Re: Tunnel iceweasel?
On Wednesday 26 March 2008, Rich Healey wrote: Joost Witteveen wrote: On 24/03/2008, Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 11:46:56AM +0100, Joost Witteveen wrote: On 23/03/2008, Rich Healey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to tunnel an iceweasel instance via ssh from one of my boxes at my house to remember the name of an add-on i installed. The problem is that i create a ssh session (ssh -XC ssh.psychotik.info), login and run iceweasel at the bash prompt, which takes forever, but then finally *opens a local iceweasel!!!* I suppose that iceweasel -P uniqueprofilename would do what you want? Also, it's *much* faster use vnc (tunnel through ssh): on the remote host, start: vnc4server on your localhost, start (and login to) ssh -L 5900:server:5901 server and then on the localhost (different window) vncviewer localhost:5900 The 5901 portnumer is assuming the vncserver opens a X11 screen on :1. When I start epiphany diretly over X11, it takes about 30 min to show a page; when I do it using VNC as above, it takes seconds. I run iceweasel over ssh all the time, however, I don't have it installed locally so there's no local version to run. It may take a few seconds to give the initial window, but then it displays as fast as the box can swap. The network is 100 MB/s ethernet, the box I'm sitting at is a P-II with 64 MB ram, the box I'm sshing into to run iceweasel is an AMD Athlon64 with 1 GB ram. It doesn't even take 30 minutes to show a page when I ssh from my 486 with 32 MB ram so something is wrong there. Why would VNC be faster if both are encrypted? No, over a 100Mb/s ethernet, running iceweasel over VNC probably wouldn't be much faster than directly over ssh (and running over an ssh-tunneled VNC connection would of course be slower than straigt VNC). But the OP complained iceweasel was very slow. So I suppose he didn't run it over a direct 100Mb/s connection, but over something slower, probably with larger ping times, ping times of 10-30 ms are enough to make it slow, and with slow, I mean that it can take over 20 min for iceweasel to even start showing the home page. I notice that when that happens, starting iceweasel on the remote site on a VNC X server an watching the output via a VNC viewer is a lot faster. And a lot here means just a couple of seconds to show the home page, instead of 20 min. As the OP reported using ssh, I assumed he didn't want to connect unencrypted (somethign VNC as far as I know does), so I suggested using an ssh tunnel. Hi, the issue here isn't the speed, and besides, i prefer to have it directly connected to my Xserver, rather than runnign in VNC. The point here isn't eh startup time though, it's that it starts a local iceweasel! In trying to build FF from source on my new 64 bit machine i accidentally wound up with a ff3 beta, but running that now also opens iceweasel. Somehow the binary has managed to associate EVERYTHING with itself. The real thing that does my head in is when i launch FF on another box.. it still creates a local iceweasel? this should happen AFAIK.. my starting a command on that box via should not be able to cause commands to be run on my local? Does this constitute a security issue? i'll see if i can get a PoC during the week, even if one couldn't get arbitrary code, one could still point the new iceweasel on the host machine to a site witha FF exploit. Now that i think of it.. it would be simple enough to create a free shellserver with busybox aliased to a malicious FireFox call in the system bashrc.. that'd probably do it. I'll look into it. I noticed the same slowness, tunneling via ssh via very fast connections. However, if you use the iceweasel -no-remote it seems to really help. John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Absolutely cannot write to USB drive
On Tuesday 08 January 2008, Dotan Cohen wrote: I have a 2GB Sandisk Cruzer USB drive that I removed the U3 garbage from. I formatted the disk as FAT in a friend's WindowsXP machine. Now, any Windows machine can read and write to the disk, and my Fedora desktop can read and write to it as a regular user. However, my Ubuntu Feisty 7.04 laptop can only write as root. I have this is my fstab (yes, it is the correct device): /dev/sdb1 /media/usb auto rw,users,noauto 0 0 However, HAL does not auto mount so I must manually mount it: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ mount -o rw /dev/sdb1 /media/usb/ mount: only root can do that [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo mount -o rw /dev/sdb1 /media/usb/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo chown feisty /media/usb/ chown: changing ownership of `/media/usb/': Operation not permitted As you can see, despite the users option in fstab, only root can mount. And even then, I cannot change the user. What is to be done? Ideally, HAL would automount this device such that users could write to it. What are your groups that you belong to? You might have to add yourself to the plugdev group. Here are my groups and I can do the usb drive thing: dialout cdrom floppy audio video plugdev fuse powerdev John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: tapes best for backup?
On Friday 04 January 2008, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 09:12:19AM -0800, David Brodbeck wrote: On Jan 4, 2008, at 7:38 AM, Larry Irwin wrote: I would not buy a used tape drive. They're finicky mechanical devices and you really want a warranty. Every time I've bought a used tape drive thinking I was getting a good deal it's died within a month. Which puts DLTs out of reach for the home user. Which means that either I archive to less reliable media (CD/DVD, hard disk) or keep everything online and only do backups with no archives. Glossary: backup: copy everything from the main computer and leave all data on the main computer. archive: copy data important for long-term use (e.g. financial records, family pictures or videos) and possibly remove them from the main computer. Doug. Doug, Have you considered an online storage site such as rsync.net? Given that you are connecting to the internet via dial-up, this option may not be viable. John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
build dependency removal
Hi, I am implementing a script that installs packages for Etch in a chroot. However, there are a couple of packages in Sid that I need. I download the source and the build dependencies via: apt-get -y build-dep $i apt-get -y source --compile $i I would like to remove the build dependencies from the install process automatically. Other than doing a dpkg --get-selections prior to the build and after the build and removing the differences, is there a way to use dpkg to show what the build dependicies are and removing them via dpkg -P ? I am aware of pbuilder, but since I am installing in a chroot, I wasn't sure how pbuilder would work in a chroot. Thanks, John Schmidt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PII fast enough for firewall
On Sunday 02 December 2007, John Schmidt wrote: Hi, I have a 15K Mbs connection (up/down) to my house (fiber to the home). I have a Buffalo router that connects to my WAN and then one of the LAN ports on this router connects to my IPCOP firewall that is running on a PII -- 400 MHz box with 64 MB of RAM. When I do a speed test from my box behind my IPCOP firewall, I get about 10K Mbs up/down. If I move the connection to one of the Buffalo router LAN connections, I get the advertised 15K Mbs up/down speed. So routing traffic thru the IPCOP firewall slows things down quite a bit. Is this to be expected? I was thinking of changing the firewall to a debian box running shorewall, and was wondering if I could tweak the firewall/router to not slow things down appreciably like the ipcop box is doing. Thanks, John Schmidt To follow up on my issues with network speeds coming out of my firewall, I am a bit embarrassed to admit that I had an old ISA 10 Mbps card connecting to my LAN which was the culprit. During the process of figuring things out, I removed my IPCOP configuration and installed Etch + shorewall + faster NIC on the same box and am now seeing roughly 15 Mbps connections like I am supposed to from my firewalled connections. I had to learn a bit about shorewall configuration and ensuring that my 2 NICS were consistently labeled via udev (which fortunately happens automatically). I am much more comfortable with my debian setup than messing around with ipcop's web browser configuration. John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
changing hwclock's timezone
Hi, I have a friend whose time is being reported incorrectly with the date command and the hwclock command. Both commands are reporting the commands in UTC instead of the eastern timezone. He just installed ntp on his box. His /etc/timezone is America/New_York The output of the date and hwclock commands: sh-3.1# date Wed Dec 12 21:52:41 UTC 2007 sh-3.1# date -u Wed Dec 12 21:52:46 UTC 2007 sh-3.1# hwclock Wed 12 Dec 2007 04:22:58 PM UTC -0.780500 seconds On my debian boxes, the hwclock reports the time using my timezone. I am guessing that the problem was the use of UTC instead of EST. I tried to have him adjust the hwclock, but couldn't get the right syntax. So the questions are: 1. Would manually setting the time via the date command to something close to the correct time fix things so that ntp would eventually sync things up, since the time difference is too big for ntp to work? 2. Do I have to set the time via the hwclock? If so, how do I do that? I didn't have him check the bios to see what the time is reporting there. Thanks, John Schmidt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PII fast enough for firewall
On Sunday 02 December 2007, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sun, Dec 02, 2007 at 09:22:44PM -0700, John Schmidt wrote: Hi, I have a 15K Mbs connection (up/down) to my house (fiber to the home). ---^^^ I've never seen this. Do you mean 15 Gbps or what? Regards, Andrei Oops, big typo, should have read 15 Mbps connection. John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
PII fast enough for firewall
Hi, I have a 15K Mbs connection (up/down) to my house (fiber to the home). I have a Buffalo router that connects to my WAN and then one of the LAN ports on this router connects to my IPCOP firewall that is running on a PII -- 400 MHz box with 64 MB of RAM. When I do a speed test from my box behind my IPCOP firewall, I get about 10K Mbs up/down. If I move the connection to one of the Buffalo router LAN connections, I get the advertised 15K Mbs up/down speed. So routing traffic thru the IPCOP firewall slows things down quite a bit. Is this to be expected? I was thinking of changing the firewall to a debian box running shorewall, and was wondering if I could tweak the firewall/router to not slow things down appreciably like the ipcop box is doing. Thanks, John Schmidt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: No sound with video
On Thursday 15 November 2007, Ralph Katz wrote: On 11/15/2007 11:50 AM, Tom Ashley wrote: I'm stumped and need help with configuring my computer for sound with video. I can play CD's and listen to audio streams but get no sound with video feeds (CNN, MSNBC, You Tube, etc.). I've searched the list archives and Google for the past 3 days finding similar problems but none of the solutions help in my situation. I'm running Debian Etch on a P4 with 2GB RAM; sound card is C-Media Electronics Inc CM8738 (rev 10). The permissions are okay; my user name is in the audio group. If I understand correctly, ALSA is correctly configured and activated. Per cat /proc/modules: I'd appreciate if anyone can offer a solution or point me in the right direction. Thanks in advance. Hi Tom -- Yes, it's frustrating. Search for my posts here in 2007 for my struggles and solutions with sound on etch. You have sound, you say. But not with video. Which players work/don't work? Sound with flash running thru a browser is different from sound from an mpeg4 file playing on mplayer. If you use mplayer, what's in .mplayer/config? This list is the right place. Just provide some more detail, and the experts will jump in after we mere mortals swing and miss. :-P Good luck, Ralph Hi, If you are using xine as your engine, and trying to play mp3s, then you need to make sure you have the following installed: libxine1-ffmpeg Once you install that, then go into your home directory and remove the .xine/. I was having problems listening to mp3 streams and doing the above resolved my problems. I note that using the mplayer engine in kmplayer worked fine however, if switching to the xine engine for kmplayer or amarok, mp3s wouldn't play without the addition of libxine1-ffmpeg library. The above assumes you are using the xine engine for your sound. If you are using other engines, this fix shouldn't resolve your problem. John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Kppp
On Sunday 11 November 2007, Darko wrote: Charlie wrote: On Sun, 11 Nov 2007, Darko shared this with us all: --} Andrew Sackville-West wrote: --} On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 06:43:28PM +0100, Darko wrote: In a terminal as root do: adduser whoever you are dialout Consider using pon maybe? You might like to install pon and pppconfig to make it work and add yourself to the dip group. As above, but put in dip instead of dialout. HTH Charlie Thanks Charli but kppp still not working does some one have an idea? Darko Did you log out and then log back in? When adding yourself to a new group, it is easiest to just log out and log back in so the change will take effect. There are other ways to do it, but that is the easiest. John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
kppp groups
If you are trying to use the kppp program, you need to be part of the dip group: -rwsr-xr-- 1 root dip 1211176 2007-10-15 07:16 /usr/bin/kppp John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: rsync question
On Friday 09 November 2007, John O Laoi wrote: Also, I get confused sometimes on the effects of a trailing slash on source and target arguments. Check for a ~/Documents/Documents/ directory or something. You are all correct. There is a ~/Documents/Documents/. I must be using it incorrectly - I'll be more careful in future. John Here is what I do with rsync: rsync -aPn directory machineB:~/directory The 'n' option just does a dry run. After you are convinced things are working then remove the 'n' option. If you put a trailing slash on the first directory, i.e. rsync -aPn directory/ machineB:~/directory you will get a new directory created on machineB, i.e. ~/directory/directory John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Driver loaded, now, how do I access the camera? (WAS: Re: Intel Deluxe PC Camera )
On Tuesday 06 November 2007, Marc Shapiro wrote: So my drivers seem to be loaded. Now, how do I access the camera, so that I can capture an image to be processed? I am currently thinking of using opencv through either C/C++ or Python. How would I access the camera to generate an image (probably jpeg) that I could then save to disk or, preferably, pipe to opencv? -- Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] I played around with camstream which is a debian package and it might work for your needs. John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ssh port not opening
On Monday 05 November 2007, John O Laoi wrote: On 11/5/07, Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ssh-agent is *not* the program that allows ssh connections. That is sshd. It should be started with /etc/ini.d/ssh start as root. Is there no output when you do that? Anything in the logs? However, I cannot ssh into my host. The contents of /etc/default/ssh is that's because sshd is not running and needs to be. But the file /etc/init.d/sshd does not exist. The only such file in /etc/init.d is ssh. How do I check the logs? John Do this: dpkg --get-selections | grep ssh and send the results. I am wondering if you have the openssh-server installed. You can get everything by just doing aptitude install ssh. John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ssh port not opening
On Monday 05 November 2007, John O Laoi wrote: # dpkg --get-selections | grep ssh openssh-client install openssh-server deinstall # Thanks to everyone for your help. Maybe I should remove ssh and reinstall? aptitude install openssh-server This should solve your problems. John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Intel Deluxe PC Camera
On Sunday 04 November 2007, Marc Shapiro wrote: Well, I tried to follow the above instructions, but... I didn't have the kernel headers for my 2.6.16 kernel and they do not seem to be available in the Etch repository. I took this as a sign that it was time to upgrade my kernel and upgraded to 2.6.22-3-k7 from backports. Then I reran module-assistant. This time, m-a found and downloaded the kernel headers. I then selected the module to compile. The gspca-source was not listed, so I used the spca5xx-source. When I tried to build the sources, however, the build failed. The logfile contained nothing but the date and time, so I have no specific errors to report. It may be that the problem is using spca5xx-source instead of gspca-source, but that was not listed as an option. If I download it manually, might m-a find it and allow me to use it. Any ideas on what I should try next? -- Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marc, You have a couple of options, one is to upgrade your etch to the current 2.6.18-5 kernel and then build the spca module. I built the spca module from source with 2.6.18 kernel. The spca5 source doesn't build with the newer kernels 2.6.22. You need to use the gspca-source. I am running testing/unstable, and gspca-source is available in testing/unstable repositories. If you grab the 2.6.22 from backports, they might also have that source package. Otherwise you could just grab it from a debian repository or use apt-pinning to pin a lower priority for lenny/testing and and then grab the gspca source. I am using the gspca module for my web cam, so do know that the module builds with 2.6.22. John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Intel Deluxe PC Camera
On Sunday 04 November 2007, Marc Shapiro wrote: It looks like the driver module that I need is spca501. There is a source package for Etch: spca5xx-source What is the best way to compile this? I generally just use stock kernels and the modules that come with them so I am unfamiliar with compiling modules separately for a kernel that I already have. Once I do have the module compiled, will udev/hotplug load the driver at boot-up, or should I add it to /etc/modules? -- Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marc, I use module-assitant and modconf (apt-get install module-assistant modconf) to manage modules that I have to compile. Do this: sudo m-a It will put up a dialogue box, and then you need to first prepare the build by downloading the kernel headers. Then choose select and check the spca5xx-source, and it should download it for you. Then build it and install it. These are all menu selectable items in module assitant. Then I use modconf to select the modules so load. With those two toosl, dealing with modules is really quite straightforward and painless. John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
chroot testing of apache installation with multiple fqdn
Hi, I am testing out the installation of some software that involves specifying hostname information for the install. I have set up a minimal chroot environment and downloaded all of the debian packages and the other software that is needed to build it. I am using this on my laptop that is brought back and forth from home to work. While at work, I have a static routable address assigned to me via dhcp. At home, the laptop sits on my private lan with a 192.168.1.*. statically assigned. One of the pieces of software I install is apache and a routeable address/hostname is required as part of the install procedure for apache and some of the other software. If I do the install testing from home with my 192.168.1.* address in my chroot environment, things work fine. However, if I am at work testing the install done at home, then the apache web server won't be able to start. Likewise, installs done at work and then tested at home have issues when starting apache. Is there a way to set up my chroot environment (or perhaps it is an apache issue) that allows me the freedom to move the machine from one network to another and just always go to the localhost instead of the actual machine name/routeable address while still allow apache to start up regardless of where the initial apache installation was done? Thanks for any insight into this matter. John Schmidt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Speeding up boot time
On Wednesday 21 March 2007 18:39, Michael Pobega wrote: I'm looking to speed up my Debian Etch boot speed, but I have no idea where to start. Currently I have everything default, but I'd like to remove a few things (Like networking, because networking tries to connect to my Ethernet and my wireless drivers are loaded separately). Are there any easy tools to look through my startup programs, or will I have to sort through everything manually? And if I remove networking, how do I go about using modprobe to start up my Ethernet in case I ever want to use it/need it at another time (i.e. When there is a new Debian kernel release I have to reinstall my wireless before I can do anything)? You should take a look at installing ifplugd (apt-cache show ifplugd) ifupdown, and guessnet. This should allow you to boot normally without having the network timeout if you do not have a cable plugged in for your ethernet connection. John Schmidt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Speeding up boot time
On Wednesday 21 March 2007 19:45, Michael Pobega wrote: On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 07:32:26PM -0600, John Schmidt wrote: On Wednesday 21 March 2007 18:39, Michael Pobega wrote: I'm looking to speed up my Debian Etch boot speed, but I have no idea where to start. Currently I have everything default, but I'd like to remove a few things (Like networking, because networking tries to connect to my Ethernet and my wireless drivers are loaded separately). Are there any easy tools to look through my startup programs, or will I have to sort through everything manually? And if I remove networking, how do I go about using modprobe to start up my Ethernet in case I ever want to use it/need it at another time (i.e. When there is a new Debian kernel release I have to reinstall my wireless before I can do anything)? You should take a look at installing ifplugd (apt-cache show ifplugd) ifupdown, and guessnet. This should allow you to boot normally without having the network timeout if you do not have a cable plugged in for your ethernet connection. John Schmidt Do you recommend any of those, or would I be safe with just ifplugd and ifupdown in case that fails? I think ifplugd and ifupdown would be sufficient for your needs. John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Speeding up boot time
On Wednesday 21 March 2007 20:19, Michael Pobega wrote: On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 09:05:55PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/21/07 20:44, Michael Pobega wrote: On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 08:12:37PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 03/21/07 19:39, Michael Pobega wrote: Are there any easy tools to look through my startup programs, or will I have to sort through everything manually? It's not as much as you think. And if I remove networking, how do I go about using modprobe to start up my Ethernet in case I ever want to use it/need it at another time (i.e. When there is a new Debian kernel release I have to reinstall my wireless before I can do anything)? Run ls -1 /etc/init.d and post it here. That will tell us what you can deinstall. My first pass at things you *might* be able to remove are: apache2 avahi-daemon bittorrent clamav-freshclam hyperestraier mysql* nfs-common And to remove these I just remove them from /etc/init.d? If you don't use them, then I would do this: sudo aptitude purge apache2 avahi-daemon bittorrent clamav-freshclam hyperestraier mysql* nfs-common BTW, where's your MTA? I don't see exim4 or postfix. I just use Google's SMTP server, I have no need to have my own outgoing server. What are the advantages to running an MTA? What are the disadvantages? advantages: running a local mta for reporting issues with your system, i.e. logcheck, rkhunter and having the results mailed to you. It can be configured to just do local delivery and with exim4 and the debconf questions that are asked, it is very easy to configure for local delivery. disadvantages: one more thing to worry about, but with a local delivery configuration I can't see any disadvantages. John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Speeding up boot time
On Wednesday 21 March 2007 20:24, Michael Pobega wrote: Also, I forgot to ask. Would it be safe to remove networking from /etc/init.d, and just switch to using ifupdown? I would just install ifplugd and configure it and see if it doesn't help alievate the time delay that occurs if you don't have a network cable plugged in. I wouldn't remove networking from /etc/init.d unless ifplugd does NOT solve your problem. John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
internal lan configuration and web address issues
Hi, I have a home DSL connection with a static IP assigned. The DSL modem is fed into one a ipcop firewall with port forwarding for port 25 and 80 directed to my webserver/mailserver in my DMZ zone. Machines in the green zone of my LAN cannot access my registered domain name, i.e. www.domain.org instead it returns the web interface to my DSL modem. Specifying the 192.168.1.100 gets me to my webserver. Outside of my LAN, accessing my registered hostname returns me to my webserver and not my DSL modem. I have registered my domain with no-ip.com using their basic host registration services. With this service, my host type is DNS Host (A) and is specified on no-ip.com 's management web front end. With this set up, I assumed that I don't have to do DNS on my end, since they are taking care of it. Is this an incorrect assumption on my part? My DNS Text Record is set as follows: v = spf1 a mx ptr I am not doing DNS on my machines. I tried editing my /etc/hosts file to specify the 192.168.1.100 for the registered hostname, but it instead returns the registered IP address when I ping my hostname or use lynx to access it from an internal LAN machine. Outside of my LAN, I can access the webserver just fine using the registered hostname. Is there a way to configure things so that machines on my LAN can access the web server using the registered name. Would this require that I do DNS on my machines? Thanks, John Schmidt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: internal lan configuration and web address issues
On Friday 16 March 2007 14:18, John Schmidt wrote: Hi, I have a home DSL connection with a static IP assigned. The DSL modem is fed into one a ipcop firewall with port forwarding for port 25 and 80 directed to my webserver/mailserver in my DMZ zone. Machines in the green zone of my LAN cannot access my registered domain name, i.e. www.domain.org instead it returns the web interface to my DSL modem. Specifying the 192.168.1.100 gets me to my webserver. Outside of my LAN, accessing my registered hostname returns me to my webserver and not my DSL modem. I tried editing my /etc/hosts file to specify the 192.168.1.100 for the registered hostname, but it instead returns the registered IP address when I ping my hostname or use lynx to access it from an internal LAN machine. I had mistyped my registered hostname in the /etc/hosts file. The correct entry allows my internal lan machines to access the webserver. John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Is that all there is to it??
On Tuesday 13 March 2007 14:19, Jim Hyslop wrote: OK, so I installed Sarge on my machine. The other day, I decided to upgrade to Etch. I modified the sources file, changing stable to etch, and ran `apt-get --ignore-hold dist-upgrade`. After sorting out one minor issue with inetd, apg-get reports everything's OK, and the /etc/debian_version file reports '4.0'. U... is that it?!? Is it really that simple to upgrade? -- Yep, pretty impressive! John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sparse matrix computation package
On Wednesday 07 March 2007 02:53, Chris Bannister wrote: On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 05:59:18PM -0500, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: Micha Feigin wrote: I am trying to find a package for performing sparse matrix computations. All I could find under debian is superlu and libufsparse. Both of which seem to only solve sparse linear systems but not perform sparse matrix-vector computations (I need to implement so iterative and multigrid methods for block tridiagonal matrices, so banded matrices as appear in lapack too many extra zero lines). What a coincidence. I am also looking for similar thing - iterative solver Ask on the debian-science list. -- Look at petsc and hypre both available in debian. In our project we have used both to solve big sparse systems of equations on over 1000 processors. John Schmidt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: backup/restore
On Thursday 15 February 2007 14:28, Casey T. Deccio wrote: I'm looking for a solution to temporarily backup then restore a Debian install--preserving the filesystem contents and attributes. The caveat is that the capacity of the drive I'll be restoring to is smaller (all other hardare is unchanged). I wasn't sure if there was a way to do this with dd because of the smaller drive on the restore. Initially, I used 'rsync -avH --delete --no-numeric-ids src server:dst' to send everything to another server and back. The number of files (including links, etc.) seemed to check out, but disk usage (using 'du -cs /') was different before and after (block size on the filesystem was the same as before). Plus I was not sure if extended attributes were transfered with the files. You might want to consider mondo or partimage for this task. John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Fonts problem on Debian Etch
On Wednesday 31 January 2007 18:00, David Shultz wrote: I've installed debian etch(daily built). And i gotta say it's impressive. Now i have a problem. The problem is related to the display of fonts on screen. Fonts that are displayed on screen are partly blurry and partly ok. Even the cursor is like that. Is it possible to fix this? Thanks. --David David, Please check to see if you have the package fontconfig-config installed. If so, then do this as root: dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig-config I have a laptop, so my settings may be different, but playing around with fontconfig-config dramatically improved my fonts under kde. First screen shows: Native Autohinter None I selected Autohinter Next screen shows enable subpixel screen rendering: Automatic Always Never I selected: Automatic Next screen shows enable bitmapped fonts by default: Yes No I selected: No I then logged out, and restarted the xserver just to be sure, and my fonts were significantly improved. John Schmidt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ldap + pam howto?
On Tuesday 30 January 2007 10:04, Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote: Hi, I am using Testing, and I want to setup the debian way an LDAP + pam authentication system for system users. Would you know a recent howto talking about that? I dont need generic howto, I am interested in the debian specific way. Thanks a lot! See the following web page: http://people.debian.org/~torsten/ldapnss.html John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how manage pasword with ldap
On Friday 19 January 2007 01:54, abdelkader belahcene wrote: Hi, I am looking for a simple example or doc, for authentification via ldap. I have a lab with 20 machines where the students can use anyone at anytime, so I want to centralise the authentification ( login and password). something like perhaps NIS ?? thanks for replay bela Take a look at this: http://people.debian.org/~torsten/ldapnss.html I then used the package cpu to manage adding users and groups to my ldap server. I am sure there are better tools such as luma, etc. However, cpu (debian package) was all I needed for my simple set up (much like what you are looking to do but with fewer machines). John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
recommended network/server layout for website, email, and backup hosting
Hi, I would like to host several low traffic web sites at my home with some older computers (400 Mhz P2) that I have laying around. I would like to get some recommendations on effective ways of setting up my set of computers that would provide a web server, and email server and back up servers. A big reason for doing this is to learn about more what all is involved and don't mind digging into details but would like to ensure that I reasonably aware of what I am getting into and potential pitfalls and security issues. I have a static IP with an IPCOP firewall (with 3 NICs), and a internal LAN with several machines running debian behind the firewall. Nothing is hanging off my DMZ right now. I block everything coming into my firewall except ssh traffic. These web sites would be publically accessible with low traffic volumes. In addition, I forsee email hosting for each of the domains. I would not have that many email accounts (not more than 10-20). I figured that exim with the ability to do multiple hosting would suffice. I would probably set up a couple of mailing lists as well using something like mailman. I would like to set up my email server with imap, and pop cabilities for both the publically accessible domains and my own personal email access. I would like to have a couple of machines set up in my LAN that would be able to provide two levelsof backups for my configurations, both internal LAN backups and DMZ level backups (web server and email server). Initially, I was thinking that I would put two machines in my DMZ zone, one acting as a web server and one acting as an email server. My two backup machines would be in my LAN along with my fileserver and another development machine. Regarding server security (email and web server), I have the following questions? 1. Because the machines are slow, would it be better to have the two machines do some sort of load balancing or would it be better to have a separation of responsibilities? 2. Would it be better (security wise) to have my email server located in my LAN and not in my DMZ zone and just tunnel port 25 traffic through? 3. I know nothing about DNS, and figured that I would let someone like no-ip.com provide this service for me. Or would it be fairly straightforward to do my own DNS hosting and combine two of my machines for doing primary and secondary DNS with other responsibilities, i.e. email/DNS on one machine, DNS/web server on another? Is it possible to have my DNS machines inside my LAN, or is it necessary to have both primary and secondary DNS machines in my DMZ for better security. 4. For imap and pop stuff can the imap server be inside my LAN and access be tunneled through as needed. 5. Should any server, i.e. mail, imap,pop, web be located in the DMZ zone so if they are hacked, my internal LAN machines are safer? 6. Are there some suggested or best practices for having my machines in the DMZ access my back up servers? Thanks, John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bash script question
On Thursday 07 December 2006 11:16, Nate Bargmann wrote: Since there is a lot of knowledge on this list, I thought I'd aske here. This may be trivial, but I'm not even sure how to search for what I want to do. I have a directory of files that are created daily using filename-`date +%Y%m%d`.tar.gz so I have a directory with files whose names advance from filename-20061201.tar.gz to filename-20061202.tar.gz to filename-20061203.tar.gz and so on. Based on the date in the filename, I would like to delete any than are X days older than today's date. So, I'm not interested in the actual created/modified date, just the numeric string in the name. This will require some debugging on your part, but hopefully this will be pretty straightforward old_date=20061201 for file_name in *tar.gz; do file_to_remove_date=echo $file_name | tr -d [:alpha:] | tr -d [=-=]; if test $file_to_remove_date -le $old_date; then echo rm $file_name; fi done There are certainly better ways to do this. You can do a man tr to see what the above is doing. John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: inserting mouse module in bootup
On Monday 27 November 2006 08:03, Sam Rosenfeld wrote: I would like to insert a mouse module somewhere in the kernel boot up. I am currently typing modprobe mousedev to enable the mouse and therefore X, too. Is there a config file for this? Thanks. Sam Install the program modconf (aptitude install modconf). The start it up as root and goto the menu item /kernel/drivers/input and select mousedev. Exit out of program and the appropriate files should be updated with the mousedev module. You then should be able to access your mouse without having to do the modprobe thing. John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Replacing Gnome with KDE
On Monday 27 November 2006 17:55, Arlie Stephens wrote: I made the mistake of selecting 'workstation' when installing etch. It managed to do the X installation correctly, without needing to be rescued manually, which is way better than I've seen from earlier debians. That's the good news. The _bad_ news is that it installed gnome, and apparantly only gnome. I used aptitude to select any packages that looked like they might be part of kde, and remove any packages that looked like they might be part of the guts of gnome. The result is a mess. I appear to be running kdm (according to ps), but the result has the look and feel of nothing much. If it's kde, it's sure changed - a lot. I'm not sure whether the problem is that I'm missing a few pieces of kde, still have gnome bits running that shouldn't be, or simply that the various package installation scripts emphatically failed to do the right thing. At this point, the system is only usable if I bypass X entirely - there's no way to get a shell window inside X. There's also no control center, or any of the other things that ought to be on the icon/menu bar that normally loves at the bottom of the screen. Any suggestions for how to fix this mess? At the moment, the best thing I can think of would be to reinstall, with tasksel/kde-desktop. I'd prefer something a little less drastic. -- Arlie (Arlie Stephens [EMAIL PROTECTED]) The easiest thing to do is to get a listing of the packages installed: dpkg --get-selections Then you can search for gnome packages, i.e dpkg --get-selections | grep gnome Once you get a listing of the packages, then you can start removing them, i.e. aptitude purge gnome_package_name For instance, it looks like you probably have gnome-core installed, so doing this would remove quite a bit of gnome: aptitude purge gnome-core Keep doing dpkg --get-selections | grep gnome and the aptitude purge to remove packages. Also, you may want to make sure you get rid of gdm if you can, i.e. aptitude purge gdm Then you can install kde, i.e. aptitude install kde kdm (just to be sure) It should drag in a bunch of packages. If it doesn't then you can drag in the meta packages for the different areas, like kdenetwork, kdebase, kdeutils, etc. aptitutude install kdebase kdenetwork kdeutils You can use the command apt-cache show kde to get a listing of what packages are connected to the package kde. Note this is all command line stuff. I am sure you can do the same thing with the aptitude front-end, I just don't use aptitude that way so I can't offer any advice. John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: IBM eServer x series 206 RH-to-Debian migration
On Thursday 09 November 2006 12:34, Lee Whalen wrote: Greetings all, long-time Debian user, first-time poster here. So, I've got a predicament. I need to get Debian Etch on a box that is already an in-production HeadRat Enterprise server (RHEL 3.0 Typhoon 6), running a few production apps (Apache with a handful of VHosts, postfix, a ticketing system we use called GForge and it's attendant Postgres database, and a few NFS mounts). The company I work for no longer wants to pay the HeadRat extortion fee just to be able to download package updates and whatnot, so I am tasked with migrating all of our HeadRat servers over to Debian. snip For those of you who managed to read this far (go YOU!) does that sound feasible, or am I doing far, far too much work? Many thanks for your assistance! --Lee Lee, You might want to take a look at: http://twiki.iwethey.org/Main/DebianChrootInstall for doing a chroot install. I have never done this, but it might be a useful method for getting Debian installed with minimal interruption to your current system. John Schmidt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: routing only certain traffic through vpn?
On Thursday 19 October 2006 12:31, Matt Price wrote: On 10/19/06, Jacob S [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 19 Oct 2006 11:03:20 -0400 Matt Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, i'm wondering whether it's possible to route only certain internet traffic through a vpn, or to exclude certain ip addresses/ranges from the vpn. my situation is as follows: I work mostly from home and rely on the university's vpn to be able to access online journals. ths works fine., but when I'm connected to the vpn I can't send mail from my home email account (postfix doesn't work properly). I'm wondering whether I could contact my smtp host from outside of the vpn somehow. has anyone tried this and/or any suggestions? This sounds like you don't have your routing setup properly. I use a vpn regularly for work and only traffic going to their range of ip addresses goes through the vpn. What does route -n show on your computer? And how do you connect to the internet? to answer both of your questions: The vpn server runs openvpn, which I also use on my computer as a client. this vpn sends all internet traffic through itself; I imagine but don't know for sure that this is done with the redirect-gateway directive as described in the openvpn howto: http://openvpn.net/howto.html#redirect when I'm connected, route -n shows: n$ route -n Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface 128.100.56.140 192.168.2.1 255.255.255.255 UGH 0 0 0 eth1 142.150.248.1 142.150.248.165 255.255.255.255 UGH 0 0 0 tun0 142.150.248.165 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH0 0 0 tun0 192.168.70.00.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 vmnet1 192.168.2.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth1 172.16.137.00.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 vmnet8 0.0.0.0 142.150.248.165 0.0.0.0 UG0 00 tun0 (vmware server is up, I guess that's what the vmnet1 is about) this is all uninterpretable to me so help welcome... thanks, matt With the vpnc client which is probably not what your are using, you can specify target networks in the config file located in /etc/vpnc/example.conf. Perhaps the openvpn client would have something similar where you can route only a certain range of traffic through that tunnel. John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to PIN a package?
On Monday 16 October 2006 00:26, Mirto Silvio Busico wrote: Hi all, I didn't get any answer. Is it a really stupid question? (or I missed the replay?) Please help me: I need to PIN a package, but the documentation doesn't help. Regards Mirto Mirto Silvio Busico wrote: Hi all, I had to downgrade openoffice to version 2.0.3. Now I need to avoid that this package will b e upgraded again. Following the manuals I put in apt files (in /etc/apt): apt.conf: - --- APT::Authentication::TrustCDROM true; AcquireProxy false; APT::Default-Release testing; - --- preferences: - --- Package: openoffice.org* Pin: version 2.0.3* Pin-Priority: 10001 - --- But apt-get update; apt-get -s dist-upgrade tell me that apt still want to upgrade openoffice to the 2.0.4~rc3-1 version. What I'm doing wrong, or what is missing? Mirto -- __ Try doing this as root: aptitude hold openoffice.org Then try and do an aptitude upgrade to see if the above took effect (it should). John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: LDAP howto?
On Tuesday 03 October 2006 17:28, Ishwar Rattan wrote: Pointers to good LDAP-howto for server coniguration details. -ishwar This is where I started: http://people.debian.org/~torsten/ldapnss.html John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: automounting usb-storage 2
On Wednesday 04 October 2006 13:37, Bernd Kloss wrote: Hello, I read the thread contributed by Florian e.al.. I have the same/similar problem (etch/KDE3.5.4) Plugging in USB-device the automounter pops up with tree options: open in new window play with kaffeine do nothing Choosing new window I get an empty window /system/media/sda1 and the konqueror-Message: A security policy in place prevents this sender from sending this message to this recipient, see message bus configuration file (rejected message had interface org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume member mount error name (unset) destination org.freedesktop.Hal) dpkg -l udev\* hal\* dbus\* pmount == +++---= === ii dbus 0.92-2 simple interprocess messaging system un dbus-1 none (no description) ii dbus-1-utils 0.92-2 simple interprocess messaging system (utilities) un dbus-qt-1none (no description) un dbus-qt-1c2 none (no description) ii hal 0.5.7.1-2Hardware Abstraction Layer un hal-device-manager none (no description) ii pmount 0.9.13-1+b1 mount removable devices as normal user ii udev 0.100-1 /dev/ and hotplug management daemon What can I do to let every user read its USB-stick? Thank You! Make sure you have your users in the plugdev and powerdev groups. In addition, I had to edit the file /etc/dbus-1/system.d/hal.conf. My version is attached. John
Re: wired or not wired, that's the question
On Wednesday 04 October 2006 16:16, wimpunk wrote:
Hi,
I'm running debian testing on my laptop and I have a question about
choosing a configuration.
I use my laptop on wired and wireless environments. At this moment I
switch manually but I want to get it done automaticly: if there's a
wire plugged in (with signal) try to use it and if no signal, try to
get wireless up. Has anyone a suggestion on how to do it?
Tnx,
wimpunk.
Use a combination of ifplugd and guessnet.
ifplugd will check to see if you are ethernet cable is plugged in or wlan is
up.
guessnet when appropriately configured via /etc/network/interfaces will choose
which network to associate with.
Be sure to read /usr/share/doc/{guessnet,ifplugd}/README.gz
John
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Re: fonts messed up
On Wednesday 23 August 2006 07:41, Lorenzo Bettini wrote: Hi after a recent upgrade (unstable) all my fonts are almost complitely messed up. I cannot use KDE since almost everything text is missing, and also gnome is barely usable (most text disappear from menus and terminal in general)... any clue please? Go into the Control Center, select Appearance Themes, select Fonts. Then turn off and then on the Anti-aliasing button. Log out and log back in. See if that doesn't fix things. John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Pumping Gas in Oregon (WAS: Re: Osama Bin Laden Take Over List!)
On Tuesday 22 August 2006 17:35, Paul Johnson wrote: On Tuesday 22 August 2006 12:25, Joey Hess wrote: Paul Johnson wrote: On Tuesday 22 August 2006 07:30, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: Hi! It could be possible to use this list for what was created: Debian related questions *only*? Sorry, this list was made for Debian users. Go read lists.debian.org again. You seem to have missed the word Support in the mailing list description[1]. It's hard to support people when I'm busy downloading the incessant nonsense about Oregon that you manage to turn any thread you touch into. debian-user: Help and discussion among users of Debian I'm not seeing support there. Perhaps you're speaking a different version of English than the rest of us learned. See this link: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/ debian-user mailing list Help and discussion among users of Debian Support for Debian users who speak English. (High-volume mailing list.) This list is not moderated; posting is allowed by anyone. Posting address: debian-user@lists.debian.org Read the line that says, Support for Debian users who speak English. How about getting a clue! John Schmidt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
dma errors
Hi,
I have two IDE drives connected together using lvm. The drives are quite new,
the motherboard is quite old. I put a single ext3 partition on top of lvm
which is used for temporary large data sets. I get the following error
messages from dmesg:
EXT3 FS on dm-0, internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
hde: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hde: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
ide: failed opcode was: unknown
hde: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x20
hde: DMA timeout retry
PDC202XX: Primary channel reset.
PDC202XX: Secondary channel reset.
hde: timeout waiting for DMA
hde: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x21
hde: DMA timeout error
hde: dma timeout error: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest }
ide: failed opcode was: unknown
hde: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x21
hde: DMA timeout error
hde: dma timeout error: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest }
ide: failed opcode was: unknown
hde: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x21
hde: DMA timeout error
hde: dma timeout error: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest }
ide: failed opcode was: unknown
What would be the source of these errors and how should I go about fixing
them?
Thanks,
John
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Turning on direct rendering with an ATI card
Hi, I am trying to turn on direct rendering using the Xorg (from unstable, along with the linux-image-2.6.16-1-k7 from unstable) ATI driver with no success. The machine is at a remote location which makes the problem a bit tougher to debug. I have turned on direct rendering on several machines (my laptop with ATI card is one), so I have some experience, and things usually just work with little futzing around. The user has reported that glxinfo indicates that direct rendering is not turned on. lsmod shows that drm and agpgart modules are loaded along with the associated nvidia_agp module. Doing a grep on drm from dmesg shows that the R300 drm microcode is loaded. The Xorg.log indicates that the ati driver is used and that direct rendering is activated. The /dev/dri/card0 is probed and found. Every indication from the Xorg.log suggests that direct rendering is available, but glxinfo and glxgears -printfps suggest otherwise. I have the libdrm2 installed as well as the relevant xorg software, xlibmesa-dri, and libgl1-mesa-dri. I am a bit at a loss what is missing and where to look, since normally, things just work. I have restarted X and rebooted the machine just to be sure that kernel modules are loaded. Thanks, John Schmidt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Turning on direct rendering with an ATI card
On Wednesday 10 May 2006 09:39, John Schmidt wrote: Hi, I am trying to turn on direct rendering using the Xorg (from unstable, along with the linux-image-2.6.16-1-k7 from unstable) ATI driver with no success. The machine is at a remote location which makes the problem a bit tougher to debug. I have turned on direct rendering on several machines (my laptop with ATI card is one), so I have some experience, and things usually just work with little futzing around. The user has reported that glxinfo indicates that direct rendering is not turned on. lsmod shows that drm and agpgart modules are loaded along with the associated nvidia_agp module. Doing a grep on drm from dmesg shows that the R300 drm microcode is loaded. The Xorg.log indicates that the ati driver is used and that direct rendering is activated. The /dev/dri/card0 is probed and found. Every indication from the Xorg.log suggests that direct rendering is available, but glxinfo and glxgears -printfps suggest otherwise. I have the libdrm2 installed as well as the relevant xorg software, xlibmesa-dri, and libgl1-mesa-dri. I am a bit at a loss what is missing and where to look, since normally, things just work. I have restarted X and rebooted the machine just to be sure that kernel modules are loaded. Thanks, John Schmidt To follow up on the fix . . . I had installed the fglrx-kernel-driver stuff and the GL diversions were the problem. Removing the fglrx-kernel-driver allowed direct rendering to work with the native Xorg ati driver. John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: load order of network interfaces
On Wednesday 12 April 2006 12:14, Ivan Longhi wrote: hello, I have 2 alpha machines identical. they have 2 net interfaces on board (Digital DS21143 Tulip loaded by module tulip0 and tulip1) and 1 net interface on a pci slot (RealTek RTL8139 loaded by module 8139too). The strange thing is that on a machine eth0 is on tulip0, eth1 is on tulip1 and 8139too is on eth2, on the other machine 8139too is on eth0, eth1 and eth2 are on tulip. I would like that the two machines map eth on the same way. I tried to add a file called my-aliases in /etc/modeprobe.d with this content: alias eth0 tulip0 alias eth1 tulip1 alias eth2 8139too but on the second machine it seems to be ignored and the interfaces load in another order. does anyone know the right debian way to map interfaces in a certain order? bye, Ivan http://www.retecivica.milano.it/ You can do using ifrename, or if using udev, see: http://reactivated.net/writing_udev_rules.html#example-iface John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Network interface sanity
On Sunday 02 April 2006 19:32, Andreas Ehn wrote: Hi, I have a laptop with one wired ethernet interface (eth0) and one wireless interface (eth1). I'm using ifupdown. When the computer is not connected to a wired network, while starting up, it is associated with my wireless network and requests and receives an IP address with DHCP. That, however, doesn't satisfy the machine. It proceeds by requesting an address for the wired network as well, despite there being no attached network cable, which holds up the boot process until the DHCP client times out and gives up. What I would like to happen in this situation is that the machine would only try to get an address over the wired network interface if it is actually connected to a network. Otherwise it should try the wireless interface directly. Iff connected to a wired network, the system should only try to connect to a wireless network after having failed to acquire an IP address from the wired network. I would like all of this to happen automatically. Is it possible to configure /etc/interfaces like this? Reading interfaces(5) and the examples in /usr/share/doc/ifupdown didn't help me. Thanks, Andreas I use a combination of guessnet, ifplugd, and resolvconf to work with 3 different networks - two wired and one wireless. ifplugd detects whether or not I have a wired connection. guessnet determines which wired network I am connected to based on pinging some known machines with certain MAC addresses. resolvconf deals with the changing dns information. My work network uses dhcp (wired), my home network uses static ip (wired), and I also have wireless at work. You end up modifying the /etc/network/interfaces to getting everything to work. Here is a sample bit from my network interfaces: # This file describes the network interfaces available on your system # and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5). # The loopback network interface auto lo iface lo inet loopback # The primary network interface # turn off since ifplugd is controlling things #auto eth0 mapping eth0 script /usr/sbin/guessnet-ifupdown map default: none map timeout: 3 map verbose: true iface work inet dhcp test peer address *.*.*.* #:#:#:#:#:# pre-up hostname my_machine_name iface home inet static address *.*.*.* netmask 255.255.255.0 network 192.168.1.0 broadcast 192.168.1.255 gateway 192.168.1.1 dns-nameservers *.*.*.* test peer address *.*.*.* #:#:#:#:#:# pre-up hostname machine_name iface wlan0 inet dhcp pre-up modprobe ndiswrapper #pre-up modprobe acx-pci pre-up /usr/sbin/xsupplicant /dev/null pre-up iwconfig wlan0 key open * pre-up iwconfig wlan0 essid host.com post-down rmmod ndiswrapper # post-down rmmod acx-pci post-down /etc/init.d/xsupplicant stop John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 2.6.16 hangs at boot
On Wednesday 29 March 2006 16:25, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, Maybe someone has a suggestion here. Problem: In Sarge I normally run the -ck kernel patches from Con Kolivas. He just came out with 2.6.16-ck1 and -ck2. When I boot that system the boot stops solid in the grep stmnt in /etc/hotplug/usb.rc line 200: if [ ”$SYNTHESIZE” = false ] It appears like this is a bug in the script, and it should be if [$SYNTHESIZE == false] (note the == instead of the =) John
Re: udev blacklisting?
On Wednesday 15 March 2006 17:34, Tim Bates wrote:
I have a DVB card that stupidly uses the same PCI ID as the bttv cards.
Loading the bttv module causes a hard lock. I need to prevent this
module being auto loaded by udev. In the past when hotplug was used, I
simply added bttv to the /etc/hotplug/blacklist file. udev seems to
ignore this file and loads the module anyway.
Anyone know where I need to modify things to blacklist it? I've seen
somewhere that said to list it in the blacklist file, which doesn't do
anything. Another place said to add MODULES={!modulename} to udev's
rc.conf, but there doesn't seem to be a file by that name, so I'm not
sure where I'd add that. MODULES is also not mentioned in the manual, so
I have my doubts about that one.
Tim Bates
Take a look at putting the module name in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist,
as in
blacklist bttv
or something like that.
John
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Re: Release cycle
On Friday 10 March 2006 21:23, David Berg wrote: I don't know if there's a good way to ask this question, and am very tempted to just hit cancel now... I'm curious to know when etch might freeze. Now, before you all jump on me and tell me its ready when its ready, let me clarify. I'm not looking for a date, or a month, or even a year necessarily as I realize they would all be guesses. Perhaps I could get the best answer by making this my question: Has anyone heard/read anything that MIGHT indicate that etch MIGHT go stable faster than the 2-3 years that it took for Sarge, and Woody to go stable? Please note, that I'm looking for information. I am quite aware that etch will be ready when it's ready and that its a volunteer organization and things take time. All I want to know is if there is any reason to think that etch might be different than previous releases. If you still feel the need to flame me, fire away. I'll simply read then file in /dev/null. --Dave Plan was to release Etch sometime in the December 2006 time frame. Freeze would certainly occur before that time. I don't know how long the freeze will be, perhaps several months if not more. This is the timeframe that I heard based on following the debian-boot (installer work) and other various mailing lists. John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ready to use debian or ubuntu laptop reccomendations?
On Sunday 05 March 2006 00:47, Paul Johnson wrote: On Saturday 04 March 2006 22:29, Star King of the Grape Trees wrote: steef wrote: Michael M. wrote: Paul Johnson wrote: On Thursday 02 March 2006 01:20, Star King of the Grape Trees wrote: I am very certain that Dell does sell servers that optionally have Linux, and even says this on their website. SNIP NOTE: Servers != Desktop. I have not seen _any_ reference to a dell _desktop_ computer comming preinstalled with linux, but i have seen references on dell for *SERVERS* with linux. Either way, they still do not offer it, despite indications on their website to the contrary. -- Paul Johnson Email and IM (XMPP Google Talk): [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabber: Because it's time to move forward http://ursine.ca/Ursine:Jabber We have purchased desktop machines from Dell with RH linux installed on them. This is for an academic institution which may be a factor. John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 2.6.15 boot problems
On Friday 24 February 2006 08:25, Bradley Alexander wrote: On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 22:29 -0700, John Schmidt wrote: Yes, as I understand it reiserfs has some attribute issues with 2.6.15. I heard that it will be fixed in 2.6.16. Someone has posted a work around but it may be hard to do with reiserfs on /. Is this specific to AMD? I have been running 2.6.15 on my 2GHz Pentium-M equipped HP laptop for almost a month with no problems. --b I don't know if it is architecture specific or not. I have seen this on an xeon box with reiserfs on /. System worked fine with a 2.6.8 kernel. Installed the linux-image-2.6.15-1-686-smp and rebooted. System hung trying to start syslogd. After some time, system continued to boot but no syslogging. I got weird error messages having to do with uid/gid when doing things with sudo. At about the same time, I saw a message on debian-user (I believe) having to do with attribute errors with reiserfs and 2.6.15. A work around was proposed and subsequent follow-ups suggested that errors still persisted. I didn't pursue the solution, since the machine is located 1000 miles from me and the machine would still work fine with 2.6.8. I also heard that a fix was in the 2.6.16. I decided the easiest course of action was to wait until 2.6.16 and try again. John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Error rebooting after upgrade from 2.6.12-i36 to 2.6.15-i686
On Friday 24 February 2006 04:37, Arnau Rebassa Villalonga wrote: Hi all, I've installed a new Dell poweredge 850 server with SCSCI disks formated as ext3 from a netinstall, it run smoothly and installed the 2.6.12-i386 kernel image. After the aptitude dist-upgrade, I upgraded the linux-image to the 2.6.15-686 and also to 2.6.15-686-smp (having with both the same result) and when I reboot the machine it displays the following errors: Alert! /dev/sda1 does not exist. Dropping to a shell! /bin/sh: can't access tty; job control turned off and a busybox shell appears. Anybody knows how to fix this? Regards -- Arnau Try this: 1. Have the latest udev in unstable 2. Have the latest grub in unstable (assume you are using grub). 3. Boot into 2.6.12 kernel and then do this: dpkg-reconfigure linux-image-2.6.15-686 4. Try and boot into linux-image.2.6.15 John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cleaning up audio recording
Hi, I have managed to transfer some tape recordings to my computer. The recordings are from a seminar speaker. There is a great deal of noise on the recordings both from the audio equipment and from general background noise. Are there any good packages out there that would allow me to clean up the signal? I used the KRec tool in KDE to transfer the audio. I was looking at the artsbuilder routines and it appears like you can do some signal processing with this tool. I am not looking to make it perfect by any means, just clean up the sound, take out the hiss, and try to preserve the voice as much as possible. Thanks for any pointers. John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 2.6.15 boot problems
On Thursday 23 February 2006 21:41, Bradley Alexander wrote: I have a 1.2 GHz Athlon, which I am trying to upgrade from 2.6.15 from 2.6.14. I compiled both kernels by hand, using the Debian way (make-kpkg). With 2.6.14, it boots, however with 2.6.15, I get the initial portion of the boot messages, it boots Reiserfs read-only on / (/dev/hda2), frees console memory, then gives me the following message: unable to open an initial console After that, it displays a message about the real time clock driver and a couple of messages about serial 8250 being loaded. About 30 seconds later, I get a boot prompt...However, no additional filesystems (including /proc and /sys) get mounted, / remains mounted read-only, and no apps start (presumably because of the filesystem). I am using lvm2 on all filesystems except /. A little more on the kernel compile. I am using the deb for both. I did an apt-get install for 2.6.15, untarred the source, copied .config from 2.6.14 and did a make oldconfig. Gave a cursory look at the config, then did a make-kpkg [ clean modules_clean kernel_image modules_image ]. I have shfs, nvidia-kernel, loop-aes and loop-aes-ciphers as modules, as with 2.6.14. Has anyone seen this before? Regards, Yes, as I understand it reiserfs has some attribute issues with 2.6.15. I heard that it will be fixed in 2.6.16. Someone has posted a work around but it may be hard to do with reiserfs on /. John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Lost X server after dist-upgrade
On Monday 20 February 2006 12:36, jerry wrote: to KDE but I can't. I suspect the problem is that root and myself don't have valid .Xauthority files but I can't figure out how to repair it. I would appreciate any advice on how to get back to using KDM for login and getting X server access for myself and root (to run synaptic and konqueror). I can post any other info as needed. Jerry Easiest solution might be to move your .kde/ to something like .kde.works/. Then try and log in. If that works try and recreate your envirornment from your old .kde/. What are the permissions on your .Xauthority file. They should be u+rw (chmod format). John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Testing, could not start kdeinit. check your installation since yesterdays updates
On Sunday 19 February 2006 05:15, Magnus Pedersen wrote: I am seeing this on two machines. It dosn't matter if I use kdm or startx, I get that error in a small window just before the kde-splasscreen. And my syslog is filled with dbuserrors like this: Feb 19 12:29:35 localhost hcid[6842]: Can't send D-BUS inquiry start message Whats up anyone? /Magnus Sorry for my poor english, it is not my first language. The easiest fix is to install libfreetype6 from unstable which contains the missing symbol that is holding up the start of kdeinit. You will see the error message in .xsession-errors at the top of the file. John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: udev problem
On Thursday 16 February 2006 23:37, Deephay wrote: Hi all, I have a problem with udev here: every time when I was booting the computer, the udev always show some lines like this on the console: udevd_even: run program /.../.../ failed (these lines goes a little bit fast and I cannot remember the exact format but it is more or less like this) but when I didn't find anything like this in the syslog, and seems it doesn't affect anything, so I only want to eliminate this, how can I do that? thx! Deephay There are a couple of options: 1. install yaird and purge initramfs-tools and then do a: dpkg-reconfigure linux-image-2.6.X 2. Update to the latest udev (unstable) and do an update-intramfs -u -t (don't do option 1) and reboot. John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: custom network intefaces during boot for Debian
On Thursday 16 February 2006 08:42, John Davis wrote: Hello Here is a script modification for /etc/init.d/networking in Debian so that your list of network interfaces can be reconfigured during boot. Why would you like to have a script like this? Well, in my case, I have a laptop with a lan based eth0 and a wifi based eth1. If I am not connected to a lan during boot, I have to wait for the network interface on eth0 to time out with its dhcp request. With this script, it displays the current network config and gives me a chance to modify it. Have you looked at ifplugd which would help you with the network timeouts for eth0 and guessnet which would help with configurations of network connections based where you are located? John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Lilo fails with sorry, don't know how to handle device 0xfe00 (LVM2)
On Wednesday 08 February 2006 12:57, Chris Carr wrote: Thanks Clive - but I've heard that grub is really bad with LVM2. In fact, the latest Debian Etch installer still explicitly removes the option to install grub when it detects that / is on an LVM2 volume. It is not / that is the problem but /boot that causes issues with grub. I have this installed with sarge (or etch forget which): /dev/mapper/vg-lv 76436544 31771444 40782300 44% / tmpfs95908 0 95908 0% /dev/shm /dev/hda190297 11519 73961 14% /boot John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: slow starting MTA
On Wednesday 23 November 2005 01:12 am, roberto wrote: hello i have kernel 2.6.8-2-386 currently installed and when i boot not being connected to the network the booting process stops for at least 3 or 4 minutes showing: . Starting MTA: . and then it goes on correctly, but it is very tedious to wait so much, how can i skip this test if the pc is not connected? thank you -- roberto GNU/Linux, debian sarge kernel 2.6.8-2-386 Install ifplugd, i.e. aptitude install ifplugd. John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Ready to join the club..
On Friday 21 October 2005 08:58 pm, Greg wrote: Actually, I did a Google. I ran tasksel as root and loaded the files for the dektop. I answered several questions during the process. However, I still can't load the desktop. I get the following error message (EE) ef860penSerial I cannot open device /dev/input/mouse (EE) ConfiguredMouse: Cannot open input device (EE) PreInit failed for input device Configured Mouse Although I'm a noob, I can surmise that I've got a problem with my mouse. How to fix? The mouse is a serial mouse with 6 male pins in the connector and 6 female receptors in the back of the PC. The mouse is a MS 2 button + scroll wheel. Any help you can provide would be great. Thank you, Greg Greg, Run this command as root: apt-get install mdetect This will install a program that will help detect and setup your mouse in X windows. Then run this command as root: dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 This will then try reconfiguring the desktop and should do the mouse detection step again. John Schmidt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to use old CPUs (Not Debian Specific)
On Saturday 15 October 2005 08:50 pm, Marc Shapiro wrote: Duncan Anderson wrote: I agree with Rob. Obviously 200 dollars is a neglibible sum if you live in the first world, but spare a thought for people in places where a P1 with a 1GB hd is something amazing, even with Win98 on it. (Preferably something like Debian 2.1, though.) I do live in the first world but I just maxed out a credit card while moving cross-country, I am unemployed, I have a 4 year old daughter and my wife's salary as a librarian does NOT cover the bills. Virtually ANY outlay is too much at this time. -- Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have a 486 66 MHz box (with 3 NIC) with ipcop installed for my firewall. I have a PII 200 MHz acting as my fileserver, print server for a 400 MHz PII Windows XP box, a 10 year old mac clone, and a laptop. I bought 6 400 MHz PII for $20 a piece a year ago, and converted one to an XP box, the others are for playing around with linux. I get a kick out of seeing these old machines work in some productive way. John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Securing SSH: Does disabling password authentication work?
On Monday 03 October 2005 02:39 pm, Steve Block wrote: On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 01:24:27PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: On Mon, 3 Oct 2005, Steve Block wrote: I'm afraid you didn't read at all, did you? Start from the top of the thread and read again, and you'll see that my question had nothing to do u sure do have an whacky attitude for being the one that is cracked the answer still is no... you are not any more secure for the sme identical reasons posted previously that you didnt read/understand to use your own words :-) Who said anyone was cracked? I'm trying to take a proactive security approach here. Let me clarify. In a default debian/sarge install there are three available SSH authentication options: 1) password 2) keyboard-interactive with pam (would allow auth against LDAP or any other authentication method possible with pam) 3) public/private keys According to what I can see from my logs, these automated attempts are trying to use the first method to log in. The second method is what the standard OpenSSH client uses by default when no keys are being used, and the log report for a failed login of this type is different than for the automated attempts. I prefer to use the third method myself, but like I said I am unwilling to only allow that method. I edited my ssh config file to disable the first method, leaving only 2) and 3) available. With the second method a user can still log in with their system password (default pam configuration) but the authentication is handled by pam and not the ssh server itself (I think). My users obviously haven't noticed, and I still normally use keys. I just want to know if it has made it impossible for the automated dictionary attacks to log in (the current generation, anyways). Sorry if I sounded snippy, it's just hard to find any solid info on this. -- Steve Block http://ev-15.com/ http://steveblock.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Steve, You may want to take a look at the debian package harden-doc. They have a section about securing ssh as well as a wealth of information about securing your system. This is no means exhaustive, but it will help. John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Want to move from root LVM/LILO to LVM/Grub
On Friday 30 September 2005 05:03 pm, Jason Martens wrote: Hey all, I kind of got myself into a pickle. I just installed Debian Sarge on a new server, and I used the expert mode for installation. That all went fine, and I created one large partition for LVM, and created a root partition in a volume group, so right now my root partition is at /dev/mapper/vg00-root. However, I didn't see an option to install grub as the default boot loader in expert mode during the installation, so I went ahead and installed lilo. This worked fine, and I was able to boot the system without a problem. However, now I want to install grub again, because I like it more. But when I run grub-install /dev/sda, I get the following error message: hostname:~# grub-install --recheck /dev/sda Probing devices to guess BIOS drives. This may take a long time. /dev/mapper/vg00-root does not have any corresponding BIOS drive. and it refuses to install. How can I fix this? Thanks, Jason Martens I believe your /boot partition needs to be on a non LVM partition. John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sound card (Intel AC'97) not detected by udev
On Tuesday 27 September 2005 05:17 am, Luís Neves wrote: Hi! I just reinstalled Sarge on my laptop (HP Pavilion zt3000) using the Sarge CD after more than a year running Sarge updated from woody and I got some problems that didn't exist before. My audio card module is detected and installed but it is not assigned to any device. cat /proc/asound/cards says no soundcards In fact it was showing the Modem but I placed snd_intel8x0m in the blacklist of hotplug to see if it would solve the problem. As i never used udev before I'm a bit lost with it. Can anyone tell me what I must do to make it understand snd_intel8x0 is a soundcard? Best regards, Luís Neves Are you by any chance using sl-modem-daemon? If so, remove that package and things should be then identified correctly. From lspci, I have: :00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801CA/CAM AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02) :00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corporation 82801CA/CAM AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 02) When I had sl-modem-deamon installed it was causing my modem to be assigned to my sound output. My sound card was identified but was not usable. I could hear sound when my modem was hijacked, but this wasn't right. When I removed the sl-modem-daemon, things then were correctly assigned. I haven't had a need to use my modem, so don't know what the status is without the sl-modem-daemon. John
Re: Newbie Hostname Change
On Friday 23 September 2005 09:50 am, Sean Whitton wrote: Hi, My friend installed Debian on his computer and I'm supposed to be admining it as a server. THings are going well (except I keep mistyping shutdown and killing the server), but there is one problem: the hostname. He typed Ask4 instead of ask4, which is a problem. I assume I can change this with the hostname command, but I want to be sure there arn't any additional steps beyond this. Thanks, Sean --xyrael.net-- Run as root, base-config and it will give you the option of changing the hostname. John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Backing up installed packages.
On Thursday 22 September 2005 12:57 pm, R. Clayton wrote: I keep a list of installed packages around so I can easily populate a new disk (or repopulate a mashed-up disk) by doing something along the lines of $ apt-get install $(cat installed-packages-list) I use a daily cron job along the lines of ls /var/cache/apt/archives | sed 's/\([^_]*\)_.*/\1/' | sort | uniq to maintain an installed-packages list that looks like this: $ cat installed-packages-list aalib1 base-files bash bittorrent bzip2 cdrecord [ and so on ] I would be interested in hearing opinions and suggestions about a general approach to backing-up and reconstituting package archives, as well as opinions and suggestions about the particular approach I've outlined above. You should also back up /etc since this often contains any modifications you may have made during the installation process. John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
downgrading g++-4.0 using snapshot.debian.org
Hi, I have a sid chroot that I am trying to figure out which version of g++-4.0 stopped compiling a big c++ code that I work on. I have manually downloaded a couple of different versions of g++-4.0 and related packages from snapshot.debian.org, but it seems rather painful to just use dpkg -i *.deb. Is there a way to automate this process with aptitude putting in various deb lines in /etc/apt/sources.list? I know that aptitude has the ability to download/install particular versions of the package by specifying a version after the package name. I haven't quite figured out how to use the power of snapshot.debian.org and the package manager to make short work of downgrading various packages. Any pointers would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, John Schmidt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Is ASUS A8V Deluxe OK for Linux?
On Friday 16 September 2005 02:50 pm, Dirk wrote: Hi! I'm planning to buy a ASUS mainboard with the following chipset: Chipset VIA K8T800Pro and VIA VT8237 It's the A8V-Deluxe Does anyone know if this MB has problems with Linux (or the other way?) Before I had the P5RD1-Deluxe (Intel CPU) but it was too hot (noisy) because I needed 550Watts to make it stable. It had the same Soundchip like A8V-Deluxe (Realtek ALC861) which didn't work because of the ALi controller. Is this different here? Does the Intel HDA audio driver work with A8V-Deluxe? Are VIA chipsets in general OK for Linux or do they suck for some reason? Does anyone OWN this MB already? I WANT an Athlon64 3200+! Maybe there is a better MB available? ANY comment is highly appreciated! Thanks a lot, Dirk Check out: http://arstechnica.com/guides/buyer/system-guide-200508.ars/2 Details systems built around AMD 64 bit chips at various ranges: budget, hot rod, and extreme. All decisions were based on how well they worked with linux and windows. John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Too many levels of symbolic links in linux-headers-2.6.12-1-amd64, k7,...?
On Saturday 03 September 2005 01:10 am, Gudjon I. Gudjonsson wrote: Hi I have tried for some time to compile modules with module-assistant. Both alsa and nvidia fail with the comment: Too many levels of symbolic links. Similar description to the following message. http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2005/08/msg01965.html In the directory /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.12-1-amd64-k8-smp/arch/x86_64 I do ls -la and get lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 52 2005-08-18 10:45 Makefile - ../../../linux-headers-2.6.12-1/arch/x86_64/Makefile but in the directory /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.12-1/arch/x86_64 I do ls -la and get lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 52 2005-08-18 10:45 Makefile - ../../../linux-headers-2.6.12-1/arch/x86_64/Makefile which points to itself if I am not mistaken. Hope I am not spaming your mailing list. Sincerely Gudjon As someone else pointed out, just purging the linux-headers-2.6.12-1 and reinstalling them should solve your problem. I did this last night since I was having trouble compiling modules with module-assistant. John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Starting wlan0 instead of eth0
On Thursday 26 May 2005 01:39 am, Jason Edson wrote: I'm new to this part of my debian system. Instead of having eth0 load up when my system starts, I want to run a script that enables my wireless card(wlan0) that uses ndiswrapper to load. My script looks like this: #!/bin/bash echo Starting wireless networking. ifconfig eth0 down modprobe ndiswrapper sleep 1 iwconfig wlan0 mode Managed iwconfig wlan0 essid cocksmoker iwconfig wlan0 key blahblahblahmynetkey dhcpcd -t 10 -d -G 192.168.1.1 wlan0 echo Wireless networking started.hopefully! I don't know how to achive this so any pointers or links for some reading would be very appreciated. Thanks for your time. Take a look at the man page for interfaces. I think what you want to do is to make sure you have a line in the /etc/network/interfaces that looks something like this: auto wlan0 This should be near the top of the file. In addition, you can then do something like this for your iwconfig stuff show above (this is also in the file /etc/network/interfaces) : iface wlan0 inet dhcp pre-up modprobe ndiswrapper pre-up iwconfig wlan0 essid cocksmoker pre-up iwconfig wlan0 key blahblahblahmynetkey post-down rmmod ndiswrapper John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian on an old PC
On Thursday 06 January 2005 01:42 pm, Vegard Lundby Rekaa wrote: I would be surprised if that old machine could *boot a cdrom*. Have you tried *that*? ;-0 It can't boot from cdrom, it has one (4X) but the system doesn't know of it untill an OS is loaded (i.e. win98se). I'm forced to install linux with floppy disks. Try using this: From Debian-boot mailing list: Smart Boot Manager (http://btmgr.sourceforge.net/) can be started from floppy and allows some older computers to boot from CD. That's how I loaded my firewall/router machine with Sarge. Might be worth a try. --Don John
Re: Debian on an old PC
On Thursday 06 January 2005 02:37 pm, David Jardine wrote: On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 09:42:58PM +0100, Vegard Lundby Rekaa wrote: I would be surprised if that old machine could *boot a cdrom*. Have you tried *that*? ;-0 It can't boot from cdrom, it has one (4X) but the system doesn't know of it untill an OS is loaded (i.e. win98se). I'm forced to install linux with floppy disks. Can't you change the boot order in the BIOS setup to look for cdrom first? Debian install CDs are bootable, surely? David -- David Jardine Running Debian GNU/Linux and loving every minute of it. -Sacher M. Old pcs often can't boot from a CD even if they have one. You might be able to flash the BIOS to upgrade it, but that assumes there is an update out there (highly unlikely). John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
module-assistant no GUI on startup
Hi, I have just upgraded module-assistant to version 0.7 and the default GUI does not start when I do: sudo module-assistant Does anyone else see this? I looked at the changelog.gz in the documentation and didn't see anything that relevant to this. Thanks, John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: module-assistant no GUI on startup
On Tuesday 04 January 2005 09:37 am, Hanspeter Kunz wrote: On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 09:30 -0700, John Schmidt wrote: Hi, I have just upgraded module-assistant to version 0.7 and the default GUI does not start when I do: sudo module-assistant Does anyone else see this? I looked at the changelog.gz in the documentation and didn't see anything that relevant to this. yes, I noticed this too. Use module-assistant select cheers, Hp. Thanks for the pointer. John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian and Dell?
On Wednesday 15 December 2004 08:30 pm, Ed Sutherland wrote: Hi All, I just purchased a Dell for my home office and am interested in using Debian on a partition. As my only Linux experience comes from a Mac, I have some questions: 1) Will I be able to easily dual-boot Windows or Linux using yaboot, or will I need to go through some BIOS mumbo-jumbo? 2) Does Debian support the Dell flatscreen monitors? 3) Does the i86 side of Debian better support Web graphics and animation formats -- such as shockwave? Thanks for the answers. Ed You might want to check out: http://linux.dell.com/ They do have a section about Debian (under Distributions). Answers: 1. Should be able to using either lilo or grub bootloaders (same concept as yaboot) to select which OS you want to boot. 2. More than likely, but you should probably check the above website. 3. Yes but that has more to do with outside parties that provide the non-free binaries such as shockwave. Get the latest Sarge installer such as the netinst CD image for i386 found on: http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ After installation, submit an installer report even if you don't have any problems. Take a look at the documentation on the debian-installer web page for help. Specific installer problems can be directed to the debian-boot mailing list. John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Simple Email Server?
On Wednesday 15 December 2004 09:44 am, David Baron wrote: On Wednesday 15 December 2004 16:48, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What need I set to get exim4 to receive messages to my domain (dynamic) directly? Basically just 'apt-get install exim4'. Have a look at this article: http://www.trekweb.com/~jasonb/articles/exim4_courier/exim4.html (It's a bit of text but really very simple) I have exim4 working fine. I now get email through fetchmail from providers, use procmail to check with spamassassin and clamav, have system filter, etc., etc. Outgoing mail is handled by exim4 smarthosting to my provider (or directly to the provider from kmail). The article is quite good. A static domain is simple. I have a dynamic IP. This is what I need to configure. You might want to look at a dynamic dns outfit such as no-ip.com, dyndns.org, etc. You can sign up for a domain and use something like ddclient (in Debian) to send your new ip number to the dns company you are using. You should be able to configure exim to use your domain name as registered even with a dynamic ip. John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Error inserting ndiswrapper
On Wednesday 17 November 2004 10:59 pm, nornagon wrote: I'm using the stock debian kernel 2.6.7-1-k7, to get that out of the way. I need to use ndiswrapper, since my card isn't yet supported by prism54. Okay, so I compiled ndiswrapper. Then, I modprobe it. Output: $ sudo modprobe ndiswrapper FATAL: Error inserting ndiswrapper (/lib/modules/2.6.9-1-k7/misc/ndiswrapper.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg) Relevant bits of dmesg: ndiswrapper: disagrees about version of symbol per_cpu__softnet_data ndiswrapper: Unknown symbol per_cpu__softnet_data ndiswrapper: disagrees about version of symbol unregister_netdev ndiswrapper: Unknown symbol unregister_netdev ndiswrapper: disagrees about version of symbol eth_type_trans ndiswrapper: Unknown symbol eth_type_trans ndiswrapper: disagrees about version of symbol skb_over_panic ndiswrapper: Unknown symbol skb_over_panic ndiswrapper: disagrees about version of symbol register_netdev ndiswrapper: Unknown symbol register_netdev ndiswrapper: disagrees about version of symbol alloc_skb ndiswrapper: Unknown symbol alloc_skb ndiswrapper: disagrees about version of symbol netif_rx ndiswrapper: Unknown symbol netif_rx ndiswrapper: disagrees about version of symbol __netdev_watchdog_up ndiswrapper: Unknown symbol __netdev_watchdog_up ndiswrapper: disagrees about version of symbol skb_copy_and_csum_dev ndiswrapper: Unknown symbol skb_copy_and_csum_dev ndiswrapper: disagrees about version of symbol alloc_etherdev ndiswrapper: Unknown symbol alloc_etherdev ndiswrapper: disagrees about version of symbol __kfree_skb ndiswrapper: Unknown symbol __kfree_skb Any more necessary information I'd be more than happy to provide. Thanks in advance. P.S. Sorry if this is a double post, wasn't sure if it went through. -- - nornagon http://www.nornrock.com Did you do this: 2. Install your windows driver -- Download the Windows XP drivers, unpack it and locate the .inf for your card. Run ndiswrapper -i to install the driver ndiswrapper -i /path/to/inffile.inf This copies all necessary files to /etc/ndiswrapper and creates the config files for your card. After installing you can run ndiswrapper -l to see the status of your installed drivers. If you have installed the correct driver you should see something like this: Installed ndis drivers: bcmwl5 present Where present means that you have a PCI-device present that can be used with the driver bcmwl5. John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Newbie looking for some answers please...........
On Thursday 18 November 2004 10:17 am, Chad wrote: I just installed Debian 3.0 r3. I'm a newbie and looking for some anwers to some of my questions...if someone can anwser one, some, or all Please 1. I know that apt-get is the main utility to add and remove programs (in Debian anyways), also to veiw what is installed on your OS. But what about other packages or applications that are not installed through apt-get. Is there a another utility to tell you want is all installed on your OS, or to keep track of all software/packages/applications installed? 2. How do you check for all running services and how to start/stop system services that are unused? 3. How do you check for all open ports and what programs are using the ports. 4. What is the common folder Where most software/packages/applications installed into? 5. Anyone has a good site for descriptions of the configuration files on a linux system. For Example XF86Config-4. I have no idea of what configuration files do what or where they are located. 6. Where is the boot files? So I can control or know what programs start at boot. Chad, You might want to install debian-reference-en and quick-reference-en. Then point your web browser to /usr/share/doc/Debian and you should see folders for quick-reference and reference. They should provide you with answers to your questions plus provide you with more tips and other bits of useful information. apt-get install debian-reference-en quick-reference-en will get you going. John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: moving from woody to sarge
On Thursday 11 November 2004 10:19 am, linux wrote: sorry, should have explicitly stated that one reason for the move from woody to sarge is that the former doesn't recognise my Ethernet card so I cannot do installations over the network - Original Message - From: Jerome BENOIT [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2004 5:14 PM Subject: Re: moving from woody to sarge A sound idea is to read http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-woody.en.html first. hth, Jerome [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: okay, I'm going to take the plunge and forget about using ''woody'' trying to upgrade the kernel (too many dependencies issues) and go str for ''sarge''... so, I presume I might as well just wipe the current (non-WinXP!) partitions and start from scratch -- does that make sense? -- Dr. Jerome BENOIT room A2-26 Complexo Interdisciplinar da U. L. Av. Prof. Gama Pinto, 2 P-1649-003 Lisboa, Portugal email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] It is probably easiest to just get somehow a netinstall CD for Sarge either a pre-rc2 or a daily build if pre-rc2 fails in someway for you. I have used the pre-rc2 to install on new and old hardware quite recently and found it quite nice and easy to setup. John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sarge install problems with Adaptec 7902 controller
On Thursday 04 November 2004 09:41 am, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: Hi, I am trying to install sarge on a HP Workstation with a Seagate SCSI disk on an Adaptec 7902 Ultra 320 SCSI adapter. However, the installer fails to detect the hard disk at all. There was no such problem when installing Redhat 9. Redhat loads the module aic79xx.o before the install program begins. During sarge install, lsmod shows that the module aic79xx.o is loaded, but still the hard disk is not detected. I am stuck as to what is to be done. Any pointers would be greatly helpful. Thanks and regards, Raj Kiran I believe there is a bug in the aic79xx.o module for kernel-image-2.6.8-1. I assumed you tried to use linux26 during the sarge install. You can use the 2.4 series kernel during the install. At the boot: just hit the enter key or manually type linux and it will install a 2.4.27 kernel. 2.6.9 kernel was just uploaded into unstable. You can try installing that kernel once your initial install with a 2.4 kernel is done. John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: different networks, same computer (map mapping ?)
On Monday 01 November 2004 03:19 pm, H. S. wrote: I would like a laptop to work in two kinds of networks automatically if possible. At home, I am running a DHCP server and if the laptop is connected to my switch(CAT5 cable to eth0) and booted up, it looks for and gets an IP address (it is running a dhcp client). Now when that laptop is taken to the university, the user needs to change the /etc/network/interfaces file to give the machine a static address. I am looking for a way that this choice between dhcp/static happens automatically. I have been reading manpages of interfaces and learned we can map a physical device as logical devices and make it work in different modes. I am looking for examples where this is already done, the documentation in man interfaces is, well, not very clear about all the nuts and bolts, or so I believe. All help is appreciated. Thanks, -HS I have a similar setup. I used ifplugd and guessnet. You have to modify slightly /etc/network/interfaces. I supposed you don't need ifplugd, but it is nice to be able to start up my laptop quickly without having any type of network cable installed. Once you plug a cable in, ifplugd will configure things for you. Anyway, here are some snippets from my /etc/network/interfaces file: # The primary network interface # turn off since ifplugd is controlling things #auto eth0 mapping eth0 script /usr/sbin/guessnet-ifupdown map default: none map timeout: 3 map verbose: true iface work inet dhcp test-peer address x.x.x.x MAC.address iface home inet static address 192.168.1.5 netmask 255.255.255.0 network 192.168.1.0 broadcast 192.168.1.255 gateway 192.168.1.1 test-peer address 192.168.1.1 MAC.address Note: x.x.x.x is the IP address of a known computer on the network that should be always there. The MAC.address is the hardware MAC address of this computer. Pretty simple setup but works nicely. John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Building binaries for older versions of libc6
On Wednesday 27 October 2004 09:47 am, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 02:58:16PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: I have a C++ program which requires g++ 3.4 to build due to parser bugs in older versions of g++. I'm currently building on a development machine running mostly woody with some packages from sarge, including g++-3.4 of course. This requires version 2.3.2 of libc6 itself, and any binaries I build with it appear to require version 2.3. Now, while I prefer to do development on Debian, I need to build binaries that will run on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, which has version 2.2.4 of libc6. I'm wondering whether it's possible to build binaries with g++ 3.4 that will require only libc6 2.2, and if so, how. If I remove g++-3.4, downgrade to woody and then build and install g++ from source, is that likely to work? You're probably better off doing builds in a chroot environment - that will allow you to play with the environment in a safe with without destabilising your installation. Have a look at the pbuilder package - altough it is targetted towards building debian packages (which you probably want to do anyway), it is handy to keep multiple chroot environments, e.g. one for woody, one for sarge and one for whatever.. Hope this helps In addition, you can install dchroot and switch between various chroot enviroments. If you modify in your chroot enviroment, the ~/.bash_profile (make sure the debian_chroot is defined) and put a line describing the chroot in /etc/debian_chroot, you can have your prompt tell you what chroot enviroment you are in. Handy if you have multiple chroot enviroments. John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: List of packages
On Wednesday 27 October 2004 01:36 pm, Jim Hall wrote: on Sarge, is there a way to list every installed package? I don't think I need things like libs, just the package names. I need to compare two systems. Jim dpkg --get-selections machine1.pkgs John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: WiFi
On Monday 25 October 2004 03:43 pm, Alvin Oga wrote: On Mon, 25 Oct 2004, Gilbert, Joseph wrote: http://www.linuxant.com/driverloader/ I haven't had a chance to work with it yet. Has anyone else done anything with this driver wrapper? http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net does the same thing and is free/GPL'd whereas, linuxant is you have to pay or else you'd need to know make/install or apt-get - or - pay linuxant $20 for not wanting to do apt-get :-) - problem is bug fixes and if it doesn't work right ... oh boy .. now what .. humm .. file a bug report, try to patch it, buy a another wifi card that is supported natively on linux c ya alvin Hi, I found that this was a better source for ndiswrapper than the ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net. deb http://rigtorp.se/debian/ unstable/ John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: routing help please...
On Wednesday 13 October 2004 05:45 am, Sebastiaan wrote: Hi, On Wed, 13 Oct 2004, Mark Maas wrote: Thanks for reading! I hope someone can help me with a routing issue: I've attached a situation scetch. The thing is, my road warriors connect via a pptp connection to my VPN server via GW2. This fails because the default gateway (GW) on the VPN is GW1, so all request attempts end up beeing sent through GW2 but answered by my VPN server to GW1. But as soon as I put GW2 as default gateway, My local lan's do not get routed as they should anymore... So all PPP connections should have GW2 as the default gateway, and set up routes so data between the local lans and ppp connections should go through GW1. But how? Thanks for any pointers... Mark Hmm, usually a host only recognizes replies from the same remote host e.g. nic. You can probably do something with the package 'iproute', but that's as far as I can point you. Greetz, Sebas Mark, In the package vpnc, there is an option to specify custom routes (taken from the man page): Custom route setting By default, the default route is deleted after connection and replaced with the new one (going trough the VPN tunnel device). However, some people wish to limit the target address range to few IP ranges. This can be done using the config directive Target networks in the config file. For example: Target networks 123.234.210.0/24 10.1.0.0/16 In the file vpnc-connect they use ip directives to specify particular routes. You may want to install this package and take a look at how they specify the routing. Mimic what they do in vpnc-connect as far as routing goes and see if that doesn't solve your problem. John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: trouble with pam-ldap
On Tuesday 12 October 2004 02:09 pm, Jeremy Brown wrote: I'm trying to get a Debian sarge machine to authenticate against an OpenLDAP server (running on the same box) with no success. Take a look at: http://people.debian.org/~torsten/ldapnss.html John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Keyed SSH login problem
On Monday 11 October 2004 10:43 am, Stephen Tait wrote: I'm having a great deal of difficulty setting up two computers to log into one another for automated backup purposes. For the moment, I'm just trying to get one machine to log into the other non-interactively, and since it's over the internet I was going to use SSH. Generated a v2 DSA public/private keypair on host1 under /home/sync/.ssh/sync-host1 and sync-host1.pub SCP'd the public key over to host2 Added the .pub to ~/.ssh/authorized_keys2 (and authorized_keys FWIW) Now when I try and SSH from host1 with it (please note, names have been changed to protect the innocent); I just went through this yesterday, and here is my recipe. On machine 1: 1. Create your public/private key (I used dsa): ssh-keygen -t dsa 2. Copy the contents of ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub to machine 2 using ssh-copy-id: ssh-copy-id -i ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub machine2 ssh-copy-id copies the id_dsa.pub file located in your .ssh/ to machine2 using ssh. It sets up the authorized_key file and permissions appropriately. Once it is copied over, then you should be able to ssh into machine2 from machine1 without typing in a password. John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: adduser problem
On Sunday 10 October 2004 09:45 pm, Jim Hall wrote: Greetings, I volunteer in my church's computer lab (hence my email name) and advocate Linux where and whenever possible. We have a sarge system as a test system. A very knowledgeable Debian expert (call him Buddy) helped me set it up. I started getting used to it, especially apt, because I've been using RedHat since I started using Linux. About a year ago, my local LUG set up a small weekly newspaper with Linux. The workstations are dual boot W98/RedHat 7.3 (don't ask, long story), the server is Debian (named debbie). Buddy set it up. He is very, very good, but had to do some customization (maybe a lot). After doing updates, upgrades, and dist-upgrades on the lab test system with no apparent ill effects, I thought it was time to do the same to the newspapers server. In the process I broke 'adduser'. So far, the solution appears to involve LDAP. None of us seems to have much experience with that. Buddy has since moved and isn't responding to emails. The newspaper has been working on a series of articles about the switchover from Windoze to Linux. Right now they're not very happy with Debian. Is there anyone who offers paid, secure support for Debian? Donation to the Debian project is also acceptable. Remote access can be provided. I don't know if this is the correct thing to do, but I'm totally lost and don't know what else to do. I haven't included any specifics because I don't know what would be needed or if this list is the right place to post this request. Thanks, Jim Jim, There is a Debian package call cpu which can do adduser type of operations using a LDAP backend. Check out apt-cache show cpu. For example to add a user to a LDAP system, you can do something like this as superuser (root): # cpu-useradd testuser John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problem with DSL and /etc/resolv.conf
On Friday 08 October 2004 04:21 pm, Andrew Carter wrote: I'm having a problem with my /etc/resolv.conf file and I'm hoping someone might be able to explain what is going on. My home network has an ActionTec wireless DSL modem/router running as the DHCP. Qwest is my DSL provider. I have three Macintoshes, an XP box, and a Debian/FreeBSD dual boot box. The Debian and FreeBSD box both have the same problem. The Macs and XP don't. When the computer boots up and gets DHCP information, it puts two addresses in the /etc/resolv.conf file for nameservers. One is the router address (192.168.0.1) and the other is one of the two ISP DNS servers. This causes any internet traffic to go unresolved. If I change the entry in /etc/resolv.conf that contains the router address to the other ISP DNS server, everything works just great. However, the next time I boot up the machine, it goes back to the router+ISP address. Since Mac OSX is based on FreeBSD, I looked at what its /etc/resolv.conf file contains. It has the same thing but works just fine. So, I have three questions: 1. Should my router's ip address be in the resolv.conf file? 2. Shouldn't my router just forward DNS requests to the ISP DNS servers? 3. How can I keep the resolv.conf file from changing each time I reboot? 4. Why does this fail for Linux/FreeBSD but not for OS X or XP? Thanks, Andrew I found that dhcp3-client would not overwrite whatever was in my resolv.conf whereas dhcp-client would overwrite my entries in resolv.conf. I suggest using dhcp3-client and editing the entries in resolv.conf to whatever works and then rebooting to see if those changes persist. John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Configuring Courier
On Wednesday 01 September 2004 01:36 pm, Upayavira wrote: I want to set up a Debian based mail server, with SMTP sending, IMAP and webmail. I am trying to do this with the Courier package. Actually, what I want, at the moment, is a self contained mail system, it doesn't have to deliver to the Internet. I'm using Sarge. I am having trouble getting mailboxes configured. When I send myself a mail (mail -s hiya upayavira), it creates a file called Maildir in my home directory. It looks rather like a 'mbox' file. If I delete that file, and create a proper Maildir with maildirmake ~/Maildir, then try sending again, I get ./Maildir: No such file or directory: No such file or directory showing in my /var/log/syslog file. Similarly, when I have a ~/Maildir directory and log into the courier webmail system, I get Internal error (module sqconfig.c, line 77) - contact system administrator. When I do it with an mbox file called ~/Maildir, I get Unable to open the maildir for this account -- the maildir doesn't exist or has incorrect ownership or permissions. I suspect I'm very close, but I can't figure it out. So, can anyone either (a) help me fix the above or (b) tell me where I can get help fixing the above or (c) recommend a SMTP/IMAP/Webmail setup that is relatively easy to configure, and that can be installed with apt-get from Sarge? Thanks in advance for any help. Regards, Upayavira This may be helpful to you: http://talk.trekweb.com/~jasonb/articles/exim_maildir_imap.html John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: alternatives to NIS and NFS
On Monday 02 August 2004 04:24 pm, Paul William wrote: Hi, I am in charge of a small office network. The server is running Debian stable with some testing packages and the desktops are running mandrake 10.0. Currently we are using NIS for authentication and NFS to share the home directories. I have been having some hassles with NIS and would like to upgrade to a more modern system. Are there any alternatives to NFS and NIS? As long as it not to complex to setup and is fairly easy to administer its fine. X is not on the server so all admin takes place over ssh.Security is an issue. It is safe to assume that there will not be any windows clients on the network, ever :) There is one osx ibook being used but it does not need to 'login' to the network. Thanks very much, Paul Paul, I have a ldap based authentication system and still use NFS for sharing /home. I used http://people.debian.org/~torsten/ldapnss.html to guide me through the setup. I then use cpu (in Debian) to do the passwd and user account creation. Everything I needed was packaged in Debian. There are some ldap utilities that will convert an exisitng /etc/passwd to what is needed for ldap. I didn't have many users and found it easier to just use cpu to add my users and passwords. John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 2.6.4 kernel install wants to remove current kernel
On Friday 09 April 2004 12:41 pm, Nori Heikkinen wrote: of course, i've totally failed to show the slickness of apt to my coworker, because as soon as i booted up with 2.6.4, my mouse (neither USB nor PS2) didn't work, and i wasn't online. (right now, i've reverted to 2.4 to type this :-P). surely the 2.6 kernel comes with USB support compiled in? am i just going to have to suck it up and roll my own kernel? thanks again, /nori Make sure you have the modules mousedev and psmouse loaded. I believe I had to use modconf to select psmouse from kernel/drivers/input/mouse whereas mousedev was already loaded for me using discover. Once psmouse was loaded then my mouse was active. John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: NFS Groups
On Saturday 13 March 2004 10:07 am, Michael Satterwhite wrote:
I want to thank those who helped me with the userid. The other half of
this, however, is the group id:
Assume that a directory on the server is owned by root:users. The group id
number for users is different on the server and the clients. It's not
possible to have the directory owned by the same user as on the client as
there are many of those, so group permissions need to control whether the
directory can be written.
How can I set up this type of directory so that it can be written by the
client machines?
thanks in advance
I used ldap to solve this problem. I use it to essentially replace NIS. On
my server, I use the package cpu (does the equivalent of user{add,del}, and
is packaged in debian) to assign users and groups. I used the page:
http://people.debian.org/~torsten/ldapnss.html
for guidance on how to set up ldap on both my server and clients. It has
worked well.
John
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Re: LDAP client configuration question
On Monday 08 March 2004 05:23 pm, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: I am relatively newbie in LDAP area, so please excuse me if the question is not interesting. We have an LDAP server up and running redhat 8. I know that the ldap server is functioning properly because I can access it from other redhat machines. But I am not able to access it from a client runnind Debian testing. The configuration file I am using is as follows (I obtained this configuration file from the redhat machines). I would like to know what I have to do/read to set up this LDAP client. I have read the LDAP-HOWTO.html. From what I understood, it discusses only server setup but no discussion about client set up... I also browsed google but could not get anything useful (or may be wrong keywords).. host k2.mae.cornell.edu base o=cttg,c=US ssl no pam_password md5 regards raju You need to install libnss-ldap, libpam-ldap, and nscd. You should probably take a look at: http://people.debian.org/~torsten/ldapnss.html for more info. He talks both about the server and some client info. Actually, where he talks about doing libpam-ldap and libnss-ldap are relevant for the client. John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
static ip to dhcp conversion -- getting a hostname
Hi,
My university is switching everyone over from a static ip to one assigned via
dhcp. In addition, they are specifying the hostname for each of these
addresses. Unfortunately, we don't get an option to choose a hostname. It
seems that the current mechanism within Debian is to specify a hostname
regardless of how a ip is assigned. I would prefer to assign my own
host-name, but don't have that luxury.
I am using dhcp3-client to pull the ip number and other assorted information.
However, I can't get a hostname returned from the dhcp server. I have set
the option in dhclient.conf to request host-name (along with some other
options). I have turned on the debugging flags in the
dhclient-{enter,exit}-hooks.d/ to see what info is gathered from the server.
Hostname is not one of the pieces of information that is returned.
I am assuming that the dhcp server is actually sending out hostnames, but am
not 100% confident. I can take the returned address and do a nslookup to
actually get the hostname, but this seems like a kludge. Are there any known
problems with getting a hostname from a dhcp server that I am overlooking?
Michael Ash had asked a similar question back in Oct 2003 (debian-user
archives), and someone responded, but it didn't appear like there was any
definite solution.
Thanks for any help.
John
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Re: static ip to dhcp conversion -- getting a hostname
On Friday 05 March 2004 09:00 am, Jonathan Schmitt wrote: My university is switching everyone over from a static ip to one assigned via dhcp. In addition, they are specifying the hostname for each of these addresses. Unfortunately, we don't get an option to choose a hostname. It seems that the current mechanism within Debian is to specify a hostname regardless of how a ip is assigned. Hi, sorry, I can't solve Your problem, but I would like to ask You if You're sure it is a good idea to dynamically change the hostname? A long time ago, I was much younger and more inexperienced, I decided, the hostname assigned during installation wasn't what I expected, so I simply changed it. The result was different programs not working properly anymore (I think, You can still find my cry for help on debian-kde mailing list as kdm was one of those packages). It was potato with a self compiled kde by then, and I never ever played with my hostname after that day. So, are You sure, that is a wise idea? js Unfortunately, it is not my decision to make. If it were, I would not have the dhcp server assign hostnames. John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: A Newbie LVM Question
On Thursday 04 March 2004 10:38 am, stan wrote: On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 05:09:02PM +0200, Alexei Chetroi wrote: On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 08:13:18AM -0500, stan wrote: Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2004 08:13:18 -0500 From: stan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: A Newbie LVM Question On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 02:42:30PM -0500, stan wrote: On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 09:37:06AM +0100, Erich Waelde wrote: Content-Description: message body text I made a little more progress on this last night. I was able to actually create a working lvm, and format it as XFS (I do think I left some rements of a bad atempt laying aroud BTW, is it safe to just rmmive these traces?). In any case, when I rebooted that machine the new lvm parition did not mount (yes I put it in /etc/fstab)/ Atempts to mount it by had result in a message about it not being active. Do you have script /etc/init.d/lvm ? 1st you must run vgscan to scan volume groups and after that vgchange -a y I do, but I don'r seem to have any links to it from the various /etc/rc.d directories. How can I create these (In a Debian sort of way?). I know I can create them by hand, but thre must be a more Debian way fo doing it, right? You need to have lvm10 and lvm-common installed and if using a standard debian kernel, need to have lvm-mod module running. I am pretty sure that installing lvm10 and/or lvm-common should have set up the /etc/init.d/lvm for you. John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Install debian on raid system
On Friday 27 February 2004 08:21 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everybody, I'm trying to install debian on a raid system (Promise FastTrak s150 sx with 3 SATA drives), I downloaded the netinstall iso and tried installing. Unfortunately the drivers for the raid card aren't there and I don't seem te be able to find them anywhere on the net (except for RH and SUSE). Could anyone please help as I'm completely stuck right now? Thanks! Ron PS. Could you please cc any replies to me? You might want to check out this site: http://oregonstate.edu/~kveton/debian/ It has instructions for making a custom boot cd with the drivers you need. You might also get lucky with the iso that is shown on this page as well. A kernel config is shown which might be useful thing to check out. John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
