Re: ssh tunneling
On Mon, 25 Aug 2003 17:44:32 -0400, Derrick 'dman' Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 02:10:12PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > | On Mon, 25 Aug 2003 13:51:37 -0500 "P. Kallakuri" > | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > | > i cannot find what process is keeping them. i know that i disabled > | > ICMP requests on my gateway, > | > | Ungh. Why? Why disable ICMP. I never figured that one out. > | Anything goes wrong with that line and you'll need to remember to > | turn it back on so as not to waste the tech's time. "Uh, I can't > | ping your machine, are you sure it is plugged in?" "Oh, wait, hold > | on, I turned off that diagnostic tool." > > Disabling ICMP causes worse problems than the scenario Steve > described. Suppose you are trying to connect to a remote system, but > the server is "partially" down. (for example you are trying to use > HTTP but their web server isn't running) Instead of an immediate > "Connection Refused" message, you'll sit for around 2 minutes before > you get a "Connection Timed Out" message. Why? Well, Connection > Refused is indicated by an ICMP packet but you never pass those on to > the application. The application then sees nothing until the timeout > timer expires. ICMP is extremely useful and is, in fact, required for > correct operation of TCP and IP. Do not block ICMP. ..no rule witout exeption: these 2 minutes _are_ useful in tarpits, to help slow vira propagation: http://labrea.sourceforge.net/ and http://netfilter.org/documentation/pomlist/pom-extra.html#ipt_TARPIT -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;-) ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to adapt this iptables setup?
On 25 Aug 2003 15:15:27 -0400 Bret Comstock Waldow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok. There is no /etc/rc.d in my Debian system. /etc/rcX.d has some > meaning beyond just being another place to gather files - it corresponds > to runlevel X, and gets swept automatically as the system passes through > that runlevel. What is the meaning and equivalent of /etc/rc.d? The > other directories referenced appear to exist. On RedHat/Mandrake systems, the runlevel directories are subdirectories of rc.d: - init.d - rc.local - rc0.d /etc -- rc.d -- - rc1.d - rc2.d etc. So where in RedHat you would start the firewall in, say /etc/rc.d/rc5.d/S90fwsoho, in Debian it would be in /etc/rc2.d/S90fwsoho. Kevin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: tinc and networking
On 25 Aug 2003 16:35:08 -0400 Tom Lopolito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm using kernel 2.4.18 and the network configuration now uses the > /etc/interfaces file which does not use the ifconfig and route commands > as 2.2 did. What is the difference in how the interfaces file runs? Interfaces is just a configuration file for a script that uses the ifconfig and route commands. -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your PGP Key: 8B6E99C5 | main connection to the switchboard of souls. ---+- pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Tool for sending Windows popup messages?
So, I had an idea of *something* I could do to try to help fix this "Sobig" virus problem. Since the sender address is certainly spoofed, I figure the only way to track down the source is from the "Received" lines in the mail header. I figured that, if their machine is poorly-managed enough for them to get the virus, it might also still be running the Windows Messenger service (or whatever that thing is that lets other people send popup messages to your screen). The problem I'm having is *how* would I send a message like this? I tinkered around with smbclient, but it seemed to want the NetBIOS name of the machine that I was sending to, etc. Basically, all I've got is an IP address and I want to send a popup message to them. I figure that, if people out there are selling software that can do spam popups... it can't be *that* hard to do. Is there some Debian tool that would let me specify an IP and a message and it would handle the delivery without making me bother with finding out the NetBIOS name, etc.? - Joe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: unprivileged user
> > Sometime back somebody told me there was a way to add a user account > > where the user was very limited in what he could do. As I remember, the > > user would not even be able to change directories. > > > Try googling for "chroot user" > > Rgds > > Rus Thanks Rus. It turns out that what I was looking for is rbash. But chroot is also interesting, though a bit more complicated. best regards, Robert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
automatic overwrite with cp
I've been trying to copy the contents of a partition (source) to another partition (destination) that has a large number of files that need to be overwritten. The command I've tried is: # cp -apRv source/* /destination/ The command works but it requires that I manually respond 'yes' for each overwrite. I thought that the r or R option would do an automatic overwrite but apparently it doesn't. What should the option be to do automatic overwrites with the ' cp ' command? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Help Please!!
On Monday 25 August 2003 06:10 pm, Kent West wrote: > Sorry; I guess I didn't make myself clear. Forget completely about X for > now; in fact, you might want to even disable the graphical login screen > (add "exit 0" as the first non-comment line in the appropriate script: > /etc/init.d/gdm or kdm or xdm or wdm and then reboot). Get the mouse > working in the non-X console first via gpm. Once that's working, then > you can worry about X. Did the above, X is now disabled and boots to the command line. > If I remember correctly, you said this mouse works fine in Windows on > the same box. I guess that means the mouse has not been > unplugged/replugged, with the attendant possibilities of broken/bent > pins, bad connection, etc? I turned off both of my machines, and took the PS/2 scroll mouse off the Mandrake unit, and installed it on the dual boot Debian unit. Then booted them both up again. The one that I took off the Debian unit, that was not working there, worked fine on the Mandrake unit. The one I took off the Mandrake machine is stationary on the Debian unit. > In the text console, using gpm, you should see a white rectangle as your > mouse pointer. It should function just as a pointer should, only it'll > be rectangular instead of pointy. Do not try to configure gpm from > within X! Get out of X completely to do this. Kill X. Exit X. Do not > start X. Forget X. Ex X. I now have a white rectangle but it is stationary on the screen. Thank you for this help, I appreciate it very much and I would like to get Debian going. Bill. William Bradley Come visit us at: http://www.catholicmissionleaflets.org Free Rosaries available at the above. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
What to expect after XP installation on the other disc
Give him Knoppix that can show him a lot of Debian Linux without having to make any decision. Hugo. __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: automatic overwrite with cp
On Mon, 25 Aug 2003 20:20:49 +0200 alex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been trying to copy the contents of a partition (source) to > another partition (destination) that has a large number > of files that need to be overwritten. The command I've tried is: > > # cp -apRv source/* /destination/ > > The command works but it requires that I manually respond 'yes' for > each overwrite. I thought that the r or R option > would do an automatic overwrite but apparently it doesn't. > > What should the option be to do automatic overwrites with the ' cp ' > command? man cp /-f -- -johann koenig Now Playing: Goldie - Dragonfly : Saturnz Return (Disc 2 - Saturn) Today is Boomtime, the 18th day of Bureaucracy in the YOLD 3169 My public pgp key: http://mental-graffiti.com/pgp/johannkoenig.pgp pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
other debian installer tactic?
I know this have been discussed many times. But I still not happy. (Sorry) Why is it that debian can not take a shortcut in the path for having a quick desktop installation? Why not to release a basic knoppix-like CD with the most common desktop applications that 99% of people would want?. Using a very basic installer and the hardware auto-detection of knoppix (or any other that works) it would clone itself to the hard disk in a few minutes. It would be possible to install the rest of the debian applications from the debian testing CDs anyway. I know that this wouldn't work in all platforms (most surely only in x86) but even if it is a very limited solution I think it worth been a valid debian subproject on his own. I think that the save in time that an approach like this produces is something to be taken seriously. I have installed debian for desktop purposes several times so in time it becomes boring, and there are many stupid details (about fonts, java, etc...) that I rather prefer not to hold in my mind. Now I live happily with a knoppix installed to hard disk, and fetching soft from the debian unstable branch, only thing is that there are a few upgrade conflicts in some packages, nothing too hard to work around. Many people is doing the same. What do you think? (Don't open fire with the magnum 45, please :-) Alfredo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Your mail to bein@netapp.com
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Re: other debian installer tactic?
On Mon, 25 Aug 2003 20:39:08 +0200 Alfredo Valles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Why not to release a basic knoppix-like CD with the most common > desktop applications that 99% of people would want?. Using a very > basic installer and the hardware auto-detection of knoppix (or any > other that works) it would clone itself to the hard disk in a few > minutes. It would be possible to install the rest of the debian > applications from the debian testing CDs anyway. Hmm .. that sounds just like Knoppix! Why, that already exists! > I have installed debian for desktop purposes several times so in time > it becomes boring, and there are many stupid details (about fonts, > java, etc...) that I rather prefer not to hold in my mind. Have you used tasksel? It should do at least the fonts. -- -johann koenig Now Playing: Goldie - Dragonfly : Saturnz Return (Disc 2 - Saturn) Today is Boomtime, the 18th day of Bureaucracy in the YOLD 3169 My public pgp key: http://mental-graffiti.com/pgp/johannkoenig.pgp pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: automatic overwrite with cp
--- alex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > I've been trying to copy the contents of a partition (source) to > another partition (destination) that has a large number > of files that need to be overwritten. The command I've tried is: > > # cp -apRv source/* /destination/ > > The command works but it requires that I manually respond 'yes' for each > overwrite. I thought that the r or R option > would do an automatic overwrite but apparently it doesn't. > > What should the option be to do automatic overwrites with the ' cp ' > command? > add --reply=yes (it's in the man page). -Roberto ___ Yahoo! Messenger - Nueva versión GRATIS Super Webcam, voz, caritas animadas, y más... http://messenger.yahoo.es -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Linux - CDR
Hi, I'm somewhat new to linux in general. I was just wondering what was a good tool for burning/ripping cd's (audio and bin/cue). Thanks, Lawrence -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: automatic overwrite with cp
Or, alternatively: yes | cp -apRv source/* /destination/ -- Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] * andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu On Tue, 26 Aug 2003, [iso-8859-1] Roberto Sanchez wrote: > --- alex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > > I've been trying to copy the contents of a partition (source) to > > another partition (destination) that has a large number > > of files that need to be overwritten. The command I've tried is: > > > > # cp -apRv source/* /destination/ > > > > The command works but it requires that I manually respond 'yes' for each > > overwrite. I thought that the r or R option > > would do an automatic overwrite but apparently it doesn't. > > > > What should the option be to do automatic overwrites with the ' cp ' > > command? > > > > add --reply=yes (it's in the man page). > > -Roberto > > ___ > Yahoo! Messenger - Nueva versión GRATIS > Super Webcam, voz, caritas animadas, y más... > http://messenger.yahoo.es > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: other debian installer tactic?
On Mon, 2003-08-25 at 14:39, Alfredo Valles wrote: > I know this have been discussed many times. But I still not happy. (Sorry) > > Why is it that debian can not take a shortcut in the path for having a quick > desktop installation? "Debian" is a group of people who volunteer their time. Why don't *you* do this? Seriously, volunteers *volunteer* their time for what they are interested in, if you are interested, do something about it. [snip] > Now I live happily with a knoppix installed to hard disk, and fetching soft s if you are happy, be happy. > What do you think? (Don't open fire with the magnum 45, please :-) I think this has been discussed plenty of times. Check the archives. -Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: other debian installer tactic?
On Mon, 25 Aug 2003 21:11:40 +0200 Alfredo Valles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 26 August 2003 2:49 am, Johann Koenig wrote: > > Hmm .. that sounds just like Knoppix! Why, that already exists! > > I'm just saying that the system is good and that it works, not that > it's original or that I invented it. I didn't say it was original/you invented it. I said it already exists. Why reinvent the wheel? > And, of course, knoppix do that too. But that's not what knoppix is > for. There would be many things that can be better adjusted if the > purpose of CD were only to deliver to you a debian suitable for > desktop uses. The most important that I can think now is to guarantee > the upgradeability of the system. > > > Have you used tasksel? It should do at least the fonts. > > Believe me there are many details to take care if you are like me that > like to have everything others have on red hat or suse. I use the meta package x-window-system-core to get base functionality, and get what I want as I need it. There are probably meta packages for Gnome/KDE also. I don't use those, they would bog the crap out of my 900mhz 768mb box. Mailing list etiquette - *Do Not* CC sender (unless sender uses 'Reply-to, Mail-Followup-To, Followup-To, etc' header) - *Do Not* send response only to sender -- Yeah, I've done it by accident, but only when the Reply-to, etc. is set. It breaks the per-folder 'Default To:' in sylpheed-claws. -- -johann koenig Now Playing: MC 900 FT Jesus - Killer Inside Me : Welcome To My Dream Today is Boomtime, the 18th day of Bureaucracy in the YOLD 3169 My public pgp key: http://mental-graffiti.com/pgp/johannkoenig.pgp pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: automatic overwrite with cp
On Mon, 25 Aug 2003 20:20:49 +0200 alex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been trying to copy the contents of a partition (source) to > another partition (destination) that has a large number > of files that need to be overwritten. The command I've tried is: > > # cp -apRv source/* /destination/ > > The command works but it requires that I manually respond 'yes' for each > overwrite. I thought that the r or R option > would do an automatic overwrite but apparently it doesn't. > > What should the option be to do automatic overwrites with the ' cp ' > command? If you anticipate the need to do this more than once, I suggest looking into rsync. Kevin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ssh tunneling
On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 02:01:05AM +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > ..no rule witout exeption: these 2 minutes _are_ useful in tarpits, > to help slow vira propagation: That's a new plural of "virus" to me ... ["viri" and "virii" are both wrong. The first is made up by assuming that "virus" is a Latin masculine second declension noun, which it's not (it's neuter), and "viri" is actually the plural of "vir" and means "men". The second is just utterly weird, though strangely popular, and is constructed on top of a made-up second declension noun, "virius". "vira" is probably better than anything else, because at least it's neuter, but really seems more like the plural of "virum". Anyway, there are no recorded instances of a Latin plural of "virus", because its meaning back then was abstract and not something you could really pluralize. The only English plural of the word is simply "viruses". This concludes today's pedantry.] Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: automatic overwrite with cp
On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 08:20:49PM +0200, alex wrote: > I've been trying to copy the contents of a partition (source) to > another partition (destination) that has a large number > of files that need to be overwritten. The command I've tried is: > > # cp -apRv source/* /destination/ > > The command works but it requires that I manually respond 'yes' for each > overwrite. Use the -f option. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to adapt this iptables setup?
On Mon, 2003-08-25 at 20:08, Kevin McKinley wrote: > On 25 Aug 2003 15:15:27 -0400 > Bret Comstock Waldow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Ok. There is no /etc/rc.d in my Debian system. /etc/rcX.d has some > > meaning beyond just being another place to gather files - it corresponds > > to runlevel X, and gets swept automatically as the system passes through > > that runlevel. What is the meaning and equivalent of /etc/rc.d? The > > other directories referenced appear to exist. > > On RedHat/Mandrake systems, the runlevel directories are subdirectories of > rc.d: > - init.d > - rc.local > - rc0.d > /etc -- rc.d -- - rc1.d > - rc2.d > etc. > > So where in RedHat you would start the firewall in, say > /etc/rc.d/rc5.d/S90fwsoho, in Debian it would be in /etc/rc2.d/S90fwsoho. The problem I'm having is some things (iptables_pre & iptables.rh73) he has me copy into /etc/init.d and then symlink from /etc/rcX.d, and other things he has me copy into /etc/rc.d (rc.fwsoho, which is called from iptables.rh73) and I'm trying to figure out the implications of that. What else typically lives in /etc/rc.d? What sort of files are kept there in Red Hat? Cheers, Bret -- bwaldow at alum dot mit dot edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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i want to delete www.stop sign .com
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On Mon, 2003-08-25 at 18:48, Owner wrote: > i want to delete www.stop sign .com I'd like to delete anything named Clinton. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Tool for sending Windows popup messages?
* Joe Emenaker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030825 17:03]: > Is there some Debian tool that would let me specify an IP and a message > and it would handle the delivery without making me bother with finding > out the NetBIOS name, etc.? Did you try smbclient's -I option? good times, Vineet -- http://www.doorstop.net/ -- "If you can put it on a T-shirt, it's speech... To enjoin the T-shirts as a circumvention device is ludicrous." --Robin Gross, EFF staff attorney pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Checking what's installed
* Kevin McKinley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030826 10:29]: > On Mon, 25 Aug 2003 12:12:59 +0900 > Nick Hastings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Am installing Debian on a 486 laptop, and because I want to trim down > > > the installation as much as possible, how do I view a list of what's > > > installed by apt-get on the laptop? DSelect is useless as it marks some > > > > > > stuff that hasn't been installed as to be installed. > > > > dpkg -l | grep ^ii > > dpkg -l works just fine, since it only reports the installed packages. I beg to differ: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ 9% dpkg -l | grep -v ^ii | wc 126 9528173 Seems there are 126 that are not both installed and desired. It shows all the packages that it knows about. Nick. -- Debian testing/unstable Linux twofish 2.6.0-test3-looxt93c1 i686 GNU/Linux pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: automatic overwrite with cp
Roberto Sanchez wrote: --- alex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: I've been trying to copy the contents of a partition (source) to another partition (destination) that has a large number of files that need to be overwritten. The command I've tried is: # cp -apRv source/* /destination/ The command works but it requires that I manually respond 'yes' for each overwrite. I thought that the r or R option would do an automatic overwrite but apparently it doesn't. What should the option be to do automatic overwrites with the ' cp ' command? add --reply=yes (it's in the man page). -Roberto ___ Yahoo! Messenger - Nueva versión GRATIS Super Webcam, voz, caritas animadas, y más... http://messenger.yahoo.es Beautiful! It works very nicely.I used cp -apfv --reply=y source/* destination. I wasn't aware that there was such a command in man. The story is I installed a new hard drive for a friend and installed Windows 98 and used the old hard drive Win98 as a source and copied the entire old Win98 partition to the new Win98 partition. I installed KNOPPIX in the new drive and used it to do the copy. My friend now is now becoming a Debian fan.. Thank you Roberto has KNOPPIX in his new hard drive -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
What packages do I need to get from unstable to have a working Gnome 2 install?
On a testing box. -- "They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Checking what's installed
On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 06:58:41PM -0400, Kevin McKinley wrote: > On Mon, 25 Aug 2003 12:12:59 +0900 > Nick Hastings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Am installing Debian on a 486 laptop, and because I want to trim down > > > the installation as much as possible, how do I view a list of what's > > > installed by apt-get on the laptop? DSelect is useless as it marks some > > > > > > stuff that hasn't been installed as to be installed. > > > > dpkg -l | grep ^ii > > dpkg -l works just fine, since it only reports the installed packages. On my hybrid woody/sarge system, dpkg -l "*lib*" (for example) includes lots of libraries that are status "un" and "pn" which are definitely not installed. But that's just my US$0.0142573 (CDN$0.02) -- YMMV. -- Shaun Crossley mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.whatever.ca -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Need feedback concerning PVR/DVR, Home threatre setup!
Major snip > You can get micro-itx systems for <$200 from idot.com, complete. > I don't know how they related to PVR applications. All that is needed to have a PVR is a TV tuner card that is supported by Linux, which you then can save your shows to a hard drive. Most graphics cards nowadays have support for tv out if you buy the right card. In fact most cards which has tv out will ship with software for the tv watching by S-video connection. >You can get basic black cases easily enough and it may not look any >more out of place than having a DVD recorder next to a VCR. I was thinking about that, but I want to do a proof of concept with the available hardware to see if its worth investing in a pvr box. Only problem I might have is I might need to buy a cheapo sound card, cause my box does not have one. In fact I might do it over this long weekend shouldn't be two hard to accomplish. Rthoreau -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: automatic overwrite with cp
Thanks for the other suggestions. I had already started the copy so I didn't receive the last few messages until the copy was completed but will note them in my handydandy notebook . alex wrote: I've been trying to copy the contents of a partition (source) to another partition (destination) that has a large number of files that need to be overwritten. The command I've tried is: # cp -apRv source/* /destination/ The command works but it requires that I manually respond 'yes' for each overwrite. I thought that the r or R option would do an automatic overwrite but apparently it doesn't. What should the option be to do automatic overwrites with the ' cp ' command? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Kernel Upgrade Problems
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030826 10:27]: linux-2.4 > > When I tried insmod 8139too (the module for the network card), I get a > number of unresolved symbol errors. What happens if you 'modprobe 8139too'? > Any ideas? Using insmod does nothing to sort out module dependencies. Using modprobe does. > Hope I have given enough information! Providing specific error messages is always best. Cheers, Nick. -- Debian testing/unstable Linux twofish 2.6.0-test3-looxt93c1 i686 GNU/Linux pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Checking what's installed
On Tue, 26 Aug 2003 10:40:22 +0900 Nick Hastings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Kevin McKinley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030826 10:29]: > > On Mon, 25 Aug 2003 12:12:59 +0900 > > Nick Hastings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Am installing Debian on a 486 laptop, and because I want to trim > > > > down the installation as much as possible, how do I view a list > > > > of what's installed by apt-get on the laptop? DSelect is > > > > useless as it marks some > > > > > > > > stuff that hasn't been installed as to be installed. > > > > > > dpkg -l | grep ^ii > > > > dpkg -l works just fine, since it only reports the installed > > packages. > > I beg to differ: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ 9% dpkg -l | grep -v ^ii | wc > 126 9528173 > > > Seems there are 126 that are not both installed and desired. It shows > all the packages that it knows about. It seems to list all packages installed or packages removed but not purged. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dpkg -l | grep -v ^ii Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name VersionDescription +++-==-==-= === rc telnet 0.17-20The telnet client. I replaced telnet with telnet-ssl. It had a few other packages, but I took the opportunity to purge them. I had been looking for a way to find out what packages had been removed but not purged. -- -johann koenig Now Playing: Flogging Molly - These Exiled Years : Swagger Today is Boomtime, the 18th day of Bureaucracy in the YOLD 3169 My public pgp key: http://mental-graffiti.com/pgp/johannkoenig.pgp pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: What packages do I need to get from unstable to have a workingGnome 2 install?
On Mon, 25 Aug 2003 22:16:40 -0400 stan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On a testing box. Change your sources, and 'apt-get install *gnome*'? -- -johann koenig Now Playing: Jurassic 5 - React : Power In Numbers Today is Boomtime, the 18th day of Bureaucracy in the YOLD 3169 My public pgp key: http://mental-graffiti.com/pgp/johannkoenig.pgp pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Linux - CDR
Hi, * Li-Ren Zhou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030826 10:31]: > Hi, > > I'm somewhat new to linux in general. I'll keep this in mind. Firstly, please start a _new_ thread if you wish to start a new topic on this list. ie. write a fresh email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] rather than replying to an existing email. Additionally, when replying to list mail please send your mail to the list only. > I was just wondering what was a good tool for burning/ripping cd's > (audio and bin/cue). Copying audio cd's can be done quite easily with xcdroast. Encoding audio cds to mp3's or oggs can be done with grip. Cheers, Nick. PS. Both xcdroast and grip are just gui front ends to lower level tools (cdda2wav, cdrecord, oggenc etc.). Once you become more familiar with linux you may find it easier to use these tools directly. -- Debian testing/unstable Linux twofish 2.6.0-test3-looxt93c1 i686 GNU/Linux pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
ati maxx
I have a ati rage 128 pro maxx agp videocard.it is a dual graphics processor card. I can not get it to work in potato or woody.Hoping you my know of a trick to get it to work. I have had it working in suse 7.3 - 8.1,caldera 3.1,redhat 8.0,lycoris build 46,. I really want to use debian ,and do not want to replace this great video card. thank you Rich Swain _ Get a free e-mail box @ RX-7.NET! Visit http://www.rx-7.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Does Debian support IDE disks with more than 128GiB or IDE 48bit addressing?
Hi, I have a Samsung disk with 149GiB of space and my experience is mixed. What you know, or you experience with disks with more than 128GiB working with Debian (Woody or Sarge)? As I said my experience is mixed. The motherboard is an Asus A7V with the last BIOS that supports 48bit addressing, have two IDE controllers Ove VIA VT82C686/VT82C586B and the other is Promise 20265. Both of them identify the right size (149Gib) and I can make the partitions with fdisk or cfdisk without problems with Debian kernels 2.4.21-3-k7 and 2.4.20-3-k7 or a personalized 2.4.21 to include lmsensors, i2c, alsa, and nvidia-kernel. I have an woody system with some packages upgraded to sarge. I can make a file system with more than 128GiB if connected to the VIA controller, but connected to the Promise I will have a corrupted file system. - So I believe that kernel 2.4.21 with Promise don't support IDE 48bit. - With VIA controller I have doubts, at least one time I had data corruption. That caused me to lose the extended partition with all my Linux file systems, more than 120GiB of data on LVM volumes. Jose Calhariz -- As leis foram feitas para serem "compridas". -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Help Please!!
William Bradley wrote: On Monday 25 August 2003 06:10 pm, Kent West wrote: Sorry; I guess I didn't make myself clear. Forget completely about X for now; in fact, you might want to even disable the graphical login screen (add "exit 0" as the first non-comment line in the appropriate script: /etc/init.d/gdm or kdm or xdm or wdm and then reboot). Get the mouse working in the non-X console first via gpm. Once that's working, then you can worry about X. Did the above, X is now disabled and boots to the command line. If I remember correctly, you said this mouse works fine in Windows on the same box. I guess that means the mouse has not been unplugged/replugged, with the attendant possibilities of broken/bent pins, bad connection, etc? I turned off both of my machines, and took the PS/2 scroll mouse off the Mandrake unit, and installed it on the dual boot Debian unit. Then booted them both up again. The one that I took off the Debian unit, that was not working there, worked fine on the Mandrake unit. The one I took off the Mandrake machine is stationary on the Debian unit. In the text console, using gpm, you should see a white rectangle as your mouse pointer. It should function just as a pointer should, only it'll be rectangular instead of pointy. Do not try to configure gpm from within X! Get out of X completely to do this. Kill X. Exit X. Do not start X. Forget X. Ex X. I now have a white rectangle but it is stationary on the screen. Thank you for this help, I appreciate it very much and I would like to get Debian going. Bill. Okay, so we know for sure the mouse is okay. And if either mouse works on Windows on the "Debian box", we can assume the ps/2 port is okay. Which leaves software. I see two basic possibilities: 1) kernel issues 2) gpm issues I believe you said earlier that "cat /dev/psaux" generated garbage as expected, which pretty much eliminates kernel issues. Still, you might be interested in upgrading the kernel (assuming you have 2.2.20 - "uname -a" will report it for you). More likely, your problem is with gpm (or X, when we get there). Again, I see two basic possibilities: 1) older version of gpm not working right with that particular mouse 2) wrong settings in gpm. The older version issue is probably not the case; ps/2 mice have been around quite a while. However, you might consider upgrading to unstable if this isn't a box that needs 24x7 uptime (or five 9s - 99.999%). Mostly likely the protocol is wrong. I don't remember; is this a wheel mouse? If so, try "fuimps2". You can also type "help" when asked for the type during "gpmconfig" for a list of other protocols to try. Experiment and see if you get any motion. Let us know. -- Kent West ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mounting large Windows ME disk?
Arnt, Thanks for the suggestions. Some responses: > ..ntfs? No hardware problem such as fried chips? -t ntfs doesn't help (and an ntfs filesystem wouldn't mount under ME anyway). The drive works fine in the Windows machine (I put it back after my failure to mount it), so probably not fried chips. > ..your box supports disks this big? I had to update bios for 2 of mine. I updated to the current BIOS from Dell before trying anything. The machine is a Dell Dimension XPS R400, and the BIOS version is A13. Since fdisk and friends see the correct size (80GB), I don't think the BIOS is likely to be the problem. > ..dd, split, cat and a cd or dvd toaster and its docs is a viable way in the _ugly_ > case. Like I said, if I can't find a solution in a few days, I will just buy a new 80GB disk and format it from scratch (they're only about $80 delivered -- much cheaper than a DVD burner, and I'd hate to think of the hassle of making and transfering 50GB+ on CDs!). But it sure is frustrating not to be able get it to mount Larry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: other debian installer tactic?
Alfredo Valles wrote: I know this have been discussed many times. But I still not happy. (Sorry) Why is it that debian can not take a shortcut in the path for having a quick desktop installation? I know that this wouldn't work in all platforms (most surely only in x86) but even if it is a very limited solution I think it worth been a valid debian subproject on his own. Wonderful goal! But what you're asking for is a different distribution, which has been done already: Corel, Libranet, Knoppix, Xandros, etc. Debian, by its very definition, does not work only on one platform. Anything that is based on Debian, but only works on one platform, is not Debian. You're free to develop your own distro, or hire/persuade someone to do it, or to acquire another distro that does what you want, such as those mentioned above, but the bottom line is that you're asking for another distro, not Debian. You're free to consider these other distros as "valid Debian subprojects", but Debian itself supports mulitiple architectures. Anything less is not Debian, and the "Debian developers" are unlikely to spend their time and effort working on an installer that's not Debian (and I applaud them for that!). All you'd need to do is hire/persuade programmers to write a custom installation routine that satisfies you, and tie it into a distribution that is otherwise pure Debian. Then slap a name on that puppy, such as "Installian", and put up a website where it can be downloaded. Ask the Debian folks to put a link on the Debian page to your site, and you've got what you want. But again, the Debian developers are too busy to spend their time/effort on this sub-project (if I may speak on their behalf), so it's gonna have to be done by someone else, and it's not going be called "Debian", 'cause it ain't Debian if it only works for one platform. A lot of people would like this probably. -- Kent West ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: LILO ! framebuffer
On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 09:29:14AM -0400, R Ransbottom wrote: > > > Paul M Foster (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > > > > > On boot, I'm getting the framebuffer, with the little colored Tux in > > > > the upper lefthand corner of the screen. I don't want that, I want > > Had the same problem and the same difficulty finding the answer: > > In lilo.conf > append="video=vga16:off" This actually worked. Thanks. Paul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: TV-out without X
On Mon, 2003-08-25 at 17:18, Sebastian Helms wrote: > Hi, > > my Linux box is running woody, but without X. > > I'd like to play DivX videos on this machine, still without X, > viewing the output over the TV-out port of the video card. > > My questions are: > > - is this possible? > - is there a non-X DivX-capable media player? > - which video card with TV-out would be best for this? Yes, it is possible. mplayer supports playing DivX movies outside of X. Look at the -vo option. I use -vo vesa, though depending on your setup some of the other modes may work. The only way I've EVER done TV-out from a computer has been with my laptop, which is using an ATI Mobility M4. Hope that helps. :) -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers. Key ID: A6D24837 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Re: Problems with xserver-xfree86
There is no Xfree config file anywhere in the system that I can tell. When I install X, it tells me that it hasn't found the files, so it won't update them. The problem is that they're just not being created. -- Stephen Touset <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Help Please!!
On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 08:26:28PM -0400, William Bradley wrote: > On Monday 25 August 2003 06:10 pm, Kent West wrote: > > > Sorry; I guess I didn't make myself clear. Forget completely about X for > > now; in fact, you might want to even disable the graphical login screen > > (add "exit 0" as the first non-comment line in the appropriate script: > > /etc/init.d/gdm or kdm or xdm or wdm and then reboot). Get the mouse > > working in the non-X console first via gpm. Once that's working, then > > you can worry about X. > > Did the above, X is now disabled and boots to the command line. > > > If I remember correctly, you said this mouse works fine in Windows on > > the same box. I guess that means the mouse has not been > > unplugged/replugged, with the attendant possibilities of broken/bent > > pins, bad connection, etc? > > I turned off both of my machines, and took the PS/2 scroll mouse off the > Mandrake unit, and installed it on the dual boot Debian unit. Then booted > them both up again. The one that I took off the Debian unit, that was not > working there, worked fine on the Mandrake unit. The one I took off the > Mandrake machine is stationary on the Debian unit. Are the mice the same make/model? > > In the text console, using gpm, you should see a white rectangle as your > > mouse pointer. It should function just as a pointer should, only it'll > > be rectangular instead of pointy. Do not try to configure gpm from > > within X! Get out of X completely to do this. Kill X. Exit X. Do not > > start X. Forget X. Ex X. > > I now have a white rectangle but it is stationary on the screen. This is a bit of a long shot, and I would expect it to be resulting in uncontrollable rather than zero pointer movement, but perhaps your mouse has a weird protocol... though I still don't see why Mandrake would be OK and Debian not, but still... Can you send me a sample of your mouse's raw output and I'll have a look to see if it looks like a recognised protocol? Do this... 1) Be in console mode, with gpm stopped (I don't use gpm myself, but I'd guess '/etc/init.d/gpm stop' as root should stop it) 2) Do the 'cat /dev/psaux' trick to make sure the hardware's working 3) Take the mouse ball out, so you can move the little rollers that it runs against with your finger 4) Issue the command: cat /dev/psaux > /tmp/mousedata & - you'll get a number in square brackets and a longer number without brackets 5) Move the mouse's horizontal roller with your finger, first one way then the other 6) Move the mouse's vertical roller with your finger, first one way then the other 7) Click the buttons twice each, in the order left, right, middle 8) Move the scroll wheel first one way then the other 9) Issue the command: echo -ne '\377' > /dev/psaux 10) Issue the command: echo -ne '\364' > /dev/psaux 11) Repeat steps 5 to 8 12) Kill the cat - kill where is the number without the brackets from step 4 - you should get a 'Terminated' message 13) Email me the file /tmp/mousedata -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Mozilla printer problems
On Sun, Aug 24, 2003 at 05:09:06AM -0400, Brad Sawatzky wrote: > Hi Tom, > > Perhaps your Mozilla build requires the Xprint package. Try installing > xprt-xprintorg (and its depends) and see if mozilla can print. > Additionally, I found I needed cupsys-bsd (mentioned in the xprt-xprintorg notes somewhere) for things to work. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Help Please!!
On Monday 25 August 2003 11:09 pm, Kent West wrote: > Okay, so we know for sure the mouse is okay. And if either mouse works > on Windows on the "Debian box", we can assume the ps/2 port is okay. > Which leaves software. > > I see two basic possibilities: > 1) kernel issues > 2) gpm issues > > I believe you said earlier that "cat /dev/psaux" generated garbage as > expected, which pretty much eliminates kernel issues. Still, you might > be interested in upgrading the kernel (assuming you have 2.2.20 - "uname > -a" will report it for you). > > More likely, your problem is with gpm (or X, when we get there). Again, > I see two basic possibilities: > 1) older version of gpm not working right with that particular mouse > 2) wrong settings in gpm. > > The older version issue is probably not the case; ps/2 mice have been > around quite a while. However, you might consider upgrading to unstable > if this isn't a box that needs 24x7 uptime (or five 9s - 99.999%). > > Mostly likely the protocol is wrong. I don't remember; is this a wheel > mouse? If so, try "fuimps2". You can also type "help" when asked for the > type during "gpmconfig" for a list of other protocols to try. Experiment > and see if you get any motion. If we had web cams you could see an old geezer dancing a slightly arthritic jig. Clicked on "help" as you suggested. Tried one, forget which, did not work, and then I tried "fuimps2" and tested it. Bumped the mouse accidentally and it moved. Nearly fell off my chair!! After five days, there finally is movement. What is next, restart X windows? Bill. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Help Please!!
On Tuesday 26 August 2003 12:08 am, you wrote: > 1) Be in console mode, with gpm stopped (I don't use gpm myself, but >I'd guess '/etc/init.d/gpm stop' as root should stop it) > 2) Do the 'cat /dev/psaux' trick to make sure the hardware's working > 3) Take the mouse ball out, so you can move the little rollers that it >runs against with your finger > 4) Issue the command: cat /dev/psaux > /tmp/mousedata & >- you'll get a number in square brackets and a longer number >without brackets > 5) Move the mouse's horizontal roller with your finger, first one way >then the other > 6) Move the mouse's vertical roller with your finger, first one way >then the other > 7) Click the buttons twice each, in the order left, right, middle > 8) Move the scroll wheel first one way then the other > 9) Issue the command: echo -ne '\377' > /dev/psaux > 10) Issue the command: echo -ne '\364' > /dev/psaux > 11) Repeat steps 5 to 8 > 12) Kill the cat - kill where is the number > without the brackets from step 4 - you should get a 'Terminated' > message > 13) Email me the file /tmp/mousedata Thank you for taking so much trouble Kent West got my playing with gmpconfig and when I got to "fuimps2" under type, the mouse moved. This was done with X completely shut down. Best wishes, Bill. -- William Bradley Come visit us at: http://www.catholicmissionleaflets.org Free Rosaries available at the above. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Re: Problems with xserver-xfree86
Stephen Touset <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There is no Xfree config file anywhere in the system that I can tell. > When I install X, it tells me that it hasn't found the files, so it > won't update them. The problem is that they're just not being created. > > -- > Stephen Touset <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Are you using sid? I recently did a clean install of woody and then immediately upgrading to sid and had the same issue when installing X. According to the status messages they're migrating configuring X way from the former method. I ended up just installing version -6 (-10 is the current) of xserver-common and using apt-get to grab the rest of the packages and then manually installing xserver-xfree86 -6, configuring it, and then upgrading it. Likely far easier ways to handle this but 1) I didn't have an old XF86Config handy and 2) It was 4:30 am and I was too tired to think of another. --Chris pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Logrotate and qmail
Is there anyway to configure Logrotate to 'skip' certain files? Logrotate is rotating /var/log/qmail/current once a week, and during this process it creates a 'previous' file(/var/log/qmail/previous) which causes qmail to stop processing mail (Fails with 'unable to set mode of /var/log/qmail/previous, pausing' - As the 'previous' file has root:adm perms(Modifying the perms to qmaill:root fixes the problem, albeit temporarily!)) Thanks in advance, MB -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Best Way to Look at Streaming Video
I wanted to look at a video on a web site that offered it in RealPlayer, QuickTime, and Windows Media Player format. To my suprise (since I had installed RealPlayer) I couldn't, and this led to some questions that perhaps people here could answer. Which of these formats would be the best choice for Debian (I do have some windows partitions, though I don't think I've installed any of the recent MediaPlayer stuff)? Ideally, I want it to work through my mozilla 1.4 browser, built with gcc 3.3. What are the best tools to view these formats? I have the old (and apparently no longer existing) realplayer for debian package, along with the latest (as of a month ago) unix realplayer from real.com. However, it is not recognized as a plug in for my mozilla 1.4. I believe I read somewhere that realplayer, built with older gcc's, is not going to work with mozilla built with the new gccs. I also had no luck pasting the URL directly into realplayer, probably because the URL is only of a page that does some magic to decide what kind of video to serve (http://athome.harvard.edu/programs/sge/sge1.html, but I think it's password protected). Discussion a few months ago mentioned http://marillat.free.fr/ both for the realplayer for Debian package (which no longer seems to be there) and for mplayer (about which there were mixed comments). I see several packages providing quicktime support (xine, xmovie, xanim) and don't know if one is obviously better (or better at integrating into mozilla). Any thoughts? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Re: Problems with xserver-xfree86
It would probably be helpful to give the exact transcript of what you tried to do: which packages did you install with which tool, and what error message did you get. The statement that there is no existing config file can simply be informational, but of course the necessary file should be created at the end of the install. Offhand, the only way I would think something could go wrong would be if you installed some part of X without installing all its required packages; the basic configuration files are setup in some base packages that are shared by many of the other X packages (xfree86-common, I think). On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 12:52:00AM -0400, Stephen Touset wrote: > There is no Xfree config file anywhere in the system that I can tell. > When I install X, it tells me that it hasn't found the files, so it > won't update them. The problem is that they're just not being created. > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: TV-out without X
I believe Freevo also supports frame buffer mode. This means older/slower PCs can play divx/xvid videos as X is a bit of a hog. - Original Message - From: "Sebastian Helms" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2003 12:18 AM Subject: TV-out without X > Hi, > > my Linux box is running woody, but without X. > > I'd like to play DivX videos on this machine, still without X, > viewing the output over the TV-out port of the video card. > > My questions are: > > - is this possible? > - is there a non-X DivX-capable media player? > - which video card with TV-out would be best for this? > > > Regards, > > Sebastian > > -- > Every man dies. > Not every man really lives. > > Sebastian Helms - http://www.helms.sh - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (PGP welcome) > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ssh tunneling
On Tue, 26 Aug 2003, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 02:01:05AM +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote:
> > ..no rule witout exeption: these 2 minutes _are_ useful in tarpits,
> > to help slow vira propagation:
>
> That's a new plural of "virus" to me ...
>
> [ SNIP explanation of latin plurals ]
>
> This concludes today's pedantry.]
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However, the way I was taught it was that `virus' was already a plural
/did not have a plural in latin.
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Re: Re: Problems with xserver-xfree86
--vtzGhvizbBRQ85DL Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 12:52:00AM -0400, Stephen Touset wrote: > There is no Xfree config file anywhere in the system that I can tell. > When I install X, it tells me that it hasn't found the files, so it > won't update them. The problem is that they're just not being created. You can run xf86cfg (graphical configuration program) or xf86config (text based configuration program) to set up X. Both come with the standard XFree distribution (I don't know if they come with the standard deb files though). Bijan --=20 Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.crasseux.com --vtzGhvizbBRQ85DL Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/SvQqUof+95vTyAwRAiPqAJ4yrSxKkAOq0phAnbb3oDyM63hqpwCggl2p F5u6yqcQ7hcKvxpDOqqiADs= =W9xD -END PGP SIGNATURE- --vtzGhvizbBRQ85DL-- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: other debian installer tactic?
Le Mon, 25 Aug 2003 20:39:08 +0200 Alfredo Valles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a dit: Hello, > I know this have been discussed many times. But I still not happy. (Sorry) It seems that a lot of people have troubles with the Debian installer. Once you know it well it can do what you want: tasksel is simple, dselect is powerful. Refuse to use them and you have a very minimal system that you can tune a lot. But all the modern distro installers are easier, true, and sometimes extremely powerful too. So what's the problem ? I guess the installer wasn't a priority for Woody and previous Debians. As a matter of fact I heard this should change for the next release (December if things don't slow down): until then there's not much to say about this. Either you deal with it, either you go for something else (this is what you did with Knoppix: I wouldn't do it, but if you're happy with it, this is cool.). Or perhaps you want to suggest, request features ? I think there is probably a way to do this and someone else will be able to tell us the best way ? Just my two cents. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Best Way to Look at Streaming Video
Ross Boylan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Discussion a few months ago mentioned http://marillat.free.fr/ both > for the realplayer for Debian package (which no longer seems to be > there) and for mplayer (about which there were mixed comments). > > I see several packages providing quicktime support (xine, xmovie, > xanim) and don't know if one is obviously better (or better at > integrating into mozilla). > > Any thoughts? marillat also offers the mplayer-mozilla plugin which allows mplayer to be embedded into mozilla and play the filetypes supported by mplayer. The only caveat is that it does not yet support any sort of cookies or authentication. If that is a necessity your best bet is probably the Crossover plugin from Codeweavers. I believe there are similar types of plugins for Xine but I don't have any experience with them. --Chris pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: other debian installer tactic?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 08:39:08PM +0200, Alfredo Valles wrote: > Why not to release a basic knoppix-like CD with the most common desktop > applications that 99% of people would want? Why do that when Knoppix already fills that niche and debian-installer is going to be out in December? - -- .''`. Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' : `. `'` proud Debian admin and user `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fix a system -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/SvuXUzgNqloQMwcRApJVAJ91rEBeyl9wZhw8mkFnBlvUdR41AACgzQmP EYvHoayRjAku6pYK8/M43Mc= =6lMg -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: nfs use-once-only?
On Mon, 25 Aug 2003, Richard Lyons wrote: > I was so thrilled to get nfs working (laptop to workstation) for the first > time yesterday. But today I get >mount: RPC: Unable to receive; errno = Connection refused > every time. So I tried in the other direction. Set up /etc/export and > /etc/hosts.allow and - easy - it connects. But only once. Unmount the > share, and all subsequent attemps to mount are met with >mount: RPC: Unable to receive; errno = Connection refused > > So I seem to have configured a one-time connection. Not quite what I > intended. Any ideas? > I had the same problem with the testing version. This is (was?) a bug in nfs-kernel-server/testing. Either go back to stable with: > apt-get install --reinstall nfs-kernel-server/stable and then put it on hold with dselect and keep an eye out for when it is fixed. Another option is to upgrade it to unstable (s/stable/unstable in the command line above), I believe the bug is fixed there. -- Erik Rask, systems administrator @ AB Strakt "There is no normal life. There's just life. So get on with it." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Best Way to Look at Streaming Video
--82I3+IH0IqGh5yIs Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 10:22:19PM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: > I wanted to look at a video on a web site that offered it in > RealPlayer, QuickTime, and Windows Media Player format. To my suprise > (since I had installed RealPlayer) I couldn't, and this led to some > questions that perhaps people here could answer. >=20 > Which of these formats would be the best choice for Debian (I do have > some windows partitions, though I don't think I've installed any of > the recent MediaPlayer stuff)? Ideally, I want it to work through my > mozilla 1.4 browser, built with gcc 3.3. >=20 > What are the best tools to view these formats? My favorite media player of all time is mplayer. It is amazing! It outshines every other media player ever conceived. You can get the source from: http://www.mplayerhq.hu There are unofficial deb files somewhere on the net, but this is one program that is worth compiling from source. It handles windows media player natively. And with the appropriate plugins (available on the site) it can handle quicktime and real formats as well. The next big release (1.0 should be out any day now) will have native quicktime (with some older native real stuff) included. > Discussion a few months ago mentioned http://marillat.free.fr/ both > for the realplayer for Debian package (which no longer seems to be > there) and for mplayer (about which there were mixed comments). This source should have binaries of mplayer. > I see several packages providing quicktime support (xine, xmovie, > xanim) and don't know if one is obviously better (or better at > integrating into mozilla). Again there is some mozilla plugin to integrate stuff in, I usually extract the url and feed it to mplayer. That works for me. Bijan --=20 Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.crasseux.com --82I3+IH0IqGh5yIs Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/SvyEUof+95vTyAwRAlNAAJ4yefoeObvnr7nUYHe8V6JnvBVvdwCfV2iR Pr1Nj8Nkstjj5hCQQ3of9z4= =nmCP -END PGP SIGNATURE- --82I3+IH0IqGh5yIs-- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Stripped down versions of software
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 01:20:52PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > Or links. Once I found links I gave up on lynx. Something about doing > tables properly. :) I never understood why the lynx team had such a hard time with that one. I remember using lynx at the library on a WYSE terminal in elementary school (I'm 21) before tables came out and it was a mindblowing web-browser considering the limitations of the medium[0]. And then tables happened. And lynx couldn't figure out what to do with it and just said [TABLE], with no way to view the darn table without viewing source. Then lynx got table support, and it was a good start. But then they never went anywhere with it. lynx used to be the state of the art browser on the console. But then it's like they lost the will to live or something. I'm glad to see elinks take up where lynx lets off. [0] I mean, you are basically doing desktop publishing in an 80x24 space trying to render a webpage on a tty. - -- .''`. Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' : `. `'` proud Debian admin and user `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fix a system -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/Sv96UzgNqloQMwcRAlH6AJ96Yj+MSC4BwvLD7R+djzAYll+A7wCgtYT7 xP/IjCa6UOb8i7veQdQOnoA= =LXfN -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Best Way to Look at Streaming Video
On Mon, 25 Aug 2003 22:22:19 -0700 Ross Boylan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I wanted to look at a video on a web site that offered it in > RealPlayer, QuickTime, and Windows Media Player format. To my suprise > (since I had installed RealPlayer) I couldn't, and this led to some > questions that perhaps people here could answer. > > Which of these formats would be the best choice for Debian (I do have > some windows partitions, though I don't think I've installed any of > the recent MediaPlayer stuff)? Ideally, I want it to work through my > mozilla 1.4 browser, built with gcc 3.3. I've not yet found any universal solution, but I am awfully happy with gxine. Sadly, it's not a Debian package, but it's a very simple compile - just a frontend to xine, really. It deals with web media far better than mplayer-plugin did for me. While I prefer (g)mplayer's interface for watching full length movies/TV, gxine is nice and simple - good for catching a quick clip when you don't want to fish around for buttons and menus. -- Todd Pytel Signature attached PGP Key ID 77B1C00C pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Stripped down versions of software
On Mon, 25 Aug 2003 23:34:34 -0700 Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I never understood why the lynx team had such a hard time with that > one. I remember using lynx at the library on a WYSE terminal in > elementary school (I'm 21) before tables came out and it was a > mindblowing web-browser considering the limitations of the medium[0]. Yup. I remember first using lynx way back when I was still on my Slackware box. It was great for the quick Yahoo! searches when I was being a snarky chanop on a #linux channel. "That can be answered with a 2 word Yahoo! search. Have you even tried!?" But like many programs it just got outclassed. Seems like the natural progression of programs in open source. Evolve or get overrun. :) -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your PGP Key: 8B6E99C5 | main connection to the switchboard of souls. ---+- pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Help Please!!
William Bradley wrote: On Monday 25 August 2003 11:09 pm, Kent West wrote: Mostly likely the protocol is wrong. I don't remember; is this a wheel mouse? If so, try "fuimps2". You can also type "help" when asked for the type during "gpmconfig" for a list of other protocols to try. Experiment and see if you get any motion. If we had web cams you could see an old geezer dancing a slightly arthritic jig. Clicked on "help" as you suggested. Tried one, forget which, did not work, and then I tried "fuimps2" and tested it. Bumped the mouse accidentally and it moved. Nearly fell off my chair!! After five days, there finally is movement. What is next, restart X windows? Whoo-hoo! Okay, make sure that gpm is configured to repeat "raw" (either edit /etc/gpm.conf, or better, re-run gpmconfig). Then run "dpkg-reconfigure xfree86-server" (or is it "xfree86-common"? I can never remember) and when you get to the mouse location section, set it to /etc/gpmdata instead of /etc/psaux. (You'd leave it at /etc/psaux if you weren't running gpm.) That should fix your mouse issue in X. Now you can remove the "exit 0" from "/etc/init.d/[xwgk]dm" and either reboot or run "/etc/init.d/[xwgk]dm start" to take you back to your graphical login screen. Hopefully you're all set to go now. -- Kent West ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: TV-out without X
Hi! On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 11:38:37PM -0500, Alex Malinovich wrote: > The only way I've EVER done TV-out from a computer has been with my > laptop, which is using an ATI Mobility M4. Could You tell me if the laptop has TV-out or You manage to connect TV through external monitor connector? I have Acer TravelMate with ATI Radeon Mobility M6 LY and there is no TV-out. Is there any HOWTO? Thanks. Mody pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Problems with xserver-xfree86
Stephen Touset wrote: There is no Xfree config file anywhere in the system that I can tell. When I install X, it tells me that it hasn't found the files, so it won't update them. The problem is that they're just not being created. It should be in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4. If not, try "apt-get install xerver-xfree86 xserver-common xbase-clients xfonts-100dpi xfonts-75dpi xfonts-scalable xfonts-base" and then run "startx" and see what that does for you. -- Kent West ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Debian security prb
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have installed Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 rl "Woody" Official i386. I'm trying to use an application called Cyberdocs on this computer : this application have to open OpenOffice.org to convert word documents to XML. This process is triggered by a java application. Everything is properly installed. My problem is that OpenOffice.org can't be oppened by Cyberdocs : I get this message : java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused ... I don't have this problem when I use Redhat or Mandrake. Maybe a security prb. thx for your help.
RE: Re: Wicked screensaver (verification)
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Re: TV-out without X
On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 01:59, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi! > > On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 11:38:37PM -0500, Alex Malinovich wrote: > > The only way I've EVER done TV-out from a computer has been with my > > laptop, which is using an ATI Mobility M4. > > Could You tell me if the laptop has TV-out or You manage to connect TV > through external monitor connector? I have Acer TravelMate with ATI Radeon > Mobility M6 LY and there is no TV-out. Is there any HOWTO? Mine has an actual TV-Out connector. I'm afraid I know nothing about doing a VGA-out to TV-out connection. (I don't even know if it's possible.) -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers. Key ID: A6D24837 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: TV-out without X
On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 02:26:41AM -0500, Alex Malinovich wrote: > Mine has an actual TV-Out connector. I'm afraid I know nothing about I see. :-( > doing a VGA-out to TV-out connection. (I don't even know if it's > possible.) I think it is possible. But there is lot of tweaking with framebuffer... I'm too lazy to try. Thanks. Mody pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
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Re: Stripped down versions of software
Jesse Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [25 Aug 2003 15:08 -0500]: > (ratpoison is an interesting window manager since it is very > minimal and maximizes each window - I find it useful for 640x480 > resolutions, but at 800x600, lines get too long in terminals for > my tastes) You could use a larger font. > Dillo is probably a better choice. > > For non-graphical, check out w3m or lynx. I use ratpoison and dillo on a Pentium 200 MHz w/40MB RAM. "w3m-img provides some utilities to support inline images for w3m on terminal emulator in X Window System environments and linux framebuffer." Dillo renders faster than w3m with images, don't know which one uses more memory. w3m's scrolling with images is pretty rough. Lynx on the console will launch zgv to display images, one at a time. Geordie. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
COBOL compiler
I've, unfortunately, been forced into taking a COBOL class as a requirement for getting my BS. (And that's just what it is, a load of BS...) What's worse is that I can't seem to find any Free COBOL tools. 'apt-cache search cobol' returns 3 hits, all of which are documentation utilities. Any suggestions? Or am I going to be stuck using school PC's loaded with Windows and more proprietary software than you can shake a warez-kiddie at? (Most of which comes with licenses so lax and reasonable that they stop just short of executing you and 3 generations of your family for not including a proper copyright notice any time you use two or more letters present in the product name in a sentence. Whoops! There goes the family! :) -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers. Key ID: A6D24837 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: postfix + mutt questions
On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 09:00:57PM +0300, Manolis Tzanidakis wrote: > [20030822] Mihalis I. Tsoukalos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > So, in order to make user root get its email, should I put root: root in > > the aliases file? Seems a little bizzare :-) > > Check http://www.postfix.org/faq.html#root & u'll figure out > yourself if u should do something like that. > > > Seems a little bizzare :-) > > Paranoia is always bizzare :D > > ps. If you' re trying to setup a simple mail relay to your > isp's (or freemail.gr's) smtp with fetchmail+procmail for > receiving mails, check : > http://hints.linuxfromscratch.org/hints/postfix_fetchmail_procmail.txt > > it's quite helpful... Hi Manoli. You are right. Many thanks for the useful info. Mihalis. -- 11:41:59 up 16 days, 22:01, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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NAV hat einen Virus in einem Ihrer Dokumente gefunden.
Wenden Sie sich an den Systemadministrator. Das geprüfte Dokument wurde ISOLIERT. Virusinformation: Der Anhang document_9446.pif enthielt den Virus [EMAIL PROTECTED] und konnte NICHT repariert werden. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ssh tunneling
On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 12:38:40AM -0500, Jesse Meyer wrote: > On Tue, 26 Aug 2003, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 02:01:05AM +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > > ..no rule witout exeption: these 2 minutes _are_ useful in tarpits, > > > to help slow vira propagation: > > > > That's a new plural of "virus" to me ... > > > > [ SNIP explanation of latin plurals ] > > > > This concludes today's pedantry.] > > I enjoy my daily dose of pedantry. > > However, the way I was taught it was that `virus' was already a plural > /did not have a plural in latin. As I said: > > Anyway, there are no recorded instances of a Latin plural of > > "virus", because its meaning back then was abstract and not > > something you could really pluralize. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to adapt this iptables setup?
On 25 Aug 2003, Bret Comstock Waldow wrote: > His system comes in two/three parts. There's an iptables_pre script > which fits simply into the Debian init system - put it in /etc/init.d > and use update-rc.d defaults to plug in the symlinks so it runs before > the network is up. It locks everything closed and optionally has > support for alternatives to dhclient if that's not what I use. > > The second/third parts run after the network is up. He writes: > > "Now that the iptables_pre script will protect the system while the > network interfaces are being brought up, it is time to arrange for the > main script, rc.fwsoho ... to be invoked on bootup. While we could > invoke it the same way we invoked iptables_pre, instead we will use a > real rc.d-style script to invoke it. This rc.d-style script is based on > Red Hat 7.3 iptables startup script but has been modified to generate a > message and error exit if IP Tables is not available." I am not trying to be smarter than Bob (I read his book too), but... Why would one burden the system with stuff that's only needed when a network interface is up? Why not just use the pre-up and post-down directives for the chosen interface? To me that seems to be a more natural place to put this stuff. I am not sure if it will be useful for what you're trying to accomplish, but I have described what I think is a good way to initialize the firewall at http://huizen.dto.tudelft.nl/devries/security/iptables_example.html Of course There's More Than One Way To Do It, so if it is not applicable to your situation just ignore my blathering }:-) > He instructs me to copy rc.fwsoho into /etc/rc.d, i I am afraid there is no /etc/rc.d in Debian GNU/Linux. > then put iptables > (script) into init.d and symlink it in (the update-rc.d step in > Debian). iptables is hard coded to call /etc/rc.d/rc.fwsoho on the > appropriate "start". ??? Does that mean your version of iptables has been compiled with such an instruction? Otherwise it is just a shell script with a series of instructions, this should include the usual "start|stop|restart" commands and the policy/ruleset to aply. > Ok. There is no /etc/rc.d in my Debian system. /etc/rcX.d has some > meaning beyond just being another place to gather files - it corresponds > to runlevel X, and gets swept automatically as the system passes through > that runlevel. What is the meaning and equivalent of /etc/rc.d? The > other directories referenced appear to exist. You should use /etc/init.d to place this type of thing in. After that you can make a symlink in the appropriate run-level directory /etc/rcx.d from where it will be called. Take a look in those directories and you'll see that's how all the other scripts in there are initialized. One thing though: under Debian GNU/Linux the differences between the run-levels are as not strictly defined as in RedHat. > To those who want to tell me why I shouldn't use his approach, I welcome > the comments, I'll learn from them. But please also tell me the answers > to the questions above, so I can get a context to put it all in. I hope that's what I did `;-) Grx HdV -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: nfs use-once-only? - SOLVED
On Tuesday 26 August 2003 08:21, Erik Rask wrote: > On Mon, 25 Aug 2003, Richard Lyons wrote: > > I was so thrilled to get nfs working (laptop to workstation) for the > > first time yesterday. But today I get > >mount: RPC: Unable to receive; errno = Connection refused > > every time. So I tried in the other direction. Set up /etc/export and > > /etc/hosts.allow and - easy - it connects. But only once. Unmount the > > share, and all subsequent attemps to mount are met with > >mount: RPC: Unable to receive; errno = Connection refused > > > > So I seem to have configured a one-time connection. Not quite what I > > intended. Any ideas? > > I had the same problem with the testing version. This is (was?) a bug in > > nfs-kernel-server/testing. Either go back to stable with: > > apt-get install --reinstall nfs-kernel-server/stable > > and then put it on hold with dselect and keep an eye out for when it is > fixed. Another option is to upgrade it to unstable (s/stable/unstable in > the command line above), I believe the bug is fixed there. Unstable did not work either (and gave me arun-around with dependencies first!). But stable is fine. All back in order now. Thanks. -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Re: Wicked screensaver (verification)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 11:51:06PM -0700, Rusty wrote: > Just this once, click the link below so I can receive your emails. > You won't have to do this again. TMDA considered harmful... - -- .''`. Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' : `. `'` proud Debian admin and user `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fix a system -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/SyuiUzgNqloQMwcRAtitAJ4gwoL2FKbpqexREuxOx4nyBmoA8wCg3z8c 6mZb9m+S1Enl43Wg7aoeCIY= =RPwW -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs
Hi all, Just compiled kernel 2.4.21 but cannot boot it despite creating the initrd image and respective links in / to files in /boot. The last 5 lines printed on screen before hang-up are printed below. RAMDISK: Couldn't find valid RAM disk image starting at 0. Freeing initrd memory: 2664k freed VFS: Cannot open root device "301" or 03:01 Please append a correct "root=" boot option Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:01 Passing root=/dev/hda1 to lilo at boot time did not bear fruit. Created initrd as follows: # mkinitrd -o /boot/initrd.img-2.4.21 /lib/modules/2.4.21 Added the following lines in lilo.conf before running lilo. . image=/vmlinuz-2.4.21 initrd=/initrd.img-2.4.21 label=2.4.21 root=/dev/hda1 read-only Grateful for any assistance in resolving this difficulty. -- Alphonse Ogulla Nairobi, Kenya -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
make-kpkg compiled kernel is too big
Compiled kernel 2.4.21 using make-kpkg but got the following error on running lilo:- Warning: Int 0x13 function 8 and function 0x48 return different head/sector geometries for BIOS drive 0x80 Added 2.4.18 * Added 2.4.21 Added 2.2.20 Fatal: Kernel /boot/vmlinux is too big compiled kernel as follows:- atlas:/usr/src/linux# make-kpkg --initrd clean kernel_image and also tried atlas:/usr/src/linux# make-kpkg clean binary Where could I be going wrong? -- Alphonse Ogulla Nairobi, Kenya -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Re: COBOL compiler
Alex writes: > I've, unfortunately, been forced into taking a COBOL class as a > requirement for getting my BS. (And that's just what it is, a load > of BS...) What's worse is that I can't seem to find any Free COBOL > tools. 'apt-cache search cobol' returns 3 hits, all of which are > documentation utilities. Any suggestions? Or am I going to be stuck > using school PC's loaded with Windows and more proprietary software > than you can shake a warez-kiddie at? Whilst looking for one I knew about in the early 90's I found this: http://www.thefreecountry.com/compilers/cobol.shtml and this has a debian package: http://tiny-cobol.sourceforge.net/snapshots.html hth, Elizabeth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Undo of mkfs - urgent
Hello, I've accidently used mkfs.ext3 on the wrong harddisk (used hdb3 instead of hda3). Is there any way to recover the files on this partition? There is no backup copy of this partition. If it is not possible to recover the files or filesystemstructure maybe it's possible to extract some files from the raw device. Except of running mkfs no data has been written to that disk. I had 5 zipped tar files (about 800MB each) on this partition. Maybe it's possible to recover at least these files. If tar files all start and end with the same sequence of bytes there should be a chance of finding them on the 20GB HDD. Does anyone no how to identify tarfiles in raw partition data? Any help is welcome Regards Manfred -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Re: Crashes during daily cron job
On Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 09:13:12PM -0600, James Roberge wrote: > > Hey everyone. I seem to be having a little problem on my debian system. It > seems that the system is crashing during the daily cron job. But, it DOES > NOT happen every day. > > Here is a snip from /var/log/syslog... note timestamps. > > Aug 12 06:23:01 lebeau /USR/SBIN/CRON[3163]: (mail) CMD ( if [ -x > /usr/sbin/exim -a -f /etc/exim/exim.conf ]; then /usr/sbin/exim -q ; fi) > Aug 12 06:25:01 lebeau /USR/SBIN/CRON[3167]: (root) CMD (test -e > /usr/sbin/anacron || run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily) > Aug 12 18:21:32 lebeau syslogd 1.4.1#10: restart. > Aug 12 18:21:32 lebeau kernel: klogd 1.4.1#10, log source = /proc/kmsg > started. > > I tried to locate which script that it was crashing on. So... i did a > > run-parts --verbose /etc/cron.daily > > The first time i ran it, it went ok but the second time i ran it, it got > as far as /etc/cron.daily/standard and then the host went down (locks right > up, even the console is totally FROZEN. > > here is a list of my /etc/cron.daily > > -rwxr-xr-x1 root root 502 Jul 4 16:13 calendar* > -rwxr-xr-x1 root root 669 Mar 4 17:05 exim* > -rwxr-xr-x1 root root 277 Jun 1 2001 find* > -rwxr-xr-x1 root root 51 Apr 23 17:19 logrotate* > -rwxr-xr-x1 root root 708 Mar 14 19:48 man-db* > -rwxr-xr-x1 root root 86 Sep 27 2001 modutils* > -rwxr-xr-x1 root root 495 Nov 18 2001 netkit-inetd* > -rwxr-xr-x1 root root 383 Mar 13 15:57 samba* > -rwxr-xr-x1 root root 2736 Oct 1 2001 standard* > -rwxr-xr-x1 root root 1197 Jan 3 2002 sysklogd* > > Now, i dont know if it was standard or sysklogd, i am logging in remotely > and it might have choked on sysklogd and crashed before it displayed it. > > I tried running standard and sysklogd by themselves, but it did not crash. > > Some more info that might help > > uname -a> Linux lebeau 2.4.19 #1 Mon Aug 5 00:28:12 CDT 2002 i586 unknown > > cat /etc/debian_version > 3.0 > > I am really at my wits end here, does anyone have any idea what is going on > here? > > James Roberge > I am having similar problems with my server. Did you find out at the end what was the problem? Hardware? Software? Thanks, Attilio Cucchieri -- Attilio Cucchieri ph: 55 16 2739769 x29 IFSC - Universidade de Sao Paulo FAX: 55 16 2739877 Caixa Postal 369 - CEP 13560-970 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sao Carlos SP (BRAZIL) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs
--- Alphonse Ogulla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > Just compiled kernel 2.4.21 but cannot boot it > despite creating the initrd > image and respective links in / to files in /boot. > The last 5 lines printed on screen before hang-up > are printed below. > > RAMDISK: Couldn't find valid RAM disk image starting > at 0. > Freeing initrd memory: 2664k freed > VFS: Cannot open root device "301" or 03:01 > Please append a correct "root=" boot option > Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:01 > > Passing root=/dev/hda1 to lilo at boot time did not > bear fruit. > Created initrd as follows: > # mkinitrd -o /boot/initrd.img-2.4.21 > /lib/modules/2.4.21 > > Added the following lines in lilo.conf before > running lilo. > . > image=/vmlinuz-2.4.21 initrd=/initrd.img-2.4.21 > label=2.4.21 > root=/dev/hda1 > read-only > > Grateful for any assistance in resolving this > difficulty. > > -- > Alphonse Ogulla > Nairobi, Kenya > Check that: - under "File systems", "Second extended fs support" has "y" - under "Block devices", "Normal PC floppy disk support" has "y" - under "ATA/IDE/MFM/RLL support", "IDE, ATA and ATAPI Block devices" has "y" - under submenu "IDE, ATA and ATAPI Block Devices", "Enhanced IDE/MFM/RLL disk/cdrom/tape/floppy support" and "Include IDE/ATA-2 DISK support" have "y" clicked. This helped me to solve similar problems - I hope it'll help you too Joris __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: other debian installer tactic?
It seems that a lot of people have troubles with the Debian installer. Once you know it well it can do what you want: tasksel is simple, dselect is powerful. Refuse to use them and you have a very minimal system that you can tune a lot. the minimal system thing and the opportunity to do what you want is what made me switch to debian. i hate em automatic installers that do things i don't know about. that's why i don't like SuSE and all that lot... for all em users that "don't want to know why their computer works" there should of course be another option than switching to Mac OS... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ssh tunneling
Op di 26-08-2003, om 02:24 schreef Colin Watson: > On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 02:01:05AM +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > That's a new plural of "virus" to me ... > > ["viri" and "virii" are both wrong. The first is made up by assuming > that "virus" is a Latin masculine second declension noun, which it's not > (it's neuter), and "viri" is actually the plural of "vir" and means > "men". The second is just utterly weird, though strangely popular, and > is constructed on top of a made-up second declension noun, "virius". > "vira" is probably better than anything else, because at least it's > neuter, but really seems more like the plural of "virum". Anyway, there > are no recorded instances of a Latin plural of "virus", because its > meaning back then was abstract and not something you could really > pluralize. The only English plural of the word is simply "viruses". > > This concludes today's pedantry.] > > Cheers, > > -- > Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Wow, i never thought i would get some Latin education on a Debian email list :) I always wondered about this, yet never found an answer up until now. How can one not love Debian and it's mailing list! Thanks Colin :) Benedict -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Re: COBOL compiler
On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 03:35, Alex Malinovich wrote: > I've, unfortunately, been forced into taking a COBOL class as a > requirement for getting my BS. (And that's just what it is, a load of > BS...) What's worse is that I can't seem to find any Free COBOL tools. > 'apt-cache search cobol' returns 3 hits, all of which are documentation > utilities. Any suggestions? Or am I going to be stuck using school PC's > loaded with Windows and more proprietary software than you can shake a > warez-kiddie at? Too bad you have such a negative view of COBOL. In the hands of someone with a brain, it's quite a powerful and modular language. http://www.thekompany.com/products/kobol/ http://www.thekompany.com/products/kobol/demo.php3 -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA When Swedes start committing terrorism, I'll become suspicious of Scandanavians. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: other debian installer tactic?
On Tuesday 26 Aug 2003 12:55 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >It seems that a lot of people have troubles with the Debian installer. > >Once you know it well it can do what you want: tasksel is simple, > >dselect is powerful. Refuse to use them and you have a very minimal > >system that you can tune a lot. > > the minimal system thing and the opportunity to do what you want is what > made me switch to debian. i hate em automatic installers that do things i > don't know about. that's why i don't like SuSE and all that lot... > for all em users that "don't want to know why their computer works" there > should of course be another option than switching to Mac OS... I find that with debian you only have to do one install and then apt-get upgrade keeps you up to date. with SuSE and Red Hat you have to install the next version to get latest software. This is why I moved to debian. I find tasksel too clumsy to use and if I was installing again I would just install a minimal system. synaptic is easier to use than dselect so if you run X all the time you should use it. pete -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Prevent X Windows Starting up
Hi, I have an install of the unstable distribution with a 2.4 Kernel. When I boot up, my keyboard and mouse become disabled as soon as the log in manager displays. Can you tell me how to stop x-windows from starting during the boot process so that I can try and find the cause of the issue. I cannot disable x windows from the command line because I can never get in. If you have any clues as to what might be causing my keyboard to disable in the first place, I would be very grateful to hear them. Many Thanks Sarah -- Sarah Forbes Web Programmer Highbury House Communications PLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01322 660070 ext: 2535 Privileged/Confidential Information may be contained in this message. It may not be disclosed to or used by anyone other than the addressee, nor may it be copied in any way. If you are not the addressee indicated in the message, (or responsible for delivery of the message to such person), you may not copy or deliver this message to anyone. In such case, you should destroy this message and kindly notify the sender by reply email. Please advise immediately if you or your employer does not consent to internet emails of this kind. Opinions, conclusions and other information in this message that do not relate to the official business of this organisation shall be understood as neither given nor endorsed by it. We Believe, But do not warrant that this e-mail and any attachments, are virus free. You should take full responsibility for virus checking -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Looking for a simple SSL-CA package
Tarjei Huse wrote: Hi, I'd like to thank all who contributed. If you don't want to run your own certificate authority or pay a commercial one to sign your key, and you don't have a lot of certificates to deal with, you can have each key simply be self-signed, which I believe is what's being recommended here. Actually, there are a number of reasons why I want to run a more fully featured CA: -> I'd like to use certs for authenticating slave openldapservers. -> I want to use the certs to let laptopusers send mail through my mailservers. -> I want to have a system to let pops and imaps users install the certificates on their machines through a simple webinterface. -> It has to be operated w/o a gui. I think I'll end up with pyca (www.pyca.org) as it seems to have most of these features in place. The other possibilities are openca which is IMHO to complicated for my needs and tinyca (that many on this list suggested) that doesn't (please correct me if I'm wrong) give me the finished scripts for importing certs in outlook, IE, Mozilla and other programs. If there are other alternatives out there, please let me know. Again, I thank you for your contributions. Tarjei noah try CSP at http://devel.it.su.se/projects/CSP/ its what I tested. Seems to do what I need. Bill -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Prevent X Windows Starting up
On Tuesday 26 August 2003 14:58, Sarah Forbes wrote: > Hi, > > I have an install of the unstable distribution with a 2.4 Kernel. When I > boot up, my keyboard and mouse become disabled as soon as the log in > manager displays. > > Can you tell me how to stop x-windows from starting during the boot > process so that I can try and find the cause of the issue. I cannot > disable x windows from the command line because I can never get in. This sort of thing is one of the reasons I always use a text login. IIRC, what I did to prevent X starting was the brute-force method of unlinking all the kdm, gdm, xdm links in /etc/rc2.d. That should do it, if no more elegant approach is suggested. > > If you have any clues as to what might be causing my keyboard to disable > in the first place, I would be very grateful to hear them. That'll need someone more expert than me... HTH -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Prevent X Windows Starting up
Sarah Forbes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have an install of the unstable distribution with a 2.4 Kernel. When I > boot up, my keyboard and mouse become disabled as soon as the log in > manager displays. > > Can you tell me how to stop x-windows from starting during the boot > process so that I can try and find the cause of the issue. I cannot > disable x windows from the command line because I can never get in. > > If you have any clues as to what might be causing my keyboard to disable > in the first place, I would be very grateful to hear them. You could boot the kernel in single user mode which should cause the display manager not to be started and then disable or remove its init.d script. Or if you have an OpenSSH server running on the box you could login that way from another machine and shut down the display manager. --Chris pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: SMTP over SSH
> Alex Malinovich wrote: > > I have my laptop set up to work fine with my home mail server from just > > about anywhere. The only problem is that I have a couple of classes that > > I use my laptop for which block certain ports for the network. One of > > those ports is 25. So I'm able to read my mail just fine over IMAP, I > > just can't send any outgoing mail. I need some way to get around this. > > [...snip...] You might try SMTP over SSL (port 465) if your MTA supports it and the firewall(s) permit it. Then you might also use client certificates for relatively seamless and strong authentication. ...mjb -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: COBOL compiler
On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 08:52, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 03:35, Alex Malinovich wrote: > > I've, unfortunately, been forced into taking a COBOL class as a > > requirement for getting my BS. (And that's just what it is, a load of > > BS...) What's worse is that I can't seem to find any Free COBOL tools. [snip] > Too bad you have such a negative view of COBOL. In the hands of > someone with a brain, it's quite a powerful and modular language. That's a bit harsh, Ron. He said he was forced into taking the class, not that COBOL sucked. And even if he had, no need to get your hackles up. -Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Undo of mkfs - urgent
Manfred Heubach wrote: Hello, I've accidently used mkfs.ext3 on the wrong harddisk (used hdb3 instead of hda3). Is there any way to recover the files on this partition? There is no backup copy of this partition. If it is not possible to recover the files or filesystemstructure maybe it's possible to extract some files from the raw device. Except of running mkfs no data has been written to that disk. I had 5 zipped tar files (about 800MB each) on this partition. Maybe it's possible to recover at least these files. If tar files all start and end with the same sequence of bytes there should be a chance of finding them on the 20GB HDD. Does anyone no how to identify tarfiles in raw partition data? I would keep looking for a better solution than what I mention below, but if all else fails... If nothing has been written to that disk since, you may be able to recover some of the files. I can recommend two methods. If there are specific types of files you want, you can use "foremost" (see http://www.samag.com/documents/s=8859/sam0309a/sam0309a.htm). It allows you to specify a unique header and footer for a file type (e.g. ffd8 and ffd9 for jpeg). It will then comb through your partition saving evertyhing between the headers and footers it finds. It worked nearly perfectly for me to recover some digital photos. I was able to cover 149 of 150. The 150th was recovered, but had a black band near the bottom. I suspect that some data was written over it. It is also surprisingly fast. The other tool, which is more popular but I had less success with, is the Coroner's Toolkit (TCT). It is available as a deb (i.e. apt-get install tct). You can use "unrm" to extract all allocated blocks to another partition. Then you can use lazarus to go through all that output and try to identify and save files. You need a lot of space for this. I couldn't use unrm because it wouldn't read my version of reiserfs, but you can also use dd to pull the data. The disadvantage is that dd pulls all blocks - both allocated and unallocated. That takes even more space. Good luck! -- Brian J. Stults Assistant Professor Center for Studies in Criminology and Law University of Florida phone: (352) 392-1025 x207fax: (352) 392-5065 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: COBOL compiler
At 2003-08-26T12:52:33Z, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Too bad you have such a negative view of COBOL. In the hands of someone > with a brain, it's quite a powerful and modular language. All Turing-complete languages are equally powerful. That doesn't mean that any given one would fill me with a desire to start hacking around with it. You know, I'd never seen Cobol before the screenshots on your link. Those just confirmed everything I've heard about it. :) -- Kirk Strauser pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
