dhcpcd weirdness
I have a box that provides network services to some other computers that is running Potato. It accesses the internet via cable modem, using dhcpcd to get its IP address. The problem I'm having is that it won't work unless I run it with configuration options on the command line, although I have my settings exactly the same in the /etc/dhcpc/config file, I think. Config file: >IFACE=eth0 >OPTIONS='-h "(hostname)"' (also tried without "") /etc/network/interfaces also fails to bring it up at boot-time: >iface eth0 inet dhcp > hostname (hostname) syslog sez: >Oct 11 00:08:36 isharagi dhcpcd[188]: timed out waiting for a valid DHCP >server response It gets the address instantly if I start it as follows: >isharagi:/# dhcpcd -h (hostname) Whereas just typing "dhcpcd" causes it to pause for a long time, as it does when it tries running it at boot time. The cable modem shows activity so it's doing something. What am I failing to configure properly? If these configurations are ok, what's doing this? It used to work so I figure I must have changed something and made it broken. TIA Andrew W.
Re: Adding hdparm at boot time
On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 04:23:32PM +1300, Matthew Sherborne wrote: > I would put the script in init.d, and a symlink rc3.d and prepend the > symlink name with S01 or S00 so that it starts up before everything else. If you install hwtools, then /etc/init.d/hwtools has a spot to put your custom hdparm configuration. James > > Matthew > > > -Original Message- > > From: Willy Lee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Willy Lee > > Sent: Wednesday, 11 October 2000 3:28 p.m. > > To: serge delorme > > Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > Subject: Re: Adding hdparm at boot time > > > > > > "serge" == serge delorme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > The place to put your own boot-up scripts is /etc/rc.boot. > > > > Hm. But the man page for rc.boot says that it is obsolete, and that > > you should use the /etc/rcS.d directory instead? However, it does say > > that /etc/rc.boot is scanned for backward compatibility. > > > > =wl > > > > -- > > Albert ``Willy'' Lee, Emacs user, game programmer > > "They call me CRAZY - just because I DARE to DREAM of a RACE of > > SUPERHUMAN MONSTERS!" > > > > > > -- > > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > > > > > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
RE: Adding hdparm at boot time
I would put the script in init.d, and a symlink rc3.d and prepend the symlink name with S01 or S00 so that it starts up before everything else. Matthew > -Original Message- > From: Willy Lee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Willy Lee > Sent: Wednesday, 11 October 2000 3:28 p.m. > To: serge delorme > Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Adding hdparm at boot time > > > "serge" == serge delorme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > The place to put your own boot-up scripts is /etc/rc.boot. > > Hm. But the man page for rc.boot says that it is obsolete, and that > you should use the /etc/rcS.d directory instead? However, it does say > that /etc/rc.boot is scanned for backward compatibility. > > =wl > > -- > Albert ``Willy'' Lee, Emacs user, game programmer > "They call me CRAZY - just because I DARE to DREAM of a RACE of > SUPERHUMAN MONSTERS!" > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe > [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > >
Re: Canon BJC-1000 problem - Finally Fixed! (inspired by Mike Soulier)
"loki" == loki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I agree, and I've been having the same problems. Well technically a > friend rather than me, but it's an odd problem. I eventually > wondered if it was a BIOS problem, and found that the BIOS had the > parallel port set to an odd mode.. SPP or EPP is okay, but I think bi-directional modes cause problems. Setting it to a simpler value > seemed to partially solve the problem (or maybe just change the > error message ;) > I think the first thing to check is whether or not your kernel is > actually recognising the parallel port: check for an /proc/parport, > and more specifically what it says in /proc/parport/0/hardware. Hi, you'd probably forgotten all about this thread, but no! :) Well, I finally got around to looking at this again, and found that my BIOS also had some weird parallel port modes (ECP & EPP); I changed it to 'normal'. Don't know if that was causing problems, but it probably wasn't helping. And it works fine as 'normal' under Win95. After booting Debian, in dmesg I get: geldar:~# dmesg | grep parport parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [SPP,PS2] parport_probe: succeeded parport0: Printer, Canon BJC-1000 lp0: using parport0 (polling). However, there is no /proc/parport directory! After some confusion, and random 'modprobe'-ing, and many restarts of lpd, I figure it out. Printing does not work until a) I issue a 'modprobe lp', after which the /proc/parport/0/ directory appears and looks fine; b) I tell parport to use IRQ 7 for the printer, via 'echo 7 > /proc/parport/0/irq'. However, once I do that, it seems to print ok; the output of 'lptest' is currently using up all my ink; magicfilter seems to PostScript-ize it to 2 side-by-side pages per physical page, but that is all for the best. So to make this occur at every boot, I put 'options parport_pc io=0x378 irq=7' into '/etc/modutils/arch/i386', and the line 'lp' in '/etc/modules'. Is this correct? Woohoo! I finally got printing working under linux! Something that I never managed while using RedHat, I must say. 'update-modules' rocks! And so does the debian-users list, you guys are great! =wl -- Albert ``Willy'' Lee, Emacs user, game programmer "They call me CRAZY - just because I DARE to DREAM of a RACE of SUPERHUMAN MONSTERS!"
Re: Problem with gdm and XF401 in /usr/XF40/
Francois Fayard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: FF> I have compiled XF 4.0.1 in /usr/XF40 (I don't want XF 4.0.1 from Woody FF> because I run Potato). But now Gdm doesn't start the X server at boot time FF> and I don't know where I have to configure this special installation. FF> FF> I have put the new Xfree PATH in /etc/profile and /root/.profile. FF> Do I have to add it elsewhere ? Two separate issues: (1) /etc/profile and /root/.profile only get read when (users, root) logs in. I don't think they affect random things that happen to get run. (2) Most things that start X servers list out an explicit path to the X server (e.g. /usr/bin/X11/XF86_SVGA). -- David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mit.edu/~dmaze/ "Theoretical politics is interesting. Politicking should be illegal." -- Abra Mitchell
Re: sound card and ethernet card configuration
On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 09:26:38PM -0500, Bob Edwards wrote: > Greetings, > > (1) my sound card is a creative soundblaster PCI 128, how do I configure > it for debian ? opensource.creative.com should have something on it. > (2) have a 3 Comm Fast Etherlink XL 10/100 ethernet card which is not > one of the choices in modconf, how can I configure my ethernet card ? Try either the ne2k-pci.o or tulip.o drivers. I have a 3Com Fast Ethernet PCI card, and it takes the tulip driver. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount of nerd-like effort." -Harley Hahn, A Student's Guide to UNIX PGP Public Key: http://www.storm.ca/~msoulier/personal.html
Re: Adding hdparm at boot time
"serge" == serge delorme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The place to put your own boot-up scripts is /etc/rc.boot. Hm. But the man page for rc.boot says that it is obsolete, and that you should use the /etc/rcS.d directory instead? However, it does say that /etc/rc.boot is scanned for backward compatibility. =wl -- Albert ``Willy'' Lee, Emacs user, game programmer "They call me CRAZY - just because I DARE to DREAM of a RACE of SUPERHUMAN MONSTERS!"
sound card and ethernet card configuration
Greetings, (1) my sound card is a creative soundblaster PCI 128, how do I configure it for debian ? (2) have a 3 Comm Fast Etherlink XL 10/100 ethernet card which is not one of the choices in modconf, how can I configure my ethernet card ? I know it works with debian, because when I tried corel linux (which is based on debian) the linux guy at the place I bought my computer had it working with my DSL. Thanks in advance, Regards, Bob Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fayetteville, Arkansas
Re: Problems with a bash script and cron
Sounds like a path problem to me! Lars Bjarby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : Hi! : This question isn't really Debian specific, but as I use Debian I thought : this was a good forum. I've got this small bash script that works perfectly : when I run it from the shell, but it won't work when I try to run it : through cron and I don't get any error messages from the cron daemon either : (maybe I'm looking in the wrong places). : The script below downloads the specified URL and generates and MD5 sum for : the HTML source. If this is the first time the script is run it saves the : MD5 sum in a file otherwise the MD5 sum is checked against the old one. If : they differ, the script will send an e-mail to me. : (yes, I know this script really isn't useful for slashdot as the page is : different every time...but it's good for debuging) : --8<--8<--8<--8<--8<--8<-- : #!/bin/bash : EMAIL="[EMAIL PROTECTED]" : MD5FILE="/home/laban/tmp/chkwww.md5" : URL="http://www.slashdot.org"; : DATE=`date +"%Y-%m-%d %H:%M"` : SUBJECT="Update - $DATE" : LOG="FALSE" : LOGFILE="/home/laban/tmp/chkwww.log" : ### : if [ "$LOG" = "TRUE" ]; then echo -e "$DATE\t$0\tChecking for : updates..." >>$LOGFILE; fi : MD5SUM_NOW=`lynx --source $URL | md5sum` : if [ ! -e $MD5FILE ]; then : echo $MD5SUM_NOW > $MD5FILE : exit : fi : MD5SUM_DISK=`head -1 $MD5FILE` : echo $MD5SUM_NOW > $MD5FILE : if [ $MD5SUM_NOW != $MD5SUM_DISK ]; then : echo "$URL has been updated." | mail -s "$SUBJECT" $EMAIL : if [ "$LOG" = "TRUE" ]; then echo -e "$DATE\t$0\tPage updated, : notification sent to $EMAIL." >>$LOGFILE; fi : else : if [ "$LOG" = "TRUE" ]; then echo -e "$DATE\t$0\tPage not : updated." >>$LOGFILE; fi : fi : if [ "$LOG" = "TRUE" ]; then echo -e "$DATE\t$0\tExiting..." >>$LOGFILE; fi : --8<--8<--8<--8<--8<--8<-- : My crontab looks like this: : 0,15,30,45 * * * /home/laban/bin/chkwww : Any ideas? : .//Laban - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Public PGP-key available : -- : Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- *** Running Debian Linux *** * For God so loved the world that He gave his only begotten Son, * * that whoever believes in Him should not perish...John 3:16 * * W. Paul Mills * Topeka, Kansas, U.S.A. * * EMAIL= [EMAIL PROTECTED] * WWW= http://Mills-USA.com/ * * Bill, I was there several years ago, why would I want to go back? * * pgp public key on keyservers everywhere? */ --
Re: Blackbox menu trouble
Thanks. That got me on the right track. I intalled 'menu' and ran update-menus. That got wmaker displaying the proper menus. But Blackbox still didn't display them. For some reason, I had to start up wmaker on an X session and then switch over to Blackbox. Now I can startup with Blackbox and it displays the right menus. Jeremiah Matthew Sherborne wrote: try typing update-menus at the command prompt as root. Matthew Sherborne
Re: Gimp
I think part of your problem is that you're mixing gimp1.0 and gimp1.1 parts. Here is some console output from my machine --> sean:~$ dpkg -S gimptool gimp1.1: /usr/share/gimp/1.1/devel-docs/html/libgimp/libgimp-gimptools.html libgimp1.1-dev: /usr/share/man/man1/gimptool.1.gz libgimp1.1-dev: /usr/include/libgimp/gimptools_pdb.h libgimp1.1-dev: /usr/bin/gimptool sean:~$ dpkg -l "*gimp*" | grep ii ii gimp-data-extras 1.1.26-helix1 ii gimp1.11.1.26-helix1 ii gimp1.1-nonfree1.1.26-helix1 ii gimp1.1-perl 1.1.26-helix1 ii libgimp1.1 1.1.26-helix1 ii libgimp1.1-dev 1.1.26-helix1 ii libgimp1.1.24 1.1.24-1 ii sane-gimp1.1 1.0.3-2 sean:~$ according to my info, gimptool lives in libgimp1.1-dev. Which really makes sense considering gimptool is there for adding plugins that didn't come with the program itself. Hope this is enlightening. Sean On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 10:57:52PM +0200, Olivier Billet wrote: > It's not exactly the same problem but I can't find the gimptool. > I have installed > > gimp1.1 > gimp-perl > gimp-nonfree > > and the inplied packages; gimp work well. > but I can't figure out where is the gimptool. I tried on the command line > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
Problem with gdm and XF401 in /usr/XF40/
Hi, I have compiled XF 4.0.1 in /usr/XF40 (I don't want XF 4.0.1 from Woody because I run Potato). But now Gdm doesn't start the X server at boot time and I don't know where I have to configure this special installation. I have put the new Xfree PATH in /etc/profile and /root/.profile. Do I have to add it elsewhere ? Thanks for your help Francois
Re: sound
On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 12:45:14AM +0200, G.ROBIN wrote: > Bonjour, > lsmod indique que sound , soundlow et soundcore sont chargés. > Si je lance gmix je reçois : Make sure you have sound support > compiled into the kernel. > esd donne toujours /dev/dep : no such device > Comment faire pour que cela marche ? Qu'est-ce que tu as comme carte son ? > Dans quel répertoire faut-il mettre les sources du noyau pour le > recompiler (avec la deb2.2) Comme d'hab : /usr/src/linux Dans /usr/src, fait : tar Ixvf kernel-x.x.x.tar.bz2 puis: ln -s kernel-x.x.x linux Francois
Re: alien and rpm
On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 07:10:51AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Johann Spies wrote: > > I have a Redhat 7 disk and want to make debs of some of the file > > e.g. netscape 7.5. But running alien on those debs results in an > > error message like this one: > > > > only packages with major numbers <= 3 are supported by this version of > > RPM > > query of gdk-pixbuf-0.8.0-0_psheer_1.i386.rpm failed > > > > Would woody's alien and rpm be able to handle these rpm's? > Woody's rpm does. Not sure if this has been discussed yet, but won't alien produce unusable binarys for some packages because of the gcc2.96 and glibc saga in RH7.0? [of course, this is not the cause of this error message] Regards, Mark.
RE: XFree86 4.0.1
> Anyone happen to know what's going on with Branden's package archive? > Err http://samosa.debian.org woody/i386/ xserver-common 4.0.1-0phase2v13 > 404 Not Found I think the url is wrong? Souldn't have spaces... http://samosa.debian.org/woody/i386/xserver-common 4.0.1-0phase2v13 Matthew
Re: network configuration - after install
Hi, You could just use modconf to install the network card module that you need. Jamil On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Hugo van der Merwe wrote: > Hello, > > I am doing another debian install, and was uncertain about the network > card type. I decided to skip that part of the install, hoping to find an > easy way to do it after the basic system is up and running. On a laptop, > pcnetconfig does this job. Is there an easy way to get the networking > configured after a base install? (I'm considering going through the > installation menu again.) > > Thanks, > Hugo van der Merwe > > ps. Is /dev/cdrom created when the module is loaded, or some other time > by some other script? > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > >
XFree86 4.0.1
Anyone happen to know what's going on with Branden's package archive? Package: xserver-common Version: 4.0.1-0phase2v13 Priority: optional Section: x11 Maintainer: Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> apt-get install xserver-common Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done 1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 23 not upgraded. Need to get 87.7kB of archives. After unpacking 758kB will be freed. Err http://samosa.debian.org woody/i386/ xserver-common 4.0.1-0phase2v13 404 Not Found -- Russell Davies
printing works!
Woohoo! Yet another peripheral conquered! Printing works! I installed djtools, and magicfilter's dj690C filter works perfectly on my DJ 812C. I love it when stuff works... Thanks all, Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount of nerd-like effort." -Harley Hahn, A Student's Guide to UNIX PGP Public Key: http://www.storm.ca/~msoulier/personal.html
apt-cache: was:what's djscript?
On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 05:12:13PM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote: > > djscript is in the djtools package. Ok, so why didn't "apt-cache search djscript" turn it up? I thought that apt-cache search would search the contents of every package currently cached. [EMAIL PROTECTED] msoulier]$ apt-cache search djtools djtools - Tools for HP DeskJet printer. That works, but... [EMAIL PROTECTED] msoulier]$ apt-cache search djscript [EMAIL PROTECTED] msoulier]$ ...does not. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount of nerd-like effort." -Harley Hahn, A Student's Guide to UNIX PGP Public Key: http://www.storm.ca/~msoulier/personal.html
Re: Adding hdparm at boot time
The place to put your own boot-up scripts is /etc/rc.boot. On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 07:12:07AM -0700, Willy Lee wrote: > Hi, > > I have been playing around with hdparm, and would like to make some > hdparm settings occur automatically at boot (it's nice to be able to > double disk access speed...). I've been looking around > in the /etc/init.d directory and reading about update-rc.d, and I > found a script called 'bootmisc.sh' which seems like a reasonable > choice. So I was going to put my hdparm settings in there, but I > wanted to ask if there was a "Debian way", commonly used place for > this kind of stuff? > > ta, > > =wl > -- > Albert ``Willy'' Lee, Emacs user, game programmer > "They call me CRAZY - just because I DARE to DREAM of a RACE of > SUPERHUMAN MONSTERS!" > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > -- Serge Delorme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Un autre utilisateur GNU/DEBIAN
Re: what's djscript?
>From the man page for djscript: The tool's purpose is to make better use of the HP DeskJet's text modes. On one hand djscript enables the user to easily choose the different text modes of the DeskJet. On the other hand there are some add-ons supposed to make some if these modes really useful. djscript is in the djtools package. On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 07:02:08PM -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > Ok, so I'm trying to get printing working. I catted a file to /dev/lp0 and > something happened, even though it didn't print the entire thing. So, I tried > lpr. Nothing in the queue, but nothing happened. So, checking /etc/printcap, I > find that the error log is at /var/log/lp-errs. > > lupus:/home/msoulier# cat /var/log/lp-errs > /bin/sh: /usr/bin/djscript: No such file or directory > /etc/magicfilter/dj690c-filter: /usr/bin/djscript -q failed > > What's djscript?? > > lupus:/home/msoulier# apt-cache search djscript > > Nothing. What's it talking about? > > Mike > > -- > Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > "...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount > of nerd-like effort." -Harley Hahn, A Student's Guide to UNIX > PGP Public Key: http://www.storm.ca/~msoulier/personal.html > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- Bob Nielsen, N7XY [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bainbridge Island, WA http://www.oz.net/~nielsen
Voodoo 3 3000 (new)
Hey, I continue to make progress with the curse-ed setup of this blasted video card (Voodoo 3 3000 AGP), but I can't seem to ever quite get it to work. I have installed device3dfx-source, mesag2-v3, and mesa-glide2-dev. I compiled the 3dfx module successfully, and can install it with no problems. The permissions are set correctly on my /dev/3dfx, yet I can't get 'test3Dfx' to work. I've been trying to run it in X (because if I run it in a terminal, it can't access the v3 board), but when I try the test, xterm just locks up. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong, which is quite frustrating. Please, if you now of anything I could do, would you email me? thanks, Cameron Matheson
Re: alien and rpm
Johann Spies wrote: > I have a Redhat 7 disk and want to make debs of some of the file > e.g. netscape 7.5. But running alien on those debs results in an > error message like this one: > > only packages with major numbers <= 3 are supported by this version of > RPM > query of gdk-pixbuf-0.8.0-0_psheer_1.i386.rpm failed > > > Would woody's alien and rpm be able to handle these rpm's? Woody's rpm does. -- see shy jo
Re: port 113
On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 12:51:34AM +0200, Michael Steiner wrote: > Hi to All! > > I block all traffic not realy needed by ipchains. > When fetching email from my isp I logged attempts by the isp-mailserver > with tcp to port 113. > > Can you tell me where to find information about port 113 usage? > (/etc/services I checked, but doesnt give me background information) > Should or shouldn't I block port 113 ? 113 is the port of the auth[entication] (or ident[ity]) service which will give out user information to anyone who asks. Some mail servers try a lookup, but they certainly don't require it to succeed. Same for some IRQ servers. Your options: 1) uninstall 'pidentd' (recommended) 2) block it, but then what's the point of having it installed? 3) restrict it to a few trusted sites using /etc/hosts.allow 4) replace it with something that gives out bogus information Gruesse in den 14. Christian
Re: port 113
On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 12:51:34AM +0200, Michael Steiner wrote: > Hi to All! > > I block all traffic not realy needed by ipchains. > When fetching email from my isp I logged attempts by the isp-mailserver > with tcp to port 113. > > Can you tell me where to find information about port 113 usage? > (/etc/services I checked, but doesnt give me background information) > Should or shouldn't I block port 113 ? its ident, it tells user user owns the outgoing connection, your isp is asking what userid is connecting to thier server basically. this is very commonly used with irc and many (most?) irc servers DEMAND that you answer ident queries. its no good for authentication since the client controls it and and send whatever they want. however if you run a multiuser system it can be useful to YOU since if one of your users is causing problems somewhere and that somewhere made an ident query they can tell you who it was. assuming you know your identd is not lying (you should if you control your system and lusers don't have root) then you know who slap around. probably the only service you will ever get refused access to for not supplying an ident query however is irc. since win* and macos don't have identd they won't ever answer these queries (macos and win* irc clients typically start thier own identd before making an irc connection, then close it down once the connection is made) -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgpYOKtADICqd.pgp Description: PGP signature
what's djscript?
Ok, so I'm trying to get printing working. I catted a file to /dev/lp0 and something happened, even though it didn't print the entire thing. So, I tried lpr. Nothing in the queue, but nothing happened. So, checking /etc/printcap, I find that the error log is at /var/log/lp-errs. lupus:/home/msoulier# cat /var/log/lp-errs /bin/sh: /usr/bin/djscript: No such file or directory /etc/magicfilter/dj690c-filter: /usr/bin/djscript -q failed What's djscript?? lupus:/home/msoulier# apt-cache search djscript Nothing. What's it talking about? Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount of nerd-like effort." -Harley Hahn, A Student's Guide to UNIX PGP Public Key: http://www.storm.ca/~msoulier/personal.html
Re: apt cheating?
Hi Andreas! Andreas Goesele schrieb am Mittwoch, dem 11. Oktober 2000: > Hi, > > The apt-get manual tells us: > > "APT itself does not allow broken > package dependencies to exist on a system." > > But there are cases, where one wants to have a package installed > even if some dependencies are broken. (For instance if the package is > very big and one isn't interested at all in the parts of the package > which are affected by the dependency.) > > So, is there any way to cheat apt, so that it accepts some broken > dependencies - because they are hidden from it? You can cheat the packaging system by installing so called 'equivs' packages. e.g. you have installed gnupg yourself and something depends on gnupg but you do not want to install the Debian package of gnupg, you make yourself an equiv package and voila the system things you have gnupg installed. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-cache show equivs Package: equivs [...] Description: Circumventing Debian package dependencies [...] Install this, read the docs, create and install the right equivs packages and the package system (and apt) should happily install the package you want. yours, peter -- PGP encrypted messages preferred. http://www.cosy.sbg.ac.at/~ppalfrad/ [please CC me on lists]
RE: port 113
Port 113 is the identd port. I have blocked it without any problems. -- Andrew On 10-Oct-2000 Michael Steiner wrote: > Hi to All! > > I block all traffic not realy needed by ipchains. > When fetching email from my isp I logged attempts by the isp-mailserver > with tcp to port 113. > > Can you tell me where to find information about port 113 usage? > (/etc/services I checked, but doesnt give me background information) > Should or shouldn't I block port 113 ? > > Best regards > > Michael Steiner > > -- > Michael Steiner, Minorgasse 35, A-1140 Vienna, Austria > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < > /dev/null >
port 113
Hi to All! I block all traffic not realy needed by ipchains. When fetching email from my isp I logged attempts by the isp-mailserver with tcp to port 113. Can you tell me where to find information about port 113 usage? (/etc/services I checked, but doesnt give me background information) Should or shouldn't I block port 113 ? Best regards Michael Steiner -- Michael Steiner, Minorgasse 35, A-1140 Vienna, Austria
apt cheating?
Hi, The apt-get manual tells us: "APT itself does not allow broken package dependencies to exist on a system." But there are cases, where one wants to have a package installed even if some dependencies are broken. (For instance if the package is very big and one isn't interested at all in the parts of the package which are affected by the dependency.) So, is there any way to cheat apt, so that it accepts some broken dependencies - because they are hidden from it? Any help appreciated. Andreas Goesele
Re: ip tunnel ... mode gre -- encrypted? or not?
On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 11:32:49PM +1100, Damon Muller wrote: > Hi will, > > Quoth will trillich, > > when a linux wonk says > > DEV=mytunnel > > OUTSIDE_HERE=321.1.2.3 > > OUTSIDE_THERE=789.9.8.7 > > ip tunnel add $DEV \ > > local $OUTSIDE_HERE \ > > remote $OUTSIDE_THERE \ > > mode gre > > is the tunnel encrypted? if so, how can i confirm > > that? if not, is there a way to do so? (maybe some > > argument needs to be supplied to insmod?) > > While I know very little about this VPN stuff (except port-forwarding > using ssh, but I've posted everything I know about that here anyway), I > would imagine that the easiest way to see if the traffic is encrypted or > not is to sniff it and see if it's sending cleartext. > > Just use `sniffit -F mytunnel -i'. Telnet across your VPN, and select > that socket in the sniffit interactive window. Type something (like > uname -a) in the telnet session and see if you can see anything > recognisable. > > This isn't very scientific, and I'd personally have a hard time telling > the difference between ROT-13'd and IDEA-encrypted traffic, but if you > can't see any cleartext, then it's probably working. i can't see nothin'. # sniffit -F dave -i Forcing device to dave (user requested)... Make sure you have read the docs carefully. unknown physical layer type 0x30a # ifconfig dave dave Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr D0-21-5A-55-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00 inet addr:192.168.1.1 P-t-P:192.168.0.1 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MTU:1476 Metric:1 RX packets:4300 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:4308 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 when i just # sniffit -i all i see are my existing login/ssh sessions, altho i can still ping 192.168.0.2 (which is past the remote end of the tunnel, which is 192.168.0.1; my end is 192.168.1.1). unfortunately, when running 'sniffit -i' the only options are to check certain ports and certain ip numbers, not specific devices. aaugh! -- things are more like they used to be than they are now. [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** http://www.dontUthink.com/
libdb2 does not contain Java class files?
Hello, Is there a package to install the Java class files for Berkeley DB? There seems to be one for C, C++, Perl, etc., and the Sleepycat site has the files in their source Sean -- The meta-Turing test counts a thing as intelligent if it seeks to devise and apply Turing tests to objects of its own creation. -- Lew Mammel, Jr. Sean C. Rhea | Please do not accept any email from me [EMAIL PROTECTED] | which is not digitally signed. Also, http://www.srhea.net | please sign any email you send to me. pgpqajzwknTGq.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: kernel 2.4.0-test9 and Cisco Pix Firewall - Might be a bug???
At 07:57 10/10/00, David S. Miller wrote: echo "0" >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn Yes, Cisco does know about the bug in their product. .. and has a fix. this is marked as cisco bug id CSCds23698. (see http://www.cisco.com/cgi-bin/Support/Bugtool/onebug.pl?bugid=CSCds23698) Bud ID:CSCds23698 Headline: PIX sends RSET in response to tcp connections with ECN bits set Product: PIX Component: fw Severity: 2Status: R [Resolved] Version Found: 5.1(1) Fixed-in Version: 5.1(2.206) 5.1(2.207) 5.2(1.200) cheers, lincoln. -- Lincoln Dale Content Services Business Unit [EMAIL PROTECTED] cisco Systems, Inc. | | |||| +1 (408) 525-1274 bldg G, 170 West Tasman San Jose CA 95134 ..:||:..:||:..
Re: Books suggestions / ports question
On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 10:19:15PM +0200, Sven Burgener ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Fellow debs, > > o First, can anyone tell me if the book "UNIX Power Tools" is any good? Yes. It is. > It's from O'Reilly. If not, what alternatives are there to it? Any other > book(s) one simply *must* own? :) See below. > Topics: UNIX / Linux / Networking / C Programming > > My current collection comprises "DNS & BIND", "Linux in a Nutshell", > "Learning the Bash shell", "Learning Debian/GNU Linux" (sucky) and > finally "Linux Network Administrator's Guide", all from O'Reilly. Good start. Linux Books mini-FAQ Karsten M. Self Written: Saturday October 7, 2000 Modified: Saturday October 7, 2000 In response to the perennial "read any good books" lately question, vis-a-vis Linux and Unix, I've compiled the following. Prices are approximate. General Linux & getting started guides. Mark G. Sobell, _A Practical Guide to Linux_, Addison-Wesley, © 1997 ISBN 0-201-89549-8, US$40 Matt Welsh and Lar Kaufman, _Running Linux, 3rd Edition_ O'Reilly, © 2000. ISBN 1-56592-151-8, US$30 General Linux/Unix system administration -- more advanced topics. Each of these references is a classic. You don't need all three (though I've got a copy of each), but you'll find within each the distilled wisdom of experienced system administrators. AEleen Frisch, _Essential System Administration : Help for Unix System Administrators_, O'Reilly, © 1996, 788 pages. ISBN 1-56592-127-5. US$35 Evi Nemeth, Garth Snyder, Scott Seebass, Trent R. Hein _UNIX System Administration Handbook_ (Bk\CD ROM), Prentice Hall, © 1995, 780 pages, ISBN: 0-13151-051-7. US$75 M. Carling, Stephen Degler, & James Dennis, _Linux System Administration_, New Riders, © 2000, 337 pages. ISBN 1-56205-934-3. US$30 It was the following two books (actually, the earlier _UNIX in a Nutshell_) which put me "over the hump" in becoming familiar and experienced with Unix and Linux. I still refer frequently to each text when trying to accomplish a complex system task or needing command syntax and examples that the man pages just don't provide. Brief command and system reference: Ellen Siever, Stephen Spainhour, Stephen Figgins, Jessica P. Hekman _Linux in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition_, O'Reilly, © 2000, 650 pages, ISBN 1-56592-167-4. US$35 Shell and tools "cook book": Jerry D. Peek, Tim O'Reilly, Mike Loukides, _UNIX Power Tools, 2nd Edition_, O'Reilly, © 1997, 1120 pages, ISBN: 1-56592-260-3, US$55 You want to reach out and touch someone? The NAG, as it's affectionately known, is available online in electronic format, but you can take the hardcopy to your favorite cafe, the beach, or that most popluar of technical reading environments, the WC. Networking: Olaf Kirch, Terry Dawson, _Linux Network Administrator's Guide_ (2nd Edition), O'Reilly, © 2000, 474 pages, ISBN 1-56592-400-2. US$35 Online: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/linag2/book/index.html ...when you're tired of people reaching out and touching you... Garfinkel and Spafford is a classic, though slightly time-worn. Its emphasis on philosophy over specific toolsets, and a strong vision on the part of the authors makes it a worthwhile read even now. Sonnenreich and Yates have published an excellet guide not just to building a firewall (this Debian GNU/Linux fan highly recommends the OpenBSD route), but some excellent front-matter on contemporary elements and aspects of network security. Be sure to look at the companion website as it contains up-to-date information concerning recent changes to software and distributions, and more advanced firewalling, monitoring, and proactive security tools. Security: Simson Garfinkel, Gene Spafford, _Practical Unix and Internet Security_, O'Reilly, © 1996, 1004 pages, ISBN: 1-56592-148-8 Wes Sonnenreich, Tom Yates, _Building Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls_, John Wiley & Sons, © 2000, 384 pages. ISBN: 0-47135-366-3. US$40 As Richard Stallman says, using vi isn't a sin, it's a pennance. This handy pocket guide will give you (or answer) a prayer. Arnold Robbins, _vi Editor Pocket Reference_, O'Reilly, ISBN 1-56592-497-5, US$6.95 -- Karsten M. Self http://www.netcom.com/~kmself Evangelist, Opensales, Inc.http://www.opensales.org What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/http://www.kuro5hin.org GPG fingerprint: F932 8B25 5FDD 2528 D595 DC61 3847 889F 55F2 B9B0 pgpH6gXlPpMii.pgp Description: PGP signature
RE: Blackbox menu trouble
try typing update-menus at the command prompt as root. Matthew Sherborne
Re: Lilo fatal error: Urgent help needed!
On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 06:26:31PM +0200, Andreas Goesele ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > > I did an apt-get -f update on my Corel-Linux 1.1 (which is based on > Debian). Everything seemed to go well, but than apt ended with the > following error messages: > > Errors were encountered while processing: > lilo > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) > > I than run lilo again resulting in the following error message: > > First boot sector is version 20.0. Expecting version 21.5. > > While my system still runs fine, I assume that I now wouldn't be able > to reboot. As I don't have any idea, what I could do to correct the > problem, I would be very grateful for any help! Check /boot for an old copy of your boot sector. You'll probably want to back up what you've got right now. I like to datestamp these: $ dd if=/dev/hda of=/boot/mbr-2000.10.10 bs=512 count=1 You should *always* be able to boot your system with a boot floppy. There are several flavors of these, including general-purpose rescue disks (including Tom's Root/Boot and a Debian install floppy), a kernel-image disk (kernel on disk), and a boot-record only disk, in which a floppy points to a HD kernel image for booting. I prefer the latter as it's the most flexible and fastest to boot. -- Karsten M. Self http://www.netcom.com/~kmself Evangelist, Opensales, Inc.http://www.opensales.org What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/http://www.kuro5hin.org GPG fingerprint: F932 8B25 5FDD 2528 D595 DC61 3847 889F 55F2 B9B0 pgpeqeieCVv9R.pgp Description: PGP signature
RE: Gimp
Good Idea: Error produced by GIMP at command line. Bug in dynamic linker ld.so: dymanic-link.h: 57: elf_get_dynamic_info: Assertion '!"bad dynamic tag"' failed! -Original Message- From: Martin Fluch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: October 10, 2000 4:53 PM To: Christopher Dryburgh Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Gimp On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Christopher Dryburgh wrote: > Hello > > Just wondering what I have missed. I have tried loading on GIMP and it does > not work. I have checked to see if the required packages are installed and > they are. When I try running Gimp nothing happens. Is there an error log > that I can check somewhere? > > Chris Have you tried to execute gimp at the command line (e.g. xterm) ... any erorr output there? Martin -- If windows is the answer, it must have been a stupid question. For public PGP-key: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Re: Gimp
It's not exactly the same problem but I can't find the gimptool. I have installed gimp1.1 gimp-perl gimp-nonfree and the inplied packages; gimp work well. but I can't figure out where is the gimptool. I tried on the command line
Silly Problem: Unable to access deb-files via CD-ROM
Dear debian-users, I am attempting to install Debian from a set of official potato-CDs. Well, the installation process for the base system was rather painless up to the point when it asked me for configuring 'apt': Choose the method apt should use to access the Debian archive... Of course I entered cdrom, but the installer complained, that it could not find the device (which is actually /dev/hdb in my case). I inserted every single CD with no success, so I finally cancelled apt-configuration. So far I have got Debian installed just with the most basic files from base2_2.tgz - and it _did_ come from CD-ROM. Up to now everything seems properly installed, but what about all the other packages? Could you please tell me how to configure apt correctly? Any kind of hint will be highly appreciated. Cheers, Andeas.
Re: Gimp
On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Christopher Dryburgh wrote: > Hello > > Just wondering what I have missed. I have tried loading on GIMP and it does > not work. I have checked to see if the required packages are installed and > they are. When I try running Gimp nothing happens. Is there an error log > that I can check somewhere? > > Chris Have you tried to execute gimp at the command line (e.g. xterm) ... any erorr output there? Martin -- If windows is the answer, it must have been a stupid question. For public PGP-key: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Books suggestions / ports question
I would add Building Internet Firewall's the 2nd edition to that for sure. Really good book. -- Original Message -- From: Sven Burgener <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 22:19:15 +0200 >Fellow debs, > >o First, can anyone tell me if the book "UNIX Power Tools" is any good? > It's from O'Reilly. If not, what alternatives are there to it? Any other > book(s) one simply *must* own? :) > > Topics: UNIX / Linux / Networking / C Programming > > My current collection comprises "DNS & BIND", "Linux in a Nutshell", > "Learning the Bash shell", "Learning Debian/GNU Linux" (sucky) and > finally "Linux Network Administrator's Guide", all from O'Reilly. > >o Second, where can I find infos on what ports Napster uses. Seems to > work just fine with my current ruleset. I'd like to *know* what's > going on though. :) > >Cheers >Sven >-- >I can't be wrong, my modem's got error-correction. > > >-- >Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > >
Gimp
Hello Just wondering what I have missed. I have tried loading on GIMP and it does not work. I have checked to see if the required packages are installed and they are. When I try running Gimp nothing happens. Is there an error log that I can check somewhere? Chris
Hisax and ISDN module-problems after dist-upgrade
Hi Debians! I have two problems. Some days ago I inserted the path of the security-fixes into sources.list deb http://security.debian.org/ potato/updates main contrib non-free and did apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade After that my Hisax- and ISDN-Modules are not included at boot-time into the kernel 2.0.36. After reboot I have to insert it by hand with modconf. Second problem is I have to kill gpm before start X. I known there was a discussion about that in the list. So my first problem is more urgent. Ciao! juh -- Weg mit den grünen Bremsklötzen! http://www.sudelbuch.de/2000/2517.html
Re: ipchains configuration in debian 2.2
On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 10:41:58PM -0700, Dwight Johnson wrote: > Where is the appropriate place in debian 2.2 to configure ipchains for a > firewall and IP masquerading? 1) apt-get install ipmasq 2) cd /etc/ipmasq/rules 3) add *.rul to override any *.def -- things are more like they used to be than they are now. [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** http://www.dontUthink.com/
Re: apt-getting from behind a proxy
Hi, All you need to do is set the http_proxy variable to your proxy server e.g. #http_proxy=http://10.0.18.23:8080 #export http_proxy Jamil GIO NZ Holdings Ltd. 09 356 6522 or xtn 8522 This email message and any accompanying attachments may contain information that is confidential and subject to legal privilege. If you are not the intended recipient, do not read, use, disseminate, distribute or copy this message or attachments. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete this message. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender expressly, and with authority, states them to be the views of AMP/GIO. Before opening any attachments, please check them for viruses and defects.
Books suggestions / ports question
Fellow debs, o First, can anyone tell me if the book "UNIX Power Tools" is any good? It's from O'Reilly. If not, what alternatives are there to it? Any other book(s) one simply *must* own? :) Topics: UNIX / Linux / Networking / C Programming My current collection comprises "DNS & BIND", "Linux in a Nutshell", "Learning the Bash shell", "Learning Debian/GNU Linux" (sucky) and finally "Linux Network Administrator's Guide", all from O'Reilly. o Second, where can I find infos on what ports Napster uses. Seems to work just fine with my current ruleset. I'd like to *know* what's going on though. :) Cheers Sven -- I can't be wrong, my modem's got error-correction.
Re: Telling a printer to STOP PRINTING
On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 09:49:57PM -0400, Thomas J. Hamman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Can somebody please tell me how I can tell my printer to STOP? > > My desparate attempt to stop it from printing out the rest of a document > after I specifically told the word processor to print out only the first > page resulted in the current situation the printer is in now: > > It wants to keep "printing" blank pages, over and over and over and over > again. I can't just wait for it to stop, because the piece of shit > can't take paper from the tray by itself anymore without me pushing a > piece of paper in every time. After manually feeding in the same piece > of paper a couple dozen times, hoping the printer would get sick of it > before me (yeah, right), I'd really like to know how to just tell it to > please, please stop. > > I've tried turning it off and back on, pulling the plug and then > plugging it back in, getting rid of the original queue (which is what > probably got it printing blank pages instead of the rest of the document > in the first place), and restarting the printer daemon, to no avail. > > It's an HP DeskJet 672C, if that helps (it sure as hell hasn't helped > ME... piece of crap.) First, I'd strongly recommend getting a low-to-mid-end laser printer. DeskJet is slow crap in general -- I've got one. There are a series of control commands which can be keyed directly into some HPs through the control buttons. In my case, HP 870Cse, various sequences of keypresses have different functions. One of these, IIRC, will clear the print buffer. You should refer to documentation (in my case it *doesn't* specify these sequences), the manufacturer's website (I believe I found these there), or elsewhere on the web for info. Printing is actually a complex issue of: o The application producing initial print commands. o The local system print spool o The network print spool (if any) o The printer print buffer ...you've got to clear out all of these to kill a job. -- Karsten M. Self http://www.netcom.com/~kmself Evangelist, Opensales, Inc.http://www.opensales.org What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/http://www.kuro5hin.org GPG fingerprint: F932 8B25 5FDD 2528 D595 DC61 3847 889F 55F2 B9B0 pgpK17gQg0oQX.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: staroffice
On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 06:23:44AM -0400, Randy Edwards ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I downloaded the Staroffice binaries (10 files with an extension of .bin) > > from the Sun site and realized I have no idea how to install them > >*.bin files are binary files, i.e. programs. This isn't a generally reliabile assumption. It's better to explicitly test a file's true Buddha nature with the "file" utility. StarOffice's installation is badly fscked in a number of ways. I'm not saying the current issue is one of them (someone IMO needs to RTFM), but the program stands for considerable improvement. -- Karsten M. Self http://www.netcom.com/~kmself Evangelist, Opensales, Inc.http://www.opensales.org What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/http://www.kuro5hin.org GPG fingerprint: F932 8B25 5FDD 2528 D595 DC61 3847 889F 55F2 B9B0 pgpbHV9lKFWJl.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: how can I add disk space?
Given your current Linux literacy, I would recommend you don't. Unless you're willing to post output (third request), I'm unable and unwilling to provide further assistance. On Fri, Oct 06, 2000 at 04:20:19PM +0200, Markus Stahl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Yes, I have transfered the old /home tree to the new drive. I just > didn't write it, because I thought it would be unnecessary. My > problem is, I want to combine the capacity of both HDs. Because > when I just mount the new drive to one point (in my case at /home), > every data written in this directory will just be saved on the new > drive. But I want to use also the capacity of the other disk (at this > mountpoint), too. Just how? > > > From: kmself@ix.netcom.com > Date sent:Thu, 5 Oct 2000 09:15:23 -0700 > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: how can I add disk space? > Forwarded by: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > > > > --nOM8ykUjac0mNN89 > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > Content-Disposition: inline > > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > > > On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 04:45:46PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL > > PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > Hello! > > >=20 > > > I've got a samba-file-server whichs disk resources are getting very=20 > > > low, so I have to add new disk space. > > > I've already tried to install a new HD and mounted it into /home=20 > > > (where all my samba datas are being saved). But the problem is=20 > > > now all datas are only written on the new HD instead of useing the=20 > > > disk space of both HDs. > > > There must be a way to use both HDs' disk space, isn't there one? > > > > Post output from: > > > >$ df > >$ mount > >$ cat /etc/fstab > > > > Unless you've combined multiple hard drives in some fashion (RAID, > > striping, mirroring, LVM), a given file is written to only one location. > > > > Did you transfer your old /home tree to the new drive? > > > > What are you hoping to accomplish? > > > > --=20 > > Karsten M. Self http://www.netcom.com/~kmself > > Evangelist, Opensales, Inc.http://www.opensales.org > > What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal > >http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/http://www.kuro5hin.org > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- Karsten M. Self http://www.netcom.com/~kmself Evangelist, Opensales, Inc.http://www.opensales.org What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/http://www.kuro5hin.org GPG fingerprint: F932 8B25 5FDD 2528 D595 DC61 3847 889F 55F2 B9B0 pgpl4M7gRzoYI.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Writing scripts and online support
* "JP" == JP Sartre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: JP> Anyhow, I want to learn how to do basic scripts to perform tasks, JP> as well as getting to learn cron and similar daemons.. aside from JP> going out and buying a few perl books (which I intend to someday) JP> are there any good online sources for basic script writing? Not for you, but for any german speaking readers who might read this message: http://www.koehntopp.de/kris/artikel/unix/shellprogrammierung/ JP> For instance, I would like to rename some wav files to 01.wav, JP> 02.wav etc. and renaming 01-A_Wav.wav and 02-Another_Wav.wav to JP> 01.wav and 02.wav seems tedious. I know a simple script file could JP> do this. mmv "[0-9][0-9]_*.wav" "#1#2.wav" package mmv. Ciao, Martin
Re: kernel 2.4.0-test9 and Cisco Pix Firewall - Might be a bug???
FAQ, echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn -d Fabio Massimo Di Nitto wrote: > Hi all, > I finished a fresh debian installation (woody) with kernel 2.4.0-test9 > (tested > in various configurations) and 2.2.17 + pcmcia (latest release) > > All the installation is on a laptop with pcmcia support enable for my 2 > eth's. > > The situation of my network is like this: > > box eth0 ---> Cisco Pix Firewall ---> real internet > box eth1 ---> real internet > > my normal configuration is with eth1 down so all packets have to > "travel" trough > the Pix. > > With kernel 2.2.17 everything work fine. > Using kernel 2.4.0-test9 no. > > I disabled each kind of iptables or ipchains in a way that my box is > fully "open". > > I got that all connections to the localnet are ok while all tcp > connections from my > box to the real internet don't work. I receive a "Connection Refused" > while i'm able > to perform ping or traceroute to the same host. > > So I setuped my eth1 directly on the real internet and everything worked > fine. > > (also routing was ok in all conditions) > > Any idea why there's problem??? > > Fabio > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ -- "There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents", Thomas Jefferson [1742-1826], 3rd US President
Re: apt stat problem continues
On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, William Jensen wrote: > As reported yesterday apt-get update produces errors at the end. Can anyone > tell me and the other people experiencing this what the problem is and how > we could fix it, or who we should inform if this isn't a user fixable problem. > Apt-cache search produces the same problem. For reference, I'm on a standard > potato install with vim and iptables from woody. I have never seen or heard of this prior to your posting.. Do the files it mentions exist? It may be that you are behind some kind of horrible transparent http proxy which is doing something strange, try using ftp instead of http, if that works we can perhaps debug the http method and see what is up there. Jason
Re: Conflicts make APT useless
On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Thomas Halahan wrote: > > I have upgraded glibc to 2.1.94-3. During this process I have had > the same problems as many. i.e. > > * libdb.so.3 not found > * ldconfig disappears > > But now my apt (dselsct and gnome-apt) shows many unsolved > dependencies which become very confusing and difficult to solve. > Most notable is the requirement of libdb2 by many packages. However > libdb2 conflicts with my libc6, so there is nothing I can do. > How do I persuade my apt programs to work again, as I am fed up of > downloading individual packages that turn out to have > interdependencies that are too difficult to solve with dpkg? Er generally you just do as it says, apt-get -f install and it will magically figure it out, unless things have become so tangled that a solution is not apparent [this is really rare though]. In that case you must add packages to install by hand after the 'install' until things are better. Sounds to me like you just need to install libc6 and libdb2. Jason
Re: PS/2 mouse
Check /etc/gpm.conf, mine is: # /etc/gpm.conf - configuration file for gpm(1) # # If mouse response seems to be to slow, try using # responsiveness=15. append can contain any random arguments to be # appended to the commandline. # # If you edit this file by hand, please be aware it is sourced by # /etc/init.d/gpm and thus all shell meta characters must be # protected from evaluation (i.e. by quoting them). # # This file is used by /etc/init.d/gpm and can be modified by # /usr/sbin/gpmconfig. # device=/dev/psaux responsiveness= repeat_type=raw type=ps2 append="-l \"a-zA-Z0-9_.:~/\300-\326\330-\366\370-\377\"" Debian default was repeat_type=ms3 Without above change, X needs to be set to serial MS 3 button mouse. Good luck. Osamu On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 08:07:41AM -0500, Cavaiani, Don wrote: > Greetings, > > I had Debian Linux up an running just fine - until I removed the serial > mouse and replaced it with a PS/2 mouse. Actually, I was playing with the > modem COM and IRQ settings too. > > Now, the PS/2 mouse works fine when I boot into WIN98, but freezes when I > boot into the Linux x-window (Using GNOME). The modem dials out OK from > linux but when I switch back to the x-window session, it freezes up and > there is no mouse recognized. It there a trick to setting up a PS/2 mouse > after I originally had the serial mouse configured? > > Thanks, > Don > > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > > -- + Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG-key: 1024D/D5DE453D + + Fingerprint: 814E BD64 3288 40E7 E88E 3D92 C3F8 EA94 D5DE 453D + + === http://www.aokiconsulting.com === Cupertino, CA USA === +
Re: AW: some general (samba) questions
Sorry - I should have said... the line must contain NO PASSWORDXX <-- and there must be 21 Xs after, then the second lot of Xs there must be 32. At 03:57 PM 10/10/00 +0200, you wrote: I did as you told me, but it doesn't work. The user's line also doesn't have the X... part, but just any other types. Do I have to delete the user and recreate him to get him work with an empty password? -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von:C. Falconer [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet am:Freitag, 6. Oktober 2000 23:03 An: Christian Schoenebeck Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Betreff:Re: some general (samba) questions At 06:23 PM 10/6/00 +0200, you wrote: >I've got some questions. Hope that somebody can help me with that. >Is it possible to create a samba-user with an empty password? Because if I >try so with smbpasswd the program denies the change. Edit /etc/samba/smbpasswd and change the user's line from bob:3000:::[U ]:LCT-363F96AD: to bob:3000:NO PASSWORDX::[U ]:LCT-363F96AD: -- Criggie
apt stat problem continues
As reported yesterday apt-get update produces errors at the end. Can anyone tell me and the other people experiencing this what the problem is and how we could fix it, or who we should inform if this isn't a user fixable problem. Apt-cache search produces the same problem. For reference, I'm on a standard potato install with vim and iptables from woody. stimpy:/home/jensenb# apt-get update Hit http://security.debian.org stable/updates/main Packages Hit http://non-us.debian.org stable/non-US/main Packages Hit http://http.us.debian.org stable/main Packages Hit http://security.debian.org stable/updates/main Release Hit http://security.debian.org stable/updates/contrib Packages Hit http://security.debian.org stable/updates/contrib Release Hit http://security.debian.org stable/updates/non-free Packages Hit http://security.debian.org stable/updates/non-free Release Hit http://non-us.debian.org stable/non-US/main Release Hit http://http.us.debian.org stable/main Release Hit http://non-us.debian.org stable/non-US/contrib Packages Hit http://http.us.debian.org stable/contrib Packages Hit http://non-us.debian.org stable/non-US/contrib Release Hit http://http.us.debian.org stable/contrib Release Hit http://non-us.debian.org stable/non-US/non-free Packages Hit http://http.us.debian.org stable/non-free Packages Hit http://http.us.debian.org stable/non-free Release Hit http://non-us.debian.org stable/non-US/non-free Release Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done W: Couldn't stat source package list 'http://http.us.debian.org stable/contrib Packages' (/var/state/apt/lists/http.us.debian.org_debian_dists_stable_contrib_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) W: Couldn't stat source package list 'http://non-us.debian.org stable/non-US/contrib Packages' (/var/state/apt/lists/non-us.debian.org_debian-non-US_dists_stable_non-US_contrib_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) W: Couldn't stat source package list 'http://security.debian.org stable/updates/main Packages' (/var/state/apt/lists/security.debian.org_dists_stable_updates_main_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these missing files
AW: some general (samba) questions
I did as you told me, but it doesn't work. The user's line also doesn't have the X... part, but just any other types. Do I have to delete the user and recreate him to get him work with an empty password? -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von:C. Falconer [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet am:Freitag, 6. Oktober 2000 23:03 An: Christian Schoenebeck Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Betreff:Re: some general (samba) questions At 06:23 PM 10/6/00 +0200, you wrote: >I've got some questions. Hope that somebody can help me with that. >Is it possible to create a samba-user with an empty password? Because if I >try so with smbpasswd the program denies the change. Edit /etc/samba/smbpasswd and change the user's line from bob:3000:::[U ]:LCT-363F96AD: to bob:3000:NO PASSWORDX::[U ]:LCT-363F96AD:
Writing scripts and online support
Hi all.. this isn't debian specific, but I'll ask this of you because only smart people use debian.. right? :) Anyhow, I want to learn how to do basic scripts to perform tasks, as well as getting to learn cron and similar daemons.. aside from going out and buying a few perl books (which I intend to someday) are there any good online sources for basic script writing? I ask this because I need to write basic scripts for renaming a number of files and to perform tasks which I will be going often.. For instance, I would like to rename some wav files to 01.wav, 02.wav etc. and renaming 01-A_Wav.wav and 02-Another_Wav.wav to 01.wav and 02.wav seems tedious. I know a simple script file could do this. Anyhow, I know there must be a decent resource list for script writing, and am curious what people suggest are the best places to look. Thanks guys! JP
Re: Conflicts make APT useless
Thomas Halahan wrote: > > Hello, > > Thanks for your promt reply. Much appreciated. I didn't quite > understand this: > > > I fixed this with a link to a libdb?.so in /lib via /lib/libdb.so.3, > > and after that, the upgrade to a new libdb worked. > > Do I just install libdb and manually link libdb2.so.3 back to the new > libc6.so. Is this right? The perl script for dpkg --preconfigure (called by dselect) bombed because libdb.so.3 was missing, due to a less-than-perfectly- organized package, I'm sure. I could start up dselect, but couldn't do anything, IIRC. So I symlinked the missing lib to a lib of a similar name, and finished my upgrade, which included, IIRC, libdb2.so.3 . I had to do this linking _before_ I could install the new libdb, or anything, for that matter. I'm sure my method is cheating, and may be considered heretical and/or dangerous, but it worked. > > LISTING-- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] tom]$ ls /lib/libdb* -l > -rw-r--r--... /lib/libdb-2.1.94.so > lrwxrwxrwx... /lib/libdb.so.2 -> libdb1-2.1.94.so > lrwxrwxrwx... /lib/libdb.so.3 -> libdb-2.1.94.so ^^ I don't remember that specific "-2.1.94.", but this is in the nature of what I did. I see '-2.1.94.' on the Debian/sparc host, which is my desktop, FWIW. > -rw-r--r--... /lib/libdb1-2.1.94.so > lrwxrwxrwx... /lib/libdb1.so.2 -> libdb1-2.1.94.so > > > Thomas Halahan wrote: > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > I have upgraded glibc to 2.1.94-3. During this process I have had > > > the same problems as many. i.e. > > > > > > * libdb.so.3 not found... -- Bolan Timothy Lewis Meek Unix Systems Administrator Romac/Sarcom/MCI-WorldCom: 972-729-5387 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Flying M Ranch: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Can't insert ISDN module
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > The problem occurs already when inserting the isdn.o module: > > matrix:/home/og# modprobe isdn > /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/isdn.o: init_module: Device or resource > busy Are you using a precompiled Debian kernel? I think it has builtin ISDN support, which causes a »busy« message when inserting the module. HTH, Fx -- Who do you think you are today?
Re: Simulating a mouse
Colin, If cleaning improved the side to side action of the mouse and you can move the mouse down much easier than up then you probably have the same problem that I had. There is a roller that is held in place by a small spring and that spring is weak. When moving the mouse down, normal pressure pushes the ball against the roller. When moving the mouse up, however, the ball is pulled away from the roller. The spring forces the roller back toward the ball. If the spring has weakened then it can't do it's job. I solved my problem by purchasing an $8 mouse. No problems any more. HTH Marc Shapiro -- > >On Sun, Oct 08, 2000 at 10:43:13PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > >> Does anybody know if I can install a "mouse" driver that really takes > >> its input from hotkeys on the keyboard? That is, a keyboard-driven > >> mouse. I've checked my window manager documentation, just in case, but I > >> didn't really expect it to be able to move the mouse around, as it's the > >> wrong level. If anybody knows of such a thing, I'd be grateful to hear > >> about it. > I mostly use X for loads of vertically maximized xterms (using Alt-F12 > in my window manager configuration) and some variety of graphical web > browser anyway. :) I do tend to use the keyboard a lot. The most > immediate problem was that I couldn't move the mouse up to get to > Netscape's menus ... (I'm sure there's a Netscape.ad workaround for > that, but it's not my preferred solution.)
Re: apt-getting from behind a proxy
On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, maarten wrote: > Hi, > I'm fairly new at Debian, and GNU/Linux in general, so please: no flaming ;) > > I've got a winmodem (oh, the agony), and two computers forming a network. > The computer with the modem has a windows installation access to the > Internet. It's also got this neat little program called AnalogX Proxy, which > isn't really a proxy, but acts like one. > This allows me to surf on two computers at once, at least if both of them are > on Windows. > > The problem is: I want to upgrade my Slink&a-half version of Debian to Woody, > using apt-get. But I don't know how to make apt-get use my proxy-computer. > (Does this make any sence at all?) > > The networkcard is working OK under Debian, I can ping the other comp. but > pinging anything outside the network is 100% failure. > Does anyone know what to do? > You can use apt through an http proxy by setting an environment variable as follows: http_proxy="http://proxy.external.company.com:80/"; I forget where this is documented, but it is, and it works for me.
Re: sawfish not working
On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 12:54:27AM -0500, Pat Mahoney wrote: > sawfish fails with this message (when run from an rxvt): > > *** Error: no such font, -b&h-lucida-bold-r-normal-*-*-100-*-*-p-*-iso8859-1 > > When I run it --no-rc, it starts, but anything that would bring up a menu > doesn't work. > > Where is this font? Is it a bug in sawfish, or xfont-whatever? I have the > latest unstable helix version of sawish and xfonts-75dpi. No, using > xfonts-100dpi doesnt change anything. Actually, installing xfonts-100dpi makes sawfish start, but menus still don't work. [snip] -- Pat Mahoney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> But maybe good is more than the absence of bad. -- Hobbes in "Calvin and Hobbes" by Bill Watterson
crash - human stupidity - no netscape, no mozilla
Hi, First a crash and then some human stupidity caused me to loose my / partition. I just installed a fresh debian woody and almost everything (X, networking, ...) works. I cannot get netscape and mozilla to work. *** Attempt 1, use the installation in /usr/local/ When I type netscape I get: netscape: can't load library 'libXpm.so.4' This is a netscape 4.73 I installed in /usr/local/netscape. To my understanding the libXpm.so.4 is in xpm4g, which I have installed. Furthermore ls -l /usr/X11R6/lib/libXpm* gives esentially: -rw-r--r-- 79760 Nov 6 1999 /usr/X11R6/lib/libXpm.a lrwxrwxrwx 14 Oct 10 20:01 /usr/X11R6/lib/libXpm.so -> libXpm.so.4.11 lrwxrwxrwx 14 Oct 10 18:39 /usr/X11R6/lib/libXpm.so.4 -> libXpm.so.4.11 -rw-r--r-- 52444 Nov 6 1999 /usr/X11R6/lib/libXpm.so.4.11 Al files are owned by root. *** Attempt 2, try to use package netscape4 When I use dselect and select netscape4, the response is: netscape4 depends on libg++272 (>= 2.7.2.8) libg++272 does not appear to be available I do have libg++2.8.1.3 installed, but that does not seem to help. I aborted this attempt. *** Attempt 3, use mozilla I installed the debian mozilla package without problems (apart from a mozilla-mailnews recommendation which was not available). When I type mozilla, I get: Starting Mozilla Could not obtain CmdLine processing service Help! Now I really don't know what to do. Any suggestions. Some random info: % uname -a Linux spec 2.2.12 #3 SMP Tue Oct 10 18:29:35 CEST 2000 i686 unknown I'm running the latest debian woody. regards, Richard -- Security might make sense with banks and military facilities, but in a computer lab, that is a sign of a social breakdown.
Re: Problems with a bash script and cron
Try replacing your script (call it script.sh) with another script which does a sh -x script.sh 2>&1 | logger In my case problems like yours come from using commands which aren't in the path. -chris
Eterm key sequences after potato -> woody
Hi, I just updated from potato to woody with the CD-Images from ftp.kandu.hu (date 00-10-08). No problems till now, but some new behaviours of some programs: (1) vim does not find it's syntax file (maybe already a fixed bug) (2) How can I change the behaviour of the Home and End key in Eterm? It prints only a ~ and does no more jump to the beginnig or end of line. (maybe I missed a manual, but which?) It is Eterm 0.9 btw. Ok. And I would say, the dist-upgrade went well without any problems! Cool. -- + mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] + http://www.tu-ilmenau.de/~bond/
Re: Conflicts make APT useless
Hello, Thanks for your promt reply. Much appreciated. I didn't quite understand this: > I fixed this with a link to a libdb?.so in /lib via /lib/libdb.so.3, > and after that, the upgrade to a new libdb worked. Do I just install libdb and manually link libdb2.so.3 back to the new libc6.so. Is this right? LISTING-- [EMAIL PROTECTED] tom]$ ls /lib/libdb* -l -rw-r--r--1 root root 237708 Sep 30 05:52 /lib/libdb-2.1.94.so lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 16 Oct 4 15:06 /lib/libdb.so.2 -> libdb1-2.1.94.so lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 15 Oct 4 15:06 /lib/libdb.so.3 -> libdb-2.1.94.so -rw-r--r--1 root root50876 Sep 30 05:52 /lib/libdb1-2.1.94.so lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 16 Oct 4 15:06 /lib/libdb1.so.2 -> libdb1-2.1.94.so > Thomas Halahan wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I have upgraded glibc to 2.1.94-3. During this process I have had > > the same problems as many. i.e. > > > > * libdb.so.3 not found > > * ldconfig disappears > > > > But now my apt (dselsct and gnome-apt) shows many unsolved > > dependencies which become very confusing and difficult to solve. > > Most notable is the requirement of libdb2 by many packages. However > > libdb2 conflicts with my libc6, so there is nothing I can do. > > > > How do I persuade my apt programs to work again, as I am fed up of > > downloading individual packages that turn out to have > > interdependencies that are too difficult to solve with dpkg?
Re: Debian pre-installed system
Kevin Krafthefer wrote: > Does anyone know a computer manufacture that sells machines with Debian > installed on them? I think that http://emperorlinux.com/ will do that for you.
Lilo fatal error: Urgent help needed!
Hi, I did an apt-get -f update on my Corel-Linux 1.1 (which is based on Debian). Everything seemed to go well, but than apt ended with the following error messages: Errors were encountered while processing: lilo E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) I than run lilo again resulting in the following error message: First boot sector is version 20.0. Expecting version 21.5. While my system still runs fine, I assume that I now wouldn't be able to reboot. As I don't have any idea, what I could do to correct the problem, I would be very grateful for any help! Andreas Goesele
Re: AW: Defrag in Win2000 no good for FIPS
I just checked execsoft.com and 'Diskeeper 5.0' which they claim is the only certified defragmenter for windows 2000 is still available in a trialware version. Its not the same version as 'diskeeper lite' for nt. On Tue, 10 Oct 2000 17:06:34 +0200, Reinemuth, Jens said: > ok, diskeeper is free for nt4, not for 2000 (at least there is no diskeeper > lite for 2000...) and the nt-version isn't even instlling on 2000... > > but what about speeddisk2000 from norton or the good old oo-defrag?? > > they are found on > www.norton.com > and > www.oo-software.de > > > --- > > > I used a program called 'Diskeeper ' Defrag which was > able to remove those end of drive directories from Win. > Its commercial software but it was available on a free 30 > day evaluation trial (don't know if it still is) from execsoft.com. > > > On Tue, 10 Oct 2000 15:16:09 +1300, Matthew Sherborne said: > > > Does anyone know of a good defrag program for plain DOS or Win2000 that > > won't leave directory entries at the end of the drive ? > > > > I want to install Debian to share a Win2000 computer but, I can't defrag > the > > drive to shift everything to the front. > > > > Matthew Sherborne > -- gEEk||dOOd^Deb+ian&&XFce$everything goes(-_-)
Conflicts make APT useless
Hi, I have upgraded glibc to 2.1.94-3. During this process I have had the same problems as many. i.e. * libdb.so.3 not found * ldconfig disappears But now my apt (dselsct and gnome-apt) shows many unsolved dependencies which become very confusing and difficult to solve. Most notable is the requirement of libdb2 by many packages. However libdb2 conflicts with my libc6, so there is nothing I can do. How do I persuade my apt programs to work again, as I am fed up of downloading individual packages that turn out to have interdependencies that are too difficult to solve with dpkg? Tom
RE: Suspicious message when booting debian "potato"
I jsut upgraded the kernel to 2.2.17 and I am seeing the same message. However, everything is working OK. Chris Mason Box 340, The Valley, Anguilla, British West Indies Tel: 264 497 5670 Fax: 264 497 8463 USA Fax (561) 382-7771 Take a virtual tour of the island http://net.ai/ The Anguilla Guide Find out more about NetConcepts www.netconcepts.ai Talk to me in real time with Instant Messenging: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Francesc Oller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2000 11:29 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Suspicious message when booting debian "potato" Hi all! the following appears when booting: INIT: version 2.78 booting NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0 for Linux NET 4.0. insmod: /lib/modules/2.2.15-ide/misc/unix.o: cannot create /var/log/ksymoops/20001010113248.ksyms. Read only file system Loading /etc/console-tools/default.kmap.gz ... why and how to solve it? regards Francesc Oller -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Re: apt-getting from behind a proxy + IP tunnel
Types: export HTTP_PROXY=windows_machine:8080 On Ter, Out 10, 2000 at 01:31:51 -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: apt-getting from behind a proxy + IP tunnel > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > X-Mailer: Lotus Notes Release 5.0.2c (Intl)8 Fevereiro 2000 > Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 13:31:51 -0300 > X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/111813 > > > I wrote to the list a few days ago, asking if somebody could tell me how to > get a connection to internet thru a windows box, just like Maarten is > asking. Now, I already have my real modem working, but I still think the > question is interesting, an the answer to it is feasible. > Can you IP tunnel to a windows machine? I believe so, but we have to have a > client software at the windows machine. Does it exist? > > > > > > maarten > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]Para: > debian-user@lists.debian.org > ectie.com> cc: > > Assunto: apt-getting from behind > a > 09/10/00 proxy > > 16:47 > > > > > > > > > > Hi, > I'm fairly new at Debian, and GNU/Linux in general, so please: no flaming > ;) > > I've got a winmodem (oh, the agony), and two computers forming a network. > The computer with the modem has a windows installation access to the > Internet. It's also got this neat little program called AnalogX Proxy, > which isn't really a proxy, but acts like one. > This allows me to surf on two computers at once, at least if both of them > are on Windows. > > The problem is: I want to upgrade my Slink&a-half version of Debian to > Woody, using apt-get. But I don't know how to make apt-get use my > proxy-computer. (Does this make any sence at all?) > > The networkcard is working OK under Debian, I can ping the other comp. but > pinging anything outside the network is 100% failure. > Does anyone know what to do? > > My thanks! > > Maarten. > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < > /dev/null > > > > > > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > >
Re: apt-getting from behind a proxy + IP tunnel
I wrote to the list a few days ago, asking if somebody could tell me how to get a connection to internet thru a windows box, just like Maarten is asking. Now, I already have my real modem working, but I still think the question is interesting, an the answer to it is feasible. Can you IP tunnel to a windows machine? I believe so, but we have to have a client software at the windows machine. Does it exist? maarten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]Para: debian-user@lists.debian.org ectie.com> cc: Assunto: apt-getting from behind a 09/10/00 proxy 16:47 Hi, I'm fairly new at Debian, and GNU/Linux in general, so please: no flaming ;) I've got a winmodem (oh, the agony), and two computers forming a network. The computer with the modem has a windows installation access to the Internet. It's also got this neat little program called AnalogX Proxy, which isn't really a proxy, but acts like one. This allows me to surf on two computers at once, at least if both of them are on Windows. The problem is: I want to upgrade my Slink&a-half version of Debian to Woody, using apt-get. But I don't know how to make apt-get use my proxy-computer. (Does this make any sence at all?) The networkcard is working OK under Debian, I can ping the other comp. but pinging anything outside the network is 100% failure. Does anyone know what to do? My thanks! Maarten. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Re: Motif and GTK menu font sizes?
On Mon, 09 Oct 2000 16:14:08 -0400, Samuel Hathaway wrote: > Hello, > > I'm trying to run a bare-bones twm X desktop without dealing with gnome or > kde, but i'm not too familiar with how to tweak my settings. I'm running the > SVGA server at 1024x768 on a 15" monitor. the problem that i'm currently > having is that the font sizes for Motif menu bars (like in netscape) and GTK > interfaces (like in gnome-apt) are too huge. xterm and other "really simple" > X clients are fine. Is there a way to tell Motif or GTK to be smaller, or is > there a global setting that they use? i tried playing with the -dpi switch, > but it didn't make any difference in the font sizes. I had a similar problem. Try removing the xfonts-100dpi package (it seems the dpi value isn't honoured anymore - dunno why). If this doesn't help, you can try tweaking X Resources. The XWindow-User-HOWTO (install doc-linux-text or dox-linux-html) has a good explanation of what's involved. Regards, Bjoern -- Bj"orn Brill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Suspicious message when booting debian "potato"
Hi all! the following appears when booting: INIT: version 2.78 booting NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0 for Linux NET 4.0. insmod: /lib/modules/2.2.15-ide/misc/unix.o: cannot create /var/log/ksymoops/20001010113248.ksyms. Read only file system Loading /etc/console-tools/default.kmap.gz ... why and how to solve it? regards Francesc Oller
Debian pre-installed system
Does anyone know a computer manufacture that sells machines with Debian installed on them?
Re: Defrag in Win2000 no good for FIPS
I used a program called 'Diskeeper ' Defrag which was able to remove those end of drive directories from Win. Its commercial software but it was available on a free 30 day evaluation trial (don't know if it still is) from execsoft.com. On Tue, 10 Oct 2000 15:16:09 +1300, Matthew Sherborne said: > Does anyone know of a good defrag program for plain DOS or Win2000 that > won't leave directory entries at the end of the drive ? > > I want to install Debian to share a Win2000 computer but, I can't defrag the > drive to shift everything to the front. > > Matthew Sherborne > -- gEEk||dOOd^Deb+ian&&XFce$everything goes(-_-)
RE: Defrag in Win2000 no good for FIPS
Norton Speed Disk (part of Norton Utilities and SystemWorks) will fix it nicely in Win9x. You can tell the directories and the swap file to go wherever you want them to be.They don't seem to have anything out for Win2K yet. There are only one or two utilities packages out there for 2K so far, I haven't tried them cos I don't want to shell out $60 (I've been spoilt by open source, hate paying for software!) You could try backing up, reinstalling to a shrunken partition, and restoring - but remove all your passwords first. Don't take my word for it though. My real advice is get a nice big hard drive :-) Tim -Original Message- From: Mike [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 09, 2000 10:53 PM To: debian user Subject:Re: Defrag in Win2000 no good for FIPS Matthew Sherborne wrote: > Does anyone know of a good defrag program for plain DOS or Win2000 that > won't leave directory entries at the end of the drive ? >=20 > I want to install Debian to share a Win2000 computer but, I can't defrag = the > drive to shift everything to the front. One instance where I've heard of files refusing to be moved is from the swap files. As far as I know the way around this is to turn off the swap in Windows, and then try the defrag again.
Re: abiword - new version?
Check www.abisource.com. That's home for abiword. Looks like the latest version is 0.7.11. dar On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Lindsay Allen wrote: > > I'm sure I read about 4-6 weeks ago that a new version of abiword was > being released. But I can't find it. Anyone know the story? > > Running 0.7.10-helix1 here. > > > Lindsay > -- Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain. -- Schiller
Re: Defrag in Win2000 no good for FIPS
"Matthew" == Matthew Sherborne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Does anyone know of a good defrag program for plain DOS or Win2000 > that won't leave directory entries at the end of the drive ? > I want to install Debian to share a Win2000 computer but, I can't > defrag the drive to shift everything to the front. > Matthew Sherborne Yes, the default defragger sucks. Norton Utilities' defragger is very good, and will move _everything_. Just note, that if all of Norton Utilities is installed, it has a program called "disk image" IIRC, which puts a hidden file at the very end of the disk, so you need to turn off that program and delete the hidden file (I can't remember the name, but it was mentioned in the FIPS docs) before running FIPS. =wl -- Albert ``Willy'' Lee, Emacs user, game programmer "They call me CRAZY - just because I DARE to DREAM of a RACE of SUPERHUMAN MONSTERS!"
Re: Link problem
Perfect. Thanks. T. "Eric G . Miller" wrote: > > $ apt-get install atlas2-dev > > You need that *.a file for compilation; even if the program will use > shared libs. > > -- > /bin/sh ~/.signature: > Command not found > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- Timothy H. Keitt Department of Ecology and Evolution State University of New York at Stony Brook Phone: 631-632-1101, FAX: 631-632-7626 http://life.bio.sunysb.edu/ee/keitt/
Adding hdparm at boot time
Hi, I have been playing around with hdparm, and would like to make some hdparm settings occur automatically at boot (it's nice to be able to double disk access speed...). I've been looking around in the /etc/init.d directory and reading about update-rc.d, and I found a script called 'bootmisc.sh' which seems like a reasonable choice. So I was going to put my hdparm settings in there, but I wanted to ask if there was a "Debian way", commonly used place for this kind of stuff? ta, =wl -- Albert ``Willy'' Lee, Emacs user, game programmer "They call me CRAZY - just because I DARE to DREAM of a RACE of SUPERHUMAN MONSTERS!"
Re: Article: Debian's Daunting Installation
Olaf Meeuwissen wrote:
> I wrote directly to the author and told him:
> To which I got the following reply:
>
> | Hi, Olaf
> |
> | Thanks for your note. See my column next week when I share
> | my experiences with the latest "official" version of potato.
> |
> | See ya,
> | Joe Barr
My Debian 2.2 ('potato') CD's arrived yesterday, and as Joe's new article hasn't
appeared yet, I thought I'd give it a quick go, so I know what to expect when I
really
try to install it, in 4 weeks from now.
I found an empty machine at work, with lots of standard hardware, and ran
through the
install by booting from the 1st CD. I knew the answers to all the questions I
knew I
would be asked, having been through this a number of times before.
I noticed the first huge improvement when I chose the 'simple' install, and
selected
just 'X Windowing System (complete)', 'Newbie documentation', and 'gnome
desktop'
tasks. Then - (drum roll) - NO DSELECT! Great! The install then ran to
completion with
just two minor hiccups:
1) When asked (by apt) if I wanted to scan in my other CD's I answered 'yes',
whereupon the install went into an endless loop and refused to continue. Next
time
around I answered 'no' instead, and it ran OK. I guess I could just run
'apt-cdrom
add' at a later stage, to get the other CD's scanned in.
2) When configuring xterm, I was asked for a keyboard, but my Swedish keyboard
was not
listed. The prompt assured me I could just choose 'none' and configure it
later, so I
did that. This seemed a bit strange, considering that the very first list of
options
after booting the CD _did_ list my keyboard.
The next great piece of news: everything configured OK! I tried 'dpkg -C' just
to see
how many errors I had this time, and it was completely silent. I've never seen
this
before in _any_ Debian install, so that was a big step forward.
So my only gripe (from a newbie standpoint) is this: Even though I selected
'gnome
desktop' and 'X Windowing System', they installed OK, and there were no
outstanding
configuration issues... 'startx' still doesn't give me a desktop, as there are
still
some things left to configure by hand. I now need to dig out my O'Reilly books
again,
find out where that XSession file is and edit it. No biggie, but why couldn't
the
install have done this for me?
The 'potato' install is worlds better than any previous version, but you still
need to
be somewhat knowledgeable in Linux before you can get to a world of GUI. There
are
only a few percent missing now before a true newbie, coming from a world of
Windoze,
could actually use install and use Debian out of the box.
So the big question is this: is the Debian team interested in this potentially
huge
user sector or not? With the demise of Win NT, there will soon be no decent OS
available from Murky$oft! Where will people go then? Red Hat? Or should we get
them
using Debian?
--
Best regards,
Peter Hugosson-Miller
"In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in
practice,
there is."
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RE: ODP: Printer configuration on debian
On 10-Oct-2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > did you install an additional package cups-bsd ? > >> -Original Message- >> From: Andre Berger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2000 10:01 AM >> To: Dale Morris >> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]; debian-user@lists.debian.org >> Subject: Re: ODP: Printer configuration on debian >> >> >> Dale Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> >> > How do I configure CUPS? I'm trying to set up my printer with >> > magicfilter. I think there is a permission problem, but I'm >> not sure. >> > Here's where I'm at.. >> > I can print using staroffice. I can't print using lp, I get the >> > following output: lp: error - no default destination available. >> > If I try to print using 'y' in mutt or slrn--doesn't work. >> Slrn returns >> > 'error 1'. >> >> Use lpr, not lp! >> >> > Here's how my /etc/printcap looks: >> > >> > # This file was generated by /usr/sbin/magicfilterconfig. >> > # >> > lp|lp|Epson StylusColor 600:\ >> > :lp=/dev/lp0:sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\ >> > :sh:pw#80:pl#66:px#1440:mx#0:\ >> > :if=/etc/magicfilter/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:\ >> > :af=/var/log/lp-acct:lf=/var/log/lp-errs >> > >> > I also downloadd xpp and it installed the CUPS client and >> server. Yet >> > when I run xpp it tells me it's unable to connect to CUPS >> server, check >> > options. duh.. I'm confused >> > please help >> > >> > thanks >> > >> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >> > > Or use cups with a nice configuration tool. >> > > >> > > Mariusz >> > > >> > > > On 09-Oct-2000 Dwight Johnson wrote: >> > > > > What is the preferred way to configure a PostScript printer >> > > > on debian 2.2? >> > > > > >> > > > >> > > > MagicFilter did fine for mine. >> > > > - >> > > > - Nick - >> > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > > > Your mode of life will be changed for the better because of >> > > > new developments. >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > -- >> > > > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe >> > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >> > > > >> > > >> > > >> > > -- >> > > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > >> > -- >> > >> > "The major advances in civilization are processes that all but wreck >> > the societies in which they occur." >> >--Albert North Whitehead >> > >> > -- >> > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >> >> -- >> Andre Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> from Bonn, Germany >> >> >> -- >> Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >> > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < > /dev/null I just setup my HP deskjet with CUPS from woody. Read /usr/share/doc/cupsys/README.txt.gz All I did was run the lpadmin cmd as root. In your case try: /usr/lib/lpadmin -p StColor -m stcolor.ppd -v parallel:/dev/lp0 -E This sets up the printer on the first parallel port(lp0) uses the EPSON Stylus Color driver which comes with CUPS and gives the printer the name StColor. I also added my normal user account to the lpadmin group which might be a security hole. You can then administer the printer using a browser by: http://localhost:631/ Now I have a question, a stupid one of course. When I use the CUPS web interface the first page is displayed OK as http://localhost:631/. If I click on any of the links then the browser tries to load the page by substituting my hostname(cumulus) for localhost. This workstation is behind a firewall so it doesn't have a true domain. /etc/hosts is: 127.0.0.1 localhost 192.168.1.3 cumulus /etc/hostname is: cumulus 192.168.1.3 is the NIC's static IP. Is the web browser pulling 'cumulus' from /etc/hostname? How do I tell it that 192.168.1.3 and 127.0.0.1 are the same machine? Am I misunderstanding or are *nix hostname really hostnames per IP? scott -- E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 10-Oct-2000 Time: 08:45:49 This message was sent by XFMail --
Re: Moving cdrom for apt-get
Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > Acquire::CDROM::Mount "/mnt/cdrom/"; > > In /etc/apt/apt.conf > i have 2 drives, a dvd and a cdr; can i put more than one acquire rule in apt.conf for cdrom drives? simply copying the line twice and changing the mount point for the second drive doesn't seem to do it, since apt-config dump simply lists the second mount point, not both. -- Benjamin Black "You cannot depend on your eyes when http://www.wilykit.comyour imagination is out of focus." [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mark Twain
Re: Debian Australian mirror @ mirror.aarnet
On Sun, Oct 08, 2000 at 07:15:43PM +1100, Chanop Silpa-Anan wrote: > Does anybody know the reason why Debian mirror @ mirror.aarnet.edu.au > has been stop mirroring woody main since late last month? I emailed [EMAIL PROTECTED]; here's the reply: jason andrade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 10/10/2000 13:24:29 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jonathan Wheelhouse/AU/[EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: debian archive problems Hi, You've all written to me about problems with the debian archive. I'm currently working on resolving this. the problem is a combination of: o inability to contact ftp.debian.org because too many end users are connected to the rsync service which shuts us out. o lots of timeouts and slow updates. i've contacted the debian people about this and have been advised to try to find one of the more stable sites which resolve to ftp.debian.org (there are 5 of them in round robin). i've asked for access to ftp-master but currently am waiting on a response to discuss it. in the meantime i am trying to run manual updates. i'll be running these 24/7 until i can try and get us as up to date as possible. since the debian archive is 20G plus, obviously this can take some time if they have been doing major package changes. in response to queries why the Packages file are not being updated and they are dated Sep XX while packages newer than that are added, i have checked (one..) ftp.debian.org and it's exactly the same there. if it's broken at the `source' for me, i can't do much about it.. e.g from ftp.debian.org: -rw-rw-r-- 1 ftp ftp 1667582 Sep 11 19:11 Contents-alpha.gz -rw-rw-r-- 1 ftp ftp 1539834 Sep 28 19:08 Contents-arm.gz -rw-rw-r-- 1 ftp ftp 1871008 Sep 11 19:12 Contents-i386.gz -rw-rw-r-- 1 ftp ftp 1608279 Sep 6 20:04 Contents-m68k.gz -rw-rw-r-- 1 ftp ftp 1596844 Sep 28 19:08 Contents-powerpc.gz -rw-rw-r-- 1 ftp ftp 1613042 Sep 8 19:12 Contents-sparc.gz regards, -jason Jonathan
ipchains configuration in debian 2.2
Where is the appropriate place in debian 2.2 to configure ipchains for a firewall and IP masquerading? Thanks in advance, Dwight -- Dwight Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: ODP: Printer configuration on debian
cups-bsd has a wrapper for BSD printing functions like lp. I hade to installed it to use "normal" BSD functions. If I remember cups suggest cups-bsd with dselect method installation. Mariusz > -Original Message- > From: Dale Morris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2000 1:59 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: ODP: Printer configuration on debian > > > no, installation of CUPS came with xpp and apt-get retrieved the extra > packages related to CUPS/xpp. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > did you install an additional package cups-bsd ? > > > > > > > > > How do I configure CUPS? I'm trying to set up my printer with > > > > magicfilter. I think there is a permission problem, but I'm > > > not sure. >
Can't insert ISDN module
Hi there I'm sorry to bother you, but nobody can give me an answer to my problem. I'm using the current potato release of Debian 2.2 (vanilla Kernel 2.2.17) on a 486 Dx 33, 8megs ram, 120megs hd machine. This shall be our ISDN router for me and my friends using isdnutils_3.0-20. I have got a Teles 16.3 card which was runnig fine under RedHat 6.0 (in my desktop, but Redhat is too f*cking big for the 486) Anyway I'm switching to Debian now :-) The problem occurs already when inserting the isdn.o module: matrix:/home/og# modprobe isdn /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/isdn.o: init_module: Device or resource busy Hint: this error can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/isdn.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/isdn.o failed /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/isdn.o: insmod isdn failed This is what had been logged to /var/log/kern.log: Oct 9 16:03:43 matrix kernel: CSLIP: code copyright 1989 Regents of the University of California Oct 9 16:03:43 matrix kernel: Could not allocate modem xmit-buffer Oct 9 16:03:43 matrix kernel: isdn: Could not register tty devices Thanks in advance -olaf
Re: ip tunnel ... mode gre -- encrypted? or not?
Hi will, Quoth will trillich, > when a linux wonk says > DEV=mytunnel > OUTSIDE_HERE=321.1.2.3 > OUTSIDE_THERE=789.9.8.7 > ip tunnel add $DEV \ > local $OUTSIDE_HERE \ > remote $OUTSIDE_THERE \ > mode gre > is the tunnel encrypted? if so, how can i confirm > that? if not, is there a way to do so? (maybe some > argument needs to be supplied to insmod?) While I know very little about this VPN stuff (except port-forwarding using ssh, but I've posted everything I know about that here anyway), I would imagine that the easiest way to see if the traffic is encrypted or not is to sniff it and see if it's sending cleartext. Just use `sniffit -F mytunnel -i'. Telnet across your VPN, and select that socket in the sniffit interactive window. Type something (like uname -a) in the telnet session and see if you can see anything recognisable. This isn't very scientific, and I'd personally have a hard time telling the difference between ROT-13'd and IDEA-encrypted traffic, but if you can't see any cleartext, then it's probably working. HTH, damon -- Damon Muller | Did a large procession wave their torches Criminologist/Linux Geek | As my head fell in the basket, http://killfilter.com | And was everybody dancing on the casket... PGP (GnuPG): A136E829 | - TBMG, "Dead" pgpwKDD9T32XF.pgp Description: PGP signature
printtool
I'm trying to get my printer working after an upgrade. I've posted several other messages to the list, so I won't repeat them now. My question is this.. When I try to configure printtool for my Epson StylusColor 600 printer, there is nothing listed about resolution settings, paper type, etc.. And printtool locks up and won't do anything. Obviously a bug? The odd part is that printtool has worked fine for me the last 2 months or so and my problems only began after this update, which I remember printtool being replaced. When I check the available packages, there is only 1 package available for printtool. Is it possible the new package doesn't support the 600 printer? It will work, somewhat, by configuring it to use the epson driver. Anyone else had this problem? thanks
Re: kernel 2.4.0-test9 and Cisco Pix Firewall - Might be a bug???
echo "0" >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn Yes, Cisco does know about the bug in their product. Later, David S. Miller davem@redhat.com
Re: ODP: Printer configuration on debian
When I use lpr... nothing happens.. printer is silent. That's why I'm so confused. Andre Berger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Dale Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > How do I configure CUPS? I'm trying to set up my printer with > > magicfilter. I think there is a permission problem, but I'm not sure. > > Here's where I'm at.. > > I can print using staroffice. I can't print using lp, I get the > > following output: lp: error - no default destination available. > > If I try to print using 'y' in mutt or slrn--doesn't work. Slrn returns > > 'error 1'. > > Use lpr, not lp! >
Re: ODP: Printer configuration on debian
no, installation of CUPS came with xpp and apt-get retrieved the extra packages related to CUPS/xpp. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > did you install an additional package cups-bsd ? > > > > > > How do I configure CUPS? I'm trying to set up my printer with > > > magicfilter. I think there is a permission problem, but I'm > > not sure.
Re: PS/2 mouse
Not a solution, I'm afraid, but I have also witnessed similar problems lately trying to do the same thing. X, with the appropriate pointer settings, fails to recognise the mouse. Probably more interestingly, if I tell GPM to use the PS/2 mouse, when i move the mouse, the console will freeze, requiring me to telnet in and kill GPM. I use the GPM repeater for X, so I figure that getting it working in GPM will be the first step. I don't know about Don's mouse, but mine is a Logitech MousMan Plus, which works fine as a serial mouse. Using Potato and a self-compiled 2.2.17 (with psaux support compiled in). Anyone have an suggestions? cheers, damon Quoth Cavaiani, Don, > I had Debian Linux up an running just fine - until I removed the serial > mouse and replaced it with a PS/2 mouse. Actually, I was playing with the > modem COM and IRQ settings too. > > Now, the PS/2 mouse works fine when I boot into WIN98, but freezes when I > boot into the Linux x-window (Using GNOME). The modem dials out OK from > linux but when I switch back to the x-window session, it freezes up and > there is no mouse recognized. It there a trick to setting up a PS/2 mouse > after I originally had the serial mouse configured? > > Thanks, > Don -- Damon Muller | Did a large procession wave their torches Criminologist/Linux Geek | As my head fell in the basket, http://killfilter.com | And was everybody dancing on the casket... PGP (GnuPG): A136E829 | - TBMG, "Dead" pgpPjnIbYUCz2.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: staroffice
On Tuesday 10 October 2000 06:48, Joachim Trinkwitz wrote: > "Agner-Nichols" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I downloaded the Staroffice binaries (10 files with an extension of .bin) > > from the Sun site and realized I have no idea how to install them (to a > > Throw all files in /tmp, then `chmod 755' the first file, then execute > this file with the option `/net' and follow the instructions in the > install screen (it mimics a MS installer). All that you have to do as > root in X. > > Each of your users has to execute > `/your/install/path/office52/program/soffice', which installs some ^^ setup :-) > startup scripts in their home dir, then they can execute > `~/office52/soffice'. > > Greetings, > joachim jt -- Once you've had APT you'll never go back!
kernel 2.4.0-test9 and Cisco Pix Firewall - Might be a bug???
Hi all, I finished a fresh debian installation (woody) with kernel 2.4.0-test9 (tested in various configurations) and 2.2.17 + pcmcia (latest release) All the installation is on a laptop with pcmcia support enable for my 2 eth's. The situation of my network is like this: box eth0 ---> Cisco Pix Firewall ---> real internet box eth1 ---> real internet my normal configuration is with eth1 down so all packets have to "travel" trough the Pix. With kernel 2.2.17 everything work fine. Using kernel 2.4.0-test9 no. I disabled each kind of iptables or ipchains in a way that my box is fully "open". I got that all connections to the localnet are ok while all tcp connections from my box to the real internet don't work. I receive a "Connection Refused" while i'm able to perform ping or traceroute to the same host. So I setuped my eth1 directly on the real internet and everything worked fine. (also routing was ok in all conditions) Any idea why there's problem??? Fabio
[OT] Re: Debian Australian mirror @ mirror.aarnet
Quoth Andrew J Cosgriff, > Yes, Monash mirrors from AARNet. > > I used to look after the Linux mirroring when I worked at Monash (I > left last June) - I set it up originally to mirror from the US, but > when mirror.aarnet.edu.au got started I was persuaded to mirror from > them. While I wasn't able to help with the specific question that spawned this thread, it's reassuring to see this amount of support/interest in debian in the Australian accademic (including student) community. It also serves to remind us what a fantastic resource mirror.aarnet.edu.au is to those of us which access to it! While I'm in a position of no importance (just another starving PhD student), and not even in a field related to computer science (Criminology), I'm happy that those who are are aware of Debian. > On my Telstra ADSL link, I see this : That's obviously why you left Monash - If you can afford Telstra ADSL, you're obviously a billionaire :) cheers, damon -- Damon Muller | Did a large procession wave their torches Criminologist/Linux Geek | As my head fell in the basket, http://killfilter.com | And was everybody dancing on the casket... PGP (GnuPG): A136E829 | - TBMG, "Dead" pgpbjw8xJ5mTq.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: staroffice
> I downloaded the Staroffice binaries (10 files with an extension of .bin) > from the Sun site and realized I have no idea how to install them *.bin files are binary files, i.e. programs. Assuming you want to install these as a normal user (which is typical for StarOffice), do the following: cd ~ chmod +x so*.bin This would change to your home directory and then make so*.bin executable. Then run the first file and see what it does (sorry, I've only installed the one big StarOffice file). -- Regards, | Seeing Bill Gates in TV ads whining about the court verdict, .| perhaps we should recall Woodrow Wilson's warning of 1912: "If Randy| there are men in this country big enough to own the government | of the United States, they are going to own it."
