GCC 3.2 transition question

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Hi,

I have a pure sid system running on my notebook.
Could somebody please tell me whether I can still run
apt-get update etc. during this phase without completely
messing up my system?

Or should I wait with any update until the transition is
over? If yes, when is this likely to happen and how
would I know if it's 'safe' again?

Many thanks for your help in advance!
regards,
Balazs


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Phoenix debs for woody?

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Hi,

Does anyone know if there are any Woody compatible
debs of Phoenix anywhere?

Many thanks in advance!
regards,
Balazs


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Re: Phoenix debs for woody? - SOLVED

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Hi,

A big thanks to all who replied me.
When I first looked at the Phoenix website I seem to
have "got lost" somehow and missed the tarball completely :(

Downloading and unzipping it to /usr/local/ worked perfectly!

BTW, is there a way to make it use anti-aliased fonts under
blackbox?

Many thanks again!
regards,
Balazs


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Re: Phoenix debs for woody?

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>#Phoenix
>deb http://people.debian.org/~eric/debian/i386 ./
>
>just as synaptic says, converted from slackware tgz. Works great btw. 
>
>Elijah

I've tried that, but it requires a newer libc etc. then
the Woody version.

Anyway, as others have pointed out it is the easiest to just
untar the package from their website somewhere into /usr/local...

Balazs


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Performance needed for an Internet gateway

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Hi,

I have an ADSL Internet access and I'm planning to set up
some sort of firewall/gateway for my home network.
Here's what I roughly have in mind:
NAT / port forwarding
packet filtering
bandwidth management / trafic shaping
some sort of secure access for my laptop through wireless network

I was wondering what sort of processing power is needed for such a 
computer?

I'm asking this because whatever solution I chose, I want it to be
silent as I already have a lot of noise comming from the other PCs.
So what I try to decide is whether to use some commercially available
hardware firewall like the ZyXEL ZyWALL10, or maybe an old second hand
laptop running Debian. 

Many thanks for your help in advance!
brgds,
Balazs


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Re: Performance needed for an Internet gateway

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>Bandwidth management & traffic shaping on your home network
>Unless you're learning how to do it so you can then do it at work,
>seems like a huge overkill.
> 
>> I was wondering what sort of processing power is needed for such a 
>> computer?
>
The main reason would be to prioritize upstream ACK packets.
I have a small web and ftp server running for some friends,
and I don't want the upsteam trafic to impact my dowmloads...

Balazs


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Re: Re-broadcasting/caching streaming video

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>
>Couldn't she just leave the streaming client running on her machine?

Yes, that's what she does right now. But it's a Windows machine
and therefore needs frequent rebooting :)
Also it's a damn noisy one :(

>
>> So I was wondering whether it would be somehow possible to use
>> my always on Debian box to receive the broadcast and then
>> stay connected to it, and simulataniouly rebroadcast or unicast it
>> over the local LAN so that she could connect to my box and whatch
>> the channel whenever she wants...
>
>It would depend on the format the stream is in...If it's RealVideo,
>maybe you could install RealPlayer on your machine and leave it running
>all the time.  When she wants to watch it you could export your X
>display to her machine

Alas, it's in wmv format. I guess mplayer could play it, though.
However, how do I export the X display on an on demand basis?

Balazs


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Snort: TCP CHECKSUM CHANGED ON RETRANSMISSION

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Hi,

My Snort logs often contain the message indicated in the subject.
I have a NAT setup to connect my home network to the DSL line.

Does this message mean that there is a problem somewhere or
is it a sideeffect of the NAT setup?

Many thanks for your help in advance!
regards,
Balazs


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Re: HD size limit ?

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On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 10:09:26AM -0700, nate wrote:
>Kevin Coyner said:
>>
>> Is there a limit to the size of a IDE hard drive that Debian/Linux can
>> accomodate?
>>
>> I.e. there are some pretty good deals now on 120GB IDE hard drives.  I
>> just want to make sure I'm not buying something that I cannot use
>> 'easily'.
>
>the only limit is most likely that drives which require 48-bit addressing
>wouldn't be supported. that is usually..what 137GB?? these drives also
>require a newer controller in most cases. I remember reading about patches
>being available for 2.4.x but I haven't noticed whether or not those
>patches made it into the mainline kernel yet.
>
Hi,

How about external FireWire or USB2 drives?
I want to add one of those to my fileserver,
and I've found one by a company named LaCie that is 250GB!
Would that be handled by the kernel?
(I don't necessarily need to boot from it,
if such thing is posible at all...)

Many thanks for your advice!
Balazs


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Running giFT from boot scripts

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Hi,

What is the recommended debian way of running the giFT daemon
automatically on each boot?

I know that I should create a shell script in /etc/init.d/ 
and use update-rc.d to add the symlinks, but ...

- Where do the config files go?
  It seems to insist on the home directory of the user starting it.

- If started from the boot scrip it will run as root, right?
  Is this safe? Or should I add a separate user and create a setuid
  wrapper script that is owned by that user?
  What is the best way?

Many thanks fot your help in advance!
regards,
Balazs

PS: Any chance of cvs snapshots appearing in debs somewhere?


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Wireless networking question

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Hi,

I've recently bought a notebook, and I'm planning to buy
a wireless network card (PCMCIA) for it as well.

My question is, that the notebook also contains a built in
100 MBit NIC, and I'm not sure whether I'd need to do anything
special to make the two work together...

Presuming that installing the wireless NIC goes well,
if I assign it the next available IP on the same subnet than
the 100 MBit is on, would it work automatically?

If I then disconnect the fixed ethernet cable to move around,
would all trafic then automatically be routed through the
other NIC?

Even more interestingly, if I then reconnect the 100 MBit cable,
would it automatically recognise that that interface is much faster
then the wireless one? Or would the bandwidth of the two always be
combined?

Many thanks for your help in advance!
regards,
Balazs


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Re: Wireless networking question

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Hi,

Thank you all for your suggestions.
They basically confirm my fears that it isn't going to be
very simple.
I must admit I'm not a networking expert, allthough I thought,
that I have a good understanding of the basics.
Please let me give you some more details on my (probably typical)
setup and some of my goals/assumptions. Maybe you could then
suggest me the best way to proceed:

I have an ADSL router connected to a network switch along with
3 PCs connected to the same switch. They all are on the same subnet
and all have the router as the default gateway. So long so fine.
They can all talk to each other, share files and access the Internet.

Now comes the notebook. I have configured (for now) the built-in NIC
the same way as with the other machines, so it works as well.
Now, I've ordered the Orinoco Gold PCMCIA card along with the RG-1100
wireless access point. It is my understanding that you can set up the
access point to act purely as a bridge. Where my assumption was that
it will basically act as a "wire to radio signal converter" and if it
were not for the built-in NIC, I could just plug the access point into
the switch, the PCMCIA card into the notebook and configure the card to
be on the same subnet as the other machines, and everything would
work as before.

And if this is the only easy way, then I would simply not use the
built-in NIC. However, since the built-in NIC is about 10 times
faster, I was kinda hoping that I could somehow make it possible,
that whenever I am at my desk or whenever I need to transfer large
amount of data to the notebook I could just simply "switch" to the
built-in NIC.
Now if I need to configure either of the cards to be on a separate
subnet I would need to route that subnet to the original network
somehow as both the fileserver and the Internet gateway are on that one.
So I would need to set up one of the other machines with another NIC
and set it up to be the router between the two networks. And this I
think is a bit too complicated for what I wanted to use it for...

However maybe it is possible to have both NICs be configured for the
same IP address and manually switch between them, so that only
one of them is up at a given moment?

So what do you think is the best approach?
Many thanks again for your help!
regards,
Balazs


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Home wired+wireless network configuration advice needed

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Hi,

I would appreciate if somebody could give me some help with the
following network setup problem:

I used to have a very simple home network setup.
All computers plus the DSL router were connected to a single
ethernet switch and were sharing the same subnet.
Each PC had the DSL router as the default gateway, and
each could talk to all other PC, but most importantly to
my fileserver that had some directories exported both through
nfs and samba.
Then I bought a notebook and things got a bit complicated.
The notebook has a built in 100MBit ethernet card, and I also
have a PCMCIA wireless network card (Orinoco Gold). The later
will connect to the network via an access point connected to
the same switch.

Now, what I would like to achieve is pretty simple:
I would like to be able to use either of the two NICs in the notebook
to access the same network.

This mainly because the wireless NICs seem unbearably slow compared
to the 100MBit line when browsing files on the fileserver. e.g.
opening simple pictures can take several seconds etc.
So I thought that I would prefer to use the built in NIC whenever
I am at my desk, where I have a fixed cable I can plug into it.
And use the wireless card whenever I'm somewhere else.

Ideally, I would like to do this without constantly reconfiguring
network interfaces, and if possible without needing to unplug the
PCMCIA card whenever I want to use the other NIC.

I'm certainly no networking expert but I believe I have some basic
understanding about TCP/IP. However I completely lack any experience
in routing and having multiple network interfaces in the same PC.
I've read a bunch of HOWTOs, but I couldn't deduce from them the
best way to proceed...

My first thought was to simply assign two differnt IP addresses
from the same subnet to each of the interfaces. e.g. 192.168.1.10
and 192.168.1.11 However, some people claimed that this is not
possible. (I have a dual boot setup to Windows XP, and XP does not
seem to have a problem with this. Allthough based on the above advise
I usually have only one of the NICs up at any given time, but
I also tried having both and XP didn't complain...)

So if the above is indeed not possible, then I guess I would need
to have either a simple way to switch between the two interfaces,
or I need to configure both NICs to be on a different subnet.
However then there is the issue on how do I access the same Internet
gateway and the same fileserver with both cards?
I guess I would need to add another NIC to one of the other machines,
configure it to be on the second subnet, and then set up some kind
of routing or bridging between the two networks...
Again, I'm not an expert but this seems awfully complicated for such
a simple task. Also this way the network access through that subnet
will depend on the other machine being up and running. Allthough this
is probably not a big problem as the file server is right below my desk
and it is on all the time, but it is still another dependency.

Are there any better solutions?

If not, how would I set up routing between the two subnets?
Should I simply set the default gateway of the second NIC on the
routing machine to be the IP address of the first NIC?
Could I somehow set the metric values of the interfaces somehow,
so that whenever it is up the 100MBit indirect route will be prefered
even though the wireless NIC is directly connected to the other subnet?

Finally for reference, here is my current network setup and what I was
about to do unless someone has a better solution:

Stuff connected to my switch:
- DSL Internet router at 192.168.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.0
- Fileserver at 192.168.1.2 same netmask, gw 192.168.1.1
- Wireless access point at 192.168.1.3 gw 192.168.1.1
- My wife's PC at 192.168.1.4 gw 192.168.1.1
- Notebook either through:
  - 100 Mbit 192.168.1.5 gw 192.168.1.1 or
  - wireless (under XP) 192.168.1.6 gw 192.168.1.6
  usually only one of the is active

What I thought abit doing:
- wireless card on notebook permanently configured as 192.168.1.5
- add NIC to fileserver with 192.168.2.1 gw 192.168.1.2 (!?)
- 100MBit on notebook configured as 192.168.2.2

Questions:
- Is there a better way?
- Would this work?
- Can I connect to shared stuff on other computers (192.168.1. subnet)
  through the 192.168.2.2 interface?
- Can I make it prefer the 192.168.2.2->192.168.1.2->192.168.1.X route
  instead of the direct but slower 192.168.1.5->192.168.1.X route?

Many, many thanks in advance for any help!!!
regards,
Balazs


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Nautilus2 crashing a lot

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Hi,

I've installed sid and kernel 2.4.20 on my Dell Inspiron 8200 laptop,
and was finally able to try Gnome2.
So far I only played with it for about 3 minutes.
I've opened a couple of folders, clicked on a picture, and tried
to open some of the preferences windows.
During that time Nautilus crashed 5 times!

I know it is called the unstable branch for a reason, and I'm not
complaining, but I wanted to make sure whether this is "normal"
or there is something wrong on my machine that is worth investigating?

Many thanks for your help in advance!
regards,
Balazs


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Re: Ralhp's KDE 3.1 packages

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Hi,

deb http://ktown.kde.org/~nolden/kde/woody/i386 ./

Balazs

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>Hi there:
>
>I can't seem to find Ralph Nolden's KDE 3.1 packages for woody. does anyone 
>have a URL in hand? or the line which should be added to sources.list?
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Looking for good usenet binaries downloader

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Hi,

In your oppinion what's the best program for downloading a lot
of binaries from usenet servers?

At the moment I'm using pan, which is a very nice one,
but ideally I would like to have something that can combine
posts from several servers automatically for multipart messages etc.

Some sort of sheduling or periodic download of new files would be
a plus. Also some sort of handling for daily per server download limits
would be nice...

Any suggestions are most appreciated!
Many thanks for your help in advance!
regards,

Balazs 


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Re: XMMS and the new MP3 patent terms

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Hi,

I've missed a couple of messages in this discussion, so sorry
if this was already mentioned before...

I'm not sure whether the administrative overhead makes this worth it,
but did it occure to someone, that somebody could sell the mp3 plugin
for XMMS or other players for a nominal fee of say USD 1, and then
pay the 75 cents to Thompson?

I know we all prefer free software, but if somebody has a larger
harddrive worth of mp3 collection then I'm sure the USD 1 is worth it.

Or otherwise agree with Thompson on a licence that would state that if
someone wants to use the player, then he needs to send a check about
USD 0.75 to Thompson :)

cheers,
Balazs


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Re: XFree and Matrox G550 -- HELP!

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Hi,

I have also the same card and it works with the downloaded drivers.
Try checking the refresh rate section of your XFree config.
One problem I fequently had is that the debconfig script asks you
for the frequency range your monitor supports, and if I put in
the _maximum_ frequency it supports under 640x480 (180Hz) and then
I try to actually run it in 1280x1024 where it only supports 85Hz
then it will fail...
One would think this would be better handled by X but maybee it can't
talk properly to my monitor...

Also the 'No screens found' message can also occure if there is some
error in the X config file other then your monitor/card.
For instance I had once a problem with my mouse config and that
caused the server initialization to fail which in the end resulted in
the 'No screen found' message...

If you're not already, try starting X thoufg 'startx' and redirect
the output to a file then look for the first line which starts with
'[EE]' to find the reason...

regards,
Balazs


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Re: CDRDAO -- can it record iso files?

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Hi,

CDRDAO is for recording bin/cue files.
Cdrecord id for burning iso files.
Use mkisofs + cdrecord to burn files from a directory,
and cdrdao mainly for downloded stuff...

Here's my short rundown:

mkisofs  -r -U -J -f -o cd_image   private_collection/
cdrecord -v speed=8 dev=0,0,0  -data  cd_image

or

cdrdao write --device 0,0,0 --driver generic-mmc --speed 24 --save
tocfile.cue 

regards,
Balazs

On Sun, Sep 08, 2002 at 08:58:51PM +0200, Q. Gong wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Is it possible to use CDRDAO to record a directory from a hard disk to a
>CD-R? Of course, mkisofs can make a iso file for that directory. But I
>don't know if CDRDAO supports recording iso files. My Samsung CDRW/DVD
>SM-308B doesn't work with CDRECORD, but CDRDAO. So it's important to know
>the capability of CDRDAO. Thanks in advance.
>
>Qian
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TRENDnet wireless networking stuff

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Hi,

I'm plannig to buy a wireless access point and a
wireless PCMCIA network card. Both should work under Debian.

The nearest local store sells these:

http://www.trendware.com/products/TEW-301PC.htm
http://www.trendware.com/products/TEW-310APB.htm

Does anyone have experience with these?

If they are not suitable for Debian, could someone suggest
an alternative, please?

Many thanks for your help in advance!
regards,
Balazs


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Re-broadcasting/caching streaming video

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Hi,

I wonder whether there is a solution for this problem:

My wife would like to whatch some sreaming video channel
from the net on her Windows box but unfortunately the
server is quite busy and it is difficult to connect to it.
The only solution seems to be not to let the connection
drop once it has connected.

So I was wondering whether it would be somehow possible to use
my always on Debian box to receive the broadcast and then
stay connected to it, and simulataniouly rebroadcast or unicast it
over the local LAN so that she could connect to my box and whatch
the channel whenever she wants...

On the same note, it would be fantastic if the linux side could
constantly try reconnecting to the Internet source until it succeeds.

Is this possible?

Many thanks for your help in advance!
regards,
Balazs


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Managing shares and authentication for a small network

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Hi all,

I'd like to ask your opinion on the best approach for setting up file
sharing and user authentication for a small home network with a diverse
list of clients.

I have currently a Debian server providing various services including
samba, nfs, ftp etc. In addition I have a few desktops and notebooks 
running a mixture of Debian, XP and OS X. 
Recently I've decided to move my old server to a Mac Mini and thought 
that it would be the right time to rethink how the variuos services are 
layed out and maybe solve a few issues along the way...

So here's what I have:
- the Debian server
- my notebook running Debian as well
- my wife's desktop running XP
- an iBook running OS X

The server's main purpose is to host all our common files that should be
accessible to all client machines. All clients should be able to
create/modify/delete files on the common shares, security is not an issue 
here.
Currently I have a special samba user/group set up which owns all the
shared files and all shares are forced to use these. I also have sticky bits
set on the main folders.

However I have a few issues:
- The linux boxes on the network access the files over nfs so I always
  need to be very carefull to create the users on each box so that they have
  the same uid/gid as on the server
- Files created/downloaded/unpacked directly on the server will have the 
  right group ownership (samba) but not the user. (The sticky bit only
  works for groups.) Combined with the default umask, the files created
  this way might not be readable or at least not deletable from the Windows
  machines.
  I don't want to change the default umask for the entire filesystem...
- Similarly sometimes Windows executable installer files refuse to run 
  directly from the network shares.

I've started this whole investigation when during the installation of my new
server I've again reached the point where I had to synchronise the user ids.

My first thought was whether I could make this easier or completely unnecessary.
This lead me to NIS and then immediately to LDAP.

My second thought after reading up on it a bit was that it might be a bit of 
an overkill for my needs. More specifically I'm not sure how much good LDAP
will do me for the notebooks on which I need to be able to log in even if I'm
not at home and hence do not have access to the LDAP server. 
As far as I understand this means that the user still needs to be in the passwd
file, which raises the question of synchronising the uids/gids again. 
This time between the LDAP server and the local passwd/group files...

Another thing that I've been contemplating was whether or not I should just
completely forget about nfs for the common shares and just mount them through
smbfs... If I would remount them even on the server to a different mount point
and would make sure to only modify the files throught that path then this might
take care of the ownership/umask problems. Are there any problems with this?

Finally, though I've found a lot of material on the net regarding how to
configure and populate LDAP and how to set up PAM, NSS and samba to use it,
so far I didn't find anything regarding how to use it to mount home directories
from a server for instance...

I would greatly appreciate if you could share your thoughs/experiences with me
on which conceptual approach would be the best in this situation!

Many thanks for your help in advance!

Balazs


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Re: 2.4.16 kernel crashed

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I had this problem once with 2.2.19pre17, so it's probably
not the kernels fault.
I would bet on the X screensaver as I think I've read somewhere
that has some stability problems.
I might of course be wrong ...
Unfortunatly I newer found the reason :(

regards,
Balazs

On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 09:49:00PM +0100, Preben Randhol wrote:
>After compiling and installing 2.4.16 things seemed to work nice until i
>looked at the computer again a bit later and saw that my screensaver had
>stopped (I had the GL text screesaver on). I tried to login but no
>dialog box noting. Then I tried to ssh, but this didn't work either so I
>had to hit reset button. Now I'm back to 2.2. Do somebody know of
>particular problems with 2.4.16?
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
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Which IMAP server to use?

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Hi,

I'm planning to set up an IMAP server on my Woody
machine so that if needed I could access my mail folders
from remote machines.
Also my has a Windows box and is using Outlook Express 6
to read her mail. I'd like to 'filter' her mail through
the Linux machine, so that I can use Procmail on her mail
as well to filter out potentially malicous mail, before
letting Outlook Express open them.

I've tried to look on the net for comparisons, suggestions
and howtos on which is the better server but came up empty.

I would greatly appreciate any suggestions!

Just for background:
I'm using Fetchmail to retrieve my mail from my ISP and several
other POP accounts I have. Then I use Procmail (through Exim)
to filter and sort my mail into several folders (mbox).
>From where I usually read them with Mutt.
No ideally I would wnat to keep this as it is and add the ability
to access the same folders occasionally from other machines.
I figured IMAP would allow this, allthough I'm a newbie on this
topic...
Also I would use the same for my wife. The mail would be initially
delivered to her Linux account, with the only difference that she
would allways access it from her Windows machine.

Many thanks for your help in advance!
best regards,
Balazs

Which FTP client?

[Balazs Javor]

Hi!

I'm trying to replace my current favorite FTP client
CuteFTP with a Linux one.
Which is the best client out there?

I'd like to be able to:
-easyly create a queue of files and directories (recursive)
 to be downloaded
-leave it unattended

For the second point it should be able to reconnect if
disconnected and retry say every 60 seconds if it does not
get it. Then it should resume the downloads without asking
questions.

Any advise is greatly appreciated!
Many thanks for your help in advance!
best regards,
Balazs

How to keep modules configs current

[Balazs Javor]

Hi,

Sometimes when I compile a new kernel and include a
different set of modules it can happen that there
are some error messages at boot time issued mostly
by modprobe saying something about devices/modules
or aliases not found. Or sometimes that it cannot load
a module because it might be compiled into the kernel.
It seems to me that entries left from previous kernel
versions stay in the config files somehow.
I've tried modconf, depmod -a and looked at /etc/modules
and /etc/modules.conf

But to be honest I'm still somewhat confused about when I
need to use/modify which...

What is the proper way for handling this kind of problems?
Any help is greatly appreciated!

Many thanks for your help in advance!
best regards,
Balazs

Re: language and charset settings

[Balazs Javor]

Hi,

Somebody suggested to me to use:

LANG=C
LC_CTYPE=hu_HU

and it seems to work.
I guess the ctype sets the display charset and the
land the application language. Try cetting ctype to
de_DE...

Balazs

On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 08:23:55PM +0100, Steffen Evers wrote:
>Hello,
>
>does anyone know how to have the charset settings differently than the
>language?
>
>I want to have my applications speaking English, but would like to be
>able to display German Umlaute like ue or oe. This does not work with
>the current locale stuff. However, it used to work.
>
>When I set LANG=C in /etc/environment my konsole does not display the
>Umlaute any longer. When I set it to de that works, but all applications
>speak German.
>
>Any suggestions?
>
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Galeon and libgdk-pixbuf2

[Balazs Javor]

Hi,

I did an update on my Woody machine yesterday,
which caused Galeon to be removed due to dependency
problems.
I've installed mozilla 0.98 from Sid along with a
couple of libs that where needed.
This went fairly well with the exception of
libgdk-pixbuf2 which if I try to upgrade suddenly
conflicts with a whole bunch of stuff including
all Gnome core files.
Now Mozilla, Galeon and a few libs from Sid are OK
but those I'd rather keep from Woody...

Anyone has a solution for this?

Many thanks for your help in advance!
best regards,
Balazs

Looking for lftp tutorial

[Balazs Javor]

Hi,

I'm looking for some good material to help me
understand how to use lftp to it's full power.
I've tried searching trough Google but haven't
found anything :(

I'm using Linux only since a couple of months,
and currently I'm still using CuteFTP on Window$
because it seems to be the easiest way to do what I need.
But I would like to get rid of Window$ completely...

Here's what I usually do:
I wan't to get into a site that is full most of the time,
so I set the retry to 90s and wait until I get in...
Then I browse through the directories and add items to the
queue. When I'm finished I start transfering the queue.
(I need to find everything first or I can't list other dirs...)
Now, I get frequently disconnected but it will automatically
reconnect (trying until I get in again) and resume the file/queue.

Somebody recommended me lftp for this some time ago.
But to be honest I've never used command line based ftp clients
before and I'm a bit confused how to best use the queueing
capabilities of this client.
For instance I haven't found how I can start transfering the queue.
Or does it start automatically when the first command is added?
If yes how do I continue adding files as I will no longer be able
to browse the site, or will I? (I won't be able to log in multiple
times...)
etc.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Many thanks for it in advance!
best regards,
Balazs

ALSA, Via686a and Gnome

[Balazs Javor]

Hi,

I have a motherboard with integrated Via686a sound chip.
I'm trying to set up ALSA for it correctly, as it was suggested
by many people that ALSA drivers are preferable.

Unfortunatly, even though I've read all the documents and FAQs
found on their site, I'm still not sure weather everything is correct.
Especially in Debian terms (Woody). And allthough I'm able to get some
sound from console and XMMS, none of the Gnome sounds work for instance.
Also XMMS sound quality (mp3) is awfull.
I'm also unsure whether I'm using the correct setup.

If anyone with a similar setup or more experience could offer me some
advice I'd be most greatfull!

So here's what I did so far:
I've compiled a kernel (2.4.17) with only sound support enabled,
no other modules.
I've installed the alsa-source-0.5 package and also
alsa-utils-0.5, libesd-alsa0, alsaplayer.
(BTW there are also a bunch of packages for 0.4 and 0.9x. 
What's the difference? I figured 0.9 was still beta, but why the 0.4?)
Uppon installing I was asked to configure the source via ncurses and
select the cards. I've selected via686a, but I'm not sure where this
choice was actually stored, as the source packages was installed in
gzipped tarball. Allthough there is a /usr/share/alsa-source-0.5
containing a modules.config, but I'm not sure what would use that...
So I've unzipped the source and did a ./configure --with-cards=via686a
then I've compiled and installed it.
Then I've run ./snddevices
And after that I've created /etc/modutils/sound with the below contents:

alias char-major-116snd
alias char-major-14 soundcore

alias snd-card-0snd-card-via686a
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

Here I'm a bit uncertain as all the documentation only describes
a GUS as an example, so I have no idea wheter the sound-services-x-x
part is correct like this or not...

Well at any rate I've run update-modules,
modprobe snd-card-via686a
modprobe snd-pcm-oss

(I've also added them to /etc/modules)
This seemed to work fine.
I've set the volume with
amixer-0.5 set PCM 100 unmute
amixer-0.5 set Master 100 unmute

Finally added myself to group audio.

Now I can play certain wav files with aplay-0.5,
but others only output silence.
Sometimes I get: 'Aplay: cannot find WAVE fmt chunk'
I can play mp3s with mpg321. Quality is not great but at least
it does not skip. Also it only works with -o oss but not with
-o alsa. The later says 'Error opening libao alsa driver.'
I have both libao2 and libao0 installed...

And now for Gnome:
I've tried to install esound-alsa but that conflicts with a bunch
of stuff so I left the standard esound.
According to Gnome Control Panel it is started when loading X.
None of the Gnome sounds work though (trying to play them from
the control panel)
XMMS works with esound output, but quality is horrible. It also
skips a lot. The oss output plugin freezes XMMS completely though...

So what am I doing wrong?
Is 0.5 the recommended version to install?
Are my aliases correct?
Is this the proper Debian way to set this up? (How to use alsa-source?)
Shouldn't I use esound-alsa?
Is there no ALSA output for XMMS?

Sorry for the huge mail, but I wanted to provide as much details as possible!
Many thanks for your help in advance!
best regards,
Balazs

How to remove Home and Trash icons from Nautilus

[Balazs Javor]

Hi,

Is there a way to tell Nautilus, not to put the
home and trash icons on the desktop?
It keeps revreating them...
And what's worse even if chose to view home dir on the
desktop (the contents) it will put those links also directly
under the home dir next time I start X...

Many thanks for your help in advance!
best regards,
Balazs

Best player for Divx, AFS, AVI etc.

[Balazs Javor]

Hi,

What is the best solution on linux to play most
movie formats? (doesn't need to be a single app)

I've been slowly trying to be able to perform most task on
my Woody box that I used to do on Window$. But I'm still
struggling a bit with playing various multimedia files.

I would like to be able to play any downloaded
avi, mpg, asf, mov, vob and divx 3 and 4 files if possible...

I've tried aviplay but with little success. On some files
there was sound but no picture (or garbled picture).
And allthough it says it should be able to play asf it didn't
seem to work for me either. 
(I've read the readme according to which additional codecs might be
needed, but as far as I can tell I've installed all plugins, and
they seem to contain all the mentioned codecs.)

I would be most greatfull for suggestions regarding what's the
most effective way to play the above mentioned formats!

Many thanks for your help in advance!
best regards,
Balazs

Using multiple versions of gcc

[Balazs Javor]

Hi,

I have never done any developement on gcc before,
however I have the necessary packages installed, so that I
can compile packages distributed as source only.

I have both gcc 2.95.x and 3.x installed on my Woody box
and they seem to coexist just fine.

Now some packages seem to have preferences mostly against
using 3.x.

How do I know which compiler is invoked by calling the install
script? Also if I would want to use one of the compilers explicitly,
how would I invoke them?

Many thanks in advance!
best regards,
Balazs

Looking for Gnome Panel icons

[Balazs Javor]

Hi,

I was trying to find some icon collections for the Gnome Panel
on the net, but without luck.

Many applications do not have icons/pixmaps installed for them
so they don't look very nice on panels.
I was hoping to find tons of custom icons on the net from which
to choose, but using Google I wasn't able to locate any.

Are there really no such collections available or am I doing
something very wrong?

Any help is greatly appreciated!
Many thanks in advance!

best regards,
Balazs

Disabling discard, daytime, time

[Balazs Javor]

Hi,

Are the internal services discard, daytime and time run from
inetd critical to the system?

I'm trying to close as many ports as possible on my machine,
so I was wondering if anything would break if I'd commented them out.

Many thanks for your help in advance!
best regards,
Balazs

fork: Resource temporarily unavailable

[Balazs Javor]

Hi,

When I try to ssh from one of my Woody boxes into the other
(using OpenSSH) I am able to connect but I get the following message:

bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable

The same message then appears each time I try to run something
that tries to fork a new shell e.g. less

Any ideas why this happens and how I could solve this?

Many thanks for your help in advance!
best regards,
Balazs

Re: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable

[Balazs Javor]

Hi,

This is the output of free:

 total   used   free sharedbuffers cached
Mem:222788 204144  18644  0   6984  83512
-/+ buffers/cache: 113648 109140
Swap:   747012  93416 653596

>From this it seems to me that I still have plenty of swap left...

Balazs

On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 02:31:29PM +0100, Ralf G. R. Bergs wrote:
>On Sun, 3 Mar 2002 14:12:17 +0100, Balazs Javor wrote:
>
>>
>>Any ideas why this happens and how I could solve this?
>>
>
>You're out of memory. Add some swap.
>
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Re: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable

[Balazs Javor]

Hi,

Yes, indeed there have been a huge number of defunct sh processes...
It works now.

Many thanks again!
best regards,
Balazs

On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 09:52:24AM -0500, Rick Pasotto wrote:
>On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 03:16:39PM +0100, Balazs Javor wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> This is the output of free:
>> 
>>  total   used   free sharedbuffers cached
>> Mem:222788 204144  18644  0   6984  83512
>> -/+ buffers/cache: 113648 109140
>> Swap:   747012  93416 653596
>> 
>> >From this it seems to me that I still have plenty of swap left...
>> 
>> >On Sun, 3 Mar 2002 14:12:17 +0100, Balazs Javor wrote:
>> >
>> >>
>> >>Any ideas why this happens and how I could solve this?
>
>Run 'ps ax | less' and look for something strange.
>
>I leave gnomeicu running all the time and my process table get filled
>with defunct gnomeicu processes. I have to stop/restart gnomeicu to get
>rid of them.
>
>You might have a similar problem.
>
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user xsession or how to start ssh-add

[Balazs Javor]

Hi,

How do I start ssh-add when X starts to add my key to the agent?
(Agent is already running?)

I've tried to figure out what exactly happens when I do a startx,
and followed several of the config files in /etc/X11/. I think
I generally understood the concept of the xsession.d dir, which
is pretty neat, but very hard to read...
In Xsession.options I have the allow-user-xsession, so I was hoping
that when I create a .xsession with the line

ssh-add &

it would be merged somehow to the rest.
Well X didn't even start...

What is the correct way to do this?

Many thanks for your help in advance!
best regards,
Balazs

Re: ALSA install steps???

[Balazs Javor]

Hi,

Is there a way to directly compile them into the kernel?
e.g if I don't want loadable module support...

Many thanks in advance!
best regards,
Balazs

>
>I've always used the make-kpkg method and made a modules_image after I 
>compiled my kernel. 
>This method makes a neat little *.deb for you to install.  I would look at the 
>docus in
>/usr/share/doc/alsa-base for some more info.
>
>HTH.
>
>Eamon Roque.

Re: Gnome Error Message

[Balazs Javor]

Hi,

I've had the same problem.
I don't know whether this is the proper solution,
but my messages went away after I added the following to
my .bashrc:
export LC_ALL=C

Balazs

PS: BTW does anybody know where one can set the global 
environment variable defaults?

On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 11:57:08AM -0500, Eileen Orbell wrote:
>Hi,
> 
>When starting up gnome I get this message:
>Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library
>
>Not sure why this happening but any help would be appreciated.  
> 
>Thanks
> 
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Re: Continuing ALSA suckage

[Balazs Javor]

So? Are there any good documentation available somewhere?
I've been trying to figure this whole issue out myself for
a while but then gave up and moved to more important stuff
for a while, as I'm generally fairly new to Linux and have
a lot of other things to learn as well.

Generally speaking I'm also confused a lot by the fact that
I've found no indication anywhere why there are 3 different
version numbers available, what's the advantage of one over
another, how exactly to set it up etc...
I've also found the two different alsa script in /etc/init.d
confusing, and also had problems with modconf complaining about
aliases etc.
I also had some interesting kernel messages claiming that I'll
taint my kernel by inserting non-cerified modules, which is not
too promissing, whatever it means...

And while we're at it, is there somewhere some good documentation
to help people decide whst is the best way to go for a certain
system/soundcard/purpose.
What's the difference / advantage between ALSA and OSS?
Some Gnome stuff seems to be adamant on using Esound/esd.
That seems to be conflicting with ALSA, or is it?
And I could go on like that...

I very much try not to ask too obvious questions, so that I
don't annoy people. And I've been reading HOWTOs, man pages etc.
for the last 6 month, but for some questions it seems it is very
difficult to find answers ...

Any thoughts are greatly appreciated!
best regards,
Balazs

On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 12:48:28PM -0500, Noah Meyerhans wrote:
>On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 07:14:39PM -0600, Dimitri Maziuk wrote:
>> 
>> I can roll my own alsa setup, thankyouverymuch. (In fact, that's
>> what I had working before this upgrade.) Should I purge all this
>> alsa crap and go back to the Good Old Way? I'd rather keep Debian 
>> configuration & startup files & keep package database happy. Is 
>> there any fine manual I can read to find out how to do that?
>
>YES!  I have been doing this for many months, having heard similar
>horror stories to yours.  I haven't run in to any problems with
>conflicts with Debian packages or unmet dependencies or anything as a
>result of bypassing the Debian package database in this manner.
>
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Re: (Kinda OT) What makes Debian cool?

[Balazs Javor]

>And then there's my CD burner and my printer to set up, both of which
>"just worked" under Windows.

My CD Burner scr*wed up on avg. 6-7 CDs out of 10 on Win2K.
Burning would just freeze solid the whole stupid machine 
at some point, no matter what software or drivers or burning speed
I've tried.

On my Debian box the same burner works flawlessly at top speed!
Not a single bad disk.

cheers,
Balazs

Missing ICQ features / anyone seen those?

[Balazs Javor]

Hi,

There are two features I've been missing / would like to have
in ICQ, but I havn't found any implementation with either...
So I thought I bring this up, maybe somebody knows one,
or gets an idea for implementing one :)

1. The Windows client allow for a pseudo chat like view of
the messages exchanged with somebody and if your counterpary
sends several messages in short (or long) time they will automatically
appear on the top half of the window.
In all (working) Linux client I've seen you need to press the next
message button if a new message arives. This is a bit inconvenient
as I don't always notice them at first and may be replying to only
part of the message :(

2. I have only relatively few friends on my contact list, so it would
be very nice if it could somehow be completely integrated into the
Gnome panel. Maybe similar to the taskview applet or something like that...
That way there would be no need to open up the separate ICQ window
to see the status of a couple of peole at a glane and to be able to
quickly start conversations with them or send files etc...
For me a panel applet woulf be an ideal place for it.
Unfortunatelly allthough some clients (GnomeICU etc.) have a panel
applet they only display a very small summary number and don't allow
much directly beside changing my status quickly...

Does anybody think that the above features would be usefull?
Or maybe even know a version that supports something like that?

Many thanks for your help in advance!
best regards,
Balazs

Re: Missing ICQ features / anyone seen those?

[Balazs Javor]

Hi,

Thanks! Does it work with the new ICQ protocol?

best regards,
Balazs

On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 05:56:28PM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote:
>On Fri, 2002-03-08 at 16:10, Balazs Javor wrote:
>
>> There are two features I've been missing / would like to have
>> in ICQ, but I havn't found any implementation with either...
>> So I thought I bring this up, maybe somebody knows one,
>> or gets an idea for implementing one :)
>> 
>> 1. The Windows client allow for a pseudo chat like view of
>> the messages exchanged with somebody and if your counterpary
>> sends several messages in short (or long) time they will automatically
>> appear on the top half of the window.
>> In all (working) Linux client I've seen you need to press the next
>> message button if a new message arives. This is a bit inconvenient
>> as I don't always notice them at first and may be replying to only
>> part of the message :(
>> 
>> 2. I have only relatively few friends on my contact list, so it would
>> be very nice if it could somehow be completely integrated into the
>> Gnome panel. Maybe similar to the taskview applet or something like that...
>> That way there would be no need to open up the separate ICQ window
>> to see the status of a couple of peole at a glane and to be able to
>> quickly start conversations with them or send files etc...
>> For me a panel applet woulf be an ideal place for it.
>> Unfortunatelly allthough some clients (GnomeICU etc.) have a panel
>> applet they only display a very small summary number and don't allow
>> much directly beside changing my status quickly...
> 
>Well that's certainly intersting... you've just described Gaim... :) You
>can have an IM style chat window for ICQ, AND it comes with a gnome
>panel applet. You click the applet, your contact list pops up. Click
>again, it's gone. The applet will also graphically show your current
>status. Best of all, it works with AIM, ICQ, MSN, Jabber, and probably
>quite a few other protocols that I know nothing about. :)
>
>-Alex

Re: Missing ICQ features / anyone seen those?

[Balazs Javor]

OK. I've tried. It can.
It's a pitty it can't send files, though.

But I still think it would be a nice feature to be able
to at least place some dedicated status icons for a some
select contacts on a panal, whith the ability to initiate
a message to them by clicking on their icons...

Balazs

On Sat, Mar 09, 2002 at 12:09:05PM +0100, Balazs Javor wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Thanks! Does it work with the new ICQ protocol?
>
>best regards,
>Balazs
>
>On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 05:56:28PM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote:
>>On Fri, 2002-03-08 at 16:10, Balazs Javor wrote:
>>
>>> There are two features I've been missing / would like to have
>>> in ICQ, but I havn't found any implementation with either...
>>> So I thought I bring this up, maybe somebody knows one,
>>> or gets an idea for implementing one :)
>>> 
>>> 1. The Windows client allow for a pseudo chat like view of
>>> the messages exchanged with somebody and if your counterpary
>>> sends several messages in short (or long) time they will automatically
>>> appear on the top half of the window.
>>> In all (working) Linux client I've seen you need to press the next
>>> message button if a new message arives. This is a bit inconvenient
>>> as I don't always notice them at first and may be replying to only
>>> part of the message :(
>>> 
>>> 2. I have only relatively few friends on my contact list, so it would
>>> be very nice if it could somehow be completely integrated into the
>>> Gnome panel. Maybe similar to the taskview applet or something like that...
>>> That way there would be no need to open up the separate ICQ window
>>> to see the status of a couple of peole at a glane and to be able to
>>> quickly start conversations with them or send files etc...
>>> For me a panel applet woulf be an ideal place for it.
>>> Unfortunatelly allthough some clients (GnomeICU etc.) have a panel
>>> applet they only display a very small summary number and don't allow
>>> much directly beside changing my status quickly...
>> 
>>Well that's certainly intersting... you've just described Gaim... :) You
>>can have an IM style chat window for ICQ, AND it comes with a gnome
>>panel applet. You click the applet, your contact list pops up. Click
>>again, it's gone. The applet will also graphically show your current
>>status. Best of all, it works with AIM, ICQ, MSN, Jabber, and probably
>>quite a few other protocols that I know nothing about. :)
>>
>>-Alex
>
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X resources the Debian way

[Balazs Javor]

Hi,

How does one set some individual application properties the Debian way?

If I start a console application from the Debian menues it will by
default start in a maximized terminal window.
Allthough what environment that terminal has I'm not quite sure of,
as mc startc in black and white by default (without the -c switch)
whereas it starts in color mode if I start it from within a 'normal'
gnome or xterm.

I have set my default Gnome Terminal properties to some nice values,
which I don't want to change just for mc, but could I set separate
values for starting specific applications?
e.g start in a maximized window and also the font size to use ...

I'm not an X expert, but I think this is supposed to be done with
some Xresources somehow...

Can someone please explain me the proper way to do this?

Many thanks for your help in advance!
best regards,
Balazs


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Re: X resources the Debian way

[Balazs Javor]

Hi,

Thanks for the info!
In the meantime I managed to avoid the problem by editing
the menu entry for mc replaceing it with something like this:

xterm -font insert-font-descriptor-here -e mc -c

This worked fairly well.

Balazs

On Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 02:08:40AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote:
>on Sun, Mar 31, 2002, Balazs Javor ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> How does one set some individual application properties the Debian
>> way?
>
>Systemwide:  /etc/X11/Xresources/
>
>User:  ~/.Xdefaults or the directory that was supposed to replace it --
>~/.app_defaults/ or something like that.
>
>> If I start a console application from the Debian menues it will by
>> default start in a maximized terminal window.
>
>> Allthough what environment that terminal has I'm not quite sure of,
>> as mc startc in black and white by default (without the -c switch)
>> whereas it starts in color mode if I start it from within a 'normal'
>> gnome or xterm.
>
>Note that GNOME apps don't adhere to the Xt toolkit, and don't respect X
>resource values.  This is something of a PITA.
>
>Not sure why mc does what it does when it does, but I've noted that too.
>
>> I have set my default Gnome Terminal properties to some nice values,
>> which I don't want to change just for mc, but could I set separate
>> values for starting specific applications?  e.g start in a maximized
>> window and also the font size to use ...
>
>Look into the -name directive (this is something I only learned in
>recent months). 
>
>$ man X
>
>...for slightly more information.
>
>
>> I'm not an X expert, but I think this is supposed to be done with
>> some Xresources somehow...
>
>Depends on the app.  X resources are somewhat a legacy tool these days.
>
>Peace.
>
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How to change default domain?

[Balazs Javor]

Hi,

During the first time when installing Debian and networking
it asked for the default domain name that is to be appended
to non qualified host names...

How can this be changed later?

Someone once suggested:
echo 'domainname' > /proc/sys/kernel/domainname

Is this really the 'official' way???
Also cat /proc/sys/kernel/domainname gives me currently:
(none)
Which would seem to me that thisis not the place where it
has been stored..

Many thanks for your help in advance!
best regards,
Balazs


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Building Video CDs

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Hi,

I'm trying to create a Video CD from an mpg file.
I've found vcdimager and had a look at the documentation but
I didn't really understand it very well...

Could someone please tell me what's the simplest way to create
a VCD / SVCD from an mpg file?

Many thanks in advance!
best regards,
Balazs


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Re: Building Video CDs

[Balazs Javor]

Hi,

Sorry, I've tried to add the mpg file the wrong way (with --add-file).
But I've managed to create one CD afterall.

A relate question though:
Is there a utility that I can use to check whether the mpg is
the correct format?
Also when to use the VCD type and when the SVCD?

Many thanks again!
regards,
Balazs

On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 07:19:11PM +0200, Balazs Javor wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I'm trying to create a Video CD from an mpg file.
>I've found vcdimager and had a look at the documentation but
>I didn't really understand it very well...
>
>Could someone please tell me what's the simplest way to create
>a VCD / SVCD from an mpg file?
>
>Many thanks in advance!
>best regards,
>Balazs
>
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Hard disk access causes high CPU load

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Hi,

How can I find out whether the hard disks in my Woody box
are using the best possible DMA mode (or any DMA at all)?

Allthough I have a relativly slow machine (VIA C3 800 + 256MB),
I have an ATA100 controller (VIA PL133) and two Seagate Barracuda IVs.
So they should be relatively fast and use not much CPU, or shouldn't
they?

But on my 2.4.18 machine it can take ages to transfer large file
between them. And while the file transfer takes place the CPU
usage is above 90% and XFree becommes _extremely_ sluggish.
Even if I try to move the mouse there are stops and a quite large lag...

Is this normal, or do I need to set up something differently?

>From dmesg I can see something like this:

Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
VP_IDE: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39
VP_IDE: chipset revision 6
VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xd000-0xd007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
...
hda: ST380021A, ATA DISK drive
hdb: ST380021A, ATA DISK drive

(Just noticed) Under /proc/ide/hda/settings I have:

using_dma   0   0   1   rw

So it seems DMA is off, right?

What do I need to do?

Many thanks for your help in advance!
best regards,
Balazs


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Re: Hard disk access causes high CPU load

[Balazs Javor]

Hi,

Thanks everybody for the help!
hdparm tells me that I don't have either DMA nor 32bit transfers
enabled...

Before switching it on though, might there be a reason for this?
e.g. Is the controller on my Shuttle FV24 (VIA PL133) not supported
properly? It says something about not 100% native mode at boot...

As far as I can remember I've selected 'use DMA by default' in the
Kernel...

Many thanks again!
best regards,
Balazs


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Is kernel OSS support necessary?

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Hi,

I'm a bit confused about the kernel sound configuration.
I have an on board VIA686a chip providing sound.
There are dedicated modules for that in the 2.4.x kernels.
If I select those will I still need the OSS module?

Many thanks for your help in advance!
best regards,
Balazs


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Re: Hard disk access causes high CPU load

[Balazs Javor]

Hi,

I've found the reason.
VIA chipset support was not compiled into my kernel (oops).
I've recompiled and now DMA and 32bit transfers are enabled by default.

Balazs

On Sun, Apr 21, 2002 at 11:12:44AM +0200, Balazs Javor wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Thanks everybody for the help!
>hdparm tells me that I don't have either DMA nor 32bit transfers
>enabled...
>
>Before switching it on though, might there be a reason for this?
>e.g. Is the controller on my Shuttle FV24 (VIA PL133) not supported
>properly? It says something about not 100% native mode at boot...
>
>As far as I can remember I've selected 'use DMA by default' in the
>Kernel...
>
>Many thanks again!
>best regards,
>Balazs
>
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ESD and Gnome Sound woes

[Balazs Javor]

Hi,

I have a strange problem with esd.
If I select to start esd and to enable Gnome sounds
in the controll panel, then whenever I start X I get
some strange pulsing high frequency sound from my speakers,
that stops after X has finished loading.
And allthough strange that's not a big problem.
The problem is when I then try to play sounds with esdplay,
or the Gnome sounds from the Gnome control center, the
sounds are strange. Sometimes trunchated, sometimes witch
stops in it and sometimes parts of it repeat at the end...

The curious thing is, that if I don't enable esd, this obviously
does not happen, but I can still play sounds with esdplay,
and so they play perfectly.

Any ideas on what I'm doing wrong?

Many thanks for your help in advance!
best regards,
Balazs


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Mozilla slow response time

[Balazs Javor]

Hi,

Since a while Mozilla has become very sluggish in openeing
pages. When I click on something it ususally takes several
seconds to start loading the page at all.
It usually says 'Resoving whatever.com' or 'Connecting'
It can sometimes do this for 5 to 10 seconds.
Then suddenly it starts loading the page and from there it goes
quite quickly.

Now first I suspected the DNS servers of my ISP and pinging them
still often shows some packet loss, so I havn't ruled it out
completely, but I've tried dig to query the servers directly,
and that seemed instantenious...

Any ideas on how to troubleshoot this?

Many thanks for your help in advance!
best regards,
Balazs


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Same bookmark file for Galeon and Mozilla?

[Balazs Javor]

Hi,

Is it possible to use the same bookmark file for both Galeon and Mozilla?

I often find it difficult to decide which one I should use.
Galeon seems to be the better choice, but it also tends to crash more often :(
The problem is that if I use one of them for a while I always have to
update my bookmarks in the other. It would be much nicer if they could
share a common file...

Many thanks for your help in advance!
regards,
Balazs


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C64 emulator

[Balazs Javor]

Hi,

What is the best C64 emulator for Linux?
After doing a search on Google, I've noticed that there are
quite a few ones oout there.

I would very much welcome any recommendations you might have!

Many thanks for your help in advance!
best regards,
Balazs


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GCC 3.1 depends and BinUtils - safe to updrade?

[Balazs Javor]

Hi,

I'm currently tracking testing with the /etc/apt/preferences set to:
testing - 800
unstable - 700
stable - 600

Recently after doing an update in dselect/apt-get it automatically
selected GCC 3.1 and several related stuff.
Unfortunatelly they seen to depend on some libs and the binutils in SID.

Normally in cases like thid I just do apt-get install libname/unstable.
In case of binutils I don't know though whether it is safe...
I'm slowly learning Linux and I remember reading somewhere a long time
ago that for some reason it can break things badly if you have the
wrong version of binutils and/or modutils installed...

So my questions would be:
Is this true?
If yes, where could I learn about the reasons for this and similar issues?
Finally, in this particular case, would it be safe to upgrade binutils?

On a sidenote:
Is it possible to set apt preferences so that it will prefer testing,
but in case some packages depend on versions that are only in unstable,
it will automatically take them from unstable, but only those that are
necessary?

Many thanks for your help in advance!
best regards,
Balazs


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Matrox G550DH and XFree86

[Balazs Javor]

Hi,

I have a Matrox G550 DualHead video card and I'd like to
run XFree86 on it.
I seem to remember having read somewhere that XFree 4.1
dos not have proper support for it but XFree 4.2 does...

Is this true?
If yes, what's the best way to go?
Look for unofficial XFree 4.2 debs or to compile it from source?
In the later case how would I handle dependencies? (Install stuff
that depends on X.)

Are there any known major problems with XFree 4.2?

Many thanks for your help in advance!
best regards,
Balazs


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Looking for tutorial on how to edit GTK themes

[Balazs Javor]

Hi,

Are there any good sites or tuturials from which you can learn
how to create or edit GTK (and maybe other) themes?

I have a big problem with most of the darker themes:
They look fairly good, but in many application I have a 
black text on dark grey background effect. (e.g ickle or gnomeicu).
So I would like to somehow change the font definition to some
light color so that I can actually read it...

Many thanks in advance!
best regards,
Balazs


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CD writing for non root users

[Balazs Javor]

Hi,

What's the best/recommended way to be able to write CDs
without requiring to be root?

Many thanks for your help in advance!
best regards,
Balazs


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Mirroring Debian

[Balazs Javor]

Hi,

If I would want to create a local mirror of the complete
Debian distributon (stable,testing and unstable) and keep it up to date,
what's the best way to do this?

Also roughly how much space would I require for it?

Many thanks for your help in advance!
best regards,
Balazs


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Home network design recommendations/tips sought (long)

[Balazs Javor]

Hi,

I have a small home network of 3 machines and I'm looking for
recommendations / best practices on how to set up certain services
between them. I'm more interested in the what then the who at the moment.

I'm especially interested in:
- How to set up my mail so that I can use it from both Linux systems?
- File sharing. NFS vs. Samba. What directories to share? etc.

So here's what I have at the moment:

1. I have a Woody box I'm using right now as my workstation (XFree) and
   also as a server both for outside (Apache, FTP and SMTP) as well as
   for the inside (Samba).

2. My wife has a Windows box. Nothing special. Uses Samba shares.

3. I have a new box, which I intend to take over the role of my primary
   workstation (running Woody/Sid), leaving the current box (slooow) just
   to be a server.

On the server I intend to run a few Internet services (ADSL) for friends and
family. At this moment this means Apache and Proftpd. I'm also running Exim
as a 'smarthost' for the machines on my network.
Finally, I intend to keep all my files on it that I would want to access from
all machines on my network. Right now I'm using Samba so that the Windows box
has access to them, but I'm not sure what's the best way to access them from
the other Linux box.

So here are some questions/issues tha come to my mind:

- Right now I'm using the exim/fetchmail/procmail/mutt combo for my mail.
  And I'm quite happy with the result.
  If I move to the other Linux box as my primary worstation, the question
  arises where to receive the mail to?
  I would prefer to keep them on the server and to be able to use them on 
  both machine as it would be on the local machine.
  I guess this means either IMAP or exporting the mail dir through NFS...

- Speaking of NFS...
  I've read once somewhere that somebody argued that even though NFS is the
  UNIX way, Samba may offer better performance, even between two Linux boxes.
  Is this through?

  Also, to ensure that the contents of the Samba shares are allways accessible
  and modifyable on all boxes including the Windows one, I'd need to ensure
  somehow that everything I put there will be owned by default by the samba
  user ID with appropriate permissins. So far I've tried the sgid bit on the
  directories but I still often have problems with directories created directly
  on the server not being readable on the Windows box... Also some files I
  download and then copy to the appropriate shared dir cannot be deleted/moved
  from Windows. And I don't really want to access local dirs through mounting
  the samba shares just that the permissions are set by Samba automatically...

  Finally, most people tend to voice various security concerns with regard to
  NFS. I generally would like to avoid using RPC services if possible.
  Especially on the server. The same goes for inetd if possible.

  So should I use NFS or Samba?

- Related to the above, if using NFS which directories are woth sharing?
  Having the same environment on both machines is nice, but some guides
  recommend against sharing home directories. Especially when they contain
  ssh keys. On the other hand most configuration files are stored directly 
  under the home dir...

These are just a few issue I could think of right now, but
any other suggestion for the above setup would be greatly appreciated!

Many thanks for your help in advance!
best regards,
Balazs


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