Re: Recompile kernel lost network
On Mon, 17 Feb 2003 08:40:03 -0800 "deFreese, Barry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Oh Gods of Debian, > > I recently built a Dell Lattitude laptop to hopefully start doing > development on. Installed Woody with 2.2.20-idepci kernel and > everything was working fine. I decide to compile 2.4.18. First time > I compiled it, it wouldn't even recognize the 3Com PCMCIA nic. Got > that fixed but I still have no network connection. The /etc/hosts, > and /etc/network/interfaces all look correct but if I run ifconfig all > I have is the local loopback interface lo, no eth0. An lspci shows > the adapter and I get a link light on the card so I am a bit lost. > Any thoughts? This sounds too obvious, but did you by chance try "ifconfig eth0 up"? HTH, Jacob - GnuPG Key: 1024D/16377135 In a world without fences, who needs Gates? http://www.linux.org/ msg31314/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Recompile kernel lost network
On Mon, 17 Feb 2003 09:41:41 -0800 "deFreese, Barry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >-Original Message- > >From: Jacob S. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > >Sent: Monday, February 17, 2003 9:31 AM > >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Subject: Re: Recompile kernel lost network > > > > > >On Mon, 17 Feb 2003 08:40:03 -0800 > >"deFreese, Barry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > >This sounds too obvious, but did you by chance try "ifconfig eth0 > >up"? > > > Jacob, > > Nothing is ever "obvious"! :-) I believe I tried it but I will do it > again in case I didn't. > > Thanks! > > Barry deFreese I only call them obvious because they sure seem obvious once I'm reminded of them. (And I _have_ forgotten that multiple times... that's why it was the first thing I recommended! :-) I've never used dhcp or pump, so Hubert may have the better answer in his reply to your post. Let us know if you have more problems. Jacob - GnuPG Key: 1024D/16377135 In a world without fences, who needs Gates? http://www.linux.org/ msg31341/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Recompile kernel lost network - More information
On Mon, 17 Feb 2003 14:27:50 -0800 "deFreese, Barry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Mon, 17 Feb 2003 08:40:03 -0800 > >"deFreese, Barry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > OK, so I used ifconfig eth0 x.x.x.x mask 255.255.255.0 and that worked > and I can ping devices on the network but I have no name resolution? > /etc/resolv.conf has the nameserver configured?? What have I broken > that nothing seems to be reading any of the network configuration > files in /etc and /etc/network?? > > Thanks again!! > > Barry deFreese Try using the route command. When run on my personal machine, it looks like the following: Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface 192.168.xyz.00.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 00 eth0 0.0.0.0 192.168.xyz.10.0.0.0 UG0 00 eth0 As for why it's not doing it by default... I would start by double checking that you have the correct module listed in /etc/modules, then check your /etc/network/interfaces file. Below is a copy of my interfaces file: (Be sure to note the "auto" line.) auto lo iface lo inet loopback auto eth0 iface eth0 inet static address 192.168.xyz.xyz netmask 255.255.255.0 network 192.168.xyz.0 broadcast 192.168.35.255 gateway 192.168.xyz.1 For dynamic addresses, replace "static" and all the lines following with "dhcp" (or "pump" if you're using that, I believe). If everything there looks good, check your /etc/init.d/networking script, as well as the symlink to it from /etc/rc2.d/ (Assuming you've booted into the normal runlevel 2.) Once my config files are setup properly, I just run /etc/init.d/networking to get it to use the proper ip, netmask and gateway, etc. HTH, Jacob - GnuPG Key: 1024D/16377135 In a world without fences, who needs Gates? http://www.linux.org/ msg31379/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: /var/log/messages
On Thu, 20 Feb 2003 21:39:11 -0500 Richard Beri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My /var/log/messages and messages.0 are getting very large. messages > alone is almost 500 meg. Is is safe to delete these files (I don't > need to read any back error messages). My syslog is also reaching 500 > meg ais that safe to be deleted. Will they be auto-created again? > > Thanks If you simply need hard drive space, I would recommend something like burning the logs to a cd before deleting them from your hard drive. Just in case. Next I'd probably do an "apt-get install logrotate" so that your log files are in smaller, more easily manageable sizes. HTH, Jacob - GnuPG Key: 1024D/16377135 In a world without fences, who needs Gates? http://www.linux.org/ msg32029/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: fetchmail and SMTP return codes (was Re: recurring error inexim's log)
On Sat, 8 Mar 2003 13:44:16 -0500 ScruLoose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Okay, we're getting closer to a solution. (Thank you!) > I had no_bouncemail set in fetchmail's global config file (came that > way by default) and also 'set antispam' to a value of -1 (also > default) So I poked at the man page some, commented out > no_bouncemail, so fechmail_daemon is no longer spamming me (local > postmaster) with the error, *but* I don't know what syntax it wants > for values of 'antispam'. The smtp command timeout *is* still quietly > showing up in exim's log. > > I know that 'antispam' is referring to the smtp return-values, and I > figure I want it set to 5## This will make fetchmail hard-refuse (ie > "return to sender, quit trying to deliver this here") any message that > causes a 5xx SMTP error... yes? > > And I suspect that a value of -1 means "never match anything"... yes? > So am I right in thinking that 'set antispam 5##' is what I want? > And if so, what's the right syntax for matching any 5## response? > > Apologies if this is in the docs... I did take something of a look at > them... but I did not see an answer to this. > > Thanks > -Chris > In my /etc/fetchmailrc I've got the following antispam line for each mail account. I think it was added by one of the config tools, possibly fetchmailconf(?). antispam 571 550 501 554 HTH, Jacob - GnuPG Key: 1024D/16377135 In a world without fences, who needs Gates? http://www.linux.org/ pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Mozilla stops accepting typed input
On Thu, 13 Mar 2003 12:40:51 -0800 "Martin J. Hillyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm having an irritating problem with Mozilla. After what appears to > be a random length of time (often very short, eg, after one entry), it > stops accepting typing in, for example, the address box, or in a > google text input area. I have to kill that instance and start > another to get it to accept typed input. Clicking on links still > works normally. Does anyone have any ideas? > Thanks for any ideas... > -- > Martin Hillyer I've had a problem that sounds like what you're describing since Netscape 4.x. When it stops letting me input text in a field or I get to a field that it won't accept input for, it seems that a mix or combination of minimizing and then bringing back up the application or simply changing tabs and then coming back seems to fix the problem and I can keep going (no reload of the page required or anything like that). In Galeon, input fields sometimes behave strangely and double-clicking in the entry field or highlighting some of the text after clicking in the field seems to help, in strange combinations with the above mentioned suggestions. I figured I was in the minority with the problem though and was hoping future releases would fix the problem. HTH, Jacob P.S. Mozilla and Galeon versions are the latest from Woody. - GnuPG Key: 1024D/16377135 In a world without fences, who needs Gates? http://www.linux.org/ pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [SOLVED]Re: apache authentication
On Sat, 22 Mar 2003 18:07:03 +0100 Ernst-Magne Vindal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > But... > > If I want more sites/pages under /www to have authentication, how to > > do that? Can I do: > > > > > > AuthType Basic > > AuthName "By Invitation Only" > > AuthUserFile /usr/local/apache/passwd/.htpasswd > > Require valid-user > > > > > > AuthType Basic > > AuthName "Test site" > > AuthUserFile /usr/local/apache/passwd/.htpasswd > > Require valid-user > > > > > > Many thanks for help > > > > I the conf above, and it's working fine. > > Thanks for all help > > -- > /ernst If adding the authorization requirements in httpd.conf works, but a .htaccess file doesn't, I suspect you need to change the options that .htaccess files are allowed to override. Checking my httpd.conf file, it looks like the default is to allow .htaccess to specify auth requirements in home directories, but not the DocumentRoot. For more details, look at the "AllowOverride" option in your httpd.conf and the apache documentation. HTH, Jacob - GnuPG Key: 1024D/16377135 In a world without fences, who needs Gates? http://www.linux.org/ pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: indent for html?
Check the scripts on http://www.vim.org . I've seen a couple that looked like they would do the job - one of them is called "align". HTH, Jacob On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 11:41:44 -0600 "Monique Y. Herman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anyone know of an indent program for html? > > I'd accept a vim script too *grin* > - GnuPG Key: 1024D/16377135 Linux - It is now safe to turn on your computer. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Daylight Savings Time and UP-n-P
On Sat, 25 Oct 2003 17:14:50 -0700 Tom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 05:09:53PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > > Why would anybody want to use UPnP? Wonderfully insecure... > > I was hoping the open source community might have done it right. > I didn't want to have to mess with Linksys shitty HTML management :-) But are you sure you need UPnP to allow your games to go through the Linksys FW? If you don't, disable the UPnP and it won't cause you any more problems. http://grc.com/unpnp/unpnp.htm :-) HTH, Jacob - GnuPG Key: 1024D/16377135 Linux - It is now safe to turn on your computer. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: nslookup? What package is it in?
On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 10:36:24 -0500 stan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I tried apt-cache search, and the Debian package search page, and I > can't seem to find nslookup. > > I've got it on most of my "testingh" boxes, but the one I'm building > at the moment doesn't have it. # apt-cache search dnsutils dnsutils - Clients provided with BIND (Note though: it's recommended you use the new "dig" command, instead of nslookup, as nslookup is deprecated. Both dig and nslookup come in Woody's version of dnsutils.) HTH, Jacob - GnuPG Key: 1024D/16377135 Some software money can't buy. For everything else there's Micros~1. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Debian MSN clients can't connect
On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 23:24:21 + Pigeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've downloaded kopete and gaim0.71 as well but I've got to sort out > some broken dependencies before I can try compiling them on woody. > > Cheers, Gaim (as of .062 and newer, I believe) depends on gtk2, which makes it hard to compile on Woody. With other programs I wanted to upgrade as well, I found it easier to use apt pinning to grab some apps from unstable than compile my own. Jacob - GnuPG Key: 1024D/16377135 Fatal Error: Found MS-Windows System -> Repartitioning Disk for Linux... pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
SSLWrap keeps stopping
I've got sslwrap for POP3S running on two servers. On both machines, sslwrap is used for secure authentication to qmail-pop3d. One machine has been running fine for about 2 months now. The other machine stops authenticating at least once a week. The problem appears to be with sslwrap, as simply doing /etc/init.d/sslwrap restart solves the problem. However, I've not been able to find any hints in the logs for what's causing this. (I'm running Debian Woody. Also, the problem machine has almost twice the cpu power and ram that the working machine has, so I don't think it's anything to do with that... granted, they're both old pentiums, but I haven't seen any evidence that the hardware is the problem.) Does anyone have any ideas how I could fix this? Even some hints for troubleshooting this better would be appreciated. I may end up switching to software that will handle pop3s natively in the future, but it would need to support vpopmail and maildir. (courier-pop-ssl in Woody appears to be a little old.) TIA, Jacob - GnuPG Key: 1024D/16377135 If Bill Gates had a nickel for every time Windows crashed... Oh wait, he does. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: GUI login screen.
On Mon, 3 Nov 2003 18:02:27 -0600 "Hoyt Bailey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There are a few things I dont understand about Debians login screen. > 1. Root cannot log in on this screen. Why? > > 2. The sessions secect drop down menu has: Gnome, Gnome chooser, > Debian, KDE, Xsession, Failsafe Gnome, Failsafe KDE. When you leave > Gnome or KDE by pressing the logout button you are told that you can > logout, change logins or shutdown. Well I cant figure out how to > shutdown other than login as me and start a terminal su, enter > password, and issue the shutdown command. This is too much > Cntl-alt-del would be simpler assuming I wanted to go to Windows, But > how do you to go to shutdown -h now? Regards; > Hoyt I'll let one of the security gurus explain #1 to you. A quick solution for #2 though, is to edit /etc/inittab and look for the line containing "ctrlaltdel", then change the -r to -h. Here's what the unedited line looks like on my Debian Woody system: ca:12345:ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t1 -a -r now HTH, Jacob - GnuPG Key: 1024D/16377135 With Windows Millennium, Microsoft was able to get the boot time down to 25 seconds. That's almost as short as it's uptime. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: GUI login screen and non-root shutdown...
On Tue, 04 Nov 2003 10:56:47 -0600 Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm not sure what you're saying. > -- If you're logged into X, and press Ctrl-Alt-Fx, you'll switch to > VTx (e.g. Ctrl-Alt-F3 to go to VT3), and from there, if you hit > (Ctrl-)Alt-F7 (in most cases; F5 I believe with Knoppix, etc), you'll > switch back to your open session in X. It's still F7 as of Knoppix v. 3.2. > -- If you're not logged into X, but are sitting at the GUI login > screen (such as gdm or kdm), and you do the above procedure, you'll > switch to the VTx, then back to the GUI login screen. > > If you want to shut down the GUI login screen and just have text mode, > > switch to VTx, and then run something like "/etc/init.d/gdm stop" as > root. This particular command will shut down the gdm GUI login screen. I think this is the part that was confusing him. He was trying to logout and it was simply taking him back to the gdm login screen. /etc/init.d/gdm stop is a much better way, as you mention. Jacob - GnuPG Key: 1024D/16377135 .vbs = Virus Bearing Script? pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: POP3 mail fetcher that supports unreliable connections?
On Wed, 5 Nov 2003 01:42:34 +0100 Vincent Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2003-11-04 15:42:40 -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > > On Tue, 04 Nov 2003 at 21:54 GMT, Vincent Lefevre penned: > If you're stupid enough to type 'rm -rf' in your root directory, it's > your problem. *You* are typing 'rm -rf', whereas the delivery system > is generally not configured by the user. Trusting something to not lose data when you know it can have root privileges isn't exactly "smart" - in contrast with your calling people "stupid." All the Debian installations I've ever done asked me to choose one of four choices for configuring the delivery system. And every fetchmail installation I've done had the option to tell it which user to deliver the mail to, making it nice and straight forward. On the rare occasion I wasn't sure how to do something in fetchmail, fetchmailconf was very helpful. > > In both cases, the behavior is well documented, and in both cases, > > user error can end in disaster. > > No, it is not well documented. fetchmail makes some assumptions on > the local delivery (which worked perfectly without fetchmail). > Moreover the local delivery configuration is out-of-control for > the user (one needs to have a root access, which is not acceptable > for a user program). hmm... I always thought the Debian way was to test things before you relied on them. I guess I've been doing too much work. Oh, and BTW - I've never found fetchmail to be that poorly documented. And no, I'm not a *nix guru... Everything I know about Linux is something I learned from reading the documentation or from asking friends that also use Linux. And that was coming from a Win3.1 - 98 background. > > fetchmail follows the "unix philosophy" of chaining well-defined > > capabilities so as not to reinvent the (less capable) wheel. > > Completely wrong! I hope you don't think that for instance, a MUA > should use the local delivery system for copying messages to a > different mailbox! When you're copying mail between mailboxes you're not moving it to a separate computer, downloading it off a server, or anything else. You're simply moving data between files or files between folders (depending on what kind of mailbox you use). That's not a very good example. But on the other hand, sometimes you do use multiple programs chained together for moving things around on your own system - that's why the pipe | was invented. > > If you don't like that approach, then don't use the tool, but don't > > claim that the tool is poorly designed just because you don't like > > this philosophy and furthermore didn't take the time to understand > > the basics of how the tool worked. > > It is poorly designed as a POP3 mail fetcher tool, as it relies on > special support of the local delivery configuration. I've never heard smtp called "special support" before. Not only does fetchmail use it, a lot of Debian packages use it to communicate messages to the user. Debconf has sent me messages several times when my computer's configured to not show me configuration questions below a certain level. In another post you claim getmail does it the "proper way". That's the nice thing about Linux and open source; having multiple programs to do the same job, and being able to choose between the two. But I certainly wouldn't say that means fetchmail is defective by any means. The same things that make you say it's "defective" are what make me think it's so powerful. Jacob - GnuPG Key: 1024D/16377135 Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question. Linux is the answer. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Looking for a good digital image manager
On Wed, 05 Nov 2003 22:14:51 -0500 Trey Sizemore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm looking for something like PixiePlus for categorizing and editing > digital photos. PixiePlus is pretty good, but I'm looking at > alternatives. I've also tried GQview. > > So what are the favorites out there? Editing photos? I use GIMP for everything from resizing to cutting people out of one picture and putting them in another. :-) HTH, Jacob - GnuPG Key: 1024D/16377135 Linux, DOS, Windows NT -- The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: fetchmail, when does one loose email?
On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 10:36:30 -0500 ScruLoose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 02:40:37PM +0100, David Jardine wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 11:22:44AM +0100, wsa wrote: > > > > Successful delivery to your MTA. What your MTA then does with it > > is something that fetchmail knows nothing about. > > I don't know if that's _entirely_ true. I think that fetchmail waits > for one of the "okay I handled that successfully" SMTP codes from the > MTA before it deletes the message off the POP server. If it gets a > failure code from the MTA it will _not_ delete the mail. > > So really, the only way you're likely to lose your mail with fetchmail > is if your MTA is so misconfigured that it'll lose mail and still > report a success. I believe ScruLoose is right. I recently changed the configuration on my mailserver and started getting reports from friends about e-mails bouncing - with my new configuration, I needed to tell fetchmail to deliver to [EMAIL PROTECTED], instead of simply "username". So, they were seeing bounce messages saying there was no such user on my server. Jacob - GnuPG Key: 1024D/16377135 NT == No Thanks pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: fetchmail, when does one loose email?
On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 11:10:40 -0600 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 10:15, Jacob S. wrote: > > On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 10:36:30 -0500 > > ScruLoose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 02:40:37PM +0100, David Jardine wrote: > > > I don't know if that's _entirely_ true. I think that fetchmail > > > waits for one of the "okay I handled that successfully" SMTP codes > > > from the MTA before it deletes the message off the POP server. If > > > it gets a failure code from the MTA it will _not_ delete the mail. > > > > > > So really, the only way you're likely to lose your mail with > > > fetchmail is if your MTA is so misconfigured that it'll lose mail > > > and still report a success. > > > > I believe ScruLoose is right. I recently changed the configuration > > on my mailserver and started getting reports from friends about > > e-mails bouncing - with my new configuration, I needed to tell > > fetchmail to deliver to [EMAIL PROTECTED], instead of simply > > "username". So, they were seeing bounce messages saying there was no > > such user on my server. > > Do you use your ISP's smtp server, or your own smtp server? Actually, you bring up a good point. The bounces were from my own smtp server. And as I think about it more - the mail was lost in that I never received it, but not in the sense that the people trying to send me mail knew that I wasn't getting it. Jacob - GnuPG Key: 1024D/16377135 Linux: Because a PC is a terrible thing to waste. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: scsi vs. cdrom_read
On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 19:37:36 +0100 steef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ...mmm. if you put lilo afterwards you 'make' your cdrom_reader/player/writer into only > a cdrom_writer. to use it as cdrom-reader again you have got to get > rid of the line in lilo again. > anyway: that is the way it works on my machine. > > a suggestion: (not too expensive i hope and without the trouble to > compile a new kernel): add another cdrom-player to your machine. > > steef No, it is still possible to read CDs from a CDRW drive that you've setup using append="hdx=ide-scsi" in lilo.conf. If you have sr_mod.o compiled into the kernel or as a loadable modules, your cdrom drive will show up as /dev/srX or /dev/scdX (where X is the drive number the kernel sees it as). If you have the modules compiled and loaded properly, you'll want to do some playing around as root to find what device your kernel is recognizing the drive as (ie. "mount /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom") and then change your /etc/fstab file to reflect the new /dev location for the cdrom device. HTH, Jacob - GnuPG Key: 1024D/16377135 Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question. Linux is the answer. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: how to change beep noise
On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 16:08:54 -0600 (CST)
Daniel Edmund Davison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi, I've just installed debian woody on a HPze1230 laptop. The beep
> noise it is making on ambiguous file-completions, new mail, etc is
> very loud. The keyboard volume-changing and muting keys are not
> recognised. Is there an alteration I can make within debian to
> change/disable this noise?
>
> thanks,
> dan.
I'm afraid I don't remember the setting to change to turn the beep off,
but you should be able to change the volume with the keys on the
keyboard that you mention by installing the "hotkeys" package. ("apt-get
install hotkeys" will install it for you, if it's not already
installed.)
HTH,
Jacob
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Re: migrating /home to a new partition
On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 17:10:19 + ben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > anyone know how to safely migrate /home to a new partition? i've > googled and checked the archives but can't find appropriate info. > > all clues gratefully appreciated. > > ben Howdy Ben, The easiest way I've found is to create and mke2fs the partition first, then boot off of a boot floppy or bootable cd (provided you're not going to be using parted or similar software to shrink an existing partition before creating the new partition). After booting from the floppy or cd, copy /home to the new partition using something like "cp -a /home /new-home" (-a is very important, as it's the archive flag, and will tell cp not to follow symbolic links, but simply copy them as they are, maintain permissions, etc.). If the copy's successful (browse your directories, run du -hs on /home and /new_home, if home is currently on it's own partition, you can also check space used with df, etc. Once you're satisfied that everything's on /new_home, "rm -r /home" (Note: there's no turning back after you enter that command... double and triple check that things are like you want before you delete the old /home), then mkdir /home (this will be the new mount point for the home partition. Edit /etc/fstab to reflect the new partition for home and you should be ready to reboot. (If you don't edit /etc/fstab, it won't know where to find the /home directory and you'll notice that any user other than root has trouble logging in.) It can also be done without using a boot floppy/cd, but it's a lot harder because you are deleting files that might be in use currently for any users that are logged in, etc. The use of a boot floppy/cd is strongly recommended! HTH, Jacob P.S. Please start a new thread when you're starting a new subject, rather than replying to an existing thread. I've done it for you for this thread. - GnuPG Key: 1024D/16377135 C:\WINDOWS\RUN C:\WINDOWS\CRASH C:\ME\FDISK /usr/src/linux pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Messed Up Console Dialogs
I'm trying to get a mouse wheel to work in XWindows on a potato box and causing colateral damage at the same time. :-) Noticing there was not XF86Config-4 file, I ran dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 and when it asked if I wanted the config file handled by debconf, I said yes. It was working great until I got to the part for selecting monitor settings - I chose simple. At that point it just sat there with a blank blue screen. Finally I Ctrl-C'd out of there and tried to start over. Now though, a dpkg-reconfigure on anything that gives a dialog based prompt of that sort simply hangs with a blue screen - never showing the options or what it's doing. If I Ctrl-C out of it, it will then show a white box inside the blue screen with some text for the title, but it still doesn't show me what the options where, and obviously I'm back at the command line so I can't try and select any options. Does anyone know where I might start to resolve this and get back to working on the mouse wheel? TIA, Jacob - GnuPG Key: 1024D/16377135 Microsoft has combined the strengths of its three most powerful operating systems to create its next generation operating system: Windows CE+ME+NT As hard as a rock and as dumb as a brick! http://www.6texans.net/img/msc.jpg pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Messed Up Console Dialogs
On Fri, 14 Nov 2003 00:09:09 -0600 "Jacob S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm trying to get a mouse wheel to work in XWindows on a potato box > and causing colateral damage at the same time. :-) Oops... I meant Woody. It's running Debian 3.0r1 with all the security updates, etc. Time to get some sleep... Jacob - GnuPG Key: 1024D/16377135 A truly stable environment would be a concrete basement with no Windows! Computers are no different. http://www.linux.org pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: What is required to deliver system mail locally ???
On Sat, 15 Nov 2003 08:27:28 -0600 Michael D Schleif <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have rerun eximconf, and told it to use option #4, that this > computer is *not* on the Internet, and to only deliver local mail. Of > course, now nothing is listening on port 25 ;> Are you sure nothing's listening on port 25? I just checked with a telnet 25 to one of the machines on my network running exim that I configured with the same option #4 and got the usual SMTP greeting identifying itself as Exim 3.35. I think option #4 just skips asking you details about how to send and receive e-mail from the internet because you told it you only want mail delivered locally. However, it still listens to port 25 because you said you *do* want mail delivered locally, by selecting #4. I normally just run a firewall on the machine if I'm worried about access to certain ports. Using only certain parts of qmail may work, as someone else suggested, but I know at least fetchmail (and probably others) drop stuff in the queue via smtp. Yes, it's mail from that machine to the same machine, but it makes it easier for them to know how to talk to the mail system and they don't need extra code if you want it delivered to an e-mail address on a different machine instead. On the other hand, I'll freely admit that I've never had reason to setup a machine to NSA crack-proof standards... :-) Jacob - GnuPG Key: 1024D/16377135 A Linux machine! because a 486 is a terrible thing to waste! pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: What is required to deliver system mail locally ???
On Sat, 15 Nov 2003 11:17:53 -0600 "Jacob S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 15 Nov 2003 08:27:28 -0600 > Michael D Schleif <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I have rerun eximconf, and told it to use option #4, that this > > computer is *not* on the Internet, and to only deliver local mail. > > Of course, now nothing is listening on port 25 ;> > > I normally just run a firewall on the machine if I'm worried about > access to certain ports. Using only certain parts of qmail may work, > as someone else suggested, but I know at least fetchmail (and probably > others) drop stuff in the queue via smtp. Yes, it's mail from that > machine to the same machine, but it makes it easier for them to know > how to talk to the mail system and they don't need extra code if you > want it delivered to an e-mail address on a different machine instead. As I think about this a little more, I believe there's a way you can set the IP address that qmail will listen on, such as the /supervise/tinydns/env/IP file that will bind it to certain ips only, so you can use other programs to listen to that port for other ips (in the case of tinydns, it's dnscache that would be listening on other ips). Then you could have it only listening on 127.0.0.1 and accepting local mail, but port 25 would appear dead to any machine connecting from the network. HTH, Jacob - GnuPG Key: 1024D/16377135 Windows hasn't increased computer literacy. It's just lowered the standard. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Installing Debian on an iPAQ
On Tue, 21 Jan 2003 15:42:21 -0500 "Darryl L. Pierce" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anybody have experience doing this? Can anybody point me to some > information on doing so? Never had one to try it on, but http://www.linuxdevices.com/ should have some information about it. HTH, Jacob - GnuPG Key: 1024D/16377135 In a world without fences, who needs Gates? http://www.linux.org/ msg25379/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: sit (compressed files)
On Mon, 27 Jan 2003 13:27:38 -0500 Emma Jane Hogbin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My silly designer just sent me an .sit file. Does anyone know if this > can be expanded in debian? > > I grabbed a copy of "macutils", but I'm not sure what I'm supposed to > do with the program... > > debian:/home/emmajane# apt-get install macutils > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > The following NEW packages will be installed: > macutils > 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 384 not > upgraded. > Need to get 95.5kB of archives. After unpacking 324kB will be used. > Get:1 http://http.us.debian.org unstable/main macutils 2.0b3-12 > [95.5kB] Fetched 95.5kB in 50s (1879B/s) > > Selecting previously deselected package macutils. > (Reading database ... 66617 files and directories currently > installed.) Unpacking macutils (from .../macutils_2.0b3-12_i386.deb) > ... Setting up macutils (2.0b3-12) ... > > debian:/home/emmajane# man macutils > No manual entry for macutils > debian:/home/emmajane# macutils > bash: macutils: command not found > > perhaps it's simply not installed? > > emma No, the apt-get message you quote above shows that it was correctly installed. Try a "dpkg -L macutils" to see which files and programs the macutils package installed. Typically the files of interest to you will be in a bin/ directory. Then you can do a "man" on each of the files installed in bin/ by macutils to see what they're meant to do, and how to use them. HTH, Jacob - GnuPG Key: 1024D/16377135 In a world without fences, who needs Gates? http://www.linux.org/ msg26654/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Streaming server for linux
On Wed, 29 Jan 2003 11:55:50 -0800 (PST) faisal gillani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does debian linux has a streaming server ? i mean like > win2000 has windows media server ? > so that i can broadcast my mp3,s & video mpg,s on > networks with multicast enabled ? > also if it is available , is it stable ? easy to > configure ? & present on any cd of debian ? > > thankx > > > = > *__., __,.__*___*_ Allah-hu-Akber*__., __,.__*__*_ "apt-cache search streaming" looked like it had a couple of possibilities. Listed among them was icecast-server and liveice. Never tried either one, but they look like they might work. HTH, Jacob - GnuPG Key: 1024D/16377135 In a world without fences, who needs Gates? http://www.linux.org/ msg27278/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
[OT] USB -> Ethernet adapters
Looking at the device compatability list on www.linux-usb.org it looks like these adapters are supported fairly well. I was wondering though if anyone has had any experience with them, good or bad, and what their recommendation would be for purchasing a new one. TIA, Jacob - GnuPG Key: 1024D/16377135 In a world without fences, who needs Gates? http://www.linux.org/ msg28896/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [OT] USB -> Ethernet adapters
On Thu, 6 Feb 2003 09:12:50 -0500 "Thomas H. George" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 11:20:48PM -0600, Jacob S. wrote: > > Looking at the device compatability list on www.linux-usb.org it > > looks like these adapters are supported fairly well. I was wondering > > though if anyone has had any experience with them, good or bad, and > > what their recommendation would be for purchasing a new one. > > > > TIA, > > Jacob > > I have been struggling off and on for two months trying to get an > Actiontec Wireless USB Adapter to work on a Woody system with a 2.4.18 > kernel and/or a Testing system with a 2.4.20 kernel - so far without > success. With Woody I have compiled linux-wlan-ng-0.1.16-pre8 (there > is now a pre9) and with Testing I have tried the Debian linux-wlan-ng > package. The Adapter should work - other people, particularly Jacek > Pliszka, report success using it with Red Hat and with SuSE. > > Tom George Sorry, I should have been more specific. I'm looking at wired usb>ethernet adapters. More along the lines of what Derrick mentions in the next post, if I'm understanding him right. Tnx, Jacob - GnuPG Key: 1024D/16377135 In a world without fences, who needs Gates? http://www.linux.org/ msg28981/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Console fonts in rxvt
According to the rxvt man page, you can choose a different font by using "rxvt -fn " when bringing up a new rxvt terminal. However, I'm having trouble getting it to work. rxvt keeps telling me "can't load font ". I've tried everything from console fonts (/usr/share/consolefonts) to Type1. I've done an apt-cache search and I don't see any font packages specifically for rxvt. Does anyone have any suggestions as to what I'm missing? TIA, Jacob --- GnuPG Key: 1024D/16377135 In a world without fences, who needs Gates? http://www.linux.org/ msg30149/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Console fonts in rxvt
Thanks, Cameron. That did the trick. I was actually trying variations such as "rxvt -fn /usr/share/truetype/courier.ttf" I'll keep xfontsel in mind for future reference. Thanks again, Jacob On Tue, 11 Feb 2003 14:32:49 -0700 Cameron Matheson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey, > > What are you using as a font name? You just use any font that X > recognizes (use xfontsel to get the font-name). With aterm, i use the > font "-ormaxx-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*". I'm guessing you were just > trying something like -fn "courier"? xfontsel will be your friend. > > Good luck, > Cameron > > > On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 11:40:45AM -0600, Jacob S. wrote: - GnuPG Key: 1024D/16377135 In a world without fences, who needs Gates? http://www.linux.org/ msg30201/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Snort installation
I've been working on installing and setting up snort-mysql on a server tonight, and noticed that the default apt-get installation leaves snort unable to run. It appears that when I did a chmod o-rwx /etc/snort/snort.conf it made it so that snort couldn't read it's own config file. (I ran the chmod to try and protect my passwords, since I'm running snort-mysql and have to include the db username and password if I expect it to use the db any.) After doing a "chown -R snort:snort /etc/snort/", it was happy and I could start it using the /etc/init.d script again. /var/log/messages and "ps ax | grep snort" show it successfully running in the background again. So, my thoughts were, shouldn't the debian package set the permissions up like this by default? Is this worth filing a bug report about? If there's something I'm overlooking, I'd appreciate hearing about that too. TIA, Jacob - GnuPG Key: 1024D/16377135 In a world without fences, who needs Gates? http://www.linux.org/ msg30430/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Console fonts in rxvt
On Thu, 13 Feb 2003 11:46:55 -0500 George Georgalis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 08:21:11PM -0800, Eric G. Miller wrote: > >On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 10:06:06PM -0500, George Georgalis wrote: > >> Hi, another question on the same topic... > >> > >> On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 02:32:49PM -0700, Cameron Matheson wrote: > >> > >> >What are you using as a font name? You just use any font that X > >> >recognizes (use xfontsel to get the font-name). With aterm, i use > >the> > >> How does one specify the font: > >> -jmk-neep alt-medium-r-normal-*-*-140-*-*-c-*-iso8859-1 > >> > >> there is a space in the name and I can't get it to work with > >rxvt... > > > >Wrap it in quotes. > > Have you done it? I've tried single / double quotes and "\ " to no > avail... but I am setting a variable ($fn) and using -fn $fn on the > command line (in a script). maybe that's my problem? > > // George Yes, though I did it with Times New Roman. Using a format similar to rxvt -fn "-jmk-neep alt-medium-r-normal-*-*-140-*-*-c-*-iso8859-1" worked for me. (Note: the quotes only go around the font name, not the full command.) HTH, Jacob - GnuPG Key: 1024D/16377135 In a world without fences, who needs Gates? http://www.linux.org/ msg30574/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: XMMS Volume Control
On Fri, 14 Feb 2003 16:11:35 +0100 Willem-Jan Meijer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi there, > > XMMS is now working fine, using the arts output plugin. There's a > button to control the volume w/o using the volume control on the > speakers self, but this isn't working. Is this related to the arts > output plugin? > > However, is there a way to use the volume control that comes with > XMMS? > > Regards, > > Willem-Jan Meijer I had that happen on an installation once as well. The problem ended up being a permissions problem. Adding your user to the group "audio" in /etc/group should fix the problem. (Note: You'll have to login again before you'll notice the difference.) HTH, Jacob - GnuPG Key: 1024D/16377135 In a world without fences, who needs Gates? http://www.linux.org/ msg30740/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
phpgroupware setup guide
Can anyone point me in the direction of a good tutorial for setting up phpgroupware on a Debian Woody box? I think I've finally gotten all the proper packages installed for it to run on a mySQL database, but I know very little about where to go next. I also found that the docs at www.phpgroupware.org seem to be lacking quite a bit. TIA, Jacob - In a world without fences, who needs Gates? http://www.linux.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: phpgroupware setup guide
On Mon, 09 Dec 2002 11:50:46 + Chris Lale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jacob S. wrote: > > Can anyone point me in the direction of a good tutorial for setting > > up phpgroupware on a Debian Woody box? I think I've finally gotten > > all the proper packages installed for it to run on a mySQL database, > > but I know very little about where to go next. I also found that the > > docs at www.phpgroupware.org seem to be lacking quite a bit. > > Have you actually got it running? I had no luck. The phpgroupware > package removed php4 and installed php3. It also installed mysql. > Could you tell me what packages you have installed/configured? No, not really. I'm stuck at the very beginning. Beginning meaning I can get the login prompt for "Setup/Config Admin Login" and "Header Admin Login", but as soon as I enter the proper password I'm greeted by a nice white page that says "Warning: Failed opening '/usr/share/phpgroupware//phpgwapi/inc/class.db_.inc.php' for inclusion in ./inc/class.setup.inc.php on line 42 Fatal error: db is not a class in ./inc/class.setup.inc.php on line 43" I've tried copying /phpgwapi/inc/class.db.inc.php as well as /phpgwapi/inc/class.db_mysql.inc.php to the proper location to be opened in place of the file causing the error, but all that does is give me a white page - minus the error mentioned above. :-) Below is a list of all the packages I've installed for this project, so far, for whatever it's worth. php3 php3-cgi php3-imap php3-mysql phpgroupware phpgroupware-admin phpgroupware-api phpgroupware-chat phpgroupware-core phpgroupware-forum phpgroupware-manual phpgroupware-phpwebhosting phpgroupware-polls phpgroupware-preferences phpgroupware-setup libdbd-mysql-perl libmysqlclient mysql-client mysql-common mysql-server apache apache-common apache-ssl Let me know if you have any more success than I've had. :-) Jacob - In a world without fences, who needs Gates? http://www.linux.org/ msg17879/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: phpgroupware setup guide
On Tue, 10 Dec 2002 10:49:13 +1100 Geoff Crompton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have got phpgroup ware installed successfully. My packages are: > phpgroupwareinstall > phpgroupware-addressbookinstall > phpgroupware-admin install > phpgroupware-apiinstall > phpgroupware-bookmarks install > phpgroupware-calendar install > phpgroupware-core install > phpgroupware-email install > phpgroupware-preferencesinstall > phpgroupware-setup install > apache install > apache-common install > debconf install > debconf-utils install > php3install > php3-docinstall > php3-imap install > php3-ldap install > php3-mysql install > php3-xmlinstall > wwwconfig-commoninstall > > I can't remember what I did to get it working though. I'm running > woody. > > Geoff hmm... I don't see any packages in that list that would seem to make much of a difference for my setup not working. Maybe the phpgroupware list will have some help... I'll report back to this list if I find anything. Jacob - In a world without fences, who needs Gates? http://www.linux.org/ msg18045/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: phpgroupware setup guide
On Tue, 10 Dec 2002 12:34:03 + Chris Lale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > To get the login page, I had to copy the /usr/share/phpgroupware/ > directory to /var/www/ (http root for apache). > > For Setup/Config Admin Login I just get a blank white page whether I > use a password or not. > > > I can login as Header Admin (with or without password) but I get this > message: > > No MySQL support found. Disabling > No Postgres-DB support found. Disabling > No Microsoft SQL Server support found. Disabling > No Oracle-DB support found. Disabling > > did not found any valid DB support ! > try to configure your php to support one of the above mentioned dbs or > install phpgroupware by hand > > Did you make any changes to /etc/php3/apache/php.ini ? Immediately after install I was able to go to http://hostname.domain.tld/phpgroupware/setup and get the login page w/o a problem. If it's just complaining about the lack of database support, I would agree with the other user that said you need to install the mysql package for php. I think phpgroupware depends on php3 though, instead of the 4 they suggested. Try php3-mysql, if you don't already have it installed. If you have it installed already, try a dpkg-reconfigure on several of your apache, phpgroupware, mysql packages. No, I've not touched /etc/php3/apache/php.ini, or seen anything about needing to change it. Perhaps I should look at it? Thanks, Jacob - In a world without fences, who needs Gates? http://www.linux.org/ msg18122/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: phpgroupware setup guide
Oops... Scratch that last reply. I just tried Header Admin as you suggested and it gave the same message you said you got. It did have a nice little note up at the top though saying "Edit your existing header.inc.php". I guess that's the next place to look... HTH, Jacob - In a world without fences, who needs Gates? http://www.linux.org/ msg18123/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
OT: RAID Controllers
I'm still a little new to the RAID side of the world and the hardware howto doesn't have the information I'm looking for. Does anyone have any recommendations for good hardware RAID(5) controllers (mainly SCSI, but possibly IDE too) that are supported by Linux? TIA, Jacob - GnuPG Key: 1024D/16377135 In a world without fences, who needs Gates? http://www.linux.org/ pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Dumb Newbie KDE Pager Question
Last I used KDE (way back during version 1.something), you could drag a window to the desktop number you wanted it moved to on the taskbar. You should also be able to click the button on the upper left hand corner of a window or right click it's name on the taskbar and select "Move to - " and the desktop number you desire. HTH, Jacob On Mon, 02 Jun 2003 09:46:20 -0400 RB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > All, > Please forgive the stupidity of my question. I can't find theanswer in > > the Fine Manual. > > How do I move a window from one desktop to another in the KDE pager? > I come from FVWM2, where you click and drag the little window in the > pager. > > Thanks, > Rich - GnuPG Key: 1024D/16377135 In a world without fences, who needs Gates? http://www.linux.org/ pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: phpgroupware setup guide
On Thu, 12 Dec 2002 12:02:55 + Chris Lale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes, I had that too! > > Geoff, I wonder if the problem lies in the config files. Would you be > prepared to send me copies of yours from your working system? I would > like to compare > > /usr/share/phpgroupware/header.inc.php > and /etc/apache/httpd.conf > > If you are agreeble, please send them to [EMAIL PROTECTED] And please cc me on that, if you don't mind sharing those files with us. Thanks, Jacob - In a world without fences, who needs Gates? http://www.linux.org/ msg18657/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: phpgroupware setup guide
On Sun, 8 Dec 2002 00:11:10 -0600 Jacob S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can anyone point me in the direction of a good tutorial for setting up > phpgroupware on a Debian Woody box? I think I've finally gotten all > the proper packages installed for it to run on a mySQL database, but I > know very little about where to go next. I also found that the docs at > www.phpgroupware.org seem to be lacking quite a bit. > > TIA, > Jacob I'm a little bit further now... At the suggestion of a friend, I added the line "extension=mysql.so" in the proper section of /etc/php3/apache/php3.ini. I believe Chris had also mentioned this file earlier. I'm now able to login to header admin and edit my header.inc.php file. Setup/config login still just gives me a blank white page though. Jacob - GnuPG Key: 1024D/16377135 In a world without fences, who needs Gates? http://www.linux.org/ msg18674/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: phpgroupware setup guide
Chris and any others that may have been following this thread, Thanks to the guys over on the phpgroupware-users mailing list, and some suggestions from this list, I've finally got phpgroupware running. I ran into a lot of obstacles along the way. Hopefully these notes will be helpful for others that might be trying to get it running on Debian Woody as well. For starters, the php3-mysql package didn't edit /etc/php3/apache/php3.ini, so I had to add a line to that file before phpgroupware could see that I did have MySQL support installed. But then I was still running into a blank page on the Setup/Config Login. The folks over on the phpgroupware-users list recommended a newer version of the software off their site, as it had some improvements over the RC version that's in Debian. That combined with the fact that some parts of the Debian setup seemed better covered by php4, while php3 was listed as a dependency, I ended up uninstalling all .debs of php3 and phpgroupware. I then apt-get installed php4, php4-imap, php4-cgi and php4-mysql. Once that was configured, thanks to debconf, I used to cvs to grab the latest stable phpgroupware, and followed the install instructions from their website. At this point I had a problem with my web browser telling me the login page was a php3 file, and then asking me whether I wanted to download it or view it using a file handler. Through a combination of doing an updatedb, dpkg-reconfigure apache, editing httpd.conf and clearing the disk and memory cache in my browser (some of this was due to php3 remnants that were left on my machine), I was able to get the login page and edit my header.inc.php file. I also had to change the permissions on the ~phpgroupware directory to be owned by the same user and group that apache runs as. Next I had to create an empty database for phpgroupware to use for the Setup/Config login page. Evidently the mysql apt-get installation didn't set a password in mysql, so I had to use the command "mysqladmin -u root create phpgroupware" while logged in as root to create the database (Dropping the "-p" flag that the phpgroupware page said to use). I'll obviously need to secure MySQL a little better before I make this portion of my site public. The next step was giving the group "phpgroupware" access to the database "phpgroupware," as mentioned on the phpgroupware site. Finally I was able to login to the Setup/Config portion of phpgroupware/setup/index.php. Once you're in there it's just a simple matter of telling it to install all the applications, setting up an admin account, creating user accounts, etc. Now I'll be working on tightening the phpgroupware and MySQL security and then opening my firewall to allow my users to access my site. Thanks again for all the help from this list, Jacob On Mon, 09 Dec 2002 11:50:46 + Chris Lale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jacob S. wrote: > > Can anyone point me in the direction of a good tutorial for setting > > up phpgroupware on a Debian Woody box? I think I've finally gotten > > all the proper packages installed for it to run on a mySQL database, > > but I know very little about where to go next. I also found that the > > docs at www.phpgroupware.org seem to be lacking quite a bit. > > Have you actually got it running? I had no luck. The phpgroupware > package removed php4 and installed php3. It also installed mysql. > Could you tell me what packages you have installed/configured? > > Cheers, > > Chris. - GnuPG Key: 1024D/16377135 In a world without fences, who needs Gates? http://www.linux.org/ msg19016/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: many packages need to be upgraded
On Mon, 16 Dec 2002 02:04:36 + Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 09:45:45AM +0800, Patrick Hsieh wrote: > > I've been sticking to woody for a long time. Today I noticed there > > are some packages need to be upgraded: > Firstly, you clearly don't have security updates in your sources.list, > or you'd have got the php4 updates ages ago (September). I'd recommend > fixing that. See http://security.debian.org/ for help. > Cheers, > > -- > Colin Watson > [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Ok, I'll risk embarrassment here to see what I'm missing. :-) I've got the following line in my /etc/apt/sources.list file which seems to be the same one listed on the front page of http://security.debian.org that you mentioned... deb http://security.debian.org woody/updates main contrib non-free And tonight I got the following package updates when I did an apt-get update/upgrade. I had just installed the php4 packages this past Thurs., and had done several apt-get update/upgrades this past week... Why did it still give me some php4 updates? # apt-get upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done 7 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 3189kB of archives. After unpacking 12.3kB will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y Get:1 http://http.us.debian.org woody/main libstdc++2.10-glibc2.21:2.95.4-11woody1 [142kB] Get:2 http://http.us.debian.org woody/main cpp-2.95 1:2.95.4-11woody1 [129kB] Get:3 http://http.us.debian.org woody/main gcc-2.95 1:2.95.4-11woody1 [952kB] Get:4 http://http.us.debian.org woody/main php4 4:4.1.2-6 [582kB] Get:5 http://http.us.debian.org woody/main php4-cgi 4:4.1.2-6 [990kB] Get:6 http://http.us.debian.org woody/main php4-imap 4:4.1.2-6 [377kB] Get:7 http://http.us.debian.org woody/main php4-mysql 4:4.1.2-6 [15.1kB] Fetched 3189kB in 42s (74.3kB/s) TIA, Jacob - GnuPG Key: 1024D/16377135 In a world without fences, who needs Gates? http://www.linux.org/ msg19324/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
[OT] php/cgi scripts for websites
I read the nms website (http://nms-cgi.sourceforge.net/) about why Matt's Script Archive shouldn't be used anymore, but I noticed nms only has 16 scripts, compared to the gobs of scripts on Matt's. So, my question is, does anyone have any recommendations of another good place to look for scripts that won't have security holes? One of the first scripts I'm looking for is something to count visitors to my site, how many times diff. pages get accessed, etc. TIA, Jacob - GnuPG Key: 1024D/16377135 In a world without fences, who needs Gates? http://www.linux.org/ msg19327/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: apache and apache-ssl
On Tue, 17 Dec 2002 15:07:48 -0500 (EST) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm somewhat confused about the configuration of apache and > > apache-ssl. I noticed that by default they both share the same > > document root, server root, and run under the same system user. I > > read about the different methods of authentication on the apache > > site, as well as.htaccess files, but didn't see a way to restrict > > access of certain pages to a secure connection only. Am I missing > > something or should I be setting up apache and apache-ssl to have > > separate document roots, server roots, and system users? > > > > apache-ssl doesn't provide access restrictions. It provides encrypted > data. > > You can still access all the web pages under apache-ssl, but no one > can sneak in and steal your information (credit cards) from what you > POST to the server. > If you are looking for access restrictions, then .htaccess is a start. > > Not having the docs in front of me, I have to venture a guess that > there is a different configuration for http and https document roots > that you have to set up. Thanks, Sean and tallison. Sorry, I do realize that apache-ssl doesn't secure information by default, but requiring basic authentication over ssl using a .htaccess does, and that is the reason I was asking. Is there really any reason for the apache and apache-ssl packages to default to using the same server root, document root and system user? It would seem that there would be more people wanting them as separate pages and sites for security purposes that they would default to being different, and those that want them alike can make them alike. Shouldn't a bug report be filed against one or both packages for this? Thanks again, Jacob - GnuPG Key: 1024D/16377135 In a world without fences, who needs Gates? http://www.linux.org/ msg19746/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Sylpheed and mail client
On Mon, 23 Dec 2002 20:06:50 -0500 Shawn Lamson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 23 Dec 2002 18:29:24 -0500 > Marc Shapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I have found another problem with Sylpheed that I do not think has > > been mentioned before: > > > > Sometimes, when I receive mail-list digests, some of the message > > will display, but not all of it. I had tried Sylpheed long ago and > > had come across this problem and written to the maintainer, then I > > forgot about it until I tried it again when people on the list > > started recommending it. > > The mail list at [EMAIL PROTECTED] is pretty > active, try reposting this there. Better yet, try the "plain" Sylpheed list at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sylpheed-claws is an independent development branch that is not maintained by the same maintainer as Sylpheed. For instructions on subscribing, go to http://sylpheed.good-day.net/ > > HTH, Jacob - GnuPG Key: 1024D/16377135 In a world without fences, who needs Gates? http://www.linux.org/ msg20793/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: ext3 filesystem error
On Tue, 24 Dec 2002 11:48:03 -0600 (CST) Russ Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My hard drive is set up with /dev/hda1 /boot > and /dev/hda2 / > /dev/hda3 is my swap space. > > When I edit /etc/fstab to set /dev/hda2 and /dev/hda1 to ext3 instead > of ext2, I get the error: > kernel: ext3: No journal on filesystem on ide0(3,1) > My file /etc/mtab shows /dev/hda2 mounted as ext3, but /dev/hda1 > does not mount. I have no /boot directory. > If I change the /etc/fstab file to mount /dev/hda2 as ext3 and > /dev/hda1 as ext2, then both are mounted without errors. Can anyone > point out my problem? > > Thanks, > Russ Howdy Russ, I know this sounds obvious, but perhaps you haven't created a journal on hda1 yet? To quote the ext3 mini howto: "An ext2 filesystem may be converted to ext3 by creating a journal file on it. To do this, run tune2fs -j /dev/hdXX on the target filesystem. The filesystem is now ext3! Note that the filesystem need not be unmounted for this operation." The full mini howto can be found at: http://www.symonds.net/~rajesh/howto/ext3/toc.html HTH, Jacob - GnuPG Key: 1024D/16377135 In a world without fences, who needs Gates? http://www.linux.org/ msg20885/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: ext3 filesystem error
On Tue, 24 Dec 2002 20:11:44 +0100 Elimar Riesebieter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 24 Dec 2002 the mental interface of > Jacob S. told: > > > On Tue, 24 Dec 2002 11:48:03 -0600 (CST) > > Russ Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > My hard drive is set up with /dev/hda1 /boot > > > and /dev/hda2 / > > > /dev/hda3 is my swap space. > > > > > > When I edit /etc/fstab to set /dev/hda2 and /dev/hda1 to ext3 > > > instead of ext2, I get the error: > > > kernel: ext3: No journal on filesystem on ide0(3,1) > > > My file /etc/mtab shows /dev/hda2 mounted as ext3, but /dev/hda1 > > > does not mount. I have no /boot directory. > > > If I change the /etc/fstab file to mount /dev/hda2 as ext3 and > > > /dev/hda1 as ext2, then both are mounted without errors. Can > > > anyone point out my problem? > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Russ > > > > Howdy Russ, > > > > I know this sounds obvious, but perhaps you haven't created a > > journal on hda1 yet? To quote the ext3 mini howto: > > > > "An ext2 filesystem may be converted to ext3 by creating a journal > > file on it. To do this, run > > > > tune2fs -j /dev/hdXX > > > > on the target filesystem. The filesystem is now ext3! > > If Russ does this on his /dev/hda3 his swap wil be gone ;-) > > Happy Xmas > > Elimar Very true, which is why I didn't say anything about his hda3. The problems and scenarios he gave were dealing with hda1 and 2. So, I suggested he try creating a journal on hda1, which is the one that was failing when trying to mount as an ext3 partition. Jacob - GnuPG Key: 1024D/16377135 In a world without fences, who needs Gates? http://www.linux.org/ msg20887/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Apache-ssl .htaccess files
Howdy List, I keep thinking this is a simple problem and ought to have a simple fix, but all I'm succeeding at doing is pulling out my hair. I'm trying to require logins to a certain directory on my webserver using .htaccess files. I've got the following in the .htaccess file in the directory needing to be password protected: AuthType Basic AuthName "Conlaw login" AuthUserFile /usr/lib/apache-ssl/passwd/passwdfile Require valid-user I also tried it w/o the tags, but it didn't seem to affect anything. I also changed the line "AllowOverride None" to "AllowOverride All" in /etc/apache-ssl/httpd.conf (Yes, the password requirement is on my ssl server, and I am using the https url when trying to test it.) I even tried copying the htaccess.debian file in /usr/share/doc/apache-ssl/examples/ to .htaccess in one of the directories in the apache-ssl Documentroot, but it didn't work either. Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong? TIA, Jacob - GnuPG Key: 1024D/16377135 In a world without fences, who needs Gates? http://www.linux.org/ msg21545/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Apache-ssl .htaccess files
On Sun, 29 Dec 2002 22:45:47 -0800 (PST) Bill Moseley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 30 Dec 2002, Jacob S. wrote: > > > Howdy List, > > > > I keep thinking this is a simple problem and ought to have a simple > > fix, but all I'm succeeding at doing is pulling out my hair. > > > > I'm trying to require logins to a certain directory on my webserver > > using .htaccess files. I've got the following in the .htaccess file > > in the directory needing to be password protected: > > > > >^^^ > Is that a copy-n-paste error? I think so since Apache probably > wouldn't restart without a path there. > > You also can't use Directory inside an .htaccess. Doesn't make sense. > > > AuthType Basic > > AuthName "Conlaw login" > > AuthUserFile /usr/lib/apache-ssl/passwd/passwdfile > > Require valid-user > > > > > > I also tried it w/o the tags, but it didn't seem to > > affect anything. > > Then maybe it's not reading the .htaccess file. > > Try the same config in httpd.conf (but with the > tags). > > If that works then make sure you have AllowOverride for that > directory. You can always use strace and run httpd -X and see if it's > reading.htaccess at all (I doubt it because it would give an error > otherwise). > > -- > Bill Moseley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yet another example of a faulty interface between my keyboard and computer chair... :-[ - the wrong use of Directory tags. In the process of making the suggested mods to apache-ssl/httpd.conf I found another "AllowOverride None" line; this time for the Documentroot, which seems to have an affect on everything down the line from there. I changed it to "AllowOverride All" as well, and apache's now reading and using the .htaccess file properly. (After deleting the Directory tags from the .htaccess... not sure if it had any affect in the process or not). I haven't bothered testing the suggested changes to httpd.conf yet, since .htaccess is working now, and was the original goal. Thanks for the help, Jacob - GnuPG Key: 1024D/16377135 In a world without fences, who needs Gates? http://www.linux.org/ msg21551/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: adding ssl to apache1.3?
On Thu, 2 Jan 2003 14:21:58 -0500 "Robert L. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I've got an apache1.3 server up and running. I've been thinking for > a > while of adding ssl for the heck of it (nothing important on it, just > something I've wanted to to do). I added libapache-mod-ssl to my > debian unstable server. There's no doc/readme on configuring and > activating the openssl implementations. > > Anyone got a good HOWTO or link? > > Robert I'm thinking it's just a matter of uncommenting a line or two in your httpd.conf file, but I'm not positive. I did notice, however, that there's a handy package called "libapache-mod-ssl-doc" that I suspect is what you're looking for. I ended up going the easy route when I wanted to add ssl... I simply ran "apt-get install apache-ssl". :-) HTH, Jacob - GnuPG Key: 1024D/16377135 In a world without fences, who needs Gates? http://www.linux.org/ msg22029/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: dial on demand ... dials by itself !!
On Fri, 3 Jan 2003 20:54:41 + Daves Debian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have enabled dial on demand, it works great except sometimes > it dials up by itself. I assume by some program trying to access and > unknown ip address. > > How do I find out what programms are using my ppp link ? > ps ax | grep ppp > tells me ppp is active, but what caused it to activate and what > program is sending all this data ???!!! > > Many thanks for any help > Dave I had this problem as well with the default config in Debian Potato. I wasn't knowledgeable to trace down the source, plus I didn't really want to spend that much time on it. Instead I played with some of the timings and triggers in /etc/diald/standard.filter and got it working a lot smoother. Let me know if you're interested and I'll send you a copy of my config file. HTH, Jacob - GnuPG Key: 1024D/16377135 In a world without fences, who needs Gates? http://www.linux.org/ msg22231/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Chat servers
Does anyone know of some good chat server software other than irc that doesn't use Java? (Preferably open source). I'm going to have to help windows users login to this, and java seems to be too hard to keep configured on a windows machine, plus it uses too much of the system resources. I know phpgroupware offers a chat module, but it seems be more of a beta than a working implementation. I'm currently running Debian Woody r1 on a P133 w/64mb of ram. TIA, Jacob - GnuPG Key: 1024D/16377135 In a world without fences, who needs Gates? http://www.linux.org/ msg22259/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Chat servers
On Fri, 3 Jan 2003 20:33:13 -0700 pierre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 03 January 2003 20:13, Jacob S. wrote: > Hello! > > check www.freshmeat.net > > > I'm currently running Debian Woody r1 on a P133 w/64mb of ram. > > > > TIA, > > Jacob I tried a google search earlier, but didn't find too much. Everything seemed to want java, so I was hoping someone on the list might know of something better. Thanks, Jacob - GnuPG Key: 1024D/16377135 In a world without fences, who needs Gates? http://www.linux.org/ msg22262/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Chat servers
On Fri, 3 Jan 2003 22:18:04 -0600 "Jamin W. Collins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 09:13:52PM -0600, Jacob S. wrote: > > > Does anyone know of some good chat server software other than irc > > that doesn't use Java? (Preferably open source). > > Take a look at Jabber. It's more than capable of providing chat > services, and it's Open Source. Thanks to all for all the suggestions. Does anyone know of a client or server implementation for irc or jabber that could be embedded into an html webpage, thus allowing users to login and chat w/o having to install additional software? I'm not currently aware of any, which is the reason I was looking at something along the lines of what phpgroupware offers, instead of something like irc or IM. TIA, Jacob - GnuPG Key: 1024D/16377135 In a world without fences, who needs Gates? http://www.linux.org/ msg22428/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Sylpheed's adding garbage to my remote mail spool.
On Mon, 6 Jan 2003 19:24:35 -0800 Steve Juranich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I use sylpheed both at home and at work. This means that my email at > work is set up in an MH-style format. From home, I use sylpheed's > IMAP capabilities to access my email at work. I realize that IMAP was > not ever intended for serving MH style mail setups (it's really a task > better suited to NFS), but it works (after a fashion). > > Anyway, sylpheed (at home, my Debian box) has started doing this thing > that it's adding one of those bogus "DO NOT DELETE THIS MESSAGE" > emails like mozilla mail uses as a place-holder for mail folders to my > mail spool on the remote (work) machine. So when I log into a work > machine, I keep getting "You have mail." messages, even though the > only message there is the bogus one that sylpheed is putting there. > Also, when I'inc' my mail to my inbox first thing at work the next > day, I have one of those bogus messages to deal with. > > It appears that sylpheed is adding this message at the termination of > the IMAP session. This seems to be a fairly new behavior, as I have > not noticed it before. > > Does anybody know what's going on and how to make it stop? > > Thanks. > > -- > Stephen W. Juranich [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Electrical Engineering http://students.washington.edu/sjuranic > University of Washingtonhttp://ssli.ee.washington.edu/ssli I'm afraid I've never had occasion to use Sylpheed for that type of configuration and don't have any suggestions. I've found the Sylpheed mailing list to be very helpful though, and since you're using the claws version, you might want to check out their mailing list as well. The homepages for both versions can be found at the following urls. http://sourceforge.net/projects/sylpheed-claws/ http://sylpheed.good-day.net/ HTH, Jacob - GnuPG Key: 1024D/16377135 In a world without fences, who needs Gates? http://www.linux.org/ msg22789/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
nms-textcounter problem
I seem to be having problems getting the nms-textcounter cgi script to work. I've copied it to /usr/lib/cgi-bin, edited it appropriately, and added the line "" as the readme suggests. I tried going directly to the script, by typing in the url http://my.host.domain/cgi-bin/script.pl and noticed it was erroring out because it didn't have a data directory. I mkdir'ed that, and reloaded the script url and it now properly counts each hit. However, it's still not showing up in the index.shtml file. It doesn't even seem to be registering the hits. Any tips anyone could give would be appreciated. Jacob - GnuPG Key: 1024D/16377135 In a world without fences, who needs Gates? http://www.linux.org/ msg22897/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Sylpheed + gpgme
Well, I've been playin' with things today and it looks like I broke somethin'. I've been following the latest tar ball releases of Sylpheed main for a while, and didn't have any problems compiling it with --enable-gpgme and--enable-ssl. Their latest release (0.8.8) requires gnupg and gpgme to be newer versions than is currently found in the Woody archives. So, I had played around with compiling gnupg and gpgme from source, and then compiling Sylpheed. I ran into a lot of problems and ended up downgrading back to Sylpheed 0.8.6, gnupg 1.0.6 and gpgme 0.3.5 (rm the files associated with programs compiled from source, apt-get remove any associated .debs, then apt-get install and recompile the older releases in the appropriate order). Today while looking around on my system, I decided there were a couple more things that needed to be cleaned up from some of that experimenting, and did a little bit of "housecleaning". The end result is that Sylpheed is no longer decrypting e-mails, and is unable to sign or encrypt outgoing mail. I figured this wouldn't be a problem... I just rm'ed the compiled binaries, apt-get removed any .debs associated with those programs, and began re-installing. I started with apt-get install gnupg (1.0.6), then compiled gpgme (0.3.5) and finally compiled Sylpheed (0.8.6). This was the configuration that had worked previously. But Sylpheed still didn't work. Furthermore, when I tried to do a gpg --list-keys, it would error out after listing only 3 keys. (I made the mistake of not saving the error message... see below) I thought this might be the result of having a newer gnupg installed, and now the older version wasn't able to read my keyring. Compiled 1.2.1 and still had the same problem. So, I downgraded to 1.0.6 again. After playing around a little while, the problem mysteriously vanished. However, Sylpheed still isn't able to decrypt messages, sign or encrypt messages. The last thing I did was try to get rid of everything Sylpheed, everything gnupg, and everything gpgme. Then I apt-get installed gnupg (1.0.6), compiled gpgme (0.3.5) and then compiled Sylpheed (0.8.6). Everything seems to compile and install fine. The ./configure script even reports gpgme as being enabled, after finishing in the sylpheed source directory. Does anyone have any suggestions what might have gone wrong? TIA, Jacob - GnuPG Key: 1024D/16377135 In a world without fences, who needs Gates? http://www.linux.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Enabling Serial ports
Yikes... I didn't realize how inexperienced I was with using my serial ports in Linux until I started trying to play with a little Intrinsyc CerfCube here. Kernel 2.4.18 with the serial module compiled into the kernel. dmesg | less shows mention of /dev/ttyS02 and /dev/ttyS03 on irq 4 and 3, respectively. But of course, /dev/ttyS02 and 03 don't exist in /dev. I was thinking /dev/ttyS0 and /dev/ttyS1 would be more standard for serial ports, but minicom can't seem to find anything on those ports, even when logged in as root. Anyone have some pointers, or urls so I can read the documentation? I did some brief looking through the kernel documentation, as well as a google search for "debian cerfcube", but didn't find much. TIA, Jacob - GnuPG Key: 1024D/16377135 In a world without fences, who needs Gates? http://www.linux.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Enabling Serial ports
On Sun, 12 Jan 2003 21:15:30 -0800 (PST) "nate" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jacob S. said: > > Yikes... I didn't realize how inexperienced I was with using my > > serial ports in Linux until I started trying to play with a little > > Intrinsyc CerfCube here. > > > > Kernel 2.4.18 with the serial module compiled into the kernel. > > dmesg | less shows mention of /dev/ttyS02 and /dev/ttyS03 on irq 4 > > and 3, > > when the kernel says ttyS02 it means ttyS2 > > not sure why it spits out 02 instead of 2, but /dev/ttyS2 is correct. > > most systems only have 2 serial ports, /dev/ttyS0 and /dev/ttyS1. be > sure they are enabled in the BIOS as well. > > nate Sorry, nate. I guess that's what I get for working late into the night and trying to rush myself too much. I can't believe I didn't remember to drop the zero. Apparently my serial ports are setup as /dev/ttyS2 and S3. I may have configured them to use a different irq and/or ioport in the bios, which could do that, I guess. Anyway, I'm now successfully playing with the CerfCube, talking through a serial cable using minicom. A Linux distro. and webserver running on a three inch cube... technology's wonderful. :-) Thanks again, Jacob - GnuPG Key: 1024D/16377135 In a world without fences, who needs Gates? http://www.linux.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: netmeeting server
On Mon, 13 Jan 2003 21:52:17 + Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all, > anyone knows something similar to M$ netmeeting server in open > plataform (using H 323 I think?!?). TIA,Paulo Henrique Howdy Paulo, jacob:/ $ apt-cache search netmeeting gnomemeeting - H323 Compatible Netmeeting clone for the Gnome Desktop ohphone - Command line H.323 client with X, SVGA and SDL support ohphone-basic - Command line H.323 client with X support opengate - H.323 voice over IP gatekeeper openh323gk - H.323 gatekeeper HTH, Jacob - GnuPG Key: 1024D/16377135 In a world without fences, who needs Gates? http://www.linux.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Web based IM
On Tue, 14 Jan 2003 10:44:48 -0800 (PST) "Tim Grogan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello all, > > My company has decided to shutdown all IM services on our corporate > network. Does anyone know of a web based IM that doesn't need a client > to connect. It doesn't have to be really fancy. Thanks for your > help. > > Tim > > btw I can connect to my home server via https, that's how I'm using > squirrelmail :) I've been looking into something similar for a java-free chat room on my server. If you go to freshmeat.net and jabber.org and do a search on "cgi chat" or something similar, you should be able to find several options. Let me know what you end up using. It's still "in progress" on my list of to-dos. :-) HTH, Jacob - GnuPG Key: 1024D/16377135 In a world without fences, who needs Gates? http://www.linux.org/ msg24094/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Perl: bad interpreter
I've got a friend using one of my Debian machines to learn Perl. Tonight he started with the universal "Hello world" script. It seems to work great when run locally, but gives the following command when you attempt to run it on a local machine while the file is located on a separate computer connected by NFS. bash: /mnt/path/to/helloscript: /usr/bin/perl: bad interpreter: Permission denied Both the machines are running Debian Woody, with all security updates installed. The client is a Pentium 133 w/64mb of ram, running kernel 2.2.19. The file server is a 1Ghz AMD T-Bird w/768mb of ram, running kernel 2.4.18. The permissions on the file are -rwxr-xr-x, regardless of which computer it's saved on at the time. The only difference is it's owned by a different user and group. Does anyone have any suggestions that would allow this to work? TIA, Jacob - GnuPG Key: 1024D/16377135 In a world without fences, who needs Gates? http://www.linux.org/ msg01718/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Writing GIFs
On Wed, 11 Sep 2002 10:55:37 -0700 Craig Dickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I realize I am a terrible person for wanting to violate Unisys's > patents, but I'm working on a web site that I think will often be > visited by people with old browsers (it's the site for the elementary > school my daughter attends), so rather than use PNGs, I think I'd be > better off with GIFs. GIMP 1.2, even with the gimp-nonfree package, > seems only to read GIFs, not write them. Does anyone know of a good, > free-at-least-as-in-beer Linux program to translate PNGs and/or BMPs > to compressed GIFs? If not, I guess I'll have to use Microsoft Photo > Editor on Windows... > > Thanks, > > Craig Actually, Gimp _does_ write .gifs. They just force you to type in the file extension yourself, and then they'll prompt you for the .gif options, including animation and all that. Works great on my Woody machines around here (well, as good as something can when there's a company like Unisys holding a patent on the technology :-). HTH, Jacob - GnuPG Key: 1024D/16377135 In a world without fences, who needs Gates? http://www.linux.org/ msg01828/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
[Solved] Re: Perl: bad interpreter
On Tue, 10 Sep 2002 23:48:37 -0700 Wade Richards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On 10/09/02 Jacob S. did speaketh: > > > >> bash: /mnt/path/to/helloscript: /usr/bin/perl: bad interpreter: > >> Permission denied > > Is the NFS drive mounted noexec? > > --- Wade Thanks to all who suggested checking for the "noexec" bit. I didn't have it set in /etc/fstab, but after reading "man mount" I found out that the "users" option I had set assumes "noexec" unless you tell it otherwise. I can now successfully run Perl scripts that are located on an nfs share. Thanks again, Jacob - GnuPG Key: 1024D/16377135 In a world without fences, who needs Gates? http://www.linux.org/ msg01873/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: ms proxy auth with apt
On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 11:02:25 -0500 (EST) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > hi folks, > > i have a problem with authenticating at a ms proxy server from linux. > > the m$ proxy only accepts users which are in the sam of nt server > the user to be authenticated is in the sam but m$ requires a domain to > be specified with the username in the manner of domain\username or > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . how can i get apt to authenticate like that. Howdy Bruce, In root's .bashrc (since apt-get upgrade has to be run as root), or in /etc/environment you should be able to add lines similar to the following: http_proxy="http://:@proxys_fqdn.com:/" ftp_proxy="ftp://:@ftpproxys_fqdn.com:/" /etc/environment should allow all users on the system to use the proxy, where root's .bashrc will only tell programs running as root to use the proxy. Also, if you add the lines to root's .bashrc, you will want to add the word "export" on the lines for the proxy settings, so it would look something like "export http_proxy...". HTH, Jacob - GnuPG Key: 1024D/16377135 Got Linux? http://www.linux.org pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: sending messages using smbclient
On Wed, 19 Nov 2003 14:13:53 +0100 Joerg Johannes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi everybody > > How do I send a message to a recpient in my local network using only > the IP address? I can send a message with > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ smbclient -M hostname > but not with > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ smbclient -M 192.168.0.2 > > Any idea? I don't think smb understands how to do it using ip addresses. At least, I've not been able to get linpopup to do it on my system. Jacob - GnuPG Key: 1024D/16377135 Linux: Where Don't We Want To Go Today? pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: xmms with icewm
On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 01:13:27 + Antony Gelberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > Just deleted Gnome and moved to icewm. I realised that I don't really > use any gnome programs, and everything's much slicker now. > > I've noticed that the "show on all desktops" setting in the xmms menu > doesn't appear to work in ice. Anyone know why, and how to fix it? I > can do an Alt-F2, the ice command to show on all desktops, but that > only works for the main window, not the playlist. > > A Not really an answer, just a thought about a slightly different way to do it... I don't really like taking up that much space on each of my desktops, but I do like being able to get to that program easier than most, so my solution has been to right click and select Tray Icon - Exclusive. It gives me a nice little icon down by my clock that I can click from any desktop and it then takes me to the desktop where xmms is active. HTH, Jacob - GnuPG Key: 1024D/16377135 Another name for a Windows tutorial is "crash course"! pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: aspell with mutt
On Wed, 19 Nov 2003 12:57:22 -0500 Stephen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What's the syntax to use to invoke aspell rather than ispell in ones > muttrc? I've perused the fine manual, but I can't find an example of > the syntax for this function, as mutt assumes ispell by default. Why not stick with ispell, considering aspell was just removed from Debian 3.0r2 due to licensing issues? Jacob - GnuPG Key: 1024D/16377135 NT == No Thanks pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: aspell with mutt
On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 20:39:28 -0500 Stephen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well that's too bad, why now, has the license changed from before? > > I happen to like Aspell much better, so hopefully you can clarify > what's the issue with the Aspell license. I'm afraid I'm not a wealth of knowledge here, but I noticed it in the list of "Removed Packages" in the recent release announcement of Debian 3.0r2 on the Debian-announce list. Looking at http://master.debian.org/~joey/3.0r2/ I notice it is actually on the Accepted list, though they have this note with it: "The license incorrectly says that it's LGPL but it is in fact a unique license which is non-DFSG-free." Perhaps Mr. Schulze ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) would have more information about this, since he appears to be the author of that page. HTH, Jacob - GnuPG Key: 1024D/16377135 Linux. Where do you want to go tomorrow? pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: OT, proper phone wire question?/Twists & Guage ?
On Wed, 26 Nov 2003 18:30:00 -0500 lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thank you very much for the discussion on twists, I have a > question..what about actual wire size..cat 3 and 5 are usually 22 or > 24 guage..suppose one was to use say 18 guage speaker wire..it's > twisted(like cat), it's unshielded(like cat)..but a bit larger..less > resistance is my thinking..where am i wrong here..not enuff twists > perhaps? > > Thank you all very very much for your time.. > > Lee I've never actually tried it, but I suspect you would have a hard time getting 18 gauge wire to fit in an RJ11 (common for phones) or RJ45 (common for networks) plug. They usually make them with very little room to spare so you don't have to worry about 2 wires in one groove, etc. Not to mention the fact that if they enlarge the plug too much it won't fit in the jack any more... HTH, Jacob - GnuPG Key: 1024D/16377135 Windows: The first user interface where you click Start to turn it off. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: No NIC and No X - WTF Does It Take?
On Fri, 28 Nov 2003 14:37:46 -0800 (PST) Scarletdown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anyway, the video setup is an S3Virge (86C325) with 4MB RAM, and my > monitor is a Sony Trinitron Multiscan 17se (HZ-Freq:#160; 31.5-82 / > Vt-Freq:#160; 50-150) > > > I checked /etc/X11/XF86Config and as far as I could tell, everything > looked correct.#160; This very same system has recently been used with > RedHat 7.2 as well as SuSE 7.0 and Knoppix. and I had no problems > getting the X-Server going and botting up to the GNOME desktop.#160; > So why isn't it working now? > > > And then there's the NIC.#160; During bootup, I see a message scroll > by that indicated that the NIC was detected (It's a 3c905b Fast > EtherLink PCI/XL).#160; But after I log in, ifconfig does not show any > signs that the card exists at all.#160; When I installed Debian, I > didn't see any option for any type of 3c90x NIC, though there were > plenty of other 3COM NICs listed.#160; Again, this worked fine with > RedHat, SuSE, and Knoppix.#160; So why won't it work with Debian? Howdy, I've got an S3Virge running on a 15" monitor here with no problems. The easiest thing may be to try and copy the /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file from Knoppix, since it worked on your computer. Alternatively, I can e-mail you a copy of my config, if you like. If I'm remembering right, I used a couple of 3c90x NICs in some servers not that long ago. I believe they used the 3c59x module. (Yes, a little confusing when you don't know what to look for.) You might try a modprobe, lsmod to make sure it's loaded, and then ifconfig eth0 up. HTH, Jacob - GnuPG Key: 1024D/16377135 If Bill Gates had a nickel for every time Windows crashed... Oh wait, he does. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Apache and PHP
On Sat, 29 Nov 2003 16:23:32 + James Hosken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've just got apache running under testing and I want to know how I > get PHP working, it doesn't seam to be enabled by default. > Thanks in advance, regards > James I don't see mention of it in your post, so I'll go ahead and ask the obvious... have you tried "apt-get install php4"? Jacob - GnuPG Key: 1024D/16377135 Do you remember when you only had to pay for Windows when *you* were the one that broke them? pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: tuning the machine after a knoppix install... keyboard in X, sources.list and using
On Sat, 29 Nov 2003 19:40:29 +0100 Joris Huizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Now, its STILL a mess! in X, the keyboard seems to have some kind of > german setup I ve never seen before (and which wasnt there at all when > > booting with knoppix), the sources.list is one big mess of illegal > lines or something , it gives an hole lot of errors, and the kdm login > program sucks In KDE, click on the German flag in the lower right corner by the clock until it shows a US flag. Now you should be back to an English keyboard. To make this change permanent, open the Control Center and change the "Region, Accessibility and Language" and "Keyboard Layout" settings under "Regional & Accessibility". Can you copy and paste some of the apt-get errors for us? Sorry, there are too many possibilities for us to know which error messages you're seeing on your screen. > Can anybody help ? When will all servers be up again, will nvidia > packages be online soon again ? > Or is there a way to get this knoppix installation tuned correctly ? > the base config program just jumped into the aptget mess of knoppix, > replaced a printer, and exited You can get it running properly, but it takes a bit of work, in my experience. If I remember correctly, the Knoppix install sets apt up with pinning by default, so you need to do an apt-get update and then a series of apt-get upgrade followed by "apt-get install " and it will eventually straighten out. Note: This is usually about 300MB later, in my experience. Not something you want to try over a dialup unless you have a week of vacation to play with. :-) HTH, Jacob - GnuPG Key: 1024D/16377135 Failure is not an option -- it comes bundled with Windows. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Copying Debian Installation - Kernel won't boot
Ok, I've read the manuals I can find and tried a bunch of different options, but I still seem to be failing. I have a successful Knoppix install on a hard drive which I then apt-get upgraded to the latest Testing / Unstable packages using apt-pinning (as of about 2 weeks ago). So, it's time to do a Linux installation on another computer on the network, so I thought it'd be nice to skip the update process after installing Knoppix and just copy the installation from the other computer. So, I tar'ed the files off the Knoppix computer, onto the "file server" on the network. Then I wiped out the hard drive on the computer waiting for a Linux installation, partitioned it, ran mke2fs, tune2fs -j, etc. Booting off a Knoppix cd, I copied everything onto the new computer, edited /etc/fstab and /etc/modules to reflect the different hardware and then ran "lilo -C /etc/lilo.conf -r path/to/new_root". So far everything seemed to be going smoothly. However, after rebooting to try the new installation, I get the lilo prompt where I can successfully choose from four kernels - 3 are ones I compiled on the machine installed from Knoppix cd, 1 is the kernel that came on the Knoppix cd during installation. Whenever I try one of the 3 custom compiled kernels, it makes it to the line "Uncompressing Linux... Ok, booting the kernel" and then freezes. If I try the kernel from the Knoppix installation, I can see it detect the hard drives and USB ports, but then it hangs with a kernel panic, saying "no init found." Does anyone see what I'm missing or have any suggestions for a way to get this machine running? TIA, Jacob - GnuPG Key: 1024D/16377135 Linux: transforms your microcomputer in a workstation. Windows NT: transforms your workstation in a microcomputer. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Kernel Security Update - 2.2?
Ok, I haven't seen anyone else ask it, so I'll ask the dumb question I couldn't find an answer for. :-) Is the 2.2 kernel series affected by the bug found in the 2.4 and 2.6 kernel tree? My assumption would be yes, but if not, it would save me some work. In other words, I'm trying to figure out how soon I need to learn how to setup iptables to replace my aging ipchains. :-) TIA, Jacob - GnuPG Key: 1024D/16377135 Failure is not an option -- it comes bundled with Windows. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Kernel Security Update - 2.2?
On Tue, 02 Dec 2003 13:34:24 -0500 David Z Maze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Jacob S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > In other words, I'm trying to figure out how soon I need to learn > > how to setup iptables to replace my aging ipchains. :-) > > Note that, independent of everything else, you can still use ipchains > under kernel 2.4; my home gateway machine does this. Alas, the > configuration is sufficiently complicated that I actually need to > learn how it works, rather than just doing something like installing > the ipmasq package. :-) Thanks, David. I tried that originally but couldn't get it working well enough for things like ftp. So, I've just resorted to using 2.2.19 until I can make the time to learn iptables. Jacob - GnuPG Key: 1024D/16377135 Your mouse has moved. Windows must be restarted before the changes will take effect. Reboot now? [OK] pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Kernel Security Update - 2.2?
On Tue, 2 Dec 2003 08:13:18 -0800 Mark Ferlatte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jacob S. said on Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 08:58:45AM -0600: > > Ok, I haven't seen anyone else ask it, so I'll ask the dumb question > > I couldn't find an answer for. :-) > > > > Is the 2.2 kernel series affected by the bug found in the 2.4 and > > 2.6 kernel tree? My assumption would be yes, but if not, it would > > save me some work. > > According to the DSA, kernel 2.2.x is not affected by the brk() > exploit. Thanks, Mark. That's the information I was looking for. Jacob - GnuPG Key: 1024D/16377135 Windows 2000: Designed for the Internet. The Internet: Designed for UNIX. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Having Trouble with e100.o network card driver
On Tue, 02 Dec 2003 22:39:16 +0100 John Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 20:51, Watwe, Abhay wrote: > > Hi: > > > > > > > > I have a Dell Dimension 8300 PC with master HD of 120 GB with > > Windows XP on it. I installed Debian ´potato¡ on a slave HD (6GB). > > Kerner version is 2.2.19. I did NOT build my own kernel, I used the > > one which came on the CD. My network card is an Intel Pro 100 M PCI > > NIC card. I downloaded the Intel Pro 100 M adapter driver source > > from Intel and compiled it. However, when I go and try to > > > > Modprobe e100.0 > You might try 'lspci' or 'lspci -v' to check wether your > e100 is visible. Mine shows up as > > > 00:09.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82557 [Ethernet Pro 100] (rev > 09) > Subsystem: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 2204 > Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 66, IRQ 11 > Memory at 4128 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K] > I/O ports at 3440 [size=64] > Memory at 4120 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128K] > Expansion ROM at [disabled] [size=1M] > Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2 > > kernel 2.4.18 > I load eepro100 (check with lsmod) and it works perfectly. And since you mention you're using kernel 2.2.19, it's an easy "apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.18" to upgrade to the 2.4.18 kernel with a newer ee100 driver. (Note: You may need to do an "apt-get update" first to grab the latest list of packages from debian, if you haven't done that since the install.) HTH, Jacob - GnuPG Key: 1024D/16377135 With Windows Millennium, Microsoft was able to get the boot time down to 25 seconds. That's almost as short as it's uptime. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Having Trouble with e100.o network card driver
On Tue, 02 Dec 2003 16:45:37 -0600 Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jacob S. wrote: > > And since you mention you're using kernel 2.2.19, it's an easy > > "apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.18" to upgrade to the 2.4.18 > > kernel with a newer ee100 driver. > > > > (Note: You may need to do an "apt-get update" first to grab the > > latest list of packages from debian, if you haven't done that since > > the install.) > > Er, except to download the kernel via the network, his network card > needs to work. Doh! He doesn't mention if he's using a modem or a network card to access the internet, but he does mention downloading the e100 source from Intel and compiling it on his machine, so I made the assumption he could get to the internet for a kernel package as well. > Still, I concur with Jacob; a newer kernel might solve your problem. > You might use the Windows side (or Knoppix), to get the newer kernel. > > Also, I believe you want to "modprobe e100" instead of "modprobe > e100.O"; I'm not sure it matters, but I sortta kindda in a way think > it does. Yes, it does make a difference. You want to modprobe , not .o HTH, Jacob - GnuPG Key: 1024D/16377135 Slight disorientation after prolonged system uptime is normal for new Linux users. Please do not adjust your browser. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: password length > 8
On Tue, 16 Dec 2003 20:22:03 -0300 Diego Crivelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I created a user on my woody box with adduser and when prompted for > the password I wrote a word with more than 8 characters. But I can > login by supply only the first 8 characters. I tried changing the > 'maxlength' value on login.defs, didn't work. So, how can I use > passwords of more than 8 characters?. Thanks. Howdy Diego, As root, run "dpkg-reconfigure passwd". It will bring up a dialog box asking if you want to enable md5 passwords - answer Yes, and then it will allow you to use passwords longer than 8 characters. HTH, Jacob - GnuPG Key: 1024D/16377135 Linux: Because rebooting is for adding new hardware pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Where are config questions in install of latest sarge, and other questions...
On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 13:50:38 -0500 "Williams, Allen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I checked the debian site for sarge release notes, and if they're > there, I can't find 'em, so it's back to the mailing list;-) > > I had been running sarge since June, and I just did a complete > reinstall of the latest sarge (don't ask- it's embarassing), dated > 11/17, I think. > > 1. It never asked me the hardware config questions I was used to with > both woody and sarge. What happened to them, how do I find out what > device support is installed, and get support for devices that might > not be installed (i.e., download drivers for stuff- although now that > I've said it, I guess they're just apt packages, right?). It sounds like you entered 'expert' or 'expert26' at the boot prompt on the previous install and didn't on your latest install. Is there something that's not working on your computer, or why do you think you need more drivers? What do you need the drivers for? Answers to those questions would help us help you tremendously. Most likely any hardware drivers you need are already in the kernel waiting to be loaded. If you need software stuff, then yes, it's usually available via apt-get. > 2. My desktop went from KDE to Gnome. Is this normal? Where do I > set the default desktop? I guess you didn't use the Debian-Installer the Sarge installation you had been running since June? Yes, Gnome is the default for a new installation. You can change whether it uses Gnome or KDE though by changing your session options before you login (it's usually a menu option). When you change it, it will ask if you want the new choice to be the default. > 3. This machine is to be used primarily for software development. > Any opinions on which desktop is best for that? The one you can work with the best. :-) For me, it's IceWM. > 4. I can't log in to the X desktop as root. Where do I fix that? Is > this in/etc/X11/config (I'm not at my Debian system)? Guessing from your vague information, it sounds like a fairly default Sarge installation you're running. Which should mean the 'X desktop' you're trying to login on is GDM (Gnome Desktop Manager). So allowing root logins is something that can be controlled by clicking on Actions - Configure Login Manager and then enter your root password and go to the Security tab and check "Enable root logins". HTH, Jacob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: DSL+PPPoE with Efficient Networks LANL card (legacy SBC)?
On Sun, 21 Nov 2004 13:26:34 -0800 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > They installed an unmarked PCI card which reads > "Efficient Networks (LANL)" in lspci. It's got one > green LED and an RJ11 phone jack. There is no external > DSL modem/bridge/router; this thing just hooks up to > the phone line upstream of the lowpass filter for > the POTS phone. It came with a PPPoE client called > "EnterNet" and put some kind of ATM module in the Windoze > TCP/IP/PPP stack. PPPoE won't be a problem. I did it just recently on SBCYahoo using the apt packages pppoe and pppoeconf. Unfortunately I know nothing about the internal card you mention though, as my service was new enough to get a Speedstream 5100. HTH, Jacob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: xprint - why?
On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 22:17:09 -0800 Bill Wohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can someone please explain why we need xprint? Yeah, I'm frustrated > that a recent update broke my printing, but I'm using Sarge so I > accept change. In this case, I don't understand it. > > Xprint seems to duplicate some of what we already have. Is it supposed > to be the new, shiny car on the block to replace the old Edsel, much > as CUPS replaced the Berkeley print systems of yore. > > For example, I've got CUPS for spooling, foomatic to create the ppd > files, hpijs for the HP print drivers, and hpoj to talk to them. How > does xprint fit in? Does it replace any of this? > > I certainly can't answer these questions myself. Here's why. > > If I choose the Default printer from the Galeon print dialog (thanks > arodriguez31), it seems to bypass xprint and go straight to CUPS, so > xprint seems to be a replacement for CUPS. But bug 280159 talks about > changing the default resolution but this stuff is in the PPD files so > now xprint seems like a replacement for foomatic (although it seems to > me that this is the job of hpijs in any case). Maybe it replaces both > CUPS and foomatic? > > Anyway, if someone could explain or point me to a document or thread > (which I couldn't find) that explains why we need xprint, how it fits > in, and what programs it replaces, I'd appreciate it. > > I'm probably not alone ;-). Actually, my understanding is that it was supposed to replace some of the code in programs like your e-mail client and web-browser, _not_ the printing system like hpijs, hpoj, cups, etc. The idea was that programs wouldn't have to know how to print postscript - instead they would talk in some format to xprt which would then convert it into a form the cups drivers could understand. It was debated that this improved security - though I never saw the argument hold much water. If you google with site:debian.org and some search terms of xprt and firefox, you should be able to find a long thread that took place earlier this year. The Postscript/default option in Firefox was disabled, due to the supposed security reasons - and later re-enabled. In short though, I pretty much agree with the people that say xprt isn't needed. I definitely found it to be a lot more trouble than benefit - especially since my printing setup was working great before xprt came along. HTH, Jacob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: xprint - why?
On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 06:41:32 -0600 Nate Bargmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Bill Wohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004 Nov 23 06:12 -0600]: > > Anyway, if someone could explain or point me to a document or thread > > (which I couldn't find) that explains why we need xprint, how it > > fits in, and what programs it replaces, I'd appreciate it. > > > > I'm probably not alone ;-). > Since they still depend on xprt I've continued to use the > mozilla.org packages. Actually, that's not true. "apt-cache show mozilla-firefox" reveals that xprt is now only in the recommended line, instead of the Depends line. In mozilla-browser it's in the Suggests line. I have been following the latest Mozilla browser in Sarge while keeping xprt and friends uninstalled. Works great, no special tricks necessary. Jacob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: xprint - why?
On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 16:15:14 + Clive Menzies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On (23/11/04 08:52), Jacob S wrote: > > On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 06:41:32 -0600 > > Nate Bargmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > * Bill Wohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004 Nov 23 06:12 -0600]: > > > > Anyway, if someone could explain or point me to a document or > > > > thread(which I couldn't find) that explains why we need xprint, > > > > how it fits in, and what programs it replaces, I'd appreciate > > > > it. > > > > > > > > I'm probably not alone ;-). > > > > > Since they still depend on xprt I've continued to use the > > > mozilla.org packages. > > > > > > Actually, that's not true. "apt-cache show mozilla-firefox" reveals > > that xprt is now only in the recommended line, instead of the > > Depends line. In mozilla-browser it's in the Suggests line. I have > > been following the latest Mozilla browser in Sarge while keeping > > xprt and friends uninstalled. Works great, no special tricks > > necessary. > > I had trouble printing from mozilla-firefox for a while until ps > printing via cups was resupported. But I still have the xprt printers > in firefox's printer list. When I try to remove xprt-xprintorg and > xprt-common, aptitude complains: x-window-system depends on > xprt-xprintorg. > > Can I safely uninstall them? Probably not without a bit of work. x-window-system seems to be a meta package that doesn't really provide anything, it just depends on a bunch of other stuff - all the things that developer thought should be in a basic x-window-system - including xprt. I don't have x-window-system installed on my machine, as I wanted a little tighter control over my programs. This made uninstalling xprt* a breeze. HTH, Jacob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: xprint - why?
On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 11:17:29 -0500 Wayne Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jacob S([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 06:41:32 -0600 > > Nate Bargmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > * Bill Wohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004 Nov 23 06:12 -0600]: > > > > Anyway, if someone could explain or point me to a document or > > > > thread(which I couldn't find) that explains why we need xprint, > > > > how it fits in, and what programs it replaces, I'd appreciate > > > > it. > > > > > > > > I'm probably not alone ;-). > > > > > Since they still depend on xprt I've continued to use the > > > mozilla.org packages. > > > > > > Actually, that's not true. "apt-cache show mozilla-firefox" reveals > > that xprt is now only in the recommended line, instead of the > > Depends line. In mozilla-browser it's in the Suggests line. I have > > been following the latest Mozilla browser in Sarge while keeping > > xprt and friends uninstalled. Works great, no special tricks > > necessary. > > > > Just checked and you are correct, so I uninstalled xprt*, restarted > mozilla-firefox 1.0-2, brought up a page, clicked print, waited ~30 > seconds, clicked print, waited ~15 seconds, watched the 'preparing' > message appear and the bar scroll, then firefox crashed. The page had > some jpegs on it. Nothing was printed. > > Restarted and watched the same as above on a text only page and it did > print and firefox did _not_ crash. > > Looks like getting firefox from mozilla is a better choice. The > current debian package has some issues. :-) Since Firefox is not my primary browser, I usually upgrade it pretty fast to check out the new features and don't follow the Debian packages. But I just tried installing it via apt-get to see if I experienced the same problem and printing worked great for me. Pages with .jpgs, .gifs, text, it didn't seem to matter - Firefox printed to cups just fine using the Postscript/default option. Same with the tarball from Mozilla.org, but then you already knew that. Printing has been working great in Mozilla-browser and galeon for me, as well. No complaints at all. I'm running Sarge, btw. HTH, Jacob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: xprint - why?
On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 15:52:03 -0500 Wayne Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jacob S([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 11:17:29 -0500 > > Wayne Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Jacob S([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > > > On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 06:41:32 -0600 > > > > Nate Bargmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > * Bill Wohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004 Nov 23 06:12 -0600]: > > > > > > Anyway, if someone could explain or point me to a document > > > > > > or thread(which I couldn't find) that explains why we need > > > > > > xprint, how it fits in, and what programs it replaces, I'd > > > > > > appreciate it. > > > > > > > > > > > > I'm probably not alone ;-). > > > > > > > > > Since they still depend on xprt I've continued to use the > > > > > mozilla.org packages. > > > > > > > > > > > > Actually, that's not true. "apt-cache show mozilla-firefox" > > > > reveals that xprt is now only in the recommended line, instead > > > > of the Depends line. In mozilla-browser it's in the Suggests > > > > line. I have been following the latest Mozilla browser in Sarge > > > > while keeping xprt and friends uninstalled. Works great, no > > > > special tricks necessary. > > > > > > > > > > Just checked and you are correct, so I uninstalled xprt*, > > > restarted mozilla-firefox 1.0-2, brought up a page, clicked print, > > > waited ~30 seconds, clicked print, waited ~15 seconds, watched the > > > 'preparing' message appear and the bar scroll, then firefox > > > crashed. The page had some jpegs on it. Nothing was printed. > > > > > > Restarted and watched the same as above on a text only page and it > > > did print and firefox did _not_ crash. > > > > > > Looks like getting firefox from mozilla is a better choice. The > > > current debian package has some issues. :-) > > > > Since Firefox is not my primary browser, I usually upgrade it pretty > > fast to check out the new features and don't follow the Debian > > packages. But I just tried installing it via apt-get to see if I > > experienced the same problem and printing worked great for me. Pages > > with .jpgs, .gifs, text, it didn't seem to matter - Firefox printed > > to cups just fine using the Postscript/default option. Same with the > > tarball from Mozilla.org, but then you already knew that. > > > > Printing has been working great in Mozilla-browser and galeon for > > me, as well. No complaints at all. > > > > I'm running Sarge, btw. > > It seems that the page I can't print with firefox (with or without > xprt) prints fine with mozilla-browser. I tried firefox with xprt and > postscript and it continues to crash, without printing. This is with > with the Debian package _and_ the 1.0 version downloaded from > mozilla.org. A bug report to mozilla.org was submitted. > > The page is one of mine and I thought it was odd that I had printed > copies of it but could not print it with firefox. > > http://www.capital.net/~brittman/puppypic/puppies.html > for those that might want to try it for themselves. Interesting. Anything special on the page (sorry, didn't look at the source)? It crashed both Firefox (from Mozilla.org) and mozilla-browser (from Sarge) on my machine, when I tried to print. Firefox wanted to install a plugin, mozilla-browser simply displayed the page. Jacob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: xprint - why?
On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 20:28:40 +0100 Martin Lorenz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 11:01:21AM -0600, Jacob S wrote: > > On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 11:17:29 -0500 > > Wayne Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > [...] > > > > Printing has been working great in Mozilla-browser and galeon for > > me, as well. No complaints at all. > > > > I'm running Sarge, btw. > > did you (or anyone else) experience problems when printing pages which > contain non-latin-1 characters like this one: > http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ma%C3%9Ftheorie > > i installed xprint only because i diden't get the greek font on my > printout otherwise but it broke printing in some really odd manner. > now galeon (which is my primary browser) refuses to print more than > the first page. hmm... I can't read the page, but it seemed to print fine for me in both Firefox (1.0 from Mozilla.org) and Mozilla-browser (1.7.3-5 from Sarge). I didn't see any distorted characters and it printed a total of three pages, though the third was just the notice about the GNU Free Documentation License. Both prints were done using the Postscript/default option, not xprt. Unfortunately I don't know what packages I have installed that would affect this, since I rarely use anything other than English characters in my e-mail and web browsing. HTH, Jacob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: xprint - why?
On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 16:53:04 -0600 Nate Bargmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Jacob S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004 Nov 23 16:27 -0600]: > > > > Actually, that's not true. "apt-cache show mozilla-firefox" reveals > > that xprt is now only in the recommended line, instead of the > > Depends line. In mozilla-browser it's in the Suggests line. I have > > been following the latest Mozilla browser in Sarge while keeping > > xprt and friends uninstalled. Works great, no special tricks > > necessary. > > Okay, fair enough. However, I decided against using the Debian > packages since they are at least 25% or so larger than the Mozilla.org > tarballs which is a consideration on a dial-up line. I would have > thought that, if anything, the debs would have been smaller due to > dynamic linking to GTK 2.4. Maybe my assumption that the Mozilla.org > builds are statically linked is incorrect. Yep, everybody has their own reason for doing things the way they do. Just thought I'd clear it up for any users that might be looking for the convenience of .debs without the hassle of xprt. Jacob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Dual Xeon Kernel?
On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 15:38:43 +1300 Simon Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi There, > > I am just about to install sarge onto a dual xeon (Nocona 800MHz FSB) > server... and just checking the kernel with 'atp-cache search > kernel-image'. Im wanting to use the 2.6 kernel... so would this be > the correct kernel-image?: > > kernel-image-2.6.8-1-686 - Linux kernel image for version 2.6.8 on > PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII/PIV. That will only use one of your CPUs. To take advantage of both processors (and HyperThreading) you will want kernel-image-2.6.8-1-686-smp. HTH, Jacob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: difficulty starting mysql server
On 01 Dec 2004 17:25:31 -0500 rb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I installed mysql-server 4.0.17 a while ago (Unstable). This part makes me assume you installed it via apt-get, using the deb from Unstable's mirrors. Is that right? > When I try to start the server, I get the following: > > $ mysqld_safe --user=mysql & > [1] 687 > $ Starting mysqld daemon with databases from /var/lib/mysql > /usr/bin/mysqld_safe: line 300: /var/log/mysql/mysql.err: Permission > denied/usr/bin/mysqld_safe: line 1: /var/log/mysql/mysql.err: > Permission denied tee: /var/log/mysql/mysql.err: Permission denied > 041201 17:05:41 mysqld ended > tee: /var/log/mysql/mysql.err: Permission denied > > > [1]+ Exit 1 mysqld_safe --user=mysql > > This is without having modified grant tables, set users or set > passwords. > > Any help in getting the server working would be greatly appreciated. If this is installed via a .deb from Unstable, why aren't you using the init script to start it? As root, run "/etc/init.d/mysql start". You might also try doing a "ps ax | grep mysql" first, as mysql is usually started as part of the post-install script in .debs, in my experience. HTH, Jacob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Check if laptop in use?
I have a laptop on my network that I need to do an occasional upgrade on. It runs Debian - what else? :-) I'd like to make sure it's not currently in use when I do the upgrades though, as the upgrades are usually done over the network via ssh. I know this user always closes the lid on their laptop when they leave it for any extended period of time. So, my question is, is there a way to check the status of the lcd screen/lid closed switch? Alternative suggestions that would work better? I would check running processes, but they know the power of Linux and always leave it logged in while they're gone, with a couple dozen processes open, etc. I could check cpu idle time, but cron can make it busy and text editors don't have a very big footprint once the file's open. Any tips would be appreciated. TIA, Jacob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Package to block random SSH login attempts?
On Sat, 4 Dec 2004 14:50:24 -0700 "s. keeling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Incoming from Adam Rosi-Kessel: > > Is there any Debian package (or free software outside of Debian) > > that can detect random ssh login attempts and blacklist (temporarily > > or permanently) the IP address? > > fwlogwatch purports to be able to do this (I haven't tried this > feature; ymmv). However, wouldn't it make more sense to simply limit > ssh to accept login attempts only from IPs you (or your users?) might > be coming from? Limiting login to certain ips tremendously decreases flexibility. Things such as remote admin from a dynamic ip, users on the road (or even being on the road yourself, etc). If you're strictly doing it in a work environment where you only access the servers from your own network, you're extremely fortunate. I rarely have that pleasure. This is Linux, where we're supposed to be able to have a server accessible to the world without having to worry about who can get in. Ok, so a good password should prevent the need for worry, but I still believe there should be an easier way than simply restricting ssh access to certain ips. To the OP, you might check out the following thread on the same subject from a couple months ago. It has a good stop-gap measure (pam) along with a couple more detailed solutions if you don't mind recompiling your kernel. The thread can be found at: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2004/09/msg03580.html HTH, Jacob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Command line network monitoring tool
On Tue, 07 Dec 2004 16:01:07 -0500 Andrés Roldán <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Michael Madden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Are there any network monitoring tools that monitor the availability > > of network resources (HTTP, IMAP, POP3, IMAP, SSH, NNTP, FTP, DNS, > > RSYNC) that I can run from the command line? Right now I'm using a > > shell script that checks if the machine is pingable, but I'm finding > > that often the service has died but the machine is still reachable > > with ping. > Nagios may help. I'll second that. We're using it for several servers at work with great success. It's even in Sarge now. HTH, Jacob
Re: Creating screen shot with import (ImageMagick)
On Tue, 7 Dec 2004 21:57:42 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Otto Wyss) wrote: > I tried to create a screen shot of my appliaction with import. That > worked somehow when I clicked into the window. This way I can't show > any menu so I added a "-delay 500" and tried to switch to the window > of my app but the Alt-TAB didn't work at all until the picture was > taken (of course too early). Has anyone an idea how to solve this? Is > someone able to make screen shots showing the menu? Works great with File -> Acquire -> Screen Shot in Gimp. Sorry, I'm not that familiar with ImageMagick's import tool. HTH, Jacob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Command line network monitoring tool
On Tue, 7 Dec 2004 21:54:30 + p <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 03:09:58PM -0600, Jacob S wrote: > > On Tue, 07 Dec 2004 16:01:07 -0500 > > Andr?s Rold?n <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Michael Madden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > > Are there any network monitoring tools that monitor the > > > > availability of network resources (HTTP, IMAP, POP3, IMAP, SSH, > > > > NNTP, FTP, DNS, RSYNC) that I can run from the command line? > > > > Right now I'm using a shell script that checks if the machine is > > > > pingable, but I'm finding that often the service has died but > > > > the machine is still reachable with ping. > > > > > Nagios may help. > > > > I'll second that. We're using it for several servers at work with > > great success. It's even in Sarge now. > > i just tried to install "nagios-common" and it > removed a lot of my good programs--gimp, xine, > mplayer that doesn't even begin to scratch > the surface. (i'm still trying to access the > totality of what it removed.) from what's left, > i may have to rebuild the box. (mplayer won't > even install now.) > > why would a "network monitoring tool" need to > decimate a system? Sounds like you had a different problem with your system that you didn't notice until you tried to install nagios-common. I am running Sarge, not sid, and I didn't actually complete the install, but running "apt-get install nagios-common" and "apt-get install nagios-common nagios-text" did not make apt report any packages that it would be removing. If you could post some additional details I am sure it would be helpful to the Debian developers, as that's obviously not what packages are "supposed to do". HTH, Jacob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
