virtual console on serial port
Hi, I have an old sun box here (Netra s20), and apparently it outputs console data via it's serial port. Now given the cables I have, what I would like to do is this: Plug a serial cable from the Netra's serial cable into the serial port on the back of my linux box, and have the display from the sun box outputted to a virtual console on said linux box. What I would like to know is: 1. is this possible 2. how do I tell Linux what to do? thanks in advance for any help with this somewhat unusual problem, Renai
iptables rules
Hi, I'm running 2.4.7 on a workstation machine with sid, and I'd like to set up simple firewalling rules on my machine. >From a security point of view, I don't have any services available, they're all disabled, so all I need to be able to do is web browse, check email, irc, icq, etc, while having all unwelcome packets rejected. Can someone give me some advice on how to setup some simple rules as well as having them refreshed when I restart? thanks, Renai
SN-5100TX or Pulse H1012
Hi, I need to find out whether the SN-5100TX 10/100 pci network card and/or the Pulse H1012 pci network card are supported under linux. I think they most probably are, but I need to find out which driver to use for them. (Yes, I have searched google and looked at the linuxdoc hardware compatibility list, both without result). thanks, Renai
Re: All packages ... again.
Dario, This is all just what I think :) Anyone feel free to tell me I'm wrong :) If you want some advice, Installing everything would create a horrendously unstable debian system, in my opinion. There are just some packages that_don't_work_together, ie if you install them, that will create conflicts that will cause your system to stop functioning at a basic level. That's why we have package dependencies - so we can tell what should be installed at the same time as another package - and what shouldn't. For example, if I remember correctly, if you install debconf and debconf-tiny, they conflict with each other. There's really no point to doing it! You can't use them both at the same time. In my experience, the debian package management system is intelligent enough to tell you this, whereas the redhat one isn't. Renai
quick question
just a quick question for those adminning large networks out there - what software package do you use for notifications etc? I am a junior admin in a large network of linux/freebsd machines, and looking at implementing a system based upon netsaint, which I consider will do all I need (when combined with mysql), however my senior admin seems to think NOCOL is a better system. love to hear some commentary, Renai NOCOL home page: http://www.netplex-tech.com/software/nocol/ NETSAINT home page: http://netsaint.sourceforge.net
Linux vs Windows NT?
Hi Guys, I have a friend who is going through uni, and has been asked to provide a comparison of Linux vs Windows NT in answer to this question: "Microsoft NT has so many problems that serious consideration is being given to changing to the Linux platform." and the question is: "Is Linux really and alternative to NT? why?" Being a linux/bsd admin, he asked me. Now I don't have the time or the inclination to research it for him :) But I'd like to know if anyone out there has any links in their bookmarks dir which he would find helpful (keeping in mind the fact that he is a windows98 gaming guy). thanks, Renai
Re: FTP which is the best?
Proftpd was recommended to me, and since reading their home page (http://www.proftpd.org), I have come to the conclusion that they are worth my time. However, if you need something really secure, use openssh's 'scp' which provides encrypted ftp-like capabilities. Of course you can't use anonymous ftp with that though On Thursday 07 June 2001 16:31, Mike Egglestone wrote: > Hi all.. > > I was wondering your opinions on FTP packages. > proftpd or wu-ftpd or other...? > > Which one is more secure? > Which one is more useful? etc etc... > > thanks > Mike Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1"; name="Attachment: 1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description:
gnumeric
can someone give me pointers as to why gnumeric is not apt-gettable in unstable? or a way to apt-get it? I'd rather not compile it from source. thanks, Renai
Re: small school: replacements for MS Word and Excel
I would suggest that that review is a little old. It only has a very small section on kword, which after all, is currently one of the best Linux word processors out there. If you want my advice (I'm a journalist and sysadmin), Kword is fast, free and approaching stability. It's now useable for daily work, and in about a year I would say it will probably be giving the proprietory word processors out there a run for their money. Renai On Thursday 31 May 2001 13:12, Kevin Ross wrote: > LinuxPlanet has a side-by-side review of all the word processors for Linux, > including: > > StarOffice 5.2 > WordPerfect 9 > AbiWord > Applix Words > Maxwell > KWord (part of KOffice, for KDE) > > The review is at: > http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reports/1762/1/ > > -- Kevin > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Netscape problem in debian. Found the cause :-)
no, the newer version of sawmill is called sawfish the new version of icewm is called icewm On Thursday 31 May 2001 11:20, Oki DZ wrote: > Steve Kieu wrote: > > I hope this infomation is usefull for some one using > > icewm like me, and hope that if some one knows the > > better version of icewm and make it to debian package > > for potato, it will be great. Thanx. > > I heard that the newer version of icewm is called sawfish (which is > neatly packaged in a .deb). > CMIIW. > > Oki
Re: CPU speed
kernel 2.0.36 running on a cyrix machine. I can get the cyrix brand name but no actual cpu speed. On Wednesday 30 May 2001 11:28, you wrote: > What cases? > > -- > Andrew J Perrin - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin > Asst Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill > 269 Hamilton Hall, CB#3210, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3210 USA > > On Wed, 30 May 2001, Renai LeMay wrote: > > in some cases catting this file did not produce any information. > > > > Anything else? > > > > And offtopic, but is there an equivalent file in FreeBSD? > > > > On Wednesday 30 May 2001 10:56, Andrew Perrin wrote: > > > cat /proc/cpuinfo > > > > > > -- > > > Andrew J Perrin - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin > > > Asst Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill > > > 269 Hamilton Hall, CB#3210, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3210 USA > > > > > > On Wed, 30 May 2001, Renai LeMay wrote: > > > > can anyone tell me the best way to check CPU speed on a 2.0.36 > > > > kernel? > > > > > > > > I tried dmesg but it didn't give me any details about cpu... > > > > > > > > Renai > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
the clip in windowmaker
can anyone tell me how to get the clip in windowmaker back? I had a crash and for some reason it's now not starting up when wmaker starts. thanks, Renai
re: CPU speed
in some cases catting this file did not produce any information. Anything else? And offtopic, but is there an equivalent file in FreeBSD? On Wednesday 30 May 2001 10:56, Andrew Perrin wrote: > cat /proc/cpuinfo > > -- > Andrew J Perrin - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin > Asst Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill > 269 Hamilton Hall, CB#3210, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3210 USA > > On Wed, 30 May 2001, Renai LeMay wrote: > > can anyone tell me the best way to check CPU speed on a 2.0.36 kernel? > > > > I tried dmesg but it didn't give me any details about cpu... > > > > Renai > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
CPU speed
can anyone tell me the best way to check CPU speed on a 2.0.36 kernel? I tried dmesg but it didn't give me any details about cpu... Renai
windowmaker themes
is there a package for unstable containing windowmaker themes? I was using fvwm but have recently acquired a large amount of ram Renai
boot system under unstable
hi, the boot system and init scripts seem to have changed location upon upgrading to unstable, most importantly I can't find a rc.local. Can someone point me to a document describing the new boot system? thanks, Renai
moving partitions to another hard drive
ok, I have asked this question before, in a slightly different form, but I couldn't find it in the archives, say I had two IDE hdd's, hda and hdb. say that hda was composed of a swap partition and /. how would I create a situation where all my data and my swap partition was on hdb instead of hda? ie - so I could take hda out and throw it away? thanks, Renai
Re: Strange reboot
I remember reading somewhere that kernel 2.4.4 had some form of issues - it was recommended to me that I wait until 2.4.5. I run 2.4.3 under unstable with no problems. Renai On Tuesday 22 May 2001 09:48, Cheng H. Lee wrote: > Hi all, > > I was wondering whether any one could explain why my machine would > spontaneously reboot itself. It's a Debian unstable box running kernel > 2.4.4. > > Personally I suspect some sort of issue with the kernel itself. I doubt > that the machine has been broken into since absolutely nothing has shown > up in my logs, no port scans, no TCP/IP connections, nothing in my > Apache and proftpd logs. > > Any thoughts? > > Thanks for the help, > > Cheng
Re: compaq on board sound
hi, yes I_am_familiar with setting up sound on Linux. Basically, my problem is - there is not a sound card as such. It's an onboard sound thing - which means there is simply a motherboard and a few sound out/in ports on the back. I don't know how to setup onboard/sound/video, the motherboard doesn't exactly say what model it is - so what should i do? On Friday 11 May 2001 12:15, ktb wrote: > On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 12:16:43PM +1000, Renai LeMay wrote: > > hi guys, > > > > I would like to get the on board sound card on my compaq presario 2415 > > working. I've been looking on the net for about an hour, and can't find > > any documentation on what driver to use, how to set it up etc. > > > > If anyone could give me a hand on pointing me to some docos that would be > > great. > > Do you know what kind of sound card it is? If not take a look on the > motherboard. Once you know the card take a look here - > http://users.bart.nl/~patrickr/hardware-howto/Hardware-HOWTO.html > > Then recompile your kernel adding sound support for the card. Once you > know what card your dealing with and what you have tried, post back for > more help. > kent
compaq on board sound
hi guys, I would like to get the on board sound card on my compaq presario 2415 working. I've been looking on the net for about an hour, and can't find any documentation on what driver to use, how to set it up etc. If anyone could give me a hand on pointing me to some docos that would be great. Thanks, Renai
/proc/kcore
can someone tell me what the file /proc/kcore is used for? thanks, Renai
creating an apt-repository
I think a question similar to this has been asked before, so I apologise ahead of time, but I couldn't find it. Is there a guide somewhere online to creating a local apt-repository for use within our internal network? We only want to mirror stable and updates from the debian security site. What tools should I be using? I tried searching google but didn't get very far. thanks again, Renai
Re: reiserfs installation
Real men don't backup. They upload their files to an ftp server :) On Monday 30 April 2001 17:07, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 05:02:17PM +1000, Renai LeMay ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Monday 30 April 2001 16:49, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > on Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 10:15:20PM -0800, Ethan Benson > > > > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 12:47:06PM +0700, Oki DZ wrote: > > > > > Renai LeMay wrote: > > > > > > I've been using reiserfs on my /doc partition for a while, and am > > > > > > very impressed with it's performance. > > > > > > > > > > It is fast, indeed. And fsck'ing no more :-) > > > > > > > > not true, when (and i say when) the kernel corrupts the filesystem > > > > you WILL need to fsck it, and unfortuantly reiserfsck sucks. > > > > > > My understanding is that most current reiserfs issues involve 2.4 > > > kernels. ReiserFS under 2.2.18+ is pretty stable. 2.4 is not > > > recommended unless you're involved in reiserfs development or hate > > > yourself (or the "friend" whose system you're configuring ;-) > > > > I've been running reiserfs with 2.4.3 on a /doc partition which basically > > houses my mp3s - so it's constantly being accessed - for a couple of > > weeks, with no difficulties. > > > > That's not exactly heavy useage though. > > The extremely consistent response I've had from experienced linux users, > including kernel hackers (Rusty Russell, while in Canberra recently), is > "you're a brave man", which is tempered when I say "2.2". > > Keep your backups current. Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; charset="us-ascii"; name="Attachment: 1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description:
Re: Newbie needs help
> Since you say 'I dont know anything about linux/unix' I would also > recommend a very well-balanced Linux intro book by Michael Kofler, > entitled _Linux_. It's on its second edition and is published by > Addison-Wesley. bookpool.com should carry it, along with many other > retailers. When I've helped friends install linux, I always point them at: http://www.linuxdoc.org - the Linux Documentation Project and http://www.linuxnewbie.org - for more practical guides like installing a certain sound card, video card, configuring home network etc. good luck! Renai
Re: reiserfs installation
I've been running reiserfs with 2.4.3 on a /doc partition which basically houses my mp3s - so it's constantly being accessed - for a couple of weeks, with no difficulties. That's not exactly heavy useage though. On Monday 30 April 2001 16:49, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 10:15:20PM -0800, Ethan Benson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 12:47:06PM +0700, Oki DZ wrote: > > > Renai LeMay wrote: > > > > I've been using reiserfs on my /doc partition for a while, and am > > > > very impressed with it's performance. > > > > > > It is fast, indeed. And fsck'ing no more :-) > > > > not true, when (and i say when) the kernel corrupts the filesystem you > > WILL need to fsck it, and unfortuantly reiserfsck sucks. > > My understanding is that most current reiserfs issues involve 2.4 > kernels. ReiserFS under 2.2.18+ is pretty stable. 2.4 is not > recommended unless you're involved in reiserfs development or hate > yourself (or the "friend" whose system you're configuring ;-) Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; charset="us-ascii"; name="Attachment: 1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description:
Re: reiserfs installation
the problem being, I have the following partitions: /dev/hda swap /mnt/win (fat32) / (ext2) /doc (reiserfs) /dev/hdb going to be a FreeBSD installation. so can that be done? It seems to me - not easily :) But is there a way of doing it before installing? Renai On Monday 30 April 2001 15:47, Oki DZ wrote: > Renai LeMay wrote: > > I've been using reiserfs on my /doc partition for a while, and am very > > impressed with it's performance. > > It is fast, indeed. And fsck'ing no more :-) > > > A question - is it possible to install a reiserfs version of debian? > > > > how is this done? I think I saw something about resierfs-boot floppies a > > while back. > > If you have an already running Debian system, then it would be easier to > convert the partitions into reiserfs; provided that you have enough > space on an unused partition. For example, if you have a /usr partition, > then you can copy all the files in the partition into your mounted > unused partition. Say, it was mounted on /mnt, then copy the files > using: cp -avf /usr/* /mnt. Then on the /etc/fstab, redirect whatever > device that was mounted on /usr to the device mounted on /mnt. Do the > same for /var. It is pretty tedious and error prone (meaning: if it's > the only system you use, there's a probability that it wouldn't be able > to be booted). > > I think it would be great if Debian has a filesystem converter program, > that can be run as, e.g., easily as: convert2reiserfs /usr > /dev/ > which would be run when the system is booted (right before the partition > is mounted). > > Problem is, with all the above copying files procedure, you'd be left > with the root partition that is always mounted read-only. Because it is > read-only, reiserfs "replays" the transaction log, well, on a read-only > filesystem. I don't know what the consequences of it; mesg only says > (approx.) "warning, replaying transaction log on a read-only > filesystem". It's a warning, not an error. So, the log might be replayed > correctly, or might be not. > > Oki
reiserfs installation
I've been using reiserfs on my /doc partition for a while, and am very impressed with it's performance. A question - is it possible to install a reiserfs version of debian? how is this done? I think I saw something about resierfs-boot floppies a while back. regards, Renai
Re: regarding swap space
I got the following error: mkswap: warning: truncuating swap area to 2097144kB mkswap: will not try to make swapdevice on '%s' and I could not set the whole disk as a swap device. This is upon deleting all partitions in the device, and typing 'mkswap /dev/hdb' Renai On Monday 30 April 2001 14:29, you wrote: > > it's a 4 gig drive > > > > do you really think having a 4 gig swap disk is worth it on a system with > > 32 meg ram? > > No, but I don't think it would do any harm, *if* you're not going to use > the rest of the disk anyway. > > > and do I have to format the whole drive as swap? > > Yes: mkswap -v1 /dev/hdx > > > Renai > > It's not that much of a performance gain. Calculating partition boundaries > is probably nothing more than 10 lines of code per access, but if you're > going to make one big swap partition that fills up the whole disk, you > might as well just make it a swap drive. If not, don't bother. Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; charset="us-ascii"; name="Attachment: 1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description:
regarding swap space
I currently have two drives in my machine, one primary master with debian unstable and a swap partition, and one unused primary slave. What I'm looking to do, is create a swap partition on the slave drive, and use that instead of the one on my primary master. I don't need the space from the primary master, but using that swap is slowing down my system. How can I accomplish this? regards, Renai LeMay
Re: setting up an apt repository
thanks, this is perfect On Friday 27 April 2001 15:46, N. Raghavendra wrote: > On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 05:11:54PM +1000, Renai LeMay wrote: > > What we'd like to do, is set up one machine as a debian > > template, if you like. We'd like to be able to create other > > machines from this machine, with a certain package set, and > > every time this template machine gets updated with security > > patches etc, the rest of the machines should be able to > > download those patches from the template machine. > > Hi, > > You could look at VA SystemImager at the URL > > http://systemimager.org/ > > The manual says that it has been tested with Debian 2.2. > > Best, > Raghavendra.
least memory xterm look-alike
Can someone pass me their recommendation as to the xterm -lookalike program which is the fastest/uses the least memory - similarly with window managers? regards, Renai
OFFTOPIC
Hi Dan, offtopic, but wasn't Friedrich Nietzsche a huge pessimist, and didn't he get nihilism started off - a whole new branch of philosophy? (re your signature) correct me if I'm wrong - and if I'm not, I'm only being pedantic :) Renai On Friday 27 April 2001 13:21, D.B.E. wrote: > > I go to my applications menu and click on Communicator. Nothing. > > Nada. Zip. > > I am going to shelf the rant/whine and just ask... Does anybody > > have any > > idea why Netscape will not launch? Is it my old non-deb install > > that I never > > uninstalled? Please help! I almost bought a shrink-wrapped redhat > > box > > yesterday... > > D A V I DC A R L I L E > > Netscape is set up so that you can't run it from root, (for > security). Try launching it as a user. > > Dan > > = > "No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, > or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway > for the human spirit." - Helen Keller > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Running Debian GNU/Linux > > __ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices > http://auctions.yahoo.com/
apt-package
can someone point me to the source for the apt-get and dpkg family of utils? thanks, Renai
setting up an apt repository
Hi Guys, a tricky question for you today. At our company, I administer a network of Unix/Linux machines. Basically, we're looking at setting up a series of debian machines in many different locations, providing services to local users. What we'd like to do, is set up one machine as a debian template, if you like. We'd like to be able to create other machines from this machine, with a certain package set, and every time this template machine gets updated with security patches etc, the rest of the machines should be able to download those patches from the template machine. I think this can be done somehow with apt and apt-able package repositories, but I'm not sure of the specifics. The template machine must be able to handle debian source packages also. The machines must be based on a 2.2 kernel, so we're thinking of using potato as a base, and loading only the packages we need onto this template machine. can anyone suggest a method by which this can be done, and point me to relevant URLs or HOWTO's? kind regards, Renai (and keep up the good work developers, there are many grateful linux admins out here!)
rdist
>I noticed on the Debian site there's a kit available to (apparently) roll >your own CD images by using rdist to maintain local copies, which you can >then use to lay out both a cd install image and network archive from which >you can do a network install and incremental package update. Can someone point me to a page detailing this? Someone sent me an email asking about this, but I can't find it on the debian site. thanks, Renai
Re: The Perfect Debian / Personal Computer
Well it really depends what you use it for. Personally, the best price/performance graphics card for Linux is the Geforce 2 mx from Nvidia - about $160 Australian. You will, however, to get good performance, have to download and install the drivers yourself, and run unstable or woody, as they both have XFree86 > 4.0x. I would say the best sound card out there is the Creative Sound Blaster Live. In terms of modem I don't know, but you probably want to get an IBM Deskstar HD as I have heard they kick the competition out of town. (Well that's what I'm getting when I get some money) good luck, Renai On Wednesday 25 April 2001 04:55, John and Kristy Woodill wrote: > Well i have given up on trying to configured Windows / Linux together. I > can't get the hardware right and don't feel like fucking with it anymore. > I wanna build a computer just for linux-debian. I know what kinda > motherboard and KMD processor i wanna get but could someone please list > what i should use for a modem, sound card, video card that will configure > perfect and won't require much work but installing it and configuring X > Windows. Thanks to all those who respond! > > Andrew J Woodill > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1"; name="Attachment: 1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description:
lynx and proxy
how do I set Lynx to use a http proxy? regards, Renai
problems with xfree86 3.3.6
I'm running xfree86 3.3.6 under debian potato. For no reason that I can fathom, this morning I turned on the PC, and tried to 'startx'. It gave me an error - "Fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed'" can someone help me with this? It's a work machine so I need it working. Kind regards, Renai LeMay
