Re: Downgrading a system to a particular distribution

2005-09-29 Thread Alf
El mié, 28-09-2005 a las 10:10 -0400, Kevin B. McCarty escribió: Thanks for your help Kevin. The procedure you outlined (below) for downgrading just worked ok for me. I understood it and i think it makes sense. I did not know how to get a list of packages from each branch, like the one given by ap

Re: GRUB woes (install to hde)

2005-09-29 Thread Alvin Oga
hiya matt On Wed, 28 Sep 2005, Matt Price wrote: > I'm trying desperately to install grub on an auxiliary hard drive > currently living on the 3rd IDE bus (/dev/hde). do you know if your motherboard can boot from /dev/hde ?? - not all bios/mb supports booting from off-board controllers

Re: Hi Can I tell root mail (from Cron) to go Elseware?

2005-09-29 Thread Joseph Haig
--- Fred OGrady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi everyone. > I would like to send these messages to my gmail account instead. any > ideas? Yes. 'man cron' says the following: "When executing commands, any output is mailed to the owner of the crontab (or to the user named in the MAILTO envi

Re: firefox - no print output

2005-09-29 Thread Matt Johnson
--- golfer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 9/28/05, Matt Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > --- Matt Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > I've googled this, but not had anything that's > > > solved > > > it. > > > > > > Debian Sarge: cupsys > > > > > > OpenOf

klogd & metalog eating 100% CPU

2005-09-29 Thread join3r
Hi, I run debian unstable and klogd seemed to eat all the CPU. I guessed it was an error in that package so I removed it and installed metalog. But now metalog is eating 100% CPU. There is no excessive logging going on as i can see in syslog so I see no reason why it should eat so much CPU. pl

Re: Hi Can I tell root mail (from Cron) to go Elseware?

2005-09-29 Thread Maurits van Rees
On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 02:32:21AM -0400, Fred OGrady wrote: > I would like to send these messages to my gmail account instead. any > ideas? If you want *all* mail for root to go somewhere else then edit the file /etc/aliases. Find the line that starts with 'root:' or add that line if that doesn'

virtual package? aptitude says "not a real package".

2005-09-29 Thread furufuru
Hello all, aptitude sometimes says some package is "not a real package". For instance: $ aptitude show emacs-dl-wnn Package: emacs-dl-wnn State: not a real package When I try to install such a package using "aptitude install", nothing is installed. Could someone tell me what this is

Re: Add USB Mouse, lose keyboard

2005-09-29 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Mike McCarty wrote: Some time back I posted a message requesting help with an unusual problem with a Debian installation. I installed a USB mouse to replace a PS/2 style mouse, and the PS/2 style keyboard seems not to be recognized any longer. The machine in question is dual boot to Debian (defau

testing & stable: vanished packages?

2005-09-29 Thread furufuru
Hi all, I'm wondering why some packages aren't available for the testing distribution. For example, I wanted to install apcalc (in the math section) but learned that it's available only for the unstable and stable distributions, not for the testing. (I searched at http://www.debian.org .) When s

Re: [OT] Drawing a rectangle with Gimp

2005-09-29 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Žáček Kryštof wrote: This is not just your first impression. GIMP sucks even after long term usage in terms of usability - windows scattered over the whole desktop, overlapped toolbox windows, incredibly stupid archane file dialog, the gtk slowness etc.. However, there is a hope: the KDE's Kri

gnome upgrade in testing

2005-09-29 Thread Rick Pasotto
'apt-get upgrade' is holding back lots of gnome programs. When I go to manually install them apt-get wants to remove some programs. Could someone explain to me why it wants to remove 'capplets' while at the same time upgrading 'capplets-data'? -- "If a thousand men were not to pay their tax bills

Re: testing & stable: vanished packages?

2005-09-29 Thread Joseph Haig
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm wondering why some packages aren't available for > the testing distribution. For example, I wanted to > install apcalc (in the math section) but learned that > it's available only for the unstable and stable > distributions, not for the testing. (I

problema mouse usb

2005-09-29 Thread roberto
hello, when i plug-in my usb cable for the mouse i get the following messages in /var/log/messages: ### Sep 29 05:33:38 me kernel: usb 1-1: new low speed USB device using address 3 Sep 29 05:33:39 me usb.agent[6107]: usbhid: already loaded Sep 29 05:

Re: broken kdm/kde

2005-09-29 Thread Roger Creasy
I gave up and rebuilt. I download the iso for the latest stable net install cd. I am now up and running again. I really want to install Rosegarden. Does anyone have experience with Rosegarden that can tell me how to avoids the problems that I had previously? TIA Roger

Re: testing & stable: vanished packages?

2005-09-29 Thread Carl Fink
On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 02:14:16AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > When sarge became the stable distribution, I read > that initially the stable and testing distributions > are the same but that packages in the testing keep > upgraded, if I remember correctly. If that's so, > some packages in t

Re: Checking `bindshell'... INFECTED (PORTS: 3049)

2005-09-29 Thread Jon Dowland
On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 09:21:49AM +0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > (By the way , "# telnet localhost 3049" returns "conection refused") > Of course , i am ashamed , but why this takes place ? It may not be bound on the loopback interface. Try lsof -i:3049; maybe it's only binding on your extern

FTP server setup help required

2005-09-29 Thread Radhika
Hi,    We are planning to implement pro FTP server and we need a web interface for our support group so that they can create users and check the disk usage of users limit.    Can some one help me for this features this FTP software is useful or not.Is there any webinterface tool to do all the funct

Re: broken kdm/kde

2005-09-29 Thread Roger Creasy
I am a newbie, but that was what intuition told me :) So, any ideas how I could install Rosegarden without the system problems? Obviously Rosegarden is making some change to my OS Roger

Re: FTP server setup help required

2005-09-29 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 03:29:05AM -0700, Radhika wrote: > Hi, > > We are planning to implement pro FTP server and we need a web interface for > our support group so that they can create users and check the disk usage of > users limit. > > Can some one help me for this features this FTP sof

RE: tar backup ok but restore errors w/ scsi dat dds2

2005-09-29 Thread Ken Walker
File system limits don't apply to tape drives because there seen by the system as a black hole, it's a serial stream rather than a file system. Your only limit is the capacity of the drive. :o) > -Original Message- > From: Ralph Eagle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 27 September 2005 2:

Home network

2005-09-29 Thread Roger Creasy
I just reinstalled the latest sarge stable. Prior to the reinstall, I could browse my home network (including a couple of windows boxes). I am using KDE. I an used to clicking on the Home icon and seeing my network there, now I do not. The configuration tools that I used on my prior install are no

Re: virtual package? aptitude says "not a real package".

2005-09-29 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 01:54:26AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello all, > > aptitude sometimes says some package is "not a real package". > For instance: > > $ aptitude show emacs-dl-wnn > Package: emacs-dl-wnn > State: not a real package > > When I try to install such a pac

Re: broken kdm/kde

2005-09-29 Thread michael
On Thu, 2005-09-29 at 11:57 +0100, Antony Gelberg wrote: > Roger Creasy wrote: > > I am a newbie, but that was what intuition told me :) > > > > So, any ideas how I could install Rosegarden without the system > > problems? Obviously Rosegarden is making some change to my OS > > > > Roger > >

cpufreqd: ondemand

2005-09-29 Thread Hanspeter Roth
Hello, I have an /etc/cpufreqd.conf that makes /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/cpuinfo_cur_freq go to 60 on Mandriva if the system is idle. However the same configuration on Debian makes it go to 150 that is full speed if the system is idle. Kernel is 2.6.8-2-686. Why does the same c

RE: Re: [OT] Drawing a rectangle with Gimp

2005-09-29 Thread Žáček Kryštof
Good joke ! XPAINT looks even worse than GIMP :-) http://freshmeat.net/screenshots/12076/12077/ http://www.koffice.org/krita/ > -Original Message- > From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hugo Vanwoerkom > Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2005 11:21 AM > To: debian-user@lists.deb

permissions below /dev/ across reboots

2005-09-29 Thread Hanspeter Roth
Hello, How does one set the permission of /dev/net/tun so that they remain across reboots? I guess it has something to do with /etc/udev/permissions.rules. But there is no manpage on permissions.rules. -Hanspeter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". T

Sound on Opliplex GX150

2005-09-29 Thread mulvihill
Hello, Does anyone have onboard sound working on a Dell Optiplex GX150? Mine is completely mute apart from the PC speaker. (It also has no sound in Windows so this could be a hardware problem.) I am running testing, with the 2.6.12-1-686 kernel, and have tried both OSS and Alsa. With alsa-base in

proftpd using nobody user with /bin/sh ?

2005-09-29 Thread micobros
Hello,   Proftpd is launched with user nobody. I was wondering why this user had to have a default shell set to /bin/sh. Is there any reason for that? Can I modify it to /bin/false? Is it a security problem to have a service like Proftpd (running standalone) running with the default shel

Re: Debian Installation with a Redhat kernel/drivers

2005-09-29 Thread Adam Garside
On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 01:17:03PM +0200, Madl Alfred - Together AT wrote: > Just want to inform that we have successfully installed Debian Sarge 3.1r0a > (32 Bit, 64 Bit AMD64/EM64T will follow next days) on an IBM x345 with QLogic > SAN adapters (no local disks) and on an IBM x460 with QLogic S

How to enable SNMP TCP/Ip input/output counters

2005-09-29 Thread Joost Kraaijeveld
Hi, Is it possible to use SNMP for viewing 1.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1.10.1 (out ethernet) en 1.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1.16.1 (in ethernet) on a Debian Sarge based router? If so, what else should I do besides "apt-get install snmp snmpd"? It looks to me that none of the MIBS in /usr/share/snmp/mibs are used? --

Re: FTP server setup help required

2005-09-29 Thread Radhika
Hi,   Thanks for your reply. I have checked the proftpd with webmin module.This will provide only creating user as system accounts not as virtual users and how to check the user usage using this webmin module.Is there any other tool to give proftp easily.   Thanks for your help"Roberto C. Sanchez"

Re: Checking `bindshell'... INFECTED (PORTS: 3049)

2005-09-29 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello *, On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 11:12:27AM +0100, Jon Dowland wrote: > On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 09:21:49AM +0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Bug in the chkrootkit or in the cfs ? > > Killing cfsd makes report clear,but i suppose it is not a solution . > > chkrootkit, but I'm not sure a false po

Re: [OT] Drawing a rectangle with Gimp

2005-09-29 Thread James Vahn
gr wrote: > It's a pity people have to ask around before they can > draw a rectangle with a graphics program. I had the > same question. I'm wondering how the question resulted in Gimp for an answer.. Gimp wasn't exactly designed for drawing. You want a vector drawing program of some kind. so

Re: compiling non-initrd 2.6 kernel?

2005-09-29 Thread Jan Schledermann
Bruno Buys wrote: >> > Hi, Matt, > I'm booting of an ide disk. Nelson castillo remembered me to add support > to it as built-in. I checked my .config and yes, the drivers were > modules. So, I'm compiling again. > More news to come... > thanks Matt, William and Nelson. Which filesystem do you us

Re: WiFi Problems (It doesn't work properly)

2005-09-29 Thread Jan Schledermann
David R. Litwin wrote: > What else should I be doing? I'm convinced that I have missed out a step; > or put in some too many. But what? > > I thank you kindly in advance. > > -- > ?A watched bread-crumb never boils. > ?My hover-craft is full of eels. > ?[...]and that's the he and the she of it

Re: compiling non-initrd 2.6 kernel?

2005-09-29 Thread Bruno Buys
Hi Jan and all, Last try still didn´t work. I have support for ide disk and reiserfs definately built-in. The new information is that, a bit before the panic message, I could see the kernel detecting my ide devices, with some 'hda:', 'hdc:' and 'hdd:' output, which makes believe the probl

Re: compiling non-initrd 2.6 kernel?

2005-09-29 Thread Joseph H. Fry
On Thu, 2005-09-29 at 11:02 -0300, Bruno Buys wrote: > Hi Jan and all, > Last try still didn´t work. I have support for ide disk and reiserfs > definately built-in. The new information is that, a bit before the panic > message, I could see the kernel detecting my ide devices, with some >

RE: cpufreqd: ondemand

2005-09-29 Thread Florian Dorpmueller
Hello, I have an /etc/cpufreqd.conf that makes /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/cpuinfo_cur_freq go to 60 on Mandriva if the system is idle. However the same configuration on Debian makes it go to 150 that is full speed if the system is idle. Kernel is 2.6.8-2-686. Why does the same c

one more equivs problem

2005-09-29 Thread Natalie
Hello, Martin! I am trying to create a dummy mail package, using equivs. the error message: dh_installchangelogs parsechangelog/debian: error: badly formatted trailer line, at changelog line 5 dh_installchangelogs: changelog parse failure make: *** [binary-arch] Error 1 Error during the build

gap in sound device numbering

2005-09-29 Thread Sebastian Seifert
Hello, in my PC there is a single on-board sound card that works great using ALSA and OSS emulation where necessary. The sound card is card 0 for alsa. I have a bluetooth headset as well. Whenever I attach the bluetooth headset, a new ALSA device for it is created, but it gets the device number 2

Re: Sarge - postfix/saslauthd issues

2005-09-29 Thread Roman Gaufman
I was stuck with this for the last 2 days, you're a life saver! Wish the maintainers would take your comments into practice and re-release the packages as it is indeed far too complicated and virtually undocumented. The thing I was stuck on is I saw smtp.conf on various sites and created mine in

Re: compiling non-initrd 2.6 kernel?

2005-09-29 Thread Jan Schledermann
Bruno Buys wrote: >>>Hi, Matt, >>>I'm booting of an ide disk. Nelson castillo remembered me to add support >>>to it as built-in. I checked my .config and yes, the drivers were >>>modules. So, I'm compiling again. >>>More news to come... >>>thanks Matt, William and Nelson. >>> >>> >> >>Which f

Use Debian system as a RIP

2005-09-29 Thread Peter King
Is there a way of using a Debian system as a RIP. I have a client that has just been quoted by Xerox £11500 for a Fiery EX12 Raster Image Processor the system is only a PIII-500 with 256MB RAM and a 9GB HDD so I am thinking of putting together a nice hefty system and use Debian instead. Appare

Re: Sarge - postfix/saslauthd issues

2005-09-29 Thread Steve Block
On Sat, Jul 09, 2005 at 05:36:49AM -0500, BJ Dierkes wrote: PROBLEM 1: The first problem is is that Postfix can't connect to the saslauthd socket. The reason appears to be because it is running in a chroot environment (by default) and the socket is outside of the jail by default. These w

Debian GNU/Darwin

2005-09-29 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
Hello All, I read sometime back about Debian GNU/OpenSolaris idea. Looked great. Mac OSX's open source version, Darwin, Does it qualify under DFSG ? If yes, could we have a Debian GNU/Darwin port ? And even if Apple's Darwin doesn't qualify, GNU-Darwin would definitely will. Why don't we try to

Re: Use Debian system as a RIP

2005-09-29 Thread David Goodenough
On Thursday 29 September 2005 15:34, Peter King wrote: > Is there a way of using a Debian system as a RIP. > > I have a client that has just been quoted by Xerox £11500 for a Fiery EX12 > Raster Image Processor > > the system is only a PIII-500 with 256MB RAM and a 9GB HDD so I am thinking > of put

Re: compiling non-initrd 2.6 kernel?

2005-09-29 Thread Bruno Buys
Hi Jan, So here is some more to look for: Are the following block devices compiled into your kernel: IDE, BLK_IDE, BLK_DEVB_IDEDISK, IDE_GENERIC, BLK_DEV_IDEPCI, BLK_DEV_GENERIC, BLK_DEV_IDEDMA_PCI, IDEDMA_PCI_AUTO + the driver for the chipset used in your pc? You mention

Re: newbie boot question

2005-09-29 Thread Jim Woodward
Mike McCarty wrote: Jim Woodward wrote: michael wrote: michael wrote: On Mon, 2005-09-26 at 12:20 -0400, Jim Woodward wrote: How do I retrieve the messages that I see when booting? dmesg does not have all the information. I'm using kernel 2.6.13.2 Thanks Obviously, there are some mess

what the least installation of Debian

2005-09-29 Thread hamidreza alipour
I want to install Debian linux but my bandwidth is not enough. I want to know what the least installation of debian is and where i can find it? thanks friends __ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBS

Re: Re: Debian Installation with a Redhat kernel/drivers

2005-09-29 Thread Madl Alfred - Together AT
Hi ! Did you really succeed with "bootcd" ? We never managed to be able to boot from the created CD successfully..."missing /dev/console"...kernel panic... How did you start a standard Debian installer from a CD created with "bootcd" ? Or do you also have local disks in your blades ? Does IBM su

Re: proftpd using nobody user with /bin/sh ?

2005-09-29 Thread Paolo Pantaleo
2005/9/29, micobros <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > Hello, > > > > Proftpd is launched with user nobody. I was wondering why this user had to > have a default shell set to /bin/sh. Is there any reason for that? Can I > modify it to /bin/false? Is it a security problem to have a service like > Proftpd

Re: what the least installation of Debian

2005-09-29 Thread michael
On Thu, 2005-09-29 at 08:21 -0700, hamidreza alipour wrote: > I want to install Debian linux but my bandwidth is not > enough. > I want to know what the least installation of debian > is and where i can find it? > thanks friends to get started, download the netinst ISO image http://www.debian.org/

Re: newbie boot question

2005-09-29 Thread michael
On Thu, 2005-09-29 at 11:15 -0400, Jim Woodward wrote: > Mike McCarty wrote: > > Jim Woodward wrote: > > > >> michael wrote: > >> > michael wrote: > > > On Mon, 2005-09-26 at 12:20 -0400, Jim Woodward wrote: > > > > > >> How do I retrieve the messages that I see when boot

Re: Howto start X in a default resolution?

2005-09-29 Thread Ralph Katz
On 09/28/2005 10:31 AM, Pep Serrano wrote: > Hi lists. I am trying to setup an X server with KDM on a laptop which has > wide screen format (1280x768) and normal screen (1280x1024) when connected > to an external monitor. > But I don't get to configure the wide screen format as the default one. >

Re: compiling non-initrd 2.6 kernel?

2005-09-29 Thread Nelson Castillo
> Do you run a non-initrd kernel yourself? Yup. Don't forget to add support for your chipset (VIA, SiS, etc). Regards. -- Homepage : http://geocities.com/arhuaco The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool. -- Richard Feynman.

upgrading to etch after installing sarge

2005-09-29 Thread Andy Streich
Hi, Just installed sarge on a P4 box, then ran synaptic and upgraded to etch during which I got this: * Configuring debconf * unpacking replacement locales * preparing to replace 2.3.2.dsl-22 (using libc6_2.3.5-i386.deb) * [snip] * Name Service Switch update in C Library... * [snip] * gdm

Re: compiling non-initrd 2.6 kernel?

2005-09-29 Thread Jan Schledermann
Bruno Buys wrote: > I did remove the initrd mention in lilo.conf, and rerun it. About these > other block devices and msdos partition, I can´t tell right now, but as > soon as I get back home, I´ll check it (i´m eager to, actually). > Do you run a non-initrd kernel yourself? > > > bruno > >

Missing Printer Drivers, can't connect to print server

2005-09-29 Thread Smugzilla
I'm trying to set up a shared printer connected to my server's parallel port. So far I can get the WinXP box in my network to print using samba, but I also have a client running debian AMD64 2.6.12 and that one has turned into a huge hassle. Right now I'd like to connect to the server (also run

Re: Re: Debian Installation with a Redhat kernel/drivers

2005-09-29 Thread Adam Garside
On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 05:21:07PM +0200, Madl Alfred - Together AT wrote: > Alfred I replied off-list before I saw this. If you want to post my off-list reply back, please do. -- asg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECT

sarge wireless config

2005-09-29 Thread Ganeshram Iyer
Hello Debian experts, I have sarge installed on a dell inspiron 5000 and everything works (I think), but i have one problem trying to get the pcmcia netgear wireless card to work on the first attempt. it works and works fine just not on the first/second/third attempt. i have to go through the follo

Re: sarge wireless config

2005-09-29 Thread Adam Garside
On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 12:23:23PM -0500, Ganeshram Iyer wrote: > I was wondering what i am missing to get this to work in the first > attempt? it does eventually works after mostly the third attempt but > never the 1st. any help that you can provide would be most helpful. Instead of manually usin

Re: Use Debian system as a RIP

2005-09-29 Thread Joerg Rossdeutscher
Hi, Am Donnerstag, den 29.09.2005, 16:29 +0100 schrieb David Goodenough: > No, a RIP takes Postscript and turns it into a Raster image. It does much > what GhostScript does, but directly to a bitmap which gets fed to the > laser on the printer. It is also highly unlikely that you have the necess

Re: sarge wireless config

2005-09-29 Thread Thore Senneset
[Ganeshram Iyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>] | Hello Debian experts, | I have sarge installed on a dell inspiron 5000 and everything works (I | think), but i have one problem trying to get the pcmcia netgear | wireless card to work on the first attempt. it works and works fine | just not on the first/seco

Re: cpufreqd: ondemand

2005-09-29 Thread Hanspeter Roth
On Sep 29 at 14:20, Florian Dorpmueller spoke: > If you are able to understand german, I can recommend to have a look at > http://www.debianforum.de/wiki/?page=P4DynamischTakten. Furthermore I > propose to use the ondemand governor. Yes, I understand German. Thank you for the link! It seems

500 million Linux laptops in next year

2005-09-29 Thread Don Jackson
Interesting article on BBC news: ** Sub-$100 laptop design unveiled ** Nicholas Negroponte of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), outlines blueprints for a sub-$100 PC. < http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/2/hi/technology/4292854.stm > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: GRUB woes (install to hde)

2005-09-29 Thread Mike McCarty
Alvin Oga wrote: hiya matt On Wed, 28 Sep 2005, Matt Price wrote: I'm trying desperately to install grub on an auxiliary hard drive currently living on the 3rd IDE bus (/dev/hde). do you know if your motherboard can boot from /dev/hde ?? - not all bios/mb supports booting from off-

Re: upgrading to etch after installing sarge

2005-09-29 Thread valdyn
you could pin udev to whatever version you have from sarge or you could grab a 2.6.12 kernel image from sid and install that one. Example(s) for pinning to some version are in 'man apt_preferences'. cheers, flo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tr

Re: compiling non-initrd 2.6 kernel?

2005-09-29 Thread Bruno Buys
Hi again Jan and all, Very thanks, my custom 2.6.12-5 won't panic now! I'm happy :) The only issue left is usb transfer: I can't compile a kernel that will upload files to my mp3 usb player as fast as the 2.6.8 k7 debian stock. Using the k7 I get ~800kbps, but my customs only do ~90kbps. Anyway

disable password authentication with openssh

2005-09-29 Thread Matthew Lenz
I want my users to only be able to ssh into the system using public key authentication. I can't seem to locate which option i need to toggle to only allow pubkey auth. -Matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: disable password authentication with openssh

2005-09-29 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 02:44:58PM -0500, Matthew Lenz wrote: > I want my users to only be able to ssh into the system using public key > authentication. I can't seem to locate which option i need to toggle to > only allow pubkey auth. > In /etc/ssh/sshd_config: RSAAuthentication yes PubkeyAuthe

Re: Use Debian system as a RIP

2005-09-29 Thread Aaron Maxwell
Hi Peter, On Thursday 29 September 2005 07:34 am, Peter King wrote: > Is there a way of using a Debian system as a RIP. > I have a client that has just been quoted by Xerox £11500 for a Fiery > EX12 Raster Image Processor > the system is only a PIII-500 with 256MB RAM and a 9GB HDD so I am > think

bayesian filter training question

2005-09-29 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
So, I finally decided to get with the 20th century and install spamassassin (acutally spampd hooked through postfix) to do site-wide spam filtering for my server. My question is this. As I am training it with sa-learn, is it (good|bad|indifferent) to train it on spam that has already been flagged

Re: disable password authentication with openssh

2005-09-29 Thread Matthew Lenz
On Thu, 2005-09-29 at 15:46 -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 02:44:58PM -0500, Matthew Lenz wrote: > > I want my users to only be able to ssh into the system using public key > > authentication. I can't seem to locate which option i need to toggle to > > only allow pub

Virüs Uyarisi! (Virus Notification!)

2005-09-29 Thread ANTIGEN_TJKEXCH
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Re: disable password authentication with openssh

2005-09-29 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
On Thu, 2005-09-29 at 14:44 -0500, Matthew Lenz wrote: > I want my users to only be able to ssh into the system using public key > authentication. I can't seem to locate which option i need to toggle to > only allow pubkey auth. hmmm. perhaps commenting some lines out in /etc/pam.d/ssh -matt zag

Re: disable password authentication with openssh

2005-09-29 Thread Greg Norris
On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 03:46:42PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > RSAAuthentication yes > PubkeyAuthentication yes > PasswordAuthentication no Don't forget "UsePAM no" and "ChallengeResponseAuthentication no". signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: disable password authentication with openssh

2005-09-29 Thread Matthew Lenz
it looks like ChallengeResponseAuthentication no by itself works correctly. you still think usePam no is needed? On Thu, 2005-09-29 at 15:34 -0500, Greg Norris wrote: > On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 03:46:42PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > RSAAuthentication yes > > PubkeyAuthentication yes > > P

Re: Question about samba setup in Sarge

2005-09-29 Thread Aaron Maxwell
On Monday 26 September 2005 03:10 pm, Paul E Condon wrote: > I am attempting to create a samba server on a Sarge box > using pure Debian. I am looking at the /etc/samba/smb.conf > > I cannot find a file, ENCRYPTION.txt, on my computer or as part of > any of the packages that I installed. Where can

Re: GRUB woes (install to hde)

2005-09-29 Thread Alvin Oga
On Thu, 29 Sep 2005, Mike McCarty wrote: > > it'd be pointless to install the grub mbr on /dev/hde if it cannot boot > > Umm, no, what he's doing is perfectly reasonable. if doesn't work ... one should figure out technically why it will not work - some bios will NTO let you boot from

Re: testing & stable: vanished packages?

2005-09-29 Thread furufuru
Antony Gelberg wrote: [...] > apcalc isn't in testing as it has an RC bug (read: serious problem). > > http://bjorn.haxx.se/debian/testing.pl?package=apcalc Thanks for the info! This webpage (entitled "Why is package X not in testing yet?") seems very useful. But, why then isn't the older packag

simplified -- Re: GRUB woes (install to hde)

2005-09-29 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya OP if you are doing your magic on /dev/hde and want to make it a bootable device as /dev/hda on another PC - let's assume you have /dev/hda ( hd0 ) and your clone /dev/hde ( hd1 ) - note and understand the grub terminology - also "cat /boot/grub/device.map"

RE: proftpd using nobody user with /bin/sh ?

2005-09-29 Thread micobros
Paolo sayed : "The daemon do not start a shell (that is started when the user login)." Ok, but i don't want ftp users to have any kind of access to shells, just pure ftp connexions, that's all. Should I remove in /bin/sh for user nobody in /etc/password? Mico. -Original Message- From: P

Re: GRUB woes (install to hde)

2005-09-29 Thread Mike McCarty
Alvin Oga wrote: On Thu, 29 Sep 2005, Mike McCarty wrote: it'd be pointless to install the grub mbr on /dev/hde if it cannot boot Umm, no, what he's doing is perfectly reasonable. if doesn't work ... one should figure out technically why it will not work - some bios will NTO let

Re: [OT] Drawing a rectangle with Gimp

2005-09-29 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
g r wrote: It's a pity people have to ask around before they can draw a rectangle with a graphics program. I had the same question. I haven't come across a less intuitive windows program than GIMP. I know I am commenting based on my quick first impression and criticizing a free tool. But what go

can't install postgresql

2005-09-29 Thread Csanyi Pal
Hello! Debian Sarge Before two month I play with jackd and Rosegarden with no success. Before that I have installed postgresql. Then I remove postgresql for some reason. Later I will to install again postgresql, but get the error message: Preconfiguring packages ... /tmp/postgresql.config.36411:

Re: upgrading to etch after installing sarge

2005-09-29 Thread Andy Streich
On Thursday 29 September 2005 12:11, valdyn wrote: > you could pin udev to whatever version you have from sarge or you could > grab a 2.6.12 kernel image from sid and install that one. Example(s) for > pinning to some version are in 'man apt_preferences'. Thanks. I've pinned udev. Any hint on ho

counting bandwidth usage

2005-09-29 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Very trivial question. I have two machines workA, homeB. Let's say I am sitting at workA and run an nxclient session to connect to homeB. Now in this homeB session, I open a konsole and download 1GB file (using wget). Will this be counted as network traffic of 1GB on homeB or network traffic of

Re: cpufreqd: ondemand

2005-09-29 Thread Florian Dorpmueller
> If you are able to understand german, I can recommend to have a look at > http://www.debianforum.de/wiki/?page=P4DynamischTakten. Furthermore I > propose to use the ondemand governor. Yes, I understand German. Thank you for the link! It seems that the `ondemand' governor is available only in 2

Re: GRUB woes (install to hde)

2005-09-29 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya mike - how about you let the orginal poster ask questions and/or present real problems he's facing ?? - sme of your comments are contradcitory to those your stated earlier or later in within the context of just this emails - making clones of xxx into another disk is trivial or com

Two upstream connections

2005-09-29 Thread Tim
Does anybody have a simple script for two upstream connections? I have ADSL as primary and wireless as backup. I don't need load balance just an active/backup scenario (with automatic failover). The DSL has dynamic IP via DHCP the wireless can use either static IP or DHCP. The intranet runs NAT.

Re: GRUB woes (install to hde)

2005-09-29 Thread Mike McCarty
Alvin Oga wrote: hi ya mike - how about you let the orginal poster ask questions and/or present real problems he's facing ?? Umm, you do have the horse before the cart. You were the one who chose to respond to me rather than the OP. You asked the questions of me, rather than the OP. That is

netkit-inetd vs. inetutils-inetd

2005-09-29 Thread Carlos Rodrigues
Hi! I'm wondering what's the difference between the netkit-inetd and inetutil-inetd packages... Debian (sarge) installs netkit-inetd by default, but if one does a "apt-get install inetd", inetutils-inetd is proposed for installation instead. The descriptions for both packages are terse at

Re: disable password authentication with openssh

2005-09-29 Thread Greg Norris
On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 03:42:28PM -0500, Matthew Lenz wrote: > it looks like ChallengeResponseAuthentication no by itself works > correctly. you still think usePam no is needed? I think it depends on the OpenSSH version. IIRC, there are (were?) a number of entries in the BTS which indicate tha

Re: annoying eog warnings

2005-09-29 Thread Almut Behrens
On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 11:26:32AM +0900, Miles Bader wrote: > When I run "eog" to view an image, it always outputs some warnings: > >$ LANG=C eog ../images/image73-s1280x1024-a3-Ftriang-g1.8.png >** (eog:5433): WARNING **: Failed to lock: No locks available >** (eog:5433): WARNING **

Re: sarge wireless config

2005-09-29 Thread Ganeshram Iyer
On 9/29/05, Thore Senneset <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | iwconfig eth0 essid test mode managed key on enc 11 > | ifup eth0 (this sometimes says eth0 is already configured and quits) > | ifconfig (did it work) > Why not smack the whole thing in /etc/network/interfaces (assum

Re: Use Debian system as a RIP

2005-09-29 Thread Aaron Maxwell
Oops, in the second paragraph of my reply, "ps2pdf" should be "pdf2ps". -Aaron On Thursday 29 September 2005 12:46 pm, Aaron Maxwell wrote: > If it really is that simple (I have no experience with RIPs), then a > Debian system might work. The conversion would be done with the > pdf2ps tool (man p

Re: counting bandwidth usage

2005-09-29 Thread Almut Behrens
On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 06:14:41PM -0400, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > Very trivial question. I have two machines workA, homeB. Let's say I am > sitting at workA and run an nxclient session to connect to homeB. Now in > this homeB session, I open a konsole and download 1GB file (using wget). > W

root cannot su to normal user now

2005-09-29 Thread Wang Xu
Hi All, I have 2 linux computer, one is running testing, and the other is running unstable. Now the sid one cannot use `su' to change from root to any user, including itself. cannot su - xx cannot su xx cannot su xx -c 'command' but the 'su -c' is improtant for the acpid script for the button o

just wanna switch the menu.lst for grub in the mbr to read

2005-09-29 Thread BUYO-BUYO-IGOR
have DeMuDi(Sarge) in one partition had Slackware in another installed plain Sarge to that another one was happy with the grub in mbr which searches for he menu.lst in the /boot/grub of that plain Sarge but now am willing to bring back Slack again to where that menu.lst is so i want grub to look

keyboard problems with PowerBook 3400c

2005-09-29 Thread Paul Scott
Got no responses on Debian-PowerPC Where can I learn how to deal with missing standard keys on PB 3400 keyboard? How do I do Shift-PageUp, Home and End (in places where Ctrl-A and Ctrl-E won't work)? How do I middle-click to paste? TIA for any help, Paul Scott -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

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