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I recieved a old-ish laptop from my sister, who was going to throw it away because it was "broken" I ended fixing the battery problem and scored a new laptop. So I installed Kubuntu KDE4, then quickly went to KDE3... then decided to just try Ubuntu.. and man I'm seriously impressed with Gnome now The problem is that laptop uses a 855GM graphics chipset and man does the ubuntu copy of the intel driver suck, freezes most times i sleep the laptop, and when starting a video it will crash probably 20% of the time.. just a blank screen, and the cpu fan goes crazy. I looked into it, and it turns out theres a few people on the ubuntu forums complaining about the intel driver for X with the same problems as me, random blank screen crashes, cpu gets maxed out and you have to hard shut it down. It's a shame really.
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Mr Man posted:The problem is that laptop uses a 855GM graphics chipset and man does the ubuntu copy of the intel driver suck, freezes most times i sleep the laptop, and when starting a video it will crash probably 20% of the time.. just a blank screen, and the cpu fan goes crazy. try the vesa driver? I sometimes use it on my flaky ATI video card.
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Aug 7, 2008 12:47
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Alowishus posted:I'd add DenyHosts to the equation. Just seconding denyhosts, easy to use and does the job exactly as advertised. As a slight aside, has anyone else found that browsing a remote folder through ssh via nautilus, telling nautilus to remember the password for 'this time only' (or similar, the shortest length of time) and then browsing to another folder produces a ton of incorrect password attempts in the ssh logs? It let the browsing/copying proceed fine, but then when I tried to log back in at a later date, denyhosts had locked me out due to all the failed password attempts.
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Aug 7, 2008 13:24
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Thanks for the help guys! I denied root logins, changed the port to something completely non-standard, only allow SSH2, turned the number of sessions way down, and installed DenyHosts. DenyHosts already sent me an email that it denied someone.
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Aug 7, 2008 16:53
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Phat_Albert posted:Thanks for the help guys! I denied root logins, changed the port to something completely non-standard, only allow SSH2, turned the number of sessions way down, and installed DenyHosts. Did you set authentication option AllowUsers to allow only you and a few certain others? Personally I believe these are the most important entries in sshd_config Port 30000 Protocol 2 AllowUsers [users] LoginGraceTime 15 PermitRootLogin no StrictModes yes MaxAuthTries 0 PermitEmptyPasswords no This will pretty much keep out anyone and stop most bots.
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Aug 7, 2008 17:21
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covener posted:try the vesa driver? I sometimes use it on my flaky ATI video card. Well I ended up doing something on a hunch. I ended up downloading the full dvd version of ubuntu rather than the desktop version, and guess what.. the sleep issue seems to have fixed itself. ALTHOUGH it shits itself when watching video's, which is ok since inbeded flash videos work fine (albeit slow) AND Sometimes when im shutting it down or logging off (terminating the x session basically) it crashes. I might edit xorg.conf and add in Driver "VESA"
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Aug 8, 2008 04:09
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Can some one inform me on how to safely and securely use NFS shares over a wireless network? I know NFS doesn't really have any built-in security. I have WPA2 on my wireless network, but is there a simple way to tunnel things through SSH or use a VPN? The network has both linux and OS X computers on it, so a solution has to be compatible with both. What is required to run a VPN? Do you need some special software running on a server, and then client software for each computer?
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Aug 9, 2008 00:48
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Kaluza-Klein posted:Can some one inform me on how to safely and securely use NFS shares over a wireless network? I know NFS doesn't really have any built-in security. I have WPA2 on my wireless network, but is there a simple way to tunnel things through SSH or use a VPN? Found this on google, NFS through SSH: http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/117705/171/ OpenVPN also has excellent documentation on setting up a VPN: http://openvpn.net/index.php/documentation/howto.html
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Aug 9, 2008 00:55
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Kaluza-Klein posted:Can some one inform me on how to safely and securely use NFS shares over a wireless network? I know NFS doesn't really have any built-in security. I have WPA2 on my wireless network, but is there a simple way to tunnel things through SSH or use a VPN? It's pretty easy to do, but kerberos can be a bit of a steep learning curve.
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Aug 9, 2008 02:04
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http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_OpenVPN_Server_for_Ethernet_Bridging_with_Server_Certificates That is the guide I am trying to follow to setup the server. It fails at trying to bring up tap0. code:
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Aug 10, 2008 19:34
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Kaluza-Klein posted:What is "promisc" refering to? Probably this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Promiscuous_mode
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Aug 10, 2008 19:39
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Things are going a bit better now. I had to add the bridge module to my kernel. I have Tunnelblick installed on my mac, and it seems to be happy enough to connect to the vpn server. But uh, how do I know it is "working", so to speak?
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Aug 10, 2008 20:47
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Kaluza-Klein posted:Things are going a bit better now. I had to add the bridge module to my kernel. Just ping the IP that your server has on it's VPN interface from your mac. If all is good mount your NFS share via that IP.
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Aug 11, 2008 02:20
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Some lightweight utility (or other way) to track the amount of bandwidth used. SMTP+MRTG is already running on this server, but I am currently not getting counts of bandwidth used, just a rate counter (I figure the solution is pretty close already). I'd like something that could break it down by month automatically too.
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Aug 11, 2008 03:00
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ExileStrife posted:Some lightweight utility (or other way) to track the amount of bandwidth used. SMTP+MRTG is already running on this server, but I am currently not getting counts of bandwidth used, just a rate counter (I figure the solution is pretty close already). I'd like something that could break it down by month automatically too. What about ipacsum? I use it on my router (IpCop) and it seems to give a decent breakdown. code:
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Aug 11, 2008 03:06
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vnStat is another well known utility for that.
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Aug 11, 2008 05:50
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Oh boy, both of these give me just what I'm looking for, thanks! (I went with vnStat and it's rocking out)
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Aug 11, 2008 23:05
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Stupid question, and I'm probably going to make this confusing but...- How do I run a script from crontab, and have the dir the script is in be the default dir? For example, I have /home/me/.rss2email with the python script "r2e" in that dir. The dir contains other scripts required by "r2e", so when I add "/home/me/.rss2email/r2e run" I want it to not say "otherscript.py not found".
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Aug 12, 2008 03:02
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Without Pants posted:Stupid question, and I'm probably going to make this confusing but...- Try making your command "cd /home/me/.rss2email/r2e && ./r2e". If that doesn't work (I can never remember when it does and when it doesn't) make a wrapper script: code:
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Aug 12, 2008 04:27
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PATH=/home/me/.rss2email/:$PATH /home/me/.rss2email/r2e should/could work too
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vanjalolz posted:PATH=/home/me/.rss2email/:$PATH /home/me/.rss2email/r2e PATH=$PATH:/additional/path/. The existing PATH should come first for security reasons. /additional/path/ is more likely to be something that can be written to by a user, so if that person (or process) sticks a trojaned ls or ps in there, you'll be executing that rather than the real one. Regardless, I don't think Python looks for it's scripts in the system path. Set PYTHONPATH=$PYTHONPATH:/home/me/.rss2email. Using that is cleaner than using cd anyway. Edit: And I'm not sure cd will work. You'd have to cd, and then source ./otherscript.py. Chances are, you're currently just calling it without ./ in front, which means it won't be found in the cwd anyway. Edit2: http://docs.python.org/tut/node8.html#SECTION008120000000000000000 Mr. Eric Praline fucked around with this message at 15:20 on Aug 12, 2008 |
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Aug 12, 2008 15:17
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I have an old Hauppage USBLive device, which converts the yellow RCA-type cable to USB. Can I use this to see the video feed on linux? I can't seem to find anything...
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Aug 13, 2008 05:53
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pukeduke posted:I have an old Hauppage USBLive device, which converts the yellow RCA-type cable to USB. Can I use this to see the video feed on linux? I can't seem to find anything... What shows up when you plug it in and run 'lsusb'? Find a program that can capture from a V4L device and give it a shot to see if it's detected.
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Aug 13, 2008 08:25
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I finally set up public key authentication on my web server after owning it for a year. Should have known it is so loving trivial, then I wouldn't have pushed it back again and again until today. 
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Aug 13, 2008 19:47
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Combat Pretzel posted:I finally set up public key authentication on my web server after owning it for a year. Should have known it is so loving trivial, then I wouldn't have pushed it back again and again until today.
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Aug 13, 2008 20:46
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Password auth is still possible. It's mainly just to stop scp from being annoying with passwords. 
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Combat Pretzel posted:Password auth is still possible. It's mainly just to stop scp from being annoying with passwords. Check out ControlMaster in ssh_config, you can have new calls to ssh/scp use an existing connection. Just don't use it on a multi-user system if you don't trust the people who have root access to that system...
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This is driving me up a wall - my friend found some music streaming software for linux called Ginjoza or something and I can't remember the drat name. You installed it, pointed it at a directly and it used apache/php to stream music via HTTP. Any idea? Edit: THE ABOVE AND BELOW ARE UNRELATED - THE ABOVE IS FOR STREAMING TO MY WORK PC THE BELOW IS FOR AT HOME. Another, unrelated note, crossposted from the PSP homebrew thread, because I think this is more relevant. I have a Linux server - it has to run linux, some distribution thereof. It has a wireless speaker, which I move around my apartment. I can play music on the linux server and it will play from the speaker. I like this feature and it's nice and fun. I have a directory structure, which is basically /mnt/drivename/Music/GENRE/ARTIST/ALBUM/files. I like having playlists based on genre, which I can then sift through or randomize at my leisure. I have a PSP and a wireless network. I would like to control what is playing on my linux server from my PSP via a web-based interface or something of the sort. I don't want to stream to the PSP, because the sound degrades and the psp speakers suck anyway. I would just like to control what I'm playing. I already tried VLC, but the documentation is either missing or completely psychotic. Seriously, no explanation of how to add MRL, and they've apparently started using Reverse Polish Notation for their markup, which means I'm effectively shitcocked when it comes to understanding what the gently caress is going on. In ADDITION to that, the method by which VLC handles playlists is completely hosed. Not only does it not parse the playlist until you try to play it, but it completely extrudes all open playlists at the same time. I can't seem to find a way to add a playlist per genre but only have one open - NO. I must have all humpteen hojillion songs open at once, which makes my PSP effectively frozen since the drat thing operates a web browser like my grandmother drives. I'm kind of irritable right now, but I'm hoping for another option. Anyone have any ideas? I got it working with Foobar2000 in like...5 minutes. Just frustrated it's taking so long on linux. Falcon2001 fucked around with this message at 10:40 on Aug 14, 2008 |
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Falcon2001 posted:This is driving me up a wall - my friend found some music streaming software for linux called Ginjoza or something and I can't remember the drat name. I think you mean Jinzora? Another one I've used is GNUMP3D. But really, there are a ton out there.
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sund posted:What shows up when you plug it in and run 'lsusb'? Find a program that can capture from a V4L device and give it a shot to see if it's detected.
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deong posted:I think you mean Jinzora? Another one I've used is GNUMP3D. But really, there are a ton out there. You are awesome, and this is exactly it.
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Here's one for you guys... Squid cache running squidguard as the rewriter on a RHEL 4 box. We access a sharepoint site over a VPN tunnel to one of our partners. No proxy server and we can connect just fine... I turn the proxy on, and it just doesn't connect. The access log shows a CONNECT to the site in question, but no other errors are displayed, and the site and IP have been whitelisted in squidguard. I'm running Squid 2.6 Stable12 which shouldn't have any NTLM issues that I read about when I googled "squid" and "sharepoint" worth mentioning is when you go to the URL of the sharepoint site you get bounced to our partners SSO portal, and when you authenticate there get redirected back. We use the SSO portal with alot of other sites so I know that's not the issue... I've been through all the squid and squidguard logs and I can't find any errors... worth noting is I checked my squid.conf everything NTLM is commented out... code:Anyone have any ideas? Boy I hope they approve the Barracuda box in the budget for next year.
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Thanks guys, I appreciate it.
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bah, anytime theres a kernel update I lose my wireless (ndiswrapper) and resolution (nvidia). is there an easy way to roll back so I can reinstall my graphics and wireless capabilities?
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rugbert posted:bah, anytime theres a kernel update I lose my wireless (ndiswrapper) and resolution (nvidia). is there an easy way to roll back so I can reinstall my graphics and wireless capabilities? Depends on what system are you using. Debian/Ubuntu? Red Hat/SuSE? You should be able to just uninstall the new kernal package and reinstall the old one. If you built it yourself, use the same procedure you used to install it to build and install an older version. Why don't you just recompile ndiswrapper and nvidia though?
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I've been given the task of setting up account management for our Linux systems. we have 4-5 CentOS 5 systems and about a 1/2 dozen Red Hat systems as well. All of our windows servers are authenticating through AD. Searching on Google really hasn't brought the kind of information I've been looking for. I'm not sure where to begin, would radius be a good idea? we have a radius server already in house handling some Cisco log in information, or should I use something else?
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Twlight posted:I've been given the task of setting up account management for our Linux systems. we have 4-5 CentOS 5 systems and about a 1/2 dozen Red Hat systems as well. All of our windows servers are authenticating through AD. Searching on Google really hasn't brought the kind of information I've been looking for. I'm not sure where to begin, would radius be a good idea? we have a radius server already in house handling some Cisco log in information, or should I use something else?
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skipdogg posted:Here's one for you guys... There has to be more to your config than that if you're doing authentication. Everything's commented out there. We've run into several sites that have NTLM issues, usually with java applets or activex controls that don't handle it well. To eliminate it as the problem really quick, you can: acl noauthsites dstdomain mysharepointsite.com http_access allow noauthsites reconfigure squid and test.
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chryst posted:If you can get your AD admins to add the POSIX extensions (they might be called something else) to Active Directory, then you can auth your servers via AD using LDAP and Kerberos. It's not terribly hard, and it works reasonably well. haha I am the AD admin. Ill look this up thanks.
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JoeNotCharles posted:Depends on what system are you using. Debian/Ubuntu? Red Hat/SuSE? You should be able to just uninstall the new kernal package and reinstall the old one. If you built it yourself, use the same procedure you used to install it to build and install an older version. Because I didnt know how to do that :/ but for some reason after I lost my wireless and wired up I soon there after lost my ability to use ethernet too (my eth0 got named forcedeth and wouldnt activate). I just grubbed to my old kernel till I figure out how to fix this stuff. also - does anyone know how to change wireless mouse sensitivity? this is driving me crazy.
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