Re: My warning about Lenny

[Martin Wuertele]

* Joey Hess  [2010-01-10 23:23]:

> This is not the case in Debian 5.0. Nor was it the case with Debian 4.0.
> Debian 3.1 (2005) was the last one to do that.

Interesting. Tasksel on my Squeeze box still does that.

Yours, Martin


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Re: My warning about Lenny

[Martin Wuertele]

* Andrzej Borucki  [2010-01-10 21:09]:

> Thanks, 
> 
> > If you installed "Graphical desktop environment" a graphical
> > login-manager is started and you should be able to switch "session" to
> > get either gnome or kde.
> 
> How to install "Graphical desktop environment" ? I can't install find gde.

man tasksel

HTH Martin


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Re: My warning about Lenny

[Martin Wuertele]

Hi!

Your questions are better asked on debian-user@lists.debian.org - thus
CCing.

* Andrzej Borucki  [2010-01-10 19:58]:

> I am beginner in Linux. I install Debian 5.0.3 "Lenny". I have several 
> warnings:
> - in install I can't choose Gnome or Kde

"Graphical desktop environment" will install both, however you can go
without "Graphical desktop environment" and then install either gnome or
kde with aptitude, synaptics or whatever your preferred apt frontend is.

> - in installed system I can't choose between Gnome or Kde - is any 
> possibility?

If you installed "Graphical desktop environment" a graphical
login-manager is started and you should be able to switch "session" to
get either gnome or kde.

> - I can't login as root to graphical environment, only is root terminal

This is a feature. For security reasons you should never login as root
in a graphical environment. If you need to perform admin tasks as root
use tools like su, sudo, gksu,...

> - Debian pack 6 DVD but only first can be readed in installation

Did you verify the disks? You can use apt-cdrom to add the other disks
anytime when needed. Usually the first DVD is enough for average
installations.

> - no mkinitrd found (is needed to compile kernel)

This is depricated. If you want to bild your own kernel please use
make-kpkg from the kernel-package which builds your initrd with the
tools provided by initramfs-tools. For average installations it should
be necessary for you to roll your own kernel, if modules are missing you
might want to add them via module-assistant.

Yours
Martin


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Re: ACPI HOWTO (draft #2)

[Martin Wuertele]

Emma Jane Hogbin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> For those who are interested I've got my second draft of an ACPI HOWTO
> online.
> 
> http://xtrinsic.com/geek/articles/acpi.phtml
> 
> Please feel free to let me know if you there are any parts which are
> unclear or flat-out wrong. :)

I took the kernel-source 2.4.20-8 from unstable, removed the ACPI
changes and applied acpi-20021212-2.4.20.diff.gz from acpi.sf.net since
the vanilla 2.4.20 _HAS_ several security leaks (ptrace, hash table,...)

You can find the package at
http://people.debian.org/~maxx/kernel-source-2.4.20/
(I didn't upload the .orig.tar.gz since you can get it from any debian
mirror and the .deb is already big enough)

yours Martin aka maxx
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Re: Slow mailing list (41 min. for internal process)

[Martin Wuertele]

Hi Simon!

On Mon, 18 Mar 2002, Simon Hepburn wrote:

> You are doing well, I'm getting a lag of about 3 hours here in the UK. It 
> used to take minutes. I don't think this difference can be accounted for by 
> the recent extensive thread on racism as some have suggested.

it appears that murphy is a bit exhausted lately, on debian-user-german
delays of up to 5 hours have been reported. 

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Re: Playing with domains: virtual host

[Martin Wuertele]

Hi Sebastiaan!

On Thu, 14 Mar 2002, Sebastiaan wrote:

> 
> > why trick the webserver with bind? ever tried mod_rewrite with apache?
> >
> Sorry, I was incomplete: I do not have any (special) access  to the
> server where the page is hosted.

on your box. if the domain is accessed via your box make a redirect via
mod_rewrite to the actual page. the browser won't notice, nor the user.
it's transperent.

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Re: soundcard

[Martin Wuertele]

Hi George!

On Thu, 14 Mar 2002, George Teodor wrote:

> I have an ess1868 soundcard which works fine but only logged in as root.
> I can't make it work as user.I'm using potato. Any solutions?
 
put yourself into the audio group

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Re: Playing with domains: virtual host

[Martin Wuertele]

Hi Sebastiaan!

On Thu, 14 Mar 2002, Sebastiaan wrote:

> I am trying to trick a webserver with bind. This is the situation:
> 
> - I have a domain server for sacred-key.org
> - I have a webpage which is located at www.cosjoan.box.nl, which is in
> fact a virtual host
> - I would like configure bind so that a query www.sacred-key.org brings up
> the www.cosjoan.box.nl page.
> 
> I do now that it is standardly not possible, so I tried to trick a bit.
> Once I added the following two lines to my zone file:
> www IN  NS  www-dns
> www-dns IN  CNAME   ns.foo.nl.
> 
> This lets the nameserver ns.foo.nl think that the query www.sacred-key.org
> was asked directly to ns.foo.nl and not via via.
> 
> This is what I had in mind:
> - in the db.sacred-key zone file, redirect www to www.cosjoan.box.nl, with
> the local zone file
> 
> - create a db.cosjoan.box.nl zone file
> - redirecty the www query to the ns.box.nl nameserver as if it was
> directly queried by www.cosjoan.box.nl.
> 
> 
> I have tried to setup something like this, but have not succeeded yet.
> Anyone willing to give this idea a thought?

why trick the webserver with bind? ever tried mod_rewrite with apache?

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Re: Functionality compiled into a Debian kernel?

[Martin Wuertele]

Hi Adam!

On Thu, 14 Mar 2002, Adam Warner wrote:

> Just a quick question: I'd like to move to a Debian woody kernel image
> but wish to find out whether HPT366 hardware support has been compiled
> into the image so that my computer will continue to boot.
> 
> Some install disks on the Debian archive include a transcript of the
> kernel compile options. Is this kind of info available for Debian kernel
> images?

download the debian package, extract the files into a temp dir (dpkg -x)
and check the config file

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Re: Interfaces configuration and tap0

[Martin Wuertele]

Hi Philippe!

On Thu, 14 Mar 2002, Philippe Raxhon wrote:

> Thanks a lot (I had forgoten that line) but I still have tap0 on 
> startup, but not in single mode, so it's probably a daemon that is 
> setting it. The real problem is that tap0 is set has the default route, 
> and I still have to do;
> ifconfig tap0 down
> or change the default route:
> route add default gw xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx dev ppp0

i don't kow what tap0 is and why it's brought up... propably some isdn
stuff?

anyway, try using /etc/gateways (see man 5 gateways) for your default
route

> > put the it into /etc/environment and it should work
> >
> It works for all of them except when I try to add some path to PATH, 
> gnome doesn't want to start. Is this syntax correct:
> PATH="$PATH:$JAVA_HOME/bin:$ANT_HOME/bin"
> knowing JAVAHOME and ANT_HOME are set the lines before.
> This syntax is certainly not correct. It's the one I have in 
> /etc/profiles and, in a TTY, I still can't run java or ant and don't see 
> them in the PATH when typing: set | less

hmmm, try 
PATH="${PATH}:${ANT_HOME}/bin:${JAVA_HOME}/bin"

what java runtime do you use? i use the ibm and i don't need a JAVA_HOME
environment variable to get it to work.

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Re: Freeswan package on woody?

[Martin Wuertele]

Hi Martin!

On Wed, 13 Mar 2002, Martin Edward John Waller wrote:

> I'd like to install freeswan on a woody machine,
> but a package search for it cam up with nothing.
> 
> Is there a freeswan package at all?
> Do I need a 2.4 kernel? (if so, any issues
> upgrading from a 2.2 kernel to a 2.4  kernel on
> woody?)
> Is there a noddy guide to isntalling it on woody?

it's in unstable. you can get the patch from there.

or you go directly to www.freeswan.org, apply the patch and compile the
kernel with make-kpkg

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Re: Interfaces configuration and tap0

[Martin Wuertele]

Hi Philippe!

On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, Philippe Raxhon wrote:

> I'm running a Debian 2.2 with testing packages. I have 2 network cards:
> - eth0: not configured, it's used by pppd (ADSL line) when started.
> - eth1: configured as 192.168.1.254, for my local network (configured 
> using linuxconf, present in /etc/network/interfaces)

scrap linuxconf, it does not work troublefree on redhat and is even worse
with debian.

if you want your interface automatically started when booting add 
auto eth0
to /etc/network/interfaces (see man 5 interfaces)

> But when I boot, ifconfig showns only lo and tap0 (being the default 
> gateway). That means I have to do:
> - ifconfig tap0 down
> - ifconfig eth1 192.168.1.254
> before starting the ADSL connection (that is then the default gateway).
> 
> What is tap0?
> Why doesn't it "load" eth1? When I start linux in single mode it 
> doesnt't load nor tap0 nor eth1.
> 
> BTW, I have another problem. I have added some environment variables to 
> /etc/profile, but they are not taken into account when I run a xterm 
> while they are set in a tty.

put the it into /etc/environment and it should work

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Re: Pump and Dhclient

[Martin Wuertele]

Hi Raghavendra!

On Wed, 13 Mar 2002, Raghavendra Bhat wrote:

> I start  udhcpc manually.  What  is the best  way to start  udhcpc while
> booting up ?  Is it OK to create a symlink farm using update-rc.d ?  How
> are you doing this ?

modify /etc/network/interfaces and add the auto line:

eg
auto eth0

will when booting fire up eth0. and if your configuration is something
like 
eth0 inet dhcp
it will when booting automatically (try) to retreive its ip via dhcp
(whatever client you have installed)

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Re: in what config file should I place 'setserial /dev/ttyS3 IRQ 5", and pon ?

[Martin Wuertele]

Hi John!

On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, John Kennedy wrote:

> I have a 56k dialup/firewall box using Debian 2.2.17
> 
> I configured the dialup connection using 'ppp-config'
> and selected 'demand' dial
> however after reboot doing 'netstat -nr' returns only
> 
> "192.168.1.10   0.0.0.0   255.255.255.0   eth0"
> 
> When I ping an address out on the net it won't dial out.
> 
> If I type 'pon' and then 'netstat -nr' i get
> a proper routing table as below
> 
> "10.112.112.112  0.0.0.0   UH   ppp0"
> 192.168.1.0 0.0.0.0   Ueth0
> 0.0.0.010.112.112.112 UG   ppp0
> 
> and I can now ping out of my lan to an ip on the net.
> 
> Because I an using IRQ-5 on my modem I must also do a
> 'setserial /dev/ttyS3 IRQ 5" before dialing.

take a look at /etc/serial.conf

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Re: Xresources/xterm no longer being read?

[Martin Wuertele]

Hi xucaen!

On Sun, 10 Mar 2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> Hi all, very weird that this happens. /etc/X11/Xresources/xterm used to
> give me a black background instead of the default white background, but
> now with woody it is as though it isn't being read. 
> I'm attaching it just incase the syntax has changed.
 
actually with xfree 4.1 this should be in /etc/X11/app-defaults/XTerm but
isn't read either. 

as a quick and dirty solution i copied /usr/lib/menu/xterm to
/etc/menu/xterm and added the parameters -fg cyan -bg black

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Re: Potato with custom kernel - how?

[Martin Wuertele]

Hi Pontus!

On Sun, 10 Mar 2002, Pontus Edvardsson wrote:

> I need to install Potato on a Dell PE4400 server that has a PERC3/Di hardware 
> raid. I've tried several different preconfigured rescue-disks, but none of 
> them have worked. After having spent over a week on this, I believe I need to 
> get some info on how the boot-disks work and why. I really need this server, 
> as of a week ago... :(
> 
> Anyway, my main question is where I can find good documentation on how to 
> custimize bootdisks, and make them work. ;) As of now I get kernel panic when 
> booting with my latest creation, and have no clue what so ever, the kernel 
> contains everything I need, I updated config.gz and sys_map.gz as well. Might 
> it be the root disk causing the failure?

it's all in the installation instructions:

http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/install.en.html

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Re: Nice Fonts

[Martin Wuertele]

Hi R.!

On Mon, 11 Mar 2002, R. Pac wrote:

> how can use windows fonts with Xfreee and which debian packages contains
> nice fonts ?
> 
> in my XF86Config file this line 
> report an error during initialisation : 
> FontPath"unix/:7100"# local font server
> 
> how can I fix this ?
 
apt-get install msttcorefonts

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Re: Doc 2 make a deb package

[Martin Wuertele]

Hi François!

On Thu, 07 Mar 2002, François Chenais wrote:

> Where can I find that ?

apt-get install maint-guide

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Re: how to get around libssl09 dep?

[Martin Wuertele]

Hi Michael!

On Thu, 07 Mar 2002, Michael Marziani wrote:

> I'm running stable tree, and it looks like libssl09 is history, with no
> replacement.  So, when I try to install ssh,

still there http://packages.debian.org/stable/non-us/libssl09.html

> mon:~# apt-get install ssh
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
> requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
> distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
> or been moved out of Incoming.
>  
> Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
> the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
> that package should be filed.
> The following information may help to resolve the situation:
>  
> Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
>   ssh: Depends: libssl09 but it is not installable
> E: Sorry, broken packages

maybe it isn't in security.debian.org at the moment due to security
updates. try apt-get update and then apt-get install libssl09 ssh

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[SOLVED] strange locale problem in x

[Martin Wuertele]

Hi debian!

On Thu, 07 Mar 2002, Martin Wuertele wrote:

> set -a
> . /etc/environmen
> set +a
> 
> is executed in Xsession but somehow later when starting x they get
> overwritten.
 
actually it was not set - latest Xsession script does no more include it.

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strange locale problem in x

[Martin Wuertele]

hi,

i have a strange problem on one of my boxes with locales in x:

if i run xterm and type locale i get:

LANG=POSIX
LC_CTYPE="POSIX"
LC_NUMERIC="POSIX"
LC_TIME="POSIX"
LC_COLLATE="POSIX"
LC_MONETARY="POSIX"
LC_MESSAGES="POSIX"
LC_PAPER="POSIX"
LC_NAME="POSIX"
LC_ADDRESS="POSIX"
LC_TELEPHONE="POSIX"
LC_MEASUREMENT="POSIX"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="POSIX"
LC_ALL=


in the console i get the correct
LANG=C
LC_CTYPE=de_AT
LC_NUMERIC="C"
LC_TIME="C"
LC_COLLATE="C"
LC_MONETARY=de_AT
LC_MESSAGES="C"
LC_PAPER="C"
LC_NAME="C"
LC_ADDRESS="C"
LC_TELEPHONE="C"
LC_MEASUREMENT="C"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="C"
LC_ALL=

set -a
. /etc/environmen
set +a

is executed in Xsession but somehow later when starting x they get
overwritten.

any ideas?

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Re: update-mozilla-chrome seg fault

[Martin Wuertele]

Hi Greg!

On Tue, 05 Mar 2002, Greg Madden wrote:

> I have a woody box with KDE from Sid . When trying to install Mozilla 
> from Woody I get the following message:
> 
> updating mozilla chrome registry
> /usr/bin/update-mozilla-chrome: line 49: 14658 segmentation fault 
> regxpcom >/dev/null 2>/dev/null
 
had the same problem when upgrading from 0.9.7 to 0.9.8.

what worked for me was the following:

1. get the mozilla-* debs you want to install
2. dpkg --unpack 
3. edit /var/lib/dpkg/info/mozilla-*.postinst and comment the
   update-mozilla-chrome line
4. dpkg dpkg --configure -a
5. manually run /usr/bin/update-mozilla-chrome

the funny thing is that when i run manually the update-mozilla-chrome
script it did not segfault

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Re: what package do we use

[Martin Wuertele]

Hi Geoffrey!

On Mon, 25 Feb 2002, Geoffrey Deasey wrote:

> I have a need for a version of apache that I can use secure certificates 
> with.
> What package do I use and what do I use to create a csr.
> 
> I have a working installation of apache.
 
you can use apache-ssl or libapache-mod-ssl if you don't want to run a
second apache. both depend on openssl which contains the necessary tools
to create a certificate

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Re: Newbie install help

[Martin Wuertele]

Hi Paul!

On Sat, 23 Feb 2002, Paul McKinley wrote:

> I am new to Debian Linux. I have a very slow internet access and its not
> flat rate. How would I go about downloading the bare minimum in order to
> get a Linux box to boot? My system is an AMD Athlon 1.33GHz, with 1GB
> RAM. I need no sound, I do need Ethernet drivers, my cards are Kingston
> KNE100TX, and AMD PCnet. 

the absolute minimum i can think of is the install disks plus basedebs (if
you use woody). 

> I need a bare minimum kernel with which I can build the 2.4.17 kernel; I
> therefore need GCC and the kernel package. 

to compile a debian conform custom kernel you need make, libc6, fileutils,
kernel-package, perl5, dpkg, dpkg-dev, debianutils, gcc, cpp, kernel source 
(~22 mb tar.bz2, ~28 mb tar.gz), tar, gzip and (or?) bzip2

> I need not have X to begin with, just be able to get it once the kernel
> is booted.

apt-get is your friend, if you want to install x it will download and
install what's necessary

> My mainboard is ASUS A7V 133, my harddisks are on a Promise ATA100 RAID
> controller and two are in RAID-0, two are in RAID-1. My cdrom drives are
> on the standard IDE controllers.

the id raid stuff does not work with linux. you need a seperate disk to
partition or use existing partitions from the raid-1 disks. if you want
raid-1 with linux use software raid.

> I have Windows 2000 (SP2) installed already, so ideally would like to
> dualboot. I have had some bad experiences with Linux installers
> overwriting the windows bootloader, how do I avoid this?

i prefere linux to overwrite the win2k installer, you can easily configure
lilo for dual boot by adding win2k to the other section. however the
debian install explicitely asks you if you want to make the system
bootable from harddisk. if you say no lilo won't be installed, you should
make a boot disk to access you linux installation.

i don't know if the win2k bootloader can boot linux, but lilo can boot
win2k.

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Re: firewire cards

[Martin Wuertele]

Hi Sheldon!

On Sat, 23 Feb 2002, Sheldon Lee-Wen wrote:

>   Does anyone know where I can find a list of compatible firewire cards for 
> linux? Or are they all the same?

check at http://linux1394.sourceforge.net/hcl.php, the list is basen on
chip and vendor, model.

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Re: OT: Web Standards

[Martin Wuertele]

Hi dman!

On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, dman wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 03:17:44PM -0800, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote:
> | On Tue, 19 Feb 2002, dman wrote:
> | 
> | > | Other than the fact that they run Windows on thier servers?
> | >
> | > Really?  I thought they were one of the rare companies that provided
> | > shell access.  I could be wrong, though.
> | 
> | If they do, it's all cygwin.
> | 
> | nmap it with -O, and it'll come back Win2000 SP1.
> 
> This is what I get :
> 
> No exact OS matches for host (If you know what OS is running on it, see 
> http://www.insecure.org/cgi-bin/nmap-submit.cgi).
> TCP/IP fingerprint:
> SInfo(V=2.54BETA30%P=i586-pc-linux-gnu%D=2/20%Time=3C73E102%O=1%C=491)
> TSeq(Class=TR%TS=U)
> 
> I used 'eznet.net' as the hostname.  Of course, that Could just be a
> router.

i tried it through netcraft.com and it returned
"The site eznet.net is running Apache/1.3.17 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.8.0
 OpenSSL/0.9.6 PHP/4.0.4pl1 on unknown."

however www.eznet.net returns
"The site www.eznet.net is running Microsoft-IIS/5.0 on Windows 2000"

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Re: postgres 7.1 - too much logging

[Martin Wuertele]

Hi Andreas!

On Mon, 18 Feb 2002, Andreas Goesele wrote:

> thanks to help from this list I now finally have successfully upgraded
> to postgresql 7.1.
> 
> But now my syslog gets to much logging from postgres. In
> postgresql.conf I have:
> 
> debug_level = 0
> log_connections = on

if only localhost is allowed to connect to your postgres database you
propably won't need this

> log_pid = on

i don't log process id's unless i need to debug

> log_timestamp = on

don't use that as well

> syslog = 2

and i use 0 here as well as the system is running like a charm

> # if syslog is 0, turn silent_mode off!
> silent_mode = off
> syslog_facility = LOCAL0
> trace_notify = off
> 
> So I would expect there to be no debugging info, but my syslog is full
> of DEBUG and NOTICE (and other) messages from postgres. How could I
> effectively reduce the logging to a sensible amount (no debugging, no
> NOTICES at least)?

if turn off what you don't need only criticle messages are logged.

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Re: Forte Agent look-alike MUA

[Martin Wuertele]

Hi Alex!

On Mon, 18 Feb 2002, Alex Malinovich wrote:

> You should really look into Evolution. It's not only the best mail (and
> office) suite in Linux, it's pretty much the best one I've EVER used.
> Come to think of it, is there ANYTHING that hasn't been done better in
> Linux? :)
 
of course: mutt for mail ;-P

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Re: libmng dependency tangle

[Martin Wuertele]

Hi Rich!

On Sun, 17 Feb 2002, Rich Johnson wrote:

> (Reading database ... 22636 files and directories currently installed.)
> Unpacking libmng (from .../libmng_0.9.3-0.potato.3_powerpc.deb) ...
> dpkg: error processing
> /var/cache/apt/archives/libmng_0.9.3-0.potato.3_powerpc.deb (--unpack):
>  trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/libmng.la', which is also in package
> libmng1
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  /var/cache/apt/archives/libmng_0.9.3-0.potato.3_powerpc.deb
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

as you see there is a problem overwriting /usr/lib/libmng.la.

if you're shure you don't break anything you might try

dpkg -i --force-overwrite 
/var/cache/apt/archives/libmng_0.9.3-0.potato.3_powerpc.deb

or, if you want to be on the save side, get the sources for ksysctrl,
ktimemon, libqt2.2 and compile them or get newer versions compiled agains
libmng 1.0.3-1

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Re: Help! I have deleted my "startx"-File!

[Martin Wuertele]

Hi Andreas!

On Sun, 17 Feb 2002, Andreas Maresch wrote:

> Today I have made a _BIG_, thumb newbie-error: I have deleted my "startx" 
> -file!
> I have potato 2.2.19pre9 with kde 2.0.1, no modifications.
> My X-server is XF86_SVGA.
> 
> Is there a fast method to regain the deleted file?
> Or can anybody post it for me?
 
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dpkg -S startx
xbase-clients: /usr/X11R6/man/man1/startx.1x.gz
xbase-clients: /usr/X11R6/bin/startx

reinstall xbase-clients should help

apt-get install --reinstall xbase-clients

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Re: potato version of galeon?

[Martin Wuertele]

Hi will!

On Sun, 17 Feb 2002, will trillich wrote:

> what's the potato-friendly way to get galeon installed?
> (basically same inquiry as before, but with a more pertinent
> subject line and a bit more elaboration on the details:)
> 
> i've got potato(stable) set up including
> 
>   deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib 
> non-free
> 
> (all one line) in my /etc/apt/sources.list but of course galeon
> ain't there... ("dpkg -S" and "apt-cache search" both come up
> empty when looking for "galeon".)
> 
> i could download galeon rpm's, but goes against the debianistic grain.
 
to get galeon for potato i fear you have to get the mozilla and galeon
sources from unstable (or testing) and compile them for potato. you will
propably also need to compile some libraries which don't exist in potato
yourself or get newer version than those available in potato.

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Re: ftp and telnet between computers

[Martin Wuertele]

Hi Osamu!

On Sun, 17 Feb 2002, Osamu Aoki wrote:

> For ssh use package name "ssh" (openSSH version).
> 
> For ftp, use wu-ftp or pro-ftp if you do not know too much like me.
> There is more users for these.  But merely transferring files, there is
> a command called "scp" in ssh package.
 
and even sftp which works as a command line ftp program but uses the ssh
tunnel 

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Re: ftp and telnet between computers

[Martin Wuertele]

Hi Cheryl!

On Sun, 17 Feb 2002, Cheryl Homiak wrote:
> I am working on a computer for friends and want to be able to login to it
> once they take it home so i can fix things at a distance if they have a
> problem. I haven't found a howto that covers this, but if there is one
> please steer me to it and I will read it.
> My questions involve:
> 1. differences between telnet and ftp servers--right now I have ftpd and
> telnetd-ssl installed on both boxes.

telnet will give you a shell on the remote machine while ftp is for file
transfer. but don't use telnet or telnet-ssl if you have ssh (secure
shell) which offers the same functionality as telnet but through an
encrypted connection

> 2. ip address to use: I have a cable connection to the Internet so only
> have one ethernet ip listed but the other box is on a ppp connection and
> two ips are given when running ipconfig.

there was a thread here a few weeks ago covering that. i think the
solution was that the one with the ppp connection creates an ssh tunnel to
the fixed ip address providing port forwarding 

something like

ssh -C  -f -L ::

and then you can ssh/telnet from the fixed ip address machine to
localhost:

you better look for the thread, i might be wrong.

> (3) Other things I need to do to make these connections work between
> boxes.

well, hopefully already answered

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Re: Kernel 2.4, 8 megs of ram and kernel panic

[Martin Wuertele]

Hi Grégory!

On Sat, 16 Feb 2002, Grégory Karékinian wrote:

> I've been searching on google but found no way to boot a 2.4 kernel
> without initrd. I indeed don't have any scsi hdd, so i don't think i
> need it.
 
works just as with 2.2 or 2.0. configure the kernel without initrd
support, compile it with make-kpkg, install it with dpkg, run lilo and
reboot.

i have 2.4.9-xfs on my portable and 2.4.17-lvm1.0.2 on my workstation
running without initrd.

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Re: Procmail's {cur,new,tmp} subdirs

[Martin Wuertele]

Hi csj!

On Sun, 17 Feb 2002, csj wrote:

> Having wrestled with mutt, I'm now trying to get procmail to work.
> From the looks of it, I've set up my .procmailrc correctly.
> /var/mail/foo is a big fat zero ;-)
> 
> Mail which I set up as:
> 
> :0
> * ^X-Mailing-List.*debian-user
> inbox/Debian/Debian-User/
> 
> does get dumped into inbox/Debian/Debian-User/. But at two strange
> subdirectories {cur,new} (a third empty {tmp} exists). So O,K, I can
> read the new mail under mutt. But the new mail is invisible to
> Sylpheed, my other mail program.

appending the slash to the mailbox name causes procmail to use mailfolder
to store mails. without the slash it would use mbox and to get MH (which
afaik ist the mailbox format for sylpheed) use /. at the end

-> change to
inbox/Debian/Debian-User/.

> My question: is it possible to get procmail to dump the mail directly
> to ./Debian-User/ rather than ./Debian-User/{cur,new}? I'm sure
> Sylpheed *can* read the individual files in the two subdirs because,
> if I move and rename them (e.g. 1013882504.30663_1.foo) to Sylpheed's
> more memory-friendly numeric scheme (1 2 ... 33 etc), they do show
> up.


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Re: recommendations for portable mp3 player

[Martin Wuertele]

Hi O!

On Sat, 16 Feb 2002, O Polite wrote:
> I'm getting tired of my minidisc, too much skipping, too short battery
> life, no good. 
> 
> Maybe it's time to get a portable mp3.
> 
> My sister in law just got an Ipod. Very nice thingy, but I understand
> that it still doesn't work with linux. Besides I don't have a firewire
> port.
> 
> Any suggestions? Battery life is a very important factor to me.
 
i own an iPod and am very happy with it. unfortunately this is the only
reason i have to fire up win to transfer files but you might take a look
at http://giantlaser.com/~jason/ipod.html. i have already had success to
transfer files _from_ my iPod with linux. i haven't had time to try
Antonin's python scripts to copy files onto the disk in connection with
hfsplusutils yet, but i'll give it a try.

couldn't get the hfs+ kernel module to work and found no news on their
homepage, hope a port from darwin's hfs+ support comes soon.

anyway i transfered >300 songs so far in one session and didn't have any
need to change yet.

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Re: ext3 commit time

[Martin Wuertele]

Hi Daniel!

On Sat, 16 Feb 2002, Daniel Faller wrote:

> I am running the ext3 filesystem on a laptop. The default value for the 
> commit time of ext3 seems to be 30 sec, which is too short for the HD to spin 
> down. How can I increase this timeout ?
> 
> Has anyone experineces of bad impacts in increasing this timeout to several 
> minutes ?
> 
> standard-kernel : 2.4.17
> e2fsprogs  version:   1.25-1
 
i think newsforge has had an interview with one of the ext3 developers
recently and he mentioned that this was one of the current problems with
ext3. it does override any setting that prevents it from syncing the
filsystem.


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Re: mutt and xfaces

[Martin Wuertele]

Hi Bostjan!

On Sat, 16 Feb 2002, Bostjan Muller wrote:

> Does anyone know how to enable mutt and xfaces (adding your xface to
> emails, and viewing others x-faces)?
 
afaik add in ~/.muttrc 
my_hdr X-Faces: 

to view them check out the docs here http://www.spinnaker.de/mutt/#config

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Re: shmem information

[Martin Wuertele]

Hi Patrick!

On Fri, 15 Feb 2002, Patrick Boe wrote:

> I'm trying to get some system data, and I'm wondering if there's a tool
> (system call, something) I can use to get it, or if I'll have to code the
> data collection into the kernel myself.  I want to gather periodic
> snapshots of shared memory information for all running processes on a Sun
> SMP workstation running debian 2.4.x.  In each snapshot, I want to know,
> for each running task, how much (%) of that task's virtual address space
> is shared.  In the end, I want to be able to put together some statistic
> that measures the average "sharedness" of memory pages for some a given
> process load.
> 
> Anyone know of a tool that gathers this sort of information?
 
i'm not shure but maybe ipcs is what you're looking for

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Re: Linux and Win2k Servers

[Martin Wuertele]

Hi R!

On Fri, 15 Feb 2002, R R Potratz wrote:

> Greetings,
> 
> I'm teaching in a mission school in Niger and I've inherited an LAN of 12 of 
> win98/win2k machines, in a network with a win2k server taking the DNS, 
> DHCP and log on chores and some file serving.  To this mix I would like to 
> add a couple of linux machines to serve web pages and perhaps do some
> modem sharing between some of the win machines.  By doing this, I will 
> also be exposing some sixty students to Linux and the rest of the staff and 
> administration of the school as well. 
> 
> Having only used linux on a peer to peer networking situations I need some 
> guidence as to how to get the Linux box to get DNS and DHCP services 
> from the win2k server.
> 
> The machine in questions will be 75-100MHz Pentiums with 32-48 MB 
> Ram.no X GUI  
> 
> Specifically I need to know:
>
> 1 >> What things (/etc files?  config files?) do I need to change to get
> the IP address for the linux boxes from the win2k server?  Is there some
> client I need to have running?

just install dhcp-client
 
> 2>>  How do I get the DNS information automatically from the win2k server
> instead of having to put it in /etc/hosts?

dh-client will retreive the dns information automatically if the win2k
dhcp server is configured to provide them. it will also retreive the
default gateway and set the default route.

> 3>> When this is done, will logging on to the linux box also give me
> access to my network resources on the win2k server?  (assuming a working
> samba config)

on the command line with smbclient you can do so, tough not very
comfortable... you propably want to try smb2www so you can browse the smb
shares via browser (needs an http server)

> Thanks to any who can help.  Obviously linux support here is limited, so I'm 
> grateful for any guidence.


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Re: sshd logs and possible security violation

[Martin Wuertele]

Hi Chris!

On Fri, 15 Feb 2002, Chris Evans wrote:

> I think this belongs on d.-user not the security or ssh lists.  
> 
> Thanks to people who helped point me to logcheck, I saw my first 
> attempted login from outside today.  At least, I'm pretty sure that's 
> what I saw but I am seeking some information about what gets logged 
> by sshd.

no expert here, but i think this is pam logging as pam is used for
authentification for ssh, login, su, sudo et al.

> What I see in auth.log is (consecutive lines):
> Feb 14 23:19:29 www sshd[438]: Did not receive ident string from
>xxx.yy.zzz.uu (actual number removed in case!)
>I think that's an usuccessful attempt to log in, am I right?
> 
> Feb 14 23:49:32 www sshd[242]: Generating new 768 bit RSA key.
> Feb 14 23:49:33 www sshd[242]: RSA key generation complete.
>   don't understand why sshd did that then, 30 minutes later

ssh generates new server RSA keys every once in a while. these RSA keys
are never written to disk and are generated from you (usually 1024 bit)
host key.

>   then the next lines are me testing what happens if I try to do 
> an illegal login:
> Feb 15 07:36:08 www su[1154]: + ??? root-www-data
> Feb 15 07:36:08 www PAM_unix[1154]: (su) session opened for user www-
> data by (uid=0)
>   which looks alarming but I was slung out by shell being
>   /usr/bin/false or by fact I didn't give right password

apache started by root?

> Feb 15 07:36:08 www su[1174]: + ??? root-nobody
> Feb 15 07:36:08 www PAM_unix[1174]: (su) session opened for user 
> nobody by (uid=0)
>   ditto

a daemon running as user nobody started from user root (could be via
inetd, xinetd, cron...)

> Feb 15 07:55:52 www sshd[1375]: Accepted password for xxx from
>zzz.zzz.zzz.zzz port 
> 
> That last line seems to be the logging of a successful login and it's 
> very reassuringly different from the one from someone else, from an 
> outside IP address.
> 
> I had a look in the ssh documentation (which points to various dead 
> URLs) but couldn't find anything detailed on logging messages.  I 
> don't think my programming is up to reading the source package to see 
> if that would tell me.  

as stated above i think you're looking at the wrong documentation. check
out the pam docs.

> I'm also under the impression that sshd generates new keys when 
> restarted and at intervals, does anyone know if that is right?

yes, that's correct (see man sshd: SSH protocol version 1 ).

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Re: maximum nuber of messages in mutt?

[Martin Wuertele]

Hi David!

On Fri, 15 Feb 2002, David B Harris wrote:

> Just to throw in my two cents :) Sylpheed, a GTK+-based MUA, is probably
> one of the fastest MUAs available under Linux.
> 
> It uses MH mailstores, and it caches. Opening a folder with ~10k
> messages takes about three seconds on my machine. Opening a
> similarily-sized folder in Mutt(actually, the MH maildir converted to
> mbox with 'packf +Debian/Devel -file d-devel.mbox -mbox') takes
> approximately 15 seconds, and the same converted to QMail Maildir format
> takes about 10 seconds.
 
mutt with maildir: 11M local debian-user archive in max. 2 sec (~2000
msgs) and my portable runs @500 mhz with a not too fast notebook harddisk.
so no racehorse here and tough mutt fast as a rocket. mbox is much slower
tough but that's in it's nature, not the mua's.

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Re: offline news reader

[Martin Wuertele]

Hi Ian!

On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, Ian Balchin wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Time to get news going on my machine.  I want an offline mail
> reading system that can dial in via my isp to collect news from
> local server (news.saix.net i think).
> 
> I have been looking thru dselect for in packages opt-news and see
> quite a variety. It seems that I should install packages to get,
> send, and read mail.
> 
> The system runs in console mode.
 
check out leafnode, it might be what you're looking for

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Re: Network card problem

[Martin Wuertele]

Hi Dimi!

On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, Dimi wrote:

> I tried to install the Debian
>  Woody . The
> installation was succesfull. But I cannot install my network card . It
> is not in the list where you can choose the network card. And I tried
> also some of the list but none worked.
>  
> My Network Card is a D-Link DFE-550 TX.
>  
> I tried to find the driver and I found it several times. Also from the
> webpage of D-Link. But they were not comipled . So I compiled them in
> Linux and than I wanted to add them in the list (I don't know the
> correct technical words for that procedure) but it said that they had
> been compiled with a different version of the Kernel which sounds really
> unlogic because I compiled them a minute ago and I did that with the
> same Kernel.

if i'm not mistaken the card has a via-rhine chip. run 
/sbin/lspci | grep Ethernet

and look vor Via Technnologies and Rhine. if you find that you just need
to load the via-rhine module and you're done

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Re: man in woody

[Martin Wuertele]

Hi Marcelo!

On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote:

> 1) how can I use the man command in woody? each time I type "man something" 
> I get the message "bash: man: command not found"
> 2) the same for X. Typing "startx" get "bash: startx: command not found"
 
looks like you haven't installed the man-db and manpages (might've been
removed during an upgrad from potato to woody)

apt-get install man-db manpages

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Re: Total Newbie To Debian Linux

[Martin Wuertele]

Hi kevincrookes!

On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, kevincrookes wrote:

> Hello. I do not know if this is for the right mailing list channel, but
> i thought that i would post it in here. Bascially i am a total newbie to
> Linux. A friend total me about it over the internet and he says the
> Debian Linux is a good Linux to start with. Well i have not got any idea
> how to install it, or how to set about setting it all up. So this is
> where you guys come in. Please could you point me in the right direction
> to answering the following questions below:
> 
> 1. How do i get a copy of Debian Linux? (The exact place).
> 
> 2. How do i go about installing it?

questions 1 and 2 are best answered in the debian installation
instructions at http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/installmanual

if you have a descent good (and cheap) inernet connection all you need is
the installation disks and the rest is pulled from the net as needed. if
you prefere cds you can download iso images to burn (either from
www.debian.org or http://www.linuxiso.org/debian.html, for most stuff the
disks 1 and 2 are enough - they only contain binaries, not sources tough)

> 3. Once installed how do i got about setting it up?

during installation you will be guided through some questions (eg
task-sel) where among other stuff you select what you want to do with your
box (eg X windows). most of the software is configured during the
installation process, for further (custom?) configuration you will find
documentation for each packet installed in /usr/share/doc/ and also
consult the famous man pages (man  or man  in the
console, e.g. man ls, man man host.conf) 

for specific problems you will also find the famous HOWTOs 
(www.linuxdoc.org)

> 4. How do i go about using Linux?

read, try and learn ;-)

http://www.linuxdoc.org/ has books, articles, HOWTOs, man pages,
http://www.linux.com/ espeacially http://www.linux.com/learn/

and you might also want to search for solutions for problems on
http://www.google.com/linux

> Just about it information about me. I am an ex-windows 3.11, 95, 98, and
> ME user. I am also an ex-DOS user as well. I am totally new to all of
> this and i went to get into it ASAP.

welcome on board

> I hope that you can help me!!
 
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Re: dhcp server

[Martin Wuertele]

Hi debian!

On Tue, 12 Feb 2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> On Tue, 12 Feb 2002, Martin Wuertele wrote:
> > default-lease-time 600;
> > max-lease-time 7200;
> 
> I am also using those default values. The problem does not arise when the
> dhcp server goes down, but when it comes back up. Some machines end up
> with a new IP and existing connections die. Like ssh connections. :(

did you try using fixed ip addresses based on mac address?

looks like i don't have that problem as most of the boxes in the office
have a fixed address and the dhcp server has an uptime of 150 days...

propably you have a problem with dhcpd.leases

from man dhcpd.leases

   "There is a window of vulnerability where if the dhcpd pro­
   cess  is  killed or the system crashes after the old lease
   database has been renamed but before the new one has  been
   moved into place, there will be no /var/dhcp/dhcpd.leases.
   In this case, dhcpd will refuse to start, and will require
   manual  intervention.DO  NOT simply create a new lease
   file when this happens - if you do, you will lose all your
   old  bindings,  and  chaos  will  ensue.   Instead, rename
   /var/dhcp/dhcpd.leases~ to /var/dhcp/dhcpd.leases, restor­
   ing  the  old,  valid  lease  file,  and then start dhcpd.
   This guarantees that a valid lease file will be  restored."



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Re: Minor, but irritating, symlink problem

[Martin Wuertele]

Hi Andrew!

On Tue, 12 Feb 2002, Andrew Perrin wrote:

> In december, I upgraded my office machine from debian to woody. A very
> small, but nevertheless irritating, thing changed that I can't explain or
> change; can anyone offer any wisdom?


 
> so I have to manually enter the / (or an additional tab) to get there.
> 
> I'm guessing this has to do with the updated version of bash, since it
> doesn't happen if I run tcsh, and since on my home machine (still
> potato) it works fine with bash.  
> 
> home: bash version is 2.03.0(1)
> work: bash version is 2.05a.0(1)

correct, this was changed in bash, however hitting tab twice appends the /

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Re: dhcp server

[Martin Wuertele]

Hi debian!

On Tue, 12 Feb 2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> When I restart the dhcp server all machines lose connectivity and need to
> grab another lease. Is there any way to prevent this?

what are your values for default-lease-time and max-lease-time? i use

default-lease-time 600;
max-lease-time 7200;

from man dhcpd.conf:

   "The default-lease-time statement

default-lease-time time;

   Time should be the length in seconds that will be assigned
   to a lease if the client requesting the lease does not ask
   for a specific expiration time.

   The max-lease-time statement

max-lease-time time;

   Time  should be the maximum length in seconds that will be
   assigned to a lease if the  client  requesting  the  lease
   asks for a specific expiration time."

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Re: mutt, Atachments not being fowarded

[Martin Wuertele]

Hi stan!

On Fri, 08 Feb 2002, stan wrote:

> What do I need to set in my muttrc file to get it to foward the atachments
> on an email, when I foward the email?
 
put 
set mime_forward=ask-yes
in your .muttrc and it will ask you for mime forwarding which will include
the attaches, ask-yes will put the yes as default (hitting enter -> yes),
if you don't want this change it to ask-no

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Re: Games on Linux?

[Martin Wuertele]

Hi D!

On Fri, 09 Feb 2001, D & E Radel wrote:

> Sad to hear about Loki Game's demise. What good free/GPL 3D games are there
> for Linux, now that they are gone. Am I gonna be stuck with tuxracer? No
> disrespect
> for ol' tuxracer intended. :-)
 
for nice little games check out http://blackholesun.com/games/
2 games at http://www.linuxgamepublishing.com/products.php?
dominions http://www.illwinter.com/dominions.html
return to castle wolfenstein http://www.idsoftware.com
glheretic http://heretic.linuxgames.com/
xrally http://www.linuxgames.com/xrally/
vega strike http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/

(kurze suche auf linuxgames.com u.ä.)

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Re: adding a nic

[Martin Wuertele]

Hi Mike!

On Thu, 07 Feb 2002, Mike McCue wrote:

> So without doing this, will the modprobe step from Chris still work ?  
> Reason I'm asking is I'll have to pound on a few different addresses to 
> find the card, from the sounds of this I'll need to reboot after changing 
> the addresses every time.  I have no problem doing this once I have the 
> address though.

quoting myself: 
> > if you use the ne driver as a module edit /etc/modutiles/ne (or create it)
> > and at a line
> > 
> > options ne io=, irq=,

if you have isa cards i suggest you bind them to a specific irq and io, if
you have pci you might try to only supply the irq and the driver should
outodetect the io addresses.

to do it "the debian way (tm)" either

a. create /etc/modutils/ne with the propriate options line and to have the
   driver loaded at boottime add a line containing "ne" to /etc/modules

or
b. use modconf and when selecting the ne driver and asked for options
   supply as shown above.


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Re: Mutt

[Martin Wuertele]

Hi Terence!

On Fri, 08 Feb 2002, Terence Ng wrote:

> I have just installed X environment and I can use Balsa or Mozilla to 
> delete the mails in /var/spool/mail/ngterry.  Can somebody teach me to 
> delete mails by Mutt?  Why I cannot just type 'd' or '^d' to delete 
> mails?

is there some read_only option in your .muttrc?

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Re: adding a nic

[Martin Wuertele]

Hi Mike!

On Thu, 07 Feb 2002, Mike McCue wrote:

> I have an old compaq with 2 nics that I plan to use for a gateway/firewall. 
> Both nics are ne2k compatable, and both are isa.  One works under the 2.2 
> kernel, one works under 2.4 (I guess it's the better isa pnp support).
> 
> I've got the nic that works under 2.2 to use the cable connection, I've 
> upgraded the packages and the kernel (2.4.17) and all is well.  Now I just 
> need to figure what I have to add to get the second nic working... I'm 
> referring to getting a module loaded, I haven't done this before.  I can 
> handle adding the new nic to interfaces and setting the network parameters.

since both nics are ne2 this has nothing to do with the kernel version,
you just don't tell the kernel or module to use 2 nics instead of the
first it detects.

if you use the ne driver as a module edit /etc/modutiles/ne (or create it)
and at a line 

options ne io=, irq=,

e.g.
options ne io=0x280,0x300 irq=9,10

if you kompiled ne support into the kernel you have to append it (in
/etc/lilo.conf) add 

append="ether=,,eth0 ether=,, eth1"

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Re: Creating boot floppies

[Martin Wuertele]

Hi Bill!

On Wed, 06 Feb 2002, Bill Wohler wrote:
>   Thanks for the pointer. This is what I was looking for. I ran:
> 
> mkboot /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.17-686-smp
>   
>   However, this creates a floppy that panics when it tries to mount the
>   root filesystem. Something about device 302. My root filesystem is on
>   /dev/hda2. I tried adding the -r /dev/hda2 option to no avail.
>   Thoughts?

looks like you're using a debian supplied kernel that uses initrd. i don't
know if mkboot works with initrd, i don't use it but compile kernels
myself. you maybe want to give that a try. otherwise man lilo.conf
regarding initrd for the floppy might help

> > otherwise you want should take a look at the mkrboot package
> 
>   Another good pointer. Any suggestions on its use? I tried it with the
>   lilo loader, and it wants a file called root.bin which is nowhere to
>   be seen. The man page does not indicate how to make it, nor does
>   /usr/share/doc/mkrboot offer any examples (I suppose I should write up
>   a bug report against mkrboot for that).

root.bin is a gzip compressed image of a root file system as used on the
debian install disks (rescue, root,), see section 9.2f of the debian
installation instructions
(http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch-boot-floppy-techinfo.en.html#s9.2)

a bug report regarding lacking docs would be great.

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Re: Creating boot floppies

[Martin Wuertele]

Hi Bill!

On Wed, 06 Feb 2002, Bill Wohler wrote:
>   The creation of boot floppies used to occur during the installation of
>   kernel-image. However, when I just installed 2.4.17, I wasn't asked to
>   create a boot floppy. And I want to create one.
> 
>   I discovered mkrescue but every operation resulted in some sort of an
>   error, not the least of which was trying to cram a 3.3 MB initrd image
>   and a 650 kB kernel onto a 1.44 MB floppy. I'm still without a boot
>   floppy and having had dire need of them in the past, I am very
>   interested in making another.
> 
>   Why was the creation of the boot floppy dropped from the installation
>   of kernel-image? What is the alternative?

if you just need a boot disk to boot you system, not a rescue disk you
might want to use mkboot

mkboot [-r rootpartition] [-i] [kernel]

otherwise you want should take a look at the mkrboot package

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Re: wmaker menu

[Martin Wuertele]

Hi Marcelo!

On Wed, 06 Feb 2002, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote:
> I am running potato 2.2r5 and I have WindowMaker as the window manager.
> I would like to add nedit to the wmaker menu (apps -> editors -> nedit).
> I have installed nedit from the precompiled file the nedit people have
> at their webpage. It is a newer version that the one shipped with
> potato. It works very well.  I would like to use the plain text menu, as
> suggest in the window maker preferences program. I have read the
> /usr/share/doc/wmaker/README.preferences and the
> ~/GNUstep/Defaults/WMRootMenu files without success. According to the
> documentation, the ~/GNUstep/Defaults/WMRootMenu file should point to
> the menu file, so you can edit it with a text editor. But the only thing
> that appears in this file is a line containing "menu hook".  Where
> resides the wmaker menu file?

in debian there exists a menu system that provides, once a package is
installed, a menu entry for all desktop managers installed.

just do an apt-get install menu should help in that case.

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Re: Mutt

[Martin Wuertele]

Hi Terence!

On Wed, 06 Feb 2002, Terence Ng wrote:
> I have just set up my MTA.  After I read an email, I would like to
> delete it.  After I type in 'd' or '^d', a message shows 'Mailbox is
> read only'.  Why?  Is it because I capture the mail directly from
> /var/spool/mail/ngterry?  Did I miss any thing?

do you have write permission to /var/spoo/mail/ngterry?

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[SOLVED] OT: heretic 2 crashes

[Martin Wuertele]

answering my question

On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 08:14:18PM +0100, Martin Wuertele wrote:
> hi,
> 
> this if OT but i hope i'm not the only one trying to play heretic 2 on
> debian
> 
> i patched it to version 1.06c but it crashes every time i try to open the
> door at the end of the hive part 1 with the button under the lightning
> spell. anyone found a way how to get to the hive part 2?
> 
> bugs reported: 4051, 4094, 4065, 4016
> 
> i tried to do the level without loading a game but unfortunately heretic 2
> crashes my system (athlon 600, 384 mb ram, matrox g400dh that bad, that i
> need to reboot, killing x won't help, it just kills so bad that i can nor
> type nor ssh in...)
 
solved the lot of crashes by reducing the resolution from 1600x1200 to
1024x768. no the game works flawless.

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OT: heretic 2 crashes

[Martin Wuertele]

hi,

this if OT but i hope i'm not the only one trying to play heretic 2 on
debian

i patched it to version 1.06c but it crashes every time i try to open the
door at the end of the hive part 1 with the button under the lightning
spell. anyone found a way how to get to the hive part 2?

bugs reported: 4051, 4094, 4065, 4016

i tried to do the level without loading a game but unfortunately heretic 2
crashes my system (athlon 600, 384 mb ram, matrox g400dh that bad, that i
need to reboot, killing x won't help, it just kills so bad that i can nor
type nor ssh in...)


thx for any help
martin

stderr output:
 The LIGHTNING SHIELD defensive spell.


Internal signal handler called...
Heretic II 1.06c
Built with glibc-2.1
 ... received Signal 11 (SIGSEGV): Segmentation violation (ANSI) ... 
SIGSEGV: attempting graceful exit...
Stack dump:
{
 0x80c2a59 :   heretic2 [0x80c2a59]
0x40112d04 :  /lib/libpthread.so.0 [0x40112d04]
0x40173848 :/lib/libc.so.6 [0x40173848]
 0x8081a3c : heretic2(PM_AirMove+0x200) [0x8081a3c]
 0x8082fff :  heretic2(Pmove+0x3fb) [0x8082fff]
0x4319e57d :
/usr/local/games/heretic2/base/gamei386.so(g_ClientThink+0x941) [0x4319e57d]
 0x809630a : heretic2(ClientThink+0xda) [0x809630a]
 0x8096620 :heretic2(SV_ExecuteClientMessage+0x30c) [0x8096620]
 0x8091a26 : heretic2(SV_ReadPackets+0x136) [0x8091a26]
 0x8091d63 :heretic2(SV_Frame+0x2b) [0x8091d63]
 0x807ad1d :  heretic2(Qcommon_Frame+0x1b1) [0x807ad1d]
 0x80bfd46 :   heretic2(main+0x166) [0x80bfd46]
0x4016365f :/lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xbb) [0x4016365f]
 0x8071f01 :  heretic2(XMapRaised+0x35) [0x8071f01]
}
Please send a full bug report to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Shutting down sound.
Shutting down input handling
Shutting down software refresh
Shutting down context...
Setting mode none for device mouse

Thanks for playing Heretic II!


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Re: /var/spool/mail and now /var/mail

[Martin Wuertele]

On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 09:09:36AM -0600, Cheryl Homiak wrote:
> Ok, when I did apt-get update and apt-get upgrade two days ago /var/mail
> was created, but I still have /var/spool/mail also and that's where my
> system says I have mail when it comes in. what's the deal here?
 
/var/spool/mail is usually a symlink to /var/mail.

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Re: Where are the debian files for compiling from source?

[Martin Wuertele]

On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 10:24:46AM +, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> I've downloaded the vim source tarball from the debian site but how do I
> compile this as a deb package?  Where are the relevant debian files for
> doing this?
 
if you did apt-get source vim you have a directory called vim-

if you only downloaded .dsc .diff and .orig.tar.gz then do an
dpkg-source -x vim-.dsc

finally:
cd vim-
and 
sudo|su -c|fakeroot|super debian/rules binary

build the package.

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Re: Mplayer PNG sprt WMaker

[Martin Wuertele]

On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 03:06:06PM -0600, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote:
> MPlayer was compiled WITHOUT libdvdread support.  I installed
> libdvdread2-dev because I could not find libdvdread-dev.  Should this
> make a difference?  

no, this should be good enough. i don't compile mine with dvd since i
don't have a dvd drive tough.

> Also I have a Voodoo 3500 card but configure did not configure with 3dfx
> support?  My kernel is compiled with 3dfx support built directly in (not
> a module).  

check the docs section 2.3.1.2.1. if you have xfree 4.1.0 installed with
3dfx support the xv driver should use it. otherwise you might check -vo
tdfxfb (section 2.3.1.9)

> I am typing "sudo debian/rules binary" to compile.  This is new to
> me.  Are there any options I add to get dvd support and 3dfx support?
> Otherwise, what do I do so that these two options are recognized with I
> compile?
 
as written in section 2.3.1.9 you need to use configure --enable-tdfxfb.

you change this in debian/rules, append it to the configure line.

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Re: Mplayer PNG sprt WMaker

[Martin Wuertele]

On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 01:10:08PM -0600, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote:
> I tried to compile MPlayer and got an error saying PNG support required
> for GUI interface.  I am using WindowMaker.  What do I need to do in
> order to get PNG support?
 
the -dev library to compile with png support - i have libpng2-dev (depends
on libpng2) installed using woody/sid mixture.

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Re: debian mirror

[Martin Wuertele]

hi,

On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 02:16:54PM -0500, John Cichy wrote:
> Can anyone tell me the aprox. size required to create a mirror with 
> 'anomftpsync' if I were to exclude everything execpt the i386 stuff?
 
according to http://www.debian.org/mirror/size between 2.6 and 4.s gb plus
100-180 mb for non-us

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Re: OT: info on Tekram 315U and scsi in general

[Martin Wuertele]

On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 10:49:27AM +, Shriram Shrikumar wrote:
> I read somewhere that this card was perfect for cdrw's. Does it work
> fine with hdd's - is the performance faster than ide for hdd with this
> card ?

with ide you only access one hdd per controller simultaneously. this means
on a promise u100 you can opereate 2 hdds at full speed.

on scsi you can access all hdds connected simlutaneously. 

modern harddisk transfer up to ~37 mb/s via bus. assuming 40 in our
calcualtion ide-u100 reaches it's limit with 2 harddisk, even if we assume
all harddisk deliver 33 mb/s you couldn't operate them at full speed due
to ide limits. with scsi it is different: uscsi delivers 40 mb/s -> 1
harddisk, u2w 80 mb/s -> 2 harddisks, u160 scsi 160 mb/s -> 4 harddisks.
next to come is u320 scsi another thing: high speed scsi controllers
have more than 1 channel. each channel supports a max of 14 devices at
- afaik - max. speed so if you have a 3 channel u160 scsi adapter - if i'm
not wrong - you could connect 12 disk at full speed simultaneously
accessed. here is the pci bus the bottle neck and therefore these adapters
require a 64 bit pci bus.

> Also, how difficult is it to fit more than 4 hard disks on a regular at
> tower case ? any ideas ?
 
i have 1 at tower and 1 atx tower case here, both have 6 external 5 1/4",
2 internal 3 1/2" and 2 external 3 1/2" slots.

so you can always fit 2 harddisk in the internal 3 1/2" slots and assuming
you use the external 3 1/2" for 2 fdds you have 2x 5 1/2" with cd-rom and
cd-rw, 1 with a streamer you still have 3x 5 1/2" available for harddisks
(you tough need the 3 1/2" -> 5 1/2" adapter but you could get hot swap
frames...)

so still enough room for at least 5 disks. if you REALLY need more you
should think of either a file server or a stand alone raid

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Re: OT: info on Tekram 315U and scsi in general

[Martin Wuertele]

hi,

On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 03:49:30PM +, Shriram Shrikumar wrote:
> Hello wise people of debian-user,
> 
> Apologies for the off-topic post but in my experience, debian-user seems
> to encompass the more intelligent of the human species and seem to be
> able to answer almost any question.
> 
> I have decided to take the first steps into the world of SCSI and have
> bought three 2gb hard drives (on impulse which was probably not a good
> start).
> 
> I am now looking to buy a pci scsi card and the cheapest one I found was
> the tekram 315U (£30). I also intend to have an IDE hard drive so the
> no-boot part is OK.
> 
> Is this card generally well supported in the 2.4 range kernels and are
> there any things in particular that I have to look out for while taking
> on this endeavour.

according to the suse hardware database it is fully supported

> Also, is this a generally good card and does striping provide decent
> performance improvements (im thinking of using lvm)

i personally have best experience with dawicontrol, adaptec and symbius
logic cards. never tried tekram yet so i can't tell you if it is a good
card. striping does give a performance improve, i have 2 udma100 disks in
one of my boxes and the lvms i stripe are much faster than a single disk. 
check out the software raid howto for some tips regarding chunk size and 
block size (raid 0).  
 
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Re: initrd and kernel 2.4.17

[Martin Wuertele]

hi,

On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 08:59:48PM -0800, Patrick Dahiroc wrote:
> i'm in the process of upgrading my woody box to kernel
> 2.4.17.  does 2.4.17 require initrd to boot-up?  

2.4.17 boots fine without initrd, have it running on my test box.

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Re: setting up FTP-server

[Martin Wuertele]

On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 01:41:02PM +0100, Kurdt wrote:
> I want to set up an FTP server on a non-standard port. Like 4321.  How 
> to do? I can't find any HOWTO.
> Or an HTTP-server, also non-standard port.  I want those ports because 
> of being blocked from my ISP.  What is the right setting-up?
> I use woody.

the port is defined in each daemon

eg. if you use proftpd as ftp daemon change
Port21
to whatever you need, if you use apache change 
Port 80
to whatever you need.

that's all, no need for a howto, it's enough to read the manual of each
daemon you want to use.

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Re: LVM - pvcreate error

[Martin Wuertele]

On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 10:08:48PM +, Dougie Nisbet wrote:
> I tried LVM today, but didn't get very far. I've used fdisk to set the
> partition type, and tried to pvcreate it. But I get an i/o error. What
> have I done wrong? This is on an up to date woody system.
 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# uname -a
> Linux guestw 2.4.16 #1 Fri Jan 11 10:31:57 GMT 2002 i686 unknown
 
is your kernel lvm version the same as as lvm10 package?
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dpkg -l lvm* | grep ii
ii  lvm-common 1.3The Logical Volume Manager for Linux (common
ii  lvm10  1.0.1rc2-1 The Logical Volume Manager for Linux
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dmesg | grep LVM
LVM version 1.0.1(26/11/2001)

if not this might be the problem. i usually get the cvs source and patch
the kernel. 

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Re: Play VCD on computer

[Martin Wuertele]

On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 07:38:58AM +0800, csj wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Jan 2002 15:36:30 -0500
> dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
 
> There are unofficial .debs of mplayer packaged by developer Marillat 
> (http://marillat.free.fr). 


you should not use any packaged version of mplayer for the following
reasons (see
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/users_against_developers.html#binary)

1. Law: Mplayer "contains several files with incompatible licenses
especially on the redistribution clauses. As source files, 
they are allowed to coexist in a same project."

2. Technical:
"MPlayer's speed (MMX, SSE, fastmemcpy, etc) optimizations are
determined during compilation. Thus a compiled binary contains
very processor-specific code. An MPlayer binary compiled for K6
will die on Pentiums and vice versa. This has to be workarounded
by runtime detection, which is not an easy thing to do becase it
causes massive speed decrease. If you don't believe (it was
explained in details 1 times on mplayer-users, search the
archive), solve it and send us a patch. Someone begun work on it,
but disappeared since then."

"* MPlayer's video/audio system is not plugin based. It is
compiled into the binary, thus making the binary depend on various
libraries (the GUI depends on GTK, DivX4 depends on libdivxdecore,
SDL depends on libSDL, every SDL release contains an unique bug
that has to be workarounded during compiletime, X11 output
compiles differently for X3 and X4, etc).

just download the source and do a fakeroot debian/rules binary and it will
compile fine, optimised for the system you compile it on.

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Re: why does a process gets killed?

[Martin Wuertele]

On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 02:24:30PM +0100, Imre Vida wrote:
> > Watch the kernel log /var/log/syslog, or
> > Check resource limits (umlilit -a, ulimit -Sa), or
> thanks, this is the problem
> cpu time is set to 3600 s
> 
> and now,  how on earth can i set this value?
 
root can change this in /etc/security/limits.conf

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