Re: one website gives "address not found" from LAN

2010-02-08 Thread Ken Teague
On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 11:25 AM, Adam Hardy wrote: > a...@isengard:~$ nslookup www.trade2win.com - 194.74.65.68 > Server:         194.74.65.68 > Address:        194.74.65.68#53 > > ** server can't find www.trade2win.com: NXDOMAIN I ran about 8 queries for www.trade2win.com against 194.74.65.68 wi

Re: one website gives "address not found" from LAN

2010-02-05 Thread Ken Teague
On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 5:16 PM, Adam Hardy wrote: > It is running dnsmasq. It's a gateway and firewall with two NICs, one for > the net and one for the LAN. My assistance at this point will be rather limited, as I've never used dnsmasq and I don't have a means to set it up and test it now. > I

Re: Bash question: get output as a variable?

2010-02-05 Thread Ken Teague
On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 12:42 AM, Mart Frauenlob wrote: > tar ... 2> "$filename" > mapfile array1 < "$filename" > > (don't know actually why '-u 2' option for mapfile does not complete for > me? would make it a 'one-liner'.) > > on bash4.0+ This is a great example as well. The only problem is ba

Re: one website gives "address not found" from LAN

2010-02-05 Thread Ken Teague
On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 4:27 AM, Adam Hardy wrote: > and finally my resolv.conf (rewritten by dhcp.client when picking up IP > address from the DSL modem): > > a...@isengard:~$ cat /etc/resolv.conf > domain localdomain > search localdomain > nameserver 127.0.0.1 > nameserver 194.74.65.68 Your res

Re: Bash question: get output as a variable?

2010-02-05 Thread Ken Teague
On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 10:10 AM, Chris Jackson wrote: > Use $() like you do with the date command. You have to redirect stderr back > to stdout, which means running it in a subshell: > > > FILES=$( ( tar -zcvf - *  --exclude-from $EXCLUDES  | openssl des3 -salt -k > $1 | dd of=$(hostname)-$(date +

Re: Bash question: get output as a variable?

2010-02-05 Thread Ken Teague
On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 7:44 AM, bruno wrote: > because it's a simplier way to get the list into a variable Can you please explain how it's simpler. The method I suggested certainly isn't as easy, but the method I suggested merely showed a detailed example. Others here are coming up with 1 or 2

Re: Bash question: get output as a variable?

2010-02-05 Thread Ken Teague
On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 12:39 AM, bruno wrote: > Why not simply use the  t option for content listing : > > tar tvf  * --exclude-from $EXCLUDES He's already creating the archive with -v. Why process the archive a 2nd time just to get a listing when it comes from stdout the 1st time? -- To UNSUB

Re: Bash question: get output as a variable?

2010-02-05 Thread Ken Teague
On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 2:09 PM, Dotan Cohen wrote: > I'm scripting a backup solution, the line that does the business looks > like this: > > tar -zcvf - *  --exclude-from $EXCLUDES  | openssl des3 -salt -k $1 | > dd of=$(hostname)-$(date +%Y%m%d).tbz > > Because of the "v" flag tar writes to stdou

Re: Disallow other users from reading my $HOME

2010-01-06 Thread Ken Teague
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 4:29 PM, green wrote: > Okay, I was assuming recursion because I have a ~/public_html and symlinks > from > it to other files scattered in my $HOME and so a "chmod 700 $HOME" would just > break stuff.  Otherwise, just changing $HOME permissions is an excellent > solution.

Re: Disallow other users from reading my $HOME

2010-01-06 Thread Ken Teague
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 2:40 PM, green wrote: > But he probably doesn't want all his files marked as executable. "chmod 700 $HOME" will change only the home directory permissions, which excludes all files that are currently present. it...@testbox:~> ls -ld $HOME drwx-- 19 itsme users 4096 200

Re: Disallow other users from reading my $HOME

2010-01-06 Thread Ken Teague
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 1:30 PM, green wrote: > For files that already exist, I would use > u=rwX,g=rX,o= > I do not know how that translates to the number. > Note that will leave execution bits on non-directory files that already > have > them for some user. > > I use umask 0027 so that new file

Re: Disallow other users from reading my $HOME

2010-01-06 Thread Ken Teague
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 1:16 PM, Dotan Cohen wrote: > What are good permissions to use for one's home directory so that > other users on the system could not read or otherwise access my files? > Is 700 too paranoid? Should it be 755 like I see so many times? Will I > have problems with 750? > If

Re: Inquiry:How to add a command to Debian server ?

2009-11-10 Thread Ken Teague
hadi motamedi wrote: Dear All Can you please do me favor and let me know how can I add a command to my Debian server ? Please be informed that I found on the web that if I can find the new command rpm package , then I can try to add it as the followings : #rpm -i ./package.i386.rpm It seems t

[OT] Facebook-like blogging software

2009-10-27 Thread Ken Teague
easy to use. I offered a wiki solution, but I was given the hint that they're looking for something even easier to use. -- Ken Teague -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Setting Default Group Permissions In Folders

2009-10-09 Thread Ken Teague
You may be able to get Puppet to do this for you. http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/Recipes/FilePermissionCheck - Ken -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Create local mirror from ISOs

2009-09-30 Thread Ken Teague
Is there a way to create a local Debian mirror from ISO images (such as the DVD images from i386 and amd64)?

Re: Questions regarding bash and sh.

2009-05-20 Thread Ken Teague
Sthu Deus wrote: Good day. I have noticed that for some users in /etc/passwd the shell environment is set as bash and for some as sh. This has led me to the following questions: . Why is it so, meaning what is the meaning of it? . Do I give more insecure environment to a user setting for him sh

Re: Disabling RSA host key check temporarily

2009-04-07 Thread Ken Teague
Dotan Cohen wrote: Thank you, Ken, I am aware of that list and subscribe to it. That list is great for Microsoft bashing, discussing animal-themed backgrounds twice a year, and bikesheding. Technical issues are understood by a overwhelmed and outvoiced minority there. Which is quite why I posted

Re: How do the pros keep up with the latest kernel?

2009-04-07 Thread Ken Teague
jida...@jidanni.org wrote: How do the pros keep up with the latest kernel? Download source and use make-kpkg. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Disabling RSA host key check temporarily

2009-04-07 Thread Ken Teague
Dotan Cohen wrote: ... why does this smell like Ubuntu? It is an Ubuntu system. Which to me is Debian that installs on this terrible ATI laptop. https://lists.ubuntu.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact lis

Re: Disabling RSA host key check temporarily

2009-04-07 Thread Ken Teague
Dotan Cohen wrote: Offending key in /home/hardy1/.ssh/known_hosts:28 RSA host key for 192.168.0.100 has changed and you have requested strict checking. Your invalid host key is on line #28. Edit said file in vi and :28 to jump to that line. Hit dd to remove the line then :wq. Make a backup

Re: Disabling RSA host key check temporarily

2009-04-07 Thread Ken Teague
Dotan Cohen wrote: rm -f /home/hardy1/.ssh/known_hosts I have too many important ones in there to do that. ... or ssh -o ChallengeResponseAuthentication u...@host ... why does this smell like Ubuntu? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsu

Re: Disabling RSA host key check temporarily

2009-04-07 Thread Ken Teague
Dotan Cohen wrote: rm -f /home/hardy1/.ssh/known_hosts I have too many important ones in there to do that. mv /home/user/.ssh/known_hosts /home/user/.ssh/known_hosts.bak -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact list

Re: Plaxo

2009-03-14 Thread Ken Teague
David Baron wrote: I just got a notification that "debian-user" just joined plaxo. (Since debian- user is in my address book, we can now connect, share photos, etc .:-) ) Why would we want to do such a thing? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: Top posting vs Bottom posting

2009-03-12 Thread Ken Teague
Daniel Burrows wrote: My experience has also been that attempting to bottom-post in a corporate environment confuses people because they can't find your reply. That's when the sender needs to trim out what doesn't need to be there. It's not necessary to quote the entire previous e-mail.

Re: Top posting vs Bottom posting

2009-03-11 Thread Ken Teague
Sander Marechal wrote: Actually, top posting makes some sense in a corporate environment. There is no mailinglist or archive to see the entire discussion there. Suppose you are discussing something with a coworker over e-mail. With top posting every reply carries the entire thread. Want to involv

Re: OT: file system versus databases

2009-02-24 Thread Ken Teague
Mag Gam wrote: For instance, country/2005/01/01/foo.txt ... For instance, grep "something" country/2005/??/01/foo.txt It gives an instant result. Thats how we are using it and we love it. I would suspect it's two-fold. 1. Your data is already separated and well organized down to country

Re: [OT] Gmail & my replies to this list

2009-02-23 Thread Ken Teague
Jimmy Johnson wrote: You need to use IMAP and use the folder "All Mail" to see both sent and received mail. This works. Having to go into All Mail to view only what I want to see from this list in a threaded fashion is odd and non-standard. I feel violated! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to de

Re: [OT] Gmail & my replies to this list

2009-02-23 Thread Ken Teague
Ron Johnson wrote: Wouldn't that only be relevant to the Web Interface? I forgot to mention that I'm seeing this issue while using Thunderterd connecting to Gmail via IMAP. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact li

[OT] Gmail & my replies to this list

2009-02-23 Thread Ken Teague
Ever since I've switched to using Gmail (setup as my outbound SMTP server as well), I don't see my replies to this list. When I subscribed to this list, I did so with my @pobox.com alias. When I switched to Gmail, I updated my pobox.com account to forward e-mail to my Gmail account. What gives?

Re: New Video Card

2009-02-23 Thread Ken Teague
David Baron wrote: No, not a big gamer but newer kde needs opengl. I remember the wierd artifacts in that old Mac64 with my own compiled dri stuff and my son's complaining about that card. The nvidia was great in comparison Artifacts are no good. Of the two cards you mentioned, I think you w

Re: no picture in vlc

2009-02-23 Thread Ken Teague
Vadim Kolchev wrote: Got a slight problem with vlc - just installed it and it doesn't play videos - when I open avi file there is only audio from it and no picture. Why is it so? In my experience, this has normally been a codec issue. However, read Tim's reply and check your video output set

Re: New Video Card

2009-02-23 Thread Ken Teague
David Baron wrote: 1. Which is better (I assume the matrox but am willing to learn otherwise) ? Allegedly, Matrox cards has had great support under X for quite some time. I guess the real answer to this will be dependent upon what type of stuff you do on your PC. I'm going to go out on a li

Re: Planet.Debian down?

2009-02-22 Thread Ken Teague
Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: Am I the only one who can't resolve Planet Debian today? Inaccessible via http from San Jose, California as well. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: where is bind9's named_dump.db

2009-02-04 Thread Ken Teague
Glenn English said the following on 2/3/2009 3:35 PM: > I'm trying to look at the cache of my nameserver, and it keeps saying: > >> Feb 3 15:54:03 log named[20519]: received control channel command 'dumpdb' >> Feb 3 15:54:03 log named[20519]: could not open dump file 'named_dump.db': >> permiss

Re: where is bind9's named_dump.db

2009-02-03 Thread Ken Teague
Glenn English said the following on 2/3/2009 3:35 PM: > I'm trying to look at the cache of my nameserver, and it keeps saying: > >> Feb 3 15:54:03 log named[20519]: received control channel command 'dumpdb' >> Feb 3 15:54:03 log named[20519]: could not open dump file 'named_dump.db': >> permiss

Re: How to force re-config of xorg?

2009-01-21 Thread Ken Teague
s. keeling wrote: > xserver-xorg postinst warning: overwriting possibly-customised > configuration Your xorg.conf has been customized and dpkg-reconfigure doesn't want you to lose those options when it attempts to reconfigure Xorg. Back it up by moving it: $ mv /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/x

Re: single Dhcp server on multiple networks

2009-01-17 Thread Ken Teague
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 09:35:37PM -0800, Mike Bird wrote: > On Thu January 15 2009 13:28:19 Rod James Bio wrote: > > I was wondering if anyone had tried to configure a single linux dhcp > > server to give IP to different network. We have multiple networks here > > in our area and I am thinking of

Re: Release Cycle

2009-01-06 Thread Ken Teague
David Jardine wrote: > If that's not a complete load of rubbish, quality will be improved > by longer release cycles. Makes sense to me. I also found this in a very old post to this list which points out a lot of pros and cons:: On Sat, 22 Sep 2007 00:36:15 +0530, Masatran, R. Deepak wrote: >

Re: Release Cycle

2009-01-06 Thread Ken Teague
Carl Fink wrote: > Just jumping in on one small point. > > Doesn't actually make much sense, if you think about it. If the packages > are updated by Debian developers, surely that would help Debian to its next > release, too? Anyway, IIRC someone posted to this list last year that a > great numb

Re: Release Cycle

2009-01-06 Thread Ken Teague
Barclay, Daniel wrote: > > Ken Teague wrote: > How much change (new features, re-implementations, new packages); how much > work. This is because Debian is a packaged-based distribution and there are litterally thousands of packages that change with bug fixes, new features and so on

Re: resize vncviewer window

2009-01-06 Thread Ken Teague
Tim Frink wrote: > I'd like to use the vncserver session on two different machines > with different display resolutions. So, I've started vncserver > on a machine with 1024x768 and got could get the correctly scaled > desktop via vncviewer. > > When I restore the session wit vncviewer on another

Re: Iceweasel problem

2009-01-05 Thread Ken Teague
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > then move your ~/.mozilla somewhere else, and reboot? Mitch, I'm not sure if you were catching this as humor or not, but just to be on the safe side... you're saying that you've moved ~/.mozilla (to another name) *and* you've rebooted and this problem persists? -

Re: [OT] mailing lists versus usenet / reply to list, reply-to, reply

2009-01-05 Thread Ken Teague
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > See, I just think you guys should stop using bad clients. ;) Kmail replies > to the list (and only to the list) by default. (Which, actually, appears to > be a violation on the relevant standards. :P) Is Kmail available for Win32? I'm at work on my laptop and

Re: Debian way to set up iptables rules?

2009-01-05 Thread Ken Teague
Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > Which is the default/designated way in Debian to set up iptables rules > on system boot? I would put them in an init.d script. > I mean the /etc/init.d scripts is long gone... ;) Which script(s) are you referring to? I had to create my own. - Ken -- To UNS

Re: memory problem

2009-01-03 Thread Ken Teague
On Sat Jan 3 14:20 , Kamaraju S Kusumanchi sent: > I think the maintainer is just trying to find the cause of the memory build > up. He is trying to narrow down the problem. He is not suggesting shifting > stable users to experimental as a long term solution. Conside for example, > another user rea

Re: enemy territory lags badly

2009-01-02 Thread Ken Teague
lostson wrote: > All the other games I have installed play perfectly fine. Other games > I have installed are Alien Arena, Nexuiz, OpenArena and Unreal > Tournament 99. I'm not familiar with these games, so I'm not sure if they use OpenGL or if they take advantage of DRI. Check http://wiki.debian

Re: memory problem

2008-12-31 Thread Ken Teague
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > Well, there are already many memory-related bugs. See esp 452706. The > complainer was running out with more than 1 GB of memory. The suggested > action was to try FF3 in experimental. Ouch. That has to be the poorest answer I've ever seen from a Debian developer...

Re: memory problem

2008-12-31 Thread Ken Teague
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > The only add-ons I have are from debian packages. Even without addons I > get memory leaks. Report the bug. These things don't get fixed until they're addressed. - Ken -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe

Re: memory problem

2008-12-31 Thread Ken Teague
Koh Choon Lin wrote: > I run Icecat with no addon but this problem persists ~ 500 MiB for > browsing web forums after 30 mins. Switching to other browsers helps > to reduce my system load. That most likely is a memory leak with the application. You should submit a bug report on it. - Ken -- T

Re: memory problem

2008-12-31 Thread Ken Teague
Koh Choon Lin wrote: >> Now, when I quit Firefox/Iceweasel and restart it (with the entire >> session restored), I find that it takes significantly less memory. >> Probable memory leaks? > > Even this link by one poster suggests users to restart the browser > periodically via session restore. > >

Re: Command line problem

2008-12-31 Thread Ken Teague
agou wrote: > I am running the latest stable Debian, and my shell is ksh. On all other > UNIXes I am used to getting a message along the line of "No such file > ..." from the shell when I issue an unknown command, whether I use ksh > or bash; on this system it doesn't happen. No message, just a

Re: Ext4dev vs. Ext4

2008-12-30 Thread Ken Teague
Slim Joe wrote: > Besides the name, what's the difference between ext4dev and ext4? > > I'm curious because I'm planning to format a 1TB disk as ext4. It > appears that the e2fs tools already have support for ext4 (with and > without -"dev"). The problem is the latest Debian Linux image > (2.6.26.

Re: Release Cycle

2008-12-30 Thread Ken Teague
Barclay, Daniel wrote: > Why do so many defenses of Debian's release cycle length seem to ignore or > skirt the issue of _how_ _much_ is planned to be in each release? (Saying > "when it's right" still depends on what "it" is--which set of features/ > changes are involved.) How much of what? If

Re: Partioning Vista equipped laptop.

2008-12-30 Thread Ken Teague
John Culleton wrote: > I want to install Linux permanently on this box, which requres > repartitioning. Currently there are two partitions, one for Vista and > one for backup of Vista. I need suggestions for partitioning software > that will allow me to reduce the size of the Vista partition to

What is this "update" ISO image?

2008-12-30 Thread Ken Teague
What is this "update" ISO image I see in the cd-image archives? For example, on http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian-cd/4.0_r6/i386/iso-dvd/ I see debian-update-4.0r6-i386-DVD-1.iso. What are these update ISO images used for? Thanks in advance. - Ken -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ.

Debian on Blu-ray media

2008-12-17 Thread Ken Teague
Since Blu-ray burners and media has come down in price (burners are as low as $150 and media is down to $8 for 25GB media and $13 for 50GB (dual layer) media), would it be possible for the Debian folks to create the ISOs to also make a Blu-ray ISO available with the most popular architectures? (e.g

Trouble with DRI

2008-11-07 Thread Ken Teague
bytes of SAREA 0xf8b66000 at 0xb7fa6000 (II) RADEON(0): [drm] Closed DRM master. Sorry if this answer is incorrect as my medication is kicking in and I'm feeling quite tired, but maybe this line is the clue: (II) RADEON(0): [agp] You may want to make sure the agpgart kernel module is loaded b

Re: get Rob off the list

2008-11-07 Thread Ken Teague
not hopeful but what else to do? > Doug. Robert, Also don't forget to check your spam list to ensure it the automatic e-mail reply to be removed didn't end up in there. - Ken Teague -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: What is the point of RAID?

2008-11-07 Thread Ken Teague
is still valid. It pertains to all modern day drives (PATA, SATA, SCSI, etc.). However, I'm not quite sure I agree with the last paragraph in the I've provided. It may lead to the same type of failure Henrique described. Please correct me if I'm wrong. - Ken Teague --

Re: Asus X50RL on Debian Lenny and Ubuntu Hardy and Intrepid

2008-11-02 Thread Ken Teague
On Sun Nov 2 20:23 , [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent: > When I install the MadWifi drivers 'Lenny' behaves very well. On > Ubuntu the WiFi light goes off just before the login screen > effectively turning the card off. I believe this would be better suited for the Ubuntu mailing lists. - Ken -- To UNSU

Re: libz.so.1 conflict/compatibility issue

2008-10-22 Thread Ken Teague
Florian Kulzer wrote: > You could put this into ~/.bashrc (or ~/.bash_aliases): > > alias acusession='source > /usr/local/bin/acusim/LINUX64/V1.7e/script/.acusim-sh' > > Then you can use "acusession" as a convenient abbreviation to source the > configuration script and prepare the present bash s

Re: From the top... cutting down Gnome

2008-10-22 Thread Ken Teague
Steven Maddox (Cyorxamp) wrote: > Hi, > > I originally posted about installing Gnome (and X) on a base setup to > avoid the entire 'Gnome Experience' inclusive of the web browser I don't > use, mail/news client I don't use, the 17 games I won't play, etc... > I've totally screwed my system tryin

Re: libz.so.1 conflict/compatibility issue

2008-10-21 Thread Ken Teague
Florian Kulzer wrote: > [ snip: the config file sets and exports LD_LIBRARY_PATH and other > environmental variables. ] > > Have you put the command to source this config file into .bashrc or > another startup file? Yes, I had it in .bashrc and, after removing it, magic began happening and thi

Re: libz.so.1 conflict/compatibility issue

2008-10-20 Thread Ken Teague
Florian Kulzer wrote: >> >> libz.so.1, of course, is a symlink to the actual library. For my >> >> Debian Lenny box, it points to libz.so.1.2.3.3 and for acusim, it >> >> points to libz.so.1.2.3. > > > > This does not explain what you are doing at the moment. Do you have a > > symlink that you cha

Re: libz.so.1 conflict/compatibility issue

2008-10-18 Thread Ken Teague
Thanks, Florian, for your help. Florian Kulzer wrote: That does not tell you which library is used in the end. I would run ldd /usr/X11R6/bin/epiphany-browser | grep libz host:~# ldd /usr/X11R6/bin/epiphany-browser |grep libz libz.so.1 => /usr/local/bin/acusim/LINUX64/V1.7e/base/lib/lib

libz.so.1 conflict/compatibility issue

2008-10-16 Thread Ken Teague
Debian Lenny I have a commercial application called acuSim under /usr/local/bin/acusim. It also installed libz.so.1.2.3 under /usr/local/bin/acusim/LINUX64/V1.7e/base/lib. This library is causing major problems on my box. For example, if I try to start Iceweasel, it segfaults. gnome-sessio