max_loop option not working for autofs
I'm trying to using autofs/samba to make many iso images availabe to windows users. I have all the entries in auto.isosrv. In addition, I created static links to them all in a shared samba directory (in order to make the iso images browseable from a windows box) I can successfully mount them on the linux box by touching each one of these static links. However, When I browse that network share from a Windows box, it attempts to mount all of the mount points. It is only able to successfully mount 8. I tried to fix this by putting this in my lilo.conf "append = " mem=nopentium max_loop=64", however this does not seem to affect anything. I think I may be able to fix this problem by putting each static link inside a directory of it's own, but I was still wondering why I couldn't increase the max_loop limit. Any suggestions? Charles Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: max_loop option not working for autofs
Rainer Ellinger wrote: >Charles Lewis wrote: > > >>lilo.conf "append = " mem=nopentium max_loop=64", however this does >>not seem to affect anything. >> >> > >And you've created the correlative loop devices in /dev? > > > Hrm...I guess you mean that I need to create /dev/loop8 thru /dev/loop63? I didn't realize I needed to do this. How do I do this? Also, what impact on memory will this have? [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: max_loop option not working for autofs
Rainer Ellinger wrote: >Charles Lewis wrote: > > >>Hrm...I guess you mean that I need to create /dev/loop8 thru >>/dev/loop63? I didn't realize I needed to do this. How do I do this? >> >> > >for i in $(seq 8 63) ; do mknod /dev/loop$i b 7 $i ; done >chmod 660 /dev/loop* ; chown 0.disk /dev/loop* > > > >>Also, what impact on memory will this have? >> >> > >The usage of a couple of inodes - nearly no impact. > > > That did the trick, and all my mount points are showing up now. Thank you very much for the education. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: unstable, just how unstable is it
--- Corrin Lakeland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 29 Aug 2002 14:56, Charles Baker wrote: > > I'm seeing some packages in unstable that I would > > really like, for instance tomcat 4.1.9. But I'm > > wondering just how unstable is unstable, say on a > > scale of 1 - 10 with 10 being you must be insane. > > Generally very stable, say 2. > > HOWEVER > > There are some major changes happening in unstable > at the moment (Python > 2.2/3, Perl 5.8, glibc, gcc 3.2). These mean > unstable is likely to break in > the near future, and when unstable breaks it > _really_ breaks. > > Have a look at pinning, and see just how much of > unstable you'd pull down with > apt-get install -t unstable tomcat > {{SNIP}} Okay I asked this question a few weeks ago and got the above warning about Python, Perl and glibc. Can anyone tell me if these issues been resoloved yet? I see few Python bugs, lots of Perl bugs and only a few glibc bugs. What's the scoop? = [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.charleshbaker.com/~chb/ Hacking is a "Good Thing!" See http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! News - Today's headlines http://news.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
PHP3 files on Apache 1.3.26 and PHP4
I'm running apache 1.3.26 and php4. I've never tried to do anything w/ php on my server. I installed an app that has php3 files. When I try to browse the app, I get a mime-type error. Galeon doesn't seem to know what to do...I think the following are all the relevant line from my httpd.conf: LoadModule php4_module /usr/lib/apache/1.3/libphp4.so DirectoryIndex index.html index.php index.htm index.shtml index.cgi index.ph p3 # For example, the PHP 3.x module (not part of the Apache # distribution - see http://www.php.net) will typically use: # AddType application/x-httpd-php3 .php3 #AddType application/x-httpd-php3-source .phps # # And for PHP 4.x, use: # AddType application/x-httpd-php .php #AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps Clues anyone? A further test in my public_html/php directory of a simple index.php works. However mv'ing the same file to php3 does not work. What gives? = [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.charleshbaker.com/~chb/ Hacking is a "Good Thing!" See http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! News - Today's headlines http://news.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PHP3 files on Apache 1.3.26 and PHP4
--- Charles Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm running apache 1.3.26 and php4. I've never tried > to do anything w/ php on my server. I installed an > app > that has php3 files. When I try to browse the app, I > get a mime-type error. Galeon doesn't seem to know > what to do...I think the following are all the > relevant line from my httpd.conf: > > LoadModule php4_module > /usr/lib/apache/1.3/libphp4.so > > > DirectoryIndex index.html index.php index.htm > index.shtml index.cgi index.ph > p3 > > > # For example, the PHP 3.x module (not part of > the > Apache > # distribution - see http://www.php.net) will > typically use: > # > AddType application/x-httpd-php3 .php3 > #AddType application/x-httpd-php3-source .phps > # > # And for PHP 4.x, use: > # > AddType application/x-httpd-php .php > #AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps > > Clues anyone? A further test in my public_html/php > directory of a simple index.php works. However > mv'ing > the same file to php3 does not work. What gives? {{SNIP}} I continued on my google search and found this page: http://www.opendeveloper.org/PHP/HowTo/Upgrading_From_PHP3_to_PHP4/ Which indicated that the line: AddType application/x-httpd-php3 .php3 should be commented out and instead use a line like so: AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .php4 .php3 This works. Once again, google and the web prove themselves to be my friends. = [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.charleshbaker.com/~chb/ Hacking is a "Good Thing!" See http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! News - Today's headlines http://news.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: unstable, just how unstable is it
--- Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 07:46:45PM -0700, Charles > Baker wrote: > > Okay I asked this question a few weeks ago and got > the above warning > > about Python, Perl and glibc. Can anyone tell me > if these issues been > > resoloved yet? I see few Python bugs, lots of Perl > bugs and only a few > > glibc bugs. What's the scoop? > > glibc is pretty much fixed, although you'll have a > temporary problem > upgrading to the current libc6/locales combination > because they're out > of sync on i386. (Will be fixed this evening.) > > perl is nearly done, see > http://lists.debian.org/debian-perl-0209/msg00012.html. > > I can't speak for python. {{SNIP}} Thanks, I just didn't know where to look for the answers. How do you keep up with all of it, or even a decent sized portion of such a large distro? BTW, are you the glibc maintainer? = [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.charleshbaker.com/~chb/ Hacking is a "Good Thing!" See http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! News - Today's headlines http://news.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How "stable" is "testing"?
--- Neal Lippman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am wondering how stable people are finding testing > for use on their > workstations. I am running woody, and very happy > with it. However, I > would like to be a bit more up to date with some of > my software - for > instance, I'd like to be using KDE 3 instead of 2.2, > and the newest > evolution, so I was thinking about doing a > dist-upgrade to sarge. I > don't, however, look forward to severe breakage now > that I finally have > my system configured and working. > > Any advice appreciated. > > Thanks. > > nl {{SNIP}} I switched from unstable to testing when 3.0 came out and I have had no problems so far. = [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.charleshbaker.com/~chb/ Hacking is a "Good Thing!" See http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html __ Do you Yahoo!? New DSL Internet Access from SBC & Yahoo! http://sbc.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
kpilot, korganizer, and libpisock4
kpilot and korganizer both have dependencies on libpisock4 which "does not appear to be available", on sid (or anywhere for that matter) and it has been this way for some time now. Anyone know anything about this? chas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: kpilot, korganizer, and libpisock4
Apparently there is already a bug or two filed on this already (for sid...I think it may be in potato and woody). The interesting thing is that there IS a package libpisock8. I wonder if the package manager for kpilot and korganizer needs to update the dependency. chas Charles Lewis wrote: > kpilot and korganizer both have dependencies on libpisock4 which "does > not appear to be available", on sid (or anywhere for that matter) and > it has been this way for some time now. Anyone know anything about this? > > chas > > > > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: anything like NextStep? - Re: File Manager Suggestions?
--- Michael Olds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you check out sourceforge under desktop file > managers, I saw a few like > this while I was checking out different > possibilities. > > Best Wishes! > Mike Olds www.buddhadust.org FSViewer: http://freshmeat.net/projects/fsviewer/?topic_id=860 {{SNIP}} = [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.charleshbaker.com/~chb/ Hacking is a "Good Thing!" See http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html __ Do you Yahoo!? New DSL Internet Access from SBC & Yahoo! http://sbc.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: anything like NextStep? - Re: File Manager Suggestions?
--- Jason Wojciechowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ben wrote: > > | thanks jason. apt crapped out on the first try. i > needed to update. > | gworkspace is a bit of a resource hog, though. it > totally claimed > | my fluxbox workspace, obliterating everything > else that was running > | there before. oh well, it's a new toy to play > with, just in time > | for the weekend. > > Yeah, I was kind of surprised when my background > changed color and > whatnot. There is a setting inside it to say, > "Don't take over my > background," so you can avoid that. I didn't really > see any other > hijacking, though. > > -Jason > {SNIP}} Pardon my ignorance, but there doesn't seem to be much documentation on the gworkspace site. What is the purpose of gworkspace say in conjunction with WindowMaker...what would I get that I don't have by using fsviewer, the dock and the clip? = [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.charleshbaker.com/~chb/ Hacking is a "Good Thing!" See http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html __ Do you Yahoo!? New DSL Internet Access from SBC & Yahoo! http://sbc.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: anything like NextStep? - Re: File Manager Suggestions?
--- Jason Wojciechowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Charles, > > On Oct 4, Charles Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > | Pardon my ignorance, but there doesn't seem to be > much > | documentation on the gworkspace site. What is the > | purpose of gworkspace say in conjunction with > | WindowMaker...what would I get that I don't have > by > | using fsviewer, the dock and the clip? > > Somebody mentioned that they wanted a file manager > that resembled > NextStep (as I've been silently wondering about for > a few weeks, as > well), and gworkspace was what came up. I don't > know anything about > fsviewer ... though from apt-cache show'ing it just > now, I've decided to > install it and look at it, because it appears that > (as your point seems > to be) it might be exactly what I'm looking for. > > Now I've installed it and run it once, and it does > appear to be what I > want :) Thanks for pointing this one out. {{SNIP}} Well, cool. Glad I could be of help. BTW, isn't Debian just lovely? apt-cache show, apt-get install, such a sweet tool and great system overall. = [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.charleshbaker.com/~chb/ Hacking is a "Good Thing!" See http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html __ Do you Yahoo!? New DSL Internet Access from SBC & Yahoo! http://sbc.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
everybuddy 0.4.2 on testing
Has anyone else noticed strange behaviour from everybuddy? I'm using 0.4.2 on testing. Lately, the main everybuddy window listing contacts will become blank. Also, everybuddy will shut down for no apparent reason. Any clues? = [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.charleshbaker.com/~chb/ Hacking is a "Good Thing!" See http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html __ Do you Yahoo!? Faith Hill - Exclusive Performances, Videos & More http://faith.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Xfree 4.2?
I have been told that my laptop won't do graphics without version 4.2 of xfree. I tried downloading some files in a directory "branden" with names like xfreecommonv14.2.deb and also a v24.2.deb. After using dpkg --intsall on these, it still seems to be trying to run 4.1 unsucessfully. Could somebody supply idiot-proof instruction on getting 4.2 going? PS I suspect my laptop needs some specific stuff of its own, but installing xfree 4.2 seems to be a necessary first step. Thanks very much for any help. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
dpkg and circular dependencies
In the "unstable" distribution, libc6 and libdb1-compat depend on each other. Is there any way to install them using dpkg? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Looking for a firewall
--- "Robert L. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I've got my handy-dandy firewall up and running > with iptables. However > I'm always looking for a better way to lock it down. > Can anyone send me > a "here's mine" or close for something that does > this: > > Allows all oubound new connections from inside on > my 192.168.0.0/24 (or the > IP of ETH0 on my firewall?) > Allows all connections to my firewall from > 192.168.0.0/24 > Drops all packets inbound from the internet except: > http > ssh > ftp > > Logs all dropped attempts/scans to a different > syslog title so I can > save it off to a different file? > {{SNIP}} Have a look at shorewall, it may or may not do all you require, but it's got a lot of that I know: http://www.shorewall.net/ = [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.charleshbaker.com/~chb/ Hacking is a "Good Thing!" See http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html __ Do you Yahoo!? Y! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your web site http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Xpi to deb converter package
Hi Is there a package project about an XPI (plugins for Mozilla) to Debian converter ? as requested at http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?archive=no\&bug=131404 friendly Jean-Charles Preaux -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Linux in Universities
Mariland is spelled Maryland. Might want to fix that. Also, I can vouch that a good number of student at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Mass use Linux. If you would like I can have a poll done and give you the results. I attend this school and am a sys admin for more than a dozen organizations with probably close to 75 machines under my watch. All these machines run some linux distro ranging from gentoo to debian. I am also an officer in the Linux Association for the school. Anyway, let me know if you want any stats from WPI. - | Chuck Haines | AIM: CyberGrex| | GDC Systems Administrator | Yahoo: CyberGrex_27 | | Infinity Complex Developer| ICQ: 3707881 | | WPILA Lab Manager | Cell: (410) 610-6343 | - "Geek by nature, Linux by choice." -Original Message- From: David P James [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, September 12, 2002 4:16 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Linux in Universities Dan Kegel was roused into action on 09/12/02 12:48 and wrote: > Hi all, > not quite who to contact to get input from the Debian project on this > -- apologies if "debian-user" isn't the right place. > > I've put together a resource page re "Linux in Universities" at > http://www.kegel.com/linux/edu/ My goal is to encourage universities > to support Linux and free software in general, and to provide > information on the current state of Linux support at universities. > > I would appreciate your feedback on the content. If there's anything > missing there from your point of view, please let me know, and I'll > see if I can fix it. > Two things: (1) I don't know how or if this fits, but for what it is worth the department of economics here at Queen's runs on Debian servers, and has some Debian-based workstations available for use by grad students and faculty. However, the workstations used by undergrad students (and many/most grad students) are all Windows-based. The difficulty, I guess, is that to have the workstations of undergrads being linux-based would entail some additional amount of support that the department really can't provide, even though I am sure they would like to be able to. Just training students to mount and unmount a floppy for instance, as we use floppies for data storage quite a bit. Not a big task, but nevertheless, who is going to do it? QED Website: http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/ and, particularly worth reading, http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/pub/computer/advice.htm (2) In the second paragraph under the heading "Linux as an aid in the fight against Software Piracy" we see the following line: "Universities could avoid that problem by requiring the use of free Open Source software..." To me, the notion of "requiring" the use of "free" software is practically a contradiction in terms, and most definitely a contradiction in philosophy. A better way to go about it would be requiring adherence to open standards as much as is practicable. Then students would be free to choose between open source or commercial software as they saw fit. -- David P. James 4th Year Economics Student Queen's University Kingston, Ontario http://members.rogers.com/dpjames/ The bureaucratic mentality is the only constant in the universe. -Dr. Leonard McCoy, Star Trek IV -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [OFF TOPIC] majordomo and exim
For the WPI GDC we use to use mailman because of the nice web interface (and that is what the previous sys admin before used). However mailman kept breaking (like every other day) and would take days sometime weeks to fix. This just wasn't a solution because we needed out mailing lists. We have since switched over to majordomo and I haven't had a problem yet. Plus the majorcool (an online interface for majordomo) is very nice and very full featured. I'd say go with majordomo anyday. - | Chuck Haines | AIM: CyberGrex| | GDC Systems Administrator | Yahoo: CyberGrex_27 | | Infinity Complex Developer| ICQ: 3707881 | | WPILA Lab Manager | Cell: (410) 610-6343 | - "Geek by nature, Linux by choice." -Original Message- From: Keith Robinson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 13, 2002 6:59 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [OFF TOPIC] majordomo and exim On Fri, Sep 13, 2002 at 11:47:11AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Fri, Sep 13, 2002 at 11:33:43AM +0100, Keith Robinson wrote: > > On a side matter, why is majordomo not part of the debian distro? > > It had to be removed: > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce-00/msg7.html > Wasn't aware of majordomo 1s security issues, but I'd guessed it was a licensing thing. > Majordomo 2 could probably be packaged (apparently it shares no code > with Majordomo 1 and has a more sensible licence), but nobody's done it > yet. > > > I looked through the packages and saw mailman, which I guess is more > > the default mailing list software for debian. > > "Default" is a fairly meaningless concept here. :) > Yes, I guess I just meant "the debain way". > > Is it better than majordomo? > > It's a contentious issue. > Perhaps a little less contentious would be: what is people's preferred mailing list management software (and why)? I'd be interested to know. I just went the majordomo route because I'd heard of it previously and thought I'd give it a go. Not exactly a decision based on science, but hey... Cheers, Keith -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]