Re: vpn tunneling

2004-12-03 Thread Brent Miller
Harland Christofferson wrote: I haven't seen my previous response so I am trying again. I have installed openswan. If you don't need all the features of IPSec, OpenVPN ( http://openvpn.sourceforge.net/ http://packages.debian.org/unstable/net/openvpn )is the way to go. I found it to be 100 t

Re: OpenOffice & Sawfish...

2004-10-11 Thread Brent Miller
Andrea Vettorello wrote: I think it depends on the theme, or better, how it define the transient windows. I know this isn't a solution, but try with a different sawfish theme, like microgui... Andrea P.S. my preferred one is finalstep... Thanks, that did it! -Brent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [E

OpenOffice & Sawfish...

2004-10-10 Thread Brent Miller
I've been googling for a solution to my problem, and although I've been finding what seems to be a troubled history between the two, I haven't been able to find an answer to my problem. When I open OpenOffice in Gnome/Sawfish, everything for the most part works fine. However, if I click on an i

Re: atmalwlandriver, 2.6 kernel and Debian

2004-06-17 Thread Brent Miller
Lorenzo Prince wrote: >I have an 11wave WaveBuddy PCMCIA wireless network card, and I want to use it >with the 2.6.6-1-686 kernel on Debian Sid. I have the kernel-source-2.6 package >and hav untarred it and symlinked the resulting directory to >/usr/src/linux-2.6.6-1-686, which is apparently wher

Why is there no GNU Zebra package in testing / unstable?

2004-06-14 Thread Brent Miller
Is it under a different name and I just can't find it? Is there something that people recommend that I use instead? Thanks, Brent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Basic, but what the hell am I doing wrong here?

2004-06-10 Thread Brent Miller
Stephen Touset wrote: >I'm working on a fairly large program for a class, and now every time I >run it, it segfaults. > >I've secluded the part that seems to cause the problems, and wrote a >small file called test.cc, which contains a minimal implementation fo >the code that brings up the segfault

Emulating a dual monitor system over X?

2004-04-19 Thread Brent Miller
Hello everyone. Like many on this list I'm sure, I end up being the recipient of old computers that friends and family unload on me every time the latest and greatest new thing comes out. A friend of mine just gave me (another) old laptop that he's not using anymore and I'm trying to figure out a u

Re: high system cpu usage, no culprit in top

2004-04-07 Thread Brent Miller
Justin Guerin wrote: >My CPU is 100% utilized, but no processes seem to be using the CPU. I can't >seem to figure out what's causing the load. I know that something is, >though, because xscreensaver is running very slow. > Some daemons (mysql comes to mind) won't show up under top, but of cour

Re: ssh port forwarding errors

2004-03-30 Thread Brent Miller
Jody Grafals wrote: > Anyone seen this error befor ? > > "channel 1: open failed: administratively prohibited: open failed" > > I get it when I try to run this command > ssh -f -g -n -b216.xxx.xxx.92 -N -L80:67.xxx.xxx.22.:80 -l root > 67.xxx.xxx.22 You have to be root to be able to open port 80

Mirrors of security.debian.org???

2004-02-02 Thread Brent Miller
Hello all, yes, I've seen the previous posts about klecker being down and all, but is there no mirror of security? I didn't see anything on http://www.debian.org/mirror/list. I'm kind in the situation where I finally convinced the people I work with how cool and reliable debian is and they've al

Re: Nessus portscan takes loooooong

2003-11-14 Thread Brent Miller
Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: > One thing I've come to think about: My ISP has suffered many > DDoS-attacks, I have no idea why. However, could it be that they have > installed a firewall on the router that makes this go so slow? Possible. Maybe they've installed something like psad on their system. If

Re: Nessus portscan takes loooooong

2003-11-14 Thread Brent Miller
Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: > However, the initial portscan takes an extremely long time... Actually, > I haven't seen it finish, because I had to turn my computer off at > night... :-) But something like 10 hours, it seems like it would need > to do a portscan... WTF? There's is a progress bar, it

Re: Kernel panic, desperate help needed.

2003-11-01 Thread Brent Miller
This may be a longshot, but are you using a wireless networking card? I get the same kp when using linux-wlan-ng with some netgear NICs under heavy load. -Brent A. Loonstra wrote: > For the second time during our nightly backup our kernel crashes > completely. Since this is a production machine

Re: reiserfs

2003-10-27 Thread Brent Miller
Vivek Kumar wrote: > I tried to mount the reiserfs filesytem and it was > mounted. GREAT!!! But now my netowrk inteface is not coming up. I tried > ifup command but itsays that it cannot find the module eth0. Somehow my > netowrking got messed up now. > Any Suggestion. I had a similar problem when

w reports diffrent number of users than displayed

2003-08-26 Thread Brent Miller
Hello, I'm running sid i386. When I ran w this morning I noticed that w was reporting a different number of users than it was actually showing me: 10:50:35 up 2 days, 15:52, 6 users, load average: 1.06, 1.12, 1.16 USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT bmiller :0