Debian Installer + LVM

[Michael Bellears]

Is there any trick to using LVM with the Debian Installer?

I partition the HD ->

Config the logical Vol. Manager -> Configure Volume Group -> Create Vol.
Group.

And I get: No physical volumes (i.e. partitions) were found in your
system...

I am obviously doing something incorrectly - So any assitance is greatly
appreciated.

Regards,
MB

Re: Temp and fan speed monitoring in GKrellM

[MillTek]

Alvin Oga wrote:
hi ya 

On Thu, 1 Jul 2004, MillTek wrote:
 

Can anyone recommend a good tutorial in using GKrellM to monitor system 
and cpu temps and fan speeds?  I've read a few but so far have only been

able to get CPU temp sdisplayed. My board is an Abit NF7-M with Athlon
2500.
   

install lmsensors for cpu temp and fans
install hddtemp for disk temp
add gui to flavor per user taste
add monitoring to flavor per remote colo taste 
( shutdown before it goes down by itself, and tell the remote techie to
 change the fan )

c ya
alvin
 

Hi Alvin,
I have lmsensors installed but only the cpu temp seems to pass data to 
GKrellM.  The machine's bios also gets a case temp and fan speeds for 
the cpu fan and power supply fan. I can't get them to show up in GKrellM.

I'll install hddtemp when I get these working.
Jim
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Mach64 DRI -- almost there, but ...

[David Baron]

I actually got a mach64.ko to compile and load. Congratulations. 
Unfortunately, the xfree and mesa versions on that CVS would no compile. I do 
have mesa-dri-mach64 and dri-trunk stuff from Sid.

So I load at start up agpgart, ati-agp and the mach64 modules. Agpgart and 
mach64 are acknowledged in dmesg without errors. Hoever, still no DRI. The 
XFree86 log shows agp as unavailable saying be sure the kernel module agpgart 
is loaded. It is.

So, now what?


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Re: fast, tabbed, gnome/wm- compliant terminal

[Zenaan Harkness]

On Thu, 2004-07-01 at 16:22, Magnus Therning wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 09:46:13PM -0700, Marc Wilson wrote:
> >On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 01:01:32PM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
> >> Does this exist?
> >> Will gnome-terminal ever return to being performant?
> >> Am I the only one going crazy just trying to edit files?
> >
> >And you don't just use xterm (instead of the disaster that is
> >gnome-terminal) because...?
> 
> I guess xterm still isn't tabbed, is it?
> 
> I'd love to swap gnome-terminal for xterm, but I can't live without
> tabs...

This is my reason too - I have two 1600 width screens (can just get
three terms in side by side (about 87 chars each)), and it's still not
enough. I'd die without tabbed terminals.

zen


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Re: automounting

[Silvan]

> cdrom is /dev/hdd and is what i want to automount at this point along with
> /dev/fd0. Where would /media have come from?

From discover, I think.  I have it too, and at some point I answered "yes" to 
a question to the effect of "do you want discover to manage your CD-ROM 
symlinks for you automatically?"

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Re: Temp and fan speed monitoring in GKrellM

[Alvin Oga]

hi ya 

On Thu, 1 Jul 2004, MillTek wrote:

> >>Can anyone recommend a good tutorial in using GKrellM to monitor system 
> >>and cpu temps and fan speeds?  I've read a few but so far have only been
> >>
> >>able to get CPU temp sdisplayed. My board is an Abit NF7-M with Athlon
> >>2500.

install lmsensors for cpu temp and fans

install hddtemp for disk temp

add gui to flavor per user taste

add monitoring to flavor per remote colo taste 
( shutdown before it goes down by itself, and tell the remote techie to
  change the fan )

c ya
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Re: Debian Installer + LVM

[Alexei Chetroi]

On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 05:06:39PM +1000, Michael Bellears wrote:
> Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2004 17:06:39 +1000
> From: Michael Bellears <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: debian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Debian Installer + LVM
> 
> Is there any trick to using LVM with the Debian Installer?
> 
> I partition the HD ->
> 
> Config the logical Vol. Manager -> Configure Volume Group -> Create Vol.
> Group.
> 
> And I get: No physical volumes (i.e. partitions) were found in your
> system...

  Have you created physical volumes? What installer are you using?

  In beta-3 in partitioner you may mannualy partition HD, create
partition table of your taste, create partitions and choose their use.
One type of partion use is physical volume for LVM.

  I've just tried beta-3 of Sarge installer and I have to say that I'm
impressed. Great job, folks. I've installed my current system from
beta-2 on lvm, beside root partition, but in beta-2 me had to format
physical volume from shell, as I didn't find how to do it from
installer. 

  Good luck!

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RE: Mach64 DRI -- almost there, but ...

[David Baron]

<
I actually got a mach64.ko to compile and load. Congratulations. 
Unfortunately, the xfree and mesa versions on that CVS would no compile. I do 
have mesa-dri-mach64 and dri-trunk stuff from Sid.

So I load at start up agpgart, ati-agp and the mach64 modules. Agpgart and 
mach64 are acknowledged in dmesg without errors. Hoever, still no DRI. The 
XFree86 log shows agp as unavailable saying be sure the kernel module agpgart 
is loaded. It is.

So, now what?
<

My card is ati, my agp bridge is intel so put in intel-agp instead of ati-agp 
so got the AGP. Still no luck.

Did a verbose-debug run of glxinfo. Found it could not find a driver in the 
dri-trunk modules subdirectory. I had it elsewhere and copied it. Glxinfo now 
comes up with direct rendering yes!

So I ran glxgears. It  did not work. Got this:
# glxgears
do_wait: drmWaitVBlank returned -1, IRQs don't seem to be working correctly.
Try running with LIBGL_THROTTLE_REFRESH and LIBL_SYNC_REFRESH unset.
3 frames in 6.0 seconds =  0.500 FPS

So ... How does one do this?
Another caveat. The IRQ is being shared among 3 devices by steering. The AGP 
is just one of them!


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Re: Moving from RedHat/KDE to Debian/KDE

[James Sinnamon]

Dear Mark and everyone else,

On Thu, 1 Jul 2004 05:09 pm, you wrote:
> This may be too late, but I think you need to use
> 'dexconf' to update XF86Config-4.

... that did it!  A snapshot can be found at:

  http://users.bigpond.net.au/jaymz/debian/sarge-1280x1024-kde-2.png

... which is a vast improvement on:

   http://users.bigpond.net.au/jaymz/debian/sarge-desktop.png

... and even:

   http://users.bigpond.net.au/jaymz/debian/rh9-kde-2.png

However ...

Cursor now gets blocked out with ugly black stripes
--

One problem, which is more than a little irritating, is that a 
pair of two groups of ugly black stripes, which look similar to
barcodes, and which, together, occupy a rectangle 45 pixels across 
and 60 pixels high blocks out the mouse cursor, whenever it is
located on an icon or a border region.  The top right corner of
this region is located right on top of where the mouse cursor 
 would be visible.  This happens for screens of 1280x1024, 800x600, 
but NOT 640x480.  On a 800x600 screen it has the appearance of a
pair of bar codes.

I was not able to capture these stripes with KSnapshot.  Has anyone
had this problem?
 

 
>
>
> http://users.bigpond.net.au/jaymz/debian/sarge-desktop.png


>
> I haven't tried it - I manually edited the file - but
> I think this will do it... try 'man dexconf' - also
> try 'man -k Config' - this should give you apropos
> (sp?) for Config, should list dexconf if that is
> indeed correct.
>
> Also, 'info --apropos xxx' is the same as 'man -k xxx'
>
> HTH

It did.  Thank you.

> Mark
>
> p.s.  To switch resolution, ctrl-alt-KP+ or KP-;
> xvidtune to tune video params to fit the screen better
> (wont help much if its already out of monitor's specs
> and thus blank); ctrl-tab and ctrl-Fn to switch
> desktops.
>

TIA.

James.

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Recommended external USB DVD+RW drives?

[Luke Reeves]

I'm in the market for an external, USB dual-layer DVD recorder.  But I'm 
not sure which ones are compatible with Linux and the dvdrwtools.  The 
one I'm examining is the Sony DRX-700UL, a slick little package.  Can 
anyone recommend me similar external DVD writers?  Or any information 
about the Sony model's compatibility with Linux of course.. Thanks,

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Re: Global Env Variables

[John Patterson]

> 
> So the earliest place I guess you could get it in would be to stick the 
> "export VARNAME=VALUE" lines at the begining of /etc/rc.d/rc
> That would be fairly global.
> 
> -Ben.
> 

I added these lines to the begining of /etc/init.d/rc:

export LANG=en_GB
export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/j2sdk1.4-sun/

but they still are not affecting the tomcat script run by rc.  What am I doing
wrong here?  I have looked in /etc/messages and dmesg but cannot see any error
messages.

Any hints about where to look next?







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[Zak B. Elep]

Hello Debian Developers and Users,

Imperium and Media G8way are sponsoring the Philippine Open Source
Conference 2004 on August 17, 18, and 19 at EDSA Shangri-la, Manila,
Philippines.  Some of you guys might be interested in participating, as
volunteer speakers, participants or whatnot.  Visit the site:

http://www.philosc.com/

For more information.

Cheers,
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Mozilla Print Problem

[Keith O'Connell]

Hi,
I am using testing at the present, and I have an oddity with
mozilla. I don't have occassion to print from mozilla very
often, but I did once last week and again last night and the
problem existed on both occassions.

I print a page. It looks good in the print preview, but when I
send it to my printer, it is reduced so that it only fills the
top teft hand quarter of the A4 page. The print is set to 100%
size.

I am using cups to supply printing services. The only other
programs I print from are emacs (both postscript and regular)
and gnumeric and both of these programs recognise the A4
sheet, and use it fully.

I have searched the mailing list archives for mozilla print
problems but can find nothing. I have also looked in the
debian bug track system, but could find nothing relevant.

Can anyone suggest where to start looking for a solution?

Keith.
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Squid ACL for Windows Updates failed

[deb_milist]

hi all 
After installing squid, i went to some experiments such as determining 
which host to allow and deny.
One of those is allowing all clients machine to update their winblows 
without any authentication by adding .microsoft.com to one rule that can 
be connected without authentication from all clients.
It 's look like gonna be successful, but somehow it failed in the end.
IE browser went to MSwin updates web site and detected which updates 
should be applied properly.
But when  users start to install the updates, IE told that all updates  
is failed to be  installed. There's even no folder called WUTemp in 
local machine
which usually created during the updates to store temporary files. So, 
there's even no files being downloaded.
I suspect that it use a different port ( or what ... i don't wanna care 
about ).
So, what kind of ACL should be applied to squid to have this winblows 
update successfully ?
Some windblowshead in the ms newsgroups suggest me to deploy SUS, which 
is surely, i don't wanna do it for godsake ! --- what kind of idiot do
deploying a windblows server in a machine that connected directly to the 
internet.
.meanwhile, I start wondering if there's some webapps that could be 
use to deploy winblows updating locally in an internal network.
so users just go to an internal web server in the network via their 
preffered browser and start updating there without having to connect to 
the internet ... ;-)

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FYI: Mouse cursor problem due to wrong VideoRam value

[James Sinnamon]

On Thu, 1 Jul 2004 06:34 pm, James Sinnamon wrote:
> Dear Mark and everyone else,

> However ...
>
> Cursor now gets blocked out with ugly black stripes
> --
>
> One problem, which is more than a little irritating, is that a
> pair of two groups of ugly black stripes, which look similar to
> barcodes, and which, together, occupy a rectangle 45 pixels across
> and 60 pixels high blocks out the mouse cursor, whenever it is
> located on an icon or a border region.  The top right corner of
> this region is located right on top of where the mouse cursor
>  would be visible.  This happens for screens of 1280x1024, 800x600,
> but NOT 640x480.  On a 800x600 screen it has the appearance of a
> pair of bar codes.
>
> I was not able to capture these stripes with KSnapshot.  Has anyone
> had this problem?

I had incorrectly entered a VideoRAM value of 33008 (wrongly 
calculated in my head : 32 x 1024) instead of 32768 for the 
VideoRAM value of the "Device" section for the Matrox G550
Video Driver Card.

When I corrected this the ugly black stripes disappeared.

Apologies for any unnecessary concern.

regards,

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mozilla-mplayer

[Keith O'Connell]

Hi,
One of the hardest things to give up when I stopped using
windows, was the various movie trailer sites. I am a complete
cinema junkie. I love them.

I finally found mplayer-mozilla at one of the sites listed at
www.apt-get.org and installed it. Now I get both quicktime
and windows media trailers crystal clear. The problem is they
are silent. Not a peep!

Sound is fine on this machine. I have oggs playing almost all
the time, but mplayer-mozilla is resolutly silent. Does anyone
have sound working with this plug-in, and if so could you help
me out here?
Keith
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RE: Mach64 DRI -- almost there, but ...

[David Baron]

One other problem. One an Xsession has restarted or even simply logged in and 
out, dri comes up disabled. The Glx libary returns that the system cannot do 
it.


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install: kdelibs3 - error in unpacking

[Alexandr Rosen]

Hi,

I am new to linux and debian and kde, and I have a problem 
with installing the system - the message 

kdelibs3 - error in unpacking 

occured during install, and "dpkg --configure kdm" says that 
errors were encountered while processing. Is there any easy 
solution? 

Thanks a lot for any hint,

Sasha


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postfix configuration

[paunoga]

Hi,

I have just successfully installed posfix as my mail server. Now I can
send 
e-mails with both commands "mail" and "sendmail" but my problem is
that the 
mail arriving has a "wrong name of sender" and a wrong "from" adress.
It's 
just like this:

from: wrong_name1 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

These name1 and adress are not the ones I have set in the main.cf file
(and I 
don't know where they come from!!!).
I can't find the correct place or the correct words to fix this
parameters: I 
googled and looked at my configuration files with no result.

Now I had found out that I can modify the name and adress using
differents 
options in the MUA, but I would like to have the corrects ones fixed
in the 
postfix configuration.


Can anybody help me?  

Thanks!!

Re: fast, tabbed, gnome/wm- compliant terminal

[Jon Dowland]

On Thu, 1 Jul 2004 08:22:41 +0200, Magnus Therning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 09:46:13PM -0700, Marc Wilson wrote:
> >On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 01:01:32PM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
> >> Does this exist?
> >> Will gnome-terminal ever return to being performant?
> >> Am I the only one going crazy just trying to edit files?
> >
> >And you don't just use xterm (instead of the disaster that is
> >gnome-terminal) because...?
> 
> I guess xterm still isn't tabbed, is it?
> 
> I'd love to swap gnome-terminal for xterm, but I can't live without
> tabs...

Why not try a tabbed window manager? It seems to me that grouping
windows using tabs is a form of window management, and it makes much
more sense to have the WM implement the necessary code for tabs once,
rather than the various terminals, browsers, editors, file managers
etc. re-implement them internally again and again.

I'd recommend fluxbox if you need some windows-esque comforts, and ion
if you fancy trying something new.

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postfix configuration

[Pau Novella]

Hi,

I have just installed successfully posfix as my mail server. Now I can send 
e-mails with both commands "mail" and "sendmail" but my problem is that the 
mail arriving has a "wrong name of sender" and a wrong "from" adress. It's 
just like this:

from: name1 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

These names and adress are not the ones I have set in the main.cf file (and I 
don't know where they come from!!!).
I can't find the correct place or the correct words to fix this parameters: I 
googled and looked at my configuration files with no result.

Now I had found out that I can modify the name and adress using differents 
options in the MUA, but I would like to have the corrects ones fixed in the 
postfix configuration.


Can anybody help me?  

Thanks!!

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Re: Printing problems with mozilla

[Wayne Topa]

Brad Sims([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said:
> no Xprint servers found...
> 
> xprint starts with no errors... I did a apt-get purge and reinstall
> of xprt and friends, and mozilla and friends.
> 
> echo $XPSERVERLIST returns blank
> and here is my output from xprint restart:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/xprint restart
> Restarting Xprint server(s): Xprt.
> Stopping Xprint servers: Xprt.
> Starting Xprint servers: Xprt.
> 
> Cups is installed and working fine...
> 
> However when I do a ps auxf: 
> I do not see a xprint server listed

I am not using cups so this may not help.

My firefox stopped printing after the last upgrade and I had to
install xprt-xprintorg & xprt-common.  I also could not find any
printers.  After much reading I finally got it working by adding
this to my .bash_profile.

XPSERVERLIST="`/etc/init.d/xprint get_xpserverlist`"
export XPSERVERLIST
export LPDEST="lp+"

My printcap has entries for 4 printers, lp, lpp, lp+, ep.

If, after adding the above, you are printing 1/4 pages, don't forget
to select the correct paper size.  For some reason mine defaulted to
A4 paper.

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Re: Mozilla Print Problem

[Wayne Topa]

Keith O'Connell([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said:
> Hi,
> I am using testing at the present, and I have an oddity with
> mozilla. I don't have occassion to print from mozilla very
> often, but I did once last week and again last night and the
> problem existed on both occassions.
> 
> I print a page. It looks good in the print preview, but when I
> send it to my printer, it is reduced so that it only fills the
> top teft hand quarter of the A4 page. The print is set to 100%
> size.

See the Xprint_FAQ (if you are using xprt-xprintorg).
> 

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Re: mozilla-mplayer

[Wolfgang Lonien]

Keith O'Connell wrote:

> [sound in mplayer]

Hi Keith,

look at /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf - you can select between various sound
plugins there.

HTH,
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Re: Mozilla Print Problem

[Keith O'Connell]

>> I am using testing at the present, and I have an oddity
>> with mozilla. I don't have occassion to print from mozilla very
>> often, but I did once last week and again last night and the
>> problem existed on both occassions.
>> 
>> I print a page. It looks good in the print preview, but when I
>> send it to my printer, it is reduced so that it only fills the
>> top teft hand quarter of the A4 page. The print is set to 100%
>> size.

WT> See the Xprint_FAQ (if you are using xprt-xprintorg).

That was it! Change 600 to 300 and all works just fine - Thank you!


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Re: fast, tabbed, gnome/wm- compliant terminal

[Thomas Adam]

--- Jon Dowland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 

> Why not try a tabbed window manager? It seems to me that grouping

Because it doesn't answer the question. :) Although had he been using a
proper window manager such as Fvwm, he could have used the FvwmTabs
module[1] to swallow rxvt's, xterms, etc.

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Re: mozilla-mplayer

[Keith O'Connell]

> "WL" == Wolfgang Lonien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

WL> look at /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf - you can select between
WL> various sound plugins there.

That was it change ao=alsa1x to ao=oss and everything works great!

Thank you

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Re: fast, tabbed, gnome/wm- compliant terminal

[Kai Grossjohann]

Magnus Therning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> I'd love to swap gnome-terminal for xterm, but I can't live without
> tabs...

I've started using screen recently.  It's way cool.  It doesn't have
tabs, but the functionality provided by tabs is there: you can have
multiple shells running in the same terminal.

The best part about screen is that you can set it up such that each
xterm is just a new window showing the existing list of shells.  This
means that if I decide I would like to see shells 3 and 4
concurrently, then I just open two xterms showing those two shells.
When I don't need to see the shells anymore, I close the xterms, but
the shells are still there.

Kai


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Re: Bandwidth monitor perip

[Stephen Mulcahy]

You may also wish to investigate iperf (measures available bandwidth -
if you're willing to do some scripting to collate the results) or
bandwidthd (gives a very simple page listing bandwidth used by each
client, not in debian yet afaik but possibly on the way -
http://bandwidthd.sourceforge.net/)

-stephen

On Wed, 30 Jun 2004 17:34:14 +0530, Vijaya S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> hi ,
> Can anyone suggest a good Bandwidth monitor tool "PER IP" basis for a
> network hainv gboth Windows and Linux mahcines.
> 
> regards,
> Vijaya
> 
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Re: mozilla-mplayer

[Wolfgang Lonien]

Keith O'Connell wrote:

> Thank you

uw = you're welcome

Cheers,
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Re: How hard would this be?(Learning LaTex)

[Johan Kullstam]

Jon Dowland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> On Sat, 26 Jun 2004 23:21:41 -0500, cecil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 
> > Someone told me today at lunch that what with my  "wierd obsession", as
> > he called it, to perhaps go without a gui(X), I should try "that latex
> > thingie". My buddy is a real wordmaster. LOL. I did some reading up on
> > it; it's interesting. I never knew that you could do all that with no
> > window system. Does anyone here use it on a regular basis, and if so,
> > how hard is it to use, setup, print, etc? 
> 
> I used it to write up my 3rd year project, and I think it probably
> ended up being as useful as writing it in microsoft word (not taking
> into account of course the unavailability of word for linux).
> 
> Much of the power that latex has exists now in word: e.g. automatic
> contents building.

How about automatic equation numbering like this?

Sample
  x = 3  (4)
and
  y = 14 (5)

I want little numbers at the end of the line, with auto-increment
please.  I do NOT want some horrible "Equation 4" caption under the
equation.

I do a lot of maths and find word to be rather inadequate and very
awkward.

> I used bibtex for references which was a blessing
> and a curse. The appearance was significantly more attractive than
> anything I could concoct in word; and the typesettings is second to
> none. However some of the limitations/annoyances really built up and
> got on my nerves.
> 
> I adopted a vim script called `vim-latexsuite'  mid way through and
> found it very helpful; especially `auto-folding' which collapses each
> section up until you ask it to be expanded.
> 
> Find and print out a good reference sheet and try out vim-latexsuite,
> an emacs equivalent if thats your poison or an environment such as
> kile or lyx.
> 
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Python problem with Fonts

[David Goodenough]

I am trying to run a Python program which uses ReportLab, and it is having
some problems with fonts.  I am not a Python programmer, so this may be
a very basic problem.  I am running Python 2.3 on Unstable.

The end of the traceback I get is:-

  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/reportlab/pdfgen/canvas.py", line 
1242, in setFont
font = pdfmetrics.getFont(self._fontname)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/reportlab/pdfbase/pdfmetrics.py", 
line 619, in getFont
face = getTypeFace(fontName)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/reportlab/pdfbase/pdfmetrics.py", 
line 572, in getTypeFace
return _typefaces[faceName]
KeyError: u'Century Schoolbook L-Bold-WinAnsi'

This is actually some code called Kugar.py, which calls the ReportLab code
to generate PDF files.  The Kugar.py code adds the -WinAnsi to the end of
the font name, and I tried modifying it not to, but no change (other than the
name of the failing font).

How do I get a list of the supported fonts?  Am I missing a package?

Thanks in advance

David


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Amazingly slow bootup on HP laptop and other problems

[Sudarshana Koushik]

Hi ppl, 
So here goesI installed debian/unstable on HPnx9110 and
almost everything works fine, except
1. The first line after lilo ('Loading Linux..') takes
ages. The dots appear one after the other so slowly, it
painful to watch it. The normal boot process appears to be
slower than other computers too considering this is 3.2GHz,
and other processes run fine and fast.
2. I dont have DRI working. I have tried everything possible
to get it runningbut no use. lspci shows
:01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc:
Unknown device 5835
www.pcidatabase.com does not have device number 5835, while
http://pciids.sourceforge.net/iii/?i=1002 shows device no,
5835 as Radeon 9100/M IGP, while HP claims it Mobility Radeon
9000 IGP. Anyways, the long and short of it is that it isnt
supported yet. Is there anything I could do to get it running
with full DRI. (even fglrx doesnt work with it).
3. And this probably the most suprising of all. I dont get
alsa if I connect the ethernet cable first. If i connect the
ethernet cable after the alsa script has run, then I'm
fine. But if i connect the cable right in the beginning, then
cat /proc/asound/cards shows No cards detected. But when I
have alsa running,if I
run xmms (or any audio app) from the terminal, I get IRQ #5
disabled, but everything works fine. Does that have anything
to do with it?
4. What is SMBus. Do I need some kinda driver for that, whats
its purpose?
I have attached both lspci -v and dmesg output
:00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 5833 (rev 02)
Subsystem: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 1234
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64
Memory at ea00 (32-bit, prefetchable)
Memory at e800 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Capabilities: 

:00:01.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 5838 (prog-if 00 [Normal 
decode])
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 99
Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=68
I/O behind bridge: 9000-9fff
Memory behind bridge: e810-e81f
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: f000-f7ff
Expansion ROM at 9000 [disabled] [size=4K]

:00:13.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 4347 (rev 01) 
(prog-if 10 [OHCI])
Subsystem: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 434c
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11
Memory at e8001000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)

:00:13.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 4348 (rev 01) 
(prog-if 10 [OHCI])
Subsystem: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 434c
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11
Memory at e8002000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)

:00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc ATI SMBus (rev 16)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company: Unknown device 006b
Flags: 66MHz, medium devsel
I/O ports at 8040
Memory at 1c00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]

:00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 4349 (prog-if 8a 
[Master SecP PriP])
Subsystem: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 4349
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 10
I/O ports at 
I/O ports at 
I/O ports at 
I/O ports at 
I/O ports at 8060 [size=16]

:00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 434c
Subsystem: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 434c
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 0

:00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 4342 (prog-if 01 
[Subtractive decode])
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64
Bus: primary=00, secondary=02, subordinate=04, sec-latency=69
I/O behind bridge: a000-afff
Memory behind bridge: e820-e82f

:00:14.5 Multimedia audio controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP150 AC'97 Audio 
Controller
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company: Unknown device 006b
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, slow devsel, latency 64, IRQ 10
Memory at e8003000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)

:00:14.6 Modem: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 434d (rev 01) (prog-if 00 
[Generic])
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company: Unknown device 006b
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, slow devsel, latency 64, IRQ 10
Memory at e8003400 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)

:01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 5835 
(prog-if 00 [VGA])
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company: Unknown device 006b
Flags: bus master, fast Back2Back, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 66,

Re: automatically restarting dying daemons?

[Derrick 'dman' Hudson]

On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 10:43:54PM -0500, Will Trillich wrote:
| On Wed, Jun 30 at 06:25PM -0400, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote:
| > On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 04:34:06PM -0500, Will Trillich wrote:
| > | problem: xinetd, after working just fine and dandy for weeks at
| > |   a time, gets dozens of "unexpected signal" (source unknown)
| > |   and gives up the ghost.
| > | 
| > | questions:
| > |   1) what's the best way (e.g. debian way) to monitor active
| > |  daemons and restart them when necessary? maybe some
| > |  utility already exists for this? or /proc/something?
| > |  or `ps ax`?
| > 
| > restartd.
| 
| hmm. this sounds promising...
| 
|   $ apt-cache search restart | sort
[...]

$ apt-cache policy restartd
restartd:
  Installed: 0.1.a-3
  Candidate: 0.1.a-3
  Version Table:
 *** 0.1.a-3 0
990 http://http.us.debian.org sarge/main Packages
 80 http://http.us.debian.org sid/main Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Oh, sorry, it's not in woody.  I tend to forget those sort of things
since I've been using a testing and unstable combination for a long
time.

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Re: [OT] yahoo protocol switching

[Nori Heikkinen]

on Wed, 30 Jun 2004 04:05:40PM -0500, Kirk Strauser insinuated:
> On Wednesday 2004-06-30 03:40 pm, Nori Heikkinen wrote:
> 
> > so i took matters into my own hands.  i'm having a small group of
> > us (10-15) download gaim and other clients, and sign up at
> > gabfest.net (thanks a lot, jamin!), for a proof-of-concept; we'll
> > hopefully migrate to our own server soon.  i told him about this,
> > and he got all excited about involving developers in the IT side
> > of things (we're a smaaall company, you see) ... looks like
> > the wheels are in motion.
> 
> Congrats!  That was an excellent handling of the situation.  Please
> keep us updated on how it works out, would you?

thanks!  will do.  :)



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Re: Mozilla Print Problem

[Wayne Topa]

Keith O'Connell([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said:
> 
> >> I am using testing at the present, and I have an oddity
> >> with mozilla. I don't have occassion to print from mozilla very
> >> often, but I did once last week and again last night and the
> >> problem existed on both occassions.
> >> 
> >> I print a page. It looks good in the print preview, but when I
> >> send it to my printer, it is reduced so that it only fills the
> >> top teft hand quarter of the A4 page. The print is set to 100%
> >> size.
> 
> WT> See the Xprint_FAQ (if you are using xprt-xprintorg).
> 
> That was it! Change 600 to 300 and all works just fine - Thank you!

Your welcome!  Thanks for reporting back as it may help others having
the same problem!

Cheers!

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Re: Re: apt-get install hangs while unpacking

[Salman Haq]

Hi,

I'm experiencing similar problems when trying to install libgtk2.0-dev from our local mirror. Doing apt-get install libgtk2.0-dev lists all the dependencies it is going to install and proceeds to download and unpack libexpat1-dev. After this package is installed, the whole process just slows down and eventually the connection times out. The overall progress stays at 1%.

On the server, the process continues to run as an orphan and continues to use the connection.

Can somebody give me pointers to how I can start debugging this issue?

Thanks,

Salman



When I ran the apt-get inside strace, it was killed by SIGSEGV and left
the three dpkg-deb processes orphans.  Those three processes seem to be
trying to unpack the same file.  Why am I getting three processes?  I
tried to capture the unpacking on another debian computer and it only
seems to have one.

David

David said:
> The root (var) partition has lots of space (only 4% used).  I think there
> is a problem with unpacking.  Is there a package besides dpkg involved in
> unpacking?
>
> David
>
> s. keeling said:
>> Incoming from David Hattery:
>>>
>>> About 90 percent of the time apt-get install hangs while unpacking.
>>> This
>>> requires a ctl_c to stop, and a dpkg --configure -a before retrying.
>>>
>>> There are 4 related processes so I am wondering if my setup is starting
>>> too many.  Example from on a reinstall after an aborted try (ps ax):
>>>
>>>  4839 pts/0S  0:00 apt-get --reinstall install gimp1.2
>>>  4849 pts/0S  0:00 /usr/bin/dpkg --unpack
>>> /var/cache/apt/archives/gimp1.2_1.2.3-2_i386.deb
>>>  4856 pts/0S  0:00 dpkg-deb --fsys-tarfile
>>> /var/cache/apt/archives/gimp1.2_1.2.3-2_i386.deb
>>>  4857 pts/0S  0:00 dpkg-deb --fsys-tarfile
>>> /var/cache/apt/archives/gimp1.2_1.2.3-2_i386.deb
>>>  4858 pts/0S  0:00 dpkg-deb --fsys-tarfile
>>> /var/cache/apt/archives/gimp1.2_1.2.3-2_i386.deb
>>
>> Are you running out of space in /var?
>>

Re: automounting

[Cheryl Homiak]

Ok, I sort of have automounting working. I'm using it with kernel 2.6.7, 
compiled in as a module and with the autofs package installed. However, 
even though during my bootup messages I get
starting automounter: /var/autofs/misc
and even though there's a probe line for it in /etc/modutils/autofs, and i 
also tried adding an alias line which didn't change anything,
the only way I can get this to work is to first modprobe autofs4 and then 
do
/etc/init.d/autofs start
after that I'm able to access the cdrom, cdrecorder and flopy using the 
respective keywords with /var/autofs/misc/
So what do I do to get the module to load and autofs to be running without 
having to do it manually?thanks.


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Re: root system type unknown in /etc/mtab

[Cheryl Homiak]

Well, I'm assuming there's something in the root filesystem (which 
fortunately by the way is only 100mb though of course i'm still concerned 
since it is the root file system) that makes mount and /etc/mtab consider 
it an unknown type, yet it does appear from the boot messages that it is 
mounting as an ext3 system: no errors anywhere. If I hadn't run mount and 
then looked at /etc/mtab I'd never have known unless something stopped 
functioning. Did try running fsck from a rescue cd with it and while it 
may have done some repair it didn't seem to report a problem afterward. 
but after rebooting, mtab and mount are still the same. I did the same 
conversion from ext2 to ext3 on my laptop, and it is reporting ext3 for 
the root filesystem, so I'm not sure what could have caused a problem.

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Re: automatically restarting dying daemons?

[Will Trillich]

On Thu, Jul 01 at 10:55AM -0400, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote:
> $ apt-cache policy restartd
> restartd:
>   Installed: 0.1.a-3
>   Candidate: 0.1.a-3
>   Version Table:
>  *** 0.1.a-3 0
> 990 http://http.us.debian.org sarge/main Packages
>  80 http://http.us.debian.org sid/main Packages
> 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
> 
> Oh, sorry, it's not in woody.  I tend to forget those sort of things
> since I've been using a testing and unstable combination for a long
> time.

never knew about the "policy" thing before. cool! :)

we're about to instantiate a new server anyhow, and it'll be
running sarge, so this may be the way to go. thanks for the
pointers...

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Here's how to TUNNEL SECURE X11 CONNECTIONS THROUGH SSH: on the
client, do this:
local-client# export DISPLAY=:0.0
local-client# ssh -X server
then once you're logged in at the server, do:
remote-server# netscape &
The environment created at the server will include the DISPLAY
variable, so netscape (or whatever) will dialogue with the
client machine. (See "man ssh" for more.)

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Re: automatically restarting dying daemons?

[Will Trillich]

On Wed, Jun 30 at 11:20PM -0500, Jacob S. wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Jun 2004 22:43:54 -0500
> Will Trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > at http://backports.org, i search for "restartd" and get
> > 
> > Sorry, no packages found.
> 
> At the risk of starting a flamewar about whether djb's tools
> are a good way to do things or not... :-)
> 
> Have you looked at daemontools? apt-cache show
> daemontools-installer, apt-cache show svtools. The sole
> purpose of daemontools is to make sure a program keeps running
> properly. I have successfully used it on occasion when I was
> working with a program that was known for crashing, but didn't
> consider the program important enough to make it run
> dependably. daemontools worked great.

the documentation is a bit terse at http://cr.yp.to/ -- can the
"run" script be

#!/bin/bash
/etc/init.d/some-daemon-here restart

which is effectively a "start-some-thing &" and quick return...

or does it need to be the non-returning call to the daemon
itself, so that the daemon is a child of the "supervise"
process? if so, ick.

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Ever think you're reading OUTDATED DOCUMENTATION? Check the
last-revised-date: if it's more than a few years ago, then
there's probably something more recent out there. It may
be under a whole different name, so it'll take perseverance
and determination on your part. Be alert -- you'll find it!

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Re: Squid ACL for Windows Updates failed

[Lucas Albers]

[stuff about squid not working for windows update deleted.]
I dont' acl limit what users can connect to.
Only users on the local domain can use the proxy cache.

I use a debian squid proxy for upwards of 3000 clients.
Works perfectly, saves tons of bandwidth, and speeds everything up.

attached is my squid.conf file with comments/whitespace removed.
Enjoy.


hierarchy_stoplist cgi-bin ?
acl QUERY urlpath_regex cgi-bin \?
no_cache deny QUERY
cache_mem 16 MB
maximum_object_size 1280096 KB
cache_dir ufs /var/spool/squid 3000 16 256
refresh_pattern ^ftp:   144020% 10080
refresh_pattern ^gopher:14400%  1440
refresh_pattern .   0   20% 4320
refresh_pattern http://*.windowsupdate.microsoft.com/ 0 80% 20160
reload-into-ims
refresh_pattern http://office.microsoft.com/ 0 80% 20160 reload-into-ims 
refresh_pattern http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/ 0 80% 20160
reload-into-ims
refresh_pattern http://wxpsp2.microsoft.com/ 0 80% 20160 reload-into-ims 
refresh_pattern http://xpsp1.microsoft.com/ 0 80% 20160 reload-into-ims 
refresh_pattern http://w2ksp4.microsoft.com/ 0 80% 20160 reload-into-ims 
refresh_pattern http://download.microsoft.com/ 0 80% 20160 reload-into-ims

refresh_pattern http://download.macromedia.com/ 0 80% 20160
reload-into-ims
refresh_pattern ftp://ftp.nai.com/ 0 80% 20160 reload-into-ims
refresh_pattern http://ftp.software.ibm.com/ 0 80% 20160 reload-into-ims
acl all src 0.0.0.0
acl manager proto cache_object
acl localhost src 127.0.0.1/255.255.255.255
acl to_localhost dst 127.0.0.0/8
acl SSL_ports port 443 563
acl SSL_ports port 873
acl Safe_ports port 80
acl Safe_ports port 21
acl Safe_ports port 443 563
acl Safe_ports port 70
acl Safe_ports port 210
acl Safe_ports port 1025-65535
acl Safe_ports port 280
acl Safe_ports port 488
acl Safe_ports port 591
acl Safe_ports port 777
acl Safe_ports port 631
acl Safe_ports port 873
acl Safe_ports port 901
acl purge method PURGE
acl CONNECT method CONNECT
acl home1 src xxx.xx.133.165-255.255.255.255
acl home2 src xx.xx.0.0/16
http_access allow manager localhost
http_access deny manager
http_access allow purge localhost
http_access deny purge
http_access deny !Safe_ports
http_access deny CONNECT !SSL_ports
acl our_networks src xxx.xx.0.0/16
http_access allow our_networks
http_access allow localhost
http_access deny all

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icp_access allow all
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coredump_dir /var/spool/squid


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init scripts?

[MillTek]

HI,
There are several things I'd like to do at boot time, includingstart 
bootlogd and syslog. I've been told to set up an 'init script' etc.  
Where do you do this?  Is there a specific script that is always 
accessed and if so which one?

Appreciate the help
Jim
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Re: automatically restarting dying daemons?

[Will Trillich]

On Thu, Jul 01 at 08:58AM +0800, John Summerfield wrote:
> Mark Ferlatte wrote:
> 
> >Will Trillich said on Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 04:34:06PM -0500:
> >>questions:
> >>1) what's the best way (e.g. debian way) to monitor active
> >>   daemons and restart them when necessary? maybe some
> >>   utility already exists for this? or /proc/something?
> >>   or `ps ax`?
> >
> >monit can do this.
> 
> As can webmin.

webmin would be promising if we already had all that overhead
running. (plus i've seen it have problems -- for ecsample,
"apache-lib.pl" is missing in a few installations i've seen, and
it borks the html interface when a piece like that is absent.)

plus, the webmin code itself looks like it's right out of the
seventies. hoo boy!

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Preparing to UPGRADE POSTGRESQL? If you have a second machine on
your network that you can tinker with, do your upgrade there,
first: once tested, you can just have your current applications
link to the remote database through the network:
psql -h 192.168.2.17 myDB
or in perl,
$dbh = DBI->connect('dbi:Pg:dbname=myDB;host=192.168.2.17');
(You may need to tweak your 'host-based access' settings in
/etc/postgresql/pg_hba.conf, first.) Once you're satisfied that
all is well, upgrade your main server. No down time!
  See "man psql" and "man DBD::Pg" for details.

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Creating own installer images

[Robert Waldner]

Hi!

I need to create special Debian installer images, as we have machines 
 here with Promise PDC20378 S-ATA RAID controllers and need to install
 Woody on them. The driver for this controller was opensourced, but 
 it's only available as a module, so no luck with just building it 
 statically into the kernel.

I've googled around for (what felt like) ages, and the best I could 
 find was 
 .
 Following the instructions mentioned there I was able to get a 
 custom-built kernel-image.deb and make a bootable Woody CD.

However, for the life of me, I can't figure out how to create a fitting 
 initrd image where I can place ft3xx.o (for the S-ATA controller).
 Advice on how to get the installer auto-load that (and scsi_mod, on which it 
 depends) would come in handy, too.
 Even better, the CD doesn't boot very far, because it can't find _any_ 
 root.bin (I guess that's the name for the initrd image, since there's 
 RAMDISK smeared all over the screen at this step). But as soon as I 
 figure out how to create it I could always place it on a floppy.

Any advice/pointers greatly appreciated, since I think I tripled the 
 amount of grey in my hair today ;)

cheers+TIA;
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Re: fast, tabbed, gnome/wm- compliant terminal

[Will Trillich]

On Thu, Jul 01 at 02:27PM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-07-01 at 14:20, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
> > It gets laggy. Inconsistently. When using vim inside
> > gnome-terminal.
> 
> For example, in the topmost line (again in vim, with
> gnome-terminal at 87x98 chars) it is really noticeable, and
> the CPU hits 100% just holding the cursor key down.
> 
> It really slows you down and is very frustrating after weeks
> of putting up with it.
> 
> It could just be a Debian unstable thing...

gives me the impression it's refreshing everything from
cursor-to-end-of-screen even tho most modern processors wouldn't
have much trouble even with that.

try the same tests with vim  at a console .
try the same tests with vim  in rxvt or xterm.
try the same tests with gvim in its own window.
try the same tests with mc   in gnome-terminal.

where's the pattern?

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Looking to ENCODE OR DECODE SOME ROT-13 TEXT? No problem.
"Vg'f rnfl jvgu Ivz." It's a simple alphabet substitution where
each letter changes to its counterpart 13 places away in the
alphabet (a<->n, g<->t, etc) . Open the text in Vim, then
select it (type "v" at one end of the text to encode/decode,
then move to the other end) and then type "g?".
  Or, to rot-13 a whole line, just "g??".  That's all!
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Re: Lynx and xhtml

[Elimar Riesebieter]

On Tue, 08 Jun 2004 the mental interface of
Thomas Dickey told:

> On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 10:51:17PM +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote:
> > On Mon, 07 Jun 2004 the mental interface of
> > Thomas Dickey told:
> > 
> > > Elimar Riesebieter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > 
> > > >> I'll look into that (and if a code-change is needed, add it to dev.5).
> > > 
> > > > Would be great :-)))
> > > 
> > > Since you're running 2.8.6dev.4, it sounds like you built it yourself.
> > > The fix is a one-liner to src/HTInit.c, adding this
> > > 
> > > SET_INTERNL("application/xhtml+xml", "www/present", HTMLPresent, 2.0);
> > > 
> > > e.g., after
> > > 
> > > SET_INTERNL("application/html", "www/present", HTMLPresent, 2.0);
> > > 
> > > though the order doesn't matter.
> > 
> > This works perfect ;-). So let`s see what 2.8.6dev.5 will do.
> 
> no problem (probably late next week)

Works like expected!

Thx alot, gents ;-)

Ciao

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tips on using "screen"?

[Will Trillich]

On Thu, Jul 01 at 02:34PM +0200, Kai Grossjohann wrote:
> I've started using screen recently.  It's way cool.

same here. kahuna powerful for us command-line folks.

> The best part about screen is that you can set it up such that
> each xterm is just a new window showing the existing list of
> shells.  This means that if I decide I would like to see
> shells 3 and 4 concurrently, then I just open two xterms
> showing those two shells.  When I don't need to see the shells
> anymore, I close the xterms, but the shells are still there.

we'd love to hear more about your setup. ~/.bashrc aliases or
settings, any keyboard macros, ~/.screenrc coolness... we're not
picky.

inquiring minds want to know. :)

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Troubled by DOS-FORMAT OR MAC-FORMAT TEXT FILES? Here's another
way to deal with those troublesome ^M characters: a simple
tr -d '\015'  < dos.file  > reg.file
should do the trick.  While we're on the subject, a Mac file
can be converted with
tr '\015' '\012'  < mac.file  > reg.file
You can do all your CR/LF translations with tr as long as you
can remember that macs use CRs, *nices use LFs, and DOS uses
CR+LF.

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Re: init scripts?

[Thomas Adam]

--- MillTek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 
> HI,
> There are several things I'd like to do at boot time, includingstart 
> bootlogd and syslog. I've been told to set up an 'init script' etc.  
> Where do you do this?  Is there a specific script that is always 
> accessed and if so which one?

I answered this in another thread not so long ago:

1. As far as bootlogd is concerned, do the following:

# apt-get install bootlogd
# vi /etc/default/bootlogd , and make sure the only line in there looks
like:

BOOTLOGD_ENABLE=Yes

As for syslog this is automatically started up. If you find you're missing
symlinks to the scripts the you can do one of two things:

1. man update-rc.d
2. dpkg-reconfigure 

(You might also find the package 'rcconf' useful for such tasks).

HTH,

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Re: Creating own installer images

[Will Trillich]

On Thu, Jul 01 at 06:41PM +0200, Robert Waldner wrote:
> I need to create special Debian installer images, as we have
> machines here with Promise PDC20378 S-ATA RAID controllers and
> need to install Woody on them. The driver for this controller
> was opensourced, but it's only available as a module, so no
> luck with just building it statically into the kernel.
> 
> I've googled around for (what felt like) ages, and the best I
> could find was
> .
> Following the instructions mentioned there I was able to get a
> custom-built kernel-image.deb and make a bootable Woody CD.
> 
> However, for the life of me, I can't figure out how to create
> a fitting initrd image where I can place ft3xx.o (for the
> S-ATA controller).  Advice on how to get the installer
> auto-load that (and scsi_mod, on which it depends) would come
> in handy, too.  Even better, the CD doesn't boot very far,
> because it can't find _any_ root.bin (I guess that's the name
> for the initrd image, since there's RAMDISK smeared all over
> the screen at this step). But as soon as I figure out how to
> create it I could always place it on a floppy.
> 
> Any advice/pointers greatly appreciated, since I think I
> tripled the amount of grey in my hair today ;)

and when you learn how to do this, be sure to report back,
because there are some more of us grey-bound folks out here...

:)

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Do you want to track the ERROR MESSAGES WHEN STARTING "X"
(using startx) but the screen scrolls by too fast... and then
you're in the GUI, and can't see the messages any more!
startx 1> startx.log 2>&1
This will dump a bunch of text to the file 'startx.log'.
View this later at your convenience.

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Re: automatically restarting dying daemons?

[Thomas Adam]

--- Will Trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 
>   #!/bin/bash
>   /etc/init.d/some-daemon-here restart

Better to use 'invoke-rc.d' here:

invoke-rc.d 

Re: tips on using "screen"?

[Thomas Adam]

--- Will Trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 

> we'd love to hear more about your setup. ~/.bashrc aliases or
> settings, any keyboard macros, ~/.screenrc coolness... we're not
> picky.

There's a _plethora_ of information about this already -- search the net.

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Re: fast, tabbed, gnome/wm- compliant terminal

[Thomas Adam]

--- Will Trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 

> try the same tests with vim  at a console .
> try the same tests with vim  in rxvt or xterm.

rxvt and xterm use more or less the same -xrm's and so the same
techniques.

> try the same tests with gvim in its own window.
> try the same tests with mc   in gnome-terminal.

It's an issue with the way gnome-terminal handles a redraw, that's all.

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Re: Creating own installer images

[Thomas Adam]

--- Robert Waldner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 
> 
> Hi!
> 
> I need to create special Debian installer images, as we have machines 
>  here with Promise PDC20378 S-ATA RAID controllers and need to install
>  Woody on them. The driver for this controller was opensourced, but 
>  it's only available as a module, so no luck with just building it 
>  statically into the kernel.

Read the following URLs:

http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/svn/debian-installer/installer/doc/custom-kernel.txt
http://oregonstate.edu/~kveton/debian/

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Re: postfix configuration

[Dennis Stosberg]

Am 01.07.2004 um 12:24 schrieb Pau Novella:

> Now I had found out that I can modify the name and adress using differents 
> options in the MUA, but I would like to have the corrects ones fixed in the 
> postfix configuration.
> 
> Can anybody help me?  

Use sender_canonical_maps.  Put the mapping 

localuser  [EMAIL PROTECTED]

into a new file called /etc/postfix/sender_canonical and run postmap
on that file.  Then, put a reference to that file into your postfix
main.cf:

sender_canonical_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/sender_canonical

This will cause postfix to rewrite the sender address in all mails
coming from your localuser to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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Re: tips on using "screen"?

[Robert L. Harris]

Have you looked at "split mode" ?

In my .screenrc I have this: 

bind b   eval "split" "resize -13" "select 19" "redisplay" "focus" "select 0" 
"redisplay" "redisplay"

That creates a new window at the top of my screen and puts screen 19 in
it then puts screen 0 in the bottom.  You can do a "ctrl-a, :" and paste
that in to play with it without restarting screen.




Thus spake Will Trillich ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):

> On Thu, Jul 01 at 02:34PM +0200, Kai Grossjohann wrote:
> > I've started using screen recently.  It's way cool.
> 
> same here. kahuna powerful for us command-line folks.
> 
> > The best part about screen is that you can set it up such that
> > each xterm is just a new window showing the existing list of
> > shells.  This means that if I decide I would like to see
> > shells 3 and 4 concurrently, then I just open two xterms
> > showing those two shells.  When I don't need to see the shells
> > anymore, I close the xterms, but the shells are still there.
> 
> we'd love to hear more about your setup. ~/.bashrc aliases or
> settings, any keyboard macros, ~/.screenrc coolness... we're not
> picky.
> 
> inquiring minds want to know. :)
> 
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>  
> DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #56 from Vineet Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> :
> Troubled by DOS-FORMAT OR MAC-FORMAT TEXT FILES? Here's another
> way to deal with those troublesome ^M characters: a simple
>   tr -d '\015'  < dos.file  > reg.file
> should do the trick.  While we're on the subject, a Mac file
> can be converted with
>   tr '\015' '\012'  < mac.file  > reg.file
> You can do all your CR/LF translations with tr as long as you
> can remember that macs use CRs, *nices use LFs, and DOS uses
> CR+LF.
> 
> Also see http://newbieDoc.sourceForge.net/ ...
> 
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Re: root system type unknown in /etc/mtab

[Philipp Weis]

On 30 Jun 2004, Cheryl Homiak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> My system seems to be functioning fine; I recently changed it to ext3. 
> When I look at dmesg my root system (/dev/hda3) is indicated as mounted 
> and an ext3 filesystem with internal journal. However, when I run "mount", 
> while my other partitions are indicated as ext3, my root partition is 
> listed as "unknown" for type. What would the reason for this be and is 
> there a problem?

I have the same problem here with my system. A bugreport has been
filed a few days ago under #255849.


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Re: postfix configuration

[Dennis Stosberg]

Am 01.07.2004 um 19:15 schrieb Dennis Stosberg:

> This will cause postfix to rewrite the sender address in all mails
> coming from your localuser to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

To make "mail" use your correct real name, make sure to have it set
in your /etc/passwd.  Each user can change this information himself
using the command "chfn".

Regards, 
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Re: init scripts?

[MillTek]

Thomas Adam wrote:
--- MillTek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 
 

HI,
There are several things I'd like to do at boot time, includingstart 
bootlogd and syslog. I've been told to set up an 'init script' etc.  
Where do you do this?  Is there a specific script that is always 
accessed and if so which one?
   

I answered this in another thread not so long ago:
1. As far as bootlogd is concerned, do the following:
# apt-get install bootlogd
# vi /etc/default/bootlogd , and make sure the only line in there looks
like:
BOOTLOGD_ENABLE=Yes
As for syslog this is automatically started up. If you find you're missing
symlinks to the scripts the you can do one of two things:
1. man update-rc.d
2. dpkg-reconfigure 
(You might also find the package 'rcconf' useful for such tasks).
HTH,
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Thomas,
Thanks.
Jim
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Cups stops accepting print jobs

[Jacob S.]

I just upgraded from stable to testing yesterday and must say it went a
lot smoother than I expected. Several dependency problems, packages,
held back etc., but that's to be expected for a large upgrade.

What I didn't expect though, was when I tried printing this morning and
it didn't work. Everything had gone so smoothly, I thought it was all
working. So, I look in cups error logs, and all it says is something
about the printer not accepting jobs. I try a test page through the web
interface and it gives the same error. ???

Finally I tried the logical thing and clicked the "Accept Jobs" button
in the web interface and everything was fine and dandy again. Duh. :-) 

Just thought I'd archive it here in case other users run into the same
problem. I'm still not sure why a dist-upgrade told cups to stop
accepting print jobs (without at least telling it to accept jobs again).

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Re: init scripts?

[MillTek]

Thomas Adam wrote:
--- MillTek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 
 

HI,
There are several things I'd like to do at boot time, includingstart 
bootlogd and syslog. I've been told to set up an 'init script' etc.  
Where do you do this?  Is there a specific script that is always 
accessed and if so which one?
   

I answered this in another thread not so long ago:
1. As far as bootlogd is concerned, do the following:
# apt-get install bootlogd
# vi /etc/default/bootlogd , and make sure the only line in there looks
like:
BOOTLOGD_ENABLE=Yes
As for syslog this is automatically started up. If you find you're missing
symlinks to the scripts the you can do one of two things:
1. man update-rc.d
2. dpkg-reconfigure 
(You might also find the package 'rcconf' useful for such tasks).
HTH,
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I just tried apt-get install bootlogd.  It can't find it. I tried 
'apt-get update' and re-tried the install. Still no go.

I tried apt-cache search 'various-versions-of-bootlogd' and had no luck 
either??

Also, I'd still like the name of one of the standard scripts that I can 
change to have it do stuff.  Maybe one of the final scripts the regular 
boot process uses??

Thanks,
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gimp dependency problems in Sid

[H. S.]

On Sid, I am having this problem with gimp since a couple of days when I 
did the usual upgrade. Gimp was removed and not I cannot install it. It 
says it needs gimp-data. I uninstalled gimp-data, and then tried to 
install gimp(2.0.2-2) and gimp-data(2.0.2-3) (using deslect), and it 
still gives some dependency probem as if it cannot see gimp-data.

--* Opt graphics gimp  The GNU Image Manipulation Program, 
stable version 2.0
  _* Opt graphics gimp-dataData files for The GIMP, stable version 2.0
  __ Opt non-free gimp-nonfree GIF support for the GNU Image 
Manipulation Program

the first one's explanation is:
gimp removed (configs remain) ;  install (was: install).  Optional
gimp depends on gimp-data (= 2.0.2-2)
gimp suggests gimp-nonfree
the second one's explanation is:
gimp-datanot installed ;  install (was: install).  Optional
gimp depends on gimp-data (= 2.0.2-2)
So looks like gimp-data is newer and gimp is not. How do I get around 
this problem: Downgrade gimp-data or maybe newer gimp is yet to come?

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Re: automatically restarting dying daemons?

[Mark Ferlatte]

Will Trillich said on Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 10:38:51PM -0500:
> On Wed, Jun 30 at 03:43PM -0700, Mark Ferlatte wrote:
> > Will Trillich said on Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 04:34:06PM -0500:
> > > questions:
> > >   1) what's the best way (e.g. debian way) to monitor active
> > >  daemons and restart them when necessary? maybe some
> > >  utility already exists for this? or /proc/something?
> > >  or `ps ax`?
> > 
> > monit can do this.
> 
> so let's go find "monit"...
 
Suck.  As with restartd, monit is also only in testing/unstable.

But the package name is `monit'... mon is something else.

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rechercher driver creative vibra 16

[SERAPHINE Hugues]

 bonjour je recherche le  driver de la carte son 
creative vibra 16 . Si jamais vous possèder ce driver par pitié 
veuillez  svp mindiquer un moye pour le télécharger .Merçi je vous en 
serais très reconnaissance . 

Re: Straw 0.23 LookupError

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

On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 18:48:06 -0400, Titus Barik wrote:
> This is not a new problem in Debian/unstable,

It is reported as http://bugs.debian.org/256700 .

> Are there any workarounds?

Yes. Start it through "env LC_ALL=C straw".

HTH,
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Re: automatically restarting dying daemons?

[Will Trillich]

On Thu, Jul 01 at 05:59PM +0100, Thomas Adam wrote:
> --- Will Trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 
> > #!/bin/bash
> > /etc/init.d/some-daemon-here restart
> 
> Better to use 'invoke-rc.d' here:
> 
> invoke-rc.d 

Re: Amazingly slow bootup on HP laptop and other problems

[Kamaraju Kusumanchi]

Sudarshana Koushik wrote:
Hi ppl, 
So here goesI installed debian/unstable on HPnx9110 and
almost everything works fine, except
1. The first line after lilo ('Loading Linux..') takes
ages. The dots appear one after the other so slowly, it
painful to watch it. The normal boot process appears to be
slower than other computers too considering this is 3.2GHz,
and other processes run fine and fast.
Try adding compact option to /etc/lilo.conf. Your lilo.conf should look 
something similar to

boot=/dev/hda3
root=/dev/hda3
compact
then run lilo at the command prompt as root.
hth
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kwifimanger

[Greg Sidelinger]

I was just wondering if there is anything special that one needs to do in 
order to make the kwifimanger work with testing.  I have no problem getting 
my wifi connections to come up with /etc/networking/interfaces an and using a 
setup like.

#auto eth2
iface eth2 inet dhcp
wireless_essid wifinetworkname
wireless_key1 s:password

Everything comes up just fine after an ifup eth2 but I use more than 
wifinetwork on a daily basis and was wondering if I could get the point and 
click (ya I'm lazy) stuff in kde to work. I have tried but I just can't get 
it to work. And its no fun to edit the /etc/networking/interfaces file daily 
too.

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Re: automatically restarting dying daemons?

[Will Trillich]

On Wed, Jun 30 at 06:25PM -0400, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 04:34:06PM -0500, Will Trillich wrote:
> | problem: xinetd, after working just fine and dandy for weeks at
> | a time, gets dozens of "unexpected signal" (source unknown)
> | and gives up the ghost.
> | 
> | questions:
> | 1) what's the best way (e.g. debian way) to monitor active
> |daemons and restart them when necessary? maybe some
> |utility already exists for this? or /proc/something?
> |or `ps ax`?
> 
> restartd.

aha. not available for woody, but it's available for sarge...

the logging is odd (stdout, even with /etc/init.d/restartd
restart? is this thing finished?) but it does what we want it to
do.

# lsof | grep ^restartd
restartd  12689root  cwdDIR3,1 4096 15387 /etc/webmin
restartd  12689root  rtdDIR3,1 4096 2 /
restartd  12689root  txtREG3,6 9008 65286 
/usr/sbin/restartd
restartd  12689root  memREG3,190152 46147 /lib/ld-2.3.2.so
restartd  12689root  memREG3,1  1243856 46185 
/lib/libc-2.3.2.so
restartd  12689root0u   CHR  136,0  2 /dev/pts/0
restartd  12689root1u   CHR  136,0  2 /dev/pts/0
restartd  12689root2u   CHR  136,0  2 /dev/pts/0
restartd  12689root3u  unix 0xcb92b330 199392 socket

descriptors 0, 1, 2 are pts/0! for a daemon?



# lsof | grep pts/
bash   5179will0u   CHR  136,0  2 /dev/pts/0
bash   5179will1u   CHR  136,0  2 /dev/pts/0
bash   5179will2u   CHR  136,0  2 /dev/pts/0
bash   5179will  255u   CHR  136,0  2 /dev/pts/0
bash   5310root0u   CHR  136,0  2 /dev/pts/0
bash   5310root1u   CHR  136,0  2 /dev/pts/0
bash   5310root2u   CHR  136,0  2 /dev/pts/0
bash   5310root  255u   CHR  136,0  2 /dev/pts/0
restartd  12689root0u   CHR  136,0  2 /dev/pts/0
restartd  12689root1u   CHR  136,0  2 /dev/pts/0
restartd  12689root2u   CHR  136,0  2 /dev/pts/0
lsof  13050root0u   CHR  136,0  2 /dev/pts/0
lsof  13050root2u   CHR  136,0  2 /dev/pts/0
grep  13051root1u   CHR  136,0  2 /dev/pts/0
grep  13051root2u   CHR  136,0  2 /dev/pts/0

lsof and grep are running at my terminal; so is bash... but
restartd was launched as a daemon! eesh.

[hmm -- must look into the /etc/init.d/restartd script to make
sure it's properly launched there hmm]



plus, whatever it does restart (according to configs, of course)
winds up with file descriptors open to /var/run/restartd...

# lsof | grep run/restartd
spamd 12752root4w   REG3,5  382294355 /var/run/restartd
postmaste 12901postgres4w   REG3,5  382294355 /var/run/restartd
postmaste 12906postgres4w   REG3,5  382294355 /var/run/restartd
postmaste 12908postgres4w   REG3,5  382294355 /var/run/restartd
named 13013bind4w   REG3,5  382294355 /var/run/restartd
named 13014bind4w   REG3,5  382294355 /var/run/restartd
named 13015bind4w   REG3,5  382294355 /var/run/restartd
named 13016bind4w   REG3,5  382294355 /var/run/restartd
named 13017bind4w   REG3,5  382294355 /var/run/restartd

weird. but operational.



thanks for the pointer!

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DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #62 from Will Trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Wouldn't it be nice to SEE YOUR TABS WHILE YOU EDIT? With Vim,
you can do this with
:set listchars=tab:+-,trail:$
:set list
and format them via ":highlight NonText ...". (See ":help listchars"
and ":help highlight" for more info.) Put them in your ~/.vimrc if
you decide you like that setup.

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Re: Gnome fonts and themes

[Paul Smith]

%% "Smith, Paul [BL60:SU40:EXCH]"<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

  sp> I have this same problem (mozilla-firefox fonts are very small) after
  sp> upgrading to Gnome 2.6.

  sp> I checked and I do have the gnome-settings-daemon running, so that's not
  sp> what I'm missing.

I seemed to have solved this myself by logging out completely, ensuring
that all of the daemons related to Gnome, etc. were down, then logging
in again.


One other thing I did was re-enable Nautilus to start at login time, but
hopefully that wasn't what fixed the problem...

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restartd (resurrecting dead daemons)

[Will Trillich]

On Thu, Jul 01 at 02:46PM -0500, Will Trillich wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 30 at 06:25PM -0400, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote:
> > restartd.
> 
> aha. not available for woody, but it's available for sarge...

> [hmm -- must look into the /etc/init.d/restartd script to make
> sure it's properly launched there hmm]


pooh. it isn't:

DAEMON=/usr/sbin/restartd
PARAMS=""
PID="/var/run/restartd.pid"

test -x $DAEMON || exit 0

case "$1" in
  start)
echo -n "Starting process checker: "
$DAEMON $PARAMS
echo "restartd."
;;

shouldn't that use start-stop-daemon to do its work?

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Wondering HOW TO SET YOUR TIME ZONE? Your system clock may be
showing UTC or GMT but you want it to display PDT or whatever.
Just run "tzconfig" as root. (You're sure to have it on your
debian system already -- it's provided in package "libc6".)

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Re: postfix configuration: SOLVED

[paunoga]

On Thursday 01 July 2004 19:37, Dennis Stosberg wrote:
> Am 01.07.2004 um 19:15 schrieb Dennis Stosberg:
> > This will cause postfix to rewrite the sender address in all mails
> > coming from your localuser to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> To make "mail" use your correct real name, make sure to have it set
> in your /etc/passwd.  Each user can change this information himself
> using the command "chfn".
>
> Regards,
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Re: tips on using "screen"?

[Will Trillich]

On Thu, Jul 01 at 06:00PM +0100, Thomas Adam wrote:
> --- Will Trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 
> > we'd love to hear more about your setup. ~/.bashrc aliases
> > or settings, any keyboard macros, ~/.screenrc coolness...
> > we're not picky.
> 
> There's a _plethora_ of information about this already --
> search the net.

an excess of blood in one organ? very helpful*.

originally, i thought i had asked Kai, thinking that he might
enjoy showing us (or at least me) what he's learned, sharing
tips and so forth, using this public forum for the process. i
could have meant Tom, it's hard to tell.

unfortunately, "screen" is an extremely generic term.

screen actors guild
flat-panel screen
silver screen
screen savers
screen capture
industrial screen filters

but keeping closer to home, i check the likely suspects:

gnu.org/software/screen is beyond terse (but has lots of
plethora).  savannah.gnu.org/projects/screen has source code
(no usage tips, though heavily plethoral). tldp.org responses
when searching for "screen" is  (but very plethoric).

just inquiring about usage tips from folks who use it -- note
that if you're too busy to be bothered with this mundane kind of
inquiry, then please don't be bothered. pretend i asked Kai,
instead. have a nice day.



*not (even using the intended definition "an excess")

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So you've decided to BLOCK ALL TRAFFIC EXCEPT SSH.  What you
need to do is specify the port to allow.  ssh uses port 22 by
default -- With iptables try:
iptables -A INPUT -p TCP --dport ssh -j ACCEPT
This says that in the input chain, for tcp packets, if the port
number matches ssh in /etc/services then accept the packet
regardless of IP addresses.  (This should give you a pointer
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Re: tips on using "screen"?

[Wayne Topa]

Thomas Adam([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said:
> --- Will Trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 
> 
> > we'd love to hear more about your setup. ~/.bashrc aliases or
> > settings, any keyboard macros, ~/.screenrc coolness... we're not
> > picky.
> 
> There's a _plethora_ of information about this already -- search the net.
> 
That wasn't very nice of you Adam.  You may have notices that Will
puts out the Debian Newbie notes.  He probably wanted that information
for that reason.

As long as your in a bad mood, did you notice that Will had the
mail-followup-to set to this list.  Maybe you should check the net
about sending Cc's to people that don't ask for them.  That is the
Debian User policy in case you don't know it.

You have a nice day now, kid.

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Re: Squid ACL for Windows Updates failed

[Adam Aube]

deb_milist wrote:

> After installing squid, i went to some experiments such as determining
> which host to allow and deny.

> One of those is allowing all clients machine to update their winblows
> without any authentication by adding .microsoft.com to one rule that can
> be connected without authentication from all clients.
> It 's look like gonna be successful, but somehow it failed in the end.

Post your squid.conf (without comments or blank lines) and the access.log
entries of the denied connections to Windows Update.

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Debian Installer + MD RAID? was: Debian Installer + LVM

[Mike Fedyk]

Alexei Chetroi wrote:
  I've just tried beta-3 of Sarge installer and I have to say that I'm
impressed. Great job, folks. I've installed my current system from
beta-2 on lvm, beside root partition, but in beta-2 me had to format
physical volume from shell, as I didn't find how to do it from
installer. 
When will there be MD support in the debian installer?
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Re: automatically restarting dying daemons?

[Thomas Adam]

--- Will Trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 

> for daemon-config-file-settings, i'm more comfortable specifying
> the whole path. less chance of intervention or misdirection
> based on $PATH mungings...

/etc/init.d is not in $PATH, and as such scripts are run as root anyway,
invoke-rc.d is perfect still.
 
> is invoke-rc.d similar to the "service" function on other
> distros? (sarge already has a "_service" for bash to facilitate
> command-line word completion... and i understand that the
> "service" function/script/alias is on its way.)

It's a little similar, yes.

>   1) there seems to be no facility for checking for a daemon
>   process, only the ./run process (i.e. child processes of
>   supervise)

If that is the case, then the script (and overall design) is very broken,
and I would avoid it.

> unless i misunderstand, this seems to be a "run-and-monitor home
> grown programs and scripts, do your system daemon resurrection
> elsewhere"... no?

monit has already been suggested along with 'daemontools'.

> btw -- "restartd" seems to be just the item we're looking for.
> it's a bit terse, too, but it monitors already-running items and
> lets you specify a command to resurrect (or terminate)
> accordingly. not too advanced, and needs better documentation,
> but it works just fine -- at least, for us.

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Re: restartd (resurrecting dead daemons)

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--- Will Trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 

> shouldn't that use start-stop-daemon to do its work?

Quite possibly... but as long as it works... :)

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Re: tips on using "screen"?

[Thomas Adam]

--- Wayne Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 

> That wasn't very nice of you Adam.  You may have notices that Will

The name's Thomas. Adam is my surname. :)

> As long as your in a bad mood, did you notice that Will had the

Well the problem there is that with e-mail being ambiguous, you read it
entirely in a manner not intended. If the OP were to be more specific as
to the *kind* of things he wants to do with screen, then I can draft
together some of my own notes.

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Re: init scripts?

[Thomas Hood]

Thomas Adam wrote:
> 1. As far as bootlogd is concerned, do the following:
> # apt-get install bootlogd

No such package.

bootlogd is actually included in the sysvinit package.
You turn it on by setting BOOTLOGD_ENABLE=Yes in /etc/default/bootlogd.

> As for syslog this is automatically started up.
> If you find you're missing symlinks to the scripts the you can
> do one of two things:
> 
> 1. man update-rc.d
> 2. dpkg-reconfigure 
> 
> (You might also find the package 'rcconf' useful for such tasks).

Don't use update-rc.d -- it is designed for use in maintainer scripts,
not as a runlevel editor.  Good runlevel editors are sysv-rc-conf
and ksysv.
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sh scripting framework project?

[Mike Fedyk]

I have a few scripts I've written, that each have various levels of 
reporting errors.

I'd like to unify the error reporting, and initialization as much as 
possible.

One thing I just thought of was to write a wrapper that creates a 
different email based on exit code.

The thing is, I'd rather work with a project than roll my own.
Does anyone know of an OSS project that does something like this?
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Re: tips on using "screen"?

[Zenaan Harkness]

On Fri, 2004-07-02 at 06:38, Thomas Adam wrote:
> If the OP were to be more specific as
> to the *kind* of things he wants to do with screen, then I can draft
> together some of my own notes.

I do have a question:

In gnome-terminal, I use CTRL-PGUP and CTRL-PGDN to cycle between tabs.

How can I get screen to accept keyboard shortcuts for these two cycling
functions?

And back on xterms - does anyone know something that doesn't have the
redraw problems of gnome-terminal, yet is included in the gnome-session
save function (I have two monitors, and use two virtual desktops
frequently, and have three set up to my tastes).

Alternatively (or in addition), is it easy to start xterms on the
different virtual desktops - I can specify x,y,w,h but can I specify
virtual desktop?

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Re: init scripts?

[Silvan]

On Thursday 01 July 2004 01:00 pm, MillTek wrote:

> I tried apt-cache search 'various-versions-of-bootlogd' and had no luck
> either??

It's not there in Sid.  You're not crazy.

> Also, I'd still like the name of one of the standard scripts that I can
> change to have it do stuff.  Maybe one of the final scripts the regular
> boot process uses??

This is a classic RTFM situation, really.

http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/ch-customizing.en.html#s-custombootscripts

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OpenOffice Window Values Location

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Does anyone know where OpenOffice stores the default locations and sizes 
of the windows it opens upon startup?

For some reason, something got messed up in my installation of 
OpenOffice, and now when it opens a document, the window is at the very 
top of my screen such that the window bar is off the screen, and I can't 
drag the window on the screen.

If anyone knows where it stores these values, I'd like to edit them :)
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Re: tips on using "screen"?

[Thomas Adam]

--- Zenaan Harkness <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 

> How can I get screen to accept keyboard shortcuts for these two cycling
> functions?

You can use "bind" and "bindkey" for screen.
 
> And back on xterms - does anyone know something that doesn't have the
> redraw problems of gnome-terminal, yet is included in the gnome-session
> save function (I have two monitors, and use two virtual desktops
> frequently, and have three set up to my tastes).

What does this save function do? If you want to log output, there's a
number of options:

1. Launch an xterm.
   script -f ~/outputscript
   app 1
   app 2
   ^D
   (view file ~/outputscript)

2. Use "ttyrec" which actually records tty sessions so you can play them
back.

> Alternatively (or in addition), is it easy to start xterms on the
> different virtual desktops - I can specify x,y,w,h but can I specify
> virtual desktop?

This depends on the window manager. But as xterm supports -xrm hints, it
is possible to do something like:

xterm -xrm 'Desk 1 2'

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Re: init scripts?

[Thomas Adam]

--- Silvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 

> On Thursday 01 July 2004 01:00 pm, MillTek wrote:
> 
> > I tried apt-cache search 'various-versions-of-bootlogd' and had no
> luck
> > either??
> 
> It's not there in Sid.  You're not crazy.

It's part of the packages:

initscripts
sysvinit

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Re: OpenOffice Window Values Location

[Harshwardhan Shashikant Nagaonkar]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Does anyone know where OpenOffice stores the default locations and sizes 
of the windows it opens upon startup?

For some reason, something got messed up in my installation of 
OpenOffice, and now when it opens a document, the window is at the very 
top of my screen such that the window bar is off the screen, and I can't 
drag the window on the screen.

If anyone knows where it stores these values, I'd like to edit them :)

I don't know where OO.org stores those values, but this might help 
still. Use your middle mouse button and drag the window border, 
hopefully this will allow you to move the window without having access 
to the titlebar (works in most window managers).

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Re: Comparision presentation of Debian with RedHat

[Silvan]

On Wednesday 30 June 2004 08:37 pm, Alvin Oga wrote:

> *.deb and *.rpm patches are readily available, but...

That brings to mind an opposing point, actually.  I don't have statistics to 
back this up, but my gut says at least 75% of the Linux world runs on 
RPM-based distros for better or worse.  I've found some occasions when 
running a "non-standard" packaging system meant a lot more work for me.  
Especially getting politically-incorrect hardware to work.

Not enough to give up Debian by a long shot, but I do wish the wRetched 
Package Mangler would die a quiet death, leaving people no choice but to 
provide .debs on such occasions.

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Re: restartd (resurrecting dead daemons)

[Will Trillich]

On Thu, Jul 01 at 09:34PM +0100, Thomas Adam wrote:
> --- Will Trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 
> 
> > shouldn't that use start-stop-daemon to do its work?
> 
> Quite possibly... but as long as it works... :)

sorta.

the output from the restart (or cancellation) scripts as set up
in /etc/restartd.conf... comes straight to the terminal! not
good. they should be funneled thru syslog or some such.

perhaps there's a wrapper to syslog-ify stdout and stderr?
anybody know? (even Tom?)

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Re: restartd (resurrecting dead daemons)

[Thomas Adam]

--- Will Trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 

> perhaps there's a wrapper to syslog-ify stdout and stderr?
> anybody know? (even Tom?)

logger(1) can do this, but if you're that serious, I would hack the script
to make use of start-stop-damon with various --flags

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Re: automatically restarting dying daemons?

[Will Trillich]

On Thu, Jul 01 at 09:31PM +0100, Thomas Adam wrote:
> --- Will Trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 
> > for daemon-config-file-settings, i'm more comfortable
> > specifying the whole path. less chance of intervention or
> > misdirection based on $PATH mungings...
> 
> /etc/init.d is not in $PATH, and as such scripts are run as
> root anyway, invoke-rc.d is perfect still.

you probably already know this, being the expert du jour and
everything, but just in case: when a command specification
starts with a slash, it's an absolute reference, no
uncertainties about it; if it does NOT start with a slash, then
your environmental variable $PATH is called upon to supply
likely directories to scan, looking for an executable by the
name you specified. (if you have perl, say, in both
/usr/local/bin and /usr/bin you'll never see the one in
/usr/bin.)

the trouble, of course, is that script kiddies can find ways to
munge your $PATH; you might think you're asking for "ls" or
"more" in their standard /bin/* location, but in fact the
black-hats can prepend your $PATH with a directory of their own
making, which runs a fake "ls" or "more" which can do worse
things yet.

so in system scripts, it's good to

1) specify exact, full, absolute paths, and
2) set your own $PATH variable, and finally
3) specify exact, full, absolute paths anyhow.

using "invoke-rc.d" in a system/daemon script is as dangerous as
using "ls" or "more" -- without a full path. and invoking it
with a full path is better than calling /etc/init.d/* scripts
directly ... in what way?



> > is invoke-rc.d similar to the "service" function on other
> > distros? (sarge already has a "_service" for bash to
> > facilitate command-line word completion... and i understand
> > that the "service" function/script/alias is on its way.)
> 
> It's a little similar, yes.

a little? how little? is this invoke-rc.d something we
understand, or something we repeat?



[re: daemontools--]
> > 1) there seems to be no facility for checking for a
> > daemon process, only the ./run process (i.e. child
> > processes of supervise)
> 
> If that is the case, then the script (and overall design) is
> very broken, and I would avoid it.

i would, too. and since it does seem the case, i do.



> > unless i misunderstand, this seems to be a "run-and-monitor
> > home grown programs and scripts, do your system daemon
> > resurrection elsewhere"... no?
> 
> monit has already been suggested along with 'daemontools'.

and "daemontools" was actually the subject under discussion.
unless "monit" has something ingenious to offer, we'll be
staying with "restartd" for now.



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Did you CHMOD -R / and destroy your permissions? Bad dog!
If you have access to a newly-installed Debian machine, run
this script there, and copy the resulting script to the box
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normal:
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-not -type l -not -type s \
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Re: init scripts?

[MillTek]

Thomas Hood wrote:
Thomas Adam wrote:
 

1. As far as bootlogd is concerned, do the following:
# apt-get install bootlogd
   

No such package.
bootlogd is actually included in the sysvinit package.
You turn it on by setting BOOTLOGD_ENABLE=Yes in /etc/default/bootlogd.
 

As for syslog this is automatically started up.
If you find you're missing symlinks to the scripts the you can
do one of two things:
1. man update-rc.d
2. dpkg-reconfigure 
(You might also find the package 'rcconf' useful for such tasks).
   

Don't use update-rc.d -- it is designed for use in maintainer scripts,
not as a runlevel editor.  Good runlevel editors are sysv-rc-conf
and ksysv.
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Thomas,
Thank-you. Ksysv explains it all very clearly.  Your reply was excellent.
Thanks again
Jim
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Re: automatically restarting dying daemons?

[Thomas Adam]

--- Will Trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 

> starts with a slash, it's an absolute reference, no
> uncertainties about it; if it does NOT start with a slash, then
> your environmental variable $PATH is called upon to supply
> likely directories to scan, looking for an executable by the
> name you specified. (if you have perl, say, in both
> /usr/local/bin and /usr/bin you'll never see the one in
> /usr/bin.)

Yes, and? :) This has nothing to do with script files. "invoke-rc.d"
already knows its starting place -- it has been told it already. $PATH is
only used for binary locations.

[..snip..]

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Necesito ayuda

[Instituto de Investigaciones Porcinas]

Estimados señores vivo en Cuba y necesito bajar los driver del modem
MT5600ZDXV, los que he encontrado no son gratis. Me podrían indicar algun
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Re: debian sarge xfree86 problem

[Faithful John]

When i did open up an xterm and typed the command this is what it said (the 
expected i'm pretty sure)

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ script
Script started, file is typescript
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ xmovie
XMovie (c) 2001 Heroine Virtual
The mpeg file opens fine.   When i press play, it restarts and then no 
typescript file exists.   The mpeg file is one that was previously okay.   
And other applications, VLC and xine (which it happenes with as soon as the 
application starts) also had problems.   An informative /var/log/syslog was 
included below.

My roommate suggested that i give you as much info about my system as 
possible (he know quit a bit about linux, though doesn't know what happening 
here).

My computer is: 1996 Aptiva Computer, 133 Mhz Pentium classic, 48 MB RAM.
Found on /var/log/syslog:
Jun 30 16:53:03 thegreatest /USR/SBIN/CRON[6300]: (mail) CMD (  if [ -x 
/usr/l
ib/exim/exim3 -a -f /etc/exim/exim.conf ]; then /usr/lib/exim/exim3 -q ; fi)
Jun 30 16:56:22 thegreatest gdm[527]: gdm_slave_xioerror_handler: Fatal X 
erro
r - Restarting :0
Jun 30 16:56:26 thegreatest gconfd (selam-833): GConf server is not in use, 
sh
utting down.
Jun 30 16:56:28 thegreatest gconfd (selam-833): Exiting

From:  /var/log/XFree86.6.log
XFree86 Version 4.2.0 (Debian 4.2.0-0pre1v3 20020820232801 
[EMAIL PROTECTED])
/ X Window System
(protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6600)
Release Date: 11 March 2002
  If the server is older than 6-12 months, or if your card is
  newer than the above date, look for a newer version before
reporting problems. (See http://www.XFree86.Org/)
Build Operating System: Linux 2.4.18 i686 [ELF]
Module Loader present
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
   (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
   (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: "/var/log/XFree86.6.log", Time: Tue Jan 20 23:07:54 2004
(++) Using config file: "/etc/X11/XF86Config-4"
(==) ServerLayout "Default Layout"
(**) |-->Screen "Default Screen" (0)
(**) |   |-->Monitor "IBM G41"
(**) |   |-->Device "ATI 3D Rage I/II 215GT [Mach64 GT]"
(**) |-->Input Device "Default Keyboard"
(**) Option "XkbRules" "xfree86"
(**) XKB: rules: "xfree86"
(**) Option "XkbModel" "pc104"
(**) XKB: model: "pc104"
(**) Option "XkbLayout" "us"
(**) XKB: layout: "us"

Hopefully that's all okay ... i don't know if it helps.


From: Aaron Maxwell 
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
CC: "Faithful John" 
Subject: Re: debian sarge xfree86 problem
Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2004 11:13:47 -0700
On Friday 25 June 2004 10:21 am, Faithful John wrote:
> i have just discovered a problem with my system.   I wasn't sure how
> to report it or where (i'm relatively new to linux).   I did do some
> search, but i'm at a loss.  Anyway, a couple of days ago i upgrade to
> the latest version of debian sarge distribution.   As you probably
> know, everything got upgraded.Anyway, i'm running xfree86 and
> icewm.   When i played a mpeg file, suddenly the whole thing
> restarted, and i had to log in again.   At first i thought it was the
(Cc'ing you offlist, since you posted a few days ago, but please reply
on-list)
How are you playing the mpeg - i.e., which application are you using to
view it?
Please try this:
- Open a console window, so you have a command line.
- Type 'script' .
- Start the application you use by typing its name on the command line
and pressing enter.  Play an mpeg with it.
- When the xserver restarts, there will be a file called 'typescript' in
the directory you ran the script command.  Please post it; it contains
any messages the application emitted before the restart.
best
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Re: tips on using "screen"?

[Brad Sims]

On Thursday 01 July 2004 11:53 am, Will Trillich wrote:
> we'd love to hear more about your setup. ~/.bashrc aliases or
> settings, any keyboard macros, ~/.screenrc coolness... we're not
> picky.
> 
> inquiring minds want to know. :)

Well I got tired of .screenrcs found via google
being so poorly commented, so being a good GNUbie
I wrote my own. Everything it does is explained.

I turned off the startup text and set message timeout to one second.

It uses function keys for detach screen session, kill current screen window,
create new screen window, rename current screen window, move to 
previous window screen, and move to next window screen.

It also displays a list on the bottom that looks like this:
window listing is in blue with the rest green
| Screens: 0* bash   5:30PM  Fri, Jun/25/2004 |
(The pipes indicate the edges of the xterm/console).

Feel free to take a gander at my .screenrc at:
http://home.insightbb.com/~bmsims1/Scripts/Screenrc.html

Let me know if anything isn't entirely clear to ya. I wrote this
for plain people like me 

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Re: debian sarge xfree86 problem

[Thomas Adam]

--- Faithful John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 

> When i did open up an xterm and typed the command this is what it said
> (the 
> expected i'm pretty sure)

Yes, that's right.
 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ script
> Script started, file is typescript
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ xmovie
> XMovie (c) 2001 Heroine Virtual

There's why! xmovie is not console-based, so the only thing that might get
logged are error messages that'll spew to the controlling tty.

> The mpeg file opens fine.   When i press play, it restarts and then no 
> typescript file exists.   The mpeg file is one that was previously okay.

What is it that you're trying to do? 

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Re: tips on using "screen"?

[Brad Sims]

On Thursday 01 July 2004 3:51 pm, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
> In gnome-terminal, I use CTRL-PGUP and CTRL-PGDN to cycle between tabs.
> 
> How can I get screen to accept keyboard shortcuts for these two cycling
> functions?

Hrm I am not sure of the keybindings for your need but the .screenrc commands are:
next and prev. the general format is 'bindkey -k $whatever $command'.

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Re: automounting

[Alvin Oga]

On Thu, 1 Jul 2004, Cheryl Homiak wrote:

> Ok, I sort of have automounting working. I'm using it with kernel 2.6.7, 
> compiled in as a module and with the autofs package installed. However, 
...

> So what do I do to get the module to load and autofs to be running without 
> having to do it manually?thanks.

for 2.6.7 kernels, you need to add the entry in modprobe.conf ( not
modules.conf for 2.4.x kernels )

c ya
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Re: Printing problems with mozilla

[Brad Sims]

On Thursday 01 July 2004 7:06 am, Wayne Topa wrote:
> I am not using cups so this may not help.
> 
> My firefox stopped printing after the last upgrade and I had to
> install xprt-xprintorg & xprt-common.  I also could not find any
> printers.  After much reading I finally got it working by adding
> this to my .bash_profile.
> 
> XPSERVERLIST="`/etc/init.d/xprint get_xpserverlist`"
> export XPSERVERLIST
> export LPDEST="lp+"
> 

It looks like xprint is dying silently on startup. It's not found
using ps, though no errors show on daemon restart.

I just said heck with it and downgraded to 1.6, WTF do
I need to run two seperate print daemons? Fsck me gently
with a chainsaw, but between that and getting rid of Postscript
printing; it adds up to an asinine decision on the parts of the devels. 
(And 99.5% of the time I agree with their decisions.)

Bah, it prints and browses webpages. Thats all I need it to do.
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