Buster's VDR plugin epgsearch is broken.

2019-10-21 Thread Jari Fredriksson
The fixed release is in Debian testing. Will we ever get it backported to Buster? The plugin crashes VDR when it finds a conflict in the timers. VDR in Buster is unusable with this plugin and my use case requires the plugin. What is Debian policy about this kind of incidents? Should I get t

I can't find 1920x1080 from Display Settings

2019-09-28 Thread Jari Fredriksson
Hello. I'm using Debian Buster in a VirtualBox VM on my server. I use it from Windows using Remote Desktop. The desktop size is not automatically my FullHD size so I need to go to Display Settings and there from a dropdown list pick a resolution for display. That works but there is not the mos

Debian Buster VirtualBox guest does not show GUI

2019-07-10 Thread Jari Fredriksson
The GUI starts all right, but just does not show up in RDP session. I wonder if it would work with X.org but with the current setup (vanilla fresh install with Gnome) does not show up. Any ideas? Br. jarif

Re: Jessie unable to start lvm2 on boot (raspbian)

2016-03-27 Thread Jari Fredriksson
Elimar Riesebieter kirjoitti 27.3.2016 14:23: * Jari Fredriksson [2016-03-27 14:02 +0300]: arian kirjoitti 17.3.2016 17:50: >raspbian is not mainline debian. Maybe ask on raspbian support channels? > >>vgchange -a y >>service lvm2 start >>mount -a > >why the serv

Re: Jessie unable to start lvm2 on boot (raspbian)

2016-03-27 Thread Jari Fredriksson
arian kirjoitti 17.3.2016 17:50: raspbian is not mainline debian. Maybe ask on raspbian support channels? vgchange -a y service lvm2 start mount -a why the service lvm2 start? is lvm service disabled? please provide output of those commands. Every time after a reboot the boot sequence abor

Re: Jessie unable to start lvm2 on boot (raspbian)

2016-03-27 Thread Jari Fredriksson
arian kirjoitti 17.3.2016 17:50: raspbian is not mainline debian. Maybe ask on raspbian support channels? vgchange -a y service lvm2 start mount -a why the service lvm2 start? is lvm service disabled? please provide output of those commands. Every time after a reboot the boot sequence aborts a

Jessie unable to start lvm2 on boot (raspbian)

2016-03-19 Thread Jari Fredriksson
I have an USB connected hard disk on my raspberry, and that is used via lvm2. This worked as charm in wheezy, but after I upgraded to jessie it does not work. Every time after a reboot the boot sequence aborts and sshd is not up (maybe because the /home is an lvm2-partition...) and I have to

Re: Virtual box

2015-10-23 Thread Jari Fredriksson
On 20.10.2015 12:59, Darac Marjal wrote: On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 09:33:56PM -0500, Mitch Nuss wrote: I am wanting to install Debian into a pic tower I have and want to use it as a headless server and use a tight VNC so I can access it anywhere. Do you have any advice for me and will I need to i

Re: how to compile kernel for raspberry

2015-07-04 Thread Jari Fredriksson
On 3.7.2015 20.26, Glenn English wrote: On Jul 3, 2015, at 5:30 AM, Abdelkader Belahcene wrote: I want to recompile the raspbian, please where can I find help Have a look at the Google (etc.) searches from "debian kernel compile". Lots of good advice -- the first link, on my computer, is

Wheezy amd64 & i386 package versions mismatch

2013-10-19 Thread Jari Fredriksson
Hello! Currently I have a Wheezy virtual machine in state, that apt refuses to install or update anything. Always the reason is that there is a version for the package, or some dependence in two arch, amd64 and i386, and they are of different version. Anyone seen this? dpkg: error processing li

Re: Monitor network download speed

2013-07-22 Thread Jari Fredriksson
20.07.2013 18:59, Joe Riel kirjoitti: > Any recommendations for a graphical tool to monitor, real-time, > the download network speed. My connection to work frequently > gets really slow, in which case I need to disconnect and reconnect. > I currently use the gnome network monitor tool, however, it

Re: Is this OK in C++ and C?

2013-01-01 Thread Jari Fredriksson
01.01.2013 22:11, Zbigniew Komarnicki kirjoitti: > I was very surprised when I discover that this code was compiled > without any warning. I thought if a variable is 'unsigned int' > then this is not allowed to assign negative value. > That's all. Indeed that is all. C and C++ are light weight

Re: Is this OK in C++ and C?

2012-12-31 Thread Jari Fredriksson
31.12.2012 20:33, Zbigniew Komarnicki kirjoitti: > Is this OK or is this a bug, when the wariable 'n' is > initializing by negative value? There no any warning. > Is this normal? I know that value -5 is converted > to unsigned but probably this should by printed a warning, > when this is a constant

Re: Why is FQDN not found?

2012-07-27 Thread Jari Fredriksson
On 27.07.2012 21:33, Kent West wrote: > Changing the order of the hosts: line to: > > hosts: files dns mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] mdns4 > > as you suggested above, seems to have solved the problem: > > ... > > Will this cause me any problems? I put it into this: hosts:

privoxy: remove banner, make unvisible

2012-07-23 Thread Jari Fredriksson
Hello. I have earlier used proxomitron on Windows succesfully, but now converted my rig from Windows to Linux. I installed privoxy, and trying to clean my web experience where it was with proxomitron. These tools act a bit differently, which I would like to try to "fix" ;) It looks like privox

Re: Reports of (Debian?) Linux kernel 2.6.32 livelocking when notified of leap second

2012-07-01 Thread Jari Fredriksson
On Sun, July 1, 2012 11:42, Camaleón wrote: > On Sat, 30 Jun 2012 21:52:21 +, Andy Smith wrote: > >> Has anyone been seeing this sort of thing in the last 22-ish hours? >> >> http://serverfault.com/questions/403732/anyone-else-experiencing-high-rates-of-linux-server-crashes-today > > (...) > >

Re: Linux Path

2012-06-11 Thread Jari Fredriksson
On Mon, June 11, 2012 17:15, Ethan Rosenberg wrote: > Dear List - > > I have a deficiency in my knowledge of paths. > > Will you please help. > > My working directory is /var/www/Webpages2 > > In that directory I have a file b.mp4. > > This file also is in /home/ethan/Gingy/Pictures/Vol_1 > > If I

Re: How to port forward inside a folder ?

2012-05-24 Thread Jari Fredriksson
On Thu, May 24, 2012 11:11, J. Bakshi wrote: > Hello, > > iptables port forwarding is running fine here. > > 192.168.1.1:82 forwarded to 192.168.1.2:80 > > `` > # for 82 > 80 of 192.168.1.2 > iptables -A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --dport 82 -j ACCEPT > iptables -A PREROUTING -t nat -i

Re: OT: More about GPG signing

2012-05-11 Thread Jari Fredriksson
On 12.5.2012 2:45, Jochen Spieker wrote: > My main reason for signing public e-mails is to invite people to encrypt > their e-mails to me. Signing is the easiest way to express that I (know > how to) use PGP/GPG and that I prefer encrypted communication. In my > opinion, the question is not why we

Re: Does anyone care about dialup?

2012-05-07 Thread Jari Fredriksson
On Tue, May 8, 2012 01:16, Paul Zimmerman wrote: > Why is it so difficult to get dialup to work in Linux? It has been this > way for many years, too. I tried a different distro in 1996 when dialup > modems were still the main means of Internet access  for most home users, > and it was painfully dif

Re: PAE kernels on old P4's (WAS Re: Latest update borks)

2012-03-06 Thread Jari Fredriksson
6.3.2012 23:28, Weaver kirjoitti: > The 3.0 series PAE kernels won't run on this machine... > > Yes they do. > I'm currently running 686 PAE 3.2.7-1 on a Pentium 4, 2.8 GHz machine - > this one - on a separate install. > Qualifying remark - no gui, but it runs just fine. > I don't need tha

Re: HTTP proxy over ssh recommendation?

2011-11-12 Thread Jari Fredriksson
11.11.2011 0:15, Bob Proulx kirjoitti: > I often have a situation that I would like to improve. I need to > access web servers that exist on a private subnet. I can log in using > ssh. sshuttle is all you need. It is not a proxy per se, but it allows a "poor man's VPN" over plain ssh. https://

Re: When was Debian installed

2011-10-09 Thread Jari Fredriksson
9.10.2011 18:19, Raf Czlonka kirjoitti: > On Sat, Oct 08, 2011 at 11:39:26PM BST, Jari Fredriksson wrote: >> 8.10.2011 4:09, Mark Panen kirjoitti: >>> Which command do i run to find out on which date i installed my Debian OS? >> >> uptime > > Have you read

Re: When was Debian installed

2011-10-08 Thread Jari Fredriksson
8.10.2011 4:09, Mark Panen kirjoitti: > Hi, > > Which command do i run to find out on which date i installed my Debian OS? > uptime -- Everything that you know is wrong, but you can be straightened out. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

/var/log/syslog is smaller than last time checked!

2011-09-16 Thread Jari Fredriksson
I just received this message from logcheck, on two machines (Debian), at the same minute. They do not share /var/log/ via NFS or anything. What might this be? Same minute! System Events =-=-=-=-=-=-= *** *** This could indicate tampering. *** WARNING ***: Log file /var/lo

Re: Bind does not die

2011-09-13 Thread Jari Fredriksson
13.9.2011 18:53, Bob Proulx kirjoitti: > Jari Fredriksson wrote: >> 13.9.2011 7:01, Bob Proulx kirjoitti: >>> Jari Fredriksson wrote: >>>> jarif@spitfire:~$ sudo rndc stop >>>> WARNING: key file (/etc/bind/rndc.key) exists, but using default &g

Re: Bind does not die

2011-09-12 Thread Jari Fredriksson
12.9.2011 7:49, Bob Proulx kirjoitti: > Jari Fredriksson wrote: >> Whenever I shutdown or reboot my Debians, the process fails. Bind >> shutdown process waits for the process to end indefinitely, and the >> machine does not shut down. I have to manually find the proces

Bind does not die

2011-09-11 Thread Jari Fredriksson
Whenever I shutdown or reboot my Debians, the process fails. Bind shutdown process waits for the process to end indefinitely, and the machine does not shut down. I have to manually find the process and kill with -9. The same with 32bit and 64bit Squeezees. -- Wrinkles should merely indicate wh

Re: setting up a static IP address

2011-08-17 Thread Jari Fredriksson
16.8.2011 18:31, Steve Kleene kirjoitti: > On Tue, 16 Aug 2011 03:32:42 -0500, Selim T. Erdogan wrote: >> (I also have dns-nameservers lines in my eth0 stanza in /e/n/i. >> IIRC, when I didn't, using dynamic wireless connections kept clobbering >> the static DNS entries in /etc/resolv.conf.) > > T

Re: how do I create a kdm login for non-desktop user

2011-07-22 Thread Jari Fredriksson
22.7.2011 14:35, Mark Charles kirjoitti: > For remote maintenance I want to add a default user called > "fixme" with no password to the system. > > If the remote user has problems with their computer they should be able > to press Enter and "fixme" will login and run a script connecting the > mach

bind does not want to die (squeeze)

2011-07-22 Thread Jari Fredriksson
I have two 32 bit squeeze machines running bind. Then I try to shutdown them, they will not die. The console shows "stopping x" (pid) repeatedly. I have to kill -9 the bind manually, so the shutdown process can continue. Is this is common feature, or there something wrong with my systems?

Re: ntop question

2011-06-11 Thread Jari Fredriksson
12.6.2011 1:54, Jari Fredriksson kirjoitti: > > I'm running squeeze and the latest ntop on it. > > Ntop does not show DNS-names in its listings, but bare IP-addresses > only. Is there a setting somewhere that I can tweak or so? I think older > versions showed DNS-names. &

ntop question

2011-06-11 Thread Jari Fredriksson
I'm running squeeze and the latest ntop on it. Ntop does not show DNS-names in its listings, but bare IP-addresses only. Is there a setting somewhere that I can tweak or so? I think older versions showed DNS-names. -- Your temporary financial embarrassment will be relieved in a surprising mann

Re: Problems with cron-apt in Lenny

2011-06-08 Thread Jari Fredriksson
7.6.2011 17:25, Camaleón kirjoitti: > On Tue, 07 Jun 2011 17:00:21 +0300, Jari Fredriksson wrote: > >> 7.6.2011 16:07, Camaleón kirjoitti: > >>> How does your cron-apt sources list file look like? Have you try by >>> setting another package repository mi

Re: Problems with cron-apt in Lenny

2011-06-07 Thread Jari Fredriksson
7.6.2011 16:07, Camaleón kirjoitti: > On Tue, 07 Jun 2011 13:16:20 +0300, Jari Fredriksson wrote: > >> I maintain several machines with Squeeze and Lenny, and they have >> cron-apt running. >> >> The lenny machines report this (via logcheck) >> >> System

Problems with cron-apt in Lenny

2011-06-07 Thread Jari Fredriksson
I maintain several machines with Squeeze and Lenny, and they have cron-apt running. The lenny machines report this (via logcheck) System Events =-=-=-=-=-=-= Jun 7 04:59:30 www128 cron-apt: W: Failed to fetch http://ftp.fi.debian.org/debian/dists/lenny/Release Unable to find expected entry no

Re: ftp problem?

2011-06-07 Thread Jari Fredriksson
7.6.2011 9:46, hadi motamedi kirjoitti: > Dear All > I cannot ftp to my debian server from MS Windows machine ,but ping > and telnet are ok. I checked as the following : > #chkconfig tftp on > #setup > After enabling tftp service, still the ftp is not ok but ping & telnet > are ok. Can you please

Re: Samba or NFS

2011-06-03 Thread Jari Fredriksson
3.6.2011 18:08, Dan kirjoitti: > Hi, > > I have two linux servers. One file server (debian) that is running > samba and one application server (redhat). I would like to mount the > shares of the file server in the application server. The problem is > that the usernames are very different. Samba is

Re: Debian update/upgrade good practices?

2011-05-18 Thread Jari Fredriksson
18.5.2011 10:20, Rafał Radecki kirjoitti: > Hi all. > > I have a new LAN to administer, I have 8 Debian production servers > which have been configured by someone else. > I try to make a reasonable update/upgrade policy for those servers. > Till now (for my home servers) I used aptitude update/upg

Re: MySQL Server Rebooting Automatically?

2011-05-05 Thread Jari Fredriksson
5.5.2011 18:38, Abraham kirjoitti: > Does anyone know why a MySQL Server would be automatically rebooting at > midnight? I never set it to reboot and can't find an option to change > this. I've also searched online and can't find an answer. Any ideas? > Rebooting? Is the mysqld process restarting

Re: VMware server 2.0 and Debian Squeeze?

2011-05-03 Thread Jari Fredriksson
> > Cheers. > -D > > 2011/5/2 Jari Fredriksson mailto:ja...@iki.fi>> > > pallas:~# CC=gcc-4.3 vmware-config.pl <http://vmware-config.pl> > > Making sure services for VMware Server are stopped. > > Stopp

Re: VMware server 2.0 and Debian Squeeze?

2011-05-02 Thread Jari Fredriksson
to troubleshoot module-related problems, please visit our Web site at "http://www.vmware.com/go/unsup-linux-products"; and "http://www.vmware.com/go/unsup-linux-tools";. Execution aborted. 2.5.2011 16:52, Burhan kirjoitti: > Hi Jari, > > What is it complain

VMware server 2.0 and Debian Squeeze?

2011-05-02 Thread Jari Fredriksson
I went and upgraded my Lenny to Squeeze and now VMware server does not compile. Is it possible, and if it is, how? Preparing to reinstall lenny now...dammit. -- A visit to a strange place will bring fresh work. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Seagate Barracuda drives?

2011-03-14 Thread Jari Fredriksson
On 14.3.2011 4:11, Marc Shapiro wrote: > There has been much talk about the WD 2TB drives and the problems that > they can have with linux. I just went into an electronics store that is > going out of business and has 40% off all drives. For internal drives, > all they have are Seagate Barracudas

Re: File server without the Xserver

2011-03-12 Thread Jari Fredriksson
On 12.3.2011 23:50, Leonardo Ruoso wrote: > Is it all about running gedit? > > Although I can't imagine why you can't use vim, emacs or even nano from > ssh it's pretty possible to download a copy of the file, edit it with > your preferred editor and upload it back to the server. > I'm not the

Re: File server without the Xserver

2011-03-12 Thread Jari Fredriksson
On 12.3.2011 2:57, Dan wrote: > On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 7:14 PM, Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: >> on 18:37 Fri 11 Mar, Dan (ganc...@gmail.com) wrote: >>> On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 6:09 PM, Dr. Ed Morbius >>> wrote: >> xauth is required by xbase-clients. It'll get installed with that. > > Should I then in

Re: Internet connection sharing?

2011-03-08 Thread Jari Fredriksson
On 8.3.2011 11:52, kuLa wrote: > On 08/03/11 09:50, Jari Fredriksson wrote: >> On 8.3.2011 11:36, kuLa wrote: >>> On 08/03/11 09:25, hadi motamedi wrote: >>>> Dear All >>>> My debian machine is connected to my MS Windows machine on the net.The >>&g

Re: Internet connection sharing?

2011-03-08 Thread Jari Fredriksson
On 8.3.2011 11:36, kuLa wrote: > On 08/03/11 09:25, hadi motamedi wrote: >> Dear All >> My debian machine is connected to my MS Windows machine on the net.The >> MS Windows machine is connected to Internet via valid IP address >> setting and on its secondary ip address setting it can see my debian

Re: Is there anything wrong with sticking with Lenny?

2011-02-23 Thread Jari Fredriksson
On 23.2.2011 3:35, Jason Hsu wrote: > If that doesn't work, I'll do a fresh installation of Lenny on the old computer, upgrade it to Squeeze, and then set it up as a firewall/server. > I hope you have Lenny full CD disk images available. Net Install does not work any more. I just reinstalled a L

dvd+rw-tools/growisofs is broken on 2.6.32 kernel and so with Squeeze.

2011-02-20 Thread Jari Fredriksson
My setup: Debian Lenny amd64 under VMware 2.0.2 on Windows7 hostm using a Writable DVD-RW drive. The drive is cofigured to be directly accessed to the Linux client, not via ATAPI emulation. If I use kernel 2.6.26-2-amd64 growisofs works. If I upgrade kernel to .32 via Backports, or distupgrade

Re: OT: Make Windows act like Debian and copy text just by marking it

2011-01-31 Thread Jari Fredriksson
On 31.1.2011 13:01, Daniel Andersson wrote: > Hi all, > > Can anyone recommend a program that allows me to make Windows to act > like as Debian and copy text just by marking it? > > It would lessen the annoyance of switching to Windows :) > > I use PuTTY to access Linux in Windows. It just wor

Re: recursively find duplicate filenames

2011-01-06 Thread Jari Fredriksson
On 5.1.2011 13:15, S Mathias wrote: > find duplicate filenames in a folder > find | perl -ne 's!([^/]+)$!lc $1!e; print if 1 == $seen{$_}++' > > find duplicate filenames in a folder recursively > ? how? > $ sudo aptitude install fdupes -- Q: What's the difference between the 1950's and

Re: firewall package for laptop wi-fi client

2011-01-03 Thread Jari Fredriksson
On 3.1.2011 11:55, Russell L. Harris wrote: > >> The major threats are web browser security holes (update often) >> especially through flash and java plug-ins, and pdf. > > Flash and java are in most web pages. Does a firewall not protect > against these threats? or are browser updates necessar

Re: When is best time to upgrade lenny to squeeze

2010-08-06 Thread Jari Fredriksson
On 6.8.2010 18:35, PaulNM wrote: > If you'll be running the VM only when logged in, virtualbox is > definitely preferred. If you need to run headless servers that start > automatically on bootup, qemu is the way to go. > I use VirtualBox just like you described, but I use VMWare Server 2.0 fo

Re: Linux PDA cell phones - Linux on Android compatible cell phones? ; jor Debian

2010-06-29 Thread Jari Fredriksson
On 29.6.2010 11:23, giovanni_re wrote: > Anyone here have an Android cell phone that runs a some full capability > linux distro? > > ie, making something like a linux pda with cell phone capability? > > Is there an Ubuntu, or Debian, or some other community based distro for > the android phone hw

Re: help for a new user

2010-05-08 Thread Jari Fredriksson
On 9.5.2010 0:13, Alexander Batischev wrote: > On Sat, May 08, 2010 at 02:02:01PM -0700, Robert Holtzman wrote: >> What is an internet key and did you mean to publish it for all the world >> to read? > Internet key is modern kind of modem. It uses mobile phone network to access. > Key looks just

Re: Spam

2010-04-07 Thread Jari Fredriksson
On 7.4.2010 19:07, Freeman wrote: > On Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 07:24:58AM -0500, John Hasler wrote: >> Freeman writes: >>> Has there been an increase of spam on the list over the past few >>> weeks? >> >> I have observed a general increase in spam. >> >>> I started filtering the list, which I don't li

Re: Good Use for ClamAV

2010-04-07 Thread Jari Fredriksson
On 7.4.2010 10:51, Freeman wrote: > I'll always be slowly catching up on comp tech. > > I was using Knoppix and ClamAV to remove a virus for a friend when the > futility of it all hit me. The free anti-virus hopscotch game that windows > users play to feel safe. What wasted energy--over an OS I

Re: [OT] postfix clarification

2010-04-02 Thread Jari Fredriksson
On 2.4.2010 21:36, supervinx wrote: > Hi ! > There's a way to override postfix behaviour to use as sender name the > current user ? > When I send as user1 (e.g.) I end up with us...@mydomain.com sender, > if I send as root or other user), r...@mydomain.com > Postfix does not create the From: hea

Re: How to read log files

2010-04-02 Thread Jari Fredriksson
On 2.4.2010 1:45, Dotan Cohen wrote: >> etcgrep () { grep -ir "$1" /etc/* ; } >> sgrep () { grep -ir "$1" /usr/src/linux ; } >> xgrep () { grep -i "$1" $(echo $PATH | tr ":" " ") ; } >> > > Nice. I'm having a hard time understanding that last one, but I will > figure it out. Thanks! > > It look

Re: bind9 rndc reload problem (SOLVED)

2010-03-31 Thread Jari Fredriksson
On 1.4.2010 4:24, Jari Fredriksson wrote: > > I think this is how it is supposed to be in Debian. > > So. > 1. I change a zone file > 2. I add one to serial in the zone file > 3. I command "rndc reload" > 4. rndc connects to named, and all seems good > 5. cha

bind9 rndc reload problem

2010-03-31 Thread Jari Fredriksson
When I command "rndc reload", this will be written to daemon.log Apr 1 04:13:17 spitfire named[19287]: received control channel command 'reload' Apr 1 04:13:17 spitfire named[19287]: loading configuration from '/etc/bind/named.conf' Apr 1 04:13:17 spitfire named[19287]: using default UDP/IPv4

Re: How to read log files

2010-03-31 Thread Jari Fredriksson
On 28.3.2010 19:33, Jari Fredriksson wrote: > On 28.3.2010 19:11, Dotan Cohen wrote: >> Is there a good resource for learning to read log files such as the >> kernel log, messages, dmesg, and such? I have been googling but found >> nothing really comprehensive yet unders

Re: squirrelmail: how select all messages?

2010-03-31 Thread Jari Fredriksson
On 31.3.2010 14:44, Pol Hallen wrote: > hi all :) > > Using squirrelmail on debian stable, I can't see how select all > messages. > it there a way or plugin to do this? > thanks No plugins needed: just click the 'Toggle all' link above the message list or another under the list. If the list does

Re: ad blocking squid

2010-03-29 Thread Jari Fredriksson
On 29.3.2010 17:52, Glenn English wrote: > > On Mar 29, 2010, at 8:17 AM, Jari Fredriksson wrote: > >> Privoxy (I think) can not play as a transparent proxy, but Squid can, >> and it can be chained with Privoxy. > >> > > Why not? If privoxy's runn

Re: ad blocking squid

2010-03-29 Thread Jari Fredriksson
On 29.3.2010 8:17, Glenn English wrote: > > On Mar 28, 2010, at 7:42 PM, John Hasler wrote: > >> Jozsef Vadkan wrote: >>> Can anyone post a link to a good howto, how to set up a transparent >>> squid proxy, that can filter ads? >> >> I suggest that you try Privoxy. No need for a HOWTO: just inst

Re: How to read log files

2010-03-29 Thread Jari Fredriksson
On 28.3.2010 19:11, Dotan Cohen wrote: > Is there a good resource for learning to read log files such as the > kernel log, messages, dmesg, and such? I have been googling but found > nothing really comprehensive yet understandable for a newbie. Where > should I start? > As has been said, Google i

Re: How to read log files

2010-03-28 Thread Jari Fredriksson
On 28.3.2010 21:16, Dotan Cohen wrote: >> Install logwatch, it will email you the essentials of daily logs. >> > > Thanks. Actually, my goal is to understand what I am reading in the > logs, not just to have the error pointed out. But I will install > logwatch for sure. > > Right now, I am fighti

Re: How to read log files

2010-03-28 Thread Jari Fredriksson
On 28.3.2010 19:11, Dotan Cohen wrote: > Is there a good resource for learning to read log files such as the > kernel log, messages, dmesg, and such? I have been googling but found > nothing really comprehensive yet understandable for a newbie. Where > should I start? > Install logwatch, it will

Small snort/oinkmaster problem

2010-03-20 Thread Jari Fredriksson
Using snort & oinkmaster. How to restart snort when and only when the rules were changed? When googling I only found suggestions and the snort should not be restarted in vain, and I agree. But how to do that? oinkmaster does not return any special return codes, which would be useful. How do you

Re: Virtualbox-3.1

2010-03-11 Thread Jari Fredriksson
On 11.3.2010 22:36, Frank J Niertit wrote: > Hi > > First of all let me thank you for a great system. You have made my > life a lot better. But there is always a but. I cannot load > Virtualbox-3.1. I am reliant on it in order to run Windows on top of > Debian in an office environment. I cannot ge

Re: Bash email attachment

2010-03-08 Thread Jari Fredriksson
On 8.3.2010 15:53, Raven wrote: > Hi all, > > I recently wrote a small content filter script (in bash) to use on my > local Postfix installation. The script receives via "pipe:" the > recipient and the sender's addresses then responds by sending back a > message containing some body text and an im

Re: useradd: Problem joining into a Samba domain

2010-03-05 Thread Jari Fredriksson
On 5.3.2010 5:46, Olaf Reitmaier Veracierta wrote: > > On 04/03/10 17:02, Jari Fredriksson wrote: >> I have an ancient domain, originally started with Red Hat 7.x. It is >> running on latest Lenny now, and works fine, except.. >> >> Now I try to add a new server into

Re: useradd: Problem joining into a Samba domain

2010-03-04 Thread Jari Fredriksson
On 4.3.2010 23:32, Jari Fredriksson wrote: > > I have an ancient domain, originally started with Red Hat 7.x. It is > running on latest Lenny now, and works fine, except.. > > Now I try to add a new server into the domain. Never mind, I got it. /usr/sbin/useradd -c "M

useradd: Problem joining into a Samba domain

2010-03-04 Thread Jari Fredriksson
I have an ancient domain, originally started with Red Hat 7.x. It is running on latest Lenny now, and works fine, except.. Now I try to add a new server into the domain. I found out that somehow I do not have "add machine script" in smb.cfg So, I googled and found this: /usr/sbin/useradd -

Re: tcp/ip traffic shaping in Debian

2010-03-03 Thread Jari Fredriksson
On 3.3.2010 19:43, Raimund Sacherer wrote: > Hi, i strongly advice you, if you do want this seriously, to read and > understand: > http://lartc.org/lartc.html > > This is the Linux Advanced Routing & Traffic Control HOWTO > > Here you should find everything you need to shape your traffic at your

Re: tcp/ip traffic shaping in Debian

2010-03-03 Thread Jari Fredriksson
On 3.3.2010 19:54, Jari Fredriksson wrote: > On 3.3.2010 19:18, Mart Frauenlob wrote: >> On 03.03.2010 15:29, Jari Fredriksson wrote: >>> >>> Hello. >>> >>> I have several PC:s in my LAN, and a Debian Lenny as a router/firewall >>> on th

Re: tcp/ip traffic shaping in Debian

2010-03-03 Thread Jari Fredriksson
On 3.3.2010 19:18, Mart Frauenlob wrote: > On 03.03.2010 15:29, Jari Fredriksson wrote: >> >> Hello. >> >> I have several PC:s in my LAN, and a Debian Lenny as a router/firewall >> on the edge of it. >> >> Does Lenny has tools for traffic shaping. I

Re: SpamAssassin not following private whitelist commands

2010-03-03 Thread Jari Fredriksson
On 3.3.2010 17:42, green wrote: > Jari Fredriksson wrote at 2010-03-03 07:52 -0600: >> On 3.3.2010 3:38, Ron Johnson wrote: >>> SA, which is "attached" to Postfix, isn't doing what I think it should >>> do. According to instructions I found on the Intarw

tcp/ip traffic shaping in Debian

2010-03-03 Thread Jari Fredriksson
Hello. I have several PC:s in my LAN, and a Debian Lenny as a router/firewall on the edge of it. Does Lenny has tools for traffic shaping. I have one machine here downloading lots of binaries from Giganews, and I might be tempted to limit that traffic somehow. I installed tcng after googling so

Re: SpamAssassin not following private whitelist commands

2010-03-03 Thread Jari Fredriksson
On 3.3.2010 3:38, Ron Johnson wrote: > Hi, > > (Up-to-date Sid system.) > > SA, which is "attached" to Postfix, isn't doing what I think it should > do. According to instructions I found on the Intarweb, per-user > whitelist addresses go in ~/.spamassassin/user_prefs with the format: > whitelist

Re: perl or bash question ["convert strings in a txt to html links"]

2010-02-28 Thread Jari Fredriksson
On 27.2.2010 19:12, Vadkan Jozsef wrote: > How can I do that in bash or perl, that I have a txt file, e.g.: > > $cat file.txt > Hi, this is the content of the txt file, that contains links like this: > http://www.somewhere.it/, and it could contain: http://somewhere.com, > etc.. > This is the seco

Re: Limited X setup

2010-02-28 Thread Jari Fredriksson
On 28.2.2010 0:24, joseph lockhart wrote: > Hello, been a while since I posted, working on setting up a partition which > will run mainly console programs, however, I was interested in setting up X > to run a few programs (or maybe the framebuffer) a quick search of the web > yielded no help. An

Re: installing snort

2010-02-19 Thread Jari Fredriksson
On 19.2.2010 19:56, Jordan Metzmeier wrote: > So you are saying you have installed the snort-rules-default package > but the /etc/snort/rules/ directory remains missing? Doing something > manually could cause dpkg to not write the config files (although I > have typically only seen this when you de

Re: installing snort

2010-02-19 Thread Jari Fredriksson
On 19.2.2010 19:33, Jari Fredriksson wrote: > On 19.2.2010 18:00, Jordan Metzmeier wrote: >> Sounds like you want the package snort-rules-default. This is in the >> Q/A section of /usr/share/doc/snort/README.Debian.gz. You should get >> familiar with searching the /usr/sh

Re: installing snort

2010-02-19 Thread Jari Fredriksson
ckage (?) snort loads this snort-rules-default, but nothing comes in /etc/snort. I even tried to load it manually (before asking here), but no joy. > > Jordan Metzmeier > > On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 10:32 AM, Jari Fredriksson wrote: >> >> aptitude install snort >&g

installing snort

2010-02-19 Thread Jari Fredriksson
aptitude install snort will not create /etc/snort.conf nor the rule files in /etc/snort/rules If I think that it should, am I wrong? Debian Lenny 32-bit with backports. -- http://www.iki.fi/jarif/ Consider well the proportions of things. It is better to be a young June-bug than an old bird

Re: which debian i should install?

2010-02-07 Thread Jari Fredriksson
On 7.2.2010 21:02, Mark wrote: >>On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 8:28 AM, Jari Fredriksson <mailto:ja...@iki.fi>> wrote: > > >I have used Linux from 1994, but mostly in servers and text mode. I now > >have a VirtualBox on my Windows, and desktop linuces on that t

Re: which debian i should install?

2010-02-07 Thread Jari Fredriksson
On 6.2.2010 20:49, rosy cutie wrote: > i want to install debian on my computer.by searching its website i > reaches at the page > http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/5.0.4/i386/iso-cd/ > but i am not able to decide which debian? > i dont understand the computer jargon.i cannot install it via intern

Re: HTTP Filter Proxy

2010-01-22 Thread Jari Fredriksson
On 21.1.2010 7:07, Kun Niu wrote: > With squid you can filter hijacked sites. But I wonder if any server > side software can control popups. I think that they are blocked by > client side software. > I use Proxomitron in Windows, and it kills pop ups. While it is really a client side proxy, it ca

Re: Mouse problem in VirtualBox client Lenny

2010-01-13 Thread Jari Fredriksson
Installed Virtualbox-guest-X11 from lenny repository and now it works. The guest from Virtualbox virtual CD did not work. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Java plugins in 64bit Debian

2010-01-11 Thread Jari Fredriksson
On 11.1.2010 11:12, Camale�n wrote: > > So maybe you are missing the "sun-java6-plugin" package. > Thanks, Java works now in the browser! -- http://www.iki.fi/jarif/ Your life would be very empty if you had nothing to regret. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Java plugins in 64bit Debian

2010-01-11 Thread Jari Fredriksson
> > So maybe you are missing the "sun-java6-plugin" package. > > Greetings, > > -- > Camaleón > Thanks, works now! That was it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Java plugins in 64bit Debian

2010-01-11 Thread Jari Fredriksson
I installed a Debian Lenny (amd64), and sun-jdk in addition to the default gcj based default Java. When I access Java content with Firefox (or is IceWeasel) the browsed prompts me to install JDK... Clicking the prompt shows Sun's website with download button. I installed that, but nothing change

Mouse problem in VirtualBox client Lenny

2010-01-10 Thread Jari Fredriksson
I have VirtualBox 3.1.2r56127 running on amd64 Windows7 host, and an amd64 Lenny client. Everything seemed to work before I finished the vboxadd setup adding VirtualBox client support. Now the mouse responds to right click (opening a menu in right bottom corner of the window), but nothing else w

Re: A Debian Lenny machine declined to work

2009-11-27 Thread Jari Fredriksson
On 23.11.2009 5:52, Jari Fredriksson wrote: > > > On 23.11.2009 5:50, Jari Fredriksson wrote: >> >> >> On 22.11.2009 23:34, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >>> Jari Fredriksson put forth on 11/22/2009 3:27 PM: >>> >>>> I believe it is a hardware

Re: A Debian Lenny machine declined to work

2009-11-22 Thread Jari Fredriksson
On 23.11.2009 5:50, Jari Fredriksson wrote: > > > On 22.11.2009 23:34, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >> Jari Fredriksson put forth on 11/22/2009 3:27 PM: >> >>> I believe it is a hardware problem. But still disk works, it loads >>> scripts from /etc/init.d. A

Re: A Debian Lenny machine declined to work

2009-11-22 Thread Jari Fredriksson
On 22.11.2009 23:34, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Jari Fredriksson put forth on 11/22/2009 3:27 PM: > >> I believe it is a hardware problem. But still disk works, it loads >> scripts from /etc/init.d. At least /etc/init.d/arno-firewall as it >> printes the output to consol

Re: A Debian Lenny machine declined to work

2009-11-22 Thread Jari Fredriksson
On 22.11.2009 23:14, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 10:09:55PM +0200, Jari Fredriksson wrote: > > [..] > >> >> It boots, finds the hard disk, and loads stuff. Last stuff it prints on >> screen is usual boot stuff, and in addition to tha

Re: A Debian Lenny machine declined to work

2009-11-22 Thread Jari Fredriksson
On 22.11.2009 22:09, Jari Fredriksson wrote: > It boots, finds the hard disk, and loads stuff. Last stuff it prints on > screen is usual boot stuff, and in addition to that Arno's Firewall > output. I think that is normally printed to screen console. All logging > should be log

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