Re: firewall package for laptop wi-fi client

[tv.deb...@googlemail.com]

On the 03/01/2011 05:42, Russell L. Harris wrote:
> I need recommendations for a Debian firewall package to be installed
> on a laptop or notebook which is used for web browsing and web-based
> email in public wi-fi hotspots.
> 
> My concern is to prevent infection or compromise of the laptop, so
> that the laptop may be connected safely to a home or
> office LAN which is protected by a dedicated firewall.  
> 
> My previous experience with firewalls has been limited to dedicated
> machines running firewall software such as SmoothWall.
> 
> RLH
> 
> 

Hello, if you are looking for a graphical front end you can look at
gufw, firestarter and guarddog. For text based tools I ear good things
about shorewall.
But if you do only web browsing and email and don't run any web-facing
services you should be fine anyway. The major threats are web browser
security holes (update often) especially through flash and java
plug-ins, and pdf. Hosting windows virus in mails attachments can also
be a problem if you have win machines on the lan, virus scanner clamav
can help here.
Firewall alone won't protect you from man in the middle and such
niceties on open untrusted networks.


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Re: What happened to consolechars?

[Andrei Popescu]

On Lu, 03 ian 11, 01:13:39, Phil Requirements wrote:
> On 2011-01-02 14:23:55 -0500, Thomas H. George wrote:
> > Some characters are not displayed correctly on my monitor.  The command
> > consolechars -d used to correct this problem but now it is unknown.
> > 
> > Specifically the problem is typically with the arrows which mutt uses to
> > indicate the subject threads.  Instead of lines and arrows the display
> > uses the letter a with a circumflex, the 3/4 character, the copywrite
> > symbol and another special symbol.
> > 
> > In text occasionally odd symbols appear in the middle of words and in
> > place of numbers or bullets in lists of items.
> 
> I don't know the answer to where consolechars is hiding, but I wanted
> to give you something else to think about. The problem you are
> describing, where special characters, like line-drawing characters and
> bullets, have been replaced with weird characters, is the classic
> symptom of an application not supporting UTF-8.
> 
> In this case, I think it is your terminal emulator which is not
> supporting UTF-8. What terminal emulator are you using? Try running
> mutt in xterm and see if the arrows improve.

Except for the GUI type ones (lxterm, terminal, gnome-terminal, konsole, 
...) AFAIK only xterm, rxvt-unicode and mlterm have decent UTF-8 
support. Also, make sure the used font is correct. I would recommend 
Terminus (package xfont-terminus).

Regards,
Andrei
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Re: firewall package for laptop wi-fi client

[Russell L. Harris]

* tv.deb...@googlemail.com  [110103 09:24]:

> Hello, if you are looking for a graphical front end you can look at
> gufw, firestarter and guarddog. For text based tools I ear good things
> about shorewall.

I am looking for a package which is easy to configure, whether text or
gui; in this respect firestarter looks good.



> But if you do only web browsing and email and don't run any
> web-facing services you should be fine anyway.

I do not understand; what is a "web-facing service"?



> The major threats are web browser security holes (update often)
> especially through flash and java plug-ins, and pdf.

Flash and java are in most web pages.  Does a firewall not protect
against these threats? or are browser updates necessary even with a
firewall?



> Hosting windows virus in mails attachments can also be a problem if
> you have win machines on the lan, virus scanner clamav can help
> here.

This is a Window$-free environment.



> Firewall alone won't protect you from man in the middle and such
> niceties on open untrusted networks.

Understood.  This need is for socializing around the table at
StarBucks, Internet cafes, etc.  

Thanks.

RLH
 


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Re: firewall package for laptop wi-fi client

[Andrei Popescu]

On Lu, 03 ian 11, 09:55:45, Russell L. Harris wrote:
> 
> > But if you do only web browsing and email and don't run any
> > web-facing services you should be fine anyway.
> 
> I do not understand; what is a "web-facing service"?
 
For example a web server (apache) or some other services accessible from 
outside (ftp, ssh, file-sharing, ...). A counter-example would be cups 
(the print server) which by default only accepts connections from the 
same machine.
 
> > The major threats are web browser security holes (update often)
> > especially through flash and java plug-ins, and pdf.
> 
> Flash and java are in most web pages.  Does a firewall not protect
> against these threats? or are browser updates necessary even with a
> firewall?

A firewall is just an additional layer of protection against possible 
intruders, but it will not protect you against malware that affects 
programs which access the internet "over" the wall (like browsers and 
other *client* software) or software listening behind doors (ports) 
which you have opened on purpose, to make that software (service) 
accessible from the internet (like the web server above).

> > Hosting windows virus in mails attachments can also be a problem if
> > you have win machines on the lan, virus scanner clamav can help
> > here.
> 
> This is a Window$-free environment.

As long as you don't run programs from outside Debian you can be 99,...% 
sure that your own software doesn't play ugly tricks on you, as many 
proprietary softwares do.

Unfortunately the Adobe flash plugin is not from Debian (even though you 
can install it with the flashplugin-nonfree helper package from contrib) 
and has had vulnerabilities in the past :(

> > Firewall alone won't protect you from man in the middle and such
> > niceties on open untrusted networks.
> 
> Understood.  This need is for socializing around the table at
> StarBucks, Internet cafes, etc.  

Maybe you could go into details about what software you are using, in 
order to get more specific recommendations.

Regards,
Andrei
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Re: firewall package for laptop wi-fi client

[Jari Fredriksson]

On 3.1.2011 11:55, Russell L. Harris wrote:

> 
>> The major threats are web browser security holes (update often)
>> especially through flash and java plug-ins, and pdf.
> 
> Flash and java are in most web pages.  Does a firewall not protect
> against these threats? or are browser updates necessary even with a
> firewall?
> 

Most web sites today do NOT have Java Applets. Javascript is NOT Java.
Totally different concept, and that is very common, almost 100% of web
sites do has Javascript.

Firewall does not protect from Web Browser vulnerabilities, browser
updates are must.

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Re: firewall package for laptop wi-fi client

[Jochen Schulz]

Russell L. Harris:
> * tv.deb...@googlemail.com  [110103 09:24]:
> 
>> But if you do only web browsing and email and don't run any
>> web-facing services you should be fine anyway.
> 
> I do not understand; what is a "web-facing service"?

It is a program accepting random connections from arbitrary source
addresses ("the internet"), like a web/FTP/mail server. In order to
check which programs listens on which port, post the output from
'netstat -tulpn' (run as root).

You should be aware that most people in here translate "firewall" as
"packet filter". Configuring a packet filter requires knowledge of
TCP/IP networking, so if you don't understand the term above, but still
feel the need to "secure" your system, you will need to learn about
that.

>> The major threats are web browser security holes (update often)
>> especially through flash and java plug-ins, and pdf.
> 
> Flash and java are in most web pages.  Does a firewall not protect
> against these threats?

If firewall == "packet filter": No. Otherwise: Maybe, but probably not.

> or are browser updates necessary even with a firewall?

Absolutely!

>> Firewall alone won't protect you from man in the middle and such
>> niceties on open untrusted networks.
> 
> Understood.  This need is for socializing around the table at
> StarBucks, Internet cafes, etc.  

Check for open ports (see the netstat-command above), always install the
latest upgrades and make sure to use encrypted connections whenever
possible.

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Re: What happened to consolechars?

[Roger Leigh]

On Mon, Jan 03, 2011 at 01:13:39AM +, Phil Requirements wrote:
> On 2011-01-02 14:23:55 -0500, Thomas H. George wrote:
> > Some characters are not displayed correctly on my monitor.  The command
> > consolechars -d used to correct this problem but now it is unknown.
> > 
> > Now the command is gone and apt-cache search consolechars returns
> > nothing.
> 
> I don't know about consolechars.

That's probably because Debian switched back from console-tools to
kbd.  console-tools was unmaintained and kbd supported more stuff.
You want to use "setfont", or just edit /etc/default/console-setup
and restart console-setup.  Note that setfont /is/ consolechars,
but supports larger fonts.  I'm using a 16×32 font with the following
settings:

CHARMAP="UTF-8"
CODESET="Uni2"
FONTFACE="TerminusBold"
FONTSIZE="32x16"

i.e. /etc/default/console-setup is where setfont gets the font
information from; you don't need to run it by hand yourself.  This
is actually a nice improvement over the previous methods.


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PDF viewer which supports scale-to-fit print (aka "lp -o fitplot")?

[Andrei Popescu]

Hi,

Does anyone know of a pdf viewer which can print with the option 
"scale-to-fit"? Web searched didn't turn up anything useful.

lp -d printer -o fitplot file.pdf

does what I need, but a GUI is needed for clicky-type users.

The software should be free and apt-get-able, and if possible on lenny, 
but this is not a hard requirement, the machine will be upgraded to 
squeeze ASAP anyway.

I already installed acroread from debian-multimedia to solve the 
immediate problem, but I'd rather get rid of it (64 bit machine, 
non-free, ...).

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Re: sleeping the system vs hibernate or suspend

[Camaleón]

On Sun, 02 Jan 2011 11:18:40 -0800, briand wrote:

> Someone posted (to this list) a simple command line for sleeping the
> system.
> 
> Sleeping, to me, is separate from hibernate or suspend which tries and
> save the state of the machine to disk or ram.  This was simply setting
> the machine to low power state.
> 
> I've been going through the list archives and can't find the command.
> 
> Anyone know what I'm talking about ? ;-)

man pm-hibernate

But the only two methods I'm aware of are "suspension" (suspend to ram) 
and "hibernation" (suspend to disk), but nothing in between :-?

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Re: Radeon 8500, kdetv, and xawtv broken - no video overlay device

[Camaleón]

On Mon, 03 Jan 2011 00:00:43 -0500, Robert Braddock wrote:

> On Sun, Jan 02, 2011 at 12:59:54PM -0500, Robert Braddock wrote:
>> Now, it seems as though my overlay device just isn't there.  Kdetv says
>> there's no video device at all and xawtv reports "no usable video port
>> found".
> 
> FYI, someone on the xorg list gave me a tip to put "radeon.modeset=0" on
> the kernel command-line at boot.  After doing that, the overlay device
> is back, but kdetv and xawtv still don't work: kdetv shows some red
> lines instead of video xawtv can only show video at the default tiny
> window size.  Any resizing
>  will resize the image, but be black everywhere that wasn't visible
>  through the default window (even if I start it with -fullscreen).

You can try with another programs to view the TV, like Videolan, Me-TV or 
even Kaffeine :-?

> Is there any other program that understands the video overlay device
> thing?  Kdetv and xawtv just don't seem to prioritize working...
> 
> Can I get a /dev/video0 for a Radeon 8500's input?  Xorg obviously isn't
> going to bother to keep it working, and it would be really nice to be
> able to use a better program than xawtv.

Maybe you card does not allow that... what tv tuner chipset has?

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Re: What happened to consolechars?

[Chris Jones]

On Mon, Jan 03, 2011 at 06:01:58AM EST, Roger Leigh wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 03, 2011 at 01:13:39AM +, Phil Requirements wrote:
> > On 2011-01-02 14:23:55 -0500, Thomas H. George wrote:
> > > Some characters are not displayed correctly on my monitor.  The command
> > > consolechars -d used to correct this problem but now it is unknown.
> > > 
> > > Now the command is gone and apt-cache search consolechars returns
> > > nothing.
> > 
> > I don't know about consolechars.
> 
> That's probably because Debian switched back from console-tools to
> kbd.  console-tools was unmaintained and kbd supported more stuff.
> You want to use "setfont", or just edit /etc/default/console-setup
> and restart console-setup.  Note that setfont /is/ consolechars,
> but supports larger fonts.  I'm using a 16×32 font with the following
> settings:
> 
> CHARMAP="UTF-8"
> CODESET="Uni2"
> FONTFACE="TerminusBold"
> FONTSIZE="32x16"
> 
> i.e. /etc/default/console-setup is where setfont gets the font
> information from; you don't need to run it by hand yourself.  This
> is actually a nice improvement over the previous methods.

Also, take a look at ‘unicode_start’.

cj


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[howto] connect using several USB Modem and phones

[Mihamina Rakotomandimby]

Hi all,
Happy new year.

I just want to share how I connect to internet using:
- ZTE G X760 (2G via USB and the Blueline ISP) phone
  http://www.rktmb.org/post/2010/12/25/zte-g-x760-blueline-debian-ubuntu
- Huawei e1552 (3G via USB and the Orange ISP) modem
  http://www.rktmb.org/post/2010/12/24/huawei-e1552-orange-ubuntu-debian

Footnote, using /etc/network/interfaces with those:
http://www.rktmb.org/post/2010/12/25/interfaces-pon-poff-wvdial

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Re: sleeping the system vs hibernate or suspend

[MASOKIS]

how about using "halt"...

On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 8:24 PM, Camaleón  wrote:
> On Sun, 02 Jan 2011 11:18:40 -0800, briand wrote:
>
>> Someone posted (to this list) a simple command line for sleeping the
>> system.
>>
>> Sleeping, to me, is separate from hibernate or suspend which tries and
>> save the state of the machine to disk or ram.  This was simply setting
>> the machine to low power state.
>>
>> I've been going through the list archives and can't find the command.
>>
>> Anyone know what I'm talking about ? ;-)
>
> man pm-hibernate
>
> But the only two methods I'm aware of are "suspension" (suspend to ram)
> and "hibernation" (suspend to disk), but nothing in between :-?
>
> Greetings,
>
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Re: PDF viewer which supports scale-to-fit print (aka "lp -o fitplot")?

[Camaleón]

On Mon, 03 Jan 2011 15:32:09 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote:

> Does anyone know of a pdf viewer which can print with the option
> "scale-to-fit"? Web searched didn't turn up anything useful.

I don't see that option under Evince, yep. 

But maybe you can give Evince a chance by creating a new printer instance 
in cups (name it, "evince_fiplot_on") and enable "fitplot" option for 
that printer in "/etc/cups/printers.conf" (Option fitplot true) :-?

> lp -d printer -o fitplot file.pdf
> 
> does what I need, but a GUI is needed for clicky-type users.

(...)

IIRC, Xpdf can pass raw lpr parameters when printing, so maybe it could 
be another option.

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Re: firewall package for laptop wi-fi client

[tv.deb...@googlemail.com]

On the 03/01/2011 10:55, Russell L. Harris wrote:
> * tv.deb...@googlemail.com  [110103 09:24]:
> 
>> Hello, if you are looking for a graphical front end you can look at
>> gufw, firestarter and guarddog. For text based tools I ear good things
>> about shorewall.
> 
> I am looking for a package which is easy to configure, whether text or
> gui; in this respect firestarter looks good.

Any will do, they default to allow out going connections but block
inbound ones, sometimes with additional warnings/logging when a port
scanning pattern or brute-force attack is detected.

> 
> 
> 
>> But if you do only web browsing and email and don't run any
>> web-facing services you should be fine anyway.
> 
> I do not understand; what is a "web-facing service"?

Anything listening on a port that is designed to accept connections from
the "outside" (Internet). Could be any "server" like ftp, http server
(apache...). Usually you are fine in Debian unless you purposefully
install such a service and open the corresponding ports in your firewall.
> 
> 
> 
>> The major threats are web browser security holes (update often)
>> especially through flash and java plug-ins, and pdf.
> 
> Flash and java are in most web pages.  Does a firewall not protect
> against these threats? or are browser updates necessary even with a
> firewall?

Flash is everywhere, the plugin is a proprietary closed-source beast
known for being a security nightmare. Flash is also a power hog on
laptops battery so if you can live without...

Java isn't really common, but some sites requires to run java "applets"
to login, some offer games through java, you can live without a java (or
openjdk) plug-in more easily than flash.
Don't get mixed-up with javascript, which is a different technology. For
that one use a browser extension like "NoScript" which gives you sane
default and allows for better control.

> 
> 
>> Hosting windows virus in mails attachments can also be a problem if
>> you have win machines on the lan, virus scanner clamav can help
>> here.
> 
> This is a Window$-free environment.
Nice ;-)

> 
> 
> 
>> Firewall alone won't protect you from man in the middle and such
>> niceties on open untrusted networks.
> 
> Understood.  This need is for socializing around the table at
> StarBucks, Internet cafes, etc.  
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> RLH
>  

Best security is achieved though understanding what's running on the
machine, and how most common "threats" work.
By design open password-less networks are insecure, but the risk remains
low unless you are a known valuable target. The probability of someone
eavesdropping you passwords or stealing your laptop is higher !

I wouldn't do my internet banking/shopping over such a network though...


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Re: Debian 5 installation

[Lisi]

On Monday 06 December 2010 09:30:50 Camaleón wrote:
>  But no need to be so picky

Camaleón -

I thought that this was a typing error the first time I saw it, but I think it 
is a slight semantic error.  I think that you mean "prickly" (easily 
irritated), not "picky" (choosy, fussy).

If you do actually mean fussy, I apologise!

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Re: sleeping the system vs hibernate or suspend

[Javier Vasquez]

On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 1:18 PM,   wrote:
> ...
> Someone posted (to this list) a simple command line for sleeping the
> system.
>
> ...

acpitool -S  =>  suspend to disk (hibernate)  =>  Puts machine into S4.
acpitool -s  =>  suspend to ram (sleep) =>  Puts machine into S3.

man acpitool

Putting the machine into S3 is problematic for several HW.  In several
cases HW goes to S3 OK, but it has trouble coming back.  That wouldn't
be much of a problem unless the HW is your video card, :-)

There are multiple ways to do the same thing, there are the pm-* tools
as well, and several other ones.  I just prefer using acpitool, which
I have for years...

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Re: Debian 5 installation

[Camaleón]

On Mon, 03 Jan 2011 14:34:19 +, Lisi wrote:

> On Monday 06 December 2010 09:30:50 Camaleón wrote:
>>  But no need to be so picky
> 
> Camaleón -
> 
> I thought that this was a typing error the first time I saw it, but I
> think it is a slight semantic error.  I think that you mean "prickly"
> (easily irritated), not "picky" (choosy, fussy).
> 
> If you do actually mean fussy, I apologise!

Grrr! YALF (Yet Another Linguistic Fault) :-)

Not sure if "picky" is the correct term. I wanted to use an adjective to  
designate people who is... (let me search for a synonym) "punctilious/
touchy"? In Spanish that is "quisquilloso".

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mkdosfs on usb pendrive

[Roman Gelfand]

I created a partition on a 8gb usb pendrive using mkdosfs.  However,
after mounting the drive, I see only 80mb available.   Is there a way
to create a bigger partition?

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Re: mkdosfs on usb pendrive

[Roman Gelfand]

to create partition...

mkdosfs /dev/sda1

To mount the volume

mount /dev/sda1 /pendrive

On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 10:42 AM, Joao Ferreira gmail
 wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-01-03 at 10:33 -0500, Roman Gelfand wrote:
>> I created a partition on a 8gb usb pendrive using mkdosfs.
>
> can you show us the exact command you used ?
>
> cheers
>
> joao
>
>>   However,
>> after mounting the drive, I see only 80mb available.   Is there a way
>> to create a bigger partition?
>>
>> Thanks in advance
>>
>>
>
>
>


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Re: mkdosfs on usb pendrive

[Joao Ferreira gmail]

On Mon, 2011-01-03 at 10:33 -0500, Roman Gelfand wrote:
> I created a partition on a 8gb usb pendrive using mkdosfs.

can you show us the exact command you used ?

cheers

joao

>   However,
> after mounting the drive, I see only 80mb available.   Is there a way
> to create a bigger partition?
> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
> 



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Re: mkdosfs on usb pendrive

[Joao Ferreira gmail]

On Mon, 2011-01-03 at 10:43 -0500, Roman Gelfand wrote:
> to create partition...
> 
> mkdosfs /dev/sda1

this does not create the partition; this formats an existing partition
as fat.

the problem here is that the pen actually contains a ver small partition
in it (I'm just guessing).

install gparted on your computer and use it to actually get a "map" of
the partition layout of your pen.

I'dd say you need to remove any existing partition on the pen and create
a new partition with the size you want.

only then format it as dos, or ext3, or whatever you need.

gparted will help you with this.

be extra carefull not to touch your internal hard drives. sometimes it
can be confusing.

:)

cheers
joao


> 
> To mount the volume
> 
> mount /dev/sda1 /pendrive
> 
> On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 10:42 AM, Joao Ferreira gmail
>  wrote:
> > On Mon, 2011-01-03 at 10:33 -0500, Roman Gelfand wrote:
> >> I created a partition on a 8gb usb pendrive using mkdosfs.
> >
> > can you show us the exact command you used ?
> > 


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Re: mkdosfs on usb pendrive

[Javier Vasquez]

On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 9:43 AM, Roman Gelfand  wrote:
> to create partition...
>
> mkdosfs /dev/sda1
>
> To mount the volume
>
> mount /dev/sda1 /pendrive

mkdosfs does not create any partition, it formats the partition to
VFAT, but it has to be created first.  In your example /dev/sda1, the
partition already existed.

If you want to re-partition your drive, you have to use whether
cfdisk, or parted, or gparted, or whatever other tool for that
puspose.  Once you create the partitions of your liking, then you
format them...


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Re: Debian 5 installation

[Tony van der Hoff]

On 03/01/11 15:29, Camaleón wrote:


Not sure if "picky" is the correct term. I wanted to use an adjective to
designate people who is... (let me search for a synonym) "punctilious/
touchy"? In Spanish that is "quisquilloso".


According to Google Translate
http://translate.google.com/#auto|en|quisquilloso:
   1. fussy
   2. touchy
   3. pernickety
   4. petty
   5. cantankerous
   6. squeamish
   7. persnickety
   8. pettifogging
   9. spiky

I'd go with touchy. I just wish my Spanish was as good as your English!

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How to build a kernel with the -g C flag?

[Csanyi Pal]

Hi,

I order to use crash utility, I must to build a kernel with the -g C
flag. How can I do that?

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Re: What happened to consolechars?

[Thomas H. George]

On Mon, Jan 03, 2011 at 11:01:58AM +, Roger Leigh wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 03, 2011 at 01:13:39AM +, Phil Requirements wrote:
> > On 2011-01-02 14:23:55 -0500, Thomas H. George wrote:
> > > Some characters are not displayed correctly on my monitor.  The command
> > > consolechars -d used to correct this problem but now it is unknown.
> > > 
> > > Now the command is gone and apt-cache search consolechars returns
> > > nothing.
> > 
> > I don't know about consolechars.
> 
> That's probably because Debian switched back from console-tools to
> kbd.  console-tools was unmaintained and kbd supported more stuff.
> You want to use "setfont", or just edit /etc/default/console-setup
> and restart console-setup.  Note that setfont /is/ consolechars,
> but supports larger fonts.  I'm using a 16×32 font with the following
> settings:
> 
Problem solved BUT after I changed 
CHARMAP=ISO-8859-15 to
> CHARMAP="UTF-8"
and CODESET=Lat2 to
> CODESET="Uni2"
I left the following two entries unchanged as they were as shown
> FONTFACE="TerminusBold"
> FONTSIZE="32x16"
> 
Then I ran setfont and the displayed fonts shrank to almost invisible
size but the lines and arrows indicating threads in mutt were correct.

In the past I struggled with miniscule font sizes and learned how to
correct this by setting the display size in grub.  A reboot recovered
my preferred font sizes while preserving the new correct lines and
arrows indicating threads in mutt.

xterm was not installed so I installed it.  When I ran xterm it aborted
saying DISPLAY was not set.  Since everything works correctly now I
leave it as is.
> i.e. /etc/default/console-setup is where setfont gets the font
> information from; you don't need to run it by hand yourself.  This
> is actually a nice improvement over the previous methods.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Roger
> 
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Re: Debian 5 installation

[Lisi]

On Monday 03 January 2011 15:29:16 Camaleón wrote:
>  "punctilious/
> touchy"?

picky _and_ prickly!!  Yes, touchy is the word I was looking for and didn't 
find!  "touchy and irritable".

But you _do_ seem to mean picky as well - tho' it did not seem to me that it 
was his pickiness that needed commenting on.  Many of us are that.  
Perfectionism gone mad.  But he is/was _so_ prickly - and so rude himself - 
that I took that to be what you meant.  "quisquilloso" is obviously one of 
the many words which need, and haven't got, an exact single-word translation.

It is hard to understand why he chose Debian rather than Ubuntu.  The latter 
would, on the face of it, suit him far better.

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Re: Debian 5 installation

[Lisi]

On Monday 03 January 2011 15:38:51 Tony van der Hoff wrote:
> On 03/01/11 15:29, Camaleón wrote:
> > Not sure if "picky" is the correct term. I wanted to use an adjective to
> > designate people who is... (let me search for a synonym) "punctilious/
> > touchy"? In Spanish that is "quisquilloso".
>
> According to Google Translate
> http://translate.google.com/#auto|en|quisquilloso:
> 1. fussy
> 2. touchy
> 3. pernickety
> 4. petty
> 5. cantankerous
> 6. squeamish
> 7. persnickety
> 8. pettifogging
> 9. spiky
>
> I'd go with touchy. I just wish my Spanish was as good as your English!
>
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+1  As always someone else can express my thoughts better than I can.  
Camaleón's English is so good that I often forget that she is not English.  
But come to think of it, perhaps cantankerous is even better in this case!
Lisi


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Re: mkdosfs on usb pendrive

[Lisi]

On Monday 03 January 2011 15:43:09 Roman Gelfand wrote:
> to create partition...
>
> mkdosfs /dev/sda1
>
> To mount the volume
>
> mount /dev/sda1 /pendrive
>
> On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 10:42 AM, Joao Ferreira gmail
>
>  wrote:
> > On Mon, 2011-01-03 at 10:33 -0500, Roman Gelfand wrote:
> >> I created a partition on a 8gb usb pendrive using mkdosfs.
> >
> > can you show us the exact command you used ?
> >
> > cheers
> >
> > joao
> >
> >>   However,
> >> after mounting the drive, I see only 80mb available.   Is there a way
> >> to create a bigger partition?
> >>
> >> Thanks in advance

Partition the drive to have only one partition covering the whole volume 
before you make the filesystem?
Lisi


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Re: mkdosfs on usb pendrive

[shawn wilson]

As stated, mkfs commands just do the fs layout stuff and not the
partitioning. In order to do partitioning I'd either use fdisk or gparted.
For fdisk, (off the top of my head);
sudo fdisk /dev/sda
p
d 1
(Repeat until there are no listings)
n p 1 (accept defaults)
p (you should see one linux native partition taking up all of the space)

I don't recall if you need to change the partition (t)ype or what you change
it to.

After your done with fdisk, (w)rite the table and then run your mkfs command
(which, I suspect if you look mkdosfs is actually a symlink or alias to
mkfs.vfat

Re: mkdosfs on usb pendrive

[Roman Gelfand]

I sort of found a solution for myself.  Remove all partitions from usb
drive.  Format the drive using mkdosfs -I /dev/sda.  This gives me now
access to the entire drive.

On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 12:05 PM, shawn wilson  wrote:
> As stated, mkfs commands just do the fs layout stuff and not the
> partitioning. In order to do partitioning I'd either use fdisk or gparted.
> For fdisk, (off the top of my head);
> sudo fdisk /dev/sda
> p
> d 1
> (Repeat until there are no listings)
> n p 1 (accept defaults)
> p (you should see one linux native partition taking up all of the space)
>
> I don't recall if you need to change the partition (t)ype or what you change
> it to.
>
> After your done with fdisk, (w)rite the table and then run your mkfs command
> (which, I suspect if you look mkdosfs is actually a symlink or alias to
> mkfs.vfat


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ices2 depends upon decnet and changes the ethernet address

[Bob Proulx]

Just a word of warning to users running Sid.  I have a test machine
that I am tracking Sid on.  It also happens to have ices2 installed.
It is a test machine and I pull in upgrades daily.  After today's
upgrades it had its ethernet address changed!  That was unexpected.
This caused some minor problems for connecting to it from the network
until the arp cache entries timed out.

  The following NEW packages will be installed:
dnet-common libdnet libroar0 muroard
  The following packages will be upgraded:
... ices2 ...
  17 upgraded, 4 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

Changes to the dependency chain of ices2 caused the dnet-common and
libdnet packages to be pulled in new today and they changed the
hardware ethernet address for the network interface to aa:0:4:0:a:4!
Good thing I didn't have two machines with ices2 installed or both
would have had the same hardware ethernet address.  Bug #608807
filed[1].

In case this happens to you let me hint to you that if you know your
actual ethernet address then you can restore it live without
rebooting.  (I always keep track of hardware ethernet addresses. :-)

  ifconfig eth0 hw ether 0:1c:12:34:56:78

Warning: Be careful doing this over the network because it will
disrupt your network connection until the arp cache times out.  If you
are not on the console you may lock yourself out of your network
connection.  You have been warned.

Bob

[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=608807


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Re: sleeping the system vs hibernate or suspend

[briand]

On Mon, 3 Jan 2011 08:44:22 -0600
Javier Vasquez  wrote:

> On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 1:18 PM,   wrote:
> > ...
> > Someone posted (to this list) a simple command line for sleeping the
> > system.
> >
> > ...
> 
> acpitool -S  =>  suspend to disk (hibernate)  =>  Puts machine into
> S4. acpitool -s  =>  suspend to ram (sleep) =>  Puts machine
> into S3.
> 
> man acpitool
> 
> Putting the machine into S3 is problematic for several HW.  In several
> cases HW goes to S3 OK, but it has trouble coming back.  That wouldn't
> be much of a problem unless the HW is your video card, :-)
> 
> There are multiple ways to do the same thing, there are the pm-* tools
> as well, and several other ones.  I just prefer using acpitool, which
> I have for years...
> 

ding ding ding - the winner.

I remembered the -s but couldn't remember the command :-)

Interesting though, I didn't realize that it was suspending to RAM.
Suspend to RAM says, to me, that it's actually copying current run-time
state to RAM as opposed to just putting the hardware into a low
power state, e.g. stopping the CPU, sleeping ethernet, etc... ??  So,
for example, the RAM doesn't actually need to be touched since
everything just remains where it is memory.

Well, time to read about acpi in more detail.

Now we'll see if it works with this hardware.

Thank you !


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Re: sleeping the system vs hibernate or suspend

[briand]

On Mon, 3 Jan 2011 08:44:22 -0600
Javier Vasquez  wrote:

> On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 1:18 PM,   wrote:
> > ...
> > Someone posted (to this list) a simple command line for sleeping the
> > system.
> >
> > ...
> 
> acpitool -S  =>  suspend to disk (hibernate)  =>  Puts machine into
> S4. acpitool -s  =>  suspend to ram (sleep) =>  Puts machine
> into S3.
> 
> man acpitool
> 

it is, appropriately, in the acpitool package.


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Re: squeeze audio cd and automount

[Camaleón]

On Sun, 02 Jan 2011 22:17:56 +0100, Filipe Freire wrote:

> automounting is not working since my upgrade to squeeze.  the loader is
> now grub2.
> 
> I can mount usb and, dvd's and data cd's only manually from the command
> line.  /etc/fstab and nautilus options are as they should be. Only for
> dvd's nautilus creates a folder.
> 
> besides this audio cd are not detected ay least by sound-juicer and
> totem. tried all audio devices.

I'm also facing this problem:

sound-juicer: doesn't find any CD drives, even when told which to use
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=577088

In my case, hal daemon is running so I tried to restarting the service 
but not avail. Also, data CDs are mounted just fine.

At least in lenny, although CD-Audio is not mounted as a normal data CD  
Sound Juicer can play it fine. In Squeezy, the CD-Audio is not even 
detected, but maybe you can try to access the media using another program 
as the bug reporter suggests :-?

As per the USB flash drive, I dunno. What do you get when you connect a 
USB flash/disk drive and run "dmesg|tail -50"?

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unattended upgrades

[Tony van der Hoff]

I have lenny-based VPS server, which looks after itself pretty well.
Following the recent security notice regarding PHPMyAdmin, I checked the 
unattended-upgrades log, where I was surprised to notice that it had 
skipped the upgrade:


2011-01-03 07:51:03,658 INFO Initial blacklisted packages:
2011-01-03 07:51:03,659 INFO Starting unattended upgrades script
2011-01-03 07:51:03,659 INFO Allowed origins are: ["['Debian', 'stable']"]
2011-01-03 07:51:05,519 INFO package 'phpmyadmin' not upgraded
2011-01-03 07:51:05,774 INFO No packages found that can be upgraded 
unattended


Can anyone explain why this happens? Should I upgrade phpmyadmin manually?

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xfig font problem

[Volkan YAZICI]

Hi,

xfig was used to work properly in lenny, but after I migrated to
squeeze, when I start xfig, it complains that

  Can't load font: 8x13bold, using 6x13

And when I try to write something, it just uses the default font face
(times) with its default font size -- it is not possible to change the
font face and size. Below are some related diagnostics.

  $ locale -a
  C
  en_US
  en_US.iso88591
  en_US.utf8
  POSIX

  $ dpkg -l | grep fonts | awk '{print $2}'
  console-data
  console-terminus
  gsfonts
  gsfonts-x11
  texlive-fonts-recommended
  ttf-freefont
  x-ttcidfont-conf
  xfonts-100dpi
  xfonts-75dpi
  xfonts-encodings
  xfonts-scalable
  xfonts-terminus
  xfonts-utils

  $ LC_ALL=C xfig -deb
  Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion
  Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion
  Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion
  Warning: Cannot convert string "7x13bold" to type FontStruct
  Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion

Any helps will be really appreciated.


Regards.


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Re: PDF viewer which supports scale-to-fit print (aka "lp -o fitplot")?

[Brian]

On Mon 03 Jan 2011 at 15:32:09 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Does anyone know of a pdf viewer which can print with the option 
> "scale-to-fit"? Web searched didn't turn up anything useful.
> 
> lp -d printer -o fitplot file.pdf
> 
> does what I need, but a GUI is needed for clicky-type users.

As already mentioned xpdf can do this. In ~/.xpdfrc or /etc/xpdf/xpdfrc
have:

psFile  "|lp -d printer -o fitplot"

and printing is a mere two clicks away.


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Re: xfig font problem

[Camaleón]

On Mon, 03 Jan 2011 20:18:23 +0200, Volkan YAZICI wrote:

> xfig was used to work properly in lenny, but after I migrated to
> squeeze, when I start xfig, it complains that
> 
>   Can't load font: 8x13bold, using 6x13

(...)

When looking for that font, I get some hits:

stt008:~# find /usr/share/fonts/* -type f -exec grep -H -i '8x13b' {} \;
/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc/fonts.alias:8x13bold 
-misc-fixed-bold-r-normal--13-120-75-75-c-80-iso8859-1
/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc/fonts.dir:8x13B-ISO8859-1.pcf.gz 
-misc-fixed-bold-r-normal--13-120-75-75-c-80-iso8859-1
/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc/fonts.dir:8x13B-ISO8859-10.pcf.gz 
-misc-fixed-bold-r-normal--13-120-75-75-c-80-iso8859-10
/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc/fonts.dir:8x13B-ISO8859-13.pcf.gz 
-misc-fixed-bold-r-normal--13-120-75-75-c-80-iso8859-13
/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc/fonts.dir:8x13B-ISO8859-14.pcf.gz 
-misc-fixed-bold-r-normal--13-120-75-75-c-80-iso8859-14
/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc/fonts.dir:8x13B-ISO8859-15.pcf.gz 
-misc-fixed-bold-r-normal--13-120-75-75-c-80-iso8859-15
/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc/fonts.dir:8x13B-ISO8859-16.pcf.gz 
-misc-fixed-bold-r-normal--13-120-75-75-c-80-iso8859-16
/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc/fonts.dir:8x13B-ISO8859-2.pcf.gz 
-misc-fixed-bold-r-normal--13-120-75-75-c-80-iso8859-2
/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc/fonts.dir:8x13B-ISO8859-3.pcf.gz 
-misc-fixed-bold-r-normal--13-120-75-75-c-80-iso8859-3
/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc/fonts.dir:8x13B-ISO8859-4.pcf.gz 
-misc-fixed-bold-r-normal--13-120-75-75-c-80-iso8859-4
/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc/fonts.dir:8x13B-ISO8859-5.pcf.gz 
-misc-fixed-bold-r-normal--13-120-75-75-c-80-iso8859-5
/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc/fonts.dir:8x13B-ISO8859-7.pcf.gz 
-misc-fixed-bold-r-normal--13-120-75-75-c-80-iso8859-7
/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc/fonts.dir:8x13B-ISO8859-8.pcf.gz 
-misc-fixed-bold-r-normal--13-120-75-75-c-80-iso8859-8
/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc/fonts.dir:8x13B-ISO8859-9.pcf.gz 
-misc-fixed-bold-r-normal--13-120-75-75-c-80-iso8859-9
/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc/fonts.dir:8x13B.pcf.gz 
-misc-fixed-bold-r-normal--13-120-75-75-c-80-iso10646-1

And those files seem to be installed by the "xfonts-base" package...

>   $ dpkg -l | grep fonts | awk '{print $2}' console-data
>   console-terminus
>   gsfonts
>   gsfonts-x11
>   texlive-fonts-recommended
>   ttf-freefont
>   x-ttcidfont-conf
>   xfonts-100dpi
>   xfonts-75dpi
>   xfonts-encodings
>   xfonts-scalable
>   xfonts-terminus
>   xfonts-utils

stt008:~# dpkg -l | grep fonts | awk '{print $2}'
console-data
gsfonts
gsfonts-x11
ttf-liberation
xfonts-100dpi
xfonts-75dpi
xfonts-base <<-- here it is
xfonts-encodings
xfonts-scalable
xfonts-utils


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Re: sleeping the system vs hibernate or suspend

[Camaleón]

On Mon, 03 Jan 2011 22:23:20 +0800, MASOKIS wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 8:24 PM, Camaleón wrote:
>> On Sun, 02 Jan 2011 11:18:40 -0800, briand wrote:
>>
>>> Someone posted (to this list) a simple command line for sleeping the
>>> system.
>>>
>>> Sleeping, to me, is separate from hibernate or suspend which tries and
>>> save the state of the machine to disk or ram.  This was simply setting
>>> the machine to low power state.
>>>
>>> I've been going through the list archives and can't find the command.
>>>
>>> Anyone know what I'm talking about ? ;-)
>>
>> man pm-hibernate
>>
>> But the only two methods I'm aware of are "suspension" (suspend to ram)
>> and "hibernation" (suspend to disk), but nothing in between :-?

> how about using "halt"...

"Halt"? I use halt for shutting down (shutdown -h) or restarting 
(shutdown -r) the system but not for going to sleep or hibernate the 
machine :-?

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Re: xfig font problem

[Volkan YAZICI]

On Mon, 3 Jan 2011, Camaleón  writes:
> And those files seem to be installed by the "xfonts-base" package...

Right. I again did the first thing that I need to do as the last one.
Anyway, thanks. (BTW, shouldn't xfig depend on xfonts-base?)


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Re: What happened to consolechars?

[Roger Leigh]

On Mon, Jan 03, 2011 at 08:48:21AM -0500, Chris Jones wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 03, 2011 at 06:01:58AM EST, Roger Leigh wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 03, 2011 at 01:13:39AM +, Phil Requirements wrote:
> > > On 2011-01-02 14:23:55 -0500, Thomas H. George wrote:
> > > > Some characters are not displayed correctly on my monitor.  The command
> > > > consolechars -d used to correct this problem but now it is unknown.
> > > > 
> > > > Now the command is gone and apt-cache search consolechars returns
> > > > nothing.
> > > 
> > > I don't know about consolechars.
> > 
> > That's probably because Debian switched back from console-tools to
> > kbd.  console-tools was unmaintained and kbd supported more stuff.
> > You want to use "setfont", or just edit /etc/default/console-setup
> > and restart console-setup.  Note that setfont /is/ consolechars,
> > but supports larger fonts.  I'm using a 16×32 font with the following
> > settings:
> > 
> > CHARMAP="UTF-8"
> > CODESET="Uni2"
> > FONTFACE="TerminusBold"
> > FONTSIZE="32x16"
> > 
> > i.e. /etc/default/console-setup is where setfont gets the font
> > information from; you don't need to run it by hand yourself.  This
> > is actually a nice improvement over the previous methods.
> 
> Also, take a look at ‘unicode_start’.

Note that if the locale set in /etc/default/locale (or
/etc/environment on older systems) has a UTF-8 charmap (as reported by
"locale charmap"), then the console will be put into unicode mode by
default automatically by the init scripts, which run unicode_start
for you.

[/etc/init.d/keymap.sh, /etc/init.d/kbd]


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Re: xfig font problem

[Roger Leigh]

On Mon, Jan 03, 2011 at 09:04:47PM +0200, Volkan YAZICI wrote:
> On Mon, 3 Jan 2011, Camaleón  writes:
> > And those files seem to be installed by the "xfonts-base" package...
> 
> Right. I again did the first thing that I need to do as the last one.
> Anyway, thanks. (BTW, shouldn't xfig depend on xfonts-base?)

Not necessarily.  Remember that xfig is an X client, and these X
fonts are installed on the X server (which might not be the same
machine, making a package dependency potentially pointless).


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Re: Debian 5 installation

[Chris Bannister]

On Mon, Jan 03, 2011 at 04:31:01PM +, Lisi wrote:
> +1  As always someone else can express my thoughts better than I can.  
> Camaleón's English is so good that I often forget that she is not English.  
> But come to think of it, perhaps cantankerous is even better in this case!

http://www.websters-online-dictionary.org/definition/TRUCULANT

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Re: What happened to consolechars?

[Chris Jones]

On Mon, Jan 03, 2011 at 02:42:19PM EST, Roger Leigh wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 03, 2011 at 08:48:21AM -0500, Chris Jones wrote:

[..]

> > Also, take a look at ‘unicode_start’.

> Note that if the locale set in /etc/default/locale (or
> /etc/environment on older systems) has a UTF-8 charmap (as reported by
> "locale charmap"), then the console will be put into unicode mode by
> default automatically by the init scripts, which run unicode_start for
> you.

God's in his heaven, and all's well with the world.

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Re: firewall package for laptop wi-fi client [going OT]

[tv.deb...@googlemail.com]

On the 03/01/2011 05:42, Russell L. Harris wrote:
> I need recommendations for a Debian firewall package to be installed
> on a laptop or notebook which is used for web browsing and web-based
> email in public wi-fi hotspots.
> 
> My concern is to prevent infection or compromise of the laptop, so
> that the laptop may be connected safely to a home or
> office LAN which is protected by a dedicated firewall.  
> 
> My previous experience with firewalls has been limited to dedicated
> machines running firewall software such as SmoothWall.
> 
> RLH
> 
> 

Off topic for Debian but relevant to your question I came across an
article today in Ars Technica :
http://arstechnica.com/security/guides/2011/01/stay-safe-at-a-public-wi-fi-hotspot.ars

Might be worth reading if you are in the blue regarding security
implications of open networks.


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Re: Debian 5 installation

[David Jardine]

On Tue, Jan 04, 2011 at 11:07:58AM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 03, 2011 at 04:31:01PM +, Lisi wrote:
> > +1  As always someone else can express my thoughts better than I can.  
> > Camaleón's English is so good that I often forget that she is not English.  
> > But come to think of it, perhaps cantankerous is even better in this case!
> 
> http://www.websters-online-dictionary.org/definition/TRUCULANT

Hmm!  Over at Oxford we spell it "truculent".  ;)


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Re: Debian 5 installation

[Lisi]

On Monday 03 January 2011 22:47:23 David Jardine wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 04, 2011 at 11:07:58AM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote:
> >
> > http://www.websters-online-dictionary.org/definition/TRUCULANT
>
> Hmm!  Over at Oxford we spell it "truculent".  ;)

At the other place too! ;-)

Lisi


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ez-ipupdate and gnudip2.yi.org

[peasthope]

Folk,

For years I've used ez-ipupdate and the gnudip2.yi.org server.
/var/log/syslog has these lines 
  Jan  3 13:59:11 joule ez-ipupdate[2195]: invalid login attempt 
Jan  3 13:59:11 joule ez-ipupdate[2195]: failed to update 
MainBoard->24.108.32.156 (.joule.yi.org) 
and according to yi.org the address hasn't been updated since 2010-08-01.
Manual login to http://www.yi.org/login.shtml still works.

Can anyone suggest another DDNS service I might try?  Any other 
ideas?

Thanks,  ... Peter E.



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Re: making a pdf file smaller the debian way....

[John A. Sullivan III]

On Sun, 2011-01-02 at 03:05 +, Michael Fothergill wrote:

> So I gave up with Acrobat and used the ghostscript command gs
> -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dPDFSETTINGS=/screen
> -dNOPAUSE -dQUIET -dBATCH -sOutputFile=output.pdf input.pdf  which
> worked really well and made a smaller pdf file for me.


This looked useful to some of our clients who use Windows primarily for
Acrobat and principally to reduce PDF file sizes.  So we created a KDE
service menu so that they could simply right click on a PDF file, go to
Actions, and choose Reduce PDF File(s).  I don't recall if Acrobat calls
this Reduce or Optimize.  In case it may be of use to anyone else,
here's how we did it:

We wrapped the command in a script to create user dialogs, handle spaces
in file names, etc., named reducepdf:
#!/bin/bash
OFILE=""
OK=true
FILES="\"$(echo "${1}" | sed 's/ \//\" \"\//g')\""
DIR="$(echo ${FILES} | sed 's/\"\([^\"]*\)\".*/\1/')"
DIR="${DIR%/*}/"
EXT=""
while ${OK}
do
OFILE="$(kdialog --title "Enter New Reduced PDF File Name"
--getsavefilename ${DIR})"
if [ $? -ne 0 ];then
exit 4
fi
EXT="${OFILE: -4:4}"
if [ "${EXT}" != ".pdf" -a "${EXT}" != ".PDF" ];then
OFILE="${OFILE}.pdf"
fi
if [ -f "${OFILE}" ];then
kdialog --title "Reduce PDF File" --warningyesno "The file 
${OFILE}
already exists.\nShall I overwrite it?"
if [ $? -ne 0 ];then
continue
fi
fi
OK=false
done
kdialog --title "Reduce PDF File" --msgbox "PDF reduction can take
several minutes.\nPlease wait until you see the Reduction Completed
message\nbefore opening the new, reduced file.\nThe file may appear in
your file manager before it is ready\nbut you will receive a file
damaged error message\nif you open it too soon." &
eval gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dPDFSETTINGS=/screen
-dNOPAUSE -dQUIET -dBATCH -sOutputFile=\"${OFILE}\" ${FILES}
kdialog --title "Reduce PDF File" --msgbox "PDF Reduction Completed for:
\n${OFILE}"


We created the service menu in
/share/apps/konqueror/servicemenus/39748-reducepdf.desktop

[Desktop Action Reduce_PDF]
Exec=/reducepdf "%F"
Icon=acroread
Name=Reduce PDF file(s)

[Desktop Entry]
Actions=Reduce_PDF
Encoding=UTF-8
ServiceTypes=application/pdf,application/vnd.adobe.pdf

As you can tell from the messages, we hit a bit of a problem.
Ghostscript creates the new file and then takes a while to finish
writing to it.  Unfortunately, Konqueror displays the file immediately
and, if the user clicks on it while the file is yet incomplete, it
generates a corrupted file error message.  Does anyone know how to
change the behavior of gs, Konqueror, KDE, dcop, or anything else to
ensure the file icon does not appear until the reduction is complete?
Thanks - John



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Re: making a pdf file smaller the debian way....

[John Hasler]

John A. Sullivan III writes:
> Does anyone know how to change the behavior of gs, Konqueror, KDE,
> dcop, or anything else to ensure the file icon does not appear until
> the reduction is complete?

Have gs write to a hidden temporary file.  Rename it when it's done.
Arrange to remove the temporary if gs exits abnormally (you need to add
error-handling anyway).
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Squeeze PHP 5.3 memory corruption issue

[Siju George]

Hi,

I have the following Errors

===
Dec 27 05:20:06 primary suhosin[15840]: ALERT - canary mismatch on
efree() - heap overflow detected at 0x7f77bd4e7618 (attacker
'REMOTE_ADDR not set', file
'/var/www/gopher/app/wo/Services/gopher/database/database.php', line
42)
Dec 27 05:20:06 primary suhosin[15823]: ALERT - canary mismatch on
efree() - heap overflow detected at 0x7f77bd4e7618 (attacker
'REMOTE_ADDR not set', file
'/var/www/gopher/app/wo/Services/gopher/database/database.php', line
42)
Dec 27 05:30:17 primary shutdown[17338]: shutting down for system reboot
Dec 30 04:33:00 primary suhosin[22322]: ALERT - ASCII-NUL chars not
allowed within request variables - dropped variable 'g' (attacker
'91.98.99.162', file '/var/www/gopher/web/index.php')
Dec 31 16:03:24 primary suhosin[32496]: ALERT - ASCII-NUL chars not
allowed within request variables - dropped variable 'app' (attacker
'72.167.203.208', file '/var/www/gopher/web/index.php')
Dec 31 16:03:24 primary suhosin[1899]: ALERT - ASCII-NUL chars not
allowed within request variables - dropped variable 'app' (attacker
'72.167.203.208', file '/var/www/gopher/web/index.php'
===

in my /var/log/user.log

Searching h internet brings me to this detailed explanation


http://www.suspekt.org/2008/10/12/suhosin-canary-mismatch-on-efree-heap-overflow-detected/

My System details are

=
Linux primary 2.6.32-5-amd64 #1 SMP Fri Dec 10 15:35:08 UTC 2010
x86_64 GNU/Linux

u...@primary:/var/log$ dpkg -l |grep php
ii  libapache2-mod-php5 5.3.3-6
server-side, HTML-embedded scripting language (Apache 2 module)
ii  php-fpdf3:1.6.dfsg-1
PHP class to generate PDF files
ii  php-pear5.3.3-6
PEAR - PHP Extension and Application Repository
ii  php55.3.3-6
server-side, HTML-embedded scripting language (metapackage)
ii  php5-cli5.3.3-6
command-line interpreter for the php5 scripting language
ii  php5-common 5.3.3-6
Common files for packages built from the php5 source
ii  php5-curl   5.3.3-6
CURL module for php5
ii  php5-dev5.3.3-6
Files for PHP5 module development
ii  php5-gd 5.3.3-6 GD
module for php5
ii  php5-mcrypt 5.3.3-6
MCrypt module for php5
ii  php5-mysql  5.3.3-6
MySQL module for php5
ii  php5-suhosin0.9.32.1-1
advanced protection module for php5
=
my concerns are

1) Are others getting similar errors?
2) What are the security concerns of using this PHP Stack on Squeeze.
3) What can I do to fix this?

Also what is actually logged in /var/log/user.log ?

Thanks :-)

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Re: Debian 5 installation

[Chris Bannister]

On Mon, Jan 03, 2011 at 11:47:23PM +0100, David Jardine wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 04, 2011 at 11:07:58AM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote:
> > http://www.websters-online-dictionary.org/definition/TRUCULANT
> 
> Hmm!  Over at Oxford we spell it "truculent".  ;)

Arrgh!!, I should of noticed that when I cut/pasted the url.
 
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