Re: bzip2 brings ppp to its knees?
On Saturday 13 October 2001 05:54 pm, csj wrote: > Anybody else had a similar experience? I can compile without my meager > 56K connection stalling. But with a running bzip2 process ppp traffic > becomes so abysmal I even get disconnected. I'm glad I'm not alone. I have an old school 486 with a 56K external modem and whenever dpkg does its thing, my connection seems to stall. It also stalls when I load a complex set of iptables rules in ip-up.d. Someone mentioned trying an IRQ priority scheduler or something. A google search turned this up, which appears to be on the money: http://www.best.com/~cae/irqtune/ I'll have to play with this next time I'm near the 486 (which is 100 miles away). Could be a while. Maybe it'll fix the problem. Good luck!
Re: bzip2 brings ppp to its knees?
On Sunday 14 October 2001 04:02 pm, Jason Boxman wrote: > On Saturday 13 October 2001 05:54 pm, csj wrote: > > Anybody else had a similar experience? I can compile without my meager > > 56K connection stalling. But with a running bzip2 process ppp traffic > > becomes so abysmal I even get disconnected. > > Someone mentioned trying an IRQ priority scheduler or something. A google > search turned this up, which appears to be on the money: This program is in the "hwtools" package it seems. > http://www.best.com/~cae/irqtune/ > > I'll have to play with this next time I'm near the 486 (which is 100 miles > away). Could be a while. Maybe it'll fix the problem. > > Good luck!
Re: Matrox G450
On Sunday 14 October 2001 08:53 pm, Abner Gershon wrote: > I have a Matrox G450 AGP video card and will be > attemptint to install 2.2r3 Potato shortly. Is it > possible to get a graphical user interface working > with this video card and 2.2r3? Will I need additional > driver or patch? Thanks. With Potato you'll be stuck with XF3.3.6 which has support for the Matrox card using the generic SVGA server. There's no acceleration or anything like that, but it should work just fine. > __ > Do You Yahoo!? > Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. > http://personals.yahoo.com
Re: what's the name of kernel made by make-kpkg?
On Sunday 14 October 2001 10:12 pm, Yuwen Dai wrote: > Hi, All > > The version of my kernel source is 2.2.19. I want to make a custom kernel > by the command: > > make-kpkg --reversion custom.1 kernel_image > > I expect there will be a kernel named vmlinuz-2.2.19-custom.1 in the > `/boot' directory. But its name is still vmlinuz-2.2.19. Do I > misunderstand make-kpkg? I think you did. --revision only plays with the name of the package itself. It's useful to keep all your different flavours of the same kernel seperate. Otherwise, each subsequent compile will overwrite the previous package in /usr/src. You might be looking for the --append-to-version flag, which actually fudges the version.h file of the kernel. Check the make-kpkg manual for details. > Thanks in advance. > > Best regards, > Dai Yuwen > > _ > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp
Re: XFree86 4.1.0-7 and G450 problems?
On Monday 15 October 2001 01:56 pm, Gary Hennigan wrote: > Anyone else have a problem running X 4.1.0-7 with a G450? I just > upgraded this morning and wdm comes up fine, but when I try to log in, > as root or myself, X dies back to the wdm screen and I get an entry in > my log like: > > Oct 15 11:49:53 hostname kernel: mtrr: no MTRR for f980,80 found MTRR is a kernel option you can choose. I don't know why it would break from one package revision to the next though. > Everything works perfectly with 4.1.0-6, which I've downgraded back to > (thank God for package pools!) > > Gary
Re: kernel 2.4.x and unstable/ Kernels
On Saturday 08 September 2001 04:55 pm, Craig Dickson wrote: > Brian Nelson wrote: > > > The package > > installs the bzip2'ed source in /usr/src. Just tar -jxf it, configure > > with 'make menuconfig' or whatever, and then build a custom > > kernel-image package with 'make-kpkg kernel_image'. > > I have not found any reason to prefer make-kpkg over "make bzImage" and > manually installing the kernel image. I found kernel-package useful for compiling a kernel for a machine that didn't have any development tools and was too slow (486 33) to compile a kernel in a reasonable period of time. Building a custom kernel deb and copying it over was far easier, for me, anyway. > > Craig
Re: networking trouble
On Saturday 08 September 2001 01:06 pm, Robert Schweikert wrote: > > I want to set up ppp such that it dials on demand. I have this working > on my RedHat system and figured I should be able to do the same on > Debian. Thus I copied > > /etc/ppp/options > /etc/ppp/pap-secrets > /etc/ppp/chap-script > /etc/resolv.conf Debian uses "pppconfig" to manage multiple dial up accounts. The original Debian files will be updated correctly when you run pppconfig to create a new dial up account. I'd revert to the original Debian files (you did back them up, right?) > /etc/hosts > /etc/hosts.deny > /etc/hosts.allow These last three aren't related to your question. > from my RedHat system to the Debian system. This does not appear to be > good enough. I can start pppd, no complaints, but when I start mozilla > pppd makes no attempt to connect to my ISP. If you're looking for demand dialing, I recommend diald. It will do what you require. The diald versions in Woody and Sid integrate well with pppconfig files and set is exceedingly easy. If you're use the potato package I believe some additional manual setup is necessary. > Another issue is that I keep getting the following messages to my log > file > > Sep 8 08:44:43 journey kernel: device eth0 left promiscuous mode I can't speak to that, sorry. > Any help is appreciated. > > Thanks, > Robert
Re: kernel 2.4.x and unstable/ Kernels
On Sunday 09 September 2001 01:07 am, Nathan E Norman wrote: > On Sat, Sep 08, 2001 at 09:42:34PM -0700, Craig Dickson wrote: > > Nathan E Norman wrote: > > I maintain (more or less) four boxes ... a celeron (my home machine), > an athlon (my work desktop), a 486 (my firewall), and a p90 (a server > with no portfolio). I compile all the kernels on the athlon because, > well, it's just too painful to sit around waiting for the other > machines to finish the job. The p90 and especially the 486 are > practically useless while compiling a kernel. Since the athlon has > the biggest (and fastest) disks, I need kernel-source trees on one > machine rather than spread all over the place (let's see, I downloaded > the ipsec patch where? Did I patch this tree, or was that the other > box?) This is a significant advantage. I have a 486 firewall myself. My connectivity on other machines more or less stops when I do things like run dpkg or the gShield firewall script (iptables) loads on it. Is this normal, or is it just my particular 486 33? (Oh, and I use kernel-package on the faster machine to compile kernels for the 486 -- Just so this is somewhat on topic.) Thanks. > Cheers,
Re: libterm-stool-perl ????
On Sunday 09 September 2001 12:54 pm, Eduard Bloch wrote: > #include > > Julio Merino Vidal wrote on Sun Sep 09, 2001 um 06:53:43PM: > > > I'd like to configure debconf to use Dialog instead of Slang to get out > > > of this mess, but don't know how... can someone please help me? > > > > I've the same problem as you :( You can change your debconf interface > > using: dpkg-reconfigure debconf > > The Slang frontend has several bugs and nobody wanted to fix them. In > the current Sid version, the Slang interface is removed completely. I'm actually running Slang, I think, and I have libterm-stool-perl installed. If this is being abandoned, then I guess I should stop using it? > C'est la vie. > > Gruss/Regards, > Eduard.
Re: Web banner blocker
On Sunday 09 September 2001 02:40 pm, Ross Burton wrote: > Hi, Ross: > I'm looking for a good web cache/banner remove program for Debian > unstable. Previously I've used Squid + Sleezeball, but Sleezeball > hasn't been updated since November 1999. :-( > > Can anyone recommend a good banner blocker? I don't want entire pages > blocked so SquidGuard is an overkill, but the banner adverts removed. I've been using WebWasher for Linux. Yeah, it's only free as in beer, but it does filtering in a fashion that works for me. It'll auto expire cookies you don't want after a specified period of time, filter web bugs, kill annoying JavaScript, like onLoad and onUnLoad (and popups), and filters ads based on image dimension. Yeah, sometimes you get false positives, but I find it pretty rare that such a thing happens. (http://www.webwasher.com/) I used alien to debianize the RPM, which is pretty small, and moved the init.d script to its correctly location and setup sym links so it would run on start up correctly. Then you just head to localhost:9090 to configure it. Pretty easy. > Thanks, > Ross Burton
Re: web stat software
On Sunday 09 September 2001 03:44 pm, Ian Marlier wrote: > Anyone have positive experience with web stat software? I'm running > a website and need a way to crunch the apache logs into something > useful... As Dimitri pointed out, analog and analyzer are your best bests. There's also a logging tool for Apache's mod_gzip, for compressing html and such, called mgstat. It'll give you compression stats. Very nice. > Thanks! > > - Ian
Re: Web banner blocker
On Monday 10 September 2001 02:24 am, Robert Waldner wrote: > On Mon, 10 Sep 2001 02:09:14 EDT, Jason Boxman writes: > >On Sunday 09 September 2001 02:40 pm, Ross Burton wrote: > >> I'm looking for a good web cache/banner remove program for Debian > >> unstable. Previously I've used Squid + Sleezeball, but Sleezeball > >> hasn't been updated since November 1999. :-( > >> > >> Can anyone recommend a good banner blocker? I don't want entire pages > >> blocked so SquidGuard is an overkill, but the banner adverts removed. > > > >I've been using WebWasher for Linux. Yeah, it's only free as in beer, but > > it does filtering in a fashion that works for me. It'll auto expire > > cookies you don't want after a specified period of time, filter web bugs, > > kill annoying JavaScript, like onLoad and onUnLoad (and popups), and > > filters ads based on image dimension. Yeah, sometimes you get false > > positives, but I find it pretty rare that such a thing happens. > > I use junkbuster, not quit as extensive as webwasher, but Free as in > speech. I just set up junkbuster to listen on :8080 and forward > everything to squid on :8088. > > http://www.junkbuster.com/ Yeah, I used to use junkbuster extensively. But I found that everytime I went to a new site, I was nailed with ads and needed to add yet-another-entry to the block list. If a massively comprehensive blocklist was available somewhere (and I was using one of those with like 500 entries from somewhere) then maybe it wouldn't be that big of an issue. Last time I used JB it lacked any form of JS filtering as well. I can do that in Konq, but that's on a site-by-site basis. To each his own, though. :) > cheers, > &rw
Re: Web banner blocker
On Monday 10 September 2001 02:53 am, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 02:44:05AM -0400, Jason Boxman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Monday 10 September 2001 02:24 am, Robert Waldner wrote: > > <...> > > > > I use junkbuster, not quit as extensive as webwasher, but Free as in > > > speech. I just set up junkbuster to listen on :8080 and forward > > > everything to squid on :8088. > > > > > > http://www.junkbuster.com/ > > > > Yeah, I used to use junkbuster extensively. But I found that > > everytime I went to a new site, I was nailed with ads and needed to > > add yet-another-entry to the block list. > > You're aware that JB does regexp blocking? A few well-placed > expressions, largely variations on /ad/, /Ad/, and /advert/, you can do > a lot of damage. I've a list of 50 patterns which keeps banners to a > minimum. Deselecting Java/Javascript, and de-animating GIFs, helps a > lot too. Yeah, but regexp was never really my thing. I'd spend five minutes playing with a rule and reloading the page until the ad died. Some places I go require JavaScript to be on. Never found much use for Java though. > > If a massively comprehensive blocklist was available somewhere (and I > > was using one of those with like 500 entries from somewhere) then > > maybe it wouldn't be that big of an issue. Last time I used JB it > > lacked any form of JS filtering as well. I can do that in Konq, but > > that's on a site-by-site basis. > > Note too that JB isn't a webwasher, it's a site blocker. Webwasher > actually rewrites HTML before it gets to your browser. That's true. But I'm happy with that behavior. :) > Cheers.
Re: Web banner blocker
On Monday 10 September 2001 03:59 am, Ross Burton wrote: > Hi, Ross: > Against all of the cries of "use Junkbuster" I went with ad-zap as it > does exactly what I want - hooks into Squid (which I had already > installed) and is small/fast/light, as is HTTP/1.1 compliant. Cool. I doubt much Squid would like my 486 33 16MB box though. Anyone try using Squid on such a system, or would it be an exercise in futility? > I'll dig out the URL when I get home if anyone is interested. > > Regards, > Ross
Re: mail server
On Monday 10 September 2001 10:32 am, Christian Schoenebeck wrote: > Hi everybody! > > I want to configurate a linux box as the central mail server in our local > and private network. > It's got a dialup connection and is therefore not always connected to the > internet. It should > be able to fetch emails of all users from several ISPs and of course to > send outgoing mails > when a connection is established. Fun fun. > Can someone roughly tell me how to do it? > > Do I have to configurate exim just for local mail, then fetcbmail to fetch > all emails on dialup? > What program do I need to send outgoing mails on dialup? Or can I use the > MTA (exim) > for this? Questions over questions. :) The fetchmail thing sounds correct. I've never done it for more than one user, but each user can have his own account and own fetchmailrc to handle getting mail, or you could probably configure the gobal one to get all the mail. For outgoing mail, you'll want to send directly to your ISP's SMTP server. A few years ago I had successfully used a hack with Qmail that would allow me to send mail to the local mail server, have it spooled, and then it would be sent when the link went up. You'll want to relay any outgoing mail through your ISP's mail server, though, so it isn't blacklisted as spam. > Thanks in advance for any help, > > Christian
Re: Web banner blocker
On Monday 10 September 2001 03:39 pm, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 04:03:19AM -0400, Jason Boxman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Monday 10 September 2001 02:53 am, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > on Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 02:44:05AM -0400, Jason Boxman > > > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > > > wrote: > > > You're aware that JB does regexp blocking? A few well-placed > > > expressions, largely variations on /ad/, /Ad/, and /advert/, you can > > > do a lot of damage. I've a list of 50 patterns which keeps banners > > > to a minimum. Deselecting Java/Javascript, and de-animating GIFs, > > > helps a lot too. > > > > Yeah, but regexp was never really my thing. I'd spend five minutes > > playing with a rule and reloading the page until the ad died. Some > > places I go require JavaScript to be on. Never found much use for > > Java though. > > A sample ruleset. I see fairly few banners. That's a nice list, but I'm sure ads still get through. With WebWasher's dimension filtering, I never see ads, *ever*. That's pretty tough to beat. When a new ad size is commissioned, I just add it to thte list and move on. Plus, the cookie handling is nice for sites I don't visit often, but need to login to. With Junkbuster I'd have to bust out my cookie file, disable the proxy, let the site cookie me, then add an entry and set it up as a read only cookie. What a pain. >
Re: "Webwasher" alternatives (was Re: Web banner blocker)
On Monday 10 September 2001 06:13 pm, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > Some, but relatively few. My own policy is: > > - I don't like animated ads: handled with animation settings in Galeon. > - I don't like Java/Javascript ads: disable both. > - I don't like ad demographics aggregatorss: handled with both DNS > and junkbuster. Yeah, I'd like to add major advertises to an iptables ruleset, but I am uncertain how to obtain all IP addresses owned by an organization. > There are a number of other sites which have generally annoying ads, I > filter these as well. > > I'm left with a small number of ads largely from smaller organizations. > Some of which may actually be interesting. > > My PoV isn't that all advertising is evil (though the vast majority is), > but that *evil* advertising is evil. Push me hard enough, and I'll push > back. > > > With WebWasher's dimension filtering, I never see ads, *ever*. That's > > pretty tough to beat. When a new ad size is commissioned, I just add > > it to the list and move on. > > > > Plus, the cookie handling is nice for sites I don't visit often, but > > need to login to. With Junkbuster I'd have to bust out my cookie > > file, disable the proxy, let the site cookie me, then add an entry and > > set it up as a read only cookie. What a pain. > > Agreed. I've been getting pushed harder to find something that will > strip out crap HTML. Specifically: > > > - Pixel-specified table and frameset widths. These should generally > be specified as % of page, or simply allowed to fill available area. D'oh. I'm guilty of that in most of my pages. I still run at 800, so anything that requires more than 640 annoys me to no end. > ...and odd things elsewhere. > > What other webwasher type proxies are there out there? I have a strong > preference for free software. I wish I knew, but someone else following this rather large thread might have some suggestions. I'm curious myself. (Just occurred to me that WebWasher could track my surfing habbits and such -- I haven't monitored for that. Scary thought.)
Re: printing
On Monday 10 September 2001 05:03 pm, Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS wrote: > Firstly, is there a recommended way of doing printing with Debian? I > see various mentions of LPD, LPRng, CUPS, PDQ and printtool, and there > are a large number of printer-related packages in the archive, many of > which conflict with one another, but I can't find a document to help > me decide what to install. I don't know what the recommended way is, but I use CUPS myself. > I tried printtool, but it says it can't find my parallel port. Well, > the printer does react when I do "modprobe parport_pc" or "echo foo > > /dev/lp0", so there is some kind of physical connection. That's a good start. If you know what port it is, you're over the first hurdle. > My printer's a Canon BJC-4300 and it has worked with Debian before, > but it was years ago and I can't remember how I did it. Chances are > everything will have changed by now, anyway. Yeah, I suspect it has. I'd take a look at the linux printing Web site, http://www.linuxprinting.org/ It has lots of info on supported printers and under what printing driver and method those printers can be used. In fact, you're in luck. http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=60544 Your printer has perfect support. Getting the stp driver and friends setup was a bit of a challenge. I'm not sure how I did it now, since I set it up last August and just copied everything over to this system until things worked properly. It did get it all working under Potato and it works presently in Woody, both with the latest CUPS. The CUPS in Potato is too old. You'll want to use the versions at their Web site if you're on Potato. You could probably apt-get source too. > Yes, I did look at The Printing HOWTO, but it doesn't say very much > about parallel ports and I can't have much confidence in a document > that talks about "kernels >= 2.1.33" when I'm running 2.4.8. > > Edmund
Re: "Webwasher" alternatives (was Re: Web banner blocker)
On Monday 10 September 2001 08:15 pm, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 07:29:05PM -0400, Jason Boxman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Monday 10 September 2001 06:13 pm, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > > > > > Some, but relatively few. My own policy is: > > > > > > - I don't like animated ads: handled with animation settings in > > > Galeon. - I don't like Java/Javascript ads: disable both. > > > - I don't like ad demographics aggregatorss: handled with both DNS > > > and junkbuster. > > > > Yeah, I'd like to add major advertises to an iptables ruleset, but I am > > uncertain how to obtain all IP addresses owned by an organization. > > This is why DNS blackholing is easier. Adding an authoritative > reference for a domain grabs all references to it. Similarly, a > suitably formed expression should work similarly, e.g.: > > *.doubleclick.com > *.doubleclick.net So I'd need to setup a bind server to do that kind of stuff? Or I could use my hosts file I guess. But bind on the gateway would probably be easier. > <...> > > > > What other webwasher type proxies are there out there? I have a strong > > > preference for free software. > > > > I wish I knew, but someone else following this rather large thread > > might have some suggestions. I'm curious myself. (Just occurred to > > me that WebWasher could track my surfing habbits and such -- I haven't > > monitored for that. Scary thought.) > > Is Webwasher a local proxy or a remote one? I'd thought the former, > sounds not. It's local for me, but I could set it up such that all my machines could use it too. So it can do both. > As far as tracking your surfing, I'm chatting with a guy who's pointed > me to a site that gets direct logs from ISPs, on claim was they had > about 35% of the market in their service area. Ties full demographics > (they've got your ISP) with traffic patterns. Lesson: you can't trust > anyone to see both ends of your connection. Is there any way to defeat that? If they've the ISP's logs, down they own you? Or is it only effective if you combine it with logs from sites where I provide valid personal information? > The company involved is: http://www.hitwise.com.au/methodology/ > > Cheers.
Re: Upgrade report
On Thursday 13 September 2001 12:49 pm, Greg Wiley wrote: > Hi all- > > Just some notes on a recent upgrade from stable to > testing on a box with the Ivan Moore II KDE packages. > Since the packages are not a part of the official Potato > version, I was unsure of how the upgrade would > proceed. KDE 2.2 isn't out for Woody yet. I compiled the Sid KDE 2.2 packages with mixed results. The kdebase package in particular had to have its rules files hacked extensively for it to build properly. I'd recommend waiting for 2.2.1 packages to come out for Woody.
Re: postfix and smarthost
On Thursday 13 September 2001 02:51 pm, Christian Schoenebeck wrote: > Hi! > > What do I have to do to deliver all outgoing mails to a smarthost > via smtp-auth? > > Someone told me i have to use a rather *new* version of postfix > compiled with SASL-Authentification support. Is this the case > with Potato r3 or do I have to get a newer version of this package > and/or recompile it? If you do need a newer version than Potato offers (I don't know), apt-get source really works wonders! Just remember to download the necessary development libs first. > Christian
Re: Kernel Oops
On Thursday 13 September 2001 01:40 pm, Lazar Fleysher wrote: > Hi everybody Hey! > I have noticed in /var/log/kern.log > the following message: ( system slink kernel 2.0.38) > > Sep 9 12:03:39 zoroport kernel: Serial driver version 4.13p1 with no > serial opt > ions enabled > Sep 9 12:03:40 zoroport kernel: ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16450 > Sep 9 12:03:40 zoroport kernel: ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16450 > Sep 9 16:48:13 zoroport kernel: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer > dereferenc I just read someone yesterday when I was reading up on the BadRAM kernel patch in the docs that his is very often a sign of bad RAM. (The NULL pointer) You might try removing some of your modules, if you can, to see if the problem goes away. Also, you can get a problem called "memtester" which I believe has a Debian package available. You can then boot it with LILO and test 99.9% of your RAM, not counting what few K it uses for itself. It will tell you with extreme accuracy whether nor not you have some bad RAM modules. >From there, if you want, you can fiddle with the BadMEM patch that's available for Linux 2.4.x. If your chip has some non fluxuating areas that are damaged you may be able to map them out of usuable RAM and continue along happily. This is pretty experimental though. I wouldn't use it on a production machine. Just buy a new stick if need be, it's cheap. > e at virtual address c000 > Sep 9 16:48:13 zoroport kernel: current->tss.cr3 = 00101000, %cr3 = > 00101000 > Sep 9 16:48:13 zoroport kernel: *pde = 00102067 > Sep 9 16:48:13 zoroport kernel: *pte = > Sep 9 16:48:13 zoroport kernel: Oops: > Sep 9 16:48:13 zoroport kernel: CPU:0 > > > > Could someone tell what this is and how to respond to such things... > Is it a hardware problem or software? > > Thank you > > Lazar > > PS There is a "hole" in time because the system had contacted a time > server and adjusted its time...
Re: Change to cgi handling in apache?
On Thursday 13 September 2001 03:57 pm, Dave Sherohman wrote: > I've got two machines here, one running stable (apache-perl 1.3.9) > and the other on testing with an unstable apache (apache 1.3.20 with > libapache-mod-perl 1.25 - these were on the testing versions and I > upgraded them to try to fix my CGI problem). I also have a minimal > CGI script: That's strange that it doesn't work on both. I get that error when my script fails (for whatever reason) to output any kind of header. You might try a variation, like: #!/usr/bin/perl use CGI; my $q = new CGI; print $q->header(); print "test!" And see if you get anything. > --- > #!/usr/bin/perl -wT > > print < Content-Type: text/html > > > > Hi! > > Hello, world! > > EOH > > exit; > --- > > On the stable system, it works just fine. On the unstable/testing > system, the client receives a 500 Internal Server Error and error.log > records "Premature end of script headers". > > What do I need to change (presumably another required header) to get > this working on both systems?
Re: postfix and smarthost
On Thursday 13 September 2001 07:04 pm, Christian Schoenebeck wrote: Christian: > > If you do need a newer version than Potato offers (I don't know), apt-get > > source really works wonders! Just remember to download the necessary > > development libs first. > > What? =0 You don't mean I have to download newer dev libs for that, do > you? But I now read that I also have to get the so called 'Cyrus SASL > libraries', so what packages do I actually need to download/install? Or > would you recommend me to simply use another MTA? Well, I'm probably the last person to ask about which specific MTA you should use to get the job done. I've only setup an MTA once, Qmail, some years ago. But if indeed you do need a more recent version of Postfix to do what you require, it is possible to add a source line to apt to enable you to download and compile a never version from either testing or unstable that may do what you require. If you "apt-get source postfix" (guess, I don't know the exact source name but that's probably it) and read the postfix*.dsc file that is downloaded into your working directory, it'll include a list of required packages before you can compile the source deb. Fetch each of those on the list with regular apt-get and then you can proceed to compile the source deb. (Issue "debian/rules binary" from the package's source directory.) But you needn't do any of that if the version of Postfix in Potato does what you need. It might, but I'm not familar with it personally. Maybe someone else can chime in. > Christian
Re: uptime
On Saturday 15 September 2001 01:45 am, will trillich wrote: > $ uptime > 12:44am up 365 days, 1:31, 2 users, load average: 0.10, 0.03, 0.01 > > break out the root beer! > > :) You da man. (I bet you just jinxed it and the power just went out such that the UPS couldn't hold out, right? ;) )
Re: uptime
On Saturday 15 September 2001 11:08 am, Martin F Krafft wrote: > also sprach will trillich (on Sat, 15 Sep 2001 12:45:15AM -0500): > > $ uptime > > 12:44am up 365 days, 1:31, 2 users, load average: 0.10, 0.03, 0.01 > > piper:/var/log# uptime > 16:58:42 up 854 days, 11:46, 67 users, load average: 0.05, 0.05, 0.01 > > titan:~# uptime > 11:06am up 1556 day(s), 4:30, 113 users, load average: 0.06, 0.13, 0.11 > > don't regard this as competition. it's a fact. we run the best > operating system! Dude, what kernel version is on those?! > martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) > \ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> mailto:"; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installed netscape, but how do I start it?
On Sunday 16 September 2001 11:52 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sat, Sep 15, 2001 at 12:10:17PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > I find most of the Norton's, SAMS, "Unleashed", "In 24 Hours", "In 10 > > Days", "Maximum...", "...for Dummies", and "Total Idiots Guide..." books > > to be poor, though there are the odd exceptions. > > > > I tend to recommend O'Reilly, Wiley, Morgan Kaufman, and Addison Wesley. > > Having gone through many linux/unix books recently, I would agree with > the above statement almost 100%. One notable exception though, and I > rarely admit owning this in public (this is anonymous, right?) is the "UNIX > for Dummies Quick Refrence Guide". It really sits on my desktop, well > disguised of course, for those times when I just can't remember how to > format a floppy or something equally silly. For even the full retail price > of $14.99 u.s. it's not a bad tool for the newbie's. I'm rather found of my "Linux: The Complete Reference 2nd ed" by McGraw Hill. Though it's biased towards Caldera's Open Linux and was published in 1998, the discussion of things like Bash shell scripting and using basic commands like grep and sed is pretty invaluable. Each chapter has a nice concise reference at the end which is especially nice for the Bash commands. > timo
Re: Printing .pdf files
On Monday 17 September 2001 03:10 am, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 12:55:45PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 11:02:52AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > On Sun, Sep 16, 2001 at 02:17:25AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > > on Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 09:37:45AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > > I am getting totally frustrated with trying to print .pdf files. > > Notes: > > 1. Note that this program is the product of Adobe Corporation, which > filed a complaint resulting in the arrest and arraignment of Dmitry > Sklyarov, on charges arising from the DMCA. I strongly discourage > the use of Adobe free software, and advocate boycotting Adobe's > commercial products, until they actively advocate dropping all > charges against Dmitry Sklyarov, his employer Elcom, Inc., and > renounce support of the DMCA. I thought they had dropped changes, now that he's in jail and all that fun stuff.
Re: traffic shaping advice sought
On Sunday 16 September 2001 07:52 am, Martin F Krafft wrote: > hi, > we operate a linux router on a 8kbps isdn connection - needless to > say, this bandwidth requires some form of shaping, because 8kbps is > quickly used up by one client only, rendering all other workstations > in the network virtually without network traffic - linux routing > doesn't seem to be advanced enough so as to give other connections a > chance when one is going 100% already. > > so i am looking for traffic shaping methods, kernel based. right now, > i think there is the traffic shaper in ther kernel, but also QoS and > fair queuing. i am looking for some advice on what to choose. > > basically, i would like to set up a default shaper, which will give > full bandwidth to the first client, but as soon as a second client > contacts, it fairly divides 50-50. the third client will reduce that > to 33-33-33, the fourth to 25-25-25-25 and so on. > > however, i would like to be able to set a maximum on individual > bandwidth by IP or MAC address in addition to this default behavior. i > can use iptables if that's necessary. Sounds like fun. [ Disclaimer: I know nothing about traffic shaping ] I wanted to do something similar once with my 56K, but I'm lucky if I connect at 28.8 around here so it's kind of silly to bother. Anyway, someone dropped me this link that discusses QoS. Maybe it'll help you out: http://users.belgacom.net/staf/qos/example/ gShield, an IPtables firewall script, is setup to mark packets into four groups, though yours will doubt less be different. The syntax for packet marking with IPTables is in the script, which you can nab at: http://muse.linuxmafia.org/gshield.html Good luck. > any thoughts appreciated! > > martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) > \ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> mailto:"; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ppp problem
On Monday 17 September 2001 01:27 am, Luis R Finotti wrote: > Hello, > > I am having some problems to connect to my ISP (verizon.net) and was > hoping that someone could help me... > > I just did a BIG "apt-get upgrade" (apparently even the Linux version was > upgraded to a testing one), and I was prompted many times about > configuration files, and instead of keeping mine (I thought that the > package developers would know better than me) and used the ones that came > with the package instead. (I never had a problem before this upgrade.) Well, if you modified any of them accepting the package maintainers would clobber yours. dpkg might make backups though, I've never looked. > In any case, when I try to connect, I get connected and disconnected right > after. A couple of times I could connect for like a minute... and when I > use the apt-get, I get connected while it download the necessary files, > but as soon as it is done, I get disconnected. Sep 16 15:35:52 debian diald[296]: Disconnected. Call duration 3225 seconds. Well, it looks like you managed to connect for a while at one point. You're aware that you're using diald, right? Diald is a demand dialer that will only bring up your PPP link when there is outbound traffic, like so: Sep 16 14:41:41 debian diald[296]: Trigger: udp \ 92.168.0.1/32768128.83.185.41/53 Sep 16 14:41:41 debian diald[296]: Calling site 192.168.0.2 It will drop the link after it has been idle for some brief period of time, which you can configure. > I put some log files at > http://www.ma.utexas.edu/users/finotti/linux/logs > if someone is willing to take a look... (you can see a short connection, > that was done by "pon", and one long, done with "apt-get") If you'd rather connect manually all the time with pon/poff, you'll want to turn diald off "/etc/init.d/diald stop" or completely remove it "dpkg --remove diald" which will remove the program, but keep your config files. > I don't think it is the modem or the provider, since I can connect with, > well, Windows... > > Sorry to bother you with that... I would really appreciate any help > though. If I missed the point somewhere and I'm off base, let me know. > Thanks a lot, > > Luis
Re: removing xfs
On Sunday 16 September 2001 09:26 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > trying to remove xfs font server but something's gone wrong... after > removing xfs and restarting X, X seems to start fine then exits abruptly > and complains that "fixed" font cannot be found even though xfstt runs > fine... wonder why... What version of X are you running? Some (all?) version of X3 need XFS running. xfstt handles TTF fonts. If your X requires xfs to be running the presence of xfstt won't make any difference.
Re: Lookup during intensive IO
On Monday 17 September 2001 11:42 am, Jose Manuel dos Santos Calhariz wrote: > I am lost, I don't know what to do find the cause of the problem. > When I put the machine under IO stress the it lookup. It hapens > during backup of the machine by the network to an amanda server. > Doing tar of the filesystems can lookup the machine. > > What I have done to try to isolate the problem: > - I have run memtest86 during more than one day without errors, to > catch memory errors. > - I have run burnK7 see if it was a heat problem. The CPU heated > until 82 degrees and didn't crash. > - With the CPU at 82 degrees I could compile the Linux kernel. And > off course the temperature have gone down. > - I have tried many kernels: 2.2.19, 2.4.7-686, 2.4.9-k6, > 2.4.9-386. And was the same. > > The hardware of the machine is: > - AMD Atlhon 900 MHz > - 256MB SRAM > - Motherboard is a ASUS A7V with VIA KT133 > - A second IDE controler Promise PDC20265 > - hda: Maxtor 91152D8, ATA DISK drive 11GB > - hdb: Maxtor 90648D3, ATA DISK drive 6GB UltraDMA33 > - hdc: Maxtor 98196H8, ATA DISK drive 80GB UltraDMA33 > - Adaptec 2940U > - scd0: Vendor: PLEXTOR Model: CD-R PX-R412C Rev: 1.07 > - scd1: Vendor: PLEXTOR Model: CD-ROM PX-20TSRev: 1.01 > > What can I do more to find the cause of the lookups. Start swapping hardware? :) Normally you'd expect it to be RAM, but you already checked that. > Jose Calhariz
Re: CDROM problems with installer 2.2.23
On Monday 17 September 2001 08:19 pm, richard wrote: > Hi > > Have installed potato(carefully,multiple times) using boot floppy images > 2.2.23 from CDROM. On reboot, apt-get tries to access packages and gets > error: "fs iso9660 not supported by kernel". Using mount has always > given the same error. I tried using an older version installer (2.1) Sounds like you don't have support in your kernel for ISO 9660 file systems. Which floppy images did you use? I'd imagine they'd all at least have support for ISO 9660. If you're getting an fs error then it's likely your drive was detected but the kernel can't read the media. You could check your kernel logs (dmesg) to see if your CD-ROM is detected, but I suspect it has been. Usually your recourse is to recompile the kernel with support for ISO 9660 file system, but if you're using the stock kernel from the installation disks then the fact that it can't read the CD is strange indeed. > which explicitly refused to load the cdrom module. The CDROM is ATAPI, > ASUS CD S400/A and should not need a special driver. The computer is AMD > K5 -- Debian is hdc secondary master, CDROM is hdd secondary slave. > CDROM works fine on Mandrake 8.0 which is on a different physical drive > hda, dual boot using LILO. CDROM works on floppy or CDROM Debian boot > media, just not from Debian on hdc. I tried to use ftp for access > thinking to try to compile a different kernel but on the last two tries > apt-get now cannot name resolve the Debian ftp site. I had gotten > further with this Debian install and after some effort X-windows was > working somewhat. I then tried to mess with kernel issues to get the > CDROM working but I'm not winning. > As I reread this, sounds like hdc maybe can't reach the CDROM. I'll > check the hardware, but are there any other insights? > > Richard
Re: XFree 86 4.1 with accelerated Rotation of Screen ?
On Tuesday 18 September 2001 04:25 am, Peter Biechele wrote: > I know is it not Debian specific, but I could not find a XFree 4 user > discussion list ! > > > Is it possible to get accelerated display support for a 90 degree rotated > screen in XFree86 4.1 ?? > I am using a Matrox G450 Card, but if another card is working acc. in > rotated mode, I would be very interested too ?!!! What is that? > Thanks for any suggestions, tips . > > Peter Biechele
Re: cd-rom went into hiding using ide-scsi
On Tuesday 18 September 2001 04:36 am, Alexander Poslavsky wrote: > Hi, > does anybody know how to find my ide-scsi devices? They seem to be lost. > But ([EMAIL PROTECTED]:root)# cat /proc/scsi/scsi gives this: Isn't it like /dev/scd0 now? > Attached devices: > Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00 > Vendor: IOMEGA Model: ZIP 100 Rev: 23.D > Type: Direct-AccessANSI SCSI revision: > Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 01 Lun: 00 > Vendor: Compaq Model: CD-ROM SC-148E Rev: PC03 > Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 > Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 02 Lun: 00 > Vendor: HP Model: CD-Writer+ 9100c Rev: H2,1 > Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 > > Also xcdroast sees the devices, I just have no idea how to mount them. > I recompiled the kernel with iso9660 support etc. What did I miss?
Re: Konqeror Segfault
On Tuesday 18 September 2001 06:57 am, Sean Kelleher wrote: > Hi, > > I'm experiencing problems with Konqueror under woody. The problem > started after i removed konqueror -- long story involving dependencies > suggested by apt-get -- and then reinstalled it. upon the > reinstallation apt-get complained about conflicts with the kdelibs3 > package. i forced the install of konqueror using: > > dpkg --install --force-overwrite > > now every time i try to start konqueror, it segfaults. any suggestions > for fixing the problem? You could ditch it all and trying reinstalling from scratch. Maybe if you force override konqueror with kdelibs3 again? > TIA, > sean
Re: iptables nat forwarding
On Tuesday 18 September 2001 03:32 pm, Hereward Cooper wrote: > Hi, > Could someone please tell me why this command won't forward any www calls > to 192.168.1.1 (firewall + gateway) to 192.168.1.2 (apache server). > > iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p TCP --dport 80 -j DNAT --to-destination > 192.168.1.2:80 > > > What I can't figure is why that doesn't work, when the following command > does work to forward all external ssh requests from the gateway, to the > apache machine. > > iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p TCP -i ippp0 --dport 22 -j DNAT > --to-destination 192.168.1.2:22 /sbin/iptables -A PREROUTING -t nat -p udp -d $PPP_LOCAL \ --dport 1234 -j DNAT --to 192.168.0.22:1234 Is what I use to forward UDP traffic on 1234 to my internal box in ip-up.d. > Thanks, > > Hereward
Re: X v4.1.0 broke
On Friday 21 September 2001 07:56 am, Ilya Martynov wrote: > >> ** (WW) System lacks support for changing MTRRs > > MMRR can be compiled in or not. It is kernel option - no need to > upgrade kernel. Just recompile. Anyway it is not critical error. It > only affects X server perfomance (noticeable difference when playing > movies in mplayer or aviplay for example). I didn't really notice a difference when using Mplayer, but I doubt my K6 III 400MHz have much to offer anyway.
Re: DSL connection has stopped working in Debian.
On Sunday 23 September 2001 05:50 am, Jack Andrews wrote: My only question is have you run apt-get lately? Maybe a package was updated and something changed. I would've suggested checking the cable, but if you can ping then it's probably fine, so I'm at a loss. That's pretty weird. I think if you run "ifconfig" and your interface isn't bound to anything then it won't show up. Or that might be when there's an error with it. "ifconfig -a" should show all the interfaces. > The setup. > > -Debian Woody with DSL connection (eth0) acting as router for > NAT'd LAN (eth1) > -Using dhc-client for DHCP on the DSL line > > Everything was working fine until a reboot yesterday. Now the DSL > connection is busted. > > During bootup, when eth0 is brought up, this is the first thing that > appears: > > Eth0: Media is unconnected, link down, or incompatible connection. > > Now, I've been getting this message during bootup for a while now, but > after a long period of time, the system would continue to boot up and > the network connection would work normally. Not now, though. > After a long timeout period, dhc-client prints out a lot of DHCP > information that makes it look like it contacted the DHCP server correctly, > but with a "Reason=TIMEOUT" line at the end that I haven't seen before. > > Once the box finished booting, Eth0 is listed as not being up. If I bring > it up, I'm told that it's already up. If I ifdown it, then ifup it again, > there's another "Media is unconnected error" and a return to a prompt, but > the interface is listed as up after that. In the system log after I do > that, I can see that dhc-client has gone through the DISCOVER, OFFER, > REQUEST, ACK process, complete with a "Bound to 216.63.xyz.xyz" message. > > At this point, I can ping the IP of the DHCP server, and it works. I can > ping random IPs on the same subnet (probably other DSL customers), > and it works. But I can't ping the gateway address (216.63.148.0) or > anything outside the subnet. I can't ping the nameservers, because > they're on a different subnet. Pinging anything outside the subnet yields > "Network Unreachable." Pinging the ISP's router yields no replies. > > The "route" command shows this: > > 216.63.148.0 * 255.255.254.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 > > I'm wondering if maybe the ISP's router (216.63.148.0) is just down, but > this problem has persisted after nearly 14 hours, so I'd think they'd have > noticed by now. Or it's possible that the router just ignores pings, and > the problem is on my end. > > I'd greatly appreciate any suggestions here. This Debian box is a web > server and mail server and is considered "mission critical" (yeah, I know > it's dumb to trust a DSL line for anything important, but times are > tough), and I'll have some unhappy users to deal with if I can't get this > worked out. Thanks a lot! > > - > Protect yourself from spam, use http://sneakemail.com
Re: HDD Kernel messages...
On Sunday 23 September 2001 05:51 am, Sven Gaerner wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I got the following kernel messages mainly after boot up.
>
> kernel: hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> kernel: hda: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
Oh no. :(
Last time I had a SeekComplete Error it was on my (still in use) Quantum
6.4GB EIDE disk. I get that error anytime I create a new ext2 partition that
contains sectors that apparently are physically bad. (Or anytime I accessed
those sectors before they were formatted out as 'bad' blocks.)
> My kernel is 2.4.9 and is configured to use multi mode
> (CONFIG_IDEDISK_MULTI_MODE=y).
I suppose you could try disabling that or playing with options in the BIOS
pertaining to your controller. I'm sure it's at least possible the
controller or disk aren't happy with the options.
> My harddisk is an Maxtor 20GB and the used filesystem is reiserfs.
I don't think it's a ReiserFS issue.
Is this a new drive? Has this happened in the past? I had my drive for a
year before my bad sectors showed up. I guess I must've bumped it the wrong
way one day and the disk got damaged towards the outside of the platter. It
was only a problem when it was nearly full.
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Bye,
>
> Sven
Re: matrox g450: matrox.com drivers or X 4.1.0 drivers?
On Sunday 23 September 2001 02:28 pm, Krzys Majewski wrote: > Anyone run a matrox g450? > I've got one working with kernel 2.4.8 and X 4.1.0, but it did > hang my box once. Maybe I should be using the drivers from the > Matrox site instead? The Matrox drivers need the code for X > 4.0.2/4.0.3 to compile. I know, I know, I should just try it and see, > but it's a bit of a pain to build/test etc., so if you have any > g450 experiences to share, please do.. Well, my G400 works with the default X4.1 drivers. It seems to load the mga_hal module that Matrox providers for G200/4xx cards though. The mga_hal might only be necessary for the G450, I don't remember. > -chris
Re: Strange network performance
On Sunday 23 September 2001 05:34 pm, Charles Franks wrote: > Generally in a network environment you want to 'strap' ports to > speed/duplex settings and avoid autonegotiate as this can cause problems... > when both ends are set to 'auto' it almost always causes problems such as > links re-negotiating out of the blue.. this kinda sounds like what you are > experiencing. I had a problem like that with a NetGear router I was plugging into. I couldn't force full duplex on the router, so I was stuck with half duplex even with full forced on the cards themselves. It was pretty slow. You pretty much had to get a cup of coffee if you wanted to copy a 10MB file. > I don't know what the commands are but if possible I would 'strap' both > nics to 100/full. I have also found that some nic's (drivers) don't really > support 100/full all that well (in general not just under linux) and they > actually perform better when set to 100/half. > > Charles > > > > > > - Original Message - > From: "Matthew Sackman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Noah Meyerhans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Debian User List" > > Sent: Sunday, September 23, 2001 2:12 PM > Subject: Re: Strange network performance > > Well, that's all gone through and worked - not quite as simple as I > thought, but I got there. Network performance seems a little faster > than before but still a little slow compared with what I thought > would have been possible with a 100TX crossover network. Must be > a limitation of the cheap cards. > > Thanks for your help. > > Matthew > > On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 06:56:31PM +0100, Matthew Sackman wrote: > > Yes, it's a 2.4.9 kernel on both machines with the included natsemi > > driver. > > > > dmesg reports much the same for both machines: > > > > eth0: link is back. Enabling watchdog. > > eth0: Setting full-duplex based on negotiated link capability. > > eth0: Link changed: Autonegotiation advertising 05e1 partner . > > eth0: no link. Disabling watchdog. > > eth0: Link changed: Autonegotiation advertising 05e1 partner 45e1. > > eth0: link is back. Enabling watchdog. > > > > > > I'll replace the driver with the one from scyld.com - it's just a matter > > of physically over writing /usr/src/linux/drivers/net/natsemi.c with the > > new one right? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Matthew > > > > On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 01:41:59PM -0400, Noah Meyerhans wrote: > > > On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 06:36:05PM +0100, Matthew Sackman wrote: > > > > I've just set up a 100TX network with 2 computer both running debian. > > > > Netgear FA311 cards and a single cross-over cable. > > > > > > What version of the kernel are you running? If it's 2.4, are you > > > running the natsemi driver included with the kernel, or did you > > > download it from scyld.com? If you're running the version that came > > > with the kernel, try replacing it with the one from > > > http://www.scyld.com/network/netsemi.html. The one in the kernel is > > > based on that driver, but has been modified. You may have more success > > > with the original. > > > > > > Also, use dmesg and see if anything is being logged by the kernel > > > relating to these issues. I've seen some IRQ problems with the > > > natsemi-based cards. > > > > > > noah > > > > > > -- > > > ___ > > > > > > | Web: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/ > > > | PGP Public Key: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/mail.html > > > > -- > > > > Matthew Sackman > > Nottingham, > > ENGLAND > > > > Using Debian/GNU Linux > > Enjoying computing > > > > It said 'Required Windows XP or better.' > > So I installed Linux.
Re: Print Server ?
On Sunday 23 September 2001 04:29 pm, George wrote: > Heya People, > > I was wondering if there's any way I can get my linux box/server/gateway to > to act as a something similar to a print server. Sure. > Basically, I've got my windows box, 2 linux boxen, and a freebsd box all > hooked up to the server and the server is connected via parallel to the > printer. Is there anyway I can get the server to capture and forward print > requests from any of the workstations (irrespective of OS, i.e no print > filters on the server or anything, just request forwarding) Forward the print requests somewhere else or to the printer on the server itself? This can be done via a number of different methods. I use Samba (since I have windows boxes) and CUPS to handle the printing on the server. It prints fine both from the server and remotely via SAMBA. If you're using a different printing tool on the box and it already works you might perfer to investigate remote printing options for it instead of switching to CUPS. Also note Potato doesn't have newer versions of CUPS which you might want to use drivers generated at linuxprinting.org (great site). Woody has recent enough versions for all to be well. If you're interested in the CUPS + Samba solution it works quite well. [global] ;; lots of options removed printing = CUPS printcap name = lpstat load printers = yes [printers] comment = All Printers path = /tmp browseable = no public = yes writable = no printable = yes create mode = 0700 ; The raw option allows printing from Windows using the ; driver provided by Epson. print command = /usr/bin/lpr -P %p -o raw %s lpq command = /usr/bin/lpstat -o %p lprm command = /usr/bin/cancel %p-%j available = yes ** That's all I have and it Just Works (tm). > If you get what I mean ;-), any help will be appreciated. > > Cheers > George
Re: Wrong cpu speed detection...
On Sunday 23 September 2001 08:31 pm, Ricardo Diz wrote: > Hi, > > I have a Pentium II 266MHz in a laptop and everytime I start linux it > thinks the cpu is a Pentium II 182.0MHz?!! > > Does anyone know why? Maybe it really is? ;) I don't know, really though. > Regards, > Ricardo Diz
Re: matrox g450: matrox.com drivers or X 4.1.0 drivers?
On Monday 24 September 2001 10:49 am, Krzys Majewski wrote: > > OK, thanks. > Mine tries to load the mga_hal module and fails, presumably because I > haven't installed it. I take it you've downloaded the one from > matrox.com? What does it do? The README for the HAL download at Matrox's site in the support section under Drivers explains the purpose of the HAL. It enables stuff like dual head support on some Matrox cards that support it, but I don't remember which since mine isn't dual head. It also lets you use the Matrox PowerDesk application, which is a pretty sad excuse for an app and doesn't let you do anything really useful you can't do with xvidtune. > Also, FWIW, if you don't install the matrox drivers, the 450 is only > supported starting with X 4.1.0. But at least it is supported. ;) > > -chris
Re: matrox g450: matrox.com drivers or X 4.1.0 drivers?
On Monday 24 September 2001 01:59 pm, Remco van de Meent wrote: > Oleksandr Moskalenko wrote: > > > Mine tries to load the mga_hal module and fails, presumably > > > because I haven't installed it. I take it you've downloaded the one > > > from matrox.com? What does it do? Also, FWIW, if you don't install > > > the matrox drivers, the 450 is only supported starting with X > > > 4.1.0. > > > > On my G400 mga_hal prevents dri from being enabled. I assume that's > > because mga_hal was compiled for ?4.0 and they haven't updated it for > > 4.1, yet. Everything seems to work beautifully WITHOUT any Matrox > > drivers even though mga_hal load failure message shows up in XFree86 > > log. Someone else posted similar experiences for their G450 on this > > list before, too. > > It works also with the mga_hal driver (downloaded from matrox.com) > loaded, after recompiling it on X version 4.1.0. On a system w/ G450 > that is. I have DRI enabled, including, suprisingly, 3D support, even with mga_hal being loaded under X4.1 using the stock X mga driver. I, however, use a G400, so it's possible it's different for the G450. > > regards, > Remco.
Re: Woody install over PPP: How?
On Tuesday 25 September 2001 01:18 am, Lars Jensen wrote: > How do I install woody over a ppp connection? I've got the three > floppies: > You're in for a treat. You need about 15 floppies formatted and ready to go. You might want to format them even if they're already formatted, as even a small error on the disk will result in having to trash the disk. The same place in the installation guide you found the links to the boot and root disks, you'll find links to the 15 or so floppy images of the base system. You'll need all of these before you can configure installation to use PPP. Oh, wait, 'Woody'? I don't think Woody has an installation disk set yet, does it? If you meant Woody instead of Potato you're sort of on your own I think, until Woody is officially released. You can use the Potato install disks and base, tweak some apt-get source lines, and end up with Woody when you're done though. You can probably search the archives for how to accomplish this. > > Thanks, > Lars. > > %%% > Lars Jensen, Truckee Meadows Community College, Reno NV 89512-3999. > Tel: 775.673.7113 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Java in Konqueror
On Tuesday 25 September 2001 05:59 am, Stephan Hachinger wrote: > Hi! > > > Hmm, maybe you could just write a little mail to the list if it also works > for you. I'm using the Blackdown JRE 1.3 with Konqueror in 2.2.1 and Java seems to work. > Cheers, > > Stephan >
Re: source.list error recovery
On Tuesday 25 September 2001 12:47 pm, Jacques Normand wrote: > I've just played with some unstable packages lists and it doesn't behave > like I want. Is there any way to downgrade all packages to the latest > avaibled in the corrected sources.list. I mean a softer way than a > reinstall ;-) I've never tried that before. Perhaps you can try an apt-get --reinstall install [packages] with the corrected source list. Hopefully someone else will chime in saying if this will work or not. Since the versions installed will still be newer than what's available in the new sources list, I'd guess the above won't do what you want. If you only hosed a few packages, you could try doing it by hand. If it's an entire system, you might be shafted. > Jacques
Re: xlib problem
On Tuesday 25 September 2001 10:04 pm, Brian Schramm wrote: > I am still trying to upgrade from potato to woody. With a modem this is a > panfull process at best. Here it is 4 days latter and now I cannot get > anywhere with it. Here is the error message that I get. > > Unpacking replacement xlibs ... > dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/xlibs_4.1.0-6_i386.deb > (--unpack): > trying to overwrite `/usr/X11R6/include/X11/pixmaps/mouse.xpm', which is > also in package qcad > dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) > Errors were encountered while processing: > /var/cache/apt/archives/xlibs_4.1.0-6_i386.deb > Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) > schserv:~# > > Please help. I know your pain. Dial up installations are a trip. As someone else suggested you might try removing qcad. Then you could bust out a dpkg --pending --configure and see if dpkg resumes. Good luck! (I had a similar problem with kde 2.2.1 in Sid and did an apt-get -f install and then a dpkg --pending --configure and it seemed to resolve itself, even though I didn't remove either package that had the offending file. I don't know why it worked.) > Brian > > Brian Schramm > [EMAIL PROTECTED]ICQ 104442754 AIM schrammbrian > www.linuxexpert.org
Re: Help with install: Woody
On Tuesday 25 September 2001 08:56 pm, dman wrote: > On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 03:09:20PM -0700, Lars Jensen wrote: > | How do I install woody over a ppp connection? > | > | Here's what I've done so far: > | First I downloaded the images and created the three installation > | floppies, > | > | rescue.bin, root.bin, drivers.bin. > | > | The installation goes fine until the installer asks where to find the > | base system. I'm not sure what to do at this point? I have looked around > | on the debian ftp site, and I don't see any base.tgz or anything like > | that. Which files are the installer looking for? Where do I find them? > > base2_2.tgz. It's not a small file so floppies aren't a good choice > of transport medium. Also, to get ppp to work you need chat and pppd > (and maybe other stuff they depend on) so you kinda need that base > system first. Can you get ethernet on that machine? Can you burn a > CD? Can you temporarily move the hd to a different machine with a > better connection (ie ethernet)? Yeah, PPP install is pretty painful. I've also noticed that there is no /dev/modem link in the base potato during install, so pon always failed for me until I modified /etc/ppp/peers/* properly... I guess I'm about the only one who ever used ppp install. :) > -D
Re: Debian 2.2r3 apt-get & dselect -> testing
On Tuesday 25 September 2001 05:09 pm, Jaime cristerna Avila wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > This is my first time posting onto this list. I don't know if this > question is best directed to user-dpkg. Regardless, I will try asking > here first. > > > Is there any way, I can keep potato and just update the XFree to 4.1.0 > from the testing packages. I still want dselect and apt-get to be aware > of the packages and be in sync. There are "unofficial" XFree 4.x packages for Potato. Perhaps search the list archives. > Your assistance will be greately appreciated. > > > > Jaime Avila > University of Southern California > Department of Chemistry > > > # > ### , , > # # # D e b i a n / \ > #" #" # L i n u x ((__-^^-,-^^-__)) >##v##Rules! `-_---' `---_-' > ## vvv ## `--|o` 'o|--' > # ## \ ` / > ## ## ): :( > ### ###:o_o: > +++# ##++"-" > ++# #++ GNU's Not Unix! > +++# #+++ >+###+ > +++ +++
Re: X won't start in woody
On Tuesday 25 September 2001 06:25 pm, francisco m neto wrote: > Hi there, Hey! > I've been trying to install woody on a PIII with a SiS 620 graphics > chipset for the last 6 hours. You'll have to be a bit more specific with error messages and such for anyone to be of much help. Did XF4 not even install? Was there any error when you tried to start it with "startx"? Try to include useful output. Thanks.
Re: ext3 on install
On Wednesday 26 September 2001 03:58 am, Samuli Suonpaa wrote: > Adam McDaniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm curious if anyone here has any knowledge of Debian, in any > > future release, will prompt the user to install an ext3 filesystem > > during the initial install. > > It's already possible. > > Just what I was looking for -- giving it a go now. Thanks! > Suonpää...
Re: ext3 on install
On Wednesday 26 September 2001 02:55 pm, Jason Boxman wrote: > On Wednesday 26 September 2001 03:58 am, Samuli Suonpaa wrote: > > Adam McDaniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm curious if anyone here has any knowledge of Debian, in any > > > future release, will prompt the user to install an ext3 filesystem > > > during the initial install. > > > > It's already possible. > > > > > Just what I was looking for -- giving it a go now. Thanks! Worked flawlessly on 2.4.9 with latest e2fsprogs in Woody. > > Suonpää...
Re: konqueror crashes at all websites.
On Wednesday 26 September 2001 03:20 pm, The Doctor wrote: > I am running Sid and Konqueror seems to be broken... I get a sig 11 crash > every time, like this: ~> konqueror www.slashdot.org > kio (KProtocolInfo): ERROR: Protocol '' not found > KCrash: crashing...crashRecursionCounter =2 > KCrash: Application Name = konqueror path = pid 2539 I got the impression from somewhere that -3 is hosed, but I don't know if that's a fact. My -1 works fine as well. > I'm running 2.2.1-3, but 2.2.1-1 was working great. Ugh. > -- thedoctor
Re: system transfer
On Wednesday 26 September 2001 04:39 pm, jackp wrote: > I want to copy my root system from one hard disk to another > to run on a separate machine. Is there an easy way to do > this? Sure. There are a bunch of ways to do this. You could swap out disks, mount the disk you want to copy to, and then you can execute a variety of commands to copy the files. I think it's a personal preference thing, though I'm sure some ways are better than others. I've been doing cp -av /usr /home /etc /boot /var [rest of the root dirs minus /mnt] /mnt/new_disk [And of course the new disk is mounted under 'new_disk'] There are probably better ways, though. :) > > = > > > __ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get email alerts & NEW webcam video instant messaging with Yahoo! > Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
Re: HELP: UDMA/100 woes and trouble.
On Thursday 27 September 2001 02:12 pm, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > > i'm having a HECK of a time trying to get UDMA/100 transfer speeds on my > > system. > > > > hdparm -t reports 35 MB/s. this is nowhere near the 100MB/s that i'm > > expecting to get. > > Why are you expecting 100MB/s? That's the bus maximum bandwidth. > It doesn't mean you can physically read data off the disk platter > that fast. > > (5 years ago I was happy to get 7 MB/s of a disk.) Yeah, that's pretty much where I stand today... I've got an old ATA33 disk. It's a Quantum Fireball 30GB disk. What sort of throughput should I be getting? nebula:/home/jasonb# hdparm -t -T /dev/hdb /dev/hdb: Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 2.09 seconds = 61.24 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 8.96 seconds = 7.14 MB/sec /dev/hdb: multcount= 16 (on) I/O support = 0 (default 16-bit) unmaskirq= 0 (off) using_dma= 0 (off) keepsettings = 0 (off) nowerr = 0 (off) readonly = 0 (off) readahead= 8 (on) geometry = 3649/255/63, sectors = 58633344, start = 0 Last time I messed with hdparm and tried to tweak the settings I ended up with WORSE performance (I believe I ended up with 4MB/sec buffered disk reads instead of 7MB/sec). Ideas? > Peter
Re: HELP: UDMA/100 woes and trouble.
On Thursday 27 September 2001 05:22 pm, Mike Dresser wrote: > > Yeah, that's pretty much where I stand today... I've got an old ATA33 > > disk. It's a Quantum Fireball 30GB disk. What sort of throughput should > > I be getting? > > > > Ouch. Get that DMA turned on. I've gotten 30+ meg per second on Fireball > AS's, and slightly lower on LM's. Is your cpu an old pentium 233 or > something? The buffer-cache reads seems rather low, indicating the memory > is slow, which could mean an old slow machine, to me. Yeah, it is a slow old K6 III 400 with some (320MB) PC100 in CAS3 (CAS2 was giving me trouble). It's an old board, too. I don't have anything that'll let me do ATA66, I think I'd need a new motherboard or to buy an IDE controller. > Once you get that DMA turned on, ( -d1 ) i bet your speeds will go way up. > If that's a 30gb Fireball LM or AS, it's not ATA33, even the LM's were > ATA66, the AS ATA100. I'll have to give that a shot... I guess I'll just have it do that on startup if it works? > Mike
Re: HELP: UDMA/100 woes and trouble.
On Thursday 27 September 2001 05:53 pm, you wrote: > > Yeah, it is a slow old K6 III 400 with some (320MB) PC100 in CAS3 (CAS2 > > was giving me trouble). It's an old board, too. I don't have anything > > that'll let me do ATA66, I think I'd need a new motherboard or to buy an > > IDE controller. > > What chipset does this thing use? Is your kernel compiled to support it? block: 128 slots per queue, batch=16 Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31 ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx VP_IDE: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39 VP_IDE: chipset revision 6 VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later ide0: BM-DMA at 0xe400-0xe407, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA ide1: BM-DMA at 0xe408-0xe40f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA ... hda: QUANTUM BIGFOOT_CY6480A, ATA DISK drive hdb: QUANTUM FIREBALLP LM30, ATA DISK drive hdc: NEC CD-ROM DRIVE:282, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 hda: 12706470 sectors (6506 MB) w/67KiB Cache, CHS=790/255/63 hdb: 58633344 sectors (30020 MB) w/1900KiB Cache, CHS=3649/255/63 hdc: ATAPI 8X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache It's an old VIA MVP3 chipset on a FIC 503+ board. I think I compiled in support for it into my 2.4.9 kernel. CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDISK=y CONFIG_IDEDISK_MULTI_MODE=y # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDISK_VENDOR is not set # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDISK_FUJITSU is not set # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDISK_IBM is not set # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDISK_MAXTOR is not set # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDISK_QUANTUM is not set # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDISK_SEAGATE is not set # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDISK_WD is not set # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_COMMERIAL is not set # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_TIVO is not set # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDECS is not set CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDECD=y # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDETAPE is not set # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEFLOPPY is not set CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDESCSI=m # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_CMD640 is not set # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_CMD640_ENHANCED is not set # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_ISAPNP is not set # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RZ1000 is not set CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEPCI=y CONFIG_IDEPCI_SHARE_IRQ=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA_PCI=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_ADMA=y # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_OFFBOARD is not set CONFIG_IDEDMA_PCI_AUTO=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA=y CONFIG_IDEDMA_AUTO=y > > I'll have to give that a shot... I guess I'll just have it do that on > > startup if it works? > > hdparm -d1 /dev/hda, and then go -Tt it again. Should show a difference, > if the -d1 is allowed nebula:/home/jasonb# hdparm -d1 /dev/hdb /dev/hdb: setting using_dma to 1 (on) using_dma= 1 (on) nebula:/home/jasonb# hdparm -t -T /dev/hdb /dev/hdb: Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 2.03 seconds = 63.05 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 4.54 seconds = 14.10 MB/sec Yeah, that about doubled performance. I guess last time I played with too many settings. I started to change stuff like the multcount and the IO support and the unmaskirq and I ended up slowing it down a lot... Thanks. :) > Mike
Re: HELP: UDMA/100 woes and trouble.
On Thursday 27 September 2001 05:53 pm, you wrote: > > Yeah, it is a slow old K6 III 400 with some (320MB) PC100 in CAS3 (CAS2 > > was giving me trouble). It's an old board, too. I don't have anything > > that'll let me do ATA66, I think I'd need a new motherboard or to buy an > > IDE controller. > > What chipset does this thing use? Is your kernel compiled to support it? > > > I'll have to give that a shot... I guess I'll just have it do that on > > startup if it works? > > hdparm -d1 /dev/hda, and then go -Tt it again. Should show a difference, > if the -d1 is allowed It is interesting to note that turning DMA on on /dev/hda didn't result in any performance gain at all. It's an old Quatum BigFoot from 1998. 6GB disk. Heh, sadly it's also my primary disk (silly, I know) and hdb seldom is used, so having 14MB/s on that is nice, but probably won't help me much day to day. I guess I could swap the disks... One of these days... > Mike
Re: problems with Konqueror
On Friday 28 September 2001 12:11 pm, Jussi Ekholm wrote: > I'm currently running Debian testing with kernel 2.2.17. > > Today I decided to give a shot for unstable's Konqueror. Well, it > started ok - it fetched couple of other packages too (kdelibs3, > kdebase-libs, libkonq3 etc.) but when it started to set up them, > it failed because of some dependancy problem. I then fighted and > fighted, and finally was able to downgrade the packages back to > testing's versions (I used dpkg's --force in the process, probably > extremely stupid thing to do...). I've now checked many times, that > the packages I upgraded, are back to the ones that testing holds. > Still, when I try to access, for example, my homepages or > http://packages.debian.org (or any page), I get this error: Maybe you should just remove the KDE packages completely and begin anew? > There was an error loading the module KHTML > The diagnostics is: > /usr/lib/libkssl.so.2: undefined symbol: polish__7KDialog > > I'm all out of ideas, now. Can someone tell from this little bit of > information, that what went broken and how it is to be fixed? And > indeed, all the packages that got upgraded to unstable in the process, > are now testing's versions - everything is as it was, if you will. > Unless dpkg --force broke something big time... > > Any input is appreciated, thanks.
Re: Portforwarding
On Friday 28 September 2001 02:28 pm, Jan Tammen wrote: > Hello, > I'm using potato and kernel 2.4.8. I'm trying to map some ports to a > client inside my NAT-network. So far i'm using this, but it seems to > have no effect: > > iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp -i mydevice --dport -j DNAT --to > client_ip: > > ... and so on, and then: > > iptables -A FORWARD -i mydevice -p tcp -d client_ip --dport -j ACCEPT > I've been using: iptables -A PREROUTING -t nat -j DNAT -p udp --destination-port 1234 \ --to-detination 192.168.0.22 It works but I couldn't explain why. ;) > Any hints? tia, Jan.
Re: Win2k, Samba, cups and printers
On Friday 28 September 2001 02:37 pm, Ryan Hagan wrote: > Greetings, > > I've checked the archives and seen plenty of people having trouble printing > through Samba, but I've found none with the problem I'm having. > That's interesting. I don't know if I cheated or not, but I just installed Epson's Stylus drivers on the Windows box and it was happy. I print RAW to the printer via Samba and CUPS.
Re: Simple backups
On Friday 28 September 2001 11:53 pm, Mark Lanett wrote: > From: "Daniel Toffetti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Backups in general: > rsync --verbose --archive --delete SRC DST > e.g. rsync ... ~ /backups > > Filesystem-level backups: > /etc/fstab: /dev/hda4 /backups > mount /backups > rsync --one-file-system --archive -H --delete / /backups > umount /backups > > Or dd, or tar, or cpio. What are the benefits of using rsync instead of one of the above? > I don't think you could actually boot off the backup partition in an > emergency, because the lilo map and fstab would be wrong for it. But this > is not a brick wall. > > ~mark
Re: pppd
On Sunday 30 September 2001 06:31 am, Christian Schoenebeck wrote: > Hi! > > I configured pppd for dial on demand, but how can I get pppd to start > automaticaly > on boot time without immediately establishing a connection, but to wait > until there's > a demand for it? no idea. I use "diald" to perform the same fuction though. The one in testing/unstable integrates nicely with pppconfig. > I renamed /etc/ppp/no_ppp_on_boot to /etc/ppp/ppp_on_boot and chmoded it to > a+x to be executed by /etc/init.d/ppp on startup. So, I don't know why it > establishs > a connection anyway, because all the script does is to call 'pppd call > provider' and > if I do that manualy by typing it, pppd starts but waits for demand. So, > what do I > have to change? > > Christian
Re: networkcard etup
On Sunday 30 September 2001 06:57 pm, Hans Steinraht wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to get my homenetwork to work with debian. > What I understand till now is that I have to set up the two nics > in the gateway machine and then install ipmasq. > > My question is: > How do I setup the second network card (eth1)? > > I have found /etc/network/interfaces, do I have to edit this file? You could try "man interfaces" > thank, > Hans
Re: AWE64 and isapnp in kernel
On Monday 01 October 2001 06:07 pm, Jerome Cornet wrote: > Hi there, > > I have some troubles using the linux 2.4 isapnp support with an awe64. > I use the kernel-image-2.4.9-586 from http://people.debian.org/~bunk/debian > When I look at the kernel messages, I can see that the isapnp correctly > detects the card, but when I load the sb module the card is not found. > That's odd. You could try switching ISA slots. I also get the "increasing port range" message with my old classic SB16 PnP card. > > PS: I know I could use isapnptools or echo "blah" > /proc/isapnp but I > don't want to do that. The feature is supposed to work, it will ;-)
Re: network
On Monday 01 October 2001 05:48 pm, Rory O'Connor wrote: > I haven't got answers...only more questions. I am trying to do the same, > but am not able to ping my win98 pc. I have internal IPs assigned and my > PCs can ping each other...but there's some hangup with the linux box. > > There are 2 in it, one external (works fine) and an internal (not able to > ping or be pinged). By all appearances, it should be working. any ideas on > what else to check? here's my 'ifconfig': > I like to check /var/log/dmesg and syslog. The card that cannot ping or be pinged may actually be experiencing a hardware issue. I had a card once that I was able to assign an IP to, but it failed to function. It turns out it was an IRQ conflict. Moving the card to another PCI slot resolved the issue.
Re: Sharing Printers w/ Win2K machine and Samba
On Monday 01 October 2001 01:59 am, Joe Barnett wrote:
> I'm trying to share my parrallel port printer through samba to my win2k
> laptop, and getting the following error in my log.smbd when i try to
> connect from the laptop:
"connect"? Print?
> [2001/09/30 22:00:31, 0] smbd/service.c:make_connection(239)
> littlejoe (192.168.0.4) couldn't find service
>
> ::{2227a280-3aea-1069-a2de-08002b30309d}
>
It looks like you're using CUPS. I have these entries in my smb.conf file:
[global]
printing = CUPS
printcap name = lpstat
load printers = yes
[printers]
print command = /usr/bin/lpr -P %p -o raw %s
lpq command = /usr/bin/lpstat -o %p
lprm command = /usr/bin/cancel %p-%j
available = yes
> Thanks,
> Joe
Re: CUPS does not have samba support.
On Tuesday 02 October 2001 11:39 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have cupsys version 1.1.10-3 installed. > Now, when I type: > debian:~# lpinfo -v > network socket > network http > network ipp > network lpd > serial serial:/dev/ttyS0?baud=115200 > serial serial:/dev/ttyS1?baud=115200 > serial serial:/dev/ttyS2?baud=115200 > serial serial:/dev/ttyS3?baud=115200 You'd be correct. You can print to a CUPS printer through Samba itself from remote machines. If you need to print to a remote printer on a Windows box, you can set that up in Samba as well, I believe. I don't think you need CUPS on the local machine for that. > I think there is no samba support inside the cups server. > Any ideas ? I have to use samba protocal to communicate with Win9X printer, > correct ?
Re: CUPS does not have samba support.
On Wednesday 03 October 2001 12:14 am, dman wrote: > On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 11:39:00PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > | I have cupsys version 1.1.10-3 installed. > | Now, when I type: > | debian:~# lpinfo -v > | network socket > | network http > | network ipp > | network lpd > | serial serial:/dev/ttyS0?baud=115200 > | serial serial:/dev/ttyS1?baud=115200 > | serial serial:/dev/ttyS2?baud=115200 > | serial serial:/dev/ttyS3?baud=115200 > | > | I think there is no samba support inside the cups server. > | Any ideas ? I have to use samba protocal to communicate with Win9X > | printer, correct ? > > Yes, but CUPS works great. It handles samba by delegating the real > work to smbspool. You need to install the 'smbclient' package too (it > owns /usr/lib/cups/backend/smb, which is what cups uses for printing > over samba) That's neat. I didn't know you could do that. I stand corrected. > HTH, > -D
Re: CUPS does not have samba support.
On Wednesday 03 October 2001 12:44 am, Oleksandr Moskalenko wrote: > * Jason Boxman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Jason, > > How would you go about printing to a remote printer on a WinNT > without CUPS? I have it working beautifully through CUPS/smbclient, but > CUPS is too heavy memorywise on my old laptop. I couldn't find any info > on the web on how to do it without CUPS, though. It was a while ago, but I managed to hack my printcap file and send data off to a remote windows box with Samba and "smbprint". You might check the Samba docs and the docs directory for one of the Samba packages. > Alex. > > --- > Oleksandr Moskalenko > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --- > My PGP public key can be found at http://www.tagancha.org/pgp > Public key ID and fingerprint - > pub 1024D/6C5F196B 2001-08-17 > Oleksandr V. Moskalenko (Alex) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Fingerprint = EE63 C471 ADBA 5D80 ADFB 1054 DA28 6F32 6C5F 196B >
Re: SPAM WARNING: spammers use Debian lists for harvesting
On Wednesday 03 October 2001 06:50 am, P Kirk wrote: > Now armed with this assumption, set up a .procmailrc or .forward to block > them. To get you started, my .forward which has a way of scoring mail > to filter spam is attached. I get a certain malign pleasure out of > checking my junlmail inbox from time to time just to have the > satisfaction of having the filter work the way I want. You have some great recipes in there. I especially like the one that checks mailto: to match the From: address. > Patrick
Re: SPAM WARNING: spammers use Debian lists for harvesting
On Wednesday 03 October 2001 07:12 am, Petr [Dingo] Dvorak wrote: > On Wed, 3 Oct 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I managed to stay 'clean' for nearly 9 months to my primary account, now > > I'm spitting chips at the vision of my e-mail address brunt onto some > > get-rich-quick-marketting-tool CD-R. :-( > > eh, even if you haven't subscribed to any mailing list, there is a good > chance that your isp sells your email to make little extra profit, install > mailfilter and/or procmail, set up some rules and you won't have that much > of a problem. Or if you're into Perl, Mail::Audit works well with Mail::SpamAssassin. I find the effective rule is to trash mail that doesn't have my email in the From: address. Hopefully the spammers won't ever catch on... > Dingo. > > > ).|.( > '.'___'.' >' '(>~<)' ' >-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-ooO-=(_)=-Ooo-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > Petr [Dingo] Dvorak [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Coder - Purple Dragon MUD pdragon.org port >-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-[ 369D93 ]=-=- > Debian version 2.2.18pre21, up 12 days, 13 users, load average: 0.91 >-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Re: SPAM WARNING: spammers use Debian lists for harvesting
On Wednesday 03 October 2001 12:21 pm, Craig Dickson wrote: > Jason Boxman wrote: > > I find the effective rule is to trash mail that doesn't have my email > > in the From: address. Hopefully the spammers won't ever catch on... > > Sorry, I haven't been following this thread, but doesn't that mean that > if someone bcc's you on a legit message that you really ought to read, > you won't see it? > > (I assume when you say "From:", you really mean either "From:" or "Cc:" > -- if not, then even a non-blind copy would get tossed.) Well, yeah. And I filter mailing lists and specific addresses first. The only false positives I had were from forgetting to match on [EMAIL PROTECTED] in addition to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Craig
Re: Woody printing problem
On Thursday 04 October 2001 02:09 am, Lars Jensen wrote: > I just installed woody, but can't get printing to work. When I try to > print I get the error message that > > > What is going on? I don't know if the stock kernel has parallel suport compiling in or not. You will need parellel port support to use a parallel printer, though. You'll also need some kind of printing system, like lpr or CUPS. I use CUPS here as it is easy to setup and it it has good support for my printer. The first step is getting /dev/lp[x] working, though. > > Thanks, > Lars.
Re: problem with printing win2k to samba/cups
On Sunday 07 October 2001 03:21 pm, Ron Farrer wrote: > Hello, > > I'm trying to get a win2k pro system to print to my testing/unstable > system. Printing works great on the Linux box, but printing from the > win2k box results in nothing happinging. I'm using the native win2k > print driver for the printer (which I would like to get working). This > is in the CUPS error log: E [03/Oct/2001:10:28:58 -0800] print_job: > Unsupported format 'application/octet-stream'! > > I tried adding this line to my PPD: > *cupsFilter:"application/octet-stream 100 rastertoprinter" I didn't have to do that. Instead, I have the following my smb.conf file: [global] ; The following three lines will allow the available ; printers to be slurped from lpstat. printing = CUPS printcap name = lpstat load printers = yes [printers] comment = All Printers path = /tmp browseable = no public = yes writable = no printable = yes create mode = 0700 ; The raw option allows printing from Windows using the ; driver provided by Epson. ; The gs-stp package and a cups-o-matic driver ; for the Epson Stylus 740 are used for local printing. print command = /usr/bin/lpr -P %p -o raw %s lpq command = /usr/bin/lpstat -o %p lprm command = /usr/bin/cancel %p-%j available = yes > But it still gives the same error... Can someone explain how to get this > to work correctly? > > TIA! > Ron
Re: Resierfs on Potato?
On Sunday 07 October 2001 03:28 pm, Stan Brown wrote: > Can I set up some filesystem to be resierfs on a stable machine? I have > installed the 2.4 kernel on it. Then make sure you have reiserfsprogs too. You'll need them. I've never tried using ReiserFS on Potato, though, so I don't know if you can. If you have a 2.4 kernel working, I'd think you're golden though. You might need to get a Woody source package for reiserfsprogs and compile it under Potato. > BTW, I'm open to better sugestions here. I'm setting up a machine that will > be a Amanda backup machine (large disk capict fast access highly > desirable). Wish I knew. You can upgrade to ext3 seamlessly. I run it on my root and reiserfs on my other disk. I haven't had any problems with either under 2.4.6 or 2.4.9 running Woody. I just installed 2.4.10, so I'll have to see.
