RE: Shutdown due to thermal event (sid)
From: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, October 30, 2005 10:03 PM On Sat, 29 Oct 2005, Mauro Condarelli wrote: The machine is a: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz based on an Intel motherboard (D865GBF) with 1Gb RAM, a lot of disks (I added a PCI board with tertiary and quaternary IDE channels) running: Somebody mentioned so many HD's might need more fans. Also of note, is that that much hardware might need a larger/better power supply. Many a system have died (some in smoke) due to insufficient power, which can also cause overheating. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: drawing application
From: roberto [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2005 12:10 PM On 10/27/05, Roberto C. Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What do you want to draw? There are tools like Dia, Kivio, the GIMP, Sodipodi, and dozens more. We need more information about what sorts of tasks you intend to do with this frawding program. just simple lines, points, arcs, some coloured areas and so on, nothing especially difficult but oodraw and koulorpaint was unsatisfiying me... Never having really used a drawing package, I just started using inkscape, and I really like it. I found it really easy to draw a kettle, glowing from underneath, and I am NOT very artistic. It is for creating Scalar Vector Graphics, though you can export to bitmap (and, presumably, use a converter from there). Maybe not what you are looking for (depending on the output you want), but worth mentioning. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Old Annoyance Revisited (console cluttered with iptables nois e)
From: Scarletdown [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 17, 2004 2:47 AM When I am working from the console, I keep getting messages like this: IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=00:0c:6e:93:e5:7f:00:03:6c:07:b8:54:08:00 SRC=66.135.208.101 DST=24.113.69.183 LEN=40 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=114 ID=54911 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=80 DPT=3733 SEQ=3838321228 ACK=1340683061 WINDOW=0 RES=0x00 ACK RST URGP=0 I know it is caused by iptables, but I can't seem to figure out how to stop the messages from being sent to the screen. Just having them go into syslog or some other log file is good enough. What do I need to do to regain use of my screen? debian.org - Documentation - Debian Reference - HTML Look for console or messages: 8.6.8 Error messages on the console screen [1] In order to quiet on-screen error messages, the first place to check is /etc/init.d/klogd. Set KLOGD=-c 3 in this script and run /etc/init.d/klogd restart. An alternative method is to run dmesg -n3. I hope this is what you were looking for. [1] debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-tips.en.html#s8.6.8 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Old Annoyance Revisited (console cluttered with iptables nois e)
From: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 17, 2004 5:08 AM Edit /etc/init.d/klogd, and add -c 4 to the klogd options. My previous reply doesn't seem to have made it to the list, so here's the short version: This is in the Debian Reference under Tips: debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-tips.en.html#s8.6.8 The quick and dirty answer is: dmesg -n3 or what ever level you want. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Linux Router
From: Michael Madden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 13, 2004 5:31 PM Thanks for all the advice. I guess something like LRP appealed to me more since it was floppy based and didn't require setting up a distro with many unneeded utilities. Does anyone know of an active floppy based firewall (Linux or *BSD)? (maybe this time i'll reply to the list ;-) I've never used it, but CoyoteLinux [1] appears to be active. It even has a Windows based Wizard, if you are so inclined. [1] http://www.coyotelinux.com/products.php?Product=coyote -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Selective TCP listening with X
From: Greg J. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2004 4:29 PM I'm interested in configuring X to listen for TCP connections on localhost but no other interfaces so that I can use xmove via SSH without opening X up to remote TCP-based attacks. Is there any X configuration option to do so? I just lost my reply, so here's a short replay... I think the default in Debian is to NOT listen for TCP connections. It's not in the X(7) man page, but `grep -r listen /etc/X11` shows a couple of locations where X is called with the -nolisten flag. I believe this causes X to ONLY listen on local Unix sockets. I found it. -nolisten is mentioned in the Xserver(1) man page. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
pnp_dock_thread error in endless loop
Upon installing sarge using kernel-image-2.6.7-1-386 Version 2.6.7-2, I get the following message constantly scrolling up the screen at 2 second interfals: PnPBIOS: pnp_dock_thread: invalid function number passed I discover this is associated with ACPI and the kpnpbiosd thread (pnp_dock_thread()). It appears that while trying to get the docking station info (pnp_bios_dock_station_info()), it request info from BIOS and BIOS tells it doen't know how to handle the request. I would think that if I got response stating that the function requested was invalid, that I would display an error once and kill myself. This isn't even a laptop. Would this be considered a kernel bug, or am I missing something? If not a bug, the only options I ahve found are: 1. Disable ACPI in the BIOS 2. Disable ACPI on the kernel command line 3. Disable CONFIG_HOTPLUG 4. Change the debug level with dmesg or in syskklogd None of which seem to be very satisfying. Are there any other options, like telling the kpnpbiosd thread that this is NOT a laptop and to not look for a docking station? -- Thanks, Nathan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Cloning a workstation
From: Sarunas Burdulis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2004 9:31 AM I need to clone a workstation (which has some custom configuration and scripts added to otherwise basic Sarge/KDE) into another set of absolutely identical hardware (Intel Pentium 4, IDE HD). Just one clone, not a massive install. What tools would you use? Easiest/quickest? Machines are on an Ethernet, have CD/DVD and floppy drives. There have been many great suggestions already. Here are two more: 1. I have used mkCDRec (http://mkcdrec.ota.be). I unpack the tarball; cd mkcdrec; make test; make and answer a couple of prompts, then wait a while (long while). You might want to change the Config.sh, specifically SCSIDEVICE, nad BURNCDR. I think the image winds up in /home for some reason. Overall, it's not a perfect solution, but works well for me. 2. Also, I recently booted a new box (it has no CD, so I installed a minimal system on a small partition using woody boot floppies) by copying over the network. I booted the system, partitioned, like the other system, copied the filesystems over the network, and installed the bootloader. To copy I used something similar to: ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] 'tar -C / -clf - .' | tar -C /mnt/root -xvf - The -l option to tar tells it to only copy files on the given parition. The /mnt/root is the partiton on the local system where you want the file to go. The syntax may be slightly off, I didn't write it down when I did it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Sarge ttyS0 (COM1) Software Issues
From: Pete [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2004 1:26 PM I'm having some issues with ttyS0 (COM1) on my mail server. I'm trying to get it to work with NUT, but I cannot communicate through the serial port. Assuming the port works (I usually test with a modem), APC UPS's need a special cable. There are instructions on NUT's and apcupsd's website (iirc). The smart UPS's also might need a special command sent to them before they will talk to you. Other UPS's may or may not be similar. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Network down, reboot fixes, update
From: Carl Fink [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2004 6:38 PM The problem was solved by issuing ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1 Shouldn't that happen automatically? If anyone of the following isn't right, it won't be automagic. The loopback is typically configured in /etc/network/interfaces: # The loopback interface auto lo iface lo inet loopback This is the config file for the ifup/ifdown utilities. Typically, `ifup -a` would be called at boot time to bring the interfaces up. /etc/rcS.d/S40networking is a link to /etc/init.d/networking on my system. /etc/init.d/networking must be executeable. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Newbie Having Much Trouble Getting Deb 2.4.18-bf2.4 To Work
From: Leonard Chatagnier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 03, 2004 11:43 AM Ugh, don't know how to, yet. Could you give me the command or referenct? Login as root and type the following: echo chatagnier /etc/hostname To clarify my previous post: In my other post I said source /etc/profile because, normally, this file is automatically sourced when a normal user logs in, and PS1 (the variable that controls how the prompt looks) is set there. You sane always change that at any time by doing something like PS1=My Prompt: . I also gave this option of sourceing ~/.profile because I didn't know if you were logging in as a normal user or root. On the system I use, when root logs in, /etc/profile is NOT sourced, but the .profile file in root's home directory is (the tilda (~) is shorthand for the current user's home directory). Len Chatagnier - Original Message - From: Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 03, 2004 8:42 AM Subject: Re: Newbie Having Much Trouble Getting Deb 2.4.18-bf2.4 To Work Leonard Chatagnier wrote: RE: Nathan Croy's suggestions: #hostname=none I have no hostname file in /etc, only host.conf, hosts.allow, hosts.deny and host.canna. So create an /etc/hostname file, and in it have your computer's hostname. -- Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: OT: time and computer networks
From: Ron Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2004 1:14 AM On Thu, 2004-12-02 at 00:59 -0500, Matt Price wrote: hi folks, only a hemi-geek): why does a network need careful clock synchronization? It's applications humans that need/want clock sync. A quick, simple example is forensic analysis of log files. Another popular example would be remote filesysems (i.e. NFS, Samba, etc.). For instance, my soure files are stored on an NFS mount, but I compile on a local box. Make depends on timestamps to know what to compile. If the systems don't synch up very well, there is a chance a changed file will not be remade. Also imagine if your boss looked at your TPS reports on the Samba server and found that they were dated in the future (according to the clock on his PC). Or worse 3 years in the past. (Ron, thanks for the Reply head's up) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Newbie Having Much Trouble Getting Deb 2.4.18-bf2.4 To Work
From: Leonard Chatagnier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2004 4:35 PM Since the last couple of reinstalls, the first was with a bunch of Net programs installed for first time, I lost my Debian host name, now it's (none) and I think its affecting most all of the software, especially the Mozilla Email client. I tried using `hostname` to put Debian back in the prompt with no error messages but (none) stays for the domain name on the terminal prompt. Can anyone tell me how to fix this so I can use my email program. `hostname` by itself will tell you what the machine thinks its name is. `hostname puter` chanages the hostname to puter, but this will not change the prompt immediately. First you must log out and back in to see a change there. (alternatively, you could source /etc/profile or ~/.profile since this is where PS1 is typically set). However, this will not make the change permanent as the hostname is reset on each reboot by the /etc/init.d/hostname.sh script. (/etc/init.d holds all the startup/shutdown scripts linked to from the appropriate runlevel directory (/etc/rc.*) (see init /etc/inittab for more on runlevels)). The /etc/init.d/hostname.sh sript reads /etc/hostname to set the hostname. So, to come to the point of an incredibly long winded response, make sure the file /etc/hostname contains the hostname you want. I hope someone else can help with your other questions. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Possible convert to Debian
5. I am interested in software RAID 1 and have 2 identical
HDDs. Is there
an option during the install from Debian CDs (didn't see it
in the Knoppix
HD install) to setup RAID? If not, any recs on the easiest
way to get RAID
1 going after the initial installation?
As this seems to be the only question left untouched, I'll give it a whirl.
There is no option for raid at install time that I am aware of, though I
haven't tried the new installer. I'll have to set my partition types to
RAID from the installer partitioner and see if it'll play nice :).
First, of course, I'd recommend the RAID-HOWTO. And when it suggests you
compile your own kernel with RAID-1 compiled in, I would do as it says. The
kernel will automatically detect the raid partitions at boot time without
having to worry with setting up the initrrd to preload the raid modules
before booting the rest of the system. Of course if you are not mirroring
your root (/) partition, you won't have to worry about that, and you can
just follow the basics in the HOWTO.
There are two tools for managing raids: raidtools2 and mdadm. IIRC, the
HOWTO mostly discusses raidtools, but does mention mdadm. Personally, I
settled on mdadm for its ease of scripting.
In a nutshell, if you ARE using initrd and mirroring your root partition,
you'll have to preform the following:
1. Create identical partitions on each disk and set the type to Linus Raid
Autodetect (Type:fd)
2. Create the filesystems on the 2nd disk and copy all the data over.
3. Create an /etc/fstab appropriate for RAID (i.e. /dev/md1) on the 2nd
disk.
4. Create a proper lilo.conf on the 2nd disk. (I used
raid-extra-boot=/dev/sda,/dev/sdb)
5. Create an initrd image (mkinitrd).
I used mdadm -Db /dev/md? /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf to create a conf file
to be used in the initrd.
I put /dev/sda1, /dev/sdb1, /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf in /etc/mkinitrd/files.
And I made sure /dev/sda1 /dev/sdb1 was appended to line in
${INITRDDIR}/script
Finally I ran mkinitrd -k -r /dev/md1 -o /mnt/boot/initrd.img-md
6. lilo -r /mnt (where I had my 2nd disks root partition mounted)
At this point I rebooted. This put me running on the 2nd disk which was a
degraded RAID-1. I added the 1st disk by: mdadm -a /dev/md1 /dev/sda1
Finally, I rebuilt the initrd and reran lilo:
mkinitrd -k -r /dev/md1 -o /boot/initrd.img-md
lilo
From there I watched the partitions resynch by looking at /proc/mdstat
NOTE: I did upgrade lilo to 22.5.8. The version in stable didn't seem to
play nice with the raid-extra-boot option. However, it did seem to work with
`lilo -b /dev/sda; lilo -b /dev/sdb` IFF I waited for the drives to
completely resynch before issueing the mkinitrd/lilo combination at the end.
Also NOTE, that some tools expect to find a raidtools style config file and
associated tools. Mondo rescue seems to be one of these, though I haven't
looked too deeply into it.
This is just an overview/summary of what I did there was a LOT of reading
and trial and error that went on before I got it working (of course I do
tend to be stubbborn and try the least likely to work option first for the
sake of proving that it won't work that way). I actually wrote scripts to
automate all this. Pehaps later today I'll try to dig them up and post.
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RE: Anyone recommend a multi-serial card?
-Original Message- From: Freivald, Joseph A, GVSOL [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2004 9:35 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Anyone recommend a multi-serial card? Anyone have great things to say about any particular Multi-Serial Card? I need to purchase a card with at least 16, preferably 32 RS-232 ports on a single PCI card under Linux. We've been using Stallion EasyConnection EasyIO cards with the RJ45 adapters for a little while here with very good success. Debian has the stallion.o module precompiled, you just have to make the nodes in /dev (I believe a script was included in a download from stallion.com). The stallion.txt in the Linux source/Documentation has good info too. I believe you can get D-style blocks too. Just recently, we received a USB-4-port adapter from pearle (pearle.com). It seems to work pretty good. We are haveing a problem with one program when it forks, so we're trying to trak that down (a) a bug in the program, b) a problem with the unstable kernel shipped to us on the box, c) a problem with the USB drivers when a program forks like that, d) a problem with the usb-serial driver). I'm putting my money on a) as we have already compiled our own kernel. Sorry to stray off topic. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: DHCP
1. Make sure you have a working /etc/apt/sources.list Here is mine (note you may have to comment/remove any lines you have refering to the CD): deb http://debian.uchicago.edu/debian/ stable main contrib deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib deb http://debian.uchicago.edu/debian/ testing main contrib deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US testing/non-US main contrib #deb-src http://debian.uchicago.edu/debian/ stable main contrib #deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib 2. update the cache: apt-get update 3a. For the dhcp server, type: apt-get install dhcp 3b. For the dhcp client, type: apt-get install dhcp-client This should get you the stable version (which is probably already on your CDs). If you want testing, you should be able to use the -t testing option (i.e. `apt-get -t testing install dhcp`). I hope I haven't forgotten anything. -Original Message- From: sokhan heng [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2004 8:31 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: DHCP Hi there this is Sokhan Heng, I wonder if I could ask you one question please? i.e I wonder if I have to download the DHCP packet from the web, eventhough I have got a set of debian cd (7 cd)? Thank you so much Yours sincerely Sokhan Heng __ Do you Yahoo!? Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger. http://messenger.yahoo.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: delete key doesn't work with csh in xterm session
For users using /bin/csh and running rxvt-xterm, their delete key does not work. Users running /bin/bash and running rxvt-xterm, their delete key does work. Both delete keys work on an ssh session. I've looke through google, and found some items on setting delete keys manually but they do not appear to be applying correctly for csh. I've run accross references to two methods for setting the delete key: bindkey e[^H delete-char# Delete and stty echoe erase ^H try that without the echoe and press the BACKSPACE key for the ^H i.e. stty erase BACKSPACEENTER if it works, i think it could be put in a .cshrc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
make-kpkg: no rule for dummy_do_dep
SUMMARY: during make-kpkg, why do i get a make error with dummy_do_dep? FULL: I'm trying to create a kernel package The Debian Way. Following directions from the Debian Reference Manual section 7.1.1 http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-kernel.en.html#s-kernel-debia n I'm using stable and am trying to use make-kpkg, but I keep getting a problem with the dummy_do_help target: make[1]: *** No rule to make target `dummy_do_dep'. Stop. I've tried as root. I've tried as a normal user in group src. I've tried as myself in my on home dir. I've tried both with and without fakeroot. I did notice that dummy_do_dep appears in debian/rules but I'm not sure how that file fits into the picture. So, 1) what is debian/rules 2) what is dummy_do_dep 3) how can I fix this 4) during my trials, there were some issues with debian/changelog (appears empty) how does that figure in? Here's my command line truncated output: elvis:/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.19# fakeroot make-kpkg --append_to_version -test1 --initrd --revision=2004030.01 kernel_image modules_image lots of configing, and then... *** End of Linux kernelconfiguration. *** Check the top-level Makefile for additional configuration. *** Next, you must run 'make dep'. make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.19' /usr/bin/make -f ./debian/rules dummy_do_dep Use of uninitialized value in pattern match (m//) at /usr/share/kernel-package/kpkg-vercheck line 76 (#1) (W uninitialized) An undefined value was used as if it were already defined. It was interpreted as a or a 0, but maybe it was a mistake. To suppress this warning assign a defined value to your variables. To help you figure out what was undefined, perl tells you what operation you used the undefined value in. Note, however, that perl optimizes your program and the operation displayed in the warning may not necessarily appear literally in your program. For example, that $foo is usually optimized into that . $foo, and the warning will refer to the concatenation (.) operator, even though there is no . in your program. Use of uninitialized value in pattern match (m//) at /usr/share/kernel-package/kpkg-vercheck line 108 (#1) Use of uninitialized value in pattern match (m//) at /usr/share/kernel-package/kpkg-vercheck line 152 (#1) Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/share/kernel-package/kpkg-vercheck line 164 (#1) make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.19' make[1]: *** No rule to make target `dummy_do_dep'. Stop. make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.19' make: *** [stamp-kernel-configure] Error 2 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
