Packaging problem: impossible to build package from source

[Michele]

Hello everyone.
I don't know if this is the best suited place for this kind of 
assistance, but I'm currently trying to create a debian .deb package 
from the official source obtained from debian repositories.

In my case I'm trying to build openvpn, the procedure I follow is:
apt-get source openvpn
dpkg-source -x openvpn..dsc
dpkg-buildpackage -b -us -uc

However after the whole compilation goes fine, I obtain the following error:

/home/pi/openvpn/openvpn-2.4.0/debian/dirs: 11: 
/home/pi/openvpn/openvpn-2.4.0/debian/dirs: usr/lib/openvpn: not found
/home/pi/openvpn/openvpn-2.4.0/debian/dirs: 12: 
/home/pi/openvpn/openvpn-2.4.0/debian/dirs: usr/include/openvpn: not found

dh_installdirs: debian/dirs (executable config) returned exit code 127
debian/rules:16: recipe for target 'binary' failed
make: *** [binary] Error 127
dpkg-buildpackage: error: fakeroot debian/rules binary gave error exit 
status 2

debuild: fatal error at line 1376:
dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -D -us -uc -b failed

Running dh_installdirs alone in every possible variant (even root) 
doesn't bring any change, that's where the error comes from. Apparently 
it doesn't find those directories but... isn't it supposed to create them?


Does anyone have a clue about what's going on? I'm totally new to 
packaging but it's surprising that a standard source package downloaded 
from official debian servers doesn't work out of the box...

Packaging problem: impossible to build package from source

[Michele]

Hello everyone.
I don't know if this is the best suited place for this kind of 
assistance, but I'm currently trying to create a debian .deb package 
from the official source obtained from debian repositories.

In my case I'm trying to build openvpn, the procedure I follow is:
apt-get source openvpn
dpkg-source -x openvpn..dsc
dpkg-buildpackage -b -us -uc

However after the whole compilation goes fine, I obtain the following error:

/home/pi/openvpn/openvpn-2.4.0/debian/dirs: 11: 
/home/pi/openvpn/openvpn-2.4.0/debian/dirs: usr/lib/openvpn: not found
/home/pi/openvpn/openvpn-2.4.0/debian/dirs: 12: 
/home/pi/openvpn/openvpn-2.4.0/debian/dirs: usr/include/openvpn: not found

dh_installdirs: debian/dirs (executable config) returned exit code 127
debian/rules:16: recipe for target 'binary' failed
make: *** [binary] Error 127
dpkg-buildpackage: error: fakeroot debian/rules binary gave error exit 
status 2

debuild: fatal error at line 1376:
dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -D -us -uc -b failed

Running dh_installdirs alone in every possible variant (even root) 
doesn't bring any change, that's where the error comes from. Apparently 
it doesn't find those directories but... isn't it supposed to create them?


Does anyone have a clue about what's going on? I'm totally new to 
packaging but it's surprising that a standard source package downloaded 
from official debian servers doesn't work out of the box...

Re: Squeeze : Keyboard problem as if a key is always pressed

[Michele]

Il giorno dom, 29/11/2009 alle 08.27 -0800, '-' ha scritto: 
> I have this problem as well, it started yesterday. Running squeeze
> with all available updates. It broke my keyboard autorepeat in X, but
> worked fine in virtual consoles. Noticed continuous ^...@^@^...@^@ in VCs
> after killing X, it even prevented me from logging in on a second VC
> for awhile, but that seemed to resolve itself somehow. xev showed
> keycode 232 and 233 being continuously pressed and released, which on
> my laptop is Fn+Up and Fn+Down, mapped to xf86brightnessup and
> xf86brightnessdown. Rebooted and the problem appeared to be gone until
> I tried to adjust brightness by using Fn+Down, which caused the
> unending key press events to start again. xset has no effect. I'll
> boot a LiveCD shortly to see if the problem occurs there. I have my
> caps lock key mapped to escape, so I will try remapping back to caps
> lock to test if this has any effect.

I can confirm that setting brightness, which is Fn+Up and Fn+Down in my
laptop as well, is the cause of the problem.  Also to me xev showed
keycode 232 and 233.

Watching recent updates, I sow acpid 1.0.10-3 -> 1.0.10-4. 
Restarting  acpid (/etc/init.d/acpid restart)  stops the problem until
brightness is set again.


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Re: Squeeze : Keyboard problem as if a key is always pressed

[Michele]

I reported  the bug
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=558656 .

I temporary recompiled acpid package without "netlink patch"


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Re: Sui precompilati...

[Michele Bini]

On Tue, Jun 08, 1999 at 02:06:58AM +0200, Marco Mililotti wrote:
> Una domandina sulle distribuzioni (ns. principalmente):
>ma i pacchetti precompilati distribuiti, sono compilati per il
> x386?? Spero di no, ma in caso affermativo, non ci si guadagnerebbe
> molto in prestazioni ricompilandoli per il pentium xx ???

riguardo il kernel l'aumento di prestazioni che si otterrebbe
con una compilazione specifica non è al di sopra di qualche
punto percentuale, e il risultato potrebbe essere un kernel
meno affidabile

per gli altri binari si potrebbero spesso ottenere maggiori
prestazioni togliendo il supporto del debugging e attivando
l'opzione -fomit-frame-pointer

-Michele

RE: thank you

[Michele Banza]

Michael,

Thank you for the follow up. I will make a note of your new address.

Michele A. Banza
Access Data Consulting
1-888-878-2322

-Original Message-
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Michael Merten
Sent: Thursday, July 29, 1999 8:49 PM
To: Michele Banza
Subject: Re: thank you


On Mon, Jul 26, 1999 at 04:34:14PM -0600, Michele Banza wrote:
> Dear Michael,
>
> Thank you for your resume.  Unfortunately, the opportunity we had
available
> has been filled with another candidate.  I will keep your resume on file
and
> contact you should anything else that matches your skills become
available.
> Thank you for your time.
>

Michele,

Thank you for the response.  At times, as I send out resumes, I
get the distinct feeling that they're getting lost in some kind of
an internet 'black hole'.

Let me take this opportunity to also notify you of a change in my
e-mail address (due to mail server problems on popaccount.com).  If
it's not too much trouble, you might want to make a note of it on
my resume.  Thanks.

  Old e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  New e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Mike
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Re: Slab [Re: Audio Stuffffff]

[Michele Bini]

On Mon, 17 Aug 1998 11:37:15 PDT , phillip Neumann  said:
> Well sorry for this questio, but what is GUS ??
GUS means Gravis UltraSound and is a sound card like the AWE 32. It is
'inclined' to play MOD files.

> I need to load soundbanks and create them too. Im searching for a 
> program that can do edition of soundbanks... if someone knows about one 
> please tell me...
> 
In the Debian awe-utils package I found some interesting programs:
with them you can traslate soundbanks to/from textual representation and
to/from gus-patches. I never tried it, but you should be able to edit the
textual representation with an ordinary text editor and translate it back
to the sfx format or use a gus-patch editor to modify your soundbank
(but I am not much informed on such editors).

> > Where have you downloaded it? ... maybe I can compile it and make a
> > Debian package from it.
> 
> Slab seems an interesting program. A Debian user recomend me this 
> program. I forgot his name. but i didnt forgot the addres where i got 
> slab, its at shareware music machine:
> 
> http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/Slab_Recording_Studio_Software/
Unfortunately it is shareware, and it is VERY big (over 2 Mb) for my VERY
slow internet connection.

> PS: I cannot find information on thats ``ACI MIXER'' at the kernel 
> configurartion...someone has? Whe i select this, sound initialization 
> becomes very slow at my system...
It seems to be a driver for the miroSOUND card, which enables full duplex.
Sound initialization may be slow probably because the kernel tries to detect
that card.
For more info on it read the file /usr/src/linux/drivers/sound/lowlevel/aci.c

Ciao
Michele

Re: Lower bogomips in debian?

[Michele Bini]

The bogomips value you see at booting time depends
only on the kernel, not on the distribution.
Maybe that the bogomips calculation algorithm is changed
from a kernel version to an other.
And remember that the bogomips value is bogus ;)

Michele
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: HELP! emufs doesn't work with FreeDos under dosemu in Debian

[Michele Bini]

On Sun, 16 Aug 1998, Wojciech Zabolotny wrote:

> Hi All!
> 
> I just had to run some DO$ software on my Linux Box (exactly: the monitor
> for DSP56002EVM evaluation module and DSP56002 assembler). I have decided
> to install the dosemu. To keep my box M$-free I wanted to use the FreeDOS
I experienced the same your problem (I was not able to access the linux
fs using lredir), and solved it using Open DOS from
Caldera.

Michele

Re: HELP! emufs doesn't work with FreeDos under dosemu in Debian

[Michele Bini]

On Tue, 18 Aug 1998, Wojciech Zabolotny wrote:

> On Tue, 18 Aug 1998, Michele Bini wrote:
> 
> > 
> > 
> > On Sun, 16 Aug 1998, Wojciech Zabolotny wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi All!
> > > 
> > > I just had to run some DO$ software on my Linux Box (exactly: the monitor
> > > for DSP56002EVM evaluation module and DSP56002 assembler). I have decided
> > > to install the dosemu. To keep my box M$-free I wanted to use the FreeDOS
> > I experienced the same your problem (I was not able to access the linux
> > fs using lredir), and solved it using Open DOS from
> > Caldera.
> Yes...
> I used the M$ DOS (which I have bought with my computer, because it is
> very difficult to buy a computer in Poland without included M$ additions).
> However I think, that we should report this problem as a bug to the
> FreeDos team. May be they simply don't know about it...
> 
>   Greetings
>   Wojtek Zabolotny
>   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
> 
> 

Re: refocus photo?

[Michele Bini]

On Sun, 16 Aug 1998, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 14, 1998 at 10:59:44PM +0200, Joost Witteveen wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I've got (at least) one photo taken while the camera was moving.
> 
> Only one? :)
> 
> > I'd really like to get rid of the vageness caused by this motion.
> 
> Mmmh. I doubt that this is possible... but I'd like to be proofed
wrong.
> Actually, missing sharpness is lost information. How can this information be
> regained? OTOH, maybe there are acceptable solutions for certain types of
> photos.
> 
No software can bring back lost information.
However it is possible to enphasize the edges of an image 'refocusing' it
a little.
In GIMP you could use the 'enhance' filter.

Re: boot from an extended partition?

[Michele Bini]

On Tue, 18 Aug 1998, Paul Miller wrote:
> Can Linux boot from an extended partition if I use a program such as
> System Commander?
If System Commander is as powerful as LILO, it should be possible.

Ciao
Michele

Re: [2] Libforms?

[Michele Bini]

On Wed, 19 Aug 1998, phillip Neumann wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> 
> Well i know that inside libforms88 is the lib libforms.so.0.88. I have 
> already install this package. Thats why i found it curious. The file 
> libforms.so.0.88 is in my /usr/X11R6/libdirectory.
> What is happening? Why cant `DAP' find this lib?
> 
> (DAP said: can't load library 'libforms.so.0.88')
Have you already tried ldconfig?

Ciao
Michele

Re: Runaway X

[Michele Bini]

On Wed, 19 Aug 1998, Hersh, Harry wrote:

> Debian 2.0 installed on my machine amazingly easy, including ppp
> connectivity. However, now that I'm trying to get X up, things have
> bogged down.  In trying to debug XF86Config, my system is caught in an
> endless loop it cannot get out of. The problem is that xdm somehow is in
> the boot sequence and now I can't shut it off. Ctrl/Alt/BS kills the
> server, but it immediately comes back up. I've tried rebooting with the
> boot floppy and the rescue floppy, but as soon as the file system is
> mounted and fsck'ed, the disfunctional X comes right back. 
If you use lilo you can, at the lilo prompt (keep the caps lock on during
the boot to see it), type "linux single", so that starts in single-user
mode (and do not start X).

Ciao
Michele

Re: Linux security

[Michele Bini]

On Wed, 19 Aug 1998, Steve Lamb wrote:

> On Wed, 19 Aug 1998 13:21:37 -0500, the lone gunman wrote:
> 
> >only to the Microsoft programmers.  In my mind, it just seems that the
> >more folks there are looking at code, the better the chances of
> >discovering bugs, security concerns, etc.
> 
> It is the glass half empty versus the glass half full problem.
> 
> He sees the glass half empty.  Open source means more people looking for
> security holes to *exploit*.
> 
> You see the glass half full.  Open source means more people looking for
> security holes to *plug*.
> 
> You're both correct.  Open Source means more people looking for security
> holes to exploit/plug.  ;)

IMHO the point is another: who do you trust more, Microsoft (a per-profit
dictatorship, which hides security problems to user but not to crackers)
or Debian (non-profit organization, which shows security problem and
fixes them, making life hard to crakers)?

Ciao
Michele

Re: xv package for deb?

[Michele Bini]

On Wed, 19 Aug 1998, the lone gunman wrote:

> 
> Is there an xv package for debian?  By xv, I mean the "XView" program
> by John Bradley.
> 
> When migrating from Debian 1.3 to 2.0, I just backed up the important
> stuff, and did a total reinstall.  (Too many upgrade problems posted
> to this mailing list scared me :).  Anyway, I had xv on my Deb 1.3
> system, and I believe I had to get the source and apply a patch to get
> xv for my system.  Does anyone know where these files are?  I did a
> search for "xv" in the packages list on Debian's website and nothing
> came up.
> 
> Any hints?
Do you really need xv?! Have you ever tried GIMP?
If you only need to put an image on the background you can use xpmroot
(it only takes only xpm files, but you can convert them using GIMP or
the netpbm package).

Ciao
Michele

Re: [3] Libforms?

[Michele Bini]

On Wed, 19 Aug 1998, phillip Neumann wrote:

> >On Wed, 19 Aug 1998, phillip Neumann wrote:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >> 
> >> 
> >> Well i know that inside libforms88 is the lib libforms.so.0.88. I 
> have 
> >> already install this package. Thats why i found it curious. The file 
> >> libforms.so.0.88 is in my /usr/X11R6/libdirectory.
> >> What is happening? Why cant `DAP' find this lib?
> >> 
> >> (DAP said: can't load library 'libforms.so.0.88')
> >Have you already tried ldconfig?
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Do you mean executing ldconfig before DAP?
Hi Phillip,

Ldconfig should be run every time that a new shared library is installed.
Otherwise programs would not be able to dinamically load newly installed
libraries. When needed, dpkg does this automagically, but if you manually 
install a new library then you should manually run ldconfig.

Re: QUESTION

[Michele Bini]

The issue 30 of Linux Gazette, July 1998, has an article in which a
user tell the experience he had with an experimental product called
LinuxCad ( http://www.linuxcad.com ).

Ciao
 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Michele Bini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Linux programmer
  Membro Pluto <http://www.pluto.linux.it>

Re: FPU

[Michele Bini]

On Sun, 23 Aug 1998, Georgios Dimitriadis wrote:

> I recently tried to install debian on my laptop, 386sx. I have 5M of free
> RAM and acording to the installation guide it is enough. The problem is
> that when i try to boot from the disk the error message "cant find
> coprossesor or math emulation" appears and the boot stops. The manual says
> that an FPU is not needet to run Debian.
This is true, but you should choose a kernel with FPU emulation
compiled-in or.

-Michele

Re: Latency problems with Telnet

[Michele Bini]

> > I connect to my ISP with Win95 as well (cos there is no NetMeeting on
> > Linux :-(, and it is much more responsive. 
> > 

Maybe you have made the same error I made: to connect to my ISP I
wrongly specified 38400 as modem speed since it was the only speed I
found in the documentation (manual pages and HOWTOSs). After
replacing 38400 with 56400 (I found this value only in the setserial man
page) I noticed an incredible (probably ~2x)  speedup.

> I had a problem with latency once and it was due to name resolution, and
> the particular order I had DNS' in my system.
> 
> With the host that you are having the lag with, setup a /etc/hosts entry
> for that  machine and try it again.  If it take the same about of time,
> then not resolution.  
> If it is quick then you know you have a problem with resolution.

-Michele

Re: Latency problems with Telnet

[Michele Bini]

On Thu, 27 Aug 1998, BG Lim wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Thanks for the letter. However, my modem speed is set to 115000.
pppd is _NOT_ able to use that speed and will fall back to another, much
slower one (28000?) !!! (at least my (Bo) version of pppd, to check
against this look at the output of plog, you will probably see a line like
this:
Aug 27 03:43:08 diamond pppd[1296]: speed 115000 not supported
)
Or do you only mean that you have specified the spd_vhi option to
setserial?

Sorry, I mistyped the speed to give to pppd i told you before. It _is_
57600, no more, no less.
^

> Actually, the reason for all this, is that I read somewhere, that linux is
> able to set latencies for various programs, since it is so network
> centric. And that article mentioned that telnet is set to low-latency, so
> that it gets a good response.
This sounds interesting...

> So, I've been wondering is there is something I did, or didn't do, which
> changed that. I've played with the MTU and MRU settings. Currently, its
> 296 for both. No difference whatsoever.
I am not an expert, but I think that using such low values can only be
acceptable with very slow connections requiring very hi responsiveness
(each packet contains an header, and using low values the header/data
ratio is  higher, wasting bandwidth).

Ciao,
Michele

Re: Latency problems with Telnet

[Michele Bini]

Sorry, I mistyped the speed. It is _exactly_ 57600, or pppd will fall back
to a much more slow speed (28000?).  ^

On Wed, 26 Aug 1998, Michele Bini wrote:
> Maybe you have made the same error I made: to connect to my ISP I
> wrongly specified 38400 as modem speed since it was the only speed I
> found in the documentation (manual pages and HOWTOSs). After
> replacing 38400 with 56400 (I found this value only in the setserial man
   ^
error  use 57600, never 56400

> page) I noticed an incredible (probably ~2x)  speedup.

-Michele

RE: Apache 1.3 + SSL + PHP + PGSQL

[Michele Comitini]

Hi

On 08-Sep-98 Mario Filipe wrote:
> My only problem is that despite my php3.ini (located it /usr/lib/php3/apache)

I think php3.ini location is /etc/php3.ini

Ciao


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RE: ISDN howto

[Michele Comitini]

This is the one specific to isdn4linux:

http://www.lrz-muenchen.de/~ui161ab/www/i4l-faq/eng-i4l-faq.html



On 09-Sep-98 Nuno Emanuel F. Carvalho wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>   I'm looking for an ISDN howto for linux but the only one I'd found was
> in german ! :((
>   Is there any other but in english !?
> 
> 
>  Thanks.
> 
>  Best regards,
>  Nuno Carvalho
> 
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Re: Xserver output

[Michele Bini]

On Tue, 8 Sep 1998, Roy Ayres wrote:

B> Hi,
> 
> When I shutdown X (using ctrl-alt-backspace) I get see the usual
> messages
> left on my screen by the xserver. I was just wondering how I get to see
> the full output of the xserver, rather that just the tail end of it.
> thanks
> 
> Brian Sheehan

X -probeonly 2>/dev/stdout |less
  or
X -probeonly 2>/tmp/file

Re: Automatic Unzipping?

[Michele Bini]

> Can apache automatically decompress files ending in ".gz" and send the
> uncompressed stream (along with the correct mime-type) over the HTTP
> connection?
It seems that netscape or lynx are able to recognize a gzipped file
and read it, so I do not think that it would be useful to (g)unzip them
before sending them.

-Michele

Re: printing takes hours in HAMM

[Michele Bini]

> Hi!
> After my upgrade to HAMM every kind of printing takes forever.
> No matter whether I print via magicfilter or cat a file to /dev/lp1
> my printer prints a line, waits something like 5 seconds, then
> prints the next line.

> Anyone out there who has an idea what happened?
> Do I have to set some baud rates for the device or something?

> Thanks a lot in advance!
>  Andy.

I strongly suspect this a kernel-related problem, since the printing
is slow even when doing 'cat file >/dev/lp1'.
Or maybe you have confused /dev/lp1 with /dev/lp0?

Try another kernel (an make sure to update the modules and
install them (2.0.33 worked fine for me)).

Ciao

-Michele

Re: Null modem connection

[Michele Bini]

> Dear Debian users,

> how can I connect two Debian machines by a null modem cable so that I
> can point Dselect on one of them (with only the base system installed)
> to the other (with access to a Debian CD-ROM) using the FTP or the NFS
> access methods?

ppp / slip links are very slow.

If you actually want to do some minimal networking use a null printer cable
(parallel laplink cable), and use slip.
There is a nice PLIP howto, too.

-Michele

Re: intent to package: gmt generic mapping tools

[Michele Bini]

> The full-resolution coastline archive is 57 Mb.  Will it be included? (High
> resolution is 12.6MB). I can see us filling a CD quickly with this.  On the
> other hand, if it saves me a 57 MB download, it's very well worth it!

Data such this can be very useful to scientist but the main distribution
is already too large (IMO).
What about creating specialized distributions or add-on CDs containing
this and similar data (such as star database)?
(That is, scientific tools remain in the main distribution, including small
databases, but the full ones are only put in 'scientific' CDs).

Ciao
-Michele

Re: About mount FAT32

[Michele Bini]

> On Sat, Sep 26, 1998 at 08:01:22PM +0800, Chan Min Wai wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I had met problem on mounting a Fat32 drive (Win98), I don't know
> > Which kind of fat should I use in the mount command.
> > 
> > For normal Fat16, We use:mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /hd1
> >  ^
> > but for Fat 32 What Should we use in state of vfat.
> > 

> Hey, here's one I can answer. You can use vfat also on Fat32. In fact I have
> used vfat on all the disks I mount. Of course, I think you have to have the
> Kernel of 2.0.34 or 2.0.33 at least and it has to be compiled into the
> kernel. 

You need 2.0.34, at least, not 2.0.33

-Michele

Re: SB32 PnP & Midi

[Michele Bini]

>   I tried playmidi, and it just did not output any sound at all...
Try to adjust the midi output level using a mixer.
You can also add the AWE 32 support (it should work on a SB32, too).
(you can install the awe-drv, awe-midi awe-netscape and libawe0.4 packages
under debian, and use drvmid instead of playmidi).
The awe-drv package also has  a good faq on this.

-Michele

Re: Flicking in xterms when using vi

[Michele Bini]

> Hi guys,
>   Sorry for asking the same question again..

>   when I use vi in an xterm, and when I reached the EOF, my xterm
> started flicking.
Try to use rxvt, instead of xterm. It flickers much less.
-Michele

Re: NT and Linux

[Michele Comitini]

Hello!

> 
> I was surprised to learn that the 2.2 kernel supports software raid
> and that the software raid was as fast as hardware raid 5. 
> Raid 5 does error correction and even if one of the disks
> die data can be recovered and the system continue. 
> The article from www.osnews.com did say that software raid takes
> up CPU cycles, but it did not say how much. It would seem that if
> the CPU must check for errors on each byte from disk and performance
> would take a big hit.  Perhaps the kernel  checks for errors only
> if it knows that a disk died, and normally there would not
> be a hit.  Does anyone know about CPU hit of software raid.
> Why would anyone buy expensive raid hardware if software
> does the same without too much penalty?
> 
> King Lee
> 
> 

Well as a matter of fact I realized a Debian system with the software RAID-5
almost one year ago and it had good performance.  Anyway I have never done
any serious performance testing on it.
The big problem is having the whole filesystem under RAID-5 even the root
filesystem, this was  solved using the initrd ramdisk to activate the 
RAID-5 personality on the partitions selected.  This was probably the biggest
problem with the linux software RAID.
One great advantage is that you can combine any kind of partitions form
different devices (even a combination of partitions from a mix of IDE 
or SCISI hard-disks!) and have different personalities (i.e. RAID-5 for
filesystem partitions, RAID-0 for swap partitions) on partitions of the
same hard-disk.  I do not think you can do the same with a RAID-5 capable
controller.  After all it is probably cheaper and more effective to
buy a dual (or quad) CPU motherboard instead of buying an expensive
controller, but you have to do much more work on your side.

Best Regards,

Michele Comitini

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Re: Unidentified subject!

[Michele Bini]

On Sat, Feb 20, 1999 at 04:08:27PM -0700, Brett Wuth wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> My Debian system is getting to have so many packages installed
> that backing it up is becoming difficult.  Ideally I'd like to
> only back up the files which I can't restore by re-installing
> the packages.
> 
> Does anyone have a scheme or suggestions for backing up:
>   * all files
/

>   * except those that are part of Debian packages
all except /home /root /usr/local /var/local

>   * but including those files that have been modified from 
>   the distribution version 
don't know any quick way to determine those

>   * and including those files that are dpkg-divert'd
/etc/alternatives

>   * and state information of which packages are installed
>   so the same ones can be installed again?
/etc

So i'd suggest to back up the following areas:

configuration: /etc
user data: /home
variable data: /var/local /var/backups /var/log
site local: /var/local /usr/local /root
(eventually) kernels and modules: /boot /lib/modules

-Michele

Re: left hand mouse in X

[Michele Bini]

On Thu, Mar 04, 1999 at 07:41:37PM +0200, Fabrizio Polacco wrote:
> Hi,
> is there anybody who can tell me how to invert the buttons of the
> mouse under X?
xmodmap -e "pointer = 3 2 1"

> I have found it for gpm, but I couldn't find mention in the X 
> manuals.
man xmodmap

-Michele

Re: Windows NT over Windows 95

[Michele Bini]

On Wed, Mar 03, 1999 at 11:16:49PM -0500, Alec Smith wrote:
> No big traps that I can think of. I'm actually running NT+Linux on this
> very machine. I prefer copying the Linux boot sector and using the NT boot
> loader. Its nice being able to use the arrow keys and not have to type
> anything as Lilo can require.

You can also use the Grub bootloader, then.

-Michele

Re: Booting linux with a file as root??

[Michele Bini]

On Thu, Mar 11, 1999 at 09:06:25PM -, Andrew Holmes wrote:
> I configured my new machine to dual boot DOS and
> NT, but I can start BeOS using loadlin.exe from DOS. I know I can boot the
> linux kernel like this but how do I make it use a file on the DOS filesystem
> for the root filesystem. If this is impossiable please let me know. Any info
> would be greatly appreciated. Thanks :-)

It is possible, but it is a lot slower to access a filesystem
inside another filesystem (expecially a fat one) then directly
from a partition, so I would suggest to avoid this, unless the
root filesystem is so small that it can be put in a ramdisk.

-Michele

Re: Device detection?

[Michele Bini]

On Sun, Mar 21, 1999 at 08:38:56PM -0600, John Hasler wrote:
> Rob Browning writes:
> 
> > Presuming that most people won't have lockups, the overall inconvenience
> > might be less this way, particularly if it dramatically cuts the time to
> > run successful tests.
> 
> I'm not sure I see why checkpointing every test should be particularly
> slow.

Because you have to wait after every test for the checkpoint to
be written to disk and the disk to be flushed (and disk's builtin
cache to be flushed, too).

I think we'll need to add a particular runlevel to implement this,
since detection is a process that may require running across
reboots.

-Michele

Re: Sound: DMA (output) timed out - IRQ/DRQ config error?

[Michele Bini]

On Sun, Apr 04, 1999 at 12:18:04AM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 02, 1999 at 03:07:37PM +0100, Vincent Murphy wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 01, 1999 at 05:17:04PM -0800, Ramiel Givergis wrote:
> > > I have spent about a week trying to figure out why neither
> > > my Creative Labs SB16 or AWE64 work under Debian (2.2.4 2.1)
> > > I think it has to do with the way my motherboard handles the
> > > irq's and pnp etc.
> > 
> >  i have EXACTLY the same problem.
> 
> As do I. I have an SB16 PnP (Vibra 16C, not 16X). I get DMA timeouts
> from some programs, but mixers and some other player programs work fine.
> I use dma=1, dma16=5.
> 
> It works fine in 2.0.35, but doesn't work properly in 2.2.3.

Time to switch to ALSA.

Its support for cards like SB-AWEs is great (automatic isapnp
configuration, full duplex support, wavetable support (available
even with the standard Debian apps for SB-AWEs).

-Michele

Re: X is giving me a headache.

[Michele Bini]

On Fri, Dec 11, 1998 at 03:22:21PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Then, I thought I'd take a stab at compiling the source code for KDE.  BIG
> mistake.  Evidently, I don't have all the X includes it needs, and damned if
> it'll tell me what they are - it (./configure) just says they aren't there.  I
> started to just grab them from the XFree86 site, but I'm not sure what to get,
> or if I really need all 140M worth of X11 source just to compile KDE.
> 
> So, I thought I'd try Window Maker, since I've seen references to it here and
> there in this list.  Well, I'm in just about the same boat - no binaries on
> the Window Maker site, and the source compile instructions say I need the X
> includes.  Hurumphf...
> 

include files for X are in xlib6g-dev.
Include files are generally provided by packages with
a name ending in -dev.
Remember that to find in which Debian package a file
is you have to grep in the 'Contents' file in your
Debian distribution:

zgrep usr/include/X11 /cdrom/debian/hamm/Contents-i386.gz

-Michele

Re: odd errors using lredir

[Michele Bini]

On Mon, Dec 14, 1998 at 05:38:48PM -0500, MenTaLguY wrote:
> I'm running 0.98.1 right now, and everything I try with lredir consistently
> fails:
> 
> C:\DOSEMU>lredir d: LINUX\FS\dos
> Error f0bc redirecting drive D: to LINUX\FS\DOS
> C:\DOSEMU>lredir d: LINUX\FS\dos\ R
> Error f0c2 redirecting drive D: to LINUX\FS\DOS\
> 
> This has been an issue for me with every installation of dosemu I have ever
> tried on this system (some versions as far back as 0.6x.something) -- what
> is the significance of these error codes?
> 
> And yes, /dos does exist, and is a mounted msdos filesystem.
> 
> -=MenTaLguY=-
> 

Dosemu is shipped with FreeDos, and FreeDos doesn't support lredir.
I suggest that you put a bootable dos (M$DOS, DR-Dos or Caldera's
OpenDos) disk on the drive and do

# dos -A
A:> sys a: c:

or (after having installed the mtools package)

# cd /var/lib/dosemu
# /usr/lib/dosemu/dexe/mkdexe hdimage.first -b /dev/hda1 -o noapp

and then restart dosemu as usual.

-Michele

Re: HP Deskjet

[Michele Bini]

On Mon, Dec 14, 1998 at 09:02:55PM -0400, Jeff Browning wrote:
> Hey all, 
> 
> It's me again. I have a HP Deskjet 870Cxi. When I try to print to lpr it 
> prints off the page. Does anyone know where I can get Deskjet drivers? 
> HP says they don't have any for Linux. Thanks again!

Please install magicfilter and gv and run
magicfilterconfig.

I think you should select one of these drivers:
deskjet, dj500c, dj500 or dj550.

-Michele

Re: Bad root partition :(

[Michele Bini]

On Sat, Dec 19, 1998 at 05:40:28PM +, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira 
wrote:
> Hi Debian users,
> after a powerdown, my root partition have the following errors with
> the comand:
> # e2fsck /dev/hda2
> Dec 19 13:33:59 phantasy kernel: hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 {
> UncorrectableError}, LBAsect=340075, sector=82026
> Dec 19 13:33:59 phantasy kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 03:02,
> sector 82026
> Dec 19 13:34:23 phantasy kernel: hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 {
> DriveReadySeekComplete Error }
> Dec 19 13:34:23 phantasy kernel: hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 {
> UncorrectableError}, LBAsect=291085, sector=33034
> Dec 19 13:34:23 phantasy kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 03:02,
> sector33034
> Dec 19 13:34:24 phantasy kernel: hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 {
> DriveReadySeekComplete Error }
> Dec 19 13:34:24 phantasy kernel: hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 {
> UncorrectableError}, LBAsect=291085, sector=33036
> Dec 19 13:34:24 phantasy kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 03:02,
> sector33036

This seems to be an hardware/kernel error/bug rather than a
fsck bug.

> 
> After reading e2fsck man page, I couldn't figure how to repair this.
> Is there some option to clean these errors with e2fsck or other command.

Try running badblocks (_without_ -w)

> If not, I will have to reinstall :(
> Have a nice day,Paulo Henrique
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Re: Mwave Support?

[Michele Bini]

On Wed, Dec 30, 1998 at 12:50:21AM -0600, Nils wrote:
> The title pretty much explains this one. But is Mwave at all supported
> in Linux or is it pretty much in vain to install?

It seems to be (partially) supported.
Please read Documentation/sound/mwave from the Linux kernel source
tree.

-Michele

Re: sound card

[Michele Bini]

On Fri, Jan 01, 1999 at 06:39:59PM +0100, Darko Martic wrote:
> Hi !
> 
> I have Yamaha OPL3-SAx sound card (SoundBlaster, SoundBlaster PRO and
> Windows Sound System compatible) and I have a problem installing/using it.
> After the Debian installation I manualy installed a newer kernel (from 1.3
> to 2.0.33) and for it's configuration I used 'make menuconfig' where I
> choosed to install SounBlaster drivers or so, and as I'm booting linux from
> diskette I'm not sure if I'm booting with newer kernel cause I didn't make
> a new boot diskette (I don't know how) with newer kernel. So when I tried
> to play an MP3 file with splay program I get message 'segmentation fault'
> or something.

It seems the 2.1 series kernels have specific support for Yamaha OPL3-SAx

Hope this helps.
-Michele

Re: AWE 64 Value

[Michele Bini]

On Sun, Jan 03, 1999 at 05:35:55PM +0100, Andrea Novara wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> I'm experiencing problems configuring my new awe 64 value ISA PnP card!
> [...] 
> Jan  3 04:28:50 gromit kernel: AWE32: not detected

Maybe that you forgot to add support for the wavetable in /etc/isapnp.conf
Do you have anything like this in that file? :

(CONFIGURE CTL00c5/392940333 (LD 2
# ANSI string -->WaveTable<--
(IO 0 (BASE 0x0620))
(IO 1 (BASE 0x0A20))
(IO 2 (BASE 0x0E20))
(ACT Y)
))

Re: sound card

[Michele Bini]

On Mon, Jan 04, 1999 at 02:25:49AM +0100, Darko Martic wrote:
> Where can I download it from? I mean for kernel 2.1. I currently have
> 2.0.36, and I can only listen .MID files now.

You can download 2.1 kernels from http://ftp.kernel.org or one its
many mirrors (such as http://ftp.us.kernel.org)

-Michele

Re: SoundBlaster Vibra 16 jumperless card under Linux

[Michele Bini]

On Thu, Jan 07, 1999 at 05:28:28AM -0800, Kenneth Scharf wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> This one has got me beat, and I'm hoping someone in debian-land might be
> able to help me out.
> 
> I got a vibra 16 card (soundblaster) from a friend, but it didn't come
> with any driver disks or anything like that. Unfortunately it is a
> jumperless card, and I have no way of setting the IRQs and DMAs under
> linux (or even finding out what they are) so I can set it up to run
> under Linux.

Can you detect your card using pnpdump?

eg.

# pnpdump|grep ANSI
ANSI string -->Creative SB AWE64 PnP<--
ANSI string -->Audio<--
ANSI string -->Game<--
ANSI string -->WaveTable<--

If your card is soundblaster compatible, you should be able to
use it using the standard sb module (from recent 2.1.* kernels).

If your card is not pnp you can try using the 'default' IRQ and
DMA settings: irq=5 dma=1 dma16=5

-Michele

Re: How to get fonts out of .exe !

[Michele Bini]

On Fri, Jan 15, 1999 at 02:28:10PM -0600, Oleg Krivosheev wrote:
> Any ideas how to decompress them?

Try using Wine. I managed to decompress self-extracting Windows
archives using it.

-Michele

Re: Repairing a HD with fsck?

[Michele Bini]

On Fri, Jan 15, 1999 at 09:22:37AM -0700, Scott J. Geertgens wrote:
> 
>   I recently posted a message about GCC not being able to compile due to
> dma_intr and/or read_intr errors. After receiving a response here and
> scouring the net I've realized that the problem lies on the drive itself
> (bad blocks or similar). 
>   My question is how do I go about fixing the problem? Will a forced fsck
> (fsck.ext2 -f /dev/hdb3) be sufficient?

No, that will only check the integrity of the filesystem structure.

Use badblocks to check the readability of your partition.

# /sbin/badblocks -b 1024 /dev/hdb3 

-Michele

Linux for Mac

[Mazzeo Michele]

I want information to install Linux on a Macintosh (68k) system 
(a CENTRIS 660 AV).
Exist a distribution complete on CDROM ? 
Thanks !


Dr. Michele Mazzeo
ENEA-HPCN
Via Martiri di Monte Sole 4, 40129 Bologna (Italy)
Tel: ++39 51 6098758
Fax: ++39 51 6098623
e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: cpu used too much

[Michele Bini]

On Mon, Mar 01, 1999 at 04:49:52PM -0800, Paul Nathan Puri wrote:
> My laptop wmcpu type applets show the cpu running at full speed all the
> time.  I this a problem?  What should I do about it...?

It may be a serious problem.
What are the first lines of the program 'top' ?

-Michele

Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???

[Michele Bini]

On Sat, Apr 03, 1999 at 11:00:26PM +0100, Andrew Holmes wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Wouldn't it be nice if POP mail boxes could be set to
> automatically bounce messages over a certain size as soon as they arrive at
> the ISP :-)

to avoid downloading long letters you can use the -l option
of fetchmail

-Michele

Re: Need: Linux Xserver for Trident 9750 AGP

[Michele Bini]

On Fri, Apr 09, 1999 at 11:15:33AM +0530, Mohsin_Ahmed wrote:
> 
> Hi, I need a Xserver for Trident 9750 AGP, even the
> plain VGA16 or SVGA servers don't work with this card
> on Celetron Intel CPU, 64Mb Ram, Linux/Redhat 5.2 CD.

I have that card. I use the XF86_SVGA server
version 3.3.3 (lower version will have serious
problems at handling this card).

To make it work, however, I had to put a 
Option "noaccel"
line in the "Device" section of my XF86Config.

-Michele

HELP TO INSTALL DEBIAN FROM CD-ROM

[michele bigi]

Please,
I have a PC with a IDE CD ROM. When I install DEBIAN 2.03 the dselect
don't read the iso9660 filesystems. The filesystem isn't present on
distribution?
Can you help me?

michele Bigi

[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: PARIDE almost working (but not quite).

[Michele Bini]

On Mon, Apr 19, 1999 at 10:06:53PM +0800, Hans van den Boogert wrote:
> Somebody already pointed out to me that under the 2.0.36 version Linux
> kernel you can not load two modules for the same parallel port and that
> maybe there is already a printer module installed. Is this so? How do I
> check that? How do I gracefully kill that other module? Your hints, tips
> advice (and money to buy a better notebook) are highly appreciated.

use lsmod and look if the 'lp' (line printer) module is installed.
to 'KILL' the module you have first to kill the application using:

# fuser -k /dev/lp* 

if you want to do it gracefully the you'll probably have to do:

# /etc/init.d/lpd stop

Then you can safely remove the lp module

# rmmod lp

-Michele

Re: netscape

[Michele Bini]

On Fri, May 15, 1998 at 03:44:58PM +0200, Andrea Merello wrote:
Hi Andrea,
> Hello World!
> 
> When, in X Windows, I try to start netscape 3.04
> it says :"Can't open display !!"
> What can I do ? Please Help me

Where are you typing it?

Try running
export DISPLAY=":0"; netscape

I also remind you of the existence of the
debian-italian mailing list.

ciao

-Michele

Re: conflicts in Debian Distributions

[Michele Bini]

On Mon, Oct 26, 1998 at 08:40:20AM -0600, Lance Arsenault wrote:
> It's a pain to have to pick through 1000 + packages to install.  I prefer to 
> just
> install all of them without picking through them.  Hard disk space is now 
> cheep,
> and time is not.
You don't have to pick through 4000+ packages, you only
have to choose the type of installation you prefer or
to search the packages you want by looking at the
sections you are interested in.

And if you care about time you should avoid installing
unnecessary packages, which can start ram and time
consuming daemons, or need additional configuration by
the user.

-Michele

Re: Modem connection speed

[Michele Bini]

On Thu, Oct 29, 1998 at 05:23:31AM -0800, Kenneth Scharf wrote:
> Just recently there was a posting here that said they got better
> connection speed in Win95 than in Linux. A couple of days ago I heard

sorry, what posting do you refer to?

> another Linux say the same thing. And so far, on a hamm box, I can only
> get 19200 out of my 28800 pc card modem. Is this typical of Linux, or is
> it just an improper init string or etc?

 From my (short) experience many people (including me)
experiencing slower connection speed under Linux were giving
pppd the wrong connection speed.

pppd only accepts a limited set of speeds (19200 38400 ... 115200),
^^^
and if you type a wrong one (e.g. 115000) your connection will
work anyway, but pppd will output an error message 'speed X not
supported' on the log file, and will actually choose a much slower
   ^^^
one.

After realizing this, my connection speed increased a lot (more
than two-three times) :-))), now I can reach 5-6 Kb/s (on
Netscape :

It seems that there isn't a place (manpages, howtos, readmes)
where these speeds are listed :(, and even worse, my posting
about this problem via the debian bug tracking system had no
replies :(

Please disseminate this info.

If this is not your case try to tune your packet size:
choose a small one if your phone connection is noisy,
also consider enabling or disabling compression.

-Michele

Re: Modem connection speed

[Michele Bini]

On Sun, Nov 01, 1998 at 02:01:55AM +0100, Michele Bini wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 29, 1998 at 05:23:31AM -0800, Kenneth Scharf wrote:
> > another Linux say the same thing. And so far, on a hamm box, I can only
> > get 19200 out of my 28800 pc card modem. Is this typical of Linux, or is
> > it just an improper init string or etc?
> 
>  From my (short) experience many people (including me)
> experiencing slower connection speed under Linux were giving
> pppd the wrong connection speed.
> 
> pppd only accepts a limited set of speeds (19200 38400 ... 115200),
> [...]^^^
> Please disseminate this info.
> 
> If this is not your case try to tune your packet size:
> choose a small one if your phone connection is noisy,
> also consider enabling or disabling compression.
> 

Also please remember to edit your /etc/rc.boot/0setserial
file to have spd_vhi (or spd_hi) in the STD_FLAGS:

STD_FLAGS="session_lockout spd_vhi"

-Michele

Re: Modem connection speed

[Michele Bini]

On Sat, Oct 31, 1998 at 08:23:47PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Michele writes:
> > It seems that there isn't a place (manpages, howtos, readmes) where these
> > speeds are listed :(, and even worse, my posting about this problem via
> > the debian bug tracking system had no replies
> 
> What package did you file the bug against?  You should at least have gotten
> an automated reply from the system.

The bug was filed against pppd, and I got only an automated reply.

-Michele

Re: Problems with DOS and free disk space.

[Michele Bini]

On Thu, Nov 05, 1998 at 05:55:59PM -0500, James Von Derrau wrote:
> I have recently installed Linux on my machine, and I am having only one
> prblem so far...
> 
> I've checked in the FAQ, and How-to's but can't seem to find the answers I
> need.
> 
> After I installed Linux and rebooted in dos when I did a DIR, dos reported
> that I have more space on the disk than is available in the partition.
> 
> I have a 1.01Gig hard disk that is partitioned as follows:
> 
> 500MB DOS - first partition.
> 500MB Linux - second partition
> 39MB Linux Swap - Third partition
> 
> DIR in dos reports 639 MB free, scandisk and chkdsk also claim the entire
> drive is accessable in dos.
> 
> I'm using MS-DOS 6.22 and the Ontrack Disk Manager V7.0
> 
> Has anyone else had this problem?  Or could anyone explain what is going on
> here?  And further still, how do I fix this!?I'm afraid to install
> anything in dos incase it overwrites part of Linux.

You should be right to be afraid.
What program do you used to format your disk? Note that you
cannot reduce the size of a dos partition using DOS/Linux
standard fdisk, but you can make DOS think to have the entire
partition even if the partition table says the opposite.

You need fips or an equivalent tool to reduce the size of
a DOS partition without losing data.

-Michele

Re: Need help with ppp conection.

[Michele Bini]

On Tue, Nov 10, 1998 at 10:06:00AM -0600, Lloyd Burris wrote:
> When ever I hook up to the internet from linux I seem to have trouble 
> connecting to websights, ftp, and news servers. Can anyone tell me how
> to tune up Linux for a faster connection. When I am in windows my
> system flys but in linux I am lucky to get a webpage to come up.

I need some more detail about how you set up your connection.
Also please send me the log you get (with plog -f).
If you have a noisy line you should reduce your MTU MRU values.

Re: Does Sound even work for Java-Linux?

[Michele Bini]

On Fri, Nov 13, 1998 at 10:24:12PM -0700, Chip Grandits wrote:
> P.S. Is ADPCM the super-evil microsoft format that no opensource enthusiast
> deigns to support?
> How come I can't find a single Linux app to play ADPCM WAV files?!

I know of two linux applications which are able to play ADPCM
compressed wavfiles: 
 - the SDL library (Gpl'd) 
 - xanim (non-free), available as a Debian package.

Re: procmail....................

[Michele Bini]

On Sat, Nov 21, 1998 at 04:57:43PM -0300, Phillip Neumann wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> 
> 
> Promail is for filtering mails isnit? Well how do it work?
> 
> It takes the /var/spool/mail/user file and prosess it??

No, the mail transport agent (eg. smail, exim) puts your
mail to /var/spool/mail/user unless otherwise specified
in your .forward

-Michele

Re: isapnptools

[Michele Bini]

On Sun, Nov 22, 1998 at 05:05:18PM -0500, James Dietrich wrote:
> Now I know that winmodems are generally a hopeless case, but
> is this still true if pnpdump detects it?

I think of yes.

Re: I'm a newbie... with probs with modules

[Michele Bini]

On Tue, Nov 10, 1998 at 07:36:46PM -0500, The Cookie Man wrote:
> hi yall. i'm just installing debian today and i have no idea really what
> i'm doing with the modules. which ones do i need? which ones do i not
> need? (i.e. the ip modules)
> 

Usually kernel modules are automatically loaded by a kernel
daemon, when the kernel needs them.

If you need to give options to modules, edit /etc/conf.modules

> is it possible to make my primary Linux partition a logical drive? if so,
> how?

Sorry, I can't understand what you are trying to say...

Re: dosemu help

[Michele Bini]

On Sun, Nov 22, 1998 at 01:43:03PM -0600, Matt Garman wrote:
> 
> I just installed dosemu on my system via Debian package (version
> 0.66.7-13).  I need to run a dos program, but I cannot even access the 
> partition through dosemu.
> 
> Thus far, I have tried the following:
> 
> - lredir, always fails.  Checking deja news, apparently the FreeDOS
>   does not support this?  I keep getting "Error 42 redirecting..."
> 

FreeDos doesn't seem to support lredir. You need to install
OpenDos, DR-Dos or M$-Dos if you want redirection

> - mkfatimage16, seg faults.  For instance, I tried 
>   "mkfatimage16 -p -f dos_img /the/directory/*" and it just gives me a 
>   Segmentation Fault.  Also, I tried _not_ using the -f switch, just
>   to see if mkfatimage16 gets anywhere, and, in fact, it does write
>   crud to the screen, but still seg faults after a bit.
> 

mkfatimage it seems to work for me
mkfatimage -p dir/* >dos_image

> - /etc/dosemu/conf modification, doesn't appear to do anything.  I use 
>   /dev/sda1 as my Windows/DOS partition, so I tried adding the
>   following line to my dosemu configuration file:
>   disk { partition /dev/sda1 }
>   and nothing happens.  I assumed this would appear under the as the
>   next available drive letter, but I can't get to this data anywhere.
> 

No, it should appear as C:

-Michele 

Re: Mouse freezes

[Michele Bini]

On Tue, Nov 24, 1998 at 07:38:23PM +0100, Peter Berlau wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 24, 1998 at 12:07:50PM -0600, Andrew Ivanov wrote:
> > I got a small problem in X: sometimes, when I restart my xserver, mouse
> > stops working, and only reboot fixes it.
> > Any ideas what is it?
> Looks like You have Mouse-Support added as module (?),
> after a time of unussed mouse the modul will 
> "extract from the kernel" to save place
> (oops; my english is not good, but hope You understand what I mean)

No, this won't happen even if the mouse support is
modulized (if you use automatic loading of modules).

> If You have installed gpm You don't must reboot,
> only give the mouse on a text-console a `little action` than You can
> restart X without problems, or
> install mouse support directly into the kernel

There should be no need to do this.

-Michele

Re: kernel 2.1.128 & sound

[Michele Bini]

On Wed, Nov 18, 1998 at 09:24:15AM +0100, Mirek Kwasniak wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 14, 1998 at 11:10:40PM -0500, Paul McDermott wrote:
> 
> alias char-major-14 sb
> alias synth0 opl3
> options sb io=0x220 irq=7 dma=1 dma16=5 mpu_io=0x330
> options opl3 io=0x388
> 

Isn't irq 7 used by the printer port? You should
get some warnings diring the loading.
Try using irq=5.

-Michele

Re: 128 MB RAM

[Michele Bini]

On Mon, Nov 30, 1998 at 04:47:14PM -0600, Dana G Haugli wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I have 128 MB of RAM on my computer, but Linux only recognizes up to 64 MB. 
> I have tried adding "mem=128M" to my lilo config file as recommended in the
> HARDWARE HOWTO, but that doesn't seem to work.  Any suggestions?
> 
You need to rerun the command "lilo" for
changes to take effect.

-Michele

Re: SB AWE32 PnP, no midi

[Michele Bini]

On Wed, Dec 02, 1998 at 11:00:32AM -0700, Gary L. Hennigan wrote:
> Matt Garman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> | Yes, but does this use my wavetable?  I tried this, using the sound
> | banks installed on my Windows partition from the Creative Labs disk,
> | and playing midi files sounds AWEFUL.  It sounds cheap, like playing
> | midi through a non-wavetable card.  The instruments sound perfect
> | under Windows.
> | 
> | Also, my xconsole still reports:
> | Sequencer: No Midi devices. Input not possible
> | 
> | but, remember, I do have midi devices!

Are you using playmidi? If yes please use drvmidi
(in the awe-midi package).
playmidi (at least the one shipped with Debian)
doesn't use the wavetable.

-Michele

Re: mouse speed in X

[Michele Bini]

On Fri, Dec 04, 1998 at 11:16:12PM +0100, Daniel Elenius wrote:
> Does anyone know how to change the BASIC mouse speed (not the
> acceleration) in X. The 'xset m' only changes the acceleration and
> threshold, but what I want is a faster non-accelerated mouse
> speed. I've tried 'xset m 4 1' which gives a good speed, but it makes
> the mouse 'jerky', since it moves the pointer 4 pixels at a time.
> Happy for any suggestions... 

Note that it is acceleration what you are looking for:
it makes possible to have a good pointing precision
while the pointer moves faster when you want to,
that is if you move the mouse at speed 1 pixel/sec,
the pointer moves at 1 pixel/sec, too, but if you
move it at 2 pixel/sec, the pointer doesn't move,
say, at 2 pixel/sec, but at 4 pixel/sec.

-Michele

Re: Accidental power-out / LILO / mount @ boot?

[Michele Bini]

On Sun, Dec 06, 1998 at 08:45:07PM +, Rich Hartman wrote:
> bootup, so that I can access my windows files from linux without
> having to "su root" and mount and unmount one at a time?
> 
add to your /etc/fstab a line like this

/dev/hda1 /dosvfatdefaults0   1

and then run "mount -a"

-Michele

informazioni

[Michele Savastano]

Potete dirmi per piacere dove posso acquistaare in 
Italia i Vs. CD.
Grazie Michele Savastano

Re: Root Password recovery

[Michele Casaburo]

Quartenoud Francois wrote:

 Hi, I have change the root password on a Debian 3.0. I make a mistake 
during
 the typing, I cannot retrieve the password.
 I try to reboot with typing "linux single" on Lilo, but the system ask the
 root password.
 I try to type "linux init=/bin/sh" on lilo without success.
 
 What can I do? Is there a way to pass thrue? Boot on specific disk or
 exploit some bugs (if any).
 
 This server contain informations, I cannot re-install all.
 
 Thank for your responses.
 
 François QUARTENOUD (System Engineer Online)
 Switzerland

Hi,
I would try to boot with an installation CD.
After that, through a terminal, mount the root partition and then remove 
the password for root from shadow/passwd.
Then reboot without the CD

I don't know if it's clear :)
Bye,
Michele
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Re: Shellshock Fix for Debian 5 and 7

[Michele Perrucci]

http://blog.bofh.it/debian/id_451

2014-10-07 18:22 GMT+02:00 Don Armstrong :

> On Tue, 07 Oct 2014, Matthew Brown wrote:
> > For Debian 5 and 7, if I do an update from the debian site will it
> address
> > the Shellshock issue?  If not, is there a particular way you'd recommend
> > that I patch these server?  I appreciate your help and thank you in
> advance!
>
> Lenny (Debian 5) has been without security support for over three years
> now, so will not receive an update for shellshock or any other
> vulnerability.
>
> Wheezy (Debian 7) had shellshock fixed in bash 4.2+dfsg-0.1+deb7u3,
> which is in the wheezy-security repository (available from
> security.debian.org).
>
>
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>
> Nothing is as inevitable as a mistake whose time has come.
>  -- Tussman's Law
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Squeeze : Keyboard problem as if a key is always pressed

[Michele Lucca]

Since yesterday I have this problem: sometimes, after some use, the sytem 
(Debian Squeeze) becomes a little unresponsive to mouse and keyboard (some 
clicks and keystrockes are lost).  It is as if a "mute" key is always pressed. 

If I switch to console (ctrl-alt-F1), I see a cotinuous series of  
^...@^@^...@. This stop and start if I press capslock.

In recent updates I can't see anything related to this.

Any ideas?  


  


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Re: Squeeze : Keyboard problem as if a key is always pressed

[Michele Lucca]

>Can you test with different hardware? Maybe the keyboard is bad (this
>would affect the mouse too on ps/2).
>-- 
>Dotan Cohen

Unfortunately
I'm on a laptop, and I have no external keyboard to test. I'm trying 
with different distribution (a live ubuntu)  to exclude an hardware
failure. No problem  with it up to now, but even on debian the problem
not always appears.


  


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CIFS module bug?

[Michele Costantino]

This is my first time i try to submit a bug.
I'm not able to determine which is the interested package, but i think it's
something related to the cifs module.
I'm using:

1)debian squeeze fully updated on an arm device
2)mounting a remote share using:   mount -t cifs //192.168.2.18/public
/hddext -o user=pippo,password=pluto

The problem is when i try to compile a basic helloworld.c

If i compile the .c file on the native filesystem everything is ok, but if i
move the helloworld.c to /hddext (the mounted share) and compile the source
(gcc helloworld.c) i get this:

cc1: error: main.c: Value too large for defined data type

The remote share is shared on a buffalo nas. I've tryed on another nas
(sitecom) and the problem persists.



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wanpipe package

[Michele Dalla Silvestra]

Did the package wanpipe work correctly and there is somebody that use
it on a Debian system?

I have some problem to detect and configure the card (S508):
- kernel 2.0.34 is not official and I don't know where to get it
- patch don't apply on 2.0.{32,33}
- kernel 2.1.89 have different naming of files (/proc/net/wanrouter
  instead of /proc/net/router)

wanconfig give me a SYSTEM ERROR (even with sample config file).


There are other people using it, mailing lists or web pages?

If necessary, I can *try* to work on it, and if there are some other
people with same problems I'll be happy to collaborate.


Thank's

Regards,

    Michele

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Re: XDM,KDM on DEBIAN 1.31

[Michele Dalla Silvestra]

On Wed, 14 Jan 1998, Herr Detlev Scholz (ODIS) wrote:

> Now i installed the KDE-desktop on the box. The KDE is working well,
> when i start with startx. When i try to aktivate XDM or KDM, the 
> Xserver starts, asks for login but after login it seems that the 
> Xserver crashes and XDM is started again asking for username.

Look in /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc, and add "export KDEDIR=/usr/local/kde"
or the right dir.

ciao

        Michele

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Re: NSLOOKUP don't work

[Michele Dalla Silvestra]

On Mon, 14 Jul 1997, Tony Koehn wrote:

> After getting debian installed I tried to do a nslookup and I get this
> message:
> 
> *** Can't find server name for address 127.0.0.1: Non-existent host.domain
> *** Default servers are not available.
> 
> What did I do wrong?

You have to enable localhost entry.

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Re: no color in xterms

[Michele Dalla Silvestra]

On Mon, 14 Jul 1997, Christopher Ray Martin wrote:

> Before I upgraded to 1.3, I had a package installed called color-xterm.
> When I upgraded to 1.3, dselect said that the package color-xterm was
> obsolete, so it was purged. Now, I don't have color in my xterms, and I
> can't find the color-xterm package.
> 
> How can I get color xterms back??

Upgrade to XFree 3.3 (Debian 1.3.1)

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xlock and NIS

[Michele Dalla Silvestra]

I have a net with NIS and clients running xdm. It work all without xlock
(it say that there are shadow password) and wu-ftpd (non-anonimous,
NIS-users).

There are some .deb package that fix them or how I must recompile xlock
and wu-ftpd for NIS support? (I've look for hours at the source of xlock,
and tried without success, and I haven't tried with wu-ftpd yet.)

Thank's.

Michele

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Re: NSLOOKUP don't work

[Michele Dalla Silvestra]

On Tue, 15 Jul 1997, Tony Koehn wrote:

> I do have nameserver 127.0.0.1 in my /etc/resolv.conf file.

If you are quering bind at 127.0.0.1, bind *must* resolve
1.0.0.127.in-addr.arpa. in localhost.

This is done enabling "localhost entry" when configuring bind.

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Re: /etc/ppp/ip-up behavior

[Michele Dalla Silvestra]

On Wed, 16 Jul 1997, Robert D. Hilliard wrote:

>  The pppd man pages say that the ip-up and ip-down scripts are
> executed with "standard input, output and error streams redirected
> to /dev/null." 
> 
>  I would like to use these scripts, but I want them to echo
> messages to the console.  How can I overcome this redirection to
> /dev/null?

A solution may be saving the tty when starting the connection
("tty > /tmp/ppp-tty"), and use redirection in ip-up and ip-down
("echo x > `cat /tmp/ppp-tty`").

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Re: ipfwadm question

[Michele Dalla Silvestra]

On Tue, 26 Aug 1997, Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote:

>   My linux box acts as a ip-masq for the internal sub-net of
> Windows machines. It has 3 cards: one for output to Internet, with a
> valid IP address and 2 for the internal sub-net.
>   IP-Masq is working OK; all machines can telnet, browse, ftp, etc
> to external servers on Internet, being masquerade with the Linux IP.
>   I'm using this sintax:
> # ipfwadm -O -a deny -S 0.0.0.0/0 -D some.site.denied/0
> 
> but isn't working, since I can connect the denied site from a inside
> machine. What is wrong? 

Have you tried:

# ipfwadm -F -p deny
# ipfwadm -F -a masq -S  -D 0.0.0.0/0
# ipfwadm -F -i deny -S  -D some.site.denied/32
(that is adding a forwarding rule before masquerading)


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Re: [OFF TOPIC] What happened to spam,abuse.org?

[Michele Dalla Silvestra]

On Thu, 28 Aug 1997, Nathan E Norman wrote:

> Anyone know what happened to abuse.org?  Were they attacked?  They seem
> to be removed from DNS ... at least, my servers think so.

abuse.net.
  ^^^

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Re: Green monitor functions

[Michele Dalla Silvestra]

On 1 Sep 1997, Gilbert Laycock wrote:

> Is there any way to configure this outside of X?
> 
> I know about
>   setterm blank n
> which is fine as far as it goes, but I think it only blanks the screen
> rather than using the more advanced power saving features.

You have to modify
/usr/src/linux/drivers/char/vesa_blank.c

and modify the line
#define DEFAULT_VESA_BLANKING_MODE  VESA_NO_BLANKING

in
#define DEFAULT_VESA_BLANKING_MODE  VESA_POWERDOWN

and recompile the kernel.


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Why automatic tools can change /etc/resolv.conf?

[Michele Dalla Silvestra]

A little question. Only the Root (the human) should modify a file in /etc,
and dpkg ask when it may change a config file. This should be good.

For /etc/resolv.conf, instead, many programs pretend to modify it (script
from pppd, dhcp-client and so on).

But for use dynamic dns server one can use dnrd, that can connect to various
DNS servers dynamically without modify any file!


If is not possible to put dnrd in any installation, why not modify a file
like resolv.conf in /var/somewhat and make a symlink in /etc/resolv.conf? If
an administrator want to make him change in /etc/resolv.conf and be sure
that a program not modify it, he remove the symlink and create his
resolv.conf.


ciao

Michele

Re: Why automatic tools can change /etc/resolv.conf?

[Michele Dalla Silvestra]

On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 05:38:58PM +0200, Sebastiaan wrote:
> On Wed, 1 Aug 2001, Michele Dalla Silvestra wrote:
> > If is not possible to put dnrd in any installation, why not modify a file
> > like resolv.conf in /var/somewhat and make a symlink in /etc/resolv.conf? If
> > an administrator want to make him change in /etc/resolv.conf and be sure
> > that a program not modify it, he remove the symlink and create his
> > resolv.conf.
> > 
> Be sure you do not have the option 'usepeerdns' enabled in pppd options.

Yes, in fact I know that pppd (if I use 'usepeerdns') change
/etc/resolv.conf, but also dhcp-client change it, and I don't know if other
packages do so.

But is correct that an application change /etc/resolv.conf even if the
administrator write it entirely by hand?

How can I prevent it?


ciao

Michele

Ip-Cop

[Michele Della Marina]

Hi all.
Is possible install ip-cop on debian sarge?
I know that Ip-Cop is a particular kind of 'linux-distribution', but
my hope was that someone had 'packaged' Ip-Cop for debian.
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Re: UDP Broadcast

[Michele Della Marina]

I'm not sure but ...
UDP in ISO/OSI is on layer 4 ...
I think is not possible 'crossing' on different subnet, unless you
have a routing system on your linux machine... how many ethernet
interfaces have you got in your linux system?
Probably you can, only with multi-homed system, assigning different IP
on same network interface creating some virtual interfaces (if you
have only one physical network interface)

On 5/22/06, Michael Wüst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Hi @ all,

I have the following problem:

System is Debian Linux Sarge with Kernel 2.4.29. I want to
send and receive UDP Broadcasts. I have no firewall
installed, the system is very basic.

The Broadcasts need to be received from systems not being
in the same subnet and to be sent to systems not being in
the same subnet.

I am using sockets with SO_BROADCAST enabled. The packet
is sent out and received, but only in the same subnet, not
in other subnets being on the same physical network.

What am I doing wrong? What is exactly the meaning of the
broadcast value in /etc/network/interfaces? Are there any
specific parameters to be set? Are there any special kernel
issues that need recompiling? Is the broadcast adress
255.255.255.255 correct?

Maybe someone has any for functionality approved command
line test program that sends out any "text" by UDP broadcast
so that I can check whether the linux is blocking or my
configuration is or my programing is wrong.

Any help appricated. Links to FAQs, PDFs appreciated too.

Thanks,
bye,
Michael.


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Re: Ip-Cop

[Michele Della Marina]

Thanks everyone.
I undestand ...
My intent is to build up a debian linux box (like a black box) with
many services: firewall, faxserver, fileserver, and administer it
through a web interface.


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Re: Ip-Cop

[Michele Della Marina]

Thanks.
'Cause of sadness' is that fwbuilder is not web based.
Probably I'm too 'heavy' :)))


On 5/23/06, Mirco Piccin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Hi Michele!
I know what you mean , 'cause is the same for me ;-)!!
I' ve created a Debian Sarge Server (file, nfs, dhcp and some other things
...), and to protect it from any kind of external attaches, i install (after
i've tried many and many firewalling applications) FW builder.
I work for a period with CheckPoint (not opensource!), and i can tell you
that fwbuilder is very good.
Look at their site:
http://www.fwbuilder.org/

Good luck!
..and yes, it could be better if you install ipcop (alone) in an old
machine!!
Mirco

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> Thanks everyone.
> I undestand ...
> My intent is to build up a debian linux box (like a black box) with
> many services: firewall, faxserver, fileserver, and administer it
> through a web interface.
>
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Re: samba domain controller

[Michele Della Marina]

ted and
# maybe the connections won't be lost
keep alive = 30

#sync Unix passwords from Windows workstations using PAM
unix password sync = yes
pam password change = yes

# printing
printing = BSD
print command = /usr/bin/lpr -r %s
min print space = 2000

# --- shares ---

[printers]
# (picks up all printers specified in /etc/printcap)

# tell Samba its a printer share, not a disk share
printable = yes

# printer = lp
read only = yes
guest ok = yes

[profiles]
comment = users' profile directories
path = /home/samba/profiles
read only = no
browseable = no
create mask = 0600 ; rwx-xxx-xxx only the user can read/write files
directory mask = 0700 ; rwx-xxx-xxx directories must be executable if they are 
to be navigated

# [root]
# for administration purposes
# path = /
# browseable = yes
# browseable was no
# writeable = yes
# valid users = @admins

[homes]
# 'logon drive' won't work without this section
# if you want to set the home directory somewhere other than the Unix home:
# path =
volume = HOME
comment = home directories
read only = no
# don't display a 'homes' share as well as the '%U' share
browseable = no
public = no
create mode = 0750

[programs]
# map P: to this. use it to install programs to
# and to point programs to that don't like using UNC
comment = installed programs
path = /usr/windows
read only = yes
write list = @admins
browseable = yes

[shared]
comment = shared space for everyone
path = /home/bank/shared
read only = no
browseable = yes

# match Unix permissions set on files
force create mode = 0660

# match Unix permissions set on the directory
force directory mode = 3770

[cdrom]
comment = Server's CD-ROM
path = /cdrom
read only = yes
# speed up file access as this is a read-only file system
locking = no

[NETLOGON]
# required for Windows authentication

comment = The domain logon service
path = /home/netlogon
read only = yes
# 'read only' can be changed to 'no' whilst you edit this file
# but revert back to 'yes' for normal secure operation
browseable = no
write list = @admins






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Re: resolv.conf changing at boot

[Michele Della Marina]

Have you set a DHCP in your router for clients LAN?
I have had the same problem, and using static IP and DHCP disabled i
fixed the problem.
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On 5/23/06, Don Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

After recent upgrades in etch, I found my Firefox, Thunderbird, etc.
waiting long periods for apparently DNS lookup (10-20 seconds every
time). This is happening on two different computers which were upgraded.

I find that my original entries of two nameservers in my resolv.conf
file are being wiped out every time I boot.

I have a router (D-Link DI-604) and several computers on my LAN.  The
router is 192.168.0.1.  That is the address the resolv.conf file is
being changed to for nameserver on bootup.  By restoring (editing) the
resolv.conf file to the proper nameservers of 214.134.xxx.yyy and
214.134.xxx.zzz. then everything works fine (no significant delay for
DNS lookup)...until next time I reboot and they're back to 192.168.0.1
in resolv.conf.  (and the 214.134... entries missing).

Can anyone point me to where/what is happening here?  Maybe I have a
misunderstanding of wherein the problem lies.  The DI-604 router shows
the 214.134... nameservers correctly when I look at it.  These are
nameservers provided by my ISP.  I have not changed anything recently
that I could imagine would affect this.

(I do not have "resolvconf" installed -- as mentioned in some past
messages on this list.)

Thanks,
Don


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Mambo and Apache2

[Michele Della Marina]

Hi all!
I've installed mambo on apache2, I've a static public IP. Apache2 test
page is OK. I've set up configuration.php in different ways, but I can
view my mambo server only from my intranet or only from internet
(changing configuration.php). I've read something in mambo forum, but
I'm not able to understand how solve the problem.
Is necessary change something in apache2.conf?
I've tried also to change DocumentRoot but I've not seen changes.
Is there an apache path problem?
Can you help me?
Thanks

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Squirrelmail

[Michele Della Marina]

Hello!!
I've some problems after installing squirrelmail, the error is:
ERROR : Could not complete request.
Query: SELECT "INBOX"
Reason Given: Unable to open this mailbox.

and

ERROR : Connection dropped by imap-server.
Query: SUBSCRIBE "INBOX.Sent"

I know that probably the problem is in the directory creation under
homes; I've tried modifying the config.php of squirrelmail setting
default_folder_prefix but I've not solved the problem, I've create
directory under homes as Maildir... but nothing
I've used default settings using conf.pl but nothing.
IMAP (I use courier) server is ok.
Can you help me?
And what's the relationship between postfix user directory system (I
use /var/mail/user) and squirrelmail? Have I to change settings in
Postfix?

Thanks

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