Re: Am I being attacked? Domain name and DNS server problem

2006-03-18 Thread ke6isf
On Sat, 18 Mar 2006, Robert MannI wrote: But then, when I try to resolve the ip address back to a domain, using either "host xx.xx.xx.xx" on mac os x, or "/usr/bin/resolveip xx.xx.xx.xx" on linux, the ip address is resolved to a domain name that is a little bit suspicious: ns2.decayandcorrupt.c

Re: What do you do with a .jar file?

2006-03-02 Thread ke6isf
On Thu, 2 Mar 2006, Olafur Jens Sigurdsson wrote: This is a zipped file of java files, you can use the jar utility to unzip it, see man jar. This is nice, but it simply unpacks, and I'm at a loss as to how to run it. -Dennis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

What do you do with a .jar file?

2006-03-02 Thread ke6isf
Running Sarge with the Sun Java package installed, per the instructions provided on the IRC channel. OK, so I have this .jar file. If I open it using 'java hidejournal-0.3.1.jar', it gives me: Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: hidejournal-0/3/1/jar If I open it fr

Re: debian pine source build 4.62

2006-02-18 Thread ke6isf
On Sat, 18 Feb 2006, Jude DaShiell wrote: A little earlier today I lost something on the order of 15,000 messages after having initially viewed them with a new build of pine. Define "lost". Were they deleted from /var/spool/mail/$user entirely, or did pine put them in a different directory?

USB is fickle

2006-02-17 Thread ke6isf
Running Sarge with Linux 2.6.8-2-k7. It might be pertinent to know that I'm using Gnome under XFree for my GUI. When mounting a digital camera on my machine, I get one of two reactions from the system - the camera mounts, allows me to copy (but not remove) files, and if I unplug without unmountin

Re: Why maybe you should bother

2006-02-17 Thread ke6isf
I'm going to jump in as well. I've been using Sarge since shortly after its release as stable in June. Previous experience with Woody (3.0) was lackluster, being unable to make it talk to my networking hardware. My advice is to get Sarge, and go from there - aside from the fact that it seems

Re: help with Debian [How to upload a website to a debian web server]

2006-02-10 Thread ke6isf
On Fri, 10 Feb 2006, Cuthbert Smith Consulting wrote: > Thank you, I have tried contacting my host, but have not had much luck > which was why I went to Debian/Apache. I will keep trying, thanks for > your information. Glad to help, but could you please not send your emails as XML? When you do

Re: help with Debian

2006-02-10 Thread ke6isf
On Fri, 10 Feb 2006, Cuthbert Smith Consulting wrote: > First off, Im not sure what you mean to persue /etc/apache/httpd.conf, do > I type that in the web browser or look for it in my explorer. Neither. You'll have to be logged into your web server in order to locate this file, preferably by way

Re: help with Debian

2006-02-10 Thread ke6isf
On Fri, 10 Feb 2006, Cuthbert Smith Consulting wrote: > I am not a computer programmer, but feel fairly confident in my computer > skills, I have created my website using FrontPage. I need to know how to > now upload my website to our webpage. Not being one to support Frontpage (and, in fact, co

Re: THE END OF THE WAR IN IRAQ!

2006-01-26 Thread ke6isf
On Thu, 26 Jan 2006, Steve Block wrote: > On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 04:05:18AM -0800, Jerry and/or Susan Atlansky wrote: > >THE END OF THE IRAQ WAR > > > >UNITED STATES PETITION > > No one gets my support by spamming. Spam? On this list?! Surely you jest! -Dennis Carr -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Cron and at behavior in X

2006-01-20 Thread ke6isf
Using Sarge, current updates. Based on conversations I've had on the IRC channel, I know that entering a line into crontab such as 'x-app:0.0' will fire off an X application without returning an error that it can't find a display, or similarly if I set DISPLAY=:0.0 at the top of the crontab. Am I

Voice recognition software?

2006-01-12 Thread ke6isf
Ran into a local who is a partial quadriplegic, and is using Dragon Naturally Speaking on a Windows system, and has exhibited curiousity about Linux. Due to the nature of her paralysis, she requires voice recognition software, so with that in mind, is there anything in Debian (or, for that matter,

Re: Getting a list of installed packages

2005-12-27 Thread ke6isf
On Tue, 27 Dec 2005, J Merritt wrote: > Is there a way to get a list of installed packages in Debian, preferably from > the command line and preferably in a text file? COLUMNS=200 dpkg -l |awk '/^[hi]i/{print $2}' This will generate a list of only the names of packages that are installed. I us

Re: moving across tabs in firefox

2005-12-14 Thread ke6isf
On Wed, 14 Dec 2005, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > Is there any way to circulate around the tabs (ie go the next/previous > tab) in firefox? Ctrl-Tab moves right, Ctrl-Shift-Tab moves left. -Dennis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Looking for a one-time "change this password" script for login

2005-11-15 Thread ke6isf
Every now and again, as is prone to happening on any server, I will create a new account for users, and set a generic password for them, and thusly instruct them on how to change it - ssh in, 'passwd', use the password I just issued them, and have them come up with a better password than the generi

Re: Sarge 3.10

2005-11-04 Thread ke6isf
On Fri, 4 Nov 2005, List wrote: > Is there an easy way to get X Windows working out of the box on Debian Sarge? X, when installed here, Just Worked. What are the symptoms? -Dennis Carr -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PRO

Re: BIND 9 Question

2005-10-12 Thread ke6isf
On Wed, 12 Oct 2005, Timothy Spear wrote: > Hi all, >Quick question, I hope. I am migrating a data center from > RedHat/Suse/Mandrake to Debian (as the new single standard). When I migrated from Mandrake to Debian, I simply copied the named.conf over, made a single adjustment (on Mandrake

Re: How to completely reinstall a package?

2005-10-07 Thread ke6isf
On Fri, 7 Oct 2005, Tim N9PUZ wrote: > dpkg-reconfigure x-window-system didn't do anything obvious. Try 'dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86' instead. -Dennis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Panda, Beware!

2005-09-23 Thread ke6isf
On Fri, 23 Sep 2005, Wm Stanley wrote: > Yes, > > I have used Panda Anti-virus software for several years now and had paid > for two more that will Never be used! Why? Because their otherwise > excellent programs were impossible to reconcile with Windows XP, to > which I recently upgraded, and be

Re: Newbie Problems!

2005-09-22 Thread ke6isf
On Thu, 22 Sep 2005, Sean Whitton wrote: > 2) > I want a domain to point to the server. During installation I selected DNS > server, and I need to know how to set this up. A link to a tutorial would be > appreciated. Like another responder said, assuming you have a domain and a static IP, check a

Re: New install, no desktop

2005-09-21 Thread ke6isf
On Wed, 21 Sep 2005, Albert wrote: > Do I actually have a desktop installed? And how would I invoke it? Go back to the first grub entry that you list, and do 'dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86'. If that doesn't work, you'll need to install the xserver package - and probably gnome or KDE while yo

Re: kill someone logged on

2005-09-07 Thread ke6isf
On Wed, 7 Sep 2005, debian wrote: > Perhaps this is one of those zombie process thingamajigs ! Try 'ps -A | grep joe', find the ssh process for pts/2, and kill -HUP the bugger. -Dennis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROT

Re: apt-get upgrade - excessive list?

2005-08-17 Thread ke6isf
On Wed, 17 Aug 2005, Yoav Felberbaum wrote: > Output is (notice the "apache2-common" which I don't want to do) (dump cut for brevity) Why are you running sid on a production server? -Dennis Carr -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Cont

Re: UNSUBSCRIBE confirm

2005-08-13 Thread ke6isf
On Sat, 13 Aug 2005, ChPh wrote: > UNSUBSCRIBE confirm You might check for instructions in the footer of each of the messages posted to this list. These instructions will tell you how to unsubscribe rather than clutter the list with your requests. -Dennis Carr -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EM

Re: Swap always full

2005-08-03 Thread ke6isf
On Wed, 3 Aug 2005, David Berg wrote: > It seems that with in 15 minutes of logging into my account I'm out of > swap and low on physical memory. > > Swap partition is 64 Meg and I have 128 Megs of Physical. I'm > upgrading to 1Gig very shortly but would still like to know why I'm > swapping so m

Re: Troubling security news for sarge users of mozilla, firefox, thunderbird...

2005-08-02 Thread ke6isf
On Tue, 2 Aug 2005, Ralph Katz wrote: > Yet I'm wondering how other sarge users are going to address the > security concerns? Backport, install from Mozilla tarball, upgrade to > unstable, change to kmail/konqueror? It would seem that the easiest way to deal with this is to go off tree and use t

Re: Why not a Desktop on a GNU/Linux Server

2005-07-25 Thread ke6isf
On Mon, 25 Jul 2005, ke6isf wrote: > Of course it's perfectly fine. Did this for ages myself. Caveat to what I said here - sent prematurely. =O.o= While it's fine (functionally), it's discouraged for security reasons. -Dennis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Why not a Desktop on a GNU/Linux Server

2005-07-25 Thread ke6isf
On Mon, 25 Jul 2005, Anthony Simonelli wrote: > I am planning on running a Squid Proxy, Postfix, > Apache, webmail server here at my company and I was > wondering if it was alright to run a Desktop or just > X-Windows on this server. Of course it's perfectly fine. Did this for ages myself. -Den

Re: postgresql on Sarge

2005-07-22 Thread ke6isf
On Fri, 22 Jul 2005, Daniel Ramaley wrote: > How do i install postgresql on Sarge? I did an "aptitude update" then > ran aptitude and selected postgresql for installation. But aptitude > refuses to install it, claiming that it is "broken". I don't know how i > broke it, but now that it is broke, h

A little something quirky....

2005-07-21 Thread ke6isf
I just realized that every time I do an apt-get update - and I mean EVERY time - the repository over on purdue.edu always gets the Packages and Release data files. Most recent test was today, and I did two updates in less than five minutes. (I had added contrib and non-free to a handful of mirror

Re: sarge + 2.6.12 kernel panic

2005-07-21 Thread ke6isf
On Thu, 21 Jul 2005, Gayle Lee Fairless wrote: > I have a box upgraded from woody to sarge. > > Are you using grub or lilo? (Although I didn't do a fresh install, I > suspect grub. Forgive me for this, but which one of these lines are from the original post? The message is confusing. At any ra