Re: How 'stable' is squeeze?

2010-06-25 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 08:41 +0200, Amar Cosic wrote: > On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 8:03 AM, Alan Chandler > wrote: > Well it ended up broken last night.. Everything boots OK but gdm wont start > properly and doing aptitude safe-upgrade/full-upgrade acctualy shows some > errors about udev. Funny th

Re: thttpd CGI pattern specified in thttpd.conf fails to match

2010-06-25 Thread Steve Kemp
On Thu Jun 24, 2010 at 00:43:34 -1000, Joel Roth wrote: > Spending an inordinate amount of time, I find > no setting for the cgi-pat variable in thttpd.conf > including the default would allow CGI script to > execute. > For reference, the full command line I used is: > > thttpd -C /dev/null -u ww

Re: How 'stable' is squeeze?

2010-06-25 Thread Alan Chandler
On 25/06/10 07:41, Amar Cosic wrote: Well it ended up broken last night.. Everything boots OK but gdm wont start properly and doing aptitude safe-upgrade/full-upgrade acctualy shows some errors about udev. Funny thing is I did aptitude install linux-image-2.6-686 before everything, but this acct

Re: Hundreds of sshd processes spawned by Postgresql

2010-06-25 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Marc Shapiro put forth on 6/24/2010 9:47 AM: > I am getting lines > like: > tcp0 1 192.168.1.2:49526 59.120.141.34:22SYN_SENT > 9853/sshd > tcp0 0 192.168.1.2:35055 59.120.163.53:22 > ESTABLISHED 9995/sshd It appears someone has cracked/pw

[SOLVED] Re: [LONG] Trouble using debmirror on Lenny (certain public keysnot found)

2010-06-25 Thread Holger Rauch
Hi Mirko, thanks for your suggestion. It worked. Must have been overlooking that hint in the manpage. Sorry. Greetings, Holger On Thu, 24 Jun 2010, Mirko Parthey wrote: > [...] > By default, gpg stores new public keys in ~/.gnupg/pubring.gpg, > while gpgv expects them in ~/.gnupg/trusted

Re: Hundreds of sshd processes spawned by Postgresql

2010-06-25 Thread Johann Spies
On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 03:30:52AM -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > It appears someone has cracked/pwn3d your Debian host. That's an _outbound_ > SSH connection. 59.120.163.53 is HINET network space in Taiwan. > There are a lot of distributed ssh attacks on our network for the past week or two. J

Understanding my recurrent network connectivity problems

2010-06-25 Thread Merciadri Luca
Hi, For one week now, I sometimes `loose' any access to the LAN and the WAN. Here is the way I am connected to the Internet: ISP (house's wall) -> ISP modem (RJ-45) -> D-Link DIR-635 router (RJ-45) -> Switch (RJ-45) -> 192.168.0.101 (this computer). When trying to use my Internet connection, I s

Setting Up a CVSup Mirror for FreeBSD on a Debian Lenny system

2010-06-25 Thread Holger Rauch
Hi to everybody, I would like to set up a FreeBSD mirror using CVSup on a Debian Lenny system. I know there's the "sup" package containing both CVSup server and client. However, I'm currently sort of stuck converting FreeBSD's cvsupd config to supfilesrv's config. Has anybody done something simi

Re: How 'stable' is squeeze?

2010-06-25 Thread Mark Allums
On 6/24/2010 5:49 PM, Jesús M. Navarro wrote: Hi, Mark: I would retain the Lenny security update line in sources.list (for luck) until Squeeze is released as Stable, and start with safe-upgrade. That's of little to no value since "security" will do nothing for packages you already have a highe

Re: How 'stable' is squeeze?

2010-06-25 Thread Tomasz Maluszycki
I had similar problem when upgrading from lenny to testing. First pull newer kernel image, 2.6.30, if I recall correctly (but don't pull 2.6.32-x yet, cause depends on new udev). Reboot. Then pull new udev, and reboot again. Now you can pull newest kernel. Hopefully if want to upgrade from testin

Re: Understanding my recurrent network connectivity problems

2010-06-25 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 25 Jun 2010 11:57:40 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > For one week now, I sometimes `loose' any access to the LAN and the WAN. > Here is the way I am connected to the Internet: > > ISP (house's wall) -> ISP modem (RJ-45) -> D-Link DIR-635 router (RJ-45) > -> Switch (RJ-45) -> 192.168.0.101

Re: Understanding my recurrent network connectivity problems

2010-06-25 Thread Merciadri Luca
Camaleón wrote: > On Fri, 25 Jun 2010 11:57:40 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > > > > (...) > > I suppose you are using a wifi setup with at least WPA2-PSK (or AES) so > we can discard any intruder making "bad things" in your network >:-) > I am not connecting with WiFi (as stated in my previ

Re: Hundreds of sshd processes spawned by Postgresql

2010-06-25 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 25 Jun 2010 03:30:52 -0500 Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Marc Shapiro put forth on 6/24/2010 9:47 AM: > > > I am getting lines > > like: > > tcp0 1 192.168.1.2:49526 59.120.141.34:22 > > SYN_SENT9853/sshd > > tcp0 0 192.168.1.2:35055 59.120.163.

Compiling kernel took a lot of disk space.

2010-06-25 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
Hi, I am using debian unstable 64. Recently I wanted to compile a 2.6.34 kernel. Well, the source package is 64MB. Before `make-kpkg linux-image linux-headers --initrd` finished, the source directory took 6GB space, made the volume full. Tried a few times, the problem is still there, and alwa

Re: Compiling kernel took a lot of disk space.

2010-06-25 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 18:25, Magicloud Magiclouds < magicloud.magiclo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > I am using debian unstable 64. Recently I wanted to compile a 2.6.34 > kernel. > Well, the source package is 64MB. Before `make-kpkg linux-image > linux-headers --initrd` finished, the source dir

Re: Compiling kernel took a lot of disk space.

2010-06-25 Thread Stephen Powell
On Fri, 25 Jun 2010 08:55:41 -0400 (EDT), Magicloud Magiclouds wrote: > > I am using debian unstable 64. Recently I wanted to compile a 2.6.34 kernel. > Well, the source package is 64MB. Before `make-kpkg linux-image > linux-headers --initrd` finished, the source directory took 6GB space, > made t

Re: Stable volatile versions

2010-06-25 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 06/24/2010 12:51 PM, Liam O'Toole wrote: > Both packages were updated in the last Lenny update[1], at which time > they 'leap-frogged' the versions in volatile. Nothing to worry about. > > [1] http://www.debian.org/News/2010/20100130 > Got it,

Re: Understanding my recurrent network connectivity problems

2010-06-25 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 17:39, Merciadri Luca < luca.mercia...@student.ulg.ac.be> wrote: > Camaleón wrote: > > On Fri, 25 Jun 2010 11:57:40 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > > > > > > > > (...) > > > > I suppose you are using a wifi setup with at least WPA2-PSK (or AES) so > > we can discard any intr

Re: Compiling kernel took a lot of disk space.

2010-06-25 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 06/25/2010 09:10 AM, Stephen Powell wrote: > Magicloud Magiclouds? That can't be your real name! > Can't you give us your real name? At least a first name? > > That is not the correct command syntax. I suggest that you read > >http://www.

Re: Understanding LVM UUIDS

2010-06-25 Thread Aaron Toponce
On 06/23/2010 03:30 PM, Camaleón wrote: > On Wed, 23 Jun 2010 13:02:36 -0600, Aaron Toponce wrote: >> Whether or not these are his reasons, I can tell you why that is a wise >> move. UUIDs are unique to the device/filesystem. The major advantage of >> using UUIDs is that you don't have to worry abo

Re: Understanding my recurrent network connectivity problems

2010-06-25 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 25 Jun 2010 14:09:27 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > Camaleón wrote: >> On Fri, 25 Jun 2010 11:57:40 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: >> >> >> >> (...) >> >> I suppose you are using a wifi setup with at least WPA2-PSK (or AES) so >> we can discard any intruder making "bad things" in your net

Re: Understanding my recurrent network connectivity problems

2010-06-25 Thread Merciadri Luca
Anand Sivaram wrote: > Do you have lights (led light) for each of your rj45 ports? Have you > seen the output of them when you say that you can not access your > router/other computers? Yes. LEDs are still ok when this happens. > Try installing "ethtool" on your debian and see "ethtool eth0" (or >

Re: Compiling kernel took a lot of disk space.

2010-06-25 Thread Stephen Powell
On Fri, 25 Jun 2010 09:34:29 -0400 (EDT), Jordan Metzmeier wrote: > On 06/25/2010 09:10 AM, Stephen Powell wrote: >> That is not the correct command syntax. I suggest that you read >> >>http://www.wowway.com/~zlinuxman/Kernel.htm >> >> Kernel building in Debian is a complex task fraught with

Re: Understanding my recurrent network connectivity problems

2010-06-25 Thread green
Merciadri Luca wrote at 2010-06-25 04:57 -0500: > For one week now, I sometimes `loose' any access to the LAN and the WAN. > Here is the way I am connected to the Internet: > > ISP (house's wall) -> ISP modem (RJ-45) -> D-Link DIR-635 router (RJ-45) > -> Switch (RJ-45) -> 192.168.0.101 (this compu

Re: Understanding my recurrent network connectivity problems

2010-06-25 Thread Merciadri Luca
Camaleón wrote: > On Fri, 25 Jun 2010 14:09:27 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > > > > Good. > > > > After reading your comments, it seems to be a problem within the router > (you said that "sometines" you cannot reach the web interface and that is > a bad signal). And as router is the "glue"

Re: Understanding my recurrent network connectivity problems

2010-06-25 Thread Merciadri Luca
green wrote: > Merciadri Luca wrote at 2010-06-25 04:57 -0500: > > > You've probably already checked this, but is the switch connected to a LAN > port > on the router and the modem connected to the WAN port? If the modem were > connected to a LAN port, then that puts 2 DHCP servers on one ne

Re: Understanding LVM UUIDS

2010-06-25 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 25 Jun 2010 07:42:28 -0600, Aaron Toponce wrote: > On 06/23/2010 03:30 PM, Camaleón wrote: >> On Wed, 23 Jun 2010 13:02:36 -0600, Aaron Toponce wrote: >>> Whether or not these are his reasons, I can tell you why that is a >>> wise move. UUIDs are unique to the device/filesystem. The major

Re: X login screen with onscreen keyboard

2010-06-25 Thread jeremy jozwik
On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 11:21 PM, Camaleón wrote: > Okay then. Let's review all the steps once more :-) > > - You've got a "/etc/gdm/custom.conf" file with the following content: > > [daemon] > Greeter=/usr/lib/gdmlogin > GtkModulesList=gail:atk-bridge:/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/modules/libkeymouselistener:

Re: Understanding my recurrent network connectivity problems

2010-06-25 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 25 Jun 2010 16:00:26 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > Camaleón wrote: >> I am not familiar with you setup as I use "all-in-one" devices (ADSL >> bundled modem-router) and in my case, yes, sometimes the modem-router >> gets "stuck" and I have to powercycle the device to get it operative >> a

Wireshark: how can I give rights to interfaces without launching it as root?

2010-06-25 Thread Merciadri Luca
Hi, As stated in the title, I would like to launch wireshark without having to do it as root. I tried being root, but wireshark told me this was disadviced (astonishing, huh?). The problem is that if I launch it as an user, it does not detect any interface. How can I give to it rights for the inte

Re: Understanding my recurrent network connectivity problems

2010-06-25 Thread Merciadri Luca
Camaleón wrote: > On Fri, 25 Jun 2010 16:00:26 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > > >> Camaleón wrote: >> > > >>> I am not familiar with you setup as I use "all-in-one" devices (ADSL >>> bundled modem-router) and in my case, yes, sometimes the modem-router >>> gets "stuck" and I have to powe

Re: Understanding my recurrent network connectivity problems

2010-06-25 Thread H.S.
On 06/25/10 05:57, Merciadri Luca wrote: > Hi, > > For one week now, I sometimes `loose' any access to the LAN and the WAN. > Here is the way I am connected to the Internet: > > ISP (house's wall) -> ISP modem (RJ-45) -> D-Link DIR-635 router (RJ-45) > -> Switch (RJ-45) -> 192.168.0.101 (this com

Re: Understanding my recurrent network connectivity problems

2010-06-25 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 25 Jun 2010 16:47:43 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > Camaleón wrote: >>> Okay. But then, how would you explain the modem LEDs to be constantly >>> lighted when nothing works? >>> >>> >> It can be receiving traffic from the ISP itself (assigning >> IP/DNS/gateway data to the devic

Using gparted GUI to make GPT partition tables

2010-06-25 Thread vr
Is the GUI for gparted effective enough for "dummies" to get properly aligned partitions via mindless clicking? Or do you still have to do some math to get things just right? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact lis

Re: Understanding my recurrent network connectivity problems

2010-06-25 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 25. 06. 2010 14:09:27 je Merciadri Luca napisal(a): > If so, first step I'd try to change/replace is the router. > Well, okay, I'll try it. But no other clue? Thanks. I'd have to agree with Camaleon on that. One thing you could try before actually *replacing* the router is just disconn

Re: Stable volatile versions

2010-06-25 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 24 June 2010 08:59:38 Jordan Metzmeier wrote: > Last night I was attempting to install spamassassin on my Lenny box. I > had some difficulty doing so because it turned out that the volatile > version had a lesser version number. Liam already explain why this was so. > The only ways I

Re: Stable volatile versions

2010-06-25 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 06/25/2010 12:00 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Thursday 24 June 2010 08:59:38 Jordan Metzmeier wrote: >> Last night I was attempting to install spamassassin on my Lenny box. I >> had some difficulty doing so because it turned out that the

Re: Using gparted GUI to make GPT partition tables

2010-06-25 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 25 June 2010 10:37:39 vr wrote: > Is the GUI for gparted effective enough for "dummies" to get properly > aligned partitions via mindless clicking? Or do you still have to do > some math to get things just right? IIRC, none of the gparted UIs do any special alignment of partitions. Howe

Re: Using gparted GUI to make GPT partition tables

2010-06-25 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 25. 06. 2010 17:37:39 je vr napisal(a): Is the GUI for gparted effective enough for "dummies" to get properly aligned partitions via mindless clicking? Or do you still have to do some math to get things just right? It's as dummy-proof as it gets. No math required. Although, if you r

Re: Using gparted GUI to make GPT partition tables

2010-06-25 Thread vr
On 6/25/2010 12:08 PM, Klistvud wrote: Dne, 25. 06. 2010 17:37:39 je vr napisal(a): Is the GUI for gparted effective enough for "dummies" to get properly aligned partitions via mindless clicking? Or do you still have to do some math to get things just right? It's as dummy-proof as it gets. No

Re: Hundreds of sshd processes spawned by Postgresql

2010-06-25 Thread Tom Furie
On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 08:55:32AM -0400, Celejar wrote: > On Fri, 25 Jun 2010 03:30:52 -0500 > Stan Hoeppner wrote: > > > Marc Shapiro put forth on 6/24/2010 9:47 AM: > > > > > I am getting lines > > > like: > > > tcp0 1 192.168.1.2:49526 59.120.141.34:22 > > > SYN_S

Re: Hundreds of sshd processes spawned by Postgresql

2010-06-25 Thread Hanspeter Spalinger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Am 25.06.10 18:51, schrieb Tom Furie: > On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 08:55:32AM -0400, Celejar wrote: >> On Fri, 25 Jun 2010 03:30:52 -0500 >> Stan Hoeppner wrote: >> >>> Marc Shapiro put forth on 6/24/2010 9:47 AM: >>> I am getting lines like

Re: Understanding my recurrent network connectivity problems

2010-06-25 Thread Arthur Machlas
What's the point of the switch in your setup? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlkting9j_ddfimq5ehoejn76rlaf-zg5xmf-hbp...@mail.gmail.com

Re: Understanding my recurrent network connectivity problems

2010-06-25 Thread Arthur Machlas
On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 12:40 PM, Arthur Machlas wrote: > What's the point of the switch in your setup? > Silly me, sent before I was done pontificating. Also wanted to add that you should check your router for the latest firmware updates, most residential routers are rushed out the door fugees s

Re: Understanding my recurrent network connectivity problems

2010-06-25 Thread vr
On 6/25/2010 5:57 AM, Merciadri Luca wrote: Hi, For one week now, I sometimes `loose' any access to the LAN and the WAN. Here is the way I am connected to the Internet: ISP (house's wall) -> ISP modem (RJ-45) -> D-Link DIR-635 router (RJ-45) -> Switch (RJ-45) -> 192.168.0.101 (this computer

Re: Hundreds of sshd processes spawned by Postgresql

2010-06-25 Thread Marc Shapiro
From: Hanspeter Spalinger > schrieb Tom Furie: >> On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 08:55:32AM -0400, Celejar wrote: >>> On Fri, 25 Jun 2010 03:30:52 -0500 >>> Stan Hoeppner wrote: >>> Marc Shapiro put forth on 6/24/2010 9:47 AM: > I am getting lines like: > tcp0 1 192.1

Re: Wireshark: how can I give rights to interfaces without launching it as root?

2010-06-25 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 25 Jun 2010 16:46:52 +0200 Merciadri Luca wrote: > Hi, > > As stated in the title, I would like to launch wireshark without having > to do it as root. I tried being root, but wireshark told me this was > disadviced (astonishing, huh?). The problem is that if I launch it as an > user, it

Re: Understanding my recurrent network connectivity problems

2010-06-25 Thread Merciadri Luca
Klistvud wrote: > Dne, 25. 06. 2010 14:09:27 je Merciadri Luca napisal(a): > > > I'd have to agree with Camaleon on that. One thing you could try > before actually *replacing* the router is just disconnect it and > connect directly through the switch (seeing you have one in your > setup). Of course

Re: Understanding my recurrent network connectivity problems

2010-06-25 Thread Merciadri Luca
Arthur Machlas wrote: > What's the point of the switch in your setup? > All my router's ports are occupied by other RJ-45 cables, linked to other computers. So, a switch is connected to one LAN port of the router, and this computer is connected to the switch. -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.s

Re: Understanding my recurrent network connectivity problems

2010-06-25 Thread Merciadri Luca
Arthur Machlas wrote: > On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 12:40 PM, Arthur Machlas > wrote: > > > Silly me, sent before I was done pontificating. Also wanted to add > that you should check your router for the latest firmware updates, > most residential routers are rushed out the door fugees style (ready

Re: Using gparted GUI to make GPT partition tables

2010-06-25 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 25 Jun 2010 11:04:45 -0500 "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." wrote: > On Friday 25 June 2010 10:37:39 vr wrote: > > Is the GUI for gparted effective enough for "dummies" to get properly > > aligned partitions via mindless clicking? Or do you still have to do > > some math to get things just right?

Re: Understanding my recurrent network connectivity problems

2010-06-25 Thread Merciadri Luca
vr wrote: > On 6/25/2010 5:57 AM, Merciadri Luca wrote: > [snip] > > Does your ISP claim to disallow routers or possibly charge extra for > multiple PC's? Might be time to input your PC's MAC in the MAC > spoofing section of your router. > > Might be that, but how could my ISP guess that I'm using

Re: Wireshark: how can I give rights to interfaces without launching it as root?

2010-06-25 Thread Merciadri Luca
Celejar wrote: > On Fri, 25 Jun 2010 16:46:52 +0200 > Merciadri Luca wrote: > > > > /usr/share/doc/wireshark-common/README.Debian discusses wireshark and > necessary privileges. This came up a while back on the lists, and > someone said that this README, while in Sid, is not in earlier Debian >

FileZilla and auto-update of the server copy of my website

2010-06-25 Thread Merciadri Luca
Hi, Just as many of us do, I prefer having both a local and a server copy of my files for my website. I have chosen to use FileZilla for my transfer, at the place of rsync. But I would like FileZilla to automatically upload the files that I added (or modified) locally, just as rsync could. Is it

Re: Understanding my recurrent network connectivity problems

2010-06-25 Thread vr
On 6/25/2010 3:27 PM, Merciadri Luca wrote: Might be that, but how could my ISP guess that I'm using a router? The first few characters of a MAC address are registered to a company. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Co

Re: Understanding my recurrent network connectivity problems

2010-06-25 Thread Merciadri Luca
vr wrote: > On 6/25/2010 3:27 PM, Merciadri Luca wrote: > > The first few characters of a MAC address are registered to a company. Sure, but are you sure that they can know the router's MAC address? -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP. If there is a

Re: Hundreds of sshd processes spawned by Postgresql

2010-06-25 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/25/2010 01:47 PM, Marc Shapiro wrote: From: Hanspeter Spalinger [snip] On the other side this all could be just a camouflage (?) but that wouldnt make lot sense as postgresql doing sshd is not realy a good camouflage... For now, the system is powered down and the FIOS router is dis

Re: Using gparted GUI to make GPT partition tables

2010-06-25 Thread vr
On 6/25/2010 3:29 PM, Celejar wrote: I'm not sure what exactly we mean here by "special alignment", but if all that's required is partitions that start at the beginning of the disk, end at the end, and each begin where the previous one leaves off, then the GUI is fine, and no math is required, II

Re: Understanding my recurrent network connectivity problems

2010-06-25 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 25. 06. 2010 21:24:29 je Merciadri Luca napisal(a): The problem is that my switch does not have any WAN port! IIRC switches don't need one, as they juggle packets based on hardware (MAC) addresses. But then again, I've been wrong before ... -- Regards, Klistvud Certifiable Loonix Us

Re: Wireshark: how can I give rights to interfaces without launching it as root?

2010-06-25 Thread Celejar
[Please don't cc. me.] On Fri, 25 Jun 2010 21:29:50 +0200 Merciadri Luca wrote: > Celejar wrote: > > On Fri, 25 Jun 2010 16:46:52 +0200 > > Merciadri Luca wrote: > > > > > > > > /usr/share/doc/wireshark-common/README.Debian discusses wireshark and > > necessary privileges. This came up a whi

Re: Understanding my recurrent network connectivity problems

2010-06-25 Thread vr
On 6/25/2010 3:53 PM, Merciadri Luca wrote: vr wrote: On 6/25/2010 3:27 PM, Merciadri Luca wrote: The first few characters of a MAC address are registered to a company. Sure, but are you sure that they can know the router's MAC address? Yes, your device is physically attached to their netw

Re: Using gparted GUI to make GPT partition tables

2010-06-25 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 25. 06. 2010 21:29:51 je Celejar napisal(a): if all that's required is partitions that start at the beginning of the disk, end at the end, and each begin where the previous one leaves off, That's how I understood OP's question too. -- Regards, Klistvud Certifiable Loonix User #481801

Re: Understanding my recurrent network connectivity problems

2010-06-25 Thread John Hasler
Merciadri Luca writes: > Sure, but are you sure that they can know the router's MAC address? Their modem knows it: it's connected to your router via ethernet. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact list

Re: Understanding my recurrent network connectivity problems

2010-06-25 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 25 Jun 2010 15:53:09 -0400 vr wrote: > On 6/25/2010 3:27 PM, Merciadri Luca wrote: > > Might be that, but how could my ISP guess that I'm using a router? > > > > The first few characters of a MAC address are registered to a company. True, but many companies make both routers and regular

switching to console and zapping

2010-06-25 Thread lee
Hi, what could be the reason why I can't switch from X11 to consoles with Alt+Fx anymore? It's also not possible to kill the X session with Ctrl+Alt+Backspace, though this feature is not turned off in the xorg.conf. I'm using fvwm-crystal as a window manager. This has been going on for a quite a

Re: Understanding my recurrent network connectivity problems

2010-06-25 Thread Arthur Machlas
On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 3:30 PM, Celejar wrote: > On Fri, 25 Jun 2010 15:53:09 -0400 > vr wrote: > >> On 6/25/2010 3:27 PM, Merciadri Luca wrote: >> > Might be that, but how could my ISP guess that I'm using a router? >> > >> >> The first few characters of a MAC address are registered to a compan

Re: switching to console and zapping

2010-06-25 Thread Stephen Powell
On Fri, 25 Jun 2010 16:31:15 -0400 (EDT), lee wrote: > what could be the reason why I can't switch from X11 to consoles with > Alt+Fx anymore? You never could. You need Ctrl too. For example, switching from the X console to text console number 1 requires Ctrl+Alt+F1 And last I knew, you ha

Re: Understanding my recurrent network connectivity problems

2010-06-25 Thread H.S.
On 06/25/10 14:44, vr wrote: > On 6/25/2010 5:57 AM, Merciadri Luca wrote: >> Hi, >> >> For one week now, I sometimes `loose' any access to the LAN and the WAN. >> Here is the way I am connected to the Internet: >> >> ISP (house's wall) -> ISP modem (RJ-45) -> D-Link DIR-635 router >> (RJ-45) >>

Re: Understanding my recurrent network connectivity problems

2010-06-25 Thread Merciadri Luca
John Hasler wrote: > Merciadri Luca writes: > > > Their modem knows it: it's connected to your router via ethernet. > Well, I had forgotten this. Thanks for pointing this out. -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP. If there is an incompatibility

Re: FileZilla and auto-update of the server copy of my website

2010-06-25 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 25 Jun 2010 21:34:38 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > Just as many of us do, I prefer having both a local and a server copy of > my files for my website. I have chosen to use FileZilla for my transfer, > at the place of rsync. But I would like FileZilla to automatically > upload the files th

Re: Wireshark: how can I give rights to interfaces without launching it as root?

2010-06-25 Thread Merciadri Luca
Celejar wrote: > [Please don't cc. me.] > > On Fri, 25 Jun 2010 21:29:50 +0200 > Merciadri Luca wrote: > > > > Different README; mine doesn't have that stuff, but: > > I. Capturing packets with Wireshark/Tshark > >There are two ways of installing Wireshark/Tshark on Debian: > >I./a. Ins

Re: Understanding my recurrent network connectivity problems

2010-06-25 Thread Merciadri Luca
H.S. wrote: > On 06/25/10 14:44, vr wrote: > > > Mac address is usually an issue in cable internet connections. In any > case, router/modems usually have a feature called "clone mac address" > exactly for this kind of situation, it clones the mac address of your > hardware and shows that mac add

Re: Understanding my recurrent network connectivity problems

2010-06-25 Thread Merciadri Luca
Arthur Machlas wrote: > On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 3:30 PM, Celejar wrote: > > > My ISP provided me with a "router" / modem, however the router is of > the extremely handicapped variety. Thus, I had to go into the > interface of the router/modem and tell it to act only as a gateway. > The only dev

Re: FileZilla and auto-update of the server copy of my website

2010-06-25 Thread Merciadri Luca
Camaleón wrote: > Kind of... > > *** > Synchronized Browsing > http://wiki.filezilla-project.org/Using#Synchronized_Browsing > *** > > Remember to make any test with a sample folder/files *never* with the > original ones :-) > Thanks! Sure. I have bad memories of such things happening! I won't

Re: Understanding my recurrent network connectivity problems

2010-06-25 Thread John Hasler
Merciadri Luca writes: > ...what else can you buy if you need to connect >4 computers? Put 2 NICs in an old pc and install Debian. It'll outperform any consumer-grade router on the market. Buy a switch to connect all your computers. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-req

Re: Understanding my recurrent network connectivity problems

2010-06-25 Thread Greg Madden
On Friday 25 June 2010 11:26:22 Merciadri Luca wrote: > Arthur Machlas wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 12:40 PM, Arthur Machlas > > wrote: > > > > > > Silly me, sent before I was done pontificating. Also wanted to add > > that you should check your router for the latest firmware updates, > > mo

Re: Understanding my recurrent network connectivity problems

2010-06-25 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 26. 06. 2010 00:34:39 je John Hasler napisal(a): Put 2 NICs in an old pc and install Debian. It'll outperform any consumer-grade router on the market. Buy a switch to connect all your computers. Good point. Add a squid proxy/cache to it, and you've just increased the perceived Interne

Re: switching to console and zapping

2010-06-25 Thread lee
On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 05:13:46PM -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Fri, 25 Jun 2010 16:31:15 -0400 (EDT), lee wrote: > > what could be the reason why I can't switch from X11 to consoles with > > Alt+Fx anymore? > > You never could. You need Ctrl too. For example, switching from the > X consol

Re: Understanding my recurrent network connectivity problems

2010-06-25 Thread Alan Chandler
On 25/06/10 23:34, John Hasler wrote: Merciadri Luca writes: ...what else can you buy if you need to connect>4 computers? Put 2 NICs in an old pc and install Debian. It'll outperform any consumer-grade router on the market. Buy a switch to connect all your computers. Until November last yea

Re: switching to console and zapping

2010-06-25 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 05:44, lee wrote: > On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 05:13:46PM -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: > > On Fri, 25 Jun 2010 16:31:15 -0400 (EDT), lee > wrote: > > > what could be the reason why I can't switch from X11 to consoles with > > > Alt+Fx anymore? > > > > You never could. You n

Re: Understanding my recurrent network connectivity problems

2010-06-25 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Hi, Klistvud wrote: Dne, 25. 06. 2010 21:24:29 je Merciadri Luca napisal(a): The problem is that my switch does not have any WAN port! IIRC switches don't need one, as they juggle packets based on hardware (MAC) addresses. But then again, I've been wrong before ... Well if you have a LAN

change system behavior upon IP address conflict

2010-06-25 Thread Zhang Weiwu
Hello. In case IP address conflict is detected, different system behave differently. I recall in my campus days FreeBSD would ignore it as if IP address conflict never happened, while Windows system would disable eithernet interface for a while and try it later. Having used Debian for a few years I

Re: virtual box permissions ?

2010-06-25 Thread Aniruddha
On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 2:19 AM, wrote: > What's the correct way to set-up virtual box so that a user can use it ? > > I found lot's of issues surrounding the use vboxusers group, but under > sid it seems to be very broken. > > The udev file which is supposed to set things up does not seem to exi

Re: Understanding my recurrent network connectivity problems

2010-06-25 Thread H.S.
On 25/06/10 06:07 PM, Merciadri Luca wrote: > H.S. wrote: >> On 06/25/10 14:44, vr wrote: >> >> >> Mac address is usually an issue in cable internet connections. In any >> case, router/modems usually have a feature called "clone mac address" >> exactly for this kind of situation, it clones the m

Trouble with Debian unstable sound

2010-06-25 Thread Tom Epperly
I've been running Debian unstable for a while, and I can't figure out how I am supposed to configure sound applications. For a long time, I had things configured for Alsa, but it seems now that GNOME is starting Pulseaudio which locks that sound device. Other programs seem to want jack. It seem

Re: I cannot write file onto samba share

2010-06-25 Thread Aniruddha
On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 11:43 AM, Andrea Ganduglia wrote: > On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 2:29 AM, Rob Owens wrote: >> Or is this a share on a Windows machine that you're accessing through >> your Debian box? > > It's a USB pen drive attached onto my router. Maybe I can set `umask` > from `mount` paramet

Unable to use wifi

2010-06-25 Thread Nishita Desai
Dear All, I am using Debian 5.0 amd64 version (2.6.26-1-amd64). I would appreciate any help on the following problem: The wifi starts up fine but after a few minutes, the computer simply hangs and all LED indicators are on. Package versions: iwlwifi (0.14+lenny), wpasupplicant (0.6.4-3) I did fi