Re: mgetty AutoPPP failing
On Friday 18 July 2003 03:18 pm, Thomas Krennwallner wrote:
Hi!
On Fri Jul 18, 2003 at 02:28:50PM -0700, Ian Eure wrote:
[...]
Jul 18 13:51:33 axinite pppd[12370]: rcvd [PAP AuthReq id=0x1
user=ieure password=hidden]
Jul 18 13:51:33 axinite pppd[12370]: no PAP secret found for ieure
Jul 18 13:51:33 axinite pppd[12370]: sent [PAP AuthNak id=0x1 Login
incorrect]
Jul 18 13:51:33 axinite pppd[12370]: sent [LCP TermReq id=0x2
Authentication failed]
pap-secrets has:
# Every regular user can use PPP and has to use passwords from
/etc/passwd * axinite*
And I even added an entry for myself, to no avail:
ieure axinite*
Does anyone know what's wrong here?
I think you should apply the noauth option to the pppd on the client
side. The clients pppd requests the mgetty ppp server to authenticate
itself on the client:
auth Require the peer to authenticate itself before allowing network
packets to be sent or received. This option is the default if
the system has a default route. If neither this option nor the
noauth option is specified, pppd will only allow the peer to use
IP addresses to which the system does not already have a route.
I just tried this, but it does not appear to be the source of the problem.
axinite is the system I'm dialing in to, and the logs show that it's recieves
the AuthReq from the client ('hadron'), and sends back an AuthNak and failure
message. The logs on the client support this:
Jul 19 15:18:19 hadron pppd[1785]: rcvd [PAP AuthNak id=0x1 Authentication
failure]
Jul 19 15:18:19 hadron pppd[1785]: Remote message: Authentication failure
Jul 19 15:18:19 hadron pppd[1785]: PAP authentication failed
Jul 19 15:18:19 hadron pppd[1785]: sent [LCP TermReq id=0x2 Failed to
authenticate ourselves to peer]
Jul 19 15:18:19 hadron pppd[1785]: rcvd [LCP TermReq id=0x2 Authentication
failed]
I straced the pppd process on axinite, and it does a lookup on
/etc/ppp/pap-secrets just before failing. It never tries to open /etc/passwd
or /etc/shadow as pppd(8) and /etc/ppp/pap-secrets claims it should.
Any other ideas?
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mgetty AutoPPP failing
I'm trying to get AutoPPP working on a woody box. When I dial in, I get this in the syslogs: Jul 18 13:51:33 axinite pppd[12370]: rcvd [PAP AuthReq id=0x1 user=ieure password=hidden] Jul 18 13:51:33 axinite pppd[12370]: no PAP secret found for ieure Jul 18 13:51:33 axinite pppd[12370]: sent [PAP AuthNak id=0x1 Login incorrect] Jul 18 13:51:33 axinite pppd[12370]: sent [LCP TermReq id=0x2 Authentication failed] pap-secrets has: # Every regular user can use PPP and has to use passwords from /etc/passwd * axinite* And I even added an entry for myself, to no avail: ieure axinite* Does anyone know what's wrong here? Please CC, I'm not subscribed. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
XFree86 4.0.x tdfx DRI
has anyone out there been able to get DRI working properly with XFree86 4.0.x and a 3dfx board? it _seems_ to work, but framerates are low... not at low as with software rendering, but low. i also get horrible flicker when polygons are redrawn. i was told that installing libglide3 would help - it did, but not enough. i still have the same problems. i also tried the debs of cvs dri. it did not help at all. everything worked perfectly with xfree86 3.3.6, mesag3-glide2 and libglide2. my system is a k6-3 500, 192mb ram, with a voodoo3 2000 16mb agp card. not on the list, so please cc any replies to me.
Re: XFree86 4.0.x tdfx DRI
On Thu, 17 May 2001, Andrei Ivanov wrote: Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 12:05:23 -0500 (CDT) From: Andrei Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ian Eure [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: XFree86 4.0.x tdfx DRI has anyone out there been able to get DRI working properly with XFree86 4.0.x and a 3dfx board? it _seems_ to work, but framerates are low... not at low as with software rendering, but low. i also get horrible flicker when polygons are redrawn. i was told that installing libglide3 would help - it did, but not enough. i still have the same problems. i also tried the debs of cvs dri. it did not help at all. everything worked perfectly with xfree86 3.3.6, mesag3-glide2 and libglide2. my system is a k6-3 500, 192mb ram, with a voodoo3 2000 16mb agp card. not on the list, so please cc any replies to me. I've pretty much followed the docs on DRI and X site about setting up the Voodoo3 card. Points of note: 1. You need either the kernel tdfx module, or DRI one. 2. DRI ONLY works in 16bpp, not 24bpp (took me a while to get that one). 3. I use xlibmesa3 and xlibosmesa3 libs. irt point 1, i have the agpgart tdfx modules that came with 2.4.4 loaded - afaik the dri stuff is all loaded in the x server, not the kernel. am i wrong on this point? i'm running in 16bpp, and i have xlib[os]mesa3 installed.
Bizarre problem, at my wits' end
I am having the strangest problem. As a demonstration, I took my Potato server into singleuser mode, unmounted the partition mounted on /tmp, and overwrote the first 128k with data from /dev/zero. I then rebooted (`shutdown -r now') to show how fsck worked (new admin) - well, it also checked my RAID- seems that something didn't work right when rebooting in single-user mode. So, it checks the disks, and everything is fine. Except that ppp dosen't work. After some debugging, I conclude that it is a problem with our ISP, leave a message (it was Saturday) and leave the box. Well, it wasn't an ISP problem. Something is very wrong with my box. My serial ports don't work properly- pilot-xfer won't connect to my Palm IIIx; ppp connections will start, but LCP packets seem not to get sent even though pppd reports sending them; mgetty will answer the line, but sends garbage. This was just after I ran apt-get to bring my system up to date (no perl updates though) - it updated libc6 and some other stuff. All this happened on July 31st, and serial stuff still isn't working. I have tried everything- a new kernel, re-configuring setserial, adding/removing modems and serial ports (via BIOS), re-installing libc6, including an older version. Everything works fine on a different Potato box. Everything works fine if I use a rescue boot/root disk. Does anyone have some idea what has gone wrong and how I should fix it? Is there an option other than reinstalling? -- .- | Ian Eure [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Network Administrator, Cross Sound Appraisal Company | | A conclusion is simply the place where someone got tired of thinking.
Re: what cd-writer ?
Pierfrancesco Caci wrote: I want to buy a cd-writer. I don't need rewritable support at present time, but it would be a plus. I've seen a new Yamaha model that's affordable. Are they good and well supported with Linux ? RANT Whatever you do, DO NOT, I repeat, DO NOT buy a HP ATAPI cd-rw. They suck really really bad. I am on my 3rd warranty-returned HP 7110i internal atapi cd-rw drive right now, and it's showing signs of failing just like the last 2 i had. plus, in order to get the drive returned, you _must_ put it in a windows box. This led to some trouble with the last drive I had, as I tried installing Win95 off a cd in the HP drive, and it spun down and ejected the cd 17% of the way through the install. And the HP tech support people would _still_ not replace the drive, because the Win95 install was running under DOS and they don't support dos... I spend over 2 weeks talking to the HP tech people _every_day_ before they finally gave in and took the drive back. /RANT -- __ | ian eure, network admin, freelance security consultant, and | | manically depressed paranoid schizophrenic, at your service. | ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://minion.org ; : raw speed = 105.6 wpm with 4.5% errors : . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Re: sound in netscape
You are not actually in the audio group. You want to (as root) edit /etc/group, and add your login name (and the names of anyone else who should be able to access the audio device, seperated by commas) onto the end of the line beginning with audio. eg, on my system, my login is ieure, and my /etc/group looks like this: audio:x:29:ieure,gwen which means, from left to right, that the group name is audio, that the password to access the group with newgrp is in the group shadow file (/etc/gshadow), that the numeric group id is 29, and that the logins ieure and gwen are in the group. It's a simple matter of doing a chmod g+rw /dev/dsp* to fix the problem. Incidentally, by typing `groups' at a shell prompt, you can see what groups you are a member of. `newgrp' is for _temporarily_ granting access to a group. try a `groups' both before and after you do a `newgrp'. Richard Hall wrote: On Wed, 13 Jan 1999, Alexander Kushnirenko wrote: I guess you should put yourself in group audio. That's a slightly less brutal solution, but, alas, I'm not sure how to do it. You see, I AM in group audio, but processes that I start run under my user ID, not my group ID unless I explicitly tell them to use my group ID. Just being a member of group audio is not enough. Oddly, if I login as me, switch to group audio with 'newgrp audio', I can use /dev/dsp, /dev/audio, etc, but I can't run 'startx'. I don't understand this, as startx is rwxr_xr_x, so obviously I don't quite understand groups. Perhaps you can tell me exactly what commands you think I should run? I would prefer to start Netscape by selecting it from the window manager menu, and not by explicitly typing a command. Anyway, thanks for your help. I'm a little puzzled as to why I'm the only one having this problem, as I can't find anything about it on DejaNews. Did everybody else just change the permissions on the audio devices? Do I need to reinstall Netscape with the .deb package now that I have sound support in my kernel? thanks, Richard Hall Sasha. I'm still trying to get sound to work in Netscape. When I try to play a sound file, an error box pops up saying Can't access device /dev/dsp. bash-2.01$ ls -l /dev/dsp crw-rw 1 root audio 14, 3 Jul 20 20:45 /dev/dsp I'm trying to get Netscape to run as group audio. I changed both the wrapper script and the actual binary with 'chmod 2755' so that bash-2.01$ ls -l /usr/lib/netscape/netscape -rwxr-sr-x 1 root audio 6929928 Nov 2 20:42 /usr/lib/netscape/netscape When I run netscape, though, it runs under my user ID according to 'top'. The brutal solution is to change the permissions on /dev/dsp, but I'm trying to learn and to do it the right way, so if anyone can explain to me why netscape runs under my user ID, how I can change it, or even what commands I might use to investigate the problem (strace?), I would be appreciative. Richard Hall Network Services University of Tennessee -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null Richard Hall Network Services University of Tennessee -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
named/BIND 8.1.2-5 won't accept inbound zone xfers
I'm having a really nasty time getting my BIND zone slave to update from the
zone master. the slave keeps saying:
---
Jan 9 13:24:21 Phaktory named[145]: Zone zone.domain (class 1) SOA serial#
(10719991) rcvd from [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] is ours (121219981)
--- (names/ips changed to protect he innocent)
but it never gets updated. Anyways, here is the relevant part of my named.conf
on the slave ns:
---
zone zone.domain {
type slave;
file zone.domain/zone.hosts;
allow-query { any; };
allow-update { none; };
allow-transfer { localservers; };
masters { xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx; };
};
---
and the master:
---
zone zone.domain {
type master;
allow-query { any; };
allow-update { none; };
allow-transfer { localservers; };
file zone.domain/zone.hosts;
};
---
localservers is an acl with the ips of both nameservers:
---
acl localservers {
xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx;
yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy;
};
---
So, can anyone suggest what's wrong here?
Thanks in advance
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what happened to xvidtune?
I'm just wondering where xvidtune has got to- I don't see it on any of my slink systems (all current) and I have no hamm boxes left. I seem to recall that it was available in bo when I first started using Debian, and I see my old kvidtune package on one of my systems, but there is no xvidtune to be found. Can someone help me out here? -- __ | ian eure, network admin, freelance security consultant, and | | manically depressed paranoid schizophrenic, at your service. | ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://minion.org ; : raw speed = 105.6 wpm with 4.5% errors : . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Re: Running seperate eth0 ppp0 networks
Lee Bradshaw wrote: On Wed, Dec 16, 1998 at 03:29:04AM -0600, John C. Ellingboe wrote: Lee Bradshaw wrote: On Mon, Dec 14, 1998 at 03:29:49PM +, Ian Stuart wrote: what I wish to do is set up my PPP connection so that (when it is up) all requests for the ISPs network is routed via ppp0, whilst all other traffic is routed via eth0 (Assume that my academic lan is the class B 129.1 and my ISP is the class B 130.2) Try something like: route add -net 130.2.0.0 dev ppp0 This will limit your access to just the 130.2.0.0 network over ppp. That's what he wanted -- isp network over ppp0, everything else over eth0. I suspect your ppp0/eth0 setup is more common, but it's now what he needed. Do route add -net [your local net address] dev eth0 and use the default route option for ppp to get to everything on the internet. I ran this way for some time and it worked fine for access to either route. Ah but, let's say that you also have file sharing or some other service on your system, and that it is visible to the outside world through your ethernet. Will the services still work, or will the system send out the syn/ack packet (in reply to the syn for requesting a connection) on the ethernet, or over the ppp? -- __ | ian eure, network admin, freelance security consultant, and | | manically depressed paranoid schizophrenic, at your service. | ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://minion.org ; : raw speed = 105.6 wpm with 4.5% errors : . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Re: Graphics Card: S3 3D - compatible?
Moore, Paul wrote: Hi, I'm looking at buying a new PC sometime soon - I've just seen a *very* good looking deal for a 350MHz Pentium II system. As usual, my main compatibility worries are with video and sound cards. The video card is described by the supplier as an AGP S3 3D card, with a 365 chipset. I've looked through the hardware compatibility HOWTO and the XFree86 website, and I can't see mention of this card or chipset specifically. Can anybody confirm that this card will work OK on Debian (basically Hamm at the moment...) I'll want to use X, and possibly OpenGL (Mesa). Probably not graphics intensive stuff generally, but I'd like to look at getting Quake and some other games running (it's not the end of the world if I fail, but I'd have to run them in DOS/Win95, so maybe it's bad enough... :-) The card is suppported in both XFree86 and svgalib. The S3 cards are probably the best-supported video cards in Linux. FWIW, I have a Diamond Stealth 3D AGP, which is a S3 ViRGE/GX2 card. I don't know what the chip number is, but the 3xx series is the ViRGE chip. Actually, does anybody know what this card is like, in general - is it 3D accelerated or not, do I need to check things like how much memory it has, will it run Quake II at mega-accelerated speeds, etc etc? If it's not up to much, does anybody have any suggestions as to a good card to get? I've been thinking of one of the ATI [EMAIL PROTECTED] cards - are they a good bet? The S3 is nice. It's quite fast, but I've had some problems with mine; XFree used to crash pretty often. A quick mail to them revealed that there are bugs with version 3.3.2.3, which are fixed in 3.3.3. To work around them, you must put the line ``chipset s3_virge'' in the Device section of /etc/X11/XF86Config. This stopped _most_ of the problems, but I still get some video lockups when running The GIMP 1.0.2. I don't know why, as it should not be crashing my X server, but it certainly seems to. Some of the more math-intensive xlock screensavers (eg some of the fractals) also cause me problems. The system does not lock up hard, but the video display changes to show vertical bars of dark grey. I have to log into the system from a serial terminal or over the network and reboot it, or it can lock hard. I don't know if all these problems are fixed in the 3.3.3 release of XF86, but I'm hoping so. The S3 is not a supported 3D accelerator. AFAIK, the only hardare-accelerated board supported under Linux is a 3Dfx voodoo/voodoo2 based card like the Diamond Monster 3D. But this is a 3D-only card, and you have to patch your 2D cards video output into the 3D cards input. This can degrade video quality. So far, I have not seen a decent 2D/3D combo card for Linux. The killer card to watch out for would have a S3 for the 2D and a Voodoo2 (or 3?) for the 3D, on one AGP card. The sound card is described as a SoundBlaster 16 Compatible, made by SoundPro. Again, will this be supported, and/or is it a good card? The only real use I have for sound is likely to be for games (both under Linux and Windows), so it's not a disaster if it's low spec, but I'd like something reasonable... To the best of my knowledge, there are _no_ soundblaster 16 compatible cards, other than the ones made by Creative, eg the SB32/AWE64 etc. Probably going to have problems here. I'm sure that there are some compromises being made in this system, but frankly, I'm not sure where they are. The deal is too good to just ignore, though... Any help (or pointers to useful sources of information) would be much appreciated. http://www.xfree86.org - XF86 home page, info about supported cards http://www.4front-tech.com - OSS/Linux commercial sound drivers (you can download a demo version) uhm... check the 3dfx-howto, it has good info about 3D cards... -- __ | ian eure, network admin, freelance security consultant, and | | manically depressed paranoid schizophrenic, at your service. | ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://minion.org ; : raw speed = 105.6 wpm with 4.5% errors : . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Re: Running seperate eth0 ppp0 networks
Lee Bradshaw wrote: On Wed, Dec 16, 1998 at 10:19:35AM -0800, Ian Eure wrote: Lee Bradshaw wrote: On Wed, Dec 16, 1998 at 03:29:04AM -0600, John C. Ellingboe wrote: Lee Bradshaw wrote: On Mon, Dec 14, 1998 at 03:29:49PM +, Ian Stuart wrote: what I wish to do is set up my PPP connection so that (when it is up) all requests for the ISPs network is routed via ppp0, whilst all other traffic is routed via eth0 (Assume that my academic lan is the class B 129.1 and my ISP is the class B 130.2) Try something like: route add -net 130.2.0.0 dev ppp0 This will limit your access to just the 130.2.0.0 network over ppp. That's what he wanted -- isp network over ppp0, everything else over eth0. I suspect your ppp0/eth0 setup is more common, but it's now what he needed. Do route add -net [your local net address] dev eth0 and use the default route option for ppp to get to everything on the internet. I ran this way for some time and it worked fine for access to either route. Ah but, let's say that you also have file sharing or some other service on your system, and that it is visible to the outside world through your ethernet. Will the services still work, or will the system send out the syn/ack packet (in reply to the syn for requesting a connection) on the ethernet, or over the ppp? I'm not sure I understand the question. Addresses in the 130.2.0.0 net are routed through the ppp0 interface. Everything else is routed through eth0. In general requests from the eth0 interface will be serviced through eth0 and those from ppp0 will be serviced through ppp0. There are two wierd cases. 132.2.x.x addresses requesting services through eth0 - the reply will go through ppp0. Non 132.2.x.x addresses requesting services through ppp0 - the reply will go through eth0. If you have a specific problem in mind, please provide an example using the original ip addresses - 132.2.0.0 (isp) ppp0, 129.1.0.0 (local) eth0, default eth0. Ok. Let's say I have a linux box on an ethernet. It's ip is 192.168.111.55. The router on the ethernet is 192.168.111.1. Let's say I have a web server on 192.168.111.55, accessible from outside my local network. Let's further say that I set up ppp the way you described, with a network route to my localnet (route add -net 192.168.111.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 dev eth0) and the default set to the ppp0 interface (route add default gw ip.addyof.ppp.peer dev ppp0). What happens when a request for a web page comes in? Does the page get sent back from the ethernet interface, with the ip 192.168.111.55, or through the ppp0 interface with the dynamic address of the dialup? -- __ | ian eure, network admin, freelance security consultant, and | | manically depressed paranoid schizophrenic, at your service. | ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://minion.org ; : raw speed = 105.6 wpm with 4.5% errors : . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Re: X keeps crashing?
arch wrote: Hi Ive been very happy with debian so far. But the only thing that im not unhappy about is why X keeps crashing on me.ive been promised that linux is a much stable OS. My card is a s3 virge/gx2 running at 24 bit with a virtual resolution of 1028 768 using the SVGA server the server would load and apps would start but somewhere in the middle of nowhere..the whole system hangs ctrl+del+alt doesnt rebooot and system or any other keys can anyone please help me with this problem? Is your card agp or pci? If it's an AGP card, you need to add the line `Chipset s3_virge' to the Devices section for your card in /etc/X11/XF86Config. It's a bug in XFree86 3.3.2.3, and is fixed in the 3.3.3 release. -- __ | ian eure, network admin, freelance security consultant, and | | manically depressed paranoid schizophrenic, at your service. | ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://minion.org ; : raw speed = 105.6 wpm with 4.5% errors : . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Re: Ensoniq Audio PCI card
Ian wrote: Yo- Does anyone have this card working? If so, how? You either need OSS/Linux, which is commercial (www.4front-tech.com) or use the ALSA sound drivers. I believe there are patches for the 2.0.xx kernels somewhere, it comes standard in 2.1.xxx kernels. -- __ | ian eure, network admin, freelance security consultant, and | | manically depressed paranoid schizophrenic, at your service. | ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://minion.org ; : raw speed = 105.6 wpm with 4.5% errors : . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Various strange problems - lilo, wdm, vi - you name it, i've got it.
Ok. Many strange problems are assailing me. any help is appriciated. all systems are running slink with the latest packages. LILO: I have a system that is _suppossed_ to dualboot dos Linux. Linux is on the first drive on the first controller. DOS is on the second drive on the first controller. LILO is setup to boot the DOS drive like so: other=/dev/hdb1 label=dos table=/dev/hdb -but it dosen't work. I get a 'non-system disk or disk error' when I try to boot it. The drive is bootable and working, because dosemu will work fine using it with partition access, and when I set it as the master it booted fine. I've tried many things, to no avail. I have set up several dualboots almost exactly this, and never run into any problems. Please someone tell me what is wrong. wdm: on one system I have wdm (NeXTStep-alike xdm replacement) on, it does not work using XDMCP. I start an X server on my workstation like this: ``X :1 -query pyros'' and the X server starts, gets a black background, and dies. wdm works fine on a different system I put it on. The irritating thing is that pyros is a fresh install. vi: Is there any way to make nvi use the home/end keys properly? They don't seem to have any effect. Also, whenever I move to the very first character in a line with the arrow keys, I get dropped out of insert mode and into command mode. Very irritating when you are commenting out a bunch of lines in /etc/inetd.conf, for example. A cc to my reply address would be good, since I'm not subscribed. Thanks in advance. -- __ | ian eure, network admin, freelance security consultant, and | | manically depressed paranoid schizophrenic, at your service. | ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://minion.org ; : raw speed = 105.6 wpm with 4.5% errors : . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
apt-get + squid proxy = weird errors. help?
Having some weird probs using apt (0.1.9) through a squid proxy. The Squid is version 2.0.PATCH2, all systems mentioned are current Slink systems. When I do an ``apt-get upgrade'' from any system going through the proxy, the upgrade process stops several times with errors like: --snip-- Error http://va.debian.org slink/main screen Couldn't connect to localhost:8000 Fetched 3215k in 18m28s (2901b/s) ERROR http://va.debian.org/debian/dists/frozen/main/binary-i386/misc/screen_3.7.4-9.deb Couldn't connect to localhost:8000 --snip-- this is (hopefully obviously) from the system that squid runs on. It goes through several downloads, then refuses the connection. There is nothing else using the proxy. The logs show: --snip-- Nov 15 16:17:57 Phalanx squid[8803]: clientSendMoreData: Deferring http://va.deb ian.org/debian/dists/frozen/main/binary-i386/devel/libc6-dev%5f2.0.7u-5.deb Nov 15 16:20:29 Phalanx squid[8803]: clientKeepaliveNextRequest: FD 18 Sending next Nov 15 16:20:36 Phalanx squid[8803]: clientSendMoreData: Deferring http://va.deb ian.org/debian/dists/frozen/main/binary-i386/misc/screen%5f3.7.4-9.deb Nov 15 16:27:28 Phalanx squid[8803]: clientKeepaliveNextRequest: FD 18 Sending next Nov 15 16:27:28 Phalanx squid[8803]: clientKeepaliveNextRequest: entry-swap_status == STORE_ABORTED Nov 15 16:27:38 Phalanx squid[8915]: Starting Squid Cache version 2.0.PATCH2 for i386-debian-linux-gnu... Nov 15 16:27:38 Phalanx squid[8915]: Process ID 8915 Nov 15 16:27:38 Phalanx squid[8915]: With 256 file descriptors available --snip-- Which is quite weird- it looks like the proxy is getting stopped and restarted for some reason. This is bad. What seems strange is that the problem only pops up when using apt-get. w3 browsing seems to work just fine. Any suggestions? PS: I'm not subscribed to the list (too high of a signal/noise ratio...) so if you have any suggestions, please cc to my reply address.
Re: Second try--can someone interpret these install boot messages?
On Thu, Sep 17, 1998 at 04:09:06PM -0500, Nathan E Norman wrote:
On Thu, 17 Sep 1998, Curt Daugaard wrote:
[ snip ]
:hd: controller still busy
:hda: reset timed out: status=0xff { Busy DriveReady WriteFault
:SeekComplete DataRequest CorrectedError Index Error }
:hda: reset timed out: error=0xff { BadSector UncorrectableError
:SectorIdNotFound DriveStatusError TrackZeroNotFound
:AddrMarkNotFound }, CHS=65535/15/255, Sector=0
Drive looks toasted. However ...
: The weird thing: the CHS numbers don't match either what CMOS says
: (under MSD in DOS) or what I pass to the kernel at the boot
: prompt, i.e. hd=1010,12,55. (The drive is a WD Caviar 340 MB.)
Try passing the geometry at the boot prompt:
hda=1010,12,55
The help on the boot floppy is wrong, you can't say hd=...; you must
say hda, hdb, or whatever.
We intsalled on a Tandy machine the other dau that refused to work at
all unless we passed the drive's geometry with hda=... and also
specified hdb=none
You should get the Bootprompt-HOWTO. It addresses many problems of this
type.
In some cases, with older drive types and/or systems, you can cheat a bit
by enabling the system ROM shadow option in your CMOS. I really doubt
that this would work on a PS/2, but my older AMD 386DX/40 (a truly super
system) with dual seagate 40meg MFM drives (yeah!) didn't like to boot
linux without having the main bios shadowed. If it was unshadowed, it
wouldn't autodetect the drive geometry. Kinda weird, but it's a kinda
weird box, right? Anyways. Neat trick nonetheless. :)
PS: Sorry for any incoherency. I'm recovering from a nasty tonsilitis
and am all drugged up on antibiotics stuff. Heh.
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Re: Port Fw in the kernal
On Thu, Sep 17, 1998 at 08:09:12PM -0400, Frederic Breitwieser wrote: Greetings. I've reinstalled debian 2.0, including the ipchains, ipfwadm, and ipportfw. The ipfwadm seems to work, as the commands are accepted, but nothing seems to work. Also, anything I type in ipportfw bombs, saying setsocket isn;t available. After reading all the documentation, I'm thinking, maybe the diskettes I installed from doesn't support (by default) port forwarding. Do I have to recompile my kernal? ding ding ding we have a winner! You will probably want to snag the latest kernel source (2.0.35) or maybe even a 2.0.36pre kernel (if you're feeling adventurous), patch the portforwarding stuff in, forget about ipchains and use it when 2.2 comes out or 2.1.xxx is stable enough to work properly, and you should be set. -- __ | ian eure, network admin, freelance security consultant, and | | manically depressed paranoid schizophrenic, at your service. | ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://minion.org ; : raw speed = 105.6 wpm with 4.5% errors : . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Re: ACK! Help me restore my console!
Don't think a reset will do it, as that just manipulates the terminal behaviours... I'll give it a shot anyways in a minute though. As for the ``shutdown -r now'', I know that I can reboot the system and be fine, I just want to fix this without doing that, as I stated in the last sentence of my previous message. I have X running on the console (login to another box, ssh over to the borken one, screen, startx, detatch) - I just can't get the text vtys back to normal. Tried running a SVGALib program. No dice. The only thing that works is X. On Tue, Sep 15, 1998 at 02:38:38PM -0400, TheKman wrote: Did you try typing reset. Or just typing shutdown -r now. Even if you can't see it a lot of the times the computers sees what you are typing. Ian Eure wrote: Ok. Interesting thing happened. Accidentally killed my X server remotely with -9. Oops. I come back down to the console and it's all FUBARd. OK. So I try a couple things ssh'ing from another box, like SVGATextMode such. No dice. I can get X running, but my text console is dead. Anyone have any suggestions on how to get it back without a reboot? -- __ | ian eure, network admin, freelance security consultant, and | | manically depressed paranoid schizophrenic, at your service. | ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://minion.org ; : raw speed = 105.6 wpm with 4.5% errors : . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Re: ACK! Help me restore my console!
No... This is not the problem. As I said, X crashed. This makes the X server quit without restoring the display, so you just get your X desktop sitting there. You can restart X remotely, but when you exit, it restores the previous mode, eg a graphical mode instead of a text console. When I close my current (working) X session, I get static, my monitor displays a NO SIGNAL OR RANGE OUT SIGNAL message and goes into sleep mode. Yes, I know what FUBAR means. However, I use the term FUBAR as an adjective. I did say that the console got FUBARd by killing the X server with -9, perhaps my assumption that people on this list had prior experience with this happening was unreasonable. Try it sometime, it's interesting. On Tue, Sep 15, 1998 at 09:58:23PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: rtfm, stfw, it's in the howtos cat ^O^D ^C describing as just `fubar' doesn't really help people help you btw do you know what fubar means, the d at the end is wrong Ian Eure wrote on Tue, Sep 15, 1998 at 06:37:18PM -0700.. Don't think a reset will do it, as that just manipulates the terminal behaviours... I'll give it a shot anyways in a minute though. As for the ``shutdown -r now'', I know that I can reboot the system and be fine, I just want to fix this without doing that, as I stated in the last sentence of my previous message. I have X running on the console (login to another box, ssh over to the borken one, screen, startx, detatch) - I just can't get the text vtys back to normal. Tried running a SVGALib program. No dice. The only thing that works is X. On Tue, Sep 15, 1998 at 02:38:38PM -0400, TheKman wrote: Did you try typing reset. Or just typing shutdown -r now. Even if you can't see it a lot of the times the computers sees what you are typing. Ian Eure wrote: Ok. Interesting thing happened. Accidentally killed my X server remotely with -9. Oops. I come back down to the console and it's all FUBARd. OK. So I try a couple things ssh'ing from another box, like SVGATextMode such. No dice. I can get X running, but my text console is dead. Anyone have any suggestions on how to get it back without a reboot? -- __ | ian eure, network admin, freelance security consultant, and | | manically depressed paranoid schizophrenic, at your service. | ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://minion.org ; : raw speed = 105.6 wpm with 4.5% errors : . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Re: ACK! Help me restore my console!
I use KDM, the KDE xdm variant. It does not manage my local display. X is not the problem. X works fine. I just can't get my text console back. On Wed, Sep 16, 1998 at 02:44:22PM +0100, IH McKeag wrote: Sorry, I have missed your earlier correspondence but have you tried /etc/init.d/xdm start as super-user? Ian. On Tue, 15 Sep 1998, Ian Eure wrote: Don't think a reset will do it, as that just manipulates the terminal behaviours... I'll give it a shot anyways in a minute though. As for the ``shutdown -r now'', I know that I can reboot the system and be fine, I just want to fix this without doing that, as I stated in the last sentence of my previous message. I have X running on the console (login to another box, ssh over to the borken one, screen, startx, detatch) - I just can't get the text vtys back to normal. Tried running a SVGALib program. No dice. The only thing that works is X. On Tue, Sep 15, 1998 at 02:38:38PM -0400, TheKman wrote: Did you try typing reset. Or just typing shutdown -r now. Even if you can't see it a lot of the times the computers sees what you are typing. Ian Eure wrote: Ok. Interesting thing happened. Accidentally killed my X server remotely with -9. Oops. I come back down to the console and it's all FUBARd. OK. So I try a couple things ssh'ing from another box, like SVGATextMode such. No dice. I can get X running, but my text console is dead. Anyone have any suggestions on how to get it back without a reboot? -- __ | ian eure, network admin, freelance security consultant, and | | manically depressed paranoid schizophrenic, at your service. | ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://minion.org ; : raw speed = 105.6 wpm with 4.5% errors : . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- __ | ian eure, network admin, freelance security consultant, and | | manically depressed paranoid schizophrenic, at your service. | ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://minion.org ; : raw speed = 105.6 wpm with 4.5% errors : . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Re: {stupid pet tricks}blown Root passwd
On Mon, Sep 14, 1998 at 08:30:53AM -0400, Stephen J. Carpenter wrote: On Mon, Sep 14, 1998 at 02:18:40AM -0600, Kent Andersen wrote: I seem to have a problem changed my root password on one of my systems and whamo when I later tried to su root my password doesent work... went through the normal booting from a floppy but cant seem to mount the harddrive so I can edit the passwd file or login as root without pass. any ideas? Its kinda like stupid pet tricks night. Does it have lilo? can you give it boot parameters? if so try this: LILO: linux /bin/sh This will tell the kernel that init is /bin/sh. As soon as the kernel is done booting it will run /bin/sh and you will get a shell. issues: With the real init NOT running you will have to do allot by hand hopefully once you zap the root password...it SHOULD be sufficent to remount the filesystem read-only and issue halt or reboot remounting read-only does not always work. Just sync your disks and reboot. -- __ | ian eure, network admin, freelance security consultant, and | | manically depressed paranoid schizophrenic, at your service. | ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://minion.org ; : raw speed = 105.6 wpm with 4.5% errors : . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Re: PNP sound card lack of knowledge (or stupidity g)
On Tue, Sep 15, 1998 at 09:38:37AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i have a pnp SoundBlaster16, which was not in my computer when I installed Debian originally. trying to configure it I have read through the isapnpconfig stuff. What I now know is that to get it to work, I must configure the pnp then load some driver/module. the isapnp stuff seems fairly easy to do, but as I run Linux with loadlin from DOS, and I already configure it with the creative CTCM pnp configuration software, I don't think I need to use isapnpconfig. So, when I go into Linux, my SB16 card looks like a non PNP device, ie it is set up, so what I need to know is, what do I do to make linux recognise it etc? I couldn't find any modules in the lib/modules/2.whatever/ directory that looked like they might pertain to sound, so I assume it is already built into the kernel that I d/l off debian.org? is it just a matter of configuration files, and if so which ones? if you can just point me in the right direction, I'm sure I'll be able to sort it out (cos I'm getting the hang of Debian now!!!) Oh, is there anything you have to do as well to get sound to work in X? (plus am I correct about all this PNP stuff above?) Ok. For my system which has a SB16PNP card, I have isapnp setup to drop it on IRQ5 DMA1 DMA5 P220 P338. Then I downloaded the 2.0.35 kernel from ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.0/linux-2.0.35.tar.bz2 and extracted it to /usr/local/src/linux. make menuconfig, configure all your drivers stuff, you need to have sound compiled as a module. This is important, if you don't, the sound driver loads before the card gets setup with isapnp. Install the kernel-package package, cd into /usr/local/src/linux and do a ``make-kpkg --zimage --revision 1L kernel_image'' - This will place a linux kernel package in the /usr/local/src directory. ``dpkg -i kernel-image*'' from /usr/local/src, copy your /vmlinuz over your old kernel on your DOS partition and you are off. Note that this was not a dual-boot system I have with the PNP card. I would really suggest that if your primary boot drive is DOS/Windows that you boot clean (hold down the shift key at boot) and then boot linux. Some drivers loaded from dos can cause problems with the kernel booting. You might also want to just swap your drives, and make the Linux drive the primary boot drive. I've done this before, and DOS/Windows works just the same- you just need a LILO entry for your DOS drive. Something like: other=/dev/hdXX (full device name, eg /dev/hdb1) label=dos table=/dev/hdX (device w/o partition appended, eg /dev/hdb) rerun lilo and you are set. -- __ | ian eure, network admin, freelance security consultant, and | | manically depressed paranoid schizophrenic, at your service. | ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://minion.org ; : raw speed = 105.6 wpm with 4.5% errors : . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Weird SB32PNP problems.
Ok. Just upgraded my trusty old PAS16 to a SB32PNP. After stuffing around for a bit so it didn't kill my eth0, things seem to almost be working. Only problem is that MP3 files do not play properly. When using mpg123, I get a nasty skipping. This does not happen when playing .mods with mikmod. Perhaps the SB32 output routines use more CPU/DMA time, and with the load of decompressing the MP3s, I don't have enough CPU to do it? The box in question is an AMD 486DX4-100. But, I had no problems playing MP3s with my PAS16. Just installed splay, and it seems to have the same problem. Any suggestions? I don't really want to go back to the PAS16, it has this nasty hardware bug where the right/left channels can get reversed sometimes. -- __ | ian eure, network admin, freelance security consultant, and | | manically depressed paranoid schizophrenic, at your service. | ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://minion.org ; : raw speed = 105.6 wpm with 4.5% errors : . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
ACK! Help me restore my console!
Ok. Interesting thing happened. Accidentally killed my X server remotely with -9. Oops. I come back down to the console and it's all FUBARd. OK. So I try a couple things ssh'ing from another box, like SVGATextMode such. No dice. I can get X running, but my text console is dead. Anyone have any suggestions on how to get it back without a reboot? -- __ | ian eure, network admin, freelance security consultant, and | | manically depressed paranoid schizophrenic, at your service. | ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://minion.org ; : raw speed = 105.6 wpm with 4.5% errors : . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Re: More Samba headaches
On Fri, Sep 11, 1998 at 04:25:24PM -0500, Brian Morgan wrote: Here's a tricky one for ya. I'm using debian 2.0 / samba to connect several jet direct box printers via ip addresses so that hundreds of laptops on our campus can print via ip using MS networking. Works great. Ok. Can you explain your setup a bit more? I will assume that the HP printers have the builtin JetDiret, and the Debian box is just accepting the SMB printer connections and printing them to the HPs with lpr. 1 problem now: All of a sudden, nobody can print with the existing windows printer setup. If I recreate the same printer, same samba network que, etc., I can print again. In looking at the properties of the new printer and the old printer, they are identical, but the old one comes up with a windows error cannot connect to this network printer. Check to make sure . . . blah blah blah. This error occurs on all the laptops: even ones that have just been burned with a fresh hard drive image containing the appropriate printer setups. Interesting. What do you see if you browse the Network Neighborhood on one of the laptops and look at your Debian box(es)? Is it the same as what you see with a ``smbclient -L boxname''? Can you connect to the printer shares on your Debian box(es) with smbclient? Can you look at the printers on the Debian box(es) thru the Network Neighborhood on the laptops? The only other thing I can think of that would relate is that last week the debian servers each had an ip conflict. That has been resolved now, and the boxes have all been restarted. IP conflict with what? Each other or a laptop? How did you resolve it? Any thoughts? Is this something anyone else has experienced, or is this just another part of the ever growing list of problems associated with the Bill Gates Virus? Sounds weird, but we need more information on your setup. -- __ | ian eure, network admin, freelance security consultant, and | | manically depressed paranoid schizophrenic, at your service. | ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://minion.org ; : raw speed = 105.6 wpm with 4.5% errors : . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
help compiling X11 clients
Hi there. I'm trying to get the shockwave flash plugin for netscape to compile, and not having much success. It fails with this error: g++ -o swfplayer main.o libflash.o -L/usr/X11/lib -lX11 -lXext /usr/bin/ld: cannot open -lX11: No such file or directory collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make: *** [swfplayer] Error 1 any ideas? -- __ | ian eure, network admin, freelance security consultant, and | | manically depressed paranoid schizophrenic, at your service. | ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://minion.org ; : raw speed = 105.6 wpm with 4.5% errors : . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Re: help compiling X11 clients
ieure!Phaktory:~$ dpkg --status xlib6g-dev Package: xlib6g-dev Status: install ok installed ieure!Phaktory:~$ dpkg --status xlib6g Package: xlib6g Status: install ok installed They're there. Anything else? On Wed, Sep 09, 1998 at 07:31:01PM -0400, Shaleh wrote: Make sure you have xlib6g-dev and xlib6g installed. Otherwise you are doing it right. Ian Eure wrote: Hi there. I'm trying to get the shockwave flash plugin for netscape to compile, and not having much success. It fails with this error: g++ -o swfplayer main.o libflash.o -L/usr/X11/lib -lX11 -lXext /usr/bin/ld: cannot open -lX11: No such file or directory collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make: *** [swfplayer] Error 1 any ideas? -- __ | ian eure, network admin, freelance security consultant, and | | manically depressed paranoid schizophrenic, at your service. | ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://minion.org ; : raw speed = 105.6 wpm with 4.5% errors : . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- = Linux, because I'd like to *get there* today -- __ | ian eure, network admin, freelance security consultant, and | | manically depressed paranoid schizophrenic, at your service. | ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://minion.org ; : raw speed = 105.6 wpm with 4.5% errors : . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Re: help compiling X11 clients
Ok, setting the lib path to /usr/X11R6/lib worked. Guess Debian doesn't have 'X11' symlinks in /usr. On Wed, Sep 09, 1998 at 07:56:46PM -0400, Shaleh wrote: 1. try using /usr/X11R6/lib istead of /usr/X11/lib. 2. do ldconfig -v|grep X11, you should get something like libX11.6.so - /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6.1.0 Otherwise, we can go one on one in irc or something. Ian Eure wrote: ieure!Phaktory:~$ dpkg --status xlib6g-dev Package: xlib6g-dev Status: install ok installed ieure!Phaktory:~$ dpkg --status xlib6g Package: xlib6g Status: install ok installed They're there. Anything else? On Wed, Sep 09, 1998 at 07:31:01PM -0400, Shaleh wrote: Make sure you have xlib6g-dev and xlib6g installed. Otherwise you are doing it right. Ian Eure wrote: Hi there. I'm trying to get the shockwave flash plugin for netscape to compile, and not having much success. It fails with this error: g++ -o swfplayer main.o libflash.o -L/usr/X11/lib -lX11 -lXext /usr/bin/ld: cannot open -lX11: No such file or directory collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make: *** [swfplayer] Error 1 any ideas? -- __ | ian eure, network admin, freelance security consultant, and | | manically depressed paranoid schizophrenic, at your service. | ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://minion.org ; : raw speed = 105.6 wpm with 4.5% errors : . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- = Linux, because I'd like to *get there* today -- __ | ian eure, network admin, freelance security consultant, and | | manically depressed paranoid schizophrenic, at your service. | ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://minion.org ; : raw speed = 105.6 wpm with 4.5% errors : . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -- = Linux, because I'd like to *get there* today -- __ | ian eure, network admin, freelance security consultant, and | | manically depressed paranoid schizophrenic, at your service. | ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://minion.org ; : raw speed = 105.6 wpm with 4.5% errors : . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Re: xmame
On Wed, Sep 09, 1998 at 08:55:01PM -0500, Default Debian Reader wrote: I know xmame is the normal content of debian list but Just wondering if anyone has used xmame and if so what do you uzip the roms with? It seems they are zipped with compression uncompatable for gzip or uncompress. Thanks for any help Umm... They are usually in standard .zip format, as used by the old dos program PKZip. Install the unzip zip packages, then `unzip filename'. -- __ | ian eure, network admin, freelance security consultant, and | | manically depressed paranoid schizophrenic, at your service. | ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://minion.org ; : raw speed = 105.6 wpm with 4.5% errors : . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Keeping multiple systems up-to-date with apt: how?
Hi. I'm just curious to know what approaches people use to keep multiple debian boxes updated with apt. I currently have 3 (soon to be 4) debian slink boxes, and it's kind of irritating to have to download each package on each system. I have squid setup on one of them, so I'm really only downloading one copy, but it's still slower than, say, a local nfs install. Ideally, what I'd like to do is have one system export it's apt cache via nfs to the other two, with a cron job to download the latest packages (``apt-get -d upgrade'') - then point apt on the local machines to an autofs-controlled nfs mount of the exported apt cache. This way, I would get things a bit more automated, but i'd still have a hand in how the packages get installed, so no problems with apt clobbering conffiles like with the -y option. Any suggestions? -- __ | ian eure, network admin, freelance security consultant, and | | manically depressed paranoid schizophrenic, at your service. | ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://minion.org ; : raw speed = 105.6 wpm with 4.5% errors : . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Re: PCI problems
On Tue, Sep 08, 1998 at 06:42:31PM -0400, Richard Heller wrote: Hey, I have a 3COM 3c905TX network card and a Real3D StarFighter video card. When I boot my machine, the PCI probe gives both of the cards the same IRQ number. However, the network card is on bus 0 and the video card is on bus 1. Are the different bus numbers because the network card is PCI and the video card is AGP? Would this setup cause an IRQ conflict under Linux? The network card currently appears to be complaining about an IRQ conflict. Is there any way to force the two cards to have a different IRQ? I tried setting the IRQ they're usually given to be non-PCI and they still ended up with the same IRQ, just a different number. I'm one step away from trying to return the video card and get another one, but that doesn't seem to be guaranteed to solve my problems. I got the card cheap because I bought it as part of a system and to buy another comparable card would cost me about another $100. It uses the Intel740 chipset which is currently unsupported by XFree86, but for the same money I could buy the X servers from XiG and keep this card. If I could only get the network card to work ... Check in your CMOS setup. Some CMOSes have an option to assign an irq to the video adapter. Try turning that off. I'm not sure if AGP needs an irq or not, since I have absolutely no experience with them. -- __ | ian eure, network admin, freelance security consultant, and | | manically depressed paranoid schizophrenic, at your service. | ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://minion.org ; : raw speed = 105.6 wpm with 4.5% errors : . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Multiple DHCP servers?
Hi, I was just wondering if there was a way to get 1 systems running dhcpd on my network... We just had a stupid problem with the (only) box that runs dhcp on our network (power cable to /dev/hdb fell out) and were down for a few hours before I could get there and fix things. I didn't see any mention of having multiple redundant DHCP servers in the dhcpd docs, but I could be mistaken. I'm running the ISC DHCPD 1.0.2-0.1, from the hamm dist. -- __ | ian eure, network admin, freelance security consultant, and | | manically depressed paranoid schizophrenic, at your service. | ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://minion.org ; : raw speed = 105.6 wpm with 4.5% errors : . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Re: KDE installed somewhat brokenly...
On Tue, Aug 04, 1998 at 09:12:25AM -0600, Young, Ed wrote: [stuff deleted] Problem 1) I'm unable to change the icon for emacs on the task bar because it says I don't have the proper permissions. Yes, this is normal. The icons on the taskbar are system-wide and therefore owned by root. Launch kfmsu and go fudge around in /usr/share/applnk. Problem 2) When running the CD data base (CDDB). It goes out and searches for the CD's contents and returns with all the tracks and title, etc. (very cool) When I want to save that info for the next time I play the CD, it asks me to catagorize the CD, but there are no catagories to choose from and no areas to edit my own. It then errors out saying that I haven't chosen a catagory. The database data is not saved. Sounds like the CDDB cache directories do not exist or have the wrong perms. It looks like mine gets stored in /var/lib/cddb, with these perms on the dir: drwxrwsr-t 13 root audio1024 Jul 14 03:41 cddb/ and these on the subdirs: drwxrwsr-t 2 root audio1024 Jul 12 12:45 blues/ drwxrwsr-t 2 root audio1024 Jul 12 12:45 classical/ drwxrwsr-t 2 root audio1024 Jul 12 12:45 country/ drwxrwsr-t 2 root audio1024 Jul 12 12:45 data/ drwxrwsr-t 2 root audio1024 Jul 12 12:45 folk/ drwxrwsr-t 2 root audio1024 Jul 12 12:45 jazz/ drwxrwsr-t 2 root audio1024 Jul 12 12:45 misc/ drwxrwsr-t 2 root audio1024 Jul 12 12:45 newage/ drwxrwsr-t 2 root audio1024 Jul 12 12:45 reggae/ drwxrwsr-t 2 root audio1024 Jul 12 12:45 rock/ drwxrwsr-t 2 root audio1024 Jul 12 12:45 soundtrack/ Problem 3) Maybe not a problem, but security issue. When logging out there's an option to shutdown. It should, probobly prompt for the root password before actualy shutdown. Can you actually use the shutdown button? In some cases it will be there but will not work because of permissions. In any case, it can be disabled in your kdm config file, in /etc/kde/kdmrc. Mine says: ShutdownButton=ConsoleOnly Which means if kdm is running on the local console, it will show the shutdown button. According to the KDM docs (in /usr/doc/kde/HTML/en/kdm): ShutdownButton, Shutdown and Restart ShutdownButton controls when the shutdown button is displayed and can be one of All, None, RootOnly and ConsoleOnly. Shutdown and Restart are the commands to run on shutdown/restart. They default to /sbin/halt and /sbin/reboot. Is the kde implementation for Debian somewhat unstable? It's been working fine for me, I think you just haven't done enough research. -- __ | ian eure, network admin, freelance security consultant, and | | manically depressed paranoid schizophrenic, at your service. | ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://minion.org ; : raw speed = 105.6 wpm with 4.5% errors : . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: partition table erased! POSSIBLE RECOVERY??? (urgent..)
On Mon, Aug 03, 1998 at 06:19:45PM -0300, Carlos Carvalho wrote: A problem with our disk erased the partition table (at least). Is there a way to recover the info, if it's still there? Maybe with some ext2 utility trick... I don't remember the partitions exactly; I tried to create the first (root) one with the probable sizes with cfdisk and mounting but each time mount complains about wrong superblocks... Of course I didn't use mke2fs. This is my last chance of recovering the info :-( This damn disaster happened just a few days before I put the students in the raid server... Well... I've had this happen a few times, and I have been able to recover from it with minor problems every time. You need to know at least the approximate size and position of each partition for it to work. Just create the first one, make it slightly larger than you had it before, and see if you can mount it. Then adjust the size downward until you can mount the second, and so on. You also need to know the types, eg if you try to make /dev/hda3 and ext2 partition, when it was swap, it will not work. And don't use cfdisk, use plain fdisk- it's quicker. -- __ | ian eure, network admin, freelance security consultant, and | | manically depressed paranoid schizophrenic, at your service. | ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://minion.org ; : raw speed = 105.6 wpm with 4.5% errors : . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Strange floppy
On Mon, Aug 03, 1998 at 11:47:09PM +0200, Shiraz Sayani wrote: [Maybe off-topic alert] I have a floppy disk I am trying to make a copy of as a backup. It's a Yamaha disklavier disk and fits in a standard 1.44MB floppy drive, but Windows doesn't think its formatted. I thought I'd try copying it on my Debian 2.0 box with something like dd if=/dev/fd0 of=/tmp/test.bak but the disk driver doesn't seem to be able to read the disk or any data on it. Anyone have any idea if there is something I can use to try and mount or at least copy this disk? Go snag a copy of Anadisk from a local tsx-11 mirror. It's a DOS program, but it will copy disks with weird layouts, eg strange and/or different sector numbers and sizes. -- __ | ian eure, network admin, freelance security consultant, and | | manically depressed paranoid schizophrenic, at your service. | ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://minion.org ; : raw speed = 105.6 wpm with 4.5% errors : . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
apt errors; what?
After a week-long vacation, I come back to work and do ``apt-get update;apt-get upgrade''. All is fine for a while, then I get these errors... Any idea what this is? I installed the latest apt (0.1.3) and I still have problems with it. /etc/apt/sources.list is deb ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian hamm main contrib non-free deb ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian slink main contrib non-free deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/binary-$(ARCH)/ these are the errors I get: Phaktory# apt-get upgrade Updating package status cache...done Checking system integrity...ok 59 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 4588k/30.5M of archives. After unpacking 3470k will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Get ftp://ftp.us.debian.org slink/main libwraster1 [44.6k] 0% [Err:libwraster1 0/44.6k 0%] it sits here for a while, then I get these errors: ickage_5.03.deb The size of the file is not what I expected ERROR ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/sound/cddb_2.3-4.deb The size of the file is not what I expected ERROR ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/sound/xmcd_2.3-4.deb The size of the file is not what I expected ERROR ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/utils/strace_3.1.0.1-1.deb The size of the file is not what I expected ERROR ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/x11/wmaker_0.17.2-1.deb The size of the file is not what I expected ERROR ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/non-free/binary-i386/devel/qt-doc_1.40-1.deb The size of the file is not what I expected ERROR ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/non-free/binary-i386/devel/qt1g-dev_1.40-1.deb The size of the file is not what I expected ERROR ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/non-free/binary-i386/libs/qt1g_1.40-1.deb The size of the file is not what I expected presumably for every package that is in the download queue. -- __ | ian eure, network admin, freelance security consultant, and | | manically depressed paranoid schizophrenic, at your service. | ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://minion.org ; : raw speed = 105.6 wpm with 4.5% errors : . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: 2 Xsessions?, 2 graphics cards?
On Tue, Jul 21, 1998 at 10:00:35AM +1000, Manfred Bartz wrote: Stuart Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there some way to run more than one X session on my debian PC? Ideally I would do something like run an 8-bit depth xdm session that logged me into a remote sun computer and a second X session that is 16-bit depth that is my local session. If it requires a second video card it is no problem. I would then be able to switch between the two sessions via ALT-F7, ALT-F8 or something. If you have enough RAM you can do this: Go to a text mode console, if in X use CTL-ALT-Fn to do that. Fn is F6 on my system. Start a second X-server with startx -- :1 -pbb 8 [stuff deleted] a better way to do this might be to run an xdm server on the sun box, then start your second (sun) X session with ``X :1 -bpp 8 -query sunbox'' - you will then have to log into the sun machine from that X session, but it should behave exactly as if you logged into the sun durectly, whereas the start xserver, telnet and run commands is more cumbersome and can have problems with the X authorization DISPLAY environ variables. This way is much cleaner. -- __ | ian eure, network admin, freelance security consultant, and | | manically depressed paranoid schizophrenic, at your service. | ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://minion.org ; : raw speed = 105.6 wpm with 4.5% errors : . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: KDE in deb format?
After some investigation, it seems that the KDE 1.0 debs are missing quite a lot of files from /usr/share/toolbar. I unpacked the kdebase b4 package, and just copied them over. FYI, you extract from the .deb with ``ar x filename.deb'' and then un tar-gzip the binary.tar.gz to get the files. I reported this as a bug to the KDE folks, since the Debian people don't package KDE. I also had to uninstall the b4 before 1.0 started working. I don't have any problems with the screensavers, you might want to check and see if all the /usr/X11R6/bin/*.kss files are setuid root or not- since hamm uses shadow passwords, they need to be setuid. On Fri, Jul 17, 1998 at 08:57:43AM -0400, Tom Pfeifer wrote: I did the same, although I actually got them from the sunsite ftp site. I also have the missing pixmaps for the title bar, and also have no screensavers. All else seems OK so far. I uninstalled beta 4 first. I couldn't find the admin deb package at sunsite, but that's fairly minor anyway. Tom Ian Eure wrote: I'm running KDE 1.0, from the debs on ftp.kde.org, and it seems ok. Hasn't crashed yet. It was kind of interesting to install, I had to remove my beta4 packages before it would work right, and there are some programs I have that are still linked to the old (pre-1.0) kde libs, which break. I also seem to be missing some of the pixmaps for the titlebar, not sure where those went :) These problems should be taken care of when kde is recompiled by a Debian develepor. On Thu, Jul 16, 1998 at 02:28:52PM +0400, Eugene Sevinian wrote: There are some wrong pointer to deb packages of KDE1.0 on www.kde.org. Anybody tried to get it from somewere and install? Does it works good? Eugene Sevinian Cosmic Ray Division Yerevan Physics Institute Alikhanian's Brothers str.2 375036 Yerevan 36 Armenia URL: http://crdlx5.yerphi.am/prs/sevinian.html Phone: 374-2-352041 (YerPhI), 374-2-344873 (aprt.) Fax: 374-2-350030 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- __ | ian eure, network admin, freelance security consultant, and | | manically depressed paranoid schizophrenic, at your service. | ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://minion.org ; : raw speed = 105.6 wpm with 4.5% errors : . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- __ | ian eure, network admin, freelance security consultant, and | | manically depressed paranoid schizophrenic, at your service. | ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://minion.org ; : raw speed = 105.6 wpm with 4.5% errors : . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: KDE in deb format?
I'm running KDE 1.0, from the debs on ftp.kde.org, and it seems ok. Hasn't crashed yet. It was kind of interesting to install, I had to remove my beta4 packages before it would work right, and there are some programs I have that are still linked to the old (pre-1.0) kde libs, which break. I also seem to be missing some of the pixmaps for the titlebar, not sure where those went :) These problems should be taken care of when kde is recompiled by a Debian develepor. On Thu, Jul 16, 1998 at 02:28:52PM +0400, Eugene Sevinian wrote: There are some wrong pointer to deb packages of KDE1.0 on www.kde.org. Anybody tried to get it from somewere and install? Does it works good? Eugene Sevinian Cosmic Ray Division Yerevan Physics Institute Alikhanian's Brothers str.2 375036 Yerevan 36 Armenia URL: http://crdlx5.yerphi.am/prs/sevinian.html Phone: 374-2-352041 (YerPhI), 374-2-344873 (aprt.) Fax: 374-2-350030 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- __ | ian eure, network admin, freelance security consultant, and | | manically depressed paranoid schizophrenic, at your service. | ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://minion.org ; : raw speed = 105.6 wpm with 4.5% errors : . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: sound recording under linux
On Sun, Jul 12, 1998 at 09:00:08PM -0500, the lone gunman wrote: On Sat, Jul 11, 1998 at 04:46:58PM -0700, Ian Eure wrote: Hi. I do a lot of this kind of thing, so let me tell you what my setup is. Hey, thanks for the info -- it's very helpful! np :) I have two boxes that I use to make my music with. One is an old 486-66 msdos- debian dualbooter, and the other is a K6-166 linux box. They are both on ethernet, and I have the MS SMB client for the dos side of the dos box (named psychosis). I use Impulse Tracker 2.14p3 on the dos side of psychosis to make my music, (IT is a free mod-type tracker, www.noisemusic.org/it/) save that, By chance, do you happen to have a URL that points to a tutorial on using trackers? I got the Impulse Tracker (and also Future Crew's Scream Tracker, they're similar), and I'm kinda lost on how to use it. Just wondering if you knew where I could find some pointers on using Trackers. Sorry, I don't have that info. I think there was something of a tutorial that came with ST3, but I'm not sure... Impulse has context-sensitive help available, I'd start with that. But, if you get stuck of need some pointers, mail me off the list and I'll help you as best I can. BTW: ST3 is outdated. Use IT. :) to a .wav, and burn CDs with my HP CD-RW drive. Have you had pretty good luck with that particular CD-RW drive? Is it SCSI, and have you got it working pretty good under Linux? I'm in the market for a CD burner, and curious as to what brands are good ones, etc. Also, when you burn a CD, do you pretty much have to keep your system idle for the burn to work, or can you do other stuff while you're burning? Yeah, I've only had it spit out one coaster so far :) It's the HP 7110i+ drive, which is the internal IDE model. I have it working fine under Linux, except for some CD playing tools that don't like the SCSI emulation. When I burn a CD, I can do all kinds of other things: compile a kernel, work in X, etc, etc. But- my system also serves loop-mounted ISO cd images to windows clients with samba, and for some reason that tends to suck down cpu when I'm burning. Turning on IRQ unmasking for the non-cd drives in your system helps (man hdparm) but can cause problems on some hardware. If you're in the market for a burner, I'd go with a SCSI. Getting this IDE to work properly was a right pain in the ass. -- __ | ian eure, network admin, freelance security consultant, and | | manically depressed paranoid schizophrenic, at your service. | ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://minion.org ; : raw speed = 105.6 wpm with 4.5% errors : . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: sound recording under linux
Hi. I do a lot of this kind of thing, so let me tell you what my setup is. I have two boxes that I use to make my music with. One is an old 486-66 msdos- debian dualbooter, and the other is a K6-166 linux box. They are both on ethernet, and I have the MS SMB client for the dos side of the dos box (named psychosis). I use Impulse Tracker 2.14p3 on the dos side of psychosis to make my music, (IT is a free mod-type tracker, www.noisemusic.org/it/) save that, reboot into linux, from which I pull the .it file off psychosis onto phaktory, the K6 box. I then add any effects with CERES SoundStudio (a commecrial multi- track wave editor for Linux. A demo version is available on sunsite.), save it to a .wav, and burn CDs with my HP CD-RW drive. I would look at SoundStudio for your multitrack recording needs. I think there are also a few other linux multitrack recorders floating around. Check the apps/sound/editors subdirectory on sunsite... As far as the drum machine goes, I don't know of any decent software drum machines for Linux, but if you get IT working under DOSEMU or something, that is a pretty good solution. I think you can get the sound working under dosemu with recent versions, but if not, you can create your drum loops silently and then mess with them in SoundStudio. For more information about my music (including some mp3 clips) point yourself at http://minion.ml.org. On Fri, Jul 10, 1998 at 09:13:24PM -0500, the lone gunman wrote: Hello: Are there any folks out there using Linux to do sound recording? If so, what approaches have you taken? I've got a cheap hack of a sound studio on my pc -- only under windows now, though, and I'd rather do this under linux. I do multi-track guitar recording in the following way: record a few licks with the microphone next to my amp. I have the output jack on my soundcard split in two -- one cable going to my speakers, and one going right back in the input jack of my soundcard. Then I can play the first track I recorded, and play another on my guitar while recording -- thus the two tracks are automatically mixed. Granted this is no professional studio, but it does the trick, and fairly well. The requirements, though, are that I need a full duplex driver for my Sound Blaster AWE 32 pnp ISA sound card. This driver is free for Windows. I can purchase a full duplex driver for linux from a company (I forget their name). Anyway, before I spend on the full duplex driver, does anyone know of some good software that I can use -- I need a midi drum programmer, some decent recording software, and some mixing software (that can merge two sound files). I've got most of this for free under Windows, so I'd like to keep it free for Linux. (BTW, the midi drum machine is called The Wizard -- it's pretty sharp, I'd like something similar for linux). Thanks! Matt -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- __ | ian eure, network admin, freelance security consultant, and | | manically depressed paranoid schizophrenic, at your service. | ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://minion.org ; : raw speed = 105.6 wpm with 4.5% errors : . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
ACK! xdm kdm hate me!
Ok, this problem is driving me crazy. The short story is that the drive that my /usr partition lived on died. This left me without many important binaries, and a package database which did not accurately reflect the state of the filesystem. So, after many days of manually downloading and re-installing all the packages I had installed prior to the crash, I thought I was ok. However, xdm/kdm just refuse to work properly. When an X server makes a broadcast XDMCP query, [x|k]dm responds and I get a login window, I log in, and the X server resets. And I don't see much in the way of [x|k]dm logs to track down what's going wrong. Local sessions (eg startx) on the system work fine. Any hints? -- __ | ian eure, network admin, freelance security consultant, and | | manically depressed paranoid schizophrenic, at your service. | ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://minion.org ; : raw speed = 105.6 wpm with 4.5% errors : . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: kde (and K memory leak question)
Yep. KDE is still beta right now... the 1.0pre1 was released last week, but afaik isn't debianized yet. If you're running the KDE build out of frozen, try upgrading to beta4, in slink, as it fixes a few problems and is more stable. On Thu, Jul 02, 1998 at 12:37:22AM -0500, Eric wrote: I too run K. Doing a find for libkfm* I find /usr/X11R6/lib/libkfm.so.0.0.90 which has permissions -rw-r--r-- and is owned by root and group root. I also find a symlink to it called /usr/X11R6/lib/libkfm.so.0. K works fine for me, is that the same as your setup? I also have another question about K. I seem to be experiencing fairly signifigant memory leaks from it. I started and quit X a few times today and ended up losing about 5 megs of memory somewhere. I've run other window managers and this doesn't happen. Does anyone else experience this? On Wed, 01 Jul 1998, Greg Norris wrote: I installed kde earlier today, along with all of the dependant and associated packages. When I try to start X, however, I get the following messages dumped to ~/.xsession-errors: -- kwm: error in loading shared libraries libkfm.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory -- But when I look for the libraby it's complaining about, I find that it exists as /usr/X11R6/lib/libkfm.so.0. Any ideas? -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- _ _ | |(_) | _| | | | |___ | | |__/ | |__/ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- __ | ian eure, network admin, freelance security consultant, and | | manically depressed paranoid schizophrenic, at your service. | ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://minion.org ; : raw speed = 105.6 wpm with 4.5% errors : . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Please help with IP Aliasing
On Thu, Jul 02, 1998 at 11:33:13PM +0800, Jieyao wrote: I am currently setting up a Mail and Webserver (hamm, 2.0.33). I have got a whole package of 256 IP addresses that I want to assign to this server. In the NET-3-HOWTO I read that I have to set it up like this: Why do you want to give the machine 256 ips? It's pointless unless you do webhosting, and there are better ways of doing that eg with apache's VirtualHost setup. Correct me if I'm wrong, I believe that even for apache you still need IP for each virtualhost since each is going to be a diffenent domain. I think there are some way to do non-IP virtualhost but you would be handicapped in other services. Sorry I didn't get back to this, I've been away for a while. AFAIK the only problem with non-ip virtual web hosting is that on some very old browsers (netscape 1, mosaic etc) you just get the main page for the machine, because they don't send the full address of the page they're trying to get. But, no browser software currently shipping has that problem. There should be no reason not to use non-ip vhosting. -- __ | ian eure, network admin, freelance security consultant, and | | manically depressed paranoid schizophrenic, at your service. | ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://minion.org ; : raw speed = 105.6 wpm with 4.5% errors : . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: e2fsck
On a similar topic, what do directory sizes mean? I can't seem to see any direct connection between the size of a directory in an ls -l and it's contents, or the size of it's contents. On Wed, Jul 01, 1998 at 07:04:26PM -0400, Bob Hilliard wrote: I'd like to piggy-back on this discussion - Oliver is the first person I have heard talk knowledgeably lost+found. I have never found any files in lost+found, but ls-l and du always show it as 12kb, even in a brand new file system. What is occupying those 12k? Bob -- Oliver Elphick olly@lfix.co.uk writes: Jieyao wrote: Part of the disk damage can be that file pointers in directories can get destroyed, leaving the inode used but not pointed to by anything. If the orphaned file is empty it will be removed; if it is not empty, it will be reconnected into the directory lost+found, which should exist at the top level of the file system - there is one of these directories for each file system. Since the orphaned file's name will have been lost, it is simply given its inode number as a name. To recover it, identify it by its contents and mv it to its proper location. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- __ | ian eure, network admin, freelance security consultant, and | | manically depressed paranoid schizophrenic, at your service. | ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://minion.org ; : raw speed = 105.6 wpm with 4.5% errors : . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: mp3 decoder
On Thu, Jul 02, 1998 at 02:03:00PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: Are there any mp3 decoders available for Linux/Debian? Preferably libc5/bo but libc6/hamm is fine too. It doesn't look like mpg123 or 8hz-mp3 do decoding, and the l3enc/mp3enc people are now shipping the demo without l3dec. Well, mpg123 will do the job, with a little help from sox... eg ``mpg123 -s blah.mp3 blah.raw ; sox -V -r 44100 -s -c 2 blah.raw blah.wav'' and then rm blah.raw. It could be done much nicer if sox accepted input from a pipe, but it doesn't seem to like doing that. -- __ | ian eure, network admin, freelance security consultant, and | | manically depressed paranoid schizophrenic, at your service. | ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://minion.org ; : raw speed = 105.6 wpm with 4.5% errors : . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: X hates me after hardware upgrade
On Tue, Jun 30, 1998 at 10:25:16AM -0500, Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote: --OgqxwSJOaUobr8KG Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Clue required, please. I've never had XF86 give me an error like this one. I just completed transferring my existing hardware to a new case/motherboard. If it matters, I went from a P90 to a dual P133. I moved over the disks, RAM and boards - everything but the P90 motherboard. XF86Config: /etc/X11/XF86Config (**) stands for supplied, (--) stands for probed/default values (**) XKB: rules: xfree86 (**) XKB: model: pc101 (**) XKB: layout: us (**) XKB: keymap: xfree86(us) (overrides other XKB settings) (**) Mouse: type: MicroSoft, device: /dev/ttyS0, baudrate: 1200 (**) Mouse: buttons: 3 (**) SVGA: Graphics device ID: ViRGE GX (**) SVGA: Monitor ID: NEC XE17 (**) FontPath set to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic/ (--) SVGA: S3 ViRGE chipset: please load libs3v.a module (--) SVGA: CHIPS: chip revision: 6 (--) SVGA: Chipset: ct65530 (--) SVGA: CHIPS: no monitor detected. (**) SVGA: CHIPS: 4096 kB VRAM (--) SVGA: CHIPS: TFT probed. (--) SVGA: CHIPS: CRT (--) SVGA: CHIPS: PI Bus (--) SVGA: CHIPS: Depth 16 only supported with linear addressing (--) SVGA: chipset: generic (**) SVGA: videoram: 4096k (--) SVGA: clocks: 25.18 (**) SVGA: 16bpp not supported for this chipset *** A configured device found, but display modes could not be resolved.*** try X :1 -bpp 8 -query localhost (assuming that you're using xdm. use similar arguments without the query for startx) It looks like it's having trouble with the 16bpp. Failing that, I've found XF86Config, which comes with the vga16 to be wonderful, especially the newer version from a month or two ago. Setup from scratch for a very simple 8 bit display (you can now choose this), and start moving up from there. Hmm... I couldn't find the original message, so I'm replying to this one... Let's go through this step-by-step: (--) SVGA: S3 ViRGE chipset: please load libs3v.a module Ok, the X server is XF86_SVGA, and it detected a S3 ViRGE chipset. Fine. (--) SVGA: CHIPS: chip revision: 6 (--) SVGA: Chipset: ct65530 Now, this is where it starts getting weird. It _also_ detects a Chips Tech. ct65530 display adapter. Very strange. (--) SVGA: CHIPS: no monitor detected. Now, we see that it can't find a monitor on the ct card. (**) SVGA: CHIPS: 4096 kB VRAM we have 4mb RAM (--) SVGA: CHIPS: TFT probed. (--) SVGA: CHIPS: CRT (--) SVGA: CHIPS: PI Bus This is also very odd. It looks like it wants to say 'PCI Bus', but the C gets dropped. Strange. (--) SVGA: CHIPS: Depth 16 only supported with linear addressing This is letting you know that ct (as with some cirrus cards) won't work with =16bpp unless you specify linear in the /etc/X11/XF86Config. Normal, but not for a system that has been setup properly for a ct card. (--) SVGA: chipset: generic (**) SVGA: videoram: 4096k Here, we see a _third_ video adapter getting detected. A generic (or unsupported) VGA with 4mb ram. (**) SVGA: 16bpp not supported for this chipset It picks either the ct or the generic, and complains. *** A configured device found, but display modes could not be resolved.*** And complains again. It looks to me like there might be an onboard ct adapter on the new motherboard, or a second card. Check under /proc/pci and see what devices it finds... Look and see if more than one display adapter is getting detected. For the record, what kind of video card do you have? -- __ | ian eure, network admin, freelance security consultant, and | | manically depressed paranoid schizophrenic, at your service. | ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://minion.org ; : raw speed = 105.6 wpm with 4.5% errors : . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
libX11.a?
Hey... I'm not seeing libX11.a anywhere... It's needed to compile X client bins, and it is not a part of the xlib6g-dev package... anyone know where it's gone off to? -- __ | ian eure, network admin, freelance security consultant, and | | manically depressed paranoid schizophrenic, at your service. | ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://minion.org ; : raw speed = 105.6 wpm with 4.5% errors : . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: libX11.a?
On Wed, Jul 01, 1998 at 09:52:15AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jun 30, 1998 at 07:01:48PM -0700, Ian Eure wrote: Hey... I'm not seeing libX11.a anywhere... It's needed to compile X client bins, No. It is only needed to compile _static_ X client binaries. Unless you have special needs, the dynamic library (/usr/X11R6/libX11.so) suffices. Simply compile -lX11 . ld: cannot open -lX11: No such file or directory make[1]: *** [maube] Error 1 Phaktory# ls -l /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Jun 26 07:42 /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so - libX11.so.6.1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Jun 26 07:40 /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 - libX11.so.6.1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 679276 Jun 23 14:48 /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so. /etc/ld.so.conf says: /usr/local/lib /usr/lib/libc5-compat /lib/libc5-compat /usr/X11R6/lib /usr/lib/i486-linuxaout /usr/local/StarOffice4/lib quoth the compiler, nevermore. this was done as a user at first, then as root in case there were some weird permissions problems. So... any idea why this isn't happy? -- __ | ian eure, network admin, freelance security consultant, and | | manically depressed paranoid schizophrenic, at your service. | ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://minion.org ; : raw speed = 105.6 wpm with 4.5% errors : . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: libX11.a?
On Wed, Jul 01, 1998 at 12:51:10PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jul 01, 1998 at 03:54:52AM -0700, Ian Eure wrote: ld: cannot open -lX11: No such file or directory make[1]: *** [maube] Error 1 Phaktory# ls -l /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Jun 26 07:42 /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so - libX11.so.6.1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Jun 26 07:40 /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 - libX11.so.6.1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 679276 Jun 23 14:48 /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so. Did the last line got cut off? Sorry, my bad. :) Should be -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 679276 Jun 23 14:48 /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6.1 /etc/ld.so.conf says: /etc/ld.so.conf is only relevant for running binaries; not for compiling them. The linker looks for libX11.so (not libX11.so.version); make sure it is a symlink to an existing libX11.so.version . If that doesn't help, add a '-v' to the compiler invocation to see the exact arguments with which ld gets called. Well... ld fails, same message, blah blah... On the commandline we have a ``-lX11'' and a ``-L/usr/X11/lib''. When I manually changed the -L/usr/X11/lib to -L/usr/X11R6/lib, everything is happy. Now, anyone know how I can set this as the default? -- __ | ian eure, network admin, freelance security consultant, and | | manically depressed paranoid schizophrenic, at your service. | ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://minion.org ; : raw speed = 105.6 wpm with 4.5% errors : . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Please help with IP Aliasing
On Wed, Jul 01, 1998 at 02:55:39PM +, Andy Spiegl wrote: Hi! I am currently setting up a Mail and Webserver (hamm, 2.0.33). I have got a whole package of 256 IP addresses that I want to assign to this server. In the NET-3-HOWTO I read that I have to set it up like this: Why do you want to give the machine 256 ips? It's pointless unless you do webhosting, and there are better ways of doing that eg with apache's VirtualHost setup. The script you've shown should work, but a quicker way to do it would be: for ip in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 ... do ifconfig eth0:$ip xxx.xxx.xxx.$ip netmask 255.255.255.0 done you do not need the route add -net after each eth0 alias. [stuff deleted] What I want seems to work this way, but I can't imagine that this is the right way to do it. And if I will ever get another subnetwork to add, how would I add it using the above method? I found that eth0:255 is the highest possible virtual network number. So I couldn't add any more? All you network-gurus: Please give me a hint or any pointer as to where I can find more info on that. -- __ | ian eure, network admin, freelance security consultant, and | | manically depressed paranoid schizophrenic, at your service. | ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://minion.org ; : raw speed = 105.6 wpm with 4.5% errors : . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: e2fsck
On Thu, Jul 02, 1998 at 02:12:03AM +0800, Jieyao wrote: I had a few question regarding e2fsck. Can I assume e2fsck is something like Norton Disk Doctor for Linux. Yes, in that it checks and repairs linux ext2fs partitions. When I run it, it gave me /dev/hda1 is mounted. Do you really want to continue (y/n)? What is the danger of continuing? Well... if the fs is mounted read-write, and fsck changes anything, when the kernel goes to flush the data in the disk cache to the drive, you can get fs corruption. If you want to fsck, make sure the partition is unmounted or mounted read-only. When I do a forced check on bootup (using shutdown -F) I almost always get some error, like zreo dtime and wrong information or stuff like that, and it auto fixes. The problem is after that those file that are so called 'fixed' will be missing. zero dtime is nothing special and should be ignored. Check under the lost+found directory on the root of that fs and see if files are turning up. What is happening? What are the causes of the errors? How can I prevent them? Sounds like either a bad drive or a corrupted fs. Backup your data (if you can) mkfs the drive, check for bad blocks, and go from there. TIA! __o __o __o __o __\_))__\_))__\_))__\_))___. --\---\ R O W I N G Jieyao [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 836655 Don't waste your computer's time. Join the Singapore RC5 Effort now! http://www.raffles.nus.edu.sg/~rekcah/rc5/ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- __ | ian eure, network admin, freelance security consultant, and | | manically depressed paranoid schizophrenic, at your service. | ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://minion.org ; : raw speed = 105.6 wpm with 4.5% errors : . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Please help with IP Aliasing
If you are using apache and qmail, you have no need whatsoever for binding more than 1 ip to your system. eg, on my system, I'm doing virtual webhosting email for a few domains. so... if you go to http://crosssound.narrows.com, you get one page. If you go to http://www3.minion.ml.org, you get a different page. If you nslookup those two names, they come up with the same ip, 198.93.1.102. In apache's /etc/apache/httpd.conf, I have a section like so: VirtualHost minion.ml.org ServerAdmin [EMAIL PROTECTED] DocumentRoot /home2/ieure/minion ServerName minion.ml.org ErrorLog /var/log/apache/minion.ml.org-error_log TransferLog /var/log/apache/minion.ml.org-access_log /VirtualHost I use smail, not qmail, so I can't help with that... but when smail was installed, it asked for other hostnames to process mail for... add whatever names you need, then just make sure that all of them are CNAMES in your dns zone file. This is also more stable than having many ip aliases in some cases. On Wed, Jul 01, 1998 at 03:16:04PM -0400, matthew tebbens wrote: I only have 1 main IP address (actually 5, but only one is used), and I host a number of domains for web space and mail I use Apache, and Qmail Both are really good for Virtual Hosting Matthew On Wed, 1 Jul 1998, Ian Eure wrote: On Wed, Jul 01, 1998 at 02:55:39PM +, Andy Spiegl wrote: Hi! I am currently setting up a Mail and Webserver (hamm, 2.0.33). I have got a whole package of 256 IP addresses that I want to assign to this server. In the NET-3-HOWTO I read that I have to set it up like this: Why do you want to give the machine 256 ips? It's pointless unless you do webhosting, and there are better ways of doing that eg with apache's VirtualHost setup. The script you've shown should work, but a quicker way to do it would be: for ip in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 ... do ifconfig eth0:$ip xxx.xxx.xxx.$ip netmask 255.255.255.0 done you do not need the route add -net after each eth0 alias. [stuff deleted] What I want seems to work this way, but I can't imagine that this is the right way to do it. And if I will ever get another subnetwork to add, how would I add it using the above method? I found that eth0:255 is the highest possible virtual network number. So I couldn't add any more? All you network-gurus: Please give me a hint or any pointer as to where I can find more info on that. -- __ | ian eure, network admin, freelance security consultant, and | | manically depressed paranoid schizophrenic, at your service. | ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://minion.org ; : raw speed = 105.6 wpm with 4.5% errors : . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- __ | ian eure, network admin, freelance security consultant, and | | manically depressed paranoid schizophrenic, at your service. | ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://minion.org ; : raw speed = 105.6 wpm with 4.5% errors : . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: ppp over ssh?
On Sat, Jun 27, 1998 at 11:13:17AM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote: anyone know how to get ppp to run over a ssh session? i.e. i want to start pppd on one machine, and make it use ssh rather than chat to initiate the connection. i can get pppd to use ssh -C -x -e none remote.host.name -l remoteuser instead of the usual 'chat' program. after login, the remote host starts pppd...that side of things is working fine. the trouble is that pppd on this side is not attaching to the ssh connectionreading the docs, there doesn't appear to be any way of making it do so. I think that you should look at ppptcp - it allows for ppp sessions over tcp connections, with or without encryption. I don't remember where I picked it up, I think it may have been on sunsite... The filename is ppptcp-0_5_tar.gz, if you can't find it (with ftpsearch or some other such thing) then I can mail a copy over. -- __ | ian eure, network admin, freelance security consultant, and | | manically depressed paranoid schizophrenic, at your service. | ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://minion.org ; : raw speed = 105.6 wpm with 4.5% errors : . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ppp analog bonding w/ eql
On Fri, Jun 26, 1998 at 08:19:55AM +0800, Lindsay Allen wrote: On Thu, 25 Jun 1998, Debian Mailing List wrote: hi there i am a newbie and was wondering if anyone has or know how to use two modems or more to dial up to a isp and bond all the lines together.. my isp currently uses ascend dial-up servers and supports 56k modems --kim Using here quite successfully. But check with your provider that he has only one box as both modems must be connected to the same box. If he has multiple boxes you might have to make a lot of calls to achieve this. What we need is multi-link ppp. Available (so I'm told) for FreeBSD and W95 but not for Linux. Hmm, no... There is support for the (semi?) standard multilink ppp protocol under development... It is not in the standard kernel yet, and I don't remember the www site, but an altavista search for ppp multilink protocol +linux should get it for you. -- __ | ian eure, network admin, freelance security consultant, and | | manically depressed paranoid schizophrenic, at your service. | ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://minion.org ; : raw speed = 105.6 wpm with 4.5% errors : . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: enable rlogin with PAM? (pam setup)
On Thu, Jun 25, 1998 at 05:52:15PM -0700, Jeff Raubitschek wrote: I havent taken the time to figure out how to use PAM yet and i just upgraded to debian hamm. Unfortunately now rlogin doesnt work. I understand the basic concepts behind PAM and have tried adding auth sufficient /lib/security/pam_rhosts_auth.so to my login pam config file. but that didnt seem to solve the problem. When is this file loaded. how do I get it to be reread? or did i do something wrong? Could it be possible to make this an installation choice. Asking user: Allow rlogin? [y/N] or make therlogin pam setup correct by default (if this isnt a security risk)? Er... I'm not sure if PAM is used by default in Debian. At least, I don't think that all the programs that could (should?) use it. Maybe someone else has more info? PAM always looked interesting, but not quite stable yet, and lacking the program support it really needed. But, I definitely want to play with it if it is standard on Debian. -- __ | ian eure, network admin, freelance security consultant, and | | manically depressed paranoid schizophrenic, at your service. | ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://minion.org ; : raw speed = 105.6 wpm with 4.5% errors : . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: xhost
Ok. The government of the USA classifies encryption code as a munition, ie a tool of war; presumably because it is in fact used during wars to stop the enemy from recieving messages intended for your own side. Ok. So, there is also this law about not exporting munitions from the USA. Also a USA-specific law. What this means is that the US government can come down _hard_ on anyone making encryption software (or hardware) available to non-US citizens. Since, if you put, say, a copy of PGP on a ftp server in the US, you cannot (easily) verify that the person(s) downloading it are US citizens without violating a federal law, all encryption-related software must be distributed from sources outside the US. Importing encryption software into the US is not an issue. Note that the actual law states that no encryption stronger than 40 bits may be exported- 40 bits or lower is ok to export. This makes it very hard to get copies of, say, pgp (1024+ bits == not ok to export) - which was written in the US - outside the US border legally. Very hard, but not impossible- the law in question does not prohibit written or printed copies. So, a printed copy of PGP was shipped outside the country, where it was scanned, OCR'd and proofred for errors. At which point it was distributed on a global scale, from outside the US, legally- since the country it was being distributed from didn't have any ack-basswords laws about exporting strong encryption products. Yes, you are correct. The law(s) are pointless. Lobby your local representative. On Fri, Jun 26, 1998 at 01:16:43AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, so the gov't thinks strong encryption is munitions so you can't export it. Why have non-us.debian.org: You can't import it either? Or you just can't use it at all in the US? .Not like making _rules_ about import and export can actually stop what people do with source available on the net?. Surely if you are a criminial of the sort that the govt is so intent on stopping, then you would have no problem with using illegally electronically exported/imported encryption code? Any good sites explaining the matter? Thanks, Timothy -- E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 26-Jun-98 Time: 01:12:04 This message was sent by XFMail. Powered by GNU/Linux 2.0. -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- __ | ian eure, network admin, freelance security consultant, and | | manically depressed paranoid schizophrenic, at your service. | ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://minion.org ; : raw speed = 105.6 wpm with 4.5% errors : . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Kernel-source dependence
On Fri, Jun 26, 1998 at 08:58:26AM -0500, Jim Crumley wrote: Do you think there is a dependence on bin86 missing for the kernel-source package? I was unable to compile the kernel for some thing and sent time digging at all places before I discover I did not install the bin86 package. Why wan't bin86 installed? Well I tried to trim the system, leaving out package that don't sound familiar hoping the dependence checking would warn me. Jieyao [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 836655 I ran in to the same problem a couple of months ago. The reason there isn't a dependence on bin86 is because only i386 machines need bin86. The kernel packages themselves are architecture independent, so there was no easy way to specify the dependence on bin86. The way around this problem is to read the documentation that comes with the kernel related packages. The need for bin86 is pointed out there. I am guessing that you (like me) missed those references. Perhaps bin86 should be recommended by kernel-source? -- __ | ian eure, network admin, freelance security consultant, and | | manically depressed paranoid schizophrenic, at your service. | ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://minion.org ; : raw speed = 105.6 wpm with 4.5% errors : . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: serious picture and sound editing and drawing for linux?
On Fri, Jun 26, 1998 at 08:30:24AM -0700, Micha Feigin wrote: Any serious picture editing and drawing tools in the grade of photoshop or the likes of fractal painter? sound editing? Also is there a good video editing tools in the grade of premier? Thanx The GIMP (http://www.gimp.org) should address most, if not all, of your graphics needs. It is a free GPL'd Photoshop-like image manipulation tool. As for sound, I recommend CERES SoundStudio, a very nice multitrack wav editor/sampler/etc. It is commercial, but a demo is available on Sunsite. As for video, The GIMP has some stuff you might find useful- it will load and edit many types of animations, such as MPEG, but saving is currently not supported for all formats yet. -- __ | ian eure, network admin, freelance security consultant, and | | manically depressed paranoid schizophrenic, at your service. | ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://minion.org ; : raw speed = 105.6 wpm with 4.5% errors : . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to install Debian?
On Fri, Jun 26, 1998 at 09:46:28PM +0200, Stef Hoesli Wiederwald wrote: Our Mailserver runs with Slackware. I want to change to Debian. The problem is the following: There is no CD-ROM, no floppy disk and no DOS installed. How can I install Debian from an existing ext2fs partition. In Installing Debian Linux 2.0 it says to make a floppy if I want to do this, hmmm Interesting. Since the system has to go down for the change, you might want to rip the case open and pop a floppy in there for the first bit of the install, then take it out again... If that isn't an option, you _might_ be able to juggle your partitions around in the right way and pull it off... The only think I can suggest is to hack your lilo.conf to load the debian kernel, initrd and rootdisk from your existing slackware partition, and then... something. Because debian wants to partition/format it's drives before it needs other stuff you'd have to put on the drive. If you have anough RAM, you might want to turn your swap partition into an ext2fs, drop the debian rescue drivers disk images on it, hack your bootloader, then reformat all your partitions _except_ the swap, install your ethernet card driver from the drivers disk on the old swap partition and install the base package over your 'net connection. But, since I just came up with that, you might not. :) Theoretically, it should work, but ymmv. Anybody done this before? I don't think anyone else is nearly psychotic enough. ;) -- __ | ian eure, network admin, freelance security consultant, and | | manically depressed paranoid schizophrenic, at your service. | ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://minion.org ; : raw speed = 105.6 wpm with 4.5% errors : . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 2 ethernet cards (more ...)
On Wed, Jun 24, 1998 at 12:08:07PM -0700, Philippe BARBELET wrote: Hi Debian friends, I have 2 ISA 3C509 ethernet cards in my PC. At boot time, the system says : 3c509: WARNING! Module load-time probing works reliably only for EISA and MCA bus!! loading device 'eth0'... eth0: 3c509 at 0x300 tag 1, 10baseT port, address 00 20 af 34 e8 44, IRQ 3. 3c509.c:1.07 6/15/95 [EMAIL PROTECTED] My lilo.conf file is correctly configured : append=ether=0,0,eth1 but the system doesn't see the second card. I think that the probing test doesn't work correctly. If I put just 1 card at a time, the card is always recognized. IIRC, the kernel boot paramaters only work if the driver is compiled into the kernel. If you are compiling it as a module (eg default Debian setup) you need to edit /etc/conf.modules and add a line like: ``options 3c509 io=0xAAA,0xBBB irq=CC,DD'' where 0xAAA and CC are for eth0, and 0xBBB and DD are for eth1. Note that I'm not certain about the specific parameters, you might want to read the driver source if it dosen't work- alternatively, you could just recompile your kernel with the 3c509 driver in the kernel instead of a module. -- __ | ian eure, network admin, freelance security consultant, and | | manically depressed paranoid schizophrenic, at your service. | ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://minion.org ; : raw speed = 105.6 wpm with 4.5% errors : . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Swapping Hard Drives on the fly
On Wed, Jun 24, 1998 at 11:29:38PM -0700, Damon Muller wrote: Hey Folks, I have a 1.2G IDE HD that I have in a removable drive cady on my Bo system. It's not a 'hot-swap' drive or anything sophisticated like that, and on my Windoze system I wouldn't have even considered pulling it out while the PC was running. However, under Linux, shouldn't I just be able to unmount or mount the drive at will? Would that damage or confuse anything? Or possibly put in the drive once I have booted without it? Anyone have a similar setup? Hotswapping devices not intended for it is a Bad Thing(tm). However, if you are determined... I have safely hot-swapped network/sound/serial boards under Linux with no problems, BUT that does not mean it is safe. Chances are you will fry something. I do _NOT_ recommend that you even attempt a hot-swap of an IDE device. If you are going to hotswap, you _must_ turn off the driver for it first, ie rmmod it. Since you are booting off an IDE device, it is compiled in the kernel, and you can't rmmod it- so when you disconnect the drive, the kernel will complain _loudly_. I tried it once, just to see- ended up hard resetting my box. If you wanted a hot-swappable setup, you might try setting up some sort of ramdisk root fs with the ide driver compiled as a module and all your important stuff (/usr, /var etc) mounted off your ide drive, you could then drop to single user mode, umount the ide devices, rmmod the driver and maybe have a chance. -- __ | ian eure, network admin, freelance security consultant, and | | manically depressed paranoid schizophrenic, at your service. | ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://minion.org ; : raw speed = 105.6 wpm with 4.5% errors : . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: The juggernaught expands?
On Thu, Jun 18, 1998 at 07:59:36PM -0700, George Bonser wrote: On Thu, 18 Jun 1998, Derek Tam wrote: I dunno if this is related, but http://linus.microsoft.com/ was spotted the other day up and running Redhat 5.1. nslookup showed that the domain indeed resolved to a Microsoft netbock. The domain has since been removed. Derek No, probably has NOTHING to do with it. Microsoft has always had a few linux webservers around for testing their browser. monkeyhead.microsoft.com is an example as is egg.microsoft.com though egg has had its Red Hat page replaced. Actually, MS has used linux systems for several years- there is a farm of old Slack 2.x boxes (I believe) that run the MS PBX system. Or, at least that's what their network admin said to me personally a few years back when I visited. It's kinda ironic that all the calls for help with windows problems get switched to the support tech by a linux box. :) -- __ | ian eure, network admin, freelance security consultant, and | | manically depressed paranoid schizophrenic, at your service. | ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://minion.org ; : raw speed = 105.6 wpm with 4.5% errors : . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: staroffice
On Fri, Jun 19, 1998 at 01:35:17PM -0500, Jeff Noxon wrote: On Fri, Jun 19, 1998 at 01:13:49PM -0400, Brian Morgan wrote: Where is that Staroffice4 that you're talking about? I can only find 3.1-8 in hamm/contrib/binary-i386/editors. StarOffice 4 is commercial -- i.e. not free. IMHO it's well worth the $100 since it's virtually a clone of MS Office. It's a bit sluggish though. The linux versions of StarOffice 3 4 are free for non-commercial use. They are available from http://www.stardivision.com -- __ | ian eure, network admin, freelance security consultant, and | | manically depressed paranoid schizophrenic, at your service. | ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://minion.org ; : raw speed = 105.6 wpm with 4.5% errors : . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
weird k/b problem
hmm... i seem to be having strange problems with my keyboard... i'm running a current (updated today) hamm... seems like backspace and delete both send a delete under X, so i can't backspace at all... seems fine in console mode, at least in bash, i can backspace, and delete deletes the character under it. but- when i run vncviewer (either svga or x) neither shift key works. it used to be that the left shift worked, but the right did nothing, and i put it down to the different scancodes the keys generate, but it seems not right that neither of them work now. makes typing in drive letters on a windows vnc server interesting. :^) anyone have any clue as to why this is happening? i remember installing a new linux termcap with one of the previous updates i did, or it might be the new 2.0.34 kernel i'm running. suggestions? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
quick question about networking
i just need to know if there is some script (ala slackware's netconfig) that will let me reconfigure my network settings after debian has been installed- i've checked, but haven't found anything, nothing in the faq, etc. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: boot/physical security?
It's set to boot from /dev/hda1. Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: Perhaps your /etc/lilo.conf is not putting the boot record where you want it. Do you have a line in there that says 'boot=/dev/hda' or 'boot=/dev/hda1'? The former will replace the MBR. Ian Eure wrote: Hi there, just a quick question. As an old slackware user, I usually have a restricted boot with a password in my lilo setup, as well as an entry for the floppy drive in my system- so, the system boots from drive c, hits lilo, and boots linux with the default parameters; if you have the password, you can boot from a floppy or give the kernel evtra parameters. the bios has a password as well. i found that this was a pretty good way to discourage some of the bootfloppy/'linux single'/script kiddie hacker-types around my school. however, with debian (bo), the actual MBR boot block allows you to boot from a different partition, or even a floppy, with no authentication at all- even worse, you access it in the same waym by holding down control during the boot. I noticed that lilo was setup to use /boot/boot.b as default, while slackware always used /boot/any_d.b - but when i tell lilo to use any_d.b (verified as being in /boot), it complains loudly about not finding my /dev/hda1 - any suggestions? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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]
boot/physical security?
Hi there, just a quick question. As an old slackware user, I usually have a restricted boot with a password in my lilo setup, as well as an entry for the floppy drive in my system- so, the system boots from drive c, hits lilo, and boots linux with the default parameters; if you have the password, you can boot from a floppy or give the kernel evtra parameters. the bios has a password as well. i found that this was a pretty good way to discourage some of the bootfloppy/'linux single'/script kiddie hacker-types around my school. however, with debian (bo), the actual MBR boot block allows you to boot from a different partition, or even a floppy, with no authentication at all- even worse, you access it in the same waym by holding down control during the boot. I noticed that lilo was setup to use /boot/boot.b as default, while slackware always used /boot/any_d.b - but when i tell lilo to use any_d.b (verified as being in /boot), it complains loudly about not finding my /dev/hda1 - any suggestions? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: a stupid idea, a stupid test
You want a package called ppptcp - it allows you to run ppp connections over tcp/ip, with some optional encryption stuff. It's not in debian afaik, but should be available on sunsite. Stephen Carpenter wrote: Ok...I got a bright idea earlier I have a linux machine at work (where we don't really have linux machines...its one of the 3 that I know of in existance on our entire network (of at least 10 000 users) ) Anyway...mine is on DHCP like most of the network and a new one which was setup is also on DHCP (mostly because im a tech and he is at the helpdesk and neither of us can justify why we need network engineering to give us static IPs) One of the Linux machines I know of has a static IP (this guy is some important doctor and I am sure I coul dget him to let me use his linux machine or one of his slowaris runnin sun stations if I asked ) Here was my idea: I want my machine and my friend at the helpdesks computer to be able to communicate (maybe even share soem NFS mounts ;) ) The problem is we are on DHCP...dynamic adressing which seems to change at least every few days My idea was ...can I setup a virtual network layered on top of our ethernet / TCP/IP network? My idea was to use netcat and pppd to make a ppp connection through a tcp/ip socket... then assign my own Private IP adresses (10.*) to the ends of the ppp connection then I could have the machine with the static IP as a central hub for the other 2 systems to connect too thus the other two machines could have Static IPs for talking to eachother ok...I know there must be a better way to do this...I think its called tunneling?? and I believe there is some kernel level support fo rit... I wanted to find a way to do it my way... the idea was this: use netcat on both systems to open the equivalent of a pipe and then attach pppd to it I tried this on the local machine...maybe someone can say why this setup didn't work first I made 4 named fifos's in1 out1 in2 out2 then cat in1 | nc -l -p 1555 | cat out1 cat in2 | nc 127.0.0.1 1555 | cat out2 ...both connectedand netstat showed a conenction between the two then I tried this... I cated a file into in1 then I did cat out2 on another VT nothing came out... I would have thought the end result would have been... data in - in1 - nc - tcpIP - nc - out2 - data out any ideas why did didn't work (suffice it to say pppd out1 in1 and the same for in2 and out2 ... they didn't connect any ideas? (and yes I know this is a stupid way to do it but I would think it should work! ) -Steve -- 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: partitioning strategy
Robert Goodwin wrote: hi there, a while ago i asked about installing linux on a large drive in a system that does not support LBA. somebody replied that such a thing would not be a problem but likely i would have to make the root partition containing the kernel smaller in order to accomodate lilo. what i'm wondering is how i would then go about putting the rest of the directory trees like /usr /var /etc all on the other large partition. does /etc have to be on the small partition as well for fstab and the other start up files? how can i mount multiple directory structures in one partition mounted off root. obviously i'm a little confused. does someone think they could understand what i'm getting at and maybe clarify a little. a sample fstab would probably help alot too. Ok. The issue we are dealing with here is that your BIOS won't support drives 500 mb. So, since LILO uses BIOS calls to load the kernel, you have to have the kernel on a partition =500mb. Once the kernel is loaded, it no longer needs the BIOS calls, and anything else can be as large as you want. Personally, I have my systems set up with a pretty small root partition (20-60mb), a medium-sized /usr (200mb) a small-to-medium /var (60-100mb depending on the logging requirements such) and _large_ /home and /opt partitions (1+gb) - then i symlink /usr/local to /opt. /boot (where the kernels live) is on the (small) root partition, so LILO is happy. /etc is tiny, so it also lives on the root. hope this helps clear things up a little. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ftp via squid proxy
Find a new ISP :) Lindsay Allen wrote: Is this possible? My ISP does not allow direct ftp any more. Ftp via lynx works if I use his proxy , but I want to use ncftp and mc. Any hints or advice welcomed. Lindsay =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Lindsay Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Perth, Western Australia voice +61 8 9316 248632.0125S 115.8445Evk6lj Debian Unix =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Kernel 2.0.33 questions
Martin Jackson wrote: I recently bought an HP 7200i CD-RW, an internal EIDE device. I was wondering if 1) Kernel 2.0.33 (or perhaps one of the 2.1 series) supports CD-RW format? Not a kernel issue. The kernel supports ATAPI (e/ide) devices- so if the drive reads it, it works. 2) Kernel 2.0.33 supports the Joliet extensions to ISO9660? the debian 2.0.33 kernel has the joilet patches, but they aren't in the standard 2.0.xx series kernels yet, afaik. 3) Any CD-Writer software currently available for Linux natively supports burning on an internal EIDE device? cdrecord supports it- I'm currently using cdrecoed 1.6a7 with a HP 7110i atapi cd-rw drive just fine. It supports cd-r[w] media just fine. -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: DEBIAN or REDHAT ?
Ossama Othman wrote: Hi, I am currently using hamm and am very happy with it. I will be installing a new Linux system soon but everyone is telling me to install RedHat 5. Has anyone any opinions on this? I tend to be partial to Debian, especially with GNOME being integrated into hamm. However, I've never used Redhat. Also, I've been advised that RedHat puts out security fixes the next day after a CERT advisory is released. How is Debian when it comes to security and other patches? When I was using bo, patches weren't released very often. Is this an indication that RedHat is more buggy, or is it an indication that Debian is more stable? For example, when the CERT advisory for SSH-AGENT was release over a week ago, one of the OSes that responded to the CERT advisory was RedHat. Much to my dismay, Debian wasn't one of the OSes that was mentioned on the CERT list. I ended up compiling SSH on my own. Thanks in advance for any suggestions or tips. Personally, I find RedHat to be incredibly irritating. Every time I've installed it, I ran into problems. Stupid things, like LILO not getting installed because the kernel was dropped into a different directory than it should have been. And their X tools are ugly :) I've been a die-hard Slackware user for ~3 years now, but I recently switched to Debian. It's completely free, _very_ standard, and updates/patches are put out much more often than with Slackware. One of the most irritating things about RH is that it is the most visible Linux distribution, but is so poorly made- you end up going into what feels very much like a No, I don't use Windows 95 conversation with people who aren't linux literate. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Port Scanning
You might want to look at Abacus Sentry- you can get it from www.psionic.com matthew tebbens wrote: Is there anything out there to stop people from port scanning my system ? I had someone last night scan my system from port 1 to 50,000 ! I heard that there is a portscand out there somewhere, if so where ? Thanks, Matthew -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: two keyboards, two monitors, two users, one processor?
Carey Evans wrote: Jameson Burt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I seek to use one computer with two full X-windows users. This would be a cheap in time/money approach for my wife and I simultaneously using Linux. It might be worthwhile finding a cheap 386 or 486 with a good graphics card. Install a minimum of programs on it, just the X server. If you run xfs on your main computer, you won't even need the fonts. You could do this with even a 200 MB hard disk, I think. You *will* need 2 network cards for this, but setting up two computers on a network under Linux is easier than some single-computer stuff. X is probably too slow over serial. (Just another option.) It is easy to plug in two mice, dodgy to plug in two monitors, but pretty much impossible to plug in two keyboards at the moment, IMO. A better option would be to look at the dxt package on sunsite- it is a nfsroot linux boot floppy that you can set up to run an X server on- I've hacked it up a bit, so it will use an X font server such- I may release it at some point in time. It is not the best solution, but it is out there. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Difficulty installing bo
seems to hang after the md driver- presumably while probing for scsi hardware. hamm bootdisk works fine. System is an AMD K5-100, 64MB 60ns non-EDO RAM- primary HDDs run off embedded ide controller, Adaptec 2940AU for my Jaz drive. 4mb s3 Virge pci video card, pnp pci ne2k clone, isa sb16. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
