Re: Securing Debian

[Johann Spies]

On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 05:31:44PM +, Geoff Thurman wrote:
> There are a lot of links here:
> 
> http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?s=&threadid=45261
> 
> There was a good piece about security on the same site roughly a 
> fortnight ago, but I can't find it now. I might post again if I track 
> it down.

May it was snatched by a cracker?  ;)

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Re: Going to give it another shot-need more help

[Mark Healey]

After not getting any instructions on how to compile a module that
didn't come with the source into a kernel I gave up and decided to
just do the nic module as installable.

Since I had the source for the new kernel I went ahead and compiled it
by Kents 10 step list.  I left the things I didn't understand at their
default value.

It booted and seems to run as before.

I then made the nic module and make installed it.

Appearantly there is no autodetect feature so I need to know what I
lines to add to what files to get my networking up.

It is a DSL connection with a static IP address.


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Re: kernel-source-2.6.0-test9 & linux-wlan-ng Problem

[Sam Bashton]

On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 01:53:05AM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote:
> I compiled a new kernel from kernel-source-2.6.0-test9 and, after 
> installing module-init-tools, most of my modules are loaded and working 
> except for my pci wireless networking card.  This has always been 
> something of a problem even with the 2.4.xx kernels.  apt-get install 
> linux-wlan-ng reports the latest version is already installed but newly 
> compiled kernels cannot install  the Netgear MA311 PCI Adapter.  I have 
> a copy of  linux-wlan-ng-0.1.16-pre16  which successfully installs the 
> adapter in for the 2.4.xx kernels but it aborts the make all command now 
> that I have compiled the 2.6.0-test9 kernel.
> 
> Any suggestions?

Upgrade - I'm currently running linux-wlan-ng-0.2.1-pre14 under 2.6.0-test8
without any problems, and have been for some 24 days or so.  I believe work on
2.5/2.6 kernels didn't really start in earnest in the wlan-ng project until
sometime after 0.1.16.

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Re: Going to give it another shot-need more help

[Jonathan Dowland]

On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 10:45:09PM -0800, Mark Healey wrote:
 
> I recieved many suggestions to remedy the problem, non of them easy.
> 
> I've decided to try to recompile the latest kernel.  I figure that it
> would be nice to have the latest kernel with support for only the
> hardware I have (or think I might add in the future) and none for what
> I won't ever have.  But, this is hacker level stuff I've never done,
> so I'm going to need a whole-lotta help.

What is currently on the machine you wish to convert to debian? I'd
advise against compiling a new kernel at this stage, but I don't know
which suggestions you have deemed hard.

It all depends on the specifics involved but I would recommend somehow
getting a .o kernel module for your NIC into the debian install process.
This can be done by putting it on a hard drive and mounting it, a floppy
disk or another cd-rom.

Obtaining the .o depends entirely on the drivers in question - you may
need some kernel-sources corresponding to the kernel version on the
debian cd (3.0 has the boot-floppies-2.4 kernel or something) and then
build the module with it, or the vendor might distribute x86 binaries
already.

Can you tell us more about the model of the NIC and the drivers that are
supplied?

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Re: window manager recomendation

[Jonathan Dowland]

On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 03:51:10AM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Hoping this won't turn into a flame war, I am looking for
> recommendations for a window manager. I tried quiet a few but none seem
> to fit the bill yet.
> I need a window manager with the following
> - As lite as possible on memory (I heavily stress my laptop so I don't
> have much to spare).
> - Multiple desktops
> - A pop up menu application (don't need a panel) that has support for
> both the debian menus and a custom menu.
> - Hotkeys (mainly for maximize/minimize/desktop switch)
> - multiple desktops

PWM, or ION (pwm, ion, ion-devel packages)

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Re: a2ps and page size -- driving me nuts!

[Anthony Campbell]

On 12 Nov 2003, Paul E Condon wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 06:18:29PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote:
> > Help!
> >
> > I am trying to use a2ps to print 2 pages onto one. Very simple:
> >
> >   a2ps -2 file.ps
> >
> > The paper is A4, libpaper is configured for A4, --medium=libpaper
> > is set, but the following problem prevails even if I set
> > --medium=a4. A4 is described as "Medium: A4  595 842",
> > basically it's all out of the box Debian without any changes.
> >
> > When I print file.ps as I said above, it comes out unacceptably. The
> > odd pages (left part of the output page) are perfect, but the right
> > part (the even pages) are cut off. The width of the left page is
> > about 143mm, the right page is only 126mm. I am printing the
> > borders, and these widths are the spacings between the borders. So,
> > with ASCII art, it looks like this:
> >
> >   <--143mm><126mm-->
> >   | text text text text text text || text text text text te|
> >   | text text text text text text || text text text text te|
> >   | text text text text text text || text text text text te|
> >   | text text text text text text || text text text text te|
> >
> > It does seem like the printer (LJ 2200dn) has an exceptionally huge
> > top margin, but should that really affect the borders in this way?
> > I also tried to increase the LLY (top) border of the medium (c.f.
> > A4dj) from 24 to 50, but that changed nothing in the output.
> >
> > I am confused. How can I print the two subpages qith equal width, so
> > that they fill the printable area on the sheet?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> 
> I also have this problem with a2ps, but with a HP LaserJet 5MP. I
> switched from lprng to cups thinking that might help, but there
> was no change; the problem persisted. Also, I am using US letter.
> I didn't report it or ask for help, because I had a higher priority
> problem at the time, and anyway discovered that a2ps did not really
> address the problem that I had at the time. But I did see the problem,
> so you are not unique.
> 

I had something similar, which I fixed by fiddling with my a2psrc file.
Specifically, I did the following:

#
# 1)Definition of some media#
# (Must be defined before --medium) #
#
# Medium: name, width height [llx lly urx ury]
Medium: A3   8421190
# Medium: A4 595 842
Medium: A4   595 828


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problem in screen resolution at 1024*768

[Rafael Quintanilla]

(Texto en castellano más abajo)

Hi members of the list,

I recently installed debian from a Knoppix 3.3
catalan. The problem is that I want to have a 1024*768
resolution (BTW my monitor is a 15" SyncMaster 551S,
samsung, with a recommeded refresh vertical rate of 85
Hz). I obtain only a 800x600 resolution (see attached
file XF86Config-4_old.txt). To solve the problem, and
as I am not used to modifying this file by hand (I am
mostly a Mandrake user, but would like to become a
Debianer as I see this distribution as more long-term
stable) I had the following idea: I booted my system
with the knoppix CD and the following options:

knoppix screen=1024x768 vsync=85

This results in the screen resolution I wanted,
together with the vertical refresh rate recommended.
I copied the new file (see attached file
XF86Config-4_new.txt) to my installed knoppix system,
but I still get the 800x600 resolution.

Can anyone help me? I cannot see why the resolution is
still 800x600. Should I delete all the references to
the other resolutions? 

TIA

Rafa Quintanilla
Valencia, Spain

==
(Texto en castellano)

Hola, colisteros,

Hace poco me instalé una Debian partiendo del CD de
Knoppix 3.3 en catalán, que es el locale que uso
habitualmente. El problema es que quiero una
resolución de 1024*768 (por cierto, mi monitor es un
SyncMaster 551S, Samsung de 15 pulgadas, con una
frecuencia vertical recomendada de 85 Hz). Sólo me
sale, después de la instalación una resolución de
800x600 (ver fichero adjunto XF86Config-4_old.txt).
Para resolver el problema, y como no estoy
acostumbrado a modificar este fichero a mano (soy
usuario de Mandrake pero me gustaría pasarme a Debian
porque la considero msa duradera y estable)se me
ocurrió lo siguiente: arranqué el sistema con el CD de
Knoppix (sin instalar) y las siguientes opciones:

knoppix screen=1024x768 vsync=85

Con esto me sale la resolución y refresco de pantalla
que quería.
Sustituí el antiguo fichero de la instalación por el
nuevo que estaba en /ramdisk/etc/X11 (es el adjunto
XF86Config-4_new.txt) y reinicié, pero aún mesale una
resolución de 800x600.

¿Puede ayudarme alguien a conseguir la resolución de
1024x768? Tendría que borrar todas las referencias a
las otras resoluciones en el fichero?

Gracias por adelantado

Rafa Quintanilla
Valencia, España

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Identifier "XFree86 Configured"
Screen  0  "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice"Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice"PS/2 Mouse" "CorePointer"
# Serial Mouse not detected
# USB Mouse not detected
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
Option "AllowMouseOpenFail"  "true"

EndSection

Section "Files"
RgbPath  "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
ModulePath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/PEX"
# Additional fonts: Locale, Gimp, TTF...
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic"
#   FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/75dpi"
#   FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/100dpi"
# True type and type1 fonts are also handled via xftlib, see /etc/X11/XftConfig!
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/ttf/western"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/ttf/decoratives"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/truetype"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/truetype/openoffice"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-bitstream-vera"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/latex-ttf-fonts"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/defoma/CID"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/defoma/TrueType"
EndSection

Section "Module"
Load  "ddc"  # ddc probing of monitor
Load  "GLcore"
Load  "dbe"
Load  "dri"
Load  "extmod"
Load  "glx"
Load  "bitmap" # bitmap-fonts
Load  "speedo"
Load  "type1"
Load  "freetype"
Load  "record"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier  "Keyboard0"
Driver  "keyboard"
Option  "CoreKeyboard"
Option "XkbRules" "xfree86"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "es"

EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier  "Serial Mouse"
Driver  "mouse"
Option  "Protocol" "Microsoft"
Option  "Device" "/dev/ttyS0"
   

Re: window manager recomendation

[Jonathan Dowland]

On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 06:08:32PM -0400, eCLe wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 21:51, Micha Feigin wrote:
> > I need a window manager with the following
> > - As lite as possible on memory (I heavily stress my laptop so I don't
> > have much to spare).
 
> WindowMaker http://www.windowmaker.org  taste it

Certainly doesn't satisfy that criteria :-)

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Re: how to change beep noise

[Jean-Marc V. Liotier]

On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 23:08, Daniel Edmund Davison wrote:
> Hi, I've just installed debian woody on a HPze1230 laptop. The beep noise
> it is making on ambiguous file-completions, new mail, etc is very
> loud. The keyboard volume-changing and muting keys are not recognised. Is
> there an alteration I can make within debian to change/disable this noise?

Disabling the beep noise :
'xset b 0 100 10'



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Re: Going to give it another shot-need more help

[Mark Healey]

On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 08:31:35 +, Jonathan Dowland wrote:

>On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 10:45:09PM -0800, Mark Healey wrote:
>
>> I recieved many suggestions to remedy the problem, non of them easy.
>>
>> I've decided to try to recompile the latest kernel.  I figure that it
>> would be nice to have the latest kernel with support for only the
>> hardware I have (or think I might add in the future) and none for what
>> I won't ever have.  But, this is hacker level stuff I've never done,
>> so I'm going to need a whole-lotta help.
>
>What is currently on the machine you wish to convert to debian?

It's blank.

I'd
>advise against compiling a new kernel at this stage, but I don't know
>which suggestions you have deemed hard.

Here's the story.  I installed with disk 1 and my onboard Broadcom
4401 nic isn't supported.  I asked on this list for help and was told
by numerous people that later kernels supported it and that I should
get the latest and compile it.

I thought that this was excessively geeky since I had managed to
install support for this card as a module under Redhat.  But I figured
that I might learn something.

Anyway this has been a huge pain in the ass
since the machine has no networking and consequently no apt-get (which
I've been led to believe is a package retreiver).  After burning a
bunch of CD's I finally got all the requirements installed and
installed and compiled 2.4.22.

I then made and make installed the module.  Now I need to know what
lines I have to add to what files to get the module working.

>It all depends on the specifics involved but I would recommend somehow
>getting a .o kernel module for your NIC into the debian install process.

This is what I wanted to know in the first place.  It isn't covered
in the install manual.

>This can be done by putting it on a hard drive and mounting it, a floppy
>disk or another cd-rom.

I was never asked during the install process if I had any modules on
other media to add.

>Obtaining the .o depends entirely on the drivers in question - you may
>need some kernel-sources corresponding to the kernel version on the
>debian cd (3.0 has the boot-floppies-2.4 kernel or something) and then
>build the module with it, or the vendor might distribute x86 binaries
>already.
>Can you tell us more about the model of the NIC and the drivers that
are
>supplied?

Broadcom 4401, it is only distributed as source or a Redhat RPM.




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Woody Soundblaster Config Trouble

[max von seibold]

Hi

After installing Woody on my desktop can anyone advise on the correct setup 
for a Soundblaster card.

At the moment I am getting these errors when KDE starts:-

Error while initializing the sound driver:
device /dev/dsp can't be opened (No such device)
The sound server will continue, using the null output device.
modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-slot-0
modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-service-0-3
Is this something which would be better and more simpler resolved by 
installing ALSA ?

Thanks :)

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LAN setup

[Japox]

I have just recently bought a DELL inspiron 500m 
which has a wireless card built in... how do i get two of the same type 
notebooks to get wireless LAN...
 
 
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Re: window manager recomendation

[David Palmer.]

On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 08:34:19 +
Jonathan Dowland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 03:51:10AM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > Hoping this won't turn into a flame war, I am looking for
> > recommendations for a window manager. I tried quiet a few but none
> > seem to fit the bill yet.
> > I need a window manager with the following
> > - As lite as possible on memory (I heavily stress my laptop so I
> > don't have much to spare).
> > - Multiple desktops
> > - A pop up menu application (don't need a panel) that has support
> > for both the debian menus and a custom menu.
> > - Hotkeys (mainly for maximize/minimize/desktop switch)
> > - multiple desktops
> 
> PWM, or ION (pwm, ion, ion-devel packages)
> 
As I suggested before, Icewm.
Apt-get update
Apt-get install icewm-themes iceme icepref

Will give you so much configurability with next to no drive space taken
up.
That's if you need the fastest leanest window manager around.
Windowmaker is good too.
If you want a desktop environment instead, XFce3 or XFce4, but they're
heavier on resources.
Regards,

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Re: a2ps and page size -- driving me nuts!

[martin f krafft]

also sprach Marc Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.11.13.0439 +0100]:
> Unstable's current a2ps is (a) broken wrt paper sizes, (b) is currently
> without libpaper support.  You need to downgrade to the non-CVS-in-the-name
> version, that being:

I am already running just 4.13b-16.

> Well, not -20.2, as I built that locally to avoid #202673.  The prior
> version is actually -20.1...

Unfortunately, I cannot find -20.1 in the archives

diamond:~> sudo apt-cache policy a2ps [300]
a2ps:
  Installed: 4.13b-16
  Candidate: 4.13b-16
  Version Table:
 4.13b+cvs.2003.09.20-1 0
600 http://sunsite.cnlab-switch.ch testing/main Packages
 98 http://sunsite.cnlab-switch.ch unstable/main Packages
600 http://ftp2.de.debian.org testing/main Packages
 98 http://ftp2.de.debian.org unstable/main Packages
 *** 4.13b-16 0
700 http://sunsite.cnlab-switch.ch stable/main Packages
700 http://ftp2.de.debian.org stable/main Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

> It's all in the BTS.

I looked, really. You mean #190593?

One thing to note is that a PS file generated from a2ps looks
alright... I am thus a little confused as to where the source of the
problem lies...

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Re: update-rc.d

[Miquel van Smoorenburg]

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Miguel Alvarez Blanco  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>As I said in the first message, I do not know how to keep a package 
>installed in the system and yet be able to de-activate its startup 
>scripts, sort of like leaving it unconfigured.

# cd /etc/init.d
# mv script script.OFF

This will work. For the packaging system (dpkg) it looks like
you removed the "script" file, and it will treat that as a
"local modification". Since all files in /etc/init.d are
marked as "conffiles", an update will not install a new file there
since it would overwrite the "local modifications".

And even though the symlinks are still there in /etc/rc?.d,
the boot script will just ignore them. No weird error messages.

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Re: Woody Soundblaster Config Trouble

[Andreas Janssen]

Hello

max von seibold (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote:

> After installing Woody on my desktop can anyone advise on the correct
> setup for a Soundblaster card.
> 
> At the moment I am getting these errors when KDE starts:-
> 
> Error while initializing the sound driver:
> device /dev/dsp can't be opened (No such device)
> 
> The sound server will continue, using the null output device.
> modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-slot-0
> modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-service-0-3
> 
> Is this something which would be better and more simpler resolved by
> installing ALSA ?

Looks like you don't have any driver loaded for your card. Which one you
need depends on the model of your card. SB Live! Cards use the emu10k1
module, and I think some older SB PCI cards use the es1371 module.
There is also a sb module which is for original SB cards. Try to load
the driver with modprobe. Also make sure you are member of the audio
group, otherwise the next error you will get is "permission denied". If
you want to load the driver automatically, add a line like this to
/etc/modutils/aliases (or create some new file in /etc/modutils):

alias sound-slot-0 emu10k1 (if this is the right driver)

and run update-modules

or add the driver to /etc/modules, manually or by using modconf.

best regards
Andreas Janssen

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Re: Night mare to set day light savings time

[Geoff Thurman]

On Wednesday 12 November 2003 10:26 pm, Geoff Thurman wrote:
> On Wednesday 12 November 2003 9:30 pm, Jigga Man wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am pretty much a new user to debian linux and i have
> > a problem setting the correct time on my system. My
> > hardware clock is set to GMT and when i installed
> > debian i chose the time zone correctly. only thing  is
> > that we follow daylight savings time and now my clock
> > ( which shows up on the panel) is off by an hour. I
> > trired to look up help and found that i had an option
> > of using ntpdate which would query some server using
> > the internet and set the time. The problem is that
> > this PC is not allowed to go to the internet. and from
> > what i understand there is no way that debian has the
> > functionlity to incorporate daylight savings time ??
> >
> > Its seems like a night mare to be for the simple
> > reason that windows has this capability built into it
> > and debian being far better than windows lacks such a
> > basic thing?? are there any apps are written to over
> > come this ?
> >
> > desperately looking for an answer
> >
> > TIA
> >
> > Jigga
> >
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> There is certainly a way to do this, because I did it a week or two
> ago. Sadly my mind has already let the process go. I think it might
> be a case of running tzsetup, with root permissions, saying you want
> to change the settings even if they already say London, and then look
> out for the daylight saving time setting. If this doesn't do it, try
> tzselect and follow a similar plan. It's there somewhere, honest.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Geoff

I see from the other replies that it should be tzconfig. My apologies. I 
tried 'apropos timezone' to jog my memory and that one didn't come up. 
My bad.

Geoff 


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problem with turning on the DMA (was: better than nice -d 19)

[Shot]

Hello.

Florian Ernst:

> hdparm -d doesn't toggle DMA, you have to set it explicitly, ie.
> hdparm -d1 /dev/hda

Sorry for jumping in mid-thread. I'm new to Debian and I wasn't aware
that the DMA isn't turned on by default. However, when I try to set it
up, I get



[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo hdparm -d1 /dev/hda
/dev/hda:
 setting using_dma to 1 (on)
 HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted
 using_dma=  0 (off)



Does it mean I have to upgrade the kernel (I'd rather wait with this
until 2.6)? The system is a testing/unstable mix installed from the
Woody mini-ISO. Some more info:



[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8366/A/7 [Apollo KT266/A/333]
[...]
00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233A ISA Bridge
00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. 
VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT8233/A/C/VT8235 PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo hdparm -I /dev/hda
/dev/hda:
ATA device, with non-removable media
Model Number:   ST3120026A
[...]
Capabilities:
[...]
DMA: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 *udma5
 Cycle time: min=120ns recommended=120ns

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ uname -rv
2.4.18-bf2.4 #1 Son Apr 14 09:53:28 CEST 2002

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ grep -i dma /boot/config-2.4.18-bf2.4
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA_PCI=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_ADMA=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA=y
CONFIG_SCSI_EATA_DMA=m
CONFIG_SCSI_SYM53C8XX_DMA_ADDRESSING_MODE=1



Is there anything else I should know about tuning the hard disks on
a somewhat novice level? If there's any more info I can provide I'd
gladly do so, I'm just not sure where to find it in Debian yet.

Cheers,
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Re: Going to give it another shot-need more help

[John Peter]

Mark Healey wrote:

On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 08:31:35 +, Jonathan Dowland wrote:

 

On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 10:45:09PM -0800, Mark Healey wrote:

   

I recieved many suggestions to remedy the problem, non of them easy.

I've decided to try to recompile the latest kernel.  I figure that it
would be nice to have the latest kernel with support for only the
hardware I have (or think I might add in the future) and none for what
I won't ever have.  But, this is hacker level stuff I've never done,
so I'm going to need a whole-lotta help.
 

What is currently on the machine you wish to convert to debian?
   

It's blank.

I'd
 

advise against compiling a new kernel at this stage, but I don't know
which suggestions you have deemed hard.
   

Here's the story.  I installed with disk 1 and my onboard Broadcom
4401 nic isn't supported.  I asked on this list for help and was told
by numerous people that later kernels supported it and that I should
get the latest and compile it.
I thought that this was excessively geeky since I had managed to
install support for this card as a module under Redhat.  But I figured
that I might learn something.
Anyway this has been a huge pain in the ass
since the machine has no networking and consequently no apt-get (which
I've been led to believe is a package retreiver).  After burning a
bunch of CD's I finally got all the requirements installed and
installed and compiled 2.4.22.
I then made and make installed the module.  Now I need to know what
lines I have to add to what files to get the module working.
 

Well, now it's easy - just edit /etc/modules and add the name of the 
compiled
module.
It will be loaded at boot from then on.

Cheers

John

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migration to utf-8?

[Bruno Boettcher]

Hello!

on a new install i tryed to conform to modern times and set the kbd to
utf-8 encoding.

and now its getting near hell on earth :D

so is there some migration odcu out there? cause i have some questions:

there doesn't seem some general switch (as e.g. with the papersize) with
which i can switch over the whole system to use utf-8?

kbdconfig allows to generally set the kbd type, but as it seems not the
encoding (isolatin or utf-8)

and uhm, i somehow am unableto find this in the docu, how do i get
postgres to eat a dump produced on another machine not using utf?

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Re: wireless configuration questions

[Gilberto Villani Brito]

Read this site:
http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Orinoco.html

And I recomend you to use wavelan2_cs driver.



Em Wed, 12 Nov 2003 11:29:02 -0700
Tim Folger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escreveu:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm a linux newbie, and have just installed debian woody with the 2.4.18 
> kernel on a fujitsu laptop. I've installed wireless tools and pcmcia 
> support.  I have an orinoco gold card that I'm trying to configure, and 
> think I"m almost there. I've entered my network essid, encryption key, 
> wireless rate, and wireless mode parameters in 
> /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts, and have entered the following  to the  
> /etc/network/interfaces file: iface eth1 inet dhcp. Do I need to add 
> anything else to the interfaces file? Or will the wireless.opts file 
> handle everything? (Or do those two files conflict with one another, and 
> I should only be editing one of them?) The problem I'm having is that 
> when I activate the configuration using korinoco, the card lights up, 
> and iwconfig eth1 gives the correct network values, but I can't connect 
> to the internet. (And KDE runs very slowly, and takes a long time to 
> load when I use korinoco.) Are there some other parameters or commands I 
> need to enable internet access for my wireless network?
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Tim
> 
> 
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Swen on the come back trail.

[David Palmer.]

Is it my imagination, or is it really happening?
Seem to be new headers involved, too.
The rumoured new one should be easy to deal with,
headers are obvious, called mimail with an attachment.
Regards,

David.


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Re: looking for Knotes type application

[Richard Kimber]

On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 18:42:20 -0700
Wesley J Landaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> > I find Knotes a very useful app, but it seems to use rather a lot of
> > memory for what it does (in terms of how I use it - mostly as a
> > storage space for copying and pasting between apps).  If I've
> > understood top correctly it takes about 30MB, about 5 times more than
> > Bluefish.
> >
> > Is there a similar stand-alone application, preferably gtk-based,

> xfce4-notes-plugin (only works in xfce, apparently, I haven't tried it)
> xpostit (claims to do what you want, haven't tried it)
> xpostitplus (like xpostit, with some extras like resizing)

Thanks.  It certainly scores on the criterion of memory consumption.
However, I would prefer a gtk app because it's appearance is more
configurable.  I'm not sure I can live with the canary yellow, which seems
to be a fixed feature od xpostitplus.  The man page regards it as having
aesthetic value :).  Chacun 

- Richard.


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Patching Debian Kernel Source

[Patrick Beard]

Hi,

I have compiled the Kernel-source-2.6.0-test9 from testing. All is working
well with the exception of my smartmedia. This is giving me a 'wrong fs
type' 99 time out of 100 mounts. From what I've managed to find out 2.6 does
FAT checking that 2.4 (my previous kernel) didn't. There appears to be a fix
in the latest patch (2.6.0-test9-bk17) on kernel.org. Can I apply this patch
to the source, or will that screw up the 'Debianization' of the source. My
other thought was to manually apply the changes to /fs/fat/inode.c, but I'm
not sure if that's a good idea.

Any thoughts on this would be appreciated.

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exim4 - rejecting .com,.bat,.exe,.pif extensions

[BruceG]

Hey all,

  I had decided not to mess with my e-mail server, but not messing is a
short-term thing ;-)I know exim4 has the ability to reject messages
based on the extension of file names in mime attachments. I haven't found
the file to change that in yet (the configuration is broken up into several
smaller files in different directories).

  Anyone have a pointer to what file/directory I need to hit to start
rejecting attachments that contain Windows executables?

Thanks, Bruce


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Escape sequences displaying in man pages

[Curt Daugaard]

Hi,

I'm running unstable and use the most package as pager for man pages.  
After an upgrade the color output broke and I see instead the raw escape 
sequences.  Running update-alternatives, I noticed the pager was changed 
to less.  I set it back to most, but that didn't help.

Any help appreciated.

Thanks.

Curt

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Re: problem with turning on the DMA (was: better than nice -d 19)

[Florian Ernst]

Hello 'Shot'!

On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 12:17:07PM +0100, Shot wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo hdparm -d1 /dev/hda
/dev/hda:
setting using_dma to 1 (on)
HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted
using_dma=  0 (off)
[... snip ...]
00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. 
VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT8233/A/C/VT8235 PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
I'd say it seems you have to load the driver for your chipset first,
but apparently this driver is built in your kernel:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ grep -i via82cxxx /boot/config-2.4.18-bf2.4
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_VIA82CXXX=y
CONFIG_SOUND_VIA82CXXX=m
(I started just like you going from a Woody install to
testing/unstable)
The 2.4.18 driver is supposed to work for
VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT8233, while the 2.4.19 add support for
VT8233/A/C and 2.4.20 and above know about VT8235, so it looks like
you have to upgrade at least to 2.4.19, depending on what you _really_
have.
Try installing one of the kernel-image-2.4.22-* where this driver is
included as a module or try to roll your own.
Cheers,
Flo


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Description: PGP signature

Re: exim4 - rejecting .com,.bat,.exe,.pif extensions

[Tom]

On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 07:13:54AM -0500, BruceG wrote:
> Hey all,
> 
>   I had decided not to mess with my e-mail server, but not messing is a
> short-term thing ;-)I know exim4 has the ability to reject messages
> based on the extension of file names in mime attachments. I haven't found
> the file to change that in yet (the configuration is broken up into several
> smaller files in different directories).
> 
>   Anyone have a pointer to what file/directory I need to hit to start
> rejecting attachments that contain Windows executables?

Don't forget .cmd, .scr, .vbs, .js, .wsh, .wsf, plus a few other exotic 
things.  You know, I used to talk with my friends at Microsoft, it is 
*amazing* how butt-simple most of the virii have been.  People don't 
think nearly as evil as I seem to be capable of.  You should be happy 
about that :-)


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[Fwd: Re: scsi vs. cdrom_read]

[steef]

 Original Message 
Subject: Re: scsi vs. cdrom_read
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 13:07:18 +0100
From: steef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Organization: zeta
To: Jacob S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

thanks!

you are darned right. thanx again,

steef

Jacob S. wrote:
On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 19:37:36 +0100
steef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

...mmm. if you put 
a suggestion: (not too expensive i hope and without the trouble to
compile a new kernel): add another cdrom-player to your machine.
steef


No, it is still possible to read CDs from a CDRW drive that you've setup
using append="hdx=ide-scsi" in lilo.conf. If you have sr_mod.o compiled
into the kernel or as a loadable modules, your cdrom drive will show up
as /dev/srX or /dev/scdX (where X is the drive number the kernel sees
it as). 

If you have the modules compiled and loaded properly, you'll want to do
some playing around as root to find what device your kernel is
recognizing the drive as (ie. "mount /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom") and then
change your /etc/fstab file to reflect the new /dev location for the
cdrom device.
HTH,
Jacob
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Microsoft is the question.
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Re: exim4 - rejecting .com,.bat,.exe,.pif extensions

[Kjetil Kjernsmo]

On Thursday 13 November 2003 13:13, BruceG wrote:
> Hey all,
>
>   I had decided not to mess with my e-mail server, but not
> messing is a short-term thing ;-)I know exim4 has the ability to
> reject messages based on the extension of file names in mime
> attachments. I haven't found the file to change that in yet (the
> configuration is broken up into several smaller files in different
> directories).
>
>   Anyone have a pointer to what file/directory I need to hit to
> start rejecting attachments that contain Windows executables?

Yup, I snatched this from somewhere and put it in 
acl/40_exim4-config_check_data

# Unpack MIME containers and reject file extensions
# used by worms. Note that the extension list may be
# incomplete.
deny  message = $found_extension files not accepted (may contain MS 
virus)
  demime = com:exe:vbs:bat:pif:scr


Cheers,

Kjetil
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Re: Securing Debian

[Geoff Thurman]

On Thursday 13 November 2003 6:58 am, Johann Spies wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 05:31:44PM +, Geoff Thurman wrote:
> > There are a lot of links here:
> >
> > http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?s=&threadid=
> >45261
> >
> > There was a good piece about security on the same site roughly a
> > fortnight ago, but I can't find it now. I might post again if I
> > track it down.
>
> May it was snatched by a cracker?  ;)

Hmmn. Does that mean the link advising using a day of the week for root 
password might be suspect? :-)

Cheers,

Geoff


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Re: Installing modem.

[Hoyt Bailey]

- Original Message - 
From: "Kent West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "debian-user" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 21:30
Subject: Re: Installing modem.


> Hoyt Bailey wrote:
> > - Original Message - 
> > From: "oskar nl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
> >>Hoyt Bailey wrote:
> >>
> >>>I recieved my USR5610B and replaced the Intel winmodem.
>
>
> >>From U.S. Robotic Installation guide
>
> >>pag 4:
> >>Linux 2.3 and Higher Users NOTE: All 2.3 and higher Linux kernels
> >>contain the U.S. Robotics Linux modem drivers. Installation of the modem
> >>under this kernel is fully automatic provided your kernel has the Plug
> >>and Play module enabled (default).
> >>
> >>
> >>BTW wich kernel you use?:
> >>
>
> > The kernel is 2.4.18bf2.4. and I have to accept the fact that the modem
is
> > probably installed, but twice  it seems.
>
> I don't understand what you mean by this. It doesn't make sense. The
> modem, a physical device that is singular in nature, can only be
> installed once, on a single physical PCI slot.
>
Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with MANY_PORTS SHARE_IRQ
SERIAL_PCI enabled
Redundant entry in serial pci_table.  Please send the output of
lspci -vv, this message (12b9,1008,12b9,00d3)
and the manufacturer and name of serial board or modem board
to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ttyS04 at port 0xd000 (irq = 19) is a 16550A

I dont know how else to explain the "Redundant entry in serial pci_table".
Does anyone know where that is or how to remove it?  I do know that I
removed the only entry of ttsS4 that I know about.

>
> >  I just rm /dev/ttyS3 & ttyS4.
> > Then I confirmed that they both gone. Then form the /dev directory I ran
> > MAKEDEV -v update, this restored /dev/ttyS3.
>
> No harm done here; a good effort at troubleshooting.
>
>
>
> >  OK ttyS3 is where the modem
> > should be.  I had hope went and checked dmesg and there was ttyS0,
ttyS1,
> > ttyS2 and ttyS4.
>
> I believe I understand that you're saying that dmesg reports the
> existence of devices on /dev/ttyS0, /dev/ttyS1, and /dev/ttyS4.
>
> (In an earlier message I apparently mistyped that your modem is on
> /dev/ttyS3 -- but if I understand what you're saying above, it's on
> /dev/ttyS4 - probably - it's hard to say without the relevant portions
> of dmesg's output.)
>
>
> > Confirmed that /dev/ttyS4 does not exist. ?How do you
> > delete something that dosent exist?
>
> Why do you want to delete /dev/ttyS4? Perhaps to "start over", like you
> did above with the other four standard ports? If it's not there, don't
> worry about deleting it.
>
> Perhaps what you need to worry about is creating it.
>
> Try "ls -l /dev/ttyS*"; you should get something like this:
> crw-rw1 root dialout4,  64 May 12  2001 /dev/ttyS0
> crw-rw1 root dialout4,  65 May 12  2001 /dev/ttyS1
> crw-rw1 root dialout4,  66 May 12  2001 /dev/ttyS2
> crw-rw1 root dialout4,  67 May 12  2001 /dev/ttyS3
>
crw-rw1 root dialout4,  64 Oct 16 09:25 /dev/ttyS0
crw-rw1 root dialout4,  65 Oct 16 09:28 /dev/ttyS1
crw-rw1 root dialout4,  66 Mar 14  2002 /dev/ttyS2
crw-rw1 root dialout4,  67 Mar 14  2002 /dev/ttyS3
-Currently.-
> If not, you might want to do:
> MAKEDEV -v generic
> to create generic devices, including the four serial ports.
>
> So all you need to do is create a similar file for ttyS4. This command
> should do it:
> MAKEDEV -v ttyS4
>
Already tryed that it created /dev/ttyS4 but dosent change the message
(dmesg) in any way I noticed.  Also will not respond to echo "ATDT
> /dev/ttyS4 which it should. more specifically the screen does this:
Blackgold: / # echo "ATDT3633070" > /dev/ttyS4
Blackgold: / #
Also there is no sound from the modem and there always is when it dials this
number untill connection is confirmed.  I blame this action on "Redundant
entry "(etc.).  I suspect the pci-table is in the kernel but have no
confidence that reinstalling everything would alter the results.  There is
likely something I am doeing wrong or incorrectly at least but I dont have a
clue.

>
> Now see if your modem works.
>
> > I am attaching dmesg in case anyone can figure out how to fix this.
>
> Unless I'm missing something, dmesg was not attached.
>
It was attached on my copy of the email but it was the wrong one. The copy
that was attached was the one where I had disabled ttyS0 & 1.  I am
reattaching the correct current copy.
Regards;
Hoyt


dmesg-A
Description: Binary data

.db files

[amit tiwari]

hi
i  have come to know through google
will u pls tell me how to open .db files
amit tiwari

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"BIOS Legacy USB Support"-emulated USB keyboard works in text-mode but not in X

[Jørgen H. Seland]

I have a USB keyboard (Logitech iTouch) connected to an SBC MediaGX (a Cyrix 
MediaGX oneboard machine) running debian/testing (that's sid, I believe), 
installed within the previous two weeks. Kernel is 2.4.22 with no patches and 
no USB support. 

I installed X and KDE yesterday, and everything runs fine. There's just one 
problem:

When X starts up (both when I run kdm and just simple "X"), the keyboard stops 
responding.  Not even "ctrl-shift-backspace" works.

In KDM, the cursor blinks, so X apparently doesn't hang. 

Also, if I log in from another computer via ssh I can safely terminate (kill) 
the KDM or X process, and once I'm back in text-mode, the keyboard responds 
perfectly again.

I've only seen a related problem reported one other place 
( - the posting refers 
to the keyboard not working during installation, which in SUSE 8 normally means 
X), and there was no answer to that posting.

(As a footnote: I'd like to keep the "BIOS legacy keyboard" option activated, 
as I need it to manipulate the BIOS settings, and attaching a PS/2 keyboard 
involves dismantling the machine. Just opting for a normal USB HID solution is 
therefore not an option.)
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Rebooting problem

[Vanh Phom]

Hi all,
I'm a debian newbie. Last night I've download the debian-installer beta.
With a litle luck I got it to install the base system. Now comes the
problem. I have 3 HDs the boot HD has Grub and XP on it. The 2nd HD has
Debian on it. With LILO install on (HD2)
/dev/ide/host2/bus0/target0/lun0/disc2;disc1 ( primary partition) is a
swap,disc2 (primary partition 2) is a root,disc5 is (extended
partition)/usr. And SusE on HD3.Grub boot the others OS fine except
Debian. How do I make Grub boot Debian? Any help is greatly appreciated.
Vanh



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Re: Swen on the come back trail.

[Joerg Johannes]

Am Do, den 13.11.2003 schrieb David Palmer. um 13:06:
> Is it my imagination, or is it really happening?

At least the number of Swens is increasing again...

joerg

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Re: Thoughts on exim4-conifg

[Tim Kelley]

On Tuesday 11 November 2003 11:56 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> At first this new system seemed really great.  For example, to
> support mailmain I created three files:
>
>   conf.d/main/01_local_mailman_macros
>   conf.d/router/350_local_listdirector
>   conf.d/transport/30_local_mailmain
>
> Which seems somewhat cool in that maybe in the future when you
> install mailman those files are automatically added when the mailman
> package is installed.

> Perhaps I'm not understanding the design goals behind exim4-config.
> Anyone else have comments about exim4-config?

Well that seems enough of a reason, it looks like they're trying to make 
it easier to package things apps that work with the MTA like 
spamassassin, exiscan, mailman, etc.  That is a big issue, everyone 
wants SA and a virus scanner these days.


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Re: migration to utf-8?

[Micha Feigin]

On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 13:11, Bruno Boettcher wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> on a new install i tryed to conform to modern times and set the kbd to
> utf-8 encoding.
> 
> and now its getting near hell on earth :D
> 
> so is there some migration odcu out there? cause i have some questions:
> 
> there doesn't seem some general switch (as e.g. with the papersize) with
> which i can switch over the whole system to use utf-8?
> 
> kbdconfig allows to generally set the kbd type, but as it seems not the
> encoding (isolatin or utf-8)
> 
> and uhm, i somehow am unableto find this in the docu, how do i get
> postgres to eat a dump produced on another machine not using utf?
> 

I think localeconf is what you are looking for. It enables you to set
the system wide locale and then applications that recognize utf8 will
function properly.

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Re: 2 Server in leafnode

[Werner Mahr]

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Leafnode to route to the original Server. I also thought, how 
Leafnode decides, if two Servers have the same Group which he should 
take. But I try it now, and send a new mail, if I get some troubles.

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Re: how to change beep noise

[Nori Heikkinen]

on Wed, 12 Nov 2003 04:08:54PM -0600, Daniel Edmund Davison insinuated:
> Hi, I've just installed debian woody on a HPze1230 laptop. The beep
> noise it is making on ambiguous file-completions, new mail, etc is
> very loud. The keyboard volume-changing and muting keys are not
> recognised. Is there an alteration I can make within debian to
> change/disable this noise?

from the xset man page:

  b   The  b  option  controls bell volume, pitch and duration.  This
  option accepts up to three numerical  parameters,  a  preceding
  dash(-),  or  a  'on/off' flag.  If no parameters are given, or
  the 'on' flag is used, the system defaults will  be  used.   If
  the  dash  or 'off' are given, the bell will be turned off.  If
  only one numerical parameter is given, the bell volume will  be
  set  to  that value, as a percentage of its maximum.  Likewise,
  the second numerical parameter specifies  the  bell  pitch,  in
  hertz, and the third numerical parameter specifies the duration
  in milliseconds. 

i like to set mine to A 440.  try:

xset b 10 440 10

:)



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Re: wireless LAN in place of existing cabled one

[Benedict Verheyen]

> On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 18:21, Benedict Verheyen wrote:
>> BruceG wrote:
>> > - Original Message -
>> > From: "BruceG" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> > Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 5:39 PM
>> > Subject: Re: wireless LAN in place of existing cabled one
> [snip]
>>
>> Still a bit confused on what hardware components i need but
>> the wife is getting really tired of the cable.
>> I think she even deliberatly tries to ware out the cable: it runs
>> under a door as well and she loves to open and close that door :)
>> "Look honey, see, the cable is starting to fail here, look, look"
>
> Jeez, isn't that what (the insides of) walls are for?
>
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Yep, you're right but we just moved in there a few months ago.
So we'll need to check how to do this best. Note that most homes
here in Belgium have walls of brick and not wood or anything like
that so it would immediately involve chopping. That's where the
wireless comes in.

Benedict


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Re: Night mare to set day light savings time

[John Hasler]

Geoff writes:
> I tried 'apropos timezone' to jog my memory and that one didn't come up.

Tzconfig has no man page.  This is a bug.
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Re: freelance sysadmining -- superlong -- [WAS: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"]

[Benedict Verheyen]

> On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 11:58:41PM -0500, Vikki Roemer wrote:
> 4. My brother in law paid me $25/hour to install some Macintosh
  ^^^
> computers in elementary & kindergarten classrooms, and hook them up to
> the internet.  That was totally wierd, going back to those little desks
> and water fountains.  A girl I knew from high school was the teacher.
> Wierd! (but fun).
>
> 4. I learned long, long ago that you cannot be Santa Claus with family
  ^^^
> or friends or even small-time clients: as everyone here has said, they
> will bug the shit out of you and you will eventually stop being friends
> or will be upset with your clients.  Keep your expectations small and
> you can make some pocket money and have some great life experiences.

Another lesson learnt here: stay off the pot. At a later age you
will not be able to count past 4. :-) just couldn't help it.

Anyway, interesting thread for me. In januari i'm going to be out of
a job. My current employer wanted me to travel every day (it would
have taken me 4 hours a day in total) to a customer to do stuff
i wasn't hired for and didn't interest me too. This because of the fact
that webrelated business was down. So i said that if this
was the way the company was heading, my work wasn't going to be fun
anymore and that i rather had that they would fire me.
That way, i am still eligible for wellfare.

So here i am, checking out the possibilities of doing something similar
to Vikki. I'm currently checking if there is a market for such a thing.
I would be primarily interested in providing service (problem solving).
Also, basic security, networking stuff, webpages, java programming and
so on. And this for the small businesses.
We'll see. I still have time until January :)

Benedict




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Re: exim4 - rejecting .com,.bat,.exe,.pif extensions

[BruceG]

- Original Message - 
From: "Kjetil Kjernsmo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 7:35 AM
Subject: Re: exim4 - rejecting .com,.bat,.exe,.pif extensions


> On Thursday 13 November 2003 13:13, BruceG wrote:
> >   Anyone have a pointer to what file/directory I need to hit to
> > start rejecting attachments that contain Windows executables?
>
> Yup, I snatched this from somewhere and put it in
> acl/40_exim4-config_check_data
>
> # Unpack MIME containers and reject file extensions
> # used by worms. Note that the extension list may be
> # incomplete.
> deny  message = $found_extension files not accepted (may contain MS
> virus)
>   demime = com:exe:vbs:bat:pif:scr
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Kjetil

Thanks! That did the trick. I included the extensions in your list and in
Tom's list. I'll need to check what .wsh and .wsf files are, though. Anyway,
ClamAV is working, rejects based on extensions are working (I tested from a
different account).

Still not doing Spam filters as I'm not sure at all about the overhead (very
old PC, serving mail for me - and maybe my kids if they want). I might look
into the RBL block lists and block on Spam sites, but not dial-up sites. My
PC sits in the dial-up area (behind a DSL router), so I would be on that
block list. I'll approach that in another week or so, unless Spam gets too
heavy (and no, that is not a challenge to the list!).


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Re: freelance sysadmining -- friends

[Ron Johnson]

On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 00:16, Alvin Oga wrote:
> hi ya
> 
> On Wed, 12 Nov 2003, Ron Johnson wrote:
> 
[snip]
> >  Pull out your piercings,
> > hide your tatoos.  *Blouses* should be tucked into *slacks* or
> > *skirts*[1].
> 
> you forgot the tie ..
> you forgot dont use white sox with black shoes/pants :-)
> 
> dont use shirt/tie w/ jeans ( even if its 501s etc ) 
> dont use $100 sneakers/air-jordons w/ tie
> .. on and on ..  

Somehow, I don't think this applies to Vikki.  (Can you imagine
slacks and Air Jordans?)

[snip]
> > [1] if there is a paucity of females at the office/shop you are
> > going to, consider shortening your skirt.  It's a very effective
> > sales tool.
> 
> bad dude !!! - i'm not gonna say that ... you can guess what B means

No, really, I'm serious.  It works.

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Re: wireless LAN in place of existing cabled one

[Ron Johnson]

On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 08:23, Benedict Verheyen wrote:
> > On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 18:21, Benedict Verheyen wrote:
> >> BruceG wrote:
> >> > - Original Message -
> >> > From: "BruceG" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >> > Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 5:39 PM
> >> > Subject: Re: wireless LAN in place of existing cabled one
> > [snip]
> >>
> >> Still a bit confused on what hardware components i need but
> >> the wife is getting really tired of the cable.
> >> I think she even deliberatly tries to ware out the cable: it runs
> >> under a door as well and she loves to open and close that door :)
> >> "Look honey, see, the cable is starting to fail here, look, look"
> >
> > Jeez, isn't that what (the insides of) walls are for?
[snip]
>
> Yep, you're right but we just moved in there a few months ago.
> So we'll need to check how to do this best. Note that most homes
> here in Belgium have walls of brick and not wood or anything like
> that so it would immediately involve chopping. That's where the
> wireless comes in.

Oh.  Belgium.  

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basic font question

[Shane McAndrew]

Hi,

I am trying to display correctly a UTF-8 encoded file
in Gnumeric.

I have managed to get Gnumeric to open this file, but
some of the characters (notably the phonetics symbols)
are not displayed, regardless on the font I choose
from Gnumeric drop-down font selector. The same
problem occurs if I open the file in abiword.

Other X applications (such as emacs) can display all
the characters in the file with the standard font
-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--15-*-*-*-c-70-iso8859-1.
So I have concluded it is not an X windows problem. Am
I right?

My question, how do I make Gnumeric use this font?

I am running -

Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (Woody) with Gnome 2.2 backport
Xfree86 4.2.1
Gnumeric 1.2.1


Regards
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2.4.22-3 panic in woody / ide bug?

[Nelson E. Castillo]

Hi.

Abstract : Trying to avoid kernel panic.

I recompiled the latest package kernel-source-2.4.22(3) (sid) with
same config of the latest kernel-image2.4.22-686. It runs
in a woody machine without problems, but in the other machine
it crashes with a kernel panic before mounting the root
file system. This second machine is running woody, and was
potato once. It was dist-upgraded and has been running fine for
more than half a year.

The first one has a SCSI disk -Dell Server-
  (works)
The other one has an IDE disk -Dell WS-
  (does not work... crashes at boot).


I would like to track down this error, because I need a new
kernel (for the QoS HTB Scheduler).

This problem is similar to the one reported in the Debian bug
213192, which was solved with a patch (IDE-probing related) that
was the only change from kernel-source-2.4.22-2 to kernel-source-2.4.22-3,
so I wonder if they're related... I might be doing something wrong
as well...

The boot messages are (copied by hand):
--
cant open /etc/mtab: No such file or directory
NET4: Unix ...
modprobe: moprobe: Can't load module block-major-3
mount: /dev2/root is not a valid block device
 -- (last 2 messages are shown again twice)
pivot_root: no such file or directory
/sbin/init: cannot open /dev/xconsole: no such file
kernel panic: Attempted to kill init
--

Tried:

1) Recompile with ext3 in the kernel (not as a module)

  did not work
  
Haven't tried:

  Updating initrd-tools... Shall I?

ii  initrd-tools   0.1.32woody.3  Tools to generate an initrd image.
ii  kernel-image-2 2.4.18-11  Linux kernel image 2.4.18 on PPro/Celeron/PI
   - this is 2.4.18-1-686
ii  kernel-image-2 10.00.Custom   Linux kernel binary image for version 2.4.22
ii  gcc2.95.4-14  The GNU C compiler.

What should I try?

I will attach the dmesg of the pc that boots with a kernel that
also uses initrd... (instaled from the woody packages)

Help me please :)

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Re: Installing modem

[Hoyt Bailey]

I begin to wonder if the pci-tables might be listed in /proc didnt find that
but the following was interesting:/proc/interrupts
   CPU0
  0:  50953IO-APIC-edge  timer
  1:140IO-APIC-edge  keyboard
  2:  0  XT-PIC  cascade
  6: 32IO-APIC-edge  floppy
  8:  3IO-APIC-edge  rtc
 12:  19237IO-APIC-edge  PS/2 Mouse
 14: 205935IO-APIC-edge  ide0
 15:  4IO-APIC-edge  ide1
 16:  36548   IO-APIC-level  nvidia
 18: 43   IO-APIC-level  eth0
 21:  0   IO-APIC-level  usb-uhci, usb-uhci, usb-uhci
NMI:  0
LOC:  50902
ERR:  0
MIS:  0

It seems a little strange that IRQ19 is missing. Does that have meaning?

Also:/proc/ioports
-001f : dma1
0020-003f : pic1
0040-005f : timer
0060-006f : keyboard
0070-007f : rtc
0080-008f : dma page reg
00a0-00bf : pic2
00c0-00df : dma2
00f0-00ff : fpu
0170-0177 : ide1
01f0-01f7 : ide0
02f8-02ff : serial(set)
0376-0376 : ide1
0378-037a : parport0
03c0-03df : vga+
03f6-03f6 : ide0
03f8-03ff : serial(set)
0cf8-0cff : PCI conf1
d000-d007 : US Robotics/3Com 56K FaxModem Model 5610
  d000-d007 : serial(auto)
d400-d41f : VIA Technologies, Inc. UHCI USB
  d400-d41f : usb-uhci
d800-d81f : VIA Technologies, Inc. UHCI USB (#2)
  d800-d81f : usb-uhci
dc00-dc1f : VIA Technologies, Inc. UHCI USB (#3)
  dc00-dc1f : usb-uhci
e000-e00f : VIA Technologies, Inc. Bus Master IDE
e400-e4ff : VIA Technologies, Inc. AC97 Audio Controller
e800-e8ff : Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139
  e800-e8ff : 8139too

d000-d007 is defined as serial(auto) and is tied to the modem (Model 5610).
Seems right. Couldnt find anything else that appeared relative.

Does any of this help?
Regards;
Hoyt



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dvd ripping tools

[Kevin Coyner]

I need to (legimately) rip a few 30 sec clips from some DVD's where I
truly own the rights.  The 30 sec clips will be used on our website
where we advertise the DVD's for sale (bicycling workouts -
spinervals.com for those interested).

Could someone please suggest:

1.  a tool for ripping the DVD
2.  a tool for browsing and then editing the ripped portions into 30 sec
clips

Many thanks
Kevin


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Re: Partitioning

[dajhorn]

> What is your experience regarding workstations? Is there any advantage
> or disadvantage in using a simpler partitioning (eg. only /boot and /)?

I use a single partition (just "/") on all of my workstations and many of my
servers.  In practice, I've never been in a situation where it was beneficial,
and it is a hassle to repartition the disk if you fill one of the filesystems.

You also don't really need a "/boot" partition unless you have an older computer
with BIOS cylinder limits.

BTW, the clock on your computer may be incorrect.  This message was stamped
Monday December 1st, 2003.  (Two weeks from now.)


Quoting Marco Cecconi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> Hello, I've been having this question on my mind for a bit now: what is
> the best practice to partition a hard drive under Unix, and in
> particular under Linux? At work I try to separate different
> functionalities as much as possible (eg. /boot, /, /var, /home all on
> different partitions). This makes sense since the machines are servers.
> What is your experience regarding workstations? Is there any advantage
> or disadvantage in using a simpler partitioning (eg. only /boot and /)?
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Marco
> 
> 
> 
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Re: .db files

[Nelson E. Castillo]

On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 12:20:35PM +, amit tiwari wrote:
> will u pls tell me how to open .db files

google with : "berkeley db tutorial"

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Re: dvd ripping tools

[Ron Johnson]

On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 09:23, Kevin Coyner wrote:
> I need to (legimately) rip a few 30 sec clips from some DVD's where I
> truly own the rights.  The 30 sec clips will be used on our website
> where we advertise the DVD's for sale (bicycling workouts -
> spinervals.com for those interested).
> 
> Could someone please suggest:

"apt-cache search" is your friend.

> 1.  a tool for ripping the DVD

$ apt-cache search dvd rip|sort
acidrip - ripping and encoding DVD tool using mplayer and mencoder
dvdbackup - Tool to rip DVD's from the command line
jigdo-file - Download Debian CD images from any Debian mirror
k3b - A sophisticated KDE cd burning application
mozilla-plugin-vlc - multimedia plugin for Mozilla based on VLC
ripmake - an automatic command line ripping makefile generator for \
  transcode
subtitleripper - DVD Subtitle Ripper for Linux
video-dvdrip - Perl front end for transcode
video-dvdrip-doc - Documentation for dvd::rip

For transcode, mplayer, mencoder, etc, you'll need to add this this
to your sources.list:
deb http://marillat.free.fr/ unstable main

> 2.  a tool for browsing and then editing the ripped portions into 30 sec
> clips

For once the DVDs have been ripped:

$ apt-cache search mpeg edit|sort
libmjpegtools-dev - MJPEG video capture/editting/playback MPEG encoding
libmjpegtools0 - MJPEG video capture/editting/playback MPEG encoding
libmp3-info-perl - Perl MP3::Info - Manipulate / fetch info from MP3 \
   audio files.
linuxvideostudio - MJPEG-tools GTK graphical user interface
mjpegtools - MJPEG video capture/editting/playback MPEG encoding
mpgtx - Toolbox to manipulate MPEG files (video, system, and audio)
viewmol - A graphical front end for computational chemistry programs.
xmms-mpg123-ja - mpeg123 plugin supported Japanese encodings for xmms
zinf - Extensible, cross-platform audio player




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to live, 4 persons per lot, in lots that are 60'x150' (a nice
suburban US plot).
That is ~ California, Texas and Missouri.
Alternatively, France, Spain and The United Kingdom.


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debian autoinstall boot cd

[Rohit Kumar Mehta]

Hello, we are trying to set up an autoinstall which will support all the 
newest network cards
(including eepro1000).  Although this is possible with the 2.2 kernel, 
things would be a lot easier
if we could generate our own autoinstall CD images.

The autoinstall-i386 package creates a file:
/usr/lib/autoinstall/i386/make-autoinst-disk
Does anyone know how to convert this to make a bootable CD image?

Many  thanks,

Rohit

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mtrr and X windows

[jan]

Hello!

I'm curious about mtrr. 

when i type

cat /proc/mtrr

i got:

reg00: base=0x (   0MB), size= 256MB: write-back, count=1
reg01: base=0xd600 (3424MB), size=  16MB: write-combining, count=1
reg02: base=0xd000 (3328MB), size=  64MB: write-combining, count=1

so. to me it looks like i have mtrr (i've compiled my kernel with mtrr)

The question I'd like to ask is: 
Do I need to enable it somehow in X windows or X does use mtrr
automatically ?

thanks

Jan


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Re: wireless LAN in place of existing cabled one

[Benedict Verheyen]

> On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 08:23, Benedict Verheyen wrote:
>> > On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 18:21, Benedict Verheyen wrote:
>> >> BruceG wrote:
>> >> > - Original Message -
>> >> > From: "BruceG" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> >> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> >> > Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 5:39 PM
>> >> > Subject: Re: wireless LAN in place of existing cabled one
>> > [snip]
>> >>
>> >> Still a bit confused on what hardware components i need but
>> >> the wife is getting really tired of the cable.
>> >> I think she even deliberatly tries to ware out the cable: it runs
>> >> under a door as well and she loves to open and close that door :)
>> >> "Look honey, see, the cable is starting to fail here, look, look"
>> >
>> > Jeez, isn't that what (the insides of) walls are for?
> [snip]
>>
>> Yep, you're right but we just moved in there a few months ago.
>> So we'll need to check how to do this best. Note that most homes
>> here in Belgium have walls of brick and not wood or anything like
>> that so it would immediately involve chopping. That's where the
>> wireless comes in.
>
> Oh.  Belgium.  
>
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Hey, it could have been worse, like France or something



Benedict


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Re: Installing modem.

[Kent West]

Hoyt Bailey wrote:

From: "Kent West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
 

So all you need to do is create a similar file for ttyS4. This command
should do it:
MAKEDEV -v ttyS4
   

Already tryed that it created /dev/ttyS4 but dosent change the message
(dmesg) in any way I noticed.  Also will not respond to echo "ATDT
 

/dev/ttyS4 which it should. more specifically the screen does this:
   

Blackgold: / # echo "ATDT3633070" > /dev/ttyS4
Blackgold: / #
Also there is no sound from the modem and there always is when it dials this
number untill connection is confirmed.  I blame this action on "Redundant
entry "(etc.).  I suspect the pci-table is in the kernel but have no
confidence that reinstalling everything would alter the results.  There is
likely something I am doeing wrong or incorrectly at least but I dont have a
clue.
 

I thought that echoing a command to the device file was a good test, but 
someone else in this thread with the same modem as you says this test 
does not work. So ignore this test and its results. Instead, try minicom.

Also, I found this information at: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/archive/18/2003/08/4/86297


nonrusteScenario: 
I purchased a US Robotics 56K* V.92 Performance Pro Modem because they advertised support for Linux:

usr.com/products/home/home-product.asp?sku=USR5610B

I followed the advice of the author of the following page when my modem was not detected with Yast2:

webpronews.com/wpn-22-20030623SettingUpaLinuxModem.html

The command 'cat /proc/pci' listed my modem with hardware address &
IRQ number. When I tried the setserial command I got an error of
'Address in use'. Though I could not get a peep out of my modem with
'echo "atdt555" > /dev/ttySX' (I've tried many ttySX including
'ttyS04' which is echoed across my monitor upon bootup with the
hardware address of the modem.
I tried installing the RPM
(usr.com/support/product-template.asp?prod=5610b) from US Robotics.
That gave me a funky error. I didn't write it down, though tried to
re-install the RPM to recreate error, but got an error stating that the
RPM was already installed and I'm yet too ignorant to know how to
resolve that.

fancypiper:

Make sure that plug-n-pray is disabled in your bios as it can screw up your settings.

Here is how I configured my modem (below modem links)

# Configuring a real hardware pci modem

To configure a pci modem, open an x terminal and su - to the root 

$ su -
Password: 

# cat /proc/pci

Look for your modem in the returned list. Look for something similar to mine:

Bus  2, device   2, function  0:
Communication controller: PCI device 151f: (TOPIC SEMICONDUCTOR Corp) (rev 0).
IRQ 5.
I/O at 0xc400 [0xc407].

With this info, I use the setserial
command:

# setserial /dev/ttyS0 irq 5 port 0xc400 uart 16550a

Then I test the modem with the internet
connection wizard and it works.


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Re: window manager recomendation

[Micha Feigin]

On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 07:44, Marc Wilson wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 01:58:46PM +0900, Nick Hastings wrote:
> > This WM was mentioned by a poster on this list a month or so ago. At
> > the time I was using sawfish, but was getting sick of the bloat and
> > considering switching back to fvwm. I'm _so_ glad I tried openbox3.
> > 
> > I have it set up to do all the things you wanted except use the Debian
> > menus. I've not tried.
> 
> There's a menu-method running around that'll give it access to the Debian
> menu system.  It's not perfect, it has no ability to deal with menu entries
> with ampersands in them (which XML requires you to escape), but other than
> that, it does the job.  I attach it here, because it's only a few lines.

This creates the menu file fine but openbox still seems very very intent
on not displaying this menu.
I also tried removing the default one or putting it in
.config/openbox/menu.xml but all I got was no menu at all. I even tried
removing everything but one entry and putting the same xml header from
the default menu but nothing seems to work. Is there some trick to this
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migrating /home to a new partition

[ben]

anyone know how to safely migrate /home to a new partition? i've googled
and checked the archives but can't find appropriate info.

all clues gratefully appreciated.

ben


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Re: Going to give it another shot-need more help

[Kent West]

Mark Healey wrote:

After not getting any instructions on how to compile a module that
didn't come with the source into a kernel I gave up and decided to
just do the nic module as installable.
Since I had the source for the new kernel I went ahead and compiled it
by Kents 10 step list.  I left the things I didn't understand at their
default value.
It booted and seems to run as before.

I then made the nic module and make installed it.
 

You should have been able to add the nic module during the 10-step 
procedure, and then you wouldn't have to "make" the nic module and "make 
install" it afterwards. While configuring your kernel (Step 6 in the 
"Kent's 10-Step Procedure to Compiling a Debian Kernel" portion of 
/usr/share/doc/kernel-package/README.gz), you need to go into the 
"Network Device Support" option, then probably "Ethernet (1000Mbit)", 
then put an "M" in front of "Broadcom Tigon3 Support" (assuming this is 
the correct driver for your Broadcom nic).

After compilation and reboot, just "modconf" and add in the "tg3" module 
(or for just this boot only, say for testing purposes, "modprobe tg3"). 
If the tg3 is not the correct driver for your Broadcom, I'm not sure 
what to tell you.

If instead of recompiling the kernel again, you want to just use the 
module you compiled yourself, you should be able to add it to the kernel 
temporarily with "modprobe ". You might need to run 
"depmod" first to check module dependencies. To add it more permanently, 
add the module_name to /etc/modules. This method may require other 
things as well, such as tinkering with /etc/modutils/aliases, but that's 
beyond me.

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Re: Debian version

[csj]

On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 19:43:50 +,
Jonathan Dowland wrote:

[...]

> unstable is always 'sid'. slink/potato/woody started life as
> testing (afaik) before migrating to stable.

I don't think there was "testing" before slink was released.  IRC
I started using Debian around the time potato was released and I
managed to witness the birth ot testing.

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Re: Night mare to set day light savings time

[Jigga Man]

Paul,

   Sorry to directly send you an email but i dont know
how to reply to the mailing list. when i click the
reply to link it gives a dialog box saying  mailto
protocl not registered. Anyways Thank you very much
for your time to help me with my problem
 I tried the su  -c tzconfig and when thru the the
proces  s..it only asked me 2 things first select a
country in which i selected option no 3 which US
timezones and then in option 2 i selected Eastern and
here is the output

Your default time zone is set to 'US/Eastern'.
Local time is now:  Thu Nov 13 11:44:48 EST 2003.
Universal Time is now:  Thu Nov 13 16:44:48 UTC 2003.


this time is still one hour off ..its says local time
is 11:44 when its actully 10:44 here ...

i didnt find any specific option for daylight savings
time... did i do anything worng ?

thanx for your time :)

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Re: problem in screen resolution at 1024*768

[Hugo Vanwoerkom]

Rafael Quintanilla wrote:
(Texto en castellano más abajo)

Hi members of the list,

I recently installed debian from a Knoppix 3.3
catalan. The problem is that I want to have a 1024*768
resolution (BTW my monitor is a 15" SyncMaster 551S,
samsung, with a recommeded refresh vertical rate of 85
Hz). I obtain only a 800x600 resolution (see attached
file XF86Config-4_old.txt). To solve the problem, and
as I am not used to modifying this file by hand (I am
mostly a Mandrake user, but would like to become a
Debianer as I see this distribution as more long-term
stable) I had the following idea: I booted my system
with the knoppix CD and the following options:
knoppix screen=1024x768 vsync=85

This results in the screen resolution I wanted,
together with the vertical refresh rate recommended.
I copied the new file (see attached file
XF86Config-4_new.txt) to my installed knoppix system,
but I still get the 800x600 resolution.
Can anyone help me? I cannot see why the resolution is
still 800x600. Should I delete all the references to
the other resolutions? 

What happens when you shut down X (/etc/init.d/xdm stop) or gdm if you 
are running gdm, in anycase, stop the X server, and then run X -configure.
That creates a XF86Config.new in the directory that you are running in. 
You can start X on that config, it will only show a grey screen, but you 
can tell what it is like.
Just use that config, with some tweaks, like where your mouse is and 
what your keyboard is like...

Hugo.

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Re: Installing modem

[Kent West]

Hoyt Bailey wrote:

I begin to wonder if the pci-tables might be listed in /proc didnt find that
but the following was interesting:/proc/interrupts
  CPU0
 0:  50953IO-APIC-edge  timer
 1:140IO-APIC-edge  keyboard
 2:  0  XT-PIC  cascade
 6: 32IO-APIC-edge  floppy
 8:  3IO-APIC-edge  rtc
12:  19237IO-APIC-edge  PS/2 Mouse
14: 205935IO-APIC-edge  ide0
15:  4IO-APIC-edge  ide1
16:  36548   IO-APIC-level  nvidia
18: 43   IO-APIC-level  eth0
21:  0   IO-APIC-level  usb-uhci, usb-uhci, usb-uhci
NMI:  0
LOC:  50902
ERR:  0
MIS:  0
It seems a little strange that IRQ19 is missing. Does that have meaning?

 

I'd say "no".

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/westk:> cat /proc/interrupts
  CPU0  
 0:   59068572  XT-PIC  timer
 1:  65703  XT-PIC  keyboard
 2:  0  XT-PIC  cascade
 8:  4  XT-PIC  rtc
 9:9821656  XT-PIC  eth0
10:  21152  XT-PIC  Intel 82801BA-ICH2
11:  0  XT-PIC  usb-uhci
12:1857264  XT-PIC  PS/2 Mouse
14: 503689  XT-PIC  ide0
15: 52  XT-PIC  ide1
NMI:  0
LOC:   59069577
ERR:  0
MIS:  0



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Re: modprobe question

[Hugo Vanwoerkom]

Florian Ernst wrote:
Hello Hugo!

Just a short note,
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=213092
might be of interest, too.
Cheers,
Flo
Thanks Florian!

That explains why I could not find where modprobe -c gets the above 
from: it is build into the upgraded modutils!

The fix is
above hid usbcore
But I fail to comprehend why that fixes it, which is my problem ;-)

Hugo.

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Re: Night mare to set day light savings time

[Dr.-Ing. C. Hurschler]

Isn't this just a matter of re-running base-config and setting the hardware 
clock to UMT, as is suggested when running a dual boot system with windows?

is there a dpkg-reconfigure  that will get you into just the time settings 
part of base-config?

Chris

Am Donnerstag, 13. November 2003 15:13 schrieb John Hasler:
> Geoff writes:
> > I tried 'apropos timezone' to jog my memory and that one didn't come up.
>
> Tzconfig has no man page.  This is a bug.
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Re: migrating /home to a new partition

[Jacob S.]

On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 17:10:19 +
ben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> anyone know how to safely migrate /home to a new partition? i've
> googled and checked the archives but can't find appropriate info.
> 
> all clues gratefully appreciated.
> 
> ben

Howdy Ben,

The easiest way I've found is to create and mke2fs the partition first,
then boot off of a boot floppy or bootable cd (provided you're not going
to be using parted or similar software to shrink an existing partition
before creating the new partition).

After booting from the floppy or cd, copy /home to the new partition
using something like "cp -a /home /new-home" (-a is very important, as
it's the archive flag, and will tell cp not to follow symbolic links,
but simply copy them as they are, maintain permissions, etc.).

If the copy's successful (browse your directories, run du -hs on /home
and /new_home, if home is currently on it's own partition, you can also
check space used with df, etc. Once you're satisfied that everything's
on /new_home, "rm -r /home" (Note: there's no turning back after you
enter that command... double and triple check that things are like you
want before you delete the old /home), then mkdir /home (this will be
the new mount point for the home partition.

Edit /etc/fstab to reflect the new partition for home and you should be
ready to reboot. (If you don't edit /etc/fstab, it won't know where to
find the /home directory and you'll notice that any user other than root
has trouble logging in.)

It can also be done without using a boot floppy/cd, but it's a lot
harder because you are deleting files that might be in use currently for
any users that are logged in, etc. The use of a boot floppy/cd is
strongly recommended!

HTH,
Jacob

P.S. Please start a new thread when you're starting a new subject,
rather than replying to an existing thread. I've done it for you for
this thread.

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Re: Debian version

[Colin Watson]

On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 07:30:49AM +0800, csj wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 19:43:50 +,
> Jonathan Dowland wrote:
> > unstable is always 'sid'. slink/potato/woody started life as
> > testing (afaik) before migrating to stable.
> 
> I don't think there was "testing" before slink was released.  IRC
> I started using Debian around the time potato was released and I
> managed to witness the birth ot testing.

Yes, testing was introduced after package pools were implemented, which
was in late 2000 after the release of potato.

  http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce-0012/msg4.html
  http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce-0012/msg00011.html

The testing distribution started out as a copy of 2.2r2. It then took a
fair while to turn into something reasonable, but that's history now ...

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Re: modprobe question

[Hugo Vanwoerkom]

Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote:
On Wednesday 12 November 2003 20:53, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:


Right Kjetil! And I figured out that backstreet-ruby removed it.


Yup! :-)


I cannot find keybdev anywhere in the 2.4.22 kernel that I am
using, except for traces in the documenation, but nothing in
.config
keybdev has been removed in 2.6 IIUC, and since backstreet-ruby is
a backport of some console and input stuff, keybdev is gone.
What I still cannot figure out is where modprobe finds the
dependency, if I cannot find any reference to it in /etc or /lib...


No, I didn't figure out that either... 

See the next post by Florian: it comes from the fact that the "above" is 
hardcoded in the upgraded modutils.

I would like to understand what that does, the man modules.conf is obscure:

[add] above module module_list
This directive makes it possible for one module to "pull in"
another set of modules on top of itself in a module stack,
as seen in the output of the lsmod(8) command.
The above directive is useful for those circumstances when the dependencies
are more complex than what can be described in the
modules.dep dependency file.
This is an optimized case of the post-install
and pre-remove directives.
Note that failure of installing the module will not influence the
exit status of modprobe.
The optional add
prefix adds the new list to the previous list instead of replacing it.
Why does "above hid usbcore" get rid of his earlier dependency?

Hugo.



The advice I got was to add
above hid usbcore
to /etc/modutils/local (or somewhere equivalent).
Will do! Still a puzzle where this thing came from after a
dist-upgrade I forgot to do previously...


Yeah... I'm most puzzled that it didn't break earlier... :-) Basically, 
I upgraded everything to unstable before even trying backstreet ruby... 

Cheers,

Kjetil


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Re: migrating /home to a new partition

[Nelson E. Castillo]

On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 05:10:19PM +, ben wrote:
> anyone know how to safely migrate /home to a new partition? i've googled
> and checked the archives but can't find appropriate info.

Hi,

Make backups :) ... 
Buy insurance ...

- you can got to runlevel 1 ("init 1", no network, only root user)
(you might need to format the mount partition, mount it as /newhome,
 you might want to use  ext3 ...  see "mkfs")

(allocate new partition, add new disk ...)

#  mkfs -t ext3 -m0 /dev/my_new_partition_change_me
#  cd /
#  mkdir /newhome
#  mount -t ext3 /dev/my_new_partition_change_me /newhome
#  cp -Rdp /home/* /newhome
#  umount /newhome
#  umount /home
#  mount /dev/my_new_partition_change_me /newhome
#  check if it works ...
#  check if it works ...
#  keep the backup for a while.

I might be missing something, I'm sleepy.
Maybe I am deleting everything...
Please read the manpages before issuing commands :)

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Repairing mime files

[Haines Brown]

Years ago (OS/2?) I had a little utility that would repair the header
of a mime file so that I could un-mime it. Anyone know of such a thing
for linix/debian? My search effort failed.

Specifically, I have an acquaintance that insists on sending out
documents to a small distribution list using MS Exchange V6. The header
says X-MX-Has-Attach, but there's no mime or part header between the
message header and the MIME. That is, it goes right from To:... to the
MIME encoding.

I'm running rmail under emacs.

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Re: modprobe question

[Florian Ernst]

Hello Hugo!

On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 10:18:03AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
Florian Ernst wrote:
Just a short note,
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=213092
might be of interest, too.
That explains why I could not find where modprobe -c gets the above 
from: it is build into the upgraded modutils!

The fix is
above hid usbcore
But I fail to comprehend why that fixes it, which is my problem ;-)
According to the way I understand it there is a wrong definition in
the modutils source for modprobe, ie.
|char *above[] =
|{
|"hid keybdev mousedev",
|"Usbmouse hid",
|"wacom evdev",
|NULL/* marks the end of the list! */
|};
which causes the hid module to demand preloading the keybdev module
which unfortunately doesn't exist on your system as you have it built
in the kernel. Not your fault, of course.
Setting a correct 'dependency' in your modules.conf overwrites this
definition thus making it work.
Cheers,
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gnome installation help

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Hello, I'm trying to run Gnome and XFree86 on my
Debian box, a Dell Precision.

The Debian command line works great.
However, I can't get Gnome working properly no matter
how many times I try variations on apt-get install
 .  I get an Xserver could not start error...

I *am* able to boot to Knoppix, which correctly
identifies my video card and runs KDE.

Please give a basic list of commands or link to gnome
installation tutorial.

Thanks!!

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Automating the passwd command

[Hoehn, Jacob]

Is there a way to automate the passwd command in a similar
fashion as allowed by Red Hat's version of passwd?

 

The Red Hat version has a --stdin flag which lets me pipe a
password to the passwd command so that I can automate it.

 

On Red Hat I have a custom made script for creating large
numbers of accounts by using adduser and passwd. I want to be able to do the
same thing on Debian.

 

If anybody has a suggestion for a good account automation
program or can tell me how to automate passwd, I would greatly appreciate it.

 

--Jacob

Locales vs. xlib

[Tom]

Hey,

The last few days, I've been wondering how I should get those #!@
locales working.

Using debconf, I selected en_US.ISO-8859-15 to be generated (the
ISO-8859-15 while I like to be able to use the euro-sign). However,
little problems started to pop up.

First, there was gnome-terminal, which doesn't seem to handle UTF-8
quite correctly. That's why I chose ISO-8859-15 in the first place.
Everything now seems to work properly (after being unable to do anything
that had accents right, that's quite a relief). Still, gnome-terminal
uses UTF-8 by default, because -- so it says -- that's my "current
locale". I don't have UTF-8 mentioned anywhere in files I think might be
relevant (/etc/environment, ~/.bashrc), so I don't understand why it
takes UTF-8. I could manually change the charset of gnome-terminal every
time I use it, but that's quite a hassle. So I thought I'd stick with
xterm.

However, when I open an xterm out of gnome-terminal, I notice that the
"current locale is not supported by xlib", after which it reverts to C.
After some Googling, I found this could mean problems with locale.alias
in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale. And indeed, the locale I use
(en_US.ISO-8859-15) doesn't seem to exist in there. What gives? I use
the experimental deb's of XFree 4.3; is this specific locale just
something that's not yet supported in X?

Greets,
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RE: Automating the passwd command

[Hoehn, Jacob]

Never mind. I should have looked harder. I
think I can do it with mkpasswd and moduser. If that doesn't work I'll try
using expect.

 

-Original Message-
From: Hoehn, Jacob 
Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003
11:14 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Automating the passwd
command

 

Is there a way to automate the
passwd command in a similar fashion as allowed by Red Hat's version of passwd?

 

The Red Hat version has a --stdin
flag which lets me pipe a password to the passwd command so that I can automate
it.

 

On Red Hat I have a custom made
script for creating large numbers of accounts by using adduser and passwd. I
want to be able to do the same thing on Debian.

 

If anybody has a suggestion for a
good account automation program or can tell me how to automate passwd, I would
greatly appreciate it.

 

--Jacob

Re: problems with cdwriter on woody-system

[Palfalvi Richard]

Am Mit, 2003-11-12 um 21.37 schrieb duck:
 
> I think you're missing some module or other. Here's my lsmod:
>  
> Module  Size  Used byTainted: P
> snd-pcm-oss39556   1  (autoclean)
> snd-mixer-oss  13592   1  (autoclean) [snd-pcm-oss]
> agpgart21032   3  (autoclean)
> nvidia   1630080  11  (autoclean)
> apm10156   1  (autoclean)
> snd-cs46xx 70472   2
> snd-pcm60900   0  [snd-pcm-oss snd-cs46xx]
> snd-timer  14244   0  [snd-pcm]
> snd-ac97-codec 41368   0  [snd-cs46xx]
> snd-page-alloc  6356   0  [snd-cs46xx snd-pcm]
> snd-rawmidi13312   0  [snd-cs46xx]
> snd-seq-device  4176   0  [snd-rawmidi]
> snd29348   0  [snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss snd-cs46xx snd-pcm 
> snd-timer snd-ac97-codec snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device]
> soundcore   3652   6  [snd]
> serial 49828   0  (autoclean)
> isa-pnp32560   0  (autoclean) [serial]
> 8139too15240   1  (autoclean)
> mii 2400   0  (autoclean) [8139too]
> crc32   2880   0  (autoclean) [8139too]
> sg 28092   0  (unused)
> ide-scsi   10320   0
> ide-cd 32352   0
> ide-floppy 14044   0
> usb-uhci   23600   0  (unused)
> dsbr100 4348   0  (unused)
> usbcore62572   0  [usb-uhci dsbr100]
> videodev6048   1  [dsbr100]
> sr_mod 15896   0
> scsi_mod   58324   3  [sg ide-scsi sr_mod]
> cdrom  28512   0  [ide-cd sr_mod]
> 
> I think you need scsi_mod and sr_mod (someone correct me if I'm wrong). I
> have also included the relevant bits from dmesg below.

When I did "insmod sr_mod" or insmod scsi_mod"  the errormessage was 
==> insmod: sr_mod: no module by that name found
==> insmod: scsi_mod: no module by that name found

How are these modules named when I work with MODCONF (I couldn't find
them in there!?)
 
> I think you also need to stick "ide-cd ignore=hdc" in
> /etc/modutils/aliases too, (and run update-modules after) since your
> ide-cd modules is loaded before your ide-scsi module.

sorry, but what do you mean with STICK "ide-cd ." in ..

I found the aliases-file (see attachment) but how is the syntax for this
ignore-command? Is it something like options= blablabla??

 
> Alternatiely, you can swap the order of ide-scsi and ide-cd in
> /etc/modules.

I do NOT have any /etc/modules directory or file on my PC !?? I have no
idead why this file is missing and everything else runs fine except the
cdwriter-problem .

So can I create it by myself or with a special command? And what should
be the exact content of it to have the right order of modules?

> hope that helps
> duck

anyway, thanks a lot for your answer as you were the first for a week
now giving me some hints :-))

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Re: 2.4.22-3 panic in woody / ide bug?

[Andreas Janssen]

Hello

Nelson E. Castillo (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote:

> Abstract : Trying to avoid kernel panic.
> 
> I recompiled the latest package kernel-source-2.4.22(3) (sid) with
> same config of the latest kernel-image2.4.22-686. It runs
> in a woody machine without problems, but in the other machine
> it crashes with a kernel panic before mounting the root
> file system. This second machine is running woody, and was
> potato once. It was dist-upgraded and has been running fine for
> more than half a year.
> 
> The first one has a SCSI disk -Dell Server-
>   (works)
> The other one has an IDE disk -Dell WS-
>   (does not work... crashes at boot).
> 
> 
> I would like to track down this error, because I need a new
> kernel (for the QoS HTB Scheduler).
> 
> This problem is similar to the one reported in the Debian bug
> 213192, which was solved with a patch (IDE-probing related) that
> was the only change from kernel-source-2.4.22-2 to
> kernel-source-2.4.22-3, so I wonder if they're related... I might be
> doing something wrong as well...
> 
> The boot messages are (copied by hand):
> --
> cant open /etc/mtab: No such file or directory
> NET4: Unix ...
> modprobe: moprobe: Can't load module block-major-3
> mount: /dev2/root is not a valid block device
>  -- (last 2 messages are shown again twice)
> pivot_root: no such file or directory
> /sbin/init: cannot open /dev/xconsole: no such file
> kernel panic: Attempted to kill init
> --
> 
> Tried:
> 
> 1) Recompile with ext3 in the kernel (not as a module)

It is not a file system problem (or better: not yet). The support for
IDE disks is missing. If you want to compile the driver into the
kernel, change the following from "M" to "Y":

ATA/IDE/MFM/RLL support  --->
ATA/IDE/MFM/RLL support
IDE, ATA and ATAPI Block devices  --->
Enhanced IDE/MFM/RLL disk/cdrom/tape/floppy support
Include IDE/ATA-2 DISK support

best regards
Andreas Janssen

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Re: problem in screen resolution at 1024*768

[Andreas Janssen]

Hello

Rafael Quintanilla (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote:

> I recently installed debian from a Knoppix 3.3
> catalan. The problem is that I want to have a 1024*768
> resolution (BTW my monitor is a 15" SyncMaster 551S,
> samsung, with a recommeded refresh vertical rate of 85
> Hz). I obtain only a 800x600 resolution (see attached
> file XF86Config-4_old.txt). To solve the problem, and
> as I am not used to modifying this file by hand (I am
> mostly a Mandrake user, but would like to become a
> Debianer as I see this distribution as more long-term
> stable) I had the following idea: I booted my system
> with the knoppix CD and the following options:
> 
> knoppix screen=1024x768 vsync=85
> 
> This results in the screen resolution I wanted,
> together with the vertical refresh rate recommended.
> I copied the new file (see attached file
> XF86Config-4_new.txt) to my installed knoppix system,
> but I still get the 800x600 resolution.
> 
> Can anyone help me? I cannot see why the resolution is
> still 800x600. Should I delete all the references to
> the other resolutions?

> Section "Screen"
> Identifier "Screen0"
> Device "Card0"
> Monitor"Monitor0"
> DefaultColorDepth 16
> [...]
> SubSection "Display"
> Depth 32
> Modes "800x600" "640x480"
> EndSubSection
> EndSection

The resolution you want is not listed. The easiest way to enable it
would be to open the config file with a text editor and change

Modes "800x600" "640x480"

to

Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"

or alternatively use dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86

best regards
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Re: Night mare to set day light savings time

[John Hasler]

jigga writes:
> this time is still one hour off ..its says local time is 11:44 when its
> actully 10:44 here ...

Use the 'date' command as previously explained to set the time.

> i didnt find any specific option for daylight savings time...

There is none.  It isn't needed.  The system knows all about daylight
savings time and will start displaying it at the proper time next spring.
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Re: migrating /home to a new partition

Quoting ben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> anyone know how to safely migrate /home to a new partition? i've googled
> and checked the archives but can't find appropriate info.
> 
> all clues gratefully appreciated.
> 

There have been a number of postings, including on this list, on how to do 
this that are pretty comprehensive. I don't have links handly, I'll see when I 
get home tonight if I can find one.

In any case, most approaches use either tar to package and unpackage a 
directory tree into its new home, or use cp -a for similar effect.

What I do is the following. Assume you have /home current mounted from the old 
partition (whether part of you / partition or a separate partition), and 
assume you have a new partition, say /dev/hdb1, that you want to become the 
new /home. Also assume you have a free mount point, say /mnt (you can create, 
of course, whatever you want for this).

The basic approach is as follows:

1) Build a filesystem on the NEW partition:
 mke2fs /dev/hdb1 [or] mkreiserfs /dev/hdb1, for example

2) Mount NEW partition to mount point:
 mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt

3) Copy old /home to new location:
 cd /home ; cp -a * /mnt [or]
 cd /home; tar cl . | (cd /mnt; tar x - )
 [you can adjust flags to the tar commands as appropriate to follow/not follow
symlinks, etc. Also, you want to be root here so that you can access all files
in the existing /home and to preserve permissions and ownership on creatnig
the new files. tar does that automatically if executed by root but requires
a flag if executed by a non-root user).

4) Unmount new /home:
 umount /mnt

5) If existing /home is its own partition, unmount it as well:
 umount /home

6) Mount new /home:
  mount /dev/hdb1 /home

7) Edit /etc/fstab to reflect new /home partition.

I usually use a slight modification of this, in which I tar the /home tree 
into a file first and then untar into the new partition. I actually, being 
very compulsive and not wanted to lose the >5GB of data in my /home partition, 
make TWO tarballs, and then either compare them or their md5sums to ensure 
data integrity. Fortunately for me, my fileserver has 240GB of disk space over 
three 80GB drives, so I can tar my whole /home onto another drive entirely and 
keep it there for safekeeping. You could also burn it to a cd for safekeeping.

So, what I do is:
 cd /home
 tar clf /shared/backups/hometar1 .
 tar clf /shared/backups/hometar2 .
 cd /shared/backups
 md5sum hometar*
and if the md5sums match, then I restore the tar to the new /home partition. 
Note that if you do this, you must log in as root and make sure no one else is 
on the system; otherwise, if someone modifies something in their home dir 
after the first tar command scans their files but before teh second, then the 
md5sums won't match and you will not be able to ensure that you have 
uncorrupted data.

Hope all this helps. It's really pretty easy once you get the steps set up, 
and I've done this a number of times as I get new HD's, move to a new system, 
etc.

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Stock 2.4.16 kernel, initrd and ext3

[ScruLoose]

Howdy.

I've been wanting to switch from ext2 to ext3 on this machine, including
the root filesystem.

I'm using the stock Debian 2.4.16-i686 kernel, which (according to
/boot/config-2.4.16-686) has ext3 support _as a module_...

Now, my understanding is that this kernel uses initrd, and thus it'll be
okay for me to switch my root fs to ext3 (it'll load initrd first,
notice that it needs ext3, ins the mod, mount the root partition, then
carry on booting)...

1)  confirm/deny?

2)  Do I need to modconf the ext3 module in order for this to work?

3)  Once I've done tune2fs -j and tweaked my fstab, are there any other
steps I'm missing before I reboot?

4)  How do I find out for myself whether my current kernel is using
initrd?

Normally I'd just try it and see if it worked, but leaving the system
un-bootable and having to dig out the rescue disk is such a pain... 

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Re: Securing Debian

[Rick Weinbender]

Thanks for the help!
-Rick

**
Rick Weinbender wrote:

> I have an email server (qmail running on debian),
> that I need to make as secure as possible.
> Can anyone point me to some good links that
> relate to security?
>
> Has anyone used bastille?  What do you think
> of it?
>
> Thanks,
> -Rick
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Re: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"

[Pigeon]

On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 09:25:19PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 08:33:02PM +, Pigeon wrote:
> (c) running costs for
> > the sort of vehicle that gets you from A to B legally but no more 
> 
> $150, tops, and that's if you're as hard on a bike as I am

I just broke the frame on mine...

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Re: problem in screen resolution at 1024*768

[Bill Benedetto]

>>> Rafael Quintanilla writes:

  Rafa> I recently installed debian from a Knoppix 3.3
  Rafa> catalan. The problem is that I want to have a 1024*768
  Rafa> resolution (BTW my monitor is a 15" SyncMaster 551S,
  Rafa> samsung, with a recommeded refresh vertical rate of 85
  Rafa> Hz). I obtain only a 800x600 resolution (see attached
  Rafa> file XF86Config-4_old.txt).

I just had an issue like this as well.  I used the XF86Config-4
file from Knoppix and couldn't get the resolution that I wanted.
In order to get that resolution, my first attempt was to just add
the mode like this:
 OLD:
   Modes "800x600" "640x480"
 NEW:
   Modes "1280x1024" "800x600" "640x480"
but that didn't work.

The REASON it didn't work is that the XF86Config-4 from Knoppix
had all these ModeLine's:
  # These are the DDC-probed settings reported by your monitor.
  # 1152x864, 75.0Hz; hfreq=67.50, vfreq=75.00
  ModeLine "1152x864"   108.00 1152 1216 1344 1600  864  865  868  900 +hsync +vsync
  # 1024x768, 75.0Hz; hfreq=60.02, vfreq=75.03
  ModeLine "1024x768"78.75 1024 1040 1136 1312  768  769  772  800 +hsync +vsync
  # 800x600, 75.0Hz; hfreq=46.88, vfreq=75.00
  ModeLine "800x600" 49.50  800  816  896 1056  600  601  604  625 +hsync +vsync
  etc...
and XFree86 didn't like something about them.

In order to fix it, I just removed all of the ModeLine's and let
XFree86 do its work.

I decided to remove them based on the XFree86-Video-Timings-HOWTO
which said:

   This HOWTO is effectively obsolete. Current (4.0.1 and up) versions of
   XFree86 compute optimal modelines from the resolution you specify in the
   Modes section of your X configuration file.

So I removed the ModeLine's from my XF86Config-4 file and then I
could get 1280x1024 like I wanted.

Note that I *DID* have to have the "1280x1024" in the Modes line
so that XFree86 knew that I wanted to use the resolution

HTH,

- Bill
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Re: Night mare to set day light savings time

[Gary Hennigan]

"Jigga Man" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Sorry to directly send you an email but i dont know
> how to reply to the mailing list. when i click the
> reply to link it gives a dialog box saying  mailto
> protocl not registered. Anyways Thank you very much
> for your time to help me with my problem
>  I tried the su  -c tzconfig and when thru the the
> proces  s..it only asked me 2 things first select a
> country in which i selected option no 3 which US
> timezones and then in option 2 i selected Eastern and
> here is the output
>
> Your default time zone is set to 'US/Eastern'.
> Local time is now:  Thu Nov 13 11:44:48 EST 2003.
> Universal Time is now:  Thu Nov 13 16:44:48 UTC 2003.
>
>
> this time is still one hour off ..its says local time
> is 11:44 when its actully 10:44 here ...
>
> i didnt find any specific option for daylight savings
> time... did i do anything worng ?

I'm a bit confused. Are you in a location which is still on daylight
savings time (DST)? Most of the US switched back to standard time a
couple of weeks ago and if you're on the East coast and your clock is
set correctly then the time zone is correct. EST = UTC - 5, which is
what the info you give above says. If your clock still thought you
were in DST your time information would be EDT = UTC - 4.

Perhaps the issue isn't the timezone, but the fact that your clock is
set incorrectly? You can reset your clock, as root, using the command:

date 11131317

for example, to set the time/date to Nov. 13, 1:17pm (see man date).

This is all apart from the hardware/BIOS clock. The hardware clock
only matters at boot time and shutdown time. Once you get the time set
correctly in Linux you can synch your hardware clock using the
command:

hwclock --systohc

Depending on how you have your hardware clock set up you'll want to
add either "--localtime" or "--utc" to the command line. You can find
out which of these Linux thinks your hardware clock should be set at
by reading /etc/default/rcS and looking at the variable UTC. If it's
set to "no" then run:

hwclock --systohc --localtime

if it's set to "yes" then run

hwclock --systohc --utc

If your hardware clock is set to local time then the issue may be that
your hardware/BIOS clock didn't reset when we came off DST?

Gary


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Re: Night mare to set day light savings time

[Wolfgang Pfeiffer]

On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 18:57, John Hasler wrote:
> jigga writes:
> > this time is still one hour off ..its says local time is 11:44 when its
> > actully 10:44 here ...
> 
> Use the 'date' command as previously explained to set the time.
> 

Sorry: I already deleted the first messages in this thread, so I had to
take this one for replying:

I had a lot of trouble with this time config stuff, too. But  this was
already some months ago. And if my leaking memory serves me well, that's
the 
page that perhaps has saved me then:



Excerpt:

8.6.3 Set time (BIOS)
 # date MMDDhhmmCCYY
 # hwclock --utc
 # hwclock --systohc
 # hwclock --show

This will set system and hardware time to MM/DD hh:mm, CCYY. Times are
displayed in local time but hardware time uses UTC.
--

>From 'info date',  Node: Setting the time (excerpt):
-
   The argument must consist entirely of digits, which have the
following meaning:

`MM'
 month

`DD'
 day within month

`hh'
 hour

`mm'
 minute

`CC'
 first two digits of year (optional)

`YY'
 last two digits of year (optional)

`ss'
 second (optional)

 --

HTH

Good luck.
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apt-get unstable question

[Rick Weinbender]

I'm running the current stable version
and I need to install a package from
an unstable source (tmda ver.0.86).
(the unstable package does work with woody).
*
Is there a way to install an unstable package on
stable distro from the command line.
*
Someone suggested 'apt-get -t unstable install tmda'.
I tried this but it didn't work.
Does anyone know if this is possible and the proper syntax.

Thanks,

-Rick



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Re: apt-get unstable question

[Colin Watson]

On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 01:00:36PM -0600, Rick Weinbender wrote:
> I'm running the current stable version
> and I need to install a package from
> an unstable source (tmda ver.0.86).
> (the unstable package does work with woody).
> *
> Is there a way to install an unstable package on
> stable distro from the command line.
> *
> Someone suggested 'apt-get -t unstable install tmda'.
> I tried this but it didn't work.
> Does anyone know if this is possible and the proper syntax.

The safest way is to download the relevant packages by hand and use
'dpkg -i'. It is possible to set up apt such that 'apt-get -t unstable'
works, but I've seen many broken systems caused by injudicious use of
this feature so I don't recommend it.

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Re: apt-get unstable question

[Gary Hennigan]

"Rick Weinbender" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'm running the current stable version
> and I need to install a package from
> an unstable source (tmda ver.0.86).
> (the unstable package does work with woody).
> *
> Is there a way to install an unstable package on
> stable distro from the command line.
> *
> Someone suggested 'apt-get -t unstable install tmda'.
> I tried this but it didn't work.
> Does anyone know if this is possible and the proper syntax.

Do you have a /etc/apt/sources.list file that contains pointers to the
unstable distro?

Here's a excerpt from mine:

  deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian woody main contrib non-free
  deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian sarge main contrib non-free
  deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian sid main contrib non-free

I list all 3 releases, by name (woody = stable, sarge = testing, sid =
unstable).
 
Once you have that you'll want to tell apt the main release you
want. Do that by editing /etc/apt/apt.conf and putting a line like:

  APT::Default-Release "stable";

in it.

Gary


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Re: apt-get unstable question

[Roberto Sanchez]

Rick Weinbender wrote:
I'm running the current stable version
and I need to install a package from
an unstable source (tmda ver.0.86).
(the unstable package does work with woody).
*
Is there a way to install an unstable package on
stable distro from the command line.
*
Someone suggested 'apt-get -t unstable install tmda'.
I tried this but it didn't work.
Does anyone know if this is possible and the proper syntax.
Do you have the unstable sources in your /etc/apt/sources.list?

-Roberto


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Re: window manager recomendation

[Jonathan Dowland]

On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 06:15:29PM +0800, David Palmer. wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 08:34:19 +
> Jonathan Dowland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> > PWM, or ION (pwm, ion, ion-devel packages)
> > 
> As I suggested before, Icewm.

If I reply with, 'As I suggested before, PWM.', when will it stop? :P

Icewm is lovely and a bit friendlier than pwm, but not the leanest by a
bit. Here's some sizes for reference:

Package: pwm
Installed-Size: 336

Package: icewm
Installed-Size: 1131
Package: iceme
Installed-Size: 296
Package: icewm-themes
Installed-Size: 15380

Package: ion
Installed-Size: 348

Package: wmaker
Installed-Size: 5400

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Re: gnome installation help

[Edward Murrell]

On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 05:45, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hello, I'm trying to run Gnome and XFree86 on my
> Debian box, a Dell Precision.
> 
> The Debian command line works great.
> However, I can't get Gnome working properly no matter
> how many times I try variations on apt-get install
>  .  I get an Xserver could not start error...
> 
> I *am* able to boot to Knoppix, which correctly
> identifies my video card and runs KDE.
> 
> Please give a basic list of commands or link to gnome
> installation tutorial.

It would be good to know which version of Debian you're running, the
kernel version, the graphics card, and possibly the version of XFree86.

However, most likely the computer is attempting to run the screen/card
at a resolution or display depth it is incapable of. The settings for
this are held in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4

You can edit this manually, or reconfigure it with the command;
dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86

Alternatively, try copying the configuration file from Knoppix.

Finally, and perhaps most importantly, don't forget to check the log
file. The log file for xfree86 is at /var/log/XFree86.0.log.
It is probably easiest to read the file with less, so the command would
be;
less /var/log/XFree86.0.log

Hope this helps;

- Edward


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Re: apt-get unstable question

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On Thursday 13 November 2003 10:00 am, Rick Weinbender wrote:
> I'm running the current stable version
> and I need to install a package from
> an unstable source (tmda ver.0.86).
> (the unstable package does work with woody).
> *
> Is there a way to install an unstable package on
> stable distro from the command line.
> *
> Someone suggested 'apt-get -t unstable install tmda'.
> I tried this but it didn't work.
> Does anyone know if this is possible and the proper syntax.
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Rick

The method you are refering to is called 'pinning'. You need a 
'/etc/apt/preferences' file listing the versions of Debian you want to 
use. There is a man page for apt_preferences, though people have posted 
versions of that file to this list. If you install a package from 
unstable you will also have to upgrade the libc6 libraries and maybe 
other depends. I would try  to build the package for Woody using 
'apt-get source -b '. You will need to have unstable 
sources in your '/etc/sources.list' file. 
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Re: freelance sysadmining -- superlong -- [WAS: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"]

[Tom]

On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 03:35:39PM +0100, Benedict Verheyen wrote:
> Another lesson learnt here: stay off the pot. At a later age you
> will not be able to count past 4. :-) just couldn't help it.

I haven't touched it for 5 years, once I realized I'm still same old 
boring me with it or without it :-)

I have mixed feelings.  One the one hand, I read about China's opium 
wars in the 1800s, and see a failed people resulting from "legalizing 
it."  On the other hand, I see a drug which causes people to fight, 
crash their cars, and beat their kids (alcohol) completely normalized.

I think the right answer is to legalize it, but, just as you are 
considered a drunk and a loser if you drink before work, habitually, or 
to excess, exactly the same with dope.  Folks in Amsterdam have the 
correct attitude: they mix tobacco with grass because it cuts down on 
the smell and doesn't get you so whoppered.  Exactly like we don't drink 
pure grain alcohol.

I really think the "severe moderation, low concentration, but it's okay 
for adults" message is the correct message for drugs.  It is totally 
hypocritcal to encourage this message for one drug but not others, when 
any drug to excess requres counseling, but adults in moderation can 
manage.  I've never heard anybody put the issue like this in public yet.  
I have hope we can grow up about it, yet.


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sylpheed-claws/unstable trouble: ssl/gpg support missing?

[Johannes Graumann]

Hello,

I've been using sylpheed-claws/unstable (together with
sylpheed-claws-plugins/unstable and dependants) VERY happily on my
testing system for a while now.
Recently I caused some mess on my system and had to reinstall it
afterwards ... Linux gives you the power to screw up whatever you feel
like ... now I have weired problems showing up here: the ssl and gpg
tabs are missing from the preferences!
Any hints?

Cheers - Joh


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Re: window manager recomendation

[Jonathan Dowland]

On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 06:38:40PM -0800, Erik Steffl wrote:
 
>   the default look kinda sucks though... it can be changed completely 
> (take a lok at www.fvwm.org)

There is a great article about window-manager choices, and fvwm advocacy
at http://www.igs.net/~tril/fvwm/

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Re: problems with cdwriter on woody-system

[duck]

On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 06:38:09PM +0100, Palfalvi Richard wrote:
> Am Mit, 2003-11-12 um 21.37 schrieb duck:
>  
> > I think you need scsi_mod and sr_mod (someone correct me if I'm wrong). I
> > have also included the relevant bits from dmesg below.
> 
> When I did "insmod sr_mod" or insmod scsi_mod"  the errormessage was 
> ==> insmod: sr_mod: no module by that name found
> ==> insmod: scsi_mod: no module by that name found

Sorry. My mistake. I presume you're running 2.4.18-bf2.4 or some other 
similar pre-packaged kernel where sr_mod and scsi_mod are compiled 
into the kernel. Hence these modules do not need to be loaded.
 
> How are these modules named when I work with MODCONF (I couldn't find
> them in there!?)
>  
> > I think you also need to stick "ide-cd ignore=hdc" in
> > /etc/modutils/aliases too, (and run update-modules after) since your
> > ide-cd modules is loaded before your ide-scsi module.
> 
> sorry, but what do you mean with STICK "ide-cd ." in ..
> 
> I found the aliases-file (see attachment) but how is the syntax for this
> ignore-command? Is it something like options= blablabla??

OK. Since the stuff is compiled directly into the kernel you need to 
put the relevant options into /etc/lilo.conf instead

> > Alternatiely, you can swap the order of ide-scsi and ide-cd in
> > /etc/modules.
> 
> I do NOT have any /etc/modules directory or file on my PC !?? I have no
> idead why this file is missing and everything else runs fine except the
> cdwriter-problem .
>
> So can I create it by myself or with a special command? And what should
> be the exact content of it to have the right order of modules?

As before, since it's all built in to the kernel, you don't really 
need /etc/modules. In /etc/lilo.conf I think you need following in 
your append line:

hdc=ide-scsi ide-cd ignore=hdc

And then run update-lilo (as root) after.  That should make it work.

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Re: Stock 2.4.16 kernel, initrd and ext3

[David Z Maze]

ScruLoose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> I've been wanting to switch from ext2 to ext3 on this machine, including
> the root filesystem.
>
> I'm using the stock Debian 2.4.16-i686 kernel, which (according to
> /boot/config-2.4.16-686) has ext3 support _as a module_...

2.4.*16*?  That's really old; even woody shipped with a 2.4.18 kernel
(though not as the default kernel).

> Now, my understanding is that this kernel uses initrd, and thus it'll be
> okay for me to switch my root fs to ext3 (it'll load initrd first,
> notice that it needs ext3, ins the mod, mount the root partition, then
> carry on booting)...
>
> 1)  confirm/deny?

That sounds correct.  (An initrd-based kernel will probably have
almost nothing built in as a driver, and everything will be as
modules, which get loaded from the initrd.)

> 2)  Do I need to modconf the ext3 module in order for this to work?

You shouldn't need to.

> 3)  Once I've done tune2fs -j and tweaked my fstab, are there any other
> steps I'm missing before I reboot?

No, I think that's about it.  ext3 is convenient that way.

> 4)  How do I find out for myself whether my current kernel is using
> initrd?

Probably look at your bootloader configuration; there should be a
mention of /initrd.img or /boot/initrd-$KVERS.img.

> Normally I'd just try it and see if it worked, but leaving the system
> un-bootable and having to dig out the rescue disk is such a pain... 

With ext3 you also have the bonus that the filesystem is still a
mostly-valid ext2 filesystem.  And all of the modern rescue media I've
seen (not the woody installer, but things like SysRescueCD and
Knoppix) support ext3.  So you shouldn't be able to hose yourself too
badly doing this.  :-)

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"Theoretical politics is interesting.  Politicking should be illegal."
-- Abra Mitchell


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