SOLVED: Root password 2 times

[Yildiz, Murat]

Hi,
I have commented this line in both login and rlogin and it works now :

#auth   requisite  pam_securetty.so

I had only commented login.

Murat


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Gesendet: Montag, 7. Juli 2003 20:35
An: Yildiz, Murat
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Yildiz, Murat wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> Hi,
> if I want to login remotely I have to enter the root password 2 times.It
> asks the password again after the first time.
> Why does it accept the same password at the second time?
> 


Hi,
im sure it's a pam issue. I assume you use ssh for remote login, so 
could you please post your /etc/pam.d/ssh. Otherwise please post your 
/etc/pam.d/login if you use rlogin.


Michael

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Securing a Debian server

[royotto]

Hi there

We're thinking about starting to use Debian instead of RH on our Linux boxes and I 
have a question concerning this. RH offers to check servers and optimizing these for 
maximum security, does Debian offer this? Or is there a guide on how to do this 
somewhere?

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Re: Securing a Debian server

[Sharninder Singh-662]

have a question concerning this. RH offers to check servers and optimizing
these for maximum security, does Debian offer this? Or is there a guide on
how to do this somewhere?

there is a securing debian guide somewhere on the documentation pages. as u
know, debian is a volunteer driven service so u might not get support from
debian directly but the mailing list is a gr8 place to hang out and ask such
questions. debian also has a security updates repository using which u can
keep your system updated. and last but not the least, u might find some
commercial provider to provide u the necessary assistance, if thats what u
want.

regards
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Re: xterm configuration

[Rob Weir]

On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 06:43:44PM -0700, Marc Wilson wrote:
> For Eterm, using the same fixed font would suffice.  I have no idea at all
> if Eterm supports AA's fonts or what it does to simulate line-drawing with
> them if it does.

It indeed does not support AA.

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Re: apt-get/dselect - network *or* CDs

[Rob Weir]

On Sun, Jul 06, 2003 at 10:03:07AM -0400, Kenneth Jacker wrote:
> I've tried to find an answer to this by reading and searching the
> net, but no luck.
> 
> I created the "sources.list" file with network entries followed by CD
> entries. Ideally, I'd like this setup to access one of the specified
> network mirrors if I'm connected to the Internet.  On the other hand,
> if I'm not connected by either PPP or Ethernet, I'd like to use the
> installation CDs.
> 
> Is this possible?
> 
> As a much less desirable "work around", I tried having two secondary
> files -- one with the network entries and another with the CD ones --
> one of which is symbolic linked to "sources.list".  The problem with
> that is when I use the network info, all the data from the seven CDs
> "goes away" (requiring a rescan of all CDs next time I use *them*).
> 
> Thanks for any ideas!

There's no easy solution to this that I know of.  If you have the
diskspace, you could just copy the contents of this CDs to your hard
disk, and then get packages from there, but that would require a few GB
of space.

Another solution might be to duplicate /var/lib/apt/ (and
/etc/apt/sources.list) to /var/lib/apt.cdrom/ and /var/lib/apt.net/ and
then symlink /var/lib/apt/ (and your sources.list) to which ever is
appropriate at the time.  I've never tried this, so test it carefully
before you rely on it, and KEEP BACKUPS.

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Re: strange packet denial

[Rob Weir]

On Sat, Jul 05, 2003 at 01:12:35PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> The following report of a denied packet has been appearing about once
> or twice a day in my system logs:
> 
> Jul  4 10:12:48 gateway kernel: Packet log:
>   input DENY eth0 PROTO=2 0.0.0.0:65535 224.0.0.2:65535
>   L=32 S=0x00 I=19572 F=0x T=1 O=0x0494 (#5)

PROTO=2 means it's IGMP, 'Internet Group Management'.  I have no idea
what that means, though :)

> I think I understand why the packet is being blocked, but I'm more
> more concerned with what it is and where it's coming from.  What does
> it mean for the source address to be 0.0.0.0?  And what is 224.0.0.2?

I'm pretty sure the 224 addresses are related to IP Multicast.  Hmmm, I
guess I can't actually help, but maybe google will now that you have
some keywords :)  Also, there's a debian-firewall list (on this very
server) which is full of nice people who probably know the proper answer
to your question.


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Re: Disabling X from listening to port 6000 the debian way!

[Rob Weir]

On Sat, Jul 05, 2003 at 08:31:05PM -0500, Jesse Meyer wrote:
> Hello, 
> 
> Its just another warm Saturday afternoon and I'm trying to up the
> security of the local network.  I've noticed that I had port 1024 open 
> and port 6000 open, presumably for wdm and X11 respectively
> 
> Since I use only ssh to forward X connections, I'd rather not have 
> X listening to the entire world.  Googling, I found that editing 
> "/usr/bin/X11/startx" and changing two lines to:
> 
>   defaultserverargs="-nolisten tcp"
>   serverargs="-nolisten tcp"

You should never, ever need to edit a file in /usr/bin to change a
config option.  With a little grepping, I found
/etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc, which has that option.  Note that 'nolisten
tcp' has been the default for a fairly long time...

> And then editing /etc/X11/wdm/Xservers and change the line to:
>   local /usr/bin/X11/X -nolisten tcp
> 
> Port 6000 ends up closed, but port 1024 is still open!
> 
> And was my method of disabling port 6000 the 'right' way of doing it
> under debian?

Aside from having to edit something in /usr/bin, it looks good.

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Re: gv ps.bz2 instead of ps.gz

[Rob Weir]

On Sat, Jul 05, 2003 at 04:27:07PM +0200, Lukas Ruf wrote:
> is it possible to configure gv such that it supports bzip2-compressed
> postscript files in addition to gzip-compressed ones?

Under zsh, 'gv =(bzcat file.ps.b2)' opens it up fine.  '=(bzcat
file.ps.bz2)' runs 'bzcat file.ps.bz2', stores the output in a temp file
and passes it to gv.  You could wrap this up in a shell function if you
felt like it, too.

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Re: APT error

[Rob Weir]

On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 03:43:31PM +0200, Raffaele Sandrini wrote:
> Hi
> 
> i tried to upgrade my system with
> # apt-get dist-upgrade
> 
> after it downloaded all files i got this error:
> E: Internal Error, Could not perform immediate configuration (2) on libpam0g
> 
> What does that mean?

This has come up lots of times on the list.  Check the archives.

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Re: A bit OT: conversion mp3 to wav

[Rob Weir]

On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 01:23:34PM +, Vittorio wrote:
> Sebastian Kapfer [debian-user] <05/07/03 18:59 +0200>:
> > On Sat, 05 Jul 2003 13:50:08 +0200, vdemar wrote:
> > 
> > > E.g., If I issue the basic command
> > > 
> > > mpg123 -w weare.wav weare.mp3 
> > [...]
> > > Illegal instruction
> > 
> > Did this break with a recent update? It sounds like mpg123 uses an
> > instruction that your CPU (which?) doesn't support. Does normal playback
> > work?
> 
> This break appeared after an update (I don't know if recent).
> 
> The CPU is a Pentium III.
> 
> I don't know what you mean by "normal playback" but xmms is able to reproduce both 
> mp3 and wav files if I guess correctly.

I think he means 'does mpg123 play mp3 files in general, ie does "mpg123
file.mp3" work?'.

That said, assuming you're using the Debian packages of mpg123 (which
are built for i386), I'd look for disk corruption.  'debsums' is useful
for checking this.  If you built it yourself from source, then try
again; you probably used optimisations that your CPU doesn't actually
support.

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Re: Libc6 broken -- unable to boot...

[Rob Weir]

On Sun, Jul 06, 2003 at 03:55:08PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi everybody:
> I am getting kind of desperate with this and before trhasong all my debian
> installation I would like to beg for help in the list. I broke my
> installation of libc6, while trying to install a newer version, and then I
> was not able to deinstall or install another version, since everything
> segfaulted. I though that I would be able to reinstall the libc6 with the
> rescue disks, but I have been unable to do it so far... so, what is the
> less destroying way of getting my debian system to boot again?

For future reference, it's almost never a good idea to play with libc6
manually.  If you have a package that won't install because it wants
'libc6 >= 2.3.1-16' or whatever, either rebuild it from source AGAINST
YOUR CURRENT LIBC6, or upgrade your entire system to sarge/sid and run
it there.  I can't think of any normal situation where you'd ever need
to upgrade libc6 with dpkg.

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Re: X_version_set.tgz (Superprobe)

[Rob Weir]

On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 11:10:45AM +0200, Yildiz, Murat wrote:
> 
> Hi ,
> I need the file X_version_set.tgz  and cannot get it through our proxy from
> ftp://ftp.XFree86.org/pub/XFree86/current/binaries
> 
> Where else can I download it?

Why do you need it?  It's not required to setup X with Debian.

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Re: Default header weeding in Mutt

[David Fokkema]

On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 01:03:49AM -0300, Javier Kohen wrote:
> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
> Hash: SHA1
> 
> 
> I recently had a mail exchange with Marco d'Itri regarding the default
> setup of Mutt. More specifically, that it hides the Date header and
> displays instead the Delivery-Date date. I present below the original
> conversation, which can be found in its complete form at
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=193812 .
> 
> - - Me -
> I wonder why you put the "ignore date" directive in /etc/Muttrc, I find
> the Date header much more useful than Delivery-Date, which is what I was
> getting from the MTA.
> Therefore my suggestion is to change the line that reads "ignore date"
> to "ignore delivery-date".
> - - Marco -
> Because I like it this way.
> - - Me -
> I usually respect Debian maintainers' decisions regarding to the default
> settings provided with their packages 

I think you should indeed! Anyway, it is as Marco says: he likes it that
way. Others like it another way. Personally, I whole-heartedly agree
with you: I want to know when the person sending me the mail hit the
Send button. I can see that it eventually arrived in my mailbox. I want
to know how much time has passed between sending and reading. I only
want to know when it hit my mailbox when checking some anomaly; I can
type 'h' for that.

Either way, the package default is ignore date and show delivery-date.
Help save the world, change your /etc/Muttrc today! (like I did...)

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Re: New IDE drive dramatically slow system?

[Leo Spalteholz]

On July 7, 2003 08:34 pm, Daniel B. wrote:
> Alvin Oga wrote:
> >...
> > - similarly, you cannot mix 2MB buffer disks with 8MB
> > buffer disks
>
> Unless someone can confirm that, I believe that statement is bogus.

yup, thats complete bullshit.  I have a drive with a 2MB Cache IBM 
Deathstar 60GXP and one of those 8MB cache Western Digital drives in 
my system with no slowdown or other problems...

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Re: Squirrel Mail

[tt tt]

I don't think it is a problem with imapd as it has not
been upgraded. I do know that the squirel mail package
was upgraded yesterday.
 
I will try testing imapd and post back to this list.

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Re: apt-get/dselect - network *or* CDs

[Peter Hugosson-Miller]

Rob Weir wrote:

On Sun, Jul 06, 2003 at 10:03:07AM -0400, Kenneth Jacker wrote:

I've tried to find an answer to this by reading and searching the
net, but no luck.
I created the "sources.list" file with network entries followed by CD
entries. Ideally, I'd like this setup to access one of the specified
network mirrors if I'm connected to the Internet. On the other hand,
if I'm not connected by either PPP or Ethernet, I'd like to use the
installation CDs.
Is this possible?

As a much less desirable "work around", I tried having two secondary
files -- one with the network entries and another with the CD ones --
one of which is symbolic linked to "sources.list". The problem with
that is when I use the network info, all the data from the seven CDs
"goes away" (requiring a rescan of all CDs next time I use *them*).
Thanks for any ideas!


There's no easy solution to this that I know of. If you have the
diskspace, you could just copy the contents of this CDs to your hard
disk, and then get packages from there, but that would require a few GB
of space.
Another solution might be to duplicate /var/lib/apt/ (and
/etc/apt/sources.list) to /var/lib/apt.cdrom/ and /var/lib/apt.net/ and
then symlink /var/lib/apt/ (and your sources.list) to which ever is
appropriate at the time. I've never tried this, so test it carefully
before you rely on it, and KEEP BACKUPS.
From the woody version of apt and later, if you put the cdrom entries 
_before_ the internet ones, then the CD's will be used in preference to 
the internet, as long as there is no newer version of the package on the 
net.

I think this might be the solution you are looking for. The only thing 
it _won't_ do, is if you wanted to say "use the CD's when I'm not 
connected to the internet, _even if_ there is a newer version of the 
package on the net". For that to work, I believe you would need to 
comment out the internet lines and do an "apt-get update" for the times 
when you were not connected, then uncomment them and "apt-get update" 
again next time you connected.

Any solution with multiple sources.list files would need to have the 
cdrom lines first in every file, otherwise you will need to rescan the 
CD's when you want those entries back in place. You can't manually add 
cdrom lines to sources list, for this you must use "apt-cdrom add".

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Re: Squirrel Mail

[Steve Lamb]

On Tue, 8 Jul 2003 09:24:36 +0100 (BST)
tt tt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I don't think it is a problem with imapd as it has not
> been upgraded. I do know that the squirel mail package
> was upgraded yesterday.
  
> I will try testing imapd and post back to this list.

Also try deleting the configuration for Squirrelmail and remaking it from
scratch.  IIRC there was a problem in the 1.2 -> 1.4 upgrade where the conf.pl
didn't play nice with the older configuration files.

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Re: but I don't want the Russian etc. documentation

[TR]

File: *manpages*,  Node: localepurge,  Up: (dir)

LOCALEPURGE(8) LOCALEPURGE(8)

NAME
   localepurge - removing superfluous locale data

SYNOPSIS
   localepurge

DESCRIPTION
   localepurge is a small script to recover disk space wasted
   for unneeded locale files and localized man pages. It will
   be  automagically  invoked  by dpkg upon completion of any
   apt installation run.   You  have  to  define  the  locale
   directory  names  you want to keep from removal after each
   apt installation run in the /etc/locale.nopurge configura­
   tion file.  Unless localepurge has been adequately config­
   ured, the system's locale directories won't be touched  at
   all.
 

On Tue, 08 Jul 2003 11:04:32 +0800
Dan Jacobson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> > apt-howto is a metapackage; you install it to get the apt-howto
> > in all its various translations.  Once you've decided on the
> > translations you need, and remove the rest, the apt-howto
> > package will be removed as well because its dependencies are
> > no longer satisfied.
> 
> regarding "remove the rest", the pros must have a better way than the
> below, no?
> 
> # dlocate -l apt-howto|tr -s \ |cut -d \  -f2|
> awk '/apt/&&!/-en/'|xargs apt-get -y --purge remove
> 
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Re: Also won't for me (no sshd)

[Colin Watson]

On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 02:36:19AM -0400, Soren Andersen wrote:
> Hope this is the correct newsgroup to post on.
> Thought I might go to a distro specific site first, 'cos intuition
> tells me this might be a distro specific thing.
> 
> Right -
> 
> sshd wont start.
> Just wont.
> Doesn't ditch with error messages when I try 
> to start it from the command line.
> 
> It _will_ start if I start it in debug mode.
> 
> only loggin I could find was in
> /var/log/auth.log:
> error: setsockopt SO_KEEPALIVE: Socket operation on non-socket
> Feb  7 14:39:14 queenmab sshd[2715]: warning: can't get client address:
> Socket operation on non-socket
> Feb  7 14:41:34 queenmab sshd[2723]: error: setsockopt SO_KEEPALIVE:
> Socket operation on non-socket
> Feb  7 14:41:34 queenmab sshd[2723]: warning: can't get client address:
> Socket operation on non-socket
> Feb  7 14:42:14 queenmab sshd[2728]: fatal: daemon() failed: Function not
> implemented

See the daemon(3) man page (at least in unstable). If /dev/null is
broken, then the daemon() library call fails in a strange way. 'ls -l
/dev/null' should look like this:

  crw-rw-rw-1 root root   1,   3 May  6 15:54 /dev/null

If it looks differently, then something else broke it (and you might
like to figure out what, but that's a different matter). 'rm -f
/dev/null; mknod -m 666 /dev/null c 1 3' to fix it.

> In my case, I also see that when sshd doesn't start, it does so SILENTLY
> with no warning at all. NOT GOOD. This isn't really acceptable for a
> serious program on a serious platform like Debian. I *challenge* the
> package maintainer to fix this SEVERE blemish in sshd.

Challenge accepted, as above. Neither the brokenness nor the crypticness
of the brokenness are really sshd's fault.

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Re: Securing a Debian server

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

On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 09:26:00 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> We're thinking about starting to use Debian instead of RH on our Linux
> boxes and I have a question concerning this. RH offers to check servers
> and optimizing these for maximum security, does Debian offer this?

The Debian project does not, though undoubtedly you can find consultants
familiar with Debian who do. See http://www.debian.org/support for details
about the available support resources.

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Re: but I don't want the Russian etc. documentation

[Stephen Patterson]

On Tue, 08 Jul 2003 07:30:06 +0200, Dan Jacobson wrote:
> regarding "remove the rest", the pros must have a better way than the
> below, no?
> 
> # dlocate -l apt-howto|tr -s \ |cut -d \  -f2|
> awk '/apt/&&!/-en/'|xargs apt-get -y --purge remove

In the fine tradition of 'go away or I shall replace you with a small
shell script', I offer this sacrifice to the winds.

for i in `dpkg --get-selections|grep apt-howto|grep -v \-en`; do
apt-get -y --purge remove $i;
done

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building openafs-modules for 2.4.21 fails

[Anders Lennartsson]

building modules for openafs based on openafs-source-modules 1.2.9-2 at
the same time as building kernel 2.4.21 fails on a recently updated sid
system.
the build stops where net/sock.h cannot be found and included during
compilation of ../rx/rx_knet.c

this file should be included from the kernel sources include files, but
I think somehow the links made during configuring openafs-modules are
suspicious. Building with 2.4.20 works fine though.

Any ideas?

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Re: Recommend site for debian lan topology

[Stephen Patterson]

On Mon, 07 Jul 2003 22:30:28 +0200, lists1 wrote:
> Can anyone recommend a non-registration site that clearly explains what 
> services normally run on a small company lan?  Say 25-100 users or so.

Running services is usually a matter of what you need, I've put some
links at the end.
 
> I'm trying to figure out exactly what I should be targeting my study toward.  
> NIS is for authenticating users/passwords, right?

NIS is for coordinating user IDs and usernames/passwords across a
network so that NFS tracks file permissions and ownership correctly
across multiple computers.

> NFS for gnu/linux file/print

NFS is file only.

> OpenLdap is for...same?
> Bind for dns
> DHCP/static
> NTP
> Samba for windows file/print

If you've got linux clients wanting to print, I'd add in cups or
lprng. 

> What else?  

I'm surprised you've missed out email, many people here would suggest
exim as an SMTP server, and you'd need courier/cyrus for IMAP and/or
POP3 mailboxes (unless you can cope with an NFS exported mail spool
and all your clients are linux).


Useful Sites

The Linux Networking Overview HOWTO, especially sections 6 & 7
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Networking-Overview-HOWTO.html

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Re: What's the best forum to discuss linux(especially Debian) besides this mailing list?

[Stephen Patterson]

On Tue, 08 Jul 2003 03:50:06 +0200, Zhao YouBing wrote:
> LinuxQuestions or other ??
> 
> What forums  do u think best or visit most?

Me? #debian on irc.freenode.net

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Re: building openafs-modules for 2.4.21 fails

[Anders Lennartsson]

I should have mentioned that my first post was with
kernel-source-2.4.21-2 and using gcc-3.2 for both kernel and openafs, by
setting cc pointing to gcc pointing to gcc-3.2.

Short update: just now I tested with a vanilla kernel-source-2.4.21 from
a kernel.org mirror and it worked, the kernel-image, modules-image and
kernel-headers processed fine.

So something in the debian kernel-source seems to break compilation of
openafs-modules.

Anders





Anders Lennartsson wrote:
> 
> building modules for openafs based on openafs-source-modules 1.2.9-2 at
> the same time as building kernel 2.4.21 fails on a recently updated sid
> system.
> the build stops where net/sock.h cannot be found and included during
> compilation of ../rx/rx_knet.c
> 
> this file should be included from the kernel sources include files, but
> I think somehow the links made during configuring openafs-modules are
> suspicious. Building with 2.4.20 works fine though.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Anders


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exim, postfix or qmail?

[David Fokkema]

Hi group,

I have a server running woody and currently I'm using exim v3. I have
configured procmail and amavis-ng. However, I'm not that content with
the configuration. It seems to be not that intuitive, but that may be my
fault. Maybe I should just dive in the docs.

My question: are there any exim4, postfix or qmail users that like to
share their thoughts on configuring these mailers for procmail and
amavis? Which is the most intuitive? I want procmail and clamav (to run
as virus scanner) for a not too large network.

TIA,

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Re: X lockups

[Bradley Alexander]

On Mon, 2003-07-07 at 15:10, Robert Ian Smit wrote:

> My suspicion is towards Mozilla-Firebird. At least one time, I was
> editing an input form. At the moment, this activity still crashes
> firebird quite often, but luckily with no harm done to X.

I am really starting to suspect Gnome. I am not a Gnome fan, but it has
sort of infiltrated my desktop, through the use of apps like Galeon,
Evolution etc.

I dist-upgraded last night, left the system running with two eterms, evo
and dvdrip windows open. Got up this morning and clicked evo's
send/received and the Xserver reset itself.

Anybody know any best practices for getting rid of gnome?

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klogd problem

[Ilya S. Sapytsky]

Good day!
I've got some problems with klogd on 2 different servers.
First one is debian woody+2.2.20 and second is debian
woody+2.4.20, both has kernels compiled by hand,
sysklogd 1.4.1-10 and klogd 1.4.1-10.
When system is operating i don't see any firewall messages
in /var/log/syslog. But there is one interesting detail: when
i straced klogd i started to recieve kernel firewall messages
on both servers. It is bug or what is it?
What can i do to fix this problem and recieve kernel
firewall messages to syslog during normal system operation?

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XFS + big IDE drive on woody : need help

[Gilles Missonnier]

Hello,

I need to have together : XFS on all file system and big IDE drive.
what I want to do is to add on the IDE bus 2 disks of 250 giga each.
 the BIOS sees the correct size of the disk.

the PROBLEM is that, when booted, 
   I cannot see the whole size of the disk :
 limit to the 137 gigas [ in fact 128 GIgas = 2^37 ].


Is there an option in the xconfig step [woody 2.4.18] that
I should set to enable ATA/133 [big IDE drive] ?
If not, what are the best suggestion :

 -  compile 2.4.20 kernel plus kernel-patch-xfs for 2.4.18 [seems odd %(]
 -  update debian including testing distro
 -  forget 250 giga disk for a while [ until sarge come out as stable ?]

 -  other suggestion...

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what is fine so far :
I run a woody 2.4.18 , on Athlon 1800+.
I have xfs on all file system, 
   [ system is on SCSI, data are on RAID
   device attached through fiber channel, up to 1.2 terabyte ], with 
   almost no problem ]

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a suggestion :
I was told to upgrade to 2.4.20 kernel, including the kerner-patch-xfs
   for that kernel : this almost means to upgrade to testing,
   including "libc6 (>= 2.3.1-1)" from the depends showed at
http://packages.debian.org/testing/devel/kernel-patch-xfs.html
this is for me an akward step : the machine is a server not a test
machine...



== 
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==
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Re: apt-get update: gzip: stdin: not in gzip format

[Robert August Vincent II]

On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 07:01:23PM -0500, Michael A. Miller wrote:
> > "Robert" == Robert August Vincent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> > Question:
> 
> > 1. Is this a bug in Dansguardian, or is it the fault of the
> > webservers which deliver incorrect Content-Type: headers?
> 
> Sounds like Dansguardian is at fault to me.  Have you submitted a
> bug report for the Debian package?

Yup.

> 
> > 2. Should I post my work-around patch?  Is there a better
> > way?
> 
> Please post it.  I've been trying so sort out the same problem.
> Thanks to your finding the root of it, I've been solving it by
> doing an unset http_proxy before running apt-get.  There's got to
> be a better way...

Attached.  All it does is check for the above-listed headers and
turn-off decompression in that case.  Not very robust.
diff -u dansguardian-2.5.2-0/ConnectionHandler.cpp 
dansguardian-2.5.2-0-patched/ConnectionHandler.cpp
--- dansguardian-2.5.2-0/ConnectionHandler.cpp  2002-11-07 19:44:10.0 -0500
+++ dansguardian-2.5.2-0-patched/ConnectionHandler.cpp  2003-07-05 22:47:50.0 
-0400
@@ -401,7 +401,7 @@
 
 waschecked = true;
 proxysock.checkForInput(60);
-if (docheader.isCompressed()) {
+if (docheader.isCompressed() && 
!docheader.iscontenttype("text/plain")) {
 docbody.setDecompress(docheader.contentEncoding());
 #ifdef DGDEBUG
 std::cout << docheader.contentEncoding() << std::endl;
@@ -418,7 +418,7 @@
 int dblen = docbody.length();
 docsize = dblen;
 
-if (docheader.isCompressed()) {
+if (docheader.isCompressed() && 
!docheader.iscontenttype("text/plain")) {
 docheader.removeEncoding(dblen);
 // need to modify header to mark as not compressed
 // it also modifies Content-Length as well

modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module block-major-33

[ew0hfx]

Hi list
I'm trying to create a custom kernel. The problem is this:
   modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module block-major-33
I get 2 lines: modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module block-major-33
more 2 lines: modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module block-major-34
and 8 lines: modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module block-major-8
I'm trying since 2.4.21 to 2.4.22-pre3.
I check my modules.conf, there's only one line about block-major:
   alias block-major-117 dm-mod
Wath's the problem?

Tanks



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Re: OT: CPU Speed and Temperature

[Roberto Sanchez]

 --- "Jamin W. Collins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: 
> On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 11:39:21PM +0200, Roberto Sanchez wrote:
> 
> > I have manage to figure out that by messing with the chipset settings
> > in the BIOS I can change the speed of the CPU's opertation.  I.e.,
> > setting a speed of 166 MHz comes up in the POST as a FSB of 333 MHz
> > and the CPU is detected as an Athlon XP 2500+.  If I up it to 200 MHz,
> > it show 400 MHz FSB and Athlon XP 3200+ in the POST.  Anyhow, if I run
> > at the rated 333 MHz FSB, it occasionally locks up.  I have installed
> > a Zalman CPU fan with a copper heatsink and two 80mm Antec case fans
> > (1 front, 1 rear, 34 CFM each).
> 
> The real question is how well the Zalman is cooling your CPU and whether
> the motherboard you have is rated for that CPU and whether your memory
> is good/compatible.
> 

The mobo is rated for a 3200+ @ 400 MHz FSB and so is the Zalman.
Memory _should_ be good too, it's brand new.

> The BIOS should have some display of the CPU temp in one of it's
> options.  If you leave the FSB at 333 and leave the system idling on the
> BIOS display of the CPU temp, how hot do the system get after 30 minutes
> to an hour (assuming it doesn't lockup).  
> 

To begin with, I checked out Biostar's website and saw that they had an update
for the BIOS.  I downloaded it and flashed the BIOS, then rechecked all the
settings.  I set it to 2500+ @ 333MHz FSB and let it sit for an hour, the
temp got to about 48-49 C.  I then upped it to 3200+ @ 333 MHz FSB and the
temp remained the same.  I should also not that my wife and I keep the house
warm, at about 28-28 C.

> Now, assuming that the system didn't lockup in the above test, have you
> run the memory through a complete Memtest cycle (or two)?
> 

Haven't run the memtest yet, but the RAM is brand new.

> If the above two pass (no lockup), then more information will be needed
> regarding how and when it locks up.
> 

It appears to have cleared up.  After flashing the BIOS I recompiled the
kernel with ACPI.  I then let the machine idle all night (logged into X)
and the temp was about 46 C when I got up this morning (I used 'acpi -t').

On a related note, I installed procmeter3 but it seems to be reporting
incorrect data.  when 'acpi -t' reports 46 C, 'procmeter3 ACPI.Thermal1-t'
shows the temperature at only 32 C.  Why the disrepancy?

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Re: X lockups

[Shawn Lamson]

On Tue, July 08 at  7:35 AM EDT
Bradley Alexander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>I am really starting to suspect Gnome. I am not a Gnome fan, but it has
>sort of infiltrated my desktop, through the use of apps like Galeon,
>Evolution etc.
>
>I dist-upgraded last night, left the system running with two eterms,
>evo and dvdrip windows open. Got up this morning and clicked evo's
>send/received and the Xserver reset itself.

I may have missed part of this thread, but is there any useful info in
~/.xsession-errors after a lockup?  What about /var/log/xdm.log and/or
/var/log/XFree86 ?

>
>Anybody know any best practices for getting rid of gnome?  

Before you go to all that trouble why install a lightweight
Window Manager like blackbox or even twm and run that for a day and see
if you still lockup.  You can just start your programs from an xterm if
you can't launch them from applets/menus.

HTH

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Re: Switch full screen progs?

[Haines Brown]

> > In X, is it possible to switch between two programs being one in
> > full screen?
> 
> Yes but it depends on the windows manager. I'm running gnome2 with
> metacity right now and I can do that easily with Alt-Tab. I think that
> might also work with wmaker and icewm, but I'm not sure at all.

With IceWM, Ctl-Alt-Esc brings up a navigable list of all applicaitons
running on all virtual desktops, and so you can readily jump to any
app anywhere, whether FS or window. No mouse required.

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S3 Trio 64/32

[Jose colmenares]

I've just installed Debian, but cannot configure the video card. I have a S3 Trio 64/32, but don't know what driver to use. The closest option that appears when I run dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 it's something like s3verige.
 
When I run X the upper parte of the screen seems to "fold", and strange stuff appears (the clock appears in about five diferent places, above where it should be).
 
I'm  running it on a pentium, HP 500 series, D4116A, just if is of any help that information.
 
I'm new to linux, and sincerly, have tried all what I could thing off (not much really), and would appreciate any help.
 
When I try to run vidtune, well, it doesn't. Says something like no screen present...
 
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Re: Securing a Debian server

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On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 09:26:00AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> We're thinking about starting to use Debian instead of RH on our
> Linux boxes and I have a question concerning this. RH offers to
> check servers and optimizing these for maximum security, does Debian
> offer this? Or is there a guide on how to do this somewhere?

Well, there's the occasional security update, and they can
automatically be fetched with apt...Red Hat's updating tools are a
cheap imitation of Debian's apt anyway, for the most part...

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apt problems

[Dirk Ouellette]

I hope I'm not being rude in posting here, but I have a problem with apt
on my RedHat 9 box. When I apt-get update or try to upgrade,my system
gets as far as ;

Fetched 1500kB in 27s (55.4kB/s)
Reading Package Lists... 66%

and then hangs. This came on out of nowhere though possibly when I
upgraded my kernel with up2date[ Redhat's app].

ps -aux from a new terminal [ as the original terminal is hung], gives
me; root  2986 86.0 12.8 130872 115580 pts/0 R06:46   7:44
apt-get update


# less /proc/2986/fd/ gives me;

total 0
dr-x--2 root root0 Jul  8 06:57 ./
dr-xr-xr-x3 root root0 Jul  8 06:57 ../
lrwx--1 root root   64 Jul  8 06:57 0 -> /dev/pts/0
lrwx--1 root root   64 Jul  8 06:57 1 -> /dev/pts/0
lrwx--1 root root   64 Jul  8 06:57 2 -> /dev/pts/0
l-wx--1 root root   64 Jul  8 06:57 3 -> /dev/null
lrwx--1 root root   64 Jul  8 06:57 4 ->
/var/state/apt/lists/lock
lrwx--1 root root   64 Jul  8 06:57 5 ->
/var/lib/rpm/Packages
lrwx--1 root root   64 Jul  8 06:57 6 ->
/var/cache/apt/pkgcache.bin


# cat /proc/2986/status
Name:   apt-get
State:  R (running)
Tgid:   2986
Pid:2986
PPid:   1221
TracerPid:  0
Uid:0   0   0   0
Gid:0   0   0   0
FDSize: 256
Groups: 0 1 2 3 4 6 10
VmSize:   130872 kB
VmLck: 0 kB
VmRSS:115580 kB
VmData:   109700 kB
VmStk:80 kB
VmExe:   108 kB
VmLib:  4744 kB
SigPnd: 
SigBlk: 0001
SigIgn: 8000
SigCgt: 8800500f
CapInh: 
CapPrm: feff
CapEff: feff

Can someone help me? When I try apt-get update from the new terminal I
get;

# apt-get update
E: Could not get lock /var/state/apt/lists/lock - open (11 Resource
temporarily unavailable)
E: Unable to lock the list directory

Thanks, Dirk







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apt-get problem

[Henning Moll]

Hi!

On the system of a friend of me, apt-get is unable to 'upgrade'. It
recommends the use of 'apt-get -f install'. Here's the output:

snip
# apt-get -f install
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  apache console-tools dpkg ed2k-gtk-gui emacs20 gaim gaim-common
  kernel-package libgdk-pixbuf2 libglade0 libgtk1.2 man-db modconf modutils
  mozilla-browser mozilla-psm mtr ogle-gui phpmyadmin ppp pppconfig pppoe
  pppoeconf sysvinit xmms
WARNING: The following essential packages will be removed
This should NOT be done unless you know exactly what you are doing!
  dpkg sysvinit
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 25 to remove and 15  not upgraded.
3 packages not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 83.0MB will be freed.
You are about to do something potentially harmful
To continue type in the phrase 'Yes, do as I say!'
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snip

My friend tried to use unstable packages on his woody system. As you see: It
failed and lead to this situation. Now i have some questions:


How to track down to the source of this problem (which packages?)
It says '3 packages not fully installed or removed.' How to identify these
packages?

Any further suggestions on how to fix this problems are pretty welcome! ;-)

Thank you!
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Re: apt problems

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On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 07:03:23AM -0700, Dirk Ouellette wrote:
> I hope I'm not being rude in posting here, but I have a problem with apt
> on my RedHat 9 box. When I apt-get update or try to upgrade,my system
> gets as far as ;

Well, you might want to try a Red Hat list, they might know more about
the RPM version of apt-get.  (Though if you like apt, you should
really consider switching to Debian, apt works *WY* better in it's
native Debian.

> # apt-get update
> E: Could not get lock /var/state/apt/lists/lock - open (11 Resource
> temporarily unavailable)
> E: Unable to lock the list directory

I think this is probably your best starting place.

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Re: S3 Trio 64/32

[Andreas Janssen]

Hello

Jose colmenares wrote:

> I've just installed Debian, but cannot configure the video card. I have a
> S3 Trio 64/32, but don't know what driver to use. The closest option that
> appears when I run dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 it's something like
> s3verige.

If you use Debian Woody with XFree86 4.1, your graphic card is not
supported. You either have to use XFree 3.3.6 instead (is included in
Woody) or upgrade to XFree 4.3. You can find more information on supported
cards on http://xfree86.org/support.html.

best regards
Andreas Janssen

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Re: Securing a Debian server

[Jeremy Brooks]

> We're thinking about starting to use Debian instead of RH on our Linux boxes and I 
> have a question concerning this. RH offers to check servers and optimizing these for 
> maximum security, does Debian offer this? Or is there a guide on how to do this 
> somewhere?

We chose Debian where I work for a mission-critial application (which is
off site) mainly because of the excellent attention to security.  We
compared Debian and RH for several months, and Debian consistently
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Re: S3 Trio 64/32

[bob parker]

On Wed, 9 Jul 2003 00:21, Andreas Janssen wrote:
> Hello
>
> Jose colmenares wrote:
> > I've just installed Debian, but cannot configure the video card. I have a
> > S3 Trio 64/32, but don't know what driver to use. The closest option that
> > appears when I run dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 it's something like
> > s3verige.
>
> If you use Debian Woody with XFree86 4.1, your graphic card is not
> supported. You either have to use XFree 3.3.6 instead (is included in
> Woody) or upgrade to XFree 4.3. You can find more information on supported
> cards on http://xfree86.org/support.html.
>
The package in Woody is xserver-s3 and is part of the install cd set.
XFree 4.3 seems to be fscked in Mdk 9.1 for s3 cards, never tried it in 
Debian.
Version 4.2 is available at www.apt-get.org and that works with s3 and Debian.

hth
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Re: building openafs-modules for 2.4.21 fails

[David Z Maze]

Anders Lennartsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Short update: just now I tested with a vanilla kernel-source-2.4.21 from
> a kernel.org mirror and it worked, the kernel-image, modules-image and
> kernel-headers processed fine.
>
> So something in the debian kernel-source seems to break compilation of
> openafs-modules.

Yes; see http://bugs.debian.org/198774, which includes a patch to
openafs and an explanation.

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Re: How to play CD and video in debian?

[Greg Madden]

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On Monday 07 July 2003 07:45 pm, James Ng Yuen Sum wrote:
> I am using kde3.1.2, but the system cannot play CD and video CD.
> when i insert a CD in the cdrom, and doing
> "mount /dev/cdrom"
> there is some error,
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/cdrom,
> or too many mounted file systems
> and running kscd getting error messages.
>
> when i insert video cd, i can mount the video cd, but cannot use xine-ui
> to see the movie. I can do so when i am using RedHat, therefore, i think
> that the problem is under my configuraton.
>
> Can anyone help me to solve this problem?
>
> Regards,
> James Ng

As mentioned don't mount the cd's or DVD's. Xine looks for a movie disk in  
/dev/dvd, you can configure Xine to play from your device.
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Re: OT: CPU Speed and Temperature

[Jamin W. Collins]

On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 02:54:54PM +0200, Roberto Sanchez wrote:
>  --- "Jamin W. Collins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribi?: 
> 
> The mobo is rated for a 3200+ @ 400 MHz FSB and so is the Zalman.
> Memory _should_ be good too, it's brand new.

That's never stopped memory from being bad in the past.  Have you tested
it?  Until that time it's an unknown.

> > Now, assuming that the system didn't lockup in the above test, have
> > you run the memory through a complete Memtest cycle (or two)?
> 
> Haven't run the memtest yet, but the RAM is brand new.

See above.

> > If the above two pass (no lockup), then more information will be
> > needed regarding how and when it locks up.
> 
> It appears to have cleared up.  After flashing the BIOS I recompiled
> the kernel with ACPI.  I then let the machine idle all night (logged
> into X) and the temp was about 46 C when I got up this morning (I used
> 'acpi -t').

Good to hear.

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gs and the stp driver

[Norman Walsh]

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I've been struggling for a while to get printing working (under
woody). My most recent fallback position is, "screw getting it working
on the network, just make it possible to print a file from my laptop".

Hack. Hack. Hack.

Eventually I get to this:

  foomatic-gswrapper: gs '-dPARANOIDSAFER' '-dNOPAUSE' '-dBATCH' '-sDEVICE=stp' 
'-sModel=escp2-cx3200' '-sOutputFile=| cat >&3' '/dev/fd/0' 3>&1 1>&2
  GNU Ghostscript 6.53 (2002-02-13)
  Copyright (C) 2002 artofcode LLC, Benicia, CA. All rights reserved.
  This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file COPYING for details.
  Printer escp2-cx3200 is not a known model
   Unable to open the initial device, quitting.
  Flushing FIFO.

But I can't for the life of me figure out what the 'stp' driver is,
how to find it, or how to make it support my printer (an Epson CX3200).

Help?

Be seeing you,
  norm

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Re: apt problems

[Kent West]

On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 07:03:23AM -0700, Dirk Ouellette wrote:
 

I hope I'm not being rude in posting here, but I have a problem with apt
on my RedHat 9 box. When I apt-get update or try to upgrade,my system
gets as far as ;
   

# apt-get update
E: Could not get lock /var/state/apt/lists/lock - open (11 Resource
temporarily unavailable)
E: Unable to lock the list directory
   

 

Are you sure you're root? I usually see this when I forget to sudo.

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Re: Kernel Options for Dummies... + Followup...

[Gary Singleton]

--- Shawn Lamson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, July 07 at  5:22 PM EDT
> Gary Singleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> >Hi, I'm compiling a kernel using the docs provided at
> >http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/system/kernel-pkg.html and it's all
> >good but is there a doc somewhere that explains the options in the
> >kernel configuration better?  Especially helpful would be something
> >that says 'don't say no to that one' or whatever.  Using make
> >menuconfig if it makes a diff.
> >
> >TIA, G.S.
> 
> I haven't compiled anything since my current 2.4.20 but I was able to
> do
> it just by reading the help sections for options.  It is a little
> painstaking (ie. you enable one option and it opens a menu for many
> suboptions ) but it was pretty clear.  I think if you have specific
> hardware you need supported you should just look for info on that
> topic,
> rather than something comprehensive for all kernel compiles.
> HTH

Well sorta :).  That's what I've been doing but I was hoping there
might be some better docs somewhere - actually though it looks like
most of what I want is in the /usr/src/linux/Documentation - just a lot
of reading is all.

As a followup, I've been following the insructions on
http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/system/kernel-pkg.html like I said and
everything works great until I actually install the kernel.

I use 'dpkg -i kernel-image...' and it installs as expected but when I
reboot the old kernel still loads.  I was able to get it to work by
editing /etc/lilo.conf and rerunning lilo but I'm not sure what went
wrong and I'd like to understand it.

When asked: Install a boot block using the existing /etc/lilo.conf
I answer: No - as instructed.
When asked: Wipe out your old LILO config and make a new one
I answer: Yes - as instructed
When asked: ...install a partition boot block on /dev/hda1?
I answer: yes - I originally set up debian to have the mbr on /dev/hda
Then I'm told that I don't have /boot/mbr.b and that I might have to
install the mbr package but 'dpkg -l | grep mbr' shows I have it
installed already.
Then I'm asked: make /dev/hda1 the active partition...blah
I say: yes because I only want Linux to run on this box

Then it's done and I reboot - boom, still old kernel so I check my
symlinks /vmlinuz and /vmlinuz.old point to the new and old kernel
respectively as expected - so that's OK.

So I look at /etc/lilo.conf and change boot=/dev/hda1 back to /dev/hda
and it's all good booting to new kernel.

So, I don't know where I went wrong - obviously I answered soemthing in
the script wrong but I can't figure out where should I have not made
/dev/hda1 active?  Should I not have installed a partition boot block
on /dev/hda1?  I'm not sure how I should be answering the questions.  I
want it exactly as before booting from /dev/hda but running the new
kernel.  No big deal really, I got it working OK I just would like to
understand why it didn't work at first.

Regards, G.S.


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cleaning up messy capitalization to transfer a web page from wintoes

[Levi Waldron]

I'm transferring a web page from a wintoes webserver to Debian, and all the 
capitalizations are inconsistent between the hyperrefs and actual directories 
and filenames.  And of course all the filename extensions are .HTM.  Does 
anyone know of a script to clean this up?


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Re: Securing a Debian server

[Levi Waldron]

On July 8, 2003 03:26 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> We're thinking about starting to use Debian instead of RH on our Linux
> boxes and I have a question concerning this. RH offers to check servers and
> optimizing these for maximum security, does Debian offer this? Or is there
> a guide on how to do this somewhere?

Perhaps these HOWTOs will be of help to you:

Security-HOWTO.gz
Security-Quickstart-HOWTO.gz

On a Debian system with the HOWTO's installed, they're available in:

/usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-txt

For a really easy firewall to set up, try

apt-get install shorewall

-Levi


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RedHat support of Debian packages

[jaretis]

Our admin has a Redhat box set up and I would like to install 
a suite of medical imaging tools that are composed of Debian 
packages.  Does Redhat support Debian packages (.deb)?  Out 
of curiosity, which distros support these packages?  Does 
Mandrake?  

-surgin


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Re: RedHat support of Debian packages

[Derrick 'dman' Hudson]

On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 11:19:04AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| Our admin has a Redhat box set up and I would like to install 
| a suite of medical imaging tools that are composed of Debian 
| packages.  Does Redhat support Debian packages (.deb)? 

No.

| Out of curiosity, which distros support these packages?  Does
| Mandrake?  

RedHat, Mandrake, SuSE, etc. are all based on 'rpm' (the package
format) and 'rpm' (the program to manage them).

If (and I mean *if*) the programs in those packages are
binary-compatible with the RH system, then your best bet is to use
'alien' to create an rpm package from the deb package.

-D

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Re: Font references and info

[Aaron]

On -3175-Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 12:41:14PM -0700, Ross Boylan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake 
thus,
> I've been trying to understand how fonts work on Debian over the last few days, and 
> thought it might be useful 
> to share some of the references that look especially useful and some things I think 
> I've found out.  I was 
> inspired particularly by some problems with fonts under KDE, and I haven't fixed 
> them yet.  So I'm hardly an 
> expert.
> 

Fonts in X are something that I've never really comprehended, and I wish someone 
somewhere would explain what the deal is with font servers like Xft and FreeType, 
their strengths and weaknesses, and what about anti-aliasing, and having fonts like 
Verdana available for just web browsing.

If someone could write a mini-HOWTO on these topics it'd be like Christmas for me over 
here.

Just a footnote to Ross: I don't mean to be nitpicky but you should either just break 
paragraphs, or more sensibly break your lines at 72 or 75 characters, it would help 
legibility enormously.

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modem kernel 2.4.18-newpmac

[Vincent Le Bayon]

Hi,

I'm using a G3 lombard an woody 3.0r0 
Modem works fine with kernel  vmlinux-2.2.20-pmac

But with kernel vmlinux-2.4.18-newpmac modem can not dialout
It make ATZ but nothing else

Thanks for help


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A menu bug?

[Todd Pytel]

I'm noticing a very peculiar behavior trying to translate menus.  First
I tried using the example in /etc/menu-methods/translate_menus -
changing "Apps" to "Programs".  Using the "subtranslate" directive
destroyed the subfolder hierarchy under Programs, so I tried using
"substitute" instead.  This correctly swapped Apps for Programs and left
the subfolders intact - except for Net.  Net, and only Net, remained
under Apps. Its subfolder for Mozilla Components, however, moved
properly to Programs.  This happens both as root and as a user, and
shows up both in the blackbox menu file and the GNOME folder.  Changing
Apps to Programs directly in the menu entries changes the location as
would be expected.

Menu version is 2.1.8-2.  I have no other modifications of
menu-methods.  At the moment, I don't even have anything in
/etc/menu.  Snippet from translate_menus:

substitute section->section
  Apps/Programs/
endtranslate

And here are two entries from the debug output of update-menus:

update-menus[24883]: Reading menuentryfile /usr/lib/menu/vim
update-menus[24883]: translate: var[Apps/Editors] testing trans rule
match for:Apps/ 
update-menus[24883]: ADDING: command="/usr/bin/vim"
icon="/usr/X11R6/include/X11/pixmaps/vim.xpm" longtitle="VIM, Vi
IMproved" needs="text" package="vim" section="Programs/Editors"
title="Vim"

update-menus[24883]: Reading menuentryfile /usr/lib/menu/lynx
update-menus[24883]: translate: var[Apps/Net] testing trans rule match
for:Apps/ 
update-menus[24883]: ADDING: command="/usr/bin/lynx"
hints="Web Browsers" needs="text" package="lynx" section="Apps/Net"
title="Lynx"

Both entries recognize the translate rule, but for lynx it appears to be
silently ignored.  Looks to me like the specific combo of "Apps/Net" is
bumping into something coded into a script or executable somewhere and
not getting read correctly.  But maybe I'm just missing something...

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test program

[LeVA]

Hi!

I need a testing program (under console or X) which can test memory,
mainboard, cpu, disks, graphics card, network card, sound card etc...
Anybody could suggest a nice, and useable one?
Thanks!

Daniel

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-ck patches and sound with skips

[Christophe Courtois]

 Hi,

 I've applied the -ck patches to my 2.4.20 kernel (lowlatency, preempt, 
O(1), rmap and other patches). At first sight, KDE and X seem to be more 
responsive, but I can hear xmms skip when I click on something. It was 
almost never the case with previous unpatched kernels.

 Priority of X is 0 (changed from -10 as suggesting on CK's website) and 
others are at 0. Renicing xmms to -10 helps much only X niceness is 0.
 The computer is a Athlon600 MHz.

 Has someone seen this problem ? Is it normal behaviour ? (And how to set 
xmms always to -10 by default ?)

 Thanks !

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Re: RedHat support of Debian packages

[Gregory Seidman]

On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 11:19:04AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
} Our admin has a Redhat box set up and I would like to install 
} a suite of medical imaging tools that are composed of Debian 
} packages.  Does Redhat support Debian packages (.deb)?  Out 
} of curiosity, which distros support these packages?  Does 
} Mandrake?  

Both Redhat and Mandrake are RPM-based. AFAIK, the only systems that use
.debs are Debian, Debian-derived systems (Libranet, Xandros, Knoppix), and
Fink (a package management system for MacOS X).

As for installing .debs on Redhat, I have been successful in using alien to
convert various Debian packages to RPM and have had no trouble installing
them under Redhat. Then again, I haven't tried installing anything
especially complicated, just QWT and Xerces. YMMV.

} -surgin
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Re: RedHat support of Debian packages

[Nathan Poznick]

Thus spake [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
> Our admin has a Redhat box set up and I would like to install 
> a suite of medical imaging tools that are composed of Debian 
> packages.  Does Redhat support Debian packages (.deb)?  Out 
> of curiosity, which distros support these packages?  Does 
> Mandrake?  

Neither Redhat nor Mandrake support the use of Debian packages.  You
could attempt to use 'alien' to convert the packages to RPMs, but that
is just as likely to cause the programs to fail as it is for them to
work.  A Redhat machine may not have (and in truth will most likely not
have) the same versions of dependancies, or the same package names, and
thus the dependancies could become hosed.

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pdf creator

[LeVA]

Hello!

Is it possible to create new, clean .pdf files under linux? If it is, 
then which program do I need to use?

Thanks!

Daniel

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Order ide drivers are loaded?

[Joan Tur]

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Hallo!

A friend's computer has a Gigabyte GA-7VAXP-A Ultra motherboard.  This mobo 
has the usual 2 ide controllers (VIA), plus 2 more from Promise (PDC20276), 
plus 2 SATA connectors (Sil3112).

The problem is that both the Promise and the SATA controllers are loaded 
before the VIA ones, and by default the Promise controllers' driver is not 
loaded because of a bug that can be solved compiling the kernel 
(CONFIG_PDC202XX_FORCE=y in kernel .config).  If I do so linux won't boot any 
more because for example /dev/hde has been moved to /dev/hdf

The following lines are from dmesg output.

Thanks in advance  ;)

- --
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00beta-2.4
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
SiI3112 Serial ATA: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:08.0
SiI3112 Serial ATA: chipset revision 2
SiI3112 Serial ATA: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: MMIO-DMA at 0xe28f8000-0xe28f8007, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio
ide1: MMIO-DMA at 0xe28f8008-0xe28f800f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
PDC20276: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:0f.0
PDC20276: chipset revision 1
PDC20276: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
PDC20276: neither IDE port enabled (BIOS)
VP_IDE: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:11.1
VP_IDE: chipset revision 6
VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
VP_IDE: VIA vt8235 (rev 00) IDE UDMA133 controller on pci00:11.1
ide2: BM-DMA at 0xd400-0xd407, BIOS settings: hde:DMA, hdf:DMA
ide3: BM-DMA at 0xd408-0xd40f, BIOS settings: hdg:DMA, hdh:pio
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apt-get update gives an error message

[Rodney D. Myers]

apt-get update gives the following error message, when I try and use the
following /etc/apt/sources.list;

E: Malformed line 1 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list  (URI)

I'm starting over due to a hard drive failure.

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Re: Bad experience in installation

[Vineet Kumar]

* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030707 11:00]:
> In a message dated 7/6/03 6:55:47 AM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> writes:
> 
> > Was the hard disk IBM by any chance. IBM hard drives are renowned for
> > their click of death. Nothing to do with Linux. I think it might have
> > been co-incidence that the harddrive burnt out same time you installed
> > linux but I am not a hardware expert.
> 
> I just bought a new hard drive, and I almost bought an IBM.  I'm really 
> glad I saw this message first, I ended up buying a Seagate.  Does 
> anybody else have any recommendations--or warnings--on which 
> brands of hard drives are good or bad?

Take note of Jamin's comments.  Whatever anecdotes you read here should
not be considered data.

That said, good choice on the Seagate =)

I've also had problems with IBM drives, but I believe it was a
particular model that was bad (it was a 60GB deskstar).  A particular
model, I said, not a particular unit.  I've heard many horror stories
about the 60GB deskstars, while also hearing that IBM's other lines
(including deskstars in other capacities) were great.  Again, this is
all hearsay.

For desktop systems, I wholeheartedly recommend seagate's drives
(particularly the ST340016A) because they're so damned quiet.  Inside a
closed case, they're literally silent.  I also haven't had any problems
with seagate drives either at home or at work.  Again, this is not data.

good times,
Vineet
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Re: RedHat support of Debian packages

[Colin Watson]

On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 11:19:04AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Our admin has a Redhat box set up and I would like to install a suite
> of medical imaging tools that are composed of Debian packages.  Does
> Redhat support Debian packages (.deb)?

You'd probably have to ask Red Hat that question, but basically no. Your
best bet will probably be to use the 'alien' package to convert them to
RPMs.

> Out of curiosity, which distros support these packages?

  http://www.debian.org/misc/children-distros

> Does Mandrake?  

No, other than via alien.

Cheers,

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Re: Font references and info

[David Fokkema]

On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 02:25:33PM -0400, Aaron wrote:
> On -3175-Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 12:41:14PM -0700, Ross Boylan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
> spake thus,
> > I've been trying to understand how fonts work on Debian over the last few days, 
> > and thought it might be useful 
> > to share some of the references that look especially useful and some things I 
> > think I've found out.  I was 
> > inspired particularly by some problems with fonts under KDE, and I haven't fixed 
> > them yet.  So I'm hardly an 
> > expert.
> > 
> 
> Fonts in X are something that I've never really comprehended, and I wish someone 
> somewhere would explain what the deal is with font servers like Xft and FreeType, 
> their strengths and weaknesses, and what about anti-aliasing, and having fonts like 
> Verdana available for just web browsing.
> 
> If someone could write a mini-HOWTO on these topics it'd be like Christmas for me 
> over here.
> 
> Just a footnote to Ross: I don't mean to be nitpicky but you should either just 
> break paragraphs, or more sensibly break your lines at 72 or 75 characters, it would 
> help legibility enormously.

Aaron, is this a joke? _Your_ lines are about three screens wide!

Maybe, just maybe, it _was_ a joke and I just made a fool of myself, ;-)

David


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Re: pdf creator

[Mark Ferlatte]

LeVA said on Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 08:30:53PM +0200:
> Hello!
> 
> Is it possible to create new, clean .pdf files under linux? If it is, 
> then which program do I need to use?

ps2pdf will create a PDF from any PostScript file.  Most unix software can
generate PostScript (ie, Mozilla, GNOME apps, KDE apps).  Otherwise, you can
use a tool like a2ps to create the PostScript file, and then run ps2pdf on it.

M


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Re: pdf creator

[Sven Hoexter]

On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 08:30:53PM +0200, LeVA wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> Is it possible to create new, clean .pdf files under linux? If it is, 
> then which program do I need to use?
pdf is not a nativ format, you'll always transfer something else into a
pdf document. Create a Postscript file from any application you like and
ps2pdf it later.

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Re: pdf creator

[Bijan Soleymani]

On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 08:30:53PM +0200, LeVA wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> Is it possible to create new, clean .pdf files under linux? If it is, 
> then which program do I need to use?

I don't know what you mean by clean. But almost every Unix/Linux program
can output as PostScript (.ps files). You can then use ps2pdf to convert
them to pdf files.

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Re: Kernel Options for Dummies... + Followup...

[Kevin McKinley]

On Tue, 8 Jul 2003 10:18:35 -0700 (PDT)
Gary Singleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> When asked: ...install a partition boot block on /dev/hda1?
> I answer: yes - I originally set up debian to have the mbr on /dev/hda

You want to write the boot loader to the MBR, not the partition boot sector.

If you answer "no" here, you should be asked if you want to install the boot
loader in the MBR. Answer "yes".

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Re: Kernel Options for Dummies...

[Kevin McKinley]

On Mon, 7 Jul 2003 17:22:08 -0700 (PDT)
Gary Singleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hi, I'm compiling a kernel using the docs provided at
> http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/system/kernel-pkg.html and it's all
> good but is there a doc somewhere that explains the options in the
> kernel configuration better?  Especially helpful would be something
> that says 'don't say no to that one' or whatever.  Using make
> menuconfig if it makes a diff.

I concluded there was no way to discuss kernel configuration in a way that
would cover the bases yet be understandable and reasonably short.

"A man's gotta know his limitations".

The way I started was going through default kernels (in other distributions)
and removing the support I knew I didn't need. Perhaps a similar strategy
could be helpful here.

Install a Debian kernel for your processor (for example, PII/PIII). In
/usr/src/linux do:

bash:/usr/src/linux $ fakeroot make-kpkg clean
bash:/usr/src/linux $ cp /boot/config-2.4.18-686 .config
bash:/usr/src/linux $ make xconfig

Then go through and remove the support you KNOW you don't need, and build a
kernel. Install and boot it. If everything works, go back and fiddle with
the config some more. This time concentrate on one area you want to
experiment with. Build another kernel and install it. If something breaks,
reconfigure and change something in the section you fiddled with before.
Rinse, repeat.

I'm not aware of a document that really explains kernel config. "Just do
it".

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Re: pptpd help

[C. R. Oldham]

> When I ping other hosts on the Debian server's network
> the traffic is going across the PPTP link, but 
> nothing comes back.  What am I missing? 

After much googling, I realized that /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward was
not set to 1.  I was used to this being set as the default, but the
sarge installation doesn't add an entry to /etc/sysctl.conf.  After
enabling it, things work fine.

Now, if I could just find a working patch to the ppp in Sarge to add
MPPE support, that would be wonderful.  Until then, I'm using a
precompiled ppp RPM from poptop.sourceforge.net.



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Networking Problems

[Pablo Limon]

Hello, Im new to the list, and I have a new problem,
one that I havent seen before.
I have a pcmcia card, a CNET SiglePoint 10/100
FastEthernet PCcard atached to a Compaq Presario
1711LA computer. This is eth1. Eth0 is the internal
Ethernet card and is atached to a ADSL modem. Eth1 is
the intranet. Suddently something started to go wrong.
I just cant figure whats that, because I cant thing of
something I have done.
The intranet started to fail a lot. I send some pings
of 56Bytes and everythin was ok for the first paquets,
until more less 10 pakets after the test began, a
paquet intsead of returning in .3ms returned in
1ms, the next to 8000ms, next 6000ms or so. That
went for some packets and then again 10 pakets at .3ms
and the cycle began again. I tested with a ping size
paket of 2048 and the same happened just of instad
.3ms it was 3ms...
But I also tested for values of 1024 and 1500 (the MTU
value) and then, there where lots of pakets that never
arrived. (using flood option) and I got this messages
in kern.log: (at the end Ill post some tests I did)

Jul  8 14:19:07 pablap kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth1:
transmit timed out
Jul  8 14:19:07 pablap kernel: eth1: Tx queue start
entry 32  dirty entry 28.
Jul  8 14:19:07 pablap kernel: eth1:  Tx descriptor 0
is 2000. (queue head)
Jul  8 14:19:07 pablap kernel: eth1:  Tx descriptor 1
is 2000.
Jul  8 14:19:07 pablap kernel: eth1:  Tx descriptor 2
is 2000.
Jul  8 14:19:07 pablap kernel: eth1:  Tx descriptor 3
is 2000.
Jul  8 14:19:07 pablap kernel: eth1: Setting 100mbps
full-duplex based on auto-negotiated partner ability
45e1.

---

pablap:/var/log# ping -s 1024 192.168.30.200
PING 192.168.30.200 (192.168.30.200): 1024 data bytes
1032 bytes from 192.168.30.200: icmp_seq=0 ttl=128
time=0.9 ms
1032 bytes from 192.168.30.200: icmp_seq=5 ttl=128
time=11001.0 ms
1032 bytes from 192.168.30.200: icmp_seq=6 ttl=128
time=10001.1 ms
1032 bytes from 192.168.30.200: icmp_seq=7 ttl=128
time=9001.1 ms
1032 bytes from 192.168.30.200: icmp_seq=8 ttl=128
time=8001.4 ms
1032 bytes from 192.168.30.200: icmp_seq=9 ttl=128
time=7002.0 ms
1032 bytes from 192.168.30.200: icmp_seq=10 ttl=128
time=6002.0 ms
1032 bytes from 192.168.30.200: icmp_seq=14 ttl=128
time=2002.2 ms
1032 bytes from 192.168.30.200: icmp_seq=15 ttl=128
time=1002.6 ms
1032 bytes from 192.168.30.200: icmp_seq=16 ttl=128
time=2.8 ms
1032 bytes from 192.168.30.200: icmp_seq=17 ttl=128
time=0.8 ms
 
--- 192.168.30.200 ping statistics ---
21 packets transmitted, 11 packets received, 47%
packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max = 0.8/4910.7/11001.0 ms

--

I couldnt reproduce what happened when using 56B and
2048B, in 56B all packets where back in .2ms and in
2048B where back in 1.1ms exept 2 of 25 that where
back in 56ms


flood testespablap:/var/log# ping -f -s 56
192.168.30.200
PING 192.168.30.200 (192.168.30.200): 56 data bytes
...
--- 192.168.30.200 ping statistics ---
49421 packets transmitted, 49418 packets received, 0%
packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max = 0.1/0.2/6.1 ms


pablap:/var/log# ping -f -s 2048 192.168.30.200
PING 192.168.30.200 (192.168.30.200): 2048 data bytes
.
--- 192.168.30.200 ping statistics ---
11679 packets transmitted, 11646 packets received, 0%
packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max = 0.9/14.3/28.2 ms




pablap:/var/log# ping -f -s 1024 192.168.30.200
PING 192.168.30.200 (192.168.30.200): 1024 data bytes
.
--- 192.168.30.200 ping statistics ---
59 packets transmitted, 1 packets received, 98% packet
loss
round-trip min/avg/max = 18.1/18.1/18.1 ms


ifconfig:

pablap:/var/log# ifconfig
eth0  Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr
00:02:A5:9B:89:09
  inet addr:x.x.x.x  Bcast:x.x.x.x 
Mask:255.255.255.0
  UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500 
Metric:1
  RX packets:3119 errors:0 dropped:0
overruns:0 frame:0
  TX packets:3133 errors:0 dropped:0
overruns:0 carrier:0
  collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
  RX bytes:1722708 (1.6 MiB)  TX bytes:389532
(380.4 KiB)
  Interrupt:9 Base address:0xf000
 
eth1  Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr
00:10:60:75:30:A6
  inet addr:192.168.30.1  Bcast:192.168.30.255
 Mask:255.255.255.0
  UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500 
Metric:1
  RX packets:74238 errors:0 dropped:0
overruns:0 frame:0
  TX packets:74072 errors:0 dropped:0
overruns:16 carrier:0
  collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
  RX bytes:29954078 (28.5 MiB)  TX
bytes:30184567 (28.7 MiB)
  Interrupt:10 Base address:0x4000
 
loLink encap:Local Loopback
  inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
  UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
  RX packets:402 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
frame:0
  TX packets:402 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
carrier:0
  collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
  

Re: LILO --> GRUB

[Vineet Kumar]

* Kenneth Jacker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030707 09:47]:
>   km> I recommend making a boot floppy:
> 
>   km> http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=4622
> 
> Well I was able to make the boot floppy ...
> 
> But *now*, I can't even run "grub-install /dev/hda" without an error
> message:
> 
>   /dev/hda does not have any corresponding BIOS drive

What does /boot/grub/device.map look like?

If it's messed up, you can try grub-install's --recheck option to fix
it.

good times,
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Re: pdf creator

[Jeremy T. Bouse]

I routinely write using LaTeX and use pdflatex to generate the
output in PDF format... I've actually found I get better results doing
this than producing the LaTeX to PS and then run it through ps2pdf...

Regards,
Jeremy T. Bouse

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> Hello!
> 
> Is it possible to create new, clean .pdf files under linux? If it is, 
> then which program do I need to use?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Daniel
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Re: Kernel Options for Dummies... + Followup...

[Gary Singleton]

--- Kevin McKinley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Jul 2003 10:18:35 -0700 (PDT)
> Gary Singleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > When asked: ...install a partition boot block on /dev/hda1?
> > I answer: yes - I originally set up debian to have the mbr on
> /dev/hda
> 
> You want to write the boot loader to the MBR, not the partition boot
> sector.
> 
> If you answer "no" here, you should be asked if you want to install
> the boot
> loader in the MBR. Answer "yes".

Hey thanks Kevin, actually via the kernel install I could never get it
to ask me that but I ran liloconfig and it did.  Same diff I guess,
it's the same entries I had except it's better commented.

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Re: fetchmail and port forwarding

[Emma Jane Hogbin]

On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 12:06:38PM -0400, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 06, 2003 at 11:08:40PM -0400, Emma Jane Hogbin wrote:
> | I'm in the process of setting up port forwarding to bypass my spam-crazy
> | ISP. I've got everything working, but I'd like to try putting the port
> | forwarding information into .fetchmailrc.
> | 
> | Right now I run from the command line:
> | ssh my.mail.host -L 8025:localhost:25
> | works great. Except I now have a terminal window that I can't close.
> 
> Unless you background it :-).

Tried that, it kills the process.

> This part I don't understand.  fetchmail isn't related to outgoing
> smtp at all.  It is only for retrieving mail from an existing pop/imap
> mailbox.
 
> If you want to tunnel the POP connection, you need to tell fetchmail
> to connect to the local end of the tunnel.  For example, this works :

Ahh. I misunderstood what I was reading on the HOWTO I found. I won't want
it for the incoming mail (although it might be a good idea as well), I
really do want it for my outgoing mail so that I can avoid using my ISP as
an SMTP server.

> Use public key authentication.  PubkeyAuthentication is part of ssh
> and not directly related to fetchmail, which is why you won't find an
> explanation of it in fetchmail docs.  Look for ssh docs to find info.

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Re: Bad experience in installation

[Nico Meijer]

Hi,

> Take note of Jamin's comments.  Whatever anecdotes you read here
> should not be considered data.

Seconded. No data ahead here.

> I've also had problems with IBM drives, but I believe it was a
> particular model that was bad (it was a 60GB deskstar).  A particular
> model, I said, not a particular unit.  I've heard many horror stories
> about the 60GB deskstars, while also hearing that IBM's other lines
> (including deskstars in other capacities) were great.  Again, this is
> all hearsay.

I had two IBM Deskstar 7200RPM 40Gb drives crash on me. They were both
from 2001 and both "Made in Hungary". Both had audible mechanical
defects. I believe these particular drives are now refered to as
"Deathstar", but I might mix some stuff up here. I'm royally pissed at
these two drives now. ;-)

My workstation runs on a 2001 40Gb IBM from the Phillipines, I believe
(can't exactly rip it out just right now ;-), and is quiet, stable and
*fast*.

Two 2002 IBM 40Gb drives are in a colocated server somewhere running on
a hardware RAID controller: quiet, fast and cool aswell. One disk 'died'
after a power outage (it's happily running FreeBSD now on a testing
machine upstairs, so how 'dead' it is remains to be seen).

I find Maxtor drives to be very quiet and reliable, but I find the
single platter versions to run very hot. Anyone care to enlighten me
(us?) on how the latest IBM/Hitachi drives run as far as temperature is
concerned?

On a sidenote: what would you consider a decent burn-in time? Any
thoughts or suggestions on what tools to use to stress test new drives?
(Googling as we speak, btw)

Buhbye... Nico

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Re: fetchmail and port forwarding

[Emma Jane Hogbin]

Ok, I'm ready for the next step. I've set up Public Key Authentication and
have installed "keychain" and set it up (and added it to .bash_profile and
made it quiet). I can now ssh to the server without having to enter a
password (it sort of creeps me out that I can do it, but I'm sure I'll get
over it).

Now I need to figure out how to do this:
ssh -L 8025:localhost:25 home.samurai.com
at some random point when the computer is started IF an internet
connection is available AND in the background (i.e. no open windows).

emma
PS for those who are interested I used the following:
http://cfm.gs.washington.edu/security/ssh/client-pkauth/
http://www.zdnet.com.au/itmanager/technology/story/0,229587,20273941,00.htm

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Re: pdf creator

[Moritz Moeller-Herrmann]

LeVA wrote:

> Hello!
> 
> Is it possible to create new, clean .pdf files under linux? If it is,
> then which program do I need to use?

Have a look at scribus. 

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Trouble with USB

[Roberto Sanchez]

I can't seem to get USB working.  I have all the necessary options enabled
in the kernel (as modules).  I have also tested under a Red Hat install on
another partition (no flames please ;) and the USB mouse and USB SmartMedia
card both work, but not with Debian.  

I also have the hotplug scripts installed and the XF86Config-4 file from
my Debian install matches the XF86Config file from the RH install.
I would really appreciate some help on this.

-Roberto

Here is the releveant dmesg output:

(During system boot)
usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
usb.c: registered new driver hub
usb.c: registered new driver hiddev
usb.c: registered new driver hid
hid-core.c: v1.8.1 Andreas Gal, Vojtech Pavlik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
hid-core.c: USB HID support drivers
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:02.2 to 64
hcd.c: ehci-hcd @ 00:02.2, PCI device 10de:0068 (nVidia Corporation)
hcd.c: irq 5, pci mem f88f9000
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
ehci-hcd.c: USB 2.0 support enabled, EHCI rev 1. 0
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 6 ports detected
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:02.0 to 64
usb-ohci.c: USB OHCI at membase 0xf8901000, IRQ 5
usb-ohci.c: usb-00:02.0, PCI device 10de:0067 (nVidia Corporation)
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 3 ports detected
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:02.1 to 64
usb-ohci.c: USB OHCI at membase 0xf8903000, IRQ 11
usb-ohci.c: usb-00:02.1, PCI device 10de:0067 (nVidia Corporation)
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 3 ports detected

(When the card reader is connected and then disconnected)
hub.c: new USB device 00:02.1-3, assigned address 2
WARNING: USB Mass Storage data integrity not assured
USB Mass Storage device found at 2
usb.c: USB disconnect on device 00:02.1-3 address 2

(When the mouse is connected and disconnected)
hub.c: new USB device 00:02.1-3, assigned address 3
input0: USB HID v1.00 Mouse [Cypress Sem. PS2/USB Browser Combo Mouse] on
usb3:3.0
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
usb.c: USB disconnect on device 00:02.1-3 address 3


Here is the relevant section from my kernel config:

#
# USB support
#
CONFIG_USB=m
# CONFIG_USB_DEBUG is not set
CONFIG_USB_DEVICEFS=y
CONFIG_USB_BANDWIDTH=y
# CONFIG_USB_LONG_TIMEOUT is not set
CONFIG_USB_EHCI_HCD=m
# CONFIG_USB_UHCI is not set
# CONFIG_USB_UHCI_ALT is not set
CONFIG_USB_OHCI=m
# CONFIG_USB_AUDIO is not set
# CONFIG_USB_EMI26 is not set
# CONFIG_USB_BLUETOOTH is not set
# CONFIG_USB_MIDI is not set
CONFIG_USB_STORAGE=m
# CONFIG_USB_STORAGE_DEBUG is not set
# CONFIG_USB_STORAGE_DATAFAB is not set
# CONFIG_USB_STORAGE_FREECOM is not set
# CONFIG_USB_STORAGE_ISD200 is not set
# CONFIG_USB_STORAGE_DPCM is not set
# CONFIG_USB_STORAGE_HP8200e is not set
# CONFIG_USB_STORAGE_SDDR09 is not set
# CONFIG_USB_STORAGE_SDDR55 is not set
# CONFIG_USB_STORAGE_JUMPSHOT is not set
# CONFIG_USB_ACM is not set
CONFIG_USB_PRINTER=m
CONFIG_USB_HID=m
CONFIG_USB_HIDINPUT=y
CONFIG_USB_HIDDEV=y
# CONFIG_USB_KBD is not set
# CONFIG_USB_MOUSE is not set
# CONFIG_USB_AIPTEK is not set
# CONFIG_USB_WACOM is not set
# CONFIG_USB_DC2XX is not set
# CONFIG_USB_MDC800 is not set
# CONFIG_USB_SCANNER is not set
# CONFIG_USB_MICROTEK is not set
# CONFIG_USB_HPUSBSCSI is not set
# CONFIG_USB_PEGASUS is not set
# CONFIG_USB_RTL8150 is not set
# CONFIG_USB_KAWETH is not set
# CONFIG_USB_CATC is not set
# CONFIG_USB_CDCETHER is not set
# CONFIG_USB_USBNET is not set
# CONFIG_USB_USS720 is not set


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Re: RedHat support of Debian packages

[Mohammed Sameer]

On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 11:19:04AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Our admin has a Redhat box set up and I would like to install 
> a suite of medical imaging tools that are composed of Debian 
> packages.  Does Redhat support Debian packages (.deb)?  Out 
> of curiosity, which distros support these packages?  Does 
> Mandrake?  
> 
No mandrake doesn't

Try using alien to convert them to RPMs
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Re: pdf creator

[lists1]

Besides the aforementioned ps2pdf and other tools, if you are coming from a 
windows environment, you can also use OpenOffice.org or StarOffice to do the 
same.  OpenOffice.org is a free download (and is available on cds cheaply 
from many places, check the site, and your country, school, or favorite linux 
magazine/book may also have it available on cd), check the site for the 
features.  StarOffice isn't free, but offers additional features built in. 
It's a Sun product.  The additional features (or most of them) can also be 
added to OpenOffice.org if you are resourceful, and if I'm not mistaken.

Even if you go the OpenOffice/StarOffice route, you'll soon learn to use 
ps2pdf at the command line. I'd suggest getting used to it, as it's available 
built in, and works without starting up OpenOffice.org (you may forget what 
you wanted to do by the time it finishes starting up).

Bing.

On Tuesday 08 July 2003 20:30, LeVA wrote:
> Hello!
>
> Is it possible to create new, clean .pdf files under linux? If it is,
> then which program do I need to use?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Daniel
>
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Re: OT: CPU Speed and Temperature

[Benedict Verheyen]

Op di 08-07-2003, om 17:34 schreef Jamin W. Collins:
> On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 02:54:54PM +0200, Roberto Sanchez wrote:
> >  --- "Jamin W. Collins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribi?: 
> > 
> > The mobo is rated for a 3200+ @ 400 MHz FSB and so is the Zalman.
> > Memory _should_ be good too, it's brand new.
> 
> That's never stopped memory from being bad in the past.  Have you tested
> it?  Until that time it's an unknown.

I once had a server shutting down at random times. People on this list
adviced me to run a memtest and sure enough, 1 of my memorysticks was
bad. Removed it and the server ran fine.
Before that, it would never have crossed my mind that faulty memory
could have such big consequences.

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Re: pdf creator

[Wayne Topa]

LeVA([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said:
> Hello!
> 
> Is it possible to create new, clean .pdf files under linux? If it is, 
> then which program do I need to use?

openoffice1.1beta will output PDF files from any MSWord or OO file.

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magic.mime (was: apache)

[Vineet Kumar]

* mi ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030703 14:50]:
> 2) Where is mime_magic ?
> 
> This is filling up the log:
> 
> # /var/log/apache/error.log:
> 
> [Wed Jul  2 19:09:08 2003] [error] (2)No such file or directory:
> mod_mime_magic: can't read magic file /etc/apache/share/magic
> 
> Though /etc/apache/httpd.conf says it's expected to be like
> MIMEMagicFile share/magic
> there's no directory 'share' in the server-root;  only a symlink to 
> /etc/mime.types.

Yeah, this is a bug.  The warning is harmless, but to get rid of it, try
changing to this:


MIMEMagicFile /usr/share/misc/magic.mime


That file is part of the 'file' package, so install that if you don't
already have it.

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Re: is a backport of Xfree86 4.2 or 4.3 for woody available?

[Pigeon]

On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 02:53:54PM -0400, Walter Tautz wrote:
> just wondering. a google search revealed a deadlink

  http://people.debian.org/~mmagallo/packages/xfree86/

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Re: Libc6 broken -- unable to boot...

[Pigeon]

On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 02:30:05PM +1000, Rob Weir wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 06, 2003 at 03:55:08PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Hi everybody:
> > I am getting kind of desperate with this and before trhasong all my debian
> > installation I would like to beg for help in the list. I broke my
> > installation of libc6, while trying to install a newer version, and then I
> > was not able to deinstall or install another version, since everything
> > segfaulted. I though that I would be able to reinstall the libc6 with the
> > rescue disks, but I have been unable to do it so far... so, what is the
> > less destroying way of getting my debian system to boot again?
> 
> For future reference, it's almost never a good idea to play with libc6
> manually.  If you have a package that won't install because it wants
> 'libc6 >= 2.3.1-16' or whatever, either rebuild it from source AGAINST
> YOUR CURRENT LIBC6, or upgrade your entire system to sarge/sid and run
> it there. 

Or make a chroot with libc6-2.3.1-16.

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Video problems and questions

[Roberto Sanchez]

I am still in the process of getting my new machine to maximum performance,
so I pose yet another question: How do I maximize my card's performance under
X and how do I get the framebuffer to work?

As far as X performance, what should I know about?  How do I know if I am using
the hardware OpenGL acceleration?  What tweaks should I make to X?  I have a
Radeon 9000 Pro with 128 MB RAM, the mobo is a Biostar with nForce2 and 8x AGP.
I have patched my 2.4.20 kernel with the nVidia GART patch and enabled support
for the nVidia chipset in the kernel config.

As far as the framebuffer, it just doesn't seem to work. I have the options
enabled in the kernel config, but any of the extended modes in LILO (like
vga=791 for 1024x768x16 text) result in a totally blank screen until GDM comes
up at the end of the boot sequence.  I do have the radeon.o module inserted,
but the radeonfb.o modules errors out with "No such device," but the aty128fb.o
module inserts just fine.

Here is the related dmesg output:

Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann
agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 941M
agpgart: Detected NVIDIA nForce2 chipset
agpgart: AGP aperture is 128M @ 0xd000
blk: queue c02a6084, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0x)
[drm:radeon_ioremapfree:mappings] *ERROR* Attempt to free NULL pointer
[drm:radeon_ioremapfree:mappings] *ERROR* Excess frees: 1 frees, 0 allocs


Here are my kernel options relating to the framebuffer.  

#
# Frame-buffer support
#
CONFIG_FB=y
CONFIG_DUMMY_CONSOLE=y
# CONFIG_FB_RIVA is not set
# CONFIG_FB_CLGEN is not set
# CONFIG_FB_PM2 is not set
# CONFIG_FB_PM3 is not set
# CONFIG_FB_CYBER2000 is not set
CONFIG_FB_VESA=m
# CONFIG_FB_VGA16 is not set
# CONFIG_FB_HGA is not set
CONFIG_VIDEO_SELECT=y
# CONFIG_FB_MATROX is not set
# CONFIG_FB_ATY is not set
CONFIG_FB_RADEON=m
CONFIG_FB_ATY128=m
# CONFIG_FB_SIS is not set
# CONFIG_FB_NEOMAGIC is not set
# CONFIG_FB_3DFX is not set
# CONFIG_FB_VOODOO1 is not set
# CONFIG_FB_TRIDENT is not set
# CONFIG_FB_VIRTUAL is not set
CONFIG_FBCON_ADVANCED=y
# CONFIG_FBCON_MFB is not set
# CONFIG_FBCON_CFB2 is not set
# CONFIG_FBCON_CFB4 is not set
CONFIG_FBCON_CFB8=y
CONFIG_FBCON_CFB16=y
CONFIG_FBCON_CFB24=y
CONFIG_FBCON_CFB32=y
# CONFIG_FBCON_AFB is not set
# CONFIG_FBCON_ILBM is not set
# CONFIG_FBCON_IPLAN2P2 is not set
# CONFIG_FBCON_IPLAN2P4 is not set
# CONFIG_FBCON_IPLAN2P8 is not set
# CONFIG_FBCON_MAC is not set
# CONFIG_FBCON_VGA_PLANES is not set
CONFIG_FBCON_VGA=m
# CONFIG_FBCON_HGA is not set
# CONFIG_FBCON_FONTWIDTH8_ONLY is not set
CONFIG_FBCON_FONTS=y
CONFIG_FONT_8x8=y
CONFIG_FONT_8x16=y
# CONFIG_FONT_SUN8x16 is not set
# CONFIG_FONT_SUN12x22 is not set
# CONFIG_FONT_6x11 is not set
# CONFIG_FONT_PEARL_8x8 is not set
# CONFIG_FONT_ACORN_8x8 is not set


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Re: fetchmail and port forwarding

[Shyamal Prasad]

"Emma" == Emma Jane Hogbin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Emma> On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 12:06:38PM -0400, Derrick 'dman'
Emma> Hudson wrote:

>> On Sun, Jul 06, 2003 at 11:08:40PM -0400, Emma Jane Hogbin

>> | Right now I run from the command line: 
>> | ssh my.mail.host -L 8025:localhost:25 
>> | works great. Except I now have a terminal window that I 
>> | can't close.
>> 
>> Unless you background it :-).

Emma> Tried that, it kills the process.

Just checking: you did understand what dman meant, right?

Backgrounding the ssh session means using a flag like -f, -n or
otherwise using the background escape (~^Z or ~&). It absolutely
should not kill the process, otherwise you've got some serious
problems to deal with. ;-)

Apologies if this is all obvious to you!

Cheers!
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Re: OT: CPU Speed and Temperature

[Alvin Oga]

On 8 Jul 2003, Shri Shrikumar wrote:

> On Tue, 2003-07-08 at 00:52, Roberto Sanchez wrote:
> > I adjusted the the "FSB Frequency" down from 166 MHz to 133 MHz.  I usually
> > get temps of 48-52 C after a few hours of normal use (running as a 1900+).
> > If I do anything CPU intensive (compile a kernel, zip or unzip a huge file,
> > etc.) then it hot enough that I can't even think of running it as a 2500+
> > and as a 1900+ the temps go to 53-57 C.  That seems a bit high to me.

thats too high .. by around 10C-15C for midtower/full cases

> I have a P4 which has a normal temperature range of upto around 70
> degress Celsius. AMD chips are supposed to run even hotter so, 53-57
> degrees C sound fine to me. You should google around to find its
> temperature range.

a P4 should be running at about 30-35C ... in idle

i think your either your heatsink is bad or your fan is not spinning right

amd XP runs about 5-10C higher ...  

cpu temps are highly dependant upon:
- good seal between heatsink and cpu ( use good thermal grease )
- good thermal coefficents between air and the heatsink to pull
  the heat off the heatsink
- cpu w/ copper heatsinks are a bitch to keep cool since
copper is a good thermal conductor
- good streaming air flow across the cpu heatsinks
- number of heatsink fins also effects the cpu temp as does the
  thickness of the heatsink on the cpu

all temps from bios "pc health monitor"  vs   lmsensors ( can be way off )

you're killing your CPU at half-life rates for every 10C increase in cpu
temp from 25C
http://www.linux-1u.net/CPU/

> Like others have suggested, I would recommend running memtest to ensure
> that there is nothing wrong with your memory modules. Also, what

seen many/few memory modules that pass memtest/memtest86 ... but fails
in 2 minutes when running a real app like compiling the kernel or
dumping/streaming data onto the network
- run some streaming video apps and it finds all kinds of hw
problems

> graphics card are you using and does it lock up even if you re not in X

memtest does NOT prove that memory is bad ...

- you can have a timing problem between mb and mem modules
- you can have timing problems between mem modules
- you can have cpu/motherboards running fsb-200 vs fsb-333 vs fsb-400 vs
  fsb-533 vs fsb-800 and the corresponding memory fsb
-- be sure your jumpers are set right for the cpu and memory and
pci buss speeds

-- use a different/better memory stick ... usully is 10x more reliable of
   an answer if the "system works" or not
( use kingstron, mushkin, corsair, memory sticks
( use lei, century, atp, etc... 

- no manufacturers label or if their mem prices is 1/2 of
kingston/mushkin/corsair... than you've potentiall got a memory
problem out of the box

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Re: is a backport of Xfree86 4.2 or 4.3 for woody available?

[Mark C]

On Tue, 2003-07-08 at 19:42, Pigeon wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 02:53:54PM -0400, Walter Tautz wrote:
> > just wondering. a google search revealed a deadlink
> 
>   http://people.debian.org/~mmagallo/packages/xfree86/

I would personally recommend the above link, as well, also put testing
in youre apt sources, as it needs a few packages from there to install,
but I've been running this for around 4 weeks and it rocks (once I
managed to get the fonts sorted out).

Mark


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Re: Securing a Debian server

[Alvin Oga]

On Tue, 8 Jul 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> Hi there
> 
> We're thinking about starting to use Debian instead of RH on our Linux boxes and I 
> have a question concerning this. RH offers to check servers and optimizing these for 
> maximum security, does Debian offer this? Or is there a guide on how to do this 
> somewhere?

gazillion things to do to harden the servers

start w/ the debian howto
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/securing-debian-howto/

- rest of the world
http://www.linux-sec.net/Harden/howto.gwif.html

c ya
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XServer installation

[Peter Francis]

Hello:
 
I am trying to install XServer. When issue the 
command 
apt-get install xserver-xfree86 I get the error 
"xserver-xfree86 depents: zlib1g .. but it is not installable
E: Sorry, broken packages
 
I suppose this has to do with by version of 
Debian.
 
How can I fix this problem
 
P.S. I am new to Debian - step by step instruction 
would be appreciated.
 
Peter Francis
Thanks

Free Original copy of Never Winter Nights for Linux going! (andits original)

[Mark C]

Hi,
Yes you read the title correctly, being a complete idiot I ordered 2
copies of nwn from tuxgames, I could of sent it back, but I went on
holiday after receiving it and missed sending it back.

Yes its all original, and not unwrapped at all, all I ask is that you
pay for the postage, being a debian user, I wanted post here first to
see if anyone is interested at all, and its not a joke.

As I live in the U.K, postage will be free for U.K residents, but if you
are from afar, then sorry you will have to pay the postage, if you have
any questions, please mail me off the list, to avoid cluttering the list
with unnecessary traffic.

markATfunkypenguin.net

(just replace the AT with a '@')

Cheers

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Re: pdf creator

[Zhao YouBing]

lists1 wrote:

Besides the aforementioned ps2pdf and other tools, if you are coming from a 
windows environment, you can also use OpenOffice.org or StarOffice to do the 
same.  OpenOffice.org is a free download (and is available on cds cheaply 
from many places, check the site, and your country, school, or favorite linux 
magazine/book may also have it available on cd), check the site for the 
features.  StarOffice isn't free, but offers additional features built in. 
It's a Sun product.  The additional features (or most of them) can also be 
added to OpenOffice.org if you are resourceful, and if I'm not mistaken.

Even if you go the OpenOffice/StarOffice route, you'll soon learn to use 
ps2pdf at the command line. I'd suggest getting used to it, as it's available 
built in, and works without starting up OpenOffice.org (you may forget what 
you wanted to do by the time it finishes starting up).

Bing.

On Tuesday 08 July 2003 20:30, LeVA wrote:
 

Hello!

Is it possible to create new, clean .pdf files under linux? If it is,
then which program do I need to use?
Thanks!

Daniel

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Re: XServer installation

[Mark C]

On Wed, 2003-07-09 at 00:57, Peter Francis wrote:
> Hello:
>  
> I am trying to install XServer. When issue the command 
> apt-get install xserver-xfree86 I get the error "xserver-xfree86
> depents: zlib1g .. but it is not installable
> E: Sorry, broken packages

Have you by any chance got multiple repositories listed, i.e stable,
testing and unstable?

If so try having only one and then running apt-get update and try again
(alternating them, to see if it fixs it), I may be wrong, but I've had
this mixing woody/sarge and sid, but I'm generally running sarge/sid and
so far so good!

Mark


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Re: apt-get update gives an error message

[Colin Watson]

On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 12:04:25PM -0700, Rodney D. Myers wrote:
> apt-get update gives the following error message, when I try and use the
> following /etc/apt/sources.list;
> 
> E: Malformed line 1 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list  (URI)

So ... what's the /etc/apt/sources.list in question?

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X's "default console input source" = /dev/what?

[Pigeon]

From "man kbd" for X 4.3.0: (Doesn't exist in earlier versions)

  The following driver Options are supported:

   Option "Device" "string"
  Specify  the  keyboard  device.   Default: the OS's
  default console keyboard input source.

This is /dev/console, right? No... explicitly specifying
Option "Device" "/dev/console" gives me garbage. /dev/kbd? Only exists
on SPARC. /dev/tty-I-started-X-from? No. /dev/xconsole? No, that's not
"the X version of /dev/console" but a special fifo for the xconsole
program.

What I want to do is find out which /dev entry the above "default
console keyboard input source" refers to, then tell netcat to copy
/dev/whatever on a machine A without X to a fifo on a machine B which
is running X. XF86Config on machine B then specifies 
Option "Device" "my-special-fifo" as its keyboard device. I can then
use X on machine B, with machine B's mouse and display, but with
keyboard input coming from machine A.

But which /dev entry is it? Experimenting either gives me garbage or a
crash, /usr/share/doc/xspecs is of no help; Google has only given me
the negative result that /dev/kbd is only on SPARC. If only that
man page entry said "Default: /dev/somethingorother"...

Can anybody help me fill in the blank please?

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Re: Securing a Debian server

[SF deb]

How do they CHECK the servers?  Could you not do it yourself?  with nmap or
www.pcflank.com will  scan your server.

Scott
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> Hi there
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> We're thinking about starting to use Debian instead of RH on our Linux
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optimizing these for maximum security, does Debian offer this? Or is there a
guide on how to do this somewhere?
>
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Re: S3 Trio 64/32

[matt zagrabelny]

On Tue, 2003-07-08 at 08:47, Jose colmenares wrote:
> I've just installed Debian, but cannot configure the video card. I
> have a S3 Trio 64/32, but don't know what driver to use. The closest
> option that appears when I run dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 it's
> something like s3verige.
>  
> When I run X the upper parte of the screen seems to "fold", and
> strange stuff appears (the clock appears in about five diferent
> places, above where it should be).
>  
> I'm  running it on a pentium, HP 500 series, D4116A, just if is of any
> help that information.
>  
> I'm new to linux, and sincerly, have tried all what I could thing off
> (not much really), and would appreciate any help.
>  
> When I try to run vidtune, well, it doesn't. Says something like no
> screen present...
>  

i usually find out my hardware info through lspci -vv.

for instance:

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. 86C270-294 Savage/IX-MV (rev
11) (prog-if 00 [VGA])

is my first line after running the aforementioned command. the S3 Inc.
is the company name and the Savage is the chipset (the part you want).

then run dpkg-reconfigure with that info.

cheers,

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