Re: kernel compile step 1

[jjheuring]

But doesn't 'apt-get install kernel-package' take care of that?  
As I understand things I should be able to cd to a specific dir/ and run
an executable config file.  RnTFnM  or that is the README in
/usr/share/doc/kernel-package I see it mentions some place not to
unpack the kernel but not where it should be unpacked.  Again isn't that
what 'apt-get install' does is unpack it in a defined spot? If I'm
missing something obvious (which I'm sure I am) please point me in a
direction.  The README's and Howto's wont' help much If I cd into a dir/
where I know where the the config file is.

On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 09:28:01AM +0700, San Segkhoonthod wrote:
> you can either install kernel-source-2.x.x packages or go get it from
> http://www.kernel.org/pub.
> san
> On Thu, 2001-09-20 at 07:21, jjheuring wrote:
> > 
> > Could someone tell me where the  is?
> > 
> > I did 'apt-get install kernel-package'.  Shouldn't it now be in
> > the /usr/src dir ? That's empty for me. I've read the various
> > README's at /usr/share/kernel-package and they had some other
> > suggestions as to where I might want to unpack the kernel but I don't
> > see anything where there is an executable make file.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
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offtopic: How to seperate only sound from a mpeg file

[Thomas Wegner]

Hi!

Is it possible to seperate sound from a mpeg-file and save the result into a
soundfile?

ThanksThomas
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nimda probes

[Sam Varghese]

Nicholas Petreley had this suggestion for redirecting
nimda probes using Apache:

RedirectMatch ^.*\.(exe|dll).* http://support.microsoft.com

Of course, one can choose to redirect the request anywhere.

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Re: offtopic: which text language to use?

[A.R. \(Tom\) Peters]

On Wed, 19 Sep 2001, David Roundy wrote:

> Probably if you don't want to typeset any math, though, you're better off
> using docbook... but I can't vouch for that.

Right: support for math is poor in DocBook: if you need to write many
formulae, use LaTeX.  In that case, consider LyX for an easy GUI
interface.

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Re: Minicom only works suid root -SOLVED

[Anthony Campbell]

On 19 Sep 2001, John Hasler wrote:
> Anthony writes:
> > I have no idea how all this happened, nor do I understand why /dev/ttyS0
> > had originally got incorrect permissions while /dev/ttyS1, etc, were
> > correct.
> 
> Pppd once had a bug that caused it to fail to restore the permissions on
> the serial port.  I thought it was fixed long ago, though.
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> 

That would certainly explain it. I shall look out for it in future.

Anthony


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Re: debian-user-digest Digest V101 #1495

[Ross Burton]

On Wed, 2001-09-19 at 23:24, Dmitriy wrote:
> WTF is "application/ms-tnef" ???
> 
> [-- Attachment #2: winmail.dat --]
> [-- Type: application/ms-tnef, Encoding: base64, Size: 3.7K --]
> 
> [-- application/ms-tnef is unsupported (use 'v' to view this part) --]

It's a custom binary encoding of ASCII which Microsoft Outlook and
Microsoft Outlook alone sends.  Nice, eh?

Ross Burton

Potato & KDE 2.2

[Yago Alvarado]

Hi all!

   I've got Debian Potato 2.2r3 and I was wondering whether it
would be possible to install KDE 2.2 (compiling the source code)
over this system.

   Would I have to upgrade my system to Woody first?

   Would it work?

Thanks in advance,


Yago

Re: Centralizing apt-get downloads

[Karsten M. Self]

on Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 02:08:28AM -0700, der.hans ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Am 18. Sep, 2001 schwätzte Andrew Perrin so:
> 
> > I have a home setup with a DSL line coming in to one debian box, then two
> > other debian boxen connecting to it via ipmasq.  Each box is set up to do
> > an apt-get update; apt-get upgrade on a periodic basis for security and
> > up-to-dateness reasons.
> > 
> > My question is this: effectively, each time they upgrade, I'm downloading
> > three copies of each package separately. Is there a relatively easy way to
> > archive the files locally and have the two boxen behind the ipmasq'ed
> > computer just get their updates from it?
> 
> I've been using squid in transparent proxy mode for more than a year. It was
> awesome. Also caches stuff for a while, so it helps for updates that are
> done the next day as well.
> 
> squid seemed to also speed up general web browsing. Even stuff that
> definitely wasn't cached. Don't know why on that last part, but I'm not
> about to bitch about things improving :).

I find the latter argument hard to believe.  It *is* possible to speed
up browsing of sites that use heavy graphics content if the graphic
elements are constant, and can be cached.

I get about a 15-20% cache hit rate, which means by typical browsing
speed increases by roughy the same amount (20% of bytes are served at
local speeds).

For speeding apt-get downloads, squid has the advantage of being
transparent, efficient (you're not mirroring packages you don't need),
and very effective.

> BTW, my previous firewall was a Motorola PPC 100 with 64MB of RAM that
> only a few hundred MB disk space allocated to squid. Made a huge
> improvement.

P-200, 96MB, 2 GB disk (about 1.6 GB devoted to cache), running OpenBSD.

Peace.

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Re: MS Windows users secretly dominating debian-user!

[Johnny Ernst Nielsen]

>Tim Moss writes:
>> Well then, don't forget to count how many of the Outlook messages were

>> sent by viruses and not actual people.
>
>Are you saying viruses can't use Debian?  Wouldn't that violate the DFSG?


Tim said _Outlook_ messages. Since Outlook does not run on Debian, viruses
that need Outlook can not use Debian to spread.
(As long as Outlook is not run under Wine or something like that. I don't
think many people run Outlook on Linux using an emulator/win-API yet.)

Cheers
Johnny :o)

Re: booting from floppy fails on scsi-PC

[Christian Eckert]

- Original Message -
From: Martin F Krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Christian Eckert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: 
Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2001 4:53 PM
Subject: Re: booting from floppy fails on scsi-PC

Thanks
for your reply
Concerning your short question which boot image  I
used:
I have downloaded a rescue. bin that I 've found
in
ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/pub/debian/dists/potato-pr
oposed-updates/disks-i386/current/images-1.44
I think because there are other folders called
idepci, compact, udma66 and safe, that
this must be the rescue.bin belonging to the so
called 'vanilla'.
I think vanilla contains rather more modules and
drivers than compact. Right?
So I understand the description in
http://www.debian.de/releases/stable/i386/ch-Insta
llationsmethoden.de.html under 5.3.(it's a german
page)
But the system hangs.

Perhaps it will help
the last four lines before the system will hang. I
wrote them down from the screen
(scsi0) Adaptec AHA-2940X host adapter found at
0/12/0
(scsi0) narrow channel scsi ID=7, 16/255 SCBs
(#whatever it means)
(scsi0) downloading sequenzer 415 instructions
downloaded
scsi:  detection failed (no card)

again:
PC P90, 64MBRam
ASUS board p55TP4xe AWARD Bios 1994-95
AHA 2940 SCSI controller ID=7
HD 80hex 1GB (the old one with M$Win95) ID =0
(Seagate)
HD 81hex 10GB (fdisked one primary partition) ID=1
(IBM)
CD-Rom  ??hex ID=4 (Toshiba Xm3501)
on board fdd and ide, ide disabled
not bootable from cd

thank's to all who will help me to get linux
running on this hardware
Christian

Xfree 4.0.1 corrupted in testing?

[Sven Garbade]

Hi all,

I uprgaded from Debian Potato Progeny (with Xfree 402, kernel
2.2.19/2.4.5) to testing yesterday. Update was succesfull, but know dri
is disabled (agp and dri are compiled into the kernel and runs fine with
both kernels before update). I even compiled a new 2.4.9 kernel, no
success. In the archives I found some mails refers to the same problem,
but no solution. Maybe this helps: got a matrox G400 card.

Maybe I need a downgrade, are the any easy ways?

Thanks, Sven

ipop3d and SSL

[Makaveli]

I've got ipop3d-ssl installed from the Woody archive. All works fine, but
one thing...
If I check mail with a Outlook Express Client with SSL than I get an
"Internet Security Warnig"
Which says the following:
The server you are connected to is using a security certificate that does
not match its internet
address.
Do you want to continue using this server.
[Yes] [No]

If I click on Yes everything goes fine, but I don't like that warning. How
can I make a certificate
for my IP address?

I have got two nic's
Eth0 => internet (212.204.x.x)
Eth1=> Lan (192.168.x.x)

Thanks in advance

Makaveli

system time problem with potato?

[Rino Mardo]

i'm using the 2.2r0 CDs to install my debian box and i notice one
thing.  the dates of some files and directories are set hours ahead of
my cmos time.  files affected are the dynamically created ones like
linked files in "/dev", some files in "/var" and "/usr", and "/proc"
itself.  poking around i saw "/etc/init.d/hwclock.sh" which is
supposed to set my system clock from the hardware or cmos clock.  i
noticed that it is only run for runlevels S, 6, and 5 so i corrected
this and set it to run for all runlevels S and K.  this is according
to suggestions from hwclock(8) to have system time updated by the
hardware clock.

is there a bug with 2.2r0 at the start regarding system time or is
this somekind of fluke i'm seeing?

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KDM and ip aliasing

[Michael Meskes]

Hi,

does anyone know how to configure KDM to run on an aliased IP? I do have a
machine running 2 IPs on one network card. For some network reasons I need
KDM to run on the aliased one and not the original one. The clients try to
connect via chooser broadcast and only see the original IP address.

Is there a way to correct this? I tried setting
DisplayManager.sourceAddress but this does not seem to change anything.

Thanks in advance for any hint

Michael

P.S.: Please CC me on replies as I'm not subscribed here.
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Re: KDM and ip aliasing

[Oswald Buddenhagen]

> I tried setting DisplayManager.sourceAddress but this does not seem
> to change anything.
> 
which version of kde/kdm are you using? if it's >= 2.2alpha2, the
setting is in kdmrc, section [Xdmcp], key SourceAddress=true/false.

otherwise i can only ask, if it works with plain xdm - if not, then
i obviously have something more to code ...

greetings

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RE: stable -> testing

[Bob Koss]

> >
> > I changed 'stable' to 'testing' everywhere in my
> /etc/apt/sources.list file.
>
> When using testing, I always left the deb lines for stable in the
> sources.list file. That is to say that I think rather than replacing
> your stable lines with testing, you should leave them there and add
> lines for testing. For some reason, I remember thinking it wouldn't work
> without the stable lines in there.
>
> I may be wrong about this, so hopefully someone else on the list can
> confirm or deny it.

I didn't see any follow-ups to this. This seems like an important piece of
information.

When upgrading from potato to woody, should the potato lines be kept in
sources.list?

It's too late for me, but the info could help the next person that tries
this.

Re: Simple keyboard question

[Karsten M. Self]

on Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 08:53:49AM +0200, Karsten Bolding ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 
wrote:
> Once there was a program called kbdconfig (or at least very similar) -
> now what is the way to change the keyboard layout - i.e. force an native
> Italian laptop keyboard to act like an US one.

Karsten:

Depends on whether you're in X or console.

For X, you can use xmodmap, or xkeycaps if you want an interactive
keyboard editor.

For console, use loadkeys, part of the console-tools package.

Peace.

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Re: can't mount smbfs

[Damon Muller]

Quoth Bob Koss, 
> I'm running 2.4.7.
> 
> Mine works the "other way" also. I need it to work "this way" (;-)) to do a
> backup.

Having just re-looked at mine after a reboot, it seems to be working
again.

While I'm loathe to suggest rebooting a debian box, maybe samba makes a
real OS like windoze in more ways than one...?

cheers,

damon

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Re: xterminal login to gdm server not permitted by Xlib?

[Karsten M. Self]

on Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 10:39:58AM -0400, Walter Tautz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 
wrote:
> i.e. X-terminals
> 
> Xlib: connection to "full-hostname:0.0" refused by server
> Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server

Current versions of X don't listen for remote X connections.  You'll
have to enable this.  I don't know where.

Better:  tunnel all your remote sessions via ssh.

Peace.

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Re: MS Windows users secretly dominating debian-user!

[Tony Crawford]

oivvio polite wrote (on 19 Sep 2001 at 11:27):

> Well not exactly dominating. Maybe not secretly either. But it 
sounded
> good. This oneliner from the department of utterly useless info 
tells
> it all: 
> 
> agrep "^User-Agent: ,^X-Mailer: " user|perl -ne 'chomp;/.+?: 
(.?.?.?[^\d,\(,\[,\/]{1,14}).*/; $o=$1; $o=~s/ //g;print 
"$o\n";'|sort|uniq -dc|sort -rn 

Funny, I'm not in the list, but I can't see where that pipeline 
leaves out those of us with "Debian" in the first "Received" 
stamp.

T.
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Re: offtopic: which text language to use?

[Damon Muller]

Quoth David Roundy, 
> I don't know anything about docbook (which quite likely is very good), but
> latex isn't bad either (and being a physicist I pretty much have to know it
> anyways).  I've looked briefly at some docbook source, and it looked (to my
> untrained eye) uglier than latex source, and harder to input.  But that's
> probably just because I am unfamiliar with it.
> 
> latex2html gives reasonably good (but a tad ugly) output.  If all you want
> is perfectly functional output, it should be fine.  You can see an example
> at http://civet.berkeley.edu/paratec/ (just the manual to a code that you
> don't have access to...).
> 
> Probably if you don't want to typeset any math, though, you're better off
> using docbook... but I can't vouch for that.

As a social science (criminology) doctoral student, writing a PhD thesis
in LaTeX, I'd argue very strongly that it's useful for people who don't
need to write lots of complex equations.

LaTeX, Xemacs, BibTeX and SiXPack (a perl/Tk BibTeX reference manager)
are a wonderful combination.

DocBook tags seem to be a bit more intrusive than LaTeX ones (I do lots
of php/html coding by hand, and I'd much rather write a document in
LaTeX than in html), and LaTeX has been around for a long time, is very
stable, and is supported on many platforms. It also produces great pdf
output using dvipdfm.

cheers,

damon

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xterm segfaults with -fa in unstable

[mallum]

Hi all;

Im using X 4.1.0.1 from unstable. I have xft and truetype fonts
installed ( via mscorefonts package ). Im trying to get xterm to
display AntiAliased fonts its -fa switch however the following ;

xterm -fa mono-12 

results in a segfault . Any ideas on how to fix this ?

xterm and other apps display tt font ( non aa'd ) no problem.

  --Matthew Allum

Re: offtopic: How to seperate only sound from a mpeg file

[Damon Muller]

Quoth Thomas Wegner, 
> Is it possible to seperate sound from a mpeg-file and save the result into a
> soundfile?

Although I've never tried to do this myself...

[rei:~]% mplayer -ao help


MPlayer 0.18pre4(C) 2000-2001 Arpad Gereoffy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Available audio output drivers:
oss OSS/ioctl audio output
nullNull audio output
sdl SDLlib audio output
pcm RAW PCM/WAVE file writer audio output

It looks like mplayer will write the audio from a video file to a wav
file.

I don't believe it's packaged for debian, but check out the usual
suspects for a link (google, freshmeat). It compiles cleanly on my
testing box.

cheers,

damon

PS. I believe you can do this with FlaskMPEG on windows, but you
wouldn't be asking on a debian list if you wanted to do it in windows,
would you?

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Re: printers

[Michael Ward Cole]

Okay, Perhaps I need to reword this.  I am getting the instruction on bootup 
that my parports are identified as 0 and 1, but that I need to 'use procfs to 
enable interrupt-driven operation.'  I don't know what this means and really 
would appreciate someone directing me to some instructions on this matter.  
Does it mean that I have to compile the kernel with this procfs.h included?  
Thanks,
Michael


On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 07:23:14AM -0400, Michael Ward Cole wrote:
> I have two parallel ports and have parport and parport-pc modules installed 
> into linux 2.2.19pre17.  I get messages on boot up that the two ports are 
> identified but it gives me an instruction to use procfs to enable 
> interrupt-driven operation.  The only file procfs on my system is a header 
> file.  What does this message mean and what am I suppose to do about it?  
> Thanks,
> Michael
> 
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Re: MS Windows users secretly dominating debian-user!

[oivvio polite]

Also sprach Nathan E Norman:
> Also, a more fair count would associate senders with user-agents ...
> if I send 100 emails with mutt, and 10 other users send 10 emails each
> with Outlook, which is more popular?  (From a number of users
> standpoint, Outlook should be the answer).  Your script doesn't account
> for this.
>

How silly of me. Obviously I have been duped by MS agents.

> Yeah, I know it was all for fun :)

For fun? Have you lost mind? Don't you see what THEY are trying to do. 
Obviously you're an MS agent.



New script, counting each sender once. (Couldn't do this in a oneliner. Maybe 
I'm an MS agent.) :

#!/usr/bin/env python2
import mailbox, sys, re, string
 
box = mailbox.UnixMailbox(open(sys.argv[1]))
 
senders = {}
clientscount = {}
clientregexp = re.compile("(.+?)[\d,\/,\[,\.,\(].*")
 
 
while 1:
msg = box.next()
if not msg:
break
 
sender = msg.getheader("From")
 
if not senders.has_key(sender):
senders[sender] = 1
client = msg.getheader("X-Mailer") or  msg.getheader("User-Agent") or 
"unknown"
 
match = clientregexp.match(client)
if match:
client = match.groups()[0]
 
client = string.strip(client)
 
if clientscount.has_key(client):
clientscount[client] =  clientscount[client] + 1
else:
clientscount[client] =  1
 
 
results = [(key, value) for value, key in clientscount.items()]
results.sort()
results.reverse()
 
for result in results:
print result[1], result[0]


Result. Pretty much the same. :
Mutt 667
unknown 518
Mozilla 293
Microsoft Outlook Express 263
KMail 169
Gnus 105
Internet Mail Service 71
Microsoft Outlook IMO 61
Evolution 45
QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 38
Sylpheed version 32
Balsa 32
AOL 17
Pegasus Mail for Win 16
Microsoft Outlook 16
WWW-Mail 15
Microsoft Outlook CWS 15
VM 14
exmh version 11
IMP 11
The Bat! 10
ELM 9
SquirrelMail 8
Becky! ver 8
MIME-tools 7
XFMail 6
QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 6
Microsoft-Outlook-Express-Macintosh-Edition 6
Forte Agent 6
Web Mail 5
Spruce 5
Mew version 5
Lotus Notes Release 5
Pronto v 4
Novell GroupWise Internet Agent 4
Mulberry 4
Gnus v 4
Windows Eudora Pro Version 3
WebMail 3
TWIG 3
Novell GroupWise 3
Mutt http: 3
EMUmail 3
tin 2
mutt-nntp 2
mailgate 2
emacs 2
Visto Server 2
Turnpike Integrated Version 2
QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 2
PocoMail 2
Opera 2
Netscape Webmail 2
NeoMail 2
NIMS ModWeb Module 2
Microsoft Outlook Express Macintosh Edition - 2
MailCity Service 2
MSN Explorer 2
InterChange 2
EMIKO 2
CommuniGate Pro Web Mailer v 2
Atlas Mailer 2
Apple Mail 2
AT&T Message Center Version 2
slrn 1
nail 1
mutt 1
mPOP Web-Mail 1
internet mail service 1
dMail 1
Windows Eudora Version 1
Windows Eudora Light Version 1
Webmin 1
Wanadoo Webmail 1
WM Professional Edition v 1
Virtual Access by Atlantic Coast PLC 1
Version 1
Unknown 1
Ultrafunk Popcorn release 1
Turnpike 1
TkMail 1
SoftForum-WebMail 1
Sequoia 1
Semi-gnus 1
RMM 1
Postaci 1
Pluto 1
Pan 1
PMMail 1
PHP 1
NMH 1
MyMAIL 1
Mutt- 1
Microsoft-Entourage 1
Microsoft Outlook Express for Macintosh - 1
Microsoft Internet Mail 1
Microsoft Internet E-mail 1
Mailsmith 1
Mailer? 1
MacSOUP 1
Lynx 1
Kaufman Mail Warrior 1
KNode 1
Juno 1
JMail 1
J 1
Interfejs WWW poczty Wirtualnej Polski 1
InMail by Insite - www 1
IMHO 1
Gmail 1
GNU Emacs 1
Forte Agent i 1
Excite Inbox 1
Endymion MailMan Standard Edition v 1
Elm 1
Edsamail 1
Daum Web Mailer 1
DMailWeb Web to Mail Gateway 1
Cronos II 1
CoreCommMail 1
CompuServe 1
Caramail - www 1
Calypso Version 1
CWMail Web to Mail Gateway 1
BeOS Mail 1
AspMail 1
AeroMail 1

Re: nimda probes

[Michael P. Soulier]

On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 04:55:23PM +1000, Sam Varghese wrote:
> Nicholas Petreley had this suggestion for redirecting
> nimda probes using Apache:
> 
> RedirectMatch ^.*\.(exe|dll).* http://support.microsoft.com

That is so tempting...

Mike

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Re: MS Windows users secretly dominating debian-user!

[oivvio polite]

Also sprach Tony Crawford:
> Funny, I'm not in the list, but I can't see where that pipeline
> leaves out those of us with "Debian" in the first "Received"
> stamp.
>
> T.

Could you elaborate on that? Is there a way of discriminating subscribed 
posters from unsubscribed posters by watching the headers? 

BTW 
  >X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v4.0, beta 40)
you're obviusly an MS agent.


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Re: Pasting into vim from Win2k via SSH

[Brett Parker]

On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 03:59:24PM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> * Patrick ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010913 06:54]:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I have a Debian box that acts as a file and mail server along with a
> > Win2k laptop belonging to my employer. (I work from home).
> > 
> > Currently I'm trying to edit a .forward file by adding a score based
> > filter.  Its too long to typoe manually but I can't paste it in without
> > the test going all over the place.
> > 
> > My .vimrc reads:
> > 
> > set esckeys
> > set tw=72
> > set ff=unix
> > 
> > Is there something I need to add to enable me to paste test in?
> 
> set noai
> 
> try
> 
> :help ai
> 
> for more info.
> 
> -- 
> Vineet   http://www.anti-dmca.org
> Unauthorized use of this .sig may constitute violation of US law.
> echo Qba\'g gernq ba zr\! |tr 'a-zA-Z' 'n-za-mN-ZA-M'

Personally, I'd suggest using

:set paste

which stops it from doing anything clever and just lets you paste, then when
you want to go back to the normal mode do a 

:set nopaste

Hope that's what you're after.

-- 
Brett Parker

Re: kernel compile step 1

[Richard Hector]

jjheuring wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 09:28:01AM +0700, San Segkhoonthod wrote:
> > you can either install kernel-source-2.x.x packages or go get it from
> > http://www.kernel.org/pub.
> 
> But doesn't 'apt-get install kernel-package' take care of that?

No. kernel-package is a tool to help you create a kernel image package
from the source. You need to install the kernel-source-2.x.x package
seperately.

'apt-get install kernel-source-2.2.19' (for example) will do that for
you - you need to choose which version you want, of course.

IMHO the kernel-package docs need lots of careful reading - others seem
to agree, or have given up on it :-)

Richard

Mutt question

[Michael Ward Cole]

I have a problem sending email to one domain.  
My email is sent through home.com and every time that I send mail to another 
person with the same domain name I get a message undeliverable message saying 
that it can't find the local-part of the domain.  Now, does this mean that it 
is looking locally for the host/user and not sending the email to the server?  
If so, where do I go to make the necessary changes?
Thanks,
Michael

Re: logrotate wtmp,btmp,lastlog

[Miquel van Smoorenburg]

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Vineet Kumar  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I noticed that the stock /etc/logrotate.conf includes explicit
>configurations for wtmp and btmp after this comment:
>
># no packages own wtmp, or btmp -- we'll rotate them here
>
>Until recently, this file included a rotator for lastlog as well, and it
>also had mention in the comment.

.. and that was a bug, since lastlog should not ever be rotated.

>I'm not sure I agree with that comment, though: 
>
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ % dpkg -L login | grep lastlog
>/usr/bin/lastlog
>/usr/share/man/man8/lastlog.8.gz

That's a tool that reads the lastlog file, but several programs
write to it (login and sshd currently I guess)

>[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ % dpkg -L sysvinit | grep last
>/usr/share/man/man1/last.1.gz
>/usr/share/man/man1/lastb.1.gz
>/usr/bin/last
>/usr/bin/lastb

Ditto, those are tools to read those files, but several programs
create and update those files (init, login, sshd, telnetd, ftpd, etc)

>shouldn't the log files, then, be rotated from /etc/logrotate.d/login
>and /etc/logrotate.d/sysvinit, respectively?

.. or sshd or telnetd or ftpd or login or 

>Also (I take that I have this next question as evidence that I'm not
>altogether sure what's going on in this whole situation and thus don't
>feel instilled with the authority to file a bug report) what happened to
>lastlog's mention? Where is its logrotate instructions? I see that mine
>was rotated at the beginning of this month, although it's not mentioned
>in my logrotate.conf .Now that I think about it, what's rotating all of
>those logfiles in my /var/log ? I don't see any mention for any of them
>in any of my /etc/logrotate.{d/*,conf} .

This is a FAQ and alas also a recurring bug .. lastlog should NOT
EVER be rotated. It's a database in the form of a Unix sparse file
that doesn't grow. Though "ls" says it's size is several megabytes
it only takes a few physical KBs on disk.

Mike.
-- 
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-- M.C. Escher (1898-1972)

Re: Lookup during intensive IO

[Jose Manuel dos Santos Calhariz]

On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 05:31:38PM +0200, Walter Hofmann wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Sep 2001, Jose Manuel dos Santos Calhariz wrote:
> 
> > Coud this mean, it is enable by default?
> 
> Check with "hdparm /dev/hda"
> 

I have checked.  It is disabled by default.  I will tried the
stability of the machine with dma off.


> Walter

Jose Calhariz


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Re: Mutt question

[Thomas J. Hamman]

On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 07:37:45AM -0400, Michael Ward Cole wrote:
> I have a problem sending email to one domain.  My email is sent
> through home.com and every time that I send mail to another person
> with the same domain name I get a message undeliverable message saying
> that it can't find the local-part of the domain.  Now, does this mean
> that it is looking locally for the host/user and not sending the email
> to the server?  If so, where do I go to make the necessary changes?

Assuming you're using exim (the default MTA), look at your
/etc/exim/exim.conf file.  Look for a "local_domains =" line--if
home.com is there, take it out.

I had a similar problem, and that's what I had to do to fix it.

-- 
Thomas J. Hamman
"To the shame of mankind, it is well known that the laws which govern our
games are the only ones which are completely just, clear, inviolable and
enforced."
-Voltaire, Philosophical Dictionary

RE: stable -> testing

[D. Hoyem]

When I upgraded from stable to testing all I did was
change the stable to testing in tht sourceslist and
away you go.. So do you need the stable lines in
sources.list, I sy no.
--- Bob Koss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> 
> > >
> > > I changed 'stable' to 'testing' everywhere in my
> > /etc/apt/sources.list file.
> >
> > When using testing, I always left the deb lines
> for stable in the
> > sources.list file. That is to say that I think
> rather than replacing
> > your stable lines with testing, you should leave
> them there and add
> > lines for testing. For some reason, I remember
> thinking it wouldn't work
> > without the stable lines in there.
> >
> > I may be wrong about this, so hopefully someone
> else on the list can
> > confirm or deny it.
> 
> I didn't see any follow-ups to this. This seems like
> an important piece of
> information.
> 
> When upgrading from potato to woody, should the
> potato lines be kept in
> sources.list?
> 
> It's too late for me, but the info could help the
> next person that tries
> this.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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RE: stable -> testing

[Bob Koss]

>
> When I upgraded from stable to testing all I did was
> change the stable to testing in tht sourceslist and
> away you go.. So do you need the stable lines in
> sources.list, I sy no.

I agree. I seem to be doing okay here by just replacing all occurances of
'potato' with 'testing'.


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Senior Consultant   | Object Oriented Design
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Re: MS Windows users secretly dominating debian-user!

[John Hasler]

I wrote:
> Are you saying viruses can't use Debian?  Wouldn't that violate the DFSG?

Johnny writes:
> Tim said _Outlook_ messages. Since Outlook does not run on Debian, viruses
> that need Outlook can not use Debian to spread.

Well, sure.  Everyone knows that viruses only work on Windows, so of course
they have to use Outlook at work.  They can still use Debian at home,
though :)
-- 
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler)
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI

Re: offtopic: which text language to use?

[Alan Shutko]

David Roundy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> I've looked briefly at some docbook source, and it looked (to my
> untrained eye) uglier than latex source, and harder to input.  But
> that's probably just because I am unfamiliar with it.

Not entirely.  Docbook (or any SGML DTD, really) is more verbose and
less flexible on input than LaTeX, so it could be more annoying to
input.  This is its strength and weakness... the flexibility and
eccentric syntax which makes (La)TeX so convenient to enter makes it
more difficult to translate.

There are tools to help edit both, so it's often a matter of personal
choice which one prefers.  I prefer LaTeX these days, as the Emacs
support is more advanced, but one of these days I'll switch to SGML,
certainly.

Some things one might consider in deciding are the needs one has.  For
example, LaTeX has bibliographic support, and more mature maths,
including editor support for both.

> latex2html gives reasonably good (but a tad ugly) output. 

For non-commercial use, there's also tth
.  OTOH, I'm fairly sure that
you can get RTF out of DocBook more easily than LaTeX, and you can
easily get HTML.

-- 
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Immanuel doesn't pun, he Kant.

Re: Well that didn't work - Upgrading Woody from 2.2.19 to 2.4.9

[Alejandro Diego Garin]

On Wednesday 19 September 2001 13:39, John Purser wrote:
>
> And rebooted.
>
> Now it hangs during boot with this message:
>
> VFS: Cannot open root device "302" or 03:02
> Please append a correct "root=" boot option
> Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:02
>
> This a test machine so I don't mind blowing it away and re-installing woody
> again if I have to but is there another way?  And what are the steps
> necessary to upgrading to 2.4 on woody?  I've seen the .deb for upgrading
> potato to 2.4, should I have used that?
>

I had the same problem yesterday and I solved just adding this line
in my lilo.conf

image=/vmlinuz
label=debian
read-only
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.9-k6   # <--- this line
root=/dev/hda2


next #lilo
and reboot

cheers
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Licq #2502623

kde in woody

[Alejandro Diego Garin]

Hello linuxfriends:

I have installed woody (upgraded from potato) and now I would like to install 
Kde. My question is what is the magic apt-get command to start the whole kde 
install ? 
apt-get install __?__

thanks!

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Re: KDM and ip aliasing

[Michael Meskes]

On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 12:15:32PM +0200, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> which version of kde/kdm are you using? if it's >= 2.2alpha2, the

Sorry, forgot that. It's 2.1.1.

> otherwise i can only ask, if it works with plain xdm - if not, then
> i obviously have something more to code ...

I have to try that. More later.

Michael
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Re: kde in woody

[smokez]

http://kde.debian.net/

there is links from debian.org
and if you search the mail archive
there are several references

adam

Alejandro Diego Garin wrote:


Hello linuxfriends:

I have installed woody (upgraded from potato) and now I would like to install 
Kde. My question is what is the magic apt-get command to start the whole kde 
install ? 
apt-get install __?__


thanks!



--
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RE: kde in woody

[Bob Koss]

>
> I have installed woody (upgraded from potato) and now I would
> like to install
> Kde. My question is what is the magic apt-get command to start
> the whole kde
> install ?
> apt-get install __?__


I'm in exactly the same boat. I did an 'apt-cache search kde' and I see
task-kde near the end of the list which looks promising.

Why don't you try 'apt-get install task-kde' and report back so that I know
it's safe ;-)

running dot matrix printers in Linux

[Paolo Alexis Falcone]

Hello:

I've checked the printer compatibility list, and most printers that
are listed are either inkjet or laser printers. Is there any way to
print using dot matrix printers? I still have an old Epson LX-300
printer on my desk - would appreciate if it would work in Linux. I
also have an HP Deskjet 670c but the prohibitive cost of HP ink
cartridges here in the Philippines is quite a turn off. Any help on
this?

Paolo Falcone

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Re: stable -> testing

[Colin Watson]

On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 06:15:26PM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote:
> When using testing, I always left the deb lines for stable in the
> sources.list file. That is to say that I think rather than replacing
> your stable lines with testing, you should leave them there and add
> lines for testing. For some reason, I remember thinking it wouldn't work
> without the stable lines in there.
> 
> I may be wrong about this, so hopefully someone else on the list can
> confirm or deny it.

There is little point doing this. It used to be much more the case that
not everything in stable was in testing; it's still the case to some
extent. However, the packaging system won't remove packages just because
they're no longer available in the archive, so I don't see any reason
why it "wouldn't work".

-- 
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apt

[timo]

Does this happen to look familiar to anyone?

loki:/home/odin# apt-get update
E: The method driver /usr/lib/apt/methods/fpt could not be found.
E: The method driver /usr/lib/apt/methods/fpt could not be found.
E: Tried to dequeue a fetching object
E: Tried to dequeue a fetching object
E: Tried to dequeue a fetching object
E: Tried to dequeue a fetching object
E: Tried to dequeue a fetching object
E: Tried to dequeue a fetching object
E: Tried to dequeue a fetching object
E: Tried to dequeue a fetching object
E: Tried to dequeue a fetching object
E: Tried to dequeue a fetching object
E: Tried to dequeue a fetching object
E: Tried to dequeue a fetching object

The only reference to this on the web is that it is related 
to a broken libnss-db (like I know what that is...), and 
the suggestion was to boot into single user mode and remove
it.  I attempted that and was politely told that it does not 
exist.

I also saw this upon booting, it seemed odd:

hm, page 00fa4000 reserved twice.
hm, page 00fa5000 reserved twice.
hm, page 00fa6000 reserved twice.
hm, page 00fa7000 reserved twice.
hm, page 00fa8000 reserved twice.
hm, page 00fa9000 reserved twice.
hm, page 00faa000 reserved twice.
hm, page 00fab000 reserved twice.
hm, page 00fac000 reserved twice.
hm, page 00fad000 reserved twice.
hm, page 00fae000 reserved twice.
hm, page 00faf000 reserved twice.
hm, page 00fb reserved twice.
hm, page 00fb1000 reserved twice.
hm, page 00fb2000 reserved twice.
hm, page 00fb3000 reserved twice.
hm, page 00fb4000 reserved twice.
hm, page 00fb5000 reserved twice.
hm, page 00fb6000 reserved twice.
hm, page 00fb7000 reserved twice.
hm, page 00fb8000 reserved twice.
hm, page 00fb9000 reserved twice.
hm, page 00fba000 reserved twice.
hm, page 00fbb000 reserved twice.
hm, page 00fbc000 reserved twice.
hm, page 00fbd000 reserved twice.
hm, page 00fbe000 reserved twice.
and so on...

Thanks!

timo

Re: kde in woody

[Alejandro Diego Garin]

On Thursday 20 September 2001 09:53, Bob Koss wrote:
> > I have installed woody (upgraded from potato) and now I would
> > like to install
> > Kde. My question is what is the magic apt-get command to start
> > the whole kde
> > install ?
> > apt-get install __?__
>
> I'm in exactly the same boat. I did an 'apt-cache search kde' and I see
> task-kde near the end of the list which looks promising.
>
> Why don't you try 'apt-get install task-kde' and report back so that I know
> it's safe ;-)

Hi Bob!
I did:
#apt-get update
#apt-get install task-kde 
E: couldn't find package task-kde

what should i do?

cheers
-- 
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GNU/Linux user #151577 counter.li.org
Licq #2502623

Re: fbset

[dman]

On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 09:03:09PM -0600, Dave Thayer wrote:
| On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 05:10:55PM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote:
| > * Steve Gran ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010918 16:23]:
| [...]
| > > for.  However, fbset 1024x760-60 works just fine.  Am i just feeding the
|^^^ 1st clue!
| If fbset works then you must not be using the vesafb driver, all you
| would get is an error message with vesafb

What would allow fbset to work?  I am curios since I recently started
using the framebuffer stuff.  I have an SiS6326 card so I think the
vesafb driver is the only one I can use.

-D

Re: apt

[Danie Roux]

On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 09:24:46AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Does this happen to look familiar to anyone?
> 
> loki:/home/odin# apt-get update
> E: The method driver /usr/lib/apt/methods/fpt could not be found.
^^^ ftp rather than fpt?

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RE: kde in woody

[Bob Koss]

> 
> Hi Bob!
> I did:
> #apt-get update
> #apt-get install task-kde 
> E: couldn't find package task-kde
> 
> what should i do?

Now that's weird. Are you sure you're running Woody?

Do a 'apt-cache search task-kde'. I see three entries when I do that.

Re: apt

[J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)]

On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 09:24:46 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Does this happen to look familiar to anyone?
> 
> loki:/home/odin# apt-get update
> E: The method driver /usr/lib/apt/methods/fpt could not be found.
^^^

Looks like you misspelled "ftp" as "fpt" in your sources.list .

HTH,
Ray
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Re: stable -> testing

[Colin Watson]

On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 08:18:37AM -0400, Bob Koss wrote:
> I agree. I seem to be doing okay here by just replacing all occurances of
> 'potato' with 'testing'.

Be aware of the difference here ...

Using 'potato' means you're tracking a release codename - exactly Debian
2.2 (or Debian 2.2r). Using 'testing' means you're tracking a stage
in the release cycle.

It only matters when we release, really, but if you're tracking testing
then you'll upgrade to the next testing as soon as woody is release,
whereas if you're tracking woody then you'll stay with what will become
Debian 3.0.

-- 
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Re: apt

[timo]

On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 03:27:26PM +0200, Danie Roux wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 09:24:46AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Does this happen to look familiar to anyone?
> > 
> > loki:/home/odin# apt-get update
> > E: The method driver /usr/lib/apt/methods/fpt could not be found.
> ^^^ ftp rather than fpt?
>
No.  I copied/pasted the text directly.  I thought that odd also.

timo

Re: nimda probes

[dman]

On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 04:55:23PM +1000, Sam Varghese wrote:
| Nicholas Petreley had this suggestion for redirecting
| nimda probes using Apache:
| 
| RedirectMatch ^.*\.(exe|dll).* http://support.microsoft.com

This is clever.  I wonder, though, if the worm will actually follow
the redirect.

-D

Re: printers

[Stephen Gran]

Thus spake Michael Ward Cole:
> Okay, Perhaps I need to reword this.  I am getting the instruction on bootup 
> that my parports are identified as 0 and 1, but that I need to 'use procfs to 
> enable interrupt-driven operation.'  I don't know what this means and really 
> would appreciate someone directing me to some instructions on this matter.  
> Does it mean that I have to compile the kernel with this procfs.h included?  
> Thanks,
> Michael
> 
> 
> On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 07:23:14AM -0400, Michael Ward Cole wrote:
> > I have two parallel ports and have parport and parport-pc modules installed 
> > into linux 2.2.19pre17.  I get messages on boot up that the two ports are 
> > identified but it gives me an instruction to use procfs to enable 
> > interrupt-driven operation.  The only file procfs on my system is a header 
> > file.  What does this message mean and what am I suppose to do about it?  
> > Thanks,
> > Michael
> > 
As far as I can gather from your post, oyu're not having trouble
printing, are you?  Interrupt-driven operation is something that some
newer printers use for higher speeds.  Most older printers (and most new
printers, AFAIK) use 'polling', a different method for the CPU to
monitor the port.  It basicaly has to do with CPU usage and efficiency
in making sure the right bits get to the right places.  If you're
printing just fine, don't worry about it, IMHO.  If you've researched
your printer, and it should be using interrupts, and you feel like
recompiling your kernel to include procfs, go for it.  That is what the
error message means.
Good luck, 
Steve

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Re: apt

[Bud Rogers]

On Thursday 20 September 2001 08:24 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Does this happen to look familiar to anyone?
>
> loki:/home/odin# apt-get update
> E: The method driver /usr/lib/apt/methods/fpt could not be found.

I don't know about the other errors, but is that a typo?  I think that should 
be /usr/lib/apt/methods/ftp not fpt...

-- 
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They have awakened a sleeping giant and filled him with a terrible resolve.

Re: fbset

[Danie Roux]

On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 09:10:55AM -0400, dman wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 09:03:09PM -0600, Dave Thayer wrote:
> | On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 05:10:55PM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote:
> | > * Steve Gran ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010918 16:23]:
> | [...]
> | > > for.  However, fbset 1024x760-60 works just fine.  Am i just feeding the
> |^^^ 1st clue!
> | If fbset works then you must not be using the vesafb driver, all you
> | would get is an error message with vesafb
> 
> What would allow fbset to work?  I am curios since I recently started
> using the framebuffer stuff.  I have an SiS6326 card so I think the
> vesafb driver is the only one I can use.
> 
> -D

Nah, you can use a SiS 6326 without vesafb on X3 and X4. What do you
use? I'll email you my config (old one, I no have a Trident woohoo!).

Now if someone can help me get more than 10 fps on a voodoo2 in Quake 3
I'll be happy!

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Re: kernel compile step 1

[D. Hoyem]

Well I believe that Kernel-package is one of the
packages that you need to install a kernel source the
Debian way.  If you are attempting to upgrade your
kernel to 2.4.9, I think that is what I have read on
this thread, then do a apt-cache search kernel.  This
will provide you all of the kernel's that are
available.  If you want to install the 2.4.9-586
kernel then do a apt-get install
kernel-image-2.4.9-586 and that will install it to
your system.  When you answer the questions at the
bottom of the install and add
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.9-586 to your lilo.conf in the
approperate place and the type lilo, you should be
able to reboot and you will have the new kernel
running, provided nothing went wrong. To check what
kernel that you are running you can do a "rename -r".
   If as they say that you want to build (roll) your
own kernel, then you need to do a apt-get install
kernel-source-2.4.9.  That will place
kernel-source-2.4.9.etc into your /usr/src folder. 
Then you go from there.
Don

--- jjheuring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> Could someone tell me where the 
> is?
> 
> I did 'apt-get install kernel-package'.  Shouldn't
> it now be in
> the /usr/src dir ? That's empty for me. I've read
> the various
> README's at /usr/share/kernel-package and they had
> some other
> suggestions as to where I might want to unpack the
> kernel but I don't
> see anything where there is an executable make file.
> 
> 
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Re: rm & download

[Adam McDaniel]

On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 03:18:10PM +1200, Richard Hector wrote:
> I guess realplayer must be sending X events to update the screen, so if
> you can intercept those, you should be able to record it frame by frame
> ... Of course if that became popular real might decide to stop supportin
> X :-(

if you're running a firewall, and a decent (perl|c)? hacker, you could
proabably make up a socket-sniffer that would listen and forward the data to
the realplayer host, thus reading the data but letting it continue happily
on its way...

Of course, something like that wouldn't be limited to X, nor to realplayer...
so as long as its unencrypted...

time for me to install gpg :)

-- 
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Infrastructure Technology Consultant
M-Tech Mercury Information Technology, Inc.

Re: kde in woody

[Alejandro Diego Garin]

On Thursday 20 September 2001 10:30, Bob Koss wrote:
> > Hi Bob!
> > I did:
> > #apt-get update
> > #apt-get install task-kde
> > E: couldn't find package task-kde
> >
> > what should i do?
>
> Now that's weird. Are you sure you're running Woody?
>
> Do a 'apt-cache search task-kde'. I see three entries when I do that.

I did it, nothing

I did an upgrade from potato to woody yesterday.

$cat /etc/debian_version
testing/unstable

$cat /etc/apt/sources.list

# See sources.list(5) for more information, especialy
# Remember that you can only use http, ftp or file URIs
# CDROMs are managed through the apt-cdrom tool.

deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free
deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US testing/non-US main contrib 
non-free

Do I need to add another line here?

thanks for the help
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Re: nimda probes

[Adam McDaniel]

On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 09:15:58AM -0400, dman wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 04:55:23PM +1000, Sam Varghese wrote:
> | Nicholas Petreley had this suggestion for redirecting
> | nimda probes using Apache:
> | 
> | RedirectMatch ^.*\.(exe|dll).* http://support.microsoft.com
> 
> This is clever.  I wonder, though, if the worm will actually follow
> the redirect.
>
the worm wouldn't even know the difference, to it it looks like it would
hit microsofts site from your url if it tries those extentions.

i love apache :P

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Infrastructure Technology Consultant
M-Tech Mercury Information Technology, Inc.

Re: apt

[timo]

On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 03:32:40PM +0200, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 09:24:46 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Does this happen to look familiar to anyone?
> > 
> > loki:/home/odin# apt-get update
> > E: The method driver /usr/lib/apt/methods/fpt could not be found.
> ^^^
> 
> Looks like you misspelled "ftp" as "fpt" in your sources.list .

Ooops.

> HTH,

It certainly did.

Thanks all!

timo

Re: running dot matrix printers in Linux

[Christopher Mosley]

On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, Paolo Alexis Falcone wrote:

> Hello:
>
> I've checked the printer compatibility list, and most printers that
> are listed are either inkjet or laser printers. Is there any way to
> print using dot matrix printers? I still have an old Epson LX-300
> printer on my desk - would appreciate if it would work in Linux. I
> also have an HP Deskjet 670c but the prohibitive cost of HP ink
> cartridges here in the Philippines is quite a turn off. Any help on
> this?
>
> Paolo Falcone
>
> __
> www.edsamail.com

Yes, I believe the various printing filters use ghostscript. The ghostscript
name for the epson dot matrix printer device is simply "epson".
The various filters may use different script names. I am only familiar
with "magicfilter. The specific script for epson in magicfilter
is "epson9-filter".


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Potato->Woody HOWTO?

[Yago Alvarado]

Hi!

   I've just subscribed to the list a few days ago and I'm seeing
many messages about people migrating from the Stable to the Testing version
of Debian which makes me think that it's not such a painful process as I had
thought.

   Is there a HOWTO or something (perhaps in the archives?)
explaining how to do it? (passing from the stable version to the testing
version)

   Can anyone enlighten me?


   Thanks in advance,


Yago

Re: bash prompt

[W. Paul Mills]

>From man bash:

  \[ begin a sequence of non-printing characters,
 which could be used to embed a terminal con­
 trol sequence into the prompt
  \] end a sequence of non-printing characters


So, try this:
  \[\e]0;[EMAIL PROTECTED]:\w\$




[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Timothy H. Keitt) writes:

> Quick question: the following bash prompt puts the current machine name 
> in the xterm (gnome-terminal) title bar, but also causes long lines to 
> wrap incorrectly.  Instead of moving down a line, the wrap over-writes 
> the existing line of text.  Anyone have a solution? Here's the prompt 
> string:
> 
>   \e]0;[EMAIL PROTECTED]:\w\$
> 
> T.
> 
> -- 
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> Department of Ecology and Evolution
> State University of New York at Stony Brook
> Stony Brook, New York 11794 USA
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Logcheck_1.1.1-9_i386.deb problems

[Brian Schramm]

I am getting the following error in trying to install logcheck on my unstable 
debian system.  Can someone tell me why?

Selecting previously deselected package logcheck.
(Reading database ... 110847 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking logcheck (from .../logcheck_1.1.1-9_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/logcheck_1.1.1-9_i386.deb 
(--unpack):
 trying to overwrite `/etc/logcheck/ignore.d.paranoid/sendmail', which is 
also in package sendmail
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/logcheck_1.1.1-9_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Thanks.

Brian
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RE: Potato->Woody HOWTO?

[Bob Koss]

>
>I've just subscribed to the list a few days ago and I'm seeing
> many messages about people migrating from the Stable to the
> Testing version
> of Debian which makes me think that it's not such a painful
> process as I had
> thought.
>
>Is there a HOWTO or something (perhaps in the archives?)
> explaining how to do it? (passing from the stable version to the testing
> version)
>
>Can anyone enlighten me?

Welcome.

I just did this yesterday. It was so simple, even *I* couldn't screw it up.

In /etc/apt/sources.list, change all occurrences of 'potato' to either
'testing' or 'woody'. The difference is subtle. See Colin's message that he
posted a few minutes ago for the distinction.

Then, do 'apt-get update', followed by 'apt-get dist-upgrade'.

Done.

I chose not to upgrade XFree. One problem at a time.

Re: kde in woody

[Alejandro Diego Garin]

On Thursday 20 September 2001 10:30, you wrote:
> > Hi Bob!
> > I did:
> > #apt-get update
> > #apt-get install task-kde
> > E: couldn't find package task-kde
> >
> > what should i do?
>
> Now that's weird. Are you sure you're running Woody?
>
> Do a 'apt-cache search task-kde'. I see three entries when I do that.

well, finally i am doing this

apt-get install kdebase
next
apt-get install koffice
next

I'm donwloading the packages now, this should work fine after all 

thanks for the help

-- 
Alejandro Diego Garin
GNU/Linux user #151577 counter.li.org
Licq #2502623

ipop3d and SSL

[Makaveli]

I've got ipop3d-ssl installed from the Woody archive. All works fine, but
one thing...
If I check mail with a Outlook Express Client with SSL than I get an
"Internet Security Warnig"
Which says the following:
The server you are connected to is using a security certificate that does
not match its internet
address.
Do you want to continue using this server.
[Yes] [No]

If I click on Yes everything goes fine, but I don't like that warning. How
can I make a certificate
for my IP address?

I have got two nic's
Eth0 => internet (212.204.x.x)
Eth1=> Lan (192.168.x.x)

Thanks in advance

Makaveli

Re: Potato->Woody HOWTO?

[Bud Rogers]

On Thursday 20 September 2001 09:05 am, Yago Alvarado wrote:
> Hi!
>
>I've just subscribed to the list a few days ago and I'm seeing
> many messages about people migrating from the Stable to the Testing version
> of Debian which makes me think that it's not such a painful process as I
> had thought.
>
>Is there a HOWTO or something (perhaps in the archives?)
> explaining how to do it? (passing from the stable version to the testing
> version)

It's really very simple.  

Edit /etc/apt/sources.list 
s/stable/testing/ all lines in the file.
comment out the debian-security lines.

Run apt-get update.
Run apt-get dist-upgrade.

Pay close attention to any errors that appear during the dist-upgrade 
process.  You may need to run it more than once before it gets all the 
dependencies sorted out.  Be prepared for a Very Large Download.  I am in the 
process of upgrading a potato box at work.  It wanted to download a bit less 
than 300 MB.  I aborted the dist-upgrade and set up a cron job to download 
the files last night.  Hopefully they will be there when I get to work 
tomorrow.

I upgraded this box from stable to testing and then from testing to unstable 
using that process. I currently track unstable with an update/upgrade process 
running from cron every night.  So far I have had very few surprises.

-- 
Bud Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
They have awakened a sleeping giant and filled him with a terrible resolve.

RE: kde in woody

[Bob Koss]

> 
> well, finally i am doing this
> 
> apt-get install kdebase
> next
> apt-get install koffice
> next
> 
> I'm donwloading the packages now, this should work fine after all 
> 


Let us know when you're up and running in kde.

Re: nimda probes

[Alan Shutko]

Adam McDaniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> the worm wouldn't even know the difference, to it it looks like it would
> hit microsofts site from your url if it tries those extentions.

Not correct, it gets a Redirect as the response, and it's its
responsibility to follow it, unless it's using a toolkit that does so
automatically.

Code Red, for instance, wouldn't follow redirects.

-- 
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Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defense.

Re. Printer troubles

[root]

Has no one any idea of how I can solve the problem stated below? I would
really like to show that Debian is a real alternative to Windows.



  > I can print with pr  |lpr. I have downloaded the browsers,
> Netscape 6 and Opera 5, as well as Star Office. On none of these can I
> print using the printer button. It seems unlikely that all are flawed
> so I must assume that something is wrong with my configuration. If
> somebody knows how to get my programs to print, I can replace Windows
> 98 with Debian as my primary operating system. Thank you.

  
  

  
  

update-alternatives --config x-window-manager

[D. Hoyem]

Hi all
  I'm running a PII 350 with Woody and use Window
Maker. After the Woody install it had a different
window manager installed i.e.Blackbox.  I did a
update-alternatives --config x-window-manager and
chose Window Maker.  Now what will happen, when I have
to shutdown and reboot, Window Maker will come up but
then a another window manger will take over, I have to
close all the stuff that it opens and then select
Window Maker again.  I did a update-alternatives
--config x-window-manage again and I noticed that
there was a star, smaller than normal, by BlackBox and
the normal Star by window Maker. I have looked for
this file but was unable to locate it. 
  Anyone have this happen and how do I fix it.  
Appreciate the help.
Don

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Re: nimda probes

[John Hasler]

Adam McDaniel writes:
> the worm wouldn't even know the difference, to it it looks like it would
> hit microsofts site from your url if it tries those extentions.

And then Microsoft will accuse you of a DOS attack.
-- 
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler)
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI

dri after upgrade to Xfree 4.1.0 doesn't work

[Sven Garbade]

Hi all,

I want to complete my previous posting. After upgrading from Xfree 402
to Xfree 410 the error log shows the following:

(EE) MGA(0): [dri] MGADRIScreenInit failed because of a version
mismatch.
[dri] mga.o kernel module version is 2.0.1 but version 3.0.x is needed.
[dri] Disabling DRI.

Seems I've got the wrong mga.o. But why?

By, Sven

RE: Potato->Woody HOWTO?

[Yago Alvarado]

> No need for a howto:
> 
>  1) Edit /etc/apt/sources.list and add these lines so you can see the
> testing packages:
[ ...]
> If the "apt-get dist-upgrade" stops due to an error, just run 
> it again.

Thanks a lot. 

That's what I call clear instructions. :-)


Regards,
Yago

apt-get upgrade broke X

[Andrew Dixon]

Hi All,
last night I "#apt-get upgrade"d my system and this morning X was
broken.  I tracked the problem down to my new set up not liking the
"1600x1200" mode in my "/etc/X11/XF86Config-4".  The other modes work
fine.

I'm using:
XFree86 4.1
Matrox G450 card with mga_drv.o and mga_hal_drv.o drivers from Matrox

Has anyone else come across this?

thanks for any help,
Andy

Re: iptables nat forwarding

[Robert L. Harris]

I was messing with this a bit also.  I have this:

  /sbin/iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p TCP -i eth0 --dport 80 -j DNAT 
--to-destination 192.168.0.2:80

>From the firewall (192.168.0.1) I can do this:
{0}:wally:/etc/init.d>telnet 192.168.0.2 80
Trying 192.168.0.2...
Connected to 192.168.0.2.
Escape character is '^]'.
^]
telnet> close
Connection closed.

{1}:wally:/etc/init.d>telnet 67.165.192.199 80 
Trying 67.165.192.199...
telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused

{0}:wally:/etc/init.d>telnet 192.168.0.1 80
Trying 192.168.0.1...
telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused


Thoughts?

Thus spake Hereward Cooper ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):

> Hi,
> Could someone please tell me why this command won't forward any www calls to 
> 192.168.1.1 (firewall + gateway) to 192.168.1.2 (apache server).
> 
> iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p TCP --dport 80 -j DNAT --to-destination 
> 192.168.1.2:80
> 
> 
> What I can't figure is why that doesn't work, when the following command does 
> work to forward all external ssh requests from the gateway, to the apache 
> machine.
> 
> iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p TCP -i ippp0 --dport 22 -j DNAT 
> --to-destination 192.168.1.2:22
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Hereward
> 
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RE: Potato->Woody HOWTO?

[Yago Alvarado]

> I just did this yesterday. It was so simple, even *I* 
> couldn't screw it up.

Thanks for the help. :-)

> I chose not to upgrade XFree. One problem at a time.

Can you do that?
I mean... can you unselect the packages you don't want to install? :-?


Regards,
Yago

RE: Potato->Woody HOWTO?

[Walter Tautz]

On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, Bob Koss wrote:

> >
> >I've just subscribed to the list a few days ago and I'm seeing
> > many messages about people migrating from the Stable to the
> > Testing version
> > of Debian which makes me think that it's not such a painful
> > process as I had
> > thought.
> >
> >Is there a HOWTO or something (perhaps in the archives?)
> > explaining how to do it? (passing from the stable version to the testing
> > version)
> >
> >Can anyone enlighten me?
> 
> Welcome.
> 
> I just did this yesterday. It was so simple, even *I* couldn't screw it up.
> 
> In /etc/apt/sources.list, change all occurrences of 'potato' to either
> 'testing' or 'woody'. The difference is subtle. See Colin's message that he
> posted a few minutes ago for the distinction.
> 
> Then, do 'apt-get update', followed by 'apt-get dist-upgrade'.
> 
I would suggest woody since when woody becomes stable testing will point
to something you probably wouldn't want it too. i.e. testing would once
again consist a small number of packages so that the next stable release
after woody can be 'tested'. At least this is my perception.


-walter 

ps. Older video cards don't seem to be backported to the newer XFree86
but I imagine one can install one of the older X3.3.6 servers...
As for newer cards it was a distinct pleasure to note that the latest X11
apt update resulted in my new rage128 card working!

Re: ipop3d and SSL

[Jeremy T. Bouse]

Without having seen the certificate itself to know how it was
created, but using my knowledge of SSL certs I'll see if I can help
clear this up... The certificate does not have to be specific to the
address, but rather to the hostname... Where this can lead to problems
is on dynamic addresses or static ones that resolve differently for
forward and reverse DNS... In this situation the cert should be for the
hostname which can be resolved to an IP address that matches the one 
the machine uses... This way if you have to change your IP address of
that machine as long as the hostname is still valid the cert is still
valid... 

Unfortunately the server I had setup a test CA and working
with X.509 certs for the various server daemons as well as my IPSec
tunnels crashed, so I don't have that to work from. If you would like
some help off-list for your particular situation I would be glad to
offer whatever assisstance I can provide.

Respectfully,
Jeremy T. Bouse

On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 04:31:10PM +0200, Makaveli wrote:
> I've got ipop3d-ssl installed from the Woody archive. All works fine, but
> one thing...
> If I check mail with a Outlook Express Client with SSL than I get an
> "Internet Security Warnig"
> Which says the following:
> The server you are connected to is using a security certificate that does
> not match its internet
> address.
> Do you want to continue using this server.
> [Yes] [No]
> 
> If I click on Yes everything goes fine, but I don't like that warning. How
> can I make a certificate
> for my IP address?
> 
> I have got two nic's
> Eth0 => internet (212.204.x.x)
> Eth1=> Lan (192.168.x.x)
> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
> Makaveli
> 

Re: named bogus loopback

[Bill Wohler]

Bill Wohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>   My log file has started filling up with the following messages:
> 
> Sep 19 14:03:42 gbr named[333]: ns_resp: query(clay-courts.bzam.com) 
> Bogus LOOPBACK A RR (localhost:127.0.0.1) learnt 
> (A=localhost:NS=65.201.216.121)
> Sep 19 14:03:42 gbr named[333]: sysquery: findns error (NXDOMAIN) on 
> localhost?
> 
>   What are they? Should I be concerned? What should I do about them?

  A little more info.

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:511]$ dig clay-courts.bzam.com 
clay-courts.bzam.com.   3663IN  A   198.157.30.5
bzam.com.   3663IN  NS  localhost.
localhost.  604800  IN  A   127.0.0.1

  Ah, a bogus nameserver:

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:501]# mailq
/var/spool/mqueue (4 requests)
-Q-ID- --Size-- -Q-Time- Sender/Recipient---
f8JIgmWX026621 1624 Wed Sep 19 11:42 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
 (host map: lookup (clay-courts.bzam.com): deferred)
 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
...

  Ah, bounced spam in my mail queue.

  I suppose if this were a legitimate outfit, the thing to do is
  report the error to the technical contact for the domain (which is
  what I did). I imagine that this is the "fix" for this problem,
  although it probably won't get very far in this situation.

  Question: 65.201.216.121 is mentioned in the error message above,
  but doesn't seem to be connected to bzam.com in any way. How is it?

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If you're passed on the right, you're in the wrong lane.

Re: Re. Printer troubles

[Andrew Perrin]

What happens when you try to print? Anything?

Is there anything in /var/log/lp-acct, /var/log/lp-errs, or
/var/log/lpr.log?

Have you tried using magicfilter to handle printing?

(I haven't used Opera, but Netscape and SO both print fine for me.)

BTW: it's unwise to use a root login for mail and other non-root tasks.

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  269 Hamilton Hall, CB#3210, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3210 USA


On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, root wrote:

> Has no one any idea of how I can solve the problem stated below? I would 
> really like to show that Debian is a real alternative to Windows.
> 
> 
> >> I can print with pr  |lpr. I have downloaded the browsers,
> >> Netscape 6 and Opera 5, as well as Star Office. On none of these can I
> >> print using the printer button. It seems unlikely that all are flawed
> >> so I must assume that something is wrong with my configuration. If
> >> somebody knows how to get my programs to print, I can replace Windows
> >> 98 with Debian as my primary operating system. Thank you.
> >
> 
> 

RE: Potato->Woody HOWTO?

[Bob Koss]

>
> > I chose not to upgrade XFree. One problem at a time.
>
> Can you do that?
> I mean... can you unselect the packages you don't want to install? :-?
>

The installation / configuration tool asks you questions. I opted to leave
anything to do with X the way it was.

Re: update-alternatives --config x-window-manager

[Walter Tautz]

On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, D. Hoyem wrote:

> Hi all
>   I'm running a PII 350 with Woody and use Window
> Maker. After the Woody install it had a different
> window manager installed i.e.Blackbox.  I did a
> update-alternatives --config x-window-manager and
> chose Window Maker.  Now what will happen, when I have
> to shutdown and reboot, Window Maker will come up but
> then a another window manger will take over, I have to
> close all the stuff that it opens and then select
> Window Maker again.  I did a update-alternatives
> --config x-window-manage again and I noticed that
> there was a star, smaller than normal, by BlackBox and
> the normal Star by window Maker. I have looked for
> this file but was unable to locate it. 
>   Anyone have this happen and how do I fix it.  
> Appreciate the help.
> Don
> 
> __
are you running gnome or simply a window manager by itself?

I have noticed that gnome can not override x-window-manager.
In my case it points to blackbox but gnome thinks it is running
enlightenment

-walter

Re: view package contents w/o installing

[Walter Tautz]

On Wed, 19 Sep 2001, Brian Potkin wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 11:27:36AM -0500, DvB wrote:
> 
> > Is there any way to see what files are in a package without having to
> > install it first? 
> > 
> > I can't find this functionality on packages.debian.org and, IMHO, it
> > would be useful if it were present. Would it be that hard to implement
> > this?
> 
> dpkg-deb manipulates package archives.  It comes with dpkg so should
> already be on your system.  Do `man dpkg-deb' and look in particular at
> the -c switch.
> 
> Midnight Commander will also do what you want.  Select the .deb file and
> press .
> 
> Brian. 
> 
You could also run ar t .deb on any unix system that has `ar' command.
If you want to extract the files do ar x .deb.

-walter

Re: update-alternatives --config x-window-manager

[D. Hoyem]

--- Walter Tautz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> 
> On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, D. Hoyem wrote:
> 
> > Hi all
> >   I'm running a PII 350 with Woody and use Window
> > Maker. After the Woody install it had a different
> > window manager installed i.e.Blackbox.  I did a
> > update-alternatives --config x-window-manager and
> > chose Window Maker.  Now what will happen, when I
> have
> > to shutdown and reboot, Window Maker will come up
> but
> > then a another window manger will take over, I
> have to
> > close all the stuff that it opens and then select
> > Window Maker again.  I did a update-alternatives
> > --config x-window-manage again and I noticed that
> > there was a star, smaller than normal, by BlackBox
> and
> > the normal Star by window Maker. I have looked for
> > this file but was unable to locate it. 
> >   Anyone have this happen and how do I fix it.  
> > Appreciate the help.
> > Don
> > 
> > __
> are you running gnome or simply a window manager by
> itself?
> 
> I have noticed that gnome can not override
> x-window-manager.
> In my case it points to blackbox but gnome thinks it
> is running
> enlightenment
> 
> -walter
> 
Well the update installed gnome and yes the same thing
is happening to my system, but I can change it to
Window Maker
Don

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Re: Potato->Woody HOWTO?

[Dave Sherohman]

On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 03:57:02PM +0100, Yago Alvarado wrote:
> > I chose not to upgrade XFree. One problem at a time.
> 
> Can you do that?
> I mean... can you unselect the packages you don't want to install? :-?

No.  The reason you can choose to leave X behind is that the
packaging has changed.  X 3.3.x uses a flock of xserver-
packages, while X 4.0.x has a single xserver-xfree86 package which
handles all video cards.

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Re. Printer troubles

[root]

Response to questions:

/var/log/lp-acct  is empty.

/var/log/lp-errs has the following repeated about 40 times.
 /bin/sh: /usr/bin/gs: No such file or directory

/var/log/lpr.log has the following with many repeats with changed lpd.
   (date,etc)  lpd[365]: lp : filter  'f' terminated (termsig=13)
""  "   job could not be printed (cfAOsidne


My printer was set up with magicfilter.

I am using root because Netscape 6, which has my correct name in the 
inbox, has this for the outbox. I will see if I can change it.

loading pcmcia modules in 2.4.9

[Richard Black]

Hi All

I am trying to upgrade my kernel from 2.4.3 to 2.4.9.  Everything seems
okay, _except_ I have no sound and no network (both work fine with
2.4.3).  As best as I can tell, the my compilation options are the same
(or very similar) in both versions.

The sound I can tackle later, but the lack of a network is real pain.

What I have found is that I can not load the modues ds or i82365 (and
hence my network card driver: 3c589_cs).  When I try to probe them or
insmod them I get an error "init_module: can not load" (sorry, I don't
have the exact text) with the suggestion that I check my ports and IO
settings.

Where do I do this?  I am not setting them in /etc/modutils or
/etc/modules.conf--I never had to with 2.4.3.

Has anyone else had a similar problem?  Advice/help would be most
welcome

thanks

Richard

Re: nimda probes

[Hereward Cooper]

once upon a time John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:

> Adam McDaniel writes:
> > the worm wouldn't even know the difference, to it it looks like it
> would
> > hit microsofts site from your url if it tries those extentions.
> 
> And then Microsoft will accuse you of a DOS attack.

Couldn't you just claim that your machine was inffected?

Hereward


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Re. Printer troubles

[sheine]

I forgot to answer one question of the following;

What happens when you try to print? Anything?

Is there anything in /var/log/lp-acct, /var/log/lp-errs, or
/var/log/lpr.log?

Have you tried using magicfilter to handle printing?

(I haven't used Opera, but Netscape and SO both print fine for me.


With Star Office these is a printer setup. Under printer setup, there is the 
option of printing a test page. When I try to print the test page, I get the 
response that the page has been printed, even though it has not been. With the 
others, I get no response.

Re: Re. Printer troubles

[Andrew Perrin]

Looks like you don't have ghostscript installed (or at least installed
correctly).  gs's role is to take postscript output (which SO and Netscape
generate) and translate it into your printer's native format. Try:

apt-get install gs-aladdin

and see if that works.

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On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, root wrote:

> Response to questions:
> 
> /var/log/lp-acct  is empty.
> 
> /var/log/lp-errs has the following repeated about 40 times.
>   /bin/sh: /usr/bin/gs: No such file or directory
> 
> /var/log/lpr.log has the following with many repeats with changed lpd.
> (date,etc)  lpd[365]: lp : filter  'f' terminated (termsig=13)
>  ""  "   job could not be printed (cfAOsidne
> 
> 
> My printer was set up with magicfilter.
> 
> I am using root because Netscape 6, which has my correct name in the 
> inbox, has this for the outbox. I will see if I can change it.
> 
> 
> 
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Exim, imp, www-data question

[Mike Egglestone]

Hi all,

I'm running exim on Potato, with IMP,Postgresql and PHP3.

When I setup exim, it asks which account to use to receive system
emails and such.
So, as usual, I put in my account name. 
I have noticed then when other users on the IMP system
send an email with bad syntax, their email gets sent back to 
them basically telling them that they can't spell.
However, I noticed that my account receives the same 
error email that the user received.
The error comes from [EMAIL PROTECTED] I believe.

I would like to know if this is normal?

thanks for your time.

Mike

RE: Woody install from the net

[Bruce Best \(CRO\)]

The instructions I was giving assumed you could download the ~80Mb from the
/dists/testing/main/disks-/current/ directory to a Windows partition. If
you do this, you don't need **any** floppies. The base system is installed
directly from the hard drive. See s. 6.3 of the Debian Installation
Instructions, at
http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch-rescue-boot.en.html#s-install-
drive. 

I do not know if you can do a network installation over PPP.

I would also recommend that you post back to the list with questions such as
these (rather than by replying by private email), as someone else may be
better able to answer the questions. I have cc'd this to the list.

Bruce

>-Original Message-
>From: Lars Jensen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2001 11:32 AM
>To: Bruce Best (CRO)
>Subject: RE: Woody install from the net 
>
>
>Bruce,
>
>How many floppies do I need for the base system, in addition to the
>three with rescue.bin, root.bin, and drivers.bin? When I installed
>potato, a 15MB base2.2.tgz file was supplied at the debian site that
>contains the base system. I don't see this file in woody. My 
>question is
>what to use instead. FYI: I have a ppp network connection.
>
>Thanks for your help
>Lars.
>
>On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, Bruce Best (CRO) wrote:
>
>> "Yes." The base system is what you install from the files 
>you downloaded
>> (i.e., the  "boot floppies" though there is no need to 
>actually put them on
>> floppies). The base system is a minimalist install with 
>network support,
>> which then will connect to the network and use apt-get to 
>install whatever
>> other packages you want.
>> 
>> Read the "Installation Instructions" at www.debian.org.
>> 
>> Bruce
>> 
>> >-Original Message-
>> >From: Lars Jensen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> >Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2001 3:01 AM
>> >To: Bruce Best (CRO)
>> >Subject: Re: Woody install from the net 
>> >
>> >
>> >What did you do when the floppies asked to "install the 
>base system" ?
>> >
>> >Lars.
>> >

Re: MS Windows users secretly dominating debian-user!

[Petr \[Dingo\] Dvorak]

On 20 Sep 2001, John Hasler wrote:

JH> I wrote:
JH> > Are you saying viruses can't use Debian?  Wouldn't that violate the DFSG?
JH> 
JH> Johnny writes:
JH> > Tim said _Outlook_ messages. Since Outlook does not run on Debian, viruses
JH> > that need Outlook can not use Debian to spread.
JH> 
JH> Well, sure.  Everyone knows that viruses only work on Windows, so of course
JH> they have to use Outlook at work.  They can still use Debian at home,
JH> though :)

there is whooping number of 5 trojans/viruses [that i know of] that were
written specifically for linux, though none of them worked very well or not at
all :)

Dingo.


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Re: fbset

[dman]

On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 03:38:21PM +0200, Danie Roux wrote:
| On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 09:10:55AM -0400, dman wrote:
| > On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 09:03:09PM -0600, Dave Thayer wrote:
| > | On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 05:10:55PM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote:
| > | > * Steve Gran ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010918 16:23]:
| > | [...]
| > | > > for.  However, fbset 1024x760-60 works just fine.  Am i just feeding 
the
| > |^^^ 1st clue!
| > | If fbset works then you must not be using the vesafb driver, all you
| > | would get is an error message with vesafb
| > 
| > What would allow fbset to work?  I am curios since I recently started
| > using the framebuffer stuff.  I have an SiS6326 card so I think the
| > vesafb driver is the only one I can use.
| 
| Nah, you can use a SiS 6326 without vesafb on X3 and X4. What do you
| use? I'll email you my config (old one, I no have a Trident woohoo!).

I know.  I have X4 right now and it works if I boot in "vga" mode.  I
started looking at the framebuffer stuff when I tried to run quake.
(See below for more details.)  Actually by "only driver I can use" I
really meant "only _framebuffer_ driver I can use".

| Now if someone can help me get more than 10 fps on a voodoo2 in Quake 3
| I'll be happy!

What sort of client are you running?  (I don't really know much about
Quake 3 in linux though)  With Quake1 there are many different clients
 -- SVGAlib, X, 3dfx, GGI, (maybe more).  I found the GGI client to be
the best.  It uses libggi as the layer by which to access the video
hardware.  Libggi has SVGAlib and X targets so you get both of those
for free (if you want to try them), however I found both of those to
be unsatisfactory (SVGA is palettized and looks ugly, X is too slow
and can't keep mouse focus).  The other most significant target is
'fbdev'.  It can use the Linux framebuffer to access the hardware.
With this I get good (considering the age) graphics and performance
from Quake 1.  It is really cool to try and start quake using the 'aa'
(Ascii Art) target :-).

The other advantages of using the framebuffer is I get the cool Tux
logo during bootup and I get awesome screen real estate for mutt or
other console stuff.  The downside is I want 1024x768 for console (so
the text is big enough) but 1280x1024 in X (so I get lots of space).

Supposedly X is able to provide hardware acceleration on top of the
framebuffer (and the framebuffer docs say that apps should be able to)
but I haven't gotten it to work with my card yet.

-D

Re: iptables nat forwarding

[Adam McDaniel]

On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 08:56:52AM -0600, Robert L. Harris wrote:
> {0}:wally:/etc/init.d>telnet 192.168.0.1 80
> Trying 192.168.0.1...
> telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused

may seem like a silly suggestion, but i beleive iptables has the same
rule as in ipchains where you need to go

echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward

check the contents of that file before you do that command though, if its '0',
that might be your problem

-- 
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Infrastructure Technology Consultant
M-Tech Mercury Information Technology, Inc.

Re: nimda probes

[Adam McDaniel]

On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 04:53:02PM +0100, Hereward Cooper wrote:
> once upon a time John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> 
> > Adam McDaniel writes:
> > > the worm wouldn't even know the difference, to it it looks like it
> > would
> > > hit microsofts site from your url if it tries those extentions.
> > 
> > And then Microsoft will accuse you of a DOS attack.
> 
> Couldn't you just claim that your machine was inffected?

either way, its microsoft's fault anyway :)

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Infrastructure Technology Consultant
M-Tech Mercury Information Technology, Inc.

Re: nimda probes

[Greg Wiley]

On Wednesday, September 19, 2001 11:55 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

> Nicholas Petreley had this suggestion for redirecting
> nimda probes using Apache:
 
> RedirectMatch ^.*\.(exe|dll).* http://support.microsoft.com

Heh.  I wonder if nimda actually responds to redirects.

  -=greg