Re: download speeds on console

[robin]

Vin Jacob wrote:
What is
best app to get eth and ppp upload and download rates in a console.
  
  
Cheers,
  
  
Vin
  
  
  

I used to use ibmonitor bit does not appear to be in official deb
package lists now but is available at
http://linux.org.by/debian/pool/main/i/ibmonitor

robin

Re: devfs -> udev, user mounting etc

[Dave Thayer]

On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 01:30:23PM +0200, Chris Searle wrote:

> 
> The other question is rights - how to set up user/groups on /dev and
> how to get devices to turn up at the same place so that they can be
> added to /etc/fstab with "user" option so I don't have to keep
> switching to root to mount/read the cards. If I plug/unplug the reader
> a couple of times it works it's way up thru /dev/scsi/host1,
> /dev/scsi/host2, /dev/scsi/host3, /dev/scsi/host4 etc.
> 

You can use the symlink parameter to have a consistent device name to mount
to. Here's the contents of my /etc/udev/rules.d/local.rules 

BUS="usb", SYSFS{product}="JUMPDRIVE", NAME="%k", symlink="jumpdrive"
BUS="usb", SYSFS{product}="JUMPDRIVE PRO", NAME="%k", symlink="jumpdrive_pro"
BUS="usb", SYSFS{product}="JumpDrive Trio", NAME="%k",symlink="jumpdrive_trio"
BUS="usb", SYSFS{product}="USB SmartMedia", NAME="%k", symlink="smartmedia"
BUS="usb", SYSFS{product}="ARCHOS USB2.0 (P4a)",NAME="%k", symlink="jukebox"
BUS="usb", SYSFS{product}="C2Z,D520Z,C220Z", NAME="%k", symlink="camera"
BUS="usb", SYSFS{product}="Palm Handheld", NAME="%k", symlink="pilot"

I use autofs to mount these, but the symlinks should work with fstab just as
well.

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Re: firewall/router configuration

[James Allen]

On Tue, 07 Sep 2004 13:15:38 -0300, James LeClair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> My router is a dual-homed P1 box that runs Woody. I would like to do a
> clean install in the near future. After it is all set up, and before I
> take it online for the first time, what steps are involved to slimming
> it down and securing it?
> Maybe a few tips or linkage to good docs on the topic would be very

Securing Debian Manual
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/securing-debian-howto/
is a good place to start. I don't know if your aware of the Debian
Documentation site
http://www.debian.org/doc/

The Linux Documentation Project has good docs too.
http://www.tldp.org/index.html

James


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Re: rm difficult filename

[Cameron Hutchison]

Once upon a time Antonio Rodriguez said...
> When capturing a file from an url with the command
> mplayer -dumpstream -dumpfile archive.rm -playlist url
> and other variants, by misplacing the option -rtsp-stream-over-tcp a
> file was created with this name, i.e.,
> -rtsp-stream-over-tcp is the filename.

Two common ways:

rm -- -rtsp-stream-over-tcp

or

rm ./-rtsp-stream-over-tcp


In the first case, the -- tells rm to stop processing options, in the
second case you're finding a way to refer to the same file in such a way
that it does not start with -.



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rm difficult filename

[Antonio Rodriguez]

When capturing a file from an url with the command
mplayer -dumpstream -dumpfile archive.rm -playlist url
and other variants, by misplacing the option -rtsp-stream-over-tcp a
file was created with this name, i.e.,
-rtsp-stream-over-tcp is the filename.
I've tried removing it with different tricks, from 
rm "filename" to rm -i *over* but no success yet. I remember a few
moths ago in the list a discussion about it took place, but I can't find
it googling. In this particular case the -rt section in the filename
seems to be particularly troubling. Any suggestion will be greatly
appreciated. 
TIA



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download speeds on console

[Vin Jacob]

What is best app to get eth and ppp upload and download rates in a console.
Cheers,
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Re: sshd: can't turn off reverse mapping check

[David Zelinsky]

I wrote:

> I'm running sshd from woody's ssh package (3.4p1-1.woody.3).  When I
> try to connect from a host which has no reverse DNS entry, sshd
> refuses the connection.  From ethereal, I see that immediately before
> closing the ssh connection, the server is issuing a reverse DNS query,
> which returns "no such name".
>
[ snip ]
>
> This is happening when the client is on a different subnet than the
> server.  When I connect from a host on the same subnet as the server,
> no reverse DNS query is performed.

That last statement was bogus: the subnet wasn't the issue.  No
reverse DNS query was done because that client host was listed in
/etc/hosts on the server.

-David


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Re: sshd: can't turn off reverse mapping check

[dzpost]

I'm running sshd from woody's ssh package (3.4p1-1.woody.3).  When I
try to connect from a host which has no reverse DNS entry, sshd
refuses the connection.  From ethereal, I see that immediately before
closing the ssh connection, the server is issuing a reverse DNS query,
which returns "no such name".

I had the default sshd_config, which had an entry for
ReverseMappingCheck commented out.  I tried uncommenting and changing
the value from "yes" to "no".  This had no effect.

Then I noticed that the sshd_config man page doesn't mention
ReverseMappingCheck, but it does list the keyword
VerifyReverseMapping.  So I tried using that instead, but again it
makes no difference whether it's set to "yes" or "no" or commented
out.  The server is still doing a reverse DNS query and closing the
connection when the query fails.

This is happening when the client is on a different subnet than the
server.  When I connect from a host on the same subnet as the server,
no reverse DNS query is performed.

Am I missing something?  Is this a bug, and if so is there a way
around it?

Thanks.

-David


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Re: firewall/router configuration

[Clement]

James LeClair wrote:
My router is a dual-homed P1 box that runs Woody. I would like to do a 
clean install in the near future. After it is all set up, and before I 
take it online for the first time, what steps are involved to slimming 
it down and securing it?
Maybe a few tips or linkage to good docs on the topic would be very 
appreciated.

James,
Proud Debian user
Not sure if this is helpful to you.  What I do is installing only the 
software that I need.  And put in iptables rules to make sure only the 
traffic I want is allowed.

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Re: Help! (corier-imap + webmail)

[Clement]

Carlos Sousa wrote:
On Tue, 07 Sep 2004 12:25:46 +1000 Clement wrote:
 

[...]
And how can we give ISMail the imap capability required?
   

As to ISMail, I never heard of it, but a few seconds googling turned
up a bunch of links, like
  http://instantservers.com/plugin_ism/ismweb_faq.html
I'm not interested in it right now, so I can't help you further.
 

The producer of the software has been very helpful.  The problem is 
solved by installing php4-imap.

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firewall/router configuration

[James LeClair]

My router is a dual-homed P1 box that runs Woody. I would like to do a 
clean install in the near future. After it is all set up, and before I 
take it online for the first time, what steps are involved to slimming 
it down and securing it?
Maybe a few tips or linkage to good docs on the topic would be very 
appreciated.

James,
Proud Debian user
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Re: Xserver authorization/security

[Stefan O'Rear]

On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 08:55:07PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Thanks - and, you're right, and I had forgotten that; ".login" is a
> shell feature.  (I probably didn't look in the "csh" or "tcsh"
> manuals...)
> 
> The "Xauthority" tactic, if I understand correctly, is similar to
> using "xauth"; you have to run something from your login shell one
> way or another.
xauth and Xauthority are the same tactic.

xauth:

/home/joesmith/.Xauthority -> XAUTH cookies
/root/.Xauthority -> copied cookies

Xlib looks for cookies in ~/.Xauthority

XAUTHORITY:

/home/joesmith/.Xauthority -> XAUTH cookies
/root/.Xauthority -> NOT USED

Xlib looks for cookies in /home/joesmith/.Xauthority regardless of who
you are.

> What I'm trying to figure out, is how to get a system-level solution
> to the problem, so that it wouldn't be necessary, in the case of a
> system with several users any of whom might be the one to spawn the X
> server when they log in, for each user to have to have something in
> their login shell.

Does moving "export XAUTHORITY=$HOME/.Xauthority" from ~/.bashrc to
/etc/bash.bashrc do what you want?

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Re: Configuring X

[listcomm]

maybe somebody already suggested this, but, you can make xdm write
a default config file if you feed it the right option - "xdm --help"
will list the options, I think (and it may not be in the docs...)

I had to do that to get the display to work at all; the default config
file that the Debian install generated had display modes that caused
my monitor to go berserk.  I then compared the config file written by
xdm with the one that the install generated and did a manual sort/merge
to get things working...  I had to do all that from a command prompt
login since I didn't have KDE up.  


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> 
> The easiest, fastest way to do this right now...
> 
> 1. Go get yourself a Knoppix CD.
> 2. Boot to Knoppix.  Go to /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 and copy it to your
> hard drive's /etc/X11/XF86Config-4
> 3. Shut down Knoppix, eject the CD, reboot.
> 4. Start X.  It should work.
> 
> There's an established Debian way, but it's considerably more
> involved.  If you use an nVidia card, it's far more involved (thanks
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Re: Xserver authorization/security

[listcomm]

Thanks - and, you're right, and I had forgotten that; ".login" is a
shell feature.  (I probably didn't look in the "csh" or "tcsh"
manuals...)

The "Xauthority" tactic, if I understand correctly, is similar to
using "xauth"; you have to run something from your login shell one
way or another.  What I'm trying to figure out, is how to get a
system-level solution to the problem, so that it wouldn't be necessary,
in the case of a system with several users any of whom might be the
one to spawn the X server when they log in, for each user to have to
have something in their login shell.

On Tue, 7 Sep 2004 16:54:04 -0700, "Stefan O'Rear" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
said:
> On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 02:47:58PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > I'm trying to get my single-user system set up so that
> > programs running as root to be able to open windows, etc.
> > (ref. the infernal message "Not allowed to connect to
> > server", etc. etc.)
> 
> /usr/src/linuxen/kernel-source-2.2.20 %% sudo /bin/sh
> sh-2.05a# HOME=/root
> sh-2.05a# export HOME
> sh-2.05a# xclock
> Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
> Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server
> Error: Can't open display: :0.0
> sh-2.05a# export XAUTHORITY=/home/stefan/.Xauthority 
> sh-2.05a# xclock
> 
> sh-2.05a# exit
> /usr/src/linuxen/kernel-source-2.2.20 %% 
> 
> > snipped
> > 
> > W/r/t this last question, when I say "system-level", I mean as opposed
> > to
> > "user-level" i.e. run from an initialization file in the home directory
> > of whatever user started the server (and incidentally, does Linux
> > support
> > use of a ".login" file?  I don't see any reference to it anywhere).
> 
> Try putting:
> 
> export XAUTHORITY=$HOME/.Xauthority
> 
> at the end of your ~/.bashrc .
> 
> Linux does not support .login.
> tcsh does.
> bash doesn't.
> 
> If you want to use tcsh, use "chsh" to set your preferences.


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Yaboot/OpenFirmware Error?

[Ed Sutherland]

I'm encountering an error during dual-booting with Yaboot. After Yaboot 
reaches the Apple OpenFirmware screen and prints this:

Copying OF device tree...done
Calling quiesce...
Returning 0x140 from prom_init
I get this error:
DEFAULT CATCH!
code=300 at %SRR0:0140390 %SRR1:00083030
OpenFirmware locks-up and I have to manually reset the computer.
Is there a solution to this? Thanks.
Ed
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Re: HD Patch for badsectors?

[Abdullah Ramazanoglu]

begin  Louie Miranda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dedi ki:

> I have a really big problem.
> 
> I have a remote server, and some sectors on that drive is not
> functioning well. it has badsectors..

You need to change that (read "dead") disk at once, I think. Because,
modern IDE disks have spare sectors, sophisticated ECC recovery, and
transparent and automatic spare sector substitution. When number of
recoverable errors exceed a factory specified limit, that sector is copied
to a spare sector and marked as unusable. All automatic and transparent to
OS. Actually not so transparent if you happen to use smartd. SMART capable
disks keep counters on various events and resources, and feedback to OS
(through smartd) whenever a change occurs. You can also query and view all
the counters with a console command.

When a media error cannot be handled transparently by internal mechanisms
of IDE, that probably means all the spare sectors are already spent, so no
spare sector could be allocated while there is still time to recover a
sector via ECC, and finally that sector got so bad that ECC cannot help it.

Translation: You have a dead disk.

> end_request: I/O error, dev 03:03 (hda), sector 7372776
>
> What commands, can i type? to patch everything and just make it active
> so i could re-do my backup. common commands like ls, cp, mv, scp, tar
> are not working.
>
> common errors are.. "Bus error" and "input/output" errors.

I don't think you can alleviate it by just remotely typing a magic
command. I would:

1. Install a second, new disk together with the bad one.
2. Create the same partition layout on the new disk.
3. Leaving the partition that has the bad sector alone, copy all the other
partitions to the new disk (via dd or cpio).
4. For the "bad" partition, first dd from start of the partition to the
bad sector with dd command, then skipping the bad sector, copy from the
next sector to the end of partition with a second dd command.
5. Swap the bad disk with the new one and pray that the bad sector didn't
have something vital.
6. Install smartd and smartmon to keep an eye on my disks.

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GMail Invites...!

[Nayyar Ahmed]

Hello All,

If any body need gmail account send me a mail .
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Re: clearing out old /dev/* nodes

[Stefan O'Rear]

On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 03:56:34AM +0100, David Leggett wrote:
> Hello to all list readers,
> I have been running old style legacy /dev/ system for a while and i recently 
> installed udev.
> After having read the udev documentation i realised that my system shouldnt 
> have 1600 files in /dev, i am wondering how i can safely remove all files 
> in /dev which dont correspond to devices that actually exist.
> 
> Thanks in advance

IIRC udev is a simple daemon that mknod(2)'s and unlink(2)'s in responce
to kernel notifications, so you should be able to rm them.

If you want minimal risk, tar up your /dev nodes first. (tar was intened
for backups, so it has special features for things like device nodes.)

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clearing out old /dev/* nodes

[David Leggett]

Hello to all list readers,
I have been running old style legacy /dev/ system for a while and i recently 
installed udev.
After having read the udev documentation i realised that my system shouldnt 
have 1600 files in /dev, i am wondering how i can safely remove all files 
in /dev which dont correspond to devices that actually exist.

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Re: gnumeric or oocalc

[Kamaraju Kusumanchi]

On Tue, 7 Sep 2004 00:59:48 +0100, Richard Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Monday 06 September 2004 21:43, Paul Gear wrote:
> [...]
> >
> > I have another criteria which you may or may not find relevant: is it
> > cross-platform.  This is a critical issue to me, because i need to be
> > able to recommend the tool to the end users i support, and most of them
> > still use Windows or Mac.  Therefore, if there is a cross-platform
> > solution that works (i.e. OpenOffice.org), i recommend it.  I do the
> > same with browsers and email (Mozilla/Firefox/Thunderbird).
> 
> But gnumeric can read and write excel format files, so less of a problem...
> 
> --
> richard

Thanks for  all the opinions. They have been very useful.
Cross-platform performance is important to me in a different sense.
Let's say my clients are excel-only-users and I am a debian-user. We
will be exchanging data periodically with changes committed to the
file at each time (client will add some data and I will additional
data as time progresses).

Looks like the best way to achieve this is to export the data from
gnumeric into excel spreadsheet and pass it on. Thanks a lot for all
the feedback.

Another thing I noticed with gnumeric, oocalc is that oocalc seems to
have more keyboard shortcuts than gnumeric. For example, there are
commands like Alt+arrow to change the column width, height and
Alt+Shift+arrow to optimize width/height of a column in oocalc. I was
not able to find equivalent commands in gnumeric. But this is a minor
advantage I guess...

Apologies if I break the threads. I am using gmail to read the mailing
list and it is a bit clumsy with "the conversation view" as opposed to
"the thread view".

regards
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Re: CUPS printing over router network?

[Brett Carrington]

On Tue, 7 Sep 2004 13:44:49 -0700 (PDT), [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> My roommate and I are on a Linksys router and I have a HP DeskJet working
> great with CUPS. My question is can my roommate (running OS X) print on my
> printer through the network or connecting to my CUPS port or something
> that doesn't involve connecting my printer to his box? Thanks in advance.
> 
> -Garrett
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Yes. In your CUPS configuration make sure his IP is allowed access.
Also try enabling Browsing on the server and the Mac may autodetect
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Re: php connection to apache

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register global vars are turned off. get the var via $_POST array (eg
$_POST['var']) or import all the post vars with
import_request_variables("p");
please read more about it on http://www.php.net, its an excellent guide
and manual. And I there are several php mailing lists where this
questions is better placed :)
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Re: HP DeskJet 895C

[Freddy Freeloader]

Wayne Topa wrote:
Freddy Freeloader([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said:
 

Hi All,
I'm having problems with getting my HP DeskJet 895C printer to work.  It 
is connected with a usb cable.  I have, I think anyway, all the 
appropriate usb modules (ehci, uhci, usblp, and usbcore) loaded in the 
2.6.8 kernel I'm using, and I'm running sarge(upgrade from woody).  I 
also have CUPS and the HP drivers "hpijs" and "hpoj" installed.  I can 
log onto the CUPS admin page and work with it so CUPS seems to be 
installed correctly.  However, I cannot get the computer to find the 
printer.   I know the printer works as I just unplugged it from another 
computer and used the same usb cable for both hookups. 

Anyone have any good ideas for troubleshooting this?  Being a newbie to 
Linux I'm at the end of my own ideas as to where to go from here.  I 
have run the "/etc/init.d/hpoj setup" command and it scans for, but does 
not find the printer.  I have the .ppd file for the printer installed in 
the /usr/share/cups/model/ directory.  The /proc/bus/usb/ directory is 
empty.   When I tell CUPS to look to usb interfaces for the printer, no 
matter what usb interface # I have used, the error log tells me the 
device can't be found.  When I run "gs -h" the "ijs" device is listed in 
the output. 
   

Try installing hotplug
Description: Linux Hotplug Scripts
This package contains the scripts necessary for hotplug Linux support,
and lets you plug in new devices and use them immediately.
It includes support for PCI, Cardbus (PCMCIA), USB and Firewire devices
and can automatically configure network interfaces.
wt
 

Wayne,
I installed the hotplug module in the kernel as you suggested.   I even 
rebooted afterwards, but still no joy.

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Re: How to set up CUPS client

[Tom Pfeifer]

Tom Pfeifer wrote:
> 
> Here's my situation: (which has to be a very common one)
> 
> I have 2 machines on a local network, both running Debian/Sarge. One has
> a printer (Epson SC 660) attached to it's parallel port, and I have that
> printer set up with CUPS so that I can print to it from that machine.
> That machine is a CUPS server and client, and it works fine. I used the
> CUPS web interface (port 631) to set it up.
> 
> The part where I'm going blank is how to set up the 2nd machine so that
> I can use (send jobs to) the printer on the 1st machine. The docs seem
> to gloss over this, not going into any kind of step by step (or example)
> as they do with configuring the local machine.
> 
> In other words, what CUPS packages (if any) are needed on the client
> machine, and how do I go about accessing and selecting that printer over
> the network from applications such as Open Office, Mozilla, etc.?
> 
> I'm sure this is fairly simple, but I just need some kind of a hint (or
> example) to get started with. This is the first time I've tried CUPS.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Tom

Thanks for the response, but it's not working. 

The docs don't help much. A simple example is needed there. 

I've had enough of this for now. The config files are making my head
spin. I'll dig back in again and do some more reading when I get to it,
and post if I solve it. I'm just lacking in basic understanding of CUPS
right now - and how all the packages fit together etc.

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Re: HP DeskJet 895C

[Wayne Topa]

Freddy Freeloader([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said:
> Hi All,
> 
> I'm having problems with getting my HP DeskJet 895C printer to work.  It 
> is connected with a usb cable.  I have, I think anyway, all the 
> appropriate usb modules (ehci, uhci, usblp, and usbcore) loaded in the 
> 2.6.8 kernel I'm using, and I'm running sarge(upgrade from woody).  I 
> also have CUPS and the HP drivers "hpijs" and "hpoj" installed.  I can 
> log onto the CUPS admin page and work with it so CUPS seems to be 
> installed correctly.  However, I cannot get the computer to find the 
> printer.   I know the printer works as I just unplugged it from another 
> computer and used the same usb cable for both hookups. 
> 
> Anyone have any good ideas for troubleshooting this?  Being a newbie to 
> Linux I'm at the end of my own ideas as to where to go from here.  I 
> have run the "/etc/init.d/hpoj setup" command and it scans for, but does 
> not find the printer.  I have the .ppd file for the printer installed in 
> the /usr/share/cups/model/ directory.  The /proc/bus/usb/ directory is 
> empty.   When I tell CUPS to look to usb interfaces for the printer, no 
> matter what usb interface # I have used, the error log tells me the 
> device can't be found.  When I run "gs -h" the "ijs" device is listed in 
> the output. 

Try installing hotplug
Description: Linux Hotplug Scripts
 This package contains the scripts necessary for hotplug Linux support,
 and lets you plug in new devices and use them immediately.
 It includes support for PCI, Cardbus (PCMCIA), USB and Firewire devices
 and can automatically configure network interfaces.

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Re: Xserver authorization/security

[Stefan O'Rear]

On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 02:47:58PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I'm trying to get my single-user system set up so that
> programs running as root to be able to open windows, etc.
> (ref. the infernal message "Not allowed to connect to
> server", etc. etc.)

/usr/src/linuxen/kernel-source-2.2.20 %% sudo /bin/sh
sh-2.05a# HOME=/root
sh-2.05a# export HOME
sh-2.05a# xclock
Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server
Error: Can't open display: :0.0
sh-2.05a# export XAUTHORITY=/home/stefan/.Xauthority 
sh-2.05a# xclock

sh-2.05a# exit
/usr/src/linuxen/kernel-source-2.2.20 %% 

> snipped
> 
> W/r/t this last question, when I say "system-level", I mean as opposed
> to
> "user-level" i.e. run from an initialization file in the home directory
> of whatever user started the server (and incidentally, does Linux
> support
> use of a ".login" file?  I don't see any reference to it anywhere).

Try putting:

export XAUTHORITY=$HOME/.Xauthority

at the end of your ~/.bashrc .

Linux does not support .login.
tcsh does.
bash doesn't.

If you want to use tcsh, use "chsh" to set your preferences.

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HD Patch for badsectors?

[Louie Miranda]

I have a really big problem.

I have a remote server, and some sectors on that drive is not
functioning well. it has badsectors..



end_request: I/O error, dev 03:03 (hda), sector 7372776
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:03 (hda), sector 7372776
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:03 (hda), sector 7372776
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:03 (hda), sector 7372776
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:03 (hda), sector 7372776


What commands, can i type? to patch everything and just make it active
so i could re-do my backup. common commands like ls, cp, mv, scp, tar
are not working.

common errors are.. "Bus error" and "input/output" errors.

:( my server has been hurt pretty bad.

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Re: finance/business

[Richard Lyons]

On Tuesday 07 September 2004 21:39, Alejandro Matos wrote:
> Only those:
> 
> gnucash: A personal finance tracking program.
> kmymoney2: Personal finance manager for KDE
> aqmoney: command line utility for HBCI homebanking
> myphpmoney: Finance manager written in PHP
> 

sql-ledger is an excellent book-keeping package in quite wide use 
already

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Re: finance/business

[Ralph Katz]

On 09/07/04 15:00, Alejandro Matos wrote:
Hi there!!
My University is trying to change to Linux, but the teacher told me
they might don't do it because the lack of "finance/business"
programs. I told him that that is quite imposible. But after making
some search i think he is right.
Could anyone post the names of that kind of programs? (as more as possible)
I'm convinced they are TOTALLY wrong. That would help to change all
the servers and clients to Linux (A LOT...believe me!!)
Thanks in advance
Alejandro Matos
from Lima - Peru
in Helsinki - Finland
:)

Just within debian  you have plenty to consider:
apt-cache search finance
apt-cache search accounting
apt-cache search business
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Re: Kill does not stop process

[Stefan O'Rear]

On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 02:07:04PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > "Justin" == Justin Guerin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
>   Justin> uninterruptable sleep.  If it is, there's nothing you can do
>   Justin> about it, except reboot.  Also note, that each process in
>   Justin> uninterruptable sleep will count as 1 in your load average,
>   Justin> even if it's not taking any cpu / network / disk resources.
> 
>   Justin> I haven't done this myself, but you might check out the
>   Justin> other threads about CD writing in 2.6.8 to get some pointers
>   Justin> about how to get cdrecord to complete successfully.  I
>   Justin> believe you may need to specify the device.  Of course, this
>   Justin> assumes you're using a 2.6.x kernel.  If you're not, I'm not
>   Justin> really sure why cdrecord would hang.
> 
> Which brings up a more interesting question : why isn't just aout
> every process killable ?
> 
> After all if I tell the kernel to kill process x, why can't the
> scheduler at the next opportunity just clobber the process, take away
> it's interrupts (by masking or overwriting the interrupt vector or
> whatever) , etc...
> 
> Is it because hardware oriented tasks run at the same level as the
> scheduler, and so it is unable to ?
> 
> It seems very odd that a process should ever become "unkillable".
> There must be a very fundamental limitation in the way the kernel
> works to cause such a problem.

It would be trivial to patch the kernel to be able to kill
TASK_UNINTERRUPTABLES.  (For 2.2.20, editing line 731 of kernel/sched.c
should enable it).  Uninterruptable Sleep exists for a reason.  Suppose a
process is doing some fairly major disk operation. (ReiserFS tree grow?)
You decide it is taking a long, so you -9 it.  Since the process is in
uninterruptable sleep, the kill will not happen until the filesystem is
in a sane state.  If we didn't have D, not only would it be possible to
kill processes in critical regions, but suppose a process on an SMP box
died while holding the global kernel lock? Instant, total, lockup.

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Re: HP DeskJet 895C

[Freddy Freeloader]

Steven Jones wrote:
Is USB enabled in the bios?
regards
Thing
-Original Message-
From: Freddy Freeloader [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, 8 September 2004 8:46 a.m.
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: HP DeskJet 895C
Hi All,
I'm having problems with getting my HP DeskJet 895C printer to work.  It 
is connected with a usb cable.  I have, I think anyway, all the 
appropriate usb modules (ehci, uhci, usblp, and usbcore) loaded in the 
2.6.8 kernel I'm using, and I'm running sarge(upgrade from woody).  I 
also have CUPS and the HP drivers "hpijs" and "hpoj" installed.  I can 
log onto the CUPS admin page and work with it so CUPS seems to be 
installed correctly.  However, I cannot get the computer to find the 
printer.   I know the printer works as I just unplugged it from another 
computer and used the same usb cable for both hookups. 

Anyone have any good ideas for troubleshooting this?  Being a newbie to 
Linux I'm at the end of my own ideas as to where to go from here.  I 
have run the "/etc/init.d/hpoj setup" command and it scans for, but does 
not find the printer.  I have the .ppd file for the printer installed in 
the /usr/share/cups/model/ directory.  The /proc/bus/usb/ directory is 
empty.   When I tell CUPS to look to usb interfaces for the printer, no 
matter what usb interface # I have used, the error log tells me the 
device can't be found.  When I run "gs -h" the "ijs" device is listed in 
the output. 

 

Yes.  LOL.  I'm not a complete newbie to computing, just to Linux and 
Debian.  

One of the first things I suspected was that usb had failed at the 
hardware level, but the "khubd" process would load with usb enabled in 
the BIOS and wouldn't when it usb was disabled in BIOS.  So this was one 
of the first things I looked at. 

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Fwd: finance/business

[Alejandro Matos]

> That's pretty vague. Spreadheets? lots of them, they're finance programs.
> 
> Specifically what kinds of things do you want to do?

Read this ;o)

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From: Alejandro Matos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2004 23:58:23 +0300
Subject: Re: finance/business
To: Debian List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

this is the same answer i made my teacher, he answered:

"I am just trying to map out all the business/finantial software available. So
I can't describe it in details. Everything will do"

I think they don't have the right person for the job, but i think we
can change his opinion about Linux ;)

Thanks four your help

Alejandro

On Tue, 7 Sep 2004 15:48:10 -0500 (EST), [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> You really need to define finance/business applications. There are plenty
> of programs out there. Running a business on linux financial applications
> can be limited. I would do a search at freshmeat.net and sourceforge.net
>
> http://www.linuxcanada.com/ sells Quasar which is a quickbooks replacement.
>
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> www.tsystemscorp.com


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Re: postfix vs. exim, mailscanner vs. amavis, clamav, IMAP server thoughts?

[John Summerfield]

Paul Gear wrote:
Hi folks,
(I'm trying this with a different subject in the hope that it makes it
clearer than the previous one...)
I have a server i'm planning to bring online ASAP.  My priorities in
order are security, features, and performance.  My service requirements
are fairly standard:
- SMTP server
- IMAP & POP server
- Web mail
- Virus scanning
My current system is running Fedora Core 1, and when i switch to my
Debian box, i'd like to rethink my current mail server strategy.  My
current product mix is:
- SMTP: sendmail
- Local delivery agent: procmail
- IMAP/POP: dovecot
- Web mail: squirrelmail
- Mail virus scanner: amavisd
- Virus scanning package: McAfee Virus Scan
- SSL: stunnel 4.x
The things i'd like to do better:
- Large email folders (in the hundreds of Mb).
- Server side filtering so that IMAP and web mail get the same filters.
- Spam filtering.
Thoughts i've had so far:
- Postfix has probably the best reputation for security of any free mail
server as far as i can tell, which is quite a bit different from
sendmail's record over the years (although things have been quiet
lately).  I'm a bit of an ignoramus when it comes to exim - how does it
compare?
 

I use Postfix.
I had a bad experience with exim a few years go, and found it easier to 
stop bouncing mail by installing Sendmail (i was running a RHL 
derivitive) than to fix exim.


- Postfix seems to be easier to configure than sendmail.  After 15 years
of sendmail, i still want to puke when i try to read sendmail.cf.
Sendmail.mc is OK, but still not as easy on the eyes and the brain as
/etc/postfix/main.cf.
 

The .mc files are okay, but I'm not at all sure about m4.
- When it comes to large email folders, maildir seems the way to go (at
the moment on my machine, message deletes can take in the range of 10-20
seconds).  Dovecot supports maildir, but i haven't investigated whether
procmail can do it.
 

procmail can.
- procmail's configuration is almost as hideous as sendmail's, and i'd
rather not use it if i don't have to.  The only local delivery feature i
really need is server-side filters, and i'd like them to be maintainable
from a web page or mail client if possible, but this isn't essential.
 

Take it slowly, bit by bit. You can do lots with simple regular expressions.
- I've heard good things about Courier as an IMAP server, particularly
with respect to maildir.
 

I use Cyrus. Why? It's a good choice. The best? Who cares. I decided to 
avoid wu-imapd as there have been reports that its security isn't that 
good. People who claim to know recommend cyrus. And courier.

For webmail I have Squirrel. Why? Ships with RHL, and RH doesn't usually 
make bad choices (note sendmail and wu-imap were chosen when the range 
of choices was more limited. Dropping them would offend lots of users).

- ClamAV seems to be as good a virus scanning package as any, and is
free to boot.
 

We don't do that yet, though we may need to soon.
I would like to use MimeDefang, but it uses Milter and AFAIK that's only 
supported with sendmail.

- I've also heard good things about MailScanner as a virus/spam filter
(certainly it seems to be more polished than amavisd).  However,
MailScanner in woody doesn't seem to support postfix or ClamAV, and
requires exim.  This doesn't seem to be a general limitation with the
products, but simply with the woody versions of them.  With sarge, the
situation seems better, and both postfix and ClamAV are supported by
MailScanner.
 

At this time I'd be installing Sarge. I would not be seeking to do an 
upgrade any time soon.

- I'm fairly new to apt-get, and i'm not into its advanced features yet.
Can i run woody with the sarge version of MailScanner, using pinning
for MailScanner until sarge's release into stable?  I've read some basic
howtos about apt pinning, and made a first attempt at getting a hybrid
stable/testing system working, but i'm not sure that i've done it right
(i had to do a few apt-get -f install and the like).  Another package
i'd like to do this with is shorewall 2.x.
- MailScanner from sarge references clamav and clamavmodule.  Which is
preferred/available under Debian?
 

You are likely to have problems with libc and other mismatches. I have a 
Woody development machine just for building Woody versions of Sarge/Sid 
packages.

Some packages "just build," some "just don't build."
You should try backports.org (best) and maybe apt-get.org (carefully).

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Re: php connection to apache

[Raquel Rice]

On Tue, 7 Sep 2004 14:29:21 -0500
Tim Kelley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 10:32:59AM -0700, belahcene abdelkader
> wrote:
> > Hi every body,
> >  I want ask a question about php/apache? 
> > When I send throw a post method from a form a
> > variable,  the called file(php ) doesn't receive it
> > 
> 
> Probably you have register globals turned off ... (a new default)
> 
> you may want to take a look at /etc/php4/apache/php.ini
> 
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Read your docs, starting specifically with 
http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.variables.predefined.php

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Re: finance/business

[John Summerfield]

Alejandro Matos wrote:
Hi there!!
My University is trying to change to Linux, but the teacher told me
they might don't do it because the lack of "finance/business"
programs. I told him that that is quite imposible. But after making
some search i think he is right.
 

That's pretty vague. Spreadheets? lots of them, they're finance programs.
Specifically what kinds of things do you want to do?
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Re: looking for: mail list AND bulletin board in one

[John Summerfield]

Vadik wrote:
I am looking for package with capabilities similar to yahoogroups 
(i.e. mail list AND bulletin board).  Most of the packages I've seen 
are either maillists or bulletin board.  If this would be a part of 
larger  content management system (or can be integrated in to one) it 
would be additional benefit.

The slashdot software is OS and available somewhere:
ns:/# apt-cache search slashdot
bk2site - Utility to turn bookmarks into Yahoo/Slashdot like pages
lg-issue38 - Issue 38 of the Linux Gazette.
libcache-memcached-perl - Cache::Memcached - client library for memcached
scripts4ticker - Small scripts to download headlines for use by ticker.app
slash - The code that runs Slashdot
libapache-mod-perl - Integration of perl with the Apache web server
libapache2-mod-perl2 - Integration of perl with the Apache2 web server
straw - A GNOME RSS (weblog) aggregator
surfraw - a fast unix command line interface to WWW
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Re: "dd" block size question

[John Summerfield]

Gururajan Ramachandran wrote:
Hello,
If I want to clone a hard disk drive using "dd", can I
just use an arbitrarily large block size to speed up
the process?
For example,
dd if=/dev/hda bs=32768k of=/dev/hdc
or is the block size dependent on something and has to
be carefully chosen?
 

I choose a large number based on available RAM. 32 Mb is fine (though 
probably little better than 32k).

What block size should I choose to clone a 40GB drive?
 

If you'd started,  you'd be finished now:-)

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Re: permisions in the /dev directory

[Scotty Fitzgerald]

Thank you for the advice, Andrew and James!

Yes, I am on my own box!
---
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On Tue, 07 Sep 2004 12:40:08 +0200, James Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

>On Tue, 07 Sep 2004 05:41:28 -0400, Andrew Schulman
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> > To let a user run any command with sudo add a line such as the
>> > following:
>> > username ALL = (ALL) ALL
>> 
>> This is a terrible idea.  It essentially makes username equivalent to root.
>> Yes, the user has to type 'sudo' before they can do the damage, but these
>> things can become a habit (or a shell alias) in a hurry, and access to
>> username's account also becomes instantly equivalent to being rooted.
>
>In most cases I would agree with you. The above was an example. But I
>take it from Scotty's first post that it was for himself to do
>administration on his own box and not setting this for everybody. sudo
>is for administration.
>
>The following is another example:
>
># User alias specification
>
>User_Alias ADMINS = msmith, amccord
>
># Cmnd alias specification
>
>Cmnd_Alias DUMP = /sbin/dump
>
># User privilege specification
>
>root   ALL=(ALL) ALL
>ADMINSDUMP
>
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Re: Addusers and domains ?

[John Summerfield]

Mark Lijftogt wrote:
John Summerfield wrote:
Mark Lijftogt wrote:
Well.. any imap service is not related to domains.

Mail for qut.nl and theregister.co.uk could be hosted on the same 
physical host with one IP address. by using virtual domains. I don't 
know whether Courier supports this, by Cyrus does.

that's a job done by the mta, not done by a service to provide access 
to the mail.. so.. please
.. correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the vhosting bit something that 
is done by service that provides
the smtp service ?

I've not used Courier, I use Cyrus.
In my setup, Cyrus has separate mailstores for different domains so 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] != [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Postfix _tells_ Cyrus who the mail's for, including domain name, but 
Cyrus validates the localpart (mark) and accepts or rejects it based on 
whether the local part's valid for the domain.



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Can't connect to firewall

[disciple]

I have a basic proxy/firewall script:
I got this from aboutdebian.com
#!/bin/sh
#  IPCHAINS  FIREWALL  script for the Linux 2.2 kernel.
#  This script is a derivitive of the script presented in
#  the IP Masquerade HOWTO page at:
#  www.tldp.org/HOWTO/IP-Masquerade-HOWTO/stronger-firewall-examples.html
#  It was simplified to coincide with the configuration of
#  the sample system presented in the Guides section of
#  www.aboutdebian.com
#
#PLEASE SET THE USER VARIABLES
#IN SECTIONS A AND B OR C
echo -e "\n\nSETTING UP IPCHAINS FIREWALL..."
# === SECTION A
# ---   FOR EVERYONE 

# SET THE _NETWORK_ ADDRESS OF YOUR INTERNAL NETWORK
#   The default value below is for a 192.168.0.0 network.
#   Note that the "/24" is a network mask of 255.255.255.0
#   (meaning 24 bits - three octets - set to 1s).  Similarly,
#   a network mask of 255.255.0.0 would be "/16".
#   Note that this is a NETWORK address - not the
#   IP address of a specific device on the network.
#   Enter the internal network's (or subnet's) network
#   address for the INTLAN variable:
INTLAN="192.168.0.0/24"
# SET THE INTERFACE DESIGNATION FOR THE NIC CONNECTED TO YOUR INTERNAL NETWORK
#   The default value below is for "eth0".  This value 
#   could also be "eth1" if you have TWO NICs in your system.
#   You can use the ifconfig command to list the interfaces
#   on your system.  The internal interface will likely have
#   have an address that is in one of the private IP address
#   ranges.
#   Note that this is an interface DESIGNATION - not
#   the IP address of the interface.
#   Enter the internal interface's designation for the
#   INTIF variable:

INTIF="eth0"
# SET THE INTERFACE DESIGNATION FOR YOUR "EXTERNAL" (INTERNET) CONNECTION
#   The default value below is "ppp0" which is appropriate 
#   for a MODEM connection.
#   If you have two NICs in your system change this value
#   to "eth0" or "eth1" (whichever is opposite of the value
#   set for INTIF above).
#   Note that this is an interface DESIGNATION - not
#   the IP address of the interface.
#   Enter the external interface's designation for the
#   EXTIF variable:

EXTIF="ppp0"

# ! ! ! ! !  Use ONLY Section B  *OR*  Section C depending on
#  ! ! ! !   the type of Internet connection you have.

# === SECTION B
# ---   FOR THOSE WITH STATIC PUBLIC IP ADDRESSES
  # SET YOUR EXTERNAL IP ADDRESS
  #   If you specified a NIC (i.e. "eth0" or "eth1" for
  #   the external interface (EXTIF) variable above,
  #   AND if that external NIC is configured with a
  #   static, public IP address (assigned by your ISP),
  #   UNCOMMENT the following EXTIP line and enter the
  #   IP address for the EXTIP variable:
# EXTIP="your.static.IP.address"

# === SECTION C
# --   DIAL-UP MODEM, AND RESIDENTIAL CABLE-MODEM/DSL (Dynamic IP) USERS
# SET YOUR EXTERNAL INTERFACE FOR DYNAMIC IP ADDRESSING
#   If you get your IP address dynamically from SLIP, PPP,
#   BOOTP, or DHCP, UNCOMMENT the FOUR commands below.
#   (No values have to be entered.)
# Note that if you are uncommenting these lines then
# the EXTIP line in Section B must be commented out.
# echo "Enabling Dynamic IP Addressing..."
# echo "1" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_dynaddr
# /sbin/ipchains -A input -j ACCEPT -i $EXTIF -s 0/0 67 -d 0/0 68 -p udp
# EXTIP="`/sbin/ifconfig ppp0 | grep 'inet addr' | awk '{print $2}' | sed -e 
's/.*://'`"

#   No more user variables beyond this point  --

echo "Loading required IPMASQ kernel modules..."
/sbin/depmod -a
/sbin/modprobe ip_masq_ftp
/sbin/modprobe ip_masq_raudio
echo "Enabling IP forwarding..."
echo "1" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
echo "Enabling IP Defragmentation..."
echo "1" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_always_defrag
# MASQ timeouts
#
#   2 hrs timeout for TCP session timeouts
#  10 sec timeout for traffic after the TCP/IP "FIN" packet is received
#  160 sec timeout for UDP traffic (Important for MASQ'ed ICQ users) 

echo "Setting default timers..."
/sbin/ipchains -M -S 7200 10 160
echo "Internal interface: $INTIF"
echo "   Internal network IP address is: $INTLAN"
echo "External interface: $EXTIF"
echo "   External interface IP address is: $EXTIP"
echo "Setting up firewall rules..."
#   INPUT RULES
#
# Incoming, flush and set default policy of reject.
#
ipchains -F input
ipchains -P input REJECT
ipchains -A input -i $INTIF -s $INTLAN -d 0.0.0.0/0 -j ACCEPT
ipchains -A input -i $EXTIF -s $INTLAN -d 0.0.0.0/0 -l -j REJECT
ipchains -A input -i $EXTIF -s 0.0.0.0/0 -d $EXTIP/32 -j ACCEPT
ipchains -A input -i lo -s 0.0.0.0/0 -d 0.0.0.0/0 -j ACCEPT
#   OUTPUT RULES
#
# Outgoing, flush and set default policy of reject.
#
ipchains -F output
ipchains -P output REJECT
ipchains -A output -i $INTIF -s 0.0.0.0/0 -d $INTLAN -j ACCEPT
i

pureftpd (testing) size breaks files under subdirs > 2.1gbs

[Justin Cunningham]

Pureftpd uploads a file within it's subdir.

It starts the upload and creates .pureftpd files.

Once it gets to 2.1GBs it does a size on the file under the dir.

The dir has not been created by pureftpd.  The dir is still a .pureftpd
file.

So pureftpd restarts the transfer and I get a bunch of .pureftpd files
and no file in a sub dir greater than 2.1gbs.

Is there an option I am not aware of here?

Start line:
/usr/sbin/pure-ftpd -l puredb:/etc/pure-ftpd/pureftpd.pdb -l pam -u 1000
-E -A -Y 2 -R -O clf:/var/log/pure-ftpd/transfer.log -c 10 -C 5 -p
6:61000 -j -K -L 400:4 -d -F /usr/share/games/fortunes/science -G -k
95 -H -I 1440 -B

Logs:
Sep  7 14:21:47 localhost pure-ftpd: ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [INFO] New
connection from 172.16.1.12
Sep  7 14:21:47 localhost pure-ftpd: ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [DEBUG] Command
[auth] [TLS]
Sep  7 14:21:47 localhost pure-ftpd: ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [INFO] SSL/TLS:
Enabled TLSv1/SSLv3 with AES256-SHA, 256 secret bits cipher
Sep  7 14:21:48 localhost pure-ftpd: ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [DEBUG] Command
[pbsz] [0]
Sep  7 14:21:47 localhost pure-ftpd: ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [DEBUG] Command
[user] [jc]
Sep  7 14:21:47 localhost pure-ftpd: ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [DEBUG] Command
[pass] [<*>]
Sep  7 14:21:47 localhost pure-ftpd: ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [INFO] jc is now
logged in
Sep  7 14:21:48 localhost pure-ftpd: ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [DEBUG] Command
[pwd] []
Sep  7 14:22:26 localhost pure-ftpd: ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [DEBUG] Command
[cwd] [/data/storage/filedir]
Sep  7 14:22:26 localhost pure-ftpd: ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [DEBUG] Command
[type] [I]
Sep  7 14:22:26 localhost pure-ftpd: ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [DEBUG] Command
[size] [file.ISO] /* file > 4GBs */
Sep  7 14:22:26 localhost pure-ftpd: ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [DEBUG] Command
[cwd] [/data/storage/filedir/file.I
SO]
Sep  7 14:22:26 localhost pure-ftpd: ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [INFO] Can't
change directory to /data/storage/filedir/file.ISO: No such file or
directory
Sep  7 14:22:30 localhost pure-ftpd: ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [DEBUG] Command
[cwd] [/data/storage/filedir]
Sep  7 14:22:27 localhost pure-ftpd: ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [DEBUG] Command
[pbsz] [0]
Sep  7 14:22:27 localhost pure-ftpd: ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [DEBUG] Command
[prot] [C]
Sep  7 14:22:30 localhost pure-ftpd: ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [DEBUG] Command
[pasv] []
Sep  7 14:22:27 localhost pure-ftpd: ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [DEBUG] Command
[rest] [0]
Sep  7 14:22:27 localhost pure-ftpd: ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [DEBUG] Command
[stor] [file.ISO]
Sep  7 14:23:41 localhost pure-ftpd: ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [NOTICE]
/raid//data/storage/filedir/file.ISO uploa
ded  (80183296 bytes, 1100.34KB/sec)

Looking at /storage/filedir you see:

-rw-r--r--   1 jc jc 2147483647 Sep  7 10:43
.pureftpd-upload.413deccc.15.2049.a3079f35
-rw-r--r--   1 jc jc 2147483647 Sep  7 11:11
.pureftpd-upload.413df361.15.2057.854f5f57
-rw-r--r--   1 jc jc 2147483647 Sep  7 11:39
.pureftpd-upload.413df9ef.15.2061.8cdfca5
-rw-r--r--   1 jc jc 2147483647 Sep  7 12:07
.pureftpd-upload.413e0093.15.206c.c0272aa5
-rw-r--r--   1 jc jc 2147483647 Sep  7 12:36
.pureftpd-upload.413e0724.15.2075.2955a3ad
-rw-r--r--   1 jc jc 2147483647 Sep  7 13:04
.pureftpd-upload.413e0dc2.15.207f.6fa296ab
-rw-r--r--   1 jc jc 2147483647 Sep  7 13:32
.pureftpd-upload.413e1461.15.2088.11b36ad0
-rw-r--r--   1 jc jc 2147483647 Sep  7 14:00
.pureftpd-upload.413e1b01.15.2095.173aed6






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Xserver authorization/security

[listcomm]

I'm trying to get my single-user system set up so that
programs running as root to be able to open windows, etc.
(ref. the infernal message "Not allowed to connect to
server", etc. etc.)

Thus far, I've been able to get this to work by five
methods: (1) login and start "xdm" as root, (2) use "su -m"
from a "normal" account and run the root-owned
program from the resulting shell, (3) use "xauth" to export a "Magic
Cookie" from the account that started the server, log in as root
and use "xauth" to absorb the "Magic Cookie" (some people seem to
think that this convoluted mess is somehow something that an
ordinary user should be happy to put up with), (4) use "xhost +local"
from the account which started "xdm" prior to running a program
owned by root, (5) turn off security in the server by
setting the correct resource switch (forget the name right
offhand) to "false" in the "xdm" configuration file.

The first four methods require manual intervention, and the last
is probably a security risk.

I have as yet been unable to get any script that I have installed
anywhere in any startup file for the system ("init.d", et. al.)
or the X server ("Xaccess", et. al.) to successfully allow
server access to "root".  I run into $DISPLAY not
having been set yet because the server hasn't started
yet, or "xhost" not being able to accept a "-display" argument,
or the server not having been started, or things just not
having any effect for reasons unknown (the "/etc/X0.hosts" file
is an example of the latter; even *when* putting an argument like
"local" in there *does* cause "xhost" to report "LOCAL:" in its
query output, it *still* doesn't allow root access to the display).
Etc., etc., etc.

Does turning off authorization checking in the server config file
allow access to the server from outside the local host?

Is there any way, in the server config file (since that seems to be
the only place where anything I've done has any affect at all), that
I can selectively authorize server access?

Why doesn't the "X0.hosts" file have any effect?  The documentation
(which is distributed randomly around 8 different manuals etc. as
usual, but, whatever) implies that that file will only have an effect
if all other security methods ("Magic Cookies", etc. etc.) are disabled
- is that true, and if so, how can I turn all of those off?

Does anyone have any *other* ideas w/r/t how to install a system-level
shell
script somewhere, that will run an "xhost +local" command that will
establish
root access to the server?

W/r/t this last question, when I say "system-level", I mean as opposed
to
"user-level" i.e. run from an initialization file in the home directory
of whatever user started the server (and incidentally, does Linux
support
use of a ".login" file?  I don't see any reference to it anywhere).


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spamassassin upgrade (testing) has qmailu error spamd lines 1123, 1145

[Justin Cunningham]

Sep  7 14:02:52 mailbox spamd[18240]: connection from localhost
[127.0.0.1] at port 59986 
Sep  7 14:02:53 mailbox spamd[18573]: Use of uninitialized value in
string ne at /usr/sbin/spamd line 1123,  line 2. 
Sep  7 14:02:53 mailbox spamd[18573]: Use of uninitialized value in
numeric gt (>) at /usr/sbin/spamd line 1145,  line 2. 
Sep  7 14:02:53 mailbox spamd[18573]: Use of uninitialized value in hash
element at /usr/sbin/spamd line 1152,  line 4. 

line 1123

sub get_user_from_address {
   my ($user, $domain) = split(/@/, $_[0]);
   my $dom = lc($domain);

   if ( $qmailu{$dom} ne "" ) {
  warn "returning result from cache.\n" if ($opt{'debug'});
  my $nam = getpwuid($qmailu{$dom});
  return $nam;
   } else {
  warn "cache miss\n" if ($opt{'debug'});
  &fill_qmailu_cache($assign);
  if ( $qmailu{$dom} ne "" ) {
 my $nam = getpwuid($qmailu{$dom});
 return $nam;   
  } else { 
 return 0;
  }  
   }   
}

1145 

...

broken at qmailu

...




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Re: Kill does not stop process

[briand]

> "Justin" == Justin Guerin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

  Justin> uninterruptable sleep.  If it is, there's nothing you can do
  Justin> about it, except reboot.  Also note, that each process in
  Justin> uninterruptable sleep will count as 1 in your load average,
  Justin> even if it's not taking any cpu / network / disk resources.

  Justin> I haven't done this myself, but you might check out the
  Justin> other threads about CD writing in 2.6.8 to get some pointers
  Justin> about how to get cdrecord to complete successfully.  I
  Justin> believe you may need to specify the device.  Of course, this
  Justin> assumes you're using a 2.6.x kernel.  If you're not, I'm not
  Justin> really sure why cdrecord would hang.

Which brings up a more interesting question : why isn't just aout
every process killable ?

After all if I tell the kernel to kill process x, why can't the
scheduler at the next opportunity just clobber the process, take away
it's interrupts (by masking or overwriting the interrupt vector or
whatever) , etc...

Is it because hardware oriented tasks run at the same level as the
scheduler, and so it is unable to ?

It seems very odd that a process should ever become "unkillable".
There must be a very fundamental limitation in the way the kernel
works to cause such a problem.

Brian


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Re: postfix vs. exim, mailscanner vs. amavis, clamav, IMAP server thoughts?

[Paul Gear]

Craig Jackson wrote:
> ...
> Check out this link for email server info:
> 
> http://www.badmagicnumber.com/linotes/cimap.php

I haven't been able to get to that web page for the last 2 days - it
just says the DNS name could not be found.

Anyone got any specific comments about my mail server thoughts?

-- 
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recipient's ISP, and possibly other parties.  You can make sure your
emails are private by using GNU Privacy Guard  and
an email plug-in like Enigmail .


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CUPS printing over router network?

[garrett]

My roommate and I are on a Linksys router and I have a HP DeskJet working
great with CUPS. My question is can my roommate (running OS X) print on my
printer through the network or connecting to my CUPS port or something
that doesn't involve connecting my printer to his box? Thanks in advance.

-Garrett


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Re: finance/business

[Alejandro Matos]

this is the same answer i made my teacher, he answered:

"I am just trying to map out all the business/finantial software available. So
I can't describe it in details. Everything will do"

I think they don't have the right person for the job, but i think we
can change his opinion about Linux ;)

Thanks four your help

Alejandro


On Tue, 7 Sep 2004 15:48:10 -0500 (EST), [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> >
> >> Hi there!!
> >>
> >> My University is trying to change to Linux, but the
> >> teacher told me
> >> they might don't do it because the lack of
> >> "finance/business"
> >> programs. I told him that that is quite imposible.
> >> But after making
> >> some search i think he is right.
> >>
> >> Could anyone post the names of that kind of
> >> programs? (as more as possible)
> >> I'm convinced they are TOTALLY wrong. That would
> >> help to change all
> >> the servers and clients to Linux (A LOT...believe
> >> me!!)
> >>
> >> Thanks in advance
> >>
> >> Alejandro Matos
> >> from Lima - Peru
> >> in Helsinki - Finland
> >> :)
> 
> You really need to define finance/business applications. There are plenty
> of programs out there. Running a business on linux financial applications
> can be limited. I would do a search at freshmeat.net and sourceforge.net
> 
> http://www.linuxcanada.com/ sells Quasar which is a quickbooks replacement.
> 
> --
> Dwight Trumbower
> T Systems Corp
> www.tsystemscorp.com
> 
> 
> 
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Re: Add printer using kaddprinterwizard

[Justin Guerin]

On Tuesday 07 September 2004 12:01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 11:40:42AM -0600, Justin Guerin wrote:
> > On Tuesday 07 September 2004 10:47, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > Dear all,
> > >
> > >  I installed sarge with kde 3.2.3. I wanted to install a printer,
> > >  but when I used the kaddprinterwizard, it will not work.
> > >  It asks me to select backend(step 2: Backend Selection), but
> > >  nothing shows up there. I can not select the backend.
> > >
> > >  Do you have any suggestion for that? I need to install
> > >  a net work printer.
> > >
> > >  Thanks in advance
> > >  Mingzhai
> >
> > Do you have cups or lpr installed?  Sounds to me like that's what's
> > missing.
> >
> > Justin Guerin
> >
> >
> Thanks for the suggestion,
> After installation of cups and lpr, it still doen's work.
>
> Best,
> Mingzhai
>
If, after logging out and logging back in, you still don't have choices, 
check that all the dependancies of kdeprint and cupsys / lpr / lprng are 
met.  If all else fails, try a reinstall of kdeprint.

Justin Guerin


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Re: finance/business

[Alejandro Matos]

gnucash: A personal finance tracking program.
kmymoney2: Personal finance manager for KDE
aqmoney: command line utility for HBCI homebanking
myphpmoney: Finance manager written in PHP
MyBudget: Design your own personal budget and keep track of your finance
Kurush: Kurush aims to be an easy to use personal finance too

Imendio Planner: Planner is a tool for planning, scheduling and
tracking projects.

http://cbbrowne.com/info/financefreesoft.html

This, untill now, all the information I have found/got.
Hoping to get more mails!
Thanks!!!

Alejandro


On Tue, 7 Sep 2004 23:39:42 +0300, Alejandro Matos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Only those:
> 
> gnucash: A personal finance tracking program.
> kmymoney2: Personal finance manager for KDE
> aqmoney: command line utility for HBCI homebanking
> myphpmoney: Finance manager written in PHP
> 
> :-\
> 
> Alejandro
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, 7 Sep 2004 15:27:00 -0500, Lance Hoffmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > What are the 4 programs you already have?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > >
> > > Got 4 programs (including gnucash)
> > >
> > > Could anyone else help me with it?
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance :)
> > >
> > > Alejandro
> > >
> > >
> > > -- Forwarded message --
> > > From: Zachary Rizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2004 11:58:28 -0700 (PDT)
> > > Subject: Re: finance/business
> > > To: Alejandro Matos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > >
> > > gnucash
> > >
> > >
> > > --- Alejandro Matos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi there!!
> > > >
> > > > My University is trying to change to Linux, but the
> > > > teacher told me
> > > > they might don't do it because the lack of
> > > > "finance/business"
> > > > programs. I told him that that is quite imposible.
> > > > But after making
> > > > some search i think he is right.
> > > >
> > > > Could anyone post the names of that kind of
> > > > programs? (as more as possible)
> > > > I'm convinced they are TOTALLY wrong. That would
> > > > help to change all
> > > > the servers and clients to Linux (A LOT...believe
> > > > me!!)
> > > >
> > > > Thanks in advance
> > > >
> > > > Alejandro Matos
> > > > from Lima - Peru
> > > > in Helsinki - Finland
> > > > :)
>


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RE: HP DeskJet 895C

[Steven Jones]

Is USB enabled in the bios?

regards

Thing

-Original Message-
From: Freddy Freeloader [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, 8 September 2004 8:46 a.m.
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: HP DeskJet 895C


Hi All,

I'm having problems with getting my HP DeskJet 895C printer to work.  It 
is connected with a usb cable.  I have, I think anyway, all the 
appropriate usb modules (ehci, uhci, usblp, and usbcore) loaded in the 
2.6.8 kernel I'm using, and I'm running sarge(upgrade from woody).  I 
also have CUPS and the HP drivers "hpijs" and "hpoj" installed.  I can 
log onto the CUPS admin page and work with it so CUPS seems to be 
installed correctly.  However, I cannot get the computer to find the 
printer.   I know the printer works as I just unplugged it from another 
computer and used the same usb cable for both hookups. 

Anyone have any good ideas for troubleshooting this?  Being a newbie to 
Linux I'm at the end of my own ideas as to where to go from here.  I 
have run the "/etc/init.d/hpoj setup" command and it scans for, but does 
not find the printer.  I have the .ppd file for the printer installed in 
the /usr/share/cups/model/ directory.  The /proc/bus/usb/ directory is 
empty.   When I tell CUPS to look to usb interfaces for the printer, no 
matter what usb interface # I have used, the error log tells me the 
device can't be found.  When I run "gs -h" the "ijs" device is listed in 
the output. 


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Re: finance/business

[dwight]

>
>> Hi there!!
>>
>> My University is trying to change to Linux, but the
>> teacher told me
>> they might don't do it because the lack of
>> "finance/business"
>> programs. I told him that that is quite imposible.
>> But after making
>> some search i think he is right.
>>
>> Could anyone post the names of that kind of
>> programs? (as more as possible)
>> I'm convinced they are TOTALLY wrong. That would
>> help to change all
>> the servers and clients to Linux (A LOT...believe
>> me!!)
>>
>> Thanks in advance
>>
>> Alejandro Matos
>> from Lima - Peru
>> in Helsinki - Finland
>> :)

You really need to define finance/business applications. There are plenty
of programs out there. Running a business on linux financial applications
can be limited. I would do a search at freshmeat.net and sourceforge.net

http://www.linuxcanada.com/ sells Quasar which is a quickbooks replacement.

-- 
Dwight Trumbower
T Systems Corp
www.tsystemscorp.com


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HP DeskJet 895C

[Freddy Freeloader]

Hi All,
I'm having problems with getting my HP DeskJet 895C printer to work.  It 
is connected with a usb cable.  I have, I think anyway, all the 
appropriate usb modules (ehci, uhci, usblp, and usbcore) loaded in the 
2.6.8 kernel I'm using, and I'm running sarge(upgrade from woody).  I 
also have CUPS and the HP drivers "hpijs" and "hpoj" installed.  I can 
log onto the CUPS admin page and work with it so CUPS seems to be 
installed correctly.  However, I cannot get the computer to find the 
printer.   I know the printer works as I just unplugged it from another 
computer and used the same usb cable for both hookups. 

Anyone have any good ideas for troubleshooting this?  Being a newbie to 
Linux I'm at the end of my own ideas as to where to go from here.  I 
have run the "/etc/init.d/hpoj setup" command and it scans for, but does 
not find the printer.  I have the .ppd file for the printer installed in 
the /usr/share/cups/model/ directory.  The /proc/bus/usb/ directory is 
empty.   When I tell CUPS to look to usb interfaces for the printer, no 
matter what usb interface # I have used, the error log tells me the 
device can't be found.  When I run "gs -h" the "ijs" device is listed in 
the output. 

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Re: apache2 config files

[dwight]

> Debian has its own way. Which I rather like.
>
> /etc/apache2/apache2.conf  is the equivalent of
> /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf in Redhat.
>
> Files in /etc/apache2/sites-available are httpd.conf snippets of sites
> that could be included.
> To enable a site, put a symbolic link to it in
> /etc/apache2/sites-enabled back to the conf file in sites-available.
>
> Similar process to enable modules - put symbolic links in mods-enabled
> to the files in mods-available. Even cgi isn't enabled by default on
> Debian - it is on Redhat.
>
> So you configure stuff by creating symbolic links, rather than editing
> the default config file, which is rather neat.
>
> All rather neat when you've worked it out.
>
> Regards, Upayavira (a serious Debian newbie)
>

I appreciate the detail explanation. I have a couple of vitual host
questions, but I will try few things first before I ask. But the symlink
pointer helped.

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woody+cisco pci342

[Dmitry Lukin]

Hello,
Did somebody have any problems with cisco PCI342  aironet card plugged to supermicro x5dpa-gg MB? Woody(2.4.20) with own airo.o works, but shows terrifying quantity of frame errors (/proc/drivers/aironet/statistics shows acceptable quantity) and stop working when turn to promiscouos mode by tcpdump.
With drivers from Cisco.com unit stops working any time from boot airo.o and writes "airo: can't find FID. " What is it FID? Is there somebody who use cisco PCI342 and woody? 

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Re: finance/business

[Alejandro Matos]

Only those:

gnucash: A personal finance tracking program.
kmymoney2: Personal finance manager for KDE
aqmoney: command line utility for HBCI homebanking
myphpmoney: Finance manager written in PHP

:-\

Alejandro


On Tue, 7 Sep 2004 15:27:00 -0500, Lance Hoffmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What are the 4 programs you already have?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> >
> > Got 4 programs (including gnucash)
> >
> > Could anyone else help me with it?
> >
> > Thanks in advance :)
> >
> > Alejandro
> >
> >
> > -- Forwarded message --
> > From: Zachary Rizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2004 11:58:28 -0700 (PDT)
> > Subject: Re: finance/business
> > To: Alejandro Matos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
> > gnucash
> >
> >
> > --- Alejandro Matos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi there!!
> > >
> > > My University is trying to change to Linux, but the
> > > teacher told me
> > > they might don't do it because the lack of
> > > "finance/business"
> > > programs. I told him that that is quite imposible.
> > > But after making
> > > some search i think he is right.
> > >
> > > Could anyone post the names of that kind of
> > > programs? (as more as possible)
> > > I'm convinced they are TOTALLY wrong. That would
> > > help to change all
> > > the servers and clients to Linux (A LOT...believe
> > > me!!)
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance
> > >
> > > Alejandro Matos
> > > from Lima - Peru
> > > in Helsinki - Finland
> > > :)


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Re: finance/business

[Steve Westwood]

Hi.

Take a look at Gnucash - www.gnucash.org - latest version has lots of business 
functionality.

It's a pig to build from source due to dependencies, if you have a Debian box just do
apt-get install gnucash
and it will install cleanly with all dependencies satisfied. 

I think it's included with SUSE; don't know about other distros.

Best wishes,
Steve.



On Tue, 7 Sep 2004 21:55:49 +0300
Alejandro Matos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hi there!!
> 
> My University is trying to change to Linux, but the teacher told me
> they might don't do it because the lack of "finance/business"
> programs. I told him that that is quite imposible. But after making
> some search i think he is right.
> 
> Could anyone post the names of that kind of programs? (as more as possible)
> I'm convinced they are TOTALLY wrong. That would help to change all
> the servers and clients to Linux (A LOT...believe me!!)
> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
> Alejandro Matos
> from Lima - Peru
> in Helsinki - Finland
> :)
> 
> 
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Re: finance/business

[Lance Hoffmeyer]

See if this site helps

http://cbbrowne.com/info/financefreesoft.html


Lance


On Tue Sep 07, 2004 at 11:13:27PM +0300, Alejandro Matos wrote:
> Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2004 23:13:27 +0300
> From: Alejandro Matos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: Alejandro Matos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Debian List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: finance/business
> 
> Got 4 programs (including gnucash)
> 
> Could anyone else help me with it?
> 
> Thanks in advance :)
> 
> Alejandro
> 
> 
> -- Forwarded message --
> From: Zachary Rizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2004 11:58:28 -0700 (PDT)
> Subject: Re: finance/business
> To: Alejandro Matos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 
> gnucash
> 
> 
> --- Alejandro Matos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > Hi there!!
> >
> > My University is trying to change to Linux, but the
> > teacher told me
> > they might don't do it because the lack of
> > "finance/business"
> > programs. I told him that that is quite imposible.
> > But after making
> > some search i think he is right.
> >
> > Could anyone post the names of that kind of
> > programs? (as more as possible)
> > I'm convinced they are TOTALLY wrong. That would
> > help to change all
> > the servers and clients to Linux (A LOT...believe
> > me!!)
> >
> > Thanks in advance
> >
> > Alejandro Matos
> > from Lima - Peru
> > in Helsinki - Finland
> > :)
> >
> > 
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Re: finance/business

[Oliver Elphick]

On Tue, 2004-09-07 at 21:13, Alejandro Matos wrote:
> Got 4 programs (including gnucash)
> 
> Could anyone else help me with it?

We have begun development of a SQL-based system called Advacs (Advanced
Accounting System), which can be found at
http://alioth.debian.org/projects/advacs/

This is still only in the planning stage and is certainly not a
possibility for someone wanting to change right now.  On the other hand,
if they really want to go open-souorce and would like to contribute to
the specification, that would be very good.

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Re: finance/business

[Lance Hoffmeyer]

What are the 4 programs you already have?


> 
> Got 4 programs (including gnucash)
> 
> Could anyone else help me with it?
> 
> Thanks in advance :)
> 
> Alejandro
> 
> 
> -- Forwarded message --
> From: Zachary Rizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2004 11:58:28 -0700 (PDT)
> Subject: Re: finance/business
> To: Alejandro Matos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 
> gnucash
> 
> 
> --- Alejandro Matos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > Hi there!!
> >
> > My University is trying to change to Linux, but the
> > teacher told me
> > they might don't do it because the lack of
> > "finance/business"
> > programs. I told him that that is quite imposible.
> > But after making
> > some search i think he is right.
> >
> > Could anyone post the names of that kind of
> > programs? (as more as possible)
> > I'm convinced they are TOTALLY wrong. That would
> > help to change all
> > the servers and clients to Linux (A LOT...believe
> > me!!)
> >
> > Thanks in advance
> >
> > Alejandro Matos
> > from Lima - Peru
> > in Helsinki - Finland
> > :)
> >
> > 
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Re: apache2 config files

[Upayavira]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, 7 Sep 2004 14:01:03 -0500 (EST)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
   

Installed apache2 ver 2.0.50-12, this weekend for the first. All the
documentation that I have seen states httpd.conf is the configuration
file, when the install has it as apache2.conf.
Is this setup a debian setup or is this a standard apache2 setup?
If debian is there any documentation?
 

/etc/apache2/README might be a good start.
HTH,
Jacob
   

Did that, still wasn't clear. Being my first time with debian, I was
surprised there wasn't much on the lists.
So I take it, it is just debian setup this way.
 

Debian has its own way. Which I rather like.
/etc/apache2/apache2.conf  is the equivalent of 
/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf in Redhat.

Files in /etc/apache2/sites-available are httpd.conf snippets of sites 
that could be included.
To enable a site, put a symbolic link to it in 
/etc/apache2/sites-enabled back to the conf file in sites-available.

Similar process to enable modules - put symbolic links in mods-enabled 
to the files in mods-available. Even cgi isn't enabled by default on 
Debian - it is on Redhat.

So you configure stuff by creating symbolic links, rather than editing 
the default config file, which is rather neat.

All rather neat when you've worked it out.
Regards, Upayavira (a serious Debian newbie)

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Re: finance/business

[Alejandro Matos]

Got 4 programs (including gnucash)

Could anyone else help me with it?

Thanks in advance :)

Alejandro


-- Forwarded message --
From: Zachary Rizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2004 11:58:28 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Re: finance/business
To: Alejandro Matos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

gnucash


--- Alejandro Matos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hi there!!
>
> My University is trying to change to Linux, but the
> teacher told me
> they might don't do it because the lack of
> "finance/business"
> programs. I told him that that is quite imposible.
> But after making
> some search i think he is right.
>
> Could anyone post the names of that kind of
> programs? (as more as possible)
> I'm convinced they are TOTALLY wrong. That would
> help to change all
> the servers and clients to Linux (A LOT...believe
> me!!)
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Alejandro Matos
> from Lima - Peru
> in Helsinki - Finland
> :)
>
> 
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Re: apache2 config files

[dwight]

> On Tue, 7 Sep 2004 14:01:03 -0500 (EST)
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>> Installed apache2 ver 2.0.50-12, this weekend for the first. All the
>> documentation that I have seen states httpd.conf is the configuration
>> file, when the install has it as apache2.conf.
>>
>> Is this setup a debian setup or is this a standard apache2 setup?
>>
>> If debian is there any documentation?
>
> /etc/apache2/README might be a good start.
>
> HTH,
> Jacob
>

Did that, still wasn't clear. Being my first time with debian, I was
surprised there wasn't much on the lists.

So I take it, it is just debian setup this way.



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Re: php connection to apache

[Tim Kelley]

On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 10:32:59AM -0700, belahcene abdelkader wrote:
> Hi every body,
>  I want ask a question about php/apache? 
> When I send throw a post method from a form a
> variable,  the called file(php ) doesn't receive it
> 

Probably you have register globals turned off ... (a new default)

you may want to take a look at /etc/php4/apache/php.ini

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 \_/ \_/ \_/ \_/ \_/ \_/ \_/ \_/ \_/ \_/ \_/ \_/ \_/ 
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Re: Screen Resolution

[Lance Hoffmeyer]

If using Gnome or  KDE you can go to START HERE, SETTING, SCREEN RESOLUTION
and change resolution from there, similar to the way windows works.

Otherwise,

Check your /etc/X11/XFree86-4 file

Look for a line similar to:

Section "Screen"
Identifier  "Screen0"
Device  "ATI Graphics Adapter"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
#Option "backingstore"

Subsection "Display"
Depth   24
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600"

Endsection


Change the modes line to match the one/many resolutions 
you wish to have and work on your system.  The first mode 
"1280x1024" will be the default X will start with.  You can 
change to the others with CTL-ALT-+.




Lance





> 
> I just installed Debian via Knoppix 3.6. It all went pretty smoothly, but 
> I notice that I'm running a 800X600 screen. I know the system can do 
> better than that, bit I don't know how to tweak it. Can someone point me 
> in the right direction?
> 
> Dan Arico
> 
> -- 
> One OS to rule them all, One OS to find them,
> One OS to bring them all, and in the Darkness bind them,
> In the land of Redmond, where the Sales Reps lie.
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Re: apache2 config files

[Jacob S.]

On Tue, 7 Sep 2004 14:01:03 -0500 (EST)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> Installed apache2 ver 2.0.50-12, this weekend for the first. All the
> documentation that I have seen states httpd.conf is the configuration
> file, when the install has it as apache2.conf.
> 
> Is this setup a debian setup or is this a standard apache2 setup?
> 
> If debian is there any documentation?

/etc/apache2/README might be a good start.

HTH,
Jacob

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Printing with Mozilla and Firefox

[Alan E. Davis]

When trying to print from Mozilla or Firefox on a friend's Debian box (which started 
from a Knoppix 3.4 install a couple of months ago), the print dialog lists some 
printers, including "lp@:64".  I had gotten printing working by installing magicfilter 
and lpr about three weeks before, so I was discouraged to learn that the above named 
printer was the default printer in cups.  It is impossible to edit the printer name in 
the dialog.

I moved his ~/.mozilla, and after that a new postscript printer name was observed in 
the same dialog, in Mozilla only, NOT for firefox.  Thunderbird does show this 
printer, and it is possible to print from either Mozilla or Thunderbird by selecting 
this printer.  However, it is still impossible to print from Firefox, which does not 
show the postscript printer in the print dialog.  I haven't found a .mozilla-firefox 
directory, but did find a Desktop/mozilla-firefox, which I deleted.  This did not 
change anything.

I have reinstalled mozilla, which resulted in an upgrade, with no change, and deleted 
cupsys and some other cups packages.  My friend, who has recently and happily adopted 
Debian, and is trying to learn the basics, is willing to forego the use of firefox; I 
told him there must be a logical explanation, so I am bringing these questions to the 
list:

Is there a separate firefox configuration/customization directory?

Lpr has worked for me for a decade; even though apsfilter has often worked better, I 
still have clung to lpr and magicfilter whenever it works, although in a few cases 
apsfilter was a better choice, or the only one that easily worked.  I have recently 
ordered an HP multipurpose inkjet, and I think I'll have to use cups.  So I'll ask: 
where can I find a FM about CUPS besides the Printing HOWTO?  And of course I'd 
appreciate any simple explanations aboutr CUPS---if it  is understandable at all.

Is xprt controlling the print dialog?  What is?  

Of course, any clue at all will satisfy me, as well as my friend.  

Thanks again,

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Re: Help! (corier-imap + webmail)

[Carlos Sousa]

On Tue, 07 Sep 2004 12:25:46 +1000 Clement wrote:
> [...]
> And how can we give ISMail the imap capability required?

As to ISMail, I never heard of it, but a few seconds googling turned
up a bunch of links, like

   http://instantservers.com/plugin_ism/ismweb_faq.html

I'm not interested in it right now, so I can't help you further.

HTH,

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apache2 config files

[dwight]

Installed apache2 ver 2.0.50-12, this weekend for the first. All the
documentation that I have seen states httpd.conf is the configuration
file, when the install has it as apache2.conf.

Is this setup a debian setup or is this a standard apache2 setup?

If debian is there any documentation?

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Re: Re: a2ps -> gv font (deeper problem!)

[Emil]

I had the same problem while using 
gsfonts_8.14+urwcyr1.0.7pre35-1_all.deb
I've downgraded to gsfonts_8.14-3_all.deb and the problem disappeared.

Regards,
Emil.


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Re: a2ps -> gv font (deeper problem!)

[Brad Sawatzky]

On Tue, 07 Sep 2004, Emil wrote:

> I had the same problem while using 
>   gsfonts_8.14+urwcyr1.0.7pre35-1_all.deb
> I've downgraded to gsfonts_8.14-3_all.deb and the problem disappeared.

That was indeed the problem.  Thanks!

FWIW, there are a couple of bug reports filed (by others) against the
newest gsfonts that cover this problem (2-3 weeks old now).  Hopefully
things will be fixed soon.

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Re: Using debian as backup authentication for win2003 AD server?

[Mike Fedyk]

Leandro Guimaraens Faria Corsetti Dutra wrote:
Em Tue, 07 Sep 2004 02:50:04 +0200, Mike Fedyk escreveu:
 

Can I setup a linux based system to act as a backup kdc to the
win2003 server?
   

Youâd better check up the Samba documentation for that.
	It was scheduled to be included in Sambaâs capabilities, but
perhaps youâll have to run a quite recent package from unstable or
even an experimental one.
 

No, I'm thinking of using kerberos and ldap instead of samba for this.
But you're probably right that the samba people would know best.
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[Solution] Re: Apache update (Sarge)

[S.D.A.]

On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 12:09:38PM -0400 or thereabouts, S.D.A. wrote:
> OK, so I did an aptitude upgrade yesterday. Prior I had Apache and PHP4 working
> fine -- I usually update every couple of days.
> 
> After updating Apache I'm presented with the following error message on
> attempted restart;
> 
> Syntax error on line 241 of /etc/apache/httpd.conf:
> Cannot load /usr/lib/apache/1.3/libphp4.so into server: 
> /usr/lib/apache/1.3/libphp4.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or 
> directory
> /usr/sbin/apachectl start: httpd could not be started
> 
> Now I've been keeping a monolithic old sytle Apache httpd.conf file. When I was
> queried if I wanted to keep theold configuration file, I responded "yes".


To followup:

I determined of course that libphp4.so was missing from my modules directory.
Why it was deleted by the update I don't know (It was working fine before I
upgraded).

In any event, the quick fix is to;

'aptitude install libapache-mod-php4'


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finance/business

[Alejandro Matos]

Hi there!!

My University is trying to change to Linux, but the teacher told me
they might don't do it because the lack of "finance/business"
programs. I told him that that is quite imposible. But after making
some search i think he is right.

Could anyone post the names of that kind of programs? (as more as possible)
I'm convinced they are TOTALLY wrong. That would help to change all
the servers and clients to Linux (A LOT...believe me!!)

Thanks in advance

Alejandro Matos
from Lima - Peru
in Helsinki - Finland
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Re: Using DVD

[Alejandro Matos]

Ok, let's see:

$ ls -l /dev/hdd
brw-rw  1 root cdrom 22, 64 2004-07-22 22:54 /dev/hdd

$ ls -l /dev/dvd
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 8 2004-09-07 14:22 /dev/dvd -> /dev/hdd

$ groups
alejandro dialout cdrom floppy audio video

Well, i could see a dvd for only 24 secs and nothing more, no audio.
Then i changed the dvd and i can't see it anymore, the message is
this:

"couldn't open /dev/dvd"

Hope that someone can help :)

Thanks

Alejandro


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> On Tue, 7 Sep 2004 15:32:28 +0200, Philippe Marzouk
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 04:14:12PM +0300, Alejandro Matos wrote:
> > > I tried with xine but it says something about "dvd:/" don't understand
> > > that :-\
> > >
> >
> > Do you have a /dev/dvd link to the device of your dvd drive ?
> >
> > You can verify with
> > ls -l /dev/dvd
> >
> > If it does not exist you can create it (as root)
> > cd /dev
> > ln -s hdc dvd
> > (replace hdc with the actual device of your dvd drive, hdc is for
> > secondary master).
> >
> > Philippe
> >
> > 
> dont forget to change the group of the link. by default it will be
> root change it to cdrom or video, and make sure you are a member of
> the needed group. If it still wont work change the group on the device
> - /dev/hdc or whatever it is to video (or cdrom)


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Re: chroot bind9 issue ( rndc stop)

[Mark Ferlatte]

saravanan ganapathy said on Mon, Sep 06, 2004 at 04:40:26AM -0700:
> If I do 
>  # cp /var/named/etc/bind/rndc.key /etc/bind/rndc.key
> 
> Then the bind stops without any error.
> 
> How to make 'rndc' to refer the new chroot path?

man rndc: specifically: rndc -k /var/named/etc/bind/rndc.key, at least in my
version of bind9.

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re: about installer ( anaconda)

[belahcene abdelkader]

Ok, sorry for disturbing,
I have seen and visisted the progeny site and
downloaded the three CD, I installed them. But I found
many problem to complete with the Debian CD.

I also use the knoppix to start and recognize the HW,
and after that I complete with the debian CD, 

But I am sure that the native debian is better,
UNFORTUNALTLY, the installer is not as nice I I need
and want . 
This is for what I am searching for a good installer.
( I think the anaconda is very GOOD)

May be I have to  create one ( by using the step
decrive by jeff) 
This is the 

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Re: Screen Resolution

[Kent West]

Dan Arico wrote:
I just installed Debian via Knoppix 3.6. It all went pretty smoothly, but 
I notice that I'm running a 800X600 screen. I know the system can do 
better than that, bit I don't know how to tweak it. Can someone point me 
in the right direction?

Dan Arico
 

If it were pure Debian, "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86" would allow 
you to tweak your settings, but this being a Knoppix install, that 
probably won't work. I'd suggest just diving into 
"/etc/X11/XF86Config-4" and tinkering with the settings there.

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looking for: mail list AND bulletin board in one

[Vadik]

I am looking for package with capabilities similar to yahoogroups (i.e. 
mail list AND bulletin board).  Most of the packages I've seen are 
either maillists or bulletin board.  If this would be a part of larger  
content management system (or can be integrated in to one) it would be 
additional benefit.

Any recommendations?
Thanks.
PS: sorry, it is lightly OT.
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IRC connection

[msck9]

Hello, 
I tried the IRC, but it can not connect to the irc.debian.org. It always 
says time out. 
Can anyone give me some information how to set it up?

Thanks


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Re: Sarge install hangs on reboot

[Paul E Condon]

On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 11:28:46AM -0500, Preston Boyington wrote:
> I am trying to install Sarge on a Gateway Solo 1150 laptop and it is hanging after I 
> reboot.  Specifically it hangs on bootup when I see "boot" on the screen.  I am 
> using the Sarge disks (downloaded iso's) from debian.org and there doesn't seem to 
> be a problem with the initial base install or hardware detection.
> 
> I have Librenet (2.7?) installed on the machine currently, but was planning on a 
> re-partition and a fresh Sarge install.  Anyone have a guess as to what I can try?
> 
> Thanks,
> Preston
> 
> 
> 

Wait a few days for Sarge repository to stablize. There has been a burst of changes. 
Not a good time to be a new user
trying to go directly to the testing version of Debian.

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"dd" block size question

[Gururajan Ramachandran]

Hello,

If I want to clone a hard disk drive using "dd", can I
just use an arbitrarily large block size to speed up
the process?

For example,

dd if=/dev/hda bs=32768k of=/dev/hdc

or is the block size dependent on something and has to
be carefully chosen?

What block size should I choose to clone a 40GB drive?
If the number is dependent on the hard drive, how can
I get this info from a running system without shutting
it down and manually looking at the hard drive? My
system is Debian Woody.

Thanks,

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Re: First general purpose unmoderated newsgroup for Debian

[Svenn Are Bjerkem]

On Sunday 05 September 2004 01:52, Paul Johnson wrote:

> I'll just hand the cluebat off to Karsten for this one, since he's
> answered it quite nicely already from the last time some pinhead
> got upset at established standards.
>
> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Rants/gpg-signed-mail.html

Interesting reading, the encryption is standardized, but it is not 
standardized that you have to use it in places where it doesn't make 
sense to use it. In my opinion it doesn't make sense to sign emails 
on a mailing list. But, it is your right to overdo just as much as I 
can tell you that you overdo. 

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Re: Add printer using kaddprinterwizard

[msck9]

Thanks for the suggestion, 
After installation of cups and lpr, it still doen's work.

Best,
Mingzhai
On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 11:40:42AM -0600, Justin Guerin wrote:
> On Tuesday 07 September 2004 10:47, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Dear all,
> >
> >  I installed sarge with kde 3.2.3. I wanted to install a printer,
> >  but when I used the kaddprinterwizard, it will not work.
> >  It asks me to select backend(step 2: Backend Selection), but
> >  nothing shows up there. I can not select the backend.
> >
> >  Do you have any suggestion for that? I need to install
> >  a net work printer.
> >
> >  Thanks in advance
> >  Mingzhai
> 
> Do you have cups or lpr installed?  Sounds to me like that's what's missing.
> 
> Justin Guerin
> 
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Re: sarge dist-upgrade "Package is in a very bad inconsistent state"

[Conrad Newton]

>From Carlos Sousa on Monday, 2004-09-06 at 22:38:14 +0100:
> On Mon, 6 Sep 2004 23:18:25 +0200 Conrad Newton wrote:
> [...]
> > It is not an answer to your question, and maybe it is not even
> > relevant to your problem, but I am having similar problems
> > here with tetex-base.  When I try to correct the problem,
> > I get a system crash or even trigger a reboot.
> > 
> > The system is a mixture of testing and unstable (pinned to
> > testing, but with several major applications upgraded).  
> > I have had numerous instabilities lately, and thought
> > that I might improve the situation by upgrading to
> > unstable (my unstable box works just fine), but instead
> > things look worse than ever . . .
> > 
> > For example, I was just going to try the following
> > 
> > apt-get -f install
> > dpkg --configure -a
> > 
> > but already at the first step, I get a reboot!!!!!!
> > What could be causing this?
> 
> Sure smells a lot like hardware trouble (memory?). Better be
> ready with your backups...

I did a memtest check today, and the results were the same as two years
ago:  failure with test #5, but otherwise OK.  What this means is that I
cannot compile kernels or glibc on the box (I first became aware of this
problem because I tried to install gentoo), but otherwise the box has been 
working fine for the last six years, with various Linux distributions, 
and without any file corruption.

I suspect the root problem affecting memtest is not the memory, but the
processor itself, as there are reported problems with the AMD K6-300 MHz.
The number of reported errors varies every time I run memtest, and it
fails on the same test with either of the two sticks of memory, although
both sticks were bought from different suppliers at different times.

Could it be that the newer kernel is probing some part of memory or the
processor that was unexplored before?  I'm using 2.6.8.  I'm wondering
what other explanations could account for the observed behavior.
My worst nightmare would be a bad hard disk, but this one (a 60 GB Seagate)
has been running smoothly now for three years, so I have no reason
to be suspicious.

Conrad


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Screen Resolution

[Dan Arico]

I just installed Debian via Knoppix 3.6. It all went pretty smoothly, but 
I notice that I'm running a 800X600 screen. I know the system can do 
better than that, bit I don't know how to tweak it. Can someone point me 
in the right direction?

Dan Arico

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Re: php connection to apache

[Zachary Rizer]

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> Hi every body,
>  I want ask a question about php/apache? 
> When I send throw a post method from a form a
> variable,  the called file(php ) doesn't receive it
> 
> thanks for help
> 
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Learn how to program php.  Try #php and php.net. 
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Re: sarge: Where is razor, capi4hylafax, phpsysinfo?

[Paul E Condon]

On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 01:27:35PM +0200, Alexander Rinass wrote:
> Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote:
> >On Tue, 7 Sep 2004, Alexander Rinass wrote:
> >
> >>>Hi,
> >>>
> >>>what happened to these packages, why aren't they in the sarge package 
> >>>list anymore?
> >>>
> >It is there in sarge. At lease my system yields. Try:
> >
> >apt-cache show razor
> 
> Have you updated your package list lately? I have these packages 
> installed, but now they are marked obsolete. Hmm... maybe I should try 
> another source?
> 
> - Alex
> 

All of these are available in unstable, so  they should show up again soon
in testing. I have seen some instability in the contents of testing over
the past week. I hope it relates to rapid progress behind the scenes on
release of Sarge as the new stable.

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php connection to apache

[belahcene abdelkader]

Hi every body,
 I want ask a question about php/apache? 
When I send throw a post method from a form a
variable,  the called file(php ) doesn't receive it

thanks for help


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Re: Add printer using kaddprinterwizard

[Justin Guerin]

On Tuesday 07 September 2004 10:47, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Dear all,
>
>  I installed sarge with kde 3.2.3. I wanted to install a printer,
>  but when I used the kaddprinterwizard, it will not work.
>  It asks me to select backend(step 2: Backend Selection), but
>  nothing shows up there. I can not select the backend.
>
>  Do you have any suggestion for that? I need to install
>  a net work printer.
>
>  Thanks in advance
>  Mingzhai

Do you have cups or lpr installed?  Sounds to me like that's what's missing.

Justin Guerin


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Re: Samba upgrade to 3.06 is causing problems

[CW Harris]

On Mon, Sep 06, 2004 at 09:22:27AM +0200, Remon Vos wrote:
> I already tried different security settings... none of them worked for me.
> My log.[sn]mbd files do not show any errors. And testparm runs ok too.

You may need to increase the "log level", I think you get 0 if
nothing is specified.  Maybe try 2, or 3.

> 
> But... When I mount the shared directory on my server on another linux box
> (which has not been upgraded yet, and thus runs on an older (working) samba
> version), I can browse directories (like on my Windows box). But when I try
> to open a file I get the following error:
> 
> smb_get_length: Invalid NBT packet
> 
> Does anyone know what this is?

Sorry, the only quick references to this I saw were related to encrypted
password problems.  But if you can browse the directory you should be
past the auth stage.

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Add printer using kaddprinterwizard

[msck9]

Dear all, 

 I installed sarge with kde 3.2.3. I wanted to install a printer, 
 but when I used the kaddprinterwizard, it will not work. 
 It asks me to select backend(step 2: Backend Selection), but 
 nothing shows up there. I can not select the backend. 

 Do you have any suggestion for that? I need to install 
 a net work printer. 

 Thanks in advance
 Mingzhai


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Re: gnumeric or oocalc

[J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)]

On Mon, Sep 06, 2004 at 17:33:10 -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote:
> He meant will gnumeric run on windows

Windows builds are possible now, but a lot still needs to be done; see e.g.
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnumeric-list/2004-September/msg00011.html

> or mac...

http://fink.sourceforge.net/pdb/package.php/gnumeric

HTH,
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Sarge install hangs on reboot

[Preston Boyington]

I am trying to install Sarge on a Gateway Solo 1150 laptop and it is hanging after I 
reboot.  Specifically it hangs on bootup when I see "boot" on the screen.  I am using 
the Sarge disks (downloaded iso's) from debian.org and there doesn't seem to be a 
problem with the initial base install or hardware detection.

I have Librenet (2.7?) installed on the machine currently, but was planning on a 
re-partition and a fresh Sarge install.  Anyone have a guess as to what I can try?

Thanks,
Preston

Re: Kill does not stop process

[Justin Guerin]

On Tuesday 07 September 2004 07:50, Steven Feinstein wrote:
> I was running k3b and it looked like it wasn't doing anything while
> writing (but the CD drive was still flashing).  After a while I decided
> it was not working and stopped the CD writing.  K3b came back with a
> message about timing out.  But the CD light kept flashing.  SO I figured
> there was a process still running.
>
> I found 2 processes using cdrecord.  I tried to kill them using kill as
> user and nothing happended.  So I logged in as root and tried and still
> they would not die.  I then tried using kill -9 on the processes and they
> still would not die.  I ended up rebooting.
>
> Is this a kernel bug because I thought kill -9 (as root) would kill
> anything?
>
> Is there something else I could have tried?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Steve

I've had the same thing, if your cdrecord process was in uninterruptable 
sleep.  If it is, there's nothing you can do about it, except reboot.  Also 
note, that each process in uninterruptable sleep will count as 1 in your 
load average, even if it's not taking any cpu / network / disk resources.

I haven't done this myself, but you might check out the other threads about 
CD writing in 2.6.8 to get some pointers about how to get cdrecord to 
complete successfully.  I believe you may need to specify the device.  Of 
course, this assumes you're using a 2.6.x kernel.  If you're not, I'm not 
really sure why cdrecord would hang.

Hope that helps,

Justin Guerin


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Re: about installer (anaconda from local CD)

[Jeff Licquia]

On Mon, 2004-09-06 at 10:57, belahcene abdelkader wrote:
> Hi jeff, me again,
> since you have created a booter with anaconda  ( for
> sarge  at least the 3 or 4 first Cd) from local CD,
> You 'll probably help  us if you put it on site for
> downloading???!!!

So far, our CDs have consisted entirely of DFSG-free software, so we of
course have no problem with people mirroring or redistributing them.

Anyone distributing them should keep an eye on platform.progeny.com and
probably the cl-workers mailing list (see platform.progeny.com for
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Re: gnumeric or oocalc

[Lance Hoffmeyer]

I don't think gnumeric is cross-platform (easily cross platformed, maybe with cygwin) 
whereas Openoffice is (click and install).  I use Excel everyday and in combination
with VBA and other programs like SPSS and powerpoint.

I have to admit that I haven't played much with OO macros and not at all with
gnumeric.  At a glance, under tools, OOCalc has a macro language and gnumeric
does not appear to have one.

Both will allow simple import/export to Excel.  Some formatting will change
when importing from Excel to OOCalc.  Could be wrong but I don't imagine
you would want to import/export macros.  Macros would  probably lose their 
functionality.

OOCalc is part of an office suite so I imagine (maybe incorrectly) that the
macro language will allow write/spreadsheet/presentation cross manipulation
--i.e. cut and paste macro from Calc to Writer..., pasting spreadsheet from
oocalc to presentation ...   without using a third party language like 
perl/python.  

Granted, as a statistician, my needs are far above those of most "normal"
users and my guess is that for most users either gnumeric or oocalc will
work nicely.

I think you have given me a reason to spend more time learning a bit about
scripting capabilities of these two packages :-)

Lance











> Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote:
> > Hi all
> >My intention is not to start a flamewar but to get opinions on
> > which spreadsheet software is better? While having choice is better, I
> > would prefer to start with one and stick to it if possible. In
> > particular I am looking for
> > 
> > 1) things which can be done in one but cant be done in another?
> > 
> > 2) Which is better compatible with microsoft excel?
> > 
> > 3) which requires more memory, speed, other performance aspects?
> > 
> > 4) which is being actively developed and has good documentation?
> > 
> > 5) Any better spreadsheet programs out there which I have not looked at?
> > 
> > 6) Enable some sort of scripting along with gui?
> 
> I have another criteria which you may or may not find relevant: is it
> cross-platform.  This is a critical issue to me, because i need to be
> able to recommend the tool to the end users i support, and most of them
> still use Windows or Mac.  Therefore, if there is a cross-platform
> solution that works (i.e. OpenOffice.org), i recommend it.  I do the
> same with browsers and email (Mozilla/Firefox/Thunderbird).
> 
> -- 
> Paul
> 
> --
> Did you know?  Microsoft Internet Explorer and Outlook have a poor track
> record for security .  Why not
> try one of the more secure alternatives from ?



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Apache update (Sarge)

[S.D.A.]

OK, so I did an aptitude upgrade yesterday. Prior I had Apache and PHP4 working
fine -- I usually update every couple of days.

After updating Apache I'm presented with the following error message on
attempted restart;

Syntax error on line 241 of /etc/apache/httpd.conf:
Cannot load /usr/lib/apache/1.3/libphp4.so into server: 
/usr/lib/apache/1.3/libphp4.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or 
directory
/usr/sbin/apachectl start: httpd could not be started

Now I've been keeping a monolithic old sytle Apache httpd.conf file. When I was
queried if I wanted to keep theold configuration file, I responded "yes".

Any suggestions?

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[survey] TERM=rxvt-unicode as package default

[Eduard Bloch]

Hello,

I am the maintainer of rxvt-unicode and wish to get more user comments
on the recent change in the package. Nowadays, it uses "rxvt-unicode" as
the TERM setting which makes curses-based applications use the new
terminfo file which is slightly different than the one from rxvt (more
and better colors, italic fonts, and should fix some rxvt bugs). That is
the setting prefered by the upstream author.

All the new features are consistenly integrated into the Debian system.

This, however, means a drawback for few users. You may remember problems
caused by xterm when it used xterm-debian as terminfo entry and someone
logged into a remote box using ssh (which silently sets the same TERM on
the remote side). This still happens nowadays with rxvt and Eterm (when
logging into older and/or non-Linux systems). This will happen again
with rxvt-unicode because the terminfo is fairly new and is not included
in the terminfo database (of ncurses) on the common Linux distributions
(not on any other Unix).

To make remote applications useable, one can add TERM=rxvt into the
.ssh/environment file on the remote host or set (and export) it on the
command line. Alternatively, one can work around a such "limitation"
easily by setting a shell alias like 

alias ssh='TERM=`test "$DISPLAY" && echo xterm || echo $TERM` set'

Of course rxvt-unicode can work with applications that expect "rxvt" or
"xterm" mode, but you should expect some visibility bugs and key
incompatibilities (the famous home/end/del/backspace problems).

Personaly, I do not feel that the change to "rxvt-unicode" as default is
a real drawback - I would have to deal with such "problems" for most
remote systems I use (even for "rxvt"). But some people may see this
differently and I may change this for sarge.  Therefore I wish to see
more input ;)

Eduard.
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Re: Addusers and domains ?

[Mark Lijftogt]

John Summerfield wrote:
Mark Lijftogt wrote:
Well.. any imap service is not related to domains.
Mail for qut.nl and theregister.co.uk could be hosted on the same 
physical host with one IP address. by using virtual domains. I don't 
know whether Courier supports this, by Cyrus does.

that's a job done by the mta, not done by a service to provide access to 
the mail.. so.. please
.. correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the vhosting bit something that is 
done by service that provides
the smtp service ?
for dropping the mail in the right location (where ever you basicly want 
it, and however you please) ?
it would be sorting thru a scrap book of non-sorted, diffrent kind of 
notes for a imap or pop3 deamon
if the mda would just stash everything in one file (or diffrent files 
per mail).

as far as I know a service for imap or pop3 just directs the 
authentication of users to either a diffrent
serivce, and by doing so the location of where the mail should be found. 
(these are personal config
issues)
the authentication bit is the key in what makes the vhosting real vhosting.

the only diffrence between cyrus and courier that I can find ... and yet 
again, please correct me if I'm
wrong, is that courier provides an mta aswell as services that provide 
users access to their mailbox.

Cheers,
Mark
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