Mirroring a failing HDD
Hi All,
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I wonder if someone can help me with a problem that I am having.
There is a server(sarge) that I maintain that used to be mirrored and
all was well. However, the mirror was recently broken and when trying to
rebuild, I run into an interesting problem.
The array rebuilds to about 80% and then restarts. dmesg has the following:
RAID1 conf printout:
--- wd:1 rd:2
disk 0, wo:1, o:1, dev:sda3
disk 1, wo:0, o:1, dev:sdb3
..<6>md: syncing RAID array md1
md: minimum _guaranteed_ reconstruction speed: 1000 KB/sec/disc.
md: using maximum available idle IO bandwith (but not more than 20
KB/sec) for reconstruction.
md: using 128k window, over a total of 155276160 blocks.
ata2: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
ata2: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }
ata2: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
ata2: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }
ata2: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
ata2: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }
ata2: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
ata2: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }
ata2: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
ata2: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }
SCSI error : <1 0 0 0> return code = 0x802
sdb: Current: sense key: Medium Error
Additional sense: Unrecovered read error - auto reallocate failed
end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 268475518
ata2: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
ata2: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }
SCSI error : <1 0 0 0> return code = 0x802
sdb: Current: sense key: Medium Error
Additional sense: Unrecovered read error - auto reallocate failed
end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 268475526
ata2: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
ata2: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }
//. removed few more of these lines
..<6>md: syncing RAID array md1
md: minimum _guaranteed_ reconstruction speed: 1000 KB/sec/disc.
md: using maximum available idle IO bandwith (but not more than 20
KB/sec) for reconstruction.
md: using 128k window, over a total of 155276160 blocks.
Mirror information as follows:
$ sudo mdadm -D /dev/md1
/dev/md1:
Version : 00.90.01
Creation Time : Tue Nov 8 16:54:09 2005
Raid Level : raid1
Array Size : 155276160 (148.08 GiB 159.00 GB)
Device Size : 155276160 (148.08 GiB 159.00 GB)
Raid Devices : 2
Total Devices : 2
Preferred Minor : 1
Persistence : Superblock is persistent
Update Time : Thu Nov 9 17:56:27 2006
State : active, degraded, recovering
Active Devices : 1
Working Devices : 2
Failed Devices : 0
Spare Devices : 1
Rebuild Status : 59% complete
UUID : 526093bb:9a1af158:1faa9404:008c0621
Events : 0.35102711
Number Major Minor RaidDevice State
0 00- removed
1 8 191 active sync /dev/sdb3
2 830 spare rebuilding /dev/sda3
of the 159GB, only 60gb is allocated(using LVM) and I am guessing that
the failing part is within the unallocated section.
Any help in resolving this would be greatly appreciated. Please let me
know if you require any additional information.
Best Wishes,
Shri
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Re: Mirroring a failing HDD
Douglas Tutty wrote: On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 12:38:43PM +, Shri Shrikumar wrote: There is a server(sarge) that I maintain that used to be mirrored and all was well. However, the mirror was recently broken and when trying to rebuild, I run into an interesting problem. The array rebuilds to about 80% and then restarts. dmesg has the following: Hi Doug, Thanks for you response. You had a raid consisting of two drives, one of which is /dev/sdb3. One died, leaving sdb3. However, during rebuild /dev/sdb is having read errors. Not quite. The other drive did not die. I upgraded the kernel and on re-boot, the other drive was mis-read and not re-linked as part of the raid. It was not a hard disk failure that caused the mirror to be broken. Was the origional failed drive on the same controller? Could that drive failure also have killed the controller? Could it have been a controller failure and not a drive failure? Do you have another controller in the box to which you could connect the drive that is now hdb? Are there other drives on this controller that are working OK? The problem is that its a live server, so can't fiddle around with it much. There is another disk on it which seems to be running just fine. I am fairly confident that it is the disk that is failing and not the controller. Can you read other partitions on hdb? (and therefore prove that both the controller and drive are OK) Yes, there is another partition that is mirrored just fine with sda. I hope you have good backups. Thankfully, I do. It continues to run fine as well due to the corruption being outside of the disk being used. How does the system work if you disconnect the new drive (sda) so that the raid runs in degradded mode? Do you still get read errors? If you The raid is currently in degraded mode with just sdb. There are no read errors. I am using LVM on raid to allocate disk space and there is about 60gb unallocated. I am guessing that the failed part of the disk is in this unallocated area. I suppose the worst case would be to build a brand new mirror using just the new disk and pvmove the data across and then de-commission the dying hdd. I am hoping for an easier (and quicker solution though) Best Wishes, Shri -- Shri Shrikumar Technologist Extraordinaire Kraya t: 0845 644 4745 d: 0131 247 8021 f: 0131 478 7377 w: www.kraya.co.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reporting brute force ssh login attempts
Hi All, I have a few servers on which there is a regular penetration attempts using brute force password guessing bots. There is little risk to the server but am getting more and more annoyed by this and as far as I can see am left with two options. 1. Report each ip address that does this. However, a lot of them seems to be from asia with no proper abuse@ address to contact. Additionally, this can be very time consuming. 2. Change the port number that ssh uses to something else. This has the annoyance that I need to pass the new port number in each time I want to log-in. 3. Ignore the issue. Very annoying since logwatch and logcheck constantly complain about it. However, I can add filters so it annoys me less. Is there a another option? Alternatively, is there a way of automatically reporting offending ip's? Any input in this matter greatly appreciated. Best Wishes, Shri -- Shri Shrikumar Technologist Extraordinaire Kraya t: 0845 644 4745 d: 0131 247 8021 f: 0131 478 7377 w: www.kraya.co.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Reporting brute force ssh login attempts
Hi Peter, Peter Colton wrote: A handy tool I use to cut down on ssh brute force attacks is fail2ban : You can install it from backports.org. Add the backport url to your sources.list http://www.backports.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=instructions Then after you have installed fail2ban comment out www.backports.org url in your apt sources.list so that you will not bring in any unwanted packages in the future. http://fail2ban.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/README http://www.ducea.com/2006/07/03/using-fail2ban-to-block-brute-force-attacks/ http://www.debianhelp.co.uk/fail2ban.htm Thank you. That looks like a useful tool. I have already installed it on one server to see how it goes. Is there some way of also automatically reporting these ip's so that whoever is responsible for that server is alerted to a worm or whatever might be causing this? Shri -- Shri Shrikumar Technologist Extraordinaire Kraya t: 0845 644 4745 d: 0131 247 8021 f: 0131 478 7377 w: www.kraya.co.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Running postgresql-7.4 and postgresql-8.1 simultaneously
Hiya, Is it possible to run both the 7.4 and 8.1 versions of postgresql simultaneously on the same box. I assume that if I was to download and install manually that it would work but is there a way of doing it through the package management system? Best Wishes, Shri -- Shri Shrikumar Technologist Extraordinaire Kraya t: 0845 644 4745 d: 0131 247 8021 f: 0131 478 7377 w: www.kraya.co.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Running postgresql-7.4 and postgresql-8.1 simultaneously
Hi Dave, Dave Ewart wrote: On Tuesday, 28.11.2006 at 11:04 +, Shri Shrikumar wrote: Is it possible to run both the 7.4 and 8.1 versions of postgresql simultaneously on the same box. I assume that if I was to download and install manually that it would work but is there a way of doing it through the package management system? Perhaps we can help further if you explain exactly what you're trying to achieve by installing both simultaneously? Thanks for your response. We are working on migrating website from 7.4 to 8.1 and need to some analysis and benchmarking to compare the two systems. We also need to have the 7.4 running in case we need to make changes to the live site. Hope this makes sense. Best Wishes, Shri -- Shri Shrikumar Technologist Extraordinaire Kraya t: 0845 644 4745 d: 0131 247 8021 f: 0131 478 7377 w: www.kraya.co.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: access to IP address for a machine on inet behind a firewall?
On Sun, 2002-02-24 at 04:02, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Sun, 24 Feb 2002 13:33:40 +1000 Alan E. Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > 4 machines in my classroom are attached to a private IP LAN, which is > > attached through a gateway to the Inet. I can FTP and so forth from > > these machines, but I cannot access them directly through the IP > > addresses I have been assigned. I want to set up a web server and > > also to have access to these machines from home. > > Because your "interior" LAN boxen have private addresses, you can > not directly address them from the outside. That's why they have > private, or non-routable addresses. Otherwise, if you could access > them, then there's a route, so they'd need public, routable addresses! > Get it? Or am I rambling incoherently? > > Along comes port-forwarding. Configure it on the firewall and it > allows you to, well, forward all the incoming packets directed at > port X on the firewall to port Y (which may equal X) on an interal > machine. > > So, If the firewall has IPs 12.34.56.78 and 192.168.1.1, and 3 > internal machines 192.168.1.2, 192.168.1.3 and 192.168.1.4, then > I could put an externally accessably http daemon on 192.168.1.3 > and ftp daemon on 192.168.1.4. > > The ftp and http could both be on 192.168.1.2, but can not have > http daemons on 192.168.1.2 & 192.168.1.3. > > Note!! ftp is almost as evil as telnet, since it is just as insecure. > > > Is it possible to discover what INET IP addresses are assigned to > > these machines (if any)? How can I learn what IP address a machine > > outside the LAN associates with my machine? > > No, but ssh is your friend! ssh to the firewall, then from there, > ssh to any other internal You could also use VPN - I have four machines at my home office and my brother and I wanted to play half-life with a friend of ours (who had cable internet and so do we). Problem was that when authenticating - it said both me and my brother had the same cd key. The only solution was if we played a lan game as opposed to an internet game. To do this, I set up NT to be a VPN server (I could've used Linux but I needed Netbios Tunnelling and also to recompile the kernel - which I was not keen on doing again). Now the external computer can log onto this network and pretend like it was connected directly to the hub. You can do the same with Linux - apt-get install pptpd for more info try, man pptpd. There are also some howtos that you find easily from google. This of course does not work for web access for other people, only for you / someone else to be able to access the LAN. Good luck, Regards, Shri
3d with nvidia
Hi All, I have xlibmesa3(4.1.0-14) as well and xserver-xfree86(4.1.0-14) installed as well as make install(ed) NVIDIA_Kernel(v.2314) and NVIDIA_GLX(v.2313). Relevant parts from my XF86Config-4 is at the end of this email. Any thoughts as to why I still get only around 10fps (with ssystem -bench) Regards, Shri --XF86Config Extract- Section "Module" Load"GLcore" Load"bitmap" Load"dbe" Load"ddc" Load"dri" Load"extmod" Load"freetype" Load"glx" Load"int10" Load"pex5" Load"record" Load"speedo" Load"type1" Load"vbe" Load"xie" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "Generic Video Card" Driver "nvidia" EndSection Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "Default Layout" Screen "Default Screen" InputDevice "Generic Keyboard" InputDevice "Configured Mouse" InputDevice "Generic Mouse" EndSection Section "DRI" Mode0666 EndSection
Re: 3d with nvidia
On Fri, 2002-03-01 at 22:09, David Bellows wrote: > According to the README you are also supposed to remove the "dri" and > "GLcore" options under the Module section. I got a couple of additional frames but still. from 13fps to around 15fps now. I had gtop running at the same time which showed the CPU at around 50% with X at around 35%. Here is the relevant part of the updated XF86Config-4 File Section "Module" Load"bitmap" Load"dbe" Load"ddc" Load"extmod" Load"freetype" Load"glx" Load"int10" Load"pex5" Load"record" Load"speedo" Load"type1" Load"vbe" Load"xie" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "Generic Video Card" Driver "nvidia" Option "NvAGP" "2" Option "NoLogo" "true" EndSection Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "Default Layout" Screen "Default Screen" InputDevice "Generic Keyboard" InputDevice "Configured Mouse" InputDevice "Generic Mouse" EndSection Ive also looked throught the readme and here is the output of /proc/nv/card0 - Driver Info - NVRM Version: NVIDIA NVdriver Kernel Module 1.0.2314 Fri Nov 30 19:33:20 PST 2001 Compiled with: gcc version 2.95.4 (Debian prerelease) -- Card Info -- Model:RIVA TNT2 Model 64/Model 64 Pro IRQ: 11 Video BIOS: 02.05.20.02 -- AGP Info --- AGP status: Enabled AGP Driver: AGPGART Bridge: Via Apollo Pro KT133 SBA: Supported [disabled] FW: Supported [disabled] Rates:4x 2x 1x [4x] Registers:0x1f000217:0x0104 What is SBA / FW - Why are they disabled ? Any thoughts. My system seems to be compliant with other parts of the Readme. The log file does not flag any warnings / errors with regards to the card. Im stumped - any ideas. Regards, Shri
OT: linuxfund.org
Hi All, just wondering if there was a reason why Debian isn't registered at http://www.linuxfund.org Regards, Shri
Re: courier-imap setup
>I'm having some trouble getting courier-imap to work on my unstable >box. (courier-imap-ssl is currently not installable due to >dependency-problem, I filed a bug already). > >So, I installed it, and tried to connect with gnus and >netscape-messenger. To no avail. My user/pw combination is not >recognized. > >I investigated further (starting imapd in a shell) and had to realize >that imapd requires the file /etc/courier/imapd-ssl, which isn't >there. Even if I touch that file, imapd does only exit right away, >instead of expecting imapd talk on stdin/out. > >> Any ideas, hints, tips? I remember trying to set IMAP up but dont remember anything about requiring ssl or such. I did however have to create a Maildir folder in the users home directory. HTH, HAND, Shri
Re: Truly stupid menu seting
>ON the default woody install, one of the Gnome menu picks is :IDE setup >tool". Trying to run this as a suer results in the message that you need >to be root to run it. Cool. > >Trying to login as root using gdm is not allowed. > >Can anyone explain what the **k somebody was thinking when tehy set >this up! I think other "more user friendly" distros allow root logins and therefore comes in handy for them. I only remember that this as possible with RH6 (which I tried at least two years ago) so I may be remembering wrong also, xhost + is probably not the safest thing to do if untrusted machines have network access to your machine Shri
Re: Moving /var to another drive
On Tue, 2002-03-12 at 15:42, François Chenais wrote: > And what happens if the /var/log and /var/run dirs that can change during > the tar ? > > François Go into single user mode telinit 1 and then tar. I actually use cp -a which seems to preserve all the required attributes. I have done this process before. %telinit 1 %mkdir mnt/var %mkdir mnt/usr %mount /dev/ /mnt/var %mount /dev/ /mnt/usr %cp -a /usr/* /mnt/var %cp -a /var/* /mnt/usr %umount /mnt/var %umount /mnt/usr %rm -r /mnt/var %rm -r /mnt/usr %umount /var %umount /usr %mv /var /var.old %mv /usr /usr.old %mkdir /var %mkdir /usr %mkdir /dev/ /var %mkdir /dev/ /usr update /etc/fstab to reflect new changes %telinit 2 to come back to multiuser Please note that above steps are from memory - no guarantees - it worked for me atleast three times. make backups blah blah. Good luck Shri > > On Tue, 12 Mar 2002 15:33:55 +0200 (EET) > George Karaolides <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Hi Andrew, > > > > You need to be root on your machine to do this. > > > > Make two partitions on the new drive using > > > > cfdisk /dev/ > > > > Then make a filesystem on each partition. Stick to the tried-and-tested > > ext2, or go for one of the new journalling ones like ext3 or reiserfs, if > > you're running a kernel recent enough to support them or can compile one > > that does. > > > > E.g. mke2fs /dev/ > > > > Then mount the first partition e.g. under /mnt > > > > mount /dev/ /mnt > > > > And transfer the data using tar: > > > > tar cplf - -C / var | tar xvf - -C /mnt > > > > Unmount the partition > > > > umount /mnt > > > > Mount the other one and do the same thing for /usr: > > > > mount /dev/ > > tar cplf - -C / usr | tar xvf - -C /mnt > > umount /mnt > > > > Make sure you type the tar commands exactly as above, you don't want to go > > dropping the entire copnmtents of /var or /usr (or even / if you v=get it > > wrong) in the wrong place! > > > > Edit /etc/fstab and either add lines for /usr and /var, or change existing > > ones, to mount your new filesystems instead of the old ones. Here's an > > example: > > > > --- fstab excerpt --- > > > > /dev/sdb6 /usr ext2 rw 0 2 > > /dev/sdb7 /var ext2 rw 0 2 > > > > --- end fstab excerpt --- > > > > Then go to single user mode: > > > > telinit S > > > > Unmount /usr and /var: > > > > umount /usr > > umount /var > > > > Mount all partitions using your new fstab: > > > > mount -a > > > > Check that everything is mounted where it should be: > > > > mount > > > > And go back to your usual runlevel (usually 2 on Debian): > > > > telinit 2 > > > > That's it. Note that if /usr and /var were originally part of your root > > filesystem, the data will still be there but the new filesystem will be > > mounted on the top level directory so you won't see it. After you've > > successfully transferred /usr and /var out of the root filesystem, you can > > reclaim the space by going to single user mode, unmounting /usr and /var, > > and doing the following: > > > > rm -rvf /var > > rm -rvf /usr > > mkdir /var > > mkdir /usr > > > > Be VERY careful that /usr and /var are NOT mounted when you do this! > > Also note, a space or a slash in the wrong place in either of the above > > commands can wreck your system completely! > > > > Good luck, > > > > | George Karaolides Linustech Advanced Solutions, | > > | tel: +357 22 55 61 29 86 Ifigenias Street, 3rd Floor, | > > | web: www.linustech.com.cy Strovolos, Nicosia CY 2003, | > > | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Republic of Cyprus. | > > > > On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, Andrew Stephen wrote: > > > > > Hi > > > > > > My /var and /usr partitions have just run out of space and I was wondering > > > what is the best way to copy them to a new drive that has just been > > > installed. > > > > > > Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. > > > > > > Regards, > > > Andrew > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
Re: Spamassassin: how to "whitelist" a subject?
- Original Message - From: "Anthony Campbell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 2:28 AM Subject: Spamassassin: how to "whitelist" a subject? > I get replies from a form on my website; they arrive with a subject > line: WWW Submission. > > These get detected as spam by Spamassassin. Is there any way to tell it > that they are not? Whitelist just seems to filter addresses, not > subjects, and the address at the head of these forms is variable. If you use procmail, you could filter these into the inbox or another folder before executing the spamassin recipe > AC > > > -- > Anthony Campbell - running Linux GNU/Debian (Windows-free zone) > For electronic books on the Assassins and on homeopathy, skeptical > essays, and over 150 book reviews, go to: http://www.acampbell.org.uk/ > > Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our > obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come > from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. [Carl Sagan] > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
Re: soundcard use as non-root
- Original Message - From: "George Teodor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2002 12:54 AM Subject: soundcard use as non-root > I have an ess1868 soundcard which works fine but only logged in as root. > I can't make it work as user.I'm using potato. Any solutions? Error messages and such would help. Make sure the user is part of the audio group %adduser audio as root logout and back in and now it *should* work Regards, Shri
slightly OT: making donation to debian using paypal or such.
Hi All, just wondering if it was / would be possible to make donations to debian using Paypal or something like that making it a lot easier for people who are not US based to make donations. Regards, Shri Shri Shrikumar U R Byte Solutions I.T. Consultant 23 McDonald RoadTel: (0131) 558 9990 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Edinburgh EH7 4LX Web: www.urbyte.com
backing up /etc
Hi All, Simple question - is there a way to backup merely the files in /etc that have been modified. Only a dozen or so config files have been modified and it seems a bit of a waste to backup around 5Mb of config files when the ones that have been modified could easily fit on a floppy along with a copy of dpkg --get-selections. The other reason is what happens if one of the packges (whose config I havent touched) has a new standard config file perhaps with better security - I would then be overwriting the new one. How does apt figure out when config files have been modified before asking whether it should install the package maintainers version or keep the current one. I hope this makes sense and thank you for your time. Regards, Shri Shri Shrikumar U R Byte Solutions I.T. Consultant23 McDonald RoadTel: (0131) 558 9990 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Edinburgh EH7 4LX Web: www.urbyte.com
Re: backing up /etc
- Original Message - From: "Alvin Oga" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Shri Shrikumar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "debian users" Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 2:48 AM Subject: Re: backing up /etc > > hi ya > > assuming oyu have a different disk mounted as /mnt/backup > ( never backup important data to the same hard disk ) > > # > # backup of last 7 days > # > # adjust days to when the last time you did your manual backups > # > days=7 > ymd=(date +20%y.%m.%d) > # > mount /dev/hd /mnt/backup > find /etc -mtime -$days -print |tar zcvf/mnt/backup/etc.$ymd.$days.tgz -T - > umount /mnt/backup Thanks, that was certainly helpful. On a sidenote, if a package installed new config files today and I didn't touch them - would they still be backup up ? If so, is there any way to stop them from being backup up. If not, is there any way to get them to be backed up ? Just curious. Regards, Shri Shri Shrikumar U R Byte Solutions I.T. Consultant23 McDonald RoadTel: (0131) 558 9990 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Edinburgh EH7 4LX Web: www.urbyte.com
Re: dosemu
- Original Message - From: "Phil Reardon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Cheryl Homiak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 4:08 PM Subject: Re: dosemu > I installed dosemu on my potato box to try to help Cheryl, but it did not > give me any man or info pages. Who maintains dosemu, anyway? http://bugs.debian.org/dosemu shows Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> as the maintainer of this package. Havent looked at it in depth but it seems that it strongly prefers X and at least in some cases seems like it just wont work in console mode. Kind Regards, Shri ---- Shri Shrikumar U R Byte Solutions I.T. Consultant23 McDonald RoadTel: (0131) 558 9990 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Edinburgh EH7 4LX Web: www.urbyte.com > Phil Reardon > > > I've tried doing this several ways; my most recent, which I realize isn't > > totally accurate, was to put '/dev/hda2" under the hdimage entry in the > > dosemu.conf. This actually did get me some results as I was able to run > > wp5.1 with this setup, but it had other problems. For one thing, this > > apparently bypassed the commands in /usr/lib/dosemu so I couldn't exit not > > having access to the exitemu command. Of course, once could copy those > > commands to /dev/hda1 (/dos when mounted) but that made me wonder if I was > > also bypassing other important things by this setup. I'm also confused by > > the link to > > /var/lib/dosemu whic contains freedos. Do I still want this stuff in > > /var/lib/dosemu to be there since i'm not using freedos. Also there's an > > autoexec.bat in the /var/lib/dosemu/freedos directory, but most of the > > commands there seem to relate to freedos. Are there any commands from that > > autoexec.bat that I need or extra ones that i need to put into my > > autoexec.bat in /dev/had2 to have this run correctly? > > My second problem, which may or may not be caused simply by the fact that I > > don't have this set up correctly, is that I can't get my com ports to work. > > I do have the appropriate /dev indications in my /etc/dosemu.conf in the > > com lines, and if i try to copy something to a braille storage device I > > have on com2, I'm told the file was copied but com2, with my storage > > device, is never actually being accessed. > > I really do usually try to figure out thing on my own with linux before > > running to a list, but this is getting me totally frustrated and obviously > > just reading the docs again isn't going to help me if I'm not understanding > > some key points. Help would be appreciated. > > TIA. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
Re: apt-get reinstall?
- Original Message - From: "Elizabeth Barham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 3:33 PM Subject: apt-get reinstall? > Hi, > > Is there an easy method to re-install a package? I rebooted my machine > and apache is segfaulting right as it starts up. Other applications > are running fine, even Tomcat which taxes memory. > > Any ideas on how to diagnosis this or any ideas on how to re-install? > Your subject line is your answer apt-get --reinstall install Regards, Shri ---- Shri Shrikumar U R Byte Solutions I.T. Consultant23 McDonald RoadTel: (0131) 558 9990 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Edinburgh EH7 4LX Web: www.urbyte.com
Re: kermel oops 0002 (Potato, kernel 2.2.17)
- Original Message - From: "Martin Edward John Waller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 9:10 AM Subject: kermel oops 0002 (Potato, kernel 2.2.17) > Hello, > > What's a kernel ooops? I've started getting them > on my home system which freezes when they occur. > > Could it be failing hardware, or will a kernel > upgrade solve it? If there is a pattern - ie always crashed at the same place or when you do the same thing, then maybe a kernel upgrde will fix it. If however the crashed seem to be random - it seems more like a hardware issue. Try compiling the kernel a few times and if that is ok, it may be software. There are also software to check memory like memtest86 which is apt-gettable. HTH, Shri ---- Shri Shrikumar U R Byte Solutions I.T. Consultant23 McDonald RoadTel: (0131) 558 9990 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Edinburgh EH7 4LX Web: www.urbyte.com
Re: Almost there!
- Original Message - From: "John Bruner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 4:54 AM Subject: Almost there! > Hi, > > I have received help getting this far, but now am stuck. > > On my Mac IIfx, I can get to the configuration screen. I tell the > installer which keyboard I have. The next thing the installer wants to > do is partition the Hard drive. I select that option. When the screen > changes, I lose approximately 4 characters on the left side of my > screen. > > The entire screen is visible up to that point. With those characters > missing, I cannot choose the commands necessary to partition the drive. > > I believe I am using "woody". One of the initial screens says: Debian > GNU Linux 3.0 > Hi John, Dont know what kind of monitor you have but you can usually just fiddle with the monitor controls to move the display to be able to see the rest of the screen. HTH, Shri -------- Shri Shrikumar U R Byte Solutions I.T. Consultant23 McDonald RoadTel: (0131) 558 9990 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Edinburgh EH7 4LX Web: www.urbyte.com
Re: Sound works, but not for Gnome
- Original Message - From: "stan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Debian User List" Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 11:51 AM Subject: Re: Sound works, but not for Gnome > On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 07:22:16PM +0800, Crispin Wellington wrote: > > On Fri, 2002-03-22 at 08:04, stan wrote: > > > I have a woody machine with sound working for things like mp4blaster, > > > xwatv, etc. > > > > > > However, even though I have "use sound" check in Gonems configuratior, I'm > > > not geting it's sounds. > > > > > > Sugestiosn > > > > Try starting esound as a daemon process. Make sure nothing is using the > > sound device and then as root go > > > > esd & > > > > Thanks. > > A quick ps reveals that esd is already runing: > > stan 17623 1 0 Mar17 ?00:00:00 esd -nobeeps > > "stan" is the user that I'm loged intot a gnome session as. > And here isa line form /etc/group > > audio:x:29:stan,sandi > hi stan, Try killing that one and just reloading esd no parameters- it should play a little intro - if it doesn't - you know esd cant access something. I have esd set to suid root (maybe unsafe - dont care since only I use the machine) HTH, Shri Shri Shrikumar U R Byte Solutions I.T. Consultant23 McDonald RoadTel: (0131) 558 9990 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Edinburgh EH7 4LX Web: www.urbyte.com
Re: fstab mounted windows shares
- Original Message - From: "curtis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Debian List" Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 1:33 AM Subject: fstab mounted windows shares > Question: > > In order to mount at boot windows shares I have the following fstab entry: > > //Server/sharename/home/Serversharesmb > username=user,password=password12 > > In order for this to work, of course, the username and password are in > my case, my Domain Username and Password. These are entered in the > fstab in plain text. > > The problems are evident. > 1. There is the issue of safety. > My password is basically available in text format. > > 2. There is the issue of password changes. > We have an policy whereby everyone must change their password every 4 > months, which would mean going in and having to change this every 4 > months as well. > > Surely there is a way to not have to enter my username and password in > the fstab. Or is there? Here is what I used to do, I used to have a script in my home directory which asked me for password and then mounted the sytems - I suppose you could just as well put the password in your script and set it user readable only. I used smbmount from smbmount man page smbmount service mountpoint [ -o options ] Options to smbmount are specified as a comma separated list of key=value pairs. username= specifies the username to connect as. If this is not given then the environment variable USER is used. This option can also take the form user%pass word or user/workgroup or user/workgroup%password to allow the password and workgroup to be specified as part of the username. password= specifies the SMB password. If not given then smb mount will prompt for a passeword, unless the guest option is given. HTH, Shri Shri Shrikumar U R Byte Solutions I.T. Consultant23 McDonald RoadTel: (0131) 558 9990 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Edinburgh EH7 4LX Web: www.urbyte.com
Re: How to install Debian on NEC Versa 6030X with NO floppy, nor a CD-ROM drive?
- Original Message - From: "Mr. Jan Hearthstone" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 6:32 AM Subject: How to install Debian on NEC Versa 6030X with NO floppy, nor a CD-ROM drive? > Sorry about the previous incomplete message! > I understand that there is a way of installing some > files on the DOS partition, and that I could install > the rest with the dial-up connection. > But - would some kind soul either - give me a "cook > book" recipe, - or guide me through the installation > with a lot of messages? > Thanks, Hearthstone. Hi, You could try the loadlin utility that you can find in, /main/disks-i386/current/dosutils. more help at http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Loadlin+Win95-98-ME.html haven't used it myself but the above should give you some pointers. HTH, Shri ---- Shri Shrikumar U R Byte Solutions I.T. Consultant23 McDonald RoadTel: (0131) 558 9990 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Edinburgh EH7 4LX Web: www.urbyte.com
Re: Sound works, but not for Gnome
- Original Message - From: "stan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Debian User List" Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 2:31 PM Subject: Re: Sound works, but not for Gnome > On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 01:28:25PM -, Shri Shrikumar wrote: > > Yes, if I run esd as root before loging in as a normal user with gdm, sound > works. > > But surely this is not the "debian" way? Methinks esd needs to be suid root as this is what I had to do. There might however, be another solution that I dont know about. If you make esd setuid root - sound will work fine next time you log into gnome. chown root /usr/bin/esd (I dont have it installed so this is a guess of the path) chmod +u /usr/bin/esd (from memory - man chmod) I suppose you could also try an strace on esd to see what it doesn't have permissions for when run as a regular user. I think it has something to do with creating unix sockets. I dont know much about strace so cant help you much there either. HTH, YMMV, Regards, Shri ---- Shri Shrikumar U R Byte Solutions I.T. Consultant23 McDonald RoadTel: (0131) 558 9990 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Edinburgh EH7 4LX Web: www.urbyte.com
Re: dosemu: com ports; /var/lock problem
- Original Message - From: "Cheryl Homiak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 3:13 PM Subject: dosemu: com ports; /var/lock problem > I got an email from dosemu's maintainer, Herbert Xu, telling me to check the > permissions of /var/lock. when I do "ls -l" it says: "total 0" and still says > that when ai do "chmod 1777 /var/lock". However, if I do "ls -l /var" for "lock" > it says 'drwxr-xr-x". i have /var on a separate partition. Should I change the > permissions for /var? > My fstab entry for this partition says: > /dev/hda7 /var ext2 defaults 0 2 in /var, you have to do %ls lock -dl to set the perms for lock, you just have to do, chmod a+rw /var/lock/ dont know about security issues here but im pretty sure that you *dont* want to set /var to be writable. HTH, Shri Shri Shrikumar U R Byte Solutions I.T. Consultant23 McDonald RoadTel: (0131) 558 9990 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Edinburgh EH7 4LX Web: www.urbyte.com
Re: Are these machines up to it?
- Original Message - From: "Keith O'Connell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 2:39 PM Subject: Are these machines up to it? > Hi, > > Over the comming months I am starting a "teach-your-self" program. I > am learning more of linux than just a desktop. I have a small lan at home > for my wife, daughters and myself. The three of them use WinXP, and I > have a desktop of myown running stable and a file server for all of > us, also running stable. > > I now have come by two old machines that I want to employ, but before > I throw mt self at it, I want to know if they are up to the task, and > also if they are, will they likley remain suitable for the tasks as > new versions of software are released > > 1: I have a 133MHz pentium, 1Gb disk and 32Mb ram. I want to use this >as a firewall. > > 2: Also an 400MHz AMD K6-2, 6Gb disk and 80Mb ram. This is to be a >name server and an email server > > Neither of them will have X on them, so what I need to know is; > a: they are not up to the tasks > b: they are just up to the tasks > c: they are easily up to the tasks > Hi Keith, I would definitely say c: I have a 200MHz 64Mb Ram 4Gb HDD running as a firewall, mail server and local webserver - no problems whatsoever (3 users). Web is a little slow but not enough to get me to upgrade. I have a KDE with evolution and galeon and such memory hungry stuff running on a 450MHz with 256MB RAM so there. Regards, Shri
Re: dosemu: com ports: /var/lock
On Fri, 2002-03-22 at 17:36, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > Ok, I restored everything as before as far as the partition permission and > /etc/fstab and rebooted to be sure, then used "chmod a+rw /var/lock". That > worked. The output of "ls -dl lock" is now > drwxrw-rw- 2 root root" etc. > I relogged in. > Ran dosemu as me wit the debugging option. > Still no com ports; still because you must be suid root. > Having read some other posts on this through google, I really think the > problem > is in the dosemu coding and not in my lock permissions now, because they are > now > ok. Have you tried running it as root - does it work? If it doesn't, you might still have something else left to tweak. HTH, Shri -------- Shri Shrikumar U R Byte Solutions I.T. Consultant23 McDonald RoadTel: (0131) 558 9990 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Edinburgh EH7 4LX Web: www.urbyte.com
plex86-kernel-src not creating deb file
Hi, I wonder if anybody can help me with this one. I was trying out plex86 and it tries to install the kernel-source package and everything seems to go well except that the deb isn't actually created. I've tried looking through the output but it doesn't seem to show any error messages. Ive copied the debian/lib/modules/./plex86.o to /lib/. and insmod . lsmod shows plex86 up % lsmod Module Size Used byTainted: P plex86158624 0 (unused) NVdriver 820064 14 (autoclean) Ive also copied the files from debian/usr but there doesnt seem to be anything there of real value. I found some instructions to add /dev/plex86 and here is the dir listing crw-rw-rw-1 root root 63, 0 Mar 23 15:39 /dev/plex86 ive created the .plex86/win95.hd0, win95.fd0, user.conf(empty) and conf/win95 Ive looked at the help files at plex86.org which talks about a ./misc/load_module.sh which I cant find. The error message that I get when running plex86 win95 is /usr/bin/plex86: /usr/lib/plex86//plex86: No such file or directory I've also attached the output of the build. Does anyone have any ideas as to what I may be missing here ? Thanks for your time, Shri ---- Shri Shrikumar U R Byte Solutions I.T. Consultant23 McDonald RoadTel: (0131) 558 9990 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Edinburgh EH7 4LX Web: www.urbyte.com install-output.gz Description: GNU Zip compressed data
Re: Gnome sound not working, how to troubleshoot?
On Sat, 2002-03-23 at 00:22, stan wrote: > I'm seting up 2 machines, both have working sound, using mp3blaster > for instance. > > However niether on iringaly had working sounds from Gnome sessions. > > A helpful list member sugested setting esd to SUID root. > > This cured the problem on one, but not the other. > > I can run esd as a user, and I get the startup beeps/ I've checked mixer > levels, and they are all set to max. Still no Gnome sounds on the second > mahcine. Try running a sound application like xmms (with the esd plugin) to check what error it shows HTH, Shri -------- Shri Shrikumar U R Byte Solutions I.T. Consultant23 McDonald RoadTel: (0131) 558 9990 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Edinburgh EH7 4LX Web: www.urbyte.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Gnome sound not working, how to troubleshoot?
On Sun, 2002-03-24 at 18:32, stan wrote: > On Sat, Mar 23, 2002 at 04:14:53PM +0000, Shri Shrikumar wrote: > > On Sat, 2002-03-23 at 00:22, stan wrote: > > > I'm seting up 2 machines, both have working sound, using mp3blaster > > > for instance. > > > > > > However niether on iringaly had working sounds from Gnome sessions. > > > > > > A helpful list member sugested setting esd to SUID root. > > > > > > This cured the problem on one, but not the other. > > > > > > I can run esd as a user, and I get the startup beeps/ I've checked mixer > > > levels, and they are all set to max. Still no Gnome sounds on the second > > > mahcine. > > > > Try running a sound application like xmms (with the esd plugin) to check > > what error it shows > > > > xmms works perfectly. > > The problem is specificaly sounds generated by Gnome itself. If xmms works *with the esd plugin*, esd must be fine. Check to make sure that you enabled system sounds in the control panel as well as the starting of the sound server. HTH, Shri -- Shri Shrikumar U R Byte Solutions I.T. Consultant23 McDonald RoadTel: (0131) 558 9990 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Edinburgh EH7 4LX Web: www.urbyte.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Still stuck on install of 68k
On Sun, 2002-03-24 at 09:34, John Bruner wrote: > Hi, > > It's me again, IIfx. I can't complete an install because my screen > looses characters on the left side when I get to the part where the > installer wants to partition the hard drive. I have a full screen up > until then. > > If someone could send me the commands/options list for that screen, > ( the one where it says some thing about /sda or ? for help), I might be > able to complete the install. > > The full screen was there before, it may come back once the install is > complete. The lost screen real estate may come back. You might find it easier to partition the hard disk using fdisk - hit CTRL-F2 to get the second console, press return to get a shell and then type in %fdisk /dev/ HD device could be hda hdb hdc...hdX for IDE or sda sdb sdc...sdX for SCSI. I dont know about other kind of hard drives and their device names. type m for help. If you still want to use cfdisk (the default one that is loaded up), the important options are (B)ootable, (D)elete, (P)rint, (Q)uit, (W)rite (with yes or no as expected input). You could also look up for help on cfdisk on google.com HTH, Shri -- ---- Shri Shrikumar U R Byte Solutions I.T. Consultant23 McDonald RoadTel: (0131) 558 9990 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Edinburgh EH7 4LX Web: www.urbyte.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Gnome sound not working, how to troubleshoot?
On Tue, 2002-03-26 at 00:07, stan wrote: > > Not certain what special flags ? you want me to give to xmms? If u right click xmms and choose options -> preferences and for the output plugin, select esd. If its not in the list - you will have to isntall one of the xmms plugins HTH, Shri -- ---- Shri Shrikumar U R Byte Solutions I.T. Consultant23 McDonald RoadTel: (0131) 558 9990 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Edinburgh EH7 4LX Web: www.urbyte.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to install Debian on NEC Versa 6030X with NO floppy, nor a CD-ROM drive?
- Original Message - From: "Mr. Jan Hearthstone" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2002 9:05 PM Subject: Re: How to install Debian on NEC Versa 6030X with NO floppy, nor a CD-ROM drive? > --- Shri Shrikumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > - Original Message - > > From: "Mr. Jan Hearthstone" > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: > > Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 6:32 AM > > Subject: How to install Debian on NEC Versa 6030X > > with NO floppy, nor a > > CD-ROM drive? > > > > > > > Sorry about the previous incomplete message! > > > I understand that there is a way of installing > > some > > > files on the DOS partition, and that I could > > install > > > the rest with the dial-up connection. > > > But - would some kind soul either - give me a > > "cook > > > book" recipe, - or guide me through the > > installation > > > with a lot of messages? > > > Thanks, Hearthstone. > > > > Hi, > > > > You could try the loadlin utility that you can find > > in, > > > > /main/disks-i386/current/dosutils. > > > > more help at > > > http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Loadlin+Win95-98-ME.html > > > > haven't used it myself but the above should give you > > some pointers. > > > > > > HTH, > > > > > > Shri > > > > > -- -- > > Shri Shrikumar U R Byte Solutions > > I.T. Consultant23 McDonald Road > > Tel: (0131) 558 9990 > > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Edinburgh EH7 4LX > > Web: www.urbyte.com > > Hearthstone writes: > I looked at the site you suggested, but it seems to > me that the site refers to dual OS - Win and Linux. > I just want to replace the Win95 with Debian - I > don't care for the Win95. > Hearthstone. Thats fine - I was under the impression that you win95 currently installed and want to be able to boot into linux without disk / cd. If so, just use loadlin to boot into linux. Once you are there, you can just delete the dos / win partition although you will want to make sure that linux boots ok using lilo / grub before eliminating dos entirely. HTH, Shri Shri Shrikumar U R Byte Solutions I.T. Consultant23 McDonald RoadTel: (0131) 558 9990 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Edinburgh EH7 4LX Web: www.urbyte.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What dumps files like magicCfLHA0 into my $HOME?
- Original Message - From: "Mario Vukelic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Monday, March 25, 2002 6:32 PM Subject: What dumps files like magicCfLHA0 into my $HOME? > All with filenames like magic and contents like > > push graphic-context > viewbox 0 0 26.661 42.525 > affine 0.975207 0 0 0.987654 0 0 > push graphic-context > fill-rule nonzero > clip-rule nonzero > stroke #00 > stroke-miterlimit 4 > push graphic-context > push graphic-context > push graphic-context > push graphic-context > pop graphic-context > pop graphic-context > pop graphic-context > push graphic-context > fill #264C8B > stroke none > path 'M0,4.69l12.855,37.835l4.558-9.247l9.248,4.558L13.805,0L0,4.69z' > pop graphic-context > push graphic-context > fill #FFE64C > stroke none > (etc) > > And how can I stop it from doing that? Any ideas? Thanks check the date / time on those files - any pattern ? if so, you could try running lsof at those times. just a thought Shri Shri Shrikumar U R Byte Solutions I.T. Consultant23 McDonald RoadTel: (0131) 558 9990 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Edinburgh EH7 4LX Web: www.urbyte.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: maintenance mode in woody
- Original Message - From: "Marcelo Chiapparini" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, March 28, 2002 4:48 PM Subject: maintenance mode in woody > Hello! > > how can I enter the maintenance mode in woody at boot time, for example for > run e2fsck? If u use lilo, when the menu appears, press ctrl, then type in single after your boot label. So if you OS label was linux, it would looke like, linux single HTH, Shri ---- Shri Shrikumar U R Byte Solutions I.T. Consultant23 McDonald RoadTel: (0131) 558 9990 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Edinburgh EH7 4LX Web: www.urbyte.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
clipboard between kde & gnome apps
Hi All, I wonder if there is a solution to this problem. The clipboard doesnt seem to work between applications from different frameworks (i.e. GNOME and KDE). If Im running KDE with klipper at the bottom right of the screen, it will copy the clipboard from the GNOME apps so they paste into other apps but it *doesnt* do it the other way. i.e. copy the clipboard contents from the KDE apps for GNOME to use. What does everyone else do to copy and paste between applications in X. All thoughts appreciated, Shri Shri Shrikumar U R Byte Solutions I.T. Consultant23 McDonald RoadTel: (0131) 558 9990 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Edinburgh EH7 4LX Web: www.urbyte.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Is this enough ?
- Original Message - From: "faisal gillani" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "list debaun" Sent: Sunday, March 31, 2002 3:25 PM Subject: Is this enough ? > Well i have a machine which is intel 200 mhz with 32 > mb ram sitting in my backward can i use it as a debain > + apache web server on my network for small load "30 > users to be exact "of users ? > I would think so although upgrading RAM would certainly not hurt. There was a similar question asked not so long ago(last coupla months)- I would recommend checking the archives at lists.debian.org the thread starts at http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2002/debian-user-200203/msg03830.htm l HTH, Shri ---- Shri Shrikumar U R Byte Solutions I.T. Consultant23 McDonald RoadTel: (0131) 558 9990 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Edinburgh EH7 4LX Web: www.urbyte.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: clipboard between kde & gnome apps
On Sun, 2002-03-31 at 17:26, Joachim Fahnenmueller wrote: > Hi Shri, > > the standard X way should always be possible: > mark text with left mouse button, then click with middle mouse button where > you want to paste it. > Hi Joachim That works perfectly - thanks - I knew there must be a better way. Shri -- -------- Shri Shrikumar U R Byte Solutions I.T. Consultant23 McDonald RoadTel: (0131) 558 9990 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Edinburgh EH7 4LX Web: www.urbyte.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cd-rom Help!!!
- Original Message - From: "fti International" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2002 9:11 PM Subject: cd-rom Help!!! > I think the cd-rom on my pc is an IDE deice, so I tried > "/dev/hdb", "/dev/hdc", and "/dev/hdc". All of them resulted > in an error like > " ...not recognized by kernel as a block devie" try /dev/cdrom (which is usually linked to the right device) If you have a fast inet connection, I would recommend using that instead of the cd's HTH, Shri ---- Shri Shrikumar U R Byte Solutions I.T. Consultant23 McDonald RoadTel: (0131) 558 9990 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Edinburgh EH7 4LX Web: www.urbyte.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Linux/Windows Universal Benchmark
> No, of course not. Different systems do different things well and > poorly. For example: Write a "benchmark" that starts and stops 10,000 > processes and Linux will beat Windows hands-down. Write a "benchmark" > that starts and stops 10,000 threads and Windows will beat Linux > hands-down (if it's not still running the process benchmark...). U out of curiosity, Why / how does windows beat Linux ? Is it technically very difficult / impossible to have an OS that does processes and threads very fast or has Linux CHOSEN to give more importance to processes than to threads and why ? Thanx Shri
Re: galeon
On Sat, 2001-12-01 at 23:42, Warren A. Layton wrote: > On Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 03:24:17PM -0800, ben wrote: > > where is galeon? i've run every manipulation of apt-get and dpkg i know but i > can't find it anywhere. > > I did a search on http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages and found: > > unstable galeon 1.0-2 (1823.6k) unstable non-us it didn't work for me until I added non-us as well deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main contrib non-free to my /etc/apt/sources.list you might not need the contrib non-free parts Good luck, Shri
Re: Alcatel SpeedTouch USB Modem Setup...
agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp > memory: 86M > Dec 3 13:19:08 kungfoo kernel: agpgart: Detected Ali M1632 chipset > Dec 3 13:19:08 kungfoo kernel: agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xe000 > Dec 3 13:19:08 kungfoo kernel: [drm] Initialized tdfx 1.0.0 20010216 on > minor 0 > Dec 3 13:19:08 kungfoo kernel: [drm] AGP 0.99 on ALi M1621 @ 0xe000 64MB > Dec 3 13:19:08 kungfoo kernel: [drm] Initialized radeon 1.1.1 20010405 on > minor 1 > Dec 3 13:19:08 kungfoo kernel: SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00 > Dec 3 13:19:08 kungfoo kernel: es1371: version v0.30 time 22:39:30 Nov 30 > 2001 > Dec 3 13:19:08 kungfoo kernel: Linux Kernel Card Services 3.1.22 > Dec 3 13:19:08 kungfoo kernel: options: [pci] [cardbus] [pm] > Dec 3 13:19:08 kungfoo kernel: PCI: Guessed IRQ 11 for device 00:13.0 > Dec 3 13:19:08 kungfoo kernel: PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:13.1 > Dec 3 13:19:08 kungfoo kernel: PCI: Guessed IRQ 11 for device 00:13.1 > Dec 3 13:19:08 kungfoo kernel: PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:13.0 > Dec 3 13:19:08 kungfoo kernel: usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs > Dec 3 13:19:08 kungfoo kernel: usb.c: registered new driver hub > Dec 3 13:19:08 kungfoo kernel: Yenta IRQ list 0638, PCI irq11 > Dec 3 13:19:08 kungfoo kernel: Socket status: 3006 > Dec 3 13:19:08 kungfoo kernel: Yenta IRQ list 0638, PCI irq11 > Dec 3 13:19:08 kungfoo kernel: Socket status: 3410 > Dec 3 13:19:08 kungfoo kernel: Initializing USB Mass Storage driver... > Dec 3 13:19:08 kungfoo kernel: usb.c: registered new driver usb-storage > Dec 3 13:19:08 kungfoo kernel: USB Mass Storage support registered. > Dec 3 13:19:08 kungfoo kernel: NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 > Dec 3 13:19:08 kungfoo kernel: IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP > Dec 3 13:19:08 kungfoo kernel: IP: routing cache hash table of 512 buckets, > 4Kbytes > Dec 3 13:19:08 kungfoo kernel: TCP: Hash tables configured (established 8192 > bind 8192) > Dec 3 13:19:08 kungfoo kernel: NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux > NET4.0. > Dec 3 13:19:08 kungfoo kernel: VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. > Dec 3 13:19:08 kungfoo kernel: Freeing unused kernel memory: 220k freed > Dec 3 13:19:08 kungfoo kernel: PCI: Guessed IRQ 11 for device 00:14.0 > Dec 3 13:19:08 kungfoo kernel: usb-ohci.c: USB OHCI at membase 0xc8022000, > IRQ 11 > Dec 3 13:19:08 kungfoo kernel: usb-ohci.c: usb-00:14.0, Acer Laboratories > Inc. [ALi] M5237 USB > Dec 3 13:19:08 kungfoo kernel: usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus > number 1 > Dec 3 13:19:08 kungfoo kernel: hub.c: USB hub found > Dec 3 13:19:08 kungfoo kernel: hub.c: 3 ports detected > Dec 3 13:19:08 kungfoo kernel: usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.268 $ time 22:43:44 > Nov 30 2001 > Dec 3 13:19:08 kungfoo kernel: usb-uhci.c: High bandwidth mode enabled > Dec 3 13:19:08 kungfoo kernel: usb-uhci.c: v1.268:USB Universal Host > Controller Interface driver > Dec 3 13:19:08 kungfoo kernel: Adding Swap: 192740k swap-space (priority -1) > Dec 3 13:19:08 kungfoo kernel: usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.268 $ time 22:43:44 > Nov 30 2001 > Dec 3 13:19:08 kungfoo kernel: usb-uhci.c: High bandwidth mode enabled > Dec 3 13:19:08 kungfoo kernel: usb-uhci.c: v1.268:USB Universal Host > Controller Interface driver > Dec 3 13:19:09 kungfoo kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0c00-0x0cff: clean. > Dec 3 13:19:09 kungfoo kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0800-0x08ff: clean. > Dec 3 13:19:09 kungfoo kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff: excluding > 0x378-0x37f 0x408-0x40f 0x480-0x48f 0x4d0-0x4d7 > Dec 3 13:19:09 kungfoo kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean. > Dec 3 13:19:09 kungfoo kernel: cs: memory probe 0xa000-0xa0ff: > clean. > Dec 3 13:28:55 kungfoo kernel: hub.c: USB new device connect on bus1/2, > assigned device number 2 > Dec 3 13:28:56 kungfoo kernel: usb.c: USB device 2 (vend/prod 0x6b9/0x4061) > is not claimed by any active driver. > Dec 3 13:28:56 kungfoo /etc/hotplug/usb.agent: Modprobe and setup speedtouch > for USB product 6b9/4061/0 > Dec 3 13:28:56 kungfoo /etc/hotplug/usb.agent: Module setup speedtouch for > USB product 6b9/4061/0 > Dec 3 13:28:56 kungfoo kernel: usb.c: registered new driver Alcatel > SpeedTouch USB > Dec 3 13:28:56 kungfoo kernel: usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout > Dec 3 13:28:56 kungfoo kernel: usbdevfs: USBDEVFS_BULK failed dev 2 ep 0x85 > len 512 ret -110 > Dec 3 13:29:30 kungfoo kernel: CSLIP: code copyright 1989 Regents of the > University of California > Dec 3 13:29:30 kungfoo kernel: PPP generic driver version 2.4.1 > ---ENDOF /VAR/LOG/MESSAGES--- > > > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Shri Shrikumar Partner U R Byte Solutions 23 McDonald Road Edinburgh EH7 4LX www.urbyte.com [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Only three fonts available in KDE ?
Hi All, I seem to only be able to access three fonts in KDE (Bitstream Charter, Courier 10 Pitch & Cursor)for some strange reason. Everything seems to be fine under GNOME. Even if I load up a KDE application in GNOME like kdevelop - the fonts show up fine in the font list. Any Ideas. Thanks Shri
Re: Only three fonts available in KDE ? (FIXED)
Thank you Nathan, It was indeed the anti-aliasing and now things are starting to get legible again. Regards, Shri On Mon, 2001-12-03 at 21:03, Nathan Weston wrote: > You probably have font anti-aliasing turned on... I believe this limits your > selection of fonts to those for which AA works. > > Or, you may not have specified all of your font directories in your > /etc/X11/XftConfig > > Try adding "dir" lines to XftConfig, turning off AA (Control > Center->Look&Feel->Fonts), or getting more truetype fonts (apt-get install > msttcorefonts). > > Good luck, > Nathan >
Re: ARGH!! Now It's WORSE :-(
On Wed, 2001-12-05 at 18:19, Stan Brown wrote: > Somehow I have installed something on the machine at work that spits out an > erro meesgae about every 5 minutes about an I/O error on the floppy (which > I NEVER use). Find out if your floppy drive is mounted by using just mount or df df would also show an error if there was some problem accessing the device. if there is an error on any device - just try umounting it and using umount -f (as root) if necessary. > I've posted about this twice in the last week or so, but never goy any > useful answers. So this morning I wnet through dselect trying to compare > packages between teh machines, I dleted a few packages on the machine at > work in an effort to get rid of this (since it make using the console > impossible). Now it's worse! Now in addiation to that error I'm geting > "cdrom: open failed" Do you use cdrom sources with apt - if so, you might want to switch that off. check your fstab to see if the cdrom or floppy are mounted automatically (they probably shouldn't be and there should be noauto in their options) With regards to access to console, Have you tried switching to another console like tty2 - tty6 to see if the messages show up there as well. Also, if you ssh in, the messages should not show up. this should make troubleshooting easier. check your /var/log/messages and /var/log/syslog and run dmesg, see if there is anything *interesting* there. also run ps -e to see if there are any processes running that shouldn't be. Just some thoughts as to where the problem might be. Good Luck Shri
Re: apt-get connect takes forever, download instantaneous
Just a thought, try ping www.debian.org. if it takes a while to resolve the ip address, then the problem is something to do with the dns server (yours / external) you could also try dig www.debian.org and see how long that takes. good luck, Shri Shri Shrikumar U R Byte Solutions 23 McDonald Road Edinburgh EH7 4LX www.urbyte.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sun, 2001-12-09 at 07:35, Seth Delackner wrote: > First, hello and thanks. Please be gentle, this is my first debian-users > post. > > Whilst installing debian-stable I am encountering the most bizarre > behavior: During the apt-setup stage, using ftp or http, > the "Connecting" stage of opening an apt mirror takes upwards of a > minute, but the actual file transfers happen quite fast over my DSL. > > First I thought this might be alleviated by forcing apt to do passive > ftp transfers using the apt.conf line 'Acquire::ftp::passive "true";', > but this didn't help. > > Because the linux machine is behind a NAT firewall that might have > been causing grief, I tried setting apt-setup to use http, though > this didn't help. So I set apt.conf to include 'Acquire::http::Proxy' > of my firewall's http proxy. While apt was happy to now use my proxy, > it still took about a minute to connect. > > Now, I've been watching my firewall's debug output, and after the > apt-setup program DNS queries the mirror's name, nothing happens > for a minute or so, then suddenly a burst of http requests flow by > as it retrieves the files. > > I've tried looking through the archive and searched google a million > different ways, but have failed utterly to find an answer to this. > > Also! If anyone is still reading: The debian install guide makes > absolutely no mention of the apt.conf options and I had to look > far and wide to stumble on the apt.conf man page because by that > stage of my net install man pages were not yet available... > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Linux 2.4.14 and Integrated IPtables?
Hi, There is a package called iptables in woody / sid that you need to install to be able to make use of it. HTH, Shri On Thu, 2001-12-13 at 23:57, Bender, Jeff wrote: > > I just recently upgraded my kernel to Linux 2.4.14 with the IPTables > compilied into the kernel. Supposedly it comes integrated into the kernel. > I looked everywhere for the iptables binary and couldn't find it. I did a > 'find / -name iptables' and even an 'updatedb' then 'locate iptables'. No > binary found. I resorted to downloading the source code and make it on my > system. > > Am I missing something or did they forget to add the binary? > > ~ Clueless > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: URGENT: sid update - now can't start X
Hi, you might have to download and install nvidia_glx and nvidia_kernel packages if you haven't done so already and change your driver from nv to nvidia - I was stuck at that for a day or so. good luck, Shri -- --- Shri Shrikumar I.T. Consultant U R Byte Solutions 23 McDonald Road Edinburgh EH7 4LX United Kingdom Tel: (0131) 558 9990 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: www.urbyte.com --- On Tue, 2001-12-18 at 22:33, Rick Macdonald wrote: > > I've been running sid for some time now, but only update occasionally. I > updated my laptop last week without problems and today did my desktop. > > Now I can't start gnome, or even run "startx". The last few lines that I > get are: > > Error loading keymap /var/tmp/server-0.xkm > Couldn't load XKB keymap, falling back to pre-XKB keymap > Could not init font path element ...speedo... removing from list! > Waiting for X server to shut down > > The speedo problem has been there for months so isn't related. > I didn't think I was using XKB extensions of any kind. > The upgrade made no changes to my XF86Config-4 file. > I'm using an older nvidia driver (#799 or so). > > Any ideas? > > ...RickM... > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
stable gcc for sid
Hi All, Im keen on getting a stable version of a c++ compiler for sid. the version I have says that it is a debian prerelease version and tends to show internal error when compiling an application. I've tried getting gcc from testing but that too seems to be a pre-release and the one froms stable seems to want to remove a buch of stuff I think I would like to keep. I also have gcc-3.0 installed - would simply removing this bring gcc back to a stable state ? I upgrade quite regularly - once every few days. Any thoughts / ideas. All Welcome. Thanx Shri -- --- Shri Shrikumar I.T. Consultant U R Byte Solutions 23 McDonald Road Edinburgh EH7 4LX United Kingdom Tel: (0131) 558 9990 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: www.urbyte.com ---
Re: stable gcc for sid
On Fri, 2001-12-21 at 15:10, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: > On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 14:56:06 +0000, Shri Shrikumar wrote: > > Im keen on getting a stable version of a c++ compiler for sid. the version > > I have says that it is a debian prerelease version > > That's because, technically speaking, it is. It is a stable release of gcc, > updated with CVS changes from the relevant branch (which essentially should > be bugfixes only). except if I run make again(without doing anything else), it goes through fine so I _cant_ reproduce the problem. Its seems to be almost random. It hasn't happened since the last upgrade though so I guess it may be eliminated. I was just a little concerned maybe the compiler was working incorrectly for some reason. Thanx for the help, Shri -- --- Shri Shrikumar I.T. Consultant U R Byte Solutions 23 McDonald Road Edinburgh EH7 4LX United Kingdom Tel: (0131) 558 9990 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: www.urbyte.com ---
Re: stable gcc for sid
On Fri, 2001-12-21 at 16:38, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: > On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 16:41:27 +0000, Shri Shrikumar wrote: > > except if I run make again(without doing anything else), it goes through > > fine so I _cant_ reproduce the problem. Its seems to be almost random. > > That's a typical sign of bad or badly configured hardware. Time to read > http://www.bitwizard.nl/sig11/ . > It doesn't segfault - it merely says internal compiler error. A lot of warnings are being spewed out through the compiles - I figured it may be the number of warnings that is triggering this instead of popping an error saying "Too Many Warnings." I am nevertheless checking the site out; you never know - it may be harware related. Thanx Shri -- --- Shri Shrikumar I.T. Consultant U R Byte Solutions 23 McDonald Road Edinburgh EH7 4LX United Kingdom Tel: (0131) 558 9990 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: www.urbyte.com ---
Re: OT: performance problems.
On Sun, 2002-01-06 at 15:52, martin f krafft wrote: > folks, sorry if i am posting this here, but i am sort of clueless, and > i'd love some advise from you wise people! > > i have this AMD Thunderbird 1.3 GHz machine with 512Mb of SD-RAM, a 1Gb > swap partition on a 20Gb 5400 seagate IDE drive. that's quite powerful, > isn't it? > > Linux piper 2.4.9 #1 Tue Sep 11 15:39:28 CEST 2001 i686 unknown > 16:45:25 up 13 days, 1:17, 7 users, load average: 3.40, 3.56, 3.70 > 84 processes: 83 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped > CPU states: 0.8% user, 22.3% system, 1.0% nice, 75.9% idle > Mem:505844K total, 502788K used, 3056K free,11456K buffers > Swap: 996020K total,31172K used, 964848K free, 438552K cached > > however, i am continuously having troubles. for instance, in a typical > situation, i'd have windowmaker running with four terms, xmms playing > some 192kbps MP3s, some ssh sessions into it, and an rsync, bzip/gzip, > or make-kpkg process running. i am not usually interactively using X. > > in such a situation, xmms (or mpg123 without X, it doesn't matter) > continuously skips on MP3s and it's *very* annoying. i even went as far > as to renice xmms to -20 *and* rsync/bzip/gzip/make-kpkg to 20, but it > doesn't really help. > > this is ridiculous. a 1.3 GHz machine should really be able to handle > two intense processes at the same time, after all, UNIX is a true > time-sharing OS. but i am at a loss why this thing is unable to handle > two processes. only thing I can think of is to try xmms without the cpu hogging stuff to make sure that it is the cpu causing the skips and not a slow internet connection. I dont enough about how all the stuff works in linux but it may also be that it isn't xmms that is skipping but the internet connection is somehow being interrupted by the cpu-intensive tasks. just a thought. Regards, Shri
umsdos and vfat works but no uvfat - any ideas?
Hi All, I've been trying to get uvfat working and it says that I just need to enable umsdos and vfat (which I have) and they both work fine. However, when I do mount -t uvfat /dev/hda11 /mnt it tells me that uvfat is not supported by the kernel. Anybody get uvfat working and if so, how ? Im running kernel 2.4.18 BTW on Deb Woody. Regards, Shri -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problems getting crontab to execute my script
On Sat, 2002-06-15 at 11:55, Søren Neigaard wrote: > I have made a script that restarts a Java app., and I have no trouble > running it manually. But when I try to run it with crontab, nothing > happends!? > > Here is my crontab line (as root): > > 0,5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50,55 * * * * > /projects/proximus/bin/restart_proximus.sh > > Should this not call my script every 5 minutes? > > -- > Med venlig hilsen/Best regards, > Søren Neigaard mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- > "First we thought the PC was a calculator. Then we found out how to turn > numbers into letters with ASCII and we thought it was a typewriter. Then we > discovered graphics, and we thought it was a television. With the World Wide > Web, we've realized it's a brochure." Hi, Maybe defining java classpath and other env variables in the script would help. HTH, Shri -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: umsdos and vfat works but no uvfat - any ideas?
On Sun, 2002-06-16 at 20:03, Osamu Aoki wrote: > On Sat, Jun 15, 2002 at 04:36:28PM +0100, Shri Shrikumar wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > I've been trying to get uvfat working and it says that I just need to > > enable umsdos and vfat (which I have) and they both work fine. > > > > However, when I do > > > > mount -t uvfat /dev/hda11 /mnt > > > > it tells me that uvfat is not supported by the kernel. > > > > Anybody get uvfat working and if so, how ? Im running kernel 2.4.18 BTW > > on Deb Woody. > root # modprobe umsdos > root # modprobe vfat > root # cat /proc/filesystems > nodev rootfs > nodev bdev > nodev proc > nodev sockfs > nodev tmpfs > nodev shm > nodev pipefs > cramfs > nodev devfs > nodev devpts > ext3 > ext2 > nodev autofs > msdos > umsdos > vfat > > Looks like no support for "uvfat". But I do not see "uvfat" in manual > page of "mount". I see no occurance of "uvfat" in 2.4 kernel source. > > Where did you get idea for "uvfat"? just google for it (I was originally looking for vfat with unix meta information like umsdos for msdos) It looks like it existed at least at some point. Any ideas where I might be able to get more info on it - couldn't really find any email addresses in my hunt. All help appreciated. Shri -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
msdos has umsdos and vfat has ?????
Hi Guys n Gals, I would like to have umsdos with the long file name ability. Does anyone have such a setup ? If so, how ? My googling brought up uvfat (from around 1997-1998) but that seems to have disappeared altogether from most everywhere. Regards, Shri -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
most secure services (DNS, Web, Mail)
Hi All, Ive finally decided to venture and let people see my machine permanently connected to the net. This machine is of course running debian. It is running testing as of a couple of months or so. I plan to let it go into woody and stay there (upgraded to woody so many months ago primarily for iptables) The machine is 200Mhz with 96Mb RAM. It already takes care of my personal as well as some work mail(including this list) and apache for the webmail stuff and PHPgroupware, so its under a bit of load(Masquerade, Exim, IMAP, Procmail, Spamassasin, Apache, PHP etc.) Im about to buy a domain name and host that on this server. Im a little paranoid about letting people access this machine from the world. Due to this, I would like to know what the most secure services that I can run on this server. I want it to handle dns for this domain as well as the web and mail. I am on ADSL and so have a static ip address and intend to use this ip for hosting this domain. Maybe even try some virtual hosting. What would you guys recommend for this setup. I am using bind just now which I hear is a pita for security. Doing a apt-cache search with secure dns brings up maradns. I haven't noticed much security issues with exim on the net. Where would the best place be to find information about stopping the server from relaying mail for anyone else as well. Also, how secure is Apache / PHP. I would guess that there wouldn't be many issues considering that around 60% of all web servers around the world are running Apache last time I checked(albeit a few years ago) Im really not expecting many hits on this size (dozen a day or so) and the email from this site wouldn't be that much either. I am however, considering upgrading this into a PII with 450MHz and 128Mb to 256Mb Memory. I would really appreciate any advice on this. I dont have a DMZ just now and can't really afford one. Thanks for your time, Shri -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
autoplaying cd's
Hi All, Is it possible to get linux to autoplay audio / mp3 cd's in xmms like winamp does in windoze. Also, can xmms autodetect whether to use esd or arts. Thanks, Shri -- Shri Shrikumar U R Byte Solutions I.T. Consultant23 McDonald RoadTel: (0131) 558 9990 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Edinburgh EH7 4LX Web: www.urbyte.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: most secure services (DNS, Web, Mail)
> > The machine is 200Mhz with 96Mb RAM. It already takes care of my > > personal as well as some work mail(including this list) and apache for > > the webmail stuff and PHPgroupware, so its under a bit of > > woh. hold it. > > maybe its just me but it seems phpgroupware earns more rights to > have security advisories then the other apps ..at least from what > ive seen on vuln-dev and bugtraq.phpgroupware seems to come up > a LOT. maybe just because its widely used, i don't know. but theres > been what seems to be a ton of security issues with it in the recent > past > > my opinion is phpgroupware is probably your weakest link here. > > maybe look into something like ezpub - http://developer.ez.no > but i dont know what your needs are. and i don't know if ezpub > is secure, i just don't remember seeing advisories on it yet. PHPGroupware is just for internal stuff. I *dont* want to give access to that for the external hits. Presumably, PHPGroupware wouldn't make the machine less secure if used like this. Thanks, Shri -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
loading linux.bin.............ready (and hangs there during woody install)
Hi All, Hope someone can help me with this. I've tried the standard boot images using loadlin as well as floppy images. With loadlin, it says loading and then hangs after clearing the screen and with the floppy images it gets as far as saying ready(as in the subject line) goes to the next line and hangs. I dont have a bootable cd or would have tried that too. Any ideas why this would be happening. I have install redhat on this machine a couple of years ago although it has been running only m$ stuff for a while. Any ideas ? Shri -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: problem with bootdisks - not booting
On Fri, 2002-06-21 at 05:11, Duke wrote: > I'm a first time Debian user - not even that, since I can't even install > it ;) I'm using the boot disks found in > http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/Debian2.2r6/main/disks-i386/2.2.26-2001-06-14/images-1.44/ > > > /compact and /safe. > After successfully dd'ing the images to a few floppies, I tried booting > first with the "rescue.bin" disk. I see all the Debian stuff come up, > and I get to the "boot:" prompt. There are no parameters I'm aware of > that I need to pass, so I hit enter to continue. I then get "Loading > linux..." and soon after, I get "Boot failed: please change disks and > press a key to continue." I assumed that meant I needed the root disk, > but that didn't work. I've tried a dozen different floppy disks, with > images from both /current and /safe, with no success. I had the same problem yesterday. Check your floppy. Mine had some bad sectors. Use a brand new floppy if possible. The debian boot process seems to be finicky about the floppy disks. HTH, Shri -- Shri Shrikumar U R Byte Solutions I.T. Consultant23 McDonald RoadTel: (0131) 558 9990 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Edinburgh EH7 4LX Web: www.urbyte.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
accessing Ms Access(*.mdb) files
Hi All, As the title suggests, are there any linux packages that can be used to access mdb files. Im running sid. Thanks for your help, Shri Shri Shrikumar Partner U R Byte Solutions 23 McDonald Road Edinburgh EH7 4LX www.urbyte.com [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: accessing Ms Access(*.mdb) files
By accessing, I meant, a replacement app in Linux for Ms Access - not to access it for a web app. Thanx Shri On Tue, 2001-10-30 at 15:07, nik butler wrote: > This is going to depend on your experience with perl and iodbc neither of > which are relevant enough for me to post back to the list so I am forwarding > this link for your assistance > > > http://tlowery.hypermart.net/perl_dbi_dbd_faq.html#HowDoIAccessMSWindowsDB > > Hope that helps > > > for more advice > > search.cpan.org > > > > Regards > > > Nik > >
Re: kernel recompile takes the "work" out of "network"
On Tue, 2002-04-09 at 08:22, Crispin Wellington wrote: > On Tue, 2002-04-09 at 11:49, Yury Sulsky wrote: > > Crispin, thanks for replying. > > > > I checked "dmesg | grep tulip" and "dmesg | grep eth0", and the returned > > lines looked the same as what I got with the default kernel. Besides, > > wouldn't "ifconfig -a" not find eth0 if the tulip driver wasn't working? > > yes. true. > > > I also installed the dhcping package, which checks to see if DHCP is > > working, and while it worked with the default kernel, there was no response > > in the recompiled one. > > > > I've attached the config file for the kernel like you asked - you're > > probably right in saying it's the config file, since I'm pretty new at this > > and so had almost no clue what I was choosing when I configured it. > > It looks fine to me. Perhaps theres some obscure parameter that needs to > be set that DHCP uses internally. Perhaps someone else knows exactly > what? Somebody? Somebody? Bueller? > > What errors if any does DHCP give you? Can you run it under strace and > see what its doing, or is it just silently (not) running? Is it just DHCP that doesn't work or is there other bits of the network that are not working. Try using ifconfig to set an address and netmask and to bring the interface up - then try pinging that interface. If this works, the network driver should be working fine. What client are you using - i remember a little while ago that a client that worked on 2.2 doesnt work on 2.4. I use dhclient and that works fine. pump is also supposed to work fine. HTH, Shri Shri Shrikumar U R Byte Solutions I.T. Consultant23 McDonald RoadTel: (0131) 558 9990 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Edinburgh EH7 4LX Web: www.urbyte.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: apache/php...feeling like an idiot
On Mon, 2002-04-08 at 03:28, Bill Bell wrote: > Quoting Matthew Daubenspeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > 3) is the problem not in the httpd.conf file? > > > 4) is there something I need to apt-get that would have configured > > this > > > correctly "out-of-the-box" (during the apt-getting installation?) I remember running into some problems with mime types as well. This may be fixed now though but worth checking HTH, Shri -- ---- Shri Shrikumar U R Byte Solutions I.T. Consultant23 McDonald RoadTel: (0131) 558 9990 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Edinburgh EH7 4LX Web: www.urbyte.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Courier-IMAP, useradd, skel problems
On Mon, 2002-04-08 at 18:39, Matthew Daubenspeck wrote: > I am currently using squirrelmail and courier-imap for a webmail only > mail server and am having problems adding new users. I created a new > user and sent a test message to the account to which exim creates the > correct ~/Maildir directories, and delivers the mail into the correct > folder. However, when I try to login through squirrelmail, I get the > following error: > > Preference database error (connect failed). Exiting abnormally > > I checked with other servers where I use the same config/setup, and I > noticed that in the ~/Maildir directory, there are two files named > courierimapsubscribed and courierimapuiddb, which is not on the new > system. How can I create this? those two files are created automatically. Make sure that exim is using the maildir format - i.e. there are the cur, new and tmp folders in ~/Maildir. Also, you could check syslog / messages for errors. HTH, Shri -- ---- Shri Shrikumar U R Byte Solutions I.T. Consultant23 McDonald RoadTel: (0131) 558 9990 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Edinburgh EH7 4LX Web: www.urbyte.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: empty emails every morning from debian box
- Original Message - From: "Andrea Vettorello" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "debian-user mailing list" Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 12:56 PM Subject: Re: empty emails every morning from debian box > On Thu, 2002-02-07 at 13:17, shri wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > here's a weird occurance. A blank email gets sent to me every morning around > > half past six. I have attached a copy - any ideas ? > > > > [...] > > Do you have snort installed? Actually yes and I think the whole empty emails started with that. I however, cannot find any references to snort in syslog or messages (which has just has a bunch of -- MARK -- messages in it) Karl, I checked your suggestion and there is one entry in the syslog at 06:25:01 (2secs before the email) which runs anacron Feb 7 06:25:01 ganesh /USR/SBIN/CRON[10426]: (root) CMD (test -e /usr/sbin/anacron || run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily) this same line is there each day. But, dpkg -l anacron gives me pn anacron (no description available) and there is no anacron in /usr/sbin Any ideas ? TIA, Regards, Shri PS - Does CRON not always put some headers into the email which is *not* present in these ones.
Re: empty emails every morning from debian box
- Original Message - From: "Andrea Vettorello" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "debian-user mailing list" Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 1:40 PM Subject: Re: empty emails every morning from debian box > On Thu, 2002-02-07 at 14:34, Shri Shrikumar wrote: > > > > On Thu, 2002-02-07 at 13:17, shri wrote: > > > > Hi All, > > > > > > > > here's a weird occurance. A blank email gets sent to me every morning > > around > > > > half past six. I have attached a copy - any ideas ? > > > > > > > > > > [...] > > > > > > Do you have snort installed? > > > > Look in the debian bug report for snort, there should be a > workaround/patch to stop the empty message... > Found it and upgraded my package. Thanks for your help, Shri
Re: empty emails every morning from debian box. FIXED
- Original Message - From: "Andrea Vettorello" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "debian-user mailing list" Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 1:40 PM Subject: Re: empty emails every morning from debian box > On Thu, 2002-02-07 at 14:34, Shri Shrikumar wrote: > > > > On Thu, 2002-02-07 at 13:17, shri wrote: > > > > Hi All, > > > > > > > > here's a weird occurance. A blank email gets sent to me every morning > > around > > > > half past six. I have attached a copy - any ideas ? > > > > > > > > > > [...] > > > > > > Do you have snort installed? > > > > Look in the debian bug report for snort, there should be a > workaround/patch to stop the empty message... > Hi Just wanted to let you guys know that upgrading snort did fix that problem. No blank email this morning. Thank you for your help / suggestions, Shri
Re: Games on Linux?
- Original Message - From: "D & E Radel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, February 09, 2001 6:40 AM Subject: Games on Linux? > Sad to hear about Loki Game's demise. What good free/GPL 3D games are there > for Linux, now that they are gone. Am I gonna be stuck with tuxracer? No > disrespect > for ol' tuxracer intended. :-) > > grol. Have you tried wine. A lot of windows games play just fine on that although you may need to install them from windows. It might need a little fiddling to get D3D / GL to work but, don't think there is nothing too complex there. you can always check http://appdb.codeweavers.com/ to see if the game you want to play works under wine. It is soo sucky that you get so many good games for windows like Half Life and Diablo II and very few for Linux. I for one would like to see more games supporting the linux os. I obviously wouldn't expect Microsoft to release Age of Empires (a good game) for the linux os but would like companies like Blizzard and Valve to put a little more effort into the linux OS. I keep my windows partition alive primarily for games(sad :(. but true). Regards, Shri
Re: Unable to boot from disk
- Original Message - From: "Bodnyk, Bruce W" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 1:20 PM Subject: Unable to boot from disk > Hi, > > I'm trying to install Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 on an HP pc. The install seems > to proceed ok but when the machine reboots at the end of the install it > fails with the following messages: > > LAN option: AMD PCnet - PCI II/PCnet - Fast Ethernet Adapter > DHCP MAC ADDR: 00 60 B0 ED 32 CE > PXE-E53: No boot filename received from BINL, DHCP or BOOTP. > PXE-M0F: Exiting PXE. > Operating System not found > > I am however able to boot from the floppy that is created during the > install process. In booting from the floppy I noticed something > strange. I can successfully ping other Unix machines on the network > using their network name but when I attempt to ping an NT machine > the system seems to have problems resolving the name and the > ping fails. > It sounds like you have set your network card to use bootp. All I can suggest is you take a look at /etc/init.d/networking and /etc/network once booting via floppy. HTH, Shri -- Shri Shrikumar Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] windows can actually crash quicker than you can reboot it --
Re: a modest proposal - Debian needs more $
- Original Message - From: "Anthony Campbell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 3:09 PM Subject: Re: a modest proposal - Debian needs more $ > On 12 Feb 2002, Roderick Cummings wrote: > > >From: Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > >Subject: Re: a modest proposal - Debian needs more $ > > >Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 10:21:27 -0600 > > > > > > > I assume the reason why US-based people have it easy when they make > > donations is because the treasurer is in the US. For whatever the reason, I > > say rather than force debian to build some complicated financial structure, > > people who don't have trivial access to US Dollars and/or an easy way to > > send them to debian should take the extra effort and cost to convert/send > > the cash. Consider that part of your donation. > > > > Surely the point is to increase the number of donations rather than to > make the givers feel a greater sense of virtue. The more complicated it > is, the more people will just give up. > > I'm no kind of expert on financial matters, but would it be difficult > for Debian to have a credit card facility which people outside the USA > could use to transfer money without too great a penalty? I am in total agreement with this. I wanted to donate some money to debian - not much but just a little and more often. However, the effort of sending money to debian far outweighs the "feel good factor." Being able to contribute using credit card would be great - even if its using paypal or such. Regards, Shri
partition does not end on cylinder boundary error.
Hi All, I wonder if any of you can point me in the right direction here. STUPID NT (I need it to do some work) destroyed my Windoze 98 (I need THIS to play games) partition. Now fdisk says that Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary: phys=(1023, 24, 30) should be (1023, 254, 63) If fdisk knows what it should be, is there like a little command I can use to fix it or even another program. It is a true pain in the ass to re-install win98 and Ive already done way too many times THIS lifetime. If only linux could run VB, Ms Access and all the Windoze games - I could get rid of windows altogether. (and yes, I tried wine, it does some of the things that I want it to but not enough to be able to just format c) I read some of the newsgroups saying that this doesnt matter - but it should be said that this is a new motherboard that understands my hard drive geometry and I didn't have this error before attempting to install NT. Also LILO chokes on this. Thankx for you help and patience in this slightly OT post. Shri
Re: partition does not end on cylinder boundary error.
On Tue, 2002-02-19 at 15:34, Sebastiaan wrote: > But still I do not see the problem. You have one harddisk on which win98, > winNT and Linux is installed. Are win98 and NT on the same partition or on > a different one? Which was first installed? Is your win98 partition really > lost or have you just no access to it? We really need more information > about your harddisk partitionning and windoze installation history to help > you. Win98 is partition one. Linux is part two and NT was supposed to be partition three. On trying to install - it screwed the partition table up. Therefore, NT is not installed just now. I think the data is fine in Partition one - its just inaccessible because the partition info is incorrect. I really need some program that can "fix" this partition table entry. > > It is a true pain in the ass to re-install win98 and Ive already done > > way too many times THIS lifetime. > > > > If only linux could run VB, Ms Access and all the Windoze games - I > > could get rid of windows altogether. (and yes, I tried wine, it does > > some of the things that I want it to but not enough to be able to just > > format c) > > > Staroffice should have M$ compatible access, afaik. VB? jach. > And have you tried winex from www.transgaming.com ? They are busy adding > directx support. Thats what I use but my clients use Ms Access front ends and so that one is needed and VB - same reason - RAD in Win. Will look at transgaming though - looks good. Thanx Shri
Reserving space for mail on /var
Hi All, I have a quick question - one of the servers that I manage have a problem in that /var/log/syslog and /var/log/daemon.log get filled up with a message from bind and subsequently bounces all mail since there is no space left. What is the best solution for this? Do I have to create another mount point for /var/spool/mail ? Quotas perhaps? Alternatively, how can I get syslog to ignore the lines that fill the log up. Thanks in advance, Best wishes, Shri -- Shri Shrikumar U R Byte Solutions Tel: 0845 644 4745 I.T. Consultant Edinburgh, Scotland Mob: 0773 980 3499 Web: www.urbyte.com Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Reserving space for mail on /var
On Tue, 2004-06-22 at 12:09, Clive Menzies wrote: > On (22/06/04 11:42), Shri Shrikumar wrote: > > I have a quick question - one of the servers that I manage have a > > problem in that /var/log/syslog and /var/log/daemon.log get filled up > > with a message from bind and subsequently bounces all mail since there > > is no space left. > > > > What is the best solution for this? Do I have to create another mount > > point for /var/spool/mail ? Quotas perhaps? Alternatively, how can I get > > syslog to ignore the lines that fill the log up. > > Is this after using the new sarge d-i? I've experienced the same problem > and had to delete these two log files to get packages installed. This > was on a test system where only /home and swap are on separate > partitions, whereas my production system has a separate /var > partition. Nevertheless, it would seem that the new d-i is creating > huge versions of these two logs (>1G each in the first day or so). Hi Clive, no, im using stable with var on a separate partition. Shri -- ---- Shri Shrikumar U R Byte Solutions Tel: 0845 644 4745 I.T. Consultant Edinburgh, Scotland Mob: 0773 980 3499 Web: www.urbyte.com Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Reserving space for mail on /var
On Tue, 2004-06-22 at 12:04, Thomas Adam wrote: > Those files are handled by logrotate -- you can get that to delete them on > each rotation. If the file gets bigger than 1gb during the day, will it still rotate it out of existence or does logrotate just run daily? Also, I am not that keen on deleting log files - who knows when I might need the one that I just deleted. Shri -- ---- Shri Shrikumar U R Byte Solutions Tel: 0845 644 4745 I.T. Consultant Edinburgh, Scotland Mob: 0773 980 3499 Web: www.urbyte.com Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: LVM over RAID
On Fri, 2004-07-23 at 13:37, Pete Clarke wrote: > I am basically looking for the solution that provides the best balance > between performance (speed is really an issue) and flexibility. One point to make which others might point out as well is the risk of going to raid0. if one disk dies, you will lose all your data. If you are interested in read performance (a lot of reads with a few writes), look into mirroring the drives as this will give you some redundancy as well. With regards to whether you should use raid / lvm. This depends, if you have a good hardware raid card, use that as it may have an onboard CPU. Otherwise, just use software raid. What I tend to do is use raidtools / mdadm to raid all the hdd's together and then run lvm on top of that purely for space partitioning so that it is easier to re-allocate space when necessary. If you then add hard drives, raid them as necessary and join them to the lvm volume. HTH, YMMV, Shri -- ---- Shri Shrikumar U R Byte Solutions Tel: 0845 644 4745 I.T. Consultant Edinburgh, Scotland Mob: 0773 980 3499 Web: www.urbyte.com Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
deleting a raid array completely
Hi, I created a two raid devices and no longer want the first one. How can I delete it? I use mdadm and have tried lots of different things including trying to fail and remove both the disks from the array. Googling didnt help much either. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks and best wishes, Shri -- Shri Shrikumar U R Byte Solutions Tel: 0845 644 4745 I.T. Consultant Edinburgh, Scotland Mob: 0773 980 3499 Web: www.urbyte.com Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
/var/log/syslog and /var/log/daemon.log getting very big
Hi List, I just experienced a pseudo denial of service issue. A server of ours runs woody and bind seems to have filled syslog and daemon.log with about 1.3g worth of messages along the lines of Apr 18 18:25:38 server named[241]: sysquery: no addrs found for root NS (A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET) Apr 18 18:25:38 server named[241]: sysquery: no addrs found for root NS (B.ROOT-SERVERS.NET) Apr 18 18:25:38 server named[241]: sysquery: no addrs found for root NS (C.ROOT-SERVERS.NET) This in itself was not much of issue except that logcheck started to eat up all the memory and the kernel starts to kill processes. What I have done is to recreate syslog and daemon.log with the above lines stripped out with grep and restarted the the logging daemons. However, I would like to know how to prevent something like this from happening in the future. Any help / pointers in this matter will be appreciated. Thanks and best wishes, Shri -- Shri Shrikumar U R Byte Solutions Tel: 0845 644 4745 I.T. Consultant Edinburgh, Scotland Mob: 0773 980 3499 Web: www.urbyte.com Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
syslog filling up with "no addrs found for root NS"
Hi List, I just experienced a pseudo denial of service issue. A server of ours runs woody and bind seems to have filled syslog and daemon.log with about 1.3g worth of messages along the lines of Apr 18 18:25:38 server named[241]: sysquery: no addrs found for root NS (A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET) Apr 18 18:25:38 server named[241]: sysquery: no addrs found for root NS (B.ROOT-SERVERS.NET) Apr 18 18:25:38 server named[241]: sysquery: no addrs found for root NS (C.ROOT-SERVERS.NET) This in itself was not much of issue except that logcheck started to eat up all the memory and the kernel starts to kill processes. What I have done is to recreate syslog and daemon.log with the above lines stripped out with grep and restarted the the logging daemons. However, I would like to know how to prevent something like this from happening in the future. Any help / pointers in this matter will be appreciated. Thanks and best wishes, Shri -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [OT] Yahoo's Antispam proposal
On Mon, 2004-05-24 at 14:34, David P James wrote: > > > > > The reasons for that is a whole other > > >issue, but it's safe to conclude that free email access isn't going > > > to solve their destitution (because if it would, it would already > > > have happened or at least be underway). > > > > Communication is the beginning of every solution. > > It *is* under way, e.g:- > > > > http://www.globalcn.org/es/article.ntd?id=178&sort=1.11 > > > > http://europa.eu.int/comm/regional_policy/innovation/pdf/award/extrem > >adura.pdf > > > > The implementation of open source software, along with internet > > access and associated email, is creating the basis for an economic > > (in the comprehensively true sense of the word) revolution in > > Extremadura. > > Very well, but would you care to enlighten us how providing free email > is going to help feed starving people in war torn countries in Africa, > like Somalia? That's what you've been arguing all along, so I'd love to > hear some details about it. It might not solve starvation but it will give them the same access to information and knowledge that people is countries that are better off take for granted. Shri -- Shri Shrikumar U R Byte Solutions Tel: 0845 644 4745 I.T. Consultant Edinburgh, Scotland Mob: 0773 980 3499 Web: www.urbyte.com Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [HELP] keyboard dont work with netbeans
Hi, Some java Runtime's have a problem with the numlock key being on - try switching that off. HTH, Shri On Wed, 2003-02-19 at 15:07, Gilberto Garcia Jr. wrote: > I installed netbeans, and other softwares that use netbeans as their basis > (sun one studio, forte for java) and all of it kills my keyboard. > > Can someone help me? > > > thanks > --- > Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > Version: 6.0.449 / Virus Database: 251 - Release Date: 27/01/03 > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- ---- Shri Shrikumar U R Byte Solutions I.T. Consultant26/3 Annandale Street Tel: (0131) 558 9990 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Edinburgh EH7 4AN Web: www.urbyte.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to duplicate a CD?
On Thu, 2003-02-20 at 03:41, stan wrote: > I posted this a few months agoa, and got an answer involving cdparnoia, and > cdrecord. But I sem to have lost the emails, and I can't seem to get the > mailing list archive search engine to find it :-( > > So, how can I duplicat an audio CD? I think you can use dd dd if=/dev/cdrom of=cdrom.iso then, you just burn cdrom.iso HTH, Shri -- ---- Shri Shrikumar U R Byte Solutions I.T. Consultant26/3 Annandale Street Tel: (0131) 558 9990 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Edinburgh EH7 4AN Web: www.urbyte.com signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: (Newbie) Functioning In Debian
On Sat, 2003-02-22 at 02:32, M. Kirchhoff wrote: [...] > Another site I frequent uses streaming Windows Media. Am I totally out > of luck there? I know there's this Crossover package that will run WM, > but it's definitely non-free. I haven't run into needing RealPlayer > support yet, but I wonder if there's a free clone of that that works > under debian-mozilla. [...] You should check out plugger. It will make sure that the right app is used to play the MIME types and mplayer to play a plethora of av stuff including ms asf and I think it supports real format as well. Shri -- ---- Shri Shrikumar U R Byte Solutions I.T. Consultant26/3 Annandale Street Tel: (0131) 558 9990 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Edinburgh EH7 4AN Web: www.urbyte.com signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: About to go all Deb
On Tue, 2003-02-25 at 15:24, John Anderson wrote: [...] > Any way to cut a long story short I have come up with the following, and would > appreciate thoughts and guidence. > > /boot 20meg You dont usually need a seperate /boot partition. I have installed a few linux machines and have never bothered with making it seperate > / 4gig I dont think that you will need this much space for the root partition. A few hundred megs should be more than enough. I have 2 20Gb hard drives and my root is only 200Mb although it is 90% full. Nothing much goes on there. > /var 8gig Here as well, I cant see you needing much more than about 4Gb unless you intend to use large databases / websites or somesuch. I have a workstation which has a var 256Mb and a small server with a couple of small databases and a couple of sites with var of 10Gb but it actually so far uses only 1Gb. This is including a couple of hundred megs for squid proxy > /tmp 2gig /tmp get used only during boot and such and like boot, doesnt usually require a seperate partition. If you are going to provide a seperate partition, it could be alot smaller. 512Mb should be enough > /usr 5gig 5Gb should be more than enough although I dont think you will need much more than 2 - 3 unless you plan to install *that* much software > /swap ??? 750meg ram, and from what I have read it should equal the ram up to > 256meg One way to do this If you have over 256Mb Ram, match the amount of ram you have, so 750Mb. If the memory is less than 256Mb, then double the amount of ram. There are good guides for this stuff that you can find online and would be a bit more complete than what I just said. YMMV, HTH, Shri -- -------- Shri Shrikumar Vital State Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.vitalstate.co.uk An Open Source FPS signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: About to go all Deb
On Tue, 2003-02-25 at 18:15, John Anderson wrote: [...] > Well I recently tried out Mondo, and it filed the / partition and killed the > machine it was using /tmp, probably due to new stupid user (me) however I > don't want that to ever happen again, so will most likely end up with say 2 > Cd's worth or 1.5gig You can ask mondo to use another dir for its scratch (using the -S flag) temp page (using the -T flag). I recommend /var/tmp which would mean that you dont need a big / Shri -- -------- Shri Shrikumar U R Byte Solutions I.T. Consultant26/3 Annandale Street Tel: (0131) 558 9990 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Edinburgh EH7 4AN Web: www.urbyte.com signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
XFree86 & Virutal Screen
Hi All, I have been trying to configure XFRee86 to *not* have a Virtual Desktop. Is this possible. I have found information about the Virtual Desktop being the same size as the largest screen resolution mentioned in the config file. Is there a way to actually turn it off entirely so pressing Ctrl+Alt+[+] or Ctrl+Alt+[-] will actually switch the screen *and* desktop resolution. Thanks for all info. Shri -- Shri Shrikumar U R Byte Solutions I.T. ConsultantEdinburgh, Scotland Tel: (0131) 558 9990 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: www.urbyte.com signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Using one mailbox at ISP for many people
On Fri, 2003-02-28 at 15:45, Jonathan Matthews wrote: > Hi all > > [BRIEF SUMMARY - How do I segregate one mail stream from one mailbox > at my ISP into different users locally?] > > At the moment, I'm the only person using my machine. However, having > installed the GNOME 2.2 backport, I've finally got a desktop that I feel > happy in sitting my SO down in front of and not worrying that she'll > find it so confusing that she runs screaming from the room. Yes, she's > not the most technical of sorts, but she tries hard :-) > > I'm trying to set her up using, for the sake of simplicity and general > "nicely-integrated" reasons, balsa as her MUA. > > She's been using mail.com for a web-based account for a while, but it > sucks (slow AND featureless). I'd like to get her up and running with > my machine, and using my email ISP. > > I receive all email to @jaycee.uklinux.net. I'd like her to > have a specific one at that domain. For the benefit of any > bottom-feeders harvesting the archives, let's say she's going to get > [EMAIL PROTECTED] :-) > > The problem is that I get only one actual physical mailbox at > uklinux.net, and all email to @jaycee.uklinux.net gets delivered to it. > The username it's sent to /is/ preserved in the headers, however. > > What combination of programs do I use to get one mailbox successfully > segregated when it hits my machine? I'm using fetchmail -> exim -> > procmail at the moment, but I've lurked on the procmail list long enough > not to ask about using it as a MDA (or is it an MTA that it shouldn't > be treated as?). You can configure exim with jaycee.uklinux.net as the domain name to automatically route the emails to @jaycee.uklinux.net as long as is a valid local user. You can also set it up to redirect all email to non-local user somewhere else. The problem that you are going face with this is that you wont know who a particular email is addressed to if the bcc: you since mail envelope is removed after delivery. Most mailing lists posts would not have a valid email address for exim to filter on based on the To: CC: address. There might be other disadavantages with this that I am not aware of. I did this a while ago and apart from some annoyances with it not delivering the bcc:'d emails properly, it was ok. There is a page on the internet somewhere which states all the disadvantages of this scheme but I unforunately dont have the link anymore. HTH, Shri -- Shri Shrikumar U R Byte Solutions I.T. ConsultantEdinburgh, Scotland Tel: (0131) 558 9990 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: www.urbyte.com signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Note
On Sat, 2003-03-01 at 05:50, Barry deFreese wrote: > Teilhard Knight wrote: > > >Just to let you know that I do not seem to be able to get through the list > >my replies to the people who is helping me. Only fresh posts show. ??? > > > >Teilhard Knight > >The Extraterrestrial > > > >Who ate my sandwich? > > > > > > > > > I have that same problem with my home account??? Make sure you do Reply All (and delete every recipient except debian-user) or Reply to List instead of just reply. You can search the archives for more information as to why changing the reply-to header is considered harmful. HTH, Shri -- ---- Shri Shrikumar U R Byte Solutions I.T. ConsultantEdinburgh, Scotland Tel: (0131) 558 9990 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: www.urbyte.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: (Newbie) Knoppix.
On Sun, 2003-03-02 at 11:43, Brian Durant wrote: > The only thing interesting that I found, was with the "dmesg" command. > The response was "eth0: Media Link Off". I have run into this response > with Deb 3 rev. 1 as well. Don't know what it means one of the replies > from the thread stated that it wasn't even in the source code! Does it work for another OS ? I think that Media Link Off means that the cable is physically not attached to the card. HTH, Shri -- -------- Shri Shrikumar U R Byte Solutions I.T. ConsultantEdinburgh, Scotland Tel: (0131) 558 9990 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: www.urbyte.com signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
annoying problem with TFT on dell laptop
Hi, I have spent the last few hours installing debian testing on a brand new dell inspiron laptop and have managed to get it very close to working properly. I am however, having two problems that are throwing me off both to do with the display. The first is that every second time I load linux up, it shrinks the screen size to the center. I have a 15" screen but it only uses the center (maybe 12" or something - looked like 640x480 or something). When I reboot, the bios post screen is *also* this size and so is the grub screen. However, when it goes into linux the next time, it will resize it to the proper size. This just keeps on alternating. I have built a kernel (2.4.20) manually (make bzImage) and I can post the config if anyone is interested. I am *not* using a framebuffer device. The display card is an NVidia Geforce 2 The second problem that I am having may or may not be related to the above and is that once the xserve-xfree86 has been run, the consoles 1-6 dont display properly anymore - there is serious flicker there. I wonder if this might even damage the TFT. I also noticed that installing xserver-xfree86 did not install all of the necessary files that we necessary like xfonts-base and xbase-clients. Would this just be because I was silly in running apt-get install xserver-xfree86 instead of using dselect ? Has anyone met with the strange behaviour of the TFT before ? One thing to mention is that I used 2.2.20-idepci kernel to boot the installation and compile the new kernel all the time with no problems with screen shrinking or anything like that. I did not however, run the xserver on that so cant say if the terminal display corruption is due to the new kernel. I am sure that I have enabled an option that I shouldnt have or not enabled on I should have but having recompiled it a few times, havent found the right combination. Any and all help or pointers very much appreciated. Thank you for your time, Shri -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
kernel: lp0 on fire ????
Hi All, I got this very interesting logcheck email with this line Mar 6 14:24:35 server kernel: lp0 on fire What does this mean - I can confirm that there is no actual fire as of yet but it does have me worried - any thoughts ? Shri -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: kernel: lp0 on fire ????
On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 22:10, Narins, Josh wrote: > > Quoting Shri Shrikumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Hi All, > > > > > > I got this very interesting logcheck email with this line > > > > > > Mar 6 14:24:35 server kernel: lp0 on fire > > > > > > What does this mean - I can confirm that there is no actual > > fire as of > > > yet but it does have me worried - any thoughts ? > > > > > > > Ahh, geek humor. It means that the parallel port status bits were set > > to a pattern that the printer driver doesn't understand. If it is was > > momentary, ignore. If there was a real problem, fix it and ignore. > > If you have something besides a printer on the parallel port, you have > > a configuration problem. Perhaps "alias lp0 off" in /etc/modules.conf > > or somewhere in the /etc/modutils/ tree. > > > > I set my printer ablaze, and did not get this message. > > Am I doing something wrong? I guess you forgot to install the firealarm package. Shri -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Unistalling Gnome, Wmaker, KDE and re-installing KDE
On Fri, 2003-03-07 at 17:54, D. wrote: > > --- Didier Caamano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello everyone, could anybody give me some direction > > to how can I uninstall > > wmaker, Gnome and kde? > > > > I accidentally remove Konqueror and most of KDE > > libraries while I was > > installing wine. I have tried several times to run > > apt-get install kde, > > everything goes well, but when I issue startx it > > goes straight to Gnome, > > but, it show me a green background full of lines. > > > > I issue apt-get remove gnome, and everything goes > > well, and when I do an > > startx again it goes to gnome. How can I get rid of > > every single package > > related to gnome, and wmaker, and kde that is on the > > system? I have tried > > apt-get -p remove gnome and the other 2, but > > nothing, just an error telling > > me that -p is an unrecognized argument, or something > > like that. > > > > Can anybody please guide me in this journey? Any > > hint will be appreciated. > > > > Have a nice day, > > Didier. > > > I believe what you want to do is dpkg--purge gnome kde > wmaker This works with apt as well apt-get remove --purge gnome kde wmaker Shri -- Shri Shrikumar U R Byte Solutions I.T. ConsultantEdinburgh, Scotland Tel: (0131) 558 9990 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: www.urbyte.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
snort log has a bunch of different attacks - should I be worried
Hello,
I have been running a server for a few months now for a hobby site and
had installed snort. I have reports of a whole range of attacks on the
server IP including
The distribution of attack methods
===
# of
%attacks method
===
32.2339 SCAN Proxy attempt
11.5714 WEB-CGI finger access
8.2610 WEB-MISC long basic authorization string
6.618 WEB-CGI redirect access
5.797 WEB-CGI tcsh access
5.797 STEALTH ACTIVITY (nmap XMAS scan) detection {TCP}
5.797 INFO - Possible Squid Scan
4.135 WEB-IIS scripts access
4.135 BAD TRAFFIC tcp port 0 traffic
3.314 WEB-MISC count.cgi access
Which of these should I be worried about. Also, some of these scans seem
to be going *out*. Has this box beeen compromised ? If so, how do I go
about tracking the compromise. I have a firewall running on this machine
with the following config (modified to remove irrelevant stuff). eth0 is
the external interface and eth1 the internal.
ganesh:/home/shri# iptables -L
Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination
block all -- anywhere anywhere
Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination
block all -- anywhere anywhere
Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination
Chain block (2 references)
target prot opt source destination
ACCEPT tcp -- anywhere anywhere tcp
dpt:https
ACCEPT tcp -- anywhere anywhere tcp dpt:smtp
ACCEPT tcp -- anywhere anywhere tcp dpt:www
ACCEPT tcp -- anywhere anywhere tcp dpt:ssh
ACCEPT all -- anywhere anywhere state
RELATED,ESTABLISHED
ACCEPT all -- anywhere anywhere state NEW
DROP all -- anywhere anywhere
ganesh:/home/shri# iptables -t nat -L
Chain PREROUTING (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination
Chain POSTROUTING (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination
MASQUERADE all -- anywhere anywhere
Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination
If this is not the right place to ask, I would very much appreciate if
someone could point me in the right direction.
Any and all info appreciated.
Thanks for your time.
Shri
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Re: snort log has a bunch of different attacks - should I be worried
On Sat, 2003-03-08 at 15:54, nate wrote: > Shri Shrikumar said: > > Hello, > > > > I have been running a server for a few months now for a hobby site and had > > installed snort. I have reports of a whole range of attacks on the server > > IP including > > in default configuration snort will detect about 97-99% false positives > as far as "intrusion" goes. at my last employer, without configuration > on 2 T1s with ~5% utilization on each I got upwards of 40,000 events per > hour. It took about 75 hours of log analysis and tuning to get that > number down to a more managable level of ~20 events/hour. > > so in most cases your fine. all of the attacks you list look pretty > harmless to me. Thanks nate. Is there a site which lists these things in more detail so I know if the ones that show up are safe or not. Shri -- -------- Shri Shrikumar U R Byte Solutions I.T. ConsultantEdinburgh, Scotland Tel: (0131) 558 9990 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: www.urbyte.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian freezes
On Sat, 2003-03-08 at 11:49, Subba Rao wrote: > I am running Debian 3.0r (woody) and in many ways can be still considered a > Debian newbie, since I am moving from the Slackware camp. > > One thing I like about Debian is the "apt" package. I have installed several > packages via the net very conveniently. However I do not know if there are any > best practices in setting up "sources.list". When I wanted some package I > would add the source to the sources.list file and then update my system. Is > this a sound practice? I dont think that adding "unofficial" sources would be considered a good practise unless you really wanted thoses packages, the version is unstable inappropriate *and* you know what you are doing. You are running the stable distribution which runs older packages to ensure reliability. If you want newer packages, why dont you just try the testing distribution. Just remove all the lines in sources.list and replace with (make sure you remove the line breaks that are put in by the mailer) deb ftp://ftp.fi.debian.org/debian/ testing main non-free contrib deb-src ftp://ftp.fi.debian.org/debian/ testing main non-free contrib #NON US packages deb ftp://ftp.fi.debian.org/non-US testing/non-US main contrib non-free deb-src ftp://ftp.fi.debian.org/non-US testing/non-US main contrib non-free If the packages there are still too old for you. Try the replacing the testing with unstable. Although, be warned, unstable is prone to breakages. You can also run a testing distro with some unstable packages which is what a *lot* of people do. For this, include the line APT::Default-Release "testing"; in your /etc/apt/apt.conf install a package from unstable using apt-get -t unstable install You will have to have source lines in sources.list for the testing *and* unstable branch. > There are quite a few packages that I have downloaded such as Gnome 2.2 > XFree86 4.2.2 and several more. Debian freezes more frequently now i.e. each > time that the screensaver runs more than X hours. I simply have to reboot the > system. Without the forum taking offence I never experienced this kind of > system freezing on Slackware. gnome 2.2 is available in unstable and so is XFree 4.2.1. Also, A common mistake with debian newbies is to installed packages randomly just because you can. Try sticking with debian packages and you should find that these kind of problems happen *far* less often. Update your sources to point only to the debian packages, "upgrade" your system and see how that goes. You can also reinstall specific packages that are giving you problems using the command apt-get install --reinstall HTH, Shri -- Shri Shrikumar U R Byte Solutions I.T. ConsultantEdinburgh, Scotland Tel: (0131) 558 9990 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: www.urbyte.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
