Postfix Upgrade Problem
Hi Had a problem with Postfix. I was altering some of the default values to the ones that I prefer myself. For some reason when I re-started it an error message came up on the screen which didn't make a lot of sense. To cut a long story short I thought it might be better to re-install postfix. Tried it and this is what came back.. home:/etc/apt# apt-get update Hit http://security.debian.org stable/updates/main Packages Hit http://security.debian.org stable/updates/main Release Hit ftp://ftp.kde.org stable/main Packages Hit ftp://ftp.kde.org stable/main Release Hit ftp://ftp.de.debian.org unstable/main Packages Hit ftp://ftp.de.debian.org unstable/main Release Hit ftp://ftp.de.debian.org unstable/non-free Packages Hit ftp://ftp.de.debian.org unstable/non-free Release Hit ftp://ftp.de.debian.org unstable/contrib Packages Hit ftp://ftp.de.debian.org unstable/contrib Release Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done home:/etc/apt# apt-get upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these. Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: postfix: Depends: postfix-ldap (= 1.1.11-0.woody3) but it is not installed E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f. home:/etc/apt# apt-get -f install Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Correcting dependencies... Done The following extra packages will be installed: adduser libdb4.1 postfix postfix-pcre The following NEW packages will be installed: libdb4.1 3 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 488 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/1086kB of archives. After unpacking 1212kB will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y Preconfiguring packages ... dpkg: syntax error: unknown user `amavis' in statusoverride file E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2) How do I get out of this and re-install postfix ? Tried --fix-missing and that doesn't work either. Also tried changing the sources.list to unstable and cutting out the security updates line. Any help greatly appreciated. No mail system just now and I'm having to use Mozilla mail instread. Thanks Richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Upgrade Problem..
Hi Can anyone give me a clue about sorting this one out ? Decided to download Debian the latest version to my experimental machine. The one that gets all the rough treatment. The version that was installed was the stable version of 3.0 r0. Changed the apt-get sources lists line to... deb ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib Then I did 'apt-get dist upgrade'. It grabbed all the packages [470Mb] and started to install them. Everything was fine until it got down to joe_2.8-23_i386.deb whereupon it barfed and died. Tried 'apt-get upgrade -f' and the following error message comes up on the screen after Joe refuses to install... " Unpacking replacement Joe... /var/lib/dpkg/info/joe.potrm: line 3: /usr/bin/update-menus: Permission denied dpkg: warning - old post-removal script returned error exit status 1 dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ... /var/lib/dpkgtmp.ci/postrm: line 3: /usr/bin/update-menus: Permission denied dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/joe_2.8-23_i386.deb (--unpack) subprocess new post-removal script returned error exit status 1 /var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/postrm: line 3: /usr/bin/update-menus: Permission denied dpkg: error while cleaning up: subprocess new post-removal script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/joe_2.8-23_i386.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned and error code (1) " After this 'apt-get upgrade' dies altogether thus causing the whole upgrade to die. Can't install Joe or remove it. Can't fix it with 'apt-get upgrade -f'. Any other option I can try to get round this ? As things are I can use the machine but I can't install or remove packages. Thanks -- Richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Upgrade Problem..
Kent > Richard wrote: > > " Unpacking replacement Joe... > > /var/lib/dpkg/info/joe.potrm: line 3: /usr/bin/update-menus: > > Permission denied > > Can you manually run /usr/bin/update-menus? Yes, that's fine. > Look at line 3 of /var/lib/dpkg/info/jog.potrm and see if there's > anything odd-looking there or in the immediate vicinity. #!/bin/sh -e if command -v update-menus >/dev/null 2>&1; then update-menus; fi if [ "$1" = "purge" ]; then rm -rf /etc/joe fi Doesn't look all that strange to me :) -- Richard www.sheflug.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mouse Problem (solved - partial)
Thanks to everyone who helped me here. In the end after trying all the suggestions, it seem the only way I can get it to work is by un-installing gpm.I did that and it works fine now. I did try having the two running together with same protocl etc, but that didnt work either. thanks again for the input, with a working mouse ;) richard
Kernel Compiling Problem
A problem has recently started compliling custom kerenels. I had to rebuild my machine (long story) and now the custom kernels are't build properly. The line I use to build them is make-kpkg --revision=custom.X.Y kernel_image where X is usually a major change number and Y is a tweak number. eg custom.0.1 Unfortunately ALL my kernels are now building with the custom number of .0.1 as if I'm issuing the line make-kpkg --revision=custom.0.1 kernel_image This used to work. What would everyone suggest? Removing the kernel building package and reinstalling? What? Bemused... -- "This job's too hard for us!" -Andy and Randy Pig
debian-user split
I had this thought the other day when I was looking over some archived deban-user stuff. Two thoughts actually. I know that there are an awful lot of questions that crop up time and time again. These aren't directly related to the Debian-FAQ but crop up enough that maybe there should be something like a debian-user-FAQ, kinda like the Linux-FAQ but tailored more towards Debian GNU/Linux. Secondly a while someone commented about the number of users new to Linux and using debian as their first version (I think it was posted on debian-devel in march sometime.) Anyway, the thought was was that maybe there should be a new debian list, something like debian-newbie. That way people would hopefully think about joining the newbiew list, moving to the user list once they have a better understanding of debian GNU/Linux. For instance, I was thinking that the sort of questions on debian-newbie would be along the lines of; how do I compile a kernel? Why doesn't X work? Does debian support my soundcard? HELP! And debian-user could be used for questions like; my ip-masquerading appears to be broken, I've tried ..., I've upgraded X to patato and now my systems broken..., I'm looking for ... You get the idea. If I'm being completely stupid here then please say so nicely. I'm just throwing a thought I had to the group. Comments would be most welcome. -- "This job's too hard for us!" -Andy and Randy Pig
why isn't vim building
I'm trying to build the vim sources to use gvim. I did it a while ago but have since rebuilt my machine. The problem is that I'm happily copying the three vim files to /usr/src/vim and extracting them with dpkg-source -x vim vim_5.0-0.2.dsc, changing the debian/rules file to remove the two no X switches and then running debian/rules build. The process then appears to go through the configure and building stages but no .deb is produced at the end. Why? Any ideas about what I should be looking for? Any suggestions at all? -- "This job's too hard for us!" -Andy and Randy Pig
xfstt and ram
I added a few M$ truetype fonts and installed xfstt to improve Netscape's look. I wonder if I did it right. gmemusage tells me xfstt is using 4.5 megs of ram. Is this normal?
ttyp0 permissions
I'm running potato and modemu has developed a problem. I start it with modemu -e "AT%B0=1%B1=1&W" -c "minicom -o -p tty%s" . The tty%s always translates to ttyp0. Recently the permission on ttyp0 has become crw--- 1 root tty3, 0 Jul 23 21:37 /dev/ttyp0 I hit it with chmod go+rw and it works for a while, then gets changed back. I have no idea what's causing this or where to look for help.
Re: netscape crashing (solution!!)
Adam Shand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ... > this is what you should do if you've been having problems with netscape > crashing a lot and have a glibc2.1 system (crashes for me occurred either > after password authentication or when closing a netscape window): > > * clean off all the netscape/navigator/communicator packages from your > system (use dpkg --purge until they are all gone). > > * make sure you have the needed libc5 packages: > > # apt-get install xpm4.7 libg++27 > > * go to the below url and download the libc5 netscape file: > > > ftp://ftp.netscape.com/pub/communicator/4.6/english/unix/supported/linux20_libc5/professional_edition/ > > * save it to /tmp/communicator-v46-export.x86-unknown-linux2.0glibc.tar.gz > and make sure that it is owned by root: > > # chown root /tmp/communicator-v46-export.x86-unknown-linux2.0glibc.tar.gz > > * install the debian netscape installer: > > # apt-get install netscape4 Thank you. I get the same exits as you with failed passwords and closing windows. I did this, using navigator instead of communicator. The netscape4 installer seems happy. But I've got a library problem that I can't figure out. I installed libg++27 and yet this: # ldd /usr/lib/netscape/netscape ... libg++.so.27 => not found libstdc++.so.27 => not found /etc/ld.so.cache includes their directory /usr/lib/libc5-compat, ldconfig was run during the install, and they both appear in /etc/ld.so.cache.
Re: Removing alsalib
Levi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I tried removing alsalib while freeing up some hard drive space (i.e. > removing unused packages) and encontetered the following error: > > Removing alsalib0.3.0 ... > argument missing for `remove' at /usr/sbin/install-docs line 96. > dpkg: error processing alsalib0.3.0 (--remove): > subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 255 > Errors were encountered while processing: > alsalib0.3.0 The removal script is screwed up. /var/lib/dpkg/info/alsalib0.3.0.prerm reads: #!/bin/sh -e # Automatically added by dh_installdocs if command -v install-docs >/dev/null 2>&1; then install-docs -r #PACKAGE# fi # End automatically added section Looks like the skeleton was never modified. I think I just renamed it out of the way and the purge went OK. Caveat: I don't really know what I'm talking about here. You might wait until someone who does comments on it.
Re: startup info
This works for redhat: Edit innitab and put in --noclear as follows in the relevant line. 1:12345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty1 --noclear After bootup the screen is not cleared for login, you can then use shift pageup to see all the bootup text. A trick I found on the RH list. (not tested it on deb yet as I am waiting for my 2.0 cd before changing over) Regards all Richard Ed Cogburn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Robert Rati wrote: > > > > Can someone tell me where all the information at startup is logged? Dmesg > > doesn't show me enough of the info. Thanks. > > > > > > This comes up occasionally, and the answer is that, unfortunately, not > all of what is printed during boot-up is saved in logs. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Can I use an IDE Wearnes 622 CD-Writer Under Linux??
I have been having so much trouble getting CD's to write on my Crapdoze box I am wondering how hard it would be to get it to work on my Linux system. Perhaps there is a FAQ or documentation on how to get my breed of writer working? Can it be done? Richard.
Anyone messed around with Appletalk?
Does anyone know anything about Appletalk? We have a Mac user here and I was wondering how hard it would be to setup Debian so he may access resources etc. Is there some documentation on this ? there doesn't seem to be a Howto or anything. Thanks. Richard.
URGENT: Bug in INIT ?
Sorry for the cross-posting but I need a 'user' answer to this but I thought that it might be of interest to the development group as well. If it's not apologies. I tried to install Debian 2.0 on an old Dell machine at work today, I'm afraid I don't know what type it was; all I can say is that the machine is a 486DX2 50. It appears to claim it's a Dell System 450 SE/2. The BIOS is a "Phoenix 80486 ROM BIOS PLUS 1.00 A0C" The machine contains an Adaptec SCSI controller ( I don't know what ) but the message reads "Adaptec AT/SCSI BIOS version 3.20" Unfortunately there is no way of obtaining any detailed system information as the manuals were lost a long time ago. My problem is that boot after installation ( installation worked fine ) a message floods the screen immediately after the "INIT:version 2.75 booting" message. The message reads.. "BUG IN DYNAMIC LINKER ld.so: ../sysdeps/i386/dl_machine.h: 291: elf_machine_rel: Assertion `! "unexpected dynamic reloc type" failed! I get at least fifteen of these messages and the system just stops. Pressing ++ gets as far as the message that reads "No more processes left at this run level" but no reboot occurs. I really need to get this machine running ASAP, but if this is a genuine bug then if someone tells me what they need and how to get it then I'll happily try. If this isn't a bug then what am I doing wrong? I've never seen anything like this before and have absolutely no clues about what to do. HELP !
C question
I know this is the wrong place to ask, so I've got two questions now. What is a good unix/C newsgroup? I think I'm gonna need some help. Now my real question. I've got a perl script that checks the permissions and creates directories. Now I want to rewrite the script in C. I know nothing about checking permissions nor creating directories with C. I don't even know if it's possible, so if someone does know how to do this or a place that might describe the proceedure I would appreciate the assistance. thanks
web db suggestions please
Hi all. I'm kinda having a go a developing an intranet at work and I need some opinions from any experts out there. We have a document register that is obviously used register any documents written, written in vb and accessing an Access db. Now I would like to move this to this intranet. At the moment our server is a 486 running debian 2.0. What I'd like to know is what would be the most favoured choice of front and back ends? I'm thinking cgi *should* be fairly decent for the front end but I've never done this before so I'm no expert. But I have absolutely no idea what db to use. I need something small and fast initially. Suggestions? Thanks all.
Thanks for mail
Thanks for helping with the old mail probs. I was under hte impression that because I needed fetchmail to collect from a pop3 server then smail using smtp wouldn't send. But then I'm very new to 'real' mail only ever having used Miscrsoft stuff before. Apologies to everyone who mentioned wrapping, I'm still not certain how different mail readers cope. Does anyone know of a mail reader for html mail? I might need one.
modem connection speed
How can I tell at what speed I am connecting to my ISP under linux? * * "This job's too hard for us" -Andy and Randy Pig *
Quake 2
I had a go at running Quake 2 this weekend, with limited success I spent ages getting all the libc5 stuff, (glide 2.53, Mesa 3.0 quake2) and I could only run softx in an x window. yeuch. However I noticed that there was also a glibc version of quake2, so after attempting to recompile mesa using glibc I had glx in an X window (unfortunately at about 1frame every 30 seconds) and I can run quake2 in a console at 300x200.
search engines in html
How do I build a seach engine for web pages? Where should I look for information? I want to construct something similar to the microsoft online support search engine. (pet project 1) Any suggestions? * * "This job's too hard for us" -Andy and Randy Pig *
standardising X
Hallo, This is purely an asthetic question, so all coments are welcome. I'd like to standardise my X Windows, so that they all look and operate the same. I assume this is possible but I don't know where to start. Here's what I'd like. gvim looks very nice, it has a nice scroll-bar on the right and decent buttons. The scroll bar may be moved by either the arrows at the top or bottom or by dragging the scroll-bar itself. (obvious) xman however has the scroll bar at the left hand side and buttons that are defined by dots. The scroll-bar can only be moved by repeated left and right mouse button clicking. which is pretty poor really. Other things are annoying too such as the fact that some buttons must be kept open by holding the mouse button down and others stay open themselves. I want to standardise this so that all windows operate the same way. So where do I start? All comments appreciated * * "This job's too hard for us" -Andy and Randy Pig *
x3270
Hallo all, a while ago someone mention x3270 for connection to IBM mainframes. Well, I finally found it (x3270-3.1.1.6) but I just cannot get the thing to compile. OK, I know I need to learn C, but I could use some help to sort this out. Useful information. OS: Debian 2.0, x3270: 3.1.1.6 errors: see attachment. If I can get this to work, then I'm gonna try and stick Debian on a machine at work. Are there any utilities that can receive Netware broadcast messages? :-) Is there any way to cut and paste between windows? I stuck the attachment on because it's easier than retyping the whole message out. r * * "This job's too hard for us" -Andy and Randy Pig * popups.c: In function `popup_an_errno': popups.c:503: conflicting types for `sys_errlist' /usr/include/stdio.h:221: previous declaration of `sys_errlist' make: *** [popups.o] Error 1
buggy xbase or am I doing something wrong?
Hallo again, I'm not certain if this is a problem on the debian cd's I've got (cheap bytes) or if I'm just doing something incredibly stupid, so maybe someone out there can offer some help. If I do a fresh debian install (I'm trying to stick linux on my machine at work) then for X to work I need the xbase packages and the server (vga and svga, or just svga?), there are probably other things as well but they're not too important (?). Anyway, if I run XF86Setup the graphics card chipset isn't listed (it's a cirrus logic gl-5465 (hp vectra)) so I'd go for unlisted, I don't know how much memory is on the card (SuperProbe didn't help). Provided I don't try to run at more than 1024x768 ( I want 1600x1200, or at least 1180x ) then xvidtune seemed ok. Here's the problem. Once I've exited xvidtune the command prompt is screwed. On my home computer I cannot see what I type and the prompt 'steps' on the screen, e.g. # # # # At work I can't type anything and the prompt is appended to the previous onr, e.g. ]#[ ]#[ ]#[ ]#[ ]#[ ]#[ ]# I don't think that this is 'normal' becuase if I use the xfree86 distribution I downloaded then this doesn't happen. Does any one have any suggestions? Does any one know where I can get the proper xserver for a cirrus logic gl-5465 card. Thanks for your help. * * "This job's too hard for us" -Andy and Randy Pig *
xfree86 errors
Can someone tell me what these errors mean? I figure that they aren't very important but I'd still like to know what they mean. Next, how can I get rid of these messages, not just catting error to /dev/null but actually eliminating the cause. Where do I start, how do I find out where to start? Thanks. X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown). X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown). xinit: connection to X server lost. waiting for X server to shut down login: fatal IO error 32 (Broken pipe) or KillClient on X server ":0.0" FreeFontPath: FPE "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled" refcount is 2, should be 1; fixing. * * "This job's too hard for us" -Andy and Randy Pig *
debian X
Hallo again, I'm puzzled about the way the debian X distribution works. On my machine at home I put on the distribution from Xfree86.org because I was more familiar with that and I couldn't figure out dselect properly at the time, but on my machine at work I've put the 'proper' Debian X installation. My problem is with the way the X server starts. I can happily use XF86Setup to give me a nice looking server at 1182x864x8, but after that whenever I run startx I get a message saying something about the X server not being able to run at the specified resolution (sorry I don't have the exact message at hand). BUT IT WORKED FOR XF86SETUP! I know that 'X' is a wrapper around the chosen server but what exactly does it do? If I change X to a symbolic link to the Xserver then everything works fine. My resolution is crystal clear and everything appears to be running ok. As long as X is the wrapper, it doesn't want to run above vga. Any ideas? Initially the adjustments made at the end of XF86Setup with xvidtune weren't written to XF86Config either. I had to manually record the values and make the adjustments myself. Is this 'normal' for the Debian X Windows? If not then what am I doing wrong? All suggestions gratefully received. Thanks again. You're all wonderful * * "This job's too hard for us" -Andy and Randy Pig *
IPX Networking
Hallo again. I want to try and get my machine to access the local Windows 95 network and the Novell server. Now I assume that I'm going to need samba to access the shared Win95 drives but that can wait. Firstly I need to get access to the Novell server. I assume that this is going to need to IPX networking package. I've built IPX into the kernel, but I don't know how to go about accessing the Network. After installing the IPX package (thinking I could fiddle later) I kept receiving the following message: "IPX: Network number collision 74201 eth0 802.3 and eth0 802.2" What does this mean? I didn't just get one ot two either, the vt was rendered unusuable by the sheer volume of message scrolling past. So my three immediate questions are, what does the message mean, what caused it, and how do I get remove the problem? I'll read the Network Administrators Guide before I bother anyone about connecting to Netware servers ;-) Thanks again... * * "This job's too hard for us" -Andy and Randy Pig *
X authentication problen
X is running fine apart from one problem involving the .Xauthentication file. If I login as user bob and startx everything is fine. I happily compiled vim-5.3 for the graphical interface. Now, if I su to root and try to run gvim I get the following error; Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key cannot open displayXlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key So I logged in as root and su'ed to bob and tried gvim again, with the same error. I had a good read of the X security information but I'm peturbed. This doesn't happen at home with the 'standard' XF86 distribution so I'm assuming it's a Debian thing, but what to I fix? I don't even have a .Xauthentication file at home, so I'm thinking that this must matter. If I just do xhost +hostname would that fix it? What about security? Thanks again... * * "This job's too hard for us" -Andy and Randy Pig *
Re: Get this, Gateway2000's 'wonderful' tech support
Allen Burns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I wrote a e-mail to gateway2000's tech support team asking them if Linux > was compatible with my Promise Ultra 33 here is an EXACT copy of what was > returned: > > Hello Allen, > > Thanks for your message. Unfortunatly, Linus has not been tested on any > system that Gateway sells and therefore we off no support for that > operating system. If the system works in the original operating system > that we shipped, then that is what we support. > Sorry for the inconvience, > > > > Notice the 'Linus' ?? What the h*ll was he somking? Crack? Get real - frontline support will be trained to understand what the majority of their users need or want. Go off the beaten track - and Linux has a way to go yet before it is a threat to the Windows market share! - and you'll be on your own, at least with the majority of vendors. I'm sure there are exceptions, if anyone wanted to be constructive they could list them here. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: slashdot.org linux distribution poll - vote for debian
> At http://www.slashdot.org/, there is a poll of favorite linux > distributions. I encourage you all to go vote for debian, which > is currently trailing redhat by about 50 votes. Has anyone advertized this on whatever Redhat (and the other distributions) have as user lists? While it might be nice to achieve a bigger number than the other guys, it would seem rather pointless to do so by biasing the sample. -- http://staff.elmail.co.uk/~richard/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: K6 and Debian
Pere Camps <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Has anyone used with/out success a AMD K6 chip under Debian? > > TIA! Yes, and it works fine. -- http://staff.elmail.co.uk/~richard/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Linux, a MicroSoft product? (fwd)
Pancho Horrillo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >IS THIS TRUE? No... >Judge Richard Shortner, in an opinion handed down today, ruled that >win this one on appeal" said attorney Lou Zurr. "Well, anyway, I'm etc etc etc -- http://staff.elmail.co.uk/~richard/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
installing a backup drive
I have a email/web server running on one drive and I want to install a backup for obvious reasons. Essentially I'll remove the optical drive and have the new HD take the slave spot. I can't set up a RAID witout nuking the information already contained on the server. So_ Whats the best way to go about this? -- -richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Date in mail headers
Carey Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> So it certainly looks like Orn needs to fix his mailer. > > RFC2047 is also applicable - it's responsible to the mangled addresses > you see sometimes if you MUA isn't aware of the proposed standard. > However, I don't think it should be applied to Date: headers. I agree. > Also, I note that RFC822 defines the day part of a date as only the > English names, not something like "Mi=F0" (however that turns out when > TM and various MTA's get done with it). And the only valid > non-numeric time zones are: UT GMT EST EDT CST CDT MST MDT PST PDT, or > a single letter except J (not "BST"). RFC1123 says you should use numeric timezones only (but must understand some of the text ones). See section 5.2.14. > RFC822 also seems to have a year-2000 bug. RFC1123 says you should use 4 digit dates. Same section as above. It also modifies the syntax of RFC822 to allow this to work l-) -- http://www.elmail.co.uk/~richard/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: mutt + squirrelmail
On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 09:06:12PM +0100, Maurits van Rees wrote: [...] > > Some snippets from my .muttrc: > > # Default mail directory - `=' refers to this folder. > set folder=imaps://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/INBOX. > > # Local mail spool box: > mailboxes /var/mail/maurits > # IMAP inbox: > mailboxes imaps://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ > # debian-user is sorted delivered here: > mailboxes imaps://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/INBOX.Debian > # junk/spam is delivered here: > mailboxes imaps://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/INBOX.Junk > > > > With that pressing 'c' shows the mailbox with the new mail. That did not seem to work for me, but set folder=imap://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ and mailboxes =INBOX does, at last, allow me to return to the INBOX via 'c' and tab. So I am making progress. Is there a way to move a message to another mailbox? I have only found 'C' and then 'd' to do this. Anyway, thanks for the help. I shall probably gradually get it all working now. UPDATE: I have been stuck for a day unable to send any messages from mutt (and something I did in mutt has upset kmail, so that option is gone (kmail cannot work out what folders are there -- keeps jumping back and forth between two interpretations of the folder list). I do not quite know where to look for the explanation of no outgoing mail from mutt. Outgoing mail from the command line goes with no problem. I assume something in the default mutt and/or the bits I cribbed from various sources is disagreeing with exim4. Or doesn't exim4 come into the sending of mail? I get so confused by these components. I have tried setting exim4 (with dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config) as internet server and as using smarthost (my ISP). Both work from command line. What log files should I be examining? -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Courier certificate
Every time I log on to IMAP server via mutt, it says This certificate belongs to: localhost [EMAIL PROTECTED] Courier Mail Server Automatically-generated IMAP SSL key New York NY US This certificate was issued by: localhost [EMAIL PROTECTED] Courier Mail Server Automatically-generated IMAP SSL key New York NY US ... WARNING: Server hostname does not match certificate I assume this is a default certificate generated by Courier at install. I have so far failed to find out how to replace it with a "correct certificate" Can anyone point me at the relevant instructions, please? -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
clock oddity
I've been reading man pages of hwclock, xclock, adjtime, and so on, but cannot see how to adjust the time shown on teh icewm clock, which is steadfastly 56 minutes ahead of the hwclock (which is set reasonably correct). Which utility controls this? -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Courier certificate
> Edit `/etc/courier/imapd.cnf' accordingly, then run > `/usr/lib/courier/mkimapdcert' to generate the new certificate. > > Reload /etc/init.d/courier-* and close your client, log in again. > Thanks, that is clear. But man imapd does not explain the fields in imapd.cnf. I need to enter info in C, ST, L, CN -- I assume. Does UK mean united kingdom for C -- or is it Ukraine? ST in the UK is presumably irrelevant, though I could put the county in there. L may stand for 'long' -- or not. I could put 'London', as being near enough. This may relate to timezone, or not. CN seems to be servername for some reason. It currently says 'localhost'. Maybe I need to put my domain name here. At the moment, the default domain name 'example.com' only occurs in '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'. Surely the certificate was not attached to example.com as a result of this entry? Any guidance would be appreciated. -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: clock oddity SOLVED
> On 22 Nov 2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> I've been reading man pages of hwclock, xclock, adjtime, and so on, but >> cannot see how to adjust the time shown on teh icewm clock, which is >> steadfastly 56 minutes ahead of the hwclock (which is set reasonably >> correct). Which utility controls this? > > Have you done (as root) hwclock --hctosys ? > > If not, your hardware and system clocks may be different. > > After you do the above you'd better restart icewm, otherwise the time > display will freeze for a long time. Thanks, Anthony. I missed that when reading the man page. It worked, of course. -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Courier certificate SOLVED
>>Edit `/etc/courier/imapd.cnf' accordingly, then run >>`/usr/lib/courier/mkimapdcert' to generate the new certificate. >> >>Reload /etc/init.d/courier-* and close your client, log in again. >> > I'll also give an example... [...] That was very useful, and I have successfully generated a new certificate with correct details. It was necessary to delete/move the old one first. Thanks, -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
how does mutt send?
WHen I compose a message in mutt and hit Y, it says "Sending message..." and waits, apparently not sending anything until I hit Q. SO what does mutt do at this point? I must have to configure something, but I'm unclear what. System is sid with exim4. Mutt is receiving imap from a remote system. Sending mail normally from command line functions correctly AFAICS. TIA -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how does mutt send?
> On Tuesday, 23.11.2004 at 20:31 -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> WHen I compose a message in mutt and hit Y, it says "Sending >> message..." and waits, apparently not sending anything until I hit Q. >> SO what does mutt do at this point? I must have to configure >> something, but I'm unclear what. >> >> System is sid with exim4. Mutt is receiving imap from a remote >> system. Sending mail normally from command line functions correctly >> AFAICS. > > The other replies in this thread are telling you what you probably > already know: Mutt uses the local MTA to send mail out. > > Is Exim definitely running? What happens when you do: > > telnet 127.0.0.1 25 > > Do you get an Exim banner come up? Yes, I get 220 potty.co-ho.net ESMTP Exim 4.34 Tue, 23 Nov 2004 22:27:09 +> > > When you say "Sending mail normally from command line functions > correctly", what exactly do you mean? It is possible that the > command(s) you issue are not invoking the MTA, especially if it results > in local delivery. No, I can do 'mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] and it is sent, arrives normally, and appears in the exim4 mainlog, thus: 2004-11-23 22:30:18 1CWjAv-0005AL-U4 => [EMAIL PROTECTED] R=smarthost T=remote_smtp_smarthost H=smtp.onetel.net [212.67.120.126] But when I composed this reply in mutt (actually it's vim that is opened in mutt), and tried to send it, nothing happened, and nothing showed up in the exim log. Should there be a setting in the /etc/Muttrc or ~/.muttrc that should specify how to send? I grepped for 'exim' in both and found nothing. So I am sending this again from squirrelmail. -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how does mutt send?
[...] > - here's the excerpt from the Muttrc > manpage: > > sendmail > Type: path > Default: "/usr/sbin/sendmail -oem -oi" > > Specifies the program and arguments used to deliver mail sent by Mutt. > Mutt expects that the speci- > fied program interprets additional arguments as recipient addresses. Ok, I added the following to /etc/Muttrc sendmail "/usr/sbin/exim4 -bm" And if this arrives, it solved the problem! No, it didn't. There is a message before "Sending message..." saying "Create Sent Y/n". Sent does exist on the imap server, but perhaps not in the right place. Maybe this is the snag. I tried commenting out the line in ~/.muttrc set record="=Sent", but mutt still asked "Create Sent?" I tried altering it to say set record="sent-mail" which is a local maildir, but it still asks about Sent. Nothing shows in /var/exim4/mainlog, so it isn't getting that far. Err... what next? -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
IP forwarding configuration
Hi to all. I'm trying to configure the kernel 2.2.16 to do ip forwarding. Currently, I have installed the 2.0.38 and there is no problem (I know, the configuration is different). I've done everything I think I have to: Check the /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward value, that is 1. Check that there is no ipchains rules that deny ip forwarding. Check that the default policy for forwarding chain is ACCEPT. Still doesn't work. Did I miss anything? Please, help me. Thanks. Richard.
Gnome mouse icon
Hi all, I have installed Gnome over Debian. Everything goes ok, but the mouse icon: there is no mouse icon. Instead, there is a blank square, without any arrow. Any clue? Thanks in advance.
FTP problem
Hi guys, I have installed the Debian 2.2, with the ftp service (wu-ftpd) running. The problem is that initiate a connection from any machine takes a lot of time (more than 1 minute). The rest of the services (telnet, www ...) works fine. Does anybody knows why? Thanks. Richard.
Re: Aiii, xfree86redux
Same here. Use only the 3.3.5 with the XVGA server. Works great, though sometimes Enlightenment freezes up every now and again, but that's because the V3 support isn't ... awesome ;) Castille At 11:29 AM 12/24/99 -0500, Todd Suess wrote: Just to put my $.02 in, I have my voodoo3 2000 PCI working fine in X with NOTHING except Xfree86 3.3.5. I didn't use any of the 3DFX drivers at all. Granted, I don't play Quake3 or anything, but the graphics quality and speed are plenty good for me at this point. Regards, Todd At 08:15 AM 12/24/99 -0800, Steve Winston wrote: Concerning my problems installing a Voodoo3 card: Do I have to install the new stock Xf86 3.3.5 drivers before I install the the drivers I downloaded from linux.3dfx.com? [*snip for length*]
Re: PPP connection
Sound like you need to set your DNS servers that it'll use to resolve things. Castille At 10:50 AM 12/24/99 -0800, Jacob Smith wrote: Hey Well I got my modem to connect to my ISP fine now. I accomplished this by commenting out the 'auth' line in the ect/ppp/options file as Hans had suggested a while back. However I cannot go to any website and I can not ping other systems and cannot ping my system from another box. The ISP I connect to runs Microsoft NT 4.0 w/ service pack 5. I am positive that all the standard setting are good becuase I work at the ISP. If anyone has any idea what this is caused by that would be great. I think that I am about 1 of a total of 5 linux user on the ISP and the only one running Debian so any help would be awesome. Jake Smith -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Re: Detecting IBM 13.5GB IDE HDD---anyone?
Actually, yeah. I have the IBM 14.4 GXP drive, and it detects fine. It's on as secondary on my secondary IDE controller, but I don't know if that affects anything. . . I have much the same system, except on an EPOX board with a bios that's only a few months old. . . You might wanna see if there's an update for your current board, because you may just need to flash so that the board can manipulate the heads, for instance.. Castille At 12:08 PM 12/25/99 +1000, Alan E. Davis wrote: Installing potato. My system is as follows: Mainboard: ASUS P5A CPU:K6-II 400 What is sfdisk? Is it on the install disks---apparently not? I have attempted to follow the Large Disk HOWTO and jumpered the drive as a 15 Head drive, as suggested. Otherwise it was detected at 500MB. I only see 7.9 GB. Several different BIOS parameters don't improve the situation. Has anyone on this list succeeded at this? Alan Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
enlightenment epplets and debian
anyone had any luck with these? I can't seem to get them to run right ... Castille
Re: Booting Linux and Win98
Coincidentally, I'm doing the same thing, but using boot floppies since LILO doesn't like how big my my new HDD is (/dev/hdd, coincidentally), or where I have the linux partition. Is there any way to work around that? (I would like to use a kernel above 2.0.36, but the boot floppy makers for the kernel images are all hosed, and I'm still working on tweaking the kernel to make my own compilation). I'm sort of new at *nix in general, though I've got X-Windowing System working beautifully, and I hear that's something to brag about. *G* Any help at all would be appreciated. The HDD is an IBMGXP 14.4G. It runs on an AMD K6-2/400 with 160M of RAM. Windows98 is on /dev/hda, and I've considered putting a small *nix partition on that, if it's needed. Castille
X server can't find mouse
Have run xf86config several times. At startx it seems to be loading but then server crashes with fatal message that server can't find the mouse -- no such file or device. It's just a regular 2-button mouse. Microsoft protocol works fine with this mouse on the same box on another partition with Red Hat and later Mandrake. I did try ln -s /dev/ttys0 /dev/mouse but it still didn't see it. I don't know how to find or configure gpm or even what it is. Everything else seems to behave fine. What's missing? Thanks much Richard
hardware question
I am going to be putting together a new computer in the next couple of weeks. When i do i want to install debian on it. I am looking at a kr7a abit motherboard with the KT266A chipset. I was wondering if anyone has heard anything about running linux on this motherboard. Anything will be appreciated. richard
dominate xdm?
New install and just got X to work. xdm starts twm, which is lame, on VC7 with a login. You can't get out of it on that console. Startx won't work anywhere of cours. I want to use e.g. icewm. How do I reconfigure xdm to default to a different window manager, and/or turn xdm off? I couldn't find the script to change in /etc/X11. I wrote a test .xsession file (did make executable) with just exec xterm. Even though allow-user-xsession does in /etc/X11/Xsession.options, that $HOME/.xsession doesn't prevail and still stuck with twm.
fs type iso9660 not supported by kernel?
A still new installation of potato from CDROM. Upon mount /dev/cdrom or mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /cdrom I get the subject error message. The line /dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 defaults,ro,user,no auto is already in /etc/fstab, put there by the installer. What's wrong? Do I have to reinstall debian or recompile the kernel?
CDROM problems with installer 2.2.23
Hi Have installed potato(carefully,multiple times) using boot floppy images 2.2.23 from CDROM. On reboot, apt-get tries to access packages and gets error: "fs iso9660 not supported by kernel". Using mount has always given the same error. I tried using an older version installer (2.1) which explicitly refused to load the cdrom module. The CDROM is ATAPI, ASUS CD S400/A and should not need a special driver. The computer is AMD K5 -- Debian is hdc secondary master, CDROM is hdd secondary slave. CDROM works fine on Mandrake 8.0 which is on a different physical drive hda, dual boot using LILO. CDROM works on floppy or CDROM Debian boot media, just not from Debian on hdc. I tried to use ftp for access thinking to try to compile a different kernel but on the last two tries apt-get now cannot name resolve the Debian ftp site. I had gotten further with this Debian install and after some effort X-windows was working somewhat. I then tried to mess with kernel issues to get the CDROM working but I'm not winning. As I reread this, sounds like hdc maybe can't reach the CDROM. I'll check the hardware, but are there any other insights? Richard
exim envelopes
reduces the level of bounced bounces considerably.
# headers_check_syntax
# Exim contains support for the Realtime Blocking List (RBL), and the many
# similar services that are being maintained as part of the DNS. See
# http://www.mail-abuse.org/ for background. The line below, if
uncommented,
# will reject mail from hosts in the RBL, and add warning headers to mail
# from hosts in a list of dynamic-IP dialups. Note that MAPS may charge
# for this service.
#rbl_domains = rbl.mail-abuse.org/reject : dialups.mail-abuse.org/warn
# http://www.rfc-ignorant.org is another interesting site with a number of
# services you can use with the rbl_domains option
# The setting below allows your host to be used as a mail relay only by
# localhost: it locks out the use of your host as a mail relay by any
# other host. See the section of the manual entitled "Control of relaying"
# for more info.
host_accept_relay = 127.0.0.1 : 1 : 64.36.7.27
# This setting allows anyone who has authenticated to use your host as a
# mail relay. To use this you will need to set up some authenticators at
# the end of the file
#host_auth_accept_relay = *
# If you want Exim to support the "percent hack" for all your local
domains,
# uncomment the following line. This is the feature by which mail addressed
# to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (where z is one of your local domains) is locally rerouted to
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] and sent on. Otherwise x%y is treated as an ordinary local part
# percent_hack_domains=*
# If this option is set, then any process that is running as one of the
# listed users may pass a message to Exim and specify the sender's
# address using the "-f" command line option, without Exim's adding a
# "Sender" header.
trusted_users = mail:www-data
# If this option is true, the SMTP command VRFY is supported on incoming
# SMTP connections; otherwise it is not.
smtp_verify = true
# Some operating systems use the "gecos" field in the system password file
# to hold other information in addition to users' real names. Exim looks up
# this field when it is creating "sender" and "from" headers. If these
options
# are set, exim uses "gecos_pattern" to parse the gecos field, and then
# expands "gecos_name" as the user's name. $1 etc refer to sub-fields
matched
# by the pattern.
gecos_pattern = ^([^,:]*)
gecos_name = $1
# This sets the maximum number of messages that will be accepted in one
# connection and immediately delivered. If one connection sends more
# messages than this, any further ones are accepted and queued but not
# delivered. The default is 10, which is probably enough for most purposes,
# but is too low on dialup SMTP systems, which often have many more mails
# queued for them when they connect.
smtp_accept_queue_per_connection = 100
# Send a mail to the postmaster when a message is frozen. There are many
# reasons this could happen; one is if exim cannot deliver a mail with no
# return address (normally a bounce) another that may be common on dialup
# systems is if a DNS lookup of a smarthost fails. Read the documentation
# for more details: you might like to look at the auto_thaw option
freeze_tell_mailmaster = true
# This string defines the contents of the \`Received' message header that
# is added to each message, except for the timestamp, which is
automatically
# added on at the end, preceded by a semicolon. The string is expanded each
# time it is used.
received_header_text = "Received: \
${if def:sender_rcvhost {from ${sender_rcvhost}\n\t}\
{${if def:sender_ident {from ${sender_ident} }}\
${if def:sender_helo_name {(helo=${sender_helo_name})\n\t\
by ${primary_hostname} \
${if def:received_protocol {with ${received_protocol}}} \
(Exim ${version_number} #${compile_number} (Debian))\n\t\
id ${message_id}\
${if def:received_for {\n\tfor <$received_for>}}"
# Attempt to verify recipient address before receiving mail, so that mails
# to invalid addresses are rejected rather than accepted and then bounced.
# Apparently some spammers are abusing servers that accept and then bounce
# to send bounces containing their spam to people.
receiver_try_verify = true
# This would make exim advertise the 8BIT-MIME option. According to
# RFC1652, this means it will take an 8bit message, and ensure it gets
# delivered correctly. exim won't do this: it is entirely 8bit clean
# but won't do any conversion if the next hop isn't. Therefore, if you
# set this option you are asking exim to lie and not be RFC
# compliant. But some people want it.
#accept_8bitmime = true
# This will cause it to accept mail only from the local interface
#local_interfaces = 127.0.0.1
# If this next line is uncommented, any user can see the mail queue
# by using the mailq command or exim -bp.
#queue_list_requires_admin = false
# T
exim envelope problems
level of bounced bounces considerably.
# headers_check_syntax
# Exim contains support for the Realtime Blocking List (RBL), and the many
# similar services that are being maintained as part of the DNS. See #
http://www.mail-abuse.org/ for background. The line below, if
uncommented,
# will reject mail from hosts in the RBL, and add warning headers to mail
# from hosts in a list of dynamic-IP dialups. Note that MAPS may charge #
for this service.
#rbl_domains = rbl.mail-abuse.org/reject : dialups.mail-abuse.org/warn
# http://www.rfc-ignorant.org is another interesting site with a number of
# services you can use with the rbl_domains option
# The setting below allows your host to be used as a mail relay only by #
localhost: it locks out the use of your host as a mail relay by any #
other host. See the section of the manual entitled "Control of relaying" #
for more info.
host_accept_relay = 127.0.0.1 : 1 : 64.36.7.27
# This setting allows anyone who has authenticated to use your host as a #
mail relay. To use this you will need to set up some authenticators at #
the end of the file
#host_auth_accept_relay = *
# If you want Exim to support the "percent hack" for all your local domains,
# uncomment the following line. This is the feature by which mail
addressed # to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (where z is one of your local domains) is locally
rerouted to # [EMAIL PROTECTED] and sent on. Otherwise x%y is treated as an ordinary
local part
# percent_hack_domains=*
# If this option is set, then any process that is running as one of the #
listed users may pass a message to Exim and specify the sender's # address
using the "-f" command line option, without Exim's adding a # "Sender"
header.
trusted_users = mail:www-data
# If this option is true, the SMTP command VRFY is supported on incoming #
SMTP connections; otherwise it is not.
smtp_verify = true
# Some operating systems use the "gecos" field in the system password file
# to hold other information in addition to users' real names. Exim looks
up # this field when it is creating "sender" and "from" headers. If these
options
# are set, exim uses "gecos_pattern" to parse the gecos field, and then #
expands "gecos_name" as the user's name. $1 etc refer to sub-fields
matched
# by the pattern.
gecos_pattern = ^([^,:]*)
gecos_name = $1
# This sets the maximum number of messages that will be accepted in one #
connection and immediately delivered. If one connection sends more #
messages than this, any further ones are accepted and queued but not #
delivered. The default is 10, which is probably enough for most purposes,
# but is too low on dialup SMTP systems, which often have many more mails
# queued for them when they connect.
smtp_accept_queue_per_connection = 100
# Send a mail to the postmaster when a message is frozen. There are many #
reasons this could happen; one is if exim cannot deliver a mail with no #
return address (normally a bounce) another that may be common on dialup #
systems is if a DNS lookup of a smarthost fails. Read the documentation #
for more details: you might like to look at the auto_thaw option
freeze_tell_mailmaster = true
# This string defines the contents of the \`Received' message header that
# is added to each message, except for the timestamp, which is
automatically
# added on at the end, preceded by a semicolon. The string is expanded
each # time it is used.
received_header_text = "Received: \
${if def:sender_rcvhost {from ${sender_rcvhost}\n\t}\
{${if def:sender_ident {from ${sender_ident} }}\
${if def:sender_helo_name {(helo=${sender_helo_name})\n\t\ by
${primary_hostname} \
${if def:received_protocol {with ${received_protocol}}} \ (Exim
${version_number} #${compile_number} (Debian))\n\t\ id
${message_id}\
${if def:received_for {\n\tfor <$received_for>}}"
# Attempt to verify recipient address before receiving mail, so that mails
# to invalid addresses are rejected rather than accepted and then bounced.
# Apparently some spammers are abusing servers that accept and then bounce
# to send bounces containing their spam to people.
receiver_try_verify = true
# This would make exim advertise the 8BIT-MIME option. According to #
RFC1652, this means it will take an 8bit message, and ensure it gets #
delivered correctly. exim won't do this: it is entirely 8bit clean # but
won't do any conversion if the next hop isn't. Therefore, if you # set
this option you are asking exim to lie and not be RFC
# compliant. But some people want it.
#accept_8bitmime = true
# This will cause it to accept mail only from the local interface
#local_interfaces = 127.0.0.1
# If this next line is uncommented, any user can see the mail queue # by
using the mailq command or exim -bp.
#queue_list_requires_admin = false
# The errors_copy line will cause the specified address to receive a copy
# of bounces generated on the system.
#errors_copy = [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
#
end
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Re: [debian-knoppix] nvidia and kernel-image-2.6.3-1-k7
Hi You need to customize your kernel to do you must change it in the boot.img . You can found a good tutorial on knoopix.org . Don't forget to compile your hown cloop.o and to apply the knoppix_patch before make bzImage and after make menuconfig . to mount your boot.img : mount -t msdos boot.img -o loop=/dev/loop0 you can try it with vmware Your kernel must be little ( not enought space on the boot.img to do a kernel more than 960 Ko ) Good luck richard From france ;) On Tue, 2004-03-16 at 10:27, Enrique Samson Jr. wrote: > Hi. > I'm using kernel-image-2.6.3-1-k7 on a Knoppix-3.3 hd-install. I'd like > to install the nvidia drivers but there aren't binary packages available > yet. So, I think I will have to build it myself. Will I have to build > my custom kernel to build nvidia driver as kernel module? > http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/Debian-nVidia/installation.html points > to a guide that suggests just this. > Please advice. Tnx. > > > ___ > debian-knoppix mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mailman.linuxtag.org/mailman/listinfo/debian-knoppix -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
configuring ppp and lan
I'm finally beginning to have some internet here in the Appennine alps. No land line so I have acquired a usb gsm modem. (To be truthful, I still don't know if it will work at the house which also has no mobile signal, but I have a directional antenna with a 10dB gain that may fix that...) To the point. Trying it out where there is a gsm signal, I have got ppp running, but cannot configure the box with the modem so that both the LAN and the PPP work at the same time. If I 'poff', the lan sort of works. If I 'ifdown eth1' (the wifi built into t he box), the ppp connection resolves correctly. dhclient rewrites resolv.conf giving it one of the nameservers of the provider (Wind), and the router/switch address as the second nameserver. I'm not sure why. The router (D-Link DI524) doesn't actualy seem to do any DNS (although it knows the hostnames and IPs on the internal subnet), so that may be a part of the problem, but the correct nameserver ought to be accessed at least some of the time. dhclient also writes the routing table and maybe I have got something wrong here. netstat -r gives Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt Iface joiner.mulinoca *255.255.255.255 UH0 0 0 ppp0 default *0.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 ppp0 when pppd is up. And when eth1 is up, it says DestinationGateway GenmaskFlags MSS Window irtt Iface 192.168.133.0 * 255.255.255.0 U0 0 0 eth1 default192.168.133.1 0.0.0.0UG 0 0 0 eth1 with both up I get DestinationGatewayGenmask Flags MSS Windo irtt Iface joiner.mulinoc * 255.255.255.255 UH 0 00 ppp0 192.168.133.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 00 eth1 default 192.168.133.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 00 eth1 joiner.mulinocarletti.net is the box with both the modem and the lan connection. the lan as you can see is 192.168.133.x and the modem local address insists on being 192.168.100.101. joiner has both addresses in its /etc/hosts, which is I suppose the reason the name is shown in the routing table rather than the IP allocated by wind.it. I feel even more confused now, so I hope this makes sense to somebody. I wondered if I should reconfigure the whole lan to be on the same subnet as the Wind modem, though I cannot see why that should be necessary. Any ideas? -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: configuring ppp and lan
On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 10:51:16PM -0500, Marty wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >I'm finally beginning to have some internet here in the Appennine alps. > >No land line so I have acquired a usb gsm modem. [...] > > cannot configure the box with the modem so that both the > >LAN and the PPP work at the same time. > > Have you consulted any of the Debian networking Howtos? If not, that > should probably be your next step. To be honest, I have hard-copies by my desk -- but that is in England, and I haven't looked at them recently. Point taken. I'll look at them via i'net. [...] > You need the ethernet bridging driver (and other related drivers) > installed in the kernel, Oh dear, I didn't think I would need to compile a special kernel. I've had bad luck trying to do that in the past, but I suppose I can try again. Marty, thanks for all your advice. I can see I have more days' work ahead... But at least in less of a fog. -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Replacing Gnome with KDE
>> >> Any suggestions for how to fix this mess? At the moment, the best >> thing I can think of would be to reinstall, with tasksel/kde-desktop. >> I'd prefer something a little less drastic. > > If you have the metapackages gnome, or gnome-desktop-environment, > installed, then mark these for removal. If neither of these are > installed, then uninstall nautilus, which will uninstall most of gnome. > > Uninstalling the metapackages gnome, and/or gnome-desktop-environment, > will remove most of gnome. I would suggest aptitude, which will > automatically remove dependent packages as well (it gives a thorough > cleaning when it's used to uninstall stuff). > > Then, simply install the metapackage "kde" (or, if you want something > more customizable, perhaps the two smaller metapackages kdebase, and > kde-core). Again, I recommend aptitude. I agree, use the metapackages. They should get you out of trouble in aptitude (or even just apt-get). In aptitude do a search for ^kde$ to get straight to the metapackage, and similarly for gnome. (In case you don't know, ^ is for start of line and $ is end of line, so you don't have to 'n' your way through hundreds of packages containing the letters 'kde') HTH -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to switch my timezone configure
> On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 02:02:26PM +0800, Wisilence Seol wrote: >> >> I select"use UTC" during the installation,and find some problem such as >> my >> locatime in linux is 8 hours ahead of my bios time(my current real world >> time) >> >> I want to know if I can reconfigure this timezone configure after my >> installation?Can I swith between "use UTC" or "not use UTC" mode? >> I missed the beginning of this thread, so sorry if this repeats: The answer is yes, you can run dpkg-reconfigure on whatever package set your timezone (may be base-config, but I'm not sure, and it will depend on which release you have installed). I am guessing your BIOS clock is set to a US timezone so is 8 hours earlier than UTC. If so, you can easily change the bios at reboot, and Linux will assume more time has passed. If the time difference is the other way, you could confuse some cron jobs by putting the clock back to before the time that previous activity logged. If you need to do that, choose a time when you can leave the box switched off for more than 8 hours. > You should first decide if this is what you want to do. > > If you're dual-booting and you need Windows to read localtime from the > bios then the bios should be local time. That would mean that you will > have to alter the bios twice a year for daylight savings. I have a feeling that recent Windows releases know about daylight saving time (from as long ago as Doze98, IIRC). So the twice a year change shouldn't be needed. > > I haven't run windows since 3.1 so I don't know if you can tell Windows > that the bios is on UTC or not. I don't know this either. For the rare occasions I use Doze, I just let it think the time is something weird. That is the least of the inconveniences. -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: configuring ppp and lan
> On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 12:19:15AM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >> with both up I get >> >> DestinationGatewayGenmask Flags MSS Windo irtt >> Iface >> joiner.mulinoc * 255.255.255.255 UH 0 00 ppp0 >> 192.168.133.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 00 eth1 >> default 192.168.133.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 00 eth1 >> > Since your wireless router is not connected to the internet, you should > not use it as a default gateway. pppd usually does not replace an > existing default route, but you can add "replacedefaultroute" to > /etc/ppp/options. Hmm, that sounded good for a minute. But I think the problem is that it is dhclient not pppd that is rewriting the routes, as well as resolv.conf. And it does this very frequently. Both the gprs modem and the AP/router are dhcp servers, so dhclient is trying to serve two masters if both interfaces are up. And the router is the gateway for 192.168.133.x addresses as seen from my gateway machine. The ppp0 interface is the gateway for everything else. so dhclient is writing nonsense. There must be a way to configure it to avoid this. (And to get leases longer than 40sec from the wireless router, too, I hope -- it filled 2GB of log activity yesterday. But that is another story.) Back to the howtos... -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Replacing Gnome with KDE
> Thank you, everyone who offered suggestions and observations. I've got > KDE working, basically by using aptitude to remove the remaining bits > of gnome, and then (re)installing the kde meta-packages. > Just for amusement, try installing icewm too, and see how a WM that loads in about a tenth of the time feels to you. And then you could move on... ...better not start that war again. :-) -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
very short leases from D-Link DI524
This may be a faulty bit of equipment, but equally I could be missing something obvious again. I have three boxes attached to a DLink DI524 wireless router, two cabled and one wireless. All three get leases of between 32 and 40 seconds. The DLink controll web inrterface is set to give a day. I've tried other lengths of time too, but always get around 36 seconds. The renewals are filling acres of logs and the resolv.conf gets rewritten every time too. Has anybody else seen this kind of behaviour? -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: very short leases from D-Link DI524
>> This may be a faulty bit of equipment, but equally I could be missing >> something obvious again. I have three boxes attached to a DLink DI524 >> wireless router, two cabled and one wireless. All three get leases of >> between 32 and 40 seconds. David, 'ps -a' doesn't show any instances of dhclient, but 'ps ax | grep dhc' gives just one: 5607? S
Re: configuring ppp and lan
On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 10:51:16PM -0500, Marty wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
> >No land line so I have acquired a usb gsm (gprs) modem.
>
> Have you consulted any of the Debian networking Howtos?
[...]
>
> You need the ethernet bridging driver (and other related drivers) installed
> in the kernel,
I decided not to compile a new kernel (I am not sufficiently expert),but
to see what can be done using my stock kernel (2.6.15-26-386).
> and you also have to configure iptables for packet routing, Network
> Address Translation/IP Masquerading (NAT) and (optionally)
> port-forwarding on your gateway machine. You will have to configure
> other iptables networking features as well. In particular you will
> need the firewall features, unless your router has very good firewall
> features (something I have not found in cheap routers).
I installed and tried to configure shorewall, recommended in another
thread here recently. It is not as easy to do as it sounds, but the
manuals are good. In the end, it was not a complete success, as the
ppp0 and eth1 interfaces cannot be used at once, and shorewall start
complains:
Setting up Masquerading/SNAT...
ERROR: Unable to determine the routes through interface "eth1"
IP Forwarding Enabled
/sbin/shorewall: line 524: 6064 Terminated ${VARDIR}/.start
$debugging start
> For DNS you can use your gateway machine as the DNS server (again with
> iptables configured manually or using a program like dnsmasq), or you can
> use the router or your ISP's DNS servers for name resolution,
(trying to be brief...) The setup is like this:
usb
\ / -- --(wifi)-- -- BOX1-- gprs ) ) ) ) i'net
\/ modem
BOX2 - DLink
wireless
BOX3 - router &
dhcpserver
In theory, the router should provide DNS for the local network. They
never seem to (In London too I had to provide DNS server with bind9 on
one of the boxes with a NetGear adsl modem/firewall/dhcpserver/wifi AP).
I get no DNS service from the DLink, so I installed djbdns on BOX1. It
is supposed to garner dhcp info and provide local network resolution,
but I could not understand how, and it doesn't. In any case, dhclient
continues to write the DLink as the nameserver in resolv.conf.
To overcome the conflict between ppp0 and dhclient writing
/etc/resolv.conf and the routing table, I installed resolvconf. This
neatly collects the wrong information from the dhclient and part of the
information from ppp0 and writes and updates a special
/etc/resolvconf/run/resolv.conf which is symlinked to /etc/resolv.conf.
The result is two namservers are listed, the second nameserver of the
ISP, and the DLink router. I tried swapping the IP addresses of the
DLink and BOX1 to get BOX listed as DNS server, but dhclient/resolvconf
quickly adjusted the entry to point to the DLink.
At this point I have spent more time than I have available for this and
have to get a usable work-round. Seeing that _any_ internet connection
is better than none, I shall accept the need to operate only ppp0 or
eth1 on BOX1 and BOX2 and BOX3 will just manage with no internet
connection. To do this, I shall use the resolvconf package to divert
the misinformation from dhclient to its special file and remove the
symlink. Then I shall use a pair of simple scrits to bring up eth1 or
ppp0, and copy the appropriate pre-made file to /etc/resolv.conf. The
routing table is okay when only one interface is up. A messy hack, but
better than nothing.
Thanks Marty and thanks too to Bill Marcum.
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Mepis --> Debian migration
A quick word of warning. I was very positively impressed with Mepis 6 , which I used to set up a machine lacking a net connection (from a cover disk!). In some ways it is neater than Knoppix. So this is not intended as a criticism of Mepis. In the past I have migrated more than one sstem from Knoppix to pure Debian, with no serious glitches. I thought the same was happening with the Mepis 6 install moving toward etch. Then I removed dhclient3 (in order to try dhcpc-client -- not important why) Aptitude required one of the now unused Mepis admin packages to be removed because it was dependent on dhclient3. While I was there I removed a couple of other Mepis-only things. Two minutes later ai came back to the computer to an empty package list on aptitude!. It had cleared /ets/apt/sources.list! So, anyone else going this way: back up your sources.list before cleaning out unused Mepis admin stuff. Sorry, I don't know which Mepis pkg it was. HTH -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: what's the killer app for GNU/Linux systems?
On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 01:14:34PM +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: [...] > So I give up and ask you, what's your killer app(s)? First thought: mutt. (which would be even better if I hadn't broken exim4, so I'm reading d-u on mutt and replying via squirrelmail!) On second thoughts, ghostscript and friends. My wife called me this morning from London to ask how to make a pdf from her m$word at work. Easy: take the file home and read it into any Linux app. Definitely the fact that _any_ app in Linux can write ps or pdf is one of the killer features. Which makes my killer app: ps2pdf -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Newbie need help on upgrading/installing "current weekly snapshot CDs"
> On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 08:13:54PM -0800, aquamarine wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I am a pure newbie on Linux/Debian coming from Windows world!
>> I downloaded just 3 of the 21 CDs from
>> http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/i386/iso-cd/ website,
>> booted the 1st CD and install testing Debian successfully.
>>
>> The main point is that I found no way to install my other 2 CDs. By
>> the way, I cannot find: (1) Software Sources settings (2) Synaptic
>> Package Manager to update my system.
You sound a bit lost. I assume you have a working base system with a
command line and perhaps no X-windows system (GUI)? I also do not know
which country you are in, but it looks as though you have some usable
sources in your /etc/apt/sources.list. You could try to edit this file,
which tells the package managers where to get files from, or you could try
to download more of the system from the sources already listed. I assume
in the following that you also have a fast internet connection. If not,
then ignore this reply.
to edit the sources.list:
I guess you have no experience of working from the command line or
using simple line editors. You may have already an editor called nano
which is easier for a newbie than vi. Try 'which nano' and if it says
'/bin/nano', then you do have it. (If you do not then use
'apt-get nano') Use a computer with a browser working and go to
http://www.debian.org/mirror/list. Choose the nearest mirror to you,
and note carefully the URL. For example, if you chose this one:
ftp.uni-koeln.de/debian//debian/alpha amd64 i386 powerpc sparc
then the second column is the directory to add to the entry in
/etc/apt/sources.list for ftp download (the third, in this case the
same, is for http). So you would write an entry in the sources.list
file like this:
deb ftp://ftp.uni-koeln.de/debian/ etch main non-free contrib
deb-src ftp://ftp.uni-koeln.de/debian/ etch main non-free contrib
That is two lines, one for binary packages and one for source packages.
You will see there are spaces dividing the lines into parts, in effect
columns. The first has 'deb' or 'deb-src'. The second has the URL,
beginning http:// or ftp://, and ending in the directory you added from
the entry in in the mirror list. the third is the release, in this case
'etch'. After that are the sections of the repository that will be
accessed, also space-separated.
When you have put in the source you want to use, you can insert a hash
(#) before all the lines you think are unneeded. Then save the file.
In nano that is ctl-o. You will see a list of commands at the bottom.
Exit the editor and issue the command 'apt-get update'. This
synchronises your computer's list with the repository/ies in your
sources.list. Then do 'apt-get install aptitude' as below...
to carry on with the sources already set up in your sources.list
You have already given the command 'apt-get update', but if it was not
today, do it again. Then 'apt-get install aptitude'. Then run
'aptitude'.
This is a slightly less intimidating front-end to the package management
system. '?' gives you a list of commands. search for '^kde$'. This
should find you a package called just 'kde'. Select it ('+') then install
it and everything that aptitude adds in with it ('g', and then again 'g').
After that, you should have a working GUI which looks reasonably familiar
to a windoze user. Then you can play around, use the internet to search
for answers, install more stuff, either with aptitude again or the gui
application synaptic, which probably comes with kde, but install it
separately if not. It will magically appear in the KDE menu system when
installed. After a few weeks, you may like to try different window
managers, and even uninstall kde, but it is far and away the easiest way
in coming from windows.
Oh yes, your other two CDs: use them as coasters. They will be out of
date soon enough.
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Re: very short leases from D-Link DI524
> Hi Richard, > > can't exactly help you but I've got a similar problem with a DI-604 wired > 4 port router. > Only it never releases and I've been running the same IP addresses on the > corresponding machines for more than a year although it was set to renew > once a week and later on after three days - to no effect it seems. > > As good as static - and no, it's not set to static IP. > > Even updated firmware recently, also to no effect. > > Any tips on this here? Or maybe just to avoid D-link in the future? Would > be a shame though because apart from this my router/modem combination > works really well. > (Yes, I know about the problem with the GPL compliance from D-link but > these were bought way before that in 2003/04.) I din't know about it, or I would have bought another brand -- the price difference wasn't huge. You get what you pay for I suppose. A pity, it seems well made, has a good manual, and good web admin interface -- except for an HTML rendering bug on the page you use most often. I'll have to see if there is an update, and buy better kit next time if that doesn't solve it. Actually, I have a second one that I can compare with when I get back to where it is. I'll report back. -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: very short leases from D-Link DI524
On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 12:14:56PM -0600, W Paul Mills wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > B. Hoffmann wrote: >> Hi Richard, >> >> can't exactly help you but I've got a similar problem with a DI-604 >> wired >> 4 port router. >> Only it never releases and I've been running the same IP addresses on >> the >> corresponding machines for more than a year although it was set to renew >> once a week and later on after three days - to no effect it seems. >> >> As good as static - and no, it's not set to static IP. >> >> Even updated firmware recently, also to no effect. >> >> Any tips on this here? Or maybe just to avoid D-link in the future? >> Would >> be a shame though because apart from this my router/modem combination >> works really well. > > This is normal. I have 3 dlinks, 2 linksys and a debian box set up as a > DHCP server. They all work this way. So what's the problem. > I wish mine worked like that. I got it from a box store. Here in Italy. It'll be very difficult to persuade MediaWorld that it is faulty. -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: very short leases from D-Link DI524
On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 04:22:54PM -0600, W Paul Mills wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I wish mine worked like that. I got it from a box store. Here in Italy. > > It'll be very difficult to persuade MediaWorld that it is faulty. > > I have not looked into how the lease time works, but curious if your > problem might be due to some time of day setting on either your > computer(s) or on the dlink. I just checked and the DLink I am talking to had in fact the wrong date -- I assume it doesn't keep time when unplugged from the power. I corrected the time and restarted the connection, and received a new 40-second lease.. So it is probably not that. I have in the meantime also taken the three computers to the location where the other DLInk is. It was bought some time earlier, and packaged differently, so may well be from a different batch. It gives identical leases to the machines. My assumption at the moment is that the computers are asking for it. Somewhere there is a setting I haven't found. It is odd, thinking about it, that they would all three show this as they were set up months or years apart, and from different media. Maybe it is a DLink feature after all... -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: restarting eth0
> Hello all > > Should be just a quickie: how does one restart the ethernet card eth0 in > Etch? I use 'ifdown eth0' followed by 'ifup eth0' I expect there is another way. -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: if I were a newbie how would I get sound?
On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 07:51:45PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] > If there's anyone who > (a) want sound, and > (b) doesn't often have difficulties with sound, > I'd like to know about it. [...] For desktop/tower boxes, I ususally find it just works. At worst, I might have to unmute the mixer. Laptops, that's another matter. With them, I don't even waste time trying any more. -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: smooth upgrades
On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 01:51:57PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: [...] > warning! train platform analogy! warning! > > okay, here's how I view the releases. Debian is like a set of > trains. There are a limited number of platforms for getting on the > trains. Each platform has a name and they are 'experimental', > 'unstable', 'testing', 'stable' and 'oldstable' (are there any > more?). Each train has a name too, though the train doesn't get named > until its on the track between the unstable and testing [...] Hehehe. Thank you, Andrew. Smooth analogy. Actually, I think it should be on the debian site. -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
moving /var
I recently tried to move /var to a new partition. Booted from some live cd, moved it and edited /etc/fstab to suit. Broke the machine as it wouldn't boot afterwards (in fact I recollect it booted but with no keyboard. Anyway it was unusable.) I thought it might be an initrd problem, and had a half-baked memory that chrooting into the root partition and running makeinitrd or somesuch would solve it. But as usual I got errors from nonexistant /dev and /proc filesystems in the chroot and so could not build a new initrd. So I copied /dev back where it came from and reverted fstab and all was well. I might have been more persistent but had a slow (and expensive) i'net connection so it was easier to give up. What should I have done? TIA -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: apt cache files (*.bin) corruption
> Andy Hawkins wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> Recently, I've been getting regular instances of the bin files in >> /var/cache/apt getting corrupted (any apt related command seg-faults >> unless >> I delete these files and do another 'update). > > It happened to me a couple of weeks ago, when I erroneously ran two > instances of aptitude on two ttys. I don't know how I interleaved the > various commands I gave on both instances, but the result was exactly > this, the .bin files corrupted and the consequent segfaults. That is interesting. Aptitude always complains that it cannot get a lock and opens read-only when I try that. I wonder why it didn't for you. -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: moving /var
On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 01:41:11PM -0500, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Wed, 2006-12-20 at 14:36 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I recently tried to move /var to a new partition. Booted from some > > live cd, moved it and edited /etc/fstab to suit. Broke the machine > > as it wouldn't boot afterwards (in fact I recollect it booted but with > > no keyboard. Anyway it was unusable.) I thought it might be an initrd > > problem, and had a half-baked memory that chrooting into the root > > partition and running makeinitrd or somesuch would solve it. But as > > usual I got errors from nonexistant /dev and /proc filesystems in the > > chroot and so could not build a new initrd. So I copied /dev back > > where it came from and reverted fstab and all was well. > > > > I might have been more persistent but had a slow (and expensive) i'net > > connection so it was easier to give up. > > > > What should I have done? > > I have done it many times from LiveCD, also from Single user mode. I had > to turn off some logging and other things even in single user mode. > > Effectively you have to make sure you get everything. If you are running > Ubuntu there are additional items you need to make sure are taken care > of. (Make sure /var/run and /var/lock are on the root partition for > tmpfs filesystems) > > But like I said, I have done it multiple times... heck even once > accidentally reformatted the /var filesystem AND deleted all backups > before the retore, having to recreate it from scratch on the new > filesystem. > > So, what did you do to move it? (list of commands used, would be good) Hmm, it's a couple of weeks ago now. I usually use cp -a for things like this and then rename the directory and make a new one to mount to, but in this case I think I used mv. I don't think there are any critical symlinks. The old /var directory was definitely empty after the move, because I checked. Anyway cp -a back again put everything into place and the system booted as normal afterwards. The implication of your comments is that you don't think there was any problem with initrd. In fact, I am sure I have done this before with no problems. I was surprised when there was a problem. I did also move /usr (to another partition) which was of course trouble-free. Perhaps I shall try again when I get back to that box ( am in the wrong country at the moment). Really, I asked two questions mixed up together. The other is how to run makeinitrd, or anything else such as lilo or grub-install (or whatever the command is) in a chroot, when chrooting cuts you off from the /dev and /proc filesystems so that none of these commands will run. -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: moving /var
On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 03:20:33PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 10:01:35PM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 01:41:11PM -0500, Greg Folkert wrote: > > > > > On Wed, 2006-12-20 at 14:36 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > I recently tried to move /var to a new partition. Booted from some > > > > live cd, moved it and edited /etc/fstab to suit. Broke the machine > > > > as it wouldn't boot afterwards (in fact I recollect it booted but with > > [...] > > > Effectively you have to make sure you get everything. I > [...] > > > > > > So, what did you do to move it? (list of commands used, would be good) > > > > but in this case I think I used mv [...] > when I've done it in the past, I have tar'd the whole directory, cp'd > and untar'd it in the new location, change fstab and reboot. done. I > don't see why cp -a wouldn't work too... hmmm... maybe you've got some > other problem and this is just a symptom. Yes, I think you must be right. I'll try it again when I get back to that machine, and see if I can learn more. [...] > > > > Really, I asked two questions mixed up together. The other is how to > > run makeinitrd, or anything else such as lilo or grub-install (or > > whatever the command is) in a chroot, when chrooting cuts you off from > > the /dev and /proc filesystems so that none of these commands will run. > > mount proc -t proc /mnt/chroot/proc > > check the debian install manual, there is information on installing > from another unix system and included there is how to install kernels > from the chroot. should be applicable here. Thanks to all for the various comments and advice on these two unconnected issues -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: local partition backup with rsync
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > Thanks for the answers. > I guess I will try rsnapshot and rdiff-backup because although the rsync > job now works OK with --exclude /hdb5, I cannot boot from it: it keeps > booting the partition that it came from, although I adjusted > /hdb5/etc/fstab and reran lilo to point to the newly copied partition. You did edit /etc/lilo.conf as well, didn't you... -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: moving /var
On Sat, Dec 23, 2006 at 02:25:51PM -0500, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Sat, 2006-12-23 at 16:55 +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote: [..] > > /var/run and var/lock must NOT be on the root partition. > [...snip...] > > As of right NOW, Ubuntu uses a "different" way of booting. > > *IF* /var/run and /var/lock are NOT on the initial root (/) filesystem > before the other filesystems are mounted then it fails to boot properly. Aha! This may explain it. No, it wasn't ubuntu installed but the original setup came from knoppix (just might have been mepis, which is definitely ubuntuish, but I am pretty sure it was knoppix). Probably, then a similar issue. I'll try to take the box to somewhere with adsl and do a full dist-upgrade to etch, including a latest kernel and see if things are more regular afterwards. There are still a stack of packages lingering minor numbers behind etch as a result of the lack of available bandwidth for upgrading. Thanks again to everybody for the insights. -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: pppoe configuration - unable to ping outside
> hello, > Yes my router is set as a default gw, > output of route is > Kernel IP routing table > Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse > Iface > xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx * 255.255.255.255 UH0 0 > 0 ppp0 > 192.168.1.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 00 > eth0 > 10.1.1.0* 255.255.255.0 U 0 00 > eth1 > default 192.168.1.1 0.0.0.0 UG0 00 > eth0 [...] No answer but I have a slightly similar issue (though with ppp0 being a gprs modem). If you close the ethernet connections and then start ppp0, does your ppp0 then connect to the outside? I am not sure it is relevant, but what happens to resolv.conf in each case? -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: pppoe configuration - unable to ping outside
On Tue, Dec 26, 2006 at 06:32:40PM +0100, Thilo Six wrote: > Anuj Singh wrote the following on 25.12.2006 06:28: > > > > > I have eth0 connected to my adsl router and eth1 to my local network. > > I configured my adsl with pppoeconf, logs shows me I am connected, and > > ifconfig gives me ppp0 address too. > > I you use a router to connect over dsl, this router will do the pppoe > connection for you. On your computer you only have to activate dhcp > (usually) or static ip via ethernet. > > remove the pppoe package completly (including startscripts + config) > > > > computer --> via "normal" ethernet --> router --> pppoe --> isp That is definitely the easiest way, but I for one would like to know how to do it the "difficult" way. The easy road is not always open. -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: pppoe configuration - unable to ping outside
On Tue, Dec 26, 2006 at 11:25:07PM -0500, H.S. wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >On Tue, Dec 26, 2006 at 06:32:40PM +0100, Thilo Six wrote: > > > > > >>Anuj Singh wrote the following on 25.12.2006 06:28: > >> > >> > >> > >>>I have eth0 connected to my adsl router and eth1 to my local network. > >>>I configured my adsl with pppoeconf, logs shows me I am connected, and > >>>ifconfig gives me ppp0 address too. > >> > >>I you use a router to connect over dsl, this router will do the pppoe > >>connection for you. On your computer you only have to activate dhcp > >>(usually) or static ip via ethernet. > >> > >>remove the pppoe package completly (including startscripts + config) > >> > >> > >> > >>computer --> via "normal" ethernet --> router --> pppoe --> isp > > > > > >That is definitely the easiest way, but I for one would like to know how > >to do it the "difficult" way. The easy road is not always open. > > > > Then why are you connecting through the router? How about: > > > ISP --> Eth0 -- Eth1 --> router --> home lan > '---computer---' As I understood it, that is exactly what OP has. I was interested because his problem is similar to mine where I have ISP -->GPRSmodem--> usb -- Eth1 --> router --> home lan '---computer---' (In that setup, I can only activate external or internal networking, but not both at once. The issue is I think my imperfect understanding of routing, particularly how to achieve a different default route for inward and outward traffic. It is compounded by the fact that DHCP rewrites resolv.conf, and pppd rewrites the routing table. Any corrections I make are immediately overwritten.) -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Why and how to blacklist soundcard or networkcard modules?
Hi A while ago i had also a pci network card in my pc which has an asus motherboard with onboard lan and sound, from VIA ... and then i always had the problem that interfaces eth0 and eth1 switched over and over again that i became very tired and just removed the NIC. Now i have the same problem with sound. I also have an Yamaha sound card which i rather use then the via on board chip, but when i use the Yamaha card and boot the pc alsa has configured the via chip, when i then connect that via-output to my audio set and reboot alsa wants to use the Yamaha card. Very trouble some. Why does this happen? ... I am sure not to be the only one who had the switching ethx interfaces but i do not understand why that happened. And what is now wrong with my 'sid box' that it always wants to use the card which is not connected to my audio-amplifier? thanks for your thoughts Richard ps sorry if i made some bad spelling or grammar mistakes, because English is not my first language -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Trying to get Chinese writing in GTK and QT programs
Hi I already tried many times to get this chinese writing working in GTK programs and QT programs, but most times it is only working in one of them. Now again i seem not to get QT programs understand that i would like a chinese input method and in GTK programs it just works. Does somebody has the right info which to use to make it work in both kinds of programs? I use SCIM Now i followed the instructions for ubuntu from this site: http://www.mrbass.org/linux/ubuntu/scim/ thnx -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Trying to get Chinese writing in GTK and QT programs
richard wrote: Hi I already tried many times to get this chinese writing working in GTK programs and QT programs, but most times it is only working in one of them. Now again i seem not to get QT programs understand that i would like a chinese input method and in GTK programs it just works. Does somebody has the right info which to use to make it work in both kinds of programs? I use SCIM Now i followed the instructions for ubuntu from this site: http://www.mrbass.org/linux/ubuntu/scim/ thnx OK Sorry seems i already solved it. I also had to install scim-qtimm -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
perl modules
Where do I find the perl modules, Net-Telnet,TimeDate and a few others. Are they on a debian repository, or do I have to download from cpan ? apt-get doesn't find anything -- Best Wishes Richard Bown ~~~ Registered Linux User 365161 OS Mandriva 2007.1 HAM Callsign G8JVM : Locator IO82SP QRV all bands 80mtrs to 3 cms ,( non WARC ) http://www.software-radio.org.uk ~~~ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: perl modules
On Mon, 1 Oct 2007 09:29:26 -0400
Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 02:23:51PM +0100, Richard wrote:
> >
> > Where do I find the perl modules, Net-Telnet,TimeDate and a few
> > others. Are they on a debian repository, or do I have to download
> > from cpan ?
> >
> > apt-get doesn't find anything
> > --
> >
>
> apt-cache search perl|grep -i timedate
>
> This will find one.
>
> look for 'lib{something}-perl'
>
> Cheers
Thanks Kevin,
The wanted modules are now installed and running.
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Re: debian kernel bugs / or is it grub?
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 12:50:54PM +0800, Ben Evenweg wrote: >> Andrew Sackville-West wrote: >>> On Tue, Oct 09, 2007 at 10:15:35AM +0800, Richard van der Veen wrote: >>>> Hi >>>> I am not sure how to send a bug report about this because it seems to >>>> be in several different kernels from Debian. (maybe it even is not >>>> kernel specific but it's grub which is doing something wrong.) >>>> >>>> When i replaced my ATA DVD writer with an SATA DVD writer and placed >>>> another ATA harddisk on the connector, i got in my selfbuild kernel(*1 >>>> an OOPS. This made me decide to re-install debian. I downloaded a >>>> daily-build netinstall CD from Lenny and wanted to convert that to Sid >>>> - because that is my normal debian 'outfit' on the computer. With the >>>> installation everything went smoothly, but when i rebooted the >>>> computer crashed/hanged on booting the kernel. The message on the >>>> screen was: >>>> -- >>>> PCI:BIOS BUG: MCFG area at f000 is not E820-reserved >>>> PCI: Not using MMCONFIG >>>> PCI: Failed to allocate mem resource #6:[EMAIL PROTECTED] for :01:00 >>>> Loading , please wait >>>> ide0: I/O resource 0x3F6-0x3F6 not free. >>>> ide0: ports already in use, skipping probe >>>> ide1: I/O resource 0x376-0x376 not free. >>>> ide1: ports already in use, skipping probe >>>> -- >>>> hang >>> what happens if you pull that dvd drive and boot? Looks to me like >>> you've got a nasty hardware conflict going on. I'd start with some >>> easy swaps like pulling that drive and then move up to futzing with >>> the bios. >>> >>> its not much, but I hth. >>> >>> A >> Well ... to me it does not seem like a conflict in my hardware because >> as i said before Fedora 7, Opensuse 10.3 and Ubuntu Gutsy (BETA) seems >> to work perfectly well with this hardware configuration. Only Debian has >> trouble to work on it - can not even let the kernel boot. Then my >> conclusion is that it is Debian related and not hardware related. But >> strange because Ubuntu is for a big part also just Debian. Anyway thank >> you for your response. >> >> > whoops. I must have missed (and snipped) that. I assume the messages > above are from the kernel itself? Yes, the message i quoted comes almost instantly after the grub menu when the kernel tries to load. > Is it possible that you've got a bad initrd and that's causing the > problem? You could boot with a live-cd, chroot in and rebuild your > initrd maybe. :-) As i also wrote in my first post, i tried several ways to get other kernels to boot. From Ubuntu i chrooted into the fresh Debian installation and loaded/installed the Ubuntu kernel (with no succes), i build a custom kernel from 2.6.22.6 sources without initrd (with no succes). All without the desired effect of me being able to boot into Debian again. So in my view now grub also gets suspected because this can't load the kernel. I am now using Ubuntu and it looks very nice, maybe i try Debian a few weeks later again or so, when my mood feels like it. And then i will try lilo. thanx Richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: debian kernel bugs / or is it grub?
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > I find it hard to understand how ubuntu can boot when debian > can't. I'm willing to be that if you end up reinstalling debian again, > it just works. shrug. > > A Back in Ubuntu again after another unsuccessful install-round with Debian. Tried again, a little sooner as expected. Seems i like Debian and really want it back on my system. What i tried is: daily netinstall and use lilo instead of grub ... crash while loading the kernel an dropped in an initramfs prompt. Again with the ide-0 and ide-1 are busy messages. A lot more text. LILO 22.8 Loading Linux. BIOS data check successful Uncompressing Linux... OK, booting the kernel. PCI:BIOS BUG: MCFG area at f000 is not E820-reserved PCI: Not using MMCONFIG PCI: Failed to allocate mem resource #6:[EMAIL PROTECTED] for :01:00.0 Loading , please wait ide0: I/O resource 0x3F6-0x3F6 not free. ide0: ports already in use, skipping probe ide1: I/O resource 0x376-0x376 not free. ide1: ports already in use, skipping probe mount: Mounting /dev/root on /root failed: No such device mount: Mounting /root/dev/ on /dev/.static/dev failed: No such file or directory mount: Mounting /sys on /root/sys failed: No such file or directory mount: Mounting /proc on /root/proc failed: No such file or directory Target filesystem doesn't have /sbin/init BusyBox v1.1.3 (Debian 1:1.1.3-5) Built-in shell (ash) Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands. /bin/sh: can't access tty; job control turned off (initramfs) When i try to install Debian my two ATA hard disks are recognized as /dev/sdf and /dev/sdg. When i use lilo udev makes only /dev/sda /dev/sdb and /dev/sdc block-devices. Next time i will try to install Debian i will try to use. append="idebus=66 pci=routeirq libata.atapi_enabled=1 all-generic-ide" -- etch install ... no ATA disk found. -- etch install generic.all_generic_ide=1 some kind of kernel OOPS when loading the installer; at least it looks a lot like that, did not continue. Seems every device is recognized as ATA device; also my SATA DVD writer and SATA hard disk. Here is the dmesg output which i could catch: Probing IDE interface ide0... usb 7-5: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2 hda: ST3250820AS, ATA DISK drive usb 7-5: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice Initializing USB Mass Storage driver... scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage USB Mass Storage support registered. usb-storage: device found at 2 usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 Probing IDE interface ide1... Unknown: IDE controller at PCI slot :00:1f.5 ACPI: PCI Interrupt :00:1f.5[A] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 193 Unknown: chipset revision 2 Unknown: 100% native mode on irq 193 ide2: BM-DMA at 0x30f0-0x30f7, BIOS settings: hde:DMA, hdf:pio ide3: BM-DMA at 0x30f8-0x30ff, BIOS settings: hdg:pio, hdh:pio Probing IDE interface ide2... hde: LITE-ON DVDRW LH-20A1S, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive ide2 at 0x3428-0x342f,0x3446 on irq 193 Probing IDE interface ide3... Unknown: IDE controller at PCI slot :03:00.0 ACPI: PCI Interrupt :03:00.0[A] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 177 Unknown: chipset revision 177 Unknown: 100% native mode on irq 177 ide4: BM-DMA at 0x1000-0x1007, BIOS settings: hdi:DMA, hdj:DMA ide5: BM-DMA at 0x1008-0x100f, BIOS settings: hdk:DMA, hdl:DMA Probing IDE interface ide4... hdi: ST3200826A, ATA DISK drive hdj: ST3320620A, ATA DISK drive ide4 at 0x1018-0x101f,0x1026 on irq 177 Probing IDE interface ide5... Vendor: Generic Model: USB SD Reader Rev: 1.00 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 00 Vendor: Generic Model: USB CF Reader Rev: 1.01 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 00 Vendor: Generic Model: USB SM Reader Rev: 1.02 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 00 Vendor: Generic Model: USB MS Reader Rev: 1.03 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 00 sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable disk sda sd 0:0:0:1: Attached scsi removable disk sdb usb-storage: device scan complete sd 0:0:0:2: Attached scsi removable disk sdc sd 0:0:0:3: Attached scsi removable disk sdd hda: max request size: 512KiB hda: 488397168 sectors (250059 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=30401/255/63 hda: cache flushes supported hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 hda6 hda7 hda8 hda9 hda10 > hdi: max request size: 512KiB hdi: 390721968 sectors (200049 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=24321/255/63, UDMA(33) hdi: cache flushes supported hdi:<6>hde: ATAPI 48X DVD-ROM DVD-R-RAM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20 hde: cdrom_pc_intr: The drive appears confus
Re: debian kernel bugs / or is it grub?
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 02:03:05PM +0800, Richard wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: I find it hard to understand how ubuntu can boot when debian can't. I'm willing to be that if you end up reinstalling debian again, it just works. shrug. A Back in Ubuntu again after another unsuccessful install-round with Debian. Are you reinstalling ubuntu to the same drive you are trying for debian? or using some other drive and swapping stuff around? Yes, Exact the same drive configuration. Just put the Ubuntu disk in the DVD-drive after an unsuccessful Debian-session and install on the same hard disk. Did not change anything in the BIOS or so. But Ubuntu and other distributions see my 2 ATA + 1 SATA HD's as /dev/sda, /dev/sdb and /dev/sdc. And Debian makes from my two ATA hd's /dev/sdf and /dev/sdg I ask because all those errors you posted make me still think you've got some hardware problem. BUt I'm no expert by far. Well guess what: Because I also wanted to see what Mandriva 2008.0 looks like, I installed that on the drive I wanted to use for Debian (again also just the same BIOS settings). And ... as I expected there is no problem at all to install it and to use it. So what, if any differences are there between the ubuntu install and debian install. And I mean *any* differences: changed cables, changed drive order on cables, swapped drives, anything. No difference: no changed cables, no changed BIOS settings etc. Also, as an aside, you could try debian from the ubuntu install using debootstrap. Instructions here: http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/apds03.html.en Will think about it :-) good luck Thanks A Richard PS Since I used Lilo last time to boot I guess I can say grub is not the cause of the problem. Now I suspect it is udev and/or the lack of support for the Intel P965 chipset. But it is only Debian related. PPS I now installed Mandriva on the 'Debian drive' because I expect I will not really use that a lot and will format the soon again to make place for Debian. (If Debian let me) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: debian kernel bugs / or is it grub?
David Brodbeck wrote: On Oct 12, 2007, at 11:25 AM, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: I ask because all those errors you posted make me still think you've got some hardware problem. BUt I'm no expert by far. Just as an aside, I've had occasional problems with Linux on machines that had IDE hard drives set to "cable select" mode. Manually jumpering them to master and slave fixed it. Windows worked fine on the same systems. My two IDE drives are configured as Master and Slave by jumper settings. Not by cable select. With my drive configuration already 4 other Linux distributions work fine: Fedora 7 (no problem), Ubuntu 7.10 (no problem), Mandriva 2008.0 (no problem), OpenSuse 10.3 (although on another drive - no problem) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Development Enviroment
Looking for IDE or RAD development environments application (KDE) for Java, Perl, Lisp. On the Macintosh, we had toolbox which had all the libraries, and objects, to program in several languages. Doesn't (KDE) offer this too ? if so, which application gui would work ? Major Thanks - Richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Programmers Text Editor
Looking to get into programming for linux, would like to do: Java, Perl & Lisp What editors (IDE or RAD) environment application would work or if needed to run 2 or 3 different editors that would be fine too. (please no: emacs or vi (or command line apps) wanting something that would be better than xcode on the mac, which contain all libraries, and syntax for dozen of languages, it just made it easier to type and see a drop down command choice, from the contextual menu. with a built-in debugger..neat. TIA - Richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Programmers Text Editor
On Saturday 03 November 2007 5:49:04 pm Kelly Clowers wrote: > On Nov 3, 2007 2:02 PM, Richard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Looking to get into programming for linux, > > would like to do: Java, Perl & Lisp > > > > What editors (IDE or RAD) environment application would work > > or if needed to run 2 or 3 different editors that would be fine too. > > > > (please no: emacs or vi (or command line apps) > > > > wanting something that would be better than xcode on the mac, > > which contain all libraries, and syntax for dozen of languages, > > it just made it easier to type and see a drop down command choice, > > from the contextual menu. with a built-in debugger..neat. > > I am not much of a programmer, and I haven't used XCode, but > I don't think you will find anything comparable to XCode on Linux. > OS X is developed entirely by one company from top to bottom, > and it is guided by one man's vision. XCode is developed by the > same company. > > "Linux", on the other hand, is a bundle of hundreds or thousands > of separate parts, all developed by different companies, > organizations, or individuals. Many of the components have the > same or overlapping goals. "Linux" is a huge, messy ecosystem > of software, and it would be just about impossible to create an > IDE that is to Linux as XCode is to OS X. > > Anyway, besides the previously mentioned KDevelop, Eclipse > and NetBeans, there is Ajunta (Gnome), IntelliJ IDEA (proprietary, > costs $), JBuilder (costs $, built on Eclipse), and Komodo > (free and $ versions). There are others but those are some of > the most well known (also, each one of those does not > necessarily support all of [Java, Lisp, Perl]). > > > Cheers, > Kelly Clowers Thanks for the informative email Richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Server recommendations?
Am Dienstag, den 16.01.2007, 09:59 +0100 schrieb Stefan Bellon: > Greg Folkert wrote: > > > I've been running this: > > > > HP Proliant DL145 G2 > > http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/servers/proliantdl145/ > > > > Since May 2006, of course I don't have a REALLY fast one. But the > > machine supports 1 or 2 processors (single or Dual core) and 32GB of > > memory. It is a 1U machine with a PCIe and a PCI-X slot. I do have three of them downstairs, but I do have SERIOUS trouble with PCI-X-SCSI-Controllers (Testet LSI-Logig and Adaptec-Chipsets) Got Kernel-Oooops and even Panics Richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mdadm - raid1 - sata - udev - kernel-2.6.16-2-686 - Problems
debian sarge - mdadm 1.8.0-4sarge1 my problem is that on reboot the only md device that comes up is md1 which is the / device that gets compiled into the initrd.img. in the boot sequence when it comes to mounting the others from /etc/fstab it can't find the md device and drops me to maintentance mode. If I remove the devices from fstab and just let the initrd.img do it's stuff then it boots fine. from that point If I run /etc/init.d/mdadm-raid start it doesn't work, but if I run /sbin/mdrun then all the md devices appear as they should. I am a little confused as to what's happening, If I put /sbin/mdrun in the init.d and run it at level 20 the md devices will load, but they still will not mount correctly out of /etc/fstab. After it has booted i can mount manually no problems. I have added these to /etc/udev/links.conf M md0 b 9 0 M md1 b 9 1 M md2 b 9 2 M md3 b 9 3 M md4 b 9 4 I am wondering if this is something to do with udev. Any Clues anyone ? Richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
