Linux Professional Institute Exam (with DPKG) !!!
Hi, Today I went to sign up for the Level 1 exams and was surprised to see that there is now a choice between RPM and DPKG. I did a quick search for news on this and found this post by the Debian project leader: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2003/debian-devel-announce-200310/msg00013.html I thought the debian-user subscribers might be interested. Also, has anyone taken the exams with DPKG? Any comments? -- Andy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: eFax tiff viewer?
On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 11:24:41PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 09:06:18PM -0400, ccn wrote: > > eFax service www.efax.com deliveres faxes as email attachments in > > multipage tiff format. When I open such an attachment using tifftopnm, > > gimp, or gimv I can only see the first page. > > > > Has anybody figured out what viewer displays all pages of a multipage fax? > > I asked this very question on this very list, years ago. > > Display from the ImageMagick package works fine. I use KFax 1.3.0 (which is in KDE 3.1.3) for Efax .tif files. It works very well for me. Andy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: best laptops for debian linux
On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 01:12:47AM -0700, Jon wrote: > I'm looking to buy a laptop that can easily be set up to run debian > linux. I do not need a high end graphics card, nor is there a real > need for a big screen. Being light weight is not a primary factor, > whereas rugged reliability would be. Can anyone suggest particular > brands and models that fit this description? Top priority is that > debian linux can be easily installed on the machine, while the other > requirements are less important. I am on my 3rd IBM Thinkpad and ALL of them ran Debian perfectly. There is a huge range of Thinkpads so you will easily find one that fits your requirements. First was a Thinkpad 390e, second was a Thinkpad A21e, and now I am on a very nice and powerful Thinkpad A31. If you are brave, you can get one off Ebay for a reasonable price. I usually buy brand new from PCMall.com. (hate paying the Microsoft tax though...ugh!) This page has been a great help to me: http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/ibm.html Good luck with your purchase. Andy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Road Runner dialup problem using pppconfig
I am trying to dial into RoadRunner dialup service. They unfortunately only support Windows and won't help me with Linux. My Thinkpad WinModem is working fine and I have tested it by dialing up to other dialup ISP accounts. RR might be doing some proprietary things now that they have been assimilated into the TimeWarner/AOL Mega Corp. By looking into how it works on Windows, I see that CHAP is being used for authentication. I also see that this script (pasted below) is used in the "Interactive Login and Scripting" section of the Windows RR Dialup setting. I am wondering if anyone can help me use this script in any way so I can connect with my Thinkpad using Debian Testing. I am using pppconfig with the pon and poff commands. It looks like RR uses several different providers for nationwide dialup access. Syslog tells me this: pppd[9271]: rcvd [CHAP Failure id=0x2 ""] pppd[9271]: CHAP authentication failed pppd[9271]: sent [LCP TermReq id=0x2 "Failed to authenticate ourselves to peer"] How can I incorporate this script below using pppconfig? Thanks, Andy ps. I am not a programmer in any way but can do simple bash scripts. ---BEGIN THE RR SCRIPT-- ; ; This is a script file that demonstrates how ; to establish a PPP connection to Road Runner Dial Access network ; DO NOT edit this script yourself ; Version 1.1.2 ; February 8, 2002 - NT ; proc main string prefix = "aolnet/ent." waitfor "ANSNet"then DoANSNetLogin, "Sprint-IP" then DoSprintLogin, "UU.Net"then DoUUNetLogin, "UQKT1" then DoANSNetLogin, "UQKT2" then DoSprintLogin, "Saturn.BBN"then DoUUNetLogin until 20 DoANSNetLogin: waitfor "login" until 20 if $SUCCESS then transmit prefix + $USERID, raw transmit "^M" goto DONE endif DoUUNetLogin: waitfor "login" until 20 if $SUCCESS then transmit prefix + $USERID, raw transmit "^M" waitfor "Password" transmit $PASSWORD transmit "^M" goto DONE endif DoSprintLogin: waitfor "Login" then DoSprintConnect, "Username" then DoSprintConnect until 20 DoSprintConnect: transmit prefix + $USERID, raw transmit "^M" waitfor "Password" transmit $PASSWORD transmit "^M" waitfor "Network User" until 5 if $SUCCESS then transmit "PPP" transmit "^M" endif goto DONE DONE: delay 2 endproc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: rsyncing via cron
> I would like to backup my computer with rsync regulary with cron to a linux > server. Both computer are running with debian. > > I am using the following script: > > #! /bin/sh > umount /mnt/daten > rsync -bazv -e ssh --backup-dir=/mnt/data/skeeve/backup_wolber /home/wolber/ > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/mnt/data/skeeve/home > mount /mnt/daten > > The sshkey requires a password but I use ssh-add to activate the key. The key > is also at the server. > > If I am running the script from the shell everything is fine and it saves any > changes to the server. > > If cron is running it by the following line in cronttab: > > 18 9* * 1-5 wolber /usr/local/bin/backup_daten > > it generates the following output: > > Permission denied, please try again. > Permission denied, please try again. > Permission denied (publickey,password,keyboard-interactive). > rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes read so far) > rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(165) > > How can I get it to run? I have never used ssh-add but I am doing the same thing you are and I used this very nice how-to that you may find useful: http://killyridols.net/rsyncssh.shtml -Andy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: rsyncing via cron
On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 10:30:05AM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote: > * Andy Firman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030917 10:18]: > > I have never used ssh-add but I am doing the same thing you are > > and I used this very nice how-to that you may find useful: > > > > http://killyridols.net/rsyncssh.shtml > > Careful with that one. I just took a glance at it, and it recommends > using an unencrypted private key without a forced command on the remote > host's authorized_keys. This isn't _all_ bad, but I'd say it could be > better, by adding some options in the remote host's authorized_keys to > prevent this key from being used for anything but rsync, and only from a > specified host. I think I wrote up something about this on this list a > while back; try http://google.com/search?q=vineet+rsync+authorized_keys > . If you can't find anything, let me know and I'll write it again. I should have mentioned that I personally always do this "inside" a VPN tunnel. Good point though...and thanks for the tip. I never even thought about the key not being encrypted. Some day when I can't use a VPN for some reason, I will look further into your recommendations. Andy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sieve script to filter today's MS annoyances
On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 01:04:44PM -0400, Alfredo Valles wrote:
> I'm receiving more and more emails with M$ trojan crap.
> I want to get ride of them, but the problem is that I download my emails from
> a pop3 server that I don't configure.
> My question is: Is there a mail client that aloud me to use SpamAssassin or
> any other tool to effectively filter all this shit.
Put this in your .forward file and utilize the Exim filters.
You can make fetchmail get your pop3 mail and deliver to Exim.
I got this from another list and have tested it. Works great!
Here is the site it came from with other cool Exim filters:
http://pkierski.republika.pl/filtry.shtml
--
# Exim filter
# Swen Virus #
if $h_content-type contains "multipart/alternative;" and
$h_content-type matches "boundary=.[a-z]{6}" and
$message_body matches "iframe src=3D.cid:.*height=3D0.* width=3D0.*/iframe"
then
logfile $home/filter.log 0644
logwrite "$tod_log - filter: *** Swen.2 *** - sender: $sender_address - subject:
$h_subject: - id:
$message_id"
seen finish
endif
# Swen Virus #
if $h_content-type matches "multipart/mixed; boundary=.[a-z]{6}" and
$message_body matches "September 200[23], Cumulative Patch"
then
logfile $home/filter.log 0644
logwrite "$tod_log - filter: *** Swen.1 *** - sender: $sender_address - subject:
$h_subject: - id:
$message_id"
seen finish
endif
Hope this helps.
-Andy
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Re: Slrn
On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 01:54:55PM -0400, Michael C. wrote: > Does anyone else use slrn to read this list? If so, > are ther any suggestions on how to cleanup the posts. > > I see a lot of lines that end in '=20', and that looks > like something that outlook used to do(does?). I think it has to do with the Kmail email client. This was discussed on our LUG list and you can read a relevant post here: http://www.lib.uaa.alaska.edu/aklug/archive/2003-01/0006.html Andy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
opengroupware.org
I don't remember seeing this page the last time I looked at OpenGroupware.org: http://www.opengroupware.org/en/install/debianpkgs.html Since you can apt-get it now, I thought the debian list would like to see it. If it is old news, I apologize. Either way, it is an exciting development. Andy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Slide show software
On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 02:20:02PM -0400, William Bradley wrote: > Does Debian in their "deb" files have anything that will allow > me to run my photo's as a > slide show on my computer? This is probably way more than you need but I just discovered gallery and I think it is awesome! It has a slideshow option once you set it up. http://packages.debian.org/stable/web/gallery.html http://packages.debian.org/testing/web/gallery.html Andy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Fetchmail stuck on bad messages
> There's another option, of course: > >fetchmail -> exim > > ...no procmail. I've never seen the need to use it. All I want to do > in the way of filtering, sorting, spam-tagging, stripping the adverts > out of yahoo list mail, etc, I can accomplish with exim's filter > facilities and the odd shell script, without using punctuation soup. > Given that not having procmail doesn't break stuff, but not having an > MTA does, I think this option deserves wider notice. I second this suggestion. Exim filters are excellent. So easy to configure and they simply go in your .forward file. Simple and elegant...the way I like it. Read the filter.txt file on your system in this directory: /usr/share/doc/exim Andy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: /var/run/dhclient.pid - no such file or directory
On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 08:43:58AM -0400, dhobner wrote: > I built a new kernel and now when the system is shutdown the following error > message is displayed: "/var/run/dhclient.pid - no such file or directory". > Also when I run ifconfig the following line is missing: "inet addr: x.x.x.x > Bcast:x.x.x.x Mask:255.255.255.0". All of this results in no connectivity > to through my network interface card. Any ideas? I think you need to choose the CONFIG_FILTER and CONFIG_PACKET options when you configure the kernel. This seems to be a common mistake and there should be more information on google. Andy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: rsync problem
> I have a problem using rsync which seems to give an error when copying files. > Although it appears consistent for a given file, it is not consistent between > files. > > If I issue this command > > rsync rabbit.home::alan/My\ Documents/Mail/Agent\ News\ Data/GROUPS.IDX . > > Some files form the source directory will transfer correctly, some give the > following error (with filename changed of course) > > write failed on GROUPS.IDX : Success > rsync error: error in file IO (code 11) at receiver.c(240) > rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (57 bytes read so far) > rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(165) > > > This is against an rysncd running on cygwin on windows NT. > > I am trying to pin down why > > > How can I find out what code 11 means? > Any thoughts as to what could be the problem? I have been waiting for someone to comment on this as I have had the same problem in the past. Using rsync on cygwin on NT or 2000 is flaky and unreliable unfortunately. Using smbclient on a linux box to mount a data drive on a 2000 or NT box and using rsync with the --modify-window=10 and excluding the System Volume Information folder makes everything work very well. This is a great way to do offsite backups. Andy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: messenger
I just noticed that AOL provides software for Linux. Check it out here: http://www.aim.com/get_aim/linux/latest_linux.adp They provide a .deb here: http://ftp.newaol.com/aimgen/380469/aim-1.5.234-1.i386.deb Andy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to Auto-power-off?
On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 09:37:48PM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: > On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 06:28:29PM +0100, Frank A. Uepping wrote: > > Hi, > > how can I make the system to automatically switch off the power after system > > halt? > > > > what kernel are you using and what computer? if its a self compiled one, > did you enable acpi or apm and are you using one of them? > If its a stock kernel or one with apm try appending apm=power-off to > the kernel command line (either in lilo.conf or when you start the > kernel up). > It should power off properly, the fact the it doesn't means that there > is a bug somewhere. I just saw on another list (debian-laptop maybe?) that one should add "apm power_off=1" to /etc/modules. I am running unstable and kernel 2.4.22 with apm on a Thinkpad and it works for me perfectly! Andy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian Users...
On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 01:19:39PM -0800, Jeff wrote: > Russell Coker, 2003-Nov-20 04:14 +1100: > > On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 04:00, Caoilte O'Connor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > doesn't fam engage in periodic disk access? i certainly get > > > a lot less when not using kde despite having 256M RAM. > > > > I was under the impression that the sole point of FAM was to avoid disk > > access, it should use the kernel dnotify interface for this. But even if it > > was to repeatedly read a directory this would only cause disk access if you > > didn't use the mount option "noatime" (which every laptop user should use). > > > > I have 384M of RAM and swap still gets used when running KDE. > > > > KDE uses lots of CPU time in many instances, loads big executables from disk > > with lots of shared objects, and uses plenty of memory which causes swapping. > > All these things decrease battery life. Use text mode if you want to get > > maximum batter life. > > I got rid of fam altogether. I didn't feel it was providing enough > benefit to have it running on my laptop. KDE is doing just fine > without it. After an apt-get upgrade last week, I noticed fam running. I disabled it as well and I see no ill effects. > > I have 512MB of RAM and shut down swap. I got tired of all the > swapping. This is working very nicely for me. What do you mean that you are tired of swapping? Do you use "top" to see if your machine is using swap? How do you turn it off? What is the benefit? Andy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: RAID question
On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 09:41:56AM +0800, Arne Goetje wrote: > I have a mainboard (ASUS A7N8X) with onboard SATA controller (SiI 3112A) > and am planning to plug in two SATA drives and use RAID 1 (mirroring) > on them. Besides telling the controller to use them as a RAID array, > what do I have to do on Linux (Debian unstable) to make it recognize > the array? > Is there any software for linux to detect disk failures on the RAID > array, so that I can get alarmed when a drive gets a mad? > > Any documentation on the net? I am getting ready to install RAID on a Debian server. Here are 3 references I have gathered so far to prepare: http://www.james.rcpt.to/programs/debian/raid1/ http://en.tldp.org/HOWTO/Software-RAID-HOWTO.html http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Boot+Root+Raid+LILO.html -Andy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: App for making invitation cards
On Sat, Dec 06, 2003 at 11:57:46AM -0600, Kent West wrote: > I've had my mom running Debian for a couple of years, but she's just > doing the minimal stuff of email/web browsing, and is not computer literate. > > Now she wants to create party invitations. Any suggestions as to the > best direction to steer her? (Solving some of these issues would really > be easier in the Windows world, but I _really_ want to avoid going that > route. _Really_!) I just discoverd Scribus. Desktop publishing for Linux. It is a great program. Similar to MS Publisher. Description: a free software desktop publishing program Scribus is a free software layout program for GNU/Linux similar to a couple of proprietary programs from Adobe and Quark. . Unlike other programs Scribus uses only Type1 fonts of the X-Server. Therefore there is no fiddling around with installing extra fonts. For this reason the number of fonts is a little bit limited, but you can be sure that your monitor shows exactly the same as the printed output is. . Documentation for this package is available in either French, German or English. Please choose your appropriate scribus-doc-XX documentation package. Andy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: spurious interrupt
On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 06:47:01PM +0100, Robert Storey wrote: > For some reason, when I logged on today I received this message: > > "spurious 8259A, interrupt: IRQ7" > > I'm not sure if this is anything to worry about at all. Anyone have an idea what it > means? I did a little searching for you. There was a recent thread on this. http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2003/debian-user-200310/msg05114.html Then I found this for you: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html#spurious-8259A-interrupt spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ14 Short summary: It's a hardware problem (usually). Transient Line-noise/crosstalk persuades the PIC that something happened; this can result in a 'dummy' interrupt being raised, which happens to be IRQ7 with intel's 8259 design.The problem could possibly also be caused by (or instead be caused by) a device driver not properly masking its interrupts before servicing, this would be the suspect if the IRQ7's were happening in bursts, or more often than 'several' per day. (Source and additional information) Since the message itself is harmless, it's enough to adjust the default loglevel outplut of klogd (the -c opion) in the syslogd bootscript. See man klogd for details. You can also try recompiling the kernel and unset CONFIG_LOCAL_APIC. -Andy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Exim3, with spamassasin, mailscanner and Clam-AV upgrade to Exim4
On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 11:30:43AM +0100, Joakim wrote:
> I'm about to upgrade from exim3 to exim4. I only have one domain, but I
> have two separat exim conf pretty much according to the mailscanner
> README.Debian.
> If I do a apt-get install exim4
> Can i use the ./convert4r4 for both conf files and still have a working
> system?
> Have anybody made a similar upgrade, are there any fallingpits, is there
> mayby a good howto (that I havnt found)?
Please post your notes to this list when you are done if you don't mind as
I have been wanting to do this for a while.
Where are you going to get your backport? (if you will be backporting)
I don't see exim listed here:
http://www.backports.org/debian/dists/stable/
Is there an official backport?
> Then I have one more question, can I in a easy way convert the exim mBox
> to maildir (and still keep the mail in /var/spool/mail/$user) inorder to
> use Courier-IMAPd so that I can also use a good webserver to check my
> mail when on the run?
Mutt is an excellent choice for doing the conversion.
Make sure your .muttrc has Maildir as its mbox_type:
set mbox_type=Maildir
Use mutt to open up the particular mbox.
type "T" then type "." which will tag all the messages.
Type ";s" and mutt will ask you where you want to
move all the messages and it will create a NEW Maildir for you.
(the semi-colon is important...took me a while to figure
that out and if you don't use it, it will only save one message)
You state you want to keep the existing mail so use ";C".
This will copy all the messages to the new location...not move them.
Courier-IMAP does not require your messages to be in
/var/spool/mail/$user. I have Courier-IMAP set up with SquirrelMail
that reads all of my mail which is in /home/andy/Maildir.
unless I don't understand your question correctly.
You may need to tweak the exim.conf to deliver your mail to the
Maildir using the "local_delivery:" section to deliver to
"directory = ${home}/Maildir/" and you may need to learn exim
filters which I love and are easy to learn.
Hope your conversion goes well.
Andy
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/etc/group problem
I have added myself to the audio and camera groups. (i.e. usermod -G audio andy) For some reason, I keep dropping out of those groups. Something is messing with the /etc/group file. What could be doing this or where do I start looking to solve the problem? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: search mail archive
On Sat, Dec 04, 2004 at 11:12:45PM -0500, Adam Aube wrote: > ken keanon wrote: > > > When I tried to use the Search in the Debian page, I > > was directed to Google. This is inefficient. > > Google indexes the site on its own, and it uses Google's advanced search > features to only search debian.org. How is this inefficient? I have noticed lately that Google groups is becoming almost useless for answers to my Debian questions. It used to be awesome. Very Awesome. Anyone else notice how useless google groups has become? What do you use for searching resources before you post questions to this list? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [OT] The decline and fall of Google Groups
On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 02:24:13AM -0500, William Ballard wrote: > Google's becoming evil. > > Not only have they screwed up groups layout, showing a few columns of > text and leaving a big space for ads, now they're pimping their own > group namespace beside usenet. > > It's horrible. I agree 100%. > Is there any other usenet archive? This is one good resource for me: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/ Since Google groups sucks for finding answers now, what else is everyone using? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [OT] Debian advocacy for Smart but Scared People With Lives
On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 03:28:05PM -0400, William Ballard wrote: > And I spent a month getting all Debian's eyecandy and hardware > acceleration working. And mutt was ridiculous at first compared to > Outlook. You can say that again!!! It is funny as hell to look back at how foreign it felt getting started with Linux and progams like Mutt. Hah! Now I can't live without Mutt. > Now of course, I see the world very differently Me toobut I am tired of preaching about the beauty and freedom of using Linux, and am confident it will continue to spread slowly but surely. No question in my mind. > but I just don't know how to make someone else motivated to make > this leap of faith. Well you can do what I did a few months ago. My brother needed a new computer, so I told him about getting a Dell Poweredge with no operating system. (no Microsft tax..score) You can get a Poweredge for about $300 shipped with rebate and I have bought at least 10 of them in the past. They make great workstations. Anyhow, I made a deal with him and he did about 8 hours of carpentry work on my house, and I installed Debian on the Poweredge for him. Got him a beautiful KDE desktop with audio, networking, printing, etc He LOVES it!!! He learned how to forward port 22 on his Linksys router so I can ssh in and take care of business. I am now 300 miles away from him. Just got his Kodak digital camera working for him via command like with ssh. He loves the feeling of browsing the repository, picking out games and educational tools for his kids, and having me install with apt-get. He loves knowing that spyware is not getting installed with the "freeware" software. He loves not having to worry about spyware and viruses and browser hijacks with IE. He loves Firefox and Thunderbird. Now he is bragging about it to all the other Cops at the Police Department and they all want Linux desktops now. Linux does not have the $Billions in marketing money that MS has, but stories like mine happen every day around the world, and that is why I am confident that the "leap of faith" you ask about, will happen slowly and surely. Andy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Alsa module problem with snd_pcm_oss, snd_emu10k1, soundcore
I have 2 Debian unstable boxes with the same sound card which is the: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 (rev 07) Both boxes using kernel-image-2.6.9-1-386. The work box has no volume control, but base and treble control works. So it is stuck on one volume level. The home box is just fine with all volume controls. I have used alsamixer, kmix, and aumix on both boxes. Same problem booting into either KDE or GNOME. On the work box with no volume control problem, snd_pcm_oss has a value of "1" in the "used by" column which I think is the problem. Also, snd_emu10k1 has a value of "3" for some reason. How do I go about figuring this out? Searching the web tells me that the OSS drivers are grabbing the soundcard first. Below is the relevant lsmod info. Thans, Andy A quick summary of the lsmod diff of the alsa stuff is this: /home/andy# diff home work 4c4 < snd_emu10k180008 2 --- > snd_emu10k180008 3 6c6 < snd_pcm_oss47400 0 --- > snd_pcm_oss47400 1 17c17 < soundcore 9696 2 snd --- > soundcore 9696 3 snd Here is the FULL lsmod for both boxes: HOME (this box is working fine) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ lsmod Module Size Used by snd_seq_oss29696 0 snd_seq_midi_event 7424 1 snd_seq_oss snd_seq46480 4 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event radeon117860 2 ipv6 227968 10 lp 10280 0 mousedev 11032 2 tsdev 7360 0 joydev 9408 0 usbhid 29248 0 ohci_hcd 19204 0 usbcore 104676 4 usbhid,ohci_hcd eepro100 28172 0 sworks_agp 8864 0 agpgart31656 1 sworks_agp pcspkr 3688 0 psmouse19208 0 floppy 54864 0 parport_pc 32192 1 parport37192 2 lp,parport_pc evdev 9088 0 e100 31744 0 mii 4736 2 eepro100,e100 emu10k1_gp 3840 0 gameport4608 1 emu10k1_gp snd_emu10k180008 2 snd_rawmidi22820 1 snd_emu10k1 snd_pcm_oss47400 0 snd_mixer_oss 16640 2 snd_pcm_oss snd_pcm85256 2 snd_emu10k1,snd_pcm_oss snd_timer 23172 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm snd_seq_device 7816 3 snd_seq_oss,snd_emu10k1,snd_rawmidi snd_ac97_codec 61520 1 snd_emu10k1 snd_page_alloc 9608 2 snd_emu10k1,snd_pcm snd_util_mem4480 1 snd_emu10k1 snd_hwdep 9092 1 snd_emu10k1 snd50276 13 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_emu10k1,snd_rawmidi,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_seq_device,snd_ac97_codec,snd_hwdep soundcore 9696 2 snd capability 4744 0 commoncap 7040 1 capability ide_cd 38176 0 cdrom 35996 1 ide_cd rtc12088 0 ext3 108520 2 jbd55704 1 ext3 ide_generic 1536 0 serverworks12180 1 ide_disk 17792 4 ide_core 128112 4 ide_cd,ide_generic,serverworks,ide_disk sd_mod 16656 0 ata_piix8580 0 libata 39428 1 ata_piix scsi_mod 115532 2 sd_mod,libata unix 25780 272 fbcon 35136 0 font8448 1 fbcon vesafb 6816 0 cfbcopyarea 3968 1 vesafb cfbimgblt 3072 1 vesafb cfbfillrect 3584 1 vesafb WORK (this box has NO volume level control) sockeye:/home/andy# lsmod Module Size Used by snd_seq_oss29696 0 snd_seq_midi_event 7424 1 snd_seq_oss snd_seq46480 4 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event apm19948 1 ipv6 227968 8 af_packet 20744 2 emu10k1_gp 3840 0 gameport4608 1 emu10k1_gp snd_emu10k180008 3 snd_rawmidi22820 1 snd_emu10k1 snd_pcm_oss47400 1 snd_mixer_oss 16640 2 snd_pcm_oss snd_pcm85256 2 snd_emu10k1,snd_pcm_oss snd_timer 23172 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm snd_seq_device 7816 3 snd_seq_oss,snd_emu10k1,snd_rawmidi snd_ac97_codec 61520 1 snd_emu10k1 snd_page_alloc 9608 2 snd_emu10k1,snd_pcm snd_util_mem4480 1 snd_emu10k1 snd_hwdep 9092 1 snd_emu10k1 snd50276 13 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_emu10k1,snd_rawmidi,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_seq_device,snd_ac97_codec,snd_hwdep soundcore 9696 3 snd 3c59x 37032 0 tsdev 7360 0 mousedev
Re: alsaconf
On Mon, Nov 08, 2004 at 10:59:11AM +0100, Ismael Valladolid Torres wrote: > El lunes 8 de noviembre de 2004 a las 02:29:34, Rick Pasotto escribe: > > I have installed libasound1, alsa-base, alsa-utils. When I run alsaconf > > it says it can't find any PCI sound cards even though I have an Ensoniq > > AudioPCI (ES1371) that is detected on startup. > > Are you running woody, sarge or sid? Good question as he is probably using a 2.4 kernel without Alsa in the kernel. If he can, he should install a 2.6 kernel image which has Alsa support and the sound card will be detected by alsaconf. Andy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ximian Connector for Debian Sid
Running Sid on my laptop with Evolution 1.4.6-3 and I would like to connect to an Exchange server. I know how to join a Windows PDC using the "net rpc" command from the Samba 3 suite and I can mount all the necessary shares. So far so goodbut need to do the shared stuff on Exchange. Searched the web and there is no clear way to get the Ximian Connector installed. One can get rpm's here: http://ftp.ximian.com/pub/ximian-connector/ There are some packages here: http://www.gnome.org/~jdub/debian/sid/ Or should one install evo1.5 from experimental? Will that screw things up for me in regards to library dependancies? http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg10753.html Any ideas for me? Thanks, Andy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Ximian Connector for Debian Sid
On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 11:36:36AM -0400, Mark Roach wrote: > On Fri, 2004-07-16 at 10:35 -0400, Andy Firman wrote: > > Running Sid on my laptop with Evolution 1.4.6-3 and I would > > like to connect to an Exchange server. > > > There are some packages here: > > http://www.gnome.org/~jdub/debian/sid/ > > > > Or should one install evo1.5 from experimental? > > Will that screw things up for me in regards to library dependancies? > > I am using evo1.5 from experimental. It doesn't include the ximian > connector. I installed evolution1.5-dev and pulled the cvs version of > ximian conector (1_5_9_2 branch) and was able to compile and install it > with a little fighting with makefiles but it seems pretty unstable. > > If you really want to get some work done stick with 1.4 and jdub's > packages. Yes that is what I really want but I am missing something. Sorry if I am missing something obvious. This is in my sources.list deb http://www.gnome.org/~jdub/debian/sid ./ deb-src http://www.gnome.org/~jdub/debian/sid ./ apt-cache search ximian-connector shows nothing. How do I get his packages in? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Ximian Connector for Debian Sid
On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 03:00:07PM -0400, Paul Smith wrote: > %% Andy Firman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > af> apt-cache search ximian-connector shows nothing. > > af> How do I get his packages in? > > apt-get install evolution-exchange I must be doing something really stupid: chum:/home/andy# apt-get update Hit http://www.gnome.org ./ Packages Get:1 http://http.us.debian.org unstable/main Packages [3133kB] Hit http://www.gnome.org ./ Release Hit http://www.gnome.org ./ Sources Hit http://www.gnome.org ./ Release Get:2 http://http.us.debian.org unstable/main Release [82B] Get:3 http://http.us.debian.org unstable/contrib Packages [72.3kB] Get:4 http://http.us.debian.org unstable/contrib Release [85B] Hit http://http.us.debian.org unstable/non-free Packages Get:5 http://http.us.debian.org unstable/non-free Release [86B] Fetched 3206kB in 47s (68.0kB/s) Reading Package Lists... Done chum:/home/andy# apt-get install evolution-exchange Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done E: Couldn't find package evolution-exchange chum:/home/andy# When I look at the sources here: http://www.gnome.org/~jdub/debian/ It is all for architecture powerpc: Packages Available sid deb http://www.gnome.org/~jdub/debian/sid ./ deb-src http://www.gnome.org/~jdub/debian/sid ./ Package: evolution-exchange Version: 1.4.7.2-1 Architecture: powerpc So is this ONLY for the powerpc? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Ximian Connector for Debian Sid
On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 04:54:13PM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Fri, 2004-07-16 at 12:40, Andy Firman wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 11:36:36AM -0400, Mark Roach wrote: > > > On Fri, 2004-07-16 at 10:35 -0400, Andy Firman wrote: > > > > Running Sid on my laptop with Evolution 1.4.6-3 and I would > > > > like to connect to an Exchange server. > > > > > > > There are some packages here: > > > > http://www.gnome.org/~jdub/debian/sid/ > > > > > > > > Or should one install evo1.5 from experimental? > > > > Will that screw things up for me in regards to library dependancies? > > > > > > I am using evo1.5 from experimental. It doesn't include the ximian > > > connector. I installed evolution1.5-dev and pulled the cvs version of > > > ximian conector (1_5_9_2 branch) and was able to compile and install it > > > with a little fighting with makefiles but it seems pretty unstable. > > > > > > If you really want to get some work done stick with 1.4 and jdub's > > > packages. > > > > Yes that is what I really want but I am missing something. > > Sorry if I am missing something obvious. > > > > This is in my sources.list > > > > deb http://www.gnome.org/~jdub/debian/sid ./ > > deb-src http://www.gnome.org/~jdub/debian/sid ./ > > > > apt-cache search ximian-connector shows nothing. > > > > How do I get his packages in? > > His stuff is all PowerPC packages. > > I just did this after adding those sources to my sources.list, as root: > > 1. apt-get build-dep ximian-connector > 2. apt-get source ximian-connector > 3. cd ximian-connector > 4. dpkg-buildpackage > 5. cd .. > 6. dpkg -i evolution-exchange_1.4.7.2-1_i386.deb > 7. restart evolution. > > I am using "Sid" or "Unstable". I have just connected to an exchange > server, it works. Thanks Greg. This is how I ended up doing it: apt-get install apt-src mkdir foo cd foo apt-src install ximian-connector ls cd ximian-connector-1.4.7.2/ dpkg-buildpackage -b -us -uc (got an error with regards to perl xml somthing) apt-get install intltool dpkg-buildpackage -b -us -uc dpkg -i evolution-exchange_1.4.7.2-1_i386.deb VERY NICE! Thanks to Novell for open sourcing the connector! And thanks to all the debian-users for helping me get this in. Andy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: printer setup
On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 10:22:04AM +0100, Mark Schouten wrote: > On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 01:00:31PM -0800, Gruessle wrote: > > My printer man says following. Is there a HOWTO on this? > > > > Unix Systems > > Follow the traditional configuration procedure on Unix platforms to set > > up the SpeedStream 2614 print > > server. The printer name is ?lp.? > > Personally, I very much like CUPS. See if it works for you. > > apt-get install cupsys cupsys-bsd cupsys-client Once you get a Debian CUPS print server set up properly, you will be very happy. Here is a really good howto: http://bevilacqua.us/HowTo/MichaelBevilacqua/CUPS/Debian/HowTo.txt This one is good as well but seems to be down: http://mumford1.dyndns.org/~bs7452/linuxhelp/cups.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Filtering emails in ~/Maildir
On Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 04:36:46PM -, demslh wrote: > I've jsut setup a Debian unstable box as an email server. It uses > fetchmail to pull emails from several different pop3 accounts, which > passes the emails to exim4, which dumps them in ~/Maildir > I then pick up the emails using courier-imap server and an imap client. > > What i want to do now is filter the emails in the maildir into different > folders. > For instance: > i want anything from [EMAIL PROTECTED] to go into > inbox/debian-user > anything from my local LUG, to go in the inbox/lug folder, and so on. > > whats the best way of doing this? i've been trawling the net for over an > hour, and i'm now more confused than i was to start with. Use exim filters. The rules go in your .forward file. Here is what I have for the debian list: -- # Exim filter if $header_to: contains "debian" then save $home/Maildir/.debian/ finish endif If you have "create_directory = true" in the local_delivery section of exim.conf then your new Maildir's will automatically be created. You can read about exim filters here: /usr/share/doc/exim/filter.txt.gz Andy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: software raid
On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 07:43:31PM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: > On Sat, 13 Dec 2003, Lucas Albers wrote: > > > I've been trying to get debian stable working with software raid using > > various documentation. [snip] > for setup of a new system ( the right way?? ) > - make sure the partition type is FD(raid) not 82(linux) Can one simply change the partition type via fdisk on an existing system if one is going to add a new drive to RAID1 the drives? Or must this be done during initial install? > or just start with 2 fresh disks and leave the current disk alone > and retire it after your new raid setup is testing/working and > been running a few months I like this idea but I need help. A server of mine has just one 20GB drive. I have 2 spare 40GB drives. How would I make my current install on the 20GB work on the 40GB drives that I want to setup RAID1 on? I don't want to do a fresh install as I spent alot of time on this particular server configuring it a certain way. Thanks, Andy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: software raid
On Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 06:16:32PM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: > > hi ya andy > > On Sat, 20 Dec 2003, Andy Firman wrote: > > > > for setup of a new system ( the right way?? ) > > > - make sure the partition type is FD(raid) not 82(linux) > > > > Can one simply change the partition type via fdisk on an existing system > > if one is going to add a new drive to RAID1 the drives? > > i havent tried it ... i prefer a "clean" system so i awlays > format the raid before and copying data from the orig drive to the new > raid So when you bring up a new system, you mark all the partitions as FD? I just tried it and the installer tells me "No Linux partitions were detected. At least one Linux partition is required to hold the root filesystem" Maybe I am taking your statements too literally. cfdisk shows this: hda1 boot Primary Linux raid autodetect 1003MB hda2 Primary Linux raid autodetect 3000MB hda3 Primary Linux raid autodetect 3000MB hda5 Logical Linux swap 1000MB hda6 Logical Linux raid autodetect 31988MB I can't install this way so I must use partition type 83 right? Also, do you put symbolic links to the images in /boot instead of / like this howto advises?: http://www.linustech.com.cy/linux/HOWTO/lvmraid/lvmraid.html http://www.linustech.com.cy/linux/HOWTO/lvmraid/node9.html Andy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: wireless network problems
On Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 07:54:54PM -0700, Tim Folger wrote: > I'm relatively new to Linux, and have installed debian woody with the > bf2.4 kernel. I'm having trouble getting my orinoco wireless card to > work. The card beeps during startup, and its green light flickers, but > doesn't stay on. When I run iwconfig eth1 the output gives the correct > essid and nickname, but says that the encryption key is turned off, even > though I've specified a key in /etc/network/interfaces. Here's what > I've entered in /etc/network/interfaces: > > iface eth1 inet dhcp > wireless_essid (my network name) > wireless_mode managed > wireless_key (a combination of five numbers and letters) > wireless_nick (computer's nickname) > wireless_channel 10 > > Is there another parameter I need to enter to turn on wireless > encryption? Or am I missing something else? I have the same card. Are you using 40 or 128 bit encryption? Have you tried setting encryption manually? Such as: ~$ iwconfig eth1 enc 01234567890123456789123456 (for 128 bit encryption there are 26 characters needed and for the 40 bit encryption there are 10 characters needed...I think... so if you are using only 5 characters...that may be the problem) Also, have you played around with /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts ? I don't use the interfaces file for the wireless settings like you do. All my configuration in in wireless.opts and the only thing in my interfaces file is this: auto eth1 iface eth1 inet dhcp One other thing, I remember vaguely having trouble with the bf24 kernel and wireless. Maybe you can try to do a custom kernel? Also what do you have for modules? This is what I have when I do lsmod: orinoco_cs 4724 1 orinoco37140 0 [orinoco_cs] hermes 6020 0 [orinoco_cs orinoco] Hope this gets you started in the right direction. Andy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Popup suppression, et. al.
On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 02:45:32PM +0200, David Baron wrote: > Anyone know of any popup surpressors that will work with "Konquerer". Settings > Configure Konqueror Click on "Java & Java Script" Click on the "Java Script" tab. Then you will see at the bottom "JavaScript web popups policy" Make your selection there to disable popups. The feature is built into Konqueror. Andy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: woody upgrade/update path
On Mon, Dec 22, 2003 at 01:46:33PM +0200, Hans du Plooy wrote: > Hi all, > > I have to install spamassassin (and likely some sort of virus filtreing - > amavis or so) on a handful of debian woody mailservers. Also, I need to add > hylafax server to them all. > > The servers can't go down, at least not longer than a restart if it really has > to, so I have to find a way to update the necessary packages. > > apt-get install gives me spamassassin 2.2, while I would like to have 2.6.x Add this to your sources.list: deb http://www.gonkgonk.com/mirrors/backports.org/debian stable spamassassin (or grab a mirror close to you: http://www.backports.org/mirrors.html) Then apt-get update and then apt-get install spamassassin. This will give you spamassassin 2.6. Andy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Printing to hplj1100 connected to windows computer
On Sun, Dec 28, 2003 at 01:32:28PM +0200, Andrus Moor wrote: > I have a hp lj 1100 pronter connected to windows 98 computer in LAN. First you need to share the printer on the Win98 machine so others on the LAN can print to it. > How to print to this printer from debian workstation? Install CUPS. Read the documentation. Then open a browser on the Debian computer and navigate to: http://127.0.0.1:631 and you should get the cups admin web interface where you can add a Windows/SAMBA printer. This should get your started Andy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: problem with menuconfig
On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 11:47:31AM -0700, Paul Schwartz wrote: > I'm trying to build a kernel. Do 'make menuconfig' in an xterm window, > and it comes back > > >>Unable to find the Ncurses libraries > > The following are installed [Woody] > libncurses5 > ncurses-base > ncurses-bin > ncurses-term > > Why can't it be found? You need: libncurses5-dev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Good front end for small postgress dtabases?
On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 04:23:26PM -0500, Bob Billson wrote: > On Fri, Dec 26, 2003 at 01:15:54PM -0500, Paul Morgan penned: > > > I need to create some small databses in postgress (christmas card list, > > > household inventory). What choices do I have for creating user input forms, > > > and reports in Debian? > > > > pgaccess > > I'm curious. Is there a similar program for mysql? Yes. I am starting to play with this right now as I don't know a darn thing about databases ~$ dpkg -l phpmyadmin ii phpmyadmin 2.5.4-2 A set of PHP-scripts to administrate MySQL over the WWW -Andy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: keeping Debian up to date and checking the version number
On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 05:19:53PM -0800, wynn wrote: > On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 11:19:24PM +, Adam Barton wrote: > > Guys, > what about us 'non-guys'? I think we are all guys. Unless you are something that we don't know about. www.dictionary.com 4 entries found for guys. 1. guy: Informal. A man; a fellow. 2. guys: Informal. Persons of either sex. 3. Chiefly British. A person of odd or grotesque appearance or dress. 4. Debian-User :-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: update from stable to testing ?
On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 07:58:16PM -0500, Stephen wrote: > Hello Friends, > > I understand that there are substantial changes in the configuration > files between Exim3 and Exim4. Will the upgrade script be able to adjust > the present Exim3 configuration to whatever syntax etc., that will be > required for Exim4 to work properly as b4? When will Exim4 be in testing? Your subject line makes it seem like Exim4 is in testing. I run testing and only see Exim 3.36-9.1: ~$ apt-cache show exim Package: exim Priority: extra Section: mail Installed-Size: 1436 Maintainer: Mark Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Architecture: i386 Version: 3.36-9.1 Am I missing something? -Andy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: update from stable to testing ?
On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 08:23:12AM -0500, Andy Firman wrote: > On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 07:58:16PM -0500, Stephen wrote: > > Hello Friends, > > > > I understand that there are substantial changes in the configuration > > files between Exim3 and Exim4. Will the upgrade script be able to adjust > > the present Exim3 configuration to whatever syntax etc., that will be > > required for Exim4 to work properly as b4? > > When will Exim4 be in testing? > Your subject line makes it seem like Exim4 is in testing. > > I run testing and only see Exim 3.36-9.1: ^^^ Darn it. I meant to say unstable. When will Exim4 be in either unstable or testing? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: update from stable to testing ?
On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 01:47:40PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 08:23:12AM -0500, Andy Firman wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 07:58:16PM -0500, Stephen wrote: > > > I understand that there are substantial changes in the configuration > > > files between Exim3 and Exim4. Will the upgrade script be able to adjust > > > the present Exim3 configuration to whatever syntax etc., that will be > > > required for Exim4 to work properly as b4? > > > > When will Exim4 be in testing? > > Your subject line makes it seem like Exim4 is in testing. > > > > I run testing and only see Exim 3.36-9.1: > > > > ~$ apt-cache show exim > > Try 'exim4'. It has been in testing for some time. Uh oh ... silly me. I did not realize exim4 was it's own package. Next time I will be sure to do apt-cache search exim which, of course, tells me both exim and exim4 exist. Sorry for the noise. -Andy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mailman/exim problem
On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 01:27:49PM -0600, Joseph A. Nagy, Jr. wrote: > Exim's conf file attached as well as /etc/aliases due to possible relevance > > already checked man mailman > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# man mailman > No manual entry for mailman > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# > No other documentation available (good gods that's horrible in and of > itself) Plenty of documentation and it should be right there on your machine: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -al /usr/share/doc/mailman/ total 152 drwxr-xr-x6 root root 4096 Nov 15 12:59 . drwxr-xr-x 286 root root 8192 Dec 17 15:12 .. -rw-r--r--1 root root 2166 May 20 2002 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -rw-r--r--1 root root 686 Sep 22 2000 BUGS -rw-r--r--1 root root 9640 Apr 18 2002 FAQ -rw-r--r--1 root root20067 Nov 16 2000 INSTALL -rw-r--r--1 root root16652 May 20 2002 NEWS.gz -rw-r--r--1 root root 6155 Jan 3 2001 README -rw-r--r--1 root root 871 Jan 3 2001 README.BSD -rw-r--r--1 root root 3046 Sep 18 2002 README.Debian -rw-r--r--1 root root 9469 Sep 18 2002 README.EXIM -rw-r--r--1 root root 1059 Mar 12 2001 README.LINUX -rw-r--r--1 root root 1742 Jul 19 2000 README.NETSCAPE -rw-r--r--1 root root 2167 Oct 20 2000 README.QMAIL.gz -rw-r--r--1 root root 1528 Mar 21 2000 README.SENDMAIL -rw-r--r--1 root root 3991 Nov 10 2000 TODO.gz -rw-r--r--1 root root 3552 Mar 3 2001 UPGRADING.gz -rw-r--r--1 root root 6676 Sep 18 2002 changelog.Debian.gz -rw-r--r--1 root root 1248 Sep 18 2002 copyright drwxr-xr-x3 root root 4096 Nov 14 10:19 examples drwxr-xr-x3 root root 4096 Nov 14 10:19 html drwxr-xr-x2 root root 4096 Nov 14 10:19 images drwxr-xr-x2 root root 4096 Nov 14 10:19 src Also, this link is a great help: http://www.exim.org/howto/mailman.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cfdisk vs fdisk & speaking of Western Digital drives...
Hello. I am not a hard drive expert and need some help in understanding a few things. First, what is the difference between fdisk and cfdisk, other cfdisk being curses based? Second, I have 2 Western Digital drives. Both model WD400BB but they were manufactured about 6 months apart. I just bought the second one as I want to try out Lucas' new Debian software Root on Raid howto. I partioned both disk's exactly the same using cfdisk during the install. It seems that one drive has 4863 cylinders and the other has 77545 cylinders. Why would Western Digital make the drives different? Or did I do something wrong with partitioning/formatting? Do the physical drives and partitions have to be EXACTLY the same for RAID 1 to work properly or will the following layouts of my drives be sufficient? Here is the info from cfdisk and fdisk on both drives: cfdisk /dev/hda: cfdisk 2.11n Disk Drive: /dev/hda Size: 400 bytes Heads: 255 Sectors per Track: 63 Cylinders: 4863 NameFlags Part Type FS Type [Label] Size (MB) - hda1Boot Primary Linux ext2 1003.49 hda2 Primary Linux ext2 3002.23 hda3 Primary Linux ext2 3002.23 hda5 Logical Linux swap 1003.49 hda6 Logical Linux ext2 3002.23 Logical Free Space 28985.89 then cfdisk /dev/hdd cfdisk 2.11n Disk Drive: /dev/hdd Size: 40020664320 bytes Heads: 16 Sectors per Track: 63 Cylinders: 77545 Name Flags Part Type FS Type [Label] Size (MB) - hdd1Boot Primary Linux ext2 1000.20 hdd2 Primary Linux ext2 3000.07 hdd3 Primary Linux ext2 3000.07 hdd5 Logical Linux swap 1000.20 hdd6 Logical Linux ext2 3000.07 Logical Free Space 29020.08 Now for fdisk: fdisk /dev/hda Command (m for help): p Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 4863 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device BootStart EndBlocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 122979933+ 83 Linux /dev/hda2 123 487 2931862+ 83 Linux /dev/hda3 488 852 2931862+ 83 Linux /dev/hda4 853 1339 3911827+ 5 Extended /dev/hda5 853 974979933+ 82 Linux swap /dev/hda6 975 1339 2931831 83 Linux fdisk /dev/hdd Command (m for help): p Disk /dev/hdd: 16 heads, 63 sectors, 77545 cylinders Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 bytes Device BootStart EndBlocks Id System /dev/hdd1 * 1 1938976720+ 83 Linux /dev/hdd2 1939 7751 2929752 83 Linux /dev/hdd3 7752 13564 2929752 83 Linux /dev/hdd4 13565 21315 39065045 Extended /dev/hdd5 13565 15502976720+ 82 Linux swap /dev/hdd6 15503 21315 2929720+ 83 Linux Thanks for any help. -Andy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: problem with awstats
On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 09:52:23AM +0800, Jiele wrote: > Hi, guys, > Installed Awstats (Version: 5.6-1), works fine. However, I just > noticed that it only generates monthly report. So when a new month > starts, all the past statistics are gone, and everything starts from 0 > (e.g. number of visits, domains/countries, etc). > One possible way is to generate a new report when a new month > starts, but what I want is to see all the historical data from a single > report. Not sure if I understand your question so take this advice with a grain of salt. I run a cron job every morning at 8am: 0 8 * * */usr/lib/cgi-bin/awstats.pl -config=yourdomain.com -update Check man crontab for more information. All the data is preserved. I just checked and was able to see all the data from 2003. Pretty cool program. This bit may be what you are looking for now, if you want to catch up on all the access.logs, what I did was cat them into each other using >> (append) and came out with one big giant log. Then I ran the update and was able to capture all the data from the beginning. -Andy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mailman/exim problem
On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 05:43:29PM -0600, Joseph A. Nagy, Jr. wrote: > mike wrote: > >On Sat, 03 Jan 2004 13:27:49 -0600, Joseph A. Nagy, Jr. wrote > > > >>Exim's conf file attached as well as /etc/aliases due to possible > >>relevance > >> > >>already checked man mailman > >> > >>[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# man mailman > >>No manual entry for mailman > >>[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# > >> > >>[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# apt-cache search mailman docs > >>[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# apt-cache search mailman doc > >>[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# apt-cache search mailman man > >>lg-issue91 - Issue 91 of the Linux Gazette. > >>mailman - Powerful, web-based mailing list manager > >>gforge-lists-mailman - Collaborative development tool - mailing-lists > >>(using Mailman) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# > >> > >>No other documentation available (good gods that's horrible in and > >>of itself) > > > > > >Try below for more info: > >www.list.org > > I guess horribley inadequate documentation is better then none at all. What are you talking about? It is well documented! It does not get any better than this: http://www.exim.org/howto/mailman.html Also, did you see my other post? Look at /usr/share/doc/mailman It should be right there in front of you! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cfdisk vs fdisk & speaking of Western Digital drives...
On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 01:48:48PM +, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 04:52:06PM -0500, Andy Firman wrote: > > > > Second, I have 2 Western Digital drives. > > Both model WD400BB but they were manufactured about > > 6 months apart. I just bought the second one as I want > > to try out Lucas' new Debian software Root on Raid howto. > > Could you echo the URL for this, please? http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2004/debian-user-200401/msg00176.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What is best hard drive for Linux?
On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 09:43:29AM -0500, Paul Morgan wrote: > On Sat, 03 Jan 2004 22:24:34 +, Pigeon wrote: > > > > > I'm intrigued by the drive having an installation CD with it. What was on > > it? You sometimes needed to load EZ-Drive or Disk Manager off a floppy in > > the days when the half-gig limit was a problem, but I haven't come across > > anything like that recently. > > Maxtor, for example, provides an installation CD with the drive checking > tools and something for doing drive-to-drive copies in case you are > replacing a drive (remember that most people replacing drives will be > non-geek PC users, prolly running one of those dastardly MS O/S's). I just got a brand new WD 40GB drive. The CD that came with it is called: "Western Digital Data Lifeguard Tools Version 11.0" It has 2 programs. Drive Installation and Diagnostics. For Windows XP, 2000, ME, 98SE only. If Windows is installed, use this CD to setup your harddrive. If Windows is not installed, boot from this CD. No Windows here so I booted from CD to see what happens. It starts Caldera DR-DOS. Then it comes to a menu: 1. Run Data Lifeguard 2. Create Data Lifeguard Bootable Diskette 3. Create Data Lifeguard Diagnostics Bootable Diskette 4. Quit I chose 1 and the program started and was basically a tutorial for physically installing a hard drive. Then it brought me to the main menu with 5 choices: 1. Install tutorial (self explanatory) 2. Setup your hard drive This one allows you to completely erase your disk. 3. Maint. options This allows you to create bootdisk, update MBR boot code, and also backup or restore MBR 4. Utilites This allows you to copy a partition or set hard drive size. 5. Hard drive info This shows you either technical hard drive info or view hard drive jumper settings. Noting exciting. Most people on this list could just use a Knoppix CD to accomplish most anything. -Andy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cfdisk vs fdisk & speaking of Western Digital drives...
On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 12:36:42AM +0100, GCS wrote: > On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 04:52:06PM -0500, Andy Firman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Second, I have 2 Western Digital drives. > > Both model WD400BB but they were manufactured about > > 6 months apart. > It may be an other revision, hdd controllers can have different > chipset/'bios'. Also, they may have higher density plates, so less of > them enough for the same capacity. > > > I partioned both disk's exactly the same using cfdisk > > during the install. It seems that one drive has 4863 cylinders > > and the other has 77545 cylinders. > Can be a BIOS setting, check that both drives use the same addressing > method (CHS, LBA, other). Both drives were set as "auto" in the BIOS. I have learned that LBA = logical block addressing and CHS = cylinder head sector. Not sure of the implications of using either. Should I try using either and do my partitioning all over again or should just accept the fact that 2 exact same model WD drives does NOT mean they are the same physically? > > Why would Western Digital > > make the drives different? Or did I do something wrong > > with partitioning/formatting? > No, partitioning is ok IMHO. What you don't know that hdd size is > calculated from a triplet: Cylinders, Headers, Sectors: > >Disk Drive: /dev/hda > > Size: 400 bytes > >Heads: 255 Sectors per Track: 63 Cylinders: 4863 > >Disk Drive: /dev/hdd > > Size: 40020664320 bytes > >Heads: 16 Sectors per Track: 63 Cylinders: 77545 > If you do the math: C*H*S*512 => you should get the size in bytes. So > hdd has more Cylinders because it has less Heads value (this is not the > real value, but some kind of mapped one). > > > Do the physical drives and partitions have to be EXACTLY the > > same for RAID 1 to work properly or will the following > > layouts of my drives be sufficient? > Hmm. Note sure this is ok, try to set the same CHS for both drives. > > > /dev/hda1 * 1 122979933+ 83 Linux > Also, if I remember right, a plus sign after the size is indicating a > warning that the partition does not on Cylinder boundary, which may be a > problem as partitions may overlap a bit. I noticed the plus signs but did not know what they indicated. Maybe the best thing to do is get started with the root on RAID project and see if these 2 "same model but different" drives cause any grief. Thanks, Andy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cfdisk vs fdisk & speaking of Western Digital drives...
On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 09:39:17PM -0700, Nate Duehr wrote: > > On Saturday, Jan 3, 2004, at 14:52 America/Denver, Andy Firman wrote: > > >I partioned both disk's exactly the same using cfdisk > >during the install. It seems that one drive has 4863 cylinders > >and the other has 77545 cylinders. Why would Western Digital > >make the drives different? Or did I do something wrong > >with partitioning/formatting? > > Unless the hardware design itself changed, you usually don't see this > in identically numbered disk models... or not that I've ever run into > yet, anyway. But WD may have changed firmware and/or drive control > hardware on the drive. Nowadays the CHS information doesn't even > really have to match what the disk really is -- the firmware guys can > make that stuff do "virtually" whatever is wanted by the marketing > department and/or the folks who do compatibility testing with various > motherboard chipsets... they can "fix" compatibility issues by just > having the drive look like something other than what it really is, if > they desire to. I might email WD tech support to see why the exact same model drive has different physical characteristics and CHS layout. (or if there is a firmware "feature" like you mentioned) > >Do the physical drives and partitions have to be EXACTLY the > >same for RAID 1 to work properly or will the following > >layouts of my drives be sufficient? > > No, the kernel handles it for you. If you think about it, some people > might be using software RAID with two completely different disk > manufacturers, for example. I have seen RAID1 setups that had two > different sized drives set up before and wondered what happens when you > fill the smaller one... hopefully the kernel's smart enough to report > "disk full" when that happens. Without actually trying it out here, > I'd assume it's failsafe enough to do that, but the kernel RAID docs > would hopefully say for certain what the limitations are. > > (Example of wildly different disks doing software RAID: Russel Coker > recently posted some tests he did with bonnie++ on a RAID1 array > consisting of an internal disk and an external USB 2.0 disk and the > resulting speed hits on reading from the "wrong" disk -- the USB disk > was much much slower, but the kernel would still attempt to read from > it even when the internal disk was idle. Interesting data. It's in > the list archives here, I'm sure.) > > I read most of the other comments and agree with them. This looks like > a BIOS problem. Are both disks set up the same in the BIOS for LBA or > Standard or what-have-you? This is a new MSI AMD KM400 motherboard according to my spec sheet and the BIOS was set to "auto" for both drives. > Another thought... I note that the second disk is a slave on the second > IDE chain. Is there a CD-ROM drive somewhere, perhaps on /dev/hdc? Yes there is a cd-rom on /dev/hdc > There are some interactions with masters and slaves on IDE where the > CD-ROM may be forcing the second IDE chain to slower speeds, etc. I've > not seen anything documented where it would force the inability to use > LBA or something similar, but perhaps if the second disk were on the > main IDE chain it would be detected differently on that particular > BIOS/motherboard combo? I will give it a shot since Debian is on /dev/hda and I no longer need the cd-rom and can take that right out of the equation. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Synching disk on logout -- switched to EXT3
On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 03:20:09PM +, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > David Baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Thanks to all the good advice here, I made the switch to ext3. It was quite > >painless, was neither doable nor necessitating a CD-boot. > > > >Just did the tune2fs -j and edited the fstab and rebooted. > > > >Note that on boot now, I get a warning something like: > >ext2 loader warning, ext3 superblock . mounted ext3, filesystem ext2. > > > >Besides this, runs perfectly and survived one switch off with a flawless fsck. > > You must set the filesystems as ext3 in /etc/fstab. Not only that, > you need to make sure ext3 is compiled into the kernel (not a module) > or loaded in initrd, and tell the kernel that the root filesystem is > of type ext3 instead of ext2. Otherwise the kernel will mount it > as ext2. Well I just did what was stated above on my test system and it was suprisingly easy to do. To test it, I had a bunch of files open and services running and killed the power on the machine. The system came right back up no problem. I like it. :-) Now, why not do this on all systems? (I manage 7 Debian boxes very far away so I should convert to ext3.) The only argument I have seen by googling, is one fellow who says that if his hardware is failing, he wants to know about it and ext3 won't tell you about possible disk failures. Thoughts? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cfdisk vs fdisk & speaking of Western Digital drives...
On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 11:20:24PM +0100, Jan Minar wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 04:52:06PM -0500, Andy Firman wrote:
> > Do the physical drives and partitions have to be EXACTLY the
> > same for RAID 1 to work properly or will the following
> > layouts of my drives be sufficient?
>
> Briefly: no: Linux kernel software RAID won't mess with the disk's
> internals.
>
>
> >Disk Drive: /dev/hda
> > Size: 400 bytes
> >Heads: 255 Sectors per Track: 63 Cylinders: 4863
>
> >Disk Drive: /dev/hdd
> > Size: 40020664320 bytes
> >Heads: 16 Sectors per Track: 63 Cylinders: 77545
>
>
> You can see you have two completely different disks. You might use
> hdparm(8) to see what the disk report themselves to be, really.
This is interesting. I took hdd and put it on hdb and did this:
dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb
which took over 5 hours as I went to bed. It was done this am.
Now look what cfdisk reports:
Disk Drive: /dev/hda
Size: 400 bytes
Heads: 255 Sectors per Track: 63Cylinders: 4863
Disk Drive: /dev/hdb
Size: 40020664320 bytes
Heads: 255 Sectors per Track: 63Cylinders: 4865
remember that /dev/hdb is the same drive as /dev/hdd (I just moved
the drive to do the dd command)
So by doing dd, the hdb(hdd) disk now has 255 heads instead of just
16 and it's cylinders went from 77545 down to 4865.
So now my completely different disk's are not so different...no?
And here is what hdparm says about both drives:
debian:~# hdparm -i /dev/hda
/dev/hda:
Model=WDC WD400BB-75DEA0, FwRev=05.03E05, SerialNo=WD-WMAD19841353
Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw>15uSec SpinMotCtl Fixed DTR>5Mbs FmtGapReq }
RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=57600, SectSize=600, ECCbytes=40
BuffType=DualPortCache, BuffSize=2048kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=16
CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=16514064, LBA=yes, LBAsects=78125000
IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:120,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120}
PIO modes: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4
DMA modes: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 *udma5
AdvancedPM=no WriteCache=enabled
Drive Supports : Reserved : ATA-1 ATA-2 ATA-3 ATA-4 ATA-5
debian:~# hdparm -i /dev/hdb
/dev/hdb:
Model=WDC WD400BB-00GFA0, FwRev=09.01B09, SerialNo=WD-WCAKA1203407
Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw>15uSec SpinMotCtl Fixed DTR>5Mbs FmtGapReq }
RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=57600, SectSize=600, ECCbytes=40
BuffType=DualPortCache, BuffSize=2048kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=16
CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=16514064, LBA=yes, LBAsects=78165360
IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:120,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120}
PIO modes: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4
DMA modes: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 *udma5
AdvancedPM=no WriteCache=enabled
Drive Supports : Reserved : ATA-1 ATA-2 ATA-3 ATA-4 ATA-5
I guess my question is what really controls the CHS layout of a disk?
(Nate mentioned firmware in a recent post.)
The dd in this command obviously changed the hdb drive's CHS layout.
-Andy
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Re: crack traces in /var ?
> > Oh well. Second time this year. > How on earth and why are you getting cracked? Can you share with us the reasons you have been cracked twice in 7 months? What services do you think are being compromised? What kind of security (if any) policies do you implement besides iptables? Is it possible you were not implementing iptables correctly? (I recommend Shorewall to help implement iptables the right way) This is one thing I never want to happen to my servers, hence all the questions. Maybe we can learn from your mistakes. I would appreciate the information. Andy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 802.11g Wireless NIC for Desktop
On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 12:21:52PM -0500, Doug MacFarlane wrote: > > Team: > > I'm converting to 802.11g at my new place. What NIC do you recommend for > my Debian Unstable (sid) desktop? I'm looking for something that I can > install, and load the drivers via modconf and be done . . . . I am using one of these for my Sid desktop: http://broadband.motorola.com/consumers/products/we800g/default.asp Works great and plugs into your existing NIC so you don't need any special drivers. I got mine on Amazon for $90. Andy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: resolv.conf gets reset
On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 09:11:40AM -0700, Brenden wrote: > Hi all, new debian user here with some basic questions. > > My resolv.conf file keeps getting reset to nothing (well, just the two comment > lines warning me not to change things manually) everytime I reboot. I just > plain don't have any idea what could be causing this. Ideas? Help? > > To set resolv.conf, I su then type "echo 'nameserver 10.0.0.1' > | /sbin/resolvconf -a eth0" which takes care of the problem for one session. > > How do I make this permanent? I noticed this too on a new Sid install on my laptop. What I did is add "nameserver 10.0.0.1" to this file: /etc/resolvconf/resolv.conf.d/tail and it appends the nameserver to resolv.conf properly during boot up. Andy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Evolution oddness
On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 05:40:05PM -0500, David Clymer wrote: > On Tue, 2004-02-24 at 15:33, Norman Walsh wrote: > > / Norman Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > > | I don't know when or how I broke this, I don't run evolution very often, > > | but I'd like to run it to try out some calendaring stuff. When I start > > | evolution and click on the Calendar shortcut, I get the Calendar view > > | with the Tasks displayed. Nothing I click on gives me the calendar view. > > | > > | So I rm -rf'd the ~/evolution directory and made sure all the > > | bonobo-related tasks were killed. > > | > > | But when I restarted evolution, the problem persisted. Clues solicited. > > > > Removing, purging, and reinstalling evolution didn't help. > > > > Neither did removing ~/.gnome* and ~/evolution and restarting (in a very > > default desktop :-). > > > > I wasn't surprised when the former didn't help, but I did expect the > > latter to help... > > > > Looks like I'm having a similar problem with evolution 1.4.5. I didnt > really notice because I dont use the calendaring feature. Evolution is > also failing to shutdown correctly at times, usually after being open > for a significant amount of time (i think). This happened to me recently. I run unstable. It is a library dependency problem. I had the same issue with only seeing the Tasks and not the Calendar view. You need some gnome libraries. Not sure exactly which onesbut I solved the problem by doing an apt-get install gnome or something like that to get as much gnome stuff as possible. If you got the disk space, try it! It should work. Andy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ext3 why?
On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 09:51:26PM -0500, xucaen wrote: > hi all, just looking for information here; why use ext3 journaling fs instead of > ext2? > > thanks! > > Jim This is a very busy list that is primarily about Debian. Not to be a jerkbut please google first about Linux things that have been disussed at GREAT length elsewhere. Results 1 - 10 of about 10,600 http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=ext2+vs+ext3+filesystem&btnG=Google+Search -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian on Dell
On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 01:34:40AM -0500, Faheem Mitha wrote: > > Dear People, > > I just started a job at Duke. I've been told to put together a machine > quote for my office. I want to run Debian on it. I tried to persuade my > employer to use Monarch, but was told I have to use Dell. > > I'm not sure of the best way to go about putting together a machine from > Dell which has good general Linux support as opposed to Red Hat support. > > I've taken a look at Dell's Precision line of workstations, but it looks > less than ideal. For one things the descriptions are less than specific > about what hardware is included. Also, there is not as much choice as I > would like. I was hoping to somehow actually be able to do a significant > amount of customization without breaking the bank. > > I'd greatly appreciate hearing about people's experiences of success with > Debian on Dell, and related advice, suggestions, and working > configurations. Thanks in advance. I love the Poweredge base models. Go to Ebay and search 400SC and you will find many brand new "unopened" ones with 2Ghz processors for $250. Shipping is around $70. Not sure why the market is flooded with them. A year ago the market was flooded with 500SC's and I bought several for Debian file/print/email/web servers for my small business clients. Just checked Dell.com and there base SC is now $275 after rebates. Go find a GIG of RAM for another $100-$200 and you have a very nice machine. Get another 40GB drive for $40 from Best buy and do software RAID1 and there you go! Doesn't get any cheaper or better than that. The important thing, in my opinion, is the cooling system and these basic Poweredge units have nice fans and air-flow. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
backport squirrelmail help
I posted this message to the <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> list but did not get any answers there. Not sure if anyone is even on that list. Maybe somebody here can help me. Where do all of you get the latest squirrelmail backport? Here is my question: --- Hi, Just joined the list and need some advice. In order to upgrade my old Squirrelmail 1.2.6 to the new 1.4 on my Debian stable woody boxes, I should do the following: Add this to my sources list: deb http://debian.jones.dk woody misc Then: apt-get update apt-get install squirrelmail Now with backports.org, you make the source specific to the particular package so when you do and apt-get upgrade, you don't pull in all the new packages outside of woody. So do I pull the debian.jones.dk source out right after I update? Thanks, Andy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: my experience upgrading from exim3 to 4
On Sun, Mar 14, 2004 at 09:18:52AM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote:
> On 2004-03-14, Vineet Kumar penned:
> >
> > That part about the process on port 25 is a bit strange, but having
> > the init scripts in place shouldn't be a problem. Init scripts hang
> > around when you remove (without purging) a package, but they usually
> > begin with something like
> >
> > DAEMON=/usr/lib/exim/exim3 test -x $DAEMON || exit 0
> >
> > So if the package is removed the init script will simply exit. So
> > having it invoked at startup shouldn't be a problem, since it just
> > exits without doing anything.
>
> Ah! Good point. I just checked the script; you're right. Okay, so,
> that wasn't a problem. I'm still glad I got rid of 'em. I'm sure the
> naming convention (exim rather than exim3) would confuse me at some
> point. ("But I changed the exim files and nothing's different!")
>
Cool, I did not now that either. I still have exim starting up in my
init scripts along with exim4. The exim script has this:
DAEMON=/usr/sbin/exim
NAME=exim
test -x $DAEMON || exit 0
But there is no longer a /usr/sbin/exim on my system since exim
was uninstalled when I installed exim4. Now I understand.
I finally got motivated and upgraded to Exim4 as well but I did
not go to the effort of using a backup MX. From what I know, most
good MTA's are built with redundancy and will try for a couple of days
before they drop any mail. My concern was being down and getting
automatically un-subscribed to all my mailing lists. That would be bad.
This is what I did for my Debian Stable server:
Added the following lines to my /etc/apt/sources.list file.
deb http://www.logic.univie.ac.at/~ametzler/debian/exim4manpages/ woody/
deb http://www.logic.univie.ac.at/~ametzler/debian/gnutls/ woody/
Then I did apt-get update, then apt-get install exim4-deamon-heavy.
(exim4-daemon-heavy includes exiscan-acl which allows one to actually
reject email at smtp time which is very, very nice)
It took a couple of hours learning how the configuration works as
it is totally different from Exim 3.
The debconf took care of the main isses such as what domains you
accept mail for, who you relay for, do you recieve via smtp or
fetchmail, etc
I was worried about local delivery as I like to deliver to /home/user/Maildir.
Exim4 is delivering the same way Exim 3 did and I did not have to do anything.
Getting spamassassin working with exiscan took a while.
Mailman 2.1.4 was pretty easy to get working again.
I am finding that Exim4.30 is an excellent MTA.
Thanks to Andreas Metzler for the backport.
Andy
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Re: Success or failures with Mailman 2.1.4 on woody
On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 03:11:37PM -0800, Matt Perry wrote: > I've heard from some people that Mailman 2.1.4 has problems working > correctly on Debian woody. Is there anyone here that is running Mailman > 2.1.4 installed from the tarball and is or was having problems with it? > I'm also interesting in hearing if you're using it and it's working fine. I did Mailman 2.1.4 from a backport. It was not that hard. dpkg -l mailman: mailman 2.1.4-0.backports.org.1 Powerful, web-based mailing list manager Here is my source: deb http://www.backports.org/debian stable mailman I actually took some notes on the upgrade but they might be incomplete. Here are my notes..: add this to sources.list deb http://www.backports.org/debian stable mailman do these two commands for backup of current configurations: tar -cvf usrlibmail.tar /usr/lib/mailman tar -cvf varlibmail.tar /var/lib/mailman For my big listsmake sure save html pages!!! (I do some custom html stuff) Use Mozilla and open all configs in different tabs to be sure. Backup the listmembers for all the lists to be double sure: /var/lib/mailman/bin/list_members list > listmembers apt-get --purge mailman mv /etc/mailman /etc/mailman.old mv /var/lock/mailman /var/lock/mailman.old mv /var/lib/mailman /var/lib/mailman.old mv /var/log/mailman /var/log/mailman.old mv /usr/share/doc/mailman /usr/share/doc/mailman.old apt-get update apt-get install mailman To create the list, run "newlist mailman" and follow the instructions on-screen. Note that you also need to start mailman after that, using /etc/init.d/mailman start. A list mailman MUST be created first and then to /etc/init.d/mailman start. Run: newlist mailman and follow directions. You don't have to change anything with your exim.conf if Mailman was already running previously. If not, then go to exim.org for excellent documentation. Then change the file /etc/mailman/mm_cfg.py DEFAULT_URL = 'http://domain.com/cgi-bin/mailman/' DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST = 'domain.com' DEFAULT_URL_HOST = 'domain.com' Good Luck! Andy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Printing from mozilla with cups
On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 12:31:20PM -0500, David P James wrote: > On March 22, 2004 03:03, Glenn Meehan wrote: > > On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 08:42, Kent West wrote: > > > Sounds like a driver problem. I've had issues when I've used the > > > "correct" driver for my printer that the default cups installation > > > offered, only to have the problems go away when I installed a > > > different driver provided from a different package (foomatic-gimp?; > > > sorry, don't remember). > > > > > > I've also had some success printing from Mozilla by using qtcups; > > > "apt-get install qtcups", and then configure the printer in Moz to > > > print to "qtcups" instead of to "lpr - blah blah blah". > > > > > > -- > > > Kent > > > > The foomatic-gimp driver produced no output and neither did qtcups. > > I can print ok from Konqueror. > > Actually it didn't sound like a driver problem to me but rather a > problem with Mozilla itself in the quality of postscript it is spitting > out (try printing to file and examining the resulting file with > [k]ghostview or the like. Are you using a Debianized Mozilla or one > straight from mozilla.org? I have the same problem. Even when I print to file and look at it with kghostview, all the letters are little rectangles. Using Mozilla Debian Package 1.6-2 on unstable. Galeon 1.3.13 has the same problem. I can print ok from Konqueror as well. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Printing from mozilla with cups
On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 06:36:11PM +1100, Glenn Meehan wrote: > On Tue, 2004-03-23 at 04:31, David P James wrote: > I think you are right. I looked at an output file in ghostview and it > looks the same as my printout. > > I am using debian mozilla. > gm:~>apt-show-versions mozilla-browser > mozilla-browser/testing uptodate 2:1.5-3 Sent a similar message yesterday to the list but have not seen it yet. Same exact problem here with Mozilla 1.6-2 on unstable. Galeon 1.3.13 exhibits the same behavior printing little rectangles, even when I print to file. Konqueror prints fine. We must be missing a package as I can't find anything in Edit>Preferences that will fix the problem for either Mozilla or Galeon. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Printing from mozilla with cups
On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 01:21:38PM +, Clive Menzies wrote: > On (23/03/04 07:52), Andy Firman wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 06:36:11PM +1100, Glenn Meehan wrote: > > > On Tue, 2004-03-23 at 04:31, David P James wrote: > > > > > I think you are right. I looked at an output file in ghostview and it > > > looks the same as my printout. > > > > > > I am using debian mozilla. > > > gm:~>apt-show-versions mozilla-browser > > > mozilla-browser/testing uptodate 2:1.5-3 > > > > Sent a similar message yesterday to the list but have not seen it yet. > > > > Same exact problem here with Mozilla 1.6-2 on unstable. > > Galeon 1.3.13 exhibits the same behavior printing little rectangles, > > even when I print to file. > > > > Konqueror prints fine. > > > > We must be missing a package as I can't find anything in Edit>Preferences > > that will fix the problem for either Mozilla or Galeon. > FWIW I'm using mozilla-firefox 0.8-5 (prior to that mozilla-firebird > 0.7-7) and both print fine. That said Firefox seems to be giving some > XML parsing errors on page preview and page set-up. Firebird didn't > give the same errors and worked fine. I've only recently upgrade to > Firefox and haven't had time to investigate further and report bugs - it > prints OK. Mozilla-Firebird 0.7 prints fine to both file and to my cups printer. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Printing from mozilla with cups
On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 04:44:56PM -0500, Ralph Katz wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 03/21/04 15:20, Glenn Meehan wrote: > | Hi, > | > | I am having a problem printing from mozilla. > | > | This is what I am doing: > | File -> Print > | I then select postscript-default for printer. > | Under properties I am using lpr as the print command. > | I then click the print button. > | > | My printout contains lots of little rectangles where characters should > | be. > | > | I am using debian testing/unstable. > | mozilla 1.5 > | cupsys/testing uptodate 1.1.20final-16 > | kdebase/testing upgradeable from 4:3.1.3-1 to 4:3.1.5-2 > | The printer I am using is a HP laserjet 5L (non postscript) > | Printing from open office and lpr on the CLI all printout properly. > | > | How can I rectify this problem? > | > | Thanks > | > > Glenn, > > Look at the several dozen open bug reports on print problems with > mozilla and consider another browser: > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=mozilla-browser > > I had fatal print problems with my HP 5L and CUPS with mozilla, but > firebird works. (I haven't yet upgraded to firefox.) AHA! Check out this bugreport: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=225447 Scroll down and you see this: What helped and made the problem disappear was installing "msttcorefonts" apt-get install msttcorefonts Now I can print fine with Mozilla. Andy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: KDE Wallet Access
On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 01:51:41PM +, Tom Simnett wrote: > I am trying to disable my KDE Wallet - its just annoying me every time i log > into my machine. > > Im sure its meant to be in KDE Control Centre -> Security & Privacy -> KDE > Wallet, but its not there. > > Also, it isn't under the KDE Menu -> Settings -> Configure Wallet either > > any ideas? For me it is here: K Menu > Settings > Wallet Management Tool then (for me) it does not pop up but you should see it down in the kde panel. Click once on it, then go to settings, configure wallet, uncheck the "enable kde wallet". -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Dual Display on a Laptop?
On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 02:58:52PM +0100, Lukas Ruf wrote: > > Nicolas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-03-26 04:55]: > > > > On Thursday 25 March 2004 22:37, arief# wrote: > > > > > > I mean, can I make it viewing different view than the ones coming up on > > > my LCD? > > > > > > > Sure you can, just like a dualhead. I use this configuration at work. One > > server on my laptop LCD and another one on an external CRT. Both have the > > same window manager and one mouse, one keyboard, but with different > > resolution/refreshrate. > > > > All you need to do is declare two screens and make your server something like > > that : > > Section "ServerLayout" > > Identifier "DualJob" > > Screen "Screen0" 0 0 > > Screen "Screen2" RightOf "Screen0" > > InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer" > > InputDevice "Mouse1" "SendCoreEvents" > > InputDevice "Mouse2" "SendCoreEvents" > > InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" > > EndSection > > > > > > Great thing! This would be the solution I've always wanted for my > laptop and Linux! > > Can you send me (us) some more hints, how this works? > - Configuration of the two screens > - Are both displays active all the time or is it possible to switch > them on and off independently? Here is my XF86Config-4 file pasted below. I use a Thinkpad A31 with 15" screen and external 15" Flat panel monitor. My setup has 2 complete desktops...one for each screen. The mouse freely travels between each. This is a great setup. But I can't drag applications across to each other because they are independant desktops. The laptop display runs at 1400x1050 and the external runs at 1024x768. I am not an expert at all and this was put together by researching the web for a couple of hours so there may be stuff in here that's not right. -- Section "Files" FontPath"unix/:7100"# local font server # if the local font server has problems, we can fall back on these FontPath"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1" FontPath"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/CID" FontPath"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo" FontPath"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc" FontPath"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic" FontPath"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi" FontPath"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi" EndSection Section "Module" Load"GLcore" Load"bitmap" Load"dbe" Load"ddc" Load"dri" Load"extmod" Load"freetype" Load"glx" Load"int10" Load"record" Load"speedo" Load"type1" Load"vbe" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Generic Keyboard" Driver "keyboard" Option "CoreKeyboard" Option "XkbRules" "xfree86" Option "XkbModel" "pc104" Option "XkbLayout" "us" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Configured Mouse" Driver "mouse" Option "CorePointer" Option "Device""/dev/psaux" Option "Protocol" "PS/2" Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Generic Mouse" Driver "mouse" Option "SendCoreEvents""true" Option "Device""/dev/input/mice" Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2" Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "Device[0]" Driver "radeon" BusID "PCI:1:0:0" Screen 0 Option "NoDDC" Option "Rotate" "off" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "Device[1] Driver "radeon" BusID "PCI:1:0:0" Screen 1 Option "Rotate" "off" Option "NoDDC" EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "Monitor[0]" HorizSync 30-90 VertRefresh 40-80 Option "DPMS" UseModes"Modes[0]" EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "Monitor[1]" HorizSync 30-90 VertRefresh 40-80 Option "DPMS" UseModes"Modes[1]" EndSection Section "Modes" Identifier "Modes[0]" Modeline "1400x1050" 61.19 1024 1040 1216 1400 768 768 777 802 Modeline "1024x768" 65.0 1024 1048 1184 1344 768 771 777 806 -hsync -vsync Modeline "1400x1050" 162.08 1400 1480 1768 1896 1050 1050 1063 1097 -hsync -vsync EndSection Section "Modes" Identifier "Mo
Re: Kernel recompile woes
On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 04:35:16PM +, stdPikachu wrote: > Hello there, long time lurker, first time poster. > > As you may have gathered, I'm having trouble getting a new kernel working > on my (pretty bog standard) Woody install, which after much trial and > tribulation got downgraded back to 2.4.18-bf2.4. I'd love to use one of the > stock kernel images, but can't for several reasons: > Most don't have support for my 3ware RAID card built in > None that I've used have support for my motherboard chipset(s) - it's a > (single K7 CPU) Tyan 2466 with an AMD 460 MPX nbridge and a 462 sbridge > IIRC, so I'm stuck with PIO for IDE access (argh!) - trying to activate DMA > with hdparm gives me an error > I'd like to disable loadable modules support in the interest of security; > this isn't a prerequisite, but would be nice. > > Obviously, the PIO-only is a major issue. Although the bulk of disk access > is done via the 3ware, the system disk is a bog-standard 30GB IDE drive, > and any access to it at all thrashes the CPU. So I took the plunge and > started downloading kernel sources - I've compiled million and one kernels > for Gentoo, and on the face of it the Debian method seemed much easier. > > Kernel sources I've tried include Debian 2.4.18, vanilla 2.4.22 and vanilla > 2.4.25 (kernels above 2.4.20 supposedly support both my mobo and 3ware card > better). Kernel configuration was always based on the 2.4.18-bf2.4 .config > so that I didn't fail to turn on something vital; most modules were > removed, the few I needed (SMBFS, 3com driver and Natsemi 83820 driver, > ext2&3) were compiled in statically. It sounds like you know what you are doing since you have done kernels with Gentoo. Why don't you try the 2.4.25 from kernel.org, take exact notes, and post back here again. Recently, I have been installing Debian on brand new Dell Poweredge 400SC's with the gigabit ethernet which requires the e1000 module so I went straight to 2.4.25 and did not use the Debian kernel-package system. Something you might try is "make oldconfig" as I have been burned in the past by not doing this. By doing make oldconfig, you are made aware of anything new in 2.4.25. I bet you find something that you are missing. The command I then use is: make dep && make clean && make bzImage && make modules && make modules_install && make install Hope this helps you! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Dual Display on a Laptop?
On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 10:55:52PM +, Craig Genner wrote: > On Friday 26 Mar 2004 10:28 pm, Nicolas wrote: > > If it can help anyone, I also have a config for my TV. > > My videocard is a nVidia and I use their module. > > I put the raw config. I don't like to delete lines, comments are good for > > future references... > We may be willing to help but not when you cross post to both the user and > laptop list. > > Please make sure you only post to one list and make sure it's the correct on, > in this case the laptop list. I am the guilty one, sorry. I posted a reply to a debian-laptop post to the debian-user list by accident. All the debian emails go into one Maildir on my server. Since I am posting more, I guess it is time to get motivated and learn Mutt's mailing list features so I reply to the proper list. Andy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sendmail vs Exim vs Others
On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 06:36:44PM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2004-01-30 09:03:28 -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > > > > Exim does not need an MDA and has its own user-level filtering. For > > example here's the filter for this list: > > > > # Debian-user > > if > > $h_List-ID: contains "" > > then > > save Mail/debian-user > > endif > > But the man page is far from being clear and incomplete (compared to > the procmail man pages). man eximhas little info about the exim filters. man -k exim does not show anything about filters. So do this: ~$ zless /usr/share/doc/exim/filter.txt.gz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [OT] ABI vs. API
On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 12:20:48PM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > I'm a bit confused, I guess. What's the difference between an API > (Application programmer interface) and an ABI (application binary > interface)? In both cases, they seem to be libraries used by developers > to do stuff. This is a great article for non-programmers like me: http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20040130235310123 Scroll down for the section: [Footnote 1] APIs and ABIs -- What are they and what does it all mean? This should give you a basic understanding. Andy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: RSS-Reader - toursst broken ?!
On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 01:53:15AM +0800, Uwe Dippel wrote: > > Anybody out there with a better alternative for RSS ? Yes in my opinion. Try this: http://www.w3.org/2002/09/rss2email/ RSS feeds come right into your email. Awesome, especially if you use mutt for easy reading. I've always wondered if there is a way to do the same thing with newsgroups? -Andy ps. Evolution has a pretty cool RSS headline feature that displays on the summary section. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Kernel compilation woes
On Sat, Feb 07, 2004 at 12:09:10PM -0600, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: > I'm trying to compile my own 2.4.24 kernel using the sources from > kernel.org and the .config from Sarge, and I'm getting some errors: > > # make-kpkg kernel_image > > > > if [ -r System.map ]; then /sbin/depmod -ae -F System.map -b > /usr/src/linux-2.4. > 24/debian/tmp-image -r 2.4.24; fi > depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in > /usr/src/linux-2.4.24/debian/tmp-image/lib/mod > ules/2.4.24/kernel/drivers/ide/ide-core.o > depmod: init_cmd640_vlb > depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in > /usr/src/linux-2.4.24/debian/tmp-image/lib/mod > ules/2.4.24/kernel/drivers/net/wan/comx.o > depmod: proc_get_inode > make[2]: *** [_modinst_post] Error 1 > make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.24' > make[1]: *** [real_stamp_image] Error 2 > make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.24' > # > > Anyone have any idea what could cause something like this? Just went through something similar as I was building kernels today. You are missing some sort of dependency in the config. For example, I pulled out a bunch of stuff like pcmcia, irda, wireless, scsi, isdn, etc... from a kernel config today and got the same kind of error. I tracked it down to "sound" and once I put oss and aci(something) back into the config, it worked fine. So go to http://groups.google.com/ and type in: /drivers/ide/ide-core.oor /drivers/net/wan/comx.o and you will get some ideas of what you need. -Andy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Old x486 as thin client
On Sat, Feb 07, 2004 at 11:04:56AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Sat, Feb 07, 2004 at 12:56:35PM -0600, Mark Gillingham wrote: > > In your opinion, am I wasting my time doing this? > > No. In fact, the local school districts recently were threatened by > Microsoft, the school districts gave MS the finger and switched to > Linux (in case you're wondering why k12ltsp exists). > > > If I am not wasting my time, is rdesktop suitable for my purpose of > > displaying normal Windows apps (e.g., Office). Thanks for your > > thoughts. > > Why not just set up a real machine with Linux, lots of ram and disk, > and a fast network, use all the 486s as X servers, and just use X11? I have always wanted to do this. How do you have the 486s run an X server without an OS? Or do they get a base Debian install? Also, what are the best hardware thin clients for this sort of setup? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: /usr/src/linux symlink
On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 10:48:03AM +0100, David Baron wrote: > Won't compile without it! You will need one for headers--./debian/rules > based compiles as well. The things they don't tell you Okay. I have a question about this from the kernel README: --- INSTALLING the kernel: - If you install the full sources, put the kernel tarball in a directory where you have permissions (eg. your home directory) and unpack it: gzip -cd linux-2.4.XX.tar.gz | tar xvf - Replace "XX" with the version number of the latest kernel. Do NOT use the /usr/src/linux area! This area has a (usually incomplete) set of kernel headers that are used by the library header files. They should match the library, and not get messed up by whatever the kernel-du-jour happens to be. - This seams vague to me. It says "area". Shouldn't it say something like this???: "Do NOT use the actual /usr/src/linux directory as it is probably a symlink to another kernel-source!" So if one compiled a kernel from source, where are the "complete" kernel-headers anyway? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Goodbye stable?
On Sun, Mar 28, 2004 at 11:32:56AM -0500, Jody Grafals wrote: > I think for the most part many running debian on the desktop are already > using sarge or sid, and I must say I am run several servers with woody, > I like it just the way it is, thank you very much. YES exactly. I don't understand the fuss. I love stable for servers and I can wait a couple more years for the next one. And I LOVE unstable for my laptops and desktops. This is all I need for my stable servers: http://www.backports.org/debian/dists/woody/ Samba 3.0, Apache 2, Courier-imap-ssl 3.0.2, Cups 1.1, MySQL 4, etc. and much more... Get your Exim 4.3 backport here: deb http://www.logic.univie.ac.at/~ametzler/debian/exim4manpages/ woody/ deb http://www.logic.univie.ac.at/~ametzler/debian/gnutls/ woody/ And you have this: http://www.apt-get.org/ Now you have LAMP, with the latest file, print, and mail server packages on the trusted Woody stable platform with the best package management tool out there. To top it all off, there is not profit hungry company here that will start jerking us around so they can make more money. It doesn't get any better than this. Just my opinion. Andy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: standalone home desktop user virus
On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 12:30:24AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Wanda Round) writes: > > > I know how to use F-Prot and Clamav as command-line scanners, > > but is there any way to make them on-demand or on-all-the-time? > > I'm glad you asked! > > http://ursine.ca/~baloo/clamd-exiscan.txt Just curious about something. If one has the following in 40_exim4-config_check_data: deny message = $found_extension files are not accepted here demime = bat:btm:cmd:com:cpl:dll:exe:lnk:msi:pif:prf:reg:scr:vbs:url:zip Then your solution is not necessary right? But your solution allows .zip and .exe files for your users right? Andy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Antivirus (with exim+courier-imap+fetchmail)
On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 03:56:06PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > Thomas Halahan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > 4) Probably more configurations I had not thought of. > > > > My budget is small, maybe $100. > > My question is therefore, what sort of suggestions people have to apply > > antivirus scanning? > > This is the one I've been mailing to idiots who bounce viruses instead > of rejecting them... > > http://ursine.ca/article.pl?sid=04/04/11/1127234 If one has exim4-daemon-heavy and denies any MS executeables with this in the /etc/exim4/conf.d/acl/40_exim4-config_check_data: deny message = $found_extension files are not accepted here demime = bat:btm:cmd:com:cpl:dll:exe:lnk:msi:pif:prf:reg:scr:vbs:url:zip Isn't that good enough for small Windows networks and users that don't use zip files? (my users certainly don't need .exe files, .bat files, etc...) Or should I learn how to use clamav? Just wondering if I am missing something. Andy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Antivirus (with exim+courier-imap+fetchmail)
On Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 08:30:09AM -0400, Andy Firman wrote: > On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 03:56:06PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > > Thomas Halahan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > 4) Probably more configurations I had not thought of. > > > > > > My budget is small, maybe $100. > > > My question is therefore, what sort of suggestions people have to apply > > > antivirus scanning? > > > > This is the one I've been mailing to idiots who bounce viruses instead > > of rejecting them... > > > > http://ursine.ca/article.pl?sid=04/04/11/1127234 > > If one has exim4-daemon-heavy and denies any MS executeables with > this in the /etc/exim4/conf.d/acl/40_exim4-config_check_data: > deny message = $found_extension files are not accepted here > demime = bat:btm:cmd:com:cpl:dll:exe:lnk:msi:pif:prf:reg:scr:vbs:url:zip > > Isn't that good enough for small Windows networks and users that don't > use zip files? (my users certainly don't need .exe files, .bat files, etc...) > > Or should I learn how to use clamav? > Just wondering if I am missing something. A quick follow up to my post. I AM missing something. Right after I sent the above message (figures), I learned about http://www.testvirus.org/ and my system failed about 10 of the tests. So I better get clamav installed and configured. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: RAID failure
On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 02:26:53PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: > > hi ya antony > > On Tue, 20 Apr 2004, Antony Gelberg wrote: > > > The next message was hda 0x51 DriveReady SeekComplete, followed by the > > actual kernel panic in the RAID code. I disconnected hda, leaving hdc > > connected. I then got a successful boot, which seems to indicate that > > good that you can boot off hdc ... > > > hda has a hardware fault. But I seem to be missing files from the last > > five days. How can this be? The system was working fine for most of > > the last five days, and I am confused as to why these missing files > > weren't raided to hdc. > > if you were NOT monitoring for drive failures, you probably had a dead > hda for the past 5 days .. and i finally gave up when you noticed > - you will not notice that hda is dead as hdc will continue > to work in degraded mode ... but no copy of it on the other disk > > i guess if hda has file1, file2, file3, file4, file5 > and if hdc has only file1, file2 > > when you plug in a new replacment disk ... raid1 will > "properly resync" things for you ... but... > > when does new raid1 erase file3, file4, file5 from hda > or when does new hdc raid1 add file3,4,5 to hdc > both disks is supposed to be identical in data Nice little mind twister there. What I would do is (if possible) mount the /dev/hda partitions and copy the important stuff you need. Then copy the data off your RAID machine completely before you add a new /dev/hda disk. I have the same problem on my practice RAID machine. One drive keeps failing, but every couple of boots I am able to add it back into the array. So you might be able to mount /dev/hda once again and look around for your missing data and get it onto another disk or machine. Andy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Cannot launch remote apps on X
On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 03:27:14PM -0400, Linux Nick wrote: > > [-- Autoview using /usr/bin/lynx -dump -force_html ''/tmp/mutt.html'' --] > >Sorry top poster for life, not scrolling all the way to the bottom to >get a reply I know what the previous email said and don't need to read >it again. That is pretty selfish. What about others that need to read the information in order to understand? This is a "community". You might have the right to top post as it is not in the Code of Conduct. But the rules state to NOT post in HTML which you did. So please stop posting in HTML. Here are the rules to refresh your mind: Code of conduct When using the Debian mailing lists, please follow these rules: * Do not send spam; see the advertising policy below. * Send all of your e-mails in English. Only use other languages on mailing lists where that is explicitly allowed (e.g. French on debian-user-french). * Make sure that you are using the proper list. In particular, don't send user-related questions to developer-related mailing lists. * Wrap your lines at 80 characters or less for ordinary discussion. Lines longer than 80 characters are acceptable for computer-generated output (e.g., ls -l). * Do not send automated "out-of-office" or "vacation" messages. * Do not send subscription or unsubscription requests to the list address itself; use the respective -request address instead. * Never send your messages in HTML; use plain text instead. * Avoid sending large attachments. * When replying to messages on the mailing list, do not send a carbon copy (CC) to the original poster unless they explicitly request to be copied. * If you send messages to lists to which you are not subscribed, always note that fact in the body of your message. * Do not use foul language; besides, some people receive the lists via packet radio, where swearing is illegal. * Try not to flame; it is not polite -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Fwd: [Snort-users] Debian, Snort, Barnyard, BASE, & Oinkmaster Step-by-Step Guide
Hi, Recently I wrote a very detailed Snort setup guide based on Debian and posted to the snort-users list. I thought it would be nice to post this to the debian-users list so others can build their own IDS systems based on Debian. The latest guide is here: http://snort.org/docs/setup_guides/deb-snort-howto.pdf There is a full plain text version below. Let me know if you see any errors or if you have any feedback! Thanks, Andy - Forwarded message from Andy Firman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Return-path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: Andy Firman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: Andy Firman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2006 19:27:38 -0400 Subject: [Snort-users] Debian, Snort, Barnyard, BASE, & Oinkmaster Step-by-Step Guide User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Hi, With new versions of Snort, BASE, and Oinkmaster just released, I thought it would be a great time to make a detailed step-by-step guide on Debian! Since there are no Debian based setup guides on snort.org, this would make a great addition to the docs page! (feel free to publish) Also, grab that spare pc in the corner, put an extra NIC in it, use this guide and give me some feedback so I can make it even better. Plain text is pasted below. PDF is here: http://firmanix.com/deb-snort-howto.pdf Thanks, Andy +++ 10 Step guide to build a Debian based Intrusion Detection Sensor (IDS) with Snort 2.4.4 or 2.6-beta By Andy Firman April 5, 2006 With new versions of Snort, Base, and Oinkmaster just released, I thought it would be a great time to make a step-by-step guide on Debian! The most current version of this guide will be at: http://firmanix.com/deb-snort-howto.pdf Snort is the most widely deployed intrusion management technology worldwide. It is capable of packet sniffing, packet logging, and network-based intrusion detection. Snort has four primary components. The first is the packet sniffer and decoder which reads the datagrams off the wire using the libpcap library. The second component is a preprocessor which is a plug-in that examines the data for things such as malformations, anomalies, and non-compliance and then passes the data off to the detection engine for further inspection. This detection engine is the third component of snort and is most likely what comes to mind when one thinks of the Snort program. The detection engine takes the normalized and stream re-assembled data from the preprocessors and inspects this traffic against the rule base. Finally, the output and alerting module handles the big job of writing and logging packets and alerts in various ways according to one's configuration. Snort 2.6 has recently been released in beta with many new features, some of which are: * Added Performance Profiling Measurements for rules & preprocessors. * Added support for dynamically loadable preprocessors, detection engine and rules. * Addition of dynamically loadable SMTP and FTP/Telnet preprocessors. * Preprocessor configuration validation. * Stream API to simplify transition to next generation Stream module. * Logging of Generator ID to MySQL database. Debian Testing (Etch) is always in a state of change with new software being introduced frequently. If you find something changes and affects this guide, please notify me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Table of Contents: 1. Install Debian Testing (Etch) and related software 2. Install and configure an iptables based firewall 3. Install Snort, add the snort user & group, & install VRT rules 4. Configure and start the Snort program 5. Setup the MySQL server 6. Configure snort to log into MySQL and test 7. Apache-SSL web server install 8. Install and configure Basic Analysis and Security Engine (BASE) 9. Install Barnyard and configure snort for fast unified logging 10. Keep rules up to date with Oinkmaster 1. Debian Testing (Etch) install and related software First perform a Debian Net Install. Get the iso here: http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ Choose the netinst CD image (100 Mb) i386. Burn the iso image: debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso Start the install and when you get to the sources section, choose http and then choose ftp.us.debian.org (default for USA) and it will begin to download the package listings. When you get to the "Debian Software Selection" screen, just uncheck both Desktop and Standard to get a bare minimum install. Now we can install general software. This is where the dpkg package system really shines and the "apt-get" front end is awesome. Before we do the next step, you will need to edit the sources.list file: # vi /etc/apt/sources.list Uncomment the line beginning with: deb cdrom This will configure the dpkg package system to NOT look for packages on the cdrom. Then we want to update our sources: # apt
