RE: brute force ssh login attempts and how to Disrupt them

2006-11-16 Thread Debeselis
I think that the best solution in this situation would be knockd daemon. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of s. keeling > Sent: Friday, November 17, 2006 7:50 AM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: brute force ssh login attemp

RE: test2 please ignore

2006-11-16 Thread Debeselis
Hi, Sorry for the problems if there were any from me:( But I have problems with this mailing list and I wanted to find what causes them. Problem is that when I send my initial e-mail to this list I can see my submission coming to my e-mail box but if I'm trying to reply to this e-mail which cam

RE: help! my usb keyboard works only slightly on install

2006-11-16 Thread David Gluss
I did achieve success by setting the root password to 888, and skipping the create user step. This was done with a USB-ps2 dongle. So the installation kernel definitely supports USB. The serial console is the (darn it) obvious answer...but too late for this go-round. I can report that as far a

Re: localhost in /etc/hosts

2006-11-16 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2006-11-14 09:19:09 +0100, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > I do and I did. However, "hostname -s", contrary to hostname's manual page, > does not return first segment of the system hostname, but resolves the FQDN > first and returns first segment of the resulting hostname. See my (refused) > bug

32<->64

2006-11-16 Thread ccostin
32 bit x86 packages can installed on 64 bit system (amd64) ? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Adding more than one IP Address

2006-11-16 Thread Amit Joshi
On Monday 13 November 2006 02:51, srg krn wrote: > To assign more than one ip address per physical interface you can do > things like: > ifconfig eth0:1 192.168.169.170 255.255.255.0 up > (the preceding ":1", ":2", etc... denotes "alias" interfaces) > Better than ussing aliases is to connect the ro

Re: Adding more than one IP Address

2006-11-16 Thread Amit Joshi
On Monday 13 November 2006 01:11, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 12:53:28AM +0530, Amit Joshi wrote: > > I am sort of stuck up. I need to put more than one IP address due to my > > strange requirement. I am in a situation where there are multiple > > gateways, and so I need mul

Re: brute force ssh login attempts and how to Disrupt them

2006-11-16 Thread s. keeling
Martin McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > One day, I noticed one of those attacks starting. What Much simpler: % /etc/init.d/ssh stop sshd is only necessary to ssh *in* to the box. If you've so far managed to remain ignorant of the sshd attacks going on, you might need to reconsider wh

Re: test2 please ignore

2006-11-16 Thread s. keeling
Debeselis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > This is an excellent way to get yourself killfiled. Potential spammers do this sort of crap all the time. It doesn't fool anyone. There are many, far better, venues with which to test email transport functionality. Flooding tens of thousands of mailing li

Re: Etch status..?

2006-11-16 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 08:22:47PM -0500, cga2000 wrote: > I need to upgrade my current sarge to something more current. > > Is this the recommended procedure -- the one less likely to provide > major headaches: > > 1. Install sarge on a new partition > 2. Wait till etch become stable. > 3. Do a

Re: how to detect laptop hardware/drive problems?

2006-11-16 Thread Scott Gifford
Tyler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have noticed that my laptop is starting to slow down quite > noticeably, although irregularly so. Basic tasks like opening xterm in > fluxbox sometimes take a few seconds or more, and there's even a > noticeable delay with command line stuff like ls. Not alway

Re: Creating a debian install cd/dvd

2006-11-16 Thread Oleg Maloglovets
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Alan Ianson wrote, On 17.11.2006 04:03: > Hello List, > > My /var/cache/apt/archives directory contains a lot of files I have gotten > from various sources, mainly the debian archives, security.debian.org, > debian-multimedia.org and a few others.

Re: mplayer

2006-11-16 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 12:46:07PM +, Barney Rubble wrote: > > http://people.debian.org/~mjr/legal/mplayer.html > > reads: > > Q. Is mplayer in debian? > > A. Yes, since Oct 2006. It may be part of the next release Debian 4.0 > (codename "etch"). > > > > Where? I run etch and don't s

Re: Printer hassle

2006-11-16 Thread Mark Grieveson
It looks to me as though the printer installation (which I did through the CUPS GUI interface) wasn't completed. What do I do next ? Perhaps installing the package printconf, and then running the command "printconf" (as root) will work. Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: cs4232 soundcard

2006-11-16 Thread Mark Grieveson
Mark Grieveson([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > I can get this soundcard working by entering the command "modprobe > cs4232". However, I have to reload the module each time I restart the > laptop. So, I'm wondering, how do I get the laptop to load the module > itself on star

Re: Etch status..?

2006-11-16 Thread cga2000
On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 08:25:14PM EST, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 08:22:47PM -0500, cga2000 wrote: > > I need to upgrade my current sarge to something more current. > > > > Is this the recommended procedure -- the one less likely to provide > > major headaches: > > > > 1.

Re: Etch status..?

2006-11-16 Thread cga2000
On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 10:51:44PM EST, Greg Madden wrote: > On Thu, 16 Nov 2006 20:22:47 -0500 > cga2000 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I need to upgrade my current sarge to something more current. > > > > Is this the recommended procedure -- the one less likely to provide > > major headaches:

Re: how to detect laptop hardware/drive problems?

2006-11-16 Thread Tyler
That the slow down happens after a while suggests that its a temperature thing. I'll keep an eye on that and see... The drive reving I would guess is swapping happening re the browser needing to page memory in or out. Does it happen if you're not using X but only console? Its spin and pause

Re: Etch status..?

2006-11-16 Thread Greg Madden
On Thu, 16 Nov 2006 20:22:47 -0500 cga2000 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I need to upgrade my current sarge to something more current. > > Is this the recommended procedure -- the one less likely to provide > major headaches: > > 1. Install sarge on a new partition > 2. Wait till etch become stab

Re: tool to encode html entities

2006-11-16 Thread T
On Thu, 16 Nov 2006 21:59:37 -0500, T wrote: > Hi > > Any tools can help me encode html entities? E.g. > > from > > sed "s/ / /g" < f1 > f2 > > to > > sed "s/ / /g" < f1 > f2 > > ? > > thanks hi, I found I'd like to talk to myself recently. :-) $ echo 'sed "s/ / /g" < f1 > f2' |

Re: Gnome and KDE menus empty

2006-11-16 Thread Owen Heisler
On Fri, 2006-11-17 at 02:24 +0100, Tobias Niemann wrote: > Owen Heisler said the following on 17.11.2006 01:20: > > On Fri, 2006-11-17 at 00:20 +0100, Tobias Niemann wrote: > >> I have a problem with the menus of Gnome and KDE. The applications menu > >> is completely empty and the System menu isn'

tool to encode html entities

2006-11-16 Thread T
Hi Any tools can help me encode html entities? E.g. from sed "s/ / /g" < f1 > f2 to sed "s/ / /g" < f1 > f2 ? thanks -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? C

Re: full boot-up messages

2006-11-16 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 05:58:54PM -0500, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > I found that very helpful - thanks - even though I didn't ask the original > question. Is there anything similar which will give the messages on > shutdown? You could probably coble something together using bootlogd, but you'd w

How do you install 32 bit libstdc++.5 on AMD64 etch?

2006-11-16 Thread David Gluss
I am trying to run software that is looking for libstdc++.5; I installed it with dselect (and again with synaptic) but what installed was the 64 bit version only. David Gluss 408 866 4125 x307

Re: Need to remove a ghost file, but can't because it doesn't exist [SOLVED]

2006-11-16 Thread hendrik
On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 05:03:22PM +, J.A. de Vries wrote: > On 2006-11-16 @ 08:56:14 (week 46) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Rumours I have heard about reiserfsck suggest to me that taking a backup > > is *highly* recommended before doing reiserfsck. > > Right you are! I did, excluding the

Re: /dev/fd0 gone

2006-11-16 Thread hendrik
On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 05:12:27PM -0500, Douglas Tutty wrote: > On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 01:58:58PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > But when I tried > > ls /dev/fd0 > > it told me > > > > ls: /dev/fd0: No such file or directory > > > > Indeed, ls /dev says > > > [ its not there ] >

Re: Reporting brute force ssh login attempts

2006-11-16 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 06:51:02PM +, Shri Shrikumar wrote: > Hi All, > > I have a few servers on which there is a regular penetration attempts > using brute force password guessing bots. > > There is little risk to the server but am getting more and more annoyed > by this and as far as I c

Re: /dev/fd0 gone

2006-11-16 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 01:58:58PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > But when I tried > ls /dev/fd0 > it told me > > ls: /dev/fd0: No such file or directory > > Indeed, ls /dev says > [ its not there ] > Where is my floppy drive? > Are you running a plain /dev/ or do you use udev or de

Re: Need to remove a ghost file, but can't because it doesn't exist

2006-11-16 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 03:02:23PM +, J.A. de Vries wrote: > Hi, > > I have a problem with a file which seems to not exist, but that makes > applications like rsync, offlineimap and tar crash, because they try to read > it > anyway (not their fault as far as I can tell). > > When I try to sy

Re: how to configure network?

2006-11-16 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 06:13:52AM +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > Hi, > > I've installed Debian with a 3-month-old network installer on expert > mode. Reason for this is that it allows for disabling the root > password, and therefore assigns the initial user as a sudoer. But then > it does n

Re: cron-apt with no mta

2006-11-16 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 11:52:45AM -0500, Rob Bochan wrote: > I'm interested in the cron-apt package. > Is anyone aware if there's any way for it to send a message to an external > mail (i.e. to a gmail account, etc.) without having an MTA installed on the > machine? Perhaps some settings like th

Re: debian 3.1r3 netinstall cd couldn't be mounted

2006-11-16 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 05:43:48PM -0800, deva seetharam wrote: > hello all, > i have a system with a gigabyte mobo (ga-965sp-s3) with intel Pentium-D 925 > processor. i am trying to install debian stable (3.1 r3) using the netinstall > cd. although the cd is read and i get the "press F1 for help

Re: How to clean arp table

2006-11-16 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 11:19:40PM -, Cesar Fazan wrote: > Hello, > > After many years using FreeBSD, Im now moving my gateways to debian, and I > stuck with a simple lazy thing ... How do I clean arp table on debian? > On FreeBSD I can just do an "arp -ad", but on debian I didnt found how to

Re: how to detect laptop hardware/drive problems?

2006-11-16 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 01:09:25AM +, Tyler wrote: > Hi, > > I have noticed that my laptop is starting to slow down quite noticeably, > although irregularly so. Basic tasks like opening xterm in fluxbox > sometimes take a few seconds or more, and there's even a noticeable > delay with comma

Re: help! my usb keyboard works only slightly on install

2006-11-16 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 07:23:50PM -0800, David Gluss wrote: > I am installing on AMD64 using the netinst CD, from testing. This has > been happening (apparently just to me??) for months with various > versions of the installer. During various selections, such as "what > is your hostname" and "wh

Re: Some error messages from Cron Deamon

2006-11-16 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 09:11:40AM +0200, Yuriy Padlyak wrote: > Hi All, > > Could you please help me with those error messages? > Or I have to submit backup-manager bug? > /usr/sbin/backup-manager: line 188: [: 5907376643783245169990: integer > expression expected For those of us that don't hav

Re: best package for fax machine?

2006-11-16 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 01:17:13AM -0600, Russell L. Harris wrote: > I have a 200 MHz Pentium and a spare 350 Mz Pentium-II. I would like > to use one or the other with a laser printer and an external US > Robotics fax modem as a dedicated fax machine, primarily for incoming > faxes with a volume

Re: Gnome and KDE menus empty

2006-11-16 Thread Tobias Niemann
Owen Heisler said the following on 17.11.2006 01:20: > On Fri, 2006-11-17 at 00:20 +0100, Tobias Niemann wrote: >> I have a problem with the menus of Gnome and KDE. The applications menu >> is completely empty and the System menu isn't filled properly either. >> /usr/share/applications is filled wi

Re: dig

2006-11-16 Thread Jhair Tocancipa Triana
Raquel writes: > Does anyone know in what package can I find "dig"? I tried > "apt-cache search dig" and couldn't find anything it the list it > gave me. "apt-cache search" looks for package names not for package contents. You should try apt-file[1] instead: $ apt-file --fixed-string search /u

Re: Etch status..?

2006-11-16 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 08:22:47PM -0500, cga2000 wrote: > I need to upgrade my current sarge to something more current. > > Is this the recommended procedure -- the one less likely to provide > major headaches: > > 1. Install sarge on a new partition > 2. Wait till etch become stable. > 3. Do a

Etch status..?

2006-11-16 Thread cga2000
I need to upgrade my current sarge to something more current. Is this the recommended procedure -- the one less likely to provide major headaches: 1. Install sarge on a new partition 2. Wait till etch become stable. 3. Do a blind upgrade. 4. Customize. I need to re-install sarge because I have

Creating a debian install cd/dvd

2006-11-16 Thread Alan Ianson
Hello List, My /var/cache/apt/archives directory contains a lot of files I have gotten from various sources, mainly the debian archives, security.debian.org, debian-multimedia.org and a few others. Is there a way I can create a cd or dvd with those files so apt-get / dselect / aptitude can ins

Re: conky deb?

2006-11-16 Thread cga2000
On Sun, Nov 12, 2006 at 02:56:44AM EST, cga2000 wrote: > Does anyone know if a sarge-compatible .deb of conky is available > anywhere? > > Thanks, > > cga > There isn't. Stuff in sarge is just too ancient to support this newcomer. Thanks cga -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] w

Re: dig

2006-11-16 Thread Shawn Parker
it's provided in dnsutils http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_contents.pl?searchmode=filelist&word=dnsutils&version=stable&arch=i386 On 11/16/06, Raquel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Does anyone know in what package can I find "dig"? I tried "apt-cache search dig" and couldn't find anything

dig

2006-11-16 Thread Raquel
Does anyone know in what package can I find "dig"? I tried "apt-cache search dig" and couldn't find anything it the list it gave me. -- Raquel To behave with dignity is nothing less than to allow others freely to be themselves. --Sol

Re: Gnome and KDE menus empty

2006-11-16 Thread Owen Heisler
On Fri, 2006-11-17 at 00:20 +0100, Tobias Niemann wrote: > I have a problem with the menus of Gnome and KDE. The applications menu > is completely empty and the System menu isn't filled properly either. > /usr/share/applications is filled with lots of .desktop files and I ran > update-menus, too. I

Re: ViewSonic Widescreen and resolution settings

2006-11-16 Thread Dave Bellows
Update. Of course I can't run 1600x1000 instead the monitor went to the next resolution on the list which was 1600x1200. I was then able to shrink the horizontal size and reposition the screen to make it fit. There are now thin black bars along either side of the screen but there doesn't seem t

Re: brute force ssh login attempts and how to Disrupt them

2006-11-16 Thread David Hart
On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 23:26:34 +0200, Hans du Plooy wrote: > > If you ssh in from a static IP, you can always just put an iptable rule > in to allow ssh connections only from your IP. Unfortunately I'm on > dynamic, so I can't do that. You can use knockd to open a port to allow access from a d

Gnome and KDE menus empty

2006-11-16 Thread Tobias Niemann
Hi, I have a problem with the menus of Gnome and KDE. The applications menu is completely empty and the System menu isn't filled properly either. /usr/share/applications is filled with lots of .desktop files and I ran update-menus, too. I'd like to know how the generation of the menu files and str

centralized location for contacts

2006-11-16 Thread Owen Heisler
I would like to be able to store all my contacts in a specific location in my home directory that would be accessible by Evolution, Icedove, and mutt. Does anyone know of a good way to do this? I've tried using slapd for a LDAP server, but this seems like overkill and has yet to work right anyway

Re: Need to remove a ghost file, but can't because it doesn't exist

2006-11-16 Thread hendrik
On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 11:21:40AM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > hendrik writes: > > I thought that a deleted file that was still being read *was* unlinked > > from the directory, just not removed from the disk until it was closed. > > The directory entry is deleted and the link count is decremented

xscreensaver and DPMS

2006-11-16 Thread Renato
Hello there, has anyone experienced a seemingly weird behaviour with xscreensaver and the DPMS functions X provides? Well, I had configured xscreensaver to blank/lock the screen, then turn the backlight off (it's an LCD). It was working, but operates rather peculiarly lately: It goes like this: I

Re: brute force ssh login attempts and how to Disrupt them

2006-11-16 Thread John L Fjellstad
In Linux, you can use iptables with the recent module. -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Kernel error: DMA write timed out

2006-11-16 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
> > > >> kernel: DMA write timed out > > > >> kernel: parport0: BUSY timeout (1) in compat_write_block_pio > > > >> > > > >> prometeo:/var/log# uname -a > > > >> Linux prometeo 2.6.8-3-686-smp #1 SMP Thu Sep 7 04:39:15 UTC 2006 i686 > > > >> GNU/Linux > > > >> > > > >> Can you help me to understand

nxclient stopped working

2006-11-16 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
Hi I have two machines say A, B. Previously I was able to access machine A from machine B using nxclient. But recently it stopped working and I have been trying to find out the reason behind this. So far there is no luck! Here are the configuration details. Both machine A, B run Debian Etch (

Re: usb drive errors with automount

2006-11-16 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 16.11.06 12:03, Jason Dunsmore wrote: > I just started having trouble automounting my usb drive. When I plug > it in, the kernel recognizes it: > usb-storage: device found at 5 > usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning > Vendor: Corsair Model: Flash Voyager Rev: 1.00 >

Re: full boot-up messages

2006-11-16 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On 11/16/06, Mertens Bram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 2006-11-16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Where are the boot-up messsages logged, please? > > dmesg doesn't give me the "Starting... done." messages -- I'd like to > have exactly what is written on the screen during boot-up time. You need to

Re: NFS Setup/Configuration

2006-11-16 Thread Jesus Arocho
On Thursday 16 November 2006 12:36, Stephen Yorke wrote: > All, > > I have been trying to setup NFS on my home Debian systems. > > I have followed all the stuff from nfs.sourceforge.net but I keep > getting Permission Denied errors when I try to mount the Exported > folder. > > Here is what I have.

Re: script in /etc/rcS.d not running?

2006-11-16 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Grzegorz wrote: > 'S' means " Single user mode (not to be switched to directly)" You're right, but I thought it would start in single user mode (S) and then move up to 1, 2, ... Probably that was my misconception. Felipe. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubs

Re: ViewSonic Widescreen and resolution settings

2006-11-16 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Dave Bellows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [061116 16:39]: > Also, the screen is huge. I'd never really notice what letters looked > like before. There's a certain fuzziness around each of the letters > on the screen that I think is related to anti-aliasing perhaps. It's > fairly noticeable though I ima

On notion or ernestine

2006-11-16 Thread Monroe Vogel
The Shorts are out! The Gap is Good! Take advantage! Company: Red Reef Laboratories Symbol: RREF Price: $0.215 RREF has been on a steady rise for a week with HUGE volume. Now the shorts created a gap providing a second chance to get in on RREF. It's $0.215, and will climb hard back to $0.40 by

NFS Setup/Configuration

2006-11-16 Thread Stephen Yorke
All, I have been trying to setup NFS on my home Debian systems. I have followed all the stuff from nfs.sourceforge.net but I keep getting Permission Denied errors when I try to mount the Exported folder. Here is what I have... :: PXE Server :: tftpd-hpa pxe nfs-user-server I know that my TFTP/

ViewSonic Widescreen and resolution settings

2006-11-16 Thread Dave Bellows
Hello all, I just got a new ViewSonic VG2230 widescreen LCD monitor for my Debian Testing box. After I installed it I ran "dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg". It seemingly correctly configured xorg.conf for a resolution of 1680x1050 as recommended by the booklet that came with the monitor.

Re: mplayer

2006-11-16 Thread Firebeam
Jan Dinger wrote: mplayer is in Debian yea, but no all codecs?! AFAIK they are all proprietary software, so Debian cannot include them. Think of the w32codecs package. ;) -- FORZA VECCHIO CUORE BIANCOROSSO! 1905 -> 2005 (+1)... la storia continua

it catastrophic the moiety

2006-11-16 Thread Eva Britt
The Shorts are out! The Gap is Good! Take advantage! Company: Red Reef Laboratories Symbol: RREF Price: $0.215 RREF has been on a steady rise for a week with HUGE volume. Now the shorts created a gap providing a second chance to get in on RREF. It's $0.215, and will climb hard back to $0.40 by

Kernel upgrade in debian installer...

2006-11-16 Thread Marcin Giedz
Hello, I tried this email on debian-boot group with no response :( So I thought that I can try on this group. So here it is Yesterday I compiled new kernel for etch installer. I added new section in isolinux/isolinux.cfg pointing my new kernel and initrd. LABEL linux29 kernel /in

Re: [Fwd: dvd+rw-tools inconsistency??]

2006-11-16 Thread steef
H.S. wrote: steef wrote: in one of two new tests *directly after* my first message burning a dvd of 4,4 Gb succeeded without a problem, the second -ceteris paribus- went wrong. so the behoviour of the kernel or dvd+rw-tools or something else ?? seems unpredictable. maybe it is the media yo

Re: Need to remove a ghost file, but can't because it doesn't exist

2006-11-16 Thread J.A. de Vries
On 2006-11-16 @ 10:42:25 (week 46) Bob McGowan wrote: > First, HdV has discovered his problem is directory structure corruption. > This is the correct answer, based on all the failed attempts to > remove, in one way or another, this file. Indeed. What most of the proposed methods had in common

Re: brute force ssh login attempts and how to Disrupt them

2006-11-16 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Thu, 2006-11-16 at 06:25 -0600, Martin McCormick wrote: > I haven't created anything similar for Linux yet or I > would be happy to let folks try it out. http://denyhosts.sourceforge.net/ Should sort it out. In addition it's always a good idea to disable root login. One one server that

Re: emacs without documentation nonsense

2006-11-16 Thread John L Fjellstad
"Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Why duck? Everyone knows that the only component missing from emacs is > generally a good text editor. :-) And what's wrong with viper? :-) -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes -- To UNS

Re: script in /etc/rcS.d not running?

2006-11-16 Thread Grzegorz
Could somebody please teach me why a script living in /etc/init.d and installed as update-rc.d do-rescan-scsi-bus.sh start 23 S . does not run at initialization time, while the same script installed as update-rc.d do-rescan-scsi-bus.sh defaults does run okay? I expected that installing m

Re: mini-itx server

2006-11-16 Thread Joao Carlos de Lima Roscoe
George Borisov wrote: Joao Carlos de Lima Roscoe wrote: I'm asking because I have sporadic problems with ethernet not being properly "activated" on boot (I have one epia 6000ME and one epia 5000, and both show the same sporadic problem). Hmm, I thought I was the only one with that pro

Re: OpenSSL version 0.9.7e ?!

2006-11-16 Thread Stephan Seitz
On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 08:25:00PM +, Dave Ewart wrote: to which the machine is put. Kernel bugs are normally only exploitable by local users; SSL bugs are most likely to be exploitable remotely. If Only partly true, I think. If you have a server application like apache, which has a bug

Re: OpenSSL version 0.9.7e ?!

2006-11-16 Thread Dave Ewart
On Thursday, 16.11.2006 at 12:08 -0800, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: > > I had a strong *shrug* when i noticed that my stable system > > (originally woody, upgraded to sarge without kernel change) still > > had > ^^^ > If you are running Debian-p

alsa: no master mixer control

2006-11-16 Thread Anton Piatek
Hi, I have a hda-intel based soundcard, and alsa does not create a master volume control. This is annoying as I want to use hotkeys to control my volume, but it ends up controlling the "front" channel (no good). Can I force alsa to create a master control? If not, how are mixer devices access

Re: OpenSSL version 0.9.7e ?!

2006-11-16 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Hi Nicolas, Nicolas Pillot wrote: > I had a strong *shrug* when i noticed that my stable system > (originally woody, upgraded to sarge without kernel change) still had ^^^ If you are running Debian-provided kernels, you *really* should upg

Re: OpenSSL version 0.9.7e ?!

2006-11-16 Thread Nicolas Pillot
2006/11/15, Nicolas Pillot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I though that all the security fixes were included into sarge, am i wrong ? If someone could give me some details, i'd be quite happy to learn :-) After some research, it looks like the debian patch, named [openssl_0.9.7e-3sarge4.diff.gz] has a mo

usb drive errors with automount

2006-11-16 Thread Jason Dunsmore
I just started having trouble automounting my usb drive. When I plug it in, the kernel recognizes it: usb 5-8.1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 5 usb 5-8.1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice scsi34 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices usb-storage: device found

Re: Printer hassle

2006-11-16 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
George Langford wrote: My Epson Stylus Photo 870 printer started misbehaving ... but only when connected to my debian (Sarge) PC. Plugged into a Win98SE PC it worked fine. George Langford [EMAIL PROTECTED] I don't know George: still holding onto HP Deskjet Plus I bought 16 years ago fo

Re: Help needed: PHP not working with apache 2.2.3-3.1

2006-11-16 Thread Lukas Ruf
Edward, Thanks for answering! > On Sun, Nov 12, 2006 at 09:49:20AM +0100, Lukas Ruf wrote: > > Dear all, > > > > since the change from apache 2.0 to 2.2 was made with debian > > unstable, I have not been able to get php (4 or 5) working as an > > apache 2.2 module. > > > > Until before the change

Re: Need to remove a ghost file, but can't because it doesn't exist

2006-11-16 Thread Bob McGowan
John Hasler wrote: hendrik writes: I thought that a deleted file that was still being read *was* unlinked from the directory, just not removed from the disk until it was closed. The directory entry is deleted and the link count is decremented when the file is deleted from the directory. When

Re: Debian for Dell inspiron 640m (Intel core 2 duo T7400)

2006-11-16 Thread Vibhav Sharma
Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: On 11/11/06, Christian Escalante <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I just bought a Dell Inspiron 640m T7400 that has an Intel core 2 duo processor and I want to install debian. Could anyone let me know what ISO images should I download? i386? or 64_x86? Where can I find the

Re: Re: Need to remove a ghost file, but can't because it doesn't exist

2006-11-16 Thread David Gluss
You might try emacs on the directory: emacs . This brings up dired mode where you can hit "d" on the file(s) you don't want and "x" to execute your instructions. David Gluss 408 866 4125 x307

Re: full boot-up messages

2006-11-16 Thread Mertens Bram
On 2006-11-16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Where are the boot-up messsages logged, please? > > dmesg doesn't give me the "Starting... done." messages -- I'd like to > have exactly what is written on the screen during boot-up time. You need to activate bootlogd for this: edit the file /etc/default/

Re: Need to remove a ghost file, but can't because it doesn't exist

2006-11-16 Thread John Hasler
hendrik writes: > I thought that a deleted file that was still being read *was* unlinked > from the directory, just not removed from the disk until it was closed. The directory entry is deleted and the link count is decremented when the file is deleted from the directory. When the file was opened

Printer hassle

2006-11-16 Thread George Langford
My Epson Stylus Photo 870 printer started misbehaving ... but only when connected to my debian (Sarge) PC. Plugged into a Win98SE PC it worked fine. The principal symptom was that it would print in monochrome red when it was supposed to be printing black. Color images would not print at all. I

full boot-up messages

2006-11-16 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Where are the boot-up messsages logged, please? dmesg doesn't give me the "Starting... done." messages -- I'd like to have exactly what is written on the screen during boot-up time. Thanks, Felipe. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

script in /etc/rcS.d not running?

2006-11-16 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Could somebody please teach me why a script living in /etc/init.d and installed as update-rc.d do-rescan-scsi-bus.sh start 23 S . does not run at initialization time, while the same script installed as update-rc.d do-rescan-scsi-bus.sh defaults does run okay? I expected that installing my s

Re: Need to remove a ghost file, but can't because it doesn't exist [SOLVED]

2006-11-16 Thread J.A. de Vries
On 2006-11-16 @ 08:56:14 (week 46) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Rumours I have heard about reiserfsck suggest to me that taking a backup > is *highly* recommended before doing reiserfsck. Right you are! I did, excluding the directory containing the troublesome file. > Some copying/backup programs

Re: how bash encode/decode characters with byte value greater than 0x7f

2006-11-16 Thread T
On Wed, 15 Nov 2006 17:02:07 -0500, T wrote: > Hi > > For characters whose byte values are greater than 0x7f, how bash > encode/decode them? > > I.e., > > echo $'\312\325\274\376\317\344' | bash_encode > > Anybody know how to make the output similar to '\312\325\274\376\317\344'? Just FYI,

Re: cs4232 soundcard

2006-11-16 Thread Wayne Topa
Mark Grieveson([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > I can get this soundcard working by entering the command "modprobe > cs4232". However, I have to reload the module each time I restart the > laptop. So, I'm wondering, how do I get the laptop to load the module > itself on startup?

Re: too new phpmyadmin security update

2006-11-16 Thread Serban Udrea
Clive Menzies wrote: On (16/11/06 12:01), Serban Udrea wrote: After one of the latest updates I made on a debian sarge box I got the following version of phpmyadmin: 2.6.2-3sarge3 ... I have the same; I assume it's because the security patches are ahead of the advisories. Regards Clive

Re: Großes Modelcasting - jetzt als Model bewerben

2006-11-16 Thread Josh Hurst
On 11/16/06, Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: NewsTwentyFur wrote: > Guten Tag, Ach Schiesse! Jetzt bekommen wir verdammtes deutsche SPAM! D'oh The couldn't win WWII and now they're trying to sell their slave porn to us -- Josh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subj

Re: Xkb caps lock behavior

2006-11-16 Thread Matthew Krauss
Bert Verhaeghe wrote: Hi all, I have the following problem. I need to change the keyboard behavior for X with pc105 model and be layout for the CAPS_LOCK key. When CAPS_LOCK is locked, not only the alfanumeric keys (a, z, ..) should produce (A,Z, ...) but also the other keys (&, é, :, =, ...) sh

Re: Großes Modelcasting - jetzt als M odel bewerben

2006-11-16 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Mike McCarty wrote: > NewsTwentyFur wrote: >> Guten Tag, > > Ach Schiesse! Jetzt bekommen wir verdammtes deutsche SPAM! Jain, not really. At least it appears to originate from Nassau: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ whois newstwentyfur.com [...] [owner-c] handle:9421085 [owner-c] type:

Re: ot (Re: levels of expertise on software usage)

2006-11-16 Thread Oleg Verych
On 2006-11-16, John Hasler wrote: > Oleg Verych writes: >> I saw such one ! On request to lift up mouse (meaining pointer on the >> screen) she lifted up mouse device over the table ;D. > > Perfectly reasonable interpretation of a very poorly-worded instruction, > and more evidence that GUIs are no

Re: Need to remove a ghost file, but can't because it doesn't exist

2006-11-16 Thread hendrik
On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 08:19:55AM -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 10:14:00AM +, J.A. de Vries wrote: > > > >>On 2006-11-15 @ 22:27:03 (week 46) Mike McCarty wrote: > >> > >> > >>>OTOH, something is there. Try using > >>> > >>># lsof > >> > >>Ah,

Re: too new phpmyadmin security update

2006-11-16 Thread Clive Menzies
On (16/11/06 12:01), Serban Udrea wrote: > After one of the latest updates I made on a debian sarge box I got the > following version of phpmyadmin: > > 2.6.2-3sarge3 > > Nevertheless, the latest security advisory regarding phpmyadmin i received > by email mentions just version: > > 2.6.2-3sar

Re: mplayer

2006-11-16 Thread Jan Dinger
On Thu, 16 Nov 2006 12:46:07 + "Barney Rubble" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > http://people.debian.org/~mjr/legal/mplayer.html > > reads: > > Q. Is mplayer in debian? > > A. Yes, since Oct 2006. It may be part of the next release Debian 4.0 > (codename "etch"). > > > > Where? I run

Re: ot (Re: levels of expertise on software usage)

2006-11-16 Thread George Borisov
John Hasler wrote: > > Perfectly reasonable interpretation of a very poorly-worded instruction, > and more evidence that GUIs are not at all intuitive. That's right - who in their right mind would want to spend the whole day clutching a small rodent. :-p -- George Borisov DXSolutions Ltd --

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