Re: iscan frustration Compounded!

2007-09-28 Thread Chris Davies
Thomas H. George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I own two Epson scanners, a Perfection 2400 Photo and a Perfection V100 > Photo. > Neither work with Debian Linux. Check the location of the firmware file, esfw41.bin. A few upgrades ago, my system also lost the configuration entry in /etc/sane.d/snap

Re: iscan frustration Compounded!

2007-10-02 Thread Chris Davies
Thomas H. George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There was no esfw41.bin in my system. I added a line "usb 0x048b 0x011b" > to snapscan.conf and after this gimp ran 4 succesful color scans with > the Perfection 2400 before locking up on the fifth scan. There is still > no esfw41.bin in my system.

Re: iscan frustration Compounded!

2007-10-02 Thread Chris Davies
Felix Karpfen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The problem is similar because Debian Etch (kernel 2.6.18) is looking for > the firmware file in the wrong directory. [...] Why should the kernel be looking for a firmware file to send to the scanner? Are you /sure/ this is a kernel issue? Can you post t

Re: quad-core query

2007-10-31 Thread Chris Davies
ISHWAR RATTAN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is anyone running Linux on a quad-core Opteron or Xeon based system? I've an eight-way Xeon running Lenny on (what I think I recall is) a DELL 2950. Does that help? Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: PAL to NTSC (DVD)

2008-02-15 Thread Chris Davies
Christopher Judd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A colleague just returned from a trip overseas, and he purchased > some DVDs along the way. One of them is incoded in PAL, however. Is > there an easy way to copy the DVD and convert it to NTSC, preferable > retaining subtitles, alternate languag

Re: ??: Stunned by aptitude.

2008-07-08 Thread Chris Davies
Barclay, Daniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Why don't you just copy the text and paste it into a message? Follows. Notice that even the text/plain part is base64 encoded. Chris >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Jul 8 09:10:00 2008 Path: news.enta.net!news.mediascape.de!newsfeed-0.progon.net!progon.

Re: sudo password visible through ssh command line

2008-07-11 Thread Chris Davies
Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 01:04:31PM +0200, Javier Barroso wrote: >> In sid with key passwordless auth : >> >> ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] "sudo ls" >> password: password >> >> And password is shown you > I definitely consider that a bug. Who to file ag

Re: P2P clients for debian etch

2008-07-11 Thread Chris Davies
joseph lockhart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > just wondering which P2P clients are best, seems to be slim pickings > in the base debian repository [...] I'd recommend uTorrent running under wine. Works great here. Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscrib

Re: before I could ping, now I can't

2008-07-23 Thread Chris Davies
Vwaju <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am building an internet server (primarily to get some experience > with and knowledge of networking). If you're not familiar with networking then I would STRONGLY suggest that you stay well clear of putting your server directly on the Internet. Put it behind a

Re: TBird Sieve [Was: IMAP is teh r0x0rz!]

2008-07-23 Thread Chris Davies
Steve C. Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Unfortunately this is bare bones, the scripts need to be handwritten. I > was hoping for an inteface similar to TBird's internal filtering. IE, > something parent friendly. :) I'm sure I saw something "out there" that did just this. Now that I've go

Re: before I could ping, now I can't

2008-07-24 Thread Chris Davies
Vwaju <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here are the contents of etc/network/interfaces: > [...] > 15 auto-eth0 Should be "auto eth0" rather than "auto-eth0". Fix that and try the "ifup eth0" again. Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Cont

Re: TBird Sieve [Was: IMAP is teh r0x0rz!]

2008-07-25 Thread Chris Davies
Chris Davies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm sure I saw something "out there" that did just this [graphical > editor for Sieve scripts] I think I may have been thinking of the avelsieve plugin for Squirrelmail. Unfortunately it seems to encode its idea of the filter

Re: how to avoid cheking md5sum ?

2008-08-01 Thread Chris Davies
Eduardo M KALINOWSKI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Also, I see you are trying to install a Ubuntu package. If your system > is Debian, mixing packages from Ubuntu is not a very good idea. ...because of all the (missing) dependencies, or some other reason? Cheers, Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: how to avoid cheking md5sum ?

2008-08-01 Thread Chris Davies
On Fri Aug 01 2008 @ 1:35, Chris Davies wrote: > [Ubuntu packages can't install on Debian] ...because of all the > (missing) dependencies, or some other reason? Telemachus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Because they're not binary compatible. http://tinyurl.com/652qwj A

Re: Fwd: ssh-keygen

2008-08-19 Thread Chris Davies
Bob Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is how I do it when setting up a new machine: > ssh-keygen -t dsa > > cat ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub | ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] 'cat >> .ssh/authorized_keys2' > Mmm. Interesting as I find authorized_keys works for me (none of my Debian systems claims to understand y

Re: mount remote file system

2008-08-19 Thread Chris Davies
Jos Collin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm sorry. The question was not clear. I want to mount a remote DVD and have > it presented to me on my local machine. I was searching whether there is any > option using the command 'mount'. Is it possible with 'mount -t nfs' or > 'mount -t smbfs'? You coul

Re: bits/news from the users of Debian?

2008-04-16 Thread Chris Davies
Peter Hugosson-Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here at work we have one single Linux installation in a sea of Windoze: > a PC running Debian "woody" [...] > At home my latest installation is also "woody" [...] Woody's pretty old now. But I guess you know that. You might want to step forward

Re: SSH connections stall expecting SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_REPLY

2008-04-18 Thread Chris Davies
martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > every once in a while, I am stuck in a crap wifi network and often > cannot even establish SSH connections. What happens is that the > socket connection is established, but the client then just waits for > a server reply during the DH key exhchange: Are

Re: usb dial up modem?

2008-05-19 Thread Chris Davies
Tzafrir Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But how much does a non-winmodem modem cost me? I think they're around £30. Maybe less on eBay. Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: find by year

2006-10-11 Thread Chris Davies
Stephen Yorke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My dumb @ss solution works but if 2003- is in the file name it will be > listed as well...LoL For quick one-off searches often the quick'n'dirty solution works. Don't knock yourself that hard; your solution might well have worked perfectly in many situati

Re: sudo logging

2009-07-23 Thread Chris Davies
Berthold Cogel wrote: > We're doing somthing like this in /etc/sudoers: > Cmnd_Alias SHELLS =/bin/sh, \ >/bin/bash, \ [...] > TRUSTED_USR ALL = NOPASSWD:ALL ,!SHELLS, NOROOT Surely this breaks trivially? ln

Re: sudo logging

2009-07-26 Thread Chris Davies
Berthold Cogel wrote: > [...] we don't want them do be root for some reasons. > Surely they can break the setup if they want. But they gain nothing if > they do. Your two statements seem to be mutually exclusive...? Somewhat puzzled, Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@list

Re: Frequent crashes whilst using X (try 2)

2009-07-26 Thread Chris Davies
Barry Samuels wrote: > A few weeks ago after some packages were updated X applications started > crashing and sometimes brought X down as well. Ah. Someone else, too! I'm getting segementation violations (signal 11) but since I use the proprietary NVidia driver I've not seen any way of reportin

Re: skype, amd64, libc6-i386 and ia32-libs

2009-08-18 Thread Chris Davies
Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote: >>> After returning from vacation I updated my testing, amd64 system. > By the way, does anybody know why they had to break things first? I did > not expect that from debian! I rather think that the name of the version you're running answers that question. If you don't wan

Re: ssh hardly usable after login

2009-09-03 Thread Chris Davies
randall wrote: > i can still login via SSH and issue commands, > but when opening a file with nano or issuing top it just hangs and > displaying a black screen until it times out. The MTU is too high, you're using Don't Fragment on the packets, and someone's broken firewall (possibly but not nece

Re: connection issues

2009-09-03 Thread Chris Davies
randall wrote: > having a problem since a few months and i cant really figure it out. Same answer as to your other post. It's the MTU Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: nfs permission problem

2009-09-03 Thread Chris Davies
Markus Grunwald wrote: > there is a strange permission problem with a NFS share on my system. > Somehow, it is not recognized that my user "markus" is in the group > "wir", when I do changes on a NFS mount. If I do the changes local on > the server, everything is fine... Let me go into the details

Disabling avahi

2009-09-07 Thread Chris Davies
Can anyone please give me any suggestions how I can permanently disable avahi? I don't want it playing around with any of my systems' network settings as it doesn't seem to be able to read my mind sufficiently well to get them right, yet. (It appears to manage to break static IP addresses and stat

Re: Disabling avahi

2009-09-08 Thread Chris Davies
Ron Johnson wrote: > What's in /etc/default/avahi-daemon? AVAHI_DAEMON_DETECT_LOCAL=1 Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Disabling avahi

2009-09-08 Thread Chris Davies
John Hasler wrote: > "sudo apt-get remove --purge avahi-daemon" works for me. The following packages will be REMOVED avahi-daemon* avahi-utils* gnome* libnss-mdns* telepathy-salut* The following packages will be upgraded: gnome-accessibility gnome-core gnome-desktop-environment gnome-office

Re: VNC on server

2009-09-09 Thread Chris Davies
Bhasker C V wrote: > I do not want to put iptables > to block input and then watch people see the port as filtered > instead of closed. Use REJECT instead of DROP Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas..

Re: cisco vpnclient: not able to get shell output for more than a few lines

2009-09-09 Thread Chris Davies
Mitchell Laks wrote: > I need to access a cisco vpn concentrator. > I tried using vpnc and keep getting a message > vpnc: response was invalid [1]: (ISAKMP_N_INVALID_EXCHANGE_TYPE)(7) > which I cannot figure out the cause for. > any ideas on how to handle that? I /think/ it's due to the serv

Re: Installing postgresql on Debian Lenny.

2009-09-11 Thread Chris Davies
Ron Johnson wrote: > Try this, as a start: > $ aptitude search postgresql | grep ^postgresql | sort On my version of aptitude (0.4.11.11) that can't possibly work. (Remove the ^ and it might.) Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscri

Re: nvidia problems after upgrade

2009-09-17 Thread Chris Davies
>> Rebuilding and reinstalling the nvidia driver is almost always required >> after kernel or OpenGL library upgrades. marc wrote: > It is? How do you do that? Google for sgfxi and use that. Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscrib

Re: passwd: Permission denied ?

2009-09-18 Thread Chris Davies
Frank Bonnet wrote: > I'm trying to change a local user passwd as root and I get this error > message ... which seems a bit unreal to me ... > passwd: Permission denied Suspect you've lost the setuid permission bit on /usr/bin/passwd: ls -l /usr/bin/passwd -rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 34392

Re: nvidia problems after upgrade

2009-09-19 Thread Chris Davies
Paul Cartwright wrote: > Every time I boot up & GDM doesn't start, my network is broken too. Is it possible that you've got something within your GUI environment that configures the network? (Network Manager springs to mind. Ugh.) Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.de

Re: Forcing root filesystem read-only during normal operation

2009-09-25 Thread Chris Davies
T o n g wrote: > % mount -o ro,remount /dev/sda5 / && echo yes > yes > $ mount | grep sda5 > /dev/sda5 on / type ext3 (rw,noatime,nodiratime) > Still NOK!? Well. Actually it's quite possible it worked. And once the mount worked, the tool tried to update /etc/mtab to reflect the new situation.

Re: Grep for colums?

2009-02-12 Thread Chris Davies
Nagy Daniel wrote: > cat text.txt | perl -ne 'print "$1\n" while (/href=\"(.+?)\"/ig)' | grep > sourceforge | grep nvu You don't need cat for a single file! perl -ne 'print "$1\n" while (/href=\"(.+?)\"/ig)' text.txt | grep sourceforge | grep nvu Or, by using perl in a single comma

Re: Fedora guy byebyes Debian

2009-02-25 Thread Chris Davies
Rodolfo Alcazar Portillo wrote: > Well, a fun time (one week), sweating it up to make my ATI and Wifi work > in Lenny AMD64 but nothing. With old fedora wifi works from the live cd > and ATI with the update. No need even to try it with my dell or my > Aspireone. So byebye Debian. Be glad you have

Re: sed :(

2009-03-05 Thread Chris Davies
Steve Kemp wrote: > Because you've got nested quotes. e.g. This fails: > sed -i "s/"bob"/"chris"/g" /tmp/blah IMO that's a bad example, because it's not clear that the quotes surrounding bob and chris are processed by the shell and therefore never seen by sed. It "seems" to work even though yo

Re: ssh connection takes long time

2009-03-13 Thread Chris Davies
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > In general, you should make sure reverse DNS works for all your IPs. randall wrote: > i doubt that this is a sensible default, if i'm wrong please let me > know ;) All systems should have an rDNS record to map the number back to a name. Ideally, that canonical nam

Re: ssh connection takes long time

2009-03-13 Thread Chris Davies
randall wrote: > The only use to correct "reverse" DNS i can see is in case of a mail > server, if you want to filter dynamic and static IP's (but even this is > theoretical since it is hardly used in practice) I don't use rDNS for differentiating static and dynamic IPs (well, not directly); I

Re: blueproximity

2009-03-14 Thread Chris Davies
Daniel Dalton wrote: > I installed the blueproximity package from debian lenny and got the > following results: > - It locks my screen when I turn bluetooth off on the phone. Fair enough - you've gone out of range > - When I turn bluetooth back on screen unlocks again Likewise, you've come bac

Re: blueproximity

2009-03-15 Thread Chris Davies
Daniel Dalton wrote: > Hmmm, it worked this morning... When you boot your machine, where do you > have your phone, and do you switch bluetooth on? Do you have to do > anything on the phone or computer when you boot? Usually the phone's in my pocket. Occasionally it's still in the car and I realis

Re: Delete 4 million files

2009-03-19 Thread Chris Davies
On Mar 19, 2009, at 1:38 AM, Paul E Condon wrote: > Create a path, on the same disk to a place called 'hide', and > mv /bar/foo /hide > rm -rf /hide/foo & This is excellent practical advice. (I tend to mv /bar/foo /bar/too.DELETEME and then delete that, but the principle's the same as long as you

Re: specific network traffic

2009-03-22 Thread Chris Davies
Lorenzo Bettini wrote: > lately I've noticed some continuous traffic on port 1712, and I'd like > to figure out who's generating this... sudo netstat -nap | grep :1712 Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact li

Re: setuid script

2009-03-22 Thread Chris Davies
cesarino vinh wrote: > I just wanted to run my browser with a different user, because it's > safer :S Safer than what...? > How can I do that? I'm using wright now the "gksu" - and then run as user... > so I can't make a shell script to do that, and I don't want to modify the > browser's execut

Re: File Sharing Problem

2009-03-24 Thread Chris Davies
Thomas H. George wrote: > I wish to share or move files between two Debian systems on a LAN. Each > can successfully ping the other using their system names, dragon and > phoenix. There are myriad ways (well, quite a number, anyway) to do this. Here are a few: 1. ssh aptitude install ssh

Re: Delete 4 million files

2009-03-25 Thread Chris Davies
Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > At this point I wanted to write "well, one thing you you can optimize > away is the sorting of the 4M files that find does. To disable it, use -". > But I could not find such an option. That's because find doesn't sort. It generates the files in directory entry order. Proof

Re: hostname, dyndns and home network

2009-03-25 Thread Chris Davies
T o n g wrote: > Anyone who has a home network and a dyndns account can share you > arrangement with your box's hostnames? E.g., > - Do you use FQDN for all hosts? -- I found using a single name as > hostname will cause problem for many application, sendmail, squid, etc. Use your dyndns domain

Re: about ntp

2009-03-26 Thread Chris Davies
leo wrote: > when I exec ntpdate -u pool.ntp.org for example, the out is: > "no server suitable for synchronization found" The NTP Pool servers are all run on a "best endeavours" basis. (I know, because I run one.) So if one doesn't respond you should try the next. Since you're running debian, t

Re: Resizing LVM partition

2009-03-31 Thread Chris Davies
Daniel Bareiro wrote: > Interesting... I tried increasing the size of a LV on which a virtual > machine KVM is executed. Then with the operating system running, I > umount (although I have understood that it is not necessary) the > filesystem /space of the VM and I extended it so that it occupied

Re: Why no Skype packages?

2009-03-31 Thread Chris Davies
Alan Chandler wrote: > Rumour has it that the skype protocol will route (other peoples) voice > traffic through your PC even when you are not making a call. Not just rumour but confirmed by the "technical" information on Skype's own website. > There are STANDARDS in place for voip and it might

Re: Why no Skype packages?

2009-04-01 Thread Chris Davies
Alex Samad wrote: > I have heard just to many bad things about skype, eves dropping etc, > sorry why use skype instead of voip. Skype /is/ VoIP. It's just not an open standards-based protocol like SIP or (I believe) IAX. Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Why no Skype packages?

2009-04-01 Thread Chris Davies
Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > IAX2 is RFC5456. Thanks for the confirmation. Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: how to trace port openning

2009-04-04 Thread Chris Davies
Jerome BENOIT wrote: > how can we trace the port effectively open/close by an executable ? This isn't clear. What are you trying to achieve? If it's to see which ports a program has opened, you could try strace {program}. Otherwise (as root) netstat -nap. Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to de

Re: firmware-linux

2009-04-19 Thread Chris Davies
tyler wrote: > I just noticed a new package in squeeze, firmware-linux, which contains > the binary firmware that was formerly included in Debian kernels [...] > What I want to know is what kinds of problems I might experience when I > move to a 'free' kernel? [...] It's now become /really/ awkw

Re: firmware-linux

2009-04-19 Thread Chris Davies
Alex Samad wrote: > Another thought for remote install's what baout pxe-boot and add it to > that image This might work for others, but I usually have nothing onsite that can deliver a PXE boot image so unfortunately it would gain me nothing. Cheers, Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-

Re: firmware-linux

2009-04-19 Thread Chris Davies
Justin The Cynical wrote: > Personally, my fix would to either get better kit than Dell or install > an Intel based NIC, but since I don't control the purse strings in the > company, I'll take what I can get. DELL's not an option for me. Maybe I should look at Intel NICs, though. Thanks for the

Re: voip that works on linux and windows

2009-04-23 Thread Chris Davies
MList wrote: > Is there some program that can run on both linux and windows that > provide voip (and perhaps video) other than Skype? If you want to go with Standards and PSTN interoperability, I'd recommend anything that supports the SIP protocol. I use Twinkle; others probably use Ekiga. Window

Re: File Server

2009-04-23 Thread Chris Davies
Lynn Kilroy wrote: > My goal is to use the linux machine as a rather expensive external > hard disk drive. You might want to consider OpenNAS (?), or one of the SLUGs that run a Linux distribution. But that's not Debian so maybe I shouldn't suggest it ;-) Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to deb

Re: execution of exim by user

2009-05-01 Thread Chris Davies
Peter Crawford wrote: > Is there a practical way for exim to be executed by a user? > Putting a user in the Debian-exim group doesn't allow this. Exim can already be executed by a user for sending email (this is what the MUAs such as "mailx" use to send a message): /usr/lib/sendmail -v chri

Re: Can't create RAID 0 with Debian Lennny and mdadm on EC2

2009-05-01 Thread Chris Davies
Raleigh Guevarra wrote: > We're trying to make a RAID 0 with four 150Gb each of volumes but we > are getting this error [...] on Amazon EC2 > # mdadm --create /dev/md0 --level 0 --metadata=1.1 --raid-devices 4 /dev/sdl > /dev/sdm /dev/sdn /dev/sdo > mdadm: /dev/sdl appears to be part of a raid

Re: execution of exim by user

2009-05-01 Thread Chris Davies
> What is it you want to achieve? Peter Crawford wrote: > Initiate a message via the command interface.Which has merit when > initiating a message from a non-linux system. If by that you're referring to a UNIX/Linux system, I would recommend that you use /usr/lib/sendmail as the executable targe

Re: execution of exim by user

2009-05-02 Thread Chris Davies
> "If by that you're referring to a UNIX/Linux system, ..." Peter Crawford wrote: > Any system providing a command line is sufficient. > It could be a DEC VT100 or an Atari or a Mac Plus. I qualified my statement that /usr/lib/sendmail exists. If you're running on a.n.other system then I woul

Re: LVM how to

2009-05-22 Thread Chris Davies
gianni wrote: > how can I resize the LVM default partition layout of debian? > the root is to small around 400mb... It depends entirely whether your root partition is part of the LVM or not. If it's part of the LVM you can use lvextend and then resize2fs (or if you're not using ext2/3/4, your eq

Re: best practice for lvm?

2009-06-08 Thread Chris Davies
Zhengquan Zhang wrote: > Can I say the best practice for lvm is to create a single partition for > the harddrive and single PV on it and separate LVs for /tmp /var /home > etc? and leave enough unassigned PE for later enlargement of certain LV? Personally, I create a 1G partition for root and boo

Re: best practice for lvm?

2009-06-09 Thread Chris Davies
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > Chris means PV, not PE. Sorry, yes, typo! Thanks for clarifying that to the OP Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: How to change indent in vim

2009-06-12 Thread Chris Davies
On Jun 10, Thomas H. George wrote: > I want indent set to 3, the default setting 8 uses up too much space. Ben Olive suggest: > set tabstop=3 > set shiftwidth=3 Actually, you should really consider leaving the tabstop alone. Tabs are every 8 characters, and if no-one ever fiddled with that it w

Re: Oddity In stty

2008-09-02 Thread Chris Davies
On Sun, 2008-08-31 at 17:35 -0400, David L. Craig wrote: > I can't figure this out. Why does the first pipeline suceed but the > second fails? I'm running an up-to-date Sid. > > fold -w `stty -a | head -1 | awk '{print $7}' | tr -d ';'` < /dev/null > cat /dev/null | fold -w `stty -a | head -1 | a

Re: Dns bind9 not foward

2008-09-02 Thread Chris Davies
Enrico Farabollini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm trying to install a Dns with bind9, whenever you do: > dig www.microsoft.com returns: > deb-dns:~# dig www.microsoft.com > ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: SERVFAIL, id: 7936 What's in your /etc/resolv.conf What are the relevant output li

Re: Dns bind9 not foward

2008-09-03 Thread Chris Davies
Enrico Farabollini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> provided information about /etc/resolv.conf and the named logfile output. OK, another question. I see you're using the OpenDNS name servers: >forwarders { >208.67.222.222; >208.67.220.220; > }; What happens if you try t

Re: Dns bind9 not foward

2008-09-05 Thread Chris Davies
Enrico Farabollini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [-- text/html, encoding 7bit, charset: ISO-8859-1, 57 lines --] > [-- text/plain, encoding 7bit, charset: ISO-8859-1, 41 lines, name: dig --] > [-- text/plain, encoding 7bit, charset: ISO-8859-1, 41 lines, name: dig1 --] There's nothing obviously wro

Re: Getting DHCP logs OUT of syslog

2008-09-05 Thread Chris Davies
Jim Hyslop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > HOWEVER! All the DHCP logging info is *still* going into /var/log/syslog > as well - i.e. the DHCP info now goes into BOTH logs. How do I tell > DHCP to send the logs ONLY to local7? Turn it around: you tell syslog.conf not to write local7 entries to /var/lo

Re: Getting DHCP logs OUT of syslog

2008-09-06 Thread Chris Davies
Jim Hyslop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > HOWEVER! All the DHCP logging info is *still* going into /var/log/syslog > as well - i.e. the DHCP info now goes into BOTH logs. How do I tell > DHCP to send the logs ONLY to local7? Chris Davies wrote: > Turn it around: you tell syslog

Re: OT: Pondering sudo

2008-09-08 Thread Chris Davies
Magnus Therning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been trying to find out what the difference is between the > following three > % sudo su - Use your password to authenticate to sudo, then use su to change to the root user with root's environment as if it were a login session > % sudo -i Use yo

Re: Remote administration of a machine behind NAT

2008-09-09 Thread Chris Davies
Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [-- text/plain, encoding quoted-printable, charset: us-ascii, 20 lines --] > On Tue,09.Sep.08, 07:51:30, Alex Samad wrote: >> > Or do you have any other ideas? >> >> openvpn + iptables. >> >> Use openvpn with cert's to create a tunnel and then use ipta

Re: Remote administration of a machine behind NAT

2008-09-10 Thread Chris Davies
Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Maybe I'm dense, but I still don't see the benefits compared to a ssh > tunnel. You have already pointed out that you can't use an ssh tunnel. Your mother's PC is behind at least one layer of NAT, so any connection must be instantiated from there. Star

Re: Remote administration of a machine behind NAT

2008-09-12 Thread Chris Davies
>> I'm struggling to see how to explain it more simply, sorry. Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think he doesn't want to rely on his mother to have to do anything > "scary technical". There isn't anything "scary technical" other than installing the OpenVPN software on the Windows PC, t

Re: Remote administration of a machine behind NAT

2008-09-12 Thread Chris Davies
Chris Davies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There isn't anything "scary technical" other than installing the OpenVPN > software on the Windows PC, telling it to run as a Service, and then Johannes Wiedersich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Where did you get this [W

Re: LVM2, Debian, and changing the hostname

2008-09-28 Thread Chris Davies
Jim McCloskey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] The installation used LVM2 (I'm very happy about that), but I > have a niggling worry. > The device-names in /dev-mapper/ by convention include the system's > hostname as one of their sub-parts: > /dev/mapper/temporaryhostname-root / > As far

Re: exim4 authentication in etch?

2008-10-03 Thread Chris Davies
Thomas H. George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I wiped the hard drive, did a clean installation of etch, configured > exim4, put the user:password in /etc/exim4/passwd.client and tried to > send a message. [...] "man exim4_passwd_client" says The file should contain lines of the form ta

Re: exim4 authentication in etch?

2008-10-03 Thread Chris Davies
Thomas H. George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The line I put in passwd.client is, > "outgoing.verizon.net:my-user-name:my-password", which is my > understanding of the man page instructions. Yes, that's the correct format. But it's not what you wrote first time. > 2008-10-03 13:46:38 1KlojQ-00

Re: exim4 authentication in etch? - SUCCESS!

2008-10-06 Thread Chris Davies
Thomas H. George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I found I had to add two lines to the macro: > |MAIN_TLS_ENABLE = true| > |AUTH_CLIENT_ALLOW_NOTLS_PASSWORDS=yes| > after which I stopped exim4, ran update-exim4.conf and restarted exim4. > After this exim4 successfully sent a message. What you've

Re: exim4 authentication in etch? - SUCCESS!

2008-10-07 Thread Chris Davies
Thomas H. George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > |MAIN_TLS_ENABLE = true| > |AUTH_CLIENT_ALLOW_NOTLS_PASSWORDS=yes| Chris Davies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > What you've done there is to enable TLS (encryption), but then > immediately say that you're happy not to use enc

Re: How to properly empty log files

2008-10-17 Thread Chris Davies
François Cerbelle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > you can "truncate" the file with the folowing bash line : > > /var/log/mail.err > or the following portable line : > echo > /var/log/mail.err Neither of those will work in this instance, as the file is held open for writing. On the next write, the da

Re: How to properly empty log files

2008-10-20 Thread Chris Davies
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 09:44:43AM +0100, Chris Davies wrote: > Neither of those [truncating a log file] will work in this instance, > as the file is held open for writing [...] Tzafrir Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Are you sure? The above method [truncation] works fine for

Re: Spam assassin outgoing email

2008-11-14 Thread Chris Davies
José Santos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I recently setup an email server using postfix and spamasssin, all seems > to be working fine except for the outgoing email that is getting tagged > as spam by my own server. > His there a way to avoid the outgoing checks? Thanks. > I edited /etc/spamassass

Re: unbootable system after fresh 4.0r5 installation

2008-12-05 Thread Chris Davies
Jukka Salmi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just installed Debian 4.0r5 on a i386 systems (Dell PowerEdge 2950). >Begin: Waiting for root file system... ... >sd 3:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable disk sdb > At this point the system hanged for some minutes, until >ALERT! /dev/

Re: unbootable system after fresh 4.0r5 installation

2008-12-05 Thread Chris Davies
Alex Samad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > maybe the best thing to do is change to using labels or UUID's ? I'm not aware of any way to get the installer to do that. There is an underlying problem here, though, whereby the installer discovers and uses sdb when in fact it should be referencing sda. E

Re: Hosts List (ARP?)

2008-12-07 Thread Chris Davies
Phillipus Gunawan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > but then, even from myxp box, when I try to ping with command: > C:\>ping debian > Ping request could not find host debian On this Windows box, where have you defined the host "debian"? Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a s

Re: unbootable system after fresh 4.0r5 installation

2008-12-08 Thread Chris Davies
Jukka Salmi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hmm, is sda this "Virtual Floppy"? What's this? And what's a "Virtual > CDROM"? The Virtual CD and Floppy are controlled via the Remote Access Controller (DRAC). The DELL Remote Access Console (DRAC) allows a suitably privileged user to view and interact

Re: expand /var, decrease /home space

2008-12-12 Thread Chris Davies
steve wrote: > ok, well I wanted to avoid that if all possible anyway, tried this ln -s > /var/www/download /home/steve/public_html [...] > thats creating a symbolic link from download directory (which has > no space left) to a directory that has 280 gig free in it. No. That has created a link t

Re: expand /var, decrease /home space

2008-12-12 Thread Chris Davies
steve wrote: > is there no fairly straightforward way to expand /var and decrease > /home? Only if you're running LVM (and even then it's not as straightforward as I'd like). Otherwise it's a real PITA. > for some reason when I installed etch quite a while ago in my > fairly successful attempt

Re: wlan0 + eth0 = br0

2008-12-15 Thread Chris Davies
Jerome BENOIT wrote: > Is there any good on a laptop to manage together the wlan0 and the > eth0 cards ? Google for "linux ethernet wireless bridge together proxy arp" Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact list

Re: apt-get cannot conect to server

2009-01-03 Thread Chris Davies
oxy wrote: > similar posts around refer to wrong proxy configuration, wrong > /etc/apt/sources.list files etc. None seems to be my case. Look: > # apt-get update > Err http://security.debian.org etch/updates Release.gpg > Could not connect to security.debian.org:80 (1.0.0.0), connection timed ou

Re: Which webcam works on Debian Etch?

2009-01-03 Thread Chris Davies
Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > Some may not work even in the latest released kernel (newer than the > Debian one). Like my "Pixart" one (093a:2621), for instance. Apparently it's supported in 2.6.27 but when I tried that from experimental last night it didn't seem to work there, either. Still work

Re: apt-get cannot conect to server

2009-01-05 Thread Chris Davies
oxy provided most information requested... * What is the value of the environment variable $http_proxy? Cheers, Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: FQDN vs. domain in /etc/hosts

2009-01-05 Thread Chris Davies
Stefan Schmidt wrote: > in my understanding the /etc/hosts file should contain an entry with the > FQDN of the host. > 123.123.123.123 hostname.domain.tld hostname Yes, that's right. > I would for simplicity prefer to use a domain name instead of a FQDN. > 123.123.123.123 domain.tld hostname

Re: ftp directories...

2009-01-06 Thread Chris Davies
Dov Oxenberg wrote: > I want to configure VSFTPD so that when specific users log in they are > directed to a corresponding directory previously created for them on > the storage partition. You might want to re-read the section describing user_sub_token. Or, if your users aren't virtual then consi

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