Re: Server injection attack

2007-07-10 Thread Mike Bird
On Monday 09 July 2007 22:14, rocky wrote: > Thank you very much for your help! Are you meaning someone has been > controlling our server? Given that your server is attacking other servers, and assuming you yourself are not attacking those other servers, then someone else is running attack softwar

Re: xen, raid and initramfs failure

2007-07-10 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 08:34:02AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007.07.10.0750 +0200]: > > it is indeed what is happening. the local-top/mdadm script sources > > conf/md.conf. That file resets the value of MD_MODULES from stuff > > like "ra

Re: xen, raid and initramfs failure

2007-07-10 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 08:40:46AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007.07.10.0834 +0200]: > > Can I please see your mdadm.conf file and the generated initramfs? > > Please put them somewhere where I can download them instead of > > attaching them to

Re: xen, raid and initramfs failure

2007-07-10 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 08:40:46AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007.07.10.0834 +0200]: > > Can I please see your mdadm.conf file and the generated initramfs? > > Please put them somewhere where I can download them instead of > > attaching them to

Re: RTF - proprietary or open?

2007-07-10 Thread ndemou
On 7/9/07, Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Which brings us back to my original point; why not RTF? It's apparently a fairly open format, and apparently virtually all word processors can read and write it. rtf is NOT OPEN: we have a technical reference but we don't have a license to use it an

Re: xen, raid and initramfs failure

2007-07-10 Thread martin f krafft
On 2007-07-10 07:37, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > patch works. here is set -x output from a domU boot with new initramfs I have reverted the patch and instead put a warning in place: piper:~> sudo update-initramfs -u -k all -t #[314] update-i

Re: icedove 2 uses a lot of bandwidth

2007-07-10 Thread Lorenzo Bettini
Ron Johnson wrote: On 07/07/07 09:31, Lorenzo Bettini wrote: Matthew K Poer wrote: On Saturday 07 July 2007 4:12 am, Lorenzo Bettini wrote: Hi I like the new features of icedove 2 (thunderbird), but when I'm using a 56k modem, I noticed that it uses a lot of bandwidth (especially upon the f

Re: restarting pump (DHCP) automatically when network unavailable at boot time

2007-07-10 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2007-07-03 17:33:46 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > But then, I don't see why I should use 'allow-hotplug eth0' instead of > > 'auto eth0'. > > It is not required to use allow-hotplug but that is the new way of > doing things. The new debian-installer will set things up w

Re: Some ALSA apps stopped working [REALLY SOLVED]

2007-07-10 Thread Chris Lale
Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Fri, Jul 06, 2007 at 19:49:55 +0100, Chris Lale wrote: > > [...] > >> I've now discovered why /dev/dsp disappeared - /dev/dsp is deleted when I run >> alsaconf! This might be related to unreproducible bug #406738: alsa-utils: >> Running alsaconf stops sound card from wo

Re: where is tzconfig ?

2007-07-10 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
On 7/9/07, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> What output do you get when you run this: >> >> dpkg -l libc6\* timezoneconf | awk '/^[^D|+]/{print $1,$2,$3}' >> > > $ dpkg -l libc6\* timezoneconf | awk '/^[^D|+]/{print $1,$2,$3}' > ii libc6 2.5-9+b1 > ii libc6-dbg 2.5-9+b1 > ii libc6-dev

Audio problems

2007-07-10 Thread Barry Samuels
I'm running Debian Testing - up to date as of yesterday and I'm using Kmix. Since I have updated my kernel to 2.6.22 from kernel.org I am having audio problems with the on-board Intel HDA system. Sound output through the speakers is fine but sound from the microphone is dreadful. The only slid

Re: where is tzconfig ?

2007-07-10 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 10:00:47AM +, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > On 7/9/07, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> What output do you get when you run this: > >>> > >>> dpkg -l libc6\* timezoneconf | awk '/^[^D|+]/{print $1,$2,$3}' > >>> > >> > >> $ dpkg -l libc6\* timezoneconf | awk '

Re: RTF - proprietary or open?

2007-07-10 Thread David Baron
On Tuesday 10 July 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Which brings us back to my original point; why not RTF? It's apparently > > a fairly open format, and apparently virtually all word processors can > > read and write it. > > I do not know if it is the format itself, or the limitation of the > ap

[OT] Re: Help buying Economic Printer

2007-07-10 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 ispmarin wrote: > I am looking for a printer with very low per page cost (catridges, > tonners etc) and not very expensive to buy. I dont care if it is laser > or deskjet. Performance is not a issue (it can be slow), and the > quality of the page dont

Re: Qemu and existing windows partition

2007-07-10 Thread David Baron
There is only one virtual machine that can do such a thing and that is Parallels and that on an Intel Mac. This is because both the Mac and Windows OS's have the same hardware installed. Not opensourse. VMs and Emulators (Qemu and VirtualBox are emulators) present their own hardware configurati

Re: where is tzconfig ?

2007-07-10 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
On 7/10/07, Chris Bannister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 10:00:47AM +, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > On 7/9/07, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> What output do you get when you run this: > >>> > >>> dpkg -l libc6\* timezoneconf | awk '/^[^D|+]/{print $1,$2,$3

Re: where is tzconfig ?

2007-07-10 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Mathieu Malaterre wrote: ... > maybe apache2) which I guess pulled the dependencie. Is there a way to > see which package require a newer libc6 than the one in sarge ? Aptitude can do this with the command aptitude search '~i~Dlibc6~V2.5' This searches all installed packages depending on libc6

Re: where is tzconfig ?

2007-07-10 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
Ok installing tzdata from testing (lenny) did work for me. sudo apt-get install -t testing tzdata -Thanks -Mathieu On 7/10/07, Mathieu Malaterre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 7/10/07, Jörg-Volker Peetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > ... > > maybe apache2) which I guess

Re: where is tzconfig ?

2007-07-10 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 13:48:36 +0200, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > ... > > maybe apache2) which I guess pulled the dependencie. Is there a way to > > see which package require a newer libc6 than the one in sarge ? > > Aptitude can do this with the command > > aptitude

Re: where is tzconfig ?

2007-07-10 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 14:05:01 +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 13:48:36 +0200, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: [...] > > aptitude search '~i~Dlibc6~V2.5' [...] > It seems to me that this will find all installed packages > whose version string contains "2.5" and

Re: where is tzconfig ?

2007-07-10 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
On 7/10/07, Jörg-Volker Peetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Mathieu Malaterre wrote: ... > maybe apache2) which I guess pulled the dependencie. Is there a way to > see which package require a newer libc6 than the one in sarge ? Aptitude can do this with the command aptitude search '~i~Dlibc6~V2.

Re: aptitude hanging

2007-07-10 Thread Daniel Burrows
Several people have reported that their problems go away if they remove libc6-i686. I don't know why this should be, but I'd be interested to know if you see the same behavior. Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PR

Re: where is tzconfig ?

2007-07-10 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 12:08:35PM +, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > Ok installing tzdata from testing (lenny) did work for me. > > sudo apt-get install -t testing tzdata You may have trouble going from Sarge -> Lenny like this. Maybe you should upgrade to etch (replace sarge with etch in your s

Re: where is tzconfig ?

2007-07-10 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > On 7/10/07, Jörg-Volker Peetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Mathieu Malaterre wrote: >> ... >> > maybe apache2) which I guess pulled the dependencie. Is there a way to >> > see which package require a newer libc6 than the one in sarge ? >> >> Aptitude can do this with the

Re: Opera is faster, but...

2007-07-10 Thread tejas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Firefox in Windows is faster than Iceweasel/Firefox in Debian and Ubuntu. Firefox in Windows is faster than Swiftfox in Debian/Ubuntu. Firefox in Zenwalk is faster than Iceweasel/Firefox/Swiftfox in Debian.(may be it is because of Zenwalk's low mem usa

Weird problems with laptop hibernate/boot/shutdown

2007-07-10 Thread Victor Munoz
Hello. Since yesterday, several weird events occured with my laptop (Thinkpad T43), and I don't know if I should worry or not. Hope someone else here can help. First thing, yesterday I tried to shut down, but it didn't really turned off. The only unusual thing I can remember is that I had the powe

Re: Server injection attack

2007-07-10 Thread Mike Bird
On Tuesday 10 July 2007 01:23, Zach wrote: > On 7/10/07, Mike Bird <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > He or she will neither boot the drives nor execute any > > program or script on them, for they are all compromised. He or she will > > only read the compromised drives. > > How can I do this? Assume

Re: where is tzconfig ?

2007-07-10 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 14:05:01 +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: >> On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 13:48:36 +0200, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > > [...] > >>> aptitude search '~i~Dlibc6~V2.5' > > [...] > >> It seems to me that this will find all installed packages >>

[debian-user] [OT] Subject Confusion

2007-07-10 Thread Ted Hilts - Thunderbird Acct.
I get hundreds of email a day including email from the Debian List. Nearly all other Linux lists use square brackets to enclose a meaningful word for the list identification. Most everyone in the world uses "Re", "Re ", or "Re:" which is fine when the subject is prefixed with "[List-ID]". I d

Re: where is tzconfig ?

2007-07-10 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > Florian Kulzer wrote: >> On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 14:05:01 +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: >>> On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 13:48:36 +0200, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: >> [...] >> aptitude search '~i~Dlibc6~V2.5' >> [...] >> >>> It seems to me that this will find

Re: [OT] Subject Confusion

2007-07-10 Thread Tom Rauchenwald
"Ted Hilts - Thunderbird Acct." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I get hundreds of email a day including email from the Debian List. [...] > I use (and will continue to use) THUNDERBIRD for Linux, MS, and other > email correspondence. Perhaps someone could suggest how I might bridge > this problem

Re: aptitude hanging

2007-07-10 Thread Alan Ianson
On Mon July 9 2007 07:54, Daniel Burrows wrote: > Several people have reported that their problems go away if they > remove libc6-i686. I don't know why this should be, but I'd be > interested to know if you see the same behavior. It worked in my case. I ran aptitude and removed libc6-i686 and

[debian-user] Subject Confusion

2007-07-10 Thread Ted Hilts
I get hundreds of email a day including email from the Debian List. Nearly all other Linux lists use square brackets to enclose a meaningful word for the list identification. Most everyone in the world uses "Re", "Re ", or "Re:" which is fine when the subject is prefixed with "[List-ID]". I don'

(sftp) Received message too long 540096314

2007-07-10 Thread Pol Hallen
Hi folks, On my server I using debian stable. When I try do sftp [EMAIL PROTECTED], I can insert the password but I see: Received message too long 540096314 How can I resolve this problem? Thanks Pol -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? C

Re: [debian-user] Subject Confusion

2007-07-10 Thread Andrew Saunders
On 7/10/07, Ted Hilts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I don't seem to have a way of filtering the Debian List email from non Debian email because of this Filter based on the "from" address, as opposed to the message subject. Cheers, -- Andrew Saunders -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: [debian-user] Subject Confusion

2007-07-10 Thread Mathias Brodala
Hi Andrew. Andrew Saunders, 10.07.2007 17:40: > On 7/10/07, Ted Hilts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I don't seem to have a way of filtering the Debian List email from non >> Debian email because of this > > Filter based on the "from" address, as opposed to the message subject. You mean the "T

Re: [debian-user] Subject Confusion

2007-07-10 Thread Edward Pasek
On Tue, 2007-07-10 at 09:27 -0600, Ted Hilts wrote: > I get hundreds of email a day including email from the Debian List. > > Nearly all other Linux lists use square brackets to enclose a meaningful > word for the list identification. Most everyone in the world uses "Re", > "Re ", or "Re:" which

Re: need good file explorer

2007-07-10 Thread Michael Pobega
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Jul 08, 2007 at 02:29:33PM -0400, Zach wrote: > I am looking for a Debian package which will provide nice > functionality equivalent to the MS Windows (file) Explorer (not > Internet Explorer!) which lets you quickly view all directories and >

Re: Qemu and existing windows partition

2007-07-10 Thread tejas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 And there are also some tools for removing drivers and similar things from Windows in Windows Support Tools.[1] http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=49ae8576-9bb9-4126-9761-ba8011fabf38&displaylang=en Andrew Sackville-West yazmış:

Re: [OT] Subject Confusion

2007-07-10 Thread Mathias Brodala
Hi Tom. Tom Rauchenwald, 10.07.2007 17:21: > "Ted Hilts - Thunderbird Acct." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> I get hundreds of email a day including email from the Debian List. > [...] >> I use (and will continue to use) THUNDERBIRD for Linux, MS, and other >> email correspondence. Perhaps some

Re: [debian-user] Subject Confusion

2007-07-10 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 09:27:37AM -0600, Ted Hilts wrote: > > The point here is that it would be nice as well as professional if one > could automatically filter and view email according to a single > convention which most of the other lists have done. In my view, using > "Re subject" when "subj

Re: Opera is faster, but...

2007-07-10 Thread Orestes leal
On Mon, 09 Jul 2007 21:39:41 + steef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On an unrelated matter I installed Opera on Sid. > > > > It *is* faster than iceweasel. > > > > But because it hasn't got the ease of the adblock extension, that > > turns out to be a wash

Re: Subject Confusion

2007-07-10 Thread Ralph Katz
On 07/10/2007 11:27 AM, Ted Hilts wrote: > I don't seem to have a way of filtering the Debian List email from non > Debian email because of this Ted, I read all my debian lists with icedove as newsgroups from gmane.org. Very simple. Regards, Ralph -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: xen, raid and initramfs failure

2007-07-10 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 09:59:39AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > On 2007-07-10 07:37, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > patch works. here is set -x output from a domU boot with new initramfs > > I have reverted the patch and instead put a warning in place: > > piper:~> sudo update-initramfs -u -

Re: lpd: cron.daily found errors, run checkpc for details

2007-07-10 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, Jul 09, 2007 at 09:08:59 +0200, Kees de Koster wrote: > I'm running Debian Testing on a server, after the update on last Friday > I get from logcheck the error 'Jul 7 06:58:00 minidragon lpd: > cron.daily found errors, run checkpc for details.' > > If I run checkpc I get the message 'Warn

Re: (sftp) Received message too long 540096314

2007-07-10 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 17:31:12 +0200, Pol Hallen wrote: > Hi folks, > > On my server I using debian stable. > > When I try do sftp [EMAIL PROTECTED], I can insert the password but I see: > > Received message too long 540096314 > > How can I resolve this problem? http://www.snailbook.com/faq/

Re: Some ALSA apps stopped working [REALLY SOLVED]

2007-07-10 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 10:30:15 +0100, Chris Lale wrote: [...] > Problem solved. alsaconf runs the obsolete command "update-modules" which > modifies /etc/modprobe.d/sound and /etc/modprobe.conf if present. According to > the update-modules man page the existence of /etc/modprobe.conf will cause

Re: xen, raid and initramfs failure

2007-07-10 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007.07.10.1908 +0200]: > which is sort of vague. the examples further down the manpage do > not make use of level= at all to provide a reference. Yes, I saw this. > I think the two items taken together rather strongly imply that if > one us

Re: where is tzconfig ?

2007-07-10 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 17:20:51 +0200, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: [ snip: We are trying to figure out how to search for packages that depend on specific versions of other packages. ] > The following seems to work: > > $ aptitude search '~i~D(libneon~V0\.25)' > i A librpm4 > $ aptitude search '~

Re: Help buying Economic Printer

2007-07-10 Thread David Brodbeck
On Jul 9, 2007, at 8:12 PM, terryc wrote: If you want a cheap cents per page laser, then you really need to go back to something based on the Canon SX engine, like a HP Laserjet II, Gestetner, etc, etc. with so many machine using the same toner cartridge, the cost of tower per page was the

Re: Help buying Economic Printer

2007-07-10 Thread David Brodbeck
On Jul 9, 2007, at 8:15 PM, Andrew Malcolmson wrote: If you're looking for an inexpensive printer you can pick up tomorrow at your local Staples, some of the most recent HP's are surprisingly cheap to run. The new $99 C4280 (an All-in-One, so also a scanner) takes a $30 add on large black

Re: [debian-user] [OT] Subject Confusion

2007-07-10 Thread David Brodbeck
On Jul 10, 2007, at 8:16 AM, Ted Hilts - Thunderbird Acct. wrote: The point here is that it would be nice as well as professional if one could automatically filter and view email according to a single convention which most of the other lists have done. In my view, using "Re subject" when "

Re: Opera is faster, but...#

2007-07-10 Thread Jon Dowland
> Why are you so anti-tabs? I find tab browsing to be a lot > faster and easier to switch between tabs then trying to > open multiple windows/instances. Perhaps his window manager handles tabs for him. It can then be confusing to be faced with three paradigms: which window, then which tab in that

Re: Help buying Economic Printer

2007-07-10 Thread Mike McCarty
David Brodbeck wrote: On Jul 9, 2007, at 8:15 PM, Andrew Malcolmson wrote: If you're looking for an inexpensive printer you can pick up tomorrow at your local Staples, some of the most recent HP's are surprisingly cheap to run. The new $99 C4280 (an All-in-One, so also a scanner) takes a $3

Re: xen, raid and initramfs failure

2007-07-10 Thread David Ayers
martin f krafft schrieb: > On 2007-07-10 07:37, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > I have reverted the patch and instead put a warning in place: [snip] > E: mdadm: levels should be either raid*, linear, or multipath. > W: mdadm: falling back to emergency procedure in initramfs. > > This is a bett

Re: Help buying Economic Printer

2007-07-10 Thread David Brodbeck
On Jul 10, 2007, at 11:12 AM, Mike McCarty wrote: Hmm. I have s DeskJet 895C which has been sitting up for over a year with cartridges in it. I plugged it in, started it up, and it prints just fine. It had a couple of clogged nozzles, but after printing three test pages, they cleared up. That'

Re: xen, raid and initramfs failure

2007-07-10 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 07:51:58PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007.07.10.1908 +0200]: > > which is sort of vague. the examples further down the manpage do > > not make use of level= at all to provide a reference. > > Yes, I saw this. >

Re: [debian-user] Subject Confusion

2007-07-10 Thread Yann Lejeune
On 2007/07/10-09:27(-0600), Ted Hilts wrote : > I don't seem to have a way of filtering the Debian List email from non > Debian email because of this > insistence of the Debian List to use "Re" at the beginning of the > subject. All debian lists insert special hearders in email posted to the list.

Re: Why stunnel3?

2007-07-10 Thread Bob Proulx
Michelle Konzack wrote: > Bob Proulx: > > vince wrote: > > > Two versions of stunnel are available - stunnel3 and stunnel4. Normally > > > I would expect the higher numbered version to be the most recent and > > > better supported version. > > > > Agreed. But this is up to the package maintainer

chkrootkit and rkhunter are too old ?

2007-07-10 Thread KLEIN Stéphane
Hello, I look for root kit checker. I found this tools : * chkrootkit (http://www.chkrootkit.org/) * rkhunter (http://rkhunter.sourceforge.net/) chkrootkit last version date from 30/09/2006 (1.2.9) and rkhunter date from 10/10/2006. This tools are near two year old. There aren't new rootkit si

Re: aptitude hanging

2007-07-10 Thread Magnus Pedersen
Daniel Burrows wrote: Several people have reported that their problems go away if they remove libc6-i686. I don't know why this should be, but I'd be interested to know if you see the same behavior. Daniel I do, just removed libc6-i686 and aptitude responded after an update. btw, I have

Re: chkrootkit and rkhunter are too old ?

2007-07-10 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 02:54:04PM +, KLEIN Stéphane wrote: > Hello, > > I look for root kit checker. I found this tools : > > * chkrootkit (http://www.chkrootkit.org/) > * rkhunter (http://rkhunter.sourceforge.net/) > > chkrootkit last version date from 30/09/2006 (1.2.9) and rkhunter date

Re: Bind9 can't start

2007-07-10 Thread Bob Proulx
Lars wrote: > I installed Bind9 on a DomU running etch > (2.6.18-4-xen-vserver-amd64), and bind couldn't start with default > configuration. > # /etc/init.d/bind9 restart > Stopping domain name service...: bindrndc: connect failed: > 127.0.0.1#953: connection refused > failed! > Starting domain na

Re: [debian-user] [OT] Subject Confusion

2007-07-10 Thread Bob Proulx
Ted Hilts - Thunderbird Acct. wrote: > I get hundreds of email a day including email from the Debian List. I get literally thousands... > Nearly all other Linux lists use square brackets to enclose a meaningful > word for the list identification. Most everyone in the world uses "Re", > "Re ", o

Re: Non-free repo on DVD!

2007-07-10 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, Jul 09, 2007 at 19:23:56 +0100, José Santos wrote: > I'm trying to make a DVD with the non-free etch repository because i > don't have internet on my old toshiba laptop. > So i found this scrip on the web: [...] > but it just doesn't work, i gives me this output: > > wget: invalid option

Re: Installing a JRE plug-in

2007-07-10 Thread Bob Proulx
andy wrote: > In any event, I got this error message for a site in which I must > spend a fair amount of time in order to do an on-line course, so > that is what prompted my sudden interest in this. Use in an online course falls right into the pattern. Not something that *everyone* would need but

Re: Help buying Economic Printer

2007-07-10 Thread Ron Johnson
On 07/10/07 13:06, David Brodbeck wrote: On Jul 9, 2007, at 8:15 PM, Andrew Malcolmson wrote: If you're looking for an inexpensive printer you can pick up tomorrow at your local Staples, some of the most recent HP's are surprisingly cheap to run. The new $99 C4280 (an All-in-One, so also a sc

Eeek?! smbmount is deprecated?!

2007-07-10 Thread Kent West
(Warning: Lots of possibly irrelevant details follow.) On a recently-rebuilt box, mostly running Lenny, I've just discovered that if I smbmount a network share from a Windows box the mount point becomes owned by root.root and my normal user does not have write access. (A Windows box can still

Re: restarting pump (DHCP) automatically when network unavailable at boot time

2007-07-10 Thread Bob Proulx
Vincent Lefevre wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > That bug may still be open but I have never seen it in any > > configuration. I think that bug may no longer be there but no one has > > verified it to root cause and so it has not been closed. There is no > > discussion after the first report. Is a

Re: Eeek?! smbmount is deprecated?!

2007-07-10 Thread tejas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kent West yazmış: > (Warning: Lots of possibly irrelevant details follow.) > > On a recently-rebuilt box, mostly running Lenny, I've just discovered > that if I smbmount a network share from a Windows box the mount point > becomes owned by root.root a

location for an openvpn command

2007-07-10 Thread PETER EASTHOPE
Folk, I want to execute this command when the system starts. openvpn --remote 137.?.?.? --dev tun1 \   --ifconfig 192.168.1.1 192.168.2.5 --verb 5 --secret /root/key Is there a better place for it than /etc/inittab? Thanks,    ... Peter E. http://carnot.pathology.ubc.ca/

postgresql upgrade from sarge to etch

2007-07-10 Thread Tony Heal
I am trying to upgrade from sarge to etch and having issues with postgresql. Here is the error on the screen, but I am getting nothing in /var/log/dpkg.log or the syslog Setting up postgresql-client (7.5.22) ... Setting up postgresql (7.5.22) ... Configuring already existing cluster (configu

Re: Eeek?! smbmount is deprecated?!

2007-07-10 Thread Kent West
tejas wrote: Kent West yazmış: 1. I've been unable to Google how to mount samba shares using the "mount -t cifs" method (lots of info on using the "smbmount" method). So what is the exact syntax equivalent, please, to "smbmount //server/share /mntpoint -o credentials=LocationOfSecretsFile"

denyhosts + tcp wrappers?

2007-07-10 Thread Craig Hurley
Hello, Has anyone installed and configured DenyHosts (http://denyhosts.sourceforge.net) so that it uses tcp wrappers on debian? I've read this blog: http://tdot.blog-city.com/securing_ssh_with_denyhosts.htm but there are differences in the files/paths used on debian and what the blog-author

legal notice before local login?

2007-07-10 Thread Craig Hurley
Hello, Can anyone tell me how to add a legal notice before a user enters their password when logging on *locally*. I've already configured a legal notice for users logging in via SSH using "Banner /path/to/legalnotice" in /etc/ssh/sshd_config. Thank you, Craig. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: location for an openvpn command

2007-07-10 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 02:24:11PM -0700, PETER EASTHOPE wrote: > Folk, > > I want to execute this command when the > system starts. > > openvpn --remote 137.?.?.? --dev tun1 \ > --ifconfig 192.168.1.1 192.168.2.5 --verb 5 --secret /root/key > > Is there a better place for it than /etc/inittab

Re: legal notice before local login?

2007-07-10 Thread tejas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Craig Hurley yazmış: > Hello, > > Can anyone tell me how to add a legal notice before a user enters their > password when logging on *locally*. I've already configured a legal > notice for users logging in via SSH using "Banner /path/to/legalnotice"

legal notice before local login?

2007-07-10 Thread Craig Hurley
Hello, Can anyone tell me how to add a legal notice before a user enters their password when logging on *locally*. I've already configured a legal notice for users logging in via SSH using "Banner /path/to/legalnotice" in /etc/ssh/sshd_config. Thank you, Craig. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: legal notice before local login?

2007-07-10 Thread Ron Johnson
On 07/10/07 16:59, Craig Hurley wrote: Hello, Can anyone tell me how to add a legal notice before a user enters their password when logging on *locally*. I've already configured a legal notice for users logging in via SSH using "Banner /path/to/legalnotice" in /etc/ssh/sshd_config. Before

Re: Eeek?! smbmount is deprecated?!

2007-07-10 Thread tejas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kent West yazmış: > tejas wrote: >> Kent West yazmış: >> >>> 1. I've been unable to Google how to mount samba shares using the "mount >>> -t cifs" method (lots of info on using the "smbmount" method). So what >>> is the exact syntax equivalent, pleas

Re: Kernel 2.4 on Etch

2007-07-10 Thread koffiejunkie
Gudjon I. Gudjonsson wrote: Hi Is there any simple way of making kernel 2.4 and 2.6 coexist in Debian Etch? I know a lot of complicated ways :) but I need version 2.4 to test old kernel modules. I can't give you the details on how, but I know Etch runs just fine on a 2.4 kernel. I have a

TinyMUSH/MySQL Crash Issue

2007-07-10 Thread ArcticFox
Ok, I'm pretty sure this is the wrong group to ask, but I'm not getting an answer from the TinyMUSH list. I have my MUSH setup to connect with MySQL to record logins/outs and announcements so that they can be seen from both inside the MUSH and from the web. The problem that I'm having is af

Re: xprint config

2007-07-10 Thread Adam Hardy
does anybody here have any xprint config experience? My old workstation is getting a bit bloated, xprint is up the creek and I can't print to file / PS / PDF. I can't see anything visibly wrong with the configuration. I tried deinstalling and reinstalling, but that didn't help. xprint works fin

Re: postgresql upgrade from sarge to etch

2007-07-10 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 05:41:35PM -0400, Tony Heal wrote: > I am trying to upgrade from sarge to etch and having issues with postgresql. > Here is the error on the screen, but I am > getting nothing in /var/log/dpkg.log or the syslog > > > > Setting up postgresql-client (7.5.22) ... > > Sett

Cannot connect to network anymore

2007-07-10 Thread Mitja Podreka
Hello. In the last few days I cannot connect to network with my laptop anymore. It is a dual boot and in windows everything works fine. In Debian it doesn't work anymore. I use Etch. As I have no idea where to start I'm asking for help and sending some information about what computer says:

Re[2]: Intel 965 chipset and Debian Etch AMD64

2007-07-10 Thread drop669
Hello, Tuesday, July 10, 2007, 8:32:08 AM, you wrote: >> It seems, Debian Etch AMD64 installer is blind to CDROM on Q965 Intel >> chipset. On SATA I have only one HDD and I have CDROM as primary >> driver on PATA. >> What can I do? > In your bios, try setting the SATA to compatability mode indst

spreadsheet question

2007-07-10 Thread Jude DaShiell
For the debian command line user, what spreadsheet package comes equipped with the most functions? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Help buying Economic Printer

2007-07-10 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 03:57:31PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > That's why I went for an inexpensive color laser printer. It cost > US$350, but there's no ink to dry up and nozzles to clog. > You don't find that the toner cakes and settles? I've had that in humid weather. It required lots of

system resource measurement

2007-07-10 Thread Mark Grieveson
Hello. Is there a command line utility for system resource measurement? I have an old Pentium III (450 MHz, 384 MB ram) and normally I use gnome, but I've been experimenting with other desktop environments and/or window managers. I'm not convinced that I'm any better off though (my computer stil

Re: spreadsheet question

2007-07-10 Thread David Fox
On 7/10/07, Jude DaShiell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: For the debian command line user, what spreadsheet package comes equipped with the most functions? I'm not sure that "command line user" and "spreadsheet" should be uttered in the same sentence. :) Be that as it may, spreadsheets tradition

Re: legal notice before local login?

2007-07-10 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 10:59:19PM +0100, Craig Hurley wrote: > > Can anyone tell me how to add a legal notice before a user enters their > password when logging on *locally*. I've already configured a legal > notice for users logging in via SSH using "Banner /path/to/legalnotice" > in /etc/ss

Re: system resource measurement

2007-07-10 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 09:17:56PM -0400, Mark Grieveson wrote: > Hello. Is there a command line utility for system resource > measurement? Try top. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signatur

Re: xprint config

2007-07-10 Thread s. keeling
Adam Hardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > does anybody here have any xprint config experience? My old > workstation is getting a bit bloated, xprint is up the creek and I > can't print to file / PS / PDF. > > I can't see anything visibly wrong with the configuration. I tried > deinstalling and reinst

Re: Help buying Economic Printer

2007-07-10 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 09:22:09PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 03:57:31PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > That's why I went for an inexpensive color laser printer. It cost > > US$350, but there's no ink to dry up and nozzles to clog. > > > > You don't find that

Re: lpd: cron.daily found errors, run checkpc for details

2007-07-10 Thread s. keeling
Kees de Koster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I'm running Debian Testing on a server, after the update on last Friday > I get from logcheck the error 'Jul 7 06:58:00 minidragon lpd: > cron.daily found errors, run checkpc for details.' > > If I run checkpc I get the message 'Warning - lp: cannot stat

Re: Cannot connect to network anymore

2007-07-10 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 01:07:19AM +0200, Mitja Podreka wrote: > In the last few days I cannot connect to network with my laptop anymore. > It is a dual boot and in windows everything works fine. In Debian it > doesn't work anymore. I use Etch. > > As I have no idea where to start I'm asking for

Re: spreadsheet question

2007-07-10 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 06:34:58PM -0700, David Fox wrote: > On 7/10/07, Jude DaShiell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >For the debian command line user, what spreadsheet package comes equipped > >with the most functions? > > > I'm not sure that "command line user" and "spreadsheet" should be ut

Re: Opera is faster, but...#

2007-07-10 Thread Matthew K Poer
On Tuesday 10 July 2007 1:58 pm, Jon Dowland wrote: > > Why are you so anti-tabs? I find tab browsing to be a lot > > faster and easier to switch between tabs then trying to > > open multiple windows/instances. > > Perhaps his window manager handles tabs for him. It can then > be confusing to be fa

Re: chkrootkit and rkhunter are too old ?

2007-07-10 Thread Edward Pasek
On Tue, 2007-07-10 at 22:13 +0200, Sven Hoexter wrote: > On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 02:54:04PM +, KLEIN Stéphane wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I look for root kit checker. I found this tools : > > > > * chkrootkit (http://www.chkrootkit.org/) > > * rkhunter (http://rkhunter.sourceforge.net/) > > >

Re: spreadsheet question

2007-07-10 Thread Owen Heisler
On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 06:34:58PM -0700, David Fox wrote: > On 7/10/07, Jude DaShiell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > For the debian command line user, what spreadsheet package comes equipped > > with the most functions? > > I'm not sure that "command line user" and "spreadsheet" should be uttered

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