reinstall

[Tom Cook]

Is there some way to get apt to re-download and re-install ALL packages
installed on the system?  I am not looking for an upgrade, but a reinstall. 
Should I just write some script to get a list of installed packages and xargs
them to 'apt-get --reinstall install' or is there some way to specify all of the
installed packages automagically?

For the curious, the reason I ask is that I installed debian on a machine with
an erratic nic that was handily corrupting stuff as it went, and a number of
things are a touch unreliable (occasional segfaults).  So I want to reinstall it
all.

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Re: Equivalent of rc.local

[Oki DZ]

On Mon, 4 Feb 2002, Michael Merritt wrote:
> What is the Debian equivalent of /etc/rc.d/rc.local in RedHat (ie, where to 
> put user defined commands that should run at boot time?)

/etc/init.d, I guess.
Take a look at the "skeleton" file, so that you don't have to build the
scripts from scratch. Also the update-rc.d command, of course.

Oki

Device or resource busy error.

[James Rende]

Folks. 

I am trying to get my aging machine as far away from
Windows as humanly possible. I can't, however, get
Debian to recognize my NIC. When I try to run modprobe
rtl8139 as root, I get an error telling me that the
Device is not ready or in use. 

I'm running Debian 2.2r2 Kernel 2.2.17 

The card is a DLink DFE-530TX+ 

My hardware, (please don't laugh to loudly) is an
older Via chipset bios, AMD K6 2/450. 

The card is functioning in windows, so I know it isn't
bad hardware. 

Does anyone have a solution or suggestion I can try to
get Debian running online?

Thanks.

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Re: OT: TV Out & DVD

[Crispin Wellington]

On Tue, 2002-02-05 at 12:32, Jeremy Nickurak wrote:
> I'm putting together a 500Mhz-cpu machine to sit in my living room, 
> primarilly to play dvd's. Ideally, I'd be displaying to the television there, 
> however I'm not sure what to look for in a video card.
> 
> In order to get DVD's scaled to full screen, it'd be nice to have some degree 
> of 2d acceleration on the tv-out, to get real Xv-type speeds. I understand 
> the TNT2s that have tv-out are pretty good, but I've yet to hear any 
> confirmation about whether or not they would support Xv on a output-to-tv 
> display.

Last time I checked (6 months ago) they did not support xv on tv-out.
This may have changed with nVidias latest drivers. However it may not
have due to Macrovision concerns in nVidia.

What experiences have people had with Matrox G400's?

Somebody? Somebody?

Crispin

Re: routing problem

[Cameron Kerr]

On Mon, 4 Feb 2002, Jeremy T. Bouse wrote:

>   As I'm goin on the assumption you want Box C to have an option
>of which network (.9/24 or .7/24) go through and as they are equal hop
>count but obviously different bandwidth I would be tempt'd to suggest
>possibly running zebra on the three machines using possibly OSPF as it
>can take into account the bandwidth; whereas RIP would go on hop
>count...

In which case, you can increase the hop count of an interface using
ifconfig. I hear tell (not sure of the specifics) that zebra has problems.
Can anyone confirm this?

If he wants to use the links to agregate bandwidth, he should look at
using iproute2 to split the traffic (I forget what this is called)

Hope this helps,

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OT: TV Out & DVD

[Jeremy Nickurak]

I'm putting together a 500Mhz-cpu machine to sit in my living room, primarilly 
to play dvd's. Ideally, I'd be displaying to the television there, however I'm 
not sure what to look for in a video card.

In order to get DVD's scaled to full screen, it'd be nice to have some degree 
of 2d acceleration on the tv-out, to get real Xv-type speeds. I understand the 
TNT2s that have tv-out are pretty good, but I've yet to hear any confirmation 
about whether or not they would support Xv on a output-to-tv display.

Does anybody have any recommendations?

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Re: printers

[Ron Johnson]

On Mon, 04 Feb 2002 21:17:17 -0500 Fred <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have spent 30 minutes searching the Debian.org site for information on 
> supported printers.
> 
> I am new to Linux and currently have Mandrake installed, but I am 
> thinking about changing to Debian.  I have been told that the apt-get is 
> far superior to RPM.  But I was looking for printer driver packages 
> before I make a commitment.
> 
> Where do I find info on drivers for printers and other hardware?
> 
> Thank you in advance for you help
> 
> Fred

Hi, Fred.

I just made the switch from Mdk (been with them since 6.0), and 
am very glad I did.  No more Dependency Hell.

Debian supports CUPS, so, presuming that u use CUPS, since it is 
the mdk default, you will have no printing problems with Debian.
The name of the CUPS package is cupsys.

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Re: printers

[Henry House]

On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 09:17:17PM -0500, Fred wrote:
> I am new to Linux and currently have Mandrake installed, but I am 
> thinking about changing to Debian.  I have been told that the apt-get is 
> far superior to RPM.  But I was looking for printer driver packages 
> before I make a commitment.

If you have a printer currently working on Mandrake, you can keep your
existing printer filter (driver) from Mandrake and use it on your new Debian
system.

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Testing transition

[Osamu Aoki]

Please post on mailing list and use 72 char/line.

On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 05:51:34PM -0800, Kapil Khosla wrote:
> Hi, Thanks for your reply. I am new to Debian and want to make sure
> one thing. What will happen if I add "testing" as my last line to my
> sources.list file and the same package in testing is also in other
> paths(lines in sources.list).

With old(Potato) apt, it get package from testing because it is highest
priority.

> Will apt give preference to the packages mentioned in the first line
> or the package which is the latest ?

Latest, usually.

I think you need to read my "http://qref.sf.net"; site on how to move to testing.
Or read apt-howto on http://www.debian.org/doc/ddp

After doing so,

# apt-get update; apt-get install apt 

is first thing to do.  Then resd "man apt_preferences"

You can do "apt-get dist-upgrade" later when you know how to handle
everything :)

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Re: Equivalent of rc.local

[Paolo Falcone]

Michael Merritt wrote:

>What is the Debian equivalent of /etc/rc.d/rc.local in RedHat (ie, where to 
>put user defined commands that should run at boot time?)

As you know, all initialization scripts are placed in the /etc/init.d
directory. Symlinks to the scripts inside that directory are placed inside
/etc/rc?.d for runlevel-specific scripts, and /etc/rcS.d for system-wide
scripts regardless of runlevel.

There is also /etc/rc.boot for custom boot time scripts, but you'll find it
empty. There's an explanation in the Debian docus for such.


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Re: printers

[Paolo Falcone]

Fred wrote:

>I have spent 30 minutes searching the Debian.org site for information on 
>supported printers.
>
>I am new to Linux and currently have Mandrake installed, but I am 
>thinking about changing to Debian.  I have been told that the apt-get is 
>far superior to RPM.  But I was looking for printer driver packages 
>before I make a commitment.
>
>Where do I find info on drivers for printers and other hardware?

There's a nice howto on printers that are supported under Linux. Generally,
printers that can speak PCL or can support Postscript are usually supported
on Linux.

Printer "drivers" are provided by filter software (forgot the exact term).
E.g. if you're using lpr or lprng or lpr-ppd, there's magicfilter, apsfilter
and gnulpr(?) which provides filters for common printers they support. CUPS
(w/c can replace lpr) has its own printer filters.


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Equivalent of rc.local

[briand]

> "Michael" == Michael Merritt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

  Michael> What is the Debian equivalent of /etc/rc.d/rc.local in
  Michael> RedHat (ie, where to put user defined commands that should
  Michael> run at boot time?)

/etc/init.d is where the actual scripts reside

For each of the different run levels, i.e. boot, S(start), and 1-6
there are links in rc?.d/ directories.

Make sure and read the man page for update-rc.d

So you will put the start-up script of interest in /etc/init.d and
then estalblish the appropriate links to start or stop(kill) the
process in the appropriate rc?.d directories.

It sounds more confusing than it is.

I don't believe there is a "local" rc directory per se.

Brian

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Re: Total lockups using ext3

[Arne Goetje]

On Tuesday 05 February 2002 07:53, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 10:20:17AM +, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> > After weeks of frustration, I've finally settled that the frequent
> > lockups I've been getting when on-line with 2.4 series kernels is due to
> > enabling ext3. If I turn this off in fstab the lockups don't occur. Has
> > anyone else seen this?
>
> I had 2 hard lock-up with newly ext3 enabled system.
>
> I observed some irregularity with X start up so I thought it was new X.
> Console where I run startx become white.  I have 3dfx on cheep SMP box
> (Abit BP6).  SMP keep popping up interrupt error, anyway.
>
> Nice thing is rebooting is much faster with exi3 after hard lock up like
> this which requires brutal power-off button action.
>
> Oh, I use standard kernel-image-2.4.17-686-smp

Can it be that it is a kernel version issue? I use 2.2.14 with ext3-patch 
(self compiled) and don't have any problems at all. In which situations do 
you get these lockups?

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Re: UrlView strangeness

[Kevin C. Smith]

On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 07:35:08PM -0500, Rick Pasotto wrote:
> I use mutt which uses urlview to present a list of url's in a message.
> Lately, sometimes some of the lines in that list are blank (sometimes
> they're *all* blank). If I count the url's in the message and arrow down
> to the appropriate blank line it fires up lynx and takes me where I want
> to go.
> 
> Has anyone else experienced this?
> 

Had this problem for a time. But it just "went alway." 
Running Sid. Maybe it was corrected during an upgrade.

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Re: xawtv video0 not found

[Keith Willoughby]

Lance Hoffmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> I have v4l compiled into my kernel but when I try to run xawtv I get:
> 
> This is xawtv-3.68, running on Linux/i586 (2.4.17)
> can't open /dev/video0: No such device
> v4l-conf had some trouble, trying to continue anyway
> v4l: open /dev/video0: No such device
> v4l2: open /dev/video0: No such device
> no video grabber device available
> 
> /dev/video0 exists in /dev and I was attempting this
> as root.
> 
> Any ideas?

You did include the support for your particular card in the kernel
config? (That is, V4L support plus BT848 (or whatever) support)

If it's a BT848, check out the help for that config - you need to also
select I2C support in the kernel.

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printers

[Fred]

I have spent 30 minutes searching the Debian.org site for information on 
supported printers.


I am new to Linux and currently have Mandrake installed, but I am 
thinking about changing to Debian.  I have been told that the apt-get is 
far superior to RPM.  But I was looking for printer driver packages 
before I make a commitment.


Where do I find info on drivers for printers and other hardware?

Thank you in advance for you help

Fred

Re: Multi-domain POP/IMAP server

[Alvin Oga]

hi ya

if you were to use sendmail...
( i think it'd work with exim too?? donno )

have fun mailing
alvin
http://www.Linux-1U.net ... 1U stuff for p4/amd toys ...


for virtual domains pop/imap servers...

/etc/mail/local-host-names ( sendmail.cw )
domain_1.com
pop.domain_1.com
mail.domain_1.com

domain_two.com
pop.domain_two.com
mail.domain-two.com

# this is the "real" machine name   
primary.com
pop.primary.com
mail.primary.com


pinging those domain names should have the same ip# if oyu wnat
to use just one server... ( fix your dns till it works right )

/etc/mail/virtusertable
[EMAIL PROTECTED]   webmaster,[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]  webmaster,[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]   webmaster

who can send email thru your server
 ( arriving at the recepeint as coming from [EMAIL PROTECTED] 

/etc/mail/relay-domains
/etc/mail/relay_allow

if you wanna stop some spam... ( the hard way )
/etc/mail/access


-->>
-->> make the new db in /etc/mail && dont forget to restart sendmail
-->>

now setting up pop/imap ( use secure pop3s or imaps instead )
..
standard issue...
...
/etc/hosts.allow
/etc/hosts.deny
..

test it
telnet pop.domain_1.com 110  ( regular pop )
telnet pop.domain_1.com 995  ( might fail - checks protocol )

- use a SSL enable client to do secure pop3/secure imaps
IE, netscape, eudora, etc..etc..
stunnel, ssh, etc...

Secure pop3 ( howto info )

http://www.Linux-Sec.net/Mail/secure_pop3.txt

On Mon, 4 Feb 2002, Michael Merritt wrote:

> I need a POP & IMAP server that support multiple (virtual) domains on a
> single IP address.
> 
> Suggestions?

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[dman]

On Sun, Feb 03, 2002 at 11:29:43PM -0500, Wayne Topa wrote:
| Wayne Topa([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said:
| > dman([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said:
| > > On Sun, Feb 03, 2002 at 11:48:52AM -0500, Wayne Topa wrote:
| > > | dman([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said:
| > > 
| > > | > SpamAssassin does a pretty good job of tagging these so I can
| > > | > automagically dump them.
| > > | 
| > > | Then I am doing something wrong.  Spamassassin doesn't do anything
| > > | with them except put in  "X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0 required=5
| > > | tests=".
| > > |  
| > > | Must be a configuration problem but I sure can't find it. :-(
| > > 
| > > Are you using 'spamc' or 'spamassassin' as the filter?  If spamc, is
| > > spamd running?  If you use "spamc -f" and there is a problem
| > > communicating with the daemon, then the message is returned as
| > > non-spam.  spamd logs connections in syslog (also 'xconsole' shows the
| > > messages). 
| > > 
| > > Save the message to a file and run it through
| > > spamc -f | egrep "X-Spam|SPAM"
| > 
| > spamc
| > 
| > spamc -f < mail/spam-test | egrep "X-Spam|SPAM"  produces
| > X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0 required=5 tests=
| > 
| > /var/log/syslog shows  
| > Feb  3 15:50:04 prince spamd[25251]: connection from localhost [127.0.0.1 ] 
at port 4344
| > Feb  3 15:50:05 prince spamd[5841]: processed successfully for mail:8 in   
2 seconds
| > 
| > Just got another one and it shows "X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0
| > required=5 tests="  again.  It has to be something I haven't done
| > right in spamassassin.cf/.prefs.  I have not added any tests to the
| > end of .prefs
| 
| Dah!!!
| 
| Just found the problem.  I am running version 1.5-5.  I followed the
| directions in /usr/share/doc/spamassassin/README.gz.  Thought it
| didn't seem right but /etc/spamassassin.cf was just like
| /home/.spamassassin.cf.  Then I, finally, took a look at 
| /usr/share/spamassassin/spamassassin.cf.  Gee, wonder why that file
| has all those tests in it and the one in /etc doesn't

It's supposed to be that way.  The one in /usr/share is the default
configuration that SA ships with.  The one in /etc is your system's
site-specific customizations.

| Copied /usr/share/spamassassin/spamassassin.cf to /etc and 'now' it 
| it works as advertised!

I was going to suggest running 'spamd -D' in a shell and watching the
output.  spamd has some weird rules for finding the config files, and
if "../spamassassin.cf" exists, it uses that and doesn't look in
/usr/share.  I had the same problem when I first ran spamd as root,
but later I found that the initscript had an appropriate $PWD and it
worked.

FYI version 2.01 is in sid now, and I've been using it for several
days.  The setup instructions are the same, I just haven't updated the
web page at all.

-D

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Re: Equivalent of rc.local

[David Z Maze]

Michael Merritt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> What is the Debian equivalent of /etc/rc.d/rc.local in RedHat (ie,
> where to put user defined commands that should run at boot time?)

You might want to look at the Debian FAQ, particularly question 10.6
("It looks as if Debian does not use rc.local to customize the boot
process; what facilities are provided?).  See
http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/ch-customizing.html#s-custombootscripts.

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Re: Plotting tool for histograms etc.?

[Eric G . Miller]

On Mon, 4 Feb 2002 10:06:16 -0800 (PST), Lars Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Does the debian distribution include a good and easy tool for plotting
> histograms, pie charts, and other common plots in statistics? Are there
> any other good statistics packages for basic 1 and 2 variable
> statistics?

"R" is a pretty powerful statistics package (and has plotting capabilities).
Gnumeric has some basic statical capabilities (T-test, ANOVA, Regression)
and some plotting capabilities via libguppi.

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Re: SMP kernel

[Nick Hastings]

Hi,


* Greg Madden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020205 12:33]:
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> Hash: SHA1
> 
> On Monday 04 February 2002 03:36 pm, Nick Hastings wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> >not sure what's available in potato but a quick check on a sid box
> > reveals:
> >
> > %  apt-cache search kernel-image | grep -i smp
> > kernel-image-2.4.16-686-smp - Linux kernel image 2.4.16 on
> > PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII SMP. kernel-image-2.4.17-686-smp - Linux kernel
> > image 2.4.17 on PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII SMP.
> >
> > So if I wanted to install an off the shelf SMP kernel I'd do
> >
> > % sudo apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.17-686-smp
> >
> 
> Its been awhile since I looked at Potato but it used to be you had to 
> upgrade a few packages from >=woody in order to run a 2.4 kernel. 
> Adrian Bunk has/had a site with the relevant packages compiled for 
> Potato, or maybe 'apt-get source -b ' could do this with 
> woody source locations in ~/apt/sources.list

I just reread the original email. It says that Michael actually already
upgraded to testing. So it should be ok.

Nick.

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Equivalent of rc.local

[Michael Merritt]

What is the Debian equivalent of /etc/rc.d/rc.local in RedHat (ie, where to 
put user defined commands that should run at boot time?)
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Re: SMP kernel

[Greg Madden]

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On Monday 04 February 2002 03:36 pm, Nick Hastings wrote:
> Hi,
>
>not sure what's available in potato but a quick check on a sid box
> reveals:
>
> %  apt-cache search kernel-image | grep -i smp
> kernel-image-2.4.16-686-smp - Linux kernel image 2.4.16 on
> PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII SMP. kernel-image-2.4.17-686-smp - Linux kernel
> image 2.4.17 on PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII SMP.
>
> So if I wanted to install an off the shelf SMP kernel I'd do
>
> % sudo apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.17-686-smp
>

Its been awhile since I looked at Potato but it used to be you had to 
upgrade a few packages from >=woody in order to run a 2.4 kernel. 
Adrian Bunk has/had a site with the relevant packages compiled for 
Potato, or maybe 'apt-get source -b ' could do this with 
woody source locations in ~/apt/sources.list
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Re: atx shutdown

[Stephen Robertson]

Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote:


  Greetings:

I'm running into some problems trying to get an ATX box to really shut off 
during a shutdown.  Originally with 2.2.19 & 2.4.10, it would reboot with 
'shutdown -h now' command.  Odd and irritating.  I built a new kernel with 
2.4.17 and now I can get it to actually halt and not reboot, but it doesn't 
send the ATX the command to shut off the power.  Windows however is working 
fine on the same box.  


The chipset is:  ' lspci -v | less'
Host bridge: Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi]: Unknown device 1647 (rev 04)
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0
Memory at f000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
Capabilities: [b0] AGP version 2.0
Capabilities: [a4] Power Management version 1

PCI bridge: Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi] M5247 (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, slow devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=0
I/O behind bridge: d000-dfff
Memory behind bridge: e700-e7df
refetchable memory behind bridge: e7f0-efff

USB Controller: Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi] M5237 USB (rev 03) (prog-if 10 
[OHCI])

Subsystem: Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi] M5237 USB
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 9
Memory at e680 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 2

any assist greatly appreciated!

pls email direct [EMAIL PROTECTED]

tatah


Do you have Advanced Power Management enabled in the kernel?

atx shutdown

[Jaye Inabnit ke6sls]

   Greetings:

I'm running into some problems trying to get an ATX box to really shut off 
during a shutdown.  Originally with 2.2.19 & 2.4.10, it would reboot with 
'shutdown -h now' command.  Odd and irritating.  I built a new kernel with 
2.4.17 and now I can get it to actually halt and not reboot, but it doesn't 
send the ATX the command to shut off the power.  Windows however is working 
fine on the same box.  

The chipset is:  ' lspci -v | less'
Host bridge: Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi]: Unknown device 1647 (rev 04)
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0
Memory at f000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
Capabilities: [b0] AGP version 2.0
Capabilities: [a4] Power Management version 1

PCI bridge: Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi] M5247 (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, slow devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=0
I/O behind bridge: d000-dfff
Memory behind bridge: e700-e7df
refetchable memory behind bridge: e7f0-efff

USB Controller: Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi] M5237 USB (rev 03) (prog-if 10 
[OHCI])
Subsystem: Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi] M5237 USB
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 9
Memory at e680 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 2

any assist greatly appreciated!

pls email direct [EMAIL PROTECTED]

tatah

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Re: lilo.conf

[Osamu Aoki]

On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 04:23:56PM -0800, Kapil Khosla wrote:
> Hi,
> I have installed Potato on my laptop and edited my lilo.conf to have
> dual boot At boot time, I have to press shift and enter windows.  I
> have seen some graphic selection option in some systems What is the
> way to get that ?  Thanks

Lilo which comes with potato does not support graphics or full screen
lilo boot, as far as I know.

Install lilo from testing, then you get full screen text selection.

But I offer you easy way.  Install lilo in one of the deveces: /dev/hda1,
/dev/hda2, /dev/hda3, /dev/hda4.  Not in /dev/hda.

Then install debian MBR by using install-mbr to /dev/hda.

To get fancier graphics, install MBR like GAG over Debian MBR.

GAG has nice graphics.

Of course, you can get latest lilo source and compile with full screen
graphics install as the last resort. 
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Re: SMP kernel

[Michael Merritt]

On Monday 04 February 2002 18:36 pm, Nick Hastings wrote:
> So if I wanted to install an off the shelf SMP kernel I'd do
>
> % sudo apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.17-686-smp

Thanks, Nick.  Just the answer I was looking for.

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Re: SMP kernel

[Nick Hastings]

Hi,

   not sure what's available in potato but a quick check on a sid box reveals:
   
%  apt-cache search kernel-image | grep -i smp
kernel-image-2.4.16-686-smp - Linux kernel image 2.4.16 on 
PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII SMP.
kernel-image-2.4.17-686-smp - Linux kernel image 2.4.17 on 
PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII SMP.

So if I wanted to install an off the shelf SMP kernel I'd do

% sudo apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.17-686-smp

Cheers,

Nick.


* Michael Merritt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020205 11:29]:
> I did a network install of Potato (2.2r5) on Friday, then updated to testing 
> (3.0).  The machine is an HP Vectra XU 6/200 with 128MB RAM.  It has a 
> dual-Pentium Pro motherboard, but I only had one processor in at the time of 
> install.  Today I added a second PPro200 processor to the machine, so it is 
> now SMP.  Is there a way to drop in an SMP kernel (preferably 2.4.17) without 
> building my own from scratch?
> 
> I'm not against building my own kernel, but if there's a simple way to update 
> using apt-get or whatever, I'd like to learn about it.
> 
> I've used Linux for nearly 4 years, but this is my first Debian install.  Had 
> a spare box and a fast 'net connection, so I figured I'd give it a try.  
> Liking it so far, and apt-get is a very neat tool.
> 
> Thanks,
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UrlView strangeness

[Rick Pasotto]

I use mutt which uses urlview to present a list of url's in a message.
Lately, sometimes some of the lines in that list are blank (sometimes
they're *all* blank). If I count the url's in the message and arrow down
to the appropriate blank line it fires up lynx and takes me where I want
to go.

Has anyone else experienced this?

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SMP kernel

[Michael Merritt]

I did a network install of Potato (2.2r5) on Friday, then updated to testing 
(3.0).  The machine is an HP Vectra XU 6/200 with 128MB RAM.  It has a 
dual-Pentium Pro motherboard, but I only had one processor in at the time of 
install.  Today I added a second PPro200 processor to the machine, so it is 
now SMP.  Is there a way to drop in an SMP kernel (preferably 2.4.17) without 
building my own from scratch?

I'm not against building my own kernel, but if there's a simple way to update 
using apt-get or whatever, I'd like to learn about it.

I've used Linux for nearly 4 years, but this is my first Debian install.  Had 
a spare box and a fast 'net connection, so I figured I'd give it a try.  
Liking it so far, and apt-get is a very neat tool.

Thanks,
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lilo.conf

[Kapil Khosla]

Hi,
I have installed Potato on my laptop and edited my 
lilo.conf to have dual boot

 other=/dev/hda1
label=Windows
table = /dev/hda
#   restricted
#   alias=3

At boot time, I have to press shift and enter windows.
I have seen some graphic selection option in some systems
What is the way to get that ?
Thanks
Kapil

   

Re: Auctex/LaTeX/Emacs problem

[Ryan Claycamp]

On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 04:08:52PM -0600, Richard Cobbe wrote:
> Lo, on Sunday, February 3, Ryan Claycamp did write:
> 
> > I have lost the color markings in xemacs when I edit a LaTeX file.  I
> > am running woody and I think it happened after I updated to the new
> > version of auctex.  I noticed that when auctex installed, it said
> > something like emacsen ignoring flavor xemacs.  How do I get the color
> > back in xemacs when it is editing LaTeX files?  I really enjoyed that
> > feature.
> 
> IIRC, xemacs comes with its own copy of AUCTeX, which explains the
> `ignore' error message.
> 
> Assuming that you've got font-locking on in other editing modes, simply
> adding (require 'font-latex) to your .emacs file should do the trick.
> 

Thank you.  That did the trick, at least for xemacs.  I put the
command in both my .emacs file and .xemacs/init.el.  It didn't work
for emacs, but I don't have any color in emacs.  That is another worry
for another time as I mainly use xemacs for my editor.

I don't know how it disappeared, but thank you for brining it back for
me.

Ryan
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Re: Interresting report by logcheck....

[Noah Meyerhans]

On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 03:47:21PM -0600, Brian McGroarty wrote:
> 
> I'd appreciate it if you'd direct me to the newer material that
> supersedes the information in RFC 1033, Noah. I'll be searching myself
> as well. I don't wish to remain ignorant, of course.

From RFC 1912 (Common DNS Operational and Configuration Errors) section
2.4:

   Having NS records pointing to a CNAME is bad and may conflict badly
   with current BIND servers.  In fact, current BIND implementations
   will ignore such records, possibly leading to a lame delegation.
   There is a certain amount of security checking done in BIND to
   prevent spoofing DNS NS records.  Also, older BIND servers reportedly
   will get caught in an infinite query loop trying to figure out the
   address for the aliased nameserver, causing a continuous stream of
   DNS requests to be sent.

Now of course, this doesn't give any hint at all as to *why* this may be
bad, except that BIND doesn't like it.  If that's not a bad reason then
I don't know what is.  This may not be the best source for this info,
however.  There may very well be another RFC that gives more details.
This was the first one that came to mind, though.

noah

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Stops at Boot

[Jens Kubieziel]

Hello,

I'm using Debian Woody 3.0.17 with Kernel 2.2.19. My systems stops at
boot-up for 10-20 seconds. It shows this message:

 , [ Meldungen beim Booten ]
|  ...
|  vfb ac97_codec aci
|  ...
 `

Is this stop normal or can I change something for faster boot?
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Re: mysterious kernel panic at start up and it's workaround

[Osamu Aoki]

Hi,
On Sun, Feb 03, 2002 at 08:50:07PM -0800, Aaron Brashears wrote:
> I upgraded my kernel using the prepackaged 2.4.17 pentium pro
...
So you upgraded kernel.

> Request_module[block-major-3] Root fs not mounted
> VFS: Cannot open root device "303" or 03:03
...
So you can not mount root.  Is root ext2?
> The funny thing is that if I use the append root=/dev/hda3 in
> lilo.conf, it doesn't work. However if I load the debian rescue disk
> and specify root=/dev/hda3, the kernel boots fine. Why won't it just
> boot? 

Let's do one thing.  Boot system with boot disk with root=/dev/hda3
and gain root.

# vi lilo.conf
# lilo
# shutdown -r now

Osamu

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Re: vi cmd / replacing a certain line only.. pls help!! urgent..

[Steve Mayer]

Louie,

 Try   :50,100s/Jan 2/Jan 1/g

Steve

On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 04:08:05AM +0800, louie miranda wrote:
> How to replace a certain line on vi,
> 
> ex: 
> 
> line 1 up to line 100
> 
> i want to replace only line 50 to 100
> how will i do that in vi?
> 
> i did do,
> 
> :%s:50,100/Jan 2/Jan 1/g 
> 
> it does not work :(
> 
> pls help..
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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Re: Total lockups using ext3

[Osamu Aoki]

Hi,

On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 10:20:17AM +, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> After weeks of frustration, I've finally settled that the frequent
> lockups I've been getting when on-line with 2.4 series kernels is due to
> enabling ext3. If I turn this off in fstab the lockups don't occur. Has
> anyone else seen this?

I had 2 hard lock-up with newly ext3 enabled system.

I observed some irregularity with X start up so I thought it was new X.
Console where I run startx become white.  I have 3dfx on cheep SMP box
(Abit BP6).  SMP keep popping up interrupt error, anyway.

Nice thing is rebooting is much faster with exi3 after hard lock up like
this which requires brutal power-off button action.

Oh, I use standard kernel-image-2.4.17-686-smp

Osamu

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Re: true type fonts in X 4.x ?

[Osamu Aoki]

On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 11:46:03AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
> Does anyone have the short version of how to set up true type fonts
> under X ?

One of the best source of TT fonts are from M$ :-(

ii  msttcorefonts  0.9.9  Installer for Microsoft TrueType core fonts

Package: msttcorefonts
Priority: optional
Section: contrib/graphics
Installed-Size: 160
Maintainer: Eric Sharkey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Architecture: all
Version: 0.9.9
Depends: wget, cabextract (>= 0.1-2), gawk | awk, xutils (>= 4.0.2), debconf
Filename: pool/contrib/m/msttcorefonts/msttcorefonts_0.9.9_all.deb
Size: 12188
MD5sum: 5ee425f13c456a48955ea5bd80b1eb6d
Description: Installer for Microsoft TrueType core fonts
 This package allows for easy installation of the Microsoft True Type
 Core Fonts for the Web including:
 .
   Andale Mono
   Arial Black
   Arial (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic)
   Comic Sans MS (Bold)
   Courier New (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic)
   Georgia (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic)
   Impact
   Times New Roman (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic)
   Trebuchet (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic)
   Verdana (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic)
   Webdings
 .
 You will need an Internet connection to download these modules from
 Microsoft's Web site.
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Re: Problem with ping on myself

[Hans Ekbrand]

On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 10:57:47PM +0100, maniatronic wrote:
> That's a little bit old , i thought, and so i compiled the 2.4.17 Kernel.

> But there is no option named 'loopback device' or something similar, that I 
> could chose in the menuconfig!
> Is it named diffrently ???

Actually there is. In section "Block devices" there is the "Loopback
device support", at least in 2.4.16


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Re: Problem with ping on myself

[Hans Ekbrand]

Does /etc/network/interfaces have the following two lines?

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

If not, add them and try:

ifdown -a
ifup -a

Now, try ping yourself again. Check also that /etc/hosts has a line
similar to:

127.0.0.1   localhost


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Re: true type fonts in X 4.x ?

[briand]

Thanks very much Eric, your changes made the difference.  xfontsel now
works and shows the truetype fonts correctly.  I would have never
figured out that the link was necessary.

Here's a recap to summarize the changes.  This is for XFree 4.x :

1.  In your XF86Config (or XF86Config-4) file :

In section Modules, add

  Load "freetype"

Add the directory where your truetype fonts are located :

  /usr/share/fonts/truetype

to the fontpath.

2.  In directory /usr/share/fonts/truetype, run

   ttfmkfdir -o fonts.dir

create the apropriate link

   ln -s fonts.dir fonts.scale

3. Don't forget to actually have truetype fonts in the
   /usr/share/fonts/truetype directory :-)

> "Eric" == Eric C Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

  Eric> On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 11:46:03AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  >> Does anyone have the short version of how to set up true type fonts
  >> under X ?
  >> 
  >> Here's what I did, maybe someone can point out the error in my ways.
  >> 
  >> Add
  >> 
  >> Load "xtt"
  >> 
  >> to XF86Config

  Eric> Change this to
  Eric> Load "freetype"

  >> I also added /usr/share/fonts/truetype to the font path.
  >> 
  >> run
  >> 
  >> ttfmkfdir -o fonts.dir
  >> 
  >> in my /usr/share/fonts/truetype directory.

  Eric> Make sure that fonts.scale is a copy of, or link to, fonts.dir in each
  Eric> truetype directory.

  >> Try xfontsel and :
  >> 
  >> the fonts are "selectable" but they won't appear, i.e. they don't seem
  >> to render at all.  In fact xfontsel starts acting a little strange
  >> with repaints now working, etc...

  Eric> If you run Gnome, I suggest gfontsel from the gnome-utils package,
  Eric> especially if you have lots of fonts installed.

  Eric> HTH.

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Linux-friendliest video card mfg?

[Kent West]

Which video card brand is the friendliest to Linux? I figure to vote 
with my $.



Kent

Re: Multi-domain POP/IMAP server

[bibi]

le 4/02/02 21:50, Michael Merritt  (by way of Michael Merritt
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) à [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit :

> I need a POP & IMAP server that support multiple (virtual) domains on a
> single IP address.
> 
> Suggestions?
courier-pop + courier-imap
works like a charme

Ghislain.

Re: Multi-domain POP/IMAP server

[Emile van Bergen]

On Mon, 4 Feb 2002, Michael Merritt wrote:

> I need a POP & IMAP server that support multiple (virtual) domains on a
> single IP address.
>
> Suggestions?

I dealt with this using qmail and used a home-grown checkpasswd script
for its POP3 server. That script accepted a full [EMAIL PROTECTED] as the
login and returned the correct maildir based on that.

Very effective. Also, the authentication mechanism using an external
script even allowed me to use a fully virtual setup (using only one unix
uid) and to query a radius box for passwords, but of course your're free
to choose any backend setup you like.

Cheers,


Emile.

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Re: Auctex/LaTeX/Emacs problem

[Richard Cobbe]

Lo, on Sunday, February 3, Ryan Claycamp did write:

> I have lost the color markings in xemacs when I edit a LaTeX file.  I
> am running woody and I think it happened after I updated to the new
> version of auctex.  I noticed that when auctex installed, it said
> something like emacsen ignoring flavor xemacs.  How do I get the color
> back in xemacs when it is editing LaTeX files?  I really enjoyed that
> feature.

IIRC, xemacs comes with its own copy of AUCTeX, which explains the
`ignore' error message.

Assuming that you've got font-locking on in other editing modes, simply
adding (require 'font-latex) to your .emacs file should do the trick.

Richard

Re: dpkg not recorded as installed, cannot check for epoch support !

[Greg Madden]

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On Monday 04 February 2002 11:30 am, Andreas Reislöhner wrote:
> Hello,
>
> anybody know the problem and would like to help me ?
>
>
> Server:/# apt-get install mc
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> The following extra packages will be installed:
>   e2fsprogs libc6 libdb2 libgdbmg1 libglib1.2 libgpmg1 libncurses5
> mc-common perl perl-base perl-modules
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
>   e2fsprogs libc6 libdb2 libgdbmg1 libglib1.2 libgpmg1 libncurses5 mc
> mc-common perl perl-base
>   perl-modules
> 0 packages upgraded, 12 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0  not
> upgraded. Need to get 9094kB of archives. After unpacking 28.7MB will
> be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y
> Get:1 ftp://ftp.de.debian.org unstable/main libc6 2.2.5-1 [3373kB]
> Get:2 ftp://ftp.de.debian.org unstable/main e2fsprogs 1.25-1 [316kB]
> Get:3 ftp://ftp.de.debian.org unstable/main perl-base 5.6.1-7 [496kB]
> Get:4 ftp://ftp.de.debian.org unstable/main libdb2 2:2.7.7.0-3.1
> [264kB] Get:5 ftp://ftp.de.debian.org unstable/main libncurses5
> 5.2.20020112a-3 [237kB]
> Get:6 ftp://ftp.de.debian.org unstable/main libgdbmg1 1.7.3-27
> [18.9kB] Get:7 ftp://ftp.de.debian.org unstable/main perl-modules
> 5.6.1-7 [1279kB] Get:8 ftp://ftp.de.debian.org unstable/main perl
> 5.6.1-7 [1150kB] Get:9 ftp://ftp.de.debian.org unstable/main
> libglib1.2 1.2.10-3 [112kB] Get:10 ftp://ftp.de.debian.org
> unstable/main libgpmg1 1.19.6-9 [44.7kB] Get:11
> ftp://ftp.de.debian.org unstable/main mc-common 4.5.55-1.1 [1351kB]
> Get:12 ftp://ftp.de.debian.org unstable/main mc 4.5.55-1.1 [453kB]
> Fetched 9094kB in 2m17s (65.9kB/s)
> E: Cannot get debconf version. Is debconf installed?
> (Reading database ... 0 files and directories currently installed.)
> Unpacking libc6 (from .../libc6_2.2.5-1_i386.deb) ...
> dpkg not recorded as installed, cannot check for epoch support !
> dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.2.5-1_i386.deb
> (--unpack):
>  subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.2.5-1_i386.deb
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

I can't tell if you have a broken install, I don't know if dpkg & 
debconf are part of base, but you need these packages. You can use 
'apt-cache showpkg dpkg/debconf' to see if they have been downloaded . 
'apt-get check' will check for broken depends on your system. 'apt-get 
- -f install' will install missing packages ,or dselect gives you a nice 
inteface to pick & choose packages,or check to see if somethings 
istalled, or not.

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Problem with ping on myself

[maniatronic]

Hi.
Debian is new to me.
Í have got the 2.2r3 potato version with the 
2.2.19pre17 Kernel.
That's a little bit old , i thought, and so i 
compiled the 2.4.17 Kernel.
Now I've got a problem with sending a ping on my 
self.
What I've done: First: I've insmod the modul for my 
network-card. (bash~> insmod 8139too.o)
   
and then I've set up the card: bash~> ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.20 netmask 
255.255.255.0 up
   OK.
   New 
the card is intalled.
But when I execute ifconfig there is just the card 
and no loopback-device.
Might this be the reason why I can't ping myself 
???
If yes, then I would like to know how to set up an 
loopback device.
I think that I should have select it 
while chosing all the Kernel options with 'make menuconfig'
So I've checked again.
But there is no option named 'loopback device' or 
something similar, that I could chose in the menuconfig!
Is it named diffrently ???
 
Ok. thanks and sorry for my bad english 
;-)
 
c ya
 

Re: StarOffice Fireballs on HP Omnibook XE3L

[Dave Thayer]

On Sun, Feb 03, 2002 at 03:59:14PM +1030, David Purton wrote:
> 
> Hi everybody
> 
> I'm trying to get StarOffice 5.2 to run on my dad's HP Omnibook XE3L
> notebook.
> 
> It seems to load sort of ok, but X grinds to a slow painful crawl (like
> big delays on just moving the mouse) and black lines appear right across
> the screen.  The only way to recover seems to be to kill the Xserver
> from a remote shell - sometimes I can switch to a vt, but not always.
> I'm guessing it is a video card problem - since the software setup of a
> 2.4.4 kernel and latest woody stuff is identical to my desktop which has
> no such problems
> 
> the video card, according to lspci is:
> 
> VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. 86C270-294 Savage/IX-MV (rev 13)
> 

This is due to a bug in the S3 driver for X. You can get a fixed
driver from http://www.probo.com/timr/savage40.html or, quoting the
FAQ at this site: set an environment variable
"SAL_DO_NOT_USE_INVERT50" to "true" before launching StarOffice. 

If you upgrade the driver you will need to remember to replace it when
you upgrade X as it will be overwritten, at least until the patch
finds its way to the main xfree86 distribution.

HTH,
dt
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Re: smtp error during fetchmail

[p]

On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 09:19:50PM +, Jonathan Matthews wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 06:37:14PM +, p wrote:
> > debs,
> > 
> > when i fetchmail, i get an smtp error:
> > 
> > fetchmail: smtp connect to localhost failed
> > fetchmail: smtp transaction error while fetching from pcisys.net
> > fetchmail: query status=10 (smtp)
> > 
> > suggestions?
> > 
> > thx.
> > 
> > b.
> 
> Check that /etc/hosts.allow contains a line like
> 
> exim: , 127.0.0.1
> 
> or a line corresponding to whatever MTA you're using.
> 
> For me, this line is:
> exim: 192.168.0.0/24, 127.0.0.1
> 
> There might be other reasons for your problem, but that's the one that
> bit me last time I moved my mail setup around.
> 
> jc
>
//

thx jc,

i think my system is weird.  i may try to delete the mail 
"trifecta" and try it again.

thx, again.

b.

//

User mailing list manager

[stan]

I'm building a Woody machine for my wife.

This weekend I worked through exom fetchmail SapmBouncer and mutt setup,
and I'm almost ready to turn her loose on t. However it has dawned on me
that someone might have a "user mailing list mager" script or something.

here is what I'm lloking for. Foreevery new mailing lsit she subscribes to,
she will need to

1. Add an allias in mutt's Alliases file
2. adda subcribed line there also
3. Add a procmail recipie to direct it to i't own folder.

Sounds like it cries out for automation. Has anyone done it?


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Re: Many apologies for auto-reply spam

[Alan Chandler]

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On Monday 04 February 2002 9:51 am, Stephenson, Paul wrote:
>
> I don't usually bother turning on auto-replies (partly due to concern over
> the possible effect on mailing lists) but my colleagues turned it on for me
> when my wife had a baby and I suddenly had a week off work.
>

Congratulations - and given the circumstances apologies for my curt reply 
when I received your out of office.

(But then again - you won't have any time to read this list any more:-)  )

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Error on Gnome startup

[Chris Tillman]

I have an error box coming up when I launch gnome. It says 'The applications
menu could not be loaded. Look at the condole output for a detailed
description of the errors.'

But, what console is it referring to? I looked at the console from which I
launched startx, nothing there. Would it be displayed on tty7 if I could see
that?

Does anyone know what this means? It started happening a couple of weeks ago
after an upgrade to my 'testing' system. Both the Debian and Programs menus
do have items in them, but maybe some are missing? I'm pretty clueless about
the X interface.

Please cc, I'm not on the list.

Chris (Toff) Tillman
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Programmer
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RE: Multi-domain POP/IMAP server

[Matt Andreko]

Qmail with vchkpw
Apt-get install qmail-src ucspi-tcp-src vchkpw
Build-qmail
Build ucspi-tcp


That's what I like


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From: Michael Merritt (by way of Michael Merritt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>)
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Sent: Monday, February 04, 2002 3:51 PM
To: debian-isp@lists.debian.org; debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Multi-domain POP/IMAP server

I need a POP & IMAP server that support multiple (virtual) domains on a
single IP address.

Suggestions?
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I need a POP & IMAP server that support multiple (virtual) domains on a
single IP address.

Suggestions?
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Re: true type fonts in X 4.x ?

[Scooter]

Here's what I did.  Turned on antialiasing in KDE Panel, apt-get install 
xfs, apt-get install xfstt, apt-get install msttcorefonts (this is a debian 
package for obtaining truetype fonts from Microsoft (they are free 
fonts).  After all this apt-getting, reboot the machine, and you should 
have truetype fonts.  If not check out this 
Howto:  http://www.linux.org/docs/ldp/howto/mini/TT-Debian-1.html


I merely had to do the apt-gets listed above to get truetype working.

Kerry

Re: vi cmd / replacing a certain line only.. pls help!! urgent..

[louie miranda]

ah, its ok i've done it.. thnx :)






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To: 
Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2002 4:08 AM
Subject: vi cmd / replacing a certain line only.. pls help!! urgent..


> How to replace a certain line on vi,
>
> ex:
>
> line 1 up to line 100
>
> i want to replace only line 50 to 100
> how will i do that in vi?
>
> i did do,
>
> :%s:50,100/Jan 2/Jan 1/g
>
> it does not work :(
>
> pls help..
>
>
>
>
>
>
>  louie miranda   (axis0.ath.cx)
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dpkg not recorded as installed, cannot check for epoch support !

[Andreas Reislöhner]

Hello, 

anybody know the problem and would like to help me ? 


Server:/# apt-get install mc
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  e2fsprogs libc6 libdb2 libgdbmg1 libglib1.2 libgpmg1 libncurses5 mc-common 
perl perl-base perl-modules
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  e2fsprogs libc6 libdb2 libgdbmg1 libglib1.2 libgpmg1 libncurses5 mc 
mc-common perl perl-base
  perl-modules
0 packages upgraded, 12 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0  not upgraded.
Need to get 9094kB of archives. After unpacking 28.7MB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y
Get:1 ftp://ftp.de.debian.org unstable/main libc6 2.2.5-1 [3373kB]
Get:2 ftp://ftp.de.debian.org unstable/main e2fsprogs 1.25-1 [316kB]
Get:3 ftp://ftp.de.debian.org unstable/main perl-base 5.6.1-7 [496kB]
Get:4 ftp://ftp.de.debian.org unstable/main libdb2 2:2.7.7.0-3.1 [264kB]
Get:5 ftp://ftp.de.debian.org unstable/main libncurses5 5.2.20020112a-3 
[237kB]
Get:6 ftp://ftp.de.debian.org unstable/main libgdbmg1 1.7.3-27 [18.9kB]
Get:7 ftp://ftp.de.debian.org unstable/main perl-modules 5.6.1-7 [1279kB]
Get:8 ftp://ftp.de.debian.org unstable/main perl 5.6.1-7 [1150kB]
Get:9 ftp://ftp.de.debian.org unstable/main libglib1.2 1.2.10-3 [112kB]
Get:10 ftp://ftp.de.debian.org unstable/main libgpmg1 1.19.6-9 [44.7kB]
Get:11 ftp://ftp.de.debian.org unstable/main mc-common 4.5.55-1.1 [1351kB]
Get:12 ftp://ftp.de.debian.org unstable/main mc 4.5.55-1.1 [453kB]
Fetched 9094kB in 2m17s (65.9kB/s)
E: Cannot get debconf version. Is debconf installed?
(Reading database ... 0 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking libc6 (from .../libc6_2.2.5-1_i386.deb) ...
dpkg not recorded as installed, cannot check for epoch support !
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.2.5-1_i386.deb 
(--unpack):
 subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.2.5-1_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)


Thanks for help me :-) 

mfg 
andi 

Re: true type fonts in X 4.x ?

[Eric C. Cooper]

On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 11:46:03AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Does anyone have the short version of how to set up true type fonts
> under X ?
> 
> Here's what I did, maybe someone can point out the error in my ways.
>
> Add
> 
>Load "xtt"
> 
> to XF86Config

Change this to
Load "freetype"

> I also added /usr/share/fonts/truetype to the font path.
> 
> run
> 
>   ttfmkfdir -o fonts.dir
> 
> in my /usr/share/fonts/truetype directory.

Make sure that fonts.scale is a copy of, or link to, fonts.dir in each
truetype directory.

> Try xfontsel and :
> 
> the fonts are "selectable" but they won't appear, i.e. they don't seem
> to render at all.  In fact xfontsel starts acting a little strange
> with repaints now working, etc...

If you run Gnome, I suggest gfontsel from the gnome-utils package,
especially if you have lots of fonts installed.

HTH.

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Re: ATI Radeon video card

[Scooter]

Provided you have turned on all of the appropriate things in kernel like 
DRI, etc. (and make sure the radeon is a module), then you need to view 
your XFree86 log file.  If DRI is not being loaded (and that's your only 
problem), then my solution was to remove my Robotics modem PCI card and SB 
Live! PCI card and reboot.  I then had 3D.  Then I made sure I put both PCI 
cards in non-shared PCI slots and assigned IRQ for modem of 4 and sound a 5.


Hope this helps.

Kerry

Re: [Re: kernel upgrade problem]

[Deva Seetharam]

actually, i did enable realtime clock support while configuring the kernel.
what is surprising is, the 2.2.19 kernel is running in SMP mode.
cheers
deva

Deva Seetharam posts :

> .. TIME: vector=0x31 pin1=2 pin2=0
> 
> and the machine hangs after this message. what is going on?

Is this not an RTC issue ?  You need to insmod the rtc module if you are
using the  stock kernel 2.4.17  image.  Better still, do  recompile your
kernel; after enabling the RTC module.

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Multi Processing" above,  you should say Y here to read  and set the RTC
in an SMP compatible fashion.

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Re: mail -v my@my.com < in.tar.gz -- HELP

[Karl E. Jorgensen]

On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 01:27:33AM +0800, louie miranda wrote:
> hi for ex: i have this file in.tar.gz format, i want to insert it when
> sending email thru:
> 
> mail -v [EMAIL PROTECTED] < in.tar.gz
> 
> -- when i rcv this email, it reads binary format and attached in the msg
> body..
> uhm, how can i make it as an attachement?

If you use mutt, then a command line in the style of:
$ echo "See attached" | mutt -s "The Subject Line" -a in.tar.gz [EMAIL 
PROTECTED]
will do the trick.

As an alternative, you can mime-encode the contents "by hand" before
passing into a standard mail command (e.g. mail, or mailx). But I don't
know any of that stuff...

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Re: smtp error during fetchmail

[Jonathan Matthews]

On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 06:37:14PM +, p wrote:
> debs,
> 
> when i fetchmail, i get an smtp error:
> 
> fetchmail: smtp connect to localhost failed
> fetchmail: smtp transaction error while fetching from pcisys.net
> fetchmail: query status=10 (smtp)
> 
> suggestions?
> 
> thx.
> 
> b.

Check that /etc/hosts.allow contains a line like

exim: , 127.0.0.1

or a line corresponding to whatever MTA you're using.

For me, this line is:
exim: 192.168.0.0/24, 127.0.0.1

There might be other reasons for your problem, but that's the one that
bit me last time I moved my mail setup around.

jc

vi cmd / replacing a certain line only.. pls help!! urgent..

[louie miranda]

How to replace a certain line on vi,

ex: 

line 1 up to line 100

i want to replace only line 50 to 100
how will i do that in vi?

i did do,

:%s:50,100/Jan 2/Jan 1/g 

it does not work :(

pls help..






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Re: DHCP client and server scripts - merging results

[Henry House]

On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 10:31:10PM -0800, John Mautz wrote:
[...]
> What would like is to take the DNS addresses retrieved by dhclient and 
> stick them in the dhcpd.conf, then have dhcpd restarted to apply the 
> changes.  This way when either ISP changes any server info on me all the 
> changes are automatically made on the server and all I need to do is 
> release/renew on the PC's.

I think that a better solution would be to run a caching DNS server on the
server, and configure all the clients on the internal net to use your server
instead of the ISP's. It is not difficult to set up. Try the 'pdnsd' package.

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Re: routing problem

[Jeremy T. Bouse]

Obviously the issue resolves around the default gateway setup
on the machines... Box A should obviously have the ultimate default
gateway as it has the internet access directly... Box B should go to Box
A if it isn't destined for either network 192.168.9/24 or 192.168.7/24
which would go out the other interface... Box C has the deliema of
having two routes which could be consider'd equal except for bandwidth
available...

As I'm not sure your exact intent of doing this setup take this
as you may and if you wish contact me further if you just don't want to
discuss further details over the public list, but would welcome some
more info regarding my suggestions... 

As I'm goin on the assumption you want Box C to have an option
of which network (.9/24 or .7/24) go through and as they are equal hop
count but obviously different bandwidth I would be tempt'd to suggest
possibly running zebra on the three machines using possibly OSPF as it
can take into account the bandwidth; whereas RIP would go on hop
count...

In this case you'd have Box A redistribute it's static default
route which would be received by Box B... Then when Box B talk'd with
Box C it would tell Box C that it was a default gateway... The OSPF
rules would be able to properly route through... 

I don't have everything to duplicate here locally and provide
you with a sample config off the top of my head but having work'd with
OSPF both on Cisco routers and with Zebra I'd be willing to help if I
could... 

Respectfully,
Jeremy T. Bouse

On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 07:48:45PM +0100, Casper Gielen wrote:
> lets start with network topology:
> /\/\/\/\/\
>< internet >
> \/\/\/\/\/
> |
> |
> -
> | box A |
> -
> | 192.168.8.1
> | 10mbit UTP 192.168.8.0
> | 192.168.8.3
> -
> | box B | 
> -
>  192.168.9.3 | | 192.168.7.3 
>  10 mbit 192.168.9.0 | | 100mbit UTP 192.168.7.0
>  192.168.9.4 | | 192.168.7.4
> -
>   | box C |
>   -
> 
> My problem is that A can't communicate with C through the 192.168.9.0 network.
> It works just fine through the 192.168.7.0 network.
> TCPDUMP shows that the pings arrive at 192.168.9.4 correctly, but it
> doesn't respond. If I change the default gw on C from 192.168.7.3 to
> 192.168.9.3 it works. So I think I could get there by telling C it
> should use 192.168.9.3 as a gateway for the 192.168.9 network. But how.
> Adding a default gw with another metric doesn't seem to work.
> 

true type fonts in X 4.x ?

[briand]

Does anyone have the short version of how to set up true type fonts
under X ?

Here's what I did, maybe someone can point out the error in my ways.

Add

   Load "xtt"

to XF86Config

I also added /usr/share/fonts/truetype to the font path.

run

  ttfmkfdir -o fonts.dir

in my /usr/share/fonts/truetype directory.

Try xfontsel and :

the fonts are "selectable" but they won't appear, i.e. they don't seem
to render at all.  In fact xfontsel starts acting a little strange
with repaints now working, etc...


TIA

Brian

P.S. Yes, I have truetype fonts in the font directory :-)

smtp error during fetchmail

[p]

debs,

when i fetchmail, i get an smtp error:

fetchmail: smtp connect to localhost failed
fetchmail: smtp transaction error while fetching from pcisys.net
fetchmail: query status=10 (smtp)

suggestions?

thx.

b.

//

Re: Mounting novell volumes on linux

[Andre Berger]

* Pontus Ullgren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 2002-02-04 10:42 -0500:
> I'm stuck in a Novell/NT environment and want to mount Novell volumes on
> my linux machine.
> 
> I'm running:
> Debian 3.0 with 2.2.17 kernel.
> kernel modules ipx and ncpfs loaded.
> ncpfs version 2.2.0.18
> 
> The servers runs:
> Novell 5.? with NDS
> 
> slist lists all servers on the network, but I get the following error
> from ncpmount
> 
> # ncpmount -S SERVERFS1 -U user -P secret /mnt
> ncpmount: Unknown NDS error (-610) in nds login
> Login denied.
> 
> I have tried with the full nds name:
> # ncpmount -S SERVERFS1 -U .user.con.tex.n.  /mnt
> ncpmount: Unknown NDS error (-610) in nds login
> Login denied.

- Do you have permissions to mount on /mnt? 
- Do you have permissions to log in to \ on the Novell server?

My configuration here:

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat .nwclient
HUMANITIES2/myusername mypassword
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ncpmount ~/Novell/ 

I only have permissions for my own home dir there. - Talking about
permissions, you probably want ~/.nwclient to have permissions 0600.

BTW, you can spool print jobs to Novell network printers using, for
example, lpr and magicfilter. Refer to



Hope that helps...

-Andre



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Re: simple questions

[Romuald DELAVERGNE]

Le 2002.02.02 19:08, Alexey a écrit :

>
>   > /dev/null 2>&1
>
> man bash and see about redirection. :)
>

It's me again.
OK...
$ /mount -a

mount: /dev/hdc3 already mounted or /mnt/deb busy
MSDOS FS: Using codepage 866
MSDOS FS: IO charset koi8-r

$ /mount -a > /dev/null



$ mount -a > /dev/null 2>&1

the first (error) message disappears, but both MSDOS FS: do not.
I can redirect them nowhere :( ? I have 3 FAT partitions, so
I don't like to read these annoying strings during the bootup process.



This is kernel messages.
You can't hide them on a console.

Romuald.

routing problem

[Casper Gielen]

lets start with network topology:
/\/\/\/\/\
   < internet >
\/\/\/\/\/
|
|
-
| box A |
-
| 192.168.8.1
| 10mbit UTP 192.168.8.0
| 192.168.8.3
-
| box B | 
-
 192.168.9.3 | | 192.168.7.3 
 10 mbit 192.168.9.0 | | 100mbit UTP 192.168.7.0
 192.168.9.4 | | 192.168.7.4
-
| box C |
-

My problem is that A can't communicate with C through the 192.168.9.0 network.
It works just fine through the 192.168.7.0 network.
TCPDUMP shows that the pings arrive at 192.168.9.4 correctly, but it
doesn't respond. If I change the default gw on C from 192.168.7.3 to
192.168.9.3 it works. So I think I could get there by telling C it
should use 192.168.9.3 as a gateway for the 192.168.9 network. But how.
Adding a default gw with another metric doesn't seem to work.


information:

A: aka huis.huis
eth0 inet addr:192.168.8.1  Bcast:192.168.8.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
eth1 inet addr:  Bcast:255.255.255.255  Mask:255.255.255.192

Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface
  0.0.0.0 255.255.255.192 U 0  00 eth0
192.168.7.0 192.168.8.3 255.255.255.0   UG0  00 eth1
192.168.9.0 192.168.8.3 255.255.255.0   UG0  00 eth1
192.168.8.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0   U 0  00 eth1
0.0.0.0   0.0.0.0 UG0  00 eth0


B: 
eth0 inet addr:192.168.9.3  Bcast:192.168.9.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
eth1 inet addr:192.168.8.3  Bcast:192.168.8.255  Mask:255.255.255.0 
eth2 inet addr:192.168.7.3  Bcast:192.168.7.255  Mask:255.255.255.0

Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface
192.168.7.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0   U 0  00 eth2
192.168.9.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0   U 0  00 eth0
192.168.8.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0   U 0  00 eth1
0.0.0.0 192.168.8.1 0.0.0.0 UG0  00 eth1

C: 

eth0 inet addr:192.168.7.4  Bcast:192.168.7.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
eth1 inet addr:192.168.9.4  Bcast:192.168.9.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
 
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface
192.168.7.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0   U 0  00 eth0
172.16.154.00.0.0.0 255.255.255.0   U 0  00 vmnet8
192.168.42.00.0.0.0 255.255.255.0   U 0  00 vmnet1
192.168.9.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0   U 0  00 eth1
0.0.0.0 192.168.7.3 0.0.0.0 UG0  00 eth0


  
-- 
Casper Gielen
[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
--
"After you install Windows XP, you have the option to create
 user accounts. If you create user accounts, by default, they
 will have an account type of Administrator with no password."

Re: USB Keyboard

[Dave Thayer]

On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 10:12:55AM -0800, Anton Graham wrote:
[...]
> We commented the line in /etc/modules because we don't want it
> autoloading yet (usb-uhci could be the wrong driver).  Now comes the fun
> part: /sbin/modprobe usb-interface
[...]

On some machines ``cat /proc/pci'' will tell you the type of interface.

dt

-- 
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Denver, Colorado USA  | cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all
[EMAIL PROTECTED] | the time, for no good reason. - Jack Handey

Re: mail -v my@my.com < in.tar.gz -- HELP

[Cameron Kerr]

On Tue, 5 Feb 2002, louie miranda wrote:

>hi for ex: i have this file in.tar.gz format, i want to insert it when
>sending email thru:
>
>mail -v [EMAIL PROTECTED] < in.tar.gz
>
>-- when i rcv this email, it reads binary format and attached in the msg
>body..
>uhm, how can i make it as an attachement?

Not sure if this will make it an attachment, but you could try this

uuencode myfile.tgz myfile.tgz
^^ -- name as will appear on the attachment

This should spit out to stdout. So call mail as

uuencode myfile.tgz myfile.tgz | mail -s "Subject Line" [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Hope this helps

Cameron Kerr
-- 
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/~cameronk/

RE: Ayuda!

[Harris, Jason]

Você ocupar-se-ia de se eu falasse no espanhol em vez de Portugues? Eu não
conheço Portugues. É a pergunta como eu instalo o pppoe? 

-Original Message-
From: Nemesis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, February 04, 2002 6:35 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Ajuda!


On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 03:26:06PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Tipo queria instalar o debian aqui,achu ele show,mais não tenhu idéia de
como instalar o adsl nele pelo "PPP adaptador PPPoE-Speedy
BR_SPOPE_SB1_NR1"tipo será que poderiam me enviar o comando para eu
configurar o adsl pelo pppoe ae e ficar soh na navegando pelo essa
distribuição maravilhosa...
> "não sei tbm porque só usei o msk,e ele configura o adsl automático".
> 
?
> 
> -- 
> To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact
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> 
> 

Re: USB Keyboard

[Anton Graham]

Submitted 04-Feb-02 by  Bruce Burhans:
 
> I'm encouraged, Anton. The modules will be on the 2.2r5 CDs? I can
> live with a fast repeat-rate for awhile, but not without a KB! Do I need
> to write anything into...
> ... / LILO config?

Nothing, works out of the box if your BIOS supports a USB keyboard.
That's the native "Boot Protocol" mode, which had the too fast key
repeat here.  The modules should be installed with stock Debian kernel.
There are, a few things to be aware of.

 1) The keyboard should be plugged into the root hub (i.e. a port on the
motherboard) as opposed to an external hub.  The ability for the machine
to detect it at boot time can be affected by this.

 2) When using the modules, there are three different USB drivers and
which one will work for you may take a bit of "playing".  The modules I
use are defined in a couple different files, so we'll go step by step:

  In /etc/modules, add a line that reads "#usb-interface"
  I have a four line file /etc/modutils/usb that reads:

alias usb-interface usb-uhci
post-install usb-interface modprobe input
post-install input modprobe hid
post-install hid modprobe keybdev

Some of these modules depend on each other and are pulled in by
default, but I just went overkill on it.  After generating the
modutils/usb file, run /sbin/update-modules.

We commented the line in /etc/modules because we don't want it
autoloading yet (usb-uhci could be the wrong driver).  Now comes the fun
part: /sbin/modprobe usb-interface

If all went well, you still have a working keyboard, with a much saner
repeat rate (this should be the case with most Intel based hardware).
If not, you may have to do a hard reboot (which is why the commented
line above was commented).  At that point, you'll want to try the
usb-ohci and uhci modules (one at a time, of course) in place of the
usb-uhci module.  Re-run /sbin/update-modules after each change to
/etc/modutils/usb, then do a modprobe usb-interface.  So, you could have
a couple reboots before it's all working right.  After it's all working,
uncomment (remove the '#' from) the line we added to /etc/modules.  This
will cause the usb modules to autoload at any reboot.

 3) Please take a look at http://www.linux-usb.org/USB-guide for
anything I may have left out here.

-- 
Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
 
H. L. Mencken suffers from the hallucination that he is H. L. Mencken --
there is no cure for a disease of that magnitude.
  -- Maxwell Bodenheim



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Plotting tool for histograms etc.?

[Lars Jensen]

Does the debian distribution include a good and easy tool for plotting
histograms, pie charts, and other common plots in statistics? Are there
any other good statistics packages for basic 1 and 2 variable
statistics?

Thanks,
Lars.


%%%
Lars Jensen, Truckee Meadows Community College, Reno NV 89512-3999. 
Tel: 775.673.7113 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Directory becomes sticky socket?

[Nathan E Norman]

On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 09:44:10AM -0600, Chad C. Walstrom wrote:
> [Note: Please include me in the Cc: of your reply, for expediency's sake.]
> 
> I'm not sure how this came about, but I cannot remove the directory
> /usr/share/doc/libldap2.   
> 
> [09:36:47] [EMAIL PROTECTED] (505)$ ls -lad libldap2 
> s-w--w---T  16806 236536206 1076048101 1084824775 Oct  1  2004 libldap2=
> [09:36:52] [EMAIL PROTECTED] (506)$ file libldap2
> libldap2: sticky socket
> [09:36:58] [EMAIL PROTECTED] (507)$ sudo rm -rf /usr/share/doc/libldap2
> rm: cannot unlink `/usr/share/doc/libldap2': Operation not permitted
> 
> System: Debian unstable (Sid)
> Kernel: 2.4.17-k7
> Filesystem: ext3 on an LVM logical volume (no extra patches to the
> kernel, vanilla 2.4.17).
> 
> I've tried removing it while root as well with no success.  I've tried
> using fsck.{ext2,ext3} with no avail.  I relize that I'm going to have
> to do something fairly low-level to the FS to recover this problem.  Any
> pointers or suggestions you may have would be quite welcome.

# chattr -i /usr/share/doc/libldap2
# rm -r /usr/share/doc/libldap2

If the dir /usr/share/doc/libldap2 contains more borked files, provide
a "-R" to chattr.

-- 
Nathan Norman - Staff Engineer | A good plan today is better
Micromuse Ltd. | than a perfect plan tomorrow.
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]   |   -- Patton


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Problem with Seagate ATA Tape drive

[Mike Alborn]

I have a Seagate STT8000A IDE tape drive which up until a couple of
days ago, was working perfectly. That was under kernel 2.4.9-686. Over
the weekend, I upgraded to 2.4.17-686, and now I get 'Device or
resource busy' whenever I try to access the tape. lsof and fuser do not
report the device in use; ps shows no processes that could be using the
tape.
I've looked for some information on the internet, but I haven't
found a similar case anywhere.

Particulars:

kernel-image-2.4.17-686 (Debian package)
append 'hdc=ide-tape' in lilo.conf
tape drive attached at /dev/hdc (secondary master)
/dev/tape points to /dev/ht0 (first and only tape in the system)

Any ideas? (Please CC me any responses as I am not subscribed to the
list)

TIA,
-- 
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# http://odoitau.dyn.dhs.org

If you want me to be a good little bunny just dangle some carats in front
of my nose.
-- Lauren Bacall


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mail -v my@my.com < in.tar.gz -- HELP

[louie miranda]

hi for ex: i have this file in.tar.gz format, i want to insert it when
sending email thru:

mail -v [EMAIL PROTECTED] < in.tar.gz

-- when i rcv this email, it reads binary format and attached in the msg
body..
uhm, how can i make it as an attachement?

pls help ty.











 louie miranda   (axis0.ath.cx)
--
Security Is A Series Of Well-Defined Steps

chmod -R 0 / ; and smile :)

sftp no login

[Lance Hoffmeyer]

I am trying to login to a machine using sftp.  I can ssh without any problem.
The FAQ mentions trying with sftp host /usr/bin/true and seeing if there is
any output. When I try I get "Unknown command" which makes since because there
is no file called true.

What can I do to fix this problem?


debug1: packet_send2: adding 32 (len 23 padlen 9 extra_pad 64)
debug1: ssh-userauth2 successful: method keyboard-interactive
debug1: fd 4 setting O_NONBLOCK
debug1: channel 0: new [client-session]
debug1: send channel open 0
debug1: Entering interactive session.
debug1: ssh_session2_setup: id 0
debug1: Sending subsystem: sftp
debug1: channel 0: open confirm rwindow 0 rmax 16384
Request for subsystem 'sftp' failed on channel 0
debug1: Calling cleanup 0x80585e8(0x0)
debug1: channel_free: channel 0: client-session, nchannels 1
debug1: Calling cleanup 0x80633ec(0x0)
Couldn't read packet: Connection reset by peer


-- 

Lance Hoffmeyer
  [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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other
sets of psople are human
   -
 Aldous Huxley

Re: Installing Woody from CD

[Patrick Colbeck]

Hi Dimitri

Do you mean you installed Potato then upgraded to Woody from the Woody
CD's or from the Internet. I have Potato 2.2r3 CDs so that would be an
OK way for me to go (actually I have got Potato installed on my laptop
just to re familarize myself with Debian as we have all been using SuSE
for the past 18 months or so).

Pat

On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 10:29:38AM -0600, Dimitri Maziuk wrote:
> * Patrick Colbeck ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly:
> > Hi
> > 
> > Whats the current status of the Woody CDs. I have downloaded all 8 dated
> > the last week in January, if I actually blow CDs of these will I
> > actually be able to do a clean install of Woody. I just wanted to cjeck
> > before I wasted 8 CDRs.
> 
> Netinst image I d/l'ed last week looks for Release file in the wrong
> place (couple of dir levels up from where the file actually is), so
> you can't install the base system. Without that you can't install
> lilo & make your box bootable. (Shirley including extra couple of Mb 
> of base.tgz in the 65Mb image is not that hard, eh?)
> 
> Also, 3c59x module is included in only one image: udma-ext3 (I wonder
> who came up with that bright idea... every Dull here has a Vortex NIC).
> But that doesn't really matter because of the above.
> 
> I ended up burning a potato CD and doing dist-upgrade to woody.
> On the positive side, that worked without too many problems.
> 
> Dima
> -- 
> Surely there is a polite way to say FOAD.-- Shmuel 
> Metz
> "Fornicate Off And Decease". -- Rik 
> Steenwinkel
> 
> 
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> 

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Re: Woody root on RAID and 2.4.17

[George Karaolides]

Hi John,

You came up trumps.  Your pointers got me running woody with root
on software RAID.  Thanks!

STOP PRESS:  I've now got woody with root fs on LVM on software RAID-1.
The ultimate server weapon...  Watch this space.

I'd like to write all this up in an informal HOWTO which I'll put up on my
site.  I would like to give you credit for your RAID-lilo pointers.  Would
you like me to put up your email address in the credits or not?  If you'd
like me to include any other details, please forward them.

I did it differently to how you suggest, in a way that leaves lilo.conf,
fstab, /boot and the MBR on the single disk we start from completely
untouched and may even be a bit easier to do.  The key is editing the
lilo.conf copied to the RAID only, and  doing

chroot [target] /sbin/lilo

to install an MBR to a disk other than the one with the initial
single-disk install.

Starting with an initial install to a single disk, it goes a bit like
this:

/dev/md[boot]:  RAID-1   array for /boot fs
/dev/md[root]:  RAID-[1|4|5] array for root fs
(I've only tried RAID-1 but I'm confident
RAID-4 and -5 will work too).
/dev/[h|s]d[raid-mbr]:  Disk to whose MBR we will install lilo for
the RAID system; must not be the disk to which
we make the initial single-disk install.

- We install to a single disk.  It makes things simpler if this disk
is partitioned the same way as the others will be.  Set the BIOS to boot from
this disk and install.

- Obtain or compile a RAID kernel and reboot with it.

- Install raidtools-2.

- If you're going to be using 2.4.x with devfs, install devfsd.

- Write an /etc/raidtab with the partitions on the disk we've just
installed to marked as "failed-disk".  Make sure these entries are not the
first ones in each array.

- Create the RAID arrays:

  raidstart /dev/md[number]

- Make filesystems on them:

  mk[e2fs|reiserfs] /dev/md[number]

- Mount the RAID array which will be used as the root fs under /mnt
  mount /dev/md[root] /mnt

- Copy the root filesystem to it:
  tar cplf - -C / . | tar xvpf - -C /mnt -

- Mount the other raid arrays under /mnt: /mnt/boot, /mnt/usr etc.
Instead of issuing all those "mount" commands, you might as well put these
mounts in /etc/fstab and do:

  mount -a

In that way, they get mounted automatically in case you need to
reboot into the single-disk system and work on them.

 - Copy the other filesystems to the
corresponding arrays:

  tar cplf - -C / [boot|tmp|usr|other] | tar xvpf - -C /mnt

- Edit /mnt/etc/lilo.conf and include:

  --- begin relevant lilo.conf excerpt ---

  # The disk we will install the RAID MBR to.
  # We should leave the MBR on the initial install
  # disk alone until we've successfully booted from RAID,
  # so choose another disk.
  disk=/dev/[h|s]d[raid-mbr]

# We will use the BIOS to switch this disk to the
# first BIOS id when we want to boot from it.
bios=0x80

  # The RAID-1 array for the /boot filesystem
  boot=/dev/md[boot]

# Write the RAID MBR to the above disk only
raid-also-boot="/dev/[h|s]d[raid-mbr]"

  # Root filesystem device
  root=/dev/md2

  --- end relevant lilo.conf excerpt ---

- Install lilo to the disk we've chosen to hold the RAID MBR:
  chroot /mnt /sbin/lilo

- Edit /mnt/etc/fstab to mount the RAID filesystems instead of the
single-disk ones.

- Reboot, go into setup and change the BIOS settings to boot from the disk
we've installed the RAID MBR to.

- Boot into the RAID system.  If something goes wrong, use the BIOS
setup to get the system to boot the disk with the initial installation and
fix it.

- Once booted into the raid system, edit lilo.conf and change it so the
MBR is installed to all disks in the array.  More details later when I've
verified I can use the BIOS setup to boot from any one of the disks.

- Edit /etc/raidtab and change the "failed-disk" entries to "raid-disk".
Add the partitions on the disk with the single-disk installation to the
arrays with raidhotadd.

- Run lilo and reboot to check that you can now boot from any of the
disks.

- Celebrate appropriately.

Thanks again and best regards,

|  George Karaolides   8, Costakis Pantelides St., |
|  tel:   +357 99 68 08 86  Strovolos, |
|  email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]   Nicosia CY 2057, |
|  web:   www.karaolides.com  Republic  of Cyprus  |

Re: OFFtopic: printing in vmware

[Karl E. Jorgensen]

On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 11:52:24AM -0500, Walter Tautz wrote:
> I am running win2k within vmware and was wondering how
> to access the printing system on the localhost? Does
> it have something to do with configuring the samba server
> vmware runs?

Yep. Basically you need to:

1) Make sure that printing works on the Linux side. 
2) set up a [printers] section in /etc/samba/smb.conf, so the printers
   can be shared. Samba will read /etc/printcap to find out which
   printers are available, so a simple entry like
[printers]
   comment = All Printers
   browseable = no
   path = /tmp
   printable = yes
   public = yes
   writable = no
   create mode = 0700
   should do the trick. Depending on your requirements you may (or may
   not) want to make it public or browseable. man 5 smb.conf is your
   friend.

HTH
-- 
Karl E. Jørgensen
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
www.karl.jorgensen.com
 Today's fortune:
There can be no twisted thought without a twisted molecule.
-- R. W. Gerard


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OFFtopic: printing in vmware

[Walter Tautz]

I am running win2k within vmware and was wondering how
to access the printing system on the localhost? Does
it have something to do with configuring the samba server
vmware runs?

-walter

Re: [linux-lvm] Directory becomes sticky socket?

[William Blunn]

> I'm not sure how this came about, but I cannot remove the directory
> /usr/share/doc/libldap2.   
> 
> [09:36:47] [EMAIL PROTECTED] (505)$ ls -lad libldap2 
> s-w--w---T  16806 236536206 1076048101 1084824775 Oct  1  2004 libldap2=
> [09:36:52] [EMAIL PROTECTED] (506)$ file libldap2
> libldap2: sticky socket
> [09:36:58] [EMAIL PROTECTED] (507)$ sudo rm -rf /usr/share/doc/libldap2
> rm: cannot unlink `/usr/share/doc/libldap2': Operation not permitted
> 
> System: Debian unstable (Sid)
> Kernel: 2.4.17-k7
> Filesystem: ext3 on an LVM logical volume (no extra patches to the
> kernel, vanilla 2.4.17).
> 
> I've tried removing it while root as well with no success.  I've tried
> using fsck.{ext2,ext3} with no avail.  I relize that I'm going to have
> to do something fairly low-level to the FS to recover this problem.  Any
> pointers or suggestions you may have would be quite welcome.

I think: Use "ls -li" to find the object's inode. Then use debugfs to
clear the object's inode. Then fsck it to clear up any hanging bits in
the FS.

Bill

Re: Installing Woody from CD

[Dimitri Maziuk]

* Patrick Colbeck ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly:
> Hi
> 
> Whats the current status of the Woody CDs. I have downloaded all 8 dated
> the last week in January, if I actually blow CDs of these will I
> actually be able to do a clean install of Woody. I just wanted to cjeck
> before I wasted 8 CDRs.

Netinst image I d/l'ed last week looks for Release file in the wrong
place (couple of dir levels up from where the file actually is), so
you can't install the base system. Without that you can't install
lilo & make your box bootable. (Shirley including extra couple of Mb 
of base.tgz in the 65Mb image is not that hard, eh?)

Also, 3c59x module is included in only one image: udma-ext3 (I wonder
who came up with that bright idea... every Dull here has a Vortex NIC).
But that doesn't really matter because of the above.

I ended up burning a potato CD and doing dist-upgrade to woody.
On the positive side, that worked without too many problems.

Dima
-- 
Surely there is a polite way to say FOAD.-- Shmuel Metz
"Fornicate Off And Decease". -- Rik Steenwinkel

Weekend update issues

[Andrew Perrin]

Greetings.

I have my system (woody) set to do an apt-get update; apt-get upgrade
twice a week at 3 am.

This morning, when I arrived, things were odd:

- The pre-existing link /usr/share/texmf/web2c -> /var/lib/texmf/web2c was
gone, rendering latex inoperative without recreating it by hand; and
- xdvi.bin is gone, making xdvi inoperative.

I haven't discovered anything else yet, but I'm wondering if anyone's had
similar experiences, or suggestions as to what might have happened. I'm
most concerned with the possibility my system may have been compromised.

Thanks for any advice.


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Re: Which FTP client?

[Thomas Halahan]

I really like ncftp.

It's got queueing batch jobs (ncftpbatch), you can list 
remote directories (ncftpls), it remembers the directories 
you were in etc.. It's great.

Tom


On Saturday 02 February 2002 09:37, Balazs Javor wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I'm trying to replace my current favorite FTP client
> CuteFTP with a Linux one.
> Which is the best client out there?
>
> I'd like to be able to:
> -easyly create a queue of files and directories
> (recursive) to be downloaded
> -leave it unattended
>
> For the second point it should be able to reconnect if
> disconnected and retry say every 60 seconds if it does
> not get it. Then it should resume the downloads without
> asking questions.
>
> Any advise is greatly appreciated!
> Many thanks for your help in advance!
> best regards,
> Balazs

Re: LAN setup

[Thomas Halahan]

Look at dnsmasq package (thekelleys.org.uk I think - or 
just google find).  Its simple and easy and much better 
than bind for small LANS.  Excellent!

On Thursday 31 January 2002 20:11, Stephen Gran wrote:
> Hello all,
> I've got my LAN set up and running, and so far so good. 
> I'm using a gateway/router/firewall (hadrian) to stop
> unwanted traffic and allow internet access and LAN access
> to everybody else.  Then I have gashuffer, my main
> workstation, and a Win box that my girlfriend uses, and
> an occasional laptop.  Now, the question is this: Without
> running BIND on hadrian (or elsewhere on the LAN) is
> there a way to allow, e.g.:
>
> ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] (ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] works fine now)
>
> or an exim .forward like
> # Exim filter
> # --
> #Forward all mail to gashuffer
>
> if  $h_From:  matches "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
> then
> deliver [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>   finish
> endif
>
> I ask because BIND seems more trouble than it's worth,
> security-wise, and it's a small LAN that's well served by
> my ISP's nameservers. Right now I can't even mail to
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (gashuffer's LAN address) although I'm
> not sure exim like's those sorts of addresses. Any
> pointers to good docs or suggestions welcome. Thanks all,
> Steve

Re: Total lockups using ext3

[Andrew Agno]

Romain Lerallut writes:
 > Thanks also to Andrew and caphuso on #debian for how to remove the
 > journal (I'll read some more man tune2fs :)

Actually, the tune2fs thing just removes the flag that says it has a
journal.  If you have a .journal file or files lying around and want
to get rid of them, then try something like:

% chattr -i /path/to/mount/point/.journal
% rm /path/to/mount/point/.journal

However, the file isn't that big, and I believe you can still use it
when you switch back to ext3--never had any experience with prolonged
ext2 on an ext3 partition before, though, so you might want to ask the 
ext3 folks on their mailing list if this option interests you
(although recreating the journal isn't a big deal, either):
https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users/
http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/ext3/

Andrew.

Directory becomes sticky socket?

[Chad C. Walstrom]

[Note: Please include me in the Cc: of your reply, for expediency's sake.]

I'm not sure how this came about, but I cannot remove the directory
/usr/share/doc/libldap2.   

[09:36:47] [EMAIL PROTECTED] (505)$ ls -lad libldap2 
s-w--w---T  16806 236536206 1076048101 1084824775 Oct  1  2004 libldap2=
[09:36:52] [EMAIL PROTECTED] (506)$ file libldap2
libldap2: sticky socket
[09:36:58] [EMAIL PROTECTED] (507)$ sudo rm -rf /usr/share/doc/libldap2
rm: cannot unlink `/usr/share/doc/libldap2': Operation not permitted

System: Debian unstable (Sid)
Kernel: 2.4.17-k7
Filesystem: ext3 on an LVM logical volume (no extra patches to the
kernel, vanilla 2.4.17).

I've tried removing it while root as well with no success.  I've tried
using fsck.{ext2,ext3} with no avail.  I relize that I'm going to have
to do something fairly low-level to the FS to recover this problem.  Any
pointers or suggestions you may have would be quite welcome.

Thanks.

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Re: How to enable EXT3 FS on 2.4

[Eric G . Miller]

On Mon, 4 Feb 2002 15:55:28 +0100, Eduard Bloch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

[snip]
> > You can't put comma separated lists of types in fstab.
> 
> You can, but you should not.

Why?

-- 
Eric G. Miller 

diald problem

[David Gardi]

Hello,
I have diald 0.99.1-1 and I think I have set things up
properly put it is still not working.
I have replaces the contents of /etc/diald/connect
with "pppd call name" which is what I use to
bring up my ppp link. I have set things up for modem use,
and dynamic IP. When I start diald from /etc/init.d
it dumps a whole load of modprobe errors Ex:

modprobe: Can't locate module tap15
and many others.

Then it says:

diald[30416]: SLIP not supported by kernel, can't build proxy.

followed by:

diald[30416]: Unable to get a proxy interface. Manual control only.

Nevertheless diald starts but doesn't seem to dial a
connection.

Any ideas?
David.

Re: Ajuda!

[Nemesis]

On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 03:26:06PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Tipo queria instalar o debian aqui,achu ele show,mais não tenhu idéia de como 
> instalar o adsl nele pelo "PPP adaptador PPPoE-Speedy BR_SPOPE_SB1_NR1"tipo 
> será que poderiam me enviar o comando para eu configurar o adsl pelo pppoe ae 
> e ficar soh na navegando pelo essa distribuição maravilhosa...
> "não sei tbm porque só usei o msk,e ele configura o adsl automático".
> 
?
> 
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Re: ATI Radion video card

[John Covici]

I got it working, but it apparently doesn't provide accelleration, so
I am going to try to generate the kernel module and see if that makes
it work better.  I used driver=radeon in the device section for the
card.

On Mon, 4 Feb 2002, Andrew Dixon wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Has anyone gotten XFree86 up and running with an ATI Radion video card.
> I just did an install on Friday and once again X has got me stumped.
>
> Any tips, hints, words of wisdom, or random thoughts would be greatly
> appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Andy
>
> P.S. I used the new net-install CD for Woody.  One word, sweet.  Damn I
> love Deb.
>
>

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