RE: Re: server latency
HelloAfter researching it I found tcp ping by hping is useful for my situation.https://www.slashroot.in/what-tcp-ping-and-how-it-usedThanks for all your help.- 원본 메일 - 보낸사람: Andy Smith 받는사람: debian-user@lists.debian.org 날짜: 24.07.29 05:33 GMT +0900 제목: Re: server latency Hi,On Sun, Jul 28, 2024 at 01:23:28PM +, Walt E wrote:> However, some servers, such as by Azure's default security policy, prohibit icmp ping.> So, in this situation, how do I know the local latency to those servers?I pick a port that I know is open and use a traceroute that usesthose kinds of UDP/TCP packets instead of ICMP.Also mtr is quite interesting to provide intermediary hop detailsand other useful stuff. Just normal traceroute can be made to doUDP/TCP though.Example: http://paste.debian.net/plain/1324660Thanks,Andy-- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting
Re: Where is the user community? (Was Re: Strange behavior of ifupdown package)
July 29, 2024 at 9:09 AM, "Patrick Wiseman" wrote: > > > > I mostly lurk here but I like this forum/format and hope Debian sticks with > > it. IMO Discord pretty much sucks. There's a r/debian subreddit which looks > > quite active and I've found other subreddits helpful. > > Patrick > In some companies they block web traffic to those big forums like reddit. but mail is always possible to access. so mailing list is really a common way for looking for tech support. Thanks.
server latency
Hello, When I want to know the approximate latency from local to remote servers, I know I can use icmp ping. However, some servers, such as by Azure's default security policy, prohibit icmp ping. So, in this situation, how do I know the local latency to those servers? Thanks.
Re: Java webstart in amd64
Good Morning Try this link http://packages.debian.org/etch/sun-java5-jdk If you look over on the right there are links for Sun Java 6. I am currently using the the backport of java 6 on etch without trouble. I would recommend that you use apt-get or? to install them. I installed them by downloaded them and installed them with dpkg, what a pain. Hope this helps. On Saturday, 07 June 2008 6:11 pm, Peter Robinson wrote: Dear all, although I have seen some pages with advice on how to get java working in amd64 / testing, I am still a bit confused. Is the best way to go a chroot environment? In particular, I have not had great experiences with gcjava and prefer the sun version of java, but no javaws is available at present for amd64. DOes anyone know of a tutorial on how to get things rolling? thanks :_} Peter -- Best Regards Walt L. Williams http://www.intergate.com/~waltwilliams/ . -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Getting network settings to stick
Ooops! sorry. There is only one file in my /etc/network directory. It's called interface and goes as follows: # This file describes the network interfaces available on your system # and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5). # The loopback network interface auto lo iface lo inet loopback # The primary network interface allow-hotplug eth0 iface eth0 inet static address 192.168.0.5 netmask 255.255.255.0 network 192.168.0.0 broadcast 192.168.0.255 gateway 192.168.0.1 # dns-* options are implemented by the resolvconf package, if installed dns-nameservers 192.168.0.1 dns-search williams_home_network.lan It was my impression that this is where the system obtained its IP address. I am not in the know on networking issues, but I am eager the learn. Any pointers will be appreciated. -- Best Regards Walt L. Williams http://www.intergate.com/~waltwilliams/ On Monday, 09 June 2008 8:54 pm, Kent West wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have put Debian Etch on my laptop. Somewhere during the course of the install the IP address I assigned didn't stick. I have used the ifconfig command in an attempt to set it but the system doesn't retain it between boot ups. I have also looked at the file in the /etc/network directory but it has the address set in there. How can I get the system to retain the desired IP address? *Which* file in /etc/network? You might want to post the contents of /etc/network/interfaces for us to look at. (Feel free to obscure any actual IP addresses if you'd like.) -- Kent West http://kentwest.blogspot.com . -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: java plugin for Debian testing on an AMD64?
Good Monday Morning Try this link: http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=sun+javasearchon=namessuite=stablesection=all On Wednesday, 28 May 2008 3:13 pm, Robert Jerrard wrote: Can anyone tell me where to get a java plugin for Debian testing on an AMD64? I thought www.blackdown.org was the place to get it but that site does not seem to exist. Any suggestion? Thanks, Bob -- Dr. Robert J. Jerrard, Professor of Mathematics, Concordia University College of Alberta, 7128 Ada Blvd., Edmonton, Alberta, T5B 4E4, Canada. Phone: (780) 479-9291, Fax: (780) 474-1933. -- Best Regards Walt L. Williams http://www.intergate.com/~waltwilliams/ . -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re-configure x
Greeting All I have recently upgraded my computer hardware. When doing the re-install of Etch. (I re-installed so I could take full advantage of the 64 bit processor I bought, so I reloaded it with the AMD64 variation of Debian; otherwise I would have just used the existing 32 bit install, which I am sure would have worked fine. Linux does a better job of this than the OS produced in Redmond Wa.) The install doesn't prompt for approval for the X driver it thinks it should install, it just does it, even in expert mode. This actually doesn't bother me, but I didn't get the resolution I had hoped for so I used the last command I knew of to re-configure X: dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 It came back saying that 'xserver-xfree86' is not installed and no info is available. Well, apparently there has been a change since the last time I used this command. I tried scanning through Debian's online documentation but had no luck in finding anything usefull. ** Does anyone know what command to use? ** My system is a 2.2ghz dual core AMD Opteron with an onboard ATI Rage XL video. The monitor is a Hann-G HG216D. The best resolution that I can get currently is 1280 X 960 out of a monitor and graphics combo that is capable of closer to 1680 X 1050. My screen is currently kind of grainy and the whole setup is slow. So I don't think the system is using the right driver. Any useful comments will be appreciated. -- Best Regards Walt L. Williams http://www.intergate.com/~waltwilliams/ . -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: text file from Linux to windows.
There are more intelligent text editors for Window$ than notepad. Try using one called Textpad. http://www.textpad.com . It intelligently detects if the file was saved on a Unix, windows, or Mac system and correctly displays the contents. I am registered user of Textpad from days when I used to do Circuit Board design, back when I could still get a position doing that. I needed a text editor that could read in files from, and save back out to, the Sun Sparc stations the company I worked for had, plus it needed to have a decent search mode. Google for what might be best suited for what you want to use it for. Well there you are. Hope this helps. On Friday, 30 May 2008 12:26 am, L.V.Gandhi wrote: I have made a text file in Linux using echo and cat commands. When I open the file in note pad, I find files are not having line break, but having a character in place of line break. Is there any way in echo and cat commands usage to put windows line break? -- L.V.Gandhi http://lvgandhi.tripod.com/ linux user No.205042 -- Best Regards Walt L. Williams http://www.intergate.com/~waltwilliams/ . -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Re-configure x
Thanks That did the trick. I am now running at 1440 X 900 @ 24bit Much better than I had. DVDs still will not play without studdering but I bet thats due to a lack of a decent graphics card. The motherboard has a ATI Rage XL chip with only 8MB of RAM. I am looking now for an appropriate add in card that will do the job. -- Best Regards Walt L. Williams http://www.intergate.com/~waltwilliams/ . -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: amd64 and sun-java6-jdk
Greetings fellow Debianite I just got them installed on my system. These backports (presuming you are using Etch) are sort of odd in their install in that three or four of the packages depend on one or both of the other packages being installed first. Meaning its a vicious circle and a LOT of hoop jumping. In your list below are the cridders in question. I got them installed be downloading the packages then installing them by hand doing a: dpkg --unpack package file name then doing a: dpkg --configure all 3 package names. (Now mind you these is not the package FILE names. Just the package names) Once I finally got this done I was able to install the rest of Java 6. Some of the Java packages will work on both the i386 an AMD64. Downloading Java 6 from Sun will not work as this is a 32 bit package. I kind of got the impression while working to load these that Debian offer these Sun Java packages so they can say they offer them but try to discourage people from using what they consider propietory software by placing the interdependencies on three or four of the packages to make them difficult to load. For hell sakes who makes a group of packages that require the others to be installed first! Sun Java ought be made into one package. I'll bet their worried about the possible legality of thing. Things are getting so paranoid out there. BTY: You will experience the same difficulty when installing Adobe Acrobat Reader for AMD64. -- Best Regards Walt L. Williams http://www.intergate.com/~waltwilliams/ My system is a Dual Core AMD Opteron . On Wednesday, 28 May 2008 3:24 am, Tony Maher wrote: Hello, I am trying to install java6 from etch backports on an amd64 machine. Problem is that sun-java6-jre (machine independent) is version 6-06-1~bpo40+1 (which is version i386 uses) but the rest of amd64 sun-java5 packages are 6-00-2~bpo.1 apt-get -s install -f sun-java6-jre sun-java6-jdk sun-java6-doc sun-java6-demo sun-java6-bin Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. The following information may help to resolve the situation: YEP, the cridders in question ! They are interdependent. The following packages have unmet dependencies: sun-java6-bin: Depends: sun-java6-jre (= 6-00-2~bpo.1) but 6-06-1~bpo40+1 is to be installed sun-java6-demo: Depends: sun-java6-jre (= 6-00-2~bpo.1) but 6-06-1~bpo40+1 is to be installed sun-java6-jdk: Depends: sun-java6-jre (= 6-00-2~bpo.1) but 6-06-1~bpo40+1 is to be installed sun-java6-jre: Depends: sun-java6-bin (= 6-06-1~bpo40+1) but 6-00-2~bpo.1 is to be installed or ia32-sun-java6-bin (= 6-06-1~bpo40+1) but it is not going to be installed E: Broken packages Presumably jre version 6-06-1~bpo40+1 would be fine??? If so how to force the install? thanks -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
A routing question
Greetings I have recently upgraded my computer's hardware. After re-installing Debian Etch (64AMD). (I was running on a seven year old AMD motherboard.) I found that I now have to set the default route to ppp0 when I use gnome-ppp by hand through a terminal window and su, where I didn't have to do this on my previous install of Etch. Is there a way to get this to set its self when I start gnome-ppp, or set this up to where it will be permanate. I admit to not being a networking whiz. -- Best Regards Walt L. Williams http://www.intergate.com/~waltwilliams/ . -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
An Mplayer question
Greetings all I used Mplayer on the SuSE(10) system I used to use to play mpg and avi movies. On my former system I merely had to do the install it and it was ready to use. Mplayer on Debian (etch) seems to be broken. What must I do to get Mplayer working on Debian? It gives me to following error: Error opening/initializing the selected video_out (-vo) device Any suggestions on how to correct this? -- Best Regards Walt L. Williams http://www.intergate.com/~waltwilliams/ . -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sun-java6 dependencies
Hold on! I have it installed on my i386. Its working fine. On Monday, 07 April 2008 1:13 am, Tim Rühsen wrote: It should come soon. sun-java6-bin has been available for amd64 but not for i386. Maybe it was just a package maintainers mistake... Mit freundlichem Gruß Tim Rühsen -- Best Regards Walt L. Williams http://www.intergate.com/~waltwilliams/ .
Re: An Mplayer question
Ooops! I forgot to mention which GUI I'm using. --- KDE On Monday, 07 April 2008 11:01 am, Kelly Clowers wrote: On 4/7/08, Walt L. Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings all I used Mplayer on the SuSE(10) system I used to use to play mpg and avi movies. On my former system I merely had to do the install it and it was ready to use. Mplayer on Debian (etch) seems to be broken. What must I do to get Mplayer working on Debian? It gives me to following error: Error opening/initializing the selected video_out (-vo) device Any suggestions on how to correct this? If you run mplayer from the command line, it will give you more information about what it is doing. Look for the line about which VO method it is trying to use. It will look something like this: VO: [xv] 320x240 = 320x240 Planar YV12 (the bit in [] being the important part) Also check to see if there are any other errors. Cheers, Kelly Clowers -- Best Regards Walt L. Williams http://www.intergate.com/~waltwilliams/ . -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: An Mplayer question
Okay! Thanks fir the tip. I'll try it. On Monday, 07 April 2008 11:15 am, Mumia W.. wrote: On 04/07/2008 12:42 PM, Walt L. Williams wrote: Greetings all I used Mplayer on the SuSE(10) system I used to use to play mpg and avi movies. On my former system I merely had to do the install it and it was ready to use. Mplayer on Debian (etch) seems to be broken. What must I do to get Mplayer working on Debian? It gives me to following error: Error opening/initializing the selected video_out (-vo) device Any suggestions on how to correct this? Go into Mplayer's preferences dialog and select Video- Available drivers. Select a video driver that you are confident works, e.g. X11 (if you're running under XFree86 or Xorg). Experiment with the other video output devices if you want possible better performance. -- Best Regards Walt L. Williams http://www.intergate.com/~waltwilliams/ . -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Addons and Iceweasel
Greetings Possibly a simple question. How can I get my favorite firefox addons to work with iceweasel Walt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Addons and Iceweasel
Thank you for the replies I can click on the Tools and Add-ons and it already shows that I have them installed. The only thing is there not (??) active. Maybe I will have to delete what is there and reinstall them. Any thoughts? Best Regards Walt L. Williams On Thursday, 27 March 2008 5:11 am, Carl Fink wrote: Install them as usual. Iceweasel is Firefox, except Debian can't use the trademark. On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 04:49:09PM -0600, Walt L. Williams wrote: Greetings Possibly a simple question. How can I get my favorite firefox addons to work with iceweasel Walt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I would like to give my congradulation
Greetings all I just made the move from SuSE 10.3 to Debian Etch. When I updated from SuSE 10.0 to 10.3 I found myself disgusted at how unpolished and rough it was. Things that worked before didn't after the update. XMMS was gone, I couldn't play MP3's, the online update feature was broken, and even Audacity (an audio editor) appears to have been setup so it wouldn't read in MP3 files. (This is how I convert the MP3 files I get a hold of to OGG's.) Debian Etch is by far better polished than SuSE 10.3. And as I have tried out previous Debian versions I must say that Etch is the best version of Debian yet. Even with the apparent license paranoia over the Acrobat reader and Firefox. (Both Free mind you) Although, there might be more to this than I am aware of. (One request though. I prefer KDE and it would be nice to have the option of which GUI I would like to use, as it took a bit of hoop jumping to get the system loaded with KDE.) Overall -- Great job Debian Developers! Keep it going Walt in Boulder, Colorado (I wouldn't mind joining the effort once I get through a few more of my comp science classes.) (Message written with Kmail) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: I would like to give my congradulation
On Thursday, 27 March 2008 9:19 am, Bogdan Marian wrote: Netinst sound like its doing it over the internet. I only have dialup (college budget) Thanks for the info. I WILL investigate it for future use. Walt Hello, But you DO have a choice on which GUI to install. It depends on which install CD or DVD you download. There is an 180MB CD ( called netinst as far as i can remember ) that only offers the basic system, with no GUI and no Login Manager. After you get that CD installed, you are free to install whatever you want, assuming you have a working internet connection! Take a look here:http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/432 BR, -- Bogdan MARIAN Timisoara, ROMANIA E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: I would like to give my congradulation
Where can I find more information on apt-get? More that the small PDF that I have already downloaded. Will it do a search for applications using key words? I installed KDE by completely de-installing Gnome and then installing KDE and what ever bits of Gnome it needed for the applications I chose. Also I believe there is a way to get Debian to update itself online? Any pointer where to find documentation on this? Walt On Thursday, 27 March 2008 5:20 pm, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: Walt L. Williams wrote: (One request though. I prefer KDE and it would be nice to have the option of which GUI I would like to use, as it took a bit of hoop jumping to get the system loaded with KDE.) Installing KDE is two commands apt-get update apt-get install xorg kde kdm hth raju -- Kamaraju S Kusumanchi http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/ http://malayamaarutham.blogspot.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: I would like to give my congradulation
Was 10.1 bad? I wouldn't know. I went straight from 10.0, which was a fairly decent system, to 10.3. Although, the day I read the announcement of SuSE's buy out I got the feeling they wouldn't last long. American corporate ethics are really pretty poor these days. It's almost like they teach this form of bad conduct in the schools of business. Walt On Thursday, 27 March 2008 2:29 pm, steve wrote: I second that. I dumped suse last year after the 10.1 fiasco, now i see it has progressively gotten worse. glad to be gone. -- Steve Reilly http://reillyblog.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian is losing its users
What a curious little debate this has been!! Like feeding trolls. I can't believe I actually wasted my valuable spring break time following it. W. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Routing and Gnome PPP
Greetings I have been successful in getting Debian onto the internet using Gnome PPP. (I have dailup) the one small quirk is I have to manually add a default route to ppp0 to get it to work. Is there a way to include the command to add a default route to Gnome PPP so I don't have to keep adding it manually? Best regards Walt L. Williams -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [OT] Goodbye Debian
On Tuesday 26 February 2008 06:38:31 am Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 10:18 AM, Nate Bargmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Coporate IT is driven by sweetheart deals from suppliers to IT management. It is full of fiefdoms and not invented here syndromes. It is a meca to the power hungry and the control freaks. It has little to do with helping the workers use the best tool for the job. If that happens, it's often the result of an accident or an oversight and will soon be corrected. Not to mention that the IT department sometimes is run by people with very little understanding of that field. Either that they were very nicely conditioned by the school they attended. W -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Trying to get on the web with wvdial.
On Monday 28 January 2008 06:45:48 am John Hasler wrote: Install pppconfig. Run it as root and answer the questions. You can add yourself as a ppp user in the Advanced menu. You will then be able to start ppp with pon and stop it with poff. -- John Hasler I tried using wvdial as it seemed simple, and I want off the Suse system as soon as I can. SuSE 10.3 is really rough and unpolished. I have been looking at the Debian system for a few years now but never made the time to make the move. Using Debian will help me better learn whats under the Linux hood. I think I will download the pppconfig script and try it and see if works well. I presume it was written for the Debian system. It has been years since I hand configured a dial up connection. I have been using SuSE's Kinternet for a while now. If it comes down to it I will sit down with the latest PPP Howto and do it the old fashioned way. Thanks Walt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Trying to get on the web with wvdial.
Greetings I am trying to make the move the Etch. Before I can make the move I need to insure I can get on the internet. (Much of my college work is on the internet.) I am attempting to connect to my ISP with wvdial. The instructions I found states that I should run wvdialconf command. I did. It sets a few settings for you. The instructions state that I should now change the phone number in the wvdial.conf file to the appropriate settings. I did that. I then ran the wvdial command per instructions and the dude takes off and dial out and appears to establish a connection. I try to ping my college's server and nothing. I tried to view a web page with a browser and nothing. (I did all the above as root.) The ifconfig seems to show that I am connected. Running the route command shows that there is an entry for ppp0. Now am I missing something? No messing around with the resolve.conf file of hosts file? Is there a default route that I am missing that needs to be changed? Connecting to the internet is now the only barrier that keeps me from making the move to Etch, and removing the SuSE 10.3 (which has a slew of odd problems) from my system. Any information will be helpful. Best Regards Walt L. Williams I have a 1.2 GHZ AMD Athlon, with an external USR V-Everything modem. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Help needed: Debian Sarge, Postfix/TLS and Magma's mail.
How do I configure Postfix to authenticate with SASL? Since I replaced my hard disk and installed Debian Sarge, plus Postfix/TLS, I've been unable to send mail through mail.magma.ca (Magma is my ISP). Here's what I get: Mar 12 19:45:59 orbit postfix/pickup[5775]: 263BD49249: uid=1000 from=walt Mar 12 19:46:00 orbit postfix/cleanup[5838]: 263BD49249: message-id=[EMAIL PROTECTED] Mar 12 19:46:00 orbit postfix/qmgr[5776]: 263BD49249: from=[EMAIL PROTECTED], size=473, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Mar 12 19:46:04 orbit postfix/smtp[5840]: 263BD49249: to=[EMAIL PROTECTED], relay=in.magma.ca[206.191.0.224], delay=5, status=bounced (host in.magma.ca[206.191.0.224] said: 550 5.7.1 [EMAIL PROTECTED]... Relaying denied (in reply to RCPT TO command)) Mar 12 19:46:05 orbit postfix/qmgr[5776]: 263BD49249: removed By using Ethereal, I captured the conversation as (C: messages come from the client (Me) and S: messages come from the server (Magma)): C: Connects to mail.magma.ca:25 with the 3-way TCP handshake S: 220 in2.magma.ca ESMTP Magma Mail Server; Fri, 10 Mar 2006 00:38:18 -0500 C: EHLO orbit.barwell.magma.ca\r\n S: 250-in2.magma.ca Hello ottawa-hs-209-217-110-29.d-ip.magma.ca [209.217.110.29], pleased to meet you\r\n S: 250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES\r\n S: 250-PIPELINING\r\n S: 250-8BITMIME\r\n S: 250-DSN\r\n S: 250-ETRN\r\n S: 250-AUTH GSSAPI DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5\r\n S: 250-DELIVERBY\r\n S: 250 HELP\r\n C: MAIL FROM:[EMAIL PROTECTED] SIZE=457\r\n S: 250 2.1.0 [EMAIL PROTECTED]... Sender ok\r\n C: RSET\r\n S: 250 2.0.0 Reset state\r\n C: TCP 33582 smtp [ACK] Seq=114 Ack=522 Win=6432 Len=0 C: TCP 33582 smtp [FIN, ACK] Seq=114 Ack=522 Win=6432 Len=0 S: TCP smtp 33582 [FIN, ACK] Seq=522 Ack=114 Win=5840 Len=0 S: TCP smtp 33582 [ACK] Seq=523 Ack=115 Win=5840 Len=0 C: TCP 33583 smtp [SYN] Seq=0 Ack=0 Win=5488 Len=0 MSS=1372 TSV=31302786 TSER=0 WS=0 S: TCP smtp 33583 [SYN, ACK] Seq=0 Ack=1 Win=5840 Len=0 MSS=1380 WS=0 C: TCP 33583 smtp [ACK] Seq=1 Ack=1 Win=5488 Len=0 S: 220 in2.magma.ca ESMTP Magma Mail Server; Fri, 10 Mar 2006 00:38:20 -0500\r\n C: EHLO orbit.barwell.magma.ca\r\n S: 250-in2.magma.ca Hello ottawa-hs-209-217-110-29.d-ip.magma.ca [209.217.110.29], pleased to meet you\r\n S: 250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES\r\n S: 250-PIPELINING\r\n S: 250-8BITMIME\r\n S: 250-DSN\r\n S: 250-ETRN\r\n S: 250-AUTH GSSAPI DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5\r\n S: 250-DELIVERBY\r\n S: 250 HELP\r\n C: MAIL FROM: SIZE=2325\r\n\r\n S: 250 2.1.0 ... Sender ok\r\n C: the message S: 250 2.0.0 k2A5cK7g015600 Message accepted for delivery\r\n S: 221 2.0.0 in2.magma.ca closing connection\r\n It seems to me that Postfix/TLS is not finding a way to authenticate and sending an RSET, which makes mail.magma.ca reset, and forget who I am. How can I tell Postfix to either authenticate sucessfully or to not try to authenticate at all? Here's a snippet from /var/log/mail.warn that may help Mar 14 12:58:11 orbit postfix/smtpd[14670]: fatal: no SASL authentication mechanisms Mar 14 12:58:12 orbit postfix/master[14650]: warning: process /usr/lib/postfix/smtpd pid 14670 exit status 1 Mar 14 12:58:12 orbit postfix/master[14650]: warning: /usr/lib/postfix/smtpd: bad command startup -- throttling I have several SASL packages installed: $ dpkg -l | grep -i sasl ii gsasl 0.2.5-1GNU SASL commandline utility ii libgsasl7 0.2.5-1GNU SASL library ii libsasl2 2.1.19-1.5 Authentication abstraction library ii postfix-tls2.1.5-9TLS and SASL support for Postfix ii sasl2-bin 2.1.19-1.5 Programs for manipulating the SASL users dat but I obviously don't know how to get Postfix to work with SASL. Can anyone help? Thanks in advance, Walt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Forbidding a version of a package in debian
On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 08:03:42PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: On Friday 24 February 2006 18:48, Walt Mankowski wrote: I'm running debian testing. I ran aptitude dist-upgrade yesterday and it wants to install a version of libfreetype6 that I'm worried will break my window manager (Window Maker). I'd like to put that version of libfreetype6 on hold until things get sorted out. I read through the aptitude man page and this looked like the proper way to do it: aptitude forbid-version libfreetype6=2.1.10-1 When I run aptitude show libfreetype6 it says that version is forbidden: Forbidden version: 2.1.10-1 but dist-upgrade still wants to install it. Hold the package instead of forbidding it. Thanks. I'm familiar with how to hold packages. But I was hoping that this forbid-version option in aptitude would be an improvement since I could block a single version rather than holding the entire package. Does forbid-version not work at all, or does it simply not do what I think does? Walt signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Forbidding a version of a package in debian
I'm running debian testing. I ran aptitude dist-upgrade yesterday and it wants to install a version of libfreetype6 that I'm worried will break my window manager (Window Maker). I'd like to put that version of libfreetype6 on hold until things get sorted out. I read through the aptitude man page and this looked like the proper way to do it: aptitude forbid-version libfreetype6=2.1.10-1 When I run aptitude show libfreetype6 it says that version is forbidden: Forbidden version: 2.1.10-1 but dist-upgrade still wants to install it. Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong? If not, does anyone know if Window Maker still works with this version of libfreetype6? Thanks. Walt signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: a2ps printing .ps files?
Quoting Hugo Vanwoerkom [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anybody out there printing .ps files with a2ps successfully? Yes, both as Interpreted PostScript (the way it's supposed to look on the page): [13:16][walt](0)$ a2ps -o - j1.ps | gv - [j1.ps (ps, delegated to PsNup): 1 page on 1 sheet] [Total: 2 pages on 1 sheet] sent to the standard output And as uninterpreted Postscript with some keywords highlighted: [13:17][walt](0)$ a2ps --pretty-print=eps -o - j1.ps | gv - [j1.ps (Encapsulated PostScript): 80 pages on 40 sheets] [13:18][walt](0)$ a2ps --version GNU a2ps 4.13 Written by Akim Demaille, Miguel Santana. Copyright (c) 1988-1993 Miguel Santana Copyright (c) 1995-2000 Akim Demaille, Miguel Santana This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. What seems to be your problem with .ps files? look at a2ps --help | less and a2ps --list=style-sheets | less Walt -- Walt Sullivan /\ UNIX Networks, Security SysAdmin\ / [EMAIL PROTECTED] X ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN / \ AGAINST HTML MAIL See http://www.expita.com/nomime.html pgpQelzcgzgF1.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: CD malfunction on Sarge testing install Sparc
Thanks for this bit of instructions. It worked great. Walt On Thursday November 18 2004 5:16 pm, Steve Pacenka wrote: On Thu, 2004-11-18 at 13:56, Walt L. Williams wrote: Greetings This may be a little off topic. I just tried to install Sarge testing for Sparc which I downloaded just last on an Ultra2. I was able to boot from the CD but afterwards it (strangely) could not find the CDROM drive which it booted from and therefore would not install. I didn't know who else to report this to so I posted it here. Could someone please let the appropriate individuals know. This exact problem has been discussed recently in this list, and a related repair to the Sarge installer is in progress. The problem is that the installer did not autodetect the Ultra 2's SCSI controller and did not load its kernel module, so the SCSI CD-ROM drive (and also any SCSI hard drives) are inaccessible. Temporary workaround, at point when you have the can't find CD-ROM screen: ctrl-alt-f2 to get to a console modprobe esp modprobe sr_mod ctrl-alt-f1 retry to find the CD-ROM drive After this workaround, I was able to do a clean Sarge install on an Ultra 2 SMP box. -- SP Walt Williams -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
A bit off subject - Some may even give a crap.
As of this morning if you go looking for SuSE.com you now get novell.com. And holy smokes is there a large selection of enterprise software bing offered. I am betting that SuSE/Novell will move the same direction the Hat did. away from the desk top. I just thought some might find this a curiosity. I will be officially moving to Debian as soon as the semester is over and I can get Sarge to access the Internet. I will probably have to set it up the old fashioned way, dialup scripts. I got a little spoiled using utilities like Kinternet and Yast, etc. W. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mozilla crashes on loading some sites
Actually it works fine on my 0.9 version of Firefox. W. On Friday November 19 2004 7:26 pm, Alexandru Cabuz wrote: Hello, Mozilla crashes when trying to load this site (and others, this is an example). http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=41713 I just disappears all of a sudden. No fuss. Is anybody else's doing the same? If not, then which log files should I look into? I should mention I am using sid, amd64 true64 port on an Athlon 3200+, MSI nforce3 chipset, mozilla 1.7.3. Alex. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
CD malfunction on Sarge testing install Sparc
Greetings This may be a little off topic. I just tried to install Sarge testing for Sparc which I downloaded just last on an Ultra2. I was able to boot from the CD but afterwards it (strangely) could not find the CDROM drive which it booted from and therefore would not install. I didn't know who else to report this to so I posted it here. Could someone please let the appropriate individuals know. Walt Williams -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Flash key question.
Hopefully this will be a simple question. How can I configure my debian system to read my USB flash key (drive)? Under SuSE, the system saw the device as a SCSI device and worked quite well. I am using a very recently downloaded version of Sarge testing on an AMD based PC. I can provide more system info if necessary. Have a good afternoon one and all Walt L. Williams -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Flash key question.
The 2.6.8 kernel. At least I thing its the .8 edition of the 2.6 version. On Monday November 15 2004 2:56 pm, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 02:48:05PM -0700, Walt L. Williams wrote: Hopefully this will be a simple question. How can I configure my debian system to read my USB flash key (drive)? Under SuSE, the system saw the device as a SCSI device and worked quite well. I am using a very recently downloaded version of Sarge testing on an AMD based PC. I can provide more system info if necessary. What kernel did you pick, 2.6.8* or 2.4.* ? This has some bearing on it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Flash key question.
Oh Cool!! I don't recall seeing this howto before. I supose I should have looked here before I aksed the group. (I supose some saying Ya Aha, see!) On Monday November 15 2004 5:47 pm, Jeremy Turner wrote: On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 03:56:12PM -0700, Walt L. Williams wrote: The 2.6.8 kernel. At least I thing its the .8 edition of the 2.6 version. Try http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Flash-Memory-HOWTO/linux-2.6.html It worked great for me. Jeremy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: logging all output at boot?
It is already contained in /var/log/syslog On Wednesday 03 March 2004 03:27 pm, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: Hello, I have noticed that I see output when I boot that is not in dmesg or messages. How can I log everything that comes to the screen during boot into a file? Lance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: kernel 2.6.3, emu10k1, no sound
I had problems with 2.6.2 and .3 if you goto 2.6.4-rc1-mm2 or1 they go away. http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.4-rc1/2.6.4-rc1-mm2/ bzip2 -dc /path/patch | patch -p1 Walt On Wednesday 03 March 2004 07:54 pm, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 10:49:54PM -0500, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: Can anyone shed some light here? I compiled alsa in the kernel (y, not as m), with emu10k1 (I have a sound blaster). Now I get the following: Couldn't open mixer device /dev/sound/mixer (from the gnome applett) and from the volume control: Unable to open audio device '/dev/mixer'. Please check that you have permissions to open '/dev/mixer' and that you have sound support in your kernel. However: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -l /dev/dsp lrwxrwxrwx1 root audio 9 2003-10-08 15:58 /dev/dsp - /dev/dsp0 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -l /dev/mixer lrwxrwxrwx1 root audio 11 2003-10-08 15:58 /dev/mixer - /dev/mixer0 Any ideas would be welcome. Let me add another etail: I just started wmaker, and it there is sound there. I am playing alsaplayer there right now. So it is some issue with gnome or so. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: upgrade to linux 2.6.3 causing strange behaviour
If you are using KDE 3.2 go into Control Center - Sound Multimedia - Sound System - Hardware and change it to Threaded Open Sound System Automatic causes the error you get. BTW if you use 2.6.3-mm4 you no longer get the error. Walt On Saturday 28 February 2004 10:36 am, Alan Chandler wrote: I just installed the standard debian package kernel-image-2.6.3-1-k7 and booted from it, after previously running 2.6.1 For the first few minutes it seems to have real problems with cpu loading. Starting up KDE causes the soundserver to fail because of to high a CPU loading, but even after this has failed the mouse is very jittery. I does eventually settle down, and now - some 5 mins after booting I seem to have a working system Anyone else see this, and is it a feature of linux 2.6.3, or a debian problem? -- Alan Chandler [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
sound blaster live support
Any easy way to get a sound blaster live working in debian testing? I am googling right now but would really appreciate any hints. Walt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
getting Sarge
I noticed that Sarge has 12 iso's. Do I need to download them all or is it like the stable version where you download just what you need? Walt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
NVIDIA driver installation
I just downloaded and tried to install the NVIDIA driver and it failed. I had hit al-ctrl-F1 and went to INIT 3 any ideas? Walt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Apache 2.0 for woody?
Hi Is there a .deb for version 2 of Apache? If where is where can I find it? -- Thanks Walt L. Williams Windows is merely a secondary thing with me. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MS mail bombs
Is there anyone else out there being mail bombed with emails that look like there from M$? The rate at which their coming is increasing exponentially. Any suggestions on how to make it stop. -- Thanks Walt L. Williams Windows is merely a secondary thing with me. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
X/KDE startup problem.
Greetings I have loaded a Debian 3.0r1 on a alternate machine with a very similar graphics card (An ATI Rage 128) as my main machine. I want to learn about Debian before I migrate to it from my current distro. I have to keep a usable machine for my college work. (Computer Science student.) I got it all loaded and on boot up I get a graphical login screen, which would indicate to me that the X server itself is working. I try to login as root (as I don't as yet have a user account on this machine.) and load KDE, which is my prefered GUI. It seems to start to load KDE but I end up back at the graphical login screen. I have started dselect and have loaded everything that I can find the pertains to KDE but with no success. I also tried loging in using another selection of GUI and it starts. (Gnome is just not my cup of tea, sorry.) Has anyone else seen this problem? Is there an error log that I can view and get an idea of what is going on? Any help would be appreciated. -- Thanks Walt L. Williams -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Virus Found in message Your application
Symantec AntiVirus found a virus in an attachment you ([EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]) sent to Walt Walker. To ensure the recipient(s) are able to use the files you sent, perform a virus scan on your computer, clean any infected files, then resend this attachment. Attachment: your_document.pif Virus name: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Action taken: Quarantine succeeded : File status: Infected winmail.dat
Re: Inventory Databases
Hi, You can look at compieer. It uses Oracle which you would need to purchase, but you can evaluate the thing using an evaluation copy of Oracle for Linux. LIa href=http://sourceforge.net/projects/compiere/;SourceForge: Project Info - Compiere ERP + CRM Business Solution/a LIa href=http://sourceforge.net/projects/compiere/;SourceForge: Project Info - Compiere ERP + CRM Business Solution/a On Mon, 28 Jul 2003, Curtis Vaughan wrote: I am wondering what advice people have about the following: Our company needs to keep track of purchased inventory (when purchased, how much, where it's located), etc. Also, we would want to keep a db on analogous products, who they are sold by, their prices, etc. Now, here is what the acounting dept. is planning on doing. Whereas they already use Great Plains Dynamics (Microsoft) for all accounting activities, and whereas there is apparently a module that you can purchase that performs these functions, they plan on purchasing this module (despite some shortcomings). My issue is that: great move buying a product that's going to cost $$$, then licenses $$$, then well, we'll have to have SQL licenses and we' have to purchase multiple copies of SQL , and then .. Surely there is some other option. I would appreciate any ideas people have. BTW, I have looked at NOLA and it's not what we will need. Also, I don't care whether it costs, but what other options are there. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Root login
I just now installed Woody and did a simple installation using only tasksel. So Gnome is the display manager. However, it does not allow me to login as root. I need to install OpenOffice and to do that I have to login as root but not from the console. How can I get past this problem? Johan van der Walt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Printer configuration
I just now noticed (and remembered) that during the installation of Woody that I did earlier today, no printers were configured.At the time of installation I was not connected to the local network. I checked on the Gnome control panel but there is no place where I can configure the printcap. The Debian Users Guide also cation about manual editing of the printcap because of the use of magicfilter Can anyone please. Thanks Johan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: libc6: did it move from unstable to testing?
On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 09:48:06PM +1100, Rob Weir wrote: On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 07:30:11AM -0500, Kevin Coyner wrote: Sorry for the detailed and probably somewhat obvious question, but I switched over to Debian last summer, and am loving it. But this is the first time I've encountered this type of situation where a testing package upgrade (libc6) caused an incompatitibility with another testing package, in the case php4. Perhaps that's why they call it testing? Yup. Perhaps the most important list it was mentioned on (for our purposes) is debian-devel-announce, which announces various important Debian Development-related things. It's maybe a message a week, so no one has any excuse for not subscribing to it :) Well, maybe not so much if you're running stable, but definitely if you're running testing or unstable. :) Walt pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Missing a PERL module called 'concat'
On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 05:54:20PM -0600, Keith Steensma wrote: I've installed a very minimum Debian 'testing' system. I trying to run a perl script that uses a 'concat' function. I can't find it as a built-in function of the language nor can I find it in the Debian packages list. The error is - Undefined subroutine main::concat called at ./mbox2maildir.pl line 31. I've tried to form it into 'libmain-concat-perl' and various other wording combinations (for the Debian package search). I tried another script that does the same thing, but I got the same type of error (no 'concat'). Neither script homepages have any mention of 'something special' so I assume that it a 'standard' in other distributions (but not Debian). Anyone have a suggestion? Keith Are you trying to concatenate two strings? If so, perl uses the . operator: $x = foo; $y = bar; $z = $x . $y; # $z now equals foobar Often you can avoid using the . operator because Perl will expand variables inside double-quoted strings: $w = $x$y; # $w now equals foobar Walt msg27063/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: OT Aliasing Multiple Addresses in Mutt
On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 08:49:47PM -0600, Pete Templin wrote: He was referring to MUAs, not MTAs. Sheesh. True, but that's likely the sort of behavior he's seen elsewhere and is trying to duplicate. msg24161/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
FLASH RAM
Can someone please give me advice on how to access FLASH RAM. I tried to mount it as /dev/sda1 but got the error message saying that sda1 is not a block device. Tried the same on a machine running SuSE and had no problems. I also have a DDS tape drive on my pc which is handled by a SCSI card - can that have an effect? Thanks Johan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: perl 'read only' situation -- bizarre!
In the spirit of there's more than one way to do it, you could
always try:
my @c = map {join , map {$_.$_} split //} qw(fc0 066 ffc 600 cff 090 ccc 666 fc9
633 cff 096 c9c 090);
which seems a bit more elegant to me than declaring temp vars inside
the map.
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Re: Parition mangling tools
On Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 03:06:00AM +, Hugh Saunders wrote: hello, standard storry... have xp installation taking up entire hard disk, want to add woody. Have tried the parition resize tool from zeleps.com but havent had any joy with that, any suggestions as to linux tools/alternative dos tools? If you don't mind spending some money, I had good luck using Partition Magic to repartition my win98 laptop to free up space for debian. The version I have (purchased in 2000) even understands ext2 partitions. Walt msg17558/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: good procmail alternative?
On Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 05:23:53AM +0100, Thorsten Haude wrote: I used Mail::Audit for quite some time, but it probably has a serious bug which makes it impossible to verify some signed mails. Mail::Audit's MIME code has an annoying tendency to reformat message bodies and thereby break GPG signatures. And, it's annoyingly turned on by default. Fortunately it's easily turned off. Try some variation of this: my $msg = Mail::Audit-new(nomime = 1); It also seems to be unsupported. It's been a while since the last release, but it is still being supported. In fact, Simon Cozens, the module's author, recently started up a mailing list. See http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/30/0353228mode=flattid=5 for more information. Walt msg17560/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
switch xdm off
Xdm on my pc comes up with KDE. I would like to change that to, say, Windowmaker. How can I change that? Johan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Changing display and window managers
I want to change the display and window managers on my pc. I followed the procedure in section 13.6.3/4 of the users-guide but without success. It seems as if KDE comes up as the default which is not what I want. I simply want xdm as display manager and wmaker window manager. Thanks Johan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ftp through firewall
I installed Woody last week and experience problems to ftp through our organization's firewall. Inside the firewall there is no problem at all. Is there anyone who can help? Thanks Johan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Recieving list mail batched in a daily digest?
On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 06:01:14PM +0200, Shaul Karl wrote: Hello, Is there a way to receive list mail batched in a daily digest and if so how to activate it? I searched http://lists.debian.org but did not find anything about it. I don't know why it doesn't say it on the web page, but you can subscribe to debian-user-digest by sending mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of subscribe and then following the directions that should be emailed to you. Walt msg12974/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Recieving list mail batched in a daily digest?
On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 12:57:06PM -0500, Walt Mankowski wrote: I don't know why it doesn't say it on the web page, but you can subscribe to debian-user-digest by sending mail to I should also point out, having just subscribed to the debian-user-digest this afternoon, that it doesn't cut down on message volume as much as one might think. It seems to be set to send out a digest whenever there's 30k of messages saved up. If the last 6 hours of traffic are any indication, that translates into roughly one digest every hour, containing anywhere from 3 to 20 messages. Walt msg13032/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
SCSI card DAT tape drive
I installed Woody yesterday on my PC. Everything seems okay except for the fact that I can't access my DAT tape drive. On Potato it was seen immediately and I expected the same with Woody but it does not see it. All my work stuff is back-upped on the the DAT tape and I need to get it back on the hard drive as quickly as possible. I followed the normal installation procedure but cannot remember that I have anywhere seen any reference to SCSI devices. What is the easiest way to solve this problem? Thanks Johan van der Walt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SCSI card DAT tape drive
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Re: SCSI card DAT tape drive
Inspection of /var/log/dmesg suggests that the SCSI card is not seen. How do I add SCSI support to the kernel? Johan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SCSI card DAT tape drive
Thanks, but where do I get the module for the scsi adapter? Adaptec 2940. I looked in /lib/modules but could not find anything there. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
dist-upgrade
I tried this morning to upgrade from potato to woody. The procedure I followed was: apt-cdrom add apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade After inserting the appropriate CD, apt-get returned the following the eror message: E: Internal Error: Couldn't configure a pre-depend. Apt-get stopped after the error message. apt-get upgrade worked but clearly that is not a dist-upgrade. How can I get fix the abovementioned error to have a successful dist-upgrade? Thanks Johan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: expired gpg keys
On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 12:31:01PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: Cool. But this is a rather time-consuming process. Is there a way to have it refresh just the keys that are relevant as it verifies a signature or decodes a message? Not that I'm aware of. I just run --refresh-keys every night in a cron job and figure that's close enough to real time for most purposes. Walt msg07915/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: resizing root partition
On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 10:34:52AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: on Wed, May 29, 2002, Joris ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: But here comes the catch. None of the root environments I found on floppy had resize2fs on them. The LNX-BBC and/or LinuxCare BBC do. One of them works, the other doesn't, IIRC, you want the latest LinuxCare BBC for reiserfs mods. Alternatively, create your own bootdisk with reiserfs support (but don't ask me how ;-). Er, did you misread resize2fs as reiserfs? :-) Walt pgpfBkcyydFvx.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: the dreaded Word attachment
On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 05:27:32PM -0700, Jim McCloskey wrote: Is this a solitary delusion of mine, or have others experienced something like this? Has anyone found a better way of dealing with this plague? Lately I've been bouncing emails with Word docs I want to read to my Yahoo Mail account, then using their view attachment feature. Works with Excel spreadsheets, too! Walt pgpZ4xVE0Y9K5.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: crontab programming. bug?
On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 11:44:00AM +0200, Tobias Ulbricht wrote:
please cc. to me [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi.
I had the stupid idea to set
EDITOR=my-prog
and execute
crontab -e
to be able to edit crontabs in the right way, i.e. without touching the
crontab-files directly but with my own editor (here a
cron-gui-interface)
1. this doesn't work, since my c-program returns too quickly or too slow,
anyway crontab *seldomly* installs the new file, mostly says it didn't
change.
2. I tried it with vi as editor and if I was fast enough to enter :wq,
crontab doesn't install it.
(ok. i didn't change a thing but the file was written, accessed, whatever
and crontab should be installed. if you do it slowly, crontab installs
it.)
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home# crontab -e
crontab: installing new crontab
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home# crontab -e
crontab: no changes made to crontab
second time I was fast enough typing :wq
3. Anyway: any recommendations how to modify crontab from a c-program
without messing with crontabs/user files?
I know gcrontab accesses them directly. but I thought this shouldn't be
dnoe.
A quick glance at the crontab source code (apt-get source cron, then
look in crontab.c) turned up the following lines:
if (mtime == statbuf.st_mtime) {
fprintf(stderr, %s: no changes made to crontab\n,
ProgramName);
goto remove;
}
fprintf(stderr, %s: installing new crontab\n, ProgramName);
Basically what it's doing is saving the modification time of the file
you're about to edit, then sending it off to the editor, then checking
the new modification time of the file. The granularity of st_mtime is
in seconds. This normally wouldn't be a problem for humans (except
for *really* fast typists :-) but it's possible your program is
updating it faster than that.
Try sleeping for a second before exiting and see if that fixes the
problem.
Walt
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Re: regenerating the zsh completion cache
On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 05:09:40PM -0700, Petro wrote: On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 03:47:00PM -0700, Chris Gray wrote: Hi, If I install a new package and it installs a new binary, how do I get zsh to complete the name of the binary when I hit tab. Obviously I could just start a new shell, but that's too easy. Here is the completions part of my .zshrc: I don't use zsh, but under bash it's hash -r. That also works in zsh, as does rehash. Walt pgpvSnd21HIUA.pgp Description: PGP signature
Apt from behind a firewall
I am trying to use apt-get from behind a firewall but am not sure exactly how to set up the apt.conf file. When I normally ftp to a site outside the firewall the procedure is as follows: ftp uuu.vvv.www.xx userid: [EMAIL PROTECTED]@uuu.vvv.www.xx passwd: [EMAIL PROTECTED]@firewallpasswd (1) Should I copy the ftp part of the example in /usr/doc/apt/examples to my /etc/apt.conf file? (2) What is the meaning of the two proxy entries in the ftp part? (3) Which user and passwd entries should I use? There are two sets. And should I use it in the same way as when I normally ftp to a server outside the firewall? (4) What else should I do? (5) Using 2.2r6 Thanks Johan van der Walt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
netscape3 installation
I installed Debian 2.2r6 earlier this week. Also wanted to install netscape but got the error message given below. Can anyone please help. Is netscape 4 not available? Thanks Johan van der Walt - Media Change: Please insert the disc labeled 'Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 r6 _Potato_ - Official i386 Binary-1 (20020405)' in the drive '/cdrom/' and press enter Selecting previously deselected package netscape3. (Reading database ... 47830 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking netscape3 (from .../web/netscape3_3.04-8.deb) ... Setting up netscape3 (3.04-8) ... ERROR: The Netscape archive must be in /tmp under the name: /tmp/netscape-v304-export.x86-unknown-linux-elf.tar.[gz|Z] Do NOT simply rename the archive of another version in order to force it to install with this package. It will not work. Archive files can be found on at: ftp://archive.netscape.com/archive/navigator/3.01/unix/ netscape-v304-export.x86-unknown-linux-elf.tar.gz dpkg: error processing netscape3 (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: netscape3 E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: daylight savings time
On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 09:54:24AM -0700, Dave Carrigan wrote: In general, TZ should get set correctly if the /etc/localtime file contains the correct timezone info file. You can copy a file from /usr/share/zoneinfo to /etc/localtime, or use the tzconfig program, which does essentially the same thing. Or better yet, create a symbolic link to it. Walt pgpoP9PMNL3Mj.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: daylight savings time
On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 10:20:08AM -0700, Dave Carrigan wrote: Walt Mankowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Or better yet, create a symbolic link to it. I think a symlink would be better as well, but Debian doesn't do it for some reason: $ ls -li /etc/localtime /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Pacific 152487 -rw-r--r--1 root root 1017 Mar 31 10:27 /etc/localtime 38530 -rw-r--r--4 root root 1017 Mar 24 08:59 /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Pacific $ diff /etc/localtime /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Pacific Interesting. My debian potato box does have a symlink: $ ls -l /etc/localtime lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 27 Jan 13 12:12 /etc/localtime - /usr/share/zoneinfo/EST5EDT pgpz1NLQGXoY0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Why Debian?
I am a physicist in the School of Physics of the Potchefstroom University in South Africa and is one of a few people on campus using Linux. Have been using Linux now for a couple of years. I am not a Linux guru and learn about the system as I go along. At present I have an older version of RedHat running on my pc. Older, simply because I still have a project to finish for which I have to use AIPS. However, I plan (have to) upgrade Linux on my pc as soon as I am finished with this project. I therefore also have to make a choice on which distribution I should install. Basically I feel that I have to pick one from the following four: Debian, SuSe, RedHat and Slackware. I already installed RedHat 7.2 on my notebook to see what it is like. With all due respect one of the first things that put me off was that I could not find the HOWTO pages. This made me wonder to what extent does RH cater for the user that would like to know a bit more about how to do things on the system. My question then is: what makes Debian GNU/Linux different so that I should use it rather than any of the other distributions? Is Linux not just Linux? From a scientific point of view I use IRAF and that comes with Debian which is something I like. However, that certainly cannot be the only reason for using Debian. Someone told me the other day that Debian is the most stable distribution. Is that so and why? Johan van der Walt
Incorrect version number reported for mutt 1.2.5.1
I just updated mutt on two of my boxes, one debian potato and one redhat. On the red hat box I installed from source, and when I run mutt -v, it reports Mutt 1.2.5.1i (2000-07-28). On potato I just installed the new .deb package. When I run mutt -v on that box, it says Mutt 1.2.5i (2000-07-28). Clearly the release date is wrong in both places (which I've already reported to the mutt list). But why don't the version numbers match? How do I know that I'm really running the patched version of mutt? Walt pgp0Ap8dE8oWa.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: 2.4.15 is out (and so is 2.5.0!)
On Fri, Nov 23, 2001 at 12:23:12PM -0800, Chris Majewski wrote: Is there a mailing list that that will do nothing but notify me of new kernel releases? It's not quite what you're asking for, but you might want to take a look at Darxus' dlkern, available at http://www.ChaosReigns.com/code/dlkern.html Walt pgpkt0cbIDKsO.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: OT: How long has your Linux system been up ?
On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 03:25:41AM -0600, Colin Watson wrote: On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 10:18:33AM +0100, Pietro Cagnoni wrote: i believe that bug was fixed in linux a few years ago. theres no longer a 497 day limit .. could someone please tell me for sure? i'm at 470 right now... :-) Since it wasn't fixed 470 days ago, I think your counter's going to overflow. ;) 470 days sounds like less than a few years. :-) Oh well, I suppose you'll find out soon enough... Walt pgplWVnC7BKrm.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: soru?
On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 11:00:29AM +0100, op wrote: I think that 'merhaba' is 'hello' in turkish. Aha! And we see thorns and barred-D's because we're using the ISO8859-1 characted set, while the author most likely used ISO8859-9. Walt pgplSTV1Gr2hh.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: starting netscape without toolbar and addressbar
On Tue, Nov 13, 2001 at 04:51:57PM +0100, Thomas Halahan wrote: I have a role account on my network where users logging on will have netscape started for them directed to the intranet. I think I can get netscape to boot up ok on login but don't know how to start it without the addressbar and icon bar shown at the top. Does anyone know how to disable this (not in preferences I don't think). (netscape 4.75) I know I could open another window with the right look with javascript but there are privelage problems doing it this way as it is difficult to close the original window. You might want to take a look at the Linux Kiosk Howto, online at http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Kiosk-HOWTO.html Walt pgpbb4NEAgWLG.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: META QUESTION: how to read a bulk list (and stay happy :-)
On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 11:09:43PM -0500, Rich Puhek wrote: I suppose I could try that. Problem is, I'm really an elm guy for text mail reader (not too surprising to see a :x at the bottom of my Windows emails). Of course, now I switched to Maildir/ format, so I'm back to pine. Mutt has had native Maildir support for years. Walt pgpct8knedqFK.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: TIME, DATE and CRON... trap for the unwary
On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 10:15:00AM +1000, Ian Perry wrote: Hi All, Just came across a point about Time and Date and CRON which could cause a problem for those who are unaware. If you have CRON running and you set back the Date or Time backwards, CRON will not run until at least the old time has been reached again. A quick reboot solves the problem. Wouldn't restarting crond also work? Walt pgpxPt2d8E6Xp.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: harsher kill than kill -9 ?
On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 11:06:57AM -0400, Daniel Patrick Berdine wrote: Is there any way to kill a process that kill -9 pid won't remove without rebooting? No, kill -9 is as harsh as it gets. Have you tried to kill it as root? Walt
Re: New TrueType fonts doc version 1.1
On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 11:38:06PM -0400, Paul D. Smith wrote: I uploaded version 1.1 of my TrueType fonts for XFree 4.x on Debian document. This version discusses more explicitly how to install TrueType fonts that are not packaged for Debian (for example, ones you copy from your Microsoft Windows partition). Note I have no idea or opinion on whether using those fonts in this way violates your EULA or not: you need to decide that for yourself. There are a few other touch-ups that people suggested. Thanks to my readers :) I haven't read your document -- you didn't provide a link :-) -- but you might want to point people to http://www.microsoft.com/typography/fontpack/default.htm if you're not already doing so. That webpage allows you to download what Microsoft calls their TrueType core fonts for the Web. The downloads are free, and while IANAL the EULA seems to me to allow personal use on Linux. Walt pgpsf06DJF6kk.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: how to get list of emacs key descriptions
On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 02:54:42PM -0800, Britton wrote: I know for example that meta x is described as \M-x. How is tab described, or how can I find out for a general key. I'm not seeing it in the docs. Emacs ships with a postscript reference card which lists most of the default key assignments. On potato this file is at /usr/share/emacs/20.7/etc/refcard.ps If you want to know what a particular key sequence is assigned to, you can use describe-key (C-h k) then the key(s) you're interested in. For example, to find out what function TAB is assigned to, enter C-h k TAB Walt pgptclIvwEV7q.pgp Description: PGP signature
/etc/mailname ?
After a recent dist-upgrade I started getting empty email messages every day from root, with a domain name the same as in /etc/mailname . I don't remember when /etc/mailname was generated, or by which config program, so I don't recall what purpose the file serves. Any thoughts on what I need to reconfigure to get the daily system notices arriving again? I'm running unstable/testing on an i386. Thanks.
Re: filtering email via perl?
On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 10:25:26AM -0500, will trillich wrote: how can i use perl to break emails into various mailfolders? Take a look at Mail::Audit, available on CPAN. The author, Simon Cozens, has written an introduction that's available online at http://simon-cozens.org/writings/mail-audit.html. (This is pretty much the same article that appeared in The Perl Journal a few issues back.) Walt pgpHmM6RSDcq4.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: kppp
Robin Gerard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, I have installed KDE successfuly but when I launch kppp, after the connection has bein established, I received this message : dead unexpected of the daemond pppd code returned 1. However pon runs fine. Can someone me some ideas on this matter ? TIA P.S. I join my PPP-logfile -- Gerard May 6 04:09:15 debian pppd[380]: pppd 2.3.11 started by robi, uid 1000 May 6 04:09:44 debian pppd[380]: Serial connection established. May 6 04:09:44 debian pppd[380]: Using interface ppp0 May 6 04:09:44 debian pppd[380]: Connect: ppp0 -- /dev/ttyS0 May 6 04:09:56 debian pppd[380]: local IP address 213.228.25.166 May 6 04:09:56 debian pppd[380]: remote IP address 213.228.24.254 May 6 04:09:56 debian pppd[380]: primary DNS address 212.27.32.6 May 6 04:09:56 debian pppd[380]: secondary DNS address 212.27.32.5 May 6 04:10:45 debian pppd[380]: Terminating on signal 15. 'man pppd' and then look for the section Exit Status. Signal 15 means the other end was not responding to echo requests, i.e. like a 'ping'. The only reason I can think of at the moment why the other end would not respond to outgoing echo requests is that your default route was not set correctly. (Maybe there are other reasons.) In your kppp 'Setup' section go to the tab marked Gateway and make sure the box is checked for 'Assign the default route to this gateway'. If you type '/sbin/route -n' you will see your routing table. After the ppp connection is made (and before it dies) you should see an entry in the routing table marked 0.0.0.0 (the default destination) on interface ppp0 pointing to 213.228.24.254 (to use your example). If that entry is not there then that is your problem.
Re: get number of pages of a PostScript file
On Sat, Apr 28, 2001 at 07:15:37PM -0300, John R Lenton wrote:
grep ^%%Pages file.ps|awk '{ print $2 }'
any idea why this is 2x as fast as the equivalent
awk '/^%%Pages/ { print $2 }' file.ps
Because grep, being a compiled program, can do file I/O faster than
awk, which is interpreted.
Walt
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Re: HOWTO remove a previous wildcard file list?
On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 10:15:40PM -0400, Mark Hurley wrote: Anyone know of a method to easily solve this ... I *sometimes* list the files before deleting them: ls A*.pdf Ensuring I have only listed the ones I wish to delete, I then enter: rm A*.pdf Great, but anyone know of an easier why than the following? 1) Type the second command followed by the selected mask? 2) Go back one in bash history, [home] to beginning of line replace ls with rm. I'm thinking something like the bash CTRL-R combo? Where you would type rm (second command) and do a key-combo and fill rest of previous line in, or to step it further you could keep scrolling back in history with uparrow-something combo? Assuming you're running bash, you probably want to use !* : ls A*.pdf rm !* Walt pgpuAZQ9NmAre.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: HOWTO remove a previous wildcard file list?
On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 11:09:23PM -0400, Mark Hurley wrote: Thank you Walt! You're welcome. :-) I can't believe I didn't find that! In case anyone else wants to view more info on history expansion with bash... http://www.kashpureff.org/nic/linux/texinfo/bash_6.html or more simply man bash Doh! ;) Well, it's not the easiest thing in the world to find on the bash man page. I first learned about this trick in the O'Reilly book Unix Power Tools. Even knowing that it's possible, I always forget the sequence and end up hunting through the man page for several minutes before I find it again. Walt pgp3E6NUtU5cR.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: debian 2.2r3 ?
On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 09:20:33AM -0500, Michael Marziani wrote: I have looked around for this but I can't find a list of bug fixes/improvements in 2.2.19. Anyone have a link? Thanks! http://www.linux.org.uk/VERSION/relnotes.2219.html pgpUlFykIY6zP.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: debian 2.2r3 ?
On Sat, Apr 21, 2001 at 05:35:20AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 05:05:25PM -0700, Eric Richardson wrote: Ethan Benson wrote: install the 2.2.19 version of pcmcia modules. i don't know the exact package name, i have no hardware with pcmcia. The only version in stable is pcmcia-modules-2.2.19pre17 and so I get the following Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: pcmcia-modules-2.2.19pre17: Depends: kernel-image-2.2.19pre17 (= 2.2.19pre17-1) but it is not installable Maybe the pcmcia-modules-2.2.19 will be out in a few days - seems it should have been released with the new kernel since I got the rest of the modules and the new USB stuff - yeah! Do I need to file a report or make a new thread for this issue? i remember seeing something about this on -devel a few days ago. i don't know if its going to be fixed or not. stable is frozen again so nothing may enter unless an r4 is created. So then what's the recommended way for those of us with laptops running potato to upgrade to 2.2.19? The 2.2.18 pcmcia modules seem to be in the same state. Walt pgpIvOM5V3YUd.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: tar + bzip2 option?
On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 09:23:23AM +1100, Andrew Smith wrote: I am using tar-1.13.18 built from the source code. Some of the other packages that I attempted to build from source failed because they were packed using bzip2 instead of gzip, and the 'tar xIfp' command in rules.unpack failed to unpack them. Examining the source for tar revealed that the bzip2 option for tar is not -I anymore, it is -j. How long has this been the case? And what to do about all those broken scripts? It was still -I in 1.3.17. pgpjnMtt8WZGR.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Navigating your drive in text mode
On Sun, Dec 24, 2000 at 12:45:29PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: To answer the original question, mc is a good text-mode filesystem navigation and management tool. As is dired mode in emacs. pgpr8DBNszlPX.pgp Description: PGP signature
Restarting a debian install
I'm installing debian on my laptop, and the install exited while I was selecting tasks. Is there anyway I can restart at the select a root password phase? Walt pgpvmkR5S5P2m.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Restarting a debian install
On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 09:05:18PM -0500, Walt Mankowski wrote: I'm installing debian on my laptop, and the install exited while I was selecting tasks. Is there anyway I can restart at the select a root password phase? Someone on irc.debian.org was able to help me out. The command is dpkg-reconfigure base-config Walt pgpcTitD3UIdE.pgp Description: PGP signature
Bad gpg signatures on debian-security-announce
Lately I've been noticing a number of messages on the debian-security-announce list with bad gpg signatures. I compared these messages to the same ones posted to the web archives and discovered that they were not identical. Interestingly, the messages in the archives had GOOD signatures, while the ones being posted to the list often do not. The difference is in the section that looks like this in the emails with the bad signatures: Package: modutils Problem type : local buffer overflow Debian-specific: no Add some spaces to the Package line so that the : lines up with the following lines: Package: modutils Problem type : local buffer overflow Debian-specific: no and gpg reports a good signature. This problem isn't happening on every announcement, but enough that it's getting annoying. Good signatures are vital, particularly on that list, so that readers can feel confident that the security announcements are authentic. Walt
