I have the same trouble

2007-04-20 Thread BaBL
1. Apr 21 10:33:49 localhost kernel: ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x18 action 0x2 frozen 2. Apr 21 10:33:49 localhost kernel: ata1.00: tag 0 cmd 0xc4 Emask 0x4 stat 0x40 err 0x0 (timeout) 3. Apr 21 10:33:49 localhost kernel: ata1: port is slow to respond,

Re: to allow root logins or not?

2007-04-20 Thread Greg Folkert
On Fri, 2007-04-20 at 22:15 -0700, John L Fjellstad wrote: > Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Not recommended, but possible: > > > > sudo su - > > I think sudo -i will give the same effect Yes, but for consistency I gave him both versions using "su" or "sux". To be sure, i

Re: to allow root logins or not?

2007-04-20 Thread John L Fjellstad
Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Not recommended, but possible: > > sudo su - I think sudo -i will give the same effect -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject o

Re: User level alternatives?

2007-04-20 Thread Wei Chen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 07:26:37PM +0800, Wei Chen wrote: >> We now have system level `update-alternatives' mechanism that can be >> used by root to maintain symbol links in `/etc/alternatives'. Is it >> useful/interesting

Re: User level alternatives?

2007-04-20 Thread Wei Chen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Peter Valdemar Mørch wrote: > Wei Chen wchenhk-at-gmail.com |volatile-lists| wrote: >> We now have system level `update-alternatives' mechanism that can be >> used by root to maintain symbol links in `/etc/alternatives'. Is it >> useful/interesting to

Re: web alternative to knockd for a "secure" sshd server?

2007-04-20 Thread charles norwood
On Fri, 2007-04-20 at 16:03 +0300, Nick Demou wrote: > On 4/20/07, Roberto C. Sánchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 12:47:20PM +0300, Nick Demou wrote: > > > [...] > > > Any other idea of simple measures that will keep as many attackers > > > away from the one and only serv

Problem installing Debian Lenny "Failed to install base system"

2007-04-20 Thread Redefined Horizons
I'm trying to install Debian Lenny on my computer using the CD. (I burned all 22 CDs, because I'm not hooked to the internet just yet.) I was running Debian Etch on the computer before. I get through the first portion of the installation, including the partitioning of the hard drive, when the ins

Re: Administration (+apt-get dist-upgrade) of 100s of machines

2007-04-20 Thread Daniel Graham Palmer
> """ > export aptopt= > $ROOTCMD apt-get $aptopt -f -y dist-upgrade """ Sorry for the late reply.. been busy. You know, you could always use apt-get -simulate dist-upgrade on your machines. Check the output and leave a token somewhere that then allows the machines to do the upgrade for real.

Re: Oh, yeah: Unable to switch to TTY from X

2007-04-20 Thread cga2000
On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 10:20:36PM EDT, Amy Templeton wrote: > Amy Templeton wrote: > > > This line, however, doesn't exist anywhere in my > > > /etc/X11 directory, so as far as I can tell that isn't > > > the problem. > cga2000 wrote: > > So what's your point, exactly? > > I just wanted to skip t

[solved]: web alternative to knockd for a "secure" sshd server?

2007-04-20 Thread Nick Demou
On 4/21/07, Jeff D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, 20 Apr 2007, Nick Demou wrote: [...] > > Any other idea of simple measures that will keep as many attackers > away from the one and only service that is listening to the Internet? > [...] I'm not sure if this fits what you are looking for or

Re: Problems with sarge to etch upgrade

2007-04-20 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 11:25:53PM -0500, Sam Leon wrote: > > Another trouble shooting method would be to run a live cd of some kind > on the box for a few hours or days and see if the problem still exists. indeed, but better put this on the list. A signature.asc Description: Digital signatur

Re: RAID

2007-04-20 Thread Mike Bird
On Friday 20 April 2007 20:25, John Jason Jordan wrote: > What I want to do now is create one more RAID 1 partition, using the > rest of the disk. From what you say, and the silence of others, there > is no way to do this from within Etch. The following instructions are from memory. I'm not going

Re: SONY DVD RW AW-G170A

2007-04-20 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Apr 21, 2007 at 12:05:10AM +0200, Marko Randjelovic wrote: > Neil Sumner wrote: > > > > the solution is to get a new mobo? > > > > Of course not, first try with another drive. And just felt on my mind, > maybe it wouldn't be a bad idea to put newer firmware on that drive. > Look at Sony'

Re: Oh, yeah: Unable to switch to TTY from X

2007-04-20 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 05:36:21PM -0400, Amy Templeton wrote: > Bob McGowan wrote: > > > > I presume you mean that using the 'Alt-Ctl-F#' keys > > > > fails to switch to a tty console > Amy Templeton wrote: > > > Yes, that's correct. Also note that before I start X (or > > > after I exit it altoge

Jmicron363 r4 ETCH

2007-04-20 Thread Onzone
Hi All, Can some please help me with this issue, debian or should i say the kernel, has a bug in it. On boot some times it will load the jmicron361 driver and will not pick up my IDE drive and somes time on boot it will load the correct driver jmicron363 and does pick up the IDE drive. Can

Re: Problems with sarge to etch upgrade

2007-04-20 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 11:24:18PM -0400, Patrick Cummings wrote: > > So I finally had some time and tested the memory with memtest. I got 5 passes > without errors, so I guess it was not that. It's also ECC memory. memtest won't catch a lot of problems. I've had memory test 100 passes just fin

Re: iptables not behaving the way I expected

2007-04-20 Thread Jim Hyslop
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Franck Joncourt wrote: > On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 09:18:45PM -0700, John L Fjellstad wrote: >> Jim Hyslop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] >> iptables -A INPUT -i ethLRZ -p tcp --dport 22 -m state --state NEW \ >> -m recent --set --name SSH [...] >> bu

Re: to allow root logins or not?

2007-04-20 Thread Greg Folkert
On Fri, 2007-04-20 at 15:53 -0500, Default User wrote: > Gee, I hate to ask another question, but - > > During an Etch install, it asks if I want to allow root logins. If not, > no root account is set up (I guess as a security measure), and all admin > access is done by sudo. Now I normally do

Re: RAID

2007-04-20 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Fri, 20 Apr 2007 21:00:15 -0400 Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dijo: > > I have installed Etch amd64 on a new computer that I just built. Its > > ultimate purpose is to serve as storage for backups from my other two > > computers, plus to be a way to get on the net when I goober up my

RE: Problems with sarge to etch upgrade

2007-04-20 Thread Patrick Cummings
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]>CC: >debian-user@lists.debian.org>Subject: RE: Problems with sarge to etch >upgrade>Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2007 17:37:37 -0400> >> Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2007 14:28:32 -0400>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]>> CC: >> debian-user@lists.debian.org>> Subject: Re: Prob

Re: Oh, yeah: Unable to switch to TTY from X

2007-04-20 Thread Amy Templeton
Amy Templeton wrote: > > This line, however, doesn't exist anywhere in my > > /etc/X11 directory, so as far as I can tell that isn't > > the problem. cga2000 wrote: > So what's your point, exactly? I just wanted to skip the part where people suggested things I'd already tried. > What's your video

Re: Aptitude does not start

2007-04-20 Thread Jose Luis Rivas Contreras
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Misko escribió: > All the sudden aptitude refuse to start. > When I try to start it show little box saying "Loading cache" > and then exit with: > Uncaught exception: vs_progress.cc:38: virtual void vs_progress::paint(const > style&): Assertion "Per

Re: Oh, yeah: Unable to switch to TTY from X

2007-04-20 Thread cga2000
On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 03:29:10PM EDT, Amy Templeton wrote: > I probably should've put this in the last email I sent out, > but it is kind of off-topic for that and it just occurred to > me. > > Since installing Debian (a while back), I'm unable to get > back to a TTY after I invoke startx. > >

Re: xkb options

2007-04-20 Thread cga2000
On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 07:26:43PM EDT, Celejar wrote: > On Wed, 18 Apr 2007 20:27:29 -0400 > cga2000 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [..] > Sorry; my MUA (Sylpheed) has a "wrap on input" mode, which I don't > enable, since IIUC, it inserts hard line breaks, which cause problems > if I then edit t

Re: to allow root logins or not?

2007-04-20 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 03:53:50PM -0500, Default User wrote: > Gee, I hate to ask another question, but - > > During an Etch install, it asks if I want to allow root logins. If not, > no root account is set up (I guess as a security measure), and all admin > access is done by sudo. Now I norma

Re: dumb question about nvidia nforce and geforce cards and AMD boxes....

2007-04-20 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 08:12:45PM +, Michael Fothergill wrote: > > I have been reading a little on the web about graphics cards. > > The machine I currently use is an AMD 64 Sempron 3200 machine (AM2 board) > with what is termed on board graphics. > > I also have an 80GB ATA drive in it an

Using dfsbuild to make a debian livecd

2007-04-20 Thread Rico Secada
Hi all! I am trying to build my own Debian LiveCD using dfsbuild however I keep running into this error: [dfs/INFO] Running. [dfs/DEBUG] Processing at state DebsInstalled [dfs/DEBUG] Symlinking /etc/mtab [dfs/CRITICAL] Exception: /proc/mounts: createSymbolicLink: already exists (File exists) df

Re: No Dual monitor support for S3 Inc. 86C270-294 Savage/IX-MV (rev 13)

2007-04-20 Thread Bob
malik martin wrote: Hi, I have a dual-head video card in my laptop. well i have 1 extra VGA out on the back. in windows, when i plug a monitor in, i get two different screens. just like a dual monitor setup. i cant seem to get this to work in debian. i've read http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Dual

Re: RAID

2007-04-20 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 12:44:41PM -0700, John Jason Jordan wrote: > On Fri, 20 Apr 2007 11:23:59 -0700 > Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dijo: > > On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 03:07:49PM -0300, Rogerio wrote: > > > I want use RAID in Debian, do I have to use the MDADM package? Is it the > >

Re: Synch file with Unison on remote server

2007-04-20 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 06:46:00PM +0200, Mirco Piccin wrote: > But it takes many minutes to tar all, every day. > > So i think to use Unison (it copy only last modified or new files) with the > remote server. > First, i try to use Unison directly with the server, but it wants the same > version b

Re: SONY DVD RW AW-G170A

2007-04-20 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 05:45:30PM +0100, Neil Sumner wrote: > > I cannot boot with this drive. It is IDE/atapi and it works fine with > windows. Despite its inexpensive price it was reasonably 'exotic' 6 months > ago as it has an 18x write speed, it works fine with windows > > OK, this problem h

Re: Fullscreen on dual monitors

2007-04-20 Thread Bob
Hans du Plooy wrote: On Fri, 2007-04-20 at 16:37 +0800, Bob wrote: When you do this does one of your screens shimmer? I do but only very seldom on the secondary screen, mostly when I have something with a bright background (say a blank document in OpenOffice). But since my secondary scr

Re: to lvm or not to lvm?

2007-04-20 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 07:11:29PM -0500, Default User wrote: > > intended use: standard home system, single user, not mission critical > (except that to everyone, their own data is always "mission critical"). > nothing exotic or fancy. > > do really need lvm? if i have to ask, then the answer i

Re: VMWare install can't find header files

2007-04-20 Thread Colin Alie
I'm in the process of trying to reconfigure VMWare Workstation 5.0 after upgrading to Etch. I also saw the error you mention. In my case, it was caused by not having the folder asm present in /usr/src/linux/include. I created the symlink asm-->asm-i386 which resolved this particular issue. U

Re: to lvm or not to lvm?

2007-04-20 Thread Default User
On Fri, 2007-04-20 at 19:42 -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 10:37:35AM -0500, Default User wrote: > > Hi! > > > > After installing fresh Etch with encrypted lvm (all except /boot), per > > non-expert install, I am reconsidering whether lvm is a good idea. It > > works f

Re: web alternative to knockd for a "secure" sshd server?

2007-04-20 Thread Jeff D
On Fri, 20 Apr 2007, Nick Demou wrote: The only service that listens to the internet on my pcs is sshd (on port 80 or 443 [1]). Since neither me nor sshd is perfect I would like to get rid of as much attackers as possible. My idea was to use port knocking. So I tested knockd and it seems nice[2]

Re: Sudo instead of SU

2007-04-20 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Masatran, R. Deepak wrote: > How can I replace SU with Sudo (like Ubuntu), in Gnome and other > applications? > I will mention this since sooner or later (I think) you will hit this. su - gives you a root shell so you can execute multiple commands (one after another) as being root. sudo is usua

Re: dumb questions about video editing and camcorders...

2007-04-20 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 03:48:42PM +, Michael Fothergill wrote: > > Dear Debianists, thanks for all the useful comments on video editing etc. > I do have a few other questions that I have accumulated after investigating > this a little further. I have nosing into the various different kind

Re: Aptitude does not start

2007-04-20 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 08:59:09PM +0200, Misko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > All the sudden aptitude refuse to start. > When I try to start it show little box saying "Loading cache" > and then exit with: > Uncaught exception: vs_progress.cc:38: virtual void vs_progress::paint(const > s

Re: to lvm or not to lvm?

2007-04-20 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 10:37:35AM -0500, Default User wrote: > Hi! > > After installing fresh Etch with encrypted lvm (all except /boot), per > non-expert install, I am reconsidering whether lvm is a good idea. It > works fine - now - but what if it stops working? > > The only partition that se

Re: How to Choose dependencies using apt-get/aptitude

2007-04-20 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 07:40:40PM +0530, Santanu Chatterjee wrote: > Hi Everybody, > > I was trying to install mediawiki1.7 using aptitude. This > package has 'apache | httpd' as one of its dependencies. > I don't want to install apache. lighttpd seems to provide > httpd. So I installed that. >

Re: XEN switch to static IP

2007-04-20 Thread Marco Mandl
On Fri, 20 Apr 2007 15:04:40 -0700, Jeff D wrote: > try this in your xmdomain.cfg: > vif = [ 'ip=192.168.17.16,bridge=xenbr0' ] Thanks, that solved it. /m -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: SONY DVD RW AW-G170A

2007-04-20 Thread Neil Sumner
OK, I am trying the latest Ubuntu live CD, we shall see. thanks On 4/20/07, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 09:22:29PM +0100, Neil Sumner wrote: > Hey thanks for the reply... wasn't expecting such swift help. > Sorry but like the hopless newbie I

Re: web alternative to knockd for a "secure" sshd server?

2007-04-20 Thread Alex Samad
On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 12:47:20PM +0300, Nick Demou wrote: > The only service that listens to the internet on my pcs is sshd (on > port 80 or 443 [1]). Since neither me nor sshd is perfect I would like > to get rid of as much attackers as possible. My idea was to use port > knocking. So I tested k

Re: audacity number fonts

2007-04-20 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Fri, 20 Apr 2007 14:44:53 -0700 Bob McGowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dijo: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 08:06:17PM +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: > >> On Friday 20 April 2007 19:27, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > >>> On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 04:47:19PM +0100, Alan Chandler

Re: User level alternatives?

2007-04-20 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 07:26:37PM +0800, Wei Chen wrote: > > We now have system level `update-alternatives' mechanism that can be > used by root to maintain symbol links in `/etc/alternatives'. Is it > useful/interesting to extend its use to user level, i.e. to maintain > similar symbol links in

Re: [OT] Connect to local linux ms access jet database via odbc from php or java

2007-04-20 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/20/07 16:05, Mirko Scurk wrote: > Hi! > > I originally sent this post to unixodbc support list but received no > answer. Its crucial to me to solve this problem so any help will be > apreciated. > > I spent some time googling and trying to esta

Re: XEN switch to static IP

2007-04-20 Thread Jeff D
On Fri, 20 Apr 2007, Marco Mandl wrote: Hello, I migrated a sarge installation into a domU. I did this using dhcp. That worked fine. But now I want to switch to static ip address. In the corresponding xmdomain.cfg I change: #dhcp = 'dhcp' #vif = [ '' ] dhcp = "off" ip = "192.168.17.16" netma

Re: SONY DVD RW AW-G170A

2007-04-20 Thread Marko Randjelovic
Neil Sumner wrote: > > the solution is to get a new mobo? > Of course not, first try with another drive. And just felt on my mind, maybe it wouldn't be a bad idea to put newer firmware on that drive. Look at Sony's site for the latest firmware. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] w

Re: to allow root logins or not?

2007-04-20 Thread Marko Randjelovic
Default User wrote: > Gee, I hate to ask another question, but - > > During an Etch install, it asks if I want to allow root logins. If not, > no root account is set up (I guess as a security measure), and all admin > access is done by sudo. Now I normally do almost all admin work as > sudo, bu

Re: dumb question about nvidia nforce and geforce cards and AMD boxes....

2007-04-20 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/20/07 15:12, Michael Fothergill wrote: > Dear Debianists, > > I have been reading a little on the web about graphics cards. > > The machine I currently use is an AMD 64 Sempron 3200 machine (AM2 > board) with what is termed on board graphics.

Re: opinion sought: lvm vs. evms

2007-04-20 Thread Bob McGowan
Miles Fidelman wrote: I run a couple of rack-mount servers, each containing 4 fairly large SATA disks. I'm getting ready to rebuild one of the boxes as a development/staging environment. I'm considering using Xen, with an etch Dom0, and wondering what's the best way to manage the underlying

XEN switch to static IP

2007-04-20 Thread Marco Mandl
Hello, I migrated a sarge installation into a domU. I did this using dhcp. That worked fine. But now I want to switch to static ip address. In the corresponding xmdomain.cfg I change: #dhcp = 'dhcp' #vif = [ '' ] dhcp = "off" ip = "192.168.17.16" netmask = "255.255.255.0" #broadcast = "192.168.

Re: SONY DVD RW AW-G170A

2007-04-20 Thread Neil Sumner
Not so hot :( I cant find the posts or the page on core 2 support they had six months ago. I posted about the problem, no reply yet :- http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=415806 Here are some 'current' issues with it (the mobo) :- http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=378218&highlight=

Re: audacity number fonts

2007-04-20 Thread Bob McGowan
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 08:06:17PM +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: On Friday 20 April 2007 19:27, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 04:47:19PM +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: I recent update to debian sid has had a strange side effect. When I run audaci

Re: Administration (+apt-get dist-upgrade) of 100s of machines

2007-04-20 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 03:55:06PM +0200, Peter Valdemar M?rch wrote: > Ok, but what is the alternative? I find that without dist-upgrade, I end > up with a constantly growing number of packages in the > "The following packages have been kept back" > category. > My 2 C worth. Preface: I've ne

Re: Oh, yeah: Unable to switch to TTY from X

2007-04-20 Thread Amy Templeton
Bob McGowan wrote: > > > I presume you mean that using the 'Alt-Ctl-F#' keys > > > fails to switch to a tty console Amy Templeton wrote: > > Yes, that's correct. Also note that before I start X (or > > after I exit it altogether), I *can* switch from VT to > > VT with Alt-F#. So per a previous sug

Re: I can't reboot system

2007-04-20 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 03:42:50PM +0700, Sarawuth Buaruang wrote: > > I have mainboard model Asus P4S800D-X and I used Debian 3.1 r3 > kernel 2.6.8-3-686. When I reboot system by "init 6" or "reboot" my system > is hang(I can't control by keyboard) and show > " >

Re: Oh, yeah: Unable to switch to TTY from X

2007-04-20 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 04:37:42PM -0400, Amy Templeton wrote: > Bob McGowan wrote: > > > > I presume you mean that using the 'Alt-Ctl-F#' keys > > > > fails to switch to a tty console > Door Templeton wrote: > > > Yes, that's correct. Also note that before I start X (or > > > after I exit it altog

Re: which kernel to install?

2007-04-20 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 04:15:15PM -0400, Celejar wrote: > On Fri, 20 Apr 2007 12:53:51 -0700 > Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 01:27:05PM -0500, Default User wrote: > > > Just trying to do an expert non-gui install of Etch. During base system > > >

Re: SONY DVD RW AW-G170A

2007-04-20 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 09:22:29PM +0100, Neil Sumner wrote: > Hey thanks for the reply... wasn't expecting such swift help. > Sorry but like the hopless newbie I am I am responding directly to your > mail... > > Right, I tried 'goodbye microsoft' (Oh, I wish) > this destroyed my HD and left me wi

[OT] Connect to local linux ms access jet database via odbc from php or java

2007-04-20 Thread Mirko Scurk
Hi! I originally sent this post to unixodbc support list but received no answer. Its crucial to me to solve this problem so any help will be apreciated. I spent some time googling and trying to establish connections from linux pc to local mdb file but had no luck. Here is my configuration: Ubunt

Re: No Dual monitor support for S3 Inc. 86C270-294 Savage/IX-MV (rev 13)

2007-04-20 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Fri, 2007-04-20 at 08:36 -0400, malik martin wrote: > I have a dual-head video card in my laptop. well i have 1 extra VGA > out on the back. > in windows, when i plug a monitor in, i get two different screens. > just like a dual monitor setup. > > i cant seem to get this to work in debian. i've

Re: Woohooo! Dell + Linux

2007-04-20 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Greg Folkert wrote: > On Fri, 2007-04-20 at 10:55 +0200, Joe Hart wrote: >> Johannes Wiedersich wrote: Uh, I wrote this level, but I'm going to snip anyway, just didn't want someone else to get the credit for writing the stupid stuff that I do. ;) [s

Non-debian debian media?

2007-04-20 Thread Mirko Scurk
I downloaded and successfully installed Etch from 3 DVDs. After install I added bunch of packages. After modifying my sources.list to net sources and deleting cd instances from it, later I changed my mind and wanted to add DVDs again. But now apt-cdrom add command finds no indexes and rises the que

Re: Etch Apt list (and testing/security/volatile)

2007-04-20 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 10:38:03PM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: > On security, I thought support for testing was now official, e.g., see > this notice: > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/secure-testing-announce/2006-May/29.html > However, that notice gives the team's web site as > http:/

to allow root logins or not?

2007-04-20 Thread Default User
Gee, I hate to ask another question, but - During an Etch install, it asks if I want to allow root logins. If not, no root account is set up (I guess as a security measure), and all admin access is done by sudo. Now I normally do almost all admin work as sudo, but is there a downside to not hav

Re: compiling Xfce applications

2007-04-20 Thread Kevin Mark
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 04:17:25PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > I am trying to start playing around with some Xfce coding, but am > having problems with the devlopment files. > > The tutorial at > http://xfc.xfce.org/docs/tutorial/html/chap

Re: iptables not behaving the way I expected

2007-04-20 Thread Franck Joncourt
On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 10:35:23PM +0200, Franck Joncourt wrote: > > These are the rules I use for my ftp server, and it works fine : > > iptables -A lan_in_new -p tcp --syn --dport 21 -m recent \ > --set--name ftp_hits_list2 > iptables -A wan_in_new -p tcp --syn --dport 21 -m recent --rc

Re: iptables not behaving the way I expected

2007-04-20 Thread Franck Joncourt
On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 09:18:45PM -0700, John L Fjellstad wrote: > Jim Hyslop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Hello, all > > I've set my SSH to accept only public key authorization, and forwarded > port 22 from the Big Bad Internet to my Debian box. Predictably, I'm > being hit by a lot of diction

Re: Oh, yeah: Unable to switch to TTY from X

2007-04-20 Thread Amy Templeton
Bob McGowan wrote: > > > I presume you mean that using the 'Alt-Ctl-F#' keys > > > fails to switch to a tty console Door Templeton wrote: > > Yes, that's correct. Also note that before I start X (or > > after I exit it altogether), I *can* switch from VT to > > VT with Alt-F#. Roberto C. Sánchez wr

Re: web alternative to knockd for a "secure" sshd server?

2007-04-20 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 20 Apr 2007 16:13:39 -0400 Roberto C. Sánchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 10:58:37AM -0400, Celejar wrote: > > > > Use shorewall. Set an SSH rule in your rules file, and use the > > RATE-LIMIT column (see /usr/share/doc/shorewall/default-config/rules). > > > This

Re: SONY DVD RW AW-G170A

2007-04-20 Thread Neil Sumner
Hey thanks for the reply... wasn't expecting such swift help. Sorry but like the hopless newbie I am I am responding directly to your mail... Right, I tried 'goodbye microsoft' (Oh, I wish) this destroyed my HD and left me with no operating system so i just had to reinstall windows :) (don't worr

Re: Oh, yeah: Unable to switch to TTY from X

2007-04-20 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 04:03:29PM -0400, Amy Templeton wrote: > Bob McGowan wrote: > > I presume you mean that using the 'Alt-Ctl-F#' keys fails > > to switch to a tty console > > Yes, that's correct. Also note that before I start X (or > after I exit it altogether), I *can* switch from VT to VT

opinion sought: lvm vs. evms

2007-04-20 Thread Miles Fidelman
I run a couple of rack-mount servers, each containing 4 fairly large SATA disks. I'm getting ready to rebuild one of the boxes as a development/staging environment. I'm considering using Xen, with an etch Dom0, and wondering what's the best way to manage the underlying disk space for maximum

Re: Oh, yeah: Unable to switch to TTY from X

2007-04-20 Thread Amy Templeton
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > there were some threads related to this a couple months > ago, so you might review the archives. if that doesn't > help, post up your xorg.conf Thanks; I'll do that. Amy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Cont

Re: which kernel to install?

2007-04-20 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 20 Apr 2007 12:53:51 -0700 Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 01:27:05PM -0500, Default User wrote: > > Just trying to do an expert non-gui install of Etch. During base system > > installation, it asks which kernel to install: [snip] > > none (ye

Re: web alternative to knockd for a "secure" sshd server?

2007-04-20 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 10:58:37AM -0400, Celejar wrote: > > Use shorewall. Set an SSH rule in your rules file, and use the > RATE-LIMIT column (see /usr/share/doc/shorewall/default-config/rules). > This is what I do. It is much nicer (at least I think so) than working with raw iptables. > > C

dumb question about nvidia nforce and geforce cards and AMD boxes....

2007-04-20 Thread Michael Fothergill
Dear Debianists, I have been reading a little on the web about graphics cards. The machine I currently use is an AMD 64 Sempron 3200 machine (AM2 board) with what is termed on board graphics. I also have an 80GB ATA drive in it and a DVD optical drive. THe machine has 512 MB of RAM at prese

Re: which kernel to install?

2007-04-20 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 01:27:05PM -0500, Default User wrote: > Just trying to do an expert non-gui install of Etch. During base system > installation, it asks which kernel to install: > > linux-image-2.6.18-4-486 this is a specific kernel version and refers to a package which actually contain

Re: audacity number fonts

2007-04-20 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 08:06:17PM +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: > On Friday 20 April 2007 19:27, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 04:47:19PM +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: > > > I recent update to debian sid has had a strange side effect. When > > > I run audacity, most of the

Re: Oh, yeah: Unable to switch to TTY from X

2007-04-20 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 03:29:10PM -0400, Amy Templeton wrote: > > Since installing Debian (a while back), I'm unable to get > back to a TTY after I invoke startx. > > I thought that maybe the problem was that my window manager > of choice is stumpwm from CVS (which is great! The only > proble

Re: Oh, yeah: Unable to switch to TTY from X

2007-04-20 Thread Amy Templeton
Bob McGowan wrote: > I presume you mean that using the 'Alt-Ctl-F#' keys fails > to switch to a tty console Yes, that's correct. Also note that before I start X (or after I exit it altogether), I *can* switch from VT to VT with Alt-F#. > since you don't explicitly state what you're trying, I'd >

Re: Oh, yeah: Unable to switch to TTY from X

2007-04-20 Thread Bob McGowan
Amy Templeton wrote: I probably should've put this in the last email I sent out, but it is kind of off-topic for that and it just occurred to me. Since installing Debian (a while back), I'm unable to get back to a TTY after I invoke startx. --- I presume you mean that using the 'Alt-Ctl-F#'

Re: RAID

2007-04-20 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Fri, 20 Apr 2007 11:23:59 -0700 Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dijo: > On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 03:07:49PM -0300, Rogerio wrote: > > I want use RAID in Debian, do I have to use the MDADM package? Is it the > > best choice?? > > for software RAID where the RAID array is controlled by

Re: User level alternatives?

2007-04-20 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Fri, 20 Apr 2007 19:26:37 +0800 Wei Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi, > > We now have system level `update-alternatives' mechanism that can be > used by root to maintain symbol links in `/etc/alternatives'. Is it > useful/interesting to

Re: linux-image-2.6.20-1-686 and sky2 module

2007-04-20 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 19 Apr 2007 17:37:06 -0700 Freddy Freeloader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have been working on a Toshiba Tecra A4-S211 and have run across a > problem in relation to the linux-image package in the title of this post > and the Marvell 88E8036 NIC. The sky2 module is loaded according to

Re: User level alternatives?

2007-04-20 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 20 Apr 2007 15:55:08 +0200 Joe Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > � wrote: > > Wei Chen wchenhk-at-gmail.com |volatile-lists| wrote: > >> We now have system level `update-alternatives' mechanism that can be > >> used by root to maintain s

Re: web alternative to knockd for a "secure" sshd server?

2007-04-20 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 20 Apr 2007 16:03:41 +0300 "Nick Demou" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 4/20/07, Roberto C. Sánchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 12:47:20PM +0300, Nick Demou wrote: > > > [...] > > > Any other idea of simple measures that will keep as many attackers > > > away fro

Oh, yeah: Unable to switch to TTY from X

2007-04-20 Thread Amy Templeton
I probably should've put this in the last email I sent out, but it is kind of off-topic for that and it just occurred to me. Since installing Debian (a while back), I'm unable to get back to a TTY after I invoke startx. I occasionally post on the Debian User Forums under the name LadyDoor (not ou

Aptitude does not start

2007-04-20 Thread Misko
All the sudden aptitude refuse to start. When I try to start it show little box saying "Loading cache" and then exit with: Uncaught exception: vs_progress.cc:38: virtual void vs_progress::paint(const style&): Assertion "Percent>=0 && Percent<=100" failed. I apsolutlu have no idea what could causy

Re: Init scripts

2007-04-20 Thread Joey Hess
Amy Templeton wrote: > I have a (hopefully) quick question...is it possible to > create a runlevel nearly identical to the default runlevel > (this is 2, correct? Also, do 3-5 have different > characteristics?) or else use one of the other runlevels in > order to start different programs at boot? I

Re: no USB mouse in Etch

2007-04-20 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 09:54:20 +, Tim Frink wrote: > Hi, > > after upgrading from Sarge to Etch, the new xorg does not recognize my > USB mouse. The touch-pad of my laptop works fine. > > The mouse is found by the kernel, these are the entries in > /var/log/messages: > > kernel: usb 1-1:

Re: audacity number fonts

2007-04-20 Thread Alan Chandler
On Friday 20 April 2007 19:27, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 04:47:19PM +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: > > I recent update to debian sid has had a strange side effect. When > > I run audacity, most of the text is fine, but where there are > > numbers they are all shown as 0.

Re: Init scripts

2007-04-20 Thread Andrew J. Barr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Amy Templeton wrote: > Also, on the topic of the Internet, is there any daemon-type > program I could run which would watch for my unplugging the > computer from the network and then maybe poll for a wireless > connection if there's one around? I mean,

Init scripts

2007-04-20 Thread Amy Templeton
Hello, all... I have a (hopefully) quick question...is it possible to create a runlevel nearly identical to the default runlevel (this is 2, correct? Also, do 3-5 have different characteristics?) or else use one of the other runlevels in order to start different programs at boot? If I choose use a

Re: How to Choose dependencies using apt-get/aptitude

2007-04-20 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 19:40:40 +0530, Santanu Chatterjee wrote: > Hi Everybody, > > I was trying to install mediawiki1.7 using aptitude. This > package has 'apache | httpd' as one of its dependencies. > I don't want to install apache. lighttpd seems to provide > httpd. So I installed that. > > No

Re: User level alternatives?

2007-04-20 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 07:26:37PM +0800, Wei Chen wrote: > Hi, > > We now have system level `update-alternatives' mechanism that can be > used by root to maintain symbol links in `/etc/alternatives'. Is it > useful/interesting to extend its use to user level, i.e. to maintain > similar symbol lin

which kernel to install?

2007-04-20 Thread Default User
Just trying to do an expert non-gui install of Etch. During base system installation, it asks which kernel to install: linux-image-2.6.18-4-486 linux-image-2.6-486 none (yeah, right. Here I just pull one out of my . . . sleeve.) So how can I tell which one to install? The screen defaults to

Re: audacity number fonts

2007-04-20 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 04:47:19PM +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: > I recent update to debian sid has had a strange side effect. When I run > audacity, most of the text is fine, but where there are numbers they > are all shown as 0. > > Anyone else experiencing this? looks fine here. A signatu

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