Re: Mini 10v

[Andrei Popescu]

On Wed,23.Sep.09, 22:47:04, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > How about a PIII-500 machine with 384 MB RAM running from an 1GB USB
> > stick?
> 
> Machines with much smaller memory and slower processor were used as
> departmental mail servers not that long ago.  Believe me, it's a no
> brainer.  I run postfix on my Neo Freerunner (128MB RAM) and haven't
> noticed it being a problem.  If you don't use it, the kernel will swap
> it out.

- because it's on a stick it has no swap
- this machine is good enough for the typical MPEG-4 movies (on my 
  hi-res TV), but I don't want to risk skips in the middle of the movie 
  just because postfix is running it's queue or whatever.

Regards,
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[Solved]Re: problem updating python2.5

[Jonathan Kaye]

Jonathan Kaye wrote:

> On a routine update on my Debian Squeeze system I get the following:
> [quote]
> running python rtupdate hooks for python2.5...
> file does not exist: /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/_spe/plugins/kiki
> file does not exist: /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/_spe/plugins/wxGlade
> pycentral: pycentral updatedefault: error byte-compiling files (221)
> pycentral updatedefault: error byte-compiling files (221)
> error running python rtupdate hook pycentral
> Updating *.pc symlinks for python-gtk2-dev...
> dpkg: error processing python (--configure):
> subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 4
> [/quote]
> I see both the kiki and the wxGlade scripts in the folder where rtupdate
> is looking for them but both files are empty (0 bytes).
> Any ideas on how to fix this?
> Thanks,
> jonathan
Problem solved. It turned out that the culprit was Stani's Python Editor 
(the spe package). I removed the package and it took the other two culprits, 
kiki and wxGlade with it. Then everything unjammed and all my python 
packages configured properly and all is well.  I can't even remember why I 
wanted SPE. I don't recall every having used it.
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Re: Defeating SPAM Using Debian

[joe]

Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
New blog post that might be useful for some out there: 
.


It's got some very specific configurations, so it might even help those out 
there that already have a solution like this.


Feedback is *encouraged*.  Of course, comments would be great, but the site is 
a bit looked down due to comment SPAM[1].  If you don't want to sign up to 
leave comments, shoot me an email on-list or off.  I'm nearly always checking 
my email. >:)


[1] Is that irony?


I use only exim4 without content checking, and the mail client. I get 
typically 2000-5000 attempted SMTP connections a day (of which about 100 
are genuine, mostly mailing lists), and an average of about a dozen 
spams a week make it into the inbox. Icedove spots at least 80% of those.


Reverse DNS lookup is the best single measure, enabled by default in 
Debian. I also look for a matching PTR-A record pair, refuse a (by now) 
quite large collection of CIDR blocks and do some tests on PTR and HELO 
strings. I refuse about fifteen countries, a couple of large national 
ISPs by name (they have many CIDR blocks) and try to spot dynamic 
PTR/HELO strings by digit pattern. I also block a large fraction of 
APNIC at the firewall, but unfortunately it is continuously acquiring 
many small CIDR blocks from other regions' former allocations.


Spam that does make it into the inbox is saved up, and I spend about a 
minute a day looking up their CIDR blocks and adding them to my list. 
Unfortunately, that's not easy to automate due to the wide variation in 
material returned by whois.

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overhead projector unclear under lenny

[John O Laoi]

Hello,
I moved my laptop to lenny last May. Before that, it had been using etch.
It is a DELL Precision M65. It has a 15.4" WUXGA (1920 x 1200) LCD Screen.

On moving, I noticed that it had very few screen resolutions,
so I editedxorg.conf  to add a few.
Everything worked fine, until I connected an overhead projector
yesterday, for the first time under lenny.
The picture produced by the overhead is very unclear.

With WINDOWS on the same laptop, the picture on the overhead projector is clear.
The picture used to be clear under etch.
I tried another overhead projector, and saw the same unclear picture.


I have tried reducing the resolution on the Display, and it has not helped.


The following is the relevant section of xorg.conf:

Section "Screen"

Identifier  "Default Screen"

Monitor "Configured Monitor"



DefaultColorDepth 24

SubSection "Display"

Depth 8

Modes  "1680x1050" "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"

EndSubSection

SubSection "Display"

Depth 16

Modes  "1680x1050" "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"

EndSubSection

SubSection "Display"

Depth 24

Modes  "1920x1200"  "1680x1050" "1440x900" "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "80

0x600" "640x480"

Virtual 1920 1200

EndSubSection

EndSection


Any ideas?

John


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Failed to install libmysql library for MYSQL client

[Dinesh Lohan]

Hi,
I am using TS-7300 board having Debain Linux version 2.86 and Installed
mysql client but when trying to
install library for mysql client using apt-get install libmysqlclient15-dev
its
not working.
--
r...@ts7300:apt-get install libmysqlclient15-dev
Reading package lists...Done
Building dependency tree... Done
you might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
binutils:depends:Lib6(>=2.7-1) but 2.3.6.ds1-13etch4 is to be installed
libc6:depends:tzdata but it is not going to be installed
libc6-dev:depend:libc6(=2.7-18) but 2.3.6.ds1-13etch4 is to be installed
libmysqlclient15-dev:depend:libmysqlclient15off (>=5.0.51a-24+lenny2)but
5.0.32-7etch3 is to be installed
Depend :libc6(>=2.7-1) but 2.3.6.ds1-13etch4 is to be installed
E:Unmet dependencies.Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages.
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Kernel 2.4.26-ts11
source.list :deb ftp://ftp.us.debain.org/debain stable main contrib non-free

Please suggest me upon this.Will I need to changes in sources list file
I don't know whether this right forum for above Query or not...
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Re: what is the role of release.gpg

[abdelkader belahcene]

Hi,
I created the Release and Release.gpg for the CD1,
apt-ftparchive release .  > Release
in the root of the cd directory wich is acceded via ftp, here is the content

debian225:/home/ftp/cd1# ls
autorun.infdists  g2ldr.mbrisolinuxpool
README.mirrors.txt * Release  *tools
cssdocinstallmd5sum.txtREADME.html
README.source   *  Release.gpg*  win32-loader.ini
dedication.txtg2ldr  install.386  picsREADME.mirrors.html
README.txt setup.exe



then the gpg file with
gpg -bas  -o Release.gpg Release

I used
apt-key add .gnupg/pubring.gpg
apt-key add .gnupg/secring.gpg
To complete the key list.

Everything seemed fine,

But when I try the installation, from a remote machien I always get the
error :
mirror is not available or release file not found ??



Secondly, how to disable the secure apt if the problem is there.
thanks a lot
bela








On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 1:02 PM, Osamu Aoki  wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 12:28:22PM +0100, abdelkader belahcene wrote:
> > Hi,
> > What is the role of Release.gpg in the debian site like for example
> > http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/dists/lenny/Release.gpg
>
> The cryptographic signature file "Release.gpg" is created from the
> authentic top level "Release" file and the secret Debian archive key.
>
>
> http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch02.en.html#_top_level_release_file_and_authenticity
>
> > If I want to create a repository from the CD1, which doesn't contains
> > Release.gpg,  is it possible to add and how.
> > The reason for the message is that I want to create a repository to
> install
> > on several machine the CD1, by using PXE.
> > It fails when it searches for the Release file, so I suspect  the absence
> > Release.gpg is responsible.
>
> You can create it with your secret gpg key.  You certainly need to add that
> key to enable secure-apt.   But trouble of doing it may be beyond you
> for now.  I think disabling secure apt from console shell may be easier
> way.
>
> Please seek help from install guide and may example for creating
> secure-apt compatible archive:
>
>
> http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch02.en.html#_local_copies_of_the_fetched_packages
>
> Osamu
>
>

where would i configure an external HD to be automounted?

[Robert P. J. Day]

  more specifically, on an old lenny system, when an external maxtor
(1-touch) HD was plugged in via USB, it was *apparently* mounted
automatically under /mnt/maxtor, for the purposes of backups later in
the evening.

  i have a full backup of /etc from that old system, and i'm trying to
figure out where that would have been configured so i can add it to
the new system.  i've checked things related to autofs but i don't see
it.  hint?  i'm sure it's obvious, i just haven't found it yet.

rday
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Re: where would i configure an external HD to be automounted?

[Vinicius Massuchetto]

I would check with "mount" how the filesystem was mounted, then add it
to /etc/fstab.
Is that the case?
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On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 9:19 AM, Robert P. J. Day  wrote:
>
>  more specifically, on an old lenny system, when an external maxtor
> (1-touch) HD was plugged in via USB, it was *apparently* mounted
> automatically under /mnt/maxtor, for the purposes of backups later in
> the evening.
>
>  i have a full backup of /etc from that old system, and i'm trying to
> figure out where that would have been configured so i can add it to
> the new system.  i've checked things related to autofs but i don't see
> it.  hint?  i'm sure it's obvious, i just haven't found it yet.
>
> rday
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Re: where would i configure an external HD to be automounted?

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Thu, 24 Sep 2009, Robert P. J. Day wrote:

>   more specifically, on an old lenny system, when an external maxtor
> (1-touch) HD was plugged in via USB, it was *apparently* mounted
> automatically under /mnt/maxtor, for the purposes of backups later
> in the evening.
>
>   i have a full backup of /etc from that old system, and i'm trying
> to figure out where that would have been configured so i can add it
> to the new system.  i've checked things related to autofs but i
> don't see it.  hint?  i'm sure it's obvious, i just haven't found it
> yet.

  and to preempt the obvious question, "lsusb" does show that the hard
drive is connected.  it's just the automount/autofs i need to
activate so that it's mounted when it's plugged in.

rday

p.s.  i'm *assuming* that some sort of auto-mounting was happening
there, since there's nothing in the backup script that involves a
manual mount of that drive.

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Re: where would i configure an external HD to be automounted?

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Thu, 24 Sep 2009, Vinicius Massuchetto wrote:

> I would check with "mount" how the filesystem was mounted, then add
> it to /etc/fstab. Is that the case?

  nope, found it:  an entry in /etc/auto.usb.  i *figured* it was an
automount/autofs issue of some kind.

rday
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Re: configuring xserver

[Adrian Levi]

2009/9/24 Paul E Condon :
> I just purchased a small LCD monitor. It is 16:9 format and 1366x768.
> I ran dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg
> and that program set up the driver for 1024x768, so naturely the letters
> and graphics were stretched out horizontally. 1366x768 is not an option
> offered by Gnome preferences screen-resolution. What is the Debian way
> to deal with this? What should I read?

You might like to look into configuring yourself a modeline to tell
the xserver what the hardware is capable of if it's not automatically
detected.

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Debian vs. ATI Radeon x1650

[Dominik Smatana]

Hello,

some time ago my old machine "went boom" and now I'm desperately trying 
to install Debian on new one...


Everytime I'm trying to start x-server monitor just turns to sleep mode 
and keyboard LEDs keep blinking... I think this problem is related to my 
graphic card - ATI Technologies Inc RV535 [Radeon X1650 Series] rev 158.


Debian Lenny = fail
Debian Squeeze kernel 2.2.26-1-686 = fail
Debian Squeeze kernel 2.6.26-2-686 = fail
Ubuntu 9.04 kernel 2.6.27-14-generic = OK (strange)
Ubuntu 9.04 kernel 2.6.27-15-generic = fail

Any ideas please?

Thanks
Dominik Smatana


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Re: where would i configure an external HD to be automounted?

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Thu, 24 Sep 2009, Robert P. J. Day wrote:

> On Thu, 24 Sep 2009, Vinicius Massuchetto wrote:
>
> > I would check with "mount" how the filesystem was mounted, then
> > add it to /etc/fstab. Is that the case?
>
>   nope, found it:  an entry in /etc/auto.usb.  i *figured* it was an
> automount/autofs issue of some kind.

  hmm ... that didn't solve it and, in the process of debugging, i
ran across something *very* unfamiliar but apparently easily fixable.

  to get the maxtor USB HD to automount when plugged in, i copied over
the old autofs-related config files so that the system now has:

  /etc/auto.master:

/var/autofs/misc/etc/auto.misc  --timeout=5
/var/autofs/net /etc/auto.net
/mnt/etc/auto.usb   --timeout=2

  /etc/auto.usb:

usbdrive-fstype=ext3,rw,sync :/dev/sdb1
usbdrive2   -fstype=ext3,rw,sync :/dev/sdc1

  looks good so far?  and i can verify with "fdisk" that the drive
appears as /dev/sdc, with a single linux partition of /dev/sdc1.  i
verified that i can manually mount that partition at an arbitrary
directory i created under /tmp.  and after i restarted autofs, i get:

=

# /etc/init.d/autofs status
Configured Mount Points:

/usr/sbin/automount --timeout=5 /var/autofs/misc file /etc/auto.misc
/usr/sbin/automount --timeout=300 /var/autofs/net program
/etc/auto.net
/usr/sbin/automount --timeout=2 /mnt file /etc/auto.usb

Active Mount Points:

/usr/sbin/automount --pid-file=/var/run/autofs/_var_autofs_misc.pid
--timeout=5 /var/autofs/misc file /etc/auto.misc
/usr/sbin/automount --pid-file=/var/run/autofs/_var_autofs_net.pid
--timeout=300 /var/autofs/net program /etc/auto.net
/usr/sbin/automount --pid-file=/var/run/autofs/_mnt.pid --timeout=2
/mnt file /etc/auto.usb

=

  would that normally be sufficient?  have i forgotten anything?
because i had someone unplug the drive, then plug it back in again and
... nothing.  so i tried to *manually* mount the drive under /mnt, but
i was unable to manually create a directory mount point under /mnt.

# mkdir /mnt/rday
mkdir: cannot create directory `/mnt/rday': No such file or directory
#

  huh?  then i looked more closely:

# ls -ld /mnt
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 2009-09-24 09:04 /mnt
#

  a directory size of zero?  does that mean that there is no "real"
/mnt directory (similar to /proc and /sys)?  i'm confused since i'm
used to /mnt being a real but empty directory.  and i'm confused as to
why the drive isn't being mounted at plug-in time.

  have i missed something?  all of the above looks reasonable.  to
what log file would autofs diagnostics go?  i can't find any error
msgs.

  this looked so straightforward.

rday
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Re: Defeating SPAM Using Debian

[Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.]

In <4abb5919.4080...@jretrading.com>, j...@jretrading.com wrote:
>Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
>> New blog post that might be useful for some out there:
>> .
>>
>> It's got some very specific configurations, so it might even help those
>> out there that already have a solution like this.
>
>I use only exim4 without content checking, and the mail client. I get
>typically 2000-5000 attempted SMTP connections a day (of which about 100
>are genuine, mostly mailing lists), and an average of about a dozen
>spams a week make it into the inbox. Icedove spots at least 80% of those.

Out of the ~180 'DATA' commands I received yesterday, 83 resulted in an SMTP-
time rejection, 8 were forwarded to SpamCop.  My site-wide settings are quite 
conservative.

>I refuse a (by now)
>quite large collection of CIDR blocks.

Of the ones that resulted in an SMTP-time rejection, most were from a mail 
server that has poor SPAM-scanning, but that shouldn't be rejected at the 
firewall.

Since IP != identity, I'm not willing to block any ip address or range unless 
I have a mechanism for automatically expiring those blocks.  However, 
spamassassin accesses some half-dozen free-to-use DNSBLs that serve the same 
purpose.
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Re: where would i configure an external HD to be automounted?

[ghammar]

Quoting "Robert P. J. Day" :


On Thu, 24 Sep 2009, Robert P. J. Day wrote:


On Thu, 24 Sep 2009, Vinicius Massuchetto wrote:

> I would check with "mount" how the filesystem was mounted, then
> add it to /etc/fstab. Is that the case?

  nope, found it:  an entry in /etc/auto.usb.  i *figured* it was an
automount/autofs issue of some kind.


  hmm ... that didn't solve it and, in the process of debugging, i
ran across something *very* unfamiliar but apparently easily fixable.

  to get the maxtor USB HD to automount when plugged in, i copied over
the old autofs-related config files so that the system now has:

  /etc/auto.master:

/var/autofs/misc/etc/auto.misc  --timeout=5
/var/autofs/net /etc/auto.net
/mnt/etc/auto.usb   --timeout=2

  /etc/auto.usb:

usbdrive-fstype=ext3,rw,sync :/dev/sdb1
usbdrive2   -fstype=ext3,rw,sync :/dev/sdc1

  looks good so far?  and i can verify with "fdisk" that the drive
appears as /dev/sdc, with a single linux partition of /dev/sdc1.  i
verified that i can manually mount that partition at an arbitrary
directory i created under /tmp.  and after i restarted autofs, i get:

=

# /etc/init.d/autofs status
Configured Mount Points:

/usr/sbin/automount --timeout=5 /var/autofs/misc file /etc/auto.misc
/usr/sbin/automount --timeout=300 /var/autofs/net program
/etc/auto.net
/usr/sbin/automount --timeout=2 /mnt file /etc/auto.usb

Active Mount Points:

/usr/sbin/automount --pid-file=/var/run/autofs/_var_autofs_misc.pid
--timeout=5 /var/autofs/misc file /etc/auto.misc
/usr/sbin/automount --pid-file=/var/run/autofs/_var_autofs_net.pid
--timeout=300 /var/autofs/net program /etc/auto.net
/usr/sbin/automount --pid-file=/var/run/autofs/_mnt.pid --timeout=2
/mnt file /etc/auto.usb

=

  would that normally be sufficient?  have i forgotten anything?
because i had someone unplug the drive, then plug it back in again and
... nothing.  so i tried to *manually* mount the drive under /mnt, but
i was unable to manually create a directory mount point under /mnt.

# mkdir /mnt/rday
mkdir: cannot create directory `/mnt/rday': No such file or directory
#

  huh?  then i looked more closely:

# ls -ld /mnt
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 2009-09-24 09:04 /mnt
#

  a directory size of zero?  does that mean that there is no "real"
/mnt directory (similar to /proc and /sys)?  i'm confused since i'm
used to /mnt being a real but empty directory.  and i'm confused as to
why the drive isn't being mounted at plug-in time.

  have i missed something?  all of the above looks reasonable.  to
what log file would autofs diagnostics go?  i can't find any error
msgs.

  this looked so straightforward.

rday
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It should be pretty easy. I have a USB drive that mounts automatically  
(sometimes even when I don't want it to).


1. Create a directory for your drive to mount to. In this case, it  
looks like you want:


mkdir /mnt/rday

The mount point has to exist before you can mount to it.

2. Create an entry in /etc/fstab like this:

/dev/sdc1   /mnt/rday   ext3   user,auto,rw,exec,suid,dev   0   0

You can twiddle the options as you need, but this should get you going.

Giff


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Re: where would i configure an external HD to be automounted?

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Thu, 24 Sep 2009, gham...@sv-phoenix.com wrote:

> Quoting "Robert P. J. Day" :
>
> > On Thu, 24 Sep 2009, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >
> > > On Thu, 24 Sep 2009, Vinicius Massuchetto wrote:
> > >
> > > > I would check with "mount" how the filesystem was mounted, then
> > > > add it to /etc/fstab. Is that the case?
> > >
> > >  nope, found it:  an entry in /etc/auto.usb.  i *figured* it was an
> > > automount/autofs issue of some kind.
> >
> >  hmm ... that didn't solve it and, in the process of debugging, i
> > ran across something *very* unfamiliar but apparently easily fixable.
> >
> >  to get the maxtor USB HD to automount when plugged in, i copied over
> > the old autofs-related config files so that the system now has:
> >
> >  /etc/auto.master:
> >
> > /var/autofs/misc/etc/auto.misc  --timeout=5
> > /var/autofs/net /etc/auto.net
> > /mnt/etc/auto.usb   --timeout=2
> >
> >  /etc/auto.usb:
> >
> > usbdrive-fstype=ext3,rw,sync :/dev/sdb1
> > usbdrive2   -fstype=ext3,rw,sync :/dev/sdc1
> >
> >  looks good so far?  and i can verify with "fdisk" that the drive
> > appears as /dev/sdc, with a single linux partition of /dev/sdc1.  i
> > verified that i can manually mount that partition at an arbitrary
> > directory i created under /tmp.  and after i restarted autofs, i get:
> >
> > =
> >
> > # /etc/init.d/autofs status
> > Configured Mount Points:
> > 
> > /usr/sbin/automount --timeout=5 /var/autofs/misc file /etc/auto.misc
> > /usr/sbin/automount --timeout=300 /var/autofs/net program
> > /etc/auto.net
> > /usr/sbin/automount --timeout=2 /mnt file /etc/auto.usb
> >
> > Active Mount Points:
> > 
> > /usr/sbin/automount --pid-file=/var/run/autofs/_var_autofs_misc.pid
> > --timeout=5 /var/autofs/misc file /etc/auto.misc
> > /usr/sbin/automount --pid-file=/var/run/autofs/_var_autofs_net.pid
> > --timeout=300 /var/autofs/net program /etc/auto.net
> > /usr/sbin/automount --pid-file=/var/run/autofs/_mnt.pid --timeout=2
> > /mnt file /etc/auto.usb
> >
> > =
> >
> >  would that normally be sufficient?  have i forgotten anything?
> > because i had someone unplug the drive, then plug it back in again and
> > ... nothing.  so i tried to *manually* mount the drive under /mnt, but
> > i was unable to manually create a directory mount point under /mnt.
> >
> > # mkdir /mnt/rday
> > mkdir: cannot create directory `/mnt/rday': No such file or directory
> > #
> >
> >  huh?  then i looked more closely:
> >
> > # ls -ld /mnt
> > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 2009-09-24 09:04 /mnt
> > #
> >
> >  a directory size of zero?  does that mean that there is no "real"
> > /mnt directory (similar to /proc and /sys)?  i'm confused since i'm
> > used to /mnt being a real but empty directory.  and i'm confused as to
> > why the drive isn't being mounted at plug-in time.
> >
> >  have i missed something?  all of the above looks reasonable.  to
> > what log file would autofs diagnostics go?  i can't find any error
> > msgs.
> >
> >  this looked so straightforward.
> >
> > rday
> > --
> >
> It should be pretty easy. I have a USB drive that mounts automatically
> (sometimes even when I don't want it to).
>
> 1. Create a directory for your drive to mount to. In this case, it looks like
> you want:
>
> mkdir /mnt/rday
>
> The mount point has to exist before you can mount to it.
>
> 2. Create an entry in /etc/fstab like this:
>
> /dev/sdc1   /mnt/rday   ext3   user,auto,rw,exec,suid,dev 0   0
>
> You can twiddle the options as you need, but this should get you going.
>
> Giff

  no, i don't think i should need to do that.  the *old* system
didn't have an entry in /etc fstab for this.  what i'm puzzled by is
that, if the automounter isn't running, there's *no* /mnt directory on
this system.  i always thought that /mnt should exist as a normal (but
empty) directory.  i'm *guessing* that what i need to do is stop the
automounter, then "mkdir /mnt", then restart the automounter.  i get
the impression that, for the above to work, /mnt must already exist,
and the automounter will be responsible for creating the appropriate
subdirectory mount points.

  does that sound reasonable?  because, as it stands, the automounting
just isn't working.  is anyone else out there using autofs like this?
does the top-level mount directory already exist for you?

rday

p.s.  i'm sure i can simplify this with udev, but i'm trying to simply
reproduce what was on the old system for now.

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==

Re: Failed to install libmysql library for MYSQL client

[Wayne Topa]

Dinesh Lohan wrote:

Hi,
I am using TS-7300 board having Debain Linux version 2.86 and Installed
mysql client but when trying to
install library for mysql client using apt-get install libmysqlclient15-dev
its
not working.
--
r...@ts7300:apt-get install libmysqlclient15-dev
Reading package lists...Done
Building dependency tree... Done
you might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
binutils:depends:Lib6(>=2.7-1) but 2.3.6.ds1-13etch4 is to be installed
libc6:depends:tzdata but it is not going to be installed
libc6-dev:depend:libc6(=2.7-18) but 2.3.6.ds1-13etch4 is to be installed
libmysqlclient15-dev:depend:libmysqlclient15off (>=5.0.51a-24+lenny2)but
5.0.32-7etch3 is to be installed
Depend :libc6(>=2.7-1) but 2.3.6.ds1-13etch4 is to be installed
E:Unmet dependencies.Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages.
---
Tried 'apt-get -f install' ,not working.
Kernel 2.4.26-ts11
source.list :deb ftp://ftp.us.debain.org/debain stable main contrib non-free

Please suggest me upon this.Will I need to changes in sources list file


We might be able to help if you can supply us with more information.

What is in your sources file now?

Did you run 'aptitude update (debian preferred method) or apt-get update
before you tried the install?


I don't know whether this right forum for above Query or not...


It is.

Wayne


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Re: Mini 10v

[Osamu Aoki]

On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 12:41:24PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote:
> Osamu Aoki wrote:
> > If so, why not configuring exim or postfix as non-resident.  It can be
> > done.  Why not?
> 
> U, which is what I was telling the OP who posed the question.  Dunno
> why you're telling me.

U... I do not know why ... but I must have been confused ...  This
part does not make sense to me.
 
> > If resource is issue, reducing eye candies have real impact.
> 
> Just because something /else/ takes up more resources doesn't mean people
> want to be willy-nilly with little-used resources.  As I pointed out to the
> other fellow all off the applets I run serve a purpose at the time I run them.
>  If they didn't I don't run them!  Same as the dozens of other applets for the
> panel as well as the dozens of other applications I have installed on this
> machine.

I think things in the same way.

Osamu




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Re: Mini 10v

[Osamu Aoki]

On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 10:38:40AM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Wed,23.Sep.09, 22:47:04, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > > How about a PIII-500 machine with 384 MB RAM running from an 1GB USB
> > > stick?
> > 
> > Machines with much smaller memory and slower processor were used as
> > departmental mail servers not that long ago.  Believe me, it's a no
> > brainer.  I run postfix on my Neo Freerunner (128MB RAM) and haven't
> > noticed it being a problem.  If you don't use it, the kernel will swap
> > it out.
> 
> - because it's on a stick it has no swap
> - this machine is good enough for the typical MPEG-4 movies (on my 
>   hi-res TV), but I don't want to risk skips in the middle of the movie 
>   just because postfix is running it's queue or whatever.

If you really hate MTA being resident, run queue comman like "exim -q"
from command line, cron or some hook script so it does not interfair
with your activity.  Simplest thing to do is run queue from command line
when you exit MUA. Install postfix or exim as nondaemon.

Program size (resident memory) is your issue.  Just run "ps" or "top"
and see what "RES" say on your system.  mailer is baby in size compaired
to any X apps.

Osamu


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Re: where would i configure an external HD to be automounted?

[Osamu Aoki]

On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 11:08:46AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>   no, i don't think i should need to do that.  the *old* system
> didn't have an entry in /etc fstab for this.  what i'm puzzled by is
> that, if the automounter isn't running, there's *no* /mnt directory on
> this system.  

It is udev.  It takes partition label as location.

http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch03.en.html#_the_udev_system

> i always thought that /mnt should exist as a normal (but
> empty) directory.  i'm *guessing* that what i need to do is stop the
> automounter, then "mkdir /mnt", then restart the automounter.  

I remember we had automounter damon in old days.  We have udev hook
scripts these days.

 
> p.s.  i'm sure i can simplify this with udev, but i'm trying to simply
> reproduce what was on the old system for now.

You mean "on an old lenny system"? it is new enough.  Even sarge is new
enough for udev.


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debmirror broken

[ss11223]

Sometime in the last week the "debmirror" script broke for me.  It used to
work fine, now I get:


Mirroring to /home/ss/Download/DebianMirror/etch from
http://debian.lcs.mit.edu/debian/
Arches: i386,amd64
Dists: testing
Sections: main,contrib,non-free
Pdiff mode: none
Will clean up AFTER mirroring.
Attempting to get lock, this might take 2 minutes before it fails.
Get Release files.
http://debian.lcs.mit.edu/debian/dists/testing/Release => [0%] Getting:
dists/testing/Release... Use of uninitialized value $file_length in numeric
lt (<) at /usr/share/perl5/LWP/UserAgent.pm line 845.
Use of uninitialized value $file_length in concatenation (.) or string at
/usr/share/perl5/LWP/UserAgent.pm line 847.
Transfer truncated: only  out of 96468 bytes received
WARNING: releasing 1 pending lock...


Is this me, or is the package really broken now?

Stuart

Re: where would i configure an external HD to be automounted?

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Fri, 25 Sep 2009, Osamu Aoki wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 11:08:46AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >   no, i don't think i should need to do that.  the *old* system
> > didn't have an entry in /etc fstab for this.  what i'm puzzled by is
> > that, if the automounter isn't running, there's *no* /mnt directory on
> > this system.
>
> It is udev.  It takes partition label as location.
>
> http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch03.en.html#_the_udev_system

  i know udev is a better solution *today*, but i'm trying to strictly
reproduce what the old system was using, and it wasn't mounting that
HD via udev, it was doing it via autofs.  so the question remains --
does it make sense to not have a real /mnt directory?  i have no idea
where it went, but i'm quite sure a normal debian install would create
one, no?

rday
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Re: where would i configure an external HD to be automounted?

[Kumar Appaiah]

On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 12:12:03PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>   i know udev is a better solution *today*, but i'm trying to strictly
> reproduce what the old system was using, and it wasn't mounting that
> HD via udev, it was doing it via autofs.  so the question remains --
> does it make sense to not have a real /mnt directory?  i have no idea
> where it went, but i'm quite sure a normal debian install would create
> one, no?

autofs might be useful for you. The way it works is, you plug in the
disk, and access the mount point. When you try to access the mount
point, it checks for the disk and mounts it. Also, after a time you
specify (say one minute, for example), for which the disk is not
accessed, it is automatically unmounted. So, you can safely plug it
out.

There are too many tutorials and documents to mention, so just
search, and you'll find plenty of direcitons.

HTH.

Kumar


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Re: Debian vs. ATI Radeon x1650

[Brent Clark]

On 24/09/2009 15:12, Dominik Smatana wrote:

Ubuntu 9.04 kernel 2.6.27-14-generic = OK (strange)


Hiya

Close your eyes, save yourself time and effort and just use Ubuntu.

Regards
Brent Clark

P.s. Ubuntu 9.04 is using kernel 2.6.28-15-generic.


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Re: where would i configure an external HD to be automounted?

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Thu, 24 Sep 2009, Kumar Appaiah wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 12:12:03PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >   i know udev is a better solution *today*, but i'm trying to
> > strictly reproduce what the old system was using, and it wasn't
> > mounting that HD via udev, it was doing it via autofs.  so the
> > question remains -- does it make sense to not have a real /mnt
> > directory?  i have no idea where it went, but i'm quite sure a
> > normal debian install would create one, no?
>
> autofs might be useful for you. The way it works is, you plug in the
> disk, and access the mount point. When you try to access the mount
> point, it checks for the disk and mounts it. Also, after a time you
> specify (say one minute, for example), for which the disk is not
> accessed, it is automatically unmounted. So, you can safely plug it
> out.

  ah, thanks for reminding me how autofs works -- it's not the
plugging in, it's the *attempt* to access contents under that mount
point that automounts it.  i'm embarrassed to have forgotten that.

  so i tried to list the contents under the appropriate mount point
and, sure enough, there was a pause and the contents appeared.
mystery solved.  i was clearly thinking of udev and was thinking that
the mounting would take place when the drive was plugged in, and i
kept checking the output of the "mount" command before i'd even tried
to access anything under the mount point.

  my fault.  just being dense today.

rday
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Re: where would i configure an external HD to be automounted?

[Kumar Appaiah]

On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 12:37:19PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>   ah, thanks for reminding me how autofs works -- it's not the
> plugging in, it's the *attempt* to access contents under that mount
> point that automounts it.  i'm embarrassed to have forgotten that.

Pretty normal. I tend to forget seemingly obvious features in software,
even after short durations of not using those features!

>   so i tried to list the contents under the appropriate mount point
> and, sure enough, there was a pause and the contents appeared.
> mystery solved.  i was clearly thinking of udev and was thinking that
> the mounting would take place when the drive was plugged in, and i
> kept checking the output of the "mount" command before i'd even tried
> to access anything under the mount point.
> 
>   my fault.  just being dense today.

Glad to know it worked for you! :-)

Kumar


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Re: Debian vs. ATI Radeon x1650

[Dominik Smatana]

Brent Clark wrote:

On 24/09/2009 15:12, Dominik Smatana wrote:

Ubuntu 9.04 kernel 2.6.27-14-generic = OK (strange)

Close your eyes, save yourself time and effort and just use Ubuntu.
Hey, thanks for the advice, but Debian is my #1 priority... I'd rather 
buy a new card if needed =)




P.s. Ubuntu 9.04 is using kernel 2.6.28-15-generic.

Yeah, you are right, it was my typo...



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Re: avisynth.dll ???

[steef]

Krzysztof Luban'ski wrote:

On Wed, 23 Sep 2009 19:10:11 +0200, Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote:

  

Ah, same here. But www.myspace.com/djchess05 is not a media file that
mplayer can play.



Yes, and so the lack of avisynth.dll is not a problem here. It's just 
because MPlayer is trying different demultiplexers/decoders one after 
another to decode the data it gets - but this data is a Web page, not a 
video stream, so it fails.


The error message means that MPlayer failed to try avisynth.dll on the 
data, but not that it was really needed here - it wouldn't "play" a HTML 
etc. document, after all.


  

The proper media file appears to be so deeply hidden away in the site
that even add-ons that usually find it, don't see it here.



If there is a way to extract the video's URL, it could possibly be played 
by MPlayer if MySpace doesn't use too many "security" measures. You may 
do a Web search for such link extractor.


Regards,
  

thnanks. i'll give it a try.

regards,

steef

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Re: configuring xserver

[Paul E Condon]

On 2009-09-24_22:49:04, Adrian Levi wrote:
> 2009/9/24 Paul E Condon :
> > I just purchased a small LCD monitor. It is 16:9 format and 1366x768.
> > I ran dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg
> > and that program set up the driver for 1024x768, so naturely the letters
> > and graphics were stretched out horizontally. 1366x768 is not an option
> > offered by Gnome preferences screen-resolution. What is the Debian way
> > to deal with this? What should I read?
> 
> You might like to look into configuring yourself a modeline to tell
> the xserver what the hardware is capable of if it's not automatically
> detected.
> 
> Adrian

Yes. That is what I want to do. Where are the current modelines stored?
Somewhere in /etc I suppose, but there is a lot of stuff in /etc that
is automatically overwritten. I'd like to put my mode line in a place
that is considered authoritative by the Debian/GNU/Xwindows/Linux system.
And I'd like to use correct syntax for my modelines to that they are properly
understood by whatever is designed to read modelines.

I wouldn't mind reading some documents that explain what is going on, but
I doubt that I will remember whatever I might learn, especially if it
doesn't actually lead to my successfully configuring this monitor.

Thanks for the clue that what I need is 'a modeline'. Words matter, especially
if you can't remember the ones that are used in the index to life.
I'll go Google modeline.
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Re: [solved] Starting MTA:

[Klaus Jantzen]

On 09/18/2009 02:07 PM, ludovico van wrote:

Agreed.  Cron and anacron both need a mailer to inform you of errors and
various packages install cron jobs implicitly.

However, isn't there a local-only mailer that respects /etc/aliases and is
lighter-weight than exim4?



what i do on my computers is putting
QUEUERUNNER='nodaemon'
in /etc/default/exim4

this way no exim daemon is started at all, but i still can get my
mails from anacron.

Bye


  
In addition to changing the configuration of exim4 as suggested by 
Florian I also changed the above mentioned option

and now booting is fast and I have not encountered any problems (so far).

Thanks.

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Re: Debian vs. ATI Radeon x1650

[thveillon.debian]

>Brent Clark wrote:
>> On 24/09/2009 15:12, Dominik Smatana wrote:
>> Ubuntu 9.04 kernel 2.6.27-14-generic = OK (strange)
> 
> Hiya
> 
> Close your eyes, save yourself time and effort and just use Ubuntu.
> 
> Regards
> Brent Clark
> 
> P.s. Ubuntu 9.04 is using kernel 2.6.28-15-generic.
> 
> 

Hi,
what driver are you using ? Free "ati/radeon" or "fglrx" proprietary driver?

If it's the free one, check that your card is supported somewhere here:
http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/ATIRadeon

and show us your /etc/X11/xorg.conf (maybe empty).

If it's the fglrx stuff, check on ati's website, your card may be
"legacy" and stuck with an older version of the driver (9.3 ?). And yet
again a matter of xorg.conf too.

http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/Pages/index.aspx

I don't think the kernel itself has something to do with this, except
maybe with the "KMS" (kernel mode settings) of latest kernels.

Ubuntu tends to make the use of proprietary drivers "transparent" to
users, so maybe you where using "fglrx" there and not in Debian ?

Tom


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Re: configuring xserver

[thveillon.debian]

Paul E Condon wrote:
> On 2009-09-24_22:49:04, Adrian Levi wrote:
>> 2009/9/24 Paul E Condon :
>>> I just purchased a small LCD monitor. It is 16:9 format and 1366x768.
>>> I ran dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg
>>> and that program set up the driver for 1024x768, so naturely the letters
>>> and graphics were stretched out horizontally. 1366x768 is not an option
>>> offered by Gnome preferences screen-resolution. What is the Debian way
>>> to deal with this? What should I read?
>> You might like to look into configuring yourself a modeline to tell
>> the xserver what the hardware is capable of if it's not automatically
>> detected.
>>
>> Adrian
> 
> Yes. That is what I want to do. Where are the current modelines stored?
> Somewhere in /etc I suppose, but there is a lot of stuff in /etc that
> is automatically overwritten. I'd like to put my mode line in a place
> that is considered authoritative by the Debian/GNU/Xwindows/Linux system.
> And I'd like to use correct syntax for my modelines to that they are properly
> understood by whatever is designed to read modelines.
> 
> I wouldn't mind reading some documents that explain what is going on, but
> I doubt that I will remember whatever I might learn, especially if it
> doesn't actually lead to my successfully configuring this monitor.
> 
> Thanks for the clue that what I need is 'a modeline'. Words matter, especially
> if you can't remember the ones that are used in the index to life.
> I'll go Google modeline.

Hi,

I'd use something like "gtf 1366 768 60" (for 60Hz) to get a modeline,
then put it in the "Monitor" section of xorg.conf.
Otherwise learn some "randr" magic there maybe ?

http://wiki.debian.org/XStrikeForce/HowToRandR12

and forget it as I did... :-(

Tom


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Re: Debian vs. ATI Radeon x1650

[JoeHill]

Brent Clark wrote: 

> On 24/09/2009 15:12, Dominik Smatana wrote:
> > Ubuntu 9.04 kernel 2.6.27-14-generic = OK (strange)  
> 
> Hiya
> 
> Close your eyes, save yourself time and effort and just use Ubuntu.

...or, save himself even more time and effort and get an NVidia card.

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Re: Debian vs. ATI Radeon x1650

[JoeHill]

Dominik Smatana wrote: 

> Brent Clark wrote:
> > On 24/09/2009 15:12, Dominik Smatana wrote:  
> >> Ubuntu 9.04 kernel 2.6.27-14-generic = OK (strange)  
> > Close your eyes, save yourself time and effort and just use Ubuntu.  
> Hey, thanks for the advice, but Debian is my #1 priority... I'd rather 
> buy a new card if needed =)

lol, I guess I should have read your post first, instead of Brent's :-)

Yes, get an NVidia card and your troubles will be over forever. I have never
once been unable to get an NVidia card working, and I've been using them with
Linux for about 8 years.

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Re: Gnome-volume-manager not automounting fixed partitions?

[Klistvud]

Dne, 23. 09. 2009 19:42:33 je Bob McGowan napisal(a):
> Klistvud wrote:
> > Dne, 21. 09. 2009 13:20:43 je Klistvud napisal(a):
> >> Howdy, fellow debianites!
> >>
> >> On my system (Lenny), gnome-volume-manager won't mount additional 
> >> partitions 
> >> that are present on my disk. I'm talking about clicking on the
> drive 
> ---deleted intentionally---
> > 
> > Update: I've just installed Lenny 5.03 on another machine and no
> auto-
> > mount either. It must be a default Debian install policy I guess??? 
> > Removable drives and mem cards get automounted flawlessly, of
> course. 
> > It's just the fixed partitions that don't...
> > 
> 
> Internal hard disks are part of the "system" environment and it is
> considered a security risk to allow automounting.
> 
> I have this situation as well.  By adding the 'user' option in fstab,
> the automount works, but that's the only way I've found to get it to
> work.
> 
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Oh, well... I imagined it was something like that. Thanx for 
replying ... ;)

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Re: Mini 10v

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 10:38:40AM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Wed,23.Sep.09, 22:47:04, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > > How about a PIII-500 machine with 384 MB RAM running from an 1GB USB
> > > stick?
> > 
> > Machines with much smaller memory and slower processor were used as
> > departmental mail servers not that long ago.  Believe me, it's a no
> > brainer.  I run postfix on my Neo Freerunner (128MB RAM) and haven't
> > noticed it being a problem.  If you don't use it, the kernel will swap
> > it out.
> 
> - because it's on a stick it has no swap
> - this machine is good enough for the typical MPEG-4 movies (on my 
>   hi-res TV), but I don't want to risk skips in the middle of the movie 
>   just because postfix is running it's queue or whatever.

What if Kmail / Claws / Evolution decides to run its queue?

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Re: Mini 10v

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 09:40:41PM +, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 07:06:34PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> > On Wed,23.Sep.09, 10:52:09, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> > > 
> > > All UNIX and Linux boxes should have an MTA.  It doesn't always need to 
> > > listen 
> > > on 25 or 587, but both postfix and exim4 support that.
> > 
> > How about a PIII-500 machine with 384 MB RAM running from an 1GB USB 
> > stick?  I prefer using the resources for mpd, rtorrent, ... than a MTA 
> > which is only needed when cron has errors.
> 
> Postfix: installed size of 3196.
> exim: 3685 (exim4, exim4-base, exim4-daemon-light, exim4-config
> 
> Compare that to gdm (15215), perl (18304), python2.5 (10752) and others.
> 
> If you run from a compressed system, the compressed size is more
> relevant, and thus you're more interested in the package sizes. In which
> case they are:
> 
> Postfix: 1270
> Exim: 1760
> 
> As for memory usage: my system has much more memory consumed by bash and
> vim processes than by postfix processes. Though the main memory consumer
> is by far iceweaser, and pidgin, gajim and xchat are following. I don't
> really worry about the resources used by a few little postfix processes.
> 
> Again: there is a real value in an MTA that can queue mail and deliver
> it when your system is once again connected to the network. If you think
> this queueing should be done by the mailers themselves, that's fine. But
> it means they have to be made extra smart and aware of the configuration
> of the system. I rather let the system be aware of the configuration of
> the system.

Thinking about it again: Kmail, Evolution, and such can't really tell
what's in the queue of the local sendmail. Let alone kick a message from
there. 

Postfix's mailq is something any local user can use. But there's a limit
to the amount of details it can provide. I'm not sure of the mainlers
can make up a useful display of that.

Exim's queue display commands (I don't remember them) require super-user
permissions but provide slightly better control of the details and
sorting order, IIRC.

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Fw: EJABBERD INTEGRADO CON LDAP

[cosme]

Hola a todos

He seguido tratando de integrar los usuarios del Active directory con 
ejabberd pero nada de nada.


Alguine puede decirme algo???

He probado con varias configuraciones pero no hace nada, cuando hago 
dpgk-reconfigure que me pide nombre del servidor y contraseña para el 
usuario administrador y despues le agrego la parte concerniente a la 
configuracion de LDAP y reinicio, me levamta el http://myIP:5280/admin 
pero cuando le pongo la contraseña que le di para el administrador 
entonces no me acepta ninguna, realmente no tengo idea de que estoy 
haciendo mal.


Uso windows server 2003 R2 y debian etch

Alguna idea






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Re: Debian vs. ATI Radeon x1650

[Kelly Clowers]

On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 10:22, JoeHill  wrote:
>
> Yes, get an NVidia card and your troubles will be over forever. I have never
> once been unable to get an NVidia card working, and I've been using them with
> Linux for about 8 years.

That's fine, I guess, but personally I will never buy Nvidia until they
release open drivers and/or docs. To paraphrase RMS, "Don't buy
from Nvidia, enemy of your Freedom"

In any case, the drivers for Radeon are about as good, quality-wise,
as Nvidia drivers nowadays. Of course there can still be individual
problems with either one.

On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 10:03, thveillon.debian
 wrote:
>
> Ubuntu tends to make the use of proprietary drivers "transparent" to
> users, so maybe you where using "fglrx" there and not in Debian ?

The Radeon drivers are easier to configure than the fglrx drivers,
and fglrx is only available in Ubuntu if you install restricted drivers.


Dominik, do any errors show up in /var/log/Xorg.0.log?


Cheers,
Kelly Clowers


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Re: EJABBERD INTEGRADO CON LDAP

[cosme]

Es feo pero muy feo hacer cross posting."" , ah sí !!  y que es lindo para 
él o los que dijeron esto???   me interesa un carajo lo que 
piensen, a palabras necias oidos sordos.


Estas listas es para indagar, aprender o para estar criticando y comiendo 
mierda??


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From: "cosme" 
To: ; "brownh" ; 
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Cc: "Discusion de Linux en Castellano" ; 
; ; 

Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2009 3:38 PM
Subject: Fw: EJABBERD INTEGRADO CON LDAP



Hola a todos

He seguido tratando de integrar los usuarios del Active directory con 
ejabberd pero nada de nada.


Alguine puede decirme algo???

He probado con varias configuraciones pero no hace nada, cuando hago 
dpgk-reconfigure que me pide nombre del servidor y contraseña para el 
usuario administrador y despues le agrego la parte concerniente a la 
configuracion de LDAP y reinicio, me levamta el http://myIP:5280/admin 
pero cuando le pongo la contraseña que le di para el administrador 
entonces no me acepta ninguna, realmente no tengo idea de que estoy 
haciendo mal.


Uso windows server 2003 R2 y debian etch

Alguna idea 




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Re: Lightweight alternative MTA? [was: Re: Starting MTA:]

[Mike McClain]

Hi Osamu,
Thanks for the response. I really don't get it when it comes to mail.
MTA/MDA/MUA are kind of confusing, if you know where I can find a 2 page
explanation of email I'd really like to read it.
I use /usr/bin/mail, mutt, fetchmail and exim4.

The man page for /usr/bin/mail claims it's a "mail processing system".
Mutt is an MUA.
Fetchmail's man page claims, 'mail-retrieval and forwarding utility'.
Exim4's manpage claims it's an MTA, but fetchmail's manpage refers to
exim as an MDA.

How does /usr/bin/mail know to put outbound mail in /var/spool/exim4/input?
I killed the exim daemon and mail still puts mail in .../exim4/input
even though 'exim4/input' doesn't appear in any file in /etc/ or
root's environment.

> > When I tried this and the mail stopped getting delivered until I
> > restored /etc/default/exim4.
> 
> Are you talking about delivering to external hosts?

No, rather fetchmail failed since there was no connection on port 25.

> Sure, that what you did unless you run some explicit command, cron script or 
> hook script.

Would you restate this another way? I'm not understanding it.

> 
> daemon has 2 functionalities:
>  (1) listening to port 25 (SMTP) to get connected from external hosts.
>  (2) pushing out queued messages to hosts.
> 
> You certainly do not need (1) 

OK, fetchmail's manpage gives examples for connecting directly to procmail
and sendmail but not exim and exim4's 30 page/60 screen manpage said nothing
about it's return value on disk full and I didn't see anything to suggest
how to take input directly from fetchmail.
Further exploration shows that sendmail is actually a link to exim so
I guess that would work but I saw in another thread that cron's messages
won't get delivered if there's no MTA deamon running. True?

> but you still need to do (2) if you wish
> to send mail to external host via local mail system like exim or
> postfix.  (If you configure MUA to connect to external MTA directly this
> is not issue.)
> 
> Simple fix is to use queueonly or ppp instead.  (Since you are dialup,
> ppp is more suitable to save fee.)

OK I set QUEUERUNNER='ppp' and the mail went out but there is still
an exim deamon running, not sure how that helped.

> 
> As I think of this for mutt, it may be easier to create shell script
> which runs "exim -q" or postfix's equivalent command when mutt
> terminates or receive SIGTERM etc.  
> 
> 
> Please note that we are talking laptop type use case. 
How would this differ from a desktop on dialup?

> 
>  * /usr/sbin/sendmail is available and it can work with /etc/aliases.
>  * log daemon may send some mail but to local user
>  * send messages via smarthost with 
>- the message submission port (587) or 
>- SMTP/SSL port (465)
>  * receive messages via ISP using getmail or fetchmail with
>- POP3 (110) or 
>- TLS/POP3 port (995).
> 
> Quite likely, you have cron or daemon doing POP3. I use cron to run
> getmail every 15 min when IP connection is active.  I could stop exim
> and run it from similar script.
> 
  
No, I just have a script that connects if not already connected
then runs exim4 -qqff and fetchmail then shuts down the connection
if it opened it.

Thanks aagin,
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Re: Debian vs. ATI Radeon x1650

[John Hasler]

JoeHill  wrote:
> Yes, get an NVidia card and your troubles will be over forever.

Not if you have a GeForce 6800 GS.
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Re: Re: Purging config file of removed package

[Michael]

  dpkg --purge


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Re: Lightweight alternative MTA? [was: Re: Starting MTA:]

[Nate Bargmann]

I save myself a lot of pain and use the esmtp package with Mutt.  It
handles sending mail to my ISP and I don't need sophisticated local
delivery so it works for me.  I wandered back into Exim land earlier
this year and it wasn't pretty.

- Nate >>

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