Re: FTP/User access, was: Re: [users] Re: Why can't I?

2001-06-13 Thread D-Man
oot) # cd /home # chmod 711 * # ls -ld * and verify that the perms are : drwx--x--x The "execute" on directories means they can 'cd', but the lack of 'read" means they can't "ls". The execute is needed if they are allowed to have personal web sites which are typically rooted at ~/public_html. HTH, -D

Re: FTP/User access, was: Re: [users] Re: Why can't I?

2001-06-13 Thread D-Man
On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 11:23:36AM -0700, Dave Carrigan wrote: | D-Man <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | | > Home dirs should have "711" as the permissions (owner | > read-write-execute group and world execute only). I just checked on | > my system (I am really the only user

Re: grub & dual boot with 2 hd

2001-06-13 Thread D-Man
| kernel /vmlinuz | | because it is a symlink? Also root (hd1,1) failed to work. No, the symlink should be no problem. (hd1,1) would fail on your system because that is /dev/hdb2 -- remember that grub uses 0-based indexing for everything. -D

Re: [users] Re: Why can't I?

2001-06-13 Thread D-Man
On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 03:17:52PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: | On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 01:11:49PM -0400, D-Man wrote: | > By "make my machine download things" do you mean that he logs in and | > uses ftp or a web browser? If so, then he ought to be downloading the | > stuf

Re: [users] Re: Why can't I?

2001-06-14 Thread D-Man
On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 07:44:32AM -0500, Nathan E Norman wrote: | On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 11:14:35PM -0400, D-Man wrote: | > On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 03:17:52PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: | > | On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 01:11:49PM -0400, D-Man wrote: | > | > By "make my machine do

KERNEL UPGRADE INSTALL PROBLEMS

2001-06-14 Thread D. Hoyem
Hi All, I'm running Potato-2.2.r3 with Bunks 2.4.x updates installed. I also use lilo on this dual boot machine. I have downloaded the 2.4.5-586 kernel-image and tried to install with dpkg -i kernel-image-2.4.5-586_2.4.5-1_i386.deb. This is what I get: You are attempting to install an init

Re: [users] Re: Why can't I?

2001-06-14 Thread D-Man
On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 01:03:57PM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote: | On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 12:07:33PM -0400, D-Man wrote: | > It seems natural to me that my home dir is my own private property. | > Kind of like having your own room or a clubhouse as a kid, with a sign | > "Keep Ou

Re: Video shutdown instead of xscreensaver

2001-06-15 Thread D. Hoyem
Pedro, If you go to System --> Gnome Control Panel you will see screensaver. In there you can setup what you want to do. --- Pedro Zorzenon Neto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Please CC reply copies as I'm not a subscriber of > this list. > > Hi, > >When I don't move the mouse or type for

Re: I simply don't understand

2001-06-15 Thread D-Man
the terminal when a user logs in. HTH, -D

Re: now what ?

2001-06-15 Thread D-Man
nfig files too. | 3) How do I get a list or an overview of all what I have installed on the dpkg -l HTH, -D

Re: subject missing on some

2001-06-15 Thread D-Man
On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 10:17:25AM -0500, Bryan Andersen wrote: | A bug in IE6 beta would cause outlook express to blank out | subject lines from text messages from non MS email clients. LOL! Are you sure it is a 'bug' and not a 'feature'? -D

Re: How to upgrade to XFree86 4 on unstable ?

2001-06-15 Thread D-Man
s on the console) Anybody ~~~ This file tells Debian (I don't know which part ;-)) which X server to use. BTW, I still have 3.3.6 but I am upgrading to woody at the moment. -D

Re: Video shutdown instead of xscreensaver

2001-06-15 Thread D. Hoyem
me and stable in others. > I'd like to enable this power saving feature in > text-terminals and in X11 and it sould be enabled to > every user and even when no one is loged in. > Any How-to or hints? > > Thanks, > Pedro > > On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 06:58:47AM -0700,

Re: [slightly OT] 486 50mhz 16ram 258mb HD

2001-06-16 Thread D-Man
st Page Mode or EDO) is ~$80 for a 32MB SIMM, unfortunately. There is a local store that deals with used parts that has some old Pentiums (some with 32MB RAM) for $100 (case, mobo, cpu, hd, NIC). -D

Postgresql upgrade!!!!

2004-10-05 Thread D S
Does anybody knows how to upgrade postgresql on Debian manually or by apt-get? The debian security web site has only the old 7.2 version. I tried to load it form other http sources but it can't find it. I need upgrade it to version 7.4. Does anybody have a init script that can run Postgresql 7.4 on

OT- How is secure is a ssh session?

2004-07-25 Thread D Scavella
I am not sure if my understanding of (Open)ssh is accurate so I am putting this to the list. Here is the scenario and I want to know how safe my sessions via ssh are? On the server is OpenSSH 3.4p1 SSH protocols 1.5/2.0. I generated a key for [EMAIL PROTECTED] and a password. So logging in is $ssh

Re: Re: Kmail receiving problems

2003-12-19 Thread D Arora
Hi Theo,   Were you able to resolve this problem about receiving email using Kmail...   I have exactly the same problem. I'm using Debian-Woody.   Re: Kmail receiving problems To: "Mark Roach" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Kmail receiving problems From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dat

Window Manager selection

2003-12-23 Thread D Hoyem
Hi All, I just did a dist-upgrade on my testing system. When I did the startx and my window manager came up I found that I was in gnome 2.4 and Window Maker wasn't up and running. After I did the startx it asks me some questions and I obviously chose the wrong answers. When I went into root

Re: mplayer and audio

2003-12-31 Thread D Hoyem
-- - Original Message - DATE: Tue, 30 Dec 2003 14:42:36 From: Gustavo Halperin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: >Hello > My mplayer like simple user can't open de audio device, only like root. >With other aplications like xmms all is ok. Also have added a simple u

fax, voice, and data answering

2004-01-10 Thread D. Clarke
Hi! I'm looking to have an all-in-one solution with my good ol' linux box and was wondering if anybody had any pointers in the direction of my externa voice modem answering and determining whether or not it's fax, data, or voice and then handling the call appropriately. I'd like to be able to

installing Debian from local network

2004-02-24 Thread Daarian D.
Hello! I want to install Debian from local network. I have a functional Debian server (3.0 stable, kernel 2.4.21) with dhcp, tftp and nfs all working. The client is configured to boot with netboot package, and in images director is tftpboot.img (from Debian CD). The client boots, connects dhcp, get

Re: SSH: does it require portmapper and what hostname is it looking for?

2004-02-18 Thread Jeff D
Anthony Campbell wrote: On 18 Feb 2004, Andreas Janssen wrote: Hello Anthony Campbell (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: [sshd does not accept connections] Thanks for this reply. I'm getting "connection refused" on port 22. I don't know if this port is blocked, perhaps. (I had bastille in place at on

Re: crontab and command expansion problem

2004-04-12 Thread D. Clarke
cript produces a file named: alldb-`date +\%A`.sql Any hint? A little on the simple-minded side, but have you considered just not using the variable? I have a cron job that does 12 4 * * 2 /some/script | mail -s "Info for `date +'\%B \%-d, \%Y'`" [EMAIL PROTECTED] a

Re: devfs / noflusd

2004-04-18 Thread D. Frye
devfs here # none /devfs devfs defaults0 0 After this, I needed to do a few things: sarge:~# mkdir /devfs sarge:~# mount -a sarge:~# apt-get -u dist-upgrade This allowed the noflushd package to be completely configured, and started. -- D. Frye dafr AT

Re: Problems with Xfree86 on Sarge

2004-04-22 Thread D. A.
George Cristian Birzan wrote: On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 01:00:56PM +0200, Daniel Altendorf wrote: So I apt-get install'ed Gnome and xserver-xfree86 (xserver-common was included) and then configured it. No problems with configuration, no errors, nothing. So I hammer "startx" into the keyboard an

Re: (FIXED, THANKS)Dual Boot Windows Permissions For User

2004-05-07 Thread D Hoyem
-- - Original Message - DATE: Thu, 6 May 2004 19:28:24 From: Greg Madden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: >On Thursday 06 May 2004 10:22 am, D Hoyem wrote: >> Hi All, >> I have a dual boot system (Windows Millennium/Testing) on my HP >

When will Debian book Authors be publishing Debian 11 Bullseye System Administrator's Handbook?

2022-04-29 Thread Tom D.
Respected Debian Book Authors, When will you be going to publish Debian 11 Bullseye System Administrator's Handbook? I cannot wait to buy it from Amazon. I really need it. Please publish it as soon as possible. Is there any website or video site from where I can learn to be a Complete Debian 11

Does this video on YouTube tutorial complacent with Debian 11 Bullseye System Administration?

2022-04-29 Thread Tom D.
Respected Everyone, I have installed Debian 11 Bullseye on my Laptop and found the following video tutorial. https://youtu.be/wsh64rjnRas Does this video tutorial coalign with Debian 11 Bullseye System Administration? I really need the latest tutorial. Thank you. Regards Adrian

Re: When will Debian book Authors be publishing Debian 11 Bullseye System Administrator's Handbook?

2022-04-29 Thread Tom D.
Respected IL Ka, Thank you very much for your reply. I will right away buy Debian 10 System Administration Handbook. Regards Adrian On Fri, Apr 29, 2022 at 11:50 AM IL Ka wrote: > Debian 10 handbook (https://debian-handbook.info/) still can be used to > study Debian because lots of things are

new debian install

2019-07-10 Thread N D
Hello, I am looking for a Linux distribution that is stable and have just installed Debian 9 as a windows 7 replacement. The first major issue I have come across is when I try to install an app and I'm asked for the password no characters are entered when I type. This also happens when I try t

Re: udev being an ass

2019-08-27 Thread Tyler D
es to be used in defense of liberty: > soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." > -Ed Howdershelt (Author) > If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. > - Louis D. Brandeis > Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> &g

Re: Why has nouveau vs. NVIDIA problem not been addressed?

2018-11-15 Thread Tom D.
Thank you for your kind reply. I downloaded the driver from www.nvidia.com for NVIDIA geforce GTX 678 video card driver. It was a shell script with sh extension. So until I blacklist nouveau completely from the Debian OS, Nvidia driver won't install. As a result, I had to blacklist nouveau comple

Re: Why has nouveau vs. NVIDIA problem not been addressed?

2018-11-15 Thread Tom D.
cies takes care of nouveau blacklisting for you, among the other >> things. >> >> >> On 11/15/2018 08:13 PM, Tom D. wrote: >> >> Thank you for your kind reply. I downloaded the driver from >> www.nvidia.com for NVIDIA geforce GTX 678 video card driver. >&

Re: deduplicating file systems: VDO with Debian?

2022-11-10 Thread d-u
On Wed, 09 Nov 2022 13:28:46 +0100 hw wrote: > On Tue, 2022-11-08 at 09:52 +0100, DdB wrote: > > Am 08.11.2022 um 05:31 schrieb hw: > > > > That's only one point. > > > What are the others? > > > > > > >  And it's not really some valid one, I think, as > > > > you do typically not run int

Re: bind9 prevents external access

2007-03-21 Thread Jeff D
On Wed, 21 Mar 2007, Justin Hartman wrote: Soma thanks for your input - by removing bind and playing with resolv.conf it is apparent that this file was causing certain issues. I have now installed resolvconf and after rebooting resolvconf configured only one line in resolv.conf file as follows:

Re: bind9 prevents external access

2007-03-21 Thread Jeff D
On Wed, 21 Mar 2007, Justin Hartman wrote: On 3/21/07, Jeff D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: so with a clean bind install you still are not able to do lookups? Correct. Clean install what does host google.com 127.0.0.1 give you? $ host google.com 127.0.0.1 ;; connection timed o

Re: Speeding up boot time

2007-03-21 Thread Jeff D
On Wed, 21 Mar 2007, Michael Pobega wrote: Also, I forgot to ask. Would it be safe to remove networking from /etc/init.d, and just switch to using ifupdown? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] you might also want

Re: bind9 prevents external access

2007-03-21 Thread Jeff D
On Wed, 21 Mar 2007, Justin Hartman wrote: On 3/21/07, Jeff D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: so with a clean bind install you still are not able to do lookups? Correct. Clean install what does host google.com 127.0.0.1 give you? $ host google.com 127.0.0.1 ;; connection timed o

Re: How can I force a clean reinstall of xfree86?

2007-03-21 Thread Jeff D
On Wed, 21 Mar 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings; Before I do the Windows thing of a complete reinwtall of the system for the fourth time, can anybody tell me how to do this? There is something wrong and the xserver won't come up. All it says is "I cannot start the X server" and some o

Re: bind9 prevents external access

2007-03-21 Thread Jeff D
On Thu, 22 Mar 2007, Justin Hartman wrote: On 3/22/07, Jeff D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Just out of curiosity, are you seeing any errors in your logs when you do these look ups or when the server starts? Where exactly would I find the right log files to see this info? -- Regards

Re: bind9 prevents external access

2007-03-21 Thread Jeff D
On Thu, 22 Mar 2007, Justin Hartman wrote: Correction - /var/log/daemon.log does show an error relating to bind: Mar 22 06:16:46 justinhartman lwresd[2413]: starting BIND 9.3.4 Mar 22 06:16:46 justinhartman lwresd[2413]: found 1 CPU, using 1 worker Mar 22 06:16:46 justinhartman lwresd[2413]: n

Re: Resolving .local domain FQDN on client

2007-03-22 Thread Jeff D
On Thu, 22 Mar 2007, Richard Harb (debian) wrote: Hello list, I have a server running bind that is master for 'domain.local'. When I try to use a FQDN from within an application on my debian etch 'desktop machine' (e.g. in a browser: http://host.domain.local/) it does not resolve / ask the DNS

Re: sendmail hostname configured as an empty string

2007-03-23 Thread Jeff D
On Fri, 23 Mar 2007, Freddy Freeloader wrote: Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 09:53:57AM -0700, Freddy Freeloader wrote: Not my choice. I'm setting this up for someone else who has hard-coded sendmail into his apps and is afraid that using exim4 instead of sendmail will

Re: Reconnect to a specific TTY session?

2007-03-23 Thread Jeff D
On Fri, 23 Mar 2007, Jim Hyslop wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, gang I suspect I know the answer to this, but I'm going to ask anyway :-) When I ssh into my Debian box from my laptop, sometimes I step away from the laptop, and when I come back it's gone into standby.

Re: maxima startup error message (libgmp)

2007-03-25 Thread Jeff D
On Sun, 25 Mar 2007, Charles Blair wrote: I thought I had installed maxima sucessfully from the etch (testing) distribution, but typing "maxima" from an xterm gave: error while loading shared libraries: libgmp.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Can this be fixe

Re: web proxy settings

2007-06-29 Thread Jeff D
On Fri, 29 Jun 2007, David Ondzes wrote: /etc/apt# find . | xargs grep proxy_server Did not find "proxy_server" in any of the files below /etc/apt On 6/29/07, Pol Hallen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello All. I installed my debian while behind a web proxy and now > I want to run it with a

Re: svn checkout via a web-browser?

2007-07-03 Thread Jeff D
On Tue, 3 Jul 2007, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: On 7/3/07, Thomas Jollans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tuesday 03 July 2007, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > On 7/3/07, Vincent Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 2007-07-03 13:40:47 +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > > > Me have been stru

Re: System freeze when copying files

2007-07-06 Thread Jeff D
On Thu, 5 Jul 2007, Zoho Vignochi wrote: Hello, There was a thread back in Feb: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2007/02/msg00129.html regrading a total system freeze while copying files. I have the same problem. Cannot ssh in, no response at all from the keyboard and I must reboot via the p

Re: Installing a JRE plug-in

2007-07-07 Thread Jeff D
On Sat, 7 Jul 2007, andy wrote: Dear each Iceweasel is telling me that I have a missing plugin, the JRE, which I need for a course. I have downloaded jre-6u1-linux-i586.bin (which is the appropriate plug-in), but: (i) is this the best thing to be using on a Lenny/Sid system and (ii) if so, h

Re: Installing a JRE plug-in

2007-07-07 Thread Jeff D
On Sat, 7 Jul 2007, andy wrote: Jeff D wrote: On Sat, 7 Jul 2007, andy wrote: Dear each Iceweasel is telling me that I have a missing plugin, the JRE, which I need for a course. I have downloaded jre-6u1-linux-i586.bin (which is the appropriate plug-in), but: (i) is this the best thing

Re: Installing a JRE plug-in

2007-07-07 Thread Jeff D
On Sat, 7 Jul 2007, andy wrote: Jeff D wrote: On Sat, 7 Jul 2007, andy wrote: Jeff D wrote: On Sat, 7 Jul 2007, andy wrote: Dear each Iceweasel is telling me that I have a missing plugin, the JRE, which I need for a course. I have downloaded jre-6u1-linux-i586.bin (which is the

Re: Installing a JRE plug-in

2007-07-07 Thread Jeff D
On Sat, 7 Jul 2007, andy wrote: Jeff D wrote: On Sat, 7 Jul 2007, andy wrote: Jeff D wrote: On Sat, 7 Jul 2007, andy wrote: Jeff D wrote: On Sat, 7 Jul 2007, andy wrote: Dear each Iceweasel is telling me that I have a missing plugin, the JRE, which I need for a course. I have

Re: Installing a JRE plug-in

2007-07-07 Thread Jeff D
On Sat, 7 Jul 2007, andy wrote: Jeff D wrote: On Sat, 7 Jul 2007, andy wrote: Jeff D wrote: On Sat, 7 Jul 2007, andy wrote: Jeff D wrote: On Sat, 7 Jul 2007, andy wrote: Jeff D wrote: On Sat, 7 Jul 2007, andy wrote: Dear each Iceweasel is telling me that I have a missing plugin

Re: Weird Apache errors

2007-07-08 Thread Jeff D
On Sun, 8 Jul 2007, ArcticFox wrote: On Jul 8, 2007, at 2:36 PM, ArcticFox wrote: On Jul 8, 2007, at 2:29 PM, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: On Sun, Jul 08, 2007 at 02:16:36PM -0500, ArcticFox wrote: Let me know if I should send this to the Apache people. Here's the deal, I have three domains

Re: Intel 965 chipset and Debian Etch AMD64

2007-07-09 Thread Jeff D
On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. It seems, Debian Etch AMD64 installer is blind to CDROM on Q965 Intel chipset. On SATA I have only one HDD and I have CDROM as primary driver on PATA. What can I do? In your bios, try setting the SATA to compatability mode indstead of AHCI -+-

Re: cdimage site

2007-07-13 Thread Jeff D
On Fri, 13 Jul 2007, Adrian Klaver wrote: I have been trying to download the netinst image. The problem is that the cdimage.debian.org site cannot be found. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, -- Adrian Klaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] I would check your DNS settings, I was just able to browse t

Re: Lenny Install CD kernel version.

2007-07-15 Thread Jeff D
On Sun, 15 Jul 2007, koffiejunkie wrote: Alan Ianson wrote: On Sun July 15 2007 07:53, koffiejunkie wrote: I checked after booting off the disc - it was 2.6.18 I used the businesscard iso, maybe there is a difference. I'll give that a try, thanks. for what its worth, i just grabbed bot

Re: format grep ouput

2007-07-15 Thread Jeff D
On Sun, 15 Jul 2007, BartlebyScrivener wrote: On Jul 15, 3:00 pm, William Pursell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: You might consider the -C (or -B or -A) options to grep. Yes, I've played with these, too. The problem in large text files with wrapped paragraphs, each "line" can be quite long, so e

Re: Lenny Install CD kernel version.

2007-07-15 Thread Jeff D
On Sun, 15 Jul 2007, koffiejunkie wrote: Jeff D wrote: On Sun, 15 Jul 2007, koffiejunkie wrote: Alan Ianson wrote: On Sun July 15 2007 07:53, koffiejunkie wrote: I checked after booting off the disc - it was 2.6.18 I used the businesscard iso, maybe there is a difference. I'll

Re: output from nmap

2007-07-26 Thread Jeff D
On Thu, 26 Jul 2007, PETER EASTHOPE wrote: Folk, I can use a little help to understand the following output from nmap. As far as I can discern, IOD = Initial Object Descriptor and EID = Endpoint Identifier. So does this show that the UDP packet is getting past IOD #1? What about IOD #2? Wha

Re: libcbtsysinfo in /home/user

2007-07-27 Thread Jeff D
On Fri, 27 Jul 2007, Magnus Pedersen wrote: Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: On Fri, Jul 27, 2007 at 10:38:46PM +0200, Magnus Pedersen wrote: > What is the timestamp of the file? What were you doing then? The file is from the 24th of this month, where the computer was off, so that is no help, un

Re: apache2 and php5

2007-07-27 Thread Jeff D
On Fri, 27 Jul 2007, Rick Pasotto wrote: I have been happily using apache1.3 and php5 but a reboot caused things to stop working. I now have apache2 and libapache2-mod-php5 installed but apache is not serving php documents. It serves html just fine. The php5.conf and php5.load modules are enabl

Re: apache2 and php5

2007-07-27 Thread Jeff D
On Sat, 28 Jul 2007, Rick Pasotto wrote: On Fri, Jul 27, 2007 at 09:12:28PM -0700, Jeff D wrote: On Fri, 27 Jul 2007, Rick Pasotto wrote: I have been happily using apache1.3 and php5 but a reboot caused things to stop working. I now have apache2 and libapache2-mod-php5 installed but apache

Re: apache2 and php5

2007-07-27 Thread Jeff D
On Sat, 28 Jul 2007, Rick Pasotto wrote: On Fri, Jul 27, 2007 at 09:12:28PM -0700, Jeff D wrote: On Fri, 27 Jul 2007, Rick Pasotto wrote: I have been happily using apache1.3 and php5 but a reboot caused things to stop working. I now have apache2 and libapache2-mod-php5 installed but apache

Re: apache2 and php5

2007-07-27 Thread Jeff D
On Sat, 28 Jul 2007, Rick Pasotto wrote: On Fri, Jul 27, 2007 at 09:32:19PM -0700, Jeff D wrote: On Sat, 28 Jul 2007, Rick Pasotto wrote: On Fri, Jul 27, 2007 at 09:12:28PM -0700, Jeff D wrote: On Fri, 27 Jul 2007, Rick Pasotto wrote: I have been happily using apache1.3 and php5 but a

DVD drive no longer mounts

2007-07-28 Thread D. Kettler
Sorry in advance for the long post, but I'm trying to provide any information that might be helpful for diagnosing the problem. The following is on an existing installation that has worked fine for some time now. I recently discovered that my DVD+-R/W drive will not even mount data discs, sho

Re: Need newer software that included with stable (that isn't at backports.org)

2007-07-28 Thread Jeff D
On Sat, 28 Jul 2007, Tim Hull wrote: ISTM, though, that you are missing the point of Stable. http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/ch-getting.en.html#s-updatestable No new functionality is added to the stable release. Once a Debian version is released and tagged `stable' it will only get

Re: /bin/login listening?

2007-07-28 Thread Jeff D
On Sat, 28 Jul 2007, Tyler Smith wrote: Hi, rkhunter has turned up a new warning for me: Found warnings: [16:37:42] Checking for packet capturing applications... Warning [16:37:43] Warning! Process /bin/login (3888) listening [16:37:43] Warning! Process /bin/login (3888) listening [16:37:43]

Re: DVD drive no longer mounts

2007-07-28 Thread D. Kettler
On Sat, 28 Jul 2007, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: On Sat, Jul 28, 2007 at 01:01:48PM -0700, D. Kettler wrote: Sorry in advance for the long post, but I'm trying to provide any information that might be helpful for diagnosing the problem. The following is on an existing installation tha

Re: /bin/login listening?

2007-07-28 Thread Jeff D
On Sat, 28 Jul 2007, Tyler Smith wrote: On 2007-07-28, Jeff D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [16:37:43] Warning! Process /bin/login (3888) listening Normally /bin/login shouldn't be listening. A couple things you could do to see if it is listneing is: lsof -i -n | grep LISTEN He

Re: DVD drive no longer mounts - More info

2007-07-28 Thread D. Kettler
I checked dmesg and noticed several: Buffer I/O error on device hdb, logical block errors. Again, hdb is the drive in question. Does anyone know what these errors mean? Also, the output of hdparm: gosroth:~# hdparm /dev/hdb /dev/hdb: IO_support= 1 (32-bit) unmaskirq = 1 (on)

Re: curses-interface ftp client with resume?

2007-07-28 Thread Jeff D
l with a little bit of scripting there's ncftpget and ncftpbatch. ncftp covers point 1 pretty well from my testing. for 2, ncftpbatch does this almost, you create your que and it processes it, just in the order you submit them though. If/when the process gets terminated, a simple ncftpbatch

Re: DVD drive no longer mounts - More info

2007-07-28 Thread D. Kettler
I had similar problems recently, but I don't know if it is the same as what you have. I finally tracked it down to udftools causing the problem, so I just do a '/etc/init.d/udftools stop'. That works for default CD/DVD work, but I have to re-enable it for DVD+RW/CD-RW. If you don't have udftoo

Re: /bin/login listening?

2007-07-28 Thread Jeff D
On Sat, 29 Jul 2007, Tyler Smith wrote: On 2007-07-28, Jeff D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: also, what version of debian are you running? Is this machine behind a firewall or do you have a firewall running on it? You may also I'm running Lenny on a laptop, usually connected

Re: essential services? ssh, nfs?

2007-07-29 Thread Jeff D
On Sun, 29 Jul 2007, Tyler Smith wrote: Hi, I'm working through the security quick start how to, and I'm not clear on what services are required and which ones I can safely remove. I'm running a single laptop, which I connect to the net via wireless at home or at cafes, and via an ethernet cabl

Re: essential services? ssh, nfs?

2007-07-29 Thread Jeff D
On Sun, 29 Jul 2007, Tyler Smith wrote: Hi, I'm working through the security quick start how to, and I'm not clear on what services are required and which ones I can safely remove. I'm running a single laptop, which I connect to the net via wireless at home or at cafes, and via an ethernet cabl

Re: /bin/login listening?

2007-07-29 Thread Jeff D
On Sun, 29 Jul 2007, Tyler Smith wrote: On 2007-07-29, Mathias Brodala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --enig6620D8D79CB50A9B1AFF7AB2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi Douglas

Re: Lost /home partition

2007-07-29 Thread Jeff D
On Mon, 30 Jul 2007, Dotan Cohen wrote: In a Debian-based distro (Ubuntu) I have had a corruption of my /home partition, which resides on sda4 of my Dell Inspiron laptop. Not knowing what to do, and with no way to boot and google the situation, I played Y, Y, Y to all fsck's questions. Now, /hom

Re: Lost /home partition

2007-07-29 Thread Jeff D
On Mon, 30 Jul 2007, Dotan Cohen wrote: On 30/07/07, Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 02:05:38AM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: In a Debian-based distro (Ubuntu) I have had a corruption of my /home partition, which resides on sda4 of my Dell Inspiron laptop. No

Re: Asus P5K WS motherboard / Marvell IDE - CDrom not detected by installer

2007-07-30 Thread Jeff D
On Sun, 29 Jul 2007, Mike Messick wrote: Hi Folks, I'm using the latest debian-testing-amd64-businesscard installer on an Asus P5K motherboard with an ICH9 Southbridge and Marvell 88SE61xx SATA / PATA chipset. I'm using an HP dvd1040i CDrom drive for installation. The installer boots fine b

Re: DVD drive no longer mounts - More info

2007-07-30 Thread D. Kettler
So I have had time to look into this problem some more and I have concluded that it really is a hardware issue. It seems my drive is on its last legs and this was just a symptom of that fact. Thanks to everyone who tried to help out, though. -- David Kettler [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSC

Re: mysqld query logs

2007-08-01 Thread Jeff D
On Wed, 1 Aug 2007, Nicolas wrote: Hello, Basic question but I can't get to resolve it by googling around and playing with the options: when I start the mysqld daemon using the (unmodified) init script /etc/init.d/mysqld, the daemon is not logging any queries nor errors to syslog. Starting the

Re: Set up LAN Debian Etch server

2007-08-02 Thread Jeff D
On Thu, 2 Aug 2007, rocky wrote: Hey, My desktop has Debian Etch running on it. I have another laptop has latest Ubuntu installed on it. I want my Debian Etch box to serve as file server so I can back up the files from Ubuntu laptop to Debian desktop. I installed nfs-common and nfs-kernel-serv

Re: Looking for driver Compal EL80

2007-08-03 Thread Jeff D
On Fri, 3 Aug 2007, Adrian Chapela wrote: Hello, I am looking for a driver for the wireless / bluetooth switcher of a Compal El80 laptop. Some tips ?? I can't find this to active / de-active the wireless or the bluetooth by soft. The laptop has a hardware switch but it also has a software s

Re: New hard drive problem

2007-08-06 Thread Jeff D
On Mon, 6 Aug 2007, William Walter wrote: i've a computer with debian etch. i've recently added a new sata hard drive and enter the harddrive in /etc/fstab. It was working fine. Suddenly today Debian etch is not booting properly. I'm getting the following errors: Begin:Mounting root file system

Re: DNS problem on local network

2007-08-07 Thread Jeff D
On Tue, 7 Aug 2007, Adam Hardy wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 06/08/07 21:04, wrote: My server isengard runs dnsmasq to provide the dhcp clients. However it doesn't recognise any internal network domain name: isengard:~# hostname isengard isengard:~# hostname --fqdn hostname: Unknown host isengar

Re: what brings up the wireless network interface

2007-08-08 Thread Jeff D
On Tue, 7 Aug 2007, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: Using Debian stable (Etch), 2.6.18-4-686 kernel on Debian Dell Inspiron e1505. The wireless card (from lshw output is) The relevant stanza in /etc/network/interfaces is # allow-hotplug eth2 # auto eth2 # iface eth2 inet dhcp # wireless-essid So

Re: DNS problem on local network

2007-08-08 Thread Jeff D
On Thu, 9 Aug 2007, Adam Hardy wrote: Jeff D on 08/08/07 00:34, wrote: On Tue, 7 Aug 2007, Adam Hardy wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 06/08/07 21:04, wrote: My server isengard runs dnsmasq to provide the dhcp clients. However it doesn't recognise any internal network domain name: ise

Re: [RESOLVED] Re: Canon Powershot A640 (update #2)

2007-08-09 Thread Jeff D
On Thu, 9 Aug 2007, andy wrote: Stefan Monnier wrote: I don't have a card reader, but it sounds like that may not be such a bad thing to get, except that it is probably more hassle to eject the SD card and reload it into a reader and run the risk of damaging it from frequent handling. Contra

Re: bash vs. python scripts - which one is better?

2007-08-09 Thread Jeff D
On Thu, 9 Aug 2007, Steve Lamb wrote: Vincent Lefevre wrote: Why not zsh (more powerful than bash) or perl? Because to some Perl is horrible compared to Python. for FILE in *.wav; do lame -h -b 160 "$FILE" "$FILE.mp3"; done Correct me if I'm wrong but wouldn't I just end up with w

Re: bash vs. python scripts - which one is better?

2007-08-09 Thread Jeff D
On Thu, 9 Aug 2007, mmiller3 wrote: "Jeff" == Jeff D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You would still have rename the file extention: > for FILE in *wav ; do lame -h -b 160 "$FILE" "`echo $FILE > |sed s/.wav/.mp3/g ` " ; done Or just use t

Re: newbie here - system administration question

2007-08-09 Thread Jeff D
On Thu, 9 Aug 2007, Per olof Ljungmark wrote: Hi debianites, I am a complete beginner with Debian and need a little help to get going. Specifically, I wonder how you configure the system (not installed software), things like the network, users, logging etc. Coming from BSD where a lot of th

Re: newbie here - system administration question

2007-08-09 Thread Jeff D
On Thu, 9 Aug 2007, Per olof Ljungmark wrote: Jeff D wrote: On Thu, 9 Aug 2007, Per olof Ljungmark wrote: Hi debianites, I am a complete beginner with Debian and need a little help to get going. Specifically, I wonder how you configure the system (not installed software), things like the

Re: DNS problem on local network

2007-08-09 Thread Jeff D
On Thu, 9 Aug 2007, Adam Hardy wrote: Jeff D on 09/08/07 00:55, wrote: On Thu, 9 Aug 2007, Adam Hardy wrote: Jeff D on 08/08/07 00:34, wrote: On Tue, 7 Aug 2007, Adam Hardy wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 06/08/07 21:04, wrote: My server isengard runs dnsmasq to provide the dhcp clients

Re: usb and debian 4.0 os ...can i get some pointers???please???

2007-08-10 Thread Jeff D
On Fri, 10 Aug 2007, Michael Habashy wrote: Note: please don't top post, it makes it hard to read and follow threads But how do you know that ? it is /dev/sdb ??? this is what is driving me up a wall. it puts these things in the log. I got a whole mess of strange devices in the /dev directory.

Re: usb and debian 4.0 os ...can i get some pointers???please???

2007-08-10 Thread Jeff D
On Fri, 10 Aug 2007, Michael Habashy wrote: top posting is where you put your reply at the top of the message. I just makes it difficult to read after a few replies, as people usually read top-> down thanks for the quick reply. 1. I do not know what you mean by top post Can you explain s

Re: usb and debian 4.0 os ...can i get some pointers???please???

2007-08-10 Thread Jeff D
On Fri, 10 Aug 2007, Michael Habashy wrote: Thanks for the heads up. Do you have any other words of wisdom regarding connecting a cellphonee? I can not make heads or tales of this tty mess. I wish to connect my cellphone so i can use it with Kannel (to send out sms text messeges)..it has b

Re: How to make phone call using modem in Linux

2007-08-10 Thread Jeff D
On Sat, 11 Aug 2007, Kieu Minh Thang wrote: Thank you Roby, I have install dtmfdial, but it seems my Debian doesn't have driver for modem. But I see that dtmfdial is very simple program, just a binary file, no config file. How does this know what device used to dial, where can I config modem de

Re: Help with mod_jk build

2007-08-14 Thread Jeff D
On Tue, 14 Aug 2007, Dancing Fingers wrote: Hi all, Has anyone built mod_jk for sid? I downloaded the source from jakarta but i keep getting stuck. Does anyone know what $APACHE2_HOME is? Thanks. Chris libapache2-mod-jk should be available for sid or does that not do what you are looking

Re: Confused about kernel source location

2007-08-14 Thread Jeff D
On Tue, 14 Aug 2007, Frank McCormick wrote: On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 14:28:41 -0400 Jose Luis Rivas Contreras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Frank McCormick wrote: I downloaded and installed the source for the current kernel, which aptitude dumped into /usr/src. Reading the readme, one of the first

<    5   6   7   8   9   10   11   12   13   14   >