from:"kenneth"

Hi,

I began having problems today connecting via lftp to a website I work on

some commands work (I can 'cd' around), but 'ls' hangs every time

in debug mode lftp shows:

<--- 230 User zinextre logged in.
---> PWD
<--- 257 "/" is current directory.
---> PBSZ 0
<--- 200 PBSZ 0 successful
---> PASV
<--- 227 Entering Passive Mode (192,168,0,105,196,230).
 Address returned by PASV seemed to be incorrect and has been fixed
 Connecting data socket to (12.129.206.105) port 50406
---> LIST
Interrupt
---> ABOR
(where "Interrupt" is me finally hitting Ctrl-c)

I connected via 'mc' & everything was fine. I tried other hosts with 
lftp & everything was fine. I tried a telnet session and got similar 
results:

220 ProFTPD 1.2.4 Server (ProFTPD) [host05.ipowerweb.com]
331 Password required for zinextre.
pass ***
230 User zinextre logged in.
syst
215 UNIX Type: L8
cwd www
250 CWD command successful.
list
425 Can't build data connection: Connection refused
I notice somebody else has already filed a bug about this this morning 
against lftp:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=185268

but does it really look like a lftp bug?

I get the feeling it's something more fundamental...

it looks like my lftp package was updated on the 7th -- probably since 
I've last used it:

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# ls -la /var/cache/apt/archives | grep ftp
-rw-r--r--1 root root   475928 Mar  7 16:03 
lftp_2.6.5-1_i386.deb

this is sid.

any thoughts?

oh.. my 'telnet' is actually telnet-ssl



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Re: Error with apache and MS Proxy

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yeah that's how it should be. Because our website is hosted external :(,
that's the 212.129.243.94, and we want people to be able to download files
from our server which is hosted internal (212.129.243.94). It must be easy
access so that's why I choose to do it this way.
a lot of people expect http://www.xyz.com & http://xyz.com to be the 
same, why not just setup a dedicated download.xyz.com, or if they're 
downloading over ssh keep it on port 22? even if only people internal to 
your organization are downloading these files, and you can teach them 
how you want them to do it, that decision effects how the whole Internet 
can or cannot connect to your sites. Are you sure the people who have 
trouble connecting aren't just typing the http://xyz.com version?

I just de-installed lib-net perl, and now everything is working..:)!!
BUT, now I have the problem that I think libnet-perl is crucial for the
os, and the programs it depens on (libapache-asp-perl, libapache-mod-perl,
libhtml-tree-perl, libnet-perl libwww-perl).
Does anyone know where I can download a stable release of libnet-perl?
in the stable release of debian?

are they trying to download over ftp or ssh? or is it fish or something 
like that? there are some ftp protocol proxy questions in the 
configuration, are you sure you answered the questions correctly? I've 
never used a FTP proxy or anything like fish, so I can't help you with 
that, but maybe if you tell the list what you entered for each of the 
ftp-related questions

FTP Proxy Firewall:
Use Passive mode for connections outside LAN?:
Use Passive mode for connections within LAN?:

Or what problems I face when I run my system and webserver without
libapache-asp-perl, libapache-mod-perl, libhtml-tree-perl, libnet-perl
libwww-perl.
All my webpages run php4.
PHP should be fine, but I wouldn't remove libnet-perl; it would be a 
pretty clumsy web server if you run any Perl CGI scripts or allow others 
to. libnet-perl provides a lot of common modules:

Description: Implementation of Internet protocols for Perl
 libnet contains Perl implementations of the following protocols:
 Net::FTP (RFC959), Net::SMTP (RFC821), Net::Time (RFC867 & RFC868),
 Net::NNTP (RFC977), Net::POP3 (RFC1939). It also contains various
 utility functions for implementing new protocols.
aside from those you listed a bunch of libxml stuff will also be removed:

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# apt-get -s remove libnet-perl
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  axkit axkit-language-query libapache-mod-perl libapache-request-perl
  libcgi-xml-perl libcgi-xmlform-perl libdbix-xmlmessage-perl
  libfrontier-rpc-perl libhtml-tree-perl libnet-perl libsoap-lite-perl
  libsoap-perl libwww-perl libxml-checker-perl libxml-dom-perl
  libxml-encoding-perl libxml-node-perl libxml-parser-perl libxml-perl
  libxml-rss-perl libxml-sax-expat-perl libxml-twig-perl libxml-um-perl
  libxml-xpath-perl libxml-xslt-perl
I don't see any threat of OS-level stuff being removed, so I don't see 
how it could be effecting your system that fundamentally

the problem could still be completely unrelated to libnet-perl, today I 
began having ftp connection problems to one particular host only using 
some sid clients, I started a new thread called "ftp bug?"



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Re: ftp bug?

nate wrote:
this is a symtom of using active ftp vs passive ftp behind a NAT box.

try putting your lftp client in passive mode, it should work then.

hi nate,

I don't think so..

here's that output from lftp in debug mode again:

<--- 230 User zinextre logged in.
---> PWD
<--- 257 "/" is current directory.
---> PBSZ 0
<--- 200 PBSZ 0 successful
---> PASV
<--- 227 Entering Passive Mode (192,168,0,105,196,230).
 Address returned by PASV seemed to be incorrect and has been fixed
 Connecting data socket to (12.129.206.105) port 50406
---> LIST
Interrupt
---> ABOR
it is definitely *trying* to enter passive mode there.. the "Address 
returned by PASV seemed to be incorrect and has been fixed" message may 
be mucking it up though(?)

anyway, the client is set to use it:

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ lftp
lftp :~> set -a
set ftp:passive-mode on
 (trimmed a million other options...)
What I'm most confused by is mc working, but telnet behaving the same as 
lftp. I've confirmed mc is using passive mode as well. telnet in pasv mode:

230 User zinextre logged in.
syst
215 UNIX Type: L8
cwd www
250 CWD command successful.
pasv
227 Entering Passive Mode (12,129,206,105,190,135).
cwd ..
250 CWD command successful.
list
 (hangs forever)
421 No Transfer Timeout (300 seconds): closing control connection.
Connection closed by foreign host.
I did do a firmware upgrade for my NAT router recently.. possibly since 
last using lftp. I just happen to have a fresh replacement for it too 
because it was crashing a lot last week. The firmware upgrade didn't 
stop the crashes, but 2-3 days later they did stop. I've been waiting 
for the crash to happen again before replacing it, but I'll go ahead and 
do it now and see if it changes anything

thanks.

> never used lftp myself so I'm not sure how to do it, it should be
> pretty easy, most ftp clients just typing 'passive' or 'pasv' at the
> ftp prompt is enough
>
I've been using lftp so far as a kind of drop-in ms cmd 'ftp' client 
replacement, but discovered a really nice looking mirror/reverse mirror 
option in the man page this morning that I wanted to try out

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Re: ftp bug?

 
 oops. 

 sorry about the direct mail. sometimes I forget I'm using mozilla
 


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Re: ftp bug?

nope, swapping in the new router made no difference -- with either
firmware version

nate wrote:
the remote site, 12.129.206.105, is THAT behind a NAT box?
no. I spoke to the hosting company earlier today & they just suggested
"use passive mode". when I discovered the open bug against lftp I
figured it probably wasn't them and posted here

have you tried lftp on another site?
yes, it works fine on every other site I've tried, except the example
provided in bug 185268. My problem site isn't my domain, so I can't give
out a login, but the behavior is the same with the anonymous site from
the bug report:

ftp://peipa.essex.ac.uk/ipa/src/vision

can anyone get a directory listing from that server using sid + lftp (or
telnet-ssl)?

I tried it on ftp.kernel.org and it worked fine. > try it there to make sure it's not the remote server causing the
problem.

worked fine.

aha,

I watched some of the traffic in ethereal, and noticed right about here:

---> PBSZ 0
<--- 200 PBSZ 0 successful
all the commands and responses turned into stuff like \200|\001\003\001

..right after an "AUTH TLS" command

so I'm guessing lftp (and telnet-ssl) supports SSL if it's supported
remotely and either I've got to configure some kind of certificate or
client support to connect to those sites (or find the switch to turn it
off in the client), or the remote servers have SSL support enabled but
mis-configured.

all the other servers I'd tried were a mix of nt or proftp servers I'd
setup without SSL

sure enough, the option to turn it off is :
lftp> set ftp:ssl-allow no
works fine after that.
thanks for your help, nate

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Re: Gnucash errors in unstable

David Z Maze wrote:
Have you looked at the Debian Bug Tracking System?  There are, in
fact, bugs against both gnucash (184683) and libgwrapguile1 (184681)
about this.  (http://bugs.debian.org/)  Poking around suggests that
the actual bug involves (use-modules (g-wrap gw-wct)) in
/usr/share/gnucash/guile-modules/gnucash/main.scm, which probably
causes Guile to try to load libgw-wct.so as a dynamically loaded
module; thus, libgw-wct.so doesn't show up as a direct dependency of
gnucash, but libgwrapguile1 doesn't provide the .so link since this
generally isn't done for real library packages.
I just did a fresh sid install of gnucash

After applying the fixes from the bts (first I just created the symlinks
per 184845, then installed all of libgwrapguile-dev per 184681/184683)
I can start the application by cancelling out of the initial popup box,
or selecting "create a new account". If I select the "View new user
documentation" option however, or enter the app & then select the
tutorial documentation from the "Help" menu, a little "help topics"
window pops up for a second, and it all crashes with this:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ gnucash
Backtrace:
In unknown file:
   ?: 0* [gnc:find-doc-file "help-search-index.db"]
   ?: 1* [gnc:find-localized-file "help-search-index.db" #]
   ?: 2  (letrec ((locale-prefixes #)) (letrec (#) (loop #
base-directories)))
   ...
   ?: 3  [loop ...
In /usr/share/gnucash/guile-modules/gnucash/main.scm:
 329: 4*  [locale-prefixes]
 319: 5   (let* ((locale #) (strings #)) (reverse (cons "C" strings)))
 321: 6*  (cond ((not (string? locale)) ()) ((equal? locale "C") ()) ...)
/usr/share/gnucash/guile-modules/gnucash/main.scm:321:21: In expression
(cond (# ()) (# ()) ...):
/usr/share/gnucash/guile-modules/gnucash/main.scm:321:21: missing or
extra expression
I think I get the gist of David's message, but I can't tell if this is
whole new bug, a little drek leftover from the old bug, or some other 
problem specific to me (locales again?)

Does anybody else experience this?

thanks,
Kenneth
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Re: /var Permissions

2003-03-23 Thread Kenneth Dombrowski

Barak Korren wrote:
I've recently attempted to move my /var directory form the root 
filesystem to a new filesystem I created on my hardrive, unfortunately I 
neglected to command "cp" to preserve the files' ownerships while 
copying the files form the old /var directory.

While most things seem to be working fine with this (mosf of the files 
were seem to have been owned by root:staff anyway) some things dont:

1. Exim - I managed to get it to work by chownning the /var/log/mail and 
/var/spool/mail to mail:adm and chawning the users' spool files to be 
owned by the users - I hope this is the way it should be.
2. MySql - It doesn't work. it seems to be a problem with 
/var/run/mysqld/mysql.sock but it doesn't seem to be there, maybe I 
should change the directoryes permission? to what?
3. ws-imapd Seems to be working _very_ slow when accessing a user's 
primary spool file, can it have a problem with creating a lockfile or 
something?

Is there somwhere I can find a good specification to what the file 
permissions should be?
Is there a tool that can fix it all up for me?

Hi Barak,

I don't know the answers to your questions, but in case you're still 
having problems (or just want to compare for reassurance), here's some 
output from my laptop; it runs exim & mysql, but not uw-imap

I do run courier-imap on a different machine & it creates lockfiles as 
root:root in /var/run/courier

it's been a little while since I installed it anywhere, but iirc the 
'tiger' package will look at all your file permissions in a security 
context & mail you a report (among other things). I don't know of 
anything that will automatically change them for you, short maybe of 
'apt-get --reinstall mysql-server', etc.. though even that might respect 
your "custom" permissions(?)

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# ls -la /var
total 56
drwxr-xr-x   14 root root 4096 Jan  6 15:25 .
drwxr-xr-x   21 root root 4096 Mar  3 15:02 ..
drwxr-xr-x3 root root 4096 Mar 23 06:27 backups
drwxr-xr-x9 root root 4096 Mar  5 09:07 cache
drwxr-xr-x   15 root root 4096 Jan  7 03:28 games
drwxr-xr-x   35 root root 4096 Mar  9 10:08 lib
drwxrwsr-x2 root staff4096 May 27  2000 local
drwxrwxrwt5 root root 4096 Mar 23 06:27 lock
drwxr-xr-x   10 root root 4096 Mar 23 09:24 log
drwxrwsr-x2 root mail 4096 Mar 18 04:02 mail
drwxr-xr-x6 root root 4096 Mar 23 09:33 run
drwxr-xr-x5 root root 4096 Feb  8 04:25 spool
drwxrwxrwt5 root root 4096 Mar 23 09:35 tmp
drwxrwxr-x5 root root 4096 Mar 23 09:23 www
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# ls -la /var/spool
total 20
drwxr-xr-x5 root root 4096 Feb  8 04:25 .
drwxr-xr-x   14 root root 4096 Jan  6 15:25 ..
drwxr-xr-x5 root root 4096 May 12  2002 cron
drwxr-xr-x3 root root 4096 Feb  8 04:25 cups
drwxr-x---5 mail mail 4096 Sep 13  2002 exim
lrwxrwxrwx1 root root7 May 12  2002 mail -> ../mail
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# ls -la /var/spool/exim
total 20
drwxr-x---5 mail mail 4096 Sep 13  2002 .
drwxr-xr-x5 root root 4096 Feb  8 04:25 ..
drwxr-x---2 mail mail 4096 Oct 16 06:17 db
drwxr-x---2 mail mail 4096 Mar 23 10:03 input
drwxr-x---2 mail mail 4096 Mar 23 10:03 msglog
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# ls -la /var/mail
total 108
drwxrwsr-x2 root     mail 4096 Mar 18 04:02 .
drwxr-xr-x   14 root root 4096 Jan  6 15:25 ..
-rw-rw1 kenneth  mail95031 Mar 18 04:02 kenneth
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# ls -la /var/log
total 14548
drwxr-xr-x   10 root root 4096 Mar 23 09:24 .
drwxr-xr-x   14 root root 4096 Jan  6 15:25 ..
drwx--5 root root 4096 Oct 15 11:47 Bastille
-rw-r--r--1 root root30257 Mar 23 10:18 XFree86.0.log
-rw-r-1 root root 1818 Mar 22 20:34 acpid
drwxr-xr-x2 root root 4096 Mar 23 06:27 apache
-rw-r-1 root adm  4116 Mar 23 11:38 auth.log
-rw-r-1 root adm403889 Mar 23 06:47 auth.log.0
-rw-r-1 root adm 81873 Feb  2 06:47 auth.log.1.gz
drwxr-xr-x2 root root 4096 Mar 23 06:27 cron-apt
-rw-r-1 root adm   562 Mar 23 10:18 daemon.log
-rw-r-1 root adm 90877 Mar 23 00:58 daemon.log.0
-rw-r-1 root adm 36154 Feb  2 06:02 daemon.log.1.gz
-rw-r-1 root adm   156 Mar 23 09:35 debug
-rw-r-1 root adm 33840 Mar 22 23:41 debug.0
-rw-r-1 root adm 26595 Feb  2 00:20 debug.1.gz
-rw-r--r--1 root root 8570 Mar 22 20:34 dmesg
drwxr-s---2 mail adm  4096 M

Re: Verify that spamc is using Bayesian?

2003-10-18 Thread Kenneth Dombrowski

On 03-10-18 12:47 -0400, ScruLoose wrote:
> 
> There's an FAQ on SA's homepage that says something about making sure that
> spamd is running as the same user that sa-learn is run as. This makes sense,
> but how do I find out whether spamd is running as the user the mail is being
> delivered to... And does anyone know what the behaviour is by default for
> that package?
> 

I didn't look @ that faq, but it sounds like you might be experiencing
the same problem I had about six weeks ago. I configured spamc to be
called by exim & to run as user mail, but then ran sa-learn & set up all
of my mutt aliases & etc to use ~/.spamassassin as user kenneth. Since
I'm the only user on the machine, I just created an sa group & set up a
system-wide configuration as described in this thread

http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2003/debian-user-200309/msg00011.html

I think what most people do for systems with more users is to scan
incoming mail from the users' ~/.procmailrc, which does seem a little
cleaner wrt custom BAYES rules

Kenneth

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Re: Knoppix-like install of Debian?

2003-10-19 Thread Kenneth Dombrowski

On 03-10-19 16:14 -0500, Kent West wrote:
> (You're leaving the stable lines in so you can get packages that haven't 
> seen any development since stable and therefore aren't in the unstable 
> branch, and you're leaving in the security line to get security patches, 
> which are applied to stable when problems are found but not necessarily 
> incorporated immediately into the unstable packages).

You don't have to leave in references to stable. Maybe if you're
pinning, but to convert completely to unstable, the unstable repository
is a complete distribution. Also, I believe security upgrades in
unstable are just uploaded directly to the repository, so you don't need
to keep the security line.

Kenneth

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Re: Apache config issue - 403 from Alias

2003-10-19 Thread Kenneth Dombrowski

On 03-10-19 19:32 -0500, Ian Melnick wrote:
> Anyone have an idea on why this isn't working? I copied the icon
> example, and the permissions are 755 throughout (and icons work), so why
> won't this?
> 
> Alias /doc/ /usr/share/doc/
> 
>   Options Indexes MultiViews
>   AllowOverride None
>   Order allow,deny
>   Allow from all
> 

Maybe try lowercasing the 'A' in the 'Allow from all' line & The 'O' in
'Order'?

my /doc/ Alias uses a  block rather than :


  order deny,allow
  deny from all
  allow from 127.0.0.0/255.0.0.0
  allow from 192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0
  IndexIgnore .??* *~ *# HEADER* RCS CVS *,v *,t
  Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews


Kenneth


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Re: fc-cache error: Cannot load default config file

2003-10-26 Thread Kenneth Dombrowski

On 03-10-26 08:30 +0100, LeVA wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> This is my third post on this list with this problem, hope that now 
> someone notice it :)
> So my first question is what does fc-cache do?
> My second is, why does it write "Fontconfig error: Cannot load default 
> config file" when I run it.
> Why doest all kde applications writes the same error message when I run 
> then from console (to see the output).
> My bonus question is why does all kde apps runs this fc-cache when they 
> start? Do they realy start it, or this error message is accidentally the 
> same between the programs?
> 

Many of your questions can be answered by reading 'man fc-cache'

Answers to the rest can likely be found @
http://bugs.debian.org/fontconfig, there were some pretty
widely-reported problems with that package in unstable last week, which
should be fixed by now. 

hth.
Kenneth


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Re: (newbie) Still no network...

2003-11-13 Thread Kenneth Dombrowski

On 03-11-14 00:41 -0500, ScruLoose wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 11:48:45PM -0500, Kevin Krumwiede wrote:
> > > BTW, is there a program analogous to RedHat's chkconfig?
> 
> Never heard of it, but there are some nifty kernel-building helper tools
> in Debian.  The above-linked guide assumes you want to use them.
> make-kpkg in particular.
> 

I never used RedHat much either, but I think that's more analogous with
update-rc.d

try 'man update-rc.d', Kevin



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[OT] custom dyndns.org domain & local bind

2003-01-20 Thread Kenneth Dombrowski



Hi,

Sorry for the OT post, but a lot of people here seem to be using the 
dyndns.org services. I am intending to transfer my domain to my home 
server this week, and have set up a test domain to make sure everything 
goes smoothly. The only thing I've found so far that isn't going 
smoothly is I can't access my webserver from within the LAN.

I am trying to set up a http://dev.domain.tld VirtualHost as well as a 
http://www.domain.tld VirtualHost, which was working fine in Apache from 
the LAN when I was serving the DNS myself, and is reportedly working now 
from without the LAN

I have a netgear dhcp-serving & port-forwarding router that sends all 
traffic on 80, 25, & 143 to 192.168.0.3. I think either the router is 
getting confused somehow with a request going out from one client, being 
referred back to itself, and forwarding the request to the other client, 
or it's the reverse-dns mis-match (my dynamic IP is actually 
66-108-241-38.nyc.rr.com) getting in the way. (the apache logs on the 
server don't register a request)

My question is, how does everybody else deal with this?

Should I continue to serve LAN DNS locally with at least some kind of 
CNAME record? I'm running Bind 8 & I don't really understand 9's 
"zones", but should I upgrade & create a LAN zone?

If it is a limitation of the router & I should just go back to serving 
the DNS to the LAN entirely, how do I get my Bind server to "forget" 
about the dyndns.org servers? I tried putting my original db file back 
in place, updating the SOA timestamp & reloading bind, but it didn't 
change anything.

the test domain is "kuboaa.org" & some interesting diagnostics from 
within the LAN follow ("enlil" is a laptop @ 192.168.0.2).

Thanks,
Kenneth



kenneth@enlil:~$ ping dev.kuboaa.org
PING kuboaa.org (66.108.241.38): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 66.108.241.38: icmp_seq=0 ttl=250 time=4.6 ms
64 bytes from 66.108.241.38: icmp_seq=1 ttl=250 time=0.2 ms
64 bytes from 66.108.241.38: icmp_seq=2 ttl=250 time=0.2 ms

--- kuboaa.org ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 3 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max = 0.2/1.6/4.6 ms


kenneth@enlil:~$ traceroute kuboaa.org
traceroute to kuboaa.org (66.108.241.38), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets
 1  * * *
 2  * * *
 3  * * *
 4  * * *
 5  *

kenneth@enlil:~$ wget http://www.kuboaa.org
--12:32:04--  http://www.kuboaa.org/
   => `index.html'
Resolving www.kuboaa.org... done.
Connecting to www.kuboaa.org[66.108.241.38]:80... failed: Connection 
refused.

kenneth@enlil:~$ dig dev.kuboaa.org

; <<>> DiG 9.2.1 <<>> dev.kuboaa.org
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 3611
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 5, ADDITIONAL: 5

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;dev.kuboaa.org.			IN	A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
dev.kuboaa.org.		37451	IN	CNAME	kuboaa.org.
kuboaa.org.		48	IN	A	66.108.241.38

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
kuboaa.org.		80775	IN	NS	ns2.mydyndns.org.
kuboaa.org.		80775	IN	NS	ns3.mydyndns.org.
kuboaa.org.		80775	IN	NS	ns4.mydyndns.org.
kuboaa.org.		80775	IN	NS	ns5.mydyndns.org.
kuboaa.org.		80775	IN	NS	ns1.mydyndns.org.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
ns2.mydyndns.org.	167051	IN	A	209.69.32.138
ns3.mydyndns.org.	167051	IN	A	64.71.191.27
ns4.mydyndns.org.	167051	IN	A	212.100.224.176
ns5.mydyndns.org.	167051	IN	A	66.151.188.46
ns1.mydyndns.org.	167051	IN	A	66.151.188.45

;; Query time: 10 msec
;; SERVER: 192.168.0.3#53(192.168.0.3)
;; WHEN: Mon Jan 20 12:41:53 2003
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 241


kenneth@enlil:~$ dig -x 66.108.241.38

; <<>> DiG 9.2.1 <<>> -x 66.108.241.38
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 31827
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 2

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;38.241.108.66.in-addr.arpa.	IN	PTR

;; ANSWER SECTION:
38.241.108.66.in-addr.arpa. 86373 IN	PTR	66-108-241-38.nyc.rr.com.

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
241.108.66.in-addr.arpa. 86373	IN	NS	nycdns1.nyc.rr.com.
241.108.66.in-addr.arpa. 86373	IN	NS	nycdns2.nyc.rr.com.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
nycdns1.nyc.rr.com.	10774	IN	A	24.29.99.32
nycdns2.nyc.rr.com.	10774	IN	A	24.29.99.34

;; Query time: 1 msec
;; SERVER: 192.168.0.3#53(192.168.0.3)
;; WHEN: Mon Jan 20 12:37:53 2003
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 158




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Re: [OT] custom dyndns.org domain & local bind

2003-01-20 Thread Kenneth Dombrowski

Matthew Daubenspeck wrote:

Kenneth Dombrowski said:


I am trying to set up a http://dev.domain.tld VirtualHost as well as a
http://www.domain.tld VirtualHost, which was working fine in Apache from
the LAN when I was serving the DNS myself, and is reportedly working
now  from without the LAN




Do you have the Apache virtual host listening to the machine's local ip?
(192.168.0.x)

I am also using dyndns.org and a netgear router, and I have no problems
whatsoever.



Yes, the virtual hosts all listen on 

I still have some domains set up for the LAN only (they belong to me, 
but are not registered with dyndns.org yet), these are VirtualHosts with 
the same apache configuration and they work fine, as shown below..


kenneth@enlil:~$ wget http://www.music-db.net
--14:22:29--  http://www.music-db.net/
   => `index.html.1'
Resolving www.music-db.net... done.
Connecting to www.music-db.net[192.168.0.3]:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 4,110 [text/html]

100%[>] 4,110  3.92M/s 
ETA 00:00

14:22:29 (3.92 MB/s) - `index.html.1' saved [4110/4110]

kenneth@enlil:~$ wget http://dev.music-db.net
--14:22:39--  http://dev.music-db.net/
   => `index.html.2'
Resolving dev.music-db.net... done.
Connecting to dev.music-db.net[192.168.0.3]:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 4,110 [text/html]

100%[>] 4,110501.71K/s 
ETA 00:00

14:22:39 (501.71 KB/s) - `index.html.2' saved [4110/4110]



also, supporting the reports I've had that the outside world can see 
http://www.kuboaa.org, something's turned up in the server's logs:

ENKIDU:/var/www/kuboaa.org# ls -l ./*/log
./dev/log:
total 32
-rw-r-1 root adm 0 Jan 12 06:25 access.log
-rw-r-1 root adm 0 Jan 12 06:25 error.log

./www/log:
total 44
-rw-r-1 root adm   383 Jan 20 13:40 access.log
-rw-r-1 root adm 0 Jan 12 06:25 error.log

ENKIDU:/var/www/kuboaa.org# cat www/log/access.log
66.123.187.68 - - [20/Jan/2003:13:40:16 -0500] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 200 4110 
"-" "Mozilla/4.5 RPT-HTTPClient/0.3-2"
66.123.187.68 - - [20/Jan/2003:13:40:16 -0500] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 200 4110 
"-" "Mozilla/4.5 RPT-HTTPClient/0.3-2"



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Re: [OT] custom dyndns.org domain & local bind

2003-01-20 Thread kenneth dombrowski

Matthew Daubenspeck wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 02:47:38PM -0500, Kenneth Dombrowski wrote:
>
>>Yes, the virtual hosts all listen on 
>>
>>I still have some domains set up for the LAN only (they belong to me,
>>but are not registered with dyndns.org yet), these are VirtualHosts with
>>the same apache configuration and they work fine, as shown below..
>
>
> So what exactly isn't working? I can see the Debian test page at
> http://www.kuboaa.org/
>
>

right, but I can't.

I get a "connection refused" message when I try to access it from the
LAN with nothing showing up in the server's apache logs about my
request, and nothing logged by iptables on the server that I can find.

That's why I suspected the router.. mine is a "RP614" model

maybe it's my laptop's firewall somehow blocking the request, let me
reboot into windows

...nope, connection refused here too

Here are all the diagnostics from windows I could think of

C:\WINNT\system32>tracert dev.kuboaa.org

Tracing route to kuboaa.org [66.108.241.38]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1   <10 ms   <10 ms   <10 ms  66-108-241-38.nyc.rr.com [66.108.241.38]

Trace complete.

C:\WINNT\system32>telnet dev.kuboaa.org 80
Connecting To dev.kuboaa.org...Could not open a connection to host on 
port 80 : Connect failed

C:\WINNT\system32>telnet 66.108.241.38 80
Connecting To 66.108.241.38...Could not open a connection to host on 
port 80 : Connect failed

If I telnet to "192.168.0.3 80" I can type "GET /" and it sends back the 
default VirtualHost's index page (not the one I'm after)

any thoughts? further diagnostics? is it back to making my local bind 
authoritative for the LAN? even though nobody outside should be able to 
connect to it, it seems like a really broken way to try to fix it...

what model netgear router are you using, Matthew?

& by the way, thanks for your help so far

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Re: [OT] custom dyndns.org domain & local bind

2003-01-20 Thread Kenneth Dombrowski

Matthew Daubenspeck wrote:


Try adding:

192.168.0.x	www.yourdomain.com

to /etc/hosts

Sometimes these routers aren't able to give the correct IP when it
comes to accessing stuff behind the NAT.



Thanks again, Matthew!

That works fine for now, since my laptop is the only LAN client & I 
rarely take it out into another network.

I'm cc'ing the list so the workaround is archived


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Re: Mozilla and Galeon not working anymore in Sid

2003-02-08 Thread Kenneth Dombrowski

On 03-02-08 20:20 +0100, Riccardo Gusso wrote:
> Hi,
> after today's upgrade of my sid both Mozilla (mozilla-browser_1.2.1-9)
> and Galeon (galeon 1.2.7-6) don't work anymore: the first starts (I can
> see the process with ps aux) but no windows appear on the desktop, the
> second starts and continues to open continuously new windows, so that it
> is impossible to use it.

 this happened to me last week. 

 if it's the same problem I had, moving your ~/.mozilla out of the way 
 will let you start it up for that one session.. but don't spend a lot of
 time setting your preferences, because once you close the browser it
 starts all over again

 a thread called "mozilla won't start" from ~2 weeks ago points out
 bug#171911 (which I haven't read myself..) & mentions the workaround is
 to uninstall galeon and reinstall mozilla-browser, which is what I did
 & it worked for me.

 Kenneth

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Re: procmailrc question

2003-09-15 Thread Kenneth Dombrowski

On 03-09-15 03:10 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi DU,
> I'm new to procmail and I wondered if you can point me in the right
> direction.
> this is my .procmailrc
> --
> PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin
> MAILDIR=$HOME/mail  #you'd better make sure it exists
> DEFAULT=$HOME/mbox   #completely optional
> LOGFILE=$MAILDIR/from   #recommended
> :0 c
> $MAILDIR/backup
> :0
> * ^To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> $MAILDIR/nylxs-announce
> :0
> * ^To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> $MAILDIR/debian-user
> -
> my debian-user mail is being saved as individual message. How do I tell it
> to save it to a mailbox? like $HOME/mail/debian-user or
> $HOME/mail/debian-user/mbox.

Hi Kevin,

I'm using the Courier-style Maildirs with something like this:


DEFAULT=$HOME/Maildir/
# to invoke programs from .procmailrc, you may need
SHELL=/bin/sh
# directory for storing procmail config + logs
# (note procmail does not expand "~", you must use "$HOME")
PMDIR=$HOME/Procmail
# -
# Once MAILDIR is set, procmail will cd to it
# and all relative paths will be relative to $MAILDIR
# -
MAILDIR=$HOME/Maildir
### sort spamassassin-flagged msgs
:0
* ^X-Spam-Flag: YES
.spam-caught/
# messages that fall through all your procmail recipes are 
# delivered to your default INBOX
:0
* ^TO_debian-(user|isp|apache)
.IN-debian/
:0
* ^TO_nylug-talk
.IN-nylug-talk/


hth,
Kenneth


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Re: Mysql question.

2003-09-15 Thread Kenneth Dombrowski

On 03-09-15 07:13 +0200, Mark Maas wrote:
> Ah yes, I tried those doc's first.:
> menem:/home/mark# mysqladmin -u root password 'secret'
> mysqladmin: connect to server at 'localhost' failed
> error: 'Access denied for user: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' (Using password: NO)'
> 
> And I swear to you, I never set a password! I freshly installed mysql, and I
> cannot access it. Could this be a DNS problem?
> 
> (When I ping localhost, I do get respons from 127.0.0.1) I'm at a loss...
> 

Hi Mark,

somebody mentioned to you the skip-networking option the other day, as
well as the README.Debian file; can you post the result of 

$ grep networking /etc/mysql/my.cnf 

just to verify that that line has been commented out

(if, as you say, all you did was freshly install mysql, it won't be
listening on the network; see the docs you were pointed to)

if you have already commented out that option, try 

$ nmap localhost | grep mysql

just to verify that it is, in fact, listening.. it should be using port 
3306 by default

if it doesn't show up, you may want to try it again after stopping
whatever firewall you may be running

hth,
Kenneth



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Re: sa-learn and spamassassin's markup

2003-09-26 Thread Kenneth Dombrowski

On 03-09-25 11:28 -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote:
> Does sa-learn recognize and ignore spamassassin's markup?  I just

Hi Vineet,

I can't give you an authorative answer, but I seem to have gotten good
results just pointing it to my Maildir, SA 2.35 (i think..) headers & all..

The --dir option supports globbing too, since I have separate maildirs
for SA-caught & SA-missed spam, I was able to do something like:

$ sa-learn --spam --dir ~/Maildir/.spam-*/cur

& then

$ sa-learn --ham --dir ~/Maildir/.clients.*/cur
$ sa-learn --ham --dir ~/Maildir/.people.*/cur

etc, etc

It still takes some time to churn through, but I was able to learn it
something like 6,000 messages with 1/2 dozen commands, fairly unattended

Kenneth


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Re: TV tuner cards?

2003-09-27 Thread Kenneth Dombrowski

On 03-09-26 21:00 -0400, Carl Fink wrote:
> I'm also thinking of getting a TV tuner card for same, for the CardBus slot. 
> This would be able to receive broadcast TV, accept NTSC and S-Video inputs,
> and in an ideal world also receive FM.
> 

Hi Carl,

Not exactly a recommendation, but to help you figure out your options:

I have a Hauppauge model 621 WinTV-USB-FM card which has all of those
features; you'd have to get a CardBus-USB adaptor, I guess. 

Linux drivers are from usbvision.sourceforge.net; I'm not sure if it's
the support for my device in particular, or the state of the driver in
general, or just my inability to configure the thing correctly, but the
picture looks pretty crappy. I have screenshots of xawtv using the
0.3.3-test3 version of usbvision at http://www.ylayali.net/usbvision. A
couple of months back, I upgraded to CVS (I see they're @ test5 now), 
but noticed no difference

I never tried the FM support

> Oh, and it should be cheap.  In this ideal world.
> 

It was about $80 from microwarehouse or tigerdirect.. one of those
places

> Anyone have experience using such a card on a laptop running Debian? 

I'm using mine on a Vaio

Kenneth

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Re: Fonts in gvim

2003-09-27 Thread Kenneth Pronovici

> > gvim only offers up a seemingly small subset of fonts on my system
> > (compared to what Mozilla shows, for example).
> 
> *Which* gvim?  A GTK1 gvim is going to use any XLFD font you care to
> name... a GTK2 gvim is only going to use ones served by fontconfig
> (Xft2).
>  
> > I'd like to use the font that my xterm uses, but I'm not sure what
> > it's using.  I'm not setting the xterm font in .Xdefaults
> 
> Unless you tell it otherwise, xterm is more than likely using the
> 'fixed' font alias.  Check its app-defaults file to be sure.
> 
> If you're running xterm using anti-aliased fonts, then it could be using
> anything available to Xft1, which is pretty much, again, any XLFD.
> 
> You've got standard X fonts, you've got Xft1-rendered fonts, and you've
> got Xft2-rendered fonts.

[Please CC me on replies; I can't always keep up with -user.]

Let's assume here he's talking about the latest GTK2 vim-gtk package in
unstable.  

For years (with Debian's standard vim-gtk package and with my own GTK
builds of Vim under Solaris and AIX), I've been using:

  :set guifont=-misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-C-60-ISO8859-1

to get (as far as I can tell) the same small "6x13" font I get when I
pop an xterm with:

   -fn "-misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed-*-*-100-*-*-c-*-iso8859-8"

As of my latest 'apt-get update' tonite, though, this no longer works,
presumably because that standard xterm font is not an "Xft2-rendered"
font.

I personally don't care about fancy antialised fonts in my text editor.
I just want my "6x13" font back, and I don't want to have to build my
own version of vim just to get it.

Any suggestions on how to get that xterm font to show up in the GTK2
version of Vim that's in unstable? 

Thanks,

KEN

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Re: rpm -qa vs apt/dselect/etc

2003-09-30 Thread Kenneth Dombrowski

On 03-09-30 12:29 -0400, Angus D Madden wrote:
> shorton, Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 10:23:14AM -0500: 
> > rpm -q --whatprovides  = tell me what package provided program
> > x
> 
> If the package is installed:
> 
> dpkg -S 
> 
> If the package is not installed, you can grab the Contents-$arch.gz file
> from one of the debian servers and use zgrep to see what package owns
> what file.
> 

`apt-file search nameoffile` will do this for you. package apt-file. 




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Re: burning from .ogg

2003-10-12 Thread Kenneth Dombrowski

Hi Anthony,

On 03-10-13 01:36 +0100, Antony Gelberg wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Anyone know of an easy way to burn an audio CD from .ogg files, i.e.
> without converting them to .wav first.  I'm not fussed about a GUI,
> infact I'd rather not have one.

There's mp3burn, which is strictly CLI & I think available even in
stable. The man page indicates it supports Ogg & FLAC as well as mp3.

On my unstable machine I use an X front-end from Spain called xmp3burn
for mp3s, which I've never had any problems with, but which I don't
think debs are available for. I installed pre-compiled binaries from 
http://perso.wanadoo.es/ja_recio/xmp3burn/en/

Kenneth

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Re: .NET [OT]

2002-10-14 Thread Kenneth Dombrowski

Hopefully to bring this back on-topic..

> > -Original Message-
> > From: ian [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Friday, October 11, 2002 11:38 AM
> > Subject: .NET
> >
> > I had the 'opportunity' of attending a micro$oft.net seminar yesterday. Are
> > they serious? From what i understand these people intend to take over the
> > INTERNET. They've invested a lot of money in this venture and expects great
> > returns. Many companies have already jumped on the XP tablet band wagon and
> > the .NET authentication :(, (poor souls). Are people still that gullable?
> > The only future for microcrap should be bankrupcy.
> 
> On Friday 11 October 2002 09:49 am, Price, Erik wrote:
> > How do you mean "take over the internet"?  Some specifics would help me
> > understand what kinds of things I need to keep an eye on.  Did they
> > actually say how they intended to do this?
> >
> > Erik
> >
>On 02-10-12 23:56 -0400, Sean wrote:
> 
> Two words  Web Services.
> 

I just wanted to point out the existence of the dotGNU project in this
context. http://www.gnu.org/projects/dotgnu/

They have a "debian packages" link on their home page, but I get a 403 
Forbidden error when I access it. Neither my stable Woody server nor
debian.org/distrib/packages shows anything when I search "dotgnu", but
"phpGroupWare" is a related project & that returns a long list.

My question, then, is: Any experience on this list with the dotGNU
project? &/or phpGroupWare? 

oh, I rearranged the top-posts for continuity, I hope I got the quotes
right. 

Kenneth

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Re: html as background

2002-11-02 Thread Kenneth Dombrowski

On 02-11-02 09:13 -0600, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote:
> > On Nov  2, Lance Hoffmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > |  Anyone know if there is a way to put an htnl page
> > |  as a background in a window manager (windowmaker)?
> > 
> > Hmmm.  Load it in a web browser, print to file, convert the ps to a jpg
> > or something, then set that to be the background?
> > 
> This is what I am trying to do-- but automatically from a console.
> Galeon will save as *.ps file.  But does w3m,links, or wget save as
> *.ps file?  How can I write a script (bash, perl) to go to a website
> and dump the html page as a *.ps file (or gif,jpeg...)?
> 

This sounds a lot like something I read recently here:

http://herzl.nylug.org/pipermail/nylug-talk/2002-August/005554.html

myself, I have no idea what xv is.

 $ apt-file search xv

gworkspace
zsh-beta
zsh

 $ apt-cache show gworkspace

Package: gworkspace
Priority: optional
Section: x11
Installed-Size: 4288
Maintainer: Paul Seelig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Architecture: i386
Version: 0.3.4-3
Depends: gnustep-base1, gnustep-gui0 (>= 0.7.6), gnustep-xgps0 (>= 0.7.6) | 
gnustep-xdps0 (>= 0.7.6), libc6 (>= 2.2.4-4), libffcall1, libgcc1 (>= 1:3.0.3-1), 
libgmp3 (>= 4.0.1), libobjc1 (>= 1:3.0.3-1), libxml2 (>= 2.4.0-1), zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4)
Filename: pool/main/g/gworkspace/gworkspace_0.3.4-3_i386.deb
Size: 1212118
MD5sum: 43b0cdac96ad62555b895885ef9e913e
Description: Workspace Manager for GNUstep
 A clone of the file and application manager available on NeXTSTEP
 and OPENSTEP used for managing files and starting applications.


For more "active desktop"-like things, view the whole thread. There's a
link to a Linux Journal article and two mentions of something called
kwebdesktop


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Re: web site database backend?

2002-12-10 Thread Kenneth Dombrowski

Tim Verry wrote:

Knowing very little about Linux database options...

Is there a way to have a database that accepts data from html forms, but which 
requires no administration whatsoever on the web server side?  IOW a database 
that the user could put in their own directory structure that they could use, 
without the equivalent of Window's Control Panel ODBC connections being setup 
in advance?


I've used the Perl DBD::CSV module for collecting web form data. If all 
you're doing is collecting a big heap of form submissions it works 
nicely. It provides a DBI interface for SQL queries. There're none of 
the niceties of a db server.. each table is just a flat file (CSV = 
Comma Seperated Values). They open nicely in spreadsheet apps. I'm 
pretty sure it takes care of file locking for you, but obviously there's 
no referential integrity checking or anything like that, if your data is 
nicely normalized it's probably not the best solution. It's not really 
up there on speed either, but I never had a problem with it doing what 
it was supposed to do.

The debian package is libdbd-csv-perl



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Re: is a backport of Xfree86 4.2 or 4.3 for woody available?

2003-08-08 Thread Kenneth Jacker

  pj> On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 02:54:39AM +0100, Antony Gelberg wrote:
  >> I'm sure that someone with a more than mediocre knowledge of apt / dpkg
  >> could suggest a way of forcing removal of xlibs and leaving it's
  >> dependencies.  I'd venture that you cold force removal of xlibs with
  >> dpkg, then install with apt-get and hope that it picks up the pieces.

  pj> # dpkg --force-depends --purge xlibs
  pj> # apt-get install xlibs

Well I tried the above (and some other "forced" options), and lost all
X11 functionality and applications!

Re-installed the original XFree86, etc., and am back up again.

Guess I'll move this thread to debian-laptop ... trying to get an X
server on my Dell Dimension that'll show both the monitor and
projected images simultaneously ...

Thanks for all the help,

  -Kenneth

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Re: test.mydomain.com ???

2003-08-14 Thread kenneth dombrowski

On 03-08-14 21:44 +0900, Bengt Thurée wrote:
> Hej,
> 
> Thanks, I am a bit uncertain to be honest.
> Can I let my DNS server (currently I am not running one though),
> update the world DNS? 
> 
> I am using dyndns.com for my current www.mydomain.com,
> since I am on a ADSL connection with new IP number every month.

Then you have everything you need already, just create a new CNAME
record for each subdomain and point it to the correct Host within the
dyndns[.com, or i use .org] account page

> If I configure my /etc/hosts or local DNS, can the world access my
> test.mydomain.com?
> 

No, that only effects your local computer.

> /Bengt
> 


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Re: ftp to webserver - not as root

2003-08-14 Thread kenneth dombrowski

On 03-08-09 13:04 -0400, ScruLoose wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 09, 2003 at 05:11:26PM +0200, Wolfgang Fischer wrote:
> > On Sat, 09 Aug 2003 13:30:06 +0200, Anita Lewis wrote:
> > > A user can ftp in and work on pages in their own public_html, but those
> > > pages would appear in /~username. I want to be able to work on pages in
> > > /var/www, because those pages come up when the domain name is accessed via
> > > browser.  /var/www is root.root 
> > > 
> > > Is there a way other than dropping the pages off as user via ftp, ssh and su
> > > to root and move them, to do this?  I'm thinking maybe there is a way using
> > > groups.  Or is there something wrong with my thinking about not allowing
> > > root ftp?

As you already heard, there's definitely nothing wrong with your
thinking there; that would be an extremely dangerous thing to do

you'll have to set up /etc/proftpd.conf (or whatever the conf file is for 
your FTP server). ProFTP (& probably others) allows you to set up 
 directives, similar to Apache, which you can use to keep
providing access to UserDirs and provide /var/www as well, but due to the 
FTP protocol you need either: a dedicated IP address for each VirtualHost, 
or: to run ProFTP as a standalone server (as opposed to inetd) and assign 
each VirtualHost a different port number... at least that's my 
understanding, I never tried the second method

maybe there are other ways..


> What I've done personally is to create a webauthors group, chgrp'ed
> /var/www from root.root to root.webauthors, and added my regular user
> account to that group. It seems to work okay for me.
> 
> Mind you, I'm a complete newbie at the webserver thing, so before you
> do what I did, you might want to wait and see whether some more
> experienced folks point out some glaring problem with it...  ;-)
> 

I took this same tactic, so am curious what holes people will poke into
it as well. I've even taken it a little further by sgid'ing /var/www:

drwxrwsr-x   15 root www-adm  4096 Aug  9 18:31 www

I also don't have root owning most of the webroot subdirectories, I
*think* you're okay as long as it's not owned/writable by www-data (or
whoever owns the Apache process)

(and I am the only www-adm, so I don't have to worry about one site's
owner getting into the other sites)



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Re: Permissions on a vfat partition

2003-08-22 Thread kenneth dombrowski

On 03-08-23 03:30 +0200, Roberto Sanchez wrote:
> You are not telling it who owns all the files.  FAT has no concept of users,
> groups, or other attributes (aside from RW and RO).  You must specify the UID
> or GID (uding gid=) you want assigned to all files on the file system when
> it is mounted.
> 
> /dev/hda7   /mnt/d  vfatrw,user,uid=1000,noexec 0   0
> 

that is, if you're concerned about restricting access at all, correct? 

I've seen this response before & have always been a little confused. I
dual boot a laptop with win2k & just have the following in my /etc/fstab

/dev/hda1 /windows   vfatnoauto,user   0  0

I can `mount /windows` and write to it just fine

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ echo "test">/windows/test.txt
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -l /windows
[ ...other stuff.. ]
-rwxr--r--1 kenneth  kenneth 5 Aug 23 00:46 test.txt

I don't think I'm in any special windows-writing groups:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/tmp$ groups
kenneth adm cdrom audio www-data src video xcdwrite scsi www-adm

for a laptop nobody else in the world is ever going to use, just
specifying 'user' is fine.. right? 

(I've given this out as advice before, so I just want to clarify, but if
I'm correct, the OP may be interested too)

thanks,
Kenneth



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Re: Spamassassin + exim

2003-08-31 Thread kenneth dombrowski

what a timely thread!

excuse me for interrupting, 

On 03-08-30 20:48 -0700, Steve Lamb wrote:
> You can tell by looking at the headers and seeing if BAYES_xx shows up. 
> The xx is the approx. range that the Bayesian filter places the particular
> piece of mail.  For example here's the score from the message of yours I am
> responding to:
> 
> X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.6 required=5.0
>   tests=BAYES_10,NO_REAL_NAME
>   version=2.55
> 

well, there's definitely something wrong with my setup since upgrading
from 2.43 -> 2.55 this past week, I've fed sa-learn almost 2k --spam
and >4k --ham messages, and I'm yet to see a single BAYES_* test in the
headers

I've been looking at this all morning, & am totally at a loss. 
I'm running unofficial backports of SA 2.55 found on apt-get.org:

ENKIDU:/var/log# dpkg -l spamassassin spamc perl
||/ Name   VersionDescription
+++-==-==-
ii  spamassassin   2.55-2.nobse.1 Perl-based spam filter using text
analysis
ii  spamc  2.55-2.nobse.1 Client for perl-based spam filtering
daemon
ii  perl   5.6.1-8.3  Larry Wall's Practical Extraction and
Report

Anyway, I know when I had to have my unstable machine fill in for my
mail server for a day this past June, 2.54 in sid worked right off, but
with Perl 5.8. 

I'm not sure I'm willing to de-stabalize my Woody box to the point of
upgrading Perl. 

Can anyone confirm that SA 2.55 and Perl 5.6.1 will or will not
cooperate? 

Has anyone else had problems getting this particular backport to begin
to run the BAYES_ tests?

Thanks in advance,
Kenneth

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Re: Spamassassin + exim

2003-09-01 Thread kenneth dombrowski

On 03-08-31 16:56 -0700, Steve Lamb wrote:
> On Sun, 31 Aug 2003 14:15:09 -0400
> kenneth dombrowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > well, there's definitely something wrong with my setup since upgrading
> > from 2.43 -> 2.55 this past week, I've fed sa-learn almost 2k --spam
> > and >4k --ham messages, and I'm yet to see a single BAYES_* test in the
> > headers
> 
> Is it turned on? IE, do the rules files have Bayesian rules in it?  Are
> they scored higher than 0?  Do they have it enabled?  Do your personal
> preferences have them enabled?  Have you fed it large amounts of ham only to
> have that dump into your personal filter and looking at it from the global or
> vice versa?
> 

Thank you, Steve, your last question prompted me to rethink what was
going on. I am calling spamc via dman's SpamAssassin/Exim 3 method 
(which must run as user mail to set $received_protocol) but calling 
sa-learn as my user. I had another look around, and it looked like the
auto-learning was happening in /var/mail/.spamassassin, while I'd 
only been looking in my ~/.spamassassin dir

I re-read `man spamd` (among many others), and decided I would just 
employ a system-wide bayes_ db -- nobody else really uses the box right 
now anyway -- so I added this to /etc/spamassassin/local.cf:

 bayes_path /var/mail/.spamassassin/bayes
 bayes_file_mode 0664

which I expected to have permission problems with. The original
permissions were:

 # ls -lA /var/mail/
 drwx--S---2 mail mail 4096 Sep  1 00:11 .spamassassin
 # ls -lA /var/mail/.spamassassin/
 -rw---1 mail mail 1496 Sep  1 00:11 bayes_msgcount
 -rw---1 mail mail   118784 Sep  1 00:11 bayes_seen
 -rw---1 mail mail  1327104 Sep  1 00:11 bayes_toks
 -rw-r--r--1 mail mail  741 Aug 21 01:20 user_prefs

I made these modifications:
 # addgroup --system  sa
 # adduser kenneth sa
 # adduser mail sa
 # chown -R mail:sa /var/mail/.spamassassin
 # chmod g+rwx /var/mail/.spamassassin
 # chmod 0664 /var/mail/.spamassassin/*

And sent myself a test message from my work account:
  X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-5.4 required=5.0
 tests=BAYES_01
 version=2.55 

So it seems to work.

In the end it might have been easier to just filter @ the Procmail
level, but I understand with Exim4 it's possible to reject mail @ the
SMTP level based on SA results.. which seems like a desirable thing to
implement when I finally get around to upgrading exim

If it's a half-baked approach, I'd appreciate any comments..

Thanks again,
Kenneth

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Re: Spamassassin + exim

2003-09-01 Thread Kenneth Dombrowski

On 03-09-01 01:48 -0700, Steve Lamb wrote:
> Actually it is a more secure version of what I have done here.  In fact I
> do it the really half-baked way by adding myself to the mail and gave myself
> sudo access to chmod to get the directories to the right permission.  
> 

cool. thanks for the feedback. just for the archives, I noticed this
morning SA wasn't able to update it's bayes db. I'm not really sure why,
but I had to change the OPTIONS line in /etc/default/spamassassin to
specify that spamd should run as user mail. While I was at it, I dropped
the -c (create user_prefs per user), so that file looks like this:

ENABLED=1   # turn on spamd
OPTIONS="-m 10 -u mail"

yet even after that my mutt macros to '| spamassassin -r' &etc were 
updating the bayes_* files in my ~/.spamassassin/ dir.. I guess because 
I already had the user_prefs file.. adding the same bayes_path setting 
to my ~/.spamassassin/user_prefs that I had put in 
/etc/spamassassin/local.cf finished the conversion to using a site-wide 
spamd/bayes db (i hope).

my ~/.spamassassin/auto_whitelist file is still being used privately

hope it's of interest.
Kenneth

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Re: maildir vs. mbox vs. mh ???

2003-03-25 Thread Kenneth Dombrowski

sorry to resurrect a 6 week old thread, I was just cleaning out d-u and
came across this:

On 03-02-10 16:35 -0800, Vineet Kumar wrote:
> "IMAP" vs "IMAP +" folders is done very well: select-entry ( by
> default) will traverse into an "IMAP +" folder whereas view-file
> ( by default) will open an "IMAP +" folder to see the messages it
> contains.

Thank You Vineet!

I've been searching for that spacebar for MONTHS.

Every time I left my personal INBOX and wanted to get back to it I was
just presented with this:

 IMAP   +
 IMAP

& ing on either one just brought me back where I was. It was only
mildly annoying closing+reopening mutt so I never quite found it while 
R'ingTFM. Even knowing about it though, it's not so easy to find in the
manual.. "view-file" just isn't the most intuitive function name for such
a thing, IMHO

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Re: Rezound deb?

2003-06-08 Thread kenneth dombrowski

On 03-06-08 14:01 -0400, stan wrote:
> I saw a reference to an application called Rezound in an aritcle about
> gramofile this week. Looked prety neat, and I think I would like to compare
> it to audacity, which is what I'm curently using for a visual audiofile
> editor.
> 
> I looked at the home page of this project, but dd not find a .deb, and when
> I tried to build it from source it had some unmet depednecies.
> 
> Has any gotten this to work on Debian?

Hi stan

it's in unstable as of a few weeks ago. 
http://packages.debian.org/unstable/sound/rezound.html

I installed it on my unstable laptop & it looks really nice, I haven't
had a chance to play it with it yet though. I've been having trouble
exporting mp3s with audacity for some time now
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=189284

may I ask where the gramofile article was published? 

Kenneth

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Re: Writing on Windows partition

2003-06-17 Thread kenneth dombrowski

On 03-06-17 09:43 -0700, Piero wrote:
> How can I properly write on my Windows partition without logging as root?
> 
> I tried to create a group on purpose for this, and change group ownersip 
>  of this partition from the root group to this new group, but this 
> operation was doomed illegitimate. May be it is possible to overcome 
> this impossibility, may be there are better solutions.

Hi Piero,

I have a line like this in /etc/fstab:

  /dev/hda1   /windows   vfat   noauto,user   0   0

which allows any user to issue 'mount /windows' 

look @ 'man fstab' though, there's a slight difference between 'user'
and 'users' where one means only the user who issued 'mount' can issue
'umount', but the other means any user can do either at any time

(I'm pretty sure I went with the former, above, but I'm the only regular
user on my system) 

hth,
Kenneth


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Bootable CD w/X-CD-Roast: mkisofs error

2002-12-11 Thread Kenneth Dombrowski


Hi,

After several days of trying to create a bootable Knoppix CD from the 
downloaded .iso, I think with xcdroast I am finally almost there. All 
except for this error:

Warning: creating filesystem that does not conform to ISO-9660.
mkisofs 1.15a39 (i686-pc-linux-gnu)
Writing:   Initial Padbock Start Block 0
Done with: Initial Padbock Block(s)16
Writing:   Primary Volume Descriptor   Start Block 16
Done with: Primary Volume Descriptor   Block(s)1
Writing:   Eltorito Volume Descriptor  Start Block 17
mkisofs: Uh oh, I cant find the boot image 'boot.img' !

boot.img is in the same directory as the source Knoppix image, as 
recommended by the 'Boot options' tab's mouseover hottip message:

-rw-r--r--1 kenneth  kenneth  733675520 Dec 10 23:26 
KNOPPIX_V3.1-10-09-2002b-EN.iso
-rw-r--r--1 kenneth  kenneth  2048 Dec 11 17:07 boot.cat
-rw-r--r--1 kenneth  kenneth   1474560 Dec 11 17:05 boot.img

I put it & boot.cat there by mounting the .iso and copying them from the 
CD with

dd if=/cdrom/KNOPPIX/boot.img of=./boot.img
dd if=/cdrom/KNOPPIX/boot.cat of=./boot.cat


I have logging set to verbose & this is what it reports when I push the 
'Master to image file' button on the 'Create session/image' tab:

Wed Dec 11 17:08:06 2002 XCDR 0.98alpha10: Entering create cd
Wed Dec 11 17:08:07 2002 XCDR 0.98alpha10: Entering create: master menu
Wed Dec 11 17:08:09 2002 XCDR 0.98alpha10: Getting size of 
mkisofs-imageWed Dec 11 17:08:09 2002 XCDR 0.98alpha10: Executing: 
/usr/lib/xcdroast-0.98/bin/xcdrwrap MKISOFS -gui -v -r -J -jcharset 
default -l -D -L -print-size  -b "boot.img" -c "boot.cat"  -V "" -P "" 
-p "" -abstract "" -biblio "" -copyright ""   -graft-points 
"/=/home/kenneth/temp/KNOPPIX_V3.1-10-09-2002b-EN.iso"
Wed Dec 11 17:08:44 2002 XCDR 0.98alpha10: Master image 
/home/kenneth/temp/xcdroast/track-01.img
Wed Dec 11 17:08:44 2002 XCDR 0.98alpha10: Executing: 
/usr/lib/xcdroast-0.98/bin/xcdrwrap MKISOFS -gui -v -r -J -jcharset 
default -l -D -L  -b "boot.img" -c "boot.cat"  -V "" -P "" -p "" 
-abstract "" -biblio "" -copyright ""  -o 
"/home/kenneth/temp/xcdroast/track-01.img"  -graft-points 
"/=/home/kenneth/temp/KNOPPIX_V3.1-10-09-2002b-EN.iso"

the directory /home/kenneth/temp/xcdroast is where I set it to store its 
temporary files.

I found this page which indicates 'boot.img' must be on the source 
filesystem, but the source I'm using is already an .iso so I'm not sure 
how I can achieve that:

http://www.linuxmanagers.org/pipermail/linuxmanagers/2002-September/000695.html

I tried copying boot.img to both / & ~temp/xcdroast
I tried using the one directly off the source .iso mounted as /cdrom


I'm running sid with:
xcdroast 0.98alpha10
mkisofs 1.15a39 (i686-pc-linux-gnu)


Any idea what I'm doing wrong here? Where else should I be putting the 
'boot.img'?

Thanks in advance,
kenneth



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[SOLVED] Re: Bootable CD w/X-CD-Roast: mkisofs error

2002-12-15 Thread Kenneth Dombrowski

Donald R. Spoon wrote:

I went through this a couple of weeks ago, and finally the light-bulb 
came on.  ALL of the extra work needed to make a CD "bootable" is done 
during the creation of the ISO image.  Once you have that, then the 
burining process is exactly the same for either "bootable" or 
"non-bootable".  So if you have a "bootable" ISO image already, all 
you need to do is burn it!  I wasted a lot of time and blank CDRs on 
that before I got hit with the clue-bat.

Cheers,
-Don Spoon-


Thanks, Don, Carlos & Alvin.

I stopped trying so hard & it dawned on me the next day. I was almost
there when I tried to mount the .iso for the boot.img, but I was still
pointing to the .iso for the filesystem. Instead I pointed xcdroast at
/cdrom (where the .iso was mounted) & told it to translate the "/cdrom/"
part of the path to "/". I specified the boot.img relative to that
directory ("KNOPPIX/boot.img") & left the default for boot.catalog.. and
it worked

After Don's message, I'm not 100% sure I needed to go through the 
trouble, but I've already wasted too many CD-Rs to feel like experimenting

-- kenneth


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Re: smtp of ISP needs passwd,how to setup exim?

2002-12-15 Thread kenneth dombrowski

Carlos Sousa wrote:



Quite how the password gets from the pop3 reference to the smtp bit, I
don't understand...



I don't see how it can. This config shows how fetchmail *gets* mail
using pop3 authentication, the *sending* of mail has nothing to do with it.

But then, thats probably what the OP meant. I don't think ISPs implement
smtp authentication, they just perform an ip check to allow anybody on
their network to use their smtp servers.



I have a website hosted out in CA (I'm in NY so obviously I'm not using 
them for home connectivity & am not on their network) which runs exim 
3.36 #1. Authentication for outgoing mail seems to be based on whether 
I've logged in to the POP/IMAP server:

> telnet mail.mydomain.com 25
220-mail.myhost.com ESMTP Exim 3.36 #1 Sun, 15 Dec 2002 19:50:25 -0800
220-We do not authorize the use of this system to transport unsolicited,
220 and/or bulk e-mail.
[MAIL FROM: [EMAIL PROTECTED]]
250 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> is syntactically correct
[RCPT TO: [EMAIL PROTECTED]]
550-Host 66-108-241-172.nyc.rr.com [66.108.241.172] is not permitted
550-to relay through mail.myhost.com.
550-Perhaps you have not logged into the pop/imap server in the last 30 
minutes.
550-You may also have been rejected because your ip address
550-does not have a reverse DNS entry.
550 relaying to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> prohibited by administrator

I noticed this a couple of weeks ago & have been intending to look into 
it, but haven't had time.. I don't know if it's normal authenticating 
exim behavior to fall back on POP/IMAP if it doesn't get the SMTP AUTH 
command or if it's some custom scheme, but unless I'm reading this all 
wrong it certainly looks possible that fetchmail is opening the relay 
for Pigeon



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Re: Cracked cracker?

2002-12-16 Thread Kenneth Dombrowski

d.w. harks wrote:

It's actually a sign that there's an IIS worm on that machine. It's not
a person, it's a virus, attempting to propagate to your machine. Since
you run Apache, you're safe from the virus, but not from the attempts.
*sigh*

The most common solution I've heard is to set up an ipchains firewall
rule that prevents that machine from hitting their Apache installations.



Another possibility, if you just want to stop logging the pests, is to 
put the following in the global section of your httpd.conf:


# Stop logging nimda requests, based on:
#http://lists.netfilter.org/pipermail/netfilter/2001-October/026587.html
#
SetEnvIfNoCase Request_URI /cmd.exe|/root.exe|/default.ida nimda
CustomLog /var/log/apache/access.log combined env=!nimda
# comment out next line to NOT log nimda requests
CustomLog /var/log/apache/nimda.log "%a %v %t %U" env=nimda
#
# suppress logging errors from serving 404s to the bastards:

 RedirectMatch (.*)/root.exe http://not.nimda.friendly.invalid$1
 RedirectMatch (.*)/cmd.exe http://not.nimda.friendly.invalid$1
 RedirectMatch (.*)/default.ida http://not.nimda.friendly.invalid$1



I have a line in there to log nimda requests to a seperate file, comment 
it out if you don't want it. If you're maintaining seperate logs for 
multiple VirtualHosts, repeat the CustomLog directive(s) for each one 
(adjust your paths):



ServerName www.DOMAIN.TLD
ServerAlias DOMAIN.TLD
ServerAdmin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
DocumentRoot /var/www/DOMAIN.TLD/htdocs
UserDir disabled
#keep nimda out of access.log
CustomLog /var/www/DOMAIN.TLD/log/access.log combined env=!nimda
CustomLog /var/www/DOMAIN.TLD/log/nimda.log "%a %v %t %U" env=nimda
ErrorLog /var/www/DOMAIN.TLD/log/error.log



Being on roadrunner, I get a TON of nimda/code red requests from their 
66.108.*.* addresses, & I don't like them screwing up my web logs

(sorry, I'm a couple of days late.. catching up slowly)



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Re: courier imap configuration almost working

2002-12-16 Thread Kenneth Dombrowski

Hi Benedict,

A lot of people here can probably give you more definitive answers than
I can (I'm still learning it myself), but I have pretty much the
exact setup as you, so for what it's worth...

Benedict Verheyen wrote:
 > The setup involves fetchmail (pop3), exim (smtp), procmail
 > to filter and courier-imap to access it.

[snipped.. see below for Maildir heirarchy]

 > 1) First weird thing (at least for me but i could be standard) is that
 > the mails in kde and user are written as 1040076006.15184_0.lancelot
 > (lancelot is the hostname)

this looks right. mine are named the same way. I think it's the exim
naming format.. saw it in the docs somewhere.. some scheme to ensure all
the files in your mail queue are uniquely named. it carries over well to 
the maildir..

[snipped stuff looks ok to me]

 > But i cannot seem to access the mails in the kde and user folder
 > or do i have to create them IN the cur or kde folder?

The courier Maildir heirarchy is a little bit weird, they're all stored 
on the same level & a dot becomes the heirarchal seperator, including 
seperating the implied INBOX from the subfolders. it's easiest for me to 
just show you. some of my folders are:

~Maildir/
cur
new
tmp
  .IN-debian-isp/
cur
new
tmp
  .IN-debian-user/
cur
new
tmp

etc.. when you start creating subfolders they go to, say,

  .lists.apache/
cur
new
tmp
  .lists.exim/
cur
new
tmp
  .lists.perl/
cur
new
tmp

which looks like this in mozilla

INBOX
   IN-debian-user
   IN-debian-isp
   lists
 apache
 exim
 perl

My .procmailrc recipe to deliver to each of these is then something like
this:

MAILDIR=$HOME/Maildir
DEFAULT=$MAILDIR/

:0
* ^[EMAIL PROTECTED]
.IN-debian-user/

As a side note, I'm pretty sure this is the default configuration for 
courier, but I've noticed some mail clients do not provide a way to 
navigate back to the inbox after visiting other folders. (Some of the 
finer points of mutt IMAP configuration in general is one reason I'm 
using Mozilla 95% of the time lately.) See the thread from the 14th 
called "Courier-IMAP folder layout" for quirks in other MUAs too..

HTH,

Kenneth

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gtk problems? firestarter, xscreensaver won't start

2002-12-19 Thread Kenneth Dombrowski



Hello,

I'm having trouble with a couple of x apps on my sid laptop. The first
one I've been noticing for a couple of weeks is firestarter, the
iptables GUI. Generally I 'su' to root and start it from an xterm:

root@enlil:/home/kenneth/tmp# firestarter
NETFILTER detected

Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library

GnomeUI-WARNING **: While connecting to session manager:
Authentication Rejected, reason : None of the authentication protocols
specified are supported and host-based authentication failed. Firewall
script restarted

Gtk-WARNING **: invalid cast from (NULL) pointer to `GtkContainer'

Gtk-CRITICAL **: file gtkcontainer.c: line 726 (gtk_container_remove):
assertion `container != NULL' failed.

Gtk-WARNING **: invalid cast from (NULL) pointer to `GtkBox'

Gtk-CRITICAL **: file gtkbox.c: line 366 (gtk_box_pack_end): assertion
`box != NULL' failed.


I don't know what that Authentication Warning is about, I have no
problem logging into X as root. I tried it & I get the same error. I
think the immediate problem is with the CRITICAL errors.. I tried
running it under strace & the end of the output was just repeating this:


poll([{fd=3, events=POLLIN}, {fd=10, events=POLLIN}, {fd=4,
events=POLLIN}, {fd=5, events=POLLIN}], 4, 499) = 0
gettimeofday({1040347481, 810076}, NULL) = 0 read(7, "", 4096)  
= 0 gettimeofday({1040347481, 810225}, NULL) = 0
ioctl(3, 0x541b, [0])   = 0
poll([{fd=3, events=POLLIN}, {fd=10, events=POLLIN}, {fd=4,
events=POLLIN}, {fd=5, events=POLLIN}], 4, 500) = -1 EINTR (Interrupted
system call)--- SIGINT (Interrupt) ---
+++ killed by SIGINT +++


The other problem (or symptom) is with xscreensaver. it doesn't output
any errors without an strace, but with an strace a bunch stuff scrolls
by until the following just repeats with a pause each time at
the select()s (where it says Timeout). 


gettimeofday({1040338342, 620997}, NULL) = 0
select(5, [3 4], [], [], {4, 998898})   = 0 (Timeout)
select(5, [4], [], [], {0, 0})  = 0 (Timeout)
gettimeofday({1040338347, 623108}, NULL) = 0
gettimeofday({1040338347, 623137}, NULL) = 0
write(3, "&\2\2\0\1\0\300\0", 8)= 8
read(3, "\1\1y\0\0\0\0\0:\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\202\2\223\2\202\2\223\2"..., 32)
= 32 dup(8)  = 9
fcntl64(9, F_GETFL) = 0 (flags O_RDONLY)
fstat64(9, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0444, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
old_mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS,
-1, 0) = 0x40017000_llseek(9, 0, [444], SEEK_CUR)  = 0
_llseek(9, 0, [0], SEEK_SET)= 0
read(9, "   CPU0   \n  0:   24"..., 4096) = 444
close(9)= 0
munmap(0x40017000, 4096)= 0
time(NULL)  = 1040338347
ioctl(3, 0x541b, [0])   = 0
ioctl(3, 0x541b, [0])   = 0
gettimeofday({1040338347, 623932}, NULL) = 0
select(5, [3 4], [], [], {4, 999205})   = ? ERESTARTNOHAND (To be
restarted)--- SIGINT (Interrupt) ---


I notice some similar-looking function calls to the firestarter
strace above, gettimeofday() and ioctl() at least.. they sound
like they're probably pretty common, but just in case it indicates a
shared library to somebody... 

I haven't noticed any other apps refusing to open.

I'm really new to X, so I don't have much of a conception of which
library files' version numbers would be of interest...

and, unfortunately, don't really have a coherent question beyond 'any
ideas what I need to do to repair these apps?'


TIA,
kenneth


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audio recording is fast

2002-12-29 Thread Kenneth Dombrowski


Hi,

I began using gramofile a few weeks ago to copy a bunch of cassettes I 
have onto my laptop. Everything was working fine up until 2 days ago, 
when suddenly everything I record from the microphone is speeded up so 
it sounds like a 33rpm record playing at 78-or 100-rpms. I tried using 
audacity instead & the problem persists so I guess it's something a 
little lower-level. Since it last worked I did an upgrade of the system, 
which runs unstable. I've spent over a dozen hours RTFMing & googling 
for a possible explanation, but its difficult not even knowing what I'm 
looking for. Any ideas or hints will be appreciated

Thanks in advance,
Kenneth


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Trying to use Kerberos

2002-12-30 Thread Kenneth Stephen

Hi,

I am working with IBM DCE v3.1 as the KDC which is supposedly wire
compatible with MIT Kerberos. When I try to use kinit (from krb5-user in
Woody) to get credentials, I get the following error message :

kinit(v5): KDC policy rejects request while getting initial credentials.

If I were using MIT Kerberos, how / where would I go about setting
this "KDC policy"? What would such a policy specify - valid clients?
Valid userids? Combinations of the two? Something else? I need to know
this before I go talking to DCE support so that I can tell them what I need.

Thanks,
Kenneth


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Re: audio recording is fast

2002-12-30 Thread Kenneth Dombrowski

Thanks for replying, Steve. I'm still totally stumped on this

Steve Juranich wrote:

On Sun, 29 Dec 2002 21:03:09 -0500, Kenneth Dombrowski wrote:
> it sounds like a 33rpm record playing at 78-or 100-rpms. I tried using

Offhand, it sounds like a sampling rate issue.  You need to make sure
that the recording sampling rate matches your playback sampling rate. 
FYI, the sampling rate for CD quality audio is 44.1 kHz.  This should be
the default recording sampling rate for audacity.  I've never heard of
gramofile.

Yeah, this is the first thing I thought of, but everything is set for 
44.1. I tried:

 - recording & immediate playback in audacity without saving the file
   (though some .auf files are written to ~/.audacity_temp)

 - recording to .wav, processing and playing in gramofile (gramofile
   applies filters to tracks recorded from casettes/LPs to reduce
   noise), and

 - saving either of these files & opening in xmms

Playback is always 3 or 4X the original speed

I did install speech-tools to check one of the files itself, and ch_wave 
reports this:

kenneth@enlil:/mp3/tmp$ ch_wave -info new-processed.wav
Duration: 14.9000
Sample rate: 44100
Number of samples: 657091
Number of channels: 2
Header type: riff
Data type: short

 ..which looks ok to me. at least it does appear to have the correct 
header & verifies the sample rate.

tracks recorded from a CD play back at the correct speed. what's really 
puzzling is that it _did_ work fine for a week or so... up until the 
26th when I did an upgrade & installed some new sound editing apps. I've 
been purging the new stuff I installed one by one, but without results 
so far..

Any ideas still appreciated,
Kenneth






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Re: /etc/resolv.conf keeps getting overwritten

2003-01-07 Thread Kenneth Dombrowski

Nori Heikkinen wrote:

on Sat, 04 Jan 2003 05:19:39PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson insinuated:


A better solution is to edit /etc/dhclient.conf.  Use one of
   append  search foo.example bar.example
   prepend search foo.example bar.example
depending on the effect you want.


okay, i've been trying this, and i must not be getting the syntax right.
the manpage for dhclient.conf suggests that it should be

prepend search foo.example bar.example;

but i'm having no luck with this.  has anyone done something like this?
or should i just not be running dhcp, which i guess i wasn't before ...
?  hm.  

thanks again,





I just struggled with this for about 4 hours, trying every combination 
of options I could think of. This is what finally gives me what I want:

root@enlil:~# cat /etc/dhclient.conf
prepend domain-name-servers 192.168.0.3;
supersede domain-name "lan.invalid";

# neither "prepend domain-name .." nor "append .." worked

root@enlil:~# /etc/init.d/networking restart

root@enlil:~# cat /etc/resolv.conf
search lan.invalid
nameserver 192.168.0.3
nameserver 192.168.0.1

if you have more than one domain you'd like to search, i think they need 
to be seperated with spaces within the single set of quotes.

I'd been running pump, but when I saw this thread I thought I could work 
around manually resetting resolv.conf every time I booted via a script 
like this:

cat >/etc/resolv.conf << .
domain lan.invalid
search lan.invalid
nameserver 192.168.0.3
.

(i was having a similar problem as the OP, except it only happened on 
boot.. my leases tend to last a really long time)

I still can't find a way to get a "domain" entry in there, but the 
"search" option seems to take care of it. I can ping "router", which is 
in the lan.invalid domain.

The recommended "prepend/append search lan.invalid" (with or without 
quotes/semicolon) kept returning an error that there is no option called 
"search". This is dhcp-client 2.0pl5-14 from unstable.

I had a really hard time with my dhcp-serving netgear router-gateway 
setting it's own search parameter with strange characters at the end:

search nyc.rr.com\000

I saw a wishlist bug against this (135711), but there was no mention of 
not being able to update "search" in that bug report. And it didn't seem 
to effect resolving from nyc.rr.com, so I have no idea if it was 
related... When I ran pump it was set to something like

search nyc.rr.com rr.com


kenneth





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Re: Burning CD Revisited

2003-01-07 Thread Kenneth Dombrowski

Hey Larry,

Unfortunately I didn't see your earlier thread either.. I'm about 2,500 
messages behind on debian-user. You chose el torito & are looking for a 
boot image, so I'll assume you are trying to create a bootable CD.

I was stuck exactly where you are only three weeks ago. I was trying to 
make a bootable Knoppix CD. There was some possibility that the way I 
ended up doing it was unnecessarily complicated, but it worked. Try the 
thread titled "Bootable CD w/X-CD-Roast: mkisofs error" from December.. 
I posted a "SOLVED" for it on the 15th.

Basically, I had to not point the master source (or master tracks.. 
whichever it is) not _at_ the .iso image, but instead had to mount the 
image as a loopback device (terminology?)... something like this: (but 
look at man mount, I don't remember exactly)

# mount -t=iso9660 -o=loop,ro my_knoppix_iso.iso /mnt/cd

you should then be able to `cd /mnt/cd` (or wherever you mount it) & 
navigate aroung the iso like you do your HD. The master source is then 
"/mnt/cd"

knoppix had a directory something like /KNOPPIX/boot-en/boot.img which 
is the image you want xcdroast to be able to find. AFAIK you can't use a 
boot.img that's not already a part of your iso. You have to point 
knoppix to this image relative from the master source, so if the above 
directory is correct, it would have been "KNOPPIX/boot-en/boot.img"

I think there's a boot.cat in that directory too, but when I hovered the 
mouse over the boot.catalog tool-tip, it suggested just leaving it 
blank/default(?) which is what I did & it worked.

If you read my earlier thread, all the details already fuzzy in my 
memory should be clear. I was trying to copy that #@*$ boot.img to every 
possible place hoping it'd find it before this dawned on me

HTH,

kenneth




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krb5-telnetd

2003-01-08 Thread Kenneth Stephen

Hi,

Is it possible to set things up with this version of telnetd so
that non-Kerberos logins are not permitted as a fallback?

Thanks,
Kenneth


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Re: audio recording is fast

2003-01-08 Thread Kenneth Dombrowski

Steve Juranich wrote:

Sorry for taking so long to get back to you on this (busy holiday
season is to blame). Did you ever get it worked out?



thanks for writing back. I have no idea what was causing this, but it's 
not happening now.

After a few days of not being able to figure it out, I booted into 
windows to try it with audacity there. It worked fine. I booted back 
into debian & it was still acting the same.. sounded fine recording but 
played back really fast. I ended up spending most of the holidays booted 
into windows for recording. I finally got back into debian this morning 
and it's not happening anymore.

This still sounds suspiciously like a sampling rate error.  Could it be
that audacity/gramofile is writing a bad header?  One thing to do is to
use a cli-based playback utility (like "play" from the sox package) so
you can manually set the playback sampling frequency.  This might help
you understand a little better what's going on.


I'll keep it in mind. There's definitely a lot going on here I don't 
understand.

Thanks again,
Kenneth


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Problems with apt-get source

2003-01-09 Thread Kenneth Stephen

Hi,

Here is what I get when using apt-get source :

ebiz:/etc/apt# man apt-get
Reformatting apt-get(8), please wait...
ebiz:/etc/apt# apt-get source krb5-telnetd --download-only
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
E: Could not open file 
/var/lib/apt/lists/http.us.debian.org_debian_dists_stable_main_source_Sources - open 
(2 No such file or directory)
ebiz:/etc/apt# touch 
/var/lib/apt/lists/http.us.debian.org_debian_dists_stable_main_source_Sources
ebiz:/etc/apt# apt-get source krb5-telnetd
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
E: Could not open file 
/var/lib/apt/lists/http.us.debian.org_debian_dists_stable_contrib_source_Sources - 
open (2 No such file or directory)
ebiz:/etc/apt# touch 
/var/lib/apt/lists/http.us.debian.org_debian_dists_stable_contrib_source_Sources
ebiz:/etc/apt# apt-get source krb5-telnetd
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
E: Could not open file 
/var/lib/apt/lists/http.us.debian.org_debian_dists_stable_non-free_source_Sources - 
open (2 No such file or directory)
ebiz:/etc/apt# touch 
/var/lib/apt/lists/http.us.debian.org_debian_dists_stable_non-free_source_Sources
ebiz:/etc/apt# apt-get source krb5-telnetd
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
E: Unable to find a source package for krb5

Can someone tell me what am I doing wrong?

Thanks,
Kenneth


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Re: capture realaudio

2003-01-09 Thread Kenneth Dombrowski

Ludwig wrote:

On Mon, 2002-12-09 at 21:04, sean finney wrote:


heya,

i had to do something similar myself recently, and iirc vsound did
the trick.  check it out (it's in the vsound package).  if not there's
another package or two that also do a similar job (do an apt-cache search
sound record dsp or something).



vsound does not work for me at all.  


$ vsound -v -t -f vsound.out realplay  


this thread is pretty old, but I just gave this a try and it worked 
beautifully. My only complaint is I didn't get the .wav file I asked 
for, but I'm listening to the .au file now & it sounds quite good.

One difference is that I _was_ recording from a stream

  ..thought you'd like to know..


kenneth@enlil:/mp3/radio/new_sounds$ vsound -V
vsound-0.5
kenneth@enlil:/mp3/radio/new_sounds$ vsound -v -t -f ns1802.wav realplay 
http://www.realimpact.net/rihurl.ram?file=realimpact/wnyc/rans/ns1802.ra&file2=realimpact/wnyc/rans/ns2032.ra&file3=realimpact/wnyc/rans/ns2035.ra&file4=realimpact/wnyc/rans/ns2011.ra&file5=realimpact/wnyc/rans/ns2015.ra&file6=realimpact/wnyc/rans/ns1802.ra
[1] 2476
[2] 2477
[3] 2478
Output file:   ns1802.wav
Temp AU file:  ./vsound2476.au
About to start the application. The output will not be available
until the application exits.
[4] 2479
[5] 2483
[2]   Donefile2=realimpact/wnyc/rans/ns2032.ra
[3]   Donefile3=realimpact/wnyc/rans/ns2035.ra
[4]   Done    file4=realimpact/wnyc/rans/ns2011.ra
kenneth@enlil:/mp3/radio/new_sounds$ lsof
bash: lsof: command not found
[5]+  Done    file5=realimpact/wnyc/rans/ns2015.ra
kenneth@enlil:/mp3/radio/new_sounds$ file vsound2476.au
vsound2476.au: Sun/NeXT audio data: 16-bit linear PCM, mono, 44100 Hz
kenneth@enlil:/mp3/radio/new_sounds$ play vsound2476.au


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Re: capture realaudio

2003-01-09 Thread Kenneth Dombrowski

On Thu, 09 Jan 2003 22:50:37 -0500 Kenneth Dombrowski wrote:
> this thread is pretty old, but I just gave this a try and it worked 
> beautifully. My only complaint is I didn't get the .wav file I asked 
> for, but I'm listening to the .au file now & it sounds quite good.
> 
> One difference is that I _was_ recording from a stream
> 
>..thought you'd like to know..
> 
> 
> kenneth@enlil:/mp3/radio/new_sounds$ vsound -V
> vsound-0.5
> kenneth@enlil:/mp3/radio/new_sounds$ vsound -v -t -f ns1802.wav
> realplay
> 
>http://www.realimpact.net/rihurl.ram?file=realimpact/wnyc/rans/ns1802.ra&file2=realimpact/wnyc/rans/ns2032.ra&file3=realimpact/wnyc/rans/ns2035.ra&file4=realimpact/wnyc/rans/ns2011.ra&file5=realimpact/wnyc/rans/ns2015.ra&file6=realimpact/wnyc/rans/ns1802.ra
> [1] 2476
> [2] 2477
> [3] 2478
> Output file:   ns1802.wav
> Temp AU file:  ./vsound2476.au
> About to start the application. The output will not be available
> until the application exits.
> [4] 2479
> [5] 2483
> [2]   Donefile2=realimpact/wnyc/rans/ns2032.ra
> [3]   Done        file3=realimpact/wnyc/rans/ns2035.ra
> [4]   Donefile4=realimpact/wnyc/rans/ns2011.ra
> kenneth@enlil:/mp3/radio/new_sounds$ lsof
> bash: lsof: command not found
> [5]+  Donefile5=realimpact/wnyc/rans/ns2015.ra
> kenneth@enlil:/mp3/radio/new_sounds$ file vsound2476.au
> vsound2476.au: Sun/NeXT audio data: 16-bit linear PCM, mono, 44100 Hz
> kenneth@enlil:/mp3/radio/new_sounds$ play vsound2476.au
> 

oops. I spoke too soon. 

it did convert the file to .wav for me after 'play' finished

I guess it put itself in the background &, anxious to try it out, I was
thrown off by the prompt that was returned to me.

playing the file before the process finished, though, proved to be a
really bad idea.. if that's what it was that caused this.. this is the
5th or 6th time I've tried to send this message. up til now I've been
using mozilla, now I'm trying sylpheed, each time before mozilla ate up
98% cpu & gradually more+more memory... 1st I tried killing everything I
dared, then logout& restart x, then ctrl-alt-del reboot, & finally
`shutdown -h now`.. no matter, mozilla seems to be screwed for mail

hopefully sylpheed works...


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Re: capture realaudio

2003-01-10 Thread Kenneth Dombrowski

On 03-01-10 10:50 +, Anthony Campbell wrote:
 
> I've got this far but I haven't found a way to record a stream which is
> coming in from a radio station. 
> 
 

hmm, it works for me..

$ vsound -v -d -t -f wkcr.wav realplay
http://kanga.college.columbia.edu:8080/ramgen/encoder/wkcr.rm

(I know where I'll be the rest of the day, it being the max roach
birthday broadcast..)



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Re: OFFTOPIC: SDRAM PC100

1999-06-03 Thread Kenneth Scharf


>> The question is: if I buy a SDRAM PC100 chip, will >>it work on a
>> computer with bus speed of 66Mhz ? 

>Nope.

Really?  I thought that the ONLY difference between SDRAM for 66mhz and
PC100 SDRAM for 100mhz was the access time (8ns vs 10ns).  If they are
both 72pin dimms, SDRAM (NOT ECC), and 3.3v why won't the faster one
work in the slower computer?  Faster EDO dram works in a slower
computer (that also takes EDO), it is only a waste of money (unless you
plan on upgrading to a faster cpu and the mother board can be strapped
to go faster).
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Re: OFFTOPIC: SDRAM PC100

1999-06-03 Thread Kenneth Scharf

THREAD:
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> > The question is: if I buy a SDRAM PC100 chip, will it work on a
> > computer with bus speed of 66Mhz ? 
> 
> Nope.

I bought 2 128MB PC100 for my 66MHz ASUS, hoping that the dimms would
still be usable when I get a new motherboard someday.

I ran memtest86 for about 24 hours, no problems, and have been running
fine ever since (several months).

I started having problems recently (filesystem errors and signal 11) so
I
ran memtest86 again and one of the dimms has gone bad. I took it out
and
put back in an old regular 32MB dimm, and the two mixed togeter (160MB)
ran memtest86 fine overnight, and seems OK after about a week.

I don't know why the dimm went bad. I wouldn't think it's because the
100/66MHz issue.

Please explain why you think PC100 shouldn't be in a 66MHz board. Do
you
have any ponters to info on the web?
-
REPLY:
Dimms were made in two flavors EDO and SDRAM.  They are also made in
two voltages 3.3 and 5.  If your computer is strapped for 5 volts you
might be able to run a 3.3v dimm for a while, before it overheated and
died.  I don't think you can mix sdrams and edo's.  
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building gzilla, need libjpeg

1999-06-03 Thread Kenneth Scharf

I downloaded the latest gzilla sources and tried to build them.  I got
an error, file libjpeg.h not found.  What package includes this???


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RE: I am not impressed with Debian so far.

1999-06-08 Thread Kenneth Scharf

Debian does seem to lack some of the 'luster' that redhat 6.0 now has
(BTW Red Hat has just filed for IPO, the proposed stock symbol will be
RHAT), but this will change in potatoe with the new GNOME stuff.  I
hope that the install scripts will make GNOME standard, or at least
have a menu item to install GNOME along with X.  (And PLEASE someone
package that real neat LCARS enlightenment theme!)

I have (so far) been buying the cdrom sets because I can't keep my
phone line tied up upgrading via the net, this will change when I get
broadband!  Even so I would probably burn my own cd's to keep the
source packages on line and to help others without BB connections
install Linux.

On compiling kernels ... I have had few problems but it sometimes does
go wrong.  'make dep ; make clean' can be your friend! Also I had the
sound stuff not compile when using make xconfig to config the kernel, I
had to use make menuconfig and use the 'old' sound config to get it to
work.  There is a bug here somewheres, some symbols do not get set for
sound in the config script otherwise.  If you have a PNP sound card
then you MUST compile as a module and install and config ISAPNP for it
to work. (At least for kernels through 2.0.36, I havn't tried the 2.2
stuff yet).  

Another good tip for kernel compiles, is to get the debian kernel
package.  It allows you to build a debian package of your new kernel
and then install it with dpkg -i.  This takes ALL the worrry about
installing your new kernel.  (well almost all, you still need to
configure the modules with modconf, this will look familiar as you ran
this utility when you installed debian)

In short please don't sell debian short.  Yes it does seem to run
behind red hat in the glamour curve, but IMHO, ahead of it in the power curve.
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Re: BE MORE SIMPLE!!!!

1999-06-09 Thread Kenneth Scharf


>Hmmm, I got my discs from cheapbytes and they boot >fine. In fact all
of
>my cheapbytes discs boot okay. Actually that's a bit >misleading since
I
>only have three sets ;)
Cheap bytes had got a bad rap when they blew the dependancies and
simlinks on debian 2.0 and included a bad upgrad script.  (even then
the cd's were not REALLY broken, I did an install from scratch with
them and it worked fine).  There is nothing wrong with the current
debian 2.1 from cheap bytes (other than no non-free this time).

Installing from the net can be real hard for newbies.  There is a
catch-22 here, you have to have enough of a system up to access the net
(means seting up PPP and a dial up connection to your ISP or getting
DHCP /ethernet going if you have a hard-wired connection).  This can
involve as many as 10 floppies full of stuff.  To get this you need
another computer already setup with a net connection running 'nix or
windows.  If you only have the one computer then you might as well
start off with the CD set (or get a friend to download you the floppies
... two or three sets of 'em just in case of Murphy's law).  

Of course once you HAVE your system up and running and on the net
upgrades via the net are easy(ier).  I havn't tried to upgrade (other
than manually, one package at a time) via the net, if I had a second
phone line or a BroadBand hardwired connection maybe I would not be
chicken to try..(not the lack of speed, but not being able to tie
up my phone for hours on end) :-<



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8MB PCI 1600x1200@76Hz video card suggestion?

1999-06-09 Thread Kenneth Scharf

Date:

>I have a PCI Matrox Millenium 2 MB video card (2 years >old) and
>now I find I really want 32 bit colour.  I tried to >find a Matrox
>Millenium G200 PCI 8 MB card, but only AGP ones are >available
>(PCI is in back-order).

>Any suggestions for an 8MB card well-supported by >XFree PCI that
>can do 32bit-colour at 1600x1200 and 76Hz?
Is your Millenium card upgradeable?  I have the 8m version of the same
card and it does the resolutions you want.  (I paid about $60 for it
because it was discontinued old stock at a computer show).

BTW have you tried to run linux svga doom on yours?  It causes mine to
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Re: BE MORE SIMPLE!!!!

1999-06-09 Thread Kenneth Scharf

>I cannot install Debian from my Cheapbytes Slink CD >without the base
>floppies,
>but I believe I can do it from the Hamm CD, also from >Cheapbytes. 
With
>the
>Slink CD, the installation stops because of an error >with the ncurses
>package.
Hmmm I did not have this problem installing on my other computer (The
install didn't go through all the way, but this was because LILO
couldn't be installed due to the way the HD was formated.  I didn't see
any problem with the ncurses package.  Exactly which step did you die
on.  I got all the way though networking (which I skipped) then tried
to install lilo.


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SVGAlib and Riva TNT card?

1999-06-10 Thread Kenneth Scharf


> If I force VGA-only, everything's fine, but the >resolutions and
colors
>are, um, limited. If I force NV3 (Riva) mode, I get a >blank screen.
It
>still responds to keypresses and I can telnet in, but >until I
>CNTRL-ALT-DEL the screen is hosed.
 
This sounds familiar, the same thing happens to me when I tried to run
svga-doom with my matrx millenium (the original) 8M pci.  Also if I
have a login in a regular terminal screen and an X display the X
display will sometimes blink off and on for no reason.

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grep "\" ... how

I need to write a script to replace '\'s with '/', but how can I get
grep to accept '\' as a regular expression (it assumes it to be line
continue character, at least from the sh prompt)?

this is to port a windows program to linux.

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Re: grep "\" ... how



--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > I need to write a script to replace '\'s with '/',
> but how can I get
> > grep to accept '\' as a regular expression (it
> assumes it to be line
> > continue character, at least from the sh prompt)?
> 
> Come to think of it, if you're trying to _replace_
> charcacters, instead
> of just locating them, you might want to try the tr
> command:
> 
>   cat file |tr '\\' '/' >outfile
> 
> This commandline feeds file into the 'tr' command,
> which here is told to
> replace backslashes (note that here too, you must
> use '\\') with
> slashes, and then sends the output to outfile. 
> Check out the man page
> for 'tr'.
> 
> If backslashes will only appear in file paths, you
> are set.  If they
> appear in some other contents where they need to be
> kept, then look at a
> more sophisticated tool like sed.
> 
This it true... the '\' also appears in printf's
IE: fprintf("\t hello \n");

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Re: grep "\" ... how

I this case the '\'s that appear in #include statements are the ONLY
ones that need to be changed, so I can look for #include.

--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > If backslashes will only appear in file paths,
> you
> > > are set.  If they
> > > appear in some other contents where they need to
> be
> > > kept, then look at a
> > > more sophisticated tool like sed.
> > > 
> > This it true... the '\' also appears in printf's
> > IE: fprintf("\t hello \n");
> 
> Ok... You're going to have to do some surgery with
> sed scripts, and if
> that fails, do it by hand...
> 
> sed basically is a batch editor.  You give on the
> command line a
> sequence of editing commands (or tell it to read
> them from a file), and
> it applies them automatically to each line on its
> standard input.
> 
> What you need to do is determine if the two kinds of
> backslashes, the
> ones needing to be changed and the ones that don't,
> appear in disjoint
> contexts.  For example, do you only have backlash
> escape sequences
> inside printf statements, or do they occur in string
> literals elsewhere
> in your code?  Do any literal pathnames appear
> inside printf statements?
> 
> If this above is true, you could write a script that
> changed the
> backslashes into slashes only outside printf
> statements, or something
> similar.   However, the viability of this kind of
> approach depends on
> your code.
> 

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Re: grep "\" ... how

Yeah I guess I really need to order a copy of the 'camel' book from
amazon.

--- Michael Stenner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >> > I need to write a script to replace '\'s with
> '/',
> >> > but how can I get grep to accept '\' as a
> regular 
> >> > expression (it assumes it to be line continue 
> >> > character, at least from the sh prompt)?
> 
> -- stuff about tr and sed --
> 
> >> 
> >> If backslashes will only appear in file paths,
> you
> >> are set.  If they
> >> appear in some other contents where they need to
> be
> >> kept, then look at a
> >> more sophisticated tool like sed.
> >> 
> >This it true... the '\' also appears in printf's
> >IE: fprintf("\t hello \n");
> 
> At this point, it might be worth your time to learn
> a little perl.  I
> know that sed and awk are rather powerful, too, but
> if you're porting a
> program, you must be reasonably proficient at
> programming.
> 
> you will find a little time learning perl's regular
> expressions rather
> useful later on, too.
> 
>   -Michael
> 
> I (and many others) can give you a little help with
> a perl script (less
> than 10 lines) that would correctly modify 99% of
> your backslashes.
> 
>   Michael Stenner Office Phone: 919-660-2513
>   Duke University, Dept. of Physics
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>   Box 90305, Durham N.C. 27708-0305
> 
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Re: grep "\" ... how

Yup this works, though you can't save the output to the original file
(it blanks it).  So I first copy the original to a backup, and then run
the backup through sed and overwrite the original (then delete the
copy).  I can wrap all this in a batch script to fix the entire
directory.

I have a book on awk (that was another idea of what to use here) and
probably will order that camel book.  (Perl is usefull for CGI also,
which is something else I want to learn.).

--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > I this case the '\'s that appear in #include
> statements are the ONLY
> > ones that need to be changed, so I can look for
> #include.
> 
> Good.  So you need to change `\` to `/` in lines
> that start with
> '#include':
> 
>   cat file.c |sed -e '/^[ \t]*#include/ s,\\,/,g'
> >outfile.c
> 
> That I think should do it.  If it fails, at least
> you should be on the
> right track.
> 
> (Basically it means "On every line that starts with
> optional whitespace
> followed by an include statement, substitute all
> instances of
> backslashes with slashes".)
> 
> And for homework, study regular expressions (man
> grep) and sed (man
> sed).  As someone said, you could also try learning
> perl.  Actually, vi
> or emacs's search and replace facilty can also do
> this quite easily.
> 
> Luck porting your program!
> 

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Re: UPS anyone?

1999-06-18 Thread Kenneth Scharf



> 
>   - Kenneth Scharf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> says the
> debian upsd package
> works quite well with their ups's in dumb mode. 
> However he uses an
> older Back-ups 400 (not sold anymore) and I
> think he made his own 
> cable (?).  Do we have to make a cable to use
> upsd?
> 
I made my own cable as per the doc's in upsd because I bought the UPS
used and it did not come with the cable.  Making a cable is no big
deal, two connectors and two resistors (from any radio shack), and 4
wires.  (Not hard if you know how to solder without burning yourself). 
I havn't looked at any of the other packages you mentioned (maybe I
should) but upsd does get the job done with my castoff ups's.
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acroread 4

1999-06-22 Thread Kenneth Scharf

>
>Hi,
>I just downloaded acrobat reader 4.0 from the >adobe website.
>It coredumps in my slink system. Do I need at >least potato to
run
>this program??
>
>Thanks.
>
>Shao.
I also downloaded acroread 4 and installed it.  It runs fine on my
slink system.  Try ldd and see if you have all the required libraries
installed.

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pkarc

1999-06-24 Thread Kenneth Scharf

Does anyone remember the old pkarc compression program? I have several
floppies full of programs that have been compressed with pkarc and
would like to recover them, but I seem to have lost the archiver.  Is
there a debian package that can read pkarc's? (I know that the thing is
copyrighted so a compressor might be non-free).

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Huge hard disk...how to partition

1999-07-07 Thread Kenneth Scharf

I just got a new HD (17.2 gb) in preparation for upgrading my system to
potatoe when it is released.  (I am also going to get a new DUAL PII mb
now that REAL smp is in the kernel).

My question is how to partition the disk.  I probably need to dual boot
with windows 95 or NT (probably will use NT due to SMP HW) to be able
to run some windows ap's that don't yet run under wine.

My idea was to partition as follows:

#1 ext2 /boot containing only the boot image ~ 100mb
#2 ntfs or vfat 4-5gb for windows
#3 swap (128 -256mb) does 2.X support max swap size > 128mb now?
#4 ext2 / rest of the disk (mount entire system here after image loads,
then mount /boot)

Will this work? (I don't know if NT needs that the system partition be
the FIRST partition)

This is necessary to get the boot partition completly under 1024
cylinder limit.

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Re: new logo on debian.org

1999-07-14 Thread Kenneth Scharf

> 
> I saw the new logo on www.debian.org and I'm curious..
> Exactly what is it supposed to symbolize?
> 
> I don't have much of an artistic mind, but to me it looks like a pigs
> tail.
- --
>I do not care for it either. maybe there is more to >the logo (as a
>symbol) than we realize. For now I will stay with the >Penguin, more
>recognizable.

Hmmm...I downloaded the source from potatoe for linuxlogo (to fix what
got broken in slink with my K6 cpu) and see that it now uses the swirl.
 Wonder if I can put Tux back?  (Hey if you want that stupid bottle
have Barbra Edan (holding a penguin!) come out of the bottle instead of
the smoke!)
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infomagic

1999-07-23 Thread Kenneth Scharf


Check out www.infomagic.com.

The reason they no longer put Debian on their linux toolkit cd's (they
say) is that at 4 cd's it is now too large.  So they now have a
SEPARATE debian 4 cd set.  The latest (2.1r0x) will be out in August at
$15 (plus postage).  You can subscribe for updates at $10 a pop. 
Hopefully, the August release will be followed very shortly by the 2.2
release? (In a few months anyway).  This is an OFFICIAL Debian release.
 Their web page still shows the 'ol blue eyes' logo on the CD.  Someone
should tell them about the new logo?
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Re: infomagic

1999-07-24 Thread Kenneth Scharf



> You know, I don't mean to rain on your parade too
> much, but I've read 2
> messages from you on different subjects talking
> about Potato being
> released "soon"...
> 
> Let me start by saying whoever told you this was
> POSSIBLE is on crack.
> Why can we not release "soon"?
> 
>   * Our boot disks don't work anymore
>   * We need to fix the cdrom layout
>   * Potato's perl is inconsistant, at best
>   * We have almost THREE HUNDRED release critical
> bugs that must be fixed
> prior to release
>   * The archive maintainers haven't had time to
> process the manual stuff
> in incoming for what feels like ages but is
> probably more like a
> couple of weeks
>   * dinstall seems to be broken/breaking
>   * Our mirrors are out of sync
>   * We need a reasonable testing period after we've
> fixed the above
> 
> 
> To everyone expecting a September release, WAKE UP! 
> It's NOT going to
> happen.  It's NOT possible, not that soon.  I think
> if we shoot for having
> it out by the holidays it could be done, however
> we've seen what happens
> if it's not done by December---everyone goes on
> vacation and nothing gets
> done until February.  =p
> 
I'm sorry if I gave you the wrong idea.  I knew damn well that a
september release had a snowball's chance in hell.  However someone out
there is posting debian vaporware for commerical distribution, I just
meant to report what I see.  Myself, I'm hoping to see 2.2 before Y2K
(please tell me that this at least is possible).
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Installion: Uncorrectable Error

1998-08-17 Thread Kenneth Smart

I am trying to install debian onto a partition on my second hard drive,
I get finished installing, and making my boot floppy, by i get a lot of
error messages,when I reboot to continue installion. There are so many
messages after a while the computer just sits there, and doesnt do
anything.  I tried reinstalling probably 20+ times, and it is still
doing this, I got further than that once, but there was another problem
later on, in hardware, so was going to reinstall, and it is screwed up
again, the error message that I get is:

hdb: read_intr: status=0x59 {DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error}
hdb: read_intr: error=0x40 {UnCorrectable Error}, CHS=40/3/25
sector=34548
end_request: I/O Error, dev 03:42, sector 34548

Any info on this message would really help, I get so many of them, they
just fill up the whole screen. Even the time I got past them, I still
had them, just not as many. If it matters, I have a Pentium 100mhz 24
RAM Linux Partition=225 megs and I am installing from a CD, which I
purchased at linuxcentral.com

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kernel package

1998-08-31 Thread Kenneth Scharf

When I installed debian 2.0 from CD I was asked what modules I wanted
configured into the kernel.  These modules are called out in
/etc/modules.  I have rebuilt the kernel using the kernel package
utility.  This created a debian kernel-image package which I
installed, thus upgrading my kernel.  (neat!)  It seems to have done
everything, except modify the /etc/modules file.  Is there a utility
that modifies this file to reflect the modules built with the new
kernel, or do I have to do this by hand?  (I added module support for
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Modules

|Just installed Debian 2.0, and now I have a question |about modules.

|I have managed to get isapnp setup my network card |properly. When I
|manually
|give:
|   insmod /lib/modules/2.0.34/net/ 8390.0
|   insmod /lib/modules/2.0.34/net/ne io=0x220 irq=11
|I get the message that the ne modules has been |successfully loaded.

|Now I want to ne.o module to be loaded at boot. |How/what/where?
I know that if you list the modules to be loaded in the file
/etc/modules (with arguments) they will be loaded at boot time.  (You
dont have to list 8290.o, loading the ne.o module will load the 
8290.o because it depends on the former, assuming you run depmod -a
first, which the kernel init scripts do).  What I would like to know,
is how to create the /etc/module file after building a new kernel, I
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re: help with x

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this will get you a non-X login screen.  You can then log in as root
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OT: netscape 4/libc6/128-bit encryption

---
I know this question belongs properly in the netscape forums, but they
seem pretty MS-Windows oriented.  I'm guessing many of you have had a
similar problem already (though I haven't seen anything recently on the
lists.)

Netscape 4.06 with 128-bit encryption is only available from the
netscape web site after filling out forms giving your address, etc.
Unfortunately it's linked with libc5; for various reasons I won't go
into here this is unsatisfactory for us.

It is possible to get 4.06 linked with libc6 from the ftp site; however,
this is the export version which only has 40-bit encryption, and which
we'd prefer not to be stuck with.

Has anyone succeeded in downloading a 4.x/non-export release linked with
libc6?
--
What about the .rpm version that comes with RedHat 5.1?  This is a
lib6c program, is it 40 or 128 bit encryption?



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OT: netscape 4/libc6/128-bit encryption

---
I know this question belongs properly in the netscape forums, but they
seem pretty MS-Windows oriented.  I'm guessing many of you have had a
similar problem already (though I haven't seen anything recently on the
lists.)

Netscape 4.06 with 128-bit encryption is only available from the
netscape web site after filling out forms giving your address, etc.
Unfortunately it's linked with libc5; for various reasons I won't go
into here this is unsatisfactory for us.

It is possible to get 4.06 linked with libc6 from the ftp site; however,
this is the export version which only has 40-bit encryption, and which
we'd prefer not to be stuck with.

Has anyone succeeded in downloading a 4.x/non-export release linked with
libc6?
--
What about the .rpm version that comes with RedHat 5.1?  This is a
lib6c program, is it 40 or 128 bit encryption?



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