oh, incase anyone cares, it looks like it was a putty issue, changed my font and set the translation to UTF8 and it seems to be sorted

hi.
is there a way to let a group be a member of a group to allow cascaded acls? Is there a addon? ..special fs? ..commercial software?

hey all
E: clvm: subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 1

morning

you can find the mentioned preremoval script in /var/lib/dpkg/info/ . Just write "exit 0" in it as the first executed command. then try to remove again…

could anyone suggest a lightweight sound recording app ?

I have burned several 500m tgz music files to a dvd but when I try to drag them from the dvd onto a hdd it tells me it cannot read the .tgz file how can I move the files ??

that means the file is corrupt

I got no errors whilst packing or burning them ?

what does tar -tzvf /mnt/dvd/myfile.tgz say

stdin: Input/output error

did you try using the command line to copy the files

Yes and got the same result

twager, type 'file/mnt/dvd/myfile.tgz'

nik-Wrk: Tells me it cannot read file input/output error

twager, mhm.. do 'ls /mnt/dvd/'
and check if its displaying properly
maybe the dvd is not mounted properly

nik-Wrk: Shows all the files ok

twager, like johnthewolf saids, try 'cp /mnt/dvd/myfile.tgz /tmp/myfile.tgz' and then 'file /tmp/myfile.tgz' and see what happends

what would you recomend for a fast, noob friendly distro?

ubuntu

Last_Hero the most boob friendly distro is probably freespire/linspire

reading `FERRY.tar.gz : input/output error

these days, probably ubuntu.

noob*
ubuntu is too technical

/

twager, try with like 3-4 different files
Last_Hero, go with Mandriva or Suse

nik-Wrk: Tried 3 and all the same error…

twager, it looks like the dvs is f***** up, or your box is not mounting the dvd properly
dvs = dvd

Thanks for help…Got to get wifes dinner ready

lol
np

i am a dvd? =/

bye

haha

hehe

sup dvs01

not much, at work

k

/
actually wait that's not true, it let me login before deciding it didn't like my keyboard

knoppix is nice for noobs
gentoo is also very good
very well documented
takes a while to setup, but once you get everything working, it's a gem
gemtoo :/
ubuntu is only good for human beings
not for noobs

keck0f, you still here

hi
can some one tell me how to do X tunneling with applications

gentoo sounds interesting

you will need to learn the basics anyways. gentoo offers that

yeah, I'm downloading the liveCD

you'll need to read up on it though

gonna read through the install guide while it's downloading
and have it open next to me while I install

i am planning to build one micro ATX system for my lcd tv, is there any one out there having such setup

I'm having trouble using rsync –link-dest, it used to work for me but it seems to have stopped since I've reinstalled the os. Is it possible that the rsync 2.6.9 is broken?

when i attach my external usb hdd its not being detected…

silverblade what does "dmesg" say?

it does not indicate anything has happened
drive worked fine up until yesterday.
only change ive made was to power it on, look in /dev/disk/by-id for its id, and modify fstab

silverblade, the usb drivers should display a message in dmesg… do you have other usb devices that you can test with? If not, have you tried rebooting?

hmm i just tried a mem stick and that is detected
i also tried plugging this into my laptop and its not seeing it either :/

are your usb modules up and running?

the fact i can see my usb mem stick would indicate that
ok looks like its failed
i put another drive in it and it works on both pcs

anyone have any recommendations on a cms system? something that would make it easy for non technical people to post news items to our website?
I've found a few…but they're all php and php scares me sorta…

hi i am trying to boot mepis from a live cd and everytime i try to it loads up then says press ctrl alt f7 to go to a menu, which i press then i am just greeted with a black screen and nothing happens, can anyone help me?

I would check their website for known issues with certain hardware, and possible workarounds
assuming the iso md5sum checked out and the burn was good

why cant i mkdir a dir in /mnt?
I get a Permission denied when i mkdir something inside /mnt

hey guys i need some help, i tried booting off a usb drive but it says could not find kernel image when i try it, can anyone help

celt1c sounds like mount problem

ya

do you have other usb devices?
do you have other usb devices??

is the bootloader on the usb drive?

yes
:-D

are you having the usb boot problem or celt1c?

celt1c,

and you are answering because?

y was trying to help him

ok im just gonna forget the usb and use a live cd
but im having another problem
im on a laptop trying to connect to my wireless internet but cant
i have wpa enabled

go figure …

any error messages? log messages? anything informational?

im jus trying to play around with kwlan
never used it before

well… ^^

ya…

e-live is nice
just would like to have time to compile enlightment in my solaris

there are lots of things that might have gone wrong. without any specific error message or anything descriptive, there is no way to find the actual problem.

kasc, i would bet it has to do with the usb connection
used to be sda and then became sdb

did you ever set up booting from an usb device yourself?

nope but i had to solve one of those
just need to look at my notes
it had something to do with setting hard the usb drive
anyway isn't need anymore
celt1c, is using live cd now

yep

is there a command line app for resizing jpegs?

convert, p/o ImageMagick

cool, anywhere i can obtain just convert?

not that I know of

hmm guess i could always just reupload after editing

yeah mean to it manually? ewwwwww :p

lol
i have about 10 pictures that are extortionately large.

fwiw, you can set compressionlevel with convert, too, and rescale if necessary
but if it's a one-time deal, you're right. IM might be overkill

ok

how to I search my plugin files for a function in a linux SSH prompt

Does anyone here know of any gui style "remote user account logger/viewer" … basically I need to watch a user account remotely as it is being accessed, and I need to log this to file.

define 'watch a user account'
then again, you didn't define it in #linux either

I did actually, if you scroll ^^…. but regardless….. user bob logs in to the server, and I watch "everything" bob does *remotely*, as he does it

ask user bob to use screen, then you can attach another session to it

ahhh, but then user bob knows the boss is watching and stops doing his illegal activities

you never said anything about illegal wiretapping

its not wiretapping, and its not illegal

it is wiretapping, and it is illegal, unless the user is informed about the monitoring.

I see no difference then me watching as it happens, or me reading the logs after the event has occurred

anake
could you explain that suggestion about using screen?

drophot

*ananke

if that was proved to me to be illegal, then I would not partake in it, but I simply don;t see the difference

logs don't contain all the information you're interested in. otherwise, you would be satisfied with them
screen should let you attach 'read-only' sessions, which would allow another user to see everything

well from my knowledge, the user already knows he is being monitored, as it was in the NDA signed upon employment.

interesting, i've never seen an NDA which would include 'your actions may be monitored' clause

niether had I until I was asked to sign it

back in the day ttysnoop would be the answer you're looking for

ty, I will let the boss know, as well about your comment of it being illegal, he will have to double check it, as I won't be a part of something like that

out of a 5 day forensics course I took from the SANS institute, an entire day was devoted to legalities…

remember though, slightly different based on country

another thing you have to ask yourself - what exactly are you trying to find out. watching a terminal may not be necessary/best solution
indeed

looking for a few things actually
unauthorized file transfers of classified files, unauthorized access to root, and some illegal use of company resources
I'm still uncertain what exactly the boss meant by "illegal use of resources"

sleuth kit may help you with unauthorized file transfers. you can easily create a timeline of file access
unauthorized access to root is a bit tricky. does that user have root password? if so, 'unauthorized' is very subjective

if he has the password, he either hacked it *which I find hard to believe due to the passwords used* or he obtained it through illegal means…. this user was never given any access to root

unless that user is hiding his tracks, access to root should be easy to find out. both sudo and su can log who was trying to become root, and obviously you can find out when root logged in via ssh or console

I've made attempts to search out any rootkits, but all attempts come back clean

gotta run, bb in 20

hmmmmm, does sudo & su "auto" log these events? I've never known they could do logging

yes. kinda

kk, thanks for your help thus far, appreciate it

for sudo, a simple addition to /etc/sudoers will do it:
Defaults log_year, log_host, logfile=/var/log/sudo.log, \
actually, remove trailing , \

thanks

for su, check /etc/login.defs for something similar to
SULOG_FILE /var/log/sulog

thanks again, enjoy

i want to serve video with a flash player on my site and was wondering if red5 was the best answer?

what is the command to set the hardware clock?

"date" or go into the BIOS

hwclock
I hate when the answer is in my question…

my external network access is VERY slow, but local access is fast. Please help.
I'm running Ubuntu.
Disabled IPv6
routing table looks good

Are you sure that your outgoing pipe isn't just being slow right now?

DNS server is same as for another machine which accesses internet approx 20 times faster

Oh, okay, so other hosts on the same LAN are running much faster to the outside world?

sekhmet, yep. had this problem for days
sekhmet, correct

pastebin your ifconfig, route -n, iptables -L -v -n, and /etc/resolv.conf
if you would
That would help establish your config anyway

sekhmet, ok. where's pastebin?

why is iptables grammar so fcking weird

I tend to use rafb.net/paste

hi

but if you google "pastebin" you'll find hundreds of 'em
see /topic for another one

thx
sekhmet, see http://rafb.net/p/iJdIrH26.html

Hm, you don't have a route to your loopback
That could possibly cause some issues (or at least, if that turned out to be the problem, I wouldn't be surprised)

sekhmet, is that bad? I can still ping localhost.

127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo
^^ should have a line similar to that
Well it *could* be problematic, anyway.
Could be that it's all right

ok, lemme see what happens if I add it

I don't think you actually need that 169.254.0.0/16 route, either, though I know that does have *some* purpose I never remember

sekhmet, nope. still very slow.

What's the status line from a "ping -c 10 www.google.com" ?

http://rafb.net/p/HXRz2o90.html
sekhmet, i think ping is being blocked/firewalled somewhere.

I dunno - have you looked into the possibility that your gateway/router is limiting you?
Maybe an IP collision elsewhere on the network?
(heading afk, be back in a bit, btw - good luck)

no ip address host collision - this machine was working fine until ~2weeks ago when I installed Ubuntu.
back soon

after editing zone file, how do i activate it?

is there a 100% real as in i will bet my job on it real backup solution that is open source for windows and is able to quickly recover from disasters?
if the word rsync is mentioned i will flame.
i use EMC retrospect it is commercial
and they charge for every new jboss server hosting i add
but it does work very very well

Anything telling in dmesg?
Do you mean, "How do I tell named to pick up the changes I just made?"

sekhmet, what file does dmesg read?
I've rebooted into Fedora - Ubuntu was too slow & driving me nuts.
/var/log/dmesg!

Well, yes and no
"dmesg" itself reads from your system, er, ring buffer or something
Which isn't actually a file
Your system logger will generally output all of that to /var/log/syslog or /var/log/dmesg though
So that's generally equivalent
But just running "dmesg" doesn't actually read from any file

gotit
what am I looking for? (in dmesg?)
nothing is jumping out at me

Anything having to do with eth0
Or something mentioning packets, etc
If nothing's jumping out at you, it's probably not helpful

there's nothing then
What a puzzle!

Yeah, I dunno
What NIC / driver?

I've been linux hosting networking for 10 years & this is the most stumped I've ever been.

It may be worth it to slap another NIC in there, to see if the problems are just on that NIC

I'm using the card (not sure what it is) with Fedora 7 right now … it's working fine.
problem occurs when I boot into Ubuntu … s …. l …. o … w ….

Ah
How different are the kernel versions?

Fedora == 2.6.11-1.1369_FC4
Ubuntu == 2.6.20 (from memory)

Hum
Well it still would be a good idea to try another NIC when in Ubuntu
If that fixes the problem, then at least you know that it's something up with the NIC driver in Ubuntu's kernel

clarification, I mean Fedora 4, not Fedora 7.
s/mean/meant/

And if not, you know it's a more general system problem

sekhmet, good point
might try the wireless interface
would still be quicker (I hope!)

Indeed
Well, I'm out for the night, good luck again

sekhmet, thx for your help
muchly appreciated

I'm having a bit of trouble setting up NXbuilder… I can't get the Setup.php part to work… I fill in the data on the page, but when I click accept, it tells me: "Cannot write dump file" Any Ideas?

hello room

if he room had a voice, it might echo back.. as it is you probably won't hear much. it's more like a bulletin board (forum) though. Post a question and maybe check later for an answer…

Is ktrace available for linux?

try strace
I've never used krtrace, but I understand that they do essentially the same thing

im contemplating software-RAID. Specifically, mirrored mode with 1 sata hdd and 1 ide hdd (so that its independent of the controller - besides which this is my disk config anyway) - am i likely to encounter performance drops if i do this

hello

rm: cannot remove directory `/var/lib/openwebmail/users': Device or resource busy and lsof returns nothing

what's the best host thing to use for viewing cbr and cbz files?

let darkstar in debian… babies

Hey all
Anyone know of a any messenger client which has voice chat option available. pidgin doesnt have voice options

guys is there any messenger out there with voice chat feature ?
pidgin wont do voice chat. neither does amsn or kopete