Finding files to back up
Being of the belief that a fresh reinstall can help to spring-clean my machine, my usual approach to backups is to preserve my package selections and the files that I've added (e.g. in /home/) and modified (e.g. in /etc/) that wouldn't be recovered in a simple package reinstallation. I see that dpkg can tell me about associations between files and packages. Can I somehow get a list of the md5sums of the package maintainers' version of the files so I can tell if they were modified? Maybe things aren't as simple as I'm imagining? -- Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Transparent access to DVD-RAM archives
On Wed, 9 Oct 2002, nate wrote: (snip) > I think debsums is what you want(its a package). though last I heard > not every debian package came with md5sums on the files, so it may > not be 100%. (snip) Thanks very much, Nate - that's perfect. (-: I can now generate a good exclude list with a simple Perl script. A couple more questions for the list: (a) Can I mount a compressed archive (e.g. from afio) as a read-only filesystem somehow? (b) Can I manipulate an ext2 FS on DVD-RAM on a low-spec machine? I know that for actually burning DVD-Rs they sometimes want a faster machine. -- Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Athlon MP boards that work with woody
On Wed 09 Oct 2002 10:07:22 -0700 Derek Gladding wrote: > I'm running dual MP1800s on a Tyan Tiger MP S2460. Me too, but MP2000s. Works like a dream, and kernel config was easy too. The Tiger MP even came with a nice manual, though on the board itself some of the capacitors got in my way when I was trying to clamp down the CPU cooling fans, so I had to take care. -- Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian equivalent of .login file?
On Sun, 13 Oct 2002, Levi Waldron wrote: > What's the Debian equivalent of Unix's .login and .logout files? Any user > can place these files in their home directory and their commands will be run > at login/logout, without having to do anything as root? It's a shell issue - look at your shell's manpage. Chances are that "man bash" should answer your questions - relevant files include /etc/profile ~/.bash_profile ~/.bashrc -- Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ip alias
On Sun, 13 Oct 2002, Hanspeter Roth wrote: > how can one create an ip alias on an interface that has already > another ip address? There's a kernel option in recent kernels to enable IP aliasing. Once you've done that, IIRC you can set the network settings with ifconfig for eth0:0, eth0:1, etc. - I think you have to do the eth0 before eth0:0 or whatever. Then you do the obvious stuff with route as if they were just different interfaces, if necessary. -- Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ext3 is insecure if file shredding/wiping?
On Sat, 12 Oct 2002, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: (snip) > Just move all your data to encripted partitions and get done with it. I figured if I waited, it would be easy to just mkfs a strange fs, alter fstab, and then some of my partitions (incl. my swap) could be encrypted well. Did I wait long enough yet? I poked around with cfs a little while ago but I took its reliance on NFS as a sign that I should wait another couple of years; it didn't seem to be very plug and play in the same way that, say, ssh has become with Debian. -- Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OT: DNS servers
On Sun, 13 Oct 2002, Mike Egglestone wrote: > Would it be unwise to install bind on your own box? > and then set your resolv.conf to > nameserver 127.0.0.1 ??? I do exactly that, then all my nameserver config is done in /etc/bind/ Seems to work okay. -- Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OT: DNS servers
On Sun, 13 Oct 2002, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > On Sun, 13 Oct 2002 the mental interface of > Mark Carroll told: > > > On Sun, 13 Oct 2002, Mike Egglestone wrote: > > > > > Would it be unwise to install bind on your own box? > > > and then set your resolv.conf to > > > nameserver 127.0.0.1 ??? > > > > I do exactly that, then all my nameserver config is done in /etc/bind/ > > Seems to work okay. > > On a single computer you don't need bind! You will have the same > problem, because your "single" bind has to forward to an outside DNS > ;-) So follow the advices of Martin. Sorry, I was taking the above question as a separate question, not necessarily relating to the original context. I do specify some of my ISP's DNS as forwarders to bind, and I use bind because my machine's the server that looks after the names for the machines on our internal network, so it's the authoritative server there for a private thing that isn't in the "world's" domain name system. -- Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: CD Writing [was: Re: The Real Problem With Debian]
On 14 Oct 2002, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: (snip) > Two common reasons for going with modules: > > 1) Devices that need particular parameters to be configured wrt the > handler module. (snip) You can normally also use things like LILO's "append=..." to pass parameters to such modules when they've been compiled into the kernel. Of course, modules are easier while you're still working out which are the correct settings. -- Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Linux: a gentle, growing approach
On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Alan Chandler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.10.14.2200 +0200]: > > I must admit, I quite like dselect. I can browse very quickly through So do I. (snip) > you should try aptitude. TBH, part of the problem for me was with apt. It would try to install packages I didn't have selected, and when I asked WTF dpkg was up to, I was told it was apt, and then when I'd switch to using dpkg-ftp instead the problem would go away. This happened a few times. Maybe it's something that's been fixed now, though - it's probably a year or two since I last tried. How does aptitude deal with alternative ways to satisfy dependencies? When dselect sees unfulfilled dependencies or conflicts, it shows me them and lets me sort them out as I please - I haven't worked out how to get similar behavior from aptitude yet. Maybe I should give it another try? -- Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: using exim for simple mail delivery
On Mon, 14 Oct 2002, David wrote: (snip) > Exim (or at least 3.35) can distribute mail to different mailboxes. If > I understand some of the posters in this thread, they have stated that > you cannot, but this is what I'm doing. You will find this info in the > file "filter.txt.gz" in /usr/share/doc/exim. It could well be that > using exim for a single-user account is overkill, but it works. (snip) Yes - TBH, I've never had to figure out how to use procmail, because exim filters have always done everything I've wanted that other people use procmail for. For instance, one of my rules is: elif $message_headers contains [EMAIL PROTECTED] then save mail/Debian-User (-: -- Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: using exim for simple mail delivery
On 15 Oct 2002, Jens Grivolla wrote: > Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 12:57:25PM +0200, Jens Grivolla wrote: > > > Obviously it can. But you just don't want to use exim _at all_ to > > > receive mail on a machine that is not permanently connected to the > > > Internet (unless you really know what you're doing). > > > > Really? When did this change? I've been using exim on a config I've > > only made minor changes to since I set it up four years ago. > > When did what change? That you need to really know what you're doing to use exim to receive mail on a machine that is not permanently connected to the Internet, I'd guess, Paul's implication presumably being that this wasn't previously the case. -- Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: using exim for simple mail delivery
On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, David wrote: > On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 12:57:25PM +0200, Jens Grivolla wrote: (snip) > > Obviously it can. But you just don't want to use exim _at all_ to > > receive mail on a machine that is not permanently connected to the > > Internet (unless you really know what you're doing). > > Why is this? I'm using it on a dialup account. Perhaps we are talking > about different usages here. What I do is retrieve my mail from my > ISP's mailserver using POP3 with fetchmail. As I said in my previous > post, using Exim for this purpose may be overkill, but AFAICT, it works.. Then you're using fetchmail, not exim, to receive mail - it's just a matter of terminology. (Of course, exim performs the local delivery after 'receiving' from fetchmail - that's quite normal.) -- Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Project organizer and time-tracking software?
On 15 Oct 2002, Kirk Strauser wrote: > I'm looking for some software to keep track of open projects, and the time > I've spent working on each. I need to be able to track multiple clients and > multiple projects per client, and easily search for projects that are not (snip) Me too. I especially want to see a GANTT chart and resource usage summary that combines multiple projects. -- Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: using exim for simple mail delivery
On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, Jamin W.Collins wrote: > On Tue, 15 Oct 2002 13:51:59 -0400 (EDT) Mark Carroll > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Then you're using fetchmail, not exim, to receive mail - it's just a > > matter of terminology. (Of course, exim performs the local delivery > > after'receiving' from fetchmail - that's quite normal.) > > Not necessarily, fetchmail can easily hand off the message to a MDA rather > than an MTA. Given that the person I was replying to thought he was receiving mail with exim, probably exim really was doing the local delivery. -- Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: IRC
On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, john gennard wrote: > I'd like to try using IRC. There seems a wide variety of programs > available and I wonder what is the one most commonly chosen > by list members. I'm running Woody. I'm using ircii, which is fairly basic, but will be quite familiar if you've used any standard text-mode client. Plenty of people seem to use bitchx IMLE. -- Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: apache query
On Mon, 21 Oct 2002, Randy Orrison wrote: (snip) > Sorry for assuming. Those lines are there in the fresh install Woody No problem. > system at one of my jobs, and my Potato-upgraded-to-Woody systems at home > and at my other job. It seems odd that whatever upgrade put the Alias It may be that one of the other sysadmins naughtily deleted it - I'll have to check. > line back into your conf file didn't also put in the Location section. Yes, that annoyed me a bit. (-: > However it happened, I expect that you could fix the leak by adding the > Location section. Hopefully, depending on what future "improvements" scripts do... Thanks very much, anyway! -- Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: apache query
On Mon, 21 Oct 2002, Randy Orrison wrote: (snip) > Note that in /etc/apache/httpd.conf just after the /doc/ alias line is: > > order deny,allow > deny from all > allow from 127.0.0.0/255.0.0.0 > Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews > (snip) Not in httpd.conf nor in the srm.conf after the alias line, but in my access.conf a couple of years ago I did comment out a Directory section for /usr/doc that had "order allow,deny" then "allow from all". Maybe the problem is that my apache installation is based on an old version of the default configuration files that have been not quite upgraded properly at some stage by the package upgrade scripts, then? I sure didn't have that nice little default Location section that you seem to - indeed, both times, I only noticed the doc stuff through seeing the logs of search engines indexing it! -- Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
root changing NIS passwords
I've installed the Debian NIS stuff and it all works wonderfully for regular users. However, /usr/share/doc/nis/nis.debian.howto.gz says that, "Root" can - using the root password - change other people's passwords, finger info and shell. However, as root on my NIS master, I can't change my (markc's) password: # yppasswd markc Unknown error yppasswd: unknown user (uid=0). # My /var/yp/Makefile has MINUID=1000 and MINGID=1000, which seem nice, and /etc/nsswitch.conf has passwd: group: and shadow: as compat (although I can't find documentation that tells me what compat means). Am I just doing something dumb? -- Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XFree86
On Wed, 13 Nov 2002, Sergey A. Ovchar wrote: > Does anybody khow, how can I configure the subj? xbase-clients has xf86cfg and xf86config xserver-common-v3 has xf86config-v3 They might be a good starting place. Also, be aware of http://www.linuxdocs.org/HOWTOs/XFree86-HOWTO/ -- Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Toshiba Satellite compatibility?
I'm thinking of buying a Toshiba Satellite A15-S157, but does anyone have Debian working on it, including the optional internal 802.11b? Or, are incompatibility problems probably not Debian specific, anyway, because maybe it's all kernel support issues and Debian doesn't much custom-patch the kernel? I don't mind compiling my own if the installer can't quite cope, but I need to know what to compile into it! (-: Thanks, Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
pppd problems
Help! (-: I've installed versions of netbase and pppd from the unstable/ hierarchy on ftp.debian.org. Originally, I also had diald, though I never used it or even really looked at it. I got PPP working, even managing to finger myself from another machine, so I decided to finish off by using dselect to purge diald. Since then, all the PPP stuff still appears in the boot sequence messages as usual, but now I get: # pon Sorry - this system lacks PPP kernel support (from pppd, I think) # lsmod Module:#pages: Used by: slip 20 bsd_comp 10 ppp5[bsd_comp] 0 slhc 2[slip ppp] 0 sound 170 serial 71 lp 20 isofs 50 nfs 124 vfat 30 cdrom 10 xd 30 # kerneld starts when it should, and I've no idea why purging diald should have stopped pppd from working. I've tried reinstalling netbase, netstd and ppp with no change in the problem, and I don't see how rebuilding my kernel could help when it used to work and clearly still thinks it has PPP in it. Does anyone have any idea what might have gone wrong? Many thanks indeed, Mark -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: pppd problems
> > # pon > > Sorry - this system lacks PPP kernel support (from pppd, I think) > > AFAIK is this a 2.0.24 Kernel problem, since others reported that, too. Ack! I wonder why purging diald started it off not working - how intriguing. Do you know of any work-arounds? Will a different version of pppd work? I do hope I don't have to change my kernel... (having never done such a thing before, as I've never run Debian on a particular system long enough for one to get badly out of date) If I have to change my kernel version, can anyone suggest the easiest and most painless way? I guess I'll have to make a new bootdisk, too. Hmm... off to find a debian-bugs archive, in case anything handy's there, though I didn't notice anything about this last time I looked. -- Mark (most of whose experience is still to come, it seems) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: pppd problems
> > # pon > > Sorry - this system lacks PPP kernel support (from pppd, I think) > > Okay, first off... this message is VERY misleading. What this really means > is that the pppd was denied, and it's assuming that the kernel lacks support > for it. > > In my case, it was that I was giving it the wrong tty to operate through, > or something like that. So, if you're fairly sure you've got the support > loaded, look for other things that could boosh pppd. The first thing I'd > look at is something locking the tty you're trying to use Believe it or not, ppp now works: I ended up installing diald again, and it started working. I purged diald... it still works! Let's pray for the future... -- Mark (puzzled, but very grateful for the help he's received) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Popmail
Just wondering - can anyone recommend a POP mail client for Linux (not X), and suggest where I can get it from? Many thanks, Mark ...in case anyone's wondering, after reinstalling diald and purging it again, pppd is now fine... (-: -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Is `.deb' still better than `.rpm'?
> Just curious: Are there still advantages to the Debian package > management system over the RPM system? > > I originally went with Debian because of the better package system > (and because I like the idea of Debian). I know someone that is > thinking of getting Redhat 4.0. I told him my reason for using Debian > (though I believe that Redhat is a good product), but I wonder if my > reason is still true. > > By extension, if `.rpm' becomes superior to `.deb', will Debian > switch? Hmmm - isn't it true that there's work at the moment towards giving Debian the ability to use RedHat packages? -- Mark -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Is `.deb' still better than `.rpm'?
> I would prefer a much improved dselect. > Todays dselect is not convinient to be used. > It is like emacs to the novice. (cryptic, non-standard interface, funny > keyboard accel keys, no menues...) Hmmm - I got on well with dselect from the beginning, without reading any documentation about it, and I find it a convenient, useful tool. Am I in a minority of one, I wonder? I'd be very interested to learn what people's specific gripes are. -- Mark -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
No char-major-10-135
Since upgrading to the latest stable release, at boot-time I get: modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-10-135 The upgrade has put in my /etc/modules.conf: alias char-major-10-135 rtc Where do I look in my 2.2.15's kernel's "make menuconfig" to find the thing that is needed? (Or do I need to fix something in /etc/ ?) Thanks. (-: -- Mark
Re: No char-major-10-135
On Tue, 14 Nov 2000, Eric G . Miller wrote: (snip) > Just put a comment '#' in front of the alias and run "update-modules". > It's for the "Real Time Clock" which is mostly not used, except in > applications that need microsecond real-time stuff (most likely control > systems, etc.). Thanks! (-: I got, /etc# update-modules depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.2.15/fs/lockd.o ...but recompiling them seems to have fixed it. (-: -- Mark
RE: Genius 3-button mouse problem
On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Knotek Vlastimil wrote: (snip) > It's a standart serial mouse. I've tried run both gmpconfig and XF86Setup, > and I've tried to > switch between all options, but my mouse still doesn't work. :o( > Any ideas ? Thanks. I wasted hours with gpmconfig at one time - because it starts gpm after 'working', I assumed it stopped it beforehand, but apparently not - and if one's running beforehand, the configuration change doesn't happen and you think your actually-correct settings are ineffective. You're probably not daft enough to make the same mistake, but I thought I'd better mention this just in case the same problem's biting you. -- Mark
Adaptec SCSI controller
I just picked up a cheap Adaptec AHA-1520B ISA SCSI controller. Do I stand a chance of getting it working with my system (currently upgraded to 'frozen')? If so, which SCSI driver (kernel module, whatever) should I be using? I haven't managed to get it to do anything so far; it'd be nice to know that I'm attempting something that's possible. Thanks. -- Mark
Re: Server-side spam and e-mail virus protection
On Tue, 23 May 2000, Joe Emenaker wrote: > I'm interested in implementing some form of spam and e-mail virus filtering > at the daemon. > > I know that there are blacklists that you can have Exim and other MTA's use > in order to cut down on spam. However, it would be nice if there were some > way to stop *new* spam from places that aren't on the blacklists yet. (snip) You could do worse than have a quick look at Ian Jackson's SAUCE at http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~ian/sauce/ - it's quite an interesting piece of software that fits in wonderfully with Debian and exim. -- Mark
Re: dhcp && cable modem (somewhat urgent)
On Tue, 23 May 2000, Chris Hoover wrote: (snip) > Question: How do you get the dhcp client on my firewall computer to grab the > cable modem address and not an address from my internal dhcp? (snip) You tell the DHCP client to grab an address from the ethernet card which is plugged into the cable modem - you can normally specify a particular interface. -- Mark
Re: dhcp && cable modem (somewhat urgent)
On Tue, 23 May 2000, Ray Olszewski wrote: (snip) > Also a heads up: some cable-modem providers require you to use a particular > hostname as part of the least request; I can't recall if RR is like this or > not. FWIW, RR in Columbus, OH isn't. -- Mark
Re: dhcp && cable modem (somewhat urgent)
On Tue, 23 May 2000, Joe Emenaker wrote: (snip) > 2 - If your other DHCP server is *not* the linux box that is going to be > talking to the cable-modem, then just hard-code 1-to-1 mappings in your > dhcpd.conf file so that it only gives out certain IP's to hardware addresses > that it recognizes. Or, if for some reason your dhcpd makes that awkward, the gateway can just momentarily firewall off DHCP from or to the local server with ipchains or whatever while it's getting an IP address. -- Mark
Re: Decoding BinHex4.0
On Wed, 24 May 2000, Sebastian Canagaratna wrote: > What is the way to decode an email obtain with attachments which say > they need to be decoded with BinHEx4.0? This originated from a Mac > > I am using metamail with elm which does not seem to be able to > do it. mimencode -u was also unsuccessful. Are there any specific > programs for this? mcvert may be useful. It comes in a package of that name. -- Mark
kernel 2.2.19 and af_packet
I've been having some trouble with kernel 2.2.19-6. Since upgrading, I can't get any dhcp clients to work. For example, when dhclient tries to do a socket(PF_PACKET, SOCK_PACKET, 768), it gets a EAFNOSUPPORT - address family not supported by protocol. (Admittedly, socket's manpage seems to tell you not to do that.) It may be relevant that when I have af_packet as a module, modprobing it gives "unresolved symbol sk_run_filter". Building into the kernel itself halts any complaints, but doesn't actually seem to help. To take dhclient again, it was suggesting that CONFIG_PACKET and CONFIG_FILTER weren't =y when they were. Any suggestions? My machine's off-line right now. ): Thanks, Mark
Upgrade broke gpm?
I'm currently tracking 'testing', and run dselect's 'update', etc. fairly frequently. I prefer 'stable' but it's just so far behind some things. My mouse has stopped working. I use gpm as a repeater to X. I'm reasonably certain that it stopped working since I did my update yesterday, gpm was upgraded, I answered no to something about restarting it, and I later rebooted. syslog tells me nothing. gpm-mouse-test mostly hangs, but once it did seem to find my PS/2 mouse on /dev/psaux and got it running again. A reboot, and it died again. I've also been trying a different mouse, to no avail. Has anyone else upgraded very recently and had a similar experience? -- Mark
Re: Upgrade broke gpm?
On 13 Aug 2001, Michael Heldebrant wrote: > > > > gpm-mouse-test mostly hangs, but once it did seem to find my PS/2 mouse on > > /dev/psaux and got it running again. A reboot, and it died again. > Can you get it working with gpmconfig? No. > Any particular reason you use it to repeat for X? I have it working > just fine with no repeating. Ages ago I used to have a problem switching between X and the consoles sometimes - I forget exactly what, but having X take mouse input from the gpm repeater fixed it. > What type of mouse did you used to have working? The very same PS/2 mouse. It currently works fine with X with gpm disabled using, Section "Pointer" Protocol"PS/2" Device "/dev/psaux" > Whats your /etc/gpm.conf file look like? device=/dev/psaux type=ps2 append="" repeat_type=msc (Previously, when gpm was running, I had Protocol "MouseSystems", Device "/dev/gpmdata" for X, which also used to work before the upgrade.) -- Mark
Re: Upgrade broke gpm?
On 13 Aug 2001, Michael Heldebrant wrote: (snip) > Try commenting out the repeat type and restarting gpm. I have an imps2 > mouse that works great on /dev/psaux with gpm and x simultaneously. Okay, that's scary. I just killed xdm, started gpm with my old gpm.conf to make sure it still didn't work, and it did work! So, I restarted xdm, and my mouse is working fine in both, with the repeating. Hmmm. (-: I wonder what changed - I didn't touch it... -- Mark
Re: Upgrade broke gpm?
On 13 Aug 2001, Michael Heldebrant wrote: (snip) > Try commenting out the repeat type and restarting gpm. I have an imps2 > mouse that works great on /dev/psaux with gpm and x simultaneously. Hmmm - I was premature. With gpm (uselessly) repeating and X looking directly at psaux, gpm works but X's use of the mouse screws up badly. Without the repeating, X works better, but it still slightly screwed up right after switching display over to X from the console. With the repeating, and X looking at gpmdata, X doesn't see any mouse response at all. So, X only works perfectly when gpm isn't running at all. -- Mark
Re: Upgrade broke gpm?
On 13 Aug 2001, Michael Heldebrant wrote: (snip) > Have you tried repeating ps2 instead of ms3 with gpmdata? ps2 repeating doesn't seem to be implemented. I tried 'raw' instead, though; gpm doesn't work at all then. -- Mark
Re: vim and Tera Term
On Tue, 14 Aug 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (snip) > Eh, last time I peeked at them I seem to recall putty saving config > into the system's registry, instead of an INI file as tera term does. (snip) You can get around that with http://www.tartarus.org/~owen/putty-docs/Section3.13.html -- Mark
Re: Why is Debian lagging so much behind Slackware?
On Tue, 14 Aug 2001, Karsten M. Self wrote: (snip) > If you want stable, you get it. If you want unstable/testing (which > means: usually works, occasionally tweaks), you get it. Choice. All > fully up to date. (snip) Well, to an extent. Sometimes when you report a problem with a package, the maintainer's reply is basically, "well, use the latest one from unstable or wherever, that should work, I'm not interested in fixing the old version too", and then you have to update the things the package depends on too, and then before you know it it's easier not to use stable any more. I like the idea of stable, though and, hey, I still get more than I pay for! (-: -- Mark
Re: Why is Debian lagging so much behind Slackware?
On Tue, 14 Aug 2001, dman wrote: (snip) > So you have some choices : > a) live with the way stable is, even if there is a bug > b) fix your own system > c) update your system to the "current" version (ie testing) We don't disagree. (-: Basically, I'm saying that although my preference is for stable, (c) often ends up to be the easiest alternative. (snip) > less important. Instead the people who coordinate the releases focus > on stability even though it takes a while. Absolutely. Any company machines I can run Linux on are all running Debian stable. (-: -- Mark
Re: debian-user-digest Digest V101 #1151
On Wed, 15 Aug 2001, Michael Hambe wrote: > Can any body actually tell me how to get off this list. At the bottom of every message from this list it says: (snip) > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] Did you try this? -- Mark
RE: where are include files?
On Wed, 15 Aug 2001, Bob Koss wrote: > type: locate stdio.h > > is it there? Mine is in /usr/include > > If you don't have one, you'll need to install some more packages. I > installed the C++ development stuff when I first installed Debian. niagara:mark$ dpkg --search /usr/include/stdio.h libc6-dev: /usr/include/stdio.h niagara:mark$ Looks like libc6-dev is the package to get it from. (-: -- Mark
Re: Disaster Recovery files
On Wed, 15 Aug 2001, Alvin Oga wrote: (sn ip) > "for firewall duties"... there should NOT be ppp config setup... > as ppp is insecure ( login/passwd in clear text ) and anybody > can login from anywhere... ?? (snip) PAP and CHAP are okay, aren't they? -- Mark
Re: woody or sid
On Thu, 16 Aug 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Should I upgrade to woody or sid from potato? > > Please give me your opinion. That completely depends on your needs. Are you suffering because you're missing the bleeding edge features or software? Do you have the time to work on the problems there'll be that haven't yet been ironed out? Is it critical that your system be stable? -- Mark
2.4.9 hanging on laptop
I have the vanilla kernel 2.2.18pre21 image running fine on a WinBook XL laptop. I tried compiling kernel 2.4.9 from source but seem to have screwed something up - the system appears to boot okay and ends up at the login prompt, but the keyboard is completely unresponsive. gpm starts up but there's no response from the mouse either. (The 2.2.18pre21 image and the homebuilt 2.4.9 are mounting the same root filesystem.) I tried applying the patch mentioned at http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0108.2/0785.html out of desperation, but no change. Any clues? I'm lost. If anyone does have 2.4.9 running fine on such a machine, I'd appreciate a look at your kernel .config file so I can compare it against mine. I'd also be happy to share mine with anyone who cares. Thanks!! -- Mark
Re: 2.4.9 hanging on laptop
On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, dman wrote: (snip) > What kind of keyboard and mouse? I'd assumed PS/2 - the mouse definitely is, and an external PS/2 keyboard can be plugged in - I have CONFIG_PSMOUSE=y and the mouse isn't working. (snip) > kernel. Another thing to try is to install the pre-packaged 2.4 > kernel and see if it works at all. If it does, then you know it is > your config that is incorrect. Then you can compare and see where > they differ (that is relevant). An interesting idea. How do I get the prepackaged 2.4 image onto a boot disk? Thanks. (I want to keep the 2.2.18 kernel on the hard drive until I get things working.) -- Mark
RE: Partition
On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, Scott Henson wrote: (snip) > well Im not looking for someone to hold my hand through the process. Im > just looking for some advice on what is a good sceme. I will then look at > whatever adivce I get and then determine what I need. Thank you. Lots of people have their own ideas. My main machine is just one big partition (plus a swap partition) and that works fine for me. (-: On others' systems I tend to at least separate fairly critical system stuff that won't grow enormously, from other stuff. Often that'll mean separating maybe /tmp /var /usr/local /home from the root filesystem. Of course, you can do that with just one other partition and some symlinks. It's absolutely reasonable and maybe advisable to make more partitions if you have a reasonable idea how at least certain parts of the disk will be used, though. FWIW, our company web server apperas to have: $ df Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda150717 2 36986 23% / /dev/hda3 495746 1379468764 0% /home /dev/hda4 2468327482681 1858034 21% /usr $ -- Mark
Re: Installing Dniff on Potato.
You shouldn't need the source packages in particular - you can download the binaries packages for your architecture - just follow what it depends on, and upgrade/install them with dpkg. Of course, you often end up upgrading libc, etc. by going down that route: in the end, I gave up and just went with woody instead of potato. -- Mark
Re: Q: dns /exim / inetd (?) slow startup (2)
Just a random idea: could an outgoing connection (e.g. to a DNS server) being stalled because the server is doing an ident lookup, and the incoming packets to port 113 are being silently dropped? -- Mark
Re: Q: dns /exim / inetd (?) slow startup (2)
On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, Ingo Hohmann wrote: > don't know ... how can I find out? Is it even possible given your network setup? -- Mark
Kernel problems
The kernel 2.4.9 built from source on my laptop appears to boot okay but the mouse and keyboard don't work, despite USB and PS/2 support being included. The 2.2.18pre21 image I'm using works fine. So, the idea was to get the 2.4.9 image to see if that works too - if it does, maybe I screwed up the .config somewhere when I tried to build it from source instead. However, despite being listed on packages.debian.org, I don't seem to be able to download any kernel-image-2.4.9-*.deb from any of the sites on package download pages - the files aren't there. I can't use kernel-image-2.4.10 because of bug #114700 because I can't find where to get a modutils 2.4.8-1 or similar. However, kernel-image-2.4.12 does work for me. So, a couple of questions: Although I want a 2.4.x kernel, I don't need a bleeding-edge one. Is 2.4.9 a reasonable stable choice, or would it be no loss to go with a later one anyway? How do I find out what .config each kernel in each image package was built with, so I can compare them with the .config I created for compiling the 2.4.9 source, and try incremental changes between a close image one and mine to find the problem with my 2.4.9 .config? Thanks, Mark
File search question
Just wondering, is there a way to get a list of all the files on the system that: (a) Aren't "owned" by any installed packages (b) Differ from any default provided by a package ...? I guess that (b) would be impossible without consulting the original .deb's, unless the system stores md5sums or something for all owned files. -- Mark
Can't find ide-cd at power down
Since a recent upgrade (sync'd with "testing"), just about the last thing my machine says when powering down is that modprobe can't locate module ide-cd, hdc: drive not present. (kernel 2.2.19) This is odd. I can modprobe ide-cd and other modules without problems normally. The problem, I think, is that it's doing so after unmounting the root filesystem, so it can't read /lib/modules. Why has it started trying to do this? (hdc is indeed an ATAPI CD-RW which I normally access via ide-scsi.) -- Mark
Re: motd on potato
On Mon, 22 Oct 2001, George Karaolides wrote: (snip) > Is there a way to stop Debian potato from adding the output of `uname -r` > to the beginning of /etc/motd? (snip) I'm not aware of anything outside the installation process that puts it there, so I just edit it as I like after my system is installed. -- Mark
Re: Logging URLs?
On Mon, 22 Oct 2001, Tommi Jensen wrote: (snip) > I'd say squid would be your friend in this matter (snip) Absolutely. In fact, if your users' browser caches are mounted over NFS or something, then sometimes you can save network bandwidth by using squid and disabling all their caches, making squid effectively a common cache for everyone instead of people duplicating things in their individual caches. Just a thought. -- Mark
Re: ^S/scroll-lock in konsole
On Mon, 22 Oct 2001, 'cduck' Chris Grierson wrote: > anyone know what signal ^S sends, and how to unfreeze a konsole when it My guess would be SIGSTOP. > gets pressed? on one of the system consoles (tty1-6; btw, what is the ^Q usually works for me. (snip) > it's really frustrating because i often fat-finger ^S when reaching for > ^A or ^E (which i often use, resulting in far too frequently locked > sessions). You can probably change it with stty if you like. -- Mark
Re: How to turn off screen blanking
On Mon, 22 Oct 2001, Doug Fields wrote: (snip) > How do I turn off the automatic screen blanking features? setterm for text consoles, xset for X, might be what you need? -- Mark
Re: OFFTOPIC: steps to port a linux app to win?
On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, john smith wrote: > what steps do I need to take in order to port a small linux app to win98? That very much depends on what language the app is written in, what it does, what libraries it uses, etc. -- Mark
Re: single partition worst-case scenarios
On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Aurelio Turco wrote: > If I install Debian on a single partition, That's the usual case on my personal system, although I don't generally recommend the practice. > what is the worst that can happen, > in the following two cases (the two most > cited justifications for having multiple > partitions): > > 1: A runaway root process fills up the disk. > (Will I not be able to get in as root and > kill the offending process?) I normally can. It's obvious when it happens because things stop working and start complaining, but not so bad that I can't get in as root and fix it with little bad overall effect. > 2: The filesystem becomes damaged. > (Will I not be able run from a rescue floppy > and repair the damage from there?) Whenever my filesystem has become damaged, it's never been such that boot-time fsck (or subsequent fsck from maintenance mode) couldn't fix it. The only times I've needed rescue floppies, the problem's been unrelated to the number of partitions I had. -- Mark
Kernel 2.4.9 keyboard not working - update
Killing gpm lets my keyboard start working! (-: Seeing all the stuff about gpm over the past few days made me think to try it... -- Mark
dpkg-ftp and sources
How do I get dpkg-ftp to look at the source distribution as well as binary-i386? -- Mark
Re: hardware support in debian
On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Gert-Jan wrote: > Hello, I'm Gert-Jan Schouten from The Netherlands and I'm a beginning Hi. (-: > Debian user. I'm wondering where I can find a list of hardware that is > compatibel with the latest Debian 2.2.r3. I don't see it anywhere on > the site And if I put a brand new piece of hardware in my computer http://www.debian.org/ -> Documentation -> Linux Hardware Compatibility HOWTO which is http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Hardware-HOWTO/ It's also worth checking specific HOWTO's for whatever type of hardware you're interested in. > that is not yet supported by Debian, will there be any packages for > it?? And if so, will you be able to download it from the debian site > just like all the other packages?? It is of course also possible that Drivers tend to be kernel things, so using the kernel-source-* packages might be best, unless you're a newcomer to Linux in general. Debian provides nice stuff for helping to build and install kernels like kernel-package. > the linux-drivers for new hardware will not be released in debian > packages (*.deb) but in common linux archives (*.tar.gz). How should I > install them in that case? On your site, you explain how to use the Generally, you should probably install them to /usr/local/ which the system keeps for your use. > different tools to handle and install debian packages, but I can't > find anything about handling and installing *.tar.gz files. I tried > Redhat 6.0 a few months ago, and it didn't support my celeron 500 > processor. Does Debian? I hope you can answer my questions and I must (snip) Well, it'll sure work with it. What do you mean by "support"? I'd expect it to support it just as much as the latest Linux kernel does. Debian offers different kernel images optimised for different processor families, Celeron included. -- Mark
Re: Messages being frozen with exim.
On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Tommy Moore wrote: > Lately in my log file for exim I see a bunch of messages that certain mail > messages are being frozen. > Where should I look to see the reason for this nd how do I unfreeze them? I would guess that looking at exim's mainlog from around the time the messages were first sent will help reveal the reason. exim -qff should unfreeze them. Do "tail -f /var/log/exim/mainlog" or suchlike as you do this to see what happens. -- Mark
Re: how to install aha1542 kernel module
On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Darren Wyn Rees wrote: > I believe I need to have the aha1542 module to enable me to use my SCSI > CDRW. > > I am using > > Linux debian 2.2.19pre17 #1 Tue Mar 13 22:37:59 EST 2001 i686 unknown > > Would someone please explain where I can find this module and > how to install it ? I'm using kernel-source-2.2.19-8 and the option is CONFIG_SCSI_AHA1542 in the kernel source's .config file. I don't know if you can download a binary of it so you don't have to build a kernel. -- Mark
Re: how to install aha1542 kernel module
On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Darren Wyn Rees wrote: (snip) > I do not understand your response. I am not seeking to recompile a new > kernel, but I want to make a module available to the kernel. Where are you going to get the module from. The normal way I get modules is to compile and install them in the kernel building process. Do you already have the aha1542 module, in /lib/modules/ or wherever? If so, insmod or modprobe are what you usually use for loading modules into the kernel. You can also name things in /etc/modules. It's also worth looking at /etc/modules.conf and depmod. All these things have manpages. If you could give us more information about where you are now, that'll help us tell you to get to where you want to go. (-: -- Mark
Re: problems installing 2.4 kernel
On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Jerome Acks Jr wrote: (snip) > I have an AMD K6-II. "uname -a" identifies it as i586. (snip) That may say more about what processor your kernel was compiled for than what processor it's actually running on. Does /proc/cpuinfo get it right? -- Mark
Re: how to install aha1542 kernel module
On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Darren Wyn Rees wrote: > On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 07:36:32PM -0400, Mark Carroll wrote: (snip) > > The normal way I get modules > > is to compile and install them in the kernel building process. > > I don't need to build a new kernel. I'm loading the module. > > > Do you > > already have the aha1542 module, in /lib/modules/ or wherever? > > No. Like I said, the normal way I get modules is to compile and install them in the kernel building process - indeed, it was a need for an unusual module that first got me building my own kernels. I'm afraid I don't know of other routes for getting them - I don't know of any package a precompiled one would come in. (They have to "match" your kernel, though to what extent I'm not sure.) So, I'm afraid I can't help any more - maybe someone else can? Good luck! -- Mark
Re: What happens when Woody becomes Stable ??
On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Of course, the smoothest way to upgrade is to use dselect. > > ROTFLMAO!! TBH, I get on very well with dselect. I tried using its apt access method for a while, but sometimes it would do things wrong (like trying to download packages that weren't selected in dselect), and each time I asked Ian Jackson WTF dselect/dpkg was up to he'd say that the annoying bit was apt's doing. Since switching back to dpkg-ftp it's all become problem-free again. Lots of people seem to like apt and whatever pretty front ends you can get for it, so obviously it can't be all that bad, but is dselect/dpkg-ftp's future still pretty secure? I hope so, but I'm worried. Mind you, one thing I wish would happen is that the system would offer to deselect things that were only selected because of a dependency of something you just deselected. -- Mark
Re: Propossed Project: Odyssey
On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Timothy H. Keitt wrote: > Better yet, lets convince package maintainers not to unnecessarily > update all their dependencies to the latest libs in unstable so that (snip) Absolutely - I've been far from convinced by a lot of the requirements. I normally like to stick with "stable", but once you want a couple of later packages, following all the dependencies can make it more trouble than it's worth. -- Mark
Keyboard loss
Hmmm - strangely, although my laptop works fine normally, if I start gpm or xdm then the keyboard becomes inoperative. If I log in remotely and kill them, it works again. Any clues as to what's going wrong? -- Mark
Re: How do I find out what packages I have currently installed?
On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Kai Sterker wrote: (snip) > Even if all packages would be downloaded, I wouldn't know how to make sure > that all of them are installed when I do a fresh setup _without_ manually > selecting every single package. (snip) "dpkg --get-selections" and "dpkg --set-selections" are probably what you need. -- Mark
Re: What happens when Woody becomes Stable ??
On 24 Oct 2001, Brian Nelson wrote: (snip) > dpkg-ftp is considered obsolete. It's been replaced by apt. Damn, that's annoying. ): I suppose that eventually I'll have to switch back to apt, then. Hopefully it'll work better for me by then. > Mark Carroll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Mind you, one thing I wish would happen is that the system would offer to > > deselect things that were only selected because of a dependency of > > something you just deselected. > > That's a tricky task for the system to handle because it can't read > your mind. There are tools like deborphan which find libs (or It wouldn't have to - when you deselect Q, it could just draw your attention to anything that is selected that Q depends on that nothing else depends on. (I would have used "X" instead of "Q" but that might have been even more confusing as a generic definition. (-:) > anything else) that are no longer depended on. There are many such packages, unfortunately. (-: Thanks, though - I hadn't noticed deborphan. -- Mark
Re: Add a new module to kernel?
On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Michael Fontenot wrote: (snip) > I suspect that during installation I failed to specify that I > wanted java support, so that binfmt_java isn't included > in my kernel. If so, is there any way to add it now, or (snip) Try 'modconf' as root. Good luck! -- Mark
Re: problems installing 2.4 kernel
On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Jerome Acks Jr wrote: (snip) > /proc/cpuinfo identifies AMD K6(tm) 3D processor. The kernel I'm using > is 2.4.9 compiled for i386. When I tried the stock 2.4.9-k6 kernel-image > package or compiled the kernel for k6 myself, I was never able to get > the kernels to boot. I'm running woody by the way. Wow, that's disturbing. I also have a AMD K6(tm) 3D processor and compiled my own 2.4.9 kernel image for the K6 series which I'm now using. Hmm. -- Mark
Re: Keyboard loss
On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Debian User Jean-Baptiste Note wrote: > I experienced the same problem with gpm on several boxes. > disable it. that's all i could do. It wouldn't be so bad if the same problem didn't occur with X! (-: -- Mark
Re: X woes (testing)
Do you have a /etc/X11/Xsession.d/99xfree86-common_start with exec "$REALSTARTUP" in it? If so, remove the " -- Mark
Main laptop problems solved!
I have a laptop where if I started gpm or xdm under kernel 2.4.9, the keyboard and mouse would stop working. Thanks to Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, I found out that the kernel yenta stuff grabs IRQ 12 for the pcmcia cardbus controller where my mouse is. Adding append="pci=irqmask=0xafff" to my lilo.conf gets it to grab 15 instead and everything works. (-: -- Mark
Kernel parameters on bootdisk
What must I do to pass parameters to things compiled into a kernel on a bootdisk, when I do "make zdisk" or whatever with the kernel sources, in the same way that one can pass parameters with lilo's "append"? -- Mark
Re: Aliasing a NIC
On Fri, 26 Oct 2001, John Purser wrote: > Once upon a time I knew how to make linux use multiple IP addresses for one > ethernet NIC card. I believe the format looked like "eth0:0" but I can't > remember the rest of it. Can someone point me to a HOW-TO or man reference? > I did it before on a Red Hat box using linuxconfig but now I'm trying to do > it on a Debian woody box running a 2.4.10 kernel. I need to know what files > to edit and what the format of the configuration. You probably need IP aliasing support in your kernel, and ifconfig should do the rest, probably via /etc/network/interfaces or something. http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/IP-Alias/ may yield some helpful clues. -- Mark
Re: Kernel parameters on bootdisk
On Fri, 26 Oct 2001, Jeremiah Mahler wrote: (snip) > I dont know if my solution is what you are looking for but here it is > anyway. I made a boot disk for using on a diskless machine by > essentially doing the same thing as I do with a hard disk. > I created an ext2 filesystem on the floppy and copied the kernel > I made to it. Then I used lilo on the floppy just as I would > for a hard disk. And since I used lilo I can put the append parameters > in the lilo.conf I made for this situation. That's an interesting idea that hadn't occurred to me. Thanks - I'll try that if nobody has any better ideas. (-: -- Mark
Re: exim SMTP with authentication + SSL/TLS?
On Fri, 26 Oct 2001, Bruce Z. Lysik wrote: > Does anyone have relatively simple instructions for configuring exim (I > have the exim-tls package) for SMTP authentication and/or SSL or TLS. http://www.exim.org/exim-html-3.30/doc/html/spec_38.html is probably a good start. Maybe you can talk your local library into getting Phil Hazel's new exim book - http://shop.barnesandnoble.com/bookSearch/isbnInquiry.asp?isbn=0596000987 (-: -- Mark
WinBook soundcard now works
I'd like to share how I got my WinBook XL's Yamaha OPL3-SAx soundcard going under Linux with kernel 2.4.9. I couldn't find specific and helpful enough documentation online, so hopefully this message might help the next guy. I included CONFIG_SOUND_ADLIB=y, CONFIG_SOUND_YM3812=y and CONFIG_SOUND_OPL3SA2=y in my kernel's .config file. I'm not sure what modules these relate to, but judging from the makefile I'd look at adlib_card, opl3, opl3sa2, ad1848, mpu401. In my lilo.conf I put: append="pci=irqmask=0xafff adlib=0x388 opl=0x388 opl3sa2=0x370,5,0,1,0x530,0x330,1,0" (The irqmask thing is unrelated to the soundcard - it's to stop the yenta pcmcia cardbus controller grabbing the wrong IRQ, making it impossible to use the mouse.) Finally, at boot time I do a: setmixer synth 100 pcm 100 cd 100 The 'synth' is for playmidi, the 'pcm' for mpg123, the 'cd' for cdplay. All three of those programs now work fine. (-: -- Mark
Re: Kernel parameters on bootdisk
Of course, Jeremiah Mahler's idea worked. I made the script, #!/bin/bash set -e mkfs -c /dev/fd0 mount /dev/fd0 /floppy/vmlinuz lilo -C ~/lilo-bootdisc.conf umount /dev/fd0 And lilo-bootdisc.conf was, compact boot=/dev/fd0 install=/boot/boot.b map=/boot/map delay=40 image=/floppy/vmlinuz label=Linux root=/dev/hda2 read-only append="whatever..." ...and all works fine. (-: -- Mark
Re: Telnet
On Sat, 27 Oct 2001, Richardson, Martin wrote: > I would like to set up ssh and to disable telnet for security > reasons. Is this just a matter of installing the ssh components, and to > disable telnetd? in inetd.conf? You could get rid of telnetd completely with something like dpkg --purge telnetd telnet's a separate package, so you'd still have the client if you did that. (I assume you'd want to keep that.) Yes, the ssh package sets up easily for me. The main choice is just whether or not you want to run sshd, which you probably do. -- Mark
Re: something wrong with the RealPlayer
On Sat, 27 Oct 2001, Philipp Bliedung wrote: > There is something weird happening with my RealPlayer. Everthing worked > fine in the past but when I started RealPlayer 7 today there are no > letters or numbers anymore. There are dotted rectangulars instead of > letters and numbers. (snip) This happened to me. I fixed it, bizarrely, by removing all FontPaths from my XF86Config except for FontPath "unix/:7100", putting them in my xfs config instead, and running xfs. -- Mark
Re: how to install aha1542 kernel module
Bizarre! I'm glad you got things working in the end, anyway, Darren. (-: I went for years without ever compiling a kernel, but now I've discovered it's not so bad after all I wouldn't do anything else, although it helps to first find out all the details of the hardware you have in your system. That isn't to say that I don't sometimes end up doing lots of recompiles in one day trying to get options right - I was doing so just last week, in fact! -- Mark
Re: allowing root X apps
On Sun, 28 Oct 2001, Justin R. Miller wrote: > What is the best, most secure way to allow root to run X-based apps > while I'm logged in as my non-privileged user? I've tried xhost > +localhost and that does not seem to do the trick. ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] works for me. Avoid xhost like the plague; xauth is a good alternative. Mark Ferlatte XAUTHORITY trick looks great, though - I might start doing that more. -- Mark
Re: allowing root X apps
On 28 Oct 2001, John Hasler wrote: > Justin R. Miller wrote: > > What is the best, most secure way to allow root to run X-based apps > > while I'm logged in as my non-privileged user? > > Not at all. Such applications are not secure enough to be run as root. Security isn't always such an issue. When I'm the sole user of my personal machine that's off-line I have no use for the user/root divide from a trust or security point of view, but I still log in as a regular user and jump to root only when necessary just to reduce the chances of me doing serious damage in error. So, Justin's question is reasonable, I think. -- Mark
Re: allowing root X apps
On 28 Oct 2001, John Hasler wrote: > Mark writes: > > Security isn't always such an issue. > > Stability is. Think of the damage a crashing Gnome application could do > running as root. More important, though, is the bad habit this sort of Sure, but I don't use Gnome, and I don't touch fancy window managers. I'm not aware of any particular stability problems that, say, emacs or mtr or whatever have as X applications over their behavior as console applications - are there any? My X and wm for root stuff certainly seems rock solid, but maybe it's mine is more stable than usual because I'm the sort of person who throws 'Option "slow_edodram"' etc. into XF86Config in wanting stability over performance. > thing creates. There is nothing you need to do as root that can't be done > from a console. True. I certainly find that the convenience far outweighs any risk, though, given that in the past few years I've not yet encountered any risk where some root operation was made more dangerous through use of X! For people with more unstable installations, I'd agree with you, but that's not everybody. -- Mark
Re: PATH variable--where is it?
On Mon, 29 Oct 2001, Gary Turner wrote: > I give up. This is making me nuts. Where is the path variable stored? > I assumed that it would show up in .bashrc or .bash_profile. It's not > there. I can export path= for that session on that console, but I can't (snip) >From the bash manpage, When bash is invoked as an interactive login shell, or as a non-interactive shell with the --login option, it first reads and executes commands from the file /etc/profile, if that file exists. After reading that file, it looks for ~/.bash_profile, ~/.bash_login, and ~/.profile, in that order, and reads and executes commands from the first one that exists and is readable. The manpage for whatever shell you are using should reveal what files it reads, hence where its path is coming from. -- Mark
Re: Slow Telnet
On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, Erik van der Meulen wrote: (snip) > right away, but it takes almost a minute to continue to the login prompt. (snip) Do DNS lookups of uncached hostnames from that box happen slowly too? Could it have anything to do with it trying to do an ident check on the person connecting but those packets being silently dropped? -- Mark
Re: Slow Telnet
On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, dman wrote: (snip) > What is the solution? Is it a good idea to open up 'ident' in the > firewall? I think so, yes. Alternatively, can you have your firewall at least send an ICMP reply to say that the packet was dropped? (like the difference between DENY and REJECT with ipchains) -- Mark
Two-button mice and pasting in X
I want to be able to paste in X from its clipboard with my two-button mouse. However, I want to be able to do so just by clicking the right button, instead of both, leaving the buttons' functions unchanged for anything other than X's pasting. How do I do this? Thanks. -- Mark
Re: Two-button mice and pasting in X
On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 11:28:17AM -0500, Mark Carroll ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > I want to be able to paste in X from its clipboard with my two-button > > mouse. However, I want to be able to do so just by clicking the right > > button, instead of both, leaving the buttons' functions unchanged for > > anything other than X's pasting. How do I do this? > > You can remap your mouse buttons. However, this generally breaks other > useful behavior. IIRC, the copy (l) and paste (middle) bindings are > defined at low levels in X. Thanks for confirming this! I feared that this was the case, given the lack of information I was finding on specifically reconfiguring them - thanks for saving me wasting any more time looking them up. > I find that tapping the centerpoint on a two-button mouse generally > chords properly. > > Or...get a three-button mouse ;-) Unfortunately, I'm using slightly dodgy buttons that are embedded into a laptop computer! (-: I can live with emulate3buttons, though - it's not all that hard to work like that, really. -- Mark
Afatech AF9013 -- MSI Digivox Duo DVB-T Stick
I am running wheezy and having curious trouble getting a DVB-T USB stick working well. The kernel log has encouraging messages, like, usb 4-4: new high-speed USB device number 2 using ehci-pci usb 4-4: Product: DVB-T 2 usb 4-4: dvb_usb_v2: found a 'MSI DIGIVOX Duo' in cold state usb 4-4: firmware: direct-loading firmware dvb-usb-af9015.fw usb 4-4: dvb_usb_v2: will pass the complete MPEG2 transport stream to the software demuxer dvb_usb_v2: 'MSI DIGIVOX Duo' successfully initialized and connected and I have some nice, /dev/dvb/adapter0/demux0 /dev/dvb/adapter1/demux0 /dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr0 /dev/dvb/adapter1/dvr0 /dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0 /dev/dvb/adapter1/frontend0 /dev/dvb/adapter0/net0 /dev/dvb/adapter1/net0 I have tried a few dvb-usb-af9015.fw -- my current one has MD5 sum 4ea04354bb30fba400c7c84abf99ac13 which I think is meant to be v5.24. w_scan -ft -cGB reports happily things like, Info: using DVB adapter auto detection. /dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0 -> TERRESTRIAL "Afatech AF9013": good :-) /dev/dvb/adapter1/frontend0 -> TERRESTRIAL "Afatech AF9013": good :-) Using TERRESTRIAL frontend (adapter /dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0) and then it scans a lot and finds only 25 channels. (Whereas, if I have w_scan just find the tuning data with -x, the resulting file has five entries from which scan and dvbv5-scan can tune to no channels at all, and dvbscan just sits on the CPU for very many hours until I get bored of waiting.) Given those 25 channels from w_scan, I can record them with tzap, but the signal is poor and the audio and video are a little out of sync on playback. I plug the same antenna cable (the plug fitting rather more snugly) into our cheap Chinese DVB-T2 box and it shows all the expected HD channels just fine at good quality. Is this at all surprising? Are there easy fixes I could try? -- Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/87zjddov3u@ixod.org
