Re: Adding Swap Space

[Jules Dubois]

On Sun, 29 Aug 2004 16:03:37 -0500, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote:

> Do I need to install swapd?

No, the swap daemon is part of the kernel.



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Repeated forced fsck--Bug?

[David Baron]

After the requesite number of mounts, fsck ran. The auto-run failed so I typed 
in fsck -f. This proceded to uneventfully check all the file systems. Fine.

At next boot up, the non-root file systems were rechecked. The message said 
that they had not been checked for 4970 days or something like that. How old 
is potatoe?


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Re: Repeated forced fsck--Bug?

[John Summerfield]

David Baron wrote:
After the requesite number of mounts, fsck ran. The auto-run failed so I typed 
in fsck -f. This proceded to uneventfully check all the file systems. Fine.

At next boot up, the non-root file systems were rechecked. The message said 
that they had not been checked for 4970 days or something like that. How old 
is potatoe?

 

Alternatively, how longis 4970 days?
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ echo $((4970/365))
13
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ echo $((14*365))
5110
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$
so between 13 and 14 years.
2004-14=?
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advice on ipsec implementations

[Dave Harrison]

Hi all,

I'm interested in using NAT-T for a VPN connection on Debian.  However
the FreeSWan packages appear to be broken currently, and since that
would mean I'd have to compile FreeSWan by hand with a NAT-T patch, it
has inclined me towards looking at active developments such as OpenSWan
and StrongSWan that support NAT-T already, and are ongoing projects.

Can anyone give me feedback on their experiences with either of these
projects ?

cheers
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Re: OpenOffice.org and Spelling

[Oliver Elphick]

On Mon, 2004-08-30 at 04:14, Ed Sutherland wrote:
> Kevin C. Smith wrote:
> 
> >
> >I had to:
> ># mkdir /usr/lib/openoffice/share/dict
> ># ln -s /usr/share/myspell/dicts/ ooo
> >
> >and then spellchecking worked.
> >
> >
> >  
> >
> I just tried that. Nothing changed. Any switch or toggle I'm forgetting 
> to throw? Thanks.

There is an implication of a cd into the new directory before making the
link.  Would that work?

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Automating ifconfig

[Jeff Goodwin]

Greetings:
I am new to and have newly installed Debian (woody).
Currently, to activate my ethernet card I must, on each machine bootup, issue 
the following:
ifconfig eth0 up
What steps need I follow to automate this so that on bootup, "eth0" is 
activated without my intervention?
TIA,
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Re: advice on ipsec implementations

[John Summerfield]

Dave Harrison wrote:
Hi all,
I'm interested in using NAT-T for a VPN connection on Debian.  However
the FreeSWan packages appear to be broken currently, and since that
would mean I'd have to compile FreeSWan by hand with a NAT-T patch, it
has inclined me towards looking at active developments such as OpenSWan
and StrongSWan that support NAT-T already, and are ongoing projects.
Can anyone give me feedback on their experiences with either of these
projects ?
 

FreeSwan has terminated and forked into two projects of which OpenSwan 
is one.

However, for my VPN I use OpenVPN:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-cache show openvpn
Package: openvpn
Priority: optional
Section: net
Installed-Size: 452
Maintainer: Alberto Gonzalez Iniesta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Architecture: i386
Version: 1.6.0-4
Depends: debconf, libc6 (>= 2.3.2.ds1-4), liblzo1, libssl0.9.7
Filename: pool/main/o/openvpn/openvpn_1.6.0-4_i386.deb
Size: 166618
MD5sum: 56fe11b5eeca669993226c71fa595015
Description: Virtual Private Network daemon
An application to securely tunnel IP networks over a single UDP port,
with support for TLS-based session authentication and key exchange,
packet encryption, packet authentication, and packet compression.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$
It's pretty easy to set up, gets along well with firewalls: it 
communicates with UDP. Currently I use it on RHL 7.3 (which is the 
firewall), on Sarge inside a Billion firewall, Woody ditto, and Woody 
whch is the firewall, oh, and Sarge which is the firewall.

OpenVPN does dynamic compression, encryption and has clients for (at 
least) Linux and OSX.


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Refresh your keys

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Re: Repeated forced fsck--Bug?

[Tim Connors]

John Summerfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Mon, 30 Aug 2004 15:14:28 +0800:
> David Baron wrote:
> 
> >After the requesite number of mounts, fsck ran. The auto-run failed so I typed 
> >in fsck -f. This proceded to uneventfully check all the file systems. Fine.
> >
> >At next boot up, the non-root file systems were rechecked. The message said 
> >that they had not been checked for 4970 days or something like that. How old 
> >is potatoe?

Potato? Very old. But I am reminded I got this problem just a few days
ago installing 2.2r2, and before apt-get dist-upgrading.

> Alternatively, how longis 4970 days?
> 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ echo $((4970/365))
> 13
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ echo $((14*365))
> 5110
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$
> so between 13 and 14 years.
> 2004-14=?

$> opfloat 4970*24*3600*10'/(2**32)'
0.999793410301208

ie, 4970 days is the number of deciseconds that fit in 32 bits.

Why they count in deci-seconds, I don't know.


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Re: firewire (IEEE1394) harddrive: how to use?

[Ryo Furue]

John Summerfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> Ryo Furue wrote:
[...]
> >But, since I formatted it as an ext2 filesystem,
> >it won't work with Windows any longer.
> >
> >So, I have a feeling that I did something wrong.  What was the "right"
> >way?  How do you think the tech guy used the drive?  The partition ID
> >53 (Disk Manager), which I don't know what it is, smells something
> >related, but . . .  Additional questions are, what should one do to
> >share a firewire drive between Linux and Windows?  What about
> >hotplugging?
> >
> What you've done is pretty much what I'd have done. Disk Manager is 
> software for DOS-family operating systems so they can use drives not 
> supported in the BIOS, typically larger than the current BIOS limit.

That means that even if I reformat the drive into a DOS filesystem,
that won't be the original status of the drive and it won't work as
before.  Let's hope that our tech guy knows how to fix it.  Or let's not.
In fact, I borrowed it from him and must return it soon.  If he can't
fix it, he might give it up and permanently lend it to me. :-)

> One thing I would have done is install hotplug. My USB drive pretty much 
> just works when I plug it into anything. No mucking around with modules.

Do you mean the hotplug package?  Sounds wonderful.  I'll try it.  Thanks.

Thanks, John, for your help.

Ryo


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Re: KDE 3.3 logout crashes the system

[Stefan O'Rear]

On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 03:08:11PM -0400, David Bokan wrote:
> Yes, I am having the same problem with KDE 3.3 and Sid. When I click logout,
> the screen goes black and I can still see my mouse pointer but I can't move
> it. CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE doesn't work. Only resolution is restarting the
> system 

1. Have you tried Ctrl-Alt-Delete? If it works, it causes the system to
   gracefully reboot.

2. Try logging in over the LAN or internet. Once you're in, do "sudo telinit 6".

3. If use have to use a cleartext protocol like telnet over the Internet
   or a wireless LAN, it may be a good idea to change your password
   immediately after logging in at the console (keyboard & monitor).

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Re: Which wiki?

[Raquel Rice]

On Mon, 30 Aug 2004 12:28:30 -0700
Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> An ex-friend had registered it for me and we hadn't gotten around
> to transferring it.
> 
> >> Any thoughts?
> >
> > Just wondering why a wiki? Unless you're intending for it to be
> > interactive without editorial consent, then there are many other
> > premade packages that are pretty good.
> 
> Well, I like the wiki format for HOWTOs and whatnot and want to
> have what I create evolve over time a bit more easily than is
> possible than with slash.  Looking at MediaWiki (think Wikipedia),
> it seems I can get a happy medium with a wiki (though not
> necessarily with MediaWiki, since there is no Debian package that
> I could find).
> 
> > To name a couple (both can be found on freshmeat:
> 
> I'm trying to stick to what's available on p.d.o if possible, or
> just apt-get-able in general.

I use, and like, TWiki.  It's available as a Debian package.

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phpinfo() reading in as a file, bringing up download prompt.

[Nigel J. Wood]

Hi,

I thought I had this configured correctly, because it was working at
one time (like yesterday).  I have installed PHP4 with the lastest
Apache.  What happens when I try to load for example the "phpinfo()" â
which I have named "view.php" it will read it in as a file and bring
up the download prompt.  Can somebody point me in the right direction
here?

Thanks in advance, 

Nigel

Re: DVD Burning

[Greg Madden]

On Monday 30 August 2004 08:59 am, Rodney Richison wrote:
> Have any of you succesfully gotten DVD burning to work with Sarge?
> Using K3b, I get this error.
>
> Unable to find DVD+RW-format executable.
> K3b uses it for format DVD RW
> Install DVD+RW tools package.
>
> I've got that via apt-get. It's installed.   What am I missing?

Make sure the path to the executable is in one of the search paths K3B 
uses. I don't know what the DVD+RW format exe is but identifying it and 
make sure the path is in searchable  by K3B should do it.
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Re: phpinfo() reading in as a file, bringing up download prompt.

[Ken Gilmour]

On Mon, 30 Aug 2004 13:42:13 -0600, Nigel J. Wood wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I thought I had this configured correctly, because it was working
> at one time (like yesterday).  I have installed PHP4 with the
> lastest Apache.  What happens when I try to load for example the
> "phpinfo()" â which I have named "view.php" it will read it in as
> a file and bring up the download prompt.  Can somebody point me in
> the right direction here?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Nigel

Sounds like you haven't enabled the libphp4.so module in the httpd.conf file.

Re: PowerEdge 700 SATA anyone?

[Richard Weil]

I have a Dell PowerEdge 600SC which is SATA. I got it at the beginning
of the year. I run Sarge on it no problems w/ the 2.6.7 kernel.

It comes with some crap on the drive. I did a fresh install, wiping the
drive clean in the process and I've had no problems. I just installed
Sarge on another system and the rc installer is great (netinst cd
image). Enter "expert" at the boot prompt in the install and you'll be
able to install the 2.6.7 kernel right from the start.

Sarge is a good choice, too, since it should become stable relatively
soon.

So, I don't know about stable, but if you want to run Sarge you should
not have problems.

Richard

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> Hey!
> 
> I personally have never setup a machine with SATA using Debian. It's 
> always been SCSI, and nothing else  :)  However, the Dell PE 700 SATA
> 
> seems like a nice deal at the moment, so my employer is considering 
> buying one, but first, she wants me to verify that we indeed can "run
> 
> Debian on it" (her words).
> 
> So, is there anyone out there who has any kind of experience with
> this 
> hardware? In general, how's Linux doing with SATA support? Can we run
> 
> stable on it, or do we have to go unstable? I'm lost when it comes to
> 
> non-SCSI-stuff...
> 
> Appreciate any pointers and sharing of experiences on this matter!
> 
> Thanks people!
> 
> //didde.
> 
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Flashing Dell FP monitor

[John Fleming]

Debian testing - Using a new Dell FP monitor, I have the following problem -
Using the KDE desktop, it is fine for an hour or so.  Then the display will
blank whenever the screen updates with a new window etc.  Then after another
hour or so, the whole screen will start flashing every few seconds even if
left unattended.  If I shut off the monitor, it will start the cycle again
the following day when turned on - OK for awhile, then flash with window
changes, then flashing regularly even if unattended - unusable at this
point!

If I use the monitor with a Windows computer, it doesn't do this.  If I plug
a CRT into the Linux box, it is also well-behaved.  It's the flat panel with
the Linux box combination that's problematic.

Any ideas about this?  It seems very strange to me that it takes awhile
before it acts up.

Thanks - John


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Re: gaim & gtkspell

[Brian Nelson]

On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 08:28:43AM -0300, Francisco Borges wrote:
> I'm running Sarge and I've started using gaim but I can't get the
> underlying gtkspell machinery to perform the spelling for dutch. I start
> gaim with a script:  
> 
> export LANG="nl_NL"
> gaim
> 
> and I do have nl_NL as an available locale, all gaim text is now in
> dutch but there is no spellchecking and my gaim prefs.xml contains the
> line:  so spell scheking
> should be on. 

Does 'aspell' work normally?

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Re: PowerEdge 700 SATA anyone?

[Greg Madden]

On Monday 30 August 2004 11:10 am, Didde Brockman wrote:
> Hey!
>
> I personally have never setup a machine with SATA using Debian. It's
> always been SCSI, and nothing else  :)  However, the Dell PE 700 SATA
> seems like a nice deal at the moment, so my employer is considering
> buying one, but first, she wants me to verify that we indeed can "run
> Debian on it" (her words).
>
> So, is there anyone out there who has any kind of experience with
> this hardware? In general, how's Linux doing with SATA support? Can
> we run stable on it, or do we have to go unstable? I'm lost when it
> comes to non-SCSI-stuff...
>
> Appreciate any pointers and sharing of experiences on this matter!
>
> Thanks people!
>
> //didde.

Google:
http://www.linuxmafia.com/faq/Hardware/sata.html

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Re: firewire (IEEE1394) harddrive: how to use?

[Kevin Mark]

On Sun, Aug 29, 2004 at 03:08:03PM -0700, Ryo Furue wrote:
> Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> > On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 11:51:58PM -0700, Ryo Furue wrote:
> [...]
> > > I managed to add necessary modules to my kernel by consulting this
> > > website
> > >http://www.linux1394.org/start req.php
> > > and I saw that the drive was recognized by the drivers, judging from
> > > the messages in /var/log/messages.  But,
> > could you post the bits from /var/log/message that relate to the hard
> > drive.
> 
> Thanks, Kevin, for your interest.  Here's it (date and hostname
> ellided):
> 
> 16:52:55 kernel: ieee1394: raw1394: /dev/raw1394 device initialized
> 16:54:31 kernel: sbp2: $Rev: 1219 $ Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 16:54:56 kernel: ohci1394: $Rev: 1223 $ Ben Collins
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 16:54:56 kernel: ohci1394: fw-host0: OHCI-1394 1.0 (PCI): IRQ=[16]
> MMIO=[fe1ff000-fe1ff7ff]  Max Packet=[2048]
> 16:54:58 kernel: scsi0 : SCSI emulation for IEEE-1394 SBP-2 Devices
> 16:54:59 kernel: ieee1394: sbp2: Logged into SBP-2 device
> 16:54:59 kernel:   Vendor: MaxtorModel: 5000XTRev:
> 0100
> 16:54:59 kernel:   Type:   Direct-Access  ANSI
> SCSI revision: 06
> 16:54:59 kernel: SCSI device sda: 490232832 512-byte hdwr sectors
> (250999 MB)
> 16:54:59 kernel:  sda: sda1
> 16:54:59 kernel: Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun
> 
> 0
> 
Hi Ryo,
I was looking to see the line 'sda: sda1'. this means it loaded the
needed modules and found the drive (sda) and a partition (sda1). Sd* is
a scsi drive (how usb and FW are seen). It also show the drive as 250999
MB or 250GB. If this was not seen than you'd have to see what modules
were loaded and what messages they said.
The bit about the windows not making a part. table was unknow by me. Is
this all version?
So, I guess you can just nuke it and proceed!
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Re: Re: KDE 3.3 logout crashes the system

[David Bokan]

Yes, I have tried CTRL-ALT-DEL and it does not work, which
is why I believe that logging in over a LAN wont work, however, I will try a
telnet/ssh when I get home tonight,


Thanks,

David Bokan

Re: phpinfo() reading in as a file, bringing up download prompt.

[Jon Dowland]

On Mon, 30 Aug 2004 13:42:13 -0600, Nigel J. Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I thought I had this configured correctly, because it was working at
> one time (like yesterday).  I have installed PHP4 with the lastest
> Apache.  What happens when I try to load for example the "phpinfo()" â
> which I have named "view.php" it will read it in as a file and bring
> up the download prompt.  Can somebody point me in the right direction
> here?

Relevant lines in your apache config?  PHP can be enabled in a number
of ways - as a CGI thing or as an apache module, for example. It could
be misconfiguration of one of these, or a missing mime type. grep php
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Re: Questions about aptitude use

[Travis Crump]

Paul E Condon wrote:
I have set up preferences to track testing, and have unstable
available for use.
I think I now see pachages from both sarge and sid on the aptitude
interactive screen. Am I right, or am I dreaming?
Is there a way to tell which release a pachage will come from if I
markit for install on the interactive screen? Or which version # is
sid?
If you mark it for install on the interactive screen it should choose 
the sarge/testing version.  Assuming that you don't have additional 
sources like experimental, the sid version # should always just be the 
highest version number.  I agree that it can be confusing at times. 
With sarge/unstable/experimental/installed there can be up to 4 
versions, while if there is only one it doesn't imply that it is 
actually a sarge version[it can either mean sarge=unstable or there is 
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Re: eroaster atapi ide-scsi and burning files - fail to detect reader/writer

[Jim McCloskey]

Kenneth Jacker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

|> Does 'k3b' allow multiple CD and/or compressed backups?

I'm not sure. I know it allows the use of multiple CDs for CD cloning,
but something I read on the home page suggested that support for
multiple CDs in all burning tasks will come in version 0.12 (the
current version, and the version available in Debian, is 0.11).

As for compression, k3b supports all the options made available by
mkisofs, which presumably includes the -z option:

   -z Generate  special  RRIP  records  for transparently com-
  pressed files.  This is only of  use  and  interest  for
  hosts  that  support  transparent decompression, such as
  Linux 2.4.14 or later.  You must specify the  -R  or  -r
  options  to  enable  RockRidge,  and generate compressed
  files using the mkzftree utility before running mkisofs.
  Note  that transparent compression is a nonstandard Rock
  Ridge extension.  The resulting disks are only transpar-
  ently  readable  if  used  on Linux.  On other operating
  systems you will need to call mkzftree by hand to decom-
  press the files.

Sorry I can't be more definite,

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Re: cdrecord issues since 2.6 move

[Paul Gear]

Paul E Condon wrote:
> ...
>>And further: i've just burned a 643 Mb image to a 24x CD-RW, and it used
>>almost zero CPU.  In the past (under kernel 2.4.19 on RHL9), it took a
>>lot more CPU, and caused the foreground application to run a somewhat
>>jumpily.  Now, it's smooth sailing - i didn't even notice it happening.
>>
> 
>  I understand that DMA is turned on by default in 2.6.x 

I had it on before as well.  Maybe it's just 2.6's superior scheduling
method, but it certainly seemed a lot smoother to me...

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a2ps -> gv font

[Christophe TROESTLER]

Hi,

When I do "a2ps -Pdisplay " (but not when I send the job to a
printer), the font is not right (going over the right margin,
superimposing the text in the next column).  Is there a way to correct
that?

ChriS


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Re: PowerEdge 700 SATA anyone?

[Paul Gear]

Richard Weil wrote:
> I have a Dell PowerEdge 600SC which is SATA. I got it at the beginning
> of the year. I run Sarge on it no problems w/ the 2.6.7 kernel.
> ...
> Sarge is a good choice, too, since it should become stable relatively
> soon.
> 
> So, I don't know about stable, but if you want to run Sarge you should
> not have problems.

I had similar success on a PE750.  They are very cheap servers, and seem
good quality for the price.

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Re: ursine.ca has been hijacked

[Kevin Mark]

On Sun, Aug 29, 2004 at 08:53:24PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:
> <#secure method=pgp mode=sign>
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> Ursine.ca has been hijacked by Joshua Pruitt.  Please call
> 1-971-223-0627 to tell him you want the domain returned.
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Hi Paul,
I'm a bit curious how this was accomplished. Was it social engineering?
It's ok if you dont want to discuss it. I'd like to avoid this and am
unfamilar how someone would do this.
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Re: phpinfo() reading in as a file, bringing up download prompt.

[Nigel J. Wood]

Hi, 

I did uncomment out:

LoadModule php4_module /usr/lib/apache/1.3/libphp4.so

Restarted Apache and same problem.  If CGI, is the issue, what exactly
do you think I should configure with CGI.

On Mon, 30 Aug 2004 21:18:14 +0100, Jon Dowland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Aug 2004 13:42:13 -0600, Nigel J. Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I thought I had this configured correctly, because it was working at
> > one time (like yesterday).  I have installed PHP4 with the lastest
> > Apache.  What happens when I try to load for example the "phpinfo()" â
> > which I have named "view.php" it will read it in as a file and bring
> > up the download prompt.  Can somebody point me in the right direction
> > here?
> 
> Relevant lines in your apache config?  PHP can be enabled in a number
> of ways - as a CGI thing or as an apache module, for example. It could
> be misconfiguration of one of these, or a missing mime type. grep php
> /etc/apache/*
> 
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Re: phpinfo() reading in as a file, bringing up download prompt.

[Johann Koenig]

On Monday August 30 at 03:05pm
"Nigel J. Wood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hi, 
> 
> I did uncomment out:
> 
> LoadModule php4_module /usr/lib/apache/1.3/libphp4.so

You also need some stuff in /etc/apache/httpd.conf
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps

The entries should already be in there, you just need to uncomment them.
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Re: ursine.ca has been hijacked

[Kevin Mark]

On Sun, Aug 29, 2004 at 08:53:24PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:
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Hi Paul,
seems this guy wrote some FLOSS articles. 

And this fellow: 
From: Joshua Pruitt ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Date: 04/30/03
seem to be part of a LUG in tennesee (see above: -tn).
Maybe someone could contact this lug(http://nlug.org/) and see 
if a bad reputation would help him see the light.
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Re: phpinfo() reading in as a file, bringing up download prompt.

[Nigel J. Wood]

I did uncomment out :

AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps

Still getting the download prompt.  Any other ideas?

Thanks

On Mon, 30 Aug 2004 17:19:55 -0400, Johann Koenig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Monday August 30 at 03:05pm
> "Nigel J. Wood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > I did uncomment out:
> >
> > LoadModule php4_module /usr/lib/apache/1.3/libphp4.so
> 
> You also need some stuff in /etc/apache/httpd.conf
> AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
> AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps
> 
> The entries should already be in there, you just need to uncomment them.
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PE 1600SC ???

[Sergio Basurto]

I had problems with installation of woody in a
PowerEdge 1600SC server, I replace the kernel that
comes as default with the rescue disk with my own
kernel 2.6.7, the rescue disk is working, but I have
problems with the root disk. At boot time I receive the
following error:

ramdisk: incomplete write (-28 != 32768) 41944304
ext2-fs warning: check time reached running e2fsk is
recommended.

I compile the kernel with ext2 support, I can figure
out what is going on.

Any Idea or source of information. I alredy read the
installation manuals.


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Re: ursine.ca has been hijacked

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Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> I'm a bit curious how this was accomplished. Was it social engineering?

Nope.  This person was formerly trusted with full sudo access on
ursine.ca before he became a bill collector with Active Credit
Services in Beaverton, Oregon, which turned him into a sociopath.
Given that he's already on antipsychotics, it scares me with the kind
of people that are trusted with people's personal financial
information.  He had access to a Canadian registrar, I didn't.
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Re: ursine.ca has been hijacked

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> On Sun, Aug 29, 2004 at 08:53:24PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:
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> Hi Paul,
> seems this guy wrote some FLOSS articles. 
>
> And this fellow: 
> From: Joshua Pruitt ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
> Date: 04/30/03
> seem to be part of a LUG in tennesee (see above: -tn).
> Maybe someone could contact this lug(http://nlug.org/) and see 
> if a bad reputation would help him see the light.

No!  That is not the Joshua Pruitt of which I speak.  [EMAIL PROTECTED] is.
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RE: PE 1600SC ???

[Steven Jones]

Does it run OK with 2.4.x ?

Im running Dells with RHAS3 on 2.4.x without issues.

regards

Steven

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From: Sergio Basurto [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, 31 August 2004 9:42 a.m.
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: PE 1600SC ???


I had problems with installation of woody in a
PowerEdge 1600SC server, I replace the kernel that
comes as default with the rescue disk with my own
kernel 2.6.7, the rescue disk is working, but I have
problems with the root disk. At boot time I receive the
following error:

ramdisk: incomplete write (-28 != 32768) 41944304
ext2-fs warning: check time reached running e2fsk is
recommended.

I compile the kernel with ext2 support, I can figure
out what is going on.

Any Idea or source of information. I alredy read the
installation manuals.


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Re: PE 1600SC ???

[Stefan O'Rear]

On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 02:41:31PM -0700, Sergio Basurto wrote:
> I had problems with installation of woody in a
> PowerEdge 1600SC server, I replace the kernel that
> comes as default with the rescue disk with my own
> kernel 2.6.7, the rescue disk is working, but I have
> problems with the root disk. At boot time I receive the
> following error:
> 
> ramdisk: incomplete write (-28 != 32768) 41944304
I'd guess the ramdisk is too small.

Try (at the boot prompt) linux ramdisk_size=32768

That will make a 32MB ramdisk rather than the default 4MB.

> ext2-fs warning: check time reached running e2fsk is
> recommended.
warning: means it's not an error. This warning means that the disk was
last fscked more than six months ago, and very frequently occurs with
install disks etc.

> I compile the kernel with ext2 support, I can figure
> out what is going on.
> 
> Any Idea or source of information. I alredy read the
> installation manuals.

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Re: PE 1600SC ???

[s. keeling]

Incoming from Sergio Basurto:
> I had problems with installation of woody in a
> PowerEdge 1600SC server, I replace the kernel that
> comes as default with the rescue disk with my own
> kernel 2.6.7, the rescue disk is working, but I have
> problems with the root disk. At boot time I receive the
> following error:
> 
> ramdisk: incomplete write (-28 != 32768) 41944304
> ext2-fs warning: check time reached running e2fsk is
> recommended.

Does your 2.6.7 kernel need initrd, and the other not?


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Integrating creating users through WebMin

[Curtis Vaughan]

Currently we have a RedHat 8 server that was a special order to do the 
following:
When I create a user through WebMin, it automatically creates a samba 
user profile for them, and a MailDir for Postfix.

Well, that server is getting old and I can't update samba, for example, 
without killing it's integration w/WebMin.

So, my question is whether anything similar has been developed under 
Debian.  All of our other servers are Debian and I feel more 
comfortable with it.

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Re: Integrating creating users through WebMin

[Kevin Mark]

On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 02:53:50PM -0700, Curtis Vaughan wrote:
> Currently we have a RedHat 8 server that was a special order to do the 
> following:
> When I create a user through WebMin, it automatically creates a samba 
> user profile for them, and a MailDir for Postfix.
> 
> Well, that server is getting old and I can't update samba, for example, 
> without killing it's integration w/WebMin.
> 
> So, my question is whether anything similar has been developed under 
> Debian.  All of our other servers are Debian and I feel more 
> comfortable with it.
> 
> Curtis
> 
Hi C,
if this is webmin modules, could you just 'copy it over' after all
Webmin is written in Perl?!
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Re: PE 1600SC ???

[Sergio Basurto]

I compile the kernel with initrd, I am not sure if the
kernels that comes with debian need initrd, but I will
try that one. 

In fact I compile the kernel as described on
installation manual chapter "10.3 Replacing the Rescue
Floppy Kernel" it mention that I need initrd configured
and linked not as module and I just folow the
instructions.

On Mon, 30 Aug 2004 15:53:13 -0600, "s. keeling" wrote:

> 
> Incoming from Sergio Basurto:
> > I had problems with installation of woody in a
> > PowerEdge 1600SC server, I replace the kernel that
> > comes as default with the rescue disk with my own
> > kernel 2.6.7, the rescue disk is working, but I have
> > problems with the root disk. At boot time I receive
> the
> > following error:
> > 
> > ramdisk: incomplete write (-28 != 32768) 41944304
> > ext2-fs warning: check time reached running e2fsk is
> > recommended.
> 
> Does your 2.6.7 kernel need initrd, and the other not?
> 
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Re: ursine.ca has been hijacked

[Kevin Mark]

On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 02:42:29PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:
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> Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> > I'm a bit curious how this was accomplished. Was it social engineering?
> 
> Nope.  This person was formerly trusted with full sudo access on
> ursine.ca before he became a bill collector with Active Credit
> Services in Beaverton, Oregon, which turned him into a sociopath.
> Given that he's already on antipsychotics, it scares me with the kind
> of people that are trusted with people's personal financial
> information.  He had access to a Canadian registrar, I didn't.

Are you are saying that the registar would not listen to your pleas?
or to the inaccurate info?

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Re: a2ps -> gv font (deeper problem!)

[Brad Sawatzky]

On Mon, 30 Aug 2004, Christophe TROESTLER wrote:

> When I do "a2ps -Pdisplay " (but not when I send the job to a
> printer), the font is not right (going over the right margin,
> superimposing the text in the next column).  Is there a way to correct
> that?

I've noticed the same problem (had it for at least a week, but I'm not sure
what triggered it).  I get analogous symptoms with enscript.

To clarify the problem for others:
  The software (a2ps, enscript) *is* wrapping the lines correctly.  The
  problem appears when the resulting PS file is rendered (either to screen,
  or to a printer) using ghostview.  There seems to be a problem with 
  ghostview honoring/mistaking the font size when rendering.  On my debian
  (sid) machine the text is rendered at a point size ~25% larger than it
  should be with the leading, etc. having been computed for the (correct)
  smaller size.  The result is text that is packed to tightly vertically,
  and seriously over-runs its horizontal boundaries.

It is revealing that I can use enscript to generate a file on my work
machine and it will render correctly.  If I transfer the same PS file to my
debian box and view (or print) it there I get the problem with the
incorrect font sizes (resulting, in this case, with the text from one
column running into the second column.

The really confusing bit is that both machines report the same version
string (but different copyright strings?):
WORK MACHINE (RedHat (mixed flavors), renders correctly)
 % gs
 GNU Ghostscript 7.07 (2003-05-17)
 Copyright (C) 2003 artofcode LLC, Benicia, CA.  All rights reserved.

HOME MACHINE (debian, sid, doesn't work)
 % gs
 ESP Ghostscript 7.07 (2003-07-12)
 Copyright 2003 artofcode LLC and Easy Software Products, all rights
 reserved.

So, is there some font handling layer below ghostscript that could be
screwing this up, or is there a bug in the ESP flavor of gs?

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Re: ursine.ca has been hijacked

[Michael D. Crawford]

Paul Johnson wrote:
Given that he's already on antipsychotics, it scares me with the kind
of people that are trusted with people's personal financial
information.
While I don't doubt that you have reason to be angry with the fellow who 
hijacked your domain, I don't feel it is right to imply that taking 
antipsychotics makes one a bad or incompetent person.

I take five milligrams of Risperdal each day.  It's the most widely 
prescribed antipsychotic.  Without it, I would suffer from paranoia and 
hallucinations, and would be spending a lot of time in psychiatric 
hospitals.  But with this antipsychotic medicine, I'm successfully 
self-employed as a software consultant, am happily married, and am 
putting my wife through art school.  I've been working as a programmer 
for seventeen years.  My life is good.

The stigma that mentally ill people face causes many to avoid seeking 
the treatment that would end their sufferring.  It's commonly thought 
that psychotic people are all a bunch of serial killers, but that's 
actually not the case.  A lot of perfectly nice people suffer from 
psychosis.  Quite a lot of people, as one percent of the population has 
schizophrenia.

I was diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder in 1985.  It's like being 
schizophrenic and manic-depressive at the same time.  Besides the 
paranoia and hallucinations, I also experience depression and a euphoric 
state called mania.

I wrote a detailed article about it in large part to fight the stigma 
against the mentally ill.  You'll find "Living with Schizoaffective 
Disorder" at:

http://www.geometricvisions.com/Madness/schizoaffective-disorder/
Sincerely,
Michael D. Crawford
GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting
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Re: ursine.ca has been hijacked

[Paul Johnson]

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Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Are you are saying that the registar would not listen to your pleas?
> or to the inaccurate info?

Well, I plan on going scorched-earth with this.  Technically, neither
of us have any legal claim to ursine.ca as we are not any of the
following (which are the only people allowed to have .ca names):

A) Canadian citizen
B) Permanent Canadian resident
C) Legal representative of a Canadian citizen or permanent resident
D) Corporation of Canada or related territories
E) Trust established in Canada
F) Partnership registered in Canada
G) Canadian unincorporated association
H) Canadian trade union
I) Canadian political party
J) Educational institution
K) Library, museum or archive
L) Canadian hospital
M) Recognized band under the Indian Act of Canada
N) Aboriginal people indigenous to Canada
O) Aboriginal groups indigenous to Canada
P) Canadian government
Q) Her Majesty the Queen in right of Canada or successors

So hopefully the registrar will revoke the domain.  If I have any
Canadian volunteers to hold the domain for me, I'll try to get it back.
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Re: PE 1600SC ???

[Stefan O'Rear]

On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 03:18:18PM -0700, Sergio Basurto wrote:
> Thanks,
> 
> That one eliminate the error the other one still
> appering, is an advance, I will try to solve the other
> one.
> 
> On Mon, 30 Aug 2004 14:49:22 -0700, Stefan O'Rear wrote:
> 
> > > ext2-fs warning: check time reached running e2fsk is
> > > recommended.
> > warning: means it's not an error. This warning means
> > that the disk was
> > last fscked more than six months ago, and very
> > frequently occurs with
> > install disks etc.

How to fix it:

(Let's say your initrd is in /boot/initrd, it MUST NOT be compressed):

/sbin/e2fsck /boot/initrd

Yes, e2fsck WILL work on images, BUT standard debian initrds are gzipped
and must be gunzipped before they can be used outside of the boot
process.

(While entering that last sentence Vim decided to insert a boilerplate
GPL copyright notice. Apologies for any mangling that resulted.)

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Re: ursine.ca has been hijacked

[Tom Allison]

Michael D. Crawford wrote:
Paul Johnson wrote:
Given that he's already on antipsychotics, it scares me with the kind
of people that are trusted with people's personal financial
information.

While I don't doubt that you have reason to be angry with the fellow who 
hijacked your domain, I don't feel it is right to imply that taking 
antipsychotics makes one a bad or incompetent person.

I take five milligrams of Risperdal each day.

While you make an excellent case.  Social stigmas, or anything else that 
has a history of prejudicial treatment (race, color, religion...) tends 
to be a quick point of attack when faced with an a**hole.

Personally, I've been paranoid and delusional for decades!!!  But that's 
probably the result of certain psychotropic substances I took during my 
college years...

But one a more serious note.
If I have a hold a domain name for years before I execute it into a 
money making venture.  Does the prior ownership grant me any possibility 
of protection against copyright or domain claims?

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Re: ursine.ca has been hijacked

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"Michael D. Crawford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Paul Johnson wrote:
>> Given that he's already on antipsychotics, it scares me with the kind
>> of people that are trusted with people's personal financial
>> information.
>
> While I don't doubt that you have reason to be angry with the fellow
> who hijacked your domain, I don't feel it is right to imply that
> taking antipsychotics makes one a bad or incompetent person.

He's not good about taking them is the problem.  I in no way intended
to imply that all people taking antipsychotic medication aren't
productive, happy, useful members of society.  I only meant it as it
happens to be something he isn't taking care of himself and I suspect
it's adversely affecting other people in his case.
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Re: Integrating creating users through WebMin

[Curtis Vaughan]

On 30 Aug, 2004, at 14:57, Kevin Mark wrote:
On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 02:53:50PM -0700, Curtis Vaughan wrote:
Currently we have a RedHat 8 server that was a special order to do the

following:
When I create a user through WebMin, it automatically creates a samba
user profile for them, and a MailDir for Postfix.
Well, that server is getting old and I can't update samba, for
example,
without killing it's integration w/WebMin.
So, my question is whether anything similar has been developed under
Debian.  All of our other servers are Debian and I feel more
comfortable with it.
Curtis
Hi C,
if this is webmin modules, could you just 'copy it over' after all
Webmin is written in Perl?!
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they had to figure out some issues.

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live cd install option

[Edward Kamau]

Hi,

I've been using Gnoppix for a while now, since my laptop hard disk died.
Its a great live cd distro and I've passed it out to several friends.
But for a non techie like me its still too hard to modify. 

So that got me wondering. How about if the Debian install had an option
to create a live cd instead of installing to disk. Perhaps the installer
would install to a file on disk that one could then burn to CD. That way
anybody could create a live cd customised just the way they wanted.

This seems quite feasible to me, but IANAT so if its totally off base. I
guess I'll hear about it.

emk


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Re: ursine.ca has been hijacked

[S.D.A.]

On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 03:21:20PM -0700 or thereabouts, Paul Johnson wrote:
 
> So hopefully the registrar will revoke the domain.  If I have any
> Canadian volunteers to hold the domain for me, I'll try to get it back.

If you need help with that, let me know. I'm in Toronto. I've dealt with CIRA,
they're pretty fussy, about dotting the 'I's' and crossing the 'ts'. I'm
surprised it was that easy for the other guy to do this. I had to wait about 3
months to prove to them a couple of years ago, that I owned a dot ca domain.
Lots of e-mailing and snailmailing back and forth.

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Kernel Compile

[Grant]

Hey,
I have a laptop P2 300mhz, 128mb ram and a desktop box thats 2ghz,512mb ram.
The question is that could i use my 2ghz machine to make and compile a 
kernel, then package it up into a .deb and send it to the laptop and 
install it and it work ?

Would i need any extras ? i know i would have to select the hardware for 
the laptop, but would i need to include the hardware for the 2ghz or 
just the laptop ?

Thanks
Grant.

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Re: PowerEdge 700 SATA anyone?

[Tim Kelley]

On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 12:48:49PM -0700, Richard Weil wrote:
> I have a Dell PowerEdge 600SC which is SATA. I got it at the beginning
> of the year. I run Sarge on it no problems w/ the 2.6.7 kernel.
> 
> It comes with some crap on the drive. I did a fresh install, wiping the
> drive clean in the process and I've had no problems. I just installed
> Sarge on another system and the rc installer is great (netinst cd
> image). Enter "expert" at the boot prompt in the install and you'll be
> able to install the 2.6.7 kernel right from the start.

I would leave the "crap" on the drive, it's just about 30MB worth of
DOS utilities and some windowzy gunk for the Dell reps to use if you
even have a problem with the hardware.  Generally they'll insist on
running this stuff before sending out any replacements.

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Re: Integrating creating users through WebMin

[Tim Kelley]

On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 02:53:50PM -0700, Curtis Vaughan wrote:
> Currently we have a RedHat 8 server that was a special order to do the 
> following:
> When I create a user through WebMin, it automatically creates a samba 
> user profile for them, and a MailDir for Postfix.
> 
> Well, that server is getting old and I can't update samba, for example, 
> without killing it's integration w/WebMin.
> 
> So, my question is whether anything similar has been developed under 
> Debian.  All of our other servers are Debian and I feel more 
> comfortable with it.

Not that I know of, but a simple wrapper to the adduser script (or
whatever it is webmin calls) and some mods to /etc/skel would do fine.

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Re: Kernel Compile

[Stefan O'Rear]

On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 01:06:59AM +0100, Grant wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> I have a laptop P2 300mhz, 128mb ram and a desktop box thats 2ghz,512mb ram.
> 
> The question is that could i use my 2ghz machine to make and compile a 
> kernel, then package it up into a .deb and send it to the laptop and 
> install it and it work ?
> 
> Would i need any extras ? i know i would have to select the hardware for 
> the laptop, but would i need to include the hardware for the 2ghz or 
> just the laptop ?

Probably just the laptop, BUT, I seem to recall the *config doing
limited hardware probing (like, if you don't watch out you'll get a P4
only kernel).

You may wish to look into distcc. It is a wrapper for gcc that spreads
the work between multiple computers, e.g:

make menuconfig

CC=distcc make -j4 bzImage

Your laptop and your desktop will be faster than your desktop alone.

Note that old (< 2.6 i think) kernels simply can't be built with
multiple processors, so you'd be out of luck whether it's distcc or your
shiny new quad-Opteron PC.

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Re: phpinfo() reading in as a file, bringing up download prompt.

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On Monday August 30 at 03:27pm
"Nigel J. Wood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I did uncomment out :
> 
> AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
> AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps
> 
> Still getting the download prompt.  Any other ideas?

/etc/init.d/apache reload

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provided actually have all the information?
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Re: ursine.ca has been hijacked

[Kevin Mark]

On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 03:21:20PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:
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> Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> > Are you are saying that the registar would not listen to your pleas?
> > or to the inaccurate info?
> 
> Well, I plan on going scorched-earth with this.  Technically, neither
> of us have any legal claim to ursine.ca as we are not any of the
> following (which are the only people allowed to have .ca names):
> 
> A) Canadian citizen

> 
> So hopefully the registrar will revoke the domain.  If I have any
> Canadian volunteers to hold the domain for me, I'll try to get it back.

Hopefully someone on this great list will help you out. Someone must
live in CA. One of the neat things about FLOSS folks is that we like to
help folks out. This would be a great example!
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Re: Integrating creating users through WebMin

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On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 04:32:41PM -0700, Curtis Vaughan wrote:
> 
> On 30 Aug, 2004, at 14:57, Kevin Mark wrote:
> 
> >On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 02:53:50PM -0700, Curtis Vaughan wrote:
> >>Currently we have a RedHat 8 server that was a special order to do the
> >
> >>following:
> >>When I create a user through WebMin, it automatically creates a samba
> >>user profile for them, and a MailDir for Postfix.
> >>
> >>Well, that server is getting old and I can't update samba, for
> >example,
> >>without killing it's integration w/WebMin.
> >>
> >>So, my question is whether anything similar has been developed under
> >>Debian.  All of our other servers are Debian and I feel more
> >>comfortable with it.
> >>
> >>Curtis
> >>
> >Hi C,
> >if this is webmin modules, could you just 'copy it over' after all
> >Webmin is written in Perl?!
> >=Kev
> >-- 
> >
> I have no idea how they did it, but I know that the entire integration 
> was originally written on a RedHat 7 server.  I requested that they put 
> it on my Debian server, but they could not get all the integration to 
> work.  So, in the end I asked them to put it on RedHat 8, and even then 
> they had to figure out some issues.
> 
> Curtis
Hi Curtis,
1000 open source eyes may help! if you make it an open source project.
If its that useful, someone in debian or elsewhere may jump on the
chance! But that is entirely in your court! 
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Re: ursine.ca has been hijacked

[Icebiker]

So hopefully the registrar will revoke the domain.  If I have any
Canadian volunteers to hold the domain for me, I'll try to get it back.
If you need help with that, let me know. I'm in Toronto. I've dealt with 
CIRA,
they're pretty fussy, about dotting the 'I's' and crossing the 'ts'. I'm
surprised it was that easy for the other guy to do this. I had to wait 
about 3
months to prove to them a couple of years ago, that I owned a dot ca 
domain.
Lots of e-mailing and snailmailing back and forth.
Huh? internetnamesforbusiness.com (or whatever they're called) set me up 
with my .ca in a couple of days. This was about 18 months ago. I dunno why 
it was so easy, maybe coz I'm in the Toronto phone book.

/icebiker
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Re: Which wiki?

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> I use, and like, TWiki.  It's available as a Debian package.

Sort of oriented towards the business environment, no?
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Re: ursine.ca has been hijacked

[Kevin Mark]

On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 07:24:23PM -0300, Michael D. Crawford wrote:
> Paul Johnson wrote:
> >Given that he's already on antipsychotics, it scares me with the kind
> >of people that are trusted with people's personal financial
> >information.
> 
> While I don't doubt that you have reason to be angry with the fellow who 
> hijacked your domain, I don't feel it is right to imply that taking 
> antipsychotics makes one a bad or incompetent person.

Hi Mike,
I understand your point and one of the great things that mailing lists
, especially international ones, do is give people an opportunity to
exchange ideas and on ocassion deal with misconceptions about issues
like race, mental illness, and the bad rap pidgeons get! I'm sure Paul
meant no offense to you and was expressing a bit of frustraion but his
words prompted your replay which on balance I'd consider a good thing
for the reason stated above.
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Starting MySQL?

[Ed Sutherland]

How do I start mysql in Debian? Thanks.
Ed
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Re: ursine.ca has been hijacked

[S.D.A.]

On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 09:13:13PM -0400 or thereabouts, Icebiker wrote:
> 
> >>So hopefully the registrar will revoke the domain.  If I have any
> >>Canadian volunteers to hold the domain for me, I'll try to get it back.
> >
> >If you need help with that, let me know. I'm in Toronto. I've dealt with 
> >CIRA,
> >they're pretty fussy, about dotting the 'I's' and crossing the 'ts'. I'm
> >surprised it was that easy for the other guy to do this. I had to wait 
> >about 3
> >months to prove to them a couple of years ago, that I owned a dot ca 
> >domain.
> >Lots of e-mailing and snailmailing back and forth.
> 
> Huh? internetnamesforbusiness.com (or whatever they're called) set me up 
> with my .ca in a couple of days. This was about 18 months ago. I dunno why 
> it was so easy, maybe coz I'm in the Toronto phone book.

I'm not referring to purchasing a new one, but altering or changing details on
an existing domain.

It should be difficult to transfer, without proper documentation. For me, it
was, as my registrar had ceased doing business. I was the registered owner, but
without the registrar being the middleman, it was extremely difficult and time
consuming to provide documentation to them indicating that I was the legitimate
owner. It's deliberately difficult to prevent such domain hijacking.

I don't know Paul's details, but I was commenting on the fact that I had to jump
through hoops to change my information -- So I was surprised that Paul's nemesis
was easy to do it (apparently) relatively easy.

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Re: Starting MySQL?

[Alec Berryman]

begin  quotation of Ed Sutherland on 2004-08-30 22:06:27 -0400:

> How do I start mysql in Debian? Thanks.

Assuming you have mysql-server installed, you should be able to type
(with root permissions) `/etc/init.d/mysql start`.  It defaults to
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Re: Starting MySQL?

[Darryl Clarke]

well, typically, 
# invoke-rc.d mysql start

However, if you want tcp connections you'll have to change the default
settings in /etc/mysql/my.cnf to enable network support rather than
just socket connections.


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> How do I start mysql in Debian? Thanks.
> 
> Ed
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Re: cdrecord issues since 2.6 move

[Jim McCloskey]

Brian Pack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

|> I've compiled from each kernel-source-2.6.8-* that has come through in
|> the last week. With 2.6.8-2, the memory leak has apparently been
|> fixed, so I can run as root and burn audio CDs, but as of last night's
|> 2.6.8-5 package, I still cannot burn as a regular user.

As I understand it, this was a policy-decision taken by the kernel
developers when 2.6.8 was released---for security reasons.  It caused
a lot of discussion and aggravation (and another flame-fest with the
author of cdrecord), but there has been no change of heart, as far as I
know.

So my understanding is that, for the present at least, if you want to
be able to burn CDs as a non-root user, you can't venture beyond
2.6.7.

If I'm wrong about this, I hope someone will correct me,

Jim


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hauppage 350 pvr

[Tom Allison]

I finally got one of these PVR cards in my boxen.
myth tv appears to have installed OK, but I haven't really had a chance 
to get things working.  mythweather is about it.

However, back to Debian.
lirc isn't.  I copied the files over from the examples for this card and 
tried to restart lirc daemon but it complained that I need to install 
some modules.

Do I and if so, how?
As for the mythtv part of it.  When I try to watch TV I get a rather 
unresponsive black screen.

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monodevelop has no window manager adornments

[hanasaki]

Anyone able to run monodevelop and get window manager adornments? 
(window title, resizers, ...)

This system is:
Debian sarge
kernel 2.6.7
sawfish
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Re: Starting MySQL?

[Brian Nelson]

On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 10:12:43PM -0400, Darryl Clarke wrote:
> well, typically, 
> # invoke-rc.d mysql start

No, '/etc/init.d/mysql start' or 'service mysql start' (if you have
sysvconfig installed).  invoke-rc.d should not be used by users.

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Re: Starting MySQL?

[Darryl Clarke]

On Mon, 30 Aug 2004 19:47:59 -0700, Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 10:12:43PM -0400, Darryl Clarke wrote:
> > well, typically,
> > # invoke-rc.d mysql start
> 
> No, '/etc/init.d/mysql start' or 'service mysql start' (if you have
> sysvconfig installed).  invoke-rc.d should not be used by users.


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REALTEK driver?

[John Fleming]

I have an eMachines computer that my kids use that I'm trying to get going
with Sarge.  If I use Knoppix/Debian Unstable, it finds eth0, gets IP from
DHCP on my LAN, and we're on the Net fine.  However, the Sarge installer
does NOT get IP and therefore doesn't find the Internet.  Interestingly,
both Sarge and Knoppix/Sid are using the REALTEK 8139too driver.  Thus I
don't know why Sid finds the DHCP server and Sarge doesn't.  I've tried
manually configuring with a static IP, but that doesn't work either.

Anyone been here before and/or suggest ways to get Sarge talking to eth0?
eth0 does show in ifconfig -a with a hardware address.

Here's a chance to help me get several young, impressionable minds to know
there IS a choice!

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Re: cdrecord issues since 2.6 move

[Kevin C. Smith]

> Brian Pack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> |> I've compiled from each kernel-source-2.6.8-* that has come through
> in |> the last week. With 2.6.8-2, the memory leak has apparently been
> |> fixed, so I can run as root and burn audio CDs, but as of last
> night's |> 2.6.8-5 package, I still cannot burn as a regular user.
>
> As I understand it, this was a policy-decision taken by the kernel
> developers when 2.6.8 was released---for security reasons.  It caused a
> lot of discussion and aggravation (and another flame-fest with the
> author of cdrecord), but there has been no change of heart, as far as I
> know.
>
> So my understanding is that, for the present at least, if you want to
> be able to burn CDs as a non-root user, you can't venture beyond
> 2.6.7.
>
> If I'm wrong about this, I hope someone will correct me,
>
> Jim

>From what I have read this is correct. For those interested for some
reason after moving to 2.6 kernel I am no longer able to burn at 16x,
which is max speed. Reducing speed to 12x solved my problem.

Regarding the issue of 2.6 kernel not allowing non-root users to burn
CDs. I used sudo:

/etc/sudoers
   localhost = NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/cdrecord
   localhost = NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/cdrecord.mmap

and then modified /usr/bin/cdrecord:

#!/bin/sh
VERS=`uname -r`
case "$VERS" in
  2.0.*|2.2.*)
exec cdrecord.shm "$@"
  ;;
  *)
exec sudo cdrecord.mmap "$@"
  ;;
esac

Now I can burn from Gnome's Nautilus as a non-root user again.

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Re: Which wiki?

[Kirk Strauser]

On Monday 30 August 2004 08:15 pm, Paul Johnson wrote:

> Raquel Rice <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

>> I use, and like, TWiki.  It's available as a Debian package.

> Sort of oriented towards the business environment, no?

Not particularly.  I host http://subwiki.honeypot.net/ with TWiki and 
absolutely love it, since I'm able to "partition" off parts of it into topics 
of specific interest.  I routinely make a new "web" for friends to use as a 
part of their own personal projects.  That way, their topics don't 
contaminate the rest of the site; in effect, they have their own unique 
namespace to work in.

I've been using TWiki for years and I love it.
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Re: Starting MySQL?

[Brian Nelson]

On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 10:56:17PM -0400, Darryl Clarke wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Aug 2004 19:47:59 -0700, Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 10:12:43PM -0400, Darryl Clarke wrote:
> > > well, typically,
> > > # invoke-rc.d mysql start
> > 
> > No, '/etc/init.d/mysql start' or 'service mysql start' (if you have
> > sysvconfig installed).  invoke-rc.d should not be used by users.
> 
> 
> Why not?

http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2004/08/msg01279.html

Also see invoke-rc.d(8).

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SOLVED: Which wiki?

[Paul Johnson]

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> In light of slash being a pain in the butt, and my domain being
> stolen, I'm thinking about moving my site over to a wiki. 

I went with usemodwiki
http://ursine.dyndns.org/
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Re: monodevelop has no window manager adornments

[Stefan O'Rear]

On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 09:36:24PM -0500, hanasaki wrote:
> Anyone able to run monodevelop and get window manager adornments? 
> (window title, resizers, ...)
> 
> This system is:
>   Debian sarge
>   kernel 2.6.7
>   sawfish

1. monodevelop &
2. xwininfo

Does it say:

  Override Redirect State: yes

If yes: O.R. allows a program to say 'This window shall be immune to
window managers'. Useful for some popups (e.g. menus). Marking an
application window as O.R. is the only reliable way to stop a window
from getting wm decorations (so you can add your own ad hoc
decorations), but is against the ICCCM and might count as a bug.

ICCCM = Inter-Client Communications Conventions Manual
X11 provides "mechanism, not policy". The ICCCM is a 70-page
troff document containing quite a bit of the policy that was
left out of the protocol.

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Re: graphics GNU C

[Silvan]

On Sunday 29 August 2004 10:46 pm, Stefan O'Rear wrote:

> C is graphics-agnostic, and there are many graphics libraries you can

> Qt: 3 Like Athena, but different style (used by KDE)

Well  QT is about as C++ as C++ gets.

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Re: HTML editor. What to use?

[Silvan]

On Monday 30 August 2004 07:31 am, Francisco Borges wrote:
> Hello,
>
>  I haven't build HTML pages in years and I'm looking for an editor that
> would allow me to have a quick (re)start. Any recomendations?
>
> Running Sarge here.
>
> thank you for your attention ;-)

A couple I didn't see mentioned.  If you don't really care about the blasted 
tags and just want to get it done, regardless of how badly coded the 
resulting HTML is, then there's Mozilla composer, or, my preference, Open 
Office.

Open Office generates some *very* ghastly HTML, but for my purposes, I don't 
really care what the code looks like as long as the finished product comes 
out right.  It does.  So I'm liberated from having to screw with all those 
@[EMAIL PROTECTED] tags.  I'm trying to write something, not program a document.  Yes, 
I 
could do it all by hand, but why should I waste my time?  
Quanta/bluefish/etc. aren't much better, since you still have to be very 
intimately aware of the tags.  I want to be insulated from the details so I 
can concentrate on the real job.  It's hard enough at that. 

Anyway, it really just depends on your needs.  All the bases are covered, no 
matter what.

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Re: monodevelop has no window manager adornments

[hanasaki]

Stefan O'Rear wrote:
On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 09:36:24PM -0500, hanasaki wrote:
Anyone able to run monodevelop and get window manager adornments? 
(window title, resizers, ...)

This system is:
Debian sarge
kernel 2.6.7
sawfish

1. monodevelop &
2. xwininfo
Does it say:
  Override Redirect State: yes
If yes: O.R. allows a program to say 'This window shall be immune to
window managers'. Useful for some popups (e.g. menus). Marking an
application window as O.R. is the only reliable way to stop a window
from getting wm decorations (so you can add your own ad hoc
decorations), but is against the ICCCM and might count as a bug.
ICCCM = Inter-Client Communications Conventions Manual
X11 provides "mechanism, not policy". The ICCCM is a 70-page
troff document containing quite a bit of the policy that was
left out of the protocol.
It says no Override Redirect State
xwininfo: Window id: 0x3c00031 "MonoDevelop"
  Absolute upper-left X:  433
  Absolute upper-left Y:  17
  Relative upper-left X:  433
  Relative upper-left Y:  17
  Width: 640
  Height: 480
  Depth: 24
  Visual Class: TrueColor
  Border width: 0
  Class: InputOutput
  Colormap: 0x20 (installed)
  Bit Gravity State: NorthWestGravity
  Window Gravity State: NorthWestGravity
  Backing Store State: NotUseful
  Save Under State: no
  Map State: IsViewable
  Override Redirect State: no
  Corners:  +433+17  -527+17  -527-703  +433-703
  -geometry 640x480+433+17
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Debian Display on Virtual PC 2004

[Benny Wong]

Hello,

I recently installed the testing Debian (Sarge) on Microsoft Virtual
PC 2004. I am new to linux and am still poking around.

I installed a base system and I installed x-window-system and gnome by
using the 'apt-get install ...'. When I startx, they display is VERY
wide and unviewable. I think it may have something to do with the
settings that i used when setting up x. Can anyone help? Thanks A LOT.
I would really liek this to work because Debian has been my fave
distro that I've tried. Thanks!

-Benny


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Re: Questions about aptitude use

[Rich Rudnick]

On Mon, 2004-08-30 at 10:54 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote:
> I have set up preferences to track testing, and have unstable
> available for use.
> 
> I think I now see pachages from both sarge and sid on the aptitude
> interactive screen. Am I right, or am I dreaming?
> 
> Is there a way to tell which release a pachage will come from if I
> markit for install on the interactive screen? Or which version # is
> sid?

I run sid, with gnome from experimental.  A very useful command in this
situation (which I think will also get most of what you want) is 
'l', which allows you to limit the tree view. for example, l ~Aexper 
will limit the interactive screen view to packages from experimental.
~Atesting, ~Aunstable will limit the view to those 'releases',
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Re: clock suddenly slipping behind

[Nori Heikkinen]

on Fri, 27 Aug 2004 11:43:30AM -0400, Nori Heikkinen insinuated:
> on Fri, 27 Aug 2004 02:21:44PM +1000, Tim Connors insinuated:
> > Stefan O'Rear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Thu, 26 Aug 2004 20:34:17 -0700:
> > > On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 11:23:07PM -0400, Nori Heikkinen wrote:
> > > > over the past few days, i've noticed that my system clock gets
> > > > about ten to fifteen minutes slow over the course of a day.
> > > > this is really weird!  i've been using ntpdate to synchronize
> > > > it with a timeserver whenever i notice it, and i put it in a
> > > > once-a-day cron job, but i want my system to ALWAYS be on
> > > > time.  i'm confused as to what's causing this, and how i can
> > > > fix it.  any ideas?
> > > >
[...]
> > I haven't tried to reproduce this, but things to note were the
> > drift file *seemed* to have normal contents, the adjtime file was
> > slightly off (but should only affect the hardware timer anyway,
> > and was probably off because ntp was so confused - you can't
> > calibrate the hardware clock off a faulty software clock).
> > 
> > One other very clued in guy on the scary devil monastery also
> > found this problem a day or two ago. I've been in communication
> > with him, and it seems these are all related. There is a hard to
> > trigger bug somewhere, but if you want to track it down, you'll
> > prbablky need to reinstall old version of ntp and/or adjtimex and
> > just keep working forwards and backwards until you trigger the bug
> > again.
>
> right now, i've got:
> 
> ii  ntp4.2.0a-11
> ii  ntp-simple 4.1.0-8
> ii  ntpdate4.2.0a-11
> ii  adjtimex   1.18-1.1
> 
> did you get a set of versions that works for you?
> 
> and if this is a problem with these versions, should i file a bug?
> hmm, this looks quite relevant:
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=265839 (i'm also
> running kernel 2.4.26-1, like the submitter of this bug).
> 
> i'll try downgrading adjtimex to 1.13-1, the next lowest version in
> the cache, and see if i still notice a drift at the end of the day

so, the drift seems to be entirely gone with the downgrading of
adjtimex.  that bugreport i linked above seems to cover my problem --
i'm not quite sure (TICK?), but it seems to make sense ("... which
leads to heavy clock drifts (more than 30 minutes) within a quite
short time (less than a day) on all my machines.  Drifts that not even
ntpd is able to compensate.").

if this bug is already filed, i guess my conclusion has to just be to
keep adjtimex from upgrading until the bug is fixed.

thanks for your help, all.



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Re: REALTEK driver?

[Andrew Schulman]

> I have an eMachines computer that my kids use that I'm trying to get going
> with Sarge.  If I use Knoppix/Debian Unstable, it finds eth0, gets IP from
> DHCP on my LAN, and we're on the Net fine.  However, the Sarge installer
> does NOT get IP and therefore doesn't find the Internet.  Interestingly,
> both Sarge and Knoppix/Sid are using the REALTEK 8139too driver.  Thus I
> don't know why Sid finds the DHCP server and Sarge doesn't.  I've tried
> manually configuring with a static IP, but that doesn't work either.

There are two steps here: first, bring up the interface; second, get your IP
address.  Can you tell where your case is failing?

Does ifconfig show eth0 as UP and RUNNING?  If not, try 'lsmod | grep
8139too' to see if the driver is loaded.  You may need to 'modprobe
8139too', then 'ifconfig eth0 up'.

Once the interface is up, you'll need to run your DHCP client.  I use pump;
the command is 'pump -i eth0'.  If that fails, you might have a firewall
problem.  But probably not on a virgin Sarge installation.

Once you've gotten these steps to work manually, then it's a question of
making it all happen automatically at boot.  Which should happen without
any intervention from you; that's basic stuff nowadays.  But there may be
something unusual that's stopping the process.  First step is to find out
where.

Good luck,
Andrew.



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Re: Ever solve eject problem?

[Andrew Schulman]

> I'm running testing. I have two CD drives, both can burn, one
> Sony and one Generic. eject works on sony, but not on generic.
> I believe the problem is with the generic hardware or firmware,
> but I don't have proof. But since one works, I doubt it is a
> Linux software problem.

I find CD drives to be an incredible pain in the ass this way in Linux. 
I've had no end of trouble with them.  Fortunately they're cheap.  Recently
I finally gave up struggling with my 4-year-old SCSI 12x4x8 burner, and
bought a new IDE 52x32x52x16 Sony model for about $50.  It works way
better, and way faster.  Well worth it.



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Re: a2ps -> gv font (deeper problem!)

[David Sanders]

On Monday 30 August 2004 18:02, Brad Sawatzky wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Aug 2004, Christophe TROESTLER wrote:
> > When I do "a2ps -Pdisplay " (but not when I send the job to a
> > printer), the font is not right (going over the right margin,
> > superimposing the text in the next column).  Is there a way to correct
> > that?
>
> I've noticed the same problem (had it for at least a week, but I'm not sure
> what triggered it).  I get analogous symptoms with enscript.
>
> To clarify the problem for others:
>   The software (a2ps, enscript) *is* wrapping the lines correctly.  The
>   problem appears when the resulting PS file is rendered (either to screen,
>   or to a printer) using ghostview.  There seems to be a problem with
>   ghostview honoring/mistaking the font size when rendering.  On my debian
>   (sid) machine the text is rendered at a point size ~25% larger than it
>   should be with the leading, etc. having been computed for the (correct)
>   smaller size.  The result is text that is packed to tightly vertically,
>   and seriously over-runs its horizontal boundaries.
>
> It is revealing that I can use enscript to generate a file on my work
> machine and it will render correctly.  If I transfer the same PS file to my
> debian box and view (or print) it there I get the problem with the
> incorrect font sizes (resulting, in this case, with the text from one
> column running into the second column.
>
> The really confusing bit is that both machines report the same version
> string (but different copyright strings?):
> WORK MACHINE (RedHat (mixed flavors), renders correctly)
>  % gs
>  GNU Ghostscript 7.07 (2003-05-17)
>  Copyright (C) 2003 artofcode LLC, Benicia, CA.  All rights reserved.
>
> HOME MACHINE (debian, sid, doesn't work)
>  % gs
>  ESP Ghostscript 7.07 (2003-07-12)
>  Copyright 2003 artofcode LLC and Easy Software Products, all rights
>  reserved.
>
> So, is there some font handling layer below ghostscript that could be
> screwing this up, or is there a bug in the ESP flavor of gs?
>
> -- Brad
>
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I have:

GPL Ghostscript 8.01 (2004-01-30)
Copyright (C) 2004 artofcode LLC, Benicia, CA.  All rights reserved.

same problem:

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Re: USB harddrives and device associations

[John Summerfield]

Darryl Clarke wrote:
Hi,
This may be a simple question, or complicated.
I have a lot of USB drives that I deal with and I'm getting quite
annoyed that whenever I switch drives the /dev/sdX association changes
too.  I started on /dev/sda and now I'm currently on /dev/sdp and I
have to edit my fstab every time I switch drives around.
Even if I put it in the same port, the associated device changes.
 

It seems bizarre, but with some PC hardware you need to eject /dev/sda 
before removing it. I have several boxes where this isn't so, one where 
it is.

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Re: cdrecord issues since 2.6 move

[John Summerfield]

Paul Gear wrote:
Paul E Condon wrote:
 

On Sun, Aug 29, 2004 at 06:29:45PM -0500, Kevin C. Smith wrote:
   

Help!
Running Debian Sid on Dell Inspiron 8200. Moved to Kernel 2.6.8 and
started having failures.
...

Cdwriting fails on ISOs greater then 150MB.
...
 

I think there are "a lot of issues" with cdrecord, ide-scsi, and linux-kernel.
I do not understand what is happening, but it seems not good for "business as
usual". Think about how you can revert to 2.4.x. 
   

I've burned several CDs greater than 150 Mb on sarge under
kernel-image-2.6.7-1-k7.  Cdrecord may complain about "badly designed
ATAPI", but it works fine for me.  Here is the relevant entry from my
/etc/cdrecord/cdrecord:
ata=ATA:1,0,0   -1  -1  burnfree
 

've upgraded to 2.6.8 (for unrelated reasons); both work for me.
The more I hear from the author the less I admire him. Has anyone tried 
dvdrecord recently? The bloke who did the fork I do admire, but I don't 
know whether it's being maintained.



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Re: cdrecord issues since 2.6 move

[John Summerfield]

Kudret Güler wrote:
On Mon, 30 Aug 2004 17:20:15 +0300, Ruairi Newman
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
 

There was a recent discussion on lkml about memory leaks and other
issues with the ATAPI driver in 2.6.8.  Revert to 2.6.7 and see if
that helps.  If so, then you can move to 2.6.9 later.
   

This is exactly what I did, and it works like a charm now as was
always before 2.6.8-1. I didn't try 2.6.8-2 though...
 

I'm pretty sure that 2.6.8 will be the Sarge Standard. I've been 
following discussion as I have an interest in the matter.


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Re: hauppage 350 pvr

[Stephen Tait]

At 22:28 30/08/2004 -0400, you wrote:
I finally got one of these PVR cards in my boxen.
myth tv appears to have installed OK, but I haven't really had a chance to 
get things working.  mythweather is about it.

However, back to Debian.
lirc isn't.  I copied the files over from the examples for this card and 
tried to restart lirc daemon but it complained that I need to install some 
modules.

Do I and if so, how?
If your 350 is anything like my 250 under Gentoo, you'll need to tell LIRC 
to open a different device than the default. I'm using a CVS build of LIRC 
0.7, and the PVR-250 creates a dev node in /dev/lircd/0 rather than the 
more usual /dev/lircd0. I've never used LIRC under Debian, but I imagine 
the process is pretty much the same; I supplied an extra command line 
argument to /etc/init.d/lircd

start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --exec /usr/sbin/lircd -- 
--device=/dev/lirc/0

Personally, I'd dispense with LIRC until you can get the TV card working.
If LIRC really is missing modules, your kernel config should look something 
like this:

 I2C support
 I2C bit-banging
 I2C device interfaces
 I2C /proc
 Video for Linux
 BT848 Video for Linux
This should get you most of the modules you need for ivtv and LIRC; I don't 
know how debian handles it, but you'll also need lirc_i2c and lirc_dev 
modules as well. I think these got built when I compiled LIRC.

Again, this is all for gentoo, so as far as Debian is concerned I could 
well be talking out of my arse.


As for the mythtv part of it.  When I try to watch TV I get a rather 
unresponsive black screen.
Have you tried watching TV outside of Myth? It's generally alot easier to 
test your TV card with cat /dev/video0 or mplayer before you hurry into 
Myth. A straight black screen usually means you've loaded your modules 
wrong (typically specifying the wrong tuner type). Once you get static, 
you're in business ;)

TBH though, troubleshooting issues like this is a very hit-and-miss 
process. Post some more info about your setup (card revision, ivtv version, 
ivtv module loader, etc) things should be easier to troubleshoot; you might 
also want to consider joining the mythtv-users mailing list, which has 
proved invaluable in getting my Myth box into a usable state (esp. with 
regard to getting a PAL version running, as these have slightly different 
module configs). 

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Re: ursine.ca has been hijacked

[Paul Johnson]

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> Hopefully someone on this great list will help you out. Someone must
> live in CA. One of the neat things about FLOSS folks is that we like to
> help folks out. This would be a great example!

Well, his real address (sans apt 10) is in whois on my domain...
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