Re: Promise ATA100 and translations
When I switched my single drive over to the A7V's Promise controller, it was moved from hda to hde. All I had to do was boot with root=/dev/hde1 (or wherever my root partition was, this was the most frustration as I didn't write them down first!) and fix my inittab for everything to work.. All partitions corresponded with their numbers exactly to what they were on hda (e.g. hda1 = hde1, hda2 = hde2, etc). I don't use windows, so I don't know how that will work. HTH, -nicole > I have an ATA100 disk which has been running on the ATA66 controller > as hdb. I moved it onto the ATA100 controller as an experiment; > linux spotted it as hde, but didn't think there were any partitions > on it. Actually it contains two extended partitions, a fat32 > partition and an ext2fs partition.
Re: RXTX/Java serial action
> 1. probably works but I haven't set up java which is needed as configure > looks for java clases... That's what I said... all I could tell was that it SHOULD work. > 2. here's the output from ldd > > mira:/tmp/rxtx-bins.1/1.5/i386-pc-linux> ldd * > > So I guess they work - all depends are satisfied for binary > distro Step 2 in my investigation concurs. I will double check here, though, the machine is a stable machine with glibc2.2. > FYI: There is really no difference b/w RedHat and Debian when it comes > to software compatability. At least for i386 arch as RedHat only > seems to support Intel.. This is why I am baffled by their "it works on RedHat, so it must be time to use RedHat!" I say BAH humbug! If it only works on RedHat, it's not good enough for me. > Have you tried it?? :) Switching to RedHat? No, I switched AWAY for a reason ;o) Installing/using RXTX? Not *yet*. I was doing my own dev for a while that I thankfully finished for a bit until more feature requests/changes come down from PHBs. This is step 3. Try it myself because I think they are full of it ;o) Thanks for the thoughts, -nicole
RXTX/Java serial action
ref: http://www.rxtx.org Anyone gotten a recent version of RXTX to work either by: 1) Compiling from source 2) Using the RXTX binaries or, 3) Alien-izing an RPM or other package? I have some people that I work with claiming that RXTX isn't working with debian even though it "works fine with redhat" and therefore we should make the "obvious choice" and switch to redhat. I have been told we need RXTX to have Java software talk to a modem/serial port through sun's comm.jar. All I have heard from the developers on the project is that it compiles on RH but we can't get it to compile on debian. If someone could provide me with links, feedback, suggestions, I'd be more than appreciative. I would also take opinions on OTHER methods (besides RXTX) to have Java talk straight to a modem/serial port. -nicole
Re: Norton Ghost?
> Maybe. Another thing that crosses my mind; are you disk imaging or > partition imaging. I can't imagine that you're doing partition imaging > because I can't think of any way you could get as far as you have, but > as I said, it's something that crossed my mind. Definitely disk imaging. -nicole
Re: Norton Ghost?
> You know, I wonder if it's a problem with the lilo 'graphical' menu. I > have not tried using the plain ol' LILO: prompt. No such luck. So let's recap the Lilo errors I've had with this dual boot ghost thing: 1. lilo.conf default=windows, first image=linux-2.4.16: LI 40 40 40 40 40 40 2. lilo.conf default=windows, first image=windows: LILO: Descriptor Checksum Error 3. lilo.conf default=windows, first image=windows, set to plain prompt: LI I am going to try moving linux to be the default and the first image. I wonder what error I'll get then. Heck at least I can document them! -nicole
Re: Norton Ghost?
> I've got a lab of 19 Gateways that are dual-booting between Debian and > W2K. I use Ghost to create them. Generally I use one as a master, push > the image up to a server, then ghost it down to the other machines. Well, I think if it's possible, it's possible. It must be something about either my lilo configuration, my partition configuration, or the way I'm making the images. > I've never worked with creating bootable CDs. All it really is is a CD with the ghost image and a bootable floppy all in one. I don't have Enterprise Ed. yet, so I am not yet running multicast. > When does the error occur? During the creation of the image, or during > the replication of the image. Does it happen in a consistent spot? I have created a bootable CD of a current working machine. I then use the bootable CD to 'expand' or 'apply' the image to another machine. When rebooting the second machine, it gives the Lilo error. In order to get it to work, I boot with a boot floppy and re-run Lilo on the machine. You know, I wonder if it's a problem with the lilo 'graphical' menu. I have not tried using the plain ol' LILO: prompt. -nicole
Norton Ghost?
Anyone used debian with norton ghost? I have a problem with lilo when I create a bootable CD image of a dual boot debian+win2k box. I thought maybe moving around the order of images in the lilo.conf (which ghost attempts to follow) would fix my issues, but apparently not. I talked to their tech support and they pretty much said "we don't support debian". The current problem is a "Descriptor checksum error". I would really prefer being able to clone machines AND have a working MBR rather than carry around a boot floppy. I was able to dump a debian-only image to another drive, it's something about the dual boot that makes it impossible. Any ideas are welcome. -nicole
ESD/esdctl problems
I am having some troubles with ESD (0.2.23-2 from unstable). I am running Gnome 1.4 (can give versions of gnome packages if necessary). First of all, sometimes ESD seems to freeze and toasts my running X session until I kill ESD. This sucks, because I lose any events configured to play sound. (When I tried to use `esdctl off` in this situation, it just hung) Secondly, sometimes when I exit my X session (using the Gnome logout button), ESD doesn't die. I have to manually kill -9 it or I can't log in to Gnome and start a complete session. Thirdly (and lastly), I am having trouble using esdctl to turn off the sound server. I want to play Quake3, but it does not mesh well with ESD. So, my plan was to use `esdctl off`. After installing a fresh kernel-image-2.4.14 and logging in, the first time I used `esdctl off`, it paused for a minute, then returned me to a prompt. I was able to start Quake and use sound with no problems. When I was done, I returned with `esdctl on`, which brought back my sounds. The problem happened when I tried again -- `esdctl off` did not have a pause and Quake3 reported /dev/dsp was busy. I used `lsof | grep dsp` and nothing came up, `esdctl standbymode` reported 'off'. Hardware: Intel i815EEA motherboard, onboard sound (uses the i810_audio module), kernel 2.4.14 (also happened with 2.4.5). Another of my users has the exact same problem with the exact same hardware. Any ideas are appreciated. -nicole
Re: netscape/mozilla recommendations requested.
I have successfully recompiled 0.9.5 from unstable for potato systems... if you want up to date and package-based it is a workable solution. Just install the build-deps packages for potato (probably some X-devs and general other devs), use deb-src lines for woody, and apt-get -b source mozilla. -nicole At 23:54 on Nov 17, Paul Mackinney combined all the right letters to say: > Michael Fontenot muttered: > > So if I want integrated browser/(email & newsgroups), I think > > my choice is to download netscape communicator from > > Netscape's webpage, or else install mozilla from my cd's. > > Is that correct? > > Michael, I download and install mozilla from www.mozilla.org, seems to > work OK. I've never seen a current package in apt or dselect. What works > for me:
Re: File attribute 's' ??
>From `man chmod` (text may be different, I'm on my OS X laptop atm): --- The perm symbols represent the portions of the mode bits as follows: [...] s The set-user-ID-on-execution and set-group-ID-on-execution bits. --- What you have found is a set UID executable file (possibly a script or something?). To get rid of the setuid bit, chmod it to something else. Maybe `chmod u-s ` would be a place to start. Manpages are your friend. -nicole At 15:42 on Nov 17, Rafe B. combined all the right letters to say: > A certain text file has become un-editable > and "invisible" to 'cat.' > > Doing 'ls -al' on this file reveals that it > has attribute 's' in the permissions string, > eg: > > srwxr-xr-x > > The 's' is in the position that you'd normally > find a 'd' or a hyphen. > > None of my manuals talk about this particular > attribute. What does it mean, and more > importantly, how do I get rid of it?? > > Thanks in advance > > > > rafe b. > > > >
Re: Netgear FA311, usable under Linux ?
> I think it was > natsemi # driver for ethernet card with National Semiconductor chipset I have tons of FA311s at work (okay, more like 10, but still ;o)). I have had a couple of them fail, but that is another issue. With 2.2 kernels, I use the module on the netgear floppies (available on the website). With 2.4 kernels the natsemi module works fine. -nicole
Re: Help needed starting audio
At 20:25 on Oct 21, Stuart Luscombe combined all the right letters to say: > > > > Don't forget to log off and back on again after adding yourself to the > > group. > > I did add myself into the group, but for some reason it didn't work. > So I did a chmod.. Are you sure you logged completely out? If you are running X, this means all the way out of X and it's parent shell (if you are running a *dm, restarting the *dm). You can make sure it worked by logging in to a new shell (like a new TTY or an SSH session) and doing the id or groups command there. -nicole
Re: mozilla questions
I have no idea where I signed up for my hotmail account, but I have been able to read it in both Netscape and Mozilla. The hotmail addresses all look like that... something like: lc3.law5.hotmail.passport.com lw15fd.law15.hotmail.msn.com -nicole At 00:38 on Sep 26, csj combined all the right letters to say: > But did you sign up for your notmail account using Mozilla? I've been > trying to access it for the past six months using a variety of Linux > browsers. I would get as far as the submit button (or whatever its > equivalent). The url at that point would read *law* (as if I was doing > something illegal).
Re: amd / radeon users, attention.
> i just got a frame rate of 250 fps on gears. mamma mia! :-) Actually, that's kind of slow. I get more like 900 on my athlon 850/256MB RAM/Radeon 64 DDR VIVO. You might want to `ldd `which gears`` to make sure you are using the right GL libraries. I had this same problem and after fixing my GL libraries I went from 200 to 900. -nicole
Re: windoe manager
Have you tried update-alternatives? `update-alternatives --display x-window-manager` `update-alternatives --config x-window-manager` (as root/sudo/etc). Choose the number corresponding to icewm-gnome/icewm (I don't have that WM installed so I'm not sure how it will come up, it should tell you the exact path to the binary). This will of course change it system-wide, but if you are considering re-installing, that seems like a better solution. -nicole At 17:02 on Sep 23, John combined all the right letters to say: > On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 01:56:04PM -0700, Sidney Brooks wrote: > > Enlightenment does not yield easily. > > > > To give .xinitrc a full chance, I used chmod +x on it, > > rebooted, and still got enlightenment. > > make sure you have the #!/bin/sh at the beginning of your .xinitrc file. > This was an old .xsession file I used: > > -- > #!/bin/sh > exec icewm-gnome > - > > & if this doesn't work, rename your .xinitrc file to .xsession. One of > those should work :) > > Or remove enlightenment. > > John > > > > > Then, I followed the guidance of Shawn Lamson. I > > created /home/.xsession with the text icewm and after > > saving it, I used chmod +x. When I rebooted, I still > > got enlightenment. > > > > It is beginning to look as if I will either have to > > reinstall Debian or learn to love enlightenment.
Re: mozilla questions
I use Mozilla 0.9.4 and I have no problem pulling up my hotmail inbox (other than it being slow, which is not abnormal, and there's nothing but spam in it, also normal). Make sure you (the original poster) have the package mozilla-psm installed. -nicole At 09:11 on Sep 24, Andrew Sione Taumoefolau combined all the right letters...: > > > 1. cannot access hotmail...i.e. when I click on "sign-in" "status bar > > > just says "done" but nothing happened > > > > AFAIK hotmail uses https, a protocol mozilla are not yet supporting. > > Mozilla supports https; the problem with Hotmail is that it uses a > self-signing certificate, which is something that Mozilla doesn't quite > yet support. Or, er, something. I've got no idea what this means, but > that's how it is at the moment :). > >
Re: Installing Java
As far as java itself goes, there are blackdown java 2 packages at: deb ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/linux/devel/lang/java/blackdown.org/debian $DIST non-free where $DIST = either potato or woody apt-get install j2sdk Note that they are non-free. hth, -nicole At 16:41 on Jul 13, Juan combined all the right letters to say: > HI, > > Which packages will I have to install to run & compile Java? And run Java > Server Pages? > > Thanks. > > Juan Jos? Vel?zquez Garcia > Web Development > www.htmlspider.com.br > > >
portsentry + kernel 2.4.x
This is the same message I sent to another mailing list, I am really frustrated. -- Forwarded message -- Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 15:31:25 -0700 (PDT) Hi All, I am having a problem with portsentry on kernel 2.4.5 machines. When using kernel 2.2.19 on the same machine, there is no problem (and it happens on two different compiles of 2.4.5). The problem: portsentry is having false positive port scans. Nobody is scanning me on ports 79 or 111, but it is reporting that people are (I am running both portsentry AND snort, which is how I know scans are *not* happening; I have also watched traffic with ethereal and found nothing abnormal). This happens to the point that portsentry is taking up 40-70% CPU. I searched on google and found a hit on a debian-laptop post, but all people said was "sounds like finger and RPC, what are you running", which is not the problem. Portsentry cannot tell me where the scans are coming from. Snort was reporting scans from our DNS' but I put those in the portsentry ignore. We are thinking it is misdiagnosing local (on-machine) traffic as not coming from localhost when it really is but that doesn't explain how to *fix* it without breaking/removing portsentry. Here is what the syslog entries look like: Jun 15 15:10:01 tonto portsentry[3146]: attackalert: Possible stealth scan from unknown host to TCP port: 111 (accept failed) Jun 15 15:10:31 tonto last message repeated 540822 times Jun 15 15:11:32 tonto last message repeated 1106736 times Jun 15 15:12:33 tonto last message repeated 1109614 times Jun 15 15:13:34 tonto last message repeated 1104765 times Jun 15 15:14:35 tonto last message repeated 1110612 times It used to say the same thing but was for port 79. Somehow it switched from 79 to 111 after I nmapped myself (to see how it would respond). With portsentry running, the following ports are open: Starting nmap V. 2.54BETA22 ( www.insecure.org/nmap/ ) Interesting ports on tonto (127.0.0.1): (The 1509 ports scanned but not shown below are in state: closed) Port State Service 1/tcp opentcpmux 9/tcp opendiscard 11/tcp opensystat 13/tcp opendaytime 15/tcp opennetstat 22/tcp openssh 23/tcp opentelnet 25/tcp opensmtp 37/tcp opentime 79/tcp openfinger 80/tcp openhttp 111/tcpopensunrpc 113/tcpopenauth 119/tcpopennntp 139/tcpopennetbios-ssn 143/tcpopenimap2 540/tcpopenuucp 631/tcpopencups 635/tcpopenunknown 859/tcpopenunknown 1080/tcp opensocks 1524/tcp openingreslock 2000/tcp opencallbook 6000/tcp openX11 6667/tcp openirc 12345/tcp openNetBus 12346/tcp openNetBus 31337/tcp openElite 32771/tcp opensometimes-rpc5 32772/tcp opensometimes-rpc7 32773/tcp opensometimes-rpc9 32774/tcp opensometimes-rpc11 54320/tcp openbo2k Without portsentry running, the following ports are open: Starting nmap V. 2.54BETA22 ( www.insecure.org/nmap/ ) Interesting ports on tonto (127.0.0.1): (The 1529 ports scanned but not shown below are in state: closed) Port State Service 9/tcp opendiscard 13/tcp opendaytime 22/tcp openssh 23/tcp opentelnet 25/tcp opensmtp 37/tcp opentime 80/tcp openhttp 111/tcpopensunrpc 113/tcpopenauth 139/tcpopennetbios-ssn 631/tcpopencups 859/tcpopenunknown 6000/tcp openX11 Nmap run completed -- 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 0 seconds I am running: tonto:/home/colby# uname -a Linux tonto 2.4.5 #1 Thu Jun 14 13:47:38 PDT 2001 i686 unknown on: tonto:/home/colby# cat /etc/debian_version testing/unstable Kernel was made with kernel-package: Package: kernel-image-2.4.5 Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: base Installed-Size: 2824 Maintainer: Nicole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Source: kernel-source-2.4.5 Version:
Re: MySQL upgrade problem
Well, it just works now. For some reason things installed fine today. Thank you cron jobs? -nicole > Configuring packages ... > (Reading database ... 93508 files and directories currently installed.) > Preparing to replace mysql-server 3.22.32-4 (using > .../mysql-server_3.22.32-6_i386.deb) ... > I need adduser(8) from the adduser.deb package ! > dpkg: error processing > /var/cache/apt/archives/mysql-server_3.22.32-6_i386.deb (--unpack): > subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1 > Can't find your LOGFILE=.procmail/log > Can't locate object method "t" via package "command_can" at > /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/DebConf/ConfModule.pm line 118, chunk 1. > dpkg: error while cleaning up: > subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 29 > Errors were encountered while processing: > /var/cache/apt/archives/mysql-server_3.22.32-6_i386.deb > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
MySQL upgrade problem
I just apt-get upgrade d after about a month of not doing so (network outages). One of the packages to upgrade was MySQL -- from version 3.22.32-4 to 3.22.32-6. Here are the errors I get: Configuring packages ... (Reading database ... 93508 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace mysql-server 3.22.32-4 (using .../mysql-server_3.22.32-6_i386.deb) ... I need adduser(8) from the adduser.deb package ! dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/mysql-server_3.22.32-6_i386.deb (--unpack): subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1 Can't find your LOGFILE=.procmail/log Can't locate object method "t" via package "command_can" at /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/DebConf/ConfModule.pm line 118, chunk 1. dpkg: error while cleaning up: subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 29 Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/mysql-server_3.22.32-6_i386.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) Any ideas on how I can repair this? I need MySQL. I searched the bugs on mysql-server and didn't find anything on it. I have adduser installed. I also have /usr/sbin in the *global* /etc/profile. thanks, -nicole
apache+cgi+php+ssi
I have a website that includes a "virtual" SSI directive for site statistics. This worked for a long time, and it still *sort of* works, but within the last week I have had some strange problems. Things work within the local network, as far as I can tell (I have checked on my computer and my husband's computer, which are both within the network). They don't work anywhere outside of the local network. PHP sites return the error: Warning: Unable to include '/cgi-bin/file.cgi?options' - request execution failed in /html/directory/subdirectory/index.php3 on line 156 HTML (.shtml) sites say: [an error occurred while processing this directive] The apache logs say: [Tue Apr 3 21:15:40 2001] [error] [client 1.2.3.4] Premature end of script headers: /directory/cgi-bin/file.cgi [Tue Apr 3 21:15:40 2001] [error] [client 1.2.3.4] unable to include "/cgi-bin/file.cgi?options" in parsed file /html/directory/subdirectory/index.shtml In the /html/directory information I do have the Includes option as well as ExecCGI. This is also true for the CGI directory. I don't think this is critical considering it *works* locally. Anyone have ideas as to what could cause this and how I can fix it? I don't see any .htaccess files anywhere in these directories. The cgi scripts are all owned by www-data:www-data and are 755. Why would it work locally and not externally? I have dug and dug and I can't find an answer. Insight is appreciated. While searching I did find a LOT of other sites with these errors, but none with a solution. If you'd like to see the problem live, try colby.dhs.org (scroll over the eyeball) for the html error and amimulletornot.dhs.org for the php error (same thing, scroll over the eyeball). -nicole
Re: Getting to the GUI...
> (4) When install finishes log into root and do > apt-get install xserver-mach64 > and say yes to making it the default xserver. > > It starts up XF86Setup and I configure what I think > is the correct monitor choice - 8514 for starters. > > When I hit [Done] the Xserver barfs - "no screens > configured" so therefore get the infamous (by this time) > "can't connect error 111" message. This isn't really enough information to "fix" this sort of problem from. Try starting X with `startx > xlog.log` and then after your Xserver fails to load, check in the xlog.log for more information. There has to be a reason your screens aren't configured. > What am I missing? I ask this because 3 other people within the last few > days have also made mention of this same problem with the X server - the > "can't connect, 111 error". Two were on this reflector and one was in a > private mailing. I would hazard a guess that it is all tied up in one's > monitor selection, perhaps coupled with the choice of monitor mode if you look at the "Screen" section of your XF86Config you'd get a little bit of a picture of a "screen". A "screen" combines the driver for your card with the monitor and the depth/mode information. If any one of these things goes wrong, a "screen" can't be created and you get the errno111. -nicole
iptables and MSN zone
I have set up a NAT/firewall box running debian testing/unstable (a mix) and kernel 2.4.0. I am using the firewall.sh script from firewall.nerdherd.net (iptables-firewall-0.99). So far everything works well. I think the script should have mentioned or included `echo "1" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward`, which tripped us up for a while, but that's a separate issue :o) We have found one problem: playing Asheron's Call from a windows box inside the firewall. We did a lot of digging on the net and found some information about loose UDP communication and fixes for 2.2.x kernels for these services. I can't find anything on 2.4 kernels, though. I have tried a few things, but I do not think I know enough about iptables to really get it working for sure. I think this loose UDP thing could be a factor, but I don't know enough about kernel 2.4 to know. 1) does anyone have success stories about Asheron's Call with 2.4 in a similar configuration? What was the solution? 2) is there any iptables-based advantage to switching to 2.4.1? 3) is there any (dis) advantage to switching *back* to 2.2.x where known fixes exist? I swear I saw a fix for this somewhere on a mailing list very recently but I can't find it. -nicole -- http://colby.dhs.org @ Colby - me! http://ghettobox.dhs.org \|/ ghettoBOX - home! Entropy just isn't what it used to be. / \
Re: those problems where the easiest thing to do seems to be to reboot...
> 1) you 'cat' a file you shouldn't in the console mode. before you know > it everything on the commandline becomes an unreadable mess of ascii > characters you didn't know you had. try `reset` perhaps. You might not see the characters in correct ascii, but it should work. Maybe ctrl+l would work too, but I think reset is a better bet. I think there is another way but I can't think of it off hand. > 2) X crashes (hasn't for a while actually) and dumps you in a grey > screen with a mouse pointer and nothing else. (That would be running > unstable, helix-gnome, enlightenment and gdm with mozilla to crash it). > I've tried restarting the gdm daemon but that doesn't work. ctrl+alt+backspace or ctrl+alt+f1 (f2, f3, ...), log in, `ps aux | grep x` and kill whatever X is stopping you. If xdm is running, it will restart X anyway (afaik). -nicole
Re: Mailbox vulnerable!
http://www.washington.edu/pine/faq/sysadmins.html#11.15 11.15 What do I need to know about Pine file locking and what does the "mailbox vulnerable" error mean? Your problem is covered here, I believe. It is probably also covered again and again and again in comp.mail.pine. -nicole At 21:47 on Jan 17, RAccess combined all the right letters to say: > > Hello. I am running exim on my home debian woody. I am using pine as my > email client and it shows the following error, whenever it checks the > mailbox: > > [Mailbox Vulnerable - directory /var/spool/mail must have 1777 protection] > > This is obviously a directory permission problem, and not a pine problem > (So it is a valid question for this mailing list). How is it vulnerable? > What exactly does 1777 protection mean? Currently the mail directory has > permissions (default): > > drwxrwsr-x2 root root4.0k Jan 17 21:45 mail > > Thanks in advance.
video card suggestions
I am going to be purchasing a new system in the near future and am looking for suggestions on video cards. This system will be with me for quite some time, so I am looking for something that has at least decent support at the moment but not necessarily rock-solid. The new system is going to be a duron750 or 800 with 128 or 256 MB RAM. I will (of course) be running debian. I am looking for input on performance, installation, drivers, x servers, anything, related to 3d cards out there today. Direct experience would help. I am leaning toward a radeon, but am open to suggestions. I don't like the idea of a binary kernel module, but if that's the best out there, it is a possibility. -nicole
Graphical tools & Why choose Debian?
Matthew said: > It's not easy to learn, but all linuxi have a steep learning curve. I > just really love the ability to know exactely why something is > happening, and the power of being able to change so much and edit > everything by hand. Relatedly, it is frustrating to see new linux users with a fresh install of (e.g.) mandrake asking how to fix problems getting responses from other (e.g.) mandrake users giving them all of the graphical solutions. People giving CLI solutions are turned down for the "better" graphical solution, even if the graphical solution does not precisely solve the problem (and may produce problems of it's own). Coming from being frustrated that files were *hidden* and you never knew what was going on makes me wonder what appeal these people have in linux at all if they are going to continue using graphical tools to point them in the right direction? A big beef I have with graphical tools is not that they exist, but rather that they do not tell you what they are doing. Perhaps the example above would instead choose to directly edit the file if only he/she knew what the graphical tool was editing to make the desired change the first time. This would have helped a lot of my frustrations as a linux newbie. Back on topic... I came to debian in a roundabout way. (Perspective: I am now in my 4th year of college) My home computer or computer I used to do stuff with for a long time was/were always Macintoshes. Sometime in middle school we learned a little bit of BASIC, which was interesting, but mostly just done to get through the class with an A. In high school, I was introduced to windows (3.1 and later 95). I hated it. Thankfully, they still had macintoshes so I stuck with those. When using the windows machines, I played around trying to mess with them and get around security. Also in high school on my mac IIsi, I started BBSing and joined the local freenet (scn.org), which ran unix. I loved the interface, although I wished they would just give me better access to more things so I didn't have to use the menu system. :o) When I came to college, the mail accounts were all run on unix machines and we used those machines when I was learning C++. Finally, the full access(ish) that I had desired. I played around with it a lot. I also continued my quest to get around windows security on the lab machines. My (future) husband, who was/is a CS major, had played around with linux a bit but couldn't get it working. After we moved in together and had a scrap box (still entitled the "ghettobox") we decided to go for it and install linux. Because of his previous experiences with debian (poor, I guess), we went originally with redhat. I found it clunky and insecure (we were l33t h4x0r3d about a year into it), but I learned with it. I hated the graphical tools (linuxconf, netconf, etc) and didn't like the organisation. At this point, I knew more than my husband, so I convinced him to change over to debian. He went along with it, especially considering he used the winbox 90% of the time and really wouldn't have had a choice in the end. I found debian an entertaining challenge. I loved the packaging system, the updating was painless and quick (no more rpmfind!). It was simple (but oh so complex!), no graphical tools to hide things from me and *I* was given the choice on what kinds of things I wanted installed. I was very impressed with the amount of packages and the way dependencies were handled. Later, I decided to sign on to the mailing lists and keep up. The amount of support and information that can be found on these lists is impressive. I have a lot more working knowledge than my CS major husband (who has a job administering a RH/debian lab), but I am much more underrated. :o) I now find windows a difficult interface to use and get smacked a lot for laughing at blue screens. -nicole
Re: WOT: Hotmail mail servers
Try checking out the different servers at netcraft's what's that server running (now includes uptime stats). http://www.netcraft.com/whats Just checking www.hotmail.com would not be sufficient in this case. If you have a hotmail account, check the addresses it actually sends you to to read mail. If you don't, they are probably listed somewhere out on the big bad internet. -nicole At 13:07 on Jan 11, user list combined all the right letters to say: > I have just heard a rumor that the hoemail mail servers are not MS > exchange servers but, rather, linux mail servers. Is this true? If so, > is this well known? we are fighting a guerrilla action over this where > I work. I'm on a unix server that never has problems while the rest of > the institution runs on exchange servers that are about as reliable as > power in California. > > >
Re: APC Back Pro 650 UPS anyone??
I'm not sure if this is what you're looking at/for, but you might want to check out this link: http://www.apcc.com/products/management/pcp_linux.cfm -nicole At 19:05 on Aug 26, Felipe Alvarez Harnecker combined all the right letters...: > > Hi, > > can anyone send advice on software and configuration for this thing? > > I've tried apcd without success. > > I'got the shipped cable and really DON'T want to make a custom one. > > Thanx > >
debian on HP netserver 6000
Anyone have experience installing and setting up RAID on an HP netserver 6000? Have convinced the folks that debian is the OS for them (doing NIS and NFS mostly), but now we're looking out for issues we may run into setting it all up. No SMP needed, just RAID. (the 6000 stats can be seen here if interested: http://netserver.hp.com/netserver/products/highlights_lh6000.asp ) thanks -nicole
Re: Procmail w/Pine
> Zope mailing-list mail get put into zope folder. All other mail get put > into $HOME/mail/inbox but pine isn't recognizing them. > Any suggestions? Your problem is not with procmail, but with pine. Under M(ain) --> S(etup) --> C(onfig), you want to put a nice little X next to enable-incoming-folders. After you do this, up near the top, there is a spot (incoming-archive-folders) where you want to add all the names of your incoming folders. After this, you can E(xit config). You might have to restart pine, but it should recognise the incoming folders. If you want them to be folders but not incoming folders (which means pine does not let you check the folders by pressing to go to the next one), you can go into M(ain) --> L(ist), then choose the folder collection you want to add a folder from (probably mail/). Inside the collection, press A(dd) and enter all the requested info. -nicole
Re: Pine with Color
> > I just installed Pine and like it a lot better than Mutt. But Mutt can view > > mail in many different colors. How do the same in Pine? > > Thanks > > You can't. Depends on what you want to do with colors and what version of pine you're using. If you are using pine 4.21 you can specify colors for specific parts of a mail message and for pine's environment in general. If you are using an earlier version then as Ben said, you can't. -nicole
Re: [Q] Can Samba mount 'shared' (not 'served') Win drives ?
At 11:44 on Aug 4, Dirk Eddelbuettel combined all the right letters to say: > No, I mean C:\ as the main partition on the 'desktop' computer. > Permissions are read-access for everyone. Can I read those from Linux via > Samba? What *have* you tried? If you do a `smbmount` (no args) it blah blahs about mounting smbfs stuffs. At the bottom is the snippet that someone posted earlier, mount -t smbfs -o username=tridge,password=foobar //fjall/test /data/test Right now, I have the e: drive of the windows box to my left mounted by mount -t smbfs //crackbox/e /mnt/smb/crackbox/ If it were password protected by windows share, I'd do the same thing, let it try to mount it, and then smbmount *asks* me for the password to access the directory. Obviously, I had to create the /mnt/smb/crackbox/ dir, but that's not something out of the ordinary. Do you get any sort of errors or anything? When I've had problems in the past, I know errors were reported back (I can't remember what they were, but I know they were there). -nicole
Re: holly crap!
> > I've done somethig very bad.. I did: > > > > rm * /var/spool/fax/outgoing > > > > I was user not root (little sigh), but I lost a lot of data.. Is there > > ANYWAY to recover all the lost files in /home/me ??? There is a package in unstable called 'recover'. Description: Undelete files on ext2 partitions Recover automates some steps as described in the ext2-undeletion howto. This means it seeks all the deleted inodes on your hard drive with debugfs. When all the inodes are indexed, recover asks you some questions about the deleted file. These questions are: * Hard disk device name * Year of deletion * Month of deletion * Weekday of deletion * First/Last possible day of month * Min/Max possible file size * Min/Max possible deletion hour * Min/Max possible deletion minute * User ID of the deleted file * A text string the file included (can be ignored) If recover found any fitting inodes, he asks to give a directory name and dumps the inodes into the directory. Finally he asks you if you want to filter the inodes again (in case you typed some wrong answers). http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/admin/recover.html I have not used said package, but came across it during another install. -nicole
Re: Unidentified subject!
> 1) My monitor turns off (energy saving) when I call XF86Setup. I believe > it's because the monitor (a LG StudioWorks 520) is Plug-and-Play, it sends > information to the CPU (and it is expecting some answer back) , etc. How > can I fix that? What this *might* be is something other than energy saving... if XF86Setup starts an X server for you that has horizontal and vertical refresh rates that are outside the range of your monitor, the monitor says "I don't think so" and turns itself "off". When this happened to me, my monitor displayed a message "refresh out of range" and gave the correct refresh rate ranges to use. When you set the refresh rates in the configure-r (configurator?) be sure they are the actual ranges for your monitor and not just generic ones. These ranges should be in your monitor manual. > 2) After reading a lot about modems, I bought a Lucent Venus Voice Modem, > which is ISA, which is a big card (lots of hard on it), which is a fine > modem with Windows 98, achieving the velocity of 115 Kbps, and I believed > it was NOT a Host Controlled Modem, WinModem and all this kind of stuff. I > ran pppconfig, but my modem is not detected. Is it a winmodem? Is there > something I can do to get my modem working? Is it a REAL MODEM? Or I > cheated myself? Try checking the list at http://start.at/modem or http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html (click on "big list"). -nicole
Re: Exim congfigs... & perl scripts
I believe if you run `eximconfig` the script asks if you will be handlnig mail for more than one local domain. Otherwise, it is near the top of /etc/exim.conf: "Specify your local domains as a colon-separated list here. If this option is not set (i.e. not mentioned in the configuration file), the qualify_recipient value is used as the only local domain. If you do not want to do any local deliveries, uncomment the following line, but do not supply any data for it. This sets local_domains to an empty string, which is not the same as not mentioning it at all. An empty string specifies that there are no local domains; not setting it at all causes the default value (the setting of qualify_recipient) to be used." For example, on my home machine: qualify_domain = ghettobox.dhs.org local_domains = localhost:ghettobox.dhs.org:colby.dhs.org:andross.dhs.org When I send out mail externally from my machine, it sends as [EMAIL PROTECTED] (unless I have the mailer configured otherwise). I am able to receive mail to any of the local_domains (other than maybe localhost) from the outside world. I have had quite a time configuring exim, while I find it more desirable than sendmail it is a little awkward after using sendmail for a while. You may want to check: http://www.exim.org While it is not necessarily expansive and all inclusive, it really helps on some things. As for perl scripts, I can't help you there. I did a google search on "perl parse mail header" and came up with some leads: http://www.perl.com/pub/doc/manual/html/pod/perlfaq9.html http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/prkunix/excerpt/PWPMch04.html http://www.infobiogen.fr/people/fred/doc/perl/script-pl-idx.html http://sunsite.org.uk/packages/mh/contrib/audit/ If anything, they may provide some examples (which has helped me learn quite a bit). -nicole > Hi, Anyone have experience setting up Exim as a single IP/multiple > host mailing system? What I wish to do is use my IP for multiple > domains... Running into trouble as to where to get decent docs for > this?. > > Also, anyone have some decent leads on perl scripts for parsing mail > headers? Thanks, Jack
Re: XFree86 4.0.1 from source
I have a r128 (and a matrox mga) w/xfree 4.0.1 also, I too see these errors every time I startx. It's actually comforting to hear someone else having the same problem ;o) It is *definitely* nice to see the performance increase on the rage128, it is also much improved for 4.0.1 than just flat 4.0. The only lasting problem I have is thanks to my 2 video cards, the secondary card never loads the windowmaker background on start. I think I might need to start *just* that card by itself and set it there. Worth a shot. -nicole At 18:51 on Jul 31, Dave Wilk combined all the right letters to say: > Howdy folks, > > I successfully compiled XFree 4.0.1 from source with some very helpful > suggestions from a /. post. I've compiled alot of source, but never > anything this big. anyway, it went fine, everything in /usr/local/X11R6/ > and all the configs are fine and I even get the xserver to start and > initialize everything just fine except one thing. Even though I installed > the fonts, and they exist in their respective dirs. (under > /usr/local/X11R6/) I still get the following errors: > > Could not init font path element /usr/local/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/, > removing from list! > Could not init font path element /usr/local/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/, > removing from list!
Re: erratic ps/2 mouse behavior
Sounds like a gpm problem. If you're using XFree4, kill gpm and it should work ok (Xfree4 does things a bit differently and does not have support for gpm). If you're not using Xfree4, check your gpm config or try going around gpm to see if your mouse works without it just fine. I had this problem and do every time gpm is started while using xfree4. I have had it in xfree3 in the past, usually after switching mice. -nicole At 00:02 on Jul 25, Brad combined all the right letters to say: > On Sat, Jul 22, 2000 at 06:06:51PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > > > > when i move the mouse it will at times go out of control, the pointer > > starts jumping around the screen extremely fast with the buttons going > > off randomly (i am not clicking the mouse buttons, but the windowmaker > > menu, and window menus appear and my workspaces are switched around > > when the mouse `clicks' my windowmaker clip several times, it has even > > dragged icons off the dock and thrown them away) > > > > the pointer usually ends up in the upper right corner of the screen > > but it jumps around so fast i can only see where it has been by where > > menus pop up and windows get closed etc. it is exceedingly annoying.
Re: StarOffice5.2 install
In linux, you just ./so-5_2-ga-bin-linux-en.bin (from that dir) and it runs an extracter/installer. There are installation instructions on the SO website, also, but that's just about all it says. http://www.sun.com/products/staroffice/5.2/download.html#install -nicole > http://tzo.linux.tucows.com/x11html/adnload/019-010-009-004_4144.html > > At this point my only internet access is via Lose 98. That will > change shortly. So, I used IE4, clicked on the Linux SO 5.2 > download link. What I got was a 61 MB file file named > > so-5_2-ga-bin-linux-en.bin > > I was expecting a tar.gz file. Windows says it is a "bin file"-- not > very informative. > > What is this beast and how do I use it?
