Re: Password problem confirmed as repeatable - was [Re: Newbie password problem(s)]

Hi, On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 01:53:47PM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > Terho Uotila wrote: > >Unless you want to try very minimal system you probably want shadow > >passwords. > > I do not understand. > Going by text displayed during the installation I had the > impression that shadow passwords w

Re: http://wiki.debian.org/Self-Signed_Certificate ...

/etc/apache2/ssl/localcerts/ is only an example directory where you can put apache.pem file. What matters is that path of SSLCertificateFile should exist in the system. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas..

Re: Squeeze on a EEE PC 901, trackpad problems

>I just installed Debian with the Xfce desktop on a EEE PC model 901. >I've got things working pretty well, but I can't enable tap-to-click on >the trackpad.  I go to Settings->Mouse in the Xfce menu, and there is no >tab or checkbox for tapping.  I'm guessing I need to enable something in X? > >(

Squeeze on a EEE PC 901, trackpad problems

I just installed Debian with the Xfce desktop on a EEE PC model 901. I've got things working pretty well, but I can't enable tap-to-click on the trackpad. I go to Settings->Mouse in the Xfce menu, and there is no tab or checkbox for tapping. I'm guessing I need to enable something in X? (I just

http://wiki.debian.org/Self-Signed_Certificate ...

... under STEP 4 this line is quoted from the site configuration file. SSLCertificateFile /etc/apache2/ssl/localcerts/apache.pem My system has no /etc/apache2/ssl/. peter@dalton:~$ ls /etc/apache2/ apache2.conf envvars magic mods-enabled sites-available conf.dhttpd.conf m

Re: vim

On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 2:33 PM, Nate Bargmann wrote: > * On 2012 16 Nov 14:02 -0600, james gray wrote: >> i am using vim to add the one and only name in a usr account to the groups >> file for printing. > > I would use, as super user: > > # usermod -Ga lp Or vigr. Definitely not plain vi/vim

Re: CPU scaling problems

At Fri, 16 Nov 2012 20:54:33 +0200, Adrian Fita wrote: > I don't have freq_step in that path either. Instead, I have it in > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/conservative/freq_step . That document is > kinda' old and some info from there might be outdated or things might have > been moved around ("f

Re: vim

* On 2012 16 Nov 14:02 -0600, james gray wrote: > i am using vim to add the one and only name in a usr account to the groups > file for printing. I would use, as super user: # usermod -Ga lp > i am working with debian 6.0 with out any form of a GUI to learn system > admin with an explicit aim i

Re: sid is not for newbies.

On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 07:59:29AM -0800, Kelly Clowers wrote: > On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 7:36 AM, Jon Dowland wrote: > > The trouble is that testing is very variable: pretty good from freeze > > onwards, > > terrible immediately after freeze, etc. - not consistent. > > Neither is Sid, it does th

Re: vim

i am using vim to add the one and only name in a usr account to the groups file for printing. i am working with debian 6.0 with out any form of a GUI to learn system admin with an explicit aim in setting up a lan for web development. but as many voices scream, read the docs, as i do. i have been th

Re: Password problem confirmed as repeatable - was [Re: Newbie password problem(s)]

Terho Uotila wrote: Unless you want to try very minimal system you probably want shadow passwords. I do not understand. Going by text displayed during the installation I had the impression that shadow passwords were for those overly paranoid about supposed incremental security advantages. My

Re: CPU scaling problems

On 16/11/12 11:02, Francesco Mazzoli wrote: > Well, I have looked at your config and read this > and I don't > seem to have `/sys/devices/system/cpu/*/cpufreq/conservative/freq_step', even > if > the conservative governor is loaded.

Re: CPU scaling problems

At Thu, 15 Nov 2012 21:50:05 +, Francesco Mazzoli wrote: > > At Thu, 15 Nov 2012 19:40:07 -0200, > Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > > > On Thu, 15 Nov 2012, Francesco Mazzoli wrote: > > > At Thu, 15 Nov 2012 18:17:18 -0200, > > > Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > > > That said, Lin

Re: wheezy amd64: google-earth black screen

Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: Am Freitag, 16. November 2012 schrieb Hugo Vanwoerkom: Hi, I installed google-earth, but on starting it all I get is a black screen. Googling this you get 100's of hits, referring to things that I have installed. Relevant to this I have installed: nvidia-glx nvidia-glx-

Re: SV: Problems apt-get update on several servers.

On 16.11.2012 20:05, Tore Lindberg Åbodsvik wrote: Good time of the day Tore, I'm very glad that you have untied that tricky knot :-) Roman. Hi again. I found the error. We use a checkpoint firewall, which supports the use of "captive portal". This so that a user can not use connect a cabel i

SV: SV: Problems apt-get update on several servers.

I am quite sure i got to download an bz2 file while i should have been blocked by the captive portal. I would have to recheck this on monday morning. Sure apt would wonder why it most probably was served nd index html file asking it to identify itself ;) Well atleast the problem have been solve

Re: SV: Problems apt-get update on several servers.

On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 05:05:43PM +0100, Tore Lindberg Åbodsvik wrote: > Hi again. > [cut] > > The thing that concerns me is that i had full connection agains the net, i > could ping external machine and i also could run the wget command outwards > with the files beeing transmitted. > But othe

Re: wheezy amd64: google-earth black screen

Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: Am Freitag, 16. November 2012 schrieb Hugo Vanwoerkom: Hi, I installed google-earth, but on starting it all I get is a black screen. Googling this you get 100's of hits, referring to things that I have installed. Relevant to this I have installed: nvidia-glx nvidia-glx-

SV: Problems apt-get update on several servers.

Hi again. I found the error. We use a checkpoint firewall, which supports the use of "captive portal". This so that a user can not use connect a cabel into our intrenal network and surf away without signing in against the active directory. We activated this feature approximate 1 week ago. The pr

Re: sid is not for newbies.

On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 7:36 AM, Jon Dowland wrote: > The trouble is that testing is very variable: pretty good from freeze onwards, > terrible immediately after freeze, etc. - not consistent. Neither is Sid, it does the same thing. Cheers, Kelly Clowers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-use

Re: IpTables Displays Ultra Slow

On Friday 16 November 2012 06:05 PM, Tóth Tibor Péter wrote: iptables -L -n Is fast as supposed to be. What causing -L being slow? and what is the reason for the login prompt being slow as well ? Thanks! -Original Message- From: ha [mailto:hiei.arh...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, November

jigdo + approx + netinstall -- need for a coherent system

Have I missed something? (1) "jigdo-lite" provides a foolproof and relatively easy method for the individual to keep on hand locally an up-to-date copy of one or more Debian releases, in the form of ISO images for CD or DVD. In particular, "jigdo-lite": - minimizes loading of the Debian repo

Re: sid is not for newbies.

The trouble is that testing is very variable: pretty good from freeze onwards, terrible immediately after freeze, etc. - not consistent. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http:/

Samba problems

I'm having a problem getting Samba set up on one computer, and any pointers would be appreciated. I have two computers, identical except that one has an 80 gig drive and the other has a 250 gig drive. Both have an external USB drive, which is the drive I'm trying to share out across a home networ

Re: startup: separate /var partition hoses /run, shm (shared memory)?

http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2012/11/msg00679.html On every startup, on the initial {black screen, white text} I get errors beginning with > Mount point '/run' does not exist. Skipping mount. and ending (just before it goes to X) with many (10 > n > 100) lines beg

RE: IpTables Displays Ultra Slow

DNS look ups are what is slowing it down -n is no dns look ups On Nov 16, 2012 7:51 AM, "Tóth Tibor Péter" wrote: > iptables -L -n > Is fast as supposed to be. > > What causing -L being slow? and what is the reason for the login prompt > being slow as well ? > > Thanks! > > -Original Message-

RE: IpTables Displays Ultra Slow

iptables -L -n Is fast as supposed to be. What causing -L being slow? and what is the reason for the login prompt being slow as well ? Thanks! -Original Message- From: ha [mailto:hiei.arh...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, November 16, 2012 11:24 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re

Re: sid is not for newbies.

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Ralf Mardorf wrote: > If the OP needs a > reliable system and not new software, drivers etc., I would recommend > Debian Stable. If you need new software, drivers etc. I recommend > Debian Testing. Nonono, not testing. Testing goes through epic fl

Re: Password problem confirmed as repeatable - was [Re: Newbie password problem(s)]

Unless you want to try very minimal system you probably want shadow passwords. On Thu, 15 Nov 2012 11:04:21 -0600 Richard Owlett wrote: > 2. Did not enable shadow passwords > (...) > 3. Attempted "su", neither root nor user password accepted You may have hit a bug. I noticed a problem with disab

Re: startup: separate /var partition hoses /run, shm (shared memory)?

On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 03:22:40PM +1100, Igor Cicimov wrote: > On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 2:47 PM, Tom Roche wrote: > > > > > What must one do to make /run mount appropriately on startup if one has > > a separate /var partition? What I mean, why I ask: > > > > I suspect this is related to having a

Re: IpTables Displays Ultra Slow

what about iptables -L -n ? On 11/16/2012 10:58 AM, Tóth Tibor Péter wrote: I have some firewall rules set up. When I do "iptables -L" it starts to display the rules but after the first 3 lines stops and before every rule it waits a little bit. about 10-15 secs. When I have Iptables on the serv

IpTables Displays Ultra Slow

I have some firewall rules set up. When I do "iptables -L" it starts to display the rules but after the first 3 lines stops and before every rule it waits a little bit. about 10-15 secs. When I have Iptables on the server, the ssh login is also slow. Login prompt is fast, but have to wait a whil

SV: SV: Problems apt-get update on several servers.

Hi. I have run wget against one mirror and the download went ok, no problem. I have however found a consistency in the errors, and that is that the machines that are failing, are all virtual and they all stand on the same virtual switch in Vmware. I installed another virtual NIC on one of the

Re: CPU scaling problems

Well, I have looked at your config and read this and I don't seem to have `/sys/devices/system/cpu/*/cpufreq/conservative/freq_step', even if the conservative governor is loaded. Any ideas on what might cause this? Francesco -- T