Re: IP Masquerade

[Andrew Perrin]

I supposed you could set something up with ssh, so PC1 tunnels a port to
its own DNS port via sshd, but it's going to be significantly harder and
less useful than ipmasq.

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On Mon, 17 Feb 2003, Russell wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I have a PC (PC_1) connected to the ISP via dialup ppp (DHCP assigned
> address). PC_1 also has an ethernet card: 192.168.0.1
> 
> Another PC (PC_2: 192.168.0.2) connects to PC_1 via ethernet.
> 
> Can i access my ISPs DNS servers on PC_2 just with some static rules
> set up on PC_1, or does PC_1 need IP masquerading working?
> 
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Re: Performance hit: symlinks

[Andrew Perrin]

No, certainly not that a human would notice. It's an interesting question
whether there's a measurable delay at all -- I don't know the answer to
that one.

Another solution, of course, is to put it in a new partition and then
mount the partition at /opt.

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On Mon, 17 Feb 2003, Jeff Elkins wrote:

> Is there one, or if so is it perceptible?  For instance, I compiled kde and qt 
> to live in /opt. If I moved /opt to /usr/local/kde31 and made /opt a symlink 
> would this create overhead a human would notice?
> 
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Re: wine and IE

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I'd be shocked if IE worked reliably under wine, but would also be happy
to find out otherwise. My experience is that MS apps are the worst trying
to run under wine (presumably because of "undocumented" OS features).  If
I were in your shoes I'd spring for a copy of VMWare and run a virtual
machine for testing.

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On Tue, 18 Feb 2003, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote:

> I'm a freelance web designer/programmer, and until recently I had a
> machine I could dual boot into Windows in order to test on IE, Netscape
> (for Windows -- it *DOES* display differently than on linux), Mozilla
> (again, same thing), and Opera... that is, until the mobo died on me,
> possibly taking out the CPU and RAM.
> 
> I've been having problems with one of the sites I maintain, and have
> isolated the problems to version 5.x of IE -- and would, understandably,
> like to test my reworkings.
> 
> Last I tried wine, it typically locked up my computer (but that may have
> been the programs I was trying to utilize), but I *do* recall getting at
> least solitaire working with it, so I know it *can* work.
> 
> Has anybody on the list gotten IE to work under a normal wine install?
> Is it possible to get different versions to work under different install
> directories (this would be IDEAL!)? Would you be willing to give me some
> pointers? 
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Re: [OT] How fast are scanners nowadays?

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I've got an Epson Perfection 1640 Office scanner, which includes a sheet
feeder. I bought a cheap SCSI card for it (it will use SCSI or
USB) because when I bought it I was still running a 2.2.x kernel which had
mediocre USB support.  It's pretty fast for scanning - I'd guess less than
a minute per page. I've got a research project that involves scanning lots
of text; my routine is:

- Scan the document
- Save the image and also run it through gocr
- Save the output of gocr
- Pay an undergraduate to view (via a web interface) the graphic and the
text and edit the text accordingly.

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On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, Alex Polite wrote:

> Sorry for this grossly OT post. I'd like to scan a whole lot of
> documents and run them through OCR. Last time I checked scanning a
> page of text took something like two minutes. This is way to slow for
> my purposes. I'd need something that works with the speed of a
> photocopier. An alternative would be to have something that can
> process a whole stack of papers automatically.
> 
> Anyone that has had any experiences with this?
> 
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Re: Support

[Andrew Perrin]

I have a very similar board, the GA-7VAX, and have got everything except
the sensors working. I haven't worked much on the sensors, since I don't
care much about them. Got the sound working only recently, and with a fair
amount of trouble, but can send you info on how I did it if you'd like.

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On 1 Mar 2003, Tinus Kotzé wrote:

> Can anybody tell me what the status of support is for this Gigabyte
> motherboard? I am interested in buying it, but not if I will have
> problems. I am currently running Debian Unstable with 2.4.18.
> 
> GA-7VA-C VIA® KT333 (Rev. CF)+8235 chipset
> - Northbridge : VIA KT333 (Rev.CF)
> - Southbridge : VIA 8235
> - VIA 8X V-Link architecture (533MB/s)
> - Super I/O : ITE IT8705F
> - AC97 Realtek ALC650 6-channel sound Chip
> 
> Regards 
> Tinus
> 
> 
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Re: Patched sendmail? testing?

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On Tue, 4 Mar 2003, stan wrote:

>  [snip]
> 13:58:15 up 249 days,  5:48,  1 user,  load average: 0.35, 0.32, 0.36
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# cat /etc/debian_version
> testing/unstable
> [snip]
> That's certainly "stab;e"enough for em. And it gets apt-get dist-upgraded
> pretty much every weekday morning.


To my understanding, this is the wrong way to think about stability. It's
not a question of whether the OS is stable as in not-crashing. It's a
question of whether the versions of software included in the release will
be changing or not. That is, whether the collection of packages is stable
or not.  Running the unstable distribution, AFAIK, just suggests that the
versions may change on you, not that it's likely to crash.

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Re: Help with Realtek ALC650 sound

[Andrew Perrin]

I have the same chip working on my machine (a Gateway 7VAX motherboard
with the same chipset).

You will need kernel-source-2.4.20 and kernel-headers-2.4.20 installed to
do the compilation, not just kernel-package. If you do have these, make
sure your driver download is pointing at the right kernel source. Other
than these I'm out of ideas (for now).



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On Tue, 4 Mar 2003, Tim Wood wrote:

>   Hi,
> I upgraded my m/b to an Epox 8K5A2 with the Via KT333 chipset but
> including the VT8235 Southbridge (normally part of the KT400) with a
> RealTek ALC650 Codec (AC97).
>
> Realtek's website includes  driver source for the Alsa-0.9.0rc5
> (alcsound.tar.bz2). I'm running the 2.4.20-k7 kernel. Initially I
> downloaded the deb source and then the source from kernel.org.
> Both times I placed the kernel source in /usr/local/src and left the
> driver in ~/alsa-driver-0.9.0rc5.
> When I attempt to compile (./configure) it I get an error "The file
> /usr/local/src/linux-2.4.20/include/linux/version.h does not exist" -
> nor does it. There is a version.h in
> ~/alsa-driver-0.9.0rc5/alsa-kernel/include
>
> At one time I thought of building my own kernel and find
> /usr/include/linux contains version.h showing  a #define UTS_RELEASE
> "2.4.19" - I'm not clear on what to do about that. I did install the
> kernel-package.
>
>  From comments I have seen elsewhere alsa-modules-2.4.20 contains
> support for the ALC650. Whilst it is not available as a deb, is this
> available somewhere else?
>
> Is any AC97 compliant codec covered by any AC97 driver?
>
> I don't make much use of sound but would like to get it working.
>
> Any suggestions as how best to proceed would be very welcome.
>
> Tim
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Re: wireless, packet loss

[Andrew Perrin]

I've got the same situation - different card (it's a Belkin) but same
module, same errors, same (lack of) performance problem.  It hasn't caused
any problem for me in the roughly 6 months I've been using it.

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On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, Jim McCloskey wrote:

>
> Hello.
>
> I recently got a Lucent Orinoco Gold wireless card for my laptop. At
> home, it connects through a LinkSys 900 WAP. I'm using the orinoco_cs
> driver (plus associated kernel modules). The kernel is a hand-compiled
> version of 2.4.18:
>
> Linux lapdog 2.4.18 #2 Tue Jan 28 23:44:35 PST 2003 i686 Intel(R)
> Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1.60GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
>
> The system is Debian testing, up to date.
>
> lsmod reveals:
>
> radeon 86368   1
> orinoco_cs  4264   1
> orinoco29224   0 [orinoco_cs]
> hermes  3332   0 [orinoco_cs orinoco]
> hid12488   0 (unused)
> ds  6408   1 [orinoco_cs]
> yenta_socket8352   1
> pcmcia_core38624   0 [orinoco_cs ds yenta_socket]
> usb-uhci   20940   0 (unused)
> usbcore48096   1 [hid usb-uhci]
> agpgart15464   3
> i810_audio 19912   0
> soundcore   3460   2 [i810_audio]
> ac97_codec  9288   0 [i810_audio]
> sg 27868   0 (unused)
> ide-scsi7312   0
> scsi_mod   56908   2 [sg ide-scsi]
> 8139too13000   0 (unused)
>
> Subjectively, I'm pleased with the performance---download speeds and
> connectivity speeds in general don't seem that different from what I
> get from the gateway/firewall machine directly.
>
> However, in the logs there are loads and loads of messages like this:
>
> Mar 20 21:06:16 lapdog kernel: eth1: Tx error, status 1 (FID=01ED)
> Mar 20 21:06:17 lapdog kernel: eth1: Tx error, status 1 (FID=01D9)
> Mar 20 21:06:33 lapdog kernel: eth1: Tx error, status 1 (FID=01B1)
> Mar 20 21:06:34 lapdog kernel: eth1: Tx error, status 1 (FID=019D)
> Mar 20 21:06:36 lapdog kernel: eth1: Tx error, status 1 (FID=0175)
> Mar 20 21:06:42 lapdog kernel: eth1: Tx error, status 1 (FID=0161)
> Mar 20 21:07:06 lapdog kernel: eth1: Tx error, status 1 (FID=01C5)
> Mar 20 21:07:07 lapdog kernel: eth1: Tx error, status 1 (FID=01B1)
> Mar 20 21:08:50 lapdog kernel: eth1: Tx error, status 1 (FID=01ED)
> Mar 20 21:08:51 lapdog kernel: eth1: Tx error, status 1 (FID=01C5)
> Mar 20 21:08:52 lapdog kernel: eth1: Tx error, status 1 (FID=01B1)
> Mar 20 21:08:58 lapdog kernel: eth1: Tx error, status 1 (FID=0189)
>
> They come every couple of minutes.
>
> Is this just routine and to be lived with? Or are there things I could
> tweak to eliminate this apparent problem?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jim
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Re: ide-scsi problem on woody

[Andrew Perrin]

On Wed, 22 Oct 2003, Magnus von Koeller wrote:

> On Wednesday 22 October 2003 12:05, Joachim Fahnenmueller wrote:
> > Good idea. Not only look for error messages but also for _success_
> > messages, at some point it should say that it found the device.
>
> Now, what if it does report success but still doesn't work:
>
> $ cat /proc/scsi/scsi
> Attached devices:
> Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
>   Vendor: SAMSUNG  Model: CDRW/DVD SN-324B Rev: U102
>   Type:   CD-ROM   ANSI SCSI revision: 02
>
> But:
>
> $ mount /dev/scd0 /cdrom
> mount: /dev/scd0 is not a valid block device

What if you use /dev/sda ?

>
> Also, do I need the ide-cd module loaded to make ide-scsi work?
>

No.


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Re: ide-scsi problem on woody

[Andrew Perrin]

I'm no expert here, but I think the fact that this works means that ide-cd
has got /dev/hdc, which is why ide-scsi doesn't grab it. I think there's
an option to tell ide-cd to explicitly ignore /dev/hdc, but I don't know
what it is.

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On Thu, 23 Oct 2003, [loonyx | rolf joho] wrote:

> > i bet that this works  ( assuming the kernel has been told by grub/lilo
> > the hdc=ide-scsi option )
> >
> > mount -t iso9660 -o ro /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom
> >
> > and if it does ...  make a link
> > cd /dev ; ln -s ./hdc cdrom ( for reading cd's )
> > cd /dev ; ln -s ./hdc cdrw  ( for writing )
> >
> > c ya
> > alvin
> >
>
> well, i could at any time easily mount the cd/dvd in the drive using
> /dev/hdc.
> the boot-loader is configured properly (hdc=ide-scsi).
> the /dev/cdrom link is already there, /dev/cdrw did not bring me much
> further:
> what i am still missing is the appearance of the drive in the ouput of
> #cdrecord -scanbus. so i can not access it for writing cds.
>
> thanks anyway
> rolf
>
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dist-upgrade deletes postgresql data!

[Andrew Perrin]

I did a dist-upgrade yesterday in order to move to sarge, which I needed
for various reasons. Part of the upgrade included a postgresql upgrade,
which was fine; the dialog asked if I wanted to save backups, I said yes,
and put them in /data0/backups/postgres.  Now none of my databases are
there:

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ psql auth
psql: FATAL:  Database "auth" does not exist in the system catalog.


and nothing's in the backup location:

perrin:/var/log/postgresql# ls -la /data0/backups/postgres/
total 12
drwxrwxrwx3 root root 4096 Oct 28 10:46 .
drwxrwxrwx9 root root 4096 Oct 28 10:45 ..
drwxrwxrwx2 root root 4096 Oct 28 10:46 preserve
perrin:/var/log/postgresql# ls -la /data0/backups/postgres/preserve/
total 8
drwxrwxrwx2 root root 4096 Oct 28 10:46 .
drwxrwxrwx3 root root 4096 Oct 28 10:46 ..




HELP! Can anyone shed light on what's happened?

Thanks.

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Re: dist-upgrade deletes postgresql data!

[Andrew Perrin]

Never mind -- somehow I got the directory wrong; it was in
/data0/postgres.

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On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, Andrew Perrin wrote:

> I did a dist-upgrade yesterday in order to move to sarge, which I needed
> for various reasons. Part of the upgrade included a postgresql upgrade,
> which was fine; the dialog asked if I wanted to save backups, I said yes,
> and put them in /data0/backups/postgres.  Now none of my databases are
> there:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ psql auth
> psql: FATAL:  Database "auth" does not exist in the system catalog.
>
>
> and nothing's in the backup location:
>
> perrin:/var/log/postgresql# ls -la /data0/backups/postgres/
> total 12
> drwxrwxrwx3 root root 4096 Oct 28 10:46 .
> drwxrwxrwx9 root root 4096 Oct 28 10:45 ..
> drwxrwxrwx2 root root 4096 Oct 28 10:46 preserve
> perrin:/var/log/postgresql# ls -la /data0/backups/postgres/preserve/
> total 8
> drwxrwxrwx2 root root 4096 Oct 28 10:46 .
> drwxrwxrwx3 root root 4096 Oct 28 10:46 ..
>
>
>
>
> HELP! Can anyone shed light on what's happened?
>
> Thanks.
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Re: [OT] deleting pictures from digital camera via computer?

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Works fine for me on an HP digital camera with exactly the same path
structure.  I usually just mv the pictures and the camera figures it out.
It also works the other way: if I copy a .jpg picture to the camera it
ends up in the camera's stack and can be viewed on the internal LCD.

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On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, Kevin B. McCarty wrote:

> Hi all,
> I am using a Nikon CoolPix 3100 digital camera.  It is pretty easy to set
> up in Debian unstable.  It doesn't seem to be supported by gphoto2 or
> gtkam, but one can mount it as a USB mass storage device after installing
> hotplug, following the directions at this page:
>
> http://home.gagme.com/greg/linux/usbcamera.php
>
> Here is my question.  Once the camera is mounted (in my case, I put it at
> /mnt/camera), I can see the pictures here: /mnt/camera/dcim/100nikon/*.jpg
> If I want to delete them, can I just do "rm -f /mnt/camera/dcim/100nikon/*.jpg"
> or would this cause an internal database of the camera to get out of sync
> with the pictures actually present?  For obvious reasons I don't want to
> try this experiment myself so I'm hoping someone knows the answer.
>
> If it's safe to do this, it would be more convenient than going through
> the camera's menu screens to delete the pictures after they're safely on
> my hard disk.
>
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>
> thanks and regards,
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Any simple way to add modules w/o recompiling the kernel?

[Andrew Perrin]

Greetings-

In expectation of a new palm pilot arriving soon, I need to add two
modules to my system: usbserial and visor.  What I've done in the past is
to do a make menuconfig; select the new modules; make-kpkg clean;
make-kpkg --revision xx kernel_image; make-kpkg modules_image; cd
/usr/src; dpkg -i *xx*deb; cd alc650; make install

This is quite cumbersome and can take several hours from start to finish,
even on my moderately fast machine. Is there some shortcut for adding
modules to an installation whose kernel structure will stay basically the
same?

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Openafs woes

[Andrew Perrin]

Greetings-

I'm running debian woody on a home machine that's behind an NAT
masquerader (also woody). The home machine runs the OpenAFS client to
connect to the UNC campus's AFS shared directory space. Generally this
works fine, but there's one situation that consistently causes a problem.

The scenario is this:
1.) Cable modem service dies while a file in the AFS space is open
(usually a perl or latex file in emacs).
2.) Cable modem service returns, and IP connectivity is fine (including to
the AFS server).. BUT
3.) attempting to access files and directories in the AFS space results in
"no such file or directory."
4.) tokens reports appropriate kerberos tokens for the user
5.) klog lets me create new tokens seamlessly, but none of this allows for
actually accessing the AFS space.
6.) I can umount /afs (as root) but can't remount it. If I try
/etc/init.d/openafs-client start, I get "I/O error."  If I try restart,
the system hangs completely, requiring a cold reboot (power cycle).

Does anyone know a solution or workaround for this?

Using OpenAFS 1.2.5-1, kernel 2.4.18 (custom).

Thanks.

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Re: Openafs woes

[Andrew Perrin]

Thanks for your response. My experience is, in general, that even
long-idle AFS mounts work fine across NAT; the only time this has caused a
problem is when there's a documented drop in connectivity between the
firewall and the AFS server.

I'll work on fs checks and fs flush next time this happens.

As much as I like AFS, I'm impressed that it's really the only reason I
ever have to reboot my machine -- /etc/init.d/openafs-client restart
doesn't work, nor does stop, nor does umount /afs.  That seems like a flaw
in the implementation -- it ought to be possible to stop and restart the
service without a reboot!

Thanks for the nitpick - just reminds me that I don't really understand
the technology I'm using

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On Thu, 23 Jan 2003, David Z Maze wrote:

> Andrew Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > I'm running debian woody on a home machine that's behind an NAT
> > masquerader (also woody). The home machine runs the OpenAFS client
> > to connect to the UNC campus's AFS shared directory space. Generally
> > this works fine, but there's one situation that consistently causes
> > a problem.
> 
> What I've been told around here is that AFS over a NAT will maybe
> probably work, if you don't have too much load and don't let it sit
> idle too long, and that you can vaguely expect to lose randomly.
> 
> > The scenario is this:
> > 1.) Cable modem service dies while a file in the AFS space is open
> > (usually a perl or latex file in emacs).
> > 2.) Cable modem service returns, and IP connectivity is fine (including to
> > the AFS server).. BUT
> > 3.) attempting to access files and directories in the AFS space results in
> > "no such file or directory."
> 
> At this point, you might try running 'fs checks' to see if your local
> AFS client believes the world exists.  Variations on 'fs flush .'
> might help too.
> 
> > 4.) tokens reports appropriate kerberos tokens for the user
> > 5.) klog lets me create new tokens seamlessly, but none of this allows for
> > actually accessing the AFS space.
> 
> Being nitpicky, Kerberos tickets, AFS tokens.  :-)  If your site
> doesn't use kaserver (UNC it appears does) but you do use krb5, you
> need to remember to get addressless tickets with 'kinit -A' before
> getting tokens using aklog.  But this doesn't actually apply to you.
> 
> > 6.) I can umount /afs (as root) but can't remount it. If I try
> > /etc/init.d/openafs-client start, I get "I/O error."  If I try restart,
> > the system hangs completely, requiring a cold reboot (power cycle).
> 
> Stopping and restarting the AFS subsystem has never worked well for
> me.  I'd never try to just unmount /afs, always run
> /etc/init.d/openafs-client stop, but there's no guarantee that it'll
> happily restart without a reboot.  :-(
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Re: Missing a PERL module called 'concat'

[Andrew Perrin]

Where is the "concat" function supposed to come from? The error you
reference means that, on line 31 of the script, you call a function called
"concat".  Perl assumes that unqualified function names are in the main
namespace, which is why it looks for &main::concat : & refers to a
function, main to the namespace, and :: separates the identifier from the
namespace.

I know of no standard Perl concat function or library. Can you post the
area of the script around line 31?

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On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, Keith Steensma wrote:

> I've installed a very minimum Debian 'testing' system.
> 
> I trying to run a perl script that uses a 'concat' function.  I can't 
> find it as a built-in function of the language nor can I find it in the 
> Debian packages list.
> 
> The error is -
> Undefined subroutine &main::concat called at ./mbox2maildir.pl line 31.
> 
> I've tried to form it into 'libmain-concat-perl' and various other 
> wording combinations (for the Debian package search).  I tried another 
> script that does the same thing, but I got the same type of error (no 
> 'concat').  Neither script homepages have any mention of 'something 
> special' so I assume that it a 'standard' in other distributions (but 
> not Debian).
> 
> Anyone have a suggestion?  Keith
> 
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Re: Tips for moving to XEmacs

[Andrew Perrin]

For Perl, definitely install and use cperl-mode, which will let you do
lots of work with brace matching and indenting.  I like syntax
highlighting, but you can always turn it off by not invoking
global-font-lock-mode.

Best,
Andy

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On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, Bill Moseley wrote:

> 
> Argh, how many times have I attempted this move!
> 
> I'd like to make a push to move to XEmacs as my main editor (from a
> Windows editor Program File Editor).  It's hard to move to a new editor
> with a large learning curve when there's work to be done.
> 
> I edit mostly C and Perl code.
> 
> I'm looking for tips to help in my change over.
> 
> To keep this somewhat on-topic (e.g. debian), I've installed 
> 
> $ dpkg -l | grep emacs
> ii  emacsen-common 1.4.15 Common facilities for all emacsen.
> ii  xemacs21   21.4.6-8   Editor and kitchen sink
> ii  xemacs21-bases 2002.03.29-1   Editor and kitchen sink -- compiled  elisp su
> ii  xemacs21-bin   21.4.6-8   Editor and kitchen sink -- support binaries
> ii  xemacs21-nomul 21.4.6-8   Editor and kitchen sink -- Non-mule binary
> ii  xemacs21-suppo 21.4.6-8   Editor and kitchen sink -- architecture inde
> 
> is there anything else I should install for editing C and Perl?
> 
> There's lots of Emacs tutorials found by Google.  Any recommendations on
> ones you might have found most useful?
> 
> The tips I need to help me start using Emacs are in basic configuration
> (these are mostly common functions of my old editor that I can't live
> without):
> 
> - I don't want long lines to wrap with the U-turn arrow at the end, I want
> a scroll bar.
> 
> - I want tab to insert spaces instead of tabs, and each indent is to the
> next 4 char column.
> 
> - I'm not a fan of syntax highlighting.  Maybe I should be.
> 
> - I need to be able to find matching braces (find the start of end of the
> current block)
> 
> - I need to be able to indent and un-indent a block of text.
> 
> - Auto-indent/un-indent, of course, plus smart indenting when I open a new
> brace.
> 
> 
> - How do I get my button 4 and 5 to scroll (the mouse wheel works in other
> programs)?
> 
> - I'd like to have black on white text, and a smaller font in the buffers.
> 
> Is is sacrilegious to want the cut/copy/paste keys to be mapped to the
> common C-c C-x and C-v keys?  I guess that would break a lot in emacs.
> 
> 
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Re: find a command i have recently used in bash

[Andrew Perrin]

Sure - to complete the prior command beginning with ls, do:

!ls

which will re-execute the last comment beginning with "ls".

If you need finer-grained history, use the command:

history

which will let you copy-and-paste a prior command.

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On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, Mike Dresser wrote:

> On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote:
> 
> > now, i want to use that ls command again. is there a way inwhich i can
> > reach it quickly? for instance, i type ls and some other key and bash
> > completes from history?
> 
> well, if nothing else, you can hit up a few times and it'll scroll through
> your command history.
> 
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SCSI CD-ROM disappeared

[Andrew Perrin]

I discovered this while trying to get sound working on my desktop
machine. Basically, a SCSI CD-RW that once worked has simply stopped
working, as far as I can tell.

Details: the SCSI card is:
00:0a.0 SCSI storage controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic (formerly
NCR) 53c810 (rev 23)
Subsystem: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic (formerly NCR) 8100S
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 11
I/O ports at d000 [size=256]
Memory at e200 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 1


and the CD-RW is an HP CD-Writer:
joehill:/dev# cat /proc/scsi/scsi
Attached devices: 
Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 04 Lun: 00
  Vendor: IOMEGA   Model: ZIP 100  Rev: E.03
  Type:   Direct-AccessANSI SCSI revision: 02
Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 06 Lun: 00
  Vendor: HP   Model: CD-Writer+ 9200  Rev: 1.0c
  Type:   CD-ROM   ANSI SCSI revision: 04


I have used it before, both for writing and reading, on this machine so I
know it works adequately. But I can't mount:

joehill:/dev# mount /dev/cdrom /cdrom 
mount: /dev/cdrom is not a valid block device
joehill:/dev# mount /dev/scd0 /cdrom
mount: /dev/scd0 is not a valid block device
joehill:/dev#  mount /dev/sr0 /cdrom/
mount: /dev/sr0 is not a valid block device
joehill:/dev# mount /dev/sr1 /cdrom/
mount: /dev/sr1 is not a valid block device


Two questions:
1.) The small question: how can I tell what device (/dev/*) a given SCSI
device is attached to?
2.) The big question: what should I do to diagnose this?

Thanks.


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How crazy is it to run 2.4.20 on woody?

[Andrew Perrin]

Greetings-

I'd like to use kernel 2.4.20 because (apparently) it drives my machine's
built-in sound
ref: 
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&threadm=20021218232653.45c6eac7.cgrimland%40yahoo.com.lucky.linux.kernel&rnum=6&prev=/groups%3Fhl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26oe%3DUTF-8%26q%3Dgigabyte%2Bga-7vax%2Blinux%2Bsound%26sa%3DN%26tab%3Dwg

But I don't want to upgrade to testing or unstable in general. How crazy
is it to do this? What will I break? (I'm comfortable self-compiling
kernels.)

If I do it, is the best way to download kernel-source-2.4.20.deb and then
do a dpkg -i locally, or should I tweak /etc/apt/sources.list?

Thanks.

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Re: [OT] Learning PERL

[Andrew Perrin]

A standard is "Learning Perl"
(http://www.bookpool.com/.x/h6ph9apwz1/sm/0596001320)


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On Fri, 31 Jan 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> Hi,
>I know this is slightly off-topic but it's definitely related to
> virtually all Un*xen I've ever come across. I have a colleague who has
> never used a *real* OS but now as part of his job he has to. A few times
> I've come across him doing things like find/replace over and over in nedit
> to change every occurrence of fred for wilma for example. I've quickly
> shown him how to PERL it on those occasions. He's finally starting to get
> it and has asked me if I know of a good book for learning PERL for a
> complete beginner - I let him borrow my Camel (Programming PERL to those
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> 
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Re: LaTex editor

[Andrew Perrin]

Emacs... what else is there? (ducks)

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On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, ian wrote:

> Hi all,
> I would like to know a good TEX editor...any recommendations?
> ian
> 
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Re: envelopes in TeX

[Andrew Perrin]

Check out the envlab package; usage:

\documentclass{letter}
\usepackage[businessenvelope,noprintreturnaddress,nocapaddress]{envlab}
...
\makelabels
\begin{document}
\begin{letter}{}

\end{letter}
\end{document}

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On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, Nori Heikkinen wrote:

> i'm starting to send out resumes and cover letters &c., and want to
> print pretty envelopes in TeX.  should i not bother, and just do it on
> a public printer running windoze on campus?  or is there a package i
> can easily use to print my envelopes to match my letters?
> 
> tia,
> 
> 
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Re: envelopes in TeX

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On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, Nori Heikkinen wrote:

> on Tue, 11 Feb 2003 06:37:53PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson insinuated:
> [snip] 
> speaking of configuring -- where should the .sty file go?  i tried
> just putting the whole envlab directory in /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/
> -- and i made all the permissions world-readable and all that -- but
> the latex compiler doesn't like it unless i put the .sty file in the
> current directory.
> 

You need to run texhash (probably as root) after putting it there. (You
can also create a texmf.local in /usr/share, put it there, and tun texhash
if you like.)  For reasons I don't entirely understand, (La)TeX uses
pre-hashed directory trees instead of searching on the fly.  See man
kpsepath for more information.

> [snip]
> turns out, the CS lab at school has two laser printers hooked up to
> all their lovely UNIX machines -- no need to export farther than ps :)
> 

Yay Swarthmore!

> thanks for all the advice!  my envelopes look beautiful.  now i just
> need a job ... :)
> 

Good luck!

Andy Perrin (Swat '93)

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Re: SoundChip Realtek ALC650

[Andrew Perrin]

I have the same motherboard, and have not managed (so far) to make it
work. This is my lspci -vv for it:

00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. AC97 Audio
Controller (rev 50)
Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology: Unknown device a002
Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop-
ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort-
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On Wed, 12 Feb 2003, Gemini wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I recently bought a motherboard Gigabyte GA-7VA, which had an intergrated 
> audio device. According to its documentation, it is a chipset Realtek ALC650.
> 
> I do not manage to have any sound from it as I found no driver that could 
> correspond to that card. Also, I did not find anything about it in this 
> mailing list archive, only about Realtek network cards ;-)
> 
> Could anyone help me on that issue ?? What shall I use to have this sound chip 
> working ?
> 
> Gemini
> 
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Re: SoundChip Realtek ALC650 [Solved]

[Andrew Perrin]

Thank you for this - it got me further than I had been before. But I still
have no sound.

When I used the modules.conf you suggested, I got "Intel ICH Audio Card
Not Found".  But if I switch to uncomment the snd-via82xx line, the
modules load perfectly, and I'm able to run the alsamixer correctly. But
if I enable all the items in the mixer and then try to run alsaplayer, no
audio comes out of the speakers. The player seems to "think" it's working,
but there's no sound.

mpg123 replies:
aperrin@joehill:/afs$ mpg123 -a /proc/asound/dev/pcmC0D0c ~/hcc.mp3
High Performance MPEG 1.0/2.0/2.5 Audio Player for Layer 1, 2 and 3.
Version 0.59r (1999/Jun/15). Written and copyrights by Michael Hipp.
Uses code from various people. See 'README' for more!
THIS SOFTWARE COMES WITH ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY! USE AT YOUR OWN RISK!
Can't reset audio!
Can't reset audio!

Directory: /home/aperrin/
Playing MPEG stream from hcc.mp3 ...
MPEG 1.0 layer III, 128 kbit/s, 44100 Hz dual-channel
No supported rate found!




Any advice?  I'd rather not surrender and install another sound card.

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On Wed, 12 Feb 2003, Gemini wrote:

> Hi again,
> 
> I admit I did not even try the RealTek website for the drivers. It is so rare 
> to find Free drivers on its manufacturer web site that I did not even try.
> 
> Well, so as far as I understood, in fact they are just using the drivers 
> provided in the ALSA project. So I guess the drivers are free.
> In order to make my soundcard work, I just followed the instructions they 
> gave. Here they are : 
> 
> Step 1. You must have full configured source for the Linux kernel.
> 
> Step 2. Uncompress the source code
> a. tar xfvj alcsound.tar.bz2
>   or  b. unbzip2 alcsound.tar.bz2
>   tar -xvf alcsound.tar
> 
> Step 3. Turn on sound support (soundcore module)
> 
> Step 4. Complied source code
>   a. ./Configure
>   b. make install
>   c. ./snddevices
> 
> Step 5. Edit your /etc/modules.conf or conf.modules depending on the 
> Distribution
>   (Please refer to the attached modules.conf)
> 
> Step 6. reboot your machine
> 
> About the attached module.conf file, I provide a copy here for more 
> convenience : 
> 
> #alias sound-slot-0 via82cxxx_audio   //remark this line, this is default audio 
> driver
> 
> #== added those lines =
> alias char-major-116 snd
> options snd major=116 cards_limit=1
> 
> #--- Intel 8x0  and SiS 7012 --
> alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0
> options snd-intel8x0 index=0 id="ICH"
> #--- Via8233  and Via686A/B ---
> #alias snd-card-0 snd-via82xx
> #options snd-via82xx index=0 id="VIA"
> #--
> 
> alias char-major-14 soundcore
> alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0
> alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
> alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
> alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
> alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
> alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss
> #=
> post-install sound-slot-0 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -L >/dev/null 
> 2>&1 || :
> pre-remove sound-slot-0 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -S >/dev/null 2>&1 
> || :
> 
> Please not that all mixer channels are muted by default. You must use a native 
> or OSS mixer program to unmute appropriate channels.
> 
> And it is now working fine :-). Well it is not working with KDE yet but I 
> guess it is because I have not installed the arts-Alsa drivers so it should 
> be working soon.
> 
> Hope this will help other people in my case.
> 
> Le Mercredi 12 Février 2003 16:04, Gemini a écrit :
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I recently bought a motherboard Gigabyte GA-7VA, which had an intergrated
> > audio device. According to its documentation, it is a chipset Realtek
> > ALC650.
> >
> > I do not manage to have any sound from it as I found no driver that could
> > correspond to that card. Also, I did not find anything about it in this
> > mailing list archive, only about Realtek network cards ;-)
> >
> > Could anyone help me on that issue ?? What shall I use to have this sound
> > chip working ?
> >
> > Gemini
> 
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Re: SoundChip Realtek ALC650 [Solved]

[Andrew Perrin]

Can you tell me exactly what you do to play audio (any audio would be fine
at this point, just to show it's working)?  Thanks.

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On Thu, 13 Feb 2003, Gemini wrote:

> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
> Hash: SHA1
> 
> Le Jeudi 13 Février 2003 18:55, Andrew Perrin a écrit :
> > Thank you for this - it got me further than I had been before. But I still
> > have no sound.
> >
> > Any advice?  I'd rather not surrender and install another sound card.
> 
> Here is my sound file that I put in the /etc/modutils to add the support of my 
> sound card.
> I am using the VIA module as my motherboard is using a VIA KT400 chipset. 
> Since the have the same as me, I think is is normal that it did not work for 
> you with the Intel module :-)) Have you deleted all the lines related to 
> Intel ?? Anyway check my file. These are all the lines I added to make my 
> sound card work. 
> I created a file name 'snd' (anyname is ok I think) in the directory 
> /etc/modutils and then I ran the command 'update-modules' so that all the 
> lines contained in this file were added to my '/etc/modules.conf file'. 
> That's it to make a working module configuration. 
> 
> 
> alias char-major-116 snd
> options snd major=116 cards_limit=1
> #--- Via8233  and Via686A/B ---
> alias snd-card-0 snd-via82xx
> options snd-via82xx index=0 id="VIA"
> #--
> alias char-major-14 soundcore
> alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0
> alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
> alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
> alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
> alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
> alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss
> #=
> post-install sound-slot-0 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -L >/dev/null 
> 2>&1 || :
> pre-remove sound-slot-0 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -S >/dev/null 2>&1 
> || :
> 
> Hope this helps you better. It worked fine for me.
> 
> Gemini
> -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-
> Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux)
> 
> iEYEARECAAYFAj5L+QAACgkQA5xDj5PCHvIsJQCfVCIrS5BVgsC0lPdth7Q2X1BC
> F/IAoIEB5ovMUwvwHAeaLJ7UVmZBKeqD
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Stumped: openAFS client "Connection Timed Out"

[Andrew Perrin]

I have a home network that includes a linux machine using iptables to NAT
packets from three user machines: a laptop (debian 3.0, 2.4.18 kernel), a
desktop (debian 3.0, 2.4.20 kernel) and a windows machine. The two debian
machines run openAFS clients to connect to UNC's AFS servers.

This setup has worked fine for quite some time now. Sometime in the past
two weeks, though, it's stopped working for the debian desktop, but it
still works fine for the debian laptop.  I'm fresh out of ideas, and would
appreciate some pointers.

The symptom is simple:
aperrin@joehill:~$ ls -lad afshome
lrwxrwxrwx1 aperrin  aperrin34 Oct 17 14:11 afshome ->
 /afs/isis.unc.edu/home/a/p/aperrin
aperrin@joehill:~$ cd afshome
bash: cd: afshome: Connection timed out


Same happens if I go directly *to that directory*:
aperrin@joehill:~$ cd /afs/@cell/home/a/p/aperrin
bash: cd: /afs/@cell/home/a/p/aperrin: Connection timed out


But not if I go to the parent directory:
aperrin@joehill:~$ cd /afs/@cell/home/a/p
aperrin@joehill:/afs/@cell/home/a/p$ 


Notice that it's not just my home directory:
aperrin@joehill:/afs/@cell/home/a/p$ ls
ls: apackouz: Connection timed out
ls: apendyal: Connection timed out
ls: apickett: Connection timed out
ls: apperson: Connection timed out
ls: aphenry: Connection timed out
ls: apedrett: Connection timed out
ls: apyles: Connection timed out
ls: apowens: Connection timed out
ls: aprovost: Connection timed out
ls: apjordan: Connection timed out
ls: apalmer1: Connection timed out
ls: apharris: Connection timed out
ls: apoe: Connection timed out
ls: aprilnee: Connection timed out
ls: aplonk: Connection timed out
ls: appi: Connection timed out
ls: apatel23: Connection timed out
ls: apescato: Connection timed out
ls: apca: Connection timed out
ls: apghosh: Connection timed out
apacker   apathak   apeayapersson  apickard  apollard  aprange
aprout
apadams   apaules   apeele   apeters   apierce   apolychr  apresler
apruitt
apadroapaulsen  apeery   apeterso  apinnix   aponteapresley  aps
apai  apayneapei apettifo  apiranaponton   apribisk
apsrbook
apalmer   apb   apence   apfields  apirzade  apostros  apriceapugh
apalwai   apbowers  apenney  apgar apittman  apottle   apriest
apurdee
aparesapcookaperez   aphaber   apjones   apowers   apriljoy
apwells
aparikh   apcurtis  aperou   aphalej   apkarian  apparao   aprillew
aparrish  apeacock  aperrin  aphayes   apkumar   appatel   aprilr
apartin   apeaseaperry   aphelps1  apleland  appel aprince
apassann  apeat apersky  aphillip  apmorgan  applegat  apropos



And that it works fine from the laptop:
aperrin@simmel:~$ cd /afs/@cell/home/a/p/aperrin
aperrin@simmel:/afs/@cell/home/a/p/aperrin$   


I've tried restarting both the NAT masq'er and the client machine, as well
as using fs flush, with no luck.  Any further advice?

Background:
Both machines are unning openafs-modules-source 1.2.5-1.

Desktop: 
joehill:~# uname -a
Linux joehill 2.4.20 #1 Sat Feb 15 14:51:12 EST 2003 i686 unknown
joehill:~# modinfo openafs
filename:/lib/modules/2.4.20/fs/openafs.o
description: 
author:  
license: 

Laptop:
simmel:~# uname -a
Linux simmel 2.4.18 #1 Thu Jan 9 10:50:33 EST 2003 i686 unknown
simmel:~# modinfo openafs
filename:/lib/modules/2.4.18/fs/openafs.o
description: 
author:  
license: 


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apt-get Ign: why?

[Andrew Perrin]

I'm trying to upgrade openAFS to 1.2.8 (the newest version) by following
the directions at
http://www.openafs.org/dl/openafs/1.2.8/debian-3.0/README .

I've changed the appropriate lines in my /etc/apt/sources.list file, but
when I try apt-get update I get:

joehill:~# apt-get update
Hit http://www.phy.olemiss.edu woody/main Packages
Hit http://www.phy.olemiss.edu woody/main Release
Hit http://www.phy.olemiss.edu woody/contrib Packages
Hit http://www.phy.olemiss.edu woody/contrib Release
Hit http://distro.ibiblio.org stable/main Packages 
Hit http://distro.ibiblio.org stable/main Release  
Hit http://distro.ibiblio.org stable/contrib Packages  
Hit http://distro.ibiblio.org stable/contrib Release   
Hit http://distro.ibiblio.org stable/non-free Packages 
Hit http://distro.ibiblio.org stable/non-free Release  
Hit http://http.us.debian.org stable/main Packages 
Hit http://http.us.debian.org stable/main Release  
Hit http://http.us.debian.org stable/contrib Packages  
Hit http://http.us.debian.org stable/contrib Release   
Hit http://http.us.debian.org stable/non-free Packages 
Hit http://http.us.debian.org stable/non-free Release  
Hit http://http.us.debian.org stable/main Sources  
Hit http://http.us.debian.org stable/main Release  
Hit http://http.us.debian.org stable/contrib Sources   
Hit http://http.us.debian.org stable/contrib Release   
Hit http://http.us.debian.org stable/non-free Sources  
Hit http://http.us.debian.org stable/non-free Release
Hit http://security.debian.org stable/updates/main Packages  
Hit http://security.debian.org stable/updates/main Release
Hit http://security.debian.org stable/updates/contrib Packages
Hit http://security.debian.org stable/updates/contrib Release
Hit http://security.debian.org stable/updates/non-free Packages
Hit http://security.debian.org stable/updates/non-free Release
Hit http://www.openafs.org debian-3.0/ Sources
Ign http://www.openafs.org debian-3.0/ Release
Hit http://www.openafs.org debian-3.0/ Packages
Ign http://www.openafs.org debian-3.0/ Release
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done


Note the Ign... lines for both openafs.org entries. Can anyone explain why
these are being ignored? I can find no documentation about it.

Thanks.

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Intel 10/100 VE and eepro100

[Andrew Perrin]

Greetings-

Setting up a new computer (an IBM NetVista) that has an Intel 10/100 VE
adapter built in, I'm unable to use a net install.

What I did was to burn a CD with the vanilla kernel setup, and boot to it.
I can boot fine, but when I try to load the eepro100 module, I get
"init_module: no such device" or "init_module: device or resource busy".
Without that, I can't start the network, so I can't do the net install.

Any advice on this? I thought eepro100 would work, even if e100 is
probably the ultimate better choice.  e100 is available only as source, so
I can't use it to do the net install (right?).

/proc/pci shows the adapter as PCI device 8086:1039, IO=0x300, IRQ=20.

Thanks for any advice (including that I should just download complete
ISO's and forget the net install).

Andy

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Re: Intel 10/100 VE and eepro100

[Andrew Perrin]

Unfortunately, I tried 2.4bf with no luck. It includes eepro100, which
fails, but not e100 (as far as I could tell).

Thanks though.

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On Tue, 16 Sep 2003, Rich Puhek wrote:

>
> Andrew Perrin wrote:
>
> > Greetings-
> >
> > Setting up a new computer (an IBM NetVista) that has an Intel 10/100 VE
> > adapter built in, I'm unable to use a net install.
> >
> > What I did was to burn a CD with the vanilla kernel setup, and boot to it.
> > I can boot fine, but when I try to load the eepro100 module, I get
> > "init_module: no such device" or "init_module: device or resource busy".
> > Without that, I can't start the network, so I can't do the net install.
> >
> > Any advice on this? I thought eepro100 would work, even if e100 is
> > probably the ultimate better choice.  e100 is available only as source, so
> > I can't use it to do the net install (right?).
> >
>
> I thought that the 2.4bf image had both? If so, you should be able to do
> the net install that way. Might want to give that a try...
>
> --Rich
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Re: Intel 10/100 VE and eepro100

[Andrew Perrin]

On Sat, 20 Sep 2003, Bob Proulx wrote:

> Andrew Perrin wrote:
> > Unfortunately, I tried 2.4bf with no luck. It includes eepro100, which
> > fails, but not e100 (as far as I could tell).
>
> The e100 shows up in (at least) the 2.4.20 and later kernels.  It is a
> module and you would need to load it in /etc/modules.  The 2.4.18
> kernel did not have it.  Don't know about 2.4.19.
>
> Bob
>

Yes, it's available in 2.4.20 as an option, but that doesn't help in order
to do a net install.  What I ended up doing was burning a set of install
CDs, doing enough of an install from CD's to compile a kernel, and then
installing a custom 2.4.20 kernel with e100 built in and using that to do
the rest of the install. More cumbersome than I'd like (and embarrassing,
after bragging to my colleagues about the ease of a debian net install)
but not so bad.

ap

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Re: Procmailrc to play sound async when message arrives

[Andrew Perrin]

There's probably an easier way than this, but you could use perl to fork()
the bplay processes, so they don't block.

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On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> I'm a procmail newb.  I've written a recipie to play a WAV when a
> message arrives.  It works, it sounds nice, but it's synchronous:
>
> :0 c
> * ^X-Mailing-List:.*lists.debian.org*
> | /usr/bin/bplay /x/x/click_x.wav
>
> Since this WAV takes ~1 sec to play, procmail blocks 1 sec per message.
> It ends up taking a long time with a bunch of messages.
>
> Is there any way I can make the clicks "overlap" with multiple messages
> (cl-cl-cl-cl-click vs click.pause.click.pause.click.pause.click) and the
> whole process to run asynchronously to procmail?
>
> Thanks
> -Tom
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Re: Games for 1-2 year old child. Recommendations wanted.

[Andrew Perrin]

On Sun, 5 Oct 2003, Bengt Thure'e wrote:

> Thanks, but it sort of demands an internet connection. I hope I can use
> a very old laptop (Pentium 100), and no internet connection... Just to
> put her somewhere and she can hack and slash at the keyboard... :-)
>

My son has loved emacs for just this application since he was about 11
months old.

ap

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SYSLINUX: Boot Failed installing woody

[Andrew Perrin]

Greetings-

I just built a new machine (AMD XP 2200+, 1G RAM), and I'm trying to do a
network install of woody. I haven't done this, since I haven't inaugurated
a new machine since potato.

I created and verified the rescue, root, and driver floppies, and booted
to the rescue floppy. But on booting, I just get the SYSLINUX line,
followed by "Boot Failed".  

Any ideas where to go?

Thanks.

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libc6 problems

[Andrew Perrin]

I fear I've done something very wrong here. I'm trying to stay up to date,
so I run apt-get update; apt-get upgrade on a regular basis.

This time I paid attention; quite a vew packages were held back, so I
tried to install them. I found that libc6 was old:

ii  libc6  2.2.4-5GNU C Library: Shared libraries and
Timezone


I tried to upgrade, and got:
The following packages have been kept back
  libc6 libc6-dev locales 
...
perrin:/tmp# apt-get install libc6
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Package libc6 has no available version, but exists in the database.
This typically means that the package was mentioned in a dependency and
never uploaded, has been obsoleted or is not available with the contents
of sources.list
However the following packages replace it:
  nscd libdb2 ldso 
E: Package libc6 has no installation candidate


This seems odd, and belied too by http://packages.debian.org/libc6. Any
ideas?

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Re: libc6 problems

[Andrew Perrin]

perrin:/tmp# apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Calculating Upgrade... Done
The following packages have been kept back
  libc6 libc6-dev locales 
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3  not upgraded.


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On Fri, 11 Oct 2002, Seneca wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 03:09:02PM -0400, Andrew Perrin wrote:
> > I fear I've done something very wrong here. I'm trying to stay up to date,
> > so I run apt-get update; apt-get upgrade on a regular basis.
> > 
> > This time I paid attention; quite a vew packages were held back, so I
> > tried to install them. I found that libc6 was old:
> > 
> > ii  libc6  2.2.4-5GNU C Library: Shared libraries and
> > Timezone
> > 
> > 
> > I tried to upgrade, and got:
> > The following packages have been kept back
> >   libc6 libc6-dev locales 
> 
> apt-get dist-upgrade
> 
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Re: libc6 problems

[Andrew Perrin]

On Fri, 11 Oct 2002, Osamu Aoki wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> You need to be more clear on your system configuration (distribution,
> preferences, ...)  but let bme try help you.

Sorry. It's a woody machine, upgraded when woody was testing.  Nothing all
that special about it; it's got a custom-compiled kernel 2.4.18.

> >  ...
>  $ apt-cache policy libc6
> libc6:
>   Installed: 2.2.5-14.3
>   Candidate: 2.2.5-14.3
>   Version Table:
>  2.2.5-15 0
>  70 http://http.us.debian.org unstable/main Packages
>  *** 2.2.5-14.3 0
> 800 http://http.us.debian.org testing/main Packages
> 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
>  2.2.5-11.2 0
> 500 http://security.debian.org stable/updates/main Packages
>  2.2.5-6 0
> 500 http://http.us.debian.org stable/main Packages
> 

Mine says:
perrin:/tmp# apt-cache policy libc6
libc6:
  Installed: 2.2.4-5
  Candidate: (none)
  Package Pin: (not found)
  Version Table:
 2.2.5-11.2 1001
500 http://security.debian.org stable/updates/main Packages
 2.2.5-6 1001
500 http://distro.ibiblio.org stable/main Packages
500 http://http.us.debian.org stable/main Packages
 *** 2.2.4-5 1001
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status


> You are upgrading from potato to woody.  "apt-get dist-upgrade" was what
> is needed but this is known not to be the best way (despite some others
> posted).

Actually I'm not (or at least not currently trying to).  The machine was
upgraded using apt-get dist-upgrade back in December, 2001.

> 
> Installmanual and my "Debian Reference" recommend to use "dselect for
> these occasion.  Just trust us :-)
> 
> # dselect update
> # dselect select
>  ... play with selection
> # dselect install

Something is clearly messed up on this machine. When I do this:

- libc6 shows only the 2.2.4-5 available:
 *** Req base libc62.2.4-5 2.2.4-5 GNU C

- I can't exit select without encountering a host of unresolved
dependencies; I end up having to use Q to get out.

- dselect install then gives:
perrin:/tmp# dselect install
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  abiword abiword-common abiword-gtk ascd asmixer bibview cdrtoaster
  communicator communicator-base-477 communicator-smotif-477 diploma
dpsclient
  dvi2ps-fontdata-bsr dvidvi fortify fortify-linux-x86 fvwm2 fvwmconf
  gs-aladdin-manual gv html2ps jadetex jdk1.1 kivio koffice koshell
  labelnation lib-fop-java lib-xt-java libltdl0-dev libmagick4g-lzw
libplot
  libwmf0 memprof mrproject mswordview netscape-base-4 netscape-base-477
  netscape-java-477 octave-plplot oleo perlmagick plotutils plplot
plplot-doc
  plplot-tcl python-ldap task-tcltk tdtd tk8.0 tk8.2 winesetuptk xlib6
xmix
  xproxy xspread xtranslate 
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  esound-clients fam fvwm-icons gimpprint-locales gnupg-doc imlib-progs
  ipmasqadm iptables jpilot-plugins kernel-image-2.4.18-686 kghostview
  libhtml-format-perl libltdl3-dev libnet-ph-perl libnet-snpp-perl
libnss-db
  libstdc++3 mtr-tiny python-egenix-mxdatetime python-newt
  python2.1-egenix-mxdatetime python2.1-egenix-mxtools texi2html
  util-linux-locales vacation x-ttcidfont-conf 
0 packages upgraded, 26 newly installed, 57 to remove and 3  not upgraded.
Need to get 11.9MB of archives. After unpacking 44.7MB will be freed.


Since I definitely *don't* want to remove all those packages, I abort at
that point.

Clearly I have done something wrong here. Is there an easy way to "clean
up"?

Thanks.

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Re: libc6 problems

[Andrew Perrin]

Usually I do that too. However, in this case I get the "no
candidate" message:

perrin:/tmp#  apt-get install libc6 libc6-dev locales
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Package libc6 has no available version, but exists in the database.
This typically means that the package was mentioned in a dependency and
never uploaded, has been obsoleted or is not available with the contents
of sources.list
However the following packages replace it:
  nscd libdb2 ldso 
E: Package libc6 has no installation candidate


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On 11 Oct 2002, Paul Smith wrote:

> %% Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
>   oa> On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 03:09:02PM -0400, Andrew Perrin wrote:
> 
>   >> I fear I've done something very wrong here. I'm trying to stay up to date,
>   >> so I run apt-get update; apt-get upgrade on a regular basis.
> 
>   >> This time I paid attention; quite a vew packages were held back, so I
>   >> tried to install them. I found that libc6 was old:
> 
>   oa> Installmanual and my "Debian Reference" recommend to use "dselect
>   oa> for these occasion.  Just trust us :-)
> 
> Whenever this happens I just use apt-get install directly:
> 
>   $ apt-get install libc6 libc6-dev locales 
> 
> Usually it will work on "held back" packages, depending on why it was
> held back, and if it doesn't work at least it'll print a bit of info on
> why.
> 
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AFS over ipmasq - does it work?

[Andrew Perrin]

Greetings-

Setting up a new machine, I'm trying to run the openafs client from behind
a firewall.  The machine that is the firewall can use the client fine, but
when I try to start openafs on the machine behind the firewall I get:

joehill:~# /etc/init.d/openafs-client start
Starting AFS services:  afsdfs: Input/output error
.


The openafs module is loaded (version 1.2.5), and I'm running kernel
version 2.4.18, custom-built.

So, two questions:
1.) Is it possible to run an openafs client via NAT? and
2.) If not, is it possible somehow to re-export an AFS filesystem? I'm
thinking then of mounting AFS on the firwall machine and exporting it to
the other machine via NFS.

Thanks.

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Routing doesn't start automatically

[Andrew Perrin]

Greetings-

In setting up my new machine, I've run into an odd problem.  When the
machine boots, the routing table doesn't get restored correctly.  I have
to type the following:

route add 192.168.0.3 eth0
route add default gw 192.168.0.3

in order to use any networking.

Here's my /etc/network/interfaces:
# /etc/network/interfaces -- configuration file for ifup(8), ifdown(8)

# The loopback interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

# The first network card - this entry was created during the Debian
installation
# (network, broadcast and gateway are optional)
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
address 192.168.0.14
netmask 255.255.255.252
network 192.168.0.12
broadcast 192.168.0.15
gateway 192.168.0.3



Any ideas?

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Re: Routing doesn't start automatically

[Andrew Perrin]

Thanks to all who replied - it was indeed carelessness on my part. I
copied the information from my other debian machine, but took it from eth1
(the interface connected to the DSL router) instead of eth0 (the one for
the internal network).

Thanks,
Andy

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On Mon, 14 Oct 2002, Bob Nielsen wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 05:58:46PM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote:
> > > 
> > > # In new Debian installations, this file is deprecated in favour of
> > > # the ifup/ifdown commands (invoked from /etc/init.d/networking), which
> > > # can be configured from the file /etc/network/interfaces.
> > > 
> > > so I guess I'm using an out-of-date method.
> > > 
> > 
> > As I recall this changed in woody, possibly before (I started running
> > woody right after slink was released and don't recall exactly when it
> > changed, but it has been a while.) The old method should still work.
> 
> Make that potato, not slink.
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Re: Project organizer and time-tracking software?

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I haven't used it (yet) but onshore-timesheet looks promising.

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On 15 Oct 2002, Kirk Strauser wrote:

> I'm looking for some software to keep track of open projects, and the time
> I've spent working on each.  I need to be able to track multiple clients and
> multiple projects per client, and easily search for projects that are not
> completed, have been invoiced but haven't paid yet, etc.  I tried using
> PHPGroupware, but it just wasn't quite up to par as of a month or so ago
> (although certainly far better than nothing).
> 
> I don't care if the app is Gnome, KDE, PHP/mod_perl, or Emacs based, as long
> as it works.  Any suggestions?
> -- 
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Re: USB storage (memstick) trouble

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You need to build USB support, either into the kernel or as
modules.  Looks like usb-uhci exists, which means you need to first
load usbcore.  Alternatively, it's possible you have an ohci system.  Try
the following:

insmod usbcore
insmod usb-uhci
insmod usb-ohci
insmod usb-storage

And see what the output is. If no luck, try posting the output of lspci.

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On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, Johannes Graumann wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> Just got my OmniFlash Uno reader for Sony memsticks. Doesn't work and
> scanning through the google archives didn't help me out.
> 
> 'cat /proc/scsi/scsi' gives me
>   Attached devices: 
>   Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
> Vendor: SONY Model: CD-ROM CDU5211   Rev: YYS7
> Type:   CD-ROM   ANSI SCSI revision: 02
>   Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 01 Lun: 00
> Vendor: PLEXTOR  Model: CD-R   PX-W2410A Rev: 1.04
> Type:   CD-ROM   ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> so the usb device is not being seen.
> 
> 'lsmod' gives:
>   Module  Size  Used byNot tainted
>   ide-scsi7488   0 
>   sg 24452   0  (autoclean)
>   binfmt_misc 5636   1 
>   ipt_limit960  11  (autoclean)
>   ipt_state608  13  (autoclean)
>   ipt_LOG 3136  11 
>   ip_conntrack_ftp3200   0  (unused)
>   iptable_mangle  2112   0  (autoclean) (unused)
>   iptable_nat12660   0  (autoclean) (unused)
>   ip_conntrack   12684   3  (autoclean) [ipt_state ip_conntrack_ftp 
>iptable_nat]
>   iptable_filter  1728   1  (autoclean)
>   ip_tables  10432   8  [ipt_limit ipt_state ipt_LOG iptable_mangle 
>iptable_nat iptable_filter]
>   emu10k155712   1 
>   ac97_codec  9568   0  [emu10k1]
>   parport_pc 25704   0  (autoclean) (unused)
>   lp  6912   0  (autoclean)
>   parport21728   0  (autoclean) [parport_pc lp]
>   sound  52876   0  [emu10k1]
>   soundcore   3236   7  [emu10k1 sound]
>   eepro100   17264   1 
>   mousedev3776   1 
>   keybdev 1664   0  (unused)
>   input   3072   0  [mousedev keybdev]
> 
> 'modprobe usb-uhci' results in:
>   /lib/modules/2.4.18-bf2.4/kernel/drivers/usb/usb-uhci.o: init_module: No such 
>device
>   Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including 
>invalid IO or IRQ parameters.
> You may find more information in syslog or the output from dmesg
>   /lib/modules/2.4.18-bf2.4/kernel/drivers/usb/usb-uhci.o: insmod 
>/lib/modules/2.4.18-bf2.4/kernel/drivers/usb/usb-uhci.o failed
>   /lib/modules/2.4.18-bf2.4/kernel/drivers/usb/usb-uhci.o: insmod usb-uhci failed
> 
> Can anyone help me with this, please?
> 
> Joh
> 
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Re: USB storage (memstick) trouble

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On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, Johannes Graumann wrote:

> Seems like no luck to me, so here's the lspci output:

I agree.

> 00:00.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-760 [IGD4-1P] System 
>Controller (rev 14)
> 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-760 [IGD4-1P] AGP Bridge
> 00:07.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super South] (rev 40)
> 00:07.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
> 00:07.4 SMBus: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super ACPI] (rev 40)
> 00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82557/8/9 [Ethernet Pro 100] (rev 0c)
> 00:0c.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 (rev 07)
> 00:0c.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Live! MIDI/Game Port (rev 07)
> 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: Matrox Graphics, Inc. MGA G550 AGP (rev 01)
> 
> 


It looks like there's no USB controller attached, unless (as is very
possible) I just don't know what I'm talking about. But I don't see a USB
device, which would explain why you weren't able to load the USB device
driver modules.

Have you ever used the USB port(s) on this machine before, under any OS?

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Re: PCI Card for 2 USB Ports

[Andrew Perrin]

Try it out - plug it into the box, boot up, and do:

lspci

That will give you a listing for the type of card it is; mine gives:
00:02.2 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 7001 (rev 07)
00:02.3 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 7001 (rev 07)


Most controllers are one of two flavors: uhci or ohci.  You could either
try researching which the chip is from above, or just try it:

insmod usbcore
insmod usb-uhci
 (if that errors out, then:
insmod usb-ohci
 )

This all presumes that you have the USB modules built for your kernel; I
think they come with the stock woody kernel, but if you've custom-compiled
you need to make sure they're there.

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On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, Doug MacFarlane wrote:

> 
> My Debian i386 system has no USB ports.
> 
> I picked up a PCI card with 2 USB ports (actually 5 with the bay-mounted
> bezel).  It's from Ratoc systems and is a PCIU2.
> 
> There doesn't seem to be a vendor-provided Linux driver for this.  Google
> and Yahoo both return a ton of Japanese sites . . . .
> 
> Any hope I can make this thing go in my Woody box?  I ran modconf, and didn't
> see any USB-related options . . . 
> 
> TIA
> 
> madmac
> 
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Re: pop server

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What are you trying to do?  telnet pop. 110 tells telnet to find
a machine called "pop.hostname" and connect to port 110, which is
equivalent to the pop3 port. I don't think that's what you're looking for.

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On Fri, 18 Oct 2002, Richard Kimber wrote:

> I'm getting in a bit of a muddle setting up qpopper as a mail server for a
> local pc.
> 
> >From my machine I can do:
> telnet  pop3
> and see how many unread messages there are.
> 
> But if I try
> telnet pop. 110
> I get: could not resolve pop./110: Name or service not known
> 
> and essentially the same message when tried from the networked (windows)
> pc.
> 
> I'd be grateful for some pointers.
> 
> Thanks,
> - Richard.
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Re: pop server

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On Fri, 18 Oct 2002, Richard Kimber wrote:

> On Fri, 18 Oct 2002 13:42:04 -0400 (EDT)
> Andrew Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > What are you trying to do?  telnet pop. 110 tells telnet to
> > find a machine called "pop.hostname" and connect to port 110, which is
> > equivalent to the pop3 port. I don't think that's what you're looking
> > for.
> 
> Well I got that from the man page.

Which one?

> 
> What's not clear to me is what I call the pop server (i.e. what I should
> enter into the mail client's setup as the email server to connect to - my
> ISP's server is called pop.ntlworld.com, and I assumed my local one would
> be called something along the same lines)

No, that's just an (admittedly confusing) convention, to name the machine
after what it does. The pop. in pop.ntlworld.com is part of the machine's
name; the email client is set to contact it at port 110, which is the POP
port.

In your case, say your machine is called "kimber" and you're running a POP
server on it. (Assume, too, that you haven't done anything naughty like
running the POP server on a port other than 110.)  You would then just
tell the mail client to use "kimber" as the email server.

Hope this helps.


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Re: pop server

[Andrew Perrin]

What happens when you try to telnet kimber 110?  If that succeeds, there's
some problem with the setup of your POP server in terms of compatibility
with the client.  If it fails, there's a network problem.

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On Fri, 18 Oct 2002, Richard Kimber wrote:

> On Fri, 18 Oct 2002 15:05:48 -0700
> Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> 
> > If the machine running the pop3 server is properly configured (no TCP 
> > wrappers, no firewall, etc) from some other machine you should be able
> > to:
> > 
> > telnet machine pop3 (whatever the machine's name is).  If this fails but
> > you can do it from the machine running the pop server you have a) a
> > network issue b) an over secure problem (meaning something is protecting
> > the pop server and shouldn't be).
> 
> Well, I tried to pre-empt that sort of problem by opening what I thought
> were the right ports in my firewall (110 tcp/udp).
> 
> I did the same for ftp, and that works OK.
> 
> What else might it be?
> 
> - Richard.
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Re: USB storage (memstick) trouble

[Andrew Perrin]

Check /var/log/messages and /var/log/syslog as the device is plugged into,
and removed from, the USB port. That sometimes provides clues as to what
the drivers are doing.

Also check /proc/bus/usb for information on what's being seen.

I've never used a digital camera so don't have anything more specific than
that to say.

You are using kernel 2.4.x, right? usb-storage was lousy in 2.2.x.

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On Fri, 18 Oct 2002, Kevin Coyner wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 06:22:41PM -0700, Johannes Graumann wrote..
> 
> > The Bios cut it - enabling the tw USB controlers and adding 
> > /dev/sda1   /usbfd  autonoauto,user 0   0
> > to /etc/fstab was all it took in the end - could have had this earlyer, but
> > this way I got to communicate ... thanks for the help!
> 
> I've followed this thread hoping it would help me get my Sony DSC-F707
> connected to my Debian 3.0 via the USB cord between computer and camera.
> 
> So far though, no luck.  Here's my lspci:
> 
> sakura:/dev# lspci
> 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82850 850 (Tehama) Chipset Host Bridge (MCH) (rev 
>02)
> 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82850 850 (Tehama) Chipset AGP Bridge (rev 02)
> 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801BA/CA PCI Bridge (rev 02)
> 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801BA ISA Bridge (LPC) (rev 02)
> 00:1f.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801BA/BAM USB (Hub #1) (rev 02)
> 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp. 82801BA/BAM SMBus (rev 02)
> 00:1f.4 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801BA/BAM USB (Hub #2) (rev 02)
> 00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801BA/BAM AC'97 Audio (rev 02)
> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Matrox Graphics, Inc. MGA G550 AGP (rev 01)
> 02:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82801BA/BAM/CA/CAM Ethernet Controller (rev 
>01)
> 02:09.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 (rev 07)
> 02:09.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Live! MIDI/Game Port (rev 07)
> 02:0b.0 Unknown mass storage controller: American Megatrends Inc. MegaRAID 428 Ultra 
>RAID Controller (rev 03)
> 
> and here's the relevant parts of my lsmod:
> 
> usb-storage47872   0  (unused)
> usbmouse1760   0  (unused)
> usb-uhci   20708   0  (unused)
> usbcore48704   0  [usb-storage hid usbmouse usb-uhci wacom]
> input   3328   0  [hid usbmouse wacom]
> scsi_mod   85048   5  (autoclean) [sr_mod usb-storage sg sd_mod megaraid]
> sr_mod 12440   0  (unused)
> cdrom  29344   0  [sr_mod]
> sd_mod 10748   6  (autoclean)
> 
> Again, following the thread, I've made the following entry into my
> /etc/fstab:
> 
> /dev/sda3   /sonyautonoauto,user 0 0
> 
> But here's where I come to a grinding halt.  I've tried mount -a as
> root, but it doesn't pick up the memstick.  
> 
> I've also tried using gtkam, which lists the Sony DSC-F707 as one of the
> supported cameras.  
> 
> Sure would like to dump one of the few remaining reasons to use Windoze,
> so would appreciate any insights.
> 
> Thanks
> Kevin
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Re: OT: Recurring Event library?

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This is not a complete solution, but the Date::Manip module in perl has
some of this in it - you can get, for example, "today - four weeks".

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On Sun, 20 Oct 2002, Josh Rehman wrote:

> This is certainly off topic, but I don't really know where else to turn.
> 
> Is there an open source library, perhaps in Perl or Java, that supports
> the representation and manipulation of date recurrence patterns? We are
> looking to describe patterns like "every Thursday" or "every Tue-Thurs"
> or even "on the first Monday of February". Ideally such a library would
> provide us with a variety of views, including natural language. Anyone
> who has used a PIM knows the thing I am speaking of (Evolution, Outlook,
> etc).
> 
> The brute force approach for this problem is straight-forward and would
> not require a third party library. However, we are looking for an
> efficient implementation that can tell us, for example, whether or not a
> given date satisfies a given pattern. (The brute force approach expands
> the pattern and checks each element for equality with a given date: good
> for patterns that describe small sets, bad for ones that describe larger
> sets).
> 
> Thanks for helping,
> Josh Rehman
> 
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Re: Two Debian 3.0 reviews at Slashdot

[Andrew Perrin]

On Mon, 21 Oct 2002, Jamin W.Collins wrote:

> Without a doubt.  Why not educate your friends about how their PCs work? 
> A fundamental problem today is that people don't understand the "how" and
> "why".  To attempt to protect the user from how a PC operates is IMHO to
> do much more harm than good.

I agree entirely. And I also think that most of the added benefit of linux
over windows is not available if you just run some office suite under X
instead of under windows.  I use linux exclusively because the time it
took me to learn the real tools -- grep, wc, emacs, perl, latex, bash,
etc. -- has paid off in spades when it comes to day-to-day efficiency. But
that logic is obscured when you just use, say, koffice under X instead of
msoffice under windows.


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Re: sending email w/perl

[Andrew Perrin]

On Wed, 23 Oct 2002, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote:

The problem is:

> open(FILE,">eltonjohn.txt");

Here, you open FILE for writing, but then...

> [snip]

>$smtp->datasend(FILE);

Here you try to read from it.

That won't work in any case; you can't read from a writing file handle.

But you also have other problems. From perldoc Net::Cmd:

   datasend ( DATA )
   Send data to the remote server, converting LF to CRLF.
   Any line starting with a '.' will be prefixed with
   another '.'.  "DATA" may be an array or a reference to
   an array.

the datasend() method doesn't take a filehandle, it takes either an array
or a reference to an array.

Here's a better method:

#!/usr/local/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use WWW::Search;
use Net::SMTP;

my @lines;

push(@lines, "Results of a search for Elton John MFSL on ebay\n\n\n\n");
my $oSearch = new WWW::Search('Ebay');
my $sQuery = WWW::Search::escape_query("Elton John MFSL");
$oSearch->native_query($sQuery);
while (my $oResult = $oSearch->next_result())
{ push @lines, $oResult->url . "\n" ; }

my $mailsender = '[EMAIL PROTECTED]';
my $mailserver = 'mail.augustmail.com';

sub Email{
   #passing the parameters
   my ( $subject, $mailto ) = @_;
   my $smtp = Net::SMTP->new($mailserver);
   $smtp->mail($mailsender);
   $smtp->to($mailto);
   $smtp->data();
   $smtp->datasend("Subject: $subject\n");
   $smtp->datasend("To: $mailto\n");
   $smtp->datasend("From: $mailsender\n\n");
   $smtp->datasend(@lines);
   $smtp->datasend();
   $smtp->quit;
 }

Email('Elton John Ebay Results','[EMAIL PROTECTED]');


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Re: Newbie & Debian 3.0 & GeForce4 MX 440

[Andrew Perrin]

Can you post your XFree86Config-4 file? I've got a GF2 card running just
fine under debian 3.0.

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On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, Aedificator wrote:

> Recently i've installed DEbian 3.0 on my PC (512 mb ram, P4 1.6 GHz, GF4 MX 440).
> 
> When trying to run X i get the "no screens found" error. No matter which driver 
>(svga, nv) i choose during the installation process the Xserver fails.
> 
> My system worked fine under Red Hat 7.3 so it's a Debian thing.
> 
> Can anyone help me?
> 
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Why is my load average 3.00?

[Andrew Perrin]

Greetings-

On a new box I just built, the load average has been 3.00 for a couple of
days now, with really no significant work being done.  The box is a pretty
powerful one (AMD XP 2200+, 1GB RAM, plenty of storage) and it's really
not doing anything most of the time - email, mozilla, openoffice, and
emacs usually, except when I run R to do some statistical heavy
lifting. Any idea why it might be at load average of 3.00?  Here's the top
of top:

 21:57:26 up 2 days, 50 min,  5 users,  load average: 3.00, 3.00, 3.00
74 processes: 73 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states:   0.2% user,   1.0% system,   0.0% nice,  98.8% idle
Mem:   1030176K total,   328432K used,   701744K free,19920K buffers
Swap:  1951888K total,0K used,  1951888K free,   150596K cached

  PID USER PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM   TIME COMMAND
  337 root  13 -10  271M  15M  3900 S <   0.5  1.4   0:18 XFree86
13325 root  15   0   960  960   748 R 0.1  0.0   0:00 top
1 root   8   0   488  488   424 S 0.0  0.0   0:03 init
2 root   9   0 00 0 SW0.0  0.0   0:00 keventd
3 root  19  19 00 0 SWN   0.0  0.0   0:00
ksoftirqd_CPU0
4 root   9   0 00 0 SW0.0  0.0   0:00 kswapd
5 root   9   0 00 0 SW0.0  0.0   0:00 bdflush
6 root   9   0 00 0 SW0.0  0.0   0:02 kupdated
   51 root   9   0 00 0 DW0.0  0.0   0:00 khubd
  130 root   9   0 00 0 SW0.0  0.0   0:00 eth0
  135 daemon 9   0   428  428   352 S 0.0  0.0   0:00 portmap
  141 root   9   0 00 0 SW0.0  0.0   0:00 rpciod
  142 root   9   0 00 0 SW0.0  0.0   0:00 lockd
  197 root   9   0   784  784   668 S 0.0  0.0   0:00 syslogd
  200 root   9   0  1172 1172   424 S 0.0  0.1   0:00 klogd
  207 root   9   0   692  692   596 S 0.0  0.0   0:00 rpc.statd
  210 dictd  9   0 10084 9.8M  9080 S 0.0  0.9   0:00 dictd
  218 root   8   0   760  760   676 S 0.0  0.0   0:00 inetd
  223 root   9   0   744  744   652 S 0.0  0.0   0:00 lpd
  261 postgres   8   0  1692 1692  1612 S 0.0  0.1   0:00 postmaster
  263 postgres   9   0  1672 1672  1620 S 0.0  0.1   0:00 postmaster
  264 postgres   9   0  1728 1728  1624 S 0.0  0.1   0:00 postmaster
  273 root   9   0  1236 1236   796 S 0.0  0.1   0:00 nmbd
  275 root   9   0  1244 1244   772 S 0.0  0.1   0:00 smbd
  281 root   8   0  1276 1276  1064 S 0.0  0.1   0:00 sshd


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lm-sensors and lm78 chip

[Andrew Perrin]

Greetings-

I'm trying to get lm-sensors to work, mainly to monitor the CPU
temperature in my machine.  I know the chip is an lm78, as reported by the
following output from sensors-detect:

Probing for `National Semiconductor LM78'
  Trying address 0x0290... Success!
(confidence 7, driver `lm78')
Probing for `National Semiconductor LM78-J'
  Trying address 0x0290... Failed!
Probing for `National Semiconductor LM79'
  Trying address 0x0290... Failed!
Probing for `Winbond W83781D'
  Trying address 0x0290... Failed!
Probing for `Winbond W83782D'
  Trying address 0x0290... Failed!
Probing for `Winbond W83627HF'
  Trying address 0x0290... Failed!
Probing for `Winbond W83697HF'
  Trying address 0x0290... Failed!
Probing for `Silicon Integrated Systems SIS5595'
  Trying general detect... Failed!
Probing for `VIA Technologies VT 82C686 Integrated Sensors'
  Trying general detect... Failed!
Probing for `ITE IT8705F / IT8712F / SiS 950'
  Trying address 0x0290... Success!
(confidence 7, driver `it87')


But trying to load the modules turns out to be impossible:
joehill:~# modprobe i2c-isa
modprobe: Can't locate module i2c-isa
joehill:~# modprobe lm78
modprobe: Can't locate module lm78


And sensors doesn't see anything:
joehill:~# sensors
No sensors found!


How do I get this working?  I did select I2C support in the kernel (as
modules), and have them loaded:
joehill:~# lsmod
Module  Size  Used byTainted: P  
i2c-dev 3744   0  (unused)
i2c-proc6368   0 
i2c-core   12992   0  [i2c-dev i2c-proc]
sd_mod  9980   0  (autoclean)
lp  6464   0  (unused)
cpuid   1184   0  (unused)
ac97_codec  9696   0  (unused)
vfat9500   0 
fat29752   0  [vfat]
smbfs  32672   0  (unused)
nls_cp437   4384   0  (unused)
openafs   406656   2 
sg 24036   0  (unused)
usb-uhci   0   0  (deleted)
usbcore49632   1  [usb-uhci]
parport_pc 15268   1 
parport23328   1  [lp parport_pc]
cdrom  28960   0  (unused)
sym53c8xx  56548   0 
scsi_mod   80584   4  [sd_mod sg sym53c8xx]
NVdriver  945056  10 

Thanks.

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Re: Why is my load average 3.00?

[Andrew Perrin]

Thanks to all who responded. It appears that, indeed, it was khubd's D
process that was causing the "problem". That, in turn, is related to
problems I've been having with USB on that machine. You may hear more
about those problems on the list shortly, but this one is solved.

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On Wed, 30 Oct 2002, martin f krafft wrote:

> also sprach Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.10.30.0410 +0100]:
> > de-install/remove postgres  ( yoou pobably have tons of pending emails ? )
> 
> what does postgres have to do with email?
> 
> and this is linux, you don't remove software or restart to fix
> problems. his system can probably run 20 postgres invocations
> simultaneously.
> 
> anyway, uninterruptible sleep, state 'D' is the answer that others
> posted. load level 3.00 does not mean that it's overloaded, because
> those uninterruptibly sleeping processes basically just sit in the
> processor queue but eat no processor time (well, or very little...).
> 
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Re: My first Linux crash

[Andrew Perrin]

On Mon, 4 Nov 2002, Robert Ian Smit wrote:

> I was surprised that this issue took down the system on Linux.
> I understand, as nate explained, that hardware errors will always
> result in trouble but I expected the kernel to react differently.
> (Or is this a limitation of x86 or the issue you mention?)

FWIW, I'm skeptical of Nate's claim that excessive I/O errors must bring
down the system. I'm certainly not a kernel hacker, but I see no reason
why the kernel couldn't do what it does in other roughly analogous
situations: decide that the stream is bad and effectively turn it off,
either by killing the process or by redirecting the stream to /dev/null or
something like that.  The whole point of a robust, threaded, multitasking
architecture is supposed to be that isolated errors *don't* bring down the
system.

> 
> Perhaps using a cdrom is not a good idea on a production system.
> Thankfully the crash happened on my desktop which is the least
> critical of all my systems.
> 
> Is it recommended procedure to transfer files over the network
> instead of using a cdrom/cdrw drive for critical systems?
> 

I've never heard anything of the sort.


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Re: Cheap SCSI controller?

[Andrew Perrin]

I don't know that card, but I've used this one:

http://www.pcwebshopper.com/pcibushigbus.html

Several times with good results.

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On 12 Nov 2002, Gary Hennigan wrote:

> Can anyone recommend a cheap SCSI controller? I'm putting together a
> little network server for my home LAN and want to attach a SCSI DDS2
> DAT drive I have for backups. It's an older DDS2 drive so I think just
> about any PCI controller will be able to keep it's channel filled, and
> that's the only device that will be on the SCSI bus.
> 
> I see Adaptec has just about driven everyone else out of business, but
> I do see some Tekram cards pretty cheap. I see one place has 'em for
> $16!! Now that's what I'm looking for! Anyone have any experience with
> a Tekram DC-315 SCSI controller? It's BIOS-less, so no booting but I
> don't need that anyway.
> 
> Thanks,
> Gary
> 
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Re: computer dead; help!

[Andrew Perrin]

On Wed, 27 Nov 2002, Nori Heikkinen wrote:

> has anyone had a monitor just up and die on them before?  did anything
> trigger it, do you think, or was it just random?

Yes, I have.  And it was even at Swarthmore!  'Course back then it was an
IBM green-screen monitor connected to my XT compatible. I replaced it with
the hot thing then: a 14" monitor that could do 800x600!

But yes - monitors do just up and die, often because some simple component
inside (e.g., capacitor, potentiometer) overheats.

I feel your pain. Happy Thanksgiving!

Andy


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Re: load module on boot

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Put it in /etc/modules

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On Wed, 27 Nov 2002, Ernesto Marquina wrote:

> Hi there,
> 
> debian newbie here, I just configured my nvidia geforce2 go to work on my laptop 
>(debian woody), I had to download and compile the nvidia drivers, and now it works 
>fine.
> 
> But in order to load the new driver I always have to load the module called NVdriver 
>first by doing
> 
> modprobe NVdriver
> 
> How can I tell debian to always load it at startup?, and not having to type that 
>command everytime I log in?
> 
> Thank you
> Ernesto
> 
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Re: sync root passwords?

[Andrew Perrin]

You might want to reconsider the project, frankly - why not make different
root passwords for different machines? That would seem to be a more secure
alternative. You can make them systematically different to save yourself
memorizing them all, by (for example) using the second letter of the
hostname as one of the characters of the root password or something along
those lines.

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On Wed, 4 Dec 2002, Mike Egglestone wrote:

> Quoting Rich Puhek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> 
> > Hopefully, you're using ssh on all your machines. If so (and if you're 
> > set up to use public keys for authentication, instead of passwords) you 
> > could do something like:
> >
> I do have one server that already uses public keys and ssh's into the servers 
> automagically for rysnc backups. Your little script should work great.
> I'll give it a go.
> Thanks!
> 
> Mike
> 
>  
> > #/bin/sh
> > 
> > servers="server1 server2 server3 server4";
> > 
> > for server in $servers; do
> > ssh $server passwd root $1;
> > done;
> > 
> > which would ssh into every server in the list $servers, and change the 
> > root password to the given arguement.
> > 
> > You may want to look at NIS for centeralized management, as well.
> > 
> > I would not recommend directly copying the shadow entry. You've got a 
> > lot of ways for something to go bad there, especially with lots of 
> > machines...
> > 
> > --Rich
> > 
> > 
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Re: sync root passwords?

[Andrew Perrin]

No, it's not more insecure; you're assuming the hypothetical hacker knows
that there is an algorithm, and which character(s) are filled in by it.  

Take the canonical, one-password case, and give me a reasonably good
password, say one generated from the phrase "I Procrastinate On Grading
Papers By Debating Debian!":

I!engsygN

(whoever finds the phrase->password algorithm can stay after class to
clean the erasers)

With 100 machines, the hypothetical hacker has all of them if s/he gets
one of them.

Now, make an (unpublicized) decision to replace the I with the capitalized
last two letters of each hostname:

my @hosts='washington jefferson adams franklin';
for (@hosts) {
my $pass = uc(substr($_, -2, 2)) . '!engsygN';
}

And, of course, delete the generator script when you're done.  Now the
hypothetical hacker finds the root password to one, but remains locked out
of all the others.

Of course this is "worse" than random separate passwords for each machine,
but my view is that with 100 machines the risk is far greater that someone
writes down the passwords and leaves them in a public place.  But it's
hard to see how this is worse than 100 with the same root password.

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On Wed, 4 Dec 2002, sean finney wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 04:57:27PM -0500, Andrew Perrin wrote:
> > You might want to reconsider the project, frankly - why not make different
> > root passwords for different machines? That would seem to be a more secure
> > alternative. You can make them systematically different to save yourself
> > memorizing them all, by (for example) using the second letter of the
> > hostname as one of the characters of the root password or something along
> > those lines.
> 
> that's way more insecure, as the hypothetical hacker could then know
> (or more easily guess) what one of the characters in the password is!  
> 
> 
>   sean
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Re: sync root passwords?

[Andrew Perrin]

On Thu, 5 Dec 2002, Cameron Hutchison wrote:

> Once upon a time Andrew Perrin said...
> > No, it's not more insecure; you're assuming the hypothetical hacker knows
> > that there is an algorithm, and which character(s) are filled in by it.  
> 
> ...and you're assuming that security through obscurity is just as secure
> as a secure encryption algorithm.

Actually, I don't think I'm making any such assumption. I'm simply
claiming that systematic difference is a harder pattern to recognize than
simple identity.  I didn't say anything about the use of a secure
encryption algorithm.

> 
> In practice, it will make little difference. But it is less secure. You
> are relying in keeping your algorithm secret. If it is found out, you've
> reduced the keyspace to be searched to break the keys.
> 
> 

Again, it's clearly less secure than 100 random passwords on 100
hosts. But it's more secure than 1 password on 100 hosts, since in that
case the "keyspace to be searched" contains only one element.

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Re: Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs

[Andrew Perrin]

Just a thought, but do you have ide and/or scsi as modules instead of
compiled into the kernel? You will get this message if the kernel can't
mount the root partition because it doesn't have the necessary drivers to
talk to the disk on which the root partition sits.  That is, if / is on an
ide disk you need ide compiled into the kernel, not a module.

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On Thu, 5 Dec 2002, Stig Are M. Botterli wrote:

> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Klaus Imgrund wrote:
> > On Thu, 05 Dec 2002 15:16:29 +
> >> 
> > I had kernels bigger than 1 MB - no problem.
> > It would help if you remember what things you configured as modules.
> 
> Unfortunately, I don't.
> 
> > If you got i.e a driver for the wrong sound card compiled in the kernel
> > it can give you a kernel panic.If it is compiled as module the module
> > just doesn't load.
> 
> Perhaps, but I doubt anything like that can cause this particular kernel
> panic.
> 
> Anyway, I've been able to boot a vanilla 2.4.20 kernel, and I'll make my
> changes one by one, so that if I'm hit by this again I will hopefully be
> able to pinpoint what introduced it.
> 
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Re: sync root passwords?

[Andrew Perrin]

On Thu, 5 Dec 2002, Pigeon wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 07:58:19PM -0500, Andrew Perrin wrote:
> > Take the canonical, one-password case, and give me a reasonably good
> > password, say one generated from the phrase "I Procrastinate On Grading
> > Papers By Debating Debian!":
> > 
> > I!engsygN
> > 
> > (whoever finds the phrase->password algorithm can stay after class to
> > clean the erasers)
> 
> First character, last character, last characters of all words but the
> first; capitalise (?flip case of) the very last character?

Actually a little simpler: last character of all words, capitalize
characters for proper nouns/pronouns, punctuate in second spot.

> 
> Would it differ for the phrase "Indefinitely Procrastinate On Grading
> Papers By Debating Debian!"? Would that give you "I!yengsygN"?
> 

That would therefore make y!engsygD

> $ cd eraser
> $ make clean
> $
> 

cute

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No network on CD net install

[Andrew Perrin]

Greetings-

I'm trying to install woody on a laptop that has a USB floppy drive. I
therefore boot from the CD-ROM drive to the Net Install/ Base .deb's CD
(downloaded from http://people.debian.org/~dwhedon/boot-floppies/). It
boots fine and lets me partition and mount, but then I'm stuck; if I go to
the default next step (Install Kernel and Driver Modules) it offers only
Hard Disk, mounted, and fd0 or fd1 as sources. I need to get the
driver(s) off the CD to recognize the network interface (a built-in
eepro100) so I can do a network install.  Can someone suggest how to do
this?

System specs:
- Sony Vaio PCG-Z505HS
- Sony ATAPI/PCMCIA CD-ROM drive PCGA-CD51
- Sony USB floppy drive for Vaio

If I try to configure PCMCIA (in the hope of getting the CD-ROM drive
back) I get the following error:
"insmod: insmod: /target/lib/modules/2.4.18-bf2.4/pcmcia/pcmcia_core.o: No
such file or directory"

Thanks for any advice.

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Re: No network on CD net install

[Andrew Perrin]

On Tue, 10 Dec 2002, Glen Mehn wrote:

> configure device driver modules
> kernel/net/drivers
> eepro100

Thanks, but on "configure device driver modules" I get:

No modules were found in /target/lib/modules/2.4.18-bf2.4 that could be
configured. Please install the kernel modules first, by running the
"Configure Device Driver Modules" step

This is ironic since it's that step I'm in

I think it has to do with lack of PCMCIA support for the drive in which
the CD is.

ap

> 
> -g
> 
> On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 02:09:06PM -0500, Andrew Perrin wrote:
> > Greetings-
> > 
> > I'm trying to install woody on a laptop that has a USB floppy drive. I
> > therefore boot from the CD-ROM drive to the Net Install/ Base .deb's CD
> > (downloaded from http://people.debian.org/~dwhedon/boot-floppies/). It
> > boots fine and lets me partition and mount, but then I'm stuck; if I go to
> > the default next step (Install Kernel and Driver Modules) it offers only
> > Hard Disk, mounted, and fd0 or fd1 as sources. I need to get the
> > driver(s) off the CD to recognize the network interface (a built-in
> > eepro100) so I can do a network install.  Can someone suggest how to do
> > this?
> > 
> > System specs:
> > - Sony Vaio PCG-Z505HS
> > - Sony ATAPI/PCMCIA CD-ROM drive PCGA-CD51
> > - Sony USB floppy drive for Vaio
> > 
> > If I try to configure PCMCIA (in the hope of getting the CD-ROM drive
> > back) I get the following error:
> > "insmod: insmod: /target/lib/modules/2.4.18-bf2.4/pcmcia/pcmcia_core.o: No
> > such file or directory"
> > 
> > Thanks for any advice.
> > 
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Re: No network on CD net install

[Andrew Perrin]

On 10 Dec 2002, Shyamal Prasad wrote:

> Try booting with "ide1=0x180,0x386" as parameters to the kernel. Some
> of those Sony machines have all kind of nast hacks in them.

That did it - thanks!  The debian install is now happily eating my
cable modem's bandwidth.

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Re: Installing a CD burner and USB head card

[Andrew Perrin]

On Wed, 11 Dec 2002, Barry Cugley wrote:

> Hello
> 
> My system is Debian V3 with kernel 2.4.18 on a 200Mhz Pentium.
> 
> I have just installed a USB head card which has two connections for external
> devices.  I have connected a CD burner to the head card. The CD burner is an
> external Iomega, Predator, CD-RW having a speed of 4*4*6 on USB 1.1.
> 
> Debian has to be able to find the new hardware (USB head card and CD burner)
> and I am not sure it has done this.
> Q1. How can I find out if the hardware has been found and what do I do if it
> has not been found?

1.) Check out the USB
documentation: http://www.linux-usb.org/USB-guide/book1.html
2.) use lspci to check that the USB card is found (and, usually, to find
out which module to use)
3.) Recompile the kernel, if necessary, to include (at least) usbcore,
usb-{o|u}hci (where o or u is based on what module you need from
2.) above), and usb-storage

> 
> A driver for the CD burner has to be found and installed.
> Q2. How might I choose a driver and where should I look for it?

You shouldn't need a special driver - if usb-storage is working right it
should pop up as a (pseudo) SCSI cd writer.  From there, use cdrecord or
xcdroast to write the CD's.


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Re: Getting a Zip Drive to Work

[Andrew Perrin]

Nope - depends on the kind of zip drive. ATAPI zip is seen as /dev/hd*
unless you use ide-scsi to explicitly reassign it.

To the OP:
There may be an easier way to do this, but the way I do it with my ATAPI
(IDE) zip drive is to look in /proc/ide/hd*/model:

perrin:~# cat /proc/ide/hdd/model
IOMEGA ZIP 100 ATAPI

that will tell you which device it is.  Alternatively, if you load
ide-scsi and sr_mod, you can use scsicheck to find it.

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> > having problems getting my internal zip-drive to work. Mainly as I
> > cannot figure out which device it is and becuase I need to have the
> > edits to the fstab I need to make explained.
>
> I think all zip drives are treated as SCSI, so it would be among
> /dev/sd*.
>
> The Zip Drive HOWTO may be helpful...
> http://ursine.ca/doc/HOWTO/en-html/ZIP-Drive.html
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Re: perl cgi problem

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The problem is that perl is wait()ing for the daemon to return before
exiting.

>From man perlipc:

   Complete Dissociation of Child from Parent

   In some cases (starting server processes, for instance)
   you'll want to completely dissociate the child process
   from the parent.  This is often called daemonization.  A
   well behaved daemon will also chdir() to the root direc
   tory (so it doesn't prevent unmounting the filesystem con
   taining the directory from which it was launched) and
   redirect its standard file descriptors from and to
   /dev/null (so that random output doesn't wind up on the
   user's terminal).

   use POSIX 'setsid';

   sub daemonize {
   chdir '/'   or die "Can't chdir to /: $!";
   open STDIN, '/dev/null' or die "Can't read /dev/null: $!";
   open STDOUT, '>/dev/null'
   or die "Can't write to /dev/null:
$!";
   defined(my $pid = fork) or die "Can't fork: $!";
   exit if $pid;
   setsid  or die "Can't start a new session:
$!";
   open STDERR, '>&STDOUT' or die "Can't dup stdout: $!";
   }

   The fork() has to come before the setsid() to ensure that
   you aren't a process group leader (the setsid() will fail
   if you are).  If your system doesn't have the setsid()
   function, open /dev/tty and use the "TIOCNOTTY" ioctl() on
   it instead.  See tty(4) for details.

   Non-Unix users should check their Your_OS::Process module
   for other solutions.


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On Fri, 8 Aug 2003, Henning Moll wrote:

> Hi!
>
> I use a perl cgi script to start a daemon via http-request:
>
>
> ---ttt.pl---
> [...]
>   system("daemon &");
> [...]
>   print " ... ";
> ---ttt.pl---
>
> starting of the daemon works, but the http-request is never answered
> completley (That means, the browser is waiting for more data forever...).
>
> The cgi process is not finished, a 'ps -aecf' shows
>
> www-data 12011 12010 -30 01:14 ?00:00:00 [ttt.pl] 
>
> Hmm, , what does that mean? How to start the daemon the right way?
>
> Best regards
> Henning
>
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Re: USB Storage, Digital Camera, devfs, scsi, mounting hotplug

[Andrew Perrin]

What's the contents of /proc/usb/*?

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On Fri, 8 Aug 2003, Darryl Barlow wrote:

> I am running Debian Unstable with a 2.4.21 kernel, and am trying unsuccesfully
> to connect my sony cypershot DSC P7 via usb storage.
>
> I won't post logs at this stage.  However, syslog and messages show that the
> camera is detected and fully recognised.  Also, host1 is being created under
> /dev/scsi.  However, /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0 is empty.  Scsi disk
> support is enabled in the kernel.  It appears that the device node is not
> being created nor symlinks set up etc.
>
> Any ideas would be most welcome.
>
> Darryl
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Re: automatic overwrite with cp

[Andrew Perrin]

Or, alternatively:

yes | cp -apRv source/* /destination/



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On Tue, 26 Aug 2003, [iso-8859-1] Roberto Sanchez wrote:

>  --- alex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió:
> > I've been trying to copy the contents of a partition  (source)  to
> > another partition  (destination) that has a large number
> > of files that need to be overwritten.   The command I've tried is:
> >
> >  # cp -apRv  source/* /destination/
> >
> > The command works but it requires that I manually respond 'yes' for each
> > overwrite.  I thought that the r or R option
> > would do an automatic overwrite but apparently it doesn't.
> >
> > What should the option be to do automatic overwrites with the ' cp '
> > command?
> >
>
> add --reply=yes (it's in the man page).
>
> -Roberto
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Re: [~OT] tax program for linux

[Andrew Perrin]

The past three years I've used TurboTax for the Web - works great, easy to
use, and works flawlessly (this year) with Mozilla as the browser under
debian. Last year for a short time it stopped working, but it miraculously
came back when people complained about linux not being "supported."

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On Sun, 30 Mar 2003, Nori Heikkinen wrote:

> My dad, who has graciously done my taxes for me every year up until
> now, has finally shuffled them off to me.  When i ask him how to do
> them, he keeps telling me to get TurboTax for windoze.  I keep
> reminding him I run linux, but he keeps forgetting.  Is there an
> equivalent linux program that anyone here knows about / uses?  or do i
> have to suck it up and do them by hand?
>
> thanks,
>
> 
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Re: [~OT] tax program for linux

[Andrew Perrin]

Dunno about FEMA, but USPS and Amtrak are "parastatals" -- not strictly
government agencies, but semiprivate institutions chartered by the federal
gov't. Also dunno if that makes a difference

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> > I vaguely recall there was an Executive Order under Bush I making it
> > policy for federal agencies to not compete with private companies.
> > Although, I can't find a reference at the moment...
>
> I can't believe that would apply, since that would effectively abolish
> the postal service (competes with FedEx, UPS, AirEx...), FEMA
> (competes with pretty much any homeowners/renters insurance company)
> and Amtrak (competes with most shortline railroads especially along
> the east coast...they built Acela on the Northeast Corridor to gain a
> competative edge even) right out.
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Re: netstat / masquerading

[Andrew Perrin]

Try iptstate - works great for me.

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On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, David Fokkema wrote:

> Hi group,
>
> I was used to display masqueraded connections with
>
> netstat -M
>
> but now, under Woody, I get
>
> no support for 'ip_masquerade' on this system.
>
> I set up masquerading with
>
> iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o $BADIF -j MASQUERADE
>
> What do I have to do to see the masqueraded connections?
>
> Regards,
> David
>
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Re: [~OT] tax program for linux

[Andrew Perrin]

TurboTax for the Web did this last year in the US - mozilla worked fine
but they sensed it out of the way. I and others posted complaints to the
bug section about it and the sensing mysteriously disappeared.  It didn't
come back this year.  You might try the same (although if 4/15 is the
deadline in Canada too then time is short!).

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On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, David P James wrote:

> Dan Hunt was roused into action on 2003-04-03 20:23 and wrote:
> >>[snip]
> >>On the plus side, the Canadian version of TurboTax, QuickTax, does not
> >>appear to employ the strange things that its US counterpart. My father
> >>installed it on his comp and I could find no trace of the rumored nasty
> >> stuff (moreover, Intuit denies that it exists in the Canadian
> >>version).
> >
> >
> > Great! My Micro$oft work computer is safe, from the evil nasty stuff. I'm
> > gonna sleep better tonight boy.
> > For next year, I would LOVE to find a Canadian tax program or web based
> > service I could use with Mozilla - and Debian GNU/Linux.
> > The web based version of QuickTax gave me: YOU NEED "Microsoft Internet
> > Explorer 4.0 or later on Windows or Netscape 4 or later on Windows or
> > Macintosh." Would tricking the browser test be morally wrong?
>
> Issues of morality aside, it is possible to trick their browser sniffer,
> but you have to replace all the Linux-related stuff in the UA with
> Windows-related bunk. I also added a Netscape 7 identifier (this was
> with Phoenix, btw). It will then warn you about not having Quicktime,
> but it will allow you to go past without spurious multimedia content. I
> got as far as the page of filling out info.
>
> There is a second way - bypass the browser sniffer altogether and skip
> to the step following the sniffer:
> https://2002.quicktaxweb.ca/secure/signin_choice
>
> It doesn't seem to mind
> hee hee :)
>
> > How would I ask the Canadian Web based Income Tax program providers to
> > support Mozilla and GNU/Linux?
>
> Well, the good news is that Mozilla/Gecko in a GNU/Linux environment is
> "supported" in the sense that it will work. The bad news is that they
> have a browser sniffer reduntantly sniffing out against usable browsers.
>
> I'm sending them a comment on the subject. Netscape has a very good
> webpage about this sort of thing:
>
> http://devedge.netscape.com/viewsource/2002/browser-detection/
>
> There is also the possibility of filing an evangelism bug on
> bugzilla.mozilla.org as well.
>
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Re: Integrated sound on Via VT8235 South Bridge

[Andrew Perrin]

I have that bridge on a Gigabyte GA7VAX motherboard.  I downloaded the
drivers for the sound chip (which is a Realtek ALC650) from the realtek
website; here's what my lsmod shows for sound:

snd-via82xx 7588   0
snd-pcm56928   0  [snd-via82xx]
snd-timer  10848   0  [snd-pcm]
snd-mpu401-uart 2784   0  [snd-via82xx]
snd-rawmidi12768   0  [snd-mpu401-uart]
snd-seq-device  4016   0  [snd-rawmidi]
snd-ac97-codec 25360   0  [snd-via82xx]
snd25384   0  [snd-via82xx snd-pcm snd-timer
snd-mpu401-uart snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device snd-ac97-codec]
soundcore   3652   0  [snd]


And it works fine for me.

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On Fri, 6 Jun 2003, Denis Pihulya wrote:

> Hello!
> Please inform me about support in debian voody 3.0 and kernel 2.4.x for
> integrated sound on Via VT8235 South Bridge.
>
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Re: Integrated sound on Via VT8235 South Bridge

[Andrew Perrin]

Forgive me if this is obvious, but did you un-mute the appropriate
channels with an ALSA mixer? That was my problem originally.

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On Fri, 6 Jun 2003, Jerry Quinn wrote:

> Brad Sawatzky writes:
>  > Hi Denis,
>  >
>  > I've found the newest ALSA  driver works quite well.
>  >
>  > -- Brad
>  >
>  > On Fri, 06 Jun 2003, Denis Pihulya wrote:
>  >
>  > > Hello!
>  > > Please inform me about support in debian voody 3.0 and kernel 2.4.x for
>  > > integrated sound on Via VT8235 South Bridge.
>  > >
>
> Unfortunately, the kernel via82cxxx_audio doesn't work, although it
> should.
>
> Jerry Quinn
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Re: Interface lo Not Coming Up

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On Tue, 27 May 2003, Jeff wrote:
>
> This ran fine.  However, eth0 is not plugged in and I have to wait for
> the DHCP process to timeout.  That's why I had initially removed the
> 'dhcp' part from the /etc/network/intefaces file, to speed things up.
> And, once eth0 times out, it gets configured anyway with a recorded
> lease, which is not what I want.  I want the interface to remain down, so
> as not to confuse the system.
>
> Is there a good way to do accomplish this?  That is, if no dhcp
> response is recieved to have the interface remain down?

Not exactly what you're asking for, but how about removing the "auto"
option from eth0, so you have to bring it up and down manually? That way
you won't have to wait for the DHCP timeout before continuing.

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Re: Belkin CompactFlash reader problems

[Andrew Perrin]

On Sun, 1 Jun 2003, Chris Kenrick wrote:
> >
> > fdisk /dev/sdc1  // play with partitions
>
> If I try this with "-l" to list the partitions, there is no output and
> the log file records an error message.

Try just fdisk /dev/sda (if it's a that your device is being assigned to).

>
> Not looking promising.  Any further ideas, anyone?

Unfortunately, I agree.


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USB Epson scanner problem

[Andrew Perrin]

Greetings-

I've been trying to move my scanner (an Epson 1640SU) from SCSI to USB in
preparation for a new machine which will not have a SCSI card.  I've got
USB working (it mounts a USB memory stick fine) and the scanner module
installed, as well as hotplug. Hotplug notices the scanner and assigns it
to the usbscanner driver. sane-find-scanner finds the scanner. But xsane
and scanimage don't. Any advice?

Debian 3.0 (woody)
Kernel 2.4.20

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sane-find-scanner
# Note that sane-find-scanner will find any scanner that is connected
# to a SCSI bus and some scanners that are connected to the Universal
# Serial Bus (USB) depending on your OS. It will even find scanners
# that are not supported at all by SANE. It won't find a scanner that
# is connected to a parallel or proprietary port.

# You may want to run this program as super-user to find all devices.
# Once you found the scanner devices, be sure to adjust access
# permissions as necessary.

sane-find-scanner: found USB scanner (vendor = 0x04b8, product = 0x010a)
at device /dev/usbscanner
sane-find-scanner: found USB scanner (vendor = 0x04b8, product = 0x010a)
at device /dev/usbscanner0





[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ scanimage
scanimage: no SANE devices found
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ scanimage --list-devices

No scanners were identified. If you were expecting something different,
check that the scanner is plugged in, turned on and detected by the
sane-find-scanner tool (if appropriate). Please read the documentation
which came with this software (README, FAQ, manpages).




Thanks-
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Re: 3c920 in 2.4.20; "network unreachable"

[Andrew Perrin]

On Wed, 4 Jun 2003, Rolf Erling Robberstad wrote:

> I installed woody over the internet, configured by the
> local DHCP-server.  I then downloaded (from debian)
> kernel 2.4.20 from http://www.kernel.org and compiled
> it to get X working (as part of a i810/i815 howto).
>
> The 3c59x-driver was compiled directly into the
> kernel along with the other needed support.

I've never had luck with compiling network drivers into the kernel - each
time I've tried, I've ended up reverting to a module.

...

> # ifdown eth0
> > cat: /var/run/dhclient.pid: No such file or directory
> # ifup eth0
> (pause)
> (still no working network)

Did you install dhclient? It looks like what's happening is there's no
dhcp client to fetch the address information.


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Re: 3c920 in 2.4.20; "network unreachable"

[Andrew Perrin]

On Wed, 4 Jun 2003, Rolf Erling Robberstad wrote:

> It did work before I got the new kernel (downloaded
> the kernel as an ordinary user).
>
> # dhclient eth0
> -didn't help (it is, however present on the machine)

What did it do? Generally dhclient has output.


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Re: [OT] Printer recommendations

[Andrew Perrin]

I like my HP laserjet 1200SE, which meets all your criteria. Fast, cheap,
postscript, parallel.

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On Wed, 11 Jun 2003, [iso-8859-1] Roberto Sanchez wrote:

> Greetings list,
>
> It's official: my Epson Stylus Color 400 is dead after 6 years of faithful
> service.
>
> I'm in the market for a new printer and I would like some suggestions.
> Here are my parameters:
>
> - Laser printer (the inkjet has just been a money pit for the last year)
> - Reasonably priced (less than $500 is optimal)
> - Reasonably economical to operate (long term low cost per page printed)
> - Light use (will be connected to my home network)
> - Must have parallel interface (will connect to my Woody box which has no USB)
> - Speaks Postscript (I believe this makes it easier that I don't need drivers)
> - Small footprint desirable
> - Speed is not a concern (i.e., can print slow)
>
> I know this is OT, but I would like some suggestions since I haven't purchased
> a printer in 6 years and have never seriously looked at laser printers.  Also,
> I run lprng on my Woody box and would like to keep it like that (since I
> finally figured out how it works), but I am willing to switch to CUPS if that
> is necessary.
>
> -Roberto Sanchez
>
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Re: [OT] Printer recommendations

[Andrew Perrin]

On Tue, 10 Jun 2003, Allan Wind wrote:

> ...
> It surprised me that you still need to run a driver in the form of a ppd
> to get things going perfectly (otherwise jobs would terminate abnormally
> elsewise, never had that problem with the Texas Instrument aka Sharp
> PostScript printer that I had before).

Surprising - that's not been my experience. I have two 1200SE's (one at
home, one at work) and I just use the psonly-1200 filter from magicfilter.
No ppd, nothing special - it Just Works.  My wife's jobs (Win 98 and Win
XP) generate a blank page after each job, though.

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Re: [OT] Printer Languages (WAS: Re: [OT] Printer recommendations)

[Andrew Perrin]

On Wed, 11 Jun 2003, [iso-8859-1] Roberto Sanchez wrote:

> what are these languages and what do they mean?
>
>  HP PCL 6, HP PCL 5e, HP printer language (emulates Adobe® PostScript®
> Level 2)

PCL is HP's standard page description language; it's adequate but, to
paraphrase Lloyd Bentsen, "it's no Postscript."  You can get ghostscript
to translate into it, though, if you must.

The site just says that the 1300 (and the 1150) "emulates PostScript Level
2" - not that it does so via HP Printer Language. In any case, the fact
that it does so makes the rest irrelevant - just use it in postscript
mode.

>
> are the typfaces important?
>
>  45 TrueType™, 35 PostScript®, 4 international

No - a postscript document will send its own as needed.

>
> is it worthwhile to upgrade the RAM for light printing duties?
>

No.

> Does anyone have experiene with this particular model?  Does it work well
> (can it easily be made to work well) under Linux?
>

It seems very similar to, but faster than, my 1200SE.  Those work fine
with Linux, no issues at all (I've used them both via USB and via
parallel).

> Does HP use the toner cartridge authentication like Lexmark?  I.e., non-
> authentic toner cartridge results in lower print quality or no printing
> at all?
>

Not to my knowledge.


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Re: [OT] Printer Recommendations

[Andrew Perrin]

[Sorry for the broken thread!]

Allan Wind wrote:

>The psonly-1200 filter does something; otherwise jobs are not terminated
>and
>the printer will kill some jobs after a timeout of 2 min (if I recall
>correctly).  Not a big deal, it just surprised me that I needed a filter
>in the
>first place.


Hmmm... (tests it out):

perrin:~# /etc/init.d/lpd stop
Stopping printer spooler: lpd.
perrin:~# cat ~aperrin/ka.ps > /dev/usblp0


produces a fine printout. This is postscript sent directly to /dev/usblp0,
bypassing both lpd and (therefore) the psonly-1200 filter.

cheers,
Andy

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Re: [OT] Printer Languages

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On Wed, 11 Jun 2003, Kirk Strauser wrote:

> >> is it worthwhile to upgrade the RAM for light printing duties?
>
> > No.
>
> I disagree.  I was able to buy a 3rd-party 64MB module for about $25.  At
> that price, why not?
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Have you noticed any performance improvement?


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Re: Using Debian as a Broadband Router

[Andrew Perrin]

As a starter, check speeds without the firewall (connected directly to the
T-1).  Generally that machine should be more than adequate for the task.
Also check speeds from the clients to the fireall machine. All this will
give you an idea what's wrong.

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On Thu, 12 Jun 2003, Daniel L. Miller wrote:

> As the subject implies - I just got introduced to the world of
> high-speed internet.  It's amazing what a T-1 can do.
>
> Being at least somewhat concerned about security, I felt we needed to
> implement a firewall between our pristine LAN and the horrible nasty
> germ-ridden world.  Being short of funds - I'm trying to accomplish this
> without spending money!
>
> Using Sid/Sarge/Woody - depends on the time of day and what I felt like
> playing around with at the time - I've implemented a packet filter and
> NAT routing using IPTABLES.
>
> And amazingly enough (since I'm the one doing this) - it works!  And it
> works reliably - at least to provide access for my network, I haven't
> tried hacking in yet!
>
> My question is one of performance - I've got 1.5M T-1, and I know I'm
> not getting the full use of that bandwidth.  CNET's bandwith meter tests
> at about 500k-800k.
>
> The equipment:
>   Cabling:  Cat-6.
>   Server:  Pentium III, 450mhz, 768M RAM.  1 Intel network adapter
> and 1 Netgear network adapter.
>   Network switch:  Netgear 8-port switch.
>
>   All the cards and switch are supposed to be 10/100 full-duplex,
> which means I'm supposed to have 200M connections.  Right?
>
> Watching the CPU load, I can see a lot of processing going on during
> internet activity.  Besides trying to reduce the active services running
> on the server (like X-Windows), what can I do to optimize this?  Do I
> need to replace the server network cards?
>
> Daniel
>
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Re: 6-1 Card reader

[Andrew Perrin]

What's the output of:

fdisk /dev/sdb

when the SD is in the slot?  If an error, post the contents of
/proc/bus/usb/devices .

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On Fri, 13 Jun 2003, Jeff Elkins wrote:

> I recently purchased a Viking 6-1 cardreader to access a secure digital card,
> in addition to compact flash cards. The CF slot responds normally, but I
> haven't been able to mount SD cards. CF points to /dev/sdb1 - I've tried
> mounting the SD card under that, /dev/sdb2,etc w/o luck.
>
> Any help appreciated. TIA
>
> Jeff Elkins
>
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Re: command for disk free ?

[Andrew Perrin]

df

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On Mon, 16 Jun 2003, David selby wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am writting a bash script, I need the free memory on my hard disk
> partitions. I can get this via gfreedisk or kwikdisk but I need a CLI
> command so I can process its standard output.
>
> I have tried man -k free, man -k disk ... etc...but cant find one
>
> I know there must be a linux command for it !
> Dave
>
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Re: vfat and ordinary users

[Andrew Perrin]

Mount with an appropriate umask, as in;

mount -tvfat -oumask= /dev/hdb2 /mnt/drivec

 will make everything on the mount world-writable.


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Getting rid of gnome and kde

[Andrew Perrin]

For some reason on the laptop I just installed debian on, I ended up with
kde and gnome as the default desktops. I want my fvwm back! How do I rid
myself of these?

Thanks.

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Re: Getting rid of gnome and kde

[Andrew Perrin]

Thanks for the advice - eventually I just apt-get removed everything with
"kde" in the name, as well as gnome-control-center and that took care of
it.

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HSF Linmodem

[Andrew Perrin]

I'm about to embark on a quest to get my laptop's built-in modem (a
Conexant HSF variet) to work. I don't see any .deb versions of the
drivers, which leads me to believe I have to build from scratch. I have no
problem doing so, but if I've missed something I'd appreciate the
heads-up.

Thanks.

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Re: HSF Linmodem

[Andrew Perrin]

That's the source I've found too - I was just surprised to find nothing
debian-specific.

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On Sat, 14 Dec 2002, Tom Massey wrote:

> * Andrew Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-12-13 23:50]:
> > I'm about to embark on a quest to get my laptop's built-in modem (a
> > Conexant HSF variet) to work. I don't see any .deb versions of the
> > drivers, which leads me to believe I have to build from scratch. I have no
> > problem doing so, but if I've missed something I'd appreciate the
> > heads-up.
> 
> You may have already been there, but here's a useful URL in case you
> haven't:
> 
> <http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/linmodem-howto/linmodem-howto-5.html#ss5.5>
> 
> No debs available at <http://www.olitec.com/pci56kv2.html>, but maybe
> you could try one of the tar balls there.
> 
> If you've found another source of drivers for Conexant HSF, I think
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Re: Content Management System sought

[Andrew Perrin]

What about Back-End? (http://sourceforge.net/projects/back-end/)

Disclaimer: I know nothing about it, just happened to run across it
yesterday.

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On Fri, 13 Dec 2002, martin f krafft wrote:

> also sprach Randy Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.12.13.1832 +0100]:
> >My advice would be to look into PostNuke  with 
> > various modules (e.g. phpWiki).  I run it on  
> > and I think you'll see all the features there that you're looking for.  
> > PostNuke does exist as a Debian package, but it changes rapidly and I'm not 
> > sure how recent the Debian package is.
> 
> Sure, but it's that three-column architecture which I can't stand.
> I want regular webpages. None of that spiffy slashdotty look.
> 
> This is to replace the pages at http://www.ifi.unizh.ch/ailab if you
> care to look at it.
> 
> Also, please read the first line in my signature.
> 
> Thanks though!
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