Re: DO NOT UPGRADE UNSTABLE: Terminal text stops functioning

[Adam Warner]

Hi Geordie Birch,

> FWIW, I have version 2.85-5 of initscripts, sysvinit, and sysv-rc
> installed and am not having any problems re. terminal output.

Upon standard bootup into a terminal it appears that output ceases before
the INIT: Entering Runlevel : 2 message but will start up again if the
kernel sends a message to the terminal.

This could explain how you were still able to see the login. I suspect if
you look harder at your terminal output you will see some of it is
missing. You could be fortunate that a kernel message restarted the
terminal output. On my third system output had also fully ceased in single 
user mode just like the rest. But when booting normally it restarted after
a while when the parport module produced output.

Perhaps one of the upgraded scripts contains an XOFF (CTRL-S) character
code.

Regards,
Adam


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Re: DO NOT UPGRADE UNSTABLE: Terminal text stops functioning

[Adam Warner]

Hi Geordie Birch,

>> > The bug is most likely caused by initscripts, sysvinit or sysv-rc. If
>> > you have upgraded you may wish to downgrade/wait for a fix before
>> > rebooting, especially if your computer doesn't automatically boot into
>> > X.
>> 
>> I have confirmed that downgrading to initscripts_2.85-4.1_all.deb 
>> sysv-rc_2.85-4.1_all.deb and sysvinit_2.85-4.1_i386.deb will resolve the
>> lack of terminal output.
>> 
>> I am submitting a bug report for the initscripts package, soon to appear
>> here: 
> 
> FWIW, I have version 2.85-5 of initscripts, sysvinit, and sysv-rc 
> installed and am not having any problems re. terminal output.

FWIW this has also happened on a third system. I am running out of
additional computers to break.

Regards,
Adam


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Re: DO NOT UPGRADE UNSTABLE: Terminal text stops functioning

[Adam Warner]

Hi Geordie Birch,

> On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 06:14:01PM +1200, Adam Warner wrote:
>> I wrote:
>> 
>> > The bug is most likely caused by initscripts, sysvinit or sysv-rc. If
>> > you have upgraded you may wish to downgrade/wait for a fix before
>> > rebooting, especially if your computer doesn't automatically boot into
>> > X.
>> 
>> I have confirmed that downgrading to initscripts_2.85-4.1_all.deb 
>> sysv-rc_2.85-4.1_all.deb and sysvinit_2.85-4.1_i386.deb will resolve the
>> lack of terminal output.
>> 
>> I am submitting a bug report for the initscripts package, soon to appear
>> here: <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=initscripts>
> 
> FWIW, I have version 2.85-5 of initscripts, sysvinit, and sysv-rc 
> installed and am not having any problems re. terminal output.

Just to confirm, your system boots into a terminal by default, you
rebooted your computer and all text was displayed at the terminal
including the login prompt?

How about if you boot into single-user mode? (you should be able to do
this by entering "linux single" (without the quotation marks) at the lilo
prompt).

Regards,
Adam


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Re: DO NOT UPGRADE UNSTABLE: Terminal text stops functioning

[Adam Warner]

I wrote:

> The bug is most likely caused by initscripts, sysvinit or sysv-rc. If
> you have upgraded you may wish to downgrade/wait for a fix before
> rebooting, especially if your computer doesn't automatically boot into
> X.

I have confirmed that downgrading to initscripts_2.85-4.1_all.deb 
sysv-rc_2.85-4.1_all.deb and sysvinit_2.85-4.1_i386.deb will resolve the
lack of terminal output.

I am submitting a bug report for the initscripts package, soon to appear
here: 

Regards,
Adam


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DO NOT UPGRADE UNSTABLE: Terminal text stops functioning

[Adam Warner]

Hi all,

Since upgrading to the latest unstable I have discovered that after my
startup reaches "Setting up X socket server directory ..." that I get no
further output at the terminal. I have confirmed this on two different
computers.

Neither the computers nor keyboards are locked up. I am able to boot into
single user mode and then blindly type in my root password at what should
be the request for a root password and then blindly type reboot and the
system reboots.

I have recently upgraded:
dialog_0.9b-20030720-1_i386.deb
base-files_3.0.9_i386.deb
initscripts_2.85-5_all.deb
sysvinit_2.85-5_i386.deb
sysv-rc_2.85-5_all.deb
libsasl2_2.1.15-3_i386.deb
apt_0.5.6_i386.deb
apt-utils_0.5.6_i386.deb
ilisp_5.12.0+cvs.2003.07.20_all.deb
ilisp-doc_5.12.0+cvs.2003.07.20_all.deb
po-debconf_0.7.0_all.deb
libncurses5_5.3.20030719-1_i386.deb
libncurses5-dev_5.3.20030719-1_i386.deb
ncurses-base_5.3.20030719-1_all.deb
ncurses-bin_5.3.20030719-1_i386.deb
autotools-dev_20030717.1_all.deb
libsasl7_1.5.28-5_i386.deb
base-config_1.67_all.deb
libnewt0.51_0.51.4-14_i386.deb
whiptail_0.51.4-14_i386.deb

The bug is most likely caused by initscripts, sysvinit or sysv-rc. If you
have upgraded you may wish to downgrade/wait for a fix before rebooting,
especially if your computer doesn't automatically boot into X.

Regards,
Adam


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Re: Debian kernel-source-2.4.20 ext3 data corruption bug (in a non-default mode)

[Adam Warner]

Hi Marcin Fusinski,

> Greetings!
> 
> Is Debian package kernel-source-2.4.20 affected by the (limited) ext3
> data corruption bug or had it been fixed/patched (optimisation of
> data-ordered inodes only) before the package was released?

Since no working fix has been provided to the Linux Kernel mailing list
that is very doubtful (did you check the /usr/share/doc/... directory?):
http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0212.0/0012.html

It only affects "journal" mode. If you use the default ("ordered") mode
you're safe.

I suspect 2.4.21 won't be far away.

Regards,
Adam



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Re: audio problem restated

[Adam Warner]

Hi Bruce Park,

> When I run XMMS from the shell, I get this error: libmikmod.so.2: cannot
> open shared object file: No such file or directory

Bruce, head off to http://packages.debian.org and type libmikmod.so.2 in
"Search the contents of packages". Click search and you'll find the
library is supplied by libmikmod2. "apt-get install libmikmod2" and the
annoying error message will go away.

Regards,
Adam



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Finding out how fragmented an ext3 journal is

[Adam Warner]

Hi all,

Some advice is listed here on how to find out how fragmented an ext3
journal is (a small concern for those who have upgraded a heavily
fragmented ext2 partition to ext3):
https://listman.redhat.com/pipermail/ext3-users/2001-November/002152.html

One is told: `use "debugfs" to find the inode number of the journal, and
then stat '.

I've just used tune2fs -l /dev/hda1 to find out the journal inode number.
But how do you supply an inode number to stat? It appears you can only
supply a file or filesystem, and the ext3 journal occupies a hidden inode
(it doesn't exist as /.journal).

Thanks,
Adam



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Re: Uninstall X

[Adam Warner]

Hi Dominic Iadicicco,

> Does anyone know how to unistall Xfree86?  Without using deselect.
> Example deleting files and links and so forth...

You work out what packages install X and then "remove --purge" them (purge
also removes any custom configuration info).

This is probably a good start:

apt-get remove --purge 'xfree*' 'xserver*' 'xfonts*' -s

Because this is Debian you don't need a book/tutorial on how to remove X
specifically. You just need to understand the package management system.

I added the -s above so apt will simulate what's going to happen instead
of actually doing anything.

Remember [Shift]+PageUp allows you to scroll back to read text that has
scrolled off the screen.

Regards,
Adam



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Re: List of purged packages?

[Adam Warner]

Hi Colin Watson,

> OK, you're right that it's not the default state, sorry. That's not the
> whole story though:
> 
>   $ grep-status -nsPackage -FStatus 'purge ok not-installed' | wc -l
> 10312
> 
> The first word in the Status: line is the "want" status (as the dpkg
> sources call it), and describes the desired state of the package: so
> "purge" there doesn't mean it's currently purged, but that you've
> selected it to be purged.

Agreed. This must have all happened after I tried to import my package
selections from another computer. The apt-get dselect-upgrade tried to
install extra packages as well that I had never requested (probably due to
recommends). So I ended up doing it all using apt-get like I'm used to.

> A desired state of 'unknown' is how dselect tells the difference between
> new packages and packages it's seen before. Thus a single run through
> dselect's [S]elect screen causes everything on the system to be marked
> either as want_install or want_purge.

Ah. That explains it. This is not good as there should be a way to
distinguish between packages that have been purged and packages that have
never been installed.
 
> I use dselect on all the systems I run, so I tend to forget that the
> want_unknown state exists.

Understood. BTW the computer does have a faulty hard disk that I'm just
about to remove. However it is not the boot hard disk where the package
database resides.

Thanks for the explanation.

Regards,
Adam



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Re: List of purged packages?

[Adam Warner]

Hi Colin Watson,

> On Mon, Sep 09, 2002 at 04:01:45AM +1200, Adam Warner wrote:
>> Is there a way to obtain a straight list of purged packages?

> You can set the COLUMNS variable to something large (e.g. 200) to avoid
> this. Alternatively, you can use grep-status from the grep-dctrl
> package, with something like this:
> 
>   grep-status -nsPackage -FStatus 'purge ok not-installed' | sort

Wow! What a treasure of a program. Debian's very own package grep.
 
>> Something strange has happened to one of my package databases. It lists
>> 307 packages as being purged. I'd like to reset the purged names using:
>> echo " unknown" | dpkg --set-selections
>> 
>> To do this I just need a straight list of the purged packages.
> 
> The above isn't really what you want then. Purged is the default state,
> and if you ask for everything in the pn state then you'll get almost all
> packages. Could you describe in a little more detail what your problem
> is, so we can come up with something more useful?

Purged is not the default state! Unknown (u) and not installed (n) is
(un). For example only 5 purged packages exist on my main computer:

grep-status -nsPackage -FStatus 'purge ok not-installed' | wc
  5   5  78

Purged is the state after a package has been installed and then removed by
--purge (which removes the package and all configuration files).

I have not installed and then purged 307 packages on the system so it
looks like data corruption (or perhaps a misapplication of dselect). The
hard disk is failing (it can't read sectors and I get kernel error
messages such as "journal_bmap_Rcee9a639: journal block not found at
offset 13 on ide1(22,1)") so data corruption is a definite possibility.

Thanks again for your help.

Regards,
Adam



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List of purged packages?

[Adam Warner]

Hi all,

Is there a way to obtain a straight list of purged packages?

The only unsatisfactory way I known of at present is:
dpkg -l '*' | grep -i 'pn  '

However this cuts off package names.

Something strange has happened to one of my package databases. It lists
307 packages as being purged. I'd like to reset the purged names using:
echo " unknown" | dpkg --set-selections

To do this I just need a straight list of the purged packages.

Thanks,
Adam



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Anyone tried out the plex86 Debian packages to install Windows 2000?

[Adam Warner]

As per the subject I'd be interesting to know whether anyone has been
sucessful in installing Windows 2000 as a guest OS and whether there are
any specific limitations (like only being able to run in 16 colour VGA
mode).

Thanks,
Adam


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Re: How can I find out what package contains the Gnome dictionaty aplet?

[Adam Warner]

On Wed, 2002-03-20 at 23:52, stan wrote: 
> Somewhere along the line, one of my dslect upgrades must have removed the 
> Gnome dictionary aplet, but I cna't seem to find it in the dselect list.
> 
> Is there a tool that I can use to search the avaialble packages & see
> what package conyains this?

http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages#search_contents

It's gdict by the way. 

$ apt-cache search dict | less 
$ apt-cache show gdict 

I tried: 
apt-cache search dict | grep -i 'gnome' 

But that failed because it is listed as a GTK application: 

$ apt-cache search dict | grep -i 'gtk' 
gdict - small GTK app to retrieve definitions from MIT's dictionary
server 
gidic - A simple GTK Dictionary 
pydict - an English/Chinese Dictionary written with python/gtk 
wordinspect - GTK-based Dictionary Client 

Regards, 
Adam

Re: Functionality compiled into a Debian kernel?

[Adam Warner]

On Thu, 2002-03-14 at 22:53, Martin Wuertele wrote:
> Hi Adam!
> 
> On Thu, 14 Mar 2002, Adam Warner wrote:
> 
> > Just a quick question: I'd like to move to a Debian woody kernel image
> > but wish to find out whether HPT366 hardware support has been compiled
> > into the image so that my computer will continue to boot.
> > 
> > Some install disks on the Debian archive include a transcript of the
> > kernel compile options. Is this kind of info available for Debian kernel
> > images?
> 
> download the debian package, extract the files into a temp dir (dpkg -x)
> and check the config file

Thanks for the tip! I:

1. apt-get install --download-only kernel-image-2.4.18-686-smp
2. dpkg -x
/var/cache/apt/archives/kernel-image-2.4.18-686-smp_2.4.18-1_i386.deb .
3. less boot/config-2.4.18-686-smp

And it is indeed good news: CONFIG_BLK_DEV_HPT366=y.

Regards,
Adam

Re: soundcard use as non-root

[Adam Warner]

On Thu, 2002-03-14 at 23:05, Crispin Wellington wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-03-14 at 16:54, George Teodor wrote:
> > I have an ess1868 soundcard which works fine but only logged in as root.
> > I can't make it work as user.I'm using potato. Any solutions?
> 
> Add the users that are allowed to access the sound card to the 'audio'
> group. Edit /etc/groups and add the usernames comma seperated at the end
> of the line for audio

Or marginally easier. Type as root:

adduser  audio

[See man adduser. It's the fourth syntax: adduser [options] user group]

Regards,
Adam

Functionality compiled into a Debian kernel?

[Adam Warner]

Hi all,

Just a quick question: I'd like to move to a Debian woody kernel image
but wish to find out whether HPT366 hardware support has been compiled
into the image so that my computer will continue to boot.

Some install disks on the Debian archive include a transcript of the
kernel compile options. Is this kind of info available for Debian kernel
images?

Thanks,
Adam

Re: Reiserfs

[Adam Warner]

On Mon, 2002-02-11 at 21:36, Oki DZ wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I had the following from dmesg:
> vs-13042: reiserfs_read_inode2: [4148 16361 0x0 SD] not found
> vs-13048: reiserfs_iget: bad_inode. Stat data of (4148 16361) not found
> vs-13048: reiserfs_iget: bad_inode. Stat data of (4148 16361) not found
> vs-13048: reiserfs_iget: bad_inode. Stat data of (4148 16361) not found
> 
> What should I do?
> reiserfsck?
> badblocks and feed the output into mkreiserfs? (please, not this one)
> 
> bdg:~# dmesg | grep reiser
> reiserfs: checking transaction log (device 08:01) ...
> reiserfs: using 3.5.x disk format
> bdg:~# uname -a
> Linux bdg 2.4.4 #6 Wed May 30 08:30:57 JAVT 2001 i686 unknown

Best advice would come from the reiserfs mailing list:
http://www.namesys.com/mailinglist.html

I have had good success with reiserfsck. If it's your boot partition you
will need to static compile reiserfsck so you can run it from a floppy.

You should not still be using 2.4.4 if you're using ReiserFS. A
multitude of bugs have been fixed since then. A number of bugs are still
being fixed in the 2.4.17-pre series so upgrade to 2.4.18 when it comes
out.

This search of the mailing list archive might also help:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=reiserfs&w=2&r=1&s=reiserfs+iget%3A+bad+inode&q=t

Regards,
Adam

Re: Gnumeric print bug

[Adam Warner]

On Tue, 2002-01-22 at 23:14, Johann Spies wrote:

> Is there perhaps an older version availaible which can still print?
> Where would I get that?

I filed a bug report detailing a work around:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?archive=no\&bug=129417

Hope that helps. If the older packages are no longer available in
Jonann's /var/cache/apt/archive can someone please let him (and I) know
where obsolete packages are archived (that must require many, many, many
gigabytes of storage).

Regards,
Adam

Re: Blank Text GNOME Print/Print Preview Workaround

[Adam Warner]

On Wed, 2002-01-16 at 12:31, Adam Warner wrote:
> Packages: libgnomeprint-data, libgnomeprint-bin, libgnomeprint15
> Version: 0.34-2

Here is the bug report if you want to track progress:
http://bugs.debian.org/129417
   ^If you stick anything here like a bug number or
a package name you are instantly directed to the correct URI!

[Don't worry I now realise cc'ing debian-user was dumb. I should have
submitted the bug report and then let debian-user know about the
workaround, resulting in only one post to debian-user. Plus there would
be no chance of people replying to [EMAIL PROTECTED] by mistake,
which we don't want to happen. Sorry]

Regards,
Adam

Blank Text GNOME Print/Print Preview Workaround

[Adam Warner]

Packages: libgnomeprint-data, libgnomeprint-bin, libgnomeprint15
Version: 0.34-2

Refer:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?archive=no\&bug=128378

Hi all,

I have discovered that reverting to the 0.32-4 versions of
libgnomeprint-data, libgnomeprint-bin and libgnomeprint15 fixes the
problem where blank text appears in print previews in applications such
as gnumeric and evolution.

The trick is that you must PURGE the original packages. The workaround
goes like this:

dpkg --purge --force-all libgnomeprint-data
dpkg --purge --force-all libgnomeprint-bin
dpkg --purge --force-all libgnomeprint15

cd /var/cache/apt/archives/

dpkg --install libgnomeprint-data_0.32-4_all.deb
dpkg --install libgnomeprint-bin_0.32-4_i386.deb
dpkg --install libgnomeprint15_0.32-4_i386.deb

This step will allow you to keep the working packages on hold until the
fixed ones become available:

echo "libgnomeprint-data hold" | dpkg --set-selections
echo "libgnomeprint-bin hold" | dpkg --set-selections
echo "libgnomeprint15 hold" | dpkg --set-selections

Regards,
Adam

Re: Gnome printing is broken in unstable

[Adam Warner]

> Thanks
> Neilen
> 
> Yes there is a bug. I have reproduced the same problem. Change the font
> from Helvetica to Arial and print preview/printing starts working again
> from Gnumeric.

If people are following this issue the bug report Neilen made is here:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?archive=no\&bug=128378

The result so far:

   I am sending the following info to the bts, as requested by J.H.M. 
   Dassen.

   He is of the opinion that the problem lies with gnome-print, and not 
   gnumeric. He requested that I point out the issues to Christian 
   Marillat, so I am attaching a copy to him.

   Executive summary: I get no output when I print in gnumeric, and a 
   whole lot of assertions to stdout. The details are below.

   Thanks
   Neilen

Re: Gnome printing is broken in unstable

[Adam Warner]

On Tue, 2002-01-15 at 17:58, Adam Warner wrote: 
> Hi all,
> 
> I'd suggest you don't upgrade unstable until GNOME printing is sorted
> out. I upgraded a number of packages and all I get is blank text on
> printing and in print preview in Gnome applications such as Evolution
> and Gedit.
> 
> I've got one more computer to upgrade. I'll try and isolate which
> package or packages need to be reverted in order to restore printing.
> Then I'll file a bug report.

The problem didn't exhibit itself on my other system. I have discovered
that this is because of the fonts I had already selected for printing in
the HTML viewing section of control panel. I do no see blank text using
Arial and Courier New.

By selecting Arial and Courier New for printing on this system I was
able to overcome the blank text problem.

Is anyone else able to reproduce this?


I have CCed this to Neilen Marais <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. See his post of 9
January:


From:   Neilen Marais <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject:Can no longer print in gnome apps using libgnomeprint
Date:   09 Jan 2002 03:44:27 +0200  
Hi

Recently I have been unable to print in gnumeric.  It just gives blank
output, in the preview, and in the postscript output.  Balsa, which also
uses libgnomeprint just segfaults if I try to print something.

In both gnumeric, and balsa, I get a whole bunch of the flowwing errors
to stdout:

** WARNING **: file gnome-font-face.c: line 572: Face Helvetica: Cannot
load face

** CRITICAL **: file gnome-font-face.c: line 609 (gff_load): assertion
`ft_result == FT_Err_Ok' failed.

** WARNING **: file gnome-font-face.c: line 306: Face Helvetica: Cannot
load face

** CRITICAL **: file gnome-font-face.c: line 609 (gff_load): assertion
`ft_result == FT_Err_Ok' failed.

** WARNING **: file gnome-font-face.c: line 572: Face Helvetica: Cannot
load face

** CRITICAL **: file gnome-font-face.c: line 609 (gff_load): assertion
`ft_result == FT_Err_Ok' failed.

** WARNING **: file gnome-font-face.c: line 306: Face Helvetica: Cannot
load face


I am running mostly woody, with a bit of sid.  My gnome packages are
from woody though, except that I installed gnumeric and libgnomeprint15
from sid to see if it helps.  Sam problem though.  Distributions recent
as of about 2 days ago.

Any ideas?  Should I file a bug?

Thanks
Neilen


Yes there is a bug. I have reproduced the same problem. Change the font
from Helvetica to Arial and print preview/printing starts working again
from Gnumeric.

Which packages are at fault people? libgnomeprint?

Regards,
Adam

Gnome printing is broken in unstable

[Adam Warner]

Hi all,

I'd suggest you don't upgrade unstable until GNOME printing is sorted
out. I upgraded a number of packages and all I get is blank text on
printing and in print preview in Gnome applications such as Evolution
and Gedit.

I've got one more computer to upgrade. I'll try and isolate which
package or packages need to be reverted in order to restore printing.
Then I'll file a bug report.

Regards,
Adam

Re: 2.2r4 CD not recognising Ultra100 TX2 controller

[Adam Warner]

Thanks for the First Monday link Adam. It was lucky I was aware of it
and had printed it out (well most of it, some of the larger tables are
still too large in landscape).

On Wed, 2001-12-19 at 03:24, Adam Bogacki wrote:
> Adam, I'm sorry if my last message was a bit unfocused: a wisdom 
> tooth extraction had just ended up with the top spectacularly
> breaking off leaving the roots in the gum. Antibiotics and painkillers
> aside, maxillo-facial surgeons are a bit thin on the ground 
> at this time of year ... 
> 
> > > > hdc might be using a different controller unsupported by the install
> > > > disk? (unlikely)
> ..
> > > The controller is the Ultra 100TX2 by Promise Technology, Inc., 
> > > http://www.promise.com
> > > 
> > > Is there a problem with Deb install support ? (surely unlikely)
> > 
> > Surely unlikely?!? I don't even think ATA-100 controllers even existed
> > at the time the Debian install disks were created.
> 
> Hold on, 2.2r4 is the latest version and ATA-100 support has surely been
> included in the kernel ... (?)

Once you understand how Debian works Adam you will not be a surprise at
all.

2.2r4 is a point release (fourth revision) for the current stable Debian
release. This point release is based upon the 2.2 kernel. The 2.2 kernel
doesn't include ATA-100 support. A backport of the 2.4 kernel drivers
might be possible but it is highly unlikely the Debian team would
include them in a kernel that must be as stable as possible.

Even the next release of Debian will be based on the 2.2 kernel with the
ability to upgrade later. So your ATA-100 controller is unlikely to work
again.

That is why you may want to be on the lookout for custom install disks
that include support for your ATA-100 controller (like I can use the
ReiserFS UDMA66 install disks at DigitalTux.com).

However, it may be possible to get an older kernel to recognise your
controller in a compatibility mode. This is what I used to have to do
with my HPT366 controller (see the section "Enabling HPT366 without
UDMA/66 support"):

http://www.csie.ntu.edu.tw/~b6506063/hpt366/

Then I would later upgrade my kernel. This procedure may be directly
applicable to your controller.

Another way is to install onto another controller. Then move the disk to
the other controller after you upgraded the kernel and changed lilo.conf
and ran lilo.

You might also be happier investigating another distribution like RedHat
who have a tendency to use the latest available kernels in their more
frequent releases.

> P.S. I'm having problems with my ISP: the number of local calls charged
> for seems to have blown out by a factor of 10 and I'm fairly sure I did not
> make them.

Per unit residential calling charges are typically zero in NZ. Fixed
monthly rental.

If you're having trouble with your modem dialing set the volume of the
dial loud so you can hear it happening and just unplug it while you try
and diagnose the problem.

Regards,
Adam

Re: Fonts->Rectangles,Install with separate controller.

[Adam Warner]

On Fri, 2001-12-14 at 17:51, Adam Bogacki wrote:

> Any backup tips ? I wrote an M.A.(Hons) thesis on a CP/M based
> MicroBee, copying everything to a separate floppy kept in a safe place.
> I have, to date, not had the same need in Linux but it is an issue
> I will have to get on top of ... I have a number of blank CD's I
> have not started using. What is the appropriate CD burning deb ?

Start using Google, Google Groups and linxudoc.org

In this case you'll want to read the CD Writing HOWTO:
http://linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/CD-Writing-HOWTO.html

> ... & what are the relative merits of using tape ?

I don't know.

> I'm now using XF86Config but would happily upgrade to v.4 if it could be
> done painlessly.

You would research to see if XFree86 4.1.0 supports your video card.
 
> > > I'm currently running a dual boot system with Win98 on hda (20G)
> > > and Woody (10G) on hdb. I have also installed a removable 40G HD
> > > on which I plan to install Potato 2.2r4 and use it as a home server.
> > > My idea was to get it up as 'hdc' and then do a 'dist-upgrade' on hdb,
> > > having something as a backup in case things go wrong. 
> > > 
> > > I have been through the Debian install process a few times
> > > but on this occasion I find that it does not seem to be recognising
> > > 'hdc'. A few screens into the process. when it asks me about
> > > partitions, it assumes that I am on 'hdb'. I might be wrong, but
> > > when I installed it on hdb, it seemed to automagically recognise
> > > it.
> > > 
> > hdc might be using a different controller unsupported by the install
> > disk? (unlikely)
> 
> That might be a valid point. 'hdc' is on a separate controller:
> at the time it was put in I had ideas of 'RAID'ing hdb and hdc
> - I had read that it is a limitation of the IDE/ATAPI protocol
> that simultaneous read/writes cannot be done to two different drives by
> the same controller.
> 
> The controller is the Ultra 100TX2 by Promise Technology, Inc., 
> http://www.promise.com
> 
> Is there a problem with Deb install support ? (surely unlikely)

Surely unlikely?!? I don't even think ATA-100 controllers even existed
at the time the Debian install disks were created.

I doubt the ReiserFS UDMA-66 install disks would even support it either.

That will be the reason why the installer cannot see the controller.

> > You computer many not be able to boot from the second hard disk
> > controller? (likely)
>  
> The Ultra100 TX2 manual has a 'Troubleshooting' section re. 
> "any difficulties with the hard drive being recognised by the card" 
> but it all seems to be within the Win/DOS tradition. 
> 
> It refers to the 'Ultra100 TX2 BIOS' but I have seen no sign of it. 
> How do I access it ? 

Try Google or Google Groups. 

No luck there? try posting (for example) to the newsgroups
comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage or comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage

You are expecting a lot of specific hardware knowledge from a general
Debian User mailing list. If you're lucky you might hit the right
person.

> The only one which makes sense to me is
> 
> "PROBLEM: Miscellaneous problems such as the Ultra100 TX2 BIOS not
> appearing during boot, the ULTRA100 TX2 driver not loading, or slow data
> transfer rates.
> 
> SOLUTION: Move the Ultra100 TX2 to a different PCI slot."
> 
> Hmmm ... that implies taking the box back to the computer shop and
> (i.a.) asking why the supposedly 256MB RAM is only being recognised
> as 128MB by the system. I don't like hassling the techies if I can't
> fix it myself, but ...

This just implies trying the Ultra100 TX2 card in a different PCI slot!
No big deal. But if you're not technically inclined do take the box back
to the computer shop.

> > You might want to try out one of these sets of boot disks (e.g. if you
> > want to install a ReisferFS file system on your boot partition):
> > 
> > http://www.digitaltux.com/
> 
> I've thought about that. There is someone on www.debian.org offering
> a bootleg ReiserFS but I want hdc to be a very stable server.
> I understand that Mandrake and RH now have it and I'm waiting for
> it to be debianised. Would installing it on the boot partition 
> compromise anything ?

You say "I understand that Mandrake and RH now have it". But I just
pointed you to Debian ReiserFS install disks--so Debian has it too. In
fact installing a boot ReiserFS partition has been easy on Debian before
it ever became easy on Redhat.

But your concerns and questions indicate that you would be best to stick
to whatever is standard before experimenting further.

Good luck!

Regards,
Adam

Re: Fwd: Gnome panel fonts replaced by rectangles.

[Adam Warner]

On Thu, 2001-12-13 at 01:26, Adam Bogacki wrote:
> Adam,
> 
>   your solution (link below) states ...
> 
> "Greg reports his problems were fixed by adding
> "/usr/share/fonts/type1/gsfonts" to the "@default_paths" of
> "/usr/share/doc/libgnomeprint-data/run-gnome-font-install"
> and then running
> "sh /var/lib/dpkg/info/libgnomeprint-data.postinst configure" "
> 
> I tried to follow this solution as not only have all my gnome fonts been
> changed to rectangles but attempts to print have resulted in alternating
> black and blank bands. 'libgnomeprint' seems to be the culprit.
> 
> Unfortunately, attempts to enter the
> "/usr/share/doc/libgnomeprint-data/run-gnome-font-install" directory
> received the response
> 
> "bash: cd: run-gnome-font-install: Not a directory." and
> "mkdir: 'run-gnome-font-install' exists but is not a directory."

Sounds like it's a file!
cd /usr/share/doc/libgnomeprint-data/
And there will hopefully be a file called run-gnome-font-install

But it doesn't exist on this computer. Anywhere.

So what distribution are you running Adam (stable, testing, unstable?)

My guess is that if you are currently running testing or above an update
will solve your problems. have you done a recent (as root):

apt-get update
apt-get dist-upgrade -u

It may also be helpful to submit a bug report.

>From the changelog:

gnome-print (0.31-3) unstable; urgency=low

  * debian/libgnomeprint-data.postinst install fontmap in
/usr/share/gnome/fonts  * Change alias file for ghostscript fontmap in
run-gnome-font-install (Closes: #116969)
  * Install a gnome-print.fontmap (Closes: #116208, #116244)
  * Remove run-gnome-font-install
   

It looks like my advice was out of date.

Regards,
Adam

Re: Some advice to fix up my package database :-)

[Adam Warner]

On Fri, 2001-12-07 at 07:36, Joey Hess wrote:
> Adam Warner wrote:
> > I've been using alien for the first time today. Now I can't install any
> > package using apt-get (it might not be the alien packages but I thought
> > I should mention it).
> 
> No, nothing to do with alien.
> 
> >  files list file for package `libncurses5-dev' is missing final newline
> 
> It's posible that your /var/lib/dpkg/info/libncurses5-dev.list file is
> corrupt. Or it could just be missing a final newline at the end of the
> file. Like the other replies, I suggest trying to reinstall it. If dpkg
> won't let you reinstall it, you might need to edit that file first, make
> sure it has a final newline (and is not corrupt; it should just list the
> files and directories that are part of the package, one per line), and
> then reinstall it.



Thanks for the advice everyone (and where to find libncurses5-dev.list).
When I turn on my computer this morning the problem was gone! Packages
just installed and upgraded like normal! Nothing to repair. I've got a
self-healing computer :-)

And I don't now how to explain it. Possible dumb explanation follows:

I have an annoying problem using NFSv3 shares. If I have NFS shares
being exported and mounted on two workstations and shut down one of the
workstations the other one will hang at shutdown trying to unmount the
shares. So I just turned my computer off and to let ReiserFS fix any
transactions at boot. Perhaps a corrupted .list file was one of those
transactions that was reverted?

Regards,
Adam

Re: Fwd: Gnome panel fonts replaced by rectangles.

[Adam Warner]

On Fri, 2001-12-07 at 00:40, Adam Bogacki wrote:
> Any ideas on this one folks ?

http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2001/debian-user-200109/msg01284.html

The solution in my case:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2001/debian-user-200109/msg01470.html

Regards,
Adam

Re: Movie players in certain Linuxes , O God !

[Adam Warner]

On Thu, 2001-12-06 at 04:42, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> There are certain movie players in certain Linuxes ,
> that are horrendously pathetic .
> It is something like this :
> You see two hands , you hear some sound , and after 
> 5 minutes you see Silvester Stalllone ?

Check out mplayer:
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/

It is able to play most of the file formats you may be used to playing
under Windows. Just beware of the licensing implications of using
Windows DLLs under Linux.

You have to compile the application yourself.

Regards,
Adam

Some advice to fix up my package database :-)

[Adam Warner]

Hi all,

I've been using alien for the first time today. Now I can't install any
package using apt-get (it might not be the alien packages but I thought
I should mention it).

Before I make a real mess I thought I'd get some advice on the error
message:

apt-get install ucbmpeg-play
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  ucbmpeg-play 
0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 18  not
upgraded.
Need to get 0B/69.2kB of archives. After unpacking 177kB will be used.
(Reading database ... dpkg: error processing
/var/cache/apt/archives/ucbmpeg-play_2.3p-10.1_i386.deb (--unpack):
 files list file for package `libncurses5-dev' is missing final newline
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/ucbmpeg-play_2.3p-10.1_i386.deb
Processing was halted because there were too many errors.
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

The strange error message is:
files list file for package `libncurses5-dev' is missing final newline

This happens when trying to install any package.

I can't even do a dpkg --purge --force-all libncurses5-dev

I'm told "Processing was halted because there were too many errors" (the
same error message above).

Thanks,
Adam

Re: Don't use kernel 2.4.15/2.5.0 (fs corruption)

[Adam Warner]

On Sun, 2001-11-25 at 12:18, Craig Dickson wrote:
> Adam Warner wrote:
> 
> > I had rebooted multiple times trying to fix a halt problem. Everything
> > seems OK but it looks like I can't risk running reiserfsck anyway. I'm
> > probably going to have to wait until reiserfsck is improved.
> 
> Which sounds to me like a superb argument against using reiserfs...
> the tools just aren't mature yet.

I've just run reisferfsck 3.x.0k-pre10 (latest pre-release version
available) on all my reiserfs partitions. My home partition had zero
corruptions. That's impressive for solid use over many months.

I compiled a static version of reiserfsck to run from floppy (it links
to libc6 otherwise). I then checked my root partition. Running --check I
was told there were 3210 corruptions which can be fixed with
--fix-fixable. That might sound bad but they appeared to be mainly due
to an obsolete format that needed upgrading. Running --fix-fixable
indeed fixed everything.

It's impressive that reiserfsck was able to diagnose what switch should
solve any errors. A lengthy -rebuild-tree was not even necessary.

So the reiserfs tools are progressing well.

Regards,
Adam

Re: Don't use kernel 2.4.15/2.5.0 (fs corruption)

[Adam Warner]

On Sun, 2001-11-25 at 00:08, Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote:
> 
> I've seen some people here talking about the new 2.4.15/2.5.0 kernel.
> Please, don't use it. It'll cause some corruption on your filesystem
> when unmounting filesystems.

My optimism that 2.4.15 would finally be a good release was obviously
misplaced ("I have great hopes that 2.4.15 will be the first solid
release in a while and will compile without problems.")

A 2.4.16 kernel will very shortly be released. The new 2.4 kernel
maintainer, Marcelo Tosatti, states:
 
   So here it goes 2.4.16-pre1. Obviously the most important fix is the
   iput() one, which probably fixes the filesystem corruption problem people
   have been seeing.

   Please, people who have been experiencing the fs corruption problems test
   this and tell me its now working so I can release a final 2.4.16 ASAP.

   - Correctly sync inodes in iput()(Alexander Viro)
   - Make pagecache readahead size tunable via /proc(was in -ac tree)
   - Fix PPC kernel compilation problems(Paul Mackerras)

   ftp.xx.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/marcelo/2.4/testing/


I had rebooted multiple times trying to fix a halt problem. Everything
seems OK but it looks like I can't risk running reiserfsck anyway. I'm
probably going to have to wait until reiserfsck is improved. This is the
current message when running reiserfsck in fix mode:

   reiserfsck --rebuild-tree /dev/xxx

   <-reiserfsck, 2001->
   reiserfsprogs 3.x.0j


   This is an experimental version of reiserfsck, MAKE A BACKUP FIRST!
   Don't run this program unless something is broken. 
   Some types of random FS damage can be recovered
   from by this program, which basically throws away the internal nodes
   of the tree and then reconstructs them.  This program is for use only
   by the desperate, and is of only beta quality.  Email
   [EMAIL PROTECTED] with bug reports. 
   Will rebuild the filesystem tree
   Will put log info to 'stderr'
   Do you want to run this program?[N/Yes] (note need to type Yes):

Would you risk running it? (rhetorical question alert)

Regards,
Adam

2.4.15 is out (and so is 2.5.0!)

[Adam Warner]

After replying to Brian I thought I'd check out kernel.org.

I must be one of the first to know because bandwidth is still only
60Mb/s.

But this is also a surprise:

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.5/

Regards,
Adam

Re: Pre-install: hardware and kernel query

[Adam Warner]

On Fri, 2001-11-23 at 19:40, Brian Clark wrote:

> First, I have a feeling I'm going to burn for this one, but.. why is
> Debian (all versions?) not running 2.4 kernels? Please, please go
> easy.. :-)

There's a thread about this in debian-devel:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2001/debian-devel-200111/msg00891.html

I concur that 2.4 has been rocky. I have great hopes that 2.4.15 will be
the first solid release in a while and will compile without problems.
Loopback support doesn't compile under 2.4.14.

However you can already run a 2.4 kernel under Potato using Adrian
Bunk's packages:
http://www.fs.tum.de/~bunk/kernel-24.html

A 2.2 kernel can provide hardware challenges. I was lucky that
Reiserfs+backported UDMA boot disks were released for my hardware:

http://www.digitaltux.com/disks/reiserfs/udma/

I'm sure it's only a matter of time before unofficial Debian 2.4 kernel
boot disks are released to help those with hardware that requires a 2.4
kernel at install time.

Regards,
Adam

Re: Anyone else lost xmms, mq3, mp3blaster, freeamp, etc. sound in unstable?

[Adam Warner]

On Thu, 2001-11-22 at 16:53, Craig Dickson wrote:

> All hung while trying to open /dev/dsp. Killing esd resolves the
> problem. Which is fine with me, since I hate having my desktop
> environment play sounds for things like opening/closing windows,
> selecting menu items, and so on.
> 
> I just now went into the GNOME control center, and I find that the
> "Enable sound server startup" option under Multimedia has mysteriously
> become enabled; I had it turned off some time ago. I've turned it off,
> and things seem okay now.

Thanks for the analysis and (partial, I noticed one extra lockup)
workaround Craig.

Regards,
Adam

Anyone else lost xmms, mq3, mp3blaster, freeamp, etc. sound in unstable?

[Adam Warner]

Hi all, 

A recent upgrade must have stopped these programs from functioning and I
can't isolate it (when I say recent it could be at least 10 days since
I've tried running xmms, etc). 

Normal system sounds are playing fine. I just can't play audio using any
of the applications listed. There is no error message. xmms, mq3 and
freeamp just lock up (I installed mq3, freeamp and mp3blaster to check
that it wasn't just xmms causing the problem). 

My sound card's a SBPCI64 (ES1370) and support is compiled into my
kernel (2.4.15-pre4). 

This is under GNOME. I have found I can play an MP3 under KDE using
noatun. But xmms still locks up.

Possibly relevant packages:
dpkg -l | grep -i 'sound'
ii  esound 0.2.23-2   Enlightened Sound Daemon - Support binaries
ii  esound-common  0.2.23-2   Enlightened Sound Daemon - Common files
ii  libarts2.2.1-14   aRts Sound system
ii  libasound1 0.5.10-2.1 Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (libraries
ii  libesd00.2.23-2   Enlightened Sound Daemon - Shared libraries
ii  libesd0-dev0.2.23-2   Enlightened Sound Daemon - Development files
ii  libkmid2.2.1-14   aRts Sound system (midi/kmedia support libra
ii  libmikmod2 3.1.9-6A portable sound library
ii  sndconfig  0.57-6 Easy soundcard configuration
ii  sox12.17.2-1  A universal sound sample translator.
ii  vsound 0.5-3  Virtual loopback sound recorder and real aud

dpkg -l | grep -i 'mp3'
ii  libarts-mpegli 2.2.1-1.4  mpeglib is a mp3 and mpeg I video/audio libr
ii  libgmp33.1.1-12   Multiprecision arithmetic library
ii  mp3blaster 3.0-1  Full-screen console mp3 and ogg vorbis playe
ii  mpeglib2.2.1-1.4  mp3 and mpeg I video/audio library for linux
ii  mpg321 0.2.2.4A Free command-line mp3 player, compatible w
ii  mq38-8An mp3/ogg vorbis player written in Qt.

dpkg -l | grep -i 'vorbis'
ii  libvorbis0 1.0rc2-1   The OGG Vorbis lossy audio compression codec
ii  mp3blaster 3.0-1  Full-screen console mp3 and ogg vorbis playe
ii  mq38-8An mp3/ogg vorbis player written in Qt.

Thanks,
Adam

RE: Virus incident

[Adam Warner]

On Thu, 2001-11-22 at 14:11, Josh Everist wrote:
> Well I can take responsibility for the messages from
> '[EMAIL PROTECTED]', however if the Debian User mailing list didn't send
> out viruses in the first place, there wouldn't be the automated reply.

The automated replies act like a denial of service. You must look at
fixing your system. If many people used the same software there would be
hundreds if not thousands of these automated replies for every single
virus-infected message or false alarm. I certainly deleted far more of
the automated replies than the viruses.

> The same goes for the YODA messages.
> 
> In all honesty I've merely kept up with my software and virus updates and
> don't actually know why my software automatically responded.

Well find out.
 
> However, if there were no response, it wouldn't be nearly as obvious that
> the email from [EMAIL PROTECTED] was viral.

Windows executables posted to a debian-user mailing list are pretty
obvious.

> So, if there's any way the mailing list can filter out the viruses in the
> first place, you won't see the automated messages.

This is a Debian GNU/Linux mailing list. Perhaps the administrators
could look at filtering a problem caused by Windows users, but I
wouldn't put a high priority on it.

> At any rate I hope people
> go after the real culprit(the sender of the virus) and don't take it out on
> us.

Not yet :-) Just fix your system. It's just as annoying as those who
post out-of-office replies to mailing lists. If received 57 of them due
to one post the other day on a NT mailing list.

Regards,
Adam

Re: Best debian for me

[Adam Warner]

On Wed, 2001-11-21 at 18:02, Jonathan Hunt wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am probably going to repartition my hard drive and after being a satisfied 
> Debian 2.2r2 user I am going to do a clean install. I was wanting the 
> following things in my new setup:
> 
>   GCC >= 3.0
>   XFree86 >= 4.0
>   Linux kernel >=2.4.0
>   ReiserFS (instead of ext2 for my main partition ie I want format and 
> install 
> onto a ReiserFS so this requires a boot disk supporting ReiserFS)
>   Recent KDE
> 
> I would like my system to be as stable as possible and have a clear upgrade 
> path in the future.
> 
>   With this is mind could someone advise me on what would be the best 
> version 
> of Debian to use. It looks suspicially like testing might be the best to be 
> using but how unstable is that?
> 
>   Note: I am a relatively experience linux user / programmer who wants an 
> easy 
> as possible install but doesn't mind getting his handing dirty.

Aaagh. I just composed the reply and then closed Evolution before
sending or saving as a Draft. Here's the abbreviated version:

Easy install:

ReiserFS boot disks:
http://www.digitaltux.com/

This makes installing ReiserFS on / dead easy.

If you want to stay with stable Adrian Bunk has a solution for 2.4
kernels:
http://www.fs.tum.de/~bunk/kernel-24.html

Since you want the latest software you might want to consider
`unstable'. Being an experienced user you'll be able to deal with
problems (e.g. if you need to downgrade a package). And it's more secure
than testing.*

If you do upgrade remember to do it in two steps. First add testing to
your sources.list and then do an apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade
-u

Repeat for unstable if you want to upgrade to the latest software.

Regards,
Adam

*The lag for packages to make their way into testing from unstable is
eliminated. So most security fixes will make their way into unstable
faster than testing.

RE: NFS trys following remote symlinks as if local!

[Adam Warner]

On Wed, 2001-11-21 at 04:10, Kelley, Tim (CBS-New Orleans) wrote:
> 
> Can you overcome your problem by using relative links, e.g.
> 
> #ls -l
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/kdm -> ../../../../etc/kde2/kdm
> 
> instead of
> 
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/kdm -> /etc/kde2/kdm
> 
> 
> This is one reason relative style links are used and not absolute ones

Yes relative links are the solution to navigating an NFS mount. I'm
changing all my links to relative ones.

To overcome the inability of NFS to browse within remote mount points
I've just had to set up a more complicated exports file and mirror that
structure in the client side fstab.

Thanks also to Dave for the followups and the tip to use NIS if I don't
want to reproduce the client-side mounts in fstab.

Just a tip for everyone that I was looking for a cp-like local mirroring
tool (not a remote mirroring tool like rsync). Turns out it's logically
called cpbk:

apt-cache show cpbk
...
Description: a mirroring utility for backing up your files
 Backup Copy is basically a smart copy program that allows a user to
 copy mass files from one place to another.  When coping over a
 previous copy, the key features will allow coping only of new or non
 existing files in the backup.  This results in saving time and less
 load on the drive.  Built into the same feature of copying new files
 only, is a file removal procedure.  If a file is removed from the
 source path, the same file will be removed when the next backup is
 performed.  This provides a backup that is exactly the same as the
 source without filling up the drive.  As an added option, all files
 that will be overwritten or deleted when doing a copy over a previous
 backup, have the opportunity to be stored in a trash bin.  You can
 leave this trash bin to grow and grow just in case you need a backup
 of your backup.  When you start running out of disk space you will
 need to remove or clean up the trash bin.

Regards,
Adam

Re: NFS tries following remote symlinks as if local!

[Adam Warner]

> There is an introduction to Coda that covers these issues. It looks
> promising:

Sorry just a final comment about this for anyone that's interested.

1. Unofficial Debian packages that you can add to sources.list are
available from here:

http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/mirrors.html

Debian APT package installer sources.list line
Upgrading an already running Coda client typically fails somewhere, so
be careful when adding this.

deb http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/pub/coda/linux debian/binary-$(ARCH)/

2. Coda requires a minimum of two raw partitions to provide log and data
storage (although loopback file access is possible--and not
recommended).

3. This doesn't give access to all the files on the server computer.

4. There is a distinct separation of clients and servers.

2, 3 & 4 mean Coda is not suitable for what I want to achieve. I'll just
have to accept the limitations of NFS and replicate all the partition
mounts at the client end.

Regards,
Adam

Re: NFS tries following remote symlinks as if local!

[Adam Warner]

On Tue, 2001-11-20 at 16:46, Adam Warner wrote:

> I've now just found that current NFS implementations are specially
> designed to NOT cross mount points:
> 
> http://playground.sun.com/pub/nfsv4/nfsv4-wg-archive/1996/0004.html
> 
>The NFS protocol is specified to not let a NFS client cross 
>mount points. This is so the NFS client does not get confused 
>about the identity of files in the even[t] two files on two 
>different server file systems share the same file id (inode #). 
> 
> Which is a PITA, meaning I will will have to reproduce all the mount
> points on the client computer if I implement NFS. It appears my
> perspective fits into this category:
> 
>This semantic is not desired by some clients, such as PC desktops. 
>The proposal, as described previously, is to make 
>mount point crossing optional. 

There is an introduction to Coda that covers these issues. It looks
promising:

http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/ljpaper/lj.html

"Why is a single mount point advantageous? It means that all clients can
be configured identically, and users will always see the same file tree.
For large installations this is essential. With NFS, the client needs an
up to date list of servers and their exported directories in /etc/fstab,
while in Coda a client merely needs to know where to find the Coda root
directory /coda. When new servers or shares are added the client will
discover these automatically somewhere in the /coda tree."

Nice. It's great to understand first hand why such a system might be
advantageous.

Regards,
Adam

Re: debian-user: exim to ISP setup

[Adam Warner]

On Tue, 2001-11-20 at 16:10, Brendan J Simon wrote:
> 
> I have a few users on a LAN connected to an ISP via a permanent dial up 
> connection.  Some messages with large attachments never get through to a 
> user is the USA (I'm in Australia).  I'm thinking that there may be some 
> outs coming into play due to the slow dial up connection.  I assume the 
> exim mail agent is talking directly to the SMTP server in the USA.  What 
> I would prefer to do is send the email to my ISPs SMTP server and have 
> it forward it on to the USA user.  This should help dramatically if it 
> is a time out problem and seems a smarter thing to do in general.
> 
> I've read the exim docs and configuration file but can't see how to 
> configure this.  Can this be done and how do I do it ???

Brendan there is an exim-users mailing list. And it contains huge
threads answering your question:
http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users

If you can't resolve the problem here that's the place to ask.

Here is the archives:
http://www.exim.org/pipermail/exim-users/

Typing ISP into the search box I found this:
[Exim] Relaying at ISP SMTP
http://www.exim.org/mailman/htdig/exim-users/Week-of-Mon-2002/032230.html

And this one:
[EXIM] Directing all the mail to my ISP
http://www.exim.org/mailman/htdig/exim-users/Week-of-Mon-19971117/005532.html

The Exim documentation available on-site is quite comprehensive as well.

Regards,
Adam

Re: NFS tries following remote symlinks as if local!

[Adam Warner]

On Tue, 2001-11-20 at 16:04, Rich Puhek wrote:

> Don't be too hard on people who seem to underestimate your knowledge of
> a subject... often it's easiest to start from a certain point in an
> explanation to be certain everyone's on the same page... That's also
> very handy for others following along in the list or in the archives of
> a list.

No problem. I did sound incoherent at the beginning! Got to proof read
more as well.

I wonder if another network filesystem would be the answer, e.g. Coda:

http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/

I was going to attempt to implement it until I discovered that it hasn't
been packaged for unstable yet.

It looks like unofficial packages are available:

http://rpmfind.net/linux/coda/debian/binary-i386/

Has anyone used them? I don't want to risk destroying my data right
before I commence a big backup ;-) Having looked though the Coda user
manual it appears configuration is rather complex (plus "Coda is very
differently organized from NFS and Windows/Samba shares").

I've now just found that current NFS implementations are specially
designed to NOT cross mount points:

http://playground.sun.com/pub/nfsv4/nfsv4-wg-archive/1996/0004.html

   The NFS protocol is specified to not let a NFS client cross 
   mount points. This is so the NFS client does not get confused 
   about the identity of files in the even[t] two files on two 
   different server file systems share the same file id (inode #). 

Which is a PITA, meaning I will will have to reproduce all the mount
points on the client computer if I implement NFS. It appears my
perspective fits into this category:

   This semantic is not desired by some clients, such as PC desktops. 
   The proposal, as described previously, is to make 
   mount point crossing optional. 

Regards,
Adam

Re: NFS tries following remote symlinks as if local!

[Adam Warner]

On Tue, 2001-11-20 at 14:35, nate wrote:
> Adam Warner said:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I've come across this crazy problem and I hope someone knows what's
> > going on.
> >
> > I am using kernel-level NFS. Debian unstable. 2.4.14. I have
> > exported /
> >
> > I can mount the remote filesystem on my client machine no problem.
> > But if I try to change to a remote symlinked directory I get, for
> > example:
> 
> this is normal and expected behavior. all a symlink is is a pointer.
> it points to a file. even if a file doesn't exist.

Nate as you can gather from my follow up post I have a higher level of
understanding than that.

The remote symlink points to the correct location on the remote system.
Having always used Samba for remote file accesses (so I could also
access the files using a Windows machine) I expected NFS to follow
remote symlinks on the remote filesystem (just like when I navigate a
file system when ssh'ed into a remote box). I've learned an important
lesson.

Since I primarily use symlinks to hide the underlying file system layout
I just expected the symlinks to continue to act transparently.

Though I can see the point of Dave's "Good Thing" response.

If I am backing up the files on my remote computer I will have to be
careful to use the -d option in cp. Otherwise I will also back up parts
of my local computer as the remote symlinks translate to local paths on
my computer.

I just tried converting my absolute symlinks to relative ones. But it
still doesn't work (because it appears I don't have the ability to
descend into mounts). Here's the scenario:

I'm in the NFS mount point on my local computer. I "ls -l" and see this
particular link.

home -> mnt/data/home

So if I cd to home I should continue down the remote filesystem. Note
that there is no slash (/) before mnt. This is a relative path.

But it doesn't happen. Instead the mnt/data directory is empty. It
appears NFS doesn't descend into mount points either. I've tried adding
the "nohide" option to disable this but it made no difference.

Regards,
Adam

Re: NFS tries following remote symlinks as if local!

[Adam Warner]

On Tue, 2001-11-20 at 13:40, Dave Sherohman wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 01:31:21PM +1300, Adam Warner wrote:
> > I can mount the remote filesystem on my client machine no problem. But
> > if I try to change to a remote symlinked directory I get, for example:
> > 
> > bash: cd: backup2: No such file or directory
> > 
> > Because that directory doesn't exist on my _local_ machine.
> 
> Uh...  That's the way symlinks are supposed to work.  This is even a
> Good Thing since it allows you to use them to make it look like local
> machine-specific data is inside an NFS-mounted directory.  (For
> instance, when NFS-mounting /home, I'll usually symlink ~/.netscape
> to a local directory to prevent netscape from needlessly sending its
> cached files over the network.)

Thanks for the reply.

So let's change tack. How would I go about mounting the entire contents
of a remote computer's filesystem and only be able to access the remote
computer's files within subdirectories of that mount point? There would
be no confusion following remote symlinks because I would be only
navigating the remote filesystem within that mount point.

BTW Samba does seamlessly follow remote symlinks. I'm using the
technique right now to access media that is mounted over a number of
remote partitions through a single mount point. But I cannot get the
underlying file permissions through Samba (which requires further Samba
development to map Unix --> NT --> Unix permissions).

Regards,
Adam

NFS trys following remote symlinks as if local!

[Adam Warner]

Hi all,

I've come across this crazy problem and I hope someone knows what's
going on.

I am using kernel-level NFS. Debian unstable. 2.4.14. I have exported /

I can mount the remote filesystem on my client machine no problem. But
if I try to change to a remote symlinked directory I get, for example:

bash: cd: backup2: No such file or directory

Because that directory doesn't exist on my _local_ machine.

If I "cd backup" I am changed into the directory on my local machine
(because it exists). Not only is this surreal but it's dangerous if I
think I'm in the directory of a remote computer when I'm actually in a
local one.

I haven't turned up this problem through searching for a solution.  The
mount package version is 2.11m-1.

To date I've always avoided NFS and used Samba so I'm inexperienced at
this. Samba can't provide the remote file permissions I wish to also
store for backup purposes.

Thanks,
Adam

Re: NIC card setup

[Adam Warner]

On Thu, 2001-11-08 at 22:16, Jason Machacek wrote:
> Is it possible to configure a NIC card without recompiling the kernel?

Yes.

Run "modconf" to load in another network card module (run as root). To
configure a network card's settings see the directory /etc/network/ (in
particular /etc/network/interfaces).

run /etc/init.d/networking [start restart stop]

type "man interfaces" to learn about the /etc/network/interfaces format.

Some people use graphical utilities to configure network settings.

Regards,
Adam

Re: fstab mounts not mounting

[Adam Warner]

On Sat, 2001-11-03 at 19:41, Rory O'Connor wrote:
> I can mount filesystems from the command line just fine, but for some 
> reason when i add them to the fstab file, they don't mount at boot time. 
>  is there and additional step I am missing...or is my syntax just wrong?
> 
> #  
>   
> /dev/hdd1   /home/rory/mp3  ext2defaults,ro,user,noauto 
> 0   1

Remove "noauto" from your options :-)

Regards,
Adam

Re: [debian-user] still floundering -> PSEUDO-IMAGE

[Adam Warner]

On Sat, 2001-11-03 at 18:54, Blars Blarson wrote:
> The pseudo-image kit is an overly-complicated dificult to use solution
> to a problem that was temporary.  It attempts to distribute the
> bandwidth utilization, but it actually winds up increasing it in
> almost all instances. 
> 
> Ignore pik and just download the diban iso images.
> http://linuxiso.org/ has them, other places can be found on the
> debian.org web site if you lie about how you will be doing the
> install.

If "the Lloyder" wants another install idea I've always had good success
by doing minimum floppy disk installs and using apt-get to download
further packages.

If you combine that with ReiserFS install disks you can also have
ReiserFS on you boot drive:

http://www.digitaltux.com/

Think about this because installing a boot journaling filesystem at the
start will be much easier than trying to migrate to one later (unless
you want to use ext3).

I also see there is a Debian "NetInst ISO" that can fit on a business
card CD and is "only" a 33MB download.

Regards,
Adam

Re: Patches applied to stock kernel to make deb kernel image

[Adam Warner]

On Thu, 2001-11-01 at 11:35, Damon Muller wrote:
> Quoth Adam Warner, 
> > > > make dep
> > > > make bzImage
> > > > make modules
> > > > make modules_install
> > > > make install
> > > 
> > > We have "make-kpkg" for such tasks. Makes your life easier.
> > 
> > I can't imagine how it could be easier than my current setup but I'll
> > look into it.
> 
> make-kpkg clean && fakeroot make-kpkg --revision=custom.1.0 kernel_image
> 
> Go and have your beverage of choice...
> 
> sudo dpkg --install ../kernel-image...
> 
> It's easier, I think.

./buildkernel

Go and have your beverage of choice...

Press Y to rerun lilo.

[Thanks for setting out your method:-)]

Regards,
Adam

Re: Patches applied to stock kernel to make deb kernel image

[Adam Warner]

On Wed, 2001-10-31 at 22:35, Eduard Bloch wrote:

First off I'd just like to say it never ceases to amaze me what packages
are available for Debian. I'm really surprised that someone would have
packaged up ppscsi for instance!

> #include 
> Adam Warner wrote on Wed Oct 31, 2001 um 07:28:19AM:
> 
> > I'm not an expert on this but I understand that Debian stays as close to
> > the offical Linus kernel as possible. So if you want to compile your own
> > kernel you should be fine just using a Linus one from kernel.org (or
> 
> No. mkcramfs on initrd is broken in Linus's tree, so please don't build
> initrd-aware kernel-image packages without using the debianised source
> package.

Note I did say "your own" kernel. OK I now understand why this doesn't
affect me. My /initrd directory is empty. And I don't have mkcramfs
installed.

I can read "Description: Make a CramFs (Compressed ROM File System)
mkcramfs lets you construct a CramFs (Compressed ROM File System) image
from the contents of a given directory.  Cram file systems are used for
Debian INITRD images." but I still don't understand the purpose of an
INITRD image.

> > mirrors). In my experience you will only need to patch it if you have
> > non-standard hardware requirements (e.g. for one of my computers I
> > require the Parallel Port SCSI patch).
> 
> BTW, ppscsi patch is available in the patch-package in Sid. And in
> kernel-image-2.4.13-586-ext3 image.
> 
> > make menuconfig (and select the options I want)
> 
> Yes, which _you_ want. If someone uses the config file from the Debian
> packages (with initrd), you will see the breakage when you try to boot
> with it.

Thanks for enlightening me to another way to compile kernels under
Debian.

> > make dep
> > make bzImage
> > make modules
> > make modules_install
> > make install
> 
> We have "make-kpkg" for such tasks. Makes your life easier.

I can't imagine how it could be easier than my current setup but I'll
look into it.

> > This isn't the standard Debian way of installing a kernel. However I
> > have non-standard requirements like ReiserFS compiled into the kernel
> > image which means I have to compile my own kernels.
> 
> E, this is not the reason for not using make-kpkg.

Thanks Eduard. This is the first I've heard of make-kpkg.

Regards,
Adam

Re: Patches applied to stock kernel to make deb kernel image

[Adam Warner]

On Wed, 2001-10-31 at 05:12, Timothy Webster wrote:
> What is procedure is used to make an "official" 2.4 deb kernel image?
> Such as are avialable in unstable.
> What additional patches are required, if any.

I'm not an expert on this but I understand that Debian stays as close to
the offical Linus kernel as possible. So if you want to compile your own
kernel you should be fine just using a Linus one from kernel.org (or
mirrors). In my experience you will only need to patch it if you have
non-standard hardware requirements (e.g. for one of my computers I
require the Parallel Port SCSI patch).

I just tar -jxvf the source to /usr/src/

cd linux

make menuconfig (and select the options I want)

run this script and I'm done:

make dep
make bzImage
make modules
make modules_install
make install

"make install" replaces vmlinuz and System.map (and renames vmlinuz to
vmlinuz.old and System.map to System.map.old). Plus it will run lilo for
you so you will all set for a reboot.

This isn't the standard Debian way of installing a kernel. However I
have non-standard requirements like ReiserFS compiled into the kernel
image which means I have to compile my own kernels.

> Thanks, maybe with this information I can get my much simpiler custom
> kernel image to find root and boot.

You may have to edit lilo.conf just once so make install will work
automatically in future (i.e. make sure you default boot image is
vmlinuz):

default=Linux

image=/boot/vmlinuz
label=Linux
read-only
#   restricted
#   alias=1

image=/boot/vmlinuz.old
label=LinuxOLD
read-only
optional
#   restricted
#   alias=2

I've just read some of the earlier comments at the bottom of your query.
I didn't realise I was missing anything! I haven't been adversely
affected by using the official Linus kernels (and I've gone through a
large number of them)--frankly I would rather have the freedom to be
able to do so (but I'll watch out for any nuggets of enlightenment).

Regards,
Adam

Re: Long lag before messages make the list [was "Re: 512Meg of Ram"]

[Adam Warner]

Hi all,

I've caught up with the "test" posts. So don't reply. Let's hope the
backlog/time being taken to distribute messages is resolved (it would be
a thankless task if I didn't thank those right now working to resolve it
:-)

Regards,
Adam

Long lag before messages make the list [was "Re: 512Meg of Ram"]

[Adam Warner]

On Sun, 2001-10-28 at 20:45, Cameron Matheson wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Sat, Oct 27, 2001 at 04:19:13PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > I just added 512meg of ram to my Debian Woody box.  I had heard that Linux 
> > does not support 512meg of ram without a kernel recompile.  Is this true?
> 
> No... I think you may have to recompile for ram>=1G, but that's only if you
> don't have large mem support enabled (or something like that).  If it's not
> detecting your memory, you may have to add something to your kenel command 
> line
> (if you use lilo, add this to your config file):
> 
> append="mem=M"

If this is affecting more than just myself, the Debian-user lag is
becoming too large. I wrote a reply virtually identical to Cameron's
about 30 minutes later than him but his message wasn't on the list by
then.

And what I wrote 1 hour ago has still not appeared. I hope the lag can
be resolved.

Cameron's message written at 8:45PM (NZ Time) arrived at my Exim MTA at
9:48PM. I thought it was surprising no-one had answered Wayne. Multiple
answers due to lag just waste our time and puts more pressure on the
mailing list server.

Regards,
Adam

Re: 512Meg of Ram

[Adam Warner]

On Sun, 2001-10-28 at 10:19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I just added 512meg of ram to my Debian Woody box.  I had heard that
Linux does not support 512meg of ram without a kernel recompile.  Is
this true?
> 
> Wayne

Not that I've heard. Just "cat /proc/meminfo" to see if it has been
detected.

If it only reads 64MB you have a BIOS problem that can be overcome by
putting this line in lilo.conf and rerunning lilo:

append="mem=512M"

Regards,
Adam

Re: using /home with potato & woody

[Adam Warner]

On Sat, 2001-10-27 at 02:37, Vittorio wrote:
> In my laptop I've three partitions
> hda1= Debian Potato all directories but /home
> hda2= /home currently referring to Potato
> hda3= Woody all in this partition
> 
> Now I'd like to refer both potato and woody to the same /home
> partition (hda2) and of course to the same user victor (that's me!).
> 
> Is that possible?

All you'd need to do is symlink to the home partition's files. However I
strongly suspect this could be a recipe for data corruption. Imagine all
the programs you access that would store data in the same place. However
you will have one version new and one version old. Any data formats that
have been upgraded between the two versions may not work with the old
version of the program--or worse, the old version may silently corrupt
the new data format.

Perhaps you have a good reason for keeping Potato (I'd just use the
partition for something else like backing up the Woody partition).

Regards,
Adam

Success: Some routing advice (connecting through SSH)

[Adam Warner]

I wrote:

> I haven't worked out the
> correct format of ssh -L yet, but I'm sure I'll figure that out.

Phenomenal. It works perfectly. It really is impressive.

And connecting is just so easy.

My browser is set with HTTP Proxy 127.0.0.1 and port x

The connection command is nothing more difficult than typing from the
local computer:

ssh -l  -L x::x  

It just works so seemlessly. It's amazing.

Regards,
Adam

Re: Some routing advice (connecting through SSH)

[Adam Warner]

On Fri, 2001-10-26 at 13:16, Dan Christensen wrote:
> Dan Christensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> > Hans Ekbrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > 
> >> On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 11:54:56PM +1300, Adam Warner wrote:
> >>> I want to route some traffic though a remote computer (R) to my home
> >>> computer (H). 
> > 
> > [web traffic]
> > 
> >> Another way of doing it, a bit more unsecure maybe, would be to
> >> install a proxyserver on R and only accept connections from H.
> > 
> > Yes.  For example, just install junkbuster or webwasher on R,
> > and set your browser on H to use R as a proxy.  I've done this
> > (for the same reasons as the original poster) several times.
> 
> I should have said that this can be combined with ssh port
> forwarding.  You have ssh forward H:1234 to R:5678, run a 
> proxy on R listening on 5678, and set your browser to use
> H:1234 as a proxy.

Thanks Dan. I'm beginning to understand this all now.

Here are three very good pieces of information:

http://www.webtechniques.com/archives/2000/09/webm/

In particular the "Port Forwarding" section.

And these two answers:

http://plaguesplace.dyndns.org/proxy-elites-faq/x89.html
http://plaguesplace.dyndns.org/proxy-elites-faq/x97.html


A Debian package search using apt-cache search has turned up this
excellent choice of proxy server: 

tinyproxy

Description: A lightweight, non-caching, optionally anonymizing http
proxy

 An anonymizing http proxy which is very light on system resources,
 ideal for smaller networks and similar situations where other proxies
 (such as Squid) may be overkill and/or a security risk. Tinyproxy can
 also be configured to anonymize http requests (allowing for exceptions
 on a per-header basis).


OK I think I understand this now. I install tinyproxy and configure it
to a port (I've set it up securely so that only localhost can access the
proxy). I then use ssh -L to tunnel the proxy traffic to my home
machine. And I set up my web browser to access the appropriate localhost
port (when I want to be able to access the appropriate resources).

Using Lynx I have been able to verify that the proxy is working (by
setting the http_proxy environment variable). I haven't worked out the
correct format of ssh -L yet, but I'm sure I'll figure that out.

I'm very pleased with this solution. It appears to be extremely secure.

Thanks all,
Adam

Re: encrypted filesystem

[Adam Warner]

On Fri, 2001-10-26 at 11:26, Gabor Gludovatz wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> does someone know of a sulution which I could use to encrypt a filesystem
> transparently? I want my data to be encoded on the disk and I'd like to
> mount it at the same time, and access+modify it.
> 
> In the good old times there was a patch, the kerneli patch, with which I
> could encrypt any filesystem, but now I need something for the 2.4.x
> kernels and as of yet I haven't found anything :(

http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/

You have two basic choices: Crypto patch for 2.4 or Jari Ruusu's
loop-AES. Loop-AES can be used without patching a kernel--but it must be
compiled without loopback support. Instead utils-linux is patched so
mount, umount and losetup have AES support.

Most of the kernel patch problems may have been overcome. I don't think
Jari's approach has ever caused data corruption. If you read through the
archives you'll be up to speed with developments. I understand that
sometimes if you upgrade your kernel to 2.4 with the International patch
you can't access a volume generated with a 2.2 kernel! At the time I
read that a solution had not been found.

Regards,
Adam

Re: [Fwd: Re: What's apt-get doing to me?]

[Adam Warner]

On Fri, 2001-10-26 at 11:16, Peter Hutnick wrote:

> >>But KDE clearly (?) states I am running 3.3.6-11, which is the stable
> >>package, AFAIK.

> > You have it pointing to all 3 different flavors of Debian. Comment out  the
> > others, leave unstable uncommented, run apt-get update, and try again.

Won't matter in the slighest (apt-get always installs the latest version
number available). Just leave all the flavours in.

You clearly have the latest version installed. Perhaps you also have
legacy version?

Do this:

dpkg -l xfree*

+++-==-==-
ii  xfree86-common 4.1.0-8X Window System (XFree86) infrastructure

I only have the latest version installed. If you have more you could
remove (and/or purge) them:

apt-get remove --purge 

NB: Purging removes that package's configuration files.

If you can't boot into X any more you'll know for sure that KDE was
running 3.3.6-11 :-)

If so it might help fully reinstalling (a) or reconfiguring (b) the
lastest packages:

(a) apt-get remove --purge 
apt-get install 

or (b) dpkg-reconfigure 

man apt-get
man dpkg-reconfigure

   dpkg-reconfigure reconfigures packages after they have
   already been installed. Pass it the names of a package or
   packages to reconfigure.

   This has the same effect as re-installing the package,
   basically.

Regards,
Adam

Re: Some routing advice (connecting through SSH)

[Adam Warner]

On Fri, 2001-10-26 at 03:07, George Karaolides wrote:
 
> Sorry again, I didn't get exactly what you were trying to do from
> your first message.

That's alright. If some people were thinking that, it's best I had the
opportunity to clarify.

> Now to determine some more facts about the network geometry.  I assume
> that machine R at your institution has one interface connected to the
> Internet, with a public IP address, and one on the institution's LAN with
> a private IP address.

Just one public IP address. But after Code Red they unilaterally
firewalled all incoming connections, even to the Dept's web servers!
(something I had to alert people about). I'm not serving public content
on this machine.

It's well firewalled locally (iptables). I'm pretty sure no one will be
able to connect from anywhere else (I'm employing IP address checking,
port blocking and of course password protection). Ping is global but
that's because I believe people should be able to check if a machine
connected to a public IP address is functioning.

> Also, that the services you want to access are also on the institution's LAN.

I think access to services is determined by network card mac address.

Thanks also to the two other people (Dan and Hans) who recommended a
proxy server. I'm not sure how that would work beginning with an SSH
connection.

Regards,
Adam

Re: Some routing advice (connecting through SSH)

[Adam Warner]

On Fri, 2001-10-26 at 01:04, George Karaolides wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I need a bit more info. to start thinking about your question.

I'm still up, barely :-)

> How do you connect from H to R?  Through the Internet?

Yes.

> If so, does your Internet connection (that you use to connect H to the 
> Internet) have a
> static IP address or a dynamic one?

Static, permanent connection.

> Another point:  It seems to me as if you'll be trying to use a
> server hosted at an ISP as a masquerading gateway for your home LAN.

Hey, hold on a minute! You're _way_ off base. What? Server hosted at an
ISP? No!

> You
> may well be able to do it, and the ISP may well not catch you at it,
> for a while anyway, but if the ISP sees this as violating the service
> agreement they have with whoever they're hosting the server for (you?) and
> they do find out, you are in for trouble.

For what? I won't be in trouble for anything. Please don't jump to
conclusions. If I was trying to do something naughty I wouldn't be using
my real name (and please note that I use my real name in _all_ my
communications).

Thanks anyway for being concerned. I only want to implement a very
limited system for only specific browser traffic so I can perform
searches on databases accessible at my Institution from my home computer
(just like having a remote desktop, but as I say I'd like it to be more
efficient). And I discussed it with my Department's computer support
(his suggestion was to tunnel X through SSH). Even though I've never
done that before I'd like to try and do it more efficiently (and also
work more productively--If you go to save a document on a remote desktop
it has only been saved to that computer. Then I'd need to use something
like sftp to download it to my computer. Much better if I could operate
as if I was at that machine).

> The traffic won't be difficult
> to spot; servers are expected to be serving out a lot of stuff, not to
> have a lot of incoming traffic.

Did I say there would be a lot of traffic or did I specifically say "for
just some chosen traffic"? My Institution will be able to see all
traffic going to my "R" computer. I would be very foolish to route
personal traffic through my Institution's network.

Regards and good night,
Adam

Re: Acroread broken?

[Adam Warner]

On Fri, 2001-10-26 at 00:16, Arne Goetje wrote:
> > No common. A Google search turns up this advice:
> >
> > http://archive.osdlab.org/debian-user/Jul-2001/4261.html
> 
> yes... same problem...
> my X is running in 16bbp...

That should be OK then? The problem seems to have been reported with
24bpp (I run at 24bpp and have no problem).

Some more info:

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&th=eec33ddccdd992ed&rnum=1

> I cannot even get the acrobat window to choose the settings... is there any 
> default configure file where I can uncheck the anti-aliasing?

acroread --helpall might give a clue:

-visual  [depth=]
-visual id=
-visual best
-visual default
Specifies a visual.

In the first form, the visual class (specified by either
its name or number) with an option depth determine the
visual to use.

In the second form, the visual id is specified. The prefix
0x must be used for hexadecimal numbers.

The third form uses an internal algorithm based on depth
and visual class.

The fourth form simply uses the default visual.

Note that PseudoColor visuals of depth greater than 8,
and DirectColor visuals are not supported.


Other possible solutions:

* Change your X display depth and try again.

* Do some searches on acroread and your display driver. Perhaps there is
an incompatibility in the driver.

That's about all I can suggest. If you don't find a solution (or you do
and the Debian developers should know about it) file a bug report:

http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting

And in the meantime use another PDF viewer such as gv or xpdf.

Regards,
Adam

Re: Acroread broken?

[Adam Warner]

On Thu, 2001-10-25 at 23:28, Adam Warner wrote:
> No[t] common.

Sorry if the typo caused any confusion. I don't think this is a common
problem.

> A Google search turns up this advice:
> 
> http://archive.osdlab.org/debian-user/Jul-2001/4261.html
> 
> Did you also try "apt-get install --reinstall acroread" ?
> 
> Regards,
> Adam

Re: Woody & security

[Adam Warner]

On Thu, 2001-10-25 at 23:28, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
> Using potato I downloaded security fixes by means of this line
inserted in my sources.list:
> 
> deb http://security.debian.org/ potato/updates main contrib non-free 

Add this line as well:

deb http://security.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib non-free

And leave both lines in your sources.list even if you are using woody
(Why? Because for example you may have Netscape 4.xx installed).

> Now, under woody (not testing but woody) I wonder if there's something
similar

I always talk of stable, testing and unstable. Currently potato is
stable, woody is testing and sid is unstable. If you use the format I
used above your sources.list won't be out of date when woody becomes
stable.

> (I tried changing the word potato in the line just mentioned into
woody but it looks as though those directories don't exist at all).
> 
> How can I deal with security under woody?

By keeping up-to-date and watching for security notices (e.g. read Linux
Weekly News (www.lwn.net and www.lwn.net/daily).

Only Debian stable has security releases. Developers do release security
fixes for testing and unstable but they are not distinguished in any
way--they're just normal packages for downloading.

Testing is probably less secure than unstable because it can take quite
a while for new packages to get into the testing tree.

If there is a distinction between testing and woody could someone please
let me know. I thought there were three Debian tracks. Perhaps there are
four when a new release is imminent?

Regards,
Adam

Some routing advice (connecting through SSH)

[Adam Warner]

Hi all,

I just need to understand where I should look and how I should approach
this challenge.

I want to route some traffic though a remote computer (R) to my home
computer (H). In particular I want to have the ability to surf the Web
as if I was sitting at computer R. Right now I can already do that using
the text browser Lynx after connecting via SSH.

R is a somewhat puny 133MHz Pentium with 72MB of RAM and ~100MB of free
disk space. It is running Debian GNU/Linux with a 2.4.13 kernel (that
took a rather long time to compile). X is not installed (the display
card is also not compatible, but I imagine that wouldn't matter with a
remote connection).

I can SSH from H to R. All other ports to R are blocked. So to connect
to another port on R, R itself would have to open the connection to H.

Instead of using X or VNC I would like to somehow use IP Masquerading
for just some chosen traffic (it would be the most efficient solution).
However I can't see how it would work yet.

So thanks for any preliminary help.

Regards,
Adam

Re: Acroread broken?

[Adam Warner]

On Thu, 2001-10-25 at 14:18, Arne Goetje wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have acroread 4.0.5-4 installed but cannot use it.
> It starts up and shows the licence screen. When I close the licence screen 
> acroread exits with the following message:
> 
> Exited with error code: 0x400e0009.
> 
> Is that a common problem or just on my machine?

No common. A Google search turns up this advice:

http://archive.osdlab.org/debian-user/Jul-2001/4261.html

Did you also try "apt-get install --reinstall acroread" ?

Regards,
Adam

Re: single partition worst-case scenarios

[Adam Warner]

On Wed, 2001-10-24 at 01:16, Andreas Leitner wrote:

> Yep, the idea is good. But in practice how much space do you give /home
> ? I hate it when I ran out of disk space, even though there would be
> plenty.

The question is how much do you give the operating system :-) Everything
else is /home.

So far 4GB has been suffient for the OS on my Debian GNU/Linux
workstation I'm writing from at the moment. I just checked and I only
have 345MB free. But I also noticed I have 1.8GB of files in
/var/cache/apt/archives. Time to type "apt-get clean" :-) [It's good
having old packages around if things break in Unstable].

In a worse case scenario I would either use a symbolic link and store
some of the OS on another partition or I would use some tools to enlarge
my ReiserFS boot partition.

$ apt-cache search reiserfs

...
reiserfsprogs - User-level tools for ReiserFS filesystems
...

$ apt-cache show reiserfsprogs

...
This package contains utilities to create, check, resize, and debug ReiserFS
filesystems.
...

Using filename completion I find a program called resize_reiserfs
(you'll have to be root for the program to be in your path).

"man resize_reiserfs" gives me all the details.

Regards,
Adam

Re: Help needed getting mail working.

[Adam Warner]

On Wed, 2001-10-24 at 00:48, Jussi Ekholm wrote:
> Kurt Lieber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > By default (at least on Woody) exim puts mail in /var/mail/ 
> > (note  the absence of /spool/)
> 
> I'm running testing, and I have both - /var/mail/$USER and 
> /var/spool/mail/$USER. Why is this? The file sizes are equal, so
> they appear to be identical twins. Any ideas why there's two places
> for mail? This, of course, isn't really a problem - I'm just curious
> why the mail spool is located in two places.

One is a symbolic link:

ls -l /var/spool/mail
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root  root   7 Jun 16 03:30 /var/spool/mail -> ../mail

If you change directory to /var/spool/mail you will be transparently
mapped into ../mail (/var/mail).

The only space used up is the space to store the link. There is only one
copy of the files.

It is probably done for compatibility. Some programs may access
/var/mail. Some may access /var/spool/mail. Everything works.

Symbolic links are incredibly useful. If you saw my post about having a
data and OS partition here's how you could achieve it:

If your OS is mounted at /
If your data partition is mounted at /mnt/data_partition

Then you could store all home files on the data partition by doing this
as root (backup advice applies first):

cd /
mv /home /mnt/data_partition
ln -s /mnt/data_partition/home /home

Then any program accessing the /home directory will automatically access
them on the separate partition.

Regards,
Adam

Re: single partition worst-case scenarios

[Adam Warner]

I like to have two partitions: one for my data (/home) and one for
everything else (and a third for the swap file, and a physically
different hard disks for backups). Such a small number of partitions
might make me a heretic :-)

There are clear advantages to this setup:

1. I can backup/restore the entire operating system partition without
losing my data.

2. I can reformat and reinstall the operating system without losing my
data.

If possible it's always a good idea to separate the OS and your data. I
bet if you had to choose between losing your data or having to reinstall
your OS you'd go for the latter.

Your single partition worst-case scenario is if you reinstall/format the
OS partition forgetting that some of your own data also resides on the
partition.

Separating data (along with user settings) and programs is simple in
Unix-like environments. Symbolic links are your friend.

Regards,
Adam

Re: Warning: Evolution broke when I updated Unstable

[Adam Warner]

On Fri, 2001-10-19 at 01:13, Matti Airas wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 12:02:25AM +1300, Adam Warner wrote:
> 
> > downgrade gconf, libgconf11 and libgconf-dev to 1.0.4-3
> 
> Worked great. Thanks.

You and Rodrigo may be interested to know that everything appears to be
fixed and available from the main server. My local mirror will have it
later this morning.

The updates are evolution_0.15-5 and gconf_1.0.6-3 (care of Takuo Kitame
the evolution and gconf maintainter).

Regards,
Adam

Re: Warning: Evolution broke when I updated Unstable

[Adam Warner]

On Wed, 2001-10-17 at 22:20, Matti Airas wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 06:06:22PM +1300, Adam Warner wrote:
> 
> > I then added the official archive to my sources and was able to retrieve
> > a newer version of libgnome-vfs0. This allowed me to start Evolution
> > again. However To and CC are greyed out (missing) so Evolution is still
> > unusable.
> 
> I have the same problem.

downgrade gconf, libgconf11 and libgconf-dev to 1.0.4-3

cd /var/cache/apt/archives/

dpkg --install gconf_1.0.4-3_i386.deb libgconf11_1.0.4-3_i386.deb
libgconf-dev_1.0.4-3_i386.deb 

Regards,
Adam

Warning: Evolution broke when I updated Unstable

[Adam Warner]

Hi all,

I'm writing this from Evolution on another computer :-)

I upgraded my computer using an archive that is only one day behind the
main archive. Afterwards evolution wouldn't start. I got a message that
went something like the config database couldn't be found.

I then added the official archive to my sources and was able to retrieve
a newer version of libgnome-vfs0. This allowed me to start Evolution
again. However To and CC are greyed out (missing) so Evolution is still
unusable.

So be careful if you live on the edge and are currently running Unstable
on your desktop (or servers ;-)

Regards,
Adam

W3C Patent Policy Comments to Close 30 Sept (RAND Fee-based standards)

[Adam Warner]

Dear Debian-user mailing list,

Please visit the document below and related links and let others know if
you are concerned about this issue.

I have prepared a document discussing the W3C's Patent Policy Framework
that is available on my web site at:

http://www.openphd.net/W3C_Patent_Policy/draft.xhtml
(Plain/print version)

and

http://www.openphd.net/W3C_Patent_Policy
(Web site version)

I have also included the document below in the event that my web site
becomes inaccessible.

Please give the issues I have raised careful consideration and provide
the W3C with a comment by Sunday if you have concerns about this issue
(by emailing [EMAIL PROTECTED]).

Regards,
Adam Warner



W3C and the Promotion of Fee-based Standards for the Web
Adam Warner

On 16 August 2001 the W3C made public a proposal to substantially change
their patent policy framework. Amongst the changes is support for a new
licensing model (called RAND) that legitimises the W3C's role in
developing and promoting standards that could require the payment of
royalties.

This is a substantial shift in the philosophical direction of the W3C
and should be of extreme concern to anyone who values being able to
implement W3C standards in a royalty-free manner. In particular this has
profound implications for the support and implementation of future W3C
standards by the free software community. It is likely to extinguish
free software development and deployment in the areas where the payment
of royalties is required.

The last call review period closes on 30 September 2001 (two days from
the time I am writing this abstract). The W3C is aware of the importance
of this issue and states "As the policy has ramifications on the Web
community at large, and as the Web Community have consistently helped
W3C in its efforts, views from this diverse community are essential."[1]
However, as evidence of how well this issue has been publicised, only
two relevant public comments have been made to the W3C archive to date.
It is a matter of urgency that you make your views known. A final policy
is expected from the W3C by February 2002.

Please email all comments or suggested corrections to this document to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

This draft is copyright Adam Warner, 28 September 2001. It may be
distributed freely.

Table of Contents

An Overview of the W3C

W3C Recommendation Process
RAND Licensing

Legitimising RAND
Back-door RAND
RAND in Action
What You Can Do
Essential Reference


An Overview of the W3C

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C, http://www.w3.org) has been highly
successful to date in its pursuit of "leading the Web to its full
potential". It actively promotes vendor neutral open and universal
standards. Its membership is to be commended for its ability to achieve
consensus and coordination with other standards bodies and consortia.

The W3C has over 500 member organisations and approximately 66 full-time
employees. Even large and influential companies have only one vote at
the Advisory Committee level.

Tim Berners-Lee, the Director of the W3C
(http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee) is also the inventor of the World
Wide Web. The W3C is a distinguished organisation producing quality
specifications, guidelines, software and validation tools.

The W3C is involved in these important areas:

* The architecture domain (e.g. DOM, the Document Object Model).
* Document formats (e.g. HTML, mathematics and graphics).
* Interaction (e.g. multimedia).
* Technological and societal issues (e.g. privacy, encryption and
the legal issues).
* Web accessibility initiatives (e.g. for user agents and authoring
tools).

Crucially the work of the W3C is available to all.

The W3C has an ongoing role in the development of the World Wide Web
from purely static document hosting to dynamic documents, application
services and automated applications.
W3C Recommendation Process

The W3C recommendation process typically follows a five step procedure:

* Interested parties submit notes to the W3C.
* A working draft is produced (these typically come with big
disclaimers, and their citing as anything other than work in progress is
inappropriate).
* Candidate recommendations are made.
* A recommendation is proposed (this means the working group has
reached consensus and the work has been proposed by the Director to the
Advisory Committee for review).
* Recommendation. These have been ratified and can be relied upon to
not change.

The W3C's Patent Policy Framework is at the Working Draft stage. The
Working Draft plainly states: "This Last Call period will be the only
opportunity for public comment."[2]

Remember that "The Last Call period closes 30 September 2001."

Furthermore, "As we have begun to use portions of the policy in the
day-to-day operations of W3C, we plan to skip the Candidate
Recommendation and move directly to an Advisory Co

Re: Woody Difficulty

[Adam Warner]

To answer my own idle question:

> (I wonder when 7.0 will be packaged).

> So you didn't need to try and build it yourself at all :-) Note that
> version 6.51 IS NOW GPL SOFTWARE. It just hasn't been repacked for
> Debian yet (and 7.0 packaged as gs-aladdin).

If you check out debian-devel you'll see that preview packages are
currently being worked upon by Torsten Landschoff :-)

Regards,
Adam

Re: Woody Difficulty

[Adam Warner]

On Fri, 2001-09-21 at 22:38, Alan McConnell wrote:
> Greetings!
> 
> I have just installed Woody, from four CDs made by a friend.  In
> trying to set up my printing, I discovered that "apsfilter" wants
> a ghostscript of 5.5 or greater, while Woody gives only 5.1.

Install gs-aladdin instead (currently packaged at v6.5)! It's in
non-free. And if it's not in Woody you can add the unstable locations to
your sources.list, apt-get update, get it, then comment the stable
locations and run apt-get update again.

(I wonder when 7.0 will be packaged).

Package: gs-aladdin
Priority: extra
Section: non-free/text
Installed-Size: 6996
Maintainer: Torsten Landschoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Architecture: i386
Version: 6.50-5
Replaces: gs
Provides: gs, postscript-viewer
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.2-2), libpaperg (>= 1.0.7), libpng2, svgalibg1 |
svgalib-dummyg1, xlibs (>= 4.0.1-11), zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.3), defoma
Recommends: gsfonts (>=4.01-3)
Suggests: gs-pdfencrypt
Conflicts: gs, gs_x, gs_svga, gs_both
Filename: pool/non-free/g/gs-aladdin/gs-aladdin_6.50-5_i386.deb
Size: 2206414
MD5sum: 500536441cb4c0208668b7831fba8d2b
Description: Postscript interpreter with X11 and svgalib preview
support.
 This version is Aladdin copyright, not GNU copyleft, see
 /usr/share/doc/gs-aladdin/copyright.
 .
 Ghostscript is used for postscript preview and printing.  Usually as
 a back-end to a program such as ghostview, it can display postscript
 documents in an X11 environment.  It can also use the Linux svga
 library to display documents graphically on the Linux console.
 .
 Furthermore, it can render postscript files as graphics to be printed
 on non-postscript printers.  Supported printers include common
 dot-matrix, inkjet and laser models.
 .
 Package gsfonts contains a set of standard fonts for ghostscript.
 .
 You have to install the gs-pdfencrypt package to be able to preview
 encrypted pdf files. That package is in the nonus distribution due to
 the stupid US regulations about exporting cryptographic software
 (please look under ftp://nonus.debian.org/pub/debian-non-US to find
it).
 .
 The Ghostscript home page is at
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/index.html
 .
 This package also contains the hpdj driver contributed by
 Martin Lottermoser.


So you didn't need to try and build it yourself at all :-) Note that
version 6.51 IS NOW GPL SOFTWARE. It just hasn't been repacked for
Debian yet (and 7.0 packaged as gs-aladdin).

Regards,
Adam

Re: internet connection

[Adam Warner]

On Tue, 2001-09-18 at 19:05, Mike Missett wrote:
> I have just installed the base system on a 68040 Mac with MacOS8 (I am
> very new to this).  The installation went well and is up and running,
> but I can't seem to get anywhere on the internet.  ppp is dialing the
> modem and making the appropriate noises, but the other programs insist
> that nothing is happening.  Telnet says no connection, Apt-get and
> dselect say things like Failed to get, could not resolve, no such file
> or directory, host name lookup failure, error exit status 1, etc.  Can
> somebody point me in the right direction here?
> Also, while I'm at it, I get nothing with the man command.  Has more
> replaced that or am I doing something wrong?

If you have just installed the base system you will need to install
other programs such as man using apt-get install. I've built up all my
Debian systems from minimum floppy disk installs so I'm aware of all the
programs that will be missing :-) Do an "apt-get install less info"
while you're at it. "less" is much better than "more". You can scroll up
and down plus search for words by pressing /

Either "cat  | less" or just type "less "

Sorry I can't help you with the rest. Just a tip: worry about getting
DNS lookups working later. You first want to know whether you can ping
known working (remote) IP addresses. Then worry about resolving their IP
addresses from their domain names by putting the IP addresses of your
DNS server(s) in /etc/resolv.conf

Regards,
Adam

INN2: rc.news script has empty directory paths

[Adam Warner]

Package: INN2
Version: 2.3.2-1

Problem: "IIND:   No active file!" when trying to start the news server.

Symptom Summary: Environment variables are not properly set. Some are
empty leading to incorrect paths.

How to reproduce: In inn.conf put a TAB after setting a variable
(usually for a subsequent comment). For example:

immediatecancel:true#false
^TABs in here

News server will no longer start and returns the cryptic error message
above. From futher testing I have determined that the tab causes this
problem. The news server still starts with a comment using spaces.

I found what was causing this by doing (another) purge and install of
inn2 and checking step by step what was stopping the news server from
starting.

This is a non-obvious bug. Through my initial analysis below (before I
had diagnosed the true cause of problem) there may be slightly incorrect
processing of inn.conf by innconfval (are the tabs or # ending up in the
environment variables?).

Regards,
Adam Warner


> I've traced the error message into rc.news. The reason no active file is
> found, and nothing else works, is that the path variables such as ACTIVE
> are empty (PATHBIN etc are empty as well).
> 
> I have traced the setting of the path variables to inn.conf. pathdb is
> valid and sets the location of the active etc. files.
> 
> First /etc/init.d/inn2 is started:
> 
> #! /bin/sh
> #
> # init.d/inn2 Start/stop the news server.
> #
> 
> test -f /usr/lib/news/bin/innd || exit 0
> 
> start () {
> su news -c /usr/lib/news/bin/rc.news
> }
> 
> 
> So all we see here is that inn2 just switches execution to rc.news
> running as user news.
> 
> So let's look at rc.news:
> 
> #! /bin/sh
> . /usr/lib/news/innshellvars
> 
> Ah, this is where the paths are set.
> 
> The permissions on innshellvars are root:root rw,r,r
> 
> I have never seen the use of a dot-space-path before. I guess this is
> the way of inserting an external script into a running script. I have
> checked the Debian stable inn2 source and the notation is similar:
> 
> . @LIBDIR@/innshellvars
> 
> so it doesn't appear to be a typo.
> 
> Now if I add an "echo ${PATHLIB}" or "echo ${ACTIVE}" into this script I
> find the paths are empty and /active respectively. Obviously active
> won't be found in the root directory.
> 
> So now I check out /usr/lib/news/innshellvars and discover that this is
> how the paths are retrieved:
> 
> eval `/usr/lib/news/bin/innconfval -s`
> 
> I can execute this from the command line and many of the variables are
> in the shell environment. However variables such as PATHDB are missing,
> even though they are clearly in the /usr/lib/news/bin/innconfval -s
> output.
> 
> Could this all be caused by too little space to store all the new
> environment variables? Should I receive an error message if this is
> happening?
> 
> Many thanks,
> Adam

Re: building a kernel

[Adam Warner]

Hi Robert,

On Tue, 2001-09-18 at 14:32, Robert Schweikert wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am new to debian, actually I don't even have everything running yet as
> I want it to. Right now I was trying to build a kernel and I got the
> following problem

I build my own kernels. But are you sure you need to?

To search the package database for Debian packages:

apt-cache search 

For example for my system these kernel-related packages are available:

apt-cache search 2.2.19

kernel-doc-2.2.19pre17 - Linux kernel specific documentation for version
2.2.19pre17.
kernel-headers-2.2.19pre17-compact - Header files related to Linux
kernel version 2.2.19pre17-compact
kernel-headers-2.2.19pre17-idepci - Header files related to Linux kernel
version 2.2.19pre17-idepci
kernel-image-2.2.19pre17-compact - Linux kernel binary image.
kernel-image-2.2.19pre17-idepci - Linux kernel binary image.
kernel-patch-2.2.19pre17-ide - Andre Hedrick's IDE patch.
kernel-patch-2.2.19pre17-powerpc - Diffs to the kernel source for
PowerPC
kernel-source-2.2.19pre17 - Linux kernel source for version 2.2.19pre17
pcmcia-modules-2.2.19pre17 - PCMCIA Modules for Linux (kernel
2.2.19pre17).
pcmcia-modules-2.2.19pre17-compact - PCMCIA Modules for Linux (kernel
2.2.19pre17-compact).
pcmcia-modules-2.2.19pre17-ide - PCMCIA Modules for Linux (kernel
2.2.19pre17-ide).
pcmcia-modules-2.2.19pre17-idepci - PCMCIA Modules for Linux (kernel
2.2.19pre17-idepci).
kernel-patch-2.2.19-arm - Diffs to the Linux kernel source 2.2.19 for
ARM
kernel-doc-2.2.19 - Linux kernel specific documentation for version
2.2.19.
kernel-headers-2.2.19 - Header files related to Linux kernel version
2.2.19
kernel-headers-2.2.19-compact - Header files related to Linux kernel
version 2.2.19-compact
kernel-headers-2.2.19-ide - Header files related to Linux kernel version
2.2.19-ide
kernel-headers-2.2.19-idepci - Header files related to Linux kernel
version 2.2.19-idepci
kernel-headers-2.2.19-reiserfs - Header files related to Linux kernel
version 2.2.19
kernel-headers-2.2.19-sparc - Kernel header files for all sparc sub
architectures
kernel-headers-2.2.19-udma100-ext3 - Header files related to Linux
kernel version 2.2.19-udma100-ext3
kernel-image-2.2.19 - Linux kernel binary image for version 2.2.19.
kernel-image-2.2.19-compact - Linux kernel binary image.
kernel-image-2.2.19-ide - Linux kernel binary image for version 2.2.19.
kernel-image-2.2.19-idepci - Linux kernel binary image.
kernel-image-2.2.19-reiserfs - Linux kernel binary image for version
2.2.19.
kernel-image-2.2.19-udma100-ext3 - Linux kernel binary image for version
2.2.19-udma100-ext3.
kernel-patch-2.2.19-adaptec - adaptec scsi-driver update for linux
2.2.19
kernel-patch-2.2.19-ext3fs - ext3fs support for Linux 2.2.19
kernel-patch-2.2.19-harden - Some security related kernelpatches
kernel-patch-2.2.19-ide - Andre Hedrick's IDE patch.
kernel-patch-2.2.19-m68k - Diffs to the kernel source for m68k
kernel-patch-2.2.19-p3 - Doug Ledford's 2.2.12 p3 patch, modified for
2.2.19.
kernel-patch-2.2.19-powerpc - Diffs to the kernel source for PowerPC
kernel-patch-2.2.19-raid - Ingo Molnar's patch of raid2 functionality to
2.2.x
kernel-patch-2.2.19-reiserfs - ReiserFS support for Linux 2.2.19
kernel-patch-mosix0.98 - Kernel patch for mosix0.98
kernel-source-2.2.19 - Linux kernel source for version 2.2.19
lids-2.2.19 - LIDS Kernel Patch
lidsadm-2.2.19 - LIDS Admintool
xfonts-intl-japanese - International fonts for X -- Japanese.
xfonts-intl-japanese-big - International fonts for X -- Japanese big.
kernel-patch-mppe - ppp_mppe module for pppd
kernel-patch-tekram-dc3x5 - Tekram SCSI host DC3x5 support
pcmcia-modules-2.2.19 - PCMCIA Modules for Linux (kernel 2.2.19).
pcmcia-modules-2.2.19-compact - PCMCIA Modules for Linux (kernel
2.2.19-compact).
pcmcia-modules-2.2.19-ide - PCMCIA Modules for Linux (kernel
2.2.19-ide).
pcmcia-modules-2.2.19-idepci - PCMCIA Modules for Linux (kernel
2.2.19-idepci).
pcmcia-modules-2.2.19-reiserfs - PCMCIA Modules for Linux (kernel
2.2.19-reiserfs).
pcmcia-modules-2.2.19-udma100-ext3 - PCMCIA Modules for Linux (kernel
2.2.19-udma100-ext3).



Or for the latest 2.4 kernel:

apt-cache search 2.4.9

kernel-doc-2.4.9 - Linux kernel specific documentation for version
2.4.9.
kernel-headers-2.4.9 - Header files related to Linux kernel version
2.4.9
kernel-headers-2.4.9-386 - Headers for Linux kernel version 2.4.9 on 386
kernel-headers-2.4.9-586 - Headers for Linux kernel version 2.4.9 on
586/K5/5x86/6x86/6x86MX
kernel-headers-2.4.9-586tsc - Headers for Linux kernel version 2.4.9 on
Pentium-Classic
kernel-headers-2.4.9-686 - Headers for Linux kernel version 2.4.9 on
PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII
kernel-headers-2.4.9-686-smp - Linux kernel headers 2.4.9 on
PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII SMP
kernel-headers-2.4.9-k6 - Headers for Linux kernel version 2.4.9 on AMD
K6/K6-II/K6-III/K7
kernel-headers-2.4.9-sparc - Kernel header files for all sparc sub
architectures
kernel-image-2.4.9-386 - Linux kernel image for version 2.4.9 on 386.
kernel-image

INN2: rc.news script has empty directory paths

[Adam Warner]

Hi all,

[Debian unstable x86]

I've been having some big problems trying to get INN2 to run. I had it
successfully running and I was able to make a post as localhost but now
I find it has stopped working again. I have only made some innocuous
changes (nothing that would cause the problems set out below)

After installing task-news-server I had to run dpkg-reconfigure inn2 for
the history files to be created. At first it didn't work.

I now receive the message "IIND:   No active file!" when I try and start
the news server.

I've traced the error message into rc.news. The reason no active file is
found, and nothing else works, is that the path variables such as ACTIVE
are empty (PATHBIN etc are empty as well).

I have traced the setting of the path variables to inn.conf. pathdb is
valid and sets the location of the active etc. files.

First /etc/init.d/inn2 is started:

#! /bin/sh
#
# init.d/inn2   Start/stop the news server.
#

test -f /usr/lib/news/bin/innd || exit 0

start () {
su news -c /usr/lib/news/bin/rc.news
}


So all we see here is that inn2 just swiches execution to rc.news
running as user news.

So let's look at rc.news:

#! /bin/sh
. /usr/lib/news/innshellvars

Ah, this is where the paths are set.

The permissions on innshellvars are root:root rw,r,r

I have never seen the use of a dot-space-path before. I guess this is
the way of inserting an external script into a running script. I have
checked the Debian stable inn2 source and the notation is similar:

. @LIBDIR@/innshellvars

so it doesn't appear to be a typo.

Now if I add an "echo ${PATHLIB}" or "echo ${ACTIVE}" into this script I
find the paths are empty and /active respectively. Obviously active
won't be found in the root directory.

So now I check out /usr/lib/news/innshellvars and discover that this is
how the paths are retrieved:

eval `/usr/lib/news/bin/innconfval -s`

I can execute this from the command line and many of the variables are
in the shell environment. However variables such as PATHDB are missing,
even though they are clearly in the /usr/lib/news/bin/innconfval -s
output.

Could this all be caused by too little space to store all the new
environment variables? Should I receive an error message if this is
happening?

Many thanks,
Adam

Re: Anyone ever printed RECTANGLES under GNOME?

[Adam Warner]

On Tue, 2001-09-11 at 18:59, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 11:31:28 +1200, Adam Warner wrote:
> > I tried a number of the recommendations without success (e.g. rearranging
> > XF86Config-4, checking out locales, locales-gen). I hope what appears to
> > be a bug in gnome-print is resolved.
> 
> Have a look at http://bugs.debian.org/111782 . Greg reports his problems
> were fixed by adding "/usr/share/fonts/type1/gsfonts" to the
> "@default_paths" of
> "/usr/share/doc/libgnomeprint-data/run-gnome-font-install" and then running
> "sh /var/lib/dpkg/info/libgnomeprint-data.postinst configure".

THAT'S IT! THANK YOU SO, SO MUCH FOR PERSISTING :-) !!! :-)

Note that I had no problem with gnumeric starting plus I had checked
that my fontmap2 was populated so I had ignored the advice that Greg was
given!

Many thanks,
Adam

Re: Evolution

[Adam Warner]

On Tue, 2001-09-11 at 19:45, Ross Burton wrote:
> On Mon, 2001-09-10 at 21:24, Robert L. Harris wrote:
> > 
> >   Is anyone working with Evolution and IMAP?  I'm trying to get mine 
> > working with an exchange server.  Windows admin says IMAP is up and on
> > but I'm not having much luck.  I say to check mail, it asks for a pass
> > but doesn't show me my inbox.  I'm not getting any errors either.
> 
> Evolution and IMAP works very well for me, connecting to my local IMAP
> server, my ISP IMAP server and the work IMAP server.
> 
> The problem is Exchange...  :(  It's version of IMAP is... interesting?
> and some releases of Evolution are broken when connecting to MS
> servers.  And the recent snapshots have been broken, period.

BTW I have been using Evolution to access my Linux IMAP mailbox and all
the recent Evolution releases for Debian since about 0.10 have been
great (We are now up to 0.13-2). No secure IMAP support yet.

Over this time I have also been accessing my University mail (using
IMAP) which is an Exchange server so I know Exchange version 5.5 SP3 and
5.5 SP4 works with Evolution. I have heard some bad things about
Exchange 2000. See what Eric Raymond thinks of it standards
implementation:

http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/fetchmail/fetchmail-FAQ.html

---Begin Quote---

It's been reliably reported that Exchange 2000's POP3 support is so
broken that it's unusable. One symptom is that messages without a
terminating newline get the POP3 message termination dot emitted -- you
guessed it -- right after the last character of the message, with no
terminating newline added. This will hang fetchmail or any other
RFC-compliant server. IMAP is alleged to work OK, though.

[Great about the IMAP bit]

...

But, the best option involves a tactical nuclear weapon (an old ASROC
will do), pissing off a lot people who live downwind from Redmond, and
your choice of any Linux, NetBSD, FreeBSD, or Solaris CD. 

---End Quote---

Regards,
Adam Warner

Re: Anyone ever printed RECTANGLES under GNOME?

[Adam Warner]

On Tue, 2001-09-11 at 03:27, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 23:53:31 +1200, Adam Warner wrote:
> > http://www.consulting.net.nz/print_preview.png
> > 
> > This is Debian unstable on x86 running GNOME.  Evolution, gedit, etc. are
> > all printing rectanges.
> 
> See the threads "Weird font problem with gnumeric, gimp and others" [1],
> "Fonts in GTK" [2] as well as the BTS [3] for some suggestions on how to
> debug/fix this problem. For what it's worth, on my home system the problem
> went away when I moved from XFree 3's xserver-svga to XFree4's XFree86 .

Thanks. I tried a number of the recommendations without success (e.g.
rearranging XF86Config-4, checking out locales, locales-gen). I hope
what appears to be a bug in gnome-print is resolved.

Regards,
Adam

Anyone ever printed RECTANGLES under GNOME?

[Adam Warner]

Hi all,

Here's a print preview of the problem:

http://www.consulting.net.nz/print_preview.png

This is Debian unstable on x86 running GNOME.  Evolution, gedit, etc.
are all printing rectanges. My searching doesn't turn up a solution.

At this stage I'm printing text using StarOffice 5.2 since at least that
works. I can also print postscript fine from the command line. It seems
to be a GNOME print problem.

I've tried selecting different fonts under HTML Viewer in Control Panel.

I remember having the problem ages ago and it went away. Since I went
back to an older revision of my OS and again upgraded to the latest
packages its back again. Maybe I'm missing a necessary package.

What I have installed that may be relevant:

dpkg -l | grep -i 'print'

ii  libcupsys2 1.1.10-2   Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - libs
ii  libgnomeprint- 0.29-6 The GNOME Print architecture (binary
files)
ii  libgnomeprint- 0.29-6 The GNOME Print architecture (data
files)
ii  libgnomeprint- 0.29-6 The GNOME Print architecture
(development fi
ii  libgnomeprint1 0.25-2 The GNOME Print architecture
ii  libgnomeprint1 0.29-6 The GNOME Print architecture
ii  libprinterconf 0.3-4  Printer autodetection library
ii  lprng  3.7.4-5lpr/lpd printer spooling system
ii  lprngtool  1.1.1-4GUI frontend to LPRng based
/etc/printcap
ii  mpage  2.5.1pre-6 print multiple pages per sheet on
PostScript
ii  samba  2.2.1a-9   A LanManager like file and printer
server fo
ii  transfig   3.2.3.d-rel-1  Utilities for printing figures from
xfig.

dpkg -l | grep -i 'font'

ii  console-data   1999.08.29-21. Keymaps, fonts, charset maps, fallback
table
ii  console-tools  0.2.3-23.1 Linux console and font utilities.
ii  console-tools- 0.2.3-23.1 Shared libraries for Linux console and
font 
ii  defoma 0.4.7  Debian Font Manager -- automatic font
config
ii  fnlib-data 0.5-5  Font files needed by Fnlib
ii  fttools1.2-11 FreeType font utilities.
ii  gsfonts6.0-2  Fonts for the ghostscript interpreter
ii  gsfonts-other  5.10-2.1   Additional fonts for the ghostscript
interpr
ii  gsfonts-x110.13   Make Ghostscript fonts available to
X11.
ii  libfnlib0  0.5-5  Fnlib is a special font rendering
library us
ii  libfreetype6   2.0.2.20010514 FreeType 2 font engine, shared library
files
ii  libttf21.4pre.2001042 FreeType 1, The FREE TrueType Font
Engine, s
ii  msttcorefonts  0.9.7  Installer for Microsoft TrueType core
fonts
ii  t1lib1 1.2-1  Type 1 font rasterizer library -
runtime
ii  vflib2 2.25.1-12.2Vector Font Library for Japanese
Character C
ii  vflib3 3.6.10-2   Versatile Font Library
ii  xfonts-100dpi  4.1.0-5100 dpi fonts for X
ii  xfonts-75dpi   4.1.0-575 dpi fonts for X
ii  xfonts-base4.1.0-5standard fonts for X
ii  xfonts-scalabl 4.1.0-5scalable fonts for X
ii  xfonts-scalabl 4.0.3-2non-free Type1 fonts from XFree86

Thanks,
Adam

Re: quick Q about dos disketts

[Adam Warner]

On 03 Sep 2001 18:31:16 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi all. what do I need to install to be able to format DOS diskettes?
> thanks!

apt-get install mtools

and

apt-get install gfloppy

if you want to be able to format floppies using a GNOME graphical
interface.

Regards,
Adam

Re: GNOME Blank Screensaver

[Adam Warner]

On 03 Sep 2001 11:21:24 -0700, Tim Moss wrote:
> Adam Warner wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > Does anyone know how to set up a blank screensaver under GNOME?
> > 
> > I've checked web and newsgroup archives and I can't find a solution that
> > works!
> > 
> > I'm running Debian unstable.
> > 
> > Even if I add a file in /usr/share/control-center/.data called
> > Blank.desktop with these contents:
> > 
> > [Desktop Entry]
> > Name=Blank Screensaver
> > Comment=
> > Exec=xscreensaver-command -activate
> > TryExec=
> > Terminal=0
> > Type=Application
> > 
> > [Screensaver Data]
> > WindowIdCommand=
> > RootCommand=
> > Icon=
> > Author=
> > ExtendedComment=
> > Demo=
> > 
> > 
> > I get a random screensaver!
> > 
> > Many thanks,
> > Adam
> 
> 
> I think if you run
> xscreensaver-demo
> and deselect all the screensavers, it will do you you want.

Many thanks Tim. I can confirm that I now get a blank screen.

Regards,
Adam

GNOME Blank Screensaver

[Adam Warner]

Hi all,

Does anyone know how to set up a blank screensaver under GNOME?

I've checked web and newsgroup archives and I can't find a solution that
works!

I'm running Debian unstable.

Even if I add a file in /usr/share/control-center/.data called
Blank.desktop with these contents:

[Desktop Entry]
Name=Blank Screensaver
Comment=
Exec=xscreensaver-command -activate
TryExec=
Terminal=0
Type=Application

[Screensaver Data]
WindowIdCommand=
RootCommand=
Icon=
Author=
ExtendedComment=
Demo=


I get a random screensaver!

Many thanks,
Adam

Re: How do I UNHOLD a non-existent package?

[Adam Warner]

On 24 Aug 2001 01:44:00 -0600, John Galt wrote:
> On 24 Aug 2001, Adam Warner wrote:
> 
> >Hi all,
> >
> >I used
> >
> >echo " hold" | dpkg --set-selections
> 
> echo " purge" | dpkg --set-selections

Thanks for trying to help John. There I was trying to search out the db
internals documentation to try and hack the package db (which would have
been a very unwise move) when I thought I've give the man dpkg page
another go.

I finally came across this neat command:

dpkg --forget-old-unavail
Forget about uninstalled unavailable packages.

And it does the trick! My newly created non-existent package disappeared
from the database.

I suspect this may not have worked if you didn't instruct me to change
the non-existent package status to "purge" first.

Many thanks,
Adam

Re: How do I UNHOLD a non-existent package?

[Adam Warner]

On 24 Aug 2001 01:44:00 -0600, John Galt wrote:
> On 24 Aug 2001, Adam Warner wrote:
> 
> >Hi all,
> >
> >I used
> >
> >echo " hold" | dpkg --set-selections
> 
> echo " purge" | dpkg --set-selections

Nice guess Atlas Shrugged but it doesn't work. The non-existent package
still exists in the database:

dpkg --get-selections tinytable
tinytablepurge

It used to say hold but now it says purge. Not much of an improvement
:-)

Regards,
Adam

NB: I meant to put zope-tinytable on hold.

How do I UNHOLD a non-existent package?

[Adam Warner]

Hi all,

I used

echo " hold" | dpkg --set-selections

To put a package on hold but it turned out I used the wrong name. And it
is sitting in the package database as held:

dpkg --get-selections 

Shows that the non-existent package is currently being held. Plus an
apt-get install shows that the package exists in the database but has no
installation candidate!

It is possible that non-one in the world has ever answered how to unhold
a non-existent package :-)

When the unhold question has been asked in the past the advice was to
install the package, but that is clearly not relevant in this case.

Thanks for your help,
Adam

Re: regexp BUG in multiple GUI text editing programs

[Adam Warner]

On 23 Aug 2001 16:16:09 +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 06:08:09PM +1200, Adam Warner wrote:
> > Try and replace the tags with "hello" (no quotes) using this regexp:
> > <.*?>
> > [The "?" is supposed to make the any character matching non-greedy].
> 
> Regexps vary. Using the "?" in that way is a Perl regexp thing, iirc, and
> can't be relied on everywhere. Use "<[^>]*>" if you want to be sure.

Oops. I should have asked you guys first!

Well it's a pity that regexps vary. Thanks for the tip. I wasn't aware
that the use of a question mark was non-standard. I was looking at the
Python Regular Expression HOWTO at the time, but I remember using it
previously with a Perl-orientated regexp HOWTO as well.

This also explains why I didn't find other bug reports :-)

Regards,
Adam

regexp BUG in multiple GUI text editing programs

[Adam Warner]

Hi all,

I'm writing to you all together because you all suffer from the same
regexp bug. I suspect it could be caused by a library you all share? I
have only found that (X)Emacs doesn't suffer from it.

If you create a new file with these tags:



Try and replace the tags with "hello" (no quotes) using this regexp:

<.*?>

[The "?" is supposed to make the any character matching non-greedy].

Here's what happens in various packages:

Bluefish pre0.7 HTML editor:
The whole of  is incorrectly selected.

Kate 1.0 (using KDE 2.2):
The whole of  is incorrectly selected.

gnp (gnotepad+ 1.3.1):
0 replacements found.

nedit version 5.1.1:
Very weird. If I replace the above string with "hello" (no quotes) the
output becomes:

hellohello

In all cases the end result should be:

hellohello

Only XEmacs is capable of generating the correct answer. I'm running an
up-to-date version of Debian unstable on x86.

I'm pretty new to regular expressions so I hope I haven't made an
elementary mistake (but I have XEmacs as my comparison :-)

I'm only subscribed to debian-user and debian-devel. Please only follow
up to the relevant groups or individuals.

Regards,
Adam

Re: Weird /errs?????? files (gnulpr/printtool/lpr-ppd/printfilters)

[Adam Warner]

On 10 Aug 2001 12:12:34 -0500, Michael Heldebrant wrote:
> What are the contents of the err files?  Perhaps they can be of some
> utility in deciphering your problems.

Many thanks for trying to help. As I said initially they were zero byte
files.

I have solved all my problems by removing
lpr-ppd/printtool/gnulpr/printfilters-ppd and moving to an lpr/apsfilter
solution.

Regards,
Adam

Re: Weird /errs?????? files (gnulpr/printtool/lpr-ppd/printfilters)

[Adam Warner]

On 10 Aug 2001 09:31:36 -0500, Michael Heldebrant wrote:
> What does running gpr tell you about the printing system.  Does it still
> think everything is configured fine?

I'd never used the command before!

It told me to add a PPD file for the printer. So I added the correct one
for my printer. Then gpr doesn't complain at all. But I still get the
/errs... files.

It appears to be caused by the combination of lpr-ppd and
printfilters-ppd. Replacing lpr-ppd with lpr stops the /errs... files.

I can't find any 'errs' string in any of the relevant scripts (to help
pinpoint the source of the error messages).

Regards,
Adam


> On 10 Aug 2001 10:23:47 +1200, Adam Warner wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > gnulpr 1.2   GNUlpr printing system.
> > gpr0.4-3 GUI for lpr: print files and configure print
> > lpr-ppd0.71-5BSD lpr/lpd line printer spooling system
> > printfilters-p 2.02-7filters from the GNUlpr printing system
> > 
> > This is reproducible on all my Debian unstable boxes.
> > 
> > I have upgraded to the latest printtool which uses the files above. I
> > was using lprng but printtool forced the change (it also forces the
> > installation of gs instead of gs-aladdin. I'm on a force-depends merry
> > go-round)
> > 
> > I get zero byte files in / named errs?? (? is an alpha-numeric
> > character).
> > 
> > I get no error messages in /var/log/lpr.log
> > /var/log/lp-acct and /var/log/lp-errs are empty
> > 
> > Every time I print /tmp also gains another zero byte file such as:
> > printtmp.KtZajX
> > 
> > Anyone seen this or know how to fix it?
> > 
> > Many thanks,
> > Adam
> > 
> > 
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Weird /errs?????? files (gnulpr/printtool/lpr-ppd/printfilters)

[Adam Warner]

Hi all,

gnulpr 1.2   GNUlpr printing system.
gpr0.4-3 GUI for lpr: print files and configure print
lpr-ppd0.71-5BSD lpr/lpd line printer spooling system
printfilters-p 2.02-7filters from the GNUlpr printing system

This is reproducible on all my Debian unstable boxes.

I have upgraded to the latest printtool which uses the files above. I
was using lprng but printtool forced the change (it also forces the
installation of gs instead of gs-aladdin. I'm on a force-depends merry
go-round)

I get zero byte files in / named errs?? (? is an alpha-numeric
character).

I get no error messages in /var/log/lpr.log
/var/log/lp-acct and /var/log/lp-errs are empty

Every time I print /tmp also gains another zero byte file such as:
printtmp.KtZajX

Anyone seen this or know how to fix it?

Many thanks,
Adam

Re: exim error message question

[Adam Warner]

On 05 Jul 2001 20:57:57 +1200, Adam Warner wrote:
 
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: host 210.55.104.94[210.55.104.94] said: 550
> relaying to
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> prohibited by administrator

I discovered that I had to add 210.55.104.94 to local_domains in
exim.conf.

I'll be unsubscribing from these mailing lists to make sure I don't
cause excessive bounced mail while I transfer the domain.

Regards,
Adam

Re: upgrade question

[Adam Warner]

On 04 Jul 2001 23:45:33 -0300, Linuxero wrote:
> Hello.
> I'm new to debian (not to linux). I have installed potato version 2.2r2
> First off all I inserted in sources.list a ftp to download new packages,
> then I maked an update of packages lists, so
> I did a #apt-get dist-upgrade successfuly but I noted that the kernel has
> not been upgraded...
> this is ok?
> How i can do the kernel update?

Either compile your own or get Debian to install a new one.

Type "apt-cache search kernel-image" to see your current list of
possible kernels.

You might also want to check out this link:
http://www.fs.tum.de/~bunk/kernel-24.html

If you want to install a 2.4 kernel in stable. Follow the instructions
to add the new lines to sources.list.

Regards,
Adam

Re: passing "mem=???" to the kernel

[Adam Warner]

On 04 Jul 2001 23:05:40 -0500, Matthew Garman wrote:

> What kernel version are you running?  It's been a long time since I've had
> to pass the "mem=" parameter to my kernel.  I think that was necessary in
> the 2.0.x and younger kernels, but I don't think it's been an issue since
> 2.2.x (but I'm just guessing :).
> 
> If you have a later 2.2.x kernel, or a 2.4.x kernel, I don't think you
> should need to pass the mem= statement.

I was surprised to discover I had to pass the mem= statement with an
older Digital Prioris and 2.4.5 kernel to recognise over 64MB of RAM (I
was wondering why the server was so sluggish). It may be more a problem
with older hardware/BIOS combinations rather than just older kernels.

Of course, adding append="mem=xxxM" to lilo.conf (where xxx is the amount
of memory in megabytes) fixed the problem.

Remember, if you edit lilo.conf rerun lilo before you reboot.

Regards,
Adam

exim error message question

[Adam Warner]

Hi all,

I've been trying to set up exim to receive mail without success yet.
When I try and send send mail to my IP address I get this result:

This is the Postfix program at host mail.win.co.nz.

I'm sorry to have to inform you that the message returned
below could not be delivered to one or more destinations.

For further assistance, please send mail to 

If you do so, please include this problem report. You can
delete your own text from the message returned below.

The Postfix program

<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: host 210.55.104.94[210.55.104.94] said: 550
relaying to
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> prohibited by administrator


Reporting-MTA: dns; mail.win.co.nz
Arrival-Date: Thu,  5 Jul 2001 20:47:06 +1200 (NZST)

Final-Recipient: rfc822; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Action: failed
Status: 5.0.0
Diagnostic-Code: X-Postfix; host 210.55.104.94[210.55.104.94] said: 550
relaying to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> prohibited by administrator

--

My IP address is 210.55.104.94. mail.win.co.nz is my ISPs SMTP server
that I used to try and send mail to myself.

It looks like I am prohibiting the receipt of the message. Any
suggestions? I'm running Debian unstable.

I had a problem with exim binding to port 25 but I have now solved that.
I'm running exim as a daemon.

Many thanks,
Adam