Hi,

What is Etch using as its default firewall? How do I change that
firewall's settings?

I am seeking a pointer to the right manual.

Thanks,

marc

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I'm trying to find a good log checker.

Basically, I want it to report anything that I don't tell it to ignore.

I've tried logcheck first and when I couldn't get it to do what I want I
tried logwatch. It has an ignore file that it says to just cut and
paste what you want to ignore. I do that and it doesn't ignore it.
Some docs mention that its all based on regular expressions so I tried
enclosing the lines in quotes to no avial.

I do neither perl nor RE: they're both too cryptic. I guess I'll never
be a true *N*X weenie.

I _like_ most of what logwatch does, like telling me how many times a
login happened, especially failed ones. I just don't like to have to
pour through all the bootup lines every day.

I've installed debian etch(daily built). And i gotta say
it's impressive. Now i have a problem. The problem is
related to the display of fonts on screen. Fonts that
are displayed on screen are partly blurry and partly ok.

Even the cursor is like that. Is it possible to fix this?

Thanks.

--David

Piotr Dziubinski wrote:

I'm very irritated and disappointed with your policy! Why?



I've used various Linux distributions for 8 years. I've been using
Debian for the last 6 months, but today I changed my mind!



After updating Firefox in Debian I realized that Firefox is no longer
present in my operating system!

Instead of it, I have this trashy and xxxx Iceweasle.

F.u...k, #%&%$@% 5^%^*(@ %$&$%&^$



Oki, I can install my favorite Firefox from other packages, but do you
realize, that I would like to be asked if I want to use this
f..u...k...ng %^*( *&##$$ ^&^%& Iceweasle instead of Firefox?



Good luck with using losers... ups I mean: losing users! :P

Hello I'm using Debian Etch and just switched wireless card to an orinoco (grey import),

I'm using kismet with the card and I get this error:

Server options:  none
Client options:  none
Starting server...

Waiting for server to start before starting UI...
Suid priv-dropping disabled.  This may not be secure.
No specific sources given to be enabled, all will be enabled.
Enabling channel hopping.
Enabling channel splitting.

Source 0 (orinocosource): Enabling monitor mode for orinoco source interface eth2 channel 6...

I just did a fresh etch install on a sony vaio pcg-r505 laptop. I have
had debian installed on this before, but it has been a while. I am
having a bit of a problem with the mouse cursor being really slow. I
have changed the acceleration in gnome, but with no effect. I have also
tried logging into twm, but the problem persists. This would lead me to
believe that the problem is in x and not wm dependent.

It also occurs to me that this might be a hardware problem. I don't
think so, as this is the only problem it is showing, but I guess it is
possible.

Is there a setting in the mouse configuration in xorg.conf that I am
missing?

Thanks for your help,
rdc
--
Robert D. Crawford

Hope this helps someone in the same situation as I was.

Felipe.

*PROBLEM*: I get the following error messages
dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x24
lost interrupt
DMA interrupt recovery
when trying to
fdisk /dev/hde
Occasionaly I get lost interrupt messages during system initialization, too.

*BACKGROUND*: I'm installing a SATA hard drive (Seagate ST3500630as) and
an expansion card (Adaptec 1210SA). I'm using Debian 3.1, kernel 2.4.27.
dmesg shows that the drive and the card are recognized properly (see below).

*SOLUTION*:
- booting from Knoppix 5.1 (kernel 2.6.19) showed my drive as
/dev/sda instead of /dev/hde. I am able to fdisk and mkfs it fine. It
made me think the problem was the kernel version.

Hi everyone, I have configured exim4 and is using the Maildir format to
deliver messages.
Problem is, I can't get the simple mail (mailx) application to see this
Maildir format?

Anyone know how to do this?

Thanks

Andrew.

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Hi,

I have at the office a part of Windows users using Outlook ... others are
under Gnu/Linux Debian ... all the services (mail, files server, printer
servers are under linux) ...
My Outlook users would like to share their calendars ... in fact when one make
an appointment in his calendar with another guy he wants to know if the other
guy have or not an appointment at the same time ...
For this the classical solution should be to add an exchange server ... but
you might understand that I don't want to do this ...

What kind of solution could I find to this stuff under a Debian Linux
service ?

Thanks per advance for your answers ...
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Bill

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I am looking to get away from WinDos to Debian.
One problem is that I need a Browser that can view some of the sites I go to in MS IE (Internet Explorer).
Do any of the Browsers like Mozilla, Konqueror have ability to see the "controls" that work in MS IE?
Yours truly,
trilobyte

Hi guys,

I'm banging my head against this one - with little effect...

I just installed Etch on my workstation, which has a Radeon 7000 and two
Dell 19" LCD screens. I'm trying to set up an extended desktop - sort of
need it that way to be able to work efficiently.

I followed various howtos and posts in the internet, and what I have now
seems to be what I'm supposed to have but I'm still getting just a cloned
display, and KDE doesn't give me the option to change anything (in Control
Center --> Peripherals --> Display).

Is there anything special I have to do - some package I forgot to install?
Here is my config.

Thanks
Hans

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Hi,

After one avidemux session (Debian Sid), the screen saver and monitor energy
saving features doesn't works.

I can block the session (KDE) and the screensaver appears, but monitor never
goes to power save mode.

Someone knows ho to restore the monitor power save functions without close and
open the X server? Thanks :)

--
Benjamí
http://blog.bitassa.cat

.

Hi *,

I have bought a Toshiba Satellite M115 Laptop, and I'm getting lots of
problems with the Ethernet Network card [ RTL8101E (Fast Ethernet
with PCI-Express interface)].

I have downloaded the driver from realtek.com.tw and I have followed
the steps which appear in README file:

This is the Linux device driver released for RealTek Ethernet
controllers, which are listed as following.
1. RTL8169S/SB/SC (Gigabit Ethernet with PCI interface)
2. RTL8168B (Gigabit Ethernet with PCI-Express interface)
3. RTL8101E (Fast Ethernet with PCI-Express interface)

- kernel source tree (supported versions 2.4.x or 2.6.x)
- compiler/binutils for kernel compilation

I am brand new to this universe and am completely awed by it all. I remember archie and gopher from years past but thought it all had disappeared. Ok I want to upgrade my installation of Knoppix 3.4 but every attemp ends in failure ( from the root: apt-get update or apt-get -s upgrade all show error and I only got a number of files when I first ran the get-update that seemed to go nowhere and I have not been able to get anything or install. What am I doing wrong? You guys know, just quit smiling and help, PLEASE. this os is fabulous and I want to share it with others but I need to know how to use it myself first.
Thanks,

About a month ago I downloaded the Debian Testing CD1+2 using Jigdo. I
have never used Jigdo before this but I liked the concept of what
Jigdo was all about. Everything went off smoothly and I had no errors
while getting these two ISOs.

Today for the first time I tried to install Etch from these two CDs
and everything went well up until installing the base system. During
the base installation there were about 6 or 7 files which the
installer told me were corrupted and this ultimately led to me being
unable to install Debian with these CDs.

As I had already partitioned and formatted the drive in the previous
step I lost everything and now had no OS to install on the machine. In
the end I pulled out an old Ubuntu 6.06 disk I had lying around just

KDE automounting of usbstick was not allowing me to copy files to usbstick. Surprising it allows one file to be copied. next file it says stick is readonly file system. To avoid that, I stopped kde from mounting it. I did

pmount -w -s -u022 /dev/sda1 pendrive
It allowed me to write to the pendrive
But when I tried with unison for file sync, I get error saying pendrive is readonly file system?
Any solutions?
--

L.V.Gandhi
http://lvgandhi.tripod.com/
linux user No.205042

Hello everybody,

I currently have several NFS mounts to share my media between my
PVR, my workstation, and my neighbour's workstation downstairs.

The problem is, a lot of the time the mounts are not loaded on boot
for some reason or another (eg; in the case of a power outage, all computers
come back up at the same time, but they don't all take the same amount of
time to boot... so one will try to mount the NFS shares before the other is
serving them, etc.)

Also, sometimes after one system reboots, the other system starts
complaining about "stale NFS filehandle"s and does not re-mount the
partition.

What I really want, is to be able to define shares in /etc/fstab,
and have the system keep trying to re-mount them if they ever become

The following text appears several times whilst booting. Its relatively
new (for the last couple of months). Any idea what does it? as it
doesn't appear to be when the main filesystems are mounted. I am
running Debian SID.

Usage: mount -V : print version
mount -h : print this help
mount : list mounted filesystems
mount -l : idem, including volume labels
So far the informational part. Next the mounting.
The command is `mount [-t fstype] something somewhere'.
Details found in /etc/fstab may be omitted.
mount -a [-t|-O] ... : mount all stuff from /etc/fstab
mount device : mount device at the known place

I use debian etch. I click on start menu (Places>Connect to Server...)
The dialog show and I just enter information
When I click ok the error message show that it can't connect to server with error code: 46 (see attached file)


In more detail, If I delete .ssh folder in home directory, I can mount ssh file system on the first time. When I remount again the ssh file system can not mount
I can use ssh command line to connect to ssh server and invoke any command successfully.


Could you suggest me the way to solve this problem?

--
Karn
สุรชัย ล้อเจริญ
Skype name: AGS-R&D-สุรชัย(กานต์)

I have a 160G hard disk. I had installed it in a mobile rack, and used
it on a vary old machine that couldn't talk to hard disks of more than
131GB (I think that's a power of two). I partitioned all it could
see of the disk (only 131GB, of course) as a single partition and used
it without trouble as a backup drive for years.

Being in a mobile rack, I also used it on a machine that does recognise
larger drives.

Now one of my machines (called lovesong) currently boots from ab 80GB
hard disk that is slowly failing. Yesterday came the time to reorganise my
deployment of hard disks. I plan to replace the 80GB failing drive with
the 160GB drive mentioned above. The first step would seem to be to
copy my existing sarge to it after appropriate partitioning:

Dear all,

I just upgraded Debian and switched from X86free to Xorg. Now,
everything seems to work fine except that screen rotation is now
disabled. How can I enable it again?

In particular "Configure display" has all options besides "Normal"
grayed out. If I start
System > Screen Size & Rotate (KRandRTray)
then the mouse goes "busy" for some times, then goes back to normal
but nothing happens.

Thanks,

Ulrich

my /etc/X11/xorg.conf says

---- snip
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Samsung SyncMaster 204Ts"
HorizSync 30.0 - 75.0
VertRefresh 50.0 - 85.0
Option "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "NVIDIA Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5200]"
Driver "nvidia"

Hello,
I have a server which was turned off (unplugged) without halting and that
seems to have broken the FS. I managed to fsck it and mount it and now it's
working, but I've got these errors:

kernel: EXT3-fs error (device md0): ext3_readdir: directory #1141442 contains
a hole at offset 8192
kernel: EXT3-fs error (device md0): ext3_readdir: directory #1141442 contains
a hole at offset 12288
kernel: EXT3-fs error (device md0): ext3_readdir: directory #1141442 contains
a hole at offset 16384
kernel: EXT3-fs error (device md0): ext3_readdir: directory #1141442 contains
a hole at offset 20480

and eventually

kernel: EXT3-fs error (device md0) in start_transaction: Readonly filesystem

Any ideas what's wrong and/or how to fix it?
Thank you.
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I have an openoffice spreadsheet from which I want to generate two related
tables. I have tried most everything installed.

Stuff from OpenOffice will generate a database with table entries named by the
first line in the spreadsheet. This can, indeed, be queried, sort of.

I would like to get this data into a Postgres or MySQL database. Using
pgadmin3, I cannot get a connection connected. Does not accept my password.
Their docs cited Debian problems here and recommended md5 authorization.
Tried that. No avail. One can also simply say trust (localhost only). No
avail.

How do I get started here?

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Hi everyone,

If I accidentally deleted a file in any GNU/Linux or Unix-based OS, is there anyway I can recover those files?


Cheers,
-Glen