought a > new network card (which has a different chip) and it still does not. > Not even the Debian installer from the CD1 ISO auto-detects the cards, > or accepts my manual selection. > > I have NetGear FA311 adapters - the older one has the National > Semiconductor chip (DP83816AVNG) which worked fine with Sarge (2.6.8 > kernel) and the newer one has the Realtek RTL8139D chip. > > Oh, what is sit0? When I give >> ifconfig -a I get the loopback and > sit0 interfaces(?). > > All advice/suggestions will be greatly appreciated! Robert, I suspect sit0 is explained in the output of that command: ... sit0 Link encap:IPv6-in-IPv4 ... For your network problem, have you checked the list archives? I know this has come up before. In fact, I have the 8139 RealTek chip and had problems upgrading. Also there are some cautions in the the release notes for etch upgrades that may apply to this: 5.1.7. Asynchronous network initialization may cause unpredictable behavior --- On systems which use `udev' to load drivers for network interfaces, it is possible due to the asynchronous nature of `udev' that the network driver will not be loaded before `/etc/init.d/networking' runs on system boot. Here's one thread that may help where ACPI was the culprit: Subject: Re: 2.6.18-4-686 broke 8139too http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.user/289791 Give us more info, as others have suggested. Good luck! Ralph Katz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] Robert I had problems with my on-board nvia, posted solution to debain forum. In escense had to upgrade the kernel to 2.6.21 from backports to get it to work. Installed a realtech in order to download and install then used the on-board and removed the realtech. Regards Nick
Exim4, GMail TLS error?
Hi all, I've been trying to forward mail from my SID box to my GMail box. I've followed http://wiki.debian.org/GmailAndExim4 and actually successfully managed to get some mails through! However then I ran into problems, Exim now says: "A TLS packet with unexpected length was received." when exim tries to send mails to gmail. Running unstable. Any hints? Regards, David. Below is some output when running $ sudo exim4 -d -M 1I8Y2t-kk-SF SMTP>> AUTH PLAIN tls_do_write(bfa043ec, 33) gnutls_record_send(SSL, bfa043ec, 33) outbytes=33 waiting for data on socket Calling gnutls_record_recv(8110de0, bfa023ec, 4096) read response data: size=20 SMTP<< 235 2.7.0 Accepted plain authenticator yielded 0 SMTP>> MAIL FROM:<> SIZE=41471 tls_do_write(bfa043ec, 25) gnutls_record_send(SSL, bfa043ec, 25) outbytes=25 waiting for data on socket Calling gnutls_record_recv(8110de0, bfa023ec, 4096) LOG: MAIN TLS recv error on connection to gmail-smtp.l.google.com [64.233.183.109]: A TLS packet with unexpected length was received. ok=0 send_quit=0 send_rset=1 continue_more=0 yield=1 first_address is not NULL tls_close(): shutting down TLS LOG: MAIN Remote host gmail-smtp.l.google.com [64.233.183.109] closed connection in response to MAIL FROM:<> SIZE=41471 set_process_info: 29300 delivering 1I8Y2t-kk-SF: just tried gmail- smtp.l.google.com [64.233.183.109] for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: result DEFER added retry item for T:gmail-smtp.l.google.com:64.233.183.109:587: errno=-18 more_errno=0,A flags=2 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Script polluted by DOS formatting
A script downloaded to a desktop i386/etch/gnome from Amber web site, edited on the desktop with gnome text editor, then sent scp to a computing machine amd64, turned out to be polluted by DOS formatting. The computing program was prevented from reading the polluted lines. I tried dos2unix scriptfilename which failed to clean the script. Opening the script with vim did not reveal the problem. It was only od -c scriptfilename > od.dmp that revealed non printing characters, octal 302 followed by octal 240 at each script line. I was unfamiliar with such affairs and wonder about the origin of the pollution. The desktop has wine installed (for a Windows-based database that finds no efficient substitute in unix) and may be (don't remember) the database had been launched before editing of the said script. 1) Is wine likely to have caused the pollution? 2) Is the above dos2unix command correctly issued? Thanks francesco pietra Building a website is a piece of cake. Yahoo! Small Business gives you all the tools to get online. http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/webhosting -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MSI PC60G wireless adaptor problem
Hi.I recently bought a MSI PC60G wireless card and i am experiencing problem with configuring it on debian etch.I googled up and i found that it uses Ralink chipset and i got Ralink RT61 driver for linux.I managed to configure and install the driver .. but can't get connected.Both Wlassistent and gnome-network admin tool recognize the card...connect to the network ,recieves the SSID but when trying to dhcp(dhclient connect to achieve addresses) both fail.The AP is configured with dhcp and as far as i know i think it's a Mircosoft dhcp server.Could this be the problem? I tryed it on windows xp and it's working just fine.Can somebody help me? - Be a better Heartthrob. Get better relationship answers from someone who knows. Yahoo! Answers - Check it out.
Re: Eeek?! smbmount is deprecated?!
Kent West wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 09:04:29PM -0500, Kent West wrote: [a bunch of resolved cifs/smbfs stuff... ] And finally, the last issue remains: if mount normally must be run by root, how can I give non-root users access to mount shares without knowing before-hand what shares to pre-populate /etc/fstab with? It would be much easier just to continue using smbmount, but like I say, I'm trying to be a good, forward-going sort of guy rather than living in the fading past I;m jumping in here. What makes you think smbmount is going away? its still listed as a file in the sid versions of samba stuff. The man page, as in ... [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/westk:> man smbmount DESCRIPTION smbmount mounts a Linux SMB filesystem. It is usually invoked as WARNING: smbmount is deprecated and not maintained any longer. mount.cifs (mount -t cifs) should be used instead of smbmount. maybe the solution to your problem is to go right around it and use automount (can you use that with samba? I think so) and just set up automounts for everything that could be mounted. I'm not really familiar with automount, but doesn't it require you to pre-define the available mounts (as your question indicates)? That would prevent Joe User 1 on his Windows box from sharing out a folder on Saturday evening so Jane User 2 on the Linux box could get to the pictures from the birthday party that day, unless the admin of the Linux box had already foreseen that Joe User 1 would be doing that, in which case I suspect the admin could be doing a lot better things with his prophetic gift than adminning a Linux box. But as mentioned, I don't really understand automount, so that might be an option for me to investigate. Thanks! I have had no problem mounting windows shares on my debian box. For one of mounts I use LinNeighborhood (like Win Xp Network Neighbourhood) which allows you to view and mount available shares on the network. It's basically a front end to smbmount. HTH Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Eeek?! smbmount is deprecated?!
> Wackojacko wrote: I have had no problem mounting windows shares on my debian box. For one of mounts I use LinNeighborhood (like Win Xp Network Neighbourhood) ^^ s/of/off :) KDE also has a quick browser menu for samba shares if you just want to view the contents. You can mount them this way also but you need to know the /path of the share. HTH Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: where is tzconfig ?
Florian Kulzer wrote:
[...]
> The only thing I can think of is simulating to remove libc6, like so:
>
> sudo dpkg --simulate --remove libc6
>
> This produces lots of warnings like these:
>
> libboost-thread1.33.1 depends on libc6 (>= 2.3.5-1).
> libavformat1d depends on libc6 (>= 2.6-1).
> libwv2-1c2 depends on libc6 (>= 2.3.5-1).
> maxima depends on libc6 (>= 2.5-5).
>
> This can be processed further (grep, awk, etc.) to find installed
> packages that depend on a specific version of libc6. One probably has to
> be careful to take the "greater or equal" dependencies into account
> properly.
>
Thats a nice idea and it can list the packages dependig on a newer
version ob libc6, e.g., with a sh-compatible shell and awk
sudo dpkg --simulate -r libc6 2>&1 | awk '/libc6 \(.*2\.6/ {print $1}'
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Re[2]: Intel 965 chipset and Debian Etch AMD64
Hello, Wednesday, July 11, 2007, 5:48:10 PM, you wrote: >> >> It seems, Debian Etch AMD64 installer is blind to CDROM on Q965 Intel >> >> chipset. On SATA I have only one HDD and I have CDROM as primary >> >> driver on PATA. >> >> What can I do? >> > >> > In your bios, try setting the SATA to compatability mode indstead of AHCI >> >> Thank you, but I tried this. >> >> BTW, is this problem may be only Debain-related or rather >> kernel-related? > I believe it's kernel related. I recently purchased a G965RYCK board that had > a similar (if not identical) problem. My solution (going from memory here[1]) > was to set the BIOS options to "legacy" or "compatibility" mode and to use > one of the daily netinstall builds for testing (not Etch[2]). I also > installed the 2.6.21 kernel from sid. It was more of a headache than I've had > before installing debian, but not a huge deal. > As I recall, the problem in my case was related to the Marvell PATA controller > and the kernel's lack of a driver for it. The symptoms were sluggish reads > from the CD and then the installer saying that it couldn't detect the > installation cdrom. Well, can be Debian Etch installed without access to CD-ROM, maybe from HDD? Can be netinst copied into HDD in such way? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Re: revert to Etch from Lenny/Sid
kedmond wrote: > I found another site, http://www.funzt.info/?p=76#more-76, > I found instructions on how to install pidgin properly, > without doing the terrible thing I did. The pidgin package in unstable can be built using the libraries and headers in stable, at least at the moment. The following would build and install the pidgin package, without upgrading your whole system: a) add an unstable *source* line to your /etc/apt/sources.list, e.g. deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ sid main b) apt-get update c) apt-get build-dep pidgin d) apt-get install fakeroot build-essential e) fakeroot apt-get source -b pidgin f) sudo dpkg -i pidgin*deb Step e) will take a comparatively long time. Substitute 'sudo' in step f) for 'su -c' or similar if you do not use sudo. If you already have gaim installed, remove it before step f). If you want to conserve disk-space, keep a copy of what packages are installed before step c), using "dpkg --get-selections". You can then revert the package database to this state using "dpkg --set-selections" followed by "dpkg -r -a". You'd do these steps before f). -- Jon Dowland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I compile an identical ssh, but it behaves differently
(Sorry if this is received multiple times, I'm confused with newsgroup gatewaying.) I have etch, it has openssh-server and openssh-client installed, and they work fine. I do this: apt-get source openssh-server cd openssh-* I correct debian/changelog so that version is 4.3p2-custom1 dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -us -uc dpkg -i ../openssh-server_4.3p2-custom1_i386.deb \ ../openssh-client_4.3p2-custom1_i386.deb Result: when I ssh into the server from another machine, I get the message "Bad line 1 in /etc/default/login" (/etc/default/login contains one line only, umask 022). With the Debian packages it wasn't giving me any such message. Why my compiled ssh does not have exactly the same behaviour as Debian's? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Tools to store account (password..) in encrypted format ?
Hello, On my box, I use plain text to store my passwords but it isn't secure. What cli and/or web software can I use to store my password (account) in encrypted format ? What do you use ? If it's possible I would like collaborate system. Thanks for your help. Stephane -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: people.debian.org down?
Kumar Appaiah wrote: Dear Debian user, Could someone confirm that people.debian.org is down? I am unable to reach it from here (Chennai, India). Thanks. Kumar can't reach the server from here: groningen, netherlands. steef -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: people.debian.org down?
Kumar Appaiah wrote: Dear Debian user, Could someone confirm that people.debian.org is down? I am unable to reach it from here (Chennai, India). Thanks. Kumar Yes, people.debian.org, debian.org too, but you can to access at the web site here by example : http://www.au.debian.org/ bye ! -- Shams Fantar (http://snurf.info) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Tools to store account (password..) in encrypted format ?
On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 12:28:33PM +, KLEIN St?phane wrote: > > On my box, I use plain text to store my passwords but it isn't secure. > What cli and/or web software can I use to store my password (account) in > encrypted format ? What do you use ? > > If it's possible I would like collaborate system. > It depends (as always). What do you mean by "it isn't secure". Nothing is totally secure. If your home directory is only readable by you, the file is in your home directory (or below), and is only readable by you, what more do you want? If this isn't secure enough, what else in your home directory are you concerned about. For example, I have a lot of files (documents) in my home directory that are at least as sensitive as my passwords. This is the standard level of UNIX security. Further options include: encrypting each file with gnupg or SSL encrypting the whole /home partition which requires a password to decrypt it at boot using the pam module (I forget the name) that lets each user have an encrypted root and pam transparently encrypts/decrypts it with a key based on your login password. Since the login password is only stored on the computer in hash form, that sounds secure. When you go beyond standard (historic) UNIX security, it gets more complicated and you have to idenify the security threats that you want to protect against. So what are they? Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Tools to store account (password..) in encrypted format ?
Hello, On my box, I use plain text to store my passwords but it isn't secure. What cli and/or web software can I use to store my password (account) in encrypted format ? What do you use ? If it's possible I would like collaborate system. Thanks for your help. Stephane -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Meta-R key doesn't exist
Antonio Regidor García wrote: > I don't know if this is a bug, and where to report it, so I tried this list. > The problem is that > my keyboard map has a Meta-L (or Alt-L, or Alt-Left) key, but not a > corresponding Meta-R key, > both in X and the console, using Spanish or English keymaps. The key that > should be the Meta-R > key is mapped in X (according to xkbprint) to "ISO-Level3-Shift". I don't > know which key it is > mapped to in the console, but certainly it is not Meta-R. > Is this a feature of Debian or a bug? It happens with other keyboards? Chances are, that you also don't have a right "Alt" key on your keyboard, but one labeled "Alt Gr" instead, that is intended for entering non-ascii characters (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AltGr_key). If you don't need any of these (I am not familiar with the Spanish keyboard layout, but I assume there are some accented keys on it), you can simple redefine the AltGr key as Meta_R in your X server's keyboard layout (If you have a newer 105-keys, you can also use on of those "Menu" or "Windows" keys) > This problem makes Emacs very difficult to use without remapping the keyboard. ? Emacs shouldn't care about which Alt key you use Regards, Peter Daum -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Eeek?! smbmount is deprecated?!
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kent West yazmış: > > So it appears there's something screwy about the cifs filesystem-type. > So this issue remains. > > Another one of my issues was that smbmount all of a sudden (after my > rebuild) started mounting the shares with the mount point being owned by > root. With this working "mount -t smbfs" command, the addition of the > uid= option takes care of that issue. > > And finally, the last issue remains: if mount normally must be run by > root, how can I give non-root users access to mount shares without > knowing before-hand what shares to pre-populate /etc/fstab with? > > It would be much easier just to continue using smbmount, but like I say, > I'm trying to be a good, forward-going sort of guy rather than living in > the fading past > > Thanks! > Here is my scripts to sync laptop and desktop: sync-lapt-desk: #! /bin/sh echo "enter the sudo pass:" sudo /home/tejas/Desktop/bagla #mount script if [ "$?" != 0 ]; then echo "couldn't mount"; exit 1 ; fi echo "syncing firefox..." && rsync -rv --delete /home/tejas/Desktop/firefox/ /your/firefox/profile/ && echo "example1 synced." echo "unmounting shares..." sudo /home/tejas/Desktop/ayir # unmount script bagla:(mount script) SHA="masaustu firefox thunderbird Downloads" if [ `whoami` != "root" ]; then echo "you must be root."; exit; fi for i in $SHA; do echo "mounting $i..." mount -t cifs -o iocharset=utf8,user=hede //192.168.2.2/$i /home/tejas/Desktop/$i sleep 3 if [ "$?" == "0" ]; then echo "mounted $i."; fi done and ayir: (unmount script) #! /bin/bash SHA="masaustu firefox thunderbird Downloads" if [ `whoami` != "root" ]; then echo "you must be root"; exit; fi for i in $SHA; do sudo umount -l /home/tejas/Desktop/$i sleep 5 done Notice here; this script mounts as a root, but sync as a normal user. And IIRC, this script works. (I tried it on Dapper and Etch.) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iQEVAwUBRpYulnCg+7fCe3L1AQLc6QgAo/28A/KXsG2UgcjKTbtapSatseB1syHE EGgCCGQa7gefs4yzX8yS1vqeZ6/aqXYJ25mi/vO9l6nzV2FTeYnz6hXHT8DfOGPz VC/fFMCNKB3jtjNL1m4v8JxGqtJztT30s6UoPhpArQzecXPbq63PQYFiTXnYYvy3 rmMsAU0Rczo1yE2+edygyP9FClxNegwOZ7SFb/yLT3ggAQHiu1TQA5FaPgY5DwKe huRlZoE5wBSJIf/xtS0lwxuNkl5HKueZNu4GFmXhcJgMSyWNs3WrjRAf57GzG1Y0 MA8bNSzP3uto1vNhRwR0/piHK9VHsXJeyYDe8r0FOWPEeTg70xm38Q== =zF2R -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Eeek?! smbmount is deprecated?!
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 And, I forgot one point. I solve most of CIFS mount errors by chancing permissions of share. And try this also: Don't change permissions, but remove or disable share, and share it again. This maybe work. Mert -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iQEVAwUBRpYvinCg+7fCe3L1AQLF/wf9FXu/TjFItZY7D5BosIQOoU6ZFyI8YPPd dGrQmkULY65T/w33zL/2HvKOrM2w0QiqXcjPKvyHJdtkfjBvKQhWfL7SZ33R0fss bsLhhEUn2wQWbhnCqsamqIu2EUlGcPFXrJmQADqxsgT472P+evD1rApYP0jFDwWh 5G9gGYXeQvMCvUPm/RavOOtgwfNOjekfgLUm5gMYbTudQydyh0nN5HyPllCwXAqp inlWWwpCjklvKtRqOC7OFTlx6gD40kDGqDrqj6fzZiULV3kpy1vccTL/CI2GrXKb AIBfOjQM1nvhG/JFhOX4rAR1ZlJmu4ama+2QeP+bEHPjNGjATpVVPA== =IZkj -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Help buying Economic Printer
> Isn't it the Texans that love 40C weather > and say "Oh, but its a _dry_ heat" ? Doug That's the mantra of the cactus-leagers :-) I am a Texan transplanted to Arizona a little over 25 years ago -- Stanley C. Kitching Human Being Phoenix, Arizona == Posted via Newsfeeds.Com - Unlimited-Unrestricted-Secure Usenet News== http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 120,000+ Newsgroups = East and West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption = -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: revert to Etch from Lenny/Sid
Thanks a lot, Jon! that's a great help. -kedmond -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: people.debian.org down?
On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 04:03:51PM +1000, Julian De Marchi wrote: > Kumar Appaiah wrote: > >On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 10:31:02PM -0700, Paul A. Scott wrote: > >>I can't ping in from here (Tucson, Arizona, USA). > > > > I can not gain access, and i am in Australia. > I'm in the US and I am not able to access (tried ssh and http). Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: I compile an identical ssh, but it behaves differently
On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 02:36:18PM +0300, Antonios Christofides wrote: > (Sorry if this is received multiple times, I'm confused with newsgroup > gatewaying.) > > I have etch, it has openssh-server and openssh-client installed, and > they work fine. I do this: > > apt-get source openssh-server > cd openssh-* > I correct debian/changelog so that version is 4.3p2-custom1 > dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -us -uc > dpkg -i ../openssh-server_4.3p2-custom1_i386.deb \ > ../openssh-client_4.3p2-custom1_i386.deb > > Result: when I ssh into the server from another machine, I get the > message "Bad line 1 in /etc/default/login" (/etc/default/login contains > one line only, umask 022). With the Debian packages it wasn't giving me > any such message. > > Why my compiled ssh does not have exactly the same behaviour as > Debian's? > Could be any number of things. To eliminate as many variables as possible, you should be building inside of a pbuilder. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Tools to store account (password..) in encrypted format ?
On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 12:28:33PM +, KLEIN Stéphane wrote: > Hello, > > On my box, I use plain text to store my passwords but it isn't secure. > What cli and/or web software can I use to store my password (account) in > encrypted format ? What do you use ? > I would not go with web-based as it is far too insecure. I personally like MyPasswordSafe, but it is Qt-based. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Tools to store account (password..) in encrypted format ?
On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 11:05:06 -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: >On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 12:28:33PM +, KLEIN Stéphane wrote: >> Hello, >> >> On my box, I use plain text to store my passwords but it isn't >> secure. What cli and/or web software can I use to store my password >> (account) in encrypted format ? What do you use ? >> >I would not go with web-based as it is far too insecure. I personally >like MyPasswordSafe, but it is Qt-based. I'm personally using KeySafe[1] (yes, shameless plug and yes I have a Debian package). Whether web-based is insecure or not depends very much on how the system is designed. Personally I consider storing a password encrypted by a master password on a server is secure enough as long as the master password never leaves my machine (which means encryption and decryption must happen locally). Implementing a pure JavaScript client would then allow me to access passwords in a browser anywhere in the world. At least if I trust the browser enough :-) /M [1]: http://therning.org/magnus/computer/keysafe -- Magnus Therning (OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://therning.org/magnus pgpWoQj5uznCW.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [debian-user] Subject Confusion
On Wednesday 11 July 2007 15:45, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > Ted, > > Mathias has shown you a nice way to intersperse comments with the > original text. It is the generally preferred method here and on any > other linux or OSS oriented list I've subscribed to. > SNIP > fine. Sometimes, though, using To: or Cc: can casue problems if mail > comes through with really broken headers. > > > > PS: BTW Andrew, I am posting on the bottom but still feel > > > uncomfortable about posting that way because this confuses many who do > > > business on the Internet. > > Just out of curiousity, have you ever had anyone complain about > bottom-posting? > While I've never had anyone complain, I have had people simply not see what I had replied to them because my reply was either interspersed with their message or was at the bottom of their message. Unfortunately, I have had this problem not only with people who don't know any better, but also with other technical people. I've found it's easier to find out what mail client they're using and adjust things accordingly. Regards, Anson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Script polluted by DOS formatting
Francesco Pietra wrote: I'm leaving you CC'd on this, something I don't usually do, as I want to be sure you get this. Apologies if you are subscribed and get mail twice. A script downloaded to a desktop i386/etch/gnome from Amber web site, edited on the desktop with gnome text editor, then sent scp to a computing machine amd64, turned out to be polluted by DOS formatting. The computing program was prevented from reading the polluted lines. I tried dos2unix scriptfilename This is the correct command for the desired conversion, but ... see below. which failed to clean the script. Opening the script with vim did not reveal the problem. It was only VIM, if configured to do so (see 'set fileformat' and 'set fileformats' in VIM help), will do auto conversion from/to DOS and so will hide the file type being edited. The only indication is when the file is first read in, in the status line: "filename" [dos] linesL, charsC So you may have missed it, assuming it was printed. od -c scriptfilename > od.dmp that revealed non printing characters, octal 302 followed by octal 240 at each script line. Here's the issue: in ASCII, the DOS format in octal would be 015 followed by 012, not the numbers you provide. The dos2unix/unix2dos and vim programs are looking for the ASCII value and so would not touch the 302 240 pair you found. So the file would be unchanged. I was unfamiliar with such affairs and wonder about the origin of the pollution. The desktop has wine installed (for a Windows-based database that finds no efficient substitute in unix) and may be (don't remember) the database had been launched before editing of the said script. 1) Is wine likely to have caused the pollution? Perhaps, but more likely it was downloaded that way, I think. 2) Is the above dos2unix command correctly issued? Yes. Thanks francesco pietra What information does 'file scriptfilename' report? You may find you have some other character set encoding to have to convert from. You may also find that a binary editor would let you search for and globally replace the offending character pairs with an ASCII newline (octal 012). -- Bob McGowan smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
[OT] Mathematics and the uselessness of numbers (was Re: Help buying Economic Printer)
On 07/11/07 18:44, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 10:31:29PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 07/10/07 22:21, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: I thought you established that it doesn't get hot in Canada. Well, I'm almost in canada and it's 104F (40C) here today with 106F (41C) tomorrow and saturday. But, as was already said, at least its a dry heat. So much for our 85F (29C) average... That's why it's called an *average*. Because people (even, apparently, smart people like you) seem to fixate on that "average" number and think that "because that's the average, that's what the temperature is supposed to be", weather sites should *not* post average, but *should* post the *range* of temperatures 1 STDDEV above and below the average. I'm an American, remember? I only care about what's happening in my neighborhood. So, what is happening there? Mine's mostly overgrown as its to freakin' hot to mow... and my wife made me lose the chickens who had been keeping it cut down pretty well... A -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Some ALSA apps stopped working [REALLY SOLVED]
Florian Kulzer wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 10:30:15 +0100, Chris Lale wrote:
>
> [...]
>
>> Problem solved. alsaconf runs the obsolete command "update-modules" which
>> modifies /etc/modprobe.d/sound and /etc/modprobe.conf if present. According
>> to
>> the update-modules man page the existence of /etc/modprobe.conf will cause
>> /etc/modprobe.d/ to be ignored by Debian packages which store their
>> configuration files there.
>
> [...]
>
>> I am not sure why /etc/modprobe.conf existed. Probably because my Etch
>> (Stable)
>> system has been incrementally upgraded from Woody (Stable) and Etch
>> (Testing).
>>
>> Worth reporting as a bug, do you think?
>
> I would say so; the manpage of update-modules is pretty clear about it:
>
> "Any program calling [update-modules] should be fixed."
I have reported this as a bug [1], but the initial response is not encouraging
("Hey you guys out there, why are you using alsaconf?").
>
> (It is nice that this possible pitfall is now documented in the list
> archives.)
>
I have also summarised this thread on the NewbieDOC wiki [2].
[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=432678
[2]
http://newbiedoc.berlios.de/wiki/Sound_in_Debian_GNU/Linux#Some_applications_.28OSS_applications.29_produce_no_sound_in_ALSA
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What Can I Play With an Radeon X1300 All in Wonder PCIe 256Megs GDDR3
Hi, Folks, Mi Question it's, With this card and the fglrx driver to the latest update, and 512 megs of ram Can I I play Doom3, or similars in ETCH? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Tools to store account (password..) in encrypted format ?
On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 12:28:33PM +, KLEIN Stéphane wrote: > Hello, > > On my box, I use plain text to store my passwords but it isn't secure. > What cli and/or web software can I use to store my password (account) in > encrypted format ? What do you use ? revelation > If it's possible I would like collaborate system. Not sure they exist... Why share passwords anyway? Most of the time, what you need is for multiple people to access the same unix/linux account - and this would be solved by people dropping their public ssh keys there... -- Karl E. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jorgensen.org.uk/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://karl.jorgensen.com Today's fortune: As you grow older, you will still do foolish things, but you will do them with much more enthusiasm. -- The Cowboy signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: [debian-user] Subject Confusion
On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 10:46:49AM -0500, Anson Gardner wrote: > On Wednesday 11 July 2007 15:45, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > > Just out of curiousity, have you ever had anyone complain about > > bottom-posting? > > > > While I've never had anyone complain, I have had people simply not see what I > had replied to them because my reply was either interspersed with their > message or was at the bottom of their message. Unfortunately, I have had this > problem not only with people who don't know any better, but also with other > technical people. hm. their loss I guess. > > I've found it's easier to find out what mail client they're using and adjust > things accordingly. wow. that's pretty nice of you actually. ;) A signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Strange Message
Anyone know what this means? I got it returned after I sent my last email to the list. On Jul 11, 2007, at 9:32 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Delivery of the attached message: From : [EMAIL PROTECTED] To : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date : Wed, 11 Jul 2007 20:31:15 -0500 Subject: (Archive Copy) Re: TinyMUSH/MySQL Crash Issue would violate local account restrictions. This message was not delivered. : El mensaje contiene [1] archivos adjuntos -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [OT] Mathematics and the uselessness of numbers (was Re: Help buying Economic Printer)
On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 11:40:11AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 07/11/07 18:44, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: >> On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 10:31:29PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: >>> On 07/10/07 22:21, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: I thought you established that it doesn't get hot in Canada. >> Well, I'm almost in canada and it's 104F (40C) here today with 106F (41C) >> tomorrow >> and saturday. But, as was already said, at least its a dry heat. So much >> for our 85F (29C) average... > > That's why it's called an *average*. > > Because people (even, apparently, smart people like you) seem to fixate on > that "average" number and think that "because that's the average, that's > what the temperature is supposed to be", weather sites should *not* post > average, but *should* post the *range* of temperatures 1 STDDEV above and > below the average. please Ron. I'm fully aware of what an average is and was merely jumping on the "let's discuss random weather stuff" band-wagon and having a little fun. sheesh. I agree though that the range of temperatures would be really nice to see. The high and low with 1 stddev above and below each would actually be useful information. so it goes and cheers... A signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Tools to store account (password..) in encrypted format ?
On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 06:15:31PM +0100, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > > Why share passwords anyway? Most of the time, > what you need is for multiple people to access the same unix/linux > account - and this would be solved by people dropping their public ssh > keys there... > genuine question here: why would anyone do that when they could use proper groups and proper permissions to allow the right users access to the right stuff? What happens if one of the several users with the ssh keys dropped in the same account is somehow compromised? THat means the whole account is compromised and *everyone else* who has their key dropped in there is compromised: what are the implications of that? And then the admin has to figure who is compromised and restructure the whole thing instead of just deleting the one problem user. A signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: people.debian.org down?
The web site is come back. :-) -- Shams Fantar (http://snurf.info) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: denyhosts + tcp wrappers?
On 11/07/2007 04:44, Bob Proulx wrote: If you are finding 'denyhosts' difficult then you may want to install 'fail2ban' as one standalone method to stop this since it is extremely simple. It should work out of the box. Denyhosts did work out of the box. My understanding of how denyhosts works is that it is scheduled to parse auth.log file every X seconds, identifing failed login attempts, it then tallies those attempts, if the total of failed login attempts is above Y write the source IP to /etc/hosts.deny. The (very minor) hole here is that say denyhosts runs every 30 seconds, script-happy-john has a window of 30 seconds to guess user name & password pairs. The purpose of the "howto" in the blog was to change the operation of denyhosts so rather than denyhosts being scheduled to parse auth.log every X seconds, denyhosts would be initiated every by every ssh login attempt. Now script-happy-john only gets his first 3 attempts for free. I will give fail2ban a go, after I'm finished testing with denyhosts. I've read this blog: http://tdot.blog-city.com/securing_ssh_with_denyhosts.htm but there are differences in the files/paths used on debian and what the blog-author uses. I've plugged along but I'm not sure if I have denyhosts configured right. I don't see any file path problems. Did you install the Debian version? I would assume that the Debian package maintainer took care of getting all of the paths correct. There are minor differences in the blog, maybe they were typos by the author? IIRC there are also differences in the files paths referenced in the man pages and the files available in the debian install, I will confirm that when I'm on this particular machine again. I downloaded denyhosts using apt; I've never changed the default apt sources since installing debian a couple of weeks ago. The thing is, if I attempt to login via SSH using a bad username/password 3 times, there's a delay of approx 5-10 seconds before my IP address shows up in /etc/hosts.blocked. Then it appears to be working. It's this delay of 5-10 seconds that makes it possible for me to attempt more logins. On averate half of that time would be waited before detection. The alternative to this delay would be FAM and I am not sure it is worth adding that as a dependency. Never heard of "FAM" (linux beginner); I'll go check it out. Also, if I change /etc/hosts.deny with the intention of blocking access to ALL services to IPs listed in /etc/hosts.blocked, denyhosts stops working as above. Here's what I changed /etc/hosts.deny to: /etc/hosts.deny ALL:/etc/hosts.blocked sshd:ALL:spawn /usr/sbin/denyhosts --purge -c /etc/denyhosts.conf:allow I would avoid mixing simple and extended syntax in the same file. I would simply use the extended syntax and put everything in the /etc/hosts.allow file. Not sure this is the problem but I think it would be a better practice anyway. Also, dynamically updated files are better placed in /var/run rather than in /etc. Here is a suggested improvement. UNTESTED! ALL:/var/run/denyhosts/hosts.blocked:DENY sshd:ALL:spawn /usr/sbin/denyhosts --purge -c /etc/denyhosts.conf:ALLOW I'll take this onboard and try again using these settings. Thank you Bob. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Eeek?! smbmount is deprecated?!
On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 11:35:51PM -0500, Kent West wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: >> On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 09:04:29PM -0500, Kent West wrote: >> >> >> [a bunch of resolved cifs/smbfs stuff... ] >> >> >>> And finally, the last issue remains: if mount normally must be run by >>> root, how can I give non-root users access to mount shares without >>> knowing before-hand what shares to pre-populate /etc/fstab with? >>> >>> It would be much easier just to continue using smbmount, but like I say, >>> I'm trying to be a good, forward-going sort of guy rather than living in >>> the fading past >>> >>> >> >> I;m jumping in here. What makes you think smbmount is going away? its >> still listed as a file in the sid versions of samba stuff. > The man page, as in ... d'oh. (rtfm rtfm rtfm...) [...] > >> maybe the solution to your problem is to go right around it and use >> automount (can you use that with samba? I think so) and just set up >> automounts for everything that could be mounted. >> > I'm not really familiar with automount, but doesn't it require you to > pre-define the available mounts (as your question indicates)? That would > prevent Joe User 1 on his Windows box from sharing out a folder on Saturday > evening so Jane User 2 on the Linux box could get to the pictures from the > birthday party that day, unless the admin of the Linux box had already > foreseen that Joe User 1 would be doing that, in which case I suspect the > admin could be doing a lot better things with his prophetic gift than > adminning a Linux box. yeah, okay. I like wackojacko's idea - LinNeighborhood. automount won't do it for you. A signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Tools to store account (password..) in encrypted format ?
On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 10:32:28AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > genuine question here: why would anyone do that when they could use > proper groups and proper permissions to allow the right users access > to the right stuff? What happens if one of the several users with the > ssh keys dropped in the same account is somehow compromised? THat > means the whole account is compromised and *everyone else* who has > their key dropped in there is compromised: what are the implications > of that? And then the admin has to figure who is > compromised and restructure the whole thing instead of just deleting > the one problem user. > > A That is not correct. Only the public part of the key is compromised, which gets you precisely nothing. Now, if the *private* part of the key were compromised (along with its passphrase), then you have a legitimate concern. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Tools to store account (password..) in encrypted format ?
On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 04:29:32PM +0100, Magnus Therning wrote: > > I'm personally using KeySafe[1] (yes, shameless plug and yes I have a > Debian package). > Do you need a sponsor to get the package into Debian? Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Strange Message
ArcticFox wrote: Anyone know what this means? I got it returned after I sent my last email to the list. On Jul 11, 2007, at 9:32 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Delivery of the attached message: From : [EMAIL PROTECTED] To : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date : Wed, 11 Jul 2007 20:31:15 -0500 Subject: (Archive Copy) Re: TinyMUSH/MySQL Crash Issue would violate local account restrictions. This message was not delivered. : El mensaje contiene [1] archivos adjuntos I have too this message, it's certainly a spam... Look the sender of message. -- Shams Fantar (http://snurf.info) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: denyhosts + tcp wrappers?
On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 06:37:13PM +0100, Craig Hurley wrote: > On 11/07/2007 04:44, Bob Proulx wrote: >> If you are finding 'denyhosts' difficult then you may want to install >> 'fail2ban' as one standalone method to stop this since it is extremely >> simple. It should work out of the box. > > Denyhosts did work out of the box. > > My understanding of how denyhosts works is that it is scheduled to parse > auth.log file every X seconds, identifing failed login attempts, it then > tallies those attempts, if the total of failed login attempts is above Y > write the source IP to /etc/hosts.deny. The (very minor) hole here is that > say denyhosts runs every 30 seconds, script-happy-john has a window of 30 > seconds to guess user name & password pairs. to solution to this problem is to read man sshd_config and look at LoginGraceTime, MaxAuthTries, and MaxStartups. By tweaking these values (though I think they're fairly good in stock configuration) you can control all sorts of behaviors for ssh logins. MaxAuthTries is set to 6 and starts logging at half that value. At six failures the connection is dropped. MaxStartups is 10, which means that at most 10 unauthenticated connections at a time. With all ten going, that's 60 attempts per shot basically. The point is even looking at someone pounding it for 30 seconds before denyhosts picks it up, its not really a whole lot of attempts. Throw in some firewall rules to control frequency of permitted connections, and you can majorly throttle someones ability to dictionary attack you. If you have good passwords, you should be okay. There are other features you can throw in like "random early drop" using the MaxStartups value. That will randomly kick people (depending on how you set it) once you're above some threshold. finally, if possible, just turn off password authentication altogether and pubkey authentication. A signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Strange Message
ArcticFox wrote: Anyone know what this means? I got it returned after I sent my last email to the list. On Jul 11, 2007, at 9:32 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Delivery of the attached message: From : [EMAIL PROTECTED] To : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date : Wed, 11 Jul 2007 20:31:15 -0500 Subject: (Archive Copy) Re: TinyMUSH/MySQL Crash Issue would violate local account restrictions. This message was not delivered. : El mensaje contiene [1] archivos adjuntos I saw this, also, and just this morning (Pacific, USA). It looks like (based on my limited Spanish) like a subscriber email ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) has some sort of local email account restrictions which prevent delivery. What to do with it? Ignore, hoping it gets fixed soon? Remove from list? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] about it? ??? -- Bob McGowan smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
Re: Tools to store account (password..) in encrypted format ?
On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 01:47:08PM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 10:32:28AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > > genuine question here: why would anyone do that when they could use > > proper groups and proper permissions to allow the right users access > > to the right stuff? What happens if one of the several users with the > > ssh keys dropped in the same account is somehow compromised? THat > > means the whole account is compromised and *everyone else* who has > > their key dropped in there is compromised: what are the implications > > of that? And then the admin has to figure who is > > compromised and restructure the whole thing instead of just deleting > > the one problem user. > > > > A > > That is not correct. Only the public part of the key is compromised, > which gets you precisely nothing. Now, if the *private* part of the key > were compromised (along with its passphrase), then you have a legitimate > concern. okay, got it. But I still fail to see the advantages of allowing multiple people access to the same account like this. Obviously its vastly easier to set up, but it seems like its asking for trouble. Logs will say user foo, logged in at 12:34 and did this, but which of any number of people was behind that user foo login? A signature.asc Description: Digital signature
About [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi everybody: I apologize, it was a wrong anti-spam filter in my email server. Don't worry about it the problem was fixed. Greetings, Clemente. On Thu, 12 Jul 2007 12:38:48 -0500, Bob McGowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ArcticFox wrote: Anyone know what this means? I got it returned after I sent my last email to the list. On Jul 11, 2007, at 9:32 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Delivery of the attached message: From : [EMAIL PROTECTED] To : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date : Wed, 11 Jul 2007 20:31:15 -0500 Subject: (Archive Copy) Re: TinyMUSH/MySQL Crash Issue would violate local account restrictions. This message was not delivered. : El mensaje contiene [1] archivos adjuntos I saw this, also, and just this morning (Pacific, USA). It looks like (based on my limited Spanish) like a subscriber email ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) has some sort of local email account restrictions which prevent delivery. What to do with it? Ignore, hoping it gets fixed soon? Remove from list? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] about it? ??? -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Tools to store account (password..) in encrypted format ?
On 12 Jul 2007, KLEIN Stéphane wrote: > Hello, > > > > On my box, I use plain text to store my passwords but it isn't secure. > > What cli and/or web software can I use to store my password (account) in > > encrypted format ? What do you use ? > > > > If it's possible I would like collaborate system. > > > > Thanks for your help. > > Stephane > I use ccencrypt. -- Anthony Campbell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Microsoft-free zone - Using Linux Gnu-Debian http://www.acampbell.org.uk (blog, book reviews, on-line books and sceptical articles) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: About [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 02:17:14PM -0500, Clemente Reyes Ricardo wrote: > Hi everybody: > > I apologize, it was a wrong anti-spam filter in my email server. > Don't worry about it the problem was fixed. > Clemente, thanks for your prompt attention. I was just about to send turei to the blackhole. A signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Drivers para adaptadores de red de portatil ASUS F5 Entertainment system F5R
[ Para obtener ayuda en español, envía tu pregunta a debian-user-spanish AT lists DOT debian DOT org por favor. ] On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 19:34:14 +0200, Manuel F wrote: [ snip: Debian (Etch?) installation on Asus F5 Entertaiment System X50R laptop was successful, but the network cards are not working. ] > Si supiesen cómo conseguirlos les agradecería muchísimo que me ayudasen, > sobre todo los de los adaptadores de red normal e inalámbrico. Los modelos > son: ATTANSIC L2 FAST ETHERNET 10/100 Base-T Controller. This is a new card. I think there is no Linux driver available right now. Only the model "L1" seems to be supported so far: http://sourceforge.net/search/?type_of_search=soft&words=attansic You could try ndiswrapper, which is a trick to use Windows drivers for network cards under Linux: http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/joomla/ They do not list any Attansic cards as supported yet, so this might not work. > La WIFI es > Broadcom 802.11g. We need to know the exact model of the card. Please post the output of lspci | egrep -i 'net|broadcom' > Mi e-mail es mafernann AT hotmail DOT com I assume this means that you want to receive a copy of the list mail to this address. If you want to continue this discussion, please send your answer to the debian-user list. -- Regards,| http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer Florian |
Psst! It's a secret! (was: Strange Message)
On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 19:50:03 +0200, Shams Fantar wrote: > ArcticFox wrote: >> Anyone know what this means? I got it returned after I sent my last email >> to the list. >> >> On Jul 11, 2007, at 9:32 PM, MDaemon AT turei.co.cu wrote: >> >>> Delivery of the attached message: >>> >>> From : genkokitsu AT insightbb.com >>> To : turei AT turei.co.cu >>> Date : Wed, 11 Jul 2007 20:31:15 -0500 >>> Subject: (Archive Copy) Re: TinyMUSH/MySQL Crash Issue >>> >>> would violate local account restrictions. >>> >>> This message was not delivered. >>> : El mensaje contiene [1] archivos adjuntos >>> > > I have too this message, it's certainly a spam... Look the sender of > message. It is not spam, it is actually a coded message. If you have the secret decoder ring then you can find out what it says: "The administrators of the turei.co.cu mailserver do not understand how mailing lists work. Be sure to drink your Ovaltine." -- Regards,| http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer Florian | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Tools to store account (password..) in encrypted format ?
On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 11:06:55AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > okay, got it. But I still fail to see the advantages of allowing > multiple people access to the same account like this. Obviously its > vastly easier to set up, but it seems like its asking for > trouble. Logs will say user foo, logged in at 12:34 and did this, but > which of any number of people was behind that user foo login? > That is a good point. I was not disputing that. I was simply correcting your misstatement about the key compromise. Incidentally what you say is the same problem that is faced when a group of admins share a root password. Something like sudo is useful there. In any event, people should have their own accounts. Shared accounts are very out of style now. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Tools to store account (password..) in encrypted format ?
On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 03:30:53PM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 11:06:55AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > > okay, got it. But I still fail to see the advantages of allowing > > multiple people access to the same account like this. Obviously its > > vastly easier to set up, but it seems like its asking for > > trouble. Logs will say user foo, logged in at 12:34 and did this, but > > which of any number of people was behind that user foo login? > > > That is a good point. I was not disputing that. I was simply > correcting your misstatement about the key compromise. right. thanks. A signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Psst! It's a secret! (was: Strange Message)
On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 08:05:35PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 19:50:03 +0200, Shams Fantar wrote: > > ArcticFox wrote: > >> Anyone know what this means? I got it returned after I sent my last email > >> to the list. > >> > >> On Jul 11, 2007, at 9:32 PM, MDaemon AT turei.co.cu wrote: > >> > >>> Delivery of the attached message: > >>> > >>> From : genkokitsu AT insightbb.com > >>> To : turei AT turei.co.cu > >>> Date : Wed, 11 Jul 2007 20:31:15 -0500 > >>> Subject: (Archive Copy) Re: TinyMUSH/MySQL Crash Issue > >>> > >>> would violate local account restrictions. > >>> > >>> This message was not delivered. > >>> : El mensaje contiene [1] archivos adjuntos > >>> > > > > I have too this message, it's certainly a spam... Look the sender of > > message. > > It is not spam, it is actually a coded message. If you have the secret > decoder ring then you can find out what it says: > > "The administrators of the turei.co.cu mailserver do not understand how > mailing lists work. Be sure to drink your Ovaltine." better check your keys Florian. Mine spits out: When your ... MTA ... fails to ... properly ... behave ... Burma-shave! A signature.asc Description: Digital signature
fluxbox weirdness
Hi, I just rebooted my laptop for the first time in ages (usually I just hibernate to RAM). Fluxbox is behaving very strangely. I have the Alt keys bound to a number of handy things, such as switching windows and switching desktops. None of the alt combinations appear to work, although Mod4 does, as does None Pause, None Scr_lock and None Print. Also, my xterm windows are now decorated with a title bar which sticks out above the window frame. Are these new fluxbox features? If so, how do I turn them off? If not, what's going on? Thanks, Tyler Lenny, Thinkpad R60 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: denyhosts + tcp wrappers?
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > Craig Hurley wrote: > > My understanding of how denyhosts works is that it is scheduled to parse > > auth.log file every X seconds, identifing failed login attempts, it then > > tallies those attempts, if the total of failed login attempts is above Y > > The (very minor) hole here is that > > say denyhosts runs every 30 seconds, script-happy-john has a window of 30 > > seconds to guess user name & password pairs. But that is not a hole. Even without any type of rate limiting if your passwords are reasonable then it is not possible to guess the password. So it really does not matter if the script kiddies are shaking the door all of the time. They are not going to get in. These types of rate limiters are really only there for the aesthetics of it and not for the security of it. Seeing those extra entries in the log file is annoying. Hearing the disk drive rattle more often is annoying. Rate limiting controls those non-security issues. > to solution to this problem is to read man sshd_config and look at > LoginGraceTime, MaxAuthTries, and MaxStartups. By tweaking these > values (though I think they're fairly good in stock configuration) you > can control all sorts of behaviors for ssh logins. Good suggestions. > The point is even looking at someone pounding it for 30 seconds > before denyhosts picks it up, its not really a whole lot of > attempts. Throw in some firewall rules to control frequency of > permitted connections, and you can majorly throttle someones ability > to dictionary attack you. If you have good passwords, you should be > okay. Agreed. > finally, if possible, just turn off password authentication altogether > and pubkey authentication. The best suggestion yet. Using ssh rsa keys prevents even the possibility of a dictionary attack from happening. Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Some ALSA apps stopped working [REALLY SOLVED]
On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 17:49:11 +0100, Chris Lale wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 10:30:15 +0100, Chris Lale wrote:
> >
> > [...]
> >
> >> Problem solved. alsaconf runs the obsolete command "update-modules" which
> >> modifies /etc/modprobe.d/sound and /etc/modprobe.conf if present.
> >> According to
> >> the update-modules man page the existence of /etc/modprobe.conf will cause
> >> /etc/modprobe.d/ to be ignored by Debian packages which store their
> >> configuration files there.
[...]
> I have reported this as a bug [1], but the initial response is not encouraging
> ("Hey you guys out there, why are you using alsaconf?").
I noticed your "wontfix" today when I checked out the BTS because I
wanted to submit a patch for the Sid version of alsaconf. (Alsaconf
1.0.14-1 fails to load any sound module after it configures everything,
therefore it effectively breaks sound.) I found that someone had
reported the bug (#430624) and it had been closed already, citing the
same "alsaconf is not needed anymore" reason.
It seems that udev is now supposed to handle everything. You can indeed
run
udevtrigger --verbose --subsystem-match=sound
and all necessary modules are loaded again (at least in my case). I
think you can still use alsaconf to choose a particular sound card (if
you have more than one), but you now have to trigger the loading of the
modules yourself afterwards (with alsa-utils 1.0.14-1).
[...]
> I have also summarised this thread on the NewbieDOC wiki [2].
>
> [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=432678
> [2]
> http://newbiedoc.berlios.de/wiki/Sound_in_Debian_GNU/Linux#Some_applications_.28OSS_applications.29_produce_no_sound_in_ALSA
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SATA support
I'm building my first PC, it will run Debian of course. I'm buying the parts off of newegg.com and noticed that many of the newer DVD burners have a SATA interface. I'm looking at getting both the HDDs and the DVD burner with a SATA interface, but wasn't sure if it could make the process more complicated from a Debian standpoint, and wanted to see how safe of a bet it would be to use one. I understand that the interface is faster and cleaner from a physical standpoint, but more complicated and less tried and true from a software standpoint. I would prefer to have the option to playback DVD movies on this machine, in the past I've had trouble getting smooth playback on a PC versus a dedicated stand alone DVD player. This may only be an issue with older machines, but I might be wrong in that assumption. Any advice on this issue, or any issue in building a newer Debian PC would be excellent. Thanks in advance for the help. Dustin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What Can I Play With an Radeon X1300 All in Wonder PCIe 256Megs GDDR3
On Thu July 12 2007 10:10, Orestes leal wrote: > Hi, Folks, > > Mi Question it's, With this card and the fglrx driver to the latest update, > and 512 megs of ram Can I I play Doom3, or similars in ETCH? I assume yes. My desktop has an nvidia card I can play doom and the like. I have an ati card in my laptop but I have never played games with it, but with the ati driver installed it does give a nice clear image. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SATA support
On Thu, 2007-07-12 at 16:32 -0500, Dustin wrote: > I'm building my first PC, it will run Debian of course. > > I'm buying the parts off of newegg.com and noticed that many of the > newer DVD burners have a SATA interface. I'm looking at getting both > the HDDs and the DVD burner with a SATA interface, but wasn't sure if it > could make the process more complicated from a Debian standpoint, and > wanted to see how safe of a bet it would be to use one. > > I understand that the interface is faster and cleaner from a physical > standpoint, but more complicated and less tried and true from a software > standpoint. > > I would prefer to have the option to playback DVD movies on this > machine, in the past I've had trouble getting smooth playback on a PC > versus a dedicated stand alone DVD player. This may only be an issue > with older machines, but I might be wrong in that assumption. > > Any advice on this issue, or any issue in building a newer Debian PC > would be excellent. > > Thanks in advance for the help. > > Dustin If you stick with the latest Debian Etch stable release, you'll be fine. All the SATA drivers imaginable are included in the 2.6 kernel. That is not the case with 2.4. I learned from first hand experience. SATA is definitely the way to go. Very good performance/price ratio. Good luck, Dallas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Difficulty with dpkg dependencies
Dallas Clement wrote: > The output of dpkg -l on my target system is: > ii libc6-i3862.3.6 > Hence, I can see that the package 'libc6-i386' is indeed installed. It does look like it. > The subsequent attempt to install busybox, e2fsprogs or any other > package that depends on libc6-i386 fails however. > > dpkg: package e2fsprogs depends on libc6-i386, which is not installed or flagged to be installed That is very strange and I don't see an obvious problem or solution. It is strange that the official Debian package for busybox depends on libc6 while your custom version depends upon libc6-386. That is a difference that should be tracked down. Your custom version should build exactly the same way that the Debian version builds. Especially since raju reported that it worked fine for him and I am sure it would for me as well. You may have something strange going on with your particular system. You might want to try building in a clean chroot so as to isolate problems. The 'pbuilder' package can help you here. apt-cache show pbuilder > Btw, the target system on which I am installing these packages is a > custom built Linux kernel 2.6.21.1. Thanks for mentioning it but the choice of kernel will not affect the problem that you are currently seeing. > I'm using the busybox 'dpkg' command to install the packages on this > system. I did not realize that busybox provided a dpkg replacement. Hopefully it uses dpkg-dev and so the behavior will be the same regardless of the front-end differences. > I'm not having any problems building the packages for busybox, > e2fsprogs, or whatever. Just having problems installing them due to > these dependency issues with libc6-i386 which should already be > installed as seen above. Could you say a few words about why the pre-packaged version of busybox is not sufficient? It would be motivating in the process of trying to help why your custom version does not install. Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Difficulty with dpkg dependencies
On Thu, 2007-07-12 at 16:08 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > Dallas Clement wrote: > > The output of dpkg -l on my target system is: > > ii libc6-i3862.3.6 > > Hence, I can see that the package 'libc6-i386' is indeed installed. > > It does look like it. > > > The subsequent attempt to install busybox, e2fsprogs or any other > > package that depends on libc6-i386 fails however. > > > > dpkg: package e2fsprogs depends on libc6-i386, which is not installed or > flagged to be installed > > That is very strange and I don't see an obvious problem or solution. > > It is strange that the official Debian package for busybox depends on > libc6 while your custom version depends upon libc6-386. That is a > difference that should be tracked down. Your custom version should > build exactly the same way that the Debian version builds. Especially > since raju reported that it worked fine for him and I am sure it would > for me as well. > > You may have something strange going on with your particular system. > You might want to try building in a clean chroot so as to isolate > problems. The 'pbuilder' package can help you here. > > apt-cache show pbuilder > > > Btw, the target system on which I am installing these packages is a > > custom built Linux kernel 2.6.21.1. > > Thanks for mentioning it but the choice of kernel will not affect the > problem that you are currently seeing. > > > I'm using the busybox 'dpkg' command to install the packages on this > > system. > > I did not realize that busybox provided a dpkg replacement. Hopefully > it uses dpkg-dev and so the behavior will be the same regardless of > the front-end differences. > > > I'm not having any problems building the packages for busybox, > > e2fsprogs, or whatever. Just having problems installing them due to > > these dependency issues with libc6-i386 which should already be > > installed as seen above. > > Could you say a few words about why the pre-packaged version of > busybox is not sufficient? It would be motivating in the process of > trying to help why your custom version does not install. > > Bob > Hello Bob, Thank you for the reply. I'm using a cross-compiler to build busybox, e2fsprogs, and some other applications for an embedded network appliance that does not have much disk space. Hence, wanting to configure and build myself so as to be able to take out things that are not needed. I think it is probably the cross-compiler that is adding the -i386 onto libc6. Regardless, I was under the impression that dpkg would do its package dependency check by looking for the package name that is depended on in the file /var/lib/dpkg/status. As you can see from the output I provided, the busybox package depends line clearly matches with what is in this file. Perhaps it is more complicated than this? Busybox definitely provides a 'dpkg' command. I would be surprised if what I am experiencing is a bug in the implementation. What I am doing seems so basic! I'm now looking at the code for the busybox dpkg implementation and putting in some debug msgs to see why it is behaving this way. Cheers, Dallas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
USB bus fails to see devices
I've been able to use all my USB devices (camera, scanner, printer, bub, etc.), but at one point that I can't associate with any event, two devices (camera and scanner) are no longer seen by the USB bus. $ uname -a Linux teufel 2.6.18-4-686 #1 SMP Wed May 9 23:03:12 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux $ apt-show-versions udev udev/etch uptodate 0.105-4 The printer and scanner are connected to the root hub; the printer is seen, but not the scanner. A camera, usb-key and usb external hard disk are connected to an external hub; the latter are seen, but not the camera. I disconnected irrelevant devices to eliminate any usb bus power issues. and so it seems the bus and cables are OK. However, the bus does not see my Canon camera and Epson scanner, while it does see a Western Digital USB external HD, a Lexar USB-key, a Genesys USB hub, and a Lexmark printer: $ lsusb Bus 002 Device 011: ID 1058:0701 Western Digital Technologies, Inc. Bus 002 Device 009: ID 05dc:a400 Lexar Media, Inc. Bus 002 Device 002: ID 05e3:0605 Genesys Logic, Inc. USB 2.0 Hub [ednet] Bus 002 Device 001: ID : Bus 001 Device 004: ID 043d:0052 Lexmark International, Inc. Bus 001 Device 001: ID : Likewise, in /var/log/syslog, when the printer or camera is replugged, there is no report of it there at all. The module list looks OK to me. $ lsmod | grep 'usb\|hci' usb_storage71840 0 usblp 12768 0 scsi_mod 124168 6 usb_storage,sbp2,sd_mod,libata, aic79xx,scsi_transport_spi ehci_hcd 28136 0 ohci1394 30800 0 ieee1394 86904 3 sbp2,eth1394,ohci1394 ohci_hcd 18276 0 ide_core 110504 4 usb_storage,ide_cd,amd74xx,generic usbcore 112644 5 usb_storage,usblp,ehci_hcd,ohci_hcd When I was runing Woody, stock kernel 2.4, I had something like: $ more /proc/bus/usb/drivers usbdevfs hub 0- 15: usblp but with Etch, stock kernel 2.6 I have no such directory. Not sure why. I'm having trouble understanding $ dmesg | grep -i usb for it looks like my printer and USB mass storage devices aer loaded multiple times. Should I have seen a /proc/bus/usb/drivers directory with some drivers in it? Given the above, where is it likely the problem lies? -- Haines Brown, KB1GRM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Why do I get these? [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Your message can not be delivered]
It seems to have something to do with someone's spam filters, I already asked about it and supposedly it has been fixed. On Jul 12, 2007, at 9:30 AM, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: I've received a messge like this a few times and I don't know why. The last was for a different thread. In both cases, I saw that my message was accepted by the list, since I got a copy back. It seems that the list sends it off to the OP, fails, and sends me this. Is anyone else getting this? Doug. - Forwarded message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Envelope-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivery-date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 09:09:37 -0400 Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 09:00:25 -0500 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Your message can not be delivered To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivery of the attached message: From : [EMAIL PROTECTED] To : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date : Thu, 12 Jul 2007 08:57:47 -0400 Subject: (Archive Copy) Re: Tools to store account (password..) in encrypted format ? would violate local account restrictions. This message was not delivered. : El mensaje contiene [1] archivos adjuntos - End forwarded message - -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Why do I get these? [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Your message can not be delivered]
this and the previous one is the first time I have received this On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 10:30:29AM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > I've received a messge like this a few times and I don't know why. > > The last was for a different thread. In both cases, I saw that my > message was accepted by the list, since I got a copy back. It seems > that the list sends it off to the OP, fails, and sends me this. > > Is anyone else getting this? > > Doug. > > > > - Forwarded message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] - > > Envelope-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Delivery-date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 09:09:37 -0400 > Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 09:00:25 -0500 > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Your message can not be delivered > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Delivery of the attached message: > > >From : [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To : [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date : Thu, 12 Jul 2007 08:57:47 -0400 > Subject: (Archive Copy) Re: Tools to store account (password..) in encrypted > format ? > > would violate local account restrictions. > > This message was not delivered. > : El mensaje contiene [1] archivos adjuntos > > > > - End forwarded message - > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Why do I get these? [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Your message can not be delivered]
I've received a messge like this a few times and I don't know why. The last was for a different thread. In both cases, I saw that my message was accepted by the list, since I got a copy back. It seems that the list sends it off to the OP, fails, and sends me this. Is anyone else getting this? Doug. - Forwarded message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Envelope-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivery-date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 09:09:37 -0400 Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 09:00:25 -0500 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Your message can not be delivered To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivery of the attached message: >From : [EMAIL PROTECTED] To : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date : Thu, 12 Jul 2007 08:57:47 -0400 Subject: (Archive Copy) Re: Tools to store account (password..) in encrypted format ? would violate local account restrictions. This message was not delivered. : El mensaje contiene [1] archivos adjuntos - End forwarded message - -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Tools to store account (password..) in encrypted format ?
On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 06:15:31PM +0100, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 12:28:33PM +, KLEIN St?phane wrote: > > Hello, > > > > On my box, I use plain text to store my passwords but it isn't secure. > > What cli and/or web software can I use to store my password (account) in > > encrypted format ? What do you use ? > > revelation > > > If it's possible I would like collaborate system. > > Not sure they exist... Why share passwords anyway? Most of the time, > what you need is for multiple people to access the same unix/linux > account - and this would be solved by people dropping their public ssh > keys there... > It depends on what is meant by collaborative. Does that mean one group of people who can access a file, in which case create a group for them and chown the file to that group and give the group rw permissions. However, once you get multiple users with multiple pieces of information that some uses can access and others can't, it starts sounding like a job for a database of some sort. I wonder if the web-fronted to postgresql will do https? Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SATA support
On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 04:32:04PM -0500, Dustin wrote: > I would prefer to have the option to playback DVD movies on this > machine, in the past I've had trouble getting smooth playback on a PC > versus a dedicated stand alone DVD player. This may only be an issue > with older machines, but I might be wrong in that assumption. > > Any advice on this issue, or any issue in building a newer Debian PC > would be excellent. > I built a new Athlon64 box about 8 months ago. Sarge wouldn't work so I went with Etch sometime between beta3 and RC1 and have stuck with it now that it's stable. I already had an LG read/burn anything with a PATA interface so I use that. My MB has one PATA so I have the burner as hda and my ZIP as hdb. As for smooth playback, I went with a nVidia EN7300GT silent. My monitor is a 21" CRT drafting Intergraph. I use VLC (remember to put the debian-multimedia.org repository in your sources.list). With the standard nv X driver, I get playback that is a bit jerky and the smoothing/resizing isn't as good. With the nvidia driver (with the stock debian contrib and non-free packages) I get great performance. The screen is at 1600x1200 32-bpp. I can run vlc full screen (so it blows up the image to fit), deinterlacing-blending, no jerking, smooth motion and cristal clarity. All at 93% idle and minimal memory used. The trick here is that the video card is able to do the jpeg to screen translation in hardware with the nvidia driver whereas the nv driver has to attempt it in software. As for whether to use a PATA or SATA burner, it depends on what you have and what interfaces the MB has, and also where your hard drives are connected. Don't expect smooth playback if you have the DVD and your hard drive on the same interface or using the same bus. Enjoy your assembly job. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ALSA TV tuner problems persist -- no sound :(
Hi, I'm still struggling with my tv tuner card. I described the problem here: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2007/07/msg00340.html (ALSA problem - TV tuner no sound) The short of the long of it: sound works-- but not for the TV tuner. Chris Lane had a few good suggestions: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2007/07/msg00345.html My "/dev/dsp" does exist: # ls -lat /dev/dsp crw-rw 1 root audio 14, 3 2007-07-12 18:25 /dev/dsp Also, I tried doing what a reference in Chris' message said (see: http://people.debian.org/~terpstra/message/20070705.081707.c4fa712b.en.html ): # modprobe snd_pcm_oss # modprobe snd_mixer_oss # modprobe snd_sec_oss FATAL: Module snd_sec_oss not found. (I think "snd_sec_oss" should actually be "snd_seq_oss".) # modprobe bt878 (Then, I tried launching 'xawtv'. Sound still didn't work.) I tried unloading and reloading the bttv and bt878 modules. Nope. I played with permissions on "/dev/dsp" # chmod o=rw /dev/dsp The above didn't make a difference. I tried: $ aoss xawtv xawtv launched... no sound. I tried running xawtv as root... http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-tune.en.html $ XAUTHORITY=$HOME/.Xauthority $ export XAUTHORITY $ su root # xawtv xawtv launched... no sound. As per http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/linux-desktop-x-windows/1265-xawtv-tv-my-linux-pc-picture-but-no-sound.html I installed "kdetv" # apt-get install kdetv Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: kdetv RUNNING kdetv from the command line gave me more info: $ kdetv ALSA lib control.c:909:(snd_ctl_open_noupdate) Invalid CTL Creating vbi proxy client, rev. $Id: proxy-client.c,v 1.12 2006/05/31 03:54:28 mschimek Exp $ proxy_msg: connect: error 2, No such file or directory kdetv: WARNING: VBIDecoder: vbi_capture_proxy_new error: Connection via socket failed, server not running. Try to open V4L2 0.20 VBI device, libzvbi interface rev. $Id: io-v4l2.c,v 1.33 2006/05/22 09:00:47 mschimek Exp $ Opened /dev/vbi0 libzvbi:capture_v4l2k_new: Try to open V4L2 2.6 VBI device, libzvbi interface rev. $Id: io-v4l2k.c,v 1.42 2006/09/24 03:10:04 mschimek Exp $. libzvbi:capture_v4l2k_new: Opened /dev/vbi0. libzvbi:capture_v4l2k_new: /dev/vbi0 (BT878 video (ATI TV-Wonder)) is a v4l2 vbi device, driver bttv, version 0x0910. libzvbi:capture_v4l2k_new: Using streaming interface. libzvbi:v4l2_get_videostd: Current scanning system is 525. libzvbi:v4l2_update_services: Querying current vbi parameters... libzvbi:v4l2_update_services: ...success. libzvbi:print_vfmt: VBI capture parameters supported: format 59455247 [GREY], 28636363 Hz, 2048 bpl, offs 244, F1 10...25, F2 273...288, flags . libzvbi:print_vfmt: VBI capture parameters granted: format 59455247 [GREY], 28636363 Hz, 2048 bpl, offs 244, F1 10...25, F2 273...288, flags . libzvbi:vbi3_raw_decoder_add_services: No services to add. libzvbi:v4l2_update_services: Nyquist check passed. libzvbi:v4l2_update_services: Request decoding of services 0x6c7f, strict level -1. libzvbi:_vbi_sampling_par_permit_service: Service 0x0001 (Teletext System B 625 Level 1.5) requires videostd_set 0x1, have 0x0. libzvbi:_vbi_sampling_par_permit_service: Service 0x0003 (Teletext System B, 625) requires videostd_set 0x1, have 0x0. libzvbi:_vbi_sampling_par_permit_service: Service 0x0001 (Teletext System B 625 Level 1.5) requires videostd_set 0x1, have 0x0. libzvbi:_vbi_sampling_par_permit_service: Service 0x0003 (Teletext System B, 625) requires videostd_set 0x1, have 0x0. libzvbi:_vbi_sampling_par_permit_service: Service 0x0004 (Video Program System) requires videostd_set 0x1, have 0x0. libzvbi:_vbi_sampling_par_permit_service: Service 0x0400 (Wide Screen Signalling 625) requires videostd_set 0x1, have 0x0. libzvbi:_vbi_sampling_par_permit_service: Service 0x0008 (Closed Caption 625, field 1) requires videostd_set 0x1, have 0x0. libzvbi:_vbi_sampling_par_permit_service: Service 0x0010 (Closed Caption 625, field 2) requires videostd_set 0x1, have 0x0. libzvbi:v4l2_update_services: Will capture services 0x0060, added 0x60 commit=1. libzvbi:v4l2_stream_alloc: Requesting 16 streaming i/o buffers. libzvbi:v4l2_stream_alloc: Mapping 16 streaming i/o buffers. libzvbi:capture_v4l2k_new: Successfully opened /dev/vbi0 (BT878 video (ATI TV-Wonder)). kdetv: WARNING: MainWindow::setupInfraRed(): Lirc not available kdetv: WARNING: VolumeController::doSetVolume: AudioManager failed, trying SourceManager kdetv: WARNING: VolumeController::doSetVolume: AudioManager failed, trying SourceManager libzvbi:v4l2_stream: Failed to dequeue buffer, errno 5. kdetv: WARNING: VbiDecoder: VBI capture error: Input/output error libzvbi:v4l2_stream_stop: Suspending stream. Creating vbi proxy client, rev. $Id: proxy-client.c,v 1.12 2006/05/31 03:54:28 mschimek Exp $ proxy_msg: connect: error 2, No such file or directory kdetv: WARNING: VBIDecoder: vbi_cap
ML-320 compatible dot-matrix printer
Hello, I have an Origional IBM Personal Computer Graphics Printer. I know from previous installations that the only way I found to get it to print postscript was with the gs-esp ML-320 driver. However, I've always used lprng since its seems like overkill to bring in all of cups. On my last box, where I got it to work, I ended up with foomatic-printfilters (which brings in a lot of the cups stuff) and used the foomatic GUI to set it up with lprng. Does anyone using lprng know of an easier/simpler way to get things working? My hesitation on cups is twofold: the large amount of downloading over slow dialup; and I'm unclear on the politics of the openprinting.org movement. The latter seems to be driven by one company. What's the scoop on printing, why the move to cups, and do I have any choice if I want to get this working? Thanks, Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
start-stop-daemon: how to pass environment variables to the daemon
Dear all, A daemon invoked by start-stop-daemon needs some extra enviroment variables. How to pass them to the daemon? Thanks in advance. Best regards, Yuwen
Re: SATA support
On 7/12/07, Dustin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm building my first PC, it will run Debian of course. I'm buying the parts off of newegg.com and noticed that many of the newer DVD burners have a SATA interface. I'm looking at getting both the HDDs and the DVD burner with a SATA interface, but wasn't sure if it could make the process more complicated from a Debian standpoint, and wanted to see how safe of a bet it would be to use one. I understand that the interface is faster and cleaner from a physical standpoint, but more complicated and less tried and true from a software standpoint. I would prefer to have the option to playback DVD movies on this machine, in the past I've had trouble getting smooth playback on a PC versus a dedicated stand alone DVD player. This may only be an issue with older machines, but I might be wrong in that assumption. Any advice on this issue, or any issue in building a newer Debian PC would be excellent. Thanks in advance for the help. Dustin I actually have nothing useful to add to the main discussion, but I would like to thank you for bringing to my attention the widespread availability of SATA burners. The last time I looked, there was only one or two SATA models available anywhere. Thanks again. Cheers, Kelly -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: fluxbox weirdness
On 12 Jul 2007 19:44:44 GMT, Tyler Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I just rebooted my laptop for the first time in ages (usually I just hibernate to RAM). Fluxbox is behaving very strangely. I have the Alt keys bound to a number of handy things, such as switching windows and switching desktops. None of the alt combinations appear to work, although Mod4 does, as does None Pause, None Scr_lock and None Print. Also, my xterm windows are now decorated with a title bar which sticks out above the window frame. Are these new fluxbox features? If so, how do I turn them off? If not, what's going on? Thanks, Tyler Those are external tabs, which I believe Fluxbox had a long time ago and where recently brought back. I don't care for them myself. To switch back to internal tabs, bring up the menu and select Configuration > Tab Options > Tabs in Titlebar. Cheers, Kelly -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
how to install firefox and its plugin in debian
hello all, I want to install firefox in my debian system,but when i downloaded a linux version of firefox,it can not work? Any suggestion? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to install firefox and its plugin in debian
On 07/12/07 21:53, Xinhao Zheng wrote: hello all, I want to install firefox in my debian system,but when i downloaded a linux version of firefox,it can not work? Any suggestion? In Debian, it's packaged as "iceweasel". -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: fluxbox weirdness
On 2007-07-13, Kelly Clowers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Those are external tabs, which I believe Fluxbox had a long time > ago and where recently brought back. I don't care for them myself. > To switch back to internal tabs, bring up the menu and select > Configuration > Tab Options > Tabs in Titlebar. > Thanks! Tyler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
OSS, ALSA, tv tuner problems persist :(
Addendum to: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2007/07/msg01181.html I'm a big leap ahead. I had a silly problem related to the volume (it was near zero). The fix is: # apt-get install aumix $ aumix The TV tuner volume is influenced by the "CD" volume setting. Currently, I have a feedback problem. I wonder whether OSS and ALSA are fighting the background. Any case, I have to do some more experimentation. The feedback goes away if I disable the KDE sound system. That said, I have the sneaky suspicion it might be a driver bug. I have a vague memory of the tv tuner not always playing nice. Several years ago, when I used it under Windows it created problems. If I remember correctly, it also caused some problems in Debian at one point. Michael My 'dump-mixers' is now... $ dump-mixers /dev/mixer = EMU10K1 (SigmaTel STAC9708,11) vol( 0) : stereo rec 100/100 bass ( 1) : stereo73/73 treble ( 2) : stereo70/70 synth ( 3) : stereo100/100 pcm( 4) : stereo90/90 speaker( 5) : mono 48 line ( 6) : stereo rec 20/20 mic( 7) : monorec 20 cd ( 8) : stereo rec 50/50 pcm2 (10) : stereo100/100 igain (12) : stereo0/0 line1 (14) : stereo rec 0/0 dig1 (17) : stereo47/47 phin (20) : monorec 0 phout (21) : monorec 100 video (22) : stereo rec* 0/0 /dev/mixer1 = MPU-401 UART (mixer10) ... earlier it was: $ dump-mixers /dev/mixer = EMU10K1 (SigmaTel STAC9708,11) vol( 0) : stereo rec 94/94 bass ( 1) : stereo50/50 treble ( 2) : stereo50/50 synth ( 3) : stereo100/100 pcm( 4) : stereo50/50 speaker( 5) : mono 0 line ( 6) : stereo rec 0/0 mic( 7) : monorec* 0 cd ( 8) : stereo rec 0/0 pcm2 (10) : stereo100/100 igain (12) : stereo0/0 line1 (14) : stereo rec 0/0 dig1 (17) : stereo0/0 phin (20) : monorec 0 phout (21) : monorec 100 video (22) : stereo rec 0/0 /dev/mixer1 = MPU-401 UART (mixer10) Hardware: Athlon 2200 XP ASUS A7N8X (Motherboard) 512 MB RAM TVCard: ATI-TV Wonder Sound: Creative Labs Sound Blaster Live! Software: Debian GNU/Linux -- testing Kernel -- Linux version 2.6.18-4-k7 (Debian 2.6.18.dfsg.1-12) ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-21)) #1 SMP Mon Mar 26 17:57:15 UTC 2007 KDE -- 3.5.7 -- Ist Ihr Browser Vista-kompatibel? Jetzt die neuesten Browser-Versionen downloaden: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/browser -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mpeg or avi to gif
Hello List There are any way to convert mpeg or avi movies to gif file. Thank you in advance, Gustavo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: start-stop-daemon: how to pass environment variables to the daemon
On Fri, 2007-07-13 at 11:13 +0800, Yuwen Dai wrote: > Dear all, > > A daemon invoked by start-stop-daemon needs some extra enviroment > variables. How to pass them to the daemon? Thanks in advance. > > Best regards, > Yuwen I'm not sure if you meant environment variables or command line arguments for the daemon. Here is an example of how to provide a command line arg to the udhcpc daemon. You just put a '--' in front. # Start a DHCP client daemon on each of the physical interfaces /bin/start-stop-daemon -b -S --exec /bin/udhcpc \ -- --interface=eth0 \ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: start-stop-daemon: how to pass environment variables to the daemon
Yuwen Dai wrote: > A daemon invoked by start-stop-daemon needs some extra enviroment > variables. How to pass them to the daemon? Thanks in advance. Typically in Debian start-stop-daemon is called from within the boot time /etc/init.d/* scripts. Typically those scripts will source customization files from /etc/default/@[EMAIL PROTECTED] You did not say but if your situation is typical then customizing the corresponding /etc/default/ file will be the most normal way to do it. Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Script polluted by DOS formatting
William Pursell wrote:
Francesco Pietra wrote:
A script downloaded to a desktop i386/etch/gnome from Amber web site,
edited on
the desktop with gnome text editor, then sent scp to a computing
machine amd64,
turned out to be polluted by DOS formatting.
The computing program was prevented from reading the polluted lines.
I tried
dos2unix scriptfilename
which failed to clean the script. Opening the script with vim did not
reveal
the problem. It was only
When you open the file in vim, type:
:set fileformat
It will probably report:
fileformat=dos
Then type
:set fileformat=unix
When you write the file, the dos style line terminators
will be replaced by only.
I suppose you mistyped " only".
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Re: Script polluted by DOS formatting
Francesco Pietra wrote: A script downloaded to a desktop i386/etch/gnome from Amber web site, edited on the desktop with gnome text editor, then sent scp to a computing machine amd64, turned out to be polluted by DOS formatting. The computing program was prevented from reading the polluted lines. I tried dos2unix scriptfilename which failed to clean the script. Opening the script with vim did not reveal the problem. It was only When you open the file in vim, type: :set fileformat It will probably report: fileformat=dos Then type :set fileformat=unix When you write the file, the dos style line terminators will be replaced by only. :help fileformat for details -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: xprint config
Adam Hardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > s. keeling on 11/07/07 02:40, wrote: >> Adam Hardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>> does anybody here have any xprint config experience? My old >>> workstation is getting a bit bloated, xprint is up the creek and I >>> can't print to file / PS / PDF. /../ /../ >> Have you read the stuff in /usr/share/doc/xprint and xprint-common >> and xprint-utils? Have you: >> >>export XPSERVERLIST=`/etc/init.d/xprint get_xpserverlist` >> >> in your startup shell config? It also suggests: >> >>export LPDEST=lp # <-- edit to taste. >> >> may be useful, but I haven't needed it. >> >> The things I've seen so far say it help mozilla browsers print. Is >> that all? How to get OOo to use it? Dunno. It doesn't appear to >> need it. AFAIK: Mozilla had native PS printing, that development stopped and xprint was introduced. The two systems are still there, side by side. The xprint printers can be recognized by the port number being given as well. In my experience, xprint is better, but tuning the drivers can be a pain. In fact, as many have noted, Mozilla printing interface is a pain - margins get overwritten, of CUPS configurations ignored, etc. > Amusingly I only want it because it allows you to print to file easily > with two default printers that it sets up for you, one for PS and one > for PDF, and it puts them in your home directory. Very nice and > convenient, but it doesn't do it. The cups-pdf pacakge will allow you to print to PDF from OO and other software that obeys CUPS configurations. PS is also a usual option. -- BOFH excuse #447: According to Microsoft, it's by design -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Eeek?! smbmount is deprecated?!
El jue, 12-07-2007 a las 16:37 +0300, tejas escribió: [...] > echo "unmounting shares..." > sudo /home/tejas/Desktop/ayir # unmount script > [...] > and ayir: (unmount script) > > #! /bin/bash > SHA="masaustu firefox thunderbird Downloads" > if [ `whoami` != "root" ]; then echo "you must be root"; exit; fi > > for i in $SHA; do > sudo umount -l /home/tejas/Desktop/$i Just a silly correction: the script only gets to this point if it's running as root, therefore the 'sudo' here is not necessary. > sleep 5 > done > [...] -- Gabriel Parrondo GNU/Linux User #404138 GnuPG Public Key ID: BED7BF43 JID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The only difference between theory and practice is that, in theory, there's no difference between theory and practice." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mysql clustering
On Mon, Jul 09, 2007 at 02:51:01PM +1000, Will Parkinson wrote: >Cluster Configuration >- >[ndbd(NDB)] 2 node(s) >id=2@202.***.**.01 (Version: 5.0.32, starting, Nodegroup: 0) >id=3@202.***.**.02 (Version: 5.0.38, starting, Nodegroup: 0) The above shows that your data nodes have not yet started, so nothing else is going to work. >[ndb_mgmd(MGM)] 1 node(s) >id=1 (Version: 5.0.32) >[mysqld(API)] 2 node(s) >id=4 (not connected, accepting connect from any host) >id=5 (not connected, accepting connect from any host) The API servers (mysqld) won't connect until the data nodes have formed a cluster. >I installed all mysql servers using apt-get install mysql-server >Does anybody know how to get the mysql api nodes to connect >correctly? You'll need to work out why your data nodes have not finished starting yet. Did you remember to start them with the --init paramter the first time? FWIW I have found MySQL Cluster to be extremely unstable and not yet suitable for production use. Cheers, Andy -- http://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting Encrypted mail welcome - keyid 0x604DE5DB signature.asc Description: Digital signature
