Re: [Poptop-server] Re: Problem in using pptp-linux
Arnt, The problem James Ng Yuen Sum is experiencing is with configuring the PPTP client, which is supported by the PPTP client mailing list. I'm the release engineer for the client. I lurk on the PPTP server mailing list to assist occasionally. His statement that the web sites recommended an erroneous shell script is astounding. I can only guess that such web sites are outside the normal ones. The instructions for installing PPTP client on Debian is on the PPTP client web site, and they don't mention a script anything like that: http://pptpclient.sourceforge.net/howto-debian.phtml I wrote these instructions and tested them on Debian GNU/Linux stable (Woody), and continue to occasionally test them on the testing distribution. So I'd ask James Ng Yuen Sum to tell the owner of the web site he is referring to that their instructions are incorrect. I cannot find the instructions via Google, so I presume they are on a private web site. There's nothing wrong with pptp-linux that I can see in the error messages he shows us. The problem is with the script provided by the hidden web site. -- James Cameron http://quozl.netrek.org/ HP Open Source, Volunteer http://opensource.hp.com/ PPTP Client Project, Release Engineer http://pptpclient.sourceforge.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Gnupg Evolution
On Wed, 2002-06-19 at 18:59, Helgi Örn wrote: I have this annoying problem with Evolution and gnupg; when I click a message lock icon to check the signature Evolution often hangs before the lock opens. I then have to brutally kill it and start anew. Do you have network connection at the same time? If not, I would expect some trouble. -- James Cameron ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://quozl.linux.org.au/ (or) http://quozl.netrek.org/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: beep unconditionally
On Thu, 2002-06-20 at 17:13, Alex Malinovich wrote: apt-cache show beep And then there's apt-cache show morse for when you really what the machine to tell you what's wrong through the speaker. ;-) Friends of mine have an ip-up.d script for their 56k modem that lets them know it is time to hit the net. -- James Cameron ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://quozl.linux.org.au/ (or) http://quozl.netrek.org/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: User Logon Logging?
On Sun, 2002-06-16 at 04:45, Charlie Grosvenor wrote: In Debian woody how do I turn on user logon logging, so that a log entry is produced each time a user logs on? It's already on for me. Just type last to see the most recent logins. Install the sac package to analyse the wtmp file in more detail. See man sac. Change the 'rotate 1' in /etc/logrotate.conf for /var/log/wtmp if you want the logs to last longer. (I use wtmp in my ppa package, which tracks logins on an internet cafe's win32 clients, through samba, as well as ssh logins to the server. See http://quozl.netrek.org/ppa ) -- James Cameron ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://quozl.linux.org.au/ (or) http://quozl.netrek.org/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: debian is neat but how do I turn the computer off?
On Fri, 2002-06-14 at 11:51, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 10:39:54AM +1000, James Cameron wrote: | (b) how to make this change to /etc/inittab as a package to be installed | on multiple machines? One character difference. It doesn't look like inittab is in any package, so I don't know the best way to automatically change it on multiple systems. The package I have made (which also adds a graphical shutdown image using zgv) does this in the post-installation script ... # change control/alt/delete sequence to halt rather than reboot sed 's/shutdown -t1 -a -r now/shutdown -t1 -a -h now/' \ /etc/inittab /etc/inittab.dpkg.lenny-shutdown mv /etc/inittab /etc/inittab.pre-lenny-shutdown mv /etc/inittab.dpkg.lenny-shutdown /etc/inittab telinit q But I was hoping to find a more elegant solution. ;-) -- James Cameron ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://quozl.linux.org.au/ (or) http://quozl.netrek.org/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: debian is neat but how do I turn the computer off?
On Thu, 2002-06-13 at 14:53, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: Also, the default inittab has Ctrl-Alt-Del mapped to reboot the system. You can always use that to try and reboot. (I remapped it to shutdown on my systems because I wanted to) (a) how to make this work even in X, (b) how to make this change to /etc/inittab as a package to be installed on multiple machines? -- James Cameron ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://quozl.linux.org.au/ (or) http://quozl.netrek.org/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
ecc, error correcting code insertion
Is there a Debian package that contains code that will add error correcting codes to a data stream (e.g. a pipe) so that loss of a segment of the stream can be recovered from? (tried apt-cache search ecc, and a few other keywords) -- James Cameron ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://quozl.linux.org.au/ (or) http://quozl.netrek.org/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: ecc, error correcting code insertion
G'day Bob Eric, Bob was right. I am not looking for a specific use. I am after a reliable way to perform end to end data verification and correction of any stream. Verification is still necessary despite guarantees from TCP/IP protocol stacks, kernel socket APIs, and programmers of TCP clients. Most of us do file verification using md5sum. I've been familiar with the technology of ECC and FEC for many years, especially in the use of CRCs and redundancy groups in the OpenVMS BACKUP utility. I'm looking for an open source solution to consider for integration with some of the open source projects I lead. Being a Debian user for a couple of years, I felt Debian would have had something for me. ;-) I'm a socket API programmer myself, and know about EAGAIN and SIGPIPE, but that isn't the issue for me. I suppose I could have meant a popen() pipe. The context that triggered my search was backup media, like floppy discs. vdmfec seems like it might address the requirement, though it cannot cope with data loss. Bob: I searched for ecc, but didn't find anything but the ecc.README ... have you found the code anywhere? -- James Cameron ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://quozl.linux.org.au/ (or) http://quozl.netrek.org/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: problems with mppe and ppp in sid
G'day Arne, I'm the PPTP Client[1] project release engineer. As far as I know, Debian has not yet packaged a version of pppd with mppe support. (I'm not a Debian developer, and I haven't downloaded the sid pppd package to verify this). I worked around this lack by compiling pppd myself from sources[2], and using that pppd with pptp. I can continue to use the Debian pppd for my other connections, because I can start the mppe capable pppd and have it invoke pptp via the pty option, a new feature with 1.1. On my PPTP Client Diagnosis HOWTO page[3] you can find a cheap trick to check to see if the pppd you have has mppe support. References: 1. PPTP Client project web page http://pptpclient.sourceforge.net/ 2. How to install PPTP Client on Debian http://pptpclient.sourceforge.net/howto-debian.phtml (while this says it was last tested on potato, I've since upgraded to woody on that machine) 3. Checking pppd for MPPE support http://pptpclient.sourceforge.net/howto-diagnosis.phtml#mppe_pppd -- James Cameron ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://quozl.linux.org.au/ (or) http://quozl.netrek.org/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
How to set 800x600 X?
How do you set the X server to 800x600 from a program or script? How do you detect on a woody system whether X is 3.3 or 4.1? G'day, I'm setting up for an outback lan party, and since I'm using some old equipment I'd like every one of the 12 Debian boxes to run an X server at 800x600. While I can probably write something that will take the XF86Config file, remove the higher resolutions, and then start the X server ... surely there is a better way? # X -xf86config something :1 vt08 Can the X server once running be instructed to switch to 800x600? I know the Control/Alt/+ and Control/Alt/- keys do that, but I want to do it under program control. I'd also need to be able to change the offset to the virtual screen; which happens when you move the cursor to the edge of screen when the virtual resolution is larger than the display resolution. Also, some of the boxes have Trio64 cards, which are supported on 4.2, not 4.1, and so I have to use 3.3. Without starting the X server, how can I tell on a specific Debian box which version will be started? Checking 'dpkg --list' hasn't helped ... sometimes both xserver-s3 and xserver-xfree86 are installed. -- James Cameron ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://quozl.linux.org.au/ (or) http://quozl.netrek.org/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: PHP4 setup problems
You're right, it is very simple. Move the script to /var/www or where your other content is, then access it via your web server. http://localhost/hello.php I wouldn't be surprised if we all forgot to mention that in the documentation! -- James Cameron ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://quozl.linux.org.au/ (or) http://quozl.netrek.org/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: activating ipchains ip masqurading ...
Isn't it just a simple 'apt-get install ipmasq'? It's been a while since I did this on Debian 2.2, but I thought that was a lot easier than following the HOWTOs. One of those wonderful 'just works' packages. -- James Cameron ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://quozl.linux.org.au/ (or) http://quozl.netrek.org/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: PHP4 setup problems
On Tue, 2002-05-28 at 22:36, Andrew Pritchard wrote: Hmmm - now it comes up with a 403: Permission denied. And from the error.log: [error] [client 127.0.0.1] Options ExecCGI is off in this directory: /var/www/hello.php Make sure it is not executable. Mine are not, and they work. After that, if it still doesn't work, what have you changed in httpd.conf since installing the packages? I thought all I did to make it work was 'apt-get install apache php4'. -- James Cameron ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://quozl.linux.org.au/ (or) http://quozl.netrek.org/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: exim imap
On Fri, 2002-05-24 at 10:58, Tom Allison wrote: I'm looking for suggestions on how to get exim on one server to run imap for several clients. They are separate tasks. exim handles the inbound mail and stores it in /var/mail/user, and imap provides access to /var/mail/user. Package exim for the mail transport, and package uw-imapd or uw-imapd-ssl for the client connections. Configure them separately ... - install exim, - configure exim, - test that a local mail reader (e.g. mutt) can operate, - install an imapd, - test that a remove mail reader can access the mail spools. -- James Cameron ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://quozl.linux.org.au/ (or) http://quozl.netrek.org/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Evolution: Cannot append message to mbox file: Success
Solved. It was a bounce message after my previous posting to debian-user that caused the problem I mentioned with Evolution. It's all in bug 147855 if anybody wants to see it. http://bugs.debian.org/147855 -- James Cameron ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://quozl.linux.org.au/ (or) http://quozl.netrek.org/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: screens saver - scrolling marquee
On Thu, 2002-05-23 at 01:28, ktb wrote: Anyone know of a screensaver for linux along the lines of Scrolling Marquee in Windows? What springs to mind is the mgp package (MagicPoint) which is a scriptable presentation tool. One can create a free-running presentation that has the data you need to display, with text arriving from off screen even. But I don't know a way to make it work as a screen saver. -- James Cameron ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://quozl.linux.org.au/ (or) http://quozl.netrek.org/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Evolution: Cannot append message to mbox file: Success
G'day, I've been happily using Evolution (1.0.3-1) on woody now for a month, and it has just started not receiving mail from my /var/mail/me mbox file. When I press the Send/Receive button, an error message appears: Error while 'Fetching Mail': Cannot append message to mbox file: /home/me/evolution/local/Inbox/mbox: Success Is this a problem I caused? Has anyone else seen it? I've found only one, old, reference on google. No bugs match this on http://bugs.debian.org/evolution The only thing I recall changing before it stopped was adding a new filter for debian-users to push mail to another folder. I've since restored the filters.xml file from backup (10th May) and even deleted it altogether. After the failed receive of mail, the ~/evolution/local/Inbox/ directory looks like this; ~/evolution/local/Inbox$ ls -l total 4508 -rw-r--r--1 root root 103 Dec 4 11:08 folder-metadata.xml -rw-r--r--1 root root 95 May 23 11:00 local-metadata.xml -rw---1 root root 343353 May 23 10:48 mbox -rw---1 root root68286 May 23 10:48 mbox.ev-summary -rw---1 root root 1653504 May 23 10:48 mbox.ibex -rw---1 root root 2521711 May 23 10:48 movemail.mbox__var_mail_root The last file is clearly in mbox format, and is the mail imported from /var/mail/me but not yet inserted into mbox. There's nothing amazingly abnormal about the message at the top of that file. Any further clues to help diagnose? -- James Cameron ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://quozl.linux.org.au/ (or) http://quozl.netrek.org/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
ppp gui package?
Summary: anyone know of a PPP GUI based on GTK+? G'day, As part of the PPTP Client project, I would like to build or adapt a GUI to make PPTP connections. To make a connection, pppd is started with a particular set of options. I'm looking for Glade or GTK+ based GUI package that provides similar functionality. Making dial-up connections is a very similar task, we only have to add a few options to use PPTP. The task may be solved by an existing PPP GUI. Debian packages preferred. I've had a quick look at gkdial, and it might be useful. Any other packages? -- James Cameron ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://quozl.linux.org.au/ (or) http://quozl.netrek.org/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: strange behavior, comments
Darrell, Since woody, I use gdmconfig to configure gdm ... very easy compared to previous versions. Still, knowing what to do to run wmaker as your session isn't trivial. Sounds like your power bump caused corruption of file permissions. I've seen that a bit. Reinstalling the gdm package may fix it. apt-get install --reinstall gdm I've no idea what package is responsible for setting the permissions on /tmp though, or indeed whether it will even detect it. Solutions to reduce the probability of future corruption: - a UPS, - a laptop (which has an integrated UPS), - a filesystem type that supports journalling (ext3, reiserfs, xfs?) - typing sync at the first sniff of a brown-out, - putting sync into a while loop with a sleep 1 during lightning. -- James Cameron ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://quozl.linux.org.au/ (or) http://quozl.netrek.org/
Re: PHP command line?
Matthew Daubenspeck wrote: Is there a way to install PHP easily for debian potato so it can be used through the command line? Yes, install the php4-cgi or php3-cgi packages. Use 'dpkg --listfiles php4-cgi' once installed to find the binary -- James Cameron
Re: ext2 - reiserfs
Mirek Dobsicek wrote: I was thinking that /etc/mtab is a fixed file ... but it looks it is beeing written during starting the system It is written to by mount or umount to maintain a list of mounted filesystems. What I need to do, to succesfully convert my /dev/hda5 reiserfs, which file need by informed about that change? You didn't mention changing /etc/fstab ... try that? -- James Cameron
Re: Is anyone using woody in a production environment?
I agree with Martin ... you can smell a freeze coming. It's fantastic. I use woody for two Compaq production intranet servers, and a mix of potato/woody for one important server that I cannot risk something going wrong on during an upgrade. All three servers are about 450km from me, hence the caution. For a pair of Australian outback internet cafes, I'm using potato in one because I've not needed any new packages, and woody in the other because I did. A set of four training workstations I've pushed to sid to get galeon. For my home telecommute network, my gateway is potato with source rebuilds of one or two woody packages, and the eight other machines are woody. For four computers that I've donated to farmers or ranchers in the area, they are on woody just to get the latest tested desktop features; gnome, abiword, gnumeric, gnucash ... and for some of them I've pushed them to sid just to get galeon and evolution going. Most people I know on IRC with Debian production servers are using woody. They need too many of the recent features to justify potato. -- James Cameron ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://quozl.linux.org.au/ (or) http://quozl.netrek.org/
mgp fonts jagged after woody/sid upgrade
Under potato, mgp (magicpoint presentation tool) was able to show nicely shaped adobe-utopia fonts. On woody/sid the edges are quite jagged. What's caused this? ii mgp1.09a-5MagicPoint- an X11 based presentation tool ii xfonts-100dpi 4.1.0-9100 dpi fonts for X ii xfonts-75dpi 4.1.0-975 dpi fonts for X ii xfonts-base4.1.0-9standard fonts for X ii xfonts-scalabl 4.1.0-11 scalable fonts for X iF xserver-mach64 3.3.6-39 X server for ATI Mach64-based graphics cards -- James Cameron ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://quozl.linux.org.au/ (or) http://quozl.netrek.org/
Re: trouble dumping whole filesystem to tape /sbin/dump
Thedore Knab wrote: /sbin/dump -0ua -f /dev/st0 / -L slash 2 output.txt /sbin/dump -1a -f /dev/st0 /usr -L usr 2 output.txt The second comand rewrites over the data I recorded with the first command. Change the first /dev/st0 to /dev/nst0 perhaps. When you use /dev/st0 the device is rewound on close. See also 'mt' for operations on the tape drive line rewinding or unloading. -- James Cameron ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Not the Director of Titanic
