Re: Reply To Field in emails

2003-02-18 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Sharninder Singh,,, wrote: > This only happens with debian user ... all the other lists that i > subscribe to set their reply-to addresses back to the list itself. Am i > the only one facing this problem (or feature) or anyone else also > irritated with this ? There are several good reasons not t

Re: OT - Programming Languages w/o English Syntax

2003-10-17 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Am Fr, den 17.10.2003 schrieb Tom um 13:15: > [OT, sorry -- but question is obscure, will be hard to google] > > Are any non-english-speaking readers aware of High-level programming > languages using non-English syntax? Like, could I find a French C > compiler that uses "pour" instead of "for"

Re: lilo+ext3 guru needed...

2003-11-06 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Am 06.11.2003 um 18:03 schrieb LeVA: > So it seems I can not use data=journal with my root partition. I have to > edit /etc/fstab , and change /dev/hda7 ...,data=ordered, if I want > to start my system. > Is this normal? I don't think so... Anybody knows the cure for this > problem? Is the

Re: how to extract attachments from an email?

2003-11-06 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Am 05.11.2003 um 16:44 schrieb Adam Galant: > > > I need a script to extract all attachments from emails and do an action an > > > each of them (scp to a different machine). How to do this? > > > > As they are passing through the MTA, or are they statically sitting > > somewhere? > > Yes, messages

Re: cd to dir with dashes

2003-02-02 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Am 02.02.2003 um 06:45 schrieb Bill Moseley: > Hum, what's the trick to cd in bash in this case? > [..] > moseley@bumby:~/wusage-accounts$ cd \-\-SIMPLE\-ACCOUNT\-\- > -bash: cd: --: invalid option > cd: usage: cd [-L|-P] [dir] Try this: cd -- --SIMPLE_ACCOUNT-- Regards, Dennis -- To UNSUB

Re: ext3 to ext2 convertion

2003-02-13 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Bruno Diniz de Paula wrote: > how can I convert a ext3 partition to ext2? Is it only to change the > type in fstab and reboot? How can I synchronize the modification stored > in the journal file? Simply mounting it is the easy way and should be ok if your filesystem has been correctly unmounted.

Re: [OT] Moving away from KDE to what?

2002-11-12 Thread Dennis Stosberg
TK-based XFCE for a some time. Although it is rather a desktop environment than a window manager it is fairly fast and light-weight. Regards, Dennis -- Dennis Stosberg eMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] gpg key: http://stosberg.net/dennis.asc icq: 63537718 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: natsemi driver with 2.2.20 vs 2.4.18 kernel?

2002-11-12 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Am 12.11.2002 um 01:47 schrieb Everett Anderson: > ...no network apps work (mozilla, ping, etc). When I boot back into > my 2.2.0 kernel, things are fine again. Have you compared ifconfig's outputs in both configurations? Just to be sure... Rgds, Dennis -- Dennis Stosberg eM

Re: natsemi driver with 2.2.20 vs 2.4.18 kernel?

2002-11-12 Thread Dennis Stosberg
sible I could have left out some DHCP support in my > kernel? Is there a way to force DHCP negotiation? DHCP support in the kernel is not important here. People usually use it to mount a root filesystem via network, etc. In your case, dhcpclient will probably the work. Rgds, Dennis -

Re: audio problems

2002-12-02 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Am 02.12.2002 um 13:09 schrieb Bruce Park: > I have a sound blaster live value card and it seems that I cannot > get this to work. I have this driver 'EMU10k1' for this card. When > I try to play an mp3 using xmms, at the prompt it tells me that it > cannot access /dev/dsp. Then xmms pops open a

Re: Wireless Network Setup Problem

2002-12-02 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Am 02.12.2002 um 14:12 schrieb Thomas H. George: > I switched the transmiter back on (led steady on) so my only problem may > be how to set the SSID. Depending on the driver you use, you may set up your ssid (and other parameters like channel, wep, transmitting power...) with iwconfig or wlanc

Re: audio problems

2002-12-02 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Am 02.12.2002 um 14:49 schrieb Bruce Park: > ** warning **: oss_open() failed to open audio device (/dev/dsp): > Permission denied. > > As for the other window, it's just tellin me to check that everything is > correct. I'm currenty using OSS driver or esound. They both don't work. > What else

Re: audio cd

2002-12-03 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Am 03.12.2002 um 16:21 schrieb Bruce Park: > I'm having a problem loading any audio cds. I currently have KDE as a > desktop and I can run mp3 and ogg files. I know the cables are plugged from > the CDRW to the sound card because they work in Windows2000. > Is there something speical I need to d

Re: bad error

2002-12-03 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Am 03.12.2002 um 13:29 schrieb J Q Private: > Both of the other heretofore bootable kernels on the machine (all > 2.4.18) result in the same error during the boot process, and > booting from A: results in a similar message. Take this as a lesson: Always keep a known good kernel image in your boot

Re: audio cd

2002-12-03 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Am 03.12.2002 um 16:39 schrieb Bruce Park: > I'm thinking that I should at least able to see the files in the cdrom > directory. There are no "files" on an audio cd. Everything konqueror shows you is just a virtual representation of the audio tracks. > When I use konqueor to go in there, I se

Re: Mutt mail to Mozilla

2002-12-05 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Am 05.12.2002 um 07:37 schrieb Harvey Kelly: > I know this might be a stupid question, but can I read Mutt mail/folders > with Mozilla? The only import option is for Netscape 4 :( but is there > a plugin perhaps - I fancy using nice graphics instead of command-line > for a bit. You don't even ne

Re: DWL-650 Wireless NIC

2002-12-08 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Am 08.12.2002 um 12:32 schrieb Tom Allison: > Now I am looking at an Orinoco WAP. Wireless connectivity (signal > strength and reported speed) is excellent, better than the D-Link. > But there's no sustainable throughput. If I try to download > anything like a medium sized web page, or open em

Re: How to Identify Mailing Lists

2003-06-05 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Jürgen A.Erhard wrote: > What I'm looking for is a way to tell a mail filtering tool how to > automatically sort mails from mailing lists. Just two days ago Sascha Andres has announced on [EMAIL PROTECTED] that he started to host a list of procmail recipes for mailing lists. At the moment there

Re: usb printer and vmware

2005-05-03 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Am Dienstag, 3. Mai 2005 10:32 schrieb David Garamond: > Whenever the printer is turned on and USB cable plugged in, the > 'printer' kernel module is automatically installed. I had to do > an 'rmmod printer' first before VMWare could claim/use the USB > device. And if the printer is turned off and

Re: kernel installation problem

2005-05-06 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Am Freitag, 6. Mai 2005 07:43 schrieb jenea: > None of them works on my system ;I have mkinitrd v 1.201 , my > system's kernel is v 2.4.27-1-386 ; I use debian distro. > > When I type ( I try to build 2.6.10 kernel ) : > > mkinitrd /boot/initrd-2.6.10.img 2.6.10 > > it gives me mkinitrd help ,

Re: AMD cooling utility in debian

2005-05-09 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Am Montag, 9. Mai 2005 12:27 schrieb Wackojacko: > How do you change which governor it uses though. I have > recently compiled my own kernel with the 'userspace' governor > set as default and compiled the ondemand governor into the > kernel, but I'm not sure its made any difference. Any help woul

Re: Broken part of ram -- 100% broken?

2005-05-09 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Am Montag, 9. Mai 2005 21:44 schrieb Alexander Toresson: > Could linux be setup to not use this area of the ram? Getting > new ram for this computer may not be easy, it's a compaq, so it > may need special compaq ram... dunno if pc100/pc133 would do... Such a kernel patch does exist: http://rick

Re: no mouse under 2.6.8 kernel

2005-05-09 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Am Montag, 9. Mai 2005 21:17 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > i tried modprobe mousedev. That did create the /dev/psaux > and /dev/input/mice. But neither of them work. It allows me to > start X, but the mouse won't move. You need mousedev for the generic mouse support and a second module specific

Re: Limiting ssh scans

2005-05-10 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Am Mittwoch, 11. Mai 2005 06:56 schrieb Bill Wohler: > What sort of precautions have folks taken against ssh scanners? > [...] > A Google search was unfulfilling and not relevant with my Debian > system. There has been long thread on this list about this topic a few days ago and you will find po

Re: how do you protect from spammers in Debian lists?

2005-05-13 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Am Freitag, 13. Mai 2005 12:20 schrieb Nacho: > So I think it's very easy for anybody to automatically extract > all of the email addresses from the web archive. It _is_ very easy and many spammers do that. Your best option probably is to use a second email address for mailing lists only. I

Re: Howto make a boot floppy for my broken system.

2005-05-17 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Am 17.05.2005 um 12:40 schrieb Alex Polite: > My RAID array broke down the other day. Using Knoppix I've managed to > reassemble the array but it won't boot any longer. (Maybe due to the > fact that I've moved the drives around.) Maybe you can move them back into the original order? > Rather t

Re: Bash script problem

2005-05-17 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Am 17.05.2005 um 11:50 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > I have a problem with a bash script. The script (example) is very simple: > > #!/bin/bash > > echo hello > ssh PT-AGCMLX1 "while true; do date; sleep 10s; done" [..] > How can I change my script so that it kills all its child processes, if it

Re: network boot cd?

2005-05-17 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Am 17.05.2005 um 12:19 schrieb Matt Johnson: > What I'd really like is this... > > A cd (knoppix like) that boots, configures network, > configures x, then (and this is the crux) > automatically does an X -query 192.168.0.250 (the ip > of my wonderful terminal server). This makes a Have a look a

Re: sar

2005-05-17 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Am 17.05.2005 um 08:12 schrieb stan: > Is there no sar in Linux/Debian? apt-get seems to anly offere something > called searchaandrescue in it's palce. This doesn't sound right. Does the "atsar" package provide the functionality, you're looking for? Regards, Dennis -- Send personal mail to [E

Re: Is there a way to get 30 GB files through the net ...

2005-05-23 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Am 22.05.2005 um 13:26 schrieb Ibrahim Mubarak: > I am in a bit of weird situation. I am running a dual boot system. I > need to be able to let someone I know but lives far be able to upload > 30 GB or so of data to my PC or download stuff off of it. I also need > to be able to get it all to the w

Re: K3b

2005-05-23 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Am 23.05.2005 um 06:53 schrieb Michael Satterwhite: > Without thinking, I closed the project portion of the K3b window. > Opening it again wasn't a problem, but I can't find any way to redock > the project window with the main window. There has got to be a way to > put the two windows back toge

Re: Error message when insmod realtek 8180 WLAN driver

2005-05-23 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Am 23.05.2005 um 13:23 schrieb Mohammad Halawah: > Context: I want to install the WLAN driver for realtek 8180 using the driver > provided by the manufacturer. > > Problem: When I insert the module using > insmode 8180_26_private.ko > > I get in the shell the following: > insmod: error inserti

Re: K3b

2005-05-24 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Am 23.05.2005 um 09:37 schrieb Michael Satterwhite: > I'd love to, but there is no subwindow. The project window is now > standalone, and the upper right corner only has the normal windows > minimize, maximize and close buttons. I'm trying to get the project > window back to being a subwindow. Al

Re: renice and CGI

2005-05-24 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Am 24.05.2005 um 03:33 schrieb Willie Gnarlson: > Can someone suggest a solution for having an often out of control > search.cgi script run at a certain nice setting? The best solution is probably to fix the CGI itself ;-) > I've looked into auto nice daemon (and) and I don't think that's the >

Re: Terratec TerraTV+ doesn't work

2005-05-28 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Am 27.05.2005 um 11:35 schrieb martin schmidt: > I`ve attached the dmesg output. The last few lines look very good. It seems like the bttv driver recognizes the bt chip. It does _not_ recognize the tuner, though, because it assumes a wrong card type. But you should already be able to watch TV

Re: vesafb-tng

2005-05-28 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Am 27.05.2005 um 20:17 schrieb Gutemberg A. Vieira: > Anyone is using the vesafb-tng[1] for framebuffer? I am trying to patch the > kernel-source-2.6.11 but I can't do it right. Have anyone succeded? I get > something like this: > > # cat ../vesafb-tng-0.9-rc6-2.6.11-rc1.patch | patch -p1 --dry-r

Re: e2fsck problem

2005-06-14 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Am 15.06.2005 um 10:21 schrieb Marco Calviani: > I've tried to run e2fsck /dev/hda but here are the results: > > e2fsck 1.38-WIP (09-May-2005) > Couldn't find ext2 superblock, trying backup blocks... /dev/hda is your complete hard disk. The ext2 file system you want to check is (almost) always

Re: Newbie needs help fine tuning sarge

2005-06-14 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Am 14.06.2005 um 01:38 schrieb j Mak: > 1 My /apt/sources.list is empty, where can i find > repository addresses. There is a tool called "apt-setup", which will help you to make entries for mirrors near you and/or the cdroms you have. Of course, you can always edit your sources.list manually la

Re: Sarge Upgrade Problem Webmail (Imap)

2005-06-14 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Am 14.06.2005 um 09:06 schrieb VFJ - Damiaan Peeters: > When i try to log in i get the error message: > ERROR: > Bad request: The IMAP server is reporting that plain text logins > are disabled. Using CRAM-MD5 or DIGEST-MD5 authentication instead > may work. Also, the use of TLS may allow Squirrel

Re: Marvell Gigabit not working (SuSE 9.3 ok)

2005-06-17 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Am 17.06.2005 um 16:52 schrieb Gebhardt Thomas: > Any hint what I might have missed? (Yes, I've configured > PCI Express support within the kernel) The sk98lin driver in the vanilla kernel does not support all cards, esp. Yukon2 cards. You should try the vendor driver: http://www.syskonnect.com

Re: postfix configuration

2004-07-01 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Am 01.07.2004 um 12:24 schrieb Pau Novella: > Now I had found out that I can modify the name and adress using differents > options in the MUA, but I would like to have the corrects ones fixed in the > postfix configuration. > > Can anybody help me? Use sender_canonical_maps. Put the mapping

Re: postfix configuration

2004-07-01 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Am 01.07.2004 um 19:15 schrieb Dennis Stosberg: > This will cause postfix to rewrite the sender address in all mails > coming from your localuser to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To make "mail" use your correct real name, make sure to have it set in your /etc/passwd. Each user can change

Re: Pick up a shell session after ssh timeout

2004-07-08 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Am 08.07.2004 um 14:11 schrieb LeVA: > > Oh, but it is, by using screen(1), for example. > That is not a solution for the original problem. If you've read that > mail, then you should know that it was about a ping timeoutted session, > which is irrecoverable... The solution which you are talking

Re: Number of Loop devices

2004-05-21 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Am 20.05.2004 um 22:52 schrieb david: > I would like to know how to mount more than 8 loop devices (if this is > permited by the kernel). You probably have loop loaded into the kernel as a module. The loop module has a parameter to specify the number of available devices. To set this option perm

Re: in which package ??

2004-05-11 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Am 11.05.2004 um 09:52 schrieb Roelof Wobben: > Which command can tell me which package i have to install to make > everything good. > > I know that in Suse the command was pin but apt-get couldn't find > it. SuSE has a file named ARCHIVES.gz on their CDs that contains all filenames from all pa

Re: Make local KDM connect to remote KDM automatically?

2004-05-11 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Am 11.05.2004 um 02:50 schrieb Silvan: > I currently have a script out of /etc/init.d that runs X -query [server]. > This works fine as far as my users ever notice, but if there's ever any > reason to kill X, it doesn't respawn, and I have to intervene manually. > > Seems to me like there's so

Re: Komodo IDE C library incompatibility

2004-05-11 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Am 11.05.2004 um 12:23 schrieb Andrew Malcolmson: > What Debian package provides this libc version (I don't > understand the difference of the version numbering for 'libc' & > 'libc6)? wget http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/dists/sarge/Contents-i386.gz zgrep libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3 Contents-i386.g

Re: clearing all arp records ?

2006-05-12 Thread Dennis Stosberg
S t i n g r a y wrote: > Well i cant seem to find a way to clear all the > records in arp cache ... > in other unix versions this commands works > > # arp -a -d > > but here it isnt working ? > > what can i do ? for host in `arp -n | cut -f1 -d' '`; do arp -d $host; done Regards, Dennis --

Re: howto autosave email attachments?

2006-05-12 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > We have a shiny new printer/copier/scanner. It sends scanned pages as email > attachments. Instead of manually selecting individual email adresses on the > cumbersome telephone-like local keyboard, it would be handy to mail all of > them to the same e-mail address a

Re: Making an ext2 filesystem on a DVD+RW

2006-11-09 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > modprobe pktcdvd > > pktsetup /dev/pktcdvd0 /dev/hdd > > ioctl: Inappropriate ioctl for device > > > > Can anyone advise me on this? Make sure that your kernel has pktcdvd support. Then try: pktsetup 0 /dev/hdd If you use udev, the device file /dev/pktcdvd/0 sho

Re: install KDE 3.5 on Debian 3.1

2005-12-27 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Chong Zan Kai wrote: > May I know what is the steps to update KDE of Debian 3.1 to KDE 3.5 ? > Is there any guideline that can recommend to me? I have rebuilt the KDE 3.5.0 packages from alioth for Sarge. You are welcome to try them, but please remember that those packages are backports of _expe

Re: Inetd vs. Xinetd

2005-12-27 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Rick Friedman wrote: > Simply put... being the relative newbie that I am, is there an advantage to > having the xinetd package rather than netkit-inetd? Currently, I have > netkit-inetd installed. Would I be better off removing it and installing > xinetd? That depends solely on your needs. "a

Re: Resize jfs partition

2005-12-27 Thread Dennis Stosberg
dclemen wrote: > Hi, I have "/" directory on a partition with jfs file system. It has > 140Gb size, but I remove another partition with 40Gb that was behind "/" > partition. So I want to resize my / to get these 40Gb. > > I read some sites to resize partitions with: > > # mount -o remount,resize

Re: Chkrootkit report

2005-12-27 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Rick Friedman wrote: > I just ran a program called chkrootkit. It reports the following: > > eth0: PACKET SNIFFER(/usr/sbin/pppd[5072]) > > I realize that 5072 is the process id for pppd. But what is the message > actually saying? Is there a problem with pppd?? Or is this normal? A "packet sni

Re: ext3 journal

2005-12-27 Thread Dennis Stosberg
David Dawson wrote: > How does one locate the ext3 journal? The journal is hidden from the user. It is not a file that you can locate. You can, however, locate the journal inode: $ dumpe2fs /dev/hda1 | grep Journal dumpe2fs 1.37 (21-Mar-2005) Journal inode:8 > In particular I want

Re: Reiser FS hosed?

2006-01-06 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Eric P wrote: > NO REISER4 METADATA WERE FOUND. FS RECOVERY IS NOT POSSIBLE. > > > So this is (ahem) bad, huh? Am I screwed? Or is there any way to > recover some of the files? > Your best option is probably to refer to the reiserfs mailing list for assistance. On the other hand, the (comme

Re: Can`t build modules for VMWARE Workstation

2006-01-21 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Roman Makurin wrote: > Now I`m using kernel 2.6.15 with ck patchset. I create kernel packages with > following command: [..] > The kernel defined by this directory of header files does not have the same > address space size as your running kernel. > > What I need to do to compile vmware modu

Re: lost my root password, howto ?

2006-03-31 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Zouari Fourat wrote: > Is there a case were the root password is unrecoverable. > Or is there any possibility to let a root password unresetable ? > Am just thinking .. There are two possibilities: Either prevent _all_ physical access to the hardware, or encrypt all file systems. As long as an a

Re: lost my root password, howto ?

2006-03-31 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Zouari Fourat wrote: > how can we encode filesystems ? With loop-AES or dm-crypt. But please note that both are not trivial to set up and that you'll have to understand what you're doing. The Disk Encryption HOWTO [1] and the loop-AES README [2] may be good starting points. If you have specifi

Re: lost my root password, howto ?

2006-03-31 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Zouari Fourat wrote: > how can we encode filesystems ? With loop-AES or dm-crypt. But both are not trivial to use and you'll have to know what you are doing if you really want to secure your system. The Disk Encryption HOWTO [1] and the loop-AES README [2] may be good starting points. If you h

Re: UML skas patches for "linux" kernel packages

2006-04-20 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Nic Ferrier wrote: > Does anyone know what I have to do to get a skas host kernel? Why not take the patch directly from its origin? http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade/patches/skas3-2.6/ Regards, Dennis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: Makefile parametrisation

2006-04-25 Thread Dennis Stosberg
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'd like to define a symbol ARCH in my Makefile to be the output > of > uname -m > > The obvious thing, just starting with > > ARCH = `uname -m` > > didn't seem to work. It defined ARCH to be `uname -m' instead of > i686 or x86_64. Not unreasonable, but What *is*

Re: Makefile parametrisation

2006-04-25 Thread Dennis Stosberg
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'd like to define a symbol ARCH in my Makefile to be the output of > uname -m > > The obvious thing, just starting with > > ARCH = `uname -m` > > didn't seem to work. It defined ARCH to be `uname -m' instead of > i686 or x86_64. Not unreasonable, but What *is

Re: swap and /tmp

2006-04-28 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Digby Tarvin wrote: > I am thinking of using a tmpfs for /tmp, and would be interested > to hear any thoughts that others have on this issue. I use tmpfs for /tmp on all of my machines and have so far not found a good reason why I should not. > Obviously it would mean that /tmp would be volatil

Re: High UDP ports showing open on my systems

2006-02-03 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Gabriel M. Beddingfield wrote: > I've been running nmap scans on a couple of my debian systems, and I'm > finding that one unpriviliged UDP port is always showing open, but the port > changes with every scan. Anybody know what's going on? Here's a few tests > (edited for brevity): > > debian

Re: iptables wrong version?

2006-03-13 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Philip Mak wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# iptables -A INPUT --source *.*.*.* -p tcp -j DROP > > iptables v1.2.11: can't initialize iptables table `filter': Module is wrong > version > Perhaps iptables or your kernel needs to be upgraded. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# uname -a > Linux naga

Re: Debian on an AMD64 Processor

2006-03-14 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Andy wrote: > Hello List, Hello Andy, > [..] > Can I run regular Debian Sarge on an AMD64 processor, or do I have to run > the AMD64 port? Both the i386 port and the (unofficial) amd64 port of Sarge will run fine on amd64 hardware. If you're running the i386 port on amd64 hardware you can ch

Re: iptables & programs

2006-03-14 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Pol Hallen wrote: > i'd like block the internet connection on these programs ;-) > > which better solution of this problem? Create an additional user account and run those programs with that user's rights only. Then use the iptables "owner" module to restrict outgoing connections made by that u

Re: Possible security exploit: debian-unstable

2005-07-12 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Am 12.07.2005 um 15:25 schrieb Jose Barroca: > 1) since SMARTMONTOOLS smartctl showed a huge value of > REALLOCATED_SECTOR_Ct, my disk was about to fail; Make a backup of everything important. And do it now. Then reinstall your system onto a new disk. If a hard disk starts to reallocate secto

Re: RealPlayer 10 for Debian?

2005-07-13 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Am 12.07.2005 um 18:29 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Dear friends: > > Is there a special Debian package for RealPlayer 10? Since it is a commercial > package, I'd imagine that it's not part of Sarge itself. Christian Marillat has packaged RealPlayer 10 for Debian. See http://debian.video.free.

Re: fsck on ext3 drives. Do we need to routinely? how to shut off or change 30 boot/180 day settings or why should I not?

2005-07-15 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Am 15.07.2005 um 07:09 schrieb Mitchell Laks: > I noticed that never happened in the old days when I ran redhat/fedora. They > did away with this routine fsck (sometime around 6.2 -> 7 or 7.2 transition > as I recall) when they switched from ext2 to ext3 as I recall. > > This occurs during /et

Re: OOo install, architecture mismatch?

2005-07-15 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Am 15.07.2005 um 14:54 schrieb Hans du Plooy: > dpkg: error processing openofficeorg-base-1.9.117-linux-2.6-intel.deb > (--install): > package architecture (intel) does not match system (i386) > > dpkg --force doesn't help. I'm pretty sure they're the right ones for Have you tried --force-arch

Re: Cd writing tool under Linux

2005-07-16 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Am 16.07.2005 um 06:15 schrieb Benjamin Sher: > Those are not my instructions but those of the author, who very explicitly > requires that K3b always run as root. And what do you think, why the k3b authors wrote "k3bsetup", which sets up all of cdrecord, cdrdao, growisofs, etc. in a way to be us

Re: Numlock at startup?

2005-07-21 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Am 21.07.2005 um 09:39 schrieb Johan: > Kindly pleas where and how can I set debian sarge to activate the > numlock key. If you want to activate num-lock for your text consoles, have a look at "setleds": setleds +num < /dev/tty1 Will activate num-lock for the first text console (dev/tty1

Re: sshd talks to much in the logs

2005-07-21 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Am 21.07.2005 um 02:38 schrieb hakim: > I have installed a debian sarge. After I have instaled several packages > I recognized that in my systemlogs sshd gives me debug output: > [..] > All this is only for one ssh connection. I checked the start scripts > but the debug mode is not enabled so far

Re: sshd talks to much

2005-07-21 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Am 21.07.2005 um 11:51 schrieb Achim Stumpf: > I have installed debian sarge. After the installation of a few packages > I recognized that sshd is in debug mode: > [...] > All this is for one session. If I check with ps aux, I see that ssh is > invoked without any parameters. Could anyone tell me

Re: recover files after mkdosfs

2005-07-29 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Am 29.07.2005 um 00:08 schrieb Joubin Moshrefzadeh: > oops... i did what I'm sure everyone warns against... > > I'd backed up all my movies/music on /dev/hdb3 and created /dev/hdb7, and > sure enough, I mistakenly pointed mkdosfs at /dev/hdb3 instead of the newly > created partition. > > any th

Re: Kernel 2.6.12 borked my udev rules

2005-07-02 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Am 01.07.2005 um 18:17 schrieb Deviant User: > This allows me to mount a usb thumb drive as > /dev/USB_Flash_Disk. Can somebody tell me what's wrong, if > any, with the rules, and how I could change it to conform > with the new "rules" for linux 2.6.12? Udev < 058 has problems with 2.6.12. I've

Re: HELP- Grub problem, I can't load WInXP

2005-09-26 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Am 26.09.2005 um 14:17 schrieb Andy: > Anyway, here is the deal: > I have a few drives, one with win98 (don't ask!), one with win xp, and one > with Debian Sid. I had grub happily booting everything until recently when > WinXP experienced some HDD corruption and I had to do a repair. Obviously,

Re: How can I install Opera?

2005-09-26 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Am 27.09.2005 um 13:29 schrieb rosetta: > Hi all > > I have install the deb package that downloaded from opera.com. > But when I run opera, there are some errors: > ERROR: ld.so: object 'libjvm.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored. > ERROR: ld.so: object 'libawt.so' from LD_PRELOA

Re: Cannot access the computer

2005-09-27 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Am 27.09.2005 um 13:04 schrieb Mitja Podreka: > I have a big problem. I have six new computers running Mandrake. I would like > to migrate them to Debian, but everything is password protected and the people > who installed the original OS forgot all the passwords. > I tried today to boot from a li

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

2005-09-28 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Am 28.09.2005 um 09:45 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Good time for all. > > I run chkrootkit and it returns : > ... > Checking `bindshell'... INFECTED (PORTS: 3049) > ... > > What I need to do ? Links are welcome. You will probably want to find out, whether your system is infected or not. The

Re: /lib deleted

2005-10-16 Thread Dennis Stosberg
theal wrote: > The /lib directory was deleted by accidentally on one of my > servers. Does anyone know of a way to recover this? Your best and simplest option is, of course, to restore your latest backup. But since you're asking here, I assume that no backup exists. I don't think it a good id

Re: How can I update udev???

2005-11-29 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Günther Obrist wrote: > But I need this RUN rule to realise my project...Does any of you > have an debian packege for me to update it or what can I do to get > a newer release?? I've built a back-ported udev 070 for Sarge a few weeks ago, which is running happily here on three machines. It requi