Re: Using apt
Jamie Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Basically I can download packages for free from work and then bring them home on ZIP to my computer there. What is the best way of maintaining an archive on the computer that has all the deb files? Hmm, do you know of the APT offline Howto (/usr/share/doc/apt/offline.html/index.html)? It explains ways to manage this. moritz -- Moritz Schulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.chaosdorf.de/moritz/ Debian/GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org/ http://www.gnu.org/ GPG fingerprint = 3A14 3923 15BE FD57 FC06 B501 0841 2D7B 6F98 4199
Re: SSH AND IPTABLES
dude [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Very simply what should i read and what would it look like to enable ssh on my firewall so that it accepts ssh connections (only) from the outside? Have a look at the documentation at http://netfilter.filewatcher.org/. hth, moritz -- Moritz Schulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.chaosdorf.de/moritz/ Debian/GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org/ http://www.gnu.org/ GPG fingerprint = 3A14 3923 15BE FD57 FC06 B501 0841 2D7B 6F98 4199
Re: [OT] Why attached text messages?
Greg Wiley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Why do certain peoples' posts to this list show up as attached text files in my mail client (OE)? I get a blank message with two attachments: .txt and .dat. The text file contains the actual message. It's because your mail client is simply broken. It sees attachements where no attachements are... moritz -- Moritz Schulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.chaosdorf.de/moritz/ Debian/GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org/ http://www.gnu.org/ GPG fingerprint = 3A14 3923 15BE FD57 FC06 B501 0841 2D7B 6F98 4199
Re: Reinstall a package
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have lost several files due to an fs inconsistency on ext2 fs, I would therefore like to just reinstall certain packages, to replace the lost files. Is there an easy was how this can be done? I checked the dpkg man page and did not find anything like reinstall. 'dpkg -i foo.deb' will reinstall the package foo, if it's already installed. If you want to use APT, you've to use --reinstall in addition to 'install'. hth, moritz -- Moritz Schulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.chaosdorf.de/moritz/ Debian/GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org/ http://www.gnu.org/ GPG fingerprint = 3A14 3923 15BE FD57 FC06 B501 0841 2D7B 6F98 4199
Re: limiting ps command on every user..
louiem+ [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: is it possible to limit the ps ax/etc.. ? commands on every user? The Openwall (http://www.openwall.com/) security patch for Linux includes an option restricted /proc, which does exactly this. Then users can only view their own processes. moritz -- Moritz Schulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.chaosdorf.de/moritz/ Debian/GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org/ http://www.gnu.org/ GPG fingerprint = 3A14 3923 15BE FD57 FC06 B501 0841 2D7B 6F98 4199
Re: random lines
Martin F. Krafft [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
do you guys know of a smart way to access random lines in a file?
Hmm, here's a really quick dirty hack:
$ cat data.txt
foo
bar
baz
quux
$ randline() { head -$(($RANDOM % $(wc -l $1) + 1)) $1 | tail -1; }
$ randline data.txt
quux
$ randline data.txt
foo
$
Perhaps you're interested in the following code ('shuffle'), which i
got from somebody:
#!/usr/bin/perl
sub shuffle {
@arr = @_;
$i = @arr -1 ;
while($i = 1) {
$t = int(rand($i+1));
$h = $arr[$t];
$arr[$t] = $arr[$i];
$arr[$i] = $h;
$i--;
}
for $line (@arr){
print $line;
}
}
srand;
shuffle ;
It simply prints out the input lines shuffled.
moritz
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Re: Where is syslogd started ???
Michael D. Schleif [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Where and how is syslogd started at bootup? /etc/init.d/sysklogd is the init script. This gets called via the links in /etc/rc?.d/ (or via /etc/runlevel.conf, if you're using file-rc). moritz -- Moritz Schulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.chaosdorf.de/moritz/ Debian/GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org/ http://www.gnu.org/ GPG fingerprint = 3A14 3923 15BE FD57 FC06 B501 0841 2D7B 6F98 4199
Re: networking script in Debian
Wing [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a simple question. In the boot up of the debian system, how and when the /etc/init.d/networking script in debian get called? Check the /etc/rc[0-9].d/ directories. I expect to find a S10networking in rc2.d directory but there wasn't. Why? There doesn't have to be exactly this link in this directory. See: $ ls /etc/rc[0-9].d/* | grep networking /etc/rc0.d/S35networking /etc/rc6.d/S35networking Also, I want to install a static routes when boot up. Is there a standard place in debian for me to edit? Yes, in Debian, network intefaces are configured via /etc/network/interfaces; see the interfaces manpage. moritz -- Moritz Schulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.chaosdorf.de/moritz/ Debian/GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org/ http://www.gnu.org/ GPG fingerprint = 3A14 3923 15BE FD57 FC06 B501 0841 2D7B 6F98 4199
Re: take over a virtual console
nico de haer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Does anyone know a way to take over a virtual console once i've logged in using telnet (or ssh)? is this at all possible? Not exactly what you are asking for, but...: use screen. You can dettach and reattach screen sessions from different terminals. hth, moritz -- Moritz Schulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.chaosdorf.de/moritz/ Debian/GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org/ http://www.gnu.org/ GPG fingerprint = 3A14 3923 15BE FD57 FC06 B501 0841 2D7B 6F98 4199
Re: Ethernet device
Juan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Bu when I restart my machine, the Ethernet is not working anymore. How can I configure to activate my Ethernet device at start? Configure the network interface in /etc/network/interfaces. See manpage interfaces(5) for the syntax. hth, moritz -- Moritz Schulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.chaosdorf.de/moritz/ Debian/GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org/ http://www.gnu.org/ GPG fingerprint = 3A14 3923 15BE FD57 FC06 B501 0841 2D7B 6F98 4199
Re: C programming: What does this construct in printf(_( means?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What does the construct _(What ever format string I use) means in the context of printf? This construct is often used for 'gettext'. gettext translates text messages. From gettext's info page: Many packages use `_' (a simple underline) as a keyword, and write `_(Translatable string)' instead of `gettext (Translatable string)'. moritz -- Moritz Schulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.chaosdorf.de/moritz/ Debian/GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org/ http://www.gnu.org/ GPG fingerprint = 3A14 3923 15BE FD57 FC06 B501 0841 2D7B 6F98 4199
Re: talk does not work after ?
Balbir Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But I am unable to talk even locally on my own pc. Talk hangs after stating [Checking for invitation on caller's machine]. Is there something useful logged in /var/log/daemon.log, while trying to talk? moritz -- Moritz Schulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.chaosdorf.de/moritz/ Debian/GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org/ http://www.gnu.org/ GPG fingerprint = 3A14 3923 15BE FD57 FC06 B501 0841 2D7B 6F98 4199
Re: kapm-idled consumes more than 30% CPU
Lukas Ruf [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: strange enough to me, kapm-idled consumes between 23% and 90% of the CPU. Why? It consumes that much, because your system is idleing. ;) It's the kapm *idle* daemon, and the more CPU time this kernel thread gets, the more your system is idle. This is a new behaviour in Linux 2.4, nothing to worry about. :) hth, moritz -- Moritz Schulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.chaosdorf.de/moritz/ Debian/GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org/ http://www.gnu.org/ GPG fingerprint = 3A14 3923 15BE FD57 FC06 B501 0841 2D7B 6F98 4199
Re: Slow Ximian Gnome 1.4
Patrick Colbeck [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I 'upgraded' my Gnome on 2.2.r3 to Ximian 1.4 and it now runs like a dog. I have a P400 with 128Mb RAM and a Matrox G200, running top with just a gnome terminal open shows 50% CPU idle with XSVGA and Nautilus being the biggest CPU hogs (even though all Nautilus windows are closed). Sometimes, I'm seeing Nautilus eating all my CPU time, too. After a 'killall -9 nautilus' it calmes down. ;) hth, moritz -- Moritz Schulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.chaosdorf.de/moritz/ Debian/GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org/ http://www.gnu.org/ GPG fingerprint = 3A14 3923 15BE FD57 FC06 B501 0841 2D7B 6F98 4199
Re: gnumeric
Jim McCloskey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It would be very useful, though, to have a more up-to-date version of gnumeric than the one available in stable (stable has 0.47; testing has 0.64). Ximian (http://www.ximian.com/) is packaging GNOME for several GNU/Linux distributions, including Debian Potato; Gnumeric in Ximian GNOME is v0.64. hth, moritz -- Moritz Schulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.chaosdorf.de/moritz/ Debian/GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org/ http://www.gnu.org/ GPG fingerprint = 3A14 3923 15BE FD57 FC06 B501 0841 2D7B 6F98 4199
Re: for i in *
Hans [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I still don't understand the proper syntax for this: I want to process multiple files, e.g. symlinking a bunch or converting graphics. for i in *;do 'ln -s $i /home/newdir/$i';done won't work. This tries to execute the _command_ 'ln -s $i /home/newdir/$i' and not the command 'ln' with the parameters -s, $i, and /home/newdir/$i; The proper syntax for this loop would be: for i in *; do ln -s $i /home/newdir/$i; done which would create symlinks in the directory /home/newdir pointing to the (non-hidden) files in the current directory. Could someone please explain the rules for doing stuff like this, e.g. when to use quotes and what quotes, when to write files to a new file and renaming them back. There are no special quotations needed for the loop. The syntax is: for NAME [in WORDS ...]; do COMMANDS; done (from bash's info pages, package bash-doc) You also wouldn't write $ 'ls -a' if you want to execute the command ls, with parameter -a. Have you searched in the bash manual (info pages, man pages)? There's also a section about quotations. hth, moritz -- Moritz Schulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.chaosdorf.de/moritz/ Debian/GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org/ http://www.gnu.org/ GPG fingerprint = 3A14 3923 15BE FD57 FC06 B501 0841 2D7B 6F98 4199
Re: GRUB bootloader
Goeman Stefan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, [Problems with Grub] I am using GRUB version 0.5.93.???, is it perhaps possible that this version of GRUB does not support large drives? Should I instead use GRUB version 0.5.96.1 as mentioned in the article? I suggest to install a newer version of Grub. I build the version from Sid on my Potato system via apt-get source -b grub, with the deb-src entries for Sid in my sources.list. Runs fine. moritz -- Moritz Schulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.chaosdorf.de/moritz/ Debian/GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org/ http://www.gnu.org/ GPG fingerprint = 3A14 3923 15BE FD57 FC06 B501 0841 2D7B 6F98 4199
Re: Timeout for shell script
Andre Berger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thanks... but still I'd like to know if it's possible to use a shell script with a timeout, in general. Have a look at /usr/share/doc/bash/examples/scripts/timeout.gz (in package 'bash-doc'). hth, moritz -- Moritz Schulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.chaosdorf.de/moritz/ Debian/GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org/ http://www.gnu.org/ GPG fingerprint = 3A14 3923 15BE FD57 FC06 B501 0841 2D7B 6F98 4199
Re: apache startup script
peanut butter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: At some point I deleted the /etc/init.d/apache wanting to refresh this as well. Now I can't get it back. Upon several attempts to re-install apache and apache-common, I get the error: Setting up apache (1.3.9-13.2) ... update-rc.d: /etc/init.d/apache: file does not exist Hmm. What about creating a 'dummy' script: $ touch /etc/init.d/apache $ chmod 755 /etc/init.d/apache and then reinstalling the apache package? (/etc/init.d/apache should be in package 'apache') moritz -- Moritz Schulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.chaosdorf.de/moritz/ Debian/GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org/ http://www.gnu.org/ GPG fingerprint = 3A14 3923 15BE FD57 FC06 B501 0841 2D7B 6F98 4199
Re: apache startup script
peanut butter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] when all is configured and done, the apache startup script is still 0 bytes, ie. I still don't get the startup script back. Any other ideas? Have you *re*-installed it? Now, having this dummy script, the package can be purged cleanly... that's what the script is for. moritz -- Moritz Schulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.chaosdorf.de/moritz/ Debian/GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org/ http://www.gnu.org/ GPG fingerprint = 3A14 3923 15BE FD57 FC06 B501 0841 2D7B 6F98 4199
Re: APT Questions.
Andrzej Swedrzynski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I can easily add new CD using apt-setup or apt-cdrom, but how can I remove informations about them? comment out the lines in /etc/apt/sources.list. 2. Can I use apt to upgrade my potato to woody? Using apt-get dist-upgrade I upgraded from 2.2 to 2.2r3, but can I make a further step forward? Edit the lines in sources.list so that they point to woody and do apt-get update and apt-get dist-upgrade. 3. My CD was damaged and when I tried to install one package from it (using dpkg -i) it ended in error. However the package was partially installed with errors and now I can not access manuals (possibly there are other errors I do not yet know about). What about reinstalling the package via the net and then cleanly remove it? 4. Let's suppose that I know the name of the program but I do not know what package it is in. I have my CDs, but do not have access to Debian search site. Can I use apt, dpkg or other tool to search my packages for occurence of this program? You can search through your whole APT cache via 'apt-get search pattern'; or you can also search via dpkg -l. See the man pages. hth, moritz -- Moritz Schulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.chaosdorf.de/moritz/ Debian/GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org/ http://www.gnu.org/ GPG fingerprint = 3A14 3923 15BE FD57 FC06 B501 0841 2D7B 6F98 4199
Re: APT Questions.
Andrzej Swedrzynski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You can search through your whole APT cache via 'apt-get search pattern'; or you can also search via dpkg -l. See the man pages. $ apt-get search xfontsel E: Invalid operation search Sorry, a typo. I meant 'apt-cache search'. moritz -- Moritz Schulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.chaosdorf.de/moritz/ Debian/GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org/ http://www.gnu.org/ GPG fingerprint = 3A14 3923 15BE FD57 FC06 B501 0841 2D7B 6F98 4199
Re: Please help with ADSL
Mark Devin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When I try and ping the remote IP address I get: # ping 172.31.16.24 PING 172.31.16.24 (172.31.16.24): 56 data bytes ping: sendto: Operation not permitted ping: wrote 172.31.16.24 64 chars, ret=-1 How does your routing table look like? (route -n) There should be a default gateway entry.. moritz -- Moritz Schulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.chaosdorf.de/moritz/ Debian/GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org/ http://www.gnu.org/ GPG fingerprint = 3A14 3923 15BE FD57 FC06 B501 0841 2D7B 6F98 4199
Re: New to Debian....compilation problems
omicron [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: i'm new to Debian and this list. I installed Debian 2.2r2. But when i try to compile the kernel 2.4.1 source, then i get the message gcc: Internal compiler error: program cc1 got fatal signal 4 Is this problem 100% reproducible? If not, i would guess you have a hardware problem. Signal 4 is Illegal instruction (man 7 signal) - have you overclocked your system? Well, it is about Signal 11, but perhaps it's useful, too: http://www.bitwizard.nl/sig11/. hth, moritz -- Moritz Schulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.chaosdorf.de/moritz/ Debian/GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org/ http://www.gnu.org/ GPG fingerprint = 3A14 3923 15BE FD57 FC06 B501 0841 2D7B 6F98 4199
Re: Building GNOME 1.4 on Debian potato -- errors in control-center
Chris Howells [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: During the 'make' stage of compiling control-center, I'm getting this: /usr/src/gnome1.4/control-center-1.4.0.1/capplets/sound-properties/sound-pro perties.c:817: undefined reference to `esd_sample_getid' [...] Have you installed esd (it's the Enlightenment Sound Daemon) before you try to build control-center? hth, moritz -- Moritz Schulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.chaosdorf.de/moritz/ Debian/GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org/ http://www.gnu.org/ GPG fingerprint = 3A14 3923 15BE FD57 FC06 B501 0841 2D7B 6F98 4199
Re: Creating eth0
Brendan O'Connor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm in the middle of configuring my desktop debian computer for a new cable modem, but I've found there's no eth0 or indeed any eth* device in /dev. That's right. Seems that network interfaces don't have a device files. You just have to configure your network interfaces with /sbin/ifconfig (of course, the driver for your network card has to be loaded). Debian provides a nice frontend for managing network interfaces: Just write them to /etc/network/interfaces (see man interfaces) and you can start/stop them with ifup/ifdown. hth, moritz -- Moritz Schulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.chaosdorf.de/moritz/ Debian/GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org/ http://www.gnu.org/ GPG fingerprint = 3A14 3923 15BE FD57 FC06 B501 0841 2D7B 6F98 4199
Re: Where can I find openssh?
Ted Rathkopf [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I just got a machine installed with debian yesterday, and want to install openssh on it, but I can't seem to find the openssh package. The package 'ssh' contains OpenSSH. But, your sources.list seems strange...you have mixed entries for stable and testing. moritz -- Moritz Schulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.chaosdorf.de/moritz/ Debian/GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org/ http://www.gnu.org/ GPG fingerprint = 3A14 3923 15BE FD57 FC06 B501 0841 2D7B 6F98 4199
Re: Shutdown
Ales Jerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there any combination like Ctrl+Alt+Del, but not for reboot system, but for halt or shutdown system? You can define what happens if you press Ctrl+Alt+Del in /etc/inittab. moritz -- Moritz Schulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.chaosdorf.de/moritz/ Debian/GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org/ http://www.gnu.org/ GPG fingerprint = 3A14 3923 15BE FD57 FC06 B501 0841 2D7B 6F98 4199
Re: Talk problem again
Jana Kasparova [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a problem with talk on the same machine. What I receive is: Checking for invitation on caller's machine Have you checked wether something interesting gets logged in /var/log/daemon.log? Have you installed the talkd? moritz -- Moritz Schulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.chaosdorf.de/moritz/ Debian/GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org/ http://www.gnu.org/ GPG fingerprint = 3A14 3923 15BE FD57 FC06 B501 0841 2D7B 6F98 4199
Re: Sid vs unstable
Stephen Boulet [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Can someone tell me (who's new to Debian) what the difference between sid and unstable is? Debian distributions have a 'code-name': (the current) stable - Potato (the current) testing - Woody (the current) unstable - Sid Later, Woody will be the new stable and Sarge will be the new testing. Unstable will be always Sid. moritz -- Moritz Schulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.chaosdorf.de/moritz/ Debian/GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org/ http://www.gnu.org/ GPG fingerprint = 3A14 3923 15BE FD57 FC06 B501 0841 2D7B 6F98 4199
Re: logging make config
Darryl Röthering [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a question about makeconfig on the kernel. I am a habitual logger, but I don't know how to log the build of a new kernel. What I really want is to get not only the stdout and stderr (which I get by redirection (21), but also the stdin You don't really want to redirect the stdin, because that would mean, 'make config' wouldn't wait for input from the terminal, but from what you've redirected it to. But, have a look at 'script' - it does what you want. , so I can get a recording of all the choices I make on the configuration. You know, that all the configuration choices are in the file .config in the kernel source tree? Then, you can also use something nicer like 'make menuconfig'. :) hth, moritz -- Moritz Schulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.chaosdorf.de/moritz/ Debian/GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org/ http://www.gnu.org/ GPG fingerprint = 3A14 3923 15BE FD57 FC06 B501 0841 2D7B 6F98 4199
Re: IP tables setup
Rob Zietlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Anyone know of the location of a man or a HOWTO on setting up IPtables for the 2.4.X kernel. I would like to have that setup before I replace IP chains and goto the new kernel http://netfilter.filewatcher.org/ hth, moritz -- Moritz Schulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.chaosdorf.de/moritz/ Debian/GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org/ http://www.gnu.org/ GPG fingerprint = 3A14 3923 15BE FD57 FC06 B501 0841 2D7B 6F98 4199
Re: X11 header files - which package?
Anthony Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thanks - got it now. Unfortunately, this only partially solves my problem, which is trying to compile the latest version of vim (6.0y) with GUI support. Configure now finds the X11 headers but still says there is no gui support. I don't understand this. I guess you need the (devel) libs for a GUI toolkit, like GTK+. IIRC, the GUI Vim uses GTK+. Have you looked at the documentation and the config.log? hth, moritz -- Moritz Schulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.chaosdorf.de/moritz/ Debian/GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org/ http://www.gnu.org/ GPG fingerprint = 3A14 3923 15BE FD57 FC06 B501 0841 2D7B 6F98 4199
Re: How can I start from a terminal instead of gdm
Andrew D Dixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Does anyone know how I can start from a terminal instead of gdm? When X starts it's locking up my keyboard and mouse so I need to disable it on boot up. I don't have a boot disk (of course) so I'm looking for a solution other than the obvious. You can specify the runlevel to boot after the kernel image. So, for example, at the LILO prompt (hopefully the prompt is enabled in the lilo.conf - Does BTW anybody know, why it's disabled in the default lilo.conf (in Potato)?): LILO: name 1. Which should boot into Single user mode. You could also specify something like init=/bin/bash, which would directly start a shell. hth, moritz -- Moritz Schulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.chaosdorf.de/moritz/ Debian/GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org/ http://www.gnu.org/ GPG fingerprint = 3A14 3923 15BE FD57 FC06 B501 0841 2D7B 6F98 4199
Re: Nautilus ?
Mullins, Ron [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I would hope, but I was expecting Evolution .9 debs quickly too. They have yet to show up on the old apt-get from the spidermonkey server. Am I missing something? Hmm. I'm not sure, wether you can apt-get Evolution 0.9, but can easily install it via Red Carpet (which is apt-getable) from Ximian. hth, moritz -- Moritz Schulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.chaosdorf.de/moritz/ Debian/GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org/ http://www.gnu.org/ GPG fingerprint = 3A14 3923 15BE FD57 FC06 B501 0841 2D7B 6F98 4199
Re: Problems with talkd
Preben Randhol [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I cannot get talk to work _to_ my machine. When people try to talk it says I refuse to talk to them. See 'man mesg'. Perhaps it is set to 'n'? hth, moritz -- Moritz Schulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.chaosdorf.de/moritz/ Debian/GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org/ http://www.gnu.org/ GPG fingerprint = 3A14 3923 15BE FD57 FC06 B501 0841 2D7B 6F98 4199
Re: A fact a problem
[EMAIL PROTECTED] () writes: Is there anyone out there able to explain how come, installing Debian potato on my desktop, Debian is unable to find my ethernet Realtek 8139 PCI card while even Red Hat 6.0 was able to? What do you mean with is unable to find? Debian doesn't have tools, which automatically install your hardware, yet. Or do you mean the driver, rtl8139 can't find the card? I need to compile the module for the Realtek ethernet card which I downloaded from a linux site (rltk8139.c). You mean rtl8139.c, right? Why can't you use the included rtl839 driver? moritz -- Moritz Schulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.chaosdorf.de/moritz/ Debian/GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org/ http://www.gnu.org/ GPG fingerprint = 3A14 3923 15BE FD57 FC06 B501 0841 2D7B 6F98 4199
Re: GDM background image
Jeff Hornsberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I'm looking for a way to set the background image for gdm. I know it is set in /etc/gdm/Init/Default using xsetroot, but I want to set it to an image not a color. As far as images goes xsetroot apparently can only handle bitmaps, my question is: How do I set the background of gdm to a jpg (or some other common image format)? Thanks. -Jeff Use something other than xsetroot - xloadimage for example. moritz -- Moritz Schulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.chaosdorf.de/moritz/ Debian/GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org/ http://www.gnu.org/ GPG fingerprint = 3A14 3923 15BE FD57 FC06 B501 0841 2D7B 6F98 4199
Re: dpkg fails to allocte memory ?
B Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: malloc failed (65552 bytes): Cannot allocate memory dpkg: failed to realloc for variable buffer: Cannot allocate memory E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2) Please note I have 128 Mb or ram and am able to run xfree86 and other programs well. My kernel version is 2.2.17 and the dpkg version is 1.6.14 . Linux 2.2.17 has some problems with virtual memory management. Perhaps the dpkg problem is related to this. Does linux log something like VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for [dpkg]? I suggest to install Linux 2.2.18 + Andrea Arcangeli's VM-global-2.2.18pre25 Patch, which can be found on a kernel.org mirror under people/andrea or Linux = 2.2.19pre2, which has this VM patch included. hth, moritz -- Moritz Schulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.chaosdorf.de/moritz/ Debian/GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org/ http://www.gnu.org/ GPG fingerprint = 3A14 3923 15BE FD57 FC06 B501 0841 2D7B 6F98 4199
Re: sound with 2.4.1
ktb [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm running kernel 2.4.1. Just bought a sound card today - Sound Blaster 16. I can't see it is even being detected in dmesg. Seems like I read once there is some issue with the new kernel and sound. Have you compiled support for this sound card in your Linux? hth, moritz -- Moritz Schulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.chaosdorf.de/moritz/ Debian/GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org/ http://www.gnu.org/ GPG fingerprint = 3A14 3923 15BE FD57 FC06 B501 0841 2D7B 6F98 4199
Re: [OT] _(STRING) notation
Sven Burgener [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What is the significance of the '_' character in the following usage? printf(_(This is fetchmail release %s), VERSION); Why the '_' and why the additional ()'s around the string constant? Seems that the code is using the GNU gettext library, which handles translation of messages. Have a look at the gettext info pages... moritz -- Moritz Schulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.chaosdorf.de/moritz/ Debian/GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org/ http://www.gnu.org/ GPG fingerprint = 3A14 3923 15BE FD57 FC06 B501 0841 2D7B 6F98 4199
Re: exim: localhosts and smarthost
Jack [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
To be more specific, I met this problem:
. any email sent on gateway goes to smarthost, including the email
To: the other local machine.
I have the following in my router section _before_ the 'catch all'
smarthost entry. This definition applies for mails addressed to '*.sc'
(my lan domain) and then sends the mail directly to this host
('$domain byname').
lan:
driver = domainlist
transport = remote_smtp
route_list = *.sc $domain byname
hth,
moritz
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Re: free software download
Jie Zou [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Where can I get the free debian software? Have you looked at http://www.debian.org/? moritz -- Moritz Schulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.chaosdorf.de/moritz/ Debian/GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org/ http://www.gnu.org/ GPG fingerprint = 3A14 3923 15BE FD57 FC06 B501 0841 2D7B 6F98 4199
Re: Iptables
Martin Marconcini [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Where can I find good Man pages and tutorials to start reading today (I don´t want to be surprised sunday night!) The Netfilter homepage: http://netfilter.filewatcher.org/ moritz PS: You know that you can simply build the iptables source package from unstable on your stable system? -- Moritz Schulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.chaosdorf.de/moritz/ Debian/GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org/ http://www.gnu.org/ GPG fingerprint = 3A14 3923 15BE FD57 FC06 B501 0841 2D7B 6F98 4199
Re: apt-get question
Eric Richardson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Any comments on the proposed-updates? It's not testing but it is not approved stable either. proposed-updates (which is a link to potato-proposed-updates/) contains updates to stable. moritz -- Moritz Schulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.chaosdorf.de/moritz/ Debian/GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org/ http://www.gnu.org/ GPG fingerprint = 3A14 3923 15BE FD57 FC06 B501 0841 2D7B 6F98 4199
Re: Fw: Debian crashes.
Alexey P. Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: During my usage of Debian I rarely had any problems with it at home, but after getting it into production server at work crashes became quite often (once per month - for sure). And it crashes randomly, at no particular task, not at high load, just when it wants. Without any symptoms all consoles suddenly freeze it stops answering pings, just a bit of error messages like: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for some prog... Known problem in Linux 2.2. It's fixed since Linux 2.2.19pre2. Linux 2.4 is fine, too. moritz -- Moritz Schulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.chaosdorf.de/moritz/ Debian/GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org/ http://www.gnu.org/ GPG fingerprint = 3A14 3923 15BE FD57 FC06 B501 0841 2D7B 6F98 4199
Re: iptables and 2.4.1
spent187 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But with 2.4.1 I understand I must use iptables, but I don't know what I have to change in my script... http://netfilter.filewatcher.org/ is the homepage of the netfilter project; there you'll find good documentation. NAT is explained here: http://netfilter.filewatcher.org/unreliable-guides/packet-filtering-HOWTO/packet-filtering-HOWTO.linuxdoc-9.html. moritz -- Moritz Schulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.chaosdorf.de/moritz/ Debian/GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org/ http://www.gnu.org/ GPG fingerprint = 3A14 3923 15BE FD57 FC06 B501 0841 2D7B 6F98 4199
Re: grep and memory problems with kernel 2.4.1
David B. Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: # i do cd / # # grep -r hallo * # # und then cames a memory enhausted and the network is down. Well, since you're specifying -r, it's going recursively through subdirectories ... I don't know for sure, but maybe it's running into some problems with some of the devices in /dev? :) Yes, /dev/zero for example. I guess your system is running out of memory, because you don't have set up user limits? By specyfing limits you can decide how much memory (, processes, number of open files, cpu time, etc...) a user is allowed to use. You can specify these limits in /etc/security/limits.conf; don't forget to active this feature in /etc/pam.d/login (and /etc/pam.d/su?). Btw: you can get information about your current limits via 'ulimit -a'. hth, moritz -- Moritz Schulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.chaosdorf.de/moritz/ Debian/GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org/ http://www.gnu.org/ GPG fingerprint = 3A14 3923 15BE FD57 FC06 B501 0841 2D7B 6F98 4199
Re: ext2resize
Pierfrancesco Caci [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: now a df shows me my /dev/hda5 ( that's where my root lies ) is 500M big... but in fdisk it says /dev/hda5 is still 1G... you resized only the filesystem, to resize the partition also there is another tool, the name of which escapes my memory Perhaps you mean GNU Parted? hth, moritz -- Moritz Schulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.chaosdorf.de/moritz/ Debian/GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org/ http://www.gnu.org/ GPG fingerprint = 3A14 3923 15BE FD57 FC06 B501 0841 2D7B 6F98 4199
Re: ext2resize
studenten wg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: can i know just delete /dev/hda5 and recreate it with 500M size ?? ( in single user mode i suppose )... No, you can't do that. /dev/hda5 is a so-called device file. Device files are the interfaces to the device drivers. If you access /dev/hda5, Linux forwards the requests to the device driver, which is responsible for this device file. So, /dev/hda5 isn't 500MB; the partition, which is represented by /dev/hda5 is 500MB big. hth, moritz -- Moritz Schulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.chaosdorf.de/moritz/ Debian/GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org/ http://www.gnu.org/ GPG fingerprint = 3A14 3923 15BE FD57 FC06 B501 0841 2D7B 6F98 4199
Re: Insecure permission for swap partition.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Fu-Dong Chiou) writes: Thanks a lot! I didn't know I can chmod a partition as well. That takes care of my problem now. In Unix, everything is a file. ;) moritz -- Moritz Schulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.chaosdorf.de/moritz/ Debian/GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org/ http://www.gnu.org/ GPG fingerprint = 3A14 3923 15BE FD57 FC06 B501 0841 2D7B 6F98 4199
Re: apt-get via firewall
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there a way to run apt-get through a ftp/http firewall? ftp/http firewall? If you're doing packet filtering, allow those packets. Or set up a ftp/http proxy. hth, moritz -- Moritz Schulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.chaosdorf.de/moritz/ Debian/GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org/ http://www.gnu.org/ GPG fingerprint = 3A14 3923 15BE FD57 FC06 B501 0841 2D7B 6F98 4199
Re: Error using gcc
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: /usr/bin/ld: cannot open crt1.o: No such file or directory collect2: ld returned 1 exit status [4]0[EMAIL PROTECTED]: [moritz] $ dpkg -S /usr/lib/crt1.o libc6-dev: /usr/lib/crt1.o [4]0[EMAIL PROTECTED]: [moritz] $ Do you have installed this package? hth, moritz -- Moritz Schulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.chaosdorf.de/moritz/ Debian/GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org/ http://www.gnu.org/ GPG fingerprint = 3A14 3923 15BE FD57 FC06 B501 0841 2D7B 6F98 4199
Re: .deb creation
Leonard Leblanc [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Can someone point me to a doc or howto on how to create .deb files? - maint-guide - packaging-manual - debian-policy hth, moritz -- Moritz Schulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.chaosdorf.de/moritz/ Debian/GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org/ http://www.gnu.org/ GPG fingerprint = 3A14 3923 15BE FD57 FC06 B501 0841 2D7B 6F98 4199
Re: Choosing the Window Menager
Vittorio De Martino [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I installed Debian potato 2.2.r2 with X and Enlightenment and Wmaker. Upon startup X chooses the former while I'like like to start with the latter. Where can I tell X to start with Wmaker instead of Enlightenment? See man update-alternatives. You can also make an installed window manager the default 'x-window-manager' via: update-alternatives --config x-window-manager moritz -- Moritz Schulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.chaosdorf.de/moritz/ Debian/GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org/ http://www.gnu.org/ GPG fingerprint = 3A14 3923 15BE FD57 FC06 B501 0841 2D7B 6F98 4199
Re: gateway machine
Jason Davies [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have two Debian boxes and I want one to act as a proxy server for the other. I have done this before using mandrake on the proxy/gateway machine but I'm not sure how to do it now that I've installed Debian. What configuration do I need to change? They both ping each other fine, but one can't access external addresses through the other. You've to set up IP Masquerading. Have a look at the IP Masquerading Howto and the ipchains (Linux 2.2)/iptables (Linux 2.4) documentation. Basically, you just have to set up some rules and tell the one host that the other one is it's gateway (via /etc/network/interfaces)... hth, moritz -- Moritz Schulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.chaosdorf.de/moritz/ Debian/GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org/ http://www.gnu.org/ GPG fingerprint = 3A14 3923 15BE FD57 FC06 B501 0841 2D7B 6F98 4199
Re: tracing a kernel lock up
Guillaume Marceau [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This failure mode is not observed under Windows, ruling out a hardware problem. You can't say that. Linux stresses the hardware much more than Windows. So, Windows can be stable while Linux is crashing all the time... My uninformed guess blames the udam66 adapter driver. What kind of tools are available to confirm my suspision? What would you do? Hmm, this is the controller your hd is on, right? I guess, the crash should be quiet easily reproducible, if it's the driver's fault, with Bonnie - a benchmark tool, which stresses the hd a lot. Do you get a see something useful in your logs? Is there a kernel panic? Checking the hardware would be a good idea. For example, running memtest86 to check the core... hth, moritz -- Moritz Schulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.chaosdorf.de/moritz/ Debian/GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org/ http://www.gnu.org/ GPG fingerprint = 3A14 3923 15BE FD57 FC06 B501 0841 2D7B 6F98 4199
Re: PS/2 mouse mystery
Tom Schuetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a PS/2 mouse. My XF86config file is set to /dev/psaux. My mouse doesn't do anything upon starting X. Are you running GPM? GPM and X can conflict when running at the same time. There's a solution: Configure GPM as a 'Repeater' and then configure X to use /dev/gpmdata as mouse. To configure GPM as a Repeater, check man gpm. The options should be written to /etc/gpm.conf (/usr/sbin/gpmconfig can be used to do that). hth, moritz -- Moritz Schulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.chaosdorf.de/moritz/ Debian/GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org/ http://www.gnu.org/ GPG fingerprint = 3A14 3923 15BE FD57 FC06 B501 0841 2D7B 6F98 4199
Re: Cat-ting binary files to the console
Andre Berger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: # bash set PS1=^V^O whatever Huh? Do you mean export instead of set? But the exported line displays verbatim here? (potato) ^V^O whatever ^V^O means you've to type Ctrl+V, Ctrl+O. moritz -- Moritz Schulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.chaosdorf.de/moritz/ Debian/GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org/ http://www.gnu.org/ GPG fingerprint = 3A14 3923 15BE FD57 FC06 B501 0841 2D7B 6F98 4199
Re: deleting ~
Robert Cymbala [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But why delete your home directory? ~ (1 char) named directory and my home directory are the same thing: He said ~ (1 char) named directory *in* my home directory. moritz -- Moritz Schulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.chaosdorf.de/moritz/ Debian/GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org/ http://www.gnu.org/ GPG fingerprint = 3A14 3923 15BE FD57 FC06 B501 0841 2D7B 6F98 4199
Re: list file by size
angus debian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I would like to list the files by size include all
sub-directory.
Uhm, it's a quite ugly hack, because I'm not familiar with sed/awk,
but this seems to work:
find . -type f | xargs ls -lk | awk '{ print $5 \t $0 }' \
| sort -nr | sed -e 's/^[0-9]*\W*//;' | less
hth,
moritz
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Re: modprobe: error
Michael Blood [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am getting an error whenever I boot up into debian 2.2 [...] modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module net-pf-1 I think net-pf-1 is the driver for Unix domain sockets (see /etc/modules.conf). It seems your Linux doesn't have support for them. Have you perhaps compiled Linux yourself and forgot to enable Unix domain sockets? hth, moritz -- Moritz Schulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.chaosdorf.de/moritz/ Debian/GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org/ http://www.gnu.org/ GPG fingerprint = 3A14 3923 15BE FD57 FC06 B501 0841 2D7B 6F98 4199
Re: nterm on port 1026
Daniel de los Reyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I got this from nterm: You mean from a portscanner (looks like nmap)? 1026opentcpnterm I have no entry for nterm nor port 1026 in /etc/inetd.conf nor /etc/services.. whay is this nterm thing? Try to connect to this server (telnet host 1026). Is there really a server running? Does a portscanner find this server running repeatable? I saw nmap (from Potato) finding the funniest servers running on my system, the more often i've run it. If i had run nmap in a loop, every x times (x 50, IIRC - something like that) a definitely non-running servers was found. Strange. A newer version of nmap didn't showed this behaviour. moritz -- Moritz Schulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.chaosdorf.de/moritz/ Debian/GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org/ http://www.gnu.org/ GPG fingerprint = 3A14 3923 15BE FD57 FC06 B501 0841 2D7B 6F98 4199
Re: I'm in trouble. Someone call 911, I'm in trouble....
Johan Groth [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So now I got an unstable :-) system which is not so good I think. So what would happen if I change unstable to testing and do apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade again? IMHO nothing. At least the APT in Potato doesn't seem to do downgrades. Does this have changed in Sid? But, why don't you just try it? moritz -- Moritz Schulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.chaosdorf.de/moritz/ Debian/GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org/ http://www.gnu.org/ GPG fingerprint = 3A14 3923 15BE FD57 FC06 B501 0841 2D7B 6F98 4199
Re: nterm on port 1026
Daniel de los Reyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: telnet does connect to port 1026 Ok. Connect to the port. Then, while the connection is established, try 'fuser 1026/tcp' as root. This should tell you the corresponding pid for the process listening on this port. Then, check with 'ps aux | grep pid', whose process has this pid... moritz -- Moritz Schulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.chaosdorf.de/moritz/ Debian/GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org/ http://www.gnu.org/ GPG fingerprint = 3A14 3923 15BE FD57 FC06 B501 0841 2D7B 6F98 4199
Re: nterm on port 1026 (SOLVED)
Daniel de los Reyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So it looks like it's licq the one using this port: [...] So how come nmap reports nterm? Does nmap not work right? IMHO, nmap just checks some kind of database and finds TCP 1026 associated with a service called nterm. moritz -- Moritz Schulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.chaosdorf.de/moritz/ Debian/GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org/ http://www.gnu.org/ GPG fingerprint = 3A14 3923 15BE FD57 FC06 B501 0841 2D7B 6F98 4199
Re: C++ linking problem
RAccess [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Recently gcc was upgraded on debian testing/woody. Since then I have been having trouble compiling (mainly linking) C++ code. Here is the kind of error I get: g++ try.cpp /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lstdc++ collect2: ld returned 1 exit status It seems you don't have the libstdc++...-dev package installed. moritz -- Moritz Schulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.chaosdorf.de/moritz/ Debian/GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org/ http://www.gnu.org/ GPG fingerprint = 3A14 3923 15BE FD57 FC06 B501 0841 2D7B 6F98 4199
inn (was: Unidentified subject!)
David Nowak [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have installed the package inn. And I have started innd with its initial configuration. Don't expect such a complex program like inn to do what you want, without proper configuration. But it does not open a connection on the port nntp (119) as I thought. Hmm, why should it? It's a news server, so it should listen on the nntp port for incoming connections. A client should open a connection to the nntp port to speak with the server. (I don't know inn*/wether innd is expected to connect to the port.) I guess I have a line to add in /etc/inetd.conf. What is this line? Hmm. Try to connect to your nntp port - is innd running? I also tried the package inn2. I have the same problem and another one: innwatch requires that the field domain in inn.conf to be filled. But I have nothing to put in this field as I have no domain name. What should I do? Can't help you. Have you read the documentation? hth, moritz -- Moritz Schulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.chaosdorf.de/moritz/ Debian/GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org/ http://www.gnu.org/ GPG fingerprint = 3A14 3923 15BE FD57 FC06 B501 0841 2D7B 6F98 4199
Re: XFree 4.0 debs?
francisco m . neto [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm looking for deb packages of XFree 4.0.2, and it doesn't seem to be under the testing tree, neither under the unstable one. I just checked, it _is_ packaged (also in testing). moritz -- Moritz Schulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.chaosdorf.de/moritz/ Debian/GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org/ http://www.gnu.org/ GPG fingerprint = 3A14 3923 15BE FD57 FC06 B501 0841 2D7B 6F98 4199
Re: Gnome 1.2 and potato
Rob Rati [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Are there Gnome 1.2 packages available for potato anywhere? Yes, Ximian (http://www.ximian.com/) is packaging GNOME for several GNU/Linux distributions, including Debian Potato. If you want to give it a try, add the following line to you /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://spidermonkey.ximian.com/distributions/debian unstable main and do apt-get update apt-get install task-helix-core (which installs the core elements of the Ximian GNOME desktop). task-helix-gnome will install much more... moritz -- Moritz Schulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.chaosdorf.de/moritz/ Debian/GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org/ http://www.gnu.org/ GPG fingerprint = 3A14 3923 15BE FD57 FC06 B501 0841 2D7B 6F98 4199
Re: compiling with two processors
John L . Fjellstad [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If I had the source, I would just do a make -j3, but with debian, there is this rules thingie. debian/rules contains the rules for building the package. There's a target 'build', which builds the application. See, which targets are called by 'build'. There should be a call to '$(MAKE)' - here you could add additional arguments to make. hth, moritz -- Moritz Schulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.chaosdorf.de/moritz/ Debian/GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org/ http://www.gnu.org/ GPG fingerprint = 3A14 3923 15BE FD57 FC06 B501 0841 2D7B 6F98 4199
Re: Potato and kernel 2.4
Morten Bo Johansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I was wondering if anyone could provide me with a link explaining the steps one needs to take to install a 2.4 kernel on a potato system. I suppose that several packages (e.g. pppd) need to be updated to get a functioning system.. linux/Documentation/Changes says which packages need to be upgraded. You could compile the source packages from Debian Woody/Sid on your Potato system, to get newer versions. Should work... hth, moritz -- Moritz Schulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.chaosdorf.de/moritz/ Debian/GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org/ http://www.gnu.org/ GPG fingerprint = 3A14 3923 15BE FD57 FC06 B501 0841 2D7B 6F98 4199
Re: Potato and kernel 2.4
Oh, btw: From: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Packages for using kernel 2.4.x with potato To: debian-release@lists.debian.org cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 10:49:26 +0100 (CET) Since it seems noone has already done this: I'll set up an apt-able archive with _all_ the packages someone might need when upgrading the kernel to 2.4.x . I hope I'll have it ready till Tuesday. I plan to include: Upgraded packages: - modutils - util-linux - e2fsprogs - ppp - pcmcia-cs New packages: - kernel sources and perhaps images - devfsd - iptables - reiserfsprogs - usbview and usbutils - some ISDN packages - perhaps linux-ntfs I'll start with i386. I can also do this for other architectures if requested. cu, Adrian -- A No uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a Yes merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble. -- Mahatma Ghandi cool. :) moritz -- Moritz Schulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.chaosdorf.de/moritz/ Debian/GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org/ http://www.gnu.org/ GPG fingerprint = 3A14 3923 15BE FD57 FC06 B501 0841 2D7B 6F98 4199
Re: ATT Korn shell for Debina (potato) ?
There's a public domain version of the Korn shell packaged as 'pdksh'. moritz -- Moritz Schulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.chaosdorf.de/moritz/ Debian/GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org/ http://www.gnu.org/ GPG fingerprint = 3A14 3923 15BE FD57 FC06 B501 0841 2D7B 6F98 4199
Re: Gnome 1.2 and potato
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What if I have the debian gnome 1.0 packages installed already? Will the Ximian packages recognize that and upgrade them accordingly? Or will I have to uninstall 1.0 and install Ximian's 1.2? Since the Ximian packages have the same names (just different version strings) the update should work. Btw: Perhaps it would be better if you (re)move your ~/.gnome* directories, so that the new GNOME will create the new config files. hth, moritz -- Moritz Schulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.chaosdorf.de/moritz/ Debian/GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org/ http://www.gnu.org/ GPG fingerprint = 3A14 3923 15BE FD57 FC06 B501 0841 2D7B 6F98 4199
Re: upgrading the kernel to 2.4
Matthias G. Imhof [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Any ideas why modconf 2.4.1 does not see the modules in /lib/modules/2.4.1? insmod and friends can use these modules. The directory structure under /lib/modules/2.4*/ has changed. It seems that modconf isn't modified so that it finds the modules (I don't know wether that's still the case in the latest modconf). But, sure, you can edit /etc/modules /etc/modutils/* manually... moritz -- Moritz Schulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.chaosdorf.de/moritz/ Debian/GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org/ http://www.gnu.org/ GPG fingerprint = 3A14 3923 15BE FD57 FC06 B501 0841 2D7B 6F98 4199
Re: Gnome 1.2 and potato
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Doesn't that partially defeat the point? I usually like to have the newer versions of programs create the config files too, but in the case of gnome I'd lose all the configuration I'd done to get it how I want it. Are the config files that different and/or incompatible? Are is there functionality you can't get if you use config files from 1.0? I don't know the internals. Try it. If it works, ok. If there are problems, try (re)moving the old config files. I know one point for sure: you will get a bit different Icons in the panel, if you use Ximian GNOME's default. :) moritz -- Moritz Schulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.chaosdorf.de/moritz/ Debian/GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org/ http://www.gnu.org/ GPG fingerprint = 3A14 3923 15BE FD57 FC06 B501 0841 2D7B 6F98 4199
Re: helix gnome sound support not working
Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have not been able to get sound support working under Helix Gnome for several weeks now. esdplay works fine, but no Gnome programs work (xmms and Gnome Control Centre for instance). Do you have xmms configured to use the esd output plugin? (I've no idea about the other programs...) moritz -- Moritz Schulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.chaosdorf.de/moritz/ Debian/GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org/ http://www.gnu.org/ GPG fingerprint = 3A14 3923 15BE FD57 FC06 B501 0841 2D7B 6F98 4199
Re: virus detection
Sean 'Shaleh' Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: there are no known virus for UNIX. Uhm, I think there are virii for Unix. I did a quick search and found some information on Unix virii; I also read that the first systems affected by virii were Unix systems. moritz -- Moritz Schulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.chaosdorf.de/moritz/ Debian/GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org/ http://www.gnu.org/ GPG fingerprint = 3A14 3923 15BE FD57 FC06 B501 0841 2D7B 6F98 4199
Re: Crash?!?
Sven Burgener [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] Today, I noticed the following (rather long) dump in /var/log/syslog. It doesn't look like a usual Oops, so I am unsure what caused this. [...] Feb 3 02:08:12 host kernel: freesibling Feb 3 02:08:12 host kernel: task PCstack pid father child younger older Feb 3 02:08:12 host kernel: init 1 S C17F9EF8 5136 1 0 4438 [...] I suggest posting this to linux-kernel (http://www.tux.org/lkml). moritz -- Moritz Schulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.chaosdorf.de/moritz/ Debian/GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org/ http://www.gnu.org/ GPG fingerprint = 3A14 3923 15BE FD57 FC06 B501 0841 2D7B 6F98 4199
Re: Memory upgrade and kernel panic
tjm [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I swapped out the two sdrams and installed one 256M sdram. The bios sees the memory OK and starts the boot process. Linux evidently sees the memory OK (line 2 below) but then gets to line 5 and spits out the rest and then the kernel panic in line 22. Try a ram-test-program, for example 'memtest86' (see freshmeat.net). hth, moritz -- Moritz Schulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.chaosdorf.de/moritz/ Debian/GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org/ http://www.gnu.org/ GPG fingerprint = 3A14 3923 15BE FD57 FC06 B501 0841 2D7B 6F98 4199
Re: renaming files
brian moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: for name in *.mp3; do newname=$(echo $name | sed -e 's/[ \(\),]//g') echo Moving \$name\ to \$newname\ mv -i $name $newname done Oh, goodness, that looks complex. % rename 's/[ ,()]/_/g' *.mp3 Why do it the easy way if there's a complicated one? :) moritz -- Moritz Schulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.chaosdorf.de/moritz/ Debian/GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org/ http://www.gnu.org/ GPG fingerprint = 3A14 3923 15BE FD57 FC06 B501 0841 2D7B 6F98 4199
Re: renaming files
oj . [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I have a bunch of files (*.mp3) that have spaces and characteres
such as: , ( ,_. I would like to remove all the spaces and
characteres and leave them as: xshkjds_jskdjks_jsdj.mp3.
for name in *.mp3; do
newname=$(echo $name | sed -e 's/[ \(\),]//g')
echo Moving \$name\ to \$newname\
mv -i $name $newname
done
You should first test the code without the mv-command and check the
output. The sed-command removes the chars: ` ', `', `(', `)',
`,'. You may have to edit the regular expression in the sed-command,
if it's not exactly, what you want...
hth,
moritz
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Re: Help w/ pcmcia
Nick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am currently using a compaq 1220, I have the linksys pcmcia 10/100 adapter [...] I have a base installation of 2.1 w/ 2.0.38 kernel What driver can I use for this card Ehm, Debian 2.1 with Linux 2.0 is very old. I don't know, wether Linux 2.0 has PCMCIA support - but, if it has, I don't think, it's as good as the support in Linux 2.2, or even 2.4. Would be much better (not only because of the PCMCIA support) to upgrade to Debian 2.2 (Potato), which contains Linux 2.2. moritz -- Moritz Schulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.chaosdorf.de/moritz/ Debian/GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org/ http://www.gnu.org/ GPG fingerprint = 3A14 3923 15BE FD57 FC06 B501 0841 2D7B 6F98 4199
Re: Can't create file larger than 1G on console ?
Tommy Wu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I can't create file larger than 1G on console (tty1 - tty6 and X11 terminal), but I can create such file from telent. For the same OS, kernel... only a telnet session can create large file more than 1G. Which error messages do you get? moritz -- Moritz Schulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.chaosdorf.de/moritz/ Debian/GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org/ http://www.gnu.org/ GPG fingerprint = 3A14 3923 15BE FD57 FC06 B501 0841 2D7B 6F98 4199
Re: packages have been kept back?
RAccess [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What does it mean when I get the following: *** debian:~# apt-get -u upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following packages have been kept back task-devel-common 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded. *** Perhaps the packages is set 'on hold'. Packages on hold are not handled by dpkg, unless forced (see man dpkg). You can check the status of a package with (for example): dpkg --get-selections | grep $PKG hth, moritz -- Moritz Schulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.chaosdorf.de/moritz/ Debian/GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org/ http://www.gnu.org/ GPG fingerprint = 3A14 3923 15BE FD57 FC06 B501 0841 2D7B 6F98 4199
Re: Networking questions
seg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 1. My inetd.conf files contains entries such as these ones: #:STANDARD: These are standard services. These are of the form #:LABEL: (what the file states). Are these enabled or commented out? See man inetd.conf. Lines beginning with a '#' are comments. Perhaps you also find the update-inetd utility useful. I want to disable all rlogin, telnet, rsh, ftp, and whatnot (just running a firewall). Why not uninstalling these services? 3. How can I unsinstall ipmasq? You mean the package 'ipmasq'? 'dpkg --purge ipmasq' or 'apt-get remove --purge ipmasq' should do it.. And do I run my ipchains rules at startup (and echo 1 ip_forward and similar commands)? A good solution is to create a init script, put it in /etc/init.d/ and create the init links (for example with update-rc.d). 4. I want to log some specific network trafic. Where can I specify in which file the output of such a log should go? Packets matching a rule with the -l/--log flag are logged via printk() - so your syslogd should fetch these kernel messages. See man syslogd. 7. Can I block all TCP connection request (-y) without disrupting web, mail and whatnot access? Sure - do you have a special problem? Have you read the Firewall/IPChains Howto? moritz -- Moritz Schulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.chaosdorf.de/moritz/ Debian/GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org/ http://www.gnu.org/ GPG fingerprint = 3A14 3923 15BE FD57 FC06 B501 0841 2D7B 6F98 4199
Re: talk doesn't
Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I can't get the talk program to work. Just as a test, I'm trying to talk to myself within X. [...] The screen divides into two sections (upper and lower), the top reports No connection yet for a few seconds, and then reports Checking for invitation on caller's machine and just sits there forever. Is there something helpful in your log files (/var/log/syslog for example)? moritz -- Moritz Schulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.chaosdorf.de/moritz Debian/GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org/ http://www.gnu.org/ GPG fingerprint = 3A14 3923 15BE FD57 FC06 B501 0841 2D7B 6F98 4199
Re: Security Updates
Bill Shui [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ps. anyone know how to get deb packages for KDE2 without upgrading to unstable? http://kde.tdyc.com/ moritz -- Moritz Schulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.chaosdorf.de/moritz Debian/GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org/ http://www.gnu.org/ GPG fingerprint = 3A14 3923 15BE FD57 FC06 B501 0841 2D7B 6F98 4199
Re: out of RAM.
Dan Brosemer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a machine which I don't have access to the console of, which has run almost completely out of RAM: Due (entierly my fault) to a runaway perl script which (unfortunately) runs as root. I have an open SSH connection to this machine running bash as a normal user. su fails for lack of RAM: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:[~]$ su Password: bash: xmalloc: cannot allocate 2048 bytes (0 bytes allocated) Hmmm It seems that not _su_ fails, but _bash_ (the one which su tries to execute, I guess) fails. Perhaps you can still execute small programs? Does something like 'su -c kill pid of the evil process' work? hth, moritz -- Moritz Schulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.chaosdorf.de/moritz Debian/GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org/ http://www.gnu.org/ GPG fingerprint = 3A14 3923 15BE FD57 FC06 B501 0841 2D7B 6F98 4199
Re: talk doesn't
Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: syslog reports: error: cannot execute /usr/sbin/in.ntalkd: No such file or directory It seems you don't have the talk daemon installed; it's in the package 'talkd'. moritz -- Moritz Schulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.chaosdorf.de/moritz/ Debian/GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org/ http://www.gnu.org/ GPG fingerprint = 3A14 3923 15BE FD57 FC06 B501 0841 2D7B 6F98 4199
Re: MAIL environment variable.
Jools Smyth [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: previously on my system when i su'd between users and run mutt the MAIL env vcariable would be setup to the user i su'd to so the mail spool file could be found. Some package upgrade must have changed something as this no longer works. Start a login shell (su - user); see man su. moritz -- Moritz Schulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.chaosdorf.de/moritz Debian/GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org/ http://www.gnu.org/ GPG fingerprint = 3A14 3923 15BE FD57 FC06 B501 0841 2D7B 6F98 4199
Re: dselect/firewall
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: At work, our internet access is from a proxyserver. Is there anyway I can set dselect on my Debian 2.2r2 laptop to access through the proxyserver, while I'm at work. $ export http_proxy=http://foobar/; # or ftp_proxy? $ dselect I don't know, wether other dselect methods than apt honor http_proxy. moritz -- Moritz Schulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.chaosdorf.de/moritz/ Debian/GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org/ http://www.gnu.org/ GPG fingerprint = 3A14 3923 15BE FD57 FC06 B501 0841 2D7B 6F98 4199
Re: where would cu be?
Toni Janz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Anyone know what package contains the 'cu' utility? $ zgrep bin/cu Contents-i386.gz usr/bin/cu comm/uucp [...] moritz -- Moritz Schulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.chaosdorf.de/moritz/ Debian/GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org/ http://www.gnu.org/ GPG fingerprint = 3A14 3923 15BE FD57 FC06 B501 0841 2D7B 6F98 4199
Re: upgrading the kernel to 2.4
Nico De Ranter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I tried to compile a 2.4 kernel, however it turns out the /lib/modules directory has been restructured and now the system can't find any modules anymore. You simply need a newer version of modutils. You could fetch Unstable's (or, is it already in Testing?) modutils source package and compile it on your Potato system.. moritz -- Moritz Schulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.chaosdorf.de/moritz/ Debian/GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org/ http://www.gnu.org/ GPG fingerprint = 3A14 3923 15BE FD57 FC06 B501 0841 2D7B 6F98 4199
Re: gnome MIME types
Philipp Schulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi Phil, But changing the MIME type for html to /home/phil/mozilla/mozilla %f didn't work. If I try to open a html file I get an Unable to open message-box. Does this command with a file as parameter work, if you type it on a shell? 1. IIRC my Mozilla binary (nightly build, some time ago..) wasn't able to open files given as parameters automatically. Perhaps this has changed.. 2. You know, you've to enter the directory, where all the Mozilla files are. Is /home/phil/mozilla/mozilla the Mozilla binary or some kind of script which cd's into the directory and runs ./mozilla? moritz PS: See you later. ;) -- Moritz Schulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.chaosdorf.de/moritz/ Debian/GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org/ http://www.gnu.org/ GPG fingerprint = 3A14 3923 15BE FD57 FC06 B501 0841 2D7B 6F98 4199
Re: C compiler.
paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: i'm trying to compile (gcc filename.c) the following program, but it seems math.h isn't being found. The header file math.h is found. But the _function definitions_, which are part of the libc, are not found: [...] /tmp/ccCw1SMR.o(.text+0x52): undefined reference to `pow' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status [...] ...so, linking fails. You've to explicitely tell gcc to link against the math library with the '-lm' switch. moritz -- Moritz Schulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.chaosdorf.de/moritz/ Debian/GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org/ http://www.gnu.org/ GPG fingerprint = 3A14 3923 15BE FD57 FC06 B501 0841 2D7B 6F98 4199
Re: dist upgrade
Pann McCuaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You don't want dist-upgrade. You're not upgrading from one release to the next (potato to woody, for example), you're just making potato current. apt-get upgrade is what you want. See apt-get(8). 'dist-upgrade' is just more intelligent when it comes to dependency resolution than 'upgrade'. BTW: There's nothing special about an upgrade from one release to the next. It's just updating of packages. moritz -- Moritz Schulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.chaosdorf.de/moritz/ Debian/GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org/ http://www.gnu.org/ GPG fingerprint = 3A14 3923 15BE FD57 FC06 B501 0841 2D7B 6F98 4199
Re: Debian 2.2 and ISDN
Sebastiaan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] ipppd: info: no CHAP secret entry for this user! I think the error is the above. Have you edited your /etc/ppp/chap-secrets and added your username and password? Perhaps, the system is set up to use PAP, not CHAP? ipppd doesn't mention missing PAP entries.. moritz -- Moritz Schulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.chaosdorf.de/moritz Debian/GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org/ http://www.gnu.org/ GPG fingerprint = 3A14 3923 15BE FD57 FC06 B501 0841 2D7B 6F98 4199
Re: Debian 2.2 and ISDN
Felix Natter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Then I tried to dial using $isdnctrl dial ippp0 which does not create a connection and only results in these messages: Dec 16 20:29:10 couchpotato kernel: isdn_net: local hangup ippp0 Dec 16 20:29:10 couchpotato kernel: ippp0: Chargesum is 0 Perhaps you get more useful information, if you increase the verbose level? moritz -- Moritz Schulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.chaosdorf.de/moritz Debian/GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org/ http://www.gnu.org/ GPG fingerprint = 3A14 3923 15BE FD57 FC06 B501 0841 2D7B 6F98 4199
