Re: exim rewrite, sorry
Osamu == Osamu Aoki [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Osamu On Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 11:09:15PM -0700, Osamu Aoki wrote: I had similar issue with my machine. If qualify domain is pointing to domain I set up system for it did not work. But using alternative domain name which match with filter entry activated filter. Osamu Oops, many typo and broken English. Well to follow-up, I am making Osamu hostname/domain name seen by hostname -f and exim config qualify Osamu domain name different. I hope it is clear. -- ~\^o^/~~~ ~\^.^/~~~ Osamu ~\^*^/~~~ ~\^_^/~~~ ~\^+^/~~~ ~\^:^/~~~ ~\^v^/~~~ + Osamu Aoki Osamu [EMAIL PROTECTED], GnuPG-key: 1024D/D5DE453D + + My debian Osamu quick-reference, http://www.aokiconsulting.com/quick/ + Thank you for the replies and the help - I eventually solved the problem, in case you are interested, the error was with the upper and lower case SanMarco local host/domain. Exim wouldn't rewrite the addresses because of a case problem. Thanks again, -- Giulio
exim rewrite, sorry
I can't make my exim rewrite line work...on a dial-up machine, no domain
Here are what I think are the pertinent parts of my exim.conf
qualify_domain = SanMarco
# qualify_recipient =
local_domains = localhost:SanMarco
[EMAIL PROTECTED]${lookup{$1}lsearch{/etc/email-addresses}\
{$value}fail} bcfrF
From /etc/email-addresses
giulio: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
This does not rewrite my address
output of: exim -brw giulio
sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
from: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
bcc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
env-from: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
env-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I know this is a problem which has been asked many times before, but after two
frustrating days...I'm sorry for one more time
Thank you very much for any help
--
Giulio
restarting a daemon
I am trying to modify and reload my exim.conf file. The beginning of the sample conf file says ...you change Exim's configuration file, you *must* remember to HUP the Exim daemon. I am unable to determine how to HUP a daemon without rebooting. Any help will be appreciated, thank you so much. -- Giulio
Re: restarting a daemon
Thanks to all for your replies, now that I can manage trial error, I hope I'll get my exim.conf right...Thanks again -- Giulio
Xemacs and MetaPost
I am using Xemacs 21.4 (testing), and it is installed without meta-mode.el,
which is installed, however, for emacs 20.7.
Is there a (good) reason for this, or is it safe to take meta-mode from CTAN and
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Subject: Xemacs and MetaPost
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I am using Xemacs 21.4 (testing), and it is installed without meta-mode.el,
which is installed, however, for emacs 20.7.
Is there a (good) reason for this, or is it safe to take meta-mode from CTAN
and install it in the Xemacs loadpath?
Thanks for any help or advice.
--
Giulio Morgan
Xemacs and MetaPost (corrected) sorry
oops - cut paste error - sorry! original post I am using Xemacs 21.4 (testing), and it is installed without meta-mode.el, which is installed, however, for emacs 20.7. Is there a (good) reason for this, or is it safe to take meta-mode from CTAN and install it in the Xemacs loadpath? Thanks for any help or advice. -- Giulio Morgan
XMMS and Mozilla
Can anyone advise how to make (a working) XMMS work as a plug-in for (a working) Mozilla 0.9.1? or if there is a more appropriate application, than XMMS? In general, how to setup plugins for Mozilla? Thanks very much --
Re: Any program to help achitectural drawing?
octree, available from http://www.octree.de is a fully operational CAD application (for architects) in beta which runs on Debian. Not gpl'ed, but free$. -- Giulio Morgan
Re: Xemacs Debian packaging systems
Glyn Millington [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Xemacs has it's own packaging system for upgrading component packages.
Does using it compromise the debian system and foul up any future
apt-gettery I might wish to try?
I feel sure there must be a Debian way on this - any suggestions?
Glyn
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so here we are then
http://members.tripod.co.uk/Christchurch2000uk
Running Debian/Gnu Linux
11:05am up 2:48, 2 users, load average: 0.24, 0.11, 0.14
I asked the same question some months ago, and it seemed that noone was certain
of the correct answer. I remain curious as well.
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Giulio Morgan
Re: Debian GNU Linux Bible ?release date?
Abner Gershon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Amazon has a book listed, Debian GNU Linux Bible, as not yet published but availability expected in Febuary 2001. Does anyone have any knowledge about when this is to be published and what if any version of Debian distro will accompany book. Thanks. __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/amazon.html -- Giulio Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: proper, debian location of latex files
Andre Berger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Giulio Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
What is the proper location in a debian system for files obtained from CTAN?
Should there be a /usr/local/share/texmf tree in addition to the
/usr/share/texmf tree, or should files obtained from sources other than
debian
be put in some logical place in the deb-package tree? files from
/macros/latex/contrib/supported/ for example?
Also, once installed, what is the command for making tex/latex aware of
these
files?
Thanks very much for your help
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Giulio Morgan
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
I've set up a custom tree /usr/local/share/texmf/ with the same
structure as /usr/share/texmf/, yet only with custom or newer
packages. Be sure to mimic the structure (depth) of the original tree
in your custom tree; you just have to add the branches you need to
it.
Examples for a custom package installation path:
/usr/local/share/texmf/tex/latex/koma-script/[and the koma-files]
/usr/local/share/texmf/bibtex/bst/andre.bst
This is the beginning of my /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf [comments snipped]:
TEXMFMAIN = /usr/share/texmf
TEXMFLOCAL = /usr/local/share/texmf
TEXMF = {!!$TEXMFLOCAL,!!$TEXMFMAIN}
SYSTEXMF = $TEXMF
VARTEXFONTS = /var/spool/texmf
TEXMFDBS = $TEXMF;$VARTEXFONTS
[the rest unchanged]
Note that my custom packages are sourced before the ones that come
with tetex (see line 3), which also allows the use of newer versions
of packages without any changes in the default installation. Just run
'texhash' as root every time you've changed something.
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Andre Berger[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks to all who replied, certainly I will set up my own separate tree.
--
Giulio Morgan
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Re: libcurses/libncurses problem
Christopher W. Aiken [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 10 Jan 2001, David Z Maze wrote: -Christopher W Aiken [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: -CWA I had libcurses problems when I tried to compile an application -CWA (pine 4.31 I think, can't remember). What I had to do was: -CWA -CWA cd /lib -CWA ln -sf libncurses.so.5.0 libncurses -CWA -CWA The compile/link was looking for libncurses and there was -CWA none. The symb link created by the above ln command worked. - -Don't do that by hand. Install the appropriate -dev package -(libncurses-dev, probably) instead; it should install the needed -header files, create that symbolic link, and possibly also install a -static library. - I already have libncurses installed and STILL had to set up the symb link. # dpkg -l | grep ncurses ii libncurses44.2-9 Shared libraries for terminal handling ii libncurses55.0-6.0potato1 Shared libraries for terminal handling ii libncurses5-de 5.0-6.0potato1 Developer's libraries and docs for ncurses ii ncurses-base 5.0-6.0potato1 Descriptions of common terminal types ii ncurses-bin5.0-6.0potato1 Terminal-related programs and man pages ii ncurses-term 5.0-6.0potato1 Additional terminal type definitions -- Christopher W. Aiken, Scenery Hill, Pa, USA chris at cwaiken dot com, www.cwaiken.com Current O/S: Debian GNU/Linux 2.2_r2 Christopher, I just wanted to say thanks for all your time and reply to your last post (not this one, I know). I have removed libncurses4-dev and installed (from unstable) libncurses5-dev - it turned out that a woody system could be partly in testing and partly in unstable - the relevant parts of my /lib and /usr/lib dirs now match yours exactly, including your manually created symb link, except I also have a lrwxrwxrwx1 20 Nov 25 22:59 libcurses.so.1 - /lib/libncurses.so.5 file in /usr/lib (which I don'y imagine is doing any harm),but I still can't get my app to run, so...I'll try to figure out something. Thanks again. -- Giulio Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
proper, debian location of latex files
What is the proper location in a debian system for files obtained from CTAN? Should there be a /usr/local/share/texmf tree in addition to the /usr/share/texmf tree, or should files obtained from sources other than debian be put in some logical place in the deb-package tree? files from /macros/latex/contrib/supported/ for example? Also, once installed, what is the command for making tex/latex aware of these files? Thanks very much for your help -- Giulio Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
lynx image viewing
I am using lynx in an xterm as a web browser with image loading toggled on. I have tried to set the .lynx_cfg file so that when lynx spawns a viewing window, lynx itself will remain active (so that I can load up as many images as I like and keep browsing). By my understanding, from reading the .lynx_cfg file, the following should set images to load in the background (giving me the behaviour I am seeking). XLOADIMAGE_COMMAND:xli %s and the following specification for viewer type (typical) should provide the same behaviour: VIEWER:application/postscript:ghostview %s:XWINDOWS Lynx successfully loads the image to the associated viewer, but lynx itself suspends in the terminal, and I can't reactivate it until I have killed the spawned viewer. If it is evident what I am doing wrong, I will appreciate any advice on how to correct. Thanks very much, -- Giulio Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
libcurses/libncurses problem
I believe I have a problem in my libcurses/libncurses configuration. I have a woody system, upgraded to from potatoo, upgraded to from slink. Following is my directory structure showing the relevant files. from /lib lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 18 Aug 26 1999 libcurses.so.1 - libcurses.so.1.0.0 -rwxr-xr-x1 root root52641 May 18 1995 libcurses.so.1.0.0xo lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 19 Jul 5 2000 libtermcap.so.2 - libtermcap.so.2.0.8 -rw-r--r--1 root root10500 Feb 3 2000 libtermcap.so.2.0.8 -rw-r--r--1 root root 242644 Oct 30 1998 libncurses.so.3.4 lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 17 May 27 2000 libncurses.so.4 - libncurses.so.4.2 -rw-r--r--1 root root 238700 Mar 5 2000 libncurses.so.4.2 lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 17 Nov 27 08:26 libncurses.so.5 - libncurses.so.5.0 - from /usr/lib lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 12 Jul 5 2000 libcurses.a - libncurses.a lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 13 Jul 5 2000 libcurses.so - libncurses.so lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 20 Nov 25 22:59 libcurses.so.1 - /lib/libncurses.so.5 -rw-r--r--1 root root 372674 Mar 5 2000 libncurses.a lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 20 Jul 5 2000 libncurses.so - /lib/libncurses.so.4 I think this is wrong because I am not able to launch an application (octree - cad program) which I know works for other debian users, and which I believe to be properly installed on my system. If someone can suggest simply how to modify by hand the files, I would appreciate it. Otherwise, Should I apt-get -purge remove ncurses-base ncurses-bin ncurse-term, and then apt-get install those same packages Any help much appreciated. -- Giulio Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: libcurses/libncurses problem
Christopher W. Aiken [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 10 Jan 2001, David Z Maze wrote: -Christopher W Aiken [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: -CWA I had libcurses problems when I tried to compile an application -CWA (pine 4.31 I think, can't remember). What I had to do was: -CWA -CWA cd /lib -CWA ln -sf libncurses.so.5.0 libncurses -CWA -CWA The compile/link was looking for libncurses and there was -CWA none. The symb link created by the above ln command worked. - -Don't do that by hand. Install the appropriate -dev package -(libncurses-dev, probably) instead; it should install the needed -header files, create that symbolic link, and possibly also install a -static library. - I already have libncurses installed and STILL had to set up the symb link. # dpkg -l | grep ncurses ii libncurses44.2-9 Shared libraries for terminal handling ii libncurses55.0-6.0potato1 Shared libraries for terminal handling ii libncurses5-de 5.0-6.0potato1 Developer's libraries and docs for ncurses ii ncurses-base 5.0-6.0potato1 Descriptions of common terminal types ii ncurses-bin5.0-6.0potato1 Terminal-related programs and man pages ii ncurses-term 5.0-6.0potato1 Additional terminal type definitions -- Christopher W. Aiken, Scenery Hill, Pa, USA Thank you Christopher and David. I have tried a combination of you suggestions, with no luck. First, I tried to install libncurses5-Dev, but apt complained as follows: Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: libncurses5-dev: Depends: libncurses5 (= 5.0-6.0potato1) but 5.0-8 is to be installed E: Sorry, broken packages I then created the synb link manually per Christopher's suggestion, and this had no effect (so I rm'ed the libncurses file). Then, # dpkg -l | grep ncurses ii libncurses44.2-9 Shared libraries for terminal handling ii libncurses4-de 4.2-9 Developer's libraries and docs for ncurses ii libncurses55.0-8 Shared libraries for terminal handling ii ncurses-base 5.0-8 Descriptions of common terminal types ii ncurses-bin5.0-8 Terminal-related programs and man pages ii ncurses-term 5.0-8 Additional terminal type definitions ii ncurses3.4 1.9.9g-8.11Video terminal manipulation - shared librari ii typist 2.3.1-1A simple ncurses typing tutor Sorry for asking what must be an obvious question, but...Does it appear from the directory structure included in the original post (included again below for convenience) that there is something obviously wrong - /lib/libcurses.so.1.0.0xo? Thanks for your time and help -- Giulio Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED] from /lib root root 18 Aug 26 1999 libcurses.so.1 - libcurses.so.1.0.0 root root52641 May 18 1995 libcurses.so.1.0.0xo root root 19 Jul 5 2000 libtermcap.so.2 - libtermcap.so.2.0.8 root root10500 Feb 3 2000 libtermcap.so.2.0.8 root root 242644 Oct 30 1998 libncurses.so.3.4 root root 238700 Mar 5 2000 libncurses.so.4.2 root root 17 Nov 27 08:26 libncurses.so.5 - libncurses.so.5.0 - from /usr/lib root root 12 Jul 5 2000 libcurses.a - libncurses.a root root 13 Jul 5 2000 libcurses.so - libncurses.so root root 20 Nov 25 22:59 libcurses.so.1 - /lib/libncurses.so.5 root root 372674 Mar 5 2000 libncurses.a root root 20 Jul 5 2000 libncurses.so - /lib/libncurses.so.4 perms removed for legibility
Jazip config problem
I installed jazip yesterday (from testing), and I have not been able to configure the tool successfully, or to mount my internal zip drive. From the start up messages, it appears that the Zip drive is seen: Jan 4 16:47:23 pieno kernel: hda: WDC AC28400R, ATA DISK drive Jan 4 16:47:23 pieno kernel: hdb: ATAPI CD-ROM DRIVE 36X MAXIMUM, ATAPI CDROM drive Jan 4 16:47:23 pieno kernel: hdc: IOMEGA ZIP 100 ATAPI Floppy, ATAPI FLOPPY drive but when I run jazipconfig (as root), I get the following message: There are currently no entries in /etc/jazip.conf. There are no Zip devices detected on the system. There are no Jaz devices detected on the system. Available commands: (c)reate an entry from scratch. (q)uit without saving. (e)xit and save changes. Any idea what might be wrong? Thanks for any help, -- Giulio Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Jazip config problem
Peter S Galbraith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Giulio Morgan wrote: I installed jazip yesterday (from testing), and I have not been able to configure the tool successfully, or to mount my internal zip drive. From the start up messages, it appears that the Zip drive is seen: Jan 4 16:47:23 pieno kernel: hdc: IOMEGA ZIP 100 ATAPI Floppy, ATAPI FLOPPY Jazip does its magic using low-level SCSI commands. As such, the ATAPI version of the Zip is supported in Jazip through SCSI emulation in the kernel. You can use your Zip _now_ without Jazip's helpful interface (using mount, etc). If you wish to use Jazip, recompile your kernel enabling SCSI emulation. If you do this, your ATAPI Zip drive will be detected at bootup as a SCSI disk (e.g. /dev/sda) instead of /dev/hdc. Hope this helps. Your friendly Debian Jazip maintainer, -- Peter Galbraith, research scientist [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maurice Lamontagne Institute, Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada P.O. Box 1000, Mont-Joli Qc, G5H 3Z4 Canada. 418-775-0852 FAX: 775-0546 6623'rd GNU/Linux user at the Counter - http://counter.li.org/ Thanks, I am going to try my first kernel recompile soon for various other devices, so I'll include SCSI emulation and keep my fingers crossed - -- Giulio Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: font-lock, xemacs, latex
Johann Spies [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 10:06:49AM -0500, Giulio Morgan wrote: At some point during upgrades, I have lost font-locking capability for LaTeX Try the following: Select (in Xemacs) Options, customize, apropos, font-lock and activate font-lock-mode and font-lock-maximum-decoration Set it and save it (Options, save options). Your .emacs-file should contain something like this: (custom-set-faces) (custom-set-variables '(font-lock-maximum-decoration t) '(font-lock-mode t nil (font-lock))) Regards. Johann -- -- Thank you Johann, the options were set as you suggested, and yet there was still no font-locking. Further investigation led me to add (if window-system (require 'font-latex)) to my .emacs, and this seems to have solved the problem. I don't know why this was necessary, I imagine it may be from trying to run both xemacs and fsf emacs. Thanks again, Giulio Giulio Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
font-lock, xemacs, latex
At some point during upgrades, I have lost font-locking capability for LaTeX in xemacs, in trying to diagnose the problem, Auctex info sent me to font-latex.el, then with locate, I get the following three files: /usr/share/emacs/20.7/site-lisp/auctex/font-latex.elc /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/auctex/font-latex.el /usr/share/xemacs21/packages/lisp/auctex/font-latex.elc then, the the following is from the top of the xemacs21/./././font-latex.elc file: ;;; compiled by [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Fri Aug 25 08:08:37 2000 ;;; from file /usr/src/cvs/xemacs-packages/wp/auctex/font-latex.el ;;; emacs version 21.1 (patch 12) Channel Islands XEmacs Lucid. ;;; bytecomp version 2.25 XEmacs; 22-Mar-96. ;;; optimization is on. ;;; this file uses opcodes which do not exist in Emacs 19. (if (and (boundp 'emacs-version) (or (and (boundp 'epoch::version) epoch::version) (string-lessp emacs-version 20))) (error `font-latex.el' was compiled for Emacs 20)) I don't know whether this is the problem, but font-locking would be very helpful, so I will appreciate any advice. Thanks very much -- Giulio Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
vnc problem: unable to connect to vnc server
I am trying, unsuccessfully, to make a VNC connection from Windows98 (office of my client) to my woody machine. Perhaps I am misunderstanding something about the usage of VNC, and if anyone could help, I would really appreciate it. I start the vncserver by $ vncserver :4, then check for my password in ~/.vnc/passwd. I discover it to be \111A\222\333P\444L\555, I then launch vncviewer from the windows machine, and am prompted for the address I wish to establish a connection to, I type in my dynamic ip address:4, and I am then prompted for session password, and type \111A\222\333P\444L\555, and I get a notification: VNC authentication failed! Following is the vnc log for this session, and I am unable to decipher what I am doing incorrectly, and, as mentioned, need help 08/12/00 10:39:35 Xvnc version 3.3.3r2 08/12/00 10:39:35 Copyright (C) ATT Laboratories Cambridge. 08/12/00 10:39:35 All Rights Reserved. 08/12/00 10:39:35 See http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc for information on VNC 08/12/00 10:39:35 Desktop name 'X' (pieno:4) 08/12/00 10:39:35 Protocol version supported 3.3 08/12/00 10:39:35 Listening for VNC connections on TCP port 5904 08/12/00 10:39:35 Listening for HTTP connections on TCP port 5804 08/12/00 10:39:35 URL http://pieno:5804 08/12/00 10:41:17 Got connection from client 205.xxx.xx.xxx 08/12/00 10:41:18 Protocol version 3.3 08/12/00 10:42:15 rfbAuthProcessClientMessage: authentication failed from 205.xxx.xx.xxx 08/12/00 10:42:15 Client 205.xxx.xx.xxx gone 08/12/00 10:42:15 Statistics: 08/12/00 10:42:15 framebuffer updates 0, rectangles 0, bytes 0 Any thoughts will be much appreciated. Also, one trivial question, what is the easiest way for me to determine my ip address. Currently, I check the ppp log which identifies the address of the local and remote machines when a connetion is established. This involves suing, opening and scanning the log, looking for a smarter way. Sorry for the dumb question. Thanks very much, -- Giulio Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: vnc problem: unable to connect to vnc server
Phil Brutsche [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... I am trying, unsuccessfully, to make a VNC connection from Windows98 (office of my client) to my woody machine. The text you see in ~/.vnc/passwd is the encrypted form of the password you assigned the connection - something is very wrong if you can enter the encrypted password and gain access to the X11 session. Try running vncpasswd to re-assign your password. Thank you Phil, that was it!. Now, one more question, how do I make the connection through an ssh tunnel (I can make a terminal ssh connection - via putty - I just don't know how to use ssh to connect to the vnc server). Thanks again Peter -- Giulio Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: DNS problem after upgrade to woody
kmself@ix.netcom.com writes: on Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 10:51:02AM -0500, Giulio Morgan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: kmself@ix.netcom.com writes: on Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 10:54:37PM -0500, Giulio Morgan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: After upgrading, I am unable to connect to mailserver with fetchmail, to remore hosts with apt, telnet, ssh, irc, lynx or mozilla. Messages are: unable to resolve host... something wicked happened... domain name could not be confirmed... it appears that there is a problem with DNS and I have no idea how to resolve it. Is your named daemon running? I've found that several daemons fail to restart after upgrades. DNS resolution tends to be poor without a running named Thank you Karsten, I can't determine if my named is running. BTW, I should mention DNS isn't my strong suite, though I've poked at it enough for it to roll over and die from time to time. Q'n'D: $ ps aux | grep [n]amed root 1398 0.0 0.7 2612 1832 ? S Nov29 0:12 /usr/sbin/named You may only be using /etc/resolv.conf, you don't need to run named, and quite probably shouldn't. If you've got a file /etc/init.d/named, you can try running it: $ /etc/init.d/named start ...to see what happens. It'll just bitch at you if it's already running. I checked logs to see if I could find any meaningful indication, and comparing pre- and post-upgrade logs, I noted that in the post-upgrade syslog, there is an entry: ...inetd[1731]: smtp/tcp: bind: Address already in use I believe this is different. named doesn't run out of indetd. I think it's trying to bind to a socket. which does not appear in my pre-upgrade logs In the ppp.log, there is a line: ...ppd[324]: not replacing existing default route to tap0 [0.0.0.0] and then further down, after immediately after connection is established, the following lines appear: ...ppd[324]: local address... ...ppd[324]: remote address 198.6.71.8 (correct address, line not copied verbatim) ...ppd[324]: script /etc/ppp/ip-up started up to here, everything as before, then, ...diald[207]: calling site 192.168.0.2 (don't know whose address) ...diald[207]: Error opening device /dev/modem: no such file or directory ...diald[207]: No devices free to call out on Are you getting your network connection? If you're relying on your ISP's DNS servers, and can't raise your PPP link, you're going to have trouble resovling hosts, but you can't reach them anyway g. Looks like you might have a modem config issue. Hardware layer beats IP layer any day of the week. In pre-upgrade log, the next line after script /etc/ppp/ip-up started, I don't remember exactly, but some indication of the successful completion of the script, diald not invoked. Haven't used diald myself, but you might look at / play with pppconf. I'd strongly suggest looking at the Network Administrator's Guide, by Olaf Kirche, included as 'NAG' in /usr/doc/ldp-nag It's got a nice little section which should be all you need to get DNS configured for a standalone box, plus data on other networking issues. The new edition (released this year) is well worth the upgrade. There's another O'Reilly book on DNS and BIND, but it's most likely overkill. For troubleshooting: - Find out if you've got a network connection. Try pinging a fixed IP. For example, www.sourceforge.net (216.104.232.234 -- so you don't have to resolve it). If you can reach that, you've got an external link. - Check your DNS configs. It's usually something stupid like having 'order hosts,bind' out of order in /etc/host.conf (you want it as stated), the wrong DNS forwarders in /etc/resolv.conf, or a broken DNS config. I'd shoot for a caching-only nameserver first, before getting too tricked out. - Read the book, 'coz I'm all out of trix. Thank you Karsten for all the advice. After spending some time trying to configure a DNS server, trying to reconfigure resolve.conf, hosts.conf (both of which were fine), and trying to get diald (which I had never explicitly tried to iinstall) working, I finally dpkg removed diald, and just using my old pppconfig, everything worked fine. I guess that what was happening was not a DNS or named problem, just that diald was initiated at boot, and then, after I made a ppp connection (pon), each time I tried to connect to a remote host, diald attempted to make a connection, and, finding the port and modem already in use, caused the application to return a standard error message. Not having intended to install diald during the upgrade, I didn't think out the error properly. The only useful question for anyone else might be why did diald get installed and initiated in the first place? Thanks again, Peter -- Giulio Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: DNS problem after upgrade to woody
kmself@ix.netcom.com writes: on Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 10:54:37PM -0500, Giulio Morgan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: After upgrading, I am unable to connect to mailserver with fetchmail, to remore hosts with apt, telnet, ssh, irc, lynx or mozilla. Messages are: unable to resolve host... something wicked happened... domain name could not be confirmed... it appears that there is a problem with DNS and I have no idea how to resolve it. Is your named daemon running? I've found that several daemons fail to restart after upgrades. DNS resolution tends to be poor without a running named Thank you Karsten, I can't determine if my named is running. I checked logs to see if I could find any meaningful indication, and comparing pre- and post-upgrade logs, I noted that in the post-upgrade syslog, there is an entry: ...inetd[1731]: smtp/tcp: bind: Address already in use which does not appear in my pre-upgrade logs In the ppp.log, there is a line: ...ppd[324]: not replacing existing default route to tap0 [0.0.0.0] and then further down, after immediately after connection is established, the following lines appear: ...ppd[324]: local address... ...ppd[324]: remote address 198.6.71.8 (correct address, line not copied verbatim) ...ppd[324]: script /etc/ppp/ip-up started up to here, everything as before, then, ...diald[207]: calling site 192.168.0.2 (don't know whose address) ...diald[207]: Error opening device /dev/modem: no such file or directory ...diald[207]: No devices free to call out on In pre-upgrade log, the next line after script /etc/ppp/ip-up started, I don't remember exactly, but some indication of the successful completion of the script, diald not invoked. From here, I don't know what has caused this problem nor any good idea how to solve it. I will be grateful for any help, Peter ps. to explain why someone who can't manage networking at this level needs to use woody: xfree86 4. Support for my riva tnt, makes a big difference. -- Giulio Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problem with dpkg/perl and so ;)
François-Xavier Houard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi i've got a huge problem, dpkg seems to bug when i try to install some packages, i can't install debconf, i get this message: Data::Dumper object version 2.101 does not match $Data::Dumper::VERSION 2.09 at /usr/lib/perl5/5.6/i386-linux/DynaLoader.pm line 219. Compilation failed in require at /usr/lib/perl5/Debconf/ConfigDb.pm line 82. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/lib/perl5/Debconf/ConfigDb.pm line 82. Compilation failed in require at /usr/share/debconf/frontend line 24. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/share/debconf/frontend line 24. dpkg: error processing debconf (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2 Errors were encountered while processing: debconf I don't really know what to do, if anyone could help me, that would help me much ;)) Thanks François-Xavier I had a similar problem yesterday upgrading from potato to woody. The way I solved it was by installing individually the packages which I thought might be broken: apt-get install debconf apt-get install perl until I was able to fix the broken component and complete the unpacking, installing, and setting up of apt-get dist-upgrade. I did it by trial and error (try whatever sequence you prefer) until things started working again. Good luck, -- Giulio Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
DNS problem after upgrade to woody
After upgrading, I am unable to connect to mailserver with fetchmail, to remore hosts with apt, telnet, ssh, irc, lynx or mozilla. Messages are: unable to resolve host... something wicked happened... domain name could not be confirmed... it appears that there is a problem with DNS and I have no idea how to resolve it. Help needed and appreciated, Thanks, Peter -- Giulio Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
broken dist-upgrade potato woody
I have been trying to upgrade (apt-get) to woody. The download process was interrupted several times, data sockets timed out, ppp connection fell, etc, and by following the try --fix-missing prompts, I ended up with a partially downloaded and partially installed upgrade. Then going back to complete with --fix-broken, I finally managed to get all the packages on my system, but they won't install now. I don't know if this is a debconf problem, a Perl problem, or an apt-get problem, and most importantly, I don't know how to solve it. Help needed and appreciated. Following is report from apt-get: 278 packages upgraded, 28 newly installed, 0 to remove and 6 not upgraded. 123 packages not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B/144MB of archives. After unpacking 52.3MB will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] debconf: Perl may be unconfigured (Can't locate XSLoader.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/lib/perl5/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/lib/perl5/5.6/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/5.6 /usr/local/lib/site_perl/i386-linux /usr/local/lib/site_perl /usr/lib/perl5/5.005/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/5.005 .) at /usr/lib/perl5/5.6/i386-linux/POSIX.pm line 7. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/lib/perl5/5.6/i386-linux/POSIX.pm line 7. Compilation failed in require at /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/DebConf/Template.pm line 31. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/DebConf/Template.pm line 31. Compilation failed in require at /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/DebConf/ConfigDb.pm line 25. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/DebConf/ConfigDb.pm line 25. Compilation failed in require at (eval 1) line 3. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at (eval 1) line 3. ) -- aborting E: Write error - write (32 Broken pipe) E: Failure running script /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt Thanks very much -- Giulio Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
