Re: [vox-tech] How to make an OEM style system recovery disk
On Thu, 2002-11-07 at 15:14, Rick Moen wrote: Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): You might want to compare it against mkCDrec. All open source: http://mkcdrec.ota.be/ Is this an endorcement? Have you used this to restore a system or partition? Just curious -doug -- Cheers, A good man has few enemies; a ruthless man has none. Rick Moen [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech ___ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
Re: [vox-tech] Using both mutt and evolution
On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 08:16, Rod Roark wrote: If you set up an IMAP server then almost any modern mail client can get to it, including web mail apps like SquirrelMail. -- Rod http://www.sunsetsystems.com/ This seems to be along the same lines as it hurts when I do this... then don't do that. Perfectly workable solution, but... I don't know.. perhaps a bit more complicated than it needs to be. I've had a similar need only I use pine. Comments and discussions from this list have me thinking about converting to mutt. GUI e-mail clients are nice sometimes... -doug sometimes I feel like a nut, sometimes I don't... On Wednesday 30 October 2002 08:07 am, Andy Wergedal wrote: How can I setup my mail so that I can read my email from Evolution when I am at home and use mutt when I am remote? I was thinking that I would use procmail to filter all the email to the correct place but it would duplicate the email in two different folders. I would have to manage both email applications. The only reason I do not use mutt all the time is because of the HTML mail that my clients send me. It is a pain to read their email in mutt.(w3m views my html mail) but evolution is better. -- Andy ___ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech ___ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
Re: [vox-tech] X11 on remote machine
Yesterday, Robin Snyder wrote: I recently upgraded to Debian's woody distribution and can no longer forward X11 info. when I'm logged into a remote machine via ssh. Here's the situation: logged on remotely to my account on another machine. I want to send it's X output to my screen. On my machine, I used xhost +theothermachine to give it permission, then, once logged in, used setenv DISPLAY my_IP:0 to switch the display to my screen. No go. It's not a case of doubly assigned or incorrect IP numbers--I can ssh back into my machine using that IP. When I try to start emacs, I get _X11TransSocketINETConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111 and when I try to run mathtematica, I get connect 169.237.66.157 port 6000: Connection refused connect 169.237.66.157 port 6000: Connection refused X connection to localhost:14.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown). I get these errors when my local x server isn't running or is broke. I use Humming bird quite a bit from a company win2k laptop. I'm also experimenting with cygwin X. Perhaps it's a silly question, but is you local X in good working order? Also I notice that the error above shows it trying to connect to lcoalhost:14.0, are you srue you set DISPLAY= correctly? HTH -doug I realized that ssh has changed some between distributions (ssh now = OpenSSH) and that now ForwardX11 is set to no in ssh_d.config. I tried switching that to yes. I also tried ssh with the -X option, which should allow X11 forwarding. None of these worked. Ideas? - robin. ___ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech ___ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
[vox-tech] Maxtor Ultra ATA/133 PCI Adapter Card (K01PCAT133)
Does anybody out there have any experience with this card? The box I'm planning on putting this in has: ASUS P5AB VIA Apollo VP3 chipset (VT82C597) (onboard ide bus = ata/66) AMD K6 500 Kernel 2.4.18 (debian woody, custom kernel) I haven't decided which drives (besides the new WD 40G) will plug in, but the newest are only ata/100. I can't figure out what chipset the new controller card is running or what kernel driver will apply. I have done some google searches RTFM'd the kernel drivers but all I can determine is that the older ATA/100 card uses the promise drivers, but I'm unsure if Maxtor switched contoller chips for this line. I purchased this on a whim while getting a new drive, but haven't opened the box so that the return process might go a little smoother. Unfortuantly the maxtor support site seems to think that nobody would ever need this info because there is no mention of the tech specs. Any insight is appriciated... -doug -- ___ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
Re: [vox-tech] Help Request with SAMBA and SWAT
OK, I avoided answering this post becasue I don't have all the details, but... I remember trying to use SWAT under Redhat (5.2 or 6.1 I think) and there was a commnented out field in the inetd.conf that had to do with SWAT. Basically (according to my poor excuse for a memory) SWAT ran it's own web server. The inetd entry (which was commented out by default for security reasons) called a specific command that returned the SWAT interface to the client browser. It had nothing to do with gnome or apache. I'm sorry that's not a very detailed answer and with my current workload I can't research further right now. If I can find some time next week, I'll reply with more details. Back then, I found that Swat would hose up my smb.conf pretty bad, so I stopped using it (after I lost a few hours of configuration). I suggest being very careful and making backup's of the smb.conf before using. -doug -- Today, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: begin Henry House [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sun, Jul 14, 2002 at 11:57:52PM -0700, Dick Ely using JPS-SMTP POP wrote: [...] SWAT simply hangs when I try to run it and when I try to log on to //localhost:901using gnome I get *connection refused*. First: Why cannot I log on to //localhost:901 using gnome? This error likely means that there is no web server installed on your computer. Try, in a terminal window: dpkg -l | less dpkg -l | egrep 'apache|httpd' to see if a webserver is installed. The first command shows you all installed packages, the second scans for names containing 'apache' or 'httpd'. you also might want to do a grep -i khttp /proc/ksyms.;-) pete ___ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
Re: [vox-tech] What's needed for 3D support?
fwiw: I had the same experience with tux racer (very slow and 100% cpu) and I have no 3d cards installed. -doug -- Today, Rod Roark spewed forth: I seldom play games and I'm a complete dummy when it comes to 3D stuff. But yesterday I was trying to get billardgl and tuxracer to work, without much luck. I've got an aging 16MB Voodoo Banshee card on my desktop machine running Gentoo Linux (2.4.19 kernel, xfree 4.2.0). The kernel has the tdfx video stuff built-in (not a module), and XF86Config includes 'Load glx'. Tuxracer does run, but I get about 0.3 fps. BillardGL sort of runs except it's ridiculously slow, taking 5-10 minutes just to get past the splash screen and continually eating 100% of the CPU and all real memory. This is a 500 Mhz Celeron box with 256MB RAM. Does anyone have pointers/suggestions? Thanks, -- Rod http://www.sunsetsystems.com/ ___ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech ___ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
Re: [vox-tech] 2 dhcp servers, one box
I think you can configure dhcp to give out of 2 different address ranges
based on the network the request came in on. Check out the man page for
dhcpd.conf.
I just checked and I'm running isc's dhcpd
hope it helps...
-doug
Here's the syntax (base on my dhcpd.conf and your information):
server-identifier houston;
default-lease-time 86400;
max-lease-time 172800;
option domain-name-servers 192.168.16.15;
option domain-name mrdoug.com;
option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0;
subnet 192.168.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0{
range 192.168.0.20 192.168.0.30;
option broadcast-address192.168.0.255;
option routers $ip_of_the_nic_for_this_network
}
subnet 192.168.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0{
range 192.168.1.20 192.168.1.30;
option broadcast-address192.168.1.255;
option routers $ip_of_the_nic_for_this_network
}
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Today, Matthew Holland spewed forth:
Does anyone have any experience running multiple dhcp servers out of one
box? Allow me to clarify... I have a box with three network cards: eth0
is connected to the DSL modem, eth1 to a 192.168.0.0/24 network
(MASQed), and eth2 will be connected to a 192.168.1.0/24 network (which
I also intend to MASQ). There are various cabling considerations that
have made this arrangement seem sensible. I'm running dhcpd on eth1,
because there are as many laptops in the house as desktops. The
potentially tricky part is that I installed eth2 so that I can plug my
laptop into it when I'm in the same room as the router. This makes it
appealing to run dhcpd on eth2 as well, so that I don't have to do any
funny voodoo every time I plug the laptop into a different network.
That said, there may be some voodoo to do concerning the configuration
of dhcp. There's no issue of overlapping blocks of addresses since the
networks are different. The question is, do I need multiple copies of
dhcpd.conf and dhcpd.leases, or can two daemons share the same files? I
imagine it's possible that both subnets could be defined in the same
dhcpd.conf, since each instance of dhcpd should know which network it's
on. But then again, it may not work that way.
Any other gotchas that I should be aware of? In case it matters, the
machine is running Gentoo Linux.
Thanks,
Matt
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Re: [vox-tech] mixing potato and woody entries in apt sources.list
Thank you so much. That was the most coherent response to an e-mail I've received in about 6 months. That's not to say that receive poor responses on this list, I rarely post here as I usually learn more just from reading other responses. -- -doug In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou has attained it thou art a fool. - Simon Ben Azzai, second-century Jewish scholar. On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 06:00:18PM -0700, Doug Huckaba wrote: When I did I commented out the security.debian.org entries in sources.list because the lines referenced potato. Doug, At the time there was no security archive, I think because the security team only follows released (or soon to be released) debian versions... sid and testing have had limited coverage. I vaguely recall reading something where that was to change, and don't know if all three releases now get covered by the security group. There is now a woody secrurity archive available, so you can now add the following to your sources.list: deb http://security.debian.org woody/updates main contrib non-free Will uncommenting these lines cause problems? No. What I'm wondering is if there is a package released in the woody tree (please correct me if I get the terms wrong) and then a different version released from the security site, which would take precedence? Based on observation apt will grab the highest version and highest revision of any packages being install or updated... when a security patch is done it bumps the revision number not the version number. What this means is if a newer upstream version of a package was included in woody then the security fixes for older potato packages would be silently ignored. Which is what you want. You may have noticed that debian package names look something like: pool/main/v/vim/vim_6.1.018-1_i386.deb ^^^ ^^^ ^ vim = package name 6.1.0018 = upstream version number 1 = debian package revision i386 = architecture for example: application-1.0 is installed from potato, then the woody dist-upgrade installs application-2.0, then application 1.5 is 'released' from the security site for potato. Which is the last version installed? or does this even happen? As I mentioned above... 1.5 would not be released by the security team. 1.0-1 would have been the flawed package and the security team would release 1.0-2. But for the purposes of this example even if they did release 1.5-1 it would still not be selected because 2.0-1 is a higher version. For what it's worth you can have both each of testing and unstable both in your sources.list file, and with the use of /etc/apt/preferences have the apt command set default to testing, but on the command line when doing an install you can request the package from unstable... this will be handy for things like pulling just mozilla 1.0 or X 4.2 from unstable when it becomes available there... There is risk: a package in unstable _could_ create a dependency arch that in effect pulls the core of unstable onto your system. This is a hypothetical example and hopefully does not match current reality: If for example mozilla as a dependency required the sid version of glibc, and a bunch of other packages in woody 'require' the testing version of glibc, but the two versions of glibc conflict... then a whole bunch of woody packages would also upgrade to sid versions. Care should be exercised... because this type of thing could happen any time you do a upgrade, not just when installing a single package. There is some good documentation available about this stuff in the following man pages: apt-get(8) apt_preferences(5) interesting portions of those man pages are at the bottom of this email. I have not used preferences to pin a version before... so I don't have syntax examples to paste. I've tacked it onto my list of things to try out, so I might follow up this post [much] later with samples. What I normally do is one of two things: temporarily add unstable to the sources.list, apt-get install the package I want from unstable (paying attention to what else will be pulled down by this), then comment out the unstable source list. Until testing gets that version or newer of the package it will not be replaced. If I see that installing the package will pull down too many other components, then I switch to deb-src lines for unstable, pull the source with apt-get source, and build a deb with dpkg-buildpackage. The advantage of this method is the package built this way will have dependencies for other files that match the packages installed on the system at build time, via things like this you can build a modern perl 5.6 .deb for potato. Later, Mike apt-get: # install # install is followed by one or more packages desired # for installation. Each
Re: [vox-tech] Massive network collisions
On 16:26 31/03 Bill Broadley wrote: Inbetween them I've got a 10 Megabit hub. Netgear? Netgear has an ugly failure mode where as the voltage of the power cube drops you get higher collision rates, up to and including where the hub is useless because zero packets get through and the yellow collision light blinks with each packet. Is this for all Netgear hubs? I've always been a big fan of Netgear. I use and recommen their switches all the time. Is this true with the switches also? Anybody have any ideas of avenues I should look down to resolve the collisions? ___ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech -- Bill Broadley Mathematics/Institute of Theoretical Dynamics UC Davis ___ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech ___ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
