amd - errors / not working
I'm trying to use amd 5.2.2.2 unoficial patch lev 102 under debian 1.2
could some other users please post their amd configuration files, with
copious comments? As far as I can tell from the error messages, the
NFS systems are never mounted anywhere in any way. Trafshow tells me
that no udp requests even leave the computer when I start up amd.
When I cd to the map mount directory, however (/amd as below), i get
the message nfs_return_code_116 The startup command I use has changed
a lot, but the one I have now seems to be the best according to how I
understand the docs. I'll remove the -D test when it's working. I
start amd on computer arvs.cimc.com with the command (using a text
file map)
amd -a /tmp_amd -D test -r -x all -d cimc.com /amd /etc/amd/amd.arvs1
and my configuration file (amd.arvs1) is
# want to access the floppy drive in such a way that removing it
# without unmounting will not cause a kernel panic.
floptype:=link;fs:=/mnt/floppy
mnt/floppy type:=ufs;fs:=${autodir}/${key};dev:=/dev/fd0
# beowulf and joe are 2 other hosts on the network, want to
# mount their entire file systems.
mnt/beowulf -opts:=rw,grpid,nosuid,intr,soft \
type:=host;rhost:=beowulf;fs:=${autodir}/${key};rfs:=/
mnt/ljoe-opts:=rw,grpid,nosuid,intr,soft \
type:=host;rhost:=joe;fs:=${autodir}/${key};rfs:=/
This is my configuration at the moment (/etc/amd/amd.arvs1)
- I have gone through many
configurations. My understanding is that under /amd amd will create
symbolic links to /mnt/floppy, /mnt/joe. and /mnt/beowulf. When I cd
to or ls /mnt/floppy or /mnt/joe or /mnt/beowulf, amd will catch the
reference and if that filesystem is not mounted, amd will mount it.
And here is the other bit of debugging that seems relevant. After
starting amd, here's the interaction:
# cd /amd
# ls
May 26 07:26:28 arvs amd[692]/debug: getattr:
May 26 07:26:28 arvs amd[692]/debug:retry=116
May 26 07:26:28 arvs amd[692]/debug: Select waits for 106s
May 26 07:26:28 arvs amd[692]/debug: getattr:
May 26 07:26:28 arvs amd[692]/debug:retry=116
May 26 07:26:28 arvs amd[692]/debug: Select waits for 106s
May 26 07:26:28 arvs amd[692]/debug: readdir:
May 26 07:26:28 arvs amd[692]/debug: Select waits for 106s
other configurations I have tried include putting the floppy mounts at
the end of the file, so maybe amd will get to the nfs mounts first
(maybe it's crapping out on the link mount). Other things I've tried
include specifying
type:=nfs;fs:=/mnt/joe for the joe system
/defaults opts:=rw,soft,intr,timeo=10,retrans=5
This used to be the top line of the amd.arvs1 map.
Is my understanding wrong (is ${autodir}/$key} mounting stuff other
places? then why didn't specifying fs:=/an/absolute/pathnot
work?I searched dejanews, but could not find anything pertinent.
Any help appreciated, TIA
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any sample configs for mutt using GnuPG?
Aargh! After going through documentation which is out of date etc.
and then the annoying gpg.rc which comes with mutt but demands I
download RSA modules and so on.. does anyone have a sample config
which doesn't bother using patent-encumbered algorithms and simply
sets the right variables to let you sign/encrypt mail using stock
GnuPG?
Apologies if this has been asked and answered exactly too recently.
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Re: dpkg binary dbase (was Re: Debian vs. Red Hat)
On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 07:02:21PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > Chris Gray writes: >> I understand that dpkg is a much easier tool to use. It is also a >> lot slower. It would be nice to write it with a binary database. > > _N_ > Ahhm. > Do you want to try to edit a binary database to fix screwups? I thought Solaris used binary databases for speed, with a text one as backup and for readability. What if we had both a text and binary database, and added the following options to dpkg: dpkg --use-text-availUse plain text available dpkg --use-binary-avail Use binary available dpkg --gen-binary-avail Generate binary db from the text version At least this way, the choice is up to the user (with a suitable or configurable default). The binary database can be used for speed, but we can always regenerate it from a given text database (which is fixable) if it gets screwed up. Pros: would, presuambly, be faster Cons: extra complexity, and extra disk space used to store 2 forms of the same data (but not everyone may generate a binary db if it's optional). I guess the question is how much speed we would gain, and whether it's worth the cost in complexity and space. -- loki [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dare I disturb the universe? You bet I do! :)
Re: Canon BJC-1000 problem
On Sun, Oct 01, 2000 at 07:40:17AM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > > lpr: connect: Connection refused jobs queued, but cannot start daemon. > > Looks like an unrelated problem. I agree, and I've been having the same problems. Well technically a friend rather than me, but it's an odd problem. I eventually wondered if it was a BIOS problem, and found that the BIOS had the parallel port set to an odd mode.. SPP or EPP is okay, but I think bi-directional modes cause problems. Setting it to a simpler value seemed to partially solve the problem (or maybe just change the error message ;) I think the first thing to check is whether or not your kernel is actually recognising the parallel port: check for an /proc/parport, and more specifically what it says in /proc/parport/0/hardware. > > I wonder if apsfilter, lprng, or CUPS would be better > > Lprng is not a replacement for magicfiler. It replaces lpr. I'm > using it. Ditto. > Could someone who knows about printers help Willy? It isn't my area. I > just spoke up because I have a BJC-1000. I'd love help with this problem too.. though my friend has a BJC-2000SP, but that's also supposed to be compatible with the bjc600 for filter purposes. -- loki [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dare I disturb the universe? You bet I do! :)
Re: MX300
On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 04:41:42PM -0700, ObeseWhale wrote: > Do any of you have a Diamond Monster Sound MX300 or other > au8830-based sound card working in Potato? I tried doing make > install on the latest public release from linux.aureal.com and I > get an error... Error 1 in particular. I have 1.1.1 working fine here on my potato box with an MX300. Didn't encounter any problems. Maybe if you post more detail about the error..? -- loki [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dare I disturb the universe? You bet I do! :)
Re: Canon BJC-1000 problem
On Sun, Oct 01, 2000 at 01:16:51AM -0700, Willy Lee wrote: > There was already a line there appearing to do the same thing, but > using enscript instead of a2ps. > > Now the problem is worse: after fiddling with it a bit and restarting > lpd several times, I get this error: > > geldar:~# a2ps dbootstrap_settings > [dbootstrap_settings (plain): 1 page on 1 sheet] > lpr: connect: Connection refused > jobs queued, but cannot start daemon. > [Total: 1 page on 1 sheet] sent to the default printer > geldar:~# lpq > waiting for lp to become ready (offline ?) > Rank Owner Job Files Total Size > 1stroot 11 (standard input) 14164 bytes > > I wonder if apsfilter, lprng, or CUPS would be better choices... > anyone have any experience with them? The guy who wrote the > Printing HOWTO seems to think they are better... Firstly, does printing of other formats (eg. Postscript) work? If so, I guess it's just that particular magicfilter line. If you can't print anything, check your /proc/parport/0/hardware to make sure you have one. A friend of mine had this problem and I only solved it for her today. Basically we purged lprng and then reinstalled it, then reran magicfilterconfig afterwards. If you can't find other reasons why it doesn't work, this is worth a try. -- loki [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dare I disturb the universe? You bet I do! :)
Re: Q: mp3 wav / sound
On Sat, Oct 07, 2000 at 10:36:26AM +0200, Michael Steiner wrote: > I can't play .wav or .mp3 files on my system. > I can play cdroms. > cdparanoia seems to work and encodes cdrom-tracks to .wav files, but > when I try to play them no sound at all (splay, mpg123 ...) > > I have a Creative VibraX card installed. Most likely you'll have to compile a new kernel with support for your particular sound card (or rather, the chipset it uses). Do cat /dev/sndstat to see the current status. > Question: [snipped] > 3. What resources are needed to play mp3 or wav files ? Install the sox package, which will give you sox and the "play" wrapper which can play wavs. mpg123 is a popular (non-free) console mp3 player, or XMMS for a graphical one (GTK-based). > 4. What modules do I need ? soundcore.o, sound.o (generic support) plus your particular soundcard. HTH, -- loki [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dare I disturb the universe? You bet I do! :)
Re: Multiple e-mail personalities
On Thu, Oct 26, 2000 at 11:11:54PM -0500, Ryan Claycamp wrote:
> The problem is that I have several e-mail addresses that I want to use
> to send and receive mail with my home computer. I currently use mutt
> as my reader and exim as my transport. Does anyone know how to
> configure mutt to use multiple names and how to configure exim so it
> sees how the message is addressed and uses the smarthost for the right
> from address?
I've had this same problem but have always been putting off finding the
solution. I figured I needed to feed my From: address directly into
exim using the -f switch, and configure mutt to use -f when calling
sendmail (changing its sendmail line using folder hooks). However, the
address rewriting feature of exim proved a stumbling block, since it
rewrote it every time in my testing, despite using -f. Perhaps it's
possible and I simply wasn't approaching it in the right way.
In the end, I realised it was much simpler to go with merely what Brian
May posted, with the addition of a single line to your exim rewriting
rules. Previously I had just the following:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]${lookup{$1}lsearch{/etc/email-addresses}\
{$value}fail} bcfrF
as my rewriting rule. Supposing you want to send sometimes as
[EMAIL PROTECTED], I'd put something like:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] * bcfrF
before the generic rule, which tells exim not to rewrite addresses
matching the first field.
Using folder hooks as in Brian May's mail, just make sure your From:
header is set to [EMAIL PROTECTED] when you change to the appropriate
folders. Seems to work for me now,
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Re: no wonder...
On Sat, Apr 08, 2000 at 08:48:18AM +0700, Oki DZ wrote: > On Fri, 7 Apr 2000, Richard Taylor wrote: > > My mileage varies. I find that the program simplifies what can be a > > vastly more difficult process... that of tracking dependencies, versions, > > file locations, etc, etc... It does it > > fairly well and it does it accurately. Which doesn't explain why there is a project to create a better top-level package management tool called "apt"? :) > I think the problem in dselect that it doesn't show the dependency tree. > The listing of the packages is useful, of course, but it's just a list. Agreed; it's a plain list, which can be viewed in various ways. What I think would be better would be the ability to collapse parts of the list that you're not viewing, like a directory tree. Then you come to the actual conflict resolution part. Possibly it'd be great if it could detect these conflicts in real-time (I guess this might not be trivial or speedy to implement), and prompt you. For example, you select a package and it pops up saying "This package also requires: foo bar baz wibble snafu... do you wish to install them as well or cancel installation of xyz?" This lets you select/cancel the whole operation (and it is one operation really, after all.. people just say "grr.. need that as well.. alright" so it's not really an independent choice anyway.) For conflicts, "This package conflicts with the following: foo baz. Do you wish to proceed (removing those packages), or cancel this install? [y/n]" Recommendations and suggestions are a little more difficult (since it's something people are more likely to pick and choose over) but still quite doable and could be simpler IMO. Even if we don't do it real time, we could let people see the conflict list better (it's not very obvious what is happening there), by grouping what packages are required by existing choices etc. A number of times I've been unsure of exactly what requires what and how I should resolve it, and just ended up cancelling the lot and starting from scratch due to just one change I'm confused about. Just to forestall the "if you want it write it yourself" and "We're volunteers, don't complain" flames: I appreciate it all, I just think it can be improved too :) If I understood all Debian's package flags better, I might have a crack at it myself some time. -- loki [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dare I disturb the universe? You bet I do! :)
Re: no wonder...
On Sat, Apr 08, 2000 at 08:02:40AM +, Richard Taylor wrote: > Ummm... how does your dselect work? Mine does pretty much what you've > described above. Not really; the whole thing is presented as a problem but it doesn't show you clearly what it's done to try to resolve it, nor does it let you accept/reject some of those changes in "blocks". Simple example.. I selected gnome-admin for install, and I get a conflict screen which looks approximately as follows: EIOM Pri Section Package Description _* Opt admingnome-admin Gnome Admin Utilities (gulp and logview) _* Opt libs libobgnome0 Objective-C - Gnome bindings _* Opt libs libobgtk1Objective-C - Gtk bindings == gnome-admin not installed - ; install (was: purge). Optional gnome-admin depends on libobgnome0 (>= 1.0.40) gnome-admin depends on libobgtk1 (>= 1.0.40) It shows this if the cursor bar is over gnome-admin itself. The thing is, it's not really clearly presented to you what dselect has decided. In this case, it's just installing 2 more packages, but even that isn't clearly obvious, despite the flags... to say nothing if the changes had been greater (including recommends and conflicts). It's easier to read the changes if dselect simply states something like the following: gnome-admin requires the following extra packages to be installed: libobgnome0 libobgtk1 it recommends the following, which I shall also install: foo baz gnome-admin conflicts with the following packages: foobar1 The idea is to skip relatively unimportant details (most of the time) like the priority, the section and possibly even the description.. at least from the top half. You could make it so that you can go from package to package in the above (ie. from libobgnome0 to libobgtk1 etc.) much like moving between hyperlinks in lynx, and display the typical package info as (like in the selection screen) as you do, underneath. Have one key (+/-, if you like) that you can use to add/remove each proposed change. For each type, if the user's change could be bad (remove dependency pkg, add conflict pkg) it could warn and prompt the user for confirmation of whether they really want to do that. Naturally, there would also be a single key to just accept all dselect's proposed changes (like now). And this is just a rough change that I think could present the choices better and make it clearer what is happening... I haven't thought really carefully about how it could be done, but I'm sure it could be done better.. other people might have other suggestions on how it could be improved. Is dselect usable? Yes. But it could be better at abstracting away some of the details that are typically not necessary and which just serve to intimidate new users. Certainly that information should be available, but I think a lot of it belongs in the package description window most of the time. No need for flames BTW, this is just an opinion offered as food for thought. -- loki [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dare I disturb the universe? You bet I do! :)
can't find fixed font in X
Hi, I upgraded from slink to potato, but trying to startx dies with the following error: (xdm is also broken, but one thing at a time) (wrapped for convenience) failed to set default font path '/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled, /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled, /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1, /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc, /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi, /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/freefont/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype' Fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed' When reporting a problem related to a server crash, please send the full server output, not just the last messages X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown). Anyone have any hints on how to fix this? -- loki [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dare I disturb the universe? You bet I do! :)
Re: can't find fixed font in X
On Mon, Mar 13, 2000 at 09:43:31AM +1100, loki wrote: > Anyone have any hints on how to fix this? Silly me, figured it out later after thinking about it. My old X server was patched to be able to use TrueType fonts, the one packaged in potato wasn't. Hence the X server was panicking when it couldn't load fonts (I really feel that this shouldn't be a critical error if it can't load all fonts). To solve the problem I simply removed the TrueType font dir from my /FontPath in etc/X11/XF86Config, and have since installed xfstt instead... now everything's hunky-dory, and mozilla is displaying pages with nice fonts.. ahhh :) -- loki [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dare I disturb the universe? You bet I do! :)
X11 crashes
I'm using Debian kernel 2.2.18 and X11R6 as well as FVWM 2.something - and X windows hangs quite often, sometimes 2 or 3 times per day (ok, mostly not at all, but sometimes a few times in a row). The mouse cursor freezes, Ctrl-Alt-Del and Ctrl-Alt-BkSp do nothing. Question: Is this the fault of X, the kernel, FVWM, my PS2 mouse, Netscape 4.76, or what? Any help would be appreciated. Loki
Large RAM causing problems?
I have an ongoing saga of difficulties with my computer. Previously I've had trouble with X crashing, which turning off sound in Gnome seemed to fix until yesterday. Now I've upgraded to Debian kernel 2.2.19, and added some RAM to the machine (up to 384 MB now) and hence deactivated the swap partition. New weirdness has emerged as a result of the RAM upgrade: - X windows now has unexplained pauses of up to one second whenever an application exits. Is this a garbage collection issue with large RAM? - The X mouse cursor sometimes 'strobes' like a bad 80's video clip of Nick Kershaw being an alien, particularly when placed between X co-ordinates 750 and 790 pixels. - Some of my Gnome terminal sessions started from the xsession file start up tiny (25x11) instead of the specified size 80x25. It's random. Does anyone have any recommendation on how to fix these problems? My inclination is to upgrade again to 2.4.x kernel in the hope (fingers crossed) that it handles large RAM better. I'm not sure how much disruption such a kernel upgrade would entail. Can anyone tell me briefly what programs I would need to change? If I just download a compiled 2.4 kernel image, will booting off it work with my existing /sbin binaries? Or is it more involved than going from 2.2.18 to 2.2.19? Hints, tips, pointers welcome. Ta. Particularly how to change dselect to download new stuff. I don't mind downloading non-stable packages in the hope they have more recent bug-fixes, but how to do that? Loki. > On Tue, 18 Sep 2001, Loki wrote: > > > I'm using Debian kernel 2.2.18 and X11R6 as well > > as FVWM 2.something - and X windows hangs quite > > often, sometimes 2 or 3 times per day (ok, mostly > > not at all, but sometimes a few times in a row). > > The mouse cursor freezes, Ctrl-Alt-Del and > > Ctrl-Alt-BkSp do nothing. > > > > Question: Is this the fault of X, the kernel, > > FVWM, my PS2 mouse, Netscape 4.76, or what? > > For me it was caused by sound events being turned on in gnome and > sawfish. Bad sound card config or driver problems caused the WM to hang > when closing windows. All is well after I turned off the sound events. > > ...RickM... >
Strange behaviour of catman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi. I've got debian running, it works fine. I only have one question about a strange behaviour of catman. It seems to build cat files for section 1 mostly just fine, but when it comes to the other sections, I get this kind of output: Updating cat files for section 8 of man hierarchy /usr/share/man man: can't chmod /var/cache/man/cat8/767: Operation not permitted accept(8), man: can't chmod /var/cache/man/cat8/767: Operation not permitted accessdb(8), man: can't chmod /var/cache/man/cat8/767: Operation not permitted activate(8), man: can't chmod /var/cache/man/cat8/767: Operation not permitted And the output rate slows to a crawl; catman takes a rather long time to run, even if it's run every day. Of course man can't chmod /var/cache/man/cat8/767, that file doesn't exist. :) Does anybody have any idea what could be causing this bizarro behaviour? - -- GnuPG public key available from http://ca.geocities.com/redvision.geo/gnupg_key.html -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFBGBPKER493M5r4PIRAuahAJ9OJH0qaFT4ARjfzDj33ORyCrmnAACfZpuC nW9oq2kRiWbMAf/iLZyrNIg= =hdLm -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problem with Debian bootup
On 5/21/04 12:09 AM, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I had a box that today experienced a power failure. When I rebooted, it > wasn't even pingable. I brought it upstairs (no minotor in the basement) > and noticed that I was always pausing during the boot sequence at a root > prompt. Seems to have just brought the network up and then stopped at > this root prompt. If I type 'exit', the boot continues as if nothing > happened. As this is a server machine, I can't just leave a keyboard > attached waiting for someone to happen along and type 'exit'. :) That sounds like single-user mode. Are you using lilo? Also, what's in your inittab? -- Turn yourself into a mental hospital before you become some kind of hideous online monster like turmeric. --- RyoCokey http://www.kuro5hin.org/comments/2002/11/1/21955/0099/2 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Boot with no KDE?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 10 Aug 2004, Richard Cavell wrote: > Secondly, how do I make my computer boot with no kde at all? My default > runlevel is 2, and in /etc/rc2.d I have: > > S10sysklogd, S11klogd, S14ppp, S18portmap, S20exim4, S20fam, S20inetd, > S20makedev, S20mysql, S20slash, S89atd, S89cron, S91apache, S99gdm, > S99rmnologin, S99stop-bootlogd > > Where is kde being started? You have gdm in there. Sure it's KDE that's being started? Oh well. S99gdm is starting the GNOME display manager. However, you oughta be able to boot directly to a command line by booting to "Linux single" from the LILO prompt. That's usually where I go when I need to install kernel-heavy stuff like device drivers. You shouldn't need to have exim, inetd, mysql, or apache running to install those, and you're going to want to reboot anyway after you're done. (Incidentally - normally a KDE install would have S99kdm in rc2.d. Assuming you want the Full KDE Experience, you might want to apt-get install kde, and then dpkg-reconfigure kdm to make sure that kdm is selected as the default display manager.) - -- GnuPG public key available from http://ca.geocities.com/redvision.geo/gnupg_key.html -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFBGMxPER493M5r4PIRAuW+AJ46rSeTOUxkHikZki7UYJzo9jR6XACggyzh BBXD26yCUtbBl8xDfHnlLYA= =QpQW -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Orphaned libraries and programs
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 11 Aug 2004, P V Mathew wrote: > I am using Debian sid. I had also installed some packages and libraries > from original tar balls also. Now I think there are conflicts between some > installed libraries. > Is there any utility or option for dpkg which lists > libraries/executables which are not installed by dpkg? cruft is meant for this, as another poster has already indicated. But your local libraries & executables should all be in /usr/local. autoconf-based configure scripts default to installing in /usr/local, so I would look there first for problem libraries (they should be in /usr/local/lib). - -- GnuPG public key available from http://ca.geocities.com/redvision.geo/gnupg_key.html -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFBGg5xER493M5r4PIRAsvnAJ9r2SBvCeVJCM3bfEm9T0HTRqok1ACglwpS dFUPB0hihkuT/sVqNXiAILY= =R5A/ -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installing a new version of XFree86
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 12 Aug 2004, H. A. Sujith Shastry wrote: > I have Debian 3.0rc2. I've installed XFree86(4.1) and I'm using the > fbdev driver, because my video card is not supported. But my video card > is supported in newer versions of XFree86(4.2 onwards), so I need to > upgrade. How do upgrade XFree86 (and related packaged) without > breaking (or upgrading) other packages? What should I download? What > should I look out for? The package you need to upgrade is xserver-xfree86, and you need the version from Sarge (4.3; Woody is still on 4.1). There are a bunch of ways you can go about doing it; the cheap/sleazy way that I would use is: * edit your /etc/apt/sources.list to include the ordinary testing package sources; e.g., insert this into your sources.list: deb http://debian.lcs.mit.edu/debian/ testing main * apt-get update * apt-get install xserver-xfree86 * assuming that goes well, and nothing that will Kill You is installed, then comment out the line you inserted in your sources.list * dpkg --clear-avail * apt-get update (to revert to the previously available packages list) You want to be careful. I might even run a dpkg --forget-old-unavail after - --clear-avail. The problem with that is that if you run dselect afterwards, dselect will automatically reselect any packages from Standard, Important or Required that you had unselected, thinking that they're new packages. Read man dpkg before following these instructions though. :) - -- GnuPG public key available from http://ca.geocities.com/redvision.geo/gnupg_key.html -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBG5xoMqUhaD+LmFcRAnH1AKCRyhQWOB6/6xfBkeuO8a61VL/fRwCfd44h D3HH3Tqmnwjm0Mi8RTWvc/0= =wrku -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Obsessed with a clean system
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 12 Aug 2004, Kirk Strauser wrote: > I cheated on my mirror: I installed a Squid server and pointed apt at that > proxy. That way, there's no penalty of downloading more packages than > needed, but additional hosts benefit from the packages already downloaded > by earlier hosts. Well yeah, if you have infinite disk space to devote to your cache. :) This isn't a mirror. I do this (well actually I have a squid server for general use, but I point apt at it too), and it's handy when you're updating several machines at once, particularly if they're on the same version (which of course none of them are anymore; unstable/ppc, unstable/i386 and testing/i386 - bah, well at least the non-arch-dependent packages get shared between unstable/ppc and unstable/i386), but it's not a mirror. A mirror stores all the files. Like how when you look in a non-metaphorical mirror made of glass, it reflects all your face at once, not just the part that somebody else has already looked at. :) Also, things cycle out of the cache. They expire, or you run out of cache space and Squid wisely deletes cache objects. It's good, but a mirror is better. - -- GnuPG public key available from http://ca.geocities.com/redvision.geo/gnupg_key.html -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBHD0IMqUhaD+LmFcRAhuOAJwIr2wKdFW17oeC+GN15RZ0t9uQXQCfa+6Y lyLNvj44fqE+uzKfJkqhyIE= =lLol -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian PPC Console?
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On Sun, 15 Aug 2004, Ed Sutherland wrote:
> I'll be using the PPC version of Sarge. But text in the console (not
> text in X) is clipped on the left edge of the screen. ("Linux is printed
> "inux" on my iMac monitor.) This clipping doesn't happen in OpenDarwin,
> so I have to think there is a graphic driver, or some setting, missing
> from Linux. Can anyone shed any more light on this subject.
Is it an iMac?
I have an iMac with sid on it. At the beginning, I found I had to adjust
the screen location in OS 9/X (using the Monitors control panel) to get
the Linux display to align correctly.
The Linux video drivers for PPC just don't seem to take into account the
variety of Apple hardware.
If it's a PowerMac, you oughta be able to just adjust your monitor
settings on the monitor itself, and then re-adjust OS 9/X to the new
monitor settings.
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Re: I have broken apt-get Panic!
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 15 Aug 2004, Dave Whiteley wrote: > I have an old system that has been running "stable" for ages. I am now > truing to upgrade it to "testing" but somehow I have got myself into a > deadlock position. > > debconf is dying because:- > >debconf: Perl may be unconfigured (IO object version 1.21 does not >match bootstrap parameter 1.20 at /usr/lib/perl/5.8/DynaLoader.pm >line 245. > > Any ideas how I can rescue the situation? Try: dpkg-reconfigure perl apt-get -f install download the perl package from packages.debian.org and use dpkg -i to reinstall it. (use the one from stable, you should hopefully have all its dependencies in place; upgrade it to sarge later) - -- GnuPG public key available from http://ca.geocities.com/redvision.geo/gnupg_key.html -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBIDpRMqUhaD+LmFcRAqFzAJ95kQ2/hKhkQSzltxaHvrWXhsHySwCffJtN 370x1SBmq7zjHRnf8kSWnos= =DBu2 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: On downloading Debian ISOs
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 16 Aug 2004, Rakhesh Sasidharan wrote: > Unfortunately the proxy and firewalls here do not allow me to use jigdo > or bit-torrent, and so the only way for me to download the ISOs are by > downloading them directly. Over a day or two I managed to download the > first of the ISO files. After downloading, I figure that maybe I should > have downloaded the non-US version -- frankly, I hadn't noticed that > there's a non-US version too present -- and so am now thinking: is there > any way I can "convert" the US version ISO file into a non-US version? Not really. But you don't need to. > Maybe using jigdo or something (which I can do from home over my > dial-up). Or I can install with the US version and then fetch the non-US > packages or something? The latter. Debian has a non-US package download site that you can access via apt-get. The non-US ISOs basically just have a couple different packages on the CD. And frankly, these days, there isn't much on the non-US site anymore. My Woody disc set is the non-US version, but it doesn't really matter much. Back when there were different versions of PGP for US and non-US, it mattered, but now that we're all on GnuPG, it doesn't much anymore. > ps. One more question: how come there are SEVEN ISOs for download? Just > to get things up and running (and the with the typical end-user > applications) how many of these do I have to download? The first two. My Woody i386 set is the full 7-disk monster. However, my PPC set is just the first four. That's because I have broadband at home though. :) At one point, I needed to put Woody on an i386 laptop with no network access, and so I grabbed them all. Basically, everything after the first disk is just packages. Most of your common packages are on disk 2; disk 1 contains the installer plus the Absolutely Essential Packages to boot. I did install a few packages off disk 6 on that laptop though, and I think once I used disk 7. However, keep in mind that the more disks you download at work (via broadband) the fewer packages you're going to have to download at home (via dialup). It's also not a bad idea to Google for the ISO filenames. I got much quicker downloading access by spreading my downloads across a number of 'unofficial' mirrors that aren't listed at debian.org. It's also possible, incidentally, to install Debian via a floppy installer, even these days. You need network access during the install to make that work, though. - -- GnuPG public key available from http://ca.geocities.com/redvision.geo/gnupg_key.html -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBIQcQMqUhaD+LmFcRAj1BAJ47nJLSGzO3/IQFXxqT6OSyTbh9UACdEJ/Z z7fpJ9kAlw8j+82fiXDk3Ik= =A+fo -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: System & Hardware clocks
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 16 Aug 2004, P V Mathew wrote: > Also the time maintained by the system should be more > accurate than the hard ware clock. In my case why is it not so? You should be using an NTP server. Network time is the solution to most timing problems. Try installing either the ntpdate or ntp packages (ntp is better, as it runs continuously while your system is running; ntpdate has to be run manually, and by default that only happens on boot, but of course it uses fewer system resources when it's not running). - -- GnuPG public key available from http://ca.geocities.com/redvision.geo/gnupg_key.html -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBIg17MqUhaD+LmFcRAgTKAJ0VPMdtJMmFRzhDasHZI4+Q5JL5lACfRL+U VMMAPkyhkuLW163pYBCr0vk= =Q2uA -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Need help with Qmail
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 16 Aug 2004, Colin Theseira wrote: > Can you help me by telling me where I can find documentation to configure > our Qmail server so it will only accept inbound e-mails from the Postini > server? Any help you can offer will be greatly appreciated. Does Postini have a fixed IP address? If yes, then you should be able to just set up your firewall to block accesses to port 25 except from its IP address, and not have to worry about Qmail at all. If not, I'd try setting up SMTP-Auth inside Qmail, and let the Postini people know what the password they need to send you email is. - -- GnuPG public key available from http://ca.geocities.com/redvision.geo/gnupg_key.html -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBIg/yMqUhaD+LmFcRAtZmAJ9+tRK/wfGiOOyCWqfvSUmNEtnR7gCfcZt2 MXeTE89A+5mUVvGGo4UKBFc= =iHov -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Serial terminal in testing?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 16 Aug 2004, Michael D. Crawford wrote: > Is there a serial terminal program in testing? Like what you'd use to > log in to another host over a serial line? Look in the comm section. That's where all the old-school RS-232 terminal programs are. - -- GnuPG public key available from http://ca.geocities.com/redvision.geo/gnupg_key.html -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBIhCDMqUhaD+LmFcRAnGoAJ0TyVG3uHT/9R07N6f0H3DbU0PLpACfVu+D Hi+8K+pRCwgqdnlB1E22GsU= =Ra5s -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mounting the /floppy fails
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 19 Aug 2004, messmate wrote: > on my debian sarge can't mount /floppy as user nor root :( It's probably your kernel. > The fstab output: > /dev/fd0 /floppy autousers,noauto0 0 Looks like my fstab. /dev/fd0/floppy autouser,noauto 0 0 That's my line. > sudo mount /dev/fd0 /floppy > mount: you must specify the filesystem type That means that the 'auto' mode was unable to determine the filesystem type of the floppy in the drive. I'm running a 2.2 kernel on my laptop (the only machine that I own that still has a working floppy drive :). Here's the relevant kernel options that I have set in its kernel: CONFIG_AUTOFS_FS=y CONFIG_FAT_FS=y CONFIG_MSDOS_FS=y CONFIG_VFAT_FS=y Have you installed a custom kernel, or a kernel image? If not: what does Sarge install by default these days? Perhaps posting the output of uname might help us help you. If you're still in the Stone Age that is 2.2, you can try setting those config options in your kernel config. If you're on 2.4 or 2.6, you can try looking for the equivalent options in the later kernels (have they been renamed? I forget). - -- GnuPG public key available from http://ca.geocities.com/redvision.geo/gnupg_key.html -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBJq1ZMqUhaD+LmFcRAr4bAKCgiFt5rdlcsgUoVNV2Xav9EKxl7QCfVD2o TauxHtm+lwiUb0+En3ALGCY= =jMyv -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Help needed setting up Debian
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 19 Aug 2004, Glenn Keenan wrote: > I am a complete newbie to Debian and just installed it using sarge. Install > went fine, machine rebooted without a problem, continued install over > network via http and then got to the package installation. Here is my > problem. I can't figure out how to actually select the package I want > (desktop environment). I've tried all the keys and only the arrow keys and > the enter key seem to do anything, so I can't select a package. Can someone > tell me what I'm doing wrong? Thanks for the help. It depends on which frontend you're using. I'm used to dselect (debian select); in dselect, you use a + to select a package, and a - to deselect it. You can also install packages if you know what they're called using apt-get. man apt-get for more information on this rather common method. - -- GnuPG public key available from http://ca.geocities.com/redvision.geo/gnupg_key.html -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBJq9iMqUhaD+LmFcRAqAlAKCI3F+3RgcTf7HdNesetJBqC79k8QCfZAOh o+r0ddoTtoGDB7qC/0VjKxs= =4hc8 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: To use GUI as root
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 20 Aug 2004, John Summerfield wrote: > A user who can create users can do anything. Er, not true. A user who can sudo vi /etc/passwd can do anything. However, a user who can sudo /usr/local/bin/dedicated-user-creation-script cannot. > A user who can install software can do anything. Mostly true. > A user who can do restores can do anything. Not true. Yes, if you can sudo tar, you can do anything. But once again, sudo /usr/local/bin/dedicated-restore-script can't. > A user who can do backups can make off with a copy of your secrets:-) Bah, who keeps secrets on unencrypted hard drives anyway? :) - -- GnuPG public key available from http://ca.geocities.com/redvision.geo/gnupg_key.html -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBJrIuMqUhaD+LmFcRAoy4AJ9YDb+jv/ot/Dih8FOZlhf/z2WfMwCdEPYo iiB02c6u67BzbbMGkM1ss34= =QeCO -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian Linux on a mac?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 21 Aug 2004, S.D.A. wrote: > One would think that some Debian Mac hobbyist, would have written up a 'how > to' for installing on "Old World" Macs -- Or perhaps, I just haven't looked > hard enough... Old World Macs are pretty rare these days. Remember, that means Macs that are well before the iMac, which mostly translates to either Macs that are so old you can't put Linux on them (well OK, you can put Linux theoretically on your Mac SE30, but OMG), or Macs made while Apple was struggling and thus not selling many computers. Most Linux PPC installs I see or hear about are done on older-model iMacs. - -- GnuPG public key available from http://ca.geocities.com/redvision.geo/gnupg_key.html -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBJ1tEMqUhaD+LmFcRAj6WAKCRgIsKhYINO+2YA2df/HERBlOx7gCfbE/Z UM5TfSHkSQ54Tm4u7twklFM= =2L9a -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Question about using dpkg-deb:
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 22 Aug 2004, Paul E Condon wrote: > I am trying to understand how to use dpkg-deb from reading the man page. > I've been downloading deb packages and installing them on my system > using aptitude and apt-get. Now I would like to burn a CD that contains > a usable debian archive of these packages. I'm not sure, but maybe you should look at apt-ftparchive. dpkg-deb does not deal with package archives, only individual package files that are specified explicitly on the command line. - -- GnuPG public key available from http://ca.geocities.com/redvision.geo/gnupg_key.html -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBKeWxMqUhaD+LmFcRAiEuAJ9+ASB9Fqt9Nuafi817tarNHqNO+ACfb7yb 5t8glrne83CXIOSSyzKhn7Q= =07nw -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to suspend x86 via apm as non-root user?
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On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, Ivo Marino wrote:
> Hello folks,
>
> Each time I try to suspend my x86 `sid` workstation as a non-root user
> via the command apm -s I receive this error message:
>
> apm: Operation not permitted
> Any suggestions on how to fix this?
Use sudo, combined with a script that runs apm -s.
> Maybe chmod +s /usr/bin/apm? Seems to be an eventual `workaround`.
No!
Okay, here's an example. On my laptop, I want to let ordinary users shut
the machine down. Of course, /sbin/shutdown is root only, as it should be
(ugh, setuid is bad).
In /etc/sudoers, I have:
User_Alias USERS = {my user list}
Cmnd_Alias SHUTDOWN = /usr/local/sbin/shutdown.sh
Cmnd_Alias NTPDATE = /etc/init.d/ntpdate
USERS ALL = NOPASSWD: SHUTDOWN, NTPDATE
That allows users to run shutdown.sh and ntpdate (but only from the init.d
script, not ntpdate by itself, which means that they can't change the
server that ntpdate uses).
shutdown.sh looks like this:
#! /bin/sh
#
# Meant to be used as a target for sudo to allow users to gracefully
# shutdown the laptop.
case "$1" in
restart)
/sbin/shutdown -r now
;;
shutdown)
/sbin/shutdown -h now
;;
*)
echo "Usage: shutdown.sh {restart|shutdown}" >&2
exit 1
;;
esac
exit 0
This prevents users from using any other modifiers to shutdown. You could
easily add a section like this to the script:
suspend)
apm -s
;;
I don't bother because my laptop suspends automatically when it's closed,
so users don't need root access anyway :)
So in my other scripts (I have some that call Xdialog to confirm shutdown
or restart), I use sudo /usr/local/sbin/shutdown.sh shutdown or
sudo /usr/local/sbin/shutdown.sh restart to allow users to shutdown or
restart.
You could even setup aliases in /etc/skel/.bashrc & /etc/skel/.tcshrc for
these sudo calls, if you're too lazy to write a scripted frontend.
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Re: How do I mount /dev/sdax at boot?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, Nicolaus Kedegren wrote: > /dev/sda6/home ext2 defaults02 Perhaps add 'auto' to options? Maybe defaults has changed. Also, when is pass 2? Perhaps pass 1...? Obviously you've got the right device number & fs type, though, so I'd be looking at options and pass. - -- GnuPG public key available from http://ca.geocities.com/redvision.geo/gnupg_key.html -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBK2NNMqUhaD+LmFcRAo69AJ9hv23hlbzsYDMU64TXkw/0PrpJXQCdGHYs GHRv1Bxqan0Z4cnfT7Qc4Ko= =iLaf -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to suspend x86 via apm as non-root user?
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On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, Ivo Marino wrote:
> anyway I think apm -s should also work without being root or using sudo
> for as-root execution, this is at least what happens on PowerPC
> machines with pmud (Similar to apmd for x86) installed: An user can
> suspend the machine.
Imagine, if you will, a server.
Imagine that this server is a web server, and has the ability to run CGI
scripts.
Imagine that this web server has 4,000 users.
Imagine that one of them thinks it would be funny to insert
exec ('apm -s');
into a Perl script.
Now you know why apm needs root. :)
> When /dev/apm_bios is readable by users apm -s should also work for
> users, IMHO.
No. Users may want to check what the state of the BIOS is (for example,
they may want to know how much battery life is left). That doesn't mean we
want to necessarily trust them with the ability to, effectively, remotely
shutdown the entire system.
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Re: windowmanager stopped working
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, Tom Allison wrote: > XDM comes up fine, but when I log in, it flashes a few times and then > reverts back to the original XDM login screen. > > Replacing XDM with WDM has the same effect. I've found wdm to be pretty useful for diagnosing these kinds of problems (and in fact run it as my only display manager on most of my machines for precisely that reason; troubleshooting xdm is murder). If you select the safe mode from wdm, does it start? My suspicions lean towards a bad xsession script, but you say startx works, so that's weird. What's your default window manager? Anything in /var/log/auth.log, loginlog, syslog or user.log that looks useful and/or informative? - -- GnuPG public key available from http://ca.geocities.com/redvision.geo/gnupg_key.html -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBLU8AMqUhaD+LmFcRAgvAAJ0QwhUn36UE9/bA2hzdfWcnCIwMQACgn9Pd hxefG5TuI0yyoxzN/g97cOk= =xmSK -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: which perl modules have packages?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, John Harrold wrote: > Can someone tell me what metric is used to determine which modules are > included? Well, first you need somebody to volunteer to maintain the package. :) > Is it version numbers? Nope. There are lots of packages with less than version 1, even in Perl. For example, glade-perl is in Woody with version 0.59, and in Sarge and Sid with version 0.61. I think it's just modules that somebody was nice enough to volunteer for, and that the Debian team for whatever reason decided to approve. You might want to look at the dh-make-perl package, and/or be nice enough to volunteer to maintain some module packages. :) - -- GnuPG public key available from http://ca.geocities.com/redvision.geo/gnupg_key.html -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBLVGmMqUhaD+LmFcRAi2nAJ4wZgM4Zj/dEigQEayLBJ8XScQg6QCgjVry vTb0XkS+3e+6ekZ/5jBaIYQ= =LqTG -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: CD causes system crash
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > I happens often that when I copy or install from a CD-R -- haven't tried > originals -- that my system crashes. I use a Samsung CD-ROM drive and > wonder if it is its problem or something software-related. Perhaps you could be a bit more specific and say what actually happens. Also, perhaps next time you could avoid sending HTML mail. ;) - -- GnuPG public key available from http://ca.geocities.com/redvision.geo/gnupg_key.html -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBLVJNMqUhaD+LmFcRAjOzAJ9xkN74Dh1rg/eglGXQEnS5nAWGWACghZjb pBKkC6i6tSBMwEMw/gsIkgM= =D23k -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Computers doesn't power off
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 26 Aug 2004, Adam Funk wrote: > On Wednesday 25 August 2004 20:10, Adam Funk wrote: > > > How do you enable APM or ACPI in the kernel? > > Let me rephrase that. How can I enable ACPI in a stock Debian kernel? > (I have no experience in compiling my own kernel.) Maybe it's my BSD roots showing, but I encourage everybody to learn to compile their own kernels. There's a pretty good howto available for Debian kernel compilation at http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/system/kernel-pkg.html. Enabling ACPI is done by simply selecting the ACPI option from the list in make menuconfig. It's easy. - -- GnuPG public key available from http://ca.geocities.com/redvision.geo/gnupg_key.html -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBLej+MqUhaD+LmFcRAhJwAKCJqFemJSmOevsQjGFkWT8+Z7CnPgCfeLK7 TWiF9Om/p5eu8f62jmUnclc= =IH6r -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: smbmount w2k3 no write access
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On Thu, 26 Aug 2004, Jody Grafals wrote:
> If I can't get the thing to mount the way I want it, Can I somehow give the
> user (myself) root access to this directory?
Yes. Use sudo. apt-get install sudo first (if you don't have it)
Create a script in /usr/local/bin, call it, say, smbmounthack, put the
commands that you need to execute as root in it, and edit /etc/sudoers to
authorize yourself to perform the desired action as root.
The following is clipped from an email I posted to this list a couple days
ago. :)
Okay, here's an example. On my laptop, I want to let ordinary users shut
the machine down. Of course, /sbin/shutdown is root only, as it should be
(ugh, setuid is bad).
In /etc/sudoers, I have:
User_Alias USERS = {my user list}
Cmnd_Alias SHUTDOWN = /usr/local/sbin/shutdown.sh
Cmnd_Alias NTPDATE = /etc/init.d/ntpdate
USERS ALL = NOPASSWD: SHUTDOWN, NTPDATE
That allows users to run shutdown.sh and ntpdate (but only from the init.d
script, not ntpdate by itself, which means that they can't change the
server that ntpdate uses).
shutdown.sh looks like this:
#! /bin/sh
#
# Meant to be used as a target for sudo to allow users to gracefully
# shutdown the laptop.
case "$1" in
restart)
/sbin/shutdown -r now
;;
shutdown)
/sbin/shutdown -h now
;;
*)
echo "Usage: shutdown.sh {restart|shutdown}" >&2
exit 1
;;
esac
exit 0
This prevents users from using any other modifiers to shutdown.
So in my other scripts (I have some that call Xdialog to confirm shutdown
or restart), I use sudo /usr/local/sbin/shutdown.sh shutdown or
sudo /usr/local/sbin/shutdown.sh restart to allow users to shutdown or
restart.
You would probably want targets like mount) and unmount) in your script.
This is, of course, assuming that you never figure out how to mount the
SMB share normally. (Perhaps smbmount needs to open a priviledged port, or
something?)
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Re: how do i get kdm
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 26 Aug 2004, Johnny wrote: > Late last nite i reinstall Debian 30r2 i386. and I am using gdm as login > now i wanting to use kdm how do i go about get kdm and not gdm. apt-get install kdm - -- GnuPG public key available from http://ca.geocities.com/redvision.geo/gnupg_key.html -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBLrTJMqUhaD+LmFcRAnzFAJ9VkP8aamZrMDQ/I4pdaG6IWFbCpQCfdvSr utsL9S4D2Wu6UOIU5KiAVqM= =MSxi -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: installing error
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 26 Aug 2004, Stefan O'Rear wrote: > On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 03:39:21PM -0400, Abdool wrote: > > hi, > > While installing the "base system" in Debian, I get the error message, > > file:/instmnt/pool/main/a/apt/apt_0.5.4_1386.deb was corrupt. > > Couldn't download apt. > > Please tell me what is to be done. I want to use dual boot with Win xp > > thanks > > Ron > > Did you burn a CD to install Debian from? If so, try redownloading the > ISO file... Well, before redownloading, perhaps try reburning the ISO file. Some burns fail, after all. It could be a bad CD-R. (Actually, that's the most likely thing, IME.) - -- GnuPG public key available from http://ca.geocities.com/redvision.geo/gnupg_key.html -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBLrZqMqUhaD+LmFcRAg24AJ4s/mKhcdob9tVg8cZ2MZShlyzg4gCfbo+x Q2PEfJv7jCi7BuSrGwjkLHk= =EmOb -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: clock suddenly slipping behind
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 26 Aug 2004, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > i want my system to ALWAYS be on time. you're close with ntpdate apt-get install ntp it uses more system resources, but it's usually worth it. i only use ntpdate on my ancient 486 laptop. - -- GnuPG public key available from http://ca.geocities.com/redvision.geo/gnupg_key.html -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBLzboMqUhaD+LmFcRAsfwAJ4h1yxC1mAoDV1zmpGzxgUEKrR1IQCfdfoY BxtGdNMYp+AHfL3kW6TVVMQ= =CDvk -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: apt-get Seems To Have Gone South
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 27 Aug 2004, Joris Huizer wrote: > As far as I saw you didn't get the problem fixed yet so maybe you don't > mind me suggesting this one... > tar is broken; maybe you should try and compile tar from source (without > using the malfunctioning apt/dpkg tools) -- like, try and get the latest > source from unstable by browser, compile, install -- that's it; after > that everything should run again This isn't a bad idea, assuming that it's correct. However, it's also possible that dpkg itself is baked. Fortunately, you can download the dpkg source package (which is currently dpkg_1.10.23.tar.gz, at least for unstable) and install it using the ordinary ./configure; make; su; make install routine, and by default it pops dpkg in /usr/bin/dpkg, right where apt-get expects to find it. - -- GnuPG public key available from http://ca.geocities.com/redvision.geo/gnupg_key.html -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBLzztMqUhaD+LmFcRAqoCAJ9U3uU/WgGhWm2CySHJQ4HTgzd9CgCeL8XW nExztvYp3by2LA6kR8cmFyI= =eqoe -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Houston, I May Have a Problem (chkrootkit Results)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 28 Aug 2004, Scarletdown wrote: > My big question that I have been pondering is, with an 80GB hard drive > and a 13.6GB hard drive, what would be the best partitioning scheme, > instead of having just one big root partition and a swap partition? (as root, on your current system) cd / du | sort -k 1 -n And look at how much you have in /usr, /home and /var. Put most of your extra space in /usr; put some in /home too, especially if you like to have Big Document Files lying around. Remember to make sure to not create partitions for /bin, /sbin and /etc. Also, with drives that size, you may want to create separate partitions for /var/log and /var/cache. - -- GnuPG public key available from http://ca.geocities.com/redvision.geo/gnupg_key.html -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBMeKUER493M5r4PIRAtGdAJ9BtDWL+67JHZFZp5/2Hr1odJebLQCdEC4n +jNpShjPqVFpeItwzeYu7dg= =uf2o -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
