Re: ibm xseries

[Angel L. Mateo]

El jue, 18-11-2004 a las 06:18 -0800, mchael chileshe escribió:
> Hi
>  
> I have a ibm @server xseries 220 machine, and debian installation can
> not pick the on board ethernet card.
>  
> How can i configure the on board card?
>  
> I have already installed debian 3.0 using a 3com pci network card. I
> am migrating from redhat. And this is the only obstacle in this
> process...

I installed debian woody 3.0 in an ibm xserver 335, but I had to use a
personalized installation CD with the RAID and ethernet drivers
included. Last week I reinstalled debian in that computer, but debian
sarge (from the official CD) and I had no problem with the installation.

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Re: XFree86 and USB Mouse & Keyboard ---> Frustrating!

[mj-barton]

In the root I run:
"dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86"
 disabled (NO) --  "frames interfaces kernel frames"
and selected /dev/input/mice instead.
 
Still no luck.  However the error message pumped out something about fonts.
 
-- Original message -- > On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 06:45:50AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > In the root I run: > > "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86" > > > > It prompts me with the instructions about drivers, resolution, and refresh > rates. I enter in the correct responses. Then it comes to the mouse. > > > > Reference (both USB): > > Microsoft USB Mouse: > > Product URL: http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=26- > 105-123&depa=0 > > Microsoft Office Keyboard: > > Product URL: > http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B6D2LG/104-7385884-3858344 > > > > I am prompted with these options: > > /dev/psaux > > /dev/ttys0 > > /dev/ttys1 > > /dev/ttys
 2 > > /dev/ttys3 > > /dev/input/mice > > /dev/atibm > > /dev/sunmouse > > /dev/gpmdata > > > /dev/input/mice (or, potentially, if you've already set up gpm, > /dev/gpmdata) > > psaux is PS/2 (small round plug) > > > I select "/dev/psaux". > > In the next prompt I select "ImPS/2". > > Then I select "no" to "Emulating 3 buttons" > > Then I select "yes" to Scrolling Events (scroller). > > > > I will then finish the configuration everything is written into the > XF86Config-4. > > > > I then type "startx". > > > > It the screen goes weird then the kde loader window appears. When the system > tries to initials the component referred to with keyboard & mouse icon. This is > periphials. It stops and returns me to the commandline and says "Caught signal > 11, connectio
 n lost". I believe the USB keyboard and USB mouse are configured > wrong. However, I do NOT know how to properly configure them. Can please get > some help. > > > > Thank You > > - mike > > > dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 > > HTH, > > Andy > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 

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lxr-cvs woes

[Alan Chandler]

I am trying to get lxr-cvs running under apache2

I think the package needs several perl packages that are not in its 
dependencies.

So far I have installed extra

libdbi-perl
libdbd-pg-perl

but now its failing with the following in the apache log.  I assume I am 
missing yet another package - but which one?

[Fri Nov 19 06:42:28 2004] [error] [client 192.168.0.21] Can't locate object 
method "boot" via package "mod_perl" at /usr/lib/perl5/Apache/Constants.pm 
lin
e 8.\nCompilation failed in require at /usr/lib/perl5/Apache.pm line 6.\nBEGIN 
failed--compilation aborted at /usr/lib/perl5/Apache.pm line 6.\nCompilation
 failed in require at /usr/lib/perl5/Apache/Registry.pm line 2.\nBEGIN 
failed--compilation aborted at /usr/lib/perl5/Apache/Registry.pm line 2.
\nCompilatio
n failed in require at (eval 3) line 3.\n

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Re: XFree86 and USB Mouse & Keyboard ---> Frustrating!

[Andrew M.A. Cater]

On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 06:45:50AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> In the root I run:
> "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86"
> 
> It prompts me with the instructions about drivers, resolution, and refresh 
> rates.  I enter in the correct responses. Then it comes to the mouse.
> 
> Reference (both USB):  
> Microsoft USB Mouse:
> Product URL: http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=26-  
> 105-123&depa=0
> Microsoft Office Keyboard:
> Product URL: 
> http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B6D2LG/104-7385884-3858344
> 
> I am prompted with these options:
> /dev/psaux
> /dev/ttys0
> /dev/ttys1
> /dev/ttys2
> /dev/ttys3
> /dev/input/mice
> /dev/atibm
> /dev/sunmouse
> /dev/gpmdata
> 
/dev/input/mice (or, potentially, if you've already set up gpm,
/dev/gpmdata)

psaux is PS/2 (small round plug)

> I select "/dev/psaux".
> In the next prompt I select "ImPS/2".
> Then I select "no" to "Emulating 3 buttons"
> Then I select "yes" to Scrolling Events (scroller).
> 
> I will then finish the configuration everything is written into the 
> XF86Config-4.
> 
> I then type "startx".
> 
> It the screen goes weird then the kde loader window appears.  When the system 
> tries to initials the component referred to with keyboard & mouse icon.  This 
> is periphials.  It stops and returns me to the commandline and says "Caught 
> signal 11, connection lost".  I believe the USB keyboard and USB mouse are 
> configured wrong.  However, I do NOT know how to properly configure them.  
> Can please get some help.  
> 
> Thank You
> - mike
> 
dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86

HTH,

Andy


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XFree86 and USB Mouse & Keyboard ---> Frustrating!

[mj-barton]

In the root I run:
"dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86"
 
It prompts me with the instructions about drivers, resolution, and refresh rates.  I enter in the correct responses. Then it comes to the mouse.
 
Reference (both USB):  
Microsoft USB Mouse:
Product URL: http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=26-  105-123&depa=0
Microsoft Office Keyboard:
Product URL: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B6D2LG/104-7385884-3858344
 
I am prompted with these options:
/dev/psaux

/dev/ttys0

/dev/ttys1

/dev/ttys2

/dev/ttys3

/dev/input/mice

/dev/atibm
/dev/sunmouse
/dev/gpmdata
 
I select "/dev/psaux".
In the next prompt I select "ImPS/2".
Then I select "no" to "Emulating 3 buttons"
Then I select "yes" to Scrolling Events (scroller).
 
I will then finish the configuration everything is written into the XF86Config-4.
 
I then type "startx".
 
It the screen goes weird then the kde loader window appears.  When the system tries to initials the component referred to with keyboard & mouse icon.  This is periphials.  It stops and returns me to the commandline and says "Caught signal 11, connection lost".  I believe the USB keyboard and USB mouse are configured wrong.  However, I do NOT know how to properly configure them.  Can please get some help.  
 
Thank You
- mike
 
Aside: I have the log file available however to prevent wasting people's bandwidth I chose not to attach it.  Let me know and I will include it in a reply.

Re: Why is subversion 1.1 remaining in experimental?

[David Kimdon]

> Unfortunately, I didn't get any meaningful reply - so I thought I would ask 
> you as the package maintainer directly. 

sure, actually, I've gotten asked this a number of times.  I wrote a
response to [EMAIL PROTECTED] a while back, I have
included that here.  I'm happy to talk about the issue and nothing is
set in stone, my thoughts follow:

-- begin forwarded message --

Hi,

> Sorry if this is a question you get often.. I'm just wondering why the 
> choice was made to put the 1.1.x versions into "experimental" (I'd never 
> heard of experimental actually until I looked at the subversion package 
> info) and not into "unstable".. My understanding was that the 1.1.x line 

It isn't about subversion 1.1 being unstable or experimental.  I'd
really like to upload 1.1 but don't feel it would be in the best
interest on Debian users.  Debian is in the process of releasing
sarge.  If I update to subversion 1.1 now then in addition to needing
to test subverison 1.1 itself all the packages that depend on
subversion:

websvn viewcvs trac svn-buildpackage esvn cvs2svn libsvn-mirror-perl
svk libsvn-simple-perl rapidsvn viewcvs trac

will need to be rebuilt/retested and generally verified to work.  Many
of them will just work without hassle, but small problems take time to
fix.  The time spent fixing these packages and making sure everything
is built on all archs needs to come from somewhere and it will come
from people who would otherwise be working to get sarge out.  That
will make it take longer to release sarge or else some of these
packages won't make it in to sarge.  

> then at what time in the future is the 1.1.x line expected to be 
> submitted to "unstable"?

Once sarge is released I plan on uploading 1.1 to unstable.  I don't
see a compelling reason to do it before that.  I'm open to discusing
this issue, which is why I have cc'd [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Having subversion in experimental isn't really all that bad.  The 1.1
source package should compile even on a woody system, with some work
(and any necessary patches I'd be happy to incorporate into the source
package).  Some enterprising individual could get the 1.1 package up
on backports.org and I expect a lot of people would be happy to have
it available.  I have considered making subversion1.1 packages so that
the two versions could exist together but that is a gamble, and the
packages depending on subversion would need to choose either
subversion or subversion1.1 and hope that it was the right choice.

-David


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Re: Partitioning hard drives

[Joao Clemente]

Well, I in particular am a fan of using at least a separated /boot and 
/usr partitions, because I like to make them read-only and "noatime".
When having multiuser machines I also keep /home separated.

How much space for each? Well, some 8MB to /boot is more than enough and 
as /usr is pretty much static and I always install "test-servers" first 
to setup to my like I get the feel of how much /usr needs and add some 
more MB just to be safe... for instance I have woody servers with a 
100MB /usr partition (they use about 70MB in /usr).. Desktops take 2-3Gb 
to /usr...

The other partitions really depend on the machine you're setting up...
But after all this thread, now I am having a question: As I said, I am 
fan of using "ro,noatime" as much as I can... and things in /bin, /sbin 
and /lib are pretty static, right? But we can't put those in partitions, 
can we? They need to be in / so that they're there at boottime, before 
fstab is read, right?

Complaining about FHS:
I was reading FHS and thinking about these things and... for instance 
they say /etc should contain static stuff... but we have 
/etc/resolv.conf that is rewritten by dhcp

Now that I'm thinking, / could be "ro"... as long as it exists /home, 
/tmp and /var being mounted as "rw" it should work... h... i gotta 
double-check this for my servers... hmmm

Joao Clemente
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Problems copying files from digital camera (sid)

[Victor Munoz]

I had some problem copying files from my camera recently. Could it be a
kernel issue? Here the details in case someone can help me trace the problem: 

I've been happily using a digital camera (Minolta) for several months now.
Since it uses USB Mass Storage, I only need to define an entry in my fstab, 

/dev/sda1 /camera   auto   defaults,user 0 0


and with mount /camera it is ready to access the memory card (SD) and copy
files to the hard disk. A few weeks ago I bought a new SD card, and when I
filled it with photos, I had problems with two of them to copy. 151 photos
without problem, only 2 of them.

I was working in my sid laptop, and I received an input/output error message
on the console. When I saw the copied photos with eog, gthumb, or anything,
only a part of the image was visible, and the rest was gray. One of the
application complains about a premature end of jpeg file. If I see them in
the camera itself, no problem.

It was the first time I used the card, so I was worried that
it was defective, but I tried in a computer at the store where I bought it
and all pictures were seen complete. I now tried at my office's woody
machine, and no problem. I could copy them without error. 

At the office I'm using kernel 2.4.18-bf2.4 (woody), and at home kernel 
2.4.19 (sid)

Any suggestions to trace the problem? Maybe I should try a newer kernel.
I've just hadn't had the time during this week I'm afraid. Other ideas?

Thanks in advance,

Victor



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Re: have a question about /proc

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Hi

On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 12:09:44AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I was browsing through my file system one day on my linux partition and  
> noticed somthing that i never did before in the /proc directory. firstly what 
> is  
> this directory I now that it has somthing to do with the procedure file 
> system 
>  what ever that is I dont know, secondly why does it duplicate my root 
> directory  and then create nested copies of it. they seem to go on endlessly 
> what 
> perpose  does that serve just curiouse. Mabey its just my computer but I have 
> tried  differant linux distrobutions and the all seem to do the same thing. 
> Oh 
> and for  the record I can not delete them any  at all very  
> strange.?

Maybe you coul'd find interessting reading the following links:
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-tutorial.en.html#s-procfs
http://www.linuxforum.com/linux-filesystem/proc.html
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-9-Manual/ref-guide/ch-proc.html

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have a question about /proc

[XxterminialxX]

I was browsing through my file system one day on my linux partition and 
noticed somthing that i never did before in the /proc directory. firstly what is 
this directory I now that it has somthing to do with the procedure file system 
what ever that is I dont know, secondly why does it duplicate my root directory 
and then create nested copies of it. they seem to go on endlessly what perpose 
does that serve just curiouse. Mabey its just my computer but I have tried 
differant linux distrobutions and the all seem to do the same thing. Oh and for 
the record I can not delete them any  at all very 
strange.?

Re: Partitioning hard drives

[Jeremy Turner]

On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 11:41:02AM -0500, Robert Storey wrote:
> There are security issues - some experts think it's a really good idea
> to keep /tmp and /var away from the root partition. 

Especially if for some reason a process starts spewing out junk to a
logfile, filling up your entire / partition.

I also learned that if you run a mail server, having /var/mail as an
extra partition is nice, too.  If you have the same logfile spew, you
will still have a place to spool incoming mail.

Jeremy


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Re: Partitioning hard drives

[Jeremy Turner]

On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 06:54:53PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote:

> Tim Kelley wrote:
> > Not to be pedantic, but /srv is for that ...

> Eh?  Never heard of that one before.

It's a new addition to the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS).  See:

http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#SRVDATAFORSERVICESPROVIDEDBYSYSTEM

They also added /media for removable media such as cdroms, floppys, and
usb memory keys, etc.  They were created on my sarge install.

Jeremy


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Grub special boot

[Jim Hall]

On a dual boot system (W98 & Sarge), I have to restrict all except 
specific users from using W98. I've read the Grub manual and need to 
know if a modified "menu.lst"  will do the job.

First, I believe I use the 'hide' command so the normal menu isn't seen.
Then, use 'title' as a message to the user telling them that will need 
to press a specific key if they are authorized to use W98. Otherwise, 
another key to boot to Sarge, or else shutdown.

Then, use 'lock' (or 'password'?). This will allow access to W98. 
Another specific key will allow a normal Sarge boot. I also have to have 
an option to allow shutdown. Looks like the command is 'halt'.

The manual is not a HOWTO and this oddball situation is not specifically 
considered in the manual, so if I'm way off base, please say so.

Jim
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Re: Why is subversion 1.1 remaining in experimental?

[Marc Wilson]

On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 04:23:11PM +, Alan Chandler wrote:
> I hope you don't mind, but several weeks ago I asked debian-user mailing 
> list if anyone knew why subversion 1.1 was remaining in experimental and 
> had not migrated into unstable. 

Packages don't migrate out of experimental.

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Re: Partitioning hard drives

[Robert Storey]

On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 20:35:48 -0600
Tim Kelley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Well, if you are going to have all these filesystems on the same set
> of drive spindles,  there really isn't any use to carving up /usr and
> everything else at all.

There are security issues - some experts think it's a really good idea
to keep /tmp and /var away from the root partition. I don't consider
myself an expert, but I've read enough about it to conclude that it's
not a bad idea, particularly if you're running a server. Some of my geek
books  ("Maximum Linux Security" and "FreeBSD Unleashed) emphasize this.


regards,
Robert

> Separating filesystems mainly gives the advantage of using different
> mount options for each filesystem; such as mounting /var "noexec" and
> /usr "read only".
> 
> putting /var on a separate filesystem is almost always a good idea,
> since it is so active; but on a different set of drives is the best
> idea.
> 
> putting /usr on a part by itself allows read only mounting if that
> gets you off. Of course installing software requires an extra step.


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Re: printing from firefox

[Ivan Teliatnikov]

Add to your /etc/profile and make sure it is sourced at the start up.

#get xprint to work
# needed for mozilla oofice to print
XPSERVERLIST="`/etc/init.d/xprint get_xpserverlist`"
export XPSERVERLIST

To check if it sourced, reboot, login as usual, open terminal and
execute command:

$ env | grep 64

# You should see something like this:
XPSERVERLIST=:64


env | grep 64


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Re: Partitioning hard drives

[Alvin Oga]

On Thu, 18 Nov 2004, Tim Kelley wrote:

> On Wednesday 17 November 2004 08:06, Bob wrote:
> > Hello list, I've read the section in the install manual about
> > recommended partitioning schemes, but thought I would also see what the
> > collective wisdom has to say on the matter.

rest of the "collective partition wisdom"
http://www.linux-1u.net/Partition/

my preference ( from the outside of the disk going in or from inside
growing out of the platter ?? )
/   128MB
/tmp128MB
/var512MB
/usr4096MB
swap256MB
/home   rest of disk

use symlinks for things *you* modified and put it into /home
and only /home and /etc is backed up
 
> Well, if you are going to have all these filesystems on the same set of drive 
> spindles,  there really isn't any use to carving up /usr and everything else 
> at all.
> 
> Separating filesystems mainly gives the advantage of using different mount 
> options for each filesystem; such as mounting /var "noexec" and /usr "read 
> only".

and one wants / as small as possible so that one can boot into single user
and fix the bad/broken partitions and other disk disks ( if its raid )
if / is 128MB ... only that portion has to be functional
vs the entire 80GB or 250GB of disks in order for the disk
to fix itself

and /tmp is usually chmod 1777 ... 

> putting /var on a separate filesystem is almost always a good idea, since it 
> is so active; but on a different set of drives is the best idea.
> 
> putting /usr on a part by itself allows read only mounting if that gets you 
> off. Of course installing software requires an extra step.
> 
> In debian most all of the server packages will have most of their data in 
> /var 
> (apache, mysql, postgresql, and so forth).
> 
> If it's a file server then /srv (or /export) separate would be a good idea as 
> well.

i put ALL user modified files in /home ... and /etc config files is small
enoug to fit onto a floppy

 
> Really it depends on the machines purpose and what's running on it. If 
> your /home is nfs mounted, of course you have no use for a separate /home, do 
> you?

and what one is comfortable with .. which includes (failsafe) backups 
 
> RAID 10 is a huge money waster as well, only in the most extreme situations 
> would I use it. RAID 5 is fine for four drives.

raid5 with 4 disks is okay .. but it's still 25% of "wasted" disk space
- lots of fun probability and statistics fun/gamble for failure
analysis of 1 disks vs 4 disks in one server

raid in general is a money and time waster .. but a good techie challenge
for hands off raid booting/fixing/resyncing itself, all hands off
except the insertaion of new replacement disk

- raid helps if and only if you cannot go down because of one
dead disk

- but the reality is that that system will most likely go down
when you replace the dead disks ... unless you have properly
setup and tested the server with hotswap and inserting a brand
new replacement disk

- power supply, fans, nic, memory, etc all can go bad long before
the disks goes bad ...

- for protecting against failure, its 10x better to have a whole
2nd server ... mirrored but NOT live, and if its live, it'd be
a cluster of 2 servers

> If real time redundancy is not that important, you may consider a non-raid 
> setup.
> 
> It depends on what you are running and what you intend to do with it. 
> Partitioning schemes don't exist in a vacuum; what makes sense for one 
> machine may be utterly stupid for another.

c ya
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Re: Partitioning hard drives

[Steve Lamb]

Williams, Allen wrote:
I was going to respond to this thread mentioning the LVM, but this looks
like an excellent stragegy I haven't considered.  Have you ever used the
LVM to sort of accomplish the same thing by assigning extents?
To be honest, no.  No idea what the LVM is or what it offers so I can't 
comment one way or the other.

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Re: Partitioning hard drives

[Steve Lamb]

Tim Kelley wrote:
Not to be pedantic, but /srv is for that ...
Eh?  Never heard of that one before.
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Re: Partitioning hard drives

[Tim Kelley]

On Wednesday 17 November 2004 08:06, Bob wrote:
> Hello list, I've read the section in the install manual about
> recommended partitioning schemes, but thought I would also see what the
> collective wisdom has to say on the matter.

Well, if you are going to have all these filesystems on the same set of drive 
spindles,  there really isn't any use to carving up /usr and everything else 
at all.

Separating filesystems mainly gives the advantage of using different mount 
options for each filesystem; such as mounting /var "noexec" and /usr "read 
only".

putting /var on a separate filesystem is almost always a good idea, since it 
is so active; but on a different set of drives is the best idea.

putting /usr on a part by itself allows read only mounting if that gets you 
off. Of course installing software requires an extra step.

In debian most all of the server packages will have most of their data in /var 
(apache, mysql, postgresql, and so forth).

If it's a file server then /srv (or /export) separate would be a good idea as 
well.

Really it depends on the machines purpose and what's running on it. If 
your /home is nfs mounted, of course you have no use for a separate /home, do 
you?

RAID 10 is a huge money waster as well, only in the most extreme situations 
would I use it. RAID 5 is fine for four drives.

If real time redundancy is not that important, you may consider a non-raid 
setup.

It depends on what you are running and what you intend to do with it. 
Partitioning schemes don't exist in a vacuum; what makes sense for one 
machine may be utterly stupid for another.


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Re: Partitioning hard drives

[Tim Kelley]

On Wednesday 17 November 2004 17:35, Steve Lamb wrote:

>  I tend to put /, /usr and /var on their own partitions of decent size
> (180Mb, 2.7Gb, 1.8Gb on my laptop) and then take the remainder and mount it
> under it's drive name in /mnt.  So for my laptop /dev/hda7, a 15Gb
> partition, is mounted under /mnt/hda7.

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Re: SATA controller recommendations

[Arne Götje (高盛華)]

On Friday 19 November 2004 08:51, Matt Perry wrote:
> Can anyone here recommend an SATA controller that works well under
> Debian Sarge?  Recommendations on controllers with 5 or more
> connectors is welcome as I'm upgrading a five drive RAID-5 array to
> SATA.

3ware Escalade 8000 series work perfect for me. :) RAID driver is 
already included in stock kernel, but I had to put it into /etc/modules 
manually as first entry. I use the 2.6 kernel.
RAID array appears as SCSI.

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Re: updated, now no system sounds

[Alvin Smith]

On Thursday 18 November 2004 07:05 pm, Alvin Smith wrote:
> Updated Sarge yesterday and afterwards I cannot get system sounds.  
>
> Error messages:
>
> Sound server informational message:
> Error while initializing the sound driver:
> device /dev/dsp can't be opened (No such device)
> The sound server will continue, using the null output device.
>
> # ls -l /dev/dsp
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 9 Oct 11 13:43 /dev/dsp -> /dev/dsp0
>
> $ artsd
> ALSA lib pcm_hw.c:1155:(snd_pcm_hw_open) open /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p failed: No
> such device
> Error while initializing the sound driver:
> device: default can't be opened for playback (No such device)
>
> # ls -l /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p
> crwxrwxrwx  1 root audio 116, 16 Oct 11 13:43 /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p
>
> I can watch TV and hear that just fine though.
>
> What am I missing?

Additional information

Sound Driver:3.8.1a-980706 (ALSA v1.0.4 emulation code)
Kernel: Linux orionsbelt 2.6.8-1-686 #1 Thu Nov 11 13:18:29 EST 2004 i686
Config options:0

Installed drivers:
Type 10: ALSA emulation

Card config:
Brooktree Bt878 at 0xe080, irq 5
ensoniq AudioPCI ENS1370 at 0xb800, irq 9

Audio devices:
0: Bt87x Digital
1: ES1370 DAC2/ADC (DUPLEX)

Synth devices: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG

Midi devices:
1: ES1370

Timers:
7: system timer

Mixers:
0: Bt87x
1: Asahi kasei AK4531


# lsmod
Module  Size  Used by
snd_seq_oss34656  0
snd_seq_midi_event  7680  1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq53872  4 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
nvidia   4821108  12
apm21100  1
ipv6  264612  17
lp 11176  0
smbfs  69496  4
snd_ens137019780  1
snd_rawmidi25156  1 snd_ens1370
snd_seq_device  8200  2 snd_seq_oss,snd_rawmidi
gameport4704  1 snd_ens1370
snd_ak4531_codec7776  1 snd_ens1370
eepro100   30700  0
e100   32608  0
mii 5120  2 eepro100,e100
snd_bt87x  14280  1
snd_pcm_oss55048  0
snd_mixer_oss  20096  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm98728  3 snd_ens1370,snd_bt87x,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer  25668  2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd57156  16 
snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event,snd_seq,snd_ens1370,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device,snd_ak4531_codec,snd_bt87x,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer
snd_page_alloc 11752  3 snd_ens1370,snd_bt87x,snd_pcm
tuner  20144  0
tvaudio22476  0
msp340024084  0
bttv  155276  1
video_buf  22180  1 bttv
i2c_algo_bit9832  1 bttv
v4l2_common 6144  1 bttv
btcx_risc   4808  1 bttv
i2c_core   24176  5 tuner,tvaudio,msp3400,bttv,i2c_algo_bit
videodev   10016  2 bttv
soundcore  10336  2 snd,bttv
sd_mod 21696  0
usb_storage68832  0
scsi_mod  125196  2 sd_mod,usb_storage
usblp  13088  0
uhci_hcd   33136  0
usbcore   119012  5 usb_storage,usblp,uhci_hcd
intel_agp  22816  1
agpgart34696  2 intel_agp
pcspkr  3592  0
rtc12760  0
tsdev   7392  0
mousedev   10476  2
psmouse20360  0
floppy 61200  0
parport_pc 35392  1
parport41832  2 lp,parport_pc
evdev   9600  0
nls_iso8859_1   4032  3
nls_cp437   5696  3
capability  4520  0
commoncap   7232  1 capability
ide_cd 42656  0
cdrom  40732  1 ide_cd
vfat   14656  3
fat46784  1 vfat
ext3  127240  5
jbd62616  1 ext3
mbcache 9348  1 ext3
ide_generic 1408  0
piix   13440  1
ide_disk   19296  12
ide_core  139940  5 usb_storage,ide_cd,ide_generic,piix,ide_disk
unix   28692  330
font8320  0
vesafb  6656  0
cfbcopyarea 3840  1 vesafb
cfbimgblt   3040  1 vesafb
cfbfillrect 3776  1 vesafb


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Re: Creative SoundBlaster Live! - how to get it working?

[John covici]

You should do a lspci -v and make sure you really have a sound blaster
live -- it should tell you its identity.  If you can't modprobe
emu10k1, my guess is that you do not have that chip.

Make sure its the correct version for the kernel as well.

on Friday 11/19/2004 robin([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote
 > michael wrote:
 > 
 > 
 > dpkg -S alsa-mod*
 > alsa-modules-2.4.25-1-multimedia-k7: 
 > /usr/share/doc/alsa-modules-2.4.25-1-multimedia-k7
 > alsa-modules-2.4.27-1-multimedia-k7: 
 > /usr/share/doc/alsa-modules-2.4.27-1-multimedia-k7
 > 
 > means I have 2 modules packages installed to match my installed kernels.
 > Do you use synaptic or aptitude or apt-get to load new packages? If 
 > apt-get then
 > 
 > apt-get install alsa-modules-2.4.27-1-686-smp
 > 
 > should do the biz. Either it will install the package or say it is 
 > already installed.
 > 
 > Can we carry on tomorrow as the matchsticks propping up my eyelids are 
 > starting to split:)
 > 
 > Robin
 > 
 > 
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Re: Creative SoundBlaster Live! - how to get it working?

[robin]

michael wrote:
robin wrote:
michael wrote:
robin wrote:
michael wrote:
michael wrote:
robin wrote:
michael wrote:
I've looked but can't find anything that definitely explains 
this, so...

I have a new Creative SoundBlaster Live! 24 bit sound card in 
my machine (dual Xeon box). The card works - heard it when 
booted WinXP. However, I can make no headway on getting sounds 
from it when I boot in to my Linux
partition. I have done a 'apt-get install alsa' but that 
doesn't seem to have changed anything. All solutions are most 
welcome! And here's what I
believe is sufficient information for people to answer this for 
me! TIA.

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ uname -a;sudo lsmod
Linux ratty 2.4.27-1-686-smp #1 SMP Fri Sep 3 06:34:36 UTC 2004 
i686 GNU/Linux
Module  Size  Used byNot tainted
floppy 52184   0  (autoclean)
soundcore   4420   0  (autoclean)
input   3872   0  (autoclean)
lp  6916   0
parport27944   0  [lp]
af_packet  14472   1  (autoclean)
uhci   27100   0  (unused)
hw_random   2876   0  (unused)
i810_rng2788   0  (unused)
ehci-hcd   18924   0  (unused)
usbcore65804   1  [uhci ehci-hcd]
ide-scsi   10192   0
scsi_mod   97732   1  [ide-scsi]
e1000  68844   1
ide-cd 31328   0
cdrom  30080   0  [ide-cd]
rtc 7112   0  (autoclean)
ext3   84748   7  (autoclean)
jbd46200   7  (autoclean) [ext3]
ide-detect   288   0  (autoclean) (unused)
piix9128   2  (autoclean)
ide-disk   16960   8  (autoclean)
ide-core  112184   8  (autoclean) [ide-scsi ide-cd 
ide-detect piix ide-disk]
unix   16784 221  (autoclean)
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$


Hi
Try running alsaconf to set up the alsa sound modules.
Robin

That comes up with:
No supported PnP or PCI card found.


I should also have said the console gets the message:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src$ sudo alsaconf
modinfo: snd: no module by that name found
modinfo: snd: no module by that name found
modinfo: snd: no module by that name found

Not sure which module it is so check 
http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/  soundcard matrix and then
e.g.

modprobe  snd-ens1371
replacing, if necessary, snd-ens1371 with the correct module.
If there are any error messages post them here.
Also which kernel version are you running as there was an issue 
with some 2.6 kernels with OSS grabbing the sound card before Alsa.

Okay, it seems to be module emu10k1 that I require but I get:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src$ sudo modprobe emu10k1
/lib/modules/2.4.27-1-686-smp/kernel/drivers/sound/emu10k1/emu10k1.o: 
init_module: No such device
Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, 
including invalid IO or IRQ parameters.
  You may find more information in syslog or the output from dmesg
/lib/modules/2.4.27-1-686-smp/kernel/drivers/sound/emu10k1/emu10k1.o: 
insmod 
/lib/modules/2.4.27-1-686-smp/kernel/drivers/sound/emu10k1/emu10k1.o 
failed
/lib/modules/2.4.27-1-686-smp/kernel/drivers/sound/emu10k1/emu10k1.o: 
insmod emu10k1 failed

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src$ dmesg|tail
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a National Semiconductor PC87306
Creative EMU10K1 PCI Audio Driver, version 0.20, 06:37:07 Sep  3 2004
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Creative EMU10K1 PCI Audio Driver, version 0.20, 06:37:07 Sep  3 2004
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src$ uname -a
Linux ratty 2.4.27-1-686-smp #1 SMP Fri Sep 3 06:34:36 UTC 2004 i686 
GNU/Linux
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src$

Thanks for helping me through this!
Michael

See 
http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-user@lists.debian.org/msg120316.html 
for 2.6 details.
Do you have alsa-modules-2.4.27-1-686-smp installed?

It's been a long day (that's my excuse & it also means I can go 
shortly!) but

a) isn't "2.6 details" irrelevant to me since I'm using 2.4.27?
b) err, how do I find what modules I have installed? Do you mean using 
'lsmod'? There's no alsa there

Michael

Sorry I meant the alsa-modules-2.4.27-1-686-smp deb package installed. 
It is separate from the alsa-base package.
Run

dpkg -S alsa-mod*
alsa-modules-2.4.25-1-multimedia-k7: 
/usr/share/doc/alsa-modules-2.4.25-1-multimedia-k7
alsa-modules-2.4.27-1-multimedia-k7: 
/usr/share/doc/alsa-modules-2.4.27-1-multimedia-k7

means I have 2 modules packages installed to match my installed kernels.
Do you use synaptic or aptitude or apt-get to load new packages? If 
apt-get then

apt-get install alsa-modules-2.4.27-1-686-smp
should do the biz. Either it will install the package or say it is 
already installed.

Can we carry on tomorrow as the matchsticks

Re: Thunderbird & Clamav

[ms linux]

Rick Friedman wrote:
 
> I would like to try clamav but, before I do, I'd
> like to know if it's possible to have clamav scan
> emails with Thunderbird as the email client?
> Does it have anything like a pop3-proxy to sit
> between Thunderbird and the pop3 server I use?
>
> Rick 
 
my apologize to rick for replying e-mail directly
into his address. it's all my careless fault.

if you're using your own mail server and fetching
your mail from your isp, amavis maybe suit your
need.
for configuring clamav with amavis see :
http://www.xmission.com/~jmcrc/clamav-amavisd-new.html
i'm currently using amavisd-new postfix and clamav
 
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Re: synchronize PDA with Linux and Windows

[Carl Fink]

On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 02:34:25AM +0100, Christian Christmann wrote:

> Yes, I know. But these progs just run with Linux but not with Windows. So
> I couldn't use both OS for syncing my Palm.

Why not?  You can sync to the Palm Desktop under Windows XP and
JPilot under Linux -- I know because I do that with my own Tungsten
T3 routinely.
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Re: synchronize PDA with Linux and Windows

[Christian Christmann]

>> I've a Palm IIIxe PDA. Now I'm looking for a tool which is running with
>> Linux and Windows to manage the data of the PDA. My idea was to put the
>> data directory on my debian server and to access it with my notebook
>> which is running both Debian and Windows XP. Thus, I could manage the
>> data with both OS.
>> Are there any tools which could solve my program?
> 
> There's J-Pilot, as well as GnomePilot and KPilot.

Yes, I know. But these progs just run with Linux but not with Windows. So
I couldn't use both OS for syncing my Palm.
 
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Re: print to a Windows machine's printer

[Pascal Bonesh]

> >
> > Hi Michael,
> >
> > to make this a bit more verbose:
> > -point your browser to http://localhost:631, that's the cups
> > administration
> > -click on 'printers', then click on 'add printer'
> > -give it a name and such and click next
> > -choose 'Windows Printer via Samba'
> > -write the URI in the field - that's something like:
> > smb://user:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/server/sharename
> > of course user means your username for windows which shares the printer,
> > pass is the password, the rest should be clear and can be seen in the
> > system thingy in the win control panel
> > -choose the printer and driver
> >
> > of course samba and cups need to be installed and the printer of the
> > windows box needs to be supported by cups
> >
> > pascal
> 
> And from the CUPS manual pages it implies it has to be a WinNT box off
> which the printer is hanging! So I'm currently awaiting info on where
> there is such a box on my network before I can progress this. (It sounds
> much easier just to buy a laser and put on my Debian box but will it be
> supported if it's a PostScript printer but not listed on the linux printer
> page (not got the URL to hand)?)
> 
> Ta, M
> 

IMHO it works from WinNT on up. I tried it on a XP machine at work with
a supported printer (postscript) and it worked out of the box.

Just try it - if you get the URI right then it should work.

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SATA controller recommendations

[Matt Perry]

Can anyone here recommend an SATA controller that works well under Debian 
Sarge?  Recommendations on controllers with 5 or more connectors is 
welcome as I'm upgrading a five drive RAID-5 array to SATA.

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Re: ALSA sound on 2.4.20 kernel

[downtime null]

On Thursday 18 November 2004 04:47 pm, downtime null wrote:
> First, let me explain why I'm running such an old kernel. This is the most
> recent one that allows ACPI to start even when it doesn't find the proper
> table entry. And I need ACPI on my laptop.
>
> That said, I'm now trying to get ALSA sound working. Everything looks fine,
> but I get a permissions error when trying to access sound as a user. Using
> root to start the same things (such as kmix) seems to work fine. What
> permissions do I need to change to allow a user to use the sound?
>
> This may also help with my only being able to start games in cedega as
> root.
>
> Thanks.

dammit. i hate when i do that. i had added the user to the audio group but 
hadn't re-logged in. duh. 

it works now.

thanks.

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downloading CD images using jigdo

[Jan Fiala]

Hi guys!
 
I'm downloading the CD images using jigdo. Last 
time I did it it seemed fine but this time jigdo connects and logs in with each 
package. What a terrible waste of time!
 
Is there a setting I can set when starting jigdo or 
will I have to suffer through this with the remaining CD images?
 
Thanks,
Jan Fiala

Re: Bold Fonts Not Working in OpenOffice (Sid)

[Robert Storey]

On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 18:05:03 -0500
Matt Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> this may be a problem with the rendering of text onscreen.  In
> particular I notice that Bitstream Vera Charter (which was the default
> font when I first installed OOo) Bold does not look any different
> ONSCREEN than the non-bold.  Try changing the font, e.g. to Times, see
> if that helps.  If that solves your problem, then you just need to
> switch your default font to something that displays properly.  If you
> really like charter and want to keep it as your default, than that
> demands a proper fix I unfortunatley am not competent to tell you how
> to arrange.  

I second that. Try a different onscreen font and the "problem" should
disappear. It Bitstream Vera Sans I can see bold clearly, but not at all
in Bookman. It seems that the sans serif fonts will show bold onscreen,
but the serif fonts generally won't.

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Re: printing from firefox

[Brad Sims]

On Thursday 18 November 2004 10:51 am, Kenneth Jacker wrote:
> Invoking any firefox printing function (preview, print) is *extremely*
> slow.  It now takes on the order of 15-20 seconds for the "print
> dialog" to appear.  Clicking OK takes an add'l 5-10 seconds before the
> printing begins.  Strangely enough, I don't see any significant
> increase in the CPU load.  (NB: I did restart 'cups'.)

Odd works almost instantly here... try removing the ~/.mozilla/firefox directory
and recreating it, and try fc-cache -fv to rebuild the font cache... I have no 
ideas
beyond that.

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In that case, why can't I get higher prices for dead mimes?

updated, now no system sounds

[Alvin Smith]

Updated Sarge yesterday and afterwards I cannot get system sounds.  

Error messages:

Sound server informational message:
Error while initializing the sound driver:
device /dev/dsp can't be opened (No such device)
The sound server will continue, using the null output device.

# ls -l /dev/dsp
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 9 Oct 11 13:43 /dev/dsp -> /dev/dsp0

$ artsd
ALSA lib pcm_hw.c:1155:(snd_pcm_hw_open) open /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p failed: No 
such device
Error while initializing the sound driver:
device: default can't be opened for playback (No such device)

# ls -l /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p
crwxrwxrwx  1 root audio 116, 16 Oct 11 13:43 /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p

I can watch TV and hear that just fine though.

What am I missing?
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Re: custom compiled kernel

[homeless]

Yes the old kernel works fine.
However, indeed memtest even under a debian precompiled kernel gives a 
segmentation fault.
Time to replace the DIMMs.

Thanks Paolo.  Would have taken me a while to get to that.
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wrote:
hi all,
i've been custom compiling kernels for a while now and just tried the
2.6.9 version.  i use kernel-package and debian's packages.  running
my 2.6.8 kernel i compiled a 2.6.9 kernel using make oldconfig,
nothing relevant appeared (though i did add an extra version tag), so
the config file is essentially as it was.
after booting with the new kernel, gcc seems to sporadically give
internal compiler error: segmentation fault errors.  i've tried going
up to gcc-3.4 but that doesn't change anything.  the problem is most
prevalent with kernel compilation.
system is debian unstable on a 1GHz AMD Athlon.  any thoughts?  has
something changed in the kernel that i missed?
Not much detail, but it does look like a hardware problem. Does going
back to the old kernel make the problem go away? Try having your DIMMs
tested via memtest also
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RE: change conffiles

[Michael Sims]

Richard Kemp wrote:
> Yes, I tried with dpkg-divert but the result is very odd, I asked to
> the list 2 days ago but I hadn't any answer .. :(

Have you thought about maybe taking a different approach to this altogether?  
I'm
assuming the point of this is to make it easier to manage the configuration of a
group of similar servers...or to restore the configuration of a particular 
server in
the case of hardware failure or a system reload, right?

Personally I keep all the configuration files for my servers in a CVS module, 
and I
use Makefiles to copy them to the right locations, set the proper permissions, 
and
in some cases restart daemons, etc.  This means all I need to do is checkout my 
cvs
module, then run make to have the configuration files pushed out.  I also have a
perl helper script that does stuff like diff my files against the installed
versions, etc.  You may want to consider something similar...it works for me 
quite
well.  I can provide more info if you're interested.

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Re: change conffiles

[Richard Kemp]

Michael Spang wrote:
Maybe so. I just read the dpkg-divert manpage and it won't divert 
conffiles, either. So I don't think this is possible.


Yes, I tried with dpkg-divert but the result is very odd, I asked to the 
list 2 days ago but I hadn't any answer .. :(

Here what I did, it carries out well the diversion (preinst) but I don't 
find my new file installed, or it installs my file but doesn't carry out 
the diversion:

 

# Makefile of my "source package" files
DESTDIR = $(DEBDIR)/etc
install:
 install -d $(DESTDIR)/skel
 install -o root -g adm -m 664 bash.bashrc $(DESTDIR)/bash.bashrc
 install -o root -g adm -m 664 profile $(DESTDIR)/profile
 install -o root -g adm -m 664 bashrc $(DESTDIR)/skel/.bashrc
 install -o root -g adm -m 664 bash_profile $(DESTDIR)/skel/.bash_profile
 install -o root -g adm -m 664 bash_logout $(DESTDIR)/skel/.bash_logout
 

# debian/rules
export DH_COMPAT=3
configure: configure-stamp
configure-stamp:
 dh_testdir
 touch configure-stamp
build: build-stamp
build-stamp: configure-stamp
 dh_testdir
 touch build-stamp
clean:
 dh_testdir
 dh_testroot
 rm -f build-stamp configure-stamp
 rm -rf $(CURDIR)/debian/omd-base-files
 rm -rf ../omd-base-files_*
 # Add here commands to clean up after the build process.
 -$(MAKE) clean
 dh_clean
install: build
 dh_testdir
 dh_testroot
 dh_clean -k
 dh_installdirs
 # Add here commands to install the package into debian/base-files.
 $(MAKE) DEBDIR=$(CURDIR)/debian/omd-base-files
# Build architecture-independent files here.
binary-indep: build install
# We have nothing to do by default.
# Build architecture-dependent files here.
binary-arch: build install
 dh_testdir
 dh_testroot
 dh_installchangelogs
 dh_installdocs
 dh_installexamples
#   dh_install
#   dh_installmenu
 dh_installdebconf
#   dh_installlogrotate
#   dh_installemacsen
#   dh_installpam
#   dh_installmime
#   dh_installinit
#   dh_installcron
#   dh_installinfo
#   dh_installman
#   dh_link
#   dh_strip
 dh_compress
#  dh_fixperms
#   dh_perl
#   dh_python
#   dh_makeshlibs
 dh_installdeb
 dh_shlibdeps
 dh_gencontrol
 dh_md5sums
 dh_builddeb
binary: binary-indep binary-arch
.PHONY: build clean binary-indep binary-arch binary install configure
 

# debian/preinst
set -e
dpkg-divert --package omd-base-files --add --rename --divert 
/etc/bash.bashrc.omd-bak /etc/bash.bashrc
dpkg-divert --package omd-base-files --add --rename --divert 
/etc/profile.omd-bak /etc/profile
dpkg-divert --package omd-base-files --add --rename --divert 
/etc/skel/.bashrc.omd-bak /etc/skel/.bashrc
dpkg-divert --package omd-base-files --add --rename --divert 
/etc/skel/.bash_profile.omd-bak /etc/skel/.bash_profile
dpkg-divert --package omd-base-files --add --rename --divert 
/etc/skel/.bash_logout.omd-bak /etc/skel/.bash_logout

 

# debian/postrm
set -e
dpkg-divert --package omd-base-files --remove /etc/bash.bashrc
dpkg-divert --package omd-base-files --remove /etc/profile
dpkg-divert --package omd-base-files --remove /etc/skel/.bashrc
dpkg-divert --package omd-base-files --remove /etc/skel/.bash_profile
dpkg-divert --package omd-base-files --remove /etc/skel/.bash_logout
 


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Re: install package - dependies

[Michael Spang]

Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
Mariusz Antonik wrote:
Hi.
I want try to build a kernel 2.6.9
To do this I nead install qt develop package. 

Why not just get the Debian 2.6.9 kernel-source package or get the Linux 
2.6.9 kernel, get you favorite .config, use make menuconfig to tune it, 
run make-kpkg --revision 1 kernel_image or such, dpkg -i the .deb it 
made and you got your 2.6.9 kernel.

Isn't the installation of libqt3-dev a separate issue?

You need qt for xconfig, so it is not a separate issue [for some]. Why 
not try apt-get update, see if that corrects the missing dependency 
issue. Then install qt and you're set.

Michael Spang
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Postfix + SPF

[Jacob Friis]

For a Debian testing release, which packages do I need to enable SPF 
checks in Postfix?
And how do I configure it?

I hope you will help me, as I didn't find any help via Google.
Thanks,
Jacob
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Re: Vendors supporting Linux (Debian)...

[Alvin Oga]

On Thu, 18 Nov 2004, Ron Johnson wrote:

> Yes, "anybody can ship anywhere", but not all US businesses *want*
> to deal with the import duties, taxes, fees, shipping, insurance, 
> wire transfer fees, etc, when they already have a continent-wide
> nation that they can sell to w/ ease.

yup but there was a *.com bust too

yup... i think large multinationals corp will do it ..
and so will small corp like us, but "mid-sized" might be
the ones that dont want to deal with the headaches
( the pointy haired mid-level managers that likes to "dictate policy" )

1/3 of our (new) sales are outside the silly usa
but, when we tell um we do NOT take "mastercard/visa",
we get the infamous "click"
( "hangup", no email replies anymore, but those that reply are the
( serious customers :-)  and most buy more than "1 server"

i keep wondering, why buy from international sources, when it's
way way cheaper to build it locally

c ya
alvin


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Re: change conffiles

[Michael Spang]

Richard Kemp wrote:
I know that it's not recommended.  But that would be very practical to 
be able to maintain its own conffiles easily.
Maybe so. I just read the dpkg-divert manpage and it won't divert 
conffiles, either. So I don't think this is possible.

Michael Spang
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Re: Emacs suppress loading of semantic

[michael]

> Hi,
> today I did a upgrade, now semantic (a ultra powerful programming package
> for Emacs) is dependant of JDE. This wouldn't be a problem by default but
> somehow when I start emacs even for editing just text semantic is loaded,
> its doing "compiling-grammar" and lots of stuff like that I don't need at
> all!
> How can I switch that superflous action off? So Emacs just uses semantic
> if I want it.
> By the way. after I have seen that mega-overhead at startup I wanted to
> know what advantages JDE brings me with semantic. Well has gone bad, the
> first File I open in a Buffer is syntax-highlighted any buffer I open
> afterward has no highlighting! (o.k. I am running unstable x86)
>
> Anyway, do just I have the Problem?

Thomas, it's been a while since I've done any configuration for emacs but
I think you need to look at the 'auto-load' entries in your .emacs file
(and it should only compile stuff once, from .el to .elc IIRC)

Michael


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Re: install package - dependies

[Hugo Vanwoerkom]

Mariusz Antonik wrote:
Hi.
I want try to build a kernel 2.6.9
To do this I nead install qt develop package. 
Why not just get the Debian 2.6.9 kernel-source package or get the Linux 
2.6.9 kernel, get you favorite .config, use make menuconfig to tune it, 
run make-kpkg --revision 1 kernel_image or such, dpkg -i the .deb it 
made and you got your 2.6.9 kernel.

Isn't the installation of libqt3-dev a separate issue?

I find a libqt3-dev but when i
try it give me a long list of dependies:
apt-get install libqt3-dev
  libqt3-dev: Depends: xlibs-static-dev (>= 4.3.0.dfsg.1-4) but it is not 
going to be installed
  Depends: libxrandr-dev (>= 4.3.0.dfsg.1-4) but it is not going 
to be installed
  Depends: libxmu-dev (>= 4.3.0.dfsg.1-4) but it is not going to 
be installed
  Depends: libx11-dev (>= 4.3.0.dfsg.1-4) but it is not going to 
be installed
  Depends: libxt-dev (>= 4.3.0.dfsg.1-4) but it is not going to be 
installed
  Depends: libmng-dev (>= 1.0.3) but it is not going to be 
installed
  Depends: libpng12-0-dev
  Depends: zlib1g-dev but it is not going to be installed
  Depends: libfreetype6-dev but it is not going to be installed
  Depends: xlibmesa-gl-dev but it is not going to be installed or
   libgl-dev
  Depends: xlibmesa-glu-dev but it is not going to be installed or
   libglu1-mesa-dev but it is not going to be installed or
   libglu-dev
  Depends: libxft-dev but it is not going to be installed
  Depends: libxrender-dev but it is not going to be installed
  Depends: libxcursor-dev but it is not going to be installed

I try install xlibs-static-dev but this again give a list of dependies.
How I can install package that it can yourself recognise all dependies and 
install it?

Thanks for help

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Re: change conffiles

[Richard Kemp]

Michael Spang wrote:
Richard Kemp wrote:
How to install my own conffiles like /etc/bash.bashrc or 
/etc/screenrc with a debian package without conflicts with the real 
package ?


This is strongly not recommended (by some Debian doc..somewhere..), 
though it might be possible to divert the originals. Packages aren't 
supposed to mess with others' conffiles, even if they are custom built 
with that purpose in mind.

Michael Spang

I know that it's not recommended.  But that would be very practical to 
be able to maintain its own conffiles easily.

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frame size of PAL

[Smith J]

i have bt-based card and use PAL-DK, i knew PAL has 25 frames/second, but 
do you know the frame size? Thanks!

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Re: Woody -> Sarge with apt-cdrom

[Hugo Vanwoerkom]

Felixk Karpfen wrote:
Although this query may already have been answered several times in
recent postings, as a new arrival to Debian, I venture to check that I
have understood the docs correctly before plunging into an upgrade
via "apt-cdrom".
I have used this routine successfully to add the "Debian 3.0R2" upgrade 
disk to my successfully-installed "Debian 3.0R1"; but I blench at an 
upgrade that involves tampering with the installed kernel.  

Kernel-upgrades are outside my present experience.
You want to go from Woody to Sarge and you have the 14 Sarge CD's?
Why the kernel-upgrade? The packages will be dist-upgraded. Not 
necessarily the kernel.
Put the 14 or some such CD's in the sources.list with apt-cdrom
Make sure you backed up what you are doing this to.
apt-get dist-upgrade
Should do it.

H.

All suggestions (or pointers to documentation) will be gratefully
received.
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Re: Bold Fonts Not Working in OpenOffice (Sid)

[Matt Price]

On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 09:37:08AM +1100, Bernard Lineham wrote:
> Many thanks for your reply. I did not have the theasaurus or the help
> package installed so I added those but unfortunately it did not correct
> the problem.
> On Thu, 2004-11-18 at 14:04 -0500, H. S. wrote:
> > Bernard Lineham wrote:
> > > I'm running a recently installed up to date Sid distribution.  I am
> > > having a problem where text in OpenOffice Writer that is marked as bold
> > > is still showing up as plain text.  Can anyone advise how I might solve
> > > this problem?
> 

this may be a problem with the rendering of text onscreen.  In
particular I notice that Bitstream Vera Charter (which was the default
font when I first installed OOo) Bold does not look any different
ONSCREEN than the non-bold.  Try changing the font, e.g. to Times, see
if that helps.  If that solves your problem, then you just need to
switch your default font to something that displays properly.  If you
really like charter and want to keep it as your default, than that
demands a proper fix I unfortunatley am not competent to tell you how
to arrange.  

g'luck!
matt


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Re: change conffiles

[Michael Spang]

Richard Kemp wrote:
How to install my own conffiles like /etc/bash.bashrc or /etc/screenrc 
with a debian package without conflicts with the real package ?


This is strongly not recommended (by some Debian doc..somewhere..), 
though it might be possible to divert the originals. Packages aren't 
supposed to mess with others' conffiles, even if they are custom built 
with that purpose in mind.

Michael Spang
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change conffiles

[Richard Kemp]

How to install my own conffiles like /etc/bash.bashrc or /etc/screenrc 
with a debian package without conflicts with the real package ?

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Re: daytime

[Joost Witteveen]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
/etc/inetd.conf in Sparc Woody contains these lines.
 
 daytime stream  tcp nowait  rootinternal
#daytimedgram   udp waitrootinternal

Anyone have an idea about making this system respond to 
a daytime request from another system on the LAN?
Well, it works for me. Are you sure inetd is running?
What does
  ps `cat /var/run/inetd.pid`
show?
Maybe you are running a firewall that is blocking the requests?
Maybe something in /etc/hosts.alow or /etc/hosts.deny?
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Kernel 2.4

[Michael Spang]

Although this questionis not specific to Debian, it is relevant and I 
figure someone here has the answer. Why is the Linux community so 
opposed to moving to Kernel 2.6? Is 2.4 really that much more stable? 
Familiar? Upgrading to much trouble? Too many things changed too much? I 
think not--the open source community is a very dynamic one, things 
always change and are upgraded without a second thought. So why are so 
many afraid of moving defaults to the latest stable? 2.4 seems to be the 
default everywhere..(well to be honest, I don't know the default for 
most distributions, but Debian and Knoppix are still with 2.4) yet 2.6 
is not exactly new. The only issue I had was the transition away from 
ide-scsi for IDE CD burning. Even for desktops which would not suffer at 
all upgrading, 2.4 seems to remain the standard.

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ALSA sound on 2.4.20 kernel

[downtime null]

First, let me explain why I'm running such an old kernel. This is the most 
recent one that allows ACPI to start even when it doesn't find the proper 
table entry. And I need ACPI on my laptop.

That said, I'm now trying to get ALSA sound working. Everything looks fine, 
but I get a permissions error when trying to access sound as a user. Using 
root to start the same things (such as kmix) seems to work fine. What 
permissions do I need to change to allow a user to use the sound?

This may also help with my only being able to start games in cedega as root.

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Re: Bold Fonts Not Working in OpenOffice (Sid)

[Bernard Lineham]

Many thanks for your reply. I did not have the theasaurus or the help
package installed so I added those but unfortunately it did not correct
the problem.


On Thu, 2004-11-18 at 14:04 -0500, H. S. wrote:
> Bernard Lineham wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> > 
> > I'm running a recently installed up to date Sid distribution.  I am
> > having a problem where text in OpenOffice Writer that is marked as bold
> > is still showing up as plain text.  Can anyone advise how I might solve
> > this problem?
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > 
> > Bernard Lineham
> > 
> > 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I had exactly the same problem. I posted here but couldn't get much help 
> here. Seems like not many people have this problem or not many use 
> openoffice here.
> 
> Anyway, I discovered the problem was, IIRC, a missing package. What 
> openoffice packages do you have installed? I have(on Sarge though, on 
> Sarge too the problem was the same):
> $> COLUMNS=150 dpkg -l openoff* | grep ^ii
> ii  openoffice.org  1.1.2dfsg1-1 
> high-quality office productivity suite
> ii  openoffice.org-bin  1.1.2dfsg1-1 
> OpenOffice.org office suite binary files
> ii  openoffice.org-debian-files 1.1.2-5+1 
> Debian specific parts of OpenOffice.org
> ii  openoffice.org-help-en  1.1+20030814-3 
> OpenOffice.org office suite help (English)
> ii  openoffice.org-l10n-en  1.1.2dfsg1-1 
> English (US) language package for OpenOffice.org
> ii  openoffice.org-thesaurus-en-us  1.1.2dfsg1-1 
> English (US) Thesaurus for OpenOffice.org
> 
> Let me know if this helps, else I will try to dig further.
> GL,
> ->HS
> 
> 
> 


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Re: custom compiled 2.6.9 kernel; broke gcc

[Paolo Alexis Falcone]

On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 16:35:00 -0500, homeless <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> hi all,
> 
> i've been custom compiling kernels for a while now and just tried the
> 2.6.9 version.  i use kernel-package and debian's packages.  running
> my 2.6.8 kernel i compiled a 2.6.9 kernel using make oldconfig,
> nothing relevant appeared (though i did add an extra version tag), so
> the config file is essentially as it was.
> 
> after booting with the new kernel, gcc seems to sporadically give
> internal compiler error: segmentation fault errors.  i've tried going
> up to gcc-3.4 but that doesn't change anything.  the problem is most
> prevalent with kernel compilation.
> 
> system is debian unstable on a 1GHz AMD Athlon.  any thoughts?  has
> something changed in the kernel that i missed?

Not much detail, but it does look like a hardware problem. Does going
back to the old kernel make the problem go away? Try having your DIMMs
tested via memtest also

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Woody -> Sarge with apt-cdrom

[Felixk Karpfen]

Although this query may already have been answered several times in
recent postings, as a new arrival to Debian, I venture to check that I
have understood the docs correctly before plunging into an upgrade
via "apt-cdrom".

I have used this routine successfully to add the "Debian 3.0R2" upgrade 
disk to my successfully-installed "Debian 3.0R1"; but I blench at an 
upgrade that involves tampering with the installed kernel.  

Kernel-upgrades are outside my present experience.

All suggestions (or pointers to documentation) will be gratefully
received.

Felix Karpfen 


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Re: synchronize PDA with Linux and Windows

[Paolo Alexis Falcone]

On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 18:22:34 +0100, Christian Christmann
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've a Palm IIIxe PDA. Now I'm looking for a tool which is running with
> Linux and Windows to manage the data of the PDA. My idea was to put the
> data directory on my debian server and to access it with my notebook which
> is running both Debian and Windows XP. Thus, I could manage the data with
> both OS.
> Are there any tools which could solve my program?

There's J-Pilot, as well as GnomePilot and KPilot.
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Re: ibm xseries

[Paolo Alexis Falcone]

On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 06:18:49 -0800 (PST), mchael chileshe
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> Hi 
>   
> I have a ibm @server xseries 220 machine, and debian installation can not
> pick the on board ethernet card. 
>   
> How can i configure the on board card? 
>   
> I have already installed debian 3.0 using a 3com pci network card. I am
> migrating from redhat. And this is the only obstacle in this process... 

What NIC does that x220 use? Have you tried installing using the more
recent versions of the debian installer (given that woody is just too
aged for some hardware)?

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Re: NFS permissions question

[Joost Witteveen]

Christian Convey wrote:
My understanding of NFS permissions is that for any file appearing on an 
NFS share, the username/uid and groupname/gid mappings should (ideally) 
be identical on both the NFS client and the NFS server.

So consider my home situation: I'm running two computers, each with 
local security files.

I have four users: "alvin", "benny", "charles", and "david".
I have several groups: "users" and "chefs" and "busboys".
I want to define an NFS share that "alvin" and "benny" can use. My 
*expectation* at the time I'm setting this up is that any files 
appearing on those shares will have a group-owner of "chefs".

So I go through, and ensure that "alvin" and "benny" each have the same 
uid on both computers. I go through and ensure that "chefs" has the same 
gid on both computers.

Is there a good way for me to ensure that alvin doesn't create, on the 
shares, a file owned by the busboys group?
I probably completely misunderstand what you want, but wouldn't making
the shares owned by group "chefs", and setting the setgid bit on the 
director fix it? (that would probably have to be don on the NFS server)

$ mkdir audio
$ chown joostje:audio audio
$ chmod g+s audio
$ chmod g+w audio
$ cd audio/
$ touch file
$ su otheruser
[...]
$ touch otherfile
$ ls -al
total 8
drwxr-sr-x  2 joostje   audio   4096 2004-11-18 22:58 .
drwxr-xr-x  7 joostje   joostje 4096 2004-11-18 22:58 ..
-rw-r--r--  1 joostje   audio  0 2004-11-18 22:58 file
-rw-r--r--  1 otheruser audio  0 2004-11-18 22:59 otherfile
i.e. both users "joostje" and "otheruser" can write to the dir audio, 
and all files are owned by group "audio".

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Re: print to a Windows machine's printer

[michael]

> On Wed, 2004-11-17 at 17:09, michael wrote:
>> > On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 14:15:48 - (GMT), michael
>> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >> I've looked about for how to print from this Debian box to a printer
>> (HP
>> >> LaserJet-2100) hanging off a Windows (Win2000 I do believe) box for
>> >> which
>> >> I have no admin rights. I found that ''samba'' seems the way to go.
>> The
>> >> Samba web pages (http://kr.samba.org) seem to imply that the server
>> (the
>> >> Win2K box) has to have Samba installed too - is this correct? And how
>> >> (in)secure is Samba? Is there a better way?
>> >
>> > How insecure => as insecure as you want to be. Don't run samba on a
>> > public IP (or any windows-based network for one thing).
>> >
>> > You need the samba server installed on your server hosting the printer
>> > IF you don't have windows there. If there's windows on that server
>> > already there's no point in installing samba there :D On the other
>> > hand, you'd need the samba client on your workstation for it to see
>> > your windows based printer.
>> >
>> > Of course, a better way would be to use native IPP (ala CUPS). I'm not
>> > sure though if MS still bundles a broken IPP implementation though.
>>
>> Answering Paola's & Christian's emails together:
>>
>> Clarification: I sit at a Debian box & the printer is on a Windows box.
>>
>> 1) are you saying "dump samba and use only CUPS" (or saying that CUPS
>> requires Samba?)
>>
>> 2) when I try and connect from my Linux box to the Windows machine using
>> 'smbclient -L' I get a ''connection refused'' error
>>
>> 3) I can access the printer on the Windows box from my WinXP - so I
>> presume that means it is shared?
>>
>> Cheers, Michael
>>
>
> Hi Michael,
>
> to make this a bit more verbose:
> -point your browser to http://localhost:631, that's the cups
> administration
> -click on 'printers', then click on 'add printer'
> -give it a name and such and click next
> -choose 'Windows Printer via Samba'
> -write the URI in the field - that's something like:
> smb://user:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/server/sharename
> of course user means your username for windows which shares the printer,
> pass is the password, the rest should be clear and can be seen in the
> system thingy in the win control panel
> -choose the printer and driver
>
> of course samba and cups need to be installed and the printer of the
> windows box needs to be supported by cups
>
> pascal

And from the CUPS manual pages it implies it has to be a WinNT box off
which the printer is hanging! So I'm currently awaiting info on where
there is such a box on my network before I can progress this. (It sounds
much easier just to buy a laser and put on my Debian box but will it be
supported if it's a PostScript printer but not listed on the linux printer
page (not got the URL to hand)?)

Ta, M


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Re: last update / upgrade killed grub ...Attention !

[Bruno Boettcher]

On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 12:20:48PM -0500, Rick Friedman wrote:
> Uwe Dippel wrote:
> >If you need grub, take care, the last upgrade (17-18 Nov.) killed grub
> >here on Sarge (no, not SID !).
hmmm was just wondering, have one machine down, completely due to the
malfunction of grub

> >Somehow grub doesn't get activated any longer at boot and the PC boots
> >directly off MBR (so I guess).
> >I checked the /boot/grub/menu.lst; everything fine and there.
> >
> >At boot, grub doesn't come up at all; no splash, no nothing; the kernel
> >gets loaded immediately.
lucky you! my machine hangs with a grey screen!

> >Here is no help needed; I'll take out a grub-floppy and get it setup
> >again; I guess.
had no effect what so ever on my machine! firing up a knoppix and
launching grub-install had no effect either... installing lilo neither
 quite clue less about what's happening!

> I'm using the latest grub update in Sarge with no problem. Do we have 
> the same version? I have version 0.95+cvs20040624-10.
mine is 0.95 without any fioritures...


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Re: print to a Windows machine's printer

[Pascal Bonesh]

On Wed, 2004-11-17 at 17:09, michael wrote:
> > On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 14:15:48 - (GMT), michael
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> I've looked about for how to print from this Debian box to a printer (HP
> >> LaserJet-2100) hanging off a Windows (Win2000 I do believe) box for
> >> which
> >> I have no admin rights. I found that ''samba'' seems the way to go. The
> >> Samba web pages (http://kr.samba.org) seem to imply that the server (the
> >> Win2K box) has to have Samba installed too - is this correct? And how
> >> (in)secure is Samba? Is there a better way?
> >
> > How insecure => as insecure as you want to be. Don't run samba on a
> > public IP (or any windows-based network for one thing).
> >
> > You need the samba server installed on your server hosting the printer
> > IF you don't have windows there. If there's windows on that server
> > already there's no point in installing samba there :D On the other
> > hand, you'd need the samba client on your workstation for it to see
> > your windows based printer.
> >
> > Of course, a better way would be to use native IPP (ala CUPS). I'm not
> > sure though if MS still bundles a broken IPP implementation though.
> 
> Answering Paola's & Christian's emails together:
> 
> Clarification: I sit at a Debian box & the printer is on a Windows box.
> 
> 1) are you saying "dump samba and use only CUPS" (or saying that CUPS
> requires Samba?)
> 
> 2) when I try and connect from my Linux box to the Windows machine using
> 'smbclient -L' I get a ''connection refused'' error
> 
> 3) I can access the printer on the Windows box from my WinXP - so I
> presume that means it is shared?
> 
> Cheers, Michael
> 

Hi Michael,

to make this a bit more verbose:
-point your browser to http://localhost:631, that's the cups
administration 
-click on 'printers', then click on 'add printer'
-give it a name and such and click next
-choose 'Windows Printer via Samba' 
-write the URI in the field - that's something like:
smb://user:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/server/sharename
of course user means your username for windows which shares the printer,
pass is the password, the rest should be clear and can be seen in the
system thingy in the win control panel
-choose the printer and driver 

of course samba and cups need to be installed and the printer of the
windows box needs to be supported by cups

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Re: Antivirus/Antispyware/Antiadware for linux?

[Juha Siltala]

On 2004-11-18, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> We agree!  Woo hoo! :)

Well, that didn't take long. Still, I think I need a cigarette =)

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something wrong with 'who' 'w' 'uptime'

[Bert Verslegers (Mobile)]

Hello, i have the following problem:

When i typ 'w' he gives me 2 users logged in.(correct)

When i typ 'who' he gives me all the users from the past 5-6 days.

When i typ 'uptime' he says 16 users logged in.

I saw some stuff about it, googled the whole day, something with
libc5&6 but what can i do about it, because nowhere is a solution
available

What i did already:
cp /dev/null /var/log/wtmp
cp /dev/null /var/run/utmp

i reinstalled 'shellutils'


What can i do to solve the problem?

Hope to get someone can help me, thanx in advance.

With kind regards,

B.


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install package - dependies

[Mariusz Antonik]

Hi.
I want try to build a kernel 2.6.9
To do this I nead install qt develop package. I find a libqt3-dev but when i 
try it give me a long list of dependies:
apt-get install libqt3-dev

  libqt3-dev: Depends: xlibs-static-dev (>= 4.3.0.dfsg.1-4) but it is not 
going to be installed
  Depends: libxrandr-dev (>= 4.3.0.dfsg.1-4) but it is not going 
to be installed
  Depends: libxmu-dev (>= 4.3.0.dfsg.1-4) but it is not going to 
be installed
  Depends: libx11-dev (>= 4.3.0.dfsg.1-4) but it is not going to 
be installed
  Depends: libxt-dev (>= 4.3.0.dfsg.1-4) but it is not going to be 
installed
  Depends: libmng-dev (>= 1.0.3) but it is not going to be 
installed
  Depends: libpng12-0-dev
  Depends: zlib1g-dev but it is not going to be installed
  Depends: libfreetype6-dev but it is not going to be installed
  Depends: xlibmesa-gl-dev but it is not going to be installed or
   libgl-dev
  Depends: xlibmesa-glu-dev but it is not going to be installed or
   libglu1-mesa-dev but it is not going to be installed or
   libglu-dev
  Depends: libxft-dev but it is not going to be installed
  Depends: libxrender-dev but it is not going to be installed
  Depends: libxcursor-dev but it is not going to be installed

I try install xlibs-static-dev but this again give a list of dependies.
How I can install package that it can yourself recognise all dependies and 
install it?

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custom compiled 2.6.9 kernel; broke gcc

[homeless]

hi all,

i've been custom compiling kernels for a while now and just tried the
2.6.9 version.  i use kernel-package and debian's packages.  running
my 2.6.8 kernel i compiled a 2.6.9 kernel using make oldconfig,
nothing relevant appeared (though i did add an extra version tag), so
the config file is essentially as it was.

after booting with the new kernel, gcc seems to sporadically give
internal compiler error: segmentation fault errors.  i've tried going
up to gcc-3.4 but that doesn't change anything.  the problem is most
prevalent with kernel compilation.

system is debian unstable on a 1GHz AMD Athlon.  any thoughts?  has
something changed in the kernel that i missed?

Thanks.


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Emacs suppress loading of semantic

[Thomas Ruschival]

Hi, 
today I did a upgrade, now semantic (a ultra powerful programming package for 
Emacs) is dependant of JDE. This wouldn't be a problem by default but somehow 
when I start emacs even for editing just text semantic is loaded, its doing 
"compiling-grammar" and lots of stuff like that I don't need at all!
How can I switch that superflous action off? So Emacs just uses semantic if I 
want it. 
By the way. after I have seen that mega-overhead at startup I wanted to know 
what advantages JDE brings me with semantic. Well has gone bad, the first File 
I open in a Buffer is syntax-highlighted any buffer I open afterward has no 
highlighting! (o.k. I am running unstable x86)

Anyway, do just I have the Problem?

Thomas


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Re: Root on RAID 5 + LVM will only boot in degraded mode

[Laurent CARON]

Dag Sverre Seljebotn a écrit :
On reboot the last disk to be added to the array is kicked out of it and
the array starts in deprecated mode.
(If this is not the right place to ask, could someone please forward me
to more suited place?)
Long story:
My setup is with six disks on a Promise TX4 serial ata controller. I
have a working system on one of them, and am trying to set up a working
RAID setup on the other five (leaving the first one as a spare).
The 5 disks are each partioned into two; a 50 MB boot partition and a
~200 GB RAID partition. The RAID partitions are then run in RAID 5, then
I run LVM on top of RAID.
As my root I would like to use a LVM root partition. I've sucessfully
used mkinitrd to create an initrd that has root-on-LVM support, and the
system boots fine.
However, the last disk that I added is never present in the array after
a boot. I know that it is not a disk failure because there are no log
messages about such a failure and also I've tried adding the disks in
different orders, and it is always the last one that fails. After
booting I can re-add the disk to the array, and after syncing it will
operate as part of the array until the next reboot, when the same disk
is kicked out again.
However, when booting with the root from the original disk that is not a
part of the array, it will recognize all five disks in the array without
any problems.
Running Debian testing, and the filesystem is ReiserFS. Relevant part
of /var/log/messages:
Nov 18 19:15:49 localhost kernel: SCSI device sda: 390721968 512-byte
hdwr sectors (200050 MB)
Nov 18 19:15:49 localhost kernel: Partition check:
Nov 18 19:15:49 localhost kernel:  /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1
p2
Nov 18 19:15:49 localhost kernel: SCSI device sdb: 390721968 512-byte
hdwr sectors (200050 MB)
Nov 18 19:15:49 localhost kernel:  /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0: p1
p2
... the rest of the disks in the same manner
Nov 18 19:15:49 localhost kernel: md0: former device
scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0/part2 is unavailable, removing from array!
... starting to recover array, but no spare disks found
I appricate any response!
// Dag Sverre

 

Seems to me your disks are not detected at the same time by the system
no?
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Re: slightly OT: debian-friendly print server?

[Matt Price]

On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 03:09:31PM -0600, Jacob S wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 15:41:00 -0500

> > 
> > network currently runs through a smc2404wbr wireless (802.11b) router
> > (which I confess doesn't work all that well).  I'm looking for
> > something that would make one or, preferably, both the printers
> > accessible directly over the net, and that isn't a huge pain to make
> > work with the debian boxes (I've had some difficulty with shared
> > printers over SAMBA at work, tho I think that's partly the fault of
> > the Windoze admins there).  both these printers accept parallel port
> > and USB 1.1/2.0 connections, so either mode would be fine, tho I guess
> > usb 2.0 would be best.  I'd also be willing to pay out a few more
> > bucks for a combination wireless router/ print server, since our
> > router kinda sucks.  
> 
> I'm too cheap to buy hardware just for a print server around the house,
> so I've setup my Debian box to do the job. Using cups, netatalk and
> samba, all the Debian, Mac OS X and windows 98 machines in my house are
> able to print. It works great for me. 

that sounds great.  but I'd kinda rather not have the debian desktop
turned ON all the time -- it's a bit powerhungry and kinda loud.  Will
keep this in mind as a possible solution, though.  thx!
mat

> 
> Recently, due to some interesting circumstances (unrelated to hardware
> and software) we had to move the printer to the Windows machine, instead
> of being connected directly to my Debian box. No problem - I just edited
> the printer in cups on my machine, after setting up the printer on the
> Windows machine and now all the Linux machines and OS X can print again.
> Only 2 machines had to be configured to restore all the printing - the
> windows machine and the print server.

that is pretty cool, actually.  
m

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Re: slightly OT: debian-friendly print server?

[Jacob S]

On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 15:41:00 -0500
Matt Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> hi folks,
> 
> this is a hardware question, so maybe slightly OT.  I am looking for a
> way to make our 2 printers easily accessible over the 'net, nad wouldl
> ove to hear back on other people's experience.  here's
> what we have:
> 
> 1 brother hl-1440 laser printer
> 1 canon s520 inkjet printer
> 2 debian boxes (one laptop, one desktop)
> 2 windows boxes
> 
> network currently runs through a smc2404wbr wireless (802.11b) router
> (which I confess doesn't work all that well).  I'm looking for
> something that would make one or, preferably, both the printers
> accessible directly over the net, and that isn't a huge pain to make
> work with the debian boxes (I've had some difficulty with shared
> printers over SAMBA at work, tho I think that's partly the fault of
> the Windoze admins there).  both these printers accept parallel port
> and USB 1.1/2.0 connections, so either mode would be fine, tho I guess
> usb 2.0 would be best.  I'd also be willing to pay out a few more
> bucks for a combination wireless router/ print server, since our
> router kinda sucks.  

I'm too cheap to buy hardware just for a print server around the house,
so I've setup my Debian box to do the job. Using cups, netatalk and
samba, all the Debian, Mac OS X and windows 98 machines in my house are
able to print. It works great for me. 

Recently, due to some interesting circumstances (unrelated to hardware
and software) we had to move the printer to the Windows machine, instead
of being connected directly to my Debian box. No problem - I just edited
the printer in cups on my machine, after setting up the printer on the
Windows machine and now all the Linux machines and OS X can print again.
Only 2 machines had to be configured to restore all the printing - the
windows machine and the print server.

HTH,
Jacob


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slightly OT: debian-friendly print server?

[Matt Price]

hi folks,

this is a hardware question, so maybe slightly OT.  I am looking for a
way to make our 2 printers easily accessible over the 'net, nad wouldl
ove to hear back on other people's experience.  here's
what we have:

1 brother hl-1440 laser printer
1 canon s520 inkjet printer
2 debian boxes (one laptop, one desktop)
2 windows boxes

network currently runs through a smc2404wbr wireless (802.11b) router
(which I confess doesn't work all that well).  I'm looking for
something that would make one or, preferably, both the printers
accessible directly over the net, and that isn't a huge pain to make
work with the debian boxes (I've had some difficulty with shared
printers over SAMBA at work, tho I think that's partly the fault of
the Windoze admins there).  both these printers accept parallel port and
USB 1.1/2.0 connections, so either mode would be fine, tho I guess usb
2.0 would be best.  I'd also be willing to pay out a few more bucks
for a combination wireless router/ print server, since our router
kinda sucks.  

Look forward to hearing from y'all!
matt

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Re: Mouse ps/2 doesn't work

[kajko04]

Can somebody tell me where I can reconfigure a mouse?
>
> If it is just the mouse issue, you can make the changes in
> /etc/X11/XF86config-4 directly using a text editor. I have these in mine:
> Section "InputDevice"
>  Identifier  "Configured Mouse"
>  Driver  "mouse"
>  Option  "CorePointer"
>  Option  "Device""/dev/psaux"
>  Option  "Protocol"  "ImPS/2"
>  Option  "Emulate3Buttons"   "true"
>  Option  "ZAxisMapping"  "4 5"
> EndSection
> Section "InputDevice"
>  Identifier  "Generic Mouse"
>  Driver  "mouse"
>  Option  "SendCoreEvents""true"
>  Option  "Device""/dev/input/mice"
>  Option  "Protocol"  "ImPS/2"
>  Option  "Emulate3Buttons"   "true"
>  Option  "ZAxisMapping"  "4 5"
> EndSection
>
> ->HS
My XF86config looks like:
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier  "Configured Mouse"
Driver  "mouse"
Option  "CorePointer"
Option  "Device""/dev/psaux"
original : Option   "Protocol"  "PS/2"
I change it to : Option "Protocol"  "ImPS/2"
Option  "Emulate3Buttons"   "true"
Option  "ZAxisMapping"  "4 5"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier  "Generic Mouse"
Driver  "mouse"
Option  "SendCoreEvents""true"
Option  "Device""/dev/input/mice"
Option  "Protocol"  "ImPS/2"
Option  "Emulate3Buttons"   "true"
Option  "ZAxisMapping"  "4 5"
EndSection


The mouse doesn't work in the Xwindows. I try run knopix and on this same 
komputer everything work fine.
Thanks for help
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Re: playing mkv files.

[Alex Polite]

On tor, nov 18, 2004 at 03:41:16 -0500, Michael Spang wrote:

> There is no Debian package for mplayer, which plays mkv files (and just 
> about anything else imaginable) extremely well. I am curious as to what 
> you tried if you didn't build it from source. You can get the source 
> from their webpage (google it) and install it to /usr/local. I don't 
> know about any of the other players, but mplayer does work.
> 

Ah, I'd forgotten. I have theese lines in /etc/apt/sources.conf

#mplayer etc
deb http://freevo.sourceforge.net/debian unstable main
deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ unstable main


> The only matroska packages in debian unstable are libmatroska-dev and 
> mkvtoolnix. mkvtoolnix can mux/demux/remux matroska files, but cannot 
> play them.

I'll play with that that and see where it gets me.

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Re: Problem with apt-get and circular dependencies

[Kevin B. McCarty]

Christian Renz wrote:

> apt-get wants to install libc6_2.3.2.ds1-18_sparc.deb (to replace
> libc6-2.3.2-7). However, the installation aborts telling me that "You
> have a cpu which requires kernel 2.4.21 or greater in order to
> install this version of glibc." I tried to fix it by installing
> kernel-image-2.4.27-1-sparc32-smp, but to install this, I need a
> newer version of coreutils and initrd-tools (and others) that update
> glibc. Which aborts the installation telling me that... and so on.

There are messages on debian-sparc giving various solutions.  In order
of (IMO) decreasing preference:

http://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2004/11/msg00096.html
http://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2004/11/msg00093.html
http://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2004/01/msg00140.html

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Re: Newbie looking for some answers please...........

[Andrew M.A. Cater]

On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 09:17:02AM -0800, Chad wrote:
> I just installed Debian 3.0 r3. I'm a newbie and looking for some
> anwers to some of my questions...if someone can anwser one, some, or
> all Please
> 
> 1. I know that apt-get is the main utility to add and remove programs
> (in Debian anyways), also to veiw what is installed on your OS. But
> what about other packages or applications that are not installed
> through apt-get. Is there a another utility to tell you want is all
> installed on your OS, or to keep track of all
> software/packages/applications installed?
> 
Actually dpkg is the fundamental program. Try using dselect or, if
you've X Windows properly set up, try using synaptic.

> 2. How do you check for all running services and how to start/stop
> system services that are unused?
> 
top ??

Starting/stopping services: update-inetd --enable or --disable or
--remove (all from memory here - check :) )

> 3. How do you check for all open ports and what programs are using the
> ports.
> 
nmap localhost - should tell you what ports are open.

lsof - may tell you a fair bit.

If you can't find which services match which ports look at /etc/services
which provides a list of well known ports.

> 4. What is the common folder Where most software/packages/applications
> installed into?
> 
/usr/bin is a fair bet to start with.

> 5. Anyone has a good site for descriptions of the configuration files
> on a linux system. For Example XF86Config-4. I have no idea of what
> configuration files do what or where they are located.
> 
Mostly under /etc/(name of package) e.g. /etc/X11R6/ or /etc/init.d
or /etc/apache

> 6. Where is the boot files? So I can control or know what programs
> start at boot.
> 
dmesg provides a log of the boot process. dmesg | less should slow 
down a lot of the boot process log and present it to you in pages of
text rather than it scrolling off screen quite so rapidly :)
>
Hope this helps,

Andy


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Re: playing mkv files.

[Michael Spang]

Alex Polite wrote:
I'm trying to play som mkv (matroska) video files. So far I've tried
mplayer, xine, vlc and gstreamer, all from unstable. None of them are
able to play the files. Xine complains about a missing demuxer. I know
that these programs support matroska so I guess the problem is the
debian packs aren't compiled with matroska support. Are there any
unofficial packs for unstable with matroska support, or do I have to
compile it myself?
alex

There is no Debian package for mplayer, which plays mkv files (and just 
about anything else imaginable) extremely well. I am curious as to what 
you tried if you didn't build it from source. You can get the source 
from their webpage (google it) and install it to /usr/local. I don't 
know about any of the other players, but mplayer does work.

The only matroska packages in debian unstable are libmatroska-dev and 
mkvtoolnix. mkvtoolnix can mux/demux/remux matroska files, but cannot 
play them. libmatroska-dev is development stuff for libmatroska, which 
apparently isn't a debian package. (does anybody know why that is?) As 
for unofficial packages, go to www.apt-get.org. There are mplayer 
packages there, though I prefer building from cvs source just for that 
warm fuzzy feeling of having the latest snapshot of a great program.

Michael Spang
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Re: Oh, NO! Not that same "No Sound" question again... (Sound now working)

[Andrea Vettorello]

On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 11:46:51 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Just in case anyone can use the two bits of information I turned up...
> 
> Having tried everything I could find to try to make the OSS
> ("i810_audio") driver work, based on what little information I
> could find about it in the docs or online , I finally gave up
> and compiled and installed Alsa drivers for my 2.4.18-bf2.4 kernel.
> 
> Then, by using "alsamixer" and unmuting the usual suspects, I was able
> to
> get sound working.
> 
> None of the other mixers I had previously installed ("aumix", "kmix",
> and "xamixer2" (which crashed completely)) would enable sound to work.
> One point of interest was that the "alsamixer" GUI has a "slider" for
> "headphone", which none of the other mixers have, and which was what
> I discovered by trial and error to be what controlled the sound output
> jack on my MB.
> 
> I'm wondering if the "i810_audio" OSS driver was really at fault or if
> the
> "mixers" I was using with it were just incapable of controlling the
> output
> to the jack on my motherboard (and more significantly, how one could
> make such a determination).  But, I gather there's no way do diagnose
> such things, so I guess I'll just "Move On".
> 
> I am disappointed, saddened, troubled, disheartened, and discouraged
> (did
> I miss any?) that it was only possible to get this working by trial
> and error.  Auto mechanics discriminate between real mechanics who
> troubleshoot problems and fix them, and "parts replacers" who, just
> keep on replacing things (and charging the customer for it)
> until something works.  The latter are generally considered
> by their cow orkers to be subhumans at best.  If there's no way
> to actually troubleshoot these problems, and we have to resort to
> swapping
> modules in and out until something works, we're no better than the
> "parts replacers".
> 

IIRC, the 2.4.18-bf2.4 is one of the kernel used in the Woody boot
floppy, so for space restriction and compatibility measures, his scope
is only to have a bare system up and running, it doesn't have all the
modules a default kernel sports.

You can really troubleshoot the problems, the sources are out there,
you only need the HW documentation on how your hardware works, but
usually HW vendors don't cooperate, and here i'm not talking about
asking for HW drivers, but only HW specs or documentations.


Andrea


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Re: sound driver

[Pedro M (Morphix User)]

Justin Guerin escribió:
On Thursday 18 November 2004 07:59, Jason Rennie wrote:
 

On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 01:25:51PM -0700, Justin Guerin wrote:
   

The size discrepency is most likely due to differing kernel versions. 
What kernel are you using in Sarge?  How about in Knoppix?
 

Both are 2.4.27
   

Hmm, the above output would seem to suggest that ogg123 is actually
working. If there isn't an error  message you forgot to copy, how about
turning up the volume via a mixer?
 

Sorry, forgot to mention the details of the problem...  the first
second of the song is repeated continuously.  It works in the sense
that I get out sound and it is sound from the song that I'm trying to
play, but it only plays the first second, over-and-over again.
Imagine a CD or record that keeps skipping.
Jason
   

Sounds like you have a DMA or IRQ problem.  Can you check which DMA and IRQ 
channels are assigned during Knoppix boot, and during Debian boot?  You may 
have to tell the sound module to use a specific IRQ when it's loaded.  I 
had to do the same thing with my ISA card, when I first configured it.  I 
just went down the list of available IRQs before I got to one that worked.

Hope that helps,
Justin
 

Try sndconfig  ( 
http://wiki.debian.net/index.cgi?sndconfig ). See 
http://wiki.debian.net/index.cgi?SoundConfiguration

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Problem with apt-get and circular dependencies

[Christian Renz]

My Sparcstation 20 is currently running Debian-stable with a 2.4.18 
kernel. I want to do a dist-upgrade, but I'm running into a problem I 
don't know how to resolve:

apt-get wants to install libc6_2.3.2.ds1-18_sparc.deb (to replace 
libc6-2.3.2-7). However, the installation aborts telling me that "You 
have a cpu which requires kernel 2.4.21 or greater in order to install 
this version of glibc." I tried to fix it by installing 
kernel-image-2.4.27-1-sparc32-smp, but to install this, I need a newer 
version of coreutils and initrd-tools (and others) that update glibc. 
Which aborts the installation telling me that... and so on.

How can I break these circular dependencies and get the system to a 
current state?

Thanks for your help!
Greetings,
   Christian
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Re: Oh, NO! Not that same "No Sound" question again... (Sound now working)

[listcomm]

Just in case anyone can use the two bits of information I turned up...

Having tried everything I could find to try to make the OSS
("i810_audio") driver work, based on what little information I
could find about it in the docs or online , I finally gave up
and compiled and installed Alsa drivers for my 2.4.18-bf2.4 kernel.

Then, by using "alsamixer" and unmuting the usual suspects, I was able
to
get sound working.

None of the other mixers I had previously installed ("aumix", "kmix",
and "xamixer2" (which crashed completely)) would enable sound to work.
One point of interest was that the "alsamixer" GUI has a "slider" for
"headphone", which none of the other mixers have, and which was what
I discovered by trial and error to be what controlled the sound output
jack on my MB.

I'm wondering if the "i810_audio" OSS driver was really at fault or if
the
"mixers" I was using with it were just incapable of controlling the
output
to the jack on my motherboard (and more significantly, how one could
make such a determination).  But, I gather there's no way do diagnose
such things, so I guess I'll just "Move On".

I am disappointed, saddened, troubled, disheartened, and discouraged
(did
I miss any?) that it was only possible to get this working by trial
and error.  Auto mechanics discriminate between real mechanics who
troubleshoot problems and fix them, and "parts replacers" who, just
keep on replacing things (and charging the customer for it)
until something works.  The latter are generally considered
by their cow orkers to be subhumans at best.  If there's no way
to actually troubleshoot these problems, and we have to resort to
swapping
modules in and out until something works, we're no better than the
"parts replacers".


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Re: Standard practice with missing dependencies?

[Andrea Vettorello]

On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 12:37:19 -0500, Christian Convey
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi guys,
> 
> I went to "apt-get install sun-j2sdk1.4debian", but I was smacked down
> with this error:
> 

[...]

> 
> So my guess is that there's *probably* something lacking about my
> sources.list file.
> 
> What's the general approach people take to rectify their sources.list
> file when they get the error that I got?
> 
> I mean, I could Google for the missing package (sun-j2sdk1.4), but will
> that necessarily help me understand what to add in sources.list?
> 
> Thanks,
> Christian
> 
> P.S.: Here's the content of my sources.list file:
> 
> deb file:///home/ftp/debian/   testing main non-free contrib
> deb file:///home/ftp/debian/   unstablemain non-free contrib
> deb file:///home/ftp/debian-non-US testing/non-US  main contrib non-free
> deb file:///home/ftp/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main contrib non-free
> deb file:///home/ftp/marillat/ testing main
> deb file:///home/ftp/marillat/ unstablemain
> 

For this special case, you'll not find in any Debian mirror a deb
package of Sun SDK cause Sun don't create Debian packages and at the
same time Sun don't permit redistribution, at least not without
restrictions or special license.

You instead need to install "java-package", download the binary
archive from Sun and then, with the aid of the "make-jpkg" command,
create an installable Debian package...

About your apt sources.list, i hope you know how to pin unstable and
testing packages, cause Sarge and Sid don't mix well together.


Andrea


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Re: Mouse ps/2 doesn't work

[H. S.]

Mariusz Antonik wrote:
Hi.
I just install a debian sarga from internet. 
Probably during intalation I bad chose a mouse and now it doesn't work.
Can somebody tell me where I can reconfigure a mouse?
If it is just the mouse issue, you can make the changes in 
/etc/X11/XF86config-4 directly using a text editor. I have these in mine:
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier  "Configured Mouse"
Driver  "mouse"
Option  "CorePointer"
Option  "Device""/dev/psaux"
Option  "Protocol"  "ImPS/2"
Option  "Emulate3Buttons"   "true"
Option  "ZAxisMapping"  "4 5"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier  "Generic Mouse"
Driver  "mouse"
Option  "SendCoreEvents""true"
Option  "Device""/dev/input/mice"
Option  "Protocol"  "ImPS/2"
Option  "Emulate3Buttons"   "true"
Option  "ZAxisMapping"  "4 5"
EndSection

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RE: Mouse ps/2 doesn't work

[Williams, Allen]

Since your making reference to kde I assume you want the mouse for X instead of
using with console programs (about which I know nothing).  You may have to do
some "find"'s and stuff, but somewhere in one of your X directories there is an
x86cfg or X86Config or something like that.  If you run it, it will prompt you
for what kind of mouse you have (as well as all the other X setup parameters).

Alternatively, if you know your driver, etc., you can manually edit a file with
(again, unfortunately, I don't remember the exact name) XFree86Cfg-4, or
something like that.  I am pretty sure it has a "-4" on the end.  It does seem
to me that this config file is located in either /etc/X11, or a subdirectory
thereof.

All the script in the first paragraph does is automate the editing of the config
file in the second paragraph.


Allen

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Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2004 1:57 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Mouse ps/2 doesn't work


Hi.
I just install a debian sarga from internet. 
Probably during intalation I bad chose a mouse and now it doesn't work. Can
somebody tell me where I can reconfigure a mouse?

Under konsole from KDE package when I run a  "mc" , it doen't look nice. TO 
change it to normal view I have to set a fonts to UNICODE. When I try it it 
give me a error:
"
Font '-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--15-140-75-75-c-90-iso10646-1'
not found
Check README.linux.console for help
"
Where I can find this file?
I chenk for fonts xfonts-7dpi - are last, than what I am missing?

Thanks for help 
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Re: Mouse ps/2 doesn't work

[K-sPecial]

Mariusz Antonik wrote:
Hi.
I just install a debian sarga from internet. 
Probably during intalation I bad chose a mouse and now it doesn't work.
Can somebody tell me where I can reconfigure a mouse?

Under konsole from KDE package when I run a  "mc" , it doen't look nice. TO 
change it to normal view I have to set a fonts to UNICODE. When I try it it 
give me a error:
"
Font
'-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--15-140-75-75-c-90-iso10646-1'
not found
Check README.linux.console for help
"
Where I can find this file?
I chenk for fonts xfonts-7dpi - are last, than what I am missing?

Thanks for help 
Since a mouse is used with X Windows it would make sense for it to be in 
x's config. Ie /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 for me. In there you will find 
lines ie:
Option  "Device""/dev/psaux"
Option  "Protocol"  "PS/2"
Option  "Emulate3Buttons"   "true"
Option  "ZAxisMapping"  "4 5"

as an input device. Furthermore you can configure the accelleration of 
your mouse movements with the 'xset' command.

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Re: Xvfb and X authorization

[Matt Price]

Matt Price wrote:
hi,
I have a script that opens Openoffice in an X session managed by
Xvfb.  I initiate the X session with: 

Xvfb :86 -screen scrn 800x600x32 &
This used to work fine.  But sometime in the recent past, presumably
since an unobserved update or something, I get this error when trying
to connect  

$ DISPLAY=:86 xterm &  
[1] 18603
Xlib: connection to ":86.0" refused by server
Xlib: No protocol specified

xterm Xt error: Can't open display: :86
[1]+  Exit 1  DISPLAY=:86 xterm -sl 1000
Xvfb itself generates this error:  
AUDIT: Tue Nov 16 14:37:43 2004: 18483 Xvfb: client 1 rejected from
local host

I can workaround this by invoking Xvfb with the -ac switch:  
Xvfb :86 -ac -screen scrn 800x600x32 & 

but obviously this is terrible security practice, so I can't use it
normally.  

I've flipped through the Xserver and Xsecurity man pages but I'm still
at a bit of a loss as to how to get Xvfb to read the authorization
file, or maybe I'm using the wrong one.  I tried this:  

Xvfb :86 -auth /home/matt/.Xauthority -screen scrn 800x600x32 &
just for the archive:  found the solution on the net, the file named by 
-auth should simply contain host names in cleartest.  In my case I made 
a file
/etc/X99.cfg
containing the single line:
localhost
and call Xvfb thus:
Xvfb :86 -auth /etc/X99.cfg -screen scrn 800x600x32 &

all fixed!
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Re: Creative SoundBlaster Live! - how to get it working?

[michael]

robin wrote:
michael wrote:
robin wrote:
michael wrote:
michael wrote:
robin wrote:
michael wrote:
I've looked but can't find anything that definitely explains 
this, so...

I have a new Creative SoundBlaster Live! 24 bit sound card in my 
machine (dual Xeon box). The card works - heard it when booted 
WinXP. However, I can make no headway on getting sounds from it 
when I boot in to my Linux
partition. I have done a 'apt-get install alsa' but that doesn't 
seem to have changed anything. All solutions are most welcome! 
And here's what I
believe is sufficient information for people to answer this for 
me! TIA.

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ uname -a;sudo lsmod
Linux ratty 2.4.27-1-686-smp #1 SMP Fri Sep 3 06:34:36 UTC 2004 
i686 GNU/Linux
Module  Size  Used byNot tainted
floppy 52184   0  (autoclean)
soundcore   4420   0  (autoclean)
input   3872   0  (autoclean)
lp  6916   0
parport27944   0  [lp]
af_packet  14472   1  (autoclean)
uhci   27100   0  (unused)
hw_random   2876   0  (unused)
i810_rng2788   0  (unused)
ehci-hcd   18924   0  (unused)
usbcore65804   1  [uhci ehci-hcd]
ide-scsi   10192   0
scsi_mod   97732   1  [ide-scsi]
e1000  68844   1
ide-cd 31328   0
cdrom  30080   0  [ide-cd]
rtc 7112   0  (autoclean)
ext3   84748   7  (autoclean)
jbd46200   7  (autoclean) [ext3]
ide-detect   288   0  (autoclean) (unused)
piix9128   2  (autoclean)
ide-disk   16960   8  (autoclean)
ide-core  112184   8  (autoclean) [ide-scsi ide-cd 
ide-detect piix ide-disk]
unix   16784 221  (autoclean)
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$


Hi
Try running alsaconf to set up the alsa sound modules.
Robin

That comes up with:
No supported PnP or PCI card found.


I should also have said the console gets the message:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src$ sudo alsaconf
modinfo: snd: no module by that name found
modinfo: snd: no module by that name found
modinfo: snd: no module by that name found

Not sure which module it is so check 
http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/  soundcard matrix and then
e.g.

modprobe  snd-ens1371
replacing, if necessary, snd-ens1371 with the correct module.
If there are any error messages post them here.
Also which kernel version are you running as there was an issue with 
some 2.6 kernels with OSS grabbing the sound card before Alsa.

Okay, it seems to be module emu10k1 that I require but I get:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src$ sudo modprobe emu10k1
/lib/modules/2.4.27-1-686-smp/kernel/drivers/sound/emu10k1/emu10k1.o: 
init_module: No such device
Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, 
including invalid IO or IRQ parameters.
  You may find more information in syslog or the output from dmesg
/lib/modules/2.4.27-1-686-smp/kernel/drivers/sound/emu10k1/emu10k1.o: 
insmod 
/lib/modules/2.4.27-1-686-smp/kernel/drivers/sound/emu10k1/emu10k1.o 
failed
/lib/modules/2.4.27-1-686-smp/kernel/drivers/sound/emu10k1/emu10k1.o: 
insmod emu10k1 failed

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src$ dmesg|tail
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a National Semiconductor PC87306
Creative EMU10K1 PCI Audio Driver, version 0.20, 06:37:07 Sep  3 2004
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Creative EMU10K1 PCI Audio Driver, version 0.20, 06:37:07 Sep  3 2004
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src$ uname -a
Linux ratty 2.4.27-1-686-smp #1 SMP Fri Sep 3 06:34:36 UTC 2004 i686 
GNU/Linux
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src$

Thanks for helping me through this!
Michael

See 
http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-user@lists.debian.org/msg120316.html 
for 2.6 details.
Do you have alsa-modules-2.4.27-1-686-smp installed?

It's been a long day (that's my excuse & it also means I can go 
shortly!) but

a) isn't "2.6 details" irrelevant to me since I'm using 2.4.27?
b) err, how do I find what modules I have installed? Do you mean using 
'lsmod'? There's no alsa there

Michael
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Re: Bold Fonts Not Working in OpenOffice (Sid)

[H. S.]

Bernard Lineham wrote:
Hi folks,
I'm running a recently installed up to date Sid distribution.  I am
having a problem where text in OpenOffice Writer that is marked as bold
is still showing up as plain text.  Can anyone advise how I might solve
this problem?
Cheers,
Bernard Lineham

Hi,
I had exactly the same problem. I posted here but couldn't get much help 
here. Seems like not many people have this problem or not many use 
openoffice here.

Anyway, I discovered the problem was, IIRC, a missing package. What 
openoffice packages do you have installed? I have(on Sarge though, on 
Sarge too the problem was the same):
$> COLUMNS=150 dpkg -l openoff* | grep ^ii
ii  openoffice.org  1.1.2dfsg1-1 
high-quality office productivity suite
ii  openoffice.org-bin  1.1.2dfsg1-1 
OpenOffice.org office suite binary files
ii  openoffice.org-debian-files 1.1.2-5+1 
Debian specific parts of OpenOffice.org
ii  openoffice.org-help-en  1.1+20030814-3 
OpenOffice.org office suite help (English)
ii  openoffice.org-l10n-en  1.1.2dfsg1-1 
English (US) language package for OpenOffice.org
ii  openoffice.org-thesaurus-en-us  1.1.2dfsg1-1 
English (US) Thesaurus for OpenOffice.org

Let me know if this helps, else I will try to dig further.
GL,
->HS

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Re: Creative SoundBlaster Live! - how to get it working?

[robin]

michael wrote:
robin wrote:
michael wrote:
michael wrote:
robin wrote:
michael wrote:
I've looked but can't find anything that definitely explains 
this, so...

I have a new Creative SoundBlaster Live! 24 bit sound card in my 
machine (dual Xeon box). The card works - heard it when booted 
WinXP. However, I can make no headway on getting sounds from it 
when I boot in to my Linux
partition. I have done a 'apt-get install alsa' but that doesn't 
seem to have changed anything. All solutions are most welcome! 
And here's what I
believe is sufficient information for people to answer this for 
me! TIA.

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ uname -a;sudo lsmod
Linux ratty 2.4.27-1-686-smp #1 SMP Fri Sep 3 06:34:36 UTC 2004 
i686 GNU/Linux
Module  Size  Used byNot tainted
floppy 52184   0  (autoclean)
soundcore   4420   0  (autoclean)
input   3872   0  (autoclean)
lp  6916   0
parport27944   0  [lp]
af_packet  14472   1  (autoclean)
uhci   27100   0  (unused)
hw_random   2876   0  (unused)
i810_rng2788   0  (unused)
ehci-hcd   18924   0  (unused)
usbcore65804   1  [uhci ehci-hcd]
ide-scsi   10192   0
scsi_mod   97732   1  [ide-scsi]
e1000  68844   1
ide-cd 31328   0
cdrom  30080   0  [ide-cd]
rtc 7112   0  (autoclean)
ext3   84748   7  (autoclean)
jbd46200   7  (autoclean) [ext3]
ide-detect   288   0  (autoclean) (unused)
piix9128   2  (autoclean)
ide-disk   16960   8  (autoclean)
ide-core  112184   8  (autoclean) [ide-scsi ide-cd 
ide-detect piix ide-disk]
unix   16784 221  (autoclean)
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$


Hi
Try running alsaconf to set up the alsa sound modules.
Robin

That comes up with:
No supported PnP or PCI card found.

I should also have said the console gets the message:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src$ sudo alsaconf
modinfo: snd: no module by that name found
modinfo: snd: no module by that name found
modinfo: snd: no module by that name found

Not sure which module it is so check 
http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/  soundcard matrix and then
e.g.

modprobe  snd-ens1371
replacing, if necessary, snd-ens1371 with the correct module.
If there are any error messages post them here.
Also which kernel version are you running as there was an issue with 
some 2.6 kernels with OSS grabbing the sound card before Alsa.

Okay, it seems to be module emu10k1 that I require but I get:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src$ sudo modprobe emu10k1
/lib/modules/2.4.27-1-686-smp/kernel/drivers/sound/emu10k1/emu10k1.o: 
init_module: No such device
Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, 
including invalid IO or IRQ parameters.
  You may find more information in syslog or the output from dmesg
/lib/modules/2.4.27-1-686-smp/kernel/drivers/sound/emu10k1/emu10k1.o: 
insmod 
/lib/modules/2.4.27-1-686-smp/kernel/drivers/sound/emu10k1/emu10k1.o 
failed
/lib/modules/2.4.27-1-686-smp/kernel/drivers/sound/emu10k1/emu10k1.o: 
insmod emu10k1 failed

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src$ dmesg|tail
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a National Semiconductor PC87306
Creative EMU10K1 PCI Audio Driver, version 0.20, 06:37:07 Sep  3 2004
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Creative EMU10K1 PCI Audio Driver, version 0.20, 06:37:07 Sep  3 2004
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src$ uname -a
Linux ratty 2.4.27-1-686-smp #1 SMP Fri Sep 3 06:34:36 UTC 2004 i686 
GNU/Linux
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src$

Thanks for helping me through this!
Michael

See 
http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-user@lists.debian.org/msg120316.html 
for 2.6 details.
Do you have alsa-modules-2.4.27-1-686-smp installed?

Robin
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Mouse ps/2 doesn't work

[Mariusz Antonik]

Hi.
I just install a debian sarga from internet. 
Probably during intalation I bad chose a mouse and now it doesn't work.
Can somebody tell me where I can reconfigure a mouse?

Under konsole from KDE package when I run a  "mc" , it doen't look nice. TO 
change it to normal view I have to set a fonts to UNICODE. When I try it it 
give me a error:
"
Font
'-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--15-140-75-75-c-90-iso10646-1'
not found
Check README.linux.console for help
"
Where I can find this file?
I chenk for fonts xfonts-7dpi - are last, than what I am missing?

Thanks for help 
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Root on RAID 5 + LVM will only boot in degraded mode

[Dag Sverre Seljebotn]

On reboot the last disk to be added to the array is kicked out of it and
the array starts in deprecated mode.

(If this is not the right place to ask, could someone please forward me
to more suited place?)

Long story:

My setup is with six disks on a Promise TX4 serial ata controller. I
have a working system on one of them, and am trying to set up a working
RAID setup on the other five (leaving the first one as a spare).

The 5 disks are each partioned into two; a 50 MB boot partition and a
~200 GB RAID partition. The RAID partitions are then run in RAID 5, then
I run LVM on top of RAID.

As my root I would like to use a LVM root partition. I've sucessfully
used mkinitrd to create an initrd that has root-on-LVM support, and the
system boots fine.

However, the last disk that I added is never present in the array after
a boot. I know that it is not a disk failure because there are no log
messages about such a failure and also I've tried adding the disks in
different orders, and it is always the last one that fails. After
booting I can re-add the disk to the array, and after syncing it will
operate as part of the array until the next reboot, when the same disk
is kicked out again.

However, when booting with the root from the original disk that is not a
part of the array, it will recognize all five disks in the array without
any problems.

Running Debian testing, and the filesystem is ReiserFS. Relevant part
of /var/log/messages:

Nov 18 19:15:49 localhost kernel: SCSI device sda: 390721968 512-byte
hdwr sectors (200050 MB)
Nov 18 19:15:49 localhost kernel: Partition check:
Nov 18 19:15:49 localhost kernel:  /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1
p2
Nov 18 19:15:49 localhost kernel: SCSI device sdb: 390721968 512-byte
hdwr sectors (200050 MB)
Nov 18 19:15:49 localhost kernel:  /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0: p1
p2
... the rest of the disks in the same manner
Nov 18 19:15:49 localhost kernel: md0: former device
scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0/part2 is unavailable, removing from array!
... starting to recover array, but no spare disks found

I appricate any response!

// Dag Sverre




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Re: sound driver

[Justin Guerin]

On Thursday 18 November 2004 07:59, Jason Rennie wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 01:25:51PM -0700, Justin Guerin wrote:
> > The size discrepency is most likely due to differing kernel versions. 
> > What kernel are you using in Sarge?  How about in Knoppix?
>
> Both are 2.4.27
>
> > Hmm, the above output would seem to suggest that ogg123 is actually
> > working. If there isn't an error  message you forgot to copy, how about
> > turning up the volume via a mixer?
>
> Sorry, forgot to mention the details of the problem...  the first
> second of the song is repeated continuously.  It works in the sense
> that I get out sound and it is sound from the song that I'm trying to
> play, but it only plays the first second, over-and-over again.
> Imagine a CD or record that keeps skipping.
>
> Jason

Sounds like you have a DMA or IRQ problem.  Can you check which DMA and IRQ 
channels are assigned during Knoppix boot, and during Debian boot?  You may 
have to tell the sound module to use a specific IRQ when it's loaded.  I 
had to do the same thing with my ISA card, when I first configured it.  I 
just went down the list of available IRQs before I got to one that worked.

Hope that helps,
Justin


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Re: Newbie looking for some answers please...........

[Sergio Basurto Juarez]

--- Chad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I just installed Debian 3.0 r3. I'm a newbie and
> looking for some
> anwers to some of my questions...if someone can
> anwser one, some, or
> all Please
> 
> 1. I know that apt-get is the main utility to add
> and remove programs
> (in Debian anyways), also to veiw what is installed
> on your OS. But
> what about other packages or applications that are
> not installed
> through apt-get. Is there a another utility to tell
> you want is all
> installed on your OS, or to keep track of all
> software/packages/applications installed?
you can check for an existence of a package with
apt-cache search [the name of whichever package you
are looking for]
I think that you can find any package nevertheless if
the package that you are looking for is not there,
then you can use a *.rpm package and use alien to
conver to a *.deb file also you can install software
that comes as *.gz or *.bz. Or compile it. But I think
that debian comes with everything you need.
> 
> 2. How do you check for all running services and how
> to start/stop
> system services that are unused?
You can chek your process with:
#ps -fea
It will display a list of the processes that are
running at the time if you want to terminate a process
you can use 
#kill -9 PID (Process ID) I think there is a fancy way
to do it but at the beginning you can use kill.
If you want to disable a service it depends a lot in
which service, but the most of them are in inetd.conf,
you most comment the service that you don't want.

In the directory /etc/init.d you will find all the
scripts that runs at boot time.
> 
> 3. How do you check for all open ports and what
> programs are using the
> ports.
#nmap [ip] in the case of your local machine 127.0.0.1
or the ip's of your interfaces.

#netstat -alp --numeric-ports
> 
> 4. What is the common folder Where most
> software/packages/applications
> installed into?
depend on the package but almost everything is
installed under /usr directory
> 
> 5. Anyone has a good site for descriptions of the
> configuration files
> on a linux system. For Example XF86Config-4. I have
> no idea of what
> configuration files do what or where they are
> located.
www.tldp.org
> 
> 6. Where is the boot files? So I can control or know
> what programs
> start at boot.

You can use the command
#man [command] in order to get description of how to
use a command.

I can recomend you that read the documentation at:
http://www.tldp.org/guides.html



Regards.

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Re: dual-OS system

[Gayle Lee Fairless]

I found this package in stable:

Package: libntfs3 (1.6.0-1)
Library that provides common NTFS access functions.

The Linux-NTFS project (http://linux-ntfs.sf.net/) aims to bring full 
support for the NTFS filesystem to the Linux operating system.

libntfs provides common NTFS access functions for the ntfstools and other 
foreign open source applications.

Please note that the library is still under heavy development and doesn't 
include the majority of functionality yet. It only is capable of just 
about supporting the current ntfstools, so we wouldn't recommend using it 
for your own applications at this stage. 


==

Although I haven't looked in the other branches or done any
googling or looking at backports.org, it looks as if you'll eventually be 
able to write the NTFS on your Windows XP system.  At least you'll be able 
to read it.

I'm running a dual system on a Gateway 500 using Windows 98SE and 
Debian GNU/Linux woody.  The windows partition can be mounted rw under 
/mnt.  The Windows OS cannot see the Linux partitions.

Sincerely,
(Mr.) Gayle Lee Fairless



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Re: Newbie looking for some answers please...........

[s. keeling]

Incoming from charlie derr:
> Chad wrote:
> >I just installed Debian 3.0 r3. I'm a newbie and looking for some
> >anwers to some of my questions...if someone can anwser one, some, or
> 
> $ export COLUMNS=150
> $ dpkg -l

You don't need the export.  Here's a nice alias:

   pkgl='COLUMNS=120 dpkg -l'

> >2. How do you check for all running services and how to start/stop
> >system services that are unused?
> 
> $ ps aux

Or try "ps fax"; that'll give you a "tree view" of all processes.

> >3. How do you check for all open ports and what programs are using the
> >ports.
> 
> netstat is probably what you want

/bin/netstat -tnupl
/bin/netstat -nr


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Re: Newbie looking for some answers please...........

[Francois Cerbelle]

Le Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 09:17:02AM -0800, Chad ecrit :
> I just installed Debian 3.0 r3. I'm a newbie and looking for some
> anwers to some of my questions...if someone can anwser one, some, or
> all Please
Welcome to our fabulous world !

> 1. I know that apt-get is the main utility to add and remove
> programs (in Debian anyways), also to veiw what is installed on your
> OS. But what about other packages or applications that are not
> installed through apt-get. Is there a another utility to tell you
> want is all installed on your OS, or to keep track of all
> software/packages/applications installed?
Everything installed throught the package system is given by :
COLUMNS=150 dpkg -l | more

Everything installed by its own system shoud be installed either in a
special directory in /opt or dispatched in /usr/local/* or installed
throught a wrapper which record the changes to the system.

> 2. How do you check for all running services and how to start/stop
> system services that are unused?
If you want to know what are the current processes running, use 
"ps ax". There are many options, you will find them in the help system
: "man ps"

If you want to know what are the services normally started, they are
listed in /etc/rc2.d . filenames beginning with S for Start and K for
Kill. The files are only shortcuts to the real files in /etc/init.d.
You can see exactly what I means by typing "ls -l" in the rc2.d
directory.

You can manage these services with different programs :
update-rc.d
sysvconfig
sysv-rc-conf

To have more precision on a package : 
apt-cache show sysv-rc-conf

Once installed, to have the help :
man sysv-rc-conf

> 3. How do you check for all open ports and what programs are using
> the ports.
You can use netstat with the following options (my favourites) :
netstat -taupen

You will see every connection (TCP, UDP, sockets), which can be
listening, established, waiting... who is connected, and which process
is listening

> 4. What is the common folder Where most software/packages/applications
> installed into?
/bin and /sbin for the system critical programs
/usr/bin and /usr/sbin for the system programs
/usr/local/bin and /usr/local/sbin for the program you added *

* you can prefer to add programs in /opt to have a directory for each
applicationn


> 5. Anyone has a good site for descriptions of the configuration
> files on a linux system. For Example XF86Config-4. I have no idea of
> what configuration files do what or where they are located.
Choose a file in /etc and try the help command :
man XF86Config-4

> 6. Where is the boot files? So I can control or know what programs
> start at boot.
The boot process begins with the "S" scripts in /etc/rcS.d and usually
continue with thoses in /etc/rc2.d

the shutdown process with the "K" scripts from rc2.d, then from rcS.d

Fanfan

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> http://www.debian.org/distrib/pre-installed
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>   - by now, everybody probably install anything you want
>   if you're buying in enough volume for them to sell to you

Nope.  I used to work for a guy who firmly thought that Microsoft was
the only way, and would only install MS software.  I guess the flip
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Re: Newbie looking for some answers please...........

[charlie derr]

Chad wrote:
I just installed Debian 3.0 r3. I'm a newbie and looking for some
anwers to some of my questions...if someone can anwser one, some, or
all Please
1. I know that apt-get is the main utility to add and remove programs
(in Debian anyways), also to veiw what is installed on your OS. But
what about other packages or applications that are not installed
through apt-get. Is there a another utility to tell you want is all
installed on your OS, or to keep track of all
software/packages/applications installed?
i find that dpkg works well -- in order to not truncate the package
names, you may want to increase the COLUMNS environment variable, so
from the command line:
$ export COLUMNS=150
$ dpkg -l
that will give you all installed packages

2. How do you check for all running services and how to start/stop
system services that are unused?
$ ps aux
that should give you a list of every running service
to start stop, use the scripts in /etc/init.d
as an example, to stop apache, you would do
# /etc/init.d/apache stop

3. How do you check for all open ports and what programs are using the
ports.
netstat is probably what you want
$ man netstat
ought to give you plenty of options
4. What is the common folder Where most software/packages/applications
installed into?
there's no equivalent to "Program Files" or "Applications" if that's 
what you're looking for -- the executables usually end up in a bin 
directory (/bin /usr/bin /sbin /usr/sbin /usr/local/bin ) -- other 
components are scattered throughout the filesystem -- in order to see 
what files were installed where for a particular package use dpkg -L, 
i.e. for apache:

$ dpkg -L apache

5. Anyone has a good site for descriptions of the configuration files
on a linux system. For Example XF86Config-4. I have no idea of what
configuration files do what or where they are located.
Most configuration files have their own documentation (often inside the 
file in the form of comments).  You may also find that there are more 
heavily commented example files inside /usr/share/doc/.


6. Where is the boot files? So I can control or know what programs
start at boot.
inside the /etc/rc*.d directories are a bunch of symlinks to the scripts 
in /etc/init.d

I find update-rc.d to be a useful tool to use for managing this (though 
you're welcome to create/delete your own symlinks once you understand 
the paradigm)

good luck,

~c

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Re: Newbie looking for some answers please...........

[John Schmidt]

On Thursday 18 November 2004 10:17 am, Chad wrote:
> I just installed Debian 3.0 r3. I'm a newbie and looking for some
> anwers to some of my questions...if someone can anwser one, some, or
> all Please
>
> 1. I know that apt-get is the main utility to add and remove programs
> (in Debian anyways), also to veiw what is installed on your OS. But
> what about other packages or applications that are not installed
> through apt-get. Is there a another utility to tell you want is all
> installed on your OS, or to keep track of all
> software/packages/applications installed?
>
> 2. How do you check for all running services and how to start/stop
> system services that are unused?
>
> 3. How do you check for all open ports and what programs are using the
> ports.
>
> 4. What is the common folder Where most software/packages/applications
> installed into?
>
> 5. Anyone has a good site for descriptions of the configuration files
> on a linux system. For Example XF86Config-4. I have no idea of what
> configuration files do what or where they are located.
>
> 6. Where is the boot files? So I can control or know what programs
> start at boot.

Chad,

You might want to install debian-reference-en and quick-reference-en.  Then 
point your web browser to /usr/share/doc/Debian and you should see folders 
for quick-reference and reference.  They should provide you with answers to 
your questions plus provide you with more tips and other bits of useful 
information.

apt-get install debian-reference-en quick-reference-en

will get you going.

John


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