exFat (FAT64) on Linux

2009-02-12 Thread Mark Allums
Now that exFat FS is being used in Vista SP1 and now XP (with a hotfix) as well as Windows Embedded CE 6.0, when can we expect it in Debian? Are there any implementations (even merely read-only) yet? The license is probably unclear; FAT has patents, but we use FAT32/vfat anyway. The point is,

Re: Replacement for Dillo web browser

2009-02-12 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/12/2009 11:46 PM, Angus Auld wrote: [snip] http://misc.andi.de1.cc/dillo/dillo_2.0-1lenny_i386.deb http://misc.andi.de1.cc/dillo/dillo_2.0-1lenny_amd64.deb Or, since you don't *really* know what andi.de1.cc is or who runs it, get the deb-src from either Etch or Sid and build it yourse

Re: Replacement for Dillo web browser

2009-02-12 Thread Marc Shapiro
Angus Auld wrote: http://misc.andi.de1.cc/dillo/dillo_2.0-1lenny_i386.deb http://misc.andi.de1.cc/dillo/dillo_2.0-1lenny_amd64.deb Thanks! -- Marc Shapiro mshapiro...@yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Con

serving wrong index.html ?

2009-02-12 Thread Zach Uram
Hi, I added name based vhosts to my Apache2 install on Debian lenny, but now when I go to my site: http://www.jesujuva.org or http://jesujuva.org instead of serving up /var/www/index.html it serves /var/www/bach/index.html ! Here are my files: debian:/etc/apache2# ls sites-available/ bach darcs

Re: Replacement for Dillo web browser

2009-02-12 Thread Angus Auld
--- On Fri, 2/13/09, Marc Shapiro wrote: > From: Marc Shapiro > Subject: Re: Replacement for Dillo web browser > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Date: Friday, February 13, 2009, 4:58 AM > L Glidewell wrote: > > On Thursday 12 February 2009 19:25:50 Marc Shapiro > wrote: > >> Is there a light

Re: Replacement for Dillo web browser

2009-02-12 Thread Marc Shapiro
L Glidewell wrote: On Thursday 12 February 2009 19:25:50 Marc Shapiro wrote: Is there a light-weight browser that does not have a huge list of dependencies? -- Marc Shapiro mshapiro...@yahoo.com Kazehakase: http://packages.debian.org/testing/web/kazehakase It is capable of using either Webkit

Re: Replacement for Dillo web browser

2009-02-12 Thread L Glidewell
On Thursday 12 February 2009 19:25:50 Marc Shapiro wrote: > Is there a light-weight browser that does not have a huge list of > dependencies? > > I had been using dillo for things like reading html documentation and > other light-weight tasks, but then I upgraded to Lenny. Dillo is not > available

Re: Replacement for Dillo web browser

2009-02-12 Thread Marc Shapiro
Celejar wrote: On Thu, 12 Feb 2009 19:25:50 -0800 Marc Shapiro wrote: Is there a light-weight browser that does not have a huge list of dependencies? I had been using dillo for things like reading html documentation and other light-weight tasks, but then I upgraded to Lenny. Dillo is not

Re: Exploit in Upgrade Chain?

2009-02-12 Thread Stan Katz
Mystery solved. Samba wants to protect smbpasswd with mode 600. User must point Samba to password path. Sample smb.conf that loaded during last lenny upgrade pointed to /etc., not /etc/samba/smbpasswd. Maybe I missed a prompt during the upgrade to fully qualify the path. Maybe there wasn't any? On

Re: Replacement for Dillo web browser

2009-02-12 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 12 Feb 2009 19:25:50 -0800 Marc Shapiro wrote: > Is there a light-weight browser that does not have a huge list of > dependencies? > > I had been using dillo for things like reading html documentation and > other light-weight tasks, but then I upgraded to Lenny. Dillo is not > availa

Replacement for Dillo web browser

2009-02-12 Thread Marc Shapiro
Is there a light-weight browser that does not have a huge list of dependencies? I had been using dillo for things like reading html documentation and other light-weight tasks, but then I upgraded to Lenny. Dillo is not available in Lenny. It is still in Etch and in Sid, but not Lenny. I do

Re: Upgrading kernel on a system that won't boot

2009-02-12 Thread Michael Pobega
On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 08:50:19PM -0500, Dan Christensen wrote: > Michael Pobega writes: > > > On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 06:16:32PM -0500, Dan Christensen wrote: > > > >> Now one thing about my system is that mounting /usr will be a bit > >> awkward, since it is lvm over several raid 5 devices.

Re: Exploit in Upgrade Chain?

2009-02-12 Thread Stan Katz
When I first experienced "promiscuous" escalation of etc mode from 755 to 600 (at least 8 to 10 years ago) I hunted down a reference by someone that this could happen if the lpd daemon was compromised. I stopped using lpd, and rebuilt my system. That system then worked fine until it was junked. Whe

Re: Upgrading kernel on a system that won't boot

2009-02-12 Thread Dan Christensen
Michael Pobega writes: > On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 06:16:32PM -0500, Dan Christensen wrote: > >> Now one thing about my system is that mounting /usr will be a bit >> awkward, since it is lvm over several raid 5 devices. >> >> Can anyone think of a way to install a kernel .deb without having >> /

xen virtual network

2009-02-12 Thread Freddy Freeloader
I'm trying to figure out how to create both frontend and backend networks in xen. By that I mean a publicly available network for internet access and a virtual network for communication between guests only that has no internet or other network access. Here's what I've done in attempting to a

Re: hostname & how to empty dns

2009-02-12 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> The router get's the hostname of the Debian PC [it's in his DHCP >> client list], now the only problem is that I can't ping [the Linux PC] >> it by it's hostname from another computer..:S:D:S > Probably your router is not a real DNS server and will only uses that > names for informative purpose

Re: Upgrading kernel on a system that won't boot

2009-02-12 Thread Michael Pobega
On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 06:16:32PM -0500, Dan Christensen wrote: > Michael Pobega writes: > > > What I would do is put a live system on a USB flash drive (System Rescue > > CD is what I usually use) and mount the unbootable hard drive from > > within the live system. At that point you could wget

Re: netcat in listen mode don't exit

2009-02-12 Thread Tod Detre
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paulo Brito wrote: > Thanks for de tips about top posting. I"ll remember > > Michael, -w option dont make nc returns if a conection is already > stablished. > > I've tried this: nc -l -p 5558 -c bash. And it works! I think the big > probleam is that

Re: Upgrading kernel on a system that won't boot

2009-02-12 Thread Dan Christensen
Dan Christensen writes: > Michael Pobega writes: > >> What I would do is put a live system on a USB flash drive (System Rescue >> CD is what I usually use) and mount the unbootable hard drive from >> within the live system. At that point you could wget a kernel deb from >> http://ftp.uk.debian.o

Re: Upgrading kernel on a system that won't boot

2009-02-12 Thread Dan Christensen
Michael Pobega writes: > What I would do is put a live system on a USB flash drive (System Rescue > CD is what I usually use) and mount the unbootable hard drive from > within the live system. At that point you could wget a kernel deb from > http://ftp.uk.debian.org onto your old mounted hard dri

request to try something with midori

2009-02-12 Thread Ink Bottle
Hi, can you try something? start midori www.google.com; then click on video; wait; don't click to start the "large" video (it would work); instead of it click on a small one Is it all right for you? InkBottle I get this (gdb midori) Reading symbols from /usr/lib/nss/libfreebl3.so...don

Re: Wich e-mail server to choose?

2009-02-12 Thread Joe
Paul Cartwright wrote: On Wed February 11 2009, Ron Johnson wrote: Looks like it. Or maybe "exim" is installed. Also possible, but unlikely, is "postfix". Examine them before installing exim4. is exim4 a placeholder?? I have base, config, and daemon-heavy installed, but NOT exim4.. $ dpk

Re: getting debian to talk to windows

2009-02-12 Thread Joe
Larry Dick wrote: I'm using debian 2.6.18-6-amd64 and Window XP Sp2. My network is a Windows workgroup. I've fiddled about and now can get windows to see into the debian box , it can read and write to the file system. I'm trying to get Debian to see a windows ntfs file system that is marked

Re: Exploit in Upgrade Chain?

2009-02-12 Thread The Well - Systems Administrator
600 on /etc is technically more secure than the default 755 with normal POSIX systems, not less. If this is an exploit, it's one that locks things down tighter than they should normally be. :) Giacomo is correct that these incorrect perms can cause other issues, though not security related ones

Re: Upgrade Debian testing to stable at Sunday

2009-02-12 Thread Paul E Condon
On 2009-02-12_13:10:25, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 02/12/2009 10:21 AM, Jason Voorhees wrote: > [snip] >> >> Yes, you're right! So, the changes between the most recent debian >> testing and debian stable at Sunday will be minimal, right? >> > > Theoretically. > OP: Earlier in this thread Ron told you

RE: Strange keyboard lag

2009-02-12 Thread Stackpole, Chris
> From: Joar Jegleim [mailto:joar.jegl...@gmail.com] > Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2009 1:23 PM > Subject: Re: Strange keyboard lag > > ehm, or it could be that I forgot to actually attach the attachments. > sorry :p > I paste'ed the stuff on a pastebin a like service as weel. > http://paste.uni.

Re: [OT] Terminal Control Language (not unix tcl) ... any Specification or lib?

2009-02-12 Thread Mike Castle
On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 8:04 AM, Martin wrote: > learn the proprietary TCL[1] (not the unix tcl) which seems to come > from Verifone[2] internal programming languages. I used to do development on these devices 10+ years ago, I think for Tranz 330, 340 and 380, for precisely this type of operation

Re: Upgrade Debian testing to stable at Sunday

2009-02-12 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/12/2009 10:21 AM, Jason Voorhees wrote: [snip] Yes, you're right! So, the changes between the most recent debian testing and debian stable at Sunday will be minimal, right? Theoretically. -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Supporting World Peace Through Nuclear Pacification -- To

openoffice.org 3.0.1 and "--instdir" option

2009-02-12 Thread H.S.
Hello, I wanted to try out OOo 3.0.1 on Debian Lenny. From this web page: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/Administration_Guide/Linux looks like all I have to do is: $> dpkg -i *.deb to the downloaded deb file to get the installation in /opt. Now, the web page also says th

Re: Grep for colums?

2009-02-12 Thread Chris Davies
Nagy Daniel wrote: > cat text.txt | perl -ne 'print "$1\n" while (/href=\"(.+?)\"/ig)' | grep > sourceforge | grep nvu You don't need cat for a single file! perl -ne 'print "$1\n" while (/href=\"(.+?)\"/ig)' text.txt | grep sourceforge | grep nvu Or, by using perl in a single comma

Re: hostname & how to empty dns

2009-02-12 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
Nagy Daniel wrote: > The router get's the hostname of the Debian PC [it's in his DHCP > client list], now the only problem is that I can't ping [the Linux PC] > it by it's hostname from another computer..:S:D:S Probably your router is not a real DNS server and will only uses that names for informa

Re: hostname & how to empty dns

2009-02-12 Thread Nagy Daniel
Thank you, editing the /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf file worked, I uncommented the: send host-name send dhcp-client-identifier The router get's the hostname of the Debian PC [it's in his DHCP client list], now the only problem is that I can't ping [the Linux PC] it by it's hostname from another comp

Re: Grep for colums?

2009-02-12 Thread Martin
Hi, mar...@localhost:~/2delete$ cat columns.txt 1 2 3 a b c 1 2 3 4 a b c d mar...@localhost:~/2delete$ awk '$2 == "b"' columns.txt a b c a b c d mar...@localhost:~/2delete$ awk '$2 == "2"' columns.txt 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 2009/2/11 Nagy Daniel : > Is there a methodfor searching in colums just like gr

[slightly OT] List mbox tip

2009-02-12 Thread Kumar Appaiah
Dear Debian users, I often want to read archives of lists as well as lists to which I am not subscribed to as mboxes. However, this is not possible usually as the persons who host the lists don't make it available. But I recently read this mail which solves this problem for lists available through

Re: Upgrade Debian testing to stable at Sunday

2009-02-12 Thread Jason Voorhees
On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 11:37 AM, Michael Pobega wrote: > On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 10:09:33AM -0500, Jason Voorhees wrote: >> Hi people: >> >> I got a business with one of my customers to install him a >> Firewall+Proxy+VPN running Debian this Saturdary 14th. I was thinking >> about installing Debi

Re: Upgrade Debian testing to stable at Sunday

2009-02-12 Thread Michael Pobega
On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 10:09:33AM -0500, Jason Voorhees wrote: > Hi people: > > I got a business with one of my customers to install him a > Firewall+Proxy+VPN running Debian this Saturdary 14th. I was thinking > about installing Debian Etch because I din't know that Lenny was so > close to come.

Re: Upgrade Debian testing to stable at Sunday

2009-02-12 Thread Jason Voorhees
Hi: On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 10:20 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 02/12/2009 09:09 AM, Jason Voorhees wrote: >> >> Hi people: >> >> I got a business with one of my customers to install him a >> Firewall+Proxy+VPN running Debian this Saturdary 14th. I was thinking >> about installing Debian Etch becau

Re: hostname & how to empty dns

2009-02-12 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
Nagy Daniel wrote: > > 1 - When I use Debian [when a normal router does the DHCP for it] - > from the routers DHCP client list, I only see a "*" for hostname [for > the Debian PC], and I saw it several times now. Am I missing a > package? Why can't the router see the hostname for the Linux PC? > [N

[OT] Terminal Control Language (not unix tcl) ... any Specification or lib?

2009-02-12 Thread Martin
Hi, we are currently evaluating to replace our time tracking software, first investigations revealed that we have 2 choices. Either license a Microsoft Windows software that let's us parametrize the terminal or learn the proprietary TCL[1] (not the unix tcl) which seems to come from Verifone[2] in

Re: hostname & how to empty dns

2009-02-12 Thread Shams Fantar
Nagy Daniel wrote: > > Hi [again :D:S] > > Just two questions: > > 1 - When I use Debian [when a normal router does the DHCP for it] - > from the routers DHCP client list, I only see a "*" for hostname [for > the Debian PC], and I saw it several times now. Am I missing a > package? Why can't the ro

hostname & how to empty dns

2009-02-12 Thread Nagy Daniel
Hi [again :D:S] Just two questions: 1 - When I use Debian [when a normal router does the DHCP for it] - from the routers DHCP client list, I only see a "*" for hostname [for the Debian PC], and I saw it several times now. Am I missing a package? Why can't the router see the hostname for the Linux

Re: Upgrade Debian testing to stable at Sunday

2009-02-12 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/12/2009 09:09 AM, Jason Voorhees wrote: Hi people: I got a business with one of my customers to install him a Firewall+Proxy+VPN running Debian this Saturdary 14th. I was thinking about installing Debian Etch because I din't know that Lenny was so close to come. Now I think I would like to

Upgrade Debian testing to stable at Sunday

2009-02-12 Thread Jason Voorhees
Hi people: I got a business with one of my customers to install him a Firewall+Proxy+VPN running Debian this Saturdary 14th. I was thinking about installing Debian Etch because I din't know that Lenny was so close to come. Now I think I would like to install Debian Lenny but maybe at the time I wi

Re: Exploit in Upgrade Chain?

2009-02-12 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Wednesday 11 February 2009 23:26:45 Stan Katz wrote: I updated/upgraded both my AMD64 and AMD k6 "Etch" machines between Feb 10-11, 2009 using "Lenny" test. Both picked up a symptom I haven't seen since the lpd exploit of the 1990's. This symptom manifests itself

Re: Upgrading kernel on a system that won't boot

2009-02-12 Thread Michael Pobega
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 10:39:18PM -0500, Dan Christensen wrote: > I have a system running etch. I believe it has this kernel installed: > > linux-image-2.6.18-5-k7 2.6.18.dfsg.1-13etch2 > > The motherboard failed a few days ago, and I've just got a new > motherboard and cpu. However, the m

Re: POSSIBLE BREAK-IN in auth.log via ssh

2009-02-12 Thread Raquel
On Thu, 12 Feb 2009 19:40:16 +1100 Alex Samad wrote: > this is ssh complaining about incorrect password being supplied, I > presume you do not allow password authentication for root ! > > This is some script kiddie or mutant pc try brute attack against > your sshd server, try fail2ban I used to

RE: Strange keyboard lag

2009-02-12 Thread Stackpole, Chris
> From: Joar Jegleim [mailto:joar.jegl...@gmail.com] > Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2009 4:19 AM > Subject: Strange keyboard lag > [snip] > I've attached output of 'lspci -vv' , 'lsusb -vv', dmesg + > /proc/interrupts if anyone got any hints in how I can troubleshoot > this problem I highly appre

Re: Exploit in Upgrade Chain?

2009-02-12 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 11 February 2009 23:26:45 Stan Katz wrote: > I updated/upgraded both my AMD64 and AMD k6 "Etch" machines between Feb > 10-11, 2009 using "Lenny" test. Both picked up a symptom I haven't seen > since the lpd exploit of the 1990's. This symptom manifests itself as > either a random escal

Re: Upgrading kernel on a system that won't boot

2009-02-12 Thread Dan Christensen
Ron Johnson writes: > On 02/11/2009 09:39 PM, Dan Christensen wrote: >> I have a system running etch. I believe it has this kernel installed: >> >> linux-image-2.6.18-5-k7 2.6.18.dfsg.1-13etch2 >> >> The motherboard failed a few days ago, and I've just got a new >> motherboard and cpu. Howe

Re: Using a Software Raid array created with newer mdadm

2009-02-12 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Michael Harris [2009.02.12.0108 +0100]: > I am about to setup a new server with Lenny and want to move an > existing software RAID array from a box running Arch Linux with > Kernel 2.6.28 with Mdadm 2.6.8 to the Lenny box and I'm wondering > if there will be any issues as Lenny has an

Re: POSSIBLE BREAK-IN in auth.log via ssh

2009-02-12 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Kevin Philp [2009 Feb 12 05:25 -0600]: > 6. If its convenient switch to a different port - the brute force > attackers just scan blocks of IP addresses at port 22 - if you are using > port 22 you are much less likely to be scanned. Perhaps you meant, "if you are _not_ using port 22 you are

Re: converting ms word files

2009-02-12 Thread Daniel Dalton
> Hmmm. *Maybe* it would work from the console. Two ways to find out, and > one doesn't require that you know C... :) Yes, I did test it. :-) And setting the DISPLAY var seemed to make it work. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: converting ms word files

2009-02-12 Thread Daniel Dalton
> $ DISPLAY= abiword -t txt /tmp/test.doc > $ ls -l /tmp/test.txt > -rw-r--r-- 1 tzafrir tzafrir 58 2009-02-12 04:27 /tmp/test.txt Thanks! That works from text mode. I'll have to do some tests and see which is the best now... :-) does that trick work with other apps? Daniel. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: POSSIBLE BREAK-IN in auth.log via ssh

2009-02-12 Thread Kevin Philp
SSH brute force attacks are very common - we get several a week. There are various methods for stopping them - a summary is in: http://www.security-hacks.com/2007/05/23/protecting-against-ssh-brute-force-attacks I suggest the following: 1. configure ssh to block all users apart from those you

Strange keyboard lag

2009-02-12 Thread Joar Jegleim
I've got a fresh install of Debian Lenny on a brand new Fujitsu Siemens Esprimo machine. Everything works flawlessly except from strange behavior from my keyboard. Inn tty[1-6] when I type, sometimes 1 keystroke results in several letters, e.g. I type 'ls' and the terminal show 'ls' . In X thi

Re: Upgrading kernel on a system that won't boot

2009-02-12 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/11/2009 09:39 PM, Dan Christensen wrote: I have a system running etch. I believe it has this kernel installed: linux-image-2.6.18-5-k7 2.6.18.dfsg.1-13etch2 The motherboard failed a few days ago, and I've just got a new motherboard and cpu. However, the machine won't boot. The new

Re: [OT] Friday the 13th

2009-02-12 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/11/2009 07:32 PM, Dave Sherohman wrote: On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 08:23:25AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/11/2009 05:17 AM, Dave Sherohman wrote: No, I think the much better idea would be to ditch timezones and put the whole world on UTC. Get rid of DST and 12-hour clocks, too, while yo

Re: [OT] Friday the 13th

2009-02-12 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/11/2009 07:37 PM, Dave Sherohman wrote: On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 09:12:21AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/11/2009 08:32 AM, Jack Schneider wrote: On Wed, 11 Feb 2009 08:06:36 -0600 Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/11/2009 07:47 AM, Jack Schneider wrote: [snip] We are probably the only entitie

Re: converting ms word files

2009-02-12 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/11/2009 08:07 PM, debian debian wrote: Ooconvert is a command line utility, converts between all 183 formats (!) that openoffice recognizes. If ooconvert requires open office, then you may as well have X installed to meet all the requirements. If you have to install X , then you may as w

Re: POSSIBLE BREAK-IN in auth.log via ssh

2009-02-12 Thread Jochen Schulz
Norman Bird: > I decided to check the auth.log and started freaking out because I saw alot > of POSSIBLE BREAK-IN lines. It says "possible break-in *attempt*". But either way, it is harmless. And, by the way: do you think a smart attacker who gained root on your machine would leave traces in the

Re: POSSIBLE BREAK-IN in auth.log via ssh

2009-02-12 Thread Alex Samad
On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 12:57:21AM -0500, Norman Bird wrote: > I decided to check the auth.log and started freaking out because I saw alot > of POSSIBLE BREAK-IN lines. then I saw roon loging in so I was panicking. > But as I really reviewed them it seems that the actual root logins were by > CRON