Re: http URL filter

2007-08-24 Thread Sean Roberts
> I am looking for a http URL filter for the gateway on my LANs, the > basic requirement is: If the URL is in the blacklist, deny it and > reply the user a page with "No, we cannot let you pass". > squid (transparent proxy) can do this job, but sometimes I do not want > to configure a transparent p

Re: http URL filter

2007-08-24 Thread Sachin Purohit
> I am looking for a http URL filter for the gateway on my LANs, the > basic requirement is: If the URL is in the blacklist, deny it and > reply the user a page with "No, we cannot let you pass". > squid (transparent proxy) can do this job, but sometimes I do not want > to configure a transparent

Just flaming....

2007-08-24 Thread Ms Linuz
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver/compare/default.mspx

Re: Any way to stop dist-upgrade from upgrading tetex to texlive

2007-08-24 Thread - Tong -
On Sat, 25 Aug 2007 02:03:42 +0200, Mathias Brodala wrote: >> Is there any way to stop dist-upgrade from upgrading tetex to texlive? > > See the manpage of aptitude and look for "hold". so what? Actively participate in group discussion is good thing, but please be responsible with what you sai

Xorg Only Recognize 128 megs From ATI Radeon AIW PCIe 256 Megs

2007-08-24 Thread Orestes Leal
Dear friends, I have a Ati Radeon All In Wonder x800 XL with 256 Megs GDD= R3 PCIe interface, I have the latest closed drivers from ati.com (fglrx) but Xorg 7.2 only recognize 128 megs, Any help? thanks, -olr

Re: broken old installer?

2007-08-24 Thread Ken Irving
On Sat, Aug 25, 2007 at 12:51:29AM +, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 12:49:52PM -0800, Ken Irving wrote: > > > but since mid-2005 I've been using a sarge net install cd, as recently > > > as a month ago, without problems. Now I'm seeing the install fail. > > ... > > > Should

Re: Python init

2007-08-24 Thread Steve Lamb
Noah Dain wrote: particularly relevant: http://www.pardus.org.tr/eng/projeler/comar/SpeedingUpLinuxWithPardus.html Awesome read. Kinda neat to see a concept I was kicking around in my head realized independently elsewhere. Thank you very much for the link. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [

Re: Possible LKM Trojan installed

2007-08-24 Thread Mike Bird
On Friday 24 August 2007 17:59, Jude DaShiell wrote: > how these trojans survive is by surviving operating system reinstalls. > The better trojans hide themselves in several out of the way places on > disks and after adjacent areas have got their new files copy themselves > back into the areas wher

Re: Possible LKM Trojan installed

2007-08-24 Thread John Hasler
> how these trojans survive is by surviving operating system > reinstalls. The better trojans hide themselves in several out of the way > places on disks and after adjacent areas have got their new files copy > themselves back into the areas where no more disk wiping by the installer > is about to

Re: cannot logoff/shutdown properly

2007-08-24 Thread Manu Hack
On 8/24/07, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 10:46:13 -0400, Manu Hack wrote: > > On 8/24/07, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 22:38:27 -0400, Manu Hack wrote: > > > > On 8/23/07, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > > > On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 01:25:47

Re: Possible LKM Trojan installed

2007-08-24 Thread Jude DaShiell
how these trojans survive is by surviving operating system reinstalls. The better trojans hide themselves in several out of the way places on disks and after adjacent areas have got their new files copy themselves back into the areas where no more disk wiping by the installer is about to happen

Re: hda: DMA timeout error, is it a problem ?

2007-08-24 Thread Frank McCormick
On Sat, 25 Aug 2007 00:45:27 + "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 08:12:28PM +0200, Shams Fantar wrote: > > Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > > > >Try shutdown, disable DMA in the bios, and reboot into single-user > > >mode (avoids mounting the drive rw). See i

Re: broken old installer?

2007-08-24 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 12:49:52PM -0800, Ken Irving wrote: > On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 10:21:17AM -0800, Ken Irving wrote: > > I'm somewhat CD-writing-impaired, and have always installed debian systems > > using outdated installers. For a long time I used a woody net install cd, > > but since mid-2

Re: boot error

2007-08-24 Thread Frank McCormick
On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 15:07:49 +0200 Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > n Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 21:25:29 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: > > For the past few weeks I've been seeing an error message fly by > > (doesn't seem to affect anything) and I curious what's going on. > > > > the message

Re: hda: DMA timeout error, is it a problem ?

2007-08-24 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 08:12:28PM +0200, Shams Fantar wrote: > Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > >Try shutdown, disable DMA in the bios, and reboot into single-user mode > >(avoids mounting the drive rw). See if the messages show up in dmesg. > >Then reboot into normal mode and check syslog for that b

Re: Good fdisk Practices

2007-08-24 Thread Cameron Hutchison
David Brodbeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I'd always heard that swap files are slower than swap partitions. Is >that a myth? Not a myth, just old information. It used to be the case that swap files were slower than swap partitions, but this stopped being true sometime around kernel 2.4 >Also

Re: Possible LKM Trojan installed

2007-08-24 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 05:01:21PM -0700, Mike Bird wrote: > Why do you believe a security erasure is needed rather than simply > starting with a fresh block zero? If infected, the OP can use a > Debian Installation CD and make new partition tables. > Good question. I've yet to hear a definit

Re: Believing what you read (was Re: Good fdisk Practices)

2007-08-24 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 06:55:09PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 08/24/07 16:24, Stefan Monnier wrote: > >> I read recently on this list that LVM is not portable across CPU > > > > Don't believe everything you read. > > That's why I qualified my statement. > > I think it was Doug Tutty who repo

Re: Any way to stop dist-upgrade from upgrading tetex to texlive

2007-08-24 Thread Mathias Brodala
Hi. - Tong -, 25.08.2007 01:44: > Is there any way to stop dist-upgrade from upgrading tetex to texlive? See the manpage of aptitude and look for "hold". Regards, Mathias -- debian/rules signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Possible LKM Trojan installed

2007-08-24 Thread Mike Bird
On Friday 24 August 2007 16:16, Jude DaShiell wrote: > Those trojans trash very many files whenever anyone tries surgery on them. > That was found out in a security lab by security professionals. If you > can get to a friends computer and download the dban iso file from > http://dban.sf.net and bu

Re: Any way to stop dist-upgrade from upgrading tetex to texlive

2007-08-24 Thread - Tong -
On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 18:48:25 -0500, Jude DaShiell wrote: >> Is there any way to stop dist-upgrade from upgrading tetex to texlive? >> >> I just upgraded from Etch to Lenny, and have loads of things to fix, >> keeping tetex from upgrading to texlive will sure ease the transition for >> the moment.

Believing what you read (was Re: Good fdisk Practices)

2007-08-24 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/24/07 16:24, Stefan Monnier wrote: >> I read recently on this list that LVM is not portable across CPU > > Don't believe everything you read. That's why I qualified my statement. I think it was Doug Tutty who reported here that he had LVM prob

Re: dpms setting does not work for vesa

2007-08-24 Thread - Tong -
On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 00:33:46 +0200, Nigel Henry wrote: > xset -dpms > > This appears to work ok, and my monitor stays on all the time. Thanks for the respond, Nigel. But unfortunately what I want is how to get dpms working, not to disable it. -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://x

Re: Any way to stop dist-upgrade from upgrading tetex to texlive

2007-08-24 Thread Jude DaShiell
In your apt.conf file try a line like exclude texl* and see if that helps. On Fri, 24 Aug 2007, - Tong - wrote: Hi, Is there any way to stop dist-upgrade from upgrading tetex to texlive? I just upgraded from Etch to Lenny, and have loads of things to fix, keeping tetex from upgrading to tex

Any way to stop dist-upgrade from upgrading tetex to texlive

2007-08-24 Thread - Tong -
Hi, Is there any way to stop dist-upgrade from upgrading tetex to texlive? I just upgraded from Etch to Lenny, and have loads of things to fix, keeping tetex from upgrading to texlive will sure ease the transition for the moment. thanks -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.s

Re: Getting W: mdadm: /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf defines no arrays in install of linux-image 2.6.28-5

2007-08-24 Thread J
Read manuals about mdadm and saw it has to do with raid, which I don't have, so I deleted the mdadm package. really an aptitude question. I have installed new kernels with aptitude, but ls -ltra / ... ...initrd.img -> boot/initrd.img-2.6.8-3-386 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTE

Re: lenny repo unstable now?

2007-08-24 Thread - Tong -
On Thu, 23 Aug 2007 18:09:09 -0700, David Fox wrote: > As of right now (6PM Pacific time, 8/23/07) I am about to do a dist-upgrade > on my current Lenny installation. Thanks a lot for the info. It really helps me to locate the problem -- it turns out that the mirror that I was using, mirror.peer

Re: Possible LKM Trojan installed

2007-08-24 Thread Jude DaShiell
Those trojans trash very many files whenever anyone tries surgery on them. That was found out in a security lab by security professionals. If you can get to a friends computer and download the dban iso file from http://dban.sf.net and burn that on a single session CD and boot it up on the infe

Re: Getting W: mdadm: /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf defines no arrays in install of linux-image 2.6.28-5

2007-08-24 Thread J
It is still booting to the old image even thought lilo seems to have run. /etc/lilo.conf has these bits of the lines in it: image=/vmlinz ... initrd=/initrd.img But initrd.img and /vmlinz point to my old 2.6.8-3-386 image. maybe lilo is not working? J wrote: > Getting W: mdadm: /e

Re: cannot logoff/shutdown properly

2007-08-24 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 10:46:13 -0400, Manu Hack wrote: > On 8/24/07, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 22:38:27 -0400, Manu Hack wrote: > > > On 8/23/07, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > > On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 01:25:47 -0400, Manu Hack wrote: > > > > > On 8/21/07, Florian Kulzer wro

LVM volume portability (was: Re: Good fdisk Practices)

2007-08-24 Thread David Brodbeck
On Aug 24, 2007, at 1:18 PM, David Brodbeck wrote: On Aug 24, 2007, at 12:13 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: I read recently on this list that LVM is not portable across CPU architectures, so that you can't just upgrade your mobo to AMD64 and retain your /home. Well, now you've got me curious. If s

Re: Good fdisk Practices

2007-08-24 Thread Stefan Monnier
> I read recently on this list that LVM is not portable across CPU Don't believe everything you read. Stefan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Good fdisk Practices

2007-08-24 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/24/07 16:02, Klein Moebius wrote: [snip] > In older machines where hard drive physical speed can be a noticable > factor in machine performance, it makes sense to to place your > partitions that see the most activity in terms of read/write access

Re: Good fdisk Practices

2007-08-24 Thread Klein Moebius
* Martin McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-08-24 08:10:41 -0500]: > It appears after reading the fdisk manual, that it is > best to put swap on whats left of the disk after calculating > one's other partition needs. The boot image should end up in the > lowest sector numbers. Do I understa

Re: Good fdisk Practices

2007-08-24 Thread Bob Proulx
Celejar wrote: > > Cassiano Bertol Leal wrote: > > > If you use LVM you're stuck with a separate, non-LVM /boot partition > > > AFAIK. Or is this outated info? > > I believe it is actually outdated information; GRUB apparently supports > LVM these days: > > http://grub.enbug.org/LVMandRAID Check

Re: broken old installer?

2007-08-24 Thread Ken Irving
On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 10:21:17AM -0800, Ken Irving wrote: > I'm somewhat CD-writing-impaired, and have always installed debian systems > using outdated installers. For a long time I used a woody net install cd, > but since mid-2005 I've been using a sarge net install cd, as recently > as a month

Re: why is debian coreutils so old?

2007-08-24 Thread Bob Proulx
Sven Joachim wrote: > You should probably ask the package maintainer directly. Some > information is available at [1]. > [1] http://bugs.debian.org/422279 That particular issue mostly has to do with UTF-8 support. So far all of the patch suggestions for it (used by other distros) are quite ugly

Re: Good fdisk Practices

2007-08-24 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 13:51:14 -0400 Stefan Monnier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > All my drives have 2 partitions: a /boot (with ext2 or ext3) of about 100MB > and the rest is an partition dedicated to LVM. The reason for the separate > /boot is that GRUB does not know how to read files from LVM vol

Re: Good fdisk Practices

2007-08-24 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 13:14:42 -0700 David Brodbeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Aug 24, 2007, at 10:24 AM, Cassiano Bertol Leal wrote: > > > If you use LVM you're stuck with a separate, non-LVM /boot partition > > AFAIK. Or is this outated info? > > I think that's true. I don't usually mak

graph generate for ip areas

2007-08-24 Thread Michal Krajcirovic
Hello, i want to generate eth graphs (munin, mrtg, or anything other) in this way: i have some ip areas. i want to generated 20 areas to first graph, 50 areas to second graph and other to third graph. How to this? Thank you. -- Michal Krajcirovic -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Good fdisk Practices

2007-08-24 Thread David Brodbeck
On Aug 24, 2007, at 12:13 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: I read recently on this list that LVM is not portable across CPU architectures, so that you can't just upgrade your mobo to AMD64 and retain your /home. Well, now you've got me curious. If so, this is potentially a serious issue, because most

Re: Good fdisk Practices

2007-08-24 Thread David Brodbeck
On Aug 24, 2007, at 10:24 AM, Cassiano Bertol Leal wrote: If you use LVM you're stuck with a separate, non-LVM /boot partition AFAIK. Or is this outated info? I think that's true. I don't usually make the root filesystem an LVM volume, anyway. In most distributions it's quite small and ma

Getting W: mdadm: /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf defines no arrays in install of linux-image 2.6.28-5

2007-08-24 Thread J
Getting W: mdadm: /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf defines no arrays in install of linux-image 2.6.28-5 --- Getting warning message: W: mdadm: /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf defines no arrays W: mdadm:no array defined in conifuration file. W: mdadm:falling back to emergency procedure in initramfs. Added Linux

which fonts config file?

2007-08-24 Thread Jose Rodriguez
Hello I get different fonts when I start the GUI by issuing startx than using kdm. I would like to know which configuration files are read in each case so I can adjust them to my taste. Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMA

Re: Good fdisk Practices

2007-08-24 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/24/07 12:51, Stefan Monnier wrote: >>> I'm a big proponent of swap *files*. Once you allocate the whole >>> disk, there no room left over if you want to add another swap >>> partition, whereas you can add as many swap files as your heart >>> des

Re: graphics driver issues

2007-08-24 Thread Csányi Pál
On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 01:31:49PM -0500, sworoc wrote: > On 8/24/07, Joe Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Friday 24 August 2007 19:48:31 sworoc wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > I am a college student and am taking a graphics course this fall. I > > > recently built a PC with an AMD64 CPU an

Re: ibm serveraid 7k + amd64 sarge + ipssend?

2007-08-24 Thread Neil Watson
Call IBM support. When I last worked with IBM gear they fully supported Linux. They will point you to the correct location to acquire the latest drivers and management tools. -- Neil Watson | Debian Linux System Administrator| Uptime 1 day http://watson-wilson.ca -- To UNSUBSC

Re: ibm serveraid 7k + amd64 sarge + ipssend?

2007-08-24 Thread sfniks sfinks
ok I ran it from chrooted 32-bit environment, but thats what I get: # ./ipssend getconfig 1 Found 1 IBM ServeRAID controller(s). Read configuration has been initiated for controller 1... -- Controller information

ibm serveraid 7k + amd64 sarge + ipssend?

2007-08-24 Thread sfniks sfinks
Hi, I'm haveing amd64 sarge installed on ibm server which has serveraid 7k controller with scsi disks. there's ipssend binaries on cd, but 1) both are 32 bit: /cdrom/linux/scsi/cmdline/ipssend /cdrom/linux_x86_64/scsi/cmdline/ipssend # file /cdrom/linux*/scsi/cmdline/* /cdrom/linux/scsi/cmdline/

Re: Good fdisk Practices

2007-08-24 Thread Bob McGowan
Cassiano Bertol Leal wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ron Johnson wrote: On 08/24/07 11:16, David Brodbeck wrote: On Aug 24, 2007, at 7:23 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: I'm a big proponent of swap *files*. Once you allocate the whole disk, there no room left over if you want to

Re: umount /var: Device busy

2007-08-24 Thread Rainer Dorsch
Am Donnerstag, 23. August 2007 02:06 schrieb Douglas A. Tutty: > On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 10:33:09PM +0200, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > > when shutting down my etch system, I get a > > > > umount /var: Device busy > > Failed > > > > During the next reboot the /var partition is checked, but there is nev

Re: graphics driver issues

2007-08-24 Thread sworoc
On 8/24/07, Joe Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 24 August 2007 19:48:31 sworoc wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I am a college student and am taking a graphics course this fall. I > > recently built a PC with an AMD64 CPU and a GeForce 6150 on board > > graphics card. I seem to be having tr

broken old installer?

2007-08-24 Thread Ken Irving
I'm somewhat CD-writing-impaired, and have always installed debian systems using outdated installers. For a long time I used a woody net install cd, but since mid-2005 I've been using a sarge net install cd, as recently as a month ago, without problems. Now I'm seeing the install fail. Unfortunat

Re: graphics driver issues

2007-08-24 Thread Joe Hart
On Friday 24 August 2007 19:48:31 sworoc wrote: > Hi all, > > I am a college student and am taking a graphics course this fall. I > recently built a PC with an AMD64 CPU and a GeForce 6150 on board > graphics card. I seem to be having trouble getting it to use the > nvidia module, but I'm not sur

Re: Good fdisk Practices

2007-08-24 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> I'm a big proponent of swap *files*. Once you allocate the whole >> disk, there no room left over if you want to add another swap >> partition, whereas you can add as many swap files as your heart >> desires, whenever you need them. > I'd always heard that swap files are slower than swap parti

Re: hda: DMA timeout error, is it a problem ?

2007-08-24 Thread Shams Fantar
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: Hi Shams, Hi ! Try shutdown, disable DMA in the bios, and reboot into single-user mode (avoids mounting the drive rw). See if the messages show up in dmesg. Then reboot into normal mode and check syslog for that boot (ignore previous boots). There are the sa

Re: harddisc errors

2007-08-24 Thread Cassiano Bertol Leal
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Joris Huizer wrote: > --- "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> >>> Alright, a small update here. I booted in rescue >> mode >>> and did the `e2fsck -f -c -c` on the root >> partition. >>> It seems to fix something (giving a warning >>>

Re: Cannot open root device "hda1" or unknown-block(0,0)

2007-08-24 Thread Wayne Topa
Francois Duranleau([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > On 8/24/07, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 09:49:52PM -0400, Francois Duranleau wrote: > > > <> > > Is the disk really a PATA or is it SATA? 2.4 kernels will see them as > > /dev/hd* wher

graphics driver issues

2007-08-24 Thread sworoc
Hi all, I am a college student and am taking a graphics course this fall. I recently built a PC with an AMD64 CPU and a GeForce 6150 on board graphics card. I seem to be having trouble getting it to use the nvidia module, but I'm not sure where I'm going wrong. I installed it using the module a

Re: Good fdisk Practices

2007-08-24 Thread Cassiano Bertol Leal
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ron Johnson wrote: > On 08/24/07 11:16, David Brodbeck wrote: >> On Aug 24, 2007, at 7:23 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: >>> I'm a big proponent of swap *files*. Once you allocate the whole >>> disk, there no room left over if you want to add another swap >>>

Re: Serial port connection (null modem) not working

2007-08-24 Thread David Brodbeck
On Aug 24, 2007, at 10:30 AM, Ken Irving wrote: On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 08:48:42AM -0800, Ken Irving wrote: On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 09:14:21AM -0700, David Brodbeck wrote: As an alternative to minicom, 'screen' also makes a useful serial terminal program. At least on OS X, I often do someth

Re: Serial port connection (null modem) not working

2007-08-24 Thread Ken Irving
On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 08:48:42AM -0800, Ken Irving wrote: > On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 09:14:21AM -0700, David Brodbeck wrote: > > As an alternative to minicom, 'screen' also makes a useful serial terminal > > program. At least on OS X, I often do something like this to talk to > > routers and th

Re: Serial port connection (null modem) not working

2007-08-24 Thread David Brodbeck
On Aug 24, 2007, at 9:48 AM, Ken Irving wrote: On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 09:14:21AM -0700, David Brodbeck wrote: As an alternative to minicom, 'screen' also makes a useful serial terminal program. At least on OS X, I often do something like this to talk to routers and the like: screen /dev/tt

Re: Good fdisk Practices

2007-08-24 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/24/07 11:16, David Brodbeck wrote: > > On Aug 24, 2007, at 7:23 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: >> I'm a big proponent of swap *files*. Once you allocate the whole >> disk, there no room left over if you want to add another swap >> partition, whereas yo

Re: Disadvantages of Iceweasel instead of Firefox

2007-08-24 Thread Stefan Monnier
> As you all know, Debian Etch released with Iceweasel instead of > Firefox. This is totally okay, but some applications (like X-Chat or > Gaim/Pidgin) still uses "firefox %u" command instead of "iceweasel %u" for > opening web URL addresses, from Gaim conversations and IRC channels. > It used to

Re: Serial port connection (null modem) not working

2007-08-24 Thread Ken Irving
On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 09:14:21AM -0700, David Brodbeck wrote: > As an alternative to minicom, 'screen' also makes a useful serial terminal > program. At least on OS X, I often do something like this to talk to > routers and the like: > screen /dev/tty.usbserial 9600 > > "Ctrl-A Shift-K" will e

Re: Possible LKM Trojan installed

2007-08-24 Thread Carl Fink
On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 11:24:35AM -0400, John wrote: > Today's run of chkrootkit produced the following ominous message: [elided] > Am I right in thinking the only thing to do is wipe the machine down > to bare metal and reinstall? I'm not sufficiently knowledgeable to do > much forensic checki

Re: Good fdisk Practices

2007-08-24 Thread David Brodbeck
On Aug 24, 2007, at 7:23 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: I'm a big proponent of swap *files*. Once you allocate the whole disk, there no room left over if you want to add another swap partition, whereas you can add as many swap files as your heart desires, whenever you need them. I'd always heard that

Re: Serial port connection (null modem) not working

2007-08-24 Thread David Brodbeck
As an alternative to minicom, 'screen' also makes a useful serial terminal program. At least on OS X, I often do something like this to talk to routers and the like: screen /dev/tty.usbserial 9600 "Ctrl-A Shift-K" will exit. "Ctrl-A i" will give you a nice little display of what the seria

Re: Cannot open root device "hda1" or unknown-block(0,0)

2007-08-24 Thread Francois Duranleau
On 8/24/07, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 09:49:52PM -0400, Francois Duranleau wrote: > > > > Trying to upgrade to kernel 2.6 (actually, 2.6.18) from 2.4.27, when I > > boot my system with 2.6, I get the following error: > > > > VFS: Cannot open root device "

Re: aptitude unintuitive behaviour (bug resolving dependencies?)

2007-08-24 Thread Klaas Gadeyne
On Thu, 23 Aug 2007, Daniel Burrows wrote: On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 10:13:32AM +0200, Klaas Gadeyne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: aptitude install horde3 [...] The following NEW packages will be automatically installed: apache-common fontconfig-config libapache-mod-php4 libfontconfig

Re: how to keep eth0 etch0 and not change`

2007-08-24 Thread Michael Kerwin
This problem was solved thanks to Cameron in the last post. This problem was on an AMD Athon and I didn't have the problem with another intel Pentium 4 comptuer. What I did was edit /etc/udev/rules.d/z25_persistent-net.rules and changed the mac addres for eth0 to ? marks like he said and reboo

Re: ipod mount and udev

2007-08-24 Thread Richard Lyons
On Fri, August 24, 2007 11:50, Wackojacko wrote: [...] The problem is, of course, that it doesn't >> always >> appear at /dev/sdb2, as it did at first. I have tried adding a file >> /etc/udev/rules.d/060-ipod.rules containing >> BUS="usb", SYSFS{product}="iPod", KERNEL="sd*", NAME="%k", >> SYM

Possible LKM Trojan installed

2007-08-24 Thread John
Today's run of chkrootkit produced the following ominous message: - /etc/cron.daily/chkrootkit: Signal 11 (SEGV) caught by ps (procps version 3.2.7). Please send bug reports to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signal 11 (SEGV) caught by ps (procps ver

Re: printing from kpdf does not work

2007-08-24 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 22:40:55 -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > Are you using the lpr command from the "cupsys-bsd", the "lpr" or the > > "lprng" package? Do you use CUPS with KDE? > > > $dpkg -S /usr/bin/lpr > cupsys-bsd: /usr/bin/lpr > > > $dpkg -l \*print

Re: clamdscan - spcify server?

2007-08-24 Thread koffiejunkie
Mumia W.. wrote: On 08/24/2007 04:56 AM, koffiejunkie wrote: [...] $ clamdscan --config-file=/home/kj/clamd.conf file.exe /home/kj/file.exe: lstat() failed. ERROR [...] Clamd doesn't have permission to read the file /home/kj/file.exe. Change the permissions on file.exe and try again. Take a

Re: cannot logoff/shutdown properly

2007-08-24 Thread Manu Hack
On 8/24/07, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 22:38:27 -0400, Manu Hack wrote: > > On 8/23/07, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 01:25:47 -0400, Manu Hack wrote: > > > > On 8/21/07, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > > > On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 12:29:53

Re: harddisc errors

2007-08-24 Thread Joris Huizer
--- "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Alright, a small update here. I booted in rescue > mode > > and did the `e2fsck -f -c -c` on the root > partition. > > It seems to fix something (giving a warning > > 'FILESYSTEM HAS CHANGED' or something similar) > > > > I'm suspecting t

Re: Problem accessing PS/2 mouse using input core

2007-08-24 Thread Isidor Zeuner
> I remember this problem from ages ago, when I added a 2.6.8 kernel to my > Sarge > installs. When booting with the 2.6.8 kernel there was no mouse pointer. I > had to modproble 2 modules, "mousedev" , and "psmouse" (without the double > quotes). One of them got the mouse pointer to appear, bu

Re: cannot logoff/shutdown properly

2007-08-24 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 22:38:27 -0400, Manu Hack wrote: > On 8/23/07, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 01:25:47 -0400, Manu Hack wrote: > > > On 8/21/07, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > > On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 12:29:53 -0400, Manu Hack wrote: > > > > > I finally have the chance to l

Re: Good fdisk Practices

2007-08-24 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/24/07 08:10, Martin McCormick wrote: > It appears after reading the fdisk manual, that it is > best to put swap on whats left of the disk after calculating > one's other partition needs. The boot image should end up in the > lowest sector n

Re: clamdscan - spcify server?

2007-08-24 Thread Mumia W..
On 08/24/2007 04:56 AM, koffiejunkie wrote: [...] $ clamdscan --config-file=/home/kj/clamd.conf file.exe /home/kj/file.exe: lstat() failed. ERROR [...] Clamd doesn't have permission to read the file /home/kj/file.exe. Change the permissions on file.exe and try again. Take a look at the perm

Re: Exim4 and authentication

2007-08-24 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 00:29:41 +0200 Mauro Sacchetto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Celejar wrote: > > Is that the entire (relevant part of the) log? > Yes! > > > Try (as root) 'exim -qff' to force exim to start a queue runner and > > check the log. > > ==

fresh kde install

2007-08-24 Thread L . V . Gandhi
I have installed etch base system and then installed xorg. I was trying to install kde apt-get install kde kdm I get msg saying . the following packages has unmet dependencies kde:depends on kde-core(>=5.47), but it not going to be installed :depends on kde-amusements(>=5.47), but it no

Re: Good fdisk Practices

2007-08-24 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 08:10:41AM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: > It appears after reading the fdisk manual, that it is > best to put swap on whats left of the disk after calculating > one's other partition needs. The boot image should end up in the > lowest sector numbers. Do I understand

Re: How to create like-official CD from list of packages

2007-08-24 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 09:20:37PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 2. Think about what you are actually trying to accomplish. > Maybe you need an actual Debian Mirror to create a variety of > custom distribution disks. In that case you'll have to dig around, > ask more questions, maybe find a

Re: boot error

2007-08-24 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 21:25:29 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: > For the past few weeks I've been seeing an error message fly by (doesn't > seem to affect anything) and I curious what's going on. > > the message is: > > dbus unknown username "haldemon" in message bus configuration file. It shoul

Re: USB question

2007-08-24 Thread Brad Rogers
On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 14:47:37 +0100 Brad Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Brad, > I know you said you see no message in the root console, but what does > lsmod report? Again, from root console. If the scanner's not found, > it looks as though you're right, and the i/f's barfed. Not lsmod

Re: harddisc errors

2007-08-24 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
> Alright, a small update here. I booted in rescue mode > and did the `e2fsck -f -c -c` on the root partition. > It seems to fix something (giving a warning > 'FILESYSTEM HAS CHANGED' or something similar) > > I'm suspecting the problems I saw were caused by > hdparm+udev - I purged udev and rei

Re: USB question

2007-08-24 Thread Brad Rogers
On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 15:07:53 +0200 Dan H <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Dan, > OK, I see you guys are taking nothing for granted ;-) Sorry. :-) Sometimes though, the blindingly obvious > Not yet, but the cable in question works fine with a different device. Which, on the face of it, wo

Re: USB question

2007-08-24 Thread Cassiano Bertol Leal
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dan H wrote: > Hello, > > one quick question: Does each and every USB device that gets plugged into the > computer generate a console message? > > Background: I'm trying to get an HP scanner (6200C) to work, but the sane > tools won't recognize it.

Re: aptitude unintuitive behaviour (bug resolving dependencies?)

2007-08-24 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 10:13:32AM +0200, Klaas Gadeyne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ # > aptitude install horde3 > [...] > The following NEW packages will be automatically installed: > apache-common f

Re: Cannot open root device "hda1" or unknown-block(0,0)

2007-08-24 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 09:49:52PM -0400, Francois Duranleau wrote: > > Trying to upgrade to kernel 2.6 (actually, 2.6.18) from 2.4.27, when I > boot my system with 2.6, I get the following error: > > VFS: Cannot open root device "hda1" or unknown-block(0,0) > Please append a correct "root=" boot

Good fdisk Practices

2007-08-24 Thread Martin McCormick
It appears after reading the fdisk manual, that it is best to put swap on whats left of the disk after calculating one's other partition needs. The boot image should end up in the lowest sector numbers. Do I understand this right? I am about to reformat a 20-gig hard disk on a 5-ye

Re: USB question

2007-08-24 Thread Dan H
OK, I see you guys are taking nothing for granted ;-) Yes, the scanner is turned on; when I plug it in the light comes on and the carriage moves briefly back and forth to find the starting position. So the CPU/firmware seems to work as well. > At the risk of stating the obvious, have you tried

Re: Command to see ip address on etch stable

2007-08-24 Thread Robert Hodgins
On Thu, 2007-23-08 at 14:20 -0700, Tyler MacDonald wrote: > Ralph Katz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Is there a command on debian etch stable that you can run to see what ip > > > address you are? > > > > Your local network address: > > ~$ /sbin/ifconfig > > > > Your internet address: > > ~$

Re: USB question

2007-08-24 Thread Brad Rogers
On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 14:08:40 +0200 Dan H <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Dan, > This looks as if the scanner (or at least the USB interface) is shot, > hardware-wise. Valid conclusion? At the risk of stating the obvious, have you tried with a different USB cable? Also, is the PSU working? --

Re: USB question

2007-08-24 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/24/07 07:08, Dan H wrote: > Hello, > > one quick question: Does each and every USB device that gets > plugged into the computer generate a console message? Yes. > Background: I'm trying to get an HP scanner (6200C) to work, but > the sane tool

OT: Landisk devices

2007-08-24 Thread koffiejunkie
Hello, Just wondered if any of you have a network capable hard drive enclosure and can verify something. Most Landisk devices are advertised as using FAT32, but this one shows ext2/3 too: http://www.ebd.com.tw/eld200.html Since it's running linux, I'm wondering if ext2/3 support is a stand

USB question

2007-08-24 Thread Dan H
Hello, one quick question: Does each and every USB device that gets plugged into the computer generate a console message? Background: I'm trying to get an HP scanner (6200C) to work, but the sane tools won't recognize it. And when I look at the root console when I connect the USB cable, I see

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