Download debs of installed packages

2007-07-29 Thread Rage Callao
Hi, How do I download the .debs of packages already installed in my system without having to reinstall them first via apt? The command I'm using right now is: apt-get --yes --reinstall install `cat package_list.txt` where package_list.txt contains the package names per line. TIA -- Rage Call

Re: new Etch install fails to boot

2007-07-29 Thread Mumia W..
On 07/29/2007 04:43 PM, Steve Kleene wrote: I just made a fresh Etch Netinst CD and successfully completed an install on a PC that I bought six years ago. When I try to boot, this is as far as it gets: Verifying DMI Pool Data .. GRUB Loading stage1.5. Read It may or may not be re

Re: dumb question about Adobe Acrobat....

2007-07-29 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sun, 2007-29-07 at 15:12 -0500, Mumia W.. wrote: > On 07/29/2007 02:20 PM, Kelly Clowers wrote: > > > > The next version of Evince, due this fall, will also support form filling. > > > > Can anyone point me to example of PDFs that have fillable forms? I just > want to play with the various f

Re: new Etch install fails to boot

2007-07-29 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 11:00:30PM -0400, Steve Kleene wrote: > [I wrote that my fresh Etch install calls grub and then stops.] What happens if you reboot the installer in rescue mode and tell it to install grub again? Does the box have a floppy and do you have a grub-disk (I've never made a grub

Re: Fonts -

2007-07-29 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 11:04:23PM -0400, Rick wrote: > On Sunday 29 July 2007 10:56:41 pm Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 10:27:27PM -0400, Rick wrote: > > > Wonder, if there are any good mono-fonts for debian, > > > that I can install extra. > > > > What is a mono-font? >

Re: Fonts -

2007-07-29 Thread Mathias Brodala
Hi Rick. Rick, 30.07.2007 04:27: > Wonder, if there are any good mono-fonts for debian, > that I can install extra. Just search the web for a font you like. As long as they are in the usual TrueType format, you can just drop them into /usr/local/share/fonts/truetype. My all time favorites are Mo

Re: Fonts -

2007-07-29 Thread Rick
On Sunday 29 July 2007 10:56:41 pm Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 10:27:27PM -0400, Rick wrote: > > Wonder, if there are any good mono-fonts for debian, > > that I can install extra. > > What is a mono-font? > > Doug. fonts characters that are equally space apart from each ot

Re: dumb question about Adobe Acrobat....

2007-07-29 Thread Mumia W..
On 07/29/2007 02:20 PM, Kelly Clowers wrote: The next version of Evince, due this fall, will also support form filling. Can anyone point me to example of PDFs that have fillable forms? I just want to play with the various form-filling features in OO.o, Evince, pdftk and the others. -- T

Re: new Etch install fails to boot

2007-07-29 Thread Steve Kleene
[I wrote that my fresh Etch install calls grub and then stops.] On Mon, 30 Jul 2007 07:56:04 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] replied: > Sometimes older bios has a virus protection enabled in the bios itself. > This does not allow anything to be written to the MBR to protect MBR > viruses. ... Can you ch

pidgin problem

2007-07-29 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
Dear all, I am using unstable brench. Today I did an "apt-get update; apt-get upgrade; reboot", then my pidgin can not response to keyboard at all. I can not key in anything, but my mouse works well (click, and paste text by right-click menu). And all other programs (firefox, and so on) have

Re: Fonts -

2007-07-29 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 10:27:27PM -0400, Rick wrote: > Wonder, if there are any good mono-fonts for debian, > that I can install extra. What is a mono-font? Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: how to set network io priority for a process?

2007-07-29 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 10:42:29PM -0400, Celejar wrote: > On Sun, 29 Jul 2007 20:11:43 -0400 > Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 03:32:44PM -0400, Celejar wrote: > > > > > I have issues similar to Doug's, and I have also wondered whether > > > kernel b

Re: Ok, one problem solved. Now another.

2007-07-29 Thread Allan Wind
On 2007-07-29T21:20:37-0500, Brad B wrote: > I managed to get the errors mentioned in my last message to cease by > switching from my PCI to onboard video cards, but now X won't start. It > says it can't detect my screen, even though it seems to be correctly > configured to my onboard card when i

Re: how to set network io priority for a process?

2007-07-29 Thread Celejar
On Sun, 29 Jul 2007 20:11:43 -0400 Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 03:32:44PM -0400, Celejar wrote: > > > I have issues similar to Doug's, and I have also wondered whether > > kernel based traffic shaping is what I need. Since we both use > > shorewall,

Fonts -

2007-07-29 Thread Rick
Wonder, if there are any good mono-fonts for debian, that I can install extra. Thanks - Richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: new Etch install fails to boot

2007-07-29 Thread Bhasker C V
Hi, Sometimes older bios has a virus protection enabled in the bios itself. This does not allow anything to be written to the MBR to protect MBR viruses. I have faced this problem whereby the MBR gets cooked and the GRUB does not get written properly. Looking at your information it looks like gr

Ok, one problem solved. Now another.

2007-07-29 Thread Brad B
I managed to get the errors mentioned in my last message to cease by switching from my PCI to onboard video cards, but now X won't start. It says it can't detect my screen, even though it seems to be correctly configured to my onboard card when i view the data in xorg.conf. Anyone have some input

Re: Lost /home partition

2007-07-29 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 30/07/07, Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 04:04:29AM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: > > The disk simply was not mounted! I've now mounted it, and I'm backing > > it up. Reading up on rsync, as well. Sorry for the false alarm... > > > > df is your friend. > > O

Re: Lost /home partition

2007-07-29 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 04:04:29AM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: > The disk simply was not mounted! I've now mounted it, and I'm backing > it up. Reading up on rsync, as well. Sorry for the false alarm... > df is your friend. Once you have it backed up, compare it with your previous backup. It is p

Re: Lost /home partition

2007-07-29 Thread Dotan Cohen
The disk simply was not mounted! I've now mounted it, and I'm backing it up. Reading up on rsync, as well. Sorry for the false alarm... Dotan Cohen http://lyricslist.com/ http://what-is-what.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [

Re: [solved] Re: Problems with text file going from Linux to MS Windows

2007-07-29 Thread - Tong -
On Sun, 22 Jul 2007 12:19:17 +1000, Andy Goss wrote: > Rodolfo Medina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>> If I want to send a text file to an MS Windows user there are problems: in >>> fact, in MS Windows a text file which has been composed under Linux is not >>> correctly read: the line ends are n

Re: how to set network io priority for a process?

2007-07-29 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 03:32:44PM -0400, Celejar wrote: > I have issues similar to Doug's, and I have also wondered whether > kernel based traffic shaping is what I need. Since we both use > shorewall, which has an interface to the kernel's shaping capabilities, > I suppose we ought to read sho

Re: Lost /home partition

2007-07-29 Thread Jeff D
On Mon, 30 Jul 2007, Dotan Cohen wrote: On 30/07/07, Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 02:05:38AM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: In a Debian-based distro (Ubuntu) I have had a corruption of my /home partition, which resides on sda4 of my Dell Inspiron laptop. No

Re: Lost /home partition

2007-07-29 Thread Jeff D
On Mon, 30 Jul 2007, Dotan Cohen wrote: In a Debian-based distro (Ubuntu) I have had a corruption of my /home partition, which resides on sda4 of my Dell Inspiron laptop. Not knowing what to do, and with no way to boot and google the situation, I played Y, Y, Y to all fsck's questions. Now, /hom

Re: Lost /home partition

2007-07-29 Thread John Hasler
Dotan Cohen wrote: > Now, /home is empty. Look in /home/lost+found. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Lost /home partition

2007-07-29 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 02:34:55AM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: > On 30/07/07, Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 02:05:38AM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: > > > In a Debian-based distro (Ubuntu) I have had a corruption of my /home > > > partition, which resides on s

Re: Lost /home partition

2007-07-29 Thread Andy Smith
On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 02:34:55AM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: > Maybe something additional was corrupted, bu I only remember seeing > references to sda4, which is /home. Any idea how to get the data back? It may have been placed in /home/lost+found named after its inode number, i.e. filenames that

Re: Lost /home partition

2007-07-29 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 30/07/07, Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 02:05:38AM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: > > In a Debian-based distro (Ubuntu) I have had a corruption of my /home > > partition, which resides on sda4 of my Dell Inspiron laptop. Not > > knowing what to do, and with

Re: Lost /home partition

2007-07-29 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 02:05:38AM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: > In a Debian-based distro (Ubuntu) I have had a corruption of my /home > partition, which resides on sda4 of my Dell Inspiron laptop. Not > knowing what to do, and with no way to boot and google the situation, > I played Y, Y, Y to all f

Lost /home partition

2007-07-29 Thread Dotan Cohen
In a Debian-based distro (Ubuntu) I have had a corruption of my /home partition, which resides on sda4 of my Dell Inspiron laptop. Not knowing what to do, and with no way to boot and google the situation, I played Y, Y, Y to all fsck's questions. Now, /home is empty. I do have a backup from 4 weeks

Re: poll: use of kernel schedulers?

2007-07-29 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 11:00:30PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 08:18:57AM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: I am currently running Debian's: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ uname -a Linux debian 2.6.22-1-k7 #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun Jul 29 07:39:18 CDT 2007 i686

Re: RAD tool for debian?

2007-07-29 Thread - Tong -
On Fri, 06 Jul 2007 15:50:45 -0500, will trillich wrote: > RAD/rapid-application-development tool sought... (web page forms > interface to a database we define) "RAD tool for debian"? I think the subject needs to be fixed, 'cause when talking about RAD tool, you would definitely want that it is

new Etch install fails to boot

2007-07-29 Thread Steve Kleene
I just made a fresh Etch Netinst CD and successfully completed an install on a PC that I bought six years ago. When I try to boot, this is as far as it gets: Verifying DMI Pool Data .. GRUB Loading stage1.5. Read It may or may not be relevant to mention an issue I had in the past w

Re: Unable to handle Kernel paging request

2007-07-29 Thread Brad B
Hey, thanks for the reply. I have two harddrives; one is never in the computer, and was blank. I bought it awhile ago and meant to put debian on it then, but never did. The other one has Windows XP on it, and it isn't in the computer right now. So put simply, I only have one computer, and the only

Re: dumb question about Adobe Acrobat....

2007-07-29 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sun July 29 2007 13:14, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 12:32:18PM -0700, Alan Ianson wrote: > > > The next version of Evince, due this fall, will also support form > > > filling. > > > > That is such good news.. exactly what I have been hoping to read.. I've > > been lookin

Re: Unable to handle Kernel paging request

2007-07-29 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 03:56:26PM -0500, Brad B wrote: > I recently did the network installation of Debian to a spare HD, and tried > running it by itself in my PC, which usually runs windows. It boots into > grub, but I get serveral different error messages at different times. I'm > never able to

Re: how to set network io priority for a process?\

2007-07-29 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 01:54:36PM -0700, Mike Bird wrote: > Traffic "shaping" usually applies to output. "Policing"[0] usually applies > to input. Since we often can't shape on the router transmitting data to > us, in such cases we instead have to police on the receiving end and rely > on the

Unable to handle Kernel paging request

2007-07-29 Thread Brad B
Hey, I recently did the network installation of Debian to a spare HD, and tried running it by itself in my PC, which usually runs windows. It boots into grub, but I get serveral different error messages at different times. I'm never able to load the kernel, I believe. Here're the most common errors

Re: how to set network io priority for a process?

2007-07-29 Thread Mike Bird
On Sunday 29 July 2007 13:11, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 03:32:44PM -0400, Celejar wrote: > > I have issues similar to Doug's, and I have also wondered whether > > kernel based traffic shaping is what I need. Since we both use > > shorewall, which has an interface to the

Re: poll: use of kernel schedulers?

2007-07-29 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 11:00:30PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 08:18:57AM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > > I am currently running Debian's: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ uname -a > > Linux debian 2.6.22-1-k7 #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun Jul 29 07:39:18 CDT 2007 i686 >

Re: dumb question about Adobe Acrobat....

2007-07-29 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sun, 29 Jul 2007 12:20:55 -0700 "Kelly Clowers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Kelly, > The next version of Evince, due this fall, will also support form > filling. More choice; I love it. :-) -- Regards _ / ) "The blindingly obvious is / _)radnever

Re: IM on a home debian network

2007-07-29 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 04:22:23PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > > There was a time when I had Ctrl-Alt-UP set in inittab to open a new vt. > > > > Never heard of 'screen'? > > > > I have heard of it, but it relies, like so many other gnu tools, on the > operator (me) having either a g

Re: dumb question about Adobe Acrobat....

2007-07-29 Thread Kelly Clowers
On 7/29/07, Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 12:32:18PM -0700, Alan Ianson wrote: > > > > > The next version of Evince, due this fall, will also support form filling. > > > > That is such good news.. exactly what I have been hoping to read.. I've > > been lo

Re: IM on a home debian network

2007-07-29 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 10:54:34PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sat, Jul 28, 2007 at 11:30:05PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > > and leave this VC 1 open. VC 2 is ssh'd to the box and either mutt or > > $watch -n 20 "from -c" > > > > VC 3 is for net-related curses stuff (current

Re: curses-interface ftp client with resume?

2007-07-29 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 10:51:14PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sat, Jul 28, 2007 at 09:44:28PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > I'm on dialup and often access the internet via a slow computer by > > sshing into my fast computer (which has the modem). > > > > Right now, if I want to down

Re: /bin/login listening?

2007-07-29 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 12:44:56PM -0700, Jeff D wrote: > On that note, one thing that you might want to consider as part of the > hardening process is to install aide or some other file integrity checker. > Using something like that greatly helps in detecting and identifying issues > such as thi

Re: dumb question about Adobe Acrobat....

2007-07-29 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 12:32:18PM -0700, Alan Ianson wrote: > > > The next version of Evince, due this fall, will also support form filling. > > That is such good news.. exactly what I have been hoping to read.. I've > been looking for a way to fill in pdf forms for an amd64 box I have > here.

Re: utf8 Problems

2007-07-29 Thread Kelly Clowers
On 7/28/07, Bernhard Kuemel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi debian-user! > > I converted to utf8 in the hope that my non ASCII character problems > would disappear. They are now ... different. > > I used utf8migrationtool and locale now says: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ locale > LANG=en_US.UTF-8 >

Re: how to set network io priority for a process?

2007-07-29 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 03:32:44PM -0400, Celejar wrote: > I have issues similar to Doug's, and I have also wondered whether > kernel based traffic shaping is what I need. Since we both use > shorewall, which has an interface to the kernel's shaping capabilities, > I suppose we ought to read sho

Re: poll: use of kernel schedulers?

2007-07-29 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 08:18:57AM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > I am currently running Debian's: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ uname -a > Linux debian 2.6.22-1-k7 #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun Jul 29 07:39:18 CDT 2007 i686 ^^^ Is this because

Re: IM on a home debian network

2007-07-29 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat, Jul 28, 2007 at 11:30:05PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > and leave this VC 1 open. VC 2 is ssh'd to the box and either mutt or > $watch -n 20 "from -c" > > VC 3 is for net-related curses stuff (currently a wget session). > VC 4 is where I type startx when I need to. > > The

Re: curses-interface ftp client with resume?

2007-07-29 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat, Jul 28, 2007 at 09:44:28PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > I'm on dialup and often access the internet via a slow computer by > sshing into my fast computer (which has the modem). > > Right now, if I want to download something like an iso file via ftp > (there being no rsync mirror ava

Re: /bin/login listening?

2007-07-29 Thread Jeff D
On Sun, 29 Jul 2007, Tyler Smith wrote: On 2007-07-29, Mathias Brodala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --enig6620D8D79CB50A9B1AFF7AB2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi Douglas

Re: how to set network io priority for a process?

2007-07-29 Thread Celejar
On Sun, 29 Jul 2007 15:28:17 -0400 "Andrew J. Barr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 7/29/07, Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm on slow dialup. Downloads of iso's take days. Yet, I still want to > > be able to browse the internet. > > > > I would like to set up something like

Re: dumb question about Adobe Acrobat....

2007-07-29 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sun, 2007-29-07 at 12:20 -0700, Kelly Clowers wrote: > On 7/29/07, Brad Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, 29 Jul 2007 20:20:59 +0200 > > Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hello Florian, > > > > > pdftk can be used to fill in PDF forms. It can generate an FDF file > >

Re: how to set network io priority for a process?

2007-07-29 Thread Andrew J. Barr
On 7/29/07, Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm on slow dialup. Downloads of iso's take days. Yet, I still want to > be able to browse the internet. > > I would like to set up something like trickle that will run something > but limit its bandwidth so that it lower's its priority.

Re: dumb question about Adobe Acrobat....

2007-07-29 Thread Kelly Clowers
On 7/29/07, Brad Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 29 Jul 2007 20:20:59 +0200 > Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello Florian, > > > pdftk can be used to fill in PDF forms. It can generate an FDF file > > Yet another package I've not heard of. Hardly surprising, really, > g

Re: dumb question about Adobe Acrobat....

2007-07-29 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sun, 29 Jul 2007 20:20:59 +0200 Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Florian, > pdftk can be used to fill in PDF forms. It can generate an FDF file Yet another package I've not heard of. Hardly surprising, really, given that there seem to be dozens of ways of achieving one's goals

Adpater network quad-port

2007-07-29 Thread Márcio Luciano Donada
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, We buy a net plate quadr-port, I am using debian etch in our server of firewall, but I am seeing that the plate did not show pra me the net interfaces, in any ones of the doors that I connect the server it I answer ping, what I he must make still

Re: /bin/login listening?

2007-07-29 Thread Tyler Smith
On 2007-07-29, Mathias Brodala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) > --enig6620D8D79CB50A9B1AFF7AB2 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > Hi Douglas. > > Douglas Allan Tutty, 29.07.

Re: bindgraph

2007-07-29 Thread Gilles Mocellin
Le Saturday 28 July 2007 08:49:50 koffiejunkie, vous avez écrit : > Gilles Mocellin wrote: > > Strange ! > > I just installed it today, and I found what is the problem. > > It is not compatible with rrdtool 1.2. > > I found it trying to display directly the image (look in the HTMl > > source). RRD

Re: dumb question about Adobe Acrobat....

2007-07-29 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, 28 Jul 2007 23:39:18 +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: [...] > IIRC, Xpdf doesn't have the ability to do form filling. With acroread, > you can fill out forms (they have to be set up to allow it, of course), > and then print them, already filled in. Obviously, you can't save the > filled out fo

Re: how to set network io priority for a process?

2007-07-29 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 06:14:46PM -, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Jul 29, 11:10 am, Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm on slow dialup. Downloads of iso's take days. Yet, I still want to > > be able to browse the internet. > > > > I would like to set up something like trickle t

Re: essential services? ssh, nfs?

2007-07-29 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 05:52:12PM +, Tyler Smith wrote: > Now that I have nothing listening to the outside world, do I still > need a firewall? I have been using firestarter, but not consistently. > I look at a firewall as icing on the cake. If you reject and log local to net, anything t

Re: essential services? ssh, nfs?

2007-07-29 Thread Tyler Smith
On 2007-07-29, Jeff D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > the general rule of thumb, is if you dont use it, turn it off. I'd turn > off almost every thing. You can leave exim and famd on. > to turn auth off, you can edit /etc/inetd.conf and comment out the line > that starts with ident. > > for port

how to set network io priority for a process?

2007-07-29 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
I'm on slow dialup. Downloads of iso's take days. Yet, I still want to be able to browse the internet. I would like to set up something like trickle that will run something but limit its bandwidth so that it lower's its priority. For example, wget and rsync allow one to limit the bandwidth to a

Re: searching for graphical torrent client

2007-07-29 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri, Jul 27, 2007 at 01:07:17PM +0300, Giorgos D. Pallas wrote: > I tried google but can't seem to find something that both looks decent > *and* is available for debian (testing) as a binary. For example I tried > qtorrent, but it is so minimal that I don't like it... Or to put it in > another w

Re: essential services? ssh, nfs?

2007-07-29 Thread mouss
Tyler Smith wrote: Hi, I'm working through the security quick start how to, and I'm not clear on what services are required and which ones I can safely remove. I'm running a single laptop, which I connect to the net via wireless at home or at cafes, and via an ethernet cable at work. 1) I nev

Re: essential services? ssh, nfs?

2007-07-29 Thread Jeff D
On Sun, 29 Jul 2007, Tyler Smith wrote: Hi, I'm working through the security quick start how to, and I'm not clear on what services are required and which ones I can safely remove. I'm running a single laptop, which I connect to the net via wireless at home or at cafes, and via an ethernet cabl

Re: essential services? ssh, nfs?

2007-07-29 Thread Jeff D
On Sun, 29 Jul 2007, Tyler Smith wrote: Hi, I'm working through the security quick start how to, and I'm not clear on what services are required and which ones I can safely remove. I'm running a single laptop, which I connect to the net via wireless at home or at cafes, and via an ethernet cabl

Re: dumb question about aAdobe Acrobat....

2007-07-29 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sat, 28 Jul 2007 21:12:31 -0400 Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Douglas, > Sounds like a crazy propriatary scheme. Whatever happened to sending Quite probably. > out the Latex of a document. Recipients can latex it to view it, make > changes, get it right, then email

Re: /bin/login listening?

2007-07-29 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 06:40:05PM +0200, Mathias Brodala wrote: > You should also tell the exact version of the "login" package you are using. > Otherwise this number is useless. Sorry. Stock, up-to-date Etch. Aptitude shows it as version 1:4.0.18.1-7. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [E

Re: essential services? ssh, nfs?

2007-07-29 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 04:11:55PM +, Tyler Smith wrote: > > I'm working through the security quick start how to, and I'm not clear > on what services are required and which ones I can safely remove. I'm > running a single laptop, which I connect to the net via wireless at > home or at cafes,

Re: IM on a home debian network

2007-07-29 Thread John Hasler
Ron Johnson wrote: > What ever happened to diald? It was obsoleted by the demand-dial feature of pppd which can be configured with pppconfig. Doug writes: > Its an external Courier. I meant push the button to turn it on. Why do you turn it off? -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EM

Re: /bin/login listening?

2007-07-29 Thread Mathias Brodala
Hi Douglas. Douglas Allan Tutty, 29.07.2007 18:35: > Boot the box from something like the install CD, go to a shell, mount > your / partition ro, noexec. > > I think the install CD has md5sum installed. Run: > #md5sum /bin/login. > > On my i386, I get: > > 2ee32ff74e474c4d9fc9df6f1460980

essential services? ssh, nfs?

2007-07-29 Thread Tyler Smith
Hi, I'm working through the security quick start how to, and I'm not clear on what services are required and which ones I can safely remove. I'm running a single laptop, which I connect to the net via wireless at home or at cafes, and via an ethernet cable at work. 1) I never login remotely, so

Re: /bin/login listening?

2007-07-29 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 03:56:08PM +, Tyler Smith wrote: > So if I'm compromised nothing is safe, and the only guaranteed way to > clear this up is to format my harddrive and reinstall. Given that the > only evidence of a problem is a warning about /bin/login listening > from rkhunter, which

Re: /bin/login listening?

2007-07-29 Thread Tyler Smith
On 2007-07-29, Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> That's what I was thinking. But is there any way a rootkit could >> interfere with my downloading and compiling from source? I was hoping >> that doing things 'by hand' would limit the possibilities for >> compromising the result. > > In theo

Re: Disable gnome-power-manager?

2007-07-29 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sun July 29 2007 06:25, Stefan Monnier wrote: > Am I the only one who finds the gnome-power-manager to be > fundamentally flawed? A power daemon needs intrinsically to be > system-global and not specific to a particular login session. > This becomes obvious when there are several logins active

Re: /bin/login listening?

2007-07-29 Thread John Hasler
> That's what I was thinking. But is there any way a rootkit could > interfere with my downloading and compiling from source? Of course. They could have trojaned any of the tools you would use. _No_ software on a rooted box can be trusted. Including the shell. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRI

Re: How Debian BTS and its tools can be improved (user poll).

2007-07-29 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 10:49:29AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 03:34:58PM +, Oleg Verych wrote: > > What, on your opinion, can be done better in Debian BTS, reportbug? > > 1)I agree with kamaraju (sp?) that submitter should be automatically > subscribed to the

Re: /bin/login listening?

2007-07-29 Thread Celejar
On 29 Jul 2007 13:47:30 GMT Tyler Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2007-07-29, Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 12:48:16PM +, Tyler Smith wrote: > >> On 2007-07-29, Jeff D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> I ran rkhunter again, and then for go

Re: /bin/login listening?

2007-07-29 Thread Tyler Smith
On 2007-07-29, Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 12:48:16PM +, Tyler Smith wrote: >> On 2007-07-29, Jeff D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I ran rkhunter again, and then for good measure I aptitude --purged >> it, reinstalled, and ran again. And then I t

Re: Disable gnome-power-manager?

2007-07-29 Thread Mathias Brodala
Hi again. Mathias Brodala, 29.07.2007 15:50: > Hi Stefan. > > Stefan Monnier, 29.07.2007 15:25: >> Now, recent versions of the gnome-desktop-environment depend on >> gnome-power-management, so it makes it inconvenient to deinstall the >> gnome-power-management package. Is there a way to keep it

Re: Disable gnome-power-manager?

2007-07-29 Thread Mathias Brodala
Hi Stefan. Stefan Monnier, 29.07.2007 15:25: > Now, recent versions of the gnome-desktop-environment depend on > gnome-power-management, so it makes it inconvenient to deinstall the > gnome-power-management package. Is there a way to keep it installed but to > deactivate it? I don’t have it inst

Disable gnome-power-manager?

2007-07-29 Thread Stefan Monnier
Am I the only one who finds the gnome-power-manager to be fundamentally flawed? A power daemon needs intrinsically to be system-global and not specific to a particular login session. This becomes obvious when there are several logins active at the same time (on different virtual consoles), typical

Bug#403969: Info received (Bug#403969: tdfx crashes X with AIGLX but without (working) libglide3)

2007-07-29 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Thank you for the additional information you have supplied regarding this problem report. It has been forwarded to the package maintainer(s) and to other interested parties to accompany the original report. Your message has been sent to the package maintainer(s): Debian X Strike Force <[EMAIL PR

Re: dumb question about aAdobe Acrobat....

2007-07-29 Thread Michael Fothergill
From: Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: dumb question about aAdobe Acrobat Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2007 21:12:31 -0400 On Sat, Jul 28, 2007 at 11:39:18PM +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Sat, 28 Jul 2007 15:57:11 -0500 > John Hasler <[EMAIL PROT

Re: lenny: getting non-free nvidia drivers issue

2007-07-29 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 06:19:47AM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Yes I'm running amd64. However, since I'm on slow dialup and the amd64 box is the only one with a CD burner and lots of drive space, it would be a major headache to have something happen that caused s

Re: /bin/login listening?

2007-07-29 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 12:48:16PM +, Tyler Smith wrote: > On 2007-07-29, Jeff D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I ran rkhunter again, and then for good measure I aptitude --purged > it, reinstalled, and ran again. And then I thought maybe the whole > thing was compromised, so I purged it again,

poll: use of kernel schedulers?

2007-07-29 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, I am curious, how many of you play with kernel schedulers that are not in mainline? To name just a few, there is CFS: http://www.linuxinsight.com/cfs-scheduler-to-appear-in-linux-kernel-2.6.23.html And there still is ck1 for 2.6.22 (and previous), but there will not be for 2.6.23 or beyo

Re: Asus P5K WS motherboard / Marvell IDE - CDrom not detected by installer

2007-07-29 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 03:55:18AM -0800, Mike Messick wrote: > > I'm using the latest debian-testing-amd64-businesscard installer on an > Asus P5K motherboard with an ICH9 Southbridge and Marvell 88SE61xx SATA / > PATA chipset. I'm using an HP dvd1040i CDrom drive for installation. > > The ins

Re: /bin/login listening?

2007-07-29 Thread Tyler Smith
On 2007-07-29, Jeff D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>From the looks of it, it could have just been a false positive. ive seen > rkhunter report a few, not very often though. I'd run rkhunter again, > install chkrootkit, run that, see if the two match up. > > As far as debsums reporting back on

Re: lenny: getting non-free nvidia drivers issue

2007-07-29 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 06:19:47AM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > >Yes I'm running amd64. However, since I'm on slow dialup and the amd64 > >box is the only one with a CD burner and lots of drive space, it would > >be a major headache to have something happen that caused stuff to not > >work.

Re: A question of fonts

2007-07-29 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, 28 Jul 2007 22:28:13 +0100, andy wrote: [...] > I do have the latest msttcorefonts installed. It just looks crap with > Xmms and sometimes Iceweasel seems difficult to read too. But > certainly Xmms is the worst of the bunch. This could also be a problem with your settings for font displ

Asus P5K WS motherboard / Marvell IDE - CDrom not detected by installer

2007-07-29 Thread Mike Messick
Hi Folks, I'm using the latest debian-testing-amd64-businesscard installer on an Asus P5K motherboard with an ICH9 Southbridge and Marvell 88SE61xx SATA / PATA chipset. I'm using an HP dvd1040i CDrom drive for installation. The installer boots fine but cannot find any cdrom device to use. Whe

Re: lenny: getting non-free nvidia drivers issue

2007-07-29 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: On Sat, Jul 28, 2007 at 05:23:26PM -0700, Alan Ianson wrote: On Sat July 28 2007 15:45, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: Difficulty with nvidia is the main reason that I'm sticking with Etch. Are you running an amd64 there? I have had no trouble on the amd64 with the nvid

Documented NFS/statd Debian Bug

2007-07-29 Thread Justin Piszcz
Subject: nfs-common: NFS volume no longer mounted on boo Sun Jul 29 08:31:18 2007: Setting up networking Sun Jul 29 08:31:18 2007: Configuring network interfaces...Starting portmap daemon Sun Jul 29 08:31:19 2007: mount.nfs: rpc.statd is not running but is required for remote locking Su

Re: clamav returns an ERROR in exim 4 mainlog

2007-07-29 Thread Mathias Chauvin
Hi Robert, I've had the same problem on my server. I think this is due to an access deny on the mail data. You may want to add clamav user to the Debian-exim group and restart clamd so that the clamd process is able to access /var/spool/exim4/scan/whatever. Have a nice Sunday! On Sun, Jul 29, 2

Re: A question of fonts

2007-07-29 Thread Glen Pfeiffer
On 07/28/2007 01:30 PM, Alan Ianson wrote: > On Sat July 28 2007 12:30, Glen Pfeiffer wrote: >> msttcorefonts >> >> It is available in the debian-multimedia repository. >> http://www.debian-multimedia.org/ > > This package is in contrib. No need for debian-multimedia for > this one. Whoops! Than

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