Size of i386 mirror?
Hi! Anyone out there who can tell me the size needed to create a local debian mirror (only i386 packages of woody)? I'm currently using this Skript http://www.debian.org/mirror/anonftpsync and it's still downloading packages (~100kbs). I started Saturday! How much more do I have to expect? :-) Thanks, Andy. -- Dr. Andy Spiegl, Radio Marañón, Jaén, Perú E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://spiegl.de, http://radiomaranon.org.pe PGP/GPG: see headers o _ _ _ --- __o __o /\_ _ \\o (_)\__/o (_) -o) - _`\,__`\,__(_) (_)/_\_| \ _|/' \/ /\\ (_)/ (_) (_)/ (_) (_)(_) (_)(_)' _\o__\_v Why do they lock gas station bathrooms? Are they afraid someone will clean them?
Re: proxy for apt-get? PLEASE NOTE!!!
Hi Greg,
From man page:
...
ies. The http_proxy environment variable will override all settings.
...
SO, unset http_proxy you will now need:-)
Thanks, but funny enough it ONLY works like this:
export ftp_proxy=http://peluche:9877/
but NOT like this:
ftp
{
Proxy http://peluche:9877/;;
Timeout 120;
};
It always stop at:
Need to get 675kB of archives. After unpacking 2138kB will be used.
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and doesn't get any further. Pretty strange, eh?
Andy.
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Re: proxy for apt-get? NOONE?
Pretty sad to respond to my own posting, but I'm desperate. :-)
Is there noone who can help me with that? I'm on a satellite uplink and
_have_ to use the proxy.
Thanks,
Andy.
I am trying to tune apt-get to use my proxy (squid) when downloading files
via ftp, but it doesn't connect anymore when I write this file:
/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/20proxy
with this content:
--
Acquire
{
ftp
{
Proxy ftp://proxy:3128/;;
};
};
--
Or:
Proxy http://proxy:3128/;;
All I get is this:
hamster:~#apt-get install wine
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
libcupsys2 libwine wine-utils
4 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 864 not upgraded.
Need to get 5405kB of archives. After unpacking 423kB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
0% [Logging in]
Err ftp://ftp.de.debian.org woody/main libcupsys2 1.1.12-4
Server closed the connection
0% [Logging in]
Err ftp://ftp.de.debian.org woody/main wine 0.0.20011226-1
Server closed the connection
0% [Logging in]
...
But the cache _does_ work. Proof:
hamster:~telnet proxy 3128
Trying 192.168.96.3...
Connected to proxy.int.radiomaranon.org.pe.
Escape character is '^]'.
Any idea what I'm doing wrong?
Thanks,
Andy.
--
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E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
URL: http://spiegl.de, http://radiomaranon.org.pe
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(_)/ (_) (_)/ (_) (_)(_) (_)(_)' _\o__\_v
A loving heart is the truest wisdom. -- Charles Dickens
Re: Error: Can't open display: 10.65.64.65:0.0, why?
I need to use an X application from my server, for these task i am doing the following: #my machine: xhost + DON'T use xhost +. #my machine: telnet server #server export DISPLAY=my machine:0.0 xcalc Error: Can't open display: my machine:0.0 I suspect that your Xserver is running with -nolisten tcp. why? I can do this task in a redhat box smoothly... but i want to use debian sid any ideas? Yep, debian seems to be safer than redhat. :-) Andy. -- Dr. Andy Spiegl, Radio Marañón, Jaén, Perú E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://spiegl.de, http://radiomaranon.org.pe PGP/GPG: see headers o _ _ _ --- __o __o /\_ _ \\o (_)\__/o (_) -o) - _`\,__`\,__(_) (_)/_\_| \ _|/' \/ /\\ (_)/ (_) (_)/ (_) (_)(_) (_)(_)' _\o__\_v *anuthur egsample of the publik edukashun sistem* :)
Re: proxy for apt-get? NOONE?
I don't know what may be going on with your setup but I have squid and ipchains setup to do transparent proxying and I don't have any problems. Also have export http_proxy=http://192.168.1.1:3128 in /etc/profile. Thanks a lot, guys, but I think there was a misunderstanding. I'm talking about FTP-proxying. Squid can do it, but with apt-get it doesn't work. :-( Anyone else?, Andy. -- Dr. Andy Spiegl, Radio Marañón, Jaén, Perú E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://spiegl.de, http://radiomaranon.org.pe PGP/GPG: see headers o _ _ _ --- __o __o /\_ _ \\o (_)\__/o (_) -o) - _`\,__`\,__(_) (_)/_\_| \ _|/' \/ /\\ (_)/ (_) (_)/ (_) (_)(_) (_)(_)' _\o__\_v There is no snooze button on a cat who wants breakfast. - Unknown pgpRWOv45wXHC.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Error: Can't open display: 10.65.64.65:0.0, why? SOLVED
Thanks for the answer but i solved the problem just adding the -X parameter to the ssh command and not exporting the DISPLAY variable. nice for my needs. Great...as long as you don't touch xhost :-) Andy. -- Dr. Andy Spiegl, Radio Marañón, Jaén, Perú E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://spiegl.de, http://radiomaranon.org.pe PGP/GPG: see headers o _ _ _ --- __o __o /\_ _ \\o (_)\__/o (_) -o) - _`\,__`\,__(_) (_)/_\_| \ _|/' \/ /\\ (_)/ (_) (_)/ (_) (_)(_) (_)(_)' _\o__\_v Most things worth anything are worth learning.
Re: proxy for apt-get? NOONE?
Hi Sander, But the cache _does_ work. Proof: hamster:~telnet proxy 3128 Trying 192.168.96.3... Connected to proxy.int.radiomaranon.org.pe. Escape character is '^]'. This only proofs the proxy takes connections, Correct. But I assure you that it does work, too. :-) According to the log files, to other downloads, etc. So I think it's just a matter of specifying the correct configuration line which apparently I am doing wrong, no? Thanks, Andy. -- Dr. Andy Spiegl, Radio Marañón, Jaén, Perú E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://spiegl.de, http://radiomaranon.org.pe PGP/GPG: see headers o _ _ _ --- __o __o /\_ _ \\o (_)\__/o (_) -o) - _`\,__`\,__(_) (_)/_\_| \ _|/' \/ /\\ (_)/ (_) (_)/ (_) (_)(_) (_)(_)' _\o__\_v Your supervisor is thinking about you.
Re: spamassassin/procmail generating blank message
:0f | /usr/local/bin/spamassassin Not sure, but try | /usr/local/bin/spamassassin -P Andy. -- Dr. Andy Spiegl, Radio Marañón, Jaén, Perú E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://spiegl.de, http://radiomaranon.org.pe PGP/GPG: see headers o _ _ _ --- __o __o /\_ _ \\o (_)\__/o (_) -o) - _`\,__`\,__(_) (_)/_\_| \ _|/' \/ /\\ (_)/ (_) (_)/ (_) (_)(_) (_)(_)' _\o__\_v Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage and those who manage what they do not understand.
Re: proxy for apt-get? NOONE?
Hi Greg,
Why not try a script like this:
Ui, pretty complicated, I prefer apt-get --just-print dist-ugrade :-)
export http_proxy=http://192.168.2.64:8080/
export ftp_proxy=http://192.168.2.64:8080/
But this really worked! Thanks!
So I understand even less why the same option in apt.conf.d doesn't do it:
ftp
{
Proxy http://192.168.2.64:8080/;;
Timeout 120;
};
Very strange!
Andy.
PS: using apt version 0.5.4
--
Dr. Andy Spiegl, Radio Marañón, Jaén, Perú
E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
URL: http://spiegl.de, http://radiomaranon.org.pe
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o _ _ _
--- __o __o /\_ _ \\o (_)\__/o (_) -o)
- _`\,__`\,__(_) (_)/_\_| \ _|/' \/ /\\
(_)/ (_) (_)/ (_) (_)(_) (_)(_)' _\o__\_v
Technically, Windows is an operating system, which means that it
supplies your computer with the basic commands it needs to suddenly,
with no warning whatsoever, stop operating. - Dave Barry
Re: xterm and the backspace key, the saga continues.
Hi Sander, thanks for this thread. I had the same problem! And had it before, too. It really seems to be a never ending story. :-( Only that I had my xterm set to xterm-debian as I thought it's supposed to be. When did debian change back to xterm? Thanks, Andy. -- Dr. Andy Spiegl, Radio Marañón, Jaén, Perú E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://spiegl.de, http://radiomaranon.org.pe PGP/GPG: see headers o _ _ _ --- __o __o /\_ _ \\o (_)\__/o (_) -o) - _`\,__`\,__(_) (_)/_\_| \ _|/' \/ /\\ (_)/ (_) (_)/ (_) (_)(_) (_)(_)' _\o__\_v If it ain't broke, don't fix it. - Bert Lantz
proxy for apt-get?
I am trying to tune apt-get to use my proxy (squid) when downloading files
via ftp, but it doesn't connect anymore when I write this file:
/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/20proxy
with this content:
--
Acquire
{
ftp
{
Proxy ftp://proxy:3128/;;
};
};
--
Or:
Proxy http://proxy:3128/;;
All I get is this:
hamster:~#apt-get install wine
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
libcupsys2 libwine wine-utils
4 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 864 not upgraded.
Need to get 5405kB of archives. After unpacking 423kB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
0% [Logging in]
Err ftp://ftp.de.debian.org woody/main libcupsys2 1.1.12-4
Server closed the connection
0% [Logging in]
Err ftp://ftp.de.debian.org woody/main wine 0.0.20011226-1
Server closed the connection
0% [Logging in]
...
But the cache _does_ work. Proof:
hamster:~telnet proxy 3128
Trying 192.168.96.3...
Connected to proxy.int.radiomaranon.org.pe.
Escape character is '^]'.
Any idea what I'm doing wrong?
Thanks,
Andy.
--
Dr. Andy Spiegl, Radio Marañón, Jaén, Perú
E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
URL: http://spiegl.de, http://radiomaranon.org.pe
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Children seldom misquote you. Usually they repeat word for
word what you shouldn't have said.
Re: xterm and the backspace key, the saga continues.
Hi Peter, 'xterm' and 'xterm-debian' are supposed to be the same. You can test if they actually are with: infocmp xterm xterm-debian Interesting. This test really doesn't show me any differences, but it does make a difference whether I put XTerm*TermName:xterm-debian or this XTerm*TermName:xterm in my .Xdefaults file. Strange, Andy. -- Dr. Andy Spiegl, Radio Marañón, Jaén, Perú E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://spiegl.de, http://radiomaranon.org.pe PGP/GPG: see headers o _ _ _ --- __o __o /\_ _ \\o (_)\__/o (_) -o) - _`\,__`\,__(_) (_)/_\_| \ _|/' \/ /\\ (_)/ (_) (_)/ (_) (_)(_) (_)(_)' _\o__\_v Life is tough, but I'm tougher.
Re: how to get rid of sendmail X-Authentication-Warning?
Hi Richard, Ack... don't hand edit sendmail.cf ! I did it just for this one quick test. :-) And it _still_ generates the X-Authentication-Warning. I don't get it. Add this to /etc/mail/submit.mc and rebuild submit.cf (via make, or by hand): FEATURE(`use_ct_file')dnl # trusted users Hm, I've got this line in my sendmail.mc which should do the same, no? I guess it's time that I post my sendmail.mc. Please don't flame me for it. owie:~#dpkg -s sendmail | grep -i version Version: 8.12.1-2 sendmail.mc divert(-1) # # This file is used to configure sendmail for use with Debian systems. # divert(0) define(`_USE_ETC_MAIL_')dnl include(`/usr/share/sendmail/sendmail.cf/m4/cf.m4')dnl VERSIONID(`@(#)sendmail.mc 8.9.3-21 (Debian) 2309') OSTYPE(`debian')dnl DOMAIN(`debian-mta')dnl define(`confSAFE_FILE_ENV', `/')dnl LOCAL_CONFIG define(`SMART_HOST', `SMTP:smtp.int.radiomaranon.org.pe')dnl MASQUERADE_AS(radiomaranon.org.pe)dnl FEATURE(masquerade_envelope)dnl FEATURE(always_add_domain)dnl Cwowie.int.radiomaranon.org.pe CGowie.int.radiomaranon.org.pe FEATURE(use_cw_file)dnl FEATURE(use_ct_file)dnl FEATURE(`nouucp', `reject')dnl dnl define hosts we relay for FEATURE(`access_db')dnl dnl FEATURE(`genericstable', `hash -o /etc/mail/genericstable.db')dnl dnl FEATURE(`virtusertable', `hash -o /etc/mail/virtusertable.db')dnl FEATURE(accept_unresolvable_domains) FEATURE(nocanonify)dnl define(`confSERVICE_SWITCH_FILE',/etc/mail/service.switch)dnl define(`confBIND_OPTS',`-AAONLY -DNSRCH -DEFNAMES')dnl dnl see 'man resolver' define(`confDONT_PROBE_INTERFACES', `True')dnl define(`SMTP_MAILER_FLAGS',`e')dnl define(`confTO_QUEUEWARN', `2d')dnl dnl define(`confDIAL_DELAY', `0')dnl define(`confCON_EXPENSIVE', `True')dnl define(`confPRIVACY_FLAGS', `needmailhelo,novrfy,noexpn,noreceipts,noverb')dnl MAILER_DEFINITIONS MAILER(local)dnl MAILER(smtp)dnl MAILER(procmail)dnl sendmail.mc submit.mc divert(-1)dnl #- # $Sendmail: ./submit.mc.in,v 8.12.0 2001/05/29 12:00:00 cowboy Exp $ # # Copyright (c) 2000-2001 Richard Nelson. All Rights Reserved. # # Generated automatically from submit.mc.in by configure. # # submit.mc prototype config file for building Sendmail 8.12.1 # # Note: the .in file supports 8.7.0 - 8.12.0, but the generated # file is customized to the version noted above. # # This file is used to configure Sendmail for use with Debian systems. # # If you modify this file, you will have to regenerate /etc/mail/submit.cf # by running this file through the m4 preprocessor via one of the following: # * `sendmailconfig` # * `make` # * `m4 /etc/mail/submit.mc /etc/mail/submit.cf` # The first two options are preferred as they will also update other files # that depend upon the contents of this file. # # The best documentation for this .mc file is: # /usr/share/doc/sendmail-doc/cf.README.gz # #- divert(0)dnl # # Copyright (c) 2000-2001 Richard Nelson. All Rights Reserved. # # This file is used to configure Sendmail for use with Debian systems. # define(`_USE_ETC_MAIL_')dnl include(`/usr/share/sendmail/sendmail.cf/m4/cf.m4')dnl VERSIONID(`$Id: submit.mc, v 8.12.1-2 2001-10-10 13:35:53 cowboy Exp $') OSTYPE(`debian')dnl DOMAIN(`debian-msp')dnl dnl # dnl #- dnl # Masquerading information, if needed, should go here dnl # You likely will not need this, as the MTA will do it dnl #- dnl MASQUERADE_AS()dnl dnl FEATURE(`masquerade_envelope')dnl dnl # dnl #- dnl # The real reason we're here: the FEATURE(msp) dnl #- FEATURE(`msp', `[127.0.0.1]', `MSA')dnl dnl # dnl #- dnl # Some minor cleanup from FEATURE(msp) dnl #- define(`confRUN_AS_USER', `mail')dnl define(`confTRUSTED_USER', `confRUN_AS_USER')dnl dnl # dnl #- submit.mc Thanks, Andy. -- Dr. Andy Spiegl, Radio Marañón, Jaén, Perú E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://spiegl.de, http://radiomaranon.org.pe PGP/GPG: see headers o _ _ _ --- __o __o /\_ _ \\o (_)\__/o (_) -o) - _`\,__`\,__(_) (_)/_\_| \ _|/' \/ /\\ (_)/ (_) (_)/ (_) (_)(_) (_)(_)' _\o__\_v Rich Cook
how to get rid of sendmail X-Authentication-Warning?
Hi! I've been searching the docs and the list archives, but I just can't find out why my sendmail (8.11.4+8.12.0.Beta12-4 and 8.12.1-2) still produce the X-Authentication-Warning: hamster.int.radiomaranon.org.pe: spiegl set sender to [EMAIL PROTECTED] using -f /etc/mail/sendmail.mc contains: define(`confPRIVACY_FLAGS', `needmailhelo,novrfy,noexpn,noreceipts,noverb')dnl Somewhere I read that authwarnings is on per default, but it didn't say how to turn it off. /etc/mail/trusted-users contains: mail root spiegl Please help. I'd appreciate any hint or pointer. Andy. -- Dr. Andy Spiegl, Radio Marañón, Jaén, Perú E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://spiegl.de, http://radiomaranon.org.pe PGP/GPG: see headers o _ _ _ --- __o __o /\_ _ \\o (_)\__/o (_) -o) - _`\,__`\,__(_) (_)/_\_| \ _|/' \/ /\\ (_)/ (_) (_)/ (_) (_)(_) (_)(_)' _\o__\_v New Windows 2000 message: This will end your Windows session. Do you want to play another game?
Re: how to get rid of sendmail X-Authentication-Warning?
the fastest way would be to edit sendmail.cf and change O PrivacyOptions=authwarnings to O PrivacyOptions= or maybe #O PrivacyOptions=authwarnings my sendmail configs use these privacy options: O PrivacyOptions=novrfy,noexpn And mine - as I already wrote :-) # privacy flags O PrivacyOptions=needmailhelo,novrfy,noexpn,noreceipts,noverb But it still generates these lines. Andy. -- Dr. Andy Spiegl, Radio Marañón, Jaén, Perú E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://spiegl.de, http://radiomaranon.org.pe PGP/GPG: see headers o _ _ _ --- __o __o /\_ _ \\o (_)\__/o (_) -o) - _`\,__`\,__(_) (_)/_\_| \ _|/' \/ /\\ (_)/ (_) (_)/ (_) (_)(_) (_)(_)' _\o__\_v Q: How many McKinsey consultants does it take to change a light bulb? A: How many can you afford?
Re: how to get rid of sendmail X-Authentication-Warning?
O PrivacyOptions=needmailhelo,novrfy,noexpn,noreceipts,noverb But it still generates these lines. Are you sure that sendmail is reading /etc/mail/trusted-users.db? Did you rebuild trusted-users.db after edited /etc/mail/trusted-users? Hm, actually I thought that it's trusted-users is not a database but just a plain text file. But just to be sure, I edited my sendmail.cf: Ft/etc/mail/trusted-users %[^\#] Troot Tdaemon Tspiegl Tmail And it _still_ generates the X-Authentication-Warning. I don't get it. Andy. -- Dr. Andy Spiegl, Radio Marañón, Jaén, Perú E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://spiegl.de, http://radiomaranon.org.pe PGP/GPG: see headers o _ _ _ --- __o __o /\_ _ \\o (_)\__/o (_) -o) - _`\,__`\,__(_) (_)/_\_| \ _|/' \/ /\\ (_)/ (_) (_)/ (_) (_)(_) (_)(_)' _\o__\_v War doesn't decide who is right, only who is left.
Re: sendmail: extra from line
Andy Nothing. It doesn't exist. I do have a .procmailrc, but Andy even when I move that out of the way this second from line Andy appears. What else could be adding it? Where is procmail called (I assume it is)? Is formail used? /etc/mail/sendmail.mc: MAILER(procmail)dnl But a global /etc/procmailrc doesn't exist either. Beware, you computer is haunted ;-). (c: Andy. -- Dr. Andy Spiegl, Radio Marañón, Jaén, Perú E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://spiegl.de, http://radiomaranon.org.pe PGP/GPG: see headers o _ _ _ - __o __o /\_ _ \\o (_)\__/o (_) --- _`\,__`\,__(_) (_)/_\_| \ _|/' \/ -- (_)/ (_) (_)/ (_) (_)(_) (_)(_)' _\o_ ~~~ Anything is possible. Some things just take a little longer.
Re: sendmail: extra from line
Brian May wrote: The first one is used for mbox format to separate messages (as the single file can contain any number of messages). Of course. But the second (quoted) one which probably was there before certainly isn't normal and shouldn't be there. I compared with other machines (running SuSE, Solaris, DEC Unix) and nowhere does sendmail produce this extra line. It also confuses other software. For example try to bounce one of these mails with mutt: the mail looses all its header information. Actually the header lines now appear in the body of the message. Similar things happen with other programs. Thanks, Andy. -- Dr. Andy Spiegl, Radio Marañón, Jaén, Perú E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://spiegl.de, http://radiomaranon.org.pe PGP/GPG: see headers o _ _ _ - __o __o /\_ _ \\o (_)\__/o (_) --- _`\,__`\,__(_) (_)/_\_| \ _|/' \/ -- (_)/ (_) (_)/ (_) (_)(_) (_)(_)' _\o_ ~~~
Re: sendmail: extra from line
Oh, of course, I missed this. It looks like two programs may be competing to add the From header. What do you have in your .forward file? Nothing. It doesn't exist. I do have a .procmailrc, but even when I move that out of the way this second from line appears. What else could be adding it? I also tried to send me a mail doing telnet localhost 25. But still this second from-line appears. Help I have a ghost! :-) Thanks, Andy. -- Dr. Andy Spiegl, Radio Marañón, Jaén, Perú E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://spiegl.de, http://radiomaranon.org.pe PGP/GPG: see headers o _ _ _ - __o __o /\_ _ \\o (_)\__/o (_) --- _`\,__`\,__(_) (_)/_\_| \ _|/' \/ -- (_)/ (_) (_)/ (_) (_)(_) (_)(_)' _\o_ ~~~ Q: What's tiny and yellow and very, very, dangerous? A: A canary with the super-user password.
how to teach sendmail to delete a specific header line?
Dear Gurus! I am clueless as to how I can tell sendmail that it deletes the X-Mailer: header line in all outgoing mails. I am sure this can be done, but after reading quite a bit of documentation I still don't know how to do it. Would some kind soul please give me a hint? Thanks so much in advance! Andy. -- Dr. Andy Spiegl, Radio Marañón, Jaén, Perú E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://spiegl.de, http://radiomaranon.org.pe PGP/GPG: see headers o _ _ _ - __o __o /\_ _ \\o (_)\__/o (_) --- _`\,__`\,__(_) (_)/_\_| \ _|/' \/ -- (_)/ (_) (_)/ (_) (_)(_) (_)(_)' _\o_ ~~~ A person's true character is revealed by what he does when no one is watching.
sendmail: extra from line
Dear Debian fans, there is something which has been bothering me about sendmail for a long time. In every mail that I write on this machine there is an extra From header line. And because there can't be two one is quoted with . Therefore a simple echo hello | mail spiegl reaches my mailbox like this: = From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Mar 13 22:43:42 2001 From spiegl Tue Mar 13 22:43:42 2001 Return-Path: spiegl Received: (from [EMAIL PROTECTED]) by hamster.int.radiomaranon.org.pe (8.9.3/8.9.3/Debian 8.9.3-21) id WAA10024 for andy; Tue, 13 Mar 2001 22:43:42 -0500 Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 22:43:42 -0500 From: Andy Spiegl [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] hi = Does anyone understand this? This also confuses other software! I am using sendmail 8.9.3-23. My sendmail.mc looks like this: == divert(-1) # # This file is used to configure sendmail for use with Debian systems. # divert(0) VERSIONID(`@(#)sendmail.mc 8.9.3-23 (Debian) 2309') OSTYPE(debian)dnl LOCAL_CONFIG FEATURE(nocanonify)dnl define(`SMART_HOST', `SMTP:pop.radiomaranon.org.pe')dnl FEATURE(masquerade_envelope)dnl FEATURE(always_add_domain)dnl Cwradiomaranon.org.pe FEATURE(use_cw_file)dnl FEATURE(use_ct_file)dnl FEATURE(nouucp)dnl MAILER_DEFINITIONS MAILER(local)dnl define(`SMTP_MAILER_FLAGS',`e')dnl MAILER(smtp)dnl LOCAL_CONFIG dnl FEATURE(local_procmail)dnl MAILER(procmail)dnl MASQUERADE_AS(radiomaranon.org.pe)dnl dnl ## Custom configurations below (will be preserved) define(`confTO_QUEUEWARN', `1d')dnl dnl define(`confDIAL_DELAY', `0')dnl define(`confCON_EXPENSIVE', `True')dnl define(`confSERVICE_SWITCH_FILE',/etc/mail/service.switch)dnl define(`confBIND_OPTS',`-AAONLY -DNSRCH -DEFNAMES')dnl dnl see 'man resolver' define(`confPRIVACY_FLAGS', `authwarnings,novrfy,noexpn')dnl dnl delivery mode (queue or better defer) dnl define(`confDELIVERY_MODE', `q')dnl dnl define(`confDELIVERY_MODE', `d')dnl dnl define hosts we relay for FEATURE(`access_db', `hash -o /etc/mail/access.db')dnl FEATURE(`genericstable', `hash -o /etc/mail/genericstable.db')dnl FEATURE(`virtusertable', `hash -o /etc/mail/virtusertable.db')dnl FEATURE(accept_unresolvable_domains) == Thanks so much for any hint! Andy. -- Dr. Andy Spiegl, Radio Marañón, Jaén, Perú E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://spiegl.de, http://radiomaranon.org.pe PGP/GPG: see headers o _ _ _ - __o __o /\_ _ \\o (_)\__/o (_) --- _`\,__`\,__(_) (_)/_\_| \ _|/' \/ -- (_)/ (_) (_)/ (_) (_)(_) (_)(_)' _\o_ ~~~
Re: Virus scanner
Hi Michael, Is there a virus scanner available for linux that I can use to scan mails, downloads etc. before they even reach M$ systems? I am using AntiVir (www.antivir.de) which is free for private use, but there are Linux versions of McAfee, Sophos, KasperskyLab and more. A good overview (only in German) is here: http://www.ce.is.fh-furtwangen.de/~link/security/av-linux.php3 I also use AMaVIS to scan my incoming mails: http://www.aachalon.de/AMaVIS/ Also take a look at: http://www.ce.is.fh-furtwangen.de/~link/security/av-linux-projekte.php3#english Good luck, Andy. -- E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://andy.spiegl.de PGP/GPG: see headers o _ _ _ - __o __o /\_ _ \\o (_)\__/o (_) --- _`\,__`\,__(_) (_)/_\_| \ _|/' \/ -- (_)/ (_) (_)/ (_) (_)(_) (_)(_)' _\o_ ~~~ Windoze: For the one it is an operating system, for the others it is the longest virus of the world.
Re: Xterm and function keys
Riku Saikkonen wrote: Andy Spiegl [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In an xterm the function keys produce the following: F1 - ^[OP F2 - ^[OQ F3 - ^[OR F4 - ^[OS F5 - ^[[15~ F6 - ^[[16~ Oops, that was a type. Correct is: F6 - ^[[17~ But the ^[OP etc. are normal for xterms. Hm, okay I start to understand... All of the xterm, xterm-debian and xterm-xfree86 terminal types are specified so that F1=^[OP. (You can see this by executing infocmp xterm-debian and looking for kf1=\EOP in the output (^[ = \E = the ESC character). Interesting! So, basically, please don't care about it. :) I really would like to, but I can't. Besides the fact that my coworkers who are running SuSE-Linux are always trying to find weaknesses of Debian (and vice versa :-), I am running into problems when remote administring non-Debian machines: I have to set the TERM-type to from xterm-debian to xterm, but then curses based tools (like SuSE's YaST for example) don't recognize the function keys. please look at /usr/doc/xterm/README.Debian first, though the problems it talks about concern mostly the Backspace and Delete keys). I know the this README, but as you say, it only talks about Backspace and Delete. I just tried the terminfo approach and that seems to work! So I guess I solved my problem, but I still don't really like it. However I now understand that it's not a Debian problem, but a general X problem. Things should be standardized better. :-( Thanks for your help, Andy. -- E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://andy.spiegl.de PGP/GPG: see headers o _ _ _ - __o __o /\_ _ \\o (_)\__/o (_) --- _`\,__`\,__(_) (_)/_\_| \ _|/' \/ -- (_)/ (_) (_)/ (_) (_)(_) (_)(_)' _\o_ ~~~ A feature is a bug with seniority.
Re: Xterm and function keys
Hi again! Sorry to bother you again with this, but unfortunately noone replied. Must have chosen a bad time for my posting. :-) I discovered a strange thing: In an xterm the function keys produce the following: F1 - ^[OP F2 - ^[OQ F3 - ^[OR F4 - ^[OS F5 - ^[[15~ F6 - ^[[16~ ... On a different system (I tried SuSE) they produce: F1 - ^[[11~ F2 - ^[[12~ F3 - ^[[13~ F4 - ^[[14~ F5 - ^[[15~ F6 - ^[[16~ ... which seems more correct. I also get this behaviour on my Debian (potato) box when I use rxvt or konsole. I don't think I misconfigured anything, because I confirmed this behavior with a newly added user, too. Do you have any idea where the problem is? Thanks a lot, Andy. -- E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://andy.spiegl.de PGP/GPG: see headers o _ _ _ - __o __o /\_ _ \\o (_)\__/o (_) --- _`\,__`\,__(_) (_)/_\_| \ _|/' \/ -- (_)/ (_) (_)/ (_) (_)(_) (_)(_)' _\o_ ~~~ New Win98 error message: Runtime Error 6D at 417A:32CF: Incompetent User.
Xterm and function keys
Hi! I discovered a strange thing: In an xterm the function keys produce the following: F1 - ^[OP F2 - ^[OQ F3 - ^[OR F4 - ^[OS F5 - ^[[15~ F6 - ^[[16~ ... On a different system (I tried SuSE) they produce: F1 - ^[[11~ F2 - ^[[12~ F3 - ^[[13~ F4 - ^[[14~ F5 - ^[[15~ F6 - ^[[16~ ... which seems more correct. I also get this behaviour on my Debian (potato) box when I use rxvt or konsole. I don't think I misconfigured anything, because I confirmed this behavior with a fresh added user, too. Do you have any idea where the problem is? Thanks a lot, Andy. -- E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://andy.spiegl.de PGP/GPG: see headers o _ _ _ - __o __o /\_ _ \\o (_)\__/o (_) --- _`\,__`\,__(_) (_)/_\_| \ _|/' \/ -- (_)/ (_) (_)/ (_) (_)(_) (_)(_)' _\o_ ~~~ Some people say that cats are sneaky, evil, and cruel. True, and they have many other fine qualities as well. --Missy Dizick
Re: Is bash as feature-rich as tcsh?
Hi Joey, Only if people read only the subject of the message, as you appear to have done. He was asking a very specific question, which has only one answer. It's not a religious thing. Thanks for your help! :-) I really did not intend to start a flame war, but I admit, that the subject was not chosen wisely. Sorry, guys! And yes Andy, bash cannot do that, though zsh can. Thanks for all the pointers to zsh! I will definitely take a look at it. Actually, I have already started... :-) Thanks, Andy. -- E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://andy.spiegl.de Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for my PGP key o _ _ _ - __o __o /\_ _ \\o (_)\__/o (_) --- _`\,__`\,__(_) (_)/_\_| \ _|/' \/ -- (_)/ (_) (_)/ (_) (_)(_) (_)(_)' _\o_ ~~~
Re: Searching in the mailing list archive
Actually the top button doesn't do anything at all. It's been broken for quite some time now. Hm, but I was talking about the search at the bottom. It produces wrong links for me. Her the example again: this: http://cgi.debian.org/cgi-bin/debian-user-9907/msg00185.html ~~~~~~ instead of this: http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-user-9907/msg00185.html Then again, it is very possible, that the link is correct (too), but the cgi is wrong. Don't you guys have that problem, too? Bye, Andy. -- E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://andy.spiegl.de Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for my PGP key o _ _ _ - __o __o /\_ _ \\o (_)\__/o (_) --- _`\,__`\,__(_) (_)/_\_| \ _|/' \/ -- (_)/ (_) (_)/ (_) (_)(_) (_)(_)' _\o_ ~~~
Re: Searching in the mailing list archive
Hi John, I did a search from the bottom search window for 'pppconfig' and it produced the correct link shown above - no 'cgi' in any of the found items. That's very strange. I just did the same and I get a page with two broken images at the top: http://cgi.debian.org/Pics/logo-50.jpg http://cgi.debian.org/Pics/debian.jpg and 9 found items: http://cgi.debian.org/cgi-bin/debian-user-9907/msg00046.html http://cgi.debian.org/cgi-bin/debian-user-9907/msg00055.html http://cgi.debian.org/cgi-bin/debian-user-9907/msg00143.html http://cgi.debian.org/cgi-bin/debian-user-9907/msg00185.html http://cgi.debian.org/cgi-bin/debian-user-9907/msg00321.html http://cgi.debian.org/cgi-bin/debian-user-9907/msg00326.html http://cgi.debian.org/cgi-bin/debian-user-9907/msg00381.html http://cgi.debian.org/cgi-bin/debian-user-9907/msg00472.html http://cgi.debian.org/cgi-bin/debian-user-9907/msg00483.html Why do you get the correct links??? Bye, Andy. -- E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://andy.spiegl.de Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for my PGP key o _ _ _ - __o __o /\_ _ \\o (_)\__/o (_) --- _`\,__`\,__(_) (_)/_\_| \ _|/' \/ -- (_)/ (_) (_)/ (_) (_)(_) (_)(_)' _\o_ ~~~
Re: Searching in the mailing list archive
Is there a way to search in the archive of debian-user ? http://www.debian.org/List-Archives, it is linked off the main page. but don't click on the Search button at the top of the page. Scroll all the way down to the bottom of the page to find the Glimpse search engine. The top button searches the web site; the Glimpse engine searches the archives. Thanks a lot for that hint! The connect was so slow lately that I never waited till the page was downloaded completely. Maybe a hint at the top of the page would be useful... :-) But now I've got a new problem. The search gives me a nice list of articles with links like this: http://cgi.debian.org/cgi-bin/debian-user-9907/msg00185.html However the correct link would be: http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-user-9907/msg00185.html Thanks again, Andy. -- Dr.Andy Spiegl, BR-online, Bayerischer Rundfunk Muenchen E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://andy.spiegl.de Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for my PGP key o _ _ _ - __o __o /\_ _ \\o (_)\__/o (_) --- _`\,__`\,__(_) (_)/_\_| \ _|/' \/ -- (_)/ (_) (_)/ (_) (_)(_) (_)(_)' _\o_ ~~~ GILLETTE'S PRINCIPLE: If you want to make people angry, lie. If you want to make them absolutely livid with rage, tell the truth.
Is bash as feature-rich as tcsh?
As a long time tcsh-user I am forced to use bash on some machines.
I read the complete man page to find out how to set things up
the way I am used to them from my tcsh setup.
The part I miss most is the context-sensitive TAB-completion, like
complete gvn/*/f:*.{ps,eps,pdf,PS,EPS,PDF,ps.gz,eps.gz,\
pdf.gz,PS.gz,EPS.gz,PDF.gz}/
complete mutt c/-/(a b c f F H i m n p R s v x y z Z h)/ c/*@/\$hosts/ \
[EMAIL PROTECTED]@F:$HOME/Mail/@ [EMAIL PROTECTED]@F:$HOME/Mail/@ \
[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED]@ n/-s/x:'subject'/ \
n/-a/f/ n/-f/f/ n/-F/f/ n/-H/f/ n/-i/f/ \
[EMAIL PROTECTED]@'`cat
$HOME/.local.users;$HOME/bin/list.mail.aliases`'@
complete rshp/1/\$hosts/ c/-/(l n)/ n/-l/u/ N/-l/c/ n/-/c/ p/2/c/ p/*/f/
...and so on.
Am I missing something or is bash really not capable of doing that?
Thanks a lot in advance,
Andy.
PS: We don't have to argue which shell is better for programming.
I know it's not tcsh. :-)
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TERM=xterm-debian and other distributions
Hi! Everytime I log into a non Debian system I have to set the TERM variable to xterm or vt100 manually, because the system doesn't know xterm-debian of course I don't think this was intended, so I guess I must be missing something. Or how do you guys deal with that? Thanks, Andy. -- E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://andy.spiegl.de Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for my PGP key o _ _ _ - __o __o /\_ _ \\o (_)\__/o (_) --- _`\,__`\,__(_) (_)/_\_| \ _|/' \/ -- (_)/ (_) (_)/ (_) (_)(_) (_)(_)' _\o_ ~~~ When a train station is where the train stops, what is a workstation?
Searching in the mailing list archive
Hi! Is there a way to search in the archive of debian-user ? Thanks, Andy. -- E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://andy.spiegl.de Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for my PGP key o _ _ _ - __o __o /\_ _ \\o (_)\__/o (_) --- _`\,__`\,__(_) (_)/_\_| \ _|/' \/ -- (_)/ (_) (_)/ (_) (_)(_) (_)(_)' _\o_ ~~~
Re: Esound and vmware
Hi! thanks for your replies! It works now. I've used ESD with VMWare fine. What are the permissions on /dev/dsp? What user is running VMWare? What user started esd? Perm: 666 same user for all But here was my mistake: if you start esound with # esd -terminate -nobeeps -as 2 it should let other program access to /dev/dsp I was running esound 2.6. I upgraded to 2.10 and now it works! Thanks again, Andy. -- E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://andy.spiegl.de Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for my PGP key o _ _ _ - __o __o /\_ _ \\o (_)\__/o (_) --- _`\,__`\,__(_) (_)/_\_| \ _|/' \/ -- (_)/ (_) (_)/ (_) (_)(_) (_)(_)' _\o_ ~~~ Many people easily confuse innovation with the latest influenza epidemia from Redmond.
Re: Does smail have an expensive option like sendmail?
According to John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Andy writes: Is there an equivalent option for smail? Put 'queue_only' in /etc/smail/config . I did that right away and it works great. Just one thing is too bad now: local mails aren't delivered anymore either. Is there a way to tell smail to deliver local mails right away, but queue everything that requires dialing out, i.e. has a destination outside the local network/computer? General question: How about switching to exim? I found out that debian now recommends exim as MTA. Is it worth the switch? Thanks a lot! Andy. -- E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.spiegl.de Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for my PGP key o _ _ _ - __o __o /\_ _ \\o (_)\__/o (_) --- _`\,__`\,__(_) (_)/_\_| \ _|/' \/ -- (_)/ (_) (_)/ (_) (_)(_) (_)(_)' _\o_ ~~~
Esound and vmware
Hi! I tried to start vmware with the esddsp wrapper, but vmware still complains that it can't access /dev/dsp. Did anyone find a solution to this? Thanks and have a nice weekend! Andy. -- E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://andy.spiegl.de Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for my PGP key o _ _ _ - __o __o /\_ _ \\o (_)\__/o (_) --- _`\,__`\,__(_) (_)/_\_| \ _|/' \/ -- (_)/ (_) (_)/ (_) (_)(_) (_)(_)' _\o_ ~~~ A few weeks of developing and testing can save a whole afternoon in the library
Sound error: Couldn't allocate DMA buffer
Hi! After my system (kernel 2.2.5) is running for more than a few days, I can't play sounds anymore and get these syslog messages: Aug 4 12:37:40 eule kernel: Sound error: Couldn't allocate DMA buffer Unloading the sound kernel modules doesn't help either. I have no idea what is causing this. Anyone seen this before? Some more infos on my system: cat /proc/dma 1: SoundBlaster8 2: floppy 4: cascade 5: SoundBlaster16 cat /dev/sndstat OSS/Free:3.8s2++-971130 Load type: Driver loaded as a module Kernel: Linux eule 2.2.5 #11 Don Jul 1 15:21:11 CEST 1999 i686 Config options: 0 Installed drivers: Card config: Audio devices: 0: Sound Blaster 16 (4.16) (DUPLEX) Synth devices: 0: Yamaha OPL3 1: AWE32-0.4.3 (RAM512k) Midi devices: 0: Sound Blaster 16 1: AWE Midi Emu Timers: 0: System clock Mixers: 0: Sound Blaster Thanks a lot for any hint! Andy. -- E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://andy.spiegl.de Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for my PGP key o _ _ _ - __o __o /\_ _ \\o (_)\__/o (_) --- _`\,__`\,__(_) (_)/_\_| \ _|/' \/ -- (_)/ (_) (_)/ (_) (_)(_) (_)(_)' _\o_ ~~~ Bad or missing mouse driver. Spank the cat? (Y/N)
Re: Sound error: Couldn't allocate DMA buffer
Hi David, thanks a lot for your fast reply! Unloading the sound kernel modules doesn't help either. No, that should make things worse. Really? Interesting. Look at the May 1999 archives for this list, with the subject Can't allocate DMA buffer (as opposed to Couldn't!) for a clearer explanation than I could give. Hm, now I check the whole archive of 1999 and can't find it. Could it have been on a different list maybe? Thanks, Andy. -- E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://andy.spiegl.de Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for my PGP key o _ _ _ - __o __o /\_ _ \\o (_)\__/o (_) --- _`\,__`\,__(_) (_)/_\_| \ _|/' \/ -- (_)/ (_) (_)/ (_) (_)(_) (_)(_)' _\o_ ~~~ Why isn't there mouse-flavored cat food?
Re: Streaming Media
Hi, I'm just enquiring about whether there is any streaming video and audio software for Debian, or Linux in general. Realaudio 5.0 works pretty well. There is wrapper/installer for debian. There is even an alpha version of the G2 player. You can download it here: http://www.real.com/products/player/linux.html Bye, Andy. -- E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://andy.spiegl.de Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for my PGP key o _ _ _ - __o __o /\_ _ \\o (_)\__/o (_) --- _`\,__`\,__(_) (_)/_\_| \ _|/' \/ -- (_)/ (_) (_)/ (_) (_)(_) (_)(_)' _\o_ ~~~ Who is General Failure and why is he reading drive C?
Does smail have an expensive option like sendmail?
Hi! A while ago I switched from sendmail to the Debian-defaulted smail. I am pretty happy with it except for one thing: As soon as any user sends a mail my system dials my ISP. With sendmail I could specify an expensive option so that all mails were queued and only sent out with the next runq or sendmail -q. Is there an equivalent option for smail? I can't find it anywhere? Thanks a lot in advance! Andy. -- E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://andy.spiegl.de Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for my PGP key o _ _ _ - __o __o /\_ _ \\o (_)\__/o (_) --- _`\,__`\,__(_) (_)/_\_| \ _|/' \/ -- (_)/ (_) (_)/ (_) (_)(_) (_)(_)' _\o_ ~~~
Re: Intellimouse
Hi Andreas, sorry for posting to this list, but I have to know quickly, if it is possible to use the wheel of the MS-Intellimouse as third button to get the selections of gpm and X. Yes, sure is! GPM: If it's a PS/2 mouse, choose ps/2, otherwise ms3 I think. X11: * PS/2 version: Section Pointer ProtocolIMPS/2 Device /dev/psaux * Serial version: Section Pointer ProtocolIntelliMouse Device /dev/ttyS0 Bye, Andy. -- E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://andy.spiegl.de Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for my PGP key o _ _ _ - __o __o /\_ _ \\o (_)\__/o (_) --- _`\,__`\,__(_) (_)/_\_| \ _|/' \/ -- (_)/ (_) (_)/ (_) (_)(_) (_)(_)' _\o_ ~~~ I said no to drugs, but they just wouldn't listen!
Problem with IntelliMouse
Hi! I've got a small problem with my MS IntelliMouse (no, I didn't buy it - I won it :-) When I use the PS/2 - Serial adapter and put this in my XF86config: Protocol IntelliMouse Device/dev/ttyS0 everything works as expected. (Sidenote: if I add Buttons 5 ZAxisMapping 4 5 I can even use the wheel!) But I would like to use it as PS/2 mouse to free the serial port. So I put this in my XF86config: Protocol PS/2 Device/dev/psaux and I only get _two_ buttons. *sniff* I really would be happy with 3 buttons, but 2 is just not enough for X. Has anyone seen this problem before? Thanks a lot in advance for any pointer! Andy. -- E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://andy.spiegl.de Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for my PGP key o _ _ _ - __o __o /\_ _ \\o (_)\__/o (_) --- _`\,__`\,__(_) (_)/_\_| \ _|/' \/ -- (_)/ (_) (_)/ (_) (_)(_) (_)(_)' _\o_ ~~~
Re: How to divide a .ps file in another .ps file with two pages by pages
Hi Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira, e.g. with psnup. Try this: psnup -pa4 -n 2 file.ps file2.ps Bye, Andy. -- E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://andy.spiegl.de Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for my PGP key o _ _ _ - __o __o /\_ _ \\o (_)\__/o (_) --- _`\,__`\,__(_) (_)/_\_| \ _|/' \/ -- (_)/ (_) (_)/ (_) (_)(_) (_)(_)' _\o_ ~~~
Re: Problems with new hardware
I am looking for pointers as to log files that might indicate the problem. It is possible that I have not set everything up exactly right for the motherboard and CPU chip. I am using an IWILL XA100P motherboard with an AMD K6-3 400 CPU, with 256MB RAM. I've got a similar machine. (Epox MB instead of IWILL) And I can't keep my box alove longer than 2-3 days. It just stops completely. Not even the magic SysRQ keys work. :-( I tried to analyze the hardware parts that might be causing this, but so far I had no luck. This morning I took out the TV-card (Hauppauge) to see whether that's the bad guy, but who knows... Nice setup! What video card are you using? I've got a Diamond Viper 550 AGP. What Xserver? SVGA In the mean time, you might want to make sure your video card isn't sharing it's irq with any other devices. Hm, why is that?!? I've got all my PCI/ISA slots filled up, so that some PCI cards have to share IRQs. And my AGP card is always sharing it's interrupt with the first PCI slot, which holds the network card. I would be very surprised to hear that Linux doesn't like shared IRQs?!? Thanks a lot, Andy. -- E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://andy.spiegl.de Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for my PGP key o _ _ _ - __o __o /\_ _ \\o (_)\__/o (_) --- _`\,__`\,__(_) (_)/_\_| \ _|/' \/ -- (_)/ (_) (_)/ (_) (_)(_) (_)(_)' _\o_ ~~~ No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut. -- Channing Pollock
syslogd: CDROM not ready... lines
Hi! Can anyone please help me to configure my syslog.conf so that I don't get to see these lines in my xconsole all the time: (when there is no CD in the drive) Jun 30 17:18:40 eule kernel: sr0: CDROM not ready. Make sure there is a disc in the drive. Jun 30 17:19:11 eule last message repeated 27 times Jun 30 17:19:15 eule last message repeated 3 times Of course I would like to see the other kernel message. Here is the relevant (I hope!) line of /etc/syslog.conf: daemon.*;*.=debug;*.=info;*.=notice;*.=warn;mail.none,mark.none;cron.none;local2.*,kern.* |/dev/xconsole Thanks so much! Andy. -- E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://andy.spiegl.de Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for my PGP key o _ _ _ - __o __o /\_ _ \\o (_)\__/o (_) --- _`\,__`\,__(_) (_)/_\_| \ _|/' \/ -- (_)/ (_) (_)/ (_) (_)(_) (_)(_)' _\o_ ~~~
Re: LILO: Multiple drives (SCSI and IDE) LINUX and Windows
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you write: Now I had already though of that but the way the bios implementations are setup if you do tell it to boot off the SCSI as the boot device than you end up not being abe to boot of of the floppy disks.. The reason for this concern was I told my father that things would not be any different for him but to just have to type linux (that part I have yet to get to) to get into linux. Other than that he just hast to let lilo start windows. And if he decides to boot of a floppy (which he does regularly) he can just do that. Thanks. again Have you tried xfdisk? (http://home.pages.de/~xfdisk) It's free and very easy to use, but yet powerful and a lot nicer than the lilo boot prompt. My dad likes it! And it offers the possibility to boot off a floppy! Bye, Andy. -- E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://andy.spiegl.de Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for my PGP key o _ _ _ - __o __o /\_ _ \\o (_)\__/o (_) --- _`\,__`\,__(_) (_)/_\_| \ _|/' \/ -- (_)/ (_) (_)/ (_) (_)(_) (_)(_)' _\o_ ~~~ I believe OS/2 is destined to be the most important operating system, and possibly program, of all times. Bill Gates, 1988 (Preface in Ed Iaccobucci's OS/2 Programmers Guide)
Re: Apt 0.3 lost ftp-method ???
According to Bob Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: gnome-apt requires apt ver. 0.3, which does not (yet) support the ftp method. Your options are to use the http method or to downgrade to an older version of apt. The http method works very well and the number of sites which support it is increasing. Thanks for the hint. You are right, substituting ftp by http worked...almost. There seems to be a problem with the non-US part. Here is what I get to see: ~# apt-get update Get:1 http://ftp.debian.org dists/proposed-updates/ Packages [313] Get:2 http://ftp.debian.org dists/proposed-updates/ Release [153] Hit http://www.debian.org ./ Packages Hit http://www.debian.org ./ Release Get:3 http://ftp.de.debian.org slink/main Packages [490k] Get:4 http://ftp.de.debian.org slink/main Release [93] Get:5 http://ftp.de.debian.org slink/non-free Packages [70.3k] Get:6 http://ftp.de.debian.org slink/non-free Release [97] Get:7 http://ftp.de.debian.org slink/non-US Packages [9101] Err http://ftp.de.debian.org slink/non-US Release 404 Not Found Get:8 http://ftp.de.debian.org slink/contrib Packages [23.3k] Get:9 http://ftp.de.debian.org slink/contrib Release [96] Fetched 594k in 2m14s (4404/s) Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done And here is the contents of my sources.list: deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian slink main non-free non-US contrib deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian dists/proposed-updates/ deb http://www.debian.org/~mblevin/gnome-apt ./ Why does the http method need the Release file? And why is the one for the non-US part missing? Should I file a bug report? Thanks again, Andy. -- Andy Spiegl, University of Technology, Muenchen, Germany E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.spiegl.de Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for my PGP key o _ _ _ - __o __o /\_ _ \\o (_)\__/o (_) --- _`\,__`\,__(_) (_)/_\_| \ _|/' \/ -- (_)/ (_) (_)/ (_) (_)(_) (_)(_)' _\o_ ~~~
Apt 0.3 lost ftp-method ???
Hi, after installing gnome-apt (with the necessary packages from potato) onto my hamm system, apt seems to have lost the ftp method. When I try apt-get update I get: E: The method driver /usr/lib/apt/methods/ftp could not be found. Exitcode 100 What happened? Is there any cure except downgrading? Thanks a lot, Andy. -- Andy Spiegl, University of Technology, Muenchen, Germany E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.spiegl.de Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for my PGP key o _ _ _ - __o __o /\_ _ \\o (_)\__/o (_) --- _`\,__`\,__(_) (_)/_\_| \ _|/' \/ -- (_)/ (_) (_)/ (_) (_)(_) (_)(_)' _\o_ ~~~
dselect dumps core on me :-(
Hi! After I upgraded my laptop from HAMM to SLINK (using apt-get) I can't run dselect anymore. *sniff* I can start it allright, but as soon as I hit enter on any of the menu items it gives me a core dump, nothing else. :-( Apt still works, btw. Anybody have any clue what might have happened? Thanks a lot in advance! Andy. -- Andy Spiegl, University of Technology, Muenchen, Germany E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.spiegl.de Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for my PGP key o _ _ _ - __o __o /\_ _ \\o (_)\__/o (_) --- _`\,__`\,__(_) (_)/_\_| \ _|/' \/ -- (_)/ (_) (_)/ (_) (_)(_) (_)(_)' _\o_ ~~~
Do dpkg and apt use the same database?
According to E.L. Meijer \(Eric\) [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Dselect and dpkg and apt all use the same db. Are you sure? When I do a apt-get update followed by a dpkg -l ... I sometimes do not get the same as when I do dselect, Update first? I have the feeling that dselect does one more thing. What supports this feeling is that apt-get update says: Get [blabla] Updating package file cache...done Updating package status cache...done Checking system integrity...ok whereas Update in dselect gives me: Get [...] Updating package file cache...done Updating package status cache...done Checking system integrity...ok Merging Available information Replacing available packages info, using /var/cache/apt/available. Information about 2779 package(s) was updated. Does anyone know how to do everything with apt-get only, so that dpkg still has the correct information? Is it as simple as copying /var/cache/apt/available to /var/lib/dpkg/available ? Thanks a lot, Andy. -- Andy Spiegl, University of Technology, Muenchen, Germany E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.spiegl.de Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for my PGP key o _ _ _ - __o __o /\_ _ \\o (_)\__/o (_) --- _`\,__`\,__(_) (_)/_\_| \ _|/' \/ -- (_)/ (_) (_)/ (_) (_)(_) (_)(_)' _\o_ ~~~
What does the number of supported visuals depend on?
Hi! I am currently porting my program from an SGI to a DEC Ultrix and a PC Linux system. The biggest problem (besides byte swapping stuff) is the number of supported visuals. On the SGI I can chooes between lots of different truecolor, directcolor and pseudocolor visuals. The same on the DEC (with smaller colormaps however :-[ ), but on my Linux box with XFree running in 16bpp mode I only have _one_ truecolor visual. If I start X with 8bpp I get some more, but then the truecolor visuals look really ugly. So, I am really wondering: What does the number of supported visuals depend on? And why is there no pseudocolor visual in 16bpp? Any help or pointer is appreciated! Thanks in advance, Andy. -- Andy Spiegl, University of Technology, Muenchen, Germany E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.spiegl.de Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for my PGP key o _ _ _ - __o __o /\_ _ \\o (_)\__/o (_) --- _`\,__`\,__(_) (_)/_\_| \ _|/' \/ -- (_)/ (_) (_)/ (_) (_)(_) (_)(_)' _\o_ ~~~
What does the # of supported visuals depend on?
Hi! I am currently porting my program from an SGI to a DEC Ultrix and a PC Linux system. The biggest problem (besides byte swapping stuff) is the number of supported visuals. On the SGI I can chooes between lots of different truecolor, directcolor and pseudocolor visuals. The same on the DEC (with smaller colormaps however :-[ ), but on my Linux box with XFree running in 16bpp mode I only have _one_ truecolor visual. If I start X with 8bpp I get some more, but then the truecolor visuals look really ugly. So, I am really wondering: What does the number of supported visuals depend on? And why is there no pseudocolor visual in 16bpp? Any help or pointer is appreciated! Thanks in advance, Andy. -- Andy Spiegl, University of Technology, Muenchen, Germany E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.spiegl.de Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for my PGP key o _ _ _ - __o __o /\_ _ \\o (_)\__/o (_) --- _`\,__`\,__(_) (_)/_\_| \ _|/' \/ -- (_)/ (_) (_)/ (_) (_)(_) (_)(_)' _\o_ ~~~
Re: How to start program in cron script?
According to Carey Evans [EMAIL PROTECTED]: To fix this, you need to stop myprogram from sending any output to cron. Oh, of course! I am so stupid. My recommendation would be: 0 8 * * * /usr/local/bin/myprogram /dev/null 21 Yes, that was it. Now it works. Thanks a mill! 0 8 * * * /usr/local/bin/myprogram 21 | /usr/bin/logger -i -t myprogram /dev/null 21 That's a nice alternative, but I found that logger doesn't quit after myprogram is done. What am I overlooking now? Thanks again! Andy. -- Andy Spiegl, University of Technology, Muenchen, Germany E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.spiegl.de Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for my PGP key o _ _ _ - __o __o /\_ _ \\o (_)\__/o (_) --- _`\,__`\,__(_) (_)/_\_| \ _|/' \/ -- (_)/ (_) (_)/ (_) (_)(_) (_)(_)' _\o_ ~~~
How to start program in cron script?
Hi! I am giving up. For at least an hour I tried to write a shell script (t obe run by cron) that start another program and sends it into the background. For example, I tried: #! /bin/sh /usr/local/bin/myprogram or: #! /bin/sh nohup /usr/local/bin/myprogram But no matter how I did it, I ended up with the program running as it should but the starting shell script (let's call it test.sh) became a zombie: Output from ps auxw: spiegl 32585 1.7 0.0 0 0 Z 0:00 (test.sh zombie) What am I doing wrong??? Please someone enlighten me! Thanks so much, Andy. -- Andy Spiegl, University of Technology, Muenchen, Germany E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.spiegl.de Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for my PGP key o _ _ _ - __o __o /\_ _ \\o (_)\__/o (_) --- _`\,__`\,__(_) (_)/_\_| \ _|/' \/ -- (_)/ (_) (_)/ (_) (_)(_) (_)(_)' _\o_ ~~~
How to compile libc5 binaries?
Hi! I want to build binaries of a c++ program which has to run on a libc5 based Linux. I installed these packages: libc5-altdev libdl1-altdev ldso because their descriptions say they are needed for this task. But now I can't find any information on how to use them. Could some kind soul please point me to the documentation? Thanks a lot, Andy. -- Andy Spiegl, University of Technology, Muenchen, Germany E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.spiegl.de Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for my PGP key o _ _ _ - __o __o /\_ _ \\o (_)\__/o (_) --- _`\,__`\,__(_) (_)/_\_| \ _|/' \/ -- (_)/ (_) (_)/ (_) (_)(_) (_)(_)' _\o_ ~~~
Re: xmkmf generates bad Makefiles
Would someone please be so kind to comment on this? Thank you! Andy. | Hi! | | whenever I do a xmkmf to get a Makefile from an Imakefile I have | to do manual editing of the Makefile before I can use it. All the | comment lines start with | XCOMM | instead of | # | | I don't have this problem at other unix machines (at work), so I | suppose it could be a debian misconfiguration. Also, I found a | reference to this problem in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/config/Imake.rules: | | /* | * Translate XCOMM into pound sign with sed, rather than passing -DXCOMM=XCOMM | * to cpp, because that trick does not work on all ANSI C preprocessors. | * Also delete line numbers from the cpp output (-P is not portable, I guess). | */ | #ifndef CppSedMagic | #define CppSedMagic sed -e '/^# *[0-9][0-9]* *.*$$/d' -e '/^XCOMM$$/s//#/' \ | -e '/^XCOMM[a-zA-Z0-9_]/s/^XCOMM/#/' | #endif /* CppSedMagic */ | | But I have no idea how to make use of this. Anyone? Thanks, Andy. -- Andy Spiegl, University of Technology, Muenchen, Germany E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.spiegl.de Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for my PGP key o _ _ _ - __o __o /\_ _ \\o (_)\__/o (_) --- _`\,__`\,__(_) (_)/_\_| \ _|/' \/ -- (_)/ (_) (_)/ (_) (_)(_) (_)(_)' _\o_ ~~~
Re: Problem duplicating system
According to Ole J. Tetlie [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm not sure if the cp on the floppies is different from the normal cp. Have you tried 'cp -a source destination'? Unfortunately it is very different. It can hardly do anything. According to cp -h it accepts -r for recursive copying, but I didn't get it to work. Besides it wouldn't copy links etc. correctly. Anyone else? Thanks, Andy. -- Andy Spiegl, University of Technology, Muenchen, Germany E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.spiegl.de Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for my PGP key o _ _ _ - __o __o /\_ _ \\o (_)\__/o (_) --- _`\,__`\,__(_) (_)/_\_| \ _|/' \/ -- (_)/ (_) (_)/ (_) (_)(_) (_)(_)' _\o_ ~~~
Problem duplicating system
Hi! I got a problem here without a solution. (as usual) I want to duplicate a debian system from one (remote) pc to a new one. So I made a cd-image on a jaz drive medium and had it send to me via normal mail. I booted the new machine with the rescue floppy and went through the install menus up to partitioning the hard disk and mounting them in /target. Then I mounted the cdrom image (as a loop device) under /cdrom. So far everything went perfectly. But then I got stuck. :-( I could not figure out how to copy the contents from /cdrom to /target. The simple cp on the root image couldn't do it. The simple tar star I didn't know how to use (is there any documentation anywhere) and trying to use the cp command on the cd-image /cdrom/bin/cp failed because the necessary libraries couldn't be found. I also tried to set the LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable to /lib:/cdrom/lib, but that didn't help either. I there any correct method to do a recursive copy in this simple state of the system? Thanks in advance, Andy. -- Andy Spiegl, University of Technology, Muenchen, Germany E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.spiegl.de Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for my PGP key o _ _ _ - __o __o /\_ _ \\o (_)\__/o (_) --- _`\,__`\,__(_) (_)/_\_| \ _|/' \/ -- (_)/ (_) (_)/ (_) (_)(_) (_)(_)' _\o_ ~~~
Re: Safe rm available?
According to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I am using a program called safedelete that you alias to rm. It is not a Debian package but is found on Sunsite. It saves the files in a directory in your home directory for a configurable amount of days. I still like it very much, but I just recently ran into a problem: The size of the trashcan. It filled up my partition, so that I had to manually remove some of the files. So I started looking for some method of restricting the maximum total size or the maximum size of files to be put in the .Safedelete dir, but couldn't find anything. How did you guys solve this? Or do you have infinite harddisks? :-) A quick second question: When I run undelete without arguments I can't read anything because the screen switches away. Anybody have a solution to this? Thanks, Andy. -- Andy Spiegl, University of Technology, Muenchen, Germany E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.spiegl.de Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for my PGP key o _ _ _ - __o __o /\_ _ \\o (_)\__/o (_) --- _`\,__`\,__(_) (_)/_\_| \ _|/' \/ -- (_)/ (_) (_)/ (_) (_)(_) (_)(_)' _\o_ ~~~
xmkmf generates bad Makefiles
Hi! whenever I do a xmkmf to get a Makefile from an Imakefile I have to do manual editing of the Makefile before I can use it. All the comment lines start with XCOMM instead of # I don't have this problem at other unix machines (at work), so I suppose it could be a debian misconfiguration. Also, I found a reference to this problem in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/config/Imake.rules: /* * Translate XCOMM into pound sign with sed, rather than passing -DXCOMM=XCOMM * to cpp, because that trick does not work on all ANSI C preprocessors. * Also delete line numbers from the cpp output (-P is not portable, I guess). */ #ifndef CppSedMagic #define CppSedMagic sed -e '/^# *[0-9][0-9]* *.*$$/d' -e '/^XCOMM$$/s//#/' \ -e '/^XCOMM[a-zA-Z0-9_]/s/^XCOMM/#/' #endif /* CppSedMagic */ But I have no idea how to make use of this. Anyone? Thanks, Andy. -- Andy Spiegl, University of Technology, Muenchen, Germany E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] OR: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.appl-math.tu-muenchen.de/~spiegl PGP fingerprint: B8 48 24 7B DB 96 6F 1C D9 6D 8E 6C DB C2 E7 E9 o _ _ _ - __o __o /\_ _ \\o (_)\__/o (_) --- _`\,__`\,__(_) (_)/_\_| \ _|/' \/ -- (_)/ (_) (_)/ (_) (_)(_) (_)(_)' _\o_ ~~~
Re: Urgent Help needed please
Hi Mike, # touch /forcefsck Oh, that's very interesting!!! Thanks a lot for that hint. You're welcome. I remembered after the fact that there's an equivalent /fastboot for booting without checks, too. That one I knew. :-) I suppose you wouldn't know whether it's at possible to rewrite the startup scripts so that they log _all_ the messages? Thanks, Andy. -- Andy Spiegl, University of Technology, Muenchen, Germany E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.spiegl.de Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for my PGP key o _ _ _ - __o __o /\_ _ \\o (_)\__/o (_) --- _`\,__`\,__(_) (_)/_\_| \ _|/' \/ -- (_)/ (_) (_)/ (_) (_)(_) (_)(_)' _\o_ ~~~ It works most of the time ... The technology brings a certain thrill to simple tasks. -- Bill Gates
Re: Urgent Help needed please
On Mon, Oct 12, 1998 at 06:10:24PM +, Andy Spiegl wrote: trying to install new packages I just noticed that I can't write to /var/lib/dpkg anymore. The error I get is: No space left on device. According to Mike Touloumtzis [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 1) You usually don't have to reboot to fsck a filesystem, especially a non-root filesystem. First, kick off your users (shutdown -k is useful for this). Then umount the filesystem, fsck it, and remount it. This works great for /home, not so well for /var, since it tends to be in use all the time. Unfortunately the error(s) was/were on the /var partition. (see above) This reminds me that I can't even tell now what errors were reported and fixed by fsck. :-( Is there really no way to rewrite the startup scripts so that they log _all_ the messages? If you can't umount it, take the system to single-user mode with 'telinit 1', then try the umount/fsck. That wouldn't work either in my case, because I only have remote access to this machine. 2) If you're wondering whether or not fsck will be run at boot time: most Linux/Unix installations, including Debian, test for the presence of a /forcefsck file in the rc scripts at boot time. If this file exists, all filesystems in /etc/fstab are fsck'ed. So: # touch /forcefsck # shutdown -r now Check out /etc/init.d/checkfs.sh for more details. Oh, that's very interesting!!! Thanks a lot for that hint. Thanks for your help! Andy. -- Andy Spiegl, University of Technology, Muenchen, Germany E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.spiegl.de Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for my PGP key o _ _ _ - __o __o /\_ _ \\o (_)\__/o (_) --- _`\,__`\,__(_) (_)/_\_| \ _|/' \/ -- (_)/ (_) (_)/ (_) (_)(_) (_)(_)' _\o_ ~~~
Re: Urgent Help needed please
According to George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED]: dmesg | more might help Nope, it doesn't. :-( It only reports some of the startup messages. The important ones like the output of fsck (even whether it was run at all) is not shown. BTW, I don't understand the man page of dmesg. It describes the switch -n, which has no effect at all. Here at least. Could someone enlighten me please? Thanks, Andy. -- Andy Spiegl, University of Technology, Muenchen, Germany E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.spiegl.de Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for my PGP key o _ _ _ - __o __o /\_ _ \\o (_)\__/o (_) --- _`\,__`\,__(_) (_)/_\_| \ _|/' \/ -- (_)/ (_) (_)/ (_) (_)(_) (_)(_)' _\o_ ~~~
Urgent Help needed please
Hi! trying to install new packages I just noticed that I can't write to /var/lib/dpkg anymore. The error I get is: No space left on device. I took a look at /var/log/kern.log and found this: ... kernel: EXT2-fs error (device 08:07): ext2_new_block: Free blocks count \ corrupted for block group 4 ... last message repeated 207 times ... last message repeated 133 times and so on. Help! What can I do to resolve this without rebooting the machine? Well, I guess I could reboot it, but it is very far away from me and if it gets stuck during the reboot I'd have an even bigger problem. Besides, there are some users logged in and I'd hate to kick them out. :-( Please send help soon! Thanks so much in advance, Andy. -- Andy Spiegl, University of Technology, Muenchen, Germany E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.spiegl.de Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for my PGP key o _ _ _ - __o __o /\_ _ \\o (_)\__/o (_) --- _`\,__`\,__(_) (_)/_\_| \ _|/' \/ -- (_)/ (_) (_)/ (_) (_)(_) (_)(_)' _\o_ ~~~
Re: Urgent Help needed please
Hi Jim, first of all thanks for the fast answer! It's hard to answer when you don't include any other information. You are right. I am sorry. I wanted to get my question out as fast as possible and stopped thinking. The obvious question is: Are you really out of disk space? and the answer is df. No, I am not. What does the output from df say? 2 GB free space: /dev/sda1 194405 12675 171691 7% / /dev/sda6 497667 311861 160104 66% /usr /dev/sda73299939 1000232 2129018 32% /var If not, you may be screwed. Oh, uh. I was afraid so. If I reboot do you think the startup scripts would run efsck automatically? What does the output from fdisk -l say? Hm, why just a moment: Disk /dev/sda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 527 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device Boot BeginStart End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 *11 25 200781 83 Linux native /dev/sda2 26 26 527 40323155 Extended /dev/sda5 26 26 38 104391 82 Linux swap /dev/sda6 39 39 102 514048+ 83 Linux native /dev/sda7 103 103 527 3413781 83 Linux native Disk /dev/sdb: 64 heads, 32 sectors, 1021 cylinders Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 bytes Device Boot BeginStart End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb4 *11 1021 10454886 DOS 16-bit =32M Thanks, Andy. -- Andy Spiegl, University of Technology, Muenchen, Germany E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.spiegl.de Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for my PGP key o _ _ _ - __o __o /\_ _ \\o (_)\__/o (_) --- _`\,__`\,__(_) (_)/_\_| \ _|/' \/ -- (_)/ (_) (_)/ (_) (_)(_) (_)(_)' _\o_ ~~~
Re: Urgent Help needed please
Hi Paul, editing /etc/defaults/rcS FSCKFIX=yes Thanks. Actually I did that last week, after some kind person in the list gave this as an answer to another question of mine. Well, I dared to do itandwas lucky! The system is up and running again. And I don't see any dubious messages in the log files anymore. But I can't tell whether fsck was called during bootup. There are no hints at all in /var/log/messages about this. Is there any other way to tell? Thanks again to all of you, Andy. -- Andy Spiegl, University of Technology, Muenchen, Germany E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.spiegl.de Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for my PGP key o _ _ _ - __o __o /\_ _ \\o (_)\__/o (_) --- _`\,__`\,__(_) (_)/_\_| \ _|/' \/ -- (_)/ (_) (_)/ (_) (_)(_) (_)(_)' _\o_ ~~~ Linux vs. Windows is a no-Win situation
Re: Strange replies to postings to this list
Hi Joey, Hi Martin, s/Martin/Joey/ Sorry, that was too easy to overlook. :-) I don't know about you, but I got this mail from [EMAIL PROTECTED] again. Here it is: From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Oct 8 22:36:51 1998 Received: from ziele.de ([EMAIL PROTECTED] [194.77.138.21]) by falke.appl-math.tu-muenchen.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA10043 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Thu, 8 Oct 1998 21:42:44 +0200 (MET DST) Resent-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: by kira.ziele.de via sendmail with stdio id [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Debian Smail3.2.0.100) for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Thu, 8 Oct 1998 21:42:00 +0200 (CEST) X-MailServer: KasCada-Mail 2.02 www.Ziele.de 1998(c)KasCada (16:19:50) Received: from vmail.vemail.net (really [209.102.96.14]) by kira.ziele.de via in.smtpd with esmtp id [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Debian Smail3.2.0.100) for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Thu, 8 Oct 1998 21:41:47 +0200 (CEST) Received: from fax03 (nat032.kallback.com [209.102.99.32]) by vmail.vemail.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA00168 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Thu, 8 Oct 1998 12:42:15 -0700 Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1998 12:42:57 -0700 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: REJECTED: Re: Strange replies to postings to this list To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-UIDL: 78377bd157d0c0c525468332151f779a Status: RO Content-Length: 1185 Lines: 31 Your email message was received today but was not processed because you must sign up with our service in order to use the remainder of your $5 credit. To sign up for faxaway.com, fax your credit card info to 1-206-301-7500, or call us at 1-206-301-7000--or toll-free in the US at (800) 906-4329--or send the information to [EMAIL PROTECTED], or sign-up online at http://www.faxaway.com. Alternatively, you can simply fill out the form at the end of this message and reply back. After you have signed up, your credit card will be charged an initial $10 prepayment amount and you can use the remainder of your $5 credit. Then you will be billed for a prepayment amount of your choice whenever your balance becomes positive, unless cancelled in writing. In the following form, fill out all fields, and change the default values to whatever you want, the minimum prepayment amount is $10. Email Address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Card Type: Card Number : Expiration Date : Card Holder Name : Prepayment Amount: $10 Monthly Limit: none Phone Number : Fax Number : List any additional email addresses to include in this account, one per line: Bye, Andy. -- Andy Spiegl, University of Technology, Muenchen, Germany E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.spiegl.de Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for my PGP key o _ _ _ - __o __o /\_ _ \\o (_)\__/o (_) --- _`\,__`\,__(_) (_)/_\_| \ _|/' \/ -- (_)/ (_) (_)/ (_) (_)(_) (_)(_)' _\o_ ~~~ There is nothing wrong with America, that cannot be cured by what is RIGHT with America ---President Bill Jefferson Clinton
Re: Safe rm available?
According to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I am using a program called safedelete that you alias to rm. It is not a Debian package but is found on Sunsite. It saves the files in a directory in your home directory for a configurable amount of days. I installed it and really like it. There is just one problem (besides a minor compilation problem which could be easily fixed by editing safedelete.h): When I call undelete in an xterm, it displays its stuff and then switches away to the alternate screen. I read something about a similar problem with mutt. Anyone out there with tite-knowledge who could help me with that? TIA, Andy. -- Andy Spiegl, University of Technology, Muenchen, Germany E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.spiegl.de Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for my PGP key o _ _ _ - __o __o /\_ _ \\o (_)\__/o (_) --- _`\,__`\,__(_) (_)/_\_| \ _|/' \/ -- (_)/ (_) (_)/ (_) (_)(_) (_)(_)' _\o_ ~~~
OOPS, sorry wrong list
I intended to send this to the debian.user-de list. Please forgive me. Andy. -- Andy Spiegl, University of Technology, Muenchen, Germany E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.spiegl.de Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for my PGP key o _ _ _ - __o __o /\_ _ \\o (_)\__/o (_) --- _`\,__`\,__(_) (_)/_\_| \ _|/' \/ -- (_)/ (_) (_)/ (_) (_)(_) (_)(_)' _\o_ ~~~
Re: xdm replacement?
According to Person, Rod [EMAIL PROTECTED]: As a newbie, I guess I have reached the level of comfort with Debian that now I want better, fast etc... Anyway, is there a replacement for xdm. I know about kdm but I want to use windowmaker so I don't want to take up all the space with kdebase and libs and support... Have you tried xdm3d? It's just a simple extension to xdm, but looks really nice. You have to compile it yourself, though. Then I installed xbanner, which is very nice, too. Bye, Andy. -- Andy Spiegl, University of Technology, Muenchen, Germany E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.spiegl.de Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for my PGP key o _ _ _ - __o __o /\_ _ \\o (_)\__/o (_) --- _`\,__`\,__(_) (_)/_\_| \ _|/' \/ -- (_)/ (_) (_)/ (_) (_)(_) (_)(_)' _\o_ ~~~
Can't reach the list
Hi, everytime I send a mail to the list I get a mail back from [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject: SMTP import error #-5 Yesterday I even got a mail from [EMAIL PROTECTED] notifying me that my fax hasn't been sent! I didn't even mention faxaway anywhere. What's going on? Really confused, Andy. PS: I am not subscribed personally, but read and write to the list via my local newsgateway. Could that be the problem? -- Andy Spiegl, University of Technology, Muenchen, Germany E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.spiegl.de Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for my PGP key o _ _ _ - __o __o /\_ _ \\o (_)\__/o (_) --- _`\,__`\,__(_) (_)/_\_| \ _|/' \/ -- (_)/ (_) (_)/ (_) (_)(_) (_)(_)' _\o_ ~~~ Finagle's Sixth Law: Don't believe in miracles -- rely on them.
Strange replies to postings to this list
Hi, everytime I send a mail to the list I get a mail back from [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject: SMTP import error #-5 Yesterday I even got a mail from [EMAIL PROTECTED] notifying me that my fax hasn't been sent! I didn't even mention faxaway anywhere. What's going on here? When I post a message to the list via my local newsgateway (like now) it does reach the list, but I get the same strange replies. Really confused, Andy. PS: I am not subscribed (but the gateway is). Does that make a difference? -- Andy Spiegl, University of Technology, Muenchen, Germany E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.spiegl.de Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for my PGP key o _ _ _ - __o __o /\_ _ \\o (_)\__/o (_) --- _`\,__`\,__(_) (_)/_\_| \ _|/' \/ -- (_)/ (_) (_)/ (_) (_)(_) (_)(_)' _\o_ ~~~
Re: Strange replies to postings to this list
Hi Martin, Thaks Ray. Ray? Please contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a forward including *all* header of such a mail so we can track it down. Oh, okay, good to know. I suppose it's [EMAIL PROTECTED] not listmastere, right? The only stupid question is the unasked one. Thanks for the encouragement. :-) rcpt to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 550 [EMAIL PROTECTED]... Mailbox not found Great system. (c: Yesterday I even got a mail from [EMAIL PROTECTED] notifying me that my fax hasn't been sent! I didn't even mention faxaway anywhere. What's going on here? I can't find a subscription so you'll need to send me the entire mail. (Maybe I'll receive it anyway by sending this mail to debian-user). Hm, too bad I deleted them already. But I had looked at the headers and didn't find anything interesting. But I didn't get one when I sent this last message. So maybe this person noticed his mistake. Thanks! Andy. -- Andy Spiegl, University of Technology, Muenchen, Germany E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.spiegl.de Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for my PGP key o _ _ _ - __o __o /\_ _ \\o (_)\__/o (_) --- _`\,__`\,__(_) (_)/_\_| \ _|/' \/ -- (_)/ (_) (_)/ (_) (_)(_) (_)(_)' _\o_ ~~~ Customer: I am using Windows 95 Hotline: Yes? Customer: I've got problems. Hotline: You had mentioned that already.
Re: Emacs keybinding of Ctrl-[
Hi Havoc, And there is no way to separate ESC and C-[ ? I mean, who uses C-[ to get an ESC?? Text terminals do. But there's a way around it - from the Emacs manual's discussion of keybindings (which you may find interesting, btw): Hm, I couldn't find this in the manual. Maybe that's because I am using Xemacs, not Emacs? TAB, RET, BS, LFD, ESC and DEL started out as names for certain ASCII control characters, used so often that they have special keys of their own. Later, users found it convenient to distinguish in Emacs between these keys and the same control characters typed with the CTRL key. Just like me. If you do not want to distinguish between (for example) TAB and `C-i', make just one binding, for the ASCII character TAB (octal code 011). If you do want to distinguish, make one binding for this ASCII character, and another for the function key `tab'. Doesn't that say, that binding C-[ should work? But this line: (define-key global-map [(control \[)] [udiaeresis]) does not have any effect. :-( Maybe I just didn't understand it. Xmodmap is cryptic. I've had good luck with Xkeycaps, since it's otherwise impossible to remember the syntax. That's right! In the meantime I managed to turn my capslock key into a super key. I could then map like this: (define-key global-map [(super \[)] [udiaeresis]) Unfortunately I can only use that key when in emacs. I can't find how to make use of it in the shell, an xterm etc. Thanks anyway for your help! Andy. -- Andy Spiegl, University of Technology, Muenchen, Germany E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.spiegl.de Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for my PGP key o _ _ _ - __o __o /\_ _ \\o (_)\__/o (_) --- _`\,__`\,__(_) (_)/_\_| \ _|/' \/ -- (_)/ (_) (_)/ (_) (_)(_) (_)(_)' _\o_ ~~~ How to make a million dollars: First, get a million dollars. -- Steve Martin
Re: [Debian]: Xkeycaps
Hallo Torsten, XTerm*VT100.Translations: #override \ MetaKeyPressShift_L,MetaKeyPress: string(0x01B) insert() \n\ MetaKeyPressShift_R,MetaKeyPress: string(0x01B) insert() \n\ Meta Ctrl KeyPress: string(0x01B) insert() \n\ Meta KeyPress: string(0x01B) insert() \n\ AltKeyPressShift_L,AltKeyPress: string(0x01B) insert() \n\ AltKeyPressShift_R,AltKeyPress: string(0x01B) insert() \n\ Alt Ctrl KeyPress: string(0x01B) insert() \n\ Alt KeyPress: string(0x01B) insert() \n Hey, super. Das funktioniert ja sogar mit Super und Hyper. Jetzt hab ich nur noch das Problem, daß ich die Syntax nicht so richtig verstehe. Wo ist das denn dokumentiert? Vielen Dank! Andy. -- Andy Spiegl, University of Technology, Muenchen, Germany E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.spiegl.de Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for my PGP key o _ _ _ - __o __o /\_ _ \\o (_)\__/o (_) --- _`\,__`\,__(_) (_)/_\_| \ _|/' \/ -- (_)/ (_) (_)/ (_) (_)(_) (_)(_)' _\o_ ~~~ Perl is the Swiss-Army-Chainsaw of U**x Programming
Safe rm available?
Since 'rm' can be pretty dangerous sometimes, especially to new unix users, I was wondering whether there is something like a save rm out there. With feature similar to this list: - moving files to /tmp/trash instead of unlinking (saving full path) - configuration file with regexps listing files + that can't be rm'ed + that shouldn't be rm'ed (ask for confirmation) I didn't search the entire internet yet, but at least I couldn't find any debian packages. Anyone? Thanks in advance, Andy. -- Andy Spiegl, University of Technology, Muenchen, Germany E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.spiegl.de Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for my PGP key o _ _ _ - __o __o /\_ _ \\o (_)\__/o (_) --- _`\,__`\,__(_) (_)/_\_| \ _|/' \/ -- (_)/ (_) (_)/ (_) (_)(_) (_)(_)' _\o_ ~~~
Re: What causes single user boot?
According to Miquel van Smoorenburg [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 2. A filesystem check failed because there were serious errors and the system wants you to run fsck manually It is not 1 and 3 so it must be 2. That sounds reasonable, because the operator (who had no idea what he was doing) read something about file system errors to us. If it was (2), you can prevent that by setting FSCKFIX=yes in /etc/default/rcS. It will forcibly check all file systems and repair them even if there are serious errors. This might result in dataloss, but usually there isn't anything else you can do even if you do run the fsck manually. Great! Thanks so much for that!!! Andy. -- Andy Spiegl, University of Technology, Muenchen, Germany E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.spiegl.de Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for my PGP key o _ _ _ - __o __o /\_ _ \\o (_)\__/o (_) --- _`\,__`\,__(_) (_)/_\_| \ _|/' \/ -- (_)/ (_) (_)/ (_) (_)(_) (_)(_)' _\o_ ~~~
Emacs keybinding of Ctrl-[
Hi,
I am working with an US-keyboard, but typing German texts in XEmacs.
So I tried to teach XEmacs (v19.11) to give me the umlauts if I press
the corresponding keys together with CTRL. This works fine for all
keys except for u-umlaut which would end up being on CTRL-[ :
;; define umlaut keys
(define-key global-map [(control \-)] [ssharp])
(define-key global-map [(control \;)] [odiaeresis])
(define-key global-map [(control \')] [adiaeresis])
(define-key global-map [(control \[)] [udiaeresis])
;; capital letters
(define-key global-map [(control \:)] [Odiaeresis])
(define-key global-map [(control \)] [Adiaeresis])
(define-key global-map [(control \{)] [Udiaeresis])
Even after these redefinitions XEmacs responds to CTRL-[ the
usual way (which is waiting for the next key).
Does anyone of you out there know a solution to this?
(without redefining the [ key itself. I need it for programming)
Thanks a lot in advance!
Andy.
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Re: Emacs keybinding of Ctrl-[
C-[ is the same as ESC, I think. So that's your problem. And there is no way to separate ESC and C-[ ? I mean, who uses C-[ to get an ESC?? Maybe if you redefine ESC, but you probably don't want to do that. I don't think so. :-) Do you have an alt or meta or compose key you could use? You could use Xmodmap to remap right alt or right control to Hyper or Compose or some other key not found on US keyboards. Good idea. The right Alt key is not so handy, but I never use capslock. So I decided to map capslock on the right alt key and Hyper on the capslock key. But that's how far I got. How do I go from there? Then you could use that for your Emacs bindings. How do I use Hyper, please? Can I use xmodmap to get udiaresis etc. with Hyper-[ ? That way I wouldn't even have to bother with setting up emacs and would have the keys in all applications. I tried: keycode 0x1C = Hyper_L add Mod4 = Hyper_L keycode 0x56 = bracketleft braceleft udiaeresis Udiaeresis But that didn't work. :-( Help, anybody help? Andy. -- Andy Spiegl, University of Technology, Muenchen, Germany E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.spiegl.de Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for my PGP key o _ _ _ - __o __o /\_ _ \\o (_)\__/o (_) --- _`\,__`\,__(_) (_)/_\_| \ _|/' \/ -- (_)/ (_) (_)/ (_) (_)(_) (_)(_)' _\o_ ~~~
What causes single user boot?
Hi! I've got a webserver which is running constantly. A few days ago we had to reboot it, because of a SCSI problem with the JAZ drive. (side note: can you imagine the load went up to 115 still growing!?) Well, after the reboot the system stopped at the prompt: Press Ctrl-D or give root password. I wonder what could have caused this? This is a huge problem, because the computer is many kilometers away and administered only over the net. It was tedious to find someone up there to resolve this. That's why I would really like to find out what caused this and how I can avoid it in the future. BTW: running Hamm incl.all updates Thanks a lot in advance for any hint or pointer! Andy. -- Andy Spiegl, University of Technology, Muenchen, Germany E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.spiegl.de Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for my PGP key o _ _ _ - __o __o /\_ _ \\o (_)\__/o (_) --- _`\,__`\,__(_) (_)/_\_| \ _|/' \/ -- (_)/ (_) (_)/ (_) (_)(_) (_)(_)' _\o_ ~~~
Re: printing takes hours in HAMM
According to [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
According to [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
After upgrading to Hamm, (actually, after upgrading to 2.0.34) I noticed
that the advanced extensions to the parallel port (SPP and such) can be
recognized. Perhaps these extensions are the source of your problem ?
Ah, that sounds like a very good idea! I will experiment with the
lp settings in the BIOS tonight and see whether that makes a difference.
How did you find out about that difference?
How did I find out about that difference?
Some time ago, while I was still running bo, I experimented with my BIOS
settings and noticed that the printer behavior is different when the BIOS
enables the parallel port extensions. The only thing I remember is that
either
the printer didn't work at all, or that it was very slow or that it began the
printing and then stoped. It didn't took me much time to reset the BIOS to
the
simple parallel port definition.
Oops, sorry, I meant to ask:
How did you find out that 2.0.34 knows about the advanced extensions of the
parallel port? I didn't see anything in the changelog.
Well, I solved my problem in the meantime. I rebooted with my old 2.0.34
kernel and found that everything works alright. Then I looked at the
source diffs of patch 2.0.35 and saw that there are the following
changes in the file drivers/char/lp.c:
diff -u --recursive --new-file v2.0.34/linux/drivers/char/lp.c
linux/drivers/char/lp.c
@@ -89,7 +89,14 @@
while(wait != LP_WAIT(minor)) wait++;
/* control port takes strobe high */
outb_p(( LP_PSELECP | LP_PINITP | LP_PSTROBE ), ( LP_C( minor )));
- while(wait) wait--;
+ /* Wait until NBUSY line goes high */
+ count = 0;
+ do {
+ status = LP_S(minor);
+ count++;
+ if (need_resched)
+ schedule();
+ } while (LP_READY(minor, status) (countLP_CHAR(minor)));
/* take strobe low */
outb_p(( LP_PSELECP | LP_PINITP ), ( LP_C( minor )));
/* update waittime statistics */
I undid the patch, recompiled the module lp.o and voila! it works again.
This is not a satisfying solution, but I don't understand enough about
kernel programming to find the bug(?) myself.
Maybe this NBUSY line rarely goes high?
Anybody have an idea what to do?
Bye,
Andy.
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Re: printing takes hours in HAMM
According to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: After upgrading to Hamm, (actually, after upgrading to 2.0.34) I noticed that the advanced extensions to the parallel port (SPP and such) can be recognized. Perhaps these extensions are the source of your problem ? Ah, that sounds like a very good idea! I will experiment with the lp settings in the BIOS tonight and see whether that makes a difference. How did you find out about that difference? Thanks, Andy. -- Andy Spiegl, University of Technology, Muenchen, Germany E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.spiegl.de PGP fingerprint: B8 48 24 7B DB 96 6F 1C D9 6D 8E 6C DB C2 E7 E9 o _ _ _ - __o __o /\_ _ \\o (_)\__/o (_) --- _`\,__`\,__(_) (_)/_\_| \ _|/' \/ -- (_)/ (_) (_)/ (_) (_)(_) (_)(_)' _\o_ ~~~
What is MARK in /var/log/messages
Hi! In my /var/log/messages there are a lot of lines like this one: Sep 9 14:56:58 kira -- MARK -- A new one every 20 minutes to be exact. But I don't see any cron job that runs every 20 minutes. Who knows who writes this and what it means? TIA, Andy. -- Andy Spiegl, University of Technology, Muenchen, Germany E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.spiegl.de PGP fingerprint: B8 48 24 7B DB 96 6F 1C D9 6D 8E 6C DB C2 E7 E9 o _ _ _ - __o __o /\_ _ \\o (_)\__/o (_) --- _`\,__`\,__(_) (_)/_\_| \ _|/' \/ -- (_)/ (_) (_)/ (_) (_)(_) (_)(_)' _\o_ ~~~
Re: What is MARK in /var/log/messages
This is syslogd's heartbeat - it tells you that the logger is still alive and well. -m interval The syslogd logs a mark timestamp regularly. The default interval between two -- MARK -- lines is 20 minutes. This can be changed with this option. Thanks a lot! Now I am wondering what I would have to put in syslog.conf so that those marks go to a special file, say /var/log/syslog.heartbeat.log Maybe that's not possible, though. At least I couldn't find any hint. Thanks again, Andy. -- Andy Spiegl, University of Technology, Muenchen, Germany E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.spiegl.de PGP fingerprint: B8 48 24 7B DB 96 6F 1C D9 6D 8E 6C DB C2 E7 E9 o _ _ _ - __o __o /\_ _ \\o (_)\__/o (_) --- _`\,__`\,__(_) (_)/_\_| \ _|/' \/ -- (_)/ (_) (_)/ (_) (_)(_) (_)(_)' _\o_ ~~~
printing takes hours in HAMM
Hi! After my upgrade to HAMM every kind of printing takes forever. No matter whether I print via magicfilter or cat a file to /dev/lp1 my printer prints a line, waits something like 5 seconds, then prints the next line. Anyone out there who has an idea what happened? Do I have to set some baud rates for the device or something? Thanks a lot in advance! Andy. -- Andy Spiegl, University of Technology, Muenchen, Germany E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.spiegl.de PGP fingerprint: B8 48 24 7B DB 96 6F 1C D9 6D 8E 6C DB C2 E7 E9 o _ _ _ - __o __o /\_ _ \\o (_)\__/o (_) --- _`\,__`\,__(_) (_)/_\_| \ _|/' \/ -- (_)/ (_) (_)/ (_) (_)(_) (_)(_)' _\o_ ~~~
ghostscript 5 magicfilter print too large
Hi! I just upgraded from BO to HAMM, ie. gs-aladdin 4 to gs-aladdin 5. Before I had the problem that all my printouts started about 5cm too low on the page (on my Epson Stylus Color 800). That has stopped now. Instead the printouts are a bit too large now, so that they don't fit on the page. Everything seems to be set to the A4 size, but still. Most of you guys probably print to letter I guess, but that shouldn't make much of a difference. After all the proportions seem to be right. Actually how can I test exactly how much it is off? Something like a simple PS file with a thin frame on it, which is just a large as the page? Thanks so much in advance, Andy. -- Andy Spiegl, University of Technology, Muenchen, Germany E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.spiegl.de PGP fingerprint: B8 48 24 7B DB 96 6F 1C D9 6D 8E 6C DB C2 E7 E9 o _ _ _ - __o __o /\_ _ \\o (_)\__/o (_) --- _`\,__`\,__(_) (_)/_\_| \ _|/' \/ -- (_)/ (_) (_)/ (_) (_)(_) (_)(_)' _\o_ ~~~
Re: Please help with IP Aliasing
First of all thanks a lot for your fast help, especially to Craig! firstly, replace all those ifconfig route commands with something like this: i=1 while [ $i -le 254 ] ; do ifconfig eth0:$i XXX.231.206.$i netmask 255.255.255.0 route add -host XXX.231.206.$i eth0:$i $i=$(( $i + 1 )) done Good idea! A lot easier to read that way. From your answers I assume that I really have to setup a virtual interface for every IP address. Isn't there a possibility to map a whole subnet XXX.231.206.everything? I thought I saw that on a system a while ago. It had even more IP addresses assigned to. But it might have been a FreeBSD system. secondly, the route command is optional. How come that I can't reach my own address(es) without a route? Shouldn't it be routed to the gateway, which would send it back to my machine? third: do you *really* need all those aliases configured right now? Nope, but soon. if not, then only configure the ones you actually need, *when* you need them. Why? Does it have any negative effects to have that many interfaces and routes configured? fourth: for a virtual hosting system, it's not terribly difficult to set things up so that the configurations for virtual web, ftp, mail, dns, and ip_aliasing are all controlled from one file. e.g. make a file called /etc/virtual-hosts which contains the following info: I like that idea. I'll probably set things up this way as soon as I have more time again. you can increase this limit by modifying the kernel sources. or start using 2.1 series kernels. Are you saying that 2.1 kernels have this limit set higher or are they using a completely different way of handling this situation? if you've got more than 255 virtual hosts then you probably want another machine to host them on anyway. don't try to make one machine do too much. I am sure linux can handle it. :-) No, seriously, more IP addresses doesn't necessary mean more traffic. It's just that some customers want their own domain which has to be mapped to a separate IP number. Thanks again for your help! Andy. -- Andy Spiegl, University of Technology, Muenchen, Germany E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.spiegl.de PGP fingerprint: B8 48 24 7B DB 96 6F 1C D9 6D 8E 6C DB C2 E7 E9 o _ _ _ - __o __o /\_ _ \\o (_)\__/o (_) --- _`\,__`\,__(_) (_)/_\_| \ _|/' \/ -- (_)/ (_) (_)/ (_) (_)(_) (_)(_)' _\o_ ~~~ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: kern.log: Unable to load interpreter ???
Accorrding to the kernel source, it will generate this error if it tries and fails to load the interpreter for elf binairies. Oh, I see! because you had overloaded the system. (Though that seems a touch weird to me.) But it's probably true. The smail misconfiguration led to lots of smail processes! But I was surprised, too. I thought linux would be smart enough to kill some processes if that happens. Not that it should be really, I did some programming on a low,low spec box in the labs and noticed it a few times ... A good way to reproduce it is to sequentially call malloc with increasingly higher values in a background process. The OS wouldn't crash (at least to my experience) but ... it might be a while recovering even after you kill the offending process *IF* it is possible to kill the process. I had real trouble to do that, because I couldn't log in and then start the killall smail command. How did you manage to kill the processes? Andy. -- Andy Spiegl, University of Technology, Muenchen, Germany E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.spiegl.de PGP fingerprint: B8 48 24 7B DB 96 6F 1C D9 6D 8E 6C DB C2 E7 E9 o _ _ _ - __o __o /\_ _ \\o (_)\__/o (_) --- _`\,__`\,__(_) (_)/_\_| \ _|/' \/ -- (_)/ (_) (_)/ (_) (_)(_) (_)(_)' _\o_ ~~~ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Please help with IP Aliasing
Hi!
I am currently setting up a Mail and Webserver (hamm, 2.0.33). I have got
a whole package of 256 IP addresses that I want to assign to this server.
In the NET-3-HOWTO I read that I have to set it up like this:
/etc/init.d/network: (part of the addresses X-ed out)
#! /bin/sh
ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1
route add -net 127.0.0.0
# here is the real IP address for this linux box
IPADDR=XXX.30.72.69
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
NETWORK=XXX.30.72.0
BROADCAST=XXX.30.72.255
GATEWAY=XXX.30.72.70
ifconfig eth0 ${IPADDR} netmask ${NETMASK} broadcast ${BROADCAST}
route add -net ${NETWORK}
[ ${GATEWAY} ] route add default gw ${GATEWAY} metric 1
# here I am trying to set up the IP-Aliasing for the whole
# subnetwork XXX.231.206.x
ifconfig eth0:1 XXX.231.206.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 up
route add -net XXX.231.206.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 eth0:1
ifconfig eth0:2 XXX.231.206.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 up
route add -net XXX.231.206.2 netmask 255.255.255.255 eth0:2
ifconfig eth0:3 XXX.231.206.3 netmask 255.255.255.0 up
route add -net XXX.231.206.3 netmask 255.255.255.255 eth0:3
# [...]
# and so on, until:
ifconfig eth0:253 XXX.231.206.253 netmask 255.255.255.0 up
route add -net XXX.231.206.253 netmask 255.255.255.255 eth0:253
ifconfig eth0:254 XXX.231.206.254 netmask 255.255.255.0 up
route add -net XXX.231.206.254 netmask 255.255.255.255 eth0:254
What I want seems to work this way, but I can't imagine that this
is the right way to do it. And if I will ever get another subnetwork
to add, how would I add it using the above method? I found that
eth0:255 is the highest possible virtual network number. So I
couldn't add any more?
All you network-gurus: Please give me a hint or any pointer as
to where I can find more info on that.
Thank you so much in advance!
Andy.
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kern.log: Unable to load interpreter ???
Hi again, I am a little clueless. I had a smail configuration problem on my hamm, 2.0.33 system, so that a lot(!) of smail processes were started. Soon I couldn't start any more processes and saw this error message on the console: Unable to load interpreter And in the /var/log/kern.log: Jul 1 16:55:27 kira kernel: Unable to load interpreter What interpreter is this talking about??? Is this a bug or a feature? Thanks a lot for any hint! Andy. -- Andy Spiegl, University of Technology, Muenchen, Germany E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.spiegl.de PGP fingerprint: B8 48 24 7B DB 96 6F 1C D9 6D 8E 6C DB C2 E7 E9 o _ _ _ - __o __o /\_ _ \\o (_)\__/o (_) --- _`\,__`\,__(_) (_)/_\_| \ _|/' \/ -- (_)/ (_) (_)/ (_) (_)(_) (_)(_)' _\o_ ~~~ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Dselect-questions
According to Wolfgang Gernot Bauer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I normally do FTP-updates/installs but sometimes I download *.deb-files and install them from mounted-dir. I change access-method from ftp to mounted and update the list. Installing works well but in the select-list all packages I have installed are obsolete and the packages which are not installed are not listed. I have to wait until ftp-Packages-files change to get my list updated. Is this normal? You probably didn't download the Packages file that goes with the *deb files. I you choose update in dselect then it overwrites its internal list of available Packages (/var/lib/dpkg/available) and therefore doesn't know about the other (even already installed) packages. I hope I got that right myself. Please correct me. The way I install some separately downloaded *deb files is: dpkg -i deb-file That works and is a lot faster than going thru dselect, too. Bye, Andy. -- Andy Spiegl, University of Technology, Muenchen, Germany E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.spiegl.de PGP fingerprint: B8 48 24 7B DB 96 6F 1C D9 6D 8E 6C DB C2 E7 E9 o _ _ _ - __o __o /\_ _ \\o (_)\__/o (_) --- _`\,__`\,__(_) (_)/_\_| \ _|/' \/ -- (_)/ (_) (_)/ (_) (_)(_) (_)(_)' _\o_ ~~~ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
new install: bo or hamm?
Hi! A friend of mine asked me to install Debian on his new web and mail server. Now I am trying to decide whether I should install bo or hamm. Bo has some pretty old packages and a later upgrade to hamm would probably require to shut the system down for a while. But is hamm stable enough yet??? Thanks a lot in advance for any hint/opinion! Andy. -- Andy Spiegl, University of Technology, Muenchen, Germany E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.spiegl.de PGP fingerprint: B8 48 24 7B DB 96 6F 1C D9 6D 8E 6C DB C2 E7 E9 o _ _ _ - __o __o /\_ _ \\o (_)\__/o (_) --- _`\,__`\,__(_) (_)/_\_| \ _|/' \/ -- (_)/ (_) (_)/ (_) (_)(_) (_)(_)' _\o_ ~~~ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
command line mixer
Hi! Every time I reboot my system the volume of my soundcard is set up so high that I almost get a hard attack the first time a sound is played. Is there a utility that allows me to set the mixer via a command line program, so that I can put that into rc.boot? Thanks a lot! Andy. -- Andy Spiegl, University of Technology, Muenchen, Germany E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] OR: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.appl-math.tu-muenchen.de/~spiegl PGP fingerprint: B8 48 24 7B DB 96 6F 1C D9 6D 8E 6C DB C2 E7 E9 o _ _ _ - __o __o /\_ _ \\o (_)\__/o (_) --- _`\,__`\,__(_) (_)/_\_| \ _|/' \/ -- (_)/ (_) (_)/ (_) (_)(_) (_)(_)' _\o_ ~~~ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
What to do after rm -r /usr?
Oh, boy! A friend just called me and said he did a rm -r /usr by mistake. He did stop it after a while, though, so that he can at least still do a little bit on his system. Now, he asked me, what he should do in order to get back to a stable system again. I suggested letting dselect install all packages again. But how can he make dselect think that the packages aren't installed yet?? Or is there a better method? Please help me helping him. BTW, he has bo installed. Thanks so much in advance! Andy. Andy Spiegl, University of Technology, Muenchen, Germany E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] OR: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.appl-math.tu-muenchen.de/~spiegl PGP fingerprint: B8 48 24 7B DB 96 6F 1C D9 6D 8E 6C DB C2 E7 E9 o _ _ _ - __o __o /\_ _ \\o (_)\__/o (_) --- _`\,__`\,__(_) (_)/_\_| \ _|/' \/ -- (_)/ (_) (_)/ (_) (_)(_) (_)(_)' _\o_ ~~~ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Is there a kernel patch for Joliet CDs?
Hi! I get a lot of Joliet CDs and would like to see the long, i.e. full filenames on it. Is there a way to do that? Possibly a kernel patch somewhere? Thanks a lot in advance! Andy. Andy Spiegl, University of Technology, Muenchen, Germany E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] OR: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.appl-math.tu-muenchen.de/~spiegl PGP fingerprint: B8 48 24 7B DB 96 6F 1C D9 6D 8E 6C DB C2 E7 E9 o _ _ _ - __o __o /\_ _ \\o (_)\__/o (_) --- _`\,__`\,__(_) (_)/_\_| \ _|/' \/ -- (_)/ (_) (_)/ (_) (_)(_) (_)(_)' _\o_ ~~~ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: bootable Debian 1.3.1 CD
According to Torsten Hilbrich [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Does anybody has an Adaptec AHA 2940 and was able to boot from this (or any other) CD. I have BIOS-Version 1.21 and the ldlinux.sys died while booting from CD. Do I need a BIOS update (I couldn't find anything newer than 1.21 yet) or is there any other way to successfully boot from CD-ROM. The host adapter recognize the CD as bootable, seems to do some swaping of floppy disk and cdrom and load the ldlinux.sys code. This code fails gracefully without any further message. Same thing happening here. Don't know my BIOS Version though. Did anyone out there manage to get it to work? Andy. Andy Spiegl, University of Technology, Muenchen, Germany E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] OR: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.appl-math.tu-muenchen.de/~spiegl PGP fingerprint: B8 48 24 7B DB 96 6F 1C D9 6D 8E 6C DB C2 E7 E9 o _ _ _ - __o __o /\_ _ \\o (_)\__/o (_) --- _`\,__`\,__(_) (_)/_\_| \ _|/' \/ -- (_)/ (_) (_)/ (_) (_)(_) (_)(_)' _\o_ ~~~ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
still .forward problem
Hi! I am trying to set up a procmail filter for one of my users (kleist). I put the following in his .forward file: |IFS=' ' p=/usr/bin/procmail test -f $p exec $p -Y || exit 75 #kleist Now when I send a test mail to him, it shows up in the queue, but doesn't get delivered. It sits there for quite a while. Then - 15 to 25 minutes later - all of a sudden sendmail decides to pipe it to procmail. I guess I am doing something wrong, but I couldn't find anything in the sendmail and procmail docs. BTW, here are (parts of) what I found in /var/log/mail.log: Jan 11 14:54:37 localhost sendmail[3124]: OAA03124: to=|IFS=' ' p=/usr/bin/procmail test -f $p exec $p -Y || exit 75 #kleist, delay=00:00:00, mailer=prog, stat=queued Jan 11 15:16:31 localhost sendmail[3236]: OAA03124: to=|IFS=' ' p=/usr/bin/procmail test -f $p exec $p -Y || exit 75 #kleist, ctladdr=kleist (1005/100), delay=00:21:54, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=prog, stat=Sent I also tried a simpler .forward (|/bin/cat /tmp/abc), but same thing happened: Jan 11 15:34:33 localhost sendmail[3448]: PAA03448: to=|/bin/cat /tmp/abc, delay=00:00:00, mailer=prog, stat=queued Jan 11 15:46:31 localhost sendmail[3488]: PAA03448: to=|/bin/cat /tmp/abc, ctladdr=kleist (1005/100), delay=00:11:58, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=prog, stat=Sent Thanks a lot in advance for any help, Andy. PS: Sorry for the long lines. Andy Spiegl, University of Technology, Muenchen, Germany E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] OR: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.appl-math.tu-muenchen.de/~spiegl PGP fingerprint: B8 48 24 7B DB 96 6F 1C D9 6D 8E 6C DB C2 E7 E9 o _ _ _ - __o __o /\_ _ \\o (_)\__/o (_) --- _`\,__`\,__(_) (_)/_\_| \ _|/' \/ -- (_)/ (_) (_)/ (_) (_)(_) (_)(_)' _\o_ ~~~ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: LILO only says LI 01 01 01 01...
According to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: My experiences with this indicate that LILO CANNOT configure itself on any except the first logical drive. I didn't experiment with it, but since removeable media (jaz drive) can be /dev/sda that made my hard drive /dev/sdb. When I tried to make lilo insert itself under these conditions I got exactly the response you have described. I believe this is a bug in LILO, but I haven't tried to confirm it. Hm, on my other Debian box I got 2 SCSI drives and no IDE. Linux is installed on the second drive (sdb) and everything works as expected. Lilo issues a warning that it's not installed on the first (logical) drive, but that's intended and okay. I guess, you're right that this is a bug in Lilo, but apparently it only happens when IDE and SCSI are mixed. Any comments anyone? Bye, Andy. Andy Spiegl, University of Technology, Muenchen, Germany E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] OR: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.appl-math.tu-muenchen.de/~spiegl PGP fingerprint: B8 48 24 7B DB 96 6F 1C D9 6D 8E 6C DB C2 E7 E9 o _ _ _ - __o __o /\_ _ \\o (_)\__/o (_) --- _`\,__`\,__(_) (_)/_\_| \ _|/' \/ -- (_)/ (_) (_)/ (_) (_)(_) (_)(_)' _\o_ ~~~ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: LILO only says LI 01 01 01 01...
First of all: Thanks a lot for your fast help! According to Craig Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED]: it sounds like you forgot to reconfigure /etc/lilo.conf to write the boot record to your scsi disk instead of the ide disk. try: - power down and remove the IDE drive THAT was it! I can't believe that I actually have to physically unplug all IDE drives to get lilo to work. If I only take them out of the CMOS settings Linux still sees them and can access them. How is this possible? How does it know what type of HDs I got in there? Okay, I guess with newer HD types there are methods to query the disks. Do you guys know *why* Lilo doesn't like to see the IDE drives? I can't imagine that this is a bug in Lilo. But it's kind of awkward to open the case and unplug the drives if I want to run lilo. Maybe there is another way to do it? I tried to remove all /dev/hd*, but that didn't work either. Anyway, thanks again for the fast help! Andy. Andy Spiegl, University of Technology, Muenchen, Germany E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] OR: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.appl-math.tu-muenchen.de/~spiegl PGP fingerprint: B8 48 24 7B DB 96 6F 1C D9 6D 8E 6C DB C2 E7 E9 o _ _ _ - __o __o /\_ _ \\o (_)\__/o (_) --- _`\,__`\,__(_) (_)/_\_| \ _|/' \/ -- (_)/ (_) (_)/ (_) (_)(_) (_)(_)' _\o_ ~~~ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
LILO only says LI 01 01 01 01...
Hi! I tried switching from a IDE to a SCSI disk. I copied everything (except proc) to the new disk using tar, edited the new fstab and lilo.conf, and typed 'lilo -r /mnt'. Here's what lilo said: ide: probable bad entry for /dev/hdc ide: to fix it, run: /usr/src/linux/scripts/MAKEDEV.ide Warning: /dev/sda7 is not on the first disk ide: probable bad entry for /dev/hdc ide: to fix it, run: /usr/src/linux/scripts/MAKEDEV.ide Warning: BIOS drive 0x82 may not be accessible ide: probable bad entry for /dev/hdc ide: to fix it, run: /usr/src/linux/scripts/MAKEDEV.ide Warning: BIOS drive 0x82 may not be accessible ide: probable bad entry for /dev/hdc ide: to fix it, run: /usr/src/linux/scripts/MAKEDEV.ide Warning: BIOS drive 0x82 may not be accessible ide: probable bad entry for /dev/hdc ide: to fix it, run: /usr/src/linux/scripts/MAKEDEV.ide Warning: BIOS drive 0x82 may not be accessible Added Linux * But all I have is hda, hdb and sda! I tried remaking the /dev/hd* (on the new drive) and even tried delete them. Since Lilo only said warning, I tried booting from the new drive anyway, but all I got to see was: LI 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 ... This goes on and on until I press reset. :-( I have no idea what's going on. Can anyone help me please? Thanks so much in advance! Andy. Andy Spiegl, University of Technology, Muenchen, Germany E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] OR: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.appl-math.tu-muenchen.de/~spiegl PGP fingerprint: B8 48 24 7B DB 96 6F 1C D9 6D 8E 6C DB C2 E7 E9 o _ _ _ - __o __o /\_ _ \\o (_)\__/o (_) --- _`\,__`\,__(_) (_)/_\_| \ _|/' \/ -- (_)/ (_) (_)/ (_) (_)(_) (_)(_)' _\o_ ~~~ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: trusted hosts in a network
According to Oliver Elphick olly@lfix.co.uk: Andy Spiegl wrote: I found the man page about hosts.equiv: The hosts.equiv file allows or denies hosts and users to use the r-commands (e.g. rlogin, rsh or rcp) without sup=AD plying a password. But I can't seem to set it up correctly. I tried +mpci on one machine and +mpcii on the other (yes, those two are the host names), and I even tried a single '+', but I still get the password prompt. I just don't see what's wrong? Help, please! 1. It should be enough just to list the machine names; the `+' is unnecessary. I use the full machine and domain name, but I'm not sure if this is actually necessary. 2. The man page for rlogind says that it is possible to turn off the use of /etc/hosts.equiv or ~/.rhosts with the option `-L'. 3. If you are logged in as root, you can't use /etc/hosts.equiv. You can't use ~/.rhosts either unless rlogind is also invoked with `-h'. (That is how I interpret the man page for rlogind.) You don't want to use `-h' if your network has any exposure to the = outside world! That's how I understand the man page, too. I tried your suggestion of leaving out the '+', but the behavior didn't change. Then I read (I think in hosts.equiv man page) that everything may be different, when PAM is installed. I checked and yes, I have PAM, because SAMBA needs that. I tried to understand how to configure PAM so it would let me log in w/o password, but there is not a whole lot of docu- mentation and that didn't help me. :-( Does anyone else know enough about PAM to help me there? Or maybe I am wrong and it's not a PAM question after all? Thanks again, Andy. ___ Andy Spiegl, University of Technology, Muenchen, Germany E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] OR: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.appl-math.tu-muenchen.de/~spiegl PGP fingerprint: B8 48 24 7B DB 96 6F 1C D9 6D 8E 6C DB C2 E7 E9 o _ _ _ - __o __o /\_ _ \\o (_)\__/o (_) --- _`\,__`\,__(_) (_)/_\_| \ _|/' \/ -- (_)/ (_) (_)/ (_) (_)(_) (_)(_)' _\o_ ~~~ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
