[leaf-user] Any showcase user of Bering?

2008-04-25 Thread Mats Erik Andersson
Hello there, I completed a virtualized Bering-uClibc machine inside a Vmware Server yesterday, ment to be deployed within the WinXP computers of my co-workers. Testing on Debian it works like a charm. Unfortunately, the head of the firm will not accept it, since our banking customers would never

Re: [leaf-user] Server redirection in dnsmasq

2008-04-06 Thread Mats Erik Andersson
KP Kirchdörfer responded some days ago: On Sunday 30 March 2008 22:28:13 Mats Erik Andersson wrote: Hello all, a simple question: Is it well known that in Bering-uClibc the name server redirection for Dnsmasq, using the statement server=/help.me/192.168.5.253 is broken in issue

Re: [leaf-user] [leaf-devel] The packaging of Haserl.

2008-03-31 Thread Mats Erik Andersson
Hello folks, I forgot to include the leaf list for my answer! mån 2008-03-31 klockan 09:19 +0200 skrev Per Sjoholm: Hello Mats Erik Andersson wrote: The most drastic change I implement is to render the web pages for a fixed width in order to ensure a consistent optical impression. Any

Re: [leaf-user] [leaf-devel] The packaging of Haserl.

2008-03-31 Thread Mats Erik Andersson
basic webconf pages. Regards Mats E A mån 2008-03-31 klockan 15:14 + skrev Erich Titl: Hi Mats Mats Erik Andersson wrote: Hello folks, I will the next few days commit a major overhaul of Webconf, resulting in new versions of at least five webconf packages. The most drastic change I

[leaf-user] Server redirection in dnsmasq

2008-03-30 Thread Mats Erik Andersson
Hello all, a simple question: Is it well known that in Bering-uClibc the name server redirection for Dnsmasq, using the statement server=/help.me/192.168.5.253 is broken in issue 3.0, whereas it works as expected in the recent Bering-uC 3.1 image? Regards Mats Erik Andersson

Re: [leaf-user] openntpd problem on 3.1-rc1

2008-02-19 Thread Mats Erik Andersson
to KP Kirchdörfer. We will have to wait and see whether it does get implemented. Regards Mats Erik Andersson Message: 2 Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 14:05:35 -0500 From: Matt Cartter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [leaf-user] openntpd problem on 3.1-rc1 To: leaf-user@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID

[leaf-user] Malfunctioning dhcpcd in 3.1-beta2

2007-12-22 Thread Mats Erik Andersson
Hello all, having spent one evening with the 3.1-beta2 image and Qemu, I can report on one issue for this pair, a matter which is working correctly if I make a test with an identically configured 3.0-beta3 image. Yes, there is a release of 3.0, but I happened to have a handy copy of the older

[leaf-user] Serial access to pristine Bering image

2007-12-19 Thread Mats Erik Andersson
) removal of one hash mark in front of ttyS0 in /etc/inittab. Such serial access would very much lessen the labour to configure a recycled, but functional machine. Regards Mats Erik Andersson - SF.Net email is sponsored

[leaf-user] Strange ide-driver response

2007-09-18 Thread Mats Erik Andersson
? A forgotten debug flag? Regards Mats Erik Andersson - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse012070mrt/direct/01

[leaf-user] Expert webconf broken in 3.1beta1

2007-09-14 Thread Mats Erik Andersson
Hello all, I normally do not use the expert-mode in webconf, prefering a command line instead, but I discovered that the beta issue has managed to break this functionality. For those wanting to use it, the following patch seems to solve all the problems I observed. Please tell if any new

[leaf-user] My corrections to webconf in 3.1beta1

2007-08-30 Thread Mats Erik Andersson
Dear Beringians, I have finally found time to resume my contributions to the webconf interface, and thus to correct the image 3.1beta to working order. The three changes were already earlier reported to KP Kirchdörfer, so this concerns the downloaded images only. Two actions are straightforward:

[leaf-user] Reading permission for /etc/shorewall/interfaces and webconf

2007-05-06 Thread Mats Erik Andersson
In the preparation of an addition to the webconf file general-info.cgi, I wanted to have reading access to the basic level configuration file /etc/shorewall/interfaces, just to display the network name that go with each network interface. This fails for webconf/haserl, since the

[leaf-user] [RFC] Target privatebuild for Buildtool

2007-04-16 Thread Mats Erik Andersson
Fellow friends of code, after yet another day with unorthodox use of buildtool.pl, let me propose a slight extension of its capabilities. At present the targets in our buildtool are of the kind all or nothing. I have now had reason to resolve one C code bug and one stubborn automake issue in

[leaf-user] Ill-formed xml in conf/sources.cfg of buildtool

2007-04-14 Thread Mats Erik Andersson
Hi there, I have found non-matching opening and closing tags in the file conf/sources.cgf. Seemingly, this does not prevent Buildtool from working, but distroys the well-formedness. This is the offender for Bering 3.0 setup: Package tftp /Source Regards, Mats E A

[leaf-user] Forcing buildtool for non-served packages

2007-04-13 Thread Mats Erik Andersson
Fellow Beringians, I am growing fairly irritated with buildtool.pl for the following developmental reason. I need to repeatedly rebuild a package that is not served by the Bering repository, but manually downloaded and thus marked as having empty Server. Therefore the intended functionality

[leaf-user] Odd message from ulogd

2007-04-05 Thread Mats Erik Andersson
Dear Bering users, with large time gaps I get an entry in ulogd.log, out of which I never got any sense. Could someone give me a hand? It always comes as a pair. The following is the first time, since a planned power down I had to make five days ago. 7 ulogd.c:812 ipulog_read == -1!

[leaf-user] slattach for Bering-uC?

2007-03-06 Thread Mats Erik Andersson
Fellow Bering compeers, since I am planning to add my own lcd-display to Bering, and since this gadget uses a slip-connection, I rather quickly found out that the slip module is present. However, I can find neither 'slattach', nore 'dig'. Is there any replacement I have not realised as such?

[leaf-user] Kernel info on wireless cards and ad-hoc cells

2007-02-28 Thread Mats Erik Andersson
you use in Ad-Hoc with Bering. The Ralink driver supports WPA via iwpriv, so please do not dismiss this by quickly poking me with wpa_supplicant. Volontary testers could always give me a private call if they would like to try whatever comes out of adhoc-webconf RegardsMats Erik Andersson

[leaf-user] Unintended buildtool rebuild and libc.so.0

2006-12-07 Thread Mats Erik Andersson
Fellow Bering-users, I had the misfortune of accidentally typing ./buildtool.pl buildclean with the result that my intended quick recompilation of a wireless module, instead began from scratch by first rebuilding 'linux' successfully, but then failing to rebuild 'buildenv'. The

[leaf-user] Cont'd: Unintended buildtool rebuild and libc.so.0

2006-12-07 Thread Mats Erik Andersson
Fellow Bering-users, I have a continuation of the story: --- Mats Erik Andersson [EMAIL PROTECTED] skrev: Fellow Bering-users, I had the misfortune of accidentally typing ./buildtool.pl buildclean with the result that my intended quick recompilation of a wireless module

Re: [leaf-user] Cont'd: Unintended buildtool rebuild and libc.so.0

2006-12-07 Thread Mats Erik Andersson
Hi Erich, Eric, and all Bering-users, most Bering-users would not like to spend time on the following bug/deviation report. I removed the previous message to lessen the burden and will here comment on 'buildtoollog' and otherwise on my preparations, so that my fault or any other shortcoming

[leaf-user] How different is rdate in Bering.uClibc?

2006-11-30 Thread Mats Erik Andersson
Hi All, I can use the command rdate -p to get a valid time using Debian, but when I use the same time server and the same command with Bering-uClibc there is an error message, saying my router was not allowed to connect. Consequently, the corresponding function in the daily cron-job fails

[leaf-user] rdate is probably no different

2006-11-30 Thread Mats Erik Andersson
Hi all Bering-users and in particular Erich Titl, my problem with rdate has been solved since the posting of Erich Titl made thinking matters through. It turned out I had forgotten it is port 37/tcp , i.e. time, which is used by rdate. My focus was on ntp 123/tcp all the time as I tried to

[leaf-user] Bering-uClibc on extended floppy images

2006-11-30 Thread Mats Erik Andersson
Fellow Bering-users, in case you will never use a floppy based Bering system, please stop reading now in order not to waste your time. Possibly, you could record for future use that a maniac wrote something and you will be able to find it in the list archive, should need arise. The end

[leaf-user] Broken search function on the home page of Bering-uClibc

2006-11-29 Thread Mats Erik Andersson
Dear unknown maintainer of Bering-uC's home page, nowhere mentioned on the relevant pages. There is an xml-error that prevents every search on said page to deliver useless output, provided your browser does expect wellformed xml-coding, like my Mozilla does. The culprit is a misspelled closing

[leaf-user] Is nmap still not recognizing our dropbear?

2006-11-28 Thread Mats Erik Andersson
Hi all, I observed the other day that nmap 3.81 did not recognize the fingerprint of the ssh-service delivered by dropbear on Bering-uClibc beta3. Has the organization behind nmap been informed of a valid fingerprint? Naively, I imagine that to be of value for all. Regards Mats

[leaf-user] First try at Ralink driver rt61

2006-11-27 Thread Mats Erik Andersson
Fellow Bering-users, encouraged by an answer from Cédric Schieli, I went ahead to bye myself two Ralink wireless cards CWP-854. Unfortunately, they turned out not to react to the driver rt2500.o present with Bering-uC 3.0, and this was due to the fact that Ralink has as of late changed the

[leaf-user] Case closed: multiple 3c509 isa-cards without any aid of Microsoft

2006-11-25 Thread Mats Erik Andersson
Fellow Bering-users, inspired by comments of Erik Spakman, Nathan Angelacos, and Paul Wright, I set out to reconfigure those old 3Com 3c509TP ISA-cards without any recurse to Microsoft. Successfully I may add, so now you all can revive some outdated and slower, but nonetheless funcional

[leaf-user] Multiple ISA-cards. Detection?

2006-11-23 Thread Mats Erik Andersson
Fellow Bering-users, in setting up yet another Bering-uClic I have two Realtek rtl8139 and two Etherlink III cards as well as a forth- coming wireless card. Now, the driver 8139too correctly detects the first two cards, but 3c509 makes do with only one card being detected. Seemingly I cannot

Re: [leaf-user] Multiple ISA-cards. Detection? They are indeed ISA-cards!

2006-11-23 Thread Mats Erik Andersson
Hello Eric, the two cards are indeed ISA-cards: 3Com EtherLink III 3C509TP I have rescued a handful old isa-cards from the junk yard and I would like to put them to good use also with Bering. Of course, these two cards will serve as slower side interfaces on the intended access point. On

[leaf-user] Case closed: My manipulations to force logrotation

2006-11-22 Thread Mats Erik Andersson
Dear Eric, very many thanks for your diligence and patience in explaining. I will avoid deliberately teasing Bering henceforth. Paul Traina just expressed a thought that these phenomena with getty removal should go into some sort of post install text, so something good did come out of my

[leaf-user] Solution found: wmtp is steadily inflating

2006-11-21 Thread Mats Erik Andersson
Dear Eric, the removal/out-commenting in inittab to Achieve #1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty1 #2:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty1 worked very well. Now /var/log/wtmp keeps its size at 1920 bytes, which are created at boot up and the file never touched upon again. Many thanks for

[leaf-user] Log rotation at an incorrect time

2006-11-21 Thread Mats Erik Andersson
Dear fellow Bering-users, I had my Bering system up and running for close to three days on arow without my supervision, and with no access from any local network during that time, but the Bering-linux was constantly stressed by regular respawning due to a removed graphics card (cf. the thread

[leaf-user] May I remove wtmp using crontab?

2006-11-18 Thread Mats Erik Andersson
Dear All, I have now stopped running my two Bering-uClibc systems with a loglevel of 'debug', but there is still one way that my concerns remain. Contrary to the situation on my Debian Sarge system, Bering continues to write to the file /var/log/wtmp. Its size exceeds 2MB in less than a day.

[leaf-user] wmtp is steadily inflating

2006-11-18 Thread Mats Erik Andersson
Hello Eric and KP and all others, I have found that the increase of /var/log/wtmp takes place shortly before 'daemon.log' gets a pair of entries Init Id 1 respawning too fast: disabled for 5 min and a similar message for 2. The correlation is very close but I cannot measure the time

Re: [leaf-user] Once more 'Configuration changed ...'

2006-11-17 Thread Mats Erik Andersson
--- Eric Spakman [EMAIL PROTECTED] skrev: Hello Mats, I'm not sure if I understand what you mean, can you send me and example? Dear Eric, essentially I expressed my desire to see the welcome page of lrcfg shifted slightly to the left and I did this all to schematic for it to be clear

[leaf-user] Is the Ralink RT2500 wireless chipset suitable for Bering?

2006-11-16 Thread Mats Erik Andersson
Dear All, yesterday I stumbled upon claims that the CNet wire- less pci-card CWP-854 is being sold with source code in order to compile the driver under GNU/Linux. Then I observed that the Free Software Foundation includes this particular card in a long list of wireless cards that are based on

[leaf-user] Once more Configuration changed ...

2006-11-16 Thread Mats Erik Andersson
Hello again, I support the suggestions of Jim Ford for using c) Show configuration changes since last save. d) Show configuration changes from distribution. May I only suggest that those five letter commands in lrcfg ought not be indented all the way to the middle of the page. The page

[leaf-user] Multiple dhcpd-intervals invisible in webconf

2006-11-14 Thread Mats Erik Andersson
Dear All, I have my Bering up and running very well with two interfaces inwards. Dnsmasq services them both without complaint. However, I get only to see one of the two lease intervals when using the DNS/DHCP-page of webconf in 'basic'. Of course, all is well on the 'general-

[leaf-user] Cosmetic patches for webconf and a suggestion for more formatting of logfiles

2006-11-14 Thread Mats Erik Andersson
Dear All, attached is a small file to accomplish some minor cosmetic facelifting. The patching only concerns spacing and aligning in the table of logfiles.cgi and some new space below buttons in other webconf pages. Nothing much, but makes reading smoother. When using the

[leaf-user] My criticism of Configuration changed ... in lrcfg

2006-11-13 Thread Mats Erik Andersson
Dear All, immediately upon entering the setup command lrcfg of Bering, I encounter the two options c) Configuration changed since last save, d) Configuration changed from distribution. I do not think they are phrased well enough, simply because I misunderstood their meaning