Re: How do I mount mmc card so that a non-root user has write access?

2013-12-22 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 22/12/13 18:41, kalanga wrote: > On Sat, 21 Dec 2013 11:41:21 -0700 > Bob Proulx wrote: > > > There is no entry for /dev/mmcblk01p1 in fstab. > >> 2) If nothing like the above /etc/fstab entry exists then some desktop >> session daemon is automatically mounting the media for you upon >> ins

Re: fail2ban fails to ban apache...

2013-12-22 Thread Shawn Wilson
"François Patte" wrote: >Bonjour, > >I try to configure fail2ban in order to ban IP which try to connect to >directories protected by .htaccess. > >Here is my [apache] section in jail.conf: > >enabled = true >port = http,https >filter = apache-auth >logpath = /var/log/apache*/*error.log

Re: fail2ban fails to ban apache...

2013-12-22 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 22/12/13 04:01, François Patte wrote: > Bonjour, > > I try to configure fail2ban in order to ban IP which try to connect to > directories protected by .htaccess. Surely you mean "try to configure fail2ban in order to ban IP addresses which repeatedly *fail* to login to a apache protected direc

Re: Changing Hostname?

2013-12-22 Thread Reco
Hi. On Sat, 21 Dec 2013 22:32:06 -0500 Jon N wrote: > It does return the new hostname. But, I started wondering about legal > characters. If you remember my old one was 'localhost-01' but in my > new one I used an underscore (_). According to > netregister.biz/faqit.htm no symbols are usable

Re: How do I mount mmc card so that a non-root user has write access?

2013-12-22 Thread Marko Randjelovic
On Fri, 20 Dec 2013 22:39:32 -0700 Lawrence Galka wrote: > I am running debian wheezy with the lxde desktop environment. When I > insert a mmc card, it gets detected as /dev/mmcblk0p1 and mounted in > /media/. Unfortunately, the /media/ directory is owned by root > and other users do not have

Re: How to load non-free firmware driver

2013-12-22 Thread Robert Parker
On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 2:24 AM, Bob Proulx wrote: > Robert Parker wrote: > > But now when I connect to my wirelees access point it gives me a > > 'connecting' message and finally connects only to immediately drop > > out and start connecting all over again. > > What configuration are you using t

Re: jwm

2013-12-22 Thread Brian
On Sun 22 Dec 2013 at 02:40:09 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > I need help to configure jwm from stable. FWIW some audio packages and > their dependencies are from testing or unstable. My jwm is on unstable. > Is there a way to display icons? Putting Program icon="path/to/png" works here. >

Re: [SOLVED] Re: setting up usb wireless

2013-12-22 Thread Brian
On Sat 21 Dec 2013 at 21:10:41 -0500, Frank McCormick wrote: > Yes I noticed on the Ralink Tech site that some of the drivers > cover a wide range of chipsets. It was weird that the adapter seemed > to be setup but couldn't function under dhcp. . . . . . . . . In and earlier message you said:

Re: jwm

2013-12-22 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Hi Brian On Sun, 2013-12-22 at 13:51 +, Brian wrote: > On Sun 22 Dec 2013 at 02:40:09 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > How can I change the wallpaper to > > > > /usr/share/wallpapers/Grass/[...]? > > Use the full path? This didn't work, but the wallpaper's size doesn't fit to the screen resol

Re: jwm

2013-12-22 Thread Jeff Bauer
On 12/22/2013 08:51 AM, Brian wrote: On Sun 22 Dec 2013 at 02:40:09 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Do I have to edit the whole menu myself or is there a way to use the same menu as other DE's do use? At least for categories like "Internet" it would be nice to automatically get a menu entry when in

Re: jwm

2013-12-22 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2013-12-22 at 09:25 -0500, Jeff Bauer wrote: > On 12/22/2013 08:51 AM, Brian wrote: > > On Sun 22 Dec 2013 at 02:40:09 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > > > >> Do I have to edit the whole menu myself or is there a way to use the > >> same menu as other DE's do use? At least for categories li

dealing with bad file permissions.

2013-12-22 Thread atar
Hi there!! I have in my machine a directory that has the value of '000' as its permissions and even when I switch to the root account (using the 'su' command), I'm not able to 'chown' it nor to 'chmod' it nor to delete it. so my question is simply how can I deal with such a directory or file?

Re: How do I mount mmc card so that a non-root user has write access?

2013-12-22 Thread D.E. Bil
On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 12:39:20PM +0100, Marko Randjelovic wrote: > On Fri, 20 Dec 2013 22:39:32 -0700 > Lawrence Galka wrote: > > > I am running debian wheezy with the lxde desktop environment. When I > > insert a mmc card, it gets detected as /dev/mmcblk0p1 and mounted in > > /media/. Unfor

Re: dealing with bad file permissions.

2013-12-22 Thread Sharon Kimble
On Sun, 22 Dec 2013 17:17:59 +0200 atar wrote: > Hi there!! > > I have in my machine a directory that has the value of '000' as its > permissions and even when I switch to the root account (using the > 'su' command), I'm not able to 'chown' it nor to 'chmod' it nor to > delete it. so my questio

keyboard configuration problem

2013-12-22 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
hi everybody, I recently bought a Logitech wireless keyboard, and since it came from UK, its layout is gb I naïvely thought that I just had to replace, in /etc/default/keyboard: XKBLAYOUT="us" by XKBLAYOUT="gb" and reboot, but that works only for the console mode, although the keyboard ma

Re: keyboard configuration problem

2013-12-22 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 22 dec 13, 18:41:11, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > >61.485] (**) Option "xkb_rules" "evdev" >[61.485] (**) Option "xkb_model" "pc105" >[61.485] (**) Option "xkb_layout" "gb" > > The problem is that the actual layout is still "us", in the login > greeting window as well as in

Re: jwm

2013-12-22 Thread Brian
On Sun 22 Dec 2013 at 15:34:51 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Sun, 2013-12-22 at 09:25 -0500, Jeff Bauer wrote: > > On 12/22/2013 08:51 AM, Brian wrote: > > > > User "rarsa" tackled this issue with Puppy Linux around versions > > 2.12/2.13 ... something with XDG, iirc. Here's a more recent, rel

Re: [SOLVED] google-earth-stable: no imagery.

2013-12-22 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, Running uptodate Sid and google-earth-stable 7.1.1.1888-r0. I get political boundaries, roads, placenames, the weather but no imagery at all, just pure black. I see a bunch of these messages: ERROR:nss_ocsp.cc(581)] No URLRequestContext for OCSP handler. This strik

Re: How do I mount mmc card so that a non-root user has write access?

2013-12-22 Thread Bob Proulx
kalanga wrote: > There is no entry for /dev/mmcblk01p1 in fstab. > ... > How do I find out which daemon is mounting the card? Good question! That is very open ended. It literally could be anything that someone has written and who is the say the limits to someone's creativity? I will start the g

Re: How to load non-free firmware driver

2013-12-22 Thread Bob Proulx
Robert Parker wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > Robert Parker wrote: > > > But now when I connect to my wirelees access point it gives me a > > > 'connecting' message and finally connects only to immediately drop > > > out and start connecting all over again. > > > > What configuration are you using t

Re: Changing Hostname?

2013-12-22 Thread Bob Proulx
Jon N wrote: > It does return the new hostname. But, I started wondering about legal > characters. If you remember my old one was 'localhost-01' but in my > new one I used an underscore (_). According to > netregister.biz/faqit.htm no symbols are usable except the hyphen (-). > No accented chara

Re: dealing with bad file permissions.

2013-12-22 Thread Bob Proulx
atar wrote: > I have in my machine a directory that has the value of '000' as its > permissions and even when I switch to the root account (using the > 'su' command), I'm not able to 'chown' it nor to 'chmod' it nor to > delete it. so my question is simply how can I deal with such a > directory or

Re: jwm

2013-12-22 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2013-12-22 at 18:40 +, Brian wrote: > Damn Small Linux and Slitaz also use jwm. > > You could also see whether > >apt-get install menu > > does anything for you when there is no rc file in $HOME. Installing the package, IOW installing /usr/bin/install-menu /usr/bin/su-to-root /

Re: How do I mount mmc card so that a non-root user has write access?

2013-12-22 Thread Joe
On Sun, 22 Dec 2013 12:59:04 -0700 Bob Proulx wrote: > > You said LXDE. I don't know and was hoping someone else who knew > better about LXDE would say if gnome-volume-manager was being used > there or not. Often XFCE and LXDE use some components from GNOME and > this seems likely to be one of

Nvidia package installation problems

2013-12-22 Thread Jon N
I have been getting pretty good with breaking my system lately. Today I got it in mind to stop downloading the Nvidia binary driver and installing it myself and switch to using the version available as a Debian package. I first uninstalled the downloaded version and rebooted to the normal desktop

Re: Changing Hostname?

2013-12-22 Thread Jon N
On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 3:35 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: > Jon N wrote: <---snip---> > >> Not empty, but if it contains illegal characters it won't make any >> difference. I didn't find any error messages that would clue me in to >> the problem (like: "Warning, you have illegal characters in your >> ho

Re: Re: How do I mount mmc card so that a non-root user has write access?

2013-12-22 Thread kalanga
> I don't know about GNOME. But you 'might' get some information with:- > # grep mmc /var/log/messages > > Also try the following for clues *after* device is plugged in:- > $ mount | grep mmc > > e.g. to find what mounted a removable USB flash device labelled > 5CB5-7511 $ mount | grep -i 5cb5 >

Re: Re: How do I mount mmc card so that a non-root user has write access?

2013-12-22 Thread kalanga
> I will start the guessing by asking about gnome-volume-manager because > no one else suggested anything better. :-) Do you have it installed? > > dpkg -l gnome-volume-manager Apparently it is not installed. I get "no packages found matching gnome-volume-manager" > While changing media: >

Re: Re: How do I mount mmc card so that a non-root user has write access?

2013-12-22 Thread kalanga
I did try to put an entry in fstab with a user option but it did not work. I created a directory /mnt/mmc and tried to mount /dev/mmcblk0p1 as ext3 with user option. Nothing changed. Still mounted at /media/ with root owner. Could not write to it as non-root user. Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Re: Re: How do I mount mmc card so that a non-root user has write access?

2013-12-22 Thread Kushal Kumaran
kalanga writes: >> I will start the guessing by asking about gnome-volume-manager because >> no one else suggested anything better. :-) Do you have it installed? >> >> dpkg -l gnome-volume-manager > > Apparently it is not installed. I get "no packages found matching > gnome-volume-manager" >

Re: Acpi "Lid" Suspend with Eeepc 900 Not Working

2013-12-22 Thread Patrick Bartek
Did my original post below make to the list? Or did it end up being filtered as spam? Just wondering. Any conjecture on why the script is not working? I haven't gotten any where with it. Thanks. B On Sat, 21 Dec 2013, Patrick Bartek wrote: > Installed Wheezy-LXDE 32-bit off LXDE flavor ISO

Re: Re: How do I mount mmc card so that a non-root user has write access?

2013-12-22 Thread kalanga
> Or use pmount: > > $ pmount /dev/mmcblk0p1 > (do your thing) > $ pumount /dev/mmcblk0p1 I tried this as non-root and it mounted the mmc at /mount/mmcblk0p1. However, it was still owned by root and there were no write permissions for other users. When I tried to copy a file to it as non-root i

Re: Nvidia package installation problems

2013-12-22 Thread Jon N
On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 7:15 PM, Jon N wrote: > I have been getting pretty good with breaking my system lately. Today > I got it in mind to stop downloading the Nvidia binary driver and > installing it myself and switch to using the version available as a > Debian package. I first uninstalled th

Re: Acpi "Lid" Suspend with Eeepc 900 Not Working

2013-12-22 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 07:14:09PM -0800, Patrick Bartek wrote: > Did my original post below make to the list? Or did it end up being > filtered as spam? Just wondering. I saw it, so guess others probably did as well. I guess nobody seems to have an answer for you, not yet anyway. Good luck. Gr

Re: Acpi "Lid" Suspend with Eeepc 900 Not Working

2013-12-22 Thread Bob Proulx
Patrick Bartek wrote: > Did my original post below make to the list? Or did it end up being > filtered as spam? Just wondering. I saw it. If you ever wonder then check the mailing list archives. https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2013/12/msg01326.html > Any conjecture on why the script is

Re: Nvidia package installation problems

2013-12-22 Thread Jon N
On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 12:41 AM, Jon N wrote: > On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 7:15 PM, Jon N wrote: <---snip---> > It's getting late so I'm going to have to look at this again in the > morning. I think I should be able to make a new blacklist file for > nouveau (hopefully you can't have it blacklis