regarding fglrx installation in squeeze.

[Πρεκατές Αλέξανδρος]

I followed the steps in :
http://wiki.debian.org/ATIProprietary
and it was successfull.
But 
# modprobe -r  radeon drm 
 didnt work .

So is this step necessary , since when we reboot those modules are not there.? 

aprekates
 


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IPTABLES rule for separating users

[erikmccaskey64]

I have an OpenWrt 10.03 router [ IP: 192.168.1.1 ], and it has a DHCP server 
pool: 192.168.1.0/24 - clients are using it through wireless/wired connection. 
Ok!


Here's the catch: I need to separate the users from each other.


How i need to do it: by IPTABLES rule [ /etc/firewall.user ]. Ok!


"Loud thinking": So i need a rule something like this [on the OpenWrt router]: 


- DROP where SOURCE: 192.168.1.2-192.168.1.255 and DESTINATION is 
192.168.1.2-192.168.1.255


The idea is this. Ok!


Questions! 
- Will i lock out myself if i apply this firewall rule?
- Is this a secure method? [ is it easy to do this?: hello, i'm a client, and i 
say, my IP address is 192.168.1.1! - now it can sniff the unencrypted traffic! 
:( - because all the clients are in the same subnet! ]
- Are there any good methods to find/audit for duplicated IP addresses?
- Are the any good methods to find/audit for duplicated MAC addresses?
- Are there any good methods to do this IPTALBES rule on Layer2?:
`$ wget -q "http://downloads.openwrt.org/backfire/10.03/ar71xx/packages/"; -O - 
| grep -i ebtables`
`$ `






p.s.: The rule would be [is it on a good chain?]: 
iptables -A FORWARD  -m iprange --src-range 192.168.1.2-192.168.1.255 
--dst-range 192.168.1.2-192.168.1.255 -j DROP


Thank you!

Re: new hard drive usb "WD My Passport essential SE" 1Tb

[François TOURDE]

Le 15036ième jour après Epoch,
Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen écrivait:

> I have a new usb hard drive of the specs in the subject line. On
> plugging it in it shows on the desktop,
> but on clicking it nothing happens. Anybody have experience getting
> this to work on debian
> (squeeze)?

I've exactly the same external HD, and it works like a charm on my
squeeze, and now with my wheezy, without installing other software.

One of my friend buy the same model, and it doesn't work with W$7, nor
with my Linux, even after "upgrading microcode unit" as described on the
troubleshooting section of WD website. One exchange later, it works
good.

Maybe some have a build problem, or maybe it can be the power drain of
the unit?

HTH.

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Re: How to manage iPod and keep it in sync

[Simon Brandmair]

On Friday 04.03.2011 16:29, Manu Krishnan T.V wrote:
> On Monday 28 February 2011 12:11 AM, Simon Brandmair wrote: 
> > I am looking for a program to properly manage my iPod.

> Try gtkpod. I have used it earlier with my iPod nano and it does all 
> the stuffs you mentioned.

Thanks. I looked into gtkpod before and couldn't quite figure out how to 
do the syncing properly. I will give it another shot.

Cheers,
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Re: Revert to lenny's grub

[Andrei Popescu]

On Sb, 05 mar 11, 09:41:34, George wrote:
> On 3/3/11, George  wrote:
> 
> > Indeed... I tried grub-update and it didn't work, so I just assumed my
> > old menu.lst will still work and turned off the computer. Now I'm at
> > work and won't be able to test it until I get home...
> 
> Something unfortunate happened: I removed grub-pc and installed
> grub-legacy, but my computer still boots using grub 1.97! It seems to
> work fine now, but I don't like the fact that grub and grub-pc show up
> as "not installed" in aptitude, grub-legacy shows up as "installed",
> but my computer is booting with 1.97. What's going on here? Is it
> possible that grub 1.97 was installed in the MBR? Forgive me if the
> explanation is off-base, I'm not very familiar with the booting
> procedure.

I would just install grub-pc and be done with it.

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Re: regarding fglrx installation in squeeze.

[Andrei Popescu]

On Sb, 05 mar 11, 12:53:03, Πρεκατές Αλέξανδρος wrote:
> I followed the steps in :
> http://wiki.debian.org/ATIProprietary
> and it was successfull.
> But 
> # modprobe -r  radeon drm 
>  didnt work .
> 
> So is this step necessary , since when we reboot those modules are not 
> there.? 

This step is necessary so that you can switch to fglrx *without 
rebooting*, because on the next reboot there will already be other 
mechanisms in place to prevent those modules from loading at all.

Hope this answers your question,
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Re: proffer for web server in debian 6

[Camaleón]

On Sat, 05 Mar 2011 10:16:08 +0330, hamed hosseini wrote:

> i want create some web server with debian 6,i am new in linux,i need
> some proffer for start
> and learn how can i create web server,what is best method for create web
> server in debian linux?

If you don't want to deal with the intrinsicalities of a complete web 
server, you can start with XAMPP (good for starters, testing and 
developing... very bad for using it on production machines or doing 
serious things).

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Re: Autofs not respecting uid in auto.removable

[Camaleón]

On Sat, 05 Mar 2011 07:39:32 +0530, L V Gandhi wrote:

> I am running squeeze.
> I have following lines in /etc/auto.removable 
> lvgandhi@lvgvaio:~$ cat /etc/auto.removable 

(...)

> ehd -fstype=vfat,rw,uid=1000,umask=022,posix,shortname=winnt :/dev/ehd
> #ehd-fstype=vfat,rw,uid=1000,umask=022,posix,shortname=winnt 
> UUID=84C0-F18B

(...)

> Any solutions to mount with ownership of user?

As per "man 5 autofs":

(...)

If you use the automounter for a filesystem without access permissions 
(like vfat), users usually can't write on such a filesystem because it is 
mounted as user root. You can solve this problem by passing the option 
gid=, e.g. gid=floppy. The filesystem is then mounted as group 
floppy instead of root. Then you can add the users to this group, and 
they can write to the filesystem. Here's an example entry for an autofs 
map:

floppy-vfat  -fstype=vfat,sync,gid=floppy,umask=002  :/dev/fd0
***

HTH.

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Re: How to recover file system of EXT3 ?

[Camaleón]

On Sat, 05 Mar 2011 08:25:55 +0900, J.Hwan.Kim wrote:

> When I copied a file with Korean name, the file system might be broken.
> The size of copied file is displayed as Tera bytes. My filesystem is
> ETX3.
> How can I recover the filesystem of ETX3?

How did you reach the concluison that your filesystem may be broken? How 
did you checked the size of the file ("ls", "stat"...)? Are you seeing 
any errors on dmesg, when booting or mounting and reading/writing into 
the mentioned partition? Is it a system volume or data partition?

Before thinking in recovery options I would investigate a bit more about 
that filename and its reported wrong size :-?

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Re: opened OpenSSL port

[Pascal Hambourg]

Hello,

Chris Davies a écrit :
> erikmccaskey64  wrote:
> 
>> Are there any iptables rule for restricting connections to dyndns names?
>> e.g.: only allow connection from "asdfasdf.dyndns.com" and
>> "asdfasdf2.dyndns.com" and "asdfasdf3.dyndns.com"?
> 
> No. Iptables is about IP addresses (and ports). Not names. But
> /etc/hosts.allow could provide a level of protection for names matching,
> e.g. "*.dyndns.org".

This won't work, because usually the reverse DNS is not in *.dyndns.org.

somename.dyndns.org -> IP address -> some other name defined by the ISP.


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Re: IPTABLES rule for separating users

[Stan Hoeppner]

erikmccaskey64 put forth on 3/5/2011 2:58 AM:
> I have an OpenWrt 10.03 router [ IP: 192.168.1.1 ], and it has a DHCP server 
> pool: 192.168.1.0/24 - clients are using it through wireless/wired 
> connection. Ok!
> 
> 
> Here's the catch: I need to separate the users from each other.
> 
> 
> How i need to do it: by IPTABLES rule [ /etc/firewall.user ]. Ok!
> 
> 
> "Loud thinking": So i need a rule something like this [on the OpenWrt 
> router]: 
> 
> 
> - DROP where SOURCE: 192.168.1.2-192.168.1.255 and DESTINATION is 
> 192.168.1.2-192.168.1.255

This likely won't work because all hosts are on the same subnet, and
only traffic destined outside the subnet is forwarded to the gateway
address, which is the LAN port of the firewall in this scenario.
Traffic within the same subnet will bypass the OpenWrt IP stack.  This
is simply how TCP/IP is designed to function.  You _might_  be able to
get around this with some funking client stack masking and some bizarre
iptables rules, however I've never attempted nor heard of such a thing.

The way your goal is accomplished in high security environments in the
real world is with MAC address filtering at the ethernet switch level,
but more often with VLANs.  Usually this is used to separate
departments, but not the hosts within a given department.  The
integrated switch in your consumer router probably does not offer this
level of capability.

Also, due to the built in switch chip and ARP discovery, the private
ethernet interface chip of the router device won't even see the ethernet
frames in which the subnet IP packets are transported.  In layman's
terms, the kernel won't have any clue such subnet traffic even exists,
due to the switch.  Simplified functional diagram:

  Switch Chip
  ---
Wired|   |--Wireless
  ---
   <--- Intra-subnet traffic barrier
   |
   |
 ----
   Eth0 LAN | |--|  |--| | Eth1 WAN
 ----
   Linux Stack


If you shared your *reasoning* behind this with us we might be able to
offer you alternative solutions.

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Re: IPTABLES rule for separating users

[Pascal Hambourg]

Hello,

Stan Hoeppner a écrit :
> erikmccaskey64 put forth on 3/5/2011 2:58 AM:
>> I have an OpenWrt 10.03 router [...]

> Also, due to the built in switch chip and ARP discovery, the private
> ethernet interface chip of the router device won't even see the ethernet
> frames in which the subnet IP packets are transported.  In layman's
> terms, the kernel won't have any clue such subnet traffic even exists,
> due to the switch.  Simplified functional diagram:
> 
>   Switch Chip
>   ---
> Wired|   |--Wireless
>   ---
><--- Intra-subnet traffic barrier
>|
>|
>  ----
>Eth0 LAN | |--|  |--| | Eth1 WAN
>  ----
>Linux Stack

This diagram may not be completely correct, depending on the router
model design. For a Linksys WRT54GL, the built-in ethernet switch and
the wireless interface are bridged together using a Linux bridge, so the
kernel does actually sees the traffic between an ethernet host and a
wireless host. If the kernel was built with the BRIDGE_NETFILTER option
enabled, iptables can even see and filter the bridged traffic. Otherwise
if it has ebtables support it can filter the bridged traffic at the link
layer level. But indeed it won't see the traffic between ethernet hosts
or wireless hosts.


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the output of ls /var/lib/apt/lists/*.debian.org_* | wc -l is not constant

[Regid Ichira]

  The output of that command varies by a +/-1 in the last couple of days.
Why it that?  Could it be related to security updates in stable?
  The listing itself is related to the contents of /etc/apt/sources.list.  My 
sources.list uses:

deb security stable/updates main contrib non-free
deb-src security stable/updates main contrib non-free

deb unstable main contrib non-free
deb-src unstable main contrib non-free
deb testing main contrib non-free
deb-src testing main contrib non-free


  


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Re: Autofs not respecting uid in auto.removable

[L V Gandhi]

Thanks again for your time in helping.
However I have achived what I wanted by using udev rules as mentioned in
http://okomestudio.net/biboroku/?p=1402

On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 5:21 PM, Camaleón  wrote:

> On Sat, 05 Mar 2011 07:39:32 +0530, L V Gandhi wrote:
>
> > I am running squeeze.
> > I have following lines in /etc/auto.removable
> > lvgandhi@lvgvaio:~$ cat /etc/auto.removable
>
> (...)
>
> > ehd -fstype=vfat,rw,uid=1000,umask=022,posix,shortname=winnt
> :/dev/ehd
> > #ehd-fstype=vfat,rw,uid=1000,umask=022,posix,shortname=winnt
> UUID=84C0-F18B
>
> (...)
>
> > Any solutions to mount with ownership of user?
>
> As per "man 5 autofs":
>
> (...)
>
> If you use the automounter for a filesystem without access permissions
> (like vfat), users usually can't write on such a filesystem because it is
> mounted as user root. You can solve this problem by passing the option
> gid=, e.g. gid=floppy. The filesystem is then mounted as group
> floppy instead of root. Then you can add the users to this group, and
> they can write to the filesystem. Here's an example entry for an autofs
> map:
>
> floppy-vfat  -fstype=vfat,sync,gid=floppy,umask=002  :/dev/fd0
> ***
>
> HTH.
>
> Greetings,
>
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Re: proffer for web server in debian 6

[Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.]

In , hamed 
hosseini wrote:
>i am web developer and work with php and i want some idea about debian web
>server for start

Debian Squeeze has the "top 3" web servers: Apache 2, Lighttpd, Nginx.  For 
PHP 5 + Apache 2, just install libapache2-mod-php5 and it'll put in what is 
needed.  For PHP 5 on the others, you probably need php5-cgi and the daemon 
plus a little bit of configuration.

I recommend Apache 2, it's a good all-around web server with a lot of features 
and Debian provides a pretty awesome configuration interface for it. 
a2{en,dis}{mod,site}.  Later, if you find good reason, you can always switch 
another web server.  Usually, the amount of PHP you need to change is fairly 
small.

PHP 4 is not available in a supported version of Debian.  PHP 6 is not yet 
available in a supported version of Debian.
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Re: proffer for web server in debian 6

[Camaleón]

El 2011-03-05 a las 17:17 +0330, hamed hosseini escribió:

(resending to the list)

> i am now work with xampp but i want go to pro

Good, then you'll have to read some docs about how to setup a web 
server, at least to get the bascis ;-)

First to do is choosing the app to install, based on your needs. Then, 
you'll have to read the "starting" guides of the selected software as 
each web server has its own configurations and tweaks.

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The "CD signing key" (6294BE9B)

[Joel Rees]

I found three posts on this back in January,

http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2011/01/msg01775.html

but the documentation still says nothing about why the "CD signing
key" should be different from the archive key and why the CD signing
key was never announced, etc.

I did go to the trouble of pulling the signatures and checksums off of
three different more-or-less randomly chosen mirrors, to check they
were the same, but I'd still feel a little more comfortable taking my
first spin with Debian if there were more evidence that the key that
the CDs are being signed with is officially claimed by the project.

Okay, I did a gpg --recv-keys on the key 6294BE9B from
keyring.debian.org , and tried gpg --verify on the downloaded netinst
image, and got the bad signature message. (I think I got the syntax
right.)

So, what gives, here? Anybody care to give me a clue?


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Re: Autofs not respecting uid in auto.removable

[Camaleón]

On Sat, 05 Mar 2011 19:28:39 +0530, L V Gandhi wrote:

> On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 5:21 PM, Camaleón wrote:

>> > Any solutions to mount with ownership of user?
>>
>> As per "man 5 autofs":
>>
>> (...)
>>
>> If you use the automounter for a filesystem without access permissions
>> (like vfat), users usually can't write on such a filesystem because it
>> is mounted as user root. You can solve this problem by passing the
>> option gid=, e.g. gid=floppy. The filesystem is then mounted as
>> group floppy instead of root. Then you can add the users to this group,
>> and they can write to the filesystem. Here's an example entry for an
>> autofs map:
>>
>> floppy-vfat  -fstype=vfat,sync,gid=floppy,umask=002  :/dev/fd0 ***

> Thanks again for your time in helping. However I have achived what I
> wanted by using udev rules as mentioned in
> http://okomestudio.net/biboroku/?p=1402

Ah, good.

Autofs should also work fine, just it needs the GID, as manual says, when 
it comes to vfat volumes.

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Re: download manager

[Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.]

In , ZHAO Lina 
wrote:
>On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 11:41 PM, 
>Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.  wrote:
>> On 2011-03-04 02:40:35 ZHAO Lina wrote:
>> >I tried the kget.
>> >
>> >can it be interactive.
>> 
>> Yes.  But, I think you might try being less terse (and consequently more
>> verbose).  Asking questions about specific interactions will probably get
>> you
>> more useful information.
>
>http://www.springerlink.com.ezlibproxy1.ntu.edu.sg/content/23j63676550n0q45/
>fulltext.pdf This is the link,
>which need username and password.
>when I use kget, it's just stopped.

That link actually sends you a redirect.  Then, the redirect URL 

 
uses HTTP authentication.

Add your username and password to the redirect URL like:

and give that URL to KGet,  hopefully that will get you the file.  AFAIK, 
KGet does not normally prompt for or store credentials, so you have to use 
the URL syntax.

Unfortunately, I won't be much help with troubleshooting past that point ad I 
don't have credentials for the NTU library.
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Re: Amarok crashing on launch

[jean Monnat]

Le Tue, 01 Mar 2011 19:30:02 +0100,

AG  a écrit :



> Two questions, then:

> 

> (1) how do I capture all of the debugging output from amarok --debug?

> 

> (2) any initial thoughts on why Amarok might start to crash today?  I 

> updated today and rebooted yesterday, and Amarok was working fine for

> me yesterday after I booted up.  So, it may have been something in

> today's updates (I only had 7 packages updated, but cannot remember

> which).

> 

> TIA

> 

> AG

> 

> 

Hi 

Same problem for me.

I suppress the 3 amarok files in my /home/user/.kde/config and the file cur
rent.xspf in /home/user/.kde/share/apps/amarok

Amarok restart nicely

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Re: The "CD signing key" (6294BE9B)

[Camaleón]

On Sat, 05 Mar 2011 23:47:38 +0900, Joel Rees wrote:

> I found three posts on this back in January,
> 
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2011/01/msg01775.html
> 
> but the documentation still says nothing about why the "CD signing key"
> should be different from the archive key and why the CD signing key was
> never announced, etc.

(...)

IIRC, it was announced on "debian-user-announce" mailing list:

Debian Archive Signing Key to be changed
http://www.debian.org/News/2011/20110209

And if I catched correctly, it means that verifying the signature of  
testing/sid packages from squeeze/lenny will just give a warning because 
the package holding the new keys (debian-archive-keyring) has to be 
released.

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Re: The "CD signing key" (6294BE9B)

[Andrei Popescu]

On Sb, 05 mar 11, 23:47:38, Joel Rees wrote:
> 
> I did go to the trouble of pulling the signatures and checksums off of
> three different more-or-less randomly chosen mirrors, to check they
> were the same, but I'd still feel a little more comfortable taking my
> first spin with Debian if there were more evidence that the key that
> the CDs are being signed with is officially claimed by the project.

$ gpg --list-sigs 6294BE9B
pub   4096R/6294BE9B 2011-01-05
uid  Debian CD signing key 
sig  3442684E 2011-01-05  Steve McIntyre 
sig  A40F862E 2011-01-05  Neil McGovern 
sig  95861109 2011-01-23  Ben Hutchings (DOB: 1977-01-11)
sig  63C7CC90 2011-01-05  Simon McVittie 
sig 36294BE9B 2011-01-05  Debian CD signing key 

sub   4096R/11CD9819 2011-01-05
sig  6294BE9B 2011-01-05  Debian CD signing key 


Now you need to find a trust-path to one of them. If you have a trusted 
Debian system you can install the package debian-keyring, which should 
contain at least one (most probably all) of the keys above.
 
> Okay, I did a gpg --recv-keys on the key 6294BE9B from
> keyring.debian.org , and tried gpg --verify on the downloaded netinst
> image, and got the bad signature message. (I think I got the syntax
> right.)

Do you mind posting the exact commands used and output?

Regards,
Andrei
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Re: the output of ls /var/lib/apt/lists/*.debian.org_* | wc -l is not constant

[Liam O'Toole]

On 2011-03-05, Regid Ichira  wrote:
>   The output of that command varies by a +/-1 in the last couple of days.
> Why it that?  Could it be related to security updates in stable?
>   The listing itself is related to the contents of /etc/apt/sources.list.  My 
> sources.list uses:
>
> deb security stable/updates main contrib non-free
> deb-src security stable/updates main contrib non-free
>
> deb unstable main contrib non-free
> deb-src unstable main contrib non-free
> deb testing main contrib non-free
> deb-src testing main contrib non-free
>

This is not a direct answer to your question, but the contents listed
above warrant some remarks.

First, the file is incomplete. I presume you intentionally omitted the
full URL of the debian mirror on each line.

Second, the file is inconsistent. You are running a mixture of
testing/unstable (nothing wrong with that, if you know what you are
doing), but you are pulling security updates from stable. If you want to
run testing, then you need to tell APT to 'pin' unstable to a low
priority. You should also have a line like this in your sources.list:

deb http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main contrib non-free

If you want to run unstable, then you can delete the lines for testing
and stable; unstable is a self-sufficient suite which receives security
updates directly.

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Has anyone installed squeeze on an HP Pavillion ?

[Charlie]

   My attempted installation gave me a warning about problems
with apic, which I have not been able to fix.  Has anyone else
encountered this?


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Turning off desktop icons

[Frank McCormick]

I have run into a problem in re-arranging my desktop. I'd like to
turn off Nautilus managing the desktop, and lose the icons. Problem is
I can't do it - the usual gconf-editor change
(apps/nautilus/preferences/show_desktop) aren't working. 
Has something changed in the Nautilus setup ?


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Re: Has anyone installed squeeze on an HP Pavillion ?

[Chris Brennan]

On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 10:49 AM, Charlie  wrote:

   My attempted installation gave me a warning about problems
> with apic, which I have not been able to fix.  Has anyone else
> encountered this?
>
>
I have an HP Pavillian dv2845se w/ Squeeze on it, seems to run fine for me.
I did have some problems with the secure format of my encrypted home and the
laptop overheating, but that was fixed w/ a $50 laptop cooler. My biggest
problem isn't APIC but wireless in that laptop still being lame, sometimes
it works and sometimes it doesn't.

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Re: IPTABLES rule for separating users

[John A. Sullivan III]

On Sat, 2011-03-05 at 00:58 -0800, erikmccaskey64 wrote:
> I have an OpenWrt 10.03 router [ IP: 192.168.1.1 ], and it has a DHCP
> server pool: 192.168.1.0/24 - clients are using it through
> wireless/wired connection. Ok!
> 
> 
> Here's the catch: I need to separate the users from each other.
> 
> 
> How i need to do it: by IPTABLES rule [ /etc/firewall.user ]. Ok!
> 
> 
> "Loud thinking": So i need a rule something like this [on the OpenWrt
> router]: 
> 
> 
> - DROP where SOURCE: 192.168.1.2-192.168.1.255 and DESTINATION is
> 192.168.1.2-192.168.1.255
> 
> 
> The idea is this. Ok!
> 
> 
> Questions! 
> - Will i lock out myself if i apply this firewall rule?
> - Is this a secure method? [ is it easy to do this?: hello, i'm a
> client, and i say, my IP address is 192.168.1.1! - now it can sniff
> the unencrypted traffic! :( - because all the clients are in the same
> subnet! ]
> - Are there any good methods to find/audit for duplicated IP
> addresses?
> - Are the any good methods to find/audit for duplicated MAC addresses?
> - Are there any good methods to do this IPTALBES rule on Layer2?:
> `$ wget -q
> "http://downloads.openwrt.org/backfire/10.03/ar71xx/packages/"; -O - |
> grep -i ebtables`
> `$ `
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> p.s.: The rule would be [is it on a good chain?]: 
> iptables -A FORWARD  -m iprange --src-range 192.168.1.2-192.168.1.255
> --dst-range 192.168.1.2-192.168.1.255 -j DROP
> 
> 
> Thank you!
> 
This is hard to do.  We actually achieved this in the test lab by
integrating the ISCS project (http://iscs.sourceforge.net) with 802.1x.
The result was true, centrally managed, perimeterless security that did
not depend upon the end point or user based clients.  However, it was
only in the test lab.  Until we find a switch vendor willing to ISCS
enable (actually, we call it firepiping as opposed to firewalling) their
devices, the test lab is where it will stay :(  - John


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Re: Turning off desktop icons

[Slicky Johnson]

On Sat, 05 Mar 2011 11:10:39 -0500
Frank McCormick  wrote:

> 
> I have run into a problem in re-arranging my desktop. I'd like to
> turn off Nautilus managing the desktop, and lose the icons. Problem is
> I can't do it - the usual gconf-editor change
> (apps/nautilus/preferences/show_desktop) aren't working. 
> Has something changed in the Nautilus setup ?
> 
> 

Here on Squeeze it works as expected. 

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/19569481/Screenshot-Configuration%20Editor%20-%20desktop.png


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Re: Turning off desktop icons

[Camaleón]

On Sat, 05 Mar 2011 11:10:39 -0500, Frank McCormick wrote:

> I have run into a problem in re-arranging my desktop. I'd like to turn
> off Nautilus managing the desktop, and lose the icons. Problem is I
> can't do it - the usual gconf-editor change
> (apps/nautilus/preferences/show_desktop) aren't working. Has something
> changed in the Nautilus setup ?

It also works fine from me (using testing).

Can you try to set that value from a new user?

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Re: Directory synchronization packages

[John A. Sullivan III]

On Fri, 2011-02-11 at 13:19 -0500, Gilbert Sullivan wrote:
> On 02/11/2011 11:19 AM, John A. Sullivan III wrote:
> > I should mention that the DirSyncPro dev has started responding with his
> > usual quick attention.  I've sent a pile of logs and test results and
> > hope to have good news soon - John
> 
> That's good news. I haven't had a chance to look at DirSyncPro yet. I've 
> been up to my *ss in alligators on a production project and haven't even 
> been able to read the documentation.
> 
> Thank you for posting this information.
> 
> 
> 
Problem solved! It turned out it was something rather unique to our
environment.  We use X2Go based virtual desktops (www.x2go.org) for VDI
running on Linux-VServer (www.linux-vserver.org) guests.  We are
synchronizing user directories on their physical machine which are
mounted into their virtual desktops via sshfs.  To prevent all users on
shared systems from receiving popup notifications whenever removable
media is inserted, these mounts are made in /tmp and a symbolic link is
made back to ~/media.  Because it is really a symbolic link, we had to
change our synchronization job from skip symbolic links to copy them as
files.  Once we did that, all seemed to work.


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Re: Resolved issue in 2.6.32-5-686 kernel using x windows.

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Fri, 04 Mar 2011, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> In <4d71a670.4030...@gmail.com>, Ryan David Larrowe wrote:
> > I had filed a bug report about my system not booting properly and
> >was unable to file it against the Debian version I was using for that
> >reason( it wouldn't boot ).
> 
> While bugs get discussed here, they don't get reported here, nor to the get 
> updated or closed here.  There are dedicated email addresses that handle the 
> stuff at bugs.d.o

And we need the bug # to close it.  Ryan, you should have received an email
from the bug tracking system with the bug number.  Can you check it?

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Re: Directory synchronization packages

[Gilbert Sullivan]

On 03/05/2011 11:45 AM, John A. Sullivan III wrote:

On Fri, 2011-02-11 at 13:19 -0500, Gilbert Sullivan wrote:

On 02/11/2011 11:19 AM, John A. Sullivan III wrote:

I should mention that the DirSyncPro dev has started responding with his
usual quick attention.  I've sent a pile of logs and test results and
hope to have good news soon - John


That's good news. I haven't had a chance to look at DirSyncPro yet. I've
been up to my *ss in alligators on a production project and haven't even
been able to read the documentation.

Thank you for posting this information.




Problem solved! It turned out it was something rather unique to our
environment.  We use X2Go based virtual desktops (www.x2go.org) for VDI
running on Linux-VServer (www.linux-vserver.org) guests.  We are
synchronizing user directories on their physical machine which are
mounted into their virtual desktops via sshfs.  To prevent all users on
shared systems from receiving popup notifications whenever removable
media is inserted, these mounts are made in /tmp and a symbolic link is
made back to ~/media.  Because it is really a symbolic link, we had to
change our synchronization job from skip symbolic links to copy them as
files.  Once we did that, all seemed to work.


I'm glad to see that you got your issues with dirsync pro resolved. I'm 
still sticking with unison-gtk for the time being, but I really should 
get off my duff and investigate dirsync pro for the eventuality of 
unison being dropped from the repositories and / or dirsync pro being 
added to them.



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Re: Turning off desktop icons

[Frank McCormick]

On Sat, 05 Mar 2011 16:42:27 + (UTC)
Camaleón  wrote:

> On Sat, 05 Mar 2011 11:10:39 -0500, Frank McCormick wrote:
> 
> > I have run into a problem in re-arranging my desktop. I'd like to turn
> > off Nautilus managing the desktop, and lose the icons. Problem is I
> > can't do it - the usual gconf-editor change
> > (apps/nautilus/preferences/show_desktop) aren't working. Has something
> > changed in the Nautilus setup ?
> 
> It also works fine from me (using testing).
> 
> Can you try to set that value from a new user?
> 


  Works for a new user...doesn't work for two existing users..
I just (a few days ago) had to move the .gnome2 dir out of the way
because of another minor problem. I'll try it again.



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Re: Has anyone installed squeeze on an HP Pavillion ?

[debian]

On Sat, 5 Mar 2011 09:49:32 -0600
Charlie  wrote:

>My attempted installation gave me a warning about problems
> with apic, which I have not been able to fix.  Has anyone else
> encountered this?
> 
"HP Pavilion" covers a VERY wide range of eras, specs, processors,
chipsets, etc, so you might get more specific.  Also, more specifics
about "gave me a warning" might help.

(At some point in the near future I'm going to attempt to clean-install
squeeze on my HP Pavilion dv2130US.)

-jeff


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Re: Turning off desktop icons

[Frank McCormick]

On Sat, 05 Mar 2011 12:03:03 -0500
Frank McCormick  wrote:

> On Sat, 05 Mar 2011 16:42:27 + (UTC)
> Camaleón  wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, 05 Mar 2011 11:10:39 -0500, Frank McCormick wrote:
> > 
> > > I have run into a problem in re-arranging my desktop. I'd like to turn
> > > off Nautilus managing the desktop, and lose the icons. Problem is I
> > > can't do it - the usual gconf-editor change
> > > (apps/nautilus/preferences/show_desktop) aren't working. Has something
> > > changed in the Nautilus setup ?
> > 
> > It also works fine from me (using testing).
> > 
> > Can you try to set that value from a new user?
> > 
> 
> 
>   Works for a new user...doesn't work for two existing users..
> I just (a few days ago) had to move the .gnome2 dir out of the way
> because of another minor problem. I'll try it again.

  Didn't work..so I went into the .gconf/apps/nautilus/preferences/
xml file and changed the true to false. That worked. Still dunno what
the problem stemmed from but brute force fixed it. And now, I can turn
show_desktop on and off from the gconf-editor...and it works.



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Re: Amarok crashing on launch

[AG]

On 05/03/11 14:57, jean Monnat wrote:


Le Tue, 01 Mar 2011 19:30:02 +0100,

AG  a écrit :



   

Two questions, then:
 
   
 
   

(1) how do I capture all of the debugging output from amarok --debug?
 
   
 
   

(2) any initial thoughts on why Amarok might start to crash today?  I
 
   

updated today and rebooted yesterday, and Amarok was working fine for
 
   

me yesterday after I booted up.  So, it may have been something in
 
   

today's updates (I only had 7 packages updated, but cannot remember
 
   

which).
 
   
 
   

TIA
 
   
 
   

AG
 
   
 
   
 

Hi

Same problem for me.

I suppress the 3 amarok files in my /home/user/.kde/config and the file cur
rent.xspf in /home/user/.kde/share/apps/amarok

Amarok restart nicely

Jean Monnat


   


Hi Jean

Thanks for that.  I also ended up renaming the 
~/.kde/share/config/amarok_homercand relaunched and all worked out very 
well.


Thanks.

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Re: Has anyone installed squeeze on an HP Pavillion ?

[Tony van der Hoff]

On 05/03/11 16:49, Charlie wrote:

My attempted installation gave me a warning about problems
with apic, which I have not been able to fix.  Has anyone else
encountered this?


Not squeeze. I tried Lenny a year or so ago, on my Pavilion DV6, and 
failed for reasons I can't now recall. Think it was wireless. I gave up, 
and tried Ubuntu, which installed without problem. Still running Lenny 
on my desktop and server, though.


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Where is the disk label stored?

[Hans-J. Ullrich]

Hello list,

I am searching for an entry, where a disk label is stored.

Problem: Some time ago I formatted a sd-card and labelled it with the name 
"Debian Inst". In the meantime, I formatted this sd-card several times and 
deleted the label. But whenever I put the card in, it is seen as "Debian Inst" 
in KDE4 (I mean the hardware manager in the task bar).

I tried also mlabel to make sure, the label is no more stored on the device, 
but it did not work. See:
 
root@protheus7:~# mlabel -s /dev/sdb1
Mtools version 4.0.12, dated November 3rd, 2009
Usage: mlabel [-vscVn] [-N serial] drive:
root@protheus7:~# 

Maybe it is a bug? So I checked with gparted, and there is sure no label 
existent.

I also tried the following command:

echo -n "   "|dd bs=1 seek=71 count=11 of=/dev/sdb1;echo -n "$NAME"|dd 
bs=1 seek=71 count=11 of=/dev/sdb1

But I got no success, too. IMO the label is stored somewhere else and maybe 
bound to the hardware, i.e. the UUID or something. 

I hope, someone might know more, I will be happy if so.


Best regards

Hans


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How to disconnect/initialise a built in modem?

[Hans-J. Ullrich]

Hi Folks!
Is there a command to disconnect or reinitialise a built in modem (I mean a 
modem like a gsm-modem, which is built in my EEEPC), so that I must not reboot 
if it hangs?

Thanks for any help!

Best regards

Hans


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Re: Your favorite server apps (firewall, DHCP, etc.)

[Rob Owens]

On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 09:48:49AM -0600, Jason Hsu wrote:
> Since I'm looking for a job as a Linux IT consultant, I need a portfolio of 
> favorite server applications - firewall, DHCP server, mail server, print 
> server, etc.  Just as I have favorite distros for the desktop (Puppy Linux, 
> Linux Mint, antiX/Swift Linux) and favorite desktop applications (like 
> OpenOffice and Sylpheed), I should have favorite server applications.
> 
Firewall:  I've used Shorewall in the past and found it pretty good.
Now I use fwbuilder.  With fwbuilder, I have a better understanding of
iptables rules and syntax.  If I did firewalls regularly enough, I'd
probably just use iptables directly, with no "helper" program.

Learn isc-dhcp-server (used to be dhcp3-server on Debian).  Also learn
Bind.

Learn how to work with/around Microsoft technologies.  For instance, MS
Exchange.  A couple hints for compatibility w/ Linux clients:  turn on
IMAP support in Exchange.  Establish an alternative calendar program --
maybe webcalendar.  Another for instance:  learn to set up samba for
file and printer sharing with MS clients.

Learn some money savers that you can use to impress potential clients.
Two that come to mind are BackupPC and LTSP.  

One thing I never did that I maybe should have:  learn Excel and Access
well enough that you can convert existing macros, complicated
spreadsheets, and databases to free alternatives.  For databases, I'd
suggest something web based like PHP/MySQL (not sure if MySQL is still
the recommended database these days, due to the Oracle buyout).

For small business that want to administer systems themselves with
minimal intervention from you, there are some decent "small business
server" distros.  SME Server comes to mind.  There are others.

The top 2 distros to learn for consulting, in my opinion, would be
Debian and CentOS/RHEL.

-Rob


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Re: Has anyone installed squeeze on an HP Pavillion ?

[Rob Owens]

On Sat, Mar 05, 2011 at 09:49:32AM -0600, Charlie wrote:
>My attempted installation gave me a warning about problems
> with apic, which I have not been able to fix.  Has anyone else
> encountered this?
> 
My experience with two different HP dv6xxx laptops was not good.  They
both "corroded" slowly as I used them.  One eventually wouldn't
recognize any internal wireless card I put in it -- I ended up going
with a usb wireless device.  This one has run Ubuntu 8.04 and 10.04

The other doesn't recognize the wired interface.  I installed Squeeze on
it, and it worked for a while.  After a couple weeks it wouldn't boot
without "noapic" and/or "nolapic" -- I can't remember which.  

-Rob


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Re: Where is the disk label stored?

[Camaleón]

On Sat, 05 Mar 2011 19:04:29 +0100, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote:

> I am searching for an entry, where a disk label is stored.
> 
> Problem: Some time ago I formatted a sd-card and labelled it with the
> name "Debian Inst". In the meantime, I formatted this sd-card several
> times and deleted the label. But whenever I put the card in, it is seen
> as "Debian Inst" in KDE4 (I mean the hardware manager in the task bar).
> 
> I tried also mlabel to make sure, the label is no more stored on the
> device, but it did not work. See:
>  
> root@protheus7:~# mlabel -s /dev/sdb1 
> Mtools version 4.0.12, dated
> November 3rd, 2009 Usage: mlabel [-vscVn] [-N serial] drive:
> root@protheus7:~#

Hum... Google provides some hints:

# check the current label
mlabel -i /dev/sdb1 -s ::

It seems that mlabel man page lacks for some options, like explaining "-
v" (verbose) argument and also that "-i" which seems valid but neither 
present :-?
 
> Maybe it is a bug? So I checked with gparted, and there is sure no label
> existent.
> 
> I also tried the following command:
> 
> echo -n "   "|dd bs=1 seek=71 count=11 of=/dev/sdb1;echo -n
> "$NAME"|dd bs=1 seek=71 count=11 of=/dev/sdb1
> 
> But I got no success, too. IMO the label is stored somewhere else and
> maybe bound to the hardware, i.e. the UUID or something.
> 
> I hope, someone might know more, I will be happy if so.

It's weird. Have you tried by expressly changing (not deleting nor 
blanking) the label with another new one?

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Re: How to disconnect/initialise a built in modem?

[Camaleón]

On Sat, 05 Mar 2011 19:07:14 +0100, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote:

> Is there a command to disconnect or reinitialise a built in modem (I
> mean a modem like a gsm-modem, which is built in my EEEPC), so that I
> must not reboot if it hangs?

"minicom" (a low-level program to "dialog" with your modem or whatever 
device you've got plugged on the serial port) could do the trick. You can 
pass the gsm modem the proper reset AT comands.

If the problem is within the serial port but the daemon handling the 
connection, you can try to restart networkmanager or whatever program you 
used to make the link (wvdial, kppp, pppd, etc...).

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I'm really interested, please send more info on your offer

[Brian]

Hello, please send me some more info about your offer, I'm seriously
interested and need to start soon.

I won't join you though until I have read over the info and reply back to you.

Whatever you do, please don't give anyone else or sell this address.

Please look out for my reply.

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Re: Where is the disk label stored?

[Jeffrin Jose]

On Sat, Mar 05, 2011 at 07:04:29PM +0100, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote:
> But I got no success, too. IMO the label is stored somewhere else and maybe 
> bound to the hardware, i.e. the UUID or something. 

i think the disk label is stored in the hardware.
"tune2fs -l  /dev/your-sd-card | more " should show
the tunable parameters of which disk label may be first.

Also try to use e2label command.

"e2label device" may show you the label and
"e2label device [newlabel]" may set one for you.

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question about a vertualhost file for apache2

[mike cutie and maia]

Hi,

 

I am try to create a file that looks like this 

 

 ServerAdmin squ...@bucknell.net 

 ServerName bucknell.net

 ServerAlias www.bucknell.net

 DocumentRoot /srv/www/bucknell.net/public_html/

 ErrorLog /srv/www/bucknell.net/logs/error.log 

 CustomLog /srv/www/bucknell.net/logs/access.log combined



 

 

But when I restart apache2 with /etc/init.d/apache2 restart I get this error

 

Syntax error on line 5 of /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/jmshosting.com:

DocumentRoot tskes one argument, Root tirectory of the document tree 

Action 'configtest; failed.

 

The file I posted was the example I was following but it has the same things
except for the ip address an domaine which I have replaced

Re: Where is the disk label stored?

[Hans-J. Ullrich]

 
> i think the disk label is stored in the hardware.
> "tune2fs -l  /dev/your-sd-card | more " should show
> the tunable parameters of which disk label may be first.
> 
> Also try to use e2label command.
> 
> "e2label device" may show you the label and
> "e2label device [newlabel]" may set one for you.
> 
> /Jeffrin.


Sorry, I forgot to mention, the filesystem is now fat32.

So those tools will not work.

Thanks anyway.

Greets 

Hans


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Re: question about a vertualhost file for apache2

[Camaleón]

On Sat, 05 Mar 2011 14:09:18 -0600, mike cutie and maia wrote:

(avoid html format)

> I am try to create a file that looks like this

(...)

>  DocumentRoot /srv/www/bucknell.net/public_html/
 ^
(...)
  
> But when I restart apache2 with /etc/init.d/apache2 restart I get this
> error
> 
> 
>  
> Syntax error on line 5 of /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/jmshosting.com:
> 
> DocumentRoot tskes one argument, Root tirectory of the document tree
> 
> Action 'configtest; failed.

Remove the last "/" from the path.

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Re: Where is the disk label stored?

[Hans-J. Ullrich]

> > root@protheus7:~# mlabel -s /dev/sdb1
> > Mtools version 4.0.12, dated
> > November 3rd, 2009 Usage: mlabel [-vscVn] [-N serial] drive:
> > root@protheus7:~#
> 
> Hum... Google provides some hints:
> 
> # check the current label

You pointed me correctly, I used the wrong syntax, no space after the device.
The output is telling now:

root@protheus7# mlabel -i /dev/sdb1 ::
 Volume has no label
Enter the new volume label : 
root@protheus7#

So it is proven, there is really no label existent. 

Weired!

Hans


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Re: Where is the disk label stored?

[azrael]

try mlabel. package as mtools

On Sat, 5 Mar 2011 21:48:33 +0100, "Hans-J. Ullrich" 
wrote:
>> i think the disk label is stored in the hardware.
>> "tune2fs -l  /dev/your-sd-card | more " should show
>> the tunable parameters of which disk label may be first.
>> 
>> Also try to use e2label command.
>> 
>> "e2label device" may show you the label and
>> "e2label device [newlabel]" may set one for you.
>> 
>> /Jeffrin.
> 
> 
> Sorry, I forgot to mention, the filesystem is now fat32.
> 
> So those tools will not work.
> 
> Thanks anyway.
> 
> Greets 
> 
> Hans


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Re: Where is the disk label stored?

[Steve Kemp]

On Sat Mar 05, 2011 at 21:48:33 +0100, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote:

> Sorry, I forgot to mention, the filesystem is now fat32.
> So those tools will not work.

  If you're willing to re-format you can set the label
 at the time you do that:

# mkfs.vfat /dev/sdc1 -n mylabel

  Otherwise checkout the tools included in the 
 "mtools" package.  To show the current lable:

# mlabel -i /dev/sdc1 -s ::

  To change it:

# mlabel -i /dev/sdc1 ::my_external

  NOTE: /dev/sdc1 is chosen as an example..

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Re: Where is the disk label stored?

[Camaleón]

On Sat, 05 Mar 2011 21:53:40 +0100, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote:

>> > root@protheus7:~# mlabel -s /dev/sdb1 Mtools version 4.0.12, dated
>> > November 3rd, 2009 Usage: mlabel [-vscVn] [-N serial] drive:
>> > root@protheus7:~#
>> 
>> Hum... Google provides some hints:
>> 
>> # check the current label
> 
> You pointed me correctly, I used the wrong syntax, no space after the
> device. The output is telling now:
> 
> root@protheus7# mlabel -i /dev/sdb1 ::
>  Volume has no label
> Enter the new volume label :
> root@protheus7#
> 
> So it is proven, there is really no label existent.
> 
> Weired!

Yep :-?

What happens if you attach the USB key into another computer? It still 
shows the old label ("Debian Inst")?

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gnome-volume-control-applet fails

[T o n g]

Hi, 

Of the two of the boxes that I have, both of them have problems with 
gnome-volume-control-applet. 

The first box, after I login from gdm, I get

 The panel encountered a problem while loading 
"OAFIID:GNOME_MixerApplet". 

If I remove all my gnome/gdk2 configure directories/files, the gnome 
starts OK, but the problem comes again on next login. 

The second box, at least I can see an icon button (without any icon buy 
with tooltop) that is gnome-volume-control-applet, the problem is that 
when I click on it, which suppose to launch the applet, but actually only 
toggle the mute and unmute. 

I don't know how to start gnome-volume-control-applet from the command 
line though, so I don't know if I can start it later in the boot, and I 
can't see anything obviously connected in .xsession-errors.

Anybody also experiencing gnome-volume-control-applet in debian squeeze?

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Re: How to disconnect/initialise a built in modem?

[Andrei Popescu]

On Sb, 05 mar 11, 19:07:14, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote:
> Hi Folks!
> Is there a command to disconnect or reinitialise a built in modem (I mean a 
> modem like a gsm-modem, which is built in my EEEPC), so that I must not 
> reboot 
> if it hangs?

The closest I know of is to reload the corresponding kernel module with 
modprobe. You can find the module in the output of 'lspci -v'.

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Re: opened OpenSSL port

[Chris Davies]

> Chris Davies a écrit :
>> /etc/hosts.allow could provide a level of protection for names matching,
>> e.g. "*.dyndns.org".

Pascal Hambourg  wrote:
> This won't work, because usually the reverse DNS is not in *.dyndns.org.
> somename.dyndns.org -> IP address -> some other name defined by the ISP.

Interesting, that one. I don't use hosts.allow myself - but it's
frequently recommended by others. It's not at all clear (to me) from
the man page that the canonical name must be provided in hosts.allow,
but empirically it appears that this indeed is the case.

Arguably, this is less than optimal from a user-centric
perspective. (Consider a host with multiple A records, perhaps a
well-connected web server running a number of vHosts. It seems to me
that it would make more sense to do a forward DNS lookup on a name
(where possible) and match the resulting set of addresses against the
incoming IP. Ineffective on domain matching, but surely useful for
host-based matching?)

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repository 'debports' help needed

[Paul E Condon]

Long ago, well before Squeeze became stable, I supmitted a bug report
on a package in Squeeze/testing. The fix didn't make it into the
released version, but a few days ago I got an email saying a fixed
version was available in sid/unstable. Only, when I looked it wasn't
actually in unstable. It was instead in a repository called 'debports'.
I need help in setting up apt/aptitude to let me install this package.

This (I think) involves a line in /etc/apt/sources.list mentioning
'debports' . Some lines in a file /etc/apt/preferences. And, something
in a directory, /etc/apt/apt.conf.d Or, perhaps /etc/apt/preferences.d

The package at issue is gdm3. I feel obligated to at least look at
it, since the fix seems to have been something relatively difficult, 
in that it seemed to involve papering over a major design f---up in
gnome.

So what must I put in the various magic places in /etc/apt so that I
can install this special gdm3 using aptitude?

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Re: NFS user id

[Roger Leigh]

On Sat, Mar 05, 2011 at 07:38:04PM +, T o n g wrote:
> My /export NFS share is shared with option "rw,no_root_squash,async", 
> however, on the client side, files from both the root and me are mapped 
> as uid/gid of 4294967294/4294967294. 
> 
> Both the root id and my id are the same on both client server. 
> What could be wrong?

Is this NFSv3 or v4?

If it's v3, nothing special happens; you should get the same UIDs
on the client as found on the server.

If it's v4, it does mapping between the user IDs on the client and
server using the "nfsidmap" daemon.  I've see the screwy ID issue
as above before.  Basically, you need to ensure that it's enabled
on both the client and server (edit /etc/default/nfsxxx) and that
the domain is the same between the two as well.

http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-1598588.html


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Re: download manager

[ZHAO Lina]

On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 11:00 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <
b...@iguanasuicide.net> wrote:

> In , ZHAO
> Lina
> wrote:
> >On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 11:41 PM,
> >Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.  wrote:
> >> On 2011-03-04 02:40:35 ZHAO Lina wrote:
> >> >I tried the kget.
> >> >
> >> >can it be interactive.
> >>
> >> Yes.  But, I think you might try being less terse (and consequently more
> >> verbose).  Asking questions about specific interactions will probably
> get
> >> you
> >> more useful information.
> >
> >
> http://www.springerlink.com.ezlibproxy1.ntu.edu.sg/content/23j63676550n0q45/
> >fulltext.pdf This is the link,
> >which need username and password.
> >when I use kget, it's just stopped.
>
> That link actually sends you a redirect.  Then, the redirect URL
> <
> https://ezproxylogin1.ntu.edu.sg/restricted/login.asp?logup=false&url=http://www.springerlink.com/content/23j63676550n0q45/fulltext.pdf
> >
> uses HTTP authentication.
>
> Add your username and password to the redirect URL like:
> <
> https://username:passw...@ezproxylogin1.ntu.edu.sg/restricted/login.asp?logup=false&url=http://www.springerlink.com/content/23j63676550n0q45/fulltext.pdf
> >
> and give that URL to KGet,  hopefully that will get you the file.  AFAIK,
> KGet does not normally prompt for or store credentials, so you have to use
> the URL syntax.
>

I tried, it popped up saving as login.asp.

seems the last part
?logup=false&url=http://www.springerlink.com/content/23j63676550n0q45/fulltext.pdf>
could not be recognized,
and the downloading stop there.

There is also some info. shows like below, did I miss something?

~$ QApplication::qAppName: Please instantiate the QApplication object first
kget is already running!
QSqlDatabasePrivate::removeDatabase: connection 'qt_sql_default_connection'
is still in use, all queries will cease to work.
QSqlDatabasePrivate::addDatabase: duplicate connection name
'qt_sql_default_connection', old connection removed.
"/usr/bin/kget(26289)" Soprano: "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown -
The name org.kde.nepomuk.services.nepomukstorage was not provided by any
.service files"
"/usr/bin/kget(26289)" Soprano: "Unsupported operation (2)": "Invalid model"
"/usr/bin/kget(26289)" Soprano: "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown -
The name org.kde.nepomuk.services.nepomukstorage was not provided by any
.service files"
"/usr/bin/kget(26289)" Soprano: "Unsupported operation (2)": "Invalid model"
"/usr/bin/kget(26289)" Soprano: "Unsupported operation (2)": "Invalid model"
"/usr/bin/kget(26289)" Soprano: "Invalid iterator."
"/usr/bin/kget(26289)" Soprano: "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown -
The name org.kde.nepomuk.services.nepomukstorage was not provided by any
.service files"
"/usr/bin/kget(26289)" Soprano: "Unsupported operation (2)": "Invalid model"
"/usr/bin/kget(26289)" Soprano: "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown -
The name org.kde.nepomuk.services.nepomukstorage was not provided by any
.service files"
"/usr/bin/kget(26289)" Soprano: "Unsupported operation (2)": "Invalid model"
"/usr/bin/kget(26289)" Soprano: "Unsupported operation (2)": "Invalid model"
"/usr/bin/kget(26289)" Soprano: "Invalid iterator."

Thanks,

lina



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> Unfortunately, I won't be much help with troubleshooting past that point ad
> I
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Re: FAT filesystem with a directory cycle

[Joel Roth]

On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 02:23:40PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 03/03/2011 05:55 AM, Joel Roth wrote:
> >On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 06:31:49AM -0500, shawn wilson wrote:
> [snip]
> >>
> >>I thought fsck was a bit based integrity checker and didn't care about
> >>directories?... and how do you know what directory fsck is on anyway?
> >
> >The same warning repeated endlessly
> >
> 
> Show us.  Include *everything*.  (Snip after 5 lines of repetition.)

Okay, I get that a responsibility of posting for help here
is also to include enough info for all to study.

Thanks for your kind offer, however I no longer have the computer 
to play with. I'll experiment with virtualization next,
if I can get that to work.

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Re: FAT filesystem with a directory cycle

[Ron Johnson]

On 03/05/2011 11:27 PM, Joel Roth wrote:

On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 02:23:40PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:

[snip]


Show us.  Include *everything*.  (Snip after 5 lines of repetition.)


Okay, I get that a responsibility of posting for help here
is also to include enough info for all to study.



You call the Doctor saying nothing but "I have a cough.  Cure me 
now!" and expect him to do what?



Thanks for your kind offer, however I no longer have the computer
to play with. I'll experiment with virtualization next,
if I can get that to work.



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Re: download manager

[Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.]

In , ZHAO Lina 
wrote:
>On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 11:00 PM,
>Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.  wrote:
>> In , ZHAO
>> Lina
>> wrote:
>>>http://www.springerlink.com.ezlibproxy1.ntu.edu.sg/content/23j63676550n0q45/fulltext.pdf
>>>This is the link,
>>>which need username and password.
>>>when I use kget, it's just stopped.
>> 
>> That link actually sends you a redirect.
>> [...] uses HTTP authentication.
>> 
>> Add your username and password to the redirect URL.
>
>I tried, it popped up saving as login.asp.

What was in login.asp?  KGet might not have been able to guess the file name 
correctly but could have still downloaded the file.  Those two operations are 
not really dependent on one another.

But, if it didn't work, like I said, I really probably can't help you much 
further.
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Adding a bootloader to a Windows partition image

[Joel Roth]

Hi,

I installed kvm-qemu and enabled virtualization in BIOS.

Now, I have a Windows partition I'd like to fiddle.
It was produced thusly:

dd if=/dev/sdb1 of=windows_partition

Entering this command

qemu --enable-kvm windows_partition 

opens a black window with the "booting" message.

Of course, it needs a boot loader. I tried this:

grub-install windows_partition

But this fails with:

Format of install_device not recognized.

INSTALL_DEVICE can be a GRUB device name or a system device filename.

Can someone suggest or point a reference to help me
create a bootable partition?

A LILO solution would be okay, too.

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IPv4 messages from Tiger after dist-upgrade

[Linda Ursin]

Hi

Since upgrading to Squeeze, I'm getting these from Tiger:

dolly:/home/linda# tigexp lin014f

It is possible to send IP spoofed packets from this machine. Spoofed
packets are commonly used by trojans that make use of compromised hosts
to deliver denial of service, man in the middle or connection hijacking.
You should consider configuring your kernel to not permit this:
  # sysctl -w net.ipv4.conf.all.rp_filter = 2
and:
  # sysctl -w net.ipv4.conf.default.rp_filter = 2

dolly:/home/linda# tigexp lin016f

Source routing might permit an attacker to send packets through your
host (if routing is enabled) to other hosts without following your
network topology setup. It should be enabled only under very special
circumstances or otherwise an attacker could try to bypass the traffic
filtering that is done on the network:
  # sysctl -w net.ipv4.conf.all.accept_source_route = 0
and:
  # sysctl -w net.ipv4.conf.default.accept_source_route = 0

dolly:/home/linda# tigexp lin017w

Suspicious packets received by the kernel should be logged to detect
incoming attacks. To activate this logging capability:
  # sysctl -w net.ipv4.conf.all.log_martians = 1
and:
  # sysctl -w net.ipv4.conf.default.log_martians = 1


Could these fixes be included in an update, or do I have to enter them
myself? I don't like to edit the kernel because I don't know enough about
it.
Since I'm not sure it's actually a bug, I'm not reporting it as such.

Linda
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Re: Adding a bootloader to a Windows partition image

[Doug]

On 03/06/2011 01:05 AM, Joel Roth wrote:

Hi,

I installed kvm-qemu and enabled virtualization in BIOS.

Now, I have a Windows partition I'd like to fiddle.
It was produced thusly:

 dd if=/dev/sdb1 of=windows_partition

Entering this command

 qemu --enable-kvm windows_partition

opens a black window with the "booting" message.

Of course, it needs a boot loader. I tried this:

 grub-install windows_partition

But this fails with:

 Format of install_device not recognized.

 INSTALL_DEVICE can be a GRUB device name or a system device filename.

Can someone suggest or point a reference to help me
create a bootable partition?

A LILO solution would be okay, too.

Thanks!

A message I wrote in reply to a question on the Kubuntu list may be of 
some help.
The message is called "Install Win98 on /dev/sda4" and does not actually 
install
Windows to /dev/sda4, but to /sdb1. And it's XP, not 98.  Anyway, since 
it is frowned
on to cross-post, I will tell you that the message was posted 03/06/2011 
at 12:28 AM,
so you can look for it there.  (The earlier post was by Jerry Lapham at 
03/05/2011

at 8:14 PM.  He decided to use XP, which is what I had done.)

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[SOLVED] Re: Where is the disk label stored?

[Hans-J. Ullrich]

Am Samstag, 5. März 2011 schrieb Hans-J. Ullrich:
> Hello list,
> 
> I am searching for an entry, where a disk label is stored.
> 
> Problem: Some time ago I formatted a sd-card and labelled it with the name
> "Debian Inst". In the meantime, I formatted this sd-card several times and
> deleted the label. But whenever I put the card in, it is seen as "Debian
> Inst" in KDE4 (I mean the hardware manager in the task bar).
> 
> I tried also mlabel to make sure, the label is no more stored on the
> device, but it did not work. See:
> 
> root@protheus7:~# mlabel -s /dev/sdb1
> Mtools version 4.0.12, dated November 3rd, 2009
> Usage: mlabel [-vscVn] [-N serial] drive:
> root@protheus7:~#
> 
> Maybe it is a bug? So I checked with gparted, and there is sure no label
> existent.
> 
> I also tried the following command:
> 
> echo -n "   "|dd bs=1 seek=71 count=11 of=/dev/sdb1;echo -n
> "$NAME"|dd bs=1 seek=71 count=11 of=/dev/sdb1
> 
> But I got no success, too. IMO the label is stored somewhere else and maybe
> bound to the hardware, i.e. the UUID or something.
> 
> I hope, someone might know more, I will be happy if so.
> 
> 
> Best regards
> 
> Hans

Hello folks,

I got the problem solved. For those woho are interested:

As mlabels did not really help me (because mlabels already showed, there is NO 
label on the device), I put the sd-card in and search below /etc/udev and /dev 
to links pointing to that name. I found some limks and directories pointing to 
that label name. Deleting them and the device entries in those directories did 
not help at first, but after a reboot the label was gone.

Everything is now working as wanted. Thank you very much for all the help!

Cheers!


Hans



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