Where is Debian's initrd located?
I'm trying to edit my LILO config so that I can run debian (which is on /dev/hde5). Where is the initrd for debian located? I currently have something like this for my debian entry: image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-bf2.4 label="Debian Linux" root=/dev/hde5 initrd=/boot/??? append="quiet devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi acpi=off" read-only I can't find any initrd file in /boot under the debian partition. Am I missing something? Thanks in advance, Dan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How do I run a program as it's owner?
I know there is some way to allow a program to run with permissions of it's owner (i.e. root) but I forget how to do this. What am I forgetting? Also, if I create a crontab file, will all programs run as nobody or with the permissions of the owner? And is it possible to see whether or not a crontab entry was successful by viewing a log of some kind? Thanks in advance, -Dan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Allowing any user to shutdown from gnome
Here's a thought: why don't you create a group shutdown_privileges and allow anyone with access to the group to run a shell script like: #! /usr/bin/bash #wait 10 minutes before rebooting shutdown -r -t time 10 That would be more secure then allowing everyone access to shutdown, while at the same time allowing you to increase the number of people who can shutdown? -Dan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
GCC 3.3 Questions: Should I Install? Should I install with ProPolice?
I am trying to figure out Linux with the help of O'Reilly's /Running Linux/. It recommends that I do not install new versions of compilers unless absolutely necessary just in case things get broken by the new version of the compiler. I really want to install GCC 3.3 with ProPolice (http://www.research.ibm.com/trl/projects/security/ssp/) enabled by default. Will this really make compiling programs problematic? Can I keep two versions of GCC on my system just in case it breaks things? How would I go about doing this? Thanks in Advance, Dan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Anyone else notice that Swen is slowing down?
> Please share this knowledge. What executables are you awaree of > affecting non-Microsoft systems which are in general circulation and > which auto-execute on receipt by arbitrary systems in stock > configuration? > Although I would agree that most flavors of *nix are much less prone to exploits then Windoze, I would like to point out that security loopholes for Linux programs do exist and anyone stupid enough to leave a configuration as is out of the box could have a problem. That said, when they announced the OpenSSH exploits (or was it OpenSSL) I never heard of anything coming of it. Perhaps because the *nix community is generally smart enough to subscribe to security announcement lists and never get hit. Although the GNU site was hacked a couple months ago so I guess nobody's immune. -Dan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: yahoo wants to save cookies at /
FWIW I just checked my mail @ mail.yahoo.com using konqueror. -Dan On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 10:35, Alphonse Ogulla wrote: > Unable to open mail.yahoo.com in konqueror as non root for the simple fact > that yahoo wants to dump some cookies at / (root) directory for which I have > no permissions. Anybody experience this strange behaviour? > > Alphonse Ogulla > Nairobi, Kenya > > -- > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Re: Debian Desktop for a Joe Average
> Is Knoppix based on Debian stable or Debian testing? Or am I looking at acompletely > different animal? Running Knoppix I got an entirely different looking desktop than I > did installing Woody and selecting a desktop install. And is the Debian Desktop > subproject at a point where I could just go there and find an easier to install and > tweak package? > Bruce Knoppix is based on a very tweaked out version of debian. If you know what you are doing it is theoretically possible to get the exact look they got. -Dan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sound woes with kernel 2.6.0 and 865 chipset
FWIW, Did you make clean before compiling the kernel? If you didn't those errors could be a result of previously compiled code. OTOH if you're an advanced enough user to want to compile your own kernel you probably knew that. HTH -Dan On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 11:28, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I'm running kernel 2.6.0-test4 on my Abit IS7 mobo (Intel 865 chipset). > I'm trying to get ALSA sound working, and I'm having a devil of a time > of it. > > I have ALSA sound enabled in my kernel. Abit (and also Realtek, who > make the integrated AC650 sound chip) offers an AC'97 codec module to be > downloaded and installed. But I can't get the thing to compile; I get > complaints about missing modversions.h. I can't run 'make dep' to make > modversions.h now; I just get a message saying 'make dep' is deprecated. > > OTOH, some of my applications do make sound. E.g. I can get some test > sounds out of KDE. But most of the time I get no sound, and my syslog > is filled with error messages about 'module soundcore not found' -- > though lsmod shows me it's already inserted in the kernel. > > All of this is deeply confusing. I don't understand sound very well > anyway, and this isn't helping. If anyone who has this same hardware > and kernel could tell me how they got their sound working, I'd be > grateful. > > Thanks, > Andrew. > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Holy Spam!
I've had very good success with the following: 1) Send all e-mails with your name not listed as a receipient to a probable spam folder. After a few weeks of tweaking (mailing lists and newsletters will get send there too) you will find just about everything in there the probable spam folder is spam -- and can be deleted accordingly. 2) Anytime a major virus comes up filter out common text in the message body if it comes through. The following are useful if you know a language like Perl and can pipe your mail through it (not very hard): 3) (A little more tricky) Create "Whitelists" -- people who you know you can trust. Any mail from these people gets sent to your inbox -- don't accidentally delete an important e-mail! 4) Anything with .pif, .bat, .exe attached is probably spam. Quarantine it (unless it's from your somebody on your whitelist). 5) Make anybody e-mailing to your address who is not on your whitelist (besides listservs!) respond to an automatic reply to be added to your whitelist. Most spammers won't respond (although people on the listserv may get angry and block your e-mail. See caveat re: listservs). 6) Keep a listserv list and other lists in a database so it is portable wherever you go. This has successfully helped me send over 2k emails to /dev/null today. I highly recommend it. -Dan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Help, OSX vs Linux
> Are there any other benefits of debian that out way it from OSX? Just out of curiosity, if you were running Debian what architecture would you be running it on? If you were going to be using the new G5 regardless, I'd point out that many applications benefit from 64 bit architectures (mySQL is a good example). Although I'm not knocking debian, I'd also like to point out that OS X Server (Are you using Server or OS X?) is built on top of BSD, and thus most of what you can do on Linux can be done on OS X). Combined with the unfair advantage apple has in helping its hardware interface with its hardware you have a good case for OS X Server. On the other hand, like so many distributions designed for those without a good grasp of computers, OS X probably puts a lot of load on the machine with superfluous programs. When I install debian I only install the kernel modules I want, and only install the packages I want, thus creating a lean and mean machine. This is probably one of your most powerful arguments: it can be customized to suit your exact needs. And, by customizing it you can add a lot of security enhancements and other things which end up being a bonus. Add this in with the fact that you're probably getting more power out of a lean machine and it's a very powerful argument. But don't argue for Debian just because it's Debian. You need to look at what is truly the best OS for the job. (For instance, if security is /really/ important then you should look at OpenBSD -- http://www.openbsd.org ). Please feel free to email me if you have any more questions. HTH, -Dan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Holy Spam!
> It isn't just people on listserv's that will be annoyed: please never > send automatic replies; the "from" address is a lie anyway. This is one of the reasons I put a caveat about listservs not following rules. However, FWIW, on a business only address (which isn't subscribing to a listserv) this can be a very good way to make sure a vital e-mail isn't accidentally sent to /dev/null. For instance, in my personal e-mail box if any e-mails are dropped that were legit I might miss out on talking to Grandpa (he's got a dirty mouth), but I will never lose a multi million dollar contract. In business losing a multimillion dollar contract because you never got any of the e-mails (What you've never needed to talk about forks to somebody from Brooklyn to get a contract?). Thus an autoresponder which whitelists people can be a good idea. -Dan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Holy Spam!
> So, again, please don't send automatic replies. Although you may not personally approve of the method it is an accepted method of blocking spam. YMMV and such. > On such an email address I'd be even more wary about using an > autoresponder because I don't want people that are potentially offering > me "multi million dollar" contracts to have to jump through extra hoops > to contact me. Better to make them jump through hoops then not get any emails from them at all. Also, combined with Whitelists this generally isn't a problem. (Because you did add them to your whitelist, right? Because it's a multi million dollar contract and all.) I'll admit my examples are not reminiscent of real world scenarios. But I think there is nothing wrong with letting people know what valid anti-spam options exist. -Dan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Help, OSX vs Linux
> Total size with the install of Woody. the MySQL database, and the > webconent for the two domains we host: 890 MB FWIW I've installed sub 150MB debian installs. Of course there's a lot of stuff missing. Also, to elaborate, all programs (packages) installed are potential security holes. With a cut down distro you have that many less packages to install. -Dan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Help, OSX vs Linux
> I don't think so. I'm the one that has to support the box in the end, and why > should I pull my hair out administering OSX server when I know a Linux box can > do basically the same thing. Well, from the perspective of a boss I'd say it's not about you. You're being paid to pull your hair out, so if the gains in productivity from Apple hardware and OS are worth more then the cost and your salary, your boss is probably not going to go for Debian. Not wanting to trouble yourself is /NOT/ a good reason to pick Debian. However, if you can demonstrate good reasons to Debian is superior to OS X (Server?) you probably will get your wish granted. Because management looks at more then what you want. So try to spin your arguments in a way management finds favorable so you don't have to pull out your hair. ;-) -Dan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Looking for backup solutions
I have a 40 GB hard disk I want to back up to CD. I figure I could run dd but the man page was unintelligible. Can anyone offer any suggestions? Thanks in advance, -Dan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
