Samba Serving
I'm trying to share directories through samba. I have the workgroup and server set correctly, because I can see the server in the network neighborhood on the win98 client. But it will not allow access. I used to change the windoze box to use plain text passwords...but since linuxtopia no longer exists, I can't get to the learnto that said how to do that. I'm going from the smb.conf in an install of 2.2.1a-6, with these modifications: [homes] comment = Home Directories browseable = yes read only = no create mask = 0755 directory mask = 0755 [oggs] comment = oggs on magneto writable = no locking = no path = /usr/local/oggs public = yes Does anyone have any idea how I can get these shared? The first one isn't much of a big deal to me, but sharing the oggs is. Thanks, Jason
Re: evolution and woody
on Sun, Aug 26, 2001 at 11:43:09PM -0400, Glen Snyder ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Any word on if evolution will move over to testing any time soon (Or is > it frozen out of woody for the time being?)?? Last I've heard, Woody freeze is policy only to date. http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2001/16/ Not sure where that puts us on adding new packages, there's some discussion of evolution on deb-devel, but nothing that looks specific to woody and the freeze. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org Free Dmitry! Boycott Adobe! Repeal the DMCA!http://www.freesklyarov.org Geek for Hirehttp://kmself.home.netcom.com/resume.html pgpDgXAuvGNct.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Samba Serving
On Sun, Aug 26, 2001 at 10:17:28PM -0700, Jason Majors wrote: > I'm trying to share directories through samba. I have the workgroup and > server set correctly, because I can see the server in the network > neighborhood on the win98 client. But it will not allow access. I used > to change the windoze box to use plain text passwords...but since > linuxtopia no longer exists, I can't get to the learnto that said how > to do that. > I'm going from the smb.conf in an install of 2.2.1a-6, with these > modifications: > [homes] >comment = Home Directories >browseable = yes >read only = no >create mask = 0755 >directory mask = 0755 > > [oggs] > comment = oggs on magneto > writable = no > locking = no > path = /usr/local/oggs > public = yes > > Does anyone have any idea how I can get these shared? The first one > isn't much of a big deal to me, but sharing the oggs is. If you want to use plain text passwords then nab Ptxt_on which in on the W98 cd. It is just a registry hack so you can find the hack on the web if you can't find the file. Otherwise set up encrypted passwords. Read "man smbpasswd" basically in /etc/samba run - # smbpasswd -a username Login on the windows side with the same user and password as you created with smbpasswd. Oh and change your smb.conf [global] security = user encrypt passwords = yes smb passwd file = /usr/samba/smbpasswd That is the quick and nasty. Haven't done it for a while so I hope I didn't forget something. You should have the samba book on your system. Look for using_samba/ch06_04.html. Lays it all out for you. The book is on-line also. I'm getting kind of bleary eyed so I'm going to stop:) hth, kent
Re: using cd is shell script
On Sun, Aug 26, 2001 at 05:26:36PM -0700, bob parker wrote: > Hi all, > being a lazy typist i have writen a little script that > goes like this: > > #! /bin/bash > # go-xxx where xxx is the last dir in along chain > > cd /some long dir chain/xxx > > > My question is, how can i make the change persist > after the script is done You can't by simply executing it. Your environment is passed up to child processes but not down to parent ones. You need to "source" it..that is run it in-line in the shell. In "bash" you use a "." to do this, in csh/tcsh you use "source". Cliff
Re: segfault in vi
Well, you have found a bug I would guess. That is "why"... Maybe a buffer over-run..too long a line ? Report it.. Cliff On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 02:01:58AM +0200, David Jardine wrote: > I only know that I type 'vi' on the command line and - I've > just checked - 'which vi' tells me '/usr/bin/vi' but, hang on, > 'ls -l /usr/bin/vi' tells me it's a symlink to > /etc/alternatives/vi and, hang on another sec, that is a symlink > to /usr/bin/nvi, which seems to be the final destination at > 315248 bytes. So let me rephrase my question. Does anyone > know why nvi baulks at removing formatting mumbo-jumbo from > WordPad files? > > David > > > On Sun, Aug 26, 2001 at 07:30:57PM -0400, dman wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 01:40:50AM +0200, David Jardine wrote: > > | I was trying to remove the formatting mumbo-jumbo of a MS WordPad > > | document in vi, but it segfaulted - repeatedly. Is there a > > | known reason for this? > > > > Uhh, vi is and copyrighted by AT&T and I don't think it is maintained > > anymore. You don't have it. Now which vi *clone* do you have > > installed? nvi? elvis? vim? I like vim the best -- it has a lot of > > really useful features and is very stable, not to mention extremely > > cross-platform. Try 'antiword' though -- it is really cool at > > rendering Word docs as plain text. > > > > HTH, > > -D > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
Re: question about hostname
Hello .. "search" and "domain" are mutually exclusive btw. The last one in the file is what wins... Cliff On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 02:44:00AM +0200, Martin F Krafft wrote: > also sprach [EMAIL PROTECTED] (on Sun, 26 Aug 2001 07:22:37PM -0500): > > A couple of questions, subsequently ... > > please don't reply to my personal addy as well as debian-user... > > > This is my current /etc/resolv.conf: > > > > search speakeasy.net > > nameserver 216.231.41.22 > > nameserver 216.231.41.2 > > > > ... speakeasy is my DSL provider. So I would add the line > > > > domain burningclown.com > > > > ... and the line beginning 'search' should change, too? The DNS servers > > are speakeasy's, of course. > > precisely. > > > > and you'd configure your DNS zone to have your static IP (say > > > 111.222.111.222) to point to pear.mydomain.com: > > > > > > pear.mydomain.com. IN A 111.222.111.222 > > > > So I can do this? Or would someone at speakeasy need to do this? or > > someone at the ISP that hosts burningclown.com (not speakeasy). Whew! > > that someone who hosts burningclown.com. who are they? and how much do > they charge you? because i am pretty sure they won't just add an A > record subdomain, at least not at no charge. > > martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) > \ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> mailto:"; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- > quantum mechanics: the dreams stuff is made of.
[Fwd: Re: The Sound of Silence]
Some success: Using the google search, I was able to find an example of the ess1869 sound card under Linux. Now, at least the sound modules load, and YIFF sound driver says it's working in the boot startup messages. However, I still cannot open /dev/dsp And yes, I did make the changes recommended here: I added myself to the group Audio, and chmod 666 /dev/dsp Any further insights? Curt- -- The Road goes ever on and one, down from the door where it began. Now far ahead the Road has gone and I must follow, if I can, Pursuing it with eager feet, until it joins some larger way Where many paths and errands meet. And whither then? I cannot say.
Re: kernel 2.4.x
Daniel Kleine-Albers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: |> i'm using it in conjunction with testing without _ANY_ problems Also here. I've used 2.4.5, 2.4.7, 2.4.8, and 2.4.9 without problem on a mostly testing system. The only issue (as was pointed out to me here) is that 2.4.9 is really designed to work with X 4.1.0, not with earlier versions. But I have found the combination of kernel 2.4.9 and X 4.1.0 to be great. Jim
Sharing files between Linux & Windows machines on LAN
Hi, My setup: I've got a Linksys router connecting my two computers to my cable modem. My first computer has just Windows 98 on it, the second computer is a dual-boot with Windows 98 and Debian's latest stable release. My skills: Total Linux and networking newbie. Took a long time to figure out how to get the above setup working. My question: What is the easiest way to share files between the two computers? Is it possible over the LAN created with the router? What software do I need to accomplish this? My gratitude: Thanks!
Re: Actualizar de Potato a Woody.
Hola! Para pasar a woody que es la actualmente en testing debes cambiar alla donde hubiera stable por testing, de todos modos aqui te lo explica bastante mejor: http://www.debian.org/releases/testing/ El canal Debian, por lo menos al que yo me conecto de vez en cuando es el del irc hispano: irc.irc-hispano.org canal #debian Tambien tienes el de openprojects, creo no estoy seguro si inicias el bitchx sin configurar se conecta a este IRC, eso si en perfecto ingles. Para conectarte instala el bitchx, y luego : #bitchx irc.irc-hispano.org Una vez en el IRC para unirte a un canal: /join #debian Y ya esta El Debianita User wrote: > > Saludos Debianitas!! > Ante todo agradecer su ayuda sobre mis preguntas sobre el apt y el manejo de > paquetes en debian cada dia lo tengo mas claro,gracias.no obstante me queda > este interrogante el apt busca los paquetes a actualizar/instalar/desinstalar > del /etc/apt/sources.list pero y dpkg? tambien buscara ahi?. > La siguiente pregunta/consulta es si alguien podra decirme cuales son las > lineas del sources.list para pasar de potato a woody ya que se que woody a > pasado a congelamiento,verdad?,si alguien me lo puede decir lo agradecere. > Por otra parte en barrapunto.org he leido que hay un canal de irc para debian > pero como me conecto?(perdon si pregunto una burrada,pero nunca use el irc) > es ese un canal *oficial* de debian?,hay otros en castellano? > Sin mas molestias por ahora los saluda.. > Juan Ortiz > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- CAPON http://capon.sourceforge.net C.B HOLOGRAMAS http://webs.demasiado.com/hologramas LInuxeros LOcos http://lilo.sourceforge.net Llave publica http://www.terra.es/personal5/heraclit0/heraclit0.gpg Usuario de Linux registrado Nª 224358 en http://counter.li.org Tfno curro: 915866123
Re: mod-ssl vs apache-ssl
Am 26. Aug, 2001 schwäzte Erdmut Pfeifer so: > In terms of practical usability, I'd say no -- at least I wouldn't > know of any. If you search the web for differences between the two SSL > implementations, about the only thing you'll find is a difference in > philosophy: apache-ssl is primarily focusing on stability, while > mod_ssl (or Ralf Engelschall, to be more precise) dares to add new > features as required... Achso. Thanks for this info. Didn't come out with my previous question. That might or might not be important for our setup at work. BTW, the previous consensus seemed to be run whatever you want :). > As to the stability of mod_ssl, I can say that we've been using apache > + mod_ssl in various projects for quite some time now, and we've never > had any problems with stability so far. Cool. Good to know. danke, der.hans -- # [EMAIL PROTECTED] home.pages.de/~lufthans/ www.DevelopOnline.com # The only way for a woman to change a man # is if he's wearing Depends[TM] - der.hans
kernel-headers package and upgrading
Hi all, I upgraded my potato system to the 2.4.9 kernel via Adrian Bunk's packages, all went smoothly. One thing that confuses me is the purpose of the "kernel-headers" package. I installed it, and it put some files in /usr/src/kernel-headers-2.4.9-686 but it didn't update /usr/include... do I need to manually update my header files in /usr/include, or am I confusing these two unrelated things entirely? Thanks for any help or pointers in the right direction, Jeff
automatically get the server up
Hi! I'd like to ask why my Debian server, on a power-down or black-out, always requests for root to do an fsck etc. Is there any way I can automatically get the server up and running again? Is this a good solution? Or is it better off having root to do a manual fsck etc first? Thanks! Umum Wijoyo --- G6/Lola Bandung, Indonesia
Re: postgreSQL
bob parker wrote: >Using potato r3 and postmaster is running. > >Attempt to 'psql' get error message: >FATAL1: SetUserID: user 'bob' is not in pg_shadow > >How may i sign on to postgres - command line please Have you created a PostgreSQL user called "bob"? When PostgreSQL is installed, there is only one user, "postgres" and (in potato) the access policy (in /etc/postgresql/pg_hba.conf) is open. So either connect to psql calling yourself postgres: $ psql -u Username: postgres Password: (leave it blank) template1:-> CREATE USER bob; or else do it from the command line: $ su Password: root password # su - postgres $ createuser bob Do check the respective manual pages: man create_user and man createuser -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP: 1024R/32B8FAA1: 97 EA 1D 47 72 3F 28 47 6B 7E 39 CC 56 E4 C1 47 GPG: 1024D/3E1D0C1C: CA12 09E0 E8D5 8870 5839 932A 614D 4C34 3E1D 0C1C "But the end of all things is at hand; be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer. And above all things have fervent love among yourselves; for love shall cover the multitude of sins." I Peter 4:7,8
Re: Sharing files between Linux & Windows machines on LAN
You need samba to share file between Linux and Windows over LAN. This is official way. But this takes skill or RTFM :-) which may be too much when you are newbie using "mc" as shell. (That was me) Cheating is use dual-booted windows machine and share drive partition. I suppose you can share files between 2 windows over LAN. When you dualboot into Linux, edit /etc/fstab and mount windows partition. Then write on / read from it. For more info: $ man fstab $ man mount or $ su -c "apt-get install samba smbclient" $ man smbclient On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 02:23:47AM -0400, Steve Dondley wrote: > My setup: I've got a Linksys router connecting my two computers to my > cable modem. My first computer has just Windows 98 on it, the second > computer is a dual-boot with Windows 98 and Debian's latest stable > release. > My question: > What is the easiest way to share files between the two computers? Is > it possible over the LAN created with the router? What software do I > need to accomplish this? -- ~\^o^/~~~ ~\^.^/~~~ ~\^*^/~~~ ~\^_^/~~~ ~\^+^/~~~ ~\^:^/~~~ ~\^v^/~~~ + Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG-key: 1024D/D5DE453D + + My debian quick-reference, http://www.aokiconsulting.com/quick/+
adminning mult boxen
moin, moin, luckily we're all debian at work. Makes life really, really easy admin-wise. We are now, however, needing to get serious about making sure config changes get rolled out as appropriate. In previous gigs I've used roll your own packages. At one place, however, we had an admin using cfengine. Looks interesting, but even I know enough to not consider des encrypted :). It also mightily takes away from the wonderful, simple file structure configuration that *NIX has[1]. Anything out there that anyone wants to recommend? Anything that works really well with debian? Not often that I get a homogenious Linux network to play with :). To give a better idea of what I'm looking for, here's what I was thinking about doing if I don't find something: Config files go in cvs. Use unison ( similar to rsync, but detects changes on the client side instead of just wiping them out ) to push out changes to admins' user space. Use ssh to kick off make or shell script that does customization, e.g. tosses local hostname in hosts, MTA config, etc. End of script uses sudo to push out any files that have changed into /etc. In one case multiple boxen will be configged from the nfs server as we have a bunch of boxen that run diskless. ciao, der.hans PS This one'll give the Euros first peck at answering it ;-). [1] Yeah, it would be almost perfect if all those config files would at least use similar syntax. Maybe even agree on how to comment things out. Ah, perchance to dream... :) -- # [EMAIL PROTECTED] home.pages.de/~lufthans/ www.DevelopOnline.com # I've got a photographic memory, # but I'm lousy photographer. - der.hans
Re: Sharing files between Linux & Windows machines on LAN
"Steve Dondley" wrote: >This is a multi-part message in MIME format. Please tell Outlook not to add HTML to your mails; plain tedt only is what we want. >My setup: >I've got a Linksys router connecting my two computers to my cable modem. My > first computer has just >Windows 98 on it, the second computer is a dual-boot with Windows 98 and Deb >ian's latest stable >release. > >My skills: >Total Linux and networking newbie. Took a long time to figure out how to ge >t the above setup >working. > >My question: >What is the easiest way to share files between the two computers? Is it pos >sible over the LAN >created with the router? What software do I need to accomplish this? I'm not clear what kind of connection there is between computers and router: does each computer have a different IP address? Can you detect the Windows computer with ping? If the two can't talk to each other through the router, you need to put network cards in both and connect them directly. Once the two can talk to each other, you need to install Samba on the Debian machine. Samba will pretend to be a Windows machine so that it can act as a server to all Windows machines on a network; it will also let programs on the DDebian machine access fileshares on the Windows machine. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP: 1024R/32B8FAA1: 97 EA 1D 47 72 3F 28 47 6B 7E 39 CC 56 E4 C1 47 GPG: 1024D/3E1D0C1C: CA12 09E0 E8D5 8870 5839 932A 614D 4C34 3E1D 0C1C "But the end of all things is at hand; be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer. And above all things have fervent love among yourselves; for love shall cover the multitude of sins." I Peter 4:7,8
Re: realplayer as plugin
which scripts in which directory? there are no scripts as far as i can see (i looked in the package list). i guess in addition to the afore- mentioned problems, there is no way to set up konq to respond to the pnm: and rtsp: protocols, are there? -c [ Structural Informatics Group ] [ Dept. of Biological Structure ] [ University of Washington ] [ 206.616.7356:office ] [ 206.795.4998:cell ] On Sun, 26 Aug 2001, Erik Steffl wrote: > 'cduck' Chris Grierson wrote: > > > > i am going nuts trying to get realplayer either open with > > it's plugin or with plugger or even just with the 'open > > with application' setting in either konq or netscape. > > realplayer works well, but i am trying to not have to click > > 'open' and specify the path to realplayer when the browser > > pops up the dialog after not being able to figure out what > > to do with the data stream. > > > > if anyone has gotten it to work with plugger, did you also > > have to change 'daemon, exits, swallow' to 'exits' as well? > > > > any enlightening tips would be appreciated. > > check the scripts in the realplayer directory, they will show you how > to configure the plugin (what to copy and where). > > make sure that you put it in the place where netscape looks for > plugins, not to whatever they specify as default. > > erik > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
[Fwd: [Fwd: Re: The Sound of Silence]]
One more comment: I continue to get "/dev/dsp: Device or resource busy" when trying to use sound. If I "cat message.au > /dev/audio" even as root, I get the message "/dev/audio Device or resource busy". Also, reading the sound HowTo has not been helpful, it's all well and good if things *work*, but not when things don't. But it did suggest the contents of /dev/sndstat, so here that is: > OSS/Free:3.8s2++-971130 > Load type: Driver loaded as a module > Kernel: Linux stephani 2.2.18pre21 #1 Sat Nov 18 18:47:15 EST 2000 i586 > Config options: 0 > > Installed drivers: > > Card config: > > Audio devices: > 0: ESS ES1869 AudioDrive (rev 11) (3.01) > > Synth devices: > > Midi devices: > > Timers: > 0: System clock > > Mixers: > 0: Sound Blaster -- The Road goes ever on and one, down from the door where it began. Now far ahead the Road has gone and I must follow, if I can, Pursuing it with eager feet, until it joins some larger way Where many paths and errands meet. And whither then? I cannot say.
Re: The Sound of Silence
Ok, finally something real. It's yiff that's dominating the sound files: #fuser -v /dev/dsp USERPID ACCESS COMMAND /dev/dsp root245 f yiff #ps auxwww USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND root 245 0.1 0.4 1084 272 ?S16:03 0:00 /usr/sbin/yiff /etc/yiff/yiffrc The Sound HowTo only mentions FTAPE conflicts for DMA, I'm not using FTAPE nor do I have that module loaded. I beg the lists indulgence in this matter, I believe I have at last traced it down to the point where I can't do anything more. Curt- -- The Road goes ever on and one, down from the door where it began. Now far ahead the Road has gone and I must follow, if I can, Pursuing it with eager feet, until it joins some larger way Where many paths and errands meet. And whither then? I cannot say.
Re: [Fwd: [Fwd: Re: The Sound of Silence]]
Curt Howland wrote: > >One more comment: > >I continue to get "/dev/dsp: Device or resource busy" when trying to use >sound. If I "cat message.au > /dev/audio" even as root, I get the >message "/dev/audio Device or resource busy". Some other program has it open. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP: 1024R/32B8FAA1: 97 EA 1D 47 72 3F 28 47 6B 7E 39 CC 56 E4 C1 47 GPG: 1024D/3E1D0C1C: CA12 09E0 E8D5 8870 5839 932A 614D 4C34 3E1D 0C1C "But the end of all things is at hand; be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer. And above all things have fervent love among yourselves; for love shall cover the multitude of sins." I Peter 4:7,8
Re: Java apt sources link for woody & potato
On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 02:44:23PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: > > Just found the apt sources link for the Blackdown Java packages. > > Thought this might be of interest as I have only seen tgz links on the > list. > > Woody > deb ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/linux/devel/lang/java/blackdown.org/debian \ > woody non-free > > Potato > deb ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/linux/devel/lang/java/blackdown.org/debian \ > potato non-free > And for the ftp-challenged among us: deb http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.blackdown.org/java-linux/debian woody \ non-free Note that you can replace the site with any site mentioned as mirror on www.blackdown.org! -- Danie Roux *shuffle* Adore Unix
Re: question about hostname
also sprach Cliff Sarginson (on Mon, 27 Aug 2001 07:48:11AM +0200): > Hello .. "search" and "domain" are mutually exclusive btw. > The last one in the file is what wins... are you serious? i must admit that i never really knew what "domain" did, but i didn't know that they were mutually diskliking each other. do you have docs about that? not that i disbelieve you, just interest... martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> mailto:"; [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- f u cn rd ths, u cn gt a nce jb in th prgrmng indstry pgp0otPUYYl07.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: apt-getting recommended/suggested packages?
--- "Avdi B. Grimm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > quick question: is there a simple way to tell apt-get to install a > package *plus* all of it's recommended and suggested packages? For > example, KDevelop can utilize a whole slew of optional packages if > they > are installed, but by default apt-get only fetches the necessary > dependencies, not the recommended/suggested packages. It would be > convenient if I could grab them all in one swell foop. > > -ABG > dselect is your friend here, prompts you with the list of suggested packages. hth, patrick. __ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/
[maybe OT] Liveice: anyone knows where it defaults for the config file?
I've ran liveice before as a tarball, and now I'm glad that debian had included it. I'm just wondering where does this version reads its default config because it says it reads one in /etc/liveice.cfg, so I copied one there, but it doesn't read it still... Hm It has 644 permission, so anyone could read the file... Any ideas anyone? Calyth
Re: automatically get the server up
Umum Wijoyo wrote: > >Hi! >I'd like to ask why my Debian server, on a power-down or black-out, >always requests for root to do an fsck etc. >Is there any way I can automatically get the server up and running again? >Is this a good solution? Or is it better off having root >to do a manual fsck etc first? >Thanks! That's one of the disadvantages of ext2fs -- the long fsck especially after power failure. This is done to preserve the integrity of the filesystem. It's not a good idea to tune2fs -c0 -i0 /dev/hdX the system to avoid the long fsck's for you might bump into trouble later, especially when power failures would force the fsck's. If you're really want to avoid the long fsck's, try converting your filesystem to journalling filesystems, like ext3fs (which is quite easy, as it's just ext2 with a journal file - try installing the e2fsprogs- 1.22 or up packages from sid then run tune2fs -j /dev/hdX) or the likes of XFS or reiserfs. By experience, I prefer reiserfs, as it integrates seamlessly with ext3fs (which is the root filesystem on my Debian server, as opposed to XFS). However, reiserfs has some problems with NFS (as it doesn't use inodes... ) and I've yet to succeed installing lilo with a reiserfs partition as root. XFS is good if you're dealing with very big files in the filesystem (it was developed for big files such as computer graphics/ movies) Reiserfs partitions can theoretically be as big as your hard disk and has a very fast delete rate. Ext3 proposes full journalling of data instead of just mere meta-data; however it inherits the shortcomings of ext2, especially when you run out of inodes. Go figure what you want and really need. Paolo Falcone __ www.edsamail.com
GTK-Xemacs
do you know where i can find packages for GTK-XEmacs ? I have debian potato. Thanks -- Nicolas LAMIRAULT
TEST PLASE IGNORE
TEST PLEASE IGNORE. LordZe--> Un Computer sicuro è un computer spento. -> Di Maria Antonio System Administrator -Credito Italiano- Italy(MI) UIN 123773221 /join #linux-mi (ircnet) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (home) -->
Re: automatically get the server up
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 27 August 2001 02:35, Paolo Alexis Falcone wrote: > (as it doesn't use inodes... ) and I've yet to succeed installing lilo > with a reiserfs partition as root. Works fine with the latest version of lilo (at least for me). I'm not running Debian at the moment, though, but Mandrake 8.0 - -M - -- - --- Magnus von Koeller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Georg-Westermann-Allee 76 / 38104 Braunschweig / Germany Phone: +49-(0)531/2094886 Mobile: +49-(0)179/4562940 lp1 on fire (One of the more obfuscated kernel messages) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7ig9JUIvM6e6BgFARAlmlAKCR8ll/v7igXPQkXsPBT8lm45H03gCg2en5 LIAVZd/eKCNRFY3b91xxC8w= =b2Kj -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: Where's Woody?
-- Dr. Frank Zimmermann School of Bioscineces University of Birmingham Edgbaston Birmingham B15 2TT Tel.: 44-121-414 2508 Fax.: 44-121-414 5925 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, 24 Aug 2001, John Purser wrote: > I was trying to download the Woody CD images and can't find them. I saw on > a post a few minutes ago that there might not be such a thing and that I'll > have to upgrade Potato to get there from here. Good enough but would > someone please point me to a decent "How To" to get me started? I'll write > back when I've hosed it completely and need further help. > > Thanks, > > John Purser > There are plenty of unofficial woody and sid images out there. i can't give you a link right because I'm not sitting on my machine with the bookmarks. But I'm sure with just a little effort you will find them. Frank
Re: Progeny vs. Libranet vs Pure Debian.
> > G'day DanSV, > > > I've heard good things about Progeny but haven't used it my self, the > Progeny web-site says As long as you are in America or your PC has american hardware e.g. keyboard and so on. There was a test of differnt Linux Distributions in the germa LinuxMagazin acouple of month ago and AFAIR they say it was a little hustle to configure the system. Frank
Re: UK suppliers of laptops with Debian preinstalled ?
On Sun, 26 Aug 2001, Martin Rowe wrote: > Hi all > > Anyone know where I might be able to locate such a beast? I've been > digging around on Google, but most links seem to be out of date - > hardware firms now consultacy/software only, etc. There seem to be a few > that sell RedHat[1] but I can't find anything for Debian. I wondered if > HP had any offerings, as they seem to like Debian, but there doesn't > appear to be anything :-( > > Regards, Martin > [1] http://www.dnuk.com do some nice portables - I'll need to check if > they can do Debian (only list RH on the web site). Might get very difficult to get a preinstalled Debian box. DNUK is the only one I know who is selling preinstalled Linux laptops. At least you know they work fine with Linux. Frank
Re: [OT] German-English translation tools
On Sat, 25 Aug 2001, Andrew Perrin wrote: > Does anyone know of any free (or at least reasonably cheap) tools to > assist in translation? I'm explicitly *not* looking for a program that > attempts to fully translate texts, but rather something to help with some > of the dirty work as I begin translating some previously unavailable > articles from German. It could be something as simple as a fairly > comprehensive electronic dictionary, or possibly an NLP tool that makes a > stab at syntax as well. Available for linux or solaris is a very large > plus, but I'll put up with windows if I absolutely have to. > > Thanks for any advice. Hi Andrew, if you just want to look up some words dict should do. You can get dictionaries from http://www.freedict.de . Nevertheless I tried this yesterday and was not able to get it working. Another possibility is qtrans, a KDE-translator, based on Babylon dictionaries: http://olaf3.cjb.net/ Frank
Re: MSN Messenger through Debian gateway
Osamu Aoki wrote: > > Hi, > > ipchain has timeout. If you use ipmasq, see Z92timeouts.rul/def > check -M option in man page. Make larger value. I'll check that, thanks. Is a timeout something that would get logged? > Also Do you provide IP to DOZE machine by DHCP? I assume you have > fixed IP. But this may give random IP upon reboot. The internal LAN is all static addresses. As it's only a few machines, I found it easier to just set it up by hand. Thanks, Jason
Re: evolution and woody
On Sun, Aug 26, 2001 at 10:34:56PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Sun, Aug 26, 2001 at 11:43:09PM -0400, Glen Snyder ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > Any word on if evolution will move over to testing any time soon (Or is > > it frozen out of woody for the time being?)?? > > Last I've heard, Woody freeze is policy only to date. > > http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2001/16/ > > Not sure where that puts us on adding new packages, there's some > discussion of evolution on deb-devel, but nothing that looks specific to > woody and the freeze. Nothing's being held back yet. We're trying valiantly to get the base freeze underway; there are only 8 release-critical bugs left in base (http://base.debian.net/ - I think at least 4 of those can be ignored, too), so that's nearly ready, but even once that starts base packages will still be allowed smoothly through into testing. It's only in a month or so's time, when standard is nearly free of RC bugs, that base packages start being held back. And anyway none of this will affect evolution for a couple of months. According to http://ftp-master.debian.org/testing/update_excuses.html: * evolution 0.12-1 (new) (optional) (low) + Maintainer: Takuo KITAME <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> + evolution uploaded 20 days ago, out of date by 10 days! + out of date on alpha: evolution, evolution-dev, libcamel-dev, libcamel0 (from 0.10-2) + out of date on m68k: evolution, evolution-dev, libcamel-dev, libcamel0 (from 0.11.0-1) + libcamel0 (alpha i386 m68k powerpc sparc) is buggy (1 > 0) + not considered That is, it needs to be compiled on alpha and m68k, and someone needs to work out how to fix the grave bug #108116 against libcamel0. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: kernel-headers package and upgrading
On Sun, Aug 26, 2001 at 11:33:20PM -0700, Jeff wrote: > I upgraded my potato system to the 2.4.9 kernel via Adrian Bunk's > packages, all went smoothly. > > One thing that confuses me is the purpose of the "kernel-headers" > package. I installed it, and it put some files in > /usr/src/kernel-headers-2.4.9-686 but it didn't update > /usr/include... do I need to manually update my header files in > /usr/include, or am I confusing these two unrelated things entirely? Don't touch /usr/include. If you do, chances are that something *will* break in your build environment, and at the very least your changes won't be preserved across upgrades. If programs you're compiling want things in /usr/include/linux, and for some reason you want them compiled against newer kernel headers (to be honest, developing new kernel drivers is about the most likely case where you'll need this), edit their Makefiles to point them at /usr/src/kernel-headers-foo instead. For the most part, though, just leave it be. Read /usr/share/doc/libc6/README.Debian.gz for more information. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Network Collisons
Hi, What would cause the vast number of packet collisons between the 2 computers on my network, which are connected via a 8 port hub. Thanks, Hereward
Re: stepping and /proc/cpuinfo
On Sat, Aug 25, 2001 at 11:13:00PM -0500, nick lidakis wrote: > What exactly is cpu stepping? I just realized that my dual cpu's have > different stepping, one is 6 and the other 10. These CPU's were > purchased on the same day. I can't seem to find any relevant info when I > tried a google search. I typed 'CPU stepping' into google and this was the seventh link: http://www.anandtech.com/guides/viewfaq.html?i=6 A stepping is a revision of silicon - to be more precise it refers to a change to the mask used to manufacture the chip. This change can for any number of different reasons: to improve bin split (frequency), to fix errata (ie. bugs), to improve yield, to solve an electrical issue and other misc. reasons. [...] The most important point to remember about steppings is that you shouldn't mix them in a SMP (multi-processor) system. If you have one 733MHz Pentium III cB0 CPU, and you want to add in another to make a dual-processor setup, then I strongly recommend getting another 733MHz Pentium III cB0, and not putting in a 733MHz Pentium III cA2 or a cC0 instead. Intel does, however, support mixed steppings for Dual Processing operation for certain Pentium IIIs. Full details, along with the Mixed Stepping Matrix, are contained in the Intel Pentium III Specification Update. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installation of Debian
Another possiblity is to install a base system, modify the bootloader, put a getty on serial, and pray. Not that I've tried this. That is actually what I did but the base system is the Cobalt 2 OS. I have to follow a portion of their procedure up until the Init process because the bootp, nfs mounting and kernel loading is done from eprom which at this time I cannot reprogram (nor do I want to). After that it is all shell scripts and Perl which handle the OS reload. What on the standard debian installation takes care of partitioning and package installation?
Re: Network Collisons
On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 12:39:10PM +, Hereward Cooper wrote: > What would cause the vast number of packet collisons between > the 2 computers on my network, which are connected via a 8 port > hub. as you write: you're using a hub. if you don't want collisions you might want to get a switch. btw the number of collisions + traffic info + network info (10/100 mbit) + used network cards + time in interval in which the collisions occur is necessary if you think you have some hw problems. yours martin -- factline Krisper Fabro Harnoncourt OEG (www.factline.com)
Re: VMware and Debian
> A related question. Does vmware-2.0.4-1142 run with 2.4.7 kernel? When I > run vmware-install.pl I got compilation error messages. Anyone has > experienced the same problem? Any hint? Search linux-kernel mailing list archives for thread with subject "Vmware and 2.4.9". -- Alexey
Re: Sharing files between Linux & Windows machines on LAN
Steve Dondley wrote: >Hi, >What is the easiest way to share files between the two computers? Is it >possible over the LAN >created with the router? What software do I need to accomplish this? > >My gratitude: >Thanks! Have you ever tried Samba? It has a very straight-forward help file and configuration. Paolo Falcone __ www.edsamail.com __ www.edsamail.com
SIS5513 UDMA problem +Andre's IDE patches
Hi all, first, excuse me for boring the entire list with this question that has (I think so) already been solved. I've got a 'little' problem with DMA feature... I use a motherboard with a SIS5513 IDE chipset and two UDMA hard disk. I run a 2.2.17 home build kernel. Here come an extract of the dmesg output : ... SIS5513: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 09 SIS5513: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later SIS5513: simplex device: DMA disabled ide0: SIS5513 Bus-Master DMA disabled (BIOS) SIS5513: simplex device: DMA disabled ide1: SIS5513 Bus-Master DMA disabled (BIOS) hda: QUANTUM FIREBALL CR8.4A, ATA DISK drive hdb: QUANTUM FIREBALL ST4.3A, ATA DISK drive ... I use the UDMA feature under M$ and it works fine. So, I made a little search on the net and found information about my problem. The informations that I have collected mention Andre's IDE patches avalaible at http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/hedrick/ Then, I took a look at thoses patches and found in the README.IDE.BACKPORT.FINAL file (http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/hedrick/README.IDE.BACKPORT.F INAL) the following note : README.IDE This directory will have stable and test patch code that are solely related to various IDE-Block devices and chipset specific code. README.IDE.BACKPORT.FINAL These are the last backport patchs. ide.2.2.17.all.2904.patch ide.2.2.18-3.all.2904.patch I do not have any more time to back port. Only dead critical issues will be addressed. Sorry. Andre Hedrick The Linux ATA/IDE guy He come my question : what are BACKPORT patches ? Andea Hedrick talks about last patches from 2000/09/04. However, I found version from the 2000/11/20. Are the patches from the latest release the right one to apply ? Does anybody have already applied succesfully this patch ? Is there any thing to take care of ? Thank for your experience -- Pascal Thivent
Installing Perl 5.6.1
Situation: Debian ships with Perl 5.005. But there are more recent versions of Perl and Debian lists two versions of Perl 5.6.1, "testing" and "unstable". Questions: 5.6.1 has been out quite a while and Perl.com lists 5.6.1 as "stable". What about it is not considered "stable" for use on Debian? Or is the "unstable" label just some kind of formality? Is there a way to install 5.6.1 without wiping out 5.005? In other words, can I have both versions running on my machine, allowing the scripts to determine which version of Perl to use? Please keep in mind I'm a total Linux newbie and barely know how to use apt-get. Thanks for your help.
RE: Sharing files between Linux & Windows machines on LAN
Oliver, According to the setup files, my router is actually acting as a "gateway". I'm not quite sure of the distinction between a router and a gateway. Yes, I can ping the Debian machine with the Windows98 machine. I'll look into Samba. I wasn't sure if it could be used in a network configuration. Thanks. -Original Message- From: Oliver Elphick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 27, 2001 2:55 AM To: Steve Dondley Cc: Debian-Users Subject: Re: Sharing files between Linux & Windows machines on LAN "Steve Dondley" wrote: >This is a multi-part message in MIME format. Please tell Outlook not to add HTML to your mails; plain tedt only is what we want. >My setup: >I've got a Linksys router connecting my two computers to my cable modem. My > first computer has just >Windows 98 on it, the second computer is a dual-boot with Windows 98 and Deb >ian's latest stable >release. > >My skills: >Total Linux and networking newbie. Took a long time to figure out how to ge >t the above setup >working. > >My question: >What is the easiest way to share files between the two computers? Is it pos >sible over the LAN >created with the router? What software do I need to accomplish this? I'm not clear what kind of connection there is between computers and router: does each computer have a different IP address? Can you detect the Windows computer with ping? If the two can't talk to each other through the router, you need to put network cards in both and connect them directly. Once the two can talk to each other, you need to install Samba on the Debian machine. Samba will pretend to be a Windows machine so that it can act as a server to all Windows machines on a network; it will also let programs on the DDebian machine access fileshares on the Windows machine. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP: 1024R/32B8FAA1: 97 EA 1D 47 72 3F 28 47 6B 7E 39 CC 56 E4 C1 47 GPG: 1024D/3E1D0C1C: CA12 09E0 E8D5 8870 5839 932A 614D 4C34 3E1D 0C1C "But the end of all things is at hand; be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer. And above all things have fervent love among yourselves; for love shall cover the multitude of sins." I Peter 4:7,8 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installing Perl 5.6.1
- Original Message - From: "Steve Dondley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Debian-Users" Sent: Monday, August 27, 2001 9:11 PM Subject: Installing Perl 5.6.1 > Situation: > Debian ships with Perl 5.005. But there are more recent versions of Perl > and Debian lists two versions of Perl 5.6.1, "testing" and "unstable". (1) Debian Stable (2.2r*) ships with Perl 5.005 - here, stable refers to the whole distribution and have nothing to do with the software inside. For example, if software foo-1.0 released just after potato has released, no one can put foo-1.0 into the Stable distribution without waiting for next release. And debian should list one version of Perl 5.6.1 in two different distribution (Sid and Woody) and not two version in one distribution. Testing and unstable, too, refers to the whole distribution, and not perl. > Questions: > 5.6.1 has been out quite a while and Perl.com lists 5.6.1 as "stable". What > about it is not considered "stable" for use on Debian? Or is the "unstable" > label just some kind of formality? as described in (1) > > Is there a way to install 5.6.1 without wiping out 5.005? In other words, > can I have both versions running on my machine, allowing the scripts to > determine which version of Perl to use? Please keep in mind I'm a total > Linux newbie and barely know how to use apt-get. yes, however, i suggest that you should install it by yourself using source from perl.com (and install it into /usr/local/bin and not /usr/bin, by convention.) > > Thanks for your help. -- A gas which obeys to the perfect gas equation is a perfect gas, where the perfect gas equation describes the relationship between pressure, volume and temperature of a perfect gas. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
Re: Sharing files between Linux & Windows machines on LAN
My heartily suggestion # apt-get install samba then # vi /etc/samba/smb.conf (or if you are that newbie,) # nano /etc/samba/smb.conf add: # requires user-level access to computer to access this resource; # however, it's read-write. [sharing] comment = File Sharing browseable = yes read only = no create mask = 0700 directory mask = 0700 and comment the whole [homes] thing. -- A gas which obeys to the perfect gas equation is a perfect gas, where the perfect gas equation describes the relationship between pressure, volume and temperature of a perfect gas. - Original Message - From: "Steve Dondley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Oliver Elphick" ; "Debian-Users" Sent: Monday, August 27, 2001 9:16 PM Subject: RE: Sharing files between Linux & Windows machines on LAN
Re: Installation of Debian
A gas which obeys to the perfect gas equation is a perfect gas, where the perfect gas equation describes the relationship between pressure, volume and temperature of a perfect gas. - Original Message - From: "Stathy G. Touloumis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Karsten M. Self" ; Sent: Monday, August 27, 2001 8:03 PM Subject: Re: Installation of Debian > > >Another possiblity is to install a base system, modify the bootloader, > >put a getty on serial, and pray. Not that I've tried this. > > That is actually what I did but the base system is the Cobalt 2 OS. I have > to follow a portion of their procedure up until the Init process because > the bootp, nfs mounting and kernel loading is done from eprom which at this > time I cannot reprogram (nor do I want to). After that it is all shell > scripts and Perl which handle the OS reload. > > What on the standard debian installation takes care of partitioning and > package installation? cfdisk tasksel + dpkg + apt-get > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
Re: adminning mult boxen
On Sun, Aug 26, 2001 at 11:52:06PM -0700, der.hans wrote: | moin, moin, | | luckily we're all debian at work. Makes life really, really easy admin-wise. I'd like to use Debian at work. Lucky. | We are now, however, needing to get serious about making sure config changes | get rolled out as appropriate. In previous gigs I've used roll your own | packages. At one place, however, we had an admin using cfengine. Looks | interesting, but even I know enough to not consider des encrypted :). It | also mightily takes away from the wonderful, simple file structure | configuration that *NIX has[1]. | | Anything out there that anyone wants to recommend? Anything that works | really well with debian? Not often that I get a homogenious Linux network to | play with :). Perhaps you can take the hard drives out of most of the boxes and stick them in a single high-powered box. Then make that high-powered box the server and the rest as diskless X terminals. This way the terminals have no config on them to deal with, it is all unified on the server. -D
Re: Installing Perl 5.6.1
On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 09:11:17AM -0400, Steve Dondley wrote: > Situation: > Debian ships with Perl 5.005. But there are more recent versions of Perl > and Debian lists two versions of Perl 5.6.1, "testing" and "unstable". > > Questions: > 5.6.1 has been out quite a while and Perl.com lists 5.6.1 as "stable". What > about it is not considered "stable" for use on Debian? Or is the "unstable" > label just some kind of formality? "stable", "testing", and "unstable" are versions of the distribution as a whole, not of individual packages. We don't update the stable version with that sort of drastic change very often; Perl is wired into Debian at quite a low level, and when it was upgraded in unstable near the end of last year it *did* break things quite badly for a while, partly due to incompatibilities and partly due to Debian package reorganizations. Quite a lot would have to be changed in stable to make it work - debconf and such - and it wouldn't really be stable any more. Bear in mind that, when the last stable release of Debian was made, Perl 5.6.0 wasn't yet out. If you need perl 5.6.1, compile it yourself and install it in /usr/local. > Is there a way to install 5.6.1 without wiping out 5.005? In other words, > can I have both versions running on my machine, allowing the scripts to > determine which version of Perl to use? I usually recommend letting Debian packages continue to use the version of perl shipped with that version of the distribution, as that's how they're tested and known to work. Putting a newer version of perl in /usr/local lets you use it for your own scripts, though. > Please keep in mind I'm a total Linux newbie and barely know how to > use apt-get. There should be reasonably good documentation on building perl in the source distribution. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: colors wrong with X4.0.3/testing
On Sun, Aug 26, 2001 at 10:10:12PM -0500, DvB wrote: | I finally decided to get my woody machine at home to use the X4.0.3 nv | driver instead of the xserver-svga from 3.3.6 it had been using. | | After some struggling with apt-get and dpkg, I finally decided to | uninstall all X-related packages and start over. This worked fine except | that now colors are screwed up when I run mozilla or | netscape. Basically, blues are rendered as aqua/green and netscape, at | one point, complained about not being able to "allocate pixmap for | default background." Up until now mozilla/netscape are the only apps | that have given me trouble. | | Is there a package I'm still missing? Or maybe my XF86Config-4 file's | missing something? Any ideas? What color depth is your display running at? Netscape is a color hog and if you don't have enough colors in your display, then it gets a "private" colormap. It uses the same indices as other programs, but for it it refers to different colors. That's when you get the funky looking color dance when you switch focus between netscape and other stuff. I've seen this quite a bit on the Solaris systems at school, which I think are running at 8 bit color. Afterstep is another color hog. Just try running afterstep, netscape and xfig at the same time :-). HTH, -D
Installing woody without downloading lots of MB?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I currently have a Mandrake 8.0 and although I like some parts of it I am very intrigued from the experience of installing / maintaining Debian 2.2 on two firewalls / routers. The problem, though, is that I am depending on a working copy of KDE 2.2 and would very much like to try out stuff like XFree86 4.10 ... Now, I have Debian 2.2 CDs and a high-bandwidth but VERY expensive internet connection. If my traffic costs weren't so high I would simply install 2.2 and then upgrade to testing (woody) but that would cost me huge amounts of money. I do have access to a flat internet connection at a friend's house, though. He would burn me on CD anything I want but I don't really know how I can make it easily possible for him to download an update / the whole woody distro for me and put it on CD. So, what's the best way for me to get a working woody distro running on my computer without downloading lots of stuff over my internet connection? Thanks. - -M - -- - --- Magnus von Koeller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Georg-Westermann-Allee 76 / 38104 Braunschweig / Germany Phone: +49-(0)531/2094886 Mobile: +49-(0)179/4562940 lp1 on fire (One of the more obfuscated kernel messages) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7ik6HUIvM6e6BgFARAisAAJ0YWmK67/iHeHG+4gHnCVdRjAjVxgCgmdO1 S3lNizI1NB0sM681OeYFr98= =RIqW -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: adminning mult boxen
> On Sun, Aug 26, 2001 at 11:52:06PM -0700, der.hans wrote: > | moin, moin, > | > | luckily we're all debian at work. Makes life really, really easy admin-wise. > > I'd like to use Debian at work. Lucky. > > | We are now, however, needing to get serious about making sure config changes > | get rolled out as appropriate. In previous gigs I've used roll your own > | packages. At one place, however, we had an admin using cfengine. Looks > | interesting, but even I know enough to not consider des encrypted :). It > | also mightily takes away from the wonderful, simple file structure > | configuration that *NIX has[1]. > | > | Anything out there that anyone wants to recommend? Anything that works > | really well with debian? Not often that I get a homogenious Linux network to > | play with :). > > Perhaps you can take the hard drives out of most of the boxes and > stick them in a single high-powered box. Then make that high-powered > box the server and the rest as diskless X terminals. This way the > terminals have no config on them to deal with, it is all unified on > the server. I suggest a ramdisk on all those client (i.e. ramdisk cached /home/user and non-ramdisk /home/user/storage/) for all those thin-clients. this is to solve the 'customization problem'. > > -D -- A gas which obeys to the perfect gas equation is a perfect gas, where the perfect gas equation describes the relationship between pressure, volume and temperature of a perfect gas.
Re: Installation of Debian
cfdisk tasksel + dpkg + apt-get I was not able to find the cfdisk package or apt-get. Are they under different package names?
Re: adding multiple users, newuser? and vim
On Sun, Aug 26, 2001 at 02:15:38PM -0700, Osamu Aoki wrote: ... > Took me a while to get this working. Not bad excersize reading "Lerning > Python". Does any one have suggestions of better python coding practice? for real advice you should try the python mailing list. But for starters: don't use tabs for indentation, use 4 explicit space. Besides I lost the original postings, so I can't check whether this does what was asked for. > #! /usr/bin/env python > import sys, string > > # (C) Osmu Aoki Sun Aug 26 16:53:55 UTC 2001 Public Domain > # Ported from awk script by KMSelf Sat Aug 25 20:47:38 PDT 2001 > # This program is distributed WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY. > > def usages(): > print \ Python has triple quoted multi line strings and fprint functionality, so this could become: print """Usage: %s start_UID [filename] startUID is the starting userid to add. filename is input file name. If not specified, standard input. Input file format: tfirstname lastname password""" % sys.argv[0] > return 1 there is no need for this return statement > def parsefile(startuid): > # > # main filtering > # > uid = startuid > while 1: > line = infile.readline() > if not line: > break > (first, last, passwd) = string.split(string.lower(line)) no need to enclose those in (), remember the comma is the tuple maker. > # above crash with wrong # of parameters :-) > user = first[0] + last > gid = uid > lineout = "%s:%s:%d:%d:%s %s,,/home/%s:/bin/bash\n" % \ > (user, passwd, uid, gid, first, last, user) > sys.stdout.write(lineout) > ++uid I doubt this does what you think it does, better try: uid = uid + 1 > if __name__ == '__main__': > if len(sys.argv) == 1: > usages() > else: > uid = int(sys.argv[1]) > #print "# UID start from: %d\n" % uid > if len(sys.argv) > 1: > infilename = string.join(sys.argv[2:]) I don't get what join was ment to do here > infile = open(infilename, 'r') > #print "# Read file from: %s\n\n" % infilename > else: > infile = sys.stdin > parsefile(uid) -- groetjes, carel
Re: Installing woody without downloading lots of MB?
"Magnus von Koeller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Hi,
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> I currently have a Mandrake 8.0 and although I like some parts of it I am
> very intrigued from the experience of installing / maintaining Debian 2.2
on
> two firewalls / routers. The problem, though, is that I am depending on a
> working copy of KDE 2.2 and would very much like to try out stuff like
> XFree86 4.10 ...
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> Now, I have Debian 2.2 CDs and a high-bandwidth but VERY expensive
internet
> connection. If my traffic costs weren't so high I would simply install 2.2
> and then upgrade to testing (woody) but that would cost me huge amounts of
> money.
use the flat access connection to get {unofficial} woody image from fsn.hu,
etc.
then burn it. (I suggest that apt-get updating and apt-get dist-upgrading
will get
you a painful bill, though).
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> I do have access to a flat internet connection at a friend's house,
though.
> He would burn me on CD anything I want but I don't really know how I can
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> it easily possible for him to download an update / the whole woody distro
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RE: CD not bootable
Generally if you have a CD, IIRC you need a root disk and a rescue disk. Boot from the rescue disk, swap to the root disk when asked, and voila, you're installing. HTH, Brooks > -Original Message- > From: Visvanath Ratnaweera [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, 25 August, 2001 07:07 AM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: CD not bootable > > > Hi all > > This must be a pretty standard question but I couldn'f find what I need. > > I have the Debian 2.2 (Potato) CD's which were the source of quite a few > installation. In all those I could boot from the CD. > > The present candidate, a Toshiba Satellite Laptop with Pentium 266 MMX, > refuses to boot from the CD. I made a rescue floppy from DOS > usring rawrite2 > which boots fine. > > This is the quesiton: How do I install by making a minimum number > of floppies? > > Ideally this rescue CD should be suffiecient. The kernel in the > rescue floppy > recognizes the CD. Can I give something like "linux root=" so > that the CD > will take control? > > Cheers > Visvanath. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
Re: Re: Sharing files between Linux & Windows machines on LAN
> >Hi, > >What is the easiest way to share files between the two > computers? Is it possible over the LAN > >created with the router? What software do I need to > accomplish this? > > > >My gratitude: > >Thanks! > > Have you ever tried Samba? It has a very straight-forward > help file and configuration. Also get SWAT (the samab web configuration tool), it allows easy point-and-click style configuring by just pointing your browser at http://localhost:901/ Hereward
Re: adminning mult boxen
On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 09:42:17PM +0800, Calvin Chong wrote: | > Perhaps you can take the hard drives out of most of the boxes and | > stick them in a single high-powered box. Then make that high-powered | > box the server and the rest as diskless X terminals. This way the | > terminals have no config on them to deal with, it is all unified on | > the server. | | I suggest a ramdisk on all those client (i.e. ramdisk cached /home/user | and non-ramdisk /home/user/storage/) for all those thin-clients. this | is to solve the 'customization problem'. What is the 'customization problem'? /home should be mounted rw anyways. All terminals would be using the same /home directory so it wouldn't matter which terminal you logged into. -D
Unable to handle kernel paging request (smbd)
I found some error messages in my log files. So far as I can understand they have something to do with file locking while samba processing them. But I do not know what should I do to solve the problem. Here are the messages: >From /var/log/syslog [...] Aug 27 13:19:48 nagan kernel: Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 04edd072 Aug 27 13:19:48 nagan kernel: printing eip: Aug 27 13:19:48 nagan kernel: c0121727 Aug 27 13:19:48 nagan kernel: *pde = Aug 27 13:19:48 nagan kernel: Oops: Aug 27 13:19:48 nagan kernel: CPU:0 Aug 27 13:19:48 nagan kernel: EIP:0010:[do_generic_file_read+427/1300] Aug 27 13:19:48 nagan kernel: EFLAGS: 00010206 Aug 27 13:19:48 nagan kernel: eax: c12e ebx: c12e8b48 ecx: 000f edx: 04edd06a Aug 27 13:19:48 nagan kernel: esi: c113c768 edi: 0004 ebp: c75afc84 esp: c5417f48 Aug 27 13:19:48 nagan kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018 Aug 27 13:19:48 nagan kernel: Process smbd (pid: 2596, stackpage=c5417000) Aug 27 13:19:48 nagan kernel: Stack: 081e6e3d 7000 1000 Aug 27 13:19:48 nagan kernel:c75afbe0 c0121b47 c59834e0 c5983500 c5417f8c c0121a90 c59834e0 ffea Aug 27 13:19:48 nagan kernel: 3000 4000 081e9e3d c012d666 c59834e0 081e6e3d Aug 27 13:19:48 nagan kernel: Call Trace: [generic_file_read+99/128] [file_read_actor+0/84] [sys_read+150/204] [system_call+51/56] Aug 27 13:19:48 nagan kernel: Aug 27 13:19:48 nagan kernel: Code: 39 6a 08 75 f4 39 7a 0c 75 ef b8 02 00 00 00 0f ab 42 18 89 [...] >From /var/log/samba/log.smbd [...] [2001/08/27 13:19:48, 0] locking/locking.c:delete_fn(255) locking : delete_fn. LOGIC ERROR ! Entry for pid 2596 and it no longer exists ! [2001/08/27 13:19:48, 0] locking/locking.c:delete_fn(255) locking : delete_fn. LOGIC ERROR ! Entry for pid 2596 and it no longer exists ! [2001/08/27 13:19:48, 0] locking/locking.c:delete_fn(255) locking : delete_fn. LOGIC ERROR ! Entry for pid 2596 and it no longer exists ! [2001/08/27 13:19:48, 0] locking/locking.c:delete_fn(255) locking : delete_fn. LOGIC ERROR ! Entry for pid 2596 and it no longer exists ! [2001/08/27 13:19:51, 0] smbd/dir.c:dptr_close(280) Invalid key 256 given to dptr_close [...] File testparam.out attached is command output # testparam > testparam.out Can anybody, please, explain me what can be the cause of the problem? Software used: debian unstable, kernel 2.4.9 (custom), libc6 2.2.4-1, sumba 2.2.1a-6 Thank you, Mikhail. testparm.out Description: Binary data
Re: Running remote X apps
On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 07:27:33PM -0700, Duncan Watson wrote: :X is not listening. So even though I changed /etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc and :removed the "-nolisten tcp" stuff X is still not open a TCP port to listen :on. : :I have installed "xfree86-common 4.0.2-1", could it be that it is a compile :time option? Not compile time as the only available switch is '-nolisten ' there is no equivelent -listen switch. If you're using a graphical login (xdm, wdm, gdm, ...), the config for the Display manager is used not /etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc, which is used when you "startx" from the commandline. Using wdm the gonfig you want is in /etc/X11/wdm/Xservers. Since all of these display managers are essentially hacked versions of xdm, I suspect the file conventions are the same. -Jon
Testing upgrade problem?
I had Potato 2.2r.2 installed on my system and did a upgrade to testing. I changed the sources to testing and did apt-get update. Then did a apt-get dist-upgrade. About 270 programs downloaded and then started to install. During the installation I kept seeing the message Unable to (and I forget this word) . Apt-utils not installed. After those packeages were installed all I could do was use the console, I tried startx and that came back command unknown. I then installed xdm (received the same message) and the dependicies that it required and was up and running. I then installed apt-utils and then another couple of programs and never saw that error message again. The question is this, should I reinstall the basic Potato, install apt-utils then do the dist-upgrade, I can copy all of the downloaded files to another disk and then restore them to the /var/cache/apt/archives, or is there another way to do this. My system does not currently seem broke. I apologize for not remembering the exact wording of the message. Any help and suggestion are appreciated. Thanks Don __ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/
Re: adminning mult boxen
> On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 09:42:17PM +0800, Calvin Chong wrote: > > | > Perhaps you can take the hard drives out of most of the boxes and > | > stick them in a single high-powered box. Then make that high-powered > | > box the server and the rest as diskless X terminals. This way the > | > terminals have no config on them to deal with, it is all unified on > | > the server. > | > | I suggest a ramdisk on all those client (i.e. ramdisk cached /home/user > | and non-ramdisk /home/user/storage/) for all those thin-clients. this > | is to solve the 'customization problem'. > > What is the 'customization problem'? /home should be mounted rw > anyways. All terminals would be using the same /home directory so it > wouldn't matter which terminal you logged into. I was thinking of a internet-cafe like solution for that, but with a bit permanent storage - that is, the rebooting-means-reborning-scene. > > -D > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
Colour coding in vim?
Hi all you vim fans. Is it possible to colour code text in vim? What I would like to do is make vim colour my .c files while I edit them. For example, it would be good to see all the comments coded a different colour. How do you do this? Thanks. Mark.
Kmail questions
I just upgraded to kde 2.2 with kmail 1.3.1 on unstable. kmail looks nice. Thanks to everyone that worked on it. When I type an address is there a way to have it complete the address when it finds it fro the keyboard? I hate moveing my hand off he keyboard just to click on a button. Is there a way to have it read the ldap database automaticly like netscape does? The co. that I work for stores all the email names in ldap and we useually configure the netscape address book to see this and do a search on it when we are typeing in an address. Thanks. Brian Brian Schramm [EMAIL PROTECTED]ICQ 104442754 AIM schrammbrian www.linuxexpert.org
Re: Installation of Debian
Stathy G. Touloumis wrote: > > >cfdisk > >tasksel + dpkg + apt-get > > I was not able to find the cfdisk package or apt-get. Are they under > different package names? yes gateway:/var/log# dpkg -S /sbin/cfdisk util-linux: /sbin/cfdisk > >
Re: Testing upgrade problem?
- Original Message - From: "D. Hoyem" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Monday, August 27, 2001 10:09 PM Subject: Testing upgrade problem? > I had Potato 2.2r.2 installed on my system and did a > upgrade to testing. I changed the sources to testing > and did apt-get update. Then did a apt-get > dist-upgrade. About 270 programs downloaded and then > started to install. During the installation I kept > seeing the message Unable to (and I forget this word) > . Apt-utils not installed. After those Not preconfiguring package - Apt-utls not installed. Deinstallation of startx (xbases-client) does not make sense with this... :o > packeages were installed all I could do was use the > console, I tried startx and that came back command > unknown. I then installed xdm (received the same > message) and the dependicies that it required and was > up and running. I then installed apt-utils and then > another couple of programs and never saw that error > message again. The question is this, should I > reinstall the basic Potato, install apt-utils then do > the dist-upgrade, I can copy all of the downloaded > files to another disk and then restore them to the > /var/cache/apt/archives, or is there another way to do > this. My system does not currently seem broke. I > apologize for not remembering the exact wording of the > message. It's working now, then it's not broke now. > Any help and suggestion are appreciated. > Thanks > Don > > __ > Do You Yahoo!? > Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger > http://phonecard.yahoo.com/ > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
Re: Colour coding in vim?
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Debian-user" Sent: Monday, August 27, 2001 9:58 PM Subject: Colour coding in vim? > Hi all you vim fans. > > Is it possible to colour code text in vim? What I would like to do is > make vim colour my .c files while I edit them. For example, it would be > good to see all the comments coded a different colour. You need vim-rt (VIM support files) and :syntax on > > How do you do this? > > Thanks. > Mark. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
Re: The Sound of Silence
On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 04:22:11PM +0900, Curt Howland wrote: > Ok, finally something real. > > It's yiff that's dominating the sound files: > > #fuser -v /dev/dsp > USERPID ACCESS COMMAND > /dev/dsp root245 f yiff > > #ps auxwww > USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND > root 245 0.1 0.4 1084 272 ?S16:03 0:00 > /usr/sbin/yiff /etc/yiff/yiffrc > > The Sound HowTo only mentions FTAPE conflicts for DMA, I'm not using > FTAPE nor do I have that module loaded. > > I beg the lists indulgence in this matter, I believe I have at last > traced it down to the point where I can't do anything more. What the heck is yiff? $ apt-cache search yiff liby-dev - Y Sound Server Library Header Files liby2 - Y Sound Server Library yiff-config - Y Sound Server X11 Configuration yiff-server - Y Sound Server Ah, ok. You've gone and installed a sound server of some sort. Have you read the docs for it? If I were you I'd uninstall this yiff crap, and once you verify your sound is working use esd as God intended. :-) > The Road goes ever on and one, down from the door where it began. > Now far ahead the Road has gone and I must follow, if I can, > Pursuing it with eager feet, until it joins some larger way > Where many paths and errands meet. And whither then? I cannot say. Good quote, but you have forgotten the attribution. -- Nathan Norman - Staff Engineer | A good plan today is better Micromuse Ltd. | than a perfect plan tomorrow. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- Patton pgpBnkddqbFsW.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Kmail questions
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 27 August 2001 15:51, Brian Schramm wrote: > When I type an address is there a way to have it complete the address when > it finds it fro the keyboard? I hate moveing my hand off he keyboard just > to click on a button. Actually, auto completion should work in KMail from KDE 2.2 ... No clue what your problem is. There has been some change in how auto-completion works, though (no Ctrl-T anymore), it's just automagical now. > Is there a way to have it read the ldap database automaticly like netscape > does? The co. that I work for stores all the email names in ldap and we > useually configure the netscape address book to see this and do a search > on it when we are typeing in an address. LDAP is not currently supported by KMail but there are people working on it. Read the KMail mailing list if you want to know more. - -M - -- - --- Magnus von Koeller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Georg-Westermann-Allee 76 / 38104 Braunschweig / Germany Phone: +49-(0)531/2094886 Mobile: +49-(0)179/4562940 lp1 on fire (One of the more obfuscated kernel messages) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7ilwjUIvM6e6BgFARAsH5AKDdDPsq9LMtYrv8kdIXnYKE5LEqCgCglJkx Z1PK1Tc4bBxkmdp+WQdiSuQ= =9RJ4 -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: Network Collisons
On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 12:39:10PM +, Hereward Cooper wrote: > Hi, > What would cause the vast number of packet collisons between > the 2 computers on my network, which are connected via a 8 port > hub. > Collisions are a normal consequence of the EThernet protocol. A very high number .. >10% if I recall rightly ... may be cause for concern over the hardware. But it depends on a lot of things .. you don't say what is going on on the 2 computers, what kind of NIC's you have etc. Cliff
.raw woody images to .iso
All the Woody CD images I've found have been in .raw format. I'm unfamiliar with this format and have been looking for .iso files. Is there a process for converting between the two on a MS box? My CD burner doesn't become Linux until I download these disks. Thanks, John Purser
automatic recovery on power-down
Hi! I'd like to ask why my Debian server, on a power-down or black-out, always requests for root to do an fsck etc. Is there any way I can automatically get the server up and running again? Is this a good solution? Or is it better off having root to do a manual fasck etc first? Thanks! Umum Wijoyo --- G6/Lola Bandung, Indonesia
DRI questions
Well, I finally got around to setting up X 4.1 and DRI/DRM yesterday so I can play all the Loki games that I've bought. Still having a couple problems with it, although it is functioning: - The final step I had to take was fixing some device permissions. /dev/dri/ and /dev/dri/card0 were owned by root.root, preventing normal users from getting at DRI, so I changed them to root.video (which matches /dev/agpgart). However, the ownership reverts to root.root on reboot (and I see that it reverted overnight also). What is doing this (AFAICT, it's not logging its activity) and how do I make it stop? (I've also been having similar problems with my laptop for a while now, with all the audio devices having their permissions reset to 000 when it reboots.) - It seems that, should a DRI-using program (game) crash while running in full-screen mode, it retains its hold on the display. Is there any way to get out of DRI mode and back to normal operation without having to reboot the machine? -- With the arrest of Dimitry Sklyarov it has become apparent that it is not safe for non US software engineers to visit the United States. - Alan Cox "To prevent unauthorized reading..." - Adobe eBook reader license
Re: Multiple X servers?
Lo, on Friday, August 24, Karsten M. Self did write: > on Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 08:49:36AM -0500, Richard Cobbe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > Lo, on Friday, August 24, Karsten M. Self did write: > > > > > --kunpHVz1op/+13PW > > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=3Dus-ascii > > > Content-Disposition: inline > > > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > > > Why doesn't the debian-user-digest list handle this right? > > Hmm...not sure. I'm one of those cuss'ed mutt/GPG users though... True, but I don't think this is your fault. I've previously been subscribed to the non-digest form of debian-users (same MUA), and I never had any problems with your email messages. Your GPG signature showed up either inline or as a MIME attachment (I don't remember exactly) and I didn't notice any quoted-printable crud in your message body. I think the digest software munges the MIME headers, or something. Whatever. > The gconf bug has been a recurring one in 0.11 and 0.12 releases. I'm > clean with 0.11.5, if you want to give it another shot. Again, you may > want to consider moving up to Woody or Sid. 0.11.5 works fine, with but one exception. It can't handle the (presumably non-standard) Javascript navigation tools at the top of my company's internal web page. I've suggested that they reduce their use of Javascript on the intranet, but that's apparently uncool. You'd think that they'd at least provide a text-only navigation area as an alternative, but this too eludes them. I'm currently cutting and pasting these URLs from Netscape into my Galeon bookmark file. I've only been using Galeon for a few hours now, and I must say I'm quite impressed. If 0.11.5 is this good, I can't wait for 1.0! Thanks much, Richard -- /"\ \ / X ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN / \ AGAINST HTML MAIL
apt-get causing some frustration
Hi, Wondering if someone out there can help? I have been having numerous problems with apt-get lately, first I keep getting strange characters appearing in the sources.list, that I have come to live with I edit it, correct it & it appears to function fine afterwards, then possibly some days later I will read about some update,etc. go to use apt-get to install/upgrade it & it dies on me. I have installed what apparently is the latest. - apt 0.3.19 for i386 & all was fine for about 3 days, then bang!!! Reading Package Lists... Error! E: Problem parsing dependency Depends E: Error occured while processing apache (NewVersion1) E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/dpkg/status E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened. Now some days ago I did install the latest patch for apache, however I used apt-get after that no problem. TIA CraigW
Re: .raw woody images to .iso
I think they're the same thing--I've never had any trouble writing either kind to CD's using cdrecord. Well, maybe "never" is a little strong, but you get the idea : ). If for some reason your software requires a .iso extension, I think you can just rename the file. But I doubt it's necessary. Standard disclaimers apply, HTH. --Daniel On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 08:46:12AM -0600, John Purser wrote: > All the Woody CD images I've found have been in .raw format. I'm unfamiliar > with this format and have been looking for .iso files. Is there a process > for converting between the two on a MS box? My CD burner doesn't become > Linux until I download these disks. > > Thanks, > > John Purser > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: .raw woody images to .iso
On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 08:46:12AM -0600, John Purser wrote: > All the Woody CD images I've found have been in .raw format. I'm unfamiliar > with this format and have been looking for .iso files. Is there a process > for converting between the two on a MS box? My CD burner doesn't become > Linux until I download these disks. Have you tried changing the extention on the file from .raw to .iso and burning the disk? kent
Re: .raw woody images to .iso
> All the Woody CD images I've found have been in > .raw format. I'm unfamiliar with this format and have > been looking for .iso files. Is there a process for > converting between the two on a MS box? Here's a simple idea: Rename the *.raw file to *.iso and try to burn it with Easy CD Creator, Nero, or whatever you have available. If it doesn't work, you're out $0.50 for the blank disc. I've done this before with an image I downloaded. I believe it may be the stuff Sun Microsystems makes available for free. Hall
mountig iso images as normal user
Hi there, is it possible to allow normal users to mount an iso-image (which is in the home directory)? Normally this must do root. Thanks, Sven
Re: automatic recovery on power-down
That would be because when you experience a power outage or black-out that is not a good thing for a multi-user OS as files may be cached in memory and not saved to disk at the time of the outage. This leads to an unstable filesystem and if it persists may corrupt it well enuf that it requires a re-installation of the boxen completely. This is the major reason to justify the cost of a good UPS that allows enuf time to properly shut the system down gracefully (ie- shutdown, halt, etc). The file system is ran through fsck (filesystem check) whenever it was not shut down properly or a drive was not umount'd gracefully. It will also run after the drive has been mount'd/unmount'd X amount of times to verify that everything is still good... You should only have to manually run fsck when the filesystem is in such a state that it can not fix it on it's own, as it typically might make an adverse change and require interactive prompting. If you're having to manually fsck everytime and don't have a UPS with atleast 30 minutes of backup power I *HIGHLY* recommend a good one IMHO. Respectfully, Jeremy T. Bouse CEO, UnderGrid Network Services IPv6 Network Administrator, NTT MCL, Inc. On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 09:52:57PM +0700, Umum Wijoyo wrote: > Hi! > I'd like to ask why my Debian server, on a power-down or black-out, always > requests for root to do an fsck etc. Is there any way I can automatically > get the server up and running again? Is this a good solution? Or is it > better off having root to do a manual fasck etc first? > Thanks! > > Umum Wijoyo > --- > G6/Lola > Bandung, Indonesia >
Re: Colour coding in vim?
On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 11:58:45PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Hi all you vim fans. | | Is it possible to colour code text in vim? What I would like to do is | make vim colour my .c files while I edit them. For example, it would be | good to see all the comments coded a different colour. Yes! | How do you do this? Put syn on in your .vimrc file. Also check out the autocommand stuff. You can change the textwidth, wrapping options, apparent tab size and other stuff when you load a C file. These can be settings that you like for C coding, but not for other things. I use vim as my editor for mutt. I have certain settings that are loaded automatically whenever I am writing a mail. It is really cool stuff! -D
Re: .raw woody images to .iso
Hi I had the same problem. I downloaded a *.raw compatible software and burned the CD's. Unfortunately I cannot acess my home PC right now, so I don't have the URL. Nevertheless, I made a search in Google and came up with 2 solutions: The first is for NERO burning ROM (not sure if that's the one you use): http://www.nslug.ns.ca/pipermail/nslug/2000-August/005104.html The next one is a CD image converter (freeware) so maybe you can use it to convert the raw image into the format your software uses: http://pages.unisonfree.net/jaelanicu/ I hope it helps Pedro Neves
Re: DRI questions
On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 09:25:23AM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote: > - The final step I had to take was fixing some device permissions. > /dev/dri/ and /dev/dri/card0 were owned by root.root, preventing > normal users from getting at DRI, so I changed them to root.video > (which matches /dev/agpgart). However, the ownership reverts to > root.root on reboot (and I see that it reverted overnight also). > What is doing this (AFAICT, it's not logging its activity) and how > do I make it stop? This probably needs to go in your XF86Config file: Section "DRI" Mode 0666 EndSection So that the permissions are set on each X startup.
Re: adminning mult boxen
On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 10:09:27PM +0800, Calvin Chong wrote: | > On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 09:42:17PM +0800, Calvin Chong wrote: | > | > | > Perhaps you can take the hard drives out of most of the boxes and | > | > stick them in a single high-powered box. Then make that high-powered | > | > box the server and the rest as diskless X terminals. This way the | > | > terminals have no config on them to deal with, it is all unified on | > | > the server. | > | | > | I suggest a ramdisk on all those client (i.e. ramdisk cached /home/user | > | and non-ramdisk /home/user/storage/) for all those thin-clients. this | > | is to solve the 'customization problem'. | > | > What is the 'customization problem'? /home should be mounted rw | > anyways. All terminals would be using the same /home directory so it | > wouldn't matter which terminal you logged into. | | I was thinking of a internet-cafe like solution for that, but with a | bit permanent storage - that is, the | rebooting-means-reborning-scene. Oh, I see. You would have many people using the same login, which could cause problems if those people change the config. That is a good idea, then, for that situation. -D
Re: question about hostname
On Monday 27 August 2001 09:31, Martin F Krafft wrote: > also sprach Cliff Sarginson (on Mon, 27 Aug 2001 07:48:11AM +0200): > > Hello .. "search" and "domain" are mutually exclusive btw. > > The last one in the file is what wins... > > are you serious? i must admit that i never really knew what "domain" > did, but i didn't know that they were mutually diskliking each other. > do you have docs about that? not that i disbelieve you, just > interest... The behaviour resulting from the domain directive is a little complicated to explain. The domain used to resolve addresses is normally the domain part of the full host name..so if your host is jabberwocky.carrol.net then your default domain is "carrol.net". If you have a hostname without dots, e.g. just "jabberwocky" then the default domain is the root domain "." which is useless...! If you use the domain directive you specify a new default domain. e.g domain lewis.net Then lookups will use this domain instead of rhe implied default. This is your search list. If you just type a host name for resolution that is first looked up as is, if it is not found then the domain part is appended and a new serach begun. The search directive allows you to specify a number of domains to search, up to 6 I believe. The first name in the search list because the default domain. hence any preceding domain definition is just ignored. This is somewhat different in older versions of bind..but I doubt you are running one of those. There is more to the story than this .. trailing dots for example..but that is my two-pennyworth for now. If you want to understand DNS buy the bible O'Reilly book.. DNS and BIND. I think their is a bind user's manual in the distro as well. One of the real headaches with setting up DNS is typing mistakes...that may not raise an error from bind or the resolver..and can be a pain to find. There is a DNS checking program whose name escapes me..someone else doubtless remembers it. You can put any garbage you like in resolv.conf btw, you will never get an error .. lol. Good Luck Cliff
Re: automatic recovery on power-down
On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 08:10:22AM -0700, Jeremy T. Bouse wrote:
> interactive prompting. If you're having to manually fsck everytime and
> don't have a UPS with atleast 30 minutes of backup power I *HIGHLY*
recommend
> a good one IMHO.
or, if you don't get a long-life ups, get software (smupsd? genpowerd?
etc) which can accept a signal from the ups over a special serial
cable. this allows the box to shut itself down gracefully when the
power is out for over a couple minutes.
also, do be sure you are shutting down properly (telinit 0, shutdown
-h, whatever). power outages are expecte to cause problems, but just
shutting it down shouldn't cause problems. watch that all your
local filesystems actually get unmounted, and debug that process if it
seems to not work.
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tripwire - or others?
hi all, i need to employ some tripwire-like tool on a couple of hosts and i was wondering if you had any experience. i myself have used tripwire for years, but i could see many features that other programs could have that tripwire doesn't... but i don't have time to test the others out, so i was wondering if you have any experience with others, whether you can recommend other integrity checkers, or whether you'd like to praise (or flame) one. thanks, martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> mailto:"; [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- "and no one sings me lullabies, and no one makes me close my eyes, and so i throw the windows wide, and call to you across the sky" -- pink floyd, 1971
Re: Running remote X apps
On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 10:07:59AM -0400, Jonathan D. Proulx wrote: > On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 07:27:33PM -0700, Duncan Watson wrote: > > :X is not listening. So even though I changed /etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc and > :removed the "-nolisten tcp" stuff X is still not open a TCP port to listen > :on. > : > :I have installed "xfree86-common 4.0.2-1", could it be that it is a compile > :time option? > > Not compile time as the only available switch is '-nolisten ' > there is no equivelent -listen switch. > > If you're using a graphical login (xdm, wdm, gdm, ...), the config for > the Display manager is used not /etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc, which is > used when you "startx" from the commandline. > > Using wdm the gonfig you want is in /etc/X11/wdm/Xservers. Since all > of these display managers are essentially hacked versions of xdm, I > suspect the file conventions are the same. Excellent. That is sure to be it. I use xdm and so will find the file. Thanks again, /Duncan -- Duncan Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~~~ climbing in the Pacific NW ~~~
Re: tripwire - or others?
On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 05:27:04PM +0200, Martin F Krafft wrote: > i need to employ some tripwire-like tool on a couple of hosts and i > was wondering if you had any experience. i myself have used tripwire > for years, but i could see many features that other programs could > have that tripwire doesn't... but i don't have time to test the others > out, so i was wondering if you have any experience with others, > whether you can recommend other integrity checkers, or whether you'd > like to praise (or flame) one. If you aren't already, use the free version of tripwire from sid (also available at tripwire.org). It's vastly better than the non-free version found in potato and woody. I've deployed it on several Debian and FreeBSD hosts, and have not found it to be lacking in features. What additional features are you looking for? noah ___ | Web: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/ | PGP Public Key: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/mail.html
Configuring Network Card
Hullo: I'm new to Debian and just installed it. After fighting through the steps of setting up the video card, Xserver, and mouse, i discovered that the network card was not initialized. I have an old D-link ethernet card, and it appears not to have a driver. Is there a way (short of re-installing) to install this driver? _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp
Re: question about hostname
All, Thanks for the responses/discussions on this topic. I'm gonna secure myself copies both of the O'Reilly TCP/IP book and the DNS/BIND book and cross my fingers that they'll lift the fog for me. In the meantime: I -think- I'm a trifle befuddled by my own situation, where I have a DSL provider who provides me with 2 numeric IP addresses, plus a hosting company that is hosting my domain name. Who "does" what in that situation? The DSL provider (Speakeasy) has also provided me with DNS server addresses ... they know nada about the domain I'm hosting with another company (should they?) ... that other hosting company (WestHost) knows nada about my DSL provider ... -Who-, in this scenario, would be the one to do this: "configure your DNS zone to have your static IP (say 111.222.111.222) to point to pear.mydomain.com: pear.mydomain.com. IN A 111.222.111.222" -?- ... have I essentially muddied the situation by having a DSL provider and a separate host-er? Thanks, hope this thread isn't becoming tiresome. Glenn ++ http://www.burningclown.com "Everyone's Portal to Nothing At All" ++
Re: Configuring Network Card
On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 03:37:56PM +, jayson keidel wrote: | Hullo: | I'm new to Debian and just installed it. After fighting through the steps of | setting up the video card, Xserver, and mouse, i discovered that the network | card was not initialized. I have an old D-link ethernet card, and it appears | not to have a driver. Is there a way (short of re-installing) to install | this driver? Yes, but I'll have to know what the card is to know which driver to use. Add the line alias eth0 to /etc/modutils/local_config (create the file if it doesn't already exist) and run 'update-modules'. Replace "" with the name of the actual driver. The following is a list of some of D-Link's cards and the corresponding driver name : DE-530TXtulip DFE-530TX via-rhine DFE-530TX+ rtl8139 I know they also make an ISE NE2000 clone card which would use the 'ne' driver, but I don't know the model number. HTH, -D
Typing umlauts on an english keyboard
Okay folks - I've been searching with no luck on this, so would appreciate some advice. I need to type some German texts, which means umlauts over some o/O, a/A, and u/U characters, and preferably the beta-like character "doppel-s". I've tried: xmodmap -e "keycode 38 = a A adiaeresis Adiaeresis" and it doesn't complain, but it also doesn't do anything. What do people do for this case? Thanks. -- Andrew J Perrin - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 269 Hamilton Hall, CB#3210, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3210 USA
python-fcgi?
I'm trying to install web2ldap for apache. It appears to require the python-fcgi which I can't find. I've got pythong and the other modules hanging around, but can't find this one. Any thoughts? Robert :wq! --- Robert L. Harris| Micros~1 : Senior System Engineer |For when quality, reliability at RnD Consulting | and security just aren't \_ that important! DISCLAIMER: These are MY OPINIONS ALONE. I speak for no-one else. FYI: perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5,(41*2),sqrt(7056),(unpack(c,H)-2),oct(115),10);'
Re: [Fwd: [Fwd: Re: The Sound of Silence]]
* Oliver Elphick (olly@lfix.co.uk) wrote: > Curt Howland wrote: > > > >One more comment: > > > >I continue to get "/dev/dsp: Device or resource busy" when trying to use > >sound. If I "cat message.au > /dev/audio" even as root, I get the > >message "/dev/audio Device or resource busy". > > Some other program has it open. > You may have missed a thread response above; I'm not sure who replied, (deleted) but he suggested you drop yiff. The current questions are, what programs are you trying to use sound with? Is it compatible with yiff? If not, does yiff allow sharing of /dev/dsp? I paraphrase the essence of his reply: "drop yiff, use esd as god intended"
Re: colors wrong with X4.0.3/testing
dman saw fit to inform me that: >On Sun, Aug 26, 2001 at 10:10:12PM -0500, DvB wrote: >| I finally decided to get my woody machine at home to use the X4.0.3 nv >| driver instead of the xserver-svga from 3.3.6 it had been using. >| >| After some struggling with apt-get and dpkg, I finally decided to >| uninstall all X-related packages and start over. This worked fine except >| that now colors are screwed up when I run mozilla or >| netscape. Basically, blues are rendered as aqua/green and netscape, at >| one point, complained about not being able to "allocate pixmap for >| default background." Up until now mozilla/netscape are the only apps >| that have given me trouble. >| >| Is there a package I'm still missing? Or maybe my XF86Config-4 file's >| missing something? Any ideas? > >What color depth is your display running at? Netscape is a color hog >and if you don't have enough colors in your display, then it gets a >"private" colormap. It uses the same indices as other programs, but >for it it refers to different colors. That's when you get the funky >looking color dance when you switch focus between netscape and other >stuff. I've seen this quite a bit on the Solaris systems at school, >which I think are running at 8 bit color. Afterstep is another color >hog. Just try running afterstep, netscape and xfig at the same time >:-). Change your color depth in XF86Config-4 file to 16 instead of 8. Everything will work fine. Warm Regards -- Rajesh Fowkar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kurtarkar Nagari,Bldg-C,T4, http://www.symonds.net/~rajesh/ Santacruz,Ponda-Goa-403401-INDIAPowered By : Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 R-3 Kernel 2.4.9(ext3), Mutt 1.3.20i, IceWM "Silence is the true friend that never betrays." - Confucious
Re: Copying audio CDs on Debian
[EMAIL PROTECTED] saw fit to inform me that: >Greetings!! > >I tried to copy an audio CD to put in the car using xcdroast. I burnt it, >without checking .cdr files but it did not produce desirable results (unless >you are an alien...). My understanding of the matters is (from what I read on >CD-Writing HOWTO) that tracks are ripped first, then put into .cdr or .wav >format and then burt onto a CD... Obviously .cdr files were not well encoded >in the first place... > >My question is: what is the easiest way to copy an audio CD on Debian? I know >of cdrdao and am going to try it tonight after I get back from work (and I >should remember to use that --simulate option :-) > >What experiences have other people had? I am not going to use windows to do >this!!! I am sure I can do it under Debian (with a bit of research and of >course fun)... > Some time back I was using xcdroast and even burnt 2-3 audio CD's too. It creates wav files for each song and an index. Than you have to burn those wav files on a blank CD. At present I am using gcombust. One of the listers suggested this to be and I liked its interface too. However I have not yet burnt any audio CD using gcombust. Try it out. Take Care -- Rajesh Fowkar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kurtarkar Nagari,Bldg-C,T4, http://www.symonds.net/~rajesh/ Santacruz,Ponda-Goa-403401-INDIAPowered By : Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 R-3 Kernel 2.4.9(ext3), Mutt 1.3.20i, IceWM "Silence is the true friend that never betrays." - Confucious
Re: DRI questions
On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 11:16:34AM -0400, bill triplett wrote: > On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 09:25:23AM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote: > > - The final step I had to take was fixing some device permissions. > > /dev/dri/ and /dev/dri/card0 were owned by root.root, preventing > > normal users from getting at DRI, so I changed them to root.video > > (which matches /dev/agpgart). However, the ownership reverts to > > root.root on reboot (and I see that it reverted overnight also). > > What is doing this (AFAICT, it's not logging its activity) and how > > do I make it stop? > > This probably needs to go in your XF86Config file: > > Section "DRI" > Mode 0666 > EndSection > > So that the permissions are set on each X startup. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction, at least. "chmod 0666" and "chgrp video" aren't quite the same thing, but your nudge sent me in the right direction to find documentation stating that I need to set up a DRI section saying 'Group "video"'. But I still don't like processes changing file ownerships behind my back. -- With the arrest of Dimitry Sklyarov it has become apparent that it is not safe for non US software engineers to visit the United States. - Alan Cox "To prevent unauthorized reading..." - Adobe eBook reader license
Cups after upgrade
I just upgraded from woody to unstable (yes there is a difference) and now I cannot print with cupsys-bsd utilities. I get the error of lpr: unable to print file: client-error-not-found I can go into the cups admin interface and print a test page. Cups showes the printer installed and running idle. Everything looks good that I can see. I just cannot print. Any ideas? Thanks Brian -- Brian Schramm [EMAIL PROTECTED]ICQ 104442754 AIM schrammbrian www.linuxexpert.org
