Java VM

[Bill Moseley]

What's needed for Java VM support for mozilla and Galeon?

I know nothing of the Java world, so I'm confused about what is required.
I see pointers to Blackdown and Kaffe and SableVM -- so I'm not sure what
is needed.



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A problem with booting

[Mohammed ElGhwell]

Dear Sir,
I am working with a PC loaded with Debian Linux. It
worked fine. Now I have a problem booting the system.
It stops telling 
"<0>Kernel panic: Aieee, Killing Interrupt handler
..."
I tried even to re-install it but it stops with the
same message.
So, will you please tell me is it because of the
hardware or what?

Looking forward to hearing from you very soon.
Thank you

M. Osama

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Re: Newbie bull brings own china shop.

[Brian Durant]

OK, I finally got CD1 image downloaded for Debian 3 Rev1. I followed the
SuSE partitioning scheme for the first install attempt. Got to "configure
network", where I am prompted for a "hostname". Not really sure how this
compares to a MS "workgroup" so I left it at the default "debian". Then tried
to get an IP via DHCP, which is what my computers do (home WAN/LAN connected
to LinkSys router and 3Com cable modem), but DHCP failed. I booted the install
with the command "bf24", so support for the built into motherboard SiS 900
Fast Ethernet driver should be loaded. What do I do now???

BTW, thanks for all of the responses so far. If anyone is interested, the
subject line comes from a famous quote of Winston Churchill, describing John
Foster Dulles - a bull that brings his own china shop ;-)

Cheers,

Brian

sean finney wrote:

  On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 10:43:02AM -0600, Kent West wrote:
  
  
If you're a newbie, I'd recommend taking the first scheme, use Debian 
for a day or two. Then do the install all over again, wiping the drive, 
using the second scheme. Then do it again in a week or so, wiping the 
drive, and making a choice then as to which scheme you feel comfortable 
using. The first two installs are not for the purpose of figuring out 
which scheme you want to use; they're just to get you familiar with the 
install process, kind of like how rebuilding your car's engine will give 
you a huge education, but rebuilding it thrice will give you an even 
better education.

  
  
fwiw, i agree with this, but it also depends on how much time you want
to put into learning this stuff.  i think if you do it this way, you'll
learn a lot more about how your computer and linux (and os's on your
computer in general) work, but of course it's more of a time commitment
as well (especially if you're doing a net install...).

	sean
  

Re: How to systemwide change MAIL=/var/mail/username to /home/username/Maildir

[stavel]

Hi Felix,
> "Felix" == Felix Erkinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Felix> I'm currently wondering, why my system is constantly
Felix> ignoring any attempt in /etc/login.defs to change the mail
Felix> Variable to Maildir style.

I suppose you use qmail and qmail-lspawn to local delivery.

You have more ways:

1) check out your /etc/init.d/qmail
You can set default delivery method here as a parameter for
qmail-lspawn

or
2) echo "./Maildir/" > /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-default

or  
3) echo "./Maildir/" > /home/you/.qmail


NOTE: for reading Maildir I use mutt. But it needs both variables to be set:

MAIL=~/.Maildir
MAILDIR=~/.Maildir

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Re: Java VM

[stavel]

Hi Bill,
> "Bill" == Bill Moseley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Bill> What's needed for Java VM support for mozilla and Galeon?
Bill> I know nothing of the Java world, so I'm confused about what
Bill> is required.  I see pointers to Blackdown and Kaffe and
Bill> SableVM -- so I'm not sure what is needed.

deb ftp://ftp.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.blackdown.org/java-linux/debian/ unstable main 
non-free

update and install j2re1.4

The post-install script does everything for you.

NOTE:
You can check out the active plugins for mozilla if you go to url:
about:plugins

It will list all active plugins. Jre should be there too.

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Re: Problem with kernel update

[Harry Brueckner]

Hi there,

--On Wednesday, February 26, 2003 07:46:33 AM +1100 Herbert Xu 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Any idea what could be wrong? I found several postings about this
problem  but not a single useful reply to them. :-/
Upgrade your initrd-tools package and reinstall kernel-image.
I removed the package, checked the version of my initrd package and 
installed the kernel again. The result is the very same - it hangs in an 
endless loop where it tries to load some modules. :-(

My initrd-tools are version 0.1.37 which seems to be the most current 
version.

Any other ideas?

Harry

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Re: man -k apropos --> nothing apropiate

[Joerg Johannes]

A problem with similar symptoms is on my laptop: Anacron doesn't run because 
it always thinks I am on battery power (even if I'm on AC) and therefore does 
not run hard-disk intensive jobs such as updatedb and man-db

joerg

Am Mittwoch, 26. Februar 2003 00:36 schrieb Colin Watson:
> The man-db bug was fundamentally something separate (trust me on this, I
> fixed it), but if cron wasn't working then that wouldn't have helped. If
> your machine isn't up at the appropriate times to run nightly cron jobs
> then I recommend installing anacron.


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Re: Problem with kernel update

[Herbert Xu]

On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 09:27:17AM +0100, Harry Brueckner wrote:
> 
> My initrd-tools are version 0.1.37 which seems to be the most current 
> version.
> 
> Any other ideas?

If you go to packages.debian.org/initrd-tools you'll find that the
latest version is 0.1.38.
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/usr/bin/on_ac_power (was man -k apropos --> nothing apropiate)

[Vineet Kumar]

* Joerg Johannes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030226 00:46]:
> A problem with similar symptoms is on my laptop: Anacron doesn't run because 
> it always thinks I am on battery power (even if I'm on AC) and therefore does 
> not run hard-disk intensive jobs such as updatedb and man-db

This was just discussed yesterday on this list, in a thread called
"Anacron vs cron".  Check that your kernel has APM support.

good times,
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Problem with viewing video under debain3.0

[Fiorillo, Fabio]

Title: Problem with viewing video under debain3.0





Hello, 
can anybodey help me? I'm Fabio27 from Berlin Germany and I'm using Debian 3.0 and get a XINE error:  IMLIB ERROR: Cannot Find Palette. A Palette is required for this mode Unable to initialize Imlib.

Ogle has also a strange behavior, when I'm trying to load an *.avi    ogle closes itself immediately without any error massage.

VLC loads teh *.avi but no window/film/sound is displayed. What went wrong.
XMMS - smpeg doesn't load teh *.avi file , it's not selected after opening it.
I can't find the highly prized Mpalyer (also the Avi-player) on the woody 3.0  8CD's package with "dselect". Does it has another name on Debian, or is it still not available?   

What can I do, is there any multimedia or video tutorial for Debian with FAQ's available.
Please help,
thanks a lot
Fabio


PS: Under Win98 it works fine with the Media Player or the DivX Alpha Player 2.0 on my amd k6 2 now 350 MHz Laptop 32MB  RAM.



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Re: Netinstall - nothing works?

[Klaus Imgrund]

  The only other suggestion is to make the "rescue" and "root" 
> bf2.4 Woody boot floppies and boot from them.  Once you get to the
> start of the install, then you can use the CDs (if they are good) for
> the install of the base system or go straight to the netinstall.

I don't have a floppy drive.Unfortunately this isn't a option.
> 
> > I did create the reiser partitions with a 2.4.20 kernel but as you
> > said- partitions don't even get mounted where I get stuck.
> > 
> > Just to make sure I didn't screw up something with the ISO I burned
> > a gentoo install CD and that boots just fine and finds all the
> > hardware.
> > 
> > Real strange!
> 
> Are you using the "Boot from CDROM" option in the BIOS, or are you 
> booting from some other method to start the boot process?  Care to
> share your boot proceedures?  Maybe there is something there.  I have
> a couple of machines here that just won't boot from the BIOS, and I
> have to use floppies to get it started, then switch to the CDROMs when
> asked.  What sort of machine is this??  I should have asked that
> earlier... I am only familiar with i386 and some Dec Alpha methods to
> get Debian running...
> 
I do use the cdrom as the first boot option and it normally works fine.
I did d/l burn and try the gentoo CD just to make sure that I don't
screw up something with the burning or the boot process and it worked
fine.Did install mandrake yesterday and that went w/o any trouble
either.It's a i386 with a sis chipset - nothing special.
Strange things are that:
old potato cd boots fine
testing cd boots fine
had the same error a while back with Knoppix

I'll probably try something like throwing the archives on a prtition and
chroot over there.Never tried that with debian though.

BTW - just for the archive:

There is a module for sis900 on the 'testing cd'.
Problem is that when you choose netinstall at boot it doesn't get
loaded - now that makes sense.Doesn't it?
If you do default install and load all the modules a couple of times it
will be there but the installer won't be able to load it with modprobe.
You need to open a console and do insmod sis900.Thats as far as I got.
Dhcp configuration didn't work for me.

Klaus


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Re: Manually updating dpkg database

[Karl E. Jorgensen]

On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 07:57:20PM -0500, Errol Neal wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have been a debian user for a number of years now. I believe that debian 
> is probably the most robust linux distribution available today. I am new to 
> the user list, so please forgive me if my question has been brought up and 
> answered before.
> 
> Okay, I am faced with a situation that I am sure many of other debian users 
> have been faced with before. Quite often, I instlal software from source 
> tarballs. This of course does not update the debian package database, so 
> say for instance, like today, i installed openssl-0.9.6i, well the dpkg 
> database shows the version 0.9.6c, and of course there is a debian update 
> for the recent bug discovered in openssl version below 0.9.6i and 0.9.7a. 

Ahem... When you install your own tarballs, do you actually *overwrite*
things in /usr/bin/* and/or /usr/lib/* !?  That's not a good idea as
dpkg's idea of what's installed will no longer match reality (there be
dragons here...).  [It's not clear from what you write]

Typically non-packaged stuff should be installed under /usr/local (or
/opt), since dpkg won't touch anything under there. IIRC that's the
supported way of doing things.

If you install your own tarball, you can then use the "equivs" package
(equivs-build to be specific) to create a dummy package to let dpkg that
package XX is installed.  The dummy package will not "own" the files in
/usr/local; it's merely a marker.  It's then up to you to de-install the
dummy package if you remove the corresponding files from /usr/local.

E.g. if you use equivs to build a dummy openssl package, you can use it
to replace the debian-package openssl package.

> Well, an apt-get would of course overwrite my newly installed openssl 
> package, so I need to know how do I manually update the database when I 
> install a new package? Is this the place to ask this question? 

Of course, apt may want to replace your openssl package if it finds that
there's a newer version "out there".  And it sounds like you want to
avoid that.  I know of two ways to counter that:
  a: use apt_preferences(5) to "pin" the package to your preferred
 version number.  
  b: Set the version number in your own package sufficiently high
of which I find a: is the neatest...

> I would appreciate any help. Also, I have looked into building debian
> packages, but that is a little more than I want to do right now.

Building debian packages is easy - especially dummy equivs-generated
ones.  Just spend a couple of minutes reading the equivs docs first and
try: you'll be positively surprised!

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Re: Debian unstable: problems during migration from gnome 1.4 tognome 2.2

[Lacoste (Frisurf)]

On Tue, 2003-02-11 at 11:17, Rob Weir wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 04:11:21PM +0100, Jerome Lacoste (Frisurf) wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I migrated from gnome 1.4 to gnome 2.2 (*) yesterday and here are the
> > problems I encountered. I am willing to report the problems but I am not
> > sure to which package they pertain. If you got ideas how to fix the
> > remaining ones, please do contact me :) 
> > 
> > [Some problems were related to the fact that I was using wmaker, which
> > is not a 'pure' Gnome Window Manager.]
> > 
> > - I lost my default window manager at startup (wmaker). I fixed the
> > problem by adding a window manager in the session applications to
> > startup but I am not sure it is the correct fix. Should I put it
> > elsewhere? I didn't find any gnome panel to change my window manager
> > settings as I used to have in Gnome 1.4. Sawfish seems to be the only
> > supported WM.
> 
> It seems that GNOME2 has drop this particular configuration option,
> sadly.
> 
> > - lost some panels (e.g. e-sound manager). Do I miss a package?
> 
> Panels or applets?

Applets, my bad 

> > - lost icons for some panels (at startup one complains about missing
> > /usr/share/pixmaps/gnome-battery.png). Do I miss a package?
> 
> I don't have this file either; try packages.debian.org.

I found it in X11/gnome-applets 1.4.0.5-4 in the testing distribution
http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_contents.pl?word=gnome-battery.png&searchmode=searchfilesanddirs&case=insensitive&version=testing&arch=i386

I found out that I had the following pacakges installed:
libcapplet0
libpanel-applet0

I purged them to see what happens. If that solves it I will send another
email.

I had to keep libcapplet1 as evolution depends on it.

[...]

> > - I also find yelp extremely slow
> 
> Not sure, never used it...

Thanks a lot.
Jerome


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Mozilla and libnspr

[Dave Whiteley]

Hello All,

I am rather confused. (Those who know me will agree, but that does not
matter here.)

I am running a box on "testing" mainly, but I have played with sid a
little bit, changed my mind, and removed references to sid from my
apt/sources file.

For some reason, my installation of mozilla was not talking to https
urls, telling me that I needed the Personal Security Manager. This was
selected in dselect, but not loading for dependency reasons. I assumed
that my playing with sid had confused things, and so removed mozilla
and tried to reinstall.

It now refuses to install because it cannot find libnspr4.

I have looked at the mirrors I use, and at debian.org, and I cannot
find libnspr4 at all.  Any ideas where in the pool structure it is?

Thanks, 

Dave


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Re: Problem with viewing video under debain3.0

[Sharninder]

> I can't find the highly prized Mpalyer (also the Avi-player) on
> the woody 3.0  8CD's package with "dselect". Does it has another
> name on Debian, or is it still not available?

forget xine and all those players .. get mplayer from mplayerhq.hu
.. it's not available on the debian CDs
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Japanese input

[Robert Ewald]

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How to enter japanes into kde application. I understand that qt applications 
have an xim option, but I have not found any documentation for that option, 
so I am a bit lost. Maybe someone here has some suggestions.

Thanks

Robert 
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Re: Mozilla and libnspr

[Colin Watson]

On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 09:44:20AM +, Dave Whiteley wrote:
> It now refuses to install because it cannot find libnspr4.
> 
> I have looked at the mirrors I use, and at debian.org, and I cannot
> find libnspr4 at all.  Any ideas where in the pool structure it is?

It's in /debian/pool/main/m/mozilla/.

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Re: GUI Mail Client

[Keith O'Connell]

> "Rus" == Rus Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Rus> Hi, Can anyone recommend a mail client which can take my
Rus> existing pine config and folders?

 
I think Sylphhed will do the trick. It is certainly the best GUI email
client I have used under Linux, but this is "holy-wars" area you are
entering!

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Re: Mozilla and libnspr

[Dave Whiteley]

Answering my own message (See below). 

Still - someone else might fall intio the same trap...

While playing with sid I had added the 

APT::Default-Release "testing"

directive to my /etc/apt/apt.conf

Removing this has fixed the problem.

Cheers

Dave


On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 09:44:20AM +, Dave Whiteley wrote:
> Hello All,
> 
> I am rather confused. (Those who know me will agree, but that does not
> matter here.)
> 
> I am running a box on "testing" mainly, but I have played with sid a
> little bit, changed my mind, and removed references to sid from my
> apt/sources file.
> 
> For some reason, my installation of mozilla was not talking to https
> urls, telling me that I needed the Personal Security Manager. This was
> selected in dselect, but not loading for dependency reasons. I assumed
> that my playing with sid had confused things, and so removed mozilla
> and tried to reinstall.
> 
> It now refuses to install because it cannot find libnspr4.
> 
> I have looked at the mirrors I use, and at debian.org, and I cannot
> find libnspr4 at all.  Any ideas where in the pool structure it is?
> 
> Thanks, 
> 
> Dave
> 
> 
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Re: [OT] Actually Way OT - Debian version names

[Dave Whiteley]

If there is to be a vote on a new series of Debian version names, then
Alice (in Wonderland and through the Looking glass) gets my vote. No
copyright problem.   

(Of course I mean the books and not the film.)

Dave

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Re: Problem with kernel update

[Harry Brueckner]

Hi there again,

--On Wednesday, February 26, 2003 07:44:48 PM +1100 Herbert Xu 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 09:27:17AM +0100, Harry Brueckner wrote:
My initrd-tools are version 0.1.37 which seems to be the most current
version.
Any other ideas?
If you go to packages.debian.org/initrd-tools you'll find that the
latest version is 0.1.38.
Hmmm, seems like my mirror was a little old. I upgraded to 0.1.38 and now 
it does not loop but doesn't find any module either and stops with a kernel 
panic when it tries to kill init. :-/

I guess I have to compile my own kernel since the distributed package seems 
unusable somehow. :-/

Thanks for your help anyway! :-)

Harry

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Re: Netinstall - nothing works?

[Klaus Imgrund]

Ok - found the problem but have no idea what goes wrong.
There are only 11 mb on the cd after burning it - iso is 38 mb.
I did burn it with k3b and after that tried with cdrecord.
Both show that they burn 38 mb but they don't.
If I burn the boot.iso instead of the bootbf2.4.iso everything is fine
except that I couldn't install on reiser with it.
Anybody has an idea what is wrong here?

Klaus


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pptp ...

[Karoly Vegh]

hi,

Im trying to get into my firm's LAN with pptp from a cable-provider at
homel.

what i did up to now:
 
1. I installed the pptp-linux client
2.: kernel compiled wiht mppe patch, the modules ar OK:

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ /sbin/lsmod 
Module  Size  Used byTainted: P  
ppp_async   6272   0 (autoclean)
ppp_mppe   20056   0 (unused)
ppp_generic16256   0 [ppp_async ppp_mppe]
slhc4384   0 [ppp_generic]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$

3. Compiled ppp, that i have mppe support in it:

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ strings /usr/sbin/pppd | grep -i mppe | wc -l
 46
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$

4. config:

hb:~# cat /etc/ppp/options.pptp 
lock noauth nobsdcomp nodeflate

hb:~# cat /etc/ppp/peers/tunnel 
pty "pptp SERVER_IP --nolaunchpppd"
name domainname.atusername
remotename PPTP
require-mschap-v2
file /etc/ppp/options.pptp
ipparam tunnel
hb:~#

and the chap-secrects:

hb:~# cat /etc/ppp/chap-secrets 
# Secrets for authentication using CHAP
# clientserver  secret  IP addresses
domainname.atusername PPTP password SERVER_IP
PPTP domainname.atusername  password SERVER_IP
hb:~#

Now if i do a 'pon tunnel', this comes to the log

Feb 26 10:41:58 hb pppd[1271]: pppd 2.4.2b1 started by root, uid 0
Feb 26 10:41:58 hb pppd[1271]: using channel 15
Feb 26 10:41:58 hb pppd[1271]: Using interface ppp0
Feb 26 10:41:58 hb pppd[1271]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/pts/2
Feb 26 10:41:59 hb pppd[1271]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 
  ]
Feb 26 10:41:59 hb pppd[1271]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x0 
  < 17
04 00
fc>]
Feb 26 10:41:59 hb pppd[1271]: sent [LCP ConfRej id=0x0 
 < 17 04 00 fc>]
Feb 26 10:41:59 hb pppd[1271]: rcvd [LCP ConfAck id=0x1 
  ]
Feb 26 10:41:59 hb pppd[1271]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 
   ]
Feb 26 10:41:59 hb pppd[1271]: sent [LCP ConfAck id=0x1 
   ]
Feb 26 10:41:59 hb pppd[1271]: sent [LCP EchoReq id=0x0 magic=0x81580d82]
Feb 26 10:41:59 hb pppd[1271]: rcvd [CHAP Challenge id=0x0
<3420b091cadcd201881c4be8fc8c0c51>, name = "PEPETEPE"]
Feb 26 10:41:59 hb pppd[1271]: sent [CHAP Response
id=0x0
,
name = "domainnameusername"]
Feb 26 10:41:59 hb pppd[1271]: rcvd [LCP EchoRep id=0x0 magic=0x23985ecc]
Feb 26 10:41:59 hb pppd[1271]: rcvd [CHAP Failure id=0x0 "E=691 R=1
C=3BEDB47127E2081CF23A3BBDAA861AF9 V=3"]
Feb 26 10:41:59 hb pppd[1271]: Remote message: Unknown authentication
failure: E=691 R=1 C=3BEDB47127E2081CF23A3BBDAA861AF9 V=3
Feb 26 10:41:59 hb pppd[1271]: CHAP authentication failed
Feb 26 10:41:59 hb pppd[1271]: sent [LCP TermReq id=0x2 "Failed to
authenticate ourselves to peer"]
Feb 26 10:41:59 hb pppd[1271]: rcvd [LCP TermAck id=0x2 "Failed to
authenticate ourselves to peer"]
Feb 26 10:41:59 hb pppd[1271]: Connection terminated.
Feb 26 10:41:59 hb pppd[1271]: Waiting for 1 child processes...
Feb 26 10:41:59 hb pppd[1271]:   script pptp SERVER_IP --nolaunchpppd,
pid
1272
Feb 26 10:42:02 hb pppd[1271]: Script pptp SERVER_IP --nolaunchpppd
finished (pid 1272), status = 0x0
Feb 26 10:42:02 hb pppd[1271]: Exit.

what can be wrong?
 
tia
 
charlie
 
ps. ofcourse i changed the real IP to SERRVER_IP, useraccount to 'username'
and so on through the whola mail.

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Re: Netinstall - nothing works?

[Brian Durant]

I have the same problem with getting SiS 900 to work on the "full" install
of the Debian (CD 1 of 7) 3 rev.1 as you have with a "netinstall". Exact
same place it stops too. I used the command "bf24", which is supposed to
load a kernel with SiS 900 support. Trying to install on a Fujitsu-Siemens
Celvin EasyPC (no legacy ports, USB 1.1 and a third party USB floppy drive).

Cheers,

Brian

Klaus Imgrund wrote:

The only other suggestion is to make the "rescue" and "root" 
  
  
bf2.4 Woody boot floppies and boot from them.  Once you get to the
start of the install, then you can use the CDs (if they are good) for
the install of the base system or go straight to the netinstall.

  
  
I don't have a floppy drive.Unfortunately this isn't a option.
  
  

  I did create the reiser partitions with a 2.4.20 kernel but as you
said- partitions don't even get mounted where I get stuck.

Just to make sure I didn't screw up something with the ISO I burned
a gentoo install CD and that boots just fine and finds all the
hardware.

Real strange!
  

Are you using the "Boot from CDROM" option in the BIOS, or are you 
booting from some other method to start the boot process?  Care to
share your boot proceedures?  Maybe there is something there.  I have
a couple of machines here that just won't boot from the BIOS, and I
have to use floppies to get it started, then switch to the CDROMs when
asked.  What sort of machine is this??  I should have asked that
earlier... I am only familiar with i386 and some Dec Alpha methods to
get Debian running...


  
  I do use the cdrom as the first boot option and it normally works fine.
I did d/l burn and try the gentoo CD just to make sure that I don't
screw up something with the burning or the boot process and it worked
fine.Did install mandrake yesterday and that went w/o any trouble
either.It's a i386 with a sis chipset - nothing special.
Strange things are that:
old potato cd boots fine
testing cd boots fine
had the same error a while back with Knoppix

I'll probably try something like throwing the archives on a prtition and
chroot over there.Never tried that with debian though.

BTW - just for the archive:

There is a module for sis900 on the 'testing cd'.
Problem is that when you choose netinstall at boot it doesn't get
loaded - now that makes sense.Doesn't it?
If you do default install and load all the modules a couple of times it
will be there but the installer won't be able to load it with modprobe.
You need to open a console and do insmod sis900.Thats as far as I got.
Dhcp configuration didn't work for me.

Klaus


  

strange problem with at jobs

[Alexey Chetroi]

  Hello All,

  I've observerd a strange problem when tried to schedule a few
jobs for at daemon. at job refuses to run, complaining to unexpected
end of file. I've tried a simple job like

[lex.lexa]$ at 1300
warning: commands will be executed using /bin/sh
at> echo `date` >/home/lex
at> 
job 21 at 2003-02-26 13:00
[lex.lexa]$ 

and it produces a file in /var/spool/cron/atjobs like
lexa:/var/spool/cron/atjobs# cat a00015010a13b4 
#!/bin/sh
# atrun uid=1000 gid=1000
# mail  lex 0
umask 27
PWD=/home/lex; export PWD
WRASTER_COLOR_RESOLUTION0=4; export WRASTER_COLOR_RESOLUTION0
COLORFGBG=0\;default; export COLORFGBG
WINDOWID=41943042; export WINDOWID
LC_MESSAGES=C; export LC_MESSAGES
PS1=[\\u.\\h]\$\ ; export PS1
GNUSTEP_USER_ROOT=/home/lex/GNUstep; export GNUSTEP_USER_ROOT
USER=lex; export USER
LANG=ru_RU.KOI8-R; export LANG
COLORTERM=rxvt-xpm; export COLORTERM
LOGNAME=lex; export LOGNAME
SHLVL=1; export SHLVL
SSH_AGENT_PID=21713; export SSH_AGENT_PID
if test ${USER} !=\ \'root\'\;\ then; export if test ${USER} !
HOME=/home/lex; export HOME
SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/tmp/ssh-XXQgZoMF/agent.21680; export SSH_AUTH_SOCK
PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games; export PATH
WMAKER_BIN_NAME=/usr/bin/WindowMaker; export WMAKER_BIN_NAME
cd /home/lex || {
 echo 'Execution directory inaccessible' >&2
 exit 1
}
echo `date` >/home/lex

which doesn't run unless I remove string "if test ${USER} != ..."
/bin/sh is a symlink to /bin/bash

what could be a problem?

PS: it's woody release I'm running

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Re: Netinstall - nothing works?

[Klaus Imgrund]

On Wed, 26 Feb 2003 17:43:29 +0700
Brian Durant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I have the same problem with getting SiS 900 to work on the "full" 
> install of the Debian (CD 1 of 7) 3 rev.1 as you have with a 
> "netinstall". Exact same place it stops too. I used the command
> "bf24", which is supposed to load a kernel with SiS 900 support.
> Trying to install on a Fujitsu-Siemens Celvin EasyPC (no legacy ports,
> USB 1.1 and a third party USB floppy drive).
> 
Didn't do an install with full cd's since potato.
Can you open a console and do 'insmod sis900' there?
That did load it with the testing netinstall CD.

Klaus



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RE: pptp ...

[Colin Ellis]

One of three things:

Auth type wrong
Username/password wrong
your company account not set up correctly.

Your drivers are working fine, and the connection is going through the
correct motions, it's handshaking part that is failing.

Regards,

Colin Ellis
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-Original Message-
From: Karoly Vegh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 26 February 2003 10:30
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: pptp ...



hi,

Im trying to get into my firm's LAN with pptp from a cable-provider at
homel.

what i did up to now:

1. I installed the pptp-linux client
2.: kernel compiled wiht mppe patch, the modules ar OK:

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ /sbin/lsmod
Module  Size  Used byTainted: P
ppp_async   6272   0 (autoclean)
ppp_mppe   20056   0 (unused)
ppp_generic16256   0 [ppp_async ppp_mppe]
slhc4384   0 [ppp_generic]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$

3. Compiled ppp, that i have mppe support in it:

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ strings /usr/sbin/pppd | grep -i mppe | wc -l
 46
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$

4. config:

hb:~# cat /etc/ppp/options.pptp
lock noauth nobsdcomp nodeflate

hb:~# cat /etc/ppp/peers/tunnel
pty "pptp SERVER_IP --nolaunchpppd"
name domainname.atusername
remotename PPTP
require-mschap-v2
file /etc/ppp/options.pptp
ipparam tunnel
hb:~#

and the chap-secrects:

hb:~# cat /etc/ppp/chap-secrets
# Secrets for authentication using CHAP
# clientserver  secret  IP addresses
domainname.atusername PPTP password SERVER_IP
PPTP domainname.atusername  password SERVER_IP
hb:~#

Now if i do a 'pon tunnel', this comes to the log

Feb 26 10:41:58 hb pppd[1271]: pppd 2.4.2b1 started by root, uid 0
Feb 26 10:41:58 hb pppd[1271]: using channel 15
Feb 26 10:41:58 hb pppd[1271]: Using interface ppp0
Feb 26 10:41:58 hb pppd[1271]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/pts/2
Feb 26 10:41:59 hb pppd[1271]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 
  ]
Feb 26 10:41:59 hb pppd[1271]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x0 
  < 17
04 00
fc>]
Feb 26 10:41:59 hb pppd[1271]: sent [LCP ConfRej id=0x0 
 < 17 04 00 fc>]
Feb 26 10:41:59 hb pppd[1271]: rcvd [LCP ConfAck id=0x1 
  ]
Feb 26 10:41:59 hb pppd[1271]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 
   ]
Feb 26 10:41:59 hb pppd[1271]: sent [LCP ConfAck id=0x1 
   ]
Feb 26 10:41:59 hb pppd[1271]: sent [LCP EchoReq id=0x0 magic=0x81580d82]
Feb 26 10:41:59 hb pppd[1271]: rcvd [CHAP Challenge id=0x0
<3420b091cadcd201881c4be8fc8c0c51>, name = "PEPETEPE"]
Feb 26 10:41:59 hb pppd[1271]: sent [CHAP Response
id=0x0
,
name = "domainnameusername"]
Feb 26 10:41:59 hb pppd[1271]: rcvd [LCP EchoRep id=0x0 magic=0x23985ecc]
Feb 26 10:41:59 hb pppd[1271]: rcvd [CHAP Failure id=0x0 "E=691 R=1
C=3BEDB47127E2081CF23A3BBDAA861AF9 V=3"]
Feb 26 10:41:59 hb pppd[1271]: Remote message: Unknown authentication
failure: E=691 R=1 C=3BEDB47127E2081CF23A3BBDAA861AF9 V=3
Feb 26 10:41:59 hb pppd[1271]: CHAP authentication failed
Feb 26 10:41:59 hb pppd[1271]: sent [LCP TermReq id=0x2 "Failed to
authenticate ourselves to peer"]
Feb 26 10:41:59 hb pppd[1271]: rcvd [LCP TermAck id=0x2 "Failed to
authenticate ourselves to peer"]
Feb 26 10:41:59 hb pppd[1271]: Connection terminated.
Feb 26 10:41:59 hb pppd[1271]: Waiting for 1 child processes...
Feb 26 10:41:59 hb pppd[1271]:   script pptp SERVER_IP --nolaunchpppd,
pid
1272
Feb 26 10:42:02 hb pppd[1271]: Script pptp SERVER_IP --nolaunchpppd
finished (pid 1272), status = 0x0
Feb 26 10:42:02 hb pppd[1271]: Exit.

what can be wrong?

tia

charlie

ps. ofcourse i changed the real IP to SERRVER_IP, useraccount to 'username'
and so on through the whola mail.

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managing another network route, can't connect to it! Pls see!

[louie miranda]

i.e.

Consider the following network: (kindly view the attached txt file for a
nicer one)

  inet
|
|
|203.190.72.108
  *-*
  10.0.0.1|   eth0  |none
 /|eth1 eth2|--\   new network
block pipe
 || LINUX GW|   line cut **
192.168.129.x/24 (network)
 |*-*||
10.0.0.2, gw for 192.168.129.x/24 block under LINUX GW
 |   | 192.x  |
 |   ||
   *HUB*-**
 |  cisco 2600
router ip of this router is: 10.0.0.2
 |
 |
   *--* *--* *--*
   |  | |  | |  |
   |  | |  | |  |
   *--* *--* *--*
workstations
  10.0.0.0/16 block


interface:
 - eth0 = 203.190.72.108, default gw.
 - eth1 = 10.0.0.0/16, local area network.
 - eth2 = none



===

Right now im inside 10.0.0.0/16 block, my ip is 10.0.0.11 and my default gw
is via 203.190.72.108.
My LAN is on a masq LinuxBOX. On my diagram i have added a network cable
that is on a different
subnet connect to a cisco router via 10.0.0.2 which is connected to another
network (diff story).
My kernel route diagram is below..

Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse
Iface
203.190.72.104  0.0.0.0 255.255.255.248 U 0  00 eth0
192.168.129.0   10.0.0.2255.255.255.0   UG0  00 eth1
<--- new route via 10.0.0.2
10.0.0.00.0.0.0 255.255.0.0 U 0  00 eth1
0.0.0.0 203.190.72.110  0.0.0.0 UG0  00 eth0

I can access ip block 192.168.129.x on my LINUX GW perfectly. But when im on
my workstations on
10.0.0.11 block i cannot even ping 192.168.129.x block. Which could be
possibly be wrong?



---
thanks,
louie
Consider the following network: 

  inet
|   
|   
|203.190.72.108
  *-*  
  10.0.0.1|   eth0  |none
 /|eth1 eth2|--\   new network block pipe
 || LINUX GW|   line cut **  
192.168.129.x/24 (network)
 |*-*||  10.0.0.2, gw 
for 192.168.129.x/24 block under LINUX GW
 |   | 192.x  |
 |   ||
   *HUB*-**
 |  cisco 2600 router ip 
of this router is: 10.0.0.2
 | 
 |
   *--* *--* *--*
   |  | |  | |  |
   |  | |  | |  |
   *--* *--* *--*
workstations
  10.0.0.0/16 block


interface:
 - eth0 = 203.190.72.108, default gw.
 - eth1 = 10.0.0.0/16, local area network.
 - eth2 = none

Re: strange problem with at jobs

[Colin Watson]

On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 12:47:37PM +0200, Alexey Chetroi wrote:
>   I've observerd a strange problem when tried to schedule a few
> jobs for at daemon. at job refuses to run, complaining to unexpected
> end of file.
[...]
> SSH_AGENT_PID=21713; export SSH_AGENT_PID
> if test ${USER} !=\ \'root\'\;\ then; export if test ${USER} !
> HOME=/home/lex; export HOME
[...]

Somehow, you've ended up with an environment variable called:

  "if test ${USER} !"

which is set to:

  " 'root'; then"

I'd check your shell startup files for bugs.

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Re: Netinstall - nothing works?

[Brian Durant]

How do I open a console when in the install?

Cheers,

Brian

Klaus Imgrund wrote:

  On Wed, 26 Feb 2003 17:43:29 +0700
Brian Durant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

  
  
I have the same problem with getting SiS 900 to work on the "full" 
install of the Debian (CD 1 of 7) 3 rev.1 as you have with a 
"netinstall". Exact same place it stops too. I used the command
"bf24", which is supposed to load a kernel with SiS 900 support.
Trying to install on a Fujitsu-Siemens Celvin EasyPC (no legacy ports,
USB 1.1 and a third party USB floppy drive).


  
  Didn't do an install with full cd's since potato.
Can you open a console and do 'insmod sis900' there?
That did load it with the testing netinstall CD.

Klaus



  

/usr/share/zoninfo question

[Timo Benk]

Hi,

Currently i am building a bootable cd that fits
on one of those credit card sized cdr's.
That means i have not a lot of space. I plan to
delete all timezone data in the directory 
/usr/share/zoneinfo except Europe/Berlin,
which is the timezone i am living in. Will that
break anything or is it a safe way to free some
space?

-timo

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Re: Netinstall - nothing works?

[Brian Durant]

OK, way down the list I found "open a shell". The reply was "no module by
that name found". What now?

Cheers,

Brian

Klaus Imgrund wrote:

  On Wed, 26 Feb 2003 17:43:29 +0700
Brian Durant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

  
  
I have the same problem with getting SiS 900 to work on the "full" 
install of the Debian (CD 1 of 7) 3 rev.1 as you have with a 
"netinstall". Exact same place it stops too. I used the command
"bf24", which is supposed to load a kernel with SiS 900 support.
Trying to install on a Fujitsu-Siemens Celvin EasyPC (no legacy ports,
USB 1.1 and a third party USB floppy drive).


  
  Didn't do an install with full cd's since potato.
Can you open a console and do 'insmod sis900' there?
That did load it with the testing netinstall CD.

Klaus



  

Re: where is libMP3.so

[Rob Weir]

On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 06:25:40PM -0600, John Foster wrote:
> I am trying to use mplayer-update to compile and install the latest cvs 
> of mplayer. It seems to work to the point that it seeks libMP3.so then 
> faile giving error2
> Anyone have experience with this??

Debian contains no MP3 encoders due to patent issues, including
libmp3.so from lame.  You can certainly go get the source from the lame
website and build it yourself, or you can just go to
http://marillat.free.fr/ and get liblame and even mplayer.

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Re: crazy problems

[Rob Weir]

On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 11:35:48AM -0800, Garrett P. McLean wrote:
> On Sat, 2003-02-22 at 14:17, Russell Shaw wrote:
> > Garrett P. McLean wrote:
> >  > also, is there any way
> > > for me to add ide-scsi emulation as a module without recompiling?
> > 
> > Select ide-scsi option in the source tree with make menuconfig,
> > then make modules and make modules_install. Might need to add
> > ide-scsi to /etc/modules too.

Bah, you most certainly do *not* need to rebuild.

> i don't have the kernel-source package, uname -r gives 2.4.18-bf2.4 and
> when i do apt-get install kernel-source-2.4.18-bf2.4 it can't find a
> matching package (from unstable or stable sources). i have
> kernel-headers for my kernel, but can you give me precise directions on
> how to do this? sorry, i'm a pretty much a noob to debian, i've recently
> switched from the easiness of redhat.

You don't need to go through any sort of recompile at all.  In the last
chapter or so of the Debian Installation Manual, it tells you about
kernels, and specifically mentions that the install one is, er, an
install one.  

$ apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.18-

Where  is 386, k7, whatever.  Carefully follow the instructions,
and reboot and be happy; that image has modules for nearly every piece
of hardware that the Linux kernel supports it.  Use modconf and
/etc/modules to taste, and enjoy!

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Re: problem with apt-get update- E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room

[Rob Weir]

On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 09:07:29PM +, Adam Robson wrote:
> While trying to run apt-get update or dselect I get the error
> 
> E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room
> 
> I've created the file /etc/apt/apt.conf with contents APT::Cache-Limit 
> 25165824, and I've reduced my sources.list to only one entry,
> deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main, and this hasn't solved 
> the problem.

What version of apt?  Have you checked the BTS?

> I only have 8MB of RAM and about 28MB swap space.. could this be part
> of the problem?  

I doubt it.

> If anyone has a suggestion or knows where I can get help I'd greatly
> appreciate it.

If you really can't get it to work, file a bug.

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Re: (Newbie) Functioning In Debian

[Rob Weir]

On Sun, Feb 23, 2003 at 01:19:14PM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-02-23 at 03:16, Paul Johnson wrote:
> > Not a plugin for it, but mplayer will play them.  It's non-free and
> > only in unofficial packages.
> > 
> 
> Actually, mplayer proper is free (GPL'd). Some of the codecs that you

This seems to be under debate as well, since the mplayer folks seem to
be ignoring a few minor-ish points of the GPL with regards to some code
they're using.  See the enormous flamewar that filled d-d for a week
about a month back.

> may choose to use, however, are non-free. And there is actually an
> mplayer plugin available that works pretty well. 
> 
> http://mplayerplug-in.sourceforge.net
> 
> It's currently up to 0.40. It even plays Quicktime movie trailers and
> the such right in the browser window. I'm working on making it my first
> Debian package actually. :)

Ooooh, neat.  Have you put the packages up somewhere?

> > Then you'll want to get the mplayer- package appropriate to your
> > CPU, w32codecs (which also includes the DivX ;-) codecs among others)
> > and if you also want quicktime support, qt6codecs.  When you get the
> > prompt of how you want to handle the movie, open it in gmplayer.  Your
> > movie will play in a seperate window.
> > 
> 
> I, for one, still recommend compiling from source. You just download a
> source tarball (or, for more fun, get the CVS version :), add in any
> codecs you might want, and run "debian/rules binary" from the base

I think you'd still need to do that as 'fakeroot debian/rules binary',
though...

> Unstable is only for those of us who like to fix broken systems for fun.

Amen! :)

> :) However, if you want to be closer to the cutting edge without
> actually cutting yourself, just run testing. Testing hardly ever
> actually "breaks" and it tends to be much more recent than stable.
> Stable, IMO, is only for servers. It's entirely too old to be used as a
> desktop system.

Testing is in many respects worse shape than unstable at the moment; it
has quite a few known security holes, which haven't been fixed and won't
be until libc is fixed in sid...The problems in sid are generally not
something I'd want to burden a newbie with though, so I guess testing is
still the best choice for a more-modern-stable.

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Re: packages being kept back during upgrade

[Rob Weir]

On Sun, Feb 23, 2003 at 07:10:30AM -0800, Joris Huizer wrote:
> Hello everybody,
> 
> I've upgraded my (stable) debian machine some days ago

Um, no, you're not running stable.  Not stock stable, anyway.  Neither
OpenOffice nor GTK2/GNOME2 are in woody.  Where are you getting these
from?  I'm almost certain they're causing the problem here.

[snip]

> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> The following packages have been kept back
>   gconf2 libbonoboui2-0 libbonoboui2-common
> libgail-common libgail17
>   libgconf2-4 libgnome2-0 libgnomecanvas2-0
> libgnomeui-0 libgnomevfs2-0
>   libgnomevfs2-common libgtk2.0-0 libgtk2.0-common
> libgtkhtml2-0
>   libpanel-applet2-0 libpango1.0-0 libpango1.0-common
> libwnck4
>   openoffice.org-bin openoffice.org-debian-files
> openoffice.org-l10n-en
>   xlibmesa-dev yelp 
> 3 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove
> and 23  not upgraded.
> Need to get 643kB of archives. After unpacking 81.9kB
> will be used.

[snip]

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Nvidia kernel not autoloading

[Harvey Kelly]

Hi everyone,

Oh dear.  A repartition, a reinstall of Woody, and...

Maybe I'm missing something, but upon booting-up, NVIDIA-kernel doesn't
auto-install, and I have to su and cd ./NVIDIA_k* and then make install
every time.  There's no problem with the NVIDIA_GLX though.

It worked okay last time, but they were older drivers

What am I missing?  Sorry if this has already been answered - I had a
look through the archives but couldn't see anything.

Thanks.

Harvey



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Re: Restricting relaying with Exim

[Ken McCord]

Sharninder wrote:

I'm trying to set up Exim on a firewall so that Internet email
comes in through Exim and then is forwarded to my internal email
server (there is no local delivery on the gateway server).  I've
got everything running where mail flows through both ways, but I
need to block email with a forged From header of my internal
network.
   

sender_reject
sender_verify
Sharninder Singh
National Institute Of Management Calcutta
Building No. 117
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Ok, I'm either dense, or I've been staring at this too long.  If I set 
'sender_verify = true', how can I set 'sender_reject' so that From 
headers from only outside the local domain are rejected?  I want to 
relay 'example.com' email coming out from the local network, but prevent 
email with forged From headers containing 'example.com' coming from the 
Internet and being relayed.  There are no local accounts on the gateway, 
everything is relayed.

Thanks,

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Re: where is libMP3.so

[Vincent Lefevre]

On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 23:18:53 +1100, Rob Weir wrote:
> Debian contains no MP3 encoders due to patent issues,

Not even in non-us?

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Problem with kernel update - solved

[Harry Brueckner]

Hi again,

thanks to the help of Jonathan Shipley I could solve the problem!

It seems that it had not anything to do with the old version of the 
initrd-tools I used.

The problem came from the file '/etc/mkinitrd/modules' which was completely 
empty in my case (except of some comment lines).

Here is the solution from Jonathan:

If you have an ext3 filesystem then you may need to create a new
initrd.img with some additional drivers. You will then be able to mount
the root filesystem and proceed as usual.
I have these 3 lines in /etc/mkinitrd/modules
jbd
ext3
ext2
You should also have a line (amongst others) in
/etc/mkinitrd/mkinitrd.conf
# What modules to install.
MODULES=dep
This means that when you (this is the bit coming up...) try and make the
initrd.img it will try and work out what modules to install in the img
file. You can change this if needed, but it works for me. See
mkinitrd.conf's man page.
Now, to create a new initrd.img file you can do something like this:

mkinitrd -o /boot/initrd.img-2.4.20-586tsc-test
/lib/modules/2.4.20-586tsc/
You should now see perhaps a slightly larger file than before, because
of the new modules included in the image.
You should update your symlink /initrd.img to point to this file and not
the default. I also have a initrd.img.old for the backup kernel, in case
this one does not work.
If you want to see if that they are really there, then:

cramfsck -v -x /tmp/foo /boot/initrd.img-2.4.20-586tsc-test

will uncompress the img file to /tmp/foo.

You can now re-run lilo and give the new kernel a shot.
Thanks alot for the help!! Now my kernel boots up nicely!

Harry

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Re: strange problem with at jobs

[Alexey Chetroi]

On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 11:31:07AM +, Colin Watson wrote:
> Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 11:31:07 +
> From: Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: strange problem with at jobs
> 
> On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 12:47:37PM +0200, Alexey Chetroi wrote:
> >   I've observerd a strange problem when tried to schedule a few
 [...]

> > SSH_AGENT_PID=21713; export SSH_AGENT_PID
> > if test ${USER} !=\ \'root\'\;\ then; export if test ${USER} !
> > HOME=/home/lex; export HOME
> [...]
> 
> Somehow, you've ended up with an environment variable called:
> 
>   "if test ${USER} !"
> 
> which is set to:
> 
>   " 'root'; then"
> 
> I'd check your shell startup files for bugs.

  Thanks, there was a problem with my scripts indeed.  

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Re: Restricting relaying with Exim

[Sharninder]

>>
>>
> Ok, I'm either dense, or I've been staring at this too long.  If
> I set  'sender_verify = true', how can I set 'sender_reject' so
> that From  headers from only outside the local domain are
> rejected?  I want to  relay 'example.com' email coming out from
> the local network, but prevent  email with forged From headers
> containing 'example.com' coming from the  Internet and being
> relayed.  There are no local accounts on the gateway,  everything
> is relayed.
>

i don't know if i've understood your problem correctly but i think
you need to take a look at the qualify_domain, host_accept_relay,
host_lookup options. Put your domain name in qualify_domain, and
your network address in host_accept_relay .. something like
192.168.1.0/24and host_lookup = *


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Re: where is libMP3.so

[Colin Watson]

On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 02:30:57PM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 23:18:53 +1100, Rob Weir wrote:
> > Debian contains no MP3 encoders due to patent issues,
> 
> Not even in non-us?

The patent is not US-specific.

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RE: pdnsd problems

[Randy Orrison]

| -Original Message-
| From: Greg Norris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
| Sent: 12 February 2003 00:10
|
| I'm having some problems getting a reliable pdnsd setup, which I was
| hoping (obviously! ;-) that someone here could help me out with.
[snip]
| One thing I did notice in the log is that pdnsd seems to be querying
| external DNS for the local system name (glitch.localdomain).
[snip]

| source {
|   ttl=86400;
|   owner="localhost.";
| # serve_aliases=on;
|   file="/etc/hosts";
| }

If your /etc/hosts looks like

127.0.0.1   localhost
192.168.1.1 glitch  glitch.localdomain

You'll need to have serve_aliases=on uncommented.  serve_aliases refers to
the second and subsequent names in the /etc/hosts lines - without it they're
ignored.

(If you've already fixed the problem, never mind.)

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Re: Restricting relaying with Exim

[Sharninder]

>
> i don't know if i've understood your problem correctly but i
> think you need to take a look at the qualify_domain,
> host_accept_relay,
> host_lookup options. Put your domain name in qualify_domain, and
> your network address in host_accept_relay .. something like
> 192.168.1.0/24and host_lookup = *
>

take a look at ...
http://www.exim.org/exim-html-3.30/doc/html/spec.html
and use debian's eximconfig tool for a basic working configuration.

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IRC Server

[Matthew Daubenspeck]

Can I please have some suggestions on a small, simple, and secure IRC
server. I don't need anything major, but would like some basic
functionality...

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Re: Japanese input

[donw]

On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 10:52:41AM +0100, Robert Ewald wrote:
> 
> How to enter japanes into kde application. I understand that qt applications 
> have an xim option, but I have not found any documentation for that option, 
> so I am a bit lost. Maybe someone here has some suggestions.
> 

kinput2

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Re: Nvidia kernel not autoloading

[stavel]

Hi Harvey,
> "Harvey" == Harvey Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Harvey> Hi everyone, Oh dear.  A repartition, a reinstall of
Harvey> Woody, and...

Harvey> Maybe I'm missing something, but upon booting-up,
Harvey> NVIDIA-kernel doesn't auto-install, and I have to su and
Harvey> cd ./NVIDIA_k* and then make install every time.  There's
Harvey> no problem with the NVIDIA_GLX though.

There may not be aliases in /etc/modutils/{aliases,*}

alias char-major-195NVdriver ... ver 13..
#alias char-major-195   nvidia   ... new version of NVIDIA 14..

Do not forget to call update-module :-)

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Re: Nvidia kernel not autoloading

[Peter Hugosson-Miller]

Harvey Kelly wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> Oh dear.  A repartition, a reinstall of Woody, and...
>
> Maybe I'm missing something, but upon booting-up, NVIDIA-kernel doesn't
> auto-install, and I have to su and cd ./NVIDIA_k* and then make install
> every time.  There's no problem with the NVIDIA_GLX though.
>
> It worked okay last time, but they were older drivers
>
> What am I missing?  Sorry if this has already been answered - I had a
> look through the archives but couldn't see anything.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Harvey

Chasing this one myself right now.

I have found the advice to edit /etc/X11/XF86Config and change the vid driver
from 'nv' to 'nvidia'.

Otherwise try reading this http://download.nvidia.com/XFree86_40/1.0-4191/README
as there are a lot of options in the file that might cause the problem.

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Re: where is libMP3.so

[Rob Weir]

On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 02:30:57PM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 23:18:53 +1100, Rob Weir wrote:
> > Debian contains no MP3 encoders due to patent issues,
> 
> Not even in non-us?

Nope.

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Re: where is libMP3.so

[Vincent Lefevre]

On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 14:00:18 +, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 02:30:57PM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 23:18:53 +1100, Rob Weir wrote:
> > > Debian contains no MP3 encoders due to patent issues,
> > 
> > Not even in non-us?
> 
> The patent is not US-specific.

OK, so perhaps one would need another section for countries where
software patents are not protected.

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Problem with kernel 2.4.20

[Jaroslaw Tabor]

Hello!


I was using kernel 2.4.20 compiled and installed by myself (without
initrd). Everything was working fine.
I've installed by apt kernel-image-2.4.20-686, updated lilo.conf to use
initrd and executed lilo. After this when I'm trying to use this image
linux crashes displaying a log of messages about missing modules in
/lib/modules/2.4.20-686/kernel/fs/

It looks that he cannot mount root filesystem. I don't have any
expirience with initrd. Can anyone help me ?


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Re: Newbie bull brings own china shop.

[Kent West]

On Wed, 26 Feb 2003 15:10:08 +0700
"Brian Durant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> OK, I finally got CD1 image downloaded for Debian 3 Rev1. I followed the 
> SuSE partitioning scheme for the first install attempt. Got to 
> "configure network", where I am prompted for a "hostname". Not really 
> sure how this compares to a MS "workgroup" so I left it at the default 
> "debian".

"hostname" is the name of your computer. It doesn't compare at all to a MS 
"workgroup". It compares to the name you'd give to your MS computer.

> Then tried to get an IP via DHCP, which is what my computers 
> do (home WAN/LAN connected to LinkSys router and 3Com cable modem), but 
> DHCP failed. I booted the install with the command "bf24", so support 
> for the built into motherboard SiS 900 Fast Ethernet driver should be 
> loaded. What do I do now???

Either the nic support has not been loaded, or your ethernet cable is unplugged (or 
you have ethernet hardware issues), or you've configured your dhcp server to provide 
addresses for specific MAC addresses and you've forgotten to add this machine. Of 
these three things, I'd suspect the first. Use the "Configure modules" option and see 
if you can find your SiS 900 in the list of loadable modules, and try to load it. If 
that works, that should solve your problem.
 
> BTW, thanks for all of the responses so far. If anyone is interested, 
> the subject line comes from a famous quote of Winston Churchill, 
> describing John Foster Dulles - a bull that brings his own china shop ;-)

Which is interesting . . . .  However, you may find that you get better response on a 
list like this with a more descriptive subject line, like "newbie install; no DHCP".


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RE: A problem with booting

[Narins, Josh]

> From: Mohammed ElGhwell, Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2003 3:10 AM 
>
> [snip]... Now I have a problem booting the system.
> It stops telling 
> "<0>Kernel panic: Aieee, Killing Interrupt handler
> ..."
> I tried even to re-install it but it stops with the
> same message.
> So, will you please tell me is it because of the
> hardware or what?
> 

I think we will all need to see more output before we can say.

Are you compiling your own kernel(1)?
If so, you have likely misconfigured something essential.  (I have made my
hard drive only loadable as a module, but modules aren't available the first
time a booting system needs to access the hard drive!)

What are you installing (Woody 3.0r0 from CD?)

What install option did you choose (install or install24)?

If this computer works with other operating systems, it's probably not the
hardware :)

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Re: IRC Server

[Ross Burton]

On Wed, 2003-02-26 at 14:28, Matthew Daubenspeck wrote:
> Can I please have some suggestions on a small, simple, and secure IRC
> server. I don't need anything major, but would like some basic
> functionality...

Secure IRC?

Hahahahaha :)

Try SILC (silcnet.org). Its not IRC, but it looks like IRC and is very
secure.  They maintain debs.

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Re: IRC Server

[Hugh Saunders]

On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 09:28:46AM -0500, Matthew Daubenspeck wrote:
> Can I please have some suggestions on a small, simple, and secure IRC
> server. I don't need anything major, but would like some basic
> functionality...
how about a 386 running ircd behind a well configured firewall?

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Re: managing another network route, can't connect to it! Pls see!

[jereme]

Hi Louie,

"louie miranda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Consider the following network: (kindly view the attached txt file for a
> nicer one)
> 
>   inet
> |
> |
> |203.190.72.108
>   *-*
>   10.0.0.1|   eth0  |none
>  /|eth1 eth2|--\   new network
> block pipe
>  || LINUX GW|   line cut **
> 192.168.129.x/24 (network)
>  |*-*||
> 10.0.0.2, gw for 192.168.129.x/24 block under LINUX GW
>  |   | 192.x  |
>  |   ||
>*HUB*-**
>  |  cisco 2600
> router ip of this router is: 10.0.0.2
>  |
>  |
>*--* *--* *--*
>|  | |  | |  |
>|  | |  | |  |
>*--* *--* *--*
> workstations
>   10.0.0.0/16 block
> 
> 
> interface:
>  - eth0 = 203.190.72.108, default gw.
>  - eth1 = 10.0.0.0/16, local area network.
>  - eth2 = none
> 
> 
> 
> ===
> 
> Right now im inside 10.0.0.0/16 block, my ip is 10.0.0.11 and my default gw
> is via 203.190.72.108.

I think that you mean your default gateway is 10.0.0.1, if your ws has
a /16 netmask, as you say.


> I can access ip block 192.168.129.x on my LINUX GW perfectly. But when im on
> my workstations on
> 10.0.0.11 block i cannot even ping 192.168.129.x block. Which could be
> possibly be wrong?

For the hosts on the 10.0.0.0/16 network, like your ws, you have to
add a route for the 192.168.129.0/24 network via 10.0.0.2, axactly as
you have done for the linux gateway.

As it stands now, if the 10.0.0.0/16 hosts have only a local route and
a default route, they are sending datagrams bound for the
192.168.129.0/24 network to their default gw.  Though this is not as
efficient as having those hosts use the 10.0.0.2 router, it does save
you the headache of setting static routes on each system.  To get this
to work, I would suspect the problem lies in the filtering and
mangallind rules on the gw.  You can post those rules, if you are
comfortable with that and you want more help.



hth,
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Re: Anacron vs cron

[Joey Hess]

Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote:
> Thank you for the information.  On investigation, it appears my kernel
> does not have support for APM.  It is time to grab another kernel
> image or compile my own.  For the moment, I've hardcoded the return
> value and anacron will start.  We will see if it actually does
> anything.

In unstable anyway, on_ac_power should use apm_available to see if your
kernel supports apm, and if not, always report that it cannot tell. And
anacron apparently uses it properly. This may have only been fixed
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Re: [unstable] terrible gnome 2.2 performance problems

[Joey Hess]

Jerome Lacoste (Frisurf) wrote:
> Since I upgraded to gnome 2.2 (I never used gnome 2.0 on that machine),
> my graphical environment became so slow I am about to start reinstalling
> from scratch my system if it doesn't get solved soon.

Have you tried turning off the anti-aliased fonts stuff? I have a
wimpy[1] 850 mhz transeta crusoe machine, and the anti-aliased fonts,
besides looking nasty and blurry on the LCD, made the very few gnome
apps (abiword, celestia, gnucash) that I use dog-slow. Opening menus was
one particularly slow thing, it could not keep up with my mousing
ability to draw the menus, which is just disgusting.

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~>cat .fonts.conf 


false


And all is well. If someone understands fonts.conf BTW, I'd like to
enable AA for fonts >= 20 point only, if that is possible.

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Re: Newbie bull brings own china shop.

[sean finney]

On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 03:10:08PM +0700, Brian Durant wrote:
> DHCP failed. I booted the install with the command "bf24", so support 
> for the built into motherboard SiS 900 Fast Ethernet driver should be 
> loaded. What do I do now???

well first things first see if the networking works :)  try

$ /sbin/ifconfig eth0 

to see if it has an ip address.  if you're still having issues, it may be
that you need to insert a module--so try modprobe sis900 (i believe that's
the name of the module, though you might want to double check that).

to restart your networking (and give another jab at dhcp),

# /etc/init.d/networking restart

anyway, if you installed with a 2.2 kernel, then that's probably what got installed
on your hard drive.  at this point to get a newer kernel on it, i'm not sure what
would be the easiest method.  normally i'd say apt-get, but you kind of need either
networking or the cd set to do that

try booting into the installer with the bf24 again, and see if you can
skip all the partitioning/mkfs'ing, then mount your partitions, and then re-install
the kernel with the installer.


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Ethernet startup problems

[Michael Rudmin]

Hi, 
   I recently got my system installed, with Ethernet
[dual boot, Woody/Win98, pentium 800].

   I had trouble installing X, and in the process of
trying to get that up and running, at one point locked
the computer completely.  The disk drive was running
but not doing anything, keyboard was locked, mouse was
locked.  

Nominally, this was not supposed to be on root, but
who knows.

   So after a few minutes of watching this, I
unplugged the computer, plugged it back in, and
rebooted, but unfortunately it had some major troubles
with the disk.  I had to enter as root, run the disk
checking utility by hand, and tell it to delete the
extra blocks that had been sitting around unsynced.

   Problem is, after that point, my ethernet doesn't
work [RTL8139].  Looking at the syslog, I now no
longer see ethernet even mentioned during the startup.


   Going over to modprobe -c, I again don't see it. 
So [I'm sure this will seem to be a stupid question]
how do I reinstall that module?

   Also, how do I know what else has been blown to
pieces by this apparent crash?

   Note:  I may have blown my Eth0 away, but X works
now :->




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Re: Japanese input

[Jérôme Blanc]

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I had managed to do this on a Mandrake 8.2 system. I have not tried on Debian 
but it should work similarly. Here is what I did : 

check that you have all the necessary softwares installed : 
japanese locales
FreeWnn
Kinput2 for FreeWnn
Japanese fonts

you need to have 2 environment variables set to the following : 
XMODIFIERS="@im=kinput2" 
LC_CTYPE=ja_JP

Then launch FreeWnn and then Kinput2 FreeWnn.

- From now, in any Qt application, just press Shift+Space to enter some japanese 
text. 
Then refer to the manuals of Kinput and FreeWnn to tune it for your own needs 
and how to use it properly.

Hope this helps,

Jérôme

Le Mercredi 26 Février 2003 09:52, Robert Ewald a écrit :
> hi list,
>
> How to enter japanes into kde application. I understand that qt
> applications have an xim option, but I have not found any documentation for
> that option, so I am a bit lost. Maybe someone here has some suggestions.
>
> Thanks
>
> Robert
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Re: hwto play .mpg files

[p]

On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 09:40:20AM -0800, nate wrote:
>

[snip]
 
> assuming they are MPEG-1 video I use xine. I hear mplayer is
> good but I've never used it and I see you can't get it workin so..
> 
> not sure what all xine can play I've only used it for MPEG-1
> and VideoCDs(MPEG-1 as well).
>

//

xine is also _excellent_ for playing dvd's.

yesterday, i loaded mplayer (from source)
and played an mpg (mpeg-1).  then i played
the same *.mpg using xine.  the only dif-
ference i could tell, was that xine would
allow me to take it full screen, while 
mplayer kept the clip to the original,
much smaller resolution.  (now, there may
be a way to play mplayer full screen, so
anyone, chime-in with that detail.)

kthxbye.

b.

//  

[snip]
 
> 
> nate
> 
> 
> 
> 
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Re: Webadmin

[Kevin C. Smith]

On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 12:43:22AM -0500, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Feb 2003, Keith O'Connell wrote:
> 
> >
> > > Can someone please tell me if Webadmin is available
> > > in Debian (woody). ?
> >
> > If you are referring to webmin, then yes (ver 0.94.7)
> 
> Oh Btw, don't use the packages in woody.  They are broken in various ways
> and plus upstream says to use 1.070 which is in unstable.  but it should
> install fine on woody.  (And if not send me bug reports.  I feel very bad
> about the woody situation but unfortunately it isn't easy to update
> stable.)
> 

I found that using the update in Webmin itself works well, and fixed
various problems. This is on a box running Woody. 

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Re: How to systemwide change MAIL=/var/mail/username to /home/username/Maildir

[Felix Erkinger]

On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 02:42:38PM -0800, Vineet Kumar wrote:
> Go look in /etc/pam.d
> Look for this line:
>sessionoptional pam_mail.so standard noenv
> Change it to this:
>sessionoptional pam_mail.so standard dir=~/Maildir/
> Repeat for all applicable files under /etc/pam.d (i.e. ssh, login)
> This is untested, but i think it will do what you want

Many thanks, it's working.

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RE: Problem with kernel 2.4.20

[Narins, Josh]

> From: Jaroslaw Tabor, Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2003 10:11 AM
> 
> Hello!
> 

Hello!

> 
>   I was using kernel 2.4.20 compiled and installed by 
> myself (without
> initrd). Everything was working fine.
> I've installed by apt kernel-image-2.4.20-686, updated 
> lilo.conf to use
> initrd and executed lilo. After this when I'm trying to use this image
> linux crashes displaying a log of messages about missing modules in
> /lib/modules/2.4.20-686/kernel/fs/
> 
> It looks that he cannot mount root filesystem. I don't have any
> expirience with initrd. Can anyone help me ?
> 

I _think_ you have compiled support for your root partition as a module,
but modules are not available when your kernel is first trying to load
the root module.

If it's really initrd, I can not help, because I have never used that.


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Debian Download Problems

[hlingis]

Dear Sir or Madam,

...I'm sure you've heard this before, I can't download an error free ISO of 
either version of potato or woody. I'm using frontiernet dsl (509 
down-125up) on a hp xt953 with a hp pavilion mx70 display,1000mhz machine 
with easy disk creator basic. I'm a licensed tech instructor with a good 
handle on the mechanics of the process. Different files are corrupted with 
each attempt. I can get it installed by using different disks (each 
representing a different downloading attempt) at the corrupt notification-a 
creepy enterprise at best

...then, can't get x to run, xfree86 issues, sound issues, display issues, 
modem issues-this should not be this hard, with a machine less than a year 
old

...ok, the ability to download a good copy (either ISO or jigdo) appears to 
be a myth, so my question is: if I buy a copy from some vendor, who, and 
where, and what hopes do I have to get an error free copy that way? I'm 
trying to avoid going redhat or mandrake or whatever...

...I believe in this product's concept, would like to help promote it 
within our educational system as an economical alternative

...my point is, if I can't do it, how can I ask that the person on the 
street could be expected to do it

...I guess I should look at this as an opportunity to launch my own 
version-is that necessary? I hope not.

...I truly want to participate in a process that helps break a monopoly and 
bring debian gnu linux to the masses, is that the objective of anyone else?

...any dialogue would be appreciated

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Re: hwto play .mpg files

[Heinrich Rebehn]

p wrote:
On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 09:40:20AM -0800, nate wrote:

[snip]
 

assuming they are MPEG-1 video I use xine. I hear mplayer is
good but I've never used it and I see you can't get it workin so..
not sure what all xine can play I've only used it for MPEG-1
and VideoCDs(MPEG-1 as well).


//

xine is also _excellent_ for playing dvd's.

yesterday, i loaded mplayer (from source)
and played an mpg (mpeg-1).  then i played
the same *.mpg using xine.  the only dif-
ference i could tell, was that xine would
allow me to take it full screen, while 
mplayer kept the clip to the original,
much smaller resolution.  (now, there may
be a way to play mplayer full screen, so
anyone, chime-in with that detail.)
Hit the "f" button

Heinrich

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Re: Problem with kernel 2.4.20

[Harry Brueckner]

Hi there,

check my earlier mails about this issue. :-)

Harry

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I was using kernel 2.4.20 compiled and installed by myself (without
initrd). Everything was working fine.
I've installed by apt kernel-image-2.4.20-686, updated lilo.conf to use
initrd and executed lilo. After this when I'm trying to use this image
linux crashes displaying a log of messages about missing modules in
/lib/modules/2.4.20-686/kernel/fs/
It looks that he cannot mount root filesystem. I don't have any
expirience with initrd. Can anyone help me ?


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Re: where is libMP3.so

[Colin Watson]

On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 03:44:34PM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 14:00:18 +, Colin Watson wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 02:30:57PM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > > On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 23:18:53 +1100, Rob Weir wrote:
> > > > Debian contains no MP3 encoders due to patent issues,
> > > 
> > > Not even in non-us?
> > 
> > The patent is not US-specific.
> 
> OK, so perhaps one would need another section for countries where
> software patents are not protected.

Unfortunately that's not really practical at the moment, especially as
the usefulness of non-US is not what it used to be (since we can
distribute DFSG-compliant crypto from the main archive now).

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ipchains not logging to syslog

[Jeremy Gaddis]

Has anyone experienced an issue with ipchains not logging
via syslog?  The log info for the packets that should be
logged is output to the first VT, but this is hardly
convenient as the machine is put up in a closet.

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:pts/0:~]$ uname -a
Linux mars 2.2.23 #4 Thu Jan 23 22:15:03 EST 2003 i486 unknown

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:pts/0:~]$ grep -v ^# /etc/syslog.conf
*.* @192.168.0.2

Everything else gets probably logged, however, nothing appears
from ipchains.  The default policy for the input chain is ACCEPT,
however, there are individual rules for packets that I want allowed,
then there's a default "catch-all" at the end of the input chain
which should log everything that isn't allowed.  The packet logs never
make it to the loghost however.

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:pts/0:~]# ipchains -L input -n | head -n 1
Chain input (policy ACCEPT):

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:pts/0:~]# ipchains -L input -n | tail -n 1
DENY   all  l-  0.0.0.0/00.0.0.0/0 n/a

The packets are indeed being blocked (and logged to the first VT),
but nothing is reported via syslog.  Has anyone experienced an issue
of this sorts before?

Thanks,
j.

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Re: GUI Mail Client

[Vineet Kumar]

* Keith O'Connell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030226 02:07]:
> client I have used under Linux, but this is "holy-wars" area you are
> entering!

That much is true!  I'm sure I'm not the only one who, on reading "GUI
Mail Client" is just _itching_ to respond with '"xterm -e mutt"!' no
matter what the question ;-)

good times,
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Re: Ethernet startup problems

[sean finney]

On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 07:20:39AM -0800, Michael Rudmin wrote:
>Problem is, after that point, my ethernet doesn't
> work [RTL8139].  Looking at the syslog, I now no
> longer see ethernet even mentioned during the startup.
> 
> 
>Going over to modprobe -c, I again don't see it. 
> So [I'm sure this will seem to be a stupid question]
> how do I reinstall that module?

how about

# modprobe rtl8139
or
# modprobe 8139too

if either of those work, put the module name in /etc/modules, and
you should be set.  if not, i would guess that you inadvertantly
deleted the module or mucked your kernel install.  also, hopefully
this isn't the case, but from my own personal experience rtl8139
based chipsets are really, really, flaky...

>Also, how do I know what else has been blown to
> pieces by this apparent crash?

generally, try to use it, if it doesn't work it's probably broken :)


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Re: biff type notifier for remote IMAP servers?

[Jason Lunz]

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> Is there a mail arrival notifier which can monitor one's mailboxes on
> a remote host's IMAP spool? (using gnus to read mail from the remote
> hosts and locally from /var/mail/user). 

fetchmail in check-only mode will do that.

Jason


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Installing debian

[Carlos Taylor]

I'm new and am trying to install debian on a Compaq Deskpro EN PC running a 
P-III(733MHz) processor.
 
I downloaded 3 iso images:
debian-30r1-i386-binary-1
debian-30r1-i386-binary-2
debian-30r1-i386-binary-3
 
I then burned all 3 to separate CD's.
 
I then set my BIOS to boot from the CD.
Nothing happens.  It does not boot from the CD.
 
Can someone give me instructions on how to install?
 
Thanks a lot,
Carlos...

vim and gqip spaces after periods

[Joey Hess]

Can someone tell me how to make vim, when reformatting
text that includes periods with gqip, not put two spaces
after the period? 
It seems to do this when the period is
at the end of the line. Happens for queston marks too.
Like if I copy and gqip this paragraph, I get the below:

|  Can someone tell me how to make vim, when reformatting text that
|  includes periods with gqip, not put two spaces after the period?  It
|  seems to do this when the period is at the end of the line. Happens for
|  queston marks too.  Like if I copy and gqip this paragraph, I get the
|  below:

I'm not looking for another thread of the typography theory behind two
spaces really. I just find it annoying that after gqip some sentences --
those at EOL -- get two spaces, whole the rest get only the one I enter
myself. It's inconsistent and ugly.

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manglement-compatible comparison of SuSE vs. Debian

[Robert Waldner]

One of our customers runs his firewall on SuSE. This is, obvious to any 
 Debian user, not what one wants to support.

However, in order to be able to convince him that changing to Debian
 would be a Good(tm) idea, I need a management-compatible comparison, 
 preferrably from a third party. If it features a lot of buzzwords like
 "TCO", "maintenance costs" etc, even better ;)

So, if some kind soul round here has a fitting URL at hand, please toss
 it my way. google was not very helpful in that regard, as what I found
 is either way too far in the technical details, or aimed at the 
 switching-from-windos desktop-focused audience.

cheers+TIA,
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Re: Very few packages selected during install

[Joey Hess]

Jason Pepas wrote:
> I have observed the following behavior with debian woody (3.0) installs:
> 
> - if you say "no" to tasksel, a very very minimal set of packages are 
> installed.
> - if you say "yes" to tasksel, but don't select any packages, a bunch more 
> packages are installed than the above.
> 
> my question is, how can I select the packages which the second option 
> installed, and where can I read more about why this is happening (ie, what 
> policy is this following?)

It's confusing isn't it. What's going on is that when tasksel[1] (or
dselect or aptitude (I think)) is run, it automatically marks for
install the set of packages that are of standard priority or higher.
Even if you don't select anything yourself. This is because policy says:

 `standard'
  These packages provide a reasonably small but not too limited
  character-mode system.  This is what will be installed by default
  if the user doesn't select anything else.  It doesn't include
  many large applications.

And because without selecting these, as was done in potato for a while, people
were ending up lacking stuff like gpm, and got confused.

But if tasksel is not run, nothing selects those packages, and so you get
only the bare base system. Which is good for people who really know what
they are doing.

You can select that set at the command line by running tasksel -risn.

I'd like to make this more obvious, but trying to explain the distinction
at install time runs the risk of overloading the new Debian user who jus
wants a reasonable system. So instead I have left it as a little trick
that experienced users will stumble over as they begin to skip all package
selection at install time.

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Re: /etc/chatscripts/provider

[Jeremy Gaddis]

On Tue, 25 Feb 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> What is the correct way to tell my modem to do an ATM0 (shut it up) in this
> script?

I changed the line that causes the dialout to occur to include M0.

The line previously read "ATDT865", it now reads "ATM0DT865".

j.

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Re: Debian Download Problems

[Levi Waldron]

On February 26, 2003 10:24 am, hlingis wrote:
> ...ok, the ability to download a good copy (either ISO or jigdo) appears to
> be a myth, so my question is: if I buy a copy from some vendor, who, and
> where, and what hopes do I have to get an error free copy that way? I'm
> trying to avoid going redhat or mandrake or whatever...

I don't know why jigdo isn't working for you - it worked marvellously for me, 
and it even checks cheksums for errors in the constructed image.  If 
jigdo finished and said there were no errors, but you still ended up with a 
CD with errors, then there must be something buggy about your cd burning 
process.  In any case, don't try starting an installation with bad CDs.  

Buying copy from a vendor is an excellent and cheap alternative.  Some 
vendors are listsed at www.debian.org under "CD vendors".  I've had good 
experiences with www.chguy.net, who's in Canada but is cheap to the US too.


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Re: Installing debian

[Levi Waldron]

On February 26, 2003 12:11 pm, Carlos Taylor wrote:
> I then set my BIOS to boot from the CD.Nothing happens.  It does not boot
> from the CD.

Well, either you had a problem with the downloading and burning process, or 
your bios isn't really trying to boot from CDs, but there's no way for 
someone here to tell what happened without more information.

Did you do the downloading/burning according to the instructions in the 
install manual at www.debian.org?  You won't be able to get through the 
install without this manual.  When you look at the contents of the CDs, do 
they show a whole directory structure (right) or just one large .iso file 
(wrong)?


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Re: Installing debian

[Glyn Millington]

"Carlos Taylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> I'm new and am trying to install debian on a Compaq Deskpro EN PC running a
> P-III(733MHz) processor.
>
>  
>
> I downloaded 3 iso images:
>
> debian-30r1-i386-binary-1
>
> debian-30r1-i386-binary-2
>
> debian-30r1-i386-binary-3


>From the install manual 

(http://www.uk.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/install.en.txt)



"If your system can't boot directly from CD-ROM, or you simply can't
 seem to get it to work, don't despair; you can simply run
 `E:\install\boot.bat' under DOS (replace `E:' with whatever drive
 letter DOS assigns to your CD-ROM drive) to start the installation
 process.  Then, skip down to Chapter 8, `Booting Into Your New Debian
 System'."


Hope that helps!


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Re: Debian Download Problems

[Carla Schroder]

On Wednesday 26 February 2003 07:24 am, hlingis wrote:
> ...I'm sure you've heard this before, I can't download an error free ISO of
> either version of potato or woody.

Why not order disks from Cheapbytes?

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RE: Installing debian

[deFreese, Barry]

>-Original Message-
>From: Carlos Taylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2003 9:31 AM
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Installing debian
>
>
>I'm new and am trying to install debian on a Compaq Deskpro EN PC running a
P-III(733MHz) >processor.
>
>I downloaded 3 iso images:
>debian-30r1-i386-binary-1
>debian-30r1-i386-binary-2
>debian-30r1-i386-binary-3
>
>I then burned all 3 to separate CD's.
>
>I then set my BIOS to boot from the CD.
>Nothing happens.  It does not boot from the CD.
>
>Can someone give me instructions on how to install?
>
>Thanks a lot,
>Carlos...

Does it attempt to boot from the CD?  Have you tried to boot the CD on
another machine?  Stupid question but did you actually burn the files from
the iso image or did you copy the file to the CD?

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Re: GUI Mail Client

[Keith O'Connell]

> "Vineet" == Vineet Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

>> client I have used under Linux, but this is "holy-wars" area
>> you are entering!

Vineet> That much is true!  I'm sure I'm not the only one who, on
Vineet> reading "GUI Mail Client" is just _itching_ to respond
Vineet> with '"xterm -e mutt"!' no matter what the question ;-)

When I posted my reply, I fought back the urge to say I was using
gnus, because I didn't think he wanted to hear that!:-)

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Re: vim and gqip spaces after periods

[Colin Watson]

On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 12:37:00PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
> Can someone tell me how to make vim, when reformatting
> text that includes periods with gqip, not put two spaces
> after the period? 

Put 'set nojoinspaces' in ~/.vimrc.

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Re: Installing debian

[Carla Schroder]

On Wednesday 26 February 2003 09:11 am, Carlos Taylor wrote:
> I'm new and am trying to install debian on a Compaq Deskpro EN PC running a
> P-III(733MHz) processor.
>
> I downloaded 3 iso images:
> debian-30r1-i386-binary-1
> debian-30r1-i386-binary-2
> debian-30r1-i386-binary-3
>
> I then burned all 3 to separate CD's.
>
> I then set my BIOS to boot from the CD.
> Nothing happens.  It does not boot from the CD.
>
> Can someone give me instructions on how to install?
>

Have you verified that the disks are readable? Did you know that you can't 
just copy the ISOs to disks? When you read the disks in any computer, you 
should see a lot of files and directories, not a single .iso. Don't forget to 
use md5sum to verify the downloads are good.

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Networksettings

[Benjamin Swatek]

Hi.
I'm new to this list, new to linux and new to debian, but I'm trying to 
set it up on my Apple Powerbook.
I already found some helpfull sites for this, but to use the 
suggestions to set up the X server an everything else that causes 
problems, I need to setup a network conection, and here is the problem: 
I can't connect!
So please can anyone tell me how to set up my network connection in 
comando line?
I do connect via ethernet to the LAN here and then via a router to 
internet.
In MacOS X I have to set up to connect:
My IP
Subnetmask
Router
and DNS server.

I thought i did set all this up correctly in debian, but it seems it 
doesn't work.
I tried to view a page with lynx typing "lynx www.debian.org" and "lynx 
http://www.debian.org"; both don't work, and as lynx is trying to access 
something, i feel this should be a comand that might work.

so far, thanks
benno
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Re: manglement-compatible comparison of SuSE vs. Debian

[Harvey Kelly]

But, and please forgive my newbie-ignorance :) why do you want him to
switch?  Surely the fact that he's running SuSE and seems happy with it
should be enough?  Debian and SuSE are both Linux after all - different
flavours of course, but not that far apart.  

Now if he was running Mandrake, then I'd understand... 

Cheers.

Harvey

On Wed, 2003-02-26 at 17:21, Robert Waldner wrote:
> 
> One of our customers runs his firewall on SuSE. This is, obvious to any 
>  Debian user, not what one wants to support.
> 
> However, in order to be able to convince him that changing to Debian
>  would be a Good(tm) idea, I need a management-compatible comparison, 
>  preferrably from a third party. If it features a lot of buzzwords like
>  "TCO", "maintenance costs" etc, even better ;)
> 
> So, if some kind soul round here has a fitting URL at hand, please toss
>  it my way. google was not very helpful in that regard, as what I found
>  is either way too far in the technical details, or aimed at the 
>  switching-from-windos desktop-focused audience.
> 
> cheers+TIA,
> &rw
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Re: Installing debian

[Calber Chainy]

I do not know your computer, but if you have problems booting from the
CD, read the manual how to install from floppies.

Chainy.

El mié, 26-02-2003 a las 18:11, Carlos Taylor escribió:
> I'm new and am trying to install debian on a Compaq Deskpro EN PC running a 
> P-III(733MHz) processor.
> 
> I downloaded 3 iso images:
> debian-30r1-i386-binary-1
> debian-30r1-i386-binary-2
> debian-30r1-i386-binary-3
> 
> I then burned all 3 to separate CD's.
> 
> I then set my BIOS to boot from the CD.
> Nothing happens.  It does not boot from the CD.
> 
> Can someone give me instructions on how to install?
> 
> Thanks a lot,
> Carlos...



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Re: Installing debian

[Kent West]

Carlos Taylor wrote:

I'm new and am trying to install debian on a Compaq Deskpro EN PC 
running a P-III(733MHz) processor.
 
I downloaded 3 iso images:
debian-30r1-i386-binary-1
debian-30r1-i386-binary-2
debian-30r1-i386-binary-3
 
I then burned all 3 to separate CD's.
 
I then set my BIOS to boot from the CD.
Nothing happens.  It does not boot from the CD.
 
Can someone give me instructions on how to install?
 
Thanks a lot,
Carlos...
I suspect you burned the files to the CDs as just files; you need to 
find whatever option in your burning software allows you to create CDs 
from ISOs. If you just look at the CD from within Windows (or whatever 
OS you're using), you'll see the .iso file on the CD if this is the case.

Kent



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Re: (Newbie) Functioning In Debian

[Alex Malinovich]

On Wed, 2003-02-26 at 06:44, Rob Weir wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 23, 2003 at 01:19:14PM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote:
--snip--
> > may choose to use, however, are non-free. And there is actually an
> > mplayer plugin available that works pretty well. 
> > 
> > http://mplayerplug-in.sourceforge.net
> > 
> > It's currently up to 0.40. It even plays Quicktime movie trailers and
> > the such right in the browser window. I'm working on making it my first
> > Debian package actually. :)
> 
> Ooooh, neat.  Have you put the packages up somewhere?
--snip--

I was looking up something while creating the package a few minutes ago
and happened to take a look at Christian Marillat's site
(http://marillat.free.fr) and it seems he beat me to it. :)

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Re: Debian Download Problems

[ScruLoose]

On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 09:24:18AM -0600, hlingis wrote:
> Dear Sir or Madam,
> 
> ...I'm sure you've heard this before, I can't download an error free ISO of 
> either version of potato or woody. 


Personally, I haven't heard this before...  Myself, I'm no sort of
techie, tech instructor, or guru of any other flavour; but I had very
little trouble downloading, burning, and installing an error-free woody
ISO.  Jigdo under WinXP gave me some annoyance, so I used WS_FTP to get
the 3.0 rev1 ISO from one of the mirrors listed on 
http://www.debian.org/CD/http-ftp/ 
Checked the md5sum, burned it with Nero, and allowed the installer to do
its own integrity-check, too. It, ahem, Just Worked(tm).

> ...then, can't get x to run, xfree86 issues, sound issues, display issues, 
> modem issues-this should not be this hard, with a machine less than a year 
> old

Nope, but seems unsurprising on an install from a stack of corrupt CDs.

> ...ok, the ability to download a good copy (either ISO or jigdo) appears to 
> be a myth, so my question is: if I buy a copy from some vendor, who, and 
> where, and what hopes do I have to get an error free copy that way? I'm 
> trying to avoid going redhat or mandrake or whatever...

It's no myth.  Perhaps the client prog. you're using for the download is
broken.  And I've never tried that route, but I'm inclined to suspect
that if you buy a copy from some vendor (any vendor you like: I believe
there's a list on the debian homepage) your chances of getting an
error-free disk would be something approaching 100%.

> ...I believe in this product's concept, would like to help promote it 
> within our educational system as an economical alternative

On this point, you're not likely to get any argument from this crowd.
Many of us are busy promoting Debian within and without various
educational systems around the world.

> ...my point is, if I can't do it, how can I ask that the person on the 
> street could be expected to do it

Well... I *am* the person on the street, and I did it.  

> ...I guess I should look at this as an opportunity to launch my own 
> version-is that necessary? I hope not.

I'd say that's nowhere near necessary.  There are already more Linux
distros than you can shake a stick at.  I think that trying to replace
the entire debian project because of your own inability to download an
ISO is a bit excessive.  Also unlikely to get very far.

> ...I truly want to participate in a process that helps break a monopoly and 
> bring debian gnu linux to the masses, is that the objective of anyone else?

Woo-hoo!  That's a major part of my reason for being here.  The other
major part is that I want to use my computer, not vice versa.  (MS has
long annoyed me with their "you don't need to know" way of doing
everything, but with XP's built-in spyware... that crossed the line as
far as I'm concerned.)

> ...any dialogue would be appreciated

Good, good.  As long as you're not just trolling, I think you can expect
plenty of lively dialogue.

Cheers!
-Chris


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FreeS/WAN on PPPOE

[Curtis Vaughan]

Has anyone had similar problems?

Out DSL connection is through a PPPOE connect, unfortunately. Although 
setting up multiple VPNs has generally been no problem, this time for 
this office it has been a pain. The only reason we can think of now is 
because this is first time we've dealt with a PPPOE connection. Has 
anyone experienced similar problems? If so, were you able to overcome 
it? Or, perhaps this isn't the problem at all.

Curtis Vaughan
North Pacific Corporation
WashTech (CWA Local 37083)
IWW x353203
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Road Warriors on FreeS/WAN

[Curtis Vaughan]

A simple question, perhaps.

When setting up road warrior account for FreeS/WAN do Windows users who 
authenticate with the network thereby gain normal in office network 
access? Or are there more steps to this.

Let me take a step back.
I thought I would simplify things by turning on RRAS on a Windows 2000 
Server for people needing network access for certain reasons. Well, it 
turns out the firewall doesn't pass GRE.  So, I was returning to my 
original idea about road warrior, but am not sure whether it will 
provide what we need.

Curtis Vaughan
North Pacific Corporation
WashTech (CWA Local 37083)
IWW x353203
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RE: Networksettings

[deFreese, Barry]

> -Original Message-
> From: Benjamin Swatek [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2003 10:26 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Networksettings
> 
> 
> Hi.
> I'm new to this list, new to linux and new to debian, but I'm 
> trying to 
> set it up on my Apple Powerbook.
> I already found some helpfull sites for this, but to use the 
> suggestions to set up the X server an everything else that causes 
> problems, I need to setup a network conection, and here is 
> the problem: 
> I can't connect!
> So please can anyone tell me how to set up my network connection in 
> comando line?
> I do connect via ethernet to the LAN here and then via a router to 
> internet.
> In MacOS X I have to set up to connect:
> My IP
> Subnetmask
> Router
> and DNS server.
> 
> I thought i did set all this up correctly in debian, but it seems it 
> doesn't work.
> I tried to view a page with lynx typing "lynx www.debian.org" 
> and "lynx 
> http://www.debian.org"; both don't work, and as lynx is trying 
> to access 
> something, i feel this should be a comand that might work.
> 
> so far, thanks
> benno
> 
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First, you should try the debian-ppc mailing list as there are a lot of Mac
centric questions answered there.

Second.  If you do an "ifconfig" do you have an IP address?  Can you ping
your default gateway(router) by IP address? If both of those work check your
/etc/resolv.conf file to make sure that you have an entry for the nameserver
(DNS Server).

Barry deFreese
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Nike Team Sports
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installation

[FU2 !]

I'm trying to install debian onto its own hard drive which has been formatted and is ready for the installation, however i'm not quite sure which files i actually need to install, and there's so many on the website, i downloaded the .iso file for the i386, and wrote it to CD, but when i tried to boot from the CD it wasn't recognised as a boot CD by my computer, so could you help me with that please? 
 And also would you be able to tell me exactly what files i need to download from the info i gave above please? 
 
PC spec:
 
800mhz AMDAthlon
1 x 40gb drive running windows 2000 pro
1 x 20gb drive blank
384mb SDRAM
 
Thanks!
 
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Newbie administrator

[Phil]

I am running the only Debian server in the NYC Dept. of Education.
1. running Samba correctly (is there a way to hide the configuration files 
in the home directory?)
2. running netatalk correctly (I have 1 OS-X machine that can't logon on 
but I'm not sure where the problem is there)
3.  running NFS & NIS - here is the problem
I set up all users on the server with user directories in /home (of course) 
with the /home directory exported "rw".  on the client machines (SuSE 
because it is so easy to install and configure) I have the /home directory 
mounted to the server.  the logon screen shows all the users and it works 
well  the problem is my lack of knowledge about how to set-up 
permissions.  My users log into their /home directories but can view the 
/home directories of others.  how can I correct this?

Is there a good book for beginner adimin's like me?

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Re: Debian Download Problems

[Greg Madden]

On Wednesday 26 February 2003 06:24 am, hlingis wrote:
> Dear Sir or Madam,
>
> ...I'm sure you've heard this before, I can't download an error free
> ISO of either version of potato or woody. I'm using frontiernet dsl
> (509 down-125up) on a hp xt953 with a hp pavilion mx70 display,1000mhz
> machine with easy disk creator basic. I'm a licensed tech instructor
> with a good handle on the mechanics of the process. Different files are
> corrupted with each attempt. I can get it installed by using different
> disks (each representing a different downloading attempt) at the
> corrupt notification-a creepy enterprise at best
snip

You didn't mention thischeck the integrity of the dl'd iso with 
md5sum.  Each iso has a md5sum you can dl from the iso site. This will 
eliminate, or not, the iso as a possible cause and allow you to check 
other possible issues. I do not know what the Windows or Mac equivilent 
is to md5sum.
-- 
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