Evolution
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Trying to install evolution on unstable with kernel 2.4.14. I run KDE, so installing evolution requires installing some gnome libs. I'm hitting the followng snag: Setting up libgnomeprint-data (0.32-3) ... /var/lib/dpkg/info/libgnomeprint-data.postinst: line 35: 7046 Segmentation fault gnome-font-install --clean --recursive --static - --target=/usr/share/gnome/fonts/gnome-print-ghostscript.fontmap - --aliases=/usr/share/fonts/adobe-urw.font /usr/share/fonts/type1/gsfonts /usr/share/ghostscript/fonts /usr/lib/ghostscript/fonts /usr/share/fonts/default/Type1 /usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript /usr/local/share/ghostscript/fonts /usr/local/lib/ghostscript/fonts /usr/local/share/fonts/default/Type1 /usr/local/share/fonts/default/ghostscript /usr/share/ghostscript/fonts /usr/freeware/share/ghostscript/fonts 2>/dev/null dpkg: error processing libgnomeprint-data (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 139 Errors were encountered while processing: libgnomeprint-data E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) I thought perhaps it was a broken package and would resolve itself but it's persisted for about four days now. I've tried an apt-get remove evolution, cleaning out the apt cache and installing again but I get the same results. So, broken package or something on my end? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: noconv iQB1AwUBO/0tsTA1uBpee9v5AQEpPgMAlLjnRPbstAzMQyq9ObE+Knp0fD4yAEFM sXjLYKSwjWJqbgyxivLazRvvJzIsIBL1gj8ITVHuj8lumDmW9X9vkXkpb2v7Un6Y XB1CqMHO0BRWdHuAAr0aBHRYVeEzU8fv =nSCt -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: Microsoft bullies again
On Sunday 28 October 2001 13:32, csj wrote: > On Monday 29 October 2001 01:38, Bud Rogers wrote: > > On Friday 26 October 2001 19:41 pm, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > > > Thought may be interesting for the debian community: > > > NEW YORK (October 26, 2001 4:29 p.m. EDT) - Microsoft's premiere > > > Web portal, MSN.com, denied access to millions of people who use > > > alternative browser software such as Opera and told them to get > > > Microsoft's products instead. > > > http://www.nandotimes.com/technology/story/158273p-1497208c.html > > > > First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you, > > and then you win. > > What's wrong with Microsoft banning certain users from their OWN site? > It's like complaining to a fancy restaurant that your shorts are okay > despite the dress code. Maybe you could just run IE under wine. That depends on your definition of "wrong." Certainly, I'd say that MS has the legal right to set up their site anyway they like. But the question of what's right, in the sense of what's allowable, is different from the question of what's right, in the sense of either what's proper or what's wise. Just because someone CAN do something does not mean that they SHOULD.
KMail and PGP
I have PGP v 2.6.3 installed on my system (Debian unstable.) I've generated keys and can encrypt or sign a document from the command line without error. I'd like KMail to add a PGP sig to my posts. I have the option selected under "Composer" and have my PGP identity entered under "Identity." Under security, if I select either "PGP 2.x" or "Automatically detect", the selection will not stick. That is, if I close the dialog box, then reopen, the setting has reverted to "Don't use encryption" When I compose a message, the buttons for either encrypting or signing a message are greyed out and unusable. I've been through the KMail help file and can find nothing else I need to do to make this work. Any clues on what I'm missing? Thanks in advance, Dan
libncurses
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Attempting a new install on a Dell Inspiron 8100 laptop. Installed from Potato CDs, then did an apt-get dist-upgrade to Woody. I'm now trying to custom compile a kernel. #make menuconfig rm -f include/asm ( cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm) make -C scripts/lxdialog all make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.14/scripts/lxdialog' >> Unable to find the Ncurses libraries. >> >> You must have Ncurses installed in order >> to use 'make menuconfig' make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.14/scripts/lxdialog' #apt-get install libncurses5 Reading Package Lists... Building Dependency Tree... Sorry, libncurses5 is already the newest version. 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded. If libncurses5 isn't the ncurses libraries in question, which package is? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: noconv iQB1AwUBO+r/9zA1uBpee9v5AQFxGQMApKCR5s9p9RjWzXdsgz+6m/0NT0XfHuug TC+JrwaZi9xgVz7fRZ/65Mycw0Jyy+sMxHpMJmZkHs8v1/UleOVIzwK34zcuIgNk TauBzp03bAZOdrAJz317Cux5xR4SS/ad =t/aH -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: nvidia drivers & kernel 2.4.14
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wednesday 14 November 2001 18:52, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > * Dimitri Maziuk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > > * Kyle Girard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > > > Has anyone been able to get the nvidia drivers to work with the stock > > > 2.4.14 kernel? > > > > > > I've compiled the drivers many times before but it just doesn't want to > > > work with this kernel ... no matter what I do I get unresolved > > > symbols... i've tried using the kernel headers in the kernel-source > > > package and the kernel-headers package but nothing works > > > > It's not supposed to. Search kernel mailing list archives for > > details. (And email nvidia, ask them to update the drivers.) > > (Seeing that someone has it working) actually, I've seen messages > about nvidia drivers not working on 2.4.14 on the kernel list, but > I haven't tried that myself (I have other problems with 2.4.14). I have kernel 2.4.14 and the NVidia drivers running on my Inspiron 8100 laptop. They compiled just fine. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: noconv iQB1AwUBO/MdGjA1uBpee9v5AQGJvgL9HATlxVMDImL/aW4kc4LTOMaqHLkJmHve DGdXX18sFGsXZvUwBXGBwxjG/vEi02Hp73Eb9Dza9OFM4ypehN1o4Gw89PDc/mEb o92PxkC+DMy7zkOFu6yaSC/HPgvVFMN9 =b885 -END PGP SIGNATURE-
upgrade errors
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Running woody with kernel 2.4.14. I do a daily apt-get update and upgrade. Almost daily, I see errors like this: dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/kdebase_4%3a2.2.1.0-6_i386.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite `/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/kfm.png', which is also in package konqueror dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/konqueror_4%3a2.2.1.0-6_i386.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/kde2/libkcm_konq.la', which is also in package kdebase dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/konsole_4%3a2.2.1.0-6_i386.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite `/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/konsole.png', which is also in package kdebase I can manualy install the packages via dpkg --force. Is this errors in the package or something with my system? Running Sid on another system, I never see these types of errors. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: noconv iQB1AwUBO/WN7DA1uBpee9v5AQFJQgL8CE0rPFZ8pFuT8h3sv2QDK6COcEvmmGSZ h9oQlzJ82UsqNrEPnatAczjMqB74si4K+G0aS8wMOKKhpiXoIlRWHymvTrfRs/n+ Mm9NoSxBl3wePcu7yWzu7Pku1PjmvD5x =cXsW -END PGP SIGNATURE-
dual-homed ping
On a dual-homed ping, is it possible to ping one IP address from the other address and force the packet to go out the interface and travel through the network? Using -I to source the packet does not work, and turning off ip_forward does not seem to make a difference. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dual-homed ping
On Sunday 15 July 2007 05:58, koffiejunkie wrote: > Daniel D Jones wrote: > > On a dual-homed ping, is it possible to ping one IP address from the > > other address and force the packet to go out the interface and travel > > through the network? Using -I to source the packet does not work, and > > turning off ip_forward does not seem to make a difference. > > http://lartc.org/lartc.html#LARTC.RPDB.MULTIPLE-LINKS Thanks for the link but it isn't clear to me how this is relevant to what I'm attempting to do. I have two interfaces: eth1 172.16.100.101 and eth2 172.16.200.101. Even with explicit routing rules in place to route 172.16.100.0 via eth2 src 172.16.200.101, the kernel seemingly will not ignore the fact that 172.16.100.101 is directly connected and send the ping out the designated interface. This is true, so far as I can tell, whether I'm routing using a single table or setting up multiple routing tables as the article indicates. If I'm missing something from the link you posted, please elaborate on the approach to take. For background info, I'm setting up a CCNP lab. The labs require that I have hosts connected to various points in the network, and that I configure the routers and switches so that the various hosts can ping one another. It seems a waste of resource and money to go buy four or so computers so I can set them up and do nothing but ping from them. I'm trying to accomplish the same thing with a single host and multiple interfaces. In order for this to work, I need to be able to ping one interface from another interface and have the packet traverse the network. If the network is broken, I need the ping to fail. Another option I've considered is to use Xen and set up virtual machines, each with their own interface and IP. (Each has to use a different physical interface, since the interfaces need to be connected to different switches in the network.) I'm not sure, however, how networking is handled within Xen. There's obviously a method to share the resources, since you can have multiple VMs using a single network interface. I'm not sure if the Xen network sharing code will recognize that I'm pinging from one VM to another, and "helpfully" route the packet internally rather than simply send it out the interface. Anyone know the answer to this before I go to the trouble of configuring and installing multiple VMs? Any advice or suggestions greatly appreciated. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Disk usage
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/# du --max-depth=1 -h 1.7G./var 32K ./tmp 4.0K./selinux 16K ./lost+found 16M ./boot 852K./home 0 ./sys 4.0K./initrd 22M ./etc 81M ./lib 515M./proc 6.3G./root 3.3M./sbin 3.7M./bin 8.0K./media 8.0K./mnt 208K./dev 4.0K./opt 1.3G./usr 4.0K./srv 9.7G. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/# df -H Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda3 18G17G68M 100% / tmpfs 265M 0 265M 0% /lib/init/rw udev11M54k11M 1% /dev tmpfs 265M 0 265M 0% /dev/shm /dev/hda2 192M22M 160M 13% /boot Why is du telling me that I'm using 9.7G of the disk while df says I'm using over 17G? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Spamassassin and Exim4
Trying to get spamassassin and exim4 playing together. I do not want exim to drop email, only to add headers to the message so that the MUA can filter messages according to the users preference. I have spamassassin running as a deamon on port 783. I've verified that I can telnet to the port: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc/exim4/conf.d/acl# telnet localhost 783 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. In /etc/exim4/conf.d/main/02_exim4-config_options, I have this line: spamd_address = 127.0.0.1 783 In /etc/exim4/conf.d/acl/40_exim4-config_check_data, I have: warn spam = nobody add_header = X-Spam-Score: $spam_score ($spam_bar) add_header = X-Spam-Report: $spam_report add_header = X-Spam=bar: $spam_bar message = X-Spam_score: $spam_score\n\ X-Spam_score_int: $spam_score_int\n\ X-Spam_bar: $spam_bar\n\ X-Spam_report: $spam_report I've restarted exim after editing the files but I'm not getting any headers added to mail flowing through the system. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc/exim4/conf.d/acl# exim -bh 192.168.11.22 SMTP testing session as if from host 192.168.11.22 but without any ident (RFC 1413) callback. This is not for real! >>> host in hosts_connection_nolog? no (option unset) >>> host in host_lookup? yes (matched "*") >>> looking up host name for 192.168.11.22 >>> IP address lookup using gethostbyaddr() >>> IP address lookup failed: h_errno=1 LOG: no host name found for IP address 192.168.11.22 >>> host in host_reject_connection? no (option unset) >>> host in sender_unqualified_hosts? no (option unset) >>> host in recipient_unqualified_hosts? no (option unset) >>> host in helo_verify_hosts? no (option unset) >>> host in helo_try_verify_hosts? no (option unset) >>> host in helo_accept_junk_hosts? no (option unset) 220 etch.riddlemaster.org ESMTP Exim 4.63 Mon, 24 Sep 2007 15:34:56 -0400 I'm far from expert on exim but my understanding is that the -bh command is supposed to simulate a message and show all ACLs and filters that are being applied to the message. If so, it appears that the spam test is not being run. Hints or suggestions to help me figure out why would be greatly appreciated. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Spamassassin and Exim4
On Monday 24 September 2007 15:50:58 Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Sun, Sep 23, 2007 at 03:36:45PM -0400, Daniel D Jones wrote: > SA should log to /var/log/mail.info, and that's a good place to look > for info... I have two spamd entries in mail.info: Sep 24 14:51:09 etch spamd[10151]: spamd: connection from localhost [127.0.0.1] at port 43270 Sep 24 14:51:11 etch spamd[10151]: spamd: bad protocol: header error: at /usr/sbin/spamd line 1671, line 1. Sep 24 14:51:12 etch spamd[10150]: prefork: child states: II and Sep 24 15:26:20 etch spamd[10151]: spamd: connection from localhost [127.0.0.1] at port 60337 Sep 24 15:26:26 etch spamd[10151]: spamd: bad protocol: header error: ÿôÿý_ at /usr/sbin/spamd line 1671, line 1. Sep 24 15:26:26 etch spamd[10150]: prefork: child states: II If I'm interpreting this correctly, this was a couple of malformed messages which caused spamd to choke. Apparently, then, spamd is being called and passed the messages for examination. > A great resource for info on this is: > > http://www.exim.org/exim-html-current/doc/html/spec_html/ch41.html Yes, this is one of the sites I used. > what I learned: > > warn > > spam = nobody > > this only performs the actions below when the mail is actually spam, > otherwise its ignored. use nobody:true to force it to always put the I had that backwards. I thought nobody:true meant to only perform the actions below when the check WAS true. So the colon signifies an OR, not an IF. > headers on, because the :true will override the results of checking > for spam content. > > > add_header = X-Spam-Score: $spam_score ($spam_bar) > > add_header = X-Spam-Report: $spam_report > > the $spam_report can be very long and you probably don't want to put > that on mail that is *not* spam, so set up two tests for spam... see > below: > > # this test will always return true and will put the scores and bars > # on *every* mail > warnspam = nobody:true > message = X-Spam_score: $spam_score\n\ > X-Spam_score_int: $spam_score_int\n\ > X-Spam_bar: $spam_bar\n\ > > # this is supposed to post the spam status and report only for actual > # spam for later procmail processing > # note that exim caches the results of the original spam=nobody call > # so there is little overhead associated with the second call. > warn spam = nobody > message= X-Spam_status: YES\n\ > X-Spam_report: $spam_report I've reconfigured the file with your recommendations and restarted exim. I'm still not getting any headers in any email, including obvious spam. Not sure what's going on. Do you know of any way to verify that ACLs are actually running?
Re: Spamassassin and Exim4
On Monday 24 September 2007 19:03:47 Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Sun, Sep 23, 2007 at 06:40:58PM -0400, Daniel D Jones wrote: > > On Monday 24 September 2007 15:50:58 Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > I've reconfigured the file with your recommendations and restarted exim. > > I'm still not getting any headers in any email, including obvious spam. > > Not sure what's going on. Do you know of any way to verify that ACLs are > > actually running? > > I really don't know other than to see them show up in the logs > etc. Can you provide the pertinent part of exim4.conf? the entire ACL > section would be good. This last line was the clue that led me to getting everything straightened out. Feeling a little sheepish here, but the issue was that I was modifying the split config files, but still had exim configured to use the monolithic template. Doh! Thanks for your assistance. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Very disturbing feature in icedove
On Saturday 10 February 2007 10:10, Dave Sherohman wrote: > On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 02:30:33PM +, Virgo Pärna wrote: > > To make Thunderbird/Icedove to really delete those messages you can > > use File, Compact Folders and you can specify configuration option > > "Compact folders when it will save over XXX kB" (you can also specify > > specific amount of disk space). > > Oh, I see. "Compact" means "really delete the messages that I said to > delete, but are actually just marked as deleted, not physically deleted". > How incredibly obvious. Do a Google search of "compact database" and see how many hits you get. (I get about 28 million.) It's a perfectly common term. Follow a few of those links and read what you find. Marking records with a deleted tag and not actually deleting them until you compact the database is standard database behavior. It's been around for some twenty five years or so. The behavior you find so appalling is standard behavior among modern, database- type MUAs. Yes, Outlook does it. So does KMail. So does Evolution. They all have a "Trash" folder. When you delete an email, it gets moved into the "Trash" folder. They can all be configured to handle the trash in different ways. It can sit there until you manually deleted. It can sit until it's been there for a user specified length of time. Trash can be emptied upon exit, with or without a prompt. There are all sorts of options and they're all under your control. All you have to do is learn to use the program that you have on your computer. > I think I'll side with the people who think this obscure use of the word > "compact" is a bug in IceDove As I pointed out above, it's neither obscure nor a bug. It's standard terminology and behavior. > (and just continue using mutt). Mutt is a perfectly fine email program. Once you invest the time to learn how to use it. Hmm, guess that's true about a lot of programs, huh?
Apache2 and PHP5
Running Debian unstable. I got up this morning any my server had crashed. Haven't figured out why yet but that's another issue. Upon rebooting, Apache2 failed to start with the following error: Syntax error on line 115 of /etc/apache2/apache2.conf: Syntax error on line 1 of /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/php5.load: API module structure `php5_module' in file /usr/lib/apache2/modules/libphp5.so is garbled - perhaps this is not an Apache module DSO? I found a LOT of hits with a Google search. Evidently, the issue has to do with the version of Apache that PHP is compiled for. I found bug reports that have been filed and closed. I found arguments and recommendations on what args to use when compiling PHP5. I found all sorts of questions and lots of information but not a lot of hard answers other than "recompile for the correct version of PHP." I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling PHP5, libapache2-mod-php5, etc. I've tried reinstalling Apache2. The only way I can get Apache to start is to take out the link to php5 in /mods-enabled. Doing that, of course, breaks any PHP scripts but at least the rest of my website loads. I installed Wordpress last week and had no issue restarting Apache, so it appears that the current issue has been (re?)introduced by a recent update. Is anyone else seeing this issue? Is there a known combination of Apache2 and PHP5 packages that work together? Is there a way to fix this without downloading the PHP5 source and mucking about with compiler options? Any help or pointers greatly appreciated. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Very disturbing feature in icedove
On Tuesday 13 February 2007 22:45, Chris Bannister wrote: > > "Compact", in that sense, refering to expunging deleted messages from an > > mbox or other mail store, has been *the* common word for that action for > > literally decades, predating even the popular internet (e.g. in the days > > of BBS, Fidonet, etc). It's was used even far before that in other > > database and database-like applications. > > Never struck it when dealing with mail. Before I came to Linux I had use > Pegasus, Eudora, Groupwise something or other. When I started using > Linux at Polytech, it was Pine. I don't remember having to compact > anything to *actually* delete mail. When I first started using Electronic Mail, it was in QWK format, downloaded from direct dialing BBS computers located in someone's living room. I imported the QWK files into a DOS-based reader called Robomail. In order to keep Robomail running snappily and happily on my 386 processor with 1 meg of RAM, I had to routinely compact my mail database to remove "deleted" messages. Compact. That's what the operation was called, and that's what the drop down menu said. That was in the early '90s, over 20 years ago. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
repetitive apt-get upgrade
What causes a package to be listed everytime you run apt-get upgrade? Specifically, mailman is constantly listed for upgrade. It appears to go through the upgrade process but if I immediately rerun apt-get upgrade it's listed again. Is this a problem with the package or something on my machine? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subversion and apache2
Trying to get subversion and apache2 working: Attempting to import from the command line and getting the following error: svn: PROPFIND request failed on '/subversion/docs' svn: PROPFIND of '/subversion/docs': 403 Forbidden Error log on the server shows: [Mon Sep 04 11:01:28 2006] [error] [client 192.168.2.12] Failed to load the AuthzSVNAccessFile: /etc/apache2/auth-files/public-svn-authzfile:5: Option must end with ':' or '=' [Mon Sep 04 11:01:31 2006] [error] [client 192.168.2.12] Failed to load the AuthzSVNAccessFile: /etc/apache2/auth-files/public-svn-authzfile:5: Option must end with ':' or '=' [Mon Sep 04 11:01:31 2006] [error] [client 192.168.2.12] Access denied: 'ddjones' PROPFIND docs:/ apache2 virtual host config has the following line: AuthzSVNAccessFile /etc/apache2/auth-files/public-svn-authzfile I've absolutely verified that the path and file name are correct (catting the above line via copy and paste spits out the file contents) perms are: -rw-r--r-- 1 www-data www-data 164 2006-09-04 10:41 public-svn-authzfile No clue where to go from here. Google has been most unhelpful. Little help? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Kernel panic with new kernel
My Etch server boots fine with the default 2.6.18 kernel. I downloaded the 2.6.25 kernel and did: make all make modules_install make install depmod 2.6.21.3 mkinitrd.yaird -o /boot/initrd.img-2.6.25 2.6.25 Updated grub and rebooted. I'm getting a kernel panic: /usr/lib/yaird/exec/run_init: No such file or directory Attempted to kill init From what I can find, this is usually related to moving partitions around or otherwise confusing the system as to where the root system is located. I haven't changed anything as to partition layout. The system boots fine with the old kernel. The grub entries are identical except for the number associated with the kernel. The root (hd0,1) and the root argument applied to the kernel are both the same and are correct. Any hints or suggestions as to where to go from here appreciated. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Network FUBAR
I'm trying to move my server to another system without reinstalling. The old system is a cheap whitebox running generic components. The new system is an IBM eserver 325. I did a deep copy of the entire old system harddrive and put it in the new server, booted from a rescue CD, installed grub on the MBR, then rebooted the new system. Everything seems to be working fine except for networking, which is deeply and perplexingly hosed. The current symptoms are that I have no connectivity. I can bring up the interface and it shows connected. I can ping the IP assigned to the interface from the computer. The input and output counters increment when I show the interface. But I can't ping another computer on the same subnet plugged into the same switch. I get "destination host unreachable" back from the IP assigned to the interface. The relevant subnet is in the server's routing table, as is a default route. I've even tried adding static routers pointing directly to the IP of the other machines. The computer is plugged into a 16 port switch module installed in a Cisco router. Looking at the interface from the router, it shows connected and the counters on the interface increment as well. The IP address for the server appears in the router's ARP table with a hardware address of "incomplete" and blank under the associated interface. I have multiple devices plugged into the switch, and I've swapped the cables and the switchports around. The other devices have no connectivity issues, and this server has no connectivity, regardless of where it's connected. That seems to pretty much eliminate an external layer 1 issue or something silly like being in the wrong VLAN. (For thoroughness, let me add that there are no access lists or other configs on the router that could even conceivably interfere with the server's connectivity.) The server has two onboard Broadcom NetXtreme NICs, which both behave identically. They may very well share common hardware, so I installed a Netgear RTL81695 based NIC. Completely different hardware, using a completely different driver. It behaves identically to the onboard NICs. That seems to rule out a hardware issue, but I'm at a loss as to what software issue could cause these symptoms either. Anyone have any ideas before I wipe the hard drive and start from scratch? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
XDMCP
Running unstable. Trying to get XDMCP working via KDM. On the local host, everything works. KDM gives me a graphical login prompt, and KDE loads when I log in. From a remote machine, however, I get what appears to be a pure X session with no Windows manager running. I get the hollow X cursor, and am able to move it with the mouse. However, neither left nor right clicks do any thing - no menu or anything. Clicking and dragging doesn't generate a dotted outline selection. No key presses appear to do anything. Not sure where to go from here. Hints and suggestions welcome. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XDMCP
On Saturday 28 April 2007 15:23, Robert Brockway wrote: Thanks for the response. > On Sat, 28 Apr 2007, Daniel D Jones wrote: > > Running unstable. Trying to get XDMCP working via KDM. On the local > > host, everything works. KDM gives me a graphical login prompt, and KDE > > loads when I log in. From a remote machine, however, I get what appears > > to be a pure X session with no Windows manager running. I get the hollow > > X cursor, and am able to move it with the mouse. However, neither left > > nor right clicks do any thing - no menu or anything. Clicking and > > dragging doesn't generate a dotted outline selection. No key presses > > appear to do anything. Not sure where to go from here. Hints and > > suggestions welcome. > > Checkout /etc/kde3/kdem/Xaccess to see what sorts of xdmcp access you > are allowing. At the least you want to offer: > > > * #any host can get a login window > > You may also want to allow: > > > * CHOOSER BROADCAST #any indirect host can get a > chooser [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc/kde3/kdm# cat Xaccess | grep ^[^#] * #any host can get a login window * CHOOSER BROADCAST #any indirect host can get a chooser > Also you need to enable xdmcp in kdmrc: > > # Whether KDM should listen to incoming XDMCP requests. > # Default is true > Enable=true [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc/kde3/kdm# cat kdmrc | grep ^[^#] [General] ConfigVersion=2.3 StaticServers=:0 ReserveServers=:1,:2,:3 ServerVTs=-7 ConsoleTTYs=tty1,tty2,tty3,tty4,tty5,tty6 PidFile=/var/run/kdm.pid [Xdmcp] Enable=true Willing=/etc/kde3/kdm/Xwilling [Shutdown] [X-*-Core] Setup=/etc/kde3/kdm/Xsetup Startup=/etc/kde3/kdm/Xstartup Reset=/etc/kde3/kdm/Xreset Session=/etc/kde3/kdm/Xsession AllowRootLogin=false AllowNullPasswd=false AllowShutdown=Root ClientLogFile=.xsession-errors-%s [X-*-Greeter] LogoArea=Logo LogoPixmap=/usr/share/apps/kdm/pics/kdelogo.png AntiAliasing=true MinShowUID=1000 MaxShowUID=2 Preloader=/usr/bin/preloadkde Theme=@@@ToBeReplacedByDesktopBase@@@ [X-:*-Core] ServerCmd=/usr/bin/X -br ServerArgsLocal=-nolisten tcp AllowNullPasswd=true AllowShutdown=All [X-:*-Greeter] PreselectUser=Previous FocusPasswd=true LoginMode=DefaultLocal AllowClose=true [X-:0-Core] ClientLogFile=.xsession-errors [X-:0-Greeter] > Restart kdm at this point. I verified the settings you mentioned, and all were correct. I restarted kdm just to ensure that I hadn't neglected to restart it after changing one of the above when I was doing the initial configuration. No change. > Make sure you backup kdmrc before making any changes so you can rollback > if you break it. > > One more thing: There is a reported but unfixded bug in kdm in > Debian/Ubuntu going back a long way which is causing some xdmcp > configurations to fail when they really are ok. If you look in your logs > you'll see reports of kdm_greet getting memory corruption if you are > getting this problem. As a result of this problem I recently migrated a > bunch of thin client servers to use gdm instead of kdm. You didn't specify which log but I didn't find any such errors in either kdm.log or Xorg.0.log, nor did I find any other related errors in the log. Maybe I'll try switching to xdm just to see. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Upgrade to Apache2
With the update to Apache2 in Testing, I got bit by a couple of things. The first issue is discussed in bug 392701. I have websvn installed and am getting an error on AuthUserFile. I have both authz_host.load and authz_user.load linked in my mods-enabled directory. What other modules do I need to support AuthUserFile? Second, my son runs his Football Fantasy League on my server. He creates his pages in MS Word (no comments please! I'm working on it! :-) , saves them as a word page and FTPs them to the site. Since the upgrade, lots of punctuation characters (tacs, apostrophes, etc.) are showing up as inverted question marks. These pages were fine before the update. Is Apache using a different codepage or something now? Can I switch back? Thanks in advance for any assistance. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
DNS Spoof query
I have a Debain email and web server which normally uses my ISPs DNS server. My ISP's DNS server was having some issues, so I switched the Debain server to use my internal DNS server on 192.168.2.10. This is a Windows DC. After doing that, my Snort report from my Debian server started showing the following: 62 192.168.2.10 209.170.146.89 DNS SPOOF query response with TTL of 1 min. and no authority I'm trying to figure out if this is a false positive, a misconfiguration on my DNS server, or a sign of possible compromise. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Back up routines
On Monday 27 July 2009 09:59:15 Girish Kulkarni wrote: > On Mon, 27 Jul 2009, AG wrote: > > Thanks for the many suggestions of applications and approaches. The > > next step for me is to take each one and do some further research > > and make a decision. > > Nobody mentioned Unison? I've been using it for backups for last two > years. It is well-documented and simple. I was wondering the same thing myself. Since this is a home environment, I'm not concerned with backing up the state of the system. I'm only concerned with saving my data - documents, pictures, email, etc. I have a small server, a portable hard drive, my laptop and my desktop. I keep a copy of my data on all four, synced via Unison. My server and desktop are Linux, my laptop runs Windows (company machine, no choice) and Unison runs on both and syncs them seamlessly. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Spamassassin
After an apt-get upgrade, Spamassassin failed to configure: r...@etch:~# dpkg --configure spamassassin Setting up spamassassin (3.1.7-2etch1) ... Starting SpamAssassin Mail Filter Daemon: [6777] dbg: logger: adding facilities: all [6777] dbg: logger: logging level is DBG [6777] dbg: logger: trying to connect to syslog/unix... [6777] dbg: logger: opening syslog with unix socket [6777] dbg: logger: successfully connected to syslog/unix [6777] dbg: logger: successfully added syslog method [6777] dbg: spamd: will perform setuids? 0 [6777] error: spamd: cannot use --virtual-config-dir without -u spamd: cannot use --virtual-config-dir without -u invoke-rc.d: initscript spamassassin, action "start" failed. dpkg: error processing spamassassin (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 255 Errors were encountered while processing: spamassassin A Google search was unfruitful. Is this error caused by something in my config or in the package itself? Any clues on how to fix it? Thanks in advance for any assistance. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: zlib use flag
Please disregard. Sent to the wrong mailing list. On Wednesday, February 15, 2012 07:17:48 you wrote: > Doing a world upgrade gives me: > > root@kushiel / # emerge -uDvatN world > > These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order: > > Calculating dependencies... done! > > emerge: there are no ebuilds built with USE flags to satisfy "sys- > apps/pciutils[-zlib]". > !!! One of the following packages is required to complete your request: > - sys-apps/pciutils-3.1.7::gentoo (Change USE: -zlib) > (dependency required by "sys-fs/udev-171-r5[hwdb]" [ebuild]) > (dependency required by "sys-fs/lvm2-2.02.88" [installed]) > (dependency required by "sys-fs/udisks-1.0.4-r1" [installed]) > (dependency required by "kde-base/kdelibs-4.7.4[udisks]" [installed]) > (dependency required by "kde-base/kdesu-4.7.4" [installed]) > (dependency required by "kde-base/khelpcenter-4.7.4" [installed]) > > > But setting -lib use flag then gives me: > > Calculating dependencies... done! > > emerge: there are no ebuilds built with USE flags to satisfy ">=app- > arch/libarchive-2.6.1[bzip2?,lzma?,zlib]". > !!! One of the following packages is required to complete your request: > - app-arch/libarchive-3.0.3::gentoo (Change USE: +zlib) > (dependency required by "kde-base/ark-4.7.4" [installed]) > (dependency required by "kde-base/kdeutils-meta-4.7.4" [installed]) > (dependency required by "kde-base/kde-meta-4.7.4" [installed]) > (dependency required by "@selected" [set]) > (dependency required by "@world" [argument]) > > > Is no one else seeing this? What's the resolution? -- "People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them." - G.B. Shaw -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201202150721.57926.ddjo...@riddlemaster.org
zlib use flag
Doing a world upgrade gives me: root@kushiel / # emerge -uDvatN world These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order: Calculating dependencies... done! emerge: there are no ebuilds built with USE flags to satisfy "sys- apps/pciutils[-zlib]". !!! One of the following packages is required to complete your request: - sys-apps/pciutils-3.1.7::gentoo (Change USE: -zlib) (dependency required by "sys-fs/udev-171-r5[hwdb]" [ebuild]) (dependency required by "sys-fs/lvm2-2.02.88" [installed]) (dependency required by "sys-fs/udisks-1.0.4-r1" [installed]) (dependency required by "kde-base/kdelibs-4.7.4[udisks]" [installed]) (dependency required by "kde-base/kdesu-4.7.4" [installed]) (dependency required by "kde-base/khelpcenter-4.7.4" [installed]) But setting -lib use flag then gives me: Calculating dependencies... done! emerge: there are no ebuilds built with USE flags to satisfy ">=app- arch/libarchive-2.6.1[bzip2?,lzma?,zlib]". !!! One of the following packages is required to complete your request: - app-arch/libarchive-3.0.3::gentoo (Change USE: +zlib) (dependency required by "kde-base/ark-4.7.4" [installed]) (dependency required by "kde-base/kdeutils-meta-4.7.4" [installed]) (dependency required by "kde-base/kde-meta-4.7.4" [installed]) (dependency required by "@selected" [set]) (dependency required by "@world" [argument]) Is no one else seeing this? What's the resolution? -- "I always pass on good advice. It's the only thing to do with it. It is never any use to oneself." - Oscar Wilde -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201202150717.48472.ddjo...@riddlemaster.org
Spamassassin X_Report_Header
I'm trying to add the Spamassassin X_Report_Header. Per the website at http://spamassassin.apache.org/full/3.2.x/doc/Mail_SpamAssassin_Conf.html report_safe ( 0 | 1 | 2 ) (default: 1) ... f this option is set to 0, incoming spam is only modified by adding some X- Spam- headers and no changes will be made to the body. In addition, a header named X-Spam-Report will be added to spam. You can use the remove_header option to remove that header after setting report_safe to 0. I have the option set to 0 in /etc/spamassassin/local.cf and the remove_header option is not configured in any of the files in that directory. I'm getting the X-Spam-Score, X-Spam_score_int, X-Spam_bar, etc headers but I am not getting the Report header. I've been unable to find anything on the web as to why this might be. And assistance appreciated. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Wordpress can't find uploads
I have multiple Wordpress blogs running using Debian's method of pointing to different blogs. I'm posting here and not a Wordpress specific list because I believe this is related to Debian's unique method of installation. On one instance, I'm using the Portfolio Press theme. Images I upload to the portfolio do not show up. Looking at the source, the image is linked as: /wp-uploads/2012/05/image.jpg The actual path to the images is: /wp-uploads/myblog.mydomain.org/2012/05/image.jpg There is a different directory for each blog I'm running under the /wp-uploads/ directory, allowing all the blogs to peacefully coexist. What's puzzling is that the images are being uploaded by the theme and instance to the correct location. It's only the image links on the post itself which are incorrect. Any hints or suggestions appreciated. -- "The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you." - Elbert Hubbard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201205131725.47583.ddjo...@riddlemaster.org
Upgrading base-files wants to wipe out half of system
Searching Google and this list archives haven't come up with anything on this. Running apt-get upgrade, base-files and a number of other packages are being held back. Doing a dist-upgrade or manually upgrading base-files gives me this: # apt-get install base-files Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: x11-apps xorg-docs-core libpolkit-gobject-1-0 libhttp-daemon-perl libevent-1.4-2 libfile-listing-perl xfonts-scalable xulrunner-1.9.1 libwww- robotrules-perl bind9utils libopts25 x11-xfs-utils libhttp-date-perl liblwp- mediatypes-perl libauthen-ntlm-perl libhtml-parser-perl libeggdbus-1-0 libck- connector0 xfonts-75dpi spamc fgetty libio-zlib-perl xinit x11-session-utils libfs6 xfonts-100dpi libhtml-form-perl libmozjs2d libhttp-negotiate-perl libpam-ck-connector libencode-locale-perl libhtml-tree-perl libhttp-cookies- perl libhttp-message-perl libhtml-tagset-perl libnet-http-perl consolekit Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them. The following extra packages will be installed: libterm-readline-perl-perl lighttpd spawn-fcgi The following packages will be REMOVED: apache2 apache2-mpm-prefork apache2.2-common bind9 bsd-mailx dmsetup e2fsprogs eject exim4 exim4-base exim4-daemon-heavy ftp git-daemon-run git-svn grub grub-common grub-pc hal iceweasel initramfs-tools initscripts libapache2-mod-php5 libdevmapper1.02.1 libemail-valid-perl libio-socket-ssl- perl liblwp-protocol-https-perl libnet-smtp-ssl-perl libwww-perl mailman mailx munin-node nagios-plugins nagios-plugins-basic nagios-plugins-standard nagios3-cgi nagios3-common netbase nfs-common nfs-kernel-server ntp ntpdate openssh-server pidentd postgresql-common procps qpopper runit spamassassin squid sysvinit telnet udev util-linux vsftpd xorg xserver-xorg xserver-xorg- core xserver-xorg-input-all xserver-xorg-input-evdev xserver-xorg-input- synaptics xserver-xorg-input-wacom xserver-xorg-video-all xserver-xorg-video- apm xserver-xorg-video-ark xserver-xorg-video-ati xserver-xorg-video-chips xserver-xorg-video-cirrus xserver-xorg-video-fbdev xserver-xorg-video-geode xserver-xorg-video-i128 xserver-xorg-video-i740 xserver-xorg-video-intel xserver-xorg-video-mach64 xserver-xorg-video-mga xserver-xorg-video-neomagic xserver-xorg-video-nouveau xserver-xorg-video-nv xserver-xorg-video-openchrome xserver-xorg-video-r128 xserver-xorg-video-radeon xserver-xorg-video- rendition xserver-xorg-video-s3 xserver-xorg-video-s3virge xserver-xorg-video- savage xserver-xorg-video-siliconmotion xserver-xorg-video-sis xserver-xorg- video-sisusb xserver-xorg-video-tdfx xserver-xorg-video-trident xserver-xorg- video-tseng xserver-xorg-video-vesa xserver-xorg-video-vmware xserver-xorg- video-voodoo The following NEW packages will be installed: libterm-readline-perl-perl lighttpd spawn-fcgi The following packages will be upgraded: base-files WARNING: The following essential packages will be removed. This should NOT be done unless you know exactly what you are doing! e2fsprogs util-linux (due to e2fsprogs) sysvinit initscripts (due to sysvinit) 1 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 93 to remove and 24 not upgraded. Need to get 406 kB of archives. After this operation, 118 MB disk space will be freed. You are about to do something potentially harmful. To continue type in the phrase 'Yes, do as I say!' ?] Is the base-files upgrade wanting to switch to upstart vice sysvinit? If so, is there a guide on how to do this? -- "When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth." - George Bernard Shaw -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201110081845.02661.ddjo...@riddlemaster.org
Bash script - pass command line arg to embedded sed script with multiple args
What I'm trying to do is pretty simple. Getting it to work is turning out not to be. What I want to do is call a bash script with a couple of arguments, and, within the script, call sed to use those args to replace two placeholders in a file: bashscript SUB1 SUB2 This line inside bashscript doesn't work: sed -e 's/PLACEHOLDER1/$1/' -e 's/PLACEHOLDER2/$2/' < input > output It doesn't work because the command line args ($1, $2) are quoted and don't get replaced. However, because I'm using the -e argument to sed, I have to quote the argument or sed gets all huffy. I've tried all sorts of variations on the quoting and either bash or sed isn't happy no matter what I do. The only workaround I've found is to do the substitutions in two passes: sed s/SUB1/$1/ < input > temp sed s/SUB2/$2/ < temp > output Since I'm not using multiple argument to sed, I don't have to quote the arg. That's an ugly hack and really rubs me the wrong way, however, and it'll get really ugly if I end up having to do more than two substitutions, which I expect to do at a later date. I suppose I could pipe one sed command to another rather than using a temp file but that's not significantly more palatable. Any ideas on a cleaner approach on how to do this, either by getting this right or using an alternative method, are welcome. One thing to note is that this is a small part of a larger, more complex script, so the bash script can't (easily) go away. I don't have to use sed to do the replacement if there's another approach from within the bash script that would work. -- "Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies." - Edgar Watson Howe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201004162015.38878.ddjo...@riddlemaster.org
Re: router policy question
On Friday 16 April 2010 21:00:56 Glenn English wrote: > On my nets, I need to be able to telnet/ssh into the border router, from > the inside, to futz with it. > > But is there any reason at all to allow anything, aside from some ICMP, to > go beyond the ACL on its Internet facing interface -- to get to the router > itself, that is? You mean packets coming in from the Internet with a destination IP that is assigned to the router itself? Are you running any sort of routing protocol or similar that communicates with your ISP's routers, including things like MPLS, or any VPNs/tunnels that terminate at the border router? What about NAT or port forwarding on the border router? -- "Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society." - Mark Twain, American Writer (1835-1910) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201004162235.18145.ddjo...@riddlemaster.org
Re: Bash script - pass command line arg to embedded sed script with multiple args
On Saturday 17 April 2010 00:09:28 Michael Elkins wrote: > On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 08:15:38PM -0400, Daniel D Jones wrote: > >What I'm trying to do is pretty simple. Getting it to work is turning out > > not to be. What I want to do is call a bash script with a couple of > > arguments, and, within the script, call sed to use those args to replace > > two placeholders in a file: > > > >bashscript SUB1 SUB2 > > > >This line inside bashscript doesn't work: > > > >sed -e 's/PLACEHOLDER1/$1/' -e 's/PLACEHOLDER2/$2/' < input > output > > If you switch the single quotes to double quotes it will work as you > expect. Variables inside of double quotes are expanded. Single quotes are > for literal strings, as you've discovered. That was the first thing I tried and sed gave me an error: sed: -e expression #1, char 18: unknown option to `s' I just went back and tried it again and it worked, so I have no idea what I did the first time that made it not work. -- "Clear writers assume, with a pessimism born of experience, that whatever isn't plainly stated the reader will invariably misconstrue." - John R. Trimble -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201004171202.40262.ddjo...@riddlemaster.org
Qmail and checkpassword
I've been running qmail on testing for some time now (several years altogether, right at a year on this box.) Recently, following a reboot, I stopped downloading mail to Kmail via pop3. (Kmail runs on my desktop machine, and qmail is running on my server.) Some troubleshooting revealed that checkpassword was complaining about errno. A bit of time on Google indicated that I should modify conf-cc to include the errno.h header and recompile checkpassword. I did and the errno error went away. I'm not sure what caused this to happen. This was a working system that failed following a reboot. I'm assuming that an apt-get update changed something, but I'm not sure what or when. After fixing the errno problem, I still can't get my mail. The following illustrates the problem: Luke:/# ps aux | grep checkpassword root 18699 0.0 0.012440 ?S07:24 0:00 /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -R -H -l 0 0 110 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup mail.riddlemaster.org /bin/checkpassword /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir root 18745 0.0 0.0 1944 624 pts/0R+ 07:27 0:00 grep checkpassword Luke:/# /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup mail.riddlemaster.org /bin/checkpassword /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir +OK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> user ddjones +OK pass mypass +OK quit +OK Luke:/# telnet localhost 110 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost.localdomain. Escape character is '^]'. +OK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> user ddjones +OK pass mypass -ERR authorization failed Connection closed by foreign host. I changed nothing other than the password in the above capture. (And I'm absolutely certain that he password was correct.) I cut and pasted the command being passed to tcpserver directly from the ps output and I can successfully login running it from the command line. Telnetting to localhost, and I get an auth failure. This makes no sense to me, and I don't even know where to start looking for the problem. I realize it's generally rude to request direct responses, but at the moment I'm unable to download my mail. I'll check the list archives via the web but I'm not sure how long it takes for posts to show up there. Thus, cc'ing any responses to danDOTdDOTjonesATgmail.com would be greatly appreciated. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
chmod
I've been using Linux for awhile but every thing I know is self taught. That means I know some things quite well and am abysmally ignorant in other areas. Hopefully, this question isn't too stupid. Or maybe it'll give you a good laugh and you'll take pity on me and answer anyway! I want to set specific permissions on a group of directories and all sub-directories. I can't figure out how to do this other than manually tracing through the directory tree. As near as I can tell, chmod has no option to select only directories. I figured I'd use ls to list the directories and pipe them to chmod, but ls doesn't seem to be able to do it either. Surely I'm missing something. ls _has_ to have the equivalent of the DOS command "dir /a:d". Doing "info ls", "Which files are listed" shows only -a, -A, -B, -d, -I, -L, -R, none of which seem to be able to suppress listings based upon permissions or types. The closest I could figure out was to do: ls | grep ^d However, trying to use that method to extract only the directory names and then pipe them to chmod would have gotten quite convoluted. So, the primary question is, is there an easy way to set the permission on directories, only directories, and all sub-directories? A related question is how to use ls to list only directories. And if anyone's in a 'splaining mood, here's another one: how do you set all files so that the group permissions match the user permissions? (If you have three files who's permissions are, for example, 700, 600, 500, and you want them to be 770, 660, 550 respectively.) Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Gimp and GIF
Running testing. Gimp, installed via apt-get, will not allow me to save a GIF. I can open and edit it, but trying to save says that it is an unrecognized type. The GIF extension doesn't show up (even grayed out) on the list of types to save as. Talking to friends who use Red Hat and Mandrake, both indicate that they were able to use Gimp for GIFs without any extra action on their part. Searching the web, I find lots of references to patent issues, as well as references to a plug-in which will add GIF capabilities. However, I don't find any download links to the plug-in. Could someone set me straight on the using Gimp with GIFs under Debian? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
XFree86 after crash
I had a brief power fluctuation the other day. Despite being plugged into a cheap UPS (which is going back to the store this weekend), my box reset itself. Boot-up file system check found no errors. However, when I logged in, X would not start. I got errors that sections of my XF86Config file were unrecognized. I installed a stable system and updated to testing. I'm pretty sure this upgraded my XF from 3.? to 4.1.0. startx, which had worked fine before the power dump, was evidently causing 3.? to try and start. Executiong XFree86 directly resulted in X starting (with no desktop, fo course.) A bit of poking about and I found out that /usr/bin/X11/X was not a link to a server. It was an actual executable. I renamed it and linked X directly to XFree86. I started XF as root but got an error as non-root. I had to suid root XFree86. I can now run XF as non-root, although I got an error concerning the sound system that /tmp/something did not belong to user. (I don't even have speakers hooked to this system, so I'm not overly concerned with it now.) Did the power dump cause this problem or did it just bring it to light (perhaps an update or install of something inserted the problem but I hadn't rebooted or exited X since then)? Is X normally an executable vice a link under debian testing? Was linking X directly to XFree86 the correct way to fix this? Should XFree86 normally be suid root? Thanks in advance for any words of wisdom. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Spellcheck
I'm running Evolution under KDE 2 on a debian testing system, kernel 2.4.18. I have gnome-spell, ispell and aspell all installed. (Not sure how I ended up with both ispell and aspell installed but I just checked and they're both there.) When I write an email, there's a menu item under "Edit" to "Spell Check Document." Selecting it results in a pop-up window that says "No misspelled words found." This immediately pops up, regardless of what the message contains. I can type pure gibberish and it happily tells me that there are no misspelled words. I can't find any configuration options which seem like they might affect spell checking. Any clue as to how I can get it working? Once I DO get it working, is there any way to have Evolution automatically run spell-check before sending an email? I can't find any options for this either. Thanks in advance for any assistance. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Evolution has no help or email properties
Running Evolution 1.0.3 on Debian testing. Whenever I click on any of the "Help" topics, nothing is happens. I can go to /usr/share/gnome/help/evolution/C/index.html and the file is present. I can double click it in a file manager or enter it manually in the browser's path and it opens fine. But selecting any "Help" menu item does nothing. The same thing (which is absolutely nothing) happens if I open an email and select the "Properties" item under the "Edit" menu. I'm not sure if these problems are related or not. Thanks in advance for any suggestions. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Evolution has no help or email properties
On Sun, 2002-05-12 at 13:36, Dale Hair wrote: > On Sun, 2002-05-12 at 07:17, Daniel D Jones wrote: > > Running Evolution 1.0.3 on Debian testing. Whenever I click on any of > > the "Help" topics, nothing is happens. I can go to > > /usr/share/gnome/help/evolution/C/index.html and > > the file is present. I can double click it in a file manager or enter > > it manually in the browser's path and it opens fine. But selecting any > > "Help" menu item does nothing. > > It used to display in galeon for me until galeon quit working, error > message /usr/lib/libgtkembedmoz.so: undefined symbol: > GetFlatBufferHandle__C10nsACString. Anyway, using Gnome, in the Control > Center I changed Document Handlers > URL Handlers to > > ghelp gnome-moz-remote --newwin %s Under KDE Control Center/File Browsing/File Associations I don't find any mention of ghelp. It does list HTML files, which are associated with my browser. I've looked through the list and compared it to my laptop, which is also running Debian testing, and I find no difference. Am I looking in the wrong place? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Evolution has no help or email properties
On Sun, 2002-05-12 at 19:49, Michel Loos wrote: > Em Dom, 2002-05-12 às 17:27, Daniel D Jones escreveu: > > On Sun, 2002-05-12 at 13:36, Dale Hair wrote: > > > On Sun, 2002-05-12 at 07:17, Daniel D Jones wrote: > > > > Running Evolution 1.0.3 on Debian testing. Whenever I click on any of > > > > the "Help" topics, nothing is happens. I can go to > > > > /usr/share/gnome/help/evolution/C/index.html and > > > > the file is present. I can double click it in a file manager or enter > > > > it manually in the browser's path and it opens fine. But selecting any > > > > "Help" menu item does nothing. > > > > > > It used to display in galeon for me until galeon quit working, error > > > message /usr/lib/libgtkembedmoz.so: undefined symbol: > > > GetFlatBufferHandle__C10nsACString. Anyway, using Gnome, in the Control > > > Center I changed Document Handlers > URL Handlers to > > > > > > ghelp gnome-moz-remote --newwin %s > > > > Under KDE Control Center/File Browsing/File Associations I don't find > > any mention of ghelp. It does list HTML files, which are associated > > with my browser. I've looked through the list and compared it to my > > laptop, which is also running Debian testing, and I find no difference. > > Am I looking in the wrong place? > > > > > > Evolution uses gnome definitions, not kde ones. Without gnome installed > (my case) you will have to go in the .gnome directory > and change (or create) gnome-moz-remote to read > > [Mozilla] > filename=konqueror > > in order to use konqueror as a browser > And also to modify something (did not find out yet what) in > .gnome-help-browser/ > Dale could you send the content of that directory after you changed the > help-browser in gnome control center? After a bit of mucking about, I now have Help limping along. It opens in Nautalis, which displays the HTML as text, but offers an option to open in Mozilla. However, I still get nothing when I try to open Edit/Preferences when editing an email. I now have Gnome as well as KDE installed on the system, and can not open preferences under either desktop. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Evolution calendar crashes
I have Evolution installed on my laptop (Dell Inspiron 8100) under Debian testing. Evolution starts fine and the email client works fine, but as soon as I try to access calendar, I get an error that says that the component which runs the calendar has crashed and I'll need to restart Evolution to regain the functionality. Quitting and restarting results in the same thing. I'm currently running 1.0.3, which is the default with Debian testing. I've removed Evolution, downloaded 1.0.5 and installed that, then removed that and reinstalled the default 1.0.3. I've completely deleted the Evolution subdirectory in my home folder in between removal and reinstallation. I still get the same thing. Calendar crashes whether I'm logged in as a normal user or as root. Any ideas or suggestions on where to go from here would be greatly appreciated. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ipmasqerade
I'm setting up a machine to work as NAT/gateway/proxy server for my home lan. I compiled the kernel and included NAT and the various network components as part of the kernel rather than as modules. I then installed ipmasq. NAT certainly seems to be working. Machines with a 192.168.1.? IP are able to surf the net. I'd now like to set up some IPMASQ rules to control what certain computers are able to access (that is, limit what my son's computer can access.) In order to see what's going on, I run netstat -anM I get the error message "no support for ip_masquerade on this system" Is this because I have the networking components compiled in rather than implemented as modules, because I'm using ipmasq rather than straight iptables, or something else? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Fonts and XFree86
Can someone give me a hint or a pointer to info on troubleshooting fonts under xf86? Running xf 4.1.0.1 under testing. I have only a few fonts available: Bitstream Charter, Courier, Courier 10 pitch, three varieties of Lucidux and Utopia. There are 1879 files located in /usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi. I have 167 ttf fonts in /usr/share/fonts/truetype. I have xfs-ttf installed and running. ps aux verifies it's there and running on port 7110. I have unix/:7110 in my XF86Config-4 file, as well as the direct font paths. xf's log file verifies that the font path is being set - none of them are being dropped. freetype, type1, speedo, etc modules are specified in XF86Config-4 and are shown as being loaded in xf's log. I've also installed xfstt, running on port 7101. Verified it's loading and in the font path, etc. I've apt-get installed msttcorefonts, and followed the procedures at http://www.paulandlesley.org/linux/xfree4_tt.html for the non-packaged fonts. No matter what I do, I get the same seven fonts available. Help? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Fonts and XFree86
On Sun, 2002-05-19 at 11:05, Shadowdancer wrote: > On Sunday 19 May 2002 04:31, Daniel D Jones wrote: > > > I have xfs-ttf installed and running. ps aux verifies it's there and > > running on port 7110. I have unix/:7110 in my XF86Config-4 file, as > > well as the direct font paths. xf's log file verifies that the font > > path is being set - none of them are being dropped. freetype, type1, > > speedo, etc modules are specified in XF86Config-4 and are shown as being > > loaded in xf's log. > > With XF4.1.0 you don't need xfs, X can handle truetype on its own. All you > have to do is > * enter the font directory in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 (or whatever) > * run ttmkfdir with the appropriate options to create the fonts.dir and > fonts.scale (same content, you can make one a symlink to another) > This is what works fine for me. I've removed xfs, xfstt and xfs-xtt, all three of which were running. I've verified that the correct path is in XF86Config-4, checked /var/log/XFree86.0.log to ensure that the path is not being barfed out and that the freetype module is being loaded, verified the presence of fonts.dir and fonts.scale. Still the same seven basic fonts and nothing else. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Fonts and XFree86
On Sun, 2002-05-19 at 15:24, Dale Hair wrote: > I believe truetype fonts would not load on mine until I moved the > truetype fontpath lines to the beginning of the section. My X11Config-4 > is probably not ideal but I'm satisfied with it for now. I'm open to > critique. I have my truetypes in /usr/share/fonts/truetype, which is the first entry in my fonts list. > Section "Files" > RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb" > ModulePath "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules" > FontPath "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-config.d/dirs/CID" > FontPath "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-config.d/dirs/TrueType" I have deforma installed on my system but there are no font directories under /var/lib/defoma. There are a few *.font-cache files. > Section "Module" > Load "TrueType" > Load "truetype" > Load "freetype" I have freetype but I don't have either of the [Tt]rue[Tt]ype modules. Are they necessary? Where or in which package are the located? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Fonts and XFree86
On Mon, 2002-05-20 at 07:36, Nicos Gollan wrote: > I don't have them either and it works wonderfully. However (again) I'm > running > 4.2.0, but that shouldn't matter all too much since they didn't change that > part of the system AFAIK. I had 4.1.0 running before and I don't remember > those modules. > > Dumb idea: is the Module secion before or after the Files section? I don't > know if this matters, but originally it's before. Anything's worth a shot at this point. Unfortunately, changing the order had no effect. But I've now discovered that something funky is going on. Under Openoffice, the truetype fonts are available. They aren't available anywhere else I've found. I'm running KDE 2. The fonts aren't available under the ControlCenter. They don't show up in kword, konsole, or any other place I've checked. I created a document in Openoffice using various fonts and they display and print just fine. Saving the document and reopening it in kword, the fonts all show up as Utopian. It appears that the problem isn't with XFree86 but perhaps with KDE? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Fonts and XFree86
On Mon, 2002-05-20 at 12:17, Rick Pasotto wrote: > On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 05:26:16PM -0400, Daniel D Jones wrote: > > On Sun, 2002-05-19 at 15:24, Dale Hair wrote: > > > I believe truetype fonts would not load on mine until I moved the > > > truetype fontpath lines to the beginning of the section. My X11Config-4 > > > is probably not ideal but I'm satisfied with it for now. I'm open to > > > critique. > > > > I have my truetypes in /usr/share/fonts/truetype, which is the first > > entry in my fonts list. > > When I run 'mkfontdir' on my /usr/share/fonts/truetype directory the > resulting fonts.dir has no entries and consequently X doesn't find any > fonts there. Why doesn't mkfontdir recognize truetype fonts and/or is > there some alternate program to generate the fonts.dir file for truetype > fonts and if so what package is it in? ttmkfdir, in it's own package if I remember correctly. Take a look here: http://www.paulandlesley.org/linux/xfree4_tt.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Fonts and XFree86
On Mon, 2002-05-20 at 12:44, Nicos Gollan wrote: > On Monday 20 May 2002 16:28, Daniel D Jones wrote: > > > But I've now discovered that something funky is going on. > > > > Under Openoffice, the truetype fonts are available. They aren't > > available anywhere else I've found. I'm running KDE 2. The fonts > > aren't available under the ControlCenter. They don't show up in kword, > > konsole, or any other place I've checked. I created a document in > > Openoffice using various fonts and they display and print just fine. > > Saving the document and reopening it in kword, the fonts all show up as > > Utopian. > > > > It appears that the problem isn't with XFree86 but perhaps with KDE? > > Does xfontsel display the truetype fonts? What does xlsfonts say? (Please for > the love of God and my mailbox, don't attach the xlsfonts output ;-) ) Why not? xlsfonts only spits out 18,700+ lines! And xfontsel shows over 150 fonts under the "family" tab. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Fonts and XFree86 SOLVED
On Mon, 2002-05-20 at 16:13, Nicos Gollan wrote: > On Monday 20 May 2002 19:31, Daniel D Jones wrote: > > > > > It appears that the problem isn't with XFree86 but perhaps with KDE? > > > > > > Does xfontsel display the truetype fonts? What does xlsfonts say? (Please > > > for the love of God and my mailbox, don't attach the xlsfonts output ;-) > > > ) > > > > Why not? xlsfonts only spits out 18,700+ lines! And xfontsel shows over > > 150 fonts under the "family" tab. > > If the truetype fonts are listed there it seems like a KDE problem. > Hey, am I good at stating the obvious or what? ;-) > > Perhaps look if there's something about that problem at the KDE webthingy... I have been fighting this thing for three days. Solved it by adding dir "/path/to/truetype/fonts" in /etc/X11/XftConfig -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Root SSH permitted by default (was: how does root run a graphical prog)
On Mon, 2002-05-20 at 15:37, Jamin W.Collins wrote: > On Mon, 20 May 2002 20:26:11 +0100 > "Colin Watson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Like the document says, regularly su'ing to root from an account makes > > compromising that account essentially equivalent to compromising root > > anyway. I don't see a problem with the default configuration, and nor do > > OpenSSH upstream. > > Good security is layered. Because a normal account could be compromised > and su'ing to root accomplished doesn't mean that it should be made easier > for a cracker by allowing direct root logins. Additionally, the default > Debian ssh config allows for password authentication. This is definitely > a bad idea. > > The defaults for most other settings show a desire to make the > installation more secure. It really doesn't make sense (at least not to > me) to tighten up other defaults but just leave the key in the lock on > these two. While I can see both sides of this argument, it seems to me that anyone who is knowledgeable enough to understand and accept the dangers of allowing root to ssh is knowledgeable enough to change the default. However, a great many people don't know enough to understand the dangers and probably wouldn't know how to go about changing the default if they don't need that capability. I gotta agree with you here; always err on the side of security. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Safe, secure mail relay
I'm running qmail as my mail server, running POP3 and SMTP. Because I occasionally travel on business, I have an address specifically for remote access. When I leave, I set up my normal accounts to copy to my "travel account." I access the account from my laptop. The laptop is sometimes plugged into a network and sometimes connected via a dial-up connection. IP is, of course, variable and unpredictable. I can receive mail just fine but, since I certainly don't want to host an open relay, I can't send mail from my laptop. My current work-around is to ssh into my server and send email via mutt. I'd prefer, however, to be able to send email from my normal email client. Is there a ready solution to this? Perhaps a modified SMTP setup where access is controlled via a password? I know that this breaks compatibility with standard protocols, but I have no problem installing custom client and server software if necessary or whatever hacks are necessary to make this work. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Multiple files
How does one handle multiple files via most command line utilities? For example, suppose you have a handful of perl scripts (*.pl) and you want to save them in the same directory with a different extension. The command cp *.pl *.bak complains that you're copying multiple files but the last command isn't a directory. Or suppose you have a series of perl scripts which are saved in DOS line-end format. The extra ^M on the bang line causes bash not to recognize the path to perl, and the script to fail. Sounds like a job for sed. sed s/^M// *.pl > *.unix Again, the file naming criteria doesn't work. I could write a script which essentially generates a new command for each file fitting the naming pattern, or perhaps use find -exec but there's got to be a straightforward way to do this on the command line. Doesn't there? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Serial comm program
s anyone aware of a decent comm program for Linux? Something along the lines of SecureCRT for Windows? (SecureCRT is a commercial program. There's supposed to be a Linux port in progress but I'd much prefer to use Open Source.) I can't seem to find anything but stuff that was written in the '90s like minicom or programs that have limited capabilities. For example, Komport (KDE's serial comm program) is limited to a 25 x 80 screen, despite the fact that it's a GUI program. I'm looking for a GUI program with a scrollback buffer, scripting, multi protocol support (ssh in all its various flavors, serial port, telnet, rlogin), session logging, etc. This is the kind of technical itch that I would think lots of programmers would scratch, but I haven't been able to find anything close.
Re: Serial comm program
On Wednesday 10 August 2005 01:13 am, Karl O. Pinc wrote: > On 08/10/2005 12:27:50 AM, Chris Palmer wrote: > > As Unix-like-system afficionados, we can't afford to get uppity about > > what decade our software was designed and implemented in. :) > > > > Like Gregory, I find minicom entirely sufficient. In fact I very > > nearly > > like it. > > As for the rest of it, why have everything in one big wad? > If you want a window with scrollback use an xterm. > If you want ssh/scp/sftp/telnet/rsh then use that > program. If you want session logging use script. > If you want kermit/xmodem/ymodem/zmodem use kermit > or sz/rz/sx/rx etc. And you can script it all to > automate your tasks, which you can't do with a > regular GUI. If you can't recall the commands and > _must_ have them in a menu then wack something > out with tcl/tk or make a special menu bar/drawer/applets > with gnome or whatever. I'm a Cisco tech for a very large organization. Half the time, I'm connected to a router console via a serial port. The other half, I'm connecting remotely. Our routers and switches only accept remote access via one specific server. I SSH into that server, then telnet into the device. When I'm working on a device, being able to scroll back to stuff that's scrolled off the screen is vital. We're required to log everything we do to the devices, so logging at all times is necessary. There are a number of actions that are highly repetitive. Scripting them makes it much easier and reduces the chances of error. I also need to paste in long configs. If the info is pasted in too fast, the router or switch will drop characters, so I need something with a configurable delay after pasting characters or lines from the clipboard. Most of the time, I upload new IOS files via TFTP. If a router crashes or the flash memory croaks or for whatever reason it will only come up to the rommon> prompt, it may require transfer via xmodem. etc, etc. Right now, I'm using SecureCRT on a company supplied Windows laptop. I'd prefer to use my own, Linux laptop. SecureCRT handles everything I've talked about easily. I was looking for something which could do the same thing in Linux. Evidently, it doesn't exist. Yes, it is certainly possible to accomplish everything I need via multiple programs. However, if I do go to multiple programs, it all has to work together. I have to be able to log the xmodem transfer, and I'd really like to be able to script the whole thing. I'm well aware of the value of small, sharp tools and the Unix way. But I'm also aware of the value of powerful programs that just work. I wasn't slamming minicom or any of the other programs, nor was I intending to "get uppity" about the decade it was written in. Minicom works great for lots of things and if it works for you, more power to you. But it doesn't have everything I need. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
