Re: Is there any encrypted or secure NFS?

[Mark Roach]

On Mon, 2004-01-05 at 23:30, Paul Smith wrote:
> %% Mark Roach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
>   mr> Note: if you tell me that he is going to boot off a knoppix CD and
>   mr> crack root on the box to su to userB, you must give me at least
>   mr> one example of an alternative that is not susceptible to an attack
>   mr> by a malicious local root
> 
> Any method that forces the client to authenticate himself by more than
> simple UID.  It must be doable since Windows SMB does it: having
> Administrator privileges on your Windows box doesn't give you the
> ability to read anyone else's files on a remote SMB share.

Two words, keystroke logger. Or, have a telnetd program set to autostart
on that windows box on logon, log in to the telnet session, instant
access.

> For example, there are versions of NFS that use Kerberos for
> authentication.  In this scenario simply being root (which given
> physical access to the box is obviously trivial) won't get you access to
> someone else's files.  I don't personally know of any site that uses
> this, but it's in the NFS standards.

> You may argue that if you have root access on your target's box you can
> snoop enough information to fake out Kerberos, and you're probably
> right.

Yup. Install a key-sniffer, wait for the victim to unwittingly type his
password.

>   You can install trojans, for starters.  But at least you have to
> have root access on _their_ box 

incorrect, see above.

This is all a moot point though, the fact is that there is no way to
secure the data going in and out of a machine such that root can't ever
get at it. There are lot's of attempts at making it difficult (it's
called DRM) but it is not something that is possible to completely
attain. The sensible person will use the tool that makes the job
difficult enough to dissuade the likely attackers based on the level of
risk involved (this is assuming that security/complexity are tradeoffs,
if there exists a more secure, less complex option, it's a no-brainer).

I am not saying that nfs is super-secure here, so I hope nobody gets me
wrong. (though I do think that in many cases it is "good enough") My
only point in all of this is that if you think other protocols have
magic, not-even-root-can-catch-me-now-bwahahaha voodoo, you are
mistaken.

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Re: Debian, 2.6 kernel and WIFI card on laptop ?

[Xavier Maillard]

I posted it to the "wrong" group, I hope I will be luckier here :/

zeDek

On 6 Jan 2004, Xavier Maillard<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> mused:
> Hi,
>
> I have asked everywhere I could about that. Nobody until now could
> find a solution. So I am trying as a last resort here ;)
>
> Here I have an ACER TM803 laptop running perfectly except one thing:
> PCMCIA.
>
> This is not that important but I prefer to be free and get rid of my
> wired ethernet connection when at home.
>
> I use a Debian SID GNU/Linux with a vanilla 2.6.0 kernel. All has been
> done accordingly to advice I receive here and there. It has support
> for PCMCIA devices, Wireless and orinoco support. So I am using a
> wireless driver from the kernel since it worked pretty well under
> 2.4.x for me.
>
> I also have the wireless tools suite installed and all is done in the
> interface files (ie /etc/network/interface).
>
> The Wireless card is Linksys WPC11 running in managed mode.
>
> I think my setup is good since it is the one that used to run under
> the 2.4.x kernel series.
>
> Problem is that when inserting the card, first I don't ear any 'bip'
> sound as it used to do. Then the card is no longer able to connect to
> the AP (also by linksys).
>
> I remember that not that far ago, it worked but as I faced problem
> keeping the connection up, I gave up and went back at my fidèle wire
> :)
>
> Now it just doesn't want to connect.
>
> Have anyone any clue I could follow to (at last) have this working ?
>
> Thank you.
>
> P.S: my /etc/init.d/pcmcia script file contains now a 'exit 0' at the
> top since I was told that PCMCIA and kernel 2.6.0 was no good. I only
> now use hotplug stuff as recommended.
>
> zeDek

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Re: ls nitpick

[Andrew Pollock]

On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 10:31:41PM -0500, Russ Schneider wrote:
> When you do an ls on Debian, you see something like the following:
> file1  file2  file3  dir1
> dir2   file4
> 
> etc.
> 
> When you do the same on Mandrake, you get
> file1  file2  file3  dir1/
> dir2/  file4
> 
> You see how there's a / at the end of each directory name, making it
> really easy to tell at a glance what's a directory and what's not?
> 
> Any way to config Debian's ls to do that?  I realize it's just a nitpick, 
> but I am curious.

In your home directory, you should have a .bashrc file put there from
/etc/skel when your account was created. It contains a lot of goodies that
are commented out, in particular:

 # enable color support of ls and also add handy aliases
 eval `dircolors -b`
 alias ls='ls --color=auto'

If you uncomment the above two lines, and add a -F option to the ls alias,
it will walk and talk similarly to how Mandrake's ls presumably does. Run
'alias ls' on your Mandrake box to determine exactly how they've aliased it
if you want to make it identical. Naturally, you will need to log in and log
out again (or close and open a fresh xterm, as the case may be).

You may also wish to uncomment the lines in your .bash_profile that source
the .bashrc if it exists.

HTH

Andrew


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Re: growisofs ejects when finished

[Jeffrey Barish]

Mark Roach wrote:

> On Fri, 2004-01-02 at 15:38, Jeffrey Barish wrote:
>> I am using growisofs to backup to DVD.  Whenever growisofs finishes
>> writing, it ejects the DVD.  At that point, the DVD is obviously no
>> longer mounted.
> 
> Hmm, was the (presumably blank) disk mounted to begin with? I would
> rather doubt it...

Yes, it was mounted.  growisofs objects if I try using it with a disc
that is not mounted.

The disc was not blank to begin with, but I use the -Z option.
> 
>> I would like for the DVD to remain mounted  so that
>> subsequent backups don't cost one mount (since, as I recall, each
>> mount counts as a write).
> 
> I doubt very much that this is the case... You have to mount the disc
> to read it, if dvd+rw has a fixed limit on the number of times you can
> read the data, it would have gone the way of divx

Not a fixed limit, the disc just gets worn out.  And it's not a limit on
the number of times one can read it, it's a limit on the number of
times one can rewrite it.
> 
>> Is there a way to do that with growisofs?  Should
>> I use another program instead to write to DVD?  (I'm using DVD+RW,
>> but my drive supports DVD-RW also.
> 
> I use growisofs for backing up a lot of static data and have had no
> problems with it.

It works for me too, I just wish it wouldn't eject when it finishes.

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install module in webmin

[Lucas Albers]

I installed webmin from testing, Version 1.121
I am unable to get install a new webmin snort module from snort.org via
teh webmin interface.
All the documentation talks about these steps for installing a module via
webmin from www.webmin.com

--If you are using Webmin version 0.88 or above, these updates can be
--installed automatically using the 2nd and 3rd forms under Webmin
Configuration -> Upgrade Webmin

I don't have this in my listing.
I've been looking at this for awhile and cannot understand what the
problem is.

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Re: idea search

[Brett Carrington]

On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 11:41:29PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
>   Any ideas for what servers to use, or have I over complicated 
>   everything?
> 
> 
>   Thanks for anything,
>   Paul

Here are some: fetchmail for POP3, fetchyahoo (I'm pretty sure that's
available in Debian) for yahoo's non-POP3 mail, and horde/imp for
webmail. These are all available in Debian and just giving the
documentation a read will give you the right direction.

You may also like `fetchmailconf'


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[[EMAIL PROTECTED]]

Hi all,

	I trying to get a small list of programs to look at for a project of 
mine. Any ideas or pointers would be appreciated.

	I currently have a yahoo email account that I've been using Mozilla 
with for awhile now, so all my email is in mbox format. I want to set up 
a system where new mail is downloaded(via pop3), then made available 
through a web interface. I don't know much about webmail type servers, 
but if they need an underlying protocol, I prefer imap.

	There is only one email account with yahoo, but I also receive my yahoo 
business emails though them. Any server I use has to have the ability to 
change the address for the from: and reply-to: headers.

	Example: This list's mail gets delivered from the listserver to yahoo. 
 My system periodically connects to yahoo's server, downloads and sorts 
the email, and then provides access to the emails through a web 
interface. After looking through it, I send an email. My system then 
sends it to yahoo's server via SMTP. This would essentially replace 
Mozilla with my server setup.

	Any ideas for what servers to use, or have I over complicated everything?

Thanks for anything,
Paul




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Re: ISO9660 file naming (limits)

[Paul E Condon]

On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 11:12:16PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote:
> I want to make a cd archive of my (past) school work and remove it
> from my hard drive.  The problem lies in name/path length limits for
> ISO9660 filesystems.  'mkisofs -R -J' yields output such as
> Using FINDR000.HH;1 for 
> ./SE1-Software_Engineering.3010-361/src/FindRoomWindow.hh (FindRoomWindow_glade.hh)
> Using FINDR000.CC;1 for 
> ./SE1-Software_Engineering.3010-361/src/FindRoomWindow_glade.cc (FindRoomWindow.cc)
> When I loopback mount the ISO to inspect it, the file apears normal
> with the complete path and name.
> 
> My question is, what does the output from mkisofs mean, and will the
> CD have all of the files correctly named?
> 

Why don't you avoid problem by using tar on reasonably sized chunks of
the file tree, and name the tar files concisely?

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Re: Is there any encrypted or secure NFS?

[Paul Smith]

%% Mark Roach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

  mr> Note: if you tell me that he is going to boot off a knoppix CD and
  mr> crack root on the box to su to userB, you must give me at least
  mr> one example of an alternative that is not susceptible to an attack
  mr> by a malicious local root

Any method that forces the client to authenticate himself by more than
simple UID.  It must be doable since Windows SMB does it: having
Administrator privileges on your Windows box doesn't give you the
ability to read anyone else's files on a remote SMB share.

For example, there are versions of NFS that use Kerberos for
authentication.  In this scenario simply being root (which given
physical access to the box is obviously trivial) won't get you access to
someone else's files.  I don't personally know of any site that uses
this, but it's in the NFS standards.


You may argue that if you have root access on your target's box you can
snoop enough information to fake out Kerberos, and you're probably
right.  You can install trojans, for starters.  But at least you have to
have root access on _their_ box and you have to do some work that is
potentially detectable; with normal NFS all you need is root access on
your _OWN_ box, plus a trivial "su", which is far, far simpler to
accomplish, and virtually untraceable.

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ISO9660 file naming (limits)

[Derrick 'dman' Hudson]

I want to make a cd archive of my (past) school work and remove it
from my hard drive.  The problem lies in name/path length limits for
ISO9660 filesystems.  'mkisofs -R -J' yields output such as
Using FINDR000.HH;1 for ./SE1-Software_Engineering.3010-361/src/FindRoomWindow.hh 
(FindRoomWindow_glade.hh)
Using FINDR000.CC;1 for 
./SE1-Software_Engineering.3010-361/src/FindRoomWindow_glade.cc (FindRoomWindow.cc)
When I loopback mount the ISO to inspect it, the file apears normal
with the complete path and name.

My question is, what does the output from mkisofs mean, and will the
CD have all of the files correctly named?

TIA,
-D

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Re: Is there any encrypted or secure NFS?

[Mark Roach]

On Mon, 2004-01-05 at 21:48, Alvin Oga wrote:
> On Mon, 5 Jan 2004, Brett Carrington wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 09:14:27PM -0500, Mark Roach wrote:
> > > > This might be encrypted, but hardly secure, for instance if user A has 
> > > > physical access to NFS client
> > > > and user B has physical access to nfs client, what prevents user A from 
> > > > accessing user B's files through VPN?
> > > 
> > > File permissions.
> 
> wont help ...  the user has acces to their files on the other end

OK, I'm obviously missing something here. Here's what I'm hearing

NFS Server --- NFS Client (Home of User A and User B)

The server is exporting /home which includes /home/userA and
/home/userB. File permissions are set to 700 (or 770 with appropriate
groups) on both home directories.

The client has mounted the server's /home as /mnt/remote_homes

User A wants to access user B's files that are under
/mnt/remote_homes/userB. How are you suggesting that this is going to be
possible? 

Note: if you tell me that he is going to boot off a knoppix CD and crack
root on the box to su to userB, you must give me at least one example of
an alternative that is not susceptible to an attack by a malicious local
root

> > Even so, you'd have this problem with or without an IPSec VPN. The VPN's
> > job, in this case, is lower-layer encryption. File systems on your
> > host/NFS Client are out of the spectrum of what a VPN can do. A VPN is
> > only going to protect your data from snoopers of NFS packets.
> 
> "maybe"

[snip random security stuffs]
> - allowing nfs just makes all the snooping easier ...
>   too many old holes - that may or may not be patched
> 
>   nfs --> "Not For Security"
> 
>   setting up and properly running a "secure nfs" is a whole other
>   ballgame

NFS definitely is not the right tool for every situation. There are some
situations though, where it _is_ a good tool, and additional
circumstances where the addition of IPSEC makes it a reasonable option
when it otherwise wouldn't have been.
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Re: unable to login; pam broken?

[R. Wood]

On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 10:32:28PM -0500, Carl Mummert imagined:
> I have a mysterious problem - I am unable to login as any
> user.  i am also unable to su to root.  Forutnately I am
> currently logged in, but I can't su or log in on another VC.
> Apparently my PAM setup is broken (from looking at strace).  I
> recently upgraded to the latest version of sarge, I don't know
> if there is a known issue (nothing seems to be in the list
> archives).
> 
> I have appended the strace from su.  I am completely at a loss
> here, so I would appreciate any help.  I can provide more info
> if needed.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Carl

This is just a shot in the dark:  try upgrading your 'passwd'
package...

HTH,
Raymond
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of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty and democracy?"
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unable to login; pam broken?

[Carl Mummert]

I have a mysterious problem - I am unable to login as any user.
i am also unable to su to root.  Forutnately I am currently logged in,
but I can't su or log in on another VC.  Apparently my PAM setup is
broken (from looking at strace).  I recently upgraded to the latest
version of sarge, I don't know if there is a known issue (nothing seems
to be in the list archives).

I have appended the strace from su.  I am completely at a loss here, so
I would appreciate any help.  I can provide more info if needed.

Thanks,

Carl


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]0;swedishfish ~
swedishfish ~
10:25 PM $ stace su
bash: stace: command not found
]0;swedishfish ~
swedishfish ~
10:26 PM $ strace su
execve("/bin/su", ["su"], [/* 25 vars */]) = 0
uname({sys="Linux", node="swedishfish", ...}) = 0
brk(0)  = 0x8054780
old_mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 
0x40017000
access("/etc/ld.so.nohwcap", F_OK)  = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/etc/ld.so.preload", O_RDONLY)= -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY)  = 3
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=41378, ...}) = 0
old_mmap(NULL, 41378, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x40018000
close(3)= 0
access("/etc/ld.so.nohwcap", F_OK)  = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/lib/libcrypt.so.1", O_RDONLY)= 3
read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\340\t\0"..., 512) = 512
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=18636, ...}) = 0
old_mmap(NULL, 181532, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x40023000
old_mmap(0x40028000, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 3, 0x4000) = 
0x40028000
old_mmap(0x40029000, 156956, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, 
MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x40029000
close(3)= 0
access("/etc/ld.so.nohwcap", F_OK)  = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/lib/libpam.so.0", O_RDONLY)  = 3
read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0`\25\0\000"..., 512) = 512
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=30360, ...}) = 0
old_mmap(NULL, 29324, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x4005
old_mmap(0x40057000, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 3, 0x7000) = 
0x40057000
close(3)= 0
access("/etc/ld.so.nohwcap", F_OK)  = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/lib/libpam_misc.so.0", O_RDONLY) = 3
read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\260\16"..., 512) = 512
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=8800, ...}) = 0
old_mmap(NULL, 11880, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x40058000
old_mmap(0x4005a000, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 3, 0x1000) = 
0x4005a000
close(3)= 0
access("/etc/ld.so.nohwcap", F_OK)  = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/lib/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY)= 3
read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0`^\1\000"..., 512) = 512
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=1243076, ...}) = 0
old_mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 
0x4005b000
old_mmap(NULL, 1253316, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x4005c000
old_mmap(0x40183000, 36864, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 3, 0x126000) 
= 0x40183000
old_mmap(0x4018c000, 8132, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, 
-1, 0) = 0x4018c000
close(3)= 0
access("/etc/ld.so.nohwcap", F_OK)  = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/lib/libdl.so.2", O_RDONLY)   = 3
read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0P\34\0\000"..., 512) = 512
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=9796, ...}) = 0
old_mmap(NULL, 8632, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x4018e000
old_mmap(0x4019, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 3, 0x2000) = 
0x4019
close(3)= 0
munmap(0x40018000, 41378)   = 0
brk(0)  = 0x8054780
brk(0x8075780)  = 0x8075780
brk(0)  = 0x8075780
brk(0x8076000)  = 0x8076000
getuid32()  = 1001
ioctl(0, TCGETS, {B38400 opost isig icanon echo ...}) = 0
ioctl(0, TCGETS, {B38400 opost isig icanon echo ...}) = 0
readlink("/proc/self/fd/0", 0x8054848, 4095) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied)
fstat64(0, {st_mode=S_IFCHR|0620, st_rdev=makedev(136, 3), ...}) = 0
stat64("/dev/pts", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
open("/dev/null", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_DIRECTORY) = -1 ENOTDIR (Not a directory)
open("/dev/pts", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_LARGEFILE|O_DIRECTORY) = 3
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
fcntl64(3, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) = 0
getdents64(3, /* 5 entries */, 1024)= 120
stat64("/dev/pts/3", {st_mode=S_IFCHR|0620, st_

Re: ifconfig eth0 shows errors building

[Jacob S.]

On Mon, 5 Jan 2004 15:22:27 -0700
Nate Duehr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Monday 05 January 2004 01:20 pm, Jacob S. wrote:
> 
> > I've had similar errors with several Rev. 5 LNE100TX cards that
> > looked like you describe. I tried kernels 2.2.15, 2.2.19, 2.4.18 as
> > well as the latest drivers from www.scyld.com and ifconfig always
> > showed the same thing. The cards and network connection have always
> > worked fine for me, it just looks bad when you run ifconfig.
> 
> Define "fine"... what was your max throughput on those cards?  I
> highly doubt those aren't real errors.  Ethernet's just pretty
> forgiving.  Can you really push full data rate with those kinds of
> errors showing up?  I highly doubt it.

Fine = No noticeable difference in speed vs. other computers and network
cards that aren't exhibiting the problem.

I don't have any logs I can show from it right now, but in my case it
looked like data was being shown in the wrong columns, not that anything
was malfunctioning. The OP has already responded and their situation was
obviously not the same as what I described. Nonetheless, my problem was
not specific to just one of my network cards, but all of the
LNE100TX Rev. 5 Linksys cards I had at that time.

Jacob

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Re: Two nics; only one works at a time

[Lou Losee]

* Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-01-05 22:03]:
> I've got a freshly installed Debian Stable box with two NICs, a 3c509 
> and a 3c509c. In /etc/network/interfaces, I have them defined thusly:
> 
> auto lo
> iface lo inet loopback
> 
> auto eth0
> iface eth0 inet dhcp
> 
> auto eth1
> iface eth1 dhcp
> 
> When I (re)start networking, ifconfig shows both cards to be configured 
> with all the proper numbers, but networking out is "iffy" (I haven't 
> been able to pin down a pattern), and I can ping from a different subnet 
> the eth1 card but never the eth0 card.
> 
> If I comment out one of the cards (it doesn't matter which one) in 
> "interfaces" and restart networking, I can then ping from the different 
> subnet the card not commented out. In other words, both cards work, but 
> only one at a time.
> 
> I've also tried static IP addresses with essentially the same results.
> 
> I've booted off a Knoppix 3.3 CD, and both cards worked as expected, and 
> I was able to ping both cards from a different subnet.
> 
> I actually wiped the drive and did a clean install of Stable, only to 
> find the same results afterward. I also upgraded from the 2.2 kernel to 
> 2.4.18-1-686; it made no difference.
> 
> I've been googling all day trying to find an answer, and haven't hit the 
> right answer yet. If this isn't solved by tomorrow, the decision makers 
> are going to go with Redhat (because we're in a time crunch). Does 
> anyone have any insight as to what I need to do to get both NICs working 
> properly?
> 
Kent,
What is the output of the 'route' command when you have the interfaces
up with and without knoppix?

Lou


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Re: Mount failed: Invalid argument

[Lou Losee]

* Douglas Dreistadt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-01-05 20:34]:
> I'm trying to install Debian from CD on a
> 700mhz AMD system with 500mb RAM.
> Right now I am stuck in the middle of
> installation. I have made it as far as disk
> formatting, but cannot "mount"(?) the root
> partition.
> When I try to mount dev/hda1 as the root file
> system, I get a [Mount failed: Invalid argument]
> error, and cannot proceed beyond that point. That
> error doesn't make sense to me, since I am using
> the installation system setup menus, not the
> command line, and cannot add any arguments.

perhaps /dev/hda1 rather than dev/hda1 

> 
> I am working with a 80gb Seagate hard disk. I
> created 3 primary partitions:
> 
>   5gb for the boot partition
>   1gb for the swap partition
>   75gb for everything else

if they are in that order and the drive is hda then the root partition
would be /dev/hda3 not /dev/hda1

> 
> I succeeded in creating the partitions,
> initializing all 3 partitions, and activating the
> swap partition. Next, it says I have to "mount" a
> partition as the root, and I have tried numerous
> times, but always get the [invalid argument]
> error.
> 
> Can anyone out there give me some pointers?


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Re: Is there any encrypted or secure NFS?

[Mark Roach]

On Mon, 2004-01-05 at 21:25, Brett Carrington wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 09:14:27PM -0500, Mark Roach wrote:
> > > This might be encrypted, but hardly secure, for instance if user A has 
> > > physical access to NFS client
> > > and user B has physical access to nfs client, what prevents user A from 
> > > accessing user B's files through VPN?
> > 
> > File permissions.
> >
> 
> Even so, you'd have this problem with or without an IPSec VPN. The VPN's
> job, in this case, is lower-layer encryption. File systems on your
> host/NFS Client are out of the spectrum of what a VPN can do. A VPN is
> only going to protect your data from snoopers of NFS packets.

Right, which is why I pointed to file permissions instead of the VPN as
the protecting factor here. I don't really know what Rohit was
suggesting as an alternative, but if he thinks there is any security
mechanism that can protect against all attacks regardless of whether the
attacker has root, he is mistaken. 

At some point there has to exist a status of "trusted." Unless you
want to lock your computer in a vault, set bios and lilo passwords, buy
a van-eck cage, and carry your keyboard with you at all times, you are
probably better off protecting yourself from the class of attackers who
pose an actual (plausible) threat.

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non-US

[Martin Helas]

Hi Listreaders,

did i miss something, or has there been no package update in non-US since 20th
of November?

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Re: Is there any encrypted or secure NFS?

[Alvin Oga]

On Mon, 5 Jan 2004, Brett Carrington wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 09:14:27PM -0500, Mark Roach wrote:
> > > This might be encrypted, but hardly secure, for instance if user A has 
> > > physical access to NFS client
> > > and user B has physical access to nfs client, what prevents user A from 
> > > accessing user B's files through VPN?
> > 
> > File permissions.

wont help ...  the user has acces to their files on the other end

> Even so, you'd have this problem with or without an IPSec VPN. The VPN's
> job, in this case, is lower-layer encryption. File systems on your
> host/NFS Client are out of the spectrum of what a VPN can do. A VPN is
> only going to protect your data from snoopers of NFS packets.

"maybe"

places where the cracker can see your "credit card" ( sensitive data )
- while you're away from your desk
- while its still in netscape cache
- in transit to the webstore
- while its in memory (-- you've got bigger problems --)
- vpn/ssh snoopping of the wire  (-- you've gove bigger problems--)
- from your home network ssh'd/vpn'd into the corp lan
- trash can

- i think the major comment, was what if the dude just sits at the
  terminal while your away ..
- encrypted traffic or encrypted fs will not prevent the cracker
from seeing the "good data" they're not supposed to have seen

- always passwd protect your screen 
and always use different passwds for each pc
 
"encryption" is still uselsess if you use ez 2 remember pass phrase or
words from the dictionary or common phrases and "misstyped" passwds ..
or written down on a piece of paper that is easy to find on the
keyboard, monitor, mousepad, drawers, rolodex, bookmarkers, ...

- it's even more trivial to go snooping if you use passwdless
logins

- allowing nfs just makes all the snooping easier ...
too many old holes - that may or may not be patched

nfs --> "Not For Security"

setting up and properly running a "secure nfs" is a whole other
ballgame

c ya
alvin   


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Re: Find command to display attributes

[Laurence J. Lane]

On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 05:50:08PM +0100, VEGH Karoly wrote:

> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/test$ find . -name "*[123]*" -exec ls -l {} \;

With GNU find:

  find . -name "*[123]*" -ls


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Re: ATI Radeon driver + Linux2.6?

[Roberto Sanchez]

Björn Johansson wrote:
Hello!

I've recently installed a 2.6.0 kernel, and I have a problem
with the graphics in X. The problem is that I can't succesfully
recompile the fglrx driver, so the system uses MESA instead
of the graphic libraries provided by the official ATI package.
Is it possible to use the Ati FireGL drivers with 2.6?

This is what happens when I try to compile the fglrx:

cd /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/
./make.sh
Initializing...
Probing for VMA API version...
Check result are inconsistent!!!
none of the probed versions did succeed.
Aborting module build.
With the 2.4.22 kernel this firegl works very good.

Björn Johansson
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ATI's 3.7.0 version of fglrx work fine in 2.6 kernels (I am running it
now on 2.6.1-rc1-mm2).  But I have never seen the error you describe.
-Roberto


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Re: Cursor problems

[Paul M Foster]

On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 10:41:26AM -0500, Robert C. Thyberg wrote:

> I put this on the debian-laptop list  but got no response. Have tried the 
> Debian support pages but found no help there.  I was advised to try this 
> list by Tapio Lehtonen.
> 
> 
> What:
> SONY VAIO F490
> 650Mhz Intel, 18GB HDD
> Debian 3.0 rev2 "woody", new install
> 
> Problem:
> Can't get arrow shaped cursor in GUI or block in console.
> Cursor is a three quarter inch square of vertical lines or hash in both GUI 
> and in console. . Top left corner of square is the point which works but is 
> very hard on the eyes. "gpm" is installed
> 
> Square cursor in KDE and GNOME and Konqueror and all GUI stuff.
> Same kind of cursor on the console

I had a similar problem, but only in X, and on entirely different
hardware. You can try my solution, and if it doesn't work, no harm done.
In the section of your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file that talks about your
video card (should be a "Device" section), add the line:

Option  "SWCursor"  "on"

HTH,

Paul


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Re: /etc/mail/aliases.db out of date

[Nitebirdz]

On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 11:23:13PM -0500, Frederic Lavoie wrote:
> Hello, 
> 
> I have this error :
> 
> Dec 20 04:00:04 eglantin sm-mta[15923]: alias database /etc/mail/aliases.db out of 
> date
> 
> 
> Even if I do a newaliases the error still there.  Is is logical? What is 
> the problem? The file itself has a good date. If you have any feel free to 
> contact me.: 
> 
> -rw-r--r--1 root smmsp   12288 Nov 30 22:04 aliases.db
> 

No, it's not very logical, at least at first sight.  All the error is saying
is that the timestamp on "/etc/mail/aliases.db" is older than the one in the
"/etc/aliases" file and you should therefore run 'newaliases'.  However, you
explained you did this already and it didn't seem to fix the problem.  Pay
attention to the output of the 'newaliases' command and see if it is using
the default "aliases" file you expect.  Just to give you an idea, I upgraded
Sendmail on a Red Hat box recently and it created a new "aliases" file under
the "/etc/mail" directory.  I wasn't aware of it and continued editing my
usual "/etc/aliases" file, but my changes were never taking effect.  After
a few minutes pulling my hair, I realized all of a sudden that 'newaliases'
was reading input from "/etc/mail/aliases".  Perhaps something similar may
be happening to you here.



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Two nics; only one works at a time

[Kent West]

I've got a freshly installed Debian Stable box with two NICs, a 3c509 
and a 3c509c. In /etc/network/interfaces, I have them defined thusly:

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp
auto eth1
iface eth1 dhcp
When I (re)start networking, ifconfig shows both cards to be configured 
with all the proper numbers, but networking out is "iffy" (I haven't 
been able to pin down a pattern), and I can ping from a different subnet 
the eth1 card but never the eth0 card.

If I comment out one of the cards (it doesn't matter which one) in 
"interfaces" and restart networking, I can then ping from the different 
subnet the card not commented out. In other words, both cards work, but 
only one at a time.

I've also tried static IP addresses with essentially the same results.

I've booted off a Knoppix 3.3 CD, and both cards worked as expected, and 
I was able to ping both cards from a different subnet.

I actually wiped the drive and did a clean install of Stable, only to 
find the same results afterward. I also upgraded from the 2.2 kernel to 
2.4.18-1-686; it made no difference.

I've been googling all day trying to find an answer, and haven't hit the 
right answer yet. If this isn't solved by tomorrow, the decision makers 
are going to go with Redhat (because we're in a time crunch). Does 
anyone have any insight as to what I need to do to get both NICs working 
properly?

Thanks!

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Re: Is there any encrypted or secure NFS?

[Brett Carrington]

On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 09:14:27PM -0500, Mark Roach wrote:
> > This might be encrypted, but hardly secure, for instance if user A has 
> > physical access to NFS client
> > and user B has physical access to nfs client, what prevents user A from 
> > accessing user B's files through VPN?
> 
> File permissions.
>

Even so, you'd have this problem with or without an IPSec VPN. The VPN's
job, in this case, is lower-layer encryption. File systems on your
host/NFS Client are out of the spectrum of what a VPN can do. A VPN is
only going to protect your data from snoopers of NFS packets.


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Re: Is there any encrypted or secure NFS?

[Mark Roach]

On Mon, 2004-01-05 at 07:49, Rohit Kumar Mehta wrote:
> Mark Roach wrote:

> >Get it properly encrypted at a lower level with ipsec, and you can go
> >about your business (whee, telnet's back).
> >  
> >
> This might be encrypted, but hardly secure, for instance if user A has 
> physical access to NFS client
> and user B has physical access to nfs client, what prevents user A from 
> accessing user B's files through VPN?

File permissions.

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Dell 8600 WUXGA (NVidia chipset)

[Tony Godshall]

Hi, all.

Just got a good deal on a Dell 8600 with a WUXGA display
(1920x1200).  Got it running at 1600x1200 with Xandros 1.0
(Debian-based, the former Corel Linux, and apparently what 
LindowsOS is based on), but trying to get it to the full width.  

lspci says it has an unknown NVidia chipset...

  01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 0324 (rev a1)

Does anyone know if this chip is handled in the newer
kernels (I ran 2.6.0 on my last laptop for a while, but
can't seem to get xandros to come up off a customized
kernel) or a newer version of XFree86.

I've poked around tuxmobil etc, and there's supposed to be a 
NVidia driver, but it's not clear that it would work with this 
model, plus I'd rather avoid a proprietary driver (I've not 
been able to back out installs of proprietary software very
well in the past).  

Any help (experience or speculation) appreciated, especially
combos and configs (XF86Config-4 and kernel) known to work
on this (a bit too proprietary in retrospect) beast.

Oh, I'm running Xandros 1.0 but with a lot of stuff upgraded
to debian testing.  Any tips for vanilla Debian are also
welcome, as I wouldn't mind switching back to that (I'm not
getting that much use out of the Xandros added-value stuff,
except for eye-candy, which is readily available elsewhere).

By the way, Xandros' X startup seems to have a pretty good 
try-and-fallback startup system for X; I'm trying to figure 
out how it works.

-- Tony


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Re: Problem running foomatic-filters postinst script

[Carl Fink]

On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 01:35:14PM +0100, Jan Minar wrote:

> Look through the headers of any message on this list for a word
> `archive'.  Or use google for that matter.

I'm not sure if that was meant to be insulting, or was simply confused.
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Re: ifconfig eth0 shows errors building

[mike]

On Mon, 05 Jan 2004 22:04:24 +0100, Sturla Holm Hansen wrote
> Looks like bad cabling or a bogged down net to me, notice that the
> collision-count is pretty high out too.
> My guess is you have a bad nic or bad cabling/bogged net...
> 

Thanks for the input everyone!!
Replaced the hub with another and bingo. 
Had to wait until everyone went home, but its worth it
to find out its the network and not my Debian System. 

Cool!

Mike


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Mount failed: Invalid argument

[Douglas Dreistadt]

I'm trying to install Debian from CD on a
(B700mhz AMD system with 500mb RAM.
(BRight now I am stuck in the middle of
(Binstallation. I have made it as far as disk
(Bformatting, but cannot "mount"(?) the root
(Bpartition.
(BWhen I try to mount dev/hda1 as the root file
(Bsystem, I get a [Mount failed: Invalid argument]
(Berror, and cannot proceed beyond that point. That
(Berror doesn't make sense to me, since I am using
(Bthe installation system setup menus, not the
(Bcommand line, and cannot add any arguments.
(B
(BI am working with a 80gb Seagate hard disk. I
(Bcreated 3 primary partitions:
(B
(B  5gb for the boot partition
(B  1gb for the swap partition
(B  75gb for everything else
(B
(BI succeeded in creating the partitions,
(Binitializing all 3 partitions, and activating the
(Bswap partition. Next, it says I have to "mount" a
(Bpartition as the root, and I have tried numerous
(Btimes, but always get the [invalid argument]
(Berror.
(B
(BCan anyone out there give me some pointers?
(B
(B--
(B
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Re: wireless setup

[Benedict Verheyen]

- Original Message -
From: "Jan Minar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 1:19 PM
Subject: Re: wireless setup

>On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 12:12:46PM +0100, Benedict Verheyen wrote:
>> Any comments on this setup?
>
>Just one general one: network with wires where you can, employ wireless
>only when you must.  If your business depends on the networking, go for
>the licensed bands (i.e. not 2.4 / 5 GHz).  Use wireless only where you
>can clearly benefit from the coverage, mobility, lower link-setup cost,
>generally areas where it is impossible or impractical to use Ethernet &
>friends.  Backup with wires when possible, nevertheless.  Wireless
>technology isn't really suited to replace existing wired networks, but
>rather to complement them.
>
>The wired networks are more widely deployed, for a longer time, i.e.
>more tested & generally cheaper.  It's easier to avoid interferences,
>including DoS attacks.  E.g. 802.11g is orders-of magnitude slower than
>the 100Mbps switched Ethernet, especially where the bands get crowded
>(many networks/clients in the same area attempting to talk at the same
>time).  Not only the raw speed is lower, but the latency is greater,
and
>the packet-loss is significant--something at least pre-2.6 TCP/IP stack
>will not be happy about.
>
>And just as a matter of fact, D-Link is a crap.

What products do you suggest then? I checked netgear and they seem to
have properly supported hardware for linux. I check change the D-Link
stuff to:
WGR614 Cable/DSL Wireless Router 54 Mbps/2.4 GHz
WGE101 54 Mbps Wireless Ethernet Bridge
WG311 54 Mbps Wireless PCI Adapter

I have 2 questions though:
1. As stated in the original message, can i connect a bridge with
another
bridge? (1 bridge on cable modem, 1 on eth0 of server)

2. To manage both the bridge and router, the OS is not important since
it can all be run from a browser?

Regards,
Benedict



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Re: 56K Modems

[Paul Johnson]

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On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 06:11:31PM +0800, csj wrote:
> Because I need my mobo's lone serial port for my UPS, I got a
> usb-serial converter (modules usbserial and pl2303) to connect my
> serial modem to (dev/ttyUSB0).  I get respectable 46K speeds and
> the coolness of USB.

Seems like it would be easier (and retro-cool) to go hit Wacky
Willy's[1] or similar store and pick up an old PCI serial I/O board.
Then you get the geek factor of actually using /dev/ttyS2 or /dev/ttyS3


[1] http://www.wackywillys.com/

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Re: fetchmail: lock creation failed

[Thomas H. George]

Jan Minar wrote:

On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 09:41:55AM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote:
 

With no fetchmail to feed mail to mutt and so no threading I have lost 
the thread and must re-post.
   

If you want to read the thread, look among the headers of any mail on
this list, for `List-Archive:'.
 

As advised I re-copied /oldhome/tom to /home/tom with tar.  This did not 
solve the problem.
   

It wasn't supposed to, really.

 

There is no .fetchmail.pid file in /oldhome/tom or anywhere else.
   

Ooops.  I thought ~/.fetchmail.pid was _the_ lockfile.  Did you mean
running fetchmail as user tom, or a sitewide fetchmail started at
bootup?  Or a fetchmail run by another user maybe?
 

When it was working I alway ran it as user  tom from my home directory.

 

I tried dpkg -- purge fetchmail followed by apt-get -f install 
fetchmail.  This did not solve the problem.
   

Should be ``dpkg --purge'' (without the space after `--').
 

The space was a typo in the email, I did the purge correctly.

 

Any more suggestions?
   

Yes: strace(1).  Look especially for the open(), and anything from the
stat() family (man 2 stat).
 

Final two lines of strace fetchmail run from /home/tom:

   open("/home/tom/.fetchmail.pid", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_EXCL|O_SYNC, 
0666) = -1 EACCESS (Permission Denied)
   write (2, "fetchmail: lock creation failed. ..., 33)  = 33

I tried creating a file .fetchmail.pid with chown tom and chmod 666.  
This gave the same result with (File Exists) instead of (Permission Denied).

I also found and read /usr/share/doc/fetchmail/README.Debian.gz which 
notes the program wont run if there is no /etc/fetchmailrc file.  I 
copied /usr/share/doc/fetchmail/examples/fetchmailrc.exampe to 
/etc/fetchmailrc and edited the last lines to read

   poll mail.spininternet.com with protocol pop3
  user 'xyz' there with password * is 'tom' here
and changed the file to be chmod 0600, chown fetchmail.  This is 
apparently not enough as /etc/init.d/fetchmail debug-run does nothing so 
/etc/init.d/fetchmail debug-run strace -o /tmp/strace.out as suggested 
in README.Debian.gz produces no output.  However, strace -o 
/tmp/strace.out fetchmail run from /home/tom works/

There is clearly a mis-connect somewhere.  whereis fetchmail reports one 
/usr/bin/fetchmail and the man file.

Does any of this provide a clue as to what is going on?

Tom






HTH.

 



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Re: ATI Radeon driver + Linux2.6?

[Bijan Soleymani]

On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 01:30:26AM +0100, Bj?rn Johansson wrote:
> Is it possible to use the Ati FireGL drivers with 2.6?

I don't know about this specific case, but binary drivers
usually won't work for a whole new kernel. Maybe a driver for
2.4.22 will work fine with 2.4.23, but probably not with 2.6.
You might have to wait until ATI releases drivers for 2.6.

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Re: Kernel 2.6.0 Cannot Mount Root FS

[Björn Johansson]

Hello!
 
I had the same problem.
You must do:  make mrproper
Then: make menuconfig
 
Without "make mrproper" you get kernel 
panic.
 
 
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Evolution + multi accounts + Sync with laptop

[Josh]

hi

i use evolution on my desktop which has some pop and imap accounts.
some of them have subdirectories.
mail format is mbox.

i would like to be able to sync my emails between desktop and laptop ; 
i thought of setting up an imap server on my desktop, and then retrieve
pop & imap mails via fetchmail, then procmail for sorting them.
the only pblm is when i wanna compose a mail ... if i don't create each
pop&imap accounts in mail client (evolution) i'm not gonna be able to
choose from which identity i send the mail ...

Any ways to bypass this ?

thks


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ATI Radeon driver + Linux2.6?

[Björn Johansson]

 
Hello!
 
I've recently installed a 2.6.0 kernel, and I have 
a problem
with the graphics in X. The problem is that I can't 
succesfully
recompile the fglrx 
driver, so the system uses MESA instead
of the graphic 
libraries provided by the official ATI package.
 
Is it possible to use the Ati FireGL drivers with 
2.6?
 
This is what happens when I try to compile the 
fglrx:
 
cd /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/
./make.sh
 
Initializing...
Probing for VMA API version...
Check result are inconsistent!!!
none of the probed versions did 
succeed.
Aborting module build.
 
With the 2.4.22 kernel this firegl works very 
good.
 
 
Björn Johansson
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Re: devfs and Linux LVM

[Paul Morgan]

On Mon, 05 Jan 2004 15:35:12 -0800, ope wrote:

>> If devfsd is a debian install ("dpkg -l devfsd" will
>> tell you), it should
>> be set up fine.
>>
>> And, if you can see your devices as /dev/ide/...
>> then it is all fine.
>> 
> Yes, devfsd is installed and I can see the devices via
> the full devfs path.
> 
>> You are correct that you need to use the
>> /dev/ide/... device names for
>> LVM.  You can use the old device names (/dev/hd??)
>> for mount.  Probably
>> most all non-lvm commands.  Certainly the fdisk
>> family, for example.
> 
> This is probably where I went wrong.  I created the
> volume groups using the standard /dev/hda[1-9] rather
> than the full path.  I reconfigured and everything
> looks good so far.
>  
> Thanks again for all of your help.
> 

You are welcome.  Glad it seems to be sorted out.

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RE: delete file based on content

[Paul Morgan]

On Mon, 05 Jan 2004 18:18:00 -0600, Michael Martinell wrote:

> Please ignore former post.  It was an ID10T error on my part.
> 
> 
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: Tom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 5:41 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: delete file based on content
> 
> On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 05:35:26PM -0600, Michael Martinell wrote:
> [snip]
>> 
>> I tried the following: grep -li "Processing completed correctly" * 
>> 
>> This gave me the list of logs that were complete.  How can I send the
>> results of this to the rm command.  The redirection that I tried did not
>> seem to work.
>> 
> 
> #rm `grep -li "Processing completed correctly" *`
> 
> 
> This worked nicely at the command line, however when I put in into a script
> I received the error rm :too few arguments
> 
> Any other thoughts?
> 

You would get that, at the command line or in a script, if there were no
filenames returned by grep (i.e. none to delete).  You can check by simply
typing "rm" by itself and you'll get the same error message.  To suppress
the error message, you could do this:

rm `grep -li "Processing completed correctly" *` 2>/dev/null

man bash
/^REDIRECTION

...for information on what I added.

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Re: delete file based on content

[Laurence J. Lane]

(oops, list reply)

On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 06:08:02PM -0600, Michael Martinell wrote:

> #rm `grep -li "Processing completed correctly" *`

> Any other thoughts?

grep -Zli "Processing completed correctly" * | xargs -r0 rm -v


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RE: delete file based on content

[Michael Martinell]

Please ignore former post.  It was an ID10T error on my part.



-Original Message-
From: Tom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 5:41 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: delete file based on content

On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 05:35:26PM -0600, Michael Martinell wrote:
[snip]
> 
> I tried the following: grep -li "Processing completed correctly" * 
> 
> This gave me the list of logs that were complete.  How can I send the
> results of this to the rm command.  The redirection that I tried did not
> seem to work.
> 

#rm `grep -li "Processing completed correctly" *`


This worked nicely at the command line, however when I put in into a script
I received the error rm :too few arguments

Any other thoughts?

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Putting URL view results in a txt file without copy and pasting

[Joseph A. Nagy, Jr.]

Hey list,

Earlier today I tried

$urlview .gaim/logs/*.log > url-view.txt

It worked, but the output was a bit nasty. Is there a way to just get 
the url's from urlview into a txt file?
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RE: delete file based on content

[Michael Martinell]

-Original Message-
From: Tom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 5:41 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: delete file based on content

On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 05:35:26PM -0600, Michael Martinell wrote:
[snip]
> 
> I tried the following: grep -li "Processing completed correctly" * 
> 
> This gave me the list of logs that were complete.  How can I send the
> results of this to the rm command.  The redirection that I tried did not
> seem to work.
> 

#rm `grep -li "Processing completed correctly" *`


This worked nicely at the command line, however when I put in into a script
I received the error rm :too few arguments

Any other thoughts?

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Re: Intermittent reboots between kernel versions

[Bill Goudie]

On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 03:13:28PM +0300, Ogulla, Alphonse wrote:
> I'm using Woody and kernel versions 2.4.18-686, 2.4.21 & 2.6.0. The
> system boots up and functions well when powering up from either of the
> 2.4 kernels but ocassionally fails to boot when changing from 2.6.0 to
> 2.4.21. In this case, the system fails to mount the root file system,
> culminating in a kernel panic. 
> 
> 
> EXT2-fs: ide0(3,1): couldn't mount because of unsupported optional features
> (4).
> cramfs: wrong magic
> Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:01
> 
> 
> I however experience no problem when changing from 2.6.0 to 2.4.18-686
> and in fact take advantage of restarting with 2.4.18-686 as a
> makeshift solution.  In an attempt to find a lasting solution, I
> compiled kernel 2.6.0 again and this time enabled Ext2/3 extended
> attributes.  Its been just a day since putting the new 2.6.0 version
> into service and have so far not experienced the difficulty described
> above but on the other hand I'm not so sure if indeed I've come across
> the solution for the root cause of the problem. Any ideas?
> 
> Note that in getting kernel 2.6.0 to work, I had to install a newer
> version of e2fsprogs and replace modutils with module-init-tools.
> Could e2fsprogs be causing the problem?

Hmm, could this be the same problem as:

   http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2003/debian-devel-200312/msg00608.html

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Re: delete file based on content

[Nano Nano]

On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 05:35:26PM -0600, Michael Martinell wrote:
[snip]
> 
> I tried the following: grep -li "Processing completed correctly" * 
> 
> This gave me the list of logs that were complete.  How can I send the
> results of this to the rm command.  The redirection that I tried did not
> seem to work.
> 

#rm `grep -li "Processing completed correctly" *`


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delete file based on content

[Michael Martinell]

Can anybody tell me what I am doing wrong?

 

I am trying to delete files based upon content.  As an
example I have files called log1, log2, log3

 

Log 1 contains the words “Processing completed
correctly” and can be deleted.

 

I tried the following: grep –li “Processing
completed correctly” * 

 

This gave me the list of logs that were complete.  How
can I send the results of this to the rm command.  The redirection that I
tried did not seem to work.

Re: Are there any woody r1->r2 update ISO's?

[Greg Madden]

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On Monday 05 January 2004 11:56 am, Dameon Wagner wrote:
> Howzit,
>
> I run a couple of Woody boxes, and when I updated from r0 to r1 I did
> it using an update ISO that I found at one of the german FTP mirrors.
>
> Are there any plans to bring out an update ISO image for going from
> r1 to r2?  I really don't want to have to download all 7 ISO's again,
> and unfortunately using APT isn't really an option.
>
> Cheers.
>
> Dameon.
>
> --
>
> ><> ><> ><> ><> ><> ><> ooOoo <>< <>< <>< <>< <>< <><
>
> Dr. Dameon Wagner,
> Post-doctoral Fellow in Zoology,
> University of Durban-Westville,
> South Africa.
 
I don't know about plans for an update cd. You could use jigdo do get 
the new parts of r2 using your current cd's as a starting point. With 
jigdo you can loop mount the old iso, jigdo copies files from there, 
then goes as dl the rest. 

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Re: devfs and Linux LVM

[ope]

> If devfsd is a debian install ("dpkg -l devfsd" will
> tell you), it should
> be set up fine.
>
> And, if you can see your devices as /dev/ide/...
> then it is all fine.
> 
Yes, devfsd is installed and I can see the devices via
the full devfs path.

> You are correct that you need to use the
> /dev/ide/... device names for
> LVM.  You can use the old device names (/dev/hd??)
> for mount.  Probably
> most all non-lvm commands.  Certainly the fdisk
> family, for example.

This is probably where I went wrong.  I created the
volume groups using the standard /dev/hda[1-9] rather
than the full path.  I reconfigured and everything
looks good so far.
 
Thanks again for all of your help.

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run alsamixer as regular user

[Nano Nano]

I have to run alsamixer as root, or I get:

alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: Permission denied

One of the scripts I run after I install alsa-modules is:

#/usr/share/alsa-base/snddevices
#chmod a+rw /dev/dsp /dev/mixer /dev/midi /dev/sequencer /dev/audio

I can run aplay and other sound things as a user.

There's probably a group I should add my user to, what is it?

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Re: linux bewbie lame question

[Andreas Janssen]

Hello

Tendril (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote:

> , I previously posted this on linux.debian.laptop but was informed
> that it wasn't the correct forum for this so here goes again.:
> 
>>
>> I was given a thinkpad with debian woody installed (no billyware).
>> It boots lovely except for the audio. I get this message at logon:
>>
>> error while initialising sound driver:
>> device /dev/dsp can't be opened (permission denied)
>> the sound server will continue, using the null output lines
>>
>> How do I correct this? (my installation won't let me log into an
>> xwindows environment as root, I have to do it through a terminal so
>> some easy instructions would be very welcome)
>
> I can't find /dev/dsp. I'm in no way familier with the linux file
> system. I looked using konquerer...  /root/dev but it contained no
> /dsp.

The file name is /dev/dsp, so you should be able to see it if you enter
file:/dev/ in the address bar. If you choose detailed view, you can see
that the owning group of the file is audio, and only owner and group
have access to that file.

Add the user to the audio group. Log out and in again. That should solve
your problem.

best regards
Andreas Janssen

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PAM, uw-imapd and xinetd.

[Chris Murton]

Hi all,

What i'm trying to achieve is :-

An IMAP server installation which will allow logins from certain
usernames only, unless they connect from Webmail (local machine) in which
case any user is allowed.

I've been playing around with a number of ways of doing this, and I've got
the username-only aspect working fine, but I've hit a block getting
'rhost' information for analysis.

My /etc/pam.d/imap looks like this;

authsufficient pam_listfile.so item=rhost sense=allow
file=/var/imap/imaphosts onerr=fail
authrequired   pam_listfile.so item=user sense=allow
file=/var/imap/imapusers onerr=fail
auth required   pam_unix_auth.so
account  required   pam_unix_acct.so
password required   pam_unix_passwd.so
session  required   pam_unix_session.so

So in theory, this should work from what I've read of pam_listfile.
However, it appears that rhost information if it's coming from a local
machine interface is returned as (null), as opposed to localhost or
127.0.0.1.

Putting an entry in imaphosts for (null) does nothing, and I've also tried
implementing this system with pam_if.so but it simply chucks back a rhost
mismatch (null) != (null).

Does anyone know if it's possible to force xinetd/pam to return an rhost
to PAM regardless? Or a better way of doing it?

My xinetd.d/imap2 looks like this;

service imap2
{
flags   = REUSE NAMEINARGS
socket_type = stream
protocol= tcp
wait= no
user= root
server  = /usr/sbin/tcpd
server_args = /usr/sbin/imapd
}

I've tried it with just running the server '/usr/sbin/imapd' but it
returns exactly the same result.


Any thoughts? I may have to turn to hair pulling.. :)


Thanks,
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Re: [Woody] Mounting LVM-snapshots with ext3 + ACL + user_xattr-Patch

[Toens Bueker]

Paul Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> This is a well known issue.  lvm snapshots don't work in the 2.4
> kernel series. The reason is that ext3 needs to lock and flush the
> ext3 journal *before* taking the snapshot.

Does that imply, that lvm snapshots should work with 2.6.0
kernels? 

When I try the following (ok its xfs but ...)

xfs_freeze -f /home
lvcreate --size 250m -s -n snap1 /dev/vg00/home_lv 
xfs_freeze -u /home

I get this error:

  Rounding up size to full physical extend 252.00 MB
device-mapper: error adding target to table
  device-mapper ioctl cmd 9 failed: Invalid argument
  Couldn't load device 'vg00-snap1'.
  Problem reactivating origin home_lv
  
?! 

With a patched Debian kernel that worked ok with 2.4.22 (IIRC).

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Re: 56K Modems

[Pigeon]

On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 01:16:24AM +0100, Arnt Karlsen wrote:
> On Sun, 4 Jan 2004 21:52:57 +, 
> Pigeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message 
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > with), as long as you're in the right country; at least in the UK, the
> > frequency is legally required to average out to exactly 50Hz in a
> > 24-hour period. 
> 
> ..huh?  I thought the idea was to stick as close to 50Hz as possible?
> On having some heavy gear hop onto the grid, the load slows it to 
> say 49.99Hz, so promptly feeding more power onto the grid to bring 
> it back up to 50Hz, is done. But you brits have to hike it up to say
> 50.01Hz for a while "to catch up lost clock time"???  
> That too, is outside the 50Hz ideal.

It's wider than that... a +/-1% variation is allowed, ie. 49.5Hz-50.5Hz.
Nothing really bothers about such a variation... except in the bad old days
when record companies' mastering turntables were mains-locked, so you could
end up with LPs whose pitch was up to 1% out (a semitone is about 5.9%).

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Re: cfdisk vs fdisk & speaking of Western Digital drives...

[Pigeon]

On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 07:58:12AM -0800, Kenward Vaughan wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 09:49:16AM +0100, Wilko Fokken wrote:
> > On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 04:52:06PM -0500, Andy Firman wrote:
> > > 
> > > Hello.  I am not a hard drive expert and need some help in 
> > > understanding a few things.
> > > 
> > > First, what is the difference between fdisk and cfdisk,
> > > other cfdisk being curses based?
> > > 
> > 
> > I read somewhere that 'cfdisk' should be better in defining partition
> > borders fitting to those virtual cylinders and sectors of IDE drives.
> > 
> > With my 8 years old computer, I found following the Win95 FDISK by
> > cfdisk in order to partition the rest of my drives for Linux to be less
> > error-prone than working with fdisk.
> ...
> 
> My own experience with M$ systems stems from keeping Wintendo 98 on the
> drive for Freespace.  Couldn't get that OS to not croak or attempt to
> change the partition size--until I discovered it couldn't handle an
> "oddly-sized" partition coming out of cfdisk (eg. 4224.5 Gb -- perhaps
> anything not fitting a perfect marriage between block size and total
> space?).
> 
> Anyway, my thought is to make sure you pick a nice whole number of Gb
> (a nice binary multiple or multiples added together).  M$ may cry
> otherwise.

It's fussy about partitions ending on cylinder boundaries, and it seems to
come up with its own ideas about what CHS geometry to simulate which don't
necessarily correspond with what Linux would come up with given the drive in
a blank state.

If you define the M$ partitions first, with M$ FDISK, then cfdisk (at least)
is smart enough to figure out what CHS geometry M$ FDISK has used and
conform to that.

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Re: ifconfig eth0 shows errors building

[Nate Duehr]

On Monday 05 January 2004 12:26 pm, mike wrote:
> Hi,
>
> When I run ifconfig eth0, my "errors" section keeps growing.
> Here's an example output from # ifconfig eth0
>
> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>   RX packets:1334682 *errors:65273  *dropped:0 overruns:1
> frame:78897
>   TX packets:640316 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:23
>   collisions:1729
>   RX bytes:678692267 (647.2 MiB)  TX bytes:144369628 (137.6 MiB)

You probably have a bad cable or a crappy switch or a cable run that's beyond 
the ethernet spec or ... [insert your favorite physical layer problem here].

You have carrier errors there (23 of them) that show the NIC couldn't even 
connect to the Ethernet bus 23 times, and the other errors are frame errors, 
showing that low level layer frames are getting corrupted.  Collisions 
shouldn't be there if you're plugged into a 100Mb/s full-duplex switch.  If 
you're on a slower network or non-full duplex network make sure your card is 
using/autonegotiating the correct settings.  mii-tool.

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Re: ifconfig eth0 shows errors building

[Nate Duehr]

On Monday 05 January 2004 01:20 pm, Jacob S. wrote:

> I've had similar errors with several Rev. 5 LNE100TX cards that looked
> like you describe. I tried kernels 2.2.15, 2.2.19, 2.4.18 as well as
> the latest drivers from www.scyld.com and ifconfig always showed the
> same thing. The cards and network connection have always worked fine for
> me, it just looks bad when you run ifconfig.

Define "fine"... what was your max throughput on those cards?  I highly doubt 
those aren't real errors.  Ethernet's just pretty forgiving.  Can you really 
push full data rate with those kinds of errors showing up?  I highly doubt 
it.

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linux bewbie lame question

[Tendril]

Hi
, I previously posted this on linux.debian.laptop but was informed that 
it wasn't the correct forum for this so here goes again.:

>
> I was given a thinkpad with debian woody installed (no billyware). It
> boots lovely except for the audio. I get this message at logon:
>
> error while initialising sound driver:
> device /dev/dsp can't be opened (permission denied)
> the sound server will continue, using the null output lines
>
> How do I correct this? (my installation won't let me log into an
> xwindows environment as root, I have to do it through a terminal so some
> easy instructions would be very welcome)
I can't find /dev/dsp. I'm in no way familier with the linux file 
system. I looked using konquerer...  /root/dev but it contained no /dsp.

sorry it's lame

Tendril

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Re: adding new hard disk

[Craig Genner]

On Monday 05 Jan 2004 5:44 am, panda wrote:
> Lou Losee wrote:
> Actually her question brings up an interesting point. Suppose this
> needed to be done in a big corporation where it is necessary to maintain
> some level of service and the question of scalability is a very
> important one.
>
> They would prefer some means of doing the same adding disks to the
> system to allow for greater storage with minimal disruption. It would be
> really costly if they had to resort to something like copy everything
> and then resize.

(Just in case any one else hasn't answered)

This is where LVM comes in.  Logical Volume Manager adds a layer between the 
physical hard disk and the file system.  For more detailed information I 
would suggest you read the HOWTO here: 
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/index.html

If LVM were used then the only down time would be when the machine was 
actually turned off and the new hard drive was added.  Once that's done it's 
quite quick when compared to moving the data across to put the new disk into 
use.

Once again I suggest the HOWTO as it explains it much better then me :-)

I use LVM at home and when I run out of space on one partition I just more 
from the spare space on another partition.

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Re: Strange + sign after permissions on all files and directories

[Jerome BENOIT]

Naive hint:
when I configured the config file for the kernel 2.6
I notice some options which enhance the permission
scheme: may be the + comes from there.
Jerome

Devin Atencio wrote:
I have a Debian machine that I noticed has some strange behaviour. I
noticed that when I do a listing of the files on the machine it appears
like:
drwxr-xr-x+ 102 root root 8192 Jan  5 09:54 etc
drwxr-xr-x+   2 root root6 Apr 25  2002 floppy
drwxr-xr-x+  44 root root 4096 Jan  2 17:10 home
drwxr-xr-x+   2 root root6 Apr 25  2002 initrd
drwxr-xr-x+   6 root root 8192 Dec 29 15:34 lib
drwxr-xr-x+   2 root root6 Feb  8  2002 mnt
All files seem to have a strange + sign at the end of the permissions
which would normally mean Access Control List in Solaris. I noticed
also that when I try to run crontab -e as root it denies me access
saying
You (root) are not allowed to use this program (crontab)
See crontab(1) for more information
I am wondering if it has something to do with the + sign and some
sort of Access Control list denying root access? How can I get
it so that this Debian machine no longer displays the + sign next
to any directory or file.
Any immediate help would be appreciated.

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Are there any woody r1->r2 update ISO's?

[Dameon Wagner]

Howzit,

I run a couple of Woody boxes, and when I updated from r0 to r1 I did 
it using an update ISO that I found at one of the german FTP mirrors.

Are there any plans to bring out an update ISO image for going from 
r1 to r2?  I really don't want to have to download all 7 ISO's again, 
and unfortunately using APT isn't really an option.

Cheers.

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Re: Re: adding new hard disk

[Anita Rohani]

Thanks, you guys! It was my first time posting a
question on this maling list...and what an
overwhelming response :)!

Yeah, i also confirmed from one of my co-workers (an
ardent follower of Debian) that there is no way to
extend the partitions unless the current disk was
setup using "logical volume" management; which in our
case it is not. ok so i would have to look into your
various suggestions. hopefully i will have a success
story to recount pretty soon :)

/Anita 

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Re: devfs and Linux LVM

[Paul Morgan]

On Mon, 05 Jan 2004 11:38:43 -0800, ope wrote:

> Thanks for the response.  I will try lvm10 again (I am
> avoiding lvm2 for the same reason you are).  I think
> the problem may that I don't quite understand what I
> need to do to set up LVM.  When lvm10 is installed
> this message is displayed:
> 
> --
> if devfs is compiled into the kernel then it MUST be
> mounted on /dev
> Otherwise LVM will not be able to locate your Physical
> Volumes. You must
> also use the full devfs device names in LVM commands
> rather than the
> shortened devfsd names. 
> --
> 
> I have never used devfs and have mostly ignored its
> existence so I have a few questions.  The first is
> that the message says that that devfs "MUST be mounted
> on /dev".  What does this mean and how do I do it?
> 
> Second question, the message says that I must also use
> the full devfs device names in LVM commands.  Does
> this mean that I must run command like this:
> vgcreate newvg /dev/ide/host0/bus0...
> and not like this:
> vgcreate newvg /dev/hda2
> 
> I assume it means the former.  If so do I also have to
> use the full device path in non lvm commands.  For
> example can I mount using:
> mount /dev/newvg/nvglv01 /newfs
> or do I need to mount using:
> mount /dev/ide/host0/bus0... /newfs
> 

If devfsd is a debian install ("dpkg -l devfsd" will tell you), it should
be set up fine.

And, if you can see your devices as /dev/ide/... then it is all fine.

You are correct that you need to use the /dev/ide/... device names for
LVM.  You can use the old device names (/dev/hd??) for mount.  Probably
most all non-lvm commands.  Certainly the fdisk family, for example.

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Re: ifconfig eth0 shows errors building

[Sturla Holm Hansen]

On Mon, 2004-01-05 at 20:26, mike wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> When I run ifconfig eth0, my "errors" section keeps growing.
> Here's an example output from # ifconfig eth0
> 
> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>   RX packets:1334682 *errors:65273  *dropped:0 overruns:1 
> frame:78897
>   TX packets:640316 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:23
>   collisions:1729 
>   RX bytes:678692267 (647.2 MiB)  TX bytes:144369628 (137.6 MiB)
> 
> I've highlighted the concerned area with *
> The error number keeps growing if I run ifconfig eth0 over and over.
> Any ideas on how to trouble shoot this?
> I have the same nic in as eth1 and it doesn't show any errors.
> 
> Thanks,
> Mike
> 
> 
> 
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> 
Looks like bad cabling or a bogged down net to me, notice that the
collision-count is pretty high out too.
My guess is you have a bad nic or bad cabling/bogged net...

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installing debian on Super Micro SuperServer 5013C-T

[Jamie Olenick]

I would like to purchase the SuperServer 5013C-T from Super
Micro.  This comes with the following motherboard:  Super P4SCE. 
Can Debian install on this hardware?  If so, which version (or release)?

 

Thanks Jamie.

Re: Kernel Patching: Updating the debian/changelog

[Andreas Janssen]

Hello

Bill Moseley (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote:

> My notes are not perfect, but I believe on one machine that's running
> 2.4.23 the kernel was built from kernel.org sources but make-kpkg was
> used to build the kernel.
> 
> I just downloaded and patched the 2.4.23 source tree with the 2.4.24
> patch.  Then I ran
> 
> fakeroot make-kpkg --revision=custom.1.0 kernel_image
> 
> and the build went ok except for:
> 
>   The changelog says we are creating 2.4.23-xfs-3ware, but I thought
>   the version is 2.4.24-xfs-3ware
> 
> I'm a bit confused about how the debian/changelog got there -- does
> make-kpkg add it when building form kernel.org sources?

I think so. Run "make-kpgk clean" and try again.

best regards
Andreas Janssen

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Re: Re: Using RAID chipsets in the motherboard.

[Pigeon]

On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 02:17:13PM +, Pigeon wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 01:12:35AM +0100, Matthias Hentges wrote:
> > Am Fre, 2004-01-02 um 19.25 schrieb Ramasubramanian Ramesh:
> > >It is my understanding that a PATA IDE drive can be connected
> > >to SATA adapter with some cable mod or 
> > >some thing like that. Am I correct? 
> > 
> > I don't think so. SATA is very different from PATA. It's similar to
> > SCSI, hence the use of the SCSI subsystem in Linux. A simple cablemod
> > won't work.
> 
> Such adapters do exist, but they are not simple cables, they contain some
> logic. How well they work, or whether they require drivers, etc, I'm afraid
> I don't know. The idea sounds flaky to me, and probably it's best to avoid
> it...

Followup: Just come across a couple of these in a dead-tree catalogue. They
don't require any drivers. One of them claims to support "IDE hard drives,
CD drives etc." up to ATA133; the other (slightly more expensive!) says it's
compatible with ATA133 drives ONLY, which is something to beware of.

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proftpd install

[David G. Schlecht]

Hi All,

I'm having trouble installing proftpd. The proftpd package depends on
proftpd-common and with this one I get an error:
trying to overwrite /etc/ftpusers which is also in netstd
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken Pipe)
Of course, I've removed the /etc/ftpusers file but it doesn't make any
difference.
I don't know why it's reporting on netstd since that package is already
up to date.
Any ideas on how to get proftpd installed?

Also -- thanks for all the wonderful feedback to this list/group. I've
made tremendous progress upgrading with everyone's help.
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Can Debian install on Super Micro SuperServer 5013C-T

[Jamie Olenick]

I would like to purchase the SuperServer 5013C-T from Super
Micro.  This comes with the following motherboard:  Super
P4SCE.  Can Debian install on this hardware?  If so, which version
(or release)?

 

Any help would be great.  Thanks, Jamie.

 

 

Strange + sign after permissions on all files and directories

[Devin Atencio]

I have a Debian machine that I noticed has some strange behaviour. I
noticed that when I do a listing of the files on the machine it appears
like:

drwxr-xr-x+ 102 root root 8192 Jan  5 09:54 etc
drwxr-xr-x+   2 root root6 Apr 25  2002 floppy
drwxr-xr-x+  44 root root 4096 Jan  2 17:10 home
drwxr-xr-x+   2 root root6 Apr 25  2002 initrd
drwxr-xr-x+   6 root root 8192 Dec 29 15:34 lib
drwxr-xr-x+   2 root root6 Feb  8  2002 mnt

All files seem to have a strange + sign at the end of the permissions
which would normally mean Access Control List in Solaris. I noticed
also that when I try to run crontab -e as root it denies me access
saying

You (root) are not allowed to use this program (crontab)
See crontab(1) for more information

I am wondering if it has something to do with the + sign and some
sort of Access Control list denying root access? How can I get
it so that this Debian machine no longer displays the + sign next
to any directory or file.

Any immediate help would be appreciated.

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Re: Kernel Patching: Updating the debian/changelog

[GCS]

On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 11:09:09AM -0800, Bill Moseley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have notes of hand-editing the changelog before, but I can't see to
> get the format correct.  I know there's a tool to update the changelog,
> but can't remember what that is.
 You should use 'dch -i' and add a changelog for your new kernel.

> Anyway, the question is: how do I patch the kernel and correctly update
> the debian/changelog so make-kpkg doesn't puke.
 I think the above will do if you upgrade the version in the changelog
to 2.4.24-whatever.

Cheers,
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Re: fetchmail: lock creation failed

[Jan Minar]

On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 09:41:55AM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote:
> With no fetchmail to feed mail to mutt and so no threading I have lost 
> the thread and must re-post.

If you want to read the thread, look among the headers of any mail on
this list, for `List-Archive:'.

> As advised I re-copied /oldhome/tom to /home/tom with tar.  This did not 
> solve the problem.

It wasn't supposed to, really.

> There is no .fetchmail.pid file in /oldhome/tom or anywhere else.

Ooops.  I thought ~/.fetchmail.pid was _the_ lockfile.  Did you mean
running fetchmail as user tom, or a sitewide fetchmail started at
bootup?  Or a fetchmail run by another user maybe?

> I tried dpkg -- purge fetchmail followed by apt-get -f install 
> fetchmail.  This did not solve the problem.

Should be ``dpkg --purge'' (without the space after `--').

> Any more suggestions?

Yes: strace(1).  Look especially for the open(), and anything from the
stat() family (man 2 stat).

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Re: 2.4.24 fixes local root exploit in 2.4.23

[GCS]

On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 07:27:17PM +0100, Martin Helas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Don't forget that 2.2 and 2.6 kernels are also affected.  2.6 patches
> > are due shortly.
> There is already a patch for 2.6 [1] published by Linus, but there is no
> official patch yet.
> [1] http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=107332139413041&w=2
There's an other fix in 2.4.24:
:
  o /dev/rtc can leak parts of kernel memory to unpriviledged users

As I haven't seen Linus' patch then, I forward ported the 2.4.24 patch:
http://www.lsc.hu/2.6.0-security.patch
This contains the RTC fixes, but the mremap check is not so strict -
it's the original fix from 2.4.24.

Cheers,
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Re: ifconfig eth0 shows errors building

[Jacob S.]

On Mon, 5 Jan 2004 11:26:26 -0800
"mike" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> When I run ifconfig eth0, my "errors" section keeps growing.
> Here's an example output from # ifconfig eth0
> 
> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>   RX packets:1334682 *errors:65273  *dropped:0
>   overruns:1 
> frame:78897
>   TX packets:640316 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:23
>   collisions:1729 
>   RX bytes:678692267 (647.2 MiB)  TX bytes:144369628 (137.6
>   MiB)
> 
> I've highlighted the concerned area with *
> The error number keeps growing if I run ifconfig eth0 over and over.
> Any ideas on how to trouble shoot this?
> I have the same nic in as eth1 and it doesn't show any errors.

Is this a Linksys LNE100TX network card, by chance? 

I've had similar errors with several Rev. 5 LNE100TX cards that looked
like you describe. I tried kernels 2.2.15, 2.2.19, 2.4.18 as well as
the latest drivers from www.scyld.com and ifconfig always showed the
same thing. The cards and network connection have always worked fine for
me, it just looks bad when you run ifconfig.

HTH,
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Re: Find command to display attributes

[Rick Weinbender]

Colin Watson wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 05:50:08PM +0100, VEGH Karoly wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 10:42:28AM -0600, Rick Weinbender wrote:
> > > Is there a way to format the screen output of the above command so
> > > that I see all the file information (as in "ls -al"), which yields
> > > file and directory attributes, dates, owner, etc.
> >
> > use the force, luke!
> >
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ mkdir test
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cd test
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/test$ touch 1 2 3 a b c
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/test$
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/test$ find . -name "*[123]*" -exec ls -l {} \;
>
> Or simply:
>
>   find . -name '*[123]*' -ls
>
> Cheers,
>
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>find . -name '*[123]*' -ls

Very concise!
Also the output justs lists the directory. (doesn't include the files in it.)
Thanks,
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sshd connection woes

[Matthew Wilson]

Greetings list,
I have been having some problems connecting to a Debian woody box via
ssh. I initially set up this machine (let's call it A) with the
linux-server package using dselect.  I was then able to connect to it
from another machine (B) running RedHat 9 and OpenSSH 3.5. 

I then attempted to compile libssl from source to get the shared
libraries (in order to compile some s/w), and it broke!  (I think this
is what broke it... I may have done any other random steps in between
which *actually* broke it...).  I cannot connect from my local machine L
or from B.   I can SSH fine from A to B.   I can ping A from L, and
telnet to port 22.  A and B have dedicated public IPs, while L is behind
NAT.

My sshd config is stock and so is my iptables (i.e. unconfigured)

Stuff I have tried:

apt-get --reinstall install ssh openssl libssl0.9.6
restarted sshd

My ssh sessions logs: 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# ssh -vvv my.ip.here
OpenSSH_3.5p1, SSH protocols 1.5/2.0, OpenSSL 0x0090701f
debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config
debug1: Applying options for *
debug1: Rhosts Authentication disabled, originating port will not be
trusted.
debug1: ssh_connect: needpriv 0
debug1: Connecting to 217.159.87.3 [217.159.87.3] port 22.
debug1: Connection established.
debug1: identity file /root/.ssh/identity type -1
debug1: identity file /root/.ssh/id_rsa type -1
debug1: identity file /root/.ssh/id_dsa type -1
 



I would very much appreciate any suggestions.  I am a complete debian
newbie and a relative linux newbie, so don't hesitate to mention the
obvious ;-)

thanks
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Re: adding new hard disk

[Monique Y. Herman]

On Mon, 05 Jan 2004 at 18:41 GMT, Travis Crump penned:
> Monique Y. Herman wrote:
>> On Mon, 05 Jan 2004 at 12:51 GMT, Paul Morgan penned:
>>>
>>>cp -ax
>> 
>> Okay, having read the man pages, I'm not sure how this does more than
>> the -d option that -a includes.  -a already stops you from following
>> symlinks ... maybe I'm just being dense, but what additional
>> situations does the -x cover?
>> 
> 
> Say you have /usr, /tmp, /var, and /home  mounted on seperate
> partitions and you want to move just the root partition to a new
> partition.  you can do 'cp -ax / /mnt/newroot'.  If you were to do
> just 'cp -a / /mnt/newroot', the contents of /usr, /tmp, /var, and
> /home would be copied to the new partition as well.
> 

Doh!  Sure enough, I was being dense.
Thanks for the clarification!

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Re: devfs and Linux LVM

[ope]

Thanks for the response.  I will try lvm10 again (I am
avoiding lvm2 for the same reason you are).  I think
the problem may that I don't quite understand what I
need to do to set up LVM.  When lvm10 is installed
this message is displayed:

--
if devfs is compiled into the kernel then it MUST be
mounted on /dev
Otherwise LVM will not be able to locate your Physical
Volumes. You must
also use the full devfs device names in LVM commands
rather than the
shortened devfsd names. 
--

I have never used devfs and have mostly ignored its
existence so I have a few questions.  The first is
that the message says that that devfs "MUST be mounted
on /dev".  What does this mean and how do I do it?

Second question, the message says that I must also use
the full devfs device names in LVM commands.  Does
this mean that I must run command like this:
vgcreate newvg /dev/ide/host0/bus0...
and not like this:
vgcreate newvg /dev/hda2

I assume it means the former.  If so do I also have to
use the full device path in non lvm commands.  For
example can I mount using:
mount /dev/newvg/nvglv01 /newfs
or do I need to mount using:
mount /dev/ide/host0/bus0... /newfs

Thanks for the help.

--- Paul Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, 03 Jan 2004 13:30:06 -0800, ope wrote:
> 
> I am running sarge (testing) and have been using
> devfs and lvm10 for
> nearly 2 years with no problems, either with stock
> or custom-compiled
> kernels. However, I don't mix distros, and your
> problem may be related to
> that, particularly as it once worked and now it
> doesn't.
> 
> I don't know whether moving to lvm2 will fix your
> problem, as I doubt it's
> related to either devfs or lvm10.  Personally, I'm
> not moving to lvm2
> until the package description no longer contains the
> text: "but has some
> unimplemented features (most notably, pvmove and
> e2fsadm).  It is not yet
> recommended for production use."
> 
> The only issue I've had with lvm10 is the well known
> inability to mount
> snapshot volumes, to fix which I've taken the VFS
> patch from an older
> kernel and modified it to patch my kernel (2.4.22).


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TMDA Backport

[Rick Weinbender]

Is anyone aware of any backport for TMDA  (anti-spam) version 0.86 or
newer
to be installed on Debian Stable.
Thanks,
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ifconfig eth0 shows errors building

[mike]

Hi,

When I run ifconfig eth0, my "errors" section keeps growing.
Here's an example output from # ifconfig eth0

UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
  RX packets:1334682 *errors:65273  *dropped:0 overruns:1 
frame:78897
  TX packets:640316 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:23
  collisions:1729 
  RX bytes:678692267 (647.2 MiB)  TX bytes:144369628 (137.6 MiB)

I've highlighted the concerned area with *
The error number keeps growing if I run ifconfig eth0 over and over.
Any ideas on how to trouble shoot this?
I have the same nic in as eth1 and it doesn't show any errors.

Thanks,
Mike



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Update: Epson 1640SU ADF with SANE

[Andrew Perrin]

I did some searching and found Epson corp.'s sane backend and iscan
software, which is, or appears to be, GPL-safe. It's at
http://www.epkowa.co.jp/english/linux_e/index.html .  It includes the
libsane-epkowa backend, which solved the problem I had with the ADF
prematurely declaring itself out of paper. iscan (the GUI scanning
software) is fine, but no particular advantage over xsane.

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Re: Find command to display attributes

[Colin Watson]

On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 05:50:08PM +0100, VEGH Karoly wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 10:42:28AM -0600, Rick Weinbender wrote:
> > Is there a way to format the screen output of the above command so
> > that I see all the file information (as in "ls -al"), which yields
> > file and directory attributes, dates, owner, etc.
> 
> use the force, luke!
> 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ mkdir test
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cd test
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/test$ touch 1 2 3 a b c
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/test$
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/test$ find . -name "*[123]*" -exec ls -l {} \;

Or simply:

  find . -name '*[123]*' -ls

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Re: Evolution and Firebird

[Matt Price]

On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 01:16:08PM -0500, Rohit Kumar Mehta wrote:
> Josh Robinson wrote:
> 
> >Hi all,
> >
> >i'm not sure if this is the best place to ask about such things, but
> >could anyone tell me, or direct me to a place where i can find out
> >
> >- how to tell firebird to use evolution to handle mailto: links

you need the mozex extension -- mozex.mozdev.org has it and is
well-documented.  

matt


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RE: [Woody] Mounting LVM-snapshots with ext3 + ACL + user_xattr-P atch

[Oliver Schade]

Hi Toens,

> -Original Message-
> From: Toens Bueker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 6:58 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [Woody] Mounting LVM-snapshots with ext3 + ACL + 
> user_xattr-Patch
> 
> For XFS the LVM-Howto suggests:
> mount -o nouuid,ro /dev/ops/dbbackup /mnt/ops/dbbackup
> Have you tried that - just in case?

Same result:

mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/RAID5/TEMP1500
   or too many mounted file systems

Any other hints?

Thanks, Oliver
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Kernel Patching: Updating the debian/changelog

[Bill Moseley]

My notes are not perfect, but I believe on one machine that's running
2.4.23 the kernel was built from kernel.org sources but make-kpkg was
used to build the kernel.

I just downloaded and patched the 2.4.23 source tree with the 2.4.24
patch.  Then I ran  

fakeroot make-kpkg --revision=custom.1.0 kernel_image

and the build went ok except for:

  The changelog says we are creating 2.4.23-xfs-3ware, but I thought the
  version is 2.4.24-xfs-3ware

I'm a bit confused about how the debian/changelog got there -- does
make-kpkg add it when building form kernel.org sources?

I have notes of hand-editing the changelog before, but I can't see to
get the format correct.  I know there's a tool to update the changelog,
but can't remember what that is.

Anyway, the question is: how do I patch the kernel and correctly update
the debian/changelog so make-kpkg doesn't puke.





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Re: Evolution and Firebird

[Josh Robinson]

On Mon, 2004-01-05 at 18:16, Rohit Kumar Mehta wrote:

> Hey I know this doesn't help you at all, but how did you get evolution 
> working with Debian?
> I thought Ximian stopped supporting Debian :(
> I would like to try Ximian Desktop with Evolution.

no idea about Ximian Desktop, but Evolution was easy:

apt-get install evolution

then just run it. it works without a problem for me (on KDE 3.1.4).
apart from the weblinks, that is...

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Re: [Woody] Mounting LVM-snapshots with ext3 + ACL + user_xattr-Patch

[Paul Morgan]

On Mon, 05 Jan 2004 15:19:43 +0100, Oliver Schade wrote:

> Dear all,
> 
> 
> I am using a Woody system, running a Vanilla 2.4.23 kernel from 
> ftp.kernel.org and the ACL+XATTR-Patch vom acl.bestbits.at.
> 
> Working with ext3 and ACLs on a logical volume works fine, fast and
> stable. But I have some troubles mounting a snapshot of a live lvm-
> volume named /dev/RAID5/TEMP:
> 
> fsb01:~# mount | grep TEMP
> /dev/RAID5/TEMP on /mnt/berlin/TEMP type ext3 (rw,acl,user_xattr)
> 
> To create a snapshot I used:
> 
> fsb01:~# lvcreate --size 250m --snapshot --name TEMP1500 /dev/RAID5/TEMP
> [... snipped ...]
> lvcreate -- logical volume "/dev/RAID5/TEMP1500" successfully created
> 
> The special device has been successfully created:
> 
> fsb01:~# ls -la /dev/RAID5/TEMP1500
> brw-rw1 root disk  58,   9 Jan  5 15:20 /dev/RAID5/TEMP1500
> 
> However, mounting this snapshot fails:
> 
> fsb01:~# mount -o ro /dev/RAID5/TEMP1500 /mnt/berlin/Snapshots/TEMP
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/RAID5/TEMP1500,
>or too many mounted file systems
> 

This is a well known issue.  lvm snapshots don't work in the 2.4
kernel series. The reason is that ext3 needs to lock and flush the
ext3 journal *before* taking the snapshot.

There is a VFS locking patch for earlier kernels; I have modified it for
my kernel 2.4.22.  I don't see it on the debian distro, but on googling I
see a VFS Locking patch included in LVM 1.0.8 here:
http://fresh.t-systems-sfr.com/cgi-bin/warex?linux/src/lvm_1.0.8.tar.gz:a/LVM/1.0.8/PATCHES/linux-2.4.20-VFS-lock.patch

At first glance, it looks the same as the patch which I have modified for
lvm 1.0.7 and kernel 2.4.22, which is what I would expect.

The way I modded the patch was to look in the various sources for the code
to be patched and change the line numbers in the patch to be consistent.

"man patch" for how to apply it.

Seems to work OK, but I'm not recommending it to anyone but myself, so, if
it breaks, you get to keep all the pieces.

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Re: adding new hard disk

[Travis Crump]

Monique Y. Herman wrote:
On Mon, 05 Jan 2004 at 12:51 GMT, Paul Morgan penned:

On Sun, 04 Jan 2004 23:09:31 -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote:


On Mon, 05 Jan 2004 at 06:59 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] penned:

On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 08:07:30PM -0800, Anita Rohani wrote:

Hi

A few hard disk partitions on our current Debian system are close
to becoming full. I would like to install an addtional hard disk
and extend the partitions on the current disk to the new disk. Is
it possible to do so and are there any instructions avaliable on
how to add and configure additional hard disks on Debian?
check the archives. i got a lot of good help recently on migrating a
partition. the course i chose was a mixture of tips. your ideal
solution might be other that mine. search the archives for partition
migration.
essentially, create a filesystem on the new disk, set up a mount
point, mount it, cp -r the data, edit fstab to reflect the new
arrangement.  don't delete the original until you're sure the new
partition is extant.
You most likely want cp -a rather than cp -r.
cp -ax



Okay, having read the man pages, I'm not sure how this does more than
the -d option that -a includes.  -a already stops you from following
symlinks ... maybe I'm just being dense, but what additional situations
does the -x cover?
Say you have /usr, /tmp, /var, and /home  mounted on seperate partitions 
and you want to move just the root partition to a new partition.  you 
can do 'cp -ax / /mnt/newroot'.  If you were to do just 'cp -a / 
/mnt/newroot', the contents of /usr, /tmp, /var, and /home would be 
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Re: from a learner

[Bijan Soleymani]

On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 01:32:30PM +1100, Rob Weir wrote:
> If you use the "ip" tool, you can have multiple IP's on the one
> interface.  ifconfig doesn't support showing or setting this, though.

I'm not sure about this, but I think you can do that with ifconfig
using the syntax eth0:1, eth0:2, etc.

Again I think I remember doing this at some point in the past.

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Re: adding new hard disk

[linux]

Citát Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 01:46:14AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Citát Lou Losee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > > * [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-01-05
> 01:32]:
> > > 
> > > > BTW... excuse mu ignorancy can you explain to me what LVM is and
> > > > how it works?
> > > 
> > > http://www.linux.org/docs/ldp/howto/LVM-HOWTO.index.html
> > 
> > sorry Lou but man does not wrk on my Winshit and Deb is down after
> > recompiling the kernel. :(
> 
> For future reference, always keep a backup kernel that your boot loader
> knows how to start ...
> 
Well, I guess I will have to learn it the hard way ...I am a newbie.
:) CAn`t you tell?
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Re: 2.4.24 fixes local root exploit in 2.4.23

[Martin Helas]

Am Mo Jan 05, 2004 at 01:1214 -0500 gab Roberto Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> von sich:
> Nano Nano wrote:
> >Just read on slashdot 2.4.24 is out to fix a local root exploit in 
> >2.4.23.
> >
> >http://isec.pl/vulnerabilities/isec-0013-mremap.txt
> >and slashdot
> >
> >It sounds ominously close to the whatsits that caused all the hoopla 
> >last month; be advised.
> >
> >
> 
> Don't forget that 2.2 and 2.6 kernels are also affected.  2.6 patches
> are due shortly.
There is already a patch for 2.6 [1] published by Linus, but there is no
official patch yet.

Greetings

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Re: fetchyahoo and non-iso8859-1 texts (perl and internalization)

[s. keeling]

Incoming from Micha Feigin:
> On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 07:13:05PM -0700, s. keeling wrote:
> > Incoming from Micha Feigin:
> > > I am using fetchyahoo to fetch my mail of yahoo to a local machine.
> > 
> > I can't help with the mangling that's going on, but why bother with
> > fetchyahoo?  Just tell yahoo that your primary address is your ISP's
> 
> Yahoo stopped forwarding emails to external accounts about two years

Bizarre.  I had to get a yahoo account for a non-profit I work with.
That's where they do all their work/communication from.  Forwarding
still works for me; I just got some this morning.


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Re: Evolution and Firebird

[Rohit Kumar Mehta]

Josh Robinson wrote:

Hi all,

i'm not sure if this is the best place to ask about such things, but
could anyone tell me, or direct me to a place where i can find out
- how to tell firebird to use evolution to handle mailto: links

and

- how to tell evolution to use firebird to open webpages?

at the moment, evolution uses konqueror, which i can't stand. and
firebird doesn't have a clue as to what to do!
many thanks,

josh
 

Hey I know this doesn't help you at all, but how did you get evolution 
working with Debian?
I thought Ximian stopped supporting Debian :(
I would like to try Ximian Desktop with Evolution.

Rohit



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Re: 2.4.24 fixes local root exploit in 2.4.23

[Roberto Sanchez]

Nano Nano wrote:
Just read on slashdot 2.4.24 is out to fix a local root exploit in 
2.4.23.

http://isec.pl/vulnerabilities/isec-0013-mremap.txt
and slashdot
It sounds ominously close to the whatsits that caused all the hoopla 
last month; be advised.


Don't forget that 2.2 and 2.6 kernels are also affected.  2.6 patches
are due shortly.
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Re: Problem with lxdialog (make menuconfig) and ncurses

[Vincent Lefevre]

On 2003-12-12 12:45:32 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> I wanted to compile a kernel, but when doing "make menuconfig", I got:
> 
> There seems to be a problem with the lxdialog companion utility which is
> built prior to running Menuconfig.  Usually this is an indicator that you
> have upgraded/downgraded your ncurses libraries and did not remove the 
> old ncurses header file(s) in /usr/include or /usr/include/ncurses.
> 
> It is VERY important that you have only one set of ncurses header files
> and that those files are properly version matched to the ncurses libraries 
> installed on your machine.
> [...]
> 
> What is this problem?

I finally found it: I transparently filter make's output to colorize
it. The problem is that here, make isn't only used to compile but also
to start the configuration program. I don't think that such a feature
is a good idea; is it standard? Moreover, why does the configuration
program send its data to stdout (or stderr) instead of the terminal
directly (since it's a ncurses program)?

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Re: adding new hard disk

[Monique Y. Herman]

On Mon, 05 Jan 2004 at 12:51 GMT, Paul Morgan penned:
> On Sun, 04 Jan 2004 23:09:31 -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote:
> 
>> On Mon, 05 Jan 2004 at 06:59 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] penned:
>>> On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 08:07:30PM -0800, Anita Rohani wrote:
 Hi
 
 A few hard disk partitions on our current Debian system are close
 to becoming full. I would like to install an addtional hard disk
 and extend the partitions on the current disk to the new disk. Is
 it possible to do so and are there any instructions avaliable on
 how to add and configure additional hard disks on Debian?
 
>>> check the archives. i got a lot of good help recently on migrating a
>>> partition. the course i chose was a mixture of tips. your ideal
>>> solution might be other that mine. search the archives for partition
>>> migration.
>>> 
>>> essentially, create a filesystem on the new disk, set up a mount
>>> point, mount it, cp -r the data, edit fstab to reflect the new
>>> arrangement.  don't delete the original until you're sure the new
>>> partition is extant.
>>> 
>> 
>> You most likely want cp -a rather than cp -r.
> 
> cp -ax
> 

Okay, having read the man pages, I'm not sure how this does more than
the -d option that -a includes.  -a already stops you from following
symlinks ... maybe I'm just being dense, but what additional situations
does the -x cover?

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2.4.24 fixes local root exploit in 2.4.23

[Nano Nano]

Just read on slashdot 2.4.24 is out to fix a local root exploit in 
2.4.23.

http://isec.pl/vulnerabilities/isec-0013-mremap.txt
and slashdot

It sounds ominously close to the whatsits that caused all the hoopla 
last month; be advised.


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Re: display directories only

[Nano Nano]

On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 06:43:23PM +0100, Elimar Riesebieter wrote:
> On Mon, 05 Jan 2004 the mental interface of 
> Rick Weinbender told:
> 
> > I have a basic question.
> > Is there a method using "ls" from the command line to
> > have it display only directories.
> > I've looked thru the help (ls --help), but cant' guess the right
> > switches.
> 
> I am using the zShell zsh. In there it is easy:
> 
> alias lsd='ls -lad *(/)'
> alias lsddots='ls -lad .*(/)
> 

#ls -d `find -type d -maxdepth 1`

? can't think of anything simpler


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Evolution and Firebird

[Josh Robinson]

Hi all,

i'm not sure if this is the best place to ask about such things, but
could anyone tell me, or direct me to a place where i can find out

- how to tell firebird to use evolution to handle mailto: links

and

- how to tell evolution to use firebird to open webpages?

at the moment, evolution uses konqueror, which i can't stand. and
firebird doesn't have a clue as to what to do!

many thanks,

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Re: [Woody] Mounting LVM-snapshots with ext3 + ACL + user_xattr-Patch

[Toens Bueker]

Oliver Schade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> However, mounting this snapshot fails:
> 
> fsb01:~# mount -o ro /dev/RAID5/TEMP1500 /mnt/berlin/Snapshots/TEMP
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/RAID5/TEMP1500,
>or too many mounted file systems
 
[...]

> Any help for snapshoting and mounting of a live LVM-systems together
> with ACLs are highly welcome.

For XFS the LVM-Howto suggests:

mount -o nouuid,ro /dev/ops/dbbackup /mnt/ops/dbbackup

Have you tried that - just in case?

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