Re: problems with cdwriter on woody-system
On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 09:20:20 +0100, Palfalvi Richard wrote: > Hi out there! > > I 've got the following problem: I built in a Plextor-CD-Writer in my Desktop-PC > (with Woody on it) but > the machine (kernel) do not recognize it. ... > Module Size Used byNot tainted > ipt_MASQUERADE 1216 1 (autoclean) > ipt_LOG 3136 1 (autoclean) > ipt_state608 1 (autoclean) > iptable_filter 1728 1 (autoclean) > ip_nat_ftp 2944 0 (unused) > iptable_nat12660 2 [ipt_MASQUERADE ip_nat_ftp] > ip_conntrack_irc2496 0 (unused) > ip_conntrack_ftp3200 0 (unused) > ip_conntrack 12684 4 [ipt_MASQUERADE ipt_state ip_nat_ftp iptable_nat > ip_conntrack_irc ip_conntrack_ftp] > ip_tables 10432 7 [ipt_MASQUERADE ipt_LOG ipt_state iptable_filter > iptable_nat] > parport_pc 25704 1 (autoclean) > lp 6912 0 (autoclean) > sg 24452 0 (unused) > ide-scsi7488 0 > ne 6368 1 > 3c509 7968 1 > isa-pnp27432 0 [ne 3c509] > parport21728 1 [parport_pc lp] ... I think you're missing some module or other. Here's my lsmod: Module Size Used byTainted: P snd-pcm-oss39556 1 (autoclean) snd-mixer-oss 13592 1 (autoclean) [snd-pcm-oss] agpgart21032 3 (autoclean) nvidia 1630080 11 (autoclean) apm10156 1 (autoclean) snd-cs46xx 70472 2 snd-pcm60900 0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-cs46xx] snd-timer 14244 0 [snd-pcm] snd-ac97-codec 41368 0 [snd-cs46xx] snd-page-alloc 6356 0 [snd-cs46xx snd-pcm] snd-rawmidi13312 0 [snd-cs46xx] snd-seq-device 4176 0 [snd-rawmidi] snd29348 0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss snd-cs46xx snd-pcm snd-timer snd-ac97-codec snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device] soundcore 3652 6 [snd] serial 49828 0 (autoclean) isa-pnp32560 0 (autoclean) [serial] 8139too15240 1 (autoclean) mii 2400 0 (autoclean) [8139too] crc32 2880 0 (autoclean) [8139too] sg 28092 0 (unused) ide-scsi 10320 0 ide-cd 32352 0 ide-floppy 14044 0 usb-uhci 23600 0 (unused) dsbr100 4348 0 (unused) usbcore62572 0 [usb-uhci dsbr100] videodev6048 1 [dsbr100] sr_mod 15896 0 scsi_mod 58324 3 [sg ide-scsi sr_mod] cdrom 28512 0 [ide-cd sr_mod] I think you need scsi_mod and sr_mod (someone correct me if I'm wrong). I have also included the relevant bits from dmesg below. ide-cd: ignoring drive hdc hdd: attached ide-cdrom driver. hdd: ATAPI 40X DVD-ROM drive, 256kB Cache, UDMA(33) Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12 hdc: attached ide-scsi driver. scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices Vendor: PLEXTOR Model: CD-R PX-W1210A Rev: 1.10 Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 32x/32x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray I think you also need to stick "ide-cd ignore=hdc" in /etc/modutils/aliases too, (and run update-modules after) since your ide-cd modules is loaded before your ide-scsi module. Alternatiely, you can swap the order of ide-scsi and ide-cd in /etc/modules. hope that helps duck -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: problems with cdwriter on woody-system
On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 06:38:09PM +0100, Palfalvi Richard wrote: > Am Mit, 2003-11-12 um 21.37 schrieb duck: > > > I think you need scsi_mod and sr_mod (someone correct me if I'm wrong). I > > have also included the relevant bits from dmesg below. > > When I did "insmod sr_mod" or insmod scsi_mod" the errormessage was > ==> insmod: sr_mod: no module by that name found > ==> insmod: scsi_mod: no module by that name found Sorry. My mistake. I presume you're running 2.4.18-bf2.4 or some other similar pre-packaged kernel where sr_mod and scsi_mod are compiled into the kernel. Hence these modules do not need to be loaded. > How are these modules named when I work with MODCONF (I couldn't find > them in there!?) > > > I think you also need to stick "ide-cd ignore=hdc" in > > /etc/modutils/aliases too, (and run update-modules after) since your > > ide-cd modules is loaded before your ide-scsi module. > > sorry, but what do you mean with STICK "ide-cd ." in .. > > I found the aliases-file (see attachment) but how is the syntax for this > ignore-command? Is it something like options= blablabla?? OK. Since the stuff is compiled directly into the kernel you need to put the relevant options into /etc/lilo.conf instead > > Alternatiely, you can swap the order of ide-scsi and ide-cd in > > /etc/modules. > > I do NOT have any /etc/modules directory or file on my PC !?? I have no > idead why this file is missing and everything else runs fine except the > cdwriter-problem . > > So can I create it by myself or with a special command? And what should > be the exact content of it to have the right order of modules? As before, since it's all built in to the kernel, you don't really need /etc/modules. In /etc/lilo.conf I think you need following in your append line: hdc=ide-scsi ide-cd ignore=hdc And then run update-lilo (as root) after. That should make it work. -- Gee Law [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP/GPG KeyID:0x72B0AF08 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: problems with cdwriter on woody-system
On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 09:26:23PM +0100, Palfalvi Richard wrote: > Am Don, 2003-11-13 um 20.53 schrieb duck: > > As before, since it's all built in to the kernel, you don't really > > need /etc/modules. In /etc/lilo.conf I think you need following in > > your append line: > > > > hdc=ide-scsi ide-cd ignore=hdc > > > > And then run update-lilo (as root) after. That should make it work. > > I edited again /etc/lilo.conf and put the following line in: > > append="hdc=ide-scsi ide-cd ignore=hdc" > > then I run lilo as root. this worked without error BUT: > > after the reboot there seem to be no great change. > > I did a cdrecord -scanbus again and had still the error-message I > already had before :-( > > As I am booting from floppy-disk: Does the kernel read my /etc/lilo.conf > on my harddisk or is there some /etc/lilo.conf on the floppy itself. > Maybe this is the reason why it doesn't work?? The problem is that ide-cd is claiming the CD-ROM drive and CD-Writer. For example, on my machine, without the ide-cd ignore=hdc line, I get the following in dmesg: hdc: attached ide-cdrom driver. hdc: ATAPI 32X CD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, DMA hdd: attached ide-cdrom driver. hdd: ATAPI 40X DVD-ROM drive, 256kB Cache, UDMA(33) as opposed to ide-cd: ignoring drive hdc hdd: attached ide-cdrom driver. hdd: ATAPI 40X DVD-ROM drive, 256kB Cache, UDMA(33) when I do have the ignore line. The floppy disk may be a factor. I'm not sure. I don't boot off floppy disk and I don't use LILO (switched to GRUB). Check out dmesg. You should have a line similar to Kernel command line: root=/dev/hde5 ro Which will tell you what parameters are being passed to the kernel. If all that append guff doesn't come up here, edit the boot prompt by hand, i.e. when the lilo boot screen appears boot: linux append the append line from lilo.conf, thus: boot: linux hdc=ide-scsi ide-cd ignore=hdc -- Gee Law PGP/GPG KeyID:0x72B0AF08 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: simply mutt (Re: Mutt with evolution)
On Tue, 2003-10-07 at 16:25, Paul E Condon wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 11:50:58AM +0530, Ashish Ariga wrote:
> > On Sat, 2003-10-04 at 17:42, Brian Potkin wrote:
> > > On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 04:31:01PM +0530, Ashish Ariga wrote:
> > >
> > > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > Today is the first time I typed the words "mutt". I have been using
> >
> > 1. Periodic checking for pop mail ("fetch-mail") doesn't work in spite
> > of pop_* being set. Should I set spoolfile to pop:// instead ?
> >
> configure fetchmail separately from mutt, and setup mutt to look for
> incoming mail in the standard location: /var/spool/mail/ ,
> and configure it to run periodically. I use fetchmailconf to do this,
> but fetchmailconf does nasty things under sarge on my system, be warned
> if you are using sarge (and maybe sid, not know, i'm to timid to try)
>
> other ways may work as well or better, but my impression is that mutt is
> supposed to be a simple mail reader, not a means of controling other
> aspects of the mail delivery chain.
Alternatively you could bind the f12 key to fetchmail as I have:
macro index "!fetchmail\n"
fetchmailconf is working fine in sid (used it yesterday).
For running fetchmail periodically I am using gnome's inbox monitor
applet (execute fetchmail before each update). I prefer not to use the
daemon method (/etc/fetchmailrc) as this method allows running fetchmail
manually without becoming root. crontab is good too (crontab -u).
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Re: simply mutt (Re: Mutt with evolution)
On Tue, 2003-10-07 at 17:13, Mental Patient wrote: > duck wrote: > > > > Alternatively you could bind the f12 key to fetchmail as I have: > > macro index "!fetchmail\n" > > > > fetchmailconf is working fine in sid (used it yesterday). > > > > For running fetchmail periodically I am using gnome's inbox monitor > > applet (execute fetchmail before each update). I prefer not to use the > > daemon method (/etc/fetchmailrc) as this method allows running fetchmail > > manually without becoming root. crontab is good too (crontab -u). > > > > > > You dont need to be root to run fetchmail as a daemon. Use the -d > parameter when you start fetchmail and supply a time interval. It'll run > in the background as you and poll mail every N seconds. When I used > fetchmail, I would have it start in the background when I logged in. I tried doing that too. But with the applet/crontab method I can check my mail on demand without messing around with SIGUSR1. So I went with that instead. I suppose you could do a script of some sort but I'm too lazy. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: libc6 and sleep problems
On Tue, 2003-10-07 at 16:46, Ben Darlow wrote: > The version information for sleep suggests it's part of the GNU sh-utils > (version 2.0.11) but I'm not able to find a package that corresponds > with an apt-cache search. I have a sneaking suspicion that I could > remedy this particular ill if I were able to reinstall/upgrade these > utilities. > It's part of coreutils. http://packages.debian.org is helpful too for these sort of things. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dpkg -S sleep gaim: /usr/share/pixmaps/gaim/smileys/default/msn_sleep.png manpages-dev: /usr/share/man/man2/nanosleep.2.gz manpages-dev: /usr/share/man/man3/usleep.3.gz phpdoc: /usr/share/doc/phpdoc/html/function.sleep.html coreutils: /bin/sleep gaim: /usr/share/pixmaps/gaim/smileys/default/yahoo_sleep.gif gaim: /usr/share/pixmaps/gaim/smileys/default/msn_sleepy.gif perl: /usr/lib/perl/5.8.1/auto/POSIX/sleep.al phpdoc: /usr/share/doc/phpdoc/html/function.usleep.html manpages-dev: /usr/share/man/man3/sleep.3.gz coreutils: /usr/share/man/man1/sleep.1.gz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: simply mutt (Re: Mutt with evolution)
On Tue, 2003-10-07 at 18:42, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > On Tue, 07 Oct 2003 17:41:17 +0100, duck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > penned: > > > > I tried doing that too. But with the applet/crontab method I can check my > > mail on demand without messing around with SIGUSR1. So I went with that > > instead. I suppose you could do a script of some sort but I'm too lazy. > > > > You can check your mail on demand while fetchmail is running in daemon > mode simply by running fetchmail with no arguments. > Oooh so it does. Thanks for that. /off to change login script -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Incorrect system time
On Tue, 2003-10-07 at 22:50, Clive Menzies wrote: > On (07/10/03 11:22), michael montagne wrote: > > I have two knoppix systems with the same problem. The time returned by > > "date" does not match the timestamps shown in the logfiles. I've run > > "tzconfig" and changed the timezone to US/Pacific. I've used "ntpdate" > > to update the time with a valid timeserver. All indications are that my > > setup is correct. /etc/localtime symlinks to the proper file in > > /usr/share/... > > But all my cron jobs run at the wrong time and the timestamps in the > > logs are all 9 hours ahead. > > Hi > > I'm not sure if this is related but I found (I'm in London on British > Summer Time ie GMT +1) that if when configuring the base system I > selected yes to "Set Hardware Clock to GMT", Debian would be an hour > out. > IIRC Windows doesn't store time in GMT/UTC, but in local time, messing up the clock if that option is set. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ProFTPd over NAT
On Fri, 2003-10-10 at 23:23, Greg Bolshaw wrote: > Steve Lamb wrote: > > On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:48:02 +0200 > > > > Greg Bolshaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > It's a hardware router doing the NAT, I'm not use iptables locally. > > > > Oh. Uhm, odd. Most hardware routers normally catch FTP and modify it > > accordingly. > > Yeah. Surely there must be something I can do with ProFTPd to force it to use > my public IP? I don't have ProFTPd installed anymore, but maybe the bind configuration directive in combination with dyndns (or other similar service) will help? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 'advanced' printing
On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 19:35, Christian Schnobrich wrote: > Hello, > > Trying to set up my printer I came to scratching my head so much that > I'll be bald real soon now. > The device in question is a Laserjet 2100 tn, network adaptor and > additional paper tray. > > The problem isn't printing as such -- i had the first test page out in > less than five minutes. > > But I'd also like to be able and chose the input tray, toner saving mode > and media size, if possible on a per-job basis. I came across a package > called 'gpr' that claims to do just that, but it won't work for me. > Not at all -- it won't even take my ppd file. > (got that file from linuxprinting.org) I use CUPS and XPP with a Optra T610N. Feed CUPS the PPD and you're all set. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: fetchmail
On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 08:18, Joyce, Matthew wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm using Fetchmail and have a fetchmailrc in etc.
> Fetchmail starts and syslog show my messages being gathered.
>
> the problem is the messages do not end up in my home Maildir (courier-imap),
> they end up in spool somewhere.
>
exim (assuming you use exim, that is) delivers in /var/spool/mail/user
by default. I have the following in /etc/exim/exim.conf (modify the
existing local_delivery entry).
local_delivery:
driver = appendfile
group = mail
mode = 0660
mode_fail_narrower = false
envelope_to_add = true
return_path_add = true
#file = /var/spool/mail/${local_part}
directory = ${home}/Maildir
maildir_format = true
prefix = ""
It seems to do the trick. Mail gets dropped into ~/Maildir and I read it
through Courier IMAP.
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Re: problems with cdwriter on woody-system
On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 11:19:47PM +0100, Palfalvi Richard wrote: > I 've got the solution :-)) > ... > > The floppy disk may be a factor. I'm not sure. I don't boot off > > floppy disk and I don't use LILO (switched to GRUB). Check out > > dmesg. You should have a line similar to > > > > Kernel command line: root=/dev/hde5 ro > > > > Which will tell you what parameters are being passed to the kernel. If > > all that append guff doesn't come up here, edit the boot prompt by > > hand, i.e. when the lilo boot screen appears > > > > boot: linux > > > > append the append line from lilo.conf, thus: > > > > boot: linux hdc=ide-scsi ide-cd ignore=hdc > > That's it! > > As I am booting from floppy-disk (the bios of my machine doesn't > recognize harddisk over 4 GB - and mine has 40GB!) > the kernel on the floppy cannot read my /etc/lilo.conf on my harddisk > (where I put all the correct parameters) so it couldn't get them at > boottime. > > When I give the parameters after the boot-prompt it WORKS ! :-) > > Thanks a lot for your hints and your patience!! No problem - glad to be of help > Well now I have to options: > > first is always to put the parameters by hand when I will going to burn > CDs > > second: I could try to flash my bios - which I haven't been trying till > now because some people told me that this is a very tricky thing which > could destroy my motherboard resp. the bios-chip. Well, I 'll see I've flashed my BIOS before and no harm has come of it (the board wouldn't recognise PC100 DIMMs otherwise) as well as my CD-Writer. Of course, it helps if you computer is old, like mine. There must be some sort of configuration file on the floppy disk -- have you tried mounting it? You could also try recompiling your kernel. This would allow you to place the necessary parameters in /etc/modules.conf instead of in LILO. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: apt-get update not working properly 11/21/03
On Fri, 21 Nov 2003 18:00:17 +0100, red wrote: > All, Im getting this from many of my my deb boxen > > any ideas? > > > Err http://non-us.debian.org unstable/non-US/contrib Release > Could not connect to non-us.debian.org:80 (194.109.137.218). - connect > (111 Connection refused) ... http://cert.uni-stuttgart.de/files/fw/debian-security-20031121.txt ? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: lilo doesn't boot win
On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 20:00:25 +0100, LeVA wrote: > I have these lines in my /etc/lilo.conf: > > other=/dev/hdg1 > label="Win" > > When I run 'lilo', it says: > > ... > Added Win > ... > > This hdg drive, is on the motherboard's raid controller, and I can boot > from it, if I setup that in BIOS. > When I select this 'Win' line in lilo (LILO version 22.5.8), I get a > blank screen, and the system doesn't do anything. It can not boot to > win. What could be the problem? Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the Windows has to be on hda (afaik this is a limitation of Windows, not of LILO). Below is my GRUB entry (I'm not sure if it's all necessary, but it works for me). I'm sure some kind soul will post the corresponding lines for LILO. title Windows 2000 map (hd0) (hd1) map (hd1) (hd0) rootnoverify(hd1,0) makeactive -- duck -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: module serial.o loaded
On Tue, 30 Dec 2003 10:00:17 +0100, Tomas Kral wrote: ... > I have included standard serial support as a module and it gets loaded > even when I do not use modem or any other connection over /dev/ttyS. When > I unload it (manually or by the cron entry 0-59/5 * * * * /sbin/rmmod -a) > it gets back again in a few minutes and this happens on and on. ... IIRC, cupsd liked to load the serial module at startup. Try disabling the loading of cupsd and see if it still happens. duck -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: emergency: Openoffice, Fonts, what a mess
On Wed, 07 Jan 2004 05:10:07 +0100, Christian Schnobrich wrote: > On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 03:36, Kevin Mark wrote: ... > Not that simple. Some physics paper with lots of greek letters and > embedded graphis and functions and whatnot. Admittedly, I didn't belive > that Openoffice was a good means to get it done in the first place. But I > don't know any better means, either. ... I find LyX (lyx-qt) great for all my Maths papers. More symbols and entering equations is as easy as pie. duck -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What is 'cat: alsa: No such file or directory' all about?
On Tue, 13 Jan 2004 23:00:21 +0100, Simon Tod wrote: > I'm getting an error message trying to upgrade a number of packages that > looks like > > Setting up modutils (2.4.26-1) ... > cat: alsa: No such file or directory > dpkg: error processing modutils (--configure): > subprocess post-installation script returned error > exit status 1 ... IIRC, I've got this error before. I think it was because /etc/modutils/alsa didn't exist or something like that... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Is swen back?
On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 17:50:12 +0100, Andreas Janssen wrote: > Hello > > John Conover (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > >> Andreas Janssen writes: ... >> FYI, if you are running procmail in a shell account: >> >> :0 BD >> * ^(T(24gRXJ|V(oAAAI|pQAAI|psAAE|qQAAM))|(UEsDBBQ)) /dev/null >> >> in your ~/.procmailrc will catch most M$ executables in your e-mail and >> trash them. >> [...] > > Thanks, but I am connected to the internet using an analog modem, so the > way for me to get rid of them is deleting them on the server. I really > don't want to download some MB of viruses every day only to delete them > right afterwards :-) mailfilter is good for filtering out swen and the like. I have set it to delete all messages over 146888K on this email account (this is not my main account, so I don't expect to receive large attachments here anyway). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ALSA can't find modules
On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 17:50:22 +0100, Soumyadip Modak wrote: > I'm trying to setup ALSA on my unstable system. I have an nforce 2 igp > with onboard i810 compatible sound. I installed the alsa-base, alsa-utils > and alsaconf packages. But alsaconf can't detect my onboard sound, and cat > /var/log/boot | grep ALSA says: > > Fri Jan 23 20:00:53 2004: ^[[9;30]^[[14;30]ALSA detected, so aumix will > not touch the mixer settings. > Fri Jan 23 20:00:54 2004: Starting ALSA (unknown version): failed - ALSA > modules not installed > > Which package do i need to install to get the required ALSA module ? ... alsa-source (or the appropriate alsa-modules package, if you are using a precompiled kernel). If using alsa-source, read /usr/share/doc/alsa-source/README.Debian for instructions for compiling the modules. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Promise Ultra 100 TX2 (PDC20268)
On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 00:40:05 +0100, Rthoreau wrote: > On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 09:39:16PM +0100, Micha wrote: ... >> i just want to aks if the Ultra 100 TX2 is supported by debian and if >> yes can you tell me which kernel (kernel-patch) or driver i need ? ... > > Debian Sarge does support your card, you will need the testing iso to > install the proper kernel. Woody can be installed if you do not have your > drives on the card, then you can upgrade the kernel. > > www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ > > Will get you started with the testing, or Sarge information. ... It also works on Woody (3.0r0). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: installing Maple 7 under Woody
On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 05:20:06 +0100, Brad Camroux wrote: ... > I'm new to this list, and relatively new to Debian. I'm still exploring > and finding new and exciting things in the distro. MUCH better than > anything I've seen from Red Hat. > > Anyway... I need to install Waterloo Maple 7(TM) on my system, but seem to > be having trouble. I've attached a typescripts of the session in which I > tried to install. I just don't understand why I'm getting "permission > denied" for root to run an install script. ... You probably need to mount the CD with the exec option. See man mount. duck -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: email-address embedded in homemade kernels
also sprach D-Man (on Mon, 12 Feb 2001 07:13:35PM -0500): > specified in a file in /etc (that gets read on boot). I know that if > you change the name of localhost in /etc/hosts and reboot your > greeting will show the new host name. no, not true. you have to change /etc/hostname for that. > BTW, Is there a way to "reset" the hostname without rebooting? I had do precisely that: echo my_new_hostname > /etc/hostname followed by a /bin/hostname `cat /etc/hostname` martin [greetings from the heart of the sun]# echo [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1:[EMAIL PROTECTED]@@@.net -- prepBut nI vrbLike adjHungarian! qWhat's artThe adjBig nProblem? -- alec flett @netscape
Re: wav --> audio cd
also sprach John Griffiths (on Tue, 13 Feb 2001 01:02:43PM +1100): > i've got cdparanoia stripping the tracks to .wav on the HD but need > some guidance for putting them back onto a blank in a way a stero > could read. cdrecord dev=0,2,0 speed=8 fs=8M -v -dao -eject defpregap=1 -audio *.wav check the cdrecord (1.9) man page for help on the first two parameters. martin [greetings from the heart of the sun]# echo [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1:[EMAIL PROTECTED]@@@.net -- this site has moved. we'd tell you where, but then we'd have to delete you.
Re: wav --> audio cd
also sprach John Griffiths (on Tue, 13 Feb 2001 01:25:44PM +1100): > thanks, that worked a treat and it makes sense. can i ask what the > fs=8M parameter was doing? without intending to be offensive, i think RTFM is the right response. i myself learn a lot just from man pages and i really just don't want to take that opportunity away from people. so i suggest you man cdrecord and read up on it... or read on further down below where i provide the answer just in case you are actually like pressed for time (burning an audio cd...?) so the fs parameter is the fifo buffer size, and i wouldn't actually specify it. i have to because my machine is slow, so it needs more than the default 4M. try it without first, see if that works. martin [greetings from the heart of the sun]# echo [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1:[EMAIL PROTECTED]@@@.net -- heisenberg may have been here.
Re: OT: M$ Outlook Virus
also sprach William Leese (on Tue, 13 Feb 2001 01:38:16PM +0100): > "An Internet-based email worm that masquerades as a picture of tennis star > Anna Kournikova" :) we have it on campus. it's nasty. however, it's easy to disinfect and i was fortunate enough to react immediately to the first occurrence (i am one of the main campus consultants). > can someone tell me why an email client needs visual basic scripting and > java/script support when it is obviously a high security risk? can someone give me anything that micro$oft ever did which makes sense, is secure, and abides to standards??? martin [greetings from the heart of the sun]# echo [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1:[EMAIL PROTECTED]@@@.net -- "maturity is only a short break in adolescence." -- jules feiffer
Re: OT: M$ Outlook Virus
also sprach Colin Cashman (on Tue, 13 Feb 2001 01:35:57PM -0500): > I can see the sign hanging on the walls of Microsoft: > "Security, Standards, Sensibility: Choose Two." two? i think the siign rather says: "do one and we'll fire you." martin [greetings from the heart of the sun]# echo [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1:[EMAIL PROTECTED]@@@.net -- "when faced with a new problem, the wise algorithmist will first attempt to classify it as np-complete. this will avoid many tears and tantrums as algorithm after algorithm fails." -- g. niruta
Re: Pilot-link utilities???
what's your command-line? i use pilot-xfer -p /dev/ttyS0 and it works very fine. do not use /dev/cua0. > Sent from my Palm III is that why we got the email three times? :) martin [greetings from the heart of the sun]# echo [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1:[EMAIL PROTECTED]@@@.net -- never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
Re: regular expression?
also sprach William Jensen (on Thu, 15 Feb 2001 07:22:31PM -0600): > I am trying to find a regular expression that will include every file > in a directory except one named one. For example if I had a file > called index.html and then hundreds of other .html files in the same > directory, how can I do a reg expression to say "all the .html files" > except index.html? Been rack'n my brain on this one for a bit of time > and I could use some help from someone more experienced. if you can use grep, then ls | grep -v "index\.html" should do. otherwise you are facing the same problem as i was previously, which is that the grammar of regular expressions (aside from perl's) cannot treat a word as an entity which it can negate. the closest i got was "[^i][^n][^d][^e][^x]", but this will exclude all words with i as the first character, or n as the second, or d as the third... i would be very interested in a solution... martin [greetings from the heart of the sun]# echo [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1:[EMAIL PROTECTED]@@@.net -- windoze 98: useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition.
Re: changing *.wav to *.mp3
also sprach Matheson Cameron (on Thu, 15 Feb 2001 07:26:25PM -0800): > I was just wondering if their was a program for Linux > (or one that comes with Debian) that could convert > wave files to mp3's. http://lame.sourceforge.net/ martin [greetings from the heart of the sun]# echo [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1:[EMAIL PROTECTED]@@@.net -- la lune, c'est comme les canards il faut aimer caresser les chats pour avoir envie d'y aller
Re: xdm takes ages to start after X upgrade
(someone please forward this to the original poster) please try to enable an x font server as well as portmap/sunrpc services, and see if the problem persists. if it does, then no clue. if the above solves it, then welcome to my boat. we can team up to find a solution... martin [greetings from the heart of the sun]# echo [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1:[EMAIL PROTECTED]@@@.net -- . `___ (o-(o-(o-(o- (o-(o-(o- /\/| | | //\//\//\//\ //\//\//\ ` /\/\/l-+-| v_/_ v_/_ v_/_ v_/_ v_/_ v_/_ v_/_.` /\/\/|_|_|
Re: port scare
also sprach Roberto Diaz (on Sun, 18 Feb 2001 07:51:14PM +0100): > Roberto Diaz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > http://vivaldi.dtts.net > Powered by ddt dynamic DNS you really mean to change this to ddts.net. or else your "powered by" clause may cast a shadow upon ddt since "dtts.net" doesn't exist... martin [greetings from the heart of the sun]# echo [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1:[EMAIL PROTECTED]@@@.net -- breakfast.com halted - cereal port not responding.
who/finger output - billions of pts
hey all, want to help me figure something out? i am a former redhat/suse person finally having ascended to debian. there is something peculiar that i noticed which i cannot explain with my (pretty good) linux knowledge. so on either suse or debian, i use xdm to start windowmaker after login and i have some 20 or so rxvt's created for my convenience at startup. on the suse machine, the finger output with a local windowmaker session and a remote ssh login looks as follows: Login Name Tty Idle Login Time Office Office Phone madduck MaD dUCK *:0 Feb 18 10:42 Robot Lab 1-610-328x8618 madduck MaD dUCK pts/2 Feb 20 12:48 (d136.sproul.swarthmore.edu) on my debian system, finger looks as follows: LoginName Tty Idle Login Time Office Office Phone madduck MaD dUCK :0 Feb 19 16:00 (console) madduck MaD dUCK pts/0 19:16 Feb 19 16:01 (:0) madduck MaD dUCK pts/2 19:15 Feb 19 16:02 (:0) ... and a line for every terminal i opened on :0 why is this? what's different about wtmp/utmp (i presume) on suse/redhat than on debian? i don't want finger to show 20+ logins of my account when all i did was login once and opened xterms otherwise... any pointers? thanks, martin [greetings from the heart of the sun]# echo [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1:[EMAIL PROTECTED]@@@.net -- "it usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. -- mark twain
Re: who/finger output - billions of pts
also sprach Erdmut Pfeifer (on Tue, 20 Feb 2001 07:21:09PM +0100): > rxvt has a compile-time option for wtmp/utmp support. Maybe that's > where the distros differ... the same happens when i use xterm. but i just now remembered that i use aterm on suse, and with aterm, no additional utmp login is registered. so i guess your solution about the compile time support of rxvt is valid. a shame because i don't have time to roll my own and i really want to stick with dpkg. thanks though! martin [greetings from the heart of the sun]# echo [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1:[EMAIL PROTECTED]@@@.net -- "and no one sings me lullabies, and no one makes me close my eyes, and so i throw the windows wide, and call to you across the sky" -- pink floyd, 1971
Re: rxvt utmp
ah! command line option: rxvt(1): -ut|+ut Inhibit/enable writing a utmp entry; resource utmpInhibit. woohoo. martin [greetings from the heart of the sun]# echo [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1:[EMAIL PROTECTED]@@@.net -- la lune, c'est comme les canards il faut aimer caresser les chats pour avoir envie d'y aller
Re: OT - DOS vs Linux text files?
also sprach William Jensen (on Fri, 23 Feb 2001 01:35:09PM -0600): > Although...that doesn't explain why it "doesn't" happen if I create the file > in unix first and then highlight/paste to another file. In that instance > it pastes fine. Very strange. But thanks for your knowledge. pasting in unix happens through gpm/X. what vi/vim effectively gets is text input as if you had typed it yourself. vim furthermore comes with a feature to automatically indent source code according to a set of rules. if you set nosmartindent, set nocindent, set noautoindent, the paste should work just fine. set paste does this as well as disabling wrapping and some other funky stuff that could get in the way of X buffer pastes. set nopaste restores that all. martin [greetings from the heart of the sun]# echo [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1:[EMAIL PROTECTED]@@@.net -- "when I was a boy I was told that anybody could become president. now i'm beginning to believe it." -- clarence darrow
Re: Read-only Servers We Can Snoop Around on for Tips?
shell access to any box will significantly decrease security. so i don't think this is a good idea, especially because i find myself usually using configurations that are very specific to my sites. but on the upswing, doing so i learn a whole lot more than from other people's configs. that's why there are HOWTOs, man, and this mailing list - because if you need help, someone may decide to mail you configs or give you temporary shell access. i'll help if you have a specific question, i am fairly down with most unix admin concepts. so will everyone else here. a public server poses several problems - funding, maintenance, security, generality etc. martin [greetings from the heart of the sun]# echo [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1:[EMAIL PROTECTED]@@@.net -- the nice thing about windoze is - it does not just crash, it displays a dialog box and lets you press 'ok' first.
quoting emails (was: Re: *.gz)
> > > would it maybe be possible for y'all to cut quoted emails to the bare essentials before posting? jimmy's last email was 95% quoted, 3% message, 2% signature - i had to scroll two pages to see any of the new message... please do not use the quoted-reply feature unless you know what it is for! martin > zcat | less ... spawning 3+ threads, whereas zless will only spawn 2+. martin [greetings from the heart of the sun]# echo [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1:[EMAIL PROTECTED]@@@.net -- -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.12 GCS/IT d- s: a-- C++() UL+++() P+ L+++ E--- W- N+ o? K? !w O- M- V PS+(+++) PE-- Y+ PGP++ t- !5 !X R-(+) !tv b+(++) DI--(++) D++(+++) G(++) e>++ h* r+>++ :) y+>+(++) --END GEEK CODE BLOCK--
Re: Are you guys sure about that?
also sprach Robert Cymbala (on Fri, 23 Feb 2001 05:23:01PM -0800): > This question comes from LULA discussion list (linux users LA). There > someone writes that with Red Hat 7, ``up2date'' is equivalent to > apt-get update/upgrade in terms of security patches. So, switching > to debian doesn't necessarily mean better or easier security... well, except that debian doesn't have $$$ in their eyes and up2date requires a subscription for $$$ as far as i know. martin [greetings from the heart of the sun]# echo [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1:[EMAIL PROTECTED]@@@.net -- "the human brain is like an enormous fish -- it is flat and slimy and has gills through which it can see." -- monty python
Re: easy(?) kernel compiliation question
also sprach Jimmy Kaplowitz (on Fri, 23 Feb 2001 10:13:10PM -0500): > What I do is, whenever I edit a configuration for my kernel, I save > an additonal copy in /root/kernelconfig. (This works at least with > menuconfig and xconfig.) Then, whenever I need to compile a new > kernel, I load those settings in. Doing it that way should put in > any new settings that are added as well as your old ones. I imagine > it's still a good idea to check the new settings in case there's > something important, though it's less important within the same > series kernel. yup, that's exactly the procedure. okay, i am not really a kernel guru, but i have compiled *a lot* of kernels before and applied patches and took the make system apart... anyway, the procedure that i always follow is: [straight out of .zhistory] cd /usr/src tar xfz linux-2.4.2.tar.gz mv linux linux-2.4.2 ln -s !!:2 !!:1 cat /root/kernel.conf-2.4.1 > linux/.config make -C linux oldconfig dep modules modules_install bzImage cp linux/System.map /boot/System.map-2.4.2 cp linux/arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.2 vi /etc/lilo.conf lilo lilo -R linux-2.4.2 only when that worked, then do i use menuconfig to inspect the new settings. linus has yet to create a file where he lists the options that have changed over the last release... make -C linux/menuconfig dep modules modules_install bzImage cp linux/System.map /boot/System.map-2.4.2 cp linux/arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.2 cat linux/.config > /root/kernel.conf-2.4.2 lilo lilo -R linux-2.4.2 martin [greetings from the heart of the sun]# echo [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1:[EMAIL PROTECTED]@@@.net -- because light travels faster than sound, most people appear to be intelligent, until you hear them speak.
tripwire dumbness
so tripwire is at least one step towards security. fair product, fair configuration and all that, but why is it so darn stupid. so by concept, it should mail root iff changes are found. not otherwise. but i get a mail every day which states that /usr/lib/tripwire/tw.db_hostname is updated. well, doh! tripwire -initialize 76% through it hits and records the stats for that file 100% through it writes it's own file from memory of course it has changed. but doing a tripwire -update or tripwire -interactive doesn't really get rid of it. so i want that notification that the db has been updated, but i want it once. or at least i want a way to get rid of it after i acknowledged it that friday night i actually spent time at the terminal and not with my significant other. oh wait, i don't have one. anyone with a clue (pertaining to this issue)? martin [greetings from the heart of the sun]# echo [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1:[EMAIL PROTECTED]@@@.net -- "it appears that pl/i (and its dialects) is, or will be, the most widely used higher level language for systems programming." -- j. sammet
Re: A modules question
also sprach mike polniak (on Sun, 25 Feb 2001 07:06:30PM -0500): > I don't think other distros have an update-modules etc., but i > just don't know exactly how they do it. Take a look at the script for > modutils in /etc/init.d. Its one of the first scripts run from sysinit. > It runs depmod and echos "Claculating module dependencies..." > just before modprobe loads modules from /etc/modules. isn't it that if you properly configure your aliases in /etc/modules.conf that you do not need to load modules explicitly because kmod can do that automatically and implicitly? martin [greetings from the heart of the sun]# echo [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1:[EMAIL PROTECTED]@@@.net -- stay the patient course. of little worth is your ire. the network is down.
Re: Problems with tulip driver
it doesn't happen to be an ISA card, does it? i.e. do you have to worry about IRQ's ? if so, you need to compile a module or hack the kernel sources. martin [greetings from the heart of the sun]# echo [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1:[EMAIL PROTECTED]@@@.net -- windows nt crashed. i am the blue screen of death. no one hears your screams.
Re: Problems with tulip driver
also sprach Peter Jay Salzman (on Sun, 25 Feb 2001 05:49:01PM -0800): > On Sun 25 Feb 01, 8:43 PM, MaD dUCK said: > > it doesn't happen to be an ISA card, does it? i.e. do you have to > > worry about IRQ's ? if so, you need to compile a module > huh?? why?? > why not pass a kernel argument to set up the IRQ? you can do that with the > append directive with lilo. ah. see, that hasn't occured to me. wooops. > > or hack the kernel sources. > hack the kernel sources to resolve IRQ problems? > now you're just talking crazy... yeah well. :) so the card's ISA and you are passing the irq info to init via lilo, right? any hints in /var/log/syslog whether the driver loads? does the card show up in /proc/interrups and /proc/ioports? martin [greetings from the heart of the sun]# echo [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1:[EMAIL PROTECTED]@@@.net -- masochist to sadist: "hurt me!" sadist to masochist: "no!"
Re: Problems with tulip driver
also sprach Peter Jay Salzman (on Sun, 25 Feb 2001 07:02:06PM -0800): > as far as debian goes, i can understand your frustration. however, i'll > tell you this much. i've used redhat, suse and debian extensively. when it > comes to: > > updating your system > recovering from a Really Bad Thing[tm] > getting user support > > debian is orders of magnitude than redhat, and perhaps an order of magnitude > better than suse. heck, look at all the support you're getting right now > for free! :-) oh, and debian is actually linux whereas redhat/suse is redhat/suse. to hell with linuxconf and yast! as soon as you let some folks provide software to "manage" your system, they have your life in their hands. or better yet, you are at their mercy... martin > > > > Jim Wiggs four levels of full-reply-quoting??? come on guys, please use the quoting feature more wisely! [greetings from the heart of the sun]# echo [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1:[EMAIL PROTECTED]@@@.net -- never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
Re: how to view man pages.
also sprach Xucaen (on Mon, 26 Feb 2001 06:06:48PM -0800): > when I type man clear(3NCURSES) i get > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/src$ man clear(3NCURSES) > bash: syntax error near unexpected token > `clear(3' man 3 clear i know it's weird, but that's how it goes... martin [greetings from the heart of the sun]# echo [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1:[EMAIL PROTECTED]@@@.net -- you step in the stream, but the water has moved on. this page is not here.
Re: Root Password problem
also sprach Martin Marconcini (on Tue, 27 Feb 2001 02:49:25PM -0300): > > ok .. i am a little new are retriving passwords with debian or anyh > > flavor of linux My boss decided to play sysop while i was home sick > > .. so how he changes the root password .. I have the machine here .. ( > > it doesn't have a cd-rom drive ) my question how can i change the > > root password back . Thanks in advance Daniel reboot the thing, when the lilo prompt comes up, start it with init=/bin/sh where image is your kernel image alias as defined in lilo.conf, and as visible when you hit tab at the prompt. this will boot straight into a root shell from which you can change the root password without it being logged even. this is horrible and it basically means that console access to a linux machine means root rights. there are two steps that any system administrator should take IMHO, and these are disabling floppy/cdrom boots as well as setting a password on the bios, and setting lilo's timeout to 0. if this is all taken care off, then you can recover by enabling floppy boot and rescueing that system. an attacker would have to open the box and reset (or crack) the bios. martin [greetings from the heart of the sun]# echo [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1:[EMAIL PROTECTED]@@@.net -- printer not ready. could be a fatal error. have a pen handy?
Re: 2.000.000 neue Besucher für Ihre Internetseite + Ha ndylogos...
also sprach Werbefuchs (on Tue, 27 Feb 2001 09:50:59PM +): > Wir haben uns gerade Ihre Internetseite angeschaut und möchten Ihnen > folgendes Angebot unterbreiten, welches die Besucherzahlen Ihrer > Seite garantiert um 300-500 % erhöhen wird! "we have *just* looked at your webpage and would like to offer you..." this is a mailing list you dumbass! shame on them germans! (uh, wait, i am one...) anyway, rbl: i understand that it's a radical step, but if the entire world were to use vixie's grande idea, a lot of realization would go on. wasn't there this new law passed about spam being illegal? ask me, and i tell you that spam has only increased since them. sure, by law, you need to include unsubscribe info in ever spam and subject it with ADV:.*, but have you ever seen one of those, let alone one unsubscribe method that actually worked? seems to me like an aweful lot of regular politics - big fuzz, no effect. have you guys cooked up a way yet to use rbl in a qpopper/fetchmail/postfix setup? martin [greetings from the heart of the sun]# echo [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1:[EMAIL PROTECTED]@@@.net -- "i am a deeply superficial person." -- andy warhol
Re: Eek! X won't go away!
also sprach Glenn Becker (on Tue, 27 Feb 2001 04:14:48PM -0500): > I don't really know what the purpose of xdm is. There are packages to > 'prettify' it, but I just object to the whole thing. :-) well, do consider a console login and a 'startx', xlock running and you out on lunch break, while i come into your office, hit ctrl-alt-del, and scp all your confidential docs to me so that i can then exploit all this knowledge... sure you'd find out, but then it's too late. so if you dislike xdm, at least set NoZap in XF86Config! martin [greetings from the heart of the sun]# echo [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1:[EMAIL PROTECTED]@@@.net -- "there are more things in heaven and earth, horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy." -- hamlet
Re: Eek! X won't go away!
also sprach Kirrily Robert (on Tue, 27 Feb 2001 04:35:19PM -0500): > The program that's doing this is gdm, the graphical display manager. "gnome display manager" and no, not everyone is running gnome. thank god. i would suggest you set up your machine with two primary runlevels, 2 and 3, where 3 is the graphical login equivalent of 2, which means that there exists a /etc/rc3.d/xdm link but not any other xdm link in /etc/rc[0-24-6]. (you should be using filerc anyway, it's the smartest change to that stupid system V stuff i have ever seen. once this is properly set up, the line containing initdefault in /etc/inittab can be changed to 2/3 however you are liking the current month. martin [greetings from the heart of the sun]# echo [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1:[EMAIL PROTECTED]@@@.net -- first snow, then silence. this thousand dollar screen dies so beautifully.
Re: Eek! X won't go away!
also sprach Pollywog (on Tue, 27 Feb 2001 10:11:14PM +): > Where is this documented? I might want to try it. woops. DontZap man 5 XF86Config martin [greetings from the heart of the sun]# echo [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1:[EMAIL PROTECTED]@@@.net -- "and if the cloud bursts, thunder in your ear you shout and no one seems to hear and if the band you're in starts playing different tunes i'll see you on the dark side of the moon." -- pink floyd, 1972
Re: Eek! X won't go away!
also sprach John Hasler (on Tue, 27 Feb 2001 04:23:38PM -0600): > > well, do consider a console login and a 'startx', xlock running and you > > out on lunch break, while i come into your office,... > You might find it a little hard to get past the dogs on the front porch. i am so down with dogs. anyway, 'i' is the hypothetical other someone. if you work at home, that's a little different but nevertheless... > > ...scp all your confidential docs to me... > This message contains every bit of exploitable confidential information I > have on my machine. thank you for writing this. really, thanks! martin [greetings from the heart of the sun]# echo [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1:[EMAIL PROTECTED]@@@.net -- "the human brain is like an enormous fish -- it is flat and slimy and has gills through which it can see." -- monty python
disabling delivery temporarily
hey guys, qmail had a way to temporarily disable delivery to a user by setting the mail file +t. the messages would just remain locally queued. is there a way to do this with postfix? i want to screw around with some .procmailrc files and don't want to take any risks, and disabling postfix is not an option... martin [greetings from the heart of the sun]# echo [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1:[EMAIL PROTECTED]@@@.net -- the nice thing about windoze is - it does not just crash, it displays a dialog box and lets you press 'ok' first.
Re: Eek! X won't go away!
also sprach Andrew Perrin (on Tue, 27 Feb 2001 05:31:39PM -0500): > Not that I'm suggesting it, but wouldn't removing getty from consoles 1-6 > fix approach 3.) below? and you want to log into to do startx how? try it: disable tty 2-6, log in on tty1, startx, then ctrl-alt-f1 and press ctrl-c. you will be presented with a shell of the logged in user, no matter whether xlock was running or not. martin [greetings from the heart of the sun]# echo [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1:[EMAIL PROTECTED]@@@.net -- "the eternal feminine draws us upward." -- goethe
Re: Eek! X won't go away!
> OK clue me in. Whats filerc? it replaces the whole symlink /etc/rc?.d hierarchy with one simple, straight forward configuration file. try it, it seemingly converts to and from on installation and deinstallation... martin [greetings from the heart of the sun]# echo [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1:[EMAIL PROTECTED]@@@.net -- "no, 'eureka' is greek for 'this bath is too hot.'" -- dr. who
Re: Root Password problem
also sprach Ethan Benson (on Tue, 27 Feb 2001 03:42:58PM -0900): > console access to any machine regardless of OS means root rights. well, sure. > don't set lilo's timeout to 0 that makes it a royal pain to recover > the system if something goes wrong, you can't boot single user any > more and such. > > there is a better solution: > > add to /etc/lilo.conf > > password=s3cr3t > > and to the default kernel image section: > > restricted ... in which case your system would not be remotely rebootable or couldn't recover itself from a kernel panic. > > if this is all taken care off, then you can recover by enabling floppy > > boot and rescueing that system. an attacker would have to open the > > box and reset (or crack) the bios. > > or use the backdoor or backdoor password in the bios. (many of them > have this unfortunatly) that's what i meant with cracking. there isn't a password known for the bioses that i use. martin [greetings from the heart of the sun]# echo [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1:[EMAIL PROTECTED]@@@.net -- a life? where can i download that?
Re: Outlook conversion
also sprach Rob Zietlow (on Wed, 28 Feb 2001 12:15:16AM -0600): > I was wondering if anyone knew of a program that converted a .pst Outlook > file into something that a Linux email program like Kmail or Evolution can > read. I want to totally convert over to Linux, but this is a big thing > because I don't want to lose my hundreds of saved messages from the past > couple months. i spent a lot of time on this when i was in the same situation and i found the best and most reliable way to be creating an imap server, moving all your outlook mail onto there, then downloading it with fetchmail onto linux. all the tools i looked at couldn't preserve all headers or otherwise screwed with files and or attachments. now, this is obviously due to micros~1's retarded way of doing things, but it's what you got... martin [greetings from the heart of the sun]# echo [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1:[EMAIL PROTECTED]@@@.net -- never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
Re: Root Password problem
also sprach Ethan Benson (on Tue, 27 Feb 2001 11:40:50PM -0900): > when you add password and put restricted in the image section lilo > WILL NOT ask for a password UNLESS some twit is at the console trying > to type linux init=/bin/sh. if you leave it alone it boots, no > password required. if you just press enter with no image name it > boots the default image, no password required. if you type just the > default image name without any arguments it boots, no password > required. wow, i really did not know that. sorry for trying to be so witty then. martin [greetings from the heart of the sun]# echo [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1:[EMAIL PROTECTED]@@@.net -- echo '[dO%O+38%O+PO/d0<0]Fi22os0CC4BA64E418CE7l0xAP'|dc
Re: Outlook conversion
also sprach Ross Boylan (on Wed, 28 Feb 2001 02:09:40PM -0800): > The outlook .pst format is incredibly slow to work with--I found it took > hours to import and export messages using it. that's why i proposed the imap approach. fire it up friday, it may be done by next week. it took 5 days for me to convert 12 years of mail :) martin [greetings from the heart of the sun]# echo [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1:[EMAIL PROTECTED]@@@.net -- "maturity is only a short break in adolescence." -- jules feiffer
Re: how do you use a module more than once
also sprach John Galt (on Wed, 28 Feb 2001 03:33:41PM -0700): > modprobe eexpress io=io1,io2,io3 now say i had to specify irq and io in the insmod line, howto? martin [greetings from the heart of the sun]# echo [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1:[EMAIL PROTECTED]@@@.net -- "a mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems." -- p. erdos
Re: It's MY computer, not Bill's!
what is the machine going to serve? - pop3? i'd assume no - smtp yes - proxy services? yes - NAT? yes - DNS? no - DHCP? no - firewall no > I would like advice about partitioning. with 42Gb, you will be safe as follows: hda1 /boot16M hda2 your RAM size hda5 /500M hda6 /usr 10G hda7 /home29G hda8 /var 1G hda9 /tmp 1G > I would like advice about keeping W95. no! why? > I would like advice about which kernel to use. 2.4.2 works fine for me. especially the netfiltering is spiffy. > Any other thoughts, ideas, hints, suggestions, etc. we're envious. even installing debian is fun! martin [greetings from the heart of the sun]# echo [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1:[EMAIL PROTECTED]@@@.net -- "god is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh." -- voltaire
Re: It's MY computer, not Bill's!
also sprach Robert Tucker (on Thu, 01 Mar 2001 12:44:34AM -0800): > I plan to net 2 other computers to this computer. My DSL service > requires pop3 so I assume that I will have to use that for dsl and > assume I can use any type of mail for the netted computers. my question was whether you want to run a local pop3 mail server, which i doubt you will want to. your provider can't "require pop3", that's wrong. you will be perfectly able to connect to yahoo mail and/or pop3 providers out there. in fact, your provider will give you pop3 accounts on its mail server. > > - smtp yes > > - proxy services? yes > > - NAT? yes > > Don't understand what NAT is... network address translation: one official IP address, several computers on a private network like 192.168.1.0. the router that does NAT forwards requests of the internal machines to the internet, and properly directs responses from the net back to the client where the request came from. > > - DNS? no > > Ditto for DNS... (I'm looking really ignorant here... mostly because I am.) could provide a naming scheme for your internal computers. don't do it if you don't know it, it can be quite complicated. use /etc/hosts instead. > > - DHCP? no > > Again? Ditto Ditto explained in another thread: dynamic ip addresses. > > hda2 your RAM size > Docs say not much value to go above 64... Would you give me your thoughts, > experiences? i have 256 Mb of RAM and 256 Mb of swap. unless you are using some of the early 2.0.x kernels which had disabled paging algorithms, too much can not hurt. > > > I would like advice about keeping W95. > > > > no! why? > > Tickles the heck out of me... well. i'd ditch it for good and forever. > Sorry, I wasn't clear... I wondering about potato and woody and such. ah. run with potato for now, just to be sure. you can always upgrade later. but people on this list will have more experience with potato. > > we're envious. even installing debian is fun! > > Boy, Howdy... Not so sure that I can appreciate that yet. As with anything > unexplored/experienced, I tend to be cautious/apprehensive. Sometimes I just > close my eyes and jump. good call. just don't screw anything up. martin [greetings from the heart of the sun]# echo [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1:[EMAIL PROTECTED]@@@.net -- breakfast.com halted - cereal port not responding.
Re: It's MY computer, not Bill's!
also sprach Charles Lewis (on Thu, 01 Mar 2001 02:15:36PM -0800): > I've been very happy creating just 2 partitions. 1 for swap and 1 for > everything else. Simple and easy, and I have yet to regret it on any of the > systems that I have installed. I would be interested in a discussion of > possible ramifications of using this method. DoS attacks. inode numbers. reinstalling while keeping /home and /usr/local. in any case, given robert's position, the / and 2 partition approach you proposed is probably best. i believe linux and bsd should stay within a single partition if all ports are closed and the system is single-user, or within a closed trusted group like a family. as soon as ports are open, or other users use the system, the meaning and positives of separate /var, /tmp, and /home partitions should be thoroughly understood, and only then should a system be created with more partitions. i have 9 partitions on all my systems :) martin [greetings from the heart of the sun]# echo [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1:[EMAIL PROTECTED]@@@.net -- \|/ _ \|/ "@'/ , . \`@" /_| \___/ |__\ \___U_/
Re: AIM-compliant IM w/ proxy support
also sprach Matheson Cameron (on Thu, 01 Mar 2001 03:30:01PM -0800): > I was wondering if anyone knew of an AIM-compliant > instant messenger that supported proxy. I apt-got > gaim, but that doesn't appear to support the proxies. everybuddy. but you really should be using icq. martin [greetings from the heart of the sun]# echo [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1:[EMAIL PROTECTED]@@@.net -- it said "needs windoze 98 or better," so i installed linux.
latex: wrapping text around psfig's
hey, i am using psfix.sty to include some .fig converts to .eps into a latex document, and i would like to be able to wrap text around some of the images. you know what i mean: this is text. this is text. this is text. this is text. this is text. this is text. this is text. this is text. this is text. this is text. this is tex \|/ _ \|/ this is text. this is text. this is tex "@'/ , . \`@" this is text. this is text. this is tex /_| \___/ |_\ this is text. this is text. this is tex \___U_/ this is text. this is text. this is tex a silly one this is text. this is text. this is tex this is text. this is text. this is tex this is text. this is text. this is text. this is text. this is text. this is text. this is text. this is text. or the equivalent on the right side. do you have an idea on how to do this? or even an example? anticipating eternal gratefulness, martin [greetings from the heart of the sun]# echo [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1:[EMAIL PROTECTED]@@@.net -- don't hate yourself in the morning -- sleep till noon.
Re: ghost for linux?
also sprach Alvin Oga (on Thu, 01 Mar 2001 05:54:35PM -0800): > > Is there ne open-source clone or equivalent of Norton Ghost ? I want to > > ghost my debian box before fiddlin around with it.. this is the beauty about a non-obscure os: i did this many times before and i never really wanted some ghost format somewhere that i could only restore as full. so instead i used a spare machine to feed a tar cf - / output into ssh and compiled a tar file on the other side, excluding /cdrom, /floppy, and /proc. in my case, it fit onto a cdr without /home, so i burnt home separately. now, if i wanted to repartition or take a new drive, partition it, boot a boot disk, mount the harddrive appropriately, and untar into /. install lilo, and that's it. beautious! martin [greetings from the heart of the sun]# echo [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1:[EMAIL PROTECTED]@@@.net -- chaos reigns within. reflect, repent, reboot. order shall return.
Re: ghost for linux?
also sprach Alvin Oga (on Thu, 01 Mar 2001 06:16:26PM -0800): > except for partitions that are like 90% full than i dd' um ... at the expense of not being able to change partition size or file system format... > and yeah...all of the "system" is already on cdrom but guess > some like to burn a "installed cdrom"... oh well... > - hopefuly thats patched and debugged and cleaned up version you mean, a bootable cdrom? > and always check your backs before putting it aside... > like "lilo" it...after dd'ing huh? of course check your backups, but what is lilo'ing it? if it's a tar file and/or on cdrom??? martin [greetings from the heart of the sun]# echo [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1:[EMAIL PROTECTED]@@@.net -- a life? where can i download that?
Re: latex: wrapping text around psfig's
thanks to our most ambitious new prof, i have found the solution:
package wrapfig and boxedminipage:
\begin{document}
\begin{wrapfigure}{r}{3in}
\begin{boxedminipage}[f]{3in}
\begin{center}
\epsfig{file=ieee_logo.ps}
\caption{The caption of the picture...}
\end{center}
\end{boxedminipage}
\end{wrapfigure}
\noindent This is a test. This is a test. This is a test. This is a
test. This is a test. This is a test. This is a test. This is a
test. This is a test. This is a test. This is a test. This is a
[]
martin
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i'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous.
Re: ghost for linux?
also sprach Alvin Oga (on Thu, 01 Mar 2001 06:25:31PM -0800): > donno...not everybody makes a bootable cdrom for their backups... > i think its nuts...to make a cdrom backup... but..oh well... a bootable cdrom is quite hard to make... rockridge extensions and all that jazz. no, you cannot just "dd your harddisk onto the cd" (if you could dd to cdr), and expect it to boot. you'd need ramdisks et al. > taring does NOT copy teh boot info...so your disk is NOT yet > bootable till you run lilo onit... did i ever say that? tar'ing copies the file system, not the disk sectors. it's preferable to dd'ing because it is partition independent, and because it doesn't screw with bad block tables. > - dd sometimes works...sometimes not dd always works. you may be doing something wrong some of the times. martin [greetings from the heart of the sun]# echo [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1:[EMAIL PROTECTED]@@@.net -- micros~1: for when quality, reliability, and security just aren't that important!
Re: ghost for linux?
also sprach Alvin Oga (on Thu, 01 Mar 2001 06:56:33PM -0800): > never minddont bother to reply... very cooperative. martin [greetings from the heart of the sun]# echo [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1:[EMAIL PROTECTED]@@@.net -- prepBut nI vrbLike adjHungarian! qWhat's artThe adjBig nProblem? -- alec flett @netscape
Re: It's MY computer, not Bill's!
also sprach will trillich (on Fri, 02 Mar 2001 12:50:16AM -0600): > when you enter the linux world, you'll be amazed at the uptime > (167 days for my server downstairs) and perplexed at how much > there is that can be done, and how much there is to learn in > order to do it. you're about to enter a Kahuna Bigtime learning > experience that makes college finals look like pop quizzes. when > you begin to 'see the light' you'll wanna back up and start over > on occasion... i certainly have! exactly. > > > I would like advice about keeping W95. > > > > no! why? > > only for legacy stuff that linux doesn't run. but if there's > nothing there you need, ditch it. (tho a 40+gb drive will have > room even for windows 98 plus debian, i'd think.) this is where vmware comes in. you wouldn't want billy boy to affect your uptime, would you??? and if you are into linux and still feel the need to play windoze games, then buy another computer, install linux on it too, and start playing with pvm! or anything else. martin [greetings from the heart of the sun]# echo [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1:[EMAIL PROTECTED]@@@.net -- "if you stick a stock of liquor in your locker, it is slick to stick a lock upon your stock. or some joker who is slicker, will trick you of your liquor, if you fail to lock your liquor with a lock."
Re: ghost for linux?
also sprach Carel Fellinger (on Fri, 02 Mar 2001 05:52:31PM +0100): > Nah, dead simple:) using cdrecord/mkisofs/xcdroast from woody (sources) sure thing, but what about files in /var? what's /? what's "from boot to prompt?" martin [greetings from the heart of the sun]# echo [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1:[EMAIL PROTECTED]@@@.net -- never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
Re: It's MY computer, not Bill's!
also sprach Robert Tucker (on Thu, 01 Mar 2001 10:14:44PM -0800): > Ok... Now, what is vmware? And pvm? I see I have a lot of memorization to do. > I > have two other computers (both 486's) and I plan to initially net them and > leave > them W95. What is the general outline of using a Linux machine to run Windows > games? vmware allows you to run windoze on top of linux. or any operating system as a matter of fact. and pvm is distributed processing, i really just threw it in to emphasize that i don't see a place for computer games in the life of any person who is enthusiastic about linux. martin [greetings from the heart of the sun]# echo [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1:[EMAIL PROTECTED]@@@.net -- "no small art is it to sleep: it is necessary for that purpose to keep awake all day." -- friedrich nietzsche
Re: mutt editor
also sprach Marcelo Chiapparini (on Fri, 02 Mar 2001 04:05:40PM -0300): > how can I change the default editor of MUTT. I want to change it from vi to > ee. I looked in the man pages and it seems that exist an enviroment variable > EDITOR for this, but I cannot find it. > Ani help will be very welcome add the following line to ~/.bashrc (i am assuming you run bash): export EDITOR=ee martin [greetings from the heart of the sun]# echo [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1:[EMAIL PROTECTED]@@@.net -- every nonzero finite dimensional inner product space has an orthonormal basis. it makes sense, when you don't think about it.
Re: mutt editor
also sprach Marcelo Chiapparini (on Fri, 02 Mar 2001 04:29:11PM -0300): > Thank you, this option worked too. I will remain stick with this one... if you prefer ee over vi in general, then my approach will be the better one. if you only want ee in mutt, use the .muttrc approach. martin [greetings from the heart of the sun]# echo [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1:[EMAIL PROTECTED]@@@.net -- "we should have a volleyballocracy. we elect a six-pack of presidents. each one serves until they screw up, at which point they rotate." -- dennis miller
Re: ghost for linux?
also sprach Carel Fellinger (on Fri, 02 Mar 2001 08:30:56PM +0100): > /var: copy it to /tmp first? >or add rescue.bin and boot.catalog to /var? thing is: the boot process needs scratch space. log files, utmp/wtmp, pid files and all that jazz. these reside in /var, and a bootable cdrom must initialize a ramdisk which it mounts as /var. this is not always an easy process. > /?:sorry but you lost me here. the root partition. where will the root partition be? init won't accept /dev/cdrom because that's a drive, not a partition. > from boot to prompt?: I must be stupid, but I/ve no idea what you're at. what happens between loading the boot image off the cdrom until you logged in with the cdrom? where is stuff read from and where is it written to? martin [greetings from the heart of the sun]# echo [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1:[EMAIL PROTECTED]@@@.net -- "no, 'eureka' is greek for 'this bath is too hot.'" -- dr. who
ram tests
so i got a couple of pc100 sdram dimms sitting 'round and i don't know if they work. i have this linux box sitting here which i want to use to test the things, but i don't know what software to use. do you know of any hardcore ram test software for linux which will do read and write tests on the ram of a machine? thanks, martin [greetings from the heart of the sun]# echo [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1:[EMAIL PROTECTED]@@@.net -- xerox does it again and again and again and ...
ram tests
http://reality.sgi.com/cbrady/memtest86 looks nice. martin [greetings from the heart of the sun]# echo [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1:[EMAIL PROTECTED]@@@.net -- "when faced with a new problem, the wise algorithmist will first attempt to classify it as np-complete. this will avoid many tears and tantrums as algorithm after algorithm fails." -- g. niruta
Re: ghost for linux?
also sprach Peter Jay Salzman (on Fri, 02 Mar 2001 12:14:36PM -0800): > true. it's called initrd. rd for ramdisk. > > > utmp/wtmp, > > what does the kernel have to do with utmp and wtmp? why would the kernel > care about who is logging into your system? okay, i see where you are coming from. from the initial discussion, i thought someone wanted to create a cdrom that is bootable and the root file system all at once. it is possible to do this, in fact, i run a couple of firewalls that aren't anything but a mounted cdrom (or a r/o floppy in some cases). but let me tell you this: making a cd bootable given a harddisk with a valid root partition may be easy. creating a "rescue cd" that is all in one and doesn't need a harddrive takes a lot of time and many many cdr's! martin [greetings from the heart of the sun]# echo [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1:[EMAIL PROTECTED]@@@.net -- the file you need might be very useful. but now it is gone
Re: [PLUG] ram tests
also sprach Michael Leone (on Fri, 02 Mar 2001 04:00:38PM -0500): > There is memtest86. You might do better to bring them to a local computer > shop, and ask them to leave it in their RAM tester overnight. I know PCM, on > Walnut St. in Philadelphia, will do this for you. found memtest86. i think it'll do. college students don't have time to seek out professionals ;> martin [greetings from the heart of the sun]# echo [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1:[EMAIL PROTECTED]@@@.net -- "this week dragged past me so slowly; the days fell on their knees..." -- david bowie
Re: Eek! X won't go away!
also sprach kmself@ix.netcom.com (on Fri, 02 Mar 2001 02:28:39PM -0800): > $ startx ; exit ... which you can probably suspend... even more dangerous because now the user doesn't even notice that the system has been accessed over lunch. i think you can suspend. i am not sure. martin [greetings from the heart of the sun]# echo [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1:[EMAIL PROTECTED]@@@.net -- may the bluebird of happiness twiddle your bits.
Re: correct files
also sprach ktb (on Fri, 02 Mar 2001 05:42:20PM -0600): > Snag, at minimum - > rescue.bin > root.bin ... except the last time that i tried root.bin from like 5 different locations, dd'ing and loop mounting it several times, it never turned out to be a valid filesystem and i could never use it. maybe this is fixed by now. i'd be interested to know. martin [greetings from the heart of the sun]# echo [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1:[EMAIL PROTECTED]@@@.net -- i'd rather be riding a high speed tractor with a beer on my lap, and a six pack of girls next to me.
Re: an awful mutt thing just happened
also sprach Peter Jay Salzman (on Fri, 02 Mar 2001 05:15:35PM -0800):
> On Fri 02 Mar 01, 8:06 PM, MaD dUCK said:
> > are you running mail as root??? don't do that!
> just out of curiosity, why? i've never heard a compelling reason
> for that
the simplest reason: because you shouldn't ever be logged in as root
for longer than a particular task takes.
the more elaborate stuff (and this is only an extract):
- vi has a feature which can extract commands out of files to execute
them while the file is being loaded. this is useful, if for instance
you are a ts=2 person, but that one program's config file isn't
usable unless ts=8. so vi reads the file, executes the command, then
displays the file. if this command is something well though of which
executes something through a shell, and someone sent a mail to root
containing this command, then it would be executed possibly even
without root noticing it.
- there were a couple of problems with sendmail relating to malformed
reply-to addresses which included a pipe symbol. basically the core
of it was that you'd put a script of the form
#!/bin/sh
install -o-0 -g=0 /usr/bin/ksh /tmp/blech
chmod u+s !!:4
sendmail $*
into /tmp/[EMAIL PROTECTED] and then send mail to root with a reply-to
address similar to "laure|@yahoo.com".
if root were to reply, the script would be executed, creating
/tmp/blech as a setuid shell that would immediately give root
rights...
you should just set up a user account ('p' in your case), put
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
into ~root/.forward
and define a procmail filter to store all your root mail in
~p/mail/root.
> > echo $MAIL
> /var/spool/mail/p
the problem is this: /var/mail/p contains your mail spool, but mutt
may possibly be moving read mail somewhere else.
if i were you, i'd create a file ~/mail/inbox, define a simple
procmail recipe like:
:0
$HOME/mail/inbox
point your .forward to /usr/bin/procmail, change MAIL to ~/mail/inbox
permanently, and add every single one of the mailboxes you have to
.muttrc as follows:
(e.g. for mailboxes in, work, debian:)
mailboxes +in
mailboxes +work
mailboxes +debian
where '+' will expand to the path you specified with the "set folder"
clause in .muttrc.
keeping all your mail in /var's spool isn't necessarily all too great
i find - issues are locking, privacy, backing up, and others.
> > and in mutt, after you hit c, type '=' (no quotes) and then hit tab
> > once or twice. report what happens.
>
> this works. didn't know about this keybinding. thanks! :)
'=' expands to the mail folder, just like '+' above. and tab
completion works all the way throughout mutt.
> i'm curious if a bunch of other messages start appearing. do you have
> woody? when was the last time you upgraded?
nah. potato. i need a working system, not too much in need of the
cutting edge.
martin
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"no small art is it to sleep: it is necessary
for that purpose to keep awake all day."
-- friedrich nietzsche
Re: ghost for linux?
also sprach Carel Fellinger (on Sat, 03 Mar 2001 02:17:44AM +0100): > reading your reaction gives me the eery feeling I've missed what > this thread was about. To me that's the single most horrible thing > that comes from mailing-lists instead of plain good old netnews, > you loose context easily. I know I should delve into mutt's > capacity to filter messages for me, but I've never found how I can > have mutt toggle display af read messages, which is easy in any > decent newsreader. i'd use procmail instead as it is more the unix philosophy to let that program which is dedicated to mail filtering do the mail filtering, and mutt, the mail reader, do the mail reading. however, aside from threading and the tab key to skip between unread messages, i don't think mutt can filter or sort by message status. i usually just delete messages i read on mailing lists (they are archived), or move messages to a read folder when i took the appropriate action (reply etc...) martin [greetings from the heart of the sun]# echo [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1:[EMAIL PROTECTED]@@@.net -- redistribution of this email via the micros~1 network is prohibited.
Re: correct files
also sprach Robert Tucker (on Fri, 02 Mar 2001 05:41:24AM -0800): > After reading the above ref. I am curious as to getting on-line > after I boot into Linux. Do I need to have some files available > beyond rescue.bin and root.bin? dbootstrap is mentioned as the > program to use to continue installing. Do I need this file or is it > part of the two previously mentioned files? Do I need a copy of > fdisk or is it contained within rescue or root? Do I need the depends on your network card and/or how you access the web. i myself have never used the boot disk set because i always had the cds, but i think debian's pretty good about making an FTP install really easy. > base-x.bin files? AND... Can I download the files to my current C: > drive, replace the C: drive with a new hard drive as C: and then > plug the old C: back into the system a D: drive and access it and > the files it contains? first of all, forget the C: and D: windoze stuff. IDE harddisks in linux are /dev/hda (primary master), /dev/hdb (primary slave), /dev/hdc (secondary master), and /dev/hdd (secondary slave). to answer your question: of course you can. leave the old drive out as long as you are doing weird stuff with the new drive, and once it's back and running, then proceed to put the old drive in on the secondary channel (or as a slave), add entries similar to the /etc/fstab file on the old harddrive to the new /etc/fstab file, properly changing the partition name with respect to the third character: a, b, c, or d. create a directory /like /root/old and then set this to be the mount point of the old root. mount all other partitions as children of /root/old, and you should be all set. if i were where you are i'd tell you to bribe me with a beer and i'd show you. it's a whole lot of theory that needs to be understood first. but once you get the hang, well, you got the hang! do you have means of accessing the web / this mailing list even if you were to completely screw over your system? martin [greetings from the heart of the sun]# echo [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1:[EMAIL PROTECTED]@@@.net -- "it appears that pl/i (and its dialects) is, or will be, the most widely used higher level language for systems programming." -- j. sammet
Re: Setting Up Partitions:Solved,Thanks
also sprach Ian Thomas (on Fri, 02 Mar 2001 06:42:29PM -0800): > > > hdb1 (this is already my freebsd swap partition) > > > hdb2 /boot (this will be a primary partition) > > > hdb3 (extended partition containing logical > slices) > > > hdb5 / > > > hdb6 /var > > > hdb7 /tmp > > > hdb8 /home > > > hdb9 /usr just a quickie, but given the geometry of a disk, you'd want the high usage partitions up front, so i think you should move usr to hda6 and shift the others... martin [greetings from the heart of the sun]# echo [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1:[EMAIL PROTECTED]@@@.net -- "the eternal feminine draws us upward." -- goethe
apt-get testing
hey, how can i use apt-get to get something like postfix-0.0.20010228-1 out of testing? i have testing/main and some other testing's in my sources.list, but apt-get --download-only install testing/postfix doesn't work, and apt-get --download-only install postfix reports that postfix is already installed... martin [greetings from the heart of the sun]# echo [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1:[EMAIL PROTECTED]@@@.net -- "declared guilty... of displaying feelings of an almost human nature." -- roger waters, 1979
Re: It's MY computer, not Bill's!
also sprach will trillich (on Fri, 02 Mar 2001 09:47:12PM -0600): > ANY operating system? would that include mac os x? :) > seriously, would it do mac os 8 or 9? don't quote me on it, but i don't think so. i should have said - any operating system that runs on x86. martin [greetings from the heart of the sun]# echo [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1:[EMAIL PROTECTED]@@@.net -- si vis pacem, para bellum
Re: Setting Up Partitions:Solved,Thanks
also sprach kmself@ix.netcom.com (on Fri, 02 Mar 2001 08:08:47PM -0800): > Advice I've heard (no emperical evidence myself) is that higher > utilization is best placed toward the physical midpoint of the disk > radius. This tends to equalize head movement in and out. Unless heads > park in either an inboard or outboard position? mh. interesting. this is news to me... martin [greetings from the heart of the sun]# echo [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1:[EMAIL PROTECTED]@@@.net -- "Even if you persuade me, you won't persuade me." -- aristophanes
Re: correct files
also sprach John Galt (on Fri, 02 Mar 2001 09:44:32PM -0700): > Have you discussed this with the boot-floppies team? nope. haven't had a chance yet. "the last time i tried" was yesterday night. martin [greetings from the heart of the sun]# echo [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1:[EMAIL PROTECTED]@@@.net -- "declared guilty... of displaying feelings of an almost human nature." -- roger waters, 1979
Re: Eek! X won't go away!
also sprach kmself@ix.netcom.com (on Fri, 02 Mar 2001 08:42:15PM -0800): > $ startx & exit > > ...which is what I use (do what I mean, not what I say). I can assure > you there are no console sessions on this box. this will kill my X immediately and log off. the only way i got it to work is by startx, ctrl-alt-f1, suspending, and then exiting. obviously though, X remained suspended... not even startx & sleep 10 && exit works. martin [greetings from the heart of the sun]# echo [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1:[EMAIL PROTECTED]@@@.net -- "i'm always frank and earnest with women. uh, in new york I'm frank, and in chicago I'm ernest." -- the long kiss goodnight
Re: Eek! X won't go away!
also sprach Jonathan Gift (on Sat, 03 Mar 2001 08:06:30AM +0100): > 1. XDM? just to get this back... why *not* xdm? you don't have to write functions, it is guaranteed to work, and it's really not inconvenient. martin [greetings from the heart of the sun]# echo [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1:[EMAIL PROTECTED]@@@.net -- windoze 98: useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition.
Re: an awful mutt thing just happened
also sprach will trillich (on Sat, 03 Mar 2001 04:17:57AM -0600): > mailboxes `echo ~/Mail/[a-z]*` oh. nice. didn't know muttrc can execute `` martin [greetings from the heart of the sun]# echo [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1:[EMAIL PROTECTED]@@@.net -- "and if the cloud bursts, thunder in your ear you shout and no one seems to hear and if the band you're in starts playing different tunes i'll see you on the dark side of the moon." -- pink floyd, 1972
mail2web interface?
hey, on a couple of servers, i am running postfix with qpopper to provide POP3 service to my clients. since i have disabled telnet and would much rather not give shell access the first place, i would like to meet my clients' demands of remote mail access with a nice mail2web interface, which works on /var/mail/* or ~/.mail. do you have any pointers? martin [greetings from the heart of the sun]# echo [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1:[EMAIL PROTECTED]@@@.net -- "i wish there was a knob on the tv to turn up the intelligence. there's a knob called 'brightness', but it doesn't seem to work." -- gallagher
check for file change in subtree
hey, wondering if anyone can help me out... not using anything but scripting methods, how could i check a file system subtree for changes? i need "immediate rsync", so ideally the script "trigger-on-change" would operate like: while true; do trigger-on-change ~/data # trigger-on-change returns only if there is a change to a file, a # new file, or a file deleted in the subtree rooted at ~/data. rsync -avzutC -e ssh --progress --delete ~/data/ $dest done any ideas? [greetings from the heart of the sun]# echo [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1:[EMAIL PROTECTED]@@@.net -- micros~1: for when quality, reliability, and security just aren't that important!
moving/duplicating the mail spool
hi, i am running a postfix/qpopper/task-imap/imp mail server and i would like to keep user's mail spools in $HOME rather than /var/mail. is this possible while still sticking to the debian package system? alternatively, is there a way to keep the mail spool in /var/mail but also to duplicate it in $HOME? the reason is that i would like users to be able to use imp, but i obviously, pop3 downloads either delete mails of the server, or imp/imap access causes mail to be marked as read, and the pop3 client won't download them anymore. any ideas? martin [greetings from the heart of the sun]# echo [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1:[EMAIL PROTECTED]@@@.net -- yesterday it worked. today it is not working. windows is like that.
mod-ssl
so i established my own certificate authority and have a server certification - and now i would like to create a new server certificate, signed by the same ca. however, when i do mod-ssl-makecert, i get: diamond:/etc/apache# mod-ssl-makecert What type of certificate do you want to create ? 1. dummy(dummy self-signed Snake Oil cert) 2. test (test cert signed by Snake Oil CA) 3. custom (custom cert signed by own CA) 4. existing (existing cert) Use dummywhen you're a vendor package maintainer, test when you're an admin but want to do tests only, custom when you're an admin willing to run a real server and existing when you're an admin who upgrades a server. Normally you'd use "test" (2) > 4 SSL Certificate Generation Utility (mkcert.sh) Copyright (c) 1998-2000 Ralf S. Engelschall, All Rights Reserved. Using existing custom certificate [EXISTING] __ mkcert.sh: No certificate file given my ca.crt is in /etc/apache/ssl.crt/ca.crt, and the key is in /etc/apache/ssl.key/ca.key any help appreciated! martin [greetings from the heart of the sun]# echo [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1:[EMAIL PROTECTED]@@@.net -- micro$oft windoze: proof that p. t. barnum was correct.
Re: missing char-major-10-135
also sprach Osamu Aoki (on Mon, 05 Mar 2001 08:47:50AM -0800): > Which paxckage is responsible with this problem of missing "rtc"? > > Anyother package? > Boot floppy(IDE)? it's a kernel option. i have rtc as a module and then alias char-major-10-135 rtc in my /etc/modutils somewhere. martin [greetings from the heart of the sun]# echo [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1:[EMAIL PROTECTED]@@@.net -- "know what I hate most? rhetorical questions." -- henry n. camp
Re: moving/duplicating the mail spool
also sprach Robert Waldner (on Mon, 05 Mar 2001 07:08:55AM +0100): > I´ve simply moved the spool-files to /home/$user/mailspool and symlinked > them from /var/spool/mail but YMMV, I´m using stock sendmail. well, except this is more of a hack and postfix will replace the symlinks with real files - security issues... so it's not really a solution. martin [greetings from the heart of the sun]# echo [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1:[EMAIL PROTECTED]@@@.net -- "god is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh." -- voltaire
Re: simple shell question
also sprach Sven Burgener (on Mon, 05 Mar 2001 06:34:44PM +0100): > Can one determine *when* a file was moved into a specific directory? I > guess not, as that means making a change to the directory in question > and not the file. if you are only interested in one-level depth, then an addition/change/deletion in a directory changes the directories mtime. so you can check on that... this does not work recursively though. martin [greetings from the heart of the sun]# echo [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1:[EMAIL PROTECTED]@@@.net -- "in contrast to the what-you-see-is-what-you-get philosophy, unix is the you-asked-for-it,-you-got-it operating system." --scott lee
Re: missing char-major-10-135
also sprach Osamu Aoki (on Mon, 05 Mar 2001 12:28:29PM -0800): > I guess this is to /etc/modutils/aliases. yes > But who is responsible making this entry? Me or some postinst script? nope. you are dealing with kernel options. that's underneath debian. so it's all you. > I only edit /etc/modules to enable some modules manually (scsi-ide,...) > but I was not anticipating to do this manually to /etc/modutils/aliases. > I thought that was only when I compile my kernel. Is this IDE kernel thing? not IDE at all. it is a kernel thing. you either alias char-major-10-135 off, or you roll your own kernel with module rtc.o. martin [greetings from the heart of the sun]# echo [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1:[EMAIL PROTECTED]@@@.net -- "mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images." -- jean cocteau
