Re: devfs and lvm
[20031030] Benedict Verheyen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, Hello > currently my server (2.4.21) is running LVM. All partitions are on > LVM except a boot partition. I would like to move to devfs. > Any good documents or howto's out there that explain how to set > this up. I understand that i will need to install devfsd and > that i might have to change the root boot option i now specify > for grub as root=3a00. > Any other significant changes/difficulties? Just install a kernel with devfs (& mount devfs at boot) enabled. Note that you won't need /dev/pts with devfs so u can disable it in kernel config. Install devfsd & u' re done, no modification necessary. However if you run grub & use update-grub, do: $ cd /boot/grub $ mv device.map device.map.old $ grub-install /dev/hdX (replace X with your drive) $ update-grub -- +----+ | .: Manolis Tzanidakis | | mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | http://www.kegep.tuc.gr/~manolis | | jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | icq: #102798230 | ++ | "VI VI VI The editor of the beast" | ++ signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Xfree86 4.3
[20031028] John Holland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can anyone say how stable the "experimental" XFree86 4.3 packages are? Is > there any reliable way to install this into debian? I'm running a mix of > stable and unstable. I've been running Daniel Strone's ds4 for about 4 months now on a production environment & on my home boxes & laptop (all under sid) without any problems so far. Simply add : deb http://www.penguinppc.org/~daniels/sid/i386/ ./ in your sources.list to use it. -- +--------+ | .: Manolis Tzanidakis | | mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | http://www.kegep.tuc.gr/~manolis | | jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | icq: #102798230 | ++ | "VI VI VI The editor of the beast" | ++ signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: OOOOLLLLDDDD video card
[20031028] Larry W. Irwin Sr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have to use a really old Phoenix S3 Trio32/64 PCI card, running > Debian Woody, no mixed stable/testing/unstable. Is there a way to get > Woody's xserver to work with this fossil? It should work with xf86's "s3" driver. -- +--------+ | .: Manolis Tzanidakis | | mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | http://www.kegep.tuc.gr/~manolis | | jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | icq: #102798230 | ++ | "VI VI VI The editor of the beast" | ++ signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Strange port/service of proprietary app...
Hello all, we have a proprietary windoze app (client) that uses a dial-up connection (set in windoze) and downloads/uploads some data on a company's server. I want to create a script or something to do the same thing on our linux servers via crontab so that we won't need any spare dial-up (we already a dsl connection). The problem is that this app doesn't use http or ftp it uses a protocol I don't know & the company that wrote that app won't provide us any with info... Running nmap on their server for the port 205 (the one this app uses) returns : 205/tcp open at-5 Does anyone know something about it ? -- +------------+ | .: Manolis Tzanidakis | | mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | http://www.kegep.tuc.gr/~manolis | | jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | icq: #102798230 | ++ | "VI VI VI The editor of the beast" | ++ signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Similar app for Disk Catalog?
[20030907] [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There's this handly tool: > http://www.rob.cybercomm.nl/diskcat/index.html > I found for windows, is there an app similar to this? It basically scans > cd's, directories for filenames/directories and catalogs them, it then > saves the database into a file for viewing/searching using the tool. gtktalog (apt-get install it). -- Manolis Tzanidakis (mtzanidakis-at-freemail-dot-gr) Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 102798230 GnuPG Key Fingerprint: 5CA5 41D6 09F1 C4B9 C331 65EF 4B3F 6979 EB8C 88F3 Get my public key at: pgp.mit.edu pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Stripped down versions of software
[20030825] Piers Kittel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm installing debian on a 486 laptop, and want to use it for X, IRC, www and > email, so which window manager is best to use for the 100MHz laptop with 20mb > RAM, and which IRC, WWW and email clients would also be good to use here? For a wm I'd suggest fluxbox or windowmaker. For WWW links-ssl (console) or dillo for X. For irc I use irssi and for icq/jabber/msn, centericq. Both are console-based & thus good for old hardware. For e-mail I use mutt (w/ abook for an addressbook) even on my desktop boxes, lightweight & *really* powerful. For an X-based client you should stick to sylpheed. -- Manolis Tzanidakis (mtzanidakis-at-freemail-dot-gr) Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 102798230 GnuPG Key Fingerprint: 5CA5 41D6 09F1 C4B9 C331 65EF 4B3F 6979 EB8C 88F3 Get my public key at: pgp.mit.edu pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Problems with nvidia-drivers-4496, am I the only one ? :)
Hello, I have one problem with nvidia 1.0.4496-2 on my sid installation. I tried 2.4.21 & 2.4.22-rc3 with the same results. My card is (from lspci): nVidia Corporation NV11 [GeForce2 MX/MX 400] and I use the vesa fb (built-in kernel) for the console. My problem is, when I set vga=791, startx and then shut X down, the console gets a blue-ish color & moves 1-2 chars to the left. With vga=792 it doesn't get blue, but it moves 1-2 chars to left, plus if I startx again and it get back to console, the console font grows to ~100pt ! With vga=normal (aka no fb usage) everything works, but console is unusable on my 21" screen without fb :) I don't have access to another box with 4496 to verify it (due to the libc6-2.3.2 & nis problems :), so could anyone else pls verify it before I send a bug-report to nvidia ? I attach my XF86Config-4 (bzip2-ed) just in case... -- Manolis Tzanidakis (mtzanidakis-at-freemail-dot-gr) Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 102798230 GnuPG Key Fingerprint: 5CA5 41D6 09F1 C4B9 C331 65EF 4B3F 6979 EB8C 88F3 Get my public key at: pgp.mit.edu pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: nis client problem (still)
[20030824] Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > See http://snapshot.debian.net/. I didn't know the existance of that site. Thanks. > > Any libc6 devs reading the list ? :) > > They're painfully aware of the problem. I know that, however I can't fully use my box at work & it makes me mad :D -- Manolis Tzanidakis (mtzanidakis-at-freemail-dot-gr) Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 102798230 GnuPG Key Fingerprint: 5CA5 41D6 09F1 C4B9 C331 65EF 4B3F 6979 EB8C 88F3 Get my public key at: pgp.mit.edu pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: nis client problem (still)
[20030823] Sebastian Kapfer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The current libc6 is said to have broken NIS. Maybe you can locate an > older version of the package and install it. I tried that too (I can even send libc6-2.3.1-17 to whoever wants it), however lots of other packages on my system were updated along & all depend on lib6c-2.3.2 so my system is semi-broken now (no gdm, no mozilla etc.), so I won't recommend it, especially on fresh installed sid boxes. Any libc6 devs reading the list ? :) -- Manolis Tzanidakis (mtzanidakis-at-freemail-dot-gr) Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 102798230 GnuPG Key Fingerprint: 5CA5 41D6 09F1 C4B9 C331 65EF 4B3F 6979 EB8C 88F3 Get my public key at: pgp.mit.edu pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: libc6 optimizations
[20030823] Mental Patient <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It was just boredom on the rampage :) :D btw. a good source for "tested" CFLAGS etc. for compiling is gentoo's portage. Just go to www.gentoo.org "view cvs tree" and select the package you want. AFAIR they leave glibc as is, without any C**FLAGS hard-coded :) -- Manolis Tzanidakis (mtzanidakis-at-freemail-dot-gr) Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 102798230 GnuPG Key Fingerprint: 5CA5 41D6 09F1 C4B9 C331 65EF 4B3F 6979 EB8C 88F3 Get my public key at: pgp.mit.edu pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: NIS problem (sid clients)
[20030822] Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When I updated these machines do sid, the nis stopped to work! :( > Only when I do su - from root account, it "works": The latest libc6 version (2.3.2-1 & 2.3.2-2) b0rked nis & the bug is still unresolved. Check bug #204711 at bugs.debian.org for more info. -- Manolis Tzanidakis (mtzanidakis-at-freemail-dot-gr) Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 102798230 GnuPG Key Fingerprint: 5CA5 41D6 09F1 C4B9 C331 65EF 4B3F 6979 EB8C 88F3 Get my public key at: pgp.mit.edu pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: libc6 optimizations
[20030822] Mental Patient <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Earlier today I was toying with the idea of recompiling libc6 with a > bunch of optimization flags. I did an apt-get source libc6 and added the > flags I wanted. I built binaries via "fakeroot ./debian/rules binary" > and did a dpkg -i on the resulting deb files. Well, the install hung and > failed. ls would segfault, ssh would still work. Things were... broken. Don't even think to compile glibc with O3 or Os. It breaks baddly ;) Debian is quite optimized and runs really fast although it's compiled for i386. If you want to speed things up more try compiling kde, xfree, gnome, mozilla etc. -- Manolis Tzanidakis (mtzanidakis-at-freemail-dot-gr) Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 102798230 GnuPG Key Fingerprint: 5CA5 41D6 09F1 C4B9 C331 65EF 4B3F 6979 EB8C 88F3 Get my public key at: pgp.mit.edu pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: postfix + mutt questions
[20030822] Mihalis I. Tsoukalos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So, in order to make user root get its email, should I put root: root in > the aliases file? Seems a little bizzare :-) Check http://www.postfix.org/faq.html#root & u'll figure out yourself if u should do something like that. > Seems a little bizzare :-) Paranoia is always bizzare :D ps. If you' re trying to setup a simple mail relay to your isp's (or freemail.gr's) smtp with fetchmail+procmail for receiving mails, check : http://hints.linuxfromscratch.org/hints/postfix_fetchmail_procmail.txt it's quite helpful... -- Manolis Tzanidakis (mtzanidakis-at-freemail-dot-gr) Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 102798230 GnuPG Key Fingerprint: 5CA5 41D6 09F1 C4B9 C331 65EF 4B3F 6979 EB8C 88F3 Get my public key at: pgp.mit.edu pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: postfix + mutt questions
[20030822] Mihalis I. Tsoukalos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > there is no entry like root: nobody in /etc/aliases file so I am wondering > why the emails for root go to user nobody. IMHO, for security reasons postfix has this enabled by default. -- Manolis Tzanidakis (mtzanidakis-at-freemail-dot-gr) Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 102798230 GnuPG Key Fingerprint: 5CA5 41D6 09F1 C4B9 C331 65EF 4B3F 6979 EB8C 88F3 Get my public key at: pgp.mit.edu pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: postfix + mutt questions
[20030822] Mihalis I. Tsoukalos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear list, Hello Mihali > I have a .alias file in my home directory with entries having the > following form: > > debian [EMAIL PROTECTED] > debian-kde [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I want to use it with mutt so I have added the following line in > .muttrc: > set alias_file="~/.alias" > > What else do I have to do in order to use it? Add the following entry in your .muttrc : source ~/.alias after the set alias_file one. > Second problem: > The emails to root go to user nobody. > I am using postfix and /etc/aliases has no such entry. > How can I fix it? Edit /etc/aliases and add the line : root: THE_USER_THAT_SHOULD_GET_ROOT_MAIL Make sure your /etc/postfix/main.cf has the following : alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases alias_database = hash:/etc/aliases then run : $ newaliases && postfix reload (this should create /etc/aliases.db & restart postfix). -- Manolis Tzanidakis (mtzanidakis-at-freemail-dot-gr) Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 102798230 GnuPG Key Fingerprint: 5CA5 41D6 09F1 C4B9 C331 65EF 4B3F 6979 EB8C 88F3 Get my public key at: pgp.mit.edu pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: cloning Debian?
[20030818] Gregory Guthrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[snip]
> I have a working system, and want to clone it to a bigger, newer, faster
> one, keeping the old one as a backup...
[/snip]
[snip]
> Any ideas on remedies, or other /better ways to do a remote clone?
> I've spent way too much time trying things that should work in a simple
> manner!
[/snip]
My way for cloning debian installations remotely via ssh, aka
getting our hands dirty.
First grab an iso of lnx-bbx (from lnx-bbx.org), burn it, boot
it on the "target" box, set up network & make sure the "source"
box has sshd running.
On the "target" :
1. cfdisk your disk
2. mkfs your destination partitions
3. $ mkdir /mnt/rw/target
4. mount destination partitions on /mnt/rw/target
5. $ cd /mnt/rw/target
6. $ ssh SOURCE_IP 'cd /; tar -cplf - C / .' | tar xpvf - -C .
(repeat 6 for all separate mounted partitions, like /boot, /usr
etc. by replacing 'cd /' with ie 'cd /boot')
Take a nice nap :)
7. edit /mnt/rw/target/etc/{lilo.conf,fstab} to match the "target"
system.
8. $ lilo -v -C /mnt/rw/target/etc/lilo.conf
9. reboot & re-run lilo on the target box.
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rpc.statd message on syslog...
Hello, I run nfs-kernel-server on some boxes running sid & I noticed the following message on syslog : [rpc.statd] statd running as root. chown /var/lib/nfs/sm to choose different user Creating a nfs user or something & chowning that dir to him should make things a little more secure or I should just ignore that message ? -- Manolis Tzanidakis (mtzanidakis-at-freemail-dot-gr) Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 102798230 GnuPG Key Fingerprint: 5CA5 41D6 09F1 C4B9 C331 65EF 4B3F 6979 EB8C 88F3 Get my public key at: pgp.mit.edu pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Where to put "Xft.autohint=1" to get enabled for all users ?
Hello all, I want to enable autohint globally, where should I put "Xft.autohint: 1" to accomplish that ? (btw. it works ok currently having it in ~user/.Xresources) Thanx in advance, -- Manolis Tzanidakis (mtzanidakis-at-freemail-dot-gr) Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 102798230 GnuPG Key Fingerprint: 5CA5 41D6 09F1 C4B9 C331 65EF 4B3F 6979 EB8C 88F3 Get my public key at: pgp.mit.edu pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: First mail from my Linux
[20030722] Jianan Huang ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > 2) I have to open a Bash window to 'pon' before entering Mozilla and leave > Mozilla to do a 'poff'. Can these be done from within Mozilla? Do : $ zcat /usr/share/doc/ppp/README.Debian.gz | more and find the lines about demand dialing. That way ppp will go up whenever you ask for a webpage and down after the idle time you define. If you just want a gui ppp dialer install kppp, or gkrellm & put 'pon', 'poff' in its ppp0 net configuration. > 4) Is there a GUI for the Linux file system such as window-xplorer for > MS-Window? As with all things linux you have more than one options. I prefer gentoo (light-weight & powerful), but for more windoze-like I'd suggest kde's konqueror. -- Manolis Tzanidakis (mtzanidakis-at-freemail-dot-gr) Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 102798230 GnuPG Key Fingerprint: 5CA5 41D6 09F1 C4B9 C331 65EF 4B3F 6979 EB8C 88F3 Get my public key at: pgp.mit.edu pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: tee -a /dev/null
[20030721] Richard Kimber ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Thanks. I'll have to research it. I thought I was just running cups. xprint is not a print-spooling daemon like lprng or cups & thus it depends on them, so most likely you are running xprint on-top of cups. Some apps (including mozilla) can use xprint instead of postscript for printing. Check http://xprint.mozdev.org for more info. -- Manolis Tzanidakis (mtzanidakis-at-freemail-dot-gr) Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 102798230 GnuPG Key Fingerprint: 5CA5 41D6 09F1 C4B9 C331 65EF 4B3F 6979 EB8C 88F3 Get my public key at: pgp.mit.edu pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: tee -a /dev/null
[20030721] Richard Kimber ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Thanks. I get > > root 11858 1 0 Jul05 pts/500:00:00 /usr/X11R6/bin/Xprt -ac > -pn -nolisten tcp -audit 4 -fp > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType,/usr/X11 > R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType/larabie-straight,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dp > i,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic,/usr/X > 11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc :64 > > hmmmn. Xprt has no manpage. You have installed xprt or xprt-xprintorg (if u run unstable), that use 'tee' through xprint init script. You should not worry since it's harmless :) Check /etc/init.d/xprint for details. -- Manolis Tzanidakis (mtzanidakis-at-freemail-dot-gr) Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 102798230 GnuPG Key Fingerprint: 5CA5 41D6 09F1 C4B9 C331 65EF 4B3F 6979 EB8C 88F3 Get my public key at: pgp.mit.edu pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: How "unstable" is unstable?
[20030706] Neal Lippman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I'm wondering, from those running sid, just how "unstable" is it at the > present time? I use it in 10 workstations in a production environment without problems so far, however I wouldn't suggest to put in a production server, where high-availability is demanded. > The reason I am asking is that I would like to move on to KDE 3 and am > feeling behind the times, still using KDE 2.1 in woody. I've been > reluctant to track sid since I do need my workstation to be up and > working pretty well, so I'd be interested in hearing from some who are > using unstable regularly. Make sure to check the kde section in wiki.debian.net before installing it, since kde's deps are semi-broken at the moment. -- Manolis Tzanidakis (mtzanidakis-at-freemail-dot-gr) Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 102798230 GnuPG Key Fingerprint: 5CA5 41D6 09F1 C4B9 C331 65EF 4B3F 6979 EB8C 88F3 Get my public key at: pgp.mit.edu pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: LILO --> GRUB
[20030706] Kenneth Jacker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I've been successfully booting into Debian-3.0 using LILO. > > Having used GRUB for many years on other systems, I decided to go > ahead and install/configure it. Here (similar to what was suggested > by another poster) is what I did: > > # apt-get install grub > # grub-install --root-directory=/boot /dev/hda > # update-grub > # > # update-grub > > > Unfortunately, when I reboot, LILO continues to get control instead of > GRUB. Should 'grub-install' change the MBR? Try the following : $ grub root (hd0,0) setup (hd0) quit root (hd0,0) defines where your boot partition is [(hd0,0)=hda]. setup (hd0) installs grub in hda's MBR. It works fine on my notebook with sid. btw. u don't have to run grub every time you edit menu.lst or upgrade a kernel image, that's its beauty :) -- Manolis Tzanidakis (mtzanidakis-at-freemail-dot-gr) Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 102798230 GnuPG Key Fingerprint: 5CA5 41D6 09F1 C4B9 C331 65EF 4B3F 6979 EB8C 88F3 Get my public key at: pgp.mit.edu pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: RAID?
[20030706] Thomas Krennwallner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Take a look at The Software-RAID HOWTO: [1]. It briefly describes the > various RAID levels. > > So long > Thomas > >1. http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Software-RAID-HOWTO.html Another great (& debian-specific) how-to is : http://www.midhgard.it/docs/index/en.html It also describes how-to setup lvm on top of your raid (my production server works that way happily :), but you can skip the lvm part if u don't need it. However make sure that both drives have equal specs (ie. same rpm & udma), or else your faster disk will run at the same speed as the slower & thus your raid will be slow. -- Manolis Tzanidakis (mtzanidakis-at-freemail-dot-gr) Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 102798230 GnuPG Key Fingerprint: 5CA5 41D6 09F1 C4B9 C331 65EF 4B3F 6979 EB8C 88F3 Get my public key at: pgp.mit.edu pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: server version, stable or testing?
[20030705] Johann Koenig ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I run a small server, does http/ssh/imap, pretty much just for me. Yes, > smtp is locked down. No spam from here :-P. > > I was wondering what version of Debian people prefer for servers? > Stable, or testing. I understand that unstable is right out for this > sort of application, even though thats what I run on my desktop. > > >From my experiences with unstable though, it isn't very. I have had no > problems with it. I was thinking switching to testing would give me > stuff like v. 1.3.27 of apache, up from .26 in stable. Is it worth it? > Or should I just leave everything as is, and just get my critical > updates from security.debian.org? My opinion is to install woody & use back-ported packages from sid for the programs, you *really* need newer versions of. Check www.apt-get.org for that. -- Manolis Tzanidakis (mtzanidakis-at-freemail-dot-gr) Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 102798230 GnuPG Key Fingerprint: 5CA5 41D6 09F1 C4B9 C331 65EF 4B3F 6979 EB8C 88F3 Get my public key at: pgp.mit.edu pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: How to have 'apt-get clean' automatically after apt-get install ?
[20030703] Bruce Sass ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > script it > > --- /usr/local/sbin/aptinstall --- > #! /bin/sh > if [ "$1" = "" ]; then > echo "$0: missing package name(s)" > exit 1 > fi > apt-get install $1 && apt-get clean Thanx alot. I was thinking doing it via a script, however I was searching for an apt option to put in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/ Is there any such option ? I tried APT::Get::Clean "always"; but it doesn't seem to work... -- Manolis Tzanidakis (mtzanidakis-at-freemail-dot-gr) Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 102798230 GnuPG Key Fingerprint: 5CA5 41D6 09F1 C4B9 C331 65EF 4B3F 6979 EB8C 88F3 Get my public key at: pgp.mit.edu pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
How to have 'apt-get clean' automatically after apt-get install ?
Hello all, I finally set-up apt-proxy at work to have all my boxes update from one source & thus reduce bandwidth. Is there any way to have 'apt-get clean' invoked after 'apt-get install ...' automatically ? Since I use apt-proxy to cache all downloaded debs I don't want them duplicate on each box's local apt cache... -- Manolis Tzanidakis (mtzanidakis-at-freemail-dot-gr) Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 102798230 GnuPG Key Fingerprint: 5CA5 41D6 09F1 C4B9 C331 65EF 4B3F 6979 EB8C 88F3 Get my public key at: pgp.mit.edu pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: cups... nothing prints
[20030629] Emma Jane Hogbin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Do you have the package "cupsys-bsd" installed? That was my problem. I > could get a test page to print, but virtually nothing else. If I remember > correctly CUPS and "lpr" are mutually exclusive. To enable the print > functions from Mozilla (et al) you need to mimic (bad word, but the only > one I can think of right now) lpr-ness...which you can do by installing > cupsys-bsd. Another way to print from mozilla is xprt : $ apt-get install xprt-xprintorg (on sid) You still need cups for the spooling though. It works like a charm here in a production environment, even printing non-english chars & math symbols... -- Manolis Tzanidakis (mtzanidakis-at-freemail-dot-gr) Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 102798230 GnuPG Key Fingerprint: 5CA5 41D6 09F1 C4B9 C331 65EF 4B3F 6979 EB8C 88F3 Get my public key at: pgp.mit.edu pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: 'apt-get upgrade' Over Slow Connection
[20030629] Kenneth Jacker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Is it possible to have my home system find out what's needed, create a > file with that info, transfer it to my office machine, get the needed > files, put them on a CD, read the CD at home, and update/upgrade? $ apt-get install apt-zip $ man apt-zip-* This program is great. I use it all the time to update my home boxes. -- Manolis Tzanidakis (mtzanidakis-at-freemail-dot-gr) Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 102798230 GnuPG Key Fingerprint: 5CA5 41D6 09F1 C4B9 C331 65EF 4B3F 6979 EB8C 88F3 Get my public key at: pgp.mit.edu pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: KDE uninstallable in unstable?
[20030626] David Fokkema ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I run unstable since I upgraded a couple of days ago and I am unable to > install the kde metapackage. After following a lot of dependencies, I > noticed that some dependencies are not set right. For example, kuickshow > depends on imlib2. I think that libimlib2 should do the job, but how do > I tell apt-get to simply install kuickshow and ignore the dependency > problem? I'm not even able to download it to manually install it. I > don't want to go to the debian website and download every single package > with problems, :-(. Check http://wiki.debian.net/index.cgi?DebianKDE There are bugreports open anyway... -- Manolis Tzanidakis (mtzanidakis-at-freemail-dot-gr) Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 102798230 GnuPG Key Fingerprint: 5CA5 41D6 09F1 C4B9 C331 65EF 4B3F 6979 EB8C 88F3 Get my public key at: pgp.mit.edu pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Howto share package database via nfs & offline ?
[20030625] Jesse Meyer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Why bother with NFS when you can use apt-proxy (apt-cache show > apt-proxy). This seems to be the more robust solution, since as soon > as you install nifty_package_1.0 on 2 of the machines, your nfs-update > solution might suffer. I'm new to debian :) So using this apt-proxy, when installing packages with apt-get on clients fetches the packages from the server to the clients' apt cache ? If it does I guess I should enable "clean" on apt-get on clients to save disk space... > > Also I want to keep updated some off-line (or w/ 56k-modem) boxes > > using the same way & then use apt-zip to upgrade them, fetching > > newer packages off work. Should I transfer the same dir from the > > 'server' on these boxes ? > > I haven't tried it, but apt-move looks like it could be an excellent > solution. Else, there is always the 3 am cronjob to only download > the updates and send an email to you in the morning. I don't want to move the packages on the offline boxes, I want package database, so that I don't need to run apt-get update on that box... > (PS: For some odd reason, mutt tried to include your signature in > the reply. Is your sig deliminator dash dash space return? If it > is, ignore this, its 4:17 am local time, and I could be suffering > from sleep deprivation.) Never happened before... -- Manolis Tzanidakis (mtzanidakis-at-freemail-dot-gr) Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 102798230 GnuPG Key Fingerprint: 5CA5 41D6 09F1 C4B9 C331 65EF 4B3F 6979 EB8C 88F3 Get my public key at: pgp.mit.edu pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: unable to install libpam0g ?
[20030625] Jeff Gratton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I boot, setup the base system, and as soon as I try to dist-upgrade it > (using "unstable"), I get the following while trying to install libpam0g : > > E: Internal Error, Could not perform immediate configuration (2) on > libpam-modules > > I'm stumped. I've browsed thru the debian list archives without any result. Try "apt-get -f -o APT::Immediate-Configure=true dist-upgrade" I had the same problem yesterday on a fresh installation & that fixed it. For more info "man apt.conf". -- Manolis Tzanidakis (mtzanidakis-at-freemail-dot-gr) Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 102798230 GnuPG Key Fingerprint: 5CA5 41D6 09F1 C4B9 C331 65EF 4B3F 6979 EB8C 88F3 Get my public key at: pgp.mit.edu pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Howto share package database via nfs & offline ?
Hello, I want to install debian on all my boxes at work (~20) and have the package database shared via nfs so that I'd run 'apt-get update' only once on the 'server' box & have them all updated. All boxes will use the same apt sources of course. Which dir should I share from the server box ? Also I want to keep updated some off-line (or w/ 56k-modem) boxes using the same way & then use apt-zip to upgrade them, fetching newer packages off work. Should I transfer the same dir from the 'server' on these boxes ? Any howto/docs urls available for the things I'd like to do ? I'm not so experienced with debian yet :) -- Manolis Tzanidakis (mtzanidakis-at-freemail-dot-gr) Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 102798230 GnuPG Key Fingerprint: 5CA5 41D6 09F1 C4B9 C331 65EF 4B3F 6979 EB8C 88F3 Get my public key at: pgp.mit.edu pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Sarge install onto nFarce2 board with x 2 DDR400 sticks doable?
[20030620] Haralambos ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hiya, Hello > If I take out one stick, then I can get the OS on, but not stable. > Any tips, tricks or links please? This is weird, maybe one of your dimms is bad ? Run memtest86 for 5-6 hrs. to verify it before installing. (www.lnx-bbc.org for a nice small rescue cd with memtest86 in) After u have your memory working, install debian, get linux-2.4.21 sources from www.kernel.org (not debian's kernel-source deb), and go to http://members.optusnet.com.au/ckolivas/kernel/ and get ACPI & nForce2 patches, apply them, make-kpkg (or make bzImage etc.) your new kernel & install it. Reboot, 'apt-get install acpid' and ta da :) > Greek Geek :-) Another greek geek :D -- Manolis Tzanidakis (mtzanidakis-at-freemail-dot-gr) Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 102798230 GnuPG Key Fingerprint: 5CA5 41D6 09F1 C4B9 C331 65EF 4B3F 6979 EB8C 88F3 Get my public key at: pgp.mit.edu pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Strange error on burning cdrom
[20030619] Markus Grunwald ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: [snip] > suddenly, I can't burn CDs without a strange error message anymore. > I have no idea why, so I hope you can help me, because I don't like > error messages without reason. [/snip] [snip] > Average write speed 2.6x. > Fixating... > Fixating time: 61.237s > | cdrecord: Input/output error. plextor get speedlist: scsi sendcmd: no > error | CDB: EB 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 > | status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION) > | Sense Bytes: 70 00 05 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 20 00 00 00 > | Sense Key: 0x5 Illegal Request, Segment 0 > | Sense Code: 0x20 Qual 0x00 (invalid command operation code) Fru 0x0 > | Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid) > resid: 10 > cmd finished after 0.001s timeout 40s > cdrecord: fifo had 42 puts and 42 gets. > cdrecord: fifo was 0 times empty and 0 times full, min fill was 100%. [/snip] I have exactly the same problems with my Plextor PX-W1610A on my gentoo box (cdrecord-2.01a14) and on my laptop's Teac DW-28E with sid (cdrecord-2.01a15). On my laptop it's even worse I can't write more than 690mb on a disc (eg. 697mb on a 700mb cd-r). cdrdao works great on the laptop even burning full 700mb cd-r with svcds. At work we have a Yamaha CRW-F1E which works great with cdrecord-2.01a09. Maybe it's a bug in cdrecord ? -- Manolis Tzanidakis (mtzanidakis-at-freemail-dot-gr) Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 102798230 GnuPG Key Fingerprint: 5CA5 41D6 09F1 C4B9 C331 65EF 4B3F 6979 EB8C 88F3 Get my public key at: pgp.mit.edu pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Burning DVD onto CD
[20030619] Paul Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Ah. Now if Mplayer's GUI didn't suck...something more like kaboodle... Actually I use MPlayer straight from command line to take advantage of its powerful options. However there is a kde-based frontend, kplayer & a gnome2-based, lumiere. You can find' em both in Christian Marillat's repository (search apt-get.org). -- Manolis Tzanidakis (mtzanidakis-at-freemail-dot-gr) Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 102798230 GnuPG Key Fingerprint: 5CA5 41D6 09F1 C4B9 C331 65EF 4B3F 6979 EB8C 88F3 Get my public key at: pgp.mit.edu pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Burning DVD onto CD
[20030619] Paul Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > What does it take to play an ogm anyway? Mplayer :) -- Manolis Tzanidakis (mtzanidakis-at-freemail-dot-gr) Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 102798230 GnuPG Key Fingerprint: 5CA5 41D6 09F1 C4B9 C331 65EF 4B3F 6979 EB8C 88F3 Get my public key at: pgp.mit.edu pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Burning DVD onto CD
[20030618] Hall Stevenson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > At 08:08 PM 6/18/2003 +0300, Manolis Tzanidakis wrote: > >IIRC, SVCD is MPEG-1. > > VCD -> MPEG-1 > > SVCD -> MPEG-2 Thanx for the correction. Actually I don't have a dvd player here, so I back-up all my dvd's to divx/ogm with mencoder, thus I'm not really into (s)vcd. -- Manolis Tzanidakis (mtzanidakis-at-freemail-dot-gr) Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 102798230 GnuPG Key Fingerprint: 5CA5 41D6 09F1 C4B9 C331 65EF 4B3F 6979 EB8C 88F3 Get my public key at: pgp.mit.edu pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Whither logwatch? Or equivalent?
[20030618] Bob Proulx ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Whither logwatch? > > In the past on RH systems I have used logwatch to summarize > interesting logfile events and mail them to the admin. Recently I > have not used anything. Just yesterday a friend, that I have > convinced to try Debian, asked about logwatch. I would like to give > him a good answer. > > Of course I 'apt-cache search'ed for logwatch and logfile and found > several other examples of packages which do logfile analysis. But I > was surprised that logwatch itself was not among the list. Does > anyone have a .deb of it? > > Since it is obviously not favored among Debian users or it would be > more readily available it leads me to ask what are the favored log > watch utilities? I can certainly walk through the list of available > ones. But here I would like to learn from your experiences and hear > your recommendations. Try metalog or syslog-ng instead of syslogd/klogd. Both have that feature you want integrated (among other nice stuff of course). I personally prefer metalog since it has great performance & is easier to configure. -- Manolis Tzanidakis (mtzanidakis-at-freemail-dot-gr) Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 102798230 GnuPG Key Fingerprint: 5CA5 41D6 09F1 C4B9 C331 65EF 4B3F 6979 EB8C 88F3 Get my public key at: pgp.mit.edu pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Burning DVD onto CD
[20030618] Hugh Saunders ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I was under the impression that DVD is mpeg2 and so is SVCD? -could be > wildly wrong there! IIRC, SVCD is MPEG-1. -- Manolis Tzanidakis (mtzanidakis-at-freemail-dot-gr) Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 102798230 GnuPG Key Fingerprint: 5CA5 41D6 09F1 C4B9 C331 65EF 4B3F 6979 EB8C 88F3 Get my public key at: pgp.mit.edu pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Creating a account with a blank password?
[20030617] Jason Grindlay ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > (before I get the lecture about it being insecure creating a login > account with no password - I need it for samba, I've got an issue with a > Windows ME workstation refusing to connect to the SMB server and > according advice I've recieved ME needs a account with no password to > let it login.) There's a fix for that on the windoze side to allow them use encrypted passwords. Basically it's a registry fix, however there's been a long time since I last used it & don't remember how to do it. Try googling or if anyone else here knows about it... -- Manolis Tzanidakis (mtzanidakis-at-freemail-dot-gr) Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 102798230 GnuPG Key Fingerprint: 5CA5 41D6 09F1 C4B9 C331 65EF 4B3F 6979 EB8C 88F3 Get my public key at: pgp.mit.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: nfs mount error
[20030616] Rodney D. Myers ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Just got both machines to nfs mount. everything is working. > > I had to "tinkering", ie getting very frustrated, and started > sopping/starting all of the services on both machines, and exporting, > re-exporting the directories. > > Not sure 'exactly' what happened, but they both started working. AFAIK, both pc's (server & client) must have proper reverse dns entries for each other in their /etc/hosts in order nfs to work. -- Manolis Tzanidakis (mtzanidakis-at-freemail-dot-gr) Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 102798230 GnuPG Key Fingerprint: 5CA5 41D6 09F1 C4B9 C331 65EF 4B3F 6979 EB8C 88F3 Get my public key at: pgp.mit.edu pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
