lsmod permanent

[L.V.Gandhi]

I have compiled 2.6.13.4 kernel. with stock kernel, the following were
not there. Whether are they necessary. If not how to eliminate them.
ide_generic 1408  0 [permanent]
via82cxxx  12572  0 [permanent]
trm290  4228  0 [permanent]
triflex 3840  0 [permanent]
slc90e665888  0 [permanent]
sis551314728  0 [permanent]
siimage11136  0 [permanent]
serverworks 8584  0 [permanent]
sc1200  6912  0 [permanent]
rz1000  2688  0 [permanent]
piix   10116  0 [permanent]
pdc202xx_old   10240  0 [permanent]
opti621 4612  0 [permanent]
ns87415 4296  0 [permanent]
hpt366 17792  0 [permanent]
hpt34x  4992  0 [permanent]
generic 4612  0 [permanent]
cy82c6934612  0 [permanent]
cs5530  5504  0 [permanent]
cs5520  4736  0 [permanent]
cmd64x 10908  0 [permanent]
atiixp  6160  0 [permanent]
amd74xx13468  0 [permanent]
alim15x3   11020  0 [permanent]
aec62xx 7296  0 [permanent]
pdc202xx_new8192  0 [permanent]

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Re: Lucy & the Football

[Steve Lamb]

Antony Gelberg wrote:
> Adam Porter wrote:

>> ~/.mozilla-thunderbird.  You can drill down to more specific stuff if
>> you want.

>> Really, you should consider something like Ubuntu, MEPIS, or Xandros.
>> It will take care of many of your problems off-the-bat.

> You seem to have a new standard answer i.e. advocating installation of
> other distros to solve minor problems that are easily solved within Debian.

That isn't a bad thing if the person is just outright hostile to learning
and wants things to "just work".  But in this case I think it is the wrong
answer.  George is clearly willing to take the time to learn and is asking
fairly intelligent questions.  Pointing such people to another distribution is
insulting to them and doing both them and Debian a disservice.  :(

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Problem with IPComp on VPN

[Cyber Dog]

I'm running Debian 3.1 (2.6 kernel) on two remote hosts.  I've created
an IPSec VPN with racoon and shorewall and have traffic being
successfully routed between the two hosts over the internet.  The
problem I have arises when I try to add compression to the IPSec link.
 As far as I've determined, this should be transparent.  I watch the
link negotiation, and it appears successful in syslog.  Unfortunately,
traffic sent across the link is dropped by the firewall.  Stranger,
the firewall identifies protocol 0 as the dropped traffic, rather than
IPComp or ESP.  If I remove the compression option, the link
immediately functions 100% normally again.  I posted on the shorewall
list first, and it did not appear to be an issue with shorewall
configuration (I don't see why it would be since it works
uncompressed).  I've done lsmod on both end systems and
ipcomp,esp,deflate etc are all loaded as necessary.  I see no errors
in syslog or on the terminal from any of the programs involved.  It's
a mystery to me why compression is causing my traffic to be dropped. 
I'm aware troubleshooting this will probably involve including
configs, but I'm hoping to first isolate the problem so I can file an
accurate bug report.

Thanks...

Sangoma woes

[David Koski]

Anyone have a Sangoma installed in Debian? I have a couple of boxes that use 
CF (compact flash) instead of hard disks that I am trying to develop a Debian 
system with Sangoma (A101) support for. It looks like there are no .deb 
packages for Sangoma, at least for Sarge.

David Koski
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Error messages from recent package update

[Jim Seymour]

This blazes by so quick in the bootup messages that I can't catch it and
I can't find it in dmesg, etc. It also appears to be preventing me from
using synaptic without using the command line "sudo synaptic".

configuration error - unknown item 'QUOTAS_ENAB' (notify administrator)
configuration error - unknown item 'NOLOGIN_STR' (notify administrator)
configuration error - unknown item 'ENV_HZ' (notify administrator)
configuration error - unknown item 'PASS_MAX_LEN' (notify administrator)
configuration error - unknown item 'CHFN_AUTH' (notify administrator)
configuration error - unknown item 'CLOSE_SESSIONS' (notify
administrator)

Does anyone know which package is generating this? This is a Debian Etch
box running kernel 2.6.12 from kernel.org.

TIA,

Jim Seymour
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Re: kde dead after update

[Adam Porter]

It's been a couple days; try updating again.  Maybe some bugs snuck in
to the versions you updated to.


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Compaq laptop, external vga problems

[Ken Bloom]

I'm having trouble using an external monitor/projector with my Compaq
Presario v2310us [1]. The computer doesn't activate the VGA port when I
do the Function-F4 (monitor switch) thing. If I reboot while the VGA
monitor is attached, then it boots up and runs X mirrored on both the
LCD and the external monitor, but if I don't boot up that way, then I
haven't gotten it to put out an image on the external port yet.

How can I fix this?

[1] http://www.iit.edu/~kbloom1/Main/Compaq_Presario_v2310us

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Re: cannot umount an vfat partition "kidnaped" by aMule

[Adam Porter]

Have you tried "umount -l"?

You might also consider switching that partition to ext3; it might
perform better and help with aMule's freezes.


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Re: compressing tar files / backup scripts

[Adam Porter]

Hey Adam,

You might also consider using p7zip; it gets better compression, and is
like zip in that it stores and compresses at the same time.  Windows
version at www.7-zip.org.

Adam


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Re: Apt Needs Counseling

[Adam Porter]

Try:

apt-get --purge remove webmin webmin-core etc.

And/or:

apt-get --reinstall install webmin webmin-core etc.
apt-get --purge remove webmin webmin-core etc.

One or the combination of those should do it.


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Re: latex notes

[Victor Munoz]

On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 10:06:45AM +0100, Jan T. Kim wrote:
> > On 10/13/05, Victor Munoz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >
> > > The 'article' class should be enough, as mentioned in other posts.
> > >
> > > \documentstyle{article}
> > >
> 
> Indeed -- use the class, i.e.
> 
> \documentclass{article}
> 
> and not \documentstyle, which is an outdated command from the times
> before Latex 2e.
> 

Sorry, my mistake. \documentclass indeed. (After two years of using 
C-c C-e in XEmacs to start LaTeX documents, I forgot the right 
command!) 


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Re: Lucy & the Football

[Adam Porter]

Antony Gelberg wrote:
> Adam Porter wrote:
> 
>> ~/.mozilla-thunderbird.  You can drill down to more specific stuff if
>> you want.
>>
>> Really, you should consider something like Ubuntu, MEPIS, or Xandros.
>> It will take care of many of your problems off-the-bat.
> 
> 
> You seem to have a new standard answer i.e. advocating installation of
> other distros to solve minor problems that are easily solved within Debian.

Don't get me wrong, I love Debian, and I don't forsee using anything
else on my desktop for a long time.  But that doesn't mean I'm a zealot.
 Ubuntu (and MEPIS and Xandros) is a fine distro, especially for users
that are new to Linux.  For such a user, it may be better for them to
use a distro that comes with more things already setup, rather than have
to spend hours fixing lots of little things.  Then they can still tweak
away as much as they want.


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Re: How to use old CPUs (Not Debian Specific)

[John Schmidt]

On Saturday 15 October 2005 08:50 pm, Marc Shapiro wrote:
> Duncan Anderson wrote:
> > I agree with Rob. Obviously 200 dollars is a neglibible sum if you live
> > in the "first world", but spare a thought for people in places where a
> > P1 with a 1GB hd is something amazing, even with Win98 on it.
> > (Preferably something like Debian 2.1, though.)
>
> I do live in the "first world" but I just maxed out a credit card while
> moving cross-country, I am unemployed, I have a 4 year old daughter and
> my wife's salary as a librarian does NOT cover the bills.  Virtually ANY
> outlay is too much at this time.
>
> --
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I have a 486 66 MHz box (with 3 NIC) with ipcop installed for my firewall.  I 
have a PII 200 MHz acting as my fileserver, print server for a 400 MHz PII 
Windows XP box, a 10 year old mac clone,  and a laptop.  I bought 6 400 MHz 
PII for $20 a piece a year ago, and converted one to an XP box, the others 
are for playing around with linux. 

I get a kick out of seeing these old machines work in some productive way.

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Re: telnet as login shell

[Aurelien Ricard]

Stephen Le wrote:


On 10/16/05, Aurelien Ricard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
 


Stephen, try to put a telnet session in their ~/.bashrc
I've never tried but it should work.
   



While this works, it is insecure. A user can easily run a command like
'ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] rm .bashrc' to delete the .bashrc file and get full
shell access.

I've resorted to using a Perl script as a login shell.



 


You're right,

chmod -w .bashrc ;)

Aurelien

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cannot umount an vfat partition "kidnaped" by aMule

[Joaquin CARABALLO MORENO]

Hi all,

When trying to access a FAT32 directory with aMule it gets frozen during
about 10 minutes.  In this period I cannot even umount the partition.

case a)

I just try to access my /alm directory from amule.  amule gets frozen 10
minutes and after it continues working normally and I can even use /alm
and its subdirs normally.

case b)

I try to access my /alm directory and it gets frozen.  As I do not want
to wait 10 minutes until it finishes playing with my hard disk, I try to
kill amule and/or umount /alm, but no luck:

herrmann:~# umount /alm
umount: /alm: device is busy
umount: /alm: device is busy
herrmann:~# fuser -vm /alm

 USERPID ACCESS COMMAND
/alm me 4048 f  amule
herrmann:~# fuser -k /alm
/alm: 4048
No automatic removal. Please use  umount /alm
herrmann:~# kill 4048
herrmann:~# kill -9 4048
herrmann:~# umount -r /alm
umount: /dev/hda2 busy - remounted read-only
herrmann:~# umount -f /alm
umount2: Device or resource busy
umount: /alm: device is busy
umount2: Device or resource busy
umount: /alm: device is busy

(If I try with xkill, it closes the window, but the amule process
survives and my partition keeps kidnapped.)

10 minutes later, amule decides by its own it is time to bed: it gets
killed, and I can umount /alm



Some conf. details: 
aMule 2.0.3
Debian Unstable

herrmann:~# uname -a
Linux herrmann 2.6.10.me-20050508b #1 Sun May 8 21:41:18 WEST 2005 i686
GNU/Linux



Any idea of what should I do in such a case?

Thank you a lot,

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Re: Newsreader: Best of the bunch?

[Brendan]

On Sunday 16 October 2005 07:46 pm, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-10-16 at 19:24 +0100, marc wrote:
> > marc said...
> >
> > > Sorry for the cheesy question.
> > >
> > > Until now, I've retained Gravity on XP for my usenet use. Now, I'm
> > > after a Linux replacement. I use multiple servers, but I'm only
> > > interested in text-based ngs, so threading and tracking threads that
> > > I've contributed to are important. The less mouse use the better, but
> > > unless it's uber- functional, I'd prefer to avoid a curses-bases usenet
> > > reader - may the nix-gods forgive me.
> > >
> > > I welcome your suggestions, advice and experience.
> >
> > Sorry for not having responded to this thread yet, but I'm still trying
> > out all the suggestions. I thought that Pan would do, but it has a
> > couple of flaws that I can't live with.
>
> What are those flaws?

Lack of updating
Huge memory issues and crashing (even with latest CVS)

I came from Agent via Wine, and then used Pan for years, but eventually went 
back to Agent on Wine. Works like a charm. Pan just never moved forward for 
what I needed...


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Re: rsync over ssh with disallowed login

[Vincent Lefevre]

On 2005-10-16 17:17:11 +0200, Lubos Vrbka wrote:
> >That's not quite what he asked, but you can restrict what commands can be
> >run (to just rsync) using the authorized_keys file too
> could you please be more specific in this point? :) some example (or 
> pointer to relevant part of a documentation) would be very welcome...

man sshd

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Re: debian stable and unstable in same PC

[Vincent Lefevre]

On 2005-10-14 11:08:35 +0600, salahuddin pasha wrote:
> i wanna use debian stable and unstable in same pc.

There aren't many details on what you want exactly, but here's an
example. We had a machine where Debian stable was installed, and
a Debian unstable was installed in /sid for testing purpose. We
could (locally) switch to unstable thanks to the "chroot" command.

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Abiword 2.4 and link-grammar

[James Vahn]

How do we enable the grammar checker in abiword-2.4?


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Re: Newsreader: Best of the bunch?

[Nate Bargmann]

* Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005 Oct 16 18:47 -0500]:
> On Sun, 2005-10-16 at 19:24 +0100, marc wrote:
> > marc said...
> > > Sorry for the cheesy question.
> > > 
> > > Until now, I've retained Gravity on XP for my usenet use. Now, I'm after 
> > > a Linux replacement. I use multiple servers, but I'm only interested in 
> > > text-based ngs, so threading and tracking threads that I've contributed 
> > > to are important. The less mouse use the better, but unless it's uber-
> > > functional, I'd prefer to avoid a curses-bases usenet reader - may the 
> > > nix-gods forgive me.
> > > 
> > > I welcome your suggestions, advice and experience.
> > 
> > Sorry for not having responded to this thread yet, but I'm still trying 
> > out all the suggestions. I thought that Pan would do, but it has a 
> > couple of flaws that I can't live with.
> 
> What are those flaws?

It does not upload images or binaries.  Knode worked fine for that.

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Re: udev trouble: no /dev/sd* devices

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George McNinch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> gm> On the third, I now have no /dev/sd* at all (no /dev/sda1
> gm> e.g.)
>
>  modprobe sd_mod
>
> fixed the problem.

Please share how.

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Re: Newsreader: Best of the bunch?

[Ron Johnson]

On Sun, 2005-10-16 at 19:24 +0100, marc wrote:
> marc said...
> > Sorry for the cheesy question.
> > 
> > Until now, I've retained Gravity on XP for my usenet use. Now, I'm after 
> > a Linux replacement. I use multiple servers, but I'm only interested in 
> > text-based ngs, so threading and tracking threads that I've contributed 
> > to are important. The less mouse use the better, but unless it's uber-
> > functional, I'd prefer to avoid a curses-bases usenet reader - may the 
> > nix-gods forgive me.
> > 
> > I welcome your suggestions, advice and experience.
> 
> Sorry for not having responded to this thread yet, but I'm still trying 
> out all the suggestions. I thought that Pan would do, but it has a 
> couple of flaws that I can't live with.

What are those flaws?

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Re: Software raid 5 performance tuning?

[Alvin Oga]

hi ya marc

On Sat, 15 Oct 2005, Marc Dreher wrote:

> after a recent (data) lossy HD crash I decided to build a software raid
> 5 (3 disks)with Debian Sarge (2.6.13 Kernel) to keep that from
> happening again :-)

3 disks in raid5 means 1/3 of the total disk space is not usable

> Works pretty well but I am not really satsfied with the write
> performance (via samba).

writing data into raid5 will be slow, since it's writing parts of the same
data n-times to each disks 

reading should be faster ... but not always

> When uploading files via samba I get around 6 MB per second. Uploading
> to a non-raid disk works at full 100Mbit network throughput (10 MB
> p/s).

presumably the target disks getting the uploaded files is on the same
pc ???  and the obsvervation you're seeing is normal/typical

> I have one ATA disk as master on each of the two onboard IDE channels
> and the third SATA disk on one of my two SATA ports.

odd combo but good to have only 1 disk on each ide cable

> I used a chunk size of 64KB with no strides.

more parameters to play with 
 
> So before having to experiment with all kind of settings I hope that
> somebody does have any tips or tuning hints for me?

increasing write performance is not ez

- you probably can change your nfs read/write transfer sizes
to get some improvements

- you probably can get "faster" transfers if you compress it
before sending it

tar zcf - stuff | ( cd /mnt/samba ; tar zxfp - )

> I think with current hard- and software I should at least be able to get
> enough write performance to fill up my 100MBit network while uploading :-)

8bits * 10MByte/sec --> 80Mbps .. that's pretty good 
anything say aroun 70% - 90% of the rated networkwork thruput is good

you will need to go to GigE network

8bits * 100MB/sec --> 800Mbps ... good enough for gigE entwork
and the disks are rated ( by marketing folks ) at 100MB/sec (120MB/sec)
or faster and your new bottleneck will be the disk rotations

c ya
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Re: compressing tar files / backup scripts

[Jan C. Nordholz]

On Sun, Oct 16, 2005 at 11:47:18PM +0100, Adam Hardy wrote:
> I've got a really simple backup script which goes like this:
> 
> tar -rvf backup$1.tar java/projects
> tar -rvf backup$1.tar .mozilla
> tar -rvf backup$1.tar bin
> echo "compress the whole thing  "
> tar -czvf backup$1.gz.tar backup$1.tar
> 
> 
> Basically I am using -r (the append option) to backup some directories 
> and then I do a compress on the uncompressed file at the end. tar won't 
> let me append and compress at the same time.
> 
> However a side-effect of this is in Windows - I transfer the backups 
> across to another machine running Windows - when I open the tar file in 
> winzip, I then see the uncompressed tar inside the compressed tar, so I 
> then have to open that too.
> 
> Is there a better way to do this, avoiding the side effect with winzip?
> 
> For instance, writing a list of files to a temp file and then piping it 
> all into tar in one go? Example commands of some such strategy would be 
> great!
> 

Hi Adam,

you can simply pipe the resulting .tar through gzip, like this:

tar -rvf backup$1.tar java/projects
tar -rvf backup$1.tar .mozilla
tar -rvf backup$1.tar bin
gzip backup$1.tar

This will create backup$1.tar.gz - you could have achieved the same
result by doing

tar -czvf backup$1.tar.gz java/projects .mozilla bin

because tar -z is doing nothing more than piping the resulting
archive through gzip.


HTH,

Jan


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Re: Y or I, N or O

[Ken Bloom]

Joseph Haig wrote:
> --- Oliver Elphick  wrote:
> 
> 
>>On Wed, 2005-10-12 at 10:49 +0100, Joseph Haig wrote:
>>
>>>When upgrading with "apt-get upgrade" I get the option to install a
>>
>>new
>>
>>>configuration file or keep the existing one.  The options are
>>>
>>>Y or I  : install the package maintainer's version
>>>N or O  : keep your currently-installed version
>>>
>>>Now, I know that with either Y or I and N or O, both old and new
>>>versions of the file are saved, but it doesn't say which!  Which of
>>
>>N
>>
>>>or O do I need to use to save a copy of the new file?
>>
>>Either.
>>
>>If you choose Y, the existing configuration file will be saved as
>>.dpkg-old and replaced by the package's version.
>>
>>If you choose N, the existing configuration file will be left
>>untouched
>>and the new version will be saved in the same directory under the
>>name
>>.dpkg-dist (or .dpkg-new).
> 
> 
> Thanks.  But if this is the case, what do I and O do?

They decide which one is going to have the original name, right now.

i.e. if you hit I, the the new one will be called  and the old
one will be called .dpkg-old, and if you start the program
without changing anything (which is very likely to happen as most of the
programs with global configuration files are daemons which are restarted
immediately), then the package maintainer's configuration will be used
immediately.

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include/exclude in /etc/pcmcia/config.opts

[Robert D. Crawford]

I have seen on the net that for some laptops using pcmcia that special
configuration changes must be made in the inclusion or exclusion of port
and/or memory addresses in the config.opts file.  I however cannot find
a recipe that will work in my case.  Is there some tool that can be used
to find out what addresses are free and can be included or excluded?
The laptop in question is a vaio r505 and the pcmcia card is a proxim
orinoco silver with an agere chipset, if that is useful.

More info, including syslog, messages or other outputs can be provided
if neccessary.

Thanks,

rdc

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Re: Dynamic DNS

[Ken Bloom]

Lars wrote:
> Elimar Riesebieter wrote:
> 
> 
>>>AFAIK bind8 doesn't support DDNS.
>>>
>>>
>>>
ii  bind9-host 9.2.4-1Version of 'host' bundled with BIND 9.X
ii  dhcp3-server   3.0.1-2DHCP server for automatic IP address
>>>
>>>
>>>Why do you have different bind versions on your system? This only
>>>happens when inatalling by hand. Using an apt frontend or most
>>>likely apt itself, will install a homogen versioning.
> 
> 
> Actually i did a "aptitude install bind", why one part 8.x is in I don't
> know

Because he probably had bind9 (or at least bind9-host which is similar
in function to the host package, and has no dependancy on bind 9 itself)
installed then installed bind in its place. The "bind" package is bind
8. To get bind 9, you need to install the bind9 package. the bind
package conflicts with bind9 but not bind9-host. There is no
corresponding bind-host package.

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compressing tar files / backup scripts

[Adam Hardy]

I've got a really simple backup script which goes like this:

tar -rvf backup$1.tar java/projects
tar -rvf backup$1.tar .mozilla
tar -rvf backup$1.tar bin
echo "compress the whole thing  "
tar -czvf backup$1.gz.tar backup$1.tar


Basically I am using -r (the append option) to backup some directories 
and then I do a compress on the uncompressed file at the end. tar won't 
let me append and compress at the same time.


However a side-effect of this is in Windows - I transfer the backups 
across to another machine running Windows - when I open the tar file in 
winzip, I then see the uncompressed tar inside the compressed tar, so I 
then have to open that too.


Is there a better way to do this, avoiding the side effect with winzip?

For instance, writing a list of files to a temp file and then piping it 
all into tar in one go? Example commands of some such strategy would be 
great!



Thanks
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Re: Dial-up modem 'No CARRIER'

[M-L]

On Sun, 16 Oct 2005 19:26:37 +0100
marc considered, crafted and sent:

>|---  The modem on the new laptop is dialing and exchanging with the
ISP. 
>|---  Then, 24 times out of 25, all I get is 'NO CARRIER'. Very, very 
>|---  occasionally, I connect
>|---  
>|---  I've tried both wvdial and KPPP in KDE. When I boot into XP, the
modem 
>|---  connects successfully 100% of the time - so the wiring, hardware
and ISP 
>|---  are fine.
>|---  
>|---  I read somewhere that nic interrupts might clash, so I've
ifdown'd that, 
>|---  and I've also tried lowering the line speed to 9600.
>|---  
>|---  Any suggestions on how to improve things?
>|---  
>|---  I'm on 2.6.13 etch.
>|---  
>|---  -- 
>|---  Best,
>|---  Marc

Disable wait for dial tone in the configuration might help as well.
Though with pon and poff, Ihave never had any trouble with that.


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Still in trouble with Xorg migration.

[Nicolas CANIART]

Hi !

  Since the migration from XF86 to Xorg I had trouble with my screens.
  My hw config is as follows :
1 Radeon 7000 VE.
2 Flat panels.

  With some work i've been able to get a 3200x1200 virtual desktop but
my second screen remains black. I meani, everything seems to work just
fine except that no signal is sent on the second output. So my screen
just turns itself to power save mode.
  Has anybody experience the problem ? Any solution ?
  I don't care about dri so any Standard Xinerama (non radeon specific
pseudo-Xinerama stuff) is also welcome (but i experienced worst
results that way).

Thanks in advance.
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logrotate and awstats

[Rick Pasotto]

I have just installed awstats and want to add a 'prerotate' to
/etc/logrotate/apache (as /usr/share/doc/awstats/README.Debian suggests).

I have my virtual domains logging to subdirectories of /var/log/apache so the
first line of /etc/logrotate/apache is:

/var/log/apache/*.log /var/log/apache/*/*.log {

prerotate
/usr/lib/cgi-bin/awstats.pl -config=.??? -update
endscript

}

How do I tell awstats which domain to update?

Is there a variable that I can do a basename on to find out which
subdirectory is being processed?

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How to make an Alarm-Notice with X/Fvwm

[Andreas Tannert]

Hello,

my problem is not so difficult to solve I think/hope. I use gkrellm and  
I want to use the battery plugin to warn me if my notebookbattery is  
running out of power. Therefore I need a command that opens a X-Window  
only with a Frame and a Text inside.


How can I do this with X or FVWM or other programs.

XMessage doesn't look very nice.

Thanks for any help.

Re: Lucy & the Football

[george5]

Even More Progress !

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
... snippage ... Installing Thunderbird ...

>> 2. The second time I opened Thunderbird, it was empty, and the
>> Install Wizard wanted all my data all over again.  150 messages
>> vanished ... but it had let me do the setup all by myself without
>> a peep of complaint.

I inquired:
>> Can I safely go through the Thunderbird Install Wizard and not
>> overwrite these files ? I'll save 'em under a new name, just in
>> case ...

> ... snippage about backing up Mail, which I'll implement as soon
> as I can get past the blank Inbox screen.

Went to mozilla.org & looked at their FAQ for Thunderbird.  As in
my earlier posting, the advice and my menus differ dramatically.

Therefore, I dug deeper, into the .mozilla-thunderbird folder.
There I found two profiles folders, one with my name as the
extension, the other attached thoroughly to "default."  I then
renamed both files, the correct one (default) to my name as the
extension, and the incorrect (empty) one to georgeNG as the
default.  Then I interchanged the profile names, placing the
alphanumeric portion of one onto the other and vice versa.  Then
I opened the profiles.ini file and swapped the profile names
in there as well.  As I had changed the wrong (empty) profile name
to something that wasn't in the profiles.ini file, there is now
only one correct profile, so when I opened Thunderbird, there was
all my mail !  And the Wizard stayed quiet, even when I rebooted
the 'puter to be sure.

Having these files in plain text and visible to the user certainly
makes it easier to fix things.

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Re: Newsreader: Best of the bunch?

[Paul Smith]

%% marc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

  m> Sorry for not having responded to this thread yet, but I'm still
  m> trying out all the suggestions. I thought that Pan would do, but it
  m> has a couple of flaws that I can't live with.

I didn't see the original thread so I don't know if anyone suggested
this already, but the best newsreader I've ever used is Emacs Gnus.

You can run Emacs in X mode and it's basically text but with useful
windows stuff (you can select articles with the mouse, popup menus for
odd things, etc.)

It's got more features than you can imagine, but you don't need to use
them to get started.


HTH!

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RE: Cygwin, ssh, and top

[David Christensen]

David Rothenberger wrote on cygwin:
> Try setting COLUMNS to 79 with the comment "export COLUMNS=79".
> I had this problem when I ran the Cygwin ssh client from bash *in a 
> CMD.EXE window*. For some reason, Debian miscalculated the COLUMNS
> size; it was 1 column too large. When I manually set COLUMNS (from
> 130 to 129 in my case), top worked correctly.
> I recommend running ssh from bash in an rxvt window instead of using
> the CMD.EXE window. This will give you an "xterm" terminal in Debian
> which will work much better. I use it all the time with Debian 3.1
> and have no problems.

Invoking rxvt from a Cygwin Bash shell and then ssh'ing into Debian and
customized Slackware gives me the same results as Putty -- e.g. everything works
on Debian 3.0 and 3.1, and the customized Slackware is messed up.


My preference is still that Cygwin bash ssh work correctly with Debian 3.1, and
I believe the problem is with whatever package provides terminal stuff in Debian
3.1.  I'll try to find the package and file a bug report.


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Cinelerra: did someone install it?

[Bruno Buys]

Did someone here succeed installing cinelerra (video editing software) 
on debian?


I am running sarge, and am trying to add sid sources to my apt, so as to 
be able to install all those dependencies listed in cinelerra's package.


I am following this page:
http://www.ftconsult.com/twiki/bin/view/Cinelerra/Debian

But there are unmet deps, still.

I have debian-marillat line pointed to sarge. After adding a new one to 
sid, cinelerra still complains.


any help?

Of course, if there are other sources for cinelerra packaged for debian, 
that'd be welcome. I'd rather not mix sid on my sarge.



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Re: rsync over ssh with disallowed login

[Lubos Vrbka]

You want something like rssh:

Description: Restricted shell allowing only scp, sftp, cvs, rsync and/or rdist
 rssh is a restricted shell to be used as a substitute of the login
 shell to allow users to perform only scp/sftp/cvs/rsync,rdist
 operations.
 .
 The security implications are high, so the home directories have
 to be set following the instructions provided.
thanks, this looks like exactly the thing i need. i'll definitely give 
it a try...


thanks again,

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Re: Dial-up modem 'No CARRIER'

[John Hasler]

Marc writes:
> Any suggestions on how to improve things?

Run pppconfig as root, answer the questions, and start ppp with 'pon' and
stop it with 'poff'.  Post the results and the output of the 'plog'
command.  Be precise and complete.  Give complete and exact commands and
complete and exact error messages.
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Re: Dynamic DNS

[Lars]

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Elimar Riesebieter wrote:

> AFAIK bind8 doesn't support DDNS.
> 
> 
>>ii  bind9-host 9.2.4-1Version of 'host' bundled with BIND 9.X
>>ii  dhcp3-server   3.0.1-2DHCP server for automatic IP address
> 
> 
> Why do you have different bind versions on your system? This only
> happens when inatalling by hand. Using an apt frontend or most
> likely apt itself, will install a homogen versioning.

Actually i did a "aptitude install bind", why one part 8.x is in I don't
know

> A really, really good howto is:
> http://www.arda.homeunix.net/dnssetup.shtml
> and to run bind in a jail:
> http://www.falkotimme.com/howtos/debian_bind_chroot/index.php

Thank I'll look at them in a couple of days..

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Re: Newsreader: Best of the bunch?

[Hendrik Boom]

On Sun, Oct 16, 2005 at 07:24:03PM +0100, marc wrote:
> 
> Sorry for not having responded to this thread yet, but I'm still trying 
> out all the suggestions. I thought that Pan would do, but it has a 
> couple of flaws that I can't live with.

One that hits me is that it seems to retain headers forever.  In
particular, long after their messages are unavailable from the
upstream source.  Is there any way of getting it to delete headers
for messages that are no longer available?

Maybe this would be easy to answer if I could find any usable documentation ,,,

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re-install to fix dependencies?

[Fred J.]

Hello


I am having some trouble trying to fix my system
dependencies.
I know that because disturbing output of the following
two commands which I included at the end of this post.
# apt-get -f install 
# apt-cache unmet | grep Depends

I had a working system and all was
good,testing/2.6.13, the problems started when I
inserted a unstable line in my source.list file and
did apt-get update then apt-get -t unstable install
maxima "which exists in stable and unstable only".

I needed the latest release so I did not use stable
for maxima, as a result of trying to install unstable
maxima, lately it tried to remove sawfish-gnome by
deleting  some of the files which belong to
sawfish-gnome.  don't remember what happened after
that but I tried to fix  the dependencies many times
for few weeks now, for no avail, in my effort trying I
did 
# apt-get dist-upgrade to unstable thinking by
reinstalling a fresh upgraded version from testing to
unstable, that would fix it. but I did not continue
and cut that after few minuets of starting it after
reading that this is not needed.

so after I escrowed up my system, un-willingly, I did
lots of reading from the online doc on my system but
could not figure out the whole picture to find a
method to approach this problem. 

do I need to delete all the index files since they may
be mixed up between testing and unstable as a result
of what escrow-up I did? if so, where are they? 

could some one give some hints or something on how to
go with this.

thanks


**apt-get -f install*
$su
# apt-get -f install
 apt-get -f install
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  sawfish-gnome
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 14 not
upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives.
After unpacking 3577kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] 
(Reading database ... 74822 files and directories
currently installed.)
Removing sawfish-gnome ...
update-alternatives: --slave only allowed with
--install

Debian update-alternatives 1.13.11.
Copyright (C) 1995 Ian Jackson.
Copyright (C) 2000-2002 Wichert Akkerman
This is free software; see the GNU General Public
Licence
version 2 or later for copying conditions.  There is
NO warranty.

Usage: update-alternatives --install  
 
  [--slave  
] ...
   update-alternatives --remove  
   update-alternatives --remove-all 
   update-alternatives --auto 
   update-alternatives --display 
   update-alternatives --list 
   update-alternatives --config 
   update-alternatives --set  
   update-alternatives --all
 is the name in /etc/alternatives.
 is the name referred to.
 is the link pointing to
/etc/alternatives/.
 is an integer; options with higher numbers
are chosen.

Options:  --verbose|--quiet  --test  --help  --version
  --altdir   --admindir 
dpkg: error processing sawfish-gnome (--remove):
 subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit
status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
 sawfish-gnome
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code
(1)


**$ apt-cache unmet | grep Depends **
 Depends: python2.2-crypto
 Depends: kdevelop-data
 Depends: ghc6 (< 6.2.2-999)
 Depends: libqt3-mt (>= 3:3.3.4)
 Depends: libexif10
 Depends: kdewebdev
 Depends: mplayer (>= 1.0-pre5) | mplayer-custom (>=
1.0-pre5) | mplayer-386 (>= 1.0-pre5) | mplayer-586
(>= 1.0-pre5) | mplayer-686 (>= 1.0-pre5) | mplayer-k6
(>= 1.0-pre5) | mplayer-k7 (>= 1.0-pre5) |
mplayer-powerpc (>= 1.0-pre5) | mplayer-g4 (>=
1.0-pre5) | mplayer-amd64 (>= 1.0-pre5) |
mplayer-nogui (>= 1.0-pre5)
 Depends: kdelibs3-bin (= 4:2.2.2-13.woody.8)
 Depends: libkmid-dev (= 4:2.2.2-13.woody.8)
 Depends: libqt-dev (>= 3:2.3.1-18)
 Depends: uic (>= 3:2.3.1-1) | kde-designer
 Depends: mplayer





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Re: Bash commands

[michael]

On Thu, 2005-10-13 at 08:18 -0700, Freddy Freeloader wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I downloaded the Advanced Bash Scripting Guide the other day an have 
> started to work my way through it.  I'm fairly new to bash so I get more 
> than a little confused when the output I get is nothing similar to what 
> the ABS Guide says it should be. 
> 
> Here is what has me confused at the moment.
> 
> b=${a/23/BB}
> 
> echo "b = $b"
> 
> Now the ABS guide says that where I'm setting b it should be 
> substituting BB for 23.  It also says that the output of 'echo "b - $b"' 
> should be: b = BB35
> 
> However, what I get as output is as follows:
> 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ echo "b = $b"
> b = 

if a is unset then that is correct...


> total 520716
> drwxr-sr-x  2 ffreeloader ftp48 2005-10-13 07:50 script
> -rw-r--r--  1 ffreeloader ftp 532692172 2005-10-12 09:38 server_2003.zip

this is a listing of your current directory... 

> Now in my playing around this morning I've been using some command 
> substitution from the bash prompt that included cd'ing into a directory 
> that has the files in it that are listed above.  I assume that somehow 
> setting $b to the value I set it to is calling the history command in 
> the bash shell and that's how I'm getting this output.  However, I don't 
> know why or how it works.

if you have not editted your .bash* files, re-login afresh and try
again. the preceeding para implies you may have (inadvertedly) done
something to, say, .bashrc so it executes something on certain
conditions and this is where the `ls` output is from.


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Re: Howto set environment variables in Gnome?

[Adam Hardy]

Olle Eriksson on 16/10/05 14:25, wrote:

On Friday 14 October 2005 08.18, Joost Kraaijeveld wrote:


Hi,

What is the approriate place to set environmental variables in Gnome,
both system wide (e.g. for all users) and per user?



How about putting them in /etc/profile for system-wide variables and 
~/.bash_profile for user specific variables?


Otherwise try this:
http://www.google.se/search?q=environment+variables+in+gnome



Search the archives of this list as well, this topic was discussed a 
couple of months back.


if my memory serves me well, .profile does not provide the environment 
setup if you login via xdm or gdm.


If I am wrong, it is probably because there is some other config file as 
well as .profile, rather than just .profile. But I do recall someone 
saying that .profile is only for cmd line environments.




Adam


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Re: Dynamic DNS

[Elimar Riesebieter]

On Sun, 16 Oct 2005 the mental interface of
Lars told:

> Hi
> 
> I'm having difficulty with ddns. I've learned it on Fedora-setup and is
> trying to make it work on Sarge. Found this howto,
> realmtech.net/documents/DynamicDNS.pdf, and i should be using the rigth
> versions;
> fw:/usr/src/linux# dpkg -l |grep 'bind'
> ii  bind   8.4.6-1Internet Domain Name Server

AFAIK bind8 doesn't support DDNS.

> ii  bind9-host 9.2.4-1Version of 'host' bundled with BIND 9.X
> ii  dhcp3-server   3.0.1-2DHCP server for automatic IP address

Why do you have different bind versions on your system? This only
happens when inatalling by hand. Using an apt frontend or most
likely apt itself, will install a homogen versioning.

A really, really good howto is:
http://www.arda.homeunix.net/dnssetup.shtml
and to run bind in a jail:
http://www.falkotimme.com/howtos/debian_bind_chroot/index.php

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Re: simple console menu

[J.A. de Vries]

On 2005-10-16 @ 10:19:05 (week 41) Rodney Richison wrote:

> I would like to make a simple console menu for a script I'm writing. 
> While I see things like pdmenu, I'd like this menu to show up on a plain 
> vanila new debian base install with now gui.  Do you guy's know of some 
> simple examples I might look at to accomplish this?

Hi Rodney,

Following is a shameless plug for one of my own pieces of code `;-)

You mention it is for a script. If you can stomach perl (I couldn't live
without it, they'd have to pry it from my cold fingers) I'd like to
suggest you take a look at the Term::ANSIMenu module I wrote a couple of
years ago. It is written for just this task. You can easily build
console-based menus with it, including multiple levels, built-in help,
colors and hotkeys. As the name suggest it is all done using ANSI escape
sequences. If you decide to go this route, then I'll be happy to answer
any questions you might have. (Who said FOSS support was non-existent?
}:-)

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

[Jochen Schulz]

David R. Litwin:
> 
> ake-kpkg --append-to-version "-1-686-smp" --revision
> 2.6.12-1-686-smp--config old configure
> I note that you are using the --revision flag with the value
> 2.6.12-1-686-smp.
> However, the ./debian/changelog file exists, and has a different value
> 2.6.12-1-686.
> I am confused by this discrepancy, and am halting.
> 
> It would seem to me that the smp is the problem.

No. You just have to do a 'make-kpkg clean' before giving a new string
to '--append-to-version'. This won't erase your kernel config, BTW.

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Re: rsync over ssh with disallowed login

[Roberto C. Sanchez]

On Sun, Oct 16, 2005 at 11:28:14AM +0200, Lubos Vrbka wrote:
> hi guys,
> 
> is there any way how to disable login to a machine with ssh and at the same 
> time use it as a backup machine using rsync over the same protocol (ssh)?
> 
> i.e. user can run rsync to that machine, but the login is disallowed? i've 
> seen 
> similar setup (using rsh) in the past but couldn't find out how this is 
> done...
> 
> thank you in advance for your help.
> 

You want something like rssh:

Description: Restricted shell allowing only scp, sftp, cvs, rsync and/or rdist
 rssh is a restricted shell to be used as a substitute of the login
 shell to allow users to perform only scp/sftp/cvs/rsync,rdist
 operations.
 .
 The security implications are high, so the home directories have
 to be set following the instructions provided.

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Re: simple console menu

[Hugo Vanwoerkom]

Rodney Richison wrote:
I would like to make a simple console menu for a script I'm writing. 
While I see things like pdmenu, I'd like this menu to show up on a plain 
vanila new debian base install with now gui.  Do you guy's know of some 
simple examples I might look at to accomplish this?




man dialog
dpkg -L dialog

has examples. I use it in a script to interface with c++ for Qt to 
control a daemon via Qt's server-client class.


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Re: Newsreader: Best of the bunch?

[Bob Vloon]

Hi Marc,

> Sorry for the cheesy question.

Is it? =)

> Until now, I've retained Gravity on XP for my usenet use. Now, I'm after 
> a Linux replacement. I use multiple servers, but I'm only interested in 
> text-based ngs, so threading and tracking threads that I've contributed 
> to are important. The less mouse use the better, but unless it's uber-
> functional, I'd prefer to avoid a curses-bases usenet reader - may the 
> nix-gods forgive me.

Well, the most pleasant one I used was "tin", and.. it is text based, yes.
Sorry. But you could try it..

Regards,

  Bob


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Dynamic DNS

[Lars]

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Hi

I'm having difficulty with ddns. I've learned it on Fedora-setup and is
trying to make it work on Sarge. Found this howto,
realmtech.net/documents/DynamicDNS.pdf, and i should be using the rigth
versions;
fw:/usr/src/linux# dpkg -l |grep 'bind'
ii  bind   8.4.6-1Internet Domain Name Server
ii  bind9-host 9.2.4-1Version of 'host' bundled with BIND 9.X
ii  dhcp3-server   3.0.1-2DHCP server for automatic IP address
assignm


-  File: /etc/dhcp3/dhcpd.conf 

allow client-updates;
log-facility local7;

ddns-updates on;
ddns-update-style interim;
ddns-domainname "dom.dk.";
ddns-rev-domainname "in-addr.arpa.";

key UpdaterKey {
algorithm HMAC-MD5.SIG-ALG.REG.INT;
secret $1$jBB971$9baRoIPprh0K8C8CCnyTI1;
};

zone utysket.dk. {
primary 172.16.0.2;
key UpdaterKey;
}

zone 0.16.172.in-addr.arpa {
primary 172.16.0.2;
key UpdaterKey;
}

subnet 172.16.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.224 {
range 172.16.0.6 172.16.0.30;
option domain-name-servers  172.16.0.2;
option subnet-mask  255.255.255.224;
option domain-name  "dom.dk";
option routers  172.16.0.1;
option broadcast-address172.16.0.31;
default-lease-time  9600;
max-lease-time  12400;
}
- ---

When a host is requesting, there is no replay (and i have checked the
firewall), so guess it's not the DHCP3-Server <> Bind-relationship, only
the DHCP3-Server thats failing...  The static entries on Bind is working
flawless!
One of the things i had trouble with was creating a md5-sum, i
ended up using the "grub-md5-crypt", perhaps not my best move, but it
gave something to copy/paste. But again i don't know what the rules
are for a "HMAC-MD5.SIG-ALG.REG.INT" encryption.
The syslog gives me no answers, so hopefully someone else can...


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usbcore use count is 1 but it is used by nothing

[Carl Fink]

Is this a bug?  lsmod lists this:

usbcore   121980  1 

but it lists no other module as using usbcore -- so what's responsible for
that "1"?

Kernel 2.6.12-1-k7.
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Re: udev trouble: no /dev/sd* devices

[George McNinch]

gm> On the third, I now have no /dev/sd* at all (no /dev/sda1
gm> e.g.)

 modprobe sd_mod

fixed the problem.


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simple console menu

[Rodney Richison]

I would like to make a simple console menu for a script I'm writing. 
While I see things like pdmenu, I'd like this menu to show up on a plain 
vanila new debian base install with now gui.  Do you guy's know of some 
simple examples I might look at to accomplish this?


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Re: rsync over ssh with disallowed login

[Lubos Vrbka]

That's not quite what he asked, but you can restrict what commands can be
run (to just rsync) using the authorized_keys file too
could you please be more specific in this point? :) some example (or 
pointer to relevant part of a documentation) would be very welcome...


also, does this mean, that i could specify that any rsync via ssh is 
allowed, everything else is forbidden?


another possibility - how to disable the possibility of user getting 
into the shell.  i.e. ssh machine "ls foo" would work as expected, but 
ssh machine would just fail / disconnect immediately as well as ssh 
machine "bash"


thanks,

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Re: telnet as login shell

[Stephen Le]

On 10/16/05, Aurelien Ricard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Stephen, try to put a telnet session in their ~/.bashrc
> I've never tried but it should work.

While this works, it is insecure. A user can easily run a command like
'ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] rm .bashrc' to delete the .bashrc file and get full
shell access.

I've resorted to using a Perl script as a login shell.

Re: rsync over ssh with disallowed login

[Dick Davies]

On 16/10/05, Aurelien Ricard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If you want to be able to login using ssh (or rsync over ssh) on a
> remote machine without password try to put the key of the user's login
> (used on the local machine)  to the .ssh/authorized_keys on the remote
> $HOME_DIR.

That's not quite what he asked, but you can restrict what commands can be
run (to just rsync) using the authorized_keys file too

> Lubos Vrbka wrote:

> > is there any way how to disable login to a machine with ssh and at the
> > same time use it as a backup machine using rsync over the same
> > protocol (ssh)?
> >
> > i.e. user can run rsync to that machine, but the login is disallowed?
> > i've seen similar setup (using rsh) in the past but couldn't find out
> > how this is done...



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Re: Howto set environment variables in Gnome?

[Olle Eriksson]

On Friday 14 October 2005 08.18, Joost Kraaijeveld wrote:
> Hi,
>
> What is the approriate place to set environmental variables in Gnome,
> both system wide (e.g. for all users) and per user?

How about putting them in /etc/profile for system-wide variables and 
~/.bash_profile for user specific variables?

Otherwise try this:
http://www.google.se/search?q=environment+variables+in+gnome

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Re: rsync over ssh with disallowed login

[Aurelien Ricard]

If you want to be able to login using ssh (or rsync over ssh) on a 
remote machine without password try to put the key of the user's login 
(used on the local machine)  to the .ssh/authorized_keys on the remote 
$HOME_DIR.


home it helps

Aurélien



Lubos Vrbka wrote:


hi guys,

is there any way how to disable login to a machine with ssh and at the 
same time use it as a backup machine using rsync over the same 
protocol (ssh)?


i.e. user can run rsync to that machine, but the login is disallowed? 
i've seen similar setup (using rsh) in the past but couldn't find out 
how this is done...


thank you in advance for your help.

regards,



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Re: exploring a M$ network

[John Oxley]

On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 07:34:30AM +0100, Joe Mc Cool wrote:
> But, how do I avail of the M$ disk spaces, printers etc ?  Is samba
> (under the sarge) the way to go and if so what do I need to know about
> the M$ network in order to proceed ?

Smb4K works beautifully if you're running KDE system.  Dunno about
printers though, never tried.

-John

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Re: Programmieren mit Delphi

[J.A. de Vries]

On 2005-10-15 @ 10:48:55 (week 41) Luk Claes wrote:

> > ich habe linux möchte aber wie mit Delphi
> > Programmieren welche Programmier sprache ist genau so
> > wie Delphi und kann sie bei Linux benutzen währe nett
> > wenn ich eine antwort bekommen würde und wo bekomme
> > ich das programm her und es sollte kostelos sein danke

First off: Luk sorry to use your message to follow up, but I had already
deleted the previous ones in this thread.

To the OP:

You have two alternatives to choose from if you want a GUI with the
Object Pascal compiler. Lazarus is a Delphi-like environment on top of
Free Pascal that you can use with your favorite OS (see
http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/). Also, some year ago Borland has
ported Delphi to GNU/Linux under the name Kylix. The offered a free
download for personal and educational use on their site, but as I
haven't coded in Kylix for some years now I am not sure they still do.
Google (or simple searching www.borland.com) will probably help you with
that.

Sincerely,

HdV

Dynamic DNS

[Lars]

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Hi

I'm having difficulty with ddns. I've learned it on Fedora-setup and is
trying to make it work on Sarge. Found this howto,
realmtech.net/documents/DynamicDNS.pdf, and i should be using the rigth
versions;
fw:/usr/src/linux# dpkg -l |grep 'bind'
ii  bind   8.4.6-1Internet Domain Name Server
ii  bind9-host 9.2.4-1Version of 'host' bundled with BIND 9.X
ii  dhcp3-server   3.0.1-2DHCP server for automatic IP address
assignm


-  File: /etc/dhcp3/dhcpd.conf 

allow client-updates;
log-facility local7;

ddns-updates on;
ddns-update-style interim;
ddns-domainname "dom.dk.";
ddns-rev-domainname "in-addr.arpa.";

key UpdaterKey {
algorithm HMAC-MD5.SIG-ALG.REG.INT;
secret $1$jBB971$9baRoIPprh0K8C8CCnyTI1;
};

zone utysket.dk. {
primary 172.16.0.2;
key UpdaterKey;
}

zone 0.16.172.in-addr.arpa {
primary 172.16.0.2;
key UpdaterKey;
}

subnet 172.16.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.224 {
range 172.16.0.6 172.16.0.30;
option domain-name-servers  172.16.0.2;
option subnet-mask  255.255.255.224;
option domain-name  "dom.dk";
option routers  172.16.0.1;
option broadcast-address172.16.0.31;
default-lease-time  9600;
max-lease-time  12400;
}
- ---

When a host is requesting, there is no replay (and i have checked the
firewall), so guess it's not the DHCP3-Server <> Bind-relationship, only
the DHCP3-Server thats failing...  The static entries on Bind is working
flawless!
One of the things i had trouble with was creating a md5-sum, i
ended up using the "grub-md5-crypt", perhaps not my best move, but it
gave something to copy/paste. But again i don't know what the rules
are for a "HMAC-MD5.SIG-ALG.REG.INT" encryption.
The syslog gives me no answers, so hopefully someone else can...

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Re: Lucy & the Football

[george5]

Progress !

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
... snippage ... Installing Thunderbird ...
> Then a couple of problems surfaced:
>
> 1. The menu items highlight to white on white.

> This is a common bug already posted here before.
> You can check for fixes in the list archives.

I'll try that; the simple answer that I had found was, "change theme."

>> 2. The second time I opened Thunderbird, it was empty, and the
>> Install Wizard wanted all my data all over again.  150 messages
>> vanished ... but it had let me do the setup all by myself without
>> a peep of complaint.

Miguel wrote:

> I think that happened. First you installed thunderbird and as root, you
> configured the account in thunderbird. Then you log off root and as
> joe-user you tried to access your mail. As you configured your account
> as root, you can't use it as joe-user. This is the reason you saw the
> wizard asking you to setup a new account. Your original account is in
> root's home /root/.mozilla-thunderbird

Not quite - I was logged into gnome as george, not root; and I just
opened "Thunderbird Mail Client" from the Applications menu, not
noticing the Thunderbird Install Wizard (which I removed from the
menu after I noticed it - now, of course, I have to find it and put
it back on that menu ...).

However, I now enabled "Show hidden files" in the file viewer, and
the emails appear to be in my "george" .mozilla-thunderbird folder.

Whew ! What a relief ...

Can I safely go through the Thunderbird Install Wizard and not
overwrite these files ? I'll save 'em under a new name, just in
case ...

... snippage about backing up Mail, which I'll implement as soon
as I can get past the blank Inbox screen.

Thanks for the sage and helpfully explicit advice. My blood pressure
is greatly soothed by the careful reply.

George Langford


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Re: gmplayer not working

[soo2debian]

 Wiadomość Oryginalna 
Od: Antony Gelberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Do: [EMAIL PROTECTED]@lists.debian.org
Data: Sat, 15 Oct 2005 20:31:09 +0100
Temat: Re: gmplayer not working

> Enrique Morfin wrote:
> > Hi!
> > 
> > I tried to compile mplayer, and it worked. mplayer
> > runs flawlessly. Unfortunately gmplayer don't.
> > 
> 
> > Any ideas?
> 
> Use the packages from the Mariallat repository.

try ./configure --help
did You read README ?

If You want to use GUI You should -->>  ./configure --enable-gui
 


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Re: A full list of package and section name

[Simo Kauppi]

On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 08:52:35PM -0400, Tong wrote:
> Hi,

Hi,

> Is there any way to list all the packages and their section names?
> 
> I tried "dpkg-query -W --showformat '${Package} ${Section}\n'" but not all
> packages are listed. Please help. Thanks
> 
> tong

How about aptitude --display-format "%p %s" search ~n.*

See aptitude reference manual for more information about Customizing how
packages are displayed.

Simo
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Exim4 e IPv6 Question

[Marco]

Hi all,
I have installed exim4-daemon-heavy on my linux box (Debian Sarge). I 
have compiled

my kernel without ipv6 support. (it does not interest to me).
Now when I start exim this messages appear on my log.

2005-08-10 00:00:00 IPv6 socket creation failed: Address family not 
supported by protocol.
2005-08-10 00:00:00 Failed to create IPv6 socket for wildcard listening 
(Address family not supported by protocol): will use IPv4.
2005-08-10 00:00:00 exim 4.50 daemon started: pid=1, -q30m, 
listening for SMTP on port 25 (IPv4).


How to do to start exim4 only with IPv4 support?

Thanks
Marco


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rsync over ssh with disallowed login

[Lubos Vrbka]

hi guys,

is there any way how to disable login to a machine with ssh and at the 
same time use it as a backup machine using rsync over the same protocol 
(ssh)?


i.e. user can run rsync to that machine, but the login is disallowed? 
i've seen similar setup (using rsh) in the past but couldn't find out 
how this is done...


thank you in advance for your help.

regards,

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Re: /lib deleted

[Dennis Stosberg]

theal wrote:

> The /lib directory was deleted by accidentally on one of my
> servers. Does anyone know of a way to recover this?

Your best and simplest option is, of course, to restore your latest
backup.  But since you're asking here, I assume that no backup
exists.  

I don't think it a good idea to copy the /lib directory from another
machine as long as the configuration of that machine is not 100
percent identical to yours.  Unless the configurations are
identical, you would certainly miss some needed libraries and on the
other hand have unneeded libraries lying around in /lib, which are
not part of any package and will never be removed. The /lib
directory also includes the kernel module files, which will simply
not work for you if the kernel version and configuration is not
identical.

The Debian package system keeps a list of installed packages and
every single file which every single package installs in
/var/lib/dpkg/info.  If you start your system using a rescue CD, or
any other cd-based linux distribution (Knoppix, Ubuntu live CDs,
etc.) and use that information, you will probably be able to
reinstall exactly those packages, which install files in /lib.

If you grep through the *.list files in the directory, you will see
that only a few packages install files in /lib -- on my desktop
system about 40 packages:

   grep -m1 ^/lib /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.list

When you have the package names you can get the packages from your
local Debian mirror (or /var/cache/apt/) and reinstall them on your
system. See the --root option of dpkg for that. 

Regards,
Dennis

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Re: telnet as login shell

[Aurelien Ricard]

Benjamin A'Lee wrote:


On Sat, 2005-10-15 at 08:56 -0700, Stephen Le wrote:
 


Is it possible to change a user's login shell to an instance of telnet
to a user-unique port? When a user logs into my server, I'd like them
to be immediately dropped into a telnet session on a specific port
running on the server and to be disconnected when their telnet session
ends.
   



You should be able to write a script that calls telnet with the
appropriate options, and set that as the shell (add it to /etc/shells).
That's just a guess, haven't tested it.

   Ben

 


Ben, I don't think it works.
Stephen, try to put a telnet session in their ~/.bashrc
I've never tried but it should work.


Aurelien

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Re: /dev/mouse & /dev/dsp missing!

[Adam Bogacki]

Fyi, Adam.

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From: Adam Bogacki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: slug@slug.org.au
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: /dev/mouse & /dev/dsp missing!
Mail-Followup-To: slug@slug.org.au, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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X-uptime: 22:04:17 up 15 min,  3 users,  load average: 0.16, 0.46, 0.46

Thanks Jason, I tried that ..

> /dev/mouse is depreciated. All it's supposed to be is a link to /dev/psaux
> as far as I recall but on my system it doesn't exist either. I'd guess it
> was removed as it's not supposed to be used any more. The most recommended
> thing to change it to would be /dev/input/mice as this reads from all mice
> that the system knows of so you don't have to manually specify each one you
> attach to the system.
 
.. but still no cursor. @#$!

Not only that, but I don't seem to be able to enter init 3 via
Alt-F* or typing 'init 3' at boot prompt so I'm using mutt in the
top left two-thirds of the screen .. better than nothing. 

> What sound modules were you using previously? alsa or oss? Since oss is
> depreciated I'd guess also but then I hav no idea why you've got mplayer set
> to play via oss rather than alsa.

ALSA - but I can't find alsa modules in /etc/modules (attached) - are
they missing ?
> 
> If you are using alsa like me. I had alsa sound work fine but not programs
> that still tried to use oss devices after my last transition. The alsa sound
> modules were loaded but not the oss modules that provide backwards
> compatibility with oss sound devices. Try loading, snd-mixer-oss and
> snd-pcm-oss (modprobe snd-mixer-oss, modprobe snd-mixer-oss) and see if that
> makes /dev/dsp appear. If so add those modules to your /etc/modules file so
> they are loaded on next boot.

Hmm .. tried that too but still received the /dev/dsp error message
from mplayer.

I think I have to sleep on this - it always happens when other things
are also coming to a head. 

Adam Bogacki,
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

# /etc/modules: kernel modules to load at boot time.
#
# This file should contain the names of kernel modules that are
# to be loaded at boot time, one per line.  Comments begin with
# a "#", and everything on the line after them are ignored.

printer
apm
usb-uhci
input
usbkbd
keybdev
binfmt_aout
binfmt_misc
bsd_comp
ppp_synctty
ppp_deflate
ip_conntrack
ip_conntrack_ftp
ip_conntrack_irc
ip_tables
ipt_MASQUERADE
ipt_MIRROR
iptable_filter
iptable_mangle
ipt_unclean
ipt_state
ipt_owner
ipt_multiport
analog
agpgart
nbd
raid0
raid1
lvm-mod
multipath
isa-pnp
soundcore
sound
audio
msdos
affs
nfsd
nls_cp1250
nls_cp852
nls_iso8859-2
ramfs
tulip
psmouse
sermouse
vsxxxaa
swsusp
bttv
video1394
usbmouse
uhci-hcd
usb-storage




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/dev/mouse & /dev/dsp missing !

[Adam Bogacki]

Hi,
I booted up my Debian unstable distro today only to find
the cursor static in center of screen and no sound.

Upon checking, the hardware is OK, but I cannot find
/dev/mouse as specified in /etc/X11/xorg.conf and Mplayer gives
me the message

"audio setup: Can't open audio device /dev/dsp: no such device"

Upon checking, /dev/dsp proves to be missing.

What is happening here ? Is this part of some unstable apt-upgrade/update
transition ? Have others had the same problem ?

I'd welcome any constructive advice.

Adam Bogacki,
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Re: savage card, X.org, DRI, Mesa

[Seeker5528]

On Sat, 15 Oct 2005 09:48:24 +0200
Francesco Bochicchio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> :01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. VT8375 [ProSavage8KM266/KL266]

I'm sure someone will correct me if I am wrong, but I don't think there
is any direct rendering support for any of the IGP chipsets from VIA/S3
outside of the unichrome family of chipsets.

There was a proprietary driver for the KM266/KL266 family, but I don't
think it ever did work all that well and it is not very likely that it
will work with a current distro.

Later, Seeker


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Re: Misdirected requests - no Host header maybe?

[Simo Kauppi]

On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 10:35:44AM +0100, Graham Smith wrote:
> Sorry this request for help is a bit off topic for this group but I am really 
> stuck and could do with some help. If you can't help but know where I might 
> be able to get help I would appreciate a pointer in the right direction.
> 
> I run a few sites off one static IP address using virtual hosting. Some sites 
> (www.crazysquirrel.com, www.ruralescapes.co.uk and www.shallowsea.com) are 
> Java based and use the Apache Tomcat connector. Others, such as 
> blog.crazysquirrel.com are php based and hosted straight out of Apache (I'm 
> running Apache 2.0 on Debian). All the sites appear to work just fine. There 
> doesn't appear to be any problems with people navigating around them. 
> 
> The problem is with search engines such as Yahoo Slurp and Googlebot. A large 
> number of requests for pages that are in one of the other domains are ending 
> up at blog.crazysquirrel.com. My best guess is that for some reason Slurp and 
> Googlebot are making requests but leaving off the Host header. Now this 
> wouldn't be completely out of spec because they are making HTTP 1.0 requests 
> and as such don't require a Host header. I would have expected, however, that 
> every request from them would come with one since virtual hosting is now so 
> common. It briefly crossed my mind that it was simply a probe to detect 
> virtual hosting but there are way to many requests going astray (more go 
> astray than the real sites actually get) therefore I conclude something must 
> be wrong.

If the problem is what you think it is, you might want to try out the
compatibility with older browsers using ServerPath directive as described
in http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/vhosts/name-based.html#compat

> A little more digging seems to indicate that the search bots are able to load 
> the first page (say http://www.shallowsea.com/index.html) but then start 
> screwing it up when trying to access the links they find in that page. For 
> example here is a little snippet of log file from yesterday for 
> blog.crazysquirrel.com. These is are page requests that should have gone to 
> shallowsea.com
> 
> 66.249.66.34 - - [12/Oct/2005:14:08:47 +0100] 
> "GET /events.html?change-category=7&resource-name=event HTTP/1.1" 404 209 "-" 
> "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)"
> 
> 66.249.66.34 - - [12/Oct/2005:14:09:14 +0100] 
> "GET /links.html?change-category=51&resource-name=link HTTP/1.1" 404 208 "-" 
> "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)"
> 
> in the shallowsea.com log I find this:
> 
> 66.249.66.34 - - [12/Oct/2005:14:07:09 +0100] 
> "GET /events.html?change-category=60&resource-name=event HTTP/1.1" 200 7073 
> "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; 
> +http://www.google.com/bot.html)"
> 
> 66.249.66.34 - - [12/Oct/2005:14:09:50 +0100] 
> "GET /links.html?change-category=54&resource-name=link HTTP/1.1" 200 7547 "-" 
> "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)"
> 
> note the times of these requests. It is fairly obvious that the Googlebot is 
> trying to index shallowsea.com but for some reason about half the requests 
> are going to the wrong domain.
> 
> Has anyone got any idea what might be going on here? I'm perfectly happy to 
> accept that there is some header that I should be sending back that I am not 
> but that doesn't feel like it's the problem as some requests seem to get 
> through fine.
> 
> Many thanks,
> 
> Graham

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Re: /lib deleted

[Dick Davies]

Nice idea, but:

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ldd `which dpkg`
linux-gate.so.1 =>  (0xe000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/tls/libc.so.6 (0xb7ea6000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb7feb000)

theal - can you pull the disk? If so, rsync (or cp) /lib from some
other debian box onto it.

On 16/10/05, Roberto C. Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 16, 2005 at 12:04:19AM -0400, theal wrote:
> > The /lib directory was deleted by accidentally on one of my servers. Does 
> > anyone know of a way to recover this?
> >
> > Tony
>
> Try this:
>
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2004/02/msg00528.html
>
> Modify so it search /lib instead of /usr/X11R6/bin.
>
> -Roberto
>
> --
> Roberto C. Sanchez
> http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto
>
>
>


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