Re: tomcat 4 and debian
On Sun, 2001-11-11 at 05:39, hanasaki wrote: > I use it with jdk1.4B3. deb's would be nice but if you really want it. > It is a 20 sec install. But it does not depend on jdk1.4, does it? (btw, are there debs for that? :) Hmm, I only installed tomcat 3.2 on a redhat box from tgz. The debs are much nicer integrated into debian, use jikes for compiling jsp (which is muchmuchmuchmuchmuchmuch faster. So I would really prefere some tomcat 4 debs... btw, have you had any problems converting existing webapps to tomcat 4 (if you did so :)? tia, Andreas PS: who is enjoying his brand new anti-aliased gnome desktop (thanks to gdkxft), and is just compiling mozilla with the gdkxft patch (;
Re: VIM distribution files missing?
On Sun, 11 Nov 2001 00:00:01 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi all.. still playing with vim trying to get it to work properly, and I > noticed that > Debian has no VIM system files! Isn't it supposed to have a default > syntax.vim file and a > default .vimrc file? apt-get install vim-rt Vim is split into at least two parts, so a minimal install "vim" can be done. -- Eric G. Miller
Network Programming in C on Linux ... Pls Help
Dear members ,
I am having some serious doubts (generated by a vague book
and my ignorance/stupidity combined together).
1) First , I wish to talk about the memsetfunction
used in the TCPEchoServer.c program .
This function takes 3 arguments as far as the documentation is concerned , but
the
program (and all programs using this function ,) just pass 2 arguments. This
gives us
the following error :
tcpechoserv.c : In function 'main' :
tcpechoserv :22 : too few arguments to function 'memset'
When I supplied a 0 for the (hitherto) unspecified parameter , I get complaints
about the readline function.
I have attached the text file containing the tcpechoserv.c as it is typed in
the Text
.
2) The next question is regarding the UdpEchoServer.c
I am getting the error :
udpechoserver.c : In function 'main' :
udpechoserv.c : 33 : incompatible type for argument 5 of 'sendto'
This is what the sendto function looks like :
sendto(socketDescriptor,line,n,0,clientAddr,clientAddrLen);
In the same book from which I took all these , there is a
topic on RPC contains little instruction on what to do .
a)It gives one msg.x ,file (which anyway rpcgen shows an error :
msg.x : line 5: expected 'version' or '}' )
b)What do we do with the server C program , that follows the msg.x file (a
msg-proc.c
file)?
c) And they have not mentioned any .x files for the client
d) What What do we do with the server C program shown for the client ?
e)They show in the next 2 pages the C programs that rpcgen generates ,
but it remains vague , because ,the text never manages to take our programs
there.
Could somebody give me pointers to good sites where I can get good code
examples in RPC server/clients ? Or could somebody give me some code examples (I
guess
it takes 6 files: 1 .x file and .c file for the server , and 1 .x and .c
file
for the client
+ the 2 .c files that rpcgen is supposed to generate .)
Sincerely,
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Shyam
#include
#include
#include
#include
#include
#define SOCKADDR struct sockaddr
#define SERVERPORT 9888
#define BACKLOG 1024
#define MAXLINE 4096
void main(int argc,char **argv)
{
//Declarations for required variables
int socketDescriptor,connDescriptor;
pid_t childpid;
socklen_t clientAddrLen;
struct sockaddr_in clientAddr,serverAddr;
ssize_t n;
char line[MAXLINE];
//Initialize the socket address structure to 0
memset(&serverAddr,sizeof(serverAddr));
//Create the socket
socketDescriptor=socket(AF_INET,SOCK_STREAM,0);
//Initialize the server socket address structure
serverAddr.sin_family = AF_INET;
serverAddr.sin_addr.s_addr=INADDR_ANY;
serverAddr.sin_port=htons(SERVERPORT);
//Bind the socket to a unique name
bind(socketDescriptor,(SOCKADDR*)&serverAddr,sizeof(serverAddr));
//Ready to accept connections
listen(socketDescriptor,BACKLOG);
//Do the task
for(;;)
{
clientAddrLen=sizeof(clientAddr);
connDescriptor=accept(socketDescriptor,(SOCKADDR*)&clientAddr,&clientAddrLen);
if((childpid= fork()) == 0) /*child process */
{
close(socketDescriptor);
for(;;)
{
if ((n = readline(connDescriptor,line,MAXLINE))==0)
return; //connection closed
write(connDescriptor,line,n);
}
exit(0);
}
close(connDescriptor); //connected socket closed
}
}
Re: Mounting samba shares...
Apparently, on Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 06:15:05AM -0600, Alexander Wallace wrote: > Hi there? is there an easy way to mount samba shares in a linux desktop, > kind of what you do in windoze like \\10.100.100.100\userdir? > > Gnomba doesn't see the shared user directories as shares and I don't know > how to specify them in it... > > I know you can put a line in /etc/fstab, but sometimes i need a quick way > to mount... > mount -t smb -o username=,uid=,gid= //server/share /mnt/smb/ -- Tim Moss [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dpkg problem
I didn't lose textutils; it was listed as installed but somehow it was installed improperly or possibly it didn't upgrade properly when I went to the testing version.
VIM distribution files missing?
Hi all.. still playing with vim trying to get it to work properly, and I noticed that Debian has no VIM system files! Isn't it supposed to have a default syntax.vim file and a default .vimrc file?
Unidentified subject!
Hello, Being prompted for this part and that part, I imagine this is to support using updated copies or a mixed media install. A rescue disk, aka boot disk aka start disk, includes your boot loader, kernel, kernel mods... It depends, you probably want to use one of the rescue disk(s) on one of the CDs -- likely the first CD, the "vanilla" kernel. If you work through the Installation Guide it may almost make sense http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/install.en.html At the prompt what happens when you select from CD and when prompted just push enter? If you identify what the last significant step that you completely successfully I may be able to give more insight... if you are continually prompted for a CD or asked where particular packages are, you probably have bad media, a damaged CD. It has nothing to do with Wine except possibly as infrastructure. There are a number of implimentations that support accessing/writing to a number of filesystems. Of course, because of the nature of the various Windows (TM) filesystems, access/use of those fileystems is pretty cludgy in turns of ownership and permissions associated with the files. Best regards, Lloyd - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Saturday, November 10, 2001 11:26 PM Subject: Installation > I recently downloaded Debian 2.2 r3 and am trying to install. I boot from > cd-rom and when I get to Install Operating System Kernel and Modules it asks > where I want to install from, I say from the cd-rom drive, it tells me to > enter the first cd-rom, so I do, and then I get prompted to enter the rescue > disk. What is that and how do I get it? > > And another thing... > "Linux is capable of reading and writing information in the Windows VFAT file > system format. This means that we can access information on the Windows > partition of the hard drive even when we're running Linux. But to facilitate > this capability, we'll need to initialize the Windows partition. > > So select "mount a previously initialized partition" and create a directory > name where your Windows partition will be accessed. A name like "/win98" > or "/windows" will do just fine." > > How does this work, is it similar to Wine? > > Thank you, > Chase __ Get your FREE personalized e-mail at http://www.canada.com
Re: Support for MS-6378 motherboard
Thanks. Sound worked ok? no problems with the shared memory stuff for video? I was going to do a firewall with it. What have you found available for those low hieght slots? Thanks. Sam Varghese wrote: On Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 03:32:57PM -0600, hanasaki wrote: Has anyone had a good/bad experience with this? i built a machine using this m-b for a friend; dual-boot, runs w98 and mandrake 8.0. never tried debian on it. sam
Re: tomcat 4 and debian
I use it with jdk1.4B3. deb's would be nice but if you really want it. It is a 20 sec install. Andreas Leitner wrote: Hi, I hope this is not offtopic on this list. I was wandering why there are no debs for tomcat 4 in debian. It has been released in september and and I heard a lot of good things about it. Are there specific reasons not to include it, or has it just not yet been packaged? tia, Andreas
Installation
I recently downloaded Debian 2.2 r3 and am trying to install. I boot from cd-rom and when I get to Install Operating System Kernel and Modules it asks where I want to install from, I say from the cd-rom drive, it tells me to enter the first cd-rom, so I do, and then I get prompted to enter the rescue disk. What is that and how do I get it? And another thing... "Linux is capable of reading and writing information in the Windows VFAT file system format. This means that we can access information on the Windows partition of the hard drive even when we're running Linux. But to facilitate this capability, we'll need to initialize the Windows partition. So select "mount a previously initialized partition" and create a directory name where your Windows partition will be accessed. A name like "/win98" or "/windows" will do just fine." How does this work, is it similar to Wine? Thank you, Chase
OT: mutt message scoring: body/header?
I'm playing with mutt message scoring. It's interesting, but not quite as powerful as I'd like. It seems that the default mutt build and/or current version doesn't allow for filtering on headers or body. This reduces the utility of scoring, as you're largely reduced to filtering on sender and subject. Attempting to filter on, say, body returns: :score '~b Debian' +10 b: not supported in this mode (in the Mutt status line) Anyone know which mode 'mode' refers to, and/or what might be done to make this work? I have worked out a mechanism to pull in a set of default filtering rules, plus folder (list) specific rules using folder-hook and a set of score files. Details on request. Peace. -- Karsten M. Selfhttp://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Home of the brave http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ Land of the free Free Dmitry! Boycott Adobe! Repeal the DMCA! http://www.freesklyarov.org Geek for Hire http://kmself.home.netcom.com/resume.html pgpopSXawCpu0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Problem with gnome (mouse is locked in the bottom narrow area)
Every time I start my woody,it fisrt enters a graphic interface,I can see it is gnome1.4,but there is not typical menu of gnome,and I can hardly to move the mouse,I move and click my mouse randomly,and can see a menu of which in the top of the menu is debian,at the bottom is the menu exit(at this time I can use mouse but can not control it ,that is the cursor of mouse do move according to the move of the mouse) but I can not select the menu by mouse,The only way I can select menu is to use the key.After I select the submenu exit of exit,typicall gnome menu appear,A row menu lie at the top of the screen,But at this time,the mouse can not move,It is locked at the bottom narrow area.What is the problem.(When I use command xinit ,error says that "no screen found",but startx can work with the bad property of above saying) thanks
x broken
hi.. ran apt-get update/apt-get upgrade and ended up with a broken x. i cant start gdm. "/var/log/gdm/:0.log" attached. sorry if i missed the original thread, but can anyone help! - soumitri This is a pre-release version of XFree86, and is not supported in any way. Bugs may be reported to XFree86@XFree86.Org and patches submitted to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Before reporting bugs in pre-release versions, please check the latest version in the XFree86 CVS repository (http://www.XFree86.Org/cvs) XFree86 Version 4.1.0.1 / X Window System (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6510) Release Date: xx August 2001 If the server is older than 6-12 months, or if your card is newer than the above date, look for a newer version before reporting problems. (See http://www.XFree86.Org/FAQ) Build Operating System: Linux 2.4.13 i686 [ELF] Module Loader present (==) Log file: "/var/log/XFree86.0.log", Time: Sun Nov 11 09:03:58 2001 (==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/XF86Config-4" Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. (==) ServerLayout "Default Layout" (**) |-->Screen "Default Screen" (0) (**) | |-->Monitor "Generic Monitor" (**) | |-->Device "Generic Video Card" (**) |-->Input Device "Generic Keyboard" (**) XKB: rules: "xfree86" (**) XKB: model: "pc104" (**) XKB: layout: "us" (**) |-->Input Device "Configured Mouse" (**) |-->Input Device "Generic Mouse" (WW) The directory "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic" does not exist. Entry deleted from font path. (**) FontPath set to "unix/:7100,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi" (==) RgbPath set to "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb" (==) ModulePath set to "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules" (++) using VT number 7 (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libbitmap.a (II) Module bitmap: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.1.0.1, module version = 1.0.0 (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libpcidata.a (II) Module pcidata: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.1.0.1, module version = 0.1.0 (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libscanpci.a (II) Module scanpci: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.1.0.1, module version = 0.1.0 (II) Unloading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libscanpci.a (--) PCI:*(1:0:0) Matrox MGA G400 AGP rev 130, Mem @ 0xd800/25, 0xd400/14, 0xd500/23 (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libddc.a (II) Module ddc: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.1.0.1, module version = 1.0.0 (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libGLcore.a (II) Module GLcore: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.1.0.1, module version = 1.0.0 (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libdbe.a (II) Module dbe: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.1.0.1, module version = 1.0.0 (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libdri.a (II) Module dri: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.1.0.1, module version = 1.0.0 (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/linux/libdrm.a (II) Module drm: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.1.0.1, module version = 1.0.0 (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libextmod.a (II) Module extmod: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.1.0.1, module version = 1.0.0 (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.a (II) Module glx: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.1.0.1, module version = 1.0.0 (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libpex5.a (II) Module pex5: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.1.0.1, module version = 1.0.0 (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/librecord.a (II) Module record: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.1.0.1, module version = 1.13.0 (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libxie.a (II) Module xie: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.1.0.1, module version = 1.0.0 (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libfreetype.a (II) Module freetype: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.1.0.1, module version = 1.1.9 (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libspeedo.a (II) Module speedo: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.1.0.1, module version = 1.0.0 (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libtype1.a (II) Module type1: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.1.0.1, module version = 1.0.0 (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libvbe.a (II) Module vbe: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.1.0.1, module version = 1.0.0 (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/linux/libint10.a (II) Module int10: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.1.0.1, module version = 1.0.0 (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/mga_drv.o
Troubleshooting sensible-mda
Hi, I've got some messages sitting in my mail queue that are deferred, with this message: local mailer (/usr/lib/sm.bin/sensible-mda) exited with EX_TEMPFAIL I'm not really sure how to troubleshoot the sensible-mda program, and therefore can't work out where the problem might be. I'm using a built-from-source version 8.12.1-2 of sendmail-tls Any help would be appreciated. Andrew
Re: rm a '-R' file
On Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 09:17:43PM -0600, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: > I have a file that was created called "-R". How > do I delete this file? read "man rm". "rm -- -R" should do it. If unsure (like me) $ mv -- -R xxx $ ls -l xxx $ rm xxx cheers :-) -- ~\^o^/~~~ ~\^.^/~~~ ~\^*^/~~~ ~\^_^/~~~ ~\^+^/~~~ ~\^:^/~~~ ~\^v^/~~~ + Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG-key: 1024D/D5DE453D + + My debian quick-reference, http://www.aokiconsulting.com/quick/+
rm a '-R' file
I have a file that was created called "-R". How do I delete this file? Lance
X 4.1.0 and unicode
When will unicode (utf-8) be avalible in woody's x? -- Patrick "Diablo-D3" McFarland || [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: group directories policy?
On Sun, Nov 11, 2001 at 02:37:04AM +0100, J?rgen Hermanrud Fjeld wrote: > Hi. > > Are there any policies for group directories? > That is users have their home directories in "/home/users/" on my box, and > groups is "/home/groups" Thus letting me separate users and groups, and > sharing the whole groups catalog with samba. > > Are there any other good solutions to this, and is there a policy? I do not policy thing. I thought it depends on sysadmin. anyway read "man adduser.conf" and "adduser" may help :=) -- ~\^o^/~~~ ~\^.^/~~~ ~\^*^/~~~ ~\^_^/~~~ ~\^+^/~~~ ~\^:^/~~~ ~\^v^/~~~ + Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG-key: 1024D/D5DE453D + + My debian quick-reference, http://www.aokiconsulting.com/quick/+
tomcat 4 and debian
Hi, I hope this is not offtopic on this list. I was wandering why there are no debs for tomcat 4 in debian. It has been released in september and and I heard a lot of good things about it. Are there specific reasons not to include it, or has it just not yet been packaged? tia, Andreas
Re: Fetchmail changes?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 11 November 2001 12:32 am, Shaul Karl wrote: > >Before that I wrote ... > > Using kmail, if I get some spam mail, I hit control B which is supposed > > to send a bounce message back to the sender. This pops up a warning > > dialog with the mail address of who it is going to send the bounce > > message to. Maybe its kmail that has changed! > > > > All of a sudden last week I noticed that hitting control B was no longer > > giving mail address of where the message had originally come from, but > > was instead reporting that it would try and bounce the message to > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Looking at the headers of the message I > > am trying to about does indeed have > > > > Return-path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I've checked out exim and it does this (and as far as I can see is supposed to) > > > > My question - when did this change take place - is it an update to debian > > /etc/init.d/fetchmail - which seems to now set the user id to "fetchmail" > > before running the daemon (did it do this before?) or fetchmail itself? Again I have had double read of the man page which seems to say this is correct - if its run as user fetchmail it uses itself as sender. > > The Return-path on my system looks O.K. > Does the [EMAIL PROTECTED] Return-path appears on non > spam messages too? I haven't properly got to the bottom of this yet. Exim docs says that the RFC says the last link in the chain should add a return path message although it is unclear as to what this does. My check of the exim.conf file is that when its doing a local delivery thats what it does. It seems that kmail is using it as the address for bounce messages now (but not before?). > As far as I can tell, fetchmail works according to /etc/fetchmailrc and > /etc/default/fetchmail. Could it be that those config files tell > fetchmail to rewrite the mail headers? Maybe the MDA is somehow > involved in this headers rewrite? Fetchmail does write some headers but not the return path - although it refers to RCPT TO header- is this the same? - -- Alan - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE77dl81mf3M5ZDr2kRAhA2AJ4nc6HzDk5yAd1/XLRcfl8PALd52wCfdveQ hQSlsjfmqHh1G5uqpnvLGKo= =kPMI -END PGP SIGNATURE-
group directories policy?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi. Are there any policies for group directories? That is users have their home directories in "/home/users/" on my box, and groups is "/home/groups" Thus letting me separate users and groups, and sharing the whole groups catalog with samba. Are there any other good solutions to this, and is there a policy? - -- Sincerely Jørgen Hermanrud Fjeld [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAjvt1kAACgkQCx+ABR2dqkLHIQCbBnP5KdKIyaxCtULugIRje4Fd F7sAn1hGi4HfjsxrsROYUraZbg23g148 =CaGw -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: Which kernel is recommended to run in debian testing?
On Sat, 10 Nov 2001 16:39:17 -0800, Jim McCloskey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > |> Similarly, 2.4.10+ are the only kernels > |> in the 2.4.x series without major uglies yet > > Hmm, but 2.4.14 won't compile at all, and you have to avoid all > of the kernels from 2.4.10 to 2.4.12 (don't know about 2.4.13) if you > want to use the dvd player Xine (don't know if that counts as a `major > ugly' or not), $ uname -a Linux calico 2.4.14 #1 Sat Nov 10 16:29:17 PST 2001 i686 unknown Won't compile at all? Perhaps something breaks, that I'm not using...? I don't have a DVD drive... -- Eric G. Miller
Re: DHCP Servr configuration
I do this dhcp server for home LAN system on gateway machine. eth0 for
cable connection and eth1 for LAN side.
On Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 10:56:01PM +0100, Eric Smith wrote:
> Would like to have the bare minimum config for a single networked
> (windows) machine which I want to give internet access to from my
> debian server.
LAN uses 1-127 for fixed address machines. Now examples:
# dhcpd.conf
# option definitions common to all supported networks...
option domain-name "lan.aokiconsulting.com";
option domain-name-servers 192.168.1.1;
option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0;
default-lease-time 600;
max-lease-time 7200;
host hub {
hardware ethernet 00:40:05:df:79:6d;
fixed-address 192.168.1.201;
}
# DHCP 100-200
subnet 192.168.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
range 192.168.1.128 192.168.1.200;
option domain-name-servers 192.168.1.1;
option domain-name "lan.aokiconsulting.com";
option routers 192.168.1.1;
option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0;
option broadcast-address 192.168.1.255;
default-lease-time 600;
max-lease-time 7200;
}
__
Also "/etc/init.d/dhcp" is modified to run on eth1 for LAN.
#! /bin/sh
#
# Start or stop dhcpd daemon
#
# Add all interfaces you want dhcpd to handle here
test -x /usr/sbin/dhcpd || exit 0
# Set run_dhcpd to 1 to start dhcpd at boot or 0 to disable it.
run_dhcpd=1
if [ $run_dhcpd = 0 ]; then
cat <, GnuPG-key: 1024D/D5DE453D +
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Re: Thoghts on a computer as a stero component?
* Stan Brown ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > > Seroiousl what have people done for computers used promarliy as a steror > system component? Seems to me tahe niose sheidling would be priority No.1, > followed closely by a reasonably compact design, and then, a failry smalle, > but usuable display. > > What have people used here? I'm using a Gateway PPro 200, with a 17" display. I had a special cabinet built: 1/2 houses my components (surround sound amp, DVD, VCR, etc.) and the other 1/2 houses my computer, DVDs, etc. I output from the computer through the surround sound, and this lets me access all of my mp3s, ogs, whatever. The display, to date, has been overkill, because I don't run X on the it. However, I'm planning on upgrading the video card soon, so -- ) ,_),_) (-(__ |_ _ _ |/ ) | |(_)(_ |\ ( \_, ___ | http://www.exitwound.org : hard to find | ___ | Unquestionably, there is progress. The| | average American now pays out twice as much | | in taxes as he formerly got in wages. -- H. | | L. Mencken| ___ -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- | Version: 3.1 | | GJ/IT d- s: a C+++>$ UL P+++ L+++ E--- W++| | N+@ o K- w O- M- V PS+ PE Y+ PGP++ t+@ 5@ X++ | | R tv+@ b+ DI D+ G++ e h r+++ y+++ | --END GEEK CODE BLOCK--
Re: run dselect for remote machine (nfs+chroot?)
I did experimented on this nfs+chroot approach. Following is my report: > Hans Ekbrand wrote: > >On Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 01:52:23AM -0800, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > >I have slow 486DX2 (20MB) running woody as router. > > >I realize memory swaps out frequently when I run dselect. > > > >I have 486DX 33 12 Mb, and found out that after selecting packages to > >install I could reduce the memory used by dselect by quitting dselect > >and then restart and go directly to install. > >I finally gave up dselect and am now relying only on apt. I know the feeling. I used to run dselect on faster machine to find a package and just run apt-cache/apt-get on slow machine. On Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 02:57:14PM -0500, Tom Allison wrote: > Besides being "user friendly" is there any that dselect does that > apt-get cannot do? The only thing that I'm aware of is that there can > be different files upgraded when I select 'dselect' over 'apt-get upgrade' > Or am I just suffering from a mis-conception? Yes. apt-get pulls all the package listed in "suggests" which can be avoided by dselect by putting them on "_", i.e., purge. That is just classic "apt-get install". "apt-get upgrade", and "apt-get dist-upgrade". New "apt-get dselect-upgrade" should honor setting by dselect. I nfs mounted all the slow machine files (/ /usr /tmp /var ...) as rw from root account on a tree below /mnt using files exported by (rw,no_root_squash,nohide). I "chroot" there and mounted proc of faster machine to new /proc. dselect and "apt-get install" for slow machine worked beautifully from the root account of faster remote machine. dselect "select" had a great speed improvement in nfs+chroot environment since I had a lot of memory on faster machine. But actual download and install was very slower than expected because file moves through networks between machines. From reading "top", nfs seems to consume CPU heavily and network speed of 10 baseT was limitted (old 16 bit PCMCIA card on slow PC can only do this speed even though network I have is 100 baseT.) After all, mounting remote slow system to a faster machine. Then chroot to there and run "dselect" to set selection. This is a good idea to avoid memory swapping and slowness. Then I should have quited dselect and run "apt-get dselect-upgrade" directly on the slow machine, I think. Cheers ;-) -- ~\^o^/~~~ ~\^.^/~~~ ~\^*^/~~~ ~\^_^/~~~ ~\^+^/~~~ ~\^:^/~~~ ~\^v^/~~~ + Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG-key: 1024D/D5DE453D + + My debian quick-reference, http://www.aokiconsulting.com/quick/+
Re: Which kernel is recommended to run in debian testing?
on Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 04:39:17PM -0800, Jim McCloskey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > |> Similarly, 2.4.10+ are the only kernels > |> in the 2.4.x series without major uglies yet > > Hmm, but 2.4.14 won't compile at all, and you have to avoid all > of the kernels from 2.4.10 to 2.4.12 (don't know about 2.4.13) if you > want to use the dvd player Xine (don't know if that counts as a `major > ugly' or not), I said "yet", and that was somewhat conditional. But, yeah, failure to build might be considered "ugly". -- Karsten M. Selfhttp://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Home of the brave http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ Land of the free Free Dmitry! Boycott Adobe! Repeal the DMCA! http://www.freesklyarov.org Geek for Hire http://kmself.home.netcom.com/resume.html pgpmUgGzpQzrJ.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: /var/log/messages on the desktop
on Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 09:41:12AM -0500, Sunny Dubey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > hey, > > how do people get messages that get added to /var/log/messages printed to > their desktops ?? > > sort of like the following desktop-screenshot at the bottom > > http://indigo.ie/~fowler/screenshot.jpg apt-get install xrootconsole Displays messages to the X root window. Screenshots: http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Images/Desktop/ ...scroll down past the first few thumbnails. It's actually a hacked terminal, IIRC. You can get a similar result by taking a transparent terminal stripping all scrollbars and decorations, and sinking it to the bottom of your window stack. I've done this with wterm, for example. In some cases, the transparency handling is better, e.g.: if you change your background color or image, wterm picks up the changes, xrootconsole doesn't. Peace. -- Karsten M. Selfhttp://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Home of the brave http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ Land of the free Free Dmitry! Boycott Adobe! Repeal the DMCA! http://www.freesklyarov.org Geek for Hire http://kmself.home.netcom.com/resume.html pgpySmyAoln0A.pgp Description: PGP signature
new maintainer was (Re: building my own .debs)
Hello Michael, I am new to Debian, but my understanding of the role of maintainer is that you do not necessarily need to be able to patch the product the package you are maintaining contains, but know the package, and how it fits in to Debian. The more you know about the product, the program's status and issues, and the better off your relationship is with the developers of that product, the better off the package is likely to be. Best regards, Lloyd Best regards, Lloyd Budd __ Get your FREE personalized e-mail at http://www.canada.com
Re: Which kernel is recommended to run in debian testing?
|> Similarly, 2.4.10+ are the only kernels |> in the 2.4.x series without major uglies yet Hmm, but 2.4.14 won't compile at all, and you have to avoid all of the kernels from 2.4.10 to 2.4.12 (don't know about 2.4.13) if you want to use the dvd player Xine (don't know if that counts as a `major ugly' or not), Jim
Re: can't insmod wd with debian 2.2r3
Could it be that this is a PNP card? Does the card appears in the boot messages? Perhaps you need other io and/or irq settings? Is the appropriate module found in /lib/modules/`uname`/net/? --- Begin Message --- Hi ! I have an old ISA NIC: SMC EtherCard Plus Elite 16 Combo (WD/8013EW) It works fine with Windows 98, Mandrake Linux, Coyote Linux Router however in Debian 2.2r3 insmod wd fails (neither with io=0x280 irq=5 nor with autoprobe). Where is the problem ? sincerely, Kirill Nelus --- End Message --- Shaul Karl email: shaulka (replace these parenthesis with @) bezeqint, delete the spaces and add .net
Re: Fetchmail changes?
> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > I had a disasterous update to my main server last weeked - in that I tried to > do a testing upgrade and found that many of my applications would no longer > work > > I restored some things via a backup, but during the week I have noticed a > problem > > Using kmail, if I get some spam mail, I hit control B which is supposed to > send a bounce message back to the sender. This pops up a warning dialog with > the mail address of who it is going to send the bounce message to. > > All of a sudden last week I noticed that hitting control B was no longer > giving mail address of where the message had originally come from, but was > instead reporting that it would try and bounce the message to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Looking at the headers of the message I am > trying to about does indeed have > > Return-path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > at the top > > > My question - when did this change take place - is it an update to debian > /etc/init.d/fetchmail - which seems to now set the user id to "fetchmail" > before running the daemon (did it do this before?) or fetchmail itself? > The Return-path on my system looks O.K. Does the [EMAIL PROTECTED] Return-path appears on non spam messages too? As far as I can tell, fetchmail works according to /etc/fetchmailrc and /etc/default/fetchmail. Could it be that those config files tell fetchmail to rewrite the mail headers? Maybe the MDA is somehow involved in this headers rewrite? > > - -- > > Alan - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk > -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- > Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org > > iD8DBQE77Yiq1mf3M5ZDr2kRAhOZAKCkXMlGEJ9yx2z4OWs2BDzhqiHIXwCfYShh > 1jBVX7kBz6OtJkugXZWwSWM= > =0iAp > -END PGP SIGNATURE- > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Shaul Karl email: shaulka (replace these parenthesis with @) bezeqint, delete the spaces and add .net
Re: Support for MS-6378 motherboard
On Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 03:32:57PM -0600, hanasaki wrote: > Has anyone had a good/bad experience with this? i built a machine using this m-b for a friend; dual-boot, runs w98 and mandrake 8.0. never tried debian on it. sam -- (Sam Varghese) http://www.gnubies.com
Re: update problems
> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Last weekend I attempted to update my [small home] server (with a dselect > update) to the latest version of "testing". I was previously running testing > but I had not updated it for several months > > It failed - disasterously - in that everything started crashing and I ended > up restoring from backup > > I tried it again this weekend (I assumed the problem was a temporary blip - > since query on this list brought no response), but it has failed in exactly > the same way. > > It seems to be updating libc6 at the time - and as soon as it has updated, > dpkg gets no further (it starts seg faulting) and much of the rest of the > system doesn't work either. Applications segfault - ssh eventually kills its > connection - attempt to login on the main console fails and even starting > linux with the init=/bin/sh command line just hangs.. > > In the end I had to recover by restoring the whole of /lib (and its > subdirectories) from a backup. I tried just restoring /lib/libc* and > /lib/i686/libc* but that didn't work > > Trouble is now I am stuck. How do I get my "testing" configuration up to > date? In my opinion, the first thing you need seems to me to point the offending package. What about restoring the whole system from backup again and then upgrading the packages one at a time? When you will be able to pin point the offending package you might use the backup and revert to its previous files and then try to isolate the problem further. Alternatively, you might want to install woody from scratch using the current version of the boot-floppies. > - -- > > Alan - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk > > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- > Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org > > iD8DBQE77ZtB1mf3M5ZDr2kRAo8OAKCXIfRqUnVLxbyOaZOl1p+wRFu1kQCfTVZA > Le1XaxLcmQ5MmcIMQd8O8aM= > =TcDD > -END PGP SIGNATURE- > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Shaul Karl email: shaulka (replace these parenthesis with @) bezeqint, delete the spaces and add .net
Re: Printer 'HPLaserJ@mansha' - cannot open connection - Connection refused
On Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 09:17:21PM +0530, Pankaj Jangid wrote: | hi all, | | I am having printer on a win2k machine and I want to use it from my | Debian GNU/linux machine. I have lprng installed. I am using testing | distribution of Debian. ... | Can any one tell me what is the problem ? Using lpr/lpd like that requires an lpd server on the remote machine. Since the remote machine is windows, you need to use samba instead. Use the 'smbprint' command from the "samba" package to transfer the print job to the server. I don't know how to configure it with lpd (I use CUPS and there it is very easy), but I think the printing or the samba howtos explain it. HTH, -D
Re: No xpr on debian...
Mike Fontenot wrote: > > Erik Steffl wrote: > > > > yes, when faced with a question like this, go to the debian.org > > webpage, go to Packages (left side menu) and use the last form on that > > page to search for a file, it will tell you where it is (if it is in > > debian). > > > btw the answer in this case: netpbm > > Thanks for the tip...I realize my debian navigating > skills are lacking. > > The man page for xwdtopnm says it converts an X dump to an > "anymap". But what do I do with that? Is there a way to > convert "anymap" to postscript? well, you can use gimp or one of: jojda:/var/spool/mail# pnmto pnmtoddif pnmtojpeg pnmtopspnmtosir pnmtofiascopnmtopalm pnmtorast pnmtotiff pnmtofits pnmtoplainpnm pnmtorle pnmtotiffcmyk pnmtojbig pnmtopng pnmtosgi pnmtoxwd jojda:/var/spool/mail# pnmto but of course, you can use gimp to work directly with xwd. There are probably other programs that work with pnm (and xwd). PS you'd better not ask me where to find pnmtops! :-)) erik
Re: Mutt - Procmail Question
On Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 01:48:29PM -0600, John Patton wrote: | On Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 07:48:00PM +0530, Jijo Jose A wrote: ... | 'mutt -f my_mbox ', my_mbox is not a mailbox ... | > how can i solve this ? ... | then fix your procmail action accordingly. Once the mailbox is fixed, I recommend using mutt, not procmail, to remove unwanted headers. For example, in my .muttrc I have : # Headers config: # I can get rid of the extra headers ignore * unignore From: To: Date: Cc: Reply-To: unignore User-Agent: X-Mailer: List-Id: X-Mailing-List: X-No-Cc: unignore Mail-Followup-To: # I can order the headers the way I want hdr_order From Date To Cc User-Agent X-Mailer Reply-To Mail-Followup-To X-No-Cc List-Id X-Mailing-List # In reality it doesn't remove the headers, they are still in the mailbox, but you don't see the ones you don't want in your pager which is the whole purpose. HTH, -D
Re: No xpr on debian...
Erik Steffl wrote: > > yes, when faced with a question like this, go to the debian.org > webpage, go to Packages (left side menu) and use the last form on that > page to search for a file, it will tell you where it is (if it is in > debian). > btw the answer in this case: netpbm Thanks for the tip...I realize my debian navigating skills are lacking. The man page for xwdtopnm says it converts an X dump to an "anymap". But what do I do with that? Is there a way to convert "anymap" to postscript? Mike Fontenot [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: playmperg and framebuffer problems
Thus spake Stan Brown: > I have a Debian potato + Progeny + 2.4.3 kernel machien with an ATI Rage > video card. When I fire up plaympeg (even with the --novideo switch) it > seems to put my video card in a scan rate that's too high for my monitor > (the minitor puts up a synch lost message, but the audio plays). > > Any sugestiosn as to how to fix this (other than buying a better monitor > :-)) > > What's I'm trying to do is play audo mp3's, so maybe I just need a pointer > to a different tool for this? Stan - I'm not familiar with plaympeg, but give xmms a try - it plays mp3, wav, Ogg Vorbis, etc. Quite nice. What happens when you play a video mpeg? Is this just something that happens because plaympeg is trying to take over your video and there's no video stream? Just a thought. HTH, Steve -- Don't hit a man when he's down -- kick him; it's easier. pgpxuvTWjx7Vv.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Woody Gnome login is Slow!
* hanasaki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.11.10 17:08:59-0600]: > xfs is running > no access attempts on 113 - ident? > portmap? Its running. what am I looking for? not 113, sorry. 111/tcp of course. in my case, it has happened that a window manager took a minute to come up because it was trying to contact the Xserver through portmapper, which wasn't running. in your case, this can't be the solution then. have you timed the delays? are they always the same? -- martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> mailto:"; [EMAIL PROTECTED] micro$oft outlook express is a security hole that also happens to be an email client. pgpubPoeKlm3J.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Woody Gnome login is Slow!
xfs is running no access attempts on 113 - ident? portmap? Its running. what am I looking for? martin f krafft wrote: * Karsten M. Self [2001.11.10 14:46:52-0800]: Probably DNS reverse-lookup problems. X is a _networked_ windowing protocol. also, if you are not running an Xfont server or you disabled portmap, then check if there are access attempts to port 113/tcp during the delay.
Re: Woody Gnome login is Slow!
* Karsten M. Self [2001.11.10 14:46:52-0800]: > Probably DNS reverse-lookup problems. X is a _networked_ windowing > protocol. also, if you are not running an Xfont server or you disabled portmap, then check if there are access attempts to port 113/tcp during the delay. -- martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> mailto:"; [EMAIL PROTECTED] i'd rather be riding a high speed tractor with a beer on my lap, and a six pack of girls next to me. pgpG1OOTuKVNS.pgp Description: PGP signature
evolution and conduits
First, thank you so much for making the pre-release of evolution available! It looks pretty darn good. However, one piece that I've been looking for is the pilot-evolution conduit. The gnome control center I have (1.4.0.1-13) allows me to set gnome-pilot-conduits (0.7-1) which include EAddres, ECalendar, and EToDo which ximian claims are the conduits used by gnome-pilot (1.63-1) to do synchrnization. I can enable and specify the settings for ECalendar, and EToDo. However, when I attempt to enable or specify the EAddress settings, I get the error message: Unable to instantiate EAddress conduit on synch, gpilotd emits 3 these warnings: Loading conduit "e_address_conduit failed! Loading conduit "e_calendar_conduit" failed! Laoding conduit "e_todo_conduit" failed! Are these conduits only partially available (in name, but not code), or is it simply a bug?
Re: Woody Gnome login is Slow!
DNS is served off a differnet machine. forward and reverse queries are fine, and fast, for the host / IP Karsten M. Self wrote: on Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 02:46:10PM -0600, hanasaki ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Since upgrading to woody, it seems to take a long time to log in. There is also a major pause prior to the Gnome splash screen coming up. Probably DNS reverse-lookup problems. X is a _networked_ windowing protocol. Do you have entries for your host in /etc/resolv.conf?
Re: So: reiserfs or ext3 (was Re: ext3 to be in 2.4.15!)
on Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 08:12:09PM -0200, Jeronimo Pellegrini ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 02:03:10PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > I've got both ext3fs and reiserfs on my most recent laptop build. > > > > There are advantages to each. > > > > Reiserfs has better performance with larger filesystems, particularly > > for large directory listings. In one case, I've got a directory with > > 125,000 files in it. Under ext*, directory operations are very slow, on > > the order of several seconds, due to the need to scan a file list. > > Reiserfs's use of a hash to store directory entries makes manipulation > > far faster. > > > > OTOH, ext3fs has far less disk overhead for small partitions. Word is > > that the reiserfs journal requires 32MB, regardless of partition size, > > while ext3's .journal file is sized proportionately. > > Now that you said this... I'd like to see how reiserfs and > ext3 in writeback mode perform. I'd think ext3 would still be > outperformed by reiser for the large dir listings. The issue isn't writing the directories, but searching them. Hash beats linear scan, above the hash overhead threshhold. This crossover's clearly evident for 10,000 directory entries, and is probably significant at substantially fewer. -- Karsten M. Selfhttp://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Home of the brave http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ Land of the free Free Dmitry! Boycott Adobe! Repeal the DMCA! http://www.freesklyarov.org Geek for Hire http://kmself.home.netcom.com/resume.html pgpMlAKyH62UC.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Woody Gnome login is Slow!
on Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 02:46:10PM -0600, hanasaki ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Since upgrading to woody, it seems to take a long time to log in. There > is also a major pause prior to the Gnome splash screen coming up. Probably DNS reverse-lookup problems. X is a _networked_ windowing protocol. Do you have entries for your host in /etc/resolv.conf? -- Karsten M. Selfhttp://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Home of the brave http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ Land of the free Free Dmitry! Boycott Adobe! Repeal the DMCA! http://www.freesklyarov.org Geek for Hire http://kmself.home.netcom.com/resume.html pgpQtknNsdORJ.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: No xpr on debian...
Mike Fontenot wrote: > > Erik Steffl wrote: > > > e.g. gimp can read xwd files, there's /usr/bin/xwdtopnm, I guess there > > are other programs as well... > > I couldn't find xwdtopnm on my system. Is it part of some > debian package? yes, when faced with a question like this, go to the debian.org webpage, go to Packages (left side menu) and use the last form on that page to search for a file, it will tell you where it is (if it is in debian). btw the answer in this case: netpbm erik
Re: trying to verify contents of my tar archive
on Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 11:14:36AM -0800, Kurt Lieber ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I've been using Karsten Self's sample backup script available in the Linux > Backup mini-FAQ at: > > http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Linux/FAQs/backups.html > > This script basically uses tar to archive a list of directories to tape and > then verifies the backup as well. When I run the script, the output is the > following: > > z8:~/backup# ./full.script > tar: Removing leading `/' from member names > [snip 8 more lines of this] > /etc: verified > /root: verified > /boot: verified > /home: verified > /usr/local: verified > /var/backups: verified > /var/lib: verified > /var/log: verified > /var/www: verified > > Which leads me to believe all the data has been backed up and is good to go. > However, if I do "tar tvf /dev/st0" to list the contents of the tape, all I > get is the following: > > z8:~/backup# tar -tvf /dev/st0 > drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2001-10-18 19:59:23 var/www/ > -rw-r--r-- root/root 4100 2001-03-22 17:39:29 var/www/index.html > -rw-r--r-- root/root 1195 2001-10-18 19:59:23 var/www/search.html > > I suspect this is more user error than anything, but I'm not sure what I'm > doing wrong. I've tried rewinding the tape as well as doing a "mt -f > /dev/st0 asf" 1 to position the tape at the beginning, but I still get the > same output when I tar tvf. Any help is appreciated. YOU ARE USING A REWINDING TAPE DEVICE. YOU ARE CREATING ONLY ONE TAR ARCHIVE, OVERWRITING THE PRIOR ARCHIVE EACH TIME YOU CREATE A NEW ONE. YOU ARE ***NOT*** ARCHIVING YOUR SYSTEM AS YOU EXPECTED. Replace /dev/st0 with /dev/nst0. $ man st ...for more info, search "FILES". The scripts I use save multiple tar archives to tape. One necessary element is to use a nonrewinding tape device. /dev/st0 *REWINDS THE TAPE AFTER EACH FILE OPERATION*. The verification routines in my script, if you look at them, run as: for path in $backupdirs do eval echo "Verifying $path" $WALLMSG tar tf /dev/nst0 1>/dev/null && \ eval echo "$path: verified" $WALMSG || \ eval echo "$path: errors in verify" $WALMSG ...all this does is verify that the format of the tarfile is intact. It doesn't validate the data against disk. What you're doing with your rewinding device is: for list of archive directories: create archive rewind to start of tape rewind to start of tape for list of archive directories: verify that tarfile *is* a tarfile rewind to start of tape You're verifying the same tarfile ten times. Unfortunately, it's the only tarfile on the tape. Use /dev/nst0 instead. To verify the archives on your tape, using a NONREWINDING DEVICE, you'd do: mt rewind tar tf /dev/nst0 mt fsf 1 tar tf /dev/nst0 ... ...until you reached the last file. I'd discarded the output in my verify above as it tends to make the job log rather verbose. I may need to fix that somehow. Peace. -- Karsten M. Selfhttp://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Home of the brave http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ Land of the free Free Dmitry! Boycott Adobe! Repeal the DMCA! http://www.freesklyarov.org Geek for Hire http://kmself.home.netcom.com/resume.html pgpQLiC8VGLvY.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: So: reiserfs or ext3 (was Re: ext3 to be in 2.4.15!)
On Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 02:03:10PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > I've got both ext3fs and reiserfs on my most recent laptop build. > > There are advantages to each. > > Reiserfs has better performance with larger filesystems, particularly > for large directory listings. In one case, I've got a directory with > 125,000 files in it. Under ext*, directory operations are very slow, on > the order of several seconds, due to the need to scan a file list. > Reiserfs's use of a hash to store directory entries makes manipulation > far faster. > > OTOH, ext3fs has far less disk overhead for small partitions. Word is > that the reiserfs journal requires 32MB, regardless of partition size, > while ext3's .journal file is sized proportionately. Now that you said this... I'd like to see how reiserfs and ext3 in writeback mode perform. I'd think ext3 would still be outperformed by reiser for the large dir listings. The default for ext3 is ordered data mode, which is safer than writeback. As far as I know, ReiserFS does the equivalent of ext3-writeback only (journalling metadata, but not data). Is this correct? That would bring up another advantage of ext3 (it'd be safer than reiser in ordered data mode) J. --
So: reiserfs or ext3 (was Re: ext3 to be in 2.4.15!)
on Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 03:16:54PM -0500, Tom Allison ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > So, unlike what I read in ReiserFS, I can just hang out on this for a > while and then upgrade at my leisure? This is so totally cool > Is there an performance difference between this "conversion" and > starting from scratch? I've got both ext3fs and reiserfs on my most recent laptop build. There are advantages to each. Reiserfs has better performance with larger filesystems, particularly for large directory listings. In one case, I've got a directory with 125,000 files in it. Under ext*, directory operations are very slow, on the order of several seconds, due to the need to scan a file list. Reiserfs's use of a hash to store directory entries makes manipulation far faster. OTOH, ext3fs has far less disk overhead for small partitions. Word is that the reiserfs journal requires 32MB, regardless of partition size, while ext3's .journal file is sized proportionately. So, my /, /boot, and /tmp partitions are ext3fs, /var, /usr, and /home are reiserfs. There's room for all. And that's the majick of GNU/Linux: there's choice. It's about choice. Incidentally, those who don't want to wait for the 2.4.15 support can apply the ext3fs patch from Debian. Peace. -- Karsten M. Selfhttp://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Home of the brave http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ Land of the free Free Dmitry! Boycott Adobe! Repeal the DMCA! http://www.freesklyarov.org Geek for Hire http://kmself.home.netcom.com/resume.html pgpYpmFL0zOAC.pgp Description: PGP signature
DHCP Servr configuration
I am attempting to set up a dhcp server and its going rather
slowly.
Would like to have the bare minimum config for a single networked
(windows) machine which I want to give internet access to from my
debian server.
The debian runs the dhcpcd and is configured thus by the ISP:
inet addr:24.132.170.14 Bcast:24.132.171.255 Mask:255.255.254.0
So now this machine has internet access.
I configure eth0 as follows:
ifconfig eth0 204.254.239.10 up
Here is the dhcp.conf which I had a go at:
---
option domain-name "loots.com";
default-lease-time 600;
max-lease-time 7200;
subnet 128.164.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
range 128.164.1.0 128.164.1.20;
option broadcast-address 128.164.1.10;
}
---
I am sure the broadcast-address is wrong.
/usr/sbin/dhcpd eth0
This manages to configure the client windows machine and I
may telnet from it to the debian. To get internet access, however,
I experimented manually adding a default route (to both eth0
and eth1 of the debian). Nothing works to give the windows machine
internet access.
What could I be missing?
--
Eric Smith
Re: /var/log/messages on the desktop
--- Sunny Dubey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (2001-11-10 14:40): > how do people get messages that get added to /var/log/messages printed to > their desktops ?? Try the package root-tail. Cheers, Sean -- Sean Quinlan ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: ext3 to be in 2.4.15!
on Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 12:37:34PM -0500, Michael P. Soulier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 11:10:50AM -0600, DvB wrote: > > ... it's in as of 2.4.15-pre2 > > > > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/testing/patch-2.4.15.log > > Great, they're weren't even done with 2.4.14 yet. Is it just me, or are > they churning out releases too damn fast for comfort? I am reassured by > Debian's slow release cycle that it will be of high quality. Kernel.org is > slowly becoming as bad as any other big company. You clearly don't recall the time of hourly kernel releases ;-) Granted, this was 0.9x days, IIRC. -- Karsten M. Selfhttp://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Home of the brave http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ Land of the free Free Dmitry! Boycott Adobe! Repeal the DMCA! http://www.freesklyarov.org Geek for Hire http://kmself.home.netcom.com/resume.html pgp9b7g7yKl8C.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: remote install progress?
on Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 03:22:51PM -0500, Tom Allison ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > OK, so I nuked a partition and started building a new Debian > installation using a floppy disk to boot from. > > I'm trying to put together something here that I can have someone use to > boot a computer 1,000 miles away and I can use SSH to install everything > else necessary to turn that computer into a Debian GNU/Linux server. > > Originally, it looked like I could just install everything via CD-ROM. > But this distro I've created is so tiny that I can (maybe) fit it into a > floppy disk!!! (Yes, it would have saved time if I had know this earlier..) > > Question -- what I have now is a hard drive and a floopy boot disk. > > I can't exactly ship this in it's current form. > How do I convert this into a boot disk? What's on the floppy? -- Karsten M. Selfhttp://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Home of the brave http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ Land of the free Free Dmitry! Boycott Adobe! Repeal the DMCA! http://www.freesklyarov.org Geek for Hire http://kmself.home.netcom.com/resume.html pgp911BYBqPPn.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Problem in my CD-Roms
on 11/10/01 3:41 AM using moldy cheese [EMAIL PROTECTED] engraved this message > Dear technicians of Site, > Hello, I hope you have the great time. I want to ask questions about my > corrupt CD-ROMS. I hope you help me. > In fact our four number of CD-ROM were corrupted and I dont know how to > repair them. I contact with the manufacturer of products but they said me > that the dealers should be repairing them but they dont know anything about > repairing. I research and couldnt understand their problem and neither > could they. > Would you please help me to repairing them? The CD-ROM connects to SCSSII > Controller and I sure that the SCSII cards are correct. The system whether > didnt find the CD-ROM or the LED of Drives light forever. Can I solve these > problems with your help or not? > I wait to receive your recommends and your guidance. > With the best wishes, > Ali > > > _ > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp > if i understand you correctly and the LEDS on the cd-rom's are always lit then check to make sure the scsi ribbon cable is plugged in the right way (pin 1 on drive is cennected to pin 1 on cable...) this will make them unreadable if it is backwards... sloopy.
Support for MS-6378 motherboard
Has anyone had a good/bad experience with this? Thanks,
Re: Gigabyte GA-7ZX & sound chip
hi keith, i have a GA-7ZXR, also with onboard sound. to let the sound work i have compiled the kernel (2.4.13) with the following options: CONFIG_SOUND=y CONFIG_SOUND_ES1371=m ...the command lsmod gives me the following output: wind:/usr/src/linux# lsmod Module Size Used by NVdriver 657600 34 (autoclean) usb-uhci 20932 0 (unused) usbcore50784 1 [usb-uhci] es1371 26752 0 ac97_codec 9376 0 [es1371] ...and /etc/modules contains: rtl8139 es1371 usb-uhci ...and the simple test # cat /boot/vmlinuz >/dev/dsp makes a horrible noise ;-) but i dunno if it works on stable, running sid since i installed the box here... hope it helps! -felix On Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 05:46:56PM +, Keith O'Connell wrote: > Hi, > > I am now stuck. I am unable to get sound out of the box in front of me, > and I am at the end of the list of things I can try. > > I have a machine based on a Gigabyte GA-7ZX. It has a 1.2 Ghz AMD and > 512Mb. I have managed to establish that the sound chip on the board > requires the es1371 module, and this I selected at installation time, > and it duly appears in /etc/modules. > > This is where the problem arises. If the module is left in the > /etc/modules file, then my Gnome desktop locks up solid and the only way > out is to pull the power lead out of the back of the box! If es1371 is > commented-out then Gnome runs perfectly, but in absolute silence. > > I have had sound running fine on two other boxes with different sound > chips, so I am reasonably sure that my method is good in principle, but > I cannot get it to work in with particular combination. Hopefully > someone else has encountered, and solved, what I clearly cannot. > > My only requirement is that the solution does not go outside "stable". I > am finding Linux a big enough challange without bringing in > "testing/unstable/sid" into the equation > > Can any one help? > > Keith > -- > +--+ > Keith O'Connell | "That which does not kill > Maidstone, Kent (UK) | us, usually still hurts. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] | That's just life, I'm afraid" > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Felix von Delius
update problems
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Last weekend I attempted to update my [small home] server (with a dselect update) to the latest version of "testing". I was previously running testing but I had not updated it for several months It failed - disasterously - in that everything started crashing and I ended up restoring from backup I tried it again this weekend (I assumed the problem was a temporary blip - since query on this list brought no response), but it has failed in exactly the same way. It seems to be updating libc6 at the time - and as soon as it has updated, dpkg gets no further (it starts seg faulting) and much of the rest of the system doesn't work either. Applications segfault - ssh eventually kills its connection - attempt to login on the main console fails and even starting linux with the init=/bin/sh command line just hangs.. In the end I had to recover by restoring the whole of /lib (and its subdirectories) from a backup. I tried just restoring /lib/libc* and /lib/i686/libc* but that didn't work Trouble is now I am stuck. How do I get my "testing" configuration up to date? - -- Alan - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE77ZtB1mf3M5ZDr2kRAo8OAKCXIfRqUnVLxbyOaZOl1p+wRFu1kQCfTVZA Le1XaxLcmQ5MmcIMQd8O8aM= =TcDD -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: weird nvidia problem in unstable
Hmmm, weird, tried your suggestion, and now it works fine. Even with libc6-2.2.4-5. I thought that 'make install' in the nvidia_glx directory removed all conflicting files... Well, everything is fine now. Thanx On Saturday 10 November 2001 20:54, Dominique Deleris wrote: > On Sat, 10 Nov 2001 20:40:24 +0100, Victor Julien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: > > Victor> Hi Dominique, > Victor> Since yesterday i had the same problem, i run debian-testing. > Going back to Victor> libc6-2.2.4-3 solved my problem! So nvidia in > combination with libc6 seems to Victor> be the problem. > > Victor> Good luck, > Victor> Victor > > Here is what "Mental" replied to me: > --- > I had some conflicting libGL.so* files in /usr/X11R6/lib > Check if you do. If you do, rm /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so* and run > ldconfig. > --- > > It solved my problem. > > So I wonder what is the relation with libc6 version? > > Cheers,
snmpd eating memory
I have a strange problem with one of my potato boxes, snmpd sits and slowly eats up all the memory. The box in question has hand-built 2.2.17 kernel, snmpd 4.1.1-2. Since being started on 27th October it is now using 90596k according to memstat, this on a 96meg box. I cannot work out what is going on, the only thing snmpd is used for on this box is for mrtg to report on bandwidth usage. I have two other potato boxes with the same version of snmpd being used for the same purpose without this problem. One has kernel 2.4.3, the other 2.2.19. Any ideas where the problem might lie? Cheers, Tom -- Someone will try to honk your nose today. pgpXmOsrpMkRD.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Thoghts on a computer as a stero component?
On Saturday 10 November 2001 19:03, Stan Brown wrote: > OK, I'v got the bug. > > I'm siting here thinking about giving my stero system (medium high end) a > computer for Christmas :-) > > Seroiousl what have people done for computers used promarliy as a steror > system component? Seems to me tahe niose sheidling would be priority No.1, > followed closely by a reasonably compact design, and then, a failry smalle, > but usuable display. My system is made up with rackmount units so I used a rackmount PC, I doubt that'll be sutible for you though, I duno what the case is it was from a computer fair. For a small PC try the Asus Terminator I've got the P-III version it's small, quiet & everything is supported in linux. I'm using it to write this email. This thing runs 24/7 with a half speed P-III 866 (no need for fan on the HS), 512Mb PC-133 & the latest Seagate HDD, I've changed the fan in mine for something quiter. It's no speed demon but it's not slow either. http://www.digit-life.com/articles/asusterminator/ The Shuttle SV24 is better looking, smaller, but louder as it uses a 60mm fan, the asus uses a slow 92mm fan. I think the only thing that is slighly suspect is the audio but its got a PCI slot so that can be solved. http://www.tech-report.com/reviews/2001q4/shuttle-sv24/index.x?pg=1 Noise isn't too much of a problem with these things, the Asus with just it's 2mm fan runs cool and is almost silent. Ani
Re: Audio-CD not readable
on Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 10:19:57AM +0100, Angel Parra ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello!! > k > I have some audio-cd's that can`t be readed on my CD-reader (and I > think that in no one) This CD's are the new "anti-copy" tecnique. I > nearly sure that the secret off the anticopy is to pot wrong CRC on > fisical media, on some samples. Of course the discograpic give you a > player, for windos, and what happend with linux, os/2, mac ...?? > > My question. I have a IDE CD-reader and a IDE CD-recorder, with ICSI > emulation. Wher can I find inside kernel (version 2.2.20) the CRC > check for audio/data CD's, I will wanth to switch it off and check if > it's posible to read the "bad CD". Or if you have any other idea or > know aout ani cd-player that suports this kind of CD`s? This has been covered in several news reports, see the Register: Old code defeats new CD anti-ripping technologies Tony Smith, 10 August, 2001 http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/20947.html 'Hi-fi nuking' CD technology safe claims developer Tony Smith, 10 August, 2001 http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/54/20945.html CD anti-piracy system can nuke hi-fi kit Tony Smith, 3 August, 2001 http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/54/20809.html Anti-rip CD system bypassed Tony Smith, 1 August, 2001 http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/54/20766.html There is new content restriction technology being used, without notice, on audio CDROMs. The technology is incompatible with computer CD players, and may harm some audio equipment. My suggestion: return the disk(s) as defective to your vendor. Sue the bejesus out of them if they balk. Publish then name of the store, recording lable, and artist who are using this technology, and tell the store you will be doing this. Post the names here. Avoid all the involved players like the plague. Peace. -- Karsten M. Selfhttp://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Home of the brave http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ Land of the free Free Dmitry! Boycott Adobe! Repeal the DMCA! http://www.freesklyarov.org Geek for Hire http://kmself.home.netcom.com/resume.html pgp4B0L3rSpne.pgp Description: PGP signature
Woody and XFree driver for voodoo 3500 TV
since the upgrade, video performance is pretty bad. What could cuase this? Thanks,
Woody Gnome login is Slow!
Since upgrading to woody, it seems to take a long time to log in. There is also a major pause prior to the Gnome splash screen coming up.
Re: dpkg problem
on Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 05:10:20PM -0600, Cheryl Homiak ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Thank you. I found only two "tr" files: one in /etc/X11/xkb/symbols/tr and > the other, actually a directory, in /usr/share/locale. So I decided that > before jumping to conclusions I would reinstall textutils, using "apt-get > --reinstall install textutils". After doing this, I had no problem with > fully installing locales and the package that had originally alerted me to > this problem. Interesting. Any idea how you managed to lose textutils? -- Karsten M. Selfhttp://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Home of the brave http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ Land of the free Free Dmitry! Boycott Adobe! Repeal the DMCA! http://www.freesklyarov.org Geek for Hire http://kmself.home.netcom.com/resume.html pgpahqIj4LdIf.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Xwindows GUI
on Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 09:48:34PM -0700, 57j ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I just installed Debian and made the mistake of turning on the Xwindows GUI > login. How do I turn that off and startup with the text prompt? > > Thanks, > Cathy Cramer There's a short FAQ on GNU/Linux X display manager disabling you may find useful, at: http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Linux/FAQs/xdm-disable.html Thank you. -- Karsten M. Selfhttp://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Home of the brave http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ Land of the free Free Dmitry! Boycott Adobe! Repeal the DMCA! http://www.freesklyarov.org Geek for Hire http://kmself.home.netcom.com/resume.html pgp5qirNGrRQz.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: ext3 to be in 2.4.15!
Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: See, there's no difference between "converting" and "starting from scratch'. Starting from scratch would mean create a ext2 filesystem and add the journal file to it, etc... (And this is absolutely great!) Read some documentation on ext3: http://people.spoiled.org/jha/ext3-faq.html J. COOL!!! COOL!!! COOL!!! I have something to PLAY with tomorrow
Re: building my own .debs
On Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 01:45:17PM -0600, Colin Watson wrote: > > http://www.debian.org/devel/ has just about all the references, > including the New Maintainer's Guide. Thanks. I glanced at the packages needing maintainers, and I'm not sure I'm qualified to handle any on that list. I'm a decent C coder, but it would take some ramp-up time to fix bugs in someone else's product like that. The closest might be gftp, but it's already flagged with a severe security problem. It'd probably take me a while to get up to speed on it. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG pub key: 5BC8BE08 "...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 pgp46pI3eH5h1.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: ext3 to be in 2.4.15!
On Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 03:16:54PM -0500, Tom Allison wrote: > >No, you just have to use tune2fs to add a journal file to each > >partition, and change your fstab. ext3 is forward and backward > >compatible with ext2. Oh -- you will need a recent version of e2fsprogs > > > >J. > > So, unlike what I read in ReiserFS, I can just hang out on this for a > while and then upgrade at my leisure? This is so totally cool > Is there an performance difference between this "conversion" and > starting from scratch? I have converted all my partitions to ext3 quite quickly -- the filesystem format is the same, and tune2fs will jsut add a file to it (it will be called ".journal") - then, change fstab, install new kernel with ext3 support, and reboot. See, there's no difference between "converting" and "starting from scratch'. Starting from scratch would mean create a ext2 filesystem and add the journal file to it, etc... (And this is absolutely great!) Read some documentation on ext3: http://people.spoiled.org/jha/ext3-faq.html J. --
Re: Fetchmail - Socket problems?
Cam Ellison went something in the lines of: > A look through Google suggests that part of the problem may be the server. Hmm, thanks. I'll look in to the server, to see if there's any problems on that end. But would that be fetchmail specific? I can get mail just fine with any win client, although fetchmail is the only client I've tried for Linux so far. > You may want to switch to IMAP from POP, though that did not help me. Hehe, I've tried setting up Mutt to get mail from a IMAP account so that I can stop using windows for checking mail. Although, the latest Mutt deb package seems to have problems with IMAP, as far as I've heard. I'll probably try compiling the latest source instead. Anyone else got any ideas about what could be wrong? -- /* Tobias Bengtsson, [EMAIL PROTECTED] */
remote install progress?
OK, so I nuked a partition and started building a new Debian installation using a floppy disk to boot from. I'm trying to put together something here that I can have someone use to boot a computer 1,000 miles away and I can use SSH to install everything else necessary to turn that computer into a Debian GNU/Linux server. Originally, it looked like I could just install everything via CD-ROM. But this distro I've created is so tiny that I can (maybe) fit it into a floppy disk!!! (Yes, it would have saved time if I had know this earlier..) Question -- what I have now is a hard drive and a floopy boot disk. I can't exactly ship this in it's current form. How do I convert this into a boot disk?
Re: ext3 to be in 2.4.15!
Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: After all, wouldn't I have to reinstall everying on a new set up partitions in order to get the support for ext3??? No, you just have to use tune2fs to add a journal file to each partition, and change your fstab. ext3 is forward and backward compatible with ext2. Oh -- you will need a recent version of e2fsprogs J. So, unlike what I read in ReiserFS, I can just hang out on this for a while and then upgrade at my leisure? This is so totally cool Is there an performance difference between this "conversion" and starting from scratch?
Re: No xpr on debian...
Nate wrote: > doesn't look like its available on debian. as for fundamental > i can't imagine how it is. if it was it would be included. Well, it's the CAPABILITY that's fundamental. Given an X dump, it's reasonable to want to print out that image. The program xpr converts the X dump to a postscript file, which can then be sent to lpr or lp. The same capability must be available in some other debian program. But also, xpr IS referenced on the xwd man page, so in that sense xpr could be considered fundamental. > i've been usin X and never heard of it in years. i work for > a company that does tons of X development(mostly X servers) > and ive never heard the program name mentioned(im not a developer > though) if you need it that bad i suggest grabbing the > source.. i checked a redhat machine(6.2) and it did not > have xpr either. so maybe its not part of xfree? i checked > a tru64, aix hpux and solaris systems and they had it. I used it on my redhat (5.0) system, and so I had assumed that it came from there. But before that, I used Solaris at work, so maybe that's were I originally got it. I just tried to execute (on debian) the xpr binary I got off my Redhat 5.0 system, and it said "can't load library 'libXmu.so.6' ". On my debian system, I DO have a /usr/X11R6/lib/libXmu.so.6, but it's a link to libXmu.so.6.0 (which I also have). Why can't it load that? Mike Fontenot [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Fetchmail changes?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I had a disasterous update to my main server last weeked - in that I tried to do a testing upgrade and found that many of my applications would no longer work I restored some things via a backup, but during the week I have noticed a problem Using kmail, if I get some spam mail, I hit control B which is supposed to send a bounce message back to the sender. This pops up a warning dialog with the mail address of who it is going to send the bounce message to. All of a sudden last week I noticed that hitting control B was no longer giving mail address of where the message had originally come from, but was instead reporting that it would try and bounce the message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Looking at the headers of the message I am trying to about does indeed have Return-path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> at the top My question - when did this change take place - is it an update to debian /etc/init.d/fetchmail - which seems to now set the user id to "fetchmail" before running the daemon (did it do this before?) or fetchmail itself? - -- Alan - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE77Yiq1mf3M5ZDr2kRAhOZAKCkXMlGEJ9yx2z4OWs2BDzhqiHIXwCfYShh 1jBVX7kBz6OtJkugXZWwSWM= =0iAp -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: building my own .debs
"Michael P. Soulier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hey people. > > Apologies for asking something that I should know, but if I have some > source that I've built from a tarball, and I'd like to package it up as a .deb > package and install it, I need to know how. Could someone direct me to the > definite reference on how to do this? http://www.debian.org/doc/maint-guide/ -- Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Re: ext3 to be in 2.4.15!
> I went from the stable kernel in potatoe to 2.4.9 to 2.4.12. I had to > get to 2.4.12 because 2.4.9 had some irda problems. > > I won't get getting into 2.4.15 for a while yet as I'm curious to see > how this ext3 really shakes out and how it's used. 2.4.15-pre2 locks my box hard... > After all, wouldn't > I have to reinstall everying on a new set up partitions in order to get > the support for ext3??? No, you just have to use tune2fs to add a journal file to each partition, and change your fstab. ext3 is forward and backward compatible with ext2. Oh -- you will need a recent version of e2fsprogs J. --
Re: run dselect for remote machine (nfs+chroot?)
Hans Ekbrand wrote: On Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 01:52:23AM -0800, Osamu Aoki wrote: I have slow 486DX2 (20MB) running woody as router. I realize memory swaps out frequently when I run dselect. I have 486DX 33 12 Mb, and found out that after selecting packages to install I could reduce the memory used by dselect by quitting dselect and then restart and go directly to install. I finally gave up dselect and am now relying only on apt. /Hans Ekbrand Besides being "user friendly" is there any that dselect does that apt-get cannot do? The only thing that I'm aware of is that there can be different files upgraded when I select 'dselect' over 'apt-get upgrade' Or am I just suffering from a mis-conception?
Re: weird nvidia problem in unstable
On Sat, 10 Nov 2001 20:40:24 +0100, Victor Julien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Victor> Hi Dominique, Victor> Since yesterday i had the same problem, i run debian-testing. Going back to Victor> libc6-2.2.4-3 solved my problem! So nvidia in combination with libc6 seems to Victor> be the problem. Victor> Good luck, Victor> Victor Here is what "Mental" replied to me: --- I had some conflicting libGL.so* files in /usr/X11R6/lib Check if you do. If you do, rm /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so* and run ldconfig. --- It solved my problem. So I wonder what is the relation with libc6 version? Cheers, -- Dominique Deleris http://potatoworld.tuxfamily.org
Re: ext3 to be in 2.4.15!
Michael P. Soulier wrote: On Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 12:53:38PM -0500, Jason Wojciechowski wrote: It's a conscious choice. I've read that Alan Cox is a big fan of lots of small-change releases rather than a few big ones. I guess it makes sense to release that way, I just wish they versioned a little differently, so I could decide what version to upgrade to without incorporating the bug of the week. Mike Well, it's pretty easy. I upgrade when I need to and then I usually either hang back at least one revision or wait ~2 weeks before I do it, to make sure the smoke has a chance to clear. I went from the stable kernel in potatoe to 2.4.9 to 2.4.12. I had to get to 2.4.12 because 2.4.9 had some irda problems. I won't get getting into 2.4.15 for a while yet as I'm curious to see how this ext3 really shakes out and how it's used. After all, wouldn't I have to reinstall everying on a new set up partitions in order to get the support for ext3???
proftpd root login not possible anymore
Hi... Since my last "apt-get dist-upgrade", I can't login anymore as "root" on my local ftp server. My proftpd.conf file contains the "RootLogin on" option as needed, but it simply does not work. That annoys me, because I use it in emacs, when I want to edit files as root. Any idea/suggestion ? Thanks -- Dominique Deleris http://potatoworld.tuxfamily.org
Re: Mutt - Procmail Question
On Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 07:48:00PM +0530, Jijo Jose A wrote: > hi all > still i used procmail 3.21.20010831.3.22pre-1 for mail processing and mutt > 1.3.22-1 as MUA, to remove the unwanted headers i wrote '|cat | formail -k -X > From: > -X Return-Path: -X Date:.. >>my_mbox' in .procmailrc as the action line > for a condition. but i started 'mutt -f my_mbox ', my_mbox is not a > mailbox > error will occured. > how can i solve this ? A couple of possibilities come to mind. A line looking like: From [EMAIL PROTECTED] is used to seperate different emails. If it's being removed you will have problems. The other thing is that the mbox format is picky about certain things, like trailing empty lines. Look at the actual file and find out what doesn't look right and then fix your procmail action accordingly. Try looking up the specifications for mbox style mail boxes online to find out what's wrong with your file. -- John Patton [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Love conquers all things; let us too surrender to Love." -Virgil, Eclogues
Re: weird nvidia problem in unstable
Hi Dominique, Since yesterday i had the same problem, i run debian-testing. Going back to libc6-2.2.4-3 solved my problem! So nvidia in combination with libc6 seems to be the problem. Good luck, Victor On Friday 09 November 2001 20:25, Dominique Deleris wrote: > On Mon, 5 Nov 2001 09:46:13 -0500, Mental <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > Mental> Hello, I've run accross an odd condition on my debian (unstable) > box. It Mental> seems that Quake3 is no longer textured properly on my > geforce card. The Mental> game starts fine. Menu's look ok. Startup screen > loads fine, but in game, Mental> textures are completely wrong. I've > reinstalled my GLX and kernel drivers. Mental> I've checked for conflicting > libs. Unreal Tournament works fine. Prboom Mental> works fine in GL mode. > Quakeforge is fine also. Rune (ported by loki) has Mental> the same problem > as quake3. > > Mental> I rebooted, quake3 is fine in windows. I thought maybe it was a > card issue Mental> and swapped in a brand new card. Same problem. > > Mental> Is this related (or could it be) to the libsdl re-arangement? I'm > kind of Mental> at wits end with it. My next step is to reinstall suse 7.2 > and see if I Mental> get the same probelem. I know I had everything with > SuSE, so its my 'last Mental> known good' configuration. > > Mental> I believe this weird behavior happened with my last apt-get > upgrade, but Mental> I'm not %100 sure and I dont even remember what got > upgraded. Anyone have Mental> any advice? > > I have the same problem today in Woody (testing). > > Any idea? Was the problem solved? > > Kind regards,
Re: building my own .debs
On Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 01:13:24PM -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > Apologies for asking something that I should know, but if I have some > source that I've built from a tarball, and I'd like to package it up as a .deb > package and install it, I need to know how. Could someone direct me to the > definite reference on how to do this? http://www.debian.org/devel/ has just about all the references, including the New Maintainer's Guide. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: building my own .debs
On Saturday 10 November 2001 20:13, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > Hey people. > > Apologies for asking something that I should know, but if I have some > source that I've built from a tarball, and I'd like to package it up as a > .deb package and install it, I need to know how. Could someone direct me to > the definite reference on how to do this? > > Thanks, > > Mike I don't know if this can help, but you can try checkinstall. The beta version (1.5.0beta2) can generate deb packages (as well as rpm). See http://asic-linux.com.mx/~izto/checkinstall-en.html -- Meir Kriheli
Re: vhosts policy?
On Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 07:52:26PM +0100, J?rgen Hermanrud Fjeld wrote: > Are there any policies for vhosts? No. Daniel Stone is working on a vhost-base (or vhosts-base? Can't remember) package which might help to establish one. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: No xpr on debian...
Erik Steffl wrote: > e.g. gimp can read xwd files, there's /usr/bin/xwdtopnm, I guess there > are other programs as well... I couldn't find xwdtopnm on my system. Is it part of some debian package? Mike Fontenot [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ext3 to be in 2.4.15!
On Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 12:53:38PM -0500, Jason Wojciechowski wrote: > > It's a conscious choice. I've read that Alan Cox is a big fan of lots > of small-change releases rather than a few big ones. I guess it makes sense to release that way, I just wish they versioned a little differently, so I could decide what version to upgrade to without incorporating the bug of the week. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG pub key: 5BC8BE08 "...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 pgpvvrMzu33Ex.pgp Description: PGP signature
Postfix troubles (rewriting addresses)
Dear all, to rewrite my mail address correctly (ppp connection to university ISP), I inserted the following lines in the config files: - /etc/postfix/main.cf:relayhost = mailout.uni-bonn.de myhostname = wabe.germanistik.uni-bonn.de masquerade_domains = uni-bonn.de - /etc/postfix/canonical:joachim [EMAIL PROTECTED] - /etc/postfix/sender_canonical:joachim [EMAIL PROTECTED] This works for my part, but there is a problem when I send a mail to someone with an address like [EMAIL PROTECTED]': the address is delivered correctly, but the `To:' address in the header too is rewritten to [EMAIL PROTECTED]' (without the `xyz'). This wouldn't be a real problem, but I'm driving people crazy who've got a mail with such an address in the `CC' field and wants to do a `Reply to all' ... Hoping someone can give me a clue, joachim
Re: Fetchmail - Socket problems?
I am having similar problems with a cable modem connection. I haven't been able to determine the exact size, but one or two large files have the same effect as several (usually more than 10) messages. Fetchmail indicates it is ready to receive, waits (for nothing), and then eventually gives up because the server doesn't reply. The FAQ suggests there is a problem in my networking layer, but I have no way of figuring out what that is. A look through Google suggests that part of the problem may be the server. You may want to switch to IMAP from POP, though that did not help me. Good luck Cam * Tobias Bengtsson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I've just managed to set up procmail, mutt, fetchmail and exim and it seems > to work fine to some extent. > I noticed yesterday that, while fetching mail from the POP server, fetchmail > halts with a socket error as soon as a mail was larger than 10,000 octets. > Now this troubles me, although I don't think that I get that many messages > larger that 10kb, I feel that I atleast should be able to. > > After reading the FAQ, I tried setting MTU and MTR to 552 in my ppp options > file, but that doesn't help. > > -- Cam Ellison Ph.D. R.Psych. From Roberts Creek on B.C.'s incomparable Sunshine Coast [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
trying to verify contents of my tar archive
I've been using Karsten Self's sample backup script available in the Linux Backup mini-FAQ at: http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Linux/FAQs/backups.html This script basically uses tar to archive a list of directories to tape and then verifies the backup as well. When I run the script, the output is the following: z8:~/backup# ./full.script tar: Removing leading `/' from member names [snip 8 more lines of this] /etc: verified /root: verified /boot: verified /home: verified /usr/local: verified /var/backups: verified /var/lib: verified /var/log: verified /var/www: verified Which leads me to believe all the data has been backed up and is good to go. However, if I do "tar tvf /dev/st0" to list the contents of the tape, all I get is the following: z8:~/backup# tar -tvf /dev/st0 drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2001-10-18 19:59:23 var/www/ -rw-r--r-- root/root 4100 2001-03-22 17:39:29 var/www/index.html -rw-r--r-- root/root 1195 2001-10-18 19:59:23 var/www/search.html I suspect this is more user error than anything, but I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. I've tried rewinding the tape as well as doing a "mt -f /dev/st0 asf" 1 to position the tape at the beginning, but I still get the same output when I tar tvf. Any help is appreciated. --kurt
Thoghts on a computer as a stero component?
OK, I'v got the bug. I'm siting here thinking about giving my stero system (medium high end) a computer for Christmas :-) Seroiousl what have people done for computers used promarliy as a steror system component? Seems to me tahe niose sheidling would be priority No.1, followed closely by a reasonably compact design, and then, a failry smalle, but usuable display. What have people used here? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. - (c) 2000 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited.
Re: mozilla 0.9.5 on sid
On Sat, 2001-11-10 at 19:27, Charles Baker wrote: > > I can't get Mozilla nor Galeon 0.12.4 to display https > pages. for instance https://login.yahoo.com/ and even > going to http://login.yahoo.com, filling in my uid and > pw and pressing submit yeilds nada. You probably don't have mozilla-psm installed -- I did not vote for the Austrian government
Re: mozilla 0.9.5 on sid
SSL support in Mozilla is broken out into a separate package, PSM (Personal Security Manager). To use it, you need to install the mozilla-psm package as well. HTH. -- --- Paul D. Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> HASMAT--HA Software Mthds & Tools "Please remain calm...I may be mad, but I am a professional." --Mad Scientist --- These are my opinions---Nortel Networks takes no responsibility for them.
vhosts policy?
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Re: tar and '-p' option
* Lance Hoffmeyer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > When backing up directories do I need the -p > option to save file attributes, ownership... > or do I use -p during restore to do this, OR > do I not need -p and it is done by default? > > I don't really understand this option and I > want to make sure that if I have to recover > a filesystem that when I untar everything is > not set with the root permissions and ownership. Not sure about GNU tar, but most tars default to -p when run as root. In any case, giving it -p doesn't hurt. I always use -cpv / -xpvf - when moving filesystems. Dima -- We're sysadmins. Sanity happens to other people. -- Chris King
Re: Newbie comments & queries
> I thought that I had fixed up color on the ls command but it seems not. > I am logged in as user not root > > The mini Colour-ls HOWTO said to add certain lines into .bashrc - well > they were already there so I uncommented them. Once you uncomment them you have to run the script again. You can run it by doing: $ . ./.bashrc or $ source ./.bashrc Then the colouring should work in that shell. Or you can log out and log back in again and the colouring should work in new shells. But I like the idea of testing the new .bashrc file before logging out, so that if a serious mistake is made and the script bombs, you can fix it before you log out. If it still doesn't work, post the parts of your .bashrc and .bash_profile (or /etc/login and /etc/bash.bashrc) files that deal with coloring, and we'll try to help. Also send the output of the command $ echo $SHELL > Still no go. I noted > that the first lines of .bashrc were like > > /.bashrc executed by bash(1) for non-login shells > > Well, I have a login shell, right? And the color was not coming up, and > neither were the uncommented alias definitions in the .bashrc file > either. ... a new login shell, after the .bash_profile is changed. > Further examination brought me to .bashrc_profile , the first lines of > which said that it was for log-in shells. I also noted that it had a > line > > Include .bashrc Files get included from scripts with the source or dot commands as above (the source command can be run from the command line or in a script). > which I assume will process .bashrc. If I uncomment this file will that > be fine? I suppose I should have saved it as .old and then gone ahead and > tried anyway. Another good technique! > Also, question of terminology. Do I have a terminal? I have a monitor > attached to my PC. Is this a vt100 terminal in unix-speak? It's not a vt100 terminal. I'm not entirely sure, I think you are working at the "console". It _is_ a "terminal", just not a vt100 terminal. > With regard to seeing more of top, I suppose that i could see if the > monitor would show more lines, will investigate that. The output of top changes every 10 seconds or so (configurable), if you really want to pore over the output and ensure it adds up, etc, you want ps. You can pipe ps to the screen, or to a file: $ ps aux > ps.file.txt Then you can edit the file ps.file.txt, or cat it through less: $ cat ps.file.txt | less And examine the contents to your heart's content. > Douglas Tophams book is showing signs of age, but has been some help. > The simple script file examples, one concerned with taking input at the > command line via read (a directory name) failed to work despite having > been written correctly and rendered executeable. I will check it out > again however. There are quite a lot of commands that have obviously There are different shells, which take commands in different syntaxes. Debian Linux uses the bash shell, the Born Again Shell. Similar shells are: sh, ksh (Korn Shell), Bourne shell. All these are derived from and mostly compatible with sh. You want to try to make sure your book isn't using C-shell derived syntax (actually quite likely). The two are really not compatible. C-shell derived shells are: csh, tcsh, zsh? and others. > been upgraded or done away with over the years. Calendar is nice, have > made up a file with all birthdays and local holidays in it. Must run it > daily via cron perhaps. Great stuff, glad you are productive with some things! Makes learning a lot more fun. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Consider registering as a bone marrow donor http://www.bloodservices.ca/english/ubmdr
Re: mozilla 0.9.5 on sid
--- Marc Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 05:06:26PM -0800, Charles > Baker wrote: > > When I start mozilla 0.9.5 on sid I get an error > > "Cannot create browser instance" > > Move your ~/.mozilla directory somewhere else and > let Moz recreate it. I > bet it works now. > > Do you use something other than one of the > pre-packaged skins? > <> Thanks. Mozilla now starts. No, I haven't done anything with the skins on this machine yet. However, I can't get Mozilla nor Galeon 0.12.4 to display https pages. for instance https://login.yahoo.com/ and even going to http://login.yahoo.com, filling in my uid and pw and pressing submit yeilds nada. = - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hacking is a "Good Thing!" See http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html __ Do You Yahoo!? Find a job, post your resume. http://careers.yahoo.com
Re: ext3 to be in 2.4.15!
* Michael P. Soulier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > Great, they're weren't even done with 2.4.14 yet. Is it just me, or are > they churning out releases too damn fast for comfort? release early, release often. it's easier to locate and correct bugs in "small change" releases than it is in monster release. -- ) ,_),_) (-(__ |_ _ _ |/ ) | |(_)(_ |\ ( \_, ___ | http://www.exitwound.org : hard to find | ___ | BOFH excuse #419: Repeated reboots of the | | system failed to solve problem| ___ -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- | Version: 3.1 | | GJ/IT d- s: a C+++>$ UL P+++ L+++ E--- W++| | N+@ o K- w O- M- V PS+ PE Y+ PGP++ t+@ 5@ X++ | | R tv+@ b+ DI D+ G++ e h r+++ y+++ | --END GEEK CODE BLOCK--
Creating mp3's or vobis's from non CD sources?
I'm just figuring out all of the audio things I can do with my Linux machne. Pretty neat stuff. Today, I'm reading in all my CD's! Next, I would like to read in non CD sources, tapes, LP's et all. I recognize I will hev to enter all teh artist/Album/Track data by hand (big task), and I'm willing to invest the time to do this. So, how do I go about doing this? Most of the sources ar of very high quality, and i don't want to degrade them any more than I can. Sugestions? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. - (c) 2000 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited.
building my own .debs
Hey people. Apologies for asking something that I should know, but if I have some source that I've built from a tarball, and I'd like to package it up as a .deb package and install it, I need to know how. Could someone direct me to the definite reference on how to do this? Thanks, Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG pub key: 5BC8BE08 "...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 pgpXBScdTxphc.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Newbie comments & queries
Ian Balchin([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Despite the fact that at install time I gave the command line parameters > for lp (lp port=0x378, irq=7) and this was accepted as 'installation > successful', I see at boot time references to 'polling' > > I had tried to add this line > > lp=0x278,5378,7 (note second port, have now stuck in LPT2 card) > > but when I run lilo after editing this in it comes up with 'syntax error' > for this line (this as suggested in BootPrompt-HOWTO) > > Am I worrying about something that I need not? In fact LPT2 was > primarily intended for a dos programme (printer normally loaded with > invoice paper) but thought OK add it in to Linux. Don't know what > polling is. In linux, or winbloz (dos), the printer does not need to use an IRQ. When you don't assign one to the printer is shows that by this type of message lp0: using parport0 (polling). As I need all the IRQ's I can get, I use polling by using the following in lilo.conf; append = "lp=parport0 parport=0x378,none" ^^^ No IRQ :-) HTH, YMMV, HAND :-) Wayne -- Scheduled Release Date: A carefully calculated date determined by estimating the actual shipping date and subtracting six months from it. ___
