Re: [SLUG] socket dissapears, how to t/s ?
On 16/12/13 12:59, li...@sbt.net.au wrote: > even after failed amavisd start, where 'ls socket_file' fails: > > # ls /var/spool/amavisd/clamd.sock > ls: cannot access /var/spool/amavisd/clamd.sock: No such file or directory > > 'lsof' still shows /var/spool/amavisd/clamd.sock as valid ? Sounds like a chroot issue. As root, what does /proc//cwd point to? Cheers, -- Steve "...In the UNIX world, people tend to interpret `non-technical user' as meaning someone who's only ever written one device driver." - Daniel Pead -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] PC won't recognise boot disk
On 09/06/11 12:12, K L wrote: Just thinking about it. I thought IDE HDD's were always recognised as /dev/hd. But liveCD (in fact any boot program I use) is recognising this one as /dev/sda. What's going on there? This changed some time back (I can't recall the specifics, but it was in a 2.6.something kernel). All HDDs are now recognied as /dev/sd, irregardless of their connection type. Cheers, -- Steve Wrong is endian little that knows everyone but. - Sam Hocevar -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] problems with perl IO:File binmode
Voytek Eymont wrote: > AFA05B44845 3085241 Thu Feb 11 10:07:31 s...@hotmail.com > (host 127.0.0.1[127.0.0.1] said: 451 4.5.0 Error in processing, > id=21117-12, mime_decode-1 FAILED: Can't locate object method "binmode" > via package "IO::File" at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5/MIME/Body.pm line > 437. (in reply to end of DATA command)) The error is in MIME::Body. which is calling something that IO::File no longer provides. Try and upgrade MIME::Body? Cheers, -- Steve "You have a fear of nothingness, or in laymen's terms, a fear of ... nothingness" - EMH, USS Voyager -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Advice Request for moving a Ubuntu installation to a larger disk and 4Gb RAM
jam wrote: > Along with all the cute benefits that LVM offer is a much higher disk failure > rate. Is the windows-linux convert going to pay attention to needed backup > regime? And how exactly does LVM offer "a much higher disk failure rate" ? Cheers, -- Steve "Why does everyone say 'Relax' when they're about to do something terrible?" - Ensign Harry Kim, USS Voyager -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] LVM
Daniel Bush wrote: > That sounds fraught. > Are you sure I can't just go with the alternate cd which will walk me thru > lvm and still give me a desktop kernel/system? > Indeed you can. You can even download the alternate CD with jigdo! Cheers, -- Steve Wrong is endian little that knows everyone but. - Sam Hocevar -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Ubuntu AMD64 CD's
On Thu, 14 Jun 2007 09:10:36 +1000, Timothy White uttered > Thanks a lot. Much appreciated. I can travel to pick it up, but as we > are also down a GPS, the closer to Wentworthville/Parramatta the > better. > I've organised with Tim to drop off a Feisty amd64 CD on my way home. Cheers, -- Steve "Why does everyone say 'Relax' when they're about to do something terrible?" - Ensign Harry Kim, USS Voyager -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Oddball memory usage?
On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 16:16:04 +1100, Peter Hardy uttered > I'm a little puzzled by this: > > total used free sharedbuffers cached > Mem:50050844816352 188732 0 1566443165540 > -/+ buffers/cache: 14941683510916 > Swap: 10526161052616 0 > > Is this sort of usage normal? Filling a gigabyte of swap space while > just under 1.5GB of memory is going towards buffers seems odd to me. And > vmstat reports no usage of this swap space over a 15 minute period. > I might be barking up the wrong tree, but do you have one or more tmpfs'es that are full of files? tmpfs is swap-backed RAM, which neatly explains the completly full swap, and also the fact that vmstat doesn't report any swapping at all. Cheers, -- Steve "E-mail is for geeks and paedophiles." - Sebastian, Cruel Intentions -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] A quick way to remove masses of whitespace from a csv file.
On Fri, 26 Jan 2007 09:50:11 +1100, Luke Yelavich uttered > I have been given a spreadsheet, which I have exported to a csv file, > for use with a community website I am working on. > > I have a nasty problem, where a lot of the sells have massive amounts of > whitespace. I am wondering whether there is a quick way to remove the > whitespace, either in the spreadsheet, or in the csv file? I am guessing > a regular expression could do it, but I am no regular expression expert. > Just to throw my 2 cents in, tr(1) can do this. tr -s ' ' < oldfile > newfile Cheers, -- Steve "I'm a doctor, not a doorstop" - EMH, USS Enterprise -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Ubuntu opera repository
On Tue, 19 Dec 2006 13:00:57 +1100, Nick Croft uttered > Wondering if anyone has any idea why Opera for Ubuntu (ppc) can't be found > on any of the sites that everyone recommends. > > deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu dapper-commercial main > In this repository, opera is only built for i386. > or > > deb http://deb.opera.com/opera etch non-free > That should work, based on my digging around the repository via HTTP. What does 'apt-get update' say about the repository, and if it succeeds, what about 'apt-cache policy opera'? Cheers, -- Steve C offers you enough rope to hang yourself. C++ offers a fully equipped firing squad, a last cigarette and a blindfold. - Erik de Castro Lopo -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Creating a really really simple .deb package
On Tue, 07 Nov 2006 14:29:21 +1100, David Gillies uttered > This will only build the binary packages, no source stuff will be > spat out > > before you run this, make sure that /debian/control is > executable > I suspect you mean /debian/rules here. debian/control contains the information for the source and binary packages built from and contained in the package, whereas debian/rules contains instructions on how to build them. Cheers, -- Steve C offers you enough rope to hang yourself. C++ offers a fully equipped firing squad, a last cigarette and a blindfold. - Erik de Castro Lopo -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] dual monitor video card
On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 14:46:58 +1000, Ben uttered > doh! I meant PCIe, but that's probably what you mean anyway. and it > was just last week I was scoping hardware sites and laughing at the > ones who labelled the PCIe cards PCIx. > PCI-X and PCI-E are very different. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCI-X and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCI_Express Cheers, -- Steve In the beginning was the word, and the word was content-type: text/plain -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] restarting a 'failed restart' Apache fails
On Thu, 21 Sep 2006 10:58:48 +1000 (EST), Voytek Eymont uttered > h, I think maybe this is the one: > > # grep crit 21-error.log > [Thu Sep 21 07:52:10 2006] [crit] (98)Address already in use: make_sock: > could not bind to port 443 > [Thu Sep 21 07:52:44 2006] [crit] (98)Address already in use: make_sock: > could not bind to port 443 > [Thu Sep 21 07:54:26 2006] [crit] (98)Address already in use: make_sock: > could not bind to port 443 > > that's probably it..? > > how to overcome it ? > Use either lsof, fuser or netstat to find with process ID is bound to port 443, and wield kill. Cheers, -- Steve "...In the UNIX world, people tend to interpret `non-technical user' as meaning someone who's only ever written one device driver." -- Daniel Pead -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Re: linux assignment
On Sat, 19 Aug 2006 16:36:01 +1000, O Plameras uttered > Example of list and select: > > $man sort | grep " order ", > man sort | grep -w order I find that a bit easier. Cheers, -- Steve joy hasn't spoken on IRC in 45 seconds, he must be MIA! -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] DHCP client vs sendmail
On Wed, 09 Aug 2006 14:18:05 +1000, Craig Dibble uttered > Er, sorry to nitpick, but 993 is actually IMAP SSL. > > POP3S is 995 > I realised that after I bashed C-c C-c to send the message. :-/ Cheers, -- Steve "I'm a doctor, not a doorstop" - EMH, USS Enterprise -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] DHCP client vs sendmail
On Wed, 9 Aug 2006 12:12:37 +1000, Jamie Wilkinson uttered > 2. find someone who can host a SMTP AUTH outbound on port 993 (SMTP+SSL) > which probably won't get blocked by any of your ISPs outbound. Port 993 is POP3S, whereas SSMTP is port 465. Cheers, -- Steve joy hasn't spoken on IRC in 45 seconds, he must be MIA! -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Paging IMAP gurus
On Sat, 5 Aug 2006 10:44:45 +1000, James Gray uttered > I'm running a Courier IMAP server with Postfix MTA for my own > personal network (with a handful of POP3 users). The problem is that > I often use different mail clients. Some support automatic archiving > (deleting), others don't. So it got me thinking about server-side > solutions. > We do this at $WORK, where we run a Perl script every 3 months that kills mail that is older than 100 days. If you're familar with Perl, just use Mail::IMAPClient, login, search for mail and then delete it. It still uses a client, but it's a local client. > Basically I'd like to run a script once a day that churns through my > personal IMAP folders and removes messages older than X days. Some > folders I want to expire after 7 days, others 3 weeks, others 3 > months. I've already written the script to identify the messages but > currently just lists them. Given that my IMAP store is maildir, is > there any problem with simply deleting the messages straight from the > maildir? Or is there some sort of referential integrity checking > that I need to maintain within maildir? > I'd suggest that you don't delete stuff from the Maildir directly, not because of Maildir referential integrity, but because Courier might well store stuff in the Maildir. -- Steve If it (dieting) was like a real time strategy game, I'd have loaded a save game from ten years ago. - Greg, Columbia Internet -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Dapper : slow disk access?
On Fri, 23 Jun 2006 14:20:25 +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo uttered > https://launchpad.net/distros/baltix/+bug/50741 > > Unfortunately, I screwed up an logged it under Baltix (wtf is that?) > instead of Ubuntu. Is there some way I can fix that? > I just had a look at the bug, and it looks like you should be able to click on the 'Baltix' in the table at the top, and then on Distribution, next to Also Affects:, and change the Baltix to Ubuntu in the drop down. Cheers, -- Steve "I'm a doctor, not a doorstop" - EMH, USS Enterprise -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] mplayer install probs..
On Wed, 03 May 2006 21:53:06 +1000, Charles Myers uttered > Damn... I'll try compiling it myself and see what happens.. dont know > about that lib that I'm missing though :/ > Do you have the multiverse repository enabled? That's where mplayer and some of its dependencies live. Thanks, -- Steve -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Problem with Okipage 8z printer, CUPS and .ppd file
On Wed, 26 Apr 2006 12:18:45 +1000, Leslie Katz uttered > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ man -t lpadmin | lpr > Status Information: > sending job '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > connecting to 'localhost', attempt 1 > cannot open connection to localhost - No such file or directory > Make sure the remote host supports the LPD protocol and accepts > connections from this host and from non-privileged (>1023) ports I think this is your problem. That looks like lpr is trying to talk to the local LPD. I'm not sure about Damn Small Linux at all, but on Debian/Ubuntu, there is a cupsys-bsd package which gives you a lpr that talks to CUPS instead of LPD. Cheers, -- Steve "You have a fear of nothingness, or in laymen's terms, a fear of ... nothingness" - EMH, USS Voyager -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] apt-get update and pgp keys
On Thu, 13 Apr 2006 17:11:22 +1000, Michael Lake uttered > I'm trying to get correct keys into the debian keyring so that I can verify > packages from apt-get sources > and I'm having some problems. The procedure below was worked out by googling > on the warning message from apt-get. > Basically one needs to find some site that has a key for the missing packages > I presume. > Correct. > What am I doing wrong ? I have tried a few keyservers but all reply with the > same message. > I doubt the key in question is on the keyservers. It's located at http://ftp-master.debian.org/ziyi_key_2006.asc Don't ask about the name, elmo has a fascination with actresses. Cheers, -- Steve "Why does everyone say 'Relax' when they're about to do something terrible?" - Ensign Harry Kim, USS Voyager -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Faulty Ubuntu mirror?
On Thu, 30 Mar 2006 09:31:33 +1100, Ken Caldwell uttered > Err http://mirror.optusnet.com.au breezy/main Packages > Could not connect to mirror.optusnet.com.au:80 (211.29.132.173). - > connect (111 Connection refused) > Hrm, I noticed that on Monday while debugging an apt-proxy problem at work. If it still isn't fixed on Thursday, it makes me wonder a little. > The mirror was working fine up until last Sunday. > Which mirrors are others using? > I'm using au.archive.ubuntu.com, which doesn't miss a beat. Cheers, -- Steve "E-mail is for geeks and paedophiles." - Sebastian, Cruel Intentions -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [Fwd: Re: [SLUG] file permissions]]
On Tue, 28 Mar 2006 10:51:58 +1100 (EST), Phill O'Flynn uttered > I am aware that existing files are not affected. > > One thing I found in my playing around that if i set the umask in > a console window any files or dirs created after (in that window) have the > permissions i expect. However if i open up an instance of nautilus to > create new files and dirs, the file permissions are set differently > is this normal > Yes, this is intended behaviour - the umask() syscall, the heart of the umask command only operates per process. So, your shell in your terminal has changed umask, but Nautilus, being a separate process, has it's own umask, which is unchanged. Cheers, -- Steve In the beginning was the word, and the word was content-type: text/plain -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] How to discover which modules unnecessary
On Fri, 24 Feb 2006 08:49:43 +1100, O Plameras uttered > Then do a # make menuconfig and figure out which ones to activate or > deactivate. Or #make config, if you are unable to run X. > menuconfig requires ncurses, not X. Cheers, -- Steve I may be love's bitch, but at least I'm man enough to admit it. - Spike -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] DNS - Xen - Virtual server hosting
On Wed, 15 Feb 2006 10:21:58 +1100, Howard Lowndes uttered > They shouldn't be feeling the heat from Xen yet because Xen will not run > Windows until the new Intel chips ship. > > I have a problem with VMware after 2.6.13 kernel - it won't compile on > 2.6.24 and later, which is why I am looking at Xen. > I suspect you mean 2.6.14. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~% uname -a Linux blerk 2.6.15-1-686 #1 Wed Jan 18 15:04:35 UTC 2006 i686 GNU/Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~% vmware -v VMware Workstation 4.5.2 build-8848 (I'm well aware VMware 5.5 is out, it's a matter of convincing the accounting people at work to buy it for the office) If you Google for vmware-any-any-update, it will patch your VMware so that the modules can compile with a newer kernel version. Cheers, -- Steve joy hasn't spoken on IRC in 45 seconds, he must be MIA! -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] C Gurus
On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 10:12:07PM +1100, Crossfire wrote: > IIRC, ANSI C[1] makes no guaranty as to the lifetime of literal ^^^ Not that I'm trying to get involved in this Gospel according to Oscar thread, but Crossfire, you forgot the footnote, and now I'm interested! Cheers, -- Steve -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG]VMware 5 Workstation + Linux = kernel panic?
On Fri, 11 Nov 2005 08:21:33 +1100, Peter Rundle uttered > Did anyone get any joy on this? > > I've tried to run VMware 5.0.0-13124 but as others have found out the > network modules panic the kernel. Tried the old VMware 2.0.4 but again > same issue. (I'm running kernel 2.6.11-smp) Don't feel like going > through the pain of down grading the kernel. For my needs I think I can > get by using NAT'ed network access. If anyone has got this working, then > I'll have another go. > You could also search for the vmware-any-any patches, and patch your copy of VMWare Workstation 5. I have had to do this a couple of times with VMWare Workstation 2, 3 and 4 when the VMWare modules refuse to compile against the kernel I'm running. Cheers, -- Steve If it (dieting) was like a real time strategy game, I'd have loaded a save game from ten years ago. - Greg, Columbia Internet -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] X server problem, It won't start
On Sat, 29 Oct 2005 12:36:03 +1000, Adam Dawes uttered > [most the output snipped] > "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libGLcore.a:m_debug_clip.o" > > _norm.o > > _xform.o > > NV: No matching device section for instance (Bus ID PCI:2.0.0) > There is your problem. When your changed your motherboard, the bus ID of the video card changed from 2.0.0 to something else. I would start by running 'lspci' as root and noting down what the first colum is where the line contains 'Nvidia', such as this from my machine: :01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV31 [GeForce FX 5600] (rev a1) In this case, the relevant bus ID is 1.5.0. Or even easier, if you only have one video card in the machine, I would just remove the BusID line from /etc/X11/xorg.conf, and see if that helps you. Cheers, -- Steve "...In the UNIX world, people tend to interpret `non-technical user' as meaning someone who's only ever written one device driver." -- Daniel Pead -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] FC3 and VMWare
On Sat, 11 Jun 2005 14:04:58 +1000, Howard Lowndes uttered > This time the compilation provides the message: > > Unable to make a vmnet module that can be loaded in the running kernel: > insmod: error inserting '/tmp/vmware-config1/vmnet.o': -1 Unknown symbol > in module > There is probably a slight difference in the kernel configuration > between the > set of C header files you specified and your running kernel. You may > want to > rebuild a kernel based on that directory, or specify another directory. > > > Unfortunately the VMWare web site is not very forthcoming. > > Has anyone experienced this problem. > Yup! I saw it on Friday at w*rk. It seems to be a 2.6.11 problem, because it struck me with Debian 2.6.11-5. However, I applied the vmware-any-any-patch91 (Google for it), and it compiled and loaded fine after that. Cheers, -- Steve "I'm a doctor, not a doorstop" - EMH, USS Enterprise -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Help with apt-get pinning
On Thu, 09 Jun 2005 11:33:06 +1000, Michael Lake uttered > There is no -V but I presume you mean --no-act. > I did that i.e. apt-get --no-act dist-upgrade > and it listed 120 packages that will be upgraded ! > > Perl is amoung those to be upgraded. > so I presume that I'll go with the above. It's a bit nerve racking :-) > --no-act won't actually do the upgrade, it will just show you what it will do. -V looks to be a sarge-ism, which shows the versions of upgraded and install packages. I personally have switched over to aptitude quite some time ago, which actually keeps logs of what actions it performed during a install/upgrade. Thanks, -- Steve If it (dieting) was like a real time strategy game, I'd have loaded a save game from ten years ago. - Greg, Columbia Internet -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Help with apt-get pinning
On Wed, 08 Jun 2005 17:04:31 +1000, Michael Lake uttered > I have a server running Debian stable where perl is v5.6.1. I need 5.8 for > installing a library application. > I have never done/used mixed systems before or done apt pinning. Am I going > to do this right? > The following procedure was worked out by reading a few googled web sites > about apt pinning. > However I don't want to break perl on this machine. > You are aware that Debian sarge was released yesterday and the version of Perl in it is 5.8.4? Cheers, -- Steve In the beginning was the word, and the word was content-type: text/plain -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] error processing ndtpd ..
On Mon, 06 Jun 2005 20:10:34 +1200, Adam Bogacki uttered > Thanks. I've had a look at '/usr/sbin/syslog-facility' .. the only > modifiable part is the line > > > my $conf_file = '/etc/syslog.conf'; > > I've unsuccessfully looked for a default version via Google, man page, > and text ["Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 Unleashed" (SAMS, 1999)] but without > something to > compare it with, I can't see the error. > > Also, on checking the output line > > > + syslog-facility set info /var/log/ndtpd.log > > I find that /var/log/ndtpd.log is empty. > > I think I'm missing something here. > The command syslog-facility says the only changeable part is the $conf_file variable, however, I was suggesting that you insert a debugging print or two into it, to see why it's dying which should give you a clue as to what the problem is. Cheers, -- Steve "Why does everyone say 'Relax' when they're about to do something terrible?" - Ensign Harry Kim, USS Voyager -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] error processing ndtpd ..
On Fri, 03 Jun 2005 20:02:06 +1200, Adam Bogacki uttered > Sorry for the delayed reply, > > You were right about syslog. Two lines had been deleted in the 'action' part > of the default syslog.conf file. Problem solved. > > But ndtpd still won't install, output below. > But it's still the same problem. syslog-facility is still the command that fails. I've had a look at it, and it's a fairly simple Perl script that should only die in a few places ... Cheers, -- Steve I may be love's bitch, but at least I'm man enough to admit it. - Spike -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Cp -R skipping some directories
On Fri, 27 May 2005 14:08:37 +1000, Simon uttered
> HI all,
> Is it possible to have cp skip some directories when using cp -R?
You can. Except just cp -R won't cut it. The one way that springs to
mind is using find with -prune and -exec cp {} \;
Cheers,
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Steve
C offers you enough rope to hang yourself.
C++ offers a fully equipped firing squad, a last cigarette and
a blindfold.
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Re: [SLUG] error processing ndtpd .. {& rampant syslog ?}
On Thu, 26 May 2005 16:13:10 +1200, Adam Bogacki uttered > I've attached the output below. I'm also getting a lot of syslog > messages appearing in gnome-terminal together > with beeping and a red light flashing on the midi-tower. > I daresay that syslogd is badly miconfigured on your machine. With the syslog messages going to console as wall messages, and the fact that the command that failed is "syslog-facility set info /var/log/ndtpd.log". Cheers, -- Steve "Why does everyone say 'Relax' when they're about to do something terrible?" - Ensign Harry Kim, USS Voyager -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] error processing ndtpd
On Thu, 26 May 2005 14:46:16 +1200, Adam Bogacki uttered > Apparently it's an apostrophe out of place .. but which one ? > No, it isn't an apostrophe out of place. Post install scripts need to be called with 2 or 3 arguments. I'd suggest you edit /var/lib/dpkg/info/ndtpd.postinst and change "set -e" to "set -xe" and see what it outputs when you run "dpkg --configure -a" Cheers, -- Steve "Why does everyone say 'Relax' when they're about to do something terrible?" - Ensign Harry Kim, USS Voyager -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] recursive tree log grep ?
On Tue, 24 May 2005 09:19:42 +1000, Howard Lowndes uttered > I've always wondered how you get a list of .bash-history so that you > know the value of n. > Run 'history'. Cheers, -- Steve If it (dieting) was like a real time strategy game, I'd have loaded a save game from ten years ago. - Greg, Columbia Internet -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] OpenSWAN & iptables & routing
On Tue, 24 May 2005 08:19:52 +1000, Howard Lowndes uttered > Any ideas on how this can be done - is it something that is done in iproute? > You want to add 'src ' to the end of the ip ro command that brings up the route to the remote end. Cheers, -- Steve In the beginning was the word, and the word was content-type: text/plain -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] recursive tree log grep ?
On Mon, 23 May 2005 18:56:56 +1000, Rick Welykochy uttered >$ echo "This is fun!" >-bash: !": event not found > Bash uses ! as a shell short-cut character. For example: !! Execute previous command !n Execute nth previous command !string Execute previous command starting with string !?string? Execute previous command containing string Cheers, -- Steve C offers you enough rope to hang yourself. C++ offers a fully equipped firing squad, a last cigarette and a blindfold. - Erik de Castro Lopo -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Sources for Debian Sid (stable)
On Thu, 19 May 2005 14:52:49 +1000, Terry Collins uttered > What entry do people have in their /etc/apt/sources.list for debian > stable(sid)? > Heh. Stable is woody, not sid. :-) > I am trying to upgrade/? from woody to sid and changing "stable" to > "unstable" produced a pile of error messages about package lists. > I am currently very much in love with: deb http://mirror.optusnet.com.au/debian sid main contrib non-free Cheers, -- Steve "Why does everyone say 'Relax' when they're about to do something terrible?" - Ensign Harry Kim, USS Voyager -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: FW: [SLUG] Print server
On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 23:52:18 +1100, Phill uttered > So, as an experiment, I deleted the printer on windows xp and tried to > re-install the printer as a new printer but the status of the printer now > is "access denied, unable to connect" > For what it's worth, my wife's Windows XP machine shows the same thing, and it prints fine. May I suggest you investigate CUPS and www.linuxprinting.org which should hopefully make your life a little easier. Cheers, -- Steve "I'm a doctor, not a doorstop" - EMH, USS Enterprise -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] St George banking (again...)
On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 16:06:24 +1100, Sonia Hamilton uttered > YASGQ (Yet Another St George Question): > > I can't get St George internet banking going, has anyone got this > working? Pointers on how to do it? > Sure, I got it working on my wife's machine fairly easily. Install java-package, download the JDK for Linux from java.sun.com, run make-jpkg across it, install the resultant .deb, restart Mozilla and bask in the glory. Cheers, -- Steve joy hasn't spoken on IRC in 45 seconds, he must be MIA! -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] logging reboots, how ?
On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 09:56:04 +1100, James Gray uttered > Indeed - 3 "boots" with no shutdowns or reboots. Normally this is a result > of > kernel panics. Have you changed anything recently - new kernel perhaps? > Have you added any new equipment that might be loading a buggy driver? > It could be a panic, but it could also be a spontaneous reboot. The latest machine on my home LAN to die was my previous fileserver. Heavy disk I/O, or indeed, or a sustained load of higher than 3 would cause it to reboot all by itself. Which was kind of fun since a reboot would cause the software RAID on the machine to resync, which may cause another reboot due to heavy disk I/O ... Just something to keep in mind, although the sound of a machine beeping as it reboots still causes shivers ... Cheers, -- Steve If it (dieting) was like a real time strategy game, I'd have loaded a save game from ten years ago. - Greg, Columbia Internet -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] youth and linux?
On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 11:39:52 +1100, Kevin Saenz uttered > The other thing is that you could install a program called vmware if > feel nervous about installing linux on your computer. > Or use one of the LiveCD's such as Knoppix or Ubuntu ... Cheers, -- Steve "Why does everyone say 'Relax' when they're about to do something terrible?" - Ensign Harry Kim, USS Voyager -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Weird login behaviour
On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 20:16:10 +1100, O Plameras uttered > No one can load kernel codes other than loadable kernel modules(LKM) > that are > 'enabled'. If you try to load an LKM that is not configured the Kernel > will not > allow it. And because only a dozen or so LKMs are enabled instead of, > perhaps, > hundreds LKMs, it is easy to manage these. > That isn't the point at all. A kernel module can still be loaded if it isn't shipped with the kernel, and indeed, the kind of module that allows people to break machines would be anyway. Cheers, -- Steve English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary." - James D. Nicoll, resident of rec.arts.sf.written -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] C newbie seeks directions
On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 14:32:14 +1100, Rod Butcher uttered > Anything else I should study to do this properly ? - I'm finding things > like foo.xs which are used to generate foo.c for instance, so is there > some tutorial on "typical methods used for generating C sources & > modules" ? A .xs file is a perl thing. Unfortunately, writing Perl modules in C requires knowledge in C, and the guts of Perl. man perlxs, along with perlguts and perlapi. Cheers, -- Steve Russian roulette in bash(1): $((RANDOM%6)) || rm -rf ~ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] a nice question
On Wed, 9 Feb 2005 11:12:11 +1100, David uttered > I guess this is the point of the question. Is there a way of prioritising > so that the effect of tar running is minimised. > Sure. Start tar and then renice the process to 20 (it will only run when nothing else wants to), man renice for more information. Cheers, -- Steve "You have a fear of nothingness, or in laymen's terms, a fear of ... nothingness" - EMH, USS Voyager -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Linux rox...
On Sat, 5 Feb 2005 02:05:01 +1100, James Gray uttered
> So compared to setting up individual "display" + "monitor" sections in the
> config file, the TwinView route is pretty easy and performs better. Plus
> accelerated OpenGL Fireworks screen saver on both heads looks neat :)
>
However, the TwinView route does not play nicely with games that want
full screen GL modes, such as Solarwolf and UT2k{3,4}. Going the
TwinView route with that requirement then makes the TwinView setup
more complicated by having 6 different modes on the one line.
Cheers,
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game from ten years ago.
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Re: [SLUG] Debian netinst iso's
On Fri, 4 Feb 2005 10:43:51 +1100, Michael Fox uttered > http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sid_d-i/i386/20050115/sarge-i386-netinst.iso > Note the date in the URL: http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sid_d-i/i386/20050203/sarge-i386-netinst.iso Cheers, -- Steve "You have a fear of nothingness, or in laymen's terms, a fear of ... nothingness" - EMH, USS Voyager -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] jfs on rh73 ?
On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 19:22:09 +1100 (EST), Voytek uttered > whilst fdisk still calls in 'unknown' > >Device BootStart EndBlocks Id System > /dev/sdb1 2 4340 44431365 Extended > /dev/sdb5 * 2 4340 4443120 35 Unknown > That's just because someone hasn't taught fdisk that id 35 is JFS ... Cheers, -- Steve "I'm a doctor, not a doorstop" - EMH, USS Enterprise -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] jfs on rh73 ?
On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 13:01:15 +1100 (EST), Voytek uttered > # fdisk /dev/sdb > > Command (m for help): p > Disk /dev/sdb: 64 heads, 32 sectors, 4340 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 bytes > >Device BootStart EndBlocks Id System > /dev/sdb1 2 4340 44431365 Extended > /dev/sdb5 * 2 4340 4443120 35 Unknown ^ > > > when I try this: > # mount -t jfs /dev/sdb /mnt/hd Try mounting /dev/sdb5, as in 'mount -t jfs /dev/sdb5 /mnt/hd' Cheers, -- Steve "You have a fear of nothingness, or in laymen's terms, a fear of ... nothingness" - EMH, USS Voyager -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Re: Verifying a debian install
On Fri, 03 Dec 2004 00:44:15 +1100, Ken Foskey uttered > I got an off list from peter suggesting: > > dpkg --get-selections | grep install | cut -f1 | xargs apt-get install > --reinstall > > gave me this: > > dpkg --get-selections | grep install | cut -f1 | xargs dpkg -L | grep > -v \'| xargs -n 1 isnotfile > The other problem is that it gives you selections which are marked 'deinstall'. I would personally play with dpkg's "database" by hand, like so: for file in $(cat /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.list) ; do isnotfile $file ; done Cheers, -- Steve "I'm a doctor, not a doorstop" - EMH, USS Enterprise -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] talks last night
On Sat, 27 Nov 2004 11:49:17 +1100, Ken Foskey uttered > Bowling with laptops next month :-) > That sounds expensive. Cheers, -- Steve "Why does everyone say 'Relax' when they're about to do something terrible?" - Ensign Harry Kim, USS Voyager -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] sudoers
On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 13:14:12 +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered > Do you have a line above that somewhere in the file > with a NOPASSWD: entry? Where do you get your sudo > from and what version is it? > If the user that is using sudo is in the sudo group, then sudo will never prompt that user for a password. Cheers, -- Steve Russian roulette in bash(1): $((RANDOM%6)) || rm -rf ~ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Apache restart Q
On Sun, 3 Oct 2004 11:44:27 +1000 (EST), Voytek uttered > Apache restarted 7 hrs ago..? > > is that telling me that Apache stopped 7 hrs ago..? > What is more likely to have happened is that Apache was restarted after its log files were rotated. Cheers, -- Steve Russian roulette in bash(1): $((RANDOM%6)) || rm -rf ~ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Encoding mp3 on debian
On Wed, 08 Sep 2004 15:14:45 +1000, Terry Collins uttered > What do people use to encode mp3s on debian? > I use LAME. (It isn't in Debian proper due to the Fraunhofer patent madness.) This link explains it quite nicely: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2000/12/msg04123.html These days, I will usually encode to OGG, if I'm not sending off to someone with Windows Media Player. Cheers, -- Steve joy hasn't spoken on IRC in 45 seconds, he must be MIA! -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG]
On Thu, 22 Jul 2004 08:47:11 +0930, Trevor Tregoweth uttered > I was wondering what people can tell me and help me with DNS setups. > > What i would like to know, is that when you specify an secondary DNS for a web > site, when the primary site goes down, how does the secondary site take > over > > for example, if the first dns server goes off line, can and how does the > secondary take over, i realise that you might have to copy the whole web site > over, and that's fine, but I'm not sure on how to make the secondary site > work, if that's possible > > www.hotmail.com.2726IN A 207.68.171.233 > www.hotmail.com.2726IN A 207.68.172.239 > That isn't a secondary IP for the website. That is called round-robin DNS, as when a client looks up www.hotmail.com they will get one of the two IPs. If one of them goes down, users may notice that they can't browse the website, or some links just don't work. Cheers, -- Steve "...In the UNIX world, people tend to interpret `non-technical user' as meaning someone who's only ever written one device driver." -- Daniel Pead -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: Re. [SLUG] Re: mounting DVD & CDRW drives.
On Sat, 19 Jun 2004 19:27:38 +1000, Martin uttered > $quoted_author = "Adam Bogacki" ; > > Tux:~# ls -l /dev/hdd > > brw-rw1 root disk 22, 64 Mar 15 2002 /dev/hdd > > change the permissions on /dev/hdd to 666 or add yourself to the disk > group. > Or chgrp /dev/hdd to cdrom, which is a much better idea. Changing permissions of disk devices or adding users to the disk groups always seems like a bad idea. -- Steve In the beginning was the word, and the word was content-type: text/plain -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] CUPS - roll-back to earlier version [Debian]
On Tue, 01 Jun 2004 11:53:00 +1000, James Gray uttered > The following packages have unmet dependencies: > ~ cupsys: Depends: libcupsimage2 (>= 1.1.19final-1) but it is not going > ~ to be installed > ~ Depends: libcupsys2-gnutls10 (>= 1.1.20final-1) but it is not > ~ going to be installed > ~ Depends: libcupsys2-gnutls10 (= 1.1.20final+cvs20040330-4) but > ~ it is not going to be installed > ~ Depends: gs-esp but it is not going to be installed > E: Broken packages > What does 'apt-get -f install' do? In the most recent upload, libcupsys2 changed name to libcupsys2-gnutls10. The problem is that everything that makes use of libcupsys2 needs to be recompiled against the newer library. KDE might not be uploaded yet due to the large compile time. > On a side note - why are the dependencies referring to different > versions of "libcupsys2-gnutls10"?? If I try to install just > "libcupsys2-gnutls10" the dependency matrix means that all my > KDE+XFree86 stuff is also hosed (WTF?). Any ideas?? > This is explained above. But you want KDE and CUPS at the same time, I'd suggest you grab the previous version of cupsys from snapshot.debian.net and install that. Cheers, -- Steve "I'm a doctor, not a doorstop" - EMH, USS Enterprise -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] NFS problem
On Wed, 05 May 2004 19:04:03 +1000, Ken Foskey uttered
> I have three machines connected:
>
> M1 ==> M2 ==> M3
>
> M2 has two NIC's and will not act as a router so the network around M3
> is secure.
>
> I have an NFS mount from M1 => M2 with no-root-squash,ro as /data on M2.
>
> When I try and mount M2 /data (NFS mount) to M3 as /data I cannot mount
> it because it is permission denied. I have no messages in
> /var/log/messages to show for my efforts so I cannot solve the problem.
> I do have another mount between the same boxes without any issues with
> exactly the same export file. I need to see the files on M1 on M3 to do
> support stuff (low volume so no performance issues).
>
And what does portmap have to say about this on both machines? Nine
times of ten, with a permission denied message, portmap is the service
responsible. Check hosts.allow on both machines, as well as rpcinfo,
and always remember the firing order for NFS (on Debian, anyway),
which is: portmap, nfs-common, nfs-{user,kernel}-server.
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Re: [SLUG] lsh-server - unmet dependencies :(
On Tue, 4 May 2004 19:13:49 +1000 (EST), David uttered > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/log# apt-get -f install > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > Correcting dependencies... Done > The following extra packages will be installed: > libxv1 > The following NEW packages will be installed: > libxv1 > 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1372 not upgraded. > 7 packages not fully installed or removed. > Need to get 0B/131kB of archives. > After unpacking 295kB of additional disk space will be used. > Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y > (Reading database ... 160938 files and directories currently installed.) > Unpacking libxv1 (from .../libxv1_4.3.0-7_i386.deb) ... > dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libxv1_4.3.0-7_i386.deb (--unpack > ): > trying to overwrite `/usr/X11R6/lib/libXv.so.1.0', which is also in package xli > bs > dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) The very large not upgraded count suggests you're doing something which may be detrimental to the health of your packaging system. If the X packaging in Libranet is anything like what was done in Debian, xlibs was split into many smaller packages, which I suggest you install at the same time to avoid the overwriting. If you don't want to do that, I'd suggest you rebuild the package that has the libxv1 dependancy, or run dpkg -i --force-overwrite. I *strongly* suggest you go with the former option, however. Cheers, -- Steve joy hasn't spoken on IRC in 45 seconds, he must be MIA! -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] 2.6 kernel pasting with scrol wheel
On Mon, 19 Apr 2004 19:04:46 +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo uttered > Is anyone using a scroll wheel PS/2 mouse with a 2.6 kernel? Does > clicking using the scroll wheel work for you? > Yes, it does. Have you loading/built into the kernel psmouse and mousedev? Cheers, -- Steve "I'm a doctor, not a doorstop" - EMH, USS Enterprise -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Apache 2.0 UserDir
On Wed, 7 Apr 2004 20:09:26 +1000, Adam W uttered > I didn't realise apache needs execute permissions! > Apache itself doesn't need execute permission, but if a directory doesn't have execute permission, you can't cd into it. -- Steve In the beginning was the word, and the word was content-type: text/plain -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Debian Woody + 2.6.4 kernel = lots of broken bits
On Mon, 5 Apr 2004 09:54:00 +1000, James Gray uttered > The /etc/init.d/networking script wont work - ifup and dhclient both > complain about the kernel version and refuse to work. "pump" is ok though. > Module names could have changed? Without seeing the errors, I couldn't tell you. > The nfs stuff complains that "mount" is older than the kernel. > To fix this error, you need to modprobe capability. > There's other weirdness happening with my firewire and USB stuff too. > Is hotplug installed? Cheers, -- Steve "You have a fear of nothingness, or in laymen's terms, a fear of ... nothingness" - EMH, USS Voyager -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] CUPS assumptions
On Thu, 25 Mar 2004 16:03:43 +1100, Nick Croft uttered > But not from the desktop machine directly using a gui browser. > I now have all the cups packages on both machines. I wonder why I can't > access the config gui from the desktop. > It's part of the default CUPS config. It only allows connections to the :631 server from localhost. You'll need to change /etc/cups/cupsd.conf on the server to allow access. -- Steve "I'm a doctor, not a doorstop" - EMH, USS Enterprise -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Can't uninstall Debian nvidia drivers: package in very bad inconsistent state
On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 10:14:22AM +1100, Mary Gardiner wrote: > The major problem seems to be in the post-removal script: > > cat: alsa: No such file or directory > > The closest Google match I can find is > http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg81130.html > and I've made sure /etc/modutils/alsa exists on my system. > > I know I can tell dpkg to force the removal of the package even though a > reinstall is recommended (although... maybe it will try running the > post-remove again!), but I want to know if there's a cleaner way out of > this. > > I've also tried strace-ing the dpkg processes to find out which > particular 'alsa' file it is seeking, all strace lines looking for > 'alsa' are at the end of the mail -- I don't really know how to read > strace output :( > I ran into this myself - being one of the ALSA maintainers you'd think I was immune. Run dpkg-reconfigure alsa-base, and hit enter at every prompt, since all the answers should be loaded - it will re-link the 3 or so symlinks to /etc/alsa/modutils/1.0 that it needs, and the error should go away. -- Steve I've lost my sig! (and my mailserver for that matter) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] samba
On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 11:41:30 +1100, Hanratty, Michael uttered > My problem is this: > > Hardware P4, 512 ddr Distro Mandrake 9.2 Problem samba won't start, > error reported in log file reads something like this- failed to bind > to port 139, reason - port already in use > > Any suggestions > What is probably happening is that samba is being run out of the inet superserver (inetd, or xinetd). If this is the case, inetd will run smbd for you when you try and connect. If you prefer to run samba as daemons (processes that run in the background - think TSR in DOS days), you should edit the configuration file for inetd, and comment out the nmbd and smbd lines, and reload inetd. Starting samba should then work. Cheers, -- Steve I've lost my sig! -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Who has spoken to Commonwealth bank Tech support?
On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 20:22:14 +1100, Jamie Wilkinson uttered > I'm damn sure I have no java support on my laptop and I use CBA netbank > at least twice a week. > On any Linux machine I use for netbank, it is Java-less, and I've experienced no problems at all. -- Steve "Why does everyone say 'Relax' when they're about to do something terrible?" - Ensign Harry Kim, USS Voyager -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Debian window managers
On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 11:53:05AM +1100, Alan L Tyree wrote: > In Debian Woody - I have two window managers installed. How does Debian > determine the default when I "startx"? > Using the alternatives system. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo update-alternatives --display x-window-manager Password: x-window-manager - status is auto. link currently points to /usr/bin/blackbox /usr/bin/blackbox - priority 50 slave x-window-manager.1.gz: /usr/share/man/man1/blackbox.1.gz Current `best' version is /usr/bin/blackbox. You can change it by using update-alternatives --config Cheers, -- Steve I've lost my sig! -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Bandwidth/packet/netfilter log file analysis tools
On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 03:47:46PM +1100, Chris Deigan wrote: > mttr or cricket might be of interest, it will give you nice purty graphs I think you mean mrtg. MTTR is something very different. :-) -- Steve I've lost my sig! -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] PPP/ADSL troubles.
On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 07:34:58AM +1000, Mike Kraus wrote: > Their ppp0 device often goes down by itself, and fails to restart. > I used to get that with my DSL. The fix is to put 'maxfail 0' into the options file for the link, and restart pppd. Well, it worked great for me. Cheers, -- Steve I've lost my sig! -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] K 2.6 help.
At 10:02 pm, Tuesday, October 21 2003, Ken Foskey mumbled: > The following code behaves the same under K 2.4 and K 2.6 so there is > something different for SEGV to SIGINT. Can anyone explain? > Of course. POSIX Says that behaviour after catching a SIGSEGV is undefined. Anything could happen. If you catch a SIGSEGV and your machine catches fire and jumps out the window, POSIX allows for it. Cheers, -- Steve Unix's elegant and suave design makes it seem slightly older than it really is. * StevenK waits for Unix to have a mid life crisis and start dating operating systems half it's age. StevenK: it's called samba. Mithrandir: Such lack of taste. If you're going to date operating systems half your age, then at least make sure they're bouncy and cute. Maybe it's just a sexual thing. Windows goes down easily, and Unix can stay up forever. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] pipe into convert resize ?
At 12:19 am, Saturday, September 13 2003, Voytek Eymont mumbled: > how do I pipe into 'convert' to resize an output image from another tool? > > I have > tide -l sydney -f p -m g >tide.png > and > convert -resize 480x120 tide.png small_tide.png > > but I'm not having much success pipeing one into the other > You tell convert to resize from stdin. tide -l sydney -f p -m g | covert -resize 480x120 - small_tide.png (The single dash to convert tells it to read from stdin, not a file.) That should do the trick. Cheers, -- Steve "Proofread carefully to see if you any words out." -- Commit message from PeterK -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] No 'modprobe.d" ?
At 1:09 pm, Saturday, September 6 2003, Adam Bogacki mumbled: > dpkg --pending -configure > > Setting up alsa-base (0.9.6-3) > Wrote ALSA configuration to /etc/alsa/modutils/0.9 > ln: creating symbolic link to '/etc/modprobe.d/alsa' to > '/etc/alsa/modutils/0.9': No such file or directory > dpkg: error processing alsa-base (--configure) That was my fault. Drag down 0.9.6-4 for a painless install. -- Steve Why do you think Exim is braindead? I used to patch the Sendmail source and write my own sendmail.cf rules to get sendmail to do what I wanted. That's not braindead, it was causing *me* braindamage. -- Miquel van Smoorenburg -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Gnome configuration error
At 8:04 pm, Thursday, September 4 2003, Adam Bogacki mumbled: > "Setting up gconf2 (2.2.1-2) > find: missing argument to 'exec' > dpkg: error processing gconf2 (--configure) >subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status (1)" > [...] > > I don't know if this is unique to my 'unstable' distro but can anyone > suggest a fix > or should I brush up on bug-reporting ettiquette ? > Yes, it's a known issue in unstable. It's fixed in Incoming, and may well be in the pool by now. Cheers, -- Steve debian/stampdir/patches/004_imake_manpage_handling_overhaul.diff.log: Hunk #2 succeeded at -8211 (offset -9300 lines). infinity: No, look at the line number it succeeded at. *negative* 8211. Oh, even better. So, it succeeded somewhere else on the disk. :) "Patching random file... done." -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Debian Kernel
At 4:17 pm, Wednesday, September 3 2003, Nicholas Wilcox mumbled: > It's actually saying to make sure you have the initrd= line in the > kernel definition in your lilo.conf. Sometimes you can update the image > parameter but forget to change the initrd parameter. > Well, I use GRUB, but having the image point to /vmlinuz, and the initrd to /initrd.img has given me no problems so far. Cheers, -- Steve how about MTBF? scsi will once again rise high and rule with a metal fist -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Debian Kernel
At 10:43 pm, Tuesday, September 2 2003, Bruce Badger mumbled: > wally:~# apt-get -d install kernel-image-2.4.21-4.686 > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > The following extra packages will be installed: > kernel-image-2.4.21-4-686 kernel-image-2.4.21-4-686-smp > The following NEW packages will be installed: > kernel-image-2.4.21-4-686 kernel-image-2.4.21-4-686-smp > 0 packages upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. > Need to get 22.3MB of archives. After unpacking 60.9MB will be used. > Do you want to continue? [Y/n] > Get:1 ftp://ftp.iinet.net sarge/main kernel-image-2.4.21-4-686 2.4.21-4 > [11.0MB]Get:2 ftp://ftp.iinet.net sarge/main > kernel-image-2.4.21-4-686-smp 2.4.21-4 [11.3MB] > Fetched 22.3MB in 14m11s > (26.2kB/s) > Download complete and in download only mode > Because you are installing 'kernel-image-2.4.21-4.686', which gets expanded to both kernels. Install 'kernel-image-2.4.21-4-686', and you'll get only 686. > Well, I plan to use apt-get install without the -d this time. Will that > work OK? > Keeping in mind the above information, it will work okay. > Great, thanks. In trying to understand why I got the bonus SMP kernel > (above) I used apt-get -d install to get kernel-image-2.4.20.3.686. > This one came down *without* a bonus SMP package. > > Then, when running the apt-get install again (to really install it) I > got this: > > You are attempting to install an initrd kernel image (version > 2.4.20-3-686) This will not work unless you have configured your boot > loader to use initrd. (An initrd image is a kernel image that expects to > use an INITial Ram Disk to mount a minimal root file system into RAM and > use that for booting). > > This reads like "back off unless you know what you are doing!". But is > it really saying "do remember to update lilo.conf, old bean"? Or is it > saying something else altogether? > It's saying "do remember to update lilo.conf, or Bad Things Will Happen." Like having an unbootable shiny new kernel. Cheers, -- Steve * vorlon installs ntop to look at the copyright file, and finds that he can't purge it because of a broken maintainer script. Heh. vorlon: this is your punishment for questioning the Luca -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] I think I just broke a record
At 7:25 pm, Tuesday, September 2 2003, Del mumbled: > My load average hit 273. > > System still going, a tad slow mind you. > > Anyone seen anything like this before? > Running zinf (an audio player) on my workstation: broken:~# uptime 23:53:45 up 2 days, 22:59, 4 users, load average: 551.83, 283.27, 113.19 It was responsive via ssh, and X was lagged by about 30 seconds. Cheers, -- Steve you suck and you will burn in hell for mocking us modem users At least we'll get there *faster* =) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Debian Kernel
At 3:41 pm, Tuesday, September 2 2003, Bruce Badger mumbled: > So, would some kind soul please tell me: > o If the kernel I'm trying to install is a reasonable one to go for? Indeed. 2.4.21-4-686 (or 2.4.21-5-686, at a pinch) is okay. > o Why I got the bonus SMP kernel? I'd need to see the output of apt-get to determine that. > o Will the bonus SMP kernel be installed too? You said to apt-get to only download. Therefore, I'm to assume you're going to use dpkg -i to install it, in which case, no. > o If apt-get install will Do The Right Thing to make the non-SMP kernel > bootable? > Keep in mind if either or both kernels are installed, your machine will remain bootable. SMP or non-SMP it will still boot. An SMP kernel is not dependant on having more than one CPU. That doesn't answer your question, however. If you use lilo, yes, installing the .deb will do the Right Thing. Cheers, -- Steve I've lost my sig! -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Dual head question
At 12:49 pm, Wednesday, August 13 2003, Dave Airlie mumbled: > my Nvidia 3ds away fine, the other card of course doesn't.. I'm not sure > you can get a secondary card to do 3d and Xinerama... I might be getting a > PCI radeon soon.. not sure.. > Radeons completly refuse to do DRI when Xinerama is enabled. -- Steve Overfiend: She could translate most of it, but since Polish grammar is so different from English, she said where she would place the technical terms wouldn't probably make sense. Er, s/\(wouldn't\) \(probably\)/\2 \1/ StevenK: hey, cool; most complex sed expression I've seen used to correct oneself on IRC :) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Dual head question
At 11:40 am, Wednesday, August 13 2003, Pete de Zwart mumbled: > NVidia only likes doing dual head set up with other NVidia cards, if you can > prove me wrong, please let me know how you did it. > I had a GeForce4 AGP and a Radeon 7000 PCI hanging off my workstation, working just fine. Using the binary-only drivers for the NVidia, and the the ati driver for X 4.2. Cheers, -- Steve * StevenK laughs at Joy's connection. * Joy spits on StevenK * StevenK sees the spit coming at him slowly and ducks in time. StevenK: how did you do that? you moved like *them* jaiger: Can you fly that thing? *points* not yet apt-get install libpilot-chopper -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Debian - what is needed to compile?
At 8:04 pm, Wednesday, August 6 2003, Matthew Palmer mumbled: > If you want official (real, true official) Debian CDs, I'm sure there'd be > no shortage of SLUGgers who'd burn them for you. I'd offer, but I'm not > exactly in the area... > I'm in the area (live in western Sydney, work in inner western Sydney), and am quite happy to burn Debian CDs for anyone who wants them. Cheers, -- Steve ignorami: n: The BOFH art of folding problem lusers into representational shapes. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] anyone tried 2.6.0-test-beta?
At 2:28 pm, Tuesday, July 29 2003, Angus Lees mumbled: > The Debian ALSA (user-space) packages don't yet cope with > modprobe.conf transparently either (/me pokes stevenk) > Support for module-init-tools is coming as I find time. Linda 0.3 is being a harsh mistress is demanding lots of attention currently. Cheers, -- Steve you suck and you will burn in hell for mocking us modem users At least we'll get there *faster* =) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] anyone tried 2.6.0-test-beta?
At 6:50 pm, Monday, July 28 2003, Kevin Saenz mumbled: > Just wondering if anyone has started playing with > 2.6.0 kernel? What's it like? > I have. It's ... different. It uses modprobe.conf, rather than modules.conf, PCMCIA requires tweaking, and X doesn't work. And I've panic'd it twice. Oh well. Cheers, -- Steve Anyone have a favorite low-overhead remote filesystem protocol? (NFS and Samba are, of course, options) ElectricElf: it's like asking "what is the least painful method of castration involving a rusty fishing wire" -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Apache: auto generate public_html folder for users
At 7:27 pm, Monday, July 21 2003, Phillipus Gunawan mumbled: > The problem is on user home's folder. When we do 'adduser' the folder > has id of 700, and I want to make it into 711 everytimw I add new user. > Set DIR_MODE=0711 in /etc/adduser.conf Cheers, -- Steve we need even more Jewish mothers in the project to guilt lazy package maintainers into submission for uploading broken packages -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] apt-get is very good
At 6:39 pm, Saturday, June 28 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] mumbled: > I believe apt-get and synaptic are largely (completely?) the work of > Alfredo Kojima, the creator of the Window Maker window manager. > apt-get is the brainchild of Scott Ellis, and was then taken on Jason Gunthorpe, and others. Synaptic I'm not sure about. -- Steve * walters wonders if "fun" and "XFree86 source" can go together... walters : If it includes the words "printed" and "burning" -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Anybody know what the story is with Radeon R9500/9600support?
At 2:16 am, Thursday, June 26 2003, Crossfire mumbled: > Does anybody know what the status of support in X for the Radeon 9500 and 9600 > is? ATI seems to have done a very good job of being as vauge as possible when > the 9[268]00 is involved. > A 9200 is a rebadged 8500 or close to it, so anything up to a 9200 will work in X 4.3. I have a 9500 Pro at home, and could not get the firegl binary drivers working at all, but 2D works under X. > I also understand that open-source DRI support for the 9500/9600 isn't > available yet either. (Is or this a bit out of date?) > ATI has promised specs and cards to any DRI developer wanting to do it, but I don't know the truth in that. Cheers, -- Steve in the "oh dear, my testicles appear to have fallen off" sense of ok-ish -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] .art files
At 4:51 pm, Tuesday, June 24 2003, Erich Schulz mumbled: > I have been sent some photos in .art format, does anybody know what > these are and how to view them in Linux, tried gimp, but not very > sucessfull so far. > What does 'file' tell you? -- Steve who's daft idea was this 'government' thing anyway? you'd have to be pretty out of it to think that creating an organisation to repeatedly shaft everybody in the country was a good idea -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] NFS home dirs across a network.
At 9:57 pm, Monday, June 9 2003, Ken Foskey mumbled:
> I did try to run tcpdump (not installed) I am kicking myself as this is
> classic NFS debugging, I should have remembered that.
>
You should also check hosts.{allow,deny} for portmap.
Cheers,
--
Steve
for i in download untar compile install reboot ; do
echo "$i faster"
done
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Re: [SLUG] vipw
At 5:11 pm, Sunday, June 8 2003, Robert Tillsley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> mumbled: > I've got it running, though I needed to remove the $. Do you know if its a > permanent change, or do I need to do this every time I log in? > Right, I said this, I should explain: > > broken:~# export VISUAL="$(which ed)" [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ which ed /bin/ed $() is a subshell, so that sets VISUAL to /bin/ed. Now, to answer your question, it's not a permanent change. You need to do something like this: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ grep export .bash_profile | head -1 export MAILNAME="Steve Kowalik" Cheers, -- Steve A.D. 1517: Martin Luther nails his 95 Theses to the church door and is promptly moderated down to (-1, Flamebait). -- Michael Banck -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] vipw
At 3:39 pm, Sunday, June 8 2003, Robert Tillsley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> mumbled: > I'm looking into setting up a samba PDC. I've got a help file that I'm working > through. It mentioned adjusting users using vipw. So I've been trying to do > that. I've found the vim documentation on my system and I've been reading > through it, taking a few notes etc. However it seems like a bit of a pain to > use. Would I be able to use an editor like kate to add or modify entries in > etc/passwd? > Yes. Set your VISUAL enviroment to /usr/bin/kate, or whereever it is, and then run vipw. broken:~# export VISUAL="$(which ed)" broken:~# vipw 935 q vipw: /etc/passwd is unchanged broken:~# -- Steve goodbye, netsnaipe kick netsnipe oops Overfiend: That's 'netxnipe' StevenK: bwa ha, I had totally forgotten that! :) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] modules, af_packet & unix
At 4:36 pm, Friday, June 6 2003, Daniel Harper mumbled: > > What are the modules af_packet and unix that are in /etc/modules, this is on > a Debian Woody install. > Taken from Documentation/Configure.help on a 2.4.20 Debian kernel: unix.o: Unix domain sockets CONFIG_UNIX If you say Y here, you will include support for Unix domain sockets; sockets are the standard Unix mechanism for establishing and accessing network connections. Many commonly used programs such as the X Window system and syslog use these sockets even if your machine is not connected to any network. Unless you are working on an embedded system or something similar, you therefore definitely want to say Y here. af_packet.o: Packet socket CONFIG_PACKET The Packet protocol is used by applications which communicate directly with network devices without an intermediate network protocol implemented in the kernel, e.g. tcpdump. If you want them to work, choose Y. Cheers, -- Steve wiggy: When is quantz making an appearance on machines.cgi? StevenK: no idea, I only submitted it a year ago or so -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Mounting a second CD device.
At 4:38 pm, Wednesday, June 4 2003, Bill Bennett mumbled: > I'm not sure about how to mount this burner. The reader mounts > automatically when I put in a disk. But I don't know whether the > system will wear a second CD device. > > Has anybody any experience with this situation? > Yes. As long as the USB CD burner is supported under Linux, you'll be able to use it as a SCSI device. I'd recommend you install hotplug, and it will do everything for you, including telling you what device it just set up. -- Steve "There's only a finite number of them, so they can't be that interesting." -- Herbert Xu -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Redundant Web Servers
At 9:17 am, Monday, June 2 2003, Jon Biddell mumbled: > 3. There must be NO DISCERNABLE INTERRUPTION TO SERVICE when one > fails. Doing a "shift-reload" in the browser is NOT an option. It > must be TOTALLY TRANSPARENT. > You're going to get one anyway. If the machine falls over, you're not going to get any more data, and the client will have to re-request. One solution is mod_backhand with apache, and the IIS servers behind it. That may conflict with the politics, but whatever. -- Steve * StevenK laughs at Joy's connection. * Joy spits on StevenK * StevenK sees the spit coming at him slowly and ducks in time. StevenK: how did you do that? you moved like *them* jaiger: Can you fly that thing? *points* not yet apt-get install libpilot-chopper -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] "Error: Galeon... no GNOME default handler is set"./Sound.
At 8:55 am, Sunday, April 13 2003, Chris D. mumbled: > 2: try running 'killall esd' -- this is the gnome sound daemon (stolen > from enlightenment), and apps that dont use it (which is a fare few -- i > find even gaim doesnt use it), and then run 'esd &' afterwards. > I find I dislike esound, since it wants everything to run through it if you're using it. If your sound card can do mixing in hardware, and supports multiple opens (My SB Live does), you don't need it, but if your card can't do that, it's a necessary evil if you want to run more than one sound using app at the same time. Cheers, -- Steve It must be bad pun night in here It's *always* bad pun night here. EVERY night is bad pun night! Damn it Overfiend! you need to, like, get a sense of humor of your own, and stop copying mine :-P -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] "just use pppconfig then run pon dave"
At 10:05 pm, Friday, April 4 2003, Geoffrey Cowling mumbled: > Yes, I can ping 137.111.7.4 (or 5 as the case may be..) > and the number assigned to me.. but not the DSNs .. or any named URI. > If I use gpppon instead of pon, it works much the same just more > logging), > except the "off" button gives error..no ppp; and does not exit. poff > still works > What does your /etc/resolv.conf look like? ppp may or may not overwrite that file, depending on how it's configured. Cheers, -- Steve 22252 katie 18 0 392M 358M 820 R142M 96.8 48.0 443:28 python aj: that snake choking down a particularly large rodent this run? more like a sow and a bunch of piglets... -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] RedHAt 9.0 Availabilty
At 8:21 pm, Friday, April 4 2003, Kevin Waterson mumbled: > I am using RedHat 9 now. > Why not just download it? > Presumably, Mick does not want to wait the 2 weeks it would take to download over 56k. Either that, or wants the convience of CDs. I know I like having Debian CDs around my room. Cheers, -- Steve In the beginning was the word, and the word was content-type: text/plain -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Almost impossible Question : Latest XFree86 install ondebian
At 9:35 pm, Wednesday, April 2 2003, Roger Salisbury mumbled: > I'm trying to install a > Nvidia: Diamond Viper 770 . RIVATNT2 > Video Adapter. > on a Woody debian system. The $5 disk at the SLUG AGM. > No Joy getting it to work above 800/600 resolution with "vga" or "nv" drivers. > OK then: load the lasted & try! > Got latest CVS tree from info at www.xfree86.org . "cvs checkout -A xc" > But can't finalise the install! > I have produced the last 16 lines of output. > Okay, pulling in the CVS tree is a bad idea. It takes hours to build X, and Branden Robinson (Debian's fearless X maintainer) spends *ages* making everything just right with Debian's X setup. Can I suggest you paste the error when you try and use the nv driver? -- Steve Nothing wrong with being written in perl. Some of my best friends are written in perl. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] More Debian stuff...
At 8:06 pm, Monday, March 31 2003, Mick Boda mumbled: > deb http://people.debian.org/~stevenk/alsa/ > Three fields! Three! deb http://people.debian.org/~stevenk/alsa/ ./ And I hadn't apt-ified the directory. I have just now, so please try again. -- Steve > Whatever happened to all the Debian evangelists? I ate them. -- Andrew Suffield -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Debian Sound and other problems
At 7:18 pm, Monday, March 31 2003, Steve Kowalik mumbled: > Run 'dpkg -P diald' as root. It looks to be in a fairly bad state, so you > have have to do evil things. > Er, that should be 'so you may have to do evil things.' -- Steve [14:06] * vorlon vomits on libtool. [14:07] * rcw watches upstream integrate vorlon's contributions [14:07] < ds-work> rcw: should fit in quite well -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Debian Sound and other problems
At 3:20 pm, Monday, March 31 2003, Mick Boda mumbled: > 3. I recieve the following message from apt-get re sound > > Sorry, alsa-base is already the newest version. Okay. You probably want the latest alsa-base, too. (Which is currently 0.9.2-1) >E: Couldn't find package alsa-modules-2.4.20-i386 > Yes, I know. The packages are currently in Incoming, awaiting on the ftp-masters. Grab the .deb from http://people.debian.org/~stevenk/alsa and install it. > I ran apt-get install snd, which appearred to do something, but Irecieve > the following error messages running modprobe Heh, snd is probably not the package you're after. > 5. Irritatingly, I recieve the following error message > >1 packages not fully installed or removed. > Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used. > Setting up diald (0.99.4-5) ... > debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Gnome > debconf: (Unable to load Gnome -- is libgnome-perl installed?) >debconf: falling back to frontend: Dialog > Starting diald: fifo-created dpkg: error processing diald (--configure): > subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 >Errors were encountered while processing: > diald > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) > > I didn't want diald, the machine access then internet through a server. > I deselected dialup when I was setting up the system, but apt-get must > have fetched it anyway. > Run 'dpkg -P diald' as root. It looks to be in a fairly bad state, so you have have to do evil things. > Also, I thought gnome would be the front-end as it where for Xwindows, > it appears that I've selected it for apt-get, how do I change this back > to dialog. > 'dpkg-reconfigure debconf' as root. Cheers, -- Steve who's daft idea was this 'government' thing anyway? you'd have to be pretty out of it to think that creating an organisation to repeatedly shaft everybody in the country was a good idea -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
