I've got the following snippet in a Debian preseed.cfg file:
d-i preseed/late_command string \
in-target mkdir --mode=700 /home/vagrant/.ssh; \
in-target chown vagrant:vagrant /home/vagrant/.ssh; \
in-target wget --no-check-certificate
--output-document=/home/vagrant/.ssh/authorized_keys
https://r
I'm doing a customized Squeeze install, and have a lot of problems with the
d-i preseed/late_command. For starters, it seems like you can only have one
of these in your preseed.cfg; is that true? Or is it only true if one is
using "in-target" as well in the late_command?
Mostly, I'm trying to do a
I'm unable to get antiword to process standard input over a network
connection using xinetd. I've got the following in /etc/xinetd.d:
service antiword
{
disable = no
type= UNLISTED
flags += IPv4
socket_type = stream
protocol
On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 4:20 AM, Arthur Marsh
wrote:
> Is there any Free PDF viewer in Debian that works outside of GNOME/KDE that
> can both search for text across line breaks and allows copying of text from
> the PDF document to the clip-board?
>
Install pdfgrep and xclip. You can then do someth
On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 12:06 PM, Tyler Smith wrote:
> alias shib='pkill firefox ; sudo hibernate'
>
The executable you need to kill is "firefox-bin" and not just "firefox."
Give that a try instead.
I recently bought an Asus with an Intel HM65 Express chipset that is
supposed to be driving an SDHC card slot. However, the card slot doesn't
show up in the output of lsusb or lspic. I'm tempted to consider this a
hardware failure, but wanted to make sure I wasn't missing a bet as far as
getting th
Does anyone know if the guided partitioning in Squeeze aligns
partitions, and if so to what boundaries? A quick scan of the archives
doesn't turn up anything conclusive.
I'm not sure if realigning partition boundaries for an encrypted lvm
would be any harder (or potentially dangerous for the data)
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 6:49 PM, Dan wrote:
> I didn't know that the inodes would take so much space.
> Ext4 would be a better option?
> I chose Ext3 because it is older and it should be more stable
> therefore better for a server. Moreover I am going to use ecryptfs on
> top of that, and I do not
> I read the previous thread. I am looking at the GPG scheme to
> understand it better.
Basically, the idea is that you are confirming that the key used to
sign the md5sums is a valid *and* trustworthy key--the two are not
synonymous. This is a bootstrapping problem, especially for non-Debian
user
On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 8:09 PM, Dan wrote:
> I would like to encrypt some folders in the home directory of the
> users in a server. I have seen that there are 2 choices ecryptfs and
> encfs. They seem to be very similar. Which one do you think that it is
> better?
One isn't better than the other
On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 12:08 PM, Celejar wrote:
> I want to set up a network filesystem to share files between several
> linux systems (Debian & OpenWrt). Judging from what I see on the list
Do you actually need all the features of a typical shared filesystem?
If not, you might look at sshfs,
I've recently downloaded the net installation image for Squeeze, but
am really uncomfortable with the fact that I can't establish a firm
trust path to the CD signing key. Is there a canonical place to get
the fingerprint of this key, so that at least one can have some
confidence that the key one is
Is there some functionality in apt-cache or aptitude for displaying
recommended files, other than having to visually parse the output of
"apt-cache show"?
Basically, I'd just like to get a list of recommended packages from a
list of installed or prospective packages without having to use the
aptit
On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 09:31:28AM +, Sebastian Ramacher wrote:
> No, seems to be a problem with recent upgrade of e2fsprogs to
> 1.41.12-1. Before upgrading e2fsprogs yesterday everything worked fine
> for me.
No, it's some other package. I remember seeing a message saying that
some boot uti
On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 07:19:13PM -0500, Mark Allums wrote:
> Really? Well, I expect XFS has a substitute. If not, it should.
No, it doesn't. XFS will handle journaling issues at boot automagically,
but a real fsck requires a bit of manual intervention. I just went
through this today, and this
I can't find an option within aptitude to force a reinstall of /etc
files. I know that aptitude will not overwrite them by default, but
isn't there a way to force a package's conf files back to a pristine
state?
The purge/install cycle isn't always an option, since in many cases it
will want to un
After a recent kernel upgrade to 2.6.32-5-amd64, I now get the following
when trying to mount an encrypted /tmp with dev/mapper:
$ sudo mount /tmp
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/mapper/tmp,
missing codepage or helper program, or other error
I
After a recent kernel update, my linux terminal is now displaying
teeny-tiny text. How do I set the default terminal back to 80x25?
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When one has multiple kernels installed, where is one supposed to
configure the option to always boot the last-selected kernel? I can't
make sense of all the automatic over-writing that the grub scripts are
doing on Debian, and the /etc/default/grub file doesn't have an example
of what the scripts
On Sun, Mar 07, 2010 at 01:20:43PM -0800, Todd A. Jacobs wrote:
> However, when I log in as WikiAdmin, I don't seem to *be* superuser.
> I don't see the SystemAdmin link on the nav bar, even though I've got:
Turns out the new version of moinmoin doesn't set up certain p
I have a working wiki, and today I added a second instance. I updated
/etc/moin/farmconfig.py and added a new domain instance with a
superuser.
However, when I log in as WikiAdmin, I don't seem to *be* superuser.
I don't see the SystemAdmin link on the nav bar, even though I've got:
superuser
I'm having a problem with modsecurity and moin-moin. The following rule
is preventing wiki pages with the word '/etc' from posting. I'd like to
find a way to disable this rule for just the wiki (e.g. not for the
whole site) but am not sure how to do that in a granular way.
It seems like a generall
On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 02:26:40PM -0800, Carl Johnson wrote:
> If you have the cpufrequtils package installed, then just edit
> /etc/defaults/cpufrequtils to specify which you want at boot.
The /etc/defaults/cpufrequtils file over-rides the value (if any) in
/etc/sysfs.conf, but I think it's imp
On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 10:19:27PM +0100, Tilo Schwarz wrote:
> I use sysfs.conf:
Thanks. I knew about sysctl.conf, but not sysfs.conf. I appreciate you
pointing that out!
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On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 05:03:53AM +, hadi motamedi wrote:
> /dev/hda3 #fsck.ext3 -c /dev/hda3 But it is returning as "Running
> e2fsck on a mounted filesystem may cause servere damage" . Can I
> continue this way ? Thank you
You have to run fsck on an unmounted system. If your root partition
On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 04:57:53AM +, hadi motamedi wrote:
> #fsck -s /dev/hda3
> But after rebooting the server it will come back again at the similar
Did you actually repair the filesystem? You need to either do so
manually, or give the -a flag to automatically repair the volume.
Of course
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 08:42:13PM -0800, Todd A. Jacobs wrote:
> I get nothing. Why can I write to a value in sysfs that can't be
> accessed with sysctl? And more importantly, how am I supposed to do this
> at boot without sysctl.conf?
Two quick answers, but a remaining questio
I'd like to set my scaling governor in /etc/sysctl.conf, rather than by
echoing a value to:
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor
However, I'm not finding a key for it via the sysctl utility. When I
run:
sysctl -a | fgrep -i cpu
I get nothing. Why can I write to a value
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 01:00:13PM +, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> /var/spool/cron/crontabs/ac: Permission denied
The crontabs directory should be owned by root:crontab, not root:root.
> I don't have any such file in /tmp.
Nor should you. /usr/bin/crontab works like sudoedit, and uses temp
fi
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 06:25:44AM -0500, Roman Gelfand wrote:
> Is there a tool, background process, in linux to monitor memory
> utilization over a period of time?
/usr/bin/sar from the sysstat package.
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On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 11:37:41PM -0800, Freeman wrote:
> Writes to a swap file on your drive. Or a swap file on your ram drive
> in memory if you have one. :)
There are probably some edge cases where a swap file on a RAM drive is
valid, but I can't think of any that don't involve misbehaving ap
On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 11:10:51PM -0500, Roman Gelfand wrote:
> What happens when debian is out of memory? Does it freeze? Is there
> any trace of memory glut in log files?
It depends. In general, you will either see disk thrashing as swap is
constantly accessed, or the oom-killer will start t
I've been having problems with 64-bit Lenny/Sid during kernel upgrades,
where grub-probe will take huge amount of CPU and a very long time to
complete--and apparently goes through the process numerous times in a
row during the upgrade process.
Part of the problem appears to be that grub-pc (grub2)
On Fri, Jan 01, 2010 at 09:51:23AM -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
> Which filesystem is more appropriate for maildir use on a
> Postfix/Dovecot system, ext2/3 or xfs? This maildir will be storing
> mulitple mail folders and files, some folders containing over 10,000
> email files.
I'd recommend XFS
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 12:41:08AM +0700, Sthu Deus wrote:
> $ sudo /sbin/ifdown eth0
> SIOCDELRT: No such process
This generally happens when ifupdown wasn't called to enable the
interface. So, if you configured the interface manually, you might get
that sort of error because ifdown doesn't thin
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 01:21:24PM +, Jeffrey Cao wrote:
> sure elinks has not been updated for a long time. So, what is changed
> to make elinks depends on libtre5?
I don't know about this particular case, but in general, one of two
things probably happened:
- The upstream author change
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 11:31:46AM -0600, Martin McCormick wrote:
> Is there a way in Linux to make ssh get the type DSA host keys? I
> presently see the following message when adding a new host to
This is actually a good question, and one to which I couldn't find an
easy answer. As far as I can
I have a network that caps each MAC address at 384K at the wireless
access point, and was wondering if it's technically feasible to increase
throughput by adding additional virtual interfaces.
My thought is that if I have wlan0, I could add a second interface at
wlan0:1 to get a second MAC/IP addr
On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 11:50:21AM +0100, abdelkader belahcene wrote:
> Hi, I connected to my ssh server running ubuntu 9.10, from a machine
> running mintLinux (ubuntu based) , a few second after, connexion
> dropped with the message : read from socket failed, : Connexion reset
> by peer,
That
kde3 used to have a printer config utility that let me create various
pseudo-printers, but I can't find an equivalent in kde4. Since I have
Gnome installed on th system too, I have a bunch of "printer manager"
icons, but they all seem to be for the GNOME interface to cups, which
doesn't have this f
I'm unable to complete a recent install, and am unsure if my system is
in a (re)bootable state. I have the following errors:
$ sudo aptitude install -f
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information.
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 02:03:26PM -0500, Zachary Uram wrote:
> [sudo] password for zu22: Sorry, try again. [sudo] password for zu22:
> sudo: pam_authenticate: Conversation error
Looks like a PAM problem. If you've previously installed debsums, I'd
suggest the following:
debsums libpam-modul
On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 11:09:31PM +0100, Roy Stuivenberg wrote:
> After spending a whole evening trying to get java to work with
> iceweasel ..
I gave up on the Sun packages, too. The icedtea plugin works for me,
though, and is reasonably compatible with most Java applets--not all,but
most.
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On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 07:50:29AM +, hadi motamedi wrote:
> Dear All Can you please do me favor and let me know how can I disable
> my Debian server firewall ? As I know , on the Linux server , I can
There is no firewall by default, so you must have installed something.
Grep through /etc/ini
On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 10:59:34AM -0500, Matt McCants wrote:
> Does anyone here have PCI audits being done on their Debian boxes? The
I conduct (and remediate) PCI audits all the time. Your problem seems
political, not technical. PCI requires that systems be patched, not that
they are the latest
I can't seem to get the Java6 plugin working on my 64-bit
testing/unstable system. I have the following installed:
sun-java6-bin install
sun-java6-jre install
sun-java6-plugininstall
Th
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 12:14:43PM +0800, Zhang Weiwu wrote:
> Having read the manual and examples on the Internet, still confused.
As far as I understand it, ulimit is per process. RSS only addresses how
much of the process is resident in RAM, and some googling suggests that
it may not actually
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 10:36:20AM +0800, Zhang Weiwu wrote:
> The problem of this solution is security. I do not want to grant shell
> access of local_server to remote_server. What would you recommend me
> to do in this case? I could try to limit access of the account used by
> remote server ssh
I'm currrently using Postfix on a pair of machines, one of which is a
smarthost for the other. If I do something like this on the internal
machines:
mail -s Test nospam < /dev/null
Then the mail is delivered locally, rather than through the smarthost.
If I manually append the domain, though:
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 05:38:38PM +0100, Jesus arteche wrote:
> I'm trying to build a fileserver where I need to give permisses to
> directories and subdirectories...I couldn't get it by samba (cause I need to
See this howto:
http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/how-do-i-set-permissions-to-samba-
I really like using firestarter, as the realtime traffic logs and
allow/deny interface are exceedingly useful to me. However, I know that
it's been dead upstream for a long time, and I was hoping someone knew
of a well-maintained replacement.
I'm not really looking for a static firewall builder (e
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 11:37:57AM +, hadi motamedi wrote:
> Sorry . But my Debian server is not on the same subnet with the remote
> Intranet , I mean my Debian server is @192.168.0.2 and the remote
If they are on different subnets, then it shouldn't matter. This isn't
really a Debian questi
On Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 11:30:28PM -0500, vr wrote:
> Is doing it at the stroke of midnight an unwise practice?
Well, on a home system it doesn't matter much. For production use,
though, you generally want to avoid CPU or I/O spikes, and running a ton
of stuff at the same time would be a Bad Thin
On Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 11:48:44AM -0800, Todd A. Jacobs wrote:
> I seem to have lost sound in kde4 after a recent update. Phonon is
> installed, but I can't select the multimedia configuration icon in
> System Settings. Alsa looks like the card is detected as HDA Intel,
> and th
I seem to have lost sound in kde4 after a recent update. Phonon is
installed, but I can't select the multimedia configuration icon in
System Settings. Alsa looks like the card is detected as HDA Intel, and
the volumes are all where they are supposed to be.
How can I debug this?
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I'm trying to find documentation for the mount options for swap, but am
turning up nothing in the man pages for fstab, swapon, or mount. Where
are the options documented?
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On Fri, Nov 06, 2009 at 08:49:45PM -0500, Rob Owens wrote:
> My Lenny system has this in /etc/udev/rules.d/91-permissions.rules
> KERNEL=="fuse", GROUP="fuse"
$ less /etc/udev/rules.d/91-permissions.rules
/etc/udev/rules.d/91-permissions.rules: No such file or directory
What package does
Every time my system reboots, ownership of /dev/fuse is changed from
root.fuse to root.root. How can I make the changes permanent, so that
users in the fuse group have access to the device across reboots?
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I've read the iptables man page, but I'm not really sure I understand
how to rate-limit packets per second globally. What I'm trying to do is
create a rule that would limit my overall inbound flows to <=200 packets
per second- I don't care about the size, I just want to limit the number
of packets.
On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 09:52:42PM +0200, David Baron wrote:
> Iptables is "configured" at boot time, but this is not where it gets
I don't think iptables is really your answer, by itself. What you're
really trying to do most likely requires you to set up an authenticating
proxy server on a separ
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 09:26:20AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> is that a reasonable thing to do? because it would certainly break
> the webalizer cron script, which looks in the /etc location by
> default. is there a webalizer-approved way to have it start off
> with a different loc
I am currently having a problem with my X server displaying the cursor
as shaded black, which is rather hard to see. This happens as soon as
the gdm chooser is up, so I don't think it's a KDE4 issue.
Is there a setting in xorg.conf or elsewhere that will give me the
standard white cursor?
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On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 11:29:29PM -0400, Roman Gelfand wrote:
> Everytime I am connecting to my server via ssh, memory utilizaiton
> appears to be increasing. Is there memory leak issues with sshd or,
> perhaps, there is a maintenance that needs to be performed? or just
Concurrent connections w
On Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 05:47:40PM -0500, Austin Brkich wrote:
> group www-user however I am unable to automatically set the
> permissions to 664 and there defaulting to 644. I know this is do to
If you don't want to adjust the default umask or change the file modes
directly, you'll have to set
On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 11:42:41AM +0530, Didar Hossain wrote:
> *There is something called `webmin' though I would not recommend it to
> most people. It is a Perl application.
I don't really like webmin, and a lot of the modules (especially the
ssh module) seem out of date, but it seems like the
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 06:47:56AM +, marc wrote:
> Probably the Nvida; at least, its driver. I have a similar problem on
> my laptop. I have to be careful with flash and playing some videos
You might try the latest nvidia driver, and see if that helps. For
example:
sudo m-a update; sudo
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 09:32:17AM +0200, Frank Bonnet wrote:
> What is exactly the purpose of the "auto" statement in
> /etc/network/interfaces file ?
Interfaces in auto stanzas are automatically brought up at boot time.
See "man interfaces" for more info.
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I have the following driver loaded:
snd_hda_intel
but pulseaudio is only giving me the dummy device. I'm not even being
given the choice to select the onboard audio.
Since everything "just worked" before, I have no idea what's changed
since my last upgrade with testing/unstable. How can I ge
I have the following output from dpkg:
$ dpkg --get-selections ia32-cross\*
ia32-crossover-games-demo install
ia32-crossover-gamesdemodeinstall
ia32-crossover-pro install
ia32-crossover-standard
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 04:27:09PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> Does this burn through entropy faster than other methods?
Probably, although since $RANDOM accesses /dev/urandom instead of
/dev/random , your available entropy remains undefined in any case. As
for the numerical distribution of your
On Sun, Aug 02, 2009 at 06:34:49PM -0700, fred basset wrote:
> I'll soon be able to spec. a new laptop for my new job. Can anyone
> recommend any systems that can run the latest Debian and support all
> the hardware out of the box? I prefer IBM and Dell laptops myself. It
> would be great to hea
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 04:24:52PM -0700, Mark wrote:
> FYI, for anyone looking at this in the future, eeebuntu is a
> derivative of ubuntu designed specifically for the eee pc line. I
> installed via usb flash drive in 20 mins using the .iso and
> unetbootin, with not one single tweak needed. ~
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 02:44:17PM +0200, bb wrote:
> I found bugs in the header files event.h and evhttp.h. Which packeges
> do that belong to? I tried to report, but got a spam denial.
On my system:
$ dpkg -S
/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.26-2-amd64/include/config/acpi/proc/event.h
linu
On Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 07:30:19PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> How would one go about computing a *single* hash value for a complete
> directory tree?
You might want to look at how git does this. As I understand it, git
stores hashes of trees, so the implementation may help you.
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On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 02:29:10PM +0900, Miles Bader wrote:
> Actually shouldn't ext4 do _better_ (than ext3 etc) in such a case,
> since it does allocate-on-write, allowing it to allocate contiguous
> storage despite the user writes being small?
Depends. If an application doesn't pre-allocate s
On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 04:46:42PM +, T o n g wrote:
> What's the Debian way to enable ondemand cpufreq governor by default
> (installing as minimum packages as possible)?
If you are running some sort of userland daemon (e.g. laptop-mode) to
manage power, you'll probably have a setting to cha
On Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 06:49:09PM -0400, Daryl Styrk wrote:
> After initially building the filesystem I ran fsck which showed
> something like 0.7% if I remember correctly. I then copied about 60GB
> from an ext3 via rsync after which the fragmentation showed up.
by default, rsync copies a fi
I'm having some trouble figuring out how to get multiple pyblosxom
instances working on the same server. I thought I could do it like so:
ServerName foo.example.com
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/
DocumentRoot /var/www/foo
RewriteEngine
On Sun, Jul 05, 2009 at 11:31:17AM +0430, a dehqan wrote:
> I'll be thankfull if you guide ; How to creat private PGP key in
> debian 5 ? with which software ?
If you have KDE installed, the KGPG tool makes creating and managing key
pairs very easy. The gnome equivalents aren't quite as polished.
Is there a way to compare a running Debian system against the default
directory and file permissions created by the netinstaller or the
Debian packages themselves?
In other words, I'm not interested in file integrity or digital
signatures for this particular purpose, just "has anyone accidentally
On Thu, Jul 02, 2009 at 04:26:14PM +0200, Jordi Moles Blanco wrote:
> I would like to run dd and let it use, for example, only 10% of the
> CPU time or 30% of the total amount of memory. Is that possible? I'm
> not looking for a "general" process limit for the whole system, only
> for a partic
On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 07:09:52PM -0700, Mark Marcacci wrote:
> The subject line says it all. Just did a clean install of Lenny
> 5.0.2,had had several successful reboots and shutdowns and then
I don't know why you're having a problem, but I'd suggest the following:
- boot into runlevel 1
On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 09:27:49AM +0200, Rob Gom wrote:
> Hi there, do you know any command line tool which would be able to
> display number of working days in given month in given country? I have
The shell is your friend. If your needs are simple, this will do:
cal |
FIELDWIDTHS=2 aw
As a more accessible example, try running the following cron entry:
* * * * /tmp/crontest.sh
with the following script:
#!/bin/bash
echo "shell: $SHELL"
echo
echo "Testing /dev/stderr: "
echo foo > /dev/stderr
echo
echo "Testing >&2: "
echo bar >&2
and you'l
I noticed that a bash script of mine was causing permission errors under
cron, so I had to change it like so:
--- boxmail.sh 2009/06/30 09:01:46 1.10
+++ boxmail.sh 2009/07/01 08:01:51
@@ -167,7 +167,7 @@
# Echo message to standard error.
function stderr {
-ech
On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 08:59:45AM -0400, Napoleon wrote:
> Neither. The webserver is attempting to do exactly what it was told
> to do. But whomever created the tinyurl did it incorrectly. This
> one works:
> http://tinyurl.com/oovcqy
Hmmm. Thanks. I used the TinyUrl Creator plugin for Fire
I found a problem in my apache logs with attempts to view a php script
on my server. The problem appears to be related to URL decoding, as the
page itself is valid.
Apache2 says:
[Sat Jun 27 04:54:07 2009] [error] File does not exist:
/srv/web/scripting/showscript.php?script=internet_outtage
If I attempt to mount an SSH share in GNOME on Squeeze, I get a
non-helpful pop-up that says:
Error: file doesn't exist
GNOME will then mount the remote system at the root directory, but will
not allow me to bookmark any directories on the system (e.g. /tmp or a
home directory).
What does th
I'm running Squeeze, and when I go to System->Preferences->Encryption
and Keyrings->PGP Passphrases it tells me that there is no running
agent. However, I'm also running keychain, and GPG-AGENT-INFO is
certainly populated when running an xterm.
How can I get GPG to see the agent from inside the GN
On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 08:30:01PM +0100, AG wrote:
> I'm running Squeeze on a desktop and so far have an uptime of some
> 11d. I am just curious whether or not there is any guidance/ advice
> on how long uptimes should be allowed to be run, or whether it is
> wise to shut down and reboot?
Up
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 12:01:09PM -0700, Amit Uttamchandani wrote:
> I use screen extensively with Vim. Recently I tried a new color scheme
> that has a grey background. When scrolling using the keyboard...black
> artifacts are left behind where the cursor position was. My terminal
> background i
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 03:13:28PM +, rabie chami wrote:
> salvation to everyone I have a problem when I run fail2ban everything
> works except I have a problem on the internet connection because I
> have no connection, I think the problem is when fail2ban block ip
> addresses they do on my ro
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 01:33:17AM +0700, Sthu Deus wrote:
> Is there a possible misconfiguration on postfix that can lead to an OS
> breakage up to root privileges?
You can probably screw up any service if you try hard enough. Postfix is
relatively secure, at least when compared to sendmail. As
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 02:52:26PM -0400, John wrote:
> Following Ben Finney's finding under Bug #530027, I downgraded
> everything cups to 1.3.8-1lenny5. That in turn required a frightening
I'm pretty sure it's a regression or incompatibility. So, I've gone
ahead and filed a bug against the pack
I've noticed that if I use "ping -A" that the kernel starts discarding
packets after the first few, only registering every 5th ping. I'm pretty
sure this is a flood control measure, but it's interfering with
measuring my cable modem for drops, so I'd like to disable this
"feature."
Is there a sysc
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 11:58:22AM +0800, ?...@k4 wrote:
> I'm looking for a pure c/c++ programmed desktop manager, while the
> xorg is depandent on perl, so i do not like it, is there any graphics
> system which depands only on c/c++ to replace x window system? thanks
Perl is now included in the
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 08:50:36AM +0100, thveillon.debian wrote:
> I don't remember if I had to update the alternatives manually, I don't
> think so.
> [...]
> update-alternatives --config iceweasel-javaplugin.so
That's what I'm saying: there's no option for it.
$ sudo update-alternatives -
On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 05:36:15PM +0100, thveillon.debian wrote:
> sun-java is now fully 64 bit, including the plugin, starting with 6-12
> maybe, or even one release earlier. But the icedtea one runs just as
> well on my machine, it's just seen as an older version by some
> websites and Sun java
On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 02:16:10PM +0200, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote:
> I just want to install a Java runtime environment which will allow me
> to see Java applets in action. It seems I have the choice of (at
If you're running 64-bit, your choice of plugin is rather restricted. On
my system, I use
I'm not getting any logs from the local cups-client, but the remote
server is logging the following when I attempt to print (see previous
post):
192.168.101.103 - - [21/Jun/2009:02:20:49 -0700] "POST / HTTP/1.1" 400 0 - -
192.168.101.103 - - [21/Jun/2009:02:20:49 -0700] "POST /printers/hpo
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