Re: no way to remove something if the control file is damaged
[...] > > odd, no way to remove something if the control file is damaged. > Perhaps try wget .../sysadmin-guide_0.7-2_all.deb > and variations of > dpkg -i sysadmin-guide_0.7-2_all.deb > which other readers of this list might mention... > I managed to work this one out, not sure exactly but essentially did a 'locate sysadmin-guide', rm'g anything associated with the package. Then a 'dpkg --purge --force-all sysadmin-guide', and all was joyful. Thanks much, -- Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mailman craziness
Hi, I think I've somehow managed to break mailman. Today I went to bulk add some users to one of my mailing lists, clicked the submit button on the admin webpage and ... nothing was changed. So I did some other testing, trying to remove others that were subscribed, changing the footer and so on, only to discover that NONE of the admin pages are working via the web. Here are some other things: - I immediately noticed that it's asking for the admin password *alot* more. Every single link or button on an admin page spawns an authentication request. Even clicking "details" links in the general options window gets a passwd prompt. - Nothing in the logs. - Typing in the wrong password on purpose, it knows and asks for the right one. But upon entering the proper passwd and getting in, no changes have taken effect. And there's more. Before posting I went ahead and uninstalled/ reinstalled mailman. My lists are very small at this point so I gave it a shot. Same problem. Greatly appreciate any help/suggestions, -Mark
Re: mailman craziness
-Original Message- From: J C Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Mark Symonds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Debian Date: Saturday, February 05, 2000 9:16 PM Subject: Re: mailman craziness >On Sun, 6 Feb 2000 19:57:29 -0800 >Mark Symonds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> - I immediately noticed that it's asking for the admin password >> *alot* more. Every single link or button on an admin page spawns >> an authentication request. Even clicking "details" links in the >> general options window gets a passwd prompt. > >Exit your browser. Delete your cookies file. Try again. This is a >standard and well known problem (usually with IE from what I recall) >with browsers and cookies -- see the MailMan list archives for >further details. > Great idea... but it didn't work. I thought for sure it would since you're right about IE -- I was trying to admin the list using IE on a user's windows box. After posting I went to a linux box and tried it with Netscape, whaddya know, worked perfectly. Lynx works too. It's because IE4.x+ apparently sends cookies without double quotes (in violation of RFC 2109). Here are the postings I found about it: http://www.python.org/pipermail/mailman-developers/1999-July/001195.html http://www.python.org/mailman-bugs/resolved?id=80;expression=mailman;user=gu est That last one has a patch so I'll try it. Thanks alot for your suggestion, it put me on the right track. I know alot of people say this but it's true -- I've never seen support for any distro that even comes CLOSE to what I've seen here for debian. Appreciatively, -Mark
SSLwrapper software
Hi, I'm still using slink, just curious if anyone has begun work packaging some sslwrapper software (sslwrap, stunnel). I'd like to have pop-3s from an apt-getted .deb as opposed to doing the whole search and destroy thing. Hopefully this is already in potato? -- Mark
apache, ssl, slink, potato and apt
Hi, I'm trying to do something here which is probably a bit wacko. I'm running slink and have not upgraded to potato due to a lack of hdd space, but need php3.0.15 and that version is not available for slink. In an act of senseless desperation I went ahead and changed my sources.list to use frozen and did apt-get update. Then apt-get php3. Allowed it to install the additional packages needed which came out to be a total of 14MB. Everything seems ok except that I previously had been running both apache and apache-ssl for secure webmail service. The php3 installation removed apache-ssl and I see no equivalent in the frozen database when doing a search. No apache-ssl available anymore and I've been unable to locate a module as well. So my question is, what do I do to get ssl back? Am I going to need to get the mod_ssl tarball? Thanks for your time, -- Mark
Re: apache, ssl, slink, potato and apt
-Original Message-
From: Jason Gunthorpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Mark Symonds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: Debian
Date: Friday, March 03, 2000 9:42 PM
Subject: Re: apache, ssl, slink, potato and apt
>
>On Fri, 3 Mar 2000, Mark Symonds wrote:
>
>> So my question is, what do I do to get ssl back?
>> Am I going to need to get the mod_ssl tarball?
>
>auric{root}/usr/lib/cgi-bin#apt-cache search apache.*ssl
>apache-ssl - Versatile, high-performance HTTP server with SSL support
>apache-common - Support files for all Apache webservers
>libapache-mod-ssl - Strong cryptography for Apache
>^
> Him
Here's the output of mine:
symonds:~# apt-cache search apache.*ssl
apache-common - Support files for all Apache webservers
apache - Versatile, high-performance HTTP server
apache-perl - Versatile, high-performance HTTP server with added Perl
support
ssleay - Secure Socket Layer and related cryptographic libraries/tools.
libssl09 - SSL shared libraries
symonds:~#
That's it. All I can think of is that I did something wrong in my
sources.list?
# Use for a local mirror - remove the ftp1 http lines for the bits
# your mirror contains.
# deb file:/your/mirror/here/debian stable main contrib non-free
# See sources.list(5) for more information, especial
# Remember that you can only use http, ftp or file URIs
# deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free
# deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable non-US
deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian frozen main contrib non-free
I did the apt-get update ... why wouldn't it show up? I have another
box here which I upgraded to potato awhile ago and tried the same
search out of curiosity. It's giving the same output...?!
Thanks much!
--
Mark
mailman wierdness
hi, running mailman here, have had it going for a few months now without any problems. But today I added about 15 new lists and suddenly when I goto the listinfo page it says "there are no publicly advertised lists here." Which means that users can't find the lists to subscribe/unsubscribe etc. Known bug? The mailman version is 1.0rc2 -- Mark "Give me a sleeping pill and tell me your problems."
apt-get dpkg-preconfigure problems
Whenever trying to apt-get install any packages, I now get: E: Sub-process /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt exited unexpectedly E: Failure running script /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt This happened when I was installing the lynx package. Any help much appreciated, using frozen recent within the last hour. The dpkg-preconfigure manpage says that the default priority can be permanently changed by: dpkg-reconfigure --priority=medium debconf I type that at the command line and get: newport:/home/mark# dpkg-reconfigure --priority=medium debconf Illegal instruction newport:/home/mark# Hopefully someday dpkg-reconfigure will get a little more verbose... -- Mark "Sell your Microsoft stock while you still have the chance!"
exim problem
Hello, I have 118 msgs sitting in /var/spool/exim/input That are frozen, all with the same error: 11oG5a-0006tw-00 :: 1999-11-17 17:10:18 [EMAIL PROTECTED]: lookuphost router deferred: lowest numbered MX record points to local host *** Frozen *** The master file in /var/named for this domain is identical to three other domains on the box which are happily accepting mail, and exim.conf does have local_domains = DOMAIN.NAME. Any ideas? Exim version is 2.05 #1. -Mark
What does this mean?
Saw this in the logs: VFS: Disk change detected on device 16:40 What does it mean? VFS might mean "Virtual File System" but what about the rest of it? And does VFS = swap? -Mar
Perplexing mailman situation
Hi, I'm a bit new to Debian so forgive me if this is a FAQ, but I installed mailman last night via apt-get and everything seemed to be working beautifully until I checked the machine this morning and discovered the filesystem was ro. The logs said that there was an attempt to access beyond the end of /dev/hda1 so I ran e2fsck, fixed the errors and finally put the drive back in rw. Everything went smoothly until 12 hours later the server started dying and I noticed the average load had begun climbing through the roof. A ps aux revealed about 100 instances of /USR/CRON running! Upon looking at the logs I see alot of the following: Jan 17 18:35:00 /USR/SBIN/CRON[275]: (list) CMD (/usr/bin/python /usr/lib/mailm an/cron/gate_news) Jan 17 18:38:00 /USR/SBIN/CRON[287]: (mail) CMD ( if [ -x /usr/sbin/exim ]; th en /usr/sbin/exim -q >/dev/null 2>&1; fi) Jan 17 18:40:00 /USR/SBIN/CRON[314]: (root) CMD (test -f /proc/modules && /sbin /rmmod -a) Jan 17 18:40:00 /USR/SBIN/CRON[315]: (list) CMD (/usr/bin/python /usr/lib/mailm an/cron/gate_news) Jan 17 18:42:00 /USR/SBIN/CRON[321]: (list) CMD (/usr/bin/python /usr/lib/mailm an/cron/run_queue) ...and on and on. It appears that some of these aren't exiting, turning my box into a time bomb? This has happened twice now at 12 hour intervals. Any and all help much appreciated, -Mark (going back to look in /usr/lib/mailman/cron) - "I know everything we've done is absolutely right and proper" --Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer on MSNBC, 01/13/00 -
Re: Perplexing mailman situation
For what it's worth I believe I found the problem. I found this in /var/lib/mailman/cron/crontab.in: # Every 5 mins, try to gate news to mail. You can comment this one out # if you don't want to allow gating, or don't have any going on right now, # or want to exclusively use a callback strategy instead of polling. # 0,5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50,55 * * * * /usr/bin/python /var/lib/mailman/cro n/gate_news # ...that line wasn't commented although I had told mailman via the admin web interface not to gate news/mail. Anyway it's been well over 12 hours without a problem, no wild /USR/CRON processes. Just thought I'd post that in case anyone else runs into it. -Mark - "I know everything we've done is absolutely right and proper" --Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer on MSNBC, 01/13/00 ----- ----- Original Message - From: "Mark Symonds" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Debian" Sent: Monday, January 17, 2000 6:31 PM Subject: Perplexing mailman situation > > Hi, I'm a bit new to Debian so forgive me if this is > a FAQ, but I installed mailman last night via apt-get > and everything seemed to be working beautifully > until I checked the machine this morning and discovered > the filesystem was ro. The logs said that there was > an attempt to access beyond the end of /dev/hda1 > so I ran e2fsck, fixed the errors and finally put the > drive back in rw. > > Everything went smoothly until 12 hours later > the server started dying and I noticed the average load > had begun climbing through the roof. A ps aux revealed > about 100 instances of /USR/CRON running!
Fw: Problem with Exim, HELP ME !
- Original Message - From: "Mark Symonds" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2000 8:20 PM Subject: Re: Problem with Exim, HELP ME ! Is "lorenzo" a bot?! I already responded to it off-list and specifically asked it to respond off-list like five mails ago. Not only did it reply to my reply by posting my reply and nothing else, but it also kept posting the original question again and again. Whatever is doing this is obviously not human. :) -Mark - "I know everything we've done is absolutely right and proper" --Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer on MSNBC, 01/13/00 - - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2000 2:40 AM ct: Problem with Exim, HELP ME ! > Hi to all! > > I am not able to send remote e-mails by 'Exim', but only locally. > > I have got a dial-up Linux Box (Debian 2.1), without a local network, > and I wish to deliver e-mails by my ISP's smart host. > >
slink -> potato
Hi, My box running slink here would like to do the potato upgrade but I'm concerned that it might run out of disk space: Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on /dev/hda1 296633 24881332500 88% / /dev/hda3 675175 343296 297003 54% /home Safe to upgrade? tia, -Mark - "I know everything we've done is absolutely right and proper" --Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer on MSNBC, 01/13/00 -
X and terminals and that galderned backspace key
Sorry if this is a FAQ, but I am lazy. :) In X, backspace doesn't work properly in terms. it gives a strange code value similar to ^]]GF or something. ^H works as a backspace. But since I use windows some of the time (please don't waste your time flaming me for that) I'm used to the backspace key working the way it should. So I guess I need to remap ^H to the backspace key and I don't know how to do that. Currently I'm using windows but if the exact keycode is needed then I'll post it. Any and all advice appreciated, -Mark Linux=Ferrari, BSD=Mercedes-Benz, NT='72 Yugo that's having trouble passing safety inspection (no brakes, lights or wipers, and burns a lot of oil), W95=tricycle with bent front wheel and one pedal. -http://www.futuresouth.com/~fullermd/freebsd/bsd/bsdvlinux.19
ISO problems (rsync is silently exiting)
Hi, Trying to make an ISO of potato on a windows box here. Following the instructions, I ran make-pseudo-image and now have a file called binary-i386-1.iso in the directory which is 634,220KB in size. Finally, I am to patch this file to make the "Official" ISO. Per the instructions: c:\windows\desktop\debian> rsync --verbose --progress --stats --block-size=8192 rsync.kernel.org::debian-cd/2.2_rev2/i386/binary-i386-1.iso . NOTE: THIS IS A MODIFIED VERSION OF RSYNC. [...] [...] ... and that's it. The hdd goes wild for about five minutes, and then it silently drops me back to a prompt. The pseudo-image is unchanged. hrmm ... maybe it downloaded PERFECTLY?! Try to burn it to a CD with Adaptec Easy CD Creator, "this is not a valid ISO". md5sums don't match either. Any ideas? -- Mark
emacs20 installation
Hi, woody updated to 5 mins ago, trying to apt-get install emacs20: symonds:/etc# apt-get install emacs20 Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: emacsen-common The following NEW packages will be installed: emacs20 emacsen-common 0 packages upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 6 not upgraded. Need to get 8999kB of archives. After unpacking 28.7MB will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Get:1 http://http.us.debian.org woody/main emacsen-common 1.4.13 [15.8kB] Get:2 http://http.us.debian.org woody/main emacs20 20.7-10.1 [8983kB] Fetched 8999kB in 1m4s (163kB/s) Selecting previously deselected package emacsen-common. (Reading database ... 39371 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking emacsen-common (from .../emacsen-common_1.4.13_all.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package emacs20. Unpacking emacs20 (from .../emacs20_20.7-10.1_i386.deb) ... Setting up emacsen-common (1.4.13) ... emacsen-common: Handling install of emacsen flavor emacs emacsen-common: Handling install of emacsen flavor emacs19 emacsen-common: byte-compiling for emacs19 emacs19: error while loading shared libraries: libXaw.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory emacs-package-install: /usr/lib/emacsen-common/packages/install/emacsen-common emacs19 emacs19 failed at /usr/lib/emacsen-common/emacs-package-install line 30, line 1. dpkg: error processing emacsen-common (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 29 dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of emacs20: emacs20 depends on emacsen-common (>= 1.4.10); however: Package emacsen-common is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing emacs20 (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Errors were encountered while processing: emacsen-common emacs20 E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) You have new mail in /var/spool/mail/mark symonds#:
Re: the Packages files should get to mirrors last -- no swarthy emails
On Sun, 2004-08-22 at 13:35, Ursine.caPostmaster wrote: > > Nobody at ursine.ca regularly corresponds with people in Taiwan. > And it will always be that way, due to rules you have in place. I guess there must be a good reason why you don't do spamhaus/spews checks et. al. instead. -- Mark Symonds [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
