Re: updating with aptitude

2009-04-15 Thread orange
I see, thanks for clarification. Could someone please confirm that simply replacing 'lenny' with 'testing' in sources.list (and then pressing u and U in aptitude) will work. IIRC, in past it used to be much more complicated, with some dist- upgrade and config files -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to d

Re: joining Windows domain (Active Directory)

2009-04-08 Thread orange
Francisco Antônio da Silva Souza wrote: > Hello, I've found a tutorial: > http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/340 > > It teaches how to configure Samba on Debian. > > On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 9:33 AM, orange wrote: > > > What is the easiest way to join

Re: updating with aptitude

2009-04-07 Thread orange
On Apr 7, 9:50 pm, Harry Rickards wrote: > Quoting orange : > > > I took the advice from email (thanks Harry), and put only these lines: > > > debftp://ftp.at.debian.org/debian/lenny contrib main > > debftp://ftp2.de.debian.org/debian-securitylenny/updates main >

Re: updating with aptitude

2009-04-07 Thread orange
I took the advice from email (thanks Harry), and put only these lines: deb ftp://ftp.at.debian.org/debian/ lenny contrib main deb ftp://ftp2.de.debian.org/debian-security lenny/updates main contrib non-free #wine deb http://www.lamaresh.net/apt lenny main it updated :) but bad thing happened af

Re: updating with aptitude

2009-04-06 Thread orange
geez, but I wanted to be on 'testing' forever! I still have bad memories of not being able to run many important software on 'stable'. would it work if I just replace 'lenny' with 'testing' in sources.list? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "uns

Re: updating with aptitude

2009-04-06 Thread orange
Abhishek Amberkar [ अभिषेक ] wrote: > On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 6:02 PM, orange wrote: > > It seems that apt(itude) has stopped updating my (testing) Debian > > system. I press 'u', and then 'U' but nothing is marked for update > > (and it has been like t

updating with aptitude

2009-04-06 Thread orange
It seems that apt(itude) has stopped updating my (testing) Debian system. I press 'u', and then 'U' but nothing is marked for update (and it has been like that for several days now). Is there a way to verify that the system is up-to-date (for sure)? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ..

joining Windows domain (Active Directory)

2009-04-03 Thread orange
What is the easiest way to join ActiveDirectory, windows domain from Debian? (link?) I have found several tutorials on net but they are old and have different ways. Samba is installed (and working nicely with workgroups), the Debian version is 'testing', updated. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to deb

Re: please help, destroyed ext3 root partition

2009-04-02 Thread orange
well, I figured it out myself.. here is menu.lst entry for winxp that works fine here in case someone needs it: title Microsoft Windows XP Professional rootnoverify (hd1,0) map (hd0) (hd1) map (hd1) (hd0) chainloader +1 I suspect the 'makeactive' command might have something to d

Re: please help, destroyed ext3 root partition

2009-03-31 Thread orange
thanks to people that replied to email. there are two hard disks: /dev/sda is for Windows (two ntfs partitions: sda1, sda5) /dev/sdb is Linux (various partitions, sdb1=Debian_/, sdb2=Solaris, sdb3=linux_swap, sdb4=Debian_home) I wanted to set sdb as primary boot disk and be able to choose Window

Re: please help, destroyed ext3 root partition

2009-03-30 Thread orange
er, its ok, I managed to salvage system completely with this program: http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk off to make 100 backups (all over the world) of MBR.. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@list

please help, destroyed ext3 root partition

2009-03-30 Thread orange
can someone please help me recover Debian ext3 partiton (/) I tried booting windowsxp by typing some commands at boot prompt and it seems to have trashed (MBR?) linux partition. the other Linux partitions are fine (home). is there a tool that can help me recover / I think I tried this: map (hd0)

How to create an index file for a local collection of deb packages?

2005-12-29 Thread Orange
Hello. I run Debian Linux, and use dselect to select and install packages. I have a collection of about 1300 MB of my favorite required and desired packages in a subdirectory -- everything needed for a full system installation and then some, and would like to use that collection as the source of pa

MS and Corel

2000-10-12 Thread Dr. Orange
This is probably more appropriate to "devel" but anyhow, any reaction on debian's part to MS buy of 25% of Corel? -S-

Open Source Info.

2000-10-09 Thread Dr. Orange
I have to give a presentation on open source in one of my classes. There still a while until then, but I'd like to start collecting documentation. It would be great if you could send me any links you think are important in such research. Naturally, I can find the most common and known ones, but pe

Slashcode, Scoop

2000-10-04 Thread Dr. Orange
Are there any (unofficial) debs for slashcode, scoop or similar? Thanks, -S-

Re: Openssh errors

2000-10-02 Thread Dr. Orange
Correct, I was just about to email the solution. I had an ssh2 file there so I renamed it, and it worked, hehe. Sorry for the panic :P -S- On Mon, 2 Oct 2000, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 07:59:47AM -0400, Dr. Orange wrote: > > > > Argh, i tried to switch

Openssh errors

2000-10-02 Thread Dr. Orange
Argh, i tried to switch to openssh, but now I can neither install or remove it: Preparing to replace ssh 1.2.26-1.2 (using .../ssh_1%3a1.2.3-9_i386.deb) ... /var/lib/dpkg/info/ssh.prerm: /etc/init.d/ssh: No such file or directory dpkg: warning - old pre-removal script returned error exit status 1

Re: Sshd2 group restriction

2000-10-02 Thread Dr. Orange
Hehehe, it doesn't respect pam either. I think the problem is the use of ssh2 rather than OpenSSH that does seem to work with PAM. I have yet to decide whether to change to it, but in any case I'm not going to do it right away and I just needed those restrictions for today. I can't believe ssh2 do

Re: Sshd2 group restriction

2000-10-02 Thread Dr. Orange
AllowGroups doesn't seem to be supported in sshd2. -S-

Re: Sshd2 group restriction

2000-10-02 Thread Dr. Orange
So if I have a group called turkeys it would be: AllowGroups turkeys And that will reject logins from anyone not belonging to that group? Concerning "private groups" does any distro apart from RH use private groups. Maybe I'm mistaking the term. I use debian 2.2. Thanks :)) -S-

Sshd2 group restriction

2000-10-01 Thread Dr. Orange
Is there a way to set sshd2 to only accept logins from users in a specific group? Thanks, -S-

Restoring with taper

2000-08-30 Thread Dr. Orange
Is there a way to choose individual files or directories with taper. I enter the restore section and i don't see a way of entering the info file in order to do this. I imagine it's possible, but if it's not, could someone point me to another backup tool (besides tar) that is good, and can restore

Cdrom install

2000-08-29 Thread Dr. Orange
I decided to check out the new installer and made a potato cdrom. When I install it I reach the point when I need to install the kernel and modules. I select cdrom and it finds the directory within instmnt. I hit continue, and after a little scanning of the cd a message appears telling me that it

RE: ssh1<->ssh2

2000-06-26 Thread Dr. Orange
You shouldn't have sshd1 and 2 start up. Rather, you want sshd2 to start up, and call on sshd1 if someone tries to conect through this method. to do it: - clear the init.d (and or cron) scripts that start up sshd1 - open /etc/ssh2/sshd2_config - set "Port" to 22 - set ssh1Compatib

PHP4 & Apache

2000-06-22 Thread Dr. Orange
I just installed php4. Having restarted apache i connect to the site with my browser and it indicates that i've started a file of type "application/x-httpd-php3" T

Re: Sendmail not receiving mail

2000-06-10 Thread Dr. Orange
I reinstalled sendmail and it all works fine now. Thanks, -S-

Re: Sendmail not receiving mail

2000-06-10 Thread Dr. Orange
Doh! I wrote the previous email before having seen an error message that is surely very important. Sorry about that. Here it is from /var/log/mail.info and from the return receipts: Jun 10 06:33:55 saxa sendmail[8685]: KAE23583: SYSERR(daemon): Cannot exec /usr/sbin/sensible-mda: No such file or

Sendmail not receiving mail

2000-06-10 Thread Dr. Orange
I just noticed that after the upgrade from slink to potato, sendmail is no longer receiving messages, or something to that extent - i can't send emails to the server. Sending from the server works fine. I imagine this problem could be due to a number of issues, but I thought i'd ask if anyone had

Kernel >= 2.2.15 bug

2000-06-08 Thread Dr. Orange
Seems there's an serious bug up to and including kernel 2.2.15. http://sendmail.net/?feed=000607linuxbug Is kernel 2.2.16 deb'd anywhere? -S-

mod_ssl on Debian 2.2

2000-06-04 Thread Dr. Orange
I installed mod_ssl and it's dependencies through dselect. After that, without changing anything I started apache with /usr/sbin/apache -DSSL. But https://mylocalhost.com would not accept the connection. I then tried /usr/sbin/apachectl startssl but it told me "startss