Re: How should this procmail-rule be to work?

2005-12-01 Thread Laurent CARON
Søren Christensen a écrit : Hi, I have a problem with filtering with procmail. Every morning I recieve this newsletter from a newspaper, but it always ends up in my inbox, not in the folder i want to. I have this rule in my procmail-resource: :0: * ^FROM_netavis nyheder :0 * ^From: [EMA

How should this procmail-rule be to work?

2005-12-01 Thread Søren Christensen
Hi, I have a problem with filtering with procmail. Every morning I recieve this newsletter from a newspaper, but it always ends up in my inbox, not in the folder i want to. I have this rule in my procmail-resource: :0: * ^FROM_netavis nyheder The newsletters header from this mornings is: ==

Restarting gdm on same ":0"

2005-12-01 Thread H S Rai
Due to network failure sometime, the user lost exported desktop. At the moment to give then desktop, I restart gdm. It solve the problem of remote user, but at server, it say X is running alraedy on :0, and with user's consent it open on :1 How I can force it to open it on :0 Is there any b

Re: Power button not shuting down debian

2005-12-01 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Alex Malinovich, > On Fri, 2005-12-02 at 16:35 +1100, Neil Dugan wrote: > > Hi I have an old compaq computer, when it had Fedora on it I could do a > > short press of the power button, and the computer would shut-down nicely. > > > > I have since upgraded to Debian, the problem is th

lower case character when caps lock is on

2005-12-01 Thread H S Rai
I am facing a strange problem. On console, when CAPS lock is on "C" and "E" are appearing on screen as lower case, while all appear as expected. When I open terminal under X, it behave properly. What can be reason. -- H.S.Rai -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: sendmail/vacation

2005-12-01 Thread Jim Holland
On Wed, 30 Nov 2005, nx13441a wrote: > Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 14:30:22 + > From: nx13441a <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: sendmail/vacation > Resent-Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 09:01:03 -0600 (CST) > Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > nx13441a wrote

Re: Power button not shuting down debian

2005-12-01 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Fri, 2005-12-02 at 16:35 +1100, Neil Dugan wrote: > Hi I have an old compaq computer, when it had Fedora on it I could do a > short press of the power button, and the computer would shut-down nicely. > > I have since upgraded to Debian, the problem is that pressing the power > button no longe

Re: Help about tftpd!

2005-12-01 Thread Almut Behrens
On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 04:08:16PM +0800, Li Weichen wrote: > Hi all, > > I have encountered a question about tftpd. I use tftpd-hpa to set up a tftp > server in my Debian sarge 3.1. If I start the tftpd use > '/etc/init.d/tftpd-hpa start' command, I will get the "file not found" > message after

ldconfig /lib/libgtkhtml.so.6 is not a symbolic link

2005-12-01 Thread TAC Forums
Hi I have a Debian computer running LTSP and it's been going nuts every now and then since the past 2-3 weeks. The load average shoots up like crazy and I'm not able to see anything unusual with the hardware inside the logs ... I thought I'd hit apt-get update / upgrade just to make sure it's no

Power button not shuting down debian

2005-12-01 Thread Neil Dugan
Hi I have an old compaq computer, when it had Fedora on it I could do a short press of the power button, and the computer would shut-down nicely. I have since upgraded to Debian, the problem is that pressing the power button no longer shuts the computer down. Any help in this would be appreci

Re: ALL my email vanished

2005-12-01 Thread Almut Behrens
On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 10:27:14PM -0500, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 04:56:09PM -0700, Nate Duehr wrote: > > Clive Menzies wrote: > > >On (01/12/05 18:21), Hendrik Boom wrote: > > >>On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 10:55:10AM -0500, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > >>>Last nighe all my email in /v

Re: vesa mode for MPlayer compile problem

2005-12-01 Thread Almut Behrens
On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 10:36:04PM +0100, Dirk wrote: > which package containes ? > > MPlayer needs it for the vesa mode output... Just grepped in the mplayer sources for a reference of "vbe.h", but couldn't find anything -- so, not sure what exactly you need... Normally, for the "true" VESA mo

Re: watch my /var/log/messages log !

2005-12-01 Thread Edward Shornock
On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 11:19:31PM +0100, Zouari Fourat wrote: > Hello, > When doing tail -f /var/log/messages i get an unlimited number of > lines like this : > > Dec 1 23:12:49 fourat kernel: codec_write 1: semaphore is not ready > for register 0x54 > Dec 1 23:12:49 fourat kernel: codec_semaph

merging Openoffice docs in unison

2005-12-01 Thread Matt Price
Hi folks, I'm experimenting with Unison to keep my computers in sync with each other. Unison has this cool "merge" feature which allows you to compare file versions in an external program & reconcile changes. It would be great if I could do this with my OOo docs, where most of my work takes pla

where did clamav go?

2005-12-01 Thread Tom Allison
I did an upgrade to my mail server today. It's all based on stable. And it removed clamav. dependency violations. The best I can get is clamscan back on. WTF? What do I do now? I'm looking at running a mail server without a virus scanner. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

mozilla-player for firefox 1.4...

2005-12-01 Thread Bill Moseley
I just upgraded to firefox in Sid. It removed my old version of firefox and took some plugins with it. Is there a mozilla-player like plugin for the new firefox? I run icewm (not KDE) so I'm not sure if kaffeine would work. Plus it seems not to be installable on my machine. Hey, foXpose is fu

Re: Debian 1.3.1 (Bo) ISO files

2005-12-01 Thread Mark Kahnt
On Mon, 2005-28-11 at 21:06 +0100, Manou J.M. Eifes wrote: > I only want to know, if there is someone who has a backup of the old Debian > 1.3.1 ISO files (binary and source). I need it for an intern backup server > for old Debian distributions. > > Greetings, > Manou > > > I went digging -

where did clamav go?

2005-12-01 Thread Tom Allison
I did an upgrade to my mail server today. It's all based on stable. And it removed clamav. dependency violations. I managed to get it reinstalled by pointing to testing. But now I can't seem to get postfix to talk to it again. Everything worked 100% for months/years prior to this. I'm kind of

Re: Understanding "Depends: Package <= Version"

2005-12-01 Thread Hubert Chan
On Thu, 01 Dec 2005 21:36:35 -0500, "David A. Cobb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > However, a number of Debian packages, notably OpenOffice.org > Python-Uno, have a dependency "Depends: Python <= 2.4". Now, if I The line says: python (<< 2.4); not <=. The python package is dependency package that

Re: ALL my email vanished

2005-12-01 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 11:36:58PM +, Clive Menzies wrote: > On (01/12/05 18:21), Hendrik Boom wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 10:55:10AM -0500, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > > Last nighe all my email in /var/spool/mail/hendrik vanished > > > without a trace. Some new mail has appeared since the

Re: ALL my email vanished

2005-12-01 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 04:56:09PM -0700, Nate Duehr wrote: > Clive Menzies wrote: > >On (01/12/05 18:21), Hendrik Boom wrote: > >>On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 10:55:10AM -0500, Hendrik Boom wrote: > >>>Last nighe all my email in /var/spool/mail/hendrik vanished > >>>without a trace. Some new mail has

Understanding "Depends: Package <= Version"

2005-12-01 Thread David A. Cobb
I don't know whether this is the right place to ask this.  Someone, perhaps, will "straighten me out." It is not usually a problem to have both Python-2.3 and Python-2.4 on the same machine.  In fact, when Python gets pulled down as a dependency, it's pretty likely to happen. However, a numbe

aoe and vblade

2005-12-01 Thread Dan Sheffner
I'm trying to share hard drives out using vblade and aoe.  I have linux kernel 2.4.27-2 running vblade which exports the device fine.  I have another box running linux kernel 2.6.14.2 with the aoe module compiled in. When I run modprobe aoe it gives an error stating unknown partion table.  Does the

Re: Kerberos acl permission

2005-12-01 Thread Almut Behrens
On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 02:00:49PM -0800, Curtis Vaughan wrote: > Trying to set up keberos5 on a Debian Sarge server. As a note I am going > by the instructions provided by a Linux Journal article, which may be > found at: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7336 > > Regardless, setting it up ha

Re: PC Slowdowns and Lock-ups

2005-12-01 Thread Steven Wheelwright
On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 04:45:52PM +, James Caldow wrote: >It is by no means a high spec computer, (Athlon 900MHz, 512Mb PC133 SDRAM, 80Gb > Hard Drive, ATI Radeon 9250 128Mb Graphics Card), but as I say it has been > running well for months now. I am no expert on hardware failures, but you ma

Re: Ubuntu's unstable vs Debian unstable

2005-12-01 Thread David A. Cobb
I haven't read the whole thread, so please pardon me if I repeat something. One area that causes many conflicts has Ubuntu "ahead" of Debian.  Ubuntu is stabilized on Python 2.4, whereas Debian packages all demand <2.4 (Python 2.3 is "official").  The problem is exacerbated because 'apt' int

How to submit bug re: kcontrol printers stops cups working

2005-12-01 Thread John Stumbles
[Sarge with KDE] I've found what I think are 2 bugs in the way kcontrol sets up cupsd.conf which stops cupsd running. kde control center (kcontrol) Peripherals Printers [note 1] [Administrator mode] Print Server Configure Server Network Liste

Re: very weird firefox behaviour

2005-12-01 Thread d
On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 02:45:13PM -0800, Rodney D. Myers wrote: > On Thu, 01 Dec 2005 22:27:36 +0100 > Renee Klawitter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi! > > I recently installed the firefox 1.5, (1.4.99+1.5 to be perfectly > > accurate). > > Now, when I try to start firefox via the applicati

Re: very weird firefox behaviour

2005-12-01 Thread d
On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 02:45:13PM -0800, Rodney D. Myers wrote: > open a shell and type -> ps aux | firefox <- and you will probably see > another session of firefox running. Of course, he means 'ps aux|grep firefox'. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscri

Ati x800pro video card with x-windows on amd64

2005-12-01 Thread Tom Moore
Hi guys. Just installed a friend's machine today and tried to get x to see his video card. What do I need to do to getthe card to work peroperly? Thanks, Tom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ALL my email vanished

2005-12-01 Thread Nate Duehr
Clive Menzies wrote: On (01/12/05 18:21), Hendrik Boom wrote: On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 10:55:10AM -0500, Hendrik Boom wrote: Last nighe all my email in /var/spool/mail/hendrik vanished without a trace. Some new mail has appeared since the vanishing. Everyone else's email in intact. I don't me

Re: ALL my email vanished

2005-12-01 Thread Clive Menzies
On (01/12/05 18:21), Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 10:55:10AM -0500, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > Last nighe all my email in /var/spool/mail/hendrik vanished > > without a trace. Some new mail has appeared since the vanishing. > > Everyone else's email in intact. > > > I don't mean I s

Re: illegal access using ssh

2005-12-01 Thread Clive Menzies
On (01/12/05 14:02), H.S. wrote: > Amish Rughoonundon wrote: > > Hi, > > I was looking at my auth.log file and I saw a bunch of these things: > > Nov 28 16:22:41 localhost sshd[11363]: Illegal user nobody from 212.0.148.2 > > > > I was wondering if there is a way to filter the ip allowed to access

Re: PCMCIA USB cards under linux?

2005-12-01 Thread Justin Guerin
On Thursday 01 December 2005 13:29, Martin Fluch wrote: > Hi! > > >From my search sofar the result doesn't look promissing. But is there > > any PCMCIA USB 2.0 card which works under Linux. My IBM T30 has only > an USB 1.1 port and it would be nice to a USB 2.0 adapter to transfer > faster data bet

ALL my email vanished

2005-12-01 Thread Hendrik Boom
I don't mean I sent a message and it disappeared. I mean all my email in /var/spool/mail/hendrik vanished. On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 10:55:10AM -0500, Hendrik Boom wrote: > Last nighe all my email in /var/spool/mail/hendrik vanished > without a trace. Some new mail has appeared since the vanishing.

Re: very weird firefox behaviour

2005-12-01 Thread Justin Guerin
On Thursday 01 December 2005 14:27, Renee Klawitter wrote: > Hi! > I recently installed the firefox 1.5, (1.4.99+1.5 to be perfectly > accurate). > Now, when I try to start firefox via the applications menu or via > console, logged in as a normal user, it won't start and gives me this > nice littl

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Re: very weird firefox behaviour

2005-12-01 Thread Renee Klawitter
Roberto C. Sanchez schrieb: On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 02:45:13PM -0800, Rodney D. Myers wrote: open a shell and type -> ps aux | firefox <- and you will probably see another session of firefox running. You probably want: ps aux |grep [f]irefox Otherwise, you will run firefox with the

Re: very weird firefox behaviour

2005-12-01 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 02:45:13PM -0800, Rodney D. Myers wrote: > > open a shell and type -> ps aux | firefox <- and you will probably see > another session of firefox running. > You probably want: ps aux |grep [f]irefox Otherwise, you will run firefox with the output of `ps' as an argument.

Re: very weird firefox behaviour

2005-12-01 Thread Rodney D. Myers
On Thu, 01 Dec 2005 22:27:36 +0100 Renee Klawitter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > I recently installed the firefox 1.5, (1.4.99+1.5 to be perfectly > accurate). > Now, when I try to start firefox via the applications menu or via > console, logged in as a normal user, it won't start and give

Re: impossible to connect to DNS

2005-12-01 Thread Arafangion
On Fri, 2 Dec 2005 08:59 am, Alexandru Cabuz wrote: > Hello, > > I have been using Debian testing on my laptop for a while now, and > networking-wise everything went smooth until today it all of a sudden > refused to connect to the DNS server and therefore refused to connect to > anything else unle

watch my /var/log/messages log !

2005-12-01 Thread Zouari Fourat
Hello, When doing tail -f /var/log/messages i get an unlimited number of lines like this : Dec 1 23:12:49 fourat kernel: codec_write 1: semaphore is not ready for register 0x54 Dec 1 23:12:49 fourat kernel: codec_semaphore: semaphore is not ready [0x1][0x700304] Dec 1 23:12:49 fourat kernel: co

impossible to connect to DNS

2005-12-01 Thread Alexandru Cabuz
Hello, I have been using Debian testing on my laptop for a while now, and networking-wise everything went smooth until today it all of a sudden refused to connect to the DNS server and therefore refused to connect to anything else unless provided with the IP address. For example, I can set up IP

Re: stereo component from laptop?

2005-12-01 Thread Andy Wettstein
On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 01:17:56PM -0500, Matt Price wrote: > PLAYER: > The idea would be to play mp3's and cd's off of this thing. > > My family hates using xmms; they find it hard to look at and a little > disconcerting, I think mostly because ofthe multiple windows. Also > there's no built-i

Kerberos acl permission

2005-12-01 Thread Curtis Vaughan
Trying to set up keberos5 on a Debian Sarge server. As a note I am going by the instructions provided by a Linux Journal article, which may be found at: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7336 Regardless, setting it up has been otherwise easy. But now I'm at the part where I want to add other

Re: CUPS and samba intergration problem

2005-12-01 Thread Hendrik Sattler
Am Donnerstag, 1. Dezember 2005 22:12 schrieb Tom Vier: > On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 07:27:34PM +0100, Hendrik Sattler wrote: > > Did you try without the last three command lines? Ususally, you do not > > need to set anything like that for cups, there is special support for > > cups in samba and it wo

very weird firefox behaviour

2005-12-01 Thread Renee Klawitter
Hi! I recently installed the firefox 1.5, (1.4.99+1.5 to be perfectly accurate). Now, when I try to start firefox via the applications menu or via console, logged in as a normal user, it won't start and gives me this nice little message instead: Firefox is already running, but is not respond

Re: [root user] How to disable root account?

2005-12-01 Thread Christian Folini
On Thu, 1 Dec 2005 19:49:10 +0100 Wim De Smet wrote: > sudo passwd lets you set the root password of course. :-) Yeah, that's why we distribute the hash of the root password via a debian package. :) (And the machines do an update/upgrade regularly.) I think this approach works quite well in a d

Re: CUPS and samba intergration problem

2005-12-01 Thread Tom Vier
On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 07:27:34PM +0100, Hendrik Sattler wrote: > Did you try without the last three command lines? Ususally, you do not need > to > set anything like that for cups, there is special support for cups in samba > and it would be bad it did not have the right commands for all that.

how to debug USB firmware loading?

2005-12-01 Thread michael
would some kind soul point me to documentation on how to debug firmware that should be loaded when hotplug detects a new USB device? this is for 2.6.11 kernel. thanks, -- Michael Bane Atmospheric Science University of Manchester -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "

Re: [Familiar] Pitfalls

2005-12-01 Thread Amish Rughoonundon
Hi all, my bad, this was intended for the familiar list. I am Multitasking too much here :) Amish - Original Message - From: "Amish Rughoonundon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "debian mailing list" Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2005 3:56 PM Subject: Re: [Familiar] Pitfalls Hi, I just got

Re: [Familiar] Pitfalls

2005-12-01 Thread Amish Rughoonundon
Hi, I just got an Ipaq bought on Ebay. I thought it would be an Ipaq H5500 since that is what was listed but when I checked the Model ID of the device it says hp Ipaq h. As you can guess this is very unfamiliar (Pun intended) territory for me. Is there any major difference between following th

Re: hello

2005-12-01 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
sohan kisna wrote: Hai, I am a user of Debian linux.I am trying to use it as extecively as possibly with all the pacakages it providies. I am a student studying B.Tech final year from Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India. I recently came to know about "wajiz" which is used as another prompt in th

vesa mode for MPlayer compile problem

2005-12-01 Thread Dirk
which package containes ? MPlayer needs it for the vesa mode output... Thanks! Dirk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: web collaboration tool

2005-12-01 Thread Katipo
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear list, what is the "best" web based collaboration-tool for debian-stable? Calender, ToDo-Lists etc is important, Webmail not so. This is a good one... http://www.cps-project.org/ Then there's Plone, also built on Zope, and also Drupal, - available as a Debia

PCMCIA USB cards under linux?

2005-12-01 Thread Martin Fluch
Hi! >From my search sofar the result doesn't look promissing. But is there any PCMCIA USB 2.0 card which works under Linux. My IBM T30 has only an USB 1.1 port and it would be nice to a USB 2.0 adapter to transfer faster data between my T30 and my iPod. Can anybody maybe proove my observation wro

Re: [root user] How to disable root account?

2005-12-01 Thread marc
Christian Folini said... > On Thu, 1 Dec 2005 09:24:28 -0600 Dave Sherohman wrote: > > sudo is great for tracking who does what as root and for preventing > > yourself from accidentally doing something with greater powers than > > intended, but it can very easily be counterproductive if your intent

Re: Now xinerma is busted (Was: Xorg Memory Leak)

2005-12-01 Thread Bill Moseley
Whew. Panic time is over. The drivers from the Matrox site fixed everything. Yea Matrox! Xorg put my monitors back in the right order and both monitors are working. -- Bill Moseley [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Co

Re: illegal access using ssh

2005-12-01 Thread H.S.
Amish Rughoonundon wrote: > Hi, > I was looking at my auth.log file and I saw a bunch of these things: > Nov 28 16:22:41 localhost sshd[11363]: Illegal user nobody from 212.0.148.2 > > I was wondering if there is a way to filter the ip allowed to access the > computer and allow only 1 ip (mine) to

Problems installing mplayer

2005-12-01 Thread Sergio Cuéllar Valdés
Hi, I have some problems trying to install mplayer from Marillat's repository. I am running Etch. (I have previously made apt-get update). - # apt-get install mplayer-nogui Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have r

Re: [root user] How to disable root account?

2005-12-01 Thread Wim De Smet
On 12/1/05, Christian Folini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 1 Dec 2005 09:24:28 -0600 Dave Sherohman wrote: > > sudo is great for tracking who does what as root and for preventing > > yourself from accidentally doing something with greater powers than > > intended, but it can very easily be c

Re: Stock Sarge segfaults, and later crashes!

2005-12-01 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Felix Karpfen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I attributed the crashes to my non-standard setup - fvwm2 XWindows > Manager > and Gnome Session Manager. > > So I flagged the problem with the "fvwm user group". > > And was advised - "it sounds like a faulty HD". Indeed. I still stand-by tha

Re: How to remove exim4 when aptitude doesnt think its installed?

2005-12-01 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I had previously replaced exim4 with postfix, but because the file > system restore process only creates and over-writes files, but > doesn't > deletes unnecessary ones, the exim4 files remain. Usually, anything that provides the virtual package: mail-tra

Re: Shell Script (If and Else) problem

2005-12-01 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Paul Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > if [ ... ]; > then command; > else other_command; > fi I much prefer: [ ... ] && { foo } || { bar } -- Thomas Adam ___ To help you stay safe and secure

Re: hello

2005-12-01 Thread Steve Block
On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 11:10:22PM +0530, sohan kisna wrote: Hai, I am a user of Debian linux.I am trying to use it as extecively as possibly with all the pacakages it providies. I am a student studying B.Tech final year from Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India. I recently came to know about "wajiz"

Now xinerma is busted (Was: Xorg Memory Leak)

2005-12-01 Thread Bill Moseley
Pardon me for a second. Shit, shit shit! Ok, Now after a fresh dist-upgrade and a reboot only one of my monitors is running. This really sucks. For one thing when I upgraded to Xorg it decided to make my "main" monitor (the screen that comes up in text mode before running the xserver) the "seco

hello

2005-12-01 Thread sohan kisna
Hai, I am a user of Debian linux.I am trying to use it as extecively as possibly with all the pacakages it providies. I am a student studying B.Tech final year from Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India. I recently came to know about "wajiz" which is used as another prompt in the terminal. I dont know e

GPG error with Debian archives

2005-12-01 Thread Ross Boylan
aptitude update gives the errors W: GPG error: http://http.us.debian.org testing Release: The following signatures were invalid: BADSIG F1D53D8C4F368D5D Debian Archive Automatic Signing Key (2005) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> W: GPG error: http://http.us.debian.org unstable Release: The following signatures

Re: illegal access using ssh

2005-12-01 Thread Amish Rughoonundon
Thanks for the answer. I have not tried accessing debian from another computer yet but from the information I gathered on the internet and your response, it seems tcp wrappers should do the job. Amish - Original Message - From: "Kevin B. McCarty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursda

Re: remote desktop and VPN

2005-12-01 Thread Ryan Nowakowski
On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 08:16:07PM +, Bob Hynes wrote: > Hello, does anyone have a recommendation as far as a good VPN client > goes? My plan is to use a VPN to connect to work, then a Windows-like > remote desktop client to do a remote control. If all you need is remote desktop, just use ssh

Re: .bash_history

2005-12-01 Thread anoop aryal
On Monday 21 November 2005 06:07 pm, Adam Hardy wrote: > Roberto C. Sanchez on 21/11/05 22:30, wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 10:00:33PM +, Adam Hardy wrote: > >>thanks for the tips about C-r Is there some sort of documentation on > >> this? I'd like to see how much history it keeps. It's a

Re: Shell Script (If and Else) problem

2005-12-01 Thread Paul Smith
%% Joachim Fahnenmüller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: jf> It should read: jf> if [ ... ]; jf> then command; jf> else other_command; jf> fi jf> (mind the semicolons!) Actually, you don't need ANY of those semicolons. Bourne syntax is very regular, so it's pretty easy to know when

Re: [root user] How to disable root account?

2005-12-01 Thread Christian Folini
On Thu, 1 Dec 2005 09:24:28 -0600 Dave Sherohman wrote: > sudo is great for tracking who does what as root and for preventing > yourself from accidentally doing something with greater powers than > intended, but it can very easily be counterproductive if your intent > is to increase resistance to u

PC Slowdowns and Lock-ups

2005-12-01 Thread James Caldow
Hi All, I am running Debian Sarge on my work PC and over the past couple of weeks I have noticed it getting slower and slower. The PC had been running very well for months previously using both Sarge and Sid. It is by no means a high spec computer, (Athlon 900MHz, 512Mb PC133 SDRAM, 80Gb Hard Driv

Re: Ubuntu's unstable vs Debian unstable

2005-12-01 Thread Steve Lamb
Derek Broughton wrote: > Why is a legitimate question a troll? Sid & Dapper _are_ both routinely > "testy" (I prefer not to say "broken" - it's not as if it shouldn't be > expected). Asking which is less broken may be naive but there's no reason > to assume it's malicious. And asking of only _on

Re: Shell Script (If and Else) problem

2005-12-01 Thread Joachim Fahnenmüller
On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 03:23:32PM +0800, Louie Miranda wrote: > Im having troubles on my shell script. When i run it, im having this errors. > > ./runXML3.sh: line 18: syntax error near unexpected token `fi' > ./runXML3.sh: line 18: `fi' > > Im a bit confused how to overcome the problem here. I

Re: illegal access using ssh

2005-12-01 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Amish Rughoonundon wrote: > I was looking at my auth.log file and I saw a bunch of these things: > Nov 28 16:22:41 localhost sshd[11363]: Illegal user nobody from > 212.0.148.2 > > I was wondering if there is a way to filter the ip allowed to access > the computer and allow only 1 ip (mine) to d

web collaboration tool

2005-12-01 Thread perl
Dear list, what is the "best" web based collaboration-tool for debian-stable? Calender, ToDo-Lists etc is important, Webmail not so. Thanks for any hint D. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

my email vanished

2005-12-01 Thread Hendrik Boom
Last nighe all my email in /var/spool/mail/hendrik vanished without a trace. Some new mail has appeared since the vanishing. Everyone else's email in intact. I read my mail with mutt. I use the exim that comes with sarge, undoctored except for a minimal configuration done at installation time, w

illegal access using ssh

2005-12-01 Thread Amish Rughoonundon
Hi, I was looking at my auth.log file and I saw a bunch of these things: Nov 28 16:22:41 localhost sshd[11363]: Illegal user nobody from 212.0.148.2 I was wondering if there is a way to filter the ip allowed to access the computer and allow only 1 ip (mine) to do so. Thanks a lot, Amish -- T

Re: multi-gnome-terminal in sid

2005-12-01 Thread Ric Otte
Hi, I tried things like: multi-gnome-terminal --font=adobe-helvetica But got the following: The font "adobe-helvetica" does not support all the required character sets for the current locale "en_US" (Missing character set "ISO8859-1") (Missing character set "ISO8859-1") In .gnom

Re: [root user] How to disable root account?

2005-12-01 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 11:23:17PM -0500, gnrfan wrote: > Ubuntu uses sudo. I also use it in my Debian box. Basically most > unices have a "wheel" group. You can add your account to that group > and then run the "visudo" to leave /etc/sudoers with a line like > this one: > > %wheel ALL=(ALL)

Re: stereo component from laptop?

2005-12-01 Thread Matt Price
On 12/1/05, Rumble, Lee Craig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I understand you want to use debian or some variant there of. Have you > thought about QNX ? You can run/install that live from cd or onto Hard > drive and it works on most pc's! Granted its in development and more can > be done to improve

Re: update-grub on aptitude install of new linux image...

2005-12-01 Thread Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas
On 12/1/05, Florian Ernst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello *, > > On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 08:52:37PM -0600, Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas wrote: > > I'm wondering how to make update-grub automatically when ever a new > > linux image gets installed, whether from debian stock or generated > > through

Re: screen blanking

2005-12-01 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 07:13:08AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > The best I get disabling dpms is 20 minutes with either: > Option "BlankTime" "3600" > in "ServerLayout" > > or -s 3600 in the start options for the server. Have you considered simply turning dpms off? `xset -dpms` shou

Re: Ubuntu's unstable vs Debian unstable

2005-12-01 Thread Derek Broughton
Steve Lamb wrote: > Michael Beattie wrote: >> That may be so, but why are you using dapper instead of breezy anyway? > > More important questions are: > > a: why is he crossposting what looks to be a troll to both mailing lists > and... > > b: why are people replying to what looks like a tr

Xorg Memory Leak

2005-12-01 Thread Bill Moseley
Top reports Xorg using 90% of RAM and processes get killed. All swap is being used, but vmstat isn't showing that much so and si paging. Load average every once in a while will shoot up to 25 or so. I can find a few posts about memory leaks, but not may responses. And one memory leak bug report

Re: Ubuntu's unstable vs Debian unstable

2005-12-01 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: I'm not. I like Debian 'testing' except when it has missing and broken packages (like it does now) so I switched to Debian 'unstable'. This is very recent and so far/therefore I haven't experienced much trouble. I was wondering about an alternative switch to Dapper 'un

HOWTO write a udev rule to awaken fetchmail after eth0 is up

2005-12-01 Thread Paulo M C Aragão
Hi, I'm trying to write a udev rule to awaken a system-wide fetchmail daemon whenever eth0 is brought up, but I'm lost about which event to capture. Before udev, I did this in /etc/network/interfaces: iface eth0 inet dhcp post-up /etc/init.d/fetchmail start || true pre-down /etc/init.d/

Re: SSH is disconnecting at random

2005-12-01 Thread Amish Rughoonundon
Hi, Any particular place I should look at. I looked at messages, auth.log and sys.log. I don't see any errors or problems mentioned. Thanks for your help, Amish - Original Message - From: "Matt Clauson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2005 10:00 PM Subject: Re: S

Re: screen blanking

2005-12-01 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, On both my monitors the screen blanks when you do not use it for a time. Anybody has an idea who is in charge of this? I don't have a screen saver. Just plain XFree86 under Sarge with the Nvidia closed source driver. I would like to disable it in some cases. Tha

Re: Shell Script (If and Else) problem

2005-12-01 Thread Craig M. Houck
Louie; Hmm. I usually run kshell, so this might not be correct. You need a then after the first if. you need [[ ]] not just one bracket. At 03:23 PM 12/1/2005 +0800, Louie Miranda wrote: >Im having troubles on my shell script. When i run it, im having this errors. > > > > > >./runXML3.sh: line

Re: Mondorescue - gzip errors

2005-12-01 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Philip Beattie wrote: Hi all, I haven't yet found any other reports regarding this problem. I'm using Debian 3.1 (all packages unaltered off the standard release) Kernel 2.4.27-10 Mondo 2.04-4 I'm backing up on to an HP dat tape drive with an Adaptec 2940 scsi. The Mondo Archive seems to wor

Re: SSH is disconnecting at random

2005-12-01 Thread Peter Nuttall
On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 08:46:15PM -0500, Amish Rughoonundon wrote: > Hi, > I have recently installed Debian sarge on an old machine and usually log on > using ssh since I don't have a monitor hooked up to the machine. It has > been working fine for some time but recently, the computer has been

Re: How to remove exim4 when aptitude doesnt think its installed?

2005-12-01 Thread Andy
Bryan Donlan wrote: On 11/30/05, T <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, 29 Nov 2005 17:12:35 +, Andy wrote: Hello List, How should I go about removing files relating to the exim4 package, when aptitude doesn't think the package is installed? This is the very situation that low level comman

Re: Who is wiki.debian.org maintainer?

2005-12-01 Thread Paolo Pantaleo
2005/11/30, Cybe R. Wizard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wed, 30 Nov 2005 09:17:44 + > Jon Dowland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 12:26:46AM +0100, Paolo Pantaleo wrote: > > > As in the subject, I have some question/suggestion to address to > > > whom > > > manages the wik

Re: root in non terminal

2005-12-01 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Rafi Gabzu wrote: > OK, I understand that , but how can I become a root in the graphical > viewer for some specific action ? > For example I want to see a locked file but it won't let me. > Thanks. I usually just open a terminal window (text window) and type $ su after entering the root passwo

Re: multi-gnome-terminal in sid

2005-12-01 Thread Christopher L. Everett
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I installed multi-gnome-terminal in sid, but when I start it up, the characters in the terminal are not standard ascii characters; they are unusual characters, some with accents , and some are simply boxes. Furthermore, there is no blank space in the terminal window

mail list

2005-12-01 Thread ken hewett
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Birthday Calendar

2005-12-01 Thread Rajesh Thota
Hi, I am creating a birthday calendar for myself. Can you please click on the link below and enter your birthday for me. Don't worry it is quick, and you don't have to enter your year of birth:-). http://www.birthdayalarm.com/bd1/11665614a963202502b855010432c860242007d905 Thanks, Rajesh

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