Re: simple exim configuration

2005-09-02 Thread Simo PW Kauppi
On Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 06:44:17PM -0700, Paul Scott wrote: > On Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 11:29:14PM +0300, Simo PW Kauppi wrote: > > > > It is probably so that your own box tries to deliver the message to > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] and fails. Then it sends the failure to the sender > > which in this case i

Re: where is hw_random located in the modconf's menu?

2005-09-02 Thread L.V.Gandhi
On 9/3/05, kamaraju kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I would like to disable hw_random loading at the boot time. One approachis to put the entry in the /etc/modules. But I would like to disable itthrough modconf's interface. But I could not find it in the modconf's menu and I do not think ther

Re: question for sources.list

2005-09-02 Thread Paul E Condon
On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 12:09:39AM +0200, David Jardine wrote: > On Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 02:48:33PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > > > > > > "Don't use release code names in configuring the apt system." > > > > seems to me to be a good general rule. > > > > As a comment to those who have used c

Re: nohup, but not nohup.out -- how to?

2005-09-02 Thread Marc Wilson
On Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 02:03:15PM +0200, Kai Grossjohann wrote: > I was hoping I could say something like "nohup -f somefile > somecommand" or "nohup -o somefile somecommand", but nohup doesn't > seem to accept command line arguments like this. And since you have the source for the application, t

Re: Problem with xdm

2005-09-02 Thread Marc Wilson
On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 06:09:21PM +0100, Tim Bedding wrote: > However, the words Login and Password seem to be in a smaller > font than I would expect. What kind of silly statement is that? Did you perhaps LOOK to see what font xdm was configured to use, and whether that font was actually availa

Re: KDE Clarification

2005-09-02 Thread David R. Litwin
It applies to maintainers. It's urging them to upload new versions of theirpackages that depend on newer KDE and C++ ABI stuff. Not all of them have been uploaded yet so, naturally, not all of them can be downloaded by youyet. This is what's causing all the conflicts and things you are seeing insyn

Re: automate printing of html-formatted pages?

2005-09-02 Thread Alvin Oga
On Fri, 2 Sep 2005, Matt Price wrote: ... > wget -m -k http://some.website.com/ > > and then: > > #! /bin/bash > find /path/to/top/level -type f -iname *.html | while read file; do > html2ps -gn $file > "$file".ps ; > done > find /path/to/top/level -type f -iname *.html | while read psfile; d

Re: question about ehternet config and SCSI

2005-09-02 Thread David R. Litwin
On 02/09/05, smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: i have Debian 3.0 and kernel 2.4. during installation, i say no to ethernet config. now i have ethernet, how to config it? how to use DHCP to auto-config it?   i have AIC-6360L chip SCSI card, compile kernel 2.4 for it, but it does not work! Try running

Do we still need libc5?

2005-09-02 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
Hi all, Debian unstable & testing still carry around libc5, and some associated packages like altgcc, libdb1, ld.so and a few others. Is there nowadays still a use for these packages? Does the amount of usage warrant the efforts it take to maintain these rather outdated packages? I get a mixed re

automate printing of html-formatted pages?

2005-09-02 Thread Matt Price
Ho folks, My partner needs to print out copies of all the content in her mid-sized, statically-generated website (I know this is a stupid idea, but it's for her tenure file and there are lots and lots of stupid elements in this process). This seems like something one ought to be able to do autom

Re: Apache2 & MySQL

2005-09-02 Thread Steve Å
On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 10:16:49PM +0800 or thereabouts, Robert Vangel wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Steve Å wrote: > > > > > > Hello Ben: > > > > Yeah I have everything installed that I need -- Did PHP4-MySQL get enabled > > automatically for you, or did you have

Re: IDE mondorestore DVD to Perc4 Raid machine

2005-09-02 Thread Alvin Oga
On Fri, 2 Sep 2005, John Fleming wrote: > Now I want to use the 600SC's mondo backup DVD to restore (clone to) a Dell > PowerEdge 1850 with a perc 4eid raid 1 controller. Note that I can install > Sarge from scratch (not the mondo backup) on the 1850 with a 2.4 kernel just > fine. However,

Re: simple exim configuration

2005-09-02 Thread Paul Scott
On Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 11:29:14PM +0300, Simo PW Kauppi wrote: > > It is probably so that your own box tries to deliver the message to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] and fails. Then it sends the failure to the sender > which in this case is [EMAIL PROTECTED] which should also fail > because it shouldn't go t

Re: Windows Server to Debian migration

2005-09-02 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Roberto C. Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.09.03.0311 +0200]: > I seem to recall on an episode of MacGyver where MacGyver took > some duck tape, Please watch your words! It would be more politically correct to use the term "duct tape", rather than the brand name here. First of all, d

Re: Windows Server to Debian migration

2005-09-02 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 08:33:48PM -0400, Joseph H. Fry wrote: > I am the network administrator for one school of my university and I am > considering migrating our Windows 2000 Server to Debian due to some > stability issues and of course the financial factors. > Good. > We only have one windows

IDE mondorestore DVD to Perc4 Raid machine

2005-09-02 Thread John Fleming
I'm using current Debian Stable (Sarge). I routinely use mondoarchive to make a bootable DVD of my whole system on a Dell 600SC with an IDE drive. This DVD is capable of restoring to bare metal if necessary. I've never tried it on the 600SC because I've never had to. However, I have used it t

Windows Server to Debian migration

2005-09-02 Thread Joseph H. Fry
I am the network administrator for one school of my university and I am considering migrating our Windows 2000 Server to Debian due to some stability issues and of course the financial factors. We only have one windows server in the network and it is providing nearly every service offered on our n

question about ehternet config and SCSI

2005-09-02 Thread smith
i have Debian 3.0 and kernel 2.4. during installation, i say no to ethernet config. now i have ethernet, how to config it? how to use DHCP to auto-config it?   i have AIC-6360L chip SCSI card, compile kernel 2.4 for it, but it does not work! __Do You

Re: can't unlock /dev/lp0

2005-09-02 Thread Colin
Haines Brown wrote: > I'm running 2.6.8 kernel with sarge and installed lprng. Print jobs > are put in queue, but nothing happens. The /dev/lp0 gets locked, but > removing /var/spool/lpd/lp/lock.pr does not help. ... > It turns out that the problem is that /dev/lp0 is busy: It sounds like you do

Re: Which Java for browser plugins?

2005-09-02 Thread Andy Streich
On Thursday 01 September 2005 07:10 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I used java-package along with Sun's Java 5.  Instructions here: > > http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/142 > > Great article!  That works for me.  Thanks for your help. > > Returning to my original question of free D

Re: grub-md5-crypt

2005-09-02 Thread Joe Smith
My understanding is the hashes returned should match. Is this correct? I may be barking up the wrong tree but I think this is my >problem. The the hashes are salted, which helps deter cracking of the passwords. For that reason the same password may yeild different outputs. It may be possible that

Samba as a primary controller

2005-09-02 Thread Glyn Tebbutt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi In recent week's I've decide to do thing's properly and setup a proper dns/dhcp server (using dnsmasq) and using samba for authentication (mostly for the windows clients). I'm using a pretty much standard debian sarge smb.conf just a couple of edits

Re: question for sources.list

2005-09-02 Thread David Jardine
On Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 02:48:33PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > > I have just run a test of the use of 'sarge' in apt.conf. > On my machine, currently running sarge/stable, the statement > APT::DefaultRelease "sarge" > has no effect. Aptitude still goes for the highest version > number, which ha

Re: question for sources.list

2005-09-02 Thread Paul E Condon
On Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 11:58:20AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > roberto wrote: > >Hello, i was using sarge-testing for my laptop but now that sarge is > >stable should i modify my sources.list substituting "testing" with > >"stable"?? > > > >Here is my sources.list > > > ># Official

Re: simple exim configuration

2005-09-02 Thread Simo PW Kauppi
On Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 01:07:10PM -0700, Paul Scott wrote: > On Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 10:49:29PM +0300, Simo PW Kauppi wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 11:42:57AM -0700, Paul Scott wrote: > > > I have read the info file and some man pages and experimented and don't > > > know how to get exim to

Re: simple exim configuration

2005-09-02 Thread Simo PW Kauppi
On Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 01:07:10PM -0700, Paul Scott wrote: > On Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 10:49:29PM +0300, Simo PW Kauppi wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 11:42:57AM -0700, Paul Scott wrote: > > > I have read the info file and some man pages and experimented and don't > > > know how to get exim to

where is hw_random located in the modconf's menu?

2005-09-02 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
I would like to disable hw_random loading at the boot time. One approach is to put the entry in the /etc/modules. But I would like to disable it through modconf's interface. But I could not find it in the modconf's menu and I do not think there is any search facility in the modconf's program. S

Re: simple exim configuration

2005-09-02 Thread Paul Scott
On Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 10:49:29PM +0300, Simo PW Kauppi wrote: > On Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 11:42:57AM -0700, Paul Scott wrote: > > I have read the info file and some man pages and experimented and don't > > know how to get exim to deliver mail to a remote site. > > > > I am using 'dpkg-reconfigur

Re: Re: need to disable laptop touchpad completely: 80+ year old debian user touches it by accident

2005-09-02 Thread Leszek Koltunski
I had a similar problem on my Thinkpad R51 and I just switched the touchpad off in BIOS. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: keeping a module from loading - sarge install

2005-09-02 Thread Nate Duehr
Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > > But why would you want discover when hotplug is already there ? > You can simple remove it. > Good question -- I put them both back because I guessed that the installer team is smarter than I am, and they install both during the Sarge installation. ;-) Nate -- To

Re: question for sources.list

2005-09-02 Thread Paul E Condon
On Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 07:20:21PM +0200, Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote: > On Fri, 2005-09-02 at 18:59 +0200, roberto wrote: > > Hello, i was using sarge-testing for my laptop but now that sarge is > > stable should i modify my sources.list substituting "testing" with > > "stable"?? > > Yes. > But

Re: can i use Secondry ip on firewall

2005-09-02 Thread Sebastian Kayser
* partha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am using firewall-jay and Squid. > > eth0 global ip > eth1 local ip (192.168.3.1) > > Can i have secondary ip (192.168.4.1) on the eth1? > And use the squid for this subnet to access > internet? I don't know what firewall-jay ist but sure you can bind a se

Re: simple exim configuration

2005-09-02 Thread Simo PW Kauppi
On Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 11:42:57AM -0700, Paul Scott wrote: > I have read the info file and some man pages and experimented and don't know > how to get exim to deliver mail to a remote site. > > I am using 'dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config' to configure. See file below. > > My ISP returns: > >

Re: nohup, but not nohup.out -- how to?

2005-09-02 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
Kai Grossjohann wrote: I am very fond of doing "nohup somecommand & sleep 1; tail -f nohup.out" to start a background job and then watch its output. Then I can stop watching the output and log out and the job continues. I'm a serious noob so here's a guess: nohup somecommand & sleep 1; ln -

Re: Putty (plink) causes zombie process while executing a command

2005-09-02 Thread David Jardine
Preamble: I don't know if I'll be able to help you on this since I know nothing about plink except what I've just discovered with apt-cache show putty-tools :( On Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 08:02:27AM -0700, Martin Burger wrote: > Hello, > > I'm trying to execute a command on my Sarge box using plink

Re: mounting large hfsplus partion

2005-09-02 Thread Paul E Condon
On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 06:11:43PM -0700, Ric Otte wrote: > Hi, > > I have a 300gb drive that I separated into two 150gb partitions: one > hfsplus (for macs to backup to) and one ext3. I formatted the hfsplus > partion on a mac, but when I mount it using mount -thfsplus /dev/hdc2 > /HFS, the part

Re: question for sources.list

2005-09-02 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
Hendrik Boom wrote: On Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 11:58:20AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: yes you need to put deb http://ftp./debian/ stable main... deb-src http:///debian/ stable main ... sources.list tells apt where to find the packages. but you also need to edit /etc/apt/apt.co

Re: question for sources.list

2005-09-02 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 11:58:20AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > yes you need to put > > deb http://ftp./debian/ stable main... > deb-src http:///debian/ stable main ... > > sources.list tells apt where to find the packages. > > but you also need to edit /etc/apt/apt.conf My

Re: lame server

2005-09-02 Thread Conall O'Brien
On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 01:47:27PM IST, Graham Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> incoherently babbled: > by loads I mean 10 to 20 a minute for about an hour. They come in groups with > an IP address being repeated 4 or 5 times then another one is tried. I am at > a loss to figure out what is doing so m

Re: Coexistence of Qt3 and Qt4 development (or at least compilation)

2005-09-02 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Gregory Seidman wrote: I have written some apps with Qt3 and I still work on them from time to time. I have libqt3-mt-dev installed for this purpose. I'd like to start working with Qt4, so I tried installing libqt4-dev. Of course, it conflicts with libqt3-mt-dev. Is this a permanent situation? I'

Re: question for sources.list

2005-09-02 Thread David Jardine
On Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 07:20:21PM +0200, Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote: > On Fri, 2005-09-02 at 18:59 +0200, roberto wrote: > > Hello, i was using sarge-testing for my laptop but now that sarge is > > stable should i modify my sources.list substituting "testing" with > > "stable"?? > > Yes. > But

can't unlock /dev/lp0

2005-09-02 Thread Haines Brown
I'm running 2.6.8 kernel with sarge and installed lprng. Print jobs are put in queue, but nothing happens. The /dev/lp0 gets locked, but removing /var/spool/lpd/lp/lock.pr does not help. # lpq Printer: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 'Generic dot-matrix printer entry' Queue: 1 printable job Server: pi

grub-md5-crypt

2005-09-02 Thread FRANK Blackwelder
I am having some difficulty with grub-md5-crypt. I am hoping that someone will point out where I am going wrong. I have no trouble running grub-md5-crypt and getting the hash into the config file. However upon reboot and being prompted for the password, the authentication fails. I am using a v

Re: question for sources.list

2005-09-02 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
roberto wrote: Hello, i was using sarge-testing for my laptop but now that sarge is stable should i modify my sources.list substituting "testing" with "stable"?? Here is my sources.list # Official Debian mirror deb http://ftp.it.debian.org/debian/ testing main non-free contrib deb-src http://

Re: keeping a module from loading - sarge install

2005-09-02 Thread Jason Clinton
On Friday 02 September 2005 1:18 pm, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > But why would you want discover when hotplug is already there ? > You can simple remove it. I could be misinformed, but I believe that both systems are there because hotplug is in the process of being deprecated in favor of discover.

Re: keeping a module from loading - sarge install

2005-09-02 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Nate Duehr wrote: >> If using hotplug, blacklist the module >> > Just so the list archives have correct info... hotplug blacklisting is > only half of the fix... you'd also have to keep discover v1 (the default > version of discover on Sarge in the in

simple exim configuration

2005-09-02 Thread Paul Scott
I have read the info file and some man pages and experimented and don't know how to get exim to deliver mail to a remote site. I am using 'dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config' to configure. See file below. My ISP returns: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unrouteable address I have an idea that there is som

Re: confused on mailman

2005-09-02 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 06:06:07PM +0100, Joe Mc Cool wrote: > so far I have: > > apt-get install mailman > > I've read: > > http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/108 > > and carried out all the instructions except adding the following lines > to my apache config file: > >Alias /p

Re: Netware login from linux without IPX

2005-09-02 Thread Jason Clinton
Yes. One has to use pam_ldap and nssldap to accomplish this. You must also extend your Netware schema to support posixAccount classes and use some kind of LDIF creation screen to modify all the accounts in your tree to support posixAccount. Not an easy task. It will take you about a week to do

confused on mailman

2005-09-02 Thread Joe Mc Cool
Please, sarge, mailman, exim4: all I wish to do is set up a simple mailing list for family use. Any family subscriber can post a message and any family subscriber can respond. Much like debian-user. so far I have: apt-get install mailman I've read: http://www.debian-administration.org/a

Re: question for sources.list

2005-09-02 Thread Oliver Lupton
roberto wrote: Hello, i was using sarge-testing for my laptop but now that sarge is stable should i modify my sources.list substituting "testing" with "stable"?? [snip] -- roberto debian sarge, kernel 2.6.8 If you want to stay with sarge (and run stable) then yes, I think you need to. If

Re: question for sources.list

2005-09-02 Thread Rakotomandimby Mihamina
On Fri, 2005-09-02 at 18:59 +0200, roberto wrote: > Hello, i was using sarge-testing for my laptop but now that sarge is > stable should i modify my sources.list substituting "testing" with > "stable"?? Yes. But it would have been simpler if you directly used "sarge", instead of "testing/unstable/

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question for sources.list

2005-09-02 Thread roberto
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can i use Secondry ip on firewall

2005-09-02 Thread partha
I am using firewall-jay and Squid. eth0 global ip eth1 local ip (192.168.3.1) Can i have secondary ip (192.168.4.1) on the eth1? And use the squid for this subnet to access internet? ~R Partha, -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Re: Debian Laptop problem and guide repository.

2005-09-02 Thread Philippe Grenard
> To add my useless two cents: > > I will (very soon now) be getting a Toshiba A70 laptop, on to which I will, > of course, put Debian. So, any help I can get for this installation will be > much Appreciated. In addition, I would be quite willing to assist in any > way I can, though I do say earnes

Gaim and multiple ICQ accounts

2005-09-02 Thread Wayne Sitton
Hi all, I'm running Debian Sid. A weird thing happened the other day after an update. I have accounts with all the different IM protocols, msn, yim, aim, gmail, icq, and have been running gaim just fine. I have 3 different ICQ accounts on there an have not had a problem. Had the same running u

Re: maildrop and mysql, temporary failure. Command output: maildrop: signal 0x0B

2005-09-02 Thread Matt Okeson-Harlow
Oops! /etc/maildropmysql.config was 600 and owned by root.root. Fixing the ownership (vmail.vmail) and voila, it works. This update of maildrop was for it not dropping root perms properly, guess it works now =)On 9/2/05, Matt Okeson-Harlow < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:This was working before the lat

Re: nohup, but not nohup.out -- how to?

2005-09-02 Thread Paul Smith
%% Kai Grossjohann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: kg> Maurits van Rees <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> On Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 02:03:15PM +0200, Kai Grossjohann wrote: >>> David Jardine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> >>> > nuhup somecommand > somefile & sleep 1; tail -f somefile

missing gnome menu items

2005-09-02 Thread Angelo Bertolli
Hi, I was wondering if anyone else has experienced missing gnome menu items. I recently reinstalled debian on my laptop, and I found that a couple of items, for setting the screen saver and for managing gnome sessions, are missing. They were there before I reinstalled, and the programs exist

Putty (plink) causes zombie process while executing a command

2005-09-02 Thread Martin Burger
Hello, I'm trying to execute a command on my Sarge box using plink (Putty) on Windows XP. E.g.: plink -A -2 -ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] ls -l But instead of listing my home directory in my dos box, the command hangs. If I check the processes on Sarge, I see a zombie process "[ls] ". After killing the

Fwd: script to start fetchmail daemon for users on startup

2005-09-02 Thread Clive Menzies
- Forwarded message from Clive Menzies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > From: Clive Menzies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2005 16:18:47 +0100 > Subject: script to start fetchmail daemon for users on startup > > Hi > > Googling around for ways to start t

script to start fetchmail daemon for users on startup

2005-09-02 Thread Clive Menzies
Hi Googling around for ways to start the fetchmail daemon on behalf of the various users, I came across what looks like a good script on the following link: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=30838 The script, written by Vince Parsons, is for Fedora although a debian version is mentio

Re: Sarge Sound Issues

2005-09-02 Thread Debian User Leonard Chatagnier
Ben Alls wrote: kde uses oss by default, try to set arts to use ALSA in the KControl panel. go to sound options, and advanced (i think) to change the driver to alsa rather than oss. if that doesnt work, try un-installin alsa and adding snd-mixer-oss and snd-pcm-oss to you /etc/modules file. i

maildrop and mysql, temporary failure. Command output: maildrop: signal 0x0B

2005-09-02 Thread Matt Okeson-Harlow
This was working before the latest update to maildrop. apt-get source maildrop edit the rules file to add mysql support. ... --enable-sendmail=/usr/sbin/sendmail --enable-maildirquota --enable-maildropmysql ... then $ dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -uc -band install the resulting .debHowever, now

Re: nohup, but not nohup.out -- how to?

2005-09-02 Thread Kai Grossjohann
Maurits van Rees <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 02:03:15PM +0200, Kai Grossjohann wrote: >> David Jardine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> >nuhup somecommand > somefile & sleep 1; tail -f somefile >> >> That will write "nohup: appending output to `nohup.out'" to the f

Re: Prelinking

2005-09-02 Thread Jon Dowland
On Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 11:35:06AM +, Florian Dorpmueller wrote: > Until yet I haven?t found any negative consequences. If you don?t want > to use it any longer you can simply remove it without fearings. BTW: > The best performance gain I got with oooprelink which made the > starting process of

Re: Prelinking

2005-09-02 Thread Mark Crean
On Fri, 2005-09-02 at 12:26 +0100, Jon Dowland wrote: [snip] > On a slow machine, I've noticed very slight improvements (slight enough > to be imagined) with C++ apps (the KDE suite for example), that didn't > quite make it usable enough. [snip] Thanks very much to you and to Florian for the repli

Re: nohup, but not nohup.out -- how to?

2005-09-02 Thread Maurits van Rees
On Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 02:03:15PM +0200, Kai Grossjohann wrote: > David Jardine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > nuhup somecommand > somefile & sleep 1; tail -f somefile > > That will write "nohup: appending output to `nohup.out'" to the file > somefile :-) > > The output from somecommand

[SOLVED] Re: Users cannot connect to ftp server

2005-09-02 Thread Jacob Friis
On 9/1/05, Jacob Friis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have users who was created a long time ago who can connect to my > server via FTP. > Now, when I create new users, they cannot connect via FTP. > I use vsftp on Debian stable. > Any ideas? I solved this by: I copied /etc/pam.d/ssh to /etc/pam.d

Re: Settings in /etc/rc[1-6,S].d needed.

2005-09-02 Thread Martin Lederer
Well, figured it out myself: Re-install initscripts. Martin Lederer schrieb: Hello! I've got a problem: I have chanced some settings in the /etc/rc1-6.d- and /etc/rcS.d-sections. Now, some things "mysteriously" stopped working and, unfortunately, I don't have a backup from the original setti

Re: Settings in /etc/rc[1-6,S].d needed.

2005-09-02 Thread Martin Lederer
Well, figured it out myself: Re-install initscripts. Martin Lederer schrieb: Hello! I've got a problem: I have chanced some settings in the /etc/rc1-6.d- and /etc/rcS.d-sections. Now, some things "mysteriously" stopped working and, unfortunately, I don't have a backup from the original setti

Re: nohup, but not nohup.out -- how to?

2005-09-02 Thread Kai Grossjohann
David Jardine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > nuhup somecommand > somefile & sleep 1; tail -f somefile That will write "nohup: appending output to `nohup.out'" to the file somefile :-) The output from somecommand will still end up in nohup.out. I was hoping I could say something like "nohup

Re: Why do SSH cracking attempts start with "Did not receive identification string"?

2005-09-02 Thread Dave Ewart
On Friday, 02.09.2005 at 12:24 +0100, Adam Funk wrote: > My logs from SSH cracking attempts often start like this. > > Sep 2 00:01:09 foo sshd[6988]: Did not receive identification string from > 1.2.3.4 > Sep 2 00:05:30 foo sshd[7832]: Failed password for illegal user root from > 1.2.3.4 port

Re: Why do SSH cracking attempts start with "Did not receive identification string"?

2005-09-02 Thread Robert Waldner
On Fri, 02 Sep 2005 12:24:54 BST, Adam Funk writes: >Sometimes the interval between "Did not receive" and the first "Failed >password" is as long as 20 minutes. Why do the SSH cracking programs >omit the string the first time, and why do they wait a while after >that to start trying userids and p

Coexistence of Qt3 and Qt4 development (or at least compilation)

2005-09-02 Thread Gregory Seidman
I have written some apps with Qt3 and I still work on them from time to time. I have libqt3-mt-dev installed for this purpose. I'd like to start working with Qt4, so I tried installing libqt4-dev. Of course, it conflicts with libqt3-mt-dev. Is this a permanent situation? I'd really like them to coe

Why do SSH cracking attempts start with "Did not receive identification string"?

2005-09-02 Thread Adam Funk
My logs from SSH cracking attempts often start like this. Sep 2 00:01:09 foo sshd[6988]: Did not receive identification string from 1.2.3.4 Sep 2 00:05:30 foo sshd[7832]: Failed password for illegal user root from 1.2.3.4 port 45069 ssh2 Sep 2 00:05:31 foo sshd[7834]: Failed password for ille

Re: Starting background process in ssh session

2005-09-02 Thread Greg Norris
On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 10:17:33PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > OK. I should have been more precise in my explanation then. I am > redirecting like this: > > command >log.txt 2>&1 & > > Is that causing it then? Possibly. Try redirecting stdin to /dev/null as well... that frequently tak

RE: Prelinking

2005-09-02 Thread Florian Dorpmueller
I wonder if anyone with experience of installing and using prelink would tell me whether they've found it worthwhile or not. Also, is the process irrevocable in practice, or can I back out and uninstall if it doesn't work that well? I am using prelink regurlarly on my installation (prelink -avm

Re: Prelinking

2005-09-02 Thread Jon Dowland
On Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 11:56:04AM +0100, Mark Crean wrote: > I wonder if anyone with experience of installing and using prelink > would tell me whether they've found it worthwhile or not. Also, is the > process irrevocable in practice On a slow machine, I've noticed very slight improvements (slig

Prelinking

2005-09-02 Thread Mark Crean
I wonder if anyone with experience of installing and using prelink would tell me whether they've found it worthwhile or not. Also, is the process irrevocable in practice, or can I back out and uninstall if it doesn't work that well? I'm running Debian primarily as a desktop here (Sid, with Gnome)

Re: nohup, but not nohup.out -- how to?

2005-09-02 Thread David Jardine
On Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 10:59:21AM +0200, Kai Grossjohann wrote: > I am very fond of doing "nohup somecommand & sleep 1; tail -f > nohup.out" to start a background job and then watch its output. Then > I can stop watching the output and log out and the job continues. > > But what I don't like is

Re: keeping a module from loading - sarge install

2005-09-02 Thread Nate Duehr
Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > If using hotplug, blacklist the module > Just so the list archives have correct info... hotplug blacklisting is only half of the fix... you'd also have to keep discover v1 (the default version of discover on Sarge in the installer, but discover2 is available?!) from tryi

Re: EPSON CX-3500

2005-09-02 Thread Johann Spies
On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 03:53:43PM +, Prabu Subroto wrote: > > Anybody use EPSON CX-3500 on debian? I succeed to use its > scanner but I have to launch the xsane as a root (a poor > solution of mine). I want the normal user can use the > scanner with xsane. > > About the printer is really

/etc/aliases.db: Invalid argument

2005-09-02 Thread Vir Sot
Good morning! Following an upgrade from woody to sarge on a test machine, postfix seems to have problems. When I try to connect to port 25 it hangs and I never get the 220 welcome message, while the logs claim this: Sep 2 10:52:28 KOPIA postfix/smtpd[20390]: fatal: open database /etc/aliases.db:

nohup, but not nohup.out -- how to?

2005-09-02 Thread Kai Grossjohann
I am very fond of doing "nohup somecommand & sleep 1; tail -f nohup.out" to start a background job and then watch its output. Then I can stop watching the output and log out and the job continues. But what I don't like is that it is writing to nohup.out. I'd prefer another filename, one that I c

Re: kernel-image-2.6.8-2-k7, and parallel port printing

2005-09-02 Thread Robert Waldner
On Thu, 01 Sep 2005 00:03:51 +0200, Robert Waldner writes: >2.6.8: >parport: PnPBIOS parport detected. >parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778), irq 7, dma 3 > [PCSPP,TRISTATE,COMPAT,ECP,DMA] >parport0: Legacy device >lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven). FWIW, I toyed around with the opti

Name resolver problem after upgrade from woody to sarge

2005-09-02 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Hi, (sorry if you receive this twice, I sent it a couple of days ago but the email has still not appeared in the archives, so I try again) I have just upgraded my machine at home from woody to sarge and now the name resolution doesn't work anymore. To be more precise, programs such as Mozilla or

Re: gconfd errors in /var/log/messages

2005-09-02 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: Sep 1 14:18:30 localhost gconfd (raju-7859): Resolved address "xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory" to a read-only configuration source at position 0 Sep 1 14:18:30 localhost gconfd (raju-7859): Resolved address "xml:readwrite:/home/rajulocal/.gconf" to a w

now only smtp was Re: fetchmailing with procmail for mutt

2005-09-02 Thread BUYO-BUYO-IGOR
thanks fetchmail and procmail went groovy ok but when sending # ing it went into: Mailing to remote address not supported. s. keeling wrote: set sendmail="/usr/bin/esmtp" in .muttrc results into invalid smtp status code in server response am doing these not as root Good. In .muttrc, com

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Re: Debian-laptop.org

2005-09-02 Thread David Koski
On Thu, 1 Sep 2005 08:21:53 -0400 Kevin Coyner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 06:24:17PM -0400, Philip Schwartz wrote.. > > > I am pleased to announce that debian-laptop.org will be the home > > of the Debain on Laptops Information and Guide repo. > > Great idea b