Re: which initrd to pur on USB memory stick?

[Matus UHLAR - fantomas]

> On Tuesday 09 October 2007 00:11, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote:
> > I'm trying to put debian installer on an USB memory stick. Even if there is
> > space for full ISO, I'd like to have possibility of installing from CDROM
> > or network, if possible. Is this possible? which initrd to use for this
> > case?
> >
> > Although "vmlinuz" seems to be the same (6 hard links), the initrd comes in
> > 3 variants (cdrom, hd-media, netboot) ans each has gtk/ flavour (it that
> > support for graphics installation?).
> >
> > Which initrd.gz should I put on the stick?

On 09.10.07 00:24, Thierry Chatelet wrote:
> The one from hd-media

Do you think this information from
http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch04s04.html.en is incorrect?


If you want to install over the network, without using an ISO image, you
will of course skip the previous step. Moreover you will have to use the
initial ramdisk from the netboot directory instead of the one from hd-media,
because hd-media/initrd.gz does not have network support.


I'd like initrd which would allow me to install from CD, HD, the stick
and network too.

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Re: Best text

[Kumar Appaiah]

On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 10:19:20PM -0700, jekillen wrote:
> Hello;
> I would like some recommendations on a published manual for
> Debian. I think O'Reilly has one, and there is the Linux survival
> guide, but are there others?
> I like to have hard copies rather than taking up window space
> with manual pages and having to shuffle between text windows
> and what I am trying to get in hand.
> I have a copy of Running Linux, but as I recall (I have not looked
> at it for some time)  it is more generalized and not distro specific.

I haven't read it too much myself, but I have heard good things about
the Debian System by Martin "madduck" Krafft.

http://debiansystem.info/

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Best text

[jekillen]

Hello;
I would like some recommendations on a published manual for
Debian. I think O'Reilly has one, and there is the Linux survival
guide, but are there others?
I like to have hard copies rather than taking up window space
with manual pages and having to shuffle between text windows
and what I am trying to get in hand.
I have a copy of Running Linux, but as I recall (I have not looked
at it for some time)  it is more generalized and not distro specific.

There is one other question about Open Office, and software in
general: Some Linux software with GUI runs on either KDE and
not Gnome, or vice versa. Is that true of Open Office? I installed
it but under Gnome and it does not show up in the applications
menus. I installed OpenOffice.org-common and -base, the core
package would not install for some missing dependencies, so
the dialogs informed me.

I am learning as I go. I remember playing Myst and Riven
when they were popular and that was good conceptual
exercise for dealing with operating systems and software;
curiosity, inductive and deductive logic, hunches, trial and error, 
observation,
intuition, persistence, determination, self control, imagination, and 
patience.

Unlike Myst and Riven, I am not to proud to peek at the solutions
when it comes to OS's and software.
Thanks in advance
Jeff K.


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Re: mdadm, partitioned array

[michael]

Adding some more info:

I killed my raid 5 and created a raid 0 instead. After creating the  
single raid 0 array, I partitioned it into 2 parititions. Formatted  
and mounted both and ran the same speed tests. Both tests turned out  
normal.
Then, I killed the raid 0 and instead created 2 raid 5 arrays.  
Formatted and mounted each raid 5 array and their speed tests were  
both normal.


So, as far as I can tell, I only see the slow down on the first  
partition of a partitioned single raid 5 array. (Didn't test raid 1 or  
raid 10)


Interesting results.
I wonder if anyone else has a partitioned raid 5 array and have normal  
speed results?


Thanks,
Cheers,
Mike


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Re: mdadm, partitioned array

[michael]

Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]:




host:~# cat /proc/mdstat
Personalities : [raid1] [raid10] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4]
md_d0 : active raid5 sdd3[3] sdc3[2] sdb3[1] sda3[0]
  14650944 blocks level 5, 64k chunk, algorithm 2 [4/4] []

md1 : active raid10 sda2[0] sdd2[3] sdc2[2] sdb2[1]
  9767296 blocks 64K chunks 2 near-copies [4/4] []

md0 : active raid1 sda1[0] sdd1[3] sdc1[2] sdb1[1]
  96256 blocks [4/4] []

unused devices: 



Sorry again, I'm confusing everyone. I have 2 servers, one with 6  
drives and another with only 4 drives. I get the same results with both.

The above numbers posted were on the box with only 4 onboard sata drives.

I've even tried different filesystems, XFS and ext3, still same thing.
So I'm guessing something weird with mdadm?
These are 64bit etch systems.

Perhaps I will make a bigger array and split it into more partitions  
and see what happens.


Mike



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Re: mdadm, partitioned array

[michael]

Quoting "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:



Well, its raid5 which is slow to begin with.  Have you verified with
mdadm that the array is complete and not running in degraded mode (which
would slow it down further)?



Sorry, forgot to mention that I have check mdstat to make sure the  
array is not degraded.
Here are some numbers:  (only md_d0p1 is slow, md_d0p2 and all others  
are fine)


host:~# df -h
FilesystemSize  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/md1  9.4G  631M  8.7G   7% /
tmpfs 994M 0  994M   0% /lib/init/rw
udev   10M   80K   10M   1% /dev
tmpfs 994M 0  994M   0% /dev/shm
/dev/md0   92M   24M   64M  27% /boot
/dev/md_d0p1  6.6G  3.1G  3.6G  47% /mnt
/dev/md_d0p2  7.5G  3.1G  4.5G  41% /mnt2

host:~# cat /proc/mdstat
Personalities : [raid1] [raid10] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4]
md_d0 : active raid5 sdd3[3] sdc3[2] sdb3[1] sda3[0]
  14650944 blocks level 5, 64k chunk, algorithm 2 [4/4] []

md1 : active raid10 sda2[0] sdd2[3] sdc2[2] sdb2[1]
  9767296 blocks 64K chunks 2 near-copies [4/4] []

md0 : active raid1 sda1[0] sdd1[3] sdc1[2] sdb1[1]
  96256 blocks [4/4] []

unused devices: 


host:/mnt# dd if=/dev/zero of=somefile.img count=6M
6291456+0 records in
6291456+0 records out
3221225472 bytes (3.2 GB) copied, 82.3717 seconds, 39.1 MB/s

host:/mnt2# dd if=/dev/zero of=somefile.img count=6M
6291456+0 records in
6291456+0 records out
3221225472 bytes (3.2 GB) copied, 32.0343 seconds, 101 MB/s

I get the same results over and over, and same with bonnie++.
The partitioned array mounted to mnt2 is normal, but mnt is really slow.

I don't get it.  :)

Thanks,
Mike

Re: Small "package" on console after starting X

[Patrick Wiseman]

On 10/8/07, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 05:15:55PM -0400, Patrick Wiseman wrote:
> > I have this odd phenomenon, which I suspect indicates some sort of attack.
> >
> > After I start X, when I return to a console (with Ctl-Alt-Fx) there's
> > what looks like a little package sitting in the bottom, right-hand
> > quarter of my screen.  After I Alt-7 back to X, and then Ctl-Alt-Fx
> > back to a console, it's gone.  Any ideas what it might be, and how to
> > rid myself of it?  I've used rkhunter and chkrootkit, neither of which
> > reports anything amiss, but that may be meaningless.
>
> What does this package look like?  Is it a single non-alphanumeric char?

No, I don't think so, as it's bigger (maybe 4x) than the other
characters on the console.  And it's bright, where everything else,
after I launch X, is dim.  Weird, I know.  I'll see if I can take a
picture of it.

Patrick


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Re: Cannot apt-get update

[Kumar Appaiah]

On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 08:06:39PM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> Thank you Gerard. OT, but is there a general way to check what
> distro/version any *nix installation is? Today I'm playing with a
> friend's Debian system, at home I've Ubuntu and Fedora, and tomorrow I
> might sit at an OpenSuse machine. I like to learn distro-ambiguous
> tools.

This might be useful:
http://chennailug.org/wiki/?title=Find_your_distro

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Re: which initrd to pur on USB memory stick?

[Wei Wang]

Here it is from Debian installation guide
http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch04s04.html.en

On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 00:11 +0200, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm trying to put debian installer on an USB memory stick. Even if there is
> space for full ISO, I'd like to have possibility of installing from CDROM or
> network, if possible. Is this possible? which initrd to use for this case?
> 
> Although "vmlinuz" seems to be the same (6 hard links), the initrd comes in
> 3 variants (cdrom, hd-media, netboot) ans each has gtk/ flavour (it that
> support for graphics installation?).
> 
> Which initrd.gz should I put on the stick?
> 


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Re: mdadm, partitioned array

[michael]

Quoting "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:



Well, its raid5 which is slow to begin with.  Have you verified with
mdadm that the array is complete and not running in degraded mode (which
would slow it down further)?

Tell us about sd[a-f].  What are they and how are they connected to the
computer?  Is it bus contention?



Yes, raid 5 is a bit slower, but I need the drive space.   :)
The drives are 6 onboard sata drives.

What worries me, is that I made one single array. Then paritioned this  
array into 2 partitions. Formatted the 2 partitions exactly the same,  
mounted them, and then noticed that one partition is slower than the  
other. I don't get this at all.


To me, its no different then taking a single disk, partitioning it,  
and then finding out that one partition is twice as fast as the other  
paritition. Yet, its the same disk.


I haven't test this yet, but in the past this has worked. where I  
create 2 arrays, format them and mount them, rather then create a  
single array, and partition the array. With 2 seperate arrays, the  
speeds are all normal.
But this becomes more administration to look after if a drive fails,  
then I have to repair 2 arrays, rather than just one.


Mike

Re: How do you turn on and off a program automatcially

[Douglas A. Tutty]

On 9/30/07, Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I struggled for a while to figure out how to do exactly this, without
> success.  I believe that cron does not work, since (at least some)
> ncurses apps insist on being run from a terminal.

Lets get back to first principles then.

How does a curses app know if its being run from a terminal?  I can't
read source and I don't have curses book handy so I'll guess:

TERM=

if it can look up that term in termcap/terminfo to see how to draw?

The value of tty?

Perhaps without an actual tty-type device it can't work?

---

If you do your at su - (I forget the syntax) command but have it echo
the env to a file, do you get a TERM set?

Perhaps create a script that sets TERM and then runs mc.  Then have at
run that script?

Doug.


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Re: which initrd to pur on USB memory stick?

[Douglas A. Tutty]

On Tue, Oct 09, 2007 at 12:24:54AM +0200, Thierry Chatelet wrote:
> On Tuesday 09 October 2007 00:11, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote:
> >
> > I'm trying to put debian installer on an USB memory stick. Even if there is
> > space for full ISO, I'd like to have possibility of installing from CDROM
> > or network, if possible. Is this possible? which initrd to use for this
> > case?
> >
> > Although "vmlinuz" seems to be the same (6 hard links), the initrd comes in
> > 3 variants (cdrom, hd-media, netboot) ans each has gtk/ flavour (it that
> > support for graphics installation?).
> >
> > Which initrd.gz should I put on the stick?
> >
> 
> The one from hd-media

Then put either the netinst.iso or the full CD1 binary iso on the
USB-stick.  If ever you want to install from CD, just take the stick to
a computer with a burner and burn that ISO image.

I also include all my essential user and system data on my 4 GB USB
stick so that it, in combination with an internet connection, provides
everything I need for a full bare-metal-recovery.  For completeness, I
also put on a grml.iso.

Doug.


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Re: Cannot apt-get update

[Douglas A. Tutty]

On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 08:06:39PM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> On 08/10/2007, Gerard Robin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >I do not know what
> > >version Debian this is, or how up to date it is, as it is not my
> > >machine. How can I check?
> > cat /etc/debian_version
> 
> Thank you Gerard. OT, but is there a general way to check what
> distro/version any *nix installation is? Today I'm playing with a
> friend's Debian system, at home I've Ubuntu and Fedora, and tomorrow I
> might sit at an OpenSuse machine. I like to learn distro-ambiguous
> tools.
> 

dmesg

Generally, near the top when the kernel boots there's some indication
of what OS this is.

Doug.


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Re: Is there a Shell Script Viewer that helps with if-then-else?

[Douglas A. Tutty]

On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 02:24:22PM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote:
>   In vi, one can hit % and jump to the corresponding
> parenthesis or brace which helps in complex situations. Is there
> anything that will show which fi directive went with which if?
> Sometimes, scripts can grow to a pretty messy state and it gets
> hard to tell what is included between any given fi directive and
> an if clause that might be several lines back and nest some
> other if-thens in between?
> 
>   This tends to happen in shell scripts that started out
> simple and then one added this or that until . . . We've all
> been there at some point.
> 
>   If there is such an application, it needs to work in
> normal non-GUI environments.
> 
>   Thanks.
> 
> Martin McCormick
> Systems Engineer

Yeah, I've been there.  My answer was to print out the script and
highlight it.  Then re-implement it in Python.

I don't get there any more since, once a shell script nees decision and
looping (anything much more than a dos .bat file), I go straight for
python.  Then its small functions and modules in vim or idle.

Doug.


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Re: Small "package" on console after starting X

[Douglas A. Tutty]

On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 05:15:55PM -0400, Patrick Wiseman wrote:
> I have this odd phenomenon, which I suspect indicates some sort of attack.
> 
> After I start X, when I return to a console (with Ctl-Alt-Fx) there's
> what looks like a little package sitting in the bottom, right-hand
> quarter of my screen.  After I Alt-7 back to X, and then Ctl-Alt-Fx
> back to a console, it's gone.  Any ideas what it might be, and how to
> rid myself of it?  I've used rkhunter and chkrootkit, neither of which
> reports anything amiss, but that may be meaningless.

What does this package look like?  Is it a single non-alphanumeric char?

Doug.


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Re: mdadm, partitioned array

[Douglas A. Tutty]

On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 04:42:51PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
> I created raid 5 array via the following:
> 
> # mdadm -C /dev/md_d0 -l5 -n 6 /dev/sd[a-f]3 --auto=p
> 
> Upon reboot, I cfdisk'd the md_d0 into md_d0p1 and md_d0p2
> Formatted each partition and mounted one to /mnt and the other to /mnt2.
> 
> Running some bonnie++ benchmarks gave extra slow write results on  
> /dev/md_d0p1.
> but the same tests on /dev/md_d0p2 are normal. Read results are approx  
> the same on both partitions, but only writes are half as fast on p1  
> then p2.
> 
> I'm not quite sure why I'm getting these results. Any ideas to
> what could be wrong, or what to look for?

Well, its raid5 which is slow to begin with.  Have you verified with
mdadm that the array is complete and not running in degraded mode (which
would slow it down further)?  

Tell us about sd[a-f].  What are they and how are they connected to the
computer?  Is it bus contention?

Doug.


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"Dual Booting" linux thin client or windows

[Sid Arth]

Is it possible to "dual boot" into either normal windows (booting from
the harddrive) or linux which is stored on the network? Ive looked into
something called pxe a little, but that looks more like a one way thing.
Linux only and it seems you need some sorta special bios for it.

I was wondering if there is something where you could pick which OS you
want to load, and if you pick the linux one, it will  boot off a server
on my network.


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etch r1 can't install from ISO image?

[Serena Cantor]

I installed etch r0 from its ISO image.
Now I have etch r1 image, but can't install that way!

I use install.386/initrd.gz and install.386/vmlinuz,
and use lilo to load them.


   

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Re: PCIe Video and Open source 3D drivers

[Bob]

Wakko Warner wrote:

Kelly Clowers wrote:
  

On 10/7/07, Wakko Warner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


Please keep me CC'd, I've not subscribed to the list yet.
  

If a card is supported, it shouldn't matter if it is AGP or PCIe, just as
with older cards, it does not matter if they are PCI or AGP.



I know that 2D is supported.  The question was 3D.  For some time, the R300
and newer chips were 2D only and then support for 3D was available.

  

I have not really heard anything about using FireGL cards, but if they
use the same chips as the consumer cards, I guess they should work.

http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/ATIRadeon is probably the best place
to see what is supported.



I've been there, but might be out of date (I did notice the last change
date).  They list R300 and above cards as not well supported for 3D.  I don't
know if that means that it might or might not work, but the FireGL X1 seems
to be fairly well supported for what I've been doing with it (which is based
on the Radeon 9700 R300 chip).

I was looking at a V5100 or V7100 (both based on the X800 or X850 chip). 
But the question remains, is the R4xx chips supported in 3D?
  


Yes R300 and R400 ATI GPUs have 2D and 3D support with the OS driver, 
unlike the R200 series this was achieved through reverse engineering and 
the support is apparently a little less complete as a result.  However 
there are rumors that ATI will open up specs to their older GPUs as well 
as the newer ones, and even if they don't, their is an expectation that 
knowledge trickle down will occur from the development of the RadeonHD 
driver, either way, R300 and R400 support (currently very good anyway) 
will improve further.



AMD recently began releasing specs for ATI cards, and is working
with Open Source devs to create good drivers for all modern ATI
card, but it will be a while before there are results for end users.



I read this and was quite pleased to hear it.
I appreciate your response and any help you or anyone else reading can give.
  


The easiest to get hold of, best supported, cheapest, ATI, PCIe graphics 
card at the moment is the Radeon X1050 which, despite the odd marketing 
gimmick R500 style name, is in fact an R300 card, and I have 3 R300 
systems at the moment so can recommend that GPU, though if I could've 
got a R300/R400 card with dual DVI, I'd've payed extra for that.


Having said that the only reason I upgraded from RV280s is because of 
the 1536 pixel width limit on overlay on that GPU so I'm not a big 3D user.


Good luck

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_ATI_Graphics_Processing_Units


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Re: debian/control package dependency list (how to exclude some version)

[Mumia W..]

On 10/08/2007 05:19 PM, qing zhao wrote:

In debian/control file:

Is there a way that I can exclude some package version in package
dependency list.  I understand that the current relationships between
packages are: <<, <=, =, >= and >> for strictly earlier, earlier or
equal, exactly equal, later or equal and strictly later, respectively.
 But is there a plan to add sth. like != for NOT equal?

Thanks in advance for your help.

Qing




You can probably modify /etc/apt/preferences (man apt_preferences) or 
use aptitude's forbid-version option (man aptitude).





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debian kernel bugs / or is it grub?

[Richard van der Veen]

Hi
I am not sure how to send  a bug report about this because it seems to
be in several different kernels from Debian. (maybe it even is not
kernel specific but it's grub which is doing something wrong.)

When i replaced my ATA DVD writer with an SATA DVD writer and placed
another ATA harddisk on the connector, i got in my selfbuild kernel(*1
an OOPS. This made me decide to re-install debian. I downloaded a
daily-build netinstall CD from Lenny and wanted to convert that to Sid
- because that is my normal debian 'outfit' on the computer.  With the
installation everything went smoothly, but when i rebooted the
computer crashed/hanged on booting the kernel. The message on the
screen was:
--
PCI:BIOS BUG: MCFG area at f000 is not E820-reserved
PCI: Not using MMCONFIG
PCI: Failed to allocate mem resource #6:[EMAIL PROTECTED] for :01:00
Loading , please wait
ide0: I/O resource 0x3F6-0x3F6 not free.
ide0: ports already in use, skipping probe
ide1: I/O resource 0x376-0x376 not free.
ide1: ports already in use, skipping probe
--
hang

So i tried an earlier netinstall CD which i had laying around. But
that one did not recognize my two ATA disks at all but only showed the
SATA disk. (maybe i had to include the generic_ide option or so).

But it seemed i could not use Debian anymore. I tried with other
distributions and there was nothing wrong with that. I could install
Fedora 7 (2.6.21 kernel) on the same disk and use, I can install
Ubuntu 7.10 (2.6.22 kernel) on the same disk and use. But only Debian
give me this strange error message. I even tried to download the
ubuntu kernel and in install this on debian (in a chroot; which i set
up like people do when they install Gentoo (- mounted /proc too)) ...
Also chrooted i build my own kernel again from pre-configured 2.6.22.6
sources which i used before which gave me the OOPS to begin with.  But
also this kernel did not change the problem i was experiencing

 (*1. I build my own kernel to remove the option of PARA_VIRT because
that did keep me from installing the NVIDIA driver which i wanted to
use to enable  compiz.
I did read somewhere that the "only GPL modules can be loaded"
restriction was removed with the 2.6.6.22 kernel

thanks for reading and i hope some people can help me back on debian,
because this is and stays my favorite distribution.


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stunnel...

[Tom Allison]

I'm running into problems with stunnel4 configuration.

The underlying application works.
But I keep getting the same errors when I invoke SSL tunneling.


2007.10.08 21:49:54 LOG5[10064:47438519754832]: stunnel 4.18 on  
x86_64-pc-linux-gnu with OpenSSL 0.9.8c 05 Sep 2006
2007.10.08 21:49:54 LOG5[10064:47438519754832]: Threading:PTHREAD  
SSL:ENGINE Sockets:POLL,IPv6 Auth:LIBWRAP
2007.10.08 21:49:54 LOG6[10064:47438519754832]: file ulimit = 1024  
(can be changed with 'ulimit -n')
2007.10.08 21:49:54 LOG6[10064:47438519754832]: poll() used - no  
FD_SETSIZE limit for file descriptors

2007.10.08 21:49:54 LOG5[10064:47438519754832]: 500 clients allowed
2007.10.08 21:49:54 LOG7[10064:47438519754832]: FD 4 in non-blocking  
mode
2007.10.08 21:49:54 LOG7[10064:47438519754832]: FD 5 in non-blocking  
mode
2007.10.08 21:49:54 LOG7[10064:47438519754832]: FD 6 in non-blocking  
mode
2007.10.08 21:49:54 LOG7[10064:47438519754832]: SO_REUSEADDR option  
set on accept socket
2007.10.08 21:49:54 LOG3[10064:47438519754832]: Error binding imaps  
to 0.0.0.0:993
2007.10.08 21:49:54 LOG3[10064:47438519754832]: bind: Address already  
in use (98)



I'm unable to start it up from /etc/init.d/stunnel4.
Keeps calling for a pid=, but it's already specified
Not sure that I want/need to have it running all the time.



I'm trying to set it up through inetd:
imaps stream tcp nowait root /usr/bin/stunnel4 stunnel4 /etc/stunnel/ 
stunnel.conf


with a configuration file of:
cert = /etc/stunnel/stunnel.pem
key = /etc/stunnel/stunnel.pem

; Protocol version (all, SSLv2, SSLv3, TLSv1)
sslVersion = SSLv3

; Some security enhancements for UNIX systems - comment them out on  
Win32

chroot = /var/lib/stunnel4/
setuid = stunnel4
setgid = stunnel4
; PID is created inside chroot jail
pid = /stunnel4.pid
service=inetd

; Some performance tunings
socket = l:TCP_NODELAY=1
socket = r:TCP_NODELAY=1
;compression = rle

; Workaround for Eudora bug
;options = DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS

; Some debugging stuff useful for troubleshooting
debug = 7
output = /var/log/stunnel4/stunnel.log

; Use it for client mode
;client = yes

; Service-level configuration

;[pop3s]
;accept  = 995
;connect = 110

[imaps]
accept  = 993
connect = 143
cert= /etc/ssl/certs/email.pem
key = /etc/ssl/certs/email.pem
session = 14400
TIMEOUTidle = 14400


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Re: Simultaneous AC3/DTS passthrough & stereo analog output

[Bob]

Bob wrote:
I'm using an Audigy2 in one PC and an SB Live value in another and I 
output to a 5.1 speaker system over S/PDIF coax and to my headphones 
(via the TV) over analogue stereo.


I have AC3 passthrough working when I call mplayer with -afm hwac3, (I 
think DTS will work but can't find a test clip) and I can soft decode 
and downmix the AC3 audio with -afm liba52, so that's all great, 
except that with -afm liba52 rear left and right are mixed and I don't 
get anything out of the LFE track.


What I can't do is both at once which would make life easer for SWMBO.

My google search (below) has reviled I'm not alone in wanting this and 
hints that it may not be possible but my search skills are week so I 
thought I'd consult the oracle.
"ac3 passthrough" "analog (output | stereo | downmix)" (simultaneous | 
"both at" | "same time")


Has anyone got any suggestions on how to get this working?


Bad form to respond to yourself I know, Bla Bla Bla.

I just thought I'd add that, as I run a sort of informal hardware 
recycling center, I have plenty of spare sound cards, so if it can be 
done but only on a second card I'm still interested in the solution.


Thanks for taking an interest, I'll mention what you said to my Aunt.


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Re: Converting mp3 to audio CDs

[David Fox]

On 10/8/07, andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> What GUI tool were you thinking of - K3b? I wasn't aware that that could
> do that conversion. I'll have to look into that.

Yes,. k3b can do that and more - all you need to do is drag and drop
the mp3's over to a "new Audio CD" session and it'll decode the mp3s
during the burn. Very slick.

In the past, though, I've used other tools to convert the mp3s to wav
first, such as mplayer, xmms with the diskwriter plugin, etc.


> Andy


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Selinux

[Alex Samad]

Hi  
   

   
Just thought I would try out selinux, what is the best mailing list to ask  
   
questions about this.

   
right now I am looking at how to forward all the audit messages to a seperate   
   
log file instead of syslog  
   

   
Oct  7 11:45:18 hufpuf kernel: audit(1191721518.548:757): avc:  denied  {   
   
search } for  pid=8080 comm="spamd" name="/" dev=sdc1 ino=2 
   
scontext=user_u:system_r:spamd_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:object_r:var_log_t:s0 
   
tclass=dir  
   

   
is an example output in syslog and it looks like its the kernel that is sending 
   
the message, but I would like only my selinux audit lines to go into the
   
audit.log log   
   

   

   
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Re: Converting mp3 to audio CDs

[Kamaraju S Kusumanchi]

andy wrote:

> Hello
> 
> I have a friend who has requested that I dump a selection of mp3s onto a
> CD for him, but he lacks a computer-based media player. Is there an
> application that does the mp3 to audio-CD conversion so that the end
> product can be used on a stand alone CD player? Do I need to have
> anything in addition to the mp3 file in order to do this?

This question has come up couple of times before as well. I have summarized
the instructions to convert mp3s to wav at
http://malayamaarutham.blogspot.com/2007/03/convert-mp3-to-wav.html
After that use k3b to burn the .wav files. Wave files can be played in
normal CD player.

hth
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mdadm, partitioned array

[michael]

Hi,

I created raid 5 array via the following:

# mdadm -C /dev/md_d0 -l5 -n 6 /dev/sd[a-f]3 --auto=p

Upon reboot, I cfdisk'd the md_d0 into md_d0p1 and md_d0p2
Formatted each partition and mounted one to /mnt and the other to /mnt2.

Running some bonnie++ benchmarks gave extra slow write results on  
/dev/md_d0p1.
but the same tests on /dev/md_d0p2 are normal. Read results are approx  
the same on both partitions, but only writes are half as fast on p1  
then p2.


I'm not quite sure why I'm getting these results. Any ideas to
what could be wrong, or what to look for?

thanks in advance,

Cheers,
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mdadm, partitioned array

[michael]

Hi,

I created raid 5 array via the following:

# mdadm -C /dev/md_d0 -l5 -n 6 /dev/sd[a-f]3 --auto=p

Upon reboot, I cfdisk'd the md_d0 into md_d0p1 and md_d0p2
Formatted each partition and mounted one to /mnt and the other to /mnt2.

Running some bonnie++ benchmarks gave extra slow write results on  
/dev/md_d0p1.
but the same tests on /dev/md_d0p2 are normal. Read results are approx  
the same on both partitions, but only writes are half as fast on p1  
then p2.


I'm not quite sure why I'm getting these results. Any ideas to
what could be wrong, or what to look for?

thanks in advance,

Cheers,
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Anyone knows what happened to this mailing list & web site?

[cga2000]

I'm trying to get an HP 820e CD burner to work with debian etch and
can't seem to be able to post to the pcmcia list any more:

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Does anyone know anything as to why this list and the corresponding
lists.infradead.org web site appear to have been down possibly for the
last few weeks?

Have they moved elsewhere?

Any other place I could ask for assistance?

Since this piece of hardware is what I use to backup/restore files, any
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Re: which initrd to pur on USB memory stick?

[Thierry Chatelet]

On Tuesday 09 October 2007 00:11, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to put debian installer on an USB memory stick. Even if there is
> space for full ISO, I'd like to have possibility of installing from CDROM
> or network, if possible. Is this possible? which initrd to use for this
> case?
>
> Although "vmlinuz" seems to be the same (6 hard links), the initrd comes in
> 3 variants (cdrom, hd-media, netboot) ans each has gtk/ flavour (it that
> support for graphics installation?).
>
> Which initrd.gz should I put on the stick?
>

The one from hd-media


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debian/control package dependency list (how to exclude some version)

[qing zhao]

In debian/control file:

Is there a way that I can exclude some package version in package
dependency list.  I understand that the current relationships between
packages are: <<, <=, =, >= and >> for strictly earlier, earlier or
equal, exactly equal, later or equal and strictly later, respectively.
 But is there a plan to add sth. like != for NOT equal?

Thanks in advance for your help.

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Re: Converting mp3 to audio CDs

[Valentin]

On Mon, 08 Oct 2007 18:31:58 +0100
andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Is
> there an application that does the mp3 to audio-CD conversion so that
> the end product can be used on a stand alone CD player?

You could try serpentine. Should be in the repos, though I wouldn't
know since I'm on ubuntu at the moment.

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Re: df -h listing

[cga2000]

On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 09:55:26AM EDT, Miles Bader wrote:
> Rick Pasotto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >> I think you missed someting? like the -n flag? If you do a normal sort,
> >> its alphabetic. With -n, it is done numeric.
> >
> > That's true but it doesn't help anyway. 57K will sort larger than 2M.
> 
> You could do it in two stages, first without -h, to sort, then with -h,
> to display... e.g.:
> 
>df -h `df | tail -n +2 | sort -n -k2 | awk '{print $NF}'`

Very elegant.

Thanks,
cga


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which initrd to pur on USB memory stick?

[Matus UHLAR - fantomas]

Hello,

I'm trying to put debian installer on an USB memory stick. Even if there is
space for full ISO, I'd like to have possibility of installing from CDROM or
network, if possible. Is this possible? which initrd to use for this case?

Although "vmlinuz" seems to be the same (6 hard links), the initrd comes in
3 variants (cdrom, hd-media, netboot) ans each has gtk/ flavour (it that
support for graphics installation?).

Which initrd.gz should I put on the stick?

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Re: Converting mp3 to audio CDs

[Elimar Riesebieter]

On Mon, 08 Oct 2007 the mental interface of
andy told:

> Hello
>
> I have a friend who has requested that I dump a selection of mp3s
> onto a CD for him, but he lacks a computer-based media player. Is
> there an application that does the mp3 to audio-CD conversion so
> that the end product can be used on a stand alone CD player? Do I
> need to have anything in addition to the mp3 file in order to do
> this?

$ apt-cache show mp3burn

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Re: Converting mp3 to audio CDs

[Brad Rogers]

On Mon, 08 Oct 2007 18:45:16 +0100
Chris Lale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Hello Chris,

> There are probably many ways to do this. I would suggest "sox" to
> convert the mp3 files to wav, and "k3b" to create the audio tracks
> from the wav files.

Set up correctly, K3b can take the mp3s and create an audio disk.
There's no need to convert to .wav first because K3b will call sox
anyway.

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Re: PCIe Video and Open source 3D drivers

[Wakko Warner]

Kelly Clowers wrote:
> On 10/7/07, Wakko Warner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Thanks.  I saw the X800 listed, unfortunately, ATI makes both a PCIe and an
> > AGP 8x version of the card.  Not sure which they used.  If you have a clue,
> > let me know.  I'll email them and ask too.
> 
> Well, I don't have any direct experience with PCIe, but my understanding
> is that it should make no difference at all. PCIe should work just as well
> as AGP. If you find anything that indicates otherwise, I would be
> interested in hearing about it.

I just heard back from them, the X800 was PCIe.

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Small "package" on console after starting X

[Patrick Wiseman]

Hello:

I have this odd phenomenon, which I suspect indicates some sort of attack.

After I start X, when I return to a console (with Ctl-Alt-Fx) there's
what looks like a little package sitting in the bottom, right-hand
quarter of my screen.  After I Alt-7 back to X, and then Ctl-Alt-Fx
back to a console, it's gone.  Any ideas what it might be, and how to
rid myself of it?  I've used rkhunter and chkrootkit, neither of which
reports anything amiss, but that may be meaningless.

Patrick


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Re: Converting mp3 to audio CDs

[Martin McCormick]

Kevin Mark writes:
>> There are probably many ways to do this. I would suggest "sox" to convert th
>e
>> mp3 files to wav, and "k3b" to create the audio tracks from the wav files.
>> 
>I was just thinking that some 'modern' cd player can play a data cd full
>of mp3 and a standard format audio cd. K3b should make both.

Some DVD players will also play MP3's.

If your version of sox can't handle MP3's, but you have
mplayer, try:

mplayer stream.dump -ao pcm:file=dumpstream.wav -vc dummy -vo null

I was not the one to come up with this on my own, but
got it from a poster on another list and it seems to work fine.
You will want to make sure your .wav file is the correct format
such as 44.1-KHZ sampling, 2 channels, etc. Even if it isn't,
sox should get you the rest of the way there.


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Re: not prettey! Display problem

[Gilles Mocellin]

Le Monday 08 October 2007 21:00:17 Sam Leon, vous avez écrit :
> andy wrote:
> > Chris wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> when I start a KDE-Session I get several flashing pixels on the upper
> >> edge of my display, that leave holes in windows that are dragged
> >> accross them (see picture with holes in the blue margin of the konsole
> >> window).
> >>
> >> When I switch to a text console (ctrl-alt-f1) and back the problem
> >> dissapears.  Any clues as to where to problem could lie?
> >>
> >> I have kde 2.5.7.  My xorg packages and conf are listed below.
> >>
> >> Thanks for any suggestions,
> >>
> >> Chris
> >>
> >> ---
> >
> > I'm no expert, but the last time I saw this kind of thing was when my
> > partner's graphics card was beginning to die on her. Can you test it on
> > any other WM/DE?
> >
> > A
>
> I was going to say the same.  Every time I have seen display corruption
> on the desktop it has been because of either a video card going bad or
> corrupt drivers.  Also an overheating card might do the same.
>
> Sam

For me, it's the actual nvidia drivers, not really good with the new xorg.
If I switch to a terminal VT (Ctrl-Alt-F1) and switch back to the graphical VT 
(Ctrl-Alt-F7), these artefacts disapear.


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Re: No sound in browser (NOT solved)

[Florian Kulzer]

On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 10:34:29 +1300, Jeff wrote:
> Florian Kulzer wrote:
>> On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 13:01:43 +1300, Jeff wrote:

[...]

>>> I have esound installed as well as alsaplayer-daemon. Window manager is 
>>> GDM and Iceweasel 2.0.0.6-0etch1+leni browser . Wonder if esound is the 
>>> culprit?
>>> 
>>
>> Just kill the suspicious processes one by one until iceweasel can play
>> sound. (You might have to restart iceweasel for each new try.)
>>   
> I killed esound and that has worked logging in and out! (great) But gnome 
> sounds have now gone (guess i can live without them)

I think that iceweasel should recognize a running esd and configure
itself accordingly. You could try to set ICEWEASEL_DSP="esddsp"
explicitly. I seem to remember that someone already suggested that; did
you test it?

>> The output of
>>
>> lsof -w | egrep 'snd|dsp'
>>
>> might be helpful, too.
>>
>>   
> Output= mixer_app 9441 19u CHR 116,0 15222 /dev/controlC0

I am not sure what this "Output= mixer_app" is supposed to mean; it
looks like this is only the last bit of the command which started this
process. You could try to grep for the PID

ps -ef | grep [9]441

to find out more, or you could simply "kill 9441" and check if that
allows iceweasel and esd to coexist.

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Re: Is there a Shell Script Viewer that helps with if-then-else?

[Martin McCormick]

Gregory Seidman writes:
>There's a vim script to do such things. Check it out:

Thank you.

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Re: Is there a Shell Script Viewer that helps with if-then-else?

[Gregory Seidman]

On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 02:24:22PM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote:
>   In vi, one can hit % and jump to the corresponding
> parenthesis or brace which helps in complex situations. Is there
> anything that will show which fi directive went with which if?
> Sometimes, scripts can grow to a pretty messy state and it gets
> hard to tell what is included between any given fi directive and
> an if clause that might be several lines back and nest some
> other if-thens in between?
> 
>   This tends to happen in shell scripts that started out
> simple and then one added this or that until . . . We've all
> been there at some point.
> 
>   If there is such an application, it needs to work in
> normal non-GUI environments.

There's a vim script to do such things. Check it out:

http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=39

>   Thanks.
> Martin McCormick
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Re: How to detect whether your machine is compromised?

[Andrew Sackville-West]

On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 11:48:52AM -0700, David Brodbeck wrote:
>
> On Oct 8, 2007, at 11:40 AM, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 07:18:12PM +0530, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote:
>>> Chris Bannister wrote:
 http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/05/1234217
 http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/scrt/CD0B9D97EE6FE411CC25736A000E4723
>>>
>>> Those were the very links with which this thread was started :-)
>>
>> does this mean we have to repeat the whole thread? or can we just
>>
>> ...
>
> I think it means we're stuck in an endless loop until someone mentions 
> Hitler.  Then we can stop.

Godwin!

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Re: Xen on Lenny/Testing: no hypervisor information in sysfs

[Andrew Sackville-West]

On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 09:20:23PM +0200, Simon Jolle sjolle wrote:
> Hi list
> 
> I installed the following packages:
> 
> - xen-docs-3.1
> - xen-hypervisor-3.1-1-i386
> - xen-hypervisor-3.1-1-i386-nonpae
> - xen-shell
> - xen-utils-3.1-1
> - xen-utils-common
> - xenman

you need a xen enabled kernel. look at the linux-image-2.6.blah-xen*
images and there is a xen-linux-system package that may help too. 

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Re: How to detect whether your machine is compromised?

[Florian Kulzer]

On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 20:01:13 +0100, andy wrote:
> David Brodbeck wrote:
>> On Oct 8, 2007, at 11:40 AM, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
>>> On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 07:18:12PM +0530, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote:
 Chris Bannister wrote:
> http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/05/1234217
> http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/scrt/CD0B9D97EE6FE411CC25736A000E4723

 Those were the very links with which this thread was started :-)
>>>
>>> does this mean we have to repeat the whole thread? or can we just
>>> ...
>>
>> I think it means we're stuck in an endless loop until someone mentions 
>> Hitler.  Then we can stop.
>>
> Which you just did .. so the loop is now broken! Phew!! :D

I think this rule is not applicable in the present case. Check out these
two websites for more information: 

http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/05/1234217
http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/scrt/CD0B9D97EE6FE411CC25736A000E4723

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Re: Converting mp3 to audio CDs

[Kevin Mark]

On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 06:45:16PM +0100, Chris Lale wrote:
> andy wrote:
> > Hello
> > 
> > I have a friend who has requested that I dump a selection of mp3s onto a
> > CD for him, but he lacks a computer-based media player. Is there an
> > application that does the mp3 to audio-CD conversion so that the end
> > product can be used on a stand alone CD player? Do I need to have
> > anything in addition to the mp3 file in order to do this?
> 
> There are probably many ways to do this. I would suggest "sox" to convert the
> mp3 files to wav, and "k3b" to create the audio tracks from the wav files.
> 
I was just thinking that some 'modern' cd player can play a data cd full
of mp3 and a standard format audio cd. K3b should make both.
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Is there a Shell Script Viewer that helps with if-then-else?

[Martin McCormick]

In vi, one can hit % and jump to the corresponding
parenthesis or brace which helps in complex situations. Is there
anything that will show which fi directive went with which if?
Sometimes, scripts can grow to a pretty messy state and it gets
hard to tell what is included between any given fi directive and
an if clause that might be several lines back and nest some
other if-thens in between?

This tends to happen in shell scripts that started out
simple and then one added this or that until . . . We've all
been there at some point.

If there is such an application, it needs to work in
normal non-GUI environments.

Thanks.

Martin McCormick
Systems Engineer
405 744-7572   Stillwater, OK
Information Technology Department
Network Operations Group


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Re: (etch) Using aptitude after using dselect - any issues?

[Martin Waller]

Douglas A. Tutty wrote:

On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 11:41:02AM +0100, Martin Waller wrote:
  
Thanks for the input - I asked because I thought I'd seen warnings about 
using aptitude after using dselect since installation.  I am using 
aptitude now without apparent issue, although my system isn't a very 
complex setup and I'm on stable.



Don't top post.
  

:( sorry

The first things to do:

Run aptitude interactively (no command args)
Select options, tell it not to include recommends.

Then, go down the list of all packages and if its one that you
yourself don't specifically want installed, then mark it as
automatic.  Continue going down the list.  When you think you
have it all good:

hit 'g' to see what aptitude would like to do.

If its wrong, fix it (marking things manuall, install,
whatever), then it 'q' to go back to the main screen.  Then hit
'g' to see if its correct.

When everything in the first 'g' screen is correct, hit 'g'
	again and it will clean out any cruft build-up you have.  


Then you can continue to use aptitude as your package manager
and it will keep the system tidy.

Doug.


  

OK - thanks


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Xen on Lenny/Testing: no hypervisor information in sysfs

[Simon Jolle "sjolle"]

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Hi list

I installed the following packages:

- - xen-docs-3.1
- - xen-hypervisor-3.1-1-i386
- - xen-hypervisor-3.1-1-i386-nonpae
- - xen-shell
- - xen-utils-3.1-1
- - xen-utils-common
- - xenman

Then rebooted into the new kernel and tried to start xend

# xend
WARING!  Can't find hypervisor information in sysfs!
ERROR Internal error: Could not obtain handle on privileged command
interface (2 = No such file or directory)
ERROR Internal error: Could not obtain handle on privileged command
interface (2 = No such file or directory)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/xen-default/bin/xend", line 36, in ?
from xen.xend.server import SrvDaemon
  File "/usr/lib/xen-3.1-1/lib/python/xen/xend/server/SrvDaemon.py",
line 26, in ?
import relocate
  File "/usr/lib/xen-3.1-1/lib/python/xen/xend/server/relocate.py", line
26, in ?
from xen.xend import XendDomain
  File "/usr/lib/xen-3.1-1/lib/python/xen/xend/XendDomain.py", line 35, in ?
from xen.xend import XendOptions, XendCheckpoint, XendDomainInfo
  File "/usr/lib/xen-3.1-1/lib/python/xen/xend/XendCheckpoint.py", line
22, in ?
from xen.xend.XendConfig import XendConfig
  File "/usr/lib/xen-3.1-1/lib/python/xen/xend/XendConfig.py", line 27, in ?
from xen.xend.XendDevices import XendDevices
  File "/usr/lib/xen-3.1-1/lib/python/xen/xend/XendDevices.py", line 22,
in ?
from xen.xend.server import blkif, netif, tpmif, pciif, iopif,
irqif, usbif, vfbif
  File "/usr/lib/xen-3.1-1/lib/python/xen/xend/server/pciif.py", line
38, in ?
xc = xen.lowlevel.xc.xc()
xen.lowlevel.xc.Error: (1, 'Internal error', 'Could not obtain handle on
privileged command interface (2 = No such file or directory)')

cheers
Simon
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Dell Inspiron 1501

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Hello!

I upgrade fron Kernel 2.6.18 to 2.6.22 today and i can't boot the new kernel 
without adding in the /boot/grub/ menu.lst acpi=off.
Other solution?
Thanks
Jean-Luc


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Apache2 crashes constantly on Etch

[Aleks Feltin]

Hello,

Since the moment we have got an increased amount of customers, our
server started to die once per a day (cronjob execution). Also, if using
apache benchmark tool with a moderate amount of request and concurrent
threads, apache2 processes die.

Environment I run, is following:

Debian GNU/Linux 4.0r1 (etch)

Apache/2.2.3 + PHP 5.2.0-8+etch7 (cgi-fcgi) + mod_fcgid.2.2

I didn't set any limits in limits.conf for user www-data

During the intensive execution apache fails with message in error.log:

sh: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable
[Mon Oct 08 18:52:17 2007] [alert] (11)Resource temporarily unavailable: 
apr_thread_create: unable to create worker thread

After that I see no apache workers, and only php5-cgi running with uid=0 
(normally run under uid=33). I cannot find explanation for such behavior, which 
drives me crazy, when server is down and some cgi processes are up with root 
privilleges :-/

My worker conf looks like following:


   StartServers  2
   MaxClients  150
   MinSpareThreads  25
   MaxSpareThreads  75
   ThreadsPerChild  25
   MaxRequestsPerChild   0


I did some experiments, changing it to:


   ServerLimit  20
   StartServers  5
   MaxClients  500
   MinSpareThreads  25
   MaxSpareThreads  75
   ThreadsPerChild  25
   MaxRequestsPerChild   0


Surprisingly, this change lead to error in error log.

[Sat Oct 06 14:35:21 2007] [alert] (11)Resource temporarily unavailable: 
apr_thread_create: unable to create worker thread

After direct php script execution (php5 $script) I see this message, when there 
are many execution threads:

php (pre-forking): Resource temporarily unavailable

Seems some kind of limits prevent intensive forking and threading..I cannot 
figure that out. All my attepts has been failed to determine the cause. The 
same situation can be seen in our development server (load is lower compared to 
production), which is also Debian Stable.

If you have any thoughts or experience, please share it to me. I appreciate 
whatever kind of recommendations from you, guys.
Hope for your assistance.

Thanks in advance!

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Problem finding eth1 after rebooting

[Andy Hawkins]

Hi all,

My Debian box has been running for several months now. It has two 8139 based
Ethernet cards. Both were previously being successfully detected by Debian
and used.

I upgraded to the latest Stable when it came out, and I'm not sure I've
rebooted since then.

Today I had to shut the box down and restart it several hours later due to
electricity work in the area. When the box came back up it is no longer
detecting the second network card.

If I boot from the 2.2 kernel on the install CD for 3.0r1, it detects both
cards. If I boot from the bf24 option on that same CD, it only detects one
card.

lspci is only showing one card under Debian (apologies for the long lines):

00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 651 Host (rev 02)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] Virtual PCI-to-PCI bridge 
(AGP)
00:02.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS962 [MuTIOL Media IO] 
(rev 14)
00:02.1 SMBus: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS961/2 SMBus Controller
00:02.5 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE]
00:02.7 Multimedia audio controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] AC'97 
Sound Controller (rev a0)
00:03.0 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller 
(rev 0f)
00:03.1 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller 
(rev 0f)
00:03.2 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller 
(rev 0f)
00:03.3 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 2.0 Controller
00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. 
RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
00:10.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. IEEE 1394 Host Controller 
(rev 46)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 
65x/M650/740 PCI/AGP VGA Display Adapter

Has anyone got any ideas why the module is no longer detecting the second
card? Why isn't it showing in lspci? Could some module parameter be required
to tell the module that there are two cards, that has somehow been 'lost'
during the upgrade to the latest stable?

Thanks in advance for any help and advice you can offer.

Cheers

Andy


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Re: not prettey! Display problem

[Sam Leon]

andy wrote:

Chris wrote:

Hi,

when I start a KDE-Session I get several flashing pixels on the upper 
edge of my display, that leave holes in windows that are dragged 
accross them (see picture with holes in the blue margin of the konsole 
window).


When I switch to a text console (ctrl-alt-f1) and back the problem 
dissapears.  Any clues as to where to problem could lie?


I have kde 2.5.7.  My xorg packages and conf are listed below.

Thanks for any suggestions,

Chris

---



I'm no expert, but the last time I saw this kind of thing was when my 
partner's graphics card was beginning to die on her. Can you test it on 
any other WM/DE?


A



I was going to say the same.  Every time I have seen display corruption 
on the desktop it has been because of either a video card going bad or 
corrupt drivers.  Also an overheating card might do the same.


Sam


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Re: How to detect whether your machine is compromised?

[andy]

David Brodbeck wrote:


On Oct 8, 2007, at 11:40 AM, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:


On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 07:18:12PM +0530, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote:

Chris Bannister wrote:

http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/05/1234217
http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/scrt/CD0B9D97EE6FE411CC25736A000E4723 



Those were the very links with which this thread was started :-)


does this mean we have to repeat the whole thread? or can we just

...


I think it means we're stuck in an endless loop until someone mentions 
Hitler.  Then we can stop.





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Which you just did .. so the loop is now broken! Phew!! :D

A

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Re: not prettey! Display problem

[andy]

Chris wrote:

Hi,

when I start a KDE-Session I get several flashing pixels on the upper edge of 
my display, that leave holes in windows that are dragged accross them (see 
picture with holes in the blue margin of the konsole window).


When I switch to a text console (ctrl-alt-f1) and back the problem dissapears.  
Any clues as to where to problem could lie?


I have kde 2.5.7.  My xorg packages and conf are listed below.

Thanks for any suggestions,

Chris

ii  xserver-xorg 1:7.2-5  
the X.Org X server
ii  xserver-xorg-core2:1.3.0.0.dfsg-12
X.Org X server -- core server
ii  xserver-xorg-input-acecad1:1.2.0-1
X.Org X server -- AceCad input driver
ii  xserver-xorg-input-aiptek1:1.0.1-3
X.Org X server -- Aiptek input driver
ii  xserver-xorg-input-all   1:7.2-5  
the X.Org X server -- input driver metapacka
ii  xserver-xorg-input-calcomp   1:1.1.0-1
X.Org X server -- Calcomp input driver
ii  xserver-xorg-input-citron1:2.2.0-2
X.Org X server -- Citron input driver
ii  xserver-xorg-input-digitaledge   1:1.1.0-1
X.Org X server -- DigitalEdge input driver
ii  xserver-xorg-input-dmc   1:1.1.0-1
X.Org X server -- DMC input driver
ii  xserver-xorg-input-dynapro   1:1.1.0-1
X.Org X server -- Dynapro input driver
ii  xserver-xorg-input-elo2300   1:1.1.0-1
X.Org X server -- ELO2300 input driver
ii  xserver-xorg-input-elographics   1:1.1.0-1
X.Org X server -- ELOGraphics input driver
ii  xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:1.1.5-3
X.Org X server -- evdev input driver
ii  xserver-xorg-input-fpit  1:1.1.0-1
X.Org X server -- FPIT input driver
ii  xserver-xorg-input-hyperpen  1:1.1.0-1
X.Org X server -- HyperPen input driver
ii  xserver-xorg-input-jamstudio 1:1.1.0-1
X.Org X server -- JamStudio input driver
ii  xserver-xorg-input-joystick  1:1.2.3-1
X.Org X server -- joystick input driver
ii  xserver-xorg-input-kbd   1:1.2.0-1+1.2.1  
X.Org X server -- keyboard input driver
ii  xserver-xorg-input-magellan  1:1.1.0-1
X.Org X server -- Magellan input driver
ii  xserver-xorg-input-magictouch1:1.0.0.5-3  
X.Org X server -- MagicTouch input driver
ii  xserver-xorg-input-microtouch1:1.1.0-1
X.Org X server -- MicroTouch input driver
ii  xserver-xorg-input-mouse 1:1.2.2-1
X.Org X server -- mouse input driver
ii  xserver-xorg-input-mutouch   1:1.1.0-1
X.Org X server -- muTouch input driver
ii  xserver-xorg-input-palmax1:1.1.0-1
X.Org X server -- Palmax input driver
ii  xserver-xorg-input-penmount  1:1.2.0-1
X.Org X server -- Penmount input driver
ii  xserver-xorg-input-spaceorb  1:1.1.0-2
X.Org X server -- SpaceOrb input driver
ii  xserver-xorg-input-summa 1:1.1.0-2
X.Org X server -- Summa input driver
ii  xserver-xorg-input-synaptics 0.14.7~git20070517-2 
Synaptics TouchPad driver for X.Org/XFree86 
ii  xserver-xorg-input-tek4957   1:1.1.0-2
X.Org X server -- Tek4957 input driver
ii  xserver-xorg-input-ur98  1:1.1.0-2
X.Org X server -- UR98 input driver
ii  xserver-xorg-input-void  1:1.1.0-2
X.Org X server -- void input driver
ii  xserver-xorg-input-wacom 0.7.7.11-1   
X.Org X server -- wacom input driver
ii  xserver-xorg-video-all   1:7.2-5  
the X.Org X server -- output driver metapack
ii  xserver-xorg-video-apm   1:1.1.1-7
X.Org X server -- APM display driver
ii  xserver-xorg-video-ark   1:0.6.0-6
X.Org X server -- ark display driver
ii  xserver-xorg-video-ati   1:6.6.3-2
X.Org X server -- ATI display driver
ii  xserver-xorg-video-chips 1:1.1.1-4
X.Org X server -- Chips display driver
ii  xserver-xorg-video-cirrus1:1.1.0-3
X.Org X server -- Cirrus display driver
ii  xserver-xorg-video-cyrix 1:1.1.0-4  

Re: How to detect whether your machine is compromised?

[David Brodbeck]

On Oct 8, 2007, at 11:40 AM, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:


On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 07:18:12PM +0530, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote:

Chris Bannister wrote:

http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/05/1234217
http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/scrt/ 
CD0B9D97EE6FE411CC25736A000E4723


Those were the very links with which this thread was started :-)


does this mean we have to repeat the whole thread? or can we just

...


I think it means we're stuck in an endless loop until someone  
mentions Hitler.  Then we can stop.





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Re: How to detect whether your machine is compromised?

[Andrew Sackville-West]

On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 07:18:12PM +0530, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote:
> Chris Bannister wrote:
>> http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/05/1234217
>> http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/scrt/CD0B9D97EE6FE411CC25736A000E4723
>
> Those were the very links with which this thread was started :-)

does this mean we have to repeat the whole thread? or can we just 

...

A


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not prettey! Display problem

[Chris]

Hi,

when I start a KDE-Session I get several flashing pixels on the upper edge of 
my display, that leave holes in windows that are dragged accross them (see 
picture with holes in the blue margin of the konsole window).

When I switch to a text console (ctrl-alt-f1) and back the problem dissapears.  
Any clues as to where to problem could lie?

I have kde 2.5.7.  My xorg packages and conf are listed below.

Thanks for any suggestions,

Chris

ii  xserver-xorg 1:7.2-5  
the X.Org X server
ii  xserver-xorg-core2:1.3.0.0.dfsg-12
X.Org X server -- core server
ii  xserver-xorg-input-acecad1:1.2.0-1
X.Org X server -- AceCad input driver
ii  xserver-xorg-input-aiptek1:1.0.1-3
X.Org X server -- Aiptek input driver
ii  xserver-xorg-input-all   1:7.2-5  
the X.Org X server -- input driver metapacka
ii  xserver-xorg-input-calcomp   1:1.1.0-1
X.Org X server -- Calcomp input driver
ii  xserver-xorg-input-citron1:2.2.0-2
X.Org X server -- Citron input driver
ii  xserver-xorg-input-digitaledge   1:1.1.0-1
X.Org X server -- DigitalEdge input driver
ii  xserver-xorg-input-dmc   1:1.1.0-1
X.Org X server -- DMC input driver
ii  xserver-xorg-input-dynapro   1:1.1.0-1
X.Org X server -- Dynapro input driver
ii  xserver-xorg-input-elo2300   1:1.1.0-1
X.Org X server -- ELO2300 input driver
ii  xserver-xorg-input-elographics   1:1.1.0-1
X.Org X server -- ELOGraphics input driver
ii  xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:1.1.5-3
X.Org X server -- evdev input driver
ii  xserver-xorg-input-fpit  1:1.1.0-1
X.Org X server -- FPIT input driver
ii  xserver-xorg-input-hyperpen  1:1.1.0-1
X.Org X server -- HyperPen input driver
ii  xserver-xorg-input-jamstudio 1:1.1.0-1
X.Org X server -- JamStudio input driver
ii  xserver-xorg-input-joystick  1:1.2.3-1
X.Org X server -- joystick input driver
ii  xserver-xorg-input-kbd   1:1.2.0-1+1.2.1  
X.Org X server -- keyboard input driver
ii  xserver-xorg-input-magellan  1:1.1.0-1
X.Org X server -- Magellan input driver
ii  xserver-xorg-input-magictouch1:1.0.0.5-3  
X.Org X server -- MagicTouch input driver
ii  xserver-xorg-input-microtouch1:1.1.0-1
X.Org X server -- MicroTouch input driver
ii  xserver-xorg-input-mouse 1:1.2.2-1
X.Org X server -- mouse input driver
ii  xserver-xorg-input-mutouch   1:1.1.0-1
X.Org X server -- muTouch input driver
ii  xserver-xorg-input-palmax1:1.1.0-1
X.Org X server -- Palmax input driver
ii  xserver-xorg-input-penmount  1:1.2.0-1
X.Org X server -- Penmount input driver
ii  xserver-xorg-input-spaceorb  1:1.1.0-2
X.Org X server -- SpaceOrb input driver
ii  xserver-xorg-input-summa 1:1.1.0-2
X.Org X server -- Summa input driver
ii  xserver-xorg-input-synaptics 0.14.7~git20070517-2 
Synaptics TouchPad driver for X.Org/XFree86 
ii  xserver-xorg-input-tek4957   1:1.1.0-2
X.Org X server -- Tek4957 input driver
ii  xserver-xorg-input-ur98  1:1.1.0-2
X.Org X server -- UR98 input driver
ii  xserver-xorg-input-void  1:1.1.0-2
X.Org X server -- void input driver
ii  xserver-xorg-input-wacom 0.7.7.11-1   
X.Org X server -- wacom input driver
ii  xserver-xorg-video-all   1:7.2-5  
the X.Org X server -- output driver metapack
ii  xserver-xorg-video-apm   1:1.1.1-7
X.Org X server -- APM display driver
ii  xserver-xorg-video-ark   1:0.6.0-6
X.Org X server -- ark display driver
ii  xserver-xorg-video-ati   1:6.6.3-2
X.Org X server -- ATI display driver
ii  xserver-xorg-video-chips 1:1.1.1-4
X.Org X server -- Chips display driver
ii  xserver-xorg-video-cirrus1:1.1.0-3
X.Org X server -- Cirrus display driver
ii  xserver-xorg-video-cyrix 1:1.1.0-4
X.Org 

Re: Converting mp3 to audio CDs

[David Brodbeck]

On Oct 8, 2007, at 10:54 AM, andy wrote:
OK - so a *.wav file format is that which will play on an audio CD  
player?


Not quite.  If you take a bunch of WAV files and burn a regular data  
CD with them, that won't work.  The on-disk format of an audio CD is  
different from a data CD.  But, the format of the actual audio on the  
CD is the same as a 16-bit, 44.1 kHz, stereo WAV file -- both are  
uncompressed bitstreams.  So you need to start with files in that  
format.


I think K3b will do the conversion from mp3 "on the fly," but I'm not  
certain about that.  It's been a while.  If not, you can use sox,  
mpg321, or lame to convert the files to WAV first.





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Re: Mysql Database installation problem

[Sergio Cuéllar Valdés]

2007/10/8, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Dear all,
>
> I have debian-eatch installed on my system. I have installed
> Mysql-server5.0 using synaptik pack manager and took care of all the
> dependecies. But, whenever I tried to run the Mysql-server, it gave me
> error which I couldn't solve. So I tried to reinstall it and whenever i'm
> trying to unistall it its giving the following error message-
> "php-sqlite3: subprocess-installation script returned error exit status1"
>
> And whenever I'm trying to uninstall php-sqlite3, its returning the
> following message-
>
> E: php-sqlite3: subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
>
> Please suggest me, what to do??


Hello,

can you post the error you are getting with MySQL ?  It is very
helpful. How are you starting the server ?

Best regards,
Sergio Cuellar


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Re: Mysql Database installation problem

[Florian Kulzer]

On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 22:56:43 -0400, anand AT drtc DOT isibang DOT ac DOT in 
wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> I have debian-eatch installed on my system. I have installed
> Mysql-server5.0 using synaptik pack manager and took care of all the
> dependecies. But, whenever I tried to run the Mysql-server, it gave me
> error which I couldn't solve. So I tried to reinstall it and whenever i'm
> trying to unistall it its giving the following error message-
> "php-sqlite3: subprocess-installation script returned error exit status1"
> 
> And whenever I'm trying to uninstall php-sqlite3, its returning the
> following message-
> 
> E: php-sqlite3: subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
> 
> Please suggest me, what to do??

Open an xterm (or Gnome terminal, Konsole, ...) and run as root:

apt-get install -f

Then copy the entire output that you get and send it to the list. We
need to see the error messages that come before the one that you posted
already. (Maybe it is also possible to see the full error messages with
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Re: Debian packages without md5sums

[Carl Johnson]

Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 20:02:43 -0700, Carl Johnson wrote:
> > Florian Kulzer writes:
> 
> [...]
> 
> [ We are discussing about verifying the content of Debian DVDs. ]
> 
> > > First you need to download the files which list these checksums:
> > > 
> > >   wget 
> > > http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/4.0_r1/i386/iso-dvd/MD5SUMS{,.sign}
> > >   wget 
> > > http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/4.0_r1/i386/iso-dvd/SHA1SUMS{,.sign}
> > 
> > I didn't notice until after I downloaded them that they are i386, but
> > I have amd64, but it was easy enough to find the amd64 ones.  Then I
> > noticed that they are 4.0_r1 and I just have the original 4.0.  That
> > is where I struck out and was unable to find any other than r1.
> 
> Googling for "debian-40r0-amd64-DVD-1.iso" finds a few places that list
> the checksums for 4.0r0, for example:
> 
> http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg16901.html
> 
> You can compare your md5/sha1sums with the ones listed there. That is
> nowhere near as good as having a signed file, but it is better than
> nothing.

I tried verifying against those, but my mine don't compare, so I don't
know what is happening.

> > I ended up doing this anyways, since they are official DVDs from a
> > vendor listed at debian.org.
> 
> It does not hurt to check against the checksums on the web. One of the
> DVDs might have been produced incorrectly or might have been damaged
> since. (Most physical damage would probably have shown up already as a
> read error when you ran md5/sha1sum, though.)

Right, that's what I figure also.

> > I was going to file a bug about the
> > Release.gpg not being present, until I suddenly realized that they
> > can't put them on the ISO image without changing the checksum.
> 
> This is a minor point, but let me clarify: The "Release.gpg" file only
> vouches for the content of the "Release" file and nothing else. The
> Release file has the checksums for the "Packages", "Packages.gz", and
> "Packages.bz2" files, which in turn list the checksums for the
> individual .deb packages. You can look at all these files, they are just
> (compressed) ASCII text.
> 
> Therefore it would be possible to put Release.gpg files on the CDs and
> DVDs. Maybe this is not done because the security implications are
> different for physical media than they are for repeatedly downloading
> packages from the net.

Thanks for the clarification.  I had completely missed that.  I will
file a wishlist bug on debian-installer.  I don't know if that is the
right place, but if not they should notify me where it should be sent.

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Re: Cannot apt-get update

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On 08/10/2007, Ralph Katz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 10/08/2007 09:06 AM, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> > When I run apt-get update, it gets stuck at "99% [Waiting for headers]
> > ". I have tried removeing repos from /etc/apt/sources.list but it did
> > not help. What must be done to correct this? I do not know what
> > version Debian this is, or how up to date it is, as it is not my
> > machine. How can I check?
> >
>
> Erev tov, Dotan -- I get that message when not connecting to one of the
> repos.  Just change to new repos for the update/upgrade session by
> choosing different ones from the mirrors list on debian.org.
>
> Ralph

Erev tov Ralph! Thank you, I switched repos and the error has
disappeared. Toda raba.

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Re: (etch) Using aptitude after using dselect - any issues?

[Carl Johnson]

Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 08:51:05AM -0400, Chris Bannister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
> was heard to say:
> > On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 01:19:33AM +0200, Tobias Nissen wrote:
> > > Hi Martin!
> > > 
> > > Martin Waller wrote:
> > > > Is it safe to switch to using aptititude as my package manager after
> > > > having used dselect up to now?
> > > 
> > > Yes, it is safe. dselect and aptitude use different databases.
> > 
> > dpkg seems to rely on dselect for some reason:
> > 
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# dpkg --purge dselect
> > dpkg: dependency problems prevent removal of dselect:
> >  dpkg depends on dselect.
> > [..]
> 
>   dpkg depends on dselect because dselect used to be part of the dpkg
> package.  When dselect was split out, the dpkg maintainers wanted to
> ensure that no-one lost dselect during an upgrade, so dpkg depended (in
> fact, pre-depended IIRC) on dselect for some time.  There's no technical
> reason to have dselect around.
> 
>   That said, the dependency went away sometime between sarge and etch,
> although a quick scan of the changelog doesn't tell me when.

I just looked and dselect still shows 'Priority: required' in etch
even though nothing is listed as depending on it.  Maybe that should
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Re: How do you turn on and off a program automatcially

[Celejar]

On Mon, 8 Oct 2007 10:33:53 -0700
David Brodbeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 
> On Oct 8, 2007, at 10:23 AM, Celejar wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 1 Oct 2007 09:26:55 -0400
> > "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

[snip]

> >> What if you have cron run su - [user]?  That should set up a login
> >> environment.
> >
> > I tried (using at) 'su - username mc' and received a mail stating:
> >
> > su: must be run from a terminal
> 
> I missed most of this thread, so this may not be what you're looking  
> for, but has anyone suggested "rungetty", yet?

[snip]

Thanks; we're looking for a way to run /control ncurses apps
non-interactively, e.g. via at or cron.  Does rungetty help for this?

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Re: Cannot apt-get update

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On 08/10/2007, Gerard Robin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >I do not know what
> >version Debian this is, or how up to date it is, as it is not my
> >machine. How can I check?
> cat /etc/debian_version

Thank you Gerard. OT, but is there a general way to check what
distro/version any *nix installation is? Today I'm playing with a
friend's Debian system, at home I've Ubuntu and Fedora, and tomorrow I
might sit at an OpenSuse machine. I like to learn distro-ambiguous
tools.

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Re: Converting mp3 to audio CDs

[andy]

David Brodbeck wrote:


On Oct 8, 2007, at 10:31 AM, andy wrote:


Hello

I have a friend who has requested that I dump a selection of mp3s 
onto a CD for him, but he lacks a computer-based media player. Is 
there an application that does the mp3 to audio-CD conversion so that 
the end product can be used on a stand alone CD player? Do I need to 
have anything in addition to the mp3 file in order to do this?


There are several tools that will do this for you.  The MP3 has to be 
converted to WAV format, then a cue sheet needs to be created and the 
results burned to disc in audio CD format.  You can either do these 
steps manually on the command line, or you can use a GUI tool.  I like 
K3b, because I use KDE, but there are other options.





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Thanks David

What GUI tool were you thinking of - K3b? I wasn't aware that that could 
do that conversion. I'll have to look into that.


Cheers

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Re: Converting mp3 to audio CDs

[andy]

Chris Lale wrote:

andy wrote:
  

Hello

I have a friend who has requested that I dump a selection of mp3s onto a
CD for him, but he lacks a computer-based media player. Is there an
application that does the mp3 to audio-CD conversion so that the end
product can be used on a stand alone CD player? Do I need to have
anything in addition to the mp3 file in order to do this?



There are probably many ways to do this. I would suggest "sox" to convert the
mp3 files to wav, and "k3b" to create the audio tracks from the wav files.

>From the man page for sox:
DESCRIPTION
   SoX is a command line program that can convert most popular audio files
   to most other popular audio file formats.

  

Hi Chris

OK - so a *.wav file format is that which will play on an audio CD 
player? Thanks for that. I'll read up on sox never having used it 
before. Burning to a CD is straight forward enough.


Cheers

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Re: Converting mp3 to audio CDs

[David Brodbeck]

On Oct 8, 2007, at 10:31 AM, andy wrote:


Hello

I have a friend who has requested that I dump a selection of mp3s  
onto a CD for him, but he lacks a computer-based media player. Is  
there an application that does the mp3 to audio-CD conversion so  
that the end product can be used on a stand alone CD player? Do I  
need to have anything in addition to the mp3 file in order to do this?


There are several tools that will do this for you.  The MP3 has to be  
converted to WAV format, then a cue sheet needs to be created and the  
results burned to disc in audio CD format.  You can either do these  
steps manually on the command line, or you can use a GUI tool.  I  
like K3b, because I use KDE, but there are other options.





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Re: Converting mp3 to audio CDs

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andy wrote:
> Hello
> 
> I have a friend who has requested that I dump a selection of mp3s onto a
> CD for him, but he lacks a computer-based media player. Is there an
> application that does the mp3 to audio-CD conversion so that the end
> product can be used on a stand alone CD player? Do I need to have
> anything in addition to the mp3 file in order to do this?

There are probably many ways to do this. I would suggest "sox" to convert the
mp3 files to wav, and "k3b" to create the audio tracks from the wav files.

>From the man page for sox:
DESCRIPTION
   SoX is a command line program that can convert most popular audio files
   to most other popular audio file formats.

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Re: Re: Dovecot duplicating emails

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Hi Jochen,
thanks for getting back to me.

I know it is strange, and that is probably the reason why I cannot find 
any relevant info on the net. The only thing noticeable in the first few 
days were messages in the log where Dovecot was complaining about 
corrupted index files. But after removing the broken ones and letting 
Dovecot recreate them that has gone away.


I started with the etch version but switched to the backports version 
two days ago (1.0.0-1~bpo.1) Same results.


Qmail is delivering the messages to the Maildir. I am not using 
Dovecot's LDA deliver. Do you think that might be worth a try?


I'll see if I can get squirrelmail back into working order. I did try 
with Debian's Thunderbird (iceweasel) but with the same result.


Alexander

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Re: codecs for ripping CDs to mp3

[andy]

Florian Lindner wrote:

Am Montag, 8. Oktober 2007 schrieb andy:
  

Hi all

In either Grip or RipperX when I want to rip a CD to mp3 it seems that I
am only able to do so in an ogg vorbis format. I have nothing against
*.ogg, although some of my friends seem to have difficulty when I want
to share music samples with them. Is there an encoder or codec (?) that
I am needing to rip to mp3 formats?



Check if lame is installed.

Regards,

Florian

  

Hi again Florian

Yes, Lame is installed and is the latest. I guess then that the issue is 
just configuring it properly in the application.


Thanks. If I get stuck, I'll come back and pursue this further.

Cheers

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Re: dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg question

[Steven R.]

On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 08:16:00PM -0500, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> What does it mean when you've got all of the questions answered by 
> dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg and dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg refuses to 
> create configuration files because pre-existing files were found?

This may be related to bug 443004 [1].  If it sounds like your problem,
there are a couple of workarounds listed in the thread that you can use
until it is fixed.  

[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=443004


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Re: test

[Sam Leon]

Cristiano dos Santos Boiko wrote:

Sending Ack...

2007/10/8, Sam Leon <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >:

please disregard


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Thanks,  I was actually just making sure that icedove wasn't sending 
html.  It was set like that for several months and I didn't even know it 
until just today when I upgraded to icedove2.0 (sorry if I ticked off 
everyone with my html mail..).  Icedove does a good job of hiding html. 
 I would suggest everyone check and make sure that it will always us 
plain text.  http://kb.mozillazine.org/Plain_text_e-mail_(Thunderbird)


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Re: How do you turn on and off a program automatcially

[David Brodbeck]

On Oct 8, 2007, at 10:23 AM, Celejar wrote:


On Mon, 1 Oct 2007 09:26:55 -0400
"Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 02:59:41PM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

On 10/1/07, Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

On Sun, 30 Sep 2007 21:17:57 +0300
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

On 9/30/07, Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

[...]
I struggled for a while to figure out how to do exactly this,  
without
success.  I believe that cron does not work, since (at least  
some)

ncurses apps insist on being run from a terminal.





if you enter the "set" command in bash you get a list of bash
variables that are accessible to all programms that you execute.  
This

is called "the bash environment" (see [1] for more info). A lot of
programms really need to check the values of some of these variables
to execute. Cron has only a small portion of them set so a lot of
programms fail when run from cron (can't tell if this is your  
specific

case though)


What if you have cron run su - [user]?  That should set up a login
environment.


I tried (using at) 'su - username mc' and received a mail stating:

su: must be run from a terminal


I missed most of this thread, so this may not be what you're looking  
for, but has anyone suggested "rungetty", yet?


Package: rungetty
State: not installed
Version: 1.2-10
Priority: optional
Section: admin
Maintainer: Gerfried Fuchs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Uncompressed Size: 77.8k
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.6-6)
Description: minimal console getty that can run any process
rungetty might be the getty you were looking for.  It is able to run any
program, not just login. If a different program than login is used it  
usually
is run as nobody:nogroup, or the user/group specified on the  
commandline.
rungetty can even be configured to autologin, under certain  
circumstances. See

the manual page for more information.
You have to change some lines in /etc/inittab for having any effect  
after

installing the package.  rungetty is based on mingetty and therefore not
suitable for serial use.





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Converting mp3 to audio CDs

[andy]

Hello

I have a friend who has requested that I dump a selection of mp3s onto a 
CD for him, but he lacks a computer-based media player. Is there an 
application that does the mp3 to audio-CD conversion so that the end 
product can be used on a stand alone CD player? Do I need to have 
anything in addition to the mp3 file in order to do this?


Cheers for any help.

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Re: codecs for ripping CDs to mp3

[Florian Lindner]

Am Montag, 8. Oktober 2007 schrieb andy:
> Hi all
>
> In either Grip or RipperX when I want to rip a CD to mp3 it seems that I
> am only able to do so in an ogg vorbis format. I have nothing against
> *.ogg, although some of my friends seem to have difficulty when I want
> to share music samples with them. Is there an encoder or codec (?) that
> I am needing to rip to mp3 formats?

Check if lame is installed.

Regards,

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codecs for ripping CDs to mp3

[andy]

Hi all

In either Grip or RipperX when I want to rip a CD to mp3 it seems that I 
am only able to do so in an ogg vorbis format. I have nothing against 
*.ogg, although some of my friends seem to have difficulty when I want 
to share music samples with them. Is there an encoder or codec (?) that 
I am needing to rip to mp3 formats?


Thanks

A

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Re: How do you turn on and off a program automatcially

[Celejar]

On Mon, 1 Oct 2007 09:26:55 -0400
"Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 02:59:41PM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > On 10/1/07, Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > On Sun, 30 Sep 2007 21:17:57 +0300
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > > On 9/30/07, Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > > [...]
> > > > > I struggled for a while to figure out how to do exactly this, without
> > > > > success.  I believe that cron does not work, since (at least some)
> > > > > ncurses apps insist on being run from a terminal.
> > > >
>  
> > if you enter the "set" command in bash you get a list of bash
> > variables that are accessible to all programms that you execute. This
> > is called "the bash environment" (see [1] for more info). A lot of
> > programms really need to check the values of some of these variables
> > to execute. Cron has only a small portion of them set so a lot of
> > programms fail when run from cron (can't tell if this is your specific
> > case though)
> 
> What if you have cron run su - [user]?  That should set up a login
> environment.

I tried (using at) 'su - username mc' and received a mail stating:

su: must be run from a terminal

> Doug.

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Mysql Database installation problem

[anand]

Dear all,

I have debian-eatch installed on my system. I have installed
Mysql-server5.0 using synaptik pack manager and took care of all the
dependecies. But, whenever I tried to run the Mysql-server, it gave me
error which I couldn't solve. So I tried to reinstall it and whenever i'm
trying to unistall it its giving the following error message-
"php-sqlite3: subprocess-installation script returned error exit status1"

And whenever I'm trying to uninstall php-sqlite3, its returning the
following message-

E: php-sqlite3: subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 1

Please suggest me, what to do??


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Re: Cannot apt-get update

[Ralph Katz]

On 10/08/2007 09:06 AM, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> When I run apt-get update, it gets stuck at "99% [Waiting for headers]
> ". I have tried removeing repos from /etc/apt/sources.list but it did
> not help. What must be done to correct this? I do not know what
> version Debian this is, or how up to date it is, as it is not my
> machine. How can I check?
> 

Erev tov, Dotan -- I get that message when not connecting to one of the
repos.  Just change to new repos for the update/upgrade session by
choosing different ones from the mirrors list on debian.org.

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Re: Dovecot duplicating emails

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Alexander:
> 
> Almost all (not quite all) emails that arrive and sit in the Inbox get 
> copied and appear 2x, 3x . . the longer I leave it the more copies I get. 
> This happens only to emails received during a Thunderbird session. If I 
> shut TBird down and restart, only the emails received after the restart 
> will be affected.

Very strange. Are you using Dovecot from etch or a version from
backports.org? I suggest you use the latter since etch's version has
known problems. (I haven't heard of this problem, though.)

Still, I am having trouble to imagine how Dovecot might responsible for
this strange behaviour. I'd try another client and see whether the
problem persists.

Another point-of-failure might lie in your mail delivery program. How
are mails delivered to your maiboxes?

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Dovecot duplicating emails

[Alexander]

Hi all,

I have recently switched my Debian etch (with qmail using Maildir) from 
CourierIMAP to Dovecot for use with Windows XP Thunderbird 2.0.0.x 
clients. . The migration seemed to go OK at first but I soon realised 
that I suddenly had an email duplication issue:


Almost all (not quite all) emails that arrive and sit in the Inbox get 
copied and appear 2x, 3x . . the longer I leave it the more copies I 
get. This happens only to emails received during a Thunderbird session. 
If I shut TBird down and restart, only the emails received after the 
restart will be affected.


I also have a squirrelmail installed but that is not able to show my 
inbox at all (maybe because there are almost 3000 messages in it) so I 
can't say whether another IMAP client causes the same mess.


There are only two accounts on that machine, both fairly large. (one is 
3.5 GB in over 20 messages)


Any pointers would be greatly appreciated. I have failed to find 
anything relevant on the net so far. There seems to have been an issue 
with Dovecot and POP3/Outlook, but that is not anything I am using.


Thanks
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Re: aptitude has other behaviour using command-line and UI

[Giorgos Pallas]

Daniel Burrows wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 11:29:08AM +0300, Giorgos Pallas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
> was heard to say:
>   
>> But if I start the UI, it reports:
>>
>> #Broken: 89   Will free 344MB of disk space   DL Size: 14.0 MB
>>
>> and
>> [1(1)/...] Suggest 2 installs, 28 removals, 47 keeps
>> e: Examine   !: Apply   .: Next
>>
>>
>> Does anyone has an idea about what is happening?  
>> 
>
>   The visual UI tries to remember what you were doing last time and
> restore the state of the program.  Occasionally something will go wrong,
> or it'll save a state that you didn't want it to save.  It sounds like
> that's what happened to you.
>
>   You can clear the state by running "aptitude keep-all" or choosing
> "Cancel pending actions" from the Actions menu.
>
>   Daniel
>
>
>   

You were absolutely right, I canceled pending actions and all is good now!
thanks!
G.



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Re: xserver-xorg question

[Douglas A. Tutty]

On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 12:14:42AM -0500, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> Script started on Sat 06 Oct 2007 10:02:59 AM EDT
> debian:~# dpkg-reconfigure -f readline xserver-xorg
> Configuring xserver-xorg
> 
> 
> You should choose this option if you would like to attempt to autodetect 
> the recommended X server and driver module for your video card.  If the 
> autodetection fails, you will be asked to specify the desired X server 
> and/or driver module.  If it succeeds, further configuration questions 
> about your video
> hardware will be pre-answered.
> 
> If you would rather select the X server and driver module yourself, do not 
> choose this option.  You will not be asked to select the X server if there 
> is only one available.
>   2. ark 9. i12816. newport23. siliconmotion  30. vesa
>   3. ati 10. i740   17. nsc24. sis31. vga
 
> X server driver: 31

I think that vga is the wrong choice.  Try vesa.

Doug.

Re: Shutdown script for lvm2

[Douglas A. Tutty]

On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 09:39:44AM +0200, Thue Janus Kristensen wrote:
> I have manually migrated my debian system to lvm2, but I am having a problem
> with the shutdown script.
> 
> For example when doing runlevel 6 (reboot), the 3 last script which are
> executed are
> S50lvm2
> S60umountroot
> S90reboot
> (in that order)
> 
> The lvm2 script tries to do a
>vgchange -an
> which of course fails as the root filesystem (also on lvm2) is still
> mounted. The error message is
>Can't deactivate volume group "linux_vg" with 1 open logical volume(s)
> 
> How should this work?
> 
> Didn't etch have support for setting up lvm2 during installation? Did that
> put the root onto lvm2? If so, could anybody take a peek at how their
> shutdown scripts handle this problem.
> 
> Is it even a problem? I get an error message, but as far as I can see there
> are no real ill effects. The warning is annoying, though.
> 
> Please CC me, I am not on this list.

My Etch system has at the end of rc6.d:

S40umountfs
S48cryptdisks
S50lvm
S50mdadm-raid
S59crypdisks-early
S60umountroot
S90reboot

And yes, it looks wrong.  But there doesn't seem to be any damage.  I
have ext3 over lvm over raid1.

Doug.


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Re: new kernel problem when doig upgrade

[Douglas A. Tutty]

On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 11:48:15AM -0400, Jody Gugelhupf wrote:
> hi there :)
> i run debian etch on a pentium 3 desktop machine, i did a fresh install a 
> couple weeks ago and was
> doing 'apt-get update' and 'apt-get upgrade' but when it wants to install the 
> new kernel it is
> having problems and exists like this:
[snip]
> Unpacking replacement linux-image-2.6.18-5-686 ...
> dpkg: error processing
> /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-image-2.6.18-5-686_2.6.18.dfsg.1-13etch3_i386.deb
>  (--unpack):
>  unable to stat `./lib/modules/2.6.18-5-686/kernel/drivers/net/yellowfin.ko' 
> (which I was about to
> install): Input/output error
[snip]
> Unpacking replacement linux-image-2.6.18-5-686 ...
> dpkg: error processing 
> linux-image-2.6.18-5-686_2.6.18.dfsg.1-13etch3_i386.deb (--install):
>  unable to stat `./lib/modules/2.6.18-5-686/kernel/drivers/net/yellowfin.ko' 
> (which I was about to
> install): Input/output error
 
> why do i get the input output error? i can go the directory and see
> the file '/lib/modules/2.6.18-5-686/kernel/drivers/net/yellowfin.ko'
> anyone has an idea?

Unable to stat means that the file is listed in the deb/tarball
directory but it can't actually get the file out of the archive.

Run mc (or anything else you have that can look in debs) and see if
yellowfin.ko is in the deb.  

You used two different means of trying to install a deb, but they both
pull the deb from the same source.  Perhaps there's a problem.  Try
downloading it directly and installing it with dpkg.

Doug.


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Re: (etch) Using aptitude after using dselect - any issues?

[Douglas A. Tutty]

On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 11:41:02AM +0100, Martin Waller wrote:
> Thanks for the input - I asked because I thought I'd seen warnings about 
> using aptitude after using dselect since installation.  I am using 
> aptitude now without apparent issue, although my system isn't a very 
> complex setup and I'm on stable.

Don't top post.

The first things to do:

Run aptitude interactively (no command args)
Select options, tell it not to include recommends.

Then, go down the list of all packages and if its one that you
yourself don't specifically want installed, then mark it as
automatic.  Continue going down the list.  When you think you
have it all good:

hit 'g' to see what aptitude would like to do.

If its wrong, fix it (marking things manuall, install,
whatever), then it 'q' to go back to the main screen.  Then hit
'g' to see if its correct.

When everything in the first 'g' screen is correct, hit 'g'
again and it will clean out any cruft build-up you have.  

Then you can continue to use aptitude as your package manager
and it will keep the system tidy.

Doug.


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Re: test

[Cristiano dos Santos Boiko]

Sending Ack...

2007/10/8, Sam Leon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> please disregard
>
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test

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Re: seeking advice on free dns

[Michael Acklin]

Sorry about that. My mail program picked up on your email address 
instead of the Debian Users list.


Won't happen again...

Mike


Mihira Fernando wrote:


Provided, your IP is static, simply set port forwarding in your Router 
so that ports for web/email/etc. will be forwarded to your server (at 
192.168.0.102).


At FreeDNS, point the antifoo.chickenlips.com to your public IP (Router).

Mihira.

PS. send replies only to list.




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Re: How to detect whether your machine is compromised?

[John Hasler]

Raj Kiran Grandhi writes:
> There is an article on slashdot,
> http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/05/1234217&from=rss which
> says that most of the phishing sites are being run from rootkitted linux
> boxes.

Probably not rooted.  It is not necessary to root a machine running a Web
server to put up unauthorized pages: you just need write access to the
proper directories.  This is usually accomplished via buggy php scripts, so
your first step should be to quit using php.
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Re: jvm 1.6.0_03

[martin yazdzik]

Dear Hal,

Thank you very much for your kind answer. I sincerely appreciate the time 
and thought.


Best wishes,
Martin



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Re: rkhunter, changed files = problems?

[John]

On (08/10/07 11:58), Gilles Mocellin wrote:
> Le Monday 08 October 2007 10:43:06 David A., vous avez écrit :
> > starting oct. 2nd rkhunter has started to log warings about changed
> > files.
> > At first i thought "ok" it's probably because I usualy do a "aptitude
> > full-upgrade" once every day or so ...
> > Can anyone help me veirfy this as a false positive or a real problem?
> [...]
> 
> Same here.
> I don't think it's a real problem, but it's anoying.
> How can we trust rkhunter during that time ?
> 
> I wonder how to reinitialise its file hash database ?

I too had all those warnings after my weekly update. After poking
around some, I decided that it was a false positive, due to updating
this and that. Still, I agree that it was worrying; I'm relieved to
hear others had the same warnings.

To reinitialize rkhunter, here's how, from the man page:

   --propupd
  One of the checks rkhunter performs  is  to  compare  various
  current file properties of various commands, against those it
  has previously stored. This command option causes rkhunter to
  update  its  data file of stored values with the current val-
  ues.

  WARNING: It is the users responsibility to  ensure  that  the
  files  on  the system are genuine and from a reliable source.
  rkhunter can only report if a file has changed,  but  not  on
  what has caused the change. Hence, if a file has changed, and
  the --propupd command option  is  used,  then  rkhunter  will
  assume that the file is genuine.

HTH.

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Re: (etch) Using aptitude after using dselect - any issues?

[Daniel Burrows]

On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 08:51:05AM -0400, Chris Bannister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
was heard to say:
> On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 01:19:33AM +0200, Tobias Nissen wrote:
> > Hi Martin!
> > 
> > Martin Waller wrote:
> > > Is it safe to switch to using aptititude as my package manager after
> > > having used dselect up to now?
> > 
> > Yes, it is safe. dselect and aptitude use different databases.
> 
> dpkg seems to rely on dselect for some reason:
> 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# dpkg --purge dselect
> dpkg: dependency problems prevent removal of dselect:
>  dpkg depends on dselect.
> [..]

  dpkg depends on dselect because dselect used to be part of the dpkg
package.  When dselect was split out, the dpkg maintainers wanted to
ensure that no-one lost dselect during an upgrade, so dpkg depended (in
fact, pre-depended IIRC) on dselect for some time.  There's no technical
reason to have dselect around.

  That said, the dependency went away sometime between sarge and etch,
although a quick scan of the changelog doesn't tell me when.

  Daniel


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Re: how to add etch's first CD image to /etc/apt/sources.list

[Wei Wang]

Try apt-cdrom or Synaptic can also do this.

On Mon, 2007-10-08 at 00:54 -0700, Serena Cantor wrote:
> They say it's impossible. Why?
> 
> 
>   
> 
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Re: df -h listing

[Miles Bader]

Rick Pasotto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> I think you missed someting? like the -n flag? If you do a normal sort,
>> its alphabetic. With -n, it is done numeric.
>
> That's true but it doesn't help anyway. 57K will sort larger than 2M.

You could do it in two stages, first without -h, to sort, then with -h,
to display... e.g.:

   df -h `df | tail -n +2 | sort -n -k2 | awk '{print $NF}'`

Sample output:

   FilesystemSize  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
   /dev/sda3 3.8G  3.3G  282M  93% /usr
   tmpfs 253M   16K  253M   1% /dev/shm
   tmpfs 253M 0  253M   0% /lib/init/rw
   /dev/sda1 137M   79M   52M  61% /
   udev   10M   28K   10M   1% /dev

[You might want to use the "-xtmpfs" option with the inner df, 'cause
tmpfs filesystems look sort of weird in a sorted list like this...]

-Miles

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Re: Cannot apt-get update

[Gerard Robin]

On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 01:06:57PM +, Dotan Cohen wrote:

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Subject: Cannot apt-get update
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I do not know what
version Debian this is, or how up to date it is, as it is not my
machine. How can I check?

cat /etc/debian_version
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