Re: Recompile kernel lost network
deFreese, Barry wrote: -Original Message- From: Hubert Chan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, February 17, 2003 10:15 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Recompile kernel lost network "Barry" == deFreese, Barry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Barry> Oh Gods of Debian, I recently built a Dell Lattitude laptop to Barry> hopefully start doing development on. Installed Woody with Barry> 2.2.20-idepci kernel and everything was working fine. I decide Barry> to compile 2.4.18. First time I compiled it, it wouldn't even Barry> recognize the 3Com PCMCIA nic. Got that fixed but I still have Barry> no network connection. The /etc/hosts, and Barry> /etc/network/interfaces all look correct but if I run ifconfig Barry> all I have is the local loopback interface lo, no eth0. An lspci Barry> shows the adapter and I get a link light on the card so I am a Barry> bit lost. Any thoughts? Are you using DHCP? If so, you need to enable CONFIG_PACKET and CONFIG_FILTER. (Or use pump instead of dhclient.) -- Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA Fingerprint: 96C5 012F 5F74 A5F7 1FF7 5291 AF29 C719 124B 61FA Key available at wwwkeys.pgp.net. Encrypted e-mail preferred. My apologies, I should have specified. No, I am assigning a static IP. /etc/init.d/ifupdown restart /etc/init.d/networking restart netstat -rn -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Explorer-type file manager
John Griffiths wrote: You might also look into purchasing a copy of Xandros, which is a debian-based distro; the reviews I've read of the Xandros File Manager (called xfm, but not to be confused with another filemanager by that name) make it sound like it's several steps beyond either of the above, and perhaps even less memory/CPU intensive. You'd be in a familiar environment (as I noted, it's Debian based), but have a very Windows-esque environment. working on xandros now, xfm is VERY good, there's a cheapo version of xandros if you don't want all the windows compatability hooks. I thought i was going to die the first 2 days of the transition from windows, very nearly plugged the XP box back in. 4 days in now and getting happier with things as I gain familiarity. gnome-commander (better one from testing) is a file browser. fvwm95 is a windows 95 look-alike too. http://www.plig.org/xwinman/screenshots/fvwm95-horen.jpg http://www.plig.org/xwinman/fvwm95.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: apt sources
alex wrote: I'm having a problem understanding the architecture of apt sources and have difficulty in getting packages with apt and dselect. According to the APT HOWTO, 2.1, The /etc/apt/sources.list file it says: (quote) "The entries in this file normally follows this format:" "deb-http://site.http.org/debian distribution section1 section2 section3" "deb-src http://site.http.org/debian distribution section1 section2 section3" Question---isn't 'site.http' supposed to be 'http.site' ? - The following sources are copied directly from my /etc/apt/sources.list. It seems to me that there are errors such as / either missing or in the wrong place. Could someone comment on whether or not the sources are correctly structured as is or what the error is? - Format is like this: deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/download.pl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Reply To Field in emails
Sharninder Singh,,, wrote: hi all, I don't know if anyone this problem is being faced by anyone else also but whenever i press the reply button on my webmail client (Squirrelmail) on any of the mails from the debian-user list, the mail is sent to the guy who posted the msg and not debian-user. I think the reply-to field is set to the poster but being a public list i think it should be set back to the list itself so that the msg can be archived and other ppl can also benefit from the reply. This only happens with debian user ... all the other lists that i subscribe to set their reply-to addresses back to the list itself. Am i the only one facing this problem (or feature) or anyone else also irritated with this ? It happens in mozilla. I have to use "reply all", then delete the senders address. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
User ID of applications
Hi, Is it possible to find out what the effective user and group ID is that a program uses when accessing files? I had to chown a bunch of mozilla news files. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: apt sources
alex wrote: My question is about the correctness of the following sources: ... Yes, I think I understand the general format in the examples you used but my question is about the format of the examples I listed above. It seems to me that there are some errors in them, ie., / and spaces in wrong places. They are shown in the exact form that I downloaded them and they didn't seem to work when I ran apt or dselect--resulting in error 1. Could you please comment on whether or not the points I marked are correct or wrong? The formats looked wrong. I was assuming you wrote them. Did you download them somewhere? Incidently, the address you gave: http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/download.pl resulted in the following: Internal error: Required parameter "file" is missing. If the problem persists, please inform [EMAIL PROTECTED] Did I misunderstand something? It was probably because i arrived at that link indirectly. When you go to the page of a specific debian package, click the download button. It will take you to a list of mirrors with http and ftp addresses which is what your sources.list should have a few of. http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: File systems -- reiser vs. ext3
Daniel B. wrote: Paul Johnson wrote: ... My pick of ext3 was the fact that all the tools that work with ext2 work just as readily with ext3. I was also able to convert within a few minutes from ext2 on the command line. What do you use to convert? Daniel tune2fs -j /dev/ Can't remember if device should be unmounted (i'd try that first). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Group ID
Hi, When a program access a config file, does it use the group ID of the programs own binary, or can it be set differently from within the program? Is there a way to check what group ID a program is using or going to use? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Group ID
Michael Wardle wrote: On Thursday, February 20, 2003 01:05, Russell Shaw wrote: When a program access a config file, does it use the group ID of the programs own binary, or can it be set differently from within the program? If the SGID bit is not set on the executable (normal), the program inherits the permissions of the user who invoked the executable, and so the permissions of the user's primary group. If the SGID bit is set on the executable (abnormal), the program inherits the permissions of the group that owns the executable file. A process can access a file using a different group by first calling setgid() or setegid() if it has the necessary permissions. Inside a program, you can test what permissions you have by using calls such as access() and stat(). If you are unable to edit and recompile the program, you could try watching what calls it makes with strace. Hope this helps If i had to regenerate a config file that a program uses, is it possible to detect what GID the program uses if it is set from within the program? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: IP Masquerade
Rob Weir wrote: On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 03:46:06PM +1100, Russell wrote: Hi all, I have a PC (PC_1) connected to the ISP via dialup ppp (DHCP assigned address). PC_1 also has an ethernet card: 192.168.0.1 Another PC (PC_2: 192.168.0.2) connects to PC_1 via ethernet. Can i access my ISPs DNS servers on PC_2 just with some static rules set up on PC_1, or does PC_1 need IP masquerading working? Any sort of solution you come up with will just be some poor imitation of NAT. You can either use the 'ipmasq' package (which does most everything automatically) or install a caching DNS server on PC_1 and point PC_2 at that. Hi, I built and installed a 2.4.20 kernel with packet filtering functions and installed ipmasq, iptables, etc. There's no manual pages on how to tell ipmasq or ip_tables to enable all this stuff from a config file, or how to tell it what interface (eth0) to use. There's a bunch of rules in /etc/ipmasq/rules, but there's no explanation of how to use the whole system. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Group ID
Colin Watson wrote: On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 03:04:25AM +1100, Russell Shaw wrote: If i had to regenerate a config file that a program uses, is it possible to detect what GID the program uses if it is set from within the program? Any particular reason it can't just be root:root -rw-r--r-- (if it's in /etc) or owned by you (if it's in your home directory)? That's what most configuration files are. I set them all to my own user:group, but mozilla seems to have some 'stuck' settings. I found a useful command is: ps -eo pid,user,euser,fuser,group,egroup,fgroup,cmd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: AW: modconf doesn't show drivers
Yildiz, Murat wrote: On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 01:33:16PM +0100, Yildiz, Murat wrote: I have woody 3.0 with kernel 2.4.19 self-compiled and now want to load a kernel module but when I run modconf no package is being shown. I have checked /lib/modules/2.4.19 , it exist.Where does modconf read available modules information? After a quick look at modconf, it looks like it would get its module listings by looking through all the directories in /lib/modules/2.4.19, and finding *.o. Are modules in /lib/modules/2.4.19? Hi, I have run "make modules" and "make modules-install" and the /lib/modules/2.4.19 was created but with an empty modules.dep file.I think it is reading the drivers information from modules.dep, but it is empty. Should use modules_install, not modules-install. I think modules.dep is generated by "make modules_install". This generates /lib/modules/$(VERSION).$(PATCHLEVEL).$(SUBLEVEL)$(EXTRAVERSION) which comes from the kernel top-level Makefile: VERSION = 2 PATCHLEVEL = 4 SUBLEVEL = 20 EXTRAVERSION = KERNELRELEASE=$(VERSION).$(PATCHLEVEL).$(SUBLEVEL)$(EXTRAVERSION) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: AW: AW: modconf doesn't show drivers
Yildiz, Murat wrote: Oh sorry , of course I did "make modules_install"But I remember somethinlike "nothing found" and "leaving directory". As I said the directory 2.4.19 was created under /lib/modules but still I cannot see any drivers info within modconf. I'd just try it again, or do "depmod -a 2.4.19", or reboot and just do "depmod -a", "modprobe -a \*". I've never got modconf to show a gui. Any modules that should be loaded at boot time, you should put into /etc/modules. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Group ID
Michael Wardle wrote: On Thursday, February 20, 2003 08:14, Russell Shaw wrote: Colin Watson wrote: On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 03:04:25AM +1100, Russell Shaw wrote: If i had to regenerate a config file that a program uses, is it possible to detect what GID the program uses if it is set from within the program? Any particular reason it can't just be root:root -rw-r--r-- (if it's in /etc) or owned by you (if it's in your home directory)? That's what most configuration files are. I set them all to my own user:group, but mozilla seems to have some 'stuck' settings. I found a useful command is: ps -eo pid,user,euser,fuser,group,egroup,fgroup,cmd Ah! So you're trying to set the correct permissions on the Mozilla configuration files! The first thing to learn is it's best not to change permissions on files you didn't create. ;-) I just migrated to debian from the windoze box which had mozilla on it. I copied the profiles and news/mail directories from the windoze box. I set the ownership of everything to my own. I hate the email composer editor in the linux version of mozilla. I can't set it to keep using a fixed width font. Anyway, the group linux.debian always shows it has 6 unread messages even after i've read everyting in it. A few other groups do that too. Maybe it's mozilla bugs. Why not start a new Mozilla session with "mozilla -ProfileManager", create a new profile, and compare permissions? I'm thinking of setting up a *real* email system without mozilla. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: fsck finding thousands of errors
Leo Spalteholz wrote:
On February 19, 2003 02:39 pm, Daniel B. wrote:
Levi Waldron wrote:
On February 13, 2003 07:28 pm, Daniel Barclay wrote:
...
Are you using DMA?
... I didn't do anything outside of a
normal stock installation to turn DMA support on or off.
The Linux kernel and some IDE controllers don't work together, and
can cause several filesystem corruption.
You probably want to turn DMA off ("hdparm -d0 ...") until you can
confirm that this is not your problem.
Do you know if support for any IDE controllers was dropped in 2.4 vs
2.2? I can run kernel 2.2 fine on my server but when I tried to
update to 2.4 (standard debian kernel image) it gave me a whole
crapload of fsck errors on boot. Booting kernel 2.2 I could after
much pain fix most of them. So it seems that something in 2.4 is
corrupting my filesystem.. I can't remember the exact version I
tried and don't really want to try again but it was 2.4.16 or 17.
How could I find out what IDE controller I have and whether it's
supported? I have some crappy no name board in that server.
The 2.4 kernel may have more or different options set compared to the
2.2 kernel.
You should review the 2.4 kernel config settings then recompile.
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Re: new kernel, new problems
Simon Tod wrote: Thanks. Got the cpu speed bit solved. Looking through the PCMCIA HowTo I've checked to see that /etc/pcmica/config, /etc/default/pcmcia and /etc/init.d/pcmica are the same under both kernels. My new kernel is missing the line serial_cs 4384 0 (unused) from lsmod. Try: depmod modprobe -a \* If that fixes the problem, maybe you should add the missing modules to /etc/modules. Did you do "make modules", "make modules_install" when doing the kernel? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Group ID
Michael Wardle wrote: On Thursday, February 20, 2003 08:14, Russell Shaw wrote: I set them all to my own user:group, but mozilla seems to have some 'stuck' settings. I found a useful command is: ps -eo pid,user,euser,fuser,group,egroup,fgroup,cmd Ah! So you're trying to set the correct permissions on the Mozilla configuration files! The first thing to learn is it's best not to change permissions on files you didn't create. ;-) Why not start a new Mozilla session with "mozilla -ProfileManager", create a new profile, and compare permissions? I seems to have fixed it by unsubscribing then re-subscribing to the relevant news groups. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ppp server for debian
shr-heng wrote: > hi. > excuse me , if i want to set " ppp server " in the debian system, > where i can get the "ppp server" software. apt-cache search ppp -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: module configuration
Haim Ashkenazi wrote: Hi I've just installed the alsa drivers for my emu10k1 SBLive card and I have 2 problems: 1. when I reboot, the system first loads the "emu10k1" kernel module before everything else so the alsa modules doesn't load. as a workaround I've renamed this module and everything works, but I wonder if there is a more elegant solution. I have no mention of emu10k1 in '/etc/modules.conf' and '/etc/modutils/*' (well. except for the alsa module). You should put the modules to be loaded at boot into /etc/modules. 2. In '/etc/modutils/alsa I've put this line "post-install snd-emu10k1-synth /usr/bin/sfxload /usr/local/etc/8MBGMSFX.SF2". the module loads but it doesn't run the post-install command. I have to run it manually. am I doing something wrong? thanx -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Replicating a system... sort of
Paul M Foster wrote: I'm attempting to set up a replacement system for the one on my desk. (When done, I'll swap them out.) This gets awfully tedious when I have to pick every package in dselect. My current desktop is a Woody, but the system I'm setting up is testing. I have a list of packages that I put on every system I run, for example: lynx, hextype, units, remind, links, nosql3, sqlite, etc. I'd like to be able to install a base system, put these package names in some text file, point dselect/apt (or something else) at it, and have them downloaded and configed as usual. Is there a package that does this? Paul I just cloned my HDD with a small script to copy everything relevant. I then booted the new pc with the debian install-floppy and made the HDD bootable by running lilo. It's a good way of making backups on spare HDDs. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: /etc/modules, /etc/modules.conf and others
J.F.Gratton wrote: Good evening, I might have missed that one, concerning /etc/modules, /etc/modules.conf and modutils.. What does what in there ? I might be using workarounds or not using my system effeciently but I've never had to tamper with /etc/modules.conf. All I did so far to get modules to load and to work was to put them into /etc/modules. For instance: on a 2.2.x kernel, my NIC module is rtl8139.o . In the 2.4.x series, the module has been renamed to 8139too.o (actually it's a new module, but let's not split hairs). All I did was to replace the rtl8139 entry into /etc/modules with 8139too . What is the use of /etc/modules.conf et al. then ? The modules in /etc/modules get loaded by modprobe at boot time. Modprobe uses /etc/modules.conf to affect its behaviour such as passing options to modules, and do certain operations before and after a module is installed or removed. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: /etc/modules, /etc/modules.conf and others
Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: -- J.F.Gratton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Thursday, 20 February 2003, 09:53 PM -0500): I might be using workarounds or not using my system effeciently but I've never had to tamper with /etc/modules.conf. All I did so far to get modules to load and to work was to put them into /etc/modules. For instance: on a 2.2.x kernel, my NIC module is rtl8139.o . In the 2.4.x series, the module has been renamed to 8139too.o (actually it's a new module, but let's not split hairs). All I did was to replace the rtl8139 entry into /etc/modules with 8139too . What is the use of /etc/modules.conf et al. then ? /etc/modules is used by Debian to manually add modules the user/sysadmin wishes to load at boot time. After adding them, you then run 'update-modules' as root, which reads this, I don't think update-modules reads /etc/modules, only the files in /etc/modutils. If you add modules to /etc/modules and don't need to do anything special for them, there's no need to do update-modules. as well as some files in /etc/modutils/, to *create* /etc/modules.conf. (This script is run as part of /etc/init.d/modutils at boot time, in case you're wondering why you haven't run it yourself and things still worked.) There's a lot more to it, and this answer is definitely a bit simplistic, but it's the basic idea -- and it's why you don't need to (and *SHOULDN'T*) mess with /etc/modules.conf in Debian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Initrd, SCSI and USB
Ludwig Meyerhoff wrote: Hallo! I have a SCSI client running a AHA-2940. I wanted to run a USB flashcard-reader with it and that does not work. Same configuration on a IDE client works. After some playing around I compiled a new kernel with integrated USB support and modulized SCSI support - it works! Seems like the USB modules can't attach to the SCSI part because the adapter already has. Now, it is not very nice to compile the kernel every time I update - what am I running Debian for? ;-) How can I initrd tell to load the usb-modules before the AIX7xxx one? I would like to change its configuration instead of making an own imige each time. The order of loading of /etc/modules at boot is determined by what you have in /etc/modules.conf. This file is generated from what you have in /etc/modutils. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Driver for Xserver
Samuele Pretini wrote: Hi, I try to install Debian 30r1 on my notebook, but the Xserver does't start. I suppose that this problem is generated of my chipset adn my graphics card ( Ati Radeon IGP 320M). My notebook is a Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo A 7600. There is a solution for my problem? Start with a config file from XFree86 -configure -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Multiple ethernet cards
Hi, I put two ethernet cards in my pc. However, i can't ping a remote host from both interfaces (eth0,eth1, after swapping the cable over). If i disable one interface, then i can ping from the other. Both cards are pci of different brands. I've tried giving both cards the same address and different addresses. I think it's because of the routing. netstat -rn: Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Iface 210.50.118.58 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH ppp0 0.0.0.0 210.50.118.58 0.0.0.0 UG ppp0 192.168.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U eth0 192.168.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U eth1 I want to connect two PCs to the 3rd gateway PC. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: crazy problems
Garrett P. McLean wrote: > also, is there any way for me to add ide-scsi emulation as a module without recompiling? Select ide-scsi option in the source tree with make menuconfig, then make modules and make modules_install. Might need to add ide-scsi to /etc/modules too. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: HOW DO I: Copy the package list from one machine, and installit on another machine?
Mark Janssen wrote: On Sat, 2003-02-22 at 11:35, Andrew Pritchard wrote: I've got one debian box, and I want to duplicate the package list onto another machine - how do I go about doing this? I've done a dpkg -l to get a list of files from the first machine. It's got a whole load of extra information (package version no. etc) which I've filtered out. How can I get apt to recognise the contents of the file as being a list of packages to install? Is there a better tool for the job? Source machine: dpkg --get-selections > /tmp/some-file.txt Dest machine: dpkg --put-selections < /tmp/some-file.txt --put-selections doesn't seem to be in the man page. There's a --set-selections, but it says that does nothing to actually do installing. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Multiple ethernet cards
Johan Ehnberg wrote: I've been experimenting with this stuff, too. So maybe I can help you I put two ethernet cards in my pc. However, i can't ping a remote host from both interfaces (eth0,eth1, after swapping the cable over). snip... One computer could be 192.168.0.2, the other 192.168.1.2. The gateway would then be for example 192.168.0.1 and .1.1. Thanks, it works now. PC_1 is the main pc and connects to dial-up isp with ppp0 (dynamic ip assignment). eth0 is 192.168.0.1 on net 192.168.0.0/24, and eth1 is 192.168.1.1 on net 192.168.1.0/24. eth0 and eth1 both have their own PCs connected (with debian of course;). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: firewall
Allan Andersen wrote: Hi! At the moment I've a RH firewall/router. It's quite unstable, so I would like to installa Debian as a firewall and router instead of RH. I need the box act as a firwall/router (I belive it's called masquarading) and enabled port forwarding. Is there any easy to go guides for this? Get your local network cards set up and network working. apt-get install iptables apt-get install ipmasq If you want it to connect to dial-up isp, then apt-get install pppconfig You may need to reboot to get all the scripts to run right. Once pppconfig is set up, the pc can masquerade for other PCs connected to its network cards. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: firewall
Allan Andersen wrote: On Sun, 2003-02-23 at 02:31, Russell Shaw wrote: At the moment I've a RH firewall/router. It's quite unstable, so I would like to installa Debian as a firewall and router instead of RH. I need the box act as a firwall/router (I belive it's called masquarading) and enabled port forwarding. Is there any easy to go guides for this? Get your local network cards set up and network working. apt-get install iptables apt-get install ipmasq If you want it to connect to dial-up isp, then apt-get install pppconfig You may need to reboot to get all the scripts to run right. Once pppconfig is set up, the pc can masquerade for other PCs connected to its network cards. Hi Paul and Russel, Thanks very much for the quick response. Perhaps I should mention that I'm a bit familiar with Debian. My primary desktop is a Debian, so installation should not be a problem. It's a standard ethernet connection (ADSL), so I don't think it will be nessacery with a ppp configuartion. The pc has 2 3Coms netcards. A couple of extra questions. 1. will the masquerade work automaticaly? Yes, if your kernel has all the right options enabled. You should use a recent 2.4 kernel. The options are in the masquerading howto: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/IP-Masquerade-HOWTO 2. to which files do I write to port forwarding rules? In /etc/ipmasq/rules, there's a bunch of scripts you can overide with scripts of the same name, but with a .rul extension. The pc should work as a masquerading gateway without having to add any rules. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: help - install fails after 1st reboot
eauclair wrote: Hi, I'm trying to install Debian. I am trying both 2.2 and 3.0. I'd rather have 3.0 working, so I will focus on that one. I have a Compaq 6024. When I boot off the 3.0 disk, all my hardware is detected - usb (uhci), NIC (eepro100), and CD-roms (DVD & CDRW). When installing, I choose the kernel modules for the NIC (eepro100) and the USB core, uchi, and mass storage options. When I reboot, none of those devices are detected. I can't access the cdrom or NIC, so I cant get any more packages. My sources.list is empty. During the 2nf half of the install, it actually says it cannot detect a cd-rom. :-( I haven't used the CD install. Check that the modules have been added to /etc/modules. If not, do "depmod -n" to get an idea of what to add. depmod then modprobe -a \* should get them all going without rebooting. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
A bug?
Hi, On my system, /etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc contains: #!/bin/sh exec /usr/bin/X11/X -dpi 100 -nolisten tcp Can anyone verify this on another system? This caused the screen to always be 100dpi (xdpyinfo), so i changed it to: #!/bin/sh exec /usr/bin/X11/X -nolisten tcp -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: A bug?
martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Russell Shaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.02.23.2229 +0100]: On my system, /etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc contains: #!/bin/sh exec /usr/bin/X11/X -dpi 100 -nolisten tcp Can anyone verify this on another system? yes. This caused the screen to always be 100dpi (xdpyinfo), so i changed it to: #!/bin/sh exec /usr/bin/X11/X -nolisten tcp debian made a choice at one point to make the screen 100dpi by default. what's your problem with that? If you set DisplaySize in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4: Section "Monitor" Identifier "Philips" VendorName "Philips" ModelName "C20 (CM0500)" HorizSync 31.5,35.2,37.8,48,56,64 DisplaySize 312 234 VertRefresh 50-90 Option "DPMS" Gamma 2.4 2.5 2.6 EndSection Then if you look in /var/log/XFree86.0.log or xdpyinfo, you'll find that DisplaySize is ignored and you get a physical screen size different to your real screen. It gets set to 100dpi when mine should be around 80dpi. Doesn't that mean that any assumptions about font and window sizes by X apps is all wrong? Instead of 1pt being 1/72", it's more like 1/60", so all the fonts end up bigger than they should. It also means that changing the resolution from 800x600 to 1024x768 changes the *physical* screen size, making all the fonts and everything else change size when they should be constant. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Screen scaling (was A bug?)
Daniel B. wrote: Russell Shaw wrote: ... Doesn't that mean that any assumptions about font and window sizes by X apps is all wrong? Instead of 1pt being 1/72", it's more like 1/60", Actually, 1 point is always 1/72". (That's the definition of a point.) That's what i mean. If you measure 1pt with a ruler against the screen, you should see 1/72" regardless of whether the monitor is set to 640x480 or 1024x768. Resolution should only have the effect of making diagonal lines and curves less smoother. With 100dpi on my system, 1/72" ends up being physically 1/60". But you are absolutely correct that many assumptions about displayed font sizes are wrong. ... It also means that changing the resolution from 800x600 to 1024x768 changes the *physical* screen size, Do you mean the screen size of a font (the size of a font on the screen), or the screen size (the size of the screen)? It will cause the physical size (what you measure with a ruler) of fonts and windows to change. The physical dimensions of your monitor as reported by xdpyinfo will also be wrong. making all the fonts and everything else change size when they should be constant. Which sizes do you think should be constant? If I increase my screen resolution (number of pixels), it's usually because I want more information on my screen, so (usually) everything should stay the same size in pixels but shrink in physical size on the screen. No. That's broken microsoft behaviour. Increasing the resolution should only make angled lines and curves smoother. If you want everything on the desktop like menus and icons to be a different size, there should be a setting in the window manager, or you could use startx -- -dpi 100 to change everything including the font sizes. (Of course, there are other cases too. One might increase screen resolution to display something more smoothly but still want physical sizes of everything to stay the same.) I think the problem is that we don't distinguish between the specified printing size of text and the currently displayed size of text. (Actually, that second part is "the size on the display of the screen font currently used to display text with the specified printing size.") By specifying DisplaySize in XF86Config-4, fonts should all *look* the same size on different sized monitors. However, because gui toolkits specify most things in pixels, then windows and menus should change size with the size of the monitor. To me, a "10-point font" is one that prints on paper with a size of 10 points (if no further scaling is done when printing). Obviously, text set to print at 10 points can appear at any size on the screen. It makes sense to talk about a "10-point screen font" only when it's calibrated for the screen resolution in pixels and for the physical screen size. I read somewhere (when doing M$ programming) that the physical size displayed for a font on the screen is bigger than the same font on a printer, to compensate that monitors are usually read further away. This would be acceptable. Regarding assumptions' being wrong, one major peeve is MS Outlook and its users. When the default "12-point" font size looks too big on their screens, they think that it's appropriate to set the font size to "10 points." That causes Outlook to send HTML mail with an HTML font size of 2. My browser/mailer is adjusted to display normal-sized text (size=3) at a comfortable screen size. Of course, when I get the Outlook- originated mail with a reduced HTML font size, it displays uncomfortably small on my screen. ...all because Bill Gates and company don't provide a way to display message text in a smaller screen font on the local machine without screwing with the HTML font size. I see some mail like that in mozilla, but i have it set so that when i hit reply, the message is converted to plain ascii which is easier to read. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Need help configuring box as router
Justin Ryan wrote: On Sun, 2003-02-23 at 12:27, Nathan E Norman wrote: On Sun, Feb 23, 2003 at 11:13:24AM -0500, Scott Ehrlich wrote: [ top posting SUCKS ] [ self-righteousness SUCKS ] Other than the Firwall HOWTO I referenced, what other areas of my install should I look at, and how should the files/configuration appear? screw the firewall howto, look at this: http://www.netfilter.org/documentation/HOWTO//NAT-HOWTO.html What you want is called NAT, or Network Address Translation. If you want the low-cholesterol version, check: http://www.netfilter.org/documentation/HOWTO//NAT-HOWTO-4.html#ss4.1 Of course, you _could_ let this 'ipmasq' package do it for you, and it probably does as good of a job as my own scripts, but it's good to know what's under the hood (and it ain't much). To see the rules ipmasq is using: ipmasq -v -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Multiple NICs with Monolithic kernel
Michael West wrote: I am having trouble setting up a system for 3 nic cards with a monolithic kernel ( 2.4.18 ) The three cards are identical and use the eepro100 driver. For testing I have them set up on the same sub-net. All three cards are getting assigned all three ips. I am not passing any kernel parameters Here is my /etc/network/interfaces I think broadcast addresses are set automatically, and you don't need gateways if you have no external network. The three NICs use three separate cables, so these are three different nets: -- auto lo eth0 eth1 eth2 iface lo inet loopback iface eth0 inet static address 10.0.1.10 netmask 255.255.255.0 network 10.0.1.0 iface eth1 inet static address 10.0.2.10 netmask 255.255.255.0 network 10.0.2.0 iface eth2 inet static address 10.0.3.10 netmask 255.255.255.0 network 10.0.3.0 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Xterm key mapping
Hi all,
Where can i find a list of key names for use
in vt100 translations? There's a bunch of
things in /etc/X11/xbd, but things like
"BackSpace" aren't there. Does xterm have
its own list? What does the tilde(~) character
do?
XTerm*vt100.translations: #override\n\
~Ctrl ~Meta:insert-selection(PRIMARY, CLIPBOARD)\n\
:select-end(PRIMARY, CLIPBOARD)\n\
ShiftUp: scroll-back(1,line)\n\
ShiftDown: scroll-forw(1,line)\n\
ShiftPrior:scroll-back(1,page)\n\
ShiftNext: scroll-forw(1,page)\n\
KP_Subtract: scroll-back(1,page)\n\
KP_Add:scroll-forw(1,page)\n\
CtrlPrior: scroll-back(1,line)\n\
CtrlNext: scroll-forw(1,line)\n\
Home: string("\033OH")\n\
End: string("\033OF")\n\
ShiftBackSpace:string("\210")\n\
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Re: Xterm key mapping
Gregory Seidman wrote: Russell Shaw sez: } Where can i find a list of key names for use } in vt100 translations? There's a bunch of } things in /etc/X11/xbd, but things like } "BackSpace" aren't there. /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XKeysymDB You can also use xmodmap -pke to find out which keysyms are actually bound on your keyboard. } Does xterm have its own list? No. } What does the tilde(~) character do? Negation. In the first of the translations below, releasing the second button only pastes if neither control nor meta are pressed. } XTerm*vt100.translations: #override\n\ } ~Ctrl ~Meta: insert-selection(PRIMARY, CLIPBOARD)\n\ } : select-end(PRIMARY, CLIPBOARD)\n\ } ShiftUp: scroll-back(1,line)\n\ [...] --Greg Thanks. I found another useful way to see keycodes is xev. XKeysymDB seems to have something different. What are these used in? : apLineDel :1000FF00 apCharDel :1000FF01 apCopy :1000FF02 apCut :1000FF03 apPaste :1000FF04 apMove :1000FF05 apGrow :1000FF06 apCmd :1000FF07 apShell :1000FF08 apLeftBar :1000FF09 apRightBar :1000FF0A apLeftBox :1000FF0B apRightBox :1000FF0C apUpBox :1000FF0D ... osfCopy :1004FF02 osfCut :1004FF03 osfPaste:1004FF04 osfBackTab :1004FF07 osfBackSpace:1004FF08 osfClear:1004FF0B osfEscape :1004FF1B osfAddMode :1004FF31 osfPrimaryPaste :1004FF32 osfQuickPaste :1004FF33 osfPageLeft :1004FF40 osfPageUp :1004FF41 osfPageDown :1004FF42 osfPageRight:1004FF43 osfActivate :1004FF44 osfMenuBar :1004FF45 osfLeft :1004FF51 osfUp :1004FF52 osfRight:1004FF53 osfDown :1004FF54 osfPrior:1004FF55 osfNext :1004FF56 osfEndLine :1004FF57 osfBeginLine:1004FF58 ... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [OT] Multiple NICs with Monolithic kernel
David Cureton wrote: As an a-side but in a similar vein: How can one ensure that the physical interfaces get assigned to the same interface consistently after rebooting. Is the only way to explicitly specify the physical interface/physical hardware address combination as a kernel parameter. On a firewall I have i am only slightly paranoid that the machine may come up after a power failure and re-assign the physical interfaces differently. Up until now all the interfaces have had different drivers so it has not been an issue. module aliases have ensured eth1 does not come up as eth0 and so on. ideas? I think pci is sorted by the kernel probing at bootup. Google finds a few references to it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: conflict when adding eth2 (diff, gateway)
louie miranda wrote: Actual interface.. --- eth0/inet addr:203.190.72.108 Bcast:203.190.72.111 Mask:255.255.255.248 eth1/inet addr:10.0.0.1 Bcast:10.255.255.255 Mask:255.255.0.0 eth2/inet addr:203.190.77.156 Mask:255.255.255.240, Not yet added. This *might* work: Kernel IP routing table --- Destination Gateway Genmask Iface 203.190.72.104 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.248 eth0 10.0.0.00.0.0.0 255.255.0.0 eth1 0.0.0.0 203.190.72.110 0.0.0.0 eth0 203.190.77.144 203.190.77.156 255.255.255.240 eth2 > I have 3NICS, eth0 (primary gateway) and eth1 (lan network) and eth2 > (diffrent network and gateway..) > > When i add the eth2 using this command > > /sbin/ifconfig eth2 203.190.77.156 netmask 255.255.255.240 up > > Connections going to 203.190.77 block all hangs, i dont know why. > Im trying to add the route gateway to 203.190.77.158 (gateway) for > 203.190.77 block, but it does not work. Error says, Invalid eth* > But i can see eth2. > > Any ideas? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Multiple NICs with Monolithic kernel
Michael West wrote: On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 11:41:30PM +1100, Russell Shaw wrote: Michael West wrote: I am having trouble setting up a system for 3 nic cards with a monolithic kernel ( 2.4.18 ) The three cards are identical and use the eepro100 driver. For testing I have them set up on the same sub-net. All three cards are getting assigned all three ips. I am not passing any kernel parameters Here is my /etc/network/interfaces I think broadcast addresses are set automatically, and you don't need gateways if you have no external network. The three NICs use three separate cables, so these are three different nets: Seperate cables to not mean seperate nets. In my case they were all going into the same hub. I haven't used hubs before. Do all the input and output ports have the same IP address? Can you do that on a pc? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: conflict when adding eth2 (diff, gateway)
louie miranda wrote: Got it, route add -net 203.190.77.144 netmask 255.255.255.240 gw 203.190.77.158 dev eth2 It is not anymore failing, but is it possible for ex. I have a LAN thats on 10.0.0.0/24 I want them when they access 203.190.77 block it will pass on my other gw is this possible? You mean have only one gateway of 203.190.72.110? Kernel IP routing table --- Destination Gateway Genmask Iface 203.190.72.104 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.248 eth0 10.0.0.00.0.0.0 255.255.0.0 eth1 0.0.0.0 203.190.72.110 0.0.0.0 eth0 203.190.77.144 203.190.77.156 255.255.255.240 eth2 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Xterm key mapping
Gregory Seidman wrote: Russell Shaw sez: } Where can i find a list of key names for use } in vt100 translations? There's a bunch of } things in /etc/X11/xbd, but things like } "BackSpace" aren't there. /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XKeysymDB You can also use xmodmap -pke to find out which keysyms are actually bound on your keyboard. When debian boots, it executes /etc/rcS.d/S05keymap.sh which does: #!/bin/sh # # Load the keymaps *as soon as possible* # command -v loadkeys >/dev/null 2>&1 || exit 0 Where is the keymap loaded from? I'm trying to swap the ctrl and caps-lock keys: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=0138 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: conflict when adding eth2 (diff, gateway)
louie miranda wrote: nope, make it 2 gateway.. But ex if they're accessing www.yahoo.com they will pass on my other gateway eth2 >>It is not anymore failing, but is it possible for ex. >>I have a LAN thats on 10.0.0.0/24 I want them when they access 203.190.77 >>block it will pass on my other gw is this possible? I think if they access 203.190.77.144/28, then they should be going to gw 203.190.77.156 anyway. You mean have only one gateway of 203.190.72.110? Kernel IP routing table --- Destination Gateway Genmask Iface 203.190.72.104 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.248 eth0 10.0.0.00.0.0.0 255.255.0.0 eth1 0.0.0.0 203.190.72.110 0.0.0.0 eth0 203.190.77.144 203.190.77.156 255.255.255.240 eth2 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Xterm key mapping
Russell Shaw wrote: Gregory Seidman wrote: Russell Shaw sez: } Where can i find a list of key names for use } in vt100 translations? There's a bunch of } things in /etc/X11/xbd, but things like } "BackSpace" aren't there. /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XKeysymDB You can also use xmodmap -pke to find out which keysyms are actually bound on your keyboard. When debian boots, it executes /etc/rcS.d/S05keymap.sh which does: #!/bin/sh # # Load the keymaps *as soon as possible* # command -v loadkeys >/dev/null 2>&1 || exit 0 Where is the keymap loaded from? I'm trying to swap the ctrl and caps-lock keys: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=0138 I know now. Should have read the rest of the script. /etc/console. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: new kernel, new problems
Simon Tod wrote: Surely I don't need to do "make modules" and "make modules_install" when I'm not compiling a kernel, just installing a pre-built one 2.4.20-686 (and the corresponding kernel-pcmcia-modules file)!? The output of ~$ depmod ~$ modprobe -a \* gives me the lengthy output in the attached file. How does this help? Can you verify this module is actually here?: /lib/modules/2.4.20-686/kernel/drivers/acpi/acpi.o -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Using PPP for Dial out connection to ISP
Satish Iyer wrote: Hi, I am having problems configuring my ISP connection with ppp. After following the directions (from the howto's and faq's) I am still unable to get it functioning. I tried with PAP as well as CHAP. An error is returned from the [chat] section as Incorrect Input/Output parameters : I/O Error. Also, how do I get it to read my modem correctly? How do I rectify the error. Else, is there a more detailed FAQ / help for the same? apt-get install pppconfig pppconfig --dialog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: new kernel, new problems
Simon Tod wrote: So why can't modprobe find any of the modules - if indeed that's the problem - cause they're certainly where they're supposed to be. Looking through the output of ~$ depmod ~$ modprobe -a \* again suggests to me that it's some sort of dependency or configuration problem... the same comment appears again and again in the output Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters. What's that all about?! --- Russell Shaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Simon Tod wrote: Surely I don't need to do "make modules" and "make modules_install" when I'm not compiling a kernel, just installing a pre-built one 2.4.20-686 (and the corresponding kernel-pcmcia-modules file)!? The output of ~$ depmod ~$ modprobe -a \* gives me the lengthy output in the attached file. How does this help? Can you verify this module is actually here?: /lib/modules/2.4.20-686/kernel/drivers/acpi/acpi.o What does uname -a show? Don't top-post. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mouse sensitivity under X
Jack Pistachio wrote: How do I increase the sensitivity of my mouse in X windows? I just got a new mouse, but it requires a lot more travel than my old one to do what I want to do. - jackp man xset -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Using PPP for Dial out connection to ISP
John Hasler wrote: Alex writes: Look up--- pppconfig HOWTO I'm aware of no such HOWTO. http://www.google.com.au/search?q=pppconfig+howto&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&meta= -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cannot change eth media type
Sean Proctor wrote: The switch I'm using is a little broken, so I need my ethernet cards to use 10baseT rather than 100base T. when I try to switch them using ifconfig, this is what I get: # /sbin/ifconfig eth0 media 10baseT port: SIOCSIFMAP: Operation not supported Does linux not support switching or is it the drivers that need to support it? I've tried this with 3 different cards and it worked for none of them (tulip-based, 3com 9xx, and a tulip-base PC card). The modules might have options. modinfo -p -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mouse not working in GPM or X
Hugh Saunders wrote: On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 03:02:23PM -0500, Rowland Darbin wrote: I installed XFree86 -configure and it tells me that it can't find my mouse. So I installed gpm. When gpm is running and I move around the mouse, I don't get a curser, I get a white line on the top of the screen and a bunch of new lines as if I kept hitting enter. I replaced the mouse with another PS2 mouse and got the same result it is a MS IntelliMouse. I am using the kernel that came with the default 1.44 floppy install v3.0. Any suggestions, questions, comments, or rude remarks would be very helpful. 1. stuff gpm [theres the rude remark] 2. I wouldnt bother with an X configure program either, just vim /etc/X11/XFree86-4 In the configured mouse section make sure device is /dev/psaux 3. make sure you kill gpm before starting X unless you set X to read /dev/gpmdata. The advantage of XFree86 -configure is that it gives you a list of options for the video card. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: adding eth1
Nathan E Norman wrote: On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 09:06:03PM +0100, Ina&Frank wrote: Debian Folks I have a next question. ... I have no idea what /etc/ifstate is, but I'm pretty sure you don't need to edit it. /etc/network/ifstate It's just a status file. I think it's auto-generated by /etc/init.d/networking. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: debian on laptop w/ limited ram/speed/HD
Matt Price wrote: Hi everyone, A middle-aged (~4 years old -- so, not old, not new) laptop is about to become available to me, and I'd like to install debian on it. The system is an HP Omnibook A4100, P-II 300 96 meg ram 20 gig hard drive I'd like to take the machine on a month-long trip, where I'd use it mmostly for writing and checking email. My *preference* would be to run: -a minimal GUI -mutt, plus something to fetch my mail from a remote location and... -openoffice. sigh. I'm a bit concerned that openoffice can't feasibly be run in such an environment; but I'm revising a book manuscript that was originally written several years ago in Word, and I really, really, really don't want to have to edit it in emacs or something. Abiword looks good and seems compatible to certain degree (install from testing). So does anyone have suggesions about -tweaks to get debian to run optimally on a (relatively) small memory/processing speed budget; -favorite lightweight window managers; IceWM is great (for me). It has windows-like taskbar and menus, but no permanent desktop icons. The config files are easy to understand for customizing the start menu. It's fast too. -if necessary, alternatives to / modifications of OpenOffice that don't require quite so much room to work as the standard OO installation needs? Would it perhaps be useful to compile stuff from scratch, rather than use generic debian packages? Doubt it. As a last resort, you could install wine/win4lin. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: adding eth1
Svenn Are Bjerkem wrote: On Friday 28 February 2003 21:53, Nathan E Norman wrote: First, I have to mention that I hate rtl8139 cards :-) Would you care to tell why? I want to buy one... I had one that wouldn't work in win98, but works in debian:) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Unidentified subject!
debian_newbie wrote: Hello Everybody, How do I change the number of times I can boot up before fsck does a complete file system check? It does it on my Woody machine every 20 times. Also, I'm using ext3 filesystem. isn't it a journalized fs? I thought journalized filesystems didn't have to be fscked? man tune2fs -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Two ISA NICs
mike wrote: Hello I've got a Debian Woody. I've got two ISA NICs (3com EtherLink III I guess). And I've got a problem :) A fragment of dmesg: eth0 : 3c5x9 at 0x220, 10baseT port, address 00 10 5a dc ee bc, IRQ 5 eth1 : 3c5x9 at 0x300, 10baseT port, address 00 20 af 57 4d 4e, IRQ 10 Both of the cards are configured statically in /etc/network/interfaces. However only one of the works at the time, the second one behaves weird: ifup eth1 interface eth1 already configured ifdown eth1 SIOCDELRT: no such process ifup eth1 SIOCSIFFLAGS: Device or resource busy SIOCSIFFLAGS: Device or resource busy The same goes for eth0 if eth1 have been raised first. I had problems like that until i gave them both different IP addresses on different nets. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Installing second gcc
Hi, On woody, i got gcc-2.95.4 that came with the initial install. I just apt-got gcc-3.2, but gcc --version still says 2.95.4. Is there a debian way to make the system use 3.2, or do i just rename gcc-3.2 to gcc and apt-remove the old gcc? Is it safe to build kernels with 3.2? "update-alternatives --display gcc" says there's no alternatives. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Firewalling under Debian
bob parker wrote: My son's proposed network is to be this: Firewall / NAT / Gateway machine connected to cable using 1 nic. Connects to hardware router / switch using 2nd nic. He has the switch and will be buying a PIII 400 2nd hand for the fw. We both know it's overkill but spares for PIIIs are cheaper than earlier models apparently. Switch connects to 2 * dual boot Mdk/Win XP machines and 1 network printer. The fw machine is to run Debian with 2.4 kernel and iptables. My question is, what is the best way to go about setting up the Debian fw machine? I have the 7 cds for 3.0r1. Just connect the two new PCs into two NICs on the gateway pc. Verify the local connections work and that the cable connection works on the gateway pc, then install ipmasq. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installing second gcc
Colin Watson wrote: On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 11:18:45PM +1100, Russell Shaw wrote: Is there a debian way to make the system use 3.2, or do i just rename gcc-3.2 to gcc and apt-remove the old gcc? See /usr/share/doc/gcc-3.2/README.Debian.gz. "update-alternatives --display gcc" says there's no alternatives. Deliberately so, yes. Hi, I haven't configured alternatives before. I get an error: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: update-alternatives --config cc There is only 1 program which provides cc (/usr/bin/gcc). Nothing to configure. Currently, /etc/alternatives/cc -> /usr/bin/gcc -> gcc-2.95 In /usr/bin, there is gcc-2.95, gcc-3.0, and gcc-3.2. What is the proper way to make gcc-3.2 the system default? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Kernel errors
Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: I just compiled a fresh 2.2.20 kernel and rebooted into it for the first time. During the boot, the kernel went into an endless cycle of the same error message, something to the effect of "cannot modprobe binfmt###c; error=8". That's from memory, so I forget what the switches are, and 'modprobe' could have been "cannot insert module". I also can't remember the exact name, I just know it started with binfmtc. The error code is correct. Did I set a configuration setting wrong? Did you remember to do "make modules" and "make modules_install" ? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: kernel-source-2.4.18-bf2.4?
Kris Kerwin wrote: Hi all, Something tells me this is a question that has already been asked, and that I'll probably be flamed for it, so, flame away! :-) Anyways - could anyone tell me where I could find the source for kernel 2.4.18-bf2.4? I've checked in Debian's archives, as well as kernel.org and on Google. Scary thing - Google either says it doesn't exist, or (more likely) I don't know where to begin to look. maybe here: http://packages.debian.org/stable/devel/kernel-source-2.4.18.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Realplayer seg.fault
Hi all, I downloaded and ran the realplayer binary: rp8_linux20_libc6_i386_cs2.bin. It gets thru the installation and registration process, runs for a second, then seg.faults: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ./rp8_linux20_libc6_i386_cs2.bin Segmentation fault I am in the audio group. What sound infrastructure do i need installed? Are there any alternatives to play realplayer .ram streaming audio, or .asx windows media player streaming audio? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 'apt-cache search' question
Faheem Mitha wrote: On Sun, 16 Mar 2003 10:46:46 -0500, Rick Pasotto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: There was recently a question about which .deb added GIF capability to the gimp. Using 'apt-cache search gimp gif' did not return the correct answer. The man page for apt-cache says: search search performs a full text search on all available package files for the regex pattern given. It searchs the package names and the descriptions for an occurance of the string and prints out the package name and the short description. The problem seems to be that the word 'gimp' appears only in the package name and the word 'gif' appears only in the description. Shouldn't the search treat the package name and the description as a single string? Doing so would have given the correct answer for the above query. I assume you mean gimp1.2-nonfree (or gimp1.3-nonfree)? I looked at the source code for apt-cache search but it is not clear what it is doing. I agree with you that combined searching of the package name and the description is desirable. I think you should report this as a bug against apt. I did a search, and I don't see anything currently like this in the bug database. In fact, there only seem to be a few (a couple or so) bugs against apt-cache search. If you don't want to file a bug I can do so. Let me know. I don't think "gimp gif" is a regular expression: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: apt-cache search gimp.*gif grokking-the-gimp - GIMP tutorial book by Carey Bunks (HTML) [EMAIL PROTECTED]: apt-cache search gif.*gimp grokking-the-gimp - GIMP tutorial book by Carey Bunks (HTML) gimageview - Image Viewer using GTK+ "apt-cache search gimp" and "apt-cache search gif" show that both the header and body are searched. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
make menuconfig fails
Hi all, In the kernel source, when i do "make menuconfig" i get the error: rm -f include/asm ( cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm) make -C scripts/lxdialog all make[1]: Entering directory `/home/russell/Kernels/2.4.20-win4lin-ipmasq/linux-2.4.20/scripts/lxdialog' /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lncurses collect2: ld returned 1 exit status >> Unable to find the Ncurses libraries. >> >> You must have Ncurses installed in order >> to use 'make menuconfig' make[1]: *** [ncurses] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/russell/Kernels/2.4.20-win4lin-ipmasq/linux-2.4.20/scripts/lxdialog' make: *** [menuconfig] Error 2 I think i *have* got ncurses installed, because midnight commander runs, and sudo ldconfig -p: 342 libs found in cache `/etc/ld.so.cache' ... libncurses.so.5 (libc6) => /lib/libncurses.so.5 ... locate ncurses: /lib/libncurses.so.5 /lib/libncurses.so.5.2 /usr/doc/libncurses5 /usr/doc/libncurses5-dev /usr/include/ncurses.h /usr/include/ncurses_dll.h /usr/lib/libncurses++.a /usr/lib/libncurses.a /usr/lib/libncurses.so "make menuconfig" used to run ok, so it's something that happened to the system (2.4.20, gcc-2.95.4, libc6). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Selection with mouse is bodged up on one machine
Alan E. Davis wrote: I am stumped on this one: X selection (cut and pasting with the mouse) has been working, so that I can select a URL from an email, and middle click on galeon to follow the url. But on one machine, this isn't working, on any account. This is a sid machine, up to date, and updates haven't helped. I went through the XF86Config-4 file, and commented some lines in the mouse configurations, but no avail. Is this something I should have been able to find in the archives of this list? I don't know if it affects X, but have you got gpm installed? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Realplayer seg.fault
Brian Potkin wrote: On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 12:24:00PM +1100, Russell Shaw wrote: Hi all, I downloaded and ran the realplayer binary: rp8_linux20_libc6_i386_cs2.bin. It gets thru the installation and registration process, runs for a second, then seg.faults: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ./rp8_linux20_libc6_i386_cs2.bin Segmentation fault I am in the audio group. What sound infrastructure do i need installed? You might be better off getting the rpm version of the binary and installing it using the realplayer deb which you will find at http://marillat.free.fr/ This worked for me when the package was last included in Debian. Are there any alternatives to play realplayer .ram streaming audio, or .asx windows media player streaming audio? mplayer does both. You can get it via the previous URL. Thanks, that site has debs: http://marillat.free.fr/dists/testing/main/binary-i386/ I just added: deb http://marillat.free.fr/ testing main to sources.list, then did apt-get update. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: make menuconfig fails
Bob Proulx wrote: Russell Shaw wrote: In the kernel source, when i do "make menuconfig" i get the error: Common problem. But most people just have not installed it yet. You look to have a corrupted library or something. Thanks. It must have got uninstalled when i was fixing broken package problems. /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lncurses Check that you have the following on your system. apt-get install libncurses5-dev /usr/include/curses.h /usr/lib/libncurses.a /usr/lib/libncurses.so I think i *have* got ncurses installed, because midnight commander runs, and sudo ldconfig -p: Note that you do not need sudo for 'ldconfig -p'. It is a read-only command. ldconfig updates /etc/ld.so.cache, so sudo is needed: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ldconfig -p bash: ldconfig: command not found [EMAIL PROTECTED]: sudo ldconfig -p Password: 362 libs found in cache `/etc/ld.so.cache' libzvt.so.2 (libc6) => /usr/lib/libzvt.so.2 libz.so.1 (libc6) => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 ... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Why use COPS?
Conrad Newton wrote: From Deryk Barker on Tuesday, 2003-03-18 at 13:26:51 -0800: ... But I half suspect that the Epson Stylus Color 800 is less well supported because it is an older printer. The 850 and the C82 are more recent, so it is perhaps not surprising that they are less problematic. The stylus color 400 is even older, and cups works perfectly with both the stylus 400 and 440 i've got, using the included cups ppd. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Why use COPS?
Conrad Newton wrote: From Russell Shaw on Wednesday, 2003-03-19 at 14:59:01 +1100: Conrad Newton wrote: From Deryk Barker on Tuesday, 2003-03-18 at 13:26:51 -0800: ... But I half suspect that the Epson Stylus Color 800 is less well supported because it is an older printer. The 850 and the C82 are more recent, so it is perhaps not surprising that they are less problematic. The stylus color 400 is even older, and cups works perfectly with both the stylus 400 and 440 i've got, using the included cups ppd. OK, so maybe I have a different problem. The fact remains that using two different computers and two different distributions (Mandrake and Debian) I have twice experienced that CUPS melts down completely, meaning that I although I can print a test page, at some point an ordinary print job yields garbage on the page, and although I kill the job and clean out the queue in /var/spool/cups, I get mostly garbage thereafter. I did everything I could think of to clean out the system, short of completely reinstalling CUPS, but the problems remained. The only guesses that I could make---maybe both are wrong--- is that CUPS does not interact well with the old lpr-based laptop on my network, or that it is unhappy with my long parallel port cable (3m). There was an explicit mention of Epson and sensitivity to long parallel port cables in the documentation. But I do not see why I should have to live with a problem of that kind, since I never had it before. I was enormously frustrated with these problems when they first appeared, because my first impression was that CUPS was very simple to set up and operate, and functioned beautifully. I would use it if the problems had not occured. I have: /etc/cups/ppd/Stylus400.ppd and i use lp to print (not lpr). Stylus400.ppd came with cups. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: font size
Ruediger Noack wrote: Hi all I'm using woody, Gnome 1.4, Mozilla 1.2.1, ... with X resolution of 1280x1024. All seems well, but... Currently I'm using a locale with latin-1 (de_DE). But if I change it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (or [EMAIL PROTECTED]) all my fonts in X are very small (gdm greeter, Gnome panels and menus, Mozilla and so on). How can I change this? What config file have I to edit? Settings are in Edit|Preferences|Fonts. Maybe the size problem is caused by switching between scaleable and non-scaleable fonts. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Broken Zope, Python, xbase-clients, etc
Russ Cook wrote: Russell, The sources.list file was OK, but it referenced a local mirror for apt-move, which wasn't valid yet. I corrected that, and ran 'apt-get update' again, and then ran apt-get install -t testing zope, as you recommend. Attached is that script file. The errors are essentially the same. Can you or anyone else offer more suggestions? I would be very grateful. (Reading database ... 64003 files and directories currently installed.)^M Preparing to replace zope 2.3.3-1 (using .../zope_2.6.1-10_i386.deb) ...^M dpkg: warning - old pre-removal script returned error exit status 1^M dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ...^M invoke-rc.d: initscript zope, action "stop" failed.^M dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/zope_2.6.1-10_i386.deb (--unpack):^M subprocess new pre-removal script returned error exit status 1^M dpkg -r --force-remove-reinstreq --force-depends zope apt-get install zope -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How stable is SiD ?
Johan Kullstam wrote: Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 03:27:47PM +0200, Joris Lambrecht wrote: Can anyone advise on starting to use SiD as resource for my Debian Workstation ? Doesn't it have to many issues left open, broken dependencies etc. If you have to ask, sid is not stable enough for you. Perhaps his video card isn't supported with the woody shipped xfree86? That's why I went straight for sid last August. (ATI Radeon 8500 needs 4.2.1.) At work I just got some crap corporate box with i845g graphics. I need xfree86 4.3. Please advise. There's some useful posts on installing X 4.3 in the archives in the last couple of weeks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dpkg fails after removing some packages
Benedict Verheyen wrote: Hello, i reinstalled a local broken server using my own desktop backups. It's a mixed testing/unstable system. All went well but when i tried to remove some packages, something went wrong with dpkg. It seems linked to base-files. dpkg is version 1.10.10, base-files 3.0.10 This is what happens when i try apt-get install base-files: --- Reading Package Lists... Building Dependency Tree... The following extra packages will be installed: base-files The following packages will be REMOVED: aalib1 gimp1.2 libwine wine 1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 4 to remove and 109 not upgraded. 5 packages not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B/32.8kB of archives. After unpacking 48.5MB will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] (Database inlezen ... E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg exited unexpectedly --- apt-get update apt-get install -f base-files -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: woody newbie help
mnicolet wrote: Hello I am a newbie to Linux, but not to the *NIX world. I allways tried Debian distros. But I had no time to go too far. Now I installed woody ( bf2.4 ). All went ok exception of 1) My Debian box has a generic two button serial mouse. Using some utility ( don´t remember which one ), the mouse is correctly seen as attached to /dev/ttyS0. Main parameters as shown by stty seems correct, by example baud rate is 1200. /dev/mouse is a symlink to /dev/ttyS0. When I configure XFree86, xf86config correctly guess what the mouse device is. But when X and KDE are up, I have no mouse response. Of course, I need to go to console mode. Is there a console mouse test and trouble-shooting utility ? Am I doing something wrong ? Am I missing something ? XFree86 may be conflicting with gpm. gpm works the mouse in console mode. When the mouse works in the console, use gpm repeater mode to send mouse events to X. Google will find lots of answers. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mixing stable and testing
Vikki Roemer wrote: On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 01:14:02PM +1000, Russell Shaw wrote: In same directory: dpkg-source -x metalog_0.7beta-3.dsc cd metalog_0.7beta dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc -rfakeroot cd .. dpkg -i metalog_0.7beta-3_i386.deb Ok, I did all that, but when I try to run dpkg -i, I get the following output: neuromancer:~# dpkg -i metalog_0.7beta-3_i386.deb dpkg: regarding metalog_0.7beta-3_i386.deb containing metalog: syslog-ng conflicts with system-log-daemon metalog provides system-log-daemon and is to be installed. dpkg: error processing metalog_0.7beta-3_i386.deb (--install): conflicting packages - not installing metalog Errors were encountered while processing: metalog_0.7beta-3_i386.deb neuromancer:~# How can I uninstall syslog-ng and install metalog? dpkg won't let me uninstall syslog-ng before I install metalog because a plethora of packages depend on system-log-daemon. Maybe apt-get will work. cp metalog_0.7beta-3_i386.deb /var/cache/apt/archives apt-get install -t testing metalog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Why held back? Command ...
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've a bunch of machines on unstable ... one is holding back a lot of stuff on update/upgrade ... is there a command/switch that will tell me what dependency is holding things up? ... I'll just kill it off if it's non critical, as it's holding up postgres, openoffice, php and a bunch of other stuff ... You could apt-get install a single package and it should say what it depends on and why it won't install. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dpkg fails after removing some packages
Benedict Verheyen wrote: Op zo 07-09-2003, om 04:45 schreef Russell Shaw: apt-get update apt-get install -f base-files Nope, that doesn't work. Apt-get downloads the packages, then says (Reading database...) and shortly afterwards, i get the E: Subprocess /usr/bin/dpkg exited unexpectedly. I really haven't got a clue of what is wrong. I think i might be looking at a reinstall here. Does dpkg succeed with anything? You could download the dpkg .deb and install it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: where is netscape 4 in testing?
Alexander Mikhailian wrote: I recently upgraded to testing and found out that netscape 4 is missing in the list of packages. Where can I get a working version of netscape 4 for testing? Netscape is based on mozilla, so install that instead. Mozilla has options to stop pop-up ads, but netscape has not. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Broken Zope, Python, xbase-clients, etc
Russ Cook wrote: Hi Russell, Thanks for the continued help. I tried the command you suggested, and the result is in the attached script file. Still no luck. On Sun, 7 Sep 2003, Russell Shaw wrote: Russ Cook wrote: Russell, The sources.list file was OK, but it referenced a local mirror for apt-move, which wasn't valid yet. I corrected that, and ran 'apt-get update' again, and then ran apt-get install -t testing zope, as you recommend. Attached is that script file. The errors are essentially the same. Can you or anyone else offer more suggestions? I would be very grateful. (Reading database ... 64003 files and directories currently installed.)^M Preparing to replace zope 2.3.3-1 (using .../zope_2.6.1-10_i386.deb) ...^M dpkg: warning - old pre-removal script returned error exit status 1^M dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ...^M invoke-rc.d: initscript zope, action "stop" failed.^M dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/zope_2.6.1-10_i386.deb (--unpack):^M subprocess new pre-removal script returned error exit status 1^M dpkg -r --force-remove-reinstreq --force-depends zope apt-get install zope Removing zope ... dpkg: error processing zope (--remove): subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 1 /usr/lib/python1.5/py_compile.py:54: DeprecationWarning: strop functions are obsolete; use string methods codestring = string.replace(codestring,"\r\n","\n") Zope assumes a later version of python: stable: http://packages.debian.org/stable/web/zope.html [depends] python (>= 2.1.3-1) An interactive object-oriented scripting language (default version) [depends] python (<< 2.2) An interactive object-oriented scripting language (default version) testing: http://packages.debian.org/testing/web/zope.html [depends] python2.1 (>= 2.1.3-1) An interactive high-level object-oriented language (version 2.1) So, apt-get update apt-get install (this should auto-deinstall 1.5) apt-get install --reinstall [--fix-broken] zope -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Getting XFree 4.3?
Jon Haugsand wrote: * Russell Shaw dpkg --audit or dpkg --yet-to-unpack dpkg --audit The following packages are only half configured, probably due to problems configuring them the first time. The configuration should be retried using dpkg --configure or the configure menu option in dselect: console-common Basic infrastructure for text console configuration nbjhh1-laptop:/# dpkg --yet-to-unpack nbjhh1-laptop:/# Try: apt-get install -t testing --fix-broken console-common apt-get install -t testing --fix-broken console-common Reading Package Lists... Building Dependency Tree... Sorry, console-common is already the newest version. 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 80 not upgraded. 1 packages not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used. Setting up console-common (0.7.25) ... Looking for keymap to install: no dpkg: error processing console-common (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2 Errors were encountered while processing: console-common E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) (Tanks for your effort. I must be pretty hopeless..) dpkg -p console-common shows it pre-depends on debconf. dpkg -p debconf shows it depends on a bunch of other things. I'd either use dselect to install debconf from testing (with all its suggests/recommends), or: apt-get update apt-get install -t testing Depends: debconf-i18n | debconf-english Pre-Depends: perl-base (>= 5.6.1-4) Recommends: apt-utils (>= 0.5.1) Suggests: debconf-doc, debconf-utils, whiptail | dialog | gnome-utils, libterm-readline-gnu-perl, libgnome-perl, libnet-ldap-perl, perl Conflicts: cdebconf, debconf-utils (<< 1.1.0), debconf-tiny (<< 1.0), apt (<< 0.3.12.1), menu (<= 2.1.3-1), dialog (<< 0.9b-20020814-1), whiptail (<< 0.51.4-7), whiptail-utf8 (<= 0.50.17-13) apt-get install -t testing console-common -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Install a dfiferent network card on debian 3.0
momo momo wrote: Have been trying to install a different NIC, a Tulip card. Tried running /usr/sbin/base-config This does not reconfigure the NIC Would appreciate it if someone can point me in the right direction. Make sure the card driver is available as a module or is built into the kernel. If it's a module, put it in /etc/modules. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Broken Zope, Python, xbase-clients, etc
Russ Cook wrote: Hi Russell, I ran apt-get update, then apt-get install python. I did not specify a version. The system stated I am already at the latest version. I then ran apt-get install --reinstall --fix-broken zope. The log looks the same. If you still have a log of the session I sent previously, please notice that the python routines which are run seem to be from /usr/lib/python1.5, even though python2.3 is installed. Does Zope explicitly look for version 1.5? I'm really at a loss as to what is going on here. On my system: whereis python python: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/python2.2 /usr/bin/python2.1 /etc/python2.1 /etc/python2.2 /usr/lib/python2.1 /usr/lib/python2.2 /usr/include/python2.1 /usr/include/python2.2 /usr/share/man/man1/python.1.gz ls -l /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/python -> python2.2 Your system may have: /usr/bin/python -> python1.5 If so, symlink it to point to python2.2. The other way is the debian alternatives system. You can have multiple versions of a tool, such as gcc-2.95.4, gcc-3.3, etc, but one gets called by the generic name of "gcc". man update-alternatives rm /usr/bin/python rm /usr/share/man/man1/python.1.gz ln -s /etc/alternatives/pythonbin /usr/bin/python ln -s /etc/alternatives/pythonman.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/python.1.gz update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/python pythonbin /usr/bin/python2.2 20 \ --slave /usr/share/man/man1/python.1.gz pythonman.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/python2.2.1.gz Now check. ls -l /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/python -> /etc/alternatives/pythonbin ls -l /etc/alternatives/pythonbin /etc/alternatives/pythonbin -> /usr/bin/python2.2 ls -l /usr/share/man/man1/python.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/python.1.gz -> /etc/alternatives/pythonman.1.gz ls -l /etc/alternatives/pythonman.1.gz /etc/alternatives/pythonman.1.gz -> /usr/share/man/man1/python2.2.1.gz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: kdm
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi! i have a problem in woody: I installed it in a ibm thinkpad A31, but xfree (4.1.0) wasn't working because the video card (radeon M6) is not supported, so i went to xfree86.org and download 4.3.0 version, and installed it (with Xinstall.sh). All is working ok, except kdm. In /var/log/kdm.log: /usr/bin/kdm: relocation error: /usr/bin/kdm: undefined symbol: _XdmcpWrapperToOddParity I'm using kde with gdm, but i would like to use kdm. apt-get remove gdm apt-get install kdm -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mozilla and Print
Jerome Lacoste wrote: On Sun, 2003-08-31 at 20:59, Bijan Soleymani wrote: On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 05:28:22PM -0400, Rodrigo Gesswein wrote: Hello! I have installed Debian 3.0r1 and Mozilla 1.4, but when I try to print a html page, CPU goes to 100% and nothing happend, I must kill mozilla manually. LPD is installed and configured right. Any ideas ? What happens if you print to a file and then run lpr on that file? I've had the same problem in the past month. CPU goes 100% while preparing the document. I cannot print on my printer neither on file. I tried creating a new profile. It worked once but doesn't work anymore. It could then be profile related, but I doubt. I wonder if it could be font related... I have been on #mozillazine but nobody could help me. In subdirectories of ~/.mozilla, you'll find mozilla-generated files that are modified every session. Delete them. Mozilla will forget a few graphics preferences and other things you previously set. Don't delete the files that contain the main settings such as prefs.js. (make a backup of all the files if you want to hack it more) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Ctrl-Alt-Fn and Ctrl-Alt-Bksp switch to blank screens in X
Edward Ho wrote: Recently I've installed Woody on my Dell CPt laptop (Mobile P2-400). The installation was started from scratch using the bf2.4 floppy+http (not from cdrom), so I'm sure my system has the latest stable release. Since GUI is required for my engineering work, I used apt-get to install the x-window-system-core and wmaker packages after I'm satisfy with the network and apm setup in console mode. No [gkx]dm was installed, and I typed 'startx' manually after user login to go into X. The problem is that once I am in X, I cannot go back to text concole mode any more without resetting the system by Ctrl-Alt-Del. Ctrl-Alt-Bksp does kill the X server, but I am left with a blank screen without the prompt. The system is not completely hung, as Ctrl-Alt-Del can be issued to shut it down gracefully. Similarly, Ctrl-Alt-F[1-6] does not give me a virtual console as documented. I only get a blank screen. Ctrl-Alt-F7 would get me back to X, and I can continue my work there. Can someone kindly give me some clues on how to debug this? Probably a few answers in the archives of debian-laptop. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Upgrade to 'testing"
Jianan Huang wrote: Hi folks, I am now running 'stable' which I installed from a CDROM created online. Now I intend to upgrade to 'testing'. What's the easiest way to go about it? Can I upgrade online by downloading some approriate packages or do I have to create a 'testing' CDROM? http://www.debian.org/doc/user-manuals#quick-reference http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-woody.en.html#s-upgrade-system http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-package.en.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: CUPS gone mad
Christophe Courtois wrote: Hi, I'm going crazy. Thanks for any idea how to solve this mess: * Although it worked perfectly some times ago When trying to print something from Gimp or KDE, Cups creates hundred thousands of files (000) in /var/spool/cups/. These are almost all 34796 bytes long,a d and file says these are "PostScript document text conforming at level 1.0 " . I must stop cups by /etc/init.d/cupsys stop to gain control on my computer back, or it swaps until death. * I've tried to delete the printer and reinstall it. All seems perfect through KDE or the web interface. But when trying to print the test page, it fails immediately. The jobs list indicates : "Aborted". T've found this in my logs :... Check the partition with fsck. If that doesn't help, reinstall CUPS. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Broken Zope, Python, xbase-clients, etc
Russ Cook wrote: Thanks for the continued help. Attached are the results of 'whereis python' and 'ls -l /usr/bin/python'. The symlink points to python2.3. And yet, the zope pre-removal script encounters errors in python1.5, which makes me think it is explicitly seeking and calling routines from the earlier version. More thoughts? Interesting. I'd try apt-get remove python1.5 if nothing important depends on it. Before a package is removed, its preremoval script is run. After removal, the postremoval script is run. These scripts are in /var/lib/dpkg/info. You could inspect the script and, run it, but i don't know how messy or disruptive that would be. fsck the partition apt-get remove --force-remove-reinstreq --force-depends zope (IIRC that was already tried) If that doesn't work, i'd manually delete all the zope files and directories, shown with dpkg -L zope. Edit /var/lib/dpkg/status so that zope looks like an uninstalled package. apt-get install zope Make a backup of /var/lib/dpkg/status and anything else important. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Remove pakages and it dependents
Wathen, Metherion wrote: My guess is to use 'dselect' after you select the package you want to remove it shows you the dependencies, IIRC. -Original Message- From: Victory [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 8:32 AM To: Debian-User Subject: Remove pakages and it dependents How to remove package and it dependents safely. i.e. I want to remove ppp package and it dependencies. maybe: dpkg -r -B ppp -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: CUPS gone mad
Christophe Courtois wrote: Le Mercredi 10 Septembre 2003 04:24, Russell Shaw a déclamé : Check the partition with fsck. If that doesn't help, reinstall CUPS. !!! ...but it worked (dpkg -r --force-depends and apt-get). Thanks ! But my first problem is not solved (only when printing is from KDE ; lp, gimp, openoffice all work). I have to investigate there, but no time tonight, so if you have an idea... I can't help with printing from KDE. I use icewm. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: spam software
Paul Johnson wrote: Please reply on list. Please do not top post. http://learn.to/quote/ On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 10:28:49AM -0400, Vivek Kumar wrote: Thanks.. I got it. I was reading the docs and it seems there is no configuration/install help for sendmail ?? Is there any docs/help for sendmail configuration. I am sorry to bother you. I am new to Debian and linux world so pardon my questions. http://www.procmail.org/ might have information. Sendmail is a real bitch, I *strongly* recommend you use sa-exim and exim4, as this really makes life easy. Is exim4 any better than exim3? Exim3 is very vague on header re-writing rules for dialup pop3 accounts (it seems to be an afterthought-cludge). I'm trying out postfix now. Also, i've been filtering M$ spam with mailfilter by deleting anything >100kB. Unfortunately, you can't AND conditions together like procmail. Is there a thing like mailfilter that can AND conditions and delete the spam in the pop3 box before download? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cron
Hi, I set this with crontab -e : 3 * * * * /usr/bin/mailfilter ; /bin/echo "Mailfiltering" | /usr/bin/mail -s mai 1 * * * * /bin/echo "Date is `date`." | /usr/bin/mail -s cron root ### I should get mail every minute, but it doesn't work. If i try: /bin/echo "Date is `date`." | /usr/bin/mail -s cron root in the shell, then i do get mail. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Cron
Travis Crump wrote: Russell Shaw wrote: Hi, I set this with crontab -e : 3 * * * * /usr/bin/mailfilter ; /bin/echo "Mailfiltering" | /usr/bin/mail -s mai 1 * * * * /bin/echo "Date is `date`." | /usr/bin/mail -s cron root ### I should get mail every minute, but it doesn't work. If i try: /bin/echo "Date is `date`." | /usr/bin/mail -s cron root in the shell, then i do get mail. 3 * * * * would be once an *hour* at three minutes past the hour. Five stars is every minute. Aha, man 5 crontab : # every 5 minutes: */5 * * * * /bin/echo "Date is `date`." | /usr/bin/mail -s cron root ### -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Exim (was Re: spam software)
Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 03:24:55AM +1000, Russell Shaw wrote: | Paul Johnson wrote: | >On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 10:28:49AM -0400, Vivek Kumar wrote: | > | >>Thanks.. I got it. I was reading the docs and it seems there is no | >>configuration/install help for sendmail ?? Is there any docs/help for | >>sendmail configuration. I am sorry to bother you. I am new to Debian and | >>linux world so pardon my questions. | > | >http://www.procmail.org/ might have information. Sendmail is a real | >bitch, I *strongly* recommend you use sa-exim and exim4, as this | >really makes life easy. | | Is exim4 any better than exim3? A lot. | Exim3 is very vague on header re-writing rules for dialup pop3 | accounts (it seems to be an afterthought-cludge). How so? The rewriting rules are very flexible, and fully explained in the manual (/usr/share/doc/exim/spec.txt.gz). I've read thru the O'Reilly Exim3 book a few times. I wanted to rewrite all From and Reply-To headers only on mail that is sent out the smtp transport to my dialup isp. However, exim3 doesn't let you rewrite envelope addresses on per-transport rewrites. The only other option is to use the rewrite rule in the "generic" section of exim.conf. This applies the rule to every local message floating around the system, so its effects are too undefined for my liking. Does exim4 allow envelope rewriting on only an smtp outgoing mail transport? | I'm trying out postfix now. Also a good choice. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Exim (was Re: spam software)
Ross Boylan wrote: On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 03:43:13PM +1000, Russell Shaw wrote: ... all From and Reply-To headers only on mail that is sent out the smtp transport to my dialup isp. However, exim3 doesn't let you rewrite envelope addresses on per-transport rewrites. The only other option is to use the rewrite rule in the "generic" section of exim.conf. This applies the rule to every local message floating around the system, so its effects are too undefined for my liking. Does exim4 allow envelope rewriting on only an smtp outgoing mail transport? Yes. I use this feature ini an exim4 installation. But I see it described in the exim3 book on p 177: "a new generic transport option called headers_rewrite was added to Exim for release 3.20." There is more detail on P.342. I have this in exim.conf: remote_smtp: driver = smtp headers_rewrite = [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Then test with: mail -s test [EMAIL PROTECTED] Another test ^D The response shows that [EMAIL PROTECTED] hasn't been replaced with [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message 1: From MAILER-DAEMON Sat Sep 27 19:08:21 2003 Envelope-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Failed-Recipients: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Mail Delivery System <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2003 19:08:21 +1000 This message was created automatically by mail delivery software (Exim). A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SMTP error from remote mailer after MAIL FROM:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> SIZE=1364: host smtp.iprimus.com.au [203.134.152.42]: 553 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> unable to verify address -- This is a copy of the message, including all the headers. -- Return-path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Received: from russell by main.mypc.com.au with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1A3B3s-0001Or-00 for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sat, 27 Sep 2003 19:08:20 +1000 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: test Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: Russell Shaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2003 19:08:20 +1000 Another test -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Lots of scary segfaults
Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: Hi all! Last night, the cronjob on my main server reported this: ... So, there is a segfault there too, but I guess this really doesn't imply there is a trojan, but that this is a consequence of the same problem as above. Any ideas? fsck the disk. Find a specific program that segfaults. Reinstall the program. If it still segfaults, then ldd to find its libraries. Check or reinstall the libraries. Run ldconfig and check for errors. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Lots of scary segfaults
Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: Thanks for the quick response! On Saturday 27 September 2003 16:21, Russell Shaw wrote: fsck the disk. OK! However, physical access to this computer is a complex issue, and to run fsck on the / and /usr partitions (which are the most obvious places to look), I can't think of a way to unmount them without having to reboot from a rescue system. Is there a way, or is there a way to check without unmounting? Find a specific program that segfaults. Reinstall the program. If it still segfaults, then ldd to find its libraries. Check or reinstall the libraries. Run ldconfig and check for errors. OK, so most likely, it is a damaged binary? It could be, but it's usually a symptom of slight filesystem corruption that can be easily fixed with fsck. If you know a specific binary that's segfaulting, then you could copy it to your local pc and compare it against a good one. If it's not that, you can do the same with its shared libs. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OpenOffice.org Margins?
Robert Tilley wrote: I am moving some documents from M$ Word to my home computer that uses Debian Linux. The document in question was saved in the RTF format from Word and then re-opened in OOo Writer. The issue with the document is margin-spacing. I wish to have a document-wide left and right margin of one (1) inch. Selecting All (ctrl-A) and then adjusting the margins does not move the margins to a document-wide setting. I suspect this is because in Word, the document had many "Section Break, Next Page"-marks thus causing many different margin settings to exist. This should be easy to correct, now that I know the probable cause. Without starting a flame-war, I would like to know a good editor for long text-based documents. I have a set of documents that I am, as mentioned, transferring from M$ Word to an open standard (corporate bylaws, corporate minutes, etc.) that only need basic formatting (bold, underline, heading, etc.) for text files. Abiword -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: kernel painic, failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: "kmod : failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k VFS : cannot open root device "305" or 03:05 Pleace append a correct "root=" boot option kernel panic; VFS:unable to mount root fs on 03:05 Hello, this is the message when I try to boot up with my compiled 2.4.21 kernel, I did not use initrd, I tried that and does not matter. I have two other kernels 2.4.18 and 2.4.22 and they both work. I cant find out what I did wrong in the compiling prosess. 3:05 looks like hda5. Did lilo run right? Did you compile the root filesystem type into the kernel? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
