Re: WiFi Problems (It doesn't work properly)

[Rusty Carruth]

Rusty Carruth wrote:


Sorry, I'm late to the party.  Hopefully I won't be too stupid...



Yeah, and I'm tired and its late, so I forgot step 0!  Sorry, here it is,
along with the rest so its a complete story:


...



-1 - if 'netstat' shows a (wireless) device with a valid IP address, you 
theoretically have

   neworking up.
0 - ping that Ip address, if it answers then indeed the hardware drivers 
are acting

   like they think your networking is working.

1 - if 'ping' to a numeric IP address within your local wireless 
network works,
   then you've gotten connected to the local net fine, but you need to 
make

   sure DNS works:
2 - if 'ping' to a non-numeric IP address within your local wireless 
network subnet

   works, then you've got DNS working. Now
3 - if 'ping' to a NON-local IP address (by name OR by number, having 
established

   that DNS works) works, then you're 99% of the way home.
4 - NOW that we have established that IP networking is working right, 
THEN try

   your applications.

if '-1' fails, your networking isn't, you need to make the hardware work 
AND get

all that nifty wireless infrastructure stuff going.  (essid, all that)

if 0 fails, you are in a similar boat, just farther down the stream :-)

if 1 fails, then you may have route problems, or you may not actually 
be connected

to the (wireless) network.

if 2 fails (but 1 works) then you need a DNS server - check 
/etc/resolv.conf (or wherever

it is these days).

if 3 fails (but 1 and 2 works) then you almost certainly have a 
routing issue - you need
a default route to the gateway.  USUALLY you get this (and DNS server, 
by the way)

from your DHCP server.



rc


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Re: WiFi Problems (It doesn't work properly)

[Rusty Carruth]

David R. Litwin wrote:


...
I tired moving to dhcpcd from dhclient; things seem to be slightly worse, if
any thing at all.
 



dhcpd allows the computer running it to give out IP addresses - you 
almost certainly

don't want it.  You want dhclient.


I'm not sure about the DNS situation. Perhaps I'm not looking in the right
place to find it.?

 



cat /etc/resolv.conf

will tell you what your nameservers are configured to be at the moment 
you say it
(this file can get modified by dhcpclient and other programs 
on-the-fly)  Not sure of
the 'debian way' of setting its default values - I think its in 
/etc/network/ (others

have mentioned the files here in this thread)

route -n

will tell you what the routing tables are (something I should have 
mentioned in a previous email,
sorry)  The '-n' says use numeric answers, which is preferred if your 
nameserver isn't serving.


rc


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Re: problems with initialising LVM

[Karsten Bolding]

solution found - but original problem still exists.

I partitioned hdb and hdc with a single partition for the entire disk
and then did:
pvcreate /dev/hdb1
pvcreate /dev/hdc1

and then

vgcreate VG /dev/hdb1 /dev/hdc1

mythtv has started to fill up the new space.

Karsten

On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 10:43:38PM +0200, Karsten Bolding wrote:
> Hello
> 
> Just bought two new 300 GB disks and wants to make a LVM. The new disks
> are on /dev/hdb and /dev/hdc - hda and hdd works as usual.
> 
> gate:~# dmesg | grep hdc
> ide1: BM-DMA at 0x08b8-0x08bf, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, h
> hdc: Maxtor 7L300R0, ATA DISK drive
> hdc: max request size: 1024KiB
> hdc: 586114704 sectors (300090 MB) w/16384KiB Cache, CHS=364
> hdc: cache flushes supported
> hdc: unknown partition table
> hdc: hdc1
> 
> gate:~# pvcreate /dev/hdc
> Device /dev/hdc not found.
> 
> gate:~# pvcreate /dev/hdb
> Physical volume "/dev/hdb" successfully created
> 
> The disks are identical. Furthermore I can actually do:
> gate:~# fdisk /dev/hdc
> and partition the disk.
> 
> Any help appreciated.
> 
> Karsten
> 
> 
> 
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Re: WiFi Problems (It doesn't work properly)

[Rusty Carruth]

Sorry, I'm late to the party.  Hopefully I won't be too stupid...


David R. Litwin wrote:




Did you try your applications once you had your connection up? They should
 


have worked as well.
   




They did not.

I suspect the problem is with the configuration you
 


have in /etc/network/interfaces. Or maybe the problem was with your WEP
configuration. Try recreating the configuration you applied in steps 1
through 3 in /etc/network/interfaces. Something like:
   



Well, maybe so and maybe not.

I don't know where he ping'ed (panged?), so I don't know if DNS was 
involved, so

I'll start assuming as little as possible.

1 - if 'ping' to a numeric IP address within your local wireless network 
works,

   then you've gotten connected to the local net fine, but you need to make
   sure DNS works:
2 - if 'ping' to a non-numeric IP address within your local wireless 
network subnet

   works, then you've got DNS working. Now
3 - if 'ping' to a NON-local IP address (by name OR by number, having 
established

   that DNS works) works, then you're 99% of the way home.
4 - NOW that we have established that IP networking is working right, 
THEN try

   your applications.

if 1 fails, then you may have route problems, or you may not actually be 
connected

to the (wireless) network.

if 2 fails (but 1 works) then you need a DNS server - check 
/etc/resolv.conf (or wherever

it is these days).

if 3 fails (but 1 and 2 works) then you almost certainly have a routing 
issue - you need
a default route to the gateway.  USUALLY you get this (and DNS server, 
by the way)

from your DHCP server.

The claim is that 1 (and maybe 2 and MAYBE even 3) works, but 4 doesn't.
If 1,2,3 work and 4 doesn't then we need to know more about the topology
and applications.  Maybe :-)

Now, as I say, I'm late to the party, so I could be less than helpful.  
However,

for OTHER people working on networking (not even just wireless!), the above
might prove helpful so I thought I'd throw it out.  All the above 
happens once
you get the wireless card to notice packets flying around (that's the 
first 90%,

the above is the other 90% ;-)

rc


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Re: boot stalls on ntpdate [was bootlog, control of modules]

[Marty]

Matt Price wrote:

On 10/3/05, Edward J Shornock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Edward J. Shornock wrote:

A moot point now...


sysvinit (2.86.ds1-4) unstable; urgency=low

this is great, thank you.  I now have bootlogd running!  (found htis
out when I finally had an opportunity to reboot,  bit of a stressful
weekend).  COmmenting out a bunch of modules helped my problems,
thanks much for that help folks.

I notice now that bootup is stalling on ntpdate.  Here's what I see on
bootlog...
Tue Oct  4 21:13:32 2005: Running ntpdate to synchronize clockError :
Temporary failure in name resolution
Tue Oct  4 21:14:12 2005: .
so it hangs for about a minute.  I assume that the internet connection
has not been brought up yet when ntpdate is run... any suyggestions
what I should do?


If it's a name resolution problem, then try using the IP address of a
reliable time server, like your ISP's.  If it's a time out issue then
you can try lengthening the timeout period using the -t option.  Try both
if you're not sure.

  The init script for ntpdate is currently

/etc/rcS.d/S51ntpdate, which i think is the default.


That's just a link.  The init script is /etc/init.d/ntpdate, but even
that is not what you want.  In debian, init scripts have files of the same
name in /etc/default, reserved for custom configuration, so you can add the
changes there (in /etc/default/ntpdate).



thanks!

matt





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Re: WiFi Problems (It doesn't work properly)

[David R. Litwin]

Yes, ping by default never stops.  If you just want it to send a few packetsyou can use the -c option.

Good to know. What was the arping you had me do? Is it only for the Router?

Did you try your applications once you had your connection up?  They shouldhave worked as well.

They did not. 
  I suspect the problem is with the configuration youhave in /etc/network/interfaces.  Or maybe the problem was with your WEP
configuration.  Try recreating the configuration you applied in steps 1through 3 in /etc/network/interfaces.  Something like:iface mytest inet dhcp  wireless-enc off  wireless-essid myessid  wireless-channel mychannel
Then bring ath1 up like this:ifdown ath1ifup ath1=mytestThen test the connection.  Try pinging and some other applications.  Let meknow how that works for you.
The only problem I have with this is that I use KWiFi Manager, since I
also connect to a WiFi at my College. If I were to change the
interfaces file thus, I would need to change it each time I changed
networks. Currently, the interfaces file only has some thing for lo
(loopback). If you still believe, however, that doing this would help
my cause; certainly, I am willing.

I have been thinking (at the thought of my friend). Looking up the
SpeedStream 6520 (my Router), it turns out that (at least in Australia,
where the Pamphlet is published: I'm in Canada) the Router may just
have a Firewall.

Could this be the problem?

Thank you kindly.

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Re: commands and packages

[Andy Streich]

On Tuesday 04 October 2005 07:57 pm, enediel gonzalez wrote:
> Hello
>
> I  need to install a sofware who requires the following commands to work
> properly, the installation detects that they aren't installed yet.
>
> ypcat rusers ypwhich xhost
>
> ?How could I know the package's name who contains a specific command?
> I have at this moment sarge stable

I use Synaptic for package management.  It has a search function which can 
search in package names and descriptions.  Your command names may be in the 
package descriptions.


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Re: SSH attack

[David E. Fox]

On Mon, 3 Oct 2005 18:23:15 +
Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


> I get lots of those, often from Asia and S. America.  Block the IP at the 
> firewall.  If you install Portsentry, you can have Portsentry block them 

Very good idea. I remember having that installed last time Slapper or
one of the variants made the rounds - had a /etc/hosts.deny file around
1/2 a megabyte...




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Re: SSH attack

[David E. Fox]

On Mon, 03 Oct 2005 19:44:38 -0400
Gene Heskett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


> Somebody mentioned portsentry, and I don't know why so many admins
> seem to hate it.  I've been running it here for probably 6-7 years,
> and its automaticly dropped lots of connection attempts back when I

And portsenty is simple enought to set up so that the first bad attempt
gets the IP locked out. Maybe at some future time, you'll make it
OK for that IP to access your system, that's up to you. After all, some 
IPs tend to get recycled.

I wonder why it's missing (but not hard to find) on some Linux
distributions. Mandriva/Mandrake used to include it, but it got dropped.

> was using dialup on ppp.  But now I've a dsl connection, with a
> router between the modem and the firewall, the firewall is 2 nics
> with iptables between them.  In 3 years+ of dsl, I've been hit 3

I've been hit a few times as well - had this ip here since Dec 2000
(dsl) which is not too bad. I found portsentry (once I discovered it,
and how it would fix things) invaluable when the slapper vairants were
in vogue. Once I came to my system, and found that internet activity
was severely impaired - thanks to all the funny stuff going on, I could
barely get enough bandwidth to load up a web page. Once I figured out
what was going on, I employed portsentry -- it stopped all that stuff
in a few minutes.

The other two times - was running a less than secure redhat system,
someone telnetted in (hate telnet) and was able to get through a
backdoor (insecure password on one of the admin "users"). The other
time was through a security hole in one of the smtp related apache
services. That one took a little while to recover from - basically some
persons unknown had used the exploit to use my box to send spam & they
did it using obscenely long www addresses to do it.

One thing - check logs. Any big increase in log size is a  clue that
something fishy is going on. I noticed the activity first by seemingly
high activity on /dev/eth0 as reported by gkrellm -- after all, I
wasn't doing much of anything, no ftp, no big mail downloads, etc., yet
the meter was being pinged. But the real clue was an auth.log.0 of >1.2
megabytes, where typically it's a couple of K.


> times hard enough to make it to the logs, and 2 of them

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Re: commands and packages

[Stephen R Laniel]

On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 02:57:15AM +, enediel gonzalez wrote:
> ypcat rusers ypwhich xhost

Well, the yp* files are part of NIS, which is in the package
called 'nis'.

> ?How could I know the package's name who contains a specific command?

If you think the package is already located on your machine,
you can do

dlocate ypwhich

or whatnot. If you don't know whether it's on your machine,
you can run

apt-file update; apt-file search ypwhich

If apt-file isn't already installed on your machine, you can
do

sudo apt-get install apt-file

Cheers,
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Re: Audio i/o

[Jason Martens]

Antony Gelberg wrote:


Roger Creasy wrote:


Hello:

I am trying to use an audio editing/recording program named Audacity. 
When I start the program, I an error saying that it failed to 
initialise the audio i/o error. I changed the ownership of /dev/dsp 
to the user and set permissions to 666. Now if I first run 'killall 
artsd' Audacity starts with no errors. The problem that I have is 
that I did not have to do these things with a previous install of my 
os. Any ideas as to how I can just run the program without the work 
around?



If you joined #debian, the dpkg bot would tell you (as part of unix 
lessons), not to screw with permissions.  What you really want to do 
is add your user to the audio group.



Are you using kde or gnome?  What you have to do is disable arts so that 
it doesn't start by default.  But this will cause problems if you are 
using kde (sounds won't work).  The /dev/dsp files should be permission 
660 (they are on my installation).  To add yourself to the audio group, 
run "groups roger" to get a list of groups you are in already, then as 
root run "groups -G roger dialout cdrom etc roger" where the last entry 
is your username, and everything between -G and the last entry are the 
groups you want to be in.


Jason


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commands and packages

[enediel gonzalez]

Hello

I  need to install a sofware who requires the following commands to work 
properly, the installation detects that they aren't installed yet.


ypcat rusers ypwhich xhost

?How could I know the package's name who contains a specific command?
I have at this moment sarge stable


Thanks in advance for any answer

Enediel

Linux user 398956



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Re: reboot with fsck and bad block check

[Seeker5528]

On Sat, 1 Oct 2005 22:04:15 +1200
Chris Bannister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> > I see that the badblocks man page has a big fat warning:
> [..] 
> >   This  can  be  overridden  using the -f
> > flag, but should almost never be used --- if you think you're smarter
> > than the badblocks program, you almost certainly aren't.  
> [..]
> 
> I'm sorry, I'll read that again. Um it *is* in the man page!

Fsck.ext3 and fsck.ext2 are file system specific and have the -c option
to check for bad blocks, but these are not called directly by the init
scripts during the boot process.

Fsck is called during boot up, which hands off the workload to the
file system specific variants as needed and the man page only lists a
subset of the file system specific options, no -c option.

If you type fsck --help at the command line, it shows you the fsck.ext3
options that show on the fsck.ext3 man page not the generic subset
that shows on the fsck man page.

If it did accept the -c option it would be less of a hack job to get it
to be used, but I think it would still take hacking on the init scripts.

Later, Seeker


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Re: How to install under a SATA disk?

[Jason Martens]

Han Chunwei wrote:


Hi,
I have two questions to ask:
1. The cpu of my computer is AMD Athlon64 2800+, which distribution
should I use?32bit or 64bit?
2. The hard-disk is of SATA type, and I can't install the system from
hard-disk(I don't have a CD-Rom). I have tried every method to do this
and failed. I nearly got despaired.
Please figure out a way to solve the problems. Thank you!
 

You could also use pxe or network boot to install the system.  Look at 
the release notes of sarge for info about netboot images.  You do have 
to have a tftp and bootp or dhcp server available.


Jason Martens


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Re: SSH attack

[David E. Fox]

On Sun, 2 Oct 2005 22:57:25 -0700
Jared Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> It looks like I am being rooted right now.  How do I toss this guy off
> of my system.  he has an IP address of 210.95.212.131

It's happening here. I've logged thousands of attempts from chinanet
and kornet within the last few days. I've reported (as if that would do
any good) with "Free Tibet" and of course copies of the log - 500K in
one instance(!) but am more interested in just blocking their
entire /24 if need be.

The question is - how?

IP 210.95.212.131 (using whois) belongs to pubnet.ne.kr. I'd send a
heads up email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and CC it to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

> Please get back to me fast.  I took the compilers off of the system,

If you only see "Failed attempt" then you're probably safe - there are
probably script kiddies running password sniffers or crackers. Note the
port(s) tried - in my case they are non-standard ones - and block them
with your firewall. Check and/or install chkrootkit.

I certainly hope you're not infected, and if so, you'll need to
reinstall.

> Jared


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Re: Using both Mutt and graphical email client with maildir

[roach]

On Monday 03 October 2005 14:38, Ric Otte wrote:
<...>
> Since urlview didn't
> work well for me, I usually simply copy and paste the link into
> Firefox, but I keep thinking there must be an easier way.

KDE's Klipper supports actions on clipboard contents.

<...>
> So, does anyone have any experience with any
> graphical mail client that can work with maildir format?

Kmail handels maildir.

<...>

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Re: Is there any application like Google Desktop on Linux?

[Jason Martens]

Jerzy Kozera wrote:


On Tuesday, 4 of October 2005 18:48, TAC Forums wrote:
 


I just saw the power of Goolge Desktop on a Windows XP machine. Is
there any application like it on GNU/Linux (Debian)?
   



There are at least two similiar open-source projects:
- Beagle [http://beaglewiki.org/] for GNOME, written with mono
- Kat [http://kat.mandriva.com/ - .deb's are there] for KDE

There's beagle package in Sid, but it doesn't seem to have the latest version, 
so you might want to try building it from sources..
 

Beagle is in unstable now.  It's still a little buggy, but it works for 
the most part.


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Re: boot stalls on ntpdate [was bootlog, control of modules]

[Matt Price]

On 10/3/05, Edward J Shornock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Edward J. Shornock wrote:
>
> A moot point now...
>
>
> sysvinit (2.86.ds1-4) unstable; urgency=low
this is great, thank you.  I now have bootlogd running!  (found htis
out when I finally had an opportunity to reboot,  bit of a stressful
weekend).  COmmenting out a bunch of modules helped my problems,
thanks much for that help folks.

I notice now that bootup is stalling on ntpdate.  Here's what I see on
bootlog...
Tue Oct  4 21:13:32 2005: Running ntpdate to synchronize clockError :
Temporary failure in name resolution
Tue Oct  4 21:14:12 2005: .
so it hangs for about a minute.  I assume that the internet connection
has not been brought up yet when ntpdate is run... any suyggestions
what I should do?  The init script for ntpdate is currently
/etc/rcS.d/S51ntpdate, which i think is the default.

thanks!

matt

do download after system upgrade

[Fred J.]

After dist-upgrade from woody to testing, and kernel
upgrade from 2.6.8 to 2.6.12-1-686
I am not able to download but able to connect, using
the 2.6.12 but the problem does not exist in 2.6.8.
do I have twick and recompile 2.6.12?

With 2.6.8 (the working kernel)
#ping iprimus.com
PING iprimus.com (209.227.167.12): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 209.227.167.12: icmp_seq=0 ttl=117
time=397.6 ms

#traceroute 209.227.167.12
traceroute to 209.227.167.12 (209.227.167.12), 30 hops
max, 40 byte packets
1 * * *
2 vlan103.sw01.syd.iprimus.net.au (192.168.26.9)
297.991 ms 291.707 ms 120.934 ms
3 ge11-0-0.br02.syd.iprimus.net.au (203.134.2.174)
121.885 ms 116.964 ms 117.875 ms
4 p4-2.cr2-sjc.primustel.com (209.227.129.249) 269.871
ms 267.847 ms 269.912 ms
5 p3-0.cr1-jfk.primustel.com (209.227.128.110) 338.829
ms 338.793 ms 336.888 ms
6 a6-0-105.cr1-jc2.primustel.com (209.227.129.213)
337.899 ms 337.842 ms 334.838 ms
7 s2-0.cr2-jbr.primustel.com (209.227.129.126) 381.956
ms 502.806 ms 444.863 ms
8 209.227.135.229 (209.227.135.229) 339.909 ms 337.821
ms 337.881 ms
9 * * *
10 * * *
11 * * *
…
30 * * *


With 2.6.12 (the not working kernel)
#ping 209.227.167.12
PING 209.227.167.12(209.227.167.12): 56 data bytes
and nothing more

#traceroute 209.227.167.12
1 debian (192.168.0.1) 2112.434 ms !H 2999.792 ms !H
3000.451 ms !H
and nothing more

Is this a routing or a name resolution problem and how
do I take it from here?

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Re: Keeping a closet cool (was Re: IDE controller card recommendation)

[Josh Battles]

Ron Johnson said:
> On Tue, 4 Oct 2005 15:19:32 -0500 (CDT)
> "Josh Battles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> TreeBoy said:
>> > On Tuesday 04 Oct 2005 19:39, Josh Battles wrote:
> [snip]
>>
>> LOL, It added less than $10/monthly onto my bill.
>>
>> Suprisingly, noise isn't too bad.  The cable internet line comes
>> into my condo in my front hall closet, so that's where my router
>> and server reside. They're out of the way and the closet door
>> keeps the noise inside.
>
> How do you ensure that cool fresh air circulates in and hot air
> flows out?

I don't really, but the door has some louvers on the bottom half and there's
a 2" gap under the door...  I should probably put some sort of fan in there
too but I'm lazy and it's run fine for over 6 months now.

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Exim ignoring aliases, relaying email to incorrect addresses.

[Stefhen Hovland]

Hi,

I have successfully setup my debian box to send email to my gmail
account, but it is not expanding aliases correctly, and it is sending
email to the wrong [EMAIL PROTECTED]

I would like to have any email sent to just "root" or my local login
account via cron, logwatch, etc, automatically forwarded to my gmail
account, but exim is forwarding my email to myself, and then also it
looks like to [EMAIL PROTECTED], or [EMAIL PROTECTED], which are my
unexpanded userid's on my debian box.

Config files are as such:

# /etc/aliases
mailer-daemon: postmaster
postmaster: root
nobody: root
hostmaster: root
usenet: root
news: root
webmaster: root
www: root
ftp: root
abuse: root
noc: root
security: root
root: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
hovland: [EMAIL PROTECTED]



# This is /etc/email-addresses. It is part of the exim package
#
# This file contains email addresses to use for outgoing mail. Any local
# part not in here will be qualified by the system domain as normal.
#
# It should contain lines of the form:
#
#user: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
#otheruser: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

root: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
hovland: [EMAIL PROTECTED]



# /etc/exim4/passwd.client
### CONFDIR/passwd.client
#
# Format:
#targetmailserver.example:login:password
#
# default entry:
### *:bar:foo
*:stefhen.hovland:password


Example transaction from me as hovland trying to email "root", on my local box:

2005-10-04 19:39:25 1EMxJd-0001tx-SK <= [EMAIL PROTECTED]
U=hovland P=local S=429 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
2005-10-04 19:39:27 1EMxJd-0001tx-SK => [EMAIL PROTECTED] R=smarthost
T=remote_smtp_smarthost H=gmail-smtp.l.google.com [72.14.205.109]
X=TLS-1.0:RSA_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA:24
2005-10-04 19:39:27 1EMxJd-0001tx-SK Completed

Shouldnt root get translated to -> [EMAIL PROTECTED]

I will receive my message on my gmail account which was directed to
root, but I also get an error response from gmail that it was trying
to forward my email also to the user: [EMAIL PROTECTED]


Example:

This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification

Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently:

[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Technical details of permanent failure:
PERM_FAILURE: SMTP Error (state 9): 550 5.7.1 No such user i19si239371wxd

  - Original message -

Received: by 10.64.204.6 with SMTP id b6mr108721qbg;
   Tue, 04 Oct 2005 17:39:27 -0700 (PDT)
Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Received: from localhost.lan ( [68.58.2.94])
   by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id e13sm119870qbe.2005.10.04.17.39.27;
   Tue, 04 Oct 2005 17:39:27 -0700 (PDT)l to [EMAIL PROTECTED] it
looks like also:



Any thoughts?

Thanks,
Stefhen

Re: Using xfig

[Katipo]

Rogério Brito wrote:


On Oct 02 2005, Alvin Oga wrote:
 


i can only draw squares with xfig or dia or geda
- too much buttons and menus just to make simple
squares, rectangles, cirles, lines, and arrows
   



Really, using xfig is an excellent option for those interested in
generating (vector) graphics that can be used, say, with (La)TeX
documents.

 

Exactly how the hardcopy of 'Rute User's Tutorial and Exposition' was 
prepared for publishing.


Typeset in TEX, using LaTEX2e book class (palatino), converted to PDF 
using dvipdfm, and to HTML with LaTEX2HTML. Illustrations by Xfig 3.2, 
Gimp 1.1, and autotrace.


Info inside the backcover.

Doesn't look bad to me.


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Re: EXIM Anyone can help me ?

[Kjetil Kjernsmo]

On tirsdag 04 oktober 2005, 22:08, Sylvain MARTINS wrote:
> I want to send mails from my network using my debian box and it's ok
> if the recipient is local but not if recipient is non local :(
>  
> i just want to authorize any hosts on my network to send mails all
> over the world as they can do from webmail on debian box...

Right. 

Hmmm, well, for one thing, you appear to be running exim version 3. I 
find it strange that it is included in Debian at all, because the 
developers has discouraged people from using it for at least a year.

However, you might get away with installing
exim4-daemon-light

Furthermore, the thing you probably want is SMTP AUTH. That's supported 
by Exim. Exim 3 had it, but I never got it to work, but with Exim 4, it 
just worked, rather magically... Problem is, I can't explain to you how 
I did it, because it just suddenly worked, I don't quite know what I 
did... But it involves setting a file with passwords and stuff. Once 
you have Exim 4 installed, you could look in 
/etc/exim4/conf.d/auth/30_exim4-config_examples
I think that's it. But takes some work, good luck! :-)

Best,

Kjetil
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Re: login then .xsession stuff

[Paolo Pantaleo]

2005/10/4, Fred J. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Hello
>
> When I boot up with my debian testing/usnstable
> 2.6.12, it gives the login screen wdm. I have icewm
> selected and like to use it. But I want to see xterm
> and emacs open as soon as I login. So I created
> .xsession file in my home directory and in it I put
> #! /bin/bash
> #
> xterm –bg black –fg white &
> emacs &
> exec /usr/bin/icewm
>
> >From the wdm, I select "default" as the window manager
> to start, type in login in info, hit Go, it goes and
> comes back (the same login screen).
> >From the wdm, I select icewm as the window manager; it
> logs me in but does not open the xterm and emacs as
> expected.
>
> Could some one help?
>
> Thanks
>
>

Just a suggestion, you can set some icewm internal (like a session
manager if it exists... ido not know) to load emacs & Co.
(I am not so sure that a display manager will execute .xsession)

PAolo

Re: SSH attack

[Noah Meyerhans]

On Sun, Oct 02, 2005 at 10:57:25PM -0700, Jared Hall wrote:
> It looks like I am being rooted right now.  How do I toss this guy off
> of my system.  he has an IP address of 210.95.212.131
> 
> Please get back to me fast.  I took the compilers off of the system,
> and it's only running dns... so there's no firewall or anything.  I
> can't shut down ssh because that's my only connection to the system.

What makes you think you're being rooted?  (Terminology note: rooted
means that the user has obtained root access to your machine.  If you've
been rooted, you should do what you can to find the entry vector, and
then reinstall your machine from trusted media, taking care to insure
that the entry vector is now closed.)

noah



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Re: Securing SSH: Does disabling password authentication work?

[Noah Meyerhans]

On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 10:14:58AM -0500, Steve Block wrote:
> Users can still connect to the server and type in their passwords on the
> screen without any trouble. Public keys work fine as well. Am I right in
> assuming that the password based scripted login attempts will fail even
> if they somehow (heaven forbid) guess a valid password? Is there an easy
> way to test this? I've only ever used keyboard-interactive login and
> public keys.

No, the worms will still be able to compromise your machine if you've
got keyboard-interactive enabled but password disabled.  I've seen this
from experience.  At my site, which does not have local passwords on
machines and thus have "PasswordAuthentication no" in
/etc/ssh/sshd_config, we are still scanned daily and see sshd logs such
as:
Oct  4 09:44:54 sake sshd[11097]: Failed keyboard-interactive for illegal user 
temp from 217.171.66.41 port 56390 ssh2

> 
> Advice and insight are appreciated.
> 

My advice is to discourage the use of passwords, but insist that if
passwords are used, they must be good ones.  Our kerberos passwords, for
example, must be a minimum of 8 characters long and use multiple
character classes.

noah



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Keeping a closet cool (was Re: IDE controller card recommendation)

[Ron Johnson]

On Tue, 4 Oct 2005 15:19:32 -0500 (CDT)
"Josh Battles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> TreeBoy said:
> > On Tuesday 04 Oct 2005 19:39, Josh Battles wrote:
[snip]
> 
> LOL, It added less than $10/monthly onto my bill.
> 
> Suprisingly, noise isn't too bad.  The cable internet line comes
> into my condo in my front hall closet, so that's where my router
> and server reside. They're out of the way and the closet door
> keeps the noise inside.

How do you ensure that cool fresh air circulates in and hot air
flows out?


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EXIM Anyone can help me ?

[Sylvain MARTINS]

Hello,
 
I've a debian box 
with exim+amavis+spamcheck and all it's ok.
I can send and 
receive mail from over the world...buti can send only from my debian 
box.
 
I want to send mails 
from my network using my debian box and it's ok if the recipient is local but 
not if recipient is non local :(
 
i just want to 
authorize any hosts on my network to send mails all over the world as they 
can do from webmail on debian box...
 
Can you help me 
?
 
I join my 
exim.conf
 
Sorry for my 
english
 
Sylvain
 


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Re: Skipping kernel module

[Marco]

Niall Donegan ha scritto:


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the rows of the /etc/modules file are all commenting.
   



 


I have also this error message when my computer start
"kernel: No module symbols loaded - kernel modules not enabled"
   



Have you compiled your own kernel? What is in /proc/modules?

Niall.
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Hi,
I have compiled my kernel from kernel-source-2.6.8-16 package.

The file /proc/modules is blank!!

Any idea???

Thanks
Marco


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Re: Skipping kernel module

[Niall Donegan]

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Marco wrote:
> the rows of the /etc/modules file are all commenting.

> I have also this error message when my computer start
> "kernel: No module symbols loaded - kernel modules not enabled"

Have you compiled your own kernel? What is in /proc/modules?

Niall.
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Re: IDE controller card recommendation

[Josh Battles]

TreeBoy said:
> On Tuesday 04 Oct 2005 19:39, Josh Battles wrote:
>>
>> Well, I'm not actually running them in a RAID array
>>
>> I used the cards as regular IDE drive controller cards.  I got my grubby
>> little hands on a box of 40GB harddrives for free so I kept 10 of them for
>> myself and donated the rest to some friends. I used 2 drives with the
>> on-board IDE controller to host the OS (Sarge) and the created a ~320GB
>> spanned drive using LVM on the other 8 drives.
>>
>> Of the 2 drives on the onboard IDE controller, one of them has everything
>> on it except the /home partition.  I chose to put /home on the second 40GB
>> drive so that if I wanted to reinstall for any reason I would have a safe
>> haven to store my data.
>>
>> Granted this probably isn't an ideal setup but it was inexpensive and has
>> been very reliable for the past 6 months.  I've had no hardware related
>> issues whatsoever.
>>
>> --
>> - Josh
>> www.omg-stfu.com
>
> Don't mean to be negative - but who pays your electricity bill?
>
> And who manufactures you ear defenders ?
>
>
> ;->

LOL, It added less than $10/monthly onto my bill.

Suprisingly, noise isn't too bad.  The cable internet line comes into my
condo in my front hall closet, so that's where my router and server reside. 
They're out of the way and the closet door keeps the noise inside.

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Re: Is there any application like Google Desktop on Linux?

[Jerzy Kozera]

On Tuesday, 4 of October 2005 18:48, TAC Forums wrote:
> I just saw the power of Goolge Desktop on a Windows XP machine. Is
> there any application like it on GNU/Linux (Debian)?

There are at least two similiar open-source projects:
- Beagle [http://beaglewiki.org/] for GNOME, written with mono
- Kat [http://kat.mandriva.com/ - .deb's are there] for KDE

There's beagle package in Sid, but it doesn't seem to have the latest version, 
so you might want to try building it from sources..
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Intel Pro Wireless 2011 LAN PCI Carrier

[Tika]

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Hello List,

I own a Intel WPCR2011WW Intel Pro Wireless 2011 LAN PCI Carrier and also
the PCMCIA Intel card fit to that carrier. I tried to use it under Sarge
Kernel 2.6.13. lspci says unknown device and modprobe isn't able to find any
suitable module. Can anyone help me to get this thing working? I don't know
if there is a special module for that carrier or even how this pcmcia to pci
interface works.

Thanks in advance

Sascha Hesse

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login then .xsession stuff

[Fred J.]

Hello

When I boot up with my debian testing/usnstable
2.6.12, it gives the login screen wdm. I have icewm
selected and like to use it. But I want to see xterm
and emacs open as soon as I login. So I created
.xsession file in my home directory and in it I put
#! /bin/bash
#
xterm –bg black –fg white &
emacs &
exec /usr/bin/icewm

>From the wdm, I select “default” as the window manager
to start, type in login in info, hit Go, it goes and
comes back (the same login screen).
>From the wdm, I select icewm as the window manager; it
logs me in but does not open the xterm and emacs as
expected.

Could some one help?

Thanks




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Re: MySQL Error

[Meni Shapiro]

Can you connect to the mysql from localhost?
If so connect as root/admin and do the following:
mysql>use mysql;
mysql>insert into user (host,user,password) values ('%','',password('some_password');
mysql>flush privileges;

I think that will do the trick...

MeniOn 10/4/05, Brett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Tue, 2005-10-04 at 03:10, Nelson Castillo wrote:> > MySQL Error Nr. 1130> > Host '192.168.0.170' is not allowed to connect to this MySQL server>> > suggest a solution?
>> http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=mysql+1130&btnG=SearchAnd in reply to the grandparent email (which I seem to have lost):
There was a mysql security update recently. If, during that update youallowed apt to overwrite your changes to your /etc/mysql/my.cnf file,mysql may not have it's network support enabled (disabled by default).
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Re: IDE controller card recommendation

[TreeBoy]

On Tuesday 04 Oct 2005 19:39, Josh Battles wrote:
>
> Well, I'm not actually running them in a RAID array
>
> I used the cards as regular IDE drive controller cards.  I got my grubby
> little hands on a box of 40GB harddrives for free so I kept 10 of them for
> myself and donated the rest to some friends. I used 2 drives with the
> on-board IDE controller to host the OS (Sarge) and the created a ~320GB
> spanned drive using LVM on the other 8 drives.
>
> Of the 2 drives on the onboard IDE controller, one of them has everything
> on it except the /home partition.  I chose to put /home on the second 40GB
> drive so that if I wanted to reinstall for any reason I would have a safe
> haven to store my data.
>
> Granted this probably isn't an ideal setup but it was inexpensive and has
> been very reliable for the past 6 months.  I've had no hardware related
> issues whatsoever.
>
> --
> - Josh
> www.omg-stfu.com

Don't mean to be negative - but who pays your electricity bill?

And who manufactures you ear defenders ?


;->


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pesky network connectivity on Dell PowerEdge 1850

[Orville Canter]

Hello,

I am running Debian 3.1 (Linux kernel 2.4.27-2-686-smp) on a Dell 
PowerEdge 1850 with two Xeon processors and two onboard Intel PRO/1000 
network interfaces. I am experiencing a very pesky problem wherein I 
periodically lose connectivity to network services on that host.


Currently I am just serving SSH and HTTP, and sometimes, after half an 
hour or so, I am suddenly unable to GET a document over HTTP or connect by 
SSH. Sometimes services are unavailable for only a minute, and sometimes 
five minutes, and sometimes several hours. There is nothing in the logs 
indicating that the NIC went down and back up during this time, and 
sometimes the interface is pingable (though not always). Sometimes I can 
connect from one host but not another (but not always). It doesn't appear 
to be trying to renegotiate the speed and duplex--at least there are no 
up/down messages in /var/log/messages.


I have tried several different network cables, both onboard NIC's, and two 
different switches. I recompiled the driver from Intel's source 
(http://downloadfinder.intel.com/scripts-df-external/confirm.aspx?ftpDown=ftp://aiedownload.intel.com/df-support/9180/eng/e1000-6.1.16.tar.gz&agr=N&ProductID=983&DwnldId=9180&strOSs=All&OSFullName=All%20Operating%20Systems&lang=eng) 
I am testing from two computers: a Solaris computer attached to the same 
switch and a remote FreeBSD machine connecting via the internet.



I am running this 
kernel:


Linux rescomp3 2.4.27-2-686-smp #1 SMP Mon May 16 16:55:31 JST 2005 i686 
GNU/Linux

I installed it from this package:

kernel-image-2.4.27-2-686-smp

Which I downloaded from via apt-get from:

deb http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/ stable main

Syn cookies are enabled in the kernel but not in use:

% cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_syncookies
0

Any ideas or suggestions would be much appreciated.


Thanks,
Orville



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didn't understand how something made up could be 'just as true' [as 
something that is true]".


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http://philip.greenspun.com/wtr/dead-trees/story




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Re: backup compress on the fly

[Tony Godshall]

According to Mike McCarty,
> Joe Mc Cool wrote:
...
> >
> >But, (now that I have installed all those lovely debian goodies), the
> >wretched tape is filling up and asking for another.   (I erase the
> >tape beforehand.)
> >
> >I really want to fit all my current data, or certainly selected dirs
> >unto one tape.  Surely I should be able to compress the files before
> >they are sent to the tape.  I suspect it can be done with gzip, but I am 
> >not sure of the syntax.  Obviously I need to get it right.
> 
> Whether compression is advisable depends on what your goal is.
> 
> If you are making archives, or you are backing up a system which,
> if it failed and you lost everything it would be a terrible
> disaster, then I recommend you *not* to compress your backups.
> 
> Compressed file formats are notoriously intolerant of medium
> errors. It might be better to do subset backups each of which
> fits onto a single tape.
...
> 
>   # tar cvz [list of places to back up]
> 
> The "c" means "create", the "v" is "verbose" (optional) and the "z"
> means "compress as with gzip the entire tar image".

Replace z with j if you want a .bz2 instead of a .gz (slower
but better compression)

For belt and suspenders, look at par... it's sort of a
file-level raid.  i.e. it makes a set of files with ecc that
can heal some corruption (at the cost of taking more space).
so if you .bz2 compress and then carefully choose your par
settings, you can still get a net compression.  that is,
assuming the contents of the drive being backed up are
highly compressible (i.e. no .avi .mpeg .jpeg .mp3 .gz .bz2
...)


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Disable Dell TrackStick

[Curtis Vaughan]

I have a Dell Inspirion 4000 that has both a trackstick (I think that's 
what it's called), as well as a trackpad. I really need to disable the 
trackstick somehow. Can anyone tell me how to do that?



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Re: IDE controller card recommendation

[Josh Battles]

Roberto C. Sanchez said:
> Quoting Josh Battles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
>> Roberto C. Sanchez said:
>>>
>>> I would like to use inexpensive cards (~$15-$30) since I will be setting
>>> up
>>> software RAID and this is an older server with older drives.  I have
>>> experience
>>> with certain Promise cards under Linux (and I am not happy with that
>>> experience).Personally, I am just looking to find out what cards
>>> people
>>> are
>>> using and how happy/unhappy they are with said cards.
>>
>> I've got 2 of these cards in my server at home.  They've been working great
>> for about 6 months now.
>>
>> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16815124001
>
> Excellent, I was planning on buying from newegg, so thanks for the specific
> product reference.  What driver does it use?  Are you also using the onboard
> IDE controllers in conjunction?  How many total drives are connected to all
> your controllers?
>
> -Roberto

Well, I'm not actually running them in a RAID array

I used the cards as regular IDE drive controller cards.  I got my grubby
little hands on a box of 40GB harddrives for free so I kept 10 of them for
myself and donated the rest to some friends. I used 2 drives with the
on-board IDE controller to host the OS (Sarge) and the created a ~320GB
spanned drive using LVM on the other 8 drives.

Of the 2 drives on the onboard IDE controller, one of them has everything on
it except the /home partition.  I chose to put /home on the second 40GB drive
so that if I wanted to reinstall for any reason I would have a safe haven to
store my data.

Granted this probably isn't an ideal setup but it was inexpensive and has
been very reliable for the past 6 months.  I've had no hardware related
issues whatsoever.

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Re: Moved to sarge: Great, but no sound!

[Hendrik Boom]

On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 08:50:59PM +0300, klkl lklk wrote:
> Hi all,
> i've recently moved from my beloved woody to sarge:Sarge IS GREAT!
> When i was using woody,my sound driver was called ens-1371 (
> Well, i was quite happy that ssarge had autodetected and loaded the correct
> alsa driver with kernel 2.6
> (On bootup it says:
> Loaded ens-1371 successfully)
> Here comes my issue:
> In GNOME,KDE,X AND console there's no error about sound, just no sound.
> I changed all the file permissions in /dev/snd to be readable and writable
> to anyone. But there's no sound! Ex. When I use the
> GNOME volume adjuster, it resets to 0 alone after i've pulled it up!
>  Please Help!
> Thank you in advance!


I found a few things that helped get sound working.

(1) run alsa-config, assuming you're using also, of course.
Sometime I had to rerun it every time I rebooted.
(2) If you are running alsa, make sure you do *not* have any OSS drivers
around.  They can be blacklisted, or not installed, or whatever.
Alsa's OSS emulator is OK, though.
(3) When I upgraded to etch, the problems came back until I installed
udev, discover, and hotplug.  These jountly seemed to recognise all
my hardware correctly and set up /dev.  You probably don't need
hotplug for sound, though (it recognised USB things).  I mention
it because I installed it at the same time, and you never know --
there might have been some arcane interaction.

-- hendrik


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On quotas

[Mauricio Tavares]

	So, I need to enable quotas for all users who have accounts in the 
/export partition (yes, I have used Solaris before and am kinda used to 
some of their way of doing things). Googling around, I found the page 
http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/notes/debian/quotas.html.  In it, the author 
 mentioned the 2.0 quota database did not like quotaon. Has anyone 
experienced that too?


Second, what is better: do a groupwise quota or one per user?


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Moved to sarge: Great, but no sound!

[klkl lklk]

Hi all,
i've recently moved from my beloved woody to sarge:Sarge IS GREAT!
When i was using woody,my sound driver was called ens-1371 (
Well, i was quite happy that ssarge had autodetected and loaded the correct alsa driver with kernel 2.6
(On bootup it says:
Loaded ens-1371 successfully)
Here comes my issue:
In GNOME,KDE,X AND console there's no error about sound, just no sound.
I changed all the file permissions in /dev/snd to be readable and writable to anyone. But there's no sound! Ex. When I use the
GNOME volume adjuster, it resets to 0 alone after i've pulled it up!
 
Please Help!Thank you in advance!
-- Kirk: Can the computer lay out an attacking plan?Scotty: Aye, sir! With linux, everything's possible! 

Re: IDE controller card recommendation

[Erik Karlin]

On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 12:25:06PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> Quoting Josh Battles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> 
> >Roberto C. Sanchez said:
> >>
> >>I would like to use inexpensive cards (~$15-$30) since I will be setting 
> >>up
> >>software RAID and this is an older server with older drives.  I have
> >>experience
> >>with certain Promise cards under Linux (and I am not happy with that
> >>experience).Personally, I am just looking to find out what cards 
> >>people
> >>are
> >>using and how happy/unhappy they are with said cards.
> >
> >I've got 2 of these cards in my server at home.  They've been working great
> >for about 6 months now.
> >
> >http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16815124001
> 
> Excellent, I was planning on buying from newegg, so thanks for the specific
> product reference.  What driver does it use?  Are you also using the onboard
> IDE controllers in conjunction?  How many total drives are connected to all
> your controllers?
> 
> -Roberto
> 
I've got two of these:
http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16815104214

just plugged them in and they worked. running sarge 2.4.27. I'm using my
internal ports with 1 drive on one, and a drive + dvdrom on the other.
the others all have one drive on each. i've got a 6 drive raid10 system
all with 250g drives. I've read that you shouldn't use slave drives with
software raid. everything is a master (except the dvd which is a slave,
but hardly used)



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Re: Skipping kernel module

[Marco]

Niall Donegan ha scritto:


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Marco wrote:
 


Hi all,
I have this message on syslog at startup.
*kernel: Skipping* *unavailable */ *built  module.**
kernel: Skipping* *unavailable */ *built  module.


*Can you help me to delete this message on my log???
   



Check /etc/modules and get rid of the offending modules.

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Hi Niall,
the rows of the /etc/modules file are all commenting.

I have also this error message when my computer start
"kernel: No module symbols loaded - kernel modules not enabled"

These two problems could be connect??

Help!!!
Thanks

Marco


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Re: libmysqlclient12 and libmysqlclient14

[Brian Nelson]

"Christopher L. Everett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Maurits van Rees wrote:
>
>> 
>>
>>So if I would remove libmysqlclient12 then these packages would be
>>removed as well.  Not all packages that you mention are in this list.
>>But there are packages that also depend on packages in this list, so
>>they would be removed too.  So let's look one step further:
>>
>>$ apt-cache rdepends libmysqlclient12 | sed "s/|//" | grep -v "Reverse 
>>Depends" | COLUMNS=120  xargs dpkg -l | grep ^ii | sort | uniq | cut -d " " 
>>-f3 | xargs -n 1 apt-cache rdepends | sed "s/|//" | grep -v "Reverse Depends" 
>>| COLUMNS=120 xargs dpkg -l | grep ^ii | sort | uniq
>>ii  libdbd-mysql-perl2.9006-1 A Perl5 database 
>>interface to the MySQL database
>>ii  libmyodbc3.51.09-1the MySQL ODBC driver
>>ii  libmysqlclient12 4.0.24-10sarge1  mysql database client 
>>library
>>ii  mysql-client-4.1 4.1.11a-4sarge2  mysql database client 
>>binaries
>>ii  php4-mysql   4.3.10-16MySQL module for php4
>>ii  phpmyadmin   2.6.2-3  set of PHP-scripts to 
>>administrate MySQL over the WWW
>>ii  python-mysqldb   1.2.1c2-1A Python interface to 
>>MySQL
>>ii  python2.2-mysqldb1.2.1c2-1A Python interface to 
>>MySQL
>>ii  python2.3-mysqldb1.2.1c2-1A Python interface to 
>>MySQL
>>ii  unixodbc 2.2.4-11 ODBC tools libraries
>>
>>
> For mysql-client-4.1 to require libmysqlclient12 is so wrong I can't even
> contemplate it rationally.  It should require libmysqlclient14 only, as the
> upstream intended.

It doesn't require libmysqlclient12 directly.  However, it depends on
libdbd-mysql-perl, which is built against libmysqlclient12.  So rebuild
libdbd-mysql-perl against libmysqlclient14 and then libmysqlclient12
should be removable.

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Re: authinticating email with a windows domain

[Laurent CARON]

theal a écrit :

I forgot to add that this is already set up on the LAN and working. I 
need to move the server to a co-location facility and get the 
authentication working over the wan.
 
Tony


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*From:* theal 
*To:* debian-user@lists.debian.org

*Sent:* Tuesday, October 04, 2005 10:57 AM
*Subject:* authinticating email with a windows domain

I am trying to set up smtp (exim)  to authenticate with a windows
domain controller over a wan and I would like some idea on how to
proceed. Any help would be very much appreciated.
 
Tony



Through a vpn perhaps ?


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Re: unstable: udev and the elusive 2.6.12

[Monique Y. Mudama]

On 2005-10-04, Jason Martens penned:
> Monique Y. Mudama wrote:
>
>>
>>Hrm.  I guess I haven't been keeping up.  I assume this is to make
>>it easier to, say, have debian running with both linux and bsd, etc?
>>
> That is correct.  See this bug:
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=321167

Thanks!  That definitely clears it up.

-- 
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Is there any application like Google Desktop on Linux?

[TAC Forums]

Hi

I just saw the power of Goolge Desktop on a Windows XP machine. Is
there any application like it on GNU/Linux (Debian)?

Regards
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Re: IDE controller card recommendation

[Alvin Oga]

hi ya roberto

On Tue, 4 Oct 2005, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:

> I don't recall specifically (it has been over 2 years now).  I remember 
> that it
> was a PDC202XX, and it was an on-board deal (Gigabyte motherboard).  It was
> quite flaky.  It eventually failed and nuked the two drives connected to it.

the pdc20xxx series of ide controller is fine ..

how people put those chips onto mb and pci-ide controller
and i would not use gigabyte mb unless it was given to me for free,
and even than i'd probably not use it  it just doesn't work in the
situations we tested .. ( work reliably everytime, and we don't
have time to go debug and hit reset each time it hangs )

> I was using it for the RAID.  However, at the time I was not aware that the
> kernel software RAID functionality was superior 

for some cases, yeah .. its goood stuff ..

c ya
alvin


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Re: IDE controller card recommendation

[Roberto C. Sanchez]

Quoting Mariusz Kruk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:


Fred napisał(a):

I'm not going to answer about the right controller (dont have RAID
experience) but IIRC can you can only have four IDE controllers in
one system (Primary, Secondary, Tertiary & Quartinary) so your total
will be 8 drives including the CD-ROM?


Only if they are seen as IDE controllers from computer's point of
view. You could, for example get Promise Supertrak SX6000 and have
more ide controllers.


Does that mean that if I plug in the two cards I cannot use the four new
channels in addition to the two onboard channels?  Is there any way around
that?

-Roberto

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http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto

Re: IDE controller card recommendation

[Roberto C. Sanchez]

Quoting Josh Battles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:


Roberto C. Sanchez said:


I would like to use inexpensive cards (~$15-$30) since I will be setting up
software RAID and this is an older server with older drives.  I have
experience
with certain Promise cards under Linux (and I am not happy with that
experience).Personally, I am just looking to find out what cards people
are
using and how happy/unhappy they are with said cards.


I've got 2 of these cards in my server at home.  They've been working great
for about 6 months now.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16815124001


Excellent, I was planning on buying from newegg, so thanks for the specific
product reference.  What driver does it use?  Are you also using the onboard
IDE controllers in conjunction?  How many total drives are connected to all
your controllers?

-Roberto

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Re: IDE controller card recommendation

[Roberto C. Sanchez]

Quoting Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:



On Tue, 4 Oct 2005, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:


I am setting up a machine to act as an LTSP server for my church.  I have a
stack of old IDE hard drives that I want to use in a RAID 
configuration.  The

server's case has plenty of room for drives and a number of PCI expansion
slots.  I would like to get two PCI IDE controller cards to connect all the
drives with.  The server has an IDE CD-ROM, leaving 3 open slots in the
on-board controllers.  If I get two more cards (eah with two connectors), I
should be able to connect 8 more hard drives.


fun ..  that would normally be 8x 400GB of disk space :-)


Wouldn't that be nice.  If yo uare interested in donating the drives to my
church, let me know and I will give you the address :-)


I would like to use inexpensive cards (~$15-$30) since I will be setting up
software RAID and this is an older server with older drives. I have 
experience

with certain Promise cards under Linux (and I am not happy with that
experience).


what was the problem ?? which model .. where did you get it ..
- i think all parts should be bought at pc-parts-distributors
(reseller permit required) and not "me-too-virtual-web-stores"

I don't recall specifically (it has been over 2 years now).  I remember 
that it

was a PDC202XX, and it was an on-board deal (Gigabyte motherboard).  It was
quite flaky.  It eventually failed and nuked the two drives connected to it.


why is promise not good ??? just the plain ole ide controller
- it is the same as maxtor ide controllers too
( same promise chip )


I was using it for the RAID.  However, at the time I was not aware that the
kernel software RAID functionality was superior and the setup was inherited
from a previous admin who was a Red Hat fanboy.


their hw raid controllers suck .. but what do you expect for under $2000
hw raid controllers .. one gets what one pays for ??


True.  However, I didn't pay for it, so I had no say in the matter.


- don't ever use the motherboard bios based raid if your data
 is important to you


Please see above comments :-)


- in my book, here is no other ide-chipset i would use when we ship off
 to customers .. if you wanna pay $200 - $400 for 3ware .. i suppose
 thats an option too .. but why .. for sw raid

more raid fun
http://1U-Raid5.net/HowTo/

what the raid performance result should look like
http://www6.tomshardware.com/storage/2329/fastrak66-14.html



Maybe I was not clear in the way I stated myself.  I want a controller to use
only to connect some IDE drives.  I don't care (or really want) hardware RAID
functionality.  I am planning on using the software RAID functionailyt
available from the kernel.

-Roberto

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Re: Firefox middle click broken on stable?

[Kenneth Jacker]

  hermann> So purging mozilla-tabextensions solves the problem for me.

FYI:  I do not have 'mozilla-tabextensions' installed.

  -Kenneth


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Re: IDE controller card recommendation

[Mariusz Kruk]

Fred napisał(a):
I'm not going to answer about the right controller (dont have RAID 
experience) but IIRC can you can only have four IDE controllers in one 
system (Primary, Secondary, Tertiary & Quartinary) so your total will be 
8 drives including the CD-ROM?


Only if they are seen as IDE controllers from computer's point of view. 
You could, for example get Promise Supertrak SX6000 and have more ide 
controllers.



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Re: libmysqlclient12 and libmysqlclient14

[Christopher L. Everett]

Maurits van Rees wrote:




So if I would remove libmysqlclient12 then these packages would be
removed as well.  Not all packages that you mention are in this list.
But there are packages that also depend on packages in this list, so
they would be removed too.  So let's look one step further:

$ apt-cache rdepends libmysqlclient12 | sed "s/|//" | grep -v "Reverse Depends" | COLUMNS=120  xargs dpkg -l 
| grep ^ii | sort | uniq | cut -d " " -f3 | xargs -n 1 apt-cache rdepends | sed "s/|//" | grep -v 
"Reverse Depends" | COLUMNS=120 xargs dpkg -l | grep ^ii | sort | uniq
ii  libdbd-mysql-perl2.9006-1 A Perl5 database 
interface to the MySQL database
ii  libmyodbc3.51.09-1the MySQL ODBC driver
ii  libmysqlclient12 4.0.24-10sarge1  mysql database client 
library
ii  mysql-client-4.1 4.1.11a-4sarge2  mysql database client 
binaries
ii  php4-mysql   4.3.10-16MySQL module for php4
ii  phpmyadmin   2.6.2-3  set of PHP-scripts to 
administrate MySQL over the WWW
ii  python-mysqldb   1.2.1c2-1A Python interface to 
MySQL
ii  python2.2-mysqldb1.2.1c2-1A Python interface to 
MySQL
ii  python2.3-mysqldb1.2.1c2-1A Python interface to 
MySQL
ii  unixodbc 2.2.4-11 ODBC tools libraries
 


For mysql-client-4.1 to require libmysqlclient12 is so wrong I can't even
contemplate it rationally.  It should require libmysqlclient14 only, as the
upstream intended.


This list already contains the package mysql-client-4.1 that is in
your list, as it depends on libdbd-mysql-perl.  (See 'apt-cache
depends mysql-client-4.1'.)

Well, this is one way to start investigating why some packages are
begin removed.  Or you could just accept that apt-get knows what it is
doing and is correct in wanting to remove those programs. :) 


I assume you're being facetious.  I'd worry if you were serious.


BTW, if I
try aptitude it wants to remove roughly the same packages that you
mention.  So switching package managers would do you no good.
 


I don't want to switch package managers.  I want to do the right thing,
which is to have all my database connections to the MySQL *4.1* server
on my box going through libmysqlclient14, as the upstream intended.

Anything else is useless to me, as I can't downgrade to MySQL 4.0, I'm
using MySQL 4.1 specific code in hundreds of places.

Is there a workaround using Debian package management?

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Re: unstable: udev and the elusive 2.6.12

[Jason Martens]

Monique Y. Mudama wrote:


On 2005-10-03, Antony Gelberg penned:
 


Monique Y. Mudama wrote:
   


I must be missing something here ...
 


Yep.

   


Er, I just noticed an earlier post referring to linux-source-2.6.12
  is this a new naming convention?
 


Yep.

   



Hrm.  I guess I haven't been keeping up.  I assume this is to make it
easier to, say, have debian running with both linux and bsd, etc?

 

That is correct.  See this bug: 
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=321167


Jason


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Re: Printer

[Malcolm Lalkaka]

> [Please trim your posts and don't top post]

Sorry, I'll remember that from now on.
But should I leave a copy of the full message at the bottom, so people
have reference to it when they read it?


> Have you managed to fix this yet. Is the printer supported?
> Correct driver? Debian kernel, or self compiled, or ...?
>
> Does the printer work on another computer/os?

No, I haven't managed to fix this yet. The printer is supported; it
worked with kernel version 2.6.8. The correct driver is installed; it
is the same one used by kernel 2.6.8. I am now using a debian kernel.
The kernel 2.6.8 was a compiled kernel, but it was based on the debian
kernel; the only additions to that kernel were a supermount patch and
vesa support. I don't believe CUPS is the problem because I'm able to
use it to print to another printer over the network. And I know the
printer works because it was working just before I upgraded to kernel
version 2.6.12. Need any more information? Any help would be
appreciated.

Thanks,
Malcolm

Re: IDE controller card recommendation

[Fred]

Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:


I am setting up a machine to act as an LTSP server for my church.  I have a
stack of old IDE hard drives that I want to use in a RAID configuration.  The
server's case has plenty of room for drives and a number of PCI expansion
slots.  I would like to get two PCI IDE controller cards to connect all the
drives with.  The server has an IDE CD-ROM, leaving 3 open slots in the
on-board controllers.  If I get two more cards (eah with two connectors), I
should be able to connect 8 more hard drives.
 

I'm not going to answer about the right controller (dont have RAID 
experience) but IIRC can you can only have four IDE controllers in one 
system (Primary, Secondary, Tertiary & Quartinary) so your total will be 
8 drives including the CD-ROM?



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Re: Skipping kernel module

[Niall Donegan]

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> Hi all,
> I have this message on syslog at startup.
> *kernel: Skipping* *unavailable */ *built  module.**
> kernel: Skipping* *unavailable */ *built  module.
> 
> 
> *Can you help me to delete this message on my log???

Check /etc/modules and get rid of the offending modules.

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Re: Fwd: gnome program problem

[Malcolm Lalkaka]

Are you trying to connect remotely?
If you are, then you have to use "xhost" to give permission for remote
X Clients to connect to your X Server computer. Remember, the X Server
is the computer that is connected to the keyboard and mouse that you
will be using. The X Client is the computer that runs the program. In
other words, the X Server is the local computer, and the X Client is
the remote computer.

Example 1:
--
X Server hostname: xserver.local.com
X Client hostname: xclient.remote.com

On the X Server...
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ xhost +xclient.remote.com

On the X Client (possibly using SSH login)...
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ export DISPLAY=xserver.local.com:0
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ gimp &
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$
--

NOTES:
1. This example assumes the display number used on the X Server is 0.
The DISPLAY environment variable on xclient.remote.com should be
"xserver.local.com:", where  is the display
number being used.
2. Host names can be changed to IP addresses instead.
3. I believe this should work. There may be firewall/NAT issues, but I
don't know what ports need to be opened.
4. The '&' in the command "gimp &" is optional.

Or, you could use SSH and do it the simple, secure way.
Example 2:
--
On X Server:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ssh -X [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Password:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ gimp &
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$
--

Notes 2 - 4 apply to Example 2 as well.

Hope this helps,
Malcolm.


On 10/4/05, 张勇顺 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 10/4/05, Bill Marcum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 08:42:49PM +0800, 张勇顺 wrote:
> > >
> > > now i can't uses any gnome program with this user. but i an uses those
> with
> > > other users
> > > i know that is my setting errm i am try to add DISPLAY=LOCALHOST: 0.0 in
> > > ~/.bashrc but the problem is the same ..
> > >
> > DISPLAY should equal :0.0, but that is set by the X server, not by
> > ~/.bashrc.  No script should change DISPLAY, unless you are running X
> > applications to display on another screen.
> >
> >
> > --
> > Meekness:  Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while.
> > -- Ambrose Bierce
> > now i am remove
> >
>  DISPLAY=LOCALHOST: 0.0 from ~/.bashrc
> problem is always that
>  [EMAIL PROTECTED]:18:20:28/home/willfullrivatuner#2]$ gedit
> Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
> Xlib: No protocol specified
>
>
> (gedit:18828): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:
>

Re: authinticating email with a windows domain

[theal]

I forgot to add that this is already set up on the 
LAN and working. I need to move the server to a co-location facility and get the 
authentication working over the wan.
 
Tony

  - Original Message - 
  From: 
  theal 
  To: debian-user@lists.debian.org 
  
  Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2005 10:57 
  AM
  Subject: authinticating email with a 
  windows domain
  
  I am trying to set up smtp (exim)  to 
  authenticate with a windows domain controller over a wan and I would like some 
  idea on how to proceed. Any help would be very much appreciated.
   
  Tony

Re: No Swap

[Dave Ewart]

On Tuesday, 04.10.2005 at 08:32 -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote:

> How much RAM do you have?  I don't think Linux uses swap until RAM
> starts to run out.  I have a gigabyte (should I say Gigibyte these
> days?) of RAM, and as far as I know, I've *never* used swap.

Some interesting points about swap here:

http://sourcefrog.net/weblog/software/linux-kernel/swap.html

Despite what some believe, using swap (even when you've got *loads* of
RAM) isn't a bad thing and can actually improve system performance.

Dave.
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Re: IDE controller card recommendation

[Josh Battles]

Roberto C. Sanchez said:
>
> I would like to use inexpensive cards (~$15-$30) since I will be setting up
> software RAID and this is an older server with older drives.  I have
> experience
> with certain Promise cards under Linux (and I am not happy with that
> experience).Personally, I am just looking to find out what cards people
> are
> using and how happy/unhappy they are with said cards.

I've got 2 of these cards in my server at home.  They've been working great
for about 6 months now.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16815124001

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Re: authinticating email with a windows domain

[anoop aryal]

On Tuesday 04 October 2005 09:57 am, theal wrote:
> I am trying to set up smtp (exim)  to authenticate with a windows domain
> controller over a wan and I would like some idea on how to proceed. Any
> help would be very much appreciated.

'winbind' might be what you're looking for. at least as a place to start.

anoop.

>
> Tony


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authinticating email with a windows domain

[theal]

I am trying to set up smtp (exim)  to 
authenticate with a windows domain controller over a wan and I would like some 
idea on how to proceed. Any help would be very much appreciated.
 
Tony

Re: IDE controller card recommendation

[Alvin Oga]

On Tue, 4 Oct 2005, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:

> I am setting up a machine to act as an LTSP server for my church.  I have a
> stack of old IDE hard drives that I want to use in a RAID configuration.  The
> server's case has plenty of room for drives and a number of PCI expansion
> slots.  I would like to get two PCI IDE controller cards to connect all the
> drives with.  The server has an IDE CD-ROM, leaving 3 open slots in the
> on-board controllers.  If I get two more cards (eah with two connectors), I
> should be able to connect 8 more hard drives.

fun ..  that would normally be 8x 400GB of disk space :-)
 
> I would like to use inexpensive cards (~$15-$30) since I will be setting up
> software RAID and this is an older server with older drives. I have experience
> with certain Promise cards under Linux (and I am not happy with that
> experience). 

what was the problem ?? which model .. where did you get it ..
- i think all parts should be bought at pc-parts-distributors
(reseller permit required) and not "me-too-virtual-web-stores"

why is promise not good ??? just the plain ole ide controller
- it is the same as maxtor ide controllers too 
( same promise chip )

their hw raid controllers suck .. but what do you expect for under $2000
hw raid controllers .. one gets what one pays for ??

- don't ever use the motherboard bios based raid if your data
  is important to you
 
- in my book, here is no other ide-chipset i would use when we ship off
  to customers .. if you wanna pay $200 - $400 for 3ware .. i suppose
  thats an option too .. but why .. for sw raid 

more raid fun
http://1U-Raid5.net/HowTo/

what the raid performance result should look like
http://www6.tomshardware.com/storage/2329/fastrak66-14.html

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Re: Mounting a FTP over SSL share

[Alvin Oga]

hi ya bastian

On 3 Oct 2005, Bastian Ebeling wrote:

> Hi linux-users,
> 
> I'm running debian sarge stable and I try to mount a network share
> which is offered to me as the following type:
> 
> "FTP over SSL with normal login and explicit password - passive FTP"

ssl is broken/breakable

if you want to have secure ftp ... no sniffable passwd or data
from either windoze or *nix ...

debian# scp -p  ftp.server.com:/pub/somedir/data.xxx ~
- use a gui if scp is too complicated
or doesn't do what you need like copy foo*.* 

- or -

ssh login into the orther server and run your normal mount
commands and copy data over ssh ...
- normally client mount the ftp server
and servers do not mount clients

debian# ssh ftp-server
ftp-server# mount debian:/home/you  /home

but for this case, it'd seem silly
and is a bad idea

- or -

ftp-server# ssh debian
debian# mount ftp-server:/home/you /home

but why would you do that ??? 

- or -  dozen other ways

windoze# filezilla  - point-n-click-heaven
http://www.Linux-Sec.net/SSH/client.gwif.html#SFTP

ftp.server.com -- just install sshd

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IDE controller card recommendation

[Roberto C. Sanchez]

I am setting up a machine to act as an LTSP server for my church.  I have a
stack of old IDE hard drives that I want to use in a RAID configuration.  The
server's case has plenty of room for drives and a number of PCI expansion
slots.  I would like to get two PCI IDE controller cards to connect all the
drives with.  The server has an IDE CD-ROM, leaving 3 open slots in the
on-board controllers.  If I get two more cards (eah with two connectors), I
should be able to connect 8 more hard drives.

I would like to use inexpensive cards (~$15-$30) since I will be setting up
software RAID and this is an older server with older drives.  I have experience
with certain Promise cards under Linux (and I am not happy with that
experience).Personally, I am just looking to find out what cards people are
using and how happy/unhappy they are with said cards.

-Roberto

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Does Debian compatible with IBM X-226 and X-346 Server

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exim4 smtp session transcript ?

[Nikita V. Youshchenko]

Hello.

I've trying to setup configuration when exim4 sends outgoing mail to a
smarthost (running also debian/exim4), using starttls and smtp auth over
it.

For some reason, auth fails, and later mail is rejected. Smarthost itself
works as expected; e.g. it accepts mail sent in the same way directly from
kmail. So most likely local exim4 configs are broken, but I'm having hard
times trying to find what's wrong there.

Since session is encrypted, I can't see what exim4 actually sends to remote
server using tools like tcpdump. Is there any way to make exim4 dump
complete smtp session transcript, and/or any method to see what's hapenning
under TLS encryption?

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shadow file and two root directories for apache2

[Radhika]

Hi,  I am having one more question we are having one live webserver with apache 1.X and in this we are having default root document directory but only one website they are using different webroot directory how do we menction for this  one website for different root directory which file we need to edit and where to menction this.   We are planning to migrate from redhat webserver to debian webserver with apache 2.x and i am planning to copy the existing shadow password file from redhat machine to debian machine.It will work without any problem in debian with the same user names and passwords otherwise i need to do any other thing. Thanks for your help
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Re: login, path and ~/.profile

[Benedict Verheyen]

Benedict Verheyen wrote:


Thanks for the info !

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Re: No Swap

[Hendrik Boom]

On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 11:15:03PM -0500, Kent West wrote:
> Curtis Vaughan wrote:
> 
> > Can someone help me figure out why I don't seem to be using the swap
> > partition.
> >
> > Here is an output of fdisk -l
> >
> > Disk /dev/hda: 10.0 GB, 10056130560 bytes
> > 16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19485 cylinders
> > Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes
> >
> >Device Boot  Start End  Blocks   Id  System
> > /dev/hda1   *   1   18617 9382936+  83  Linux
> > /dev/hda2   18618   19485  4374725  Extended
> > /dev/hda5   18618   19485  437440+  82  Linux swap /
> > Solaris
> >
> > Actually, I had it previous set such that hda2 was teh swap and there
> > were no other partitions. But this also didn't work.
> >
> > And here is an output of fstab
> >
> > proc/proc   procdefaults0   0
> > /dev/hda1   /   ext3defaults,errors=remount-ro
> > 0   1
> > /dev/hda5   noneswapsw  0   0
> > /dev/hdc/media/cdrom0   udf,iso9660 ro,user,noauto  0   0
> > /dev/fd0/media/floppy0  autorw,user,noauto  0   0
> >
> >
> > Nonetheless, after a reboot top shows:
> >
> > top - 20:35:11 up 58 min,  3 users,  load average: 0.28, 0.18, 0.11
> > Tasks:  91 total,   1 running,  89 sleeping,   0 stopped,   1 zombie
> > Cpu(s):  5.9% us,  1.6% sy,  0.0% ni, 92.1% id,  0.0% wa,  0.3% hi,
> > 0.Mem:256728k total,   247288k used, 9440k free, 3864k buffer
> > Swap:0k total,0k used,0k free,70400k cached
> >
> >
> > Why?
> > What can I do to get my swap partition being used as swap?
> >
> >
> If "swapon -s" doesn't show any swap being used, I'd try:
> 
> mkswap /dev/hda5
> swapon -a

How much RAM do you have?  I don't think Linux uses swap until RAM starts
to run out.  I have a gigabyte (should I say Gigibyte these days?) of
RAM, and as far as I know, I've *never* used swap.

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Trouble installing Sarge on M325X Gateway Laptop

[Scott Fitzgerald]

Hi,

Bought a gateway laptop.  Can't get Sarge to install (I have a 14 CD set.)

I really am not sure how to explain the problem, so if you could bear with
me, I will try to explain what I tried to do.  After wrestling with Win XP
trying to dominate my disk, I managed to create logical partitions for
root, /home, and a swap partition (min partition on this machine is 8mb.) 
The install CD boots fine, and says it can't detect ethernet, but it asks
me to specify a driver, and the t3 broadcom driver loads.

It then loads grub, and loads a base system.  

Then it says to remove the disk, and reboot.  I begin getting messages for
the reboot, and it stops when it says it can't load hw_random (I don't know
what that is.)

I retried with the 2.6 kernal (386) and then it stops with an error on the
i810 module.  

Now, I know there is a way, because I can pop a knoppix in and it will come
up, so I want to know

Should I have used a primary partition?

Where can I manually tell the cd set what drivers to load, and any
suggestions here?

Should I try with the 2.6 686 kernal (or the 2.4 686 kernal)?

Or would it be better to try to install knoppix to a hard disk, and somehow
get apt-get to scan the 14 disk set?

I tried googling for "install sarge gateway m325x" and "install sarge
915" (it has a 915gm chipset.)  and nothing seems to come up.  Looks like I
must be the first guy in the world trying to set this up. ;-)  Anyhow,
where should I go, what is the best way of getting debian into this system.

(btw, I have woody on CD, should I try that?!?!)

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apt-build suggestions

[Kumar Appaiah]

Dear list,
I tried out apt-build on a few packages, and it's quite nice, in that
I can compile with optimizations for my computer. I'd like to know
whether some packages when compiled actually do show some speed
increase, if you've tried it...

Thanks.

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Re: Securing SSH: Does disabling password authentication work?

[John Schmidt]

On Monday 03 October 2005 02:39 pm, Steve Block wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 01:24:27PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote:
> >On Mon, 3 Oct 2005, Steve Block wrote:
> >> I'm afraid you didn't read at all, did you? Start from the top of the
> >> thread and read again, and you'll see that my question had nothing to do
> >
> >u sure do have an whacky attitude for being the one that is cracked
> >
> >the answer still is no...  you are not any more secure
> >for the sme identical reasons posted previously that you didnt
> >read/understand to use your own words :-)
>
> Who said anyone was cracked? I'm trying to take a proactive security
> approach here.
>
> Let me clarify. In a default debian/sarge install there are three
> available SSH authentication options:
>
> 1) password
> 2) keyboard-interactive with pam (would allow auth against LDAP or any
> other authentication method possible with pam)
> 3) public/private keys
>
> According to what I can see from my logs, these automated attempts are
> trying to use the first method to log in. The second method is what the
> standard OpenSSH client uses by default when no keys are being used, and
> the log report for a failed login of this type is different than for the
> automated attempts. I prefer to use the third method myself, but like I
> said I am unwilling to only allow that method.
>
> I edited my ssh config file to disable the first method, leaving only 2)
> and 3) available. With the second method a user can still log in with
> their system password (default pam configuration) but the authentication
> is handled by pam and not the ssh server itself (I think). My users
> obviously haven't noticed, and I still normally use keys. I just want to
> know if it has made it impossible for the automated dictionary attacks
> to log in (the current generation, anyways).
>
> Sorry if I sounded snippy, it's just hard to find any solid info on
> this.
>
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Steve,

You may want to take a look at the debian package harden-doc.  They have a 
section about securing ssh as well as a wealth of information about securing 
your system.  This is no means exhaustive, but it will help.

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Re: libmysqlclient12 and libmysqlclient14

[Maurits van Rees]

On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 04:13:01PM -0500, Christopher L. Everett wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:# apt-get remove libmysqlclient12
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> The following packages will be REMOVED:
>  libdbd-mysql-perl libmysqlclient12 mysql-client-4.1 mysql-server-4.1 mytop

Maybe the following can serve as a _first step_ in seeing why apt
wants to remove these things.  This lists the packages that depend on
libmysqlclient12 and that are installed on my system.  You would
probably have a different list.

$ apt-cache rdepends libmysqlclient12 | grep -v "Reverse Depends" | COLUMNS=120 
xargs dpkg -l | grep ^ii
ii  libmysqlclient12 4.0.24-10sarge1  mysql database client 
library
ii  php4-mysql   4.3.10-16MySQL module for php4
ii  python2.3-mysqldb1.2.1c2-1A Python interface to 
MySQL
ii  python2.2-mysqldb1.2.1c2-1A Python interface to 
MySQL
ii  php4-mysql   4.3.10-16MySQL module for php4
ii  libmyodbc3.51.09-1the MySQL ODBC driver
ii  libdbd-mysql-perl2.9006-1 A Perl5 database 
interface to the MySQL database

[Hm, I'm not sure why some packages turn up two times here.]

So if I would remove libmysqlclient12 then these packages would be
removed as well.  Not all packages that you mention are in this list.
But there are packages that also depend on packages in this list, so
they would be removed too.  So let's look one step further:

$ apt-cache rdepends libmysqlclient12 | sed "s/|//" | grep -v "Reverse Depends" 
| COLUMNS=120  xargs dpkg -l | grep ^ii | sort | uniq | cut -d " " -f3 | xargs 
-n 1 apt-cache rdepends | sed "s/|//" | grep -v "Reverse Depends" | COLUMNS=120 
xargs dpkg -l | grep ^ii | sort | uniq
ii  libdbd-mysql-perl2.9006-1 A Perl5 database 
interface to the MySQL database
ii  libmyodbc3.51.09-1the MySQL ODBC driver
ii  libmysqlclient12 4.0.24-10sarge1  mysql database client 
library
ii  mysql-client-4.1 4.1.11a-4sarge2  mysql database client 
binaries
ii  php4-mysql   4.3.10-16MySQL module for php4
ii  phpmyadmin   2.6.2-3  set of PHP-scripts to 
administrate MySQL over the WWW
ii  python-mysqldb   1.2.1c2-1A Python interface to 
MySQL
ii  python2.2-mysqldb1.2.1c2-1A Python interface to 
MySQL
ii  python2.3-mysqldb1.2.1c2-1A Python interface to 
MySQL
ii  unixodbc 2.2.4-11 ODBC tools libraries

This list already contains the package mysql-client-4.1 that is in
your list, as it depends on libdbd-mysql-perl.  (See 'apt-cache
depends mysql-client-4.1'.)

Well, this is one way to start investigating why some packages are
begin removed.  Or you could just accept that apt-get knows what it is
doing and is correct in wanting to remove those programs. :) BTW, if I
try aptitude it wants to remove roughly the same packages that you
mention.  So switching package managers would do you no good.


If you want some interesting wall paper (for a *very* big screen or
preferably just for your wall) then try this:

apt-cache dotty libmysqlclient12 > libmysqlclient12.dotty

and then display it with

dotty libmysqlclient12.dotty

> Pinning mysql-server-4.1, mysql-client-4.1, etc in place does not help.

Correct.  That would just tell apt to not upgrade (or downgrade) the
package.  In case of imminent removal you will just get the above
warning.

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Re: changing default document root directory in apache 2

[Jon Dowland]

On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 01:31:32PM -0500, Sanjay Debian wrote:
> Under apache 1.x, modify /etc/apache/httpd.conf. Change DocumentRoot
> to whatever you need. Under Apache2, i guess, you have to modify
> /etc/apache2/sites-available/default.

Either way, be thankful that the debian approach doesn't involve
convoluted hidden welcome pages served via error pages that confuse
automated tools (such as libcurl) into believing there has been an error
(naming no names)

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Re: Firefox middle click broken on stable?

[Daniel Hermann]

Hi,

in my case, it was not firefox itself but the mozilla tabextensions
(package mozilla-tabextensions), that are now broken since the firefox
packages in sarge are no longer 1.0.4-based but 1.0.6-based. The
following bug report describes what I experienced:

  http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=328221

So purging mozilla-tabextensions solves the problem for me.

regards

Daniel

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Re: Securing SSH: Does disabling password authentication work?

[Jon Dowland]

On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 11:30:45AM -0500, Steve Block wrote:
> So does this seem like a viable way to avoid the current generation of
> SSH attacks? Of course nothing is bulletproof but am I actually more
> secure than before?

I'd argue, yes. By removing an authentication method that you are not
using, you are reducing the number of quantity of code that is being
executed and therefore reducing the quantity of vulnerabilities that may
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Make up Emacs and XKB

[Vladimir Zolotykh]

Hi,

I bought Logitech Deluxe (Model name: Y-SU61).  It has an additional
key (keycode 94, keysym 0x3c) which is located in the second (from the
bottom) horizontal row between left shift and 'z', marked with `|' and
'\' on it.

I wonder if it is possible to make better use of it (the key that is)
that it's used now. I usually spend all my time in Emacs editing Lisp
sources (chiefly). Here's an excerpt from my XF86Config-4

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier  "Generic Keyboard"
Driver  "keyboard"
Option  "CoreKeyboard"
Option  "XkbRules""xfree86"
Option  "XkbModel""pc104"
Option  "XkbLayout"   "us,ru"
Option  "XkbVariant"  "winkeys"
Option  "XkbOptions"  
"grp:ctrl_shift_toggle,grp_led:scroll,alt:altismeta"
EndSection

The key behaves in strict accordance with /etc/X11/xkb/keycodes/xfree86

 =  94;

and /etc/X11/xkb/symbols/ru

key  {[less, greater  ],
[   slash, bar  ]   };

but to me it seems neither sensible nor convenient.

The another somehow related question. The only way I know in Emacs to
change character sets is to call toggle-input-method. By default it is
bound to C-\. According to

Option  "XkbOptions"  
"grp:ctrl_shift_toggle,grp_led:scroll,alt:altismeta"

the groups are changed by Shift+Ctrl. So the problem: working outside
Emacs I have to use Ctrl+Shift (or any other combination among the
choices offered by Xkb, but none of them is C-\), inside Emacs --
C-\. Trying as hard as I could, still I was unable to figure out is it
possible or not to use _the same_ key combination for switching from
Latin to KOI8 characters everywhere. Would you please suggest
something?

Using Debian Sarge

Thanks in advnace


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Re: Fwd: gnome program problem

[张勇顺]

On 10/4/05, Bill Marcum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 08:42:49PM +0800, 张勇顺 wrote:>> now i can't uses any gnome program with this user. but i an uses those with> other users> i know that is my setting errm i am try to add DISPLAY=LOCALHOST: 
0.0 in> ~/.bashrc but the problem is the same ..>DISPLAY should equal :0.0, but that is set by the X server, not by~/.bashrc.  No script should change DISPLAY, unless you are running Xapplications to display on another screen.
--Meekness:  Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while.-- Ambrose Biercenow i am remove  DISPLAY=LOCALHOST: 0.0 from ~/.bashrc problem is always that 
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:18:20:28/home/willfullrivatuner#2]$ geditXlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by serverXlib: No protocol specified(gedit:18828): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:

Re: adding user to multiple groups

[Adam Funk]

Basanta Shrestha wrote:

> Hi List,
> Can any help me? I use debian. I need to add a new user which would be
> member of multiple groups. I have to do this using simple "adduser
> $username" command( without using "usermod" command . Here is my
> /etc/default/useradd file

I don't have that file on my system.  What package did it come from? 
(According to man adduser the relevant file is "/etc/adduser.conf".)

>> GROUP=100
>> HOME=/home
>> INACTIVE=-1
>> EXPIRE=
>> SHELL=/bin/bash
>> SKEL=/etc/skel
>> GROUPS=audio
> 
> The user is not added to the audio group.

If you've already created the user bob (for example) and want to add group
audio to his account:

# adduser bob audio

According to man adduser:
"adduser [options] user group"
and
"If called with two non-option arguments, adduser will add an existing user
to an existing group."


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Re: problem using Canon SD400 on Debian Sarge

[Tom Pfeifer]

Sayantan Sur wrote:
> 
> On 10/3/05, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Mon, 03 Oct 2005, Sayantan Sur wrote:
> > > As soon as I plug the camera in, for a brief period it is reported by
> > > `lsusb' (from usbutils package). But after a few seconds, the device
> > > dissappears from lsusb!! However, it is always to be found in
> > > /proc/bus/usb/devices.
> >
> > Try lsusb as root.  If it shows up, it is just braindamage happening, with a
> > race condition on USB plugin just to make sure you know that whomever is
> > responsible for it really needs to get his act together.
> >
> > Track down whatever is screwing up with /proc/bus/usb permissions and you
> > will have the culprit.
> 
> Thanks a lot! This worked. There is definitely brain damage happening
> ;-) Apparently, if I run lsusb as root, everything is just fine.
> However, as Tom else pointed out on the list, it is not accessible as
> a Mass Storage Device. Now, if I use gphoto2 as root, then everything
> is just hunky-dory.


You may still have to add your user(s) to the camera groupand then
that usually requires the user to log off and then on for the change to
take affect.

Tom


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Re: adding user to multiple groups

[Clive Menzies]

On (04/10/05 15:38), Basanta Shrestha wrote:
> Hi List,
> Can any help me? I use debian. I need to add a new user which would be 
> member of multiple groups. I have to do this using simple "adduser 
> $username" command( without using "usermod" command . Here is my 
> /etc/default/useradd file
> 
> >GROUP=100
> >HOME=/home
> >INACTIVE=-1
> >EXPIRE=
> >SHELL=/bin/bash
> >SKEL=/etc/skel
> >GROUPS=audio
> 
> The user is not added to the audio group.
> 
> Regards,
> Basanta

To add new user:

$adduser 


To add them to groups:

$ adduser  

Regards

Clive

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Re upgrading glibc6, help appreciated

[Roland Swingler]

I have solved my problem...

I forgot to mention that I was running a VDS on UML - I have been
informed that the stuff in /lib/tls does not work under uml, and as a
result the immutable attribute had been set on the directory -
stopping me from chmoding it.

To solve it (if anyone else has a similar problem) do:

chattr -i /lib/tls
apt-get upgrade
rm /lib/tls/*

APM suspend lost! (mypost: 4octrl3)

[rich lott]

Hi 

I don't know what caused it, but my laptop won't come out of APM suspend.

The laptop is a Dell Lattitude C640, running Etch, with the 2.6.12 kernel. The 
grub menu tells the kernel to not use ACPI (it doesn't work with bios), and 
apm --suspend works fine. But when I open the lid/press the button, it comes 
to life (noise, lights, back light of screen) but the screen is completely 
blank and everything just stays like that. There's no disk activity, so 
either it's died or it's waiting on something.

This had been working fine for years, and suddenly it's stopped. Major 
inconvenience what with linux taking about 3 hours to boot up as well!

Has anyone else noticed this, or could anyone give me pointers toward 
debugging the problem?

many thanks,

rich


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Re: debian 3.1 and g++-3.4

[Jerzy Kozera]

On Tuesday, 4 of October 2005 11:10, Pooly wrote:
> Is it possible to use g++-3.4 with sarge ? Currently it's g++-3.3, but
> if I install g++-3.4 and then remove g++-3.3, it remove the package
> g++ as well (and then g++ is not found, I guess it's just a simlink,
> but I don't want to do any mistake). What should I do ?

g++ package creates 'g++' symlink, but it's available only with 3.3 and 4.0 
versions.

You should install g++-3.4 and either use 'g++-3.4' name when calling g++ or 
make symlink yourself.

You can get detailed explanation here: 
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=115353
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and I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein


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Re: AMD64 with Debian

[Raymond A. Meijer]

On Sunday 2 October 2005 14:38, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:

> Start out with the Sarge DVD's for AMD64 - you should be able to find
> them from links from http://cdimage.debian.org - and go from there.

I've not been able to download DVD Binary 1: it's only 384MB or 
something, even though on the site it states that ti should be 4.4GB?!

DVD Binary 2 is okay though.

So  downloaded the CD images as well...


Ray


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adding user to multiple groups

[Basanta Shrestha]

Hi List,
Can any help me? I use debian. I need to add a new user which would be 
member of multiple groups. I have to do this using simple "adduser 
$username" command( without using "usermod" command . Here is my 
/etc/default/useradd file



GROUP=100
HOME=/home
INACTIVE=-1
EXPIRE=
SHELL=/bin/bash
SKEL=/etc/skel
GROUPS=audio


The user is not added to the audio group.

Regards,
Basanta


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module psmouse missing on boot, mouse doesn't work.

[Søren Christensen]

Hi, 

I've had some troubles with my mouse, after most reboots it wouldn't
work, only after some (>1) dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 and reboots
and stopping and restarting gdm several times, it would come to life.

During a reboot now i just saw this message:
ide-detect ide-disk psmouse modprobe: can't locate module psmouse

I think that is the fault. Where do I find that module, and how can I
make it a part of my installation.

I'm running sarge 3.1
Using GRUB-loader

/severino


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debian 3.1 and g++-3.4

[Pooly]

Hi,

Is it possible to use g++-3.4 with sarge ? Currently it's g++-3.3, but
if I install g++-3.4 and then remove g++-3.3, it remove the package
g++ as well (and then g++ is not found, I guess it's just a simlink,
but I don't want to do any mistake). What should I do ?

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Re: Using both Mutt and graphical email client with maildir

[Jan T. Kim]

On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 05:38:35AM -0700, Ric Otte wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've been using mutt for several years, and really like it except for
> when I need to follow a link.  I've tried using urlview, but gave up
> because I often didn't know what the urls were linked to.  For
> example, if I have an email with 50 links, when I call urlview I often
> have no idea what link I want (all I see are the urls, and not any
> text that will tell me what the links are for).  Since urlview didn't
> work well for me, I usually simply copy and paste the link into
> Firefox, but I keep thinking there must be an easier way.  
> 
> So I've been thinking it would be nice to use mutt most of the time,
> but have an alternative graphical email client that I could use once a
> day or so to read my email with links in them.  Is there a reason not
> to do this that I have overlooked?  Additionally I would then see
> images in the email.  

Using mutt, I use cut & paste with firefox (should work with other
browsers too) to follow links in email messages. Just mouse-select the
URL and middle-click in a firefox window. I don't think a graphical
email client can get much more convenient -- not enough for me to consider
going through the hassle of getting used to one, anyway.

For added browsing / image viewing convenience, I have

text/html; lynx -force_html %s
application/postscript; gv %s
image/x-eps; gv %s
image/*; display %s
application/pdf; acroread %s

in my ~/.mailcap .

Best regards, Jan
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dfsbuild error LISTSTATE on apt-move.conf

[Heechul Kim]

hi, 
I have a problem with dfsbuild.
when I ran dfsbuild as root, I got the following error.

# dfsbuild -c /etc/dfsbuild/dfs.cfg -w /home/debian/dfsbuild
... snipped.
P: Retrieving bash
D: Execute "wget -q -O 
/home/debian/dfsbuild/target/var/cache/bootstrap/bash_2.05b-26_i386.deb 
http://http.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/b/bash/bash_2.05b-26_i386.deb";
D: Return code: 0
P: Validating bash
P: Retrieving findutils
D: Execute "wget -q -O 
/home/debian/dfsbuild/target/var/cache/bootstrap/findutils_4.1.20-6_i386.deb 
http://http.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/f/findutils/findutils_4.1.20-6_i386.deb";
D: Return code: 0
P: Validating findutils
Running: apt-move -c /home/debian/dfsbuild/apt-move.conf update

Updating from local Packages files...
cd: 1869: can't cd to /home/debian/dfsbuild/target/var/lib/apt/lists
Unknown error: getfiles: 2.
Fatal error: exception Shell.Subprocess_error(_, 0)


It says "can't cd to /home/debian/dfsbuild/target/var/lib/apt/lists" and I 
don't see any directory 
like that is created while running dfsbuild...
I looked into apt-move.conf file and there is 
LISTSTATE=/home/debian/dfsbuild/target/var/lib/apt/lists
definition. So when is it created?

My host is debian etch(testing)... 

Could anyone shed some light on me about this problem?

I'm not on the mailing list so please reply to my email address..




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Re: Firefox middle click broken on stable?

[L.V.Gandhi]

On 10/4/05, Kenneth Jacker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
  hermann> Am I the only one still having problems with the middle  hermann> mouse button in firefox?No.After using 'firefox' (1.0.4-2sarge3) for a while, MB2 no longer openslinks in new tabs.  Quiting and restarting the application causes the
correct behavior to return.You are not alone!For me middle button works with the same version of firefox.-- L.V.Gandhihttp://lvgandhi.tripod.com/
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