Re: rescue bootable cd ???
Em Qui, 2007-10-04 às 15:32 -0700, David Brodbeck escreveu: On Oct 3, 2007, at 6:03 PM, Daniel Burrows wrote: On Sat, Sep 29, 2007 at 07:37:10PM -0500, helices [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: The problem with knoppix cd, and the debian installation/rescue cd, is that they do NOT understand the specifics of my lvm over software raid 5. The specifics required probably all reside under /etc -- on a filesystem in lvm on software raid 5. Are you sure this is the case? Software raid and LVM are both kernel things (with userland support utilities), and they're autodetected using magic numbers on the partitions. As long as the kernel is compiled with support, I'd expect them to be accessible. It might be that the autodetection just isn't running on startup; I wonder if some work with mdadm and the LVM utilities would get you access to the volumes. It might at least be worth a try. I find that LVM-over-RAID is not autodetected by most rescue disks. It's necessary to first bring up the RAID array manually with mdadm, then run vgscan and vgchange -ay to start up LVM. After that it should work fine. I've done this before, but it's been a little while and I can't remember the exact command lines I used. The problem is grub. Grub has no support for this (lvm over raid) you need a lilo booter (wich the etch installer installs). and a lilo based rescue CD. I was bitten quite often by this problem, therefore I use a /boot outside of raid/lvm, /boot on one HD, variouos swaps on the others. after that you can boot with any Grub CD Michel.
Re: Default firewall in etch
Em Qui, 2007-02-01 às 07:32 -0500, Marc D Ronell escreveu: Hi, Thanks for all of the suggestions. Isn't there a *default* firewall install when you setup a basic version of etch? If I didn't specifically install a firewall, does that mean that there is currently no firewall setup? If you installed only the services you need, there is no need for a firewall for a PC, you only need some iptables set-up if you use your computer as a firewall for some LAN. In my opinion the Debian position: no personal firewall is the correct one. It avoids a LOT of problems when you install a new service which does not seem to bea ccesible, just because of a stupid automatic iptables configuration. Michel.
Re: Re: Re: Re: XWin install Problem (Newbie)
Installierte Pakete liegen in /var/cache/apt/archives aja Danke Ja, einfach auf CD kopieren und vorher noch eine Packages Datei anlegen. Das geht am einfachsten mit apt-ftparchive aus dem Paket . In das Verzeichnis mit den ganzen .deb-Dateien wechseln und apt-ftparchive Packages ./ | gzip Packages.gz. Ok danke, soweit die Theorie. Man benötigt: Ein Brennprogramm. Ich versuchte jetzt einige zu installieren, entweder der letzte Schrott (keine Unterstützung von schon beschriebenen CD's (AddMode)), oder Sourcen die sich nicht kompilieren lassen (kein Makefile) ... Frust pur. Jetzt habe ich eine Nero-DEB File gefunden. Über KDE entpackt und oh wunder, sogar das Debian Logo leuchtet beim .deb file auf. Gleich mal naiverweise draufgeklickt in der Hoffnung es würde sich installieren, na ja man gibt die Hoffnung ja nicht auf nicht war? Aber ging natürlcih nicht, wär ja zu einfach. So jetzt habe ich ein wunderschönes .deb File auf meiner Platte und kriege es ums Verrecken nicht installiert. Sogar als root im Terminal eingeloggt, ins Verzeichnis gehupft und es mit apt-get install nero* probiert, davor noch in sources.list eingetragen deb file:/home/sloos/Install/deb unstable non-free probiert, ging auch nicht, obwohl er das Paket mit sienem ganzen Namen in einer Fehlermeldung ausgeben hatte. Doku zu der ganzen Problematik auch nicht vorhanden. Kann mir bitte jemand sage wie ich ein .deb File auf Platte installiere ? Danke Stefan ___ Der frühe Vogel fängt den Wurm. Hier gelangen Sie zum neuen Yahoo! Mail: http://mail.yahoo.de
Re: Re: XWin install Problem (Newbie)
Hi Danke erstmal für Eure Geduld und Mühe mit mir... Du koenntest natuerlich auch einen 2.6er Kernel installieren hab ich ja probiert, geht ja nicht... Du musst dich ein wenig von dem Windows-Ansatz immer den neuesten Treiber selbst installieren loesen. Komisch. So muss man sich bei Linux um jeden Schmarrn in irgendwelchen Scripten händisch kümmern, aber das was wichtig ist, darauf habe ich keien Einfluss. Ich mein mein Interesse beruht ja ein bisschen auf embedded Linux, und da spielen Treiberversionen oft eine entscheidende Rolle. Nein, synaptic ist z.B. nicht textorientiert Ja jetzt habe ich es auch entdeckt. Sollte man beim KDE gleich defaultmässig im Hauptmenu reinschreiben und Softwareverwaltung nennen dann wär die Sache klar. Das Programm scheint auch nur in der allgemeine App Liste im Startmenu aufzutauchen, wieso sieht man das icht unter Settings o. System? Was mache ich eigentlich wenn ich selber Software geschrieben habe, insbesonders X11 basierte GUI Applikationen? Gibt es Installer für Linux? Auswahl des Menuknotens im KDE etc? Uninstaller? Jetzt habe ich noch 2 Probleme: * Das Scrollwheel geht definitiv nicht * Mein Druckerhersteller hat Treiber für Debian2.2 und später-gut also. Er sagt wenn die CD nicht automatisch startet beim Einlegen soll ich Setup.sh ausführen. Geht aber nicht: debian:/media/cdrom0# ls autorun cups help locale misc README.txt setup.data bin data icon.xpm Manual ppd scripts setup.sh debian:/media/cdrom0# ./setup.sh bash: ./setup.sh: /bin/sh: bad interpreter: Keine Berechtigung * Ich kann die CD über KDE nicht auswerfen. Auch wenn ich sie unmounte (verdammt: kann das unmounten nicht automatisch beim Drücken aufs Knöpfle passieren?) und der Status unmounted ist funktioniert Eject nicht. Es kommt der Fehler: Eject /dev/hdc failed hdc ist doch nicht cdrom0 oder? Gruss Stefan ___ Telefonate ohne weitere Kosten vom PC zum PC: http://messenger.yahoo.de -- Haeufig gestellte Fragen und Antworten (FAQ): http://www.de.debian.org/debian-user-german-FAQ/ Zum AUSTRAGEN schicken Sie eine Mail an [EMAIL PROTECTED] mit dem Subject unsubscribe. Probleme? Mail an [EMAIL PROTECTED] (engl)
Re: Re: Re: XWin install Problem (Newbie)
Hi nochmal So jetzt hat 2.6 per Option Linux26 bei der Installation geklappt: Es lag an den USB Geräten. Ich habe den Drucker und den Joystick abgesteckt und siehe da das Installationsprogramm zog durch. Sound ist auch da (Master war tatsächlich auf 0, Danke für den Tip..) Das war jetzt die 3te KDE Installation in 2 Tagen, meine 2GB Vol. sind für den Monat schon fast verbraucht lol. Da kommt mir natürlich gleich wieder eine Frage in den Sinn, wo ich auch in DAHB keine Antwort finde: - Wo liegen die bezogenen Pakete auf Platte ? - Kann ich sie auf CD-Brennen und bei einer nächsten Installation von CD installieren (z.B. das ganze X11 / KDE Paket) ? - Wie regel ich die Priorität der Installationsquelle, d.h. wenn er die Pakete auf dem Server findet und auf dem CDRom, welche nimmt apt dann? Was das mounten aufm CD angeht: Ich öffne einfach das CD-Rom im KDE, schwupps es ist gemounted. Danach im Terminal als Root eingeloggt und versucht die Shell zu starten. Den MountStatus sieht man ja im KDE, wenn dort am CD steht Mount als Option dann ist es wohl gerade nicht gemounted :) Also langsam wird es. KDevlop macht mir mit Automake zwar Probleme aber das klärt sich hoffentlich bei KDevelop Noch eine Frage zu der Mailinglist: Wie kann ich per Reply eine Baumstruktur erzeugen, d.h. wie weiss die Mailinglist dass ein Posting hierachisch unter ein anderes als Reply gehört? Danke Gruß Stefan ___ Der frühe Vogel fängt den Wurm. Hier gelangen Sie zum neuen Yahoo! Mail: http://mail.yahoo.de
Re: Re: XWin install Problem (Newbie)
Hmm Hallo Sandro Vielleicht habe ich mich falsch ausgedrückt, also die Frage ist: Wie kann ich festlegen, wenn ich ein Reply schreibe, dass es einem bestimmten Vaterposting hierarchich untergeordnet in der Mailingliste auftaucht? Stefan ___ Telefonate ohne weitere Kosten vom PC zum PC: http://messenger.yahoo.de
XWin install Problem (Newbie)
Hallo Ich bin praktisch neu bei Linux (früher mal mit einem Unix Server als Anwender gearbeitet) und wollte ein Debian System per Downloads installieren Die Grundinstallation erfolgte über eine rudimentäre Basisinstallation von Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 r2 Sarge - Official i386 Binary-1 CD Der Kernel ist 2.4.27-2-386 Ich liess mich bei der Installation von dem Guide http://www.debiantutorials.org/content/view/6/91/ leiten (Installing Debian, net install, no DHCP) Die Grundinstallation verlief - bis auf das es mir beim ersten Mal alle meine parallelen Windows Partition zerschossen hat beim ersten Partitonierungsversuch - erfolgreich (...) PPPOECONF etc funzt auch, updates nach der Installtion alles ok. mit base-config dann wie vorgeschlagen im Tutorial Desktop environment und Mail server installiert. So nun: Beim reboot nach der Installtion und Konfiguration etc. startet die XWin Umgebung mit einer Art Farbanimation, dann wird der Screen schwarz, der Rechner lädt noch 3-5Sek um sich dann mit einem Beep aufzuhängen. Ich habe eine Geforce 5900FX, als Graphik habe ich VGA in 8Bit Mode eingestellt (Bei 24Bit kommt nicht mal die Farbanimation). Das Problem ist: Ich habe keine Ahnung wie ich dem Problem auf die Spur kommen kann. Gibt es Logfiles? Kann ich die XWin Umgebung nachkonfigurieren (evtl Audio anders einstellen?) Vielleicht kann mir jemand ja helfen Danke Gruss Stefan -- Erstellt mit Operas revolutionärem E-Mail-Modul: http://www.opera.com/mail/ ___ Der frühe Vogel fängt den Wurm. Hier gelangen Sie zum neuen Yahoo! Mail: http://mail.yahoo.de -- Haeufig gestellte Fragen und Antworten (FAQ): http://www.de.debian.org/debian-user-german-FAQ/ Zum AUSTRAGEN schicken Sie eine Mail an [EMAIL PROTECTED] mit dem Subject unsubscribe. Probleme? Mail an [EMAIL PROTECTED] (engl)
Re: XWin install Problem (Newbie)
Hi Ok Danke, jetzt läuft es. Hätte allerdings auch erwartet dass VGA läuft. Egal. Aber weil ich gerade dabei bin, hier noch ein paar mehr Fragen: - Ich versuchte die Basisinstallation mit der Option Linux26 beim Prompt zu wiederholen, das System hing sich unmittelbar nach der Regionseinstellung auf. Problem bekannt? - meine Soundkarte wird nicht erkannt / arbeitet nicht. Wie kann ich sie konfigurieren? - Wie kann ich KDE die Einstellungen meiner Graphikkarte o. Soundkarte einstellen, wo sehe ich den Hersteller, Treiberversion etc.? - Kann es sein dass Linux keine Software einfach so installieren kann? Nix mit: *Setup.exe (self extracting) downloaden *Setup ausführen *optinal reboot meinetwegen *Anwenden? Die ganze Zeit suche ich nach ein bisschen Software zum Testen, selbst für poblige Spiele (prboom) werde ich allen ernstes damit konfrontiert mir Sourcen kompillieren zu müssen? Das kann doch nicht wahr sein oder? Also, wie installiere ich unter KDE ein Spiel oder einen Zipper oder ein anderes kleine Tool? - Gibt es eine brauchbare FireWall für Debian Kernel 2.4? - Gibt es eine C++ Entwicklungumgebung mit Resourcenverwaltung (analog Visual/MFC) ? - Wie schmeisse ich den ganzen Müll an Software der mitinstalliert wurde wieder runter (aus KDE heraus?) - Wie kann ich ein sehen ob eine Netzwerkverbindung aktiv ist im KDE (Connection Icon) - Wie kann ich KDE beenden und im Basisbetriebssystem weiterarbeiten? Hmm das wars erstmal. Im Grunde stellt sich mir die Frage ob ich mit Debian/KDE o. Gnome Software und Hardware so normal verwalten kann wie unter Windows. Irgendwie kommt mir alles furchtbar umständlich vor und man braucht viel zu viel Zeit, aber vielleicht gibt es ja Mechanismen die das beschleunigen. DankeGruß Stefan Am 01.08.2006, 15:47 Uhr, schrieb Paul Puschmann [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Stefan Loos [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb am Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 03:18:59PM +0200: Hallo So nun: Beim reboot nach der Installtion und Konfiguration etc. startet die XWin Umgebung mit einer Art Farbanimation, dann wird der Screen schwarz, der Rechner lädt noch 3-5Sek um sich dann mit einem Beep aufzuhängen. Ich habe eine Geforce 5900FX, als Graphik habe ich VGA in 8Bit Mode eingestellt (Bei 24Bit kommt nicht mal die Farbanimation). Dann probier mal bitte 'nv' als Modul fuer die Grafikkarte, das sollte einwandfrei laufen (wenn die anderen Angaben stimmen). Poste doch mal die Eintraege der Konfig-Datei (/etc/X11/XF4Config.conf, oder aehnlich). Paul -- Erstellt mit Operas revolutionärem E-Mail-Modul: http://www.opera.com/mail/ ___ Telefonate ohne weitere Kosten vom PC zum PC: http://messenger.yahoo.de -- Haeufig gestellte Fragen und Antworten (FAQ): http://www.de.debian.org/debian-user-german-FAQ/ Zum AUSTRAGEN schicken Sie eine Mail an [EMAIL PROTECTED] mit dem Subject unsubscribe. Probleme? Mail an [EMAIL PROTECTED] (engl)
Re: XWin install Problem (Newbie)
Vesa sollte eigentlich immer laufen, allerdings gibts da manchmal Probleme mit dem Framebuffer (falls der aktiviert ist). Framebuffer sieht man immer daran dass man beim Booten nicht 80x25 Zeichen auf dem Bildschirm hat, sondern deutlich mehr (und kleinere Schrift). Vesa probierte ich beim allersten Mal, ging auch nicht. Ich denke das waren so 80x25 Zeichen. Ach ja das Booten, wenn man nicht wegschaut läuft man Gefahr eppileptische Anfälle zu bekommen bei dem Geflimmer. Kann man die für Otto-normalo nutzlosen Infos nicht einfach in ein Logfile schreiben und eine Prozentangabe des Status einblenden? Als root alsaconf ausfuehren. Der Befehl geht/gibts nicht bei mir. Die Soundkarte wird im Normalfall einmal konfiguriert (sprich das passende Modul ausgewaehlt) und dann ist gut. H habe ich eigentlich einen Einfluss darauf welcher Treiber installiert wird? Ich habe die Graka jetzt zwar am Laufen aber keine Ahnung von wem der Treiber kommt, welche Version etc.? Linux kann gar keine Software installieren, weil Linux einzig und allein der Kernel ist. Man möge mir die Verallgemeinerung verzeihen. Doch, alle mir bekannten Distributionen bieten Werkzeuge um binaere oder Quellpakete zu installieren. Hmmm also die Tools sind alle textorientiert oder? Vielleicht nochmal wie ich mir das vorstelle: Browser-Downloadseite *Mausklick* *Mausklick* *Mausklick* *Mausklick* Software läuft Ich glaube du moechtest mal ein wenig Zeit mit dem Studium von www.debiananwenderhandbuch.de verbringen, bzw. das Buch kaufen. Habe ich als HTML mir auf Platte gezogen. Sogar einen Tar Befehl mit 4 Flags zustande gebracht nach 15 Minuten zum entpacken! Liegt jetzt in /usr/doc/dahb die ganze Sache, ist der platz gut? Das ist ueblich wenn man die Software direkt bei den Projekten bezieht. Aber es gibt ja zum Glueck Distributoren die die Sourcen fuer dich kompilieren und du kannst sie dann mit z.B. apt-get install paketname installieren. Sowas wie Norton Firewall oder aehnliche PFW gibts kaum und sind auch kaum notwendig. Optimist Fuer das Blockieren von Internettraffic eignet sich iptables ganz gut Hmm scheint nur Firewall Builder oder so zu geben. Mal ausprobieren. apt-get oder falls es bissl uebersichtlicher sein soll: aptitude. /etc/init.d/kdm stop. Wie? Aus der Konsole bei laufendem KDE das KDE abschiessen? Definiere Normal s.o. Gruss Stefan ___ Telefonate ohne weitere Kosten vom PC zum PC: http://messenger.yahoo.de -- Haeufig gestellte Fragen und Antworten (FAQ): http://www.de.debian.org/debian-user-german-FAQ/ Zum AUSTRAGEN schicken Sie eine Mail an [EMAIL PROTECTED] mit dem Subject unsubscribe. Probleme? Mail an [EMAIL PROTECTED] (engl)
Re: python upgrade failing on Sid
Felix C. Stegerman wrote: * H.S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-06-16 01:39]: I just tried to upgrade a Sid system, and here is the dpkg error I get: --- [...] Setting up python2.4-minimal (2.4.3-7) ... Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/bin/pycentral, line 1365, in ? main() File /usr/bin/pycentral, line 1359, in main rv = action.run(global_options) File /usr/bin/pycentral, line 892, in run pkg.set_default_runtime_from_version_info() File /usr/bin/pycentral, line 575, in set_default_runtime_from_version_info self.default_runtime = get_runtime_for_version(versions[0]) TypeError: unindexable object dpkg: error processing python2.4-minimal (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 [...] --- Any idea what could be the problem? No. But I do get the same error. - Felix http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=373856 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: source code editor
Em Qui, 2006-06-01 às 10:58 +0200, Ivan Glushkov escreveu: I would like to know which is the best lightest editor for vi (vim) is lighter then emacs and many think it is also better Michel.
Re: How unstable is Unstable?
Em Dom, 2006-03-19 às 12:50 -0500, Leonid Grinberg escreveu: Hello, I must say that I love Debian. It is an amazing system that has never failed me, and, although we had our ups and downs, continues to serve me loyally and fully. But there is one thing that annoys me about it, and that is how long a package needs to be tested for, before it gets verified as not dangerous. I use Testing, myself, and am annoyed by a few things. I used to hate the Debian Firefox package, because it took so long to get updated. Eventually, I removed it, and I now use the Mozilla-supplied program, something that I highly recommend. But what really bugs me is GNOME. Debian finally supplied GNOME 2.12 in Testing about a month before GNOME 2.14 came out. And it is harder to replace, because in order to use the code from gnome.org, one needs to recompile it and then set it up by hand, something that I feel I am not qualified to do. Unstable, I know, does not have this problem. So I am wondering, how unstable is it? I might be getting a new computer within a few months, and am considering installing Debian Unstable on it. But what should I expect? Will it crash a few times a month, or a day? How much work is it? Unstable is very unstable: On average my desktops need some 300MB updates/week. The unstability of unstable is related to the rate of change, not to the reliability of individual packages, or incompatilities between packages. I don't remember any crashes in the last 10 years. I saw a lot of difficulties to install/upgrade a specific package, but usually this can be solved and the feedback is quite apreciated. In the case of incompatibilities between packages, the solution comes much faster than in testing, specially if you help to find it. Michel.
Re: dvd-writer external usb 2.0
Em Qua, 2006-03-01 às 18:40 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] escreveu: hello I'm going to buy dvd-writer LG GSA-2164D Has somebody already used it? Is this dvd compatible with debian? Yes, works perfectly here Michel. regard
Re: Networking issues on New System Setup
Em Qua, 2006-03-01 às 05:50 -0500, Kevin Dean escreveu: Greetings, This is my first post the mailing lists, so please forgive me if I err. I am setting up a new system, and running into several issues on various distros, all Debian based. This is the DEBIAN mailing list, so I will limit my discussion specifically to Debian sarge, from the current net install image. The setup goes smoothly, and I can boot into my minimal Debian system. I can apt-get to my heart's content, browse with some of the text browsers and do just about anything else. However, when this specific system receive INCOMING traffic, it begins to drop it's connection. Very specifically, this system will be used to host websites and after successfully installing either Ravencore ( www.ravencore.com) or VHCS, and administering them via the web interface from a different computer on my network, I get these errors. I posted this question in #Debian on freenode, and got some response, however none of the responses solved the issue. While this machine sits at a root terminal, it prompts me with a quite sizable blob of text, below: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out eth0: transmit timed out, tx_status 00 e000. diagnostics net 0cd8 media 8880 dma 00a0 fifo Flags; bus-master 1, dirty 300(12) current 316(12) transmit list 0f2b8a20 vs cf2b8980 0:@cf2b8200 length 8042 status 0042 1:@cf2b82a0 length 8042 status 0042 2:@cf2b8340 length 8042 status 0042 3:@cf2b83e0 length 8042 status 0042 4:@cf2b8480 length 8042 status 0042 5:@cf2b8520 length 8042 status 0042 6:@cf2b85c0 length 8042 status 0042 [EMAIL PROTECTED] length 8042 status 0042 8:@cf2b8700 length 8042 status 0042 9:@cf2b87a0 length 8042 status 0042 10:@cf2b8840 length 8042 status 0042 11:@cf2b88e0 length 8042 status 0042 12:@cf2b8980 length 8042 status 0042 13:@cf2b8a20 length 8042 status 0042 14:@cf2b8ac0 length 8042 status 0042 15:@cf2b8b60 length 8042 status 0042 eth0: command 0x3002 did not complete! Status 0xf000 dmesg also adds the following line to this output: eth0: Resetting the Tx ring pointer I had similar problems recently (same error messages) I resolved it by changing the NIC from a via-rhine to a 3Com Michel.
Re: Trasnfering an intalled system to another hd
Em Ter, 2006-02-28 às 17:26 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom escreveu: Fernando Cacciola wrote: Hi, I have Debian Sarge, full of stuff, installed on a HD, but it's running out of space. What's the simplest way to transfer the entire system to a bigger HD? TIA Fernando Cacciola create the new bigger partition then: cd /root full partition cp -ax * /root bigger parttition Which will copy only the root partition . Generally I boot from a LiveCD (Kurumim,Knoppix etc.) create the partitions on the new HD with the same size as the original, but located in places where i can easily expand them. I use parted to move them around and create emty space after the partition. I do this with the empty partitions. Then I dd the original to the new one Finally parted again to expand the new one into the free space after it. chroot to the new root and run grub/lilo whatever Michel.
RE: Not a Debian question, but you guys know this stuff...
Em Ter, 2006-01-31 às 15:22 -0800, Tyson Varosyan escreveu: Hi Ed, Thanks for the response. However, I feel that you reverse-engineered the answer here. Instead of searching for how to install multiple instances of httpd (which is what the manual says to do), you already knew that answer was to run multiple instances of the same installation and googled for an article on that. I may be slow at times, but in my multi hour search online, I was still unable to find an article that instructs the user, as the manual says, to install multiple instances of httpd on Windows. Not saying that there is not a way to do it... Tyson Varosyan Technical Manager, Uptime Technical Solutions LLC. [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.up-times.com 206-715-TECH (8324) UpTime/OnTime/AnyTime If you need more then 5mn to get this answer, I certainly would not employ you for anything, too much time. Michel.
Re: FAT patents. Do we need to revive non-US?
Em Qua, 2006-01-11 às 19:48 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] escreveu: On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 07:27:54PM -0500, Marty wrote: John Hasler wrote: Marty writes: That sounds like a pretty subjective standard. Yes. Who decides what's likely? Who is us? Debian. Does us include billions of Chinese and Indians? US patents have nothing to do with them. They have their own laws and will have to make their own decisions. If their laws have nothing to do with Debian, then why shouldn't US laws have nothing to do with Debian? (It seems like a double standard to me.) Could it be that -- gasp -- Debian might be US-based? I always thought of it as international, possibly European. Debian is international, but like any other person juridic or physic it can be sued for infringe a law in the country where it infringes this law. For example : the US had a law against exporting cryptography from the US, there fore we needed non-US based servers for those products. non-free is a totally other story, the Debian Social Contract supports Free Software (Free like freedom not beer). Therefore some free (like beer) software which is not free (freedom of modifying, using in whatever way you want to and redistribute) can be legally distributed by our friend Marillat, whitout infringing any Law. While this same Software will not be distributed by Debian since it is not in agreement with our Social Contract. Michel.
Re: FAT patents. Do we need to revive non-US?
Em Qua, 2006-01-11 às 17:16 -0500, Michael Marsh escreveu: On 1/11/06, Jochen Schulz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But you definitely have to come up with some soft of working implementation, be it hard- or software, I agree. Actually, that requirement was dropped awhile ago. You only have to roughly describe an implementation. There are actually a lot of patents that have been issued for inventions that won't work. The USPTO specifically disallows patents on alleged perpetual motion machines, but has been known in recent years to grant patents on perpetual motion machines masquerading under different names. Zero-point energy is a particularly popular one. Rest assured, software isn't the only area in which the US patent system is somewhat askew. Yep, there are a lot of mystic Patents on water, which make no sense at all. Something patented does in no way mean that it works and even less that the explication makes a sense at all. Michel.
Re: k3b removed after unstable update
Em Dom, 2006-01-08 às 16:08 -0800, Andrew Sackville-West escreveu: On Sun, 8 Jan 2006 16:06:36 +0100 Gregory Soyez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all! I just run apt-get dist-upgrade on my Debian unstable box where were you before? testing? and this removed k3b. If I want to reinstall it I need dbus-qt-1c2, the installation of which wants to remove kde, kde-amusements, kde-core, kdeaddons, kdebase kdebase-kio-plugins, konq-plugins, konqueror and libdbus-qt-1-1c2 !! This looks rather strange ... Does anyone encountered the same problem and/or can suggest any hint ? I can only guess that there is some dependency issue that is in the middle of being solved. you might pin k3b back to testing and leave it there for a while. kde went to 3.5, k3b is old they are incompatible I decided to continue whith kde 3.4 until k3b is available for 3.5 Michel
Re: Why are KDE and Gnome mixed together?
Em Sex, 2005-11-25 às 19:59 -0500, Edward C. Jones escreveu: I removed X and everything that needs X. Then I reinstalled X and KDE. So I presume I am running KDE. But why gnome menus, themes, fonts, etc.? Where are the docs for this? Configuration program? Configuration files? Most of gnome/kde does not need X. You can use another Xserver to run it. No need to install a xserver, in order to run say abiword or konqueror Michel I use Debian unstable on a PC.
Re: Newbie - 3.1r0a - locale problem on new install
Em Dom, 2005-11-20 às 16:34 -0800, Eric Miller escreveu: Hello Debian Users: Again, all seemed to go well until it got to This program will now walk you through the process of setting up . . . Then I got three error messages that repeated (it seemed to be in a loop) - First - 13 77 Failed at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd/Dialog.pm line 166 then - Can't exec locale: No such file or directory at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Encoding.pm line 12 and - Use of uninitialized value in scalar chomp at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Encoding.pm line 13 I couldn't find any way to make it go any further. I was able to shut down and I booted up a Knoppix CD, mounted the HD file systems and was able to look at the scripts. Dialog.pm is aparently generated by another process. The version on the drive didn't have anywhere close to 166 lines. I was able to look at the script Encoding.pm and I saw where it was trying to use locale but I didn't see anything I could do to resolve the error. I would appreciate any advice or assistance. Even at tht earl stage, you have access to other terminals through Alt+F2, Alt+F3 etc. This is the best way to understand what's going on. Further ideas: 13 77 Dialog.pm : It tried to write something at position y=13,x=77 Needs a 24x80 screen, did you use a XXx40 screen? Michel.
Re: kernel 2.6.14 instalation
Em Seg, 2005-11-21 às 04:23 +0100, Wodzu Wodzowski escreveu: Hy. I tried to compile and install a kernel, and I made kernel package (2.6.14.191105_i386.deb) Everything seemed to be ok, so I used 'dpkg -i kernel-image... and got a message that everything is ok. But when I rebooted the system I received 'kernel panic': VFS: Cannot open root device hda5 or uknown-block(0,0) Please append a correct root= boot option Kernel panic- not syncing:VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0) Grub list file looks like that: Kernel root(0,4) kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda5 ro Can You tell me what's wrong, please?? Using standard debian .config, you need make-kpkg --initrd Without initrd it just doesn' t work. Michel.
Re: Antispam UOL spam from [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Em Qui, 2005-11-17 às 20:32 -0800, David Kirchner escreveu: On 11/17/05, Rogério Brito [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know if that's exactly a black hole, but you can also try to address your messages to, at least, two other addresses: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] whois also suggests sending complaints to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . It would probably be best for customers of UOL to complain to them about this, as they're in the best position to convince UOL to stop this sort of behavior. Unfortunately, most of their clients are very happy with this system: It is very effective for SPAM protection. In fact for non-list mail it is really a good idea: all you correspondents have to respond the challenge one and only one time, all subsequent mail is unchallenged. You just can't use this account for list subscriptions. Besides that they are one of the largest and most popular ISP here. Michel.
Re: Antispam UOL spam from [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Em Sex, 2005-11-18 às 15:45 -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh escreveu: On Fri, 18 Nov 2005, Gene Heskett wrote: I beg to differ about incompetent. And I doubt if its anything like Read my reply to my own post. 10 linux users just from that one ISP. OTOH, if those users who do We are not talking about a pint-sized-country's ISP here, they should exceed 10k LINUX users easily (although I am not sure about 100k LINUX users). But it is an AOL-style ISP, so the users are quite often clueless... and so is the entire first and second-level support staff, as usual in these ISPs. Since UOL has over 3M clients 100k Linux users is some 3%, this does not seem exagerated. Michel.
Re: Where to download Debian 1.2?
Em Sex, 2005-11-18 às 18:31 -0600, Nate Bargmann escreveu: * Michelle Konzack [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005 Nov 18 12:07 -0600]: Hi Manou again, There are archived ISO's on http://www.ibiblio.org/. Link please. I've looked and I can't find anything older than 1.3.1. If you know where ISOs are for 1.1 and 1.2, I'm sure archive.debian.org would love to have a copy for their archives. http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/historic-linux/distributions/debian/1.1/i386/buzz/ there you find the 6 floppies (rescue/root/base1-4) and all the debs. Good times memories. (My first debian installation was in 1995) Michel. - Nate -- Wireless | Amateur Radio Station N0NB | Successfully Microsoft Amateur radio exams; ham radio; Linux info @ | free since January 1998. http://www.qsl.net/n0nb/ | Debian, the choice of My Kawasaki KZ-650 SR @| a GNU generation! http://www.networksplus.net/n0nb/ | http://www.debian.org
Re: vnc repeater
Em Qui, 2005-11-17 às 20:20 -0600, Rodney Richison escreveu: Joseph H. Fry wrote: On Thursday 17 November 2005 1:15 pm, Rodney Richison wrote: Is there a vnc repeater available on linux(debian) like the ultravnc repeater? For customer support... And,,, this is probably a question in the ultravnc forum, but can you connect to a repeater using linux xvncviewer? -- I don't know the answer to your question exactly, but I have successfully used port mapping in my router to allow multiple VNC connections... which I changed to SSH connections with VNC tunneling. This way I can SSH into any of my machines at home or at work and then fire up a VNC connection to that machine if I need graphical control. What exactly do you need the repeater for? Customer support type stuff. Have customer download the support.exe, run it, it will hit the repeater and my viewer will hit the repeater, thus getting around any firewalls on either side. At the moment, I'm doing it with ultravnc, but it seems to be a totally winblows solution. I have to boot to windows to run the ultravnc viewer. :( ssh tunneling through the server works fine, you access by VNC any computer that is accessible by VNC from the server, and only need ssh access to the server. ssh -L5900:IPofTheComputerYouwanttoAccess:5900 ServerName and then direct your viewer to the localhost Michel.
Re: IMAP and Sieve
Em Qua, 2005-11-16 às 09:05 +, Caleb Walker escreveu: As far as what I have seen thus far is that using cyrdeliver out of procmail does not matter and sieve should still work. Is that right? If that is so, what is the -l for when using cyrdeliver? If I use that my mail stops getting delivered. I see in my procmail log that cyrdeliver -l -a user -m user.user is being executed but mail is not put in the proper mailbox and seems to just disappear. What am I missing here? man cyrdeliver Michel
Re: A few general questions from a Debian newbie
newbie - unstable, that's normal. If you like it that way. And they will learn a lot. Why is it normal for a newbie to use unstable? It's usually an initial period of look at me, I'm using Debian without having to use their cruddy old software followed by a cry for help, either here or on IRC, when they hose their system and can't fix it. 1. Normal = most of them does just that. 2. Debian unstable is just as good as a stable Fedora, etc. 3. By having problems, which on unstable are rapidly resolved (1 week) they actually learn a lot. Beginning with a little patience. 4. They usually don't price stability at all since they don't devellop for anything, they just use. For who is stable: Experts, sysadmins etc. That a fantastic base where you can build anything fot it and be sure you can put in production anywhere because the base is the same. Stable is our Solaris, in their sense Stable is the most advanced distribution All very romantic, but not too factual. That's the way I see it used around me. Michel. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: A few general questions from a Debian newbie
\ 9- # chmod 777 /opt/openoffice.org2.0/program/soffice This step seemed but soffice was installed with mode 000 and therefore could not be executed (started). Bad idea, there are a lot of steps between 000 and 777 Don't ever use 777 It is a program you don't need write permission: 755 seems more apropriate Michel. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Imap
Em Ter, 2005-11-15 às 20:11 +0100, Roy escreveu: - Original Message - From: Mitch Wiedemann [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2005 6:39 PM Subject: Re: Imap Roy wrote: I've just installed courier imap and imap-ssl to use with postfix. The problem i'm having is when I try and retrieve mail from my Debian (Sarge) Server from Outlook Express the following message appears (Your Imap Server wishes to alet you to the following: Fatal error Maildir No such file or directory). The imap server is running and postfix is working fine. Good someone explain what this means? Roy Do other mail clients work properly? Or does everyone receive the same error? I only have one account at the moment. Would it be wise to install pop3 and see if couier pop works, so I could identify if there is a problem with the application or would this be a wast of time? Waste of time. And you did not answer the question: Do the other mail clients (mutt, evolution etc. etc.) get the same error mesage? Michel.
Re: Imap
Do other mail clients work properly? Or does everyone receive the same error? I only have one account at the moment. Would it be wise to install pop3 and see if couier pop works, so I could identify if there is a problem with the application or would this be a wast of time? Waste of time. And you did not answer the question: Do the other mail clients (mutt, evolution etc. etc.) get the same error mesage? Michel. No mail client installed on the server 1) AFAIK mutt is installed with base-system: try it. (using imap://localhost as mailbox) 2) Trying again: Did you use any other mail-client (besides M$Outlook)? Michel. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: A few general questions from a Debian newbie
Em Ter, 2005-11-15 às 16:44 -0600, Ron Johnson escreveu: On Tue, 2005-11-15 at 11:11 +, Antony Gelberg wrote: Steve Lamb wrote: Andy Streich wrote: latest and greatest of everything. What I did find surprising after reading this list for a while was that stable meant not only really stable but also really slow release cycle. Okay, that's the price you pay for really stable. Why be so hung up on release cycles? I mean, really. You know how much attention I've paid to Debian's release cycles since installing? Well, other than the libc5 - glibc2 conversion, none. Again, it has to be stressed, there is nothing that prevents the user from upgrading any package they choose to a later version. None. At all. Stable just means it won't be updated out from under you. That's *it*. You want newer, go get newer! Have fun! Debian won't be upset, I promise. It's not that simple. A lot of newbies dive into testing or unstable because they have to have the newest stuff, then they don't know what to do when their system breaks. So it's Debian's *fault* that newbies whine when they make no effort to read the Debian web site? newbie - testing is totally antinomic. It is impossible for a newbie to use testing reasonabl and provide the expected feedback. newbie - unstable, that's normal. If you like it that way. And they will learn a lot. For who is stable: Experts, sysadmins etc. That a fantastic base where you can build anything fot it and be sure you can put in production anywhere because the base is the same. Stable is our Solaris, in their sense Stable is the most advanced distribution Michel.
Re: mounting a remote directory
Em Ter, 2005-11-15 às 23:50 +, Clive Menzies escreveu: On (15/11/05 16:26), Joseph H. Fry wrote: On Tuesday 15 November 2005 12:01 pm, Tony Heal wrote: couple of questions for those more in the know than me. [which probably means everybody. :) ] I am running Debian/sarge What are the various ways to mount a remote directory for seamless use by a service running on a parent server? I only know nfs. Is this the best way? Is this the most secure? Thanks Tony Heal Pace Systems Group, Inc. 800-624-5999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ma.utexas.edu/users/stirling/computergeek/lufs.html Probably more secure implementation than NFS, especially if the remote filesystem is only excessable via a public network (the internet). However NFS is by far the most documented and thus supported method for this. Oh and there is smbfs to mount MS file systems, but I don't really recommend it unless it's the only way (IE you need to mount a windows share). We have Linux, Windows and OSX clients and initially used both NFS and Samba. However, there were three reasons we decided to standardise all clients on Samba: NFS is allegedly less secure I think you got that one wrong: Neither NFS nor SMB is secure. To make it more secure an option is to authenticate with IP address but it's not very easy to manage unless you use fixed IP addresses which for other reasons is not necessarily convenient; I can't find any reason for not using fixed IPs. (DHCP served fixed IPs) we use dhcp So do we. And each MAC is assigned a fixed IP, visitor's laptop use non-fixed IPs and of course are not trusted for NFS. Simplicity, ie. managing one networking environment as opposed to two. That's a good point. Michel.
Re: A few general questions from a Debian newbie
Em Dom, 2005-11-13 às 17:19 -0500, Carl Fink escreveu: On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 11:16:27AM -0700, Paul Scott wrote: Carl Fink wrote: Why use a distro if you're going to have to manually install things anyway? That might make sense if we were just installing an OS but everyone certainly has different needs in applications. That's why I said distro (short for distribution) and not operating system. A selling point[1] of Debian has been how many applications are available for it. That stops working when the most-desired applications aren't included. They are included in the unstable distribution (whose programs are stable). The latest programs, by the very definition of stable, can not be included in stable. If you change the programs included in a stable it isn't stable anymore. You run stable in order to have a perfectly stable bases on which you can build your computer. This way when something goes wrong it is very easy to find the responsible. Michel.
Re: web-based http password/group manager
Em Seg, 2005-11-14 às 12:13 +, Matt Johnson escreveu: --- Alvin Oga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 13 Nov 2005, Steve Lamb wrote: vi ... takes about 5 seconds bring up the files to add/delete users :-) Yes, because as we all know vi is really web based. No, really. it should be fun to write a front-end to vi to make it look like a point-n-click thingie ma jig for those that insist on web-based ( presumably over http or https if they're smarter ) Others may find themselves in situations that differ from yours. I use adduser on my boxes, but I administer servers that sit behind firewalls that *only* allow traffic through port 80. I have no control over the firewall or the decision making process. I use webmin (actually I use webmin ssh module to get a prompt rather than the webmin user module, but that's not my point). Go easy on the judgments, eh? Well, the firewall designer which allows port 80 and not 22 is definitively braindead, since he forces you to make user/passwd operation through an open/visible link. Michel.
Re: Many packages missing from testing
Em Sáb, 2005-11-12 às 14:47 +0100, Christof Hurschler escreveu: On Saturday 12 November 2005 01:21, Johan Kullstam wrote: Exactly. I was using testing for a while and got tired of losing when a package broke and wouldn't get fixed for ages. Of course, a savvy user could default to testing and drag in unstable (with whatever pre-reqs) whenever a breakage occured. Perhaps this method could be made more known. Wouldn't pinning work very well in this case to allow a mixed testing/unstable system? The trouble packages can then be installed from unstable using the -t option, with the majority of the rest of the system runs at a testing level (for example all the non GUI stuff). The times I tried this, the broken packages never naturally got back to testing, they continued following the unstable version even after a version got back to testing. The testing/unstable solution, is usually quite unstable (not in the Debian sense, in the programs sense). Michel.
Re: Many packages missing from testing
All this is IMHO. Warning rant ahead: 1) testing not for users. It is for debian maintainers putting the next stable release together. There is a mechanical aging process which lets packages come over from sid. A package could get updated, wait, and just when it's about to land in testing, it gets some new minor update. The package may work great the whole time, but it doesn't gets into testing for a long time. When sid is revving heavily, you might never get an update since some dependency somewhere is getting an update. I think that security is now doing updates for testing. They used to not do it and under that case testing was positively foolhardy. While it is usually solid, a breakage in testing can sometimes take ages to get fixed. This is the nature of testing. There is no manual override of the aging process. 2) Use sarge or sid instead. Sarge is stable and everything works and is included. Right now, it's not even superannuated. Sid gets quick updates. It might be broke once in a while, but it isn't broke for long. (Of course it might really blow up and clobber your system if, e.g., libc.so get hosed.) 3) Do not use stable in your apt sources since that could surprise you when we get a new stable. Stable releases are rare enough that manually changing /etc/apt/sources.list is not a problem. Hence, the fixed name is better. 3) If you want to use testing, put etch into your apt sources. Of course, I could be extra perverse and argue that if you are a user who would be surprised you have no business running testing anyhow. I just totally agree with you. A little difference, I switch my production machines (stable) to testing somewhere during the frozen time (of course using testing real name. I prefer having a manual control on the oldstable-newstable update. I am around since ham and this worked without problems for me. My desktops use unstable. The problem is always the same: Newbies don't understand the sense of the word unstable as used by Debian. In fact they lack understanding what a distribution is, and therefore what a stable (or unstable) distribution is. Michel. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Solaris: The Most Advanced OS?
Nate and Mike drive home the point that GNU/Linux isn't fit-for-purpose when it comes to telco. I trust that isn't much of a suprise to those who are aware of the requirements and isn't much to be bothered about either. I only mention this because of rabid GNU/Linux partisans who can be rather manic about FLOSS being everywhere and doing everything. Their enthusiasm is endearing even if misdirected IMO. Those arguments only hold in a restricted number of countries: Remebering my first post: Mean response times after asking for support: Sparc/Solaris: 1 week (soft) 3 monthes (hard) IBM PPC/AIX: 4 days (soft)/ 1 week (hard) x86/Linux: 6 hours (soft)/ 1 hour (hard) And I am not talking of the costs of the various solution, since probably the x86 solution will be have some smuggled parts while the Sparc will not (80% taxes difference). FLOSS is about politics and economics as much as it is about good software. There are areas such as telco where the natural forces just don't come together to enable it -- yet. Who knows what the future may bring. The natural forces beeing the anti-natural capitalistic driven insurance companies? That remembers me the certificated UNIX issue. A product is not better because it is certificated, the certificate' only shows it had the money to get the certificate. Michel. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Solaris: The Most Advanced OS?
Em Ter, 2005-11-08 às 11:49 +, Yuriy Kuznetsov escreveu: There's lots of improvements in Solaris that make it faster than linux (eg. we completely *smoke* linux in terms of TCP/IP performance) but also a few places where linux appears much faster, esp. filesystem operations. Usually that's because linux has fairly intensive disk caching turned on by default (so despite the fact that commands that write to disk finish much quicker, often the data isn't actually written to disk ! So if you have a power outage just after one of these commands has finished, on Solaris your disk will be in a consistent state (and the , whereas on linux you're screwed...) - it's not always about performance, reliability also comes into it. As regards most advanced os on the planet, that may sound subjective, but I'd say that SUN's implementations of DTrace, Zones, TCP/IP stack, Service Management Facility, Fault Management Architecture and probably other stuff I'm missing out make Solaris a better OS that anything else out there at the moment. As many posts showed, Solaris is NOT the most advanced OS. All pro-Solaris posts insist on reliability (granted), and superior support (valid only in a very few countries). Advanced has a meaning of bleeding-edge which Solaris definitively is not. In fact I suspect that the recent commitment of Sun to OpenSource is recognition of the superiority of the OpenSource Model in matters of fast, research grade, development of an OS. In house refinement for reliability by Sun could then give them the best of both worlds. Michel. -- Michel Loos [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: Esta é uma parte de mensagem assinada digitalmente
Re: Solaris: The Most Advanced OS?
Em Seg, 2005-11-07 às 10:04 -0500, Paul Smith escreveu: %% Tshepang Lekhonkhobe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: tl Wow!!! So Solaris kernel is generally technically superior... and tl what a post. Of course, that's nowhere close to what I said. The fact that you summed it up this way makes me wonder if you're a troll. I _DID_ say that in a few specific areas, most particularly dealing with very large enterprise deployments (how many systems out there will even have access to, much less need to mount, 1300 NFS partitions at the same time?), Solaris is more reliable and robust than Linux in my experience (with Red Hat Enterprise Linux--I didn't make this decision and had, and have, no say in it so...). Is NIS reliable? It seems to me that NIS is being obsoleted, since using a secure LDAP is much more secure. How stands Solaris when using a PAM/LDAP solution. Is NFS pre v4 reliable? I don't think so, it has a large number of security holes. So the major advantages of Solaris is better support of obsolete systems, which are only being used because Solaris does not support the better, modern solutions? Seems a little circular to me. Michel. A UNIX operating system is very complex and has a LOT of parts. Saying that one particular part, especially an ancillary (albeit important to many) one like a filesystem, is better in one or the other in no way can be translated into saying that one is generally technically superior. For example, Linux's iptables is much better than whatever Solaris has in this area (to the best of my knowledge). Also, Linux's /proc and /system are far more capable than /proc in Solaris. Etc. As many people have mentioned, it all depends on what you want to do with it. -- --- Paul D. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] HASMAT--HA Software Mthds Tools Please remain calm...I may be mad, but I am a professional. --Mad Scientist --- These are my opinions--Nortel takes no responsibility for them. -- Michel Loos [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: Esta é uma parte de mensagem assinada digitalmente
Re: Solaris: The Most Advanced OS?
Em Seg, 2005-11-07 às 16:31 -0500, Paul Smith escreveu: %% Michel Loos [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ml Is NIS reliable? Sure. Enterprises have been deploying it in huge environments for 10-15 years or more. ml It seems to me that NIS is being obsoleted, since using a secure ml LDAP is much more secure. How stands Solaris when using a PAM/LDAP ml solution. You didn't say secure, you said reliable. Also, there are plenty more databases distributed with NIS than just passwords: mail aliases, netgroups, automount maps, etc. etc. ml Is NFS pre v4 reliable? ml I don't think so, it has a large number of security holes. Again, you're conflating two different things: security and reliability. In fact, NFSv3 is pretty reliable (given annoying issues like cto caching etc.) and is being used all over the place. Security is an entirely different issue and can be addressed on other levels, at least to a degree. ml So the major advantages of Solaris is better support of obsolete ml systems, which are only being used because Solaris does not ml support the better, modern solutions? Seems a little circular to ml me. Regardless, the fact is that companies have sunk hundreds of thousands of dollars into data storage facilities based entirely around NFS, and none of the big ones support NFSv4: it's still considered experimental. Even if they did, the infrastructure necessary to support secure NFSv4 is not present. I'm saying that if Linux wants to be able to work in enterprise deployments like these as well as Solaris does, then it has some work to do because right now it doesn't, in my experience. Wishing it were different doesn't change the facts on the ground. I think we can agree. Solaris is the best for legacy products, Linux is in the future. Linux can work hard to get back and give better support for Legacy products, or it can go on and expect the modernization of the commercial products which will eventually perceive the security problems which Linux is already resolving (AFS for ex. instead of NFS). I prefer the second version: Linux is a Research Product. Michel
Re: Solaris: The Most Advanced OS?
Em Sex, 2005-11-04 às 11:24 -0800, Andy Streich escreveu: On Friday 04 November 2005 09:11 am, Mike McCarty wrote: On the whole, I'm happy with Linux. But in a side-by-side comparison, IMO Solaris is superior. No flames, please. You are wise to include the no flames request. As always this is as more of an emotional issue for many people than an intellectual or economic one. In asking what's best or what's superior you have to state for what intended purpose. I think it would be hard to make a case for Solaris being the best OS to run on your workstation at home or your typical webhost when Debian GNU/Linux is available. But if your company is doing high volume stock and banking transactions, Solaris may very well be the best. In both cases it's not just about the technical quality of the OS -- although that's critically important -- it's also about the available community support. In the former case the community is the essentially the people on this mailing list. In the latter, I'd much prefer to look to -- and pay for -- the community of engineers at Sun. (One way in which Sun distinguishes itself is that it is still a company where engineers dominate, as opposed to Microsoft, as someone else mentioned, which is purely marketing driven. Sadly the results can be seen in their stock prices.) I doubt many people on this list have much experience working in high-volume, financial transaction environments where minutes of downtime correspond to millions of dollars lost. It's not reasonable IMO to expect OSS to serve that market -- yet. As Mike wrote: No flames, please. But I'd be very interested in what others thing about this. I worked a lot (2years/ 3 servers: Mail/Web/Firewall) with Sun stations using Solaris. Here in Brasil the Service offered by SUN is abysmal: No 24/24 help desk, they work from 9h to 17h Monday to Friday. Any question, really any question is only answered after they contact some central organisation: delay:24-48h. In the case of hardware failure we would have had to wait 3 (three) monthes before getting a new NIC (failure on the firewall SUN/Solaris+Checkpoint). At that point we switched to a self build PIV/Asus/3Com station running Debian./iptables. Mean delay for a community answer:~6h, and 24/24 7/7. Downtime in case of hardware failure: 1h, the time to go to a shop and by a new part. (And 3 monthes to get the money back from the University, but that's another problem). There's no doubts here: Open Systems are much superior to proprietary ones when you are far away from the owner. Michel.
Re: problem with ctrl+alt+f7
Same Problem with a Radeon Mobility 9100IGP, the problem began after the XFree86 - X.org transition. I am using the standard etch driver. Michel Em Qua, 2005-11-02 às 06:47 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom escreveu: mikes kikou wrote: i have a serious problem when trying to switch form a console to x with ctrl+alt+f7(or alt+f7). when i do this, my computer stops responding and the only solution is the reset button i use debian sarge 3.1 with kde 3.4.1(same problem with default kde), and kernel 2.6.12(same problem with 2.6.8) my graphics card is an ati radeon 9600 pro and i 've installed the driver from: xoomer.virgilio.it/flavio.stanchina/ debian/fglrx-installer.html. a strange solution to my problem is : /etc/init.d/kdm stop and then start. then my problem dissappears.(same with xdm) i uninsrtalled xdm and kdm and logged with startx, and i had the same problem. i have to mention that all the above happen after installing the fglrx driver. i've searched the whole net and i discovered that maybe i m the only debian user these days having this problem. Seems to be your graphics card and that driver combination. Did you try their mailing list? Subscribe to it and describe your problem? I would get another graphics card: they are not expensive and gives you a little bit of room to play around. H
Gforge
I am trying to onstall gforge for quite sometime now, with no success. I am also new to slapd and therefore I don't know if it is slapd which is misconfigured or if it is gforge-ldap-openldap orif it is a bug. Was anyone able to install gforge-ldap-openldap on Sid, using mostly dkg --configure ( dpkg-reconfigure)? Michel. -- Michel Loos [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mysql-max
Em Qui, 2003-04-03 às 13:18, Gilberto Garcia Jr. escreveu: Someone can tell me if there is mysql-max package for debian? I means there is in anywhere a package like mysql-max.deb or something like this? The debian mysql package is mysql-max (transaction support), you just have to configure it. Michel. or a package that provide mysql-max features? thanks --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.465 / Virus Database: 263 - Release Date: 25/03/03 -- Michel Loos [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PHP --with-imap
Em Dom, 2003-02-23 às 23:35, Craig Jackson escreveu: On Sun, 2003-02-23 at 18:48, Rob Weir wrote: [snipped] Well, 90% of the time, it's actually simpler. e.g. 1) setup deb-src lines in your sources.list (you only need to do this once, ever) 2) apt-get source packagename;apt-get build-dep packagename. This will download the source, untar it and patch it, then go get everything you need to build it (avoiding the libc-client2001 issue you're having). apt-get build-dep will fail since libc-client2002-dev is missing. There is a real problem this moment with the php4-imap package, which is also uninstallable in binary form. Michel. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Question sur LiLO
Em Sex, 2003-02-21 às 07:30, [EMAIL PROTECTED] escreveu: Bonjour à l'équipe de Debian.org Je vous contacte pour vous poser une question. Mais tout d'abord, voici mon problème : Sur mon ordinateur, j'ai deux disques durs : un de 8 Go et l'autre de 10 Go. Sur le premier, j'ai déjà un système Windows XP d'installé. Et sur le deuxième j'ai voulu installer une version de Linux Debian, tout en conservant Windows sur le premier disque. L'installation de Linux s'est déroulée correctement, mais quand l'installation fut terminéé, mon ordinateur a redémarré, et là c'est Windows qui redemarre automatiquement sans même me demander si je veux démarrer avec Linux. Je pense que cela vient de LiLO que j'ai installé sur mon deuxième disque dur. Pour que Linux démarre, est-ce qu'il faut que j'installe LiLO sur mon premier dique dur ? Merci d'avance de votre réponse et ça serait très sympa à vous de me répondre car j'ai vraiment envie de me servir de Linux. Oui il faut installer lilo sur le premier disque dur. Michel A+ _ GRAND JEU SMS : Pour gagner un NOKIA 7650, envoyez le mot IF au 61321 (prix d'un SMS + 0.35 euro). Un SMS vous dira si vous avez gagné. Règlement : http://www.ifrance.com/_reloc/sign.sms -- Michel Loos [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Qt
Em Seg, 2003-02-17 às 16:04, Sergey A. Ovchar escreveu: Hi. When I trying to compile KDE from sources, I get the following error :( checking for Qt... configure: error: Qt (= Qt 3.0.2) (library qt-mt) not found. Please check your installation! For more details about this problem, look at the end of config.log. Make sure that you have compiled Qt with thread support! All packages was installed from distribution 3.0_r0 debs, and no extra adjusting from me. libqt-mt-dev also installed :( What can I do, to fix it ? Passed through this last night: the libraries chnged place so you have to us --with-qt-includes=/usr/include/qt3 and perhaps --with-qt-libraries=/usr/share/qt3/lib and you have to install libqt3-compat-headers the files listing of libqt3-headers on the debian site all wrong for libqt3-headers Seems to be a big problem with qt3 maintainer. Michel -- ,''`. Sincerely yours : :' : Sergey A. Ovchar `. `' e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] `- SMS: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Michel Loos [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: kde package dependencies broken (kde relies on everything?)
Em Sex, 2003-02-14 às 12:42, Wim De Smet escreveu: hi, recently I tried to remove some of the excess software on my system, so I tried removing stuff like koffice, or kate, or kedit, ksysv, kcron, everything that doesn't look like it is needed for operating kde, even kde-base-doc. kde is dependent on all of them. Is this a bug? I can't believe that if you want kde, you immediately need all these packages. The only one I've been able to remove so far is kdm, which seems even more strange. You can remove kdm but not kedit. Where's the logic? Any ideas, hints, suggestions? The kde Package is a metapackage which allows you to install all of kde with 1 apt-get. But KDE works fine without the package kde. Michel. -- Michel Loos [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: shuttle disaster
Em Dom, 2003-02-09 às 09:32, Paul Johnson escreveu: On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 05:01:22AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: I'm not entirely convinced of this, to be honest with you. If we were talking the RA and RCA in northern Europe, you're right. But even then, the RCA and RA was leading us into battle (not that this is a bad thing, the RA is more local and probaly had a slightly better idea of the local geography than the American and RCA soldiers did). By RA, you mean RAF? Royal Army, not Air Force. (Side note, Royal Canadian Air Farce is damn funny.) All during the CW, the French steered a much more independant military course, having their own, non-integrated nuclear policy, and not being fully integrated into NATO. Hence bombing whales with nukes in the mid-Atlantic clear into the 1990s. WTF?? Thier nuclear testing program by detonating nuclear devices underwater was killing whales with the concussions. Was in the South Pacific, too hot for whales. Michel. -- Michel Loos [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sound problem with es1373 (solved)
On Mon, 2002-09-02 at 16:28, Bob Proulx wrote: On Mon, 02 Sep 2002 the mental interface of Michel Loos told: I have problems setting up sound on a computer with a SoundBlaster PCI128 soundcard. This uses a es1373 chip. I installed the es1371 module (modprobe es1371) which seems to be installed. Hmm... I have one of those in one of my machines. But I thought that card actually did use the 'sb' driver. You might try that. But it is only my faded memory that is pointing me there. My box with that card is, ahem, running another operating system at the moment. When I reboot it back to linux I will check it. The problem was the digital speakers we were using, in order for this to work we needed to add the option spdif=1 to es1371 module configuration Michel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sound problem with es1373
Hi, I send this some days ago and got no answer: I have problems setting up sound on a computer with a SoundBlaster PCI128 soundcard. This uses a es1373 chip. I installed the es1371 module (modprobe es1371) which seems to be installed. When I run a mixer e.g. aumix the module gets used (verified by lsmod) But no sound at all through cat /dev/dsp When I run play somefile.wav (from sox package) the program executes fine showing the Playing messages, but no sound to hear. All outputs were maximized using aumix, still no sound. Sound works fine under windows2000, and I fear that user will not switch to Linux if I can't make everything work. Supposing this can be resolved, I have heared that the next problem will be KDE which uses the /dev/sndstat file which is not used by the es1371 driver. By the way running woody, 2.4.18-smp kernel. Any help welcome. even if it is just saying that it works for you. Thanks Michel. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
es1373 sound + KDE
Hi, I have problems setting up sound on a computer with a SoundBlaster PCI128 soundcard. This uses a es1373 chip. I installed the es1371 module (modprobe es1371) which seems to be installed. When I run a mixer e.g. aumix the module gets used (verified by lsmod) But no sound at all through cat /dev/dsp When I run play somefile.wav (from sox package) the program executes fine showing the Playing messages, but no sound to hear. All outputs were maximized using aumix, still no sound. Supposing this can be resolved, I have heared that the next problem will be KDE which uses the /dev/sndstat file which is not used by the es1371 driver. By the way running woody, 2.4.18-smp kernel. Thanks Michel. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Trouble make SSH connection with OpenSSH_3.0.2p1 on Debian Woody
Em Ter, 2002-06-25 às 14:32, Randolph S. Kahle escreveu: Greg, Thank you for the tip. I changed the /etc/hosts.deny to now not include ALL:PARANOID and then it all started to work. This is a very bad option, you should transform hi in ALL:ALL and authorize sepecific hosts in /etc/hosts.allow, not the otherway. I very much appreciate the help! Regards, Randy On Mon, 2002-06-24 at 05:04, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 04:05:30AM -0700, Randolph S. Kahle wrote: ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host There are two common causes for this type of behavior: having sshd linked with TCP wrappers, with ALL:PARANOID in /etc/hosts.deny and a misconfigured reverse DNS (address-name mapping); or using the wrong protocol. For reasons which I do not yet comprehend, Debian still ships with ALL:PARANOID in /etc/hosts.deny by default. Try commenting that out (on the server). If that doesn't help, try using ssh -2 or ssh -1 to force one or the other of the protocols. And if none of this works, then run the client (and, if possible, the server) with debug mode turned on (ssh -v for the client, sshd -d for the server). That may give some useful information. This all worked find with the Potato release and the associated SSH technology. I find that surprising. Is the problem with the use of NAT? Could be. Sorry I can't be more helpful or specific than that. -- 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: Console Login/Auth ~= GDM/KDM Login/Auth
Have you enabled shadow passwords ? kdm and gdm are looking for them, while your console login does not. Michel. Em Dom, 2002-06-23 às 11:14, Randolph S. Kahle escreveu: Mark, Thank you for the reply. I have studied the files in /etc/pam.d and I am not sure I can figure out what is wrong. Here are the files: login - auth requisite pam_securetty.so auth requisite pam_nologin.so auth required pam_env.so auth required pam_unix.so nullok accountrequired pam_unix.so sessionrequired pam_unix.so sessionoptional pam_lastlog.so sessionoptional pam_motd.so sessionoptional pam_mail.so standard noenv password required pam_unix.so nullok obscure min=4 max=8 md5 - kde - #%PAM-1.0 auth required pam_nologin.so auth required pam_unix.so shadow nullok auth required pam_env.so accountrequired pam_unix.so sessionrequired pam_unix.so sessionrequired pam_limits.so password required pam_unix.so nullok obscure min=4 max=8 md5 - gdm - #%PAM-1.0 auth required pam_nologin.so auth required pam_env.so auth required pam_unix_auth.so account required pam_unix_acct.so password required pam_unix_passwd.so shadow md5 session required pam_unix_session.so session required pam_limits.so - On Sat, 2002-06-22 at 17:40, Mark Roach wrote: On Sat, 2002-06-22 at 15:28, Randolph S. Kahle wrote: I have just installed Woody from CDROM images. I can log on via the console as root and as a normal user. All is fine. When I run GDM (or the KDE login manager), when I enter a valid user and password, it rejects it. Why are these operating differently? Am I going through different authentication modules? If so, how do I get GDM to use the right authentication mechanism? check /etc/pam.d/gdm if it is different than /etc/pam.d/login then that is a good place to start. -Mark Randy -- 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] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian Potato i386 newtork woes
Em Sex, 2002-06-21 às 16:15, Andy Saxena escreveu: On Sun, Jun 16, 2002 at 03:28:55PM -0700, Larry Smith wrote: I'm unable to find a driver that will load, that is supposed to work with my SMC model 8216C internet card. The drivers all abort indicating a possible address or irq error. I've tried: smc-ultra (Used to work on a RedHat 6.0 system) wd tulip ne This card has a rtl8139 chip use the rtl8139 module Michel. I've strapped the card, rather than use plug and play, and I know it's at io 0x300 and irq 10. I've tried loading with insmod rather than modprobe, so I can input these parameters. The required 8390 module is already loaded. Windows 98 on the same computer can find and use the card at that address and IRQ. I even tried working a bit on the driver code to hard-wire it, only to discover that apparently I don't have the code for the driver that's delivered with potato. Any suggestions? Here's one. Does your BIOS have a plug and play option? If so, turn it off. Also, if this is a new installation you should consider switching to woody. -Andy -- 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: OS hallucinates hard drive geometry
Em Qua, 2002-06-19 às 02:18, Aaron Maxwell escreveu: I just realized something interesting. Before I tried repartitioning as described in my original message (below), I had hda2 as a smaller partition containing the HURD. When I mount the new /dev/hda2, its size is 926 MB, and it contains all the old hurd files. I did not write it down and can't remember, but I think this size - just under a gig - is what I made the HURD partition long ago. So the partition table is correct; however, when the OS actually is up and running, the kernel somehow is confused, and acts as if it still has the OLD partition table. (It's not the geometry at all like I originally thought.) What could cause this behavior? Did you format (mkfs) those 2 partitions before trying to mount them? Seems the kernel sees your old formatation on hda2 and no formatation on hda3 Michel. Thanks, Aaron On Tuesday 18 June 2002 20:37, Aaron Maxwell wrote: Hi, I'm running woody with kernel 2.4.18. (This is a custom kernel - I downloaded the source, and built it with make-kpkg.) My hard drive is 20 GB with three primary partions: Device BootStart EndBlocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 1459 11719386 83 Linux /dev/hda2 1460 1945 3903795 83 Linux /dev/hda3 1946 2495 4417875 83 Linux This means that hda1 is 11.7GB, hda2 is 3.9GB, and hda3 is 4.4 GB. (hda1 has existed for a while: hda2 and hda3 are new partitions.) However, when I mount them, problems ensue: (hda1 is already mounted on /) shiznit:~# mount /dev/hda2 /mnt/hda2 shiznit:~# mount /dev/hda3 /mnt/hda3 mount: you must specify the filesystem type shiznit:~# mount -t ext2 /dev/hda3 /mnt/hda3 mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda3, or too many mounted file systems shiznit:~# df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda1 11G 4.5G 6.0G 43% / /dev/hda2 926M 65M 814M 8% /mnt/hda2 Note that: 1) /dev/hda2 is smaller than it should be. 2) /dev/hda3 could not be mounted at all. I tried the partitioning with fdisk, cfdisk, and parted (I decided not to try sfdisk yet). Same results, except parted produced this warning: Information: The operating system thinks the geometry on /dev/hda is 2495/255/63. Therefore, cylinder 1024 ends at 8032.499M. I'm not clear on what to try next. Anyone? Thanks in advance. Aaron -- 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: X, KDE login, new monitor
Em Ter, 2002-06-18 às 06:38, DSC Siltec escreveu: I have debian Woody in a setup with KDE login (that blue login page with graphics options for such things as console login) installed. My monitor just blew. Odds are, whatever monitor I get will have different specs, and X will have to be reset to the new monitor. Problem is, if the KDE login comes up in a SVGA mode, then I won't even be able to see the page to request console login. How do I most easily make the transition to my new monitor? CTRL+ALT+F2 (or 1,3,4,5,6) should give you a normal login Michel. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: what if I have a 2nd cdrom drive?
Em Seg, 2002-06-17 às 02:07, Dan Jacobson escreveu: I have two CDROM drives. This is apparently not noticed upon debian woody installation. Swifteax. Neateaux. I suppose the distributions of the pros consider that a personal issue or something. OK, so I must do this myself. OK, I make a link in /dev from hdd to cdrom2 then I make a directory in /, then I make a entry in /etc/fstab. Is the user supposed to do all this by hand? Also what is the importance of noauto in fstab? Doesn't that just cause the user to have to issue a mount command if he hasn't since last reboot, and ha wants to use the cdrom? Or perhaps the maintainers don't power off like me every day e.g. lightning storms and sleepy time. You need to issue a mount command everytime you use a new CD and an umount before you remove it. Or do you have only 2 CD-ROMs one for each drive? By the way, my main form of exercise during my month long debian adaptation learning experience is marching up and back to my cdrom drives, ten meters away, during each dselect, aptitude installation session. I don't suppose there is any way to tell it that I have two cdroms so I can put two cd's in at once? Have you a bad internet connection? Usually some floppies or 1 CD is largely enough for installing debian. Michel. -- http://jidanni.org/ Taiwan(04)25854780 -- 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: Error installing mailman with exim
Em Sex, 2002-06-14 às 03:45, Grégoire Cachet escreveu: hello I try to configure mailman on my gateway for internet, using the exim mail server My system is debian woody I installed exim, and just changed the configuration in order to relay my own computer on the local network. Then I installed mailman and created a new list typing : # newlist test It asked me to add some lines in the aliases file. I added in /etc/aliases : ## test mailing list ## created: 12-Jun-2002 root test:|/var/lib/mailman/mail/wrapper post test test-admin: |/var/lib/mailman/mail/wrapper mailowner test test-request:|/var/lib/mailman/mail/wrapper mailcmd test test-owner: test-admin I received a confirmation email for the new list test However, if I try to subscribe sending a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], it didn't work. I can't send messages to test-admin, test, test-owner either. there are errors in exim's logs : 2002-06-13 18:13:32 17IXE4-0001kY-00 Neither the system_aliases director nor the address_pipe transport set a uid for local delivery of |/var/lib/mailman/mail/wrapper post test Just do exactly what this message says: set a uid in the system_aliases director definitions in exim.conf ex: system_aliases: driver = aliasfile file_transport = address_file pipe_transport = address_pipe file = /etc/aliases search_type = lsearch user = list (or user=exim, or user=mailman etc. depending on your configurations) Michel. /var/lib/mailman/bin/check_perms returns no error Besides, I receive error mails from cron every 15 minutes : 2002-06-12 09:53:03 17I2PM-0005sU-00 Neither the system_aliases director nor the address_pipe transport set a uid for local delivery of |/var/lib/mailman/mail/wrapper mailcmd test Where does it not work ? thanks in advance and sorry for my bad english grégoire -- Il faut dépenser le mépris avec une grande économie, à cause du grand nombre de nécessiteux. Chateaubriand -- 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: VmWare on Woody
Em Qua, 2002-06-12 às 10:20, Helgi Örn Helgason escreveu: On Wed, 2002-06-12 at 14:28, Colin Watson wrote: On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 01:46:46PM +0200, Helgi ?rn wrote: I've never before installad a package with RPM in Debian, are there some weird oddities combined with that? Never do that. Use alien if you can't find a non-RPM version of the package. Please explain why RPM shouldn't be used when it's there? The Linux (rpm)package is not dist-specific AFAIK and RPM is installed in Woody so why not? The dependences are not correctly checked. rpm will check against other installed RPMs, dpkg checks against installed DEBs. If you want the dependance checking system to work correctly you must use one installation system only, and it is much better to use dpkg (.DEBs) because 1) it is much better then rpm, 2) it is the default of Debian. Michel. I've never before seen or used RPM in Debian so I thought it was interesting to give it a try, of course I used *rpm -i --test package* just to se the outcome without actually installing. Cheers, HÖ -- ~ This message is digitally signed - GPG key at: ~~ http://www.sacred-eagle.com/gnupg_public_key.html ~~ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: VmWare on Woody
Em Qua, 2002-06-12 às 11:41, Helgi Örn Helgason escreveu: On Wed, 2002-06-12 at 15:27, Robert Ian Smit wrote: Rpm is installed in Woody only if you select it. It's available in section admin, priority optional. In the package desciption you will find a strong suggestion to use alien instead: Using rpm directly will bypass the Debian packaging system! # apt-get remove rpm Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: kde kpackage rpm The thing want's to remove KDE when I ask it to remove RPM, what kind of service is that? You are not removing kde, you are removing the kde meta-package, because kpackage depends on rpm Michel. Cheers, Helgi Örn -- ~ This message is digitally signed - GPG key at: ~~ http://www.sacred-eagle.com/gnupg_public_key.html ~~ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: VmWare on Woody
Em Qua, 2002-06-12 às 11:04, Helgi Örn Helgason escreveu: On Wed, 2002-06-12 at 15:27, Robert Ian Smit wrote: Rpm is installed in Woody only if you select it. It's available in section admin, priority optional. In the package desciption you will find a strong suggestion to use alien instead: Using rpm directly will bypass the Debian packaging system! Enough said. Thank's. I promise I will keep away from rpm packages from now on, at least as long as I stay with Debian, which I plan to do if I can manage to tame this beast to my liking... :-) No need for that, just use alien to transform your .rpm in .deb then use dpkg to install the resulting .deb Michel. Cheers, HÖ -- ~ This message is digitally signed - GPG key at: ~~ http://www.sacred-eagle.com/gnupg_public_key.html ~~ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Why does Mozilla modify /etc/alternatives/netscape?
Em Sáb, 2002-06-08 às 01:26, Vineet Kumar escreveu: * Jeronimo Pellegrini ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020607 14:52]: Two banks on which I have accounts, for example... One of them will only allow IE or Netscape 4.*, and the other just won't work with Gecko (the browser just dies after a certain applet is used). Bank #2 just doesn't care. Well, when I was in exactly the same situation, I put my money where my mouth was and told them they were losing my business and my money because of the problem, and I closed the account. Then I came back here and told everyone to stay away from that bank (F you, citibank!) I know your situation is probably different from mine, and you may have strong reasons to stay with the bank. They may listen better if you make sure they know it's a customer service issue rather than just a tech support issue. Probably, like for me, just a brazilian problem: It is your employer who chooses in which bank you must have an account, if you ant to get paid of course. This means that one of the accounts cannot be changed and usually it is the worst possible. Recently, because a lot of users complained that their site (netscape 4.x only) was not funcionnal under IE, they changed it, now it is IE5+ only! Just plainly stupid, and that is at least the second time they do it, before Netscape 4.x only it was IE4+ only. Seems to be related to the clueless developpers problem: trained (not educated) mono-task devellopers. Michel. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SMP working
Em Sex, 2002-06-07 às 15:36, Robert Webb escreveu: Brooks R. Robinson wrote: | check for this . I looked in the /proc directory and did a cat of cpu | but it only showed one processor at 500MHZ. | | Am I looking in the wrong place??? Greetings, A cat of /proc/cpuinfo should give a listing for each cpu. I get two for the two on my box. HTH, Brooks Thanks for all the help everyone. I have come to the conclusion that the install iso I used did not have SMP compiled. So now I am trying to get it compiled into 2.4.18, the iso I used was 2.2.20, but am running into trouble when it tries to compile the SCSI protion. But that is another thread... :-) Upgrade to woody or sid and apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.18-686-smp and it will work fine. Michel. Robert -- 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: Debian: abandon ship?
Em Qui, 2002-06-06 às 13:35, Ivo Wever escreveu: Glen wrote: Ivo, you're totally missing the point here. Yes, you are right. I shouldn't have let my personal crusade against arguments from emotion enter this thread. [snippety] But as a distribution, it's head and shoulders above the competition. If the other dists are so terrible that they can't even support the internet connection of a small group of people for three hours a day, then why is anyone using them and using them in a commercial environment at that? Because a dummy can install them (many so called sysadms comming from M$world are in fact dummies). Most other distros are absolutely not suited for servers and even much less for remote management, but they are PnP for the domestic user (and the dummy pseudo sysadm) Michel. sincerely Ivo Wever [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: Debian: abandon ship?
Em Qua, 2002-06-05 às 08:41, Nick Jacobs escreveu: A few days ago, David Wright posted a message to this list, questioning the wisdom of Debian's decision to target 11 architectures. He pointed out (with supporting references) that this decision has contributed to a long delay in releasing Woody; of course, other people have said this before. The main result was that a small number of Debian insiders posted abusive comments in response to David's perfectly reasonable message. (The thread, in case you missed it, has the subject This post is not off-topic.) With hindsight, it's clear that trying to support too many architectures was a mistake. Of course, everybody makes mistakes. It is truly said that he who never made a mistake, never made anything. But what separates the doers from the wannabes is the ability to admit a mistake, change direction, and move on. If the people in effective control of Debian's direction no longer have this ability, then perhaps Debian is no longer useful to most of us. To save the Debian Attack Team the effort of a search, I'll admit immediately that (like most Debian users) I've contributed nothing to Debian except good intentions and trivial amounts of money. Debian does not need me. And I need a stable release with the 2.4 kernel. You have 2 stable releases which are up-to-date: woody and sid They are perfectly stable, but the distribution is changing just like the RedHat distribution is changing every few weeks, the only difference is that they call it stable even when if it is broken, while debian is called unstable even when every thing works fine. Michel. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
KDE3 and Wine
Is there any chance that libarts1 can work together with libarts ? KDE3 depends on libarts1, Wine depends on libarts Or can wine work with libarts1 ? Michel. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host PART II
Em Sáb, 2002-03-23 às 18:09, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls escreveu: Greetings again: I have sshd working again after adding an entry in my firewall/router's /etc/hosts.allow file, but I am rather concerned that sshd included tcp_wrappers without alerting users that are upgrading software via apt or dselect! Unless I missed something, I always read all the notifications during each Woody upgrade. My question now is this: do I need to make these hosts_allow entries into each of my linux computers? I still find it very odd that all the other computers were able to connect to my firewall/router as it was, and only my Woody box was banned from connecting. The only other thing that might add to the syndrome is that I have a user logged (ssh) into my box via the router for several weeks compiling kde3. shrug [EMAIL PROTECTED] To which interface of your firewall are you connecting ? wiht ALL:PARANOID in hosts.deny you will not be able to connect to the external interface because name/IP won't fit together. If you connect to the internal interface just check to see if your hosts file contains your IP/name: it should work if they are. Michel. original msg Greetings: I am unable to connect to my cable firewall/router from my desktop box suddenly. I have gone so far as to wipe out my known_hosts file from my .ssh directory, but this still gives me the same error. What is unusual is that I can ssh to any of the other computers on my lan, *then* ssh to my router without difficulty. What did I do wrong? Any help gleefully excepted. I am running woody on both boxes, and updated them an hour ago. I also ran dpkg-reconfigure for ssh on the router just in case I had an update and entered a wrong value. PS plz mail me direct as I am not on this list. thank you -- Jaye Inabnit\ARS ke6sls\/A GNU-Debian linux user\/ http://www.qsl.net/ke6sls If it's stupid, but works, it ain't stupid. I SHOUT JUST FOR FUN. Free software, in a free world, for a free spirit. Please Support freedom! -- 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: I want a linux internet connection going thru a win98 box:how??
Em Dom, 2002-03-24 às 03:08, tony brito escreveu: Hello I am a new linux user I use netzero as my ISP and pay 9.95 per month! netzero is installed on my win98 box. I use a modem for dial-up service to netzero. I also have both my linux box and win98 connected with an Ethernet card. Is there a way I can dial up to netzero using my win98 box, Then go to my linux box create an internet connection succesffully. (e.g. open netscape and go to www.debian.org from my linux box) That's o win98 problem. You can do it with win98 OSR2 : take a look at the help for private lan. On the linux box define the internal interface of the win98 machine as a gateway and you are set. Michel. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: remote X problems
Em Sáb, 2002-03-23 às 22:10, David Wright escreveu: Argh! I hate^H^H^H^H^H am having some trouble with X. $ ssh -l root foo.example.com foo# xosview Can't open display named this should be ssh -X [EMAIL PROTECTED] Michel. Yes, sshd_config on foo contains X11Forwarding yes and ssh_config on my machine contains ForwardX11 yes In fact, everyting works fine on many other machines I have set up at example.com. The machines with a problem are those where I haven't installed X on foo. But you're not supposed to have to install X on a server if it always displays remotely. I don't want X on my servers. (This problem never occured with RedHat.) I haven't been able to find any hint of what's going on any logs on the server or on the client. I do note that foo~# echo $DISPLAY return nothing, whereas on machines where the X-forwarding works, I do get something. But foo# export DISPLAY=foo.example.com:0 doesn't help. What do I have to do to get a machine without X to forward X output over ssh? -- 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]
kdm and X-terminals
I used to have X-terminals connected to a xdm server. In order to achieve this I had to edit /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers, /etc/X11/xdm/Xaccess and /etc/xdm/xdm-config With kdm I found the files /etc/kde2/kdm/Xaccess /etc/kde2/kdm/Xservers and I suppose that the equivalent of xdm-config is kdmrc but I have no idea of what I must modify in order to complete the setup When I installed kdm it said something like you will have to modify kdmrc to learn more do a man kdm. But man kdm returns: Undocumented. Does anyone know what exactly I have to do in order to enable the X-terminals ? Thanks Michel.
Re: Still looking to replace Eudora
On Fri, 2002-03-08 at 03:23, Bill Moseley wrote: On Thursday 07 March 2002 07:01 pm, Eric G. Miller wrote: On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 05:11:12PM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: Maybe it's a config setting I've missed, but what I miss is having the messages open in their own windows (yet still inside the main Eudora window). The reason is I like to work with my mail as a single unit (single window), but I like to keep a bunch of messages open at the same time that I'm working on. The window(s) within a containing window paradigm is generally not found in X programs. I don't think it's even part of most (any?) toolkits. That's what I wondered. I'll try the trick of using a separate desktop for my mail. So far, with multiple windows, it gets cluttered too fast. The windows-inside-a-window thing was nice in Eudora -- let me have a real messy email window that could all be moved as a single unit. Just wondering: what do you prefer when displaying window in window over the preview in the lower part of the evolution window ? Michel. I'll get used to it. Thanks for everyone's time. -- Bill Moseley -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Disabling interactive init on Debian
Em Ter, 2002-03-05 às 11:57, will trillich escreveu: On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 09:40:48AM -0800, Xeno Campanoli wrote: In the Trinity OS security recommenation they say to disable the ability to run init interactively by setting prompt=no This is the default in Debian (in lilo.conf) but it is not necessary, even if the guy in front of the computer types the usual: linux single :he will not get root access to your computer without knowing the passwd. (At least on testing with a 2.4.x kernel). If he wants access, he can always boot on a floppy or CD and do whatever he wants to. You will have to disable (in the BIOS) floppy/CD booting AND put a BIOS passwd or all this is for nothing. Michel. in a file called /etc/sysconfig/init, but that file doesn't exist on my Debian Potato, and I don't find one that has prompt= in it (well, there is one, but it's a binary called /etc/alternatives/pager, so I don't think that's it). Any ideas? TIA. # /etc/lilo.conf - See: `lilo(8)' and `lilo.conf(5)', # --- `install-mbr(8)', `/usr/share/doc/lilo/', # and `/usr/share/doc/mbr/'. [snip] # Specifies the number of deciseconds (0.1 seconds) LILO should # wait before booting the first image. # delay=20 # You can put a customized boot message up if you like. If you use # `prompt', and this computer may need to reboot unattended, you # must specify a `timeout', or it will sit there forever waiting # for a keypress. `single-key' goes with the `alias' lines in the # `image' configurations below. eg: You can press `1' to boot # `Linux', `2' to boot `LinuxWAS', if you uncomment the `alias'. # # message=/boot/bootmess.txt # prompt # single-key # delay=100 # timeout=100 image=/vmlinuz label=Linux read-only # restricted # alias=1 image=/vmlinuz.was label=LinuxWAS read-only optional # restricted # alias=2 see man lilo.conf and when you mess with lilo.conf, be sure to run lilo itself so your new settings will be written to the boot sector for your next restart. i think. -- I use Debian/GNU Linux version 2.2; Linux server 2.2.17 #1 Sun Jun 25 09:24:41 EST 2000 i586 unknown DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #44 from Will Trillich [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Ever think you're reading OUTDATED DOCUMENTATION? Check the last-revised-date: if it's more than a few years ago, then there's probably something more recent out there. It may be under a whole different name, so it'll take perseverance and determination on your part. Be alert -- you'll find it! Also see http://newbieDoc.sourceForge.net/ ... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Setting up a linux network
On Tue, 2002-03-05 at 12:36, Kent West wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On Mon, 2002-03-04 at 10:22, Kent West wrote: Camilo Olea wrote: Hello! I want to know, what can i do to have a linux network equivalent to a windows one? This meaning, here at my college, the computer lab network is made of a number of win2k PCs, anyone can sit down at any terminal, login with his user/pass, and the network loads automatically his profile, home directory,etc. The users save their files to their mapped network drive, that resides phisically at the server. This is something I've wanted to do for two years here at my university, but haven't been able to figure out. I *believe* that samba + PAM can now authenticate off an NT domain, but I'm not sure of it, and I certainly have never figured out how. I also believe it can authenticate off an LDAP server, which I've also tried a bit to accomplish, unsuccessfully. All this to say that I *think* it can be done, but I've never done it (though I'd love to). I _think_ he's talking about a complete linux replacement for all of the Winboxen, including clients. I believe that NIS+NFS would do it, where the students' /home directories are kept on the server, and exported to the client when the student logs in. I can't speak for Camilo, but for me, NIS+NFS would require a second database of account information, paralleling that which is already in the NT Domain, or am I (hopefully) mistaken? It's impractical for me to try to duplicate the student logon information. You can see it this way Or just the opposite: running a NT Domain you need to duplicate the NIS database. Michel. Thanks anyway! Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problems printing postscipt with magicfilter
Em Ter, 2002-03-05 às 17:49, Wolfgang Hlawatsch escreveu: I am fairly new to Linux, and I am just about to install my printserver with Debian (Potato). The printer refuses to print a postscript file by use of lpr. I used magicfilterconfig --force several times, but I receive no printout. I looked at the printcap-file, and compared with different information I found in the net, but as I can judge it seems o.k. I can print a file using: gs -q -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=necp6 -sOutputFile=\|lpr (filename) it works perfectly. That tells me that lpd is running, isn't it? But using: lpr (filename) I receive no output from the printer. I can watch for a short time, using lpq that the printjob is in the print-queue. Not any reaction of the printer is the result. When I remove the command: sh in the printcap I receive a trailing page. So, my conclusion is, the problem is in the magicfilter-file. But what can be the problem? I tried different parameters the first two lines in necp6-filter, and it did not solve the problem. I was reading among others that the printcap-file must be activated as an executable. How can I test, or perform, this? Or is it a permission problem? How to test this? 1st: are you able to print a normal text file ? for ex: lpr /etc/printcap If its only the postscript files that give you problems then the postscript entry in the necp6 uses the syntax @necp6.upp (at least mine does) which supposes a newer ghostscript ?6.5 If this is not the case modify your filter in order to use the old -sDEVICE=necp6 syntax whatever filter gs -q -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=necp6 -sOutputFile=- - -c quit Michel.
Re: Enough time wasted, moving on
Em Sáb, 2002-03-02 às 02:58, Harry Putnam escreveu: Carel Fellinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: received valuable help and turns out to be okee afterall. It appeared that in the install he was adviced to use a certain driver for his nic, turned out to be the wrong driver. Thanks to the list, he's back Close, but it was actually a helpful poster here who told me the RIGHT driver. The install itself lists the wrong driver. I can't find the notes I made at that step but on the screen it lists the NICs in one column and drivers across from them: nic1 somedriver nic2 someotherdriver nic3 yettaanotherdriver 3c509 WRONG ONE HERE Mmm, I am quit used to install, 3com NICs and I humbly think you mixed 509 with 905, there is nothing in the description of the 3c509 that says it should work with a 3c905. The 3c509(B/TX) are old 10Mb ISA NICs, while you wher looking for the 3c905B a 10/100 PCI NIC. The description of the 3c59x (your driver) talks somewhere of newer drivers, which includes the 3c59x and the 3c9xx (not cited, this is a real problem). Michel.
Re: Avoid booting direct to X.. I want my starx back
Em Sex, 2002-03-01 às 17:54, Kurt Yoder escreveu: Harry Putnam said: Well, I got X working in my fresh woody install, but there are a few rinkles. 1) I want to boot to console mode and call x with startx. Currently, I get popped right into X. I thought this could be contolled by setting the defalult run level /etc/inittab But I see nothing in there that looks likely. In fact it claims the default is runlevel 2. Or is runlevel 2 X. I don't think so. In my redhat dealings it was possible to set default to runlevel 5 which force boot to bring up X. setting runlevel 3 gave you a console login. Where is this choice made on debian? Remove xdm, gdm or kdm. If any of these are installed, they will dump you into X unless you're in single-user mode. apt-get remove gdm (or kdm or xdm if you have either of those instead) This is a solution, but not the best one (IMHO) because you can want the x/g/k/dm in order to serve some connected X-terminals (or slave workstations). find the Xservers file corresonding to you ?dm (/etc/X11/xdm for ex.) and comment the line :0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X vt7 -dpi 100 -nolisten tcp or equivalent. Michel.
libglib1.3-12 (or new libkmid)
Does any one have a libglib1.3-12.deb ? Or is there some chance to have a new release og libkmid before March 5th ? I have to make a demonstration of installing an easy to use (by a secretary) debian system this day. By the end of the afternoon the machine (an AMD-K6 450) and the secretary must be functional i.e. reading/writing e-mails, typing the directors letters and able to open a .xls spreadsheet. When I marked this demonstration, a month ago I was quite confident. Now without an instalable kde i fear disaster. Michel.
Re: Setting up a linux network
Em Seg, 2002-02-25 às 18:11, Dimitri Maziuk escreveu: * Kurc, Marcin A. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: read about NFS, http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/NFS-HOWTO/index.html or samba (if you also want to share files accross windows and linux) http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/SMB-HOWTO.html (or visit samba.org) NIS is very commonly used for server based authentication http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/NIS-HOWTO/index.html but I would suggest that you look into LDAP, this way you can use it not only for Linux/Unix boxes but also your Windows network. Besides, you can use LDAP for many different applications. LDAP howto http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/LDAP-HOWTO.html Note that NIS security is an oxymoron, you may not want to use NIS at a college lab. It is not worth than the Windows network he was speaking off. Michel.
[OT] - user on solaris
Hi, I know it is not Debian related,but if anybody has an idea... I just found a user with username - on a sparc/solaris, he has both an entry in /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow in shadow he is locked (*LK* as passwd) NIS should not be running, (and it would be a + entry, I think) any idea ? Michel.
Re: [OT] - user on solaris
Em Sex, 2002-02-22 às 17:56, Kent West escreveu: Michel Loos wrote: Hi, I know it is not Debian related,but if anybody has an idea... I just found a user with username - on a sparc/solaris, he has both an entry in /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow in shadow he is locked (*LK* as passwd) NIS should not be running, (and it would be a + entry, I think) any idea ? Michel. I can't address your issue, Michel, but I've been dying to say this to someone. The only *nix I've ever known is Debian (going on about 4 years now), and this week I was tasked with putting in a new drive and doing a clean install of Solaris 7 on an Ultra 1. Wow! Debian is to Solaris like Macintosh is to NT on a 486 laptop with proprietary hardware from vendors who are out of business with only 16MB RAM. In other words, my little experience with Solaris so far leads me to the conclusion that compared to Debian (as far as ease of installation/maintenance/extra packages), Solaris sucks. Just thought I should make an OT posting even more OT :-) I can only totally agree with you. And sincerely the arguments for keeping that thing are purely stupid: We spent so much money on it, you have to make it work, and no you can't install debian on it Michel.
Re: dpkg reconfigure Virtual-Monitor screen size.
Hi, I've been recommended to use 'dpkg -reconfigure xserver-xfree' in order to sync virtual and monitor screen sizes. However, doing so gives me the message xserver-xfree86 is not installed or does not use debconf What would be the correct item to enter in the dpkg -reconfigure command ? I can send a copy of my /etc/X11/XF86Config file if necessary. If you use XF86Config and not XF86Config you clearly don't use XFree4 meaning you will have to reconfigure the sxerver you installed on your machine, which is Video Adapter depended. Michel.
Re: forgot root password AOL
Em Ter, 2002-02-19 às 00:43, Karsten M. Self escreveu: on Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 09:45:37PM -0300, Michel Loos ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Em Seg, 2002-02-18 às 20:28, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson escreveu: Remove root's password from /etc/shadow in text editor of choice. This did not work last time I tried (2.4.17), This indicates an error in your method. Creating a null second field of /etc/shadow removes the user's password. It sure does, but it seems I have some configuration somewhere that does not allow users without a password: meaning nothing done in order to access the system. Michel. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self kmself@ix.netcom.comhttp://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of Gestalt don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org
Re: Few Simple Question
Em Ter, 2002-02-19 às 04:11, Gustavo Noronha Silva escreveu: On Mon, 18 Feb 2002 23:29:44 -0700 Francis Pineda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. What is the user base targeted? Is it simply geared towards the home-user looking for a free OS? Or is it geared more towards the power-user? From professionals to professionals, I don't think Debian is home-user-ready, but there're lots of people interested in working and helping on that direction (like me, for one)... today I'd say Debian is for the power-user 2. Where is Debian located? I understand there are over 800 distrubuters nationwide that communicate via e-mail and message boards. But is there a specific home to debian? distributers? I think the other repliers misunderstood this, or maybe I... or better... maybe you =) there aren't 800+ distributers, there are 800+ registered Debian Developers, which are persons offically working on Debian in a volunteer basis yes, there's home for Debian it's called earth by americans, some people say world to reference that home too... people around the globe have other names for that home as well... I usually call it 'mundo', or 'terra' =) And I don't know which nation he was talking about, the 800+ devellopers a scattered around debian's home: the world. (and that's only limited by the fact that no alien candidated yet :) ) Michel. Thank You very much and I look forward to joining the wonderful world of open source OS! be welcome []s! -- Gustavo Noronha Silva - kov http://www.metainfo.org/kov *-* -+-+--+-+--+-+--+-+--+-+--+-+--+-+--+-+--+-+--+-+-+ | .''`. | Debian GNU/Linux: http://www.debian.org | | : :' : + Debian BR...: http://debian-br.cipsga.org.br+ | `. `'` + Q: Why did the chicken cross the road? + | `-| A: Upstream's decision. -- hmh | *-* -+-+--+-+--+-+--+-+--+-+--+-+--+-+--+-+--+-+--+-+-+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Exim configuration
On Tue, 2002-02-19 at 11:07, R.Pac wrote: Hi all, how do I configure Exim with eximconfig if I'm behind a firewall ? is there something special to do ? If I want to use my ISP's smtp server ? or should I use exim as smpt server directly ? All depends on the rules of your firewall. Can you even run a mailserver behind your firewall (usually not) Michel. Best regards Pac. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OT: Web Standards
On Tue, 2002-02-19 at 15:29, Dave Sherohman wrote: On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 11:51:53AM -0600, Kent West wrote: So my question is this: Are the W3C standards insufficient to allow the web designers to do what they need to do, or is my co-worker missing a technique that he needs to know? I'll try not to start ranting here, but... You're asking the wrong question. HTML was originally conceived as a content description language, not a page layout language. A significant part of that identity is that the client displaying the HTML document is allowed to interpret it however it chooses, whether that means displaying frames seamlessley adjacent to each other (the IE default, based on my reading of your post), displaying frames with borders (the Netscape default, again based on my reading of your post), or even displaying each frame as a separate page (which is how lynx handles them). IMO, the majority of the web's current problems are the direct result of web designers and graphic artists deciding that they must have complete control over every detail of how their HTML pages appear to the end user, rather than allowing the user to tell his browser how he wants things. This leads to such monstrosities as pages which put bright yellow text on a white background (or other such invisible combinations) if you turn off loading of background images, text presented in Flyspeck 3pt if you don't have the right font installed, and, perhaps worst of all, sites that abandon HREF tags in favor of javascript event handlers that are functionally identical, aside from breaking if javascript is disabled. The entire concept of graceful degradation appears to have been forgotten. Odder still, we have arrived in a state where browser independent has somehow come to mean uses a variety of highly browser-specific techniques to ensure that it always looks the same rather than it doesn't care what browser you're using. (So much for trying not to rant...) Anyhow, to come back to the question you asked: No. If your objective is to create a page that looks the same no matter where it is viewed, standards-compliant HTML is not the appropriate tool for the job. Nonstandard HTML extensions may make it possible for you, Probably not. It will make it possible on a very reduced number of browsers (usually IE and/or Netscape), the others often will display the page, if they display it at all, in much awfuller manner as without your non-standard tags. Definitively a very bad choice. Michel. but if you really want/need absolute consistency, I've heard than PDF is a much better option. -- When we reduce our own liberties to stop terrorism, the terrorists have already won. - reverius Innocence is no protection when governments go bad. - Tom Swiss -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: eth0
Em Ter, 2002-02-19 às 17:14, Vaughan, Curtis escreveu: How do you configure, in this case eth0 to be DHCP dependent: i.e., how do I make it seek an IP during a boot? Likewise, how do I configure it for a permanent static IP? man interface Michel. Curtis
Re: eth0
snip However, if your ip is assigned dynamically through a dhcp server (like cable modems, for example), you should also install dhcpcd (apt-get install dhcpcd). Cable modem here and no dhcpd installed. It works fine. Why should I install a DHCP server ? Michel.
Re: X has died in sid
Em Seg, 2002-02-18 às 05:28, Patrick Kirk escreveu: Hi all, I'm having a rough time getting x to work in sid. My XFreelog is attached. In essence X fails to start because it cannot find a font called fixed. reinstall cfonts-75dpi xfonts-100dpi and xfonts-base But thats only the symptom of the bigger problem in that there is no utility to install X. XF86Setup is missing and xf86config is just not working. There is a debconf thing that install a first version of XF86Config-4 And usually even the simple method choosen at install time gives you nearly correct XF86Config-4 file which just needs some fine tuning. through vi /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 works great. Michel. All help appreciated. Patrick This is a pre-release version of XFree86, and is not supported in any way. Bugs may be reported to XFree86@XFree86.Org and patches submitted to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Before reporting bugs in pre-release versions, please check the latest version in the XFree86 CVS repository (http://www.XFree86.Org/cvs) XFree86 Version 4.1.0.1 / X Window System (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6510) Release Date: 21 December 2001 If the server is older than 6-12 months, or if your card is newer than the above date, look for a newer version before reporting problems. (See http://www.XFree86.Org/FAQ) Build Operating System: Linux 2.4.13 i686 [ELF] Module Loader present (==) Log file: /var/log/XFree86.0.log, Time: Sun Feb 17 23:28:31 2002 (==) Using config file: /root/XF86Config Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. (==) ServerLayout Simple Layout (**) |--Screen Screen 1 (0) (**) | |--Monitor t (**) | |--Device ati (**) |--Input Device Mouse1 (**) |--Input Device Keyboard1 (**) Option AutoRepeat 500 30 (**) Option XkbRules xfree86 (**) XKB: rules: xfree86 (**) Option XkbModel pc104 (**) XKB: model: pc104 (**) Option XkbLayout gb (**) XKB: layout: gb (==) Keyboard: CustomKeycode disabled (**) FontPath set to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/ (**) RgbPath set to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb (==) ModulePath set to /usr/X11R6/lib/modules (--) using VT number 7 (WW) Cannot open APM (II) Module ABI versions: XFree86 ANSI C Emulation: 0.1 XFree86 Video Driver: 0.4 XFree86 XInput driver : 0.2 XFree86 Server Extension : 0.1 XFree86 Font Renderer : 0.2 (II) Loader running on linux (II) LoadModule: bitmap (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libbitmap.a (II) Module bitmap: vendor=The XFree86 Project compiled for 4.1.0.1, module version = 1.0.0 Module class: XFree86 Font Renderer ABI class: XFree86 Font Renderer, version 0.2 (II) Loading font Bitmap (II) LoadModule: pcidata (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libpcidata.a (II) Module pcidata: vendor=The XFree86 Project compiled for 4.1.0.1, module version = 0.1.0 ABI class: XFree86 Video Driver, version 0.4 (II) PCI: Probing config type using method 1 (II) PCI: Config type is 1 (II) PCI: stages = 0x03, oldVal1 = 0x, mode1Res1 = 0x8000 (II) PCI: PCI scan (all values are in hex) (II) PCI: 00:00:0: chip 8086,7192 card , rev 03 class 06,00,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 00:05:0: chip 1002,4c49 card 1002,4c49 rev dc class 03,00,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 00:07:0: chip 8086,7110 card , rev 02 class 06,80,00 hdr 80 (II) PCI: 00:07:1: chip 8086,7111 card , rev 01 class 01,01,80 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 00:07:2: chip 8086,7112 card , rev 01 class 0c,03,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 00:07:3: chip 8086,7113 card , rev 02 class 06,80,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 00:08:0: chip 1180,0478 card 4000, rev 80 class 06,07,00 hdr 82 (II) PCI: 00:08:1: chip 1180,0478 card 4800, rev 80 class 06,07,00 hdr 82 (II) PCI: 00:0c:0: chip 125d,1978 card 144d,3230 rev 10 class 04,01,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 00:0d:0: chip 11c1,0442 card 144d,2105 rev 01 class 07,80,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: End of PCI scan (II) LoadModule: scanpci (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libscanpci.a (II) Module scanpci: vendor=The XFree86 Project compiled for 4.1.0.1, module version = 0.1.0 ABI class: XFree86 Video Driver, version 0.4 (II) UnloadModule: scanpci (II) Unloading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libscanpci.a (II) Host-to-PCI bridge: (II) Bus 0: bridge is at (0:0:0), (-1,0,0), BCTRL: 0x08 (VGA_EN is set) (II) Bus 0 I/O range: [0] -1 00x - 0x (0x1) IX[B] (II) Bus 0 non-prefetchable memory range: [0] -1 00x - 0x (0x0) MX[B] (II) Bus 0 prefetchable memory range: [0] -1 00x - 0x (0x0)
Re: X has died in sid
On Mon, 2002-02-18 at 10:27, Patrick Kirk wrote: reinstall cfonts-75dpi xfonts-100dpi and xfonts-base That was the firs tthing I did after searching on Google for similiar problems. No joy though. phasar:~# apt-get install xfonts-base xfonts-75dpi xfonts-100dpi Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Sorry, xfonts-base is already the newest version. Sorry, xfonts-75dpi is already the newest version. Sorry, xfonts-100dpi is already the newest version. 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. phasar:~# Which means you din t do anything. In order to reinstall you need apt-get install --reinstall package without the --reinstall it will not reinstall. There is a debconf thing that install a first version of XF86Config-4 And usually even the simple method choosen at install time gives you nearly correct XF86Config-4 file which just needs some fine tuning. through There is no reference to fixed fonts in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 so I don't understand how editting it will allow me to startx. HAve I misunderstood something or missed some basic detail? This was unrelated to the fonts problem, you were genrally complaining about the X installation. Michel. vi /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 works great. Michel. Fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed'
Re: Dell Optiplex Network
Em Seg, 2002-02-18 às 19:09, Dimitri Maziuk escreveu: * Alex Malinovich ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: On Mon, 2002-02-18 at 13:19, William Lacy wrote: I am having the same problem on two different computers. One is an Optiplex GX150 and one is a GX110. The problem is that the 3Com on board network does not detect in the debian install, the 110 has a 3C579 and the 150 a 3C509 from what I can tell. Both computers run fine with Red Hat. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Pardon me for asking an obvious question, but you did select the 3com Vortex drivers during install correct? Last time I tried woody netinst CD, there were no Vortex drivers except in udma-ext3 image. Of course, there isn't enough detail in OP to tell if he's inserting the CD right side up... The vortex driver is the 3c59x which is available as a module. Michel. Dima -- I like the US government, makes the Aussie one look less dumb and THAT is a pretty big effort. -- Craig Small -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: courier IMAP, removing Unmarked messages
Em Seg, 2002-02-18 às 19:08, Alex Malinovich escreveu: I'm sure there's a way to set up Courier to do it, but you really wouldn't want to. My old employer had a 30-day purging policy for mail, and I can't tell you how many pissed off users I had to deal with when they lost their mail. Outlook also has a very nice Auto-Archive function which can either purge messages for you, or move them to a backup folder. Of course, the best alternative is to get them all running GNU/Linux with Gnome or KDE and using Evolution, but that probably isn't going to happen... :) You would still have to do CTRL-E in order to effectively purge the deleted messages. This is a normal feature of IMAP to have 2 stages for deleting mails: first mark then purge. Michel. On Mon, 2002-02-18 at 15:58, Paul Miller wrote: Ugh. That's a real pain; users won't like that. There's gotta be a way Courier can do it. -Original Message- From: Alex Malinovich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 18, 2002 4:40 PM To: Paul Miller Cc: debian Subject: Re: courier IMAP, removing Unmarked messages On Mon, 2002-02-18 at 14:21, Paul Miller wrote: Hi all. I'm running a Courier-IMAP server. When users delete messages from Outlook, they are Unmarked and not moved to the trash. Is it possible to have Courier move these messages to the Trash automatically? It is really annoying when your inbox is filled with deleted messages. Thanks! -Paul Been a long time since I've used Outlook. If memory serves it's Edit, Purge Deleted Messages. :) -Alex -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: forgot root password AOL
Em Seg, 2002-02-18 às 20:28, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson escreveu: On Mon, 18 Feb 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please advise When you boot, it'll say LILO for a second before it says Loading Linux.. Hit CTRL when it says LILO. You'll get LILO boot: Type in linux init=/bin/bash Remove root's password from /etc/shadow in text editor of choice. This did not work last time I tried (2.4.17), so I did the following at that stage: copied my normal user line of shadow to the first line and changed the username to root, deleted the old root line. This way you can login as root with your normal user password and of course change it thereafter. Michel. You should now be able to run passwd and set your password again. -- Baloo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: strange vi
Em Seg, 2002-02-18 às 23:41, justin cunningham escreveu: dpkg -l | grep vi shows nvi 1.79-20. the potato's show 1.79-16a.1. ok, so if I use the letter keys instead how to I get to the end of a line of data then press return to enter a new line without taking the last character with me? Like usual A Michel Justin -Original Message- From: dman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of dman Sent: Monday, February 18, 2002 6:15 PM To: 'debian' Subject: Re: strange vi On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 12:39:08PM +1030, Tom Cook wrote: | justin cunningham wrote: | | Hi, I've s-l-o-w-l-y been building a woody machine in spare time and | noticed that I can't use the arrow keys to get around in vi. Is this | because the keyboard is misconfiged? I think I remember choosing the | default us qwerty as ok but I'm sshed into the machine from my laptop | and the arrow keys don't work. Though they work at the console. My | laptops arrow keys work via ssh on lots of potato machines so, what | gives? Regards, justin | | Can't help except to say that 'j' is up, 'k' is down, 'h' is left and | 'l' is right. That makes sense, doesn't it? ;-) It does once you put your hand on home row and see where the keys are (and forget about the screen printing on them). As for the arrow keys not working, which vi do you have? Surely it isn't 'vi' since that is copyright and only Sun systems have it. In vim, I have the following set : set esckeys allow cursor keys in insert mode The arrow keys work, but I never use them anyways. HTH, -D -- Your beauty should not come from outward adornment, such as braided hair and the wearing of gold jewelry and fine clothes. Instead, it should be that of your inner self, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is of GREAT WORTH in God's sight. For this is the way the holy women of the past used to make themselves beautiful. I Peter 3:3-5 -- 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: iptables port fowarding?
Em Dom, 2002-02-17 às 20:55, Rick Pasotto escreveu: On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 03:43:25AM -0800, Jeremy T. Bouse wrote: On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 12:37:08AM -0500, Rick Pasotto wrote: How do I port forward with iptables? With ipchains the command was: ipmasqadm portfw -a -P tcp -L $extip $port -R $intip $port What I have in my firewall rules script built with Firewall Builder 1.0.0 (fwbuilder) to do port forwarding is: iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp -s SRC_IP -d EXT_IP --destination-port PORT -j DNAT --to-destination INT_IP:PORT This works very good... In fact all my machines are behind the firewall and only have what ports are forward'd in available... OK. Here is the rule I used: iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp -s 64.34.82.201 -d 192.168.0.1 --destination-port 2047 -j DNAT --to-destination 192.168.0.5:2047 When I activate the program on the windows box (192.168.0.5) tcpdump reports lots of hits on eth0 port 2047 but nothing on eth1 port 2047 and the program doesn't respond like it should. Your rule is for connections originating at ip 64.34.82.201 with destination to port 2047 on 192.168.0.1 which is nearly to impossible since the 192.168 is not visible to 64.34.82.201. + it seems you want to do somethin originating at 192.168.0.5 while this is the final destination of your routing. What you meant is probably any source (omit the -s) -d 64.34.82.201 (if this is the public IP of your frontend) remainder seems fine. What am I misunderstanding? Does it matter whether the SNAT (to do masquerading) or the DNAT rule comes first? No PREROUTING (dnat) is always treated before POSTROUTING (snat) Also, how do you list the nat chains? 'iptables -L' only lists the filter chains. iptables -L -t nat Michel. -- If each man has the right to defend, even by force, his person, his liberty, and his property, several men have the right to get together, come to an understanding, and organize a collective force to provide regularly for this defense. -- Frédéric Bastiat (1801-1850) Rick Pasotto[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.niof.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ifup eth0 -- but no connection! argh...
Em Sáb, 2002-02-16 às 04:49, will trillich escreveu:
On Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 08:02:29PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote:
also sprach will trillich [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
3c509 won't connect -- how do i poke and prod to
find out what's needed?
have you configured routing correctly? is there a packet filter? do
you have a default gateway? dns servers?
in order,
1) /etc/network/interfaces looks a lot like this:
# The loopback interface
iface lo inet loopback
# small sub-net (mask 248)
iface eth0 inet static
address 192.168.7.84
netmask 255.255.255.248
network 192.168.7.80
broadcast 192.168.7.87
gateway 192.168.7.81
missing the
netstat -rn
output
2) i've installed (apt-get) ipmasq, plain vanilla out of the
box (no tinkering with potato's ipchains other than that) and
If your network was not up and functionnal before installing ipmasq,
it is probably misconfigured. Flush everything and see if it works after
that.
iptables -F
iptables -P INPUT ACCEPT
iptables -P OUTPUT ACCEPT
Michel.
3) i've installed the 'task-dns' package, but as straight ip
addressing gets lost, i don't expect my dns to work properly
either.
on the other hand, my /etc/resolv.conf looks like:
nameserver 127.0.0.1
nameserver 63.64.9.19
nameserver 63.64.9.11
but the externals won't be reached until a ping can bounce,
right?
we need more info.
i thought that might be the case. i don't know enough to know
what direction to look in, so i didn't want to waste bandwidth
with random extranea. :)
like the output of ifconfig, route.
dang. it's at work, and not connected to anything (hence the
trouble) so cut and paste ain't so easy at the moment. i'll do
that next workday if i get a chance edgewise.
can you ping the NIC's own IP?
yes. 0% packet loss, at 0.1-0.2 ms each. newbiecurious -- it
sounds like information can be gleaned from that, and i'm
curious: how?/newbie
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Preparing to UPGRADE POSTGRESQL? If you have a second machine on
your network that you can tinker with, do your upgrade there,
first: once tested, you can just have your current applications
link to the remote database through the network:
psql -h 192.168.2.17 myDB
or in perl,
$dbh = DBI-connect('dbi:Pg:dbname=myDB;host=192.168.2.17');
(You may need to tweak your 'host-based access' settings in
/etc/postgresql/pg_hba.conf, first.) Once you're satisfied that
all is well, upgrade your main server. No down time!
See man psql and man DBD::Pg for details.
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Re: 486 SX
Em Sex, 2002-02-15 às 20:54, Gerard Robin escreveu: On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 02:54:47PM +, Gerard Robin wrote: On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 06:45:59PM +0100, Johannes Franken wrote: On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 06:16:18PM +, Gerard Robin wrote: ... and so I must install linux with diskets 1.44, but I have two questions: is it possible to do it ? Installing debian from floppy disks is no problem at all. And if it's possible how can I do this. Get the 6 disk-images from your local debian mirror, e.g. ftp://ftp.debian.org/pub/debian/dists/woody/main/disks-i386/current/images-1.44/*.bin dd if=file.bin of=/dev/fd0 smack the one that got rescue.bin into drive A:, reboot, and there you go. -- Johannes Franken Professional unix/network development mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jfranken.de/ Thanks to all those who give me some advices. I downloaded the 6 diskets 1.44 driver1 2 and all worked fine until I get Next: install base system. I put driver1-bin in the floppy but I got this anser: wrong disk you need disk1 of series the base series. Where are the disks of the base series ? At the same place you got the driverxx.bin there are basexx.bin But there is another solution depending on your type of internet connection: you can download the base directly from the web, just choose that option. At least that option exists if you have a NIC (be it through a cable modem or direct connection) Michel. I have another question: I had created 3 partition : hda1: boot, 4 Mb hda2: swap, 4 Mb hda3: 81 Mb Confirme is what I have done is relatively suitable. I can put hda1=40 Mb and hda2=8 Mb for my disk is too small. -- Gerard PS. 4 Mb of RAM is not enough I had to put 8 Mb to make it work. Perhaps it's possible with slink but not with potato. (on my machine 486 SX daewoo) -- Gerard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: can't connect to samba shares from 'doze
Em Qui, 2002-02-14 às 05:24, stonelx escreveu: Hi Tom, Check that you have encrypted passwords set to yes. testparm |grep encrypt enter hth, Mike And don t forget the obvious: all users that want to access their directories must have been added with smbpasswd on the host system using the ID and PASSWD they have on the client. Michel. Quoting Tom Cook [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi all, I am running samba 2.0.8 on a potato system. I have samba shares set up on my linux machine, and from another linux machine 'smbclient -L pinky' reports this: Domain=[NEW] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 2.0.8] Sharename Type Comment - --- homes Disk Home Directories printers Printer All Printers IPC$ IPC IPC Service (pinky server (Samba 2.0.8)) lp Printer Generic dot-matrix printer entry tkcook Disk Home Directories Server Comment ---- PINKYpinky server (Samba 2.0.8) WorkgroupMaster ---- NEW So, so far as I can see, the smbd configuration is good. But when I attempt to connect from a windoze box, so my users can see their UNIX home dirs, I get problems. When I try to list available shares I get an authentication failure, and I keep on getting it no matter what username and password I put in, except guest, which gives the error 'account currently disabled'. I have done nothing to disable this account, and I can see no line in the smb.conf file that might disable it. Has anyone come across this before? Tom -- 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: Exim Cron problem
On Thu, 2002-02-14 at 13:30, David Frey wrote: I am getting this message from cron everyday: /etc/cron.daily/exim: chown: getting attributes of `/var/log/exim/mainlog.new': No such file or directory chmod: getting attributes of `/var/log/exim/mainlog.new': No such file or directory mv: cannot stat `/var/log/exim/mainlog.new': No such file or directory Any idea why this is going on? your /etc/cron.daily/exim file is not adapted to your way of logging exim. You possibly answered N, while upgrading exim, for the replacement of this file. I fthis is the case you should have a /etc/cron.daily/exim.dpkg* file. Just copy it to /etc/cron.daily/exim Michel. /var/log/exim# ls -lh total 2.2M -rw-r-2 mail adm 876k Feb 14 07:23 mainlog -rw-r-2 mail adm 876k Feb 14 07:23 mainlog.0 -rw-r-1 mail adm 70k Feb 14 06:23 mainlog.1.gz -rw-r-1 mail adm 55k Feb 13 06:24 mainlog.2.gz -rw-r-1 mail adm 45k Feb 12 06:23 mainlog.3.gz -rw-r-1 mail adm 39k Feb 11 06:23 mainlog.4.gz -rw-r-1 mail adm 36k Feb 10 06:23 mainlog.5.gz -rw-r-1 mail adm 33k Feb 9 06:23 mainlog.6.gz -rw-r-1 mail adm 29k Feb 8 06:23 mainlog.7.gz -rw-r-1 mail adm 25k Feb 7 06:23 mainlog.8.gz -rw-r-1 mail adm 22k Feb 6 06:23 mainlog.9.gz -rw-r-1 mail adm 0 Oct 31 06:26 rejectlog -rw-r-1 mail adm 173 Oct 30 19:35 rejectlog.0 Thanks, David Frey -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
