Re: installation
On Tue, 2002-04-30 at 12:41, Mike Stickney wrote: I am unable to install Debian Linux 2.2. The system recognizes the CD, proceeds to installation of the operating system and then decides that the CD cannot be mounted despite the fact that it has already been using it. The instructions on the debian.org website are fairly close to useless. Are there any instructions that cover what to do when the installation isn't perfect? (Can you please fix your link wrapping) The BIOS will boot from a bootable CD if it can, but when the kernel comes to init the controller it may not be able to. I had this problem with my Vaio (firewire CDROM). Its not possible to cover every option for failure on the website, it does offer some avenues to consult for assistance, and you've found one ;-) If you post more details (hardware etc) we might be able to help you out. Greeno -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PCMCIA Firewire adapters? (was Re: External USB hard disks?)
On Tue, 2002-04-23 at 10:36, Mike Frisch wrote: I do not have anything to offer here, but am interested in hearing the results. The external Firewire hard disk is a no brainer (AFAIK), but the PCMCIA Firewire card may not be. I've got a couple of dual usb/fw external housings (one 5 1/4 and one 3 1/2). CD-RW and a 60GB drive in them and they work fantastic on both USB and Firewire. Makes up for the dvd/cdrw in the vaio docking station not working in linux. Uber nice to have 100GB of storage on a laptop ;-) -- Tony Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Procmail setup
On Thu, 2002-03-14 at 11:10, Ryan J Goss wrote:
I recently joined this mailing list and enjoy the good discussions, but I
am trying to figure out how to set up procmail so that all debian related
messages get forwarded to a debian folder and not into my inbox. I don't
know what I am doing wrong. Here is what .procmailrc looks like:
MAILDIR=$HOME/mail #folder exists
PMDIR=$HOME/.procmail/ #folder exists
LOGFILE=$PMDIR/log
INCLUDERC=$PMDIR/debian.rc #file exists
SNIP
Try this one :
# MOST LISTS - Automagically handle lists
:0
* ^((List-Id|X-(Mailing-)?List):(.*[]\/[^]*))
{
LISTID=$MATCH
:0:
* LISTID ?? ^\/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
$MATCH
}
That will put all normal (mailman type) mailing lists into their own
file, titled with the list name.
HTH
Greeno
Re: Procmail question
On Mon, 2002-02-25 at 10:51, Corey Halpin wrote:
Does anybody have a procmail script to trim html out of email?
such that all the email I get is only text-plain?
:0
* ^Content-Type: text/html
{
:0 bfW:
| (echo [html stripped]; lynx -dump -force_html -stdin)
:0 ahfw:
| formail -iContent-Type: text/plain
}
You need lynx installed, but that works for me
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Re: can't KILL tty
On Mon, 2002-02-04 at 13:19, ben wrote: On Sunday 03 February 2002 05:27 pm, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: Any suggestions on how to kill a tty that is frozen without rebooting? I have tried slay lance skill tty2 skill KILL tty2 skill NOHUP tty2 skill HUP tty2 lance kill -9 whatever Useless without the pid - which judging by the examples - the OP didn't have. Try fuser -9 -k /dev/tty2, that will kill all processes using tty2 HTH Greeno -- Tony Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel : +61-(0)2-9500-9996 Mobile: +61-(0)4-2521-9996 GnuPG Key : 1024D/B5657C8B Key fingerprint = 9ED8 59CC C161 B857 462E 51E6 7DFB 465B B565 7C8B
Re: Quake III
* This one time, at band camp, ben said: On Friday 25 January 2002 03:07 pm, Dave Carrigan wrote: Corey Halpin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: God, with wine? That'd be _glacial_. Out of curiosity, why would you say that? Have you had experience running anything under wine? I've never seen any significant performance problems with the software I've been able to run under Wine. out of curiousity, what software have you been able to run under wine? Return to Castle Wolfensiten ran fantastically under wine (before they released full single player linux binaries for it) Couple of sound issues, but everything else was great - faster than under windows for me. -- Greeno [EMAIL PROTECTED] GnuPG Key : 1024D/B5657C8B Key fingerprint = 9ED8 59CC C161 B857 462E 51E6 7DFB 465B B565 7C8B Imagine working in a secure environment and finding the string _NSAKEY in the OS binaries without a good explanation -Alan Cox 04/05/2001
Re: bash woes
* This one time, at band camp, Jonathan Matthews said: Ok - can someone explain the following: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp$ ls [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp$ rm abc rm: cannot remove `abc': No such file or directory [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp$ rm abc 2err [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp$ cat err rm: cannot remove `abc': No such file or directory [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp$ rm err [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp$ rm abc 21 err rm: cannot remove `abc': No such file or directory [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp$ rm abc 21 /dev/null rm: cannot remove `abc': No such file or directory Why can't I silently discard the output of rm? Am I missing something subtle? Something obvious? A vital brain part? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ rm err rm: cannot remove `err': No such file or directory [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ rm err 2/dev/null [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ -- Greeno [EMAIL PROTECTED] GnuPG Key : 1024D/B5657C8B Key fingerprint = 9ED8 59CC C161 B857 462E 51E6 7DFB 465B B565 7C8B Imagine working in a secure environment and finding the string _NSAKEY in the OS binaries without a good explanation -Alan Cox 04/05/2001
Re: where's the ieee 1394 option in menuconfig
* This one time, at band camp, Kurt Lieber said: I'm trying to compile a new 2.4.17 kernel with ieee 1394 support. Only problem is I can't the kernel options to enable it using menuconfig. It used to be (IIRC) a top level option, right under the SCSI option. I verified the 2.4.17 deb package has the drivers: /usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.17/drivers/ieee1394/ but I can't find the options to enable them. Ensure you've turned on the 'Prompt for development and/or incomplete code/drivers' option. HTH Greeno -- Greeno [EMAIL PROTECTED] GnuPG Key : 1024D/B5657C8B Key fingerprint = 9ED8 59CC C161 B857 462E 51E6 7DFB 465B B565 7C8B Imagine working in a secure environment and finding the string _NSAKEY in the OS binaries without a good explanation -Alan Cox 04/05/2001
Re: ssh and X
* This one time, at band camp, Kerstin Hoef-Emden said: On 26 Dec 2001, Jens Müller wrote: Ssh tunnels X, if you start it with option -X (at least under potato). I did slogin -X localhost, but the X programms I start hang (without any output on the console). You've got the impression that it tries to tunnel X11 but somehow something doesn't work out? I can concur with the findings of the original poster. My DISPLAY variable is set correctly after I ssh into a remote machine (remotemachinename:10.0) This behaviour is seen in debian-debian, debian-solaris etc, etc. The common ground being debian as the client side. X is working fine as I can set the DISPLAY var to the localmachine name (localmachine:0.0) and xhost the remote name/ip and things work. I've removed the 'tcp nolisten' from the xserverrc just in case - but no different. Debugging (strace xlogo) showed a problem with .Xauthority on the remote machine. I tried removing that file manually (since I knew it would be recreated) and logged out and in again it worked! If you still encounter the problem let me know, maybe its something different. I'll try to recreate the scenario - but I'm guessing maybe some problem when .Xauthority was amended/created that maybe is fixed in a later version. Been bugging me for a while - thanks for giving me the push to find the cause! :-) HTH Greeno -- Greeno [EMAIL PROTECTED] GnuPG Key : 1024D/B5657C8B Key fingerprint = 9ED8 59CC C161 B857 462E 51E6 7DFB 465B B565 7C8B Imagine working in a secure environment and finding the string _NSAKEY in the OS binaries without a good explanation -Alan Cox 04/05/2001
Re: apt-get connect takes forever, download instantaneous
* This one time, at band camp, Brian Nelson said: Try using a local mirror. http://www.debian.org/misc/README.mirrors Can I also suggest looking at 'netselect-apt' (package netselect and only in woody+ IIRC) If you change to /etc/apt, backup sources.list, then try 'netselect-apt [unstable|testing|stable}'. Netselect will then download the mirrors list and work out which one is the fastest from you current location and give you a sources.list for it. Also works for different arch's (worked on my sparc, i386 and arm machines). HTH Greeno -- Greeno [EMAIL PROTECTED] GnuPG Key : 1024D/B5657C8B Key fingerprint = 9ED8 59CC C161 B857 462E 51E6 7DFB 465B B565 7C8B Imagine working in a secure environment and finding the string _NSAKEY in the OS binaries without a good explanation -Alan Cox 04/05/2001
Re: mozilla/galeon rendering hiccups
* This one time, at band camp, Greg Fischer said: Has anyone else noticed strange rendering behavior in mozilla/galeon? I've downloaded nightlies and even they have the same problem: Occasionally, the text will not be alligned with itself, look: http://magnesium.dyndns.org:81/tmp/2001_12_01_180546_shot.jpg and, once you highlight the text, it fixes it: http://magnesium.dyndns.org:81/tmp/2001_12_01_180600_shot.jpg and then there's those funny green lines (to the left of Features: ... in the first shot.) Is anyone else seeing things like this? I certainly do. I'm running on SID mozilla/galeon. -- Greeno [EMAIL PROTECTED] GnuPG Key : 1024D/B5657C8B Key fingerprint = 9ED8 59CC C161 B857 462E 51E6 7DFB 465B B565 7C8B Imagine working in a secure environment and finding the string _NSAKEY in the OS binaries without a good explanation -Alan Cox 04/05/2001
Re: Non-interactive password check
* This one time, at band camp, Nick Hastings said: Hi, * Alexander Steinert [EMAIL PROTECTED] [011128 18:36]: Do you know any way to make ssh less interactive? Look at the man pages for ssh-agent and ssh-add. ssh-agent/add will not accomplish what the Alexander was after though, because they use keys - and you still have to put the passphrase in for the key (or have a key that is phraseless which defeats the intended security purpose in this instance) I would suggest looking into PAM or SASL both of which can be used to authenticate users. Other possible solutions depending on the scale of the application are htpasswd, LDAP or a custom authentication system. I would certainly NOT recommend the use of a script to ssh into a remote box in order to test the users password. HTH Greeno -- Greeno [EMAIL PROTECTED] GnuPG Key : 1024D/B5657C8B Key fingerprint = 9ED8 59CC C161 B857 462E 51E6 7DFB 465B B565 7C8B Imagine working in a secure environment and finding the string _NSAKEY in the OS binaries without a good explanation -Alan Cox 04/05/2001
Re: Exim problem
* This one time, at band camp, Agics Balazs said: Hi all, I want to compile exom 3.33 on my Debian (Woddy) box, but it fails. The message is: /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -ldb collect 2: ld returned 1 exit status make[1]: *** [exim_dmbuild] Error 1 Please help me! I would suggest you look at getting the package libdb2 and libdb2-dev (Berkeley v2 Database Libraries) which exim needs (note you may need V3 for exim 3.33 - I don't know...) I'm assuming you have a reason for not wanting to use the precomiled packages (since you've gone for 3.33 and SID is only at 3.22) HTH Greeno -- Greeno [EMAIL PROTECTED] GnuPG Key : 1024D/B5657C8B Key fingerprint = 9ED8 59CC C161 B857 462E 51E6 7DFB 465B B565 7C8B Imagine working in a secure environment and finding the string _NSAKEY in the OS binaries without a good explanation -Alan Cox 04/05/2001
Re: Can't compile VIM
* This one time, at band camp, Dale Morris said: I'm using potato with all recent upgrades and security fixes. I'm trying to compile vim 6.0av and I receive the following error message when I run make: objects/os_unix.o: In function `mch_set_shellsize': objects/os_unix.o(.text+0x1b4c): undefined reference to `term_set_winsize' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[1]: *** [vim] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/dlm/vim60av/src' make: *** [myself] Error 2 Anyone have any ideas what might cause this? Or how to tweak it so it installs? I have compiled this before on woody without problems. Although this is not directly answering your question, are you aware of the deb's for VIM6 which are available? deb http://people.debian.org/~wakkerma/vim ./ deb-src http://people.debian.org/~wakkerma/vim ./ HTH Greeno -- Greeno [EMAIL PROTECTED] GnuPG Key : 1024D/B5657C8B Key fingerprint = 9ED8 59CC C161 B857 462E 51E6 7DFB 465B B565 7C8B Imagine working in a secure environment and finding the string _NSAKEY in the OS binaries without a good explanation -Alan Cox 04/05/2001
Re: Newbie error
* This one time, at band camp, Sebastian Pad? said: Hi, by mistake (I am tired?), I just did something very stupid: rm /dev/hda3 It worked. Now I cannot access that partition any more. How can I bring it back? Ooops - thats not good! try 'mknod /dev/hda3 b 3 3; chown root:disk /dev/hda3' HTH Greeno -- Greeno [EMAIL PROTECTED] GnuPG Key : 1024D/B5657C8B Key fingerprint = 9ED8 59CC C161 B857 462E 51E6 7DFB 465B B565 7C8B Imagine working in a secure environment and finding the string _NSAKEY in the OS binaries without a good explanation -Alan Cox 04/05/2001
