Security updates during install

2007-04-09 Thread Mark Panen
Hi Is there any way to bypass the security repo retrival during install as i did not have an internet connection when i installed Etch and apt sat forever waiting going through the differnet security update urls ? Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscri

Re: Booting without swap or make debian knows my swap

2007-04-09 Thread Ms Linuz
2007/4/7, Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 11:07:42AM +0700, Ms Linuz wrote: > I just broke one disk which contained the swap partition of my system. > Lucky me, the other disk that holds my file system is ok. > But somehow I can't boot. It looks like the system t

Re: Using Etch to resize NTFS partitions??

2007-04-09 Thread Alejandro Barcena Campos
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alejandro Barcena Campos wrote: > Well, I have only used once, without any problems. I meant, that the only time I used, I didn't get any trouble. =) > > After you resize it, the next time you boot in windows, it will run a

Re: Disabling Write-Caching

2007-04-09 Thread CaT
On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 01:43:54AM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 15:39 +1000, CaT wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 01:28:38AM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > > DB monkies generally like turning it off as it has proven to cause data > > loss in certain corner cases. Good DB monki

Re: Using Etch to resize NTFS partitions??

2007-04-09 Thread Alejandro Barcena Campos
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Randy Patterson wrote: > I know that there is never any guarantees but is the process considered > pretty > reliable? Will it generally get the partition resized without rendering > Windoze unbootable? [Home PC that my wife uses for email!! :-)] Wel

Problems with sarge to etch upgrade

2007-04-09 Thread Patrick Cummings
Hello list, I just upgraded from sarge to etch using apt-get dist-upgrade. I have a few problems. The OS won't completely start. I made a complete capture of the console output, if anybody is kind enough to try to understand what is happening and help me. Linux version 2.6.18-4-686 (Debian

Re: [Multi] Wireless Network Configuration

2007-04-09 Thread Alejandro Barcena Campos
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Pobega wrote: >> I used to have the same problem, so I made a very little script for >> that, you can see it here[1], even do it is in spanish, I think you can >> figure it out by just seeing the code. > >> [1] >> http://alejandro.barcena.com

Re: Disabling Write-Caching

2007-04-09 Thread Greg Folkert
On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 15:39 +1000, CaT wrote: > On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 01:28:38AM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > > caching is still okay to use. Why else would manufacturers put cache > > ON-BOARD the hard-drives if it was BAD... do you think they LIKE > > SPENDING MONEY on things that won't be use

Re: DPMS stops working (ATI, openGl issue?)

2007-04-09 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2007-04-09 at 20:13 -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: > Sven Arvidsson wrote: > > On Mon, 2007-04-09 at 01:28 -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: > >>When I start X DPMS is working (monitor is turned off), however after > >> some time it stops working (i.e. monitor is always on). > > [...] > >>fglrx

Re: [Multi] Wireless Network Configuration

2007-04-09 Thread Michael Pobega
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 12:28:57PM +, Mihira Fernando wrote: > Michael Pobega wrote: > > > > > Does it work outside of X.Org though? I know WiFi-Radar has a daemon > > mode, but it never seemed to work for me (Maybe I was using it wrong). > > I d

Re: Disabling Write-Caching

2007-04-09 Thread CaT
On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 01:28:38AM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > caching is still okay to use. Why else would manufacturers put cache > ON-BOARD the hard-drives if it was BAD... do you think they LIKE > SPENDING MONEY on things that won't be used? They would rather just not > include it and save mo

Re: Disabling Write-Caching

2007-04-09 Thread Greg Folkert
On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 07:03 +0200, Jonathan Kaye wrote: > I see that Lenny came to town yesterday. I've been tracking Testing and > yesterday doing an update+upgrade gave me about 230 packages to upgrade. > All went normally and my system is still purring along happily :-) I did > get a warning abo

Re: [Multi] Wireless Network Configuration

2007-04-09 Thread Mihira Fernando
Michael Pobega wrote: > > Does it work outside of X.Org though? I know WiFi-Radar has a daemon > mode, but it never seemed to work for me (Maybe I was using it wrong). I dont use it outside X but the developers say to start it at boot time so I guess it is possible to run it outside X. > Any id

Re: network problem on a dell machine

2007-04-09 Thread William Xu
Thilo Six <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Greg Folkert wrote the following on 09.04.2007 20:27: > > > >>> you said you can ping google.com? >>> -> name resolution works >> >> I doubt it. Unless he has a /etc/hosts entry for it. >> >> I believe his /etc/resolv.conf is screwed. > > After thinking abo

Re: network problem on a dell machine

2007-04-09 Thread William Xu
Thilo Six <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > hmm > let us summarize > > you are able to establish http connections via telnet? > (you received the plain html code in terminal?) http is only possible when i use a proxy. Currently i've set http_proxy to a neighbour machine, namely http://192.168.60.111:

Re: apt-mirror trouble when using local repo

2007-04-09 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On 4/10/07, David E. Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 14:59:15 +0200 "Tshepang Lekhonkhobe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I got Debian DVD Etch src iso files which I'd like loop-mount and use > as my repo sources for apt-mirror to use. This is so that I don't have EMFBI

Disabling Write-Caching

2007-04-09 Thread Jonathan Kaye
I see that Lenny came to town yesterday. I've been tracking Testing and yesterday doing an update+upgrade gave me about 230 packages to upgrade. All went normally and my system is still purring along happily :-) I did get a warning about hdparm. It said that /dev/hda had Write chaching enabled and

RE: etch upgrade problem

2007-04-09 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Seth Goodman wrote: >> I think your problem is in this section, see below. >> >> > (EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/psaux >> > No such device. >> > (EE) Configured Mouse: cannot open input device >> > (EE) PreInit failed for input device "Configured Mouse" (II) >> > UnloadModu

Re: Off Topic - Open source flash support not looking too hopeless?

2007-04-09 Thread Ananda Samaddar
On Tue, 10 Apr 2007 00:30:02 -0400 Michael Pobega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 04:17:47AM +0100, Ananda Samaddar wrote: > > Hi Everyone, > > > > After one of my usual bored web browsing sessions I came across these >

Re: Netgear WPN311 Wireless G problems

2007-04-09 Thread Grok Mogger
Florian Kulzer wrote: On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 11:37:03 -0400, Grok Mogger wrote: [...] Hey everyone, thanks a lot for the advice! I ended up getting a Netgear WPN311 Wireless G PCI card. Now I'm just trying to get the darn thing working. Right now, I'm actually using the desktop install

Re: Netgear WPN311 Madwifi WPA2 Configuration Help

2007-04-09 Thread Ananda Samaddar
On Tue, 10 Apr 2007 00:14:38 -0400 Grok Mogger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can anyone help me get started? I'm using the desktop > install of Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy Eft. I actually installed the > Netgear card after I installed Ubuntu, if that might matter. You're better off asking at the Ub

Re: New package for ktorrent

2007-04-09 Thread Michael Pobega
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 01:06:19AM -0300, J. Pablo Fernández wrote: > Hello, > I've just finished upgrading the ktorrent package to the latest mainstream > version, 2.1.3. I am running it and it seems ok. > Is there some way in which I can *contribute

Re: Off Topic - Open source flash support not looking too hopeless?

2007-04-09 Thread Michael Pobega
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 04:17:47AM +0100, Ananda Samaddar wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > After one of my usual bored web browsing sessions I came across these > items: > > http://www.mozilla.org/projects/tamarin/ > http://applications.linux.com/comments.p

Re: [debian-user] Virus, Trojan, and Worm

2007-04-09 Thread David E. Fox
On Wed, 07 Mar 2007 14:36:46 -0700 "Ted Hilts - Thunderbird Acct." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Has antivirus software advanced to the point that the following excerpt > from Debian Administration (dated late 2004) is now invalid? I added > the square brackets and their content. > > "Viruses a

Re: [Multi] Wireless Network Configuration

2007-04-09 Thread Michael Pobega
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 09:53:51PM -0500, Alejandro Barcena Campos wrote: > Michael Pobega wrote: > > In my effort to try to move away from programs like > > network-manager-gnome I've set up my wireless network to start with the > > Debian at boot tim

Netgear WPN311 Madwifi WPA2 Configuration Help

2007-04-09 Thread Grok Mogger
Hey, I cannot get my wifi working at all. I have a Netgear WPN311. This is my first wifi experience on Linux, and between Madwifi, wpa_supplicant, network-manager, network-manager-gnome, wlanconfig, iwconfig, iwlist, /etc/network/interfaces/, /etc/default/wpa_supplicant, and god-knows-w

Re: Using Etch to resize NTFS partitions??

2007-04-09 Thread Randy Patterson
On Monday 09 April 2007 21:36, Alejandro Barcena Campos wrote: > Randy Patterson wrote: > > Can the new Debian installer be used to > > resize the existing Windows partition? > > Yes, it takes a while though > I know that there is never any guarantees but is the process considered pretty reliable

Re: [debian-user] The List Standard

2007-04-09 Thread David E. Fox
On Mon, 09 Apr 2007 20:01:37 -0600 Ted Hilts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > First: as I understand your guideline I am not to use the reply key but > simply address my reply back to the list and it will be automatically added > to the descending list. But have you not in your own email broken th

Re: [Multi] Wireless Network Configuration

2007-04-09 Thread Michael Pobega
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 11:00:28AM +, Mihira Fernando wrote: > Michael Pobega wrote: > > In my effort to try to move away from programs like > > network-manager-gnome I've set up my wireless network to start with the > > Debian at boot time. > >

New package for ktorrent

2007-04-09 Thread J. Pablo Fernández
Hello, I've just finished upgrading the ktorrent package to the latest mainstream version, 2.1.3. I am running it and it seems ok. Is there some way in which I can *contribute* this package back to Debian? Thanks. -- J. Pablo Fernández <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (http://pupeno.com) pgpFAZOytEPvD.pgp D

Re: [Multi] Wireless Network Configuration

2007-04-09 Thread Mihira Fernando
Michael Pobega wrote: > In my effort to try to move away from programs like > network-manager-gnome I've set up my wireless network to start with the > Debian at boot time. > > The problem is that I'm frequently roaming (Family matters and personal > matters), and although I could just put multip

Re: [debian-user] The List Standard

2007-04-09 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 08:01:37PM -0600, Ted Hilts wrote: > http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/du-guidelines.html > > This helps a lot but I have a few issues with a couple of the statements. > > First: as I understand your guideline I am not to use the reply key but > simply address m

Re: DPMS stops working (ATI, openGl issue?)

2007-04-09 Thread Erik Steffl
Sven Arvidsson wrote: On Mon, 2007-04-09 at 01:28 -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: When I start X DPMS is working (monitor is turned off), however after some time it stops working (i.e. monitor is always on). [...] fglrx-driver 8.31.5-1 (proprietary driver) The first thing I would try to elim

Off Topic - Open source flash support not looking too hopeless?

2007-04-09 Thread Ananda Samaddar
Hi Everyone, After one of my usual bored web browsing sessions I came across these items: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/tamarin/ http://applications.linux.com/comments.pl?sid=38263&cid=97469 Adobe have opened the source code to their Action Script virtual machine (the Tamarin project) and the

Re: [Multi] Wireless Network Configuration

2007-04-09 Thread Alejandro Barcena Campos
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Pobega wrote: > In my effort to try to move away from programs like > network-manager-gnome I've set up my wireless network to start with the > Debian at boot time. > > The problem is that I'm frequently roaming (Family matters and personal >

Re: apt-mirror trouble when using local repo

2007-04-09 Thread David E. Fox
On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 14:59:15 +0200 "Tshepang Lekhonkhobe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I got Debian DVD Etch src iso files which I'd like loop-mount and use > as my repo sources for apt-mirror to use. This is so that I don't have EMFBI, but wouldn't it be easier to use apt-cdrom to add t

Re: Using Etch to resize NTFS partitions??

2007-04-09 Thread Alejandro Barcena Campos
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Randy Patterson wrote: > Can the new Debian installer be used to > resize the existing Windows partition? > Yes, it takes a while though - -- Alejandro Bárcena Campos Of course I use Microsoft. Setting up a stable unix network is no challenge :p --

[Multi] Wireless Network Configuration

2007-04-09 Thread Michael Pobega
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 In my effort to try to move away from programs like network-manager-gnome I've set up my wireless network to start with the Debian at boot time. The problem is that I'm frequently roaming (Family matters and personal matters), and although I could ju

Re: checking if my system is compromised

2007-04-09 Thread Dave Thayer
On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 06:41:22PM -0700, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > Turns out that I was dictionary attacked (thanks to > /var/log/auth.log) via ssh port. The intruder was able to gain access > to the guest account. The fail2ban package can be helpful in fighting dictionary attacks. dt --

Re: SSH port 22 is invisible from the internet!! :(

2007-04-09 Thread Dusty Wilson
On 4/9/07, gianca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: You said you can "ssh localhost", didn't you? "nmap localhost" should show port 22 is open. And can you "ssh 85.222.164.13"? Have any other pc in you private lan to try to ssh to yours? gc :-) Sorry if I missed it, but has anyone mentioned netstat

Using Etch to resize NTFS partitions??

2007-04-09 Thread Randy Patterson
I am wanting to install Etch on a home PC with one NTFS partition. I have read alot about using Partition Magic and parted but was wondering now with the latest installer if that was needed. Can the new Debian installer be used to resize the existing Windows partition? If not, then is creating

Re: Sam Hocevar, is this true?

2007-04-09 Thread Ed G
On Mon, 09 Apr 2007 14:21:09 -0400, Matthew Blanc wrote: > Hello, I had recently saw this site on a forum I go to: > (elided) , and was wondering if anyone know the veracity of > these allegations against our new project lead? I'm going to take the following position: Even if he did, so what? Y

[debian-user] The List Standard

2007-04-09 Thread Ted Hilts
Kamaraju S Kusumanchi http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/du-guidelines.html This helps a lot but I have a few issues with a couple of the statements. First: as I understand your guideline I am not to use the reply key but simply address my reply back to the list and it will be automa

Re: ssh setup: what is the Debian way? [not what I asked for, but OK ]

2007-04-09 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2007-04-09 09:39:20 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > Is ssh_wrapper available in Debian? No, this is a script I've written. > What does it do? It does the ssh-add. Well, a little more: #!/usr/bin/env zsh # You may call "ssh_wrapper true" to initialize. emulate -LR zsh local cmd if [[ "$1" ==

Re: ssh setup: what is the Debian way? [not what I asked for, but OK ]

2007-04-09 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2007-04-09 09:07:29 -0400, Allan Wind wrote: > On 2007-04-09T13:07:34+0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > This is a bad idea. SSH can also be used in non-interactive sessions > > (e.g. by Subversion, rsync, unison and so on). Such a check must not > > be done if you want your wrapper to work with t

Re: checking if my system is compromised

2007-04-09 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 09:31:41PM -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > John L Fjellstad wrote: > > > > I usually enable the recent module in iptables, which means that you can > > only login once every 1 minute or so. It usually give the attacker only > > one try before they get shut down. >

Re: checking if my system is compromised

2007-04-09 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
John L Fjellstad wrote: > > I usually enable the recent module in iptables, which means that you can > only login once every 1 minute or so. It usually give the attacker only > one try before they get shut down. > > Example: > # allow established and related connection > /sbin/iptables -A INPUT

Re: Problems upgrading testing after the release of Etch

2007-04-09 Thread Adriano Vilela Barbosa
You're right. Pointing my sources.list to http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ instead of http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ solved the problem :-) Thanks a lot. Adriano > > The contents of my file /etc/apt/sources.list is: > > deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free > deb

Re: The List Standard

2007-04-09 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
> I am beginning to wonder > what the list standard is on this matter -- or should be. > Does this help? http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/du-guidelines.html raju -- Kamaraju S Kusumanchi http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/ http://malayamaarutham.blogspot.com/ -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: permission of shadow file and upgrade the kernel

2007-04-09 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2007-04-09 at 17:37 -0700, Bob McGowan wrote: [snip] > One might wonder why it isn't just 600, if the only user needing access > is root? The answer may be in the permissions and owner/group: > >-rw-r- 1 root shadow > > It would appear there are (or could potentially be) to

Re: permission of shadow file and upgrade the kernel

2007-04-09 Thread Bob McGowan
Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 12:47:23PM -0700, ann kok wrote: Hi all why the permission of the shadow file in debian is 640? ---deleted 1. What do you think the permissions of shadow should be? The only user who needs to read /etc/shadow is root, that is the who

Re: Does Debian 4.0 support WindowsXP partition

2007-04-09 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Björn Johansson wrote: > > Hello! > > Soon I'm going to install Debian 4.0 on my brothers computer > and I want to know if Debian supports WindowsXP partitions > so I don't get problems with the LILO bootloader. Do any > know if it works? Unless you have a good reason, you should go with Grub i

Re: Aptitude Segmentation Fault

2007-04-09 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Masatran, R. Deepak wrote: > An computer that I ran Debian Etch on had some faulty hardware. So, I > moved the hard disk to a new computer. Now, Debian works, except that > Aptitude gives a segmentation fault when I try to run it. How can I fix > this? > Upgrade aptitude to the latest version on

Re: Help compiling source package (autoconf) - AM_SANITY_CHECK not found

2007-04-09 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Micha Feigin wrote: > I am trying to compile ImageMagick from source (trying to cross compile it > actually with mingw, but I have the same problem with native compilation). > Configure runs file, but that when I try to do make I get the error: > Before compiling any source packages from Debian

Re: Problems upgrading libc6

2007-04-09 Thread Andrew J. Barr
Luis Hidalgo wrote: Hi, I think I have a serious problem. I tried to upgrade my packages using apt-get upgrade but instead of being successful the following message appeared: dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.3.2.ds1-22sarge6_amd64.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite

Re: Sources list for upgrade from sarge to etch?

2007-04-09 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 03:45:29PM -0500, Michael Kerwin wrote: > I am trying to upgrade a computer from sarge to etch and I am reading the > release notes about it and it says to use aptitude to update and etc. > > My question is what should I change my sources.list in /etc/apt to? Because > it

Problems upgrading libc6

2007-04-09 Thread Luis Hidalgo
Hi, I think I have a serious problem. I tried to upgrade my packages using apt-get upgrade but instead of being successful the following message appeared: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo apt-get -f install Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Correcting dependencies... Done T

Re: sarge to etch upgrade failed with unmet dependencies

2007-04-09 Thread Tom Brown
On Monday 09 April 2007 14:51, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > On Mon, 2007-04-09 at 14:25 -0700, Tom Brown wrote: > > I tried to uprade a dev server to etch today. The upgrade erred out on > > mysql upgrades. I'm told I might want to run 'apt-get -f install'. I've > > played with the force option before w

Re: Problems upgrading testing after the release of Etch

2007-04-09 Thread Joey Hess
Adriano Vilela Barbosa wrote: > Hi, > > Since yesterday, when trying to upgrade my Debian box with either apt-get > upgrade or apt-get dist-upgrade, I get an error message saying > > WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated! > > I'm using Debian testing and I'm pretty sure this h

Re: Problems upgrading testing after the release of Etch

2007-04-09 Thread Andrei Popescu
Adriano Vilela Barbosa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > pub 1024D/ADB11277 2006-09-17 > uid Etch Stable Release Key ^^^ I guess the key for Lenny has not been published yet. Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it

Re: permission of shadow file and upgrade the kernel

2007-04-09 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 12:47:23PM -0700, ann kok wrote: > Hi all > > why the permission of the shadow file in debian is > 640? > and > how can I upgrade the kernel? > eg: 686 kernel 1. What do you think the permissions of shadow should be? The only user who needs to read /etc/shadow is ro

Re: Sources list for upgrade from sarge to etch?

2007-04-09 Thread Andrei Popescu
"Michael Kerwin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am trying to upgrade a computer from sarge to etch and I am reading > the release notes about it and it says to use aptitude to update and > etc. > My question is what should I change my sources.list in /etc/apt to? > Because it says in the release

Re: etch upgrade problem

2007-04-09 Thread Matt Richardson
On 4/9/07, Seth Goodman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Matt Richardson wrote on Monday, April 09, 2007 4:39 PM -0500: > I had the same problem when I upgraded sarge to etch some time ago. > The solution was to add psmouse to /etc/modules. Check out lsmod and > see if it's listed already, but I'd gu

Re: [debian-user] The List Standard

2007-04-09 Thread Andrei Popescu
Ted Hilts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My browser for mail is Thunderbird and Seamonkey I use for browsing. > > Thunderbird runs with threads beginning with the first issue ins the > subject line and then all successive emails related are tied together > in a descending fashion. I take this to

Re: (root) AUTH (crontab command not allowed)

2007-04-09 Thread Franck Joncourt
On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 12:29:07AM +0200, Kay Smarczewski wrote: > Hello, Hi, > I get always the error message > > (root) AUTH (crontab command not allowed) > in my logs. I interpret this that root is not allowed to run crontab. > But my cron.allow contains the root user: > > cat /etc/cron.allow

RE: etch upgrade problem

2007-04-09 Thread Seth Goodman
Andrei Popescu wrote on Monday, April 09, 2007 5:28 PM -0500: > "Seth Goodman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > packages, /usr/X11R6/bin contains only a lib directory with a few > ^ > I guess you mean /usr/X11R6/ Yes, sorry. /usr/X11R6/bin is a symlink to /usr/bin >

(root) AUTH (crontab command not allowed)

2007-04-09 Thread Kay Smarczewski
Hello, I get always the error message > (root) AUTH (crontab command not allowed) in my logs. I interpret this that root is not allowed to run crontab. But my cron.allow contains the root user: > cat /etc/cron.allow > root So root should be allowed to run crontab, shouldn't it? The rights on the

Re: etch upgrade problem

2007-04-09 Thread Andrei Popescu
"Seth Goodman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > packages, /usr/X11R6/bin contains only a lib directory with a few ^ I guess you mean /usr/X11R6/ > Section "InputDevice" > Identifier "Configured Mouse" > Driver "mouse" > Option

RE: etch upgrade problem

2007-04-09 Thread Seth Goodman
Matt Richardson wrote on Monday, April 09, 2007 4:39 PM -0500: > I had the same problem when I upgraded sarge to etch some time ago. > The solution was to add psmouse to /etc/modules. Check out lsmod and > see if it's listed already, but I'd guess not. cray4:~# lsmod Module Size

Problems upgrading testing after the release of Etch

2007-04-09 Thread Adriano Vilela Barbosa
Hi, Since yesterday, when trying to upgrade my Debian box with either apt-get upgrade or apt-get dist-upgrade, I get an error message saying WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated! I'm using Debian testing and I'm pretty sure this has to do with the release of Etch yesterday.

grub ide=nodma not working

2007-04-09 Thread geoff
I'm also seeing the same issue with the Debian 4.0 Release (Etch). I have a custom Celeron based SBC with an IDE CF slot as the primary drive. The board itself does not support DMA, so I've been using the 'ide=nodma' boot parameter with RedHat 9.0 and Debian Sarge. On these older distributi

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2007 #1099

2007-04-09 Thread Matt Richardson
On 4/9/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: debian-user-digest Digest Volume 2007 : Issue 1099 Today's Topics: RE: etch upgrade problem [ "Seth Goodman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] ] Well, a bit premature on solved status. The upgrade from Sarge

Re: sarge to etch upgrade failed with unmet dependencies

2007-04-09 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Mon, 2007-04-09 at 14:25 -0700, Tom Brown wrote: > I tried to uprade a dev server to etch today. The upgrade erred out on mysql > upgrades. I'm told I might want to run 'apt-get -f install'. I've played with > the force option before with bad results. Why are the libs that mysql depends > on

Re: Sources list for upgrade from sarge to etch?

2007-04-09 Thread Thilo Six
Michael Kerwin wrote the following on 09.04.2007 22:45: > I am trying to upgrade a computer from sarge to etch afaik > Deb ftp://ftp.usdebian.org/debian/ oldstable main contrib. non-free ^^^ ^^ | | |

sarge to etch upgrade failed with unmet dependencies

2007-04-09 Thread Tom Brown
Hi, I tried to uprade a dev server to etch today. The upgrade erred out on mysql upgrades. I'm told I might want to run 'apt-get -f install'. I've played with the force option before with bad results. Why are the libs that mysql depends on not upgraded first? Would it be a better idea to uninst

zlib1g-udeb

2007-04-09 Thread Hans Gubitz
zlib1g-udeb is missed on debian-40r0-i386-netinst.iso -- Hans Gubitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: etch upgrade problem

2007-04-09 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 03:46:21PM -0500, Seth Goodman wrote: > Well, a bit premature on solved status. The upgrade from Sarge to Etch > did complete after killing the screensaver process, but it did not leave > the system in a good state. Minor problems include Postgre failing on > boot, as well

Re: Sources list for upgrade from sarge to etch?

2007-04-09 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2007-04-09 at 15:45 -0500, Michael Kerwin wrote: > I am trying to upgrade a computer from sarge to etch and I am reading > the release notes about it and it says to use aptitude to update and > etc. > > My question is what should I change my sources.list in /etc/apt to? > Because it says in

Re: SSH port 22 is invisible from the internet!! :(

2007-04-09 Thread Jochen Schulz
csanyipal: > On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 08:56:40PM +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote: > >> If you can see either both incoming and outgoing packets or no packets >> at all, your setup is fine and someone else is dropping them. If you see >> only incoming packets, it's your fault. > > Could you try to login

Re: network problem on a dell machine

2007-04-09 Thread Thilo Six
Greg Folkert wrote the following on 09.04.2007 20:27: >> you said you can ping google.com? >> -> name resolution works > > I doubt it. Unless he has a /etc/hosts entry for it. > > I believe his /etc/resolv.conf is screwed. After thinking about it that would explain this curiosity but then he

RE: etch upgrade problem

2007-04-09 Thread Seth Goodman
Well, a bit premature on solved status. The upgrade from Sarge to Etch did complete after killing the screensaver process, but it did not leave the system in a good state. Minor problems include Postgre failing on boot, as well as a mini-DNS server that I don't believe was in Sarge failing to sta

Re: GPL v3?

2007-04-09 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> I say "Patents BAD" only if they are used for keeping progress from >> happening. > Software patents are an unmitigated evil. However, attempting to fix a > patent problem with a copyright license is a serious error. You're confused: while I expect most GPLv3 contributors find software patents

Sources list for upgrade from sarge to etch?

2007-04-09 Thread Michael Kerwin
I am trying to upgrade a computer from sarge to etch and I am reading the release notes about it and it says to use aptitude to update and etc. My question is what should I change my sources.list in /etc/apt to? Because it says in the release notes to make sure it points to sarge when doing the u

[debian-user] The List Standard

2007-04-09 Thread Ted Hilts
My browser for mail is Thunderbird and Seamonkey I use for browsing. Thunderbird runs with threads beginning with the first issue ins the subject line and then all successive emails related are tied together in a descending fashion. I take this to mean that one can first see the first issue a

Re: SSH port 22 is invisible from the internet!! :(

2007-04-09 Thread Franck Joncourt
On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 07:33:31PM +0200, csanyipal wrote: > On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 07:18:58PM +0200, Franck Joncourt wrote: > > $ sudo telnet 127.0.0.1 22 > Trying 127.0.0.1... > Connected to 127.0.0.1. > Escape character is '^]'. > SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_4.3p2 Debian-9 > ^] > Protocol mismatch. > Conn

Re: Sam Hocevar, is this true?

2007-04-09 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2007-04-09 at 14:21 -0400, Matthew Blanc wrote: > Hello, I had recently saw this site on a forum I go to: [SNIPPED] and > was wondering if anyone know the veracity of these allegations against > our new project lead? Someone has an Axe to Grind. That site is compromised by that someone th

Kernel bug?

2007-04-09 Thread Freddy Freeloader
I installed Etch a couple of weeks on a Toshiba Tecra A4-S211 for a friend of mine. Today I had to install some software and get his new printer working. While I was at it I ran apt-get update && apt-get upgrade. The kernel was patched during this upgrade and now the laptop will no longer s

Re: SSH port 22 is invisible from the internet!! :(

2007-04-09 Thread csanyipal
On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 09:02:49PM +0200, gianca wrote: > >> Have you any setting for option "ListenAddress" in "/etc/ssh/sshd_config" ? > > Yes: > > #ListenAddress :: > > #ListenAddress 0.0.0.0 > So there is no limitation. > > You said you can "ssh localhost", didn't you? Yes, I can! :) > "nma

Re: Sam Hocevar, is this true?

2007-04-09 Thread Tom Allison
Sven Arvidsson wrote: On Mon, 2007-04-09 at 14:21 -0400, Matthew Blanc wrote: Hello, I had recently saw this site on a forum I go to: http://... , and was wondering if anyone know the veracity of these allegations against our new project lead? Link edited out, (please don't feed trolls). I t

Multiple locales

2007-04-09 Thread Salve Håkedal
I run etch on 2 machines. I've installed dfm on Etch. Dfm is not translated to Norwegian, but to Danish. On one of the machines, dfm uses Danish, but on the other one, I just get English. I can't figure out why this is so, and how to make the other machine also pick Danish for programs that do no

Re: Help compiling source package (autoconf) - AM_SANITY_CHECK not found

2007-04-09 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sat, 2007-04-07 at 18:14 +0300, Micha Feigin wrote: > On Sat, 07 Apr 2007 08:51:45 -0400 > Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sat, 2007-04-07 at 15:44 +0300, Micha Feigin wrote: > > > I am trying to compile ImageMagick from source (trying to cross compile it > > > actually with mi

Re: OT: Hardware diagnostic

2007-04-09 Thread Kent West
Kent West wrote: Kent West wrote: [Laptop not booting from any hard drive, but fine from CD] Thanks, Greg! Your hints to tinker with the drive's BIOS settings paid off. And to you and Joe, I'll look into replacing the BIOS battery also. Thanks! Replaced the battery; the laptop seems to b

permission of shadow file and upgrade the kernel

2007-04-09 Thread ann kok
Hi all why the permission of the shadow file in debian is 640? and how can I upgrade the kernel? eg: 686 kernel Thank you Don't get soaked. Take a quick peek at the forecast with the Yahoo! Search weather

Re: SSH port 22 is invisible from the internet!! :(

2007-04-09 Thread csanyipal
On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 08:56:40PM +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote: > Hm, weird setup. So you get a non-public IP address on eth0 via DHCP and > a "static" public address for ppp0? Exactly! > > I do: > > $ sudo tcpdump -vv -i ppp0 "port 22" > > tcpdump: listening on ppp0, link-type LINUX_SLL (Linux c

Re: SSH port 22 is invisible from the internet!! :(

2007-04-09 Thread gianca
csanyipal ha scritto: >>> Port 22 >> Have you any setting for option "ListenAddress" in "/etc/ssh/sshd_config" ? > Yes: > #ListenAddress :: > #ListenAddress 0.0.0.0 So there is no limitation. You said you can "ssh localhost", didn't you? "nmap localhost" should show port 22 is open. And can you

Re: Sam Hocevar, is this true?

2007-04-09 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Mon, 2007-04-09 at 14:21 -0400, Matthew Blanc wrote: > Hello, I had recently saw this site on a forum I go to: http://... , > and was wondering if anyone know the veracity of these allegations > against our new project lead? Link edited out, (please don't feed trolls). I think this statement

Re: SSH port 22 is invisible from the internet!! :(

2007-04-09 Thread Jochen Schulz
csanyipal: > On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 03:53:24PM +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote: > >>> I use iptables as a firewall and have added a rule to open the port 22: >> >> That probably means you are blocking any traffic not explicitly allowed, >> correct? Maybe it would help to show us your complete iptable

Re: Netgear WPN311 Wireless G problems

2007-04-09 Thread Andrew J. Barr
Florian Kulzer wrote: On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 11:37:03 -0400, Grok Mogger wrote: [...] Hey everyone, thanks a lot for the advice! I ended up getting a Netgear WPN311 Wireless G PCI card. Now I'm just trying to get the darn thing working. Right now, I'm actually using the desktop install

Sam Hocevar, is this true?

2007-04-09 Thread Matthew Blanc
Hello, I had recently saw this site on a forum I go to: http://www.reticulate-the-splines.org , and was wondering if anyone know the veracity of these allegations against our new project lead? Thanks, Matt

Perl locale problem (was: etch upgrade problem (SOLVED))

2007-04-09 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 11:24:19 -0500, Seth Goodman wrote: [...] > Now on to the PERL locale variable warnings. These warnings are all > similar to: > > perl: warning: Setting locale failed. > perl: warning: please check that your locale settings: > LANGUAGE = "en_US:en_GB:en", >

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