It is also quite possible that you can switch to another virtual console and
log in through that. Do this by hitting ctrl+alt+F1 to get to the first
virtual console. You should have virtual consoles on F1 - F6. This will
allow you to go in and look at the system to see where it might be hanging.
On my initial look, things looked good. You mention an issue under
debian-mirror about the fact that it stores everything from all the
different package sections in to one and not understanding it. Here is a
link to the page that provides the basic information on it:
http://www.debian.org/distri
There are two other standard ways to have scripts run with root privileges.
1) For automated tasks, schedule it in root's crontab. 'man crontab' for
more info
2) Use setuid for scripts or programs that are to be run by users who need
root perms to perform a specific task programmed into that scr
table being less secure than testing.
Joe
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From: s. keeling [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, October 29, 2004 3:14 PM
To: debian-user
Subject: Re: faq on choosing a debian distribution - draft 1
Incoming from Gilbert, Joseph:
>
> From: John Hasler [ma
Well, the version number of sendmail in stable (just one example) seems to
be pretty old - 8.12.3. There are known exploits (buffer overflows, etc.)
against that version. The version in testing is 8.13.1 is much newer.
Similar thing with mod-ssl, 2.8.9 vs. 2.8.20. I know a lot of security
fixes
Well, if you just want a list of debian commands, try this.
ls /bin /usr/bin /sbin /usr/sbin
However, on my system that returns over 2000 commands, many of which I do
not use and probably never will.
You might have more success browsing the documentation section of Debian's
web site. Try settin
Reminds me of some funny stories I have from when I worked in abuse at an
ISP.
One such pinhead called up and demanded to know why we were scanning port 53
on his network. Turns out a domain was registered that pointed to
non-existent name servers on his network and they were using the domain to
> If you are worried about security and stability issues,
install stable. period.
> This is the most preferred way.
I do not think stable is necessarily the best if you are very concerned
about security. Packages with recent security fixes can take time to make
it into stable. I have found te
Hey guys,
Anyone have any suggestions for good games available on Debian? What are
some good resources for keeping abreast with what is happening in the Linux
gaming world? I know this is an oh-so-frivilous of a question for me to
ask. ;-)
Joe
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Makes sense to me.
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From: Carl Fink [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2004 5:39 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: cdrecord --scanbus
What do people think: would it make sense to put in a wishlist
request for
"cdrecord -scanbus" to scan ALL buse
Do you have an old machine? It's bios may not support ISOLINUX. See the
install/README.sbm file on the CD for more info and handling.
I've always just booted from a windows floppy and ran install/boot.bat when
I have this issue. Unfortunately, we have a lot of ld hardware at work
so I run i
This may seem too simple but I used xcdroast in X. It found my ATAPI CDRW
drive and gave me the access string which was ATAPI:0,0,0. I was then able
to use that at the command line for cdrecord.
Also, you may want to take a look at
/usr/share/doc/cdrecord/README.ATAPI.setup.
Joe
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Thanks.
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From: Alvin Oga [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, October 25, 2004 2:43 PM
To: Gilbert, Joseph
Cc: Debian Users
Subject: RE: WiFi
On Mon, 25 Oct 2004, Gilbert, Joseph wrote:
> http://www.linuxant.com/driverloader/
>
> I haven't had a
I am not familiar with awstats but I believe you will have to split the log
files into individual files per site. The main reason for this is that
there is, by default, no entry in the access log file for the site accessed.
Thus, your stat analysis tool would not be able to distinguish the differe
Another thing that may be worthy on note on this issue is the results of
some quick research I did. I have a Dell Inspiron 5100 laptop with a wifi
card, specifically a Broadcom TM1300.
There is no native support for this card under Linux from what I can tell.
However, I found something very inter
Hey guys,
I'm having some woes with getting Xwindows at the resolutions I want, both
on my laptop and my home system. I've gotten the furthest on my laptop so I
will talk about that.
So, I ran xf86config and gave it all the data in regards to my video card
and monitor and what not. This appeare
ll. So you can try it.
Search google with "apt pinning" ant you will see how.
András
On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 14:05:09 -0700, Gilbert, Joseph
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> So, I'm sure this has been discussed before but I would like
to get some
> up-to-dat
Hi all,
So, I'm sure this has been discussed before but I would like to get some
up-to-date input on this.
I have been administering a Debian network for about a year and a half now.
>From my experience, stable does not have a quick path to getting version
updates incorporated into it. This make
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From: Paul Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Well, that used to be the rule of thumb for a Linux-specific problem
> with swap space. Today, you can run without swap without a problem.
> I keep a gig of swap on hand to avoid out of memory problems at all
> costs and h
So, you already have your keys generated and installed.
Here are the ssh options I use in my automation:
ssh -q -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no
The StrictHostKeyChecking is the option that does what you were asking
about. I feed it in as an argument to ssh within the script so that I do
not have ch
No, not exactly... the thing to look at is this:
Dynamic MMap ran out of room
There is a cache statement you can use in /etc/apt/apt.conf that increases
the amount of list data you can work with and is needed from my experience
when you are pointing to both stable and testing source lists.
Her
acts about this issue but I could just be
overcomplicating the issue in my head.
Joe
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From: Scarletdown [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2004 4:16 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: swap space size
On Thursday 21 October 2004 03:55 pm, Gilber
Hi all,
There is an issue that I do not fully understand that I have always kind of
taken for rote. I was told back when I first started working with Unix that
the swap space needed to be at least twice the size of physical memory in
order to ensure a stable system.
Is this truly the case? How
rsday, October 21, 2004 12:28 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [OT] Debian advocacy for Smart but Scared People With Lives
On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 12:16:21PM -0700, Gilbert, Joseph wrote:
> session and found that KDE had autodetected my sound card.
You may want to
> have them give Sarge
See my earlier post regarding the Sarge install. I installed it as a
desktop workstation. X-windows worked fine (but I will have to do some more
work to get the proper Xserver for my card installed). I logged in to a KDE
session and found that KDE had autodetected my sound card. You may want to
I have seen a similiar issue as well. In my case, df was reporting large
negative numbers. Installing the coreutils package from testing is what
resolved that issue. This sounds different though. Are you running a mixed
system (i.e. packages from both woody and sarge) at all?
This may require
I concur. I used the Sarge Debian installer for the first time last night
on a machine at home. I was amazed at how easy it was to set up a mixed
system. In the past, rather than fool around with complicated boot loaders,
I would install multiple systems on different disks and switch the boot
or
Anyone have experience installing Debian on a Compaq Smart Array 3200. Do
you have to build a custom boot disk or something to get the drivers loaded?
Is there even Linux support for this RAID controller?
Joe Gilbert
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To my knowledge, SMART is a utility that allows the hard drive to report
certain conditions to the OS.However, it is up to the manufactor to
define what gets reported and when. Is this a new drive just put into the
system or did these messages just start appearing? Bottom line is that in
orde
Hi all,
I have run into an interesting issue with df that I have seen before. It is
annoying because I do not know what causes it and do not have enough
understanding of how df works and how it gets it data (presumably from the
kernel) to be able to debug this. Here is the situation. I get the
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