Re: get update

2007-03-21 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Texas Golf Lda (John L Patterson) wrote: > For some reason I have not been able to get the updates by running Synaptic > for the past two weeks. I also tried to get updates by opening Konsole and > running apt-get update. This also does not work. >

get update

2007-03-21 Thread John L Patterson
For some reason I have not been able to get the updates by running Synaptic for the past two weeks. I also tried to get updates by opening Konsole and running apt-get update. This also does not work. How can I purge this and reload? Thanks for your attention, John Patterson _

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-21 Thread Steve Lamb
mc3393 wrote: > so if Arnt had reason (as he has) Uhm, how does he have reason when he is attributing actions to an entity prior to its existence? That would be like me claiming that Brazil, in league with Australia, were directly responsible for the fall of Rome and you saying I had reason.

SOLVED: bind9 prevents external access

2007-03-21 Thread Justin Hartman
Would you believe it but bind9 had sweet nothing to do with the problem. The issue lay in the interfaces configuration file all along. In my email below I had configured eth0:0 but the IP address used in this was actually the subnet ip. As soon as I removed this everything went back to normal...

Re: Speeding up boot time

2007-03-21 Thread Cameron L. Spitzer
[This message has also been posted to linux.debian.user.] In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Michael Pobega wrote: > I'm looking to speed up my Debian Etch boot speed, but I have no idea > where to start. Install the uswsusp package. Don't shut your system down. Just suspend it to the swap partition

Re: X problem after upgrade

2007-03-21 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tommi Lantta wrote: > > > On Wed, 21 Mar 2007, Joe Hart wrote: > >> I don't have the same monitor as you do, but I found that pushing the >> button on my monitor that autosets the display will fix that. Almost >> all monitors made in the last few y

Re: Sneakernet .deb packages by usb thumb?

2007-03-21 Thread Cameron L. Spitzer
[This message has also been posted to linux.debian.user.] In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, charles norwood wrote: > On Sun, 2007-03-18 at 19:32 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> My desktop debian system is at home with no available internet >> connection. >> >> Work provides internet with no linux

Re: Re (3): relaying POP3

2007-03-21 Thread Andrei Popescu
Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 23:35:42 +0200 > Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Peter E. writes: > > > > My first guess would be that it is MS Windows based. If you > > > > tell me how > > > >to obtain th

getting fluendo mp3 plugin to work with etch.

2007-03-21 Thread Lex Hider
Hi, I can't seem to get fluendo codecs to be recognised when in $HOME/.gstreamer-0.10/plugins. I have: $HOME/.gstreamer-0.10/plugins/libgstflump3dec.so yet: $ gst-inspect-0.10 flump3dec No such element or plugin 'flump3dec' Other fluendo codecs also aren't recognised. Any help would be appreci

Re: How to run fetchmail as daemon at startup

2007-03-21 Thread Jochen Schulz
Jian Jun Wang: > I installed Debian etch on my laptop and I want to configure fetchmail > to get my mails from gmail. In order to run fetchmail at startup, I did > 1. Installed sysv-rc-conf and toggle fetchmail in it as root > 2. edit /etc/default/fetchmail, to make it as daemon > 3. edit $HOME/.fe

Re: What do I use to reconfigure the network /after/ initial install on Etch?

2007-03-21 Thread Andrei Popescu
Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 18 Mar 2007 14:58:20 -0500 > John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I wrote: > > > Manual changes to conffiles are preserved. > > > > Celejar writes: > > > Yes, but if you edit it by hand, then it won't be updated when a > > > new version become

Re: How can I force a clean reinstall of xfree86?

2007-03-21 Thread Stefan Monnier
> I have tried running dpkg-reconfigure xfree86 Are you sure you're running xfree86? Nowadays xorg is much more common. Stefan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: "I do consider Ubuntu to be Debian" , Ian Murdock

2007-03-21 Thread David E. Fox
On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 23:11:07 -0400 Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just can't handle the absurdly-long release cycle any more. I'm not sure a release cycle is strictly necessary -- theoretically, one can just stay on the testing track ad infinitum; at least there is a reasonable buffer b

Re: bind9 prevents external access

2007-03-21 Thread Jeff D
On Thu, 22 Mar 2007, Justin Hartman wrote: Correction - /var/log/daemon.log does show an error relating to bind: Mar 22 06:16:46 justinhartman lwresd[2413]: starting BIND 9.3.4 Mar 22 06:16:46 justinhartman lwresd[2413]: found 1 CPU, using 1 worker Mar 22 06:16:46 justinhartman lwresd[2413]: n

Re: bind9 prevents external access

2007-03-21 Thread Justin Hartman
Correction - /var/log/daemon.log does show an error relating to bind: Mar 22 06:16:46 justinhartman lwresd[2413]: starting BIND 9.3.4 Mar 22 06:16:46 justinhartman lwresd[2413]: found 1 CPU, using 1 worker thread Mar 22 06:16:46 justinhartman lwresd[2413]: loading configuration from '/etc/bind/lw

Re: bind9 prevents external access

2007-03-21 Thread Justin Hartman
There are absolutely zero errors in the syslog file on either startup or when I do any look ups. On 3/22/07, Julian De Marchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 3/22/07, Jeff D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Just out of curiosity, are you seeing any errors in your logs when you > do > > these look

Re: bind9 prevents external access

2007-03-21 Thread Jeff D
On Thu, 22 Mar 2007, Justin Hartman wrote: On 3/22/07, Jeff D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Just out of curiosity, are you seeing any errors in your logs when you do these look ups or when the server starts? Where exactly would I find the right log files to see this info? -- Regards Justin Hart

Re: How to run fetchmail as daemon at startup

2007-03-21 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/21/07 22:38, Jian Jun Wang wrote: > > I installed Debian etch on my laptop and I want to configure fetchmail > to get my mails from gmail. In order to run fetchmail at startup, I did > 1. Installed sysv-rc-conf and toggle fetchmail in it as root

RE: bind9 prevents external access

2007-03-21 Thread Julian De Marchi
> On 3/22/07, Jeff D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Just out of curiosity, are you seeing any errors in your logs when you > do > > these look ups or when the server starts? > > Where exactly would I find the right log files to see this info? /var/log/syslog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAI

Re: How can I force a clean reinstall of xfree86?

2007-03-21 Thread Kent West
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings; Before I do the Windows thing of a complete reinstall of the system ... No need. You've got the basics already. However, if you're running stable (Sarge), you might consider upgrading to testing (Etch), or even unstable (Sid). If you're on a server that ne

Re: How can I force a clean reinstall of xfree86?

2007-03-21 Thread Jeff D
On Wed, 21 Mar 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings; Before I do the Windows thing of a complete reinwtall of the system for the fourth time, can anybody tell me how to do this? There is something wrong and the xserver won't come up. All it says is "I cannot start the X server" and some o

Re: bind9 prevents external access

2007-03-21 Thread Justin Hartman
On 3/22/07, Jeff D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Just out of curiosity, are you seeing any errors in your logs when you do these look ups or when the server starts? Where exactly would I find the right log files to see this info? -- Regards Justin Hartman PGP Key ID: 102CC123 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

RE: bind9 prevents external access

2007-03-21 Thread Julian De Marchi
> > On 3/21/07, Jeff D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> so with a clean bind install you still are not able to do lookups? > > > > Correct. Clean install > > > >> what does host google.com 127.0.0.1 give you? > > > > $ host google.com 127.0.0.1 > > ;; connection timed out; no servers could be reac

Re: Change Locale of One/All Running Application(s)

2007-03-21 Thread John Hasler
s. keeling writes: > Then determine the locale your friend understands, set your locale to > that value, logout, then log back in, and re-start your applications. > Your session will be in the locale your friend understands. Or create a user for your friend and log in as that user to do the demo.

Re: bind9 prevents external access

2007-03-21 Thread Jeff D
On Wed, 21 Mar 2007, Justin Hartman wrote: On 3/21/07, Jeff D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: so with a clean bind install you still are not able to do lookups? Correct. Clean install what does host google.com 127.0.0.1 give you? $ host google.com 127.0.0.1 ;; connection timed out; no servers

How can I force a clean reinstall of xfree86?

2007-03-21 Thread wix
Greetings; Before I do the Windows thing of a complete reinwtall of the system for the fourth time, can anybody tell me how to do this? There is something wrong and the xserver won't come up. All it says is "I cannot start the X server" and some other general stuff. I have tried running dpkg-rec

How to run fetchmail as daemon at startup

2007-03-21 Thread Jian Jun Wang
I installed Debian etch on my laptop and I want to configure fetchmail to get my mails from gmail. In order to run fetchmail at startup, I did 1. Installed sysv-rc-conf and toggle fetchmail in it as root 2. edit /etc/default/fetchmail, to make it as daemon 3. edit $HOME/.fetchmailrc defaults mda

Re: Speeding up boot time

2007-03-21 Thread Jeff D
On Wed, 21 Mar 2007, Michael Pobega wrote: Also, I forgot to ask. Would it be safe to remove networking from /etc/init.d, and just switch to using ifupdown? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] you might also want

Re: Change Locale of One/All Running Application(s)

2007-03-21 Thread s. keeling
Masatran, R. Deepak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > * John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2007-03-18 > > Masatran, R. Deepak writes: > > > This is an important requirement for many users, especially non-English > > > speakers. > > > > When would a user need to change the locale of a running program? > >

Re: Speeding up boot time

2007-03-21 Thread John Schmidt
On Wednesday 21 March 2007 20:24, Michael Pobega wrote: > Also, I forgot to ask. Would it be safe to remove networking from > /etc/init.d, and just switch to using ifupdown? I would just install ifplugd and configure it and see if it doesn't help alievate the time delay that occurs if you don't h

Re: Speeding up boot time

2007-03-21 Thread John Schmidt
On Wednesday 21 March 2007 20:19, Michael Pobega wrote: > On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 09:05:55PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > On 03/21/07 20:44, Michael Pobega wrote: > > > On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 08:12:37PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > >> On

Re: how to switch between different network configurations?

2007-03-21 Thread Michael Pobega
On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 07:41:56PM -0700, L.V.Gandhi wrote: > On 3/21/07, Michael Pobega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >Packages: > >network-manager-gnome / network-manager-kde > > > >Executables: > >nm-applet / kdenetworkmanager > > > >You'll need a system tray to be able to use those programs

Re: how to switch between different network configurations?

2007-03-21 Thread L . V . Gandhi
On 3/21/07, Michael Pobega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 09:56:13PM +0800, Zhengquan Zhang mailing list wrote: > I have to switch the network configurations between the lab, the dorm and the > home ones. Normally I manullay edit /etc/network/interfaces and restart the > netw

Re: ANSI art with X terminal emulator

2007-03-21 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 06:12:39PM -0800, Jeremy Cyrus wrote: > does anyone have any useful information concerning this issue? the fontpath directives in your /etc/X11/xorg.conf are pointing to directories that don't exist, probably as a result of the transition from xf86 to xorg. I'm not sure how

Unable to change tty /dev/tty1

2007-03-21 Thread Mr. Suhas Ghosh
Hi, Thank you very much Joe and Florian for your response. Actually this is part of a Embedded system. So my total root file system will be in flash which is read only. So I can not make root read write. I have another RW root also. but there is no problem like Unable to change tty /dev/tty1 : Rea

Re: Speeding up boot time

2007-03-21 Thread Michael Pobega
Also, I forgot to ask. Would it be safe to remove networking from /etc/init.d, and just switch to using ifupdown? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Speeding up boot time

2007-03-21 Thread Michael Pobega
On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 09:05:55PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 03/21/07 20:44, Michael Pobega wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 08:12:37PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > >> On 03/21/07 19:39, Michael Pobega wrote: > >> > >>> Are there any easy t

Re: ANSI art with X terminal emulator

2007-03-21 Thread Jeremy Cyrus
does anyone have any useful information concerning this issue? thanx On 3/18/07, Jeremy Cyrus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: i am trying to run scrollz irc client in an xterm, with a colorful ansi art script loading that produces very eye catching graphics. (the reason i have always used scrollz f

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-21 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/21/07 20:21, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: [snip] > >The Taliban occupied 95% of the territory, called the Islamic Emirate >of Afghanistan. The remaining 5% belonged to the rebel forces >constituting the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan,

Re: Speeding up boot time

2007-03-21 Thread Michael Pobega
On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 07:54:09PM -0600, John Schmidt wrote: > On Wednesday 21 March 2007 19:45, Michael Pobega wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 07:32:26PM -0600, John Schmidt wrote: > > > On Wednesday 21 March 2007 18:39, Michael Pobega wrote: > > > > I'm looking to speed up my Debian Etch boot

Re: Speeding up boot time

2007-03-21 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/21/07 20:44, Michael Pobega wrote: > On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 08:12:37PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 03/21/07 19:39, Michael Pobega wrote: >> >>> Are there any easy tools to look through my startup programs, or will >>> I have to sort through

Re: Speeding up boot time

2007-03-21 Thread John Schmidt
On Wednesday 21 March 2007 19:45, Michael Pobega wrote: > On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 07:32:26PM -0600, John Schmidt wrote: > > On Wednesday 21 March 2007 18:39, Michael Pobega wrote: > > > I'm looking to speed up my Debian Etch boot speed, but I have no idea > > > where to start. > > > > > > Currently

Re: Speeding up boot time

2007-03-21 Thread Michael Pobega
On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 07:32:26PM -0600, John Schmidt wrote: > On Wednesday 21 March 2007 18:39, Michael Pobega wrote: > > I'm looking to speed up my Debian Etch boot speed, but I have no idea > > where to start. > > > > Currently I have everything default, but I'd like to remove a few > > things

Re: Speeding up boot time

2007-03-21 Thread Michael Pobega
On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 08:12:37PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 03/21/07 19:39, Michael Pobega wrote: > > > Are there any easy tools to look through my startup programs, or will > > I have to sort through everything manually? > > It's not as much as you think. > > > And if I remove networking,

Re: Speeding up boot time

2007-03-21 Thread John Schmidt
On Wednesday 21 March 2007 18:39, Michael Pobega wrote: > I'm looking to speed up my Debian Etch boot speed, but I have no idea > where to start. > > Currently I have everything default, but I'd like to remove a few > things (Like networking, because networking tries to connect to my > Ethernet and

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-21 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 11:08:42PM +, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 16:13:41 -0400, Celejar wrote in > [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > > It is not at all obvious that the fourth convention applies to 'unlawful > > combatants'. The (current US) administration has claimed that it does > > not

Re: Speeding up boot time

2007-03-21 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/21/07 19:39, Michael Pobega wrote: > I'm looking to speed up my Debian Etch boot speed, but I have no idea > where to start. > > Currently I have everything default, but I'd like to remove a few > things (Like networking, because networking trie

Speeding up boot time

2007-03-21 Thread Michael Pobega
I'm looking to speed up my Debian Etch boot speed, but I have no idea where to start. Currently I have everything default, but I'd like to remove a few things (Like networking, because networking tries to connect to my Ethernet and my wireless drivers are loaded separately). Are there any easy to

Re: how to switch between different network configurations?

2007-03-21 Thread Michael Pobega
On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 09:56:13PM +0800, Zhengquan Zhang mailing list wrote: > I have to switch the network configurations between the lab, the dorm and the > home ones. Normally I manullay edit /etc/network/interfaces and restart the > networking. > > Is there any easier and smarter way of doing

RE: Installation - deselect "standard" task ???

2007-03-21 Thread Erik Cummings
> -Original Message- > From: Joey Hess [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2007 12:40 PM > To: Erik Cummings > Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Installation - deselect "standard" task ??? > > Erik Cummings wrote: > > - 'ps' output from the period of hu

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-21 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 16:13:41 -0400, Celejar wrote in [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 15:58:56 -0400 (EDT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> On 18 Mar, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: >> >> > On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 02:04:42AM +0100, Arnt Karlsen wrote: >> >> >> >> ..peace. First we need to han

Re: how to switch between different network configurations?

2007-03-21 Thread Michael Shuler
Zhengquan Zhang mailing list wrote: > Is there any easier and smarter way of doing this? There should be no need to edit interfaces every time you want to change network "profiles" - there are lots of tools out there to try, or you could use something a little simpler, such as native debian networ

Re: X problem after upgrade

2007-03-21 Thread Tommi Lantta
On Wed, 21 Mar 2007, Joe Hart wrote: I don't have the same monitor as you do, but I found that pushing the button on my monitor that autosets the display will fix that. Almost all monitors made in the last few years have such a button. There is such a button and I think I have tried it wit

Re: loading huge number of rules in iptables (blocklist)

2007-03-21 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 20 Mar 2007, H.S. wrote: > Now, currently, there are around 151,000 ipranges listed in level1.gz to > block. So the above function's loop goes over these many times inserting See "ipset" and "nf-hipac" at http://www.netfilter.org for support for heavy-duty, huge rulesets. -- "One dis

Re: input output error(5)

2007-03-21 Thread Chris Parker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Pobega wrote: > On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 07:54:38PM -0400, Chris Parker wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> hello all, >> >> I've got a dell power edge 2400 with an adaptec scsi card. Attached to >> the card are 2 1

Re: how to switch between different network configurations?

2007-03-21 Thread Wackojacko
H.S. wrote: Wackojacko wrote: H.S. wrote: Zhengquan Zhang mailing list wrote: I have to switch the network configurations between the lab, the dorm and the home ones. Normally I manullay edit /etc/network/interfaces and restart the networking. Is there any easier and smarter way of doing thi

Re: broken upgrade of postfix_2.3.7-3

2007-03-21 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 08:17:06 -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > Pardon the thread hijack, but for several versions now the postinst script > hasn't been able to start Postfix on my box. I get > > > Stopping Postfix Mail Transport Agent: postfixpostfix/postfix-script: fatal: > usage: postfix start (or

Re: bind9 prevents external access

2007-03-21 Thread Justin Hartman
On 3/21/07, Jeff D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ok, check /etc/bind/named.conf , make sure you have : zone "." { type hint; file "/etc/bind/db.root"; }; Yes I do. I also have the following rdns entries directly below that: zone "127.in-addr.arpa" { type master; fi

Re: bind9 prevents external access

2007-03-21 Thread Jeff D
On Wed, 21 Mar 2007, Justin Hartman wrote: On 3/21/07, Jeff D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: so with a clean bind install you still are not able to do lookups? Correct. Clean install what does host google.com 127.0.0.1 give you? $ host google.com 127.0.0.1 ;; connection timed out; no servers

Re: bind9 prevents external access

2007-03-21 Thread Justin Hartman
Could this issue also not have something to do with the way in which my interfaces is setup? I'm thinking aloud here because I don't really know but in order for me to be able to setup two nameservers I was assigned a new IP range which I had to configure in the /etc/network/interfaces file. My

Re: Anyway to change the password for debian-sys-maint

2007-03-21 Thread Dave Ewart
On Wednesday, 21.03.2007 at 23:17 +0200, Justin Hartman wrote: > On 3/21/07, Dave Ewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >There is a password stored in /etc/mysql/debian.cnf for the > >debian-sys-maint user. > > Dave you are a genius Thanks a million! One aims to please :-) Dave. -- Please don

Re: bind9 prevents external access

2007-03-21 Thread Justin Hartman
On 3/21/07, Jeff D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: so with a clean bind install you still are not able to do lookups? Correct. Clean install what does host google.com 127.0.0.1 give you? $ host google.com 127.0.0.1 ;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached $ nslookup google.com 127

Re: Anyway to change the password for debian-sys-maint

2007-03-21 Thread Justin Hartman
On 3/21/07, Dave Ewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: There is a password stored in /etc/mysql/debian.cnf for the debian-sys-maint user. Dave you are a genius Thanks a million! -- Regards Justin Hartman PGP Key ID: 102CC123 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "uns

Re: bind9 prevents external access

2007-03-21 Thread Jeff D
On Wed, 21 Mar 2007, Justin Hartman wrote: Soma thanks for your input - by removing bind and playing with resolv.conf it is apparent that this file was causing certain issues. I have now installed resolvconf and after rebooting resolvconf configured only one line in resolv.conf file as follows:

Re: Anyway to change the password for debian-sys-maint

2007-03-21 Thread Dave Ewart
On Wednesday, 21.03.2007 at 22:10 +0200, Justin Hartman wrote: > Hi > > I restored a backup for my mysql table however in doing so > "debian-sys-maint" no longer has access to start/stop/restart/check > mysqld. > > I thought that if I change the mysql password for debian-sys-maint > this would s

Re: bind9 prevents external access

2007-03-21 Thread Justin Hartman
Soma thanks for your input - by removing bind and playing with resolv.conf it is apparent that this file was causing certain issues. I have now installed resolvconf and after rebooting resolvconf configured only one line in resolv.conf file as follows: nameserver: 127.0.0.1 Prior to installing

Re: loading huge number of rules in iptables (blocklist)

2007-03-21 Thread Ken Irving
On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 04:39:57PM -0400, H.S. wrote: > I am not going to follow up on my current method. A better one is > definitely needed. Googling on the shorewall home page yielded the following: http://www.shorewall.net/ipsets.html ... ...Ipsets provide an effecient way to repr

Re: No text mode display after grub

2007-03-21 Thread J.A. de Vries
On 2007-03-21 @ 19:12:39 (week 12) Florian Kulzer wrote: > Let me just quickly correct my earlier statement: I think the Debian > Linux source packages have the "modular vesafb" option removed anyway > because it caused trouble in the past. I half remembered this and then I > mixed things up a bit

Re: Browser identification to websites

2007-03-21 Thread Wayne Topa
Andrew Sackville-West([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 01:41:30PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: > > > Maybe I'll just start using the Sid or Etch partitions and forget > > about testing, for awhile. > > you do know that etch and testing are still the same thing, r

Re: "I do consider Ubuntu to be Debian" , Ian Murdock

2007-03-21 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Celejar wrote: > On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 10:36:23 +0100 > Joe Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Steve Lamb wrote: >>> Joe Hart wrote: If you Run Sid, you don't have to worry about that *ever*

Re: Browser identification to websites

2007-03-21 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Celejar wrote: > On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 20:15:30 +0100 > Joe Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Celejar wrote: >>> On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 09:54:29 +0100 >>> Joe Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>>

Re: loading huge number of rules in iptables (blocklist)

2007-03-21 Thread H.S.
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 02:30:06PM -0400, H.S. wrote: > > okay, I follow... and you want otherwise unfettered p2p operating, but > security from these particular sites. ugh. nasty problem. Nasty problem, yes. But I can live without it since I don't do much p2p. But

Re: bind9 prevents external access

2007-03-21 Thread Soma R
On 3/21/07, Justin Hartman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 3/21/07, Oliver Jato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > sorry, i forgot that you'll have to add "recursion yes;" to enable recursion. > the allow-recursion part was only to filter for whom your bind will resolve > recursive queries. you'll have

Re: how to switch between different network configurations?

2007-03-21 Thread H.S.
Wackojacko wrote: > > > H.S. wrote: >> Zhengquan Zhang mailing list wrote: >>> I have to switch the network configurations between the lab, the dorm >>> and the >>> home ones. Normally I manullay edit /etc/network/interfaces and >>> restart the >>> networking. >>> >>> Is there any easier and smar

Re: bind9 prevents external access

2007-03-21 Thread Justin Hartman
On 3/21/07, Oliver Jato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: sorry, i forgot that you'll have to add "recursion yes;" to enable recursion. the allow-recursion part was only to filter for whom your bind will resolve recursive queries. you'll have to add both inside the "options { ... };" part of your named.

Re: Sneakernet .deb packages by usb thumb?

2007-03-21 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 15:53:19 -0400 charlie derr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Celejar wrote: > > On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 20:07:54 -0700 > > charles norwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> On Sun, 2007-03-18 at 19:32 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>> My desktop debian system is at home with no

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-21 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 15:58:56 -0400 (EDT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 18 Mar, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > > On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 02:04:42AM +0100, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > >> > >> ..peace. First we need to hang all our war criminals, then they have > >> to hang theirs, all under the stri

Anyway to change the password for debian-sys-maint

2007-03-21 Thread Justin Hartman
Hi I restored a backup for my mysql table however in doing so "debian-sys-maint" no longer has access to start/stop/restart/check mysqld. I thought that if I change the mysql password for debian-sys-maint this would solve it but it seems there is a password stored somewhere on the machine. Anyw

Re: Sneakernet .deb packages by usb thumb?

2007-03-21 Thread charlie derr
Celejar wrote: On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 20:07:54 -0700 charles norwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sun, 2007-03-18 at 19:32 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My desktop debian system is at home with no available internet connection. Work provides internet with no linux. is there any way to aquire

Re: Sneakernet .deb packages by usb thumb?

2007-03-21 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 20:07:54 -0700 charles norwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 2007-03-18 at 19:32 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > My desktop debian system is at home with no available internet > > connection. > > > > Work provides internet with no linux. > > > > is there any way to

Re: distro for 486 with 32 MB ram

2007-03-21 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 18:20:40 -0400 Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 04:48:11PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > True enough. You can minimize the effort, though, (if you already > > haven't) by only using "main". > Done. Main is still HUGE. > > > > What *doe

Re: Installation - deselect "standard" task ???

2007-03-21 Thread Joey Hess
Erik Cummings wrote: > - 'ps' output from the period of hung install below. > - on a whim, I killed the last process (31402). Especially > since I knew the install was whacked anyhow. > - After the kill, the install proceeded perfectly...too bad I > hadn't actually chosen all the

Re: Browser identification to websites

2007-03-21 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 20:15:30 +0100 Joe Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Celejar wrote: > > On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 09:54:29 +0100 > > Joe Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > [snip] > > > >> Personally, I've found that some websites will block

Re: when you do an apt-get upgrade, does it matter it you do it as 'root'?

2007-03-21 Thread tom arnall
On Wednesday 21 March 2007 11:34, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 11:13 -0700, tom arnall wrote: > > On Wednesday 21 March 2007 10:42, Greg Folkert wrote: > > > On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 10:41 -0700, tom arnall wrote: > > > > when you do an apt-get upgrade, does it matter it you do it as >

Re: how to switch between different network configurations?

2007-03-21 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 21:56:13 +0800 Zhengquan Zhang mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have to switch the network configurations between the lab, the dorm and the > home ones. Normally I manullay edit /etc/network/interfaces and restart the > networking. > > Is there any easier and smarte

Re: "I do consider Ubuntu to be Debian" , Ian Murdock

2007-03-21 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 10:45:10 +0100 Joe Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > Yes, Etch install includes security. I assumed that is because it is > about to become stable. According to the debian-reference, testing does > not normally get security updates, unstable does, and they filter down

Re: "I do consider Ubuntu to be Debian" , Ian Murdock

2007-03-21 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 10:36:23 +0100 Joe Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Steve Lamb wrote: > > Joe Hart wrote: > >> If you Run Sid, you don't have to worry about that *ever* happening. > > > > Yes, you do. If you think otherwise I'll ask w

Re: Browser identification to websites

2007-03-21 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Celejar wrote: > On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 09:54:29 +0100 > Joe Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [snip] > >> Personally, I've found that some websites will block me because of my >> location, and that's something I cannot change. Unfortunately my ISP >

Re: loading huge number of rules in iptables (blocklist)

2007-03-21 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 02:30:06PM -0400, H.S. wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > > > I'm sorry, but what exactly is the purpose here? I did a little poking > > around and it looks like just a massive list of ip's to block, but for > > what purpose? > > > > I'm not trying to say that t

Re: What do I use to reconfigure the network /after/ initial install on Etch?

2007-03-21 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 15:10:00 -0500 John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I wrote: > > You will be offered the choice of keeping your version or replacing it with > > the new version. > > Celejar writes: > > Yes, but neither choice is entirely satisfactory; if I keep my version, I > > don't get

Re: bind9 prevents external access

2007-03-21 Thread Oliver Jato
Am Mittwoch, 21. März 2007 19:48 schrieb Justin Hartman: > On 3/21/07, Oliver Jato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > you'll probably have to tell bind to use recursion for fetching adresses > > which are not in his authority. in options, set "allow-recursion { > > 127.0.0.1; };". if you want others on

Re: distro for 486 with 32 MB ram

2007-03-21 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 14:14:22 -0500 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > > I never could run Sarge's installer re memory so went with Woody and > > upgraded. I can try that with Etch but want to have a fall-back > > position in case the attempt hoses. I'm on very slow dialup so gettin

Re: Browser identification to websites

2007-03-21 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 09:54:29 +0100 Joe Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > Personally, I've found that some websites will block me because of my > location, and that's something I cannot change. Unfortunately my ISP > identifies me as being here. Perhaps I need to look into anonymizers. >

Re: bind9 prevents external access

2007-03-21 Thread Justin Hartman
On 3/21/07, Oliver Jato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: you'll probably have to tell bind to use recursion for fetching adresses which are not in his authority. in options, set "allow-recursion { 127.0.0.1; };". if you want others on your network to use your bind, too, also add "192.168.1/24;", for ex

Re: ..voice recognition, was: To be M$ free....

2007-03-21 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 10:48:37 +0100, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote in [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > On 19.03.07 21:54, Arnt Karlsen wrote: >> ..try play with these searches in your CLI: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/Independent-Reformer $ apt-cache search recogni |wc -l >> 123 >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/Independent-

Re: loading huge number of rules in iptables (blocklist)

2007-03-21 Thread H.S.
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > I'm sorry, but what exactly is the purpose here? I did a little poking > around and it looks like just a massive list of ip's to block, but for > what purpose? > > I'm not trying to say that this is not the right solution for whatever > your problem is, but it c

Re: when you do an apt-get upgrade, does it matter it you do it as 'root'?

2007-03-21 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 02:19:49PM -0400, Michael Pobega wrote: > On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 10:41:50AM -0700, tom arnall wrote: > > when you do an apt-get upgrade, does it matter it you do it as 'root'? > > > > As said before, if you're in the sudo group and in the /etc/sudoers > file you can run "a

Re: when you do an apt-get upgrade, does it matter it you do it as 'root'?

2007-03-21 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 11:13 -0700, tom arnall wrote: > On Wednesday 21 March 2007 10:42, Greg Folkert wrote: > > On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 10:41 -0700, tom arnall wrote: > > > when you do an apt-get upgrade, does it matter it you do it as 'root'? > > > > Please ask a better question. > > -- > what is t

Re: when you do an apt-get upgrade, does it matter it you do it as 'root'?

2007-03-21 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Pobega wrote: > On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 10:41:50AM -0700, tom arnall wrote: >> when you do an apt-get upgrade, does it matter it you do it as 'root'? >> > > As said before, if you're in the sudo group and in the /etc/sudoers > file you can run

Re: when you do an apt-get upgrade, does it matter it you do it as 'root'?

2007-03-21 Thread Ken Irving
On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 11:13:13AM -0700, tom arnall wrote: > On Wednesday 21 March 2007 10:42, Greg Folkert wrote: > > On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 10:41 -0700, tom arnall wrote: > > > when you do an apt-get upgrade, does it matter it you do it as 'root'? > > > > Please ask a better question. > > -- > wh

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