[SLUG] After kernel 2.6.5-1 install, cursorprinting lost, reboot hangs after upgrade...

2004-05-02 Thread Adam Felix Bogacki
Hi, attempting to installing MPlayer, I found had no audio with the 2.4.18-bf2.4 kernel. I apt-installed the 2.4.25-1-686 kernel, headers, and alsa-modules but was ultimately informed on alsa-users that my kernel/modules were 'foobar' . Kernel 2.6 .5-1-686 includes alsa-modules so I tried

[SLUG] zombie file?

2004-05-02 Thread James Gregory
Dear SLUG, I happened to need to obliterate some files today and stumbled upon this one (/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/nvidia-driver-1.0.5336/linux-2.6.1-1.65/drivers/scsi/psi_dale.h) that refused to be obliterated. Upon actually looking in the directory I found this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] scsi]# ls -la

Re: [SLUG] mount: /dev/cdrom is not a valid block device

2004-05-02 Thread John Nicholls
Edwin Humphries wrote: G'day, I'm getting the error message mount: /dev/cdrom is not a valid block device when I try to mount the CD. This is after installing RH7.2 on an old Pentium I/166 This is a known problem with this release. To fix it, as root run: /sbin/depmod -ae For more info, see

Re: [SLUG] Debian SSH2

2004-05-02 Thread Howard Lowndes
On Sun, 2004-05-02 at 13:06, Greg Cockburn wrote: Howard, I am not fimilar with ssh2 , but when I am trying to solve problems with openssh I run the server and client in debug so you can see what is happening. Already been there and done that - no help from that avenue though :( from

[SLUG] blocking port 80 on firewall.

2004-05-02 Thread Ken Foskey
On Sun, 2004-05-02 at 17:08, Ken Foskey wrote: And How do I block port 80 on eth1 using ipmasq (ipchains) under debian. All I need to do now is figure out how to ensure the proxy is used. Turns out that I am using iptables (K 2.4.26) I think this command should do the drop that I

Re: [SLUG] blocking port 80 on firewall.

2004-05-02 Thread Robert Collins
On Sun, 2004-05-02 at 17:56, Ken Foskey wrote: On Sun, 2004-05-02 at 17:08, Ken Foskey wrote: And How do I block port 80 on eth1 using ipmasq (ipchains) under debian. All I need to do now is figure out how to ensure the proxy is used. Turns out that I am using iptables (K

[SLUG] tcp tuning

2004-05-02 Thread Alexander Samad
Hi I am want to be able to tune my linux stack (2.6) to allow for better downloads. I am on bigpond cable and I am currently hitting a peak of 3683.8 kb/s (mrtg). The way i figure it is I am being limited by my upstream sending ack's back. I have controll of the 2 linux box's I would like to

Re: [SLUG] tcp tuning

2004-05-02 Thread Simon Males
I am want to be able to tune my linux stack (2.6) to allow for better downloads. I am on bigpond cable and I am currently hitting a peak of 3683.8 kb/s (mrtg). Linux stack as in tcp/ip protocol stack? You cant be serious. Q: Whats between your box in the states and you. A: Your ISP Setup a

Re: [SLUG] blocking port 80 on firewall.

2004-05-02 Thread Keith Hopkins
Ken Foskey wrote: On Sun, 2004-05-02 at 17:08, Ken Foskey wrote: And How do I block port 80 on eth1 using ipmasq (ipchains) under debian. All I need to do now is figure out how to ensure the proxy is used. Turns out that I am using iptables (K 2.4.26) I think this command should

Re: [SLUG] tcp tuning

2004-05-02 Thread Alexander Samad
On Sun, May 02, 2004 at 07:29:26PM +1000, Simon Males wrote: I am want to be able to tune my linux stack (2.6) to allow for better downloads. I am on bigpond cable and I am currently hitting a peak of 3683.8 kb/s (mrtg). Linux stack as in tcp/ip protocol stack? You cant be serious. Q:

Re: [SLUG] blocking port 80 on firewall.

2004-05-02 Thread Robert Collins
On Sun, 2004-05-02 at 19:38, Keith Hopkins wrote: Instead of blocking port 80, you could also consider redirecting it to the port used by squid. Something like: iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -i eth0 -p tcp --dport 80 -j REDIRECT --to-port 3128 This works for me (transparent

[SLUG] Kernel panic: 2.6.5.-1-686 boot probs.

2004-05-02 Thread Adam Felix Bogacki
Oops, I forgot to run lilo ... but I then got the error message /dev/mapper/control: open failed: No such device Is device mapper driver missing from kernel ? Incompatible libdevmapper 1.00.15-ioctl (2004-04-07) (compat) and kernel driver Warning: The boot sector and map file are on different

Re: [SLUG] blocking port 80 on firewall.

2004-05-02 Thread Mary Gardiner
On Sun, May 02, 2004, Keith Hopkins wrote: Instead of blocking port 80, you could also consider redirecting it to the port used by squid. Or possibly put up a minimal web-page using one of the minimalist servers, that explains how to turn the proxy on. That's halfway between transparent

Re: [SLUG] fixing Grub on hdd with corrupted part table

2004-05-02 Thread Greg Cockburn
Bill, You maybe able to boot it with knoppix. something like this. Linux root=/dev/hda4 at the lilo prompt. I am not familiar with knoppix or how the booting works on its CDs, so the above is just a guess. the other option when in knoppix mount /dev/hda4 /mnt chroot /mnt lilo exit reboot

Re: [SLUG] Debian SSH2

2004-05-02 Thread Peter Hardy
On Sun, 2004-05-02 at 12:10, Howard Lowndes wrote: My $HOME/.ssh2/authorization files looks like: Key id_rsa1.pub Key id_rsa2.pub Key id_dsa.pub Check the permissions on your key files. ssh will quiely refuse to use them if anybody other than you has read permission. The default umask in

[SLUG] Remote LPD priting on Debian Woody (LPRNG)

2004-05-02 Thread Terry Collins
I'm having a bit of trouble with remote printing (LPR) onto a Debian Woody machine. Basically, I can not work out what I am doing wrong to give permission to the remote machine to spool to the printer. As I understand it adding ACCEPT SERVICE=R REMOTEIP=192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0 to

FIXED Re: [SLUG] Remote LPD priting on Debian Woody (LPRNG)

2004-05-02 Thread Terry Collins
Terry Collins wrote: I'm having a bit of trouble with remote printing (LPR) onto a Debian Woody machine. Okay, fixed http://lists.slug.org.au/archives/slug/2002/04/msg00606.html Basically, I can not work out what I am doing wrong to give permission to the remote machine to spool to the

Re: [SLUG] tcp tuning

2004-05-02 Thread Alexander Samad
On Sun, May 02, 2004 at 07:39:04PM +1000, Alexander Samad wrote: On Sun, May 02, 2004 at 07:29:26PM +1000, Simon Males wrote: I am want to be able to tune my linux stack (2.6) to allow for better downloads. I am on bigpond cable and I am currently hitting a peak of 3683.8 kb/s (mrtg).

Re: [SLUG] configuring dual boot system

2004-05-02 Thread John Clarke
On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 11:29:00AM +0100, andrew wrote: I wish to install a fairly recent version of Mandrake Linux on my machine at home. I want to keep win98 on an existing hard disk (it has some uses) and install Linux on a second IDE hard drive i.e. no messing with partitioning. It

Re: [SLUG] Debian SSH2

2004-05-02 Thread Howard Lowndes
On Sun, 2004-05-02 at 17:12, Ken Foskey wrote: On Sun, 2004-05-02 at 17:07, Howard Lowndes wrote: Mmmm. SSH2 on Deb doesn't mention the authorized_keys file in the man pages, just the authorization file and the key files that are listed therein. I already had done the above anyway as it

Re: [SLUG] Server being used to relay emails

2004-05-02 Thread Roger Barnes
Or roughly 1/3 of the mail volume, by message count, is crap from badly configured servers! It gets really annoying when you try to inform the postmaster and get this ... From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your message was not delivered to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] because: User Postmaster ([EMAIL