Re: eliminating implicit rules in makefiles

2006-06-27 Thread David Kirchner
On 6/27/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: How can I disab;e *all* the default rules in my Makefiles? GNU 'make' has a '-r' flag that does this. It seems to work, in my limited testing. -- David 'dpk' Kirchner -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "un

Re: arp syntax help

2006-05-08 Thread David Kirchner
On 5/8/06, S t i n g r a y <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Can you please share the syntax for manually adding ip & MAC address permenantly i am doing arp -s 10.0.0.1 22:33:55:gf:34:22 permenent "permanent" is implied, so you can drop that argument. also how to delete one MAC entry arp -d 10.0

Re: ATTN: Barbara Oncay

2006-04-14 Thread David Kirchner
On 4/14/06, Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > Huh, look at that. It doesn't show up in any of the attachments > > either. Just not there. Good eye Gene. > > Not true, here's the unsub instructions from the message I am replying to: > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Re: RAID Sizes (was Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color?)

2006-04-14 Thread David Kirchner
On 4/14/06, Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Wed, 2006-04-12 at 12:32 -0400, Matthias Julius wrote: > > > > >> Yes, there is. As example here is part of the output of mdadm: > > > > >> > > > > >> Array Size : 468872448 (447.15 GiB 480.13 GB) > > > > >> Device Size : 15629

Re: lists.debian.org vs google groups

2006-04-03 Thread David Kirchner
On 4/3/06, Pascal Hakim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Some people leak headers into the body of their email. gmail does by default, apparently. I do wonder if there really is a point to masking out the email addresses in the archive. If I were a spammer, one of the first things I'd do is sign up t

Re: Debian security.

2006-04-03 Thread David Kirchner
On 4/3/06, Surachai Locharoen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there any body guarantee debian security. I want to install debian as > my server instead of redhat as3 server which just attack by Phishing. > > Kan As stated already, this sort of problem usually comes about because of some insecure P

Re: CC Solutions Spamming Debian-User List

2006-03-23 Thread David Kirchner
On 3/23/06, C.C.S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We never signed up for any debian mailing lists. Is there any way to > determine what email addresses from our domain are on that list? It should be in the headers of this message, when you receive it. Look for "Received for" lines until you find one

Re: Someone get rid of this stupid thing.

2006-03-18 Thread David Kirchner
On 3/18/06, Gene Heskett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 3. There is no way short of a customized subject message sent > individually to every name on the mailing list, one at a time, FROM a > mailng list user, waiting each time to see if it generates this > response. This seems like the most reasona

Re: Re: Progress meter on copying

2006-03-15 Thread David Kirchner
On 3/15/06, Ted Gilchrist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I thought I could capture the progress status of scp to a file: > > % scp -r html [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 1>>mylog 2>&1 > > but the result is an empty file. Can someone tell me how to do this? scp is automatically detecting that the standard outp

Re: Newcomers to Debian downloading/ordering full CD-set

2006-03-14 Thread David Kirchner
On 3/14/06, Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A quick peak at debian-cd shows that there are discussions about having a > Desktop install with as few CDs as possible. This is the development part. The > site developers should present this accordingly. Something like: "For a > Desktop > i

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: RE: ...]

2006-03-08 Thread David Kirchner
On 2/26/06, Magnus Therning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Are other people receiving emails like the one I've attached after > posting to debian-user? > > Is it possible to track down the person who's causing this and tell > him/her to make sure the spamfilter skips postings from debian-user? The

Re: Debian not recognizing 1 of my 2 CPUs and sees only 16k cache =(

2006-03-08 Thread David Kirchner
On 3/8/06, Yu,Glen [Ontario] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Thanks for you replies, I've installed the smp kernel > (kernel-image-2.4.27-2-686-smp) but now "cat /proc/cpuinfo lists 4 cpus! > However my supervisor has informed me that they should be single-core, rather > than dual

Re: Stupid shell script question about "read"

2006-03-02 Thread David Kirchner
On 3/2/06, Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi list, > > Could someone tell me why the following works in zsh but not in > bash/posh/dash? > > benjo[3]:~% echo foo bar baz | read a b c > benjo[4]:~% echo $a $b $c > foo bar baz > > If I try the same with bash (or other sh-compatible she

Re: apache config question - China IP's

2006-02-21 Thread David Kirchner
On 2/20/06, Kevin Coyner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 221.226.124.109 - - [20/Feb/2006:16:17:10 -0500] "GET > http://1-shops.com/prx.php?p=q1w2e3r4t5y6u7i8o9p0*a-b HTTP/1.1" 404 > 288 "http://www.google.com/intl/en-us/"; "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; > MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; Crazy Browser 1.0.5)" >

Re: binary output from ls

2006-02-15 Thread David Kirchner
On 2/15/06, Ivan Glushkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > if I issue ls . > filelist.txt > as user I get: > a binary file like: > > ESC[0mESC[0mAcro3nKTzaESC[0m > ESC[0mfilelist.logESC[0m > ESC[01;34mgconfd-glushkovESC[0m > ESC[01;34mkde-glushkovESC[0m > ESC[01;34mkeyring-CXhOCWESC[0m > ESC[01;3

Re: help with quoting/expansion in bash

2006-02-13 Thread David Kirchner
On 2/12/06, David Berg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm trying to write a for loop that descends into a list ofdirectories and > runs a command. I can't seem to get the quoting rightthough. Most of the > directories have spaces and they are makingthings difficult for me. Here is > what I have

Re: Re: [PHP-DB] Help getting php up and running

2006-02-11 Thread David Kirchner
On 2/11/06, CasperLinux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anyone have any input? I am googling till my fingers hurt and everything I > find says it should be running. Whenever I try to open a test.php file all I > get is the web browswer trying to save the file instead of serving up the php > content.

Re: rsync and chown

2006-02-08 Thread David Kirchner
On 2/8/06, Ken Irving <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm using rsnapshot, which uses rsync over ssh, and "pull" backups to > the backup server running as root, but I connect to the backup machines > as an ordinary user. I use keychain to help automate ssh-agent for > authentication, so I need to con

Re: Mixing SSI and PHP

2006-02-06 Thread David Kirchner
On 2/6/06, Bill Wohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is it possible to mix both SSI and PHP in a .shtml file? If so, do you > have any configuration suggestions? I've tried various Apache configuration options and have not been able to get this to work. Some searching suggests that the only way to

Re: how to change number of saved lines on console

2006-02-06 Thread David Kirchner
On 2/6/06, Lubos Vrbka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi guys, > > is it possible to change (increase) the number of lines that are saved > on console? i would like to be able to scroll through the whole boot > process history. right now it allows me to go approximately one and half > pages back... >

Re: Missing public keys in aptitude

2006-02-02 Thread David Kirchner
On 2/2/06, Andreas Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > man apt-secure, man apt-key Neither are found on my Sarge install, and I don't see them in aptitude. > Install the 2006 archive signing key. This has been explained plenty of > times on the list, search the archive if you need a longer expla

Re: How much hassle to upgrade from 2.4.27 to 2.6.*?

2006-02-02 Thread David Kirchner
On 2/2/06, Adam Funk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've got a Debian testing/unstable system running a 2.4.27-2-386 or > 2.4.27-2-386 kernel, booted from LILO, and I'm thinking of upgrading > to 2.6.something. I had originally planned to wait until I had a new > computer but I haven't got around to

Re: Running a remote graphic program

2006-01-28 Thread David Kirchner
On 1/27/06, Matt Zagrabelny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > *) instead tunnel everything through ssh >i turn that on by default for my ssh server: > >$ grep X11Forwarding /etc/ssh/sshd_config >X11Forwarding yes >(restart the server for this to take affect, > /etc/init.d/ssh restart

Re: aol art files:

2006-01-27 Thread David Kirchner
On 1/24/06, Richard Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But the odd thing is that this is a recurring theme. Where does it > sprout from, I wonder? I suspect an old default Apache home pages installed with packages from older versions of Debian that come up from time to time when administrators mi

Re: switching / to lvm

2006-01-26 Thread David Kirchner
On 1/26/06, Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You can play with things as you like, but I wouldn't do it. > I had problems with LVM and got rid of it. Over on Fedora, > I've only seen one say "I'm glad I used LVM", but on a regular > basis someone gets bitten. Agreed. I haven't used LVM, b

Re:

2006-01-24 Thread David Kirchner
On 1/24/06, Igor Milovanovic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have this file: > > -rwx-- 1 f13o f13o 7.1K 2003-06-12 14:08 ppmtolss16 > > and i can't (?!) chmod it to 755 as user f13o? > > This hasn't happened to me... please, help. What error do you get? Is there only one f13o userid in /etc/

Re: File system overhead

2006-01-19 Thread David Kirchner
On 1/19/06, Tony Heal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > anyone have a good link that explains why/what the ext3 overhead is. I have > a partition that looks like it has 8GB taken up by the OS and I need to > explain this. > FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/sda9

iptraf is not reporting all UDP packets

2006-01-18 Thread David Kirchner
I haven't been able to find anyone else with this problem after searching Google and others. I'm wondering if I'm just doing something wrong. I have two hosts, connected via crossover cable, and I am running: dd if=/dev/zero bs=131072 | nc -u 10.0.0.3 8000 on one and nc -l -p 8000 -s 10.0.0.3 -

Re: FAQ on debian newcomer list

2006-01-10 Thread David Kirchner
On 1/10/06, kamaraju kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would appreciate any feedback/corrections/suggestions etc., (however > trivial you think they are) on the following FAQ on debian-user. The > final corrected version will be uploaded to > http://people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/du-guideli

Re: [Way OT] "#!/bin/bash" changes working directory

2006-01-05 Thread David Kirchner
On 1/5/06, Luis Finotti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear all, > > I realize that this should be "way off topic", so sorry about that... > > I've been working on a bash script, but when I run something like: > --- > #!/bin/bash > > echo $(pwd) > > I always get $HOME, no

Re: 2 eth and boot

2006-01-03 Thread David Kirchner
On 1/3/06, Enrique Morfin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > Happy new year! > > I have a box with 2 eth (1 intel, 1 3com) > > each time it boot, eth0 and eth1 are different: > > boot one: intel=eth0 3com=eth1 > boot two: intel=eth1 3com=eth0 > > well, not alwais change, it seams to be random. >

Re: Determine system ver (Debian vs. other Linuxes) at runtime?

2006-01-01 Thread David Kirchner
On 12/30/05, Matt England <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So I'm left with figuring out much harder ways to tell system revs > apart. I'm guessing I'm going to have to make an application which does > nothing but evaluate a system and report it's variant (Redhat vs SuSE vs. > Debian) and revision (De

Re: Why does Debian default to Gnome?

2005-12-28 Thread David Kirchner
On 12/28/05, John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The Gnome package is a dummy. It pulls in its components by depending on > them. Thus when you remove any of its components it gets removed as well. > However, since it has no contents, removing it does no harm. This > obviously needs to be b

Re: unsubscribe

2005-12-20 Thread David Kirchner
On 12/20/05, Almut Behrens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sometimes I'm wondering whether it's that very "REQUEST" being > capitalized that's confusing people -- and whether simply using > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" would make it appear more like a regular > email address after all. IMO, it would be a good

Re: dselect: unable to open/create access method lockfile

2005-12-16 Thread David Kirchner
On 12/16/05, Brian C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > dselect: unable to open/create access method lockfile > > but I still get the same error. Can anyone explain how to allow dselect > to create the lockfile it wants to? I'm not sure where it would put the lockfile, but you may be able to find out us

Re: all my email vanished -- again

2005-12-02 Thread David Kirchner
On 12/2/05, Hendrik Boom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes, last night all the massages I had left in /var/mail/hendrik > vanished *again*. Just like the night before. Of course, by the > time I got to look at my mail, a few new ones had arrived. > > I'm starting to think it's not just a fluke. D

Re: BASH Scripting Question

2005-11-25 Thread David Kirchner
On 11/25/05, Metrics <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > Can someone explain to me the following behaviour? I have this script > > #!/bin/sh > > LISTS=('debian-user' 'security-basics' 'hostap' 'pen-test' 'ntbugtraq' > 'ion-general' 'vim' 'madwifi'); > LIST_COUNT=${#LISTS} > echo $LIST_COUNT >

Re: hanging web pages

2005-11-22 Thread David Kirchner
On 21 Nov 2005 23:01:59 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Many of the web pages I visit cause the browser to hang for > significant periods of time (a minute or more in many cases). Until > the page finishes loading, the window does not update, and mouse > clicks have no effect

Re: "Antispam UOL" spam from [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2005-11-18 Thread David Kirchner
On 11/18/05, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Not to mention that you should have received only one message per post you > made to mailing lists the loser with AntispamUOL is part of. > > Maybe you are seeing the results of a spammer forging your address? I received over 20

Re: "Antispam UOL" spam from [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2005-11-17 Thread David Kirchner
On 11/17/05, Rogério Brito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't know if that's exactly a black hole, but you can also try to address > your messages to, at least, two other addresses: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] whois also suggests sending complaints to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . It would p

Re: spam howto

2005-11-17 Thread David Kirchner
On 11/17/05, kamaraju kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In order to get rid of all the spam that I get due to posting to public > archived mailing lists etc., I subscribe to mailing lists through a > gmail account. Gmail spam filtering is quite effective and filters > almost 95% of the spam.

Re: redirecting the output with sudo

2005-11-16 Thread David Kirchner
On 11/16/05, Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Why not use "script"? That's certainly another option. I was assuming the sudo configuration was restricted to running that particular program. If sudo allows any string to be passed to it, script is a good solution. As are the suggested sudo sh

Re: redirecting the output with sudo

2005-11-16 Thread David Kirchner
On 11/16/05, kamaraju kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have tried > > $sudo wajig doc > /root/wajig_doc.txt > > But it does not work. Using Debian sid, bash 3.00.16(1). > > regards > raju The reason the above doesn't work is because "wajig doc" are the only arguments sent to sudo. Your cu

Re: looking for a transparent hardware RAID controller for debian

2005-11-15 Thread David Kirchner
On 11/14/05, Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Du you have used SATA drives with PATA Hardware or WD Raptor WD360GD > and WD740GD which have real SCSI-Hardware. They run with 10.000 RpM. We haven't tried Raptors yet. We're waiting for the capacities to approach that of the other SATA d

Re: SSH X11Forwarding not working - what am I doing wrong.

2005-11-11 Thread David Kirchner
On 11/11/05, Alan Chandler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But nothing is happening. Firstly, I would have expected on the remote > machine for the DISPLAY variable to have been set to localhost:10.0, but it > is unset, but even if I set it manually, there doesn't seem to be a channel > there (X prog

the Debian way to sync apt-get and aptitude

2005-11-10 Thread David Kirchner
Is there a Debian way to sync apt-get and aptitude data files? We just had a problem where aptitude decided to programs that were installed by apt-get immediately prior. This is on Sarge stable. Specifically, the steps to reproduce this were: apt-get install flac aptitude Press 'g' and you'd se

Re: looking for a transparent hardware RAID controller for debian

2005-11-10 Thread David Kirchner
On 11/10/05, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The issue was performance, though. Are you getting good speed? I must have missed that email then, sorry about that. We use RAID5 on this Linux box, RAID5 on FreeBSD (old driver) and RAID1 and 10 on FreeBSD (old and new driver). Overall our im

Re: looking for a transparent hardware RAID controller for debian

2005-11-10 Thread David Kirchner
On 11/9/05, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Last week on the list someone mentioned possible problems with > the 3ware 9xxx cards and newer kernels. Maybe it's been resolved, > maybe not. Yeah, someone was having trouble with kernel panic -- the VFS cannot mount root one indicating that

aic7xxx driver floppy for sarge

2005-11-09 Thread David Kirchner
Hi All, This may sound like a stupid question, answered in some FAQ somewhere, but I just can't find it. Does anyone know which Sarge floppy image contains the aic7xxx SCSI driver?

Re: looking for a transparent hardware RAID controller for debian

2005-11-09 Thread David Kirchner
On 11/9/05, enediel gonzalez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello > > I'm looking for a transparent hardware RAID controller to implement a RAID1 > for the debian, > ?Is it possible to find a RAID controller on the market (no matter for IDE, > SATA, SCSI hard drives) that at the moment of the debian

Re: kernel panic - trying to build 2.6.x for Dell PowerEdge 850

2005-11-07 Thread David Kirchner
On 11/7/05, Mark Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm getting this error and can't boot the 2.6.9 kernel that I built: > > VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknow-block(8,2). > > I'm NOT a linux admin by any stretch. This box boots using 2.4.31. I > think maybe it has something to do with the S

Re: Serial ATA Hardware RAID recommendations?

2005-11-04 Thread David Kirchner
On 11/4/05, Chris Boot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'd like to probe the list to see what hardware RAID solutions people > can recommend that will: > > 1. Take 5/6 SATA disks for RAID 5/6/10 > 2. Allow them to be hot-plugged (with or without Jeff Garzik's > in-progress SATA hotplug pat

Re: How to lock user in his home.

2005-09-13 Thread David Kirchner
On 9/13/05, Leonardo Marques <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i want the user can do everything they can do by default minus browse > accross the file system. Unfortunately this is not easily done. The user will need read access to the directories containing the binaries, such as /bin for the previous

Re: Starting background process in ssh session

2005-09-01 Thread David Kirchner
On 9/1/05, Roberto C. Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > However, when I log out of the machine, the ssh process on my local > machine blocks. I guess that it is becuase the remote still has jobs > running. Is there a way to get it start the process in the background > and then detach from the