Re: ResiserFS?

[Ethan Benson]

On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 08:11:07PM -0400, Adam Bender wrote:
> 
> OK, so I get the digest version of this list, which has the nasty habit of 
> leaving some messages out sometimes.  I missed the recent messages about 
> ReiserFS.  Could anyone give me a recap of what that was about?  I was 
> planning on installing it, but from the header it looked like there might 
> have been a problem with it...
> 

in short there appear to be filesystem corruption bugs in at least
2.4.2 for reiserfs.  severe filesystem corruption has been reported
here a couple times.  reiserfsck is quite broken so you will have alot
less chance of being able to recover then with ext2.

i would (and am) waiting until reiserfs becomes mature before even
considering trying it on anything.  one of my criteria is that it
actually work on big endian archetectures.  

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RE: Power off Button

[Dumb]

I don't really have an answer, but sometimes on my machine I have to hold the
button for like 5 seconds before it shuts off, and at other times it just shuts
off with no problem.


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Re: [attn] non-us.debian.org ... security is Down

[Nathan]

On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 07:37:18PM -0500, Bud Rogers wrote:
> On Wednesday 04 April 2001 19:22, John Bacalle wrote:
> > Been trying to 'apt-get update' for an hour, but the process hangs at
> > the unresponsive security URI. for an hour, but the process hangs at the
> > unresponsive security URI.
> 
> I took it to be a routing issue and sent traceroute logs to my ISP.

it's been down for me (and evidently other people as well).

from debian-devel:

> nope, but an alternative is :
> 
>  # Non-US
> deb ftp://ftp.debian.nl/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main contrib 
> non-free
> deb-src ftp://ftp.debian.nl/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main contrib 
> non-free
>
>  # Security updates
> deb ftp://ftp.debian.nl/debian-security stable/updates main contrib 
> non-free
> deb-src ftp://ftp.debian.nl/debian-security stable/updates main contrib 
> non-free
> 
> In case you need a package urgently ;-)
>
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[Fwd: /dev/dsp]

[Mircea Luca]

"Price, Tim" wrote:
 
 I'm not Jeff either, but have you considered catting you /dev/sndstat?
 
 This often contains a clue as to what is misconfigured!
 
 Good luck
 
 -tim
> 
> > -Original Message-
> > From: Mircea Luca [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Thursday, 5 April 2001 13:20
> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> > Subject: Re: /dev/dsp
> >
> >
> > "Stephen E. Hargrove" wrote:
> > >
> > > On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, eric wrote:
> > > >
> > > >   Do you know what may cause /de/dsp : No such device,
> > > > when I run
> > > > cat  /dev/random >  /dev/dsp
> > >
> > > i'm not jeff, but the first thing to check for is an
> > improperly configured
> > > sound card.
> > > --
> > > steve
> >
> > Not being Jeff myself neither I can point as well that some cards(like
> > mine
> > ESS Solo1) don't use /dev/dsp at all,so the above won't work ever.
> > It is documented in the kernel documentation(in the kernel source).
> >
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Power off Button

[Patrick Mauro]

I have a question that hopefully someone can answer.  How can I get my power 
button to work?  It used to work.  I guess, here's the details.

Basically, when I run shutdown -h now, I should be able to hit the power 
button, computer off, no problem.  It doesn't work any more.

It stopped working when I tried to upgrade to Woody, failed, screwed up a few 
things, then reinstalled potato (numerous times, I was trying some stuff out).  
It works find under Windows 98 when I boot into it (shiver) but it no longer 
works under linux.  It gets as far as "Shut power off".   I believe those are 
the words, basically telling me that it's alright to power off my computer.

I can't figure out what I did different between installs.  Or did I screw 
something up?  Now I have to hit the reset button and power off during the bios 
check.  Oh, and my tinkerings I mentioned before involved X, not shutdown, so I 
doubt it's related.

One more question... before I upgrade to woody again, I figure this time it 
would be nice to have a back up.  Would a simple tar and gzip of my whole file 
structure (/, /root, /usr, etc, etc) be enough?  If I bunged some stuff up and 
wanted to go back quickly, would a gzip -d and a tar xvf be enough to restore 
my system back to the way it was?  Or would there be something more missing? 
(BTW, I'm not intending to tar up /proc, /tmp, /dev and the such).

Thanks for you help!


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Re: /etc/network/interfaces

[Stephen E. Hargrove]

On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Mircea Luca wrote:

> "Stephen E. Hargrove" wrote:
> >
> > At startup, I get the following message:
> >
> > Configuring network interfaces: /etc/network/interfaces: option without
> > interface
> >
>
> The module for the NIC seems like the most likely candidate.
> dmesg | grep eth0
> should return something,if not type modconf and try to insert the proper
> module
> for your NIC.
>
>
>

# dmesg | grep eth0
eth0: Proxim Wireless FH PC Card, buffers enabled, fw: V2.3EL
eth0: 00:20:a6:3b:7d:f9, IO: 0x100-7, irq 3.
eth0: Parts from dummy_cs.c 1.9 1998/07/16 23:44:06 (David Hinds).
eth0: Wireless extensions enabled

This looks right to me.  Am I missing something?

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Re: how to downgrade: woody -> potato ??

[Rob Torop]

Nate Amsden wrote:

> Rob Torop wrote:
> >
> > I upgraded from potato to woody (by changing sources.list and doing an
> > update then dist-upgrade).  Now I want to go back!  I replaced "testing"
> > with "stable" in sources.list, but I can't figure out what to do now to
> > get it to revert everything to potato.  Can someone advise me?
>
> maybe someone should make apt-get print out a big warning saying once
> you do a dist-upgrade you can't go back.. everytime ive seen this question
> asked(im not a testing/woody user or a sid/unstable user) the answer has
> always been no. apparently a new version of apt in unstable may be able
> to downgrade, but i dont think it would work unless you upgraded
> originally using that version of apt ..
>
> in short looks like u gotta reinstall if u want potato back..unless
> u want to grab a list of your installed packages and try to do
> a buncha dpkg -i --force-overwrite's but that is probably dangerous.
>
> nate

I just found this

http://groups.google.com/groups?q=debian++downgrade&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&rnum=4&seld=918198586&ic=1

In a nutshell it says that with apt-get > 0.5, one can create
/etc/apt/preferences looking like this:

Package: *
Pin: release a=potato
Pin-Priority: 1001

Then apt-get dist-upgrade will do a downgrade (with lots of warnings...). Or so
it would seem.  I haven't tried it yet...

Re: /etc/network/interfaces

[Mircea Luca]

"Stephen E. Hargrove" wrote:
> 
> I have the following /etc/network/interfaces:
> 
> auto lo
> iface lo inet loopback
> 
> auto eth0
> iface eth0 inet static
> address 192.168.2.6
> netmask 255.255.255.0
> network 192.168.2.0
> broadcast 192.168.2.255
> gateway 192.168.2.1
> 
> At startup, I get the following message:
> 
> Configuring network interfaces: /etc/network/interfaces: option without
> interface
> 
> And, of course, eth0 isn't configured.  Can anyone point out what I'm
> missing here?
> --
> steve

The module for the NIC seems like the most likely candidate.
dmesg | grep eth0
should return something,if not type modconf and try to insert the proper
module
for your NIC.

Re: /dev/dsp

[Mircea Luca]

"Stephen E. Hargrove" wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, eric wrote:
> >
> >   Do you know what may cause /de/dsp : No such device,
> > when I run
> > cat  /dev/random >  /dev/dsp
> 
> i'm not jeff, but the first thing to check for is an improperly configured
> sound card.
> --
> steve

Not being Jeff myself neither I can point as well that some cards(like
mine
ESS Solo1) don't use /dev/dsp at all,so the above won't work ever.
It is documented in the kernel documentation(in the kernel source).

Re: /etc/network/interfaces

[CaT]

On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 10:16:56PM -0500, Stephen E. Hargrove wrote:
> And, of course, eth0 isn't configured.  Can anyone point out what I'm
> missing here?

auto is a sub command like ip and network and not a base command like
iface (AFAIK)

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/etc/network/interfaces

[Stephen E. Hargrove]

I have the following /etc/network/interfaces:

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
address 192.168.2.6
netmask 255.255.255.0
network 192.168.2.0
broadcast 192.168.2.255
gateway 192.168.2.1

At startup, I get the following message:

Configuring network interfaces: /etc/network/interfaces: option without
interface

And, of course, eth0 isn't configured.  Can anyone point out what I'm
missing here?
-- 
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Re: /dev/dsp

[Stephen E. Hargrove]

On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, eric wrote:
>
>   Do you know what may cause /de/dsp : No such device,
> when I run
> cat  /dev/random >  /dev/dsp

i'm not jeff, but the first thing to check for is an improperly configured
sound card.
--
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Re: keyserver has problem???

[Osamu Aoki]

I think problem is overloaded server or DoS.  Look below.

On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 02:04:33PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> i got a connection refused from pgp.ai.mit.edu last night, its
...

I did run nslookup and found this is problem with nework near
pgp.ai.mit.edu. 

...(First try to pgp.ai.mit.edu)
17  pgp5.ai.mit.edu (18.43.0.48)  111.162 ms *  105.970 ms

...(Second try to wwwkeys.us.pgp.net, same thing anyway.)
16  anacreon.lcs.mit.edu (18.24.10.1)  131.536 ms  123.550 ms *
17  pgp5.ai.mit.edu (18.43.0.48)  122.703 ms * *

...(Try again)
14  B24-RTR-FDDI.MIT.EDU (18.168.0.14)  95.158 ms *  109.317 ms
15  RADOLE.LCS.MIT.EDU (18.201.1.3)  100.379 ms  88.364 ms  91.965 ms
16  anacreon.lcs.mit.edu (18.24.10.1)  123.954 ms  94.851 ms  109.271 ms
17  pgp5.ai.mit.edu (18.43.0.48)  160.400 ms *  189.405 ms

So packet loss within MIT.

Also, wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net has some issue:
18  AR1.Tilburg.surf.net (145.41.7.226)  165.861 ms  163.387 ms  163.316ms
19  AR1.Tilburg.surf.net (145.41.7.226)  162.470 ms !A *  161.607 ms !A
 
To me, this is satrange. (some packet loss?)

Always lost at keyserver.??/

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Re: qpopper weirdness

[Nate Amsden]

MaD dUCK wrote:
> 
> also sprach Nathan E Norman (on Wed, 04 Apr 2001 03:03:39PM -0500):
> > I never had any major problems with cucipop.  There are two caveats:
> 
> well, for the sake of fixing this promptly, i went ahead and replaced
> qpopper with cucipop. however, now there is a 20 second delay between
> the user entering the password in the POP3 session over netcat, and
> the log line

probably the fault of the mailbox format(?). i run a few qpopper servers
but haven't used pop3 in years so i never noticed the delay, i just
tested it on a dual p2-233 384MB system with qpopper 3.0.2 on a debian
2.1(slink) system and it took about 12 seconds to login with 4,870 messages
in the inbox. i tried another login on my new ultra fast systems running
cyrus imap and cyrus pop and with my inbox with 866 messages login
was less then 1 second on a dual p3-800 512MB.

cyrus is reaaly fast but its not friendly to local mail
checking(e.g. with pine or mutt or whatever) you have to point
your client to the IMAP or pop server and login to it(which
pine and mutt can do but its not as convienent). and its
more secure from sleepy typers like me(one time last year
i was cleaning my home dir and typed rm -rf * on accident
and wiped out years worth of non backed up email -- yes i
don't backup..maybe someday i will ..)

i highly reccomend cyrus though. its lightning fast. 

nate

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Re: how to downgrade: woody -> potato ??

[Nate Amsden]

Rob Torop wrote:
> 
> I upgraded from potato to woody (by changing sources.list and doing an
> update then dist-upgrade).  Now I want to go back!  I replaced "testing"
> with "stable" in sources.list, but I can't figure out what to do now to
> get it to revert everything to potato.  Can someone advise me?

maybe someone should make apt-get print out a big warning saying once
you do a dist-upgrade you can't go back.. everytime ive seen this question
asked(im not a testing/woody user or a sid/unstable user) the answer has
always been no. apparently a new version of apt in unstable may be able
to downgrade, but i dont think it would work unless you upgraded
originally using that version of apt ..

in short looks like u gotta reinstall if u want potato back..unless
u want to grab a list of your installed packages and try to do
a buncha dpkg -i --force-overwrite's but that is probably dangerous.

nate

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Re: RFC: Removing SVGA support from Ghostscript packages

[Ben Collins]

On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 02:47:16AM +0200, Torsten Landschoff wrote:
> Hi *, 
> 
> Just wanted to ask if anybody is still using the libsvga support of the
> Debian GS packages. I really would like to get rid of that ugly hack
> and if nobody speaks up one of the next uploads will have svga support
> removed.

I think it'd be really nice if you could get framebuffer support, since
svga doesn't even relate to most of my systems anyway :)

Ben

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Re: Maildir POP3 server

[MaD dUCK]

also sprach Miquel van Smoorenburg (on Wed, 04 Apr 2001 11:48:45PM +):
> The Courier mailsystem comes with an IMAP and POP3 server that do
> Maildir.
> In the unstable distribution there's a 'courier-pop' package

right. and i don't want unstable on this system at this moment, since
it's production. i know, it's paranoid, but i have enough gray hair
already.

anyway, i found spop3d on freshmeat, which is quite neat actually. now
i am running spop3d and courier-imap, so as soon as courier-pop is
out, i can easily switch.

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Re: mysterious problem with NICs, isapnp, and modutils

[Jason Pepas]

sorry all, just didnt know about running 
update-modules after making changes.  
 
also didnt know about /network/interfaces 
either. 
 
anyway, looks like things are in working order 
now...
 
jason
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  - Original Message - 
  From: 
  Admiral 
  Thrawn 
  To: Jason Pepas ; debian-user@lists.debian.org 
  
  Sent: Sunday, February 04, 2001 8:47 
  AM
  Subject: Re: mysterious problem with 
  NICs, isapnp, and modutils
  
  ahahahahahahahaha
   
  Yeah Actually there is a misterious config file. 
  IF! you gave modconf an argument to pass to the module. like IRQ=5 
  
  If you did, then the file you seek to distroy is 
  in /etc/modconf/{name of device] or it could be /etc/modules/[name of 
  device]
  I'm at work now and I don't have debian handy. 
  ARG !
   
  hope you get it to work. I had the darnedest time 
  trying to get my sb.o module to work. the only time it would work is when I 
  setup my card to use IRQ 5 and only 5. even if i passwd the driver an IRQ=7 or 
  6 the driver would only work with the sound card and the driver talking on irq 
  5. I hope you don't have the same problem with the NIC's arg I wasn't a 
  happy camper. 
   
   
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- Original Message - 
From: 
Jason 
Pepas 
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org 

Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2001 1:26 
AM
Subject: mysterious problem with NICs, 
isapnp, and modutils

ok, this is driving me crazy.
 
first, let me catch you up to 
speed.
 
I am installing debian on a 486 with 2 NE2000 
ISA PNP NICs.  During installation, I use isapnp to get one of them 
initialized, and set it up as eth0 during the install.  no 
problems.
 
I set it up to use io 0x240 and irq 
5
 
now, I use pnpdump and generate a new isapnp 
file, go in and set up the two cards like this:
 
io 0x240 irq 3
io 0x280 irq 5
 
I edited the "ne" file in modutils to load eth0 
and eth1, with the above settings.
 
I reboot, and the NE2000 module finds a card a 
0x240, and then uses irq 5 for it?!?!?
 
At that point I had no working NIC
 
So I went back and set everything up to just 
use one NIC, with io 0x240 and irq 3
 
still, the module tries to load the card as 
0x240 and irq 5.
 
When I did the install of debian, did it create 
some config file somewhere that I dont know about?  Because I seem to 
be making all the correct changes and my system is totally ignoring 
them.
 
any ideas?
 
thanks
jason
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how to downgrade: woody -> potato ??

[Rob Torop]

I upgraded from potato to woody (by changing sources.list and doing an
update then dist-upgrade).  Now I want to go back!  I replaced "testing"
with "stable" in sources.list, but I can't figure out what to do now to
get it to revert everything to potato.  Can someone advise me?

Re: pasting text into bash without use of mouse

[Ken Irving]

On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 08:40:32PM -0400, Chris Matta wrote:
> ...
> c> Hmm, does this really mean I have to really vi? Actually I was 
> c> thinking of something like "cat file.txt > /dev/ttyX" which however 
> c> pastes the thing not just on the screen but on the command line 
> c> itself. Is there such a linuxian function?
> 
> you can use shift+insert to paste into bash

That seems to be a function of xterm rather than bash, but
thanks for pointing it out.  (Probably doesn't help the original
poster, since it's still in X, but I might find a use for it.)

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Re: Word to postscript from the CLI

[John Galt]

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Two stages:

word2x <-- to LaTeX
dvi2ps <-- to ps



On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, John Griffiths wrote:

>Does anyone know a good way to convert MS Word docs to postscript from the CLI?
>
>TIA
>
>john
>
>
>

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RFC: Removing SVGA support from Ghostscript packages

[Torsten Landschoff]

Hi *, 

Just wanted to ask if anybody is still using the libsvga support of the
Debian GS packages. I really would like to get rid of that ugly hack
and if nobody speaks up one of the next uploads will have svga support
removed.

Comments?

Torsten (Ghostscript Maintainer)


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Re: signing off

[Mark A Hill]

Jim Richardson wrote:


On Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 06:16:05AM -0700, paul taylor wrote:


In the month or so I have had debian on the machine I have not been able to
get pon to work. I can't get kppp to work. the printer does not work in
star office or koffice. It just another distro that is not ready for prime time

Perhaps you'd like to console yourself with a box of windows 2000 and a 
subscription to MSDN. Oh, but don't use the administrator account ;-) it 
dangerous!


You're ready to be a star!

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Re: globally setting tab=4 spaces?

[Bill Wohler]

will trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> if you don't know, just say so. :)

  My answer was correct ;-).

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Re[2]: pasting text into bash without use of mouse

[Chris Matta]

Hello csj,

Wednesday, April 04, 2001, 6:47:53 PM, you wrote:

c> On Wednesday 04 April 2001 09:41, Karsten M. Self wrote:
>> csj ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>> > Is there a way to copy or paste text into bash without the use of
>> > a mouse? I'm thinking of a text file "file.txt" which contains
>> > command sequences which I would like to touch up before running.
>> >
>> > I don't want to use an editor for this. Just the line editing
>> > functions of bash. Offhand the only (untested) solution I can
>> > think of is something like "cat file.txt >> .bash_history",
>> > subsequently invoking another bash session. Is this stupid
>> > (dangerous)? Does someone have a better solution?
>>
>> Just posted here this week.  If you have wmaker installed, wxpaste
>> and wxcopy do what you'd expect them to.

c> It looks interesting. But I forgot to add: --without-X. For those 
c> dire moments when X crashes.

c> On Wednesday 04 April 2001 09:49, Karsten M. Self wrote:
>> ...another option.  If you're just trying to execute a set of
>> commands through bash:
>>
>> $ . # "source" commands in file, current shell
>> $ bash -f   # run commands in file (subshell)
>> $ bash  <   # run commands in file (subshell)

c> My version is something like "cat file.txt | bash". Is this a bad 
c> idea.

>> If you want to compose multi-line commands to run in bash without
>> creating an explicit file:
>>
>> $ set -o vi   # set 'vi' mode
>> $ -v # invoke 'vi' editor
>> # edit file, 'ZZ' or ':wq' when done.  Commands execute.

c> Hmm, does this really mean I have to really vi? Actually I was 
c> thinking of something like "cat file.txt > /dev/ttyX" which however 
c> pastes the thing not just on the screen but on the command line 
c> itself. Is there such a linuxian function?



you can use shift+insert to paste into bash

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Re: ATI 3D Rage IIc and console

[John Galt]

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There's a mach64 framebuffer in 2.4 kernels...  Try that.

On 4 Apr 2001, Alexander Zhuckov wrote:

>Hi!
>
>I have ATI 3D Rage IIc card. And I prefer to work in console with
>100 chars / 50 lines / 100Hz.  But
>
>1) framebuffer doesn't work with my card since kernel 2.2.18;
>2) svgatextmode doesn't work too.
>
>What can I do?
>
>Thank you in advance for any answer.
>

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Re: [MAPS #33478] Re: Whats goin on?

[Richard Stallman]

I don't like this either.  However, I don't think that expressing
anger at whoever runs mail-abuse.org will be effective.  He is not likely
to listen to us.

People need to express their views in other situations--when a site
decides to *use* mail-abuse.org and block mail from dynamic sites.
Is Debian doing anything like this?

Re: [attn] non-us.debian.org ... security is Down

[Bud Rogers]

On Wednesday 04 April 2001 19:22, John Bacalle wrote:
> Been trying to 'apt-get update' for an hour, but the process hangs at
> the unresponsive security URI. for an hour, but the process hangs at the
> unresponsive security URI.

I took it to be a routing issue and sent traceroute logs to my ISP.

-- 
Bud Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>   http://www.sirinet.net/~budr
All things in moderation.  And not too much moderation either.

/dev/dsp

[eric]

dear Jeff:

 Do you know what may cause /de/dsp : No such device,
when I run
cat  /dev/random >  /dev/dsp

sincere
eric

Re: Need help setting up SB PCI 128 sound card on potato system

[Donald R. Spoon]

Just a thoughthave you checked to see if the "driver" module(s) are
being loaded?  I have an older PCI128 card here that uses the es1370
chipset, and it works fine in Linux.  A "lsmod" command should show both
a "soundcore" and a "es1371" module loaded.  If they are not there, you
might want to use MODCONF and add at least the es1371 module.  It think
it will drag the other one along with it at boot-time.

BTW, if you EVER get this card to play MIDI files under Linux other than
by using timidity, PLEASE let me know how you did it!!  I have been
searching for over a year!

The Commercial OSS "drivers" work fine with this card too...

Cheers,
-Don Spoon-

Re: Sound

[John Galt]

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On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Jeff Levy - [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

>cat /dev/urandom > /dev/dsp
>
>Jeff Levy
>Software Design
>Meta-Craft Creations
>
>On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Andrew D Dixon wrote:
>
>> Hey Ya,
>> I've compiled what I think are the right drivers into my kernel
>> (soundcore and cx36xx).  Does anyone know how I can test my sound to
>> make sure it works??
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Andy
>>
>>
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ResiserFS?

[Adam Bender]

OK, so I get the digest version of this list, which has the nasty habit of 
leaving some messages out sometimes.  I missed the recent messages about 
ReiserFS.  Could anyone give me a recap of what that was about?  I was 
planning on installing it, but from the header it looked like there might 
have been a problem with it...


Thanks a lot,

Adam

--
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
www.andrew.cmu.edu/~abender
Computer scientists have kernel knowledge.

Re: Maildir POP3 server

[Miquel van Smoorenburg]

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
MaD dUCK  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>hey,
>anyone know of a POP3 server capable of serving out of $HOME/Maildir/
>and which isn't part of qmail?

The Courier mailsystem comes with an IMAP and POP3 server that do
Maildir.

In the unstable distribution there's a 'courier-pop' package

Mike.

Re: Boot parameters

[Miquel van Smoorenburg]

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Shawn Garbett  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I want a script to be executed once at boot time, (i.e to do 
>/sbin/hdparm setting).
>
>Where would this go? If I use a command like update-rc.d foo.sh default 
>19, then it would be executed at all init levels and at all changes of 
>init levels. Seems excessive to me.

Put it in /etc/init.d/shawn, then run

update-rc.d shawn 80 start S .

Mike.

Re: Word to postscript from the CLI

[Henry House]

On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 08:59:13AM +1000, John Griffiths wrote:
> Does anyone know a good way to convert MS Word docs to postscript from the 
> CLI?

Antiword does this; you will need to judge for yourself whether its output is
satisfactory. Antiword preserves table structure pretty well.

Another option would be recent versions of AbiWord (0.7.13 for sure), which
can dump data in various formats using the -to switch.

-- 
Henry House
OpenPGP key available from http://hajhouse.org/hajhouse.asc

Word to postscript from the CLI

[John Griffiths]

Does anyone know a good way to convert MS Word docs to postscript from the CLI?

TIA

john

Re: pasting text into bash without use of mouse

[csj]

On Wednesday 04 April 2001 09:41, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> csj ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > Is there a way to copy or paste text into bash without the use of
> > a mouse? I'm thinking of a text file "file.txt" which contains
> > command sequences which I would like to touch up before running.
> >
> > I don't want to use an editor for this. Just the line editing
> > functions of bash. Offhand the only (untested) solution I can
> > think of is something like "cat file.txt >> .bash_history",
> > subsequently invoking another bash session. Is this stupid
> > (dangerous)? Does someone have a better solution?
>
> Just posted here this week.  If you have wmaker installed, wxpaste
> and wxcopy do what you'd expect them to.

It looks interesting. But I forgot to add: --without-X. For those 
dire moments when X crashes.

On Wednesday 04 April 2001 09:49, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> ...another option.  If you're just trying to execute a set of
> commands through bash:
>
> $ . # "source" commands in file, current shell
> $ bash -f   # run commands in file (subshell)
> $ bash  <   # run commands in file (subshell)

My version is something like "cat file.txt | bash". Is this a bad 
idea.

> If you want to compose multi-line commands to run in bash without
> creating an explicit file:
>
> $ set -o vi   # set 'vi' mode
> $ -v # invoke 'vi' editor
> # edit file, 'ZZ' or ':wq' when done.  Commands execute.

Hmm, does this really mean I have to really vi? Actually I was 
thinking of something like "cat file.txt > /dev/ttyX" which however 
pastes the thing not just on the screen but on the command line 
itself. Is there such a linuxian function?

Re: Change size of terminal window?

[Nathan E Norman]

On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 09:27:30PM +0100, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote:
> I'd like to change the size of the terminal window shown on screen.
> 
> I'm a Debian newbie. I've got Debian installed on our rather nice new
> VALinux rackmount box and I've got it hooked up to a Mitsubishi TFT
> flatscreen monitor. I don't have X running, and I'm doing everything in
> text mode.
> 
> At the moment, while the "Intel" picture on startup uses the whole screen
> fine, as soon as Lilo loads linux, the console fills only about 1/4 of the
> area of the screen.

WAG: try the framebuffer console?

-- 
Nathan Norman - Staff Engineer | A good plan today is better
Micromuse Ltd. | than a perfect plan tomorrow.
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Maildir POP3 server

[MaD dUCK]

hey,
anyone know of a POP3 server capable of serving out of $HOME/Maildir/
and which isn't part of qmail?

martin;  (greetings from the heart of the sun.)
  \ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> mailto:"; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
-- 
void write_thesis(char *subject, char *title} {
  // do something
}

Re: how do i chop wav files with sox

[Carel Fellinger]

On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 12:42:12PM +0100, David Wright wrote:
...
> Yes, I was going to point out to the person that suggested using

I think that was me:)

> index points instead of tracks that many players can't handle them,
> and that using tracks should not require any gaps. Most classical
> CDs will illustrate this point.

not sure i understand and/or agree here. Maybe it all depends on what
you call a track?

To me a track is (in the context of burning cd's) the entity that is
burned on a cd in TrackAtOnce (TAO) mode.  The CD-standard prescribes
two second pauses in between those tracks.  There are some writers
that can produce gaps of different length (even 0), but not many.

When burning such a track it is quite feasable to combine several wave
files on the fly to fill that one track without any pause in between
those wav files.  Normally, for each track an entry is added to the
TOC (table of contents, located at the beginning of the cd prior to
any track).  But there is nothing stopping you from adding top-level
indices to the TOC that point inside those `real' tracks.

And then there is this notion of tracks when *playing* audio cd's.
Those tracks are the parts of the cd as decribed by the top-level
indices in the TOC.

So when I advised to use indices I ment to add entries to the TOC
such that tracks (in the context of TAO-burning) got split up
in tracks (in the context of audio-cd playing).

> However, just as some very early CD players would cock this up, there
> are still some computer players making this mistake and inserting
> silences into continuous music CDs. That's the player's fault, not the
> fault of using tracks.

yep. (tracks here in the context of "playing audio cd's")

-- 
groetjes, carel

Re: recompiling the kernel

[Karsten Heymann]

On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Michael Soulier wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 12:07:11PM -0300, Ted Gervais wrote:
> > 
> > I want to make some changes to my kernel in my newly installed debian system
> > and am used to going to the directory where the kernel source is located 
> > and 
> > typing 'make menuconfig'.  It seems that Debian does things differently.
> > 
> > How is this done in Debian. I hope I don't have to put the CDrom back in 
> > and 
> > go through another 'install' process???
> 
> Nope. Hi Ted...
> 
> apt-get install kernel-source-

Don't forget the following packages:
bin86 (i allways forget this)
libncurses-dev (for 'make menuconfig')

or to be sure:
task-debian-devel
task-c-dev
task-devel-common
(I'm not sure if you need all of them but if you have the space they won't
hurt)

> Then unpack it at /usr/src, where the package will put it. Also read
> up on the make-kpkg manpage from the kernel-package package. Very,
> very useful tool.

Also look at /usr/share/doc/kernel-package/README.gz which is far more a
manual than a readme and covers debians kernel-compilation-helpers in
detail.

> Mike


-- 
Karsten Heymann
Netzwerkverwaltung
Forschungsstelle für Ökosystemtechnik
Universität Kiel

Re: wtmp question

[Ethan Benson]

On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 05:16:45PM -0400, MaD dUCK wrote:
> another question about my non-working system...
> 
> i finger a user to retrieve the following information:
> 
[deleted]
> 
> however, the user has logged in previously.
> 
> if i finger while the user is online through ssh (that's all i ever
> allow, no telnet, no console):
> 
[deleted]
> 
> i would like to be able to see when a user last logged in. this is
> handled by wtmp, right?

no, /var/log/lastlog is used for this, wtmp is a log of ALL user
logins, lastlog is just a log of the last login.  as such lastlog does
not need to be rotated as its a sparse file that is only filled with a
user entry when the user logs in, this way its size stays consistent
(its only as big as you have active users) whereas wtmp bloats as
users login and logout so wtmp must be rotated.  if finger used wtmp
it would give innaccurate information if a user logged in over a month
ago. 

> diamond:~# ls -la /var/log/wtmp
> -rw-rw-r--1 root utmp29568 Apr  4 17:14 /var/log/wtmp
> diamond:~# 
> 
> looks good (another system where this works has the same permissions).
> 
> any clues on how to fix this?

make sure you have a /var/log/lastlog file with permissions root.utmp 0664. 

-- 
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/


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Change size of terminal window?

[Rory Campbell-Lange]

I'd like to change the size of the terminal window shown on screen.

I'm a Debian newbie. I've got Debian installed on our rather nice new
VALinux rackmount box and I've got it hooked up to a Mitsubishi TFT
flatscreen monitor. I don't have X running, and I'm doing everything in
text mode.

At the moment, while the "Intel" picture on startup uses the whole screen
fine, as soon as Lilo loads linux, the console fills only about 1/4 of the
area of the screen.

Sorry about the newbie question.

Rory

Change size of terminal window?

[Rory Campbell-Lange]

I'd like to change the size of the terminal window shown on screen.

I'm a Debian newbie. I've got Debian installed on our rather nice new
VALinux rackmount box and I've got it hooked up to a Mitsubishi TFT
flatscreen monitor. I don't have X running, and I'm doing everything in
text mode.

At the moment, while the "Intel" picture on startup uses the whole screen
fine, as soon as Lilo loads linux, the console fills only about 1/4 of the
area of the screen.

Sorry about the newbie question.

Rory

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V101 #262

[Georrge Lotarev]

Hello my e-mail address has been changed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] 

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V101 #262

[Georrge Lotarev]

Hello my e-mail address has been changed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] 

Re: keyserver has problem???

[Ethan Benson]

On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 02:58:24PM -0700, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> Wow, YES I can get new key from europe.  Thanks telling me one working
> keyserver.
> 
> > keyserver wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net
> 
> I have problem with pgp.ai... still.  Strange since I am in USA
> (California).
> 
> Maybe another local IP routing issue of my ISP?
> Maybe overloaded keyserver in USA?

i got a connection refused from pgp.ai.mit.edu last night, its
probably just down at the moment unless i missed an announcment of a
shutdown which i doubt.  

> I will stay with this keyserver for a while.

use one that works, i have found keyserver.net seems to have serious
issues with gpg keys, they never seem to show up there.  but as i said
its not the same keyserver software as used by every other keyserver.  

-- 
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/


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LDAP authentication and SASL/PLAIN

[Mullins, Ron]

Dear fellow Debianites:
Hopefully there are those of you out there who have experience with the
OpenLDAP server 2.0.7 (from Sid) and it's authentication methodologies,
'cause I need help bad. I'm trying to move to LDAP authentication and will
be using the libpam_ldap to do so. Setting up the server is no problem, I'm
having troubles getting PLAIN authentication to work. I get errors using the
ldapsearch unless I use the -x

When I leave the SASL_SECPROPS at the default in the config files (which
won't work for me anyway), I get:

$ldapsearch -W -D "cn=admin,ou=People,dc=digiterra,dc=com" 'objectClass=*'
Enter LDAP Password:
ldap_sasl_interactive_bind_s: No such attribute 

When I set the SASL_SECPROPS to none, I get:

-$ldapsearch -W -D "cn=admin,ou=People,dc=digiterra,dc=com" 'objectClass=*'
-Enter LDAP Password:
-SASL/LOGIN authentication started
-ldap_sasl_interactive_bind_s: Out of memory

I've been going back over this for a week trying to figure out
when/what/where/why for pam->ldap->sasl->tts/ssl and I'm blurried eyed. I
finally noticed the SASL/LOGIN in the last attempt. Now to my understanding
I want SASL/PLAIN so I can use the libpam_ldap. How do I get this to happen?
Plain is available:

-$ldapsearch -x -b "" -s base -LL supportedSASLMechanisms
-dn:
-supportedSASLMechanisms: LOGIN
-supportedSASLMechanisms: PLAIN
-supportedSASLMechanisms: ANONYMOUS

I could really use some guidance. I have no idea how to tell SASL to do
plain authentication in this case. I've read many a 'mini-howto' on doing
this and I've set my options similar, but there is something still escaping
me. I'm including my configs below. Thank for any help.



# $OpenLDAP: pkg/ldap/libraries/libldap/ldap.conf,v 1.4.8.6 2000/09/05
#
BASEdc=digiterra, dc=com
SASL_SECPROPS none


#
# Schema and objectClass definitions
include /etc/ldap/schema/core.schema
include /etc/ldap/schema/cosine.schema
include /etc/ldap/schema/nis.schema

schemacheck off
#referral   ldap://ldap.four11.com
pidfile /var/run/slapd.pid
argsfile/var/run/slapd.args
loglevel0
sasl-secprops   none

# ldbm database definitions
databaseldbm
suffix  "dc=digiterra,dc=com"
directory   "/var/lib/ldap"
lastmod on
access to dn=".*,ou=Roaming,dc=digiterra,dc=com"
by dnattr=owner write
access to attribute=userPassword
by dn="cn=admin,ou=People,dc=digiterra,dc=com" write
by anonymous auth
by self write
by * none
access to *
by dn="cn=admin,ou=People,dc=digiterra,dc=com" write
by * read

Re: Are you guys sure about that?

[Nate Duehr]

On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 10:24:54PM -0600, Rob VanFleet wrote:
> That's actually a common misconception.  I can't believe I'm defending
> redhat, but the up2date tool has been around since 6.1, and it doesn't
> cost anything.  What does cost money is priority ftp access, without
> which you'll be hard-pressed to find a mirror that isn't overloaded
> anytime other than the wee hours of the morning.
> 
> That said, up2date is *nothing* like apt.  All it does it update rpms
> that you already have installed with security fixes.  There is no
> capability in it to automagically install packages ala apt, nor is there
> no upgrade to later version option either (which debian offers through
> testing and unstable).  up2date is also a pretty big resource hog for
> just being an updater.  It also makes remote updating virtually
> impossible over a slow link, as AFAIK, it is a GUI (X) only tool.

Get out of X and run it.  It's also a command-line tool.

I'm forced to use it at work and we do not pay for any kind of support
nor do we run X on any of the servers.

> All in all, I wasn't very impressed with it, other distributions have
> had similar tools for a few years now (MandrakeUpdate comes to mind),
> and none of them come close the capability of apt.  As to security, it's
> not just tools.  Debian has a pretty good record of responding to
> security holes extremely quickly, while Redhat can somtimes (not always)
> drag their feet a bit.  Debian also sets you up *much* more secure by
> default than Redhat, which last time I installed 7, managed to installed
> every service that existed by default (tftp even!).

I'm not impressed with up2date either, but it's better than having
insecure machines.

My biggest beef with it is that I have to have all sorts of Python
run-time crap on my production machines for no other reason than to
support that silly script.  It should have been a binary.

-- 
Nate Duehr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

GPG Key fingerprint = DCAF 2B9D CC9B 96FA 7A6D AAF4 2D61 77C5 7ECE C1D2
Public Key available upon request, or at wwwkeys.pgp.net and others.

Re: keyserver has problem???

[Osamu Aoki]

Wow, YES I can get new key from europe.  Thanks telling me one working
keyserver.

> keyserver wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net

I have problem with pgp.ai... still.  Strange since I am in USA
(California).

Maybe another local IP routing issue of my ISP?
Maybe overloaded keyserver in USA?

I will stay with this keyserver for a while.

Osamu

-- 
~\^o^/~~~ ~\^.^/~~~ ~\^*^/~~~ ~\^_^/~~~ ~\^+^/~~~ ~\^:^/~~~ ~\^v^/~~~ 
+  Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG-key: 1024D/D5DE453D  +
+   For more debian survival information, peek into:  +
+ http://www.aokiconsulting.com/debian-survival/  +

Re: keyserver has problem???

[Alan Shutko]

Joerg Jaspert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> My pubring.gpg is noe 17306bytes, before that it was >580k !

Why do you care how big it is?  Mine is 5.3MB, and it's fine.

-- 
Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - In a variety of flavors!
There's only one everything.

SMTP transaction error

[davidj]

I'm afraid I'm doing all this wrong, but please excuse me.
I started a thread - Fetchmail segfaults - yesterday, but I
don't know how to get back into it.

My problem is that fetchmail won't deliver.  

Thanks, Henrique, for pointing out the general flakiness of 
fetchmail, but I never had a problem with it myself over the 
past year or so and since I re-installed my system it hasn't 
fetched me a thing.

Thanks, Karsten, for the idea of malformed headers causing it,
but the malfunctioning is just too consistent for that.

I'm sure I've got some simple thing - as likely as not in another
program such as exim - badly configured, and I'm sure someone
out there can guess what it might be.

Perhaps the following extract from fetchmail's output is more 
indicative of the problem - this time it didn't segfault but went
on to query other servers on the .fetchmailrc list:

4 messages for davidj at pop3.web.de (9315 octets).
fetchmail: POP3> RETR 1
fetchmail: POP3< +OK Nachricht folgt/message follows
reading message 1 of 4 (2238 octets)
fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed: Connection refused
fetchmail: POP3> QUIT
fetchmail: POP3< Sebastiaan wrote:
fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from pop3.web.de
fetchmail: Query status=10
fetchmail: 4.6.4 querying pop.mail.yahoo.com... ... ... 

Come on, you people.  I'm sure someone can see what's wrong!  And 
you don't want me telling everyone I have to use Outlook Express 
to collect my mail, do you :)

And, incidentally, how do I reply to this list - with mutt - so
that I can thank you all?

Thanks in advance,

David

wtmp question

[MaD dUCK]

another question about my non-working system...

i finger a user to retrieve the following information:

diamond:~# finger nori
Login: nori Name: Nori
Directory: /home/nori   Shell: /bin/bash
Never logged in.
No mail.
No Plan.
diamond:~# 

however, the user has logged in previously.

if i finger while the user is online through ssh (that's all i ever
allow, no telnet, no console):

diamond:~# finger nori
Login: nori Name: Nori
Directory: /home/nori   Shell: /bin/bash
On since Wed Apr  4 17:14 (EDT) on pts/4 from fishbowl.dyn.madduck.net
   1 second idle
No mail.
No Plan.
diamond:~# 

i would like to be able to see when a user last logged in. this is
handled by wtmp, right?

diamond:~# ls -la /var/log/wtmp
-rw-rw-r--1 root utmp29568 Apr  4 17:14 /var/log/wtmp
diamond:~# 

looks good (another system where this works has the same permissions).

any clues on how to fix this?

martin;  (greetings from the heart of the sun.)
  \ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> mailto:"; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
-- 
out of my mind. back in five minutes.

Re: keyserver has problem???

[Joerg Jaspert]

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1

Am Mittwoch,  4. April 2001 23:12 schrieb Osamu Aoki:

> I do not think you imported just your own public-key but all your
> previously obtained public-key, did you??

NO. I exported my public-key just after i created it.
And I only imported this key, nothing else.
My pubring.gpg is noe 17306bytes, before that it was >580k !

> I tried the same thing.  Now I can verify my signature but not others as I
> expected.

keyserver wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net
honor-http-proxy

Thats the keyserver im using. And gpg has imported 3 new keys since i zapped 
the pubring. For me it works :)

PS: DONT do full qoutes, only the necessary things please. :)

- -- 
bye
Joerg
GPG-Keyid: 0x1120D31B
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Re: keyserver has problem???

[Osamu Aoki]

I do not think you imported just your own public-key but all your
previously obtained public-key, did you??

I tried the same thing.  Now I can verify my signature but not others as I
expected.

I also tried to get my public key sent again to keyserver with

 $ gpg --keyserver pgp.ai.mit.edu --send-keys Osamu

And connection refused.

There is something going on.

Since pgp key is almost permanently cached at user machine forever,
these kind of connection problem is slowly felt...

Osamu

On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 08:39:42PM +0200, Joerg Jaspert wrote:
> Am Mittwoch,  4. April 2001 19:45 schrieb Osamu Aoki:
> 
> > [-- PGP output follows (current time: Wed Apr  4 10:35:23 2001) --]
> > gpg: Signature made Tue Apr  3 23:15:10 2001 PDT using DSA key ID 2C447AFC
> > gpg: requesting key 2C447AFC from pgp.ai.mit.edu ...
> > gpg: can't get key from keyserver: Connection refused
> > gpg: Can't check signature: public key not found
> > [-- End of PGP output --]
> > But when I use empty pubring.gpg to get them anew
> > I encounter problem.
> 
> I had this problem today too. I killed my pubring-file because it was too 
> big. And gpg wont import any public key from server.
> The solution was easy for me: I had a file joerg.asc with my public-key. I 
> imported it with gpg --import joerg.asc
> Since then gpg could get keys from server again.
> 
> -- 
> bye
> Joerg
> GPG-Keyid: 0x1120D31B
> Fingerprint: A3D2 83A4 535D A826 F2AA  4348 8BDD 849C 1120 D31B
> 
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Re: Printer reccommendation

[Phillip Deackes]

On Tue, 3 Apr 2001 21:44:01 +0200
John Plate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hi
> 
> > I know this is way off topic, but can anyone reccomend a budget
> > printer with good linux (and debianised) support?
> 
> I can recommend Lexmark Optra E310. It has Postscript, it is fast and
> reliable. It just works very well.

I recommend the Epson 680. Epson have written a Linux driver for it which
fits into the current lpr/lprng/ghostscript system and gives the same
quality of print output as the Windows driver. The Epson package also
includes a GUI utility to change paper type and print quality.

>From the web page:

"It brings out the maximum performance of the printer hardware such as
1440*720dpi and six color ink by using the same image processing module as
the driver for Win/Mac and the microweave technology. 

It offers the same print mode provided for the Win/Mac driver. 

The print mode setting is supported. 

We provide the open source as much as possible."
 

The driver is obtainable from:

http://www.epkowa.co.jp/english/linux_e/pips_e.html

-- 
Phillip Deackes
Using Progeny Debian Linux

Boot parameters

[Shawn Garbett]

I want a script to be executed once at boot time, (i.e to do 
/sbin/hdparm setting).


Where would this go? If I use a command like update-rc.d foo.sh default 
19, then it would be executed at all init levels and at all changes of 
init levels. Seems excessive to me.


Shawn

hardware clock keeps local time?

[Michael A. Miller]

I've just added a win98 partition to a debian machine and would
like to arrange for the hardware clock to use local time.  

I've changed "UTC=yes" to "UTC=no" in /etc/default/rcS, but my
system is still getting changed back to utc.  Can anyone point me
to what else needs to be adjusted?

Thanks, Mike

cucipop delays (was: qpopper weirdness)

[MaD dUCK]

an addendum... the delay is dependent on the mailbox size. if i POP to
an account with a small mailbox, it works like a jiffy. however, when
connecting to an account with a 16Mb mailbox size, it takes 20 seconds
before cucipop returns the login acknowledgement.

i.e.

fishbowl:~> nc mail 110
+OK Cubic Circle's v1.31 1998/05/13 POP3 ready <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
user madduck
+OK madduck selected
pass ***
  
  <20 seconds>

+OK Congratulations!


meanwhile, top reports the following (for 20 seconds).

PID  USERPRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT LIB %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND
6801 madduck 16  0  680  680 592   R0   93.5 1.0  0:05 cucipop

seems weird to me... seems like cucipop is doing something beyond
parsing the 16Mb file...

> Are you sure this isn't the sync delay introdiced by syslog?  Does
> the log in question have a '-' in front of the name?

yes, by the above reasoning. the response from the POP server takes 20
seconds and is in sync with the tailf'd log file.

for you to test, i setup a test account. user poptest, p/w cucipop.
server mail.madduck.net and port 110. it's got 4 messages with 4Mb
attachments each:

-rw-rw1 poptest  mail 22684419 Apr  4 16:29 poptest

so a little more than 16Mb, meaning probably slightly longer than
20 seconds...

any help on how to eliminate this delay appreciated.

martin;  (greetings from the heart of the sun.)
  \ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> mailto:"; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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-- victor hugo

Keyboard lockup

[Casey Henderson]

Hello all,
   I have a major problem with my Linux box.  I am running the unstable
version of Debian, and my system has been running fine for months.  No
major problems.  This morning I booted up my machine and discovered my
keyboard will not work in Linux.  Here's the scenario:

LILO comes up and I hit Enter to boot linux.  The boot process proceeds
in the normal fashion.  No error messages, everything is fine.  Then
the GDM login box comes up so I can log in to X.  At this point the
keyboard doesn't work.  I can't type in my username.  I tried pressing
CTRL-ALT-F1 to get to a virtual terminal, but that won't work either. 
Nothing.  It's as if the keyboard completely died.

At first I thought that my XF86Config-4 file got messed up somehow.  So
I rebooted and typed "linux single" at the boot prompt so I could boot
to a command line.  I re-ran the xf86config program and re-created the
config file.  This didn't solve the problem.

A friend of mine mentioned that maybe there was some sort of conflict
with gpm, but I do not have gpm installed, so that's not it either. 

I am at a loss as to what the problem could be.  I know for a fact that
it is NOT a hardware problem, because the keyboard works fine in
Windows.  I did not install any new software, or make any changes to
the system whatsoever. In fact, I have been using windows for a few
days and I haven't even been using Linux.  Linux had been running fine
for months until this morning.  This problem seems to have appeared out
of the blue.

If I cannot find a fix I will be forced (as a last resort) to backup my
important files and format the partition and reinstall Linux and see if
that works.  I really don't want to go down that road if I don't have
to.  If anyone can give me any help at all I would greatly appreciate
it.  Thanks in advance.

Casey

--
Casey Henderson
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.umcs.maine.edu/~hender97/

Re: qpopper weirdness

[MaD dUCK]

also sprach Nathan E Norman (on Wed, 04 Apr 2001 03:03:39PM -0500):
> I never had any major problems with cucipop.  There are two caveats:

well, for the sake of fixing this promptly, i went ahead and replaced
qpopper with cucipop. however, now there is a 20 second delay between
the user entering the password in the POP3 session over netcat, and
the log line

Apr  4 16:02:11 localhost cucipop[6561]: Opened madduck's mailbox

on the server. but this time there is no copying going on. just
precisely 20 seconds. makes me want to think it's PAM or something
along the lines of authentication... no other log revealed anything
though.

???

ps:

> 1) cucipop always leaves a zombie process laying around.  I haven't
> dug through the code but this strikes me as odd.

this is commented by the author in the INSTALL file where he claims
that this is for performance purposes. whatever, i can deal...

martin;  (greetings from the heart of the sun.)
  \ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> mailto:"; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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 if sound were not capable of suggesting colour,
 if colours could not give the idea of the melody,
 if sound and colour were not adequate to express ideas."
 -- claude debussy

Error using setxkbmap

[list]

Hello, does anyone knows what does this error means when trying to use
setxkbmap, I'm using an up-to-date potato:

Couldn't interpret _XKB_RULES_NAMES property

the command I used was:

setxkbmap us

well, i get it with 'setxkbmap es' also, so I guess is a general
problem wit setxkbmap.

Any clues?

thanx

jorge santos

Re: Sound

[Andrew D Dixon]

Sebastiaan wrote:

> On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Andrew D Dixon wrote:
>
> > "Jeff Levy - [EMAIL PROTECTED]" wrote:
> >
> > > cat /dev/urandom > /dev/dsp
> >
> > This yields the following error:
> >
> > rowling:/dev# cat /dev/urandom > /dev/dsp
> > bash: /dev/dsp: No such device
> This means that your card is not configured correctly yet.
> Useful information about soundcards can be found at
> /usr/src/linux/Documentation/sound
> if you have the kernel source documents installed.

I feel like such a bone head.  I put the kernel image in the wrong
file.  All I had to do was copy it over and now everything works great.

thanks for all the help,
Andy

qpopper weirdness

[MaD dUCK]

hey,
i am using qpopper for pop3 access. one of my users hasn't been
reading mail in two weeks, and now her mailbox is 16Mb. that's not a
lot, no. however, she uses microcrap software, which is not succeeding
at downloading whereas a direct POP3 interaction with the server
through netcat revealed that it was working. however, whenever a user
logs in through POP, the following happens:

- /var/spool/mail/myuser gets copied (!) to /var/spool/pop/myuser.pop
  even though it's the same partition.
  /var/spool/mail/myuser.lock exists for the length of this copying
  process. once /var/spool/pop/myuser.pop equals
  /var/spool/mail/myuser and the latter has been overwritten, the lock
  file is removed.
- /var/spool/mail/myuser then gets overwritten to produce a zero byte
  file.

when the POP session ends,

- /var/spool/pop/myuser.pop is copied back onto
  /var/spool/mail/myuser (appended) while myuser.lock exists.
- the lock file is removed when /var/spool/mail/myuser exists again at
  its full size (provided POP didn't delete mails).

with the 16Mb, the copying back and forth takes about 10 seconds each,
probably enough to make the microcrap shit choke. this is what i am
assuming - i have no access to the client computer as it's 4000 miles
away. but i am wondering why qpopper decides to cp/rm that file rather
than mv it... a security measure? doesn't want to get into my head...

any comments appreciated (and please CC to me).

martin;  (greetings from the heart of the sun.)
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-- 
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-- dr. who

Re: OPL3-SA3 Sound problem

[Andrew D Dixon]

William Staniewicz wrote:

> I'm trying to get my sound working with OPL3-SA3.
> When I try to install the module,
> I get the following error. What needs to be done
> to make it work?
>
> localhostnl:/home/wstan# insmod opl3sa2
> Using /lib/modules/2.2.18pre21/misc/opl3sa2.o
> /lib/modules/2.2.18pre21/misc/opl3sa2.o: unresolved symbol 
> unload_mpu401_R5febf284
> /lib/modules/2.2.18pre21/misc/opl3sa2.o: unresolved symbol 
> probe_mpu401_Rcd91465c
> /lib/modules/2.2.18pre21/misc/opl3sa2.o: unresolved symbol 
> attach_mpu401_Rb18f4f68

it looks like you've got unresolved dependancies there.  I'm not the person to 
help
you through this but you should start by reading the depmod man page.

good luck,
Andy


>
>
> -Bill
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Re: debian-user-digest Digest V101 #261

[Georrge Lotarev]

Hello my e-mail address has been changed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] 

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V101 #261

[Georrge Lotarev]

Hello my e-mail address has been changed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] 

OPL3-SA3 Sound problem

[William Staniewicz]

I'm trying to get my sound working with OPL3-SA3.
When I try to install the module,
I get the following error. What needs to be done
to make it work?

localhostnl:/home/wstan# insmod opl3sa2
Using /lib/modules/2.2.18pre21/misc/opl3sa2.o
/lib/modules/2.2.18pre21/misc/opl3sa2.o: unresolved symbol 
unload_mpu401_R5febf284
/lib/modules/2.2.18pre21/misc/opl3sa2.o: unresolved symbol 
probe_mpu401_Rcd91465c
/lib/modules/2.2.18pre21/misc/opl3sa2.o: unresolved symbol 
attach_mpu401_Rb18f4f68

-Bill

Re: keyserver has problem???

[Joerg Jaspert]

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1

Am Mittwoch,  4. April 2001 19:45 schrieb Osamu Aoki:

> [-- PGP output follows (current time: Wed Apr  4 10:35:23 2001) --]
> gpg: Signature made Tue Apr  3 23:15:10 2001 PDT using DSA key ID 2C447AFC
> gpg: requesting key 2C447AFC from pgp.ai.mit.edu ...
> gpg: can't get key from keyserver: Connection refused
> gpg: Can't check signature: public key not found
> [-- End of PGP output --]
> But when I use empty pubring.gpg to get them anew
> I encounter problem.

I had this problem today too. I killed my pubring-file because it was too 
big. And gpg wont import any public key from server.
The solution was easy for me: I had a file joerg.asc with my public-key. I 
imported it with gpg --import joerg.asc
Since then gpg could get keys from server again.

- -- 
bye
Joerg
GPG-Keyid: 0x1120D31B
Fingerprint: A3D2 83A4 535D A826 F2AA  4348 8BDD 849C 1120 D31B
-BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-
Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux)
Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org

iD8DBQE6y2pyi92EnBEg0xsRAhsQAKCAFk/dNNwA3UkwiBhDND1biN7STQCeLZKH
Fst16RgnDh6AwunTdeXHv9Y=
=4att
-END PGP SIGNATURE-

My NFS problem

[Michael Meskes]

I found it. statd was not running on the client. It seems to work now.

Michael
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Michael Meskes
Michael@Fam-Meskes.De
Go SF 49ers! Go Rhein Fire!
Use Debian GNU/Linux! Use PostgreSQL!

Dwarf's Guide to Debian GNU/Linux

[Peter S Galbraith]

A note to users...

I have packaged `Dwarf's Guide to Debian GNU/Linux' as
dwarfs-debian-guide:

 http://packages.debian.org/unstable/doc/dwarfs-debian-guide.html

The Debian package should install on potato without problems.

This book by Debian Developer Dale Scheetz covers:

 - Package Management Tools
 - Installation
 - Basic System Administration

This package contains the guide in PDF and HTML formats.

I have put up on online version of the HTML format at

 http://people.debian.org/~psg/ddg

Thanks,
-- 
Peter Galbraith

Re: Questions for MAC user

[dork-nige]

Check the Yeelow Pages of your phonebook.  Its under Internet Service's or
Computers.

Dan
- Original Message -
From: "V.Peters" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: 
Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2001 12:01 PM
Subject: Questions for MAC user


> Hi, I'm looking for a non-commercial, internet access service provider,
> search engine, and browser. My present provider's access numbers change so
> much that it wreaks havoc with my system.  I used to use Infind (a very
good
> search engine) that apparently is no longer accessible. And my browser t
> (Netscape)  denies me access to many org. web sites.
> Do you provide these services? Where can I access them? Are they
> compatible with a MAC OS 9 system (or OS 8.6).
> Thanks, VP
>
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Re: Sound

[Sebastiaan]

On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Andrew D Dixon wrote:

> "Jeff Levy - [EMAIL PROTECTED]" wrote:
> 
> > cat /dev/urandom > /dev/dsp
> 
> This yields the following error:
> 
> rowling:/dev# cat /dev/urandom > /dev/dsp
> bash: /dev/dsp: No such device
This means that your card is not configured correctly yet. 
Useful information about soundcards can be found at
/usr/src/linux/Documentation/sound
if you have the kernel source documents installed.

Greetz,
Sebastiaan

Re: WARNING: ReiserFS (and request for help!)

[Mario Vukelic]

On 03 Apr 2001 22:48:57 +0100, Matthew Sackman wrote:

> Does anyone know whether these faults can be fixed? I've tried
> reiserfsck to no avail: it doesn't even report a fault. But
> I'm sitting here wondering just how much time I'll have before
> the whole thing goes

I can't run fortune anymore due to what seems to me to be reiserfs
errors. reiserfsck on an unmounted /usr gives no errors, but with -x it
segfaults due to unexpected values. Also I get kernel logs (BTW I'm
running 2.4.2) like these regularly:

Mar  5 10:35:50 chello213047079152 kernel: vs-13070:
reiserfs_read_inode2: i/o failure occurred trying to find stat data of
[60448 60491 0x0 SD]
Mar  5 10:35:50 chello213047079152 kernel: vs-13048: reiserfs_iget:
bad_inode. Stat data of (60448 60491) not found
Mar  5 10:35:50 chello213047079152 kernel: vs-13048: reiserfs_iget:
bad_inode. Stat data of (60448 60491) not found

And the ids are always the same. I had my fair share of manual
power-offs, so this might have caused it. Fortunately I have enough
space to backup /usr, so I'll try reiserfsck --rebuild-tree some day

I'm very afraid ;o)

-- 

I did not vote for the Austrian government

Questions for MAC user

[V.Peters]

Hi, I'm looking for a non-commercial, internet access service provider,
search engine, and browser. My present provider's access numbers change so
much that it wreaks havoc with my system.  I used to use Infind (a very good
search engine) that apparently is no longer accessible. And my browser t
(Netscape)  denies me access to many org. web sites.
Do you provide these services? Where can I access them? Are they
compatible with a MAC OS 9 system (or OS 8.6).
Thanks, VP

Re: keyserver has problem???

[Osamu Aoki]

Following is with pgp.ai.mit.edu (My current setting) for Ethan's sig.
I do have problem even with this. 

[-- PGP output follows (current time: Wed Apr  4 10:35:23 2001) --]
gpg: Signature made Tue Apr  3 23:15:10 2001 PDT using DSA key ID 2C447AFC
gpg: requesting key 2C447AFC from pgp.ai.mit.edu ...
gpg: can't get key from keyserver: Connection refused
gpg: Can't check signature: public key not found
[-- End of PGP output --]

I used to connect it OK and I have old pubring.gpg which confirmes your
sig without problem.  But when I use empty pubring.gpg to get them anew
I encounter problem.

I turned down firewall script down but still persist.  Any requirement
to connect to this server???

Osamu

> On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 09:12:00PM -0700, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> > If I empty my pubring.gpg to empty file, gpg ask keyserver and can not
> > get signiture checked.  I checked with 
> > 
> > keyserver search.keyserver.net
> > keyserver wwwkeys.us.pgp.net
> > keyserver pgp.ai.mit.edu
> > 
...
> 
> keyserver.net has issues, i use pgp.ai.mit.edu personally,
> keyserver.net uses a new proprietary keyserver software.
> 
> -- 
> Ethan Benson
> http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/



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Re: recompiling the kernel

[Michael Soulier]

On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 12:07:11PM -0300, Ted Gervais wrote:
> 
> I want to make some changes to my kernel in my newly installed debian system
> and am used to going to the directory where the kernel source is located and 
> typing 'make menuconfig'.  It seems that Debian does things differently.
> 
> How is this done in Debian. I hope I don't have to put the CDrom back in and 
> go through another 'install' process???

Nope. Hi Ted...

apt-get install kernel-source-

Then unpack it at /usr/src, where the package will put it. Also read up on
the make-kpkg manpage from the kernel-package package. Very, very useful tool. 

Mike

-- 
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Optical Networks, Nortel Networks, SDE Pegasus
"With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this is not necessarily a
good idea. It is hard to be sure where they are going to land, and it could be
dangerous sitting under them as they fly overhead." -- RFC 1925
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Re: Mutt and NFS

[Dimitri Maziuk]

On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 06:37:22PM -0500, Cheng H. Lee wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have a question about running Mutt and NFS together. My current mail
> setup has procmail delivering mail to ~/mail and mutt reading the mail
> boxes from there. However, when I'm reading mail from my other box (which
> has /home mounted from NFS), mutt always open my mail-boxes read-only.
> 
> I've read the Readme.NFS that came with mutt but would rather not have
> to mount the entire /home tree with the 'nolock' option. 

FWIW I'm using mutt with NFS-mounted /var/mail (with nolock) and I haven't
lost any mail so far.

>Also, the mutt
> FAQ says that I can get around this by configuring mutt using the
> '--with-homespool' option, but I haven't figure out how to do this.

They are referring to compile-time configuration. You'll need to get
mutt source package and build it yourself.

Dima
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The wombat is a mixture of chalk and clay used for respiration.-- MegaHal

Re: recompiling the kernel

[Vinh Truong]

* Ted Gervais <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010404 11:06]:
> 
> I want to make some changes to my kernel in my newly installed debian system
> and am used to going to the directory where the kernel source is located and 
> typing 'make menuconfig'.  It seems that Debian does things differently.

u can do the same thing in debian.  i usually download the kernel
source from kernel.org, unpack it, run make menuconfig, configure like
normal.  the only diff is debian comes with a nice tool to package your
kernel into a deb.  i think it's called kernel-package.  after i make
menuconfig, i run make-kpkg clean, make-kpkg --revision=custom_version
kernel_image.  it compiles the kernel and any modules i have selected.
it puts everything in a deb that u can install using dpkg -i.  this will
install your bzImage in /boot, change the /vmlinuz to point to the new
image, copy new system.map to /boot, copy new modules to /lib/modules.
it even offers to run lilo for u.  overall, a very nice tool.

cheers,
vinh

Re: ATI 3D Rage IIc and console

[idalton]

On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 08:09:23PM +0400, Alexander Zhuckov wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I have ATI 3D Rage IIc card. And I prefer to work in console with
> 100 chars / 50 lines / 100Hz.  But
> 
> 1) framebuffer doesn't work with my card since kernel 2.2.18;
> 2) svgatextmode doesn't work too.

Try looking up 'linux framebuffer' on sourceforge.net. I seem to recall
hearing the ATY framebuffer driver being re-organised.

-- Ferret

Re: recompiling the kernel

[Daniel Freedman]

On Wed, Apr 04, 2001, Ted Gervais wrote:
> 
> I want to make some changes to my kernel in my newly installed debian system
> and am used to going to the directory where the kernel source is located and 
> typing 'make menuconfig'.  It seems that Debian does things differently.
> 
> How is this done in Debian. I hope I don't have to put the CDrom back in and 
> go through another 'install' process???

'apt-get install kernel-package'

read: /usr/share/doc/kernel-package/*

(Pay special attention to flavours or renaming /lib/modules/)

Hope this helps and take care,

Daniel

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> Ted Gervais
> Coldbrook, Nova Scotia Canada
> 
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Re: Help, looks like IMAP/PAM configuration

[Nate Amsden]

"Aaron M. Stromas" wrote:
> 
> Hello list,
> 
> After wasting most of the day I have to resort to asking for help. My
> machine is a Debian Linux 2.2.14
> and I installed the prepackaged Cyrus Imap 1.5.19. I have also installed
> prepackaged PAM modules.

be sure you create the mailbox with the cyradm command, just because
you have an account doesn't mean you have a mailbox, see the cyrus docs
in /usr/doc or in /usr/share/doc i forget which

nate


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ATI 3D Rage IIc and console

[Alexander Zhuckov]

Hi!

I have ATI 3D Rage IIc card. And I prefer to work in console with
100 chars / 50 lines / 100Hz.  But

1) framebuffer doesn't work with my card since kernel 2.2.18;
2) svgatextmode doesn't work too.

What can I do?

Thank you in advance for any answer.
-- 
Alexander Zhuckov   [EMAIL PROTECTED]   2:5030/518.50

Re: IMAP server recommendations ?

[Jaldhar H. Vyas]

Disclaimer:  I'm the UW imapd maintainer so I'm biased. :-)

On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Eugene van Zyl wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Any recommendations for a IMAP server (on Debian 2.2)? IMAP4.7c (I
> think this is UW IMAP?)

Yes.

 seems to intergrates relatively painless and
> support most IMAP features (although I couldn't find anything on
> shared folders), courier-imap seems technically better(?) but
> confusing to set up especially making use of extended features like
> its altered maildir standard for shared folders, I can't seem to
> figure out what else this might break when using this?

At this point, most major mail software supports maildirs either builtin
or with third-part patches.  The Debian UW imap package is patched
to support maildirs.  If pine is built against the c-client library from that
package, it will support maildirs too.

> Also it's not
> very clear with courier where exactly the mail folders are going to be
> stored, /var/spool/mail or $HOME/? UW-IMAP indicates that folders are
> stored in $HOME/ and it automatically picks up mail from
> /var/spool/mail as well as $HOME/mbox, this doesn't indicate whether
> these mail are then transported to an imap folder or left there (btw
> this is makes me lean toward it for easier integration).

Left there.

>
> Then there's cyrus(cyris ?) imap as well. Couldn't really make much
> from its docs though.
>
> If someone that's running an imap server could give me some advice on
> what/how to install and set up partitions for storage, and in general
> which package gives the least headaces configuring. I also need to
> supply webmail access so would welcome any recommendations.
>

I recommend uw-imapd-ssl from unstable.  This is UW IMAP 2000, the
successor to 4.7c and as the name suggests it has built in SSL support.
It works out of the box and supports more mailbox formats than the others.

UW imapd has gotten a reputation for security problems.  This is due to
imapd exploits being the method of choice for hacking Red Hat boxes a
couple of years back.  But this hasn't been true for a long time and for
as long as I've been the maintainer, I haven't heard of *any* Debian user
being hacked through imapd.  So I think the fears are overblown.

> Also, is running POP3 and IMAP simultaneously possible/a big
no-no? > What caveats/issues are there?
>

POP sucks compared to IMAP??  Seriously it shouldn't be a problem.  The UW
POP2/3 servers are in the ipopd package.

For potato users, I have packages of imap 2000, ipopd, pine etc.
apt-gettable if you add the following lines to /etc/apt/sources.list

deb http://www.braincells.com/pub/debian/Local potato/
deb-src  http://www.braincells.com/pub/debian/Local potato/

recompiling the kernel

[Ted Gervais]

I want to make some changes to my kernel in my newly installed debian system
and am used to going to the directory where the kernel source is located and 
typing 'make menuconfig'.  It seems that Debian does things differently.

How is this done in Debian. I hope I don't have to put the CDrom back in and 
go through another 'install' process???
-- 
Ted Gervais
Coldbrook, Nova Scotia Canada

Problems upgrading to woody

[Rogelio E. Castillo Haro]

Hello, I've two major problems later an upgrade to woody:

First, apache doesn't work now...at the finel setup of the woody upgrade it said
me that libpaperg setting up failed, so I removed.

Second, I removed php4 and when I try to reinstall apt-get says that php4 is not
candidate to install...

So, how can I fix those problems?

TIA

--
Rogelio E. Castillo Haro
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Vive libre o muere!!!
Linux 2001 :)

Re: Errors writing to /tmp

[Stephen E. Hargrove]

bah!  probably right about the time your were sending this, i executed a
df -h.  sure enough, my root partition was a 0% availability.

thanks!

On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Juergen Fiedler wrote:
>
> The only time this happened to me was when the partition that contains
> /tmp was almost full. You could be running out of inodes, also.
> What does df tell you about the partition?
>
--
steve

[olly@lfix.co.uk: Question re DGA extension]

[Branden Robinson]

- Forwarded message from Oliver Elphick  -

From: "Oliver Elphick" 
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Question re DGA extension
Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2001 12:00:24 +0100
Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Hallo,

I'm running xserver-xfree86 4.0.2-13 on a Matrox Millenium card

I'm trying to discover how to enable DGA (of whose lack Vmware is
complaining), but I haven't yet found much that is relevant on the web
and nothing at all in any Debian documentation, except the dga program
in xbase-clients.

I see that Connectiva have an rpm for Matrox cards for 4.0.1.  Is this
likely to help? (but if so, why isn't there a Debian version?) or do I need 
do something in XF86Config-4?

-- 
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  stayed on thee, because he trusts in thee."   
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Debian GNU/Linux|  engineering.  "Supernatural" is a
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kmod

[Andrew D Dixon]

Hi All,
I've been having problems with dynamically loading modules.  I've got a
2.4.2 kernel and I've configured kmod as described in
Documents/kmod.txt.  Sadly, I can't get it to work.  I've been looking
around for documentation on it and can't seem to find anything useful.
Does anyone know of a good reference for this.  I'm looking for
something that would explain:
depmod
modprobe
insmod
rmmod
kmod
and how these utilities interoperate.

Any hints, tips, pointers, etc . . . would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Andy

Dselect ing

[[EMAIL PROTECTED]]

Hi there. 

Installing new packages via dselect doesn't work 
anymore for me but I have no idea were to start
looking for clues, so I just post the output, 
with a few comments. 
I can provide further information if necessary.

 -- I already selected some packages and went for install: --

Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  libnasl0 libnessus0 tetex-lib
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  
  -- snip --

281 packages upgraded, 102 newly installed, 3 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/203MB of archives. After unpacking 52.1MB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]

perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = (unset),
LC_ALL = (unset),
LC_CTYPE = "de_DE",
LANG = "C"
 are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").

  -- It starts scanning now and stops at 85% --

85% [Scanning packages]Template parse error near "" at 
/usr/lib/perl5/Debian/DebConf/Template.pm line 102,  chunk 2.
E: Sub-process /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt returned an error code (29)
E: Failure running script /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt
Some errors occurred while unpacking. I'm going to configure the
packages that were installed. This may result in duplicate errors
or errors caused by missing dependencies. This is OK, only the errors
above this message are important. Please fix them and run [I]nstall again
Press enter to continue.

installation script returned error exit status 100.
Press  to continue.

  -- Back at the dselect frontend, nothing installed or done. --

Thanks for your help,
Nikolai.


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Re: ISDN setup

[Felix Natter]

Matt Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Greetings, list! :)
> 
> We are a casualty of the Northpoint closure, but fortunately have our ISDN
> line still in operation.  I'm considering purchasing the Eicon DIVA Pro
> PCI ISDN adapter to install in the Potato server here.
> 
> Can anyone recommend or warn about this card?  Any suggestions on getting
> it set up properly?  I've heard that ISDN can be a real pain.
> 
> TIA for any help :)

I think you only need to make sure that your card uses the hisax-chipset
(unless it is USB, in which case a generic communication-class driver might
suffice)
try posting to de.alt.comm.isdn4linux and look at the FAQ on
http://www.isdn4linux.de

this is an article that has been posted to this list some months ago:

From: Marcus Jodorf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Debian - isdn-howto
[...]
... bei Debian geht das IIRC schon beinahe erschreckend einfach:

- Kernel mit ISDN-Unterstützung backen
- apt-get install isdnutils
- in /etc/modutils/aliases Treiber bzw. Optionen der Karte
  entsprechend eintragen
- update-modules aufrufen
- isdnconfig aufrufen
  Punkte 1 und 2 wählen und mit ippp0 beantworten
- im dadurch entstandenen /etc/isdn/ipppd.ippp0
  "name X" durch "name loginnamen_beim_Provider" ersetzen
   die mit remove gekennzeichneten Zeilen löschen
- in /etc/ppp/pap-secrets Eintrag für Provider machen
- in /etc/isdn/device.ippp0
  die LOCAL- und REMOTEMSN eintragen
  wieder Zeilen mit remove löschen
  DIALMODE=auto ist zumindest bei isdnutils 1:3.0-xx schon default
- /etc/init.d/isdnutils restart
- fertig (wenn ich jetzt nicht eine Kleinigkeit vergessen habe ;-)
[...]

-- 
Felix Natter

Help, looks like IMAP/PAM configuration

[Aaron M. Stromas]

Hello list,
After wasting most of the day I have to resort to asking for help. My
machine is a Debian Linux 2.2.14
and I installed the prepackaged Cyrus Imap 1.5.19. I have also installed
prepackaged PAM modules.
I'm trying to use the Netscape 4.76 and Mozilla to get the mail. Mozilla
gives a better hint as to what happens. It says:
"An error occurred while sending your password to the mail server.
You should contact the administrator for this server or try again later"
followed by
" Could not log in to the mail server. The server responded: Name is
a valid mailbox. Please enter a new password for user [EMAIL PROTECTED]"
I suspect it has to do with PAM but I can't figure out what is wrong.
Here iare the contents of /etc/pam.d/cyrus :
# PAM configurtion file for Cyrus pwcheck
auth   
required   
pam_unix.so nullok
account  required   
pam_unix.so
I also noticed that the daemon started is pwcheck_standard, so I killed
it and started pwcheck_pam but it had no effect.
Please cc me on your reply, as I am not on the list. Until my server
is up I have to use web mail account and they are not suited for tons of
mail.
 
-- 
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Izoard Software  | BRTN commentator
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    1995 Tour de France
 

Re: Sound

[Sebastiaan]

Hi,

before cat /dev/urandom > /dev/dsp put your volume down.

A better way of testing is to install bplay or cat a .wav file to
/dev/dsp:
find / -name *.wav

/dev/urandom is empty soon, so you do not hear much then.

Greetz,
Sebastiaan


On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Andrew D Dixon wrote:

> Hey Ya,
> I've compiled what I think are the right drivers into my kernel
> (soundcore and cx36xx).  Does anyone know how I can test my sound to
> make sure it works??
> 
> Thanks,
> Andy
> 
> 
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> 
> 

Re: fetchmail segfaults

[Henrique M Holschuh]

On Wed, 04 Apr 2001, Tony Crawford wrote:
> Henrique M Holschuh wrote (on 4 Apr 2001, at 9:48):
> 
> > Well, it is not a security update, and it has about 90%
> > chance of causing headaches, since the new
> > initscript/ppp-scripts scheme will force the user to do some
> > manual configuration. 
> > 
> > I don't think it should go in stable.
> 
> Considering I've already manually messed with my /etc/init.d and 
> /etc/ppp/ip-up.d scripts enough, let me just ask for the 
> specifics before upgrading: certain internal problems with 
> segfaults due to certain mail content are fixed in the version 
> now in woody?

Yes. But be ready to have CRAM-MD5 and other nasty pits of bugs on IMAP/pop3
servers (and fetchmail, I suppose) to jump at your neck. --auth password is
your friend if that happens.

-- 
  "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh


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Errors writing to /tmp

[Stephen E. Hargrove]

For some reason, I can no longer write to /tmp.  Following is an
example error from xmms:

checkdir:  cannot create extraction directory: /tmp/fileuaM3b6

Here's the permissions on /tmp:

drwxrwxrwt  8 root root2048 Apr4 09:43 tmp

Apparently I've done something, but I have no idea what it could be.  Any
ideas or thoughts would be appreciated.

Thanks!
-- 
steve

Re: [MAPS #33478] Re: Whats goin on?

[Manoj Srivastava]

>>"Remi" == Remi Lefebvre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

 Remi>  Your ISP hopefully provides a relay for your outgoing mail,
 Remi>  which relay accepts your mail based on your IP (should accept 
 Remi> only mail from its clients). Why can't you use that one ?

The operative word is hopefully. There can be several
 reasons: My ISP went bankrupt, and another provider is supposed to
 take over operations. While the connectivity has been impeccable, the
 SMTP server has been down for 2 1/2 weeks now. 

Another reason may be that in some areas of the world the
 SMTP service costs additional money, and thus not a viable
 alternative. 

Narrow minded approaches about the ``one true way'' to set up
 one's SMTP infrastructure rapidly get boring.

manoj
-- 
 How apt the poor are to be proud. William Shakespeare,
 "Twelfth-Night"
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Re: fetchmail segfaults

[Tony Crawford]

Henrique M Holschuh wrote (on 4 Apr 2001, at 9:48):

> Well, it is not a security update, and it has about 90%
> chance of causing headaches, since the new
> initscript/ppp-scripts scheme will force the user to do some
> manual configuration. 
> 
> I don't think it should go in stable.

Considering I've already manually messed with my /etc/init.d and 
/etc/ppp/ip-up.d scripts enough, let me just ask for the 
specifics before upgrading: certain internal problems with 
segfaults due to certain mail content are fixed in the version 
now in woody?

Tony

-- Tony Crawford
-- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
-- +49-3341-30 99 99

Re: [MAPS #33478] Re: Whats goin on?

[Manoj Srivastava]

>>"Alan" == Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

 Alan> The usual response to this is 

 Alan> "Your ISP gives you a mailserver through which to relay mail.  Set a
 Alan> smarthost and get over it."

 Alan> Why isn't that sufficient for you?

This seems a particularly naive world view. Not every one
 lives where the conditions are like they are where ever you
 live. There are circumstances that prevent doing that. 

Let us examine the rationale behind the DUL: well, there were
 some spammers that use open relays on dialups, so, let us penalize
 all dial up users. By the same logic, since most crimes are committed
 in cities, we should jail everyone living in a city. 

moronic, ain't it?

manoj
-- 
 "I turn on my television set.  I see a young lady who goes under the
 guise of being a Christian, known all over the nation, dressed in
 skin-tight leather pants, shaking and wiggling her hips to the beat
 and rhythm of the music as the strobe lights beat their patterns
 across the stage and the band plays the contemporary rock sound which
 cannot be differentiated from songs by the Grateful Dead, the
 Beatles, or anyone else.  And you may try to tell me this is of God
 and that it is leading people to Christ, but I know better." Jimmy
 Swaggart, hypocritical sexual pervert and TV preacher, self-described
 pornography addict, "Two points of view: 'Christian' rock and roll.",
 The Evangelist, 17(8): 49-50.
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Re: [MAPS #33478] Re: Whats goin on?

[Manoj Srivastava]

>>"Alan" == Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

 Alan> Gary Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
 >> Do they? I can name at least one which may not (depending on the 
 >> tarif you choose). 

 Alan> If you have an ISP who doesn't provide a mail server for you but
 Alan> provides you with a DUL-listed IP, that's your fault.

So, you willing to remit me the money every month to upgrade
 to a provider with a working SMTP server?  

manoj
-- 
 Humor in the Court: Mrs. Smith, do you believe that you are
 emotionally unstable? I should be. How many times have you comitted
 suicide? Four times.
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Re: Sound

[Andrew D Dixon]

"Jeff Levy - [EMAIL PROTECTED]" wrote:

> cat /dev/urandom > /dev/dsp

This yields the following error:

rowling:/dev# cat /dev/urandom > /dev/dsp
bash: /dev/dsp: No such device

Any thoughts?

Andy