woody broken
I recently updated my woody/testing package list and have found that many packages are either no longer available or are obsolete. Some examples include mount, passwd, samba, rlinetd, and MANY more. I've tried many mirrors including ftp.debian.org and ftp.us.debian.org and they're all exhibiting this problem. It's not just me, I had other people with woody boxes update and try to install stuff, and had the same experience. Thanks, Mathew Johnston
woody still missing a bunch of packages?
It looks like woody is still missing lilo, passwd, slang1 and some other packages. Is there an ETA for these packages? Earlier today there were a lot more missing packages, but tonight they were back. Where are the rest? :) Mathew Johnston
samba / smbmount problems
I have a mixed windows/linux network, and am looking to do file sharing over my LAN. Samba seems pretty good, except that mounted smb shares (in linux) sometimes lose connectivity. It really liked to do it when xmms crashed as I tried to add a directory to my playlist that was inside an smb share. If I tried to get a directory listing or change to the smb moutned directory, it would say input/output error. Has anyone seen this sort of problem before? I'd like to use samba, as I dont think that nfs is really very well supported in windows. Ideas? :) Thanks, Mathew Johnston
memory usage
When I boot up, and launch, gdm, log in, it runs sawfish and I run licq, netscape, some xterms, etc. When I type 'free' I'm told that about 40mb ram is being used, and no swap. Over the course of a day, this number grows to about 75 megs being used for the same stuff. Before starting X, my box takes about 15mb ram, but if I simply log out of X, and do a free in console mode, it's using 40 mb without running X! Top does not report any processes that have run away with a bunch of ram, and x is properly shut down... I want to know where my ram is going! Also, eventually swap space gets used. After about a week of running, I'm using on avg 70mb ram and 60 mb swap all the time. Maybe I'm missing something about these numbers? Maybe I actually have more available free memory than it's telling me? Could someone help me understand this? Thank you :) Mathew Johnston
Mailing list software.
I'm wondering if anyone has reccomendations for mailing list software. I need to maintain something like 10 lists, with maybe 10 people per list. Users should be able to subscribe and unsubscribe, but I wish to limit which addresses may subscribe. If possible, maybe a list of addresses which are permitted to subscribe to each list? The idea is that these are private mailing lists and I dont want just anyone joining (security through obscurity is bad ;). The list software should keep an archive of the list in some sort of html format with okay navigation - threads are good. Does such a piece of software exist? Thanks :) Mathew Johnston
potato froze up
I have a potato box that is running samba, mysql, apache, proftpd, Xwindows (but connects to another box to run all of its apps) and is a masq firewall. Last night it froze up while running a screensaver remotely (on the other xwindows box, over the lan). No messages in syslog. I'd like to stop this from happening again. Any ideas as to how to track downt he offending software? By froze up, btw, I mean wouldnt accept ssh connections, etc, not just like X froze up on it's own. I know its just one crash, but I dont want to have to put up with an unstable box :) (and yes, I know its probably x doing it, but x has to run, as i dont have another spare box laying around :) Thanks a bunch :) Mathew Johnston
Re: OT: what's the point of mp3's?
I think that he's asking why not just gzip waves and gunzip when you need to listen to them. The answer, is that gzip is not designed for audio, and gzip is lossless. MP3 is designed for audio - it is lossful in that it removed bits of audio that normally a person wouldnt be able to hear anyway. MP3 gets what is it... 1:10 compression or so on a wave? gzip would get much less. Also, mp3 can be decompressed as needed where you'd have to totally unpack with gunzip and then play. Unless... someone wants to write a sort of streaming gunzip engine :) Mathew Johnston Krzys Majewski wrote: gunzip -c hef1153mp3.wav.gz | bplay Actually I screwed up in the first post. Should've said -rw-r--r--1 krzyskrzys 118700 Jul 31 17:28 hip1302mp3.mp3 -rw-rw-r--1 krzyskrzys 1118870 Aug 9 11:05 hip1302mp3.wav.gz which answers my question I guess.. -chris On Wed, 9 Aug 2000, [iso-8859-15] André Dahlqvist wrote: On Wed, Aug 09, 2000 at 10:22:30AM -0700, Krzys Majewski wrote: -rw-r--r--1 krzyskrzys 118700 Jul 31 17:28 hip1302mp3.mp3 -rw-rw-r--1 krzyskrzys 1308716 Aug 9 10:05 hip1302mp3.wav -rw-rw-r--1 krzyskrzys 117718 Aug 9 10:06 hip1302mp3.wav.gz So what's the point of .mp3? -chris Try loading the gzipped file in XMMS and see what happens:-) -- // André -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
128 bit encryption netscape?
is there a 128 bit encryption netscape package floating around? I cant find it in my packages list. Thanks :) Mat.
time is off by 1 hour
my timezone file contains Canada/Eastern when i type date, it tells me that its EST, not EDT like it should (i think) so when I run ntpdate it gives me the time, minus 1 hour. any ideas as to how to fix this? Thanks :) Mathew Johnston
how to set up an xterminal?
I have a box which has a primary use of a server/firewall. I desperatly need another workstation tho, and I dont have the money to buy another computer. So, I was thinking, I'd install a barebones X, and run all of the apps over the network from another machine, so that i can keep the fw fairly clean. How should I go about this? I want it to be at most like, 1 command to be typed on the firewall to load up an x session with an xdm login for the other machine. Possible? Thanks a bunch for any help :) Mathew Johnston
odd dma_intr error
Hi, on one of my boxes I get the following error once in a while:
hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hda: dma_intr: error=0x10 { SectorIdNotFound }, LBAsect=1253727,
sector=1253576
it repeats sometimes, and lists other sectors, but the same idea. Any
idea what's going on? I was thinking of installing a newer kernel to fix
it? (im running 2.2.14 right now)
Mat.
asking x not to listen on an interface
I've been lookin in the docs, and I cant find any info on how to do this... I want to stop X from listening on a particular interface... or even stop it from listening on any tcp port at all. I'd prefer that it just use a unix socket or something - something non public. Any ideas? Thanks Mathew Johnston
checksecurity script
The script checksecurity which creates the setuid.* log file and is distributed with cron doesnt have a whole lot of documentation. How does it log? Can it be made to log through syslog? Also, I'd love to see this distrubuted in it's own package, so that it may be build upon further to do md5 checksums and stuff. Maybe some mechanism to store logs on remote servers? Log via syslog and then have the syslog box have some daemon to share the said logs? I mean, I'd write some tcl or perl script to do this maybe. Just wondering what sorta info is out there about the package so far. Altho, maybe since tripwire is open it'd be better to leave the checksum stuff to it :) Mathew Johnston
