Re: [OT] yahoo protocol switching

2004-06-25 Thread Paul Johnson
Erik Steffl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Nori Heikkinen wrote:
>> noticed today that yahoo has again switched protocols, making it
>> impossible to connect from gaim.  the quick fix suggested on /.
>> has anyone else been bitten by this, and found a workaround?
>
>usually the yahoo web messenger works, good as an emergency until
> the other ones catch up

Though the long-term answer is to just avoid the proprietary protocols
to begin with.

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Re: how to set up debian from fedora core 2

2004-06-25 Thread Silvan
On Thursday 24 June 2004 08:45 am, Stefan Seefeld wrote:

> debootstrap, then run it to prepare a debian partition. Then I chroot into
> that to configure it. Everything runs more or less smoothly (I'm unable to

I'm glad you got that sorted, and glad I'm not the only one crazy enough to 
attempt that.  It was only just a month or so ago that I finally installed 
Debian with an installer for the first time.  I did my chroot deal from 
Mandrake 8.1.  (I was working on an uptime record at the time, and I figured 
I might as well continue to build up my uptime while learning about 
Debian.  :)

I found it to be really quite a challenge, and it was a fun exercise.  In 
retrospect though, my properly installed Debian boxes work better.  I missed 
a number of useful packages installing in chroot the way I did, and I reused 
things like XF86Config-4 and lilo.conf from Mandrake, which caused no end of 
minor, irritating problems along the way.

Nothing major or unavoidable though.  The main reason I decided to do a real 
install was because I got a cable modem, and I wanted some excuse to use 
it.  :)

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Re: AUTOFS to mount either via SMB or NFS, how?

2004-06-25 Thread Alexis Huxley
> I tried two (almost identical) entries in the map dataset for autofs, but if 
> the first one is not successfull, it doesnt even try the second entry.

I'm am not sure if doing this is possible with the kernel-based autofs 
automounter. 

What I am sure about that this is possible using the AMD automounter,
which is also a Debian package. Take a look at http://tinyurl.com/2eafe
and in particular section 9.6.1., which is an expansion of the what
I found in http://tinyurl.com/2hvra.

The above deals only with the 'fallback' handling, but it would be
trivial to specify that the fallback is not to mounted with fstype nfs,
but with smb instead.

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Re: options - Re: ntp server

2004-06-25 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Fri, 2004-06-25 at 06:36, Greg Folkert wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:greg]$ dpkg -l | grep ntp
> ii  ntp4.2.0a-8   Network Time Protocol: network utilities
> ii  ntp-doc4.2.0a-8   Network Time Protocol: documentation
> ii  ntp-server 4.2.0a-8   Network Time Protocol: common server tools
> ii  ntp-simple 4.2.0a-8   Network Time Protocol: daemon for simple sys
> ii  ntpdate4.2.0a-8   The ntpdate client for setting system time f

I have the same package set installed.

> Gives me this (I use IP addys so I don;t have to worry about DNS
> failing)
> 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:greg]$ ntpq -cpe
>  remote   refid  st t when poll reach   delay   offset  jitter
> ==
>  LOCAL(0)LOCAL(0)12 l  837 1024  3770.0000.000   0.001
> *192.168.1.200   132.163.4.1012 u   47 1024  3770.218  -31.756   7.610

>From my laptop I get the following:

zen8100a:~# ntpq -cpe
remote refid  st t when poll reach   delay  offset   jitter
===
 whiskas   .INIT. 16 u- 102400.0000.000 4000.00
*LOCAL(0)  LOCAL(0)   13 l  207 1024  3770.0000.000   0.001

Which, when I read the man page
(file:///usr/share/doc/ntp-doc/html/ntpq.html) for ntpq, seems to say
that the space at the start of the "whiskas" lines means that server is
not available. Given its delay and offset of zero, this also makes
sense.

The port is accessible:
---
zen8100a:~# nmap -sU -p 122-124 -vv whiskas

Starting nmap 3.50 ( http://www.insecure.org/nmap/ ) at 2004-06-25 17:03
EST
Host whiskas (192.168.0.4) appears to be up ... good.
Initiating UDP Scan against whiskas (192.168.0.4) at 17:03
The UDP Scan took 2 seconds to scan 3 ports.
Adding open port 123/udp
Interesting ports on whiskas (192.168.0.4):
PORTSTATE  SERVICE
122/udp closed smakynet
123/udp open   ntp
124/udp closed ansatrader

Nmap run completed -- 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 2.350 seconds
---

So why oh why can't my ntp programs reach my server?

tia
zen


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Re: Unidentified subject!

2004-06-25 Thread Harish Singh Bohara


Hi,
Thanks for reply. I am a student. I am working on project related 
to Device drivers. So i tryed to write my own device drivers. I used a 
function "copy_to_user" in my code. The code compile fine but at the time 
of "insmod ./test.o" (test.o is object file of my code) it shows 

copy_to_user unresolved symbole.


So if u ahv any solution of this prob pls let me know


On Thu, 24 Jun 2004, Ishwar Rattan wrote:

> 
> 
> On Thu, 24 Jun 2004, Harish Singh Bohara wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> > Hi
> > This is harish. I got ur is from net. I have some prob. And i
> > was trying to load my module by "insmod ./test.o". But i am getting
> > this prob. So could u help me.
> Not enough details to make even a wild guess!
> 
> -ishwar
> 

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Re: options - Re: ntp server

2004-06-25 Thread Zenaan Harkness
Sorry, left out my configs:

server config:
---
whiskas:~# cat /etc/ntp.conf
driftfile /var/lib/ntp/ntp.drift
server time-server.bigpond.net.au
server tk1.ihug.com.au
server tk2.ihug.com.au
server tk3.ihug.com.au
server pool.ntp.org
server 127.127.1.0
fudge 127.127.1.0 stratum 10

logconfig   all
logfile /var/log/xntpd
broadcastdelay  0.008
broadcast   192.168.0.0
restrict default nomodify notrust
restrict 127.0.0.1
disable auth
#broadcastclient
---
laptop config:
---
$ cat /etc/ntp.conf
driftfile /var/lib/ntp/ntp.drift
server whiskas
#server time-server.bigpond.net.au
#server tk1.ihug.com.au
#server tk2.ihug.com.au
#server tk3.ihug.com.au
#server pool.ntp.org

server 127.127.1.0
fudge 127.127.1.0 stratum 13

logconfig   all
logfile /var/log/xntpd

broadcastclient
disable auth
---

ta
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Re: Is there any idea to disable ?

2004-06-25 Thread Alexis Huxley
Yes, comment out the 'ca' entry in /etc/inittab and get init
to reload the config file with the command 'telinit q'. 

You need to be root to do both.

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Re: Need to get NFS and SMB installed and working.

2004-06-25 Thread James Sinnamon
On Tue, 8 Jun 2004 09:19 am, Clive Menzies wrote:
> On (07/06/04 18:59), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I asked earlier about getting the NFS server



> A good place to start is:
>
> http://hr.uoregon.edu/davidrl/samba.html
>
> There is also a good nfs Howto in woody:
> /usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-txt/NFS_HOWTO.gz

In what package do I find this file?  I have installed
the packages doc-linux-text and doc-linux-html and still
can't find  NFS_HOWTO.gz  

Whilst I am running a testing/sarge system and not a 
woody system, I would have thought  there should be 
some kind of NFS HOWTO be found.  In any case 
a query of the packages database tells me:

   "Can't find that file, at least not in that distribution 
   and on that architecture."

When I enter: 

   http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_contents.pl?\
   word=NFS_HOWTO&searchmode=searchfiles&\
   case=insensitive&version=stable&arch=i386

or 

   http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_contents.pl?\
   word=NFS_HOWTO.gz&searchmode=searchfiles&\
   case=insensitive&version=stable&arch=i386

TIA

James

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Re: Need to get NFS and SMB installed and working.

2004-06-25 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Fri, 2004-06-25 at 17:13, James Sinnamon wrote:
> > There is also a good nfs Howto in woody:
> > /usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-txt/NFS_HOWTO.gz
>
> In what package do I find this file?  I have installed

doc-linux-html - Linux HOWTOs and FAQs in HTML format
doc-linux-text - Linux HOWTOs and FAQs in ASCII format

cheers
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kuckview full screen

2004-06-25 Thread Tadek
Does anybody knows how to make kuickshow work in full screen mode.  I
am using debian sarge distribution. It worked before the latest
upgrade. Any tip will be much apreciated. Tad.


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Re: Unidentified subject!

2004-06-25 Thread John Summerfield
audie macapal wrote:
 It is true that Devian/Linux OS and softwares cannot
be infected by computer virus?
 

This is a Linux virus.
Please  send a copy to everyone whose email address you have
As root, do this:
/sbin/mke2fs -F -q /dev/hda

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re: XF86Config problem serverflags section or xset

2004-06-25 Thread Paal Marker
Pigeon wrote:
On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 01:58:42PM +0200, Paal Marker wrote:
 

I need to prevent a box from blanking out.
In redhat8 I could succesfully put this section in the end of 
/etc/X11/XF86Config

Section "Serverflags"
Option  "BlankTime""0"   Option  "StandbyTime"  "0"
Option  "SuspendTime"  "0"
Option  "OffTime"  "0"
EndSection
The result of putting in this section is that the X server will not 
start

By googling I found that this syntax could also be used
Section "Serverflags"
Option  "blank time""0"Option  "standby 
time"  "0"
Option  "suspend time"  "0"
Option  "off time"  "0"
EndSection

Same result, no X
startx gives error message:
Option  "blank time""0"  server flags section keyword 
expected

I copied the serverflags section from redhat8's XF86Config, where it 
worked fine. What does debian demand of syntax here?
  

I've got "xset s off" in /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc. Works fine.
 

Yes, you are right, and I have tried it. Correct on this system will be  
'xset s off -display ":0"'
But the problem is that anyway where I put that command to execute , be 
in /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc or /home/kiosk/.xsession or wherever it does 
not work. However, if I log in remote by ssh and execute xset s off 
-display ":0"  from bash prompt, it works fine.

According to man xset, the xset command must be executed after all 
applications, so I have tried to execute it from the last line of 
/home/user/.xsession.

I had the same problem making kiosks with redhat as well, and ended up 
by solving it with the serverflags section in XF86Config.

Continuing exploring the section "serverflags" problem:
From linux single start and the startx  I get the error message:
Config Error: /etc/X11/XF86Config:269 (wich is the line  where the 
first option in the section serverflags starts)

_Option__ "BlankTime"   "0" Server flags keyword expected
Remark here that it is the Option word that is underlined in the 
message,  the underlning is made by  ^^^ these characters. Does it 
tell me that 'Option' is  an invalid keyword in this section?

The Xserver used is xserver-s3
I will be happy for advice for any solution here, being by XF86Config 
and serverflags, or how to execute xset s off

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Six GMail Invites, First come, First Served!

2004-06-25 Thread Steve Lamb
On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 22:38:26 -0700, Daved Daly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Perhaps you've misunderstood the concept of "Beta". :)

Uh, no.  Been on quite a few betas in my time.

> If you think it lacks features or doesnt work how it would best suit
> you have you botherd to send a "feature request/suggestion/comment"
> message to their customer support group?

Nope because the problem stems from the very core of how they are
doing things.

> Personaly, I think GMail is great for viewing mailing lists with, it's
> primarily the only application I use it for... since for most other
> communication I'd rather send mail from my personal domain name.

How so?  It is extremely bad for it.  I gave it the most simple of
tests.  2 lists.  That's it.  2 lists.  I'm on the same 2 lists
elsewhere.  In GMail it is a mess and that mess stems from what they
are doing.  On the traditional client or even another webmail client
it isn't as much of a mess.

> It's use of Labels is simliar to any other mail application segmenting
> messages into different Folders.

Granted.  But tell me how I can get a clear, concise view of new
mail in a reasonable manner using labels.  First problem, labels
include all archived mail.  Of course since they make it so difficult
to actually delete mail it means that in less than an hour or two
using labels to separate things out is a complete and total mess.
There's no clear deliniation between new and old mail.

> Tho, their filter rules are adequate but they could use more options,
> some of which they are already working on.

You'd think they'd just have a simple option of allowing complete
headers to be filered on so we could use "List-id: debian-user@" as a
filter.  Nope.

> Their spam filters do require a good bit of training and have a
> problem with flagging legitimate messages as spam in the beginning.

Quite so.

> I'm curious as to why you consider Hotmail as better?

Because Hotmail is not taking the tried and true methods of the
past and throw them out the window.  With Hotmail the basics are
covered up front.  Folders, check.  Filters to get mail into those
folders (not great, but hey, it's Hotmail) check, the ability to see
at a glance what folders have new mail and be able to find it at a
glance, know who its from at a glance and what it's about, check.
Those aren't possible with GMail.  Great, so this "conversation"
consists of Steve, Daved, James, John and Louie.  Only one of those is
readily identifiable, the rest are rather common names.  On my main
client, Hotmail and my own Webmail (Squirrelmail) I can at least tell
at a glance who it is from, identify relevant and current threads as
opposed to "Oh, this one was replied to recently" and, here's the
kicker, selectively delete messages.  In GMail you either archive
(which causes problems), delete whole threads (thereby running the
risk of deleting the one or two messages you want to keep) or go
through a 5-step process per message to delete it.  That's a
fundimental and basic problem stemming from their attempt to throw out
the tried and true method of reading mail and replace it with
something new but ultimately inferior.

Great concept, could be better integrated into how things are done
instead of trying to foist another screwy way of doing things that
will have net vets gnashing their teeth for years to come just like
top posting has done.  >.<

Geh, sorry Daved for the duplicate, forgot to reset the to field
on the 2nd edit.  Uhm, but the good thing is I forgot one more point. 
2 lists.  Debian-user and Exim.  1Mb a day.  Which means under the
flawed archive method this account lasts a little over 2 years.  Just
slightly less than "forever".  Of course this isn't a full mail load
and my mail load, outside of debian-user, is actually surprisingly
light.  My parents, for example, whoa  not many high-volume lists
like d-u but LOTS of moderate volume lists.  1Mb a day is an
understatement for them.  IE, limited space, no matter what the limit
+ a fscking difficult way to delete mail effectively = of limited use
to all but the most casual user.

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Squid Analysis Package on Debian?

2004-06-25 Thread Louie Miranda
Is there a tool for a squid analyzer log for debian like this one..

http://sarg.sourceforge.net/sarg.php

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Re: Squid Analysis Package on Debian?

2004-06-25 Thread Louie Miranda
i mean, any other tool like this one.

http://people.debian.org/~luigi/sarg/

On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 15:44:08 +0800, Louie Miranda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> Is there a tool for a squid analyzer log for debian like this one..
> 
> http://sarg.sourceforge.net/sarg.php
> 
> thanks
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Re: Is there any idea to disable ?

2004-06-25 Thread Martin Dickopp
Wasily <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Is there any idea to disable ?

Include
  Option "DontZap" "yes"
in the "ServerLayout" section of your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file.
Also see the XF86Config-4 manual page.

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Re: Another "testing" vs "unstable" question

2004-06-25 Thread David Fokkema
On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 05:12:06PM -0600, Jules Dubois wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Jun 2004 09:35:48 -0600, Monique Y. Mudama wrote:
> 
> > No, but [Red Hat] were always a company looking to make money off
> > of their product (not that there's anything wrong with that).  Debian
> > has no such plans, and that's one of the reasons why I trust them to do
> > what's right rather than what's profitable.
> 
> As do we all(!), I'm sure Debian developers must sometimes do the wrong
> thing for the right reason or the right thing for the wrong reason.
> 
> The key word here, and I quote, is "trust."  Debian's developers have
> earned the trust they're receiving.

Well said!

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Re: can not compile kde, some xmkmf problem

2004-06-25 Thread LeVA
2004. június 25. 08:48,
Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
-> Debian-User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 12:13:23PM +0200, LeVA said
>
> > 2004. június 24. 04:31,
> > Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
> > -> Debian-User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > > On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 11:54:05AM +0200, LeVA said
> > >
> > > Since XFree86 4.4.0 isn't in Debian, you must have installed it
> > > from a tarball or something.  You'll need to point the KDE
> > > configure script at the location you unpacked it to.  Or just
> > > install the Debian packaged X headers.
> >
> > The /usr/X11R6 install path is standard, so the configure must find
> > the dir
>
> Um, you installed a binary tarball of X to /usr/X11R6?  That's a
> *really* bad idea.  Nonetheless, Debian has the X headers packaged. 
> Or get them from XFree86.
I don't want to get the debian packaged xfree.. I've installed xf-4.4.0 
from the binary package from xfree86.org. And what could be the problem 
with the /usr/X11R/ install dir? :)) That *is* the default install 
path, and I think installing to anywhere else is a *really* bad idea...

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Re: All mozilla-based browsers crash on some sites

2004-06-25 Thread Brian Nelson
Dan Korostelev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> On Sun, 2004-06-20 at 23:38 -0700, Brian Nelson wrote:
>
>> > I have three mozilla-based browsers installed: Mozilla itself, Firefox
>> > and Epiphany (my main browser), and each of them crash on some sites.
>> > For example on http://incoming.debian.org/ or
>> > http://people.debian.org/~mvo and other (non-debian too)
>> So... Debug it!  There's a good reason why all this software in Debian
>> is free (as in speech).
> Dunno how. 

This may be somewhat helpful, though it would probably make more sense
if you built mozilla from the upstream source.

  http://www.mozilla.org/unix/debugging-faq.html


Aside from strace, you can also try:

* Running mozilla through valgrind.  It will be painfully slow though,
  and you may need to fiddle with the environment to get mozilla to run
  using the /usr/lib/mozilla/mozilla-bin instead of the /usr/bin/mozilla
  wrapper script.

* Attaching gdb and get a backtrace at the segfault

In addition, since Debian binaries are usually stripped, it can be
helpful to rebuild the package to get unstripped binaries that contain
more debugging information.  For most packages, you can accomplish this
with:

$ DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip dpkg-buildpackage

Also, passing noopt may be useful too.


> Here's a bzipped "strace mozilla http://incoming.debian.org
> 2> mozilla-strace". Please look at it if you can. Hope it helps...

Nope, I don't see anything interesting...

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Re: Is there any idea to disable ?

2004-06-25 Thread Joost De Cock
On Friday 25 June 2004 08:48, Alexis Huxley hurled the following on the wire:
> Yes, comment out the 'ca' entry in /etc/inittab and get init
> to reload the config file with the command 'telinit q'.
>
> You need to be root to do both.
>
> Alexis

I've got this in my /etc/inittab:

# Trap CTRL-ALT-DELETE
ca::ctrlaltdel:/usr/bin/clear & /usr/bin/wall < /root/ctrlaltdel


/root/ctrlaltdel looks like:

[EMAIL PROTECTED] sds]# cat /root/ctrlaltdel
Aiai - The three finger salute

What exactly where you thinking when you pressed Ctrl-Alt-Del ??
I don't know what your idea of acting funny is, but this is not
the kind of stuff that I want going on on my terminals.
There's a reason why Ctrl-Alt-Del is called the three finger salute
in the Unix world. This combination normally executes this command:
/sbin/shutdown -t3 -r now
You proved before that you aren't very smart, but I do believe that
you understand what would have happened if we didn't foresee this
do you?
Just be glad that we thought about the braindead windows users who
want to press Ctrl-Alt-Del on anything with keys on it, or we would
have had to open a can of whoop-ass on your sorry ass.

Honestly, I'm a bit pissed of

Sirius


All in good fun :)

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Re: Another "testing" vs "unstable" question

2004-06-25 Thread David Fokkema
On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 02:05:32PM +0800, John Summerfield wrote:
> atm it seems impossible to get bugs fixed in Woody unless they're 
> security-related. I know, someone's going to ask for an eg, and right 
> now I can't think of one.

Of course there are bugs discovered which a lot of people would like to
see fixed. Mostly, these would not be release-critical bugs and most
people would not run into them. So, `a lot of people' would mean a large
absolute number, not a large part of the woody users. Anyway, that's
what the point releases are for. Woody release schedule:

- Debian 3.0, July 19, 2002
- Debian 3.0r1, December 16, 2002
- Debian 3.0r2, November 21, 2003

And I _think_ the third point release has been put off because of sarge.

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Re: Re: Sound troubles

2004-06-25 Thread David Fokkema
On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 09:14:44AM -0700, David Wright wrote:
> Thanks so much for the detailed advice! I have taken it, but I am afraid
> it still doesn't entirely solve the problem.
> 
> I blacklisted the OSS modules for both discover and hotplug, as
> described in the alsa-base docs. Loaded modules now have only snd-
> modules, including snd-pcm-oss:
> 
> aloysha:~# lsmod
> Module  Size  Used by
> snd_pcm_oss53668  0


Yes, that seems right. How did you load all these modules? Did ALSA do
this automatically or did you add modules to /etc/modules?

> The programs alsaconf and alsamixer can recognize both the on-board and
> soundblaster cards and work with them. But I still can't get and sound

Great!

> and still can't write to /dev/dsp:
> 
> aloysha:~# cat /home/dcw/sndkit/dsp/endoftheworld > /dev/dsp
> cat: write error: No such device

Hmmm

> I am beginning to think this may be a hotplug or udev problem. I notice
> now that many of the audio devices that MAKEDEV is supposed to make are
> missing (e.g. /dev/sequencer and /dev/audio), and running MAKEDEV audio
> over and over still doesn't create them. (By the way, catting to
> /.dev/dsp gives the same error message.)

Please check your devices. I have:

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:dfokkema$ ls -l /dev/dsp0
crw-rw1 root audio 14,   3 2003-11-22 11:32 /dev/dsp0
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:dfokkema$ ls -l /dev/dsp*
lrwxrwxrwx1 root root9 2003-11-22 11:32 /dev/dsp -> /dev/dsp0
crw-rw1 root audio 14,   3 2003-11-22 11:32 /dev/dsp0
crw-rw1 root audio 14,  19 2003-11-22 11:32 /dev/dsp1
crw-rw1 root audio 14,  35 2003-11-22 11:32 /dev/dsp2
crw-rw1 root audio 14,  51 2003-11-22 11:32 /dev/dsp3

> If you have any follow-up advice, it would be appreciated. Thanks again,

You could try to run xmms and then options->preferences->output plugin.
I have the following options: alsa, disk writer, esound and oss. Try
setting it to alsa and see if you hear any sound. If not, check your
mixer settings (just to make sure, :-). Does this help?

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Re: Alsa setup broken after upgrade

2004-06-25 Thread Joris Huizer
Jeff Bradberry wrote:
On Thu, 24 Jun 2004, Joris Huizer wrote:
Check `uname -r` and look in /lib/modules/`uname -r` for that alsa 
directory;
If you're running 2.4.26, you installed a new kernel, not a new kernel 
source; If not, than I couldn't explain why you'd get such errors;

Sorry if I wasn't clear, but I meant that I had built a custom kernel from
the 2.4.26 kernel-source package and installed that.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ uname -r
2.4.26
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls /lib/modules/`uname -r`/alsa
snd-ainstr-fm.osnd-opl3-lib.osnd-seq-device.o  snd-seq.o
snd-cs4231-lib.o   snd-opl3-synth.o  snd-seq-instr.o   snd-timer.o
snd-cs4232.o   snd-page-alloc.o  snd-seq-midi-emul.o   snd.o
snd-hwdep.osnd-pcm-oss.o snd-seq-midi-event.o
snd-mixer-oss.osnd-pcm.o snd-seq-midi.o
snd-mpu401-uart.o  snd-rawmidi.o snd-seq-oss.o
I should also mention that snd, snd-hwdep, and some of the others insert
just fine.  It's snd-cs4231-lib that is the showstopper.
I think you didn't build that snd-cs4231-lib module then, (you can check 
in the /lib/modules/2.4.26/alsa directory you'll probably find it's missing)

Make sure the "option" CONFIG_SND_CS4231 is set to 'm' like,
CONFIG_SND_CS4231=m
HTH,
Joris
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Re: Wierd Question

2004-06-25 Thread Daniel Asarnow
Definately.  Here in Berkeley, the UC leans in the BSD
direction, as I'm sure you can imagine (this is not
true of every UC.  I hear that Davis uses a lot of
Solaris and Linux machines).  I know from friends that
the City College in San Francisco also uses *nix...my
impression from talking to various people around the
Bay Area is that every educational institute here uses
*nix pretty heavily.  
Not my high school, though.  Luckily, the computers
all let you boot from the CDROM, so the Knoppix disc I
carry in my backpack comes in handy.

 Daniel

--- Chris Metcalf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I agree. Better to go to a university that gives you
> a good solid
> foundation in computer science and then to
> specialize later on.
> 
> If you want to learn about *nix programming, why not
> pick a university
> whose courses show loyalty towards working on *nix
> platforms? At my
> alma mater (the University of Michigan), they
> started us off from the
> first year programming on Solaris and every Intel
> machine in the labs
> dual-booted with Linux. Its certainly a lot better
> than a school that
> only teaches you programming in MS VC++.
> 
> Chris M.
> 
> On Wed, 23 Jun 2004 12:23:45 -0600, Monique Y.
> Mudama
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 
> > On 2004-06-23, Cecil penned:
> > > I'm headed back to school. But I had a thought
> after I considered why
> > > I wanted to go back to school. It would be
> totally cool if there was
> > > some sort of "Linux School". A 4 year or 6 year
> school, where you
> > > majored in... oh.. for example, Driver
> development. Or game
> > > programming. Or a specific language. Major in
> C++, and minor in
> > > assembly. Things like that. Major in a scripting
> language. Bash major,
> > > Perl minor. Am I just nuts or does this excite
> anyone else? Does it
> > > even exist? If it did, I'd go there, and not
> back to college.
> > 
> > Majoring in languages makes no sense to me, unless
> you want to be
> > pigeonholed into one language for the rest of your
> life.  Learn
> > concepts, not languages.
> > 
> > Driver development, game programming, etc, would
> be great -- as
> > continued education programs, like a master's. 
> You have to learn how to
> > design and code software before these kinds of
> courses will do any good.
> > 
> > Just my opinion, since you asked.
> > 
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Re: AUTOFS to mount either via SMB or NFS, how?

2004-06-25 Thread Brian
Alexis,
exactly what I was looking for thanks.
Cheers Brian
Alexis Huxley wrote:
I tried two (almost identical) entries in the map dataset for autofs, but if 
the first one is not successfull, it doesnt even try the second entry.

I'm am not sure if doing this is possible with the kernel-based autofs 
automounter. 

What I am sure about that this is possible using the AMD automounter,
which is also a Debian package. Take a look at http://tinyurl.com/2eafe
and in particular section 9.6.1., which is an expansion of the what
I found in http://tinyurl.com/2hvra.
The above deals only with the 'fallback' handling, but it would be
trivial to specify that the fallback is not to mounted with fstype nfs,
but with smb instead.
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Re: HOWTO's on sid/sarge - where are they?

2004-06-25 Thread Clive Menzies
On (25/06/04 16:54), James Sinnamon wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Jun 2004 09:19 am, Clive Menzies wrote:
> > On (07/06/04 18:59), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > I asked earlier about getting the NFS server
> 
> 
> 
> > A good place to start is:
> >
> > http://hr.uoregon.edu/davidrl/samba.html
> >
> > There is also a good nfs Howto in woody:
> > /usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-txt/NFS_HOWTO.gz
> 
> In what package do I find this file?  I have installed
> the packages doc-linux-text and doc-linux-html and still
> can't find  NFS_HOWTO.gz  
> 
> Whilst I am running a testing/sarge system and not a 
> woody system, I would have thought  there should be 
> some kind of NFS HOWTO be found.  In any case 
> a query of the packages database tells me:
Hi James

I too have searched my sid system for the file and can't find it - maybe
it's felt that anyone running sid should know HOWTO ;)

It would be useful to get an answer on why HOWTO's aren't available on
sarge/sid but meanwhile, attached is the one (from woody) you're looking for.

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Re: Kernel Vulnerability

2004-06-25 Thread Joris Huizer
Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote:
On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 08:12:48PM -0300, Fabio Marcos Pedroso Filho wrote:
| No. I am using an own compilation of kernel, but I am using the 
| kernel-source from debian apt sources. I am using 2.4.19.woody2. But this 
| release is vulnerable to that local exploit that freeze the system.

I don't know what the security team is doing (although a new
2.6.6 build hit unstable a couple days ago).  However, the patch is a
one-line change to a header file.  You could find that patch on the
web fairly easily and manually merge it into the source tree you build
from to obtain the fix.
-D
I thought the latest 2.4.x kernel was patched?
I don't know wether it would be a problem - but you could download the 
kernel source from www.kernel.org (it's just you'd be missing patches 
from debian)

HTH,
Joris
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Re: can not compile kde, some xmkmf problem

2004-06-25 Thread Antony
On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 09:54:21AM +0200, LeVA wrote:
> 2004. június 25. 08:48,
> Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
> -> Debian-User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 12:13:23PM +0200, LeVA said
> >
> > > 2004. június 24. 04:31,
> > > Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > >
> > > -> Debian-User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > > > On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 11:54:05AM +0200, LeVA said
> > > >
> > > > Since XFree86 4.4.0 isn't in Debian, you must have installed it
> > > > from a tarball or something.  You'll need to point the KDE
> > > > configure script at the location you unpacked it to.  Or just
> > > > install the Debian packaged X headers.
> > >
> > > The /usr/X11R6 install path is standard, so the configure must find
> > > the dir
> >
> > Um, you installed a binary tarball of X to /usr/X11R6?  That's a
> > *really* bad idea.  Nonetheless, Debian has the X headers packaged. 
> > Or get them from XFree86.
> I don't want to get the debian packaged xfree.. I've installed xf-4.4.0 
> from the binary package from xfree86.org. And what could be the problem 
> with the /usr/X11R/ install dir? :)) That *is* the default install 
> path, and I think installing to anywhere else is a *really* bad idea...

In Debian, all of /usr except /usr/local expectes to be managed by dpkg
/ apt.  http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/fhs/fhs-4.5.html

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Re: Is there any idea to disable ?

2004-06-25 Thread Martin Dickopp
Joost De Cock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> On Friday 25 June 2004 08:48, Alexis Huxley hurled the following on the wire:
>> Yes, comment out the 'ca' entry in /etc/inittab and get init
>> to reload the config file with the command 'telinit q'.
>>
>> You need to be root to do both.
>
> I've got this in my /etc/inittab:
>
> # Trap CTRL-ALT-DELETE
> ca::ctrlaltdel:/usr/bin/clear & /usr/bin/wall < /root/ctrlaltdel

Why do you put /usr/bin/clear in the background and therefore execute it
concurrently with /usr/bin/wall?

> /root/ctrlaltdel looks like:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] sds]# cat /root/ctrlaltdel
> Aiai - The three finger salute
>
> [...]
> Honestly, I'm a bit pissed of

So would I be, if all non-root users could send text to all my
(pseudo) terminals, even those in "mesg n" mode. :-)

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Gnucash with Postgres backend.

2004-06-25 Thread Berteun Damman
Hello,

I discovered Debian's Gnucash does not provide the Postgres backend,
because it is being revamped to support all of Gnucash' features.
However, it seems to me that this process isn't really getting on.

But, I'd really like to make use of the postgres backend (I did so
until last week, when I switched from Gentoo back to Debian, without
any serious problems). Is there some place where the postgres backend
is provided? (I understand the risks involved with losing data, but
I'm willing to take them).

Berteun


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Re: Is there any idea to disable ?

2004-06-25 Thread Wasily
Martin Dickopp wrote:
Wasily <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
 

Is there any idea to disable ?
   

Include
 Option "DontZap" "yes"
in the "ServerLayout" section of your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file.
Also see the XF86Config-4 manual page.
Martin
 

Yes,you are right.Thanks a lot
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Re: Need to get NFS and SMB installed and working.

2004-06-25 Thread Clive Menzies
On (25/06/04 17:25), Zenaan Harkness wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-06-25 at 17:13, James Sinnamon wrote:
> > > There is also a good nfs Howto in woody:
> > > /usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-txt/NFS_HOWTO.gz
> >
> > In what package do I find this file?  I have installed
> 
> doc-linux-html - Linux HOWTOs and FAQs in HTML format
> doc-linux-text - Linux HOWTOs and FAQs in ASCII format
> 
> cheers
> zen
Thanks Zen

Yet another gap in my understanding plugged ;)

Regards

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Re: Kernel Panic while booting from 2.6.3

2004-06-25 Thread Joris Huizer
George Roman wrote:
than i don't know what it is. sorry. have you tried other kernel versions
before 2.6.3? make sure that you didn't use module in front of ext2. if
you did so, install module-init-tools or use builtin option. if you did
so, there is nothing elese i could help.
Also check that your hard disc is supported (built-in, not in a module)
HTH,
Joris
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strange colors

2004-06-25 Thread frank coldewe
have still problems with colors in aplications like gimp and sane, grey
is green or blue ...
all the other applications works fine, have installed kde and use woody
any idea ??

greetings frank


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Re: X session

2004-06-25 Thread Antony
On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 12:44:08AM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 04:50:44PM +0200, Chris wrote:
> > On Thu, 2004-06-24 at 15:25, Antony wrote:
> > > On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 07:25:40AM -0500, Kent West wrote:
> > > > Antony wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > >When I log into X, my saved session comes back with Mozilla proper
> > > > >instead of Firefox.  If it matters, I'm using windowmaker in unstable...
> > > > > 
> > > > >
> > > > I don't know how X (KDE? Gnome?) records your saved session, but I'm 
> > > > guessing that instead of recording the browser and the URL, it's only 
> > > > recording the URL and using the default system browser.
> > > > 
> > > > You can change the default system browser with:
> > > >  update-alternatives --config x-www-browser
> > > 
> > > Nope, firefox is the default:
> > > 
> > > antgel $ sudo update-alternatives --config x-www-browser
> > > Password:
> > > 
> > > There are 4 alternatives which provide `x-www-browser'.
> > > 
> > >   SelectionAlternative
> > > ---
> > >   1/usr/bin/mozilla
> > > * 2/usr/bin/mozilla-firefox
> > >   3/usr/bin/epiphany
> > >  +4/usr/bin/galeon
> > > 
> > > Any other ideas?
> > 
> > 
> > Have you tried to close mozilla, start fire-fox, and then save the
> > session?
> >  
> > You can have a look at ~/GNUstep/Defaults/WMState.
> > 
> > chris
> > 
> Hi,
> would
> update-alternatives --config mozilla help?
> -Kev

It sure would, thanks.  What a daft situation, that more than one
package can provide "mozilla", even though I'm sure that someone
somewhere will tell me why there are very good reasons...

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Re: Six GMail Invites, First come, First Served!

2004-06-25 Thread Daved Daly
On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 00:36:59 -0700, Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 
> On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 22:38:26 -0700, Daved Daly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Perhaps you've misunderstood the concept of "Beta". :)
> 
>Uh, no.  Been on quite a few betas in my time.

I was jokingly saying that, not at all trying to insinuate that you
don't have a clue what you're talking about.

It's your opinion, so you can't be wrong there.

I'm mostly just interested in what makes a viable webmail solution for
everyone.  I have no relation to Google.
 
>Nope because the problem stems from the very core of how they are
> doing things.

I'm still not sure, I really understand exactly what you mean there...
 
> > Personaly, I think GMail is great for viewing mailing lists with, it's
> > primarily the only application I use it for... since for most other
> > communication I'd rather send mail from my personal domain name.
> 
>How so?  It is extremely bad for it.  I gave it the most simple of
> tests.  2 lists.  That's it.  2 lists.  I'm on the same 2 lists
> elsewhere.  In GMail it is a mess and that mess stems from what they
> are doing.  On the traditional client or even another webmail client
> it isn't as much of a mess.

Again, I dont exactly get what you mean by that "it's a mess", at
least I don't quite see it that way.

I use it for 19 different low to medium traffic lists.  With the
filters I've setup, everything's fairly neatly organized and easily
accessible.
 
>Granted.  But tell me how I can get a clear, concise view of new
> mail in a reasonable manner using labels.  First problem, labels
> include all archived mail.  Of course since they make it so difficult
> to actually delete mail it means that in less than an hour or two
> using labels to separate things out is a complete and total mess.
> There's no clear deliniation between new and old mail.

Using Labels to separate things out without a Filter to automaticaly
assign labels would be a pain...

> > Tho, their filter rules are adequate but they could use more options,
> > some of which they are already working on.
> 
>You'd think they'd just have a simple option of allowing complete
> headers to be filered on so we could use "List-id: debian-user@" as a
> filter.  Nope.

Yes, that'd be handy.
I'd be willing to bet if enough people submit a feature request
suggesting more explicit filtering options they'd put it in.

About half the things I've written them and asked about have appeared
within a few weeks.

Originaly a To: filter didnt even check Cc: or Reply-To: headers...
people sent in complaints/suggestions, and now it does.
 
> > I'm curious as to why you consider Hotmail as better?
> 
>Because Hotmail is not taking the tried and true methods of the
> past and throw them out the window.  With Hotmail the basics are
> covered up front.  Folders, check.  Filters to get mail into those
> folders (not great, but hey, it's Hotmail) check, the ability to see
> at a glance what folders have new mail and be able to find it at a
> glance, know who its from at a glance and what it's about, check.
> Those aren't possible with GMail.  Great, so this "conversation"
> consists of Steve, Daved, James, John and Louie.  Only one of those is
> readily identifiable, the rest are rather common names.  On my main
> client, Hotmail and my own Webmail (Squirrelmail) I can at least tell
> at a glance who it is from, identify relevant and current threads as
> opposed to "Oh, this one was replied to recently" and, here's the
> kicker, selectively delete messages.  In GMail you either archive
> (which causes problems), delete whole threads (thereby running the
> risk of deleting the one or two messages you want to keep) or go
> through a 5-step process per message to delete it.  That's a
> fundimental and basic problem stemming from their attempt to throw out
> the tried and true method of reading mail and replace it with
> something new but ultimately inferior.

Google seems to market GMail with the "Search not Sort" idea, which
I've written to them that I think is a mistake.  So many people are
used to the concept of folders and filters to easily sort out mail
that their idea of "just clump it all together and search for what you
want to find" isn't what anybody is going to do.

When I sign up for a new mailinglist, I immediately create a Label for it.
Then I create a filter.

In this case the Label is "Debian" and the filter is:

Matches: to:(lists.debian.org)
Do this: skip Inbox, apply label "Debian"

When I sign in to GMail I can immediately see if there's new mail on
the list based on the bolding of the Label (and the #, Debian (9)).

Clicking the label link I have a nice threaded view of all mail sent
to the list with New topics or replies displayed in Bold.

Your point about the names in a conversation being ambiguous at a
quick glance is true, you can however mouse over the names and get the
full email address.

Threads with the most recent activity wi

Re: Wierd Question

2004-06-25 Thread zeroion
> Definately.  Here in Berkeley, the UC leans in the BSD
> direction, as I'm sure you can imagine (this is not

Speaking as a current Berkeley CS student, I feel that UC Berkeley
leans in the direction of Solaris. I have yet to see a BSD workstation
in any of the main computer labs, which is ironic considering its
origins. Most of the programming labs here at Berkeley are stocked
with Sun Rays connected to a Solaris 9 server.

> > Majoring in languages makes no sense to me, unless
> you want to be
> > pigeonholed into one language for the rest of your
> life. 

I would second that statement. Here at Berkeley (and I believe at most
universities too), students are taught programming concepts and
theories, rather than actual languages. While the first semester CS
course focuses on Scheme (a Lisp dialect), the goal is to teach
students to think as programmers. After completing the class, students
should be able to transfer their skills to any programming language.

> > > > majored in... oh.. for example, Driver
> > development.

Well, topics like driver development are covered in upper-division CS
and EE courses. I don't think they would serve well as majors, though.
It really narrows down the field of your experience. I'd rather major
as CS with a speciality in driver development than just be a driver
developer.

-Stephen Le

On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 01:03:08 -0700 (PDT), Daniel Asarnow
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> Definately.  Here in Berkeley, the UC leans in the BSD
> direction, as I'm sure you can imagine (this is not
> true of every UC.  I hear that Davis uses a lot of
> Solaris and Linux machines).  I know from friends that
> the City College in San Francisco also uses *nix...my
> impression from talking to various people around the
> Bay Area is that every educational institute here uses
> *nix pretty heavily.
> Not my high school, though.  Luckily, the computers
> all let you boot from the CDROM, so the Knoppix disc I
> carry in my backpack comes in handy.
> 
>  Daniel
> 
> --- Chris Metcalf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I agree. Better to go to a university that gives you
> > a good solid
> > foundation in computer science and then to
> > specialize later on.
> >
> > If you want to learn about *nix programming, why not
> > pick a university
> > whose courses show loyalty towards working on *nix
> > platforms? At my
> > alma mater (the University of Michigan), they
> > started us off from the
> > first year programming on Solaris and every Intel
> > machine in the labs
> > dual-booted with Linux. Its certainly a lot better
> > than a school that
> > only teaches you programming in MS VC++.
> >
> > Chris M.
> >
> > On Wed, 23 Jun 2004 12:23:45 -0600, Monique Y.
> > Mudama
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> > > On 2004-06-23, Cecil penned:
> > > > I'm headed back to school. But I had a thought
> > after I considered why
> > > > I wanted to go back to school. It would be
> > totally cool if there was
> > > > some sort of "Linux School". A 4 year or 6 year
> > school, where you
> > > > majored in... oh.. for example, Driver
> > development. Or game
> > > > programming. Or a specific language. Major in
> > C++, and minor in
> > > > assembly. Things like that. Major in a scripting
> > language. Bash major,
> > > > Perl minor. Am I just nuts or does this excite
> > anyone else? Does it
> > > > even exist? If it did, I'd go there, and not
> > back to college.
> > >
> > > Majoring in languages makes no sense to me, unless
> > you want to be
> > > pigeonholed into one language for the rest of your
> > life.  Learn
> > > concepts, not languages.
> > >
> > > Driver development, game programming, etc, would
> > be great -- as
> > > continued education programs, like a master's.
> > You have to learn how to
> > > design and code software before these kinds of
> > courses will do any good.
> > >
> > > Just my opinion, since you asked.
> > >
> > > --
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Re: HOWTO's on sid/sarge - where are they?

2004-06-25 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello!

On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 09:45:45AM +0100, Clive Menzies wrote:
> On (25/06/04 16:54), James Sinnamon wrote:
> > On Tue, 8 Jun 2004 09:19 am, Clive Menzies wrote:
> > > There is also a good nfs Howto in woody:
> > > /usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-txt/NFS_HOWTO.gz
> > 
> > In what package do I find this file?  I have installed
> > the packages doc-linux-text and doc-linux-html and still
> > can't find  NFS_HOWTO.gz  
> > 
> > Whilst I am running a testing/sarge system and not a 
> > woody system, I would have thought  there should be 
> > some kind of NFS HOWTO be found.  In any case 
> > a query of the packages database tells me:
> 
> I too have searched my sid system for the file and can't find it - maybe
> it's felt that anyone running sid should know HOWTO ;)
> 
> It would be useful to get an answer on why HOWTO's aren't available on
> sarge/sid but meanwhile, attached is the one (from woody) you're looking for.

The package "doc-linux-nonfree-text" contains that HOWTO.

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Re: Another "testing" vs "unstable" question

2004-06-25 Thread Brian Astill
On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 04:04 am, David Fokkema wrote:

> that's what the point releases are for. Woody release schedule:
>
>   - Debian 3.0, July 19, 2002
>   - Debian 3.0r1, December 16, 2002
>   - Debian 3.0r2, November 21, 2003

Oh well, that at least tells me what 3.0rn means.  That's something, 
little though it is.

> And I _think_ the third point release has been put off because of
> sarge.

So ... ??

Look, the issue WAS "testing" vs "unstable".  Some people think that not 
only the decision but its implementation is a simple matter. It isn't.

My ISP does what many do - set up a multiple mirror site for the use of 
its members.  Debian is included.  I'd like to start up a Debian 
"testing" system from an install CD - I gather you can't do this for 
the "unstable" branch.  In order to do this I really need jigdo - to 
just download a complete CD (or CDs) as I can with every other Linux 
distro or BSD, is de rigeur.

BTW what is wrong with a clear major/minor dot numeric system, rather 
than woody/sarge/sid/potato/whatever=stable/testing/unstable(which is 
really quite stable anyway)/something ?

MY ISP's relevant debian directories look like this:
/debian-cd/hurd directory
 (four off) GNU-K4-CD1.iso
 (four off) hurd-J2-CD1.iso
 
 /debian-cd/images/current/i386/ directory
 (seven off) debian-30r2-i386-binary-1.iso
 
 /debian-cd/images/woody/i386/ directory
 (seven off) debian-30r2-i386-binary-1.iso
  
 debian-cd/jigdo/current/i386/ directory
 does NOT contain jigdo, but files like this:
  (seven off) woody-i386-1.jigdo  
  (seven off) woody-i386-1.template
  
  Whither testing (sarge?)
  
  What does all this mean?
  
And Monique and others think this is simple???



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automatic handling of USB mass storage devices (fstab & mount point)

2004-06-25 Thread Christophe Combelles
For people using kernel 2.6 and UDev, and want to quickly and easily access any 
usb storage device with an _explicit_ name for mount point,
here is a script you can try.

Please read the story and installation details here : 
http://ccomb.free.fr/wiki/wakka.php?wiki=UsbMassStorageEnglish

Feel free to try, debug, modify, criticize, adapt, improve, etc.
regards
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Problem installing Gnome in Sid [Debian newbie]

2004-06-25 Thread Stelian Iancu
Hi!

I tried to install gnome in Sid and in the end the problem is with the
libexif9 package which it says it is not installable.

An apt-cache search libexif gives me libexif10 (which I've installed)
but no libexif9. So what can I do about this?

I've installed Debian with the sarge net installer, then upgraded to sid.

Thanks a lot!

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How to check whether a RAID array is still consistent?

2004-06-25 Thread Bob
Hi all,

A few days ago my software-RAID1 array failed because the two disks both had
bad blocks. Probably bad luck, but I find it even more unbeliveable that the
two disks would both fail so shortly after each other. So I suspect that one
of the disks was having problems for some time already but these went
unnoticed because they were covered by the RAID mirroring.

So..: is there a way to periodically check whether RAID disks are still in
sync? Preferable without unmounting the filesystem (similar to the
background rebuilding after adding a disk to an array).

Thanks
Bob




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Mouse problem with testing

2004-06-25 Thread Jon Schneider
I have a problem with a USB Genius KYE wheelemouse running on testing
beta4 i386. Basically it just moves up and down.

I have tried more different settings than you can wave a stick at
including making this troublesome mouse the only pointer as well as
combining it with a PS/2 one using SendCoreEvents.

I also tried taking the XF86Config from another older testing-based
machine and tweaking it as necessary for the video hardware. 

The list of kernel modules loaded looks the same where input/usb/mouse
is concerned.

No problem running Knoppix on the same machine and the same mice 
(tried two) work elsewhere.

There is also a PS/2 mouse and I notice that on other Redhat type
machines data appears on /dev/input/mice for the PS/2 mouse as well as
any USB mice yet this does not happen on the Debian machine.

So there is something different about whatever is behind /dev/input/mice
but I can't find any useful documentation on it.

Any ideas ?

Jon



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Re: HOWTO's on sid/sarge - where are they?

2004-06-25 Thread James Sinnamon
Flo,


On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 08:13 pm, you wrote:
> Hello James!
>
> On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 07:56:02PM +1000, James Sinnamon wrote:
> > On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 07:22 pm, you wrote:

>
> This package is in the non-free section of the Debian archive, so
> you'd need something along
>
> |deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free
>

Thanks.  I was able to locate the NFS_HOWTO.gz.  The appropriate 
entry in

  /etc/apt/sources.list,

was:

  deb ftp://ftp.debian.ihug.com.au/debian/ testing main contrib non-free

Then

 apt-get install doc-linux-non-free-text 

... did the trick.


> in your /etc/apt/sources.list (note the last part), _if you really want
> to have non-free packages_.

Do I have any choice?

Thanks again,

regards,

James


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Re: can not compile kde, some xmkmf problem

2004-06-25 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 04:48:24PM +1000, Rob Weir wrote:

> > > Since XFree86 4.4.0 isn't in Debian, you must have installed it from
> > > a tarball or something.  You'll need to point the KDE configure
> > > script at the location you unpacked it to.  Or just install the
> > > Debian packaged X headers.
> > The /usr/X11R6 install path is standard, so the configure must find the 
> > dir
> 
> Um, you installed a binary tarball of X to /usr/X11R6?  That's a
> *really* bad idea.  Nonetheless, Debian has the X headers packaged.  Or
> get them from XFree86.
> 

If nothing gets resolved about that 4.4 release in the future, I am
considering installing 4.4 in my system too, so, I would like to hear
recommendations about making it happen.


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Re: XF86Config problem serverflags section or xset - solved partly

2004-06-25 Thread Paal Marker
I found a solution for the xset problem I had.
I had to change the line in home/user/.xsession:  '/usr/bin/galeon 
--display=:0 -ndf'

with
/usr/bin/galeon --display=:0 -ndf | xset s off -display ":0"
That was the only way to execute xset running kiosk-mode.  But I do not 
understand completely why I could not put in the bottom of the .xsession 
file. Is it so that when .xsession has executed /usr/bin/galeon,  the 
rest of .xsession is not read?  I tried to put the xset command in 
/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc as well, with no success.

And still I am curious of XF86Config's serverflag section, why it did 
not work as in redhat. If some Xxperts has time to look through the 
problem (description following by previous messages),  I am curious to 
know the correct syntax in section "serverflags"



Pigeon wrote:
On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 01:58:42PM +0200, Paal Marker wrote:
 

I need to prevent a box from blanking out.
In redhat8 I could succesfully put this section in the end of 
/etc/X11/XF86Config

Section "Serverflags"
Option  "BlankTime""0"   Option  "StandbyTime"  "0"
Option  "SuspendTime"  "0"
Option  "OffTime"  "0"
EndSection
The result of putting in this section is that the X server will not 
start

By googling I found that this syntax could also be used
Section "Serverflags"
Option  "blank time""0"Option  "standby 
time"  "0"
Option  "suspend time"  "0"
Option  "off time"  "0"
EndSection

Same result, no X
startx gives error message:
Option  "blank time""0"  server flags section 
keyword expected

I copied the serverflags section from redhat8's XF86Config, where it 
worked fine. What does debian demand of syntax here?
  

Pigeon wrote:
I've got "xset s off" in /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc. Works fine.
 

Paal Marker wrote:
Yes, you are right, and I have tried it. Correct on this system will 
be  'xset s off -display ":0"'
But the problem is that anyway where I put that command to execute , 
be in /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc or /home/kiosk/.xsession or wherever it 
does not work. However, if I log in remote by ssh and execute xset s 
off -display ":0"  from bash prompt, it works fine.

According to man xset, the xset command must be executed after all 
applications, so I have tried to execute it from the last line of 
/home/user/.xsession.

I had the same problem making kiosks with redhat as well, and ended up 
by solving it with the serverflags section in XF86Config.

Continuing exploring the section "serverflags" problem:
From linux single start and the startx  I get the error message:
Config Error: /etc/X11/XF86Config:269 (wich is the line  where the 
first option in the section serverflags starts)

_Option__ "BlankTime"   "0" Server flags keyword expected
Remark here that it is the Option word that is underlined in the 
message,  the underlning is made by  ^^^ these characters. Does it 
tell me that 'Option' is  an invalid keyword in this section?

The Xserver used is xserver-s3
I will be happy for advice for any solution here, being by XF86Config 
and serverflags, or how to execute xset s off


Refer to top, the xset problem is solved. 



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Re: Kopete an Gaim vs Yahoo

2004-06-25 Thread richard lyons
On Friday 25 June 2004 02:44, George Roman wrote:
> i have the same probleme since yesterday i don't know what to do. now
> i use ymessenger.
[...disclaimer on end of top-posting cut...]
> On Fri, 25 Jun 2004, Luis Fernando Llana [iso-8859-1] Díaz wrote:

> >   I have been using both, kopete and gaim, to connect with my
> > account of instant messenger of Yahoo. Since a week (more o less) I
> > always obtain a password incorrect error when I try to login.
> > Does any know if they have changed in the yahoo protocol?

There is another thread here about this. Search for 
[OT] yahoo protocol switching.

In brief, yes they have -- recommend switching to non-proprietary eg. 
jabber.

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Re: interfaces lo:1 lo:2 lo:3? (for remote ssh tunnels)

2004-06-25 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 10:18:39PM -0500, Will Trillich wrote:
> 
> can linux have multiple 127.0.0.1 interfaces? if so, how?

As far as I know, every IP number from 127.0.0.1 ro 127.255.255.255
does a loopback.

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Re: Six GMail Invites, First come, First Served!

2004-06-25 Thread James Abella
On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 13:26:15 +0800, John Summerfield
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> James W. Thompson, II wrote:
> 
> >I have six GMail invitations to give away. If you are interested
> >
> >
> 
> Spammer
Not really.  To thoese 6 new gmail users, it's not.  He may want to
label this kind of email as [OT], tho.


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NFS mount very very slow

2004-06-25 Thread James Sinnamon
Dear list subscribers,

At first I thought my command:

  mount -t nfs 192.168.0.6:/etc /mnt/nfs 

... had failed.  It seemed to have hanged.  I tried to kill it with
Ctrl^C, then with 'kill -SIGKILL ', killing the Konsole tabbed
terminal ... but with no luck.  

The process just would not die.

Eventually, I found, to my surprise, that that the 'mount' command
had not only withstood all my attempts to smother it, but it also
succeeded after all.  I don't know whether it took 15 minutes 
or two hours, but whatever  the time lag was, it it had taken far too
long.  can anyone tell me how to work out what the problem could be?  

The entry in 192.168.0.6:/etc/exports is: 

  /etc  192.168.0.2(ro)

 where 192.168.0.2 is the nfs client.

TIA

James


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Re: OT: Debian/Linux Stickers

2004-06-25 Thread Joost De Cock
On Thursday 24 June 2004 19:32, Chris Metcalf hurled the following on the 
wire:
> Does anybody know of a good source of linux/geeky stickers? In
> particular, I'm looking for a nice tasteful sticker of Tux on a clear
> background around 3" in size, or maybe a nice small "Powered by Linux"
> or Debian logo suitable to stick on my laptops in the space where the
> "Designed for Windows" sticker used to be.

The 'Debian Inside' sticker on linuxland.de is pretty cool. They have some 
more stuff too, might be usefull for people in Europe:

http://www.linuxland.de/katalog/21_fanartikel/debian_fanartikel/

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Re: Another "testing" vs "unstable" question

2004-06-25 Thread John Summerfield
Brian Astill wrote:
On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 04:04 am, David Fokkema wrote:
 

that's what the point releases are for. Woody release schedule:
	- Debian 3.0, July 19, 2002
	- Debian 3.0r1, December 16, 2002
	- Debian 3.0r2, November 21, 2003
   

Oh well, that at least tells me what 3.0rn means.  That's something, 
little though it is.

 

And I _think_ the third point release has been put off because of
sarge.
   

So ... ??
Look, the issue WAS "testing" vs "unstable".  Some people think that not 
only the decision but its implementation is a simple matter. It isn't.

My ISP does what many do - set up a multiple mirror site for the use of 
its members.  Debian is included.  I'd like to start up a Debian 
"testing" system from an install CD - I gather you can't do this for 
the "unstable" branch.  In order to do this I really need jigdo - to 
just download a complete CD (or CDs) as I can with every other Linux 
distro or BSD, is de rigeur.

BTW what is wrong with a clear major/minor dot numeric system, rather 
than woody/sarge/sid/potato/whatever=stable/testing/unstable(which is 
really quite stable anyway)/something ?

MY ISP's relevant debian directories look like this:
/debian-cd/hurd directory
 

You don't want anything under hurd. It's incomplete, and probably less 
stable than unstable.

(four off) GNU-K4-CD1.iso
(four off) hurd-J2-CD1.iso
/debian-cd/images/current/i386/ directory
(seven off) debian-30r2-i386-binary-1.iso
 

That's Woody, aka Stable
/debian-cd/images/woody/i386/ directory
(seven off) debian-30r2-i386-binary-1.iso
 

So's that
 
debian-cd/jigdo/current/i386/ directory
does NOT contain jigdo, but files like this:
 (seven off) woody-i386-1.jigdo  
 (seven off) woody-i386-1.template
 

Yeah, you download those then fill in the template with jigdo, not 
necessarily from the same source.  If you had an older Woody it would be 
a good way to get your CDs updated.

 
 Whither testing (sarge?)
 

Check the Debian Weekly News and look for announcements about Debian 
Installer betas. Get the latest and use that: it's one CD and not 
especially large. Install the rest off the net if you can.

 
 What does all this mean?
 
And Monique and others think this is simple???
 

Everything is simple when you understand it:-)


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Re: NFS mount very very slow

2004-06-25 Thread John Summerfield
James Sinnamon wrote:
Dear list subscribers,
At first I thought my command:
 mount -t nfs 192.168.0.6:/etc /mnt/nfs 

... had failed.  It seemed to have hanged.  I tried to kill it with
Ctrl^C, then with 'kill -SIGKILL ', killing the Konsole tabbed
terminal ... but with no luck.  

The process just would not die.
Eventually, I found, to my surprise, that that the 'mount' command
had not only withstood all my attempts to smother it, but it also
succeeded after all.  I don't know whether it took 15 minutes 
or two hours, but whatever  the time lag was, it it had taken far too
long.  can anyone tell me how to work out what the problem could be?  

The entry in 192.168.0.6:/etc/exports is: 

 /etc  192.168.0.2(ro)
 where 192.168.0.2 is the nfs client.
 

Probably, lockd isn't running on 0.6. lockd  handles locking, and if 
it's not responding you get these enormous timeouts.
I suppgest you find out why, but since you're mounting ro then this is 
acceptable too:

mount -t nfs -o nolock 192.168.0.6:/etc /mnt/nfs
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XFree86 issues

2004-06-25 Thread Roberto Sanchez
I have two problems, both relating to XFree86.
Both machines run Sid and XFree86 4.3.
Computer 1:
When X blanks the screen, upon waking a black X (like the default X
cursor) shows up in the middle of the screen.  The only woy to remove
it is to restart the X server.  It is rather annoying, and I have no
idea what to do about it.
Computer 2:
In WindowMaker, when I - to change between windows, the next
window is brought forward, but it does not recive the focus unless I
press and release the  key again.  After pressing the  key,
all key strokes and mouse clicks that were destined for the window are
passed in rapid succession.  My other computer, running the exact same
versions of XFree86 and WindowMaker and with the same exact
configuration, does not exhibit this behavior.  In GNOME, if I
-, I have to hit  twice to get the outline of the window
in the foreground, then press and release  to bring it forward.
Also, if I press tho logout button, the dialog never appears.
Any help on these would be appreciated.
-Roberto Sanchez


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Re: automatic handling of USB mass storage devices (fstab & mount point)

2004-06-25 Thread John Summerfield
Christophe Combelles wrote:
For people using kernel 2.6 and UDev, and want to quickly and easily 
access any usb storage device with an _explicit_ name for mount point,
here is a script you can try.

Please read the story and installation details here : 
http://ccomb.free.fr/wiki/wakka.php?wiki=UsbMassStorageEnglish

Feel free to try, debug, modify, criticize, adapt, improve, etc.

Thanks Christophe. It's very timely for me, I've just taken to plugging 
cameras and laptop drives into USB ports, and a 2.6.5 kernel awaiting my 
next reboot.


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Re: Squid Analysis Package on Debian?

2004-06-25 Thread John Summerfield
Louie Miranda wrote:
Is there a tool for a squid analyzer log for debian like this one..
http://sarg.sourceforge.net/sarg.php
 

Did you check packages.debian.org? It wasn't in Woody because it was 
orphaned at the time.

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Re: XFree86 issues

2004-06-25 Thread Ricky Clarkson
On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 07:54:09 -0400, Roberto Sanchez
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Computer 2:
> 
> In WindowMaker, when I - to change between windows, the next
> window is brought forward, but it does not recive the focus unless I
> press and release the  key again.  After pressing the  key,
> all key strokes and mouse clicks that were destined for the window are
> passed in rapid succession.  My other computer, running the exact same
> versions of XFree86 and WindowMaker and with the same exact
> configuration, does not exhibit this behavior.  In GNOME, if I
> -, I have to hit  twice to get the outline of the window
> in the foreground, then press and release  to bring it forward.
> Also, if I press tho logout button, the dialog never appears.

alt-tab: see xlibs bug #255192 - bugs.debian.org

At least that's what the #debian topic says :)


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Re: Lots of problems - help please

2004-06-25 Thread Daniel Klein
Thanks for all of the help from everyone - eh, I sounded quite 
desperate, but I was really pissed off that day, returning from a 10 
hour shift with only a few precious hours to spend at home and my debian 
giving me shit for no reason.

Due to all of the suggestions I've been given here, I've played around a 
lot with the apt tools and I decided to give downgrading my xlibs a try.

All of my problems, except for having to startx twice for X to recognize 
my mouse, are gone.

I downgraded from xlibs.4.3.0.dfsg.1-5 to dfsg.1-4. The sluggishness of 
my mouse cursor, the broken alt-key (alt + letter wasn't recognized by 
any programs anymore.. for instance for opening menus or for shortcuts), 
the broken alt-tabbing. I'm sure that with something major like this, 
developers will be aware of it.. should I post it somewhere else anyway? 
I guess unstable is all about finding things that break (I had to add 
testing in my sources list to get that version of xlibs as well).

Thanks again,
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Re: Kernel Panic while booting from 2.6.3

2004-06-25 Thread James Foster
Try turning off the CONFIG_PARTITION_ADVANCED option, if you happen to
have that on.


On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 02:39:53 -0700 (PDT), Ajitabh Pandey
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> Hi,
> 
> I recently compiled 2.6.3 kernel. When I try to boot
> from it, after lots of messages, I get the following
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> choose the old 2.2.20 kernel of woody 3.0r2 it boots
> fine. I followed the normal steps of compiling the
> kernel.
> make xconfig
> make dep
> make clean
> make bzImage
> make modules
> make modules_install
> make install
> 
> ---
> VFS: Cannot open root device "301" or
> unknown-block(3,1)
> Please append a correct "root=" boot option
> Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown
> block(3,1)
> ---
> 
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USB pendrive

2004-06-25 Thread Sridhar M.A.

I am facing a strange (for me) problem with the usb pendrive. It is a
256 MB Apacer Steno HT202 drive.

I could use the drive under kernel 2.6.6 by loading it as a scsi device. No
problems with that set up. But, under kernel 2.6.7, I get the following 
message when I plug in the drive:

  usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using address 2
  usb 1-1: control timeout on ep0out
  ohci_hcd :00:02.0: Unlink after no-IRQ?  Different ACPI or APIC settings may 
help.

Funny thing is if the drive is plugged during boot up, I can mount it
and use it. No error message are given.

A diff of kernel configs of 2.6.6 and 2.6.7 does not show anything that
is in 2.6.6 as left out in 2.6.7. Does anybody have any comments/suggestions
on this problem?

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Re: interfaces lo:1 lo:2 lo:3? (for remote ssh tunnels)

2004-06-25 Thread Will Trillich
On Fri, Jun 25 at 01:24PM +0800, John Summerfield wrote:
> Will Trillich wrote:
> >On Fri, Jun 25 at 11:46AM +0800, John Summerfield wrote:
> >>Will Trillich wrote:
> >>>can linux have multiple 127.0.0.1 interfaces? if so, how?
> 
> I'm not talking to myself, I'm talking to someone else. Therefore I 
> shouldn't use a local interface.

i think one of us doesn't understand the problem solved by
port-forwarding...?

turns out the vast majority of these connections will be coming
from beyond a remote firewall (remote from where the server is
located on the 'net):

client
192.168.9.9
|
192.168.0.1
client firewall
11.22.33.44
|
| internet
|
22.44.66.88
server's firewall
10.1.1.1
|
10.1.2.3
server

the server can't open a port on the client machine, cuz it can't
get past the client firewall. the client CAN ssh past the server
virewall (that's how the latter is set up) to the server itself
and establish a remote-to-local forwarding rule. if the server
can be made to chat with a localhost interface using a port to
match the forwarding setup, it will work -- for one user per
loopback interface.

> There's no objection to using eth0:${n}, and you can also use dummy:
> 
> How many do you want?
> for n in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9; do ifconfig dummy0:$n 192.168.19.${n};done

about those dummy interfaces... can they be made into loopback
devices? and if so, how?

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Re: interfaces lo:1 lo:2 lo:3? SOLVED

2004-06-25 Thread Will Trillich
On Fri, Jun 25 at 07:43AM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 10:18:39PM -0500, Will Trillich wrote:
> > 
> > can linux have multiple 127.0.0.1 interfaces? if so, how?
> 
> As far as I know, every IP number from 127.0.0.1 ro 127.255.255.255
> does a loopback.
> 
> -- hendrik

hmm. could it be?

$ ping 127.33.55.77
PING 127.33.55.77 (127.33.55.77): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 127.33.55.77: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=0.4 ms
64 bytes from 127.33.55.77: icmp_seq=1 ttl=255 time=0.2 ms

--- 127.33.55.77 ping statistics ---
2 packets transmitted, 2 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max = 0.2/0.3/0.4 ms

$ ping 127.0.0.19
PING 127.0.0.19 (127.0.0.19): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 127.0.0.19: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=0.3 ms
64 bytes from 127.0.0.19: icmp_seq=1 ttl=255 time=0.2 ms
64 bytes from 127.0.0.19: icmp_seq=2 ttl=255 time=0.2 ms

--- 127.0.0.19 ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 3 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max = 0.2/0.2/0.3 ms


well, batten my hatches! much simpler than i thought...
many thanks for the pointer. (boy do i feel silly.)

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  It might not fix all files, unless the two hosts are nearly
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Re: fetchmail

2004-06-25 Thread Bert Colemont
Thx allready for the reply :) I am lookin now for info about mailfilter, any
how-to's abou this?


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Re: strange colors

2004-06-25 Thread Kent West
frank coldewe wrote:
have still problems with colors in aplications like gimp and sane, grey
is green or blue ...
all the other applications works fine, have installed kde and use woody
any idea ??
greetings frank
 

Does dropping your resolution help? If so, it seems that you might need 
more video RAM.

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Re: Six GMail Invites, First come, First Served!

2004-06-25 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 01:26:15PM +0800, John Summerfield wrote:
> James W. Thompson, II wrote:
> 
> >I have six GMail invitations to give away. If you are interested
> 
> Spammer

Your reply contributes about as much on-topic discussion as his original
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Re: Mouse problem with testing

2004-06-25 Thread Kent West
Jon Schneider wrote:
I have a problem with a USB Genius KYE wheelemouse running on testing
beta4 i386. Basically it just moves up and down.
 

My gut instinct is that you have a bad mouse.
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Re: [OT] yahoo protocol switching

2004-06-25 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Thu, 24 Jun 2004 11:58:46PM -0700, Paul Johnson insinuated:
> Kirk Strauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> > On Thursday 2004-06-24 12:48 pm, Nori Heikkinen wrote:
> >
> >> has anyone else been bitten by this, and found a workaround?
> >
> > I don't mean to sound like an ass, but that's what happens when
> > you rely on the whims of a proprietary vendor.  Set up a Jabber
> > server and start migrating your friends to it.
> 
> Or just grab a jabber client and use ursine.ca as a jabber server,
> my jabber server is open to the public.  KDE users may find Kopete
> to be a very nice fit.

yeah?  this wouldn't put undue load on you?  it would be cool to test
out, to then try to slowly migrate people in the company over ... i
think half of their objection is setting up / maintaining the server,
and they're clearly not worried about security, as we've been using
ya-f*ing-hoo forever ... (the other half, of course, is getting the
luddites to learn one new application, but that could come with time).



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Re: [OT] yahoo protocol switching

2004-06-25 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Fri, 25 Jun 2004 11:19:54AM +0700, deb_milist insinuated:
> Erik Steffl wrote:
> 
> >Nori Heikkinen wrote:
> >
> >>noticed today that yahoo has again switched protocols, making it
> >>impossible to connect from gaim.  the quick fix suggested on /.
> >>[1] --
> >
> >
> >
> >>has anyone else been bitten by this, and found a workaround?
> >
> >
> >  usually the yahoo web messenger works, good as an emergency until 
> >the other ones catch up
> >
> >erik
> >
> >
> or install the debian package of ymessenger  ( gee )

see my original post:

> i tried upgrading to the latest debian release of the yahoo
> messenger off their website, but that doesn't work for me,
> either.

( gee )



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Vote for Debian

2004-06-25 Thread GPF
http://slashdot.org/pollBooth.pl?qid=1135&aid=-1

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Re: gnome-panel-data 2.6.1-4 problems

2004-06-25 Thread Pim Bliek | PingWings.nl
Hi,

Unfortunately I am having the same problems. I was on holiday for 3 weeks,
so wasn't able to get this done earlier.

I searched the archives, and found the link mentioned. Unfortunately it is
dead by now :(. I did some more googling but couldn't find anything
else...

Anyone having a copy of xlibs_4.3.0.dfsg.1-1_all.deb ???
Or maybe there is already a better solution??

Pim

> On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 12:35:21 +0300 (EEST)
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>> beside all this i can't see the icons in their normal shape. i only see
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>
> Search the archives; this has been discussed here in the past few weeks.
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> shouldn't have come down to sarge yet because that missing dependency
> hasn't come down.  A page linked in the discussion I refer to above
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Re: Six GMail Invites, First come, First Served!

2004-06-25 Thread S.D.A.
On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 11:21:48PM -0500 or thereabouts, James W. Thompson, II wrote:
> I have six GMail invitations to give away. If you are interested
> simply visit one of the following pages, first come, first served. As
> long as no one protests I will post other invitations to give whoever
> wants them here.
> 
> http://gmail.google.com/gmail/a-5cb03dc1c9-50683ed958
> 
> http://gmail.google.com/gmail/a-5cb03dc1c9-ccaa66ec90
> 
> http://gmail.google.com/gmail/a-5cb03dc1c9-f5161c08bf
> 
> http://gmail.google.com/gmail/a-5cb03dc1c9-609abdfafb
> 
> http://gmail.google.com/gmail/a-5cb03dc1c9-ff340a2705
> 
> http://gmail.google.com/gmail/a-5cb03dc1c9-e54810ea9e

Well as expected by the time I started reading my e-mail this morning, all
invites have been exhausted.

Anymore available -- I'll gladly volunter to be a beta tester. ;)

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problem with gnome-setting-daemon

2004-06-25 Thread Manu
Hi

I have a problem. I have looked at many thread and
still cannot find my solution.

I have :
 x-window-system 4.3.0.dfsg.1-5
 kernel  2.4.23
 gnome 2.6.1

and when running the gnome-settings-daemon
I have the following

--
** (gnome-settings-daemon:2162): WARNING **: Could not
activate the XKB configuration
The program 'gnome-settings-daemon' received an X
Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadRequest (invalid request code or no
such operation)'.
  (Details: serial 112 error_code 1 request_code 0
minor_code 0)
  (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are
reported asynchronously;
   that is, you will receive the error a while after
causing it.
   To debug your program, run it with the --sync
command line
   option to change this behavior. You can then get a
meaningful
   backtrace from your debugger if you break on the
gdk_x_error() function.)
--
It is supposed to work. I have removed everything in
my home directory and still I have this problem
any idea how to fix it?

Thanks

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Re: Squid Analysis Package on Debian

2004-06-25 Thread Aidan_O'Reilly

I check my results through sarg most,
but I use calamaris as well. It gives daily, weekly, and monthly reports
by default, which can be helpful. There's no problem running both, so probably
worth checking out.

Re: interfaces lo:1 lo:2 lo:3? (for remote ssh tunnels)

2004-06-25 Thread John Summerfield
Will Trillich wrote:
On Fri, Jun 25 at 01:24PM +0800, John Summerfield wrote:
 

Will Trillich wrote:
   

On Fri, Jun 25 at 11:46AM +0800, John Summerfield wrote:
 

Will Trillich wrote:
   

can linux have multiple 127.0.0.1 interfaces? if so, how?
 

I'm not talking to myself, I'm talking to someone else. Therefore I 
shouldn't use a local interface.
   

i think one of us doesn't understand the problem solved by
port-forwarding...?
turns out the vast majority of these connections will be coming
from beyond a remote firewall (remote from where the server is
located on the 'net):
 

Cool. That's the problem tunneling (port forwarding) solves. So does 
openvpn, but more generally: it can make two lans separeted by the 
hostile Internet seem to be one.

client
192.168.9.9
|
192.168.0.1
client firewall
11.22.33.44
|
| internet
|
22.44.66.88
server's firewall
10.1.1.1
|
10.1.2.3
server
the server can't open a port on the client machine, cuz it can't
get past the client firewall. the client CAN ssh past the server
virewall (that's how the latter is set up) to the server itself
and establish a remote-to-local forwarding rule. if the server
can be made to chat with a localhost interface using a port to
match the forwarding setup, it will work -- for one user per
loopback interface.
 

I don't understand why the server would be making the connexion request. 
By definition, the client does that.

Here's what openvpn does:
traceroute to 192.168.1.252 (192.168.1.252), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets
1  ns (192.168.9.4)  0.359 ms  0.226 ms  0.209 ms
2  gw (192.168.9.1)  0.413 ms 192.168.7.254 (192.168.7.254)  0.929 ms  
0.552 ms
3  192.168.1.252 (192.168.1.252)  1058.580 ms  1103.616 ms  1066.529 ms
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$

The internet is between 2 & 3.  I can see all hosts on 1.x and other 
networks it can route to, and they can see me. Of course, I can  add 
rules to the firewalls, and I could use NAT.

I'm running openvpn on gw at my end (my firewall, a Powermac running 
Woody) and the  host at the other end is inside the firewall, a 
commercial ADSL router.

Using ssh the way _I_ described. I can connect from my system at home to 
hosts at work. In the specific example I gave, I could connect to the 
webserver on  127.0.0.1.

With this command:
ssh -L 8088:192.168.4.254:80 192.168.1.252
if I open my browser on http://127.0.0.1:8088/ then ssh forwards the 
connexion request to 1.252 and from there makes a connextion request to 
port 80 on 192.168.4.254 which could be an ADSL router. The router would 
see the request as coming from 1.252.


 

There's no objection to using eth0:${n}, and you can also use dummy:
How many do you want?
for n in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9; do ifconfig dummy0:$n 192.168.19.${n};done
   

about those dummy interfaces... can they be made into loopback
devices? and if so, how?
 

You don't want loopback devices. The loopback device is for me to send 
messages to myself: the client and server are on the same box.

_I_ would use the IP address of an existing interface. Servers can 
generally accept many requests to the one port and IP address.

On this box, I can address my webserver with either of these IP addresses:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ifconfig | grep inet
 inet addr:192.168.9.114  Bcast:192.168.9.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
 inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$
Whether I actually get the same content depends on the configuration of 
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Re: Six GMail Invites, First come, First Served!

2004-06-25 Thread James W. Thompson, II
I do not have anymore invitations right now. If there are others
interested in them please drop me a simple message at
[EMAIL PROTECTED] and I'll send some out as soon as I get them.

On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 09:44:51 -0400, S.D.A. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 11:21:48PM -0500 or thereabouts, James W. Thompson, II wrote:
> > I have six GMail invitations to give away. If you are interested
> > simply visit one of the following pages, first come, first served. As
> > long as no one protests I will post other invitations to give whoever
> > wants them here.
> >
> > http://gmail.google.com/gmail/a-5cb03dc1c9-50683ed958
> >
> > http://gmail.google.com/gmail/a-5cb03dc1c9-ccaa66ec90
> >
> > http://gmail.google.com/gmail/a-5cb03dc1c9-f5161c08bf
> >
> > http://gmail.google.com/gmail/a-5cb03dc1c9-609abdfafb
> >
> > http://gmail.google.com/gmail/a-5cb03dc1c9-ff340a2705
> >
> > http://gmail.google.com/gmail/a-5cb03dc1c9-e54810ea9e
> 
> Well as expected by the time I started reading my e-mail this morning, all
> invites have been exhausted.
> 
> Anymore available -- I'll gladly volunter to be a beta tester. ;)
> 
> --
> Steve
> +
>  Friday Jun 25 2004 09:41:01 AM EDT
> +
> How many QA engineers does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
> 
> 3: 1 to screw it in and 2 to say "I told you so" when it doesn't work.
> 
> 
> 
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Re: Six GMail Invites, First come, First Served!

2004-06-25 Thread S.D.A.
On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 09:03:29AM -0500 or thereabouts, James W. Thompson, II wrote:
> I do not have anymore invitations right now. If there are others
> interested in them please drop me a simple message at
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] and I'll send some out as soon as I get them.

Thanks James! Sent an offlist e-mail using  in the
'from' field.

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Re: Six GMail Invites, First come, First Served!

2004-06-25 Thread James W. Thompson, II
Made a mistake. My address is [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Anyone who has responded in this thread I have marked for the list.

On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 10:19:27 -0400, S.D.A. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 09:03:29AM -0500 or thereabouts, James W. Thompson, II wrote:
> > I do not have anymore invitations right now. If there are others
> > interested in them please drop me a simple message at
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] and I'll send some out as soon as I get them.
> 
> Thanks James! Sent an offlist e-mail using  in the
> 'from' field.
> 
> --
> Steve
> +
>  Friday Jun 25 2004 10:16:01 AM EDT
> +
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> 
> 
> 
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Re: interfaces lo:1 lo:2 lo:3? (for remote ssh tunnels)

2004-06-25 Thread Will Trillich
On Fri, Jun 25 at 09:56PM +0800, John Summerfield wrote:
> Will Trillich wrote:
> >turns out the vast majority of these connections will be coming
> >from beyond a remote firewall (remote from where the server is
> >located on the 'net):
> 
> Cool. That's the problem tunneling (port forwarding) solves. So does 
> openvpn, but more generally: it can make two lans separeted by the 
> hostile Internet seem to be one.

vpn is a very clever use of resources, and an amazing boost in
convenience 1) once it's set up [much heavy lifting there
requiring much expertise when things aren't Just Quite Right]
and 2) even tho it provides lots more functionality [i.e.
security issues] than most folks usually need, and is certainly
the case here when we only need one tcp port to do the dirty
work and 3) are typically better suited for long-term lan-to-lan
connections than transient solitary-pc-to-lan connections.

> >the server can't open a port on the client machine, cuz it
> >can't get past the client firewall. the client CAN ssh past
> >the server virewall (that's how the latter is set up) to the
> >server itself and establish a remote-to-local forwarding
> >rule. if the server can be made to chat with a localhost
> >interface using a port to match the forwarding setup, it will
> >work -- for one user per loopback interface.
> >
> I don't understand why the server would be making the
> connexion request.  By definition, the client does that.

aha -- suddenly i become the teacher.

it's not "by definition" -- it's "in the VAST majority of cases".
as in "very seldom, and it's surely suspicious behavior that
should be investigated by at least three government agencies at
the highest level, there will be a case for forwarding server
ports to the client, not that there's anything wrong with that."

MOST traffic, by far, is initiated by a client that connects to a
server.  but sometimes there's an instance (quickmate from
janzabar in this case) where after the main connection is
established, the user activates a function on the server, and the
server initiates another connection to the client -- in this
instance to activate the quickmate menu.  quickmate opens the
local/client port, listening for instructions from the server;
when the server says (at the user's request) "do this menu" it
pops up and away we go.

in fact, until yesterday, i myself wondered when you would
possibly ever need a remote-to-local connection. voila! here's
one (perhaps the very single only one ever, in the entire history
of the universe, since the dawn of time, ever).

cases like this one is why the bright folks who came up with
port forwarding for ssh decided to not only have
locate-to-remote tunnels, but remote-to-local tunnels as well.

that is, not "-L" but "-R". see the ssh manpage.

even brighter, the ssh virtuosi also managed to allow for
specifying a HOST to beam the remote end to. in our case we
don't need another hop, but the option is there and it's an
awesome one to have available when it's needed. i never would
have been able to implement that kind of genius, but i'm glad
someone did.

smart folks, there. :)

> Here's what openvpn does:
> traceroute to 192.168.1.252 (192.168.1.252), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets
> 1  ns (192.168.9.4)  0.359 ms  0.226 ms  0.209 ms
> 2  gw (192.168.9.1)  0.413 ms 192.168.7.254 (192.168.7.254)  0.929 ms  
> 0.552 ms
> 3  192.168.1.252 (192.168.1.252)  1058.580 ms  1103.616 ms  1066.529 ms
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$
> 
> The internet is between 2 & 3.  I can see all hosts on 1.x and
> other networks it can route to, and they can see me. Of
> course, I can  add rules to the firewalls, and I could use
> NAT.

vpn is way cool, no doubt. if we had one in this case, you're
right -- this would all be moot. and maybe someday in the
future, politics permitting, that will happen. i hope so.

for now, we ssh with tcp ports tunnelled all over creation. :)

> I'm running openvpn on gw at my end (my firewall, a Powermac running 
> Woody) and the  host at the other end is inside the firewall, a 
> commercial ADSL router.
> 
> Using ssh the way _I_ described. I can connect from my system at home to 
> hosts at work. In the specific example I gave, I could connect to the 
> webserver on  127.0.0.1.
> 
> With this command:
> ssh -L 8088:192.168.4.254:80 192.168.1.252
> if I open my browser on http://127.0.0.1:8088/ then ssh forwards the 
> connexion request to 1.252 and from there makes a connextion request to 
> port 80 on 192.168.4.254 which could be an ADSL router. The router would 
> see the request as coming from 1.252.

aha! but, as you said:

> You don't want loopback devices. The loopback device is
> for me to send messages to myself: the client and server
> are on the same box.

"i'm talking to myself"! 127.0.0.1 is the loopback interface, so
you "don't want that"... :) unless you've got the port forwarded
elsewhere. right? yes? hmm?

:)

similarly to your setup, i've got my firewall at home set to

Re: Problem installing Gnome in Sid [Debian newbie]

2004-06-25 Thread Leandro Guimaraens Faria Corsetti Dutra
Em Fri, 25 Jun 2004 12:30:12 +0200, Stelian Iancu escreveu:

> I've installed Debian with the sarge net installer, then upgraded to sid.

Sid is unstable, often broken.  Wait a few days, or just use sarge.


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AAARRRGGGGHHHH! How does one set up woody to talk to an HP Deskjet 882C printer?

2004-06-25 Thread the softrat
I've tried a bunch of things: going to LPRng, various printcaps as
advised by various books and websites, http://www.linuxprinting.org,
... Print spooling is *still* sick: Part of the first page, then nada!

BTW, how does one return ALL of the print queues and status messages,
et alia, back into virgins? Once I get an error status, it's there
until I disclose a different error...

Thanks for your help!!

(especially if it works!)

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Re: Wierd Question

2004-06-25 Thread Daniel Asarnow
That's interesting.  My knowledge is based mostly on
my parents' experience, about ten years back, and
welcome messages from telneting into the library, so
it's somewhate outdated.  My personal experience is
more in LBL than UC Berkeley, but I've only seen one
X11 desktop there.

  Daniel

--- zeroion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Definately.  Here in Berkeley, the UC leans in the
> BSD
> > direction, as I'm sure you can imagine (this is
> not
> 
> Speaking as a current Berkeley CS student, I feel
> that UC Berkeley
> leans in the direction of Solaris. I have yet to see
> a BSD workstation
> in any of the main computer labs, which is ironic
> considering its
> origins. Most of the programming labs here at
> Berkeley are stocked
> with Sun Rays connected to a Solaris 9 server.
> 
> > > Majoring in languages makes no sense to me,
> unless
> > you want to be
> > > pigeonholed into one language for the rest of
> your
> > life. 
> 
> I would second that statement. Here at Berkeley (and
> I believe at most
> universities too), students are taught programming
> concepts and
> theories, rather than actual languages. While the
> first semester CS
> course focuses on Scheme (a Lisp dialect), the goal
> is to teach
> students to think as programmers. After completing
> the class, students
> should be able to transfer their skills to any
> programming language.
> 
> > > > > majored in... oh.. for example, Driver
> > > development.
> 
> Well, topics like driver development are covered in
> upper-division CS
> and EE courses. I don't think they would serve well
> as majors, though.
> It really narrows down the field of your experience.
> I'd rather major
> as CS with a speciality in driver development than
> just be a driver
> developer.
> 
> -Stephen Le
> 
> On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 01:03:08 -0700 (PDT), Daniel
> Asarnow
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 
> > Definately.  Here in Berkeley, the UC leans in the
> BSD
> > direction, as I'm sure you can imagine (this is
> not
> > true of every UC.  I hear that Davis uses a lot of
> > Solaris and Linux machines).  I know from friends
> that
> > the City College in San Francisco also uses
> *nix...my
> > impression from talking to various people around
> the
> > Bay Area is that every educational institute here
> uses
> > *nix pretty heavily.
> > Not my high school, though.  Luckily, the
> computers
> > all let you boot from the CDROM, so the Knoppix
> disc I
> > carry in my backpack comes in handy.
> > 
> >  Daniel
> > 
> > --- Chris Metcalf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > I agree. Better to go to a university that gives
> you
> > > a good solid
> > > foundation in computer science and then to
> > > specialize later on.
> > >
> > > If you want to learn about *nix programming, why
> not
> > > pick a university
> > > whose courses show loyalty towards working on
> *nix
> > > platforms? At my
> > > alma mater (the University of Michigan), they
> > > started us off from the
> > > first year programming on Solaris and every
> Intel
> > > machine in the labs
> > > dual-booted with Linux. Its certainly a lot
> better
> > > than a school that
> > > only teaches you programming in MS VC++.
> > >
> > > Chris M.
> > >
> > > On Wed, 23 Jun 2004 12:23:45 -0600, Monique Y.
> > > Mudama
> > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On 2004-06-23, Cecil penned:
> > > > > I'm headed back to school. But I had a
> thought
> > > after I considered why
> > > > > I wanted to go back to school. It would be
> > > totally cool if there was
> > > > > some sort of "Linux School". A 4 year or 6
> year
> > > school, where you
> > > > > majored in... oh.. for example, Driver
> > > development. Or game
> > > > > programming. Or a specific language. Major
> in
> > > C++, and minor in
> > > > > assembly. Things like that. Major in a
> scripting
> > > language. Bash major,
> > > > > Perl minor. Am I just nuts or does this
> excite
> > > anyone else? Does it
> > > > > even exist? If it did, I'd go there, and not
> > > back to college.
> > > >
> > > > Majoring in languages makes no sense to me,
> unless
> > > you want to be
> > > > pigeonholed into one language for the rest of
> your
> > > life.  Learn
> > > > concepts, not languages.
> > > >
> > > > Driver development, game programming, etc,
> would
> > > be great -- as
> > > > continued education programs, like a master's.
> > > You have to learn how to
> > > > design and code software before these kinds of
> > > courses will do any good.
> > > >
> > > > Just my opinion, since you asked.
> > > >
> > > > --
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Re: Six GMail Invites, First come, First Served!

2004-06-25 Thread Steve Lamb
Daved Daly wrote:
>>   Nope because the problem stems from the very core of how they are
>>doing things.

> I'm still not sure, I really understand exactly what you mean there...

The whole archives instead of delete and lack of folders in combination.

> Again, I dont exactly get what you mean by that "it's a mess", at
> least I don't quite see it that way.

There is no ability to sort on anything other than having each thread
(damn their "conversations" notion, we need no new terms here!) show up based
solely on which has had a reply last.  Contrast that to my client (be it
thunderbird, mutt or squirrelmail, I use all three) which shows all old mail
then all new mail with definite groupings alphabetically first then by date.

> I use it for 19 different low to medium traffic lists.  With the
> filters I've setup, everything's fairly neatly organized and easily
> accessible.

Only if you like it their way.  "They can have any color they want as long
as it's black." -- Henry Ford

>>There's no clear deliniation between new and old mail.

> Using Labels to separate things out without a Filter to automaticaly
> assign labels would be a pain...

That's not the issue.  The problem is that twofold.

1: Archive instead of delete.
2: Labels show old *AND* new mail.  I cannot get just a display of "new mail
in Debian".

> Google seems to market GMail with the "Search not Sort" idea, which
> I've written to them that I think is a mistake.

Quite so.

> When I sign up for a new mailinglist, I immediately create a Label for it.
> Then I create a filter.

So did I on just two lists and found it was a pain.

> Clicking the label link I have a nice threaded view of all mail sent
> to the list with New topics or replies displayed in Bold.

With no idea really of whom has written the new messages nor any means of
displaying it except one way.

> Threads with the most recent activity will always show up at the top.

...in the order of "last sent to" instead of a general "new threads" and
some other way of looking at it.

> Selectively deleting a message out of a thread I don't find that
> particularly hard.  Click "More options" on the message you want to
> trash, then "Trash this message".

No, that isn't a problem until you realize that if you want message 61 out
of a 200 message thread you need to delete, one-at-a-time, 199 messages to
preserve that one.  I'm not sure if they're linking threads by
references/in-reply-to or just by subject but I doubt it is by just
references/in-reply-to alone.  So what happens to that message you wanted
saved the next time that subject comes up and you delete the thread?  Chances
are it would be deleted, too.

> There's some things that I don't like about it... A lot of the time I
> just want to see new threads, and immediately mark them all as read. 
> Doing this takes a couple extra clicks then I'd prefer... but it's not
> too horrible, and I'd bet it will continue to evolve and change.

Quite so.  This is the main problem with the "don't delete anything" way
of thinking.  With deleting of all save a select few messages things work
better.  In GMail the labels are meaningless because I have to archive it and
then mark it as read to keep the messages from showing up over and over again.
 I could delete but I've explained the general problem with that and it still
is more convoluted than need be.  Open thread, expand message, select menu,
select delete.  No thanks.  :/

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Re: Problem installing Gnome in Sid [Debian newbie]

2004-06-25 Thread Ricky Clarkson
On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 10:39:46 -0300, Leandro Guimaraens Faria Corsetti Dutra
> > I've installed Debian with the sarge net installer, then upgraded to sid.
> 
> Sid is unstable, often broken.  Wait a few days, or just use sarge.

apt-get install gnome/sarge
or 
apt-get install gnome/testing

You might also look to see whether there is a working version of
libexif in experimental.


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aptitude and backports with the same name as unstable packages

2004-06-25 Thread Benedict Verheyen
Hi,

1) I have a woody box where i installed some backports of X and other
programs.
When i started aptitude, it gave me a lot of broken packages because it
wanted to upgrade the X packages from unstable ( i have unstable sources
in my package list too) and marked the packages as broken. Anyway, i got
that to go away by putting the x packages on hold.
I'm not sure if this is a good sollution in the long run but it seems so
for the moment.

2) The version of checkinstall and installwatch from backports.org don't
contain a string in the version name so their version is the same as the
version from unstable. When going to the package discription i can only
see for instance for checkinstall
p 1.5.3-3
p 1.5.3-1
So i can't distinguish between the unstable and the backports version.
Is there anyway i can view the location or to install from a particular
location?

Thanks,
Benedict


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Re: aptitude and backports with the same name as unstable packages

2004-06-25 Thread Ricky Clarkson
On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 17:28:48 +0200 (CEST), Benedict Verheyen
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Is there anyway i can view the location or to install from a particular
> location?

apt-get install package/unstable

I guess.


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RE: Mail Delivery (failure customer_service@musicmatch.com)

2004-06-25 Thread custsupp
Hello,

Thank you for contacting the Musicmatch Customer Support Department.  Emails are 
answered Monday through Friday during regular business hours (8AM to 5PM PST.)  We 
respond to all email in the order in which they are received. For this reason, please 
do not resubmit your customer support request. 

The average response time is currently under 12 hours. 

You may be able to find the answers to your questions much faster at any of the 
various locations:

For FAQ's, interactive tutorials and usage instructions starting with the basics all 
the way through advanced topics, point your Internet browser to the following web page:

http://www.musicmatch.com/info/user_guide/

The Musicmatch searchable Knowledge Base:
http://www.musicmatch.com/form/support/

Another good source of information about Musicmatch Jukebox features and functionality 
is Musicmatch Jukebox Help.  You can view the help documentation by clicking the 
"Help" menu within the Jukebox and selecting "Musicmatch Jukebox Help" from the popup 
menu. 


To change or cancel a Musicmatch MX subscription trial or renewal, use the following 
URL to login to your account management web page:

http://www.musicmatch.com/acctmgmt/

We look forward to assisting you!  Thank you for your patience and support!

Best Regards,
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Good Linux backup program

2004-06-25 Thread Andrew Ingram
Hi!

Just wanting to know if anyone on here has any recommendations for
backup programs for my Debian box. I'm looking for a program with a
nice, easy to use gui, which can do automated backups of parts of the
filesystem and then store the backup on a smb mount. I'd like something
that makes it easy to extract individual files as well as extracting the
whole archive. Does anything like this exist? BTW, I use KDE so anything
that integrates well with that is a bonus.

Thanks,
Andrew


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Re: aptitude and backports with the same name as unstable packages

2004-06-25 Thread Benedict Verheyen
> Hi,
>
> 2) The version of checkinstall and installwatch from backports.org don't
> contain a string in the version name so their version is the same as the
> version from unstable. When going to the package discription i can only
> see for instance for checkinstall
> p 1.5.3-3
> p 1.5.3-1
> So i can't distinguish between the unstable and the backports version.
> Is there anyway i can view the location or to install from a particular
> location?

I found an answer to this part of my question. Just as i posted it, i
tried googling with a different searchterm. I thought that the keyword was
location but it's origin that's the key to a succesful google session.
I found that one can pin against a location so by putting the following
code in your /etc/apt/preferences file, the files from backports.org
always end up on top and get installed.

Package: *
Pin: origin www.backports.org
Pin-Priority: 850

(where 850 > pin priority of the biggest other priority number in the
preferences file)

Maybe there are other ways put that's the one i found.

Benedict



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Re: aptitude and backports with the same name as unstable packages

2004-06-25 Thread Benedict Verheyen
> On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 17:28:48 +0200 (CEST), Benedict Verheyen
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Is there anyway i can view the location or to install from a particular
>> location?
>
> apt-get install package/unstable
>
> I guess.

No, this will not work as the version from unstable and backports is the
same and i want to install the one from backports.
I used pinning to solve the problems (see other mail)

Regards,
Benedict


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Re: Six GMail Invites, First come, First Served!

2004-06-25 Thread Ricky Clarkson
On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 08:14:44 -0700, Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> There is no ability to sort on anything other than having each thread
> (damn their "conversations" notion, we need no new terms here!) show up based

Thread is a pretty unintuitive term, conversation is more natural - I
won't have to explain to my parents what conversation means, with any
luck :)

> Only if you like it their way.  "They can have any color they want as long
> as it's black." -- Henry Ford

Ford changed over time, so can GMail.  Tell them what you want.

> >>There's no clear deliniation between new and old mail.

I mark old mail as Read.  Works for me.

> 1: Archive instead of delete.

This works until we start running out of space.  By which point, they
might extend the limits or alter the interface to support deleting
really old stuff etc.

> 2: Labels show old *AND* new mail.  I cannot get just a display of "new mail
> in Debian".

True, but it does highlight new mail pretty well.

> 
> > Google seems to market GMail with the "Search not Sort" idea, which
> > I've written to them that I think is a mistake.
> 
> Quite so.

I disagree, I find looking for my email a pita in other clients.  No,
I can't justify that, it's just a preference.

> With no idea really of whom has written the new messages nor any means of
> displaying it except one way.

If you want other ways, ask for them.

> No, that isn't a problem until you realize that if you want message 61 out
> of a 200 message thread you need to delete, one-at-a-time, 199 messages to
> preserve that one.  I'm not sure if they're linking threads by
> references/in-reply-to or just by subject but I doubt it is by just
> references/in-reply-to alone.  So what happens to that message you wanted
> saved the next time that subject comes up and you delete the thread?  Chances
> are it would be deleted, too.

I agree, but hopefully by the time I need to delete anything that will
be sorted.

> Quite so.  This is the main problem with the "don't delete anything" way
> of thinking.  With deleting of all save a select few messages things work
> better.  In GMail the labels are meaningless because I have to archive it and
> then mark it as read to keep the messages from showing up over and over again.
>  I could delete but I've explained the general problem with that and it still
> is more convoluted than need be.  Open thread, expand message, select menu,
> select delete.  No thanks.  :/

I set my debian-user filter to archive the mail, works for me.

A better place to send this stuff might be
http://gmail.google.com/support/bin/request.py


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Re: AAARRRGGGGHHHH! How does one set up woody to talk to an HP Deskjet 882C printer?

2004-06-25 Thread Clive Menzies
On (25/06/04 07:18), the softrat wrote:
> I've tried a bunch of things: going to LPRng, various printcaps as
> advised by various books and websites, http://www.linuxprinting.org,
> ... Print spooling is *still* sick: Part of the first page, then nada!
> 
> BTW, how does one return ALL of the print queues and status messages,
> et alia, back into virgins? Once I get an error status, it's there
> until I disclose a different error...
> 
> Thanks for your help!!
> 
> (especially if it works!)
Hi George

Have you looked at cups?  Have a look at:

http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Debian-and-Windows-Shared-Printing/

HTH

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Aliases to file

2004-06-25 Thread Mark Gillingham
I want to set up a Postfix aliases entry to make it convenient for users
of another MTA (GroupWise) to send spam and ham for later entry to the
Bayes database via sa-learn. I have a Postfix server available and I've
made an entry to /etc/aliases (spam:  /var/spool/mail/spam/). When
Postfix attempts to save a mail file, I get the following error:
Jun 25 09:23:24 web2 postfix/local[12651]: 103814BE9D:
to=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, relay=local, delay=0, status=bounced (maildir
delivery failed: create
/var/spool/mail/spam/tmp/1088173404.12651_0.web2: Permission denied)
I've tried various directories, permissions, and owners including
/home/me/spam/ and /tmp/ with the same result.
/var/spool/mail/spam
drwxrwxrwt3 root mail 4096 Jun 25 09:21 spam
I tried making a tmp dir within spam with this acl:
drwxrwxr-x2 root mail 4096 Jun 25 09:21 tmp
Perhaps I need to use mbox format rather than trying to use maildir?
Ideas? tia
Mark


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Re: AAARRRGGGGHHHH! How does one set up woody to talk to an HP Deskjet 882C printer?

2004-06-25 Thread Jacob S.
On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 07:18:36 -0700
the softrat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I've tried a bunch of things: going to LPRng, various printcaps as
> advised by various books and websites, http://www.linuxprinting.org,
> ... Print spooling is *still* sick: Part of the first page, then nada!
> 
> BTW, how does one return ALL of the print queues and status messages,
> et alia, back into virgins? Once I get an error status, it's there
> until I disclose a different error...
> 
> Thanks for your help!!
> 
> (especially if it works!)

When I got Woody talking to my HP OfficeJet G85, I ended up compiling
hpijs and hpoj from source code, apt-get installed cupsys, cupsys-bsd,
cupsys-client and cupsys-driver-gimpprint. You wouldn't need the hpoj
packages, obviously. 

The cupsys package is the main cups package. Cupsys-bsd is required if
you want to have the print command lpr, for those programs that use it.
Cupsys-driver-gimpprint is pretty obvious, as is cupsys-client.

After installing all that, restart cups to make sure it sees the hpijs
drivers (just in case you compiled it after apt-get installing cups).
Then point your browser to http://127.0.0.1:631 and you can configure
your printer. When it asks for a password, it wants the root password
for your machine.

Note: you will need to have any necessary modules already insmod'ed or
modprobed, but it sounds like you do, since it's working as much as it
is.

HTH,
Jacob

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Re: detaching a process from an ssh session ??

2004-06-25 Thread CW Harris
On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 08:32:19AM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-06-25 at 08:06, Damian Morris wrote:
> > to do it manually, you need to use one of the special ssh escape
> > codes. from my ssh man page:
> > 
> >Escape Characters
> >  ~.  Disconnect.
> > The one you want is "~." but make sure you enter it as the input on an
> > empty line.
> 
> I discovered it even needs to be the first characters typed on a line,
> not just an empty line.
> 
> The thing with this is that it terminates the backgrounded process.

(In bash at least) you can use "disown -h " to remove a job
from your shell's job table without killing it. (man bash)

In combination with a backgrounded ssh session, maybe this will do?

HTH

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Re: saving iptables rules?

2004-06-25 Thread Ralph Crongeyer




Does anyone know if there is a plan to fix/address this before the next
release?
Also, could someone give me a copy of the old script
"/etc/init.d/iptables". I need a way to save my rules, as we all do.

Thanks.
Ralph

Darryl Luff wrote:

  On Sun, 13 Jun 2004 08:15 am, Ralph Crongeyer wrote:
  
  
Darryl Luff wrote:


  Ralph Crongeyer wrote:
  
  
How does one save iptables rules in Debian "Unstable/SID"? I've tried
iptables-save and get some output with no errors, but when I reboot
all my rules are gone? Is there a "Debian way" of doing this? Rather

  

  
  ...
  
  

  If you dont have the init scripts (which are apparently deprecated) I
think the rules aren't automatically restored on reboot. In Testing at
least there are some notes in /usr/share/doc/iptables/README.Debian.gz
that show how to do it using ifupdown, which doesn't quite seem right
to me unless you have seperate per-interface rules, but on a single
interface box I suppose it doesnt matter.
.
  

I guess it doesn't matter for a single interface but it hardly seems
like the best solution either. At least to me. It seems there used to be
a script in /etc/init.d/ called iptables to start and stop and save
rules. It's all over google. But that script doesn't exist on any of my
four SID boxes, unless it is provided by another package?


  
  It's deprecated in current SID so the only machines that have it are ones that 
have been around for a while and been upgraded.

  
  
There must be a better way to handel this than ifupdown? Does anyone
know of plans to bring the script back? Or other plans for another
solution?


  
  I don't know what the plan is. I don't like using ifupdown because you'd have 
to manage a separate rule script for each interface.  But I've never liked 
the init.d script because I normally expect things in there to be actually 
starting daemons. But come to think of it that's not valid anyway.

I think the logical place would be at the end of /etc/init.d/networking. It 
could look for /etc/network/firewall and run it if it existed. This is the 
file that sets up routing and anti-spoofing, and the firewall should be 
configured as soon as possible after the network comes up.

Darryl.


  






Re: Six GMail Invites, First come, First Served!

2004-06-25 Thread Steve Lamb
Ricky Clarkson wrote:
> Thread is a pretty unintuitive term, conversation is more natural - I
> won't have to explain to my parents what conversation means, with any
> luck :)

Conversation is unintuative because we're not having one.  Conversations
are generally verbal affairs.  ;)  I might have gone with discussion, maybe.
Doubt it, though.

>>Only if you like it their way.  "They can have any color they want as long
>>as it's black." -- Henry Ford

> Ford changed over time, so can GMail.  Tell them what you want.

I shouldn't have to.  20+ years of email working in a servicable matter.
They should match that first and then expand upon it.

There's no clear deliniation between new and old mail.

> I mark old mail as Read.  Works for me.

Added step which really should not be needed.  Now I need to archive mail
and then mark mail which has never been read as read.

>>1: Archive instead of delete.

> This works until we start running out of space.  By which point, they
> might extend the limits or alter the interface to support deleting
> really old stuff etc.

Except for the whole un/read problem and the fact that for any real use
its not going to last all that long.

>>2: Labels show old *AND* new mail.  I cannot get just a display of "new mail
>>in Debian".

> True, but it does highlight new mail pretty well.

I disagree.  It marks threads with new messages in an acceptable manner.
That is a far cry different than marking new mail.

>>With no idea really of whom has written the new messages nor any means of
>>displaying it except one way.

> If you want other ways, ask for them.

See above.  Besides, I have a feeling it would break the concept they're
going for.  See, you, and others, are laboring under the notion that I am
concerned with what they plan on doing.  I'm not.  I'm looking at this as "is
this viable RIGHT NOW compared to other offerings in general as well as when
they were at a similar level."  It isn't.

> A better place to send this stuff might be
> http://gmail.google.com/support/bin/request.py

Neat, Python!

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Re: Another "testing" vs "unstable" question

2004-06-25 Thread Monique Y. Mudama
On 2004-06-25, Brian Astill penned:
>   
> And Monique and others think this is simple???

When did I say that?

If you're referring purely to the naming conventions, I agree that
they're confusing, but no one's been able to come up with a better way
to handle it.  Usually, the people proposing new names are, well, new to
the system, and the names they suggest are based on a faulty
understanding of the characteristics of the various options.

Also, the devs have made it clear that changing the names would be a
major pain in the butt; I guess I believe that there are more valuable
issues on which they can spend their time.

There are no one-word descriptions of the characteristics of the three
options, so any name is going to be slightly flawed.  It seems to be
human nature to assume that stable->testing->unstable is a spectrum from
rock-solid to flakey, and that may be the case at any given time, but
that's not what defines them.  I guess you just have to read enough
debates that finally the lightbulb goes on and you "get" it.  That's
what finally happened to me last year some time.

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Re: Problem installing Gnome in Sid [Debian newbie]

2004-06-25 Thread Chris Metzler
On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 13:19:49 +0300
Stelian Iancu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hi!
> 
> I tried to install gnome in Sid and in the end the problem is with the
> libexif9 package which it says it is not installable.

It's available in sarge.

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