ot (Re: levels of expertise on software usage)

2006-11-16 Thread Oleg Verych
On 2006-11-15, Chris Bannister wrote: > Aunt Tilly -- someone who hasn't used/seen a computer. I saw such one ! On request to lift up mouse (meaining pointer on the screen) she lifted up mouse device over the table ;D. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsub

RE: Reporting brute force ssh login attempts

2006-11-16 Thread Debeselis
Hi, Another cool option is to use knock daemon. With it I have ssh access disabled and when I need to get it - I send special packet sequence and doors magicaly opens:) > -Original Message- > From: Peter Colton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2006 9:58 PM > To:

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

2006-11-16 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 15 Nov 2006, Wayne Topa wrote: > J.A. de Vries([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > Hi, > > To be honest I don't know what to do next. I really want to backup my mail, > > but cannot because of this problem. To solve the problem I need to remove > > the > > file, but when I do try s

Acquire::Retries in apt.conf

2006-11-16 Thread Steven Van Acker
Hi, When I run apt-get update on my sarge installation, I sometimes get "connection reset by peer" on a file from security.debian.org. Sometimes I have to retry "apt-get update" about 20 times before all the repository lists are in and I can upgrade. There is an option in APT called APT::Acquire:

Re: [OT] M$ collaborates with Suse

2006-11-16 Thread Steve Lamb
Stephen Yorke wrote: > To each their own BUT... But nothing. > Now look at 2003...it is rock solid in my thoughts unless you are > looking at the WWW/HTML/.NET patches which were released recently but > then again if you are looking at those and saying the OS is unsecure you > must be running

proftpd package

2006-11-16 Thread Erwin Ambrosch|XHOSTPLUS
Hi all, I got an announcement related to a security issue in proftpd 1.3.x. The issue is as follows: --- Evgeny Legerov has reported a vulnerability in ProFTPD, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system. The vulnerability is caused due to an

RE: Reporting brute force ssh login attempts

2006-11-16 Thread Debeselis
Hi, Another cool option is to use knock daemon. With it I have ssh access disabled and when I need to get it - I send special packet sequence and doors magicaly opens:) > -Original Message- > From: Peter Colton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2006 9:58 PM > To:

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

2006-11-16 Thread J.A. de Vries
On 2006-11-15 @ 17:47:40 (week 46) Greg Folkert wrote: > On Wed, 2006-11-15 at 15:02 +, J.A. de Vries wrote: > [...snip...] > > #--- > > # cd ~/Maildir/.Applications.\[vim\]/cur > > # ls 1141914051.* > > ls: > > 11419

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

2006-11-16 Thread J.A. de Vries
On 2006-11-15 @ 19:16:00 (week 46) Wayne Topa wrote: > Been there, done that. Now when I come across a file the is there but > isn't, I run mc. If it's really there, mc will remove it. Hi Wayne, Well then, that convinced me the problem is to be found at a lower level. mc listed the file with a

Re: Found a possible bug, but not sure of the package

2006-11-16 Thread Léonard Wauters
Hello, In the apt-get manpage, it is specified that setting the -y option makes apt-get to run in non-interactive mode. It seems that it is not enough for ucf to work well in non-interactive mode. Do you think I have to open a bug for the ucf package or not ? Léo. Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:

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

2006-11-16 Thread J.A. de Vries
On 2006-11-15 @ 22:27:03 (week 46) Mike McCarty wrote: > OTOH, something is there. Try using > > # lsof Ah, hadn't thought of lsof or fuser yet. Good reminder, thanks! I tried both but lsof didn't list the file as being used and fuser couldn't find the file at all ("No such file or directory").

Re: Mount ext2/ext3 as specific user at system start?

2006-11-16 Thread Wackojacko
Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: On Wednesday 15 November 2006 20:48, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 08:28:27PM -0500, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: So your sample line in /etc/fstab will look like /dev/sda1 /home/user/partition autouser,auto,exec 0 0 The above

too new phpmyadmin security update

2006-11-16 Thread Serban Udrea
Hello! After one of the latest updates I made on a debian sarge box I got the following version of phpmyadmin: 2.6.2-3sarge3 Nevertheless, the latest security advisory regarding phpmyadmin i received by email mentions just version: 2.6.2-3sarge2 and there was also nothing to find about ve

Re: Mount ext2/ext3 as specific user at system start?

2006-11-16 Thread Wackojacko
Wackojacko wrote: Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: On Wednesday 15 November 2006 20:48, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 08:28:27PM -0500, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: So your sample line in /etc/fstab will look like /dev/sda1 /home/user/partition autouser,auto,exec 0

Re: Installing Debian

2006-11-16 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Philippe Faure wrote: > I was wondering, instead of burning a CD for a one time install. Was there > a way to copy the minimal files (OS, and networking) to a floppy disk and > then run the rest of the install from there? This would > 1- not require to burn a CD to install Debian > 2- You woudl dow

test, please ignore

2006-11-16 Thread Debeselis
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Xkb caps lock behavior

2006-11-16 Thread Bert Verhaeghe
Hi all, I have the following problem. I need to change the keyboard behavior for X with pc105 model and be layout for the CAPS_LOCK key. When CAPS_LOCK is locked, not only the alfanumeric keys (a, z, ..) should produce (A,Z, ...) but also the other keys (&, é, :, =, ...) should produce (1, 2, +,

Indian Divine Books, Cds, Cassettes & Pooja Articles

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Xkb caps lock behavior

2006-11-16 Thread bert_v
Hi all, I have the following problem. I need to change the keyboard behavior for X with pc105 model and be layout for the CAPS_LOCK key. When CAPS_LOCK is locked, not only the alfanumeric keys (a, z, ..) should produce (A,Z, ...) but also the other keys (&, é, :, =, ...) should produce (1, 2, +, /

Großes Modelcasting - jetzt als Model bewerben

2006-11-16 Thread NewsTwentyFur
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test2 please ignore

2006-11-16 Thread Debeselis
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brute force ssh login attempts and how to Disrupt them

2006-11-16 Thread Martin McCormick
One day, I noticed one of those attacks starting. What got my attention was the fact that the room was quiet. My head was near the system, and I heard a rhythmic tick-tock coming from the main hard drive, about once per second, sort of like a heartbeat. I got curious and looked in the lo

Re: Installing Debian

2006-11-16 Thread Barney Rubble
On Wed, 15 Nov 2006 21:28:02 -0500 (EST), "Philippe Faure" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I was wondering, instead of burning a CD for a one time install. Was > there > a way to copy the minimal files (OS, and networking) to a floppy disk and > then run the rest of the install from there? This would

mplayer

2006-11-16 Thread Barney Rubble
http://people.debian.org/~mjr/legal/mplayer.html reads: Q. Is mplayer in debian? A. Yes, since Oct 2006. It may be part of the next release Debian 4.0 (codename "etch"). Where? I run etch and don't see it anywhere when in the aptitude lists. Am I missing something? (again :o) My sou

Re: launcher for terminal ap

2006-11-16 Thread Timothy Musson
Mark Grieveson wrote: > >Hi Mark. You might be interested in the gmessage package. [...] It > >includes an example script called gxdict, which acts as quick GUI for > >dict. You'll find gxdict under /usr/share/doc/gmessage/examples/ > Thanks Tim. That sounds interesting. I'll check it out. You

Re: mplayer

2006-11-16 Thread George Borisov
Barney Rubble wrote: > http://people.debian.org/~mjr/legal/mplayer.html > > reads: > > Q. Is mplayer in debian? > > A. Yes, since Oct 2006. It may be part of the next release Debian 4.0 > (codename "etch"). > > > > Where? I run etch and don't see it anywhere when in the aptitude lists. Y

Re: mplayer

2006-11-16 Thread Barney Rubble
Apologies for the hasty post below - I now see that mplayer is available from the "unstable" area. On Thu, 16 Nov 2006 12:46:07 +, "Barney Rubble" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > http://people.debian.org/~mjr/legal/mplayer.html > > reads: > > Q. Is mplayer in debian? > > A. Yes, s

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

2006-11-16 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Martin McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.11.16.1325 +0100]: > I haven't created anything similar for Linux yet or I > would be happy to let folks try it out. Check out the fail2ban package. -- Please do not send copies of list mail to me; I read the list! .''`. martin f.

excessive periodic scsi disk seeks

2006-11-16 Thread Carl Greco
Upgrade from previous (3.0) to current Debian stable (3.1r3) resulted in periodic scsi disk seeks (approximately 1/sec) on a PIII with default kernel Linux version 2.6.8-3-686 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.5-13)) #1 Thu Sep 7 03:38:22 UTC 2006 and with Adaptec 2940U2W

Re: Two network cards - firewall starts twice or more

2006-11-16 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 16.11.06 08:44, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 11:44:48AM +0100, Jarek Buczy?ski wrote: > > PS. > > My firewall logs me all messages to console, it's good idea to set > > KLOGD="-c 4" In /etc/init.d/klogd? > > /etc/sysctl.conf I think that the above (KLOGD="-c 4") is much be

Re: Großes Modelcasting - jetzt als M odel bewerben

2006-11-16 Thread Mike McCarty
NewsTwentyFur wrote: Guten Tag, Ach Schiesse! Jetzt bekommen wir verdammtes deutsche SPAM! Mike -- p="p=%c%s%c;main(){printf(p,34,p,34);}";main(){printf(p,34,p,34);} This message made from 100% recycled bits. You have found the bank of Larn. I can explain it for you, but I can't understand it

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

2006-11-16 Thread hendrik
On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 10:14:00AM +, J.A. de Vries wrote: > On 2006-11-15 @ 22:27:03 (week 46) Mike McCarty wrote: > > > OTOH, something is there. Try using > > > > # lsof > > Ah, hadn't thought of lsof or fuser yet. Good reminder, thanks! > > I tried both but lsof didn't list the file as

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

2006-11-16 Thread hendrik
On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 10:14:00AM +, J.A. de Vries wrote: > > I am gonna do one more thing (looking in /proc for any references to > that file). But at the moment I think that maybe this is some corruption > in the filesystem (ReiserFS). In that case running reiserfsck might > help. I am hopi

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

2006-11-16 Thread Mike McCarty
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 10:14:00AM +, J.A. de Vries wrote: On 2006-11-15 @ 22:27:03 (week 46) Mike McCarty wrote: OTOH, something is there. Try using # lsof Ah, hadn't thought of lsof or fuser yet. Good reminder, thanks! I tried both but lsof didn't list the

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

2006-11-16 Thread hendrik
On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 10:00:31AM +, J.A. de Vries wrote: > On 2006-11-15 @ 19:16:00 (week 46) Wayne Topa wrote: > > > Been there, done that. Now when I come across a file the is there but > > isn't, I run mc. If it's really there, mc will remove it. > > Hi Wayne, > > Well then, that conv

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

2006-11-16 Thread John Hasler
Oleg Verych writes: > I saw such one ! On request to lift up mouse (meaining pointer on the > screen) she lifted up mouse device over the table ;D. Perfectly reasonable interpretation of a very poorly-worded instruction, and more evidence that GUIs are not at all intuitive. -- John Hasler -- T

Re: mini-itx server

2006-11-16 Thread Joao Carlos de Lima Roscoe
Mirco Piccin wrote: I've some problem with usb (i must disable usb on bios..). What kind of problems with USB? I'm asking because I have sporadic problems with ethernet not being properly "activated" on boot (I have one epia 6000ME and one epia 5000, and both show the same sporadic problem).

Re: Found a possible bug, but not sure of the package

2006-11-16 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 11:02:46AM +0100, Léonard Wauters wrote: > Hello, > > In the apt-get manpage, it is specified that setting the -y option makes > apt-get to run in non-interactive mode. > It seems that it is not enough for ucf to work well in non-interactive mode. > > Do you think I have

Re: mysql client fail to start.

2006-11-16 Thread Stephen
On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 10:53:45AM +0700 or thereabouts, Surachai Locharoen wrote: > I use lastest Debian testing. mysql client fail to start. > error message show: > mysql: relocation error: mysql: symbol errno, version GLIBC_2.0 not > defined in file libc.so.6 with link time reference Did you t

Re: mini-itx server

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

Re: Debian Installer etch RC1 released

2006-11-16 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Andreas Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * Roberto C. Sanchez ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [061114 14:58]: >> On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 05:19:13AM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: >> > >> > * The 2.6.17 kernel should support installing from most CD-ROM/DVD >> > drives in systems with a SATA controller. Howe

Re: mini-itx server

2006-11-16 Thread Mirco Piccin
Hi! }} What kind of problems with USB? IT'S VERY STRANGE BEHAVIOUR!!! Well, if i until 3 days ago enabled the usb in CMOS settings: CMOS -> Integrated Peripherals -> OnChip USB -> Enabled i'm getting this error: hub 2-0:1.0: Cannot enable port 1. Maybe the USB cable is bad? It's strange becaus

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

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

Re: mplayer

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

Re: too new phpmyadmin security update

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

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

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

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

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

Re: Großes Modelcasting - jetzt als M odel bewerben

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

Re: Xkb caps lock behavior

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

Re: Großes Modelcasting - jetzt als Model bewerben

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

Re: too new phpmyadmin security update

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

Re: cs4232 soundcard

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

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

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

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

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

script in /etc/rcS.d not running?

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

full boot-up messages

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

Printer hassle

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

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

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

Re: full boot-up messages

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Re: Printer hassle

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

usb drive errors with automount

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

Re: OpenSSL version 0.9.7e ?!

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

Re: OpenSSL version 0.9.7e ?!

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

alsa: no master mixer control

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

Re: OpenSSL version 0.9.7e ?!

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

Re: OpenSSL version 0.9.7e ?!

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

Re: mini-itx server

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

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

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

Re: emacs without documentation nonsense

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Kernel upgrade in debian installer...

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

it catastrophic the moiety

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

Re: mplayer

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

ViewSonic Widescreen and resolution settings

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

NFS Setup/Configuration

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

On notion or ernestine

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

Re: ViewSonic Widescreen and resolution settings

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

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

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

Re: NFS Setup/Configuration

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

Re: full boot-up messages

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

Re: usb drive errors with automount

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

nxclient stopped working

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

Re: Kernel error: DMA write timed out

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

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

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

xscreensaver and DPMS

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

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

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

centralized location for contacts

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

Gnome and KDE menus empty

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

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

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

Re: ViewSonic Widescreen and resolution settings

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

Re: Gnome and KDE menus empty

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

dig

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

Re: dig

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

Re: conky deb?

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

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