Re: A Vi (Vim) question
On 5/9/05, Ritesh Raj Sarraf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Deboo Geek wrote: > > > On 5/8/05, Ritesh Raj Sarraf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > >> Hash: SHA1 > >> > >> Deboo Geek wrote: > >> > >> > A small Vi question: How to move ahead/forward a line when in insert > >> > mode. I always have to use the arrow keys to move forward, when in > >> > insert mode. Is there any way to move ahead without shifting my right > >> > hand from the alphabets to the arrow keys? > >> > > >> > > >> > Deboo > >> > >> You can't do that in insert mode. > >> Hit Escape, return to Normal mode and then use your H,J,K,L keys to move. > > > > I wish there was a way or some shortcut instead of extending the left > > hand and hitting Escape. Thanks anyway. > > > > Deboo > > > > Then I'd suggest you not to use vi. > The power of vi lies in "modes" which you aren't trying to explore or > haven't yet explored. > > Try it! Once you understand it you'll get addicted :-) > > > rrs It's not that I don't like modes, I needed a better way. I sure liked using the Ctrl - [ key as a shortcut to Escape. I like the Ctrl-O better now and have become used to it when in insert mode. (by the way, I just pressed Ctrl - [ in this email too, accidentally. Regards, Deboo -- Please don't Cc: me, I'm subscribed to the list.
Re: Dydns service
On 5/8/05, Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday 08 May 2005 11:45 am, Deboo Geek wrote: > > Anyone knowing of a dydns.org kind of cheap service? I would like to > > use my own domain yet a cheaper service, because I would need it only > > for a few minutes everyday and not after that. > > I use EasyDNS and I think $20 or so is cheap and I use my own domain. > That does not include the domain registration, which you do not have to have > with EasyDNS to use their dynamic DNS service. You can do your updates with > ddclient and also with some others. My router does not support EasyDNS but > ddclient can work with my router (a Linksys broadband router). > > 8) I have configured ddclient to update dyndns and when I type ddclient -ip my.ip.add.ress, the address gets updated at dyndns in mintes but I want to make ddclient do this automatically. I tried a number of options but ddclient fails to get my (ppp0) ip. What option do I need to make ddclient find my ip correctly and update dyndns? I can't find my ip in syslog. Regards, Deboo -- Please don't Cc: me, I'm subscribed to the list.
Re: About boot scripts and pppoe [was Dydns service]
On 5/10/05, Almut Behrens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 11:53:57PM +0530, Deboo ^ wrote: > > > > I have configured ddclient to update dyndns and when I type ddclient > > -ip my.ip.add.ress, the address gets updated at dyndns in mintes but I > > want to make ddclient do this automatically. I tried a number of > > options but ddclient fails to get my (ppp0) ip. What option do I need > > to make ddclient find my ip correctly and update dyndns? I can't find > > my ip in syslog. > > We recently had a thread here on this (May 5th). Look for > "how to determine WAN IP address from behind a NAT router?" > in the archives -- there were several suggestions... > > ddclient itself offers a way to query your router's web status page > and extract your current external IP from it. > For example, I have this in my config (/etc/ddclient.conf): > > fw-login=admin # router login > fw-password=my-router-passw# and password > use=fw # get IP from firewall (router) > fw=192.168.1.1/doc/digisdn.sht > fw-skip='WAN IP Address' > > "192.168.1.1/doc/digisdn.sht" is the HTTP URL to the router's status > page, and 'WAN IP Address' is the keyword after which the IP address is > found in the HTML returned by the router. > Of course, you'd have to figure out what those are in your case... > > Almut I figured this out (or RTFMed). It was simple: ddclient -use=if ppp0 . That's all that was needed and I put this in a script that scarts ppp at bootup (a script under /etc/rc.boot) The only thing now is that most of the times, pppd hasn't yet got an IP from the router and ddclient starts up. I have given a sleep time for ddclient as 3 mintes but even this much is less and it fails when the ppp0 IP takes more time. Same thing happens with ipmasq which also is started along with ddclient. Then lots of ipmasq junk comes on the screen and it's hard to type a command or even login ( i need to keep pressing Ctrl - L). Is there a solution to this? Previously it never used to take long to get the IP address. Is there a way I can make this proicess faster? I use pppoe. And is there way I can execute the scripts that I have under /etc/rc.boot? Like the scripts under /etc/rcx.d hev a number associated with them and when they get executed? Regards, Deboo -- Please don't Cc: me, I'm subscribed to the list.
Re: About boot scripts and pppoe [was Dydns service]
On 5/10/05, H. S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Apparently, _Deboo ^_, on 05/10/2005 01:06 PM,typed: > > > > > I figured this out (or RTFMed). It was simple: ddclient -use=if ppp0 . > > That's all that was needed and I put this in a script that scarts ppp > > at bootup (a script under /etc/rc.boot) The only thing now is that > > most of the times, pppd hasn't yet got an IP from the router and > > ddclient starts up. I have given a sleep time for ddclient as 3 mintes > > but even this much is less and it fails when the ppp0 IP takes more > > time. > > > > Same thing happens with ipmasq which also is started along with > > ddclient. Then lots of ipmasq junk comes on the screen and it's hard > > to type a command or even login ( i need to keep pressing Ctrl - L). > > Is there a solution to this? Previously it never used to take long to > > get the IP address. Is there a way I can make this proicess faster? I > > use pppoe. > > > > And is there way I can execute the scripts that I have under > > /etc/rc.boot? Like the scripts under /etc/rcx.d hev a number > > associated with them and when they get executed? > > > > Regards, > > Deboo > > > > > > Shot in the dark: > I haven't really looked at this, but isn't there a method of listing > ppp0 in /etc/network/interfaces? I keep getting this message at bootup > that this is the newer method but I could be completely wrong. Now, if > that is possible, you could just put > "up ddclient " or whatever the command you want to give > so that it is executed after ppp0 comes up (I assume ppp0 has an IP by > the time is comes up else it doesn't come up at all). No, ppp0 comes up even without an IP and later gets an IP. Deboo -- Please don't Cc: me, I'm subscribed to the list.
Re: Firefox: Selected profile is already in use
On 5/11/05, Lee Braiden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 10 May 2005 01:51, Bill Marcum wrote: > > You might also try "killall firefox-bin". I sometimes wonder, does > > anybody really use profiles in Firefox? > > Personally, I think profiles have no place in a webbrowser that runs within a > user's own unix account. But who am I to argue? ;) > > -- > Lee. > > Please send replies to the list, not to my email address. I guess that since Bill thought "personally", he also sent the email personally. ;-) I do agree with him though. Deboo -- Please don't Cc: me, I'm subscribed to the list.
Please help: Accidentally wiped off the whole hard disk!!!
I accideantally fdisked my linux hard disk and deleted all partitions, created one single solaris partition. I wanted to do this on my second hard disk and thought I had connected the second one and disconnected the first, but hadn't disconnected the first one really. Now I am unable to boot. Booting from a knpix CD, when I check what partition is on that hard disk, I see only one partition, a bf type partition (which means solaris) but is unformatted. Here's the output: [EMAIL PROTECTED] fdisk -l /dev/hda Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40060403712 bytes 16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 77622 cylinders Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 16253 3151480+ bf Unknown Since it's not yet formatted, I would think there must be a way to recover all the data still. I could install this knoppix on the small 3 GB hdd and connecting the big hdd, try to recover. Is there a program I can use to recover the data? Is it possible without using a second 40 GB hard disk or it is not? I have lots of data on it, useful data and lots of linux things I wouldn't like to lose. Can someone help? Thnks and Regards, Deboo -- Please don't Cc: me, I'm subscribed to the list.
Re: Please help: Accidentally wiped off the whole hard disk!!!
On 5/13/05, Glenn English <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2005-05-13 at 13:32 -0400, Deboo ^ wrote: > > > Since it's not yet formatted, I would think there must be a way to > > recover all the data still. > > I think that's right. If you know *exactly* the way the disk was > partitioned before (and nothing has been written to it), you should be > able to run fdisk and put the old partition back. I think most probably I have the fdisk information written in to a text file kept in my email server's storage space, but what do you mean by "theoretically"? > If something's been written, it (probably) scribbled over something. But > the rest of the disk should be OK. Well, what would have been written on to the disk other than the new partition information and that is in the MBR. No formatting wsaa done. > > Is there a > > program I can use to recover the data? Is it possible without using a > > second 40 GB hard disk or it is not? I got small dos-based data recovery program from a friend but haven't ever used it. It needs to be put it on to a floppy and boot the system, then put a new hard disk and it recovers on to that disk. > The only thing I know of is to simply put the partition table back the > way it was. It's theoretically possible to dd the entire disk and get it > back, but you'd need that data rly badly to even think about that. > > Like I said, though, "The only thing I know of." > > -- > Glenn English > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > GPG ID: D0D7FF20 > > > BodyID:12580499.2.n.logpart (stored separately) > > Regards -- Please don't Cc: me, I'm subscribed to the list.
Re: Please help: Accidentally wiped off the whole hard disk!!!
On 5/13/05, Tony Godshall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > According to Lee Braiden, > > On Friday 13 May 2005 18:32, Deboo ^ wrote: > > > Since it's not yet formatted, I would think there must be a way to > > > recover all the data still. I could install this knoppix on the small > > > 3 GB hdd and connecting the big hdd, try to recover. Is there a > > > program I can use to recover the data? > > > > Yes, there is a program around for recovering partition tables. I just > > don't > > recall the name. But wait for someone to point you to it. In other words, > > don't get impatient and break stuff before you get a good answer ;) > > I used gpart once. > > Your milage may vary. > > Suggest you dd the whole drive to a backup file before you > try anything. Right now I do not have a backup drive to store so much but I do have another smaller driver (the one on which I installed Solaris). I could do a trial of whatever I wish to do on the drive in question, and then do the real thing after this trial succeeds. Btw, I got the file that has the partition information and it has the exaxt figures from fdisk -l. I think I'm half-saved now. But I'll do a trial of this on the smaller hdd anyway. If this fails, I won't go ahead with fdisk on the drive in question. One thing though. I had simply done a fdisk -l >> partitions.txt and that is the file I am going to use to reconstruct the partitions. Would these be the exact figures? I haven't partitioned the drive since the first time and I use grub so no lilo's backup. I have heard bad reports from a friend about gpart, so don't know if I should use it or not. Thanks and Regards, Deboo -- Please don't Cc: me, I'm subscribed to the list.
Re: Please help: Accidentally wiped off the whole hard disk!!!
On 5/13/05, Jeremy T. Bouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Quite a pickle you've found yourself in, this is a good example > for why not using root much is good. If at this time all you've done is > repartition and save the partition table then the data *should* still be > in tact on the drive. Experience with data forensics has taught me this. Yes, but even if I had done a sudo, still I might have done the same thing. My fault was that I became careless in using the write command in fdisk. I shoould have double-checked. > As someone else mentioned if you have the *exact* partition > table configuration prior to this re-partitioning nitemare then you > should be able to simply re-parition and set it back up. In order to do > this you need to have the exact "Start" and "End" values for each > partition. If these are off you could risk losing the data in the > partition or that it may just not be available. > > Let me put the disclaimer out there that partitioning is a > destructive process by it's very nature. Just re-partitioning it as you > already have done *may* lose data (again it may not), and attempting to > correct it *may* lose data (again it may not). Just saying there is no > guarantee in anything dealing with re-partitioning. Someone mentioned that it's theoretically possible to reconstruct and get all data back. How much is it practically possible and what are the reasons for failure, provided I do it very methodically and have the exact partition info? When does this "may lose data" come in to picture? Please explain. > Provided the Knoppix LiveCD has fdisk available, and provided > you have the exact partition table information from before the failure > you should be able to boot off the CD and correct the partition table. > Again while running under the LiveCD you should be able to attempt > mounting the partitions *ONE-BY-ONE* in *READ-ONLY* mode without running > fsck to see if the data is still there. The read-only mode and not > running fsck is to make sure that nothing is attempted to be written to > the drive. If this all succeeds then reboot again under the LiveCD and > test the partition data again to make sure it passes a "reboot test" and > is still available before attempting to boot it up under it's own power. > You may need to have a LILO or GRUB boot-floppy available if the MBR was > modified so as to make it non-bootable. Well, I have the exact partition info at hand (Now I have written it down in my diary too so later it's handy just in case.) Okay I will mount the partitions RO and one by one. Could you please clarify what do you mean by a "reboot test". Just checking on the data is okay? Do I still need to have a grub floppy even tho I never repartitioned this after the first time? > There is a risk of data loss, which comes with dealing with > re-partitioning but if you have accurate records of the prior partition > table and proceeed methodically and logically you can limit those risks. > I do not advice doing anything mentioned if you do not feel confident in > any of the steps necessary or the information you have on the partition > table. If you have an extra machine you could test with that you aren't > worried with the data, you could attempt it on there before trying it on > the machine in question. I would try it myself here if I had such a > machine, but unfortunately the only way I could do so would be through > VMware which might not be entirely accurate. Thanks Jeremy. I will attempt this first on a spare hard disk as mentioned earlier. I'm installing this Knoppix on to it (save the fdisk info) and then will fdisk it and make one solaris partition as I did on the drive in question, and then try the recovery. Do I need to have another machine for this? Regards, Deboo -- Please don't Cc: me, I'm subscribed to the list.
Re: Please help: Accidentally wiped off the whole hard disk!!!
On 5/13/05, Marty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Deboo ^ wrote: > > I accideantally fdisked my linux hard disk and deleted all > > partitions, created one single solaris partition. > > If you ever ran lilo on a root partition of the disk, then it probably saved > a copy of the mbr in the /boot directory which can be manually restored with > a disk editor (for example), although I'm not sure about the multiple disk > scenario you describe, or about grub. Does this mean that lilo is better than grub due to this feature? Is there such an option configurable in grub? > If all else fails, there are a number of ways to deduce and restore the > correct > partition table entries, either manually via inspection of the disk contents, > or using various automatic recovery tools, or even by trial and error. I'll be interested to know these number of ways, if you could put these in short, later. Regards, Deboo -- Please don't Cc: me, I'm subscribed to the list.
Re: Please help: Accidentally wiped off the whole hard disk!!!
On 5/13/05, Angelina Carlton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, May 13, 2005 at 02:32:16PM -0400, Marty wrote: > > Deboo ^ wrote: > > >I accideantally fdisked my linux hard disk and deleted all > > >partitions, created one single solaris partition. > > > > If you ever ran lilo on a root partition of the disk, then it probably saved > > a copy of the mbr in the /boot directory which can be manually restored with > > a disk editor (for example), although I'm not sure about the multiple disk > > scenario you describe, or about grub. > > > > Furthermore this will only work if you did not repartition the drive after > > running lilo, but even if you did, at least the root partition at that > > time should still be recoverable assuming you didn't do anything fancy in > > the meantime, like resize the root partition with parted. > > > > If all else fails, there are a number of ways to deduce and restore the > > correct > > partition table entries, either manually via inspection of the disk > > contents, > > or using various automatic recovery tools, or even by trial and error. > > > > > > Just for those of us just following along, can I use fdisk to record > the EXACT information on my currently working systems to a file, and > be sure that file contained enough information to rebuild the > partition table if ever needed? Is there a tool/command to do this? > fdisk has quite a few options so I was courious about some > preventative measures. > > Deboo I REALLY hope you get this fixed btw. > > -- > Angelina Carlton Thanks Angelina and everyone else, for these good wishes. I hope to get this recovered today. I postponed it to do it today, Sunday. Anyway, as I mentioned earlier, I would say that it's better to jot down the partition info in to your diary rather than just save on disk. I was lucky to have saved this info before. Regards, Deboo -- Please don't Cc: me, I'm subscribed to the list.
Strange: Linux boots off a deleted partition [Was Re: Please help: Accidentally wiped off the whole hard disk!!!]
I did a trial on a smaller hard disk. Installed knoppix on it, rebooted from the hdd to test it. Rebooted again from the Live CD and (after taking down the Linux partition info) deleted the partitions and created just one partition, and changed the type to bf (Solaris) -- the same thing which happened with the other hard disk. Now I tried booting off the hard disk just to check and it booted without problems. Strange because when I check with fdisk, this is what I see: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo fdisk -l /dev/hdc Disk /dev/hdc: 3227 MB, 3227148288 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 392 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hdc1 1 392 3148708+ bf Unknown There was one Linx partition and a Swap partition which I deleted. Can someone explain this behavior? If this hard disk boots alright then why doesn't the other hard drive boot when the same thing (accidentally) happened to it? Regards, Deboo -- Please don't Cc: me, I'm subscribed to the list.
Re: Strange: Linux boots off a deleted partition [Was Re: Please help: Accidentally wiped off the whole hard disk!!!]
On 5/15/05, Marty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Deboo ^ wrote: > > I did a trial on a smaller hard disk. Installed knoppix on it, > > rebooted from the hdd to test it. Rebooted again from the Live CD and > > (after taking down the Linux partition info) deleted the partitions > > and created just one partition, and changed the type to bf (Solaris) > > -- the same thing which happened with the other hard disk. > > > > Now I tried booting off the hard disk just to check and it booted > > without problems. Strange because when I check with fdisk, this is > > what I see: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo fdisk -l /dev/hdc > > > > Disk /dev/hdc: 3227 MB, 3227148288 bytes > > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 392 cylinders > > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes > > > >Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > >/dev/hdc1 1 392 3148708+ bf Unknown > > > > > > There was one Linx partition and a Swap partition which I deleted. > > > > Can someone explain this behavior? If this hard disk boots alright > > then why doesn't the other hard drive boot when the same thing > > (accidentally) happened to it? > > > > Regards, > > Deboo > > The most obvious explanation is that the swap partition on your other > drive started at the first cylinder, but life is usually not that simple. > > Beyond that is guesswork, but in your first post you mentioned something > about having two drives when you thought only one was installed. You may > still not understand some problem in your original coinfiguration, making > adequate duplication of the original problem difficult at best. > > It's not clear what you are trying to accomplish. In another post you > claim to have the necessary partition table parameters to fix your > problem. > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] Well, I just wanted to do a trial run of what I was to do on the drive in question so I installed knoppix on this smaller drive, booted it to test it is working, then booting off the knoppix CD again, I deleted the partitions (the same thing that accidentally happened on the drive in question). I created a single solaris partition and rebooted to test the smaller hdd. But even after doing this twice, it still boots without any problem and right now I'm accessng the list thru the hdd knoppx install which should not work (theoretically). There's no data to be worried about on this smaller drve but since on this drive, even after repartitioning twice, it's booting without a bit of any errors, I am not confident to proceed with setting the original partitions on the drive in question (even when I have the exact partition info). If I had a spare drive of a similar size or more (40 GB), I would have backed it up with dd but since I do not have, I tried this method and would have gone ahead with the 40GB drive if this smaller drive hadn't created problems. It's "not deleting" the partition is a worry ... an unpredictable thing which doesn't assure me that I would get back my partions on the 40GB drive if even if I put in the exact info. I was already wared about such a thing and that's why I did this small trial. But now I am stuck what to do to get the data back ... other than by getting a newer hard drive ...which would be hard on the pocket for me. Regards, Deboo P.S.: If you read the last few posts by me in that other post, you'll know why I did this. Sorry if I have confused anyone. -- Please don't Cc: me, I'm subscribed to the list.
Recommended Debian book?
What is a good book on debian for and intermediate users? Deboo -- Please don't Cc: me, I'm subscribed to the list.
Re: Recommended Debian book?
On 5/16/05, Roberto C. Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Deboo ^ wrote: > > What is a good book on debian for and intermediate users? > > > > Deboo > > Intermediate in what sense? Intermediate software developer? > Intermediate kernel hacker? Intermediate DB guru? > > -Roberto Both, an intermediate linux user as well as for server administration Deboo -- Please don't Cc: me, I'm subscribed to the list.
Re: Recommended Debian book?
On 5/16/05, s. keeling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Incoming from Deboo ^: > > On 5/16/05, Roberto C. Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Deboo ^ wrote: > > > > What is a good book on debian for and intermediate users? > > > > > > Intermediate in what sense? Intermediate software developer? > > > Intermediate kernel hacker? Intermediate DB guru? > > > > Both, an intermediate linux user as well as for server administration > > http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/reference.en.html Wow! A very nice reference guide, is it not available as a single file, Can it be printed? Deboo -- Please don't Cc: me, I'm subscribed to the list.
Re: Recommended Debian book?
On 5/17/05, Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, May 16, 2005 at 11:29:32PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > Deboo ^ wrote: > > > On 5/16/05, s. keeling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >>Incoming from Deboo ^: > > >> > > >>>On 5/16/05, Roberto C. Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>> > > >>>>Deboo ^ wrote: > > >>>> > > >>>>>What is a good book on debian for and intermediate users? > > >>>> > > >>>>Intermediate in what sense? Intermediate software developer? > > >>>>Intermediate kernel hacker? Intermediate DB guru? > > >>> > > >>>Both, an intermediate linux user as well as for server administration > > >> > > >>http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/reference.en.html > > > > > > > > > Wow! A very nice reference guide, is it not available as a single > > > file, Can it be printed? > > > > > > Deboo > > > > > > > Do an 'aptitude install debian-reference' and then you can print > > /usr/share/doc/Debian/reference/reference.en.pdf.gz > Hi, > when I first started getting into Debian, I got this printed and > spiral-bound at my local Kinko's (us copy shop) as they can print > pdf files for about 15 USD, YMMV. It was worth it to have a printed > reference whenever I needed it. > Cheers, > Kev Thanks everyone. I now have a very nice collection of debian books and documents and have printed out some. I'll wait for the next edition of debian linux bible. A friend told me to chekout aboutdebian.com in the books section and there are some good references there I saw. Debian linux bible is mentioned there too. Regards, Deboo -- Please don't Cc: me, I'm subscribed to the list.
Virii on linux
I've heard people say that virii have come in to linux too, nowadays. What kind of virii are these and where can I get info about how to secure system against them? Are these the windows virii that just enter the gateways or specially written linux virii have come out? How much harm can they do? Regards, Deboo -- Please don't Cc: me, I'm subscribed to the list.
Re: Recommended Debian book?
On 16 May 2005 23:45:04 -0400, Al Dykes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Deboo ^ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >What is a good book on debian for and intermediate users? > > > >Deboo > > I'm new to Debian and find _Linux Cookbook_ by Schroder (O'Rielly) very > Deb-friendly, and very good in general. I got this one and it really like it a lot. Though few topics are which I already know but there are some very useful tips. I love a linux book that is console-friendly. My next book would be Unix power tools which I have ignored since long, thinking it's only for Solaris/FreeBSD freaks. Btw, is it alright for us to register on oreilly? Does anyone get spammed after giving out their address at oreilly? > ORA has another Linux Admin book that's copyright 2005 that I'm going > to look at when I get a chance. Are you speaking about the debian bible soon to be realeased or is this something else? Regards, Deboo -- Please don't Cc: me, I'm subscribed to the list.
html to pdf conversion
Is there a html to pdf converter utility/script or any such thing available for debian? I could not find using apt search. Regards, Deboo -- Please don't Cc: me, I'm subscribed to the list.
Re: html to pdf conversion
On 5/23/05, Glenn English <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2005-05-23 at 14:59 -0400, Deboo ^ wrote: > > Is there a html to pdf converter utility/script or any such thing > > available for debian? I could not find using apt search. > > Have you considered bringing up the file in a browser and "printing" it > to a pdf file? It's a many paged html file, aa tree like file actually, so it would be hard to print it in pdf that way. -- Please don't Cc: me, I'm subscribed to the list.
OT: Lost partitions on sata disks
We have an Intel server board with 2 SATA hdds. Tho it had the other OS, but suddenly both the hard disks won't boot (They were in SATA Raid). After putting the Raid driver again, now the drives show up with unallocated space. The partition info is gone. A few days ago, booting using a debian CD, we were able to see the partitions as well as mount them, but now they are gone. We installed debian on a spare hard disk and also have a similar sized SATA hard disk to backup anything. I tried some windoze tools fo rdata recovery but they fail to recognize the partitions. Linux' testdisk is able to show the ntfs partitions. I am dumping one of the hdd partition on to the spare sata drive. But after this, is it possible to recover them using testdisk or any other such utility? Regards, Deboo -- Please don't Cc: me, I'm subscribed to the list.
Unable to apt-get install gnome on Debian Woody
I get a lot of dependency problems reported by apt-get when I try to install gnome-core or gnome-session. Can someone tell me what do I need to do to make apt install gnome? I'm attaching the apt-get install log file alongwith. Regards, DebooReading Package Lists... Building Dependency Tree... Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that the package is simply not installable and a bug report against that package should be filed. The following information may help to resolve the situation: Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: gnome-core: Depends: acme (>= 2.0) but it is not going to be installed Depends: gnome-control-center (>= 1:2.0.3) but it is not going to be installed Depends: eog (>= 1.1.0) but it is not going to be installed Depends: gnome-applets (>= 2.1.3-1) but it is not going to be installed Depends: gnome-panel (>= 2.1.90.1-1) but it is not going to be installed Depends: gnome-session (>= 2.1.90-1) but it is not going to be installed Depends: gnome-system-monitor but it is not going to be installed Depends: gnome-terminal (>= 2.1.0) but it is not going to be installed Depends: gnome-utils (>= 2.0.5) but it is not going to be installed Depends: nautilus (>= 2.1.91) but it is not going to be installed Depends: metacity but it is not going to be installed Depends: yelp but it is not going to be installed Depends: gnome-media (>= 2.1.0) but it is not going to be installed Depends: gedit (>= 2.0.5) but it is not going to be installed Depends: file-roller (>= 2.0.4) but it is not going to be installed Depends: gnome-themes (>= 2.2) but it is not going to be installed Depends: gnome-vfs-extras2 (>= 0.99.8) but it is not going to be installed Depends: gksu (>= 0.9.1) but it is not going to be installed. E: Sorry, broken packages.
Kernel 2.6 and module-init-tools
Debian Woody system, compiling 2.6 time and again keeps giving a "VFS: Kernel Panic: Unable to mount root fs" error, however many times I recompile. I do not have module init tools installed. Installing module-init-tools says that it conflicts with modutils ... the doc for 2.6 says that they can co-exist. Now what's happenning here? How do I compile and install kernel 2.6? Is there any good resources/articles about 2.6 ? Has anyone been able to install it on woody? Thanks, Deboo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
apt-get update error
I'm using debian woody. After reading an article in LG on apt (Issue 86 - Debian APT, part2), I wanted to try using some package from testing and I did as per the artile, putting 2 new lines for testing and unstable in sources.list. But after I apt-get update, at the end, I get this output: Reading Package Lists... Error! E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room E: Error occured while processing magnus (NewVersion1) E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.iitm.ac.in_debian_dists_stable_main_binary-i386_Packages E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened. I tried deleting this file and re-running apt-get update but still the same. What am I doing wrong? The file seems to be fine if I open it with a E: Error occured while processing magnus (NewVersion1) E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.iitm.ac.in_debian_dists_stable_main_binary-i386_Packages E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened. I tried deleting this file and re-running apt-get update but still the same. What am I doing wrong? The file seems to be fine if I open it with a pager/editor. Regards, Deboo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: apt-get update error
Wes Reneau wrote: I've done this and mine worked, as I had the same problem once. also you might just edit the lines in sources.list from stable to testing or unstable and comment out the security line with a # mark. One thing to keep in mind youre gonna be mixing up your version with stable, testing and unstable and there is a reason they are seperated :-) HTH Ack! I did mess up already! Something went wrong and the testing version of libncurses5 failed to install leaving the woody version removed. Now I am not even able to login, I get some error like: -bash: /lib/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.3' not found (required by /lib/libncurses.so.5) when I login. Nor are most of the commands able to execute. Thank God, I'm logged on with root as well as a user on 4 different terminals including and one running my MUA! I had to use links browser to open these mails for some reason still and none of the text browsers would run, thank God again that I somewhere had compiled links static! That's how I'm writing now Well, what am I to do now? apt-get is also giving some errors about not able to run /usr/bin/apt-listchanges ... failure running that script. glibc is already installed I can see. I better wouldn't have done this mess if I would have used somebackport version of what I needed :/ Please help! Regards, Deboo -- --- He does not suffer sorrow in sorrow, who does not look for pleasure in pleasure. --- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Help! unable to login!
Wes Reneau wrote: I've done this and mine worked, as I had the same problem once. also you might just edit the lines in sources.list from stable to testing or unstable and comment out the security line with a # mark. One thing to keep in mind youre gonna be mixing up your version with stable, testing and unstable and there is a reason they are seperated :-) HTH Ack! I did mess up already! Something went wrong and the testing version of libncurses5 failed to install leaving the woody version removed. Now I am not even able to login, I get some error like: -bash: /lib/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.3' not found (required by /lib/libncurses.so.5) when I login. Nor are most of the commands able to execute. Thank God, I'm logged on with root as well as a user on 4 different terminals including and one running my MUA! I had to use links browser to open these mails for some reason still and none of the text browsers would run, thank God again that I somewhere had compiled links static! That's how I'm writing now Well, what am I to do now? apt-get is also giving some errors about not able to run /usr/bin/apt-listchanges ... failure running that script. glibc is already installed I can see. I better wouldn't have done this mess if I would have used somebackport version of what I needed :/ Please help! Regards, Deboo -- --- He does not suffer sorrow in sorrow, who does not look for pleasure in pleasure. --- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Help urgently needed before there's a blackout!
I installed a package and along with it, libncurses5 of testing, which dd not get installed but removed my woody libncurses5 and probably glibc too. Now I am not able to run most commands nor able to even login. Would someone be kind enough to tell me what can I do in this situation? Once I logoff or reboot, I will be doomed ... and I have had a warning this could happen automatic, since the lights here are fluctuation, meaning there could be a blackout. So can someone please help? I do not know what exact version of glibc is needed, I mean what package, or I could fetch from packages.debian.org This is what I get when I try to login: -bash: /lib/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.3' not found (required by /lib/libncurses.so.5) Please help! Thanks a lot Regards, Deboo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Re: Help urgently needed before there's a blackout!
On Fri, 20 Feb 2004, Roberto Sanchez wrote: - Original message - From: "Roberto Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 15:40:46 -0500 Subject: Re: Help urgently needed before there's a blackout! > I do not know what exact version of glibc is needed, I mean what package, > or I could fetch from packages.debian.org > > > This is what I get when I try to login: > > -bash: /lib/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.3' not found (required by > /lib/libncurses.so.5) > It should go something like this. > > 1. Boot KNOPPIX > 2. Download the necessary .deb files from your favorite mirror > 3. Open a shell > 4. Execute these commands (assuming you replace libc and ncurses): > > $ su - > # mount /mnt/hda1 > # dpkg -X *.deb /mnt/hda1 > # chroot /mnt/hda1/ /bin/bash > # apt-get install --reinstall libc6/stable libncurses5/stable > > Please note that it is possible to this from your currently booted > system, but it is even more dangerous that way. > > Consider it a hard lesson learned. Thanks for the detailed advice! But I have more problems, using this advice. I do have one knoppix lite and one mini knoppix's iso on tbhbis hard disk *but* I can't burn them anyway on to a CD. I have a CD Drive which ha gone bad and was to take it to a repair shop this weekend, so booting thru knoppix wouldn't be an option for me I guess. Other option I have is - I have another hard disk which I'm not currently using which has Mandrake 8.2 on it. Can I use it to boot, then chroot in to this debian root and then ... well, I guess I can't use apt-get then, isn't it? It's got a working vmware on it tho, if I could use that for booting the knoppix iso on this hard disk, then chrooting thru that knoppix in to this debian root and doing things as you said above? Seems complex but I guess I could give it a try? I'm not ready to reinstall. Thanks for the help ... I survived a quick brownout a few minutes ago. Regards, Deboo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Kernel compile blues
I'm using debian woody. Been compiling kernels since quite many years on Slack, RH and Mandrake. It's very few times I have completely been successful booting with the compiled kernel in debian (Have used sarge too). Past few days I have been sitting just compiling and re-compiling various kernels, all except 2.4.18 have failed to boot. Some don't compile and give errors, others mostly have a problem with initrd image anf get stuck saying VFS: Cannot open root device "" or 03:06 Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:06 I've compiled morre than four 2.4.x kernels, one 2.6.0 and three 2.2.x kernels, some with and without patches too, these last few days I've been compiling. I'm not concluding anything but really wondering how people really compile. I do not know C or C++. I'm no programmer. Most of the time compiling fails due to some error in some .c file which I cannot know how to do. At other times, it's something else like modules. Yes, I've been able to do monolithic kernels and able to boot without problems with them I would say. But the modular ones, hardly 2 - 3 times. I'll list the steps I use for compiling (what am I missing?) 1. Download kernel source from kernel.org or it's mirrors or apt-get it from debian mirrors if apt-cache search shows the one I need. 2. Go to /usr/src/kernel-version after untaring the source. 3. If downloaded any patches, copy them in to this dir. 4. make menuconfig (If this is a re-compile of the same kernel I'm currently using, then copy the it's .config to this dir) 5. make dep clean bzImage modules 2>&1 | tee make.log 6. Check make.log for errors. 7. If all ok, run make modules_install (Sometimes all is ok till step 6 but this one fails) 8. If all ok, copy arch/i386/boot/bzImage to /boot/vmlinuz-2.x.x 9. Copy System.map to /boot/System.map-2.x.x 11. Make an initrd image: mkinitrd -r /dev/hdax -o initrd-2.x.x.img /lib/modules/2.x.x 12. Copy this initrd image to /boot 13. Make changes to lilo and run /sbin/lilo or as in my case, make changes to /boot/boot/grub/menu.lst 14. Reboot in to this new kernel 15. If able to boot in this kernel ok, then apply the patches and again re-compile. There's only one time I was successful in making initrd work in 2.4.18, in others I just could not. What am I doing wrong? I'm nearly tired of compiling but I can't do without linux and I have read the howtos and other docs many times. Wierd for me. -- Can someone, who causes pain to others, experience real joy? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Problem with apt-get and gpm
I was using screen, and in one of the session, apt-get installed rspfd daemon. apt-get hun while trying to start this daemon. I couldn't do anything except killing apt-get and screen. But after that I'm not able to run apt-get anymore, I get this error: E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (11 Resource temporarily unavailable) E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), is another process using it? What do I need to do to ake apt-get work again? apt-get -f install gives the same message Another problem is with gpm. It's a generic serial mouse. Works well under X. On the console too it appears to be okay since I can mov eit around but when copying and pasting, theres a problem. when I copy text, it is able to paste it once. If the text goes over one line and if I drag the mouse faster and say 2 - 3 lines get marked and copied, in this case it doesn't paste anything. Now whatever I copy ... even if a single word, it doesn't paste anything. Only after I restart gpm, does it paste. It paste the same text which I copied but only after restarting gpm. And that too only once, the next copying would again paste after a restart of gpm. What's thi strange problem? -- --- Can someone, who causes pain to others, experience real joy? --- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Kernel compile blues
On Sat, 21 Feb 2004, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > Kai Schindelka wrote: > > Have a look at the packages build-essential and kernel-package. > > The following works for me on a Debian stable: > > > > cd /usr/src/linux/ > > make menuconfig > > make-kpkg clean > > make-kpkg --revision --append_to_version - \ > > kernel-image > > cd .. > > > > After that, the image is installed with "dpkg -i ". > > > > Also have a look at this excellent step-by-step HOWTO: > > http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/system/kernel-pkg.html Thanks for this link and the info. Well, I had thought to use kpkg but I should first be able to install and boot using the kernel compiled in the generic way, isn't it? That's what has been happening. I'll do a monolithic kernel now I guess. But I _need_ modular kernel for some things I have, like cmpci sound card+modem driver and more. A patched one on that. -- --- Can someone, who causes pain to others, experience real joy? --- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Kernel compile blues
On Sun, 22 Feb 2004, Kai Schindelka wrote: > > VFS: Cannot open root device "" or 03:06 > > Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:06 > > Looks like the HA driver module the boot drive is attached to is missing > in initrd. A misconfigured LILO may also be the cause. HA driver module? What's that? mkinitrd doesn't give any error while making initrd. And I use grub, not lilo. This is what I need more info on - initrd. Anyway, is it good to compile 2.6 kernels monolithic? > I would recommend trying a pristine 2.4.25 Kernel from kernel.org first. > Patches can always be applied later. Then rebuild. Center on booting an > unmodified Kernel, then reconfigure, then patch. Better to start with > the least complex option, I guess. Always keep working Kernel packages > as a backup. By unmodified, do you mean no changes to .config, and compiling with the default options? > For the same reason I'd start with a static Kernel. Apart from being > more secure, it is easier to build. And disable everything you don't > absolutely need to get the machine up and running. Bells and whistles > can always be added later. Switch to modules when the static Kernel > runs stable. I do disable everything I don't need. But, I need to compile win4lin support as well as cmpci sound+modem driver and in it's readme, they clearly say to compile it as a module. Not possible in a monolithic kernel. Or it could be plex86 if that works. I've been able to compile the plex86 but didn't do anything after that. > > I do not know C or C++. I'm no programmer. > > You don't need to have to. Compiling a Kernel requires no programming > skills. Albeit they may be helpful, though. Problems arise when I get errors, and the errors are due to some file syntax problem by the programmer or such. And if I don't have net access, I get really stuck. > Have a look at the packages build-essential and kernel-package. > The following works for me on a Debian stable: > > After that, the image is installed with "dpkg -i ". This is the "debian way" of installing kernels isn't it? I'd still like to stick compiling kernels the generic way, except for keeping my custom compiled kernels as debs for later. -- --- Can someone, who causes pain to others, experience real joy? --- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Kernel compile blues
On Sun, 22 Feb 2004, Jérémie Knuesel wrote: > Try using kernel-package: I've compiled a lot of kernels without problem > with it, just following the instructions on this page: > > http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/system/kernel-pkg.html > > Also, if you want to install a 2.6 kernel, make sure you have installed > the module-init-tools package. > > Another site you may find helpful (never used but it seems comprehensive): > > http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=2949 First of all I'm right now stuck with apt-get not ready to install anything as per another post from me. This is what I get: E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (11 Resource temporarily unavailable) E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), is another process using it? Mind helping with this too? :) Thanks a lot for the links above. Don't we need to compile a kernel in the generic way before using kpkg? Regards, Deboo -- --- Can someone, who causes pain to others, experience real joy? --- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Postfix needs an FQDN?
I have configured postfix with smarthost. When I send an email, it goes to nowhere. Using the mail command I checked that postfix gives a warning that the domain name is not set. If I set it, I get the following warning: postdrop: warning: unable to look up public/pickup: No such file or directory What do I need to do for this? Regards, Deboo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Postfix again
I was getting an error about having no FQDN set up so I setup a fake domain which doesn't exist. Now I get another error when trying to send mail to anothe user on this local computer, or even to some email address on the net: postdrop: warning: unable to look up public/pickup: No such file or directory I've configured postfix to relay mail to another smarthost. Do I really need to have a dns server for postfix to work? Because a fake domain lookup will always fail and postfix would never seem to work it seems, like this. How do I make postfix work now? Regards, Deboo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Shutdown and reboot doesn't unmount partitions
At times while shutting down the system, I have seen that init doesn't start the kill processes and the machine just reboots or turns off suddenly, without unmounting the partitions which causes lots of troubles the next time the machine boos. Just yesterday, this happened again and at the next boot, fsck ran and most of the time after running fsck, I am brought to a single user prompt and get some inconsistency error and it says that I should manually run fsck. Now if there were such errors, then why does it waste time running fsck automatically and wasting my time? Why does this happen is beyond my reach. Can someone explain what to do? My root partition is 10 GB. I used to make it small, a separate /var, /usr and a big home partition. But quite sometime ago, many people on this list suggested me to make just one big partition if I were to remain on the safe side but now by experience, I guess it's better to have many small partitions than one big root partition. Atleast it saves the time when fscking. Regards, Deboo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Unidentified subject!
I installed some ham radio programs and accidentally also installed the rspf daemon. Now the next time I booted my machine, it would get stuck/hung starting rspfd and whatever I do, I couldn't get to the login prompt. Pressing Ctrl-C when init started didn't help. So, I booted with an old 2.2 kernel I had on my grub menu list. It didn't have proc support and failed to load lots of modules including this rspfd and I got a single user root prompt, mounted the root partion readonly. I remounted it rw and ran update-rc.d to remove rspfd but at next reboot it's again there and hung the machine. Running apt-get remogve --purge or dpkg -r didn't help either. They both gave errors and said they can't remove rspfd. So, I listed the files rspfd had installed with dpkg -L and remove each of them manually. There was nothing else I could have done I think. But now while running apt-get or dpkg, I always get the error about not able to configure rspfd. It's irritating, tho doesn't cause any problems. How do I get rid of this message eveytime I install anything? Secondly, where would I get to read about the init process in debian? I mean like the update-rc.d thing. Which is the file that debian uses to start things at startup other than /etc/rc.boot? Like the rc.local file in RH/Mandrake? Regards, Deboo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mac address changing utility?
Like the mac address of an ethernet card can be changed with ifconfig hw ether xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx, is there some utility in windoze to do this? I'm asking this here because if asked at a windoze ng, they might not even know what I'm speaking of. I have to sometime use windows on my laptop and need to access the net using the ip address of the desktop machine. If someone knows of any such utility, I'd be grateful if he/she replies to this message. Regards, Deboo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
bdflush can't work with ext3
I have converted my partitions to ext3 but I learnt the other day while trying to use bdflush to make the hdd spin down, that it won't work with ext3 partitions ecause ext3 partitions wrrite to disk every 5 seconds, the journal get written I mean. Is there no way to make the hdd spin down with ext3? If no, then is reiser or any other kind of journalled FS work with bdflush? Or is there any other bdflush type utility to do this? Regards, Deboo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Need a shell or perl script
Over the years, I have been using many email clients from windows to linux and have been saving lots of old personal emails. I have many them in many different formats as per the MUA. They are a lot. Now, I could search for one or two email addresses whenever I need to, having kept all these different mailboxes in one directory. Never having made an addressbook, is what caused this problem. I would like to sort, search and make a list of the email addresses. I know qute many of these addresses have become invalid over the years and some friends' addresses are more than one or two, but still a list would be nice. I know it can be done with shell scripting and better with perl but I know neither. Not that I do not want to learn, but I need help to get this list. Can anyone help me out by giving the commands needed to do this? If they think this I am asking for mass e-mail, then I could make a dir listing of the mailboxes and send you the list so you know these are my friends and not some spam thing I am asking. Thanks and Regards, Deboo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cron problem?
I use a small wav file which sounds like an old wallclock dong for sounding the number of hours, using cron. When played manually, it plays fine (I use the "play" utility toplay it from cron), but from cron, the sound output is very distorted. Even if nothing else is running on the system, it's distorted. It wasn't distorted when I had put it in cron. After a few days this has happened but I can't figure out what makes the sound distorted. Playing the same file manually doesn't make the sound distorted. I have plenty of memory and running top I can see nothing much is taking any cpu time. Wierd. What could it be? Regards, Deboo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Old hdd and cdrom errors at bootup
I had 2 hard disks and one cd drive of which I remove one hard disk and the cd drive (they were not there when I installed debian too, had added them later). But now when booting, I get timeouts for them: hda: SAMSUNG SV0401H, ATA DISK drive hdc: IRQ probe failed (0xfff8) hdc: IRQ probe failed (0xfff8) hdc: no response (status = 0x0a), resetting drive hdc: IRQ probe failed (0xfff8) hdc: no response (status = 0x0a) hdd: IRQ probe failed (0xfff8) hdd: IRQ probe failed (0xfff8) hdd: no response (status = 0x0a), resetting drive hdd: IRQ probe failed (0xfff8) hdd: no response (status = 0x0a) ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 I commented any lines in /etc/fstab about both of them but still I get them. What is causing these errors? Why is debian trying to access them or mount them at boot when they aren't there in fstab? Regards, Deboo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Need a shell or perl script
On Sun, 22 Feb 2004, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > On 2004-02-22, Deboo penned: > > but I know neither. Not that I do not want to learn, but I need help > > to get this list. Can anyone help me out by giving the commands needed > > to do this? If they think this I am asking for mass e-mail, then I > > could make a dir listing of the mailboxes and send you the list so you > > know these are my friends and not some spam thing I am asking. > > > > You might look at /usr/share/doc/tmda/contrib/collectaddys > from the tmda package. It creates a list of email addresses from your > existing mailboxes. You'd have to hack it to add in aliases, though. I'm using woody with backports and I don't have collectaddys under that folder. I checked with packages.debian.org but couldn't find it in either stable, testing or unstable. Can you tell me where to get this package? Or is it a non-debian package? Regards, Deboo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
apt-get errors with rspfd - unable to either install or uninstall
I have really, really, really been frustrated to the point that if I could just see the guy who made this rspf daemon package, I would just shoot him off! *laff* That said, I really need help as I have tried and tried everything I could or is possible to remove this ghost from my system but neither does it get uninstalled, nor does it properly get installed, and also it doesn't let apt install any new packages till it's out of the way which seems not possible right now ... been trying since weeks and have also posted here twice without any help. Hope somone would be kind enough to help this time atleast. Well, a few weeks ago, I installed quite a few hamradio apps with apt-get ... didn't know what rspf meant or did but installed it thinking I could remove the ones later which I did not need. Along others, one rspfd got installed ... and setting up the packages, rspf daemon got started but it wouldn't really start, the terminal got locked up saying "Starting RSPF Daemon ..." I had to kill it as well as the tty. Well, at next reboot, it tried to start at boot and I wouldn't get the login prompt whatever I did. I tried booting in to differnt kernels and in to single user mode but still the same thing. I had an old 2.2 kernel which accidentally did not have the modules directory (I had removed it for some reason). I was able to somehow boot in to single user mode using this kernel and pressing Ctrl-C when init would start. I remounted / as read-write and then removed the rspfd script from /etc/init.d and rebooted. Got back the login prompt. At next reboot, same thing happened, "Starting RSPF Daemon" Now where from did this daemon come when I had removed the script from /etc/init.d ? Anyway, I again booted single user with the 2.2 kernel and removed the script. Then once logged in, I tried to remove rspfd with apt-get, tried to purge it with apt-get and dpkg but none would seem to work. I don't remember the error right now but all three ways wouldn't work that time. And deleting the init script, it would start again at next reboot so there was *no* way I could uninstall this nasty daemon! The only way left was to delete each of the files installed by rspfd. So I listed what files were installed with dpkg -L and deleted each of them manally. Cool, atleast I did not have this rspfd trouble after rebooting and was able to login. But now, whenever I ran apt-get to install or remove any package, I got a pageful of errors regarding rspfd asking me to install it but then unable to install it, gave the errors. As I said, every possible way of trying to install or remove it failed, even purging failed. Not only do I get a pageful of errors from apt-get trying to install rspfd all the time, many of the packages I upgrade or install, do not get installed - they get unpacked but do not get installed. Installing some others, apt-get doesnt even unpack them, it gives the rspfd error and exits. and then running apt-get a second time insttalls the package I wanted. Wierd and frustrating! Can someone tell me how do I get this *demon* of a thing out of my system? When trying to remove it, apt says I should install it before removing but it's not able to install it either. The last thing I tried just now was using midnight commander, I extracted the rspfd deb and copied the files manually in to the respective directories but still nothing works. Anyway, here's the output of the apt-get and dpkg commands: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo apt-get install netrik Password: Reading Package Lists... 0% Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... 0% Building Dependency Tree... Done Sorry, netrik is already the newest version. The following extra packages will be installed: rspfd 1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and not upgraded. 19 packages not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B/30.9kB of archives. After unpacking 8192B will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y Reading changelogs... 100% Reading changelogs... Done (Reading database... 117330 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace rspfd 1.0-2 (using .../archives/rspfd_1.1-1_i386.deb) ... Stopping RSPF Routing Daemon: dpkg: warning - old pre-removal script returned error exit status 1 dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/rspfd_1.1-1_i386.deb (--unpack): there is no script in the new version of the package - giving up Starting RSPF Routing Daemon: /var/lib/dpkg/info/rspfd.postinst: line 11: 15035 Killed /etc/init.d/rspfd start dpkg: error while cleaning up: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 137 Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/rspfd_1.1-1_i386.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo apt-get remove --purge rspfd Reading Package Lists... 0% Reading Package Lists... Done
HELP! apt-get errors with rspfd - unable to install/uninstall
I'm re-sending this message again since I did not get any reply twice and am really stuck up with apt-get and dpkg unable to do anything with rspfd. Hope someone helps this time I have tried and tried everything I could or is possible to remove this "rspfd" ghost from my system but neither does it get uninstalled, nor does it properly get installed, and also it doesn't let apt install any new packages till it's out of the way which seems not possible right now ... been trying since weeks and have also posted here twice without any help. Hope somone would be kind enough to help this time atleast. Well, a few weeks ago, I installed quite a few hamradio apps with apt-get ... didn't know what rspf meant or did but installed it thinking I could remove the ones later which I did not need. Along others, one rspfd got installed ... and setting up the packages, rspf daemon got started but it wouldn't really start, the terminal got locked up saying "Starting RSPF Daemon ..." I had to kill it as well as the tty. Well, at next reboot, it tried to start at boot and I wouldn't get the login prompt whatever I did. I tried booting in to differnt kernels and in to single user mode but still the same thing. I had an old 2.2 kernel which accidentally did not have the modules directory (I had removed it for some reason). I was able to somehow boot in to single user mode using this kernel and pressing Ctrl-C when init would start. I remounted / as read-write and then removed the rspfd script from /etc/init.d and rebooted. Got back the login prompt. At next reboot, same thing happened, "Starting RSPF Daemon" Now where from did this daemon come when I had removed the script from /etc/init.d ? Anyway, I again booted single user with the 2.2 kernel and removed the script. Then once logged in, I tried to remove rspfd with apt-get, tried to purge it with apt-get and dpkg but none would seem to work. I don't remember the error right now but all three ways wouldn't work that time. And deleting the init script, it would start again at next reboot so there was *no* way I could uninstall this nasty daemon! The only way left was to delete each of the files installed by rspfd. So I listed what files were installed with dpkg -L and deleted each of them manally. Cool, atleast I did not have this rspfd trouble after rebooting and was able to login. But now, whenever I ran apt-get to install or remove any package, I got a pageful of errors regarding rspfd asking me to install it but then unable to install it, gave the errors. As I said, every possible way of trying to install or remove it failed, even purging failed. Not only do I get a pageful of errors from apt-get trying to install rspfd all the time, many of the packages I upgrade or install, do not get installed - they get unpacked but do not get installed. Installing some others, apt-get doesnt even unpack them, it gives the rspfd error and exits. and then running apt-get a second time insttalls the package I wanted. Wierd and frustrating! Can someone tell me how do I get this *demon* of a thing out of my system? When trying to remove it, apt says I should install it before removing but it's not able to install it either. The last thing I tried just now was using midnight commander, I extracted the rspfd deb and copied the files manually in to the respective directories but still nothing works. Anyway, here's the output of the apt-get and dpkg commands: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo apt-get install netrik Password: Reading Package Lists... 0% Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... 0% Building Dependency Tree... Done Sorry, netrik is already the newest version. The following extra packages will be installed: rspfd 1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and not upgraded. 19 packages not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B/30.9kB of archives. After unpacking 8192B will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y Reading changelogs... 100% Reading changelogs... Done (Reading database... 117330 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace rspfd 1.0-2 (using .../archives/rspfd_1.1-1_i386.deb) ... Stopping RSPF Routing Daemon: dpkg: warning - old pre-removal script returned error exit status 1 dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/rspfd_1.1-1_i386.deb (--unpack): there is no script in the new version of the package - giving up Starting RSPF Routing Daemon: /var/lib/dpkg/info/rspfd.postinst: line 11: 15035 Killed /etc/init.d/rspfd start dpkg: error while cleaning up: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 137 Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/rspfd_1.1-1_i386.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo apt-get remove --purge rspfd Reading Package Lists... 0% Reading Package Lists... Done Build
Answers needed for these Debian questions
Hi List! I have limited-time net connection and not very high speed one at that. So, am putting all my questions in one or two messages and sending. I hope this won't irritate others and also hope I'll get quite a few replies when I check next, in 24 hours or so. Sorry for putting all these in one message. What is the best way to backup on linux, with a 250M zip drive? I have tried many backup programs but I wish to have something semi-automatic kind of thing. I have used ibackup, bu (script), kbackup, floppybackup, and few others but am not satisfied with them. What I need is something that would regularly (thru cron or anacron or something else), compress the dir in to a zip file, optionally encrypt it, copy it on to a zip disk and then log on to a webdav or ftp server and transfer this file automatically there? What is the best way to have this kind of backup done? I'm subscribed to lots of mailing lists. I use mutt for email. Now using emacs, I use mutt within emacs since I use IMAP and find it hard to use gnus (which kinda behaves like pine, being news-oriented). I archive some mailing lists and have some mailboxes, going nearly over 40MBs or more. Now loading mutt within emacs and loading such a big mailbox, loads okay but makes mutt slow under emacs. What is the best way to use such big mailboxes? I do not like to convert to maildirs, I'm using mbox format. How to set wget so that it can retrieve/download a list of files given to it, as soon as the ppp connection starts? How to set aptitude to download and install packages that were previously given, at start of a ppp connection? How to send offline email? I don't think there is any option to store more than one email offline under mutt, pine or any other console mail-reader. If there is such a mail-reader, plese let me know. I mean how to set postfix/exim4 so that it accepts email and stores them and as soon as a ppp connection is detected, it connects to a smarthost and sends off all the email? Similarly, is there an offline news sender program? I use slrn at the moment but am thinking of switching to leafnode, only problem is that I will send and get news a little late ... the next time I log on to the net, and that means waiting atleast for a day or more, if the net connection at my isp's side has some problems. What can be done if/when apt-get/aptitude/dpkg are unable to either install nor uninstall a package and that package is in broken state and unless that package is properly installed or removed, no other packages can be installed? This happened once and the author of the package replied me here on this list. But now it happened with a few other packages too. What can be done in this case? More than 4 packages are in broken state, not able to install nor removable, so what can I do with this state of apt? I *need* to install some other packages and I am *stuck*. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Backup Strategies for linux?
What is the best way to backup on linux, with a 250M zip drive? I have tried many backup programs but I wish to have something semi-automatic kind of thing. I have used ibackup, bu (script), kbackup, floppybackup, and few others but am not satisfied with them. What I need is something that would regularly (thru cron or anacron or something else), compress the dir in to a zip file, optionally encrypt it, copy it on to a zip disk and then log on to a webdav or ftp server and transfer this file automatically there? What is the best way to have this kind of backup done? What different backup strategies are there on linux and what is the best one? Is there some good website that discusses these? If someone can point me there, it would be great. Regards, Deboo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To mbox or not, that is the question! (fwd)
I'm subscribed to lots of mailing lists. I use mutt for email. Now using emacs, I use mutt within emacs since I use IMAP and find it hard to use gnus (which kinda behaves like pine, being news-oriented). I archive some mailing lists and have some mailboxes, going nearly over 40MBs or more. Now loading mutt within emacs and loading such a big mailbox, loads okay but makes mutt slow under emacs. What is the best way to use such big mailboxes? I do not like to convert to maildirs, I'm using mbox format. Though I heard that maildir is faster, isn't it harder to backup or carry around? Just a single mbox file is easy to carry if need be. But anyway, what's the best way to use large mailbixes? Regards, Deboo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wget and aptitude with ppp? (fwd)
How to set wget so that it can retrieve/download a list of files given to it, as soon as the ppp connection starts? How to set aptitude to download and install packages that were previously given, at start of a ppp connection? Regards, Deboo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
offline email
How to send offline email? I don't think there is any option to store more than one email offline under mutt, pine or any other console mail-reader. If there is such a mail-reader, plese let me know. I mean how to set postfix/exim4 so that it accepts email and stores them and as soon as a ppp connection is detected, it connects to a smarthost and sends off all the email? Or is there a way to configure postfix/exim to just accept and queue the mail and sent all later when a ppp connection is made? How to go about it? Regards, Deboo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ifconfig eth0:1 up, says - Cannot assign requested address
I am not able to set up ip aliasing on eth0. Here's my eth0 configuration: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/$ ifconfig eth0 eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:8D:2C:0F:87 inet addr:172.16.16.22 Bcast:172.16.255.255 Mask:255.255.0.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:1995806 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:1 TX packets:76517 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:2293 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:229267506 (218.6 MiB) TX bytes:6883467 (6.5 MiB) Interrupt:9 Base address:0xdf00 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/$ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/$ ifconfig eth0:0 eth0:0Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:8D:2C:0F:87 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 Interrupt:9 Base address:0xdf00 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/$ sudo ifconfig eth0:0 up SIOCSIFFLAGS: Cannot assign requested address [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/$ cat /etc/network/interfaces auto lo eth0 iface lo inet loopback iface eth0 inet static address 172.16.16.22 netmask 255.255.0.0 broadcast 172.16.255.255 gateway 172.16.1.1 iface eth0:1 inet static address 10.12.81.253 netmask 255.0.0.0 broadcast 10.255.255.255 gateway 10.12.81.1 A few days ago when I had put this same configuration and was able to up eth0:1 successfully without any problem. Now with the same config, it's giving this error. Where's the problem? Second, if you see the output of ifconfig eth0 above, there ar 2293 collisions. What are these? Whatever (available) IP address I change to, I keep getting these collisions. Any help appreciated. Regards, Deboo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
aptitude's rude behaviour with postfix
I've installed postfix, but whenever I run aptitude upgrade or install anythign using the interactive aptitude interface, aptitude removes postfix and installs exim. Instead of delting exim, what else can I do to stop this behaviour of aptitude? I always have to press _ on exim and + on postfix and yet again in front of me, aptitude marks postfix to be deleted. What to do? Regards, Deboo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Larger console fonts
How to get bigger console fonts? I've compiled the kernel with all console fonts available including the SUN8x12 and other one. It's too big for a 15 inch screen. Though it sure is nice for the eyes. Isn't there any other console font smaller than this SUN font and bigger than the normal consol font? I've got an ATI Rage Pro 128 card and have framebuffer support compiled in. Anyone using bigger console fonts, I'd like to listen to their experiences. Regards, Deboo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ping shell script
How to make a script which would ping the server every few minutes to check if it's up or down and also log this status as well as time of pinging and any error messages. Regards, Deboo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
pocket knoppix?
Where to find pocket knoppix? I read it on the knoppix forum and one guy was making a knoppix mini CD for his personal use. Can I get more info on this or can I have the iso image of this pocket knoppix anywhere? I couldn't find any such distro or one which I could download. I tried searching on google and on lwn.net in the linux distributions section. Regards, Deboo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: wget and aptitude with ppp? (fwd)
On Sun, 25 Apr 2004, John Hasler wrote:
> Deboo writes:
> > How to set wget so that it can retrieve/download a list of files given to
> > it, as soon as the ppp connection starts?
>
> Put a script containing a call to wget in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d.
>
> > How to set aptitude to download and install packages that were previously
> > given, at start of a ppp connection?
>
> Please clarify. You can put an apt-get command in a script in
> /etc/ppp/ip-up.d, but it's not clear what you are trying to do.
Well, I have limited connection time to the net and so I kinda
found a way to just "queue" the packages I want to download later
when going online. I pass the package name to aptitude install and
when aptitude asks me to confirm, I press Ctrl-C. Now next time when
I go online, I just run aptitude -f install and it is ready to install
anything I previously queued in to it. I would like to do this
automatically when I go online. I guess what you suggest would
work in this case too. Now, just have to figure out what to be put
in the script. I'm not good at scripting.
Regards,
Deboo
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IMAP tunnel thru http proxy - possible?
I just have http access from office (thru a proxy gateway), and no outside POP/IMAP/SMTP access. Is it possible to somehow tunnel all the IMAP(S)/POP(S) requests thru the proxy? The proxy allows http/https and ftp only. Do point me where I can get more info about this or how to do this or some kind of howto or links to any such place. Much appreciated. Rgds, Deboo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Regarding new kind of debian FAQ concerning this list
Is there someone who has taken the pain to write an FAQ of problems/working solutions from this list? If yes, please give me the link. If not, I think there should be such an FAQ too, other than the debian faq. I can try and contribute. Regards, Deboo -- Please don't Cc: me, I'm subscribed to the list.
Debian Installation on a cybercafe PC
Hello, I need to use linux when out of office. Is there a way to remove it once I install Debian on to a PC with Windoze (2000/XP)? It should get removed even from the OS menu. If that is possible, please explain how to go about it. Regards, Deboo -- Please don't Cc: me, I'm subscribed to the list.
Re: Debian Installation on a cybercafe PC
Thanks for the reply Vibhav, That worked :-) Regards, Deboo P.S.: Pls use plain text for sending mails to lists. It's easier to read and most ppl don't like html. :-) On 2/26/07, Vibhav Sharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Deboo ^ wrote: > Hello, >I need to use linux when out of office. Is there a way to > remove it once I install Debian on to a PC with Windoze (2000/XP)? It > should get removed even from the OS menu. If that is possible, please > explain how to go about it. > are you asking "Is there a way to completely remove a Debian installation from a PC?" ? Atleast that is what I'm able to understand so answering for that. If the question is something else, could you clarify. Anyway, 'yes' you can completely remove a debian installation from a PC. (It's heresy to do so though ;)) You'll need to do 2 things 1. restore the windoze MBR. there might be other ways but this is one of the type of my head for the rest google :). use a Windoze install disk to boot into rescue mode and run 'fixmbr' http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/bootcons_fixmbr.mspx?mfr=true 2. Delete the Linux partition this I'm supposing you'd know howto as you managed to set up a dual boot environment. Just use your favourite tool .. "Partitionmagic(windoze)" / "Parted(*nix)". or I might have missed some but again 'Google' for "partitioning tools" will get you somewhere. Hope that helps, -Vibhav Sharma -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Please don't Cc: me, I'm subscribed to the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Regarding new kind of debian FAQ concerning this list
Thanks Chris, If I had some more time, I would make an FAQ, or atleast help in searching the archives and making one. It'll be the best thing if some of us could do this. But I'll surely contribute to the wiki. It's a nice thing. Regards, Deboo On 2/26/07, Chris Lale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Deboo ^ wrote: > Is there someone who has taken the pain to write an FAQ of > problems/working solutions from this list? If yes, please give me the > link. If not, I think there should be such an FAQ too, other than the > debian faq. I can try and contribute. > Some have ended up at NewbieDOC: http://newbiedoc.berlios.de/. It's a wiki, so you should find it easy to contribute anything you have in mind. -- Chris. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Please don't Cc: me, I'm subscribed to the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian Installation on a cybercafe PC
Because I need to burn CDs at times and as far as I have knowledge, Knoppix atleast won't let the CD out once booted. Regards, Deboo -- Please don't Cc: me, I'm subscribed to the list. On 2/26/07, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/26/07 03:28, Deboo ^ wrote: > Hello, > I need to use linux when out of office. Is there a way to remove it > once I install Debian on to a PC with Windoze (2000/XP)? It should get > removed even from the OS menu. If that is possible, please explain how > to go about it. Your subject mentions "cybercafe". Instead of temporarily installing Debian on a cybercafe PC, why not boot from a Live CD? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFF4vXfS9HxQb37XmcRAtx6AJ9SJYigeuGu/L3va7qdVoOm8XbKFwCdEB+I S4Z/4jOFtxLB07z0e2s9m6A= =HLPw -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian Installation on a cybercafe PC
Well, Firstly, the cybercafe guy knows me well and I installed and configuerd a debian firewall for him so he's quite friendly with me :-) Secondly, I haven't yet seen a PC bogged up due to installing or uninstalling Linux. Does that happen? And how many such cases exist? Thanks again to the guys above who gave the Linux Puppy link and about the usb stick Linux - which distro goes in to a USB stick? Regards, Deboo -- Please don't Cc: me, I'm subscribed to the list. On 2/27/07, Matthew K Poer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I gotta tell you guys, I wouldn't install/alter an OS on a PC that wasn't mine. You're asking for trouble if something goes wrong. I'm not saying you couldn't do this and get away with it, but the dreadful *what if* something went wrong and you couldn't restore Windows? Would the shop hold you accountable? An uppity clerk who didn't understand that Windows was still there, just couldn't accessed, might get angry. It's probably the worst case scenerio, but why risk it? Instead of fully installing Debian on the machine, why not just boot Knoppix or (my fav.) DSL? It's quick, it doesn't touch Windows at all, no one will every possibly know it was there once you reboot. -- Matthew K Poer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian Installation on a cybercafe PC
Thanks for the concern and warning though. I didn't take it negatively. Just that I haven't seen a Linux installation corrupting the other OS. The worst that could happen is what? Partitions getting deleted or is there anything else more devasting and disastrous and unrecoverable? Regards, Deboo -- Please don't Cc: me, I'm subscribed to the list. Well if you have the trust and permission of the owner, go for it! I was only concerned with the possibility of not being to fix the MBR, which is what I meant by not being able to restore Windows. (note I am not questioning your abilities, just being extra precautions). As far as USB Drive that will boot into Linux, DSL (Demo-Sized Linux/Damn Small Linux) is a Knoppix-Based LiveCD that is 50 megabytes in size, and is thusly very lightweight and efficient. It can also be put on a USB drive if a computer's BIOS support booting in that way. -- Matthew K Poer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
OT: Linux Interview Questions
Hello, I have some Sysadmin interviews coming up soon, so I thought the best place to ask for some sample Linux questions would be this mailing list. Can some of you post some Linux questions in general and also about Debian? May be with short answers but that's not necessary. If I can get a big list of questions, I'll try to get answers and the more confident I will be. Please also post tricky and troubleshooting questions. Regards, Deboo -- Please don't Cc: me, I'm subscribed to the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re[2]: OT: Linux or Cisco
Hello Dan, Well i do like learning Perl, if that were made easy to understand ut the 2 books I bought - The Perl cookbook ( a huge one) and another one - Learning Perl. But both have hard to understand lang. I am thinking of buying Perl CBTNuggets videos because I find CBTNuggets easy to understand. If anyone can tell me a book that has easy to understand language for non-English readers, I'd sure try it out. Regards, Deboo Thursday, April 5, 2007, 12:09:08 AM, you wrote: > On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 09:05:57AM +0530, CCNAStuff wrote: >> I already get about 4 - 5 mails everyday for sysadmin/Linux/Solaris jobs. >> But most of these want a Solaris admin or want >> me to know C/C++ or MySQL/PHP or Perl Scripting or Oracle which I do not >> know. Plain Linux Sysadmin jobs seem difficult to >> be found! > That's because a sysadmin who doesn't feel comfortable with Perl > either (a) has another favorite language or (b) is very, very > junior. > In your case, it's (b). Learning Perl is not a bad thing to do. > -dsr- -- Best regards, Deboomailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Problem mounting Ext2 CDs
Hello, I have a couple of CDs which were written on a Debian Sarge machine a few months or an year ago. I wish to access them and copy the reqd. data on another CDs but am unable to do so. Is it possible somehow to access the ext2 partition CDs on Windows? I tried using some tools that read ext2 partitions in windows but they can't recognize the CDs since windows doesn't recognize them. I'm able to see the CDs fine when booting using the debian install cd or dsl linux. But the problem is the PC isn't mine where I am so I can't copy these to the hard disk as the hdd partitions are NTFS. Please give a solution someone. Regards, Deboo -- Please don't Cc: me, I'm subscribed to the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How to boot in to Etch if grub fails to load and deletes NTLDR?
Hello, I tried Etch netinstall and after rebooting, I do not get a grub menu. Even XP seems to be gone even though I booted using knoppix and the partition was alright, except the NTLDR was missing. So had to recover using the XP CD. I have tried thsi twice and still after the reboot of Etch netinstall, the hard disk gives and OS not found type of message. I do not know if there's a workaround and I would better like to know, if I do nto install grub on the mbr. If I install it on the root partition, how would I boot in to debian normally? What do I need to do? I guess the netinstall CD can only give me a basic shell and can not boot normally in to the installed basic debian system. Regards, Deboo -- Please don't Cc: me, I'm subscribed to the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to boot in to Etch if grub fails to load and deletes NTLDR?
On 5/4/07, Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Questions for you: 1. Please describe you model and make of Motherboard, hard drive controllers, video cards and if you are using 1 or more hard drives. 2. One the off chance, did you let the installer install grub on the Master Boot Record or MBR? Or did you install it to the "root" partition of the Debian Install? 3. Are you using the released Debian "Etch" v4.0 stable (April 8th, 2007 release)? Or are you using older Debian Etch v4.0 testing? Or are you using the newer Debian v4.x Lenny "testing" installer? And the netinstall requires you to grab the "rest of the packages" from one of the Internet repositories. It will give you a basic "bootable" system for you to finish the install from. One last thing: Remember that Any version of Windows assumes it is the ONLY Operating System on the machine. It will break upon anything of the fantasy not being true... if it sees it. Hi Greg, Thanks for a quick response. Here's the info you asked for: Motherboard: Intel D102 GGC2 Processor: Intel P-IV 3.2, 256 MB DDR2 RAM VGA: Onboard ATI-Radeon Hard Disk: Samsung 80GB IDE (only one). Yep, the installed installed it to the MBR and not the root partition. I'm using Debian "Etch" v4.0 stable (April 8th, 2007 release) I'm aware of the netinstall needing to fetch more packages off the net. In fact was about to shoot another mail about the "how to configure pppoe with the netinstall" but searched and got a thread about it and got the answer. Again, I am now more interested to know if there's a way to boot in to the normal system without using a boot floppy of the begone days. Is there an option I can make a "boot CD" like the boot floppy option present in RedHat/Fedora systems towards the end of installation? Regards, Deboo -- Please don't Cc: me, I'm subscribed to the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to boot in to Etch if grub fails to load and deletes NTLDR?
On 5/4/07, Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 09:39:57AM +0530, Deboo ^ wrote: > Is there an option I can make a "boot CD" like the boot floppy option > present in RedHat/Fedora systems towards the end of installation? You can use the netinst CD as a rescue disk. Just boot with option 'rescue' or 'rescuegui'. Regards, Andrei Well I want a substitute for the "boot floppy" that used to boot the system in the days gone by. Even a 1.44 MB floppy was able to boot a normal debian system I think I did it once on a potato 2.2 system and it would happily boot off the floppy in to the normal debian and even X worked well. Is that not possible with the netinstall? Where's that boot floppy option now? Regards, deboo -- Please don't Cc: me, I'm subscribed to the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to boot in to Etch if grub fails to load and deletes NTLDR?
On 5/4/07, Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 04:46:27PM +0530, Deboo ^ wrote: >> On 5/4/07, Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 09:39:57AM +0530, Deboo ^ wrote: >>> >>>> Is there an option I can make a "boot CD" like the boot floppy option >>>> present in RedHat/Fedora systems towards the end of installation? >>> You can use the netinst CD as a rescue disk. Just boot with option >>> 'rescue' or 'rescuegui'. >>> >>> Regards, >>> Andrei >> Well I want a substitute for the "boot floppy" that used to boot the >> system in the days gone by. Even a 1.44 MB floppy was able to boot a >> normal debian system I think I did it once on a potato 2.2 system >> and it would happily boot off the floppy in to the normal debian and >> even X worked well. >> >> Is that not possible with the netinstall? Where's that boot floppy option >> now? > > you can install grub on a floppy and use that. > > > A http://newbiedoc.berlios.de/wiki/How_to_create_a_Grub_disc_to_boot_a_Debian_GNU/Linux_system 2 works (creating a floppy), 3 does not work (creating a CD), at least NFM. I can create it, but booting gets an error and I have to use the commandline interface and enter all stanzas by hand. let us know if you get that to work and how. Well finally I got the problem. It was a silly one. After installing Etch and rebooting, I get the message like No boot device detected. I booted with knoppix and checked, probably grub messed up. There wasn't any active partition set tho just before the installation it was the windows partition. Installed grub using knoppix and made the XP partition active. Now got the grub menu. All fine till here. Thanks for the links. They have useful info. I do not have a floppy dirve though. I'll try the CD option on to RW media. See ya in the next thread about pppoe. Regards, Deboo -- Please don't Cc: me, I'm subscribed to the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Etch] pppoe problem - unable to ping or lookup
Hello, I just installed Etch using the netinstall CD. Also installed pppoe using dpkg, from the CD packages manually. pppoe detects and makes the connection. ifconfig shows the ppp0 details and the ip too. But I'm unable to ping any remote servers. I am able to ping the ISP gateway though. The connection is fine using windows. I even tried with knoppix and it is the same with knoppix too. The only difference I can see in debian's connection and knoppix's is the output of "route -n" Knoppix doesn't put any local (eth0) ip in the route whereas debian does. I don't know if there's anything else that is causing the problem or if pppoeconf is outdated now and now working with my provider? I was able to connect at times using knoppix and at other times this problem occurs. Unless I am able to connect, I can not install any packages. I'm left with a minimal install of Etch. There's not even the nslookup, or host commands, nor telnet. Atleast ssh exists so I tested with that. What do I do? Regards, Deboo -- Please don't Cc: me, I'm subscribed to the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Etch] pppoe problem - unable to ping or lookup
Also note that I tried pinging remote ip addresses (like google.com's and yahoo.com's) and was unable to get any response. Regards, Deboo -- Please don't Cc: me, I'm subscribed to the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Etch] pppoe problem - unable to ping or lookup
On 5/5/07, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 05:12:25PM +0530, Deboo ^ wrote: > Also note that I tried pinging remote ip addresses (like google.com's > and yahoo.com's) and was unable to get any response. is that by ip address or by name? Well it should be clear from my mail below that I pinged their ip addresses, isn't it? BTW, I saw the problem. As soon as I connect, pppoeconf sets the nameservers in /etc/resolv.conf ... after a few seconds or in a min uet, those ip addresses vanish and get replaced by the ip 192.168.0.1. I re ran the pppoeconf and gave it the option not to update my resolv.conf but still this happened time and again. Now I changed the mode of the /etc/resolv.conf to not writable by even root and made it unmutable and still it's hapenning. Who is changing the nameserver to 192.168.0.1 and how? Regards, Deboo -- Please don't Cc: me, I'm subscribed to the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Etch] pppoe problem - unable to ping or lookup
On 5/7/07, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sun, May 06, 2007 at 07:11:34PM +0530, Deboo ^ wrote: > On 5/5/07, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 05:12:25PM +0530, Deboo ^ wrote: > >> Also note that I tried pinging remote ip addresses (like google.com's > >> and yahoo.com's) and was unable to get any response. > > > >is that by ip address or by name? > > > Well it should be clear from my mail below that I pinged their ip > addresses, isn't it? you mean above? Making an assumption about what people are doing can lead you down the wrong road. I don't need to tell you how many people would claim to be pinging ip addresses when they're not. :-P Yep I meant that above line. Ip address means an "ip address" after all not hostname. And yes may be n00bs don't make a difference between the two. I'm no expert at all but not a n00b atleast. > BTW, I saw the problem. As soon as I connect, pppoeconf sets the > nameservers in /etc/resolv.conf ... after a few seconds or in a min > uet, those ip addresses vanish and get replaced by the ip 192.168.0.1. as someone else said, if you've got 'zeroconf' (i think, not resolvconf) that could be part of the problem. I don't have either. dhcp is installed and I installed pump too since the dhcp client I saw at times unable to get any ip at boot. At other times it got without any error message. Regards, Deboo -- Please don't Cc: me, I'm subscribed to the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Etch] pppoe problem - unable to ping or lookup
On 5/7/07, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yep I meant that above line. Ip address means an "ip address" after > all not hostname. And yes may be n00bs don't make a difference > between the two. I'm no expert at all but not a n00b atleast. not implying that you're a noob, just covering the bases. :) I just meant I wan't a n00b, doesn't imply n00bs are some unearthly creatures or are someone to look down upon - I was one too at a time with debian and at that time this list and the people on irc helped lot. Thanks to people like you who wish to help. :-) > dhcp is installed and I installed pump too since the dhcp client I saw > at times unable to get any ip at boot. At other times it got without > any error message. do are you running two dhcp clients? that could cause problems for sure. Nope, just installed pump but not running it on startup. Which one is better of the two? Regards, Deboo -- Please don't Cc: me, I'm subscribed to the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[OT] SWF to MP4 converter
I would like to convert some swf video files to either xvid or mpeg4 avi. Is there any converter available for this in debian? Or even a non-deb file? Windows versions for one, ask $$ and then need to play and capture each file to record and convert. Too much time consuming. Regards, Deboo -- Please don't Cc: me, I'm subscribed to the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
francine: unable to login
There comes a neat little proggie since I think Sarge called francine which is a console login program or wrapper displaying a nice debian logo and prompt for login and password like. I was overwhelmed when I discovered it thinking it will be so nice to show it to my friends, then. Running normally, the program accepts the user and password and logs you in. But if run thru inittab using rungetty (as is suggested in the man page), whatever username I login as, it tells me to go away. The usual failed message that it gives if you just hit enter without a user/pass. It had this behaviour since the first time I discovered it and it's been like more than 2 years now. May be even 4. I don't know if the problem is with francine or with rungetty but if either has the problem, they shouldn't be included in stable then, isn't it? Any solution to the above problem anyone Regards, Deboo -- Please don't Cc: me, I'm subscribed to the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: francine: unable to login
On 5/8/07, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 08:19:15AM +0530, Deboo ^ wrote: > There comes a neat little proggie since I think Sarge called francine > which is a console login program or wrapper displaying a nice debian > logo and prompt for login and password like. cool! [message truncated] only if its a bug and someone reports it ;). Have you checked the bug reports for it? hmmm... looked pretty lightly maintained, if at all. upstream (sourceforge) looks dead and its parent, fancylogin doesn't look much better. That said, it may be that there's nothing more to be done with it... Well if I could do something, I would try to maintin it but I only know shell and perl. How do I know what that package is written in? Should be C isn't it? And well, can someone give me the link to the list of pages which require documentation. I wish to try to help there. Regards, Deboo -- Please don't Cc: me, I'm subscribed to the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [OT] SWF to MP4 converter
On 5/9/07, Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 09:47:31AM -0700, Michael M. wrote: [big snip] > ffmpeg -i goodvideo.flv goodvideo.avi. > > You can tell clive to download and convert in one go, but since I really > only convert maybe 10% (if that), I haven't bothered. You could of course just play the FLV files in mplayer or another player that uses libavcodec. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] The problem is nto flv but swf format. TO convert to flv or any other format in that matter, requires capturing of audio and video w hich takes lot of time and effort for each of the movies and then if I move away from the puter, the softwares keep capturing blank frames once the movie has ended. Bad thing! Is there any solution to this? I installed the mencoder and it has a huge man page with loads of options. Don't know if it can convert or not though. SWF to any video format is fine. Next step I could convert them all in to mp4. Regards, Deboo -- Please don't Cc: me, I'm subscribed to the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
strange "?" characters all over the screen in aptitude, mc and other ncurses programs
Using Debian Etch stable version without X. Everything works fine since installed a few days ago except that in aptitude or midnight commander or even dpkg-reconfigure screens, I get lots of question marks displayed with reverse video. What do I need so ncurses displays these correctly? I guess this has to do somethign with either whiptail or readline? Regards, Deboo -- Please don't Cc: me, I'm subscribed to the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [OT] SWF to MP4 converter
On 5/8/07, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 08:05:06AM +0530, Deboo ^ wrote: > I would like to convert some swf video files to either xvid or mpeg4 > avi. Is there any converter available for this in debian? Or even a > non-deb file? Windows versions for one, ask $$ and then need to play > and capture each file to record and convert. Too much time consuming. not at my machine to research it, but can you play them with mplayer? if so then mencoder will transcode it. in fact, again without checking it out, if you can play it with just about any cli player, then you can probably capture and encode it with mencoder. sorry I'm not more specific. mplayer and mencoder aren't able to play the swf, they say the format is not supported. I have w32coders installed. Regards, Deboo -- Please don't Cc: me, I'm subscribed to the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How do yo u install minimal X with fluxbox on Etch?
On 5/11/07, Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 02:42:31PM +0530, Deboo ^ wrote: > Even though I do not need to install X on my new Etch console system, > I would like to know how do you install X, is there some new way. > > How to install a minimal X so that if I need to run some remove X > apps, I can, with ssh. > > Regards, > Deboo Debian has an X metapackage called 'xorg' 'apt-cache show xorg' will show all the dependencies for xorg. 'apt-get install xorg' will install it. But you may want to investigate some non-X framebuffer apps like fbxine. It will display movies like xine but without X using a framebuffer. There are other fb programs. And how much space does a minimal xorg take? Regards, Deboo -- Please don't Cc: me, I'm subscribed to the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How do yo u install minimal X with fluxbox on Etch?
Even though I do not need to install X on my new Etch console system, I would like to know how do you install X, is there some new way. How to install a minimal X so that if I need to run some remove X apps, I can, with ssh. Regards, Deboo -- Please don't Cc: me, I'm subscribed to the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Best Debian packages
Is there a list of best (most used) packages in debian? Another list of all console packages in debian? I see Etch has 21 CDs ... how many have the source and how many have packages? Regards, Deboo -- Please don't Cc: me, I'm subscribed to the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How do yo u install minimal X with fluxbox on Etch?
On 5/11/07, Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 02:56:41PM +0530, Deboo ^ wrote: > On 5/11/07, Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 02:42:31PM +0530, Deboo ^ wrote: > >> Even though I do not need to install X on my new Etch console system, > >> I would like to know how do you install X, is there some new way. > >> > >> How to install a minimal X so that if I need to run some remove X > >> apps, I can, with ssh. > >> > >> Regards, > >> Deboo As always, YMMV, but this list has worked well for me. Before this box, I did the same with Sarge on a 486 with 32 MB ram, the only difference was icewm instead of xfce and no links2. Good luck. Doug. --- list of installed packages: anacron, apt-doc, apt-howto-en, apt-utils, aptitude, aptitude-doc-en, bwm-ng, bzip2, ca-certificates, console-common, console-terminus, cron, dbus-1-utils, debian-policy, debian-reference-en, discover, dmsetup, dnsmasq, doc-linux-html, doc-linux-nonfree-html, dosfstools, dselect, ed, eject, exim4, exim4-base, fdutils, grub, grub-doc, hwb, iptables, jfsutils, less, libc6-i686, libgl1-mesa-dri, libglu1-mesa, libpam-tmpdir, libpam-umask, links2, locales, logrotate, lpr, lrzsz, lvm2, lynx, mailx, man-db, manpages, mc, mdetect, members, menu, mgetty-docs, mime-support, minicom, modconf, mtools, mutt, nano, netbase, netcat, ntp, openssh-client, openssh-server, pax, pciutils, pdmenu, pinfo, ppp, pppconfig, psmisc, python, resolvconf, rsync, setserial, shorewall, shorewall-doc, sysadmin-guide, sysklogd, traceroute, usbutils, vim, vlock, wget, wipe, x-ttcidfont-conf, xbase-clients, xfce4-panel, xfce4-session, xfce4-terminal, xfce4-utils, xfdesktop4, xfonts-100dpi, xfonts-base, xfonts-scalable, xfwm4, xresprobe, xserver-xorg-video-trident Thanks for the great list. I also looked at DSL. Very nice progs come in the 50 MB plus I downloaded some utils needed for maintenance to put in mydsl extension but the 3.2 and 3.3 both fail to burn the remaster. The remaster boots in a minimal shell. If that becomes successful, then I would put the above list and some more that I have from my old sarge testing time, all console utils using apt-get I have in the mydsl. Regards, Deboo -- Please don't Cc: me, I'm subscribed to the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Best Debian packages
On 5/12/07, Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 07:10:36AM -0400, Michael Pobega wrote: > On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 04:15:45PM +0530, Deboo ^ wrote: > > Is there a list of best (most used) packages in debian? > > > > Another list of all console packages in debian? > > > > I see Etch has 21 CDs ... how many have the source and how many have > > packages? > > > > The packages on the CDs are usually in order of their popularity; The > most used packages being on CD1, second most used on CD2, etc. The whole > reason for popcon (Popularity Contest) is to decide what packages will > go on what CDs. > > So the most used/popular packages are on CD/DVD 1 of a Debian CD/DVD > set. > If you examine the jigdo images of the cds, it will say what is on the cds. From my guess, the first few cds would contain the most popular server and desktop software like xorg, gnome, kde, bash, some games. And the least of the 16,000 packages would be those in specialized area like biology, physics, electronics. There is also the new debtags feature to better catagorized the packages. But if you ask here, we can usually give you good software recommendation for solving problems [crowdsurfing in web2.0 lingo]. How do you list all the available packaes with apt-get? And all the packages for the console? Regards, Deboo -- Please don't Cc: me, I'm subscribed to the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Best Debian packages
On 5/12/07, Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 07:32:36AM +0530, Deboo ^ wrote: > How do you list all the available packaes with apt-get? aptitude in interactive mode has several ways of listing packages. > And all the packages for the console? Views -> New Debtags Browser go to 'interface - commandline' . But you need to install debtags first. I'll try that, have never done that before. BTW, somehow the reverse video "?" marks from aptitude are gone away without me doing anything. but some codes stil remain in the links browser. I tried many terminal options but still. I like aptitude and have it installed too but it doesn't show packages which apt-cache search readily does and shows longer lists than aptitude at times. Another problem is, due to my using apt. ( I like aptitude's search feature's telling if the package is already installed or not with the "i"). If I run aptitude to install something, it is ready to remove packages that I use daily, like mutt and slrn. So I do not use it. I was told not to use both, even years ago. Regards, Deboo -- Please don't Cc: me, I'm subscribed to the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[OT] Working news server
I was lookign for a free working news server access but unable to find one which allows to post, tho there are several that exist but nowadays it seems none allow to post. I used to use slrn to read news and hadn't used it in quite a whilte. Does anyone know any news server which has a decent number of ngs and also allows posting and is free to use? Searching newsbot reveals either unknown or no posting allowed. Regards, Deboo -- Please don't Cc: me, I'm subscribed to the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Best Debian packages
On 5/13/07, Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 03:02:20AM +, Tyler Smith Older versions of aptitude occasionally got confused about what was and wasn't automatically installed if you used other tools. It shouldn't happen with an up-to-date aptitude as far as I know [0], but if it does, you an easily fix this by just cancelling all the removals (e.g. with "keep-all" or pressing ":" on the group of autoremoved packages). Thanks, that worked but can/will I need to do it again and again? Regards, Deboo -- Please don't Cc: me, I'm subscribed to the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Advise on backing up files in Etch.
On 5/14/07, Roberto C. Sánchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 06:44:26PM -0600, Wesley J. Landaker wrote: > > I'd suggest considering rdiff-backup instead. It results in a plain > unencrypted and uncompressed tree, exactly like rsync, but in addition, > does real incremental backups. The increments themselves are binary diffs > and are compressed. It's much nicer than plain rsync with snapshots. > Good point. What I like about the rsync snapshots is that I can "browse" back in time. In my case, I always have hourly snapshots going back four hours, daily snapshots going back four days and weekly snapshots going back four weeks. That works out rather nicely in that it is trivial for me to compare files across snapshots. Though I have never tried rsync, I can tell what I use and it is very simple and straightforward. I use a simple shell script to backup the files in my home dir to the windows partition as well as mirror it to a remote ftp server using lftp. lftp is I think the best tool for remote backups. It supports many protocols and supports commands from a file, so can be automated compeltely. It has an option to mirror dirs either way and will only update the files which have changed. Try it out, you'll love it. Another cool console ftp client which uses arrow keys to browse is cftp. Try this out too, tho this is not for backing up. Regards, Deboo -- Please don't Cc: me, I'm subscribed to the list.
Re: Advise on backing up files in Etch.
On 5/14/07, Chris Lale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: José Santos wrote: > What application do you think its best for backing up /home files in > Debian Etch? The most robust medium is HDD. Dedicate a complete drive to backup, preferably on a different machine or an external drive. Rdiff-backup is good because you can browse the backup directly eg if you just want to examine/restore a particular file. Rdiff-backup stores reverse diffs so you can also get access to previous versions of a file. You can run Rdiff-backup as a cron job every night. Can you paste some sample rdiff output image of this? Regards, Deboo -- Please don't Cc: me, I'm subscribed to the list.
Security Breach: A zero byte file created in my home directory
I saw today that there's a zero byte file in my hoem dir with the name "Brendan" created yesterday but I couldn't search whp created it or what was the command that created it etc from any log files. I did not have a firewall yet. I am testing postfix on and off but don't keep it onlien for more than a few minutes everytime I test. Can somone have used that to login to my system? How can I search what command created that file? I installed aro-firewall and right now it's logging the arp packets too to the /var/log/messages which is filling it up. And JUST now as I am posting this, that file is GONE. I did not delete it. Even with the firewall, someone is in my computer? What do I need to do? Regards, Deboo -- Please don't Cc: me, I'm subscribed to the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Security Breach: A zero byte file created in my home directory
On 5/15/07, Vincent Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 2007-05-15 11:35:03 +0530, Deboo ^ wrote: > I saw today that there's a zero byte file in my hoem dir with the name > "Brendan" created yesterday but I couldn't search whp created it or > what was the command that created it etc from any log files. Are you sure you haven't written something containing "> Brendan" in a terminal (e.g. by pasting a selection by mistake, this sometimes happens to me, and I get 0-byte file creation because of that)? Yes am sure I did not write anything containing "Brendan" and for me that's kinda new word or grammatically incorrect as far as I can say, though it could be a name for someone. Brandon should be the word and I can never make such a typo as far as I can say. On a trivial basis, I wo't use such filename, I would rather use non-English names if needed. You can look at the history file of your shell, e.g. .bash_history if it is bash. > I did not have a firewall yet. That's not very useful under Linux, unless you installed some unsecure software or did something wrong with servers. > I am testing postfix on and off but don't keep it onlien for more > than a few minutes everytime I test. Or could this come from one of your tests? Not from a test from me. My mistake that I kept the msot easy password for a new username just to test smtp auth. > Can somone have used that to login to my system? I'd say that such file creation are often user mistakes. > And JUST now as I am posting this, that file is GONE. I did not delete > it. That's strange. Sorry for this. I was kind of worried so forgot that I saw the file in the root's home folder and not mine. That file is still there. > Even with the firewall, someone is in my computer? If someone entered your computer before you installed the firewall, this could be too late (he could have installed a rootkit, that bypasses the firefall). You can try chkrootkit to see if a rootkit was installed. I have chrootkit installed since day one. And it didn't mention any such thing. Another possibility is that you have run some program that did this file creation and deletion. No such program as far as I know. Note the output of the iptables arno-fierwall script, two lines: May 16 02:49:21 debian kernel: Connection attempt (UNPRIV): IN=ppp0 OUT= MAC= SRC=141.242.x.x DST=MY_IP_ADDRESS LEN=392 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=51 ID=61472 PROTO=UDP SPT=30349 DPT=1026 LEN=372 May 16 02:50:54 debiansite kernel: Connection attempt (PRIV): IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:00:14:85:9d:0f:b9:08:00 SRC=0.0.0.0 DST=255.255.255.255 LEN=328 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=128 ID=1294 PROTO=UDP SPT=68 DPT=67 LEN=308 What kind of connection attempt is this? Isn't the second one a broadcast packet? Regards, Deboo -- Please don't Cc: me, I'm subscribed to the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
xterm fonts
I installed a minimal X sysetm with fluxbox and xterm and two other terminal emulators: eterm and mrxvt. But all three of them give very small fonts. WIth xterm, I was able to get a reasonable font with the HUGE option in the right-click menu but I need bigger fonts. How do you exactly specify bigger fonts with xterm? I am aware it's possible with -f or -fn option but what comes after that? Say I wan a 10x20 font? it doesn't work just by typing -f 10x20 And how do you incorporate the custom xterm options in the default fluxbox menu? Is there something to edit the menu commands? Also how to use the dektop icons that DSL is able to use with fluxbox? I already installed fbdesk but it seems of no use at all or is it buggy? Regards, Deboo -- Please don't Cc: me, I'm subscribed to the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: xterm fonts
On 5/16/07, cothrige <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: * Deboo ^ ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I installed a minimal X sysetm with fluxbox and xterm and two other > terminal emulators: eterm and mrxvt. But all three of them give very > small fonts. WIth xterm, I was able to get a reasonable font with the > HUGE option in the right-click menu but I need bigger fonts. How do > you exactly specify bigger fonts with xterm? I am aware it's possible > with -f or -fn option but what comes after that? Say I wan a 10x20 > font? it doesn't work just by typing -f 10x20 You could try putting something like this in your .Xdefaults: xterm*font: 10x20 Every xterm opened will then use that font. That is how I have set my fonts, but I don't switch them around or anything, so it may not work so well for you. Thanks. This works if I already open a new xterm from within an xterm or any terminal emulator but not from the fluxbox right click XShells --> xterm. > Also how to use the dektop icons that DSL is able to use with fluxbox? > I already installed fbdesk but it seems of no use at all or is it > buggy? Perhaps you would like idesk. It used to be very good, with support for translucent icons and so on. Haven't used it lately though, so it may not be so nice these days. Will give it a try. -- Please don't Cc: me, I'm subscribed to the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Security Breach: A zero byte file created in my home directory
On 5/16/07, Vincent Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 2007-05-16 02:54:06 +0530, Deboo ^ wrote: > On 5/15/07, Vincent Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On 2007-05-15 11:35:03 +0530, Deboo ^ wrote: >> > I saw today that there's a zero byte file in my hoem dir with the name >> > "Brendan" created yesterday but I couldn't search whp created it or >> > what was the command that created it etc from any log files. >> >> Are you sure you haven't written something containing "> Brendan" in >> a terminal (e.g. by pasting a selection by mistake, this sometimes >> happens to me, and I get 0-byte file creation because of that)? > > Yes am sure I did not write anything containing "Brendan" and for me > that's kinda new word or grammatically incorrect as far as I can say, > though it could be a name for someone. Brandon should be the word and > I can never make such a typo as far as I can say. But how about a paste you didn't noticed? I don't know what terminal you use, but for those that do paste on middle click, it is very easy to paste without noticing it. The "> Brendan" could come from some mail/news message written by some user (see the 5th line of this message for instance) and ditto, it is very easy to select by mistake. Thanks for the clarity. Yep that's very possible since an unintended paste has happened quite a few times when gpm didn't paste what I copied but the previous selection from the links browser. BTW, would an intruder create an empty file Brendan, leaving this trace and clearing everything else? No, he wouldn't but was a nice warning to me to make iptables work. Sorry for the trouble to all who had to read. > Note the output of the iptables arno-fierwall script, two lines: > > May 16 02:49:21 debian kernel: Connection attempt (UNPRIV): IN=ppp0 > OUT= MAC= SRC=141.242.x.x DST=MY_IP_ADDRESS LEN=392 TOS=0x00 > PREC=0x00 TTL=51 ID=61472 PROTO=UDP SPT=30349 DPT=1026 LEN=372 > > May 16 02:50:54 debiansite kernel: Connection attempt (PRIV): IN=eth0 > OUT= MAC=ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:00:14:85:9d:0f:b9:08:00 SRC=0.0.0.0 > DST=255.255.255.255 LEN=328 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=128 ID=1294 > PROTO=UDP SPT=68 DPT=67 LEN=308 > > What kind of connection attempt is this? Isn't the second one a > broadcast packet? The second one corresponds to the BOOTP[1] protocol. I think it is normal. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootstrap_Protocol Concerning the first one, this is apparently the Calendar Access Protocol port[2]. [2] http://www.linklogger.com/UDP1026.htm How do I make iptables not log these since these are just too many and just fills up the log. Only real connection attempts should be logged. Regards, Deboo -- Please don't Cc: me, I'm subscribed to the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to clear mbr
On 5/16/07, Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, 2007-05-15 at 23:37 -0700, Serena Cantor wrote: > I am installing Win2k, which will co-exist with sarge > I believe sarge install lilo at mbr, this cause trouble for win2k's installation. > So I should clear mbr. > > which linux command should I use? dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=1 That will erase any MBR. If your drive is not /dev/hda then please use the proper one (such as /dev/hde or /dev/sda or what have you) Please remember also, that Windows REQUIRES the use of the first Primary partition and it *WILL* assume it is the ONLY operating system to be on the machine. This WILL cause you difficulty. But you can then install Etch, and be happy. I have found that W2K doesn't wipe out the grub menu tho XP does. And installing W2K over grub shouldn't cause a problem, should it? It will j ust overwrite the mbr. Is it really needed to do that dd command before installing W2K? Regards, Deboo -- Please don't Cc: me, I'm subscribed to the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Solved] Re: xterm fonts
On 5/16/07, Michael V. De Palatis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: You should run xrdb -load ~/.Xdefaults to reload the file. However, some intricacies can be involved if the program name launched from the menu is not `xterm`. Thanks for this. It worked but the only thing I played a bit with different font numbers in .Xdefaults and once it worked, I edited /etc/X11/fluxbox/fluxbox-menu and changed the xterm entry to read xterm -bg black -fg white -fn 12x24 and it worked very nicely from the menu. -- Please don't Cc: me, I'm subscribed to the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
