Re: Debugger for C programming?
On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 11:32:40PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Is there a good debugger for C programming. You know, the kind of thing > that lets you step through a line at a time running your program and put > watches on variables etc. gdb is the usually used debugger under Linux. There's a nice graphical user interface for it, called ddd. It will compile under most Unices also ... give it a try. There're packages for Debian and everything. Just apt-get. And have a nice day. -- Jsb
Re: shell script for bash [timeboy@Calculusterix]
> > Hi! > > I like to write a litte shell script that first makes a > connection to my ISP and then runs fetchmail. This is no > problem for me. But cause it takes some seconds till the > connection to ISP is done, the script needs to wait for 5 or > 10 seconds bevore it runs fetchmail. How can i do this > waiting with a bash kommand? > > Timo > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Apesar de que é dito que a fé pode mover montanhas, a experiência nos mostra que dinamite funciona melhor." Jordi S. Bunster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Re: FYI
On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 08:59:39PM -0400, Jeff Reed wrote: > i'm enjoying it immenseley. We all do ... every single day. :) -- Jordi
Re: NESSUS en SID
On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 08:51:35AM +0200, javi wrote: >A ver , tengo un problema con el nessus, trabajo en SID y he > instalado el nessus, tanto cliente como servidor para (...) estoy > haciendo algo mal?. Perdona, no te puedo ayudar con eso, ya que no tengo experiencia con nessus, tampoco con unstable. Pero, por favor, el idioma oficial de esta lista es el ingles ... por favor ayuda a mantener eso ok? Si te resulta imposible, verifica la pagina de las listas, de seguro debe existir alguna en español. Espero que entiendas, no es nada personal. -- Jordi S. Bunster
Re: Installing downloaded .deb files
On Sat, Aug 25, 2001 at 02:06:58PM -0700, David Frischknecht wrote: > Hello, > > I downloaded a .deb file, but I'm having trouble > installing it using apt-get. Could someone help me? Thanks. You shouldn't use apt-get if you already have the file. You should use dpkg -i file.deb
Re: tar/gzip mistake
On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 10:50:20PM +0020, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Is there some other way to get tar and gzip back on my system > without reinstalling? Unpack the source somewere else, and pack it with ar or zip, or whatever else you may have already installed on your system. Rsync maybe. Or wget to get the whole directory. Something like that.
Re: Quota command not working
On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 11:51:20AM +1000, Tadeusz Bak wrote: > However the command 'quota' issued by user or 'quota -u user' issued > by root always results in: > > Disk quotas for user ... : none > > According to the manual page the output should show disk usage and set > limits. Do you have any ideas what may be wrong? Thanks! Just to be sure the actual user has user quotas? edquota -u user? And also, just to check if you are not having a problem similar to the one I had can you post here the lines of your /etc/fstab, related to the filesystems on which you want to have quota enabled?
Re: woody-install
On Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 02:27:05PM +0200, Gabriel Pickard wrote:
> file:/instmnt/pool/main/e/exim/exim_3.22-4_i386.deb was corrupt
> in consequence, i cannot continue my installation ;-{
If the file is corrupt, is probably consequence of a scratch on the
CD' surface. Using other MTA, or downloading exim from the Internet
will solve the issue with this package, but the CD may have other
(even non-replaceable ones) corrupted files. In that case, get another
CD, or install from the Net.
-- Jsb
Cloning servers
I've got a Debian box running a lot of services, so there's lots of disk activity. I was thinking about cloning it (the server) to a redundant one, identical to the other. Just wondering Is there a way to do this in a sane way while the system is running? Or should I just power off and use dd? Thanks in advance ... Jordi S. Bunster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Quota problems (SOLVED)
A few weeks ago, I posted here a question about quota. I had some files called "continue", sometimes with random data inside, and sometimes with nothing at all. Well, quota worked horribly, showing the same filesystem usage for all the different filesystems, or sometimes not working. Well, I found out (just yesterday) that on fstab we had: device ... all the other stuff ... and then usrquota,errors=continue Removing the errors=continue part solved the problem. Reading the ext2 manpage, I found that mount ignores the keywords quota,usrquota,grpquota,noquota on fstab. Its actually the quota utilities that read those. But, for a reason I'm not sure of, they also read the errors=continue statement, that was intended for ext2, and is documented (and supported) for it. So, I should maybe put the errors=continue before the quota information tags, to see if it works. (or not to put it at all). Hope this can help any soul in the future. Also, thanks to the ones that at least read the question. Jordi S. Bunster
Kernel messages on console
How can I prevent kernel messages from showing up on certain ttys? I have tons of samba messages on the screen but the SMB mount are in fact working ok, and the messages are annoying. The message follows: smb_request: result -32, setting invalid smb_retry: sucessful, new pid=23748, generation=4 Also, if anyone could tell what can I do about the message, even though everything is working ok ... I'd appreciate. Thanks in advance ... Jordi S. Bunster
Re: restarting a service
> How do I do that with Debian? Just ommit the /rc.d part Jordi S. Bunster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Re: NIS / NIS+ / NYS ???
> How can I get all my linux machines to "log into" one linux box ? > like you can with NT - get all the workstations to log into one > server etc ? You found it out by yourself. Runs NIS. :) > Have read of a little bit on NIS, NYS etc. Is this equivalent to what > NT offers ? Is there something else that may be better or easier to > configure ? Better, I don't know. Easier to configure, probably not. > Any advice / pointers appreciated. Follow the howto's. In Debian there're a couple of things that behave differently, but no big deal. I run NIS here at the ISP, no problem. By the way, NIS will let you log on like on NT, but will not solve you the problem of having a network filesystem so you can have the same environment everywere. You'll have to: a) Replicate the /home/user contents upon login (very bad!) b) Export /home under some kind of networked file system. I've done it with NFS, and I haven't had time to try other things like Coda, but I really want to. Good luck Jordi S. Bunster
Procmail questions
Hello list ... wonder if anyone gives me a hand on this one: Here at my job two bosses need to send mail to everyone from time to time. There're about 20 accounts only, so I did a small script that runs every week and adds new accounts to the .forward file of a special account. You get the idea. The boss sends to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and everyone gets the message. But ... right now everyone can send messages to that account. How can I block mail to it from everyone except the two bosses (with procmail?) This is procmail and sendmail, and, of course a Debian box (2.2r3 in case it matters). Thanks in andvance .... Jordi S. Bunster Jordi S. Bunster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Quota problems
Ahhh .. I'm going nuts. Why quotas don't work the way they should under potato here? I am doing everything the different HOWTOs say, but I get random errors. repquota -a, sometimes says: continue: no such file or directory And if I cd to a directory where those "continue" files are found, repquota -a apparently works, but it shows the same quota information for two different filesystems, where users have different amount of files. I read, read, but I did not find a thing about the "continue" files. fstab options on filesystem entries are usrquota,grpquota,quota. Wonder if anyone can give me a hand ... before I lose my /var. :) Jordi S. Bunster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Re: Why is setting up X so arcane?
> As far as I know, the card is Plug and Play. Why can't X > probe the card and find out for me? Did you try SuperProbe? log in as root, type: SuperProbe. Turn off your monitor(s), hit ENTER, wait for about 10 seconds and turn the monitor back again. > I have found a sheet of paper that might be the monitor's > manual, and got the scan frequencies from there. But how am > I supposed to find out the vag card dotclock frequency? Generally, I skip that part, and I don't probe clocks either. But that's with relatively new PCI cards ... don't know about yours. > I like Debian because its package > installation is so simple, but it really falls down when it > gets to configuring X. Well, actually it doesn't fall down, it asks you for support. You are letting it down. :) That's not really a Debian issue, technically speaking. AFAIK, that's a potato issue. woody (or was it sid) have better configurators for X. Or am I wrong? List? Jordi S. Bunster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Re: big IBM harddisk
>> Good info. I had a 486/66MHz system. I pulled out the huge >> 350mb hard drive and installed my 20Gb wd. The bios seen >> *something* and then I installed debian. Never had a hitch >> with it.I don't really think debian gives a rip what the >> bios thinks at any rate! Is actually Linux who doesn't read disk geometry from the BIOS. Not really a Debian issue, more a kernel one. :) Guys, sorry if someone already said it (I wasn't following this thread), but, can't you tell the kernel (via boot parameters) that you have a hdd located in controller X position X with X geometry info, manually? To bypass BIOS recognition of it? This should be documented in a HOWTO, Boot-Param I guess. Jordi S. Bunster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Great quota problem...
Hi all again ... the Load problem is solved (it was Amavis), but now I've got a newer (and weireder) one: I'm trying to use quotas in Debian, but there is a problem. I setup the quota with edquota -p login1 login2 or with edquota -u login, and everithing looks OK. I use repquota, and I see all the quotas that I setup. After all, when I use repquota again, the quotas are missing... I mean, NO QUOTA. After, I use repquota, and I see quotas again. Some tips: when I can't see quotas, the error is no such file CONTINUE. This file is in some directories but I even imagine what it does: zeus:/home# repquota -a continue: No such file or directory continue: No such file or directory The file quota.users that I create is always empty. When I used Slackware, with quotas, the file continue never exists and the quota.users has data. Regards, Jordi S. Bunster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Re: High Load Average
> you have a run away process and/or a memory leak > > ( amd and intel cpu behave slightly differently for > ( the same code... Mmm .. speaking about internal programs, we only have some perl scripts. Perl is the compiled one, right? > what apps is running??? We JUST installed the server. I mean, there's nothing hand compiled, except for Amavis. But it doesn't eat that much CPU time. In fact, top reveals that everyone uses CPU all the time. A ipop3d session easily goes for 18%, and a apache or sendmail one goes for 47% ~ 56%. It is just like everyone is using the machine at its most. Look: 91 processes: 89 sleeping, 2 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped CPU states: 68.7% user, 31.2% system, 0.0% nice, 0.0% idle Mem: 257856K av, 229104K used, 28752K free, 103600K shrd, 73192K buff Swap: 128484K av, 0K used, 128484K free 86696K cached PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT LIB %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND 170 root 0 0 632 632 516 S 0 5.3 0.2 6:00 syslogd 13533 root 10 0 1124 1120 780 S 0 4.3 0.4 0:00 scanmails 12172 jsb8 0 1192 1192 688 R 0 4.1 0.4 0:03 top 13532 root 0 0 1552 1552 1200 S 0 0.7 0.6 0:00 sendmail 177 root 0 0 4160 4160 804 S 0 0.5 1.6 2:30 named 11006 www-data 0 0 7632 7632 4776 S 0 0.5 2.9 0:01 apache 13271 www-data 0 0 4804 4804 4656 S 0 0.5 1.8 0:00 apache 13673 root 11 0 464 464 296 R 0 0.5 0.1 0:00 file 11825 root 0 0 1480 1480 1220 S 0 0.3 0.5 0:00 sshd 12136 rosanak1 0 1460 1460 972 S 0 0.3 0.5 0:00 ipop3d 13529 root 0 0 1412 1412 1200 S 0 0.3 0.5 0:00 sendmail 13627 root 0 0 1396 1396 1160 S 0 0.3 0.5 0:00 sendmail 357 root 0 0 1212 1212 1072 S 0 0.1 0.4 0:06 sendmail 15976 thomas 0 0 5752 5752 972 S 0 0.1 2.2 0:06 ipop3d 11525 www-data 0 0 4828 4828 4680 S 0 0.1 1.8 0:00 apache 1 root 0 0 472 472 400 S 0 0.0 0.1 0:12 init 2 root 0 0 00 0 SW 0 0.0 0.0 0:00 kflushd 3 root 0 0 00 0 SW 0 0.0 0.0 0:03 kupdate 4 root 0 0 00 0 SW 0 0.0 0.0 0:02 kswapd 5 root 0 0 00 0 SW 0 0.0 0.0 0:00 keventd 6 root -20 -20 00 0 SW< 0 0.0 0.0 0:00 mdrecoveryd 102 daemon 0 0 492 492 408 S 0 0.0 0.1 0:00 portmap 172 root 0 0 760 760 384 S 0 0.0 0.2 0:00 klogd 230 root 0 0 440 440 376 S 0 0.0 0.1 0:00 gpm 241 root 0 0 560 560 476 S 0 0.0 0.2 0:00 lpd 356 root 0 0 1188 1188 832 S 0 0.0 0.4 0:02 nmbd 371 root 0 0 1204 1204 532 S 0 0.0 0.4 0:00 xfs 380 root 0 0 1548 1548 1320 S 0 0.0 0.6 0:00 ntpd 398 root 0 0 848 844 684 S 0 0.0 0.3 0:00 radwatch 399 root 0 0 856 856 792 S 0 0.0 0.3 0:02 radiusd 438 root 0 0 844 844 788 S 0 0.0 0.3 0:13 radiusd 469 root 0 0 616 616 512 S 0 0.0 0.2 0:00 cron 6613 root 0 0 440 440 376 S 0 0.0 0.1 0:00 getty 22159 root 0 0 584 584 500 S 0 0.0 0.2 0:03 inetd 31116 root 0 0 1224 1224 644 S 0 0.0 0.4 0:00 smbmount-2.2 31129 root 0 0 1216 1216 744 S 0 0.0 0.4 0:00 smbmount-2.2 31141 root 0 0 1220 1220 744 S 0 0.0 0.4 0:00 smbmount-2.2 31159 root 0 0 1220 1220 744 S 0 0.0 0.4 0:00 smbmount-2.2 31172 root 0 0 1220 1220 744 S 0 0.0 0.4 0:00 smbmount-2.2 At this moment, Load is a little bit lower (about 4), but idle is still 0%. Quite weird uh? If any command output is helpful, please let me know. Jordi S. Bunster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
High Load Average
Just a question: Is there any reason in particular for a Debian Box keep its load average always over 6? It is a AMD Athlon 750 Mhz with 256 Megs of RAM, running potato and 2.2.19, compiled to run on i686. It has the Patches Debian puts on the stock kernel, and the new-style raid patches, although no RAIDs are set up yet. Sometimes the Load Average goes over 10, making sendmail refuse connections. It is running sendmail, IMAP, POP3, apache+perl, Radius(cistron) and that's it. What can possibly be wrong? Sidenote: We had another similar machine (processor was a PIII 550 Mhz) running the same stuff, but with Slackware. Load was never that high, and the machine swapped all the time, at least 25 Megs. The new Debian Box never swaps, but has a high load always. Any thoughts? Jordi S. Bunster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Mgetty
Anyone using Mgetty and a Cyclades multi port board? I installed the mgetty package and created the devices, as well as the inittab entries (just like the examples found in Debian) but the modems wont stop blinking the ARQ/FAX light , and they don't answer. What's possibly wrong? Jordi S. Bunster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Woody release date
Ok folks, I already know Debian is only ready with it's ready, but, beign involved with the community, can anyone risk a probable time range for woody to become stable? Just wanted to know to see if I download 2.2r3 CDs or wait for official woody iso images. Thanks in advance -- Jsb
