problems with terminal emulation and procmail configuration
Hi
I started studieng at the university this year and now i have problems interacting
with the student server with my linux computers at home.
The server is an hppa server running hpux 11.0
The first thing is related to the terminal emulation I think:
if i try to connect to the server via ssh i have the problem that i cannot use some
keys:
in bash POS1, End and DEL do not work
in vim del, POS1 and end are working but not backspace
in mutt (editing new mail) Pos1, End, DEL and backspace are not working
(PgUP and down are not working anywhere but that does not matter to me...)
(besides which i have to use xterm as terminal because with rxvt it complains about
not knowing at login and some apps like vim or mutt do not start correctly...)
Is there anything I can do against it on the client side?
The other problem does not really linux connected but i ask it here anyway because it
is just the procmail configuration on the server but i asume that there are people on
this list that do know procmail ;).
I'm tunneling all my mail through the server because it gives me better control for
the filtering (the swen mails are cought by the virus scanner and there is a it seems
well trained spamassasin which catches about 99% of the spam) and there is more
mailspace availible...
I want to send all windows executables and .bat scripts to /dev/null and thought that
should work, but it doesnt:
:0
* ^X-Spam-Flag: YES$
.spam
:0
* ^Content-Type:.*\.exe.*
* ^Content-Type:.*\.bat.*
/dev/null
:0
* ^Content-Type:.*
{
:0
* ^.*name=\".*\.exe\".*
/dev/null
}
can anybody help me with this problems?
thx in advance
yours
Albert
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Re: Promise Fasttrak 100 PDC20267 on Debian
... > Hmmm, I don't even have this directory under my /dev/ (with the stable > distribution). Does this get added with the testing distribution or > some other way? ... you can get a script to create the device files from there: http://people.redhat.com/arjanv/pdcraid/MAKEDEV by the way: the device nodes are included if you install from a more recent bf2.4 boot floppy with woody do (the first few did or did only partly support the promise raid chips and so i had to make the floppy myself but as i remember at least the device nodes are included now since i was able to install directly on the pdc20265r array last time, though i dropped the board with the onbpard raid a while back, but i dont think they removed it?) yours Albert -- Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Promise Fasttrak 100 PDC20267 on Debian
On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 14:17:06 +0200 Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: i apologise for not wrpping the mail... I somehow lost the automatic text wrapping i just fixed it. sorry yours, Albert -- Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Raid system
On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 14:03:15 +0200 "Ron Rademaker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I'm trying to get RAID to work on my server. I got 2 disks (80 GB ATA) > and a motherboard with RAID controller (ASUS PC-DL). The BIOS > recognizes my RAID system, however debian (testing) doesn't. I guess > it's a kernel driver problem, but I have no idea what to include in my > kernel. > > Thanks, > Ron > > PS. Could you please cc any replies to me because I'm not on the list. > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] well, do you mean the controller integrated in the southbridge or the promise one? for the onboard i gather that it works only as plain sata (and only whith kernel 2.4.22+) read this for install (you could also build a linux sw raid with the disks) http://www.e-aiyama.com/~toshi/Computer/Linux/SATA.html (or, alternativly try to build/modify your own bootflopps: as i had to do it once: grab the kernel source you need, the boot & the root disc, build your kernel, replace the kernel image on the rescue disc and uncompress the root image with gzip, i think it was, replace the modules directory, compress it again and install with it (or but the modules in a drivers.tgz file to install it was about 2 years backyou should find some help about this topic somewhere or somebody else can help you with the details... ) for the promise one (it seems to be a pdc20278?) i found this: http://www.antgel.co.uk/compsci/linux/promise_raid.shtml (it seems you'd have to stick to the partly open source driver from promise) I do not use one of these but i hope i could help... yours, Albert -- Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Promise Fasttrak 100 PDC20267 on Debian
On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 11:41:44 -0700 Paul Yeatman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > This makes me think I should clarify something here, however: I'm > wanting to do hardware RAID, not software RAID. I'm assuming because > we are talking about RAID cards (vs. IDE cards) that this is assumed > but possibly it is not. On the Red Hat machine that I set up to do > hardware RAID'ing with a Promise card (using Promise's instructions > and driver), the system isn't RAID'ing at all. It simply sees the > RAID array as a scsi device. > > I wanting to do the same on a Debian system if possible. ... Well using the opensource driver (pdcraid.o) you will be seeing the ide drives but the array is accessed through the /dev/ataraid/dX and/dev/ataraid/dXpY which is nearly the same I think? You should only use the ide drives directly for read only operations (for example to monitor the drives with SMART) but be aware that neither with the promise nor with the opensource drivers the Fasttrack series card do hw raid, but instead it uses the CPU to process the operationsit has in fact i think some problems because in linux you are not able to do an automatic rebuild after one drive failed in a raid1 array(last time i checked i think it was with both tyoes of drivers whereas you are using linux sw raid...) if you want to use the promise scsi emulation drivers in debian you find instrutions/drivers here: http://people.debian.org/~blade/install/(goto the preload floppy) But i never tried it (i gave up using the promise raid controller after the MB tied (it was an onboard controller), but I would recommend to stick to the opensource driver. One warning though: it is _not_ included in the 2.5/2.6 kernel yours, Albert -- Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OT - Programming Languages w/o English Syntax
well i believe brainfuck does not have a english syntax but on the other side i would consider it as a real "high level" programmming language ;) you find information about it for example here: http://gbf.sourceforge.net/ but i don't think it is what you are searching for... and i believe espacially modifing existing languages to different commands (that is not really a new syntax ...) won't be a good idea: it would make the code unreadable since then it would mean nothing if it is written in c when there are diffrent dialekts for german, french, swiss french, etc... . Even though i do think that it is important to note that not everybody speaks english as a native speaker but it makes communication easier if you do stick to existing standards yours, Albert On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 04:15:48 -0700 Tom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [OT, sorry -- but question is obscure, will be hard to google] > > Are any non-english-speaking readers aware of High-level programming > languages using non-English syntax? Like, could I find a French C > compiler that uses "pour" instead of "for" and "si" instead of "if"? > > Actually, I'd be highly curious if any Chinese researchers have > attempted to do high-level coding using ideographs. My chinese > friends have told me chinese language is like fuzzy logic: it would be > an interesting exercise! > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Unidentified subject!
On Mon, 20 Oct 2003 14:18:51 +0200 (MEST) News Admin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > Can't I _force_ the XServer to load the module somehow? Or > is the nvidia kernel module omitted in some script so that > it doesn't load (e.g. /etc/modules.conf)? Am I confusing the > `nvidia.o' kernel module with the nvidia X driver? If you want it to be loaded at boot time (and if you use some kind of graphical login you will want that i think), just put the line "nvidia" in /etc/modules this will cause it to be loaded automatically on reboot yours Albert -- Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: WinTV driver docs?
have you tried accessing the device? the dmesg seems ok it looks like for some reason modprobe trys to load tuner.o twice... Albert On Sun, 26 Oct 2003 11:03:46 -0500 stan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > And then I run into troubles :-( > > cogenvs:~# modprobe bttv > Using /lib/modules/2.4.22/kernel/drivers/media/video/tuner.o > insmod: a module named tuner already exists > /lib/modules/2.4.22/kernel/drivers/media/video/bttv.o: post-install > bttv failed/lib/modules/2.4.22/kernel/drivers/media/video/bttv.o: > insmod bttv failed cogenvs:~# exit > > Script done on Sun Oct 26 10:43:48 2003 > > dmesg after this: > > apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.16) > i2c-core.o: i2c core module > i2c-algo-bit.o: i2c bit algorithm module > bttv: driver version 0.7.107 loaded > bttv: using 4 buffers with 2080k (8320k total) for capture > bttv: Host bridge is Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host > bridge bttv: Host bridge needs ETBF enabled. > bttv: Bt8xx card found (0). > PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 00:0d.0 > PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 00:0d.1 > bttv0: Bt878 (rev 2) at 00:0d.0, irq: 9, latency: 64, mmio: 0xfeddf000 > bttv0: detected: Hauppauge WinTV [card=10], PCI subsystem ID is > 0070:13eb bttv0: using: BT878(Hauppauge (bt878)) > [card=10,autodetected] bttv0: enabling ETBF (430FX/VP3 compatibilty) > bttv0: Hauppauge/Voodoo msp34xx: reset line init [5] > i2c-core.o: adapter bt848 #0 registered as adapter 0. > bttv0: Hauppauge eeprom: model=61001, tuner=Philips FI1236 MK2 (2), > radio=no > bttv0: using tuner=2 > bttv0: i2c: checking for MSP34xx @ 0x80... not found > bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA9875 @ 0xb0... not found > bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA7432 @ 0x8a... not found > tvaudio: TV audio decoder + audio/video mux driver > tvaudio: known chips: > tda9840,tda9873h,tda9874h/a,tda9850,tda9855,tea6300,tea642 > 0,tda8425,pic16c54 (PV951),ta8874z > i2c-core.o: driver generic i2c audio driver registered. > i2c-core.o: driver i2c TV tuner driver registered. > tuner: chip found @ 0xc2 > tuner: type set to 2 (Philips NTSC (FI1236,FM1236 and compatibles)) > i2c-core.o: client [Philips NTSC (FI1236,FM1236 and] registered to > adapter[bt84 > 8 #0](pos. 0). > bttv0: PLL: 28636363 => 35468950 .. ok > bttv0: registered device video0 > bttv0: registered device vbi0 > > And an lsmod: > > Module Size Used byNot tainted > tuner 10888 1 (autoclean) > tvaudio14408 0 (autoclean) (unused) > bttv 97376 0 (unused) > i2c-algo-bit7560 1 [bttv] > i2c-core 13892 0 [tuner tvaudio bttv i2c-algo-bit] > apm10600 0 (autoclean) > soundcore 4292 0 (autoclean) [bttv] > ide-scsi 10448 0 > agpgart36608 0 (unused) > parport_pc 13732 1 (autoclean) > lp 6656 0 (autoclean) > parport16096 1 (autoclean) [parport_pc lp] > keybdev 2116 0 (unused) > usbkbd 3676 0 (unused) > input 3744 0 [keybdev usbkbd] > usb-uhci 24592 0 (unused) > usbcore65228 0 [usbkbd usb-uhci] > > What am I doing wrong? > > -- > "They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety > deserve neither liberty nor safety." > -- Benjamin Franklin > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: WinTV driver docs?
On Sun, 26 Oct 2003 16:02:13 -0500 stan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > Any idea how to set the driver to use the composite video input, > rather thna the tuner? ... normaly you do that in your aplication.. but there is an aplication in the xawtv debian package (v4lctl) that alows you to change this (among other things) without implementing it in other apps... yours Albert -- Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: WinTV driver docs?
I think you will need the bttv driver, thich is included in the kernel source... for more information have a look at the homepage: http://bytesex.org/bttv/ I'm using mine whithout any problems (only one card & from tv though) yours Albert On Sun, 26 Oct 2003 09:30:29 -0500 stan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm having a hard time finding the docs for the WinTV (bt848?) driver. > > I need to support 2 of these cards in one computer, and they both need > to take their input from composite video, instead of the tuner. > > A google search for "bt848+Linux" seems to point to some rally old > links. > > Or is that the wrong driver to use? > > -- > "They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety > deserve neither liberty nor safety." > -- Benjamin Franklin > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Plattenfehler
dd if= of= (only works completly with identical disks sizes because it does 1:1 copies...you may have to resize the file system if the new one is bigger... yours, Albert PS: this list is english...so translate before forwarding ? On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 15:59:36+0100"Andreas Bohnert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > nein, christian hat schon recht: > ein cp -a funtkioniert auf den ersten blick, aber es gibt kleinere > probleme: > > ich hab das auch versucht und konnte nicht mehr mit einem normalen > user unter kde einloggen. > schau mal, ob das bei dir geht. > > weiss denn jemand, wie man richtig einen clone herstellt? > > gruss > andreas > > > - Original Message - > > From: "Roland M. Kruggel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Monday, October 27, 2003 3:21 PM > > Subject: Re: Plattenfehler > > > > > > Am Montag Oktober 27 2003 00:38 schrieb Christian Schmidt: > > > Roland M. Kruggel schrieb/wrote: > > > > Ich habe folgendes vor. > > > > Neue Platte einbauen. Partitionieren, Filesystem aufspielen. > > > > cp -a alteplatte neueplatte. > > > > > > Und schon sind die Zugriffsrechte auf dem Zielvolume dahin... > > > > Nein. Alles da. Hat wunderbar funktioniert. > > > > > > Danach müssten alle Daten auf der neuen Platte vorhanden sein. > > > > Jetzt müsste ich aber lilo aufrufen. Wie sag ich es jetzt lilo > > > > das er nicht die alte platte nimmt sondern die neue Platte? > > > > > > man chroot. > > > > Das leben ist doch soo einfach - wenn man es weis :) > > > > Danke allen für die Hilfe. System ist auf neuer Platte. Verlußtfrei! > > > > > > cu > > > > -- > > Roland Kruggel mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > System: AMD 1200Mhz, Debian woody, 2.4.20, KDE 3.1.4 > > > > > > -- > > Haeufig gestellte Fragen und Antworten (FAQ): > > http://www.de.debian.org/debian-user-german-FAQ/ > > > > Zum AUSTRAGEN schicken Sie eine Mail an > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > mit dem Subject "unsubscribe". Probleme? Mail an > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > (engl) > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: kernel-header installation question
On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 10:52:02 -0500 (EST) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Haines Brown) wrote: ... > I find that my /usr/src/kernel-headers-2.4.18-bf2.4 directory only > holds a .config file and an include directory. I assume that what I > should see here is a file with an .h extension if the header is > actually installed. ... the .h files are in the include directory as they wpuld be with the kernel source yours, Albert -- Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Slow telnet login on LAN
Hi This seems similar like the problem i head with several daemons: some services (and it seems from what you wrote also telnetd) try to reverse-lookup the connecting IP address, first in /etc/hosts and then in DNS with the standard config and so if you do not have the IP of Box-2 is not in /etc/hosts, it tries to look it up in DNS and if it does not find it, you will have to wait for the timeout which can take some time so, I see 2 options: add the IP in /etc/hosts or reconfigure the telnetd to not look up the connecting IP yours, Albert On Tue, 04 Nov 2003 16:17:50 -0500 "Marc Shapiro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > Why is this? ... -- Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: woody/sarge on Barton MoBo? kt600 and/or which nvidia
Hi well I use my asus a7v600 with success, though with sid...just be aware that you will need a recent kernel to correctly reconize the ide controller (if I remember correctly everything after 2.4.20 will do; I use 2.4.22 now). Be aware that I have not tested tho onboard sound functions and the SATA controller. to get that working you have to use certain patches that seem to work but I don't have sata drives to test it correctly. yours Albert Hanasaki JiJi wrote: What motherboards have people had success/failures with for woody and sarge and Bartons with a 400fsb? Which mobo chipsets have you had good/bad experiences with? amd? nvidia? via? kt600? And with which kernels? I guess the woody distribution kernel would need to run ok because that is the public ISO available? Thank you. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Motherboard ASUS a7v600: is anybody using this?
Hi I'm using this mobo with linux just fine. the network chipset works with the syskonnect driver...depending on the kernel version you may have to update it with the patch from http://www.syskonnect.com/syskonnect/support/driver/htm/sk98lin.htm to support the card though... with the sata drivers you seem to have 2 options for debian: one hack for the default ide driver and a patch for libata to support it through scsi emulation (this seems to be better ...it is included in 2.6.0-test9 so it seems to be better for the future) patch for 2.4: http://lkml.org/lkml/2003/8/29/105 both seem to work from report from others..and they load fine, but I don't have SATA drives to test with...but be aware: no raid...only linux software raid... USB(also USB2) works fine agpgart works fine (I only can test agp 4x since I only own a GF4 and with linux 2.4 agp 8x is not supported anyway from what I gather) I have not tested sound since I use a SB Audigy... One last thing: the ide controller is supported after 2.4.21 I think...before it is only pio mode... I hope I have not forgot anything usefull... yours, Albert Dengg On Sun, 9 Nov 2003 16:37:29 +1000 Alan Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have ordered this motherboard, with 3c940 Gigabit ethernet (with a > "Linux" driver on the ASUS website(?!)); and AD1850 "AC'97" etc.) > sound. I would appreciate hearing about any issues people have > encountered. > > Thanks for any advice. I would like to be prepared before burying my > head in the sand... > > Alan ... -- Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: installing a mixed system (stable/testing/unstable) under separate directories
... > I want to install stable, testing and unstable under separate > directories. All stable packs, configuration files etc goes under > /stable, testing packs goes under /testing and so on. ... well, here is a guide to set up debian in a chroot enviroment http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-tips.en.html#s-chroot yours, Albert Dengg -- Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: strange 8139too problem/question
Hi, from the kernel config file for the bf24 kernels (avialible on the debian mirrors...): ... CONFIG_8139CP=y CONFIG_8139TOO=y CONFIG_8139TOO_8129=y ... so, yes it is compiled in the kernel yours, Albert On 19 Sep 2003 09:23:29 +1200 Paul William <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I went through the woody installation. I installed the 2.4.18-bf kernel > and when I got to the part of the install where you select kernel > modules the 8139too (realtek 8139 NIC driver) was not there?!?! > > I then exited the installation and reinstalled because I need that > driver. I did my reinstall with the default kernel (2.2.x.*ide or > something) and the 8139too was there. > > When I finished the install I used apt-get to install the 2.4.18-bf > kernel. > > When I do lsmod the 8139too does not show up yet my NIC works. Is the > 8139too module compiled into the 2.4.18-bf kernel? If not, how come my > NIC is working but there is no net drivers when I run lsmod? > > Thanks > > Paul > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: confused about /dev/input/mice
On Sun, 28 Sep 2003 19:36:25 +0200 Raffaele Sandrini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > problem is the touchpad. HID successfully detect it if i insert psmouse.ko i > get: > > Synaptics Touchpad, model: 1 > Firware: 5.9 > Sensor: 37 > new absolute packet format > Touchpad has extended capability bits > -> multifinger detection > -> palm detection > input: Synaptics Synaptics TouchPad on isa0060/serio1 > > I can do on my touchpad what i want the cursor does not move. Whats the > problem here? Should the touchpad be accessed via another node? Or isn't it > propper detected? I thought /dev/input/mice should make the mouce transparent > to userspace programms like X or gpm... ... Well, every _USB_ mouse connected will be accessible through /dev/input/mice, but ps2 devices are not managed with hid and therefore are not accessible through /dev/input/mice but through /dev/psaux yours, Albert -- Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: archive `dmesg'
On Sun, 28 Sep 2003 21:14:32 +0300 Jerome BENOIT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > Is there a way to archive the `dmesg' in the `/var/log' directory ? ... there already is... on a debian standard installation the kernel messages(which is what dmesg displays) are saved in /var/log/kern.log, or if you use another logging deamon it may differ...for metalog for example you will find it in /var/log/kernel the only problem is that if it panics there may be a problem writing to the disc... yours Albert -- Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Samba 3 on stable
On Tue, 7 Oct 2003 13:11:52 -0700 Curtis Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Has anyone installed Samba 3 (final) from untesting on a stable version > of Debian? Any concerns I should be aware of before giving it a try? > > Curtis > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi Well I'm using it with sid and it works...just one thing i noticed when upgradeding at some alpha/beta version (I don't remeber which one) they added the feature for users to be forced to change the password periodically and it is acitivated by default (at least in the unstable packages)...I haven't chacked though if this is true for the finay release..espacially with the standard version... This can be anoying if you do not notice it since at home the users use an automatic login (not very secure - I know) and so they did not see any dialog box that told them to do sootherwise it seems to work fine for me (I only have 2 users with this server and 99.9% of the work for the server is only printing...) yours Albert -- Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: System refuses to load uhci instead of usb-uhci
On Wed, 8 Oct 2003 16:31:08 -0400 Lou Losee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, Currently on boot, my system is loading the usb-uhci module. I am > trying to change that to get it to load the uhci module instead. I am > running a custom 2.4.22 kernel if that matters. I want uhci instead of > usb-uhci based on the following output I get from a lspci -v | grep HCI ... do you have hotplug installed? hotplug (or at least the debian startup script for it) do load the usb driver modules for some method... and the other one (it is silly but it can happen)...do you have it in /etc/modules ? (I don't mean to tell you stupid but such things do happen from time to time.... yours Albert -- Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Local .deb mirror / apt-move
Hi well... you could set up apt-proxy (apt-proxy.sf.net)... just be aware that it has sometimes painfully long waiting times but otherwise it works for me yours, Albert On Thu, 9 Oct 2003 15:55:19 -0700 Bill Moseley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anyway to have apt-get check another URL first for a package before > downloading? > > To avoid downloading packages on setting up a new machine I've actually just > scp'ed /var/cache/apt/archives/*.deb to the new machine from a machine > that already has been setup. > > I'm wondering if there's anyway I can just set my internal web server to point to > /var/cache/apt/archives and have apt-get check there first before > fetching the package. > > For example, before fetching apache_1.3.28-1_i386.deb from a source > listed in my sources.list, it first tries something like: > > http://somelocalmachine/debian/apache_1.3.28-1_i386.deb > > apt-move seems more involved than I need -- after all I can still just > use my old way to scp the .debs to where I need them. And I don't > really want to setup a mirror, just a cache. > > Of course apt-move seems to have some nice features, such as only .debs > of installed packages around. > > Suggestions? > > Thanks, > > > > -- > Bill Moseley > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Wine and WineX !!!
as you will see here, it won't do you any good: http://winehq.org/site/docs/wine-faq/index#INTEGRATE-AN-X86-EMULATOR since it does not emulate a cpu and you won't find that many win32 programmes compiled for PPC cpus... yours Albert On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 01:02:06 +0200 SpawnPPC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear DebianPPC user's, > > I'm Emanuele. > > Any version of Wine and WineX for DebianPPC? > > Where I can found it? > > Thanx for all. > > Emanuele. > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: fetchmail
On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 17:18:02 +1000 "Joyce, Matthew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm using Fetchmail and have a fetchmailrc in etc. > Fetchmail starts and syslog show my messages being gathered. > > the problem is the messages do not end up in my home Maildir (courier-imap), > they end up in spool somewhere. > > Any ideas ? > > I've clearly missed something important. ... Hi well, I do not use imap myself, but this is from man fetchmailrc: ... -S | --smtphost (Keyword: smtp[host]) Specify a hunt list of hosts to forward mail to (one or more hostnames, comma-separated). Hosts are tried in list order; the first one that is up becomes the for- warding target for the current run. Normally, `localhost' is added to the end of the list as an invisible default. However, when using Kerberos authentication, the FQDN of the machine run- ning fetchmail is added to the end of the list as an invisible default. Each hostname may have a port number following the host name. The port number is separated from the host name by a slash; the default port is 25 (or ``smtp'' under IPv6). If you specify an absolute pathname (beginning with a /), it will be interpreted as the name of a UNIX socket accepting LMTP connec- tions (such as is supported by the Cyrus IMAP daemon) Example: --smtphost server1,server2/2525,server3,/var/imap/socket/lmtp This option can be used with ODMR, and will make fetchmail a relay between the ODMR server and SMTP or LMTP receiver. ... yours, Albert -- Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hardware kompatiblity question
Hi Since my board for my athlon xp is broken i need to get a new one which has 4 ata channels and that leads me to the following question: Since the asus a7v600 is for some reason actually cheaper the the kt400 version with extra ide channels i would like to use the kt600 board and equip the extra harddrive with a sata-pata adapter. So, is the kt600 supported with linux yet and is the the integrated sata controller working? (I have heard that linux 2.4 does not support agp 8x, which is fine since my graphics card does not support it anyway). I do not care if any sound features or so are supported since I do not plan to use it. thanks in advance yours, Albert Dengg -- Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Internet connection sharing with WinXP: DNS problem
... > the net with their IP adress, but I can not get the name resolution to > work. I don't know which DNS server Windows uses, it is assigned > dynamically wehn the connection is established, and I don't know how to > get the adress... > Any idea how to make surfing the net possible with such a setup? ... Well, I think I read somewhere that it sets up an dhcp server for that purpose...I think it was standard dhcp compatible in win2k as far as I remember... I hope I remeber correctly Yours, Albert Dengg -- Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Newbie Hardware/Partitioning
... > I have a Radeon 9800 (128mb ddr), no luck in finding what would work for it. Does > anyone know of any developments? ... I don't know exactly, but since it is quite new, perhaps you have to/may be able to use ati binary only driver they supply...don t now for wich versions of XFree86 it is though, or if the 9800 is supported yet... Yours, Albert -- Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Help! strange bttv problem
Hi bttv works well for most things with 2.4.22 (at the moment im using bttv 9.11 (development version) from bytesex.org/bttv/ with 2.4.22 to test v4l2 support but otherwise it works well with the included version for me ... # # Multimedia devices # CONFIG_VIDEO_DEV=m # # Video For Linux # CONFIG_VIDEO_PROC_FS=y CONFIG_I2C_PARPORT=m # # Video Adapters # CONFIG_VIDEO_BT848=m ... +i2c support yours Albert Dengg On Wed, 19 Nov 2003 17:18:56 + Richard Kimber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When I do make xconfig for the first time in a clean 2.4.22 tree I am > presented with the option to have support for BT848 video for linux > (having already said 'm' to the main Video for Linux and to I2C > support). When I choose 'm' and save, an examination of .config shows > there is no reference to it. > > Re-doing make xconfig then shows that option to be greyed out. > > Is there useable BT848 support in 2.4.22? > > A Google search suggests there is a problem, but I can't find any > instructions about what to do that are simple enough for me to follow. > > Help would be appreciated. > > Thanks. > - Richard. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Help! strange bttv problem
Hi well, I don't know about xconfig but config/menuconfig leave all options in the config file and just comment out the option that are not set...sot that you should at least see them# When I tried it quickly qith a 2.4.21 source that is lying around on my disc it also sets the CONFIG_VIDEO_BT848 option if I activate it at multimedia devices yours Albert On Wed, 19 Nov 2003 20:20:08 + Richard Kimber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 19 Nov 2003 19:18:57 +0100 > Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi > > > > bttv works well for most things with 2.4.22 > > (at the moment im using bttv 9.11 (development version) from > > bytesex.org/bttv/ with 2.4.22 to test v4l2 support but otherwise it > > works well with the included version for me > > > > ... > > # > > # Multimedia devices > > # > > CONFIG_VIDEO_DEV=m > > > > # > > # Video For Linux > > # > > CONFIG_VIDEO_PROC_FS=y > > CONFIG_I2C_PARPORT=m > > > > # > > # Video Adapters > > # > > CONFIG_VIDEO_BT848=m > > ... > > +i2c support > > > > yours > > Albert Dengg > > > > On Wed, 19 Nov 2003 17:18:56 + > > Richard Kimber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > When I do make xconfig for the first time in a clean 2.4.22 tree I > > > am presented with the option to have support for BT848 video for > > > linux(having already said 'm' to the main Video for Linux and to > > > I2C support). When I choose 'm' and save, an examination of > > > .config shows there is no reference to it. > > Are you saying that this is just a problem with xconfig, and that I > should edit .config by hand? Or is the problem more fundamental? > > - Richard > -- > Richard Kimber > http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Debian and Ultra Ata 133 Controller
Hi well, for starting: which kernel are you using 2.2 or bf2.4, and which ata133 controller are you talking about? yours Albert Dengg On Fri, 21 Nov 2003 16:06:53 GMT Stefan Lemsitzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I want to install Debian on a Harddisc, which is plugged into an Ata > 133 Controller. Unfortunately the installation program doesn't > recognize the disc and asks for a floppy with additional drivers in > directory "boot"... Any hints? > regards Stefan > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: python problem in unstable
On Sat, 29 Nov 2003 14:33:09 +0100 Alf Werder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 2003-11-29 at 14:21, Jeff Elkins wrote: > > On Saturday 29 November 2003 7:27 am, charlie derr wrote: > > ># apt-get remove python > > >(or maybe it was "apt-get remove python2.3") > > >Which will remove a lot of packages (paste the list to a file > > >before you answer "Y" if you want to reinstall them after). > > > > A lot of packages is a bit of an understatement. In my case, over > > 250Mb packages are queued for removal, including what looks like all > > of KDE. I'd be just as well off wiping my drive and re-installing :) ... Hi Well you can simple do a dpkg --purge --force-all python python2.3 and then do a apt-get -f installthis way it worked on my various machines... this way no other packages are to be removed (though they might stop working correctly until the python packages are reinstalled..but you should do it imideatly afterwards and then it works.. yours Albert -- Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: apt-get problem (on debian sid)
On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:32:56 +0100 Tim Broddin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > I have this idea that my local package database might be broken (?) > since it's impossible that there haven't been any package updates to > sid last week. > > Anyone has any ideas on fixing this? ... Hi It is possible and is tue the compromise of some debian project servers (this was also discussed on this listif you take a look at incoming.debian.org you will see that there are packages hanging there...so be patient and wait until all problems are fixed... (for more information have a look at the maillinglist) yours Albert -- Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: apt-get + latest package versions
On Tue, 02 Dec 2003 12:02:24 + Alex Greg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > not installed the latest version. The gcc package is an example of > this, as apt-get has installed version 2.95.4-14 even though the > latest version is gcc-3.3_3.3.2-4. Is there a switch to ensure the > latest version is downloaded or is there another reason for this? ... Are you running stable or unstable? in stable the latest version of gcc is 2.95.4-14, in unstable 3.3.2-4. But there is another thing with gcc you have to consider: in unstable there are 3 packages for gcc gcc-2.95, gcc-3.2 and gcc-3.3, and gcc defaults to gcc-3.3. So you see there is the posibility that apt does what you tell it to do (which might not what you want it to do) For more information about the different flavours see http://www.debian.org/releases/ and for the configuration of apt-get "man sources.list" I hope I didn't misinterpret something yours Albert -- Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Kernel upgrade time
On Tue, 02 Dec 2003 07:48:14 -0600 Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tom wrote: > > God, I hate dicking with the kernel. > > > > What would be nice is a really well-thought out Wizard that just > > tells me what to do. My process for answering the questions is > > pretty formulaic: favor modern features over archaic ones, favor > > simplicity, and don't use every feature under the sun. > > > > > > I am pulled in opposite directions when I have to get a new kernel: > > a. I just cannot see having every module under the sun (?). So I want > to have just what is necessary. > > b. But I want it working well, and complete, for my particular > installation. E.g. just a few months ago I found out about VIA82CXXX > chipset support on 2.4.22: it solved a very bad hang situation on my > HDD's I had for 2 years! > > So I second that thought: > > WHAT WOULD BE REALLY NICE IS... a kernel wizzard: telling me what I > need and what I can do without. > > I got 2.4.22 working well now. Dread the thought of facing 2.4.23... > > Hugo. > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Hi Well if you have a running 2.4.22 kernel config, you can copy it to .config in the kernel source directory and do a "make oldconfig" which will ask you just the new options and otherwise take the one from your 2.4.22 config file Yours Albert -- Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: dhcpd/tftp server subservient to another tftp server
On Tue, 02 Dec 2003 10:38:34 -0600
Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
...
> host bi-19x {
>hardware ethernet 00:03:47:16:e2:58;
>fixed-address 150.252.x.y; # x & y to protect the innocent
>filename "/lts/2.4.22-ltsp-1/pxelinux.0";
> }
>
> When I boot the client pc ("bi-19x"), it gets the IP address
> 150.252.x.y from my dhcpd/tftp server, as indicated by the BIOS's PXE
> messages. But then, instead of finding the pxelinux.0 file on my
> dhcpd/tftp server, it finds the campus's central RIS server instead.
>
> How do I get my client to get my tftp offering instead of the RIS
> offering? BTW, the RIS server is on a different network segment.
...
Hi
you can simply add "next-server yourserver;" to your dhcpd.conf, either
for the one host or gerneral for all hosts...
yours
Albert
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Re: passwordless ssh-login
On Wed, 03 Dec 2003 17:06:13 +0100 Joerg Johannes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > Maybe related to that: I have tried setting up passwordless login to > another machine using the steps mentioned in the micro-howto: > Succeeded. I don't have to enter my password any more. Even worse: I > have to enter my passPHRASE for the key... Aaargh. Is this because > ssh-agent doesn't listen to me? ... Hi As far as I now, this is as it should be...if you do not want to enter any password, you will have to create a key without password (thich means that anybody with access to the key will be able to connect to that host with your username) yours Albert -- Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
problems with serial terminal over usb-to-serial converter
Hi I currently have one computer running woody with a serial terminal on ttyS0 and use a pl2303 usb-to-serial converter on the client side to access it. It basically works quite well, with one exeception: every time i close a terminal programm (i tried minicom and gtkterm) it segfaults and if i try to start one again after this, it hangs while startup and i am not able to to stop it (even with kill -9). the only way i get it working again, is to restart the computer..this is a bit strange, and anoying. (i tried to reload the driver module, but modprobe reports it busy and so i'm unable to do it) Since if this was an normal behavior if you use gtkterm or minicom to access a serial console somebody should have noticed, i think, i belive the problem is more likely in the driver or in the interaction driver/terminal emulation. So, my question is if anybody has noticed this behavior too, and if so has found a solution. If not, can anybody perhaps point me to any guide/howto for trying to isolate such problems (even though i'm not copletly new to programming as such, i'm completly new to kernel debuging...)? Even though it is not a serious problem (rebooting on the client is not a real big problem), it is nevertheless anoying. thanks in advance for any help yours Albert -- Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: install over serial line
Hi search the archives, it was a mail with instructions for woody (it basically means only that you have to modify the syslinux.cfg on the floppy and the lilo.conf after install, but otherwise it's just like a normal install yours Albert On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 00:21:05 -0500 "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I seem to remember seeing something about installing debian(i386), and > > having the screen sent over a serial line instead of the monitor, but > I can't seem to find anything like that in the Deb installation > manual. Am just missing it, or am I nuts? > > Thanks > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: How to login as ROOT as start
Hi If you really want to do this (it was discussed a few times here why not to do it), and you want to to login with gdm edit /etc/gdm/gdm.conf and change AllowRoot= (or even AllowRemoteRoot=) to true and you should be fine. I don't know about gdm though. If it is a machine with only one user at a time locally logged in, you could also run "xhost +local:" and then do su to get root. you will then be able to start any X app from any user you su'd to yours Albert On Sat, 13 Dec 2003 00:33:31 +0800 Stephen Liu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi folks, > > How can I login as ROOT after booting at 'Desktop Manager" popup. I > am only allowed to login as USER both KDE and GNOME. > > Thanks in advance. > > B.R. > Stephen Liu > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: sis900 module will not load on boot
On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 12:10:54 -0800 (PST) ope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > However, if I 'modprobe sis900' the module loads > without any errors and the network is available. So > the module is installed and in working order, it is > just not getting loaded when the system boots. How > can I fix it so that the sis900 module is loaded when > the system boots? ... Hi do "echo sis900 >>/etc/modules" to load the module at boot time yours Albert -- Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: :::Debian Network Help:::
On Thu, 01 Jan 2004 09:12:44 -0600 Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > >> 1394 Net Adapter ... > >> Intel(R) PRO/100 VE Network Connection ... > things simpler, I'd remove the 1394 NIC and just do the install with > the Intel NIC, which should use the eepro100 module I believe. After > you have your network working with that NIC, you can put the 1394 back > in and work on getting it configured if necessary. ... Hi Well, the first one is a virtual nw adapter created by windows for network over firewire, witch is as far as i know not supported by standard debian kernel. For the Intel one: I also have a Intel(R) PRO/100 VE in my notebook and had to use the preliminary bootfloppies from here: http://people.debian.org/~blade/bf3024 ,because I wasnt able to get it running with the bf2.4 2.4.18ner kernel. I havent tried knoppix on it though. For now it seems that the url from above is dead at the moment I think (since the debian server compromise). But since I didn't have any problem with any more recent kernel (2.4.22 and above, though up to 2.4.23 with -ac patches) knoppic should work I think. Mayby this helps yours Albert -- Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: 3COM Gig ethernet driver compile woes (source from 3COM/ASUS)
On Sat, 10 Jan 2004 16:15:23 -0600 Ramasubramanian Ramesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I got the source for 3COM gig ethernet card from Asus website and I > am > having compile issue. ... > My gcc is from sarge/testing. > > It appears that cpp is choking on multiline __asm__ macros. Any > help/pointers appreciated. > > Thanks and Regards > Ramesh > > Hi >From the output i gather you seem to be talking about the 3com 940 GBE adapter. I also have this controller on my asus a7v600 mainboard. I remember I had some problems with the driver from asus, but i used the driver directly from syskonnect for 2.4.2[1,2] and at the moment the included driver that comes with 2.4.23 out of the box. you can find the driver from syskonnect here: http://www.syskonnect.com/syskonnect/support/driver/htm/sk98lin.htm i hope i could help, since that is perhaps not what you intended yours, Albert PS: perheps, but I don't really think it matters, i'm using sid -- Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
problems with alsa and an SB Audigy card
Hi Wenn I upgraded my kernel to 2.4.25 I also upgraded alsa & alsa-source from 0.98 to the current version present in unstable. Basically sound works, or at least playback, for example with xmms & mplayer (both native & over oss emulation). what is not working though is capturing sound over Line in, which is a bit anoying since i use it when to watch/record tv from my tv card. When i look at the setting for the Line,0 device with amixer, it shows no entries for capture, and does npot allow me to set it. So, is this a bug or am i just to dumb to config re it correctly? thanks in advance for any help/ideas offered yours Albert PS: having search both alsa upstream bugs & debian bug lists i dind gind anything for the current version of alsa witch seems to be related to this -- Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: why is /dev/cdrom owned by root:disk after installation?
H. S. wrote: ... So why is it the CDROM devices are owned by root:disk? If we always have to change (at leat I have to, and from newsgroups many other people have to too) the ownership to root:cdrom, and make all users members of cdrom group (after all, what other purpose is a CDROM for if not for the use of the users?), why do the developers not take this into account and configure the CDROM device accordingly and *not* make it owned by root:disk but by root:cdrom? And make all users members of the "cdrom" groups when they are created? Am I missing something here? ... Well, for the first point, the ownership of /dev/hdc: Who tells the installer that /dev/hdc is a cdrom drive? On 2 of my computers, for example, it is not. The link alone does not matter, but if the installer would follow your proposal and make it owned by root:cdrom _and_ make every user a member of the cdrom group, we then have a device, which is probably a disk that is read _and_ writeable by any user on the system and that would most likely not be noticed until something that was not intended happens. now, the second point about making every user part of the cdrom group: I don't think you actually need that for to reasons: first, why should every user be allowed by default to mount, unmount and eject a cdrom, espacaly since there are also servers with users working remotly second, why should you have to be a member of the cdrom group to use a cdrom? to mount it, you only need a coresponding entry in the fstab. you only need to be a member of the cdrom group to user cdrecord/dvdrecord etc, or use eject, which you do not _need_ to use (there is also a button on the cdrom drive to open/close it) So, my conclusion is the following: you could/should maybe add a addvice/noticce to the setup procedure, but not make devices that could be discs read/writeable be users by default. yours Albert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: .deb dependancy hell
Hi On Wed, 28 Jan 2004 10:56:24 -0500 Richard Hoskins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... >[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo dpkg -r libgphoto2-2 ... use apt-get remove libgphoto2-2, that will take care of the dependencies and remove everything that depends on it... yours Albert -- Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Converting rpm to deb with alien loses dependencies
On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 13:13:37 -0500 Fraser Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > I'm hoping to convert an rpm package to a deb using alien in an > automated process on a redhat machine. I've installed alien (8.43), > dpkg (1.10.18) and debhelper (4.1.89) on the redhat machine from > source. > > The issue I'm having is that the converted packages lose the > dependencies that were defined in the rpm: ... Hi It has been a while since I used Redhat (and rpm), but as far as I remember, rpm dependencys are files, not packages, whereas in debian, it is based on the package...which results in that it is nearly imposible to automatically create them.. And if I read the manpage of alien correctly, alien does only support dependencys when converting from lsb packages yours, Albert -- Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Scary df output
Hi On Mon, 02 Feb 2004 12:45:33 + Marius Amado Alves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > /dev/hda1-429168968127 1 0 49% / > > according to which I have a negative number of blocks! Also, the > columns seem to be disaligned because of that. Hand-correcting: > > Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > /dev/hda1-429168968127 1 0 49% / > > How should I interpret this? I would think that this is a bug in df (most likly an overflow of some value). > Do I have space to install OpenOffice? ... Well, auming that the 49% part is correct, most likly yes. However, you could try to do a du -s / and compare it to the the actual partition size, for example from the output of fdisk -l /dev/hda that should give you an idea how much space you have left (the du will take some time and if you want a more human readable output, instead of the blocks used, do a du -sh /) I hope this is a help for you yours Albert -- Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Alternative to VMware?
On Mon, 02 Feb 2004 12:54:03 -0600 Joel Konkle-Parker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I really want to get a copy of VMware, but I don't have $140 for the > student version. So I'm looking for alternatives. I just want some > kind of sandbox where I can test out new software, distros, etc, > without rebooting into a seperate partition. > > What do other people use? > > > -- > Joel Konkle-Parker > Webmaster [Ballsome.com] > > E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Phone [662-518-1636] > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Hi Well to just try out a chroot install, eg install another linux install in a chroot enviroment so that you can run linux programs without doing a reboot or something...and it is good for performance. You can easyly install debian in a chroot eviroment (see the install docs), and also gentoo if you like. I dont't know about the other distribtions, but once they are installed you should be able to run it without problems in a chroot enviroment. that way you can try out linux software without any problems (no virtual network & you won't be able to test kernels this way though. yours Albert -- Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Xine/Mplayer can't use xv
On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 12:22:33PM +0100, Tom Chance wrote: > Hello, > > I've got an install of Debian sid (unstable) with Xfree 4.3.0.1, an nvidia > card and the latest builds of mplayer and xine. Neither can use the "xv" > extension. When I try, I get the following errors: ... > Xlib: extension "SHAPE" missing on display ":0.0". > Xlib: extension "XVideo" missing on display ":0.0". > main: video driver failed Hi do you use the nv or the nvidia driver? from my expirience the nv driver does not provide any hw accelleration, including no opengl&xv.... (could have changed, i did try with 4.2.1 some time ago...) yours Albert -- Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Xine/Mplayer can't use xv
On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 11:59:19PM +1000, Tim Connors wrote: ... > I'm using the nv unacelarated driver, and have some success with: > > mplayer -fs -vo xvidix nvidia_vid "$@" > > It's not too quick, but it's a heck of a lot quicker than default :) > > I have a feeling that I read somwhwere in the mplayer docs that the > above is the only thing that works on nvidia, even with the closed > source driver. I could be wrong... You are, at least partly: for me xv works, at least mostly, on my gf4ti4200 with the closed source driver (1.0.4496-2+1.0) on a 2.4.25 kernel(i get green shadows at the bottom 3 milimeterts or so...) by the way, I use mplayer 1.0pre3 on this machine, if this matters... yours Albert -- Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: "EMU10K1/Audigy soundcard not found or device busy"
On Tue, 30 Mar 2004 14:58:55 -0600 Alec Berryman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > When I boot up, however, ALSA is unable to load and gives the error > "EMU10K1/Audigy soundcard not found or device busy". > > ALSA knows to load the emu10k1 module; I can see it in `lsmod`. > Here's a snippit from my dmesg: > > --- > ... > SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00 > scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices > Creative EMU10K1 PCI Audio Driver, version 0.20, 11:38:43 Feb 24 2004 > PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 00:0d.0 > emu10k1: EMU10K1 rev 5 model 0x8022 found, IO at 0xb000-0xb01f, IRQ 9 > ac97_codec: AC97 codec, id: TRA35 (TriTech TR A5) ... Hi i may be wrong... but this looks much like the output of the _OSS_ driver for me... what module do you see with lsmod? emu10k1 or snd-emu10k1? if it is emu10k1, this is the _OSS_ driver, the alsa drivers are called snd-something... I hope this helps yours, Albert -- Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Local apt mirror
On Wed, 7 Apr 2004 14:19:52 +0100 "Pete Clarke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would like to run a local "apt" mirror for the machines on my local > network. At the moment all Debian machines independantly do their own > updates & dist-upgrades via one of the Debian web mirrors. > This results in many duplicated downloads, what would the best way to > setup and maintain a local Apt mirror? > > I have Googled for this, and found many suggestions, but no helpful, > practical solutions. ... Hi I would recommend apt-proxy for that... I use it with quite a success, though it has several problems: 1. sometimes it takes a bit of time to start the connectiom 2. it has some problems wenn 2 hosts want to get the same file at the same time (when it is not already on the server) (the 2nd host has to wait until the download to the server is completed yours Albert -- Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: auto-connect DHCP on boot up
On Sun, 11 Apr 2004 18:20:22 -0700 Aaron Maxwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > What is the 'best' (correct, Debian) way to set things up so that the > connection is brought up automatically at boot time? ... edit /etc/network/interfaces, add /modify the entry for eth0 (asuming that eth0 is the card you want to configure): iface eth0 inet dhcp and then a line with: auto eth0 to bring it up automatically on boot for more information, have a look at `man interfaces` yours Albert -- Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Disc usage monitors
On Fri, 16 Apr 2004 14:25:08 +0200 (SAST) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > I'm looking for a tool to monitor and log the level of disc usage. > Something like the disc tabs in gkrellm, but that doesn't require a > gui and that can log the usage and possible generate reports or graphs > of some sort. I've googled, but couln't find anything useful > Any ideas? ... What about df ? for contious monitoring, try: while true; do clear; df -h; sleep 60; done yours Albert -- Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Stable vs. Testing Vs. Unstable
On Sat, 17 Apr 2004 22:29:15 -0700 "Loren M. Lang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm curious about how many people are actually using Debian Unstable > or Testing to Stable for normal desktop use or even a production > server. I've being using Gentoo lately, and I love how nice the newer > software is like KDE 3.2.1 or Gnome 2.4 and I don't want to go back to > Gnome 1.x just because I want a "stable" debian system, where gentoo > seems to run fine with the latest. > -- > I sense much NT in you. > NT leads to Bluescreen. > Bluescreen leads to downtime. > Downtime leads to suffering. > NT is the path to the darkside. > Powerful Unix is. > > Public Key: ftp://ftp.tallye.com/pub/lorenl_pubkey.asc > Fingerprint: B3B9 D669 69C9 09EC 1BCD 835A FAF3 7A46 E4A3 280C > > Hi Well, I'm running unstable on 3 computers: 1 Laptop, 1 Workstation and my gateway/router, witch is laso used as a file/printserver & workstation wothout great troubles. 2 things though: it is my home network gateway and more important, second: sometimes (rarely), you can get suprises when updating: once for example, when updating samba there was a new security feature: passwords can expire, and it was activated automatically. resulting from this samba stop working for the users while i was on holiday...you won't have this in stable. Or sometimes updates are really broken, which is espacially is anoing if it is a libary...or for example hotplug was broken lately with a coldplugged mouse did not work anymore and i had to downgrade it manually... so if you absolutly need a rock solid system with _security updates_ you should go for stable. If you do not mind some mostly minor problems you can go for unstableno real expirience with testing...I only briefly used it just before woody became stable this is just my opinion - i hope it helps.. yours Albert -- Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: woody to sarge?
On Mon, 19 Apr 2004 11:59:41 -0400 Sarunas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > Is editing /etc/apt/sources.list (replacing stable with sarge) and > apt-get updating + upgrading supposed to do the job? ... Hi Well, I would use apt-get dist-upgrade, that also handles changed dependencies, see also man apt-get yours Albert -- Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Multiple sound cards and hotplug.
On Wed, 21 Apr 2004 14:20:33 -0700 Scott Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > In Windows, the order really isn't an issue because I can set a > preferred sound card. Perhaps there is a way of doing that in ALSA/OSS > emulation? ... Well, what about blacklist them all and then configure them with the old alsa start up scripts, like you did with the old 2.4 kernel that way you should be able to control which card is witch in the enummeration... the other thing: i don't know about udev or devfs, but with oldstyle static device files, /dev/dsp is just a symlink to /dev/dsp0 yours Albert -- Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: raid on bootup
On Tue, 11 May 2004 17:14:34 +0100 Antony Gelberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I've got a system booting off /dev/hdc. I've just created a RAID-1 > with/dev/hda1 and /dev/hdb1. But on reboot, the RAID array is not > recognised. Partition types are fd. Any ideas? ... Qouting from /etc/init.d/mdadm-raid "Start any arrays which are described in/etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf and which are not running already." try this (asuming you are using mdadmin and not raidtools) ps: if you have md & the raid module (0,1,5) compiled in and not as module the raid seems to be started by the kernel...at least for me yours Albert -- Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Partition greater than 2 Tbyte
On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 07:00:10AM -0500, Michael Pobega wrote: > On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 08:12:17AM +0100, Jon Ingason wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Roberto C. Sanchez skrev: > > > On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 04:52:12PM +0100, Jon Ingason wrote: > > >> What is the physical limit for a diskpartition in kernel 2.6? > > >> > > > I think the kernel has a logical limit. The physical limit is > > > determined by your hardware. > > > > OK then, what is the logical limit? I have disk array with 14x500 GB > > disks with hardware raid 6. That i about 7 TB. Can the kernel handle > > that large filesystem and how do I do? > > > > I don't even think GRUB/Lilo can handle that large of a system. As far > as I know GRUB can only be used on filesystems under 2 TB. I know > nothing about the restraints of the kernel, though. well, there is a large block device support in the linux kernel for devices >2TB, and the filesystems mostly support is (ext2/3: 16TB, xfs 8EB, ...). grub should not be a problem: who needs >2TB for /boot ? yours albert -- Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ACL support via NFS
Marco De Vitis wrote: ... tar cpSf - . | ssh 'cd ; tar xpSf - ' I don’t know, if tar supports ACLs. Unfortunately, it doesn't :(. there is star that should support ACL's with one version of the tar format (as there are actullay severall variants of it). yours albert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ACL support via NFS
Marco De Vitis wrote: On 09/03/2007 17:00, Marco De Vitis wrote: I'll now see if I can make it by installing the more recent rsync from backports, it's just one version behind the Etch one. Sigh! Also the 2.6.8 version from backports does not support ACLs. I then built and installed 2.6.9 on Sarge from sources (although the changelog between 2.6.8 and 2.6.9 only shows diffs regarding ACLs for developers), and... it still does not support ACLs! Now I'm really puzzled, as Etch has the same version and it supports ACLs. on my sid system, /usr/share/doc/rsync/changelog.Debian.gz states "* Now includes the ACL patch" for 2.6.9-1, so maybe it a debian modification? yours albert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Different ways of locking accounts
On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 01:08:13AM +0800, Wei Chen wrote: ... > >BTW, both methods lock shells as well as ftp and sftp. Changing the shell > >to > >> /usr/sbin/nologin allows ftp but still prevents sftp. > >> Is there a method that locks shell but allows ftp and sftp? Thanks. > >> > >I think that you just described it. Change the user's shell to > >/bin/false or something similar. > > > But changing the shell to nologin or false will also block sftp access... apt-cache search sftp turns up rssh and scponly yours albert -- Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Re: SMTP and ports 25 and 1025.
On Sat, Mar 17, 2007 at 10:40:12PM +0100, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > On 16.03.07 09:13, Easthope wrote: > > I am trying to understand how SMTP uses ports. > > Ultimately I want it to work through a SSH tunnel. > > > > Normally SMTP uses port 25 but in some cases it uses 1025. > > in what cases? there is port 587 designed and reserved for message > submission via SMTP. to my knowlege, port 587 is for _authenticated_ message transmission, e.g. from your own users, not for server<->server. and everything that is for communication with the users can in prinziple run on any port you want, since you can tell then how to configure your clients, but there is no mechanism to tell other smtp servers "talk to me on port 666" or something. yours albert -- Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: loading huge number of rules in iptables (blocklist)
H.S. wrote: ... Yes. The experiment shows that this is not going well. I was wondering if there are any alternatives. I currently have around 80,000 rules now inserted, and the process is still continuing more than 17 hours later! However, my internet connection seems to be holding up without any noticeable performance cut so far. have you tried to make up and input for iptables-restore and blast all rules into iptables at once? from the docs i've read this should be a faster. on the other hand there is also nf-hipac (http://www.hipac.org/). while i've not tried it, they claim to handle large rule sets better. yours albert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
pidgin problems
hi i have currently the problem that since the last update in unstable i cannot access the menu bar, and the question is now, is that a known problem that others have to or is that just some sideefekt of my x configuration / window manager (wmii)? other then that it works, though the problem is that i cannot switch the proxy on (i need to use a socks proxy sometimes). yours albert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: GPL X-rays
On Sun, Dec 03, 2006 at 09:57:12PM +0200, David Baron wrote: > On Sunday 03 December 2006 21:13, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > > > It seems this format is called DICOM, and a google search finds > > > several > > > applications claiming to be "free". I haven't looked any closer to see > > > if they actually are free software or simply gratis. > > > > Of course, I forgot the most obvious... a simple "apt-cache search > > dicom" shows several packages for this. > > Thanks for the suggestions. This is apparently a very well-developed > technology for medical networking and such. > > So I tried off Sid medcon (command line converter) and xmedcon (with GUI and > viewer). Segmentation faults, probably in common library used by the two > programs. Will try some of the stuff on google. > > Meanwhile, got a jpg off the qemu session. The program will not display > images > under WINE. you could try to ask about a good and for your situation usable programm on the debian-med list: http://lists.debian.org/debian-med/ yours albert -- Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Re: The same hardware different ethernet device names
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 10:16:18AM +0100, Marcin Giedz wrote: > Hello, > > I've got several Intel server platforms on every platform I > upgraded BIOS to the latest version and installed Debian Etch. On five > of them I have two ethernet interfaces eth0/eth1 but ONLY one has eth1 > eth2 actually eth2/eth1 - this order. > > debian:~# cat /proc/net/dev > Inter-| Receive| Transmit > face |bytespackets errs drop fifo frame compressed > multicast|bytespackets errs drop fifo colls carrier compressed >lo:6272 59000 0 0 0 > 6272 59000 0 0 0 > eth0:70052053 724027000 0 0 0 > 13840349 10660000 0 0 0 > eth1: 0 0000 0 0 0 > 0 0000 0 0 0 > debian:~# > > debian:~# cat /proc/net/dev > Inter-| Receive| Transmit > face |bytespackets errs drop fifo frame compressed > multicast|bytespackets errs drop fifo colls carrier compressed >lo:1744 19000 0 0 0 > 1744 19000 0 0 0 > eth2: 0 0000 0 0 0 > 0 0000 0 0 0 > eth1:69578781 718143000 0 0 0 > 1060211375000 0 0 0 > debian:~# > > How this is possible? How kernel/module (e1000) calculates interface > number and what can cause such "disorder"? i have had a simialar expirience using cheap realtek based cards and also some 3com ones... since then i use ifrename to asign the names based on the mac address... this could also be done via udev i think... yours albert - -- Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iQCVAwUBRXQ3/CIMiEpzxsFKAQIKmQQAiqEn1DZchDHkfRNfUFF353Esm8dixmmI 8/HdEX4YTFqHrKOa6t7Z4e3KJGPSxlVwQumL0tSTRbSV/2qyOfdQJ5K5frinB5Kz r7y6MP6fKIND6UShm98UdoeCgCx+iZxXUh908AJd8+DW5BHem8C0qPzDAyGrgVGi 5nvmHA7XEuw= =frBe -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: Firefox crashing on gmail
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 01:01:15PM +0100, Brian Durant wrote: > On 12/6/06, Santanu Chatterjee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >After reading this thread, I searched for a solution with renewed > >enthusiasm, and just now found this: > >--- > >https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/27626 > >--- > >There someone mentioned that the problem occurs only with > >DefaultDepth=16, not with 24bit depth. Sure enough, my xorg.conf > >had "DefaultDepth 16", changed it to use 24 bit, and firefox works > >normally now. In fact, I am writing this via gmail using firefox right > >now. > > Where is xorg.conf located? I am experiencing the same problem as well. /etc/X11/xorg.conf though for users not used to it, maybe doing a "dpkg-reconfigure -plowi xerver-xorg" would be better (of course only if your xorg.conf was generated that way) (have not tried it, i haven't expierencend this bug sinc'e i don't use gmail, and my x is running on 24bpp anyway...) yours albert - -- Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iQCVAwUBRXa8sCIMiEpzxsFKAQI+fwQAooDVVoVf03AGSzrnemctgbwZnlN8H9Uh hN5Ronod0NDGgrjekAYrSBL8q2GxmT5i6tlk+QFqF3g5gd3kmeXtB4T0i/y2XkCp K/g48+qp2cyCaML3Vht6b1rxuhml3AxtNf960lQYNrin0MJmums+giGF69IfgBHt t2ZxbJKcblQ= =fpkc -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bash script question
On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 12:16:54PM -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote: > Since there is a lot of knowledge on this list, I thought I'd aske > here. > > This may be trivial, but I'm not even sure how to search for what I > want to do. > > I have a directory of files that are created daily using > filename-`date +%Y%m%d`.tar.gz so I have a directory with files whose > names advance from filename-20061201.tar.gz to filename-20061202.tar.gz > to filename-20061203.tar.gz and so on. Based on the date in the > filename, I would like to delete any than are X days older than today's > date. So, I'm not interested in the actual created/modified date, just > the numeric string in the name. > > Despite working in Bash for the past ten years or so, my shell > scripting skills are poor. Logically, this seems like a simple test of > whether the name is older than the current day - X, but I'm having > trouble putting this into a script. povided that the file was not modified since it was created (ctime equals creation time) find $DIR -ctime +$DAYS -print0|xarg -0 rm should probaly work. not tested, though... (use at you own risk) yours albert -- Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: fs system for desktop
On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 06:25:47PM +0530, Amit Joshi wrote: > On Monday 11 December 2006 18:09, Nate Bargmann wrote: > > * Douglas Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006 Dec 11 06:16 -0600]: > > > On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 04:11:21PM +0800, Jeff Zhang wrote: > > > > which fs system (jfs, xfs or future ext4) will perform better for > > > > desktop usage under occasional power failure circumstance? like recover > > > > from power failure and fragment after long time run. > > > > thanks in advance! > > For recovery from power failure, XFS won't suit you cuz of its strange > scaling > thing. > > > > > > > I ran into this. I started with ext2 (the standard) which got corrupted > > > and lost files with power failure. Went to ext3 (ext2 + journal) which > > > was better but __silently__ would lose files. Went to Reiserfs which > > > would get corrupted by reiserfsck. Went to JFS and no more problems. > > > > I don't know but never had any such problem with EXT3. I have been using EXT3 > on my / partition for the last 3 years and haven't had one such problem. > > I have had some bad experiences with JFS though, maybe cuz the HDD was > failing. But formatted it with XFS and it worked fine. To tell you the truth, > I think XFS is pretty reliable and very fast..but then I have got a UPS to > withstand Power failures with XFS. i personally use xfs on all my systems for a couple of years now and the last fs courruption was my own fault (booting the debian system that is also the host system exidentially im vmware with rw access to the device... (the fs metadata was ok, some files werent...) even some power outages or locked up kernels did not give me any problmes so far, even though i'm aware about the potenial problem... (i was little scared though with that kernel bug im some 2.6.17. kernels..., didn't do any damage to my systems though) > So my choice for backups would still be EXT3. Again, cuz it has got more > number of tools written for recovery and are pretty good. i agree, for that purpose i have a partition mounted with data=journal... though i have noticed that while good for fs integrity, that ist not good for performance... so, i can recommend xfs, though don't shoot me if anything bad happens to you :) yours albert -- Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Why Disable Root ssh login?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 03:09:54PM +0100, Olive wrote: > >Well, if sudo is well configured, it does not give complete root access, > >It should be limited to mostly inoffensive command options and require > >the password for the rest. As for the logs, you are right in the case > >where they are kept local, but any reasonable size network will use a > >separate node with a different password as a loghost. All the failed > >attempt will be sent there and recorded before any successful promotion. > >Those will be much harder to erase. But you are right I should have > >mentioned it. > > > This make more sense, but still I am perplex. I was speaking about the > "Unbuntu" type of sudo account: you have to give your own password to > have root access, not a different one. If an offender had succeed to log > in, he has already the normal user account password. For the logs, if > the local system is able to send some log to another network, a user > having root access is also able too; how can the local system be > "authorized" to send remote log across the network and denying this to a > user having rootlocal access. Even if there is a password to send the > logs over the network, the system must store it somewhere in order to be > able to use it. A user having local root access is able to analyse > /dev/mem to discover it. It may present some difficulties but this seems > like "security by obscurity"; which is known to be bad. However, a more > secure variant would be to authorize the system to send log but not to > clear it; in this later case it could be more secure. Anyway just > prevent a root ssh does not increase security as it; it only does in > conjunction with several other steps. well, security by obscurity is not a good idea in general, but: 1. you can take some stress from your publically accesible computer if it does not have to deal with all the brute force logins... (i had some of them in the logs until i changed to no root login & public key authentication only... 2. is it not also security by obscurity to use passwords in general? (i mean, they only work if you do not use "standard" passwords and keep them secret...with ssh keys stored on smartcards you could at least say that they can (theoretically) not be duplicated, only stolen) 3. normally log servers do not allow for logs to be deleted... (you could of course try to erease the logs be flooding them with messages so that the logs get rotated so often that the messages you want to hide are gone before the next backup... (that would on the other hand be quite obvious that there is something happending that should not be) as for sudo: sudo works the same way everywhere as far as i know... to my knowlege, the difference between a password procted or passwordless sudo access is just that with a password protected one, you are better protected against users that leave their consoles ungarded and also they _may_ think a bit more before procceding... that said, there is no such thing as ultimate security, there is a problem in nearly all concepts.. yours albert - -- Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iQCVAwUBRYKyZSIMiEpzxsFKAQLuUQP9Esmhmu7hxZWxlY0yZXVylyQq1TEsykyS cPE2iUxcU4VdJLvmpqV0ak7spy+W8wfhuBSLo+a1BjvYVMUfN380NVWgGFPAhvPB dVS4KOxDkz/TTP4Y3Fr/hiovFu1jjPnQ2K4EyP67HRyU5zZltiXJbl2kCVpNZA/I UXdnLQoYKd4= =2IuH -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Why Disable Root ssh login?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 08:38:51AM -0600, Jacques Normand wrote: > On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 03:09:54PM +0100, Olive wrote: > > >Well, if sudo is well configured, it does not give complete root access, > > >It should be limited to mostly inoffensive command options and require > > >the password for the rest. As for the logs, you are right in the case > > >where they are kept local, but any reasonable size network will use a > > >separate node with a different password as a loghost. All the failed > > >attempt will be sent there and recorded before any successful promotion. > > >Those will be much harder to erase. But you are right I should have > > >mentioned it. > > > > > > This make more sense, but still I am perplex. I was speaking about the > > "Unbuntu" type of sudo account: you have to give your own password to > > have root access, not a different one. If an offender had succeed to log > > in, he has already the normal user account password. For the logs, if > > the local system is able to send some log to another network, a user > > having root access is also able too; how can the local system be > > "authorized" to send remote log across the network and denying this to a > > user having rootlocal access. Even if there is a password to send the > > logs over the network, the system must store it somewhere in order to be > > able to use it. A user having local root access is able to analyse > > /dev/mem to discover it. It may present some difficulties but this seems > > like "security by obscurity"; which is known to be bad. However, a more > > secure variant would be to authorize the system to send log but not to > > clear it; in this later case it could be more secure. Anyway just > > prevent a root ssh does not increase security as it; it only does in > > conjunction with several other steps. > > This way to setup sudo does not make sense to me. It is giving full root > access to every user, which is plain bad. It must be a configuration for > single workstation used by one person only. well, not exactly... normally, that kind of access ist set up only for certain groups... (i do not use ubuntu, but it is that way on for example osx, where there is a special admin group that allows sudo of all commands after password prompt. of course, maybe you should not use such an account for daily work as you shouldn't do that with the root account...) yours albert - -- Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iQCVAwUBRYK5RSIMiEpzxsFKAQI4DAQAqHbuWcnZw6/q5F29BXZ4GPp3LqMDAotL PpivPGmBK7+Jzam4UMAYBKJSxJrd/R76wNmJr2Ti8VJq2q1etJiuAxnvtzpQoFUC qSFA22bf3a6b1XpNWWWXqkqON8pcxlIyTU/C2fsFovOq33oDnaa72ajhibDxO8/U ErvGtrcTjTU= =64IY -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: "/etc/alternative/" How to use it?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 09:58:14AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > is there somewhere a developer HOWTO describing how I may add > /etc/alternatives support to my own packages in the right canonical way? > > I've searched the web but couldn't find any developer information. > > TIA for any links. have a look at update-alternatives (to me, the manpages is relativly clear) i hope it helps a bit.. yours albert - -- Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iQCVAwUBRYqHIiIMiEpzxsFKAQJdpwQAlTSkKUVwdE5PUeq14N7pVar21kqdRSiv qigRps/jj5O0B+h+OJ3KfeC5J6QB7Jc+UV42YSkWiJNQYnznY2HMXz2yUAFJ1ZuM /7UFmKVg9+/Ye/EoiVGkdJDkeYtTje+oaPTKFmdXiGQMn3+ucZEMxb+YQMMBmGky CEO2/phO47g= =q/4F -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dell power edge
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 05:50:22PM +0100, Stephane Durieux wrote: > Hello, > > simple question for a newbie like me (euh for me hard question in fact), I > would like to install debian etch ia64 on a dell poweredge 2900, but it > cannot work ! > I obtain a freeze during the boot process > > Instead the use of i386 image works perfectly. > > nevertheless, dell poweredge 2900 has a intel xeon dual core which normally > handles 64 bit. ia64 is for the intel ithanium cpus... the 64bit mode of opterons, athlon64 and intel p4/xeon is called either x86-64, amd64 or em64t... either way, you have to use the amd64 flavour of images, either ther unoffical ones for sarge: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/sarge-amd64/ or, with etch & sid you will find them on the debian-installer homepage: http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ yours albert - -- Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iQCVAwUBRYq+4CIMiEpzxsFKAQI/KQP/U/7NbqEVw1h/592RFOVyqMWB8d9Y5IqY y8Uea+ACPETI+hI9bq9k7cH+omsfBzOINq8xfK9LjBLxv/005lGN5rGUJbjoNbmo BBooiDZQ26/uk5+Geqh0ofkr1WcVgCSjmLnytgonfD9LmTWfrfP64sxHVPP67yXh 78D3VCtxvDQ= =oPTD -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: default firewall/IDS that comes with DEBIAN
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 06:52:24PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 09:25:44AM -0500, mutsuura wrote: > > All > > > > Another newbiew question... > > > > While browsing my auth.log file, I notice 'many' denial attacks. > > > > Eg:... > > > > Dec 17 12:25:37 h-66-166-247-242 sshd[21409]: Illegal user sara from > > 61.82.25.83 > > Dec 17 12:25:39 h-66-166-247-242 sshd[21412]: Illegal user robert from > > 61.82.25.83 > > Dec 17 12:25:41 h-66-166-247-242 sshd[21415]: Illegal user richard from > > 61.82.25.83 > > Dec 17 12:25:43 h-66-166-247-242 sshd[21418]: Illegal user party from > > 61.82.25.83 > > Dec 17 12:25:45 h-66-166-247-242 sshd[21420]: Illegal user amanda from > > 61.82.25.83 > > Dec 17 12:25:46 h-66-166-247-242 sshd[21423]: Illegal user rpm from > > 61.82.25.83 > > Dec 17 12:25:48 h-66-166-247-242 sshd[21426]: Illegal user operator from > > 61.82.25.83 > > Dec 17 12:25:50 h-66-166-247-242 sshd[21428]: Illegal user sgi from > > 61.82.25.83 > > Dec 17 12:25:54 h-66-166-247-242 sshd[21434]: Illegal user users from > > 61.82.25.83 > > Dec 17 12:25:56 h-66-166-247-242 sshd[21437]: Illegal user admins from > > 61.82.25.83 > > Dec 17 12:25:58 h-66-166-247-242 sshd[21439]: Illegal user admins from > > 61.82.25.83 > > Dec 17 12:26:08 h-66-166-247-242 sshd[21453]: Illegal user shutdown from > > 61.82.25.83 well, that is not the firewall, but the ssh daemon.. > > What default firewall/IDS does Debian come with following an initial > > install? > > > > Note: during install I selected all major components and did not include > > any additional > > packages wile installer was running aptitude. > > AFAIK there is no default firewall. > > I always recommend shorewall because it is very powerful, but pretty > easy to setup. If you prefer a graphical one than firestarter is also a > good choice. well, for the typical home user, there is more then enouth in the default debian install... iptables -P INPUT DROP iptables -P FORWARD DROP - -A INPUT -i lo -j ACCEPT - -A INPUT -m conntrack --ctstate RELATED,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT that is normally enouth, just put in into a script that gets executed on interface activation... (just put it in /etc/network/interfaces with pre-up) yours albert - -- Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iQCVAwUBRYrDJCIMiEpzxsFKAQJdBgP+KaG35QtFNMlmeOxhlxbcLR22FPBGnzJs U7ORUt/6888+GiPffrjolN8DYOyrauTs63Q288XRn6BnpjeqOillbC2mvyI1Ojs1 GRpKWvNQ0AVHCH2Y8SDDCutDDysHOa68D1vmv1YeJ0fkXPJJh9eGs0BkvlPB40E0 huY+cC901bg= =aNJD -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dell power edge
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 11:01:05PM +0200, Justin Hartman wrote: > Albert Dengg wrote: > >the 64bit mode of opterons, athlon64 and intel p4/xeon is called either > >x86-64, amd64 or em64t... > >either way, you have to use the amd64 flavour of images > > So as I understand it the amd64 and i386 install disks will work on a > P4/Xeon server - correct? If this is the case which one is recommended > amd64 or i386? well, that depends on what you want to do... while for some applications, the 64bit extentions can be a performance boost, not all apps work in 64bit mode... you can however install a 32bit chroot (there is a howto somewhere for that)... for a server _most likly_ everything should work in 64bit... > I'm about to install the i386 on a 2.8GHz Pentium 4 server but now I'm > not sure if I should/could install the i386 version or the amd64. Will > amd64 work on the P4 chip? it will work on all p4 chips that have "em64t" as intel calls it. and of course there is the advantage that with 64bit, one app can access more then 4gb of ram... i hope it helps a bit. yours albert - -- Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iQCVAwUBRYsB/SIMiEpzxsFKAQIXngP/b2BDKYJYnZfJClnoynF6AT5/+8tZHRrf Cbvgw2I/kOGnYZeVsbDGln9pWnKtPgVxqDBcCKkt3OA0v66OFAXzxCEI3etbHyyH SYT/hm0mPR0otL/qkUo+XOiTf9TFUcaYoYIpqlf/P+Hg2FS0TtF+dtWYrUagH8fV 60rxWG6caME= =d6AJ -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: installing java (for limewire)
On Thu, Dec 28, 2006 at 08:15:03PM +0100, Robert Epprecht wrote: > Sven Arvidsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Your system is still set up to use GCJ as the default Java environment. > > This is where you learn about the Debian alternatives system :) > > > > Run, as root, > > update-alternatives --config java > > > > And change the defaults to Sun Java. (There's also javac, javadoc, javap > > etc.) > > Thanks a lot, now on sid everything is working :-) > > > Now I have tried again on the *sarge* box: > > muz:~# ./jre-1_5_0_10-linux-i586-rpm.bin > Extracting... > UnZipSFX 5.42 of 14 January 2001, by Info-ZIP ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). > inflating: jre-1_5_0_10-linux-i586.rpm > rpm: To install rpm packages on Debian systems, use alien. See README.Debian. > error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - No such file or directory (2) > error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm > > Done. > > muz:/tmp# alien jre-1_5_0_10-linux-i586.rpm > jre_1.5.0_10-1_i386.deb generated > > muz:/tmp# dpkg -i jre_1.5.0_10-1_i386.deb > (Reading database ... 123428 files and directories currently installed.) > Preparing to replace jre 1.5.0_10-1 (using jre_1.5.0_10-1_i386.deb) ... > Unpacking replacement jre ... > Setting up jre (1.5.0_10-1) ... > > muz:/tmp# cd > muz:~# update-alternatives --config java > No alternatives for java. use dpkg -L to see what is in you newly created deb... otherwise use java-packe's make-jpkg (probably on sid) to create a deb from the .bin jre or jdk.. (worked for me in the past) yours albert -- Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: root on removable drive
On Mon, Jan 01, 2007 at 05:00:12PM -0500, draeath wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > I'm trying to migrate to debian for the upcoming Etch release. I'm > currently using Ubuntu. > > The only thing holding me back is the kernel will panic as / is absent. > My partition layout: > > /dev/hda ( internal HD ) > /dev/hda1 NTFS ( windows ) > /dev/hda2 EXT3 ( /boot ) > /dev/hda3 linux-swap > > /dev/sda ( external HD, USB 2.0 (UHCI) ) > /dev/sda1 EXT3( / ) > /dev/sda2 extended > /dev/sda5 FAT32 ( shared space for moving files with drive ) > > > In ubuntu, it works fine (and I can use UUIDs no less!). > > I've tried using this: > root=UUID=f7b53c4d-6f56-4e99-94fb-ae66d975f167 > > and also this: > root=/dev/sda1 > > Both fail. Is this due to the kernel version? Ubuntu is running > 2.6.17-10 > > > Any suggestions? I REQUIRE / to be on the external drive. have you verified that the modules for usb disks are on the initramfs? (for initramfs-tools, they should be in /etc/initramfs-tools/modules, for yaird you will have to take a look yourself): sd_mod scsi_mod ehci-hcd uhci-hcd usb-storage to check which modules are actually on the initramfs, do a zcat /boot/initrd.img-`uname -r`|cpio -t|grep modules (if you are running a different kernel version then the target, insert the correct version, of course) another possibility would also be to increase the timeout how long the init script waits for the root disk, though i don't know the parameter atm... i hope the helps... yours albert -- Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian unstable DVD-s
On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 08:51:48AM +0100, Ivan Imperl wrote: > I am on a slow dial-up connection to the Internet, and I use (at home) > Debian unstable. Last year I used jigdo to download 3 DVD-s from my > friend with cable Internet. Now it seems that .jigdo files for Debian > sid are outdated. > > Is there a way to download all packages needed for latest Debian sid > (again on a relatively slow 256K connection)? How do I create .jigdo > files? > > In short how do I download all packages needed for Debian unstable / > sid, and burn it on DVD-s? well, as an alternative to the option of the previous poster (run a netinstall), you could also use jigdo to download the images for the testing distribution, which should not be much difference to unstable... though, it is probably faster to run a netinstall (unless you plan to install multiple installs, in which case you could also use some sort of proxy (either a specialiced one for apt, or an aproprialtly configured http/ftp proxy). downloading all packages will most of the time be and overkill, since you will only need a fraktion of them. however, you can download the jigdo files for testing from here: http://www.debian.org/CD/jigdo-cd/#which (you will also find a description on how to do it there) yours albert -- Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: IP-Adresse ändert sich
Andre El-Ama wrote: Hallo Andre, Raus gehe ich über eine Router, auf dem läuft ein DHCP-Server, aber nicht für meinen Rechner, da der als Server mit Diensten eine fixe IP braucht. Genau das ist der Fehler, Dein aktiver DHCP-Server auf dem Router. Du wirst, sofern Dein Router nicht über ein - mir zumindest unbekanntes - neues featcher verfügt, das erlaubt nur Teilbereiche des Deines Netzwerkes ohne DHCP zu betreiben, Deinen DHCP-Server auf dem Router abschalten müssen! Man kann in der Regel auf einem Router nur Netzwerke betreiben, die komplett statisch oder komplett dynamisch (DHCP) konfiguriert werden. Willst Du Teilbereiche Deines Netzes statisch, andere dynamisch anlegen, wirst Du mit mehreren Routern (oder Bridges bzw. Brouter) arbeiten müssen. das ist so nich wirklich korrekt... 1. dhcp muss nicht bedeuten dass sich die ip ändert (man kann bei eigentlich jedem dhcp deamon fixe kopplungen mac<->ip einrichten (obs die weboberfläche zulässt ist eine andere frage) 2. normalerweise kann ich den bereich in dem der server die addressen verteilt durchaus verstellen, es muss nicht immer das ganze class c subnetz sein...ist bei boxed routern halt wieder die frage obs die weboberfläche zulässt bei eineme vernünftigen router sollte dass eigenlich kein problem sein... (mir fehlt hier die originalmail, dh. ich weis nicht um welches gerät es sich genau handelt...) mfg albert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: IP-Adresse änder t sich
On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 08:25:02PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Mon, 15 Jan 2007 17:45:18 +0100 (MET) > "Andre El-Ama" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [snip discussion in German about static ip with dhcp router] > > War das fuer debian-user oder debian-user-german bestimmt? > > English: was that meant for debian-user or debian-user-german? most likly... i thought it was on -german, otherwise i wouldnt have replied in german... yours albert -- Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: firefox icon has disappeared
On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 12:07:34PM +0100, Stephane Durieux wrote: > Hello > > Under debian etch, I encounter a little problem > firefox icon has disappeared from environment (KDE and > Gnome). > How can I solve this without modifying every users > desktop. > Thanks for help the reason is simple: firefox is no longer in debian because of issues with the firefox trademark. there is however a fork of the firefox code with the offending materials removed and renamed to iceweasel yours albert -- Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SATA Raid Difficulty
Rob Wright wrote: ... Specifics: 3 74.5GB SATA drives Serial ATA AHCI BIOS version iSirc 1.08.sm0 Intel Matrix Storage Manager Rom v5.6.2.1002 ESB2 Is there support for this in Debian, and if so what do I need to do to get it installed? Should I be using Sarge instead of Etch? If I need to provide more information I'll gladly do so. looks like one of the fake-raid controllers. e.g. they do bios supported software raid. there are drivers in linux to get something like that working... a general howto for fakeraid and linux 2.6 is under http://tienstra4.flatnet.tudelft.nl/~gerte/gen2dmraid/ and there is a mailing list for that sort of stuff at http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ataraid-list that said, i don't know if you can set it up at installation time with debian... a quit easy way (if you only want to run linux on ther machine) would be to disable the raid in the bios, partiton the disks so that you have a small (~100mb should be enougth be all means), and a bigger partiton for the rest and create 2 raid arrays, one raid1 with the smaller partions for /boot, the rest raid5 (or raid1 if you want to have even more security from a disk crash), possible setup lvm2 over it for further dividing it and that's it. works fine for me on one computer with 2 disks in raid1 yours albert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installing Etch onto a laptop w/out CD device
andy wrote: Good day I have an old-ish laptop with a dodgy CD-device, onto which I want to install Etch. I am using Etch on my desktop and the laptop is connected to the same LAN that my desktop is on. Is there anyway that I can exploit this arrangement to enable me to install onto the laptop? if your laptop supports it, try a network install with tftp boot see also http://www.debian.org/releases/testing/i386/ch04s06 (i have never tried bootp, only pxe since my machines did support it...) yours albert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: /dev/sda1 --> /dev/hda1 ???
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 06:44:42PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 04:38:16PM -0500, Michael S. Peek wrote: > > > >root=/dev/sda1 > > > > to: > > > >root=/dev/hda1 > > > > Um... Is this bad or something? Why does /dev/sda1 not work for my > > custom kernel when it works for the distribution kernel? Did I set > > something wrong in my kernel config file? (I also found that if I run > > update-grub, it wants to change it back to /dev/sda1.) > > > This appears to be something related to SATA. Did you have modular SATA > before and now you compiled it in? Or vice versa? while that should not change sda to hda, there is one possiblity. currently there are 2 pata and 2 sata drivers in the kernel. the libata drivers are the ones currently recommended for sata (be carefull, you also need scsi disk support to be able to access the disks), and they have some experimental support for pata too. the old ata drivers (that register their drives under /dev/hdX as ide devices) also have some sata support, though it is discouraged to use it, since the sata support there is not activly developed anymore to my knowlege. yours albert - -- Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iQCVAwUBRdya9iIMiEpzxsFKAQKj/AP/QFy17zH7NMyx6wEVmcq6eyqw8BoyFSaA 5ED3xhryUzwtyb5afon63FtHy6ccw9lImWlwWq7SuVbo7NEK9KLwEC5ehlEcx+/H EjNm55ODBz1MMyL/mjZSh6PMHPmJDUusJn0ew6RLgMzW9IHVApxILAcAD0u7pubw VISeLRAzrDA= =9FwC -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Boot from SATA drive--module or built-in?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 04:42:07AM -0700, Brian C wrote: > Hi, > > This is a kernel-related question to which I cannot find a definitive answer. > > If I am not going to use an initrd image, and I want to boot Debian from an > SATA drive (in a system with no PATA drives and all SATA drives) using a 2.6 > kernel, then is it necessary to compile-in the specific driver for the SATA > controller or is it acceptable for it to be merely a module? (When doing make > menuconfig do I need a * or will an M do?) > > In particular, if the SATA controller is the NVIDIA nForce4 controller, does > nv-sata need to be built-in or can it just be a module? > > It seems like I've read somewhere that when you want to boot from such a > drive then the boot process never makes it to loading modules because it > cannot > find the SATA drives to begin with, requiring the specific SATA driver to be > built-in. Is that right? Hi if you want to get around using an initrd, yes you have to compile the driver into the kernel (along with scsi disk support and the driver for your root file system. it is the same if you want to boot from an ide drive without using an initrd you have to compile a suitable controller driver and ide disk support into the kernel yours albert - -- Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEhXTDhrtSwvbWj0kRAvlXAJsHBZAkMEq0aeC7cyWuAgovuvmmxgCfZ8SZ 6jBPu7qAm1dUBIwVLW/S7po= =tY6u -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Which desktop for an old thinkpad pentium II with 128MB?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 10:42:04AM +0200, Arnau wrote: > Hi all, > > I have an old thinkpad pentium II with 128MB of RAM and I'd like to install > a desktop. I have been using KDE on that machine and although it's usable, > now I'd like to use something ligther. Which desktop would you recommend me? Hi well, i personally use sawfish, customized xfce panels sometimes, and gkrellm the only thing is that you have to customize sawfish to make it useable (i did it a few years back on an old notebook with not that much ram...the new ones would have no problems with something fancier...but never change a running system yours albert - -- Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEoPs4hrtSwvbWj0kRAgtMAJ4z9CggFvd8O5LOSN0v9NHWC4QZ3ACdEJY6 cBZii9/mBwbtcdPStFKuEOk= =6Nju -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: apt-get pinning ? - Sarge / Stable - only install certain/specific packages from "testing"
On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 02:38:46AM -0700, Willie Wonka wrote: > --- Willie Wonka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Olafur Jens Sigurdsson wrote: > > > you can just say apt-get update > > > and then apt-get install hdparm and it will install hdparm and upgrade > > > all the packages that hdparm depends on and none else. > > > Ok...Great -- will do > > Ok...So after I performed the actual upGRADE; > > ~$ sudo apt-get upgrade > > I do this > > ~$ sudo apt-get install hdparm > > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > hdparm is already the newest version. > 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. > > So obviously I'm still at v6.1, rather than 6.6 (the one I want) > > So...I try this (after reading the 'man apt_preferences' pages) and trying to > understand how to make "pinning" work for me... > > ~$ sudo apt-get install hdparm/testing > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > Selected version 6.6-1 (Debian:testing) for hdparm > Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have > requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable > distribution that some required packages have not yet been created > or been moved out of Incoming. > > Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that > the package is simply not installable and a bug report against > that package should be filed. > The following information may help to resolve the situation: > > The following packages have unmet dependencies: > hdparm: Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.6-6) but 2.3.2.ds1-22sarge3 is to be > installed > E: Broken packages > > How can I get hdparm v6.6 installed? It depends on atleast libc6 2.3.6-6...I > suspect my "testing" pinning entries within /etc/apt/preferences are of too > low > a priority?? ...or maybe I should/can install libc6 2.3.6-6 *also* - on it's > own? > I understand the need for APT to work the way it does : For ex; Suppose libc6 > 2.3.6-6 also has other unmet dependencies -- this can quickly turn into a big > mess. I understand that. What would be the correct "debian" way to proceed? well, i havent tried that, though i use backports.org with pinning on 2 machines... most likely its held back because of some dependencies... start aptitude and try to install it... that way it will install and to recieve automatic updates in the future, write down the dependencies and pin them to... otherwise apt-get will refuse to install automatically yours albert -- Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: force stable package if avail
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 11:23:47AM -0400, Jean-Sebastien Pilon wrote: > Hello all, > > Sometimes I need to install testing and/or unstable packages. The thing > is that I would like to keep all to stable if possible... > > Example: > > I need sun-java5-jdk with is only in unstable > > I want all dependencies to be installed from stable if possible > > Is there a way I can tell apt to use stable and only testing and > unstable when package not in stable ??? > > > > NOTICE: This email contains privileged and confidential information and is > intended only for the individual to whom it is addressed. If you are not the > named addressee, you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. > Please notify the sender immediately by e-mail if you have received this > transmission by mistake and delete this communication from your system. > E-mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secured or error-free as > information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late or > incomplete, or contain viruses. > > AVIS: Le pr?sent courriel contient des renseignements de nature privil?gi?e > et confidentielle et n?est destin? qu'? la personne ? qui il est adress?. Si > vous n??tes pas le destinataire pr?vu, vous ?tes par les pr?sentes avis?s que > toute diffusion, distribution ou reproduction de cette communication est > strictement interdite.? Si vous avez re?u ce courriel par erreur, veuillez en > aviser imm?diatement l?exp?diteur et le supprimer de votre syst?me. Notez que > la transmission de courriel ne peut en aucun cas ?tre consid?r? comme > inviolable ou exempt d?erreur puisque les informations qu?il contient > pourraient ?tre intercept?s, corrompues, perdues, d?truites, arriv?es en > retard ou incompl?tes ou contenir un virus. ? Hi well use pinning (as for example used and described with backports.org that way you can force apt to only use specific packages from unstable/testing/backports/etc... for more information about pinning see also man apt_preferences yours Albert - -- Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEoqP5hrtSwvbWj0kRAsNhAJ4lot14vl7CQkr3HSWQ8v4qczwCzQCfQb2R PyUU4An3Eq6TMQUBws1f7u8= =w4fh -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: apt-get question?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 11:15:35AM -0400, Ishwar Rattan wrote: > > How does one install the upgrade that was downloaded as: > >apt-get upgrade -d > > -ishwar just run apt-get upgrade everything that is already downloaded won't be downloaded again, but used from the already present local cache and afterwards you should probably clear the cache using 'apt-get clean' yours albert - -- Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEqTd9hrtSwvbWj0kRAnXdAJ4qErRrD91g080bMWpwmH7g1j1znwCaAh/n Z7DVQ4PxVCz9swFnAPqfVsA= =DwAk -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: apt-get question?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 09:05:02AM -0700, Marc Wilson wrote: > On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 05:27:57PM +0200, Albert Dengg wrote: > > and afterwards you should probably clear the cache using 'apt-get clean' > > Why? unless you want to use them again for some reason (copy it to another machine and install them there, uninstall them and reinstall or something), i can't see the point of keeping all packages you install on the machine, since harddisk is cheap, but not for free. (it is however your decision) yours albert - -- Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEqUKLhrtSwvbWj0kRAn/7AJ98gZpSEtiVIz/twdA/xzOWZN6JVACfXERl iFvHEEg/VGv/DfOJhzScMjs= =+/fl -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
migrating sylpheed-claws mailboxes to cyrus
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi i finally as able to set up my personal mailserver and now i have to migrate 2 mailboxes from the local storage to the server. the current format is MH from sylpheed-claws which should be quite similar to the internal cyrus storage format and i'm searching for a to migrate to whole mailboxes whith over 100 folders and subfolders and nearly 20 mails...so it has to be quite automated. i do have full access to the server if that is a question does anybody have any experiences or ideas how to do that? tia yours albert - -- Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFErXJlhrtSwvbWj0kRAibEAJ9XPwJlSW/9FUEOCcMd2p2kG7FUCgCfb1Y6 tXlrS2m5ZU48Q4m/cMFagR8= =awW9 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: debian-user: Firewire?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 10:26:56AM -0400, Chuckk Hubbard wrote: > So do I understand correctly, that FireWire support in Linux comes > only with compiling the kernel with specific add-ons? Can someone > with no desire to program use FireWire? you have to load the correct drivers of course (as with any other OS) the standard debian 2.6.8 kernel image already enabled ieee1394 as modules so you just have to load them correctly. you can either do it manually, enter them in /etc/modules or use hotplug/udev the driver for the controller is most probably ohci1394, so to load it just type modprobe ohci1394, or add a line to /etc/modules with "ohci1394" in it. the drivers for the devices is probably best loaded by hotplug or udev and therefore done automatically yours albert - -- Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEtmzEhrtSwvbWj0kRAiS8AJ9F8qin2imgzPnAwG9//mxjPgBfjACghgXS 1nnkmzoisLKJZJSYz0kSmes= =1cdh -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sarge and Athlon 64
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Jul 14, 2006 at 03:58:32PM +0100, Wackojacko wrote: ... > I did it the other way round and when installing the 64 bit debian, grub > found my 32 bit install and added it to menu.lst. > > I have successfully maintained both systems current on unstable for over a > year now. Most of the upgrading can be done from within the chroot, although > occasionally I > have to boot into the i386 partition for some packages that need /proc > mounted in the install script. At least this gives me an opportunity to > check it still boots as > expected :). Hi just a question: why don't you just bind mount proc to your chroot? my chroot isn't and was never bootable...and i didn't have any problems so far... yours Albert - -- Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEt7q6hrtSwvbWj0kRAplhAJ0dT1OyHVOJeN7KwU+KQlQnCyFXpgCeOvU6 wYiVKFUdxKsvaFOx8HC/0GU= =bpVT -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: New Video Card.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Jul 14, 2006 at 10:04:12AM -0500, Jaime Ochoa Malag?n wrote: > Hi, > > I really hate my PowerColor ATI chipset video card because is not > compatible with the driver of ATI, this card just Hang every time I > try to install it. > > I want to buy a nvidia card, the problem is I don't know if nvidia is > only the chipset or nvidia make their own video cards? > > I haven't a wide offer of products anyway... > > This card is being offered, and I want to know if any of you could > recomend it to me, I pretend istall this with the nvidia drivers > because I really have been looking for a card with wide video > capabilities under Linux to enjoy it. > > http://usa.asus.com/products4.aspx?l1=2&l2=7&l3=0&model=992&modelmenu=1 hi while i havn't tried the nvidia drivers lately, basically nvidia just makes gpus and has others build the graphic cards. that said i must tell you that the nvidia drivers aren't without problems either to my expirience...and actully the fglrx drivers do work for me at the moment... yours Albert - -- Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEt7w3hrtSwvbWj0kRAgDzAJ9bMZ+LLhSPH4AlANl0+jyCeYQLPgCfSE2x NY1D8hCv73C++89Vpg032Mk= =DJcy -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sony digital camera
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Jul 16, 2006 at 07:31:18PM +0200, Bruno Costacurta wrote: > Hello, > > I'm considering buying a Sony digital camera (precisely a model Cybershot) > and would like to receive your experiences or problems, and also useful > programs about its connectivity to a Debian (etch release) via USB. Hi well cybershot is pretty generic. i personally own a dsc-v3 for a year now and i dont have any problems. it has a usb-storage mode, so its just an usb disc for the computer and i can even edit the raw images perfectly using gimp-ufraw or dcraw. the only thing one has to say is that the -v3 isnt the smallest digicam around, which is good for taking pics but it is not so easy to put into your pocket (of course compared to my mothers canon 350D with tele it is pretty small ;) ). yours albert PS: while the laser focus is good for focusing in the dark and the nightframing mode is great, the flash takes some time to fire and the laser tells everbody quite early you try to take a pics, suprising people with flash pics isnt easy ;) - -- Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEun/YhrtSwvbWj0kRAqXsAKCFealkWZB/BJSuRwAnA2kHO+i3IQCcD9av OBfTzUNqazAwj0sL0g5l+9I= =xww0 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Open Source Supported Graphics Cards
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Aug 12, 2006 at 02:07:43AM -0500, Seth Goodman wrote: > On Friday, August 11, 2006 10:39 PM -0500, Anthony M Simonelli wrote: > > > > > > That's a reasonable goal, even a good goal, if you are > > > > > willing to remain a small, exclusive club. > > > > Actually, Debian is one of the fastest growing distribution > > according to Netcraft: > > > > > http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2005/12/05/strong_growth_for_debian.ht > ml > > > > and Linux in general is making it's mark with companies such as HP, > > IBM, and Google and around the world. > > The first line of that article is: > > "Debian is currently the fastest growing Linux distribution for web > servers, with more than 1.2 million active sites in December." > > This reinforces my point, which is that Debian, in its present form, > will find use primarily among technically adept users, which are a > minority in the computer market. The same goes for its adoption at > large IT companies. The fact that Debian is taking web server market > share from Red Hat does not indicate that it is making any inroads into > becoming a usable desktop for average users. well, were is the problem with that? and also debian is much easier to install now with d-i then it used to be... i actually like debian for asking me what really to install...i have a problem with distros like suse where it is hard to set the computer up _without_ X and so on and there are areaes where i just don't need it. > > > > > I'm arguing to consider the point of view of would-be Windows > > > > > defectors. > > > > I don't believe the Debian project is not meant to be a Windows > > replacement. I don't even think it exists to compete with MS > > Windows, but to provide a free(dom) operating system for everyone. > > It may be free for everyone, but they can't use it. You can, I can, but > the average Windows user can't. That's like saying that anyone is free > to buy a Mercedes, all you need is the money. > > > > > Here are a couple of cases for things that casual users can > > > manage in Windows PC's but would have great difficulty in Debian. > > > The following is not meant to say that Windows is good. It's > > > not: it's crap. But they did do some things right, and we ought > > > to take notice. > > > > You can get books that help. In fact, the Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 > > Bible (ISBN 0-7645-7644-5) is a great book for those just getting > > started with Debian and Linux and answers the first two common > > tasks they'd need to know as well as installation help and getting > > a desktop up and running. They also discuss Internet and Intranet > > services such as web servers, printing, file servers, FTP, etc, and > > it's only $40.00 (hey, you're not paying for the operating system!) > > I don't need books like that because I can read the documentation. The > average Windows user is not going to read it. They don't need to read > books to fire up their Windows boxen, and they don't expect to read > books to move to Linux. If it were up to snuff, they wouldn't need to. > You're preaching to the choir by telling me that a technically adept > person can make Debian do most common tasks without inordinate > difficulty. The average computer user, OTOH, is a completely different > story. well, the average windows install done by an average user does not really work as it should, give all the security problems and worm distribution, which is at least partly due to the fact that with windows, everybody thinks they can do it themselves and know what they are doing. ... my point is, there are different distros with different goals and also i have 2 "normal users" here using debian without any problems (both don't know pcs worth a damn and would also have problems with windows)...i do the system administration and for them it just works (and for me it is less work them administrating a xp home install which does not have fs permissions where i have to reconstruct all sort of system files they alter/delete be accident... :-) ) yours Albert -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > - -- Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFE4KpLhrtSwvbWj0kRAvBzAJ9XHmKapr9KxENn+tBkeuBSPSbYMwCfXdOd zhEEZCCYBmS8ok9IplF2xrM= =jmak -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Compiling kernel 2.6.16 or higher under Sarge
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 01:23:20PM -0700, shahim essaid.com wrote: > Hi all, > > I am somewhat new to Debian and Iam not sure if this is possible. I want to > compile a 2.6.16 from source but the minimum requirement listed under > Documentation/Changes > are not satisfied under Sarge. udev, for example, has to be 071 or higher. > > I did try backports.org but there were too many other dependencies and I > didn't want to make all the changes without getting some advice first. > > Can I compile 2.6.16 from source under Sarge? > > I am assuming that even if I compile a kernel under unstable or testing, I > will still need to meet the kernel requirements to be able to install it > under Sarge. Am I > correct? well, compiling is not a problem. i have 2 systems running a 2.6.17 kernel under sarge (2.6.17.3 and 2.6.17.6). there are a few things to be considered though: 1. if you want a modular kernel, you have to upgrade module-init-tools 2. if you want to use hotplug, you have to either upgrade to the new udev or switch to usbmgr 3. if you want to use initrd, you have to switch to initramfs-tools or yaird (for me yaird works better) 4. i think, i upgraded kernel-package from backports.org, don't know at the moment though... that said, everything you need you will find on backports.org (i hope i have not forgotten something imporant, the machine i'm currently sitting on is running sid) > In case you are wondering why I am doing this, I would like to setup an IPSec > firewall/router and my understanding is that for kernels below 2.6.16 I will > have to apply > netfilter/iptables patches to be able to use Policy Match and other features > with Shorewall. Is this correct? I thought it was going to be easier to > compile a recent > kernel instead of figuring out the patches but it looks like this is just as > difficult to follow. i don't know if you have to apply patches for the kernel below 2.6.16, though i belive there should also be newer kernel packages on backports.org ... yours Albert - -- Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFE4uf0hrtSwvbWj0kRAlroAJ0YjxOorIK6lD04IMtz8SR1X8XTRACeOwYi tN9gSLIxVGpi7kf43slWgvc= =zAUH -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Open Source Supported Graphics Cards
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 08:43:14PM -0500, Owen Heisler wrote: ... > I very much agree. To me the Linux distribution that Debian has become > is very impressive, and I hope that continues. And if Debian is able to > become more user-friendly, that is good. Seth, I agree with you as > well, so long as user-friendliness does not interfere with "powerful" > and "secure" as stated. > > It might be good to consider how many Windows users are capable of > installing Windows... I know many people who use Windows but are not, > however, capable of reinstalling Windows. I think that Debian at its > current state is capable of replacing Windows in that way. The user > would have to learn a bit, but how much are users going to have to learn > in order to use Vista? Hi well, with installing there is another point: because things like partitioning came up... most first time linux installs are dual boot, witch makes it more complicated...wereas with a stand alone install things like automatic partioning are/would be possible and setting up bootloaders and the like has become quite easy (d-i most of the time does it correctly be itself (the last time i had problems was due to a setup with serial console and lvm and linux sw raid which is a quite unlikely setup for a causual pc users...) yours Albert - -- Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFE4vGShrtSwvbWj0kRAkDyAJ0RrwBPkGIKnM5s8ROiuyApr9GOrwCeKrvF AA+OhdQvx9EGuCdTUi8RVr0= =0eMp -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mini-DV with sd-card
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 08:15:23PM +0300, gustavo halperin wrote: > Hello > > My question is about the video format Mini-DV. This format is Linux > compatible? I my camera record the movie in a SD-Card, I will can play the > movie with MPlayer and > encoded it to DVD format? do my knowlege mini-DV is the format is the name for the small casettes used in digital camereas. now, you can easily play/convert these videos. also if it should record mpeg/mpeg2/mpeg4 as most camereas that record on some sort of memory card do to my knowlege that is also not a problem. yours Albert - -- Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFE5AXzhrtSwvbWj0kRAqmgAJ0XUZurk9eMpnFDjjsBY6ahbmZsAgCfX0E7 43wYiYCCHi9KPfDTba+089I= =+5sL -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
