Re: Solaris: The Most Advanced OS?
Em Ter, 2005-11-08 às 11:49 +, Yuriy Kuznetsov escreveu: There's lots of improvements in Solaris that make it faster than linux (eg. we completely *smoke* linux in terms of TCP/IP performance) but also a few places where linux appears much faster, esp. filesystem operations. Usually that's because linux has fairly intensive disk caching turned on by default (so despite the fact that commands that write to disk finish much quicker, often the data isn't actually written to disk ! So if you have a power outage just after one of these commands has finished, on Solaris your disk will be in a consistent state (and the , whereas on linux you're screwed...) - it's not always about performance, reliability also comes into it. As regards most advanced os on the planet, that may sound subjective, but I'd say that SUN's implementations of DTrace, Zones, TCP/IP stack, Service Management Facility, Fault Management Architecture and probably other stuff I'm missing out make Solaris a better OS that anything else out there at the moment. As many posts showed, Solaris is NOT the most advanced OS. All pro-Solaris posts insist on reliability (granted), and superior support (valid only in a very few countries). Advanced has a meaning of bleeding-edge which Solaris definitively is not. In fact I suspect that the recent commitment of Sun to OpenSource is recognition of the superiority of the OpenSource Model in matters of fast, research grade, development of an OS. In house refinement for reliability by Sun could then give them the best of both worlds. Michel. -- Michel Loos [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: Esta é uma parte de mensagem assinada digitalmente
Re: Solaris: The Most Advanced OS?
Em Seg, 2005-11-07 às 10:04 -0500, Paul Smith escreveu: %% Tshepang Lekhonkhobe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: tl Wow!!! So Solaris kernel is generally technically superior... and tl what a post. Of course, that's nowhere close to what I said. The fact that you summed it up this way makes me wonder if you're a troll. I _DID_ say that in a few specific areas, most particularly dealing with very large enterprise deployments (how many systems out there will even have access to, much less need to mount, 1300 NFS partitions at the same time?), Solaris is more reliable and robust than Linux in my experience (with Red Hat Enterprise Linux--I didn't make this decision and had, and have, no say in it so...). Is NIS reliable? It seems to me that NIS is being obsoleted, since using a secure LDAP is much more secure. How stands Solaris when using a PAM/LDAP solution. Is NFS pre v4 reliable? I don't think so, it has a large number of security holes. So the major advantages of Solaris is better support of obsolete systems, which are only being used because Solaris does not support the better, modern solutions? Seems a little circular to me. Michel. A UNIX operating system is very complex and has a LOT of parts. Saying that one particular part, especially an ancillary (albeit important to many) one like a filesystem, is better in one or the other in no way can be translated into saying that one is generally technically superior. For example, Linux's iptables is much better than whatever Solaris has in this area (to the best of my knowledge). Also, Linux's /proc and /system are far more capable than /proc in Solaris. Etc. As many people have mentioned, it all depends on what you want to do with it. -- --- Paul D. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] HASMAT--HA Software Mthds Tools Please remain calm...I may be mad, but I am a professional. --Mad Scientist --- These are my opinions--Nortel takes no responsibility for them. -- Michel Loos [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: Esta é uma parte de mensagem assinada digitalmente
Gforge
I am trying to onstall gforge for quite sometime now, with no success. I am also new to slapd and therefore I don't know if it is slapd which is misconfigured or if it is gforge-ldap-openldap orif it is a bug. Was anyone able to install gforge-ldap-openldap on Sid, using mostly dkg --configure ( dpkg-reconfigure)? Michel. -- Michel Loos [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mysql-max
Em Qui, 2003-04-03 às 13:18, Gilberto Garcia Jr. escreveu: Someone can tell me if there is mysql-max package for debian? I means there is in anywhere a package like mysql-max.deb or something like this? The debian mysql package is mysql-max (transaction support), you just have to configure it. Michel. or a package that provide mysql-max features? thanks --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.465 / Virus Database: 263 - Release Date: 25/03/03 -- Michel Loos [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PHP --with-imap
Em Dom, 2003-02-23 às 23:35, Craig Jackson escreveu: On Sun, 2003-02-23 at 18:48, Rob Weir wrote: [snipped] Well, 90% of the time, it's actually simpler. e.g. 1) setup deb-src lines in your sources.list (you only need to do this once, ever) 2) apt-get source packagename;apt-get build-dep packagename. This will download the source, untar it and patch it, then go get everything you need to build it (avoiding the libc-client2001 issue you're having). apt-get build-dep will fail since libc-client2002-dev is missing. There is a real problem this moment with the php4-imap package, which is also uninstallable in binary form. Michel. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Question sur LiLO
Em Sex, 2003-02-21 às 07:30, [EMAIL PROTECTED] escreveu: Bonjour à l'équipe de Debian.org Je vous contacte pour vous poser une question. Mais tout d'abord, voici mon problème : Sur mon ordinateur, j'ai deux disques durs : un de 8 Go et l'autre de 10 Go. Sur le premier, j'ai déjà un système Windows XP d'installé. Et sur le deuxième j'ai voulu installer une version de Linux Debian, tout en conservant Windows sur le premier disque. L'installation de Linux s'est déroulée correctement, mais quand l'installation fut terminéé, mon ordinateur a redémarré, et là c'est Windows qui redemarre automatiquement sans même me demander si je veux démarrer avec Linux. Je pense que cela vient de LiLO que j'ai installé sur mon deuxième disque dur. Pour que Linux démarre, est-ce qu'il faut que j'installe LiLO sur mon premier dique dur ? Merci d'avance de votre réponse et ça serait très sympa à vous de me répondre car j'ai vraiment envie de me servir de Linux. Oui il faut installer lilo sur le premier disque dur. Michel A+ _ GRAND JEU SMS : Pour gagner un NOKIA 7650, envoyez le mot IF au 61321 (prix d'un SMS + 0.35 euro). Un SMS vous dira si vous avez gagné. Règlement : http://www.ifrance.com/_reloc/sign.sms -- Michel Loos [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Qt
Em Seg, 2003-02-17 às 16:04, Sergey A. Ovchar escreveu: Hi. When I trying to compile KDE from sources, I get the following error :( checking for Qt... configure: error: Qt (= Qt 3.0.2) (library qt-mt) not found. Please check your installation! For more details about this problem, look at the end of config.log. Make sure that you have compiled Qt with thread support! All packages was installed from distribution 3.0_r0 debs, and no extra adjusting from me. libqt-mt-dev also installed :( What can I do, to fix it ? Passed through this last night: the libraries chnged place so you have to us --with-qt-includes=/usr/include/qt3 and perhaps --with-qt-libraries=/usr/share/qt3/lib and you have to install libqt3-compat-headers the files listing of libqt3-headers on the debian site all wrong for libqt3-headers Seems to be a big problem with qt3 maintainer. Michel -- ,''`. Sincerely yours : :' : Sergey A. Ovchar `. `' e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] `- SMS: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Michel Loos [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: kde package dependencies broken (kde relies on everything?)
Em Sex, 2003-02-14 às 12:42, Wim De Smet escreveu: hi, recently I tried to remove some of the excess software on my system, so I tried removing stuff like koffice, or kate, or kedit, ksysv, kcron, everything that doesn't look like it is needed for operating kde, even kde-base-doc. kde is dependent on all of them. Is this a bug? I can't believe that if you want kde, you immediately need all these packages. The only one I've been able to remove so far is kdm, which seems even more strange. You can remove kdm but not kedit. Where's the logic? Any ideas, hints, suggestions? The kde Package is a metapackage which allows you to install all of kde with 1 apt-get. But KDE works fine without the package kde. Michel. -- Michel Loos [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: shuttle disaster
Em Dom, 2003-02-09 às 09:32, Paul Johnson escreveu: On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 05:01:22AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: I'm not entirely convinced of this, to be honest with you. If we were talking the RA and RCA in northern Europe, you're right. But even then, the RCA and RA was leading us into battle (not that this is a bad thing, the RA is more local and probaly had a slightly better idea of the local geography than the American and RCA soldiers did). By RA, you mean RAF? Royal Army, not Air Force. (Side note, Royal Canadian Air Farce is damn funny.) All during the CW, the French steered a much more independant military course, having their own, non-integrated nuclear policy, and not being fully integrated into NATO. Hence bombing whales with nukes in the mid-Atlantic clear into the 1990s. WTF?? Thier nuclear testing program by detonating nuclear devices underwater was killing whales with the concussions. Was in the South Pacific, too hot for whales. Michel. -- Michel Loos [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sound problem with es1373 (solved)
On Mon, 2002-09-02 at 16:28, Bob Proulx wrote: On Mon, 02 Sep 2002 the mental interface of Michel Loos told: I have problems setting up sound on a computer with a SoundBlaster PCI128 soundcard. This uses a es1373 chip. I installed the es1371 module (modprobe es1371) which seems to be installed. Hmm... I have one of those in one of my machines. But I thought that card actually did use the 'sb' driver. You might try that. But it is only my faded memory that is pointing me there. My box with that card is, ahem, running another operating system at the moment. When I reboot it back to linux I will check it. The problem was the digital speakers we were using, in order for this to work we needed to add the option spdif=1 to es1371 module configuration Michel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sound problem with es1373
Hi, I send this some days ago and got no answer: I have problems setting up sound on a computer with a SoundBlaster PCI128 soundcard. This uses a es1373 chip. I installed the es1371 module (modprobe es1371) which seems to be installed. When I run a mixer e.g. aumix the module gets used (verified by lsmod) But no sound at all through cat /dev/dsp When I run play somefile.wav (from sox package) the program executes fine showing the Playing messages, but no sound to hear. All outputs were maximized using aumix, still no sound. Sound works fine under windows2000, and I fear that user will not switch to Linux if I can't make everything work. Supposing this can be resolved, I have heared that the next problem will be KDE which uses the /dev/sndstat file which is not used by the es1371 driver. By the way running woody, 2.4.18-smp kernel. Any help welcome. even if it is just saying that it works for you. Thanks Michel. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
es1373 sound + KDE
Hi, I have problems setting up sound on a computer with a SoundBlaster PCI128 soundcard. This uses a es1373 chip. I installed the es1371 module (modprobe es1371) which seems to be installed. When I run a mixer e.g. aumix the module gets used (verified by lsmod) But no sound at all through cat /dev/dsp When I run play somefile.wav (from sox package) the program executes fine showing the Playing messages, but no sound to hear. All outputs were maximized using aumix, still no sound. Supposing this can be resolved, I have heared that the next problem will be KDE which uses the /dev/sndstat file which is not used by the es1371 driver. By the way running woody, 2.4.18-smp kernel. Thanks Michel. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Trouble make SSH connection with OpenSSH_3.0.2p1 on Debian Woody
Em Ter, 2002-06-25 às 14:32, Randolph S. Kahle escreveu: Greg, Thank you for the tip. I changed the /etc/hosts.deny to now not include ALL:PARANOID and then it all started to work. This is a very bad option, you should transform hi in ALL:ALL and authorize sepecific hosts in /etc/hosts.allow, not the otherway. I very much appreciate the help! Regards, Randy On Mon, 2002-06-24 at 05:04, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 04:05:30AM -0700, Randolph S. Kahle wrote: ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host There are two common causes for this type of behavior: having sshd linked with TCP wrappers, with ALL:PARANOID in /etc/hosts.deny and a misconfigured reverse DNS (address-name mapping); or using the wrong protocol. For reasons which I do not yet comprehend, Debian still ships with ALL:PARANOID in /etc/hosts.deny by default. Try commenting that out (on the server). If that doesn't help, try using ssh -2 or ssh -1 to force one or the other of the protocols. And if none of this works, then run the client (and, if possible, the server) with debug mode turned on (ssh -v for the client, sshd -d for the server). That may give some useful information. This all worked find with the Potato release and the associated SSH technology. I find that surprising. Is the problem with the use of NAT? Could be. Sorry I can't be more helpful or specific than that. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Console Login/Auth ~= GDM/KDM Login/Auth
Have you enabled shadow passwords ? kdm and gdm are looking for them, while your console login does not. Michel. Em Dom, 2002-06-23 às 11:14, Randolph S. Kahle escreveu: Mark, Thank you for the reply. I have studied the files in /etc/pam.d and I am not sure I can figure out what is wrong. Here are the files: login - auth requisite pam_securetty.so auth requisite pam_nologin.so auth required pam_env.so auth required pam_unix.so nullok accountrequired pam_unix.so sessionrequired pam_unix.so sessionoptional pam_lastlog.so sessionoptional pam_motd.so sessionoptional pam_mail.so standard noenv password required pam_unix.so nullok obscure min=4 max=8 md5 - kde - #%PAM-1.0 auth required pam_nologin.so auth required pam_unix.so shadow nullok auth required pam_env.so accountrequired pam_unix.so sessionrequired pam_unix.so sessionrequired pam_limits.so password required pam_unix.so nullok obscure min=4 max=8 md5 - gdm - #%PAM-1.0 auth required pam_nologin.so auth required pam_env.so auth required pam_unix_auth.so account required pam_unix_acct.so password required pam_unix_passwd.so shadow md5 session required pam_unix_session.so session required pam_limits.so - On Sat, 2002-06-22 at 17:40, Mark Roach wrote: On Sat, 2002-06-22 at 15:28, Randolph S. Kahle wrote: I have just installed Woody from CDROM images. I can log on via the console as root and as a normal user. All is fine. When I run GDM (or the KDE login manager), when I enter a valid user and password, it rejects it. Why are these operating differently? Am I going through different authentication modules? If so, how do I get GDM to use the right authentication mechanism? check /etc/pam.d/gdm if it is different than /etc/pam.d/login then that is a good place to start. -Mark Randy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian Potato i386 newtork woes
Em Sex, 2002-06-21 às 16:15, Andy Saxena escreveu: On Sun, Jun 16, 2002 at 03:28:55PM -0700, Larry Smith wrote: I'm unable to find a driver that will load, that is supposed to work with my SMC model 8216C internet card. The drivers all abort indicating a possible address or irq error. I've tried: smc-ultra (Used to work on a RedHat 6.0 system) wd tulip ne This card has a rtl8139 chip use the rtl8139 module Michel. I've strapped the card, rather than use plug and play, and I know it's at io 0x300 and irq 10. I've tried loading with insmod rather than modprobe, so I can input these parameters. The required 8390 module is already loaded. Windows 98 on the same computer can find and use the card at that address and IRQ. I even tried working a bit on the driver code to hard-wire it, only to discover that apparently I don't have the code for the driver that's delivered with potato. Any suggestions? Here's one. Does your BIOS have a plug and play option? If so, turn it off. Also, if this is a new installation you should consider switching to woody. -Andy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OS hallucinates hard drive geometry
Em Qua, 2002-06-19 às 02:18, Aaron Maxwell escreveu: I just realized something interesting. Before I tried repartitioning as described in my original message (below), I had hda2 as a smaller partition containing the HURD. When I mount the new /dev/hda2, its size is 926 MB, and it contains all the old hurd files. I did not write it down and can't remember, but I think this size - just under a gig - is what I made the HURD partition long ago. So the partition table is correct; however, when the OS actually is up and running, the kernel somehow is confused, and acts as if it still has the OLD partition table. (It's not the geometry at all like I originally thought.) What could cause this behavior? Did you format (mkfs) those 2 partitions before trying to mount them? Seems the kernel sees your old formatation on hda2 and no formatation on hda3 Michel. Thanks, Aaron On Tuesday 18 June 2002 20:37, Aaron Maxwell wrote: Hi, I'm running woody with kernel 2.4.18. (This is a custom kernel - I downloaded the source, and built it with make-kpkg.) My hard drive is 20 GB with three primary partions: Device BootStart EndBlocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 1459 11719386 83 Linux /dev/hda2 1460 1945 3903795 83 Linux /dev/hda3 1946 2495 4417875 83 Linux This means that hda1 is 11.7GB, hda2 is 3.9GB, and hda3 is 4.4 GB. (hda1 has existed for a while: hda2 and hda3 are new partitions.) However, when I mount them, problems ensue: (hda1 is already mounted on /) shiznit:~# mount /dev/hda2 /mnt/hda2 shiznit:~# mount /dev/hda3 /mnt/hda3 mount: you must specify the filesystem type shiznit:~# mount -t ext2 /dev/hda3 /mnt/hda3 mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda3, or too many mounted file systems shiznit:~# df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda1 11G 4.5G 6.0G 43% / /dev/hda2 926M 65M 814M 8% /mnt/hda2 Note that: 1) /dev/hda2 is smaller than it should be. 2) /dev/hda3 could not be mounted at all. I tried the partitioning with fdisk, cfdisk, and parted (I decided not to try sfdisk yet). Same results, except parted produced this warning: Information: The operating system thinks the geometry on /dev/hda is 2495/255/63. Therefore, cylinder 1024 ends at 8032.499M. I'm not clear on what to try next. Anyone? Thanks in advance. Aaron -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: X, KDE login, new monitor
Em Ter, 2002-06-18 às 06:38, DSC Siltec escreveu: I have debian Woody in a setup with KDE login (that blue login page with graphics options for such things as console login) installed. My monitor just blew. Odds are, whatever monitor I get will have different specs, and X will have to be reset to the new monitor. Problem is, if the KDE login comes up in a SVGA mode, then I won't even be able to see the page to request console login. How do I most easily make the transition to my new monitor? CTRL+ALT+F2 (or 1,3,4,5,6) should give you a normal login Michel. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: what if I have a 2nd cdrom drive?
Em Seg, 2002-06-17 às 02:07, Dan Jacobson escreveu: I have two CDROM drives. This is apparently not noticed upon debian woody installation. Swifteax. Neateaux. I suppose the distributions of the pros consider that a personal issue or something. OK, so I must do this myself. OK, I make a link in /dev from hdd to cdrom2 then I make a directory in /, then I make a entry in /etc/fstab. Is the user supposed to do all this by hand? Also what is the importance of noauto in fstab? Doesn't that just cause the user to have to issue a mount command if he hasn't since last reboot, and ha wants to use the cdrom? Or perhaps the maintainers don't power off like me every day e.g. lightning storms and sleepy time. You need to issue a mount command everytime you use a new CD and an umount before you remove it. Or do you have only 2 CD-ROMs one for each drive? By the way, my main form of exercise during my month long debian adaptation learning experience is marching up and back to my cdrom drives, ten meters away, during each dselect, aptitude installation session. I don't suppose there is any way to tell it that I have two cdroms so I can put two cd's in at once? Have you a bad internet connection? Usually some floppies or 1 CD is largely enough for installing debian. Michel. -- http://jidanni.org/ Taiwan(04)25854780 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Error installing mailman with exim
Em Sex, 2002-06-14 às 03:45, Grégoire Cachet escreveu: hello I try to configure mailman on my gateway for internet, using the exim mail server My system is debian woody I installed exim, and just changed the configuration in order to relay my own computer on the local network. Then I installed mailman and created a new list typing : # newlist test It asked me to add some lines in the aliases file. I added in /etc/aliases : ## test mailing list ## created: 12-Jun-2002 root test:|/var/lib/mailman/mail/wrapper post test test-admin: |/var/lib/mailman/mail/wrapper mailowner test test-request:|/var/lib/mailman/mail/wrapper mailcmd test test-owner: test-admin I received a confirmation email for the new list test However, if I try to subscribe sending a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], it didn't work. I can't send messages to test-admin, test, test-owner either. there are errors in exim's logs : 2002-06-13 18:13:32 17IXE4-0001kY-00 Neither the system_aliases director nor the address_pipe transport set a uid for local delivery of |/var/lib/mailman/mail/wrapper post test Just do exactly what this message says: set a uid in the system_aliases director definitions in exim.conf ex: system_aliases: driver = aliasfile file_transport = address_file pipe_transport = address_pipe file = /etc/aliases search_type = lsearch user = list (or user=exim, or user=mailman etc. depending on your configurations) Michel. /var/lib/mailman/bin/check_perms returns no error Besides, I receive error mails from cron every 15 minutes : 2002-06-12 09:53:03 17I2PM-0005sU-00 Neither the system_aliases director nor the address_pipe transport set a uid for local delivery of |/var/lib/mailman/mail/wrapper mailcmd test Where does it not work ? thanks in advance and sorry for my bad english grégoire -- Il faut dépenser le mépris avec une grande économie, à cause du grand nombre de nécessiteux. Chateaubriand -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: VmWare on Woody
Em Qua, 2002-06-12 às 10:20, Helgi Örn Helgason escreveu: On Wed, 2002-06-12 at 14:28, Colin Watson wrote: On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 01:46:46PM +0200, Helgi ?rn wrote: I've never before installad a package with RPM in Debian, are there some weird oddities combined with that? Never do that. Use alien if you can't find a non-RPM version of the package. Please explain why RPM shouldn't be used when it's there? The Linux (rpm)package is not dist-specific AFAIK and RPM is installed in Woody so why not? The dependences are not correctly checked. rpm will check against other installed RPMs, dpkg checks against installed DEBs. If you want the dependance checking system to work correctly you must use one installation system only, and it is much better to use dpkg (.DEBs) because 1) it is much better then rpm, 2) it is the default of Debian. Michel. I've never before seen or used RPM in Debian so I thought it was interesting to give it a try, of course I used *rpm -i --test package* just to se the outcome without actually installing. Cheers, HÖ -- ~ This message is digitally signed - GPG key at: ~~ http://www.sacred-eagle.com/gnupg_public_key.html ~~ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: VmWare on Woody
Em Qua, 2002-06-12 às 11:41, Helgi Örn Helgason escreveu: On Wed, 2002-06-12 at 15:27, Robert Ian Smit wrote: Rpm is installed in Woody only if you select it. It's available in section admin, priority optional. In the package desciption you will find a strong suggestion to use alien instead: Using rpm directly will bypass the Debian packaging system! # apt-get remove rpm Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: kde kpackage rpm The thing want's to remove KDE when I ask it to remove RPM, what kind of service is that? You are not removing kde, you are removing the kde meta-package, because kpackage depends on rpm Michel. Cheers, Helgi Örn -- ~ This message is digitally signed - GPG key at: ~~ http://www.sacred-eagle.com/gnupg_public_key.html ~~ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: VmWare on Woody
Em Qua, 2002-06-12 às 11:04, Helgi Örn Helgason escreveu: On Wed, 2002-06-12 at 15:27, Robert Ian Smit wrote: Rpm is installed in Woody only if you select it. It's available in section admin, priority optional. In the package desciption you will find a strong suggestion to use alien instead: Using rpm directly will bypass the Debian packaging system! Enough said. Thank's. I promise I will keep away from rpm packages from now on, at least as long as I stay with Debian, which I plan to do if I can manage to tame this beast to my liking... :-) No need for that, just use alien to transform your .rpm in .deb then use dpkg to install the resulting .deb Michel. Cheers, HÖ -- ~ This message is digitally signed - GPG key at: ~~ http://www.sacred-eagle.com/gnupg_public_key.html ~~ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Why does Mozilla modify /etc/alternatives/netscape?
Em Sáb, 2002-06-08 às 01:26, Vineet Kumar escreveu: * Jeronimo Pellegrini ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020607 14:52]: Two banks on which I have accounts, for example... One of them will only allow IE or Netscape 4.*, and the other just won't work with Gecko (the browser just dies after a certain applet is used). Bank #2 just doesn't care. Well, when I was in exactly the same situation, I put my money where my mouth was and told them they were losing my business and my money because of the problem, and I closed the account. Then I came back here and told everyone to stay away from that bank (F you, citibank!) I know your situation is probably different from mine, and you may have strong reasons to stay with the bank. They may listen better if you make sure they know it's a customer service issue rather than just a tech support issue. Probably, like for me, just a brazilian problem: It is your employer who chooses in which bank you must have an account, if you ant to get paid of course. This means that one of the accounts cannot be changed and usually it is the worst possible. Recently, because a lot of users complained that their site (netscape 4.x only) was not funcionnal under IE, they changed it, now it is IE5+ only! Just plainly stupid, and that is at least the second time they do it, before Netscape 4.x only it was IE4+ only. Seems to be related to the clueless developpers problem: trained (not educated) mono-task devellopers. Michel. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SMP working
Em Sex, 2002-06-07 às 15:36, Robert Webb escreveu: Brooks R. Robinson wrote: | check for this . I looked in the /proc directory and did a cat of cpu | but it only showed one processor at 500MHZ. | | Am I looking in the wrong place??? Greetings, A cat of /proc/cpuinfo should give a listing for each cpu. I get two for the two on my box. HTH, Brooks Thanks for all the help everyone. I have come to the conclusion that the install iso I used did not have SMP compiled. So now I am trying to get it compiled into 2.4.18, the iso I used was 2.2.20, but am running into trouble when it tries to compile the SCSI protion. But that is another thread... :-) Upgrade to woody or sid and apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.18-686-smp and it will work fine. Michel. Robert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian: abandon ship?
Em Qui, 2002-06-06 às 13:35, Ivo Wever escreveu: Glen wrote: Ivo, you're totally missing the point here. Yes, you are right. I shouldn't have let my personal crusade against arguments from emotion enter this thread. [snippety] But as a distribution, it's head and shoulders above the competition. If the other dists are so terrible that they can't even support the internet connection of a small group of people for three hours a day, then why is anyone using them and using them in a commercial environment at that? Because a dummy can install them (many so called sysadms comming from M$world are in fact dummies). Most other distros are absolutely not suited for servers and even much less for remote management, but they are PnP for the domestic user (and the dummy pseudo sysadm) Michel. sincerely Ivo Wever [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian: abandon ship?
Em Qua, 2002-06-05 às 08:41, Nick Jacobs escreveu: A few days ago, David Wright posted a message to this list, questioning the wisdom of Debian's decision to target 11 architectures. He pointed out (with supporting references) that this decision has contributed to a long delay in releasing Woody; of course, other people have said this before. The main result was that a small number of Debian insiders posted abusive comments in response to David's perfectly reasonable message. (The thread, in case you missed it, has the subject This post is not off-topic.) With hindsight, it's clear that trying to support too many architectures was a mistake. Of course, everybody makes mistakes. It is truly said that he who never made a mistake, never made anything. But what separates the doers from the wannabes is the ability to admit a mistake, change direction, and move on. If the people in effective control of Debian's direction no longer have this ability, then perhaps Debian is no longer useful to most of us. To save the Debian Attack Team the effort of a search, I'll admit immediately that (like most Debian users) I've contributed nothing to Debian except good intentions and trivial amounts of money. Debian does not need me. And I need a stable release with the 2.4 kernel. You have 2 stable releases which are up-to-date: woody and sid They are perfectly stable, but the distribution is changing just like the RedHat distribution is changing every few weeks, the only difference is that they call it stable even when if it is broken, while debian is called unstable even when every thing works fine. Michel. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
KDE3 and Wine
Is there any chance that libarts1 can work together with libarts ? KDE3 depends on libarts1, Wine depends on libarts Or can wine work with libarts1 ? Michel. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host PART II
Em Sáb, 2002-03-23 às 18:09, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls escreveu: Greetings again: I have sshd working again after adding an entry in my firewall/router's /etc/hosts.allow file, but I am rather concerned that sshd included tcp_wrappers without alerting users that are upgrading software via apt or dselect! Unless I missed something, I always read all the notifications during each Woody upgrade. My question now is this: do I need to make these hosts_allow entries into each of my linux computers? I still find it very odd that all the other computers were able to connect to my firewall/router as it was, and only my Woody box was banned from connecting. The only other thing that might add to the syndrome is that I have a user logged (ssh) into my box via the router for several weeks compiling kde3. shrug [EMAIL PROTECTED] To which interface of your firewall are you connecting ? wiht ALL:PARANOID in hosts.deny you will not be able to connect to the external interface because name/IP won't fit together. If you connect to the internal interface just check to see if your hosts file contains your IP/name: it should work if they are. Michel. original msg Greetings: I am unable to connect to my cable firewall/router from my desktop box suddenly. I have gone so far as to wipe out my known_hosts file from my .ssh directory, but this still gives me the same error. What is unusual is that I can ssh to any of the other computers on my lan, *then* ssh to my router without difficulty. What did I do wrong? Any help gleefully excepted. I am running woody on both boxes, and updated them an hour ago. I also ran dpkg-reconfigure for ssh on the router just in case I had an update and entered a wrong value. PS plz mail me direct as I am not on this list. thank you -- Jaye Inabnit\ARS ke6sls\/A GNU-Debian linux user\/ http://www.qsl.net/ke6sls If it's stupid, but works, it ain't stupid. I SHOUT JUST FOR FUN. Free software, in a free world, for a free spirit. Please Support freedom! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: I want a linux internet connection going thru a win98 box:how??
Em Dom, 2002-03-24 às 03:08, tony brito escreveu: Hello I am a new linux user I use netzero as my ISP and pay 9.95 per month! netzero is installed on my win98 box. I use a modem for dial-up service to netzero. I also have both my linux box and win98 connected with an Ethernet card. Is there a way I can dial up to netzero using my win98 box, Then go to my linux box create an internet connection succesffully. (e.g. open netscape and go to www.debian.org from my linux box) That's o win98 problem. You can do it with win98 OSR2 : take a look at the help for private lan. On the linux box define the internal interface of the win98 machine as a gateway and you are set. Michel. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: remote X problems
Em Sáb, 2002-03-23 às 22:10, David Wright escreveu: Argh! I hate^H^H^H^H^H am having some trouble with X. $ ssh -l root foo.example.com foo# xosview Can't open display named this should be ssh -X [EMAIL PROTECTED] Michel. Yes, sshd_config on foo contains X11Forwarding yes and ssh_config on my machine contains ForwardX11 yes In fact, everyting works fine on many other machines I have set up at example.com. The machines with a problem are those where I haven't installed X on foo. But you're not supposed to have to install X on a server if it always displays remotely. I don't want X on my servers. (This problem never occured with RedHat.) I haven't been able to find any hint of what's going on any logs on the server or on the client. I do note that foo~# echo $DISPLAY return nothing, whereas on machines where the X-forwarding works, I do get something. But foo# export DISPLAY=foo.example.com:0 doesn't help. What do I have to do to get a machine without X to forward X output over ssh? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
kdm and X-terminals
I used to have X-terminals connected to a xdm server. In order to achieve this I had to edit /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers, /etc/X11/xdm/Xaccess and /etc/xdm/xdm-config With kdm I found the files /etc/kde2/kdm/Xaccess /etc/kde2/kdm/Xservers and I suppose that the equivalent of xdm-config is kdmrc but I have no idea of what I must modify in order to complete the setup When I installed kdm it said something like you will have to modify kdmrc to learn more do a man kdm. But man kdm returns: Undocumented. Does anyone know what exactly I have to do in order to enable the X-terminals ? Thanks Michel.
Re: Still looking to replace Eudora
On Fri, 2002-03-08 at 03:23, Bill Moseley wrote: On Thursday 07 March 2002 07:01 pm, Eric G. Miller wrote: On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 05:11:12PM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: Maybe it's a config setting I've missed, but what I miss is having the messages open in their own windows (yet still inside the main Eudora window). The reason is I like to work with my mail as a single unit (single window), but I like to keep a bunch of messages open at the same time that I'm working on. The window(s) within a containing window paradigm is generally not found in X programs. I don't think it's even part of most (any?) toolkits. That's what I wondered. I'll try the trick of using a separate desktop for my mail. So far, with multiple windows, it gets cluttered too fast. The windows-inside-a-window thing was nice in Eudora -- let me have a real messy email window that could all be moved as a single unit. Just wondering: what do you prefer when displaying window in window over the preview in the lower part of the evolution window ? Michel. I'll get used to it. Thanks for everyone's time. -- Bill Moseley -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Disabling interactive init on Debian
Em Ter, 2002-03-05 às 11:57, will trillich escreveu: On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 09:40:48AM -0800, Xeno Campanoli wrote: In the Trinity OS security recommenation they say to disable the ability to run init interactively by setting prompt=no This is the default in Debian (in lilo.conf) but it is not necessary, even if the guy in front of the computer types the usual: linux single :he will not get root access to your computer without knowing the passwd. (At least on testing with a 2.4.x kernel). If he wants access, he can always boot on a floppy or CD and do whatever he wants to. You will have to disable (in the BIOS) floppy/CD booting AND put a BIOS passwd or all this is for nothing. Michel. in a file called /etc/sysconfig/init, but that file doesn't exist on my Debian Potato, and I don't find one that has prompt= in it (well, there is one, but it's a binary called /etc/alternatives/pager, so I don't think that's it). Any ideas? TIA. # /etc/lilo.conf - See: `lilo(8)' and `lilo.conf(5)', # --- `install-mbr(8)', `/usr/share/doc/lilo/', # and `/usr/share/doc/mbr/'. [snip] # Specifies the number of deciseconds (0.1 seconds) LILO should # wait before booting the first image. # delay=20 # You can put a customized boot message up if you like. If you use # `prompt', and this computer may need to reboot unattended, you # must specify a `timeout', or it will sit there forever waiting # for a keypress. `single-key' goes with the `alias' lines in the # `image' configurations below. eg: You can press `1' to boot # `Linux', `2' to boot `LinuxWAS', if you uncomment the `alias'. # # message=/boot/bootmess.txt # prompt # single-key # delay=100 # timeout=100 image=/vmlinuz label=Linux read-only # restricted # alias=1 image=/vmlinuz.was label=LinuxWAS read-only optional # restricted # alias=2 see man lilo.conf and when you mess with lilo.conf, be sure to run lilo itself so your new settings will be written to the boot sector for your next restart. i think. -- I use Debian/GNU Linux version 2.2; Linux server 2.2.17 #1 Sun Jun 25 09:24:41 EST 2000 i586 unknown DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #44 from Will Trillich [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Ever think you're reading OUTDATED DOCUMENTATION? Check the last-revised-date: if it's more than a few years ago, then there's probably something more recent out there. It may be under a whole different name, so it'll take perseverance and determination on your part. Be alert -- you'll find it! Also see http://newbieDoc.sourceForge.net/ ... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Setting up a linux network
On Tue, 2002-03-05 at 12:36, Kent West wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On Mon, 2002-03-04 at 10:22, Kent West wrote: Camilo Olea wrote: Hello! I want to know, what can i do to have a linux network equivalent to a windows one? This meaning, here at my college, the computer lab network is made of a number of win2k PCs, anyone can sit down at any terminal, login with his user/pass, and the network loads automatically his profile, home directory,etc. The users save their files to their mapped network drive, that resides phisically at the server. This is something I've wanted to do for two years here at my university, but haven't been able to figure out. I *believe* that samba + PAM can now authenticate off an NT domain, but I'm not sure of it, and I certainly have never figured out how. I also believe it can authenticate off an LDAP server, which I've also tried a bit to accomplish, unsuccessfully. All this to say that I *think* it can be done, but I've never done it (though I'd love to). I _think_ he's talking about a complete linux replacement for all of the Winboxen, including clients. I believe that NIS+NFS would do it, where the students' /home directories are kept on the server, and exported to the client when the student logs in. I can't speak for Camilo, but for me, NIS+NFS would require a second database of account information, paralleling that which is already in the NT Domain, or am I (hopefully) mistaken? It's impractical for me to try to duplicate the student logon information. You can see it this way Or just the opposite: running a NT Domain you need to duplicate the NIS database. Michel. Thanks anyway! Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problems printing postscipt with magicfilter
Em Ter, 2002-03-05 às 17:49, Wolfgang Hlawatsch escreveu: I am fairly new to Linux, and I am just about to install my printserver with Debian (Potato). The printer refuses to print a postscript file by use of lpr. I used magicfilterconfig --force several times, but I receive no printout. I looked at the printcap-file, and compared with different information I found in the net, but as I can judge it seems o.k. I can print a file using: gs -q -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=necp6 -sOutputFile=\|lpr (filename) it works perfectly. That tells me that lpd is running, isn't it? But using: lpr (filename) I receive no output from the printer. I can watch for a short time, using lpq that the printjob is in the print-queue. Not any reaction of the printer is the result. When I remove the command: sh in the printcap I receive a trailing page. So, my conclusion is, the problem is in the magicfilter-file. But what can be the problem? I tried different parameters the first two lines in necp6-filter, and it did not solve the problem. I was reading among others that the printcap-file must be activated as an executable. How can I test, or perform, this? Or is it a permission problem? How to test this? 1st: are you able to print a normal text file ? for ex: lpr /etc/printcap If its only the postscript files that give you problems then the postscript entry in the necp6 uses the syntax @necp6.upp (at least mine does) which supposes a newer ghostscript ?6.5 If this is not the case modify your filter in order to use the old -sDEVICE=necp6 syntax whatever filter gs -q -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=necp6 -sOutputFile=- - -c quit Michel.
Re: Enough time wasted, moving on
Em Sáb, 2002-03-02 às 02:58, Harry Putnam escreveu: Carel Fellinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: received valuable help and turns out to be okee afterall. It appeared that in the install he was adviced to use a certain driver for his nic, turned out to be the wrong driver. Thanks to the list, he's back Close, but it was actually a helpful poster here who told me the RIGHT driver. The install itself lists the wrong driver. I can't find the notes I made at that step but on the screen it lists the NICs in one column and drivers across from them: nic1 somedriver nic2 someotherdriver nic3 yettaanotherdriver 3c509 WRONG ONE HERE Mmm, I am quit used to install, 3com NICs and I humbly think you mixed 509 with 905, there is nothing in the description of the 3c509 that says it should work with a 3c905. The 3c509(B/TX) are old 10Mb ISA NICs, while you wher looking for the 3c905B a 10/100 PCI NIC. The description of the 3c59x (your driver) talks somewhere of newer drivers, which includes the 3c59x and the 3c9xx (not cited, this is a real problem). Michel.
Re: Avoid booting direct to X.. I want my starx back
Em Sex, 2002-03-01 às 17:54, Kurt Yoder escreveu: Harry Putnam said: Well, I got X working in my fresh woody install, but there are a few rinkles. 1) I want to boot to console mode and call x with startx. Currently, I get popped right into X. I thought this could be contolled by setting the defalult run level /etc/inittab But I see nothing in there that looks likely. In fact it claims the default is runlevel 2. Or is runlevel 2 X. I don't think so. In my redhat dealings it was possible to set default to runlevel 5 which force boot to bring up X. setting runlevel 3 gave you a console login. Where is this choice made on debian? Remove xdm, gdm or kdm. If any of these are installed, they will dump you into X unless you're in single-user mode. apt-get remove gdm (or kdm or xdm if you have either of those instead) This is a solution, but not the best one (IMHO) because you can want the x/g/k/dm in order to serve some connected X-terminals (or slave workstations). find the Xservers file corresonding to you ?dm (/etc/X11/xdm for ex.) and comment the line :0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X vt7 -dpi 100 -nolisten tcp or equivalent. Michel.
libglib1.3-12 (or new libkmid)
Does any one have a libglib1.3-12.deb ? Or is there some chance to have a new release og libkmid before March 5th ? I have to make a demonstration of installing an easy to use (by a secretary) debian system this day. By the end of the afternoon the machine (an AMD-K6 450) and the secretary must be functional i.e. reading/writing e-mails, typing the directors letters and able to open a .xls spreadsheet. When I marked this demonstration, a month ago I was quite confident. Now without an instalable kde i fear disaster. Michel.
Re: Setting up a linux network
Em Seg, 2002-02-25 às 18:11, Dimitri Maziuk escreveu: * Kurc, Marcin A. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: read about NFS, http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/NFS-HOWTO/index.html or samba (if you also want to share files accross windows and linux) http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/SMB-HOWTO.html (or visit samba.org) NIS is very commonly used for server based authentication http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/NIS-HOWTO/index.html but I would suggest that you look into LDAP, this way you can use it not only for Linux/Unix boxes but also your Windows network. Besides, you can use LDAP for many different applications. LDAP howto http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/LDAP-HOWTO.html Note that NIS security is an oxymoron, you may not want to use NIS at a college lab. It is not worth than the Windows network he was speaking off. Michel.
[OT] - user on solaris
Hi, I know it is not Debian related,but if anybody has an idea... I just found a user with username - on a sparc/solaris, he has both an entry in /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow in shadow he is locked (*LK* as passwd) NIS should not be running, (and it would be a + entry, I think) any idea ? Michel.
Re: [OT] - user on solaris
Em Sex, 2002-02-22 às 17:56, Kent West escreveu: Michel Loos wrote: Hi, I know it is not Debian related,but if anybody has an idea... I just found a user with username - on a sparc/solaris, he has both an entry in /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow in shadow he is locked (*LK* as passwd) NIS should not be running, (and it would be a + entry, I think) any idea ? Michel. I can't address your issue, Michel, but I've been dying to say this to someone. The only *nix I've ever known is Debian (going on about 4 years now), and this week I was tasked with putting in a new drive and doing a clean install of Solaris 7 on an Ultra 1. Wow! Debian is to Solaris like Macintosh is to NT on a 486 laptop with proprietary hardware from vendors who are out of business with only 16MB RAM. In other words, my little experience with Solaris so far leads me to the conclusion that compared to Debian (as far as ease of installation/maintenance/extra packages), Solaris sucks. Just thought I should make an OT posting even more OT :-) I can only totally agree with you. And sincerely the arguments for keeping that thing are purely stupid: We spent so much money on it, you have to make it work, and no you can't install debian on it Michel.
Re: dpkg reconfigure Virtual-Monitor screen size.
Hi, I've been recommended to use 'dpkg -reconfigure xserver-xfree' in order to sync virtual and monitor screen sizes. However, doing so gives me the message xserver-xfree86 is not installed or does not use debconf What would be the correct item to enter in the dpkg -reconfigure command ? I can send a copy of my /etc/X11/XF86Config file if necessary. If you use XF86Config and not XF86Config you clearly don't use XFree4 meaning you will have to reconfigure the sxerver you installed on your machine, which is Video Adapter depended. Michel.
Re: forgot root password AOL
Em Ter, 2002-02-19 às 00:43, Karsten M. Self escreveu: on Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 09:45:37PM -0300, Michel Loos ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Em Seg, 2002-02-18 às 20:28, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson escreveu: Remove root's password from /etc/shadow in text editor of choice. This did not work last time I tried (2.4.17), This indicates an error in your method. Creating a null second field of /etc/shadow removes the user's password. It sure does, but it seems I have some configuration somewhere that does not allow users without a password: meaning nothing done in order to access the system. Michel. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self kmself@ix.netcom.comhttp://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of Gestalt don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org
Re: Few Simple Question
Em Ter, 2002-02-19 às 04:11, Gustavo Noronha Silva escreveu: On Mon, 18 Feb 2002 23:29:44 -0700 Francis Pineda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. What is the user base targeted? Is it simply geared towards the home-user looking for a free OS? Or is it geared more towards the power-user? From professionals to professionals, I don't think Debian is home-user-ready, but there're lots of people interested in working and helping on that direction (like me, for one)... today I'd say Debian is for the power-user 2. Where is Debian located? I understand there are over 800 distrubuters nationwide that communicate via e-mail and message boards. But is there a specific home to debian? distributers? I think the other repliers misunderstood this, or maybe I... or better... maybe you =) there aren't 800+ distributers, there are 800+ registered Debian Developers, which are persons offically working on Debian in a volunteer basis yes, there's home for Debian it's called earth by americans, some people say world to reference that home too... people around the globe have other names for that home as well... I usually call it 'mundo', or 'terra' =) And I don't know which nation he was talking about, the 800+ devellopers a scattered around debian's home: the world. (and that's only limited by the fact that no alien candidated yet :) ) Michel. Thank You very much and I look forward to joining the wonderful world of open source OS! be welcome []s! -- Gustavo Noronha Silva - kov http://www.metainfo.org/kov *-* -+-+--+-+--+-+--+-+--+-+--+-+--+-+--+-+--+-+--+-+-+ | .''`. | Debian GNU/Linux: http://www.debian.org | | : :' : + Debian BR...: http://debian-br.cipsga.org.br+ | `. `'` + Q: Why did the chicken cross the road? + | `-| A: Upstream's decision. -- hmh | *-* -+-+--+-+--+-+--+-+--+-+--+-+--+-+--+-+--+-+--+-+-+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Exim configuration
On Tue, 2002-02-19 at 11:07, R.Pac wrote: Hi all, how do I configure Exim with eximconfig if I'm behind a firewall ? is there something special to do ? If I want to use my ISP's smtp server ? or should I use exim as smpt server directly ? All depends on the rules of your firewall. Can you even run a mailserver behind your firewall (usually not) Michel. Best regards Pac. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OT: Web Standards
On Tue, 2002-02-19 at 15:29, Dave Sherohman wrote: On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 11:51:53AM -0600, Kent West wrote: So my question is this: Are the W3C standards insufficient to allow the web designers to do what they need to do, or is my co-worker missing a technique that he needs to know? I'll try not to start ranting here, but... You're asking the wrong question. HTML was originally conceived as a content description language, not a page layout language. A significant part of that identity is that the client displaying the HTML document is allowed to interpret it however it chooses, whether that means displaying frames seamlessley adjacent to each other (the IE default, based on my reading of your post), displaying frames with borders (the Netscape default, again based on my reading of your post), or even displaying each frame as a separate page (which is how lynx handles them). IMO, the majority of the web's current problems are the direct result of web designers and graphic artists deciding that they must have complete control over every detail of how their HTML pages appear to the end user, rather than allowing the user to tell his browser how he wants things. This leads to such monstrosities as pages which put bright yellow text on a white background (or other such invisible combinations) if you turn off loading of background images, text presented in Flyspeck 3pt if you don't have the right font installed, and, perhaps worst of all, sites that abandon HREF tags in favor of javascript event handlers that are functionally identical, aside from breaking if javascript is disabled. The entire concept of graceful degradation appears to have been forgotten. Odder still, we have arrived in a state where browser independent has somehow come to mean uses a variety of highly browser-specific techniques to ensure that it always looks the same rather than it doesn't care what browser you're using. (So much for trying not to rant...) Anyhow, to come back to the question you asked: No. If your objective is to create a page that looks the same no matter where it is viewed, standards-compliant HTML is not the appropriate tool for the job. Nonstandard HTML extensions may make it possible for you, Probably not. It will make it possible on a very reduced number of browsers (usually IE and/or Netscape), the others often will display the page, if they display it at all, in much awfuller manner as without your non-standard tags. Definitively a very bad choice. Michel. but if you really want/need absolute consistency, I've heard than PDF is a much better option. -- When we reduce our own liberties to stop terrorism, the terrorists have already won. - reverius Innocence is no protection when governments go bad. - Tom Swiss -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: eth0
Em Ter, 2002-02-19 às 17:14, Vaughan, Curtis escreveu: How do you configure, in this case eth0 to be DHCP dependent: i.e., how do I make it seek an IP during a boot? Likewise, how do I configure it for a permanent static IP? man interface Michel. Curtis
Re: eth0
snip However, if your ip is assigned dynamically through a dhcp server (like cable modems, for example), you should also install dhcpcd (apt-get install dhcpcd). Cable modem here and no dhcpd installed. It works fine. Why should I install a DHCP server ? Michel.
Re: X has died in sid
Em Seg, 2002-02-18 às 05:28, Patrick Kirk escreveu: Hi all, I'm having a rough time getting x to work in sid. My XFreelog is attached. In essence X fails to start because it cannot find a font called fixed. reinstall cfonts-75dpi xfonts-100dpi and xfonts-base But thats only the symptom of the bigger problem in that there is no utility to install X. XF86Setup is missing and xf86config is just not working. There is a debconf thing that install a first version of XF86Config-4 And usually even the simple method choosen at install time gives you nearly correct XF86Config-4 file which just needs some fine tuning. through vi /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 works great. Michel. All help appreciated. Patrick This is a pre-release version of XFree86, and is not supported in any way. Bugs may be reported to XFree86@XFree86.Org and patches submitted to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Before reporting bugs in pre-release versions, please check the latest version in the XFree86 CVS repository (http://www.XFree86.Org/cvs) XFree86 Version 4.1.0.1 / X Window System (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6510) Release Date: 21 December 2001 If the server is older than 6-12 months, or if your card is newer than the above date, look for a newer version before reporting problems. (See http://www.XFree86.Org/FAQ) Build Operating System: Linux 2.4.13 i686 [ELF] Module Loader present (==) Log file: /var/log/XFree86.0.log, Time: Sun Feb 17 23:28:31 2002 (==) Using config file: /root/XF86Config Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. (==) ServerLayout Simple Layout (**) |--Screen Screen 1 (0) (**) | |--Monitor t (**) | |--Device ati (**) |--Input Device Mouse1 (**) |--Input Device Keyboard1 (**) Option AutoRepeat 500 30 (**) Option XkbRules xfree86 (**) XKB: rules: xfree86 (**) Option XkbModel pc104 (**) XKB: model: pc104 (**) Option XkbLayout gb (**) XKB: layout: gb (==) Keyboard: CustomKeycode disabled (**) FontPath set to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/ (**) RgbPath set to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb (==) ModulePath set to /usr/X11R6/lib/modules (--) using VT number 7 (WW) Cannot open APM (II) Module ABI versions: XFree86 ANSI C Emulation: 0.1 XFree86 Video Driver: 0.4 XFree86 XInput driver : 0.2 XFree86 Server Extension : 0.1 XFree86 Font Renderer : 0.2 (II) Loader running on linux (II) LoadModule: bitmap (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libbitmap.a (II) Module bitmap: vendor=The XFree86 Project compiled for 4.1.0.1, module version = 1.0.0 Module class: XFree86 Font Renderer ABI class: XFree86 Font Renderer, version 0.2 (II) Loading font Bitmap (II) LoadModule: pcidata (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libpcidata.a (II) Module pcidata: vendor=The XFree86 Project compiled for 4.1.0.1, module version = 0.1.0 ABI class: XFree86 Video Driver, version 0.4 (II) PCI: Probing config type using method 1 (II) PCI: Config type is 1 (II) PCI: stages = 0x03, oldVal1 = 0x, mode1Res1 = 0x8000 (II) PCI: PCI scan (all values are in hex) (II) PCI: 00:00:0: chip 8086,7192 card , rev 03 class 06,00,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 00:05:0: chip 1002,4c49 card 1002,4c49 rev dc class 03,00,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 00:07:0: chip 8086,7110 card , rev 02 class 06,80,00 hdr 80 (II) PCI: 00:07:1: chip 8086,7111 card , rev 01 class 01,01,80 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 00:07:2: chip 8086,7112 card , rev 01 class 0c,03,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 00:07:3: chip 8086,7113 card , rev 02 class 06,80,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 00:08:0: chip 1180,0478 card 4000, rev 80 class 06,07,00 hdr 82 (II) PCI: 00:08:1: chip 1180,0478 card 4800, rev 80 class 06,07,00 hdr 82 (II) PCI: 00:0c:0: chip 125d,1978 card 144d,3230 rev 10 class 04,01,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 00:0d:0: chip 11c1,0442 card 144d,2105 rev 01 class 07,80,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: End of PCI scan (II) LoadModule: scanpci (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libscanpci.a (II) Module scanpci: vendor=The XFree86 Project compiled for 4.1.0.1, module version = 0.1.0 ABI class: XFree86 Video Driver, version 0.4 (II) UnloadModule: scanpci (II) Unloading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libscanpci.a (II) Host-to-PCI bridge: (II) Bus 0: bridge is at (0:0:0), (-1,0,0), BCTRL: 0x08 (VGA_EN is set) (II) Bus 0 I/O range: [0] -1 00x - 0x (0x1) IX[B] (II) Bus 0 non-prefetchable memory range: [0] -1 00x - 0x (0x0) MX[B] (II) Bus 0 prefetchable memory range: [0] -1 00x - 0x (0x0)
Re: X has died in sid
On Mon, 2002-02-18 at 10:27, Patrick Kirk wrote: reinstall cfonts-75dpi xfonts-100dpi and xfonts-base That was the firs tthing I did after searching on Google for similiar problems. No joy though. phasar:~# apt-get install xfonts-base xfonts-75dpi xfonts-100dpi Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Sorry, xfonts-base is already the newest version. Sorry, xfonts-75dpi is already the newest version. Sorry, xfonts-100dpi is already the newest version. 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. phasar:~# Which means you din t do anything. In order to reinstall you need apt-get install --reinstall package without the --reinstall it will not reinstall. There is a debconf thing that install a first version of XF86Config-4 And usually even the simple method choosen at install time gives you nearly correct XF86Config-4 file which just needs some fine tuning. through There is no reference to fixed fonts in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 so I don't understand how editting it will allow me to startx. HAve I misunderstood something or missed some basic detail? This was unrelated to the fonts problem, you were genrally complaining about the X installation. Michel. vi /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 works great. Michel. Fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed'
Re: Dell Optiplex Network
Em Seg, 2002-02-18 às 19:09, Dimitri Maziuk escreveu: * Alex Malinovich ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: On Mon, 2002-02-18 at 13:19, William Lacy wrote: I am having the same problem on two different computers. One is an Optiplex GX150 and one is a GX110. The problem is that the 3Com on board network does not detect in the debian install, the 110 has a 3C579 and the 150 a 3C509 from what I can tell. Both computers run fine with Red Hat. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Pardon me for asking an obvious question, but you did select the 3com Vortex drivers during install correct? Last time I tried woody netinst CD, there were no Vortex drivers except in udma-ext3 image. Of course, there isn't enough detail in OP to tell if he's inserting the CD right side up... The vortex driver is the 3c59x which is available as a module. Michel. Dima -- I like the US government, makes the Aussie one look less dumb and THAT is a pretty big effort. -- Craig Small -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: courier IMAP, removing Unmarked messages
Em Seg, 2002-02-18 às 19:08, Alex Malinovich escreveu: I'm sure there's a way to set up Courier to do it, but you really wouldn't want to. My old employer had a 30-day purging policy for mail, and I can't tell you how many pissed off users I had to deal with when they lost their mail. Outlook also has a very nice Auto-Archive function which can either purge messages for you, or move them to a backup folder. Of course, the best alternative is to get them all running GNU/Linux with Gnome or KDE and using Evolution, but that probably isn't going to happen... :) You would still have to do CTRL-E in order to effectively purge the deleted messages. This is a normal feature of IMAP to have 2 stages for deleting mails: first mark then purge. Michel. On Mon, 2002-02-18 at 15:58, Paul Miller wrote: Ugh. That's a real pain; users won't like that. There's gotta be a way Courier can do it. -Original Message- From: Alex Malinovich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 18, 2002 4:40 PM To: Paul Miller Cc: debian Subject: Re: courier IMAP, removing Unmarked messages On Mon, 2002-02-18 at 14:21, Paul Miller wrote: Hi all. I'm running a Courier-IMAP server. When users delete messages from Outlook, they are Unmarked and not moved to the trash. Is it possible to have Courier move these messages to the Trash automatically? It is really annoying when your inbox is filled with deleted messages. Thanks! -Paul Been a long time since I've used Outlook. If memory serves it's Edit, Purge Deleted Messages. :) -Alex -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: forgot root password AOL
Em Seg, 2002-02-18 às 20:28, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson escreveu: On Mon, 18 Feb 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please advise When you boot, it'll say LILO for a second before it says Loading Linux.. Hit CTRL when it says LILO. You'll get LILO boot: Type in linux init=/bin/bash Remove root's password from /etc/shadow in text editor of choice. This did not work last time I tried (2.4.17), so I did the following at that stage: copied my normal user line of shadow to the first line and changed the username to root, deleted the old root line. This way you can login as root with your normal user password and of course change it thereafter. Michel. You should now be able to run passwd and set your password again. -- Baloo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: strange vi
Em Seg, 2002-02-18 às 23:41, justin cunningham escreveu: dpkg -l | grep vi shows nvi 1.79-20. the potato's show 1.79-16a.1. ok, so if I use the letter keys instead how to I get to the end of a line of data then press return to enter a new line without taking the last character with me? Like usual A Michel Justin -Original Message- From: dman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of dman Sent: Monday, February 18, 2002 6:15 PM To: 'debian' Subject: Re: strange vi On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 12:39:08PM +1030, Tom Cook wrote: | justin cunningham wrote: | | Hi, I've s-l-o-w-l-y been building a woody machine in spare time and | noticed that I can't use the arrow keys to get around in vi. Is this | because the keyboard is misconfiged? I think I remember choosing the | default us qwerty as ok but I'm sshed into the machine from my laptop | and the arrow keys don't work. Though they work at the console. My | laptops arrow keys work via ssh on lots of potato machines so, what | gives? Regards, justin | | Can't help except to say that 'j' is up, 'k' is down, 'h' is left and | 'l' is right. That makes sense, doesn't it? ;-) It does once you put your hand on home row and see where the keys are (and forget about the screen printing on them). As for the arrow keys not working, which vi do you have? Surely it isn't 'vi' since that is copyright and only Sun systems have it. In vim, I have the following set : set esckeys allow cursor keys in insert mode The arrow keys work, but I never use them anyways. HTH, -D -- Your beauty should not come from outward adornment, such as braided hair and the wearing of gold jewelry and fine clothes. Instead, it should be that of your inner self, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is of GREAT WORTH in God's sight. For this is the way the holy women of the past used to make themselves beautiful. I Peter 3:3-5 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: iptables port fowarding?
Em Dom, 2002-02-17 às 20:55, Rick Pasotto escreveu: On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 03:43:25AM -0800, Jeremy T. Bouse wrote: On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 12:37:08AM -0500, Rick Pasotto wrote: How do I port forward with iptables? With ipchains the command was: ipmasqadm portfw -a -P tcp -L $extip $port -R $intip $port What I have in my firewall rules script built with Firewall Builder 1.0.0 (fwbuilder) to do port forwarding is: iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp -s SRC_IP -d EXT_IP --destination-port PORT -j DNAT --to-destination INT_IP:PORT This works very good... In fact all my machines are behind the firewall and only have what ports are forward'd in available... OK. Here is the rule I used: iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp -s 64.34.82.201 -d 192.168.0.1 --destination-port 2047 -j DNAT --to-destination 192.168.0.5:2047 When I activate the program on the windows box (192.168.0.5) tcpdump reports lots of hits on eth0 port 2047 but nothing on eth1 port 2047 and the program doesn't respond like it should. Your rule is for connections originating at ip 64.34.82.201 with destination to port 2047 on 192.168.0.1 which is nearly to impossible since the 192.168 is not visible to 64.34.82.201. + it seems you want to do somethin originating at 192.168.0.5 while this is the final destination of your routing. What you meant is probably any source (omit the -s) -d 64.34.82.201 (if this is the public IP of your frontend) remainder seems fine. What am I misunderstanding? Does it matter whether the SNAT (to do masquerading) or the DNAT rule comes first? No PREROUTING (dnat) is always treated before POSTROUTING (snat) Also, how do you list the nat chains? 'iptables -L' only lists the filter chains. iptables -L -t nat Michel. -- If each man has the right to defend, even by force, his person, his liberty, and his property, several men have the right to get together, come to an understanding, and organize a collective force to provide regularly for this defense. -- Frédéric Bastiat (1801-1850) Rick Pasotto[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.niof.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ifup eth0 -- but no connection! argh...
Em Sáb, 2002-02-16 às 04:49, will trillich escreveu:
On Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 08:02:29PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote:
also sprach will trillich [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
3c509 won't connect -- how do i poke and prod to
find out what's needed?
have you configured routing correctly? is there a packet filter? do
you have a default gateway? dns servers?
in order,
1) /etc/network/interfaces looks a lot like this:
# The loopback interface
iface lo inet loopback
# small sub-net (mask 248)
iface eth0 inet static
address 192.168.7.84
netmask 255.255.255.248
network 192.168.7.80
broadcast 192.168.7.87
gateway 192.168.7.81
missing the
netstat -rn
output
2) i've installed (apt-get) ipmasq, plain vanilla out of the
box (no tinkering with potato's ipchains other than that) and
If your network was not up and functionnal before installing ipmasq,
it is probably misconfigured. Flush everything and see if it works after
that.
iptables -F
iptables -P INPUT ACCEPT
iptables -P OUTPUT ACCEPT
Michel.
3) i've installed the 'task-dns' package, but as straight ip
addressing gets lost, i don't expect my dns to work properly
either.
on the other hand, my /etc/resolv.conf looks like:
nameserver 127.0.0.1
nameserver 63.64.9.19
nameserver 63.64.9.11
but the externals won't be reached until a ping can bounce,
right?
we need more info.
i thought that might be the case. i don't know enough to know
what direction to look in, so i didn't want to waste bandwidth
with random extranea. :)
like the output of ifconfig, route.
dang. it's at work, and not connected to anything (hence the
trouble) so cut and paste ain't so easy at the moment. i'll do
that next workday if i get a chance edgewise.
can you ping the NIC's own IP?
yes. 0% packet loss, at 0.1-0.2 ms each. newbiecurious -- it
sounds like information can be gleaned from that, and i'm
curious: how?/newbie
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Preparing to UPGRADE POSTGRESQL? If you have a second machine on
your network that you can tinker with, do your upgrade there,
first: once tested, you can just have your current applications
link to the remote database through the network:
psql -h 192.168.2.17 myDB
or in perl,
$dbh = DBI-connect('dbi:Pg:dbname=myDB;host=192.168.2.17');
(You may need to tweak your 'host-based access' settings in
/etc/postgresql/pg_hba.conf, first.) Once you're satisfied that
all is well, upgrade your main server. No down time!
See man psql and man DBD::Pg for details.
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Re: 486 SX
Em Sex, 2002-02-15 às 20:54, Gerard Robin escreveu: On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 02:54:47PM +, Gerard Robin wrote: On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 06:45:59PM +0100, Johannes Franken wrote: On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 06:16:18PM +, Gerard Robin wrote: ... and so I must install linux with diskets 1.44, but I have two questions: is it possible to do it ? Installing debian from floppy disks is no problem at all. And if it's possible how can I do this. Get the 6 disk-images from your local debian mirror, e.g. ftp://ftp.debian.org/pub/debian/dists/woody/main/disks-i386/current/images-1.44/*.bin dd if=file.bin of=/dev/fd0 smack the one that got rescue.bin into drive A:, reboot, and there you go. -- Johannes Franken Professional unix/network development mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jfranken.de/ Thanks to all those who give me some advices. I downloaded the 6 diskets 1.44 driver1 2 and all worked fine until I get Next: install base system. I put driver1-bin in the floppy but I got this anser: wrong disk you need disk1 of series the base series. Where are the disks of the base series ? At the same place you got the driverxx.bin there are basexx.bin But there is another solution depending on your type of internet connection: you can download the base directly from the web, just choose that option. At least that option exists if you have a NIC (be it through a cable modem or direct connection) Michel. I have another question: I had created 3 partition : hda1: boot, 4 Mb hda2: swap, 4 Mb hda3: 81 Mb Confirme is what I have done is relatively suitable. I can put hda1=40 Mb and hda2=8 Mb for my disk is too small. -- Gerard PS. 4 Mb of RAM is not enough I had to put 8 Mb to make it work. Perhaps it's possible with slink but not with potato. (on my machine 486 SX daewoo) -- Gerard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: can't connect to samba shares from 'doze
Em Qui, 2002-02-14 às 05:24, stonelx escreveu: Hi Tom, Check that you have encrypted passwords set to yes. testparm |grep encrypt enter hth, Mike And don t forget the obvious: all users that want to access their directories must have been added with smbpasswd on the host system using the ID and PASSWD they have on the client. Michel. Quoting Tom Cook [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi all, I am running samba 2.0.8 on a potato system. I have samba shares set up on my linux machine, and from another linux machine 'smbclient -L pinky' reports this: Domain=[NEW] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 2.0.8] Sharename Type Comment - --- homes Disk Home Directories printers Printer All Printers IPC$ IPC IPC Service (pinky server (Samba 2.0.8)) lp Printer Generic dot-matrix printer entry tkcook Disk Home Directories Server Comment ---- PINKYpinky server (Samba 2.0.8) WorkgroupMaster ---- NEW So, so far as I can see, the smbd configuration is good. But when I attempt to connect from a windoze box, so my users can see their UNIX home dirs, I get problems. When I try to list available shares I get an authentication failure, and I keep on getting it no matter what username and password I put in, except guest, which gives the error 'account currently disabled'. I have done nothing to disable this account, and I can see no line in the smb.conf file that might disable it. Has anyone come across this before? Tom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Exim Cron problem
On Thu, 2002-02-14 at 13:30, David Frey wrote: I am getting this message from cron everyday: /etc/cron.daily/exim: chown: getting attributes of `/var/log/exim/mainlog.new': No such file or directory chmod: getting attributes of `/var/log/exim/mainlog.new': No such file or directory mv: cannot stat `/var/log/exim/mainlog.new': No such file or directory Any idea why this is going on? your /etc/cron.daily/exim file is not adapted to your way of logging exim. You possibly answered N, while upgrading exim, for the replacement of this file. I fthis is the case you should have a /etc/cron.daily/exim.dpkg* file. Just copy it to /etc/cron.daily/exim Michel. /var/log/exim# ls -lh total 2.2M -rw-r-2 mail adm 876k Feb 14 07:23 mainlog -rw-r-2 mail adm 876k Feb 14 07:23 mainlog.0 -rw-r-1 mail adm 70k Feb 14 06:23 mainlog.1.gz -rw-r-1 mail adm 55k Feb 13 06:24 mainlog.2.gz -rw-r-1 mail adm 45k Feb 12 06:23 mainlog.3.gz -rw-r-1 mail adm 39k Feb 11 06:23 mainlog.4.gz -rw-r-1 mail adm 36k Feb 10 06:23 mainlog.5.gz -rw-r-1 mail adm 33k Feb 9 06:23 mainlog.6.gz -rw-r-1 mail adm 29k Feb 8 06:23 mainlog.7.gz -rw-r-1 mail adm 25k Feb 7 06:23 mainlog.8.gz -rw-r-1 mail adm 22k Feb 6 06:23 mainlog.9.gz -rw-r-1 mail adm 0 Oct 31 06:26 rejectlog -rw-r-1 mail adm 173 Oct 30 19:35 rejectlog.0 Thanks, David Frey -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Strange System Hour
On Thu, 2002-02-14 at 08:30, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: Hi all, I installed squirrelmail (from .tgz) in a Debian potato server and use Exim and IMAP servers. I use BRST (GMT -2) timezone in this machine. Exim is sending remote and local mail fine. All is good but when I send mail using squirrelmail the time comes at GMT time and two hours later. For ex.: with exim: Delivery-date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 08:25:17 -0200 Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 08:25:17 -0200 with squirrelmail: Delivery-date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 08:27:04 -0200 Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 10:27:04 - (GMT) What can be wrong? Nothing seems wrong, the 2 times are equal: 8:27 BRST is 10:27 GMT normally the MUAs will anyway to translate it into their local times. Michel. TIA,PH -- Paulo Henrique B de Oliveira Gerente de Operações - Linux Solutions - http://www.linuxsolutions.com.br O maior conteúdo de Linux em língua portuguesa - OLinux - http://www.olinux.com.br (21) 2526-7262 ramal 31 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installing Majordomo
On Thu, 2002-02-14 at 15:58, Bodnyk, Bruce W wrote: Hi, I'm trying to get the latest version of majordomo running on Debian GNU/Linux 2.2. The install seemed to go OK but nothing happens when I send anything to the list. When I login as majordomo I find there are mail messages in its mailbox. I noticed when I did a man page on sendmail that Linux is using exim instead. Does anyone know whether majordomo will work with exim? Should I be using another version of sendmail? majordomo works fine with exim and with sendmail, but it definitively is somehow complicated to configure. Be sure you read all READMEs. It seems you did not install the necessary aliases in the alias file and/or did nor run newaliases in order to update sendmail's internal alias file. If mailman is available in stable go fot it much easier to use as majordomo Michel. Thanks! Bruce Bruce W. Bodnyk Staff Engineer, CAE Development FCI Electronics 825 Old Trail Road Etters, PA 17319-9351 Phone: (717) 938-7543 Fax: (717) 938-7224 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: can't connect to samba shares from 'doze
Em Qui, 2002-02-14 às 22:15, Tom Cook escreveu: Michel Loos wrote: Em Qui, 2002-02-14 às 05:24, stonelx escreveu: Hi Tom, Check that you have encrypted passwords set to yes. testparm |grep encrypt enter hth, Mike And don t forget the obvious: all users that want to access their directories must have been added with smbpasswd on the host system using the ID and PASSWD they have on the client. Michel. Thanks Michel and Mike for your suggestions. Here is what I've come up with: $ testparm | grep encrypt encrypt passwords = Yes update encrypted = No Is this second option correct? From what I can understand from the docs it is right so long as I don't have very old clients, and all of my clients are NT 4.0. Also all of this should be irrelevant, I think, since I can't even browse the server as the guest account (except from a UNIX box, it works fine there) and that is what I think is a good first goal. But I can't figure out why I can connect from a UNIX box as guest with no password, but not from an NT box. I have tried enabling the guest account on the NT box to no avail. AFAIK NT always sends a password even if there is none he will send a ''. Have you setup a valid samba accounts with smbpasswd ? Usually checking your logs /var/log/smb helps a lot in resolving such problems. Michel. Tom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Emulate real ip's to access intranet hosts from outside
Em Qua, 2002-02-13 às 12:31, Ramon Acedo escreveu: Hi again! Thanks for your quickly answers, I think I hadn't explained enough clearly in the first mail. The problem is the following: I have a SINGLE public ip with an associated domain. In that host I have a DNS server, mail server, web, etc. The important point is at the DNS. What i'd like to do is that the firewall forward all the packets independently of the destiny port, which can be any, to a host of the intranet with a private ip. This is simply impossible: outside of your network you have only one address, and only this machine can be accessed from the outside on all its ports. What is possible is to forward specific services to the inside, or to use unused ports (by you) and to forward them to specific ports to the inside. For ex. 22 ssh of frontend, 222 redirect to port 22 of inside host2, to inside host3 etc. I am using such a configuration on one intranets: it works (well sort of because from the outside world (out of institution) the general firewall will block those ports.) The rule for decide which packets go to what host in the intranet is the name that the client refered to. Example: when I do a ftp to ftp.mydomain.net my DNS server would forward the request to the host 192.168.1.10. I'd like to have a map like this: ftp1.mydomain.net --- 192.168.1.10 ftp2.mydomain.net --- 192.168.1.50 www1.mydomain.net --- 192.168.1.12 www2.mydomain.net --- 192.168.1.33 and so on But Actually in the internet all that names lookup to 213.1.2.3 and of course the 192.168.x.x is never seen from the internet Yes and that is exactly your problem: you will have to do some port forwarding on your official ip. Michel. I know that apache can manage vhosts and I could redirect to a intranet host all the web traffic coming to www2.mydomain.org, the same can be done with wu-ftp or proftp where u can have multiple domains/dubdomains and have different ftp root directorys depending on the name the client used to contact it, and then I could set that roots pointing to nfs mounted directories of the internal net, but what I'd like is that all the traffic forward would depend on the name used by the client. As I said it's not a port forwarding matter it would be a program which could manage domain name vhosts and do some kind of bridging / forwarding to the intranet depending on the name the client reffered. So the idea is to emulate lots of real ips with just 1 public ip and 1 domain with all the subdomains I'd need. Uh! I hope to have been clear enough this time, my English is not perfect (I'm Spanish) so please let me know if u got the idea, ok? Thanks a lot guys! Ramon Acedo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 486 SX
Em Qua, 2002-02-13 às 15:40, Mark Janssen escreveu: On Wed, 2002-02-13 at 19:16, Gerard Robin wrote: hello, I have the oppotunity to get hold of few omputers 486 SX (33Mz, 25Mz, hard disk = 89 Mb or 127 Mb) before they go to the rubbish. It will be a really painful and slow task... but it'll work... provided they have some decent amount of memory (8 being the bare minimum... 16 works good) I must disagree here, worked for me on 386 with 4MB RAM, just forget about any graphical interface and it really works fine. Michel. I wanted install the minimum of linux for the mail (exim, mutt, fetchmail, procmail, etc..) but my CD-ROM drive is ignored by the bios of these machines and so I must install linux with diskets 1.44, but I have two questions: is it possible to do it ? And if it's possible how can I do this. Can someone help me or point the documentation in this matter. Just did it a few weeks ago on my old 486/66 :) Just dd all the rescue and base disk images from the installation cd to 1.44M floppies... the installation guides itself. After getting network online just do the rest from there... it's faster Mark
Re: gkrellm and imaps
Em Qua, 2002-02-13 às 03:04, Vineet Kumar escreveu: * Michel Loos ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020212 16:47]: Hi, continuing around e-mail applications with imaps:) Is there any way to use gkrellm with an imaps server ? Seems the buildin mail application does not work and I was unable to configure mailwatch for external mailboxes (imap or imaps). My favorite general-purpose imap/ssl solution has been stunnel. I just created an /etc/init.d/stunnel that starts a listener on localhost:imap and proxies connections to my mail server's imaps port. Then I configure all my applications to use localhost:imap and everything happens transparently. (apt-get install stunnel) Thanks a lot, it worked just fine. Michel. -- Currently seeking opportunities in the SF Bay Area Please see http://www.doorstop.net/resume/ -- I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. --Beatrice Hall, The Friends of Voltaire, 1906
Re: 486 SX
Em Qua, 2002-02-13 às 21:49, Seneca Cunningham escreveu: Michel Loos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Em Qua, 2002-02-13 às 15:40, Mark Janssen escreveu: On Wed, 2002-02-13 at 19:16, Gerard Robin wrote: hello, I have the oppotunity to get hold of few omputers 486 SX (33Mz, 25Mz, hard disk = 89 Mb or 127 Mb) before they go to the rubbish. It will be a really painful and slow task... but it'll work... provided they have some decent amount of memory (8 being the bare minimum... 16 works good) I must disagree here, worked for me on 386 with 4MB RAM, just forget about any graphical interface and it really works fine. Do think it is possible for me to get it onto my 386 with 1M RAM? I can do my own compiling on a pentium, but I would need to get it onto 1.2M floppies (I can't get into my 386's BIOS, so it can't boot off of its 1.4M drive (only the 1.2M or harddrive)). I know that the results could be somewhat slow, but anything is faster (and more stable) than watching it labour through windoze. I don't even have most of the DOS commands (fixing a corrupt floppy, and the harddrive was overwritten with floppy info instead of the floppy). With a 400MB HD, yes it will run potato with basic stuff. And if you used to it with win3.11 you will feel it flies with debian. This gives a reasonable non-graphic terminal, for mail and remote connection/monitoring. Michel.
Re: dselect and resolving
Em Ter, 2002-02-12 às 00:32, Richard Cobbe escreveu: Lo, on Monday, February 11, John Cichy did write: Hello all, It seems the dselect ignores the host file when updating it's lists. I have a debian mirror in my DMZ and have added an entry in my hosts file to use an internal address to access the mirror, but it seems that dselect is ignoring that entry and trying the public address instead. Does anyone know how to make dselect look at the hosts file, my host.conf has the entry : order hosts,bind so I would think that it would resolve to the address in the host file. I'm not entirely sure how this works, but there's a very good chance that /etc/nsswitch.conf is more significant than /etc/host.conf. What does the `hosts' line say from nsswitch.conf? I am not sure this is the problem. Since when using mirror you get an error, you will get the same error by using the enterprise.com from your hosts file, since the name to IP resolution is done locally the result will be exactly the same. After getting that error apt-get will assume wrong address and begin solving using the second option: dns and connect to the public server. Anyway since you can't get in your server with the name mirror: you will not be able to use it. Put the server back in the inside zone and not in the DMZ. Michel.
Re: dselect and resolving
Em Ter, 2002-02-12 às 00:29, John Cichy escreveu: On Monday 11 February 2002 21:32, Richard Cobbe wrote: Lo, on Monday, February 11, John Cichy did write: Hello all, It seems the dselect ignores the host file when updating it's lists. I have a debian mirror in my DMZ and have added an entry in my hosts file to use an internal address to access the mirror, but it seems that dselect is ignoring that entry and trying the public address instead. Does anyone know how to make dselect look at the hosts file, my host.conf has the entry : order hosts,bind so I would think that it would resolve to the address in the host file. I'm not entirely sure how this works, but there's a very good chance that /etc/nsswitch.conf is more significant than /etc/host.conf. What does the `hosts' line say from nsswitch.conf? hosts files dns John A stupid question are you able to connect with lynx to your virtual host ? Seems your internal router/firewall has problems with name based virtual hosting. Michel.
Re: dselect and resolving
http://enterprisepenguin.com/distributions/debian/ and dselect tries to connect to my public IP for enterprisepenguin.com rather then the LOCAL IP in the hosts file. That is not the correct way to do it, name it anything else (mirror for ex.) and update the /etc/apt/sources.list file to point to this address. I think I found your solution: change the setup of your virtual server in order to inclue a ServerPath /distributions directive in the VirtualHost definition take a look at http://httpd.apache.org/docs/vhosts/name-based.html Michel.
xv: vanished from unstable
Hi, I noticed today that xv is no longer available in unstable. What is the replacement package ? Michel.
libgnutls.so.3
Where do I find the libgnutls.so.3 library needed by mutt in order to connect to an imaps server ? Thanks Michel.
Re: LILO other=/dev/hda6 (boot logical partition)
Em Ter, 2002-02-12 às 20:34, Jeff escreveu: Robin Rowe, 2002-Feb-12 11:00 -0800: Hi. I need to install Win2k on a PC that has only logical partitions available. /dev/hda1 Linux /dev/hda2 Swap /dev/hda3 Win2k /dev/hda4 Extended /dev/hda5 Linux /dev/hda6 Win2k (new) I can't get LILO to boot the second Win2k partition. It just hangs there with no error message. If I use table=/dev/hda in my lilo.conf 'other' spec then lilo objects Fatal: Partition entry not found. It seems that LILO doesn't like to boot Win2k from logical partitions, although ntldr, reportedly xosl, and maybe grub will. Is there a fix to make LILO do this? I couldn't find a LILO mailing list to ask this question. Is there one? Thanks! Robin From what I've heard, Windows has to be within the first 1024 blocks of the HDD to be able to boot. I don't know why, and I assume this goes for all versions of Windows. What probably is happening is LILO is handing off to the hda6 partition to boot and W2K is sayin' nah-uh, can't do it. If this is indeed the case, you're going to need to move Windows closer to the front of the HDD. As far as I know Windows can only boot from a primary partition. Since you have more then 4 partitions some must be secondary partition: you won t be able to boot windows from them. I am not even sure that you can toggle the bootable flag on a secondary partition? Michel.
Re: building mutt SSL deb package (configure error)
Em Ter, 2002-02-12 às 22:09, Nick Jennings escreveu:
FYI - Please CC me in reponse, as I am not subscribed to the list. Thanks.
Hello,
I am running woody (testing) and trying to get together a mutt-ssl
package. I have read the README.Debian concerning this in the
mutt package.
I downloaded the source:
# apt-get source mutt
Uncommented the appropriate like in the debian/rules file for SSL.
Then, ran
# dpkg-buildpackage -b [EMAIL PROTECTED]
It came up with a list of dependencies (gnutls{-dev} being one of
them). So I installed all of the required packages using dselect.
However, the mutt version in woody (1.3.27) depends on gnutls
v0.3.5, and woody's gnutls package is only at 0.2.x
So I grabbed the sid package for gnutls gnutls-dev and installed
them with no additional dependencies. However, mutt still refuses
to build, now I am getting an error about Unable to find SSL library
when I have every dependency listed installed.
~/dev/deb-src/mutt/mutt-1.3.27# dpkg-buildpackage -b [EMAIL PROTECTED]
dpkg-buildpackage: source package is mutt
dpkg-buildpackage: source version is 1.3.27-2
dpkg-buildpackage: host architecture is i386
... snip ...
checking where to put the documentation... /usr/share/doc
checking for socklen_t... yes
checking for gethostent... yes
checking for setsockopt... yes
checking for getaddrinfo... yes
checking for X509_new in -lcrypto... no
configure: error: Unable to find SSL library
make[1]: *** [source.command] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/nick/dev/deb-src/mutt/mutt-1.3.27'
make: *** [debian/stampdir/configure] Error 2
~/dev/deb-src/mutt/mutt-1.3.27#
Any ideas on what i'm missing in order to build mutt with SSL?
Also, I'd like to know how to add an extension to the package
name/version so that I can differentiate this package from the
standard debian package, like:
* Package: mutt-ssl
Status: install ok installed
Priority: standard
Section: non-US
Installed-Size: 3376
* Maintainer: Nick Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* Version: 1.3.27-2_ssl
? Replaces: mutt-i
Provides: mail-reader
? Depends: libc6 (= 2.2.4-4), libncurses5 (= 5.2.20010310-1), libsasl7,
exim | mail-transport-agent
FYI - Please CC me in reponse, as I am not subscribed to the list. Thanks.
I have no idea how to build it, but the image in non-us/unstable works
out of the box.
Michel.
gkrellm and imaps
Hi, continuing around e-mail applications with imaps:) Is there any way to use gkrellm with an imaps server ? Seems the buildin mail application does not work and I was unable to configure mailwatch for external mailboxes (imap or imaps). Thanks Michel.
Re: dangling symlink
Em Ter, 2002-02-12 às 22:37, Ron Johnson escreveu: On Tue, 12 Feb 2002 12:40:34 -0800 ben [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 12 February 2002 12:08 pm, Ron Johnson wrote: On Tue, 12 Feb 2002 12:00:08 -0800 ben [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: how does one go about repairing a dangling symlink? e.g.: # man kdm man: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/kdm.1.gz is a dangling symlink No manual entry for kdm maybe someone deleted the file /usr/share/man/man1/kdm.1.gz (or if /usr/share/man/man1/kdm.1.gz is/was a symlink, the file that was pointed to by). What happens if you do: $ ls -aFl /usr/share/man/man1/kdm.1.gz # ls -aFl /usr/share/man/man1/kdm.1.gz lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 25 Jan 28 17:01 /usr/share/man/man1/kdm.1.gz - ../man7/undocumented.7.gz the 2nd and 3rd lines above are on one line in the console. is the assumption correct that this means the man pages i was searching for failed to install? Does /usr/share/man/man7/undocumented.7.gz exist? Sounds like a strange name... Yes it exists: it says you that the program is undocumented :) not very usefull: kdm as no man documentation anyway Michel.
Re: dselect and resolving
Em Seg, 2002-02-11 às 13:50, John Cichy escreveu: Hello all, It seems the dselect ignores the host file when updating it's lists. I have a debian mirror in my DMZ and have added an entry in my hosts file to use an internal address to access the mirror, but it seems that dselect is ignoring that entry and trying the public address instead. Does anyone know how to make dselect look at the hosts file, my host.conf has the entry : order hosts,bind so I would think that it would resolve to the address in the host file. TIA, John Did you add your mirror in the /etc/apt/sources.list ? If you did, apt-get update (or dselect - update) should check your mirror. Usually they still will connect to the public server for download since probably your mirror is not as uptodate as the public server Michel.
Re: dselect and resolving
Em Seg, 2002-02-11 às 21:19, John Cichy escreveu: On Monday 11 February 2002 18:15, Osamu Aoki wrote: On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 08:43:25PM -0200, Michel Loos wrote: Em Seg, 2002-02-11 ?s 13:50, John Cichy escreveu: Hello all, It seems the dselect ignores the host file when updating it's lists. I have a debian mirror in my DMZ and have added an entry in my hosts file to use an internal address to access the mirror, but it seems that dselect is ignoring that entry and trying the public address instead. Does anyone know how to make dselect look at the hosts file, my host.conf has the entry : order hosts,bind so I would think that it would resolve to the address in the host file. Did you add your mirror in the /etc/apt/sources.list ? If you did, apt-get update (or dselect - update) should check your mirror. For dselect, apt-get update is not enough. You need to make sure to run dselect update. That what previous post by a debian developer, as I remember. Usually they still will connect to the public server for download since probably your mirror is not as uptodate as the public server This machine was built on the private network from my mirror, not from the the public server. The problem is that now that the machine is in the DMZ it is it is using my dns which is resolving to the public address, not what is in it's hosts file. Let me get that right: your mirror is named http.us.debian.org in your hosts file? That is not the correct way to do it, name it anything else (mirror for ex.) and update the /etc/apt/sources.list file to point to this address. Michel.
Re: dselect and resolving
Em Seg, 2002-02-11 às 21:42, John Cichy escreveu: On Monday 11 February 2002 18:40, Michel Loos wrote: Em Seg, 2002-02-11 às 21:19, John Cichy escreveu: On Monday 11 February 2002 18:15, Osamu Aoki wrote: On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 08:43:25PM -0200, Michel Loos wrote: Em Seg, 2002-02-11 ?s 13:50, John Cichy escreveu: Hello all, It seems the dselect ignores the host file when updating it's lists. I have a debian mirror in my DMZ and have added an entry in my hosts file to use an internal address to access the mirror, but it seems that dselect is ignoring that entry and trying the public address instead. Does anyone know how to make dselect look at the hosts file, my host.conf has the entry : order hosts,bind so I would think that it would resolve to the address in the host file. Did you add your mirror in the /etc/apt/sources.list ? If you did, apt-get update (or dselect - update) should check your mirror. For dselect, apt-get update is not enough. You need to make sure to run dselect update. That what previous post by a debian developer, as I remember. Usually they still will connect to the public server for download since probably your mirror is not as uptodate as the public server This machine was built on the private network from my mirror, not from the the public server. The problem is that now that the machine is in the DMZ it is it is using my dns which is resolving to the public address, not what is in it's hosts file. Let me get that right: your mirror is named http.us.debian.org in your hosts file? No, my host file contains an entry for: enterprisepenguin.com LOCAL IP my sources.list file has entries: http://enterprisepenguin.com/distributions/debian/ and dselect tries to connect to my public IP for enterprisepenguin.com rather then the LOCAL IP in the hosts file. In fact it the same thing use another name in your hosts file and point sources.list to that one, this works at least if your DMZ zone accept port 80 connections to your mirror from inside. I have the same sort of set-up. You can even use an IP in sources.list instead of a hostname. If there is still a problem it comes from your second router. Michel.
Re: * Re: ADSL with woody or what is this newbie doing completly wrong?
Em Dom, 2002-02-10 às 18:28, Brendan J Simon escreveu: Hi Stefan, The only way I can get my ADSL link to work is to do and ifdown ethX first then followed by a pon dsl-provider. It will not start automatically at boot so I manually run the following script. poff dsl-provider route del default ifconfig eth0 down pon dsl-provider I'm not sure if it will solve your problem but it works for me. I wish it would work from a reboot. Maybe someone on the list can give me some clues. is your /etc/network/interfaces correctly configured ? there should be auto eth0 iface eth0 inet ppp provider dsl-provider assuming that dsl-provider is in /etc/ppp/peers Michel.
Re: Where to put dns server default gateway address ?
Em Dom, 2002-02-10 às 13:56, faisal gillani escreveu: Hello list i have just installed debian 2.2 on my system ..i was very impress by the simple setup program configuration ... i only want to know where to put dns server default gateway address ? DNS goes into /etc/resolv.conf gateway into /etc/network/interfaces (if you have a static ip) last line of the subgroup iface eth0 inet static is something like gateway xxx.yyy.zzz.ttt Michel thanks Faisal newbie __ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE Valentine eCards with Yahoo! Greetings! http://greetings.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: /boot/boot.b irretrievably gone - help?
Em Dom, 2002-02-10 às 14:03, Liam Black escreveu: Hi, I had my boot.b file on a second hard drive mounted to /boot. That hard drive is now thoroughly dead, and my system won't boot without the use of a rescue disk. I've gone through the LILO documentation, and while I find numerous references to the boot.b file, none of them seem to deal with how to create it (This might just be a case of information overload making me miss something quite obvious). My entire /boot directory is wiped, so if anything else is essential, I will have to recreate that, as well. Can anybody extend a helping hand on this? When I rescue root=/dev/hda1 from the Rescue disk everything works absolutely fine, so I'm guessing this isn't a huge problem. I just don't want to turn it into one with my as-yet uninformed fiddling. Either you recompile your kernel or you install a new kernel-image Michel.
Re: date reset on a /dev/ file
Em Dom, 2002-02-10 às 23:36, ben escreveu: On Sunday 10 February 2002 05:14 pm, Matthew Dalton wrote: ben wrote: one if my /dev/ files has a mysterious date of 0 april 2001. has anyone had this before. can i/should i manually reset that, and, if so, how is it done? Are you sure you're reading the ls output right? In my /dev directory I have an entry: brw-rw1 root disk 13, 0 Feb 23 1999 xda The '0' here is the minor number. It has nothing to do with the date. If you are reading the ls output correctly though, you could try changing the date with touch /dev/file. thanks for the response, matthew. yeah, i was reading it correctly. touch does change the date but doesn't affect the inability to cat the file. cat still claims that it doesn't exist even though ls sees it. It is not a file it is a device, if there is nothing connected to it cat will give you that exact answer no such file or DEVICE Michel. ben -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: groups
Em Sáb, 2002-02-09 às 15:57, Dimitri Maziuk escreveu: * Greg Murphy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: I recently switched from slackware to debian. Under slack, when users were added they were defaultly added to the group users. I see debian gives each user his/her own group. 1. Why did debian adopt this method? ISTR that it was discussed way back... Try searching old debian-devel archives maybe? Basically, Unix ugo permissions suck -- they were OK in 1975 when computers weren't fast enough to support better security mechanisms, but in 2002 they're simly not fine-grained enough. Back to multics where the access control was really fine-grained Michel.
Evolution and Konqueror
Hi, I would like to use konqueror as the default browser (instead of netscape) when I click on a hyperlink in a mail message (using Evolution) How can I configure this? Michel.
Re: Evolution and Konqueror
Em Dom, 2002-02-10 às 02:03, Michel Loos escreveu: Hi, I would like to use konqueror as the default browser (instead of netscape) when I click on a hyperlink in a mail message (using Evolution) How can I configure this? Michel. Answering my own question, obviously I asked for help to soon. create a ~/.gnome/gnome-moz-remote file with the following content: [Mozilla] filename=konqueror and this even when using kde2 and not gnome Michel.
Re: iF locales 2.2.5-2
Em Qua, 2002-02-06 às 01:29, Thedore Knab escreveu: I recently did an apt-get dist-upgrade on 2 [ unstable ] systems. Both had problem with the new unstable locales. Is this a bug or is there a way around it ? This was a bug, it is corrected since yesterday. Workaround: put a second line (besides LANG=) in /etc/environment upgrade without error and remove the line if you have no use for it. Michel. My error: debian:/home/tjk# apt-get dist-upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Calculating Upgrade... Done The following packages have been kept back g++-3.0 gcc-3.0 libstdc++3-dev ndtpd 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 4 not upgraded. 1 packages not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Setting up locales (2.2.5-2) ... Generating locales... en_US.ISO-8859-1... done Generation complete. dpkg: error processing locales (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: locales E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) Ted Knab -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: connecting to a debian box with networking via dchp
On Wed, 2001-12-26 at 21:13, Ray wrote: On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 01:07:12PM -0500, Faheem Mitha wrote: Dear People, I set up the networking for a Debian box via dchp. The setup asks for a host and that is all. No domain name was asked for. Right, DHCP can feed your machine everything it needs to know about the network. The internet link is running, but how do I connect to the box via ssh from outside? I've looked at various bits of documentation including the DCHP howto, but they all seem focused on getting the connection up, which I had no problems with. Also, is it true that I can call the hostname anything I like? You could but reverse DNS won't work right and some services/computers may not talk to you. This is actually pretty rare but it could happen. This machine is part of the Unversity of North Carolina network. According to the windows setup it has a domain name (some_gibberish.unc.edu) and host name (SM103C27513) attached to it. I obediently named my box SM103C27513 (ugh) and tried pinging SM103C27513.some_gibberish.unc.edu but predicably got no reply. You tried this from where? Inside the university or outside? What's the output of ifconfig look like? One way to resolve this of course would not to use DCHP but use a static IP address, domain etc. But would this be better or worse? That won't help you. Is there another machine near you that you can check? If you can find out it's hostname, domain name, and IP address you should try pinging it. You should also try pinging your machine from this other nearby machine using your IP address (as displayed in ifconfig) rather than your host name. How stable is your IP ? I use DHCP and my IP changes in avergae every 3 monthes. If it is the same for you just memorize your IP and access your machine through its IP. If you access it from another machine where ypou have root access, just put its IP/name in /etc/hosts. Michel
Re: 3c905c
On Thu, 2001-12-27 at 14:51, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: Hi! I run myself potato in another machine with a 3c509B without any problem! But I am asking about the 3c905c, this one doesn't appear in the net section of the Debian installation program... I can try with the 3c509 driver and see... The driver you need is the 3c59x Michel. Cheers, Marcelo On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 05:42:41PM +0100, wsa wrote: I have a 3c509 and it works peachy...i'm running 2.2r4and if i recall right it also went fine with .r2 without me having to download 3rd party stuff. cheers Willem At 08:33 27-12-2001 -0800, you wrote: On Thursday 27 December 2001 08:17 am, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: I will install potato in a machine which have the 3c905c-tx NIC installed. The Debian install program (for 2.2.r2 in my case) doesn't suppot it. It doesn't? Are you sure? I haven't used a 3c905 w/ Potato in a while, but I'm pretty sure the 3c509 driver works just fine with it. --kurt -- Marcelo Chiapparini DFT-IF/UERJ [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cyrus 1.5.19 and Imap::Admin
On Thu, 2001-12-27 at 20:50, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote:
I am not able to login to Cyrus using Imap::Admin perl module.
Are there any special config's I need in cyrus.conf ...? The docs
don't mention any.
use IMAP::Admin;
$imap = IMAP::Admin-new('Server' = 'myserver',
'Login' = 'myname',
'Password' = 'foobar'
);
@list = $imap-list(user.bob0;
$imap-close;
gives error
IMAP::Admin [ initialize]: try NO Login incorrect
Are you able to connect using cyradm as yourself and your passwd ?
Michel.
Re: scientific graphing program with histograms
On Thu, 2001-12-27 at 23:10, David Wright wrote:
Can anyone suggest a scientific graphing program that can do histograms.
* i don't know if guppi can, but there is no debian package
* grace claims it can, but it lies. it wants you to import a list of
(X,Y)s and then generate a histogram of Ys.\
A histogram-generator imports a list of Ys (i.e. just one number per
line) and generates a histogram.
I use grace and it works fine just od an
awk '{print NR,$1}' filename newfile
in order to create your Xs
Michel.
I don't care if the program has a GUI or is command-line driven.
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Re: Iptables scripts
On Sun, 2001-12-23 at 16:37, Pollywog wrote: On 2001.12.23 18:15 Brian Nelson wrote: Daniel Toffetti [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi all ! I need to set up some simple (to start with) iptables rules for masquerading and port forwarding. I guess I need to write some init script, put it in /etc/init.d/ and link it from some /etc/rcX.d/ Can somebody please point me to some specific documentation and example scripts ?? For some reason, no one pointed out the Debian package ipmasq, which installs the necessary init.d scripts and allows you to setup your rules. Thanks for mentioning it; I could not think of the name of the package and was unable to find it, but I knew such a thing existed. Last time I checked ipmasq was installing ipchains rules, not iptables Michel.
Re: Printing to HP Laserjet 1100
On Thu, 2001-12-13 at 10:31, Pedro Zorzenon Neto wrote: Hi all, I have a HP Laserjet 1100 printer. It works ok with magicfilter. In the Debian machine with magicprinter, it prints about 2 pages per minute. Using the driver that came with it, in a machine with other Pseudo-OS that I wont say the name here :-) it prints 8 pages per minute. I am using the same 600x600 resolution in both tests. What are you printing (and how did you configure your printer)? actual transformation from file format to printer language is done by a large variety of programs depending on the format of your file and the way you want to use your printer It seems that the faster driver implements some data compression and data is sent quickly to the parallel port. (not sure about this) Or that it does not need to be transformed (much more probable) Michel. Is there any configuration in the parallel port that could make it faster? (the bios parallel port configuration are the same in both tests) Does anyone know something about this??? Any hints? Thanks, Pedro -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: evolution
Si ton probleme est similaire au mien, regarde: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2001/debian-user-200111/msg04113.html This list is debian-user, no specific language specified, even if we use much more english Michel. On Wed, 2001-12-12 at 18:07, herve wrote: J'utilise une woody mais pour les paquets nouveaux je charge en unstable. je pratique comme ça depuis un certain temps. et si j'admets que cette pratique n'est pas othodoxe, je n'ai pas rencontré de problème jusqu'alors. J'ai essayé Evolution à divers stades de son développement et à part les bugs qui lui étaient imputables ça fonctionnait. Lors de l'installation de la dernière version (1.0) Evolution fonctionne ...presque à quelques détails ... il n'y a pas d'éditeur, et Evolution ne sait pas lire les messages sur mon serveur pop local (peut-être pas ailleurs non plus. Quelqu'un peut il me dire quels paquets je devrai installer à la main ? Merci d'avance Hervé -- mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ne te soucie point de voir tes capacités ignorées, mais plutôt de n'en avoir pas assez. Confucius Livre XiV human knowledge belongs to the world -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How can i install woody?
Did you pass through the Network configuration part after selecting the drivers? If the network is not configured it will not work. Michel. Paul I think my problem was that I DID select drivers. I did select them because I know they are there and I will want to use them when/if the install happens. But, the install script ASSUMED that my access to the internet was via a route thru one of those drivers, and therefore never set up ppp. I know I was never asked for a phone number, etc. I have not checked out this theory. I have not had the time. But if it is true, it is, in my opinion, a flawed user interface. Yes, I made a mistake (maybe), but answering a question honestly should not cause an install to fail. Again, if this theory is true, an option of ppp-to-the-net should always be offered along with cdrom, fd0, nfs, etc. But maybe I don't understand. You understand very-well. That's why woody is called testing :) And yes I suppose that if you don t install the eth0 driver everything will run smoothly, I didn t have the problem since I don t use ppp, eth0 and eth1 were installed correctly. Other solution, run a shell (Alt-F2 or choose in the menu), set-up your ppp-conection and your routes and again it will run smoothly. Michel.
Re: using mkinitrd
On Mon, 2001-12-10 at 22:39, Richard Weil wrote: I've compiled a custom kernel using kpkg, but I'm unsure how to make an initrd like the official kernels. I configured a 2.4.16 kernel with support for cramfs and initrd. I tried using mkinitrd by invoking: mkinitrd /lib/modules/2.4.16 and it output lots of junk to the xterm I was in. So, before actually making a mistake that might be difficult to undo, is the correct syntax for mkinitrd: mkinitrd -o /boot/initrd-2.4.16 /lib/modules/2.4.16 Yep that's fine Do I need to use any thing other than mkinitrd? Add a line initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.16 in your lilo.conf and run lilo Michel.
Re: How can i install woody?
On Mon, 2001-12-10 at 02:37, Paul E Condon wrote: Michel Loos wrote: On Sun, 2001-12-09 at 19:14, Brian Clark wrote: * Paul E Condon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [Dec 09. 2001 01:25]: But I don't believe there are any install floppies yet for woody, right? Wrong: ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/main/disks-i386/current/ I just looked at this link. There are no base-x floppy images. I had noticed this a few days ago and thought they would soon appear. Now I wonder. Is one supposed to use the base-x disks from potato? (Yes, I am a newbie.) I think you are supposed to use the web-based base install, at least that is what I usually do. Michel. I went through the exact same thing (and I was shocked the woody base* images were not there, too). I just created the root and rescue floppy for potato, wrote the base*.tgz (for potato) and the drivers.tgz to a CD-R and installed potato. From there it's really easy to change your sources.list to point to testing and do a apt-get -u dist-upgrade (you may want to do apt-get -us dist-upgrade first to make sure everything looks OK). I didn't run into too many problems with that method. -- -Brian Clark I gathered from this exchange that exchange that there is a way of installing woody that involves the web and does not use base-x floppies. So I tried it. Today, it didn't seem to be confusing. But it didn't work. Here is what happened: 1 Pretty much like Potato install at the beginning. No problems. I tell it about network card and ppp. I don't recall it asking about modem. 2 Get to the place where it asks where it should go for the packages to install. It gives several options, including web. I choose web. 3 It asks how to get to the web, and gives to options: eth0 and ipddp0. Big problem. I know eth0 won't work because that connects to another Devian Linux box and to two Apple Macs. None of these have a connection to the web. I don't know what idppd0 is, but I select it anyway. I am lead thru a sequence of setup screens on which I make no changes; the URL looks OK ... .us.debian.org ... I don't have a proxy that I know of, so I leave none I select OK and get an error message immediately: Malformed release file http://http.us.debian.org:80/debian/dists/woody/Release I try several times. The modem never blinks any lights. I get only the above message. From where is it getting this release file? 4 So I fire up the existing Red Hat 6.2 (on another hard disk) and look for woody installation instructions. I find a section on web install. It is about 4 lines long and ends with the phrase this sentence in not finished Perhaps one can install over the web. But can one install over ppp? (and diald?) Did you pass through the Network configuration part after selecting the drivers? If the network is not configured it will not work. Michel. Paul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installation help
On Mon, 2001-12-10 at 21:52, Richard Frovarp wrote: I'm looking for some help in installing the stable version of Debian. I am having a problem with it reading the root disk. After loading the rescue disk it prompts for the root disk, but does not read the drive. After hitting enter I get this error: request_module [block-major-2]: Root fs not mounted. Probably : your root disk is corrupted, just create another one and try again. This of course if you effectively switched from rescue to root when prompted for. Michel. Hitting enter again gives me a kernel panic error. I have tried the compact, base, unstable, idepci installs and they all fail to even try to read the fd0 drive when asking for the root.bin disk. Doesn't matter which disk or even if I have no disk in there, it throws the same errors. I'm running an P4 with these components: Asus P4T-E (Socket 478) P4 1.7 Leadtek Geforce 3 Ti 500 Creative Live! 5.1 3COM 905c Belkin Firewire It had Windows 2K installed on it buy the builder to test it and works just fine. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Richard Frovarp http://atl.ndsu.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How can i install woody?
On Sun, 2001-12-09 at 19:14, Brian Clark wrote: * Paul E Condon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [Dec 09. 2001 01:25]: But I don't believe there are any install floppies yet for woody, right? Wrong: ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/main/disks-i386/current/ I just looked at this link. There are no base-x floppy images. I had noticed this a few days ago and thought they would soon appear. Now I wonder. Is one supposed to use the base-x disks from potato? (Yes, I am a newbie.) I think you are supposed to use the web-based base install, at least that is what I usually do. Michel. I went through the exact same thing (and I was shocked the woody base* images were not there, too). I just created the root and rescue floppy for potato, wrote the base*.tgz (for potato) and the drivers.tgz to a CD-R and installed potato. From there it's really easy to change your sources.list to point to testing and do a apt-get -u dist-upgrade (you may want to do apt-get -us dist-upgrade first to make sure everything looks OK). I didn't run into too many problems with that method. -- -Brian Clark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Requesting a trackball recomendation
On Sun, 2001-12-09 at 21:56, Christopher S. Swingley wrote: John, I'm curious, What is a trackball good for? why would I want one over a normal mouse? Some other advantages of a trackball: When your working place is full of papers etc. 1) You only need the place for the trackball, not some extra free place to move it around. 2) The trackball won t move when you push some paper aside. (I hate when the mouse moves and I tuype in the wrong window). Michel. I find them a lot more comfortable to use all day long because you don't wind up moving your arm and wrist around on the table like you do with a mouse. Your hand stays stationary on the trackball and your fingers do the moving. Much better than a mouse if you are starting to show signs of carpal tunnel syndrome (sore wrist, numbness in the fingers, etc.). And I also use the Logitech Trackman Marble FX. I've been tempted to buy a couple extras to keep them in reserve when Logitech stops making them. They are great. Chris -- Christopher S. Swingley phone: 907-474-2689 Computer / Network Manager email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] IARC -- Frontier ProgramGPG and PGP keys at my web page: University of Alaska Fairbanks www.frontier.iarc.uaf.edu/~cswingle They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -- Ben Franklin
Re: no mouse device
On Sun, 2001-12-09 at 21:59, Gilbert w wrote: Hello everyone, Im brand spankin new and I just installed debian. Im not sure ive completed installation properly, but I have no mouse device(no /dev/mouse ). What did I do wrong? I tried reinstalling with a different mouse type, but still doesn't work. Is there a way I can manully install my mouse? It is a mouse with a ps/2 connector and two buttons and has compaq branded on it. What do I do now? your mouse is on /dev/psaux use it from there Michel. _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
