Re: Official Exim 4 package
On Sun, 16 Mar 2003 08:05:38 + (GMT), Rus Foster wrote: I'm trying to find an exim 4 package for woody. Googling turned up Fetch yourself the source of one of the Exim 4.x packages from here: http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl? keywords=eximsearchon=namessubword=1version=allrelease=all and recompile it under Woody. Shouldn't be much of a problem, I suppose. -- L I N U X .~. The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Ein wenig) [OT]: PGP/GPG Keysigning-Party in Aachen
Hallo zusammen, Folgendes koennte interessant fuer Debian-Entwickler und -Benutzer aus Aachen und Umgebung sein: Irgendwann im Februar werden wir eine PGP/GPG Keysigning-Party veranstalten: http://www.ccac.rwth-aachen.de/keysigning_party/ Wenn jemand von Euch Interesse hat daran teilzunehmen, dann sollte er sich auf der dafuer eingerichteten Mailingliste eintragen, die fuer die Koordination und Ankuendigung des genauen Ortes und der Zeit verwendet wird: http://mail.lkt.uni-erlangen.de/mailman/listinfo/pgp-party Wir wuerden uns freuen, wenn moeglichst viele von Euch teilnaehmen. Gruesse, Ralf -- L I N U X .~. The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^ -- Häufig gestellte Fragen und Antworten (FAQ): http://www.de.debian.org/debian-user-german-FAQ/ Zum AUSTRAGEN schicken Sie eine Mail an [EMAIL PROTECTED] mit dem Subject unsubscribe. Probleme? Mail an [EMAIL PROTECTED] (engl)
(Somewhat) [OT]: PGP/GPG keysigning party in Aachen, Germany
Hi there, this might be interesting for Debian developers and users in and around Aachen, Germany. There will be a PGP/GPG keysigning party some time in February. If you are interested in participating, please sign up on the mailing list that will be used to coordinate the party and to announce the exact time and place where the meeting will be held. The URL to subscribe is: http://mail.lkt.uni-erlangen.de/mailman/listinfo/pgp-party Thanks, Ralf -- L I N U X .~. The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: (Somewhat) [OT]: PGP/GPG keysigning party in Aachen, Germany
On Fri, 03 Jan 2003 15:52:20 +0100, Ralf G. R. Bergs wrote: There will be a PGP/GPG keysigning party some time in February. If you are I forgot to add the URL where you can get more info about PGP/GPG and the party itself (in German only, sorry): http://www.ccac.rwth-aachen.de/keysigning_party/ -- L I N U X .~. The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: psaux.o not compiled as a module?!
On 17 Nov 2002 19:58:01 +0100, Matthias Hentges wrote: all of a sudden I've got a strange problem. I'm trying to compile 2.4.20-rc2 with XFS, where psaux should be compiled as a module: CONFIG_MOUSE=m CONFIG_PSMOUSE=y However the psaux.o module is not created?! This NEVER used to be a problem... Thats because the PSMOUSE code is compiled into the MOUSE modul IIRC. Try this instead: CONFIG_MOUSE=y CONFIG_PSMOUSE=m That may give you psaux.o (untested). I don't think that would help. Unless the menuconfig menu logic is broken my defs are ok -- I answered m to include the mouse driver as a module, and y to include the PS/2 mouse driver (this obviously goes into the same module because the mouse drivers selection is on a higher level.) -- L I N U X .~. The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: psaux.o not compiled as a module?!
On Sun, 17 Nov 2002 11:04:54 -0800, Bob Nielsen wrote: all of a sudden I've got a strange problem. I'm trying to compile 2.4.20- rc2 with XFS, where psaux should be compiled as a module: CONFIG_MOUSE=m CONFIG_PSMOUSE=y However the psaux.o module is not created?! This NEVER used to be a problem... Perhaps mousedev.o is what you are looking for. This is what 2.4.19 uses for a ps/2 mouse driver. This file simply isn't there. The only char files I have are serial.o and softdog.o. Apart from these modules there's only block, cdrom, ide, net, pnp, and sound modules. All this is happening under VMware (altho I don't think it matters.) The strange thing is that my gpm and also X mouse suddenly are working again, after I rebooted. In /proc/devices it says char devices: 10 misc, but this is probably due to softdog watchdog support that I included in the kernel. There isn't a module loaded with a name that suggests it supports mice. :-( Remember that I configured mouse support NOT to be compiled into the kernel, but to be compiled as a module. Also, I'm not exactly a newbie so it's definitely not a user error. The only explanation I've got is that the driver WAS included into the kernel altho I instructed it to be compiled into a module. That would be a problem with the kernel source (configure logic.) To verify this I manually changed the two statements above to read: CONFIG_MOUSE=m CONFIG_PSMOUSE=m I will have a go at it, and should this turn out to be the problem I will report that here. -- L I N U X .~. The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: psaux.o not compiled as a module?!
On Tue, 19 Nov 2002 13:40:43 +0100, Stephan Seitz wrote: On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 01:28:49PM +0100, Ralf G. R. Bergs wrote: This file simply isn't there. The only char files I have are serial.o and softdog.o. Apart from these modules there's only block, cdrom, ide, net, pnp, and sound modules. I wonder, if it ever was there. It was there. I'm not halluscinating. ;-) http://www.informatik.uni-siegen.de/softdocs/howto/Module-HOWTO-11.html But it seems that it has been a while when I last spotted that module, BECAUSE: http://ken.bantoft.org/code/linux/600e/rc.modules :-) If I read the help for Mouse support correctly, then: Note that the answer to this question won't directly affect the kernel: saying N will just cause the configurator to skip all the questions about non-serial mice. If unsure, say Y. You're right. IIRC there was a time, when you could compile psaux as module. Then it merged with the keyboard driver, so you could only activate psaux or not. There was no module anymore. But this was long ago, I think, it happend in 2.1.x. Absolutely. Shade and sweet water! Thanks for the good wishes. :-) May the f^Hsource be with you. ;-) -- L I N U X .~. The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: psaux.o not compiled as a module?!
On Tue, 19 Nov 2002 08:55:59 -0800, Bob Nielsen wrote: It shows up here as /lib/modules/2.4.19-686/kernel/drivers/input/mousedev.o This is a different file, namely to support mice driven via the input device (read USB mice.) -- L I N U X .~. The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
psaux.o not compiled as a module?!
Hi there, all of a sudden I've got a strange problem. I'm trying to compile 2.4.20-rc2 with XFS, where psaux should be compiled as a module: CONFIG_MOUSE=m CONFIG_PSMOUSE=y However the psaux.o module is not created?! This NEVER used to be a problem... Does anyone know what could be going wrong? I wasn't able to find anything on Google... Thanks, Ralf -- L I N U X .~. The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Exim 4.1 says PAM module not found
On Wed, 04 Sep 2002 11:30:17 -0500, Hanasaki JiJi wrote: I am running exim built under Debian Woody. Where can I find the docs to configure pam.d/exim to authenticate for exim? the log says cant find moudle [...] Exim 4.x was built with PAM support Don't know what kind of problem you got, but mine works fine. I even built myself DEBs, so if you want to try them out: http://ADSL-Bergs.RZ.RWTH-Aachen.DE/~rabe/debian/ -- L I N U X .~. The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: new ssh and Accepted hostbased in logs
On Thu, 27 Jun 2002 01:05:08 -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote: came from stable/updates/main on security.debian.org . Do you have this line in your sources.list: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib non-free Yup, and when I just re-checked it was there. Strange that there isn't a version for testing yet?! Ooops, they did it again... ;-) Now there's also a testing-version. Thanks, guys!! -- Sign the EU petition against SPAM: L I N U X .~. http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: new ssh and Accepted hostbased in logs
On Wed, 26 Jun 2002 11:28:29 -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote: I'll file a bug; I was just curious whether anyone else saw something similar. ACK. I'm seeing the same on several different systems (Debian 2.2 and pre-3.0.) -- Sign the EU petition against SPAM: L I N U X .~. http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: smc 8216c nic (was: Re: Debian Network Howto)
On Mon, 17 Jun 2002 18:33:07 +0200, Joris wrote: I have an smc 8216C card. On same system (dual boot), Windows98 finds the card as strapped (io=0x300 irq=10). Redhat 6.0 found it with the smc-ultra driver. After the fact, I found that on smc cards, sometimes the ne or wd drivers work. I'm unable to install any of them, ne, wd, or smc-ultra (having installed the 8390 they depend upon). This is with either modprobe, or direct insmod with options io=0x300 irq=10. I had the same problem, with exact the same card. It seems the smc-ultra driver doesn't detect it anymore since the 2.2.xx kernel series. The reason RedHat 6 found it is its old 2.0 kernel, but as I wanted Debian and a more recent kernel, I swapped all my smc8216's for any other nic with different people that use windows anyway... Recompile your kernel, then it will work. I always had this problem since I have lots of 8216 cards, but after I recompiled my kernel only including the drivers/modules I really need everything was fine. Linux then DOES auto-detect the card very well! -- Sign the EU petition against SPAM: L I N U X .~. http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Compiling Samba from CVS for Debian fails with rejected patch
# debian/rules binary [...] patching file `source/include/proto.h' Hunk #6 FAILED at 1079. Hunk #7 succeeded at 1522 (offset 1 line). Hunk #9 succeeded at 2441 (offset 4 lines). Hunk #11 succeeded at 2537 (offset 4 lines). Hunk #13 succeeded at 4759 (offset 17 lines). 1 out of 14 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to source/include/proto.h.rej Obviously the Debian patches have been created against the released version of Samba, so patching the CVS version fails. :-( I'd do the patch manually, but it seems far too much work since the failed hunk is HUGE. Anyone out there who has succeeded in patching a recent Samba version (not older than a few days)? Thanks, Ralf -- Sign the EU petition against SPAM: L I N U X .~. http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: apache-ssl, libapache-mod-ssl
On Fri, 24 May 2002 15:48:05 +0200, Hugo van der Merwe wrote: What is the difference (when would one use what) between libapache-mod-ssl, and apache-ssl? Is one of these new, since the crypto-in-main transition? (I only noticed the -mod-ssl one today, I've used apache-ssl in the past.) Someone once (months ago) told me that Apache-SSL was obsolete, and to use libapache-mod-ssl, but they couldn't (or didn't want to) explain to me WHY this was so. -- Sign the EU petition against SPAM: L I N U X .~. http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: apache-ssl, libapache-mod-ssl
On Fri, 24 May 2002 09:52:49 -0400, Ian D. Stewart wrote: [...] Just based on the package names, I would guess that the latter uses the Apache module structure, whereas the former has SSL support compiled into the main executable. This is correct. I know it since I've used both. If that is the case, then mod_ssl would certainly be alot more flexible. Agreed. -- Sign the EU petition against SPAM: L I N U X .~. http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: / on raid1
On Thu, 16 May 2002 14:21:35 +0200 (MEST), Karoly VEGH wrote: ~ # ls -l /dev/rooot ls: /dev/rooot: No such file or directory ^^^ Well, THIS device you probably won't even find if your setup is right. :-) -- Sign the EU petition against SPAM: L I N U X .~. http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Logging iptables
On Wed, 24 Apr 2002 19:38:41 +0200, Tim Dijkstra wrote: The other possibility is to look into the ulog target. This may give more configurability, but I haven't used it yet. Maybe this is a nicer way of doing it, but this means you have to write a program that listens to a socket, right? Install package ulogd. -- Sign the EU petition against SPAM: L I N U X .~. http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: URGENT md question: RAID partitions lack device nodes
On Tue, 9 Apr 2002 17:24:54 -0400, Cory Snavely wrote: Unless something with raidtools has drastically changed and I didn't notice, there is no such thing as partitioning an md device. Instead, you'd partition the disks themselves, and then create RAID 1s from those partitions. E.g., instead of making hda1 and hdb1 into md0 and trying to partition md0, partition hda and hdb in identical ways and then create RAID 1s md0, md1, md2, etc. I guess you're right since (apart from a patch that I've found) there's not a single pointer in Google that would lead me to a website explaining how this could be accomplished. To be honest I'm very disappointed about this (*put on asbestos underwear*) immature implementation. Suppose I have a HUGE RAID that I want to create two dozens of partitions on. That would mean I need to create physical partitions on ALL drives involved, and later combine them using raidtab. This is not exactly what I would have expected. Anyway, thanks for your comment. Here is the URL of the patch I've found: http://cgi.cse.unsw.edu.au/~neilb/patches/linux-stable/2.4.18/patch-m-MdPart I will, however, NOT be using this patch, since I don't know whether it will some day be part of the standard kernel or not, and I can't afford that some day I will be without a patch for the then-current kernel. -- Sign the EU petition against SPAM: L I N U X .~. http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: md question: RAID partitions lack device nodes
On Thu, 11 Apr 2002 10:03:45 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Thu, 11 Apr 2002, Ralf G. R. Bergs wrote: On Tue, 9 Apr 2002 17:24:54 -0400, Cory Snavely wrote: To be honest I'm very disappointed about this (*put on asbestos underwear*) immature implementation. Suppose I have a HUGE RAID that I want to create two dozens of partitions on. That would mean I need to create physical partitions on ALL drives involved, and later combine them using raidtab. Use LVM, that is the real way people deal with huge RAID arrays in real We're not talking about huge arrays in this case. I just need RAID1 (mirroring.) (We have two hardware RAIDs for our fileserver, so I'm not going to use software RAID for huge filesystems.) Would you recommend LVM anyway? So that I can partition the /dev/md0 device? life. Partitions just aren't flexible enough. But be careful with your root device, anything other than simple RAID1 will give you trouble there (as in it is not impossible, but it is non-trivial to arrange the kernel to boot from it). I will have the kernel on a separate ext2 /boot partition that's not being mirrored. Do notice that you must have the LVM device ON TOP of RAID, not the other way around. Sure, everything else would be quite strange. :-) Thanks for your comments. -- Sign the EU petition against SPAM: L I N U X .~. http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: md question: RAID partitions lack device nodes
On Thu, 11 Apr 2002 11:59:54 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Thu, 11 Apr 2002, Ralf G. R. Bergs wrote: On Thu, 11 Apr 2002 10:03:45 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: Use LVM, that is the real way people deal with huge RAID arrays in real We're not talking about huge arrays in this case. I just need RAID1 (mirroring.) (We have two hardware RAIDs for our fileserver, so I'm not going to use software RAID for huge filesystems.) Would you recommend LVM anyway? So that I can partition the /dev/md0 device? Yes. LVM has not a very big cost in either space or performance. If you Ok, will do so. Thanks, Ralf -- Sign the EU petition against SPAM: L I N U X .~. http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Elm missing in testing???
Hi there, I can't believe it -- Elm has been removed from testing?!?!?! Any ideas what's going on? Thanks, Ralf -- Sign the EU petition against SPAM: L I N U X .~. http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
URGENT md question: RAID partitions lack device nodes
Hi there, I need to operate two disks in RAID1 mode (mirroring.) I've set up raidtab and constructed the raid (/dev/md0.) I've also partitioned it using cfdisk: md0p5 Logical Linux 100.00* md0p6 Logical Linux 768.00 md0p7 Logical Linux 500.00 md0p8 Logical Linux 4000.01 md0p9 Logical Linux10933.00 md0p10 Logical Linux 2000.13 HOWEVER I can't mkfs the individual (pseudo) partitions because the device nodes are missing, and MAKEDEV doesn't know how to create them either. What am I doing wrong? BTW, I'm running kernel 2.4.17 and Debian testing (Woody.) Thanks, Ralf -- Sign the EU petition against SPAM: L I N U X .~. http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: /etc/passwd file, and USERSPEC.H
On Sat, 9 Mar 2002 09:45:19 -0500, Mark Dascher wrote: Is there such a thing as an apt-get searcher, to find which package would contain a certain file? http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages -- Sign the EU petition against SPAM: L I N U X .~. http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: start-stop-daemon chroot option.
On Sat, 09 Mar 2002 12:08:54 -0600, Corey Halpin wrote: [...] Yes, there is a spamd in /usr/sbin, and there is also one in /var/lib/spamd/usr/sbin. You might need some shared libraries (that the daemon binary itself depends upon) that are missing in the chroot jail. ldd -v binary should show you the dependencies. -- Sign the EU petition against SPAM: L I N U X .~. http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable
On Sun, 3 Mar 2002 14:12:17 +0100, Balazs Javor wrote: Any ideas why this happens and how I could solve this? You're out of memory. Add some swap. -- Sign the EU petition against SPAM: L I N U X .~. http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: apt-get and 'deb file:\'
On Mon, 11 Feb 2002 08:14:44 -0800 (Pacific Standard Time), Tom Schuetz wrote: I used to have debian 2.2 installed on one box, and at that time I was able to 'apt-get install foo.deb', where 'foo.deb' was any file I'd just put into my working directory. The directory didn't was never mentioned in 'sources.list'. I think you must be confusing something. Use dpkg -i pkgname.deb to install a Debian archive at the specified location. I've tried putting 'deb file:\home\tom' into sources.list, but I get a malformed sources.list complaint. We're not running DOS, but Unix, do we?! So at least use forward slashes... I've also R'd the FM, and now, as a last resort, I appeal to debian-user. What do I need to do to install a deb that's sitting in my PWD? Your PWD? You mean your CWD? -- Verkaufe Original-BMW-Raeder:L I N U X .~. http://adsl-bergs.rz.rwth-aachen.de/~rabe The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
SOLVED (was Re: jed-testing driving me mad by redefining Alt-F (Esc-F)
On Wed, 30 Jan 2002 22:23:25 +0100, Ralf G. R. Bergs wrote: I already edited /usr/share/jed/lib/jed.rc by changing the following lines: % enable_menu_keys (); enable_top_status_line (0); The author of the Debian package, Charl P. Botha [EMAIL PROTECTED], gladly helped my finding the problem: Make sure that () = evalfile(emacs); is uncommented in the /usr/share/jed/lib/jed.rc After I enabled the above line all was well again. :-) Thanks Charl! -- Verkaufe Original-BMW-Raeder:L I N U X .~. http://adsl-bergs.rz.rwth-aachen.de/~rabe The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
jed-testing driving me mad by redefining Alt-F (Esc-F)
Hi there, is there anyone who can help me with disabling this f*ck*ng keystrokes to enable the menus??? I already edited /usr/share/jed/lib/jed.rc by changing the following lines: % enable_menu_keys (); enable_top_status_line (0); If I'm not totally mistaken this used to do the trick in older versions of jed, but in the testing version all I get is that the menu bar disappears. If I type Alt-F (or Esc-F) to move forward a word all I get is this stupid File menu. Help, please!! Thanks so much, Ralf -- Verkaufe Original-BMW-Raeder:L I N U X .~. http://adsl-bergs.rz.rwth-aachen.de/~rabe The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Unable to handle kernel paging request
Hi there, since a few hours I'm getting messages like the following in my syslog. The strange thing is that they only seem to pertain to processes doing SNMP (mrtg and snmpget.) I don't think it's an out of memory issue since there is PLENTY of swap available (512M,) and apart from 10 FTP processes there's not much load on the machine. Jan 26 10:05:07 MyMachine kernel: 1Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 16534fc1 Jan 26 10:05:07 MyMachine kernel: printing eip: Jan 26 10:05:07 MyMachine kernel: c013cba0 Jan 26 10:05:07 MyMachine kernel: *pde = Jan 26 10:05:07 MyMachine kernel: Oops: Jan 26 10:05:07 MyMachine kernel: CPU:0 Jan 26 10:05:08 MyMachine kernel: EIP:0010:[d_lookup+96/256]Not tainted Jan 26 10:05:08 MyMachine kernel: EFLAGS: 00010207 Jan 26 10:05:08 MyMachine kernel: eax: c1165350 ebx: 16534fb1 ecx: 000e edx: c116 Jan 26 10:05:08 MyMachine kernel: esi: 997bda26 edi: c128ff8c ebp: 16534fc1 esp: c128fed8 Jan 26 10:05:08 MyMachine kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018 Jan 26 10:05:08 MyMachine kernel: Process mrtg (pid: 10585, stackpage=c128f000) Jan 26 10:05:08 MyMachine kernel: Stack: 997bda26 c29c2d60 c128ff8c c128ff3c c1165350 c23ce00a 997bda26 0010 Jan 26 10:05:08 MyMachine kernel:c0134800 c29c2d60 c128ff3c 997bda26 c0134eb8 c29c2d60 c128ff3c Jan 26 10:05:08 MyMachine kernel: c23ce000 c128ff8c 0001 c128e000 c128e000 0001 c23ce01a Jan 26 10:05:08 MyMachine kernel: Call Trace: [cached_lookup+16/96] [link_path_walk+1208/1792] [path_walk+26/32] [open_namei+122/1520] [filp_open+ 48/80] Jan 26 10:05:08 MyMachine kernel:[sys_open+54/160] [system_call+51/64] Jan 26 10:05:08 MyMachine kernel: Jan 26 10:05:08 MyMachine kernel: Code: 8b 6d 00 8b 74 24 18 39 73 44 75 7c 8b 74 24 24 39 73 0c 75 Jan 26 10:05:10 MyMachine kernel: 1Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 16534fc1 Jan 26 10:05:10 MyMachine kernel: printing eip: Jan 26 10:05:10 MyMachine kernel: c013cba0 Jan 26 10:05:10 MyMachine kernel: *pde = Jan 26 10:05:10 MyMachine kernel: Oops: Jan 26 10:05:10 MyMachine kernel: CPU:0 Jan 26 10:05:10 MyMachine kernel: EIP:0010:[d_lookup+96/256]Not tainted Jan 26 10:05:10 MyMachine kernel: EFLAGS: 00010217 Jan 26 10:05:10 MyMachine kernel: eax: c1165358 ebx: 16534fb1 ecx: 000e edx: c116 Jan 26 10:05:10 MyMachine kernel: esi: 31296d66 edi: c46d7f8c ebp: 16534fc1 esp: c46d7ed8 Jan 26 10:05:10 MyMachine kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018 Jan 26 10:05:10 MyMachine kernel: Process snmpget (pid: 10590, stackpage=c46d7000) Jan 26 10:05:10 MyMachine kernel: Stack: 31296d66 c4c12580 c46d7f8c c46d7f3c c1165358 c4e8d015 31296d66 0016 Jan 26 10:05:10 MyMachine kernel:c0134800 c4c12580 c46d7f3c 31296d66 c0134eb8 c4c12580 c46d7f3c Jan 26 10:05:10 MyMachine kernel: c4e8d000 c46d7f8c 0001 c46d6000 c46d6000 0001 c4e8d02b Jan 26 10:05:10 MyMachine kernel: Call Trace: [cached_lookup+16/96] [link_path_walk+1208/1792] [path_walk+26/32] [open_namei+122/1520] [filp_open+ 48/80] Jan 26 10:05:10 MyMachine kernel:[sys_open+54/160] [system_call+51/64] Jan 26 10:05:10 MyMachine kernel: Jan 26 10:05:10 MyMachine kernel: Code: 8b 6d 00 8b 74 24 18 39 73 44 75 7c 8b 74 24 24 39 73 0c 75 Jan 26 10:05:11 MyMachine kernel: 1Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 16534fc1 Jan 26 10:05:11 MyMachine kernel: printing eip: Jan 26 10:05:11 MyMachine kernel: c013cba0 Jan 26 10:05:11 MyMachine kernel: *pde = Jan 26 10:05:11 MyMachine kernel: Oops: Jan 26 10:05:11 MyMachine kernel: CPU:0 Jan 26 10:05:11 MyMachine kernel: EIP:0010:[d_lookup+96/256]Not tainted Jan 26 10:05:11 MyMachine kernel: EFLAGS: 00010217 Jan 26 10:05:11 MyMachine kernel: eax: c1165358 ebx: 16534fb1 ecx: 000e edx: c116 Jan 26 10:05:11 MyMachine kernel: esi: 31296d66 edi: c4e5bf8c ebp: 16534fc1 esp: c4e5bed8 Jan 26 10:05:11 MyMachine kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018 Jan 26 10:05:11 MyMachine kernel: Process snmpget (pid: 10596, stackpage=c4e5b000) Jan 26 10:05:11 MyMachine kernel: Stack: 31296d66 c4c12580 c4e5bf8c c4e5bf3c c1165358 c2848015 31296d66 0016 Jan 26 10:05:11 MyMachine kernel:c0134800 c4c12580 c4e5bf3c 31296d66 c0134eb8 c4c12580 c4e5bf3c Jan 26 10:05:11 MyMachine kernel: c2848000 c4e5bf8c 0001 c4e5a000 c4e5a000 0001 c284802b Jan 26 10:05:11 MyMachine kernel: Call Trace: [cached_lookup+16/96] [link_path_walk+1208/1792] [path_walk+26/32] [open_namei+122/1520] [filp_open+ 48/80] Jan 26 10:05:11 MyMachine kernel:[sys_open+54/160] [system_call+51/64] Jan 26 10:05:11 MyMachine kernel: Jan 26 10:05:11 MyMachine kernel: Code: 8b 6d 00 8b 74 24 18 39 73 44 75 7c 8b 74 24 24 39 73 0c 75 Jan 26 10:05:19 MyMachine kernel: 1Unable to handle kernel paging request at
Re: Unable to handle kernel paging request
On 26 Jan 2002 11:52:19 +0100, Ramin Motakef wrote: [...] Jan 26 10:05:07 MyMachine kernel: 1Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 16534fc1 [...] You should give memtest86 a try, also checking for bad blocks on the swap partition might be a good idea. H, you're making me nervous... :-( I can hardly believe it's a HW problem since the machine in question is a server machine that's running 24 hrs./day, and it's been VERY reliable so far. It's performing it's service since some years now (ok, that doesn't prevent it from dying some day, but...) Apart from that I haven't seen a SINGLE message from the IDE driver (like timeouts or read/write errors.) Shouldn't that be the case if you suspect the hard drive? How would I check a swap partition for errors? What kernel version are you running? 2.4.14 with XFS. I'm planning to upgrade to 2.4.17 or 18 soon... -- Verkaufe Original-BMW-Raeder:L I N U X .~. http://adsl-bergs.rz.rwth-aachen.de/~rabe The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
[OT] Re: What is OT:
On Sat, 19 Jan 2002 10:08:41 -0500 (EST), David Teague wrote: Perhaps a stupid question, but -- What does OT: mean? Off-topic, i.e. because of it's subject it doesn't into this list. -- Verkaufe Original-BMW-Raeder:L I N U X .~. http://adsl-bergs.rz.rwth-aachen.de/~rabe The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
kdelibs3(-crypto) broken in testing?
Hi there, I get duplicate files warning when trying to install kdelibs3 and kdelibs3- crypto on my Debian testing system: dpkg: error processing .../kdelibgs3-crypto_4%3a2.2.1-11_i386.deb (--unpack) trying to overwrite '/usr/share/apps/kssl/caroot/ca-bundle.crt', which is also in package kdelibs3 dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) Any idea what's (or rather WHY things are) going wrong? ` Thanks, Ralf -- Verkaufe Original-BMW-Raeder:L I N U X .~. http://adsl-bergs.rz.rwth-aachen.de/~rabe The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: can exim be started with tcp wrappers?
On Fri, 16 Nov 2001 08:40:56 -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: i would like to change smtp stream tcp nowait mail /usr/sbin/exim exim -bs to smtp stream tcp nowait mail /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/exim exim -bs in inetd.conf. i'd like to do this so i can drop spammer's IP addresses in /etc/hosts.deny so that my host won't talk to them when they send spam. would this work? or would it hose my mail? i'd like to get an opinion before trying it. It would work -- but usually Exim already includes the tcpd stuff, so that Exim *automagically* uses /etc/hosts.(allow,deny). You don't need to prefix the inetd.conf line with tcpd. But note that this is only of limited use -- spammers change IP addresses and SMTP relays often, so blocking them doesn't give you any benefits. You might even block legitimate messages from being delivered! Better have a look at procmail (Debian package available.) This allows you to filter messages by their (header and body) contents -- probably more what you want than the above. -- Verkaufe Original-BMW-Raeder:L I N U X .~. http://adsl-bergs.rz.rwth-aachen.de/~rabe The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: 3c905c?
On Thu, 15 Nov 2001 19:13:29 +0800, LM Ho wrote: Hi, I try to install Debian 2.2 Rev 3 on i386 with 3com 3c905c. According to install.en.pdf on the CDROM, a proper device driver for 3c905 should be in Compact installation set, but this driver is not found during installation. Does anyone come across this problem before? Thanks in advance! I think you need to load the 3c59x (Vortex) module. HTH. -- Verkaufe Original-BMW-Raeder:L I N U X .~. http://adsl-bergs.rz.rwth-aachen.de/~rabe The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: bug in 'time' ?
On Thu, 25 Oct 2001 09:36:58 +0200 (MET DST), BURLET Frederic wrote: I don't know if it is a bug but I don't manage to use options with the command 'time'. [...] $ time -v ./myprog bash: -v: command not found If you take a close look you will see that BASH itself outputs the above message. In fact you are invoking the bash-internal time command. If you want to invoke the GNU shellutils(?) time command you need to invoke it as /usr/bin/time. -- Verkaufe Original-BMW-Raeder:L I N U X .~. http://adsl-bergs.rz.rwth-aachen.de/~rabe The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: procmail: Suspicious rcfile /home/erik/.procmailrc
On Sun, 30 Sep 2001 01:43:16 -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: [...] it used to have 664 permissions but I changed it to: -rw---1 erik erik 660 May 12 19:41 /home/erik/.procmailrc and it still complains! any ideas? TIA. Could be the permissions of your home directory. Check them to make sure only YOU (and not your group) can change it. -- Verkaufe Original-BMW-Raeder:L I N U X .~. http://adsl-bergs.rz.rwth-aachen.de/~rabe The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: 2.4.10, problems?
On Mon, 24 Sep 2001 17:36:32 -0400, Terry Warner wrote: I was wondering if anyone was having problems with 2.4.10? On a UP machine or SMP machine. I'm kind of curious before I possiably upgrade (and if anyone is using ext3 with 2.4.10 if they are having problems too) I tried to upgrade from 2.4.9 to 2.4.10, but was having unexpected problems. At least some modules could not be loaded. Maybe one needs updated modutils again? Didn't have the time to further investigate, so went back to 2.4.9. -- Verkaufe Original-BMW-Raeder:L I N U X .~. http://adsl-bergs.rz.rwth-aachen.de/~rabe The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: 2.4.10, problems?
On Tue, 25 Sep 2001 13:56:37 +0200, Bostjan Muller wrote: No problem, do not have to patch, you can use the plain vanilla 2.4.10 and than use kernel-package tools to create .deb with the kernel image and modules (source.deb creatin does not seem to work with latest kernel-package). ACK. I can confirm that (as is ALWAYS the case, you never don't have to patch the kernel in order to use kernel-package.) -- Verkaufe Original-BMW-Raeder:L I N U X .~. http://adsl-bergs.rz.rwth-aachen.de/~rabe The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: Debian inside VM can't find NIC
On Fri, 14 Sep 2001 17:06:20 -0400, Rupert Heesom wrote: One more question, though. I'm more used to the redhat way of handling Linux. You know, using linuxconf or netconf to configure things. Under Debian, are there any such utils, or do I edit config files? Honestly, I don't know. I'm using Debian since years, but the only thing I always do is edit config files by hand. :-) Also, what I've done to get the eth0 interface up and running is - 1) put modprobe pcnet32 into the /etc/init.d/networking startup script file (got right script name?). The proper way would've been to put it into /etc/modules. 2) edit /etc/network/interfaces to configure eth0 there. That was perfectly right. Ralf -- Verkaufe Original-BMW-Raeder:L I N U X .~. http://adsl-bergs.rz.rwth-aachen.de/~rabe The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: DNS problems
On Thu, 13 Sep 2001 10:46:49 -0400, Doug Fields wrote: All connections to my machine are delayed. telnet localhost takes 20 secs to connect and another 20 secs to display the login. telnet 127.0.0.1 connects immidiately, but also needs 20 secs to display a login. Sounds to me the reverse mapping is not set up. Which doesn't make sense because it's in your hosts file. I could imagine that this has something to do with the auth/ident daemon looping. The original poster should have a look at their syslog file, if they see something like identd disabled due to looping. -- Verkaufe Original-BMW-Raeder:L I N U X .~. http://adsl-bergs.rz.rwth-aachen.de/~rabe The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: Debian inside VM can't find NIC
On 13 Sep 2001 20:45:30 -0400, Rupert Heesom wrote: Inside my NT VM I can see VMware's AMD PCNET PCI NIC. What should I do to get Debian to see it's NIC? Load pcnet32.o. -- Verkaufe Original-BMW-Raeder:L I N U X .~. http://adsl-bergs.rz.rwth-aachen.de/~rabe The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: dhcp-dns problem
On Fri, 7 Sep 2001 10:34:34 -0500, Nathan E Norman wrote: Should update requests be coming from a dhcp client? Yes. Who else would they come from. Well, the update requests could ALSO come from the dhcp server itself. Whenever a DHCP request arrives on the DHCP server it could return an IP address and a hostname to the DHCP client, PLUS it (the DHCP server) could register this name with the nameserver. I don't know whether this actually WORKS this way, but at least it COULD work this way, couldn't it?! -- Verkaufe Original-BMW-Raeder:L I N U X .~. http://adsl-bergs.rz.rwth-aachen.de/~rabe The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: eth1 messing up eth0 and routing question
On 5 Sep 2001 21:06:32 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5 Sep 2001 08:29:37 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can ping outside and inside networks from the router, and I can ping the LAN side of the router from a local computer, but I can't ping outside from the local computer. You need SNAT (ip masquerading) like this: if [ -n $EXTERNAL ]; then for ext in $EXTERNAL; do ipnm_cache $ext $IPTABLES -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o $ext -j SNAT --to $IPOFIF done fi $EXTERNAL is the set of external interfaces you have, ipnm_cache precomputes the IP address and netmask for the respective external interface (the IP address gets stored in $IPOFIF.) Ok, I've read conflicting information on this subject, and neither solution has worked correctly. I can't use this solution becuase I don't seem to have ipnm_cache. I tried to follow the NAT-HOWTO which says to use these commands: Well, the above was an excerpt from my firewalling rules (scripts.) You can use it by simply inserting your data in the places where I have variables: iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth0 -j SNAT --to 11.22.33.44 (if eth0 is your external interface and where 11.22.33.44 is your external IP.) # iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE The MASQUERADE target is for dynamic interfaces like ppp0. For static IPs you should use the above solution which I originally provided. at which point I get the message: iptables: No chain/target/match by that name Hmmm, not sure why you receive this message. Any messages in syslog? Maybe you're simply missing the relevant modules? Have a look at http://netfilter.kernelnotes.org/ There you should find a tutorial about netfilter and its use. HTH, Ralf -- Verkaufe Original-BMW-Raeder:L I N U X .~. http://adsl-bergs.rz.rwth-aachen.de/~rabe The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: eth1 messing up eth0 and routing question
On 5 Sep 2001 08:29:37 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can ping outside and inside networks from the router, and I can ping the LAN side of the router from a local computer, but I can't ping outside from the local computer. You need SNAT (ip masquerading) like this: if [ -n $EXTERNAL ]; then for ext in $EXTERNAL; do ipnm_cache $ext $IPTABLES -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o $ext -j SNAT --to $IPOFIF done fi $EXTERNAL is the set of external interfaces you have, ipnm_cache precomputes the IP address and netmask for the respective external interface (the IP address gets stored in $IPOFIF.) -- Verkaufe Original-BMW-Raeder:L I N U X .~. http://adsl-bergs.rz.rwth-aachen.de/~rabe The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: ./configure dies with --with-pam --with-pam_smbpass
On Sat, 1 Sep 2001 10:38:17 +0100, Matthew Sackman wrote: Using Debian Woody here, 2.4.9 kernel etc, trying to compile samba 2.2.1a but the ./configure script dies when I include the --with-pam --with-pam_smbpass switches with the following: checking configure summary configure: error: summary failure. Aborting config I don't know how to fix it (because I haven't tried it myself,) but you might gain valuable hints by looking at config.log in the directory current when you invoked configure. HTH. -- Sign the EU petition against SPAM: L I N U X .~. http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: forgot root password on head- and keyboardless machine *blush*
On Tue, 21 Aug 2001 19:19:34 +0100, Stig Brautaset wrote: * dman [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus: On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 06:02:07PM +0100, Stig Brautaset wrote: | I have a head- and keyboardless machine running debian potato that I | used to log into with ssh. Now I have forgotten the password. *blush* The easiest way is to borrow a head and keyboard from somewhere and boot into single user mode. Hmm, now if you had a way to reboot ... I know that this is a solution but I don't have a keyboard. I have a screen I could use, but I really don't want to buy a new keyboard just to do this... (my friends all have ps/2 keyboards, whilst my machine uses the old din-style). Even if you HAD a keyboard that fits you would SURELY kill your machine by hot- plugging it in (smash the keyboard-controller's fuse, if it has one, or even blow the controller itself.) -- Sign the EU petition against SPAM: L I N U X .~. http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: forgot root password on head- and keyboardless machine *blush*
On Tue, 21 Aug 2001 11:45:14 -0700, Jason Majors wrote: [...] Even if you HAD a keyboard that fits you would SURELY kill your machine by hot- plugging it in (smash the keyboard-controller's fuse, if it has one, or even blow the controller itself.) No...I do this all the time whenever I need to boot my firewall or my server, both of which run without keyboards most of the time. Then you have probably just been lucky all the time. :-) Seriously, I've seen LOTS of fuses blow by just hot-plugging the keyboard. I don't know whether modern boards are more robust with this respect, but I doubt it. -- Sign the EU petition against SPAM: L I N U X .~. http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
named: suddenly NSTATS messages in syslog?
Hi there, I suddenly have messages like the following in my syslog: named[698]: NSTATS 984060633 983967034 A=6048 SOA=257 PTR=14826 MX=51 The only thing I did (honest!) was rebooting the machine. Any idea why I didn't see it before the reboot? What exactly do the individual figures mean? Number of A, SOA, PTR, and MX RR requests since the last syslog entry? The answer to my question doesn't seem to be in the man pages, nor in the BOG. Thanks, Ralf -- Sign the EU petition against SPAM: L I N U X .~. http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: named: suddenly NSTATS messages in syslog?
On Thu, 08 Mar 2001 09:11:09 -0800, Nate Amsden wrote: I suddenly have messages like the following in my syslog: named[698]: NSTATS 984060633 983967034 A=6048 SOA=257 PTR=14826 MX=51 there is nothing wrong, named is just reporting it's statistics. no need to panic. Well, yes, thought so, BUT why did it suddenly start? I mean I'm absolutely sure I didn't tweak the config file, I just rebooted the box?! Thanks, Ralf -- Sign the EU petition against SPAM: L I N U X .~. http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: named: suddenly NSTATS messages in syslog?
On Thu, 08 Mar 2001 14:40:23 -0300 (BRT), Carlos Laviola wrote: I suddenly have messages like the following in my syslog: named[698]: NSTATS 984060633 983967034 A=6048 SOA=257 PTR=14826 MX=51 there is nothing wrong, named is just reporting it's statistics. no need to panic. Well, yes, thought so, BUT why did it suddenly start? I mean I'm absolutely sure I didn't tweak the config file, I just rebooted the box?! AFAIK, this is named's normal behaviour. When you boot the box it dumps this statistics (also known as random crap). But it does this once EVERY HOUR?! Any other ideas?! I mean I can easily filter it with logcheck, but I'm wondering why this suddenly appears in syslog?! Thanks, Ralf -- Sign the EU petition against SPAM: L I N U X .~. http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: Network card
On Sat, 24 Feb 2001 09:23:58 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: /lib/modules/2.2.18pre21/net/ni5010.o: init_modlues: Device or resource busy I have exactly the same problems when I install Debian on boxes with an SMC Ultra card. This is not only with Debian 2.2, but also with previous versions... DUnno why this is, but when I recompile the kernel the network card(of course) runs fine. -- Sign the EU petition against SPAM: L I N U X .~. http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: apt-get (shellutils on hurd)
On Sat, 24 Feb 2001 15:08:00 +0100, studenten wg wrote: everything works fine but i just wanted to know what it means... Hurd is a GNU operating system, it probably just means the program you're installing is contained in the shellutils package under Hurd (altho I dunno why it telly you so)... PS: Please fix your fullname, thanks. -- Sign the EU petition against SPAM: L I N U X .~. http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: ssh doesn't stop prompting for password [SOLVED]
On Thu, 22 Feb 2001 13:22:53 +0100, Andre Berger wrote: '-X' option. note also that if your .bashrc (or whatever) on the remote machine sets the DISPLAY variable, then this won't work. So I have to stop a running X server first, then do the ssh command? Nope. You can always do the following: local ssh -X remote remote DISPLAY= remote xlogo -- Sign the EU petition against SPAM: L I N U X .~. http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: ProFTPD scoreboard file?
On Tue, 13 Feb 2001 22:29:23 +0100, Norman Schmidt wrote: Yes, i have seen something like that in /var/log/daemon.log or so. The package seems to be quite broken anyway. Have you tried to start and stop the daemon with the init script? It doesn t seem to spit out a PID. No, I'm running it from xinetd. Sorry that I forgot to mention this... One other thing: what does the var file in my ftp homedir do? Is this a bug or a feature? I don't have that file. -- Sign the EU petition against SPAM: L I N U X .~. http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
ProFTPD scoreboard file?
Hi there, somehow my scoreboard file became corrupted after I upgraded proftpd to 1.2.0pre10-2potato1. Theoretically it should have automatically been recreated after I had removed and touched it but for some unknown reason the file remains 0 byte in size. I'm running proftpd under the nobody uid. Can this be the reason why the scoreboard file doesn't get recreated? What else can I do to get things running properly again? Thanks, Ralf -- Sign the EU petition against SPAM: L I N U X .~. http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: ungewollter DNS request bei ssh
[When he logs into a remote host via ssh this triggers a dial-on-demand connection to the outside.] On Sun, 28 Jan 2001 13:47:36 +0100, Janto Trappe wrote: Hat jemand eine Idee woran das liegt? sshd will wahrscheinlich *Deinen* Rechnernamen erfahren, von dem aus Du connectest. [I guess sshd tries to resolve *your* hostname, i.e. the name of the host you're connecting from.] -- Sign the EU petition against SPAM: L I N U X .~. http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: as86 command not found
On Sun, 14 Jan 2001 12:19:45 -0800 (PST), Xucaen wrote: what is as86? what package does it belong to? Can it be installed via apt-get? It's a 16-bit assembler that is needed for the kernel's boot sector. It's part of the bin86 package, and yes, you can install it via apt-get. -- Sign the EU petition against SPAM: L I N U X .~. http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
KDE 2.0.1 for stable doesn't come up?
Hi there, yesterday I've installed KDE 2.0.1 for Debian 2.2, but I'm facing unexpected problems getting it to run. First, kdm runs fine. But when I try to log in, or rather after I've logged in the KDE desktop doesn't come up. The rastered grey background just sits there waiting forever. The same happens if I try to run KDE by executing startx. Following is a list of processes running at that time: /bin/sh /usr/bin/X11/startx xinit /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc -- -auth /home/rabe/.Xauthority X :0 -auth /home/rabe/.Xauthority x-window-manager kdeinit: dcopserver kdeinit: klauncher kdeinit: kded kdeinit: Running... Does that look right to you? Or is there something missing that should be running? How can I debug my setup, i.e. determine why the machine is just sitting there doing nothing? BTW, using fvwm95 the system works fine, but I'm fed up with this bare-bones window manager. Thanks, Ralf -- Sign the EU petition against SPAM: L I N U X .~. http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
SOLVED! (was Re: KDE 2.0.1 for stable doesn't come up?
It turned out that /var/lib/dpkg/alternatives/x-window-manager was flawed. It caused creation of a link to /usr/bin/kwin instead of /usr/bin/kde2. After I changed the relevant line in the above file everything was fine. :-) -- Sign the EU petition against SPAM: L I N U X .~. http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Case of login relevant?
Hi there, this is to raise the issue whether the case of the login (username, user-ID) is relevant on Linux. I today observed that ipopd 4.7c-1 does NOT pay attention to the case of the login, but that proftpd 1.2.0pre10-2 DOES honor the case of the login (this is on a pure Debian 2.2 system.) I'm not sure which one is correct (I believe ipopd is correct,) but in either case shouldn't both packages react the same way? Is there a definitive standard that defines what's right and what's wrong? Thanks, Ralf -- Sign the EU petition against SPAM: L I N U X .~. http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: Case of login relevant?
On Mon, 11 Dec 2000 09:42:51 +0100, Ralf G. R. Bergs wrote: I today observed that ipopd 4.7c-1 does NOT pay attention to the case of the login, but that proftpd 1.2.0pre10-2 DOES honor the case of the login (this is on a pure Debian 2.2 system.) Please disregard this message. It turned out that the cause for the problem that the user couldn't log in was NOT that related to the above. -- Sign the EU petition against SPAM: L I N U X .~. http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Why to prefer Apache mod_ssl over Apache-SSL?
Hi there, someone recently told me that the apache-ssl is obsolete, and that you should use apache plus mod-ssl instead. Is this true, and why is this so? Thanks, Ralf -- Sign the EU petition against SPAM: L I N U X .~. http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Apache-SSL: NameVirtualHosts: separate certificates?
Hi there, I'd like to have different server certificates for all NameVirtualHosts running on my external IP. Does anyone of you know how this is being done? I find the Apache-SSL docs very sparse in this respect. Is there a tutorial how to create the server key pair, how to self-sign it, etc.? How would I configure Apache so that it returns the certificate suitable for each virtual host? Thanks, Ralf -- Sign the EU petition against SPAM: L I N U X .~. http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: Apache-SSL: NameVirtualHosts: separate certificates?
On Tue, 28 Nov 2000 09:50:55 -0600, Jorgensen, Jens wrote: I'd like to have different server certificates for all NameVirtualHosts running on my external IP. Well, if you're using mod_ssl, according to the fine documentation the Where *is* TFD after all?! I didn't find it?! To be specific I didn't find ANY documentation about the SSL-specific stuff *at all*?! SSLCertificateFile directive, which specifies the filename of the server certificate, can be place inside the overral server config context _or_ inside a virtual host context (ie. within the VirtualHost /VirtualHost tags). Well, this is exactly what I did (and I didn't forget to restart the server!), but I still get the same certificate for all virtual servers?! Yes, I did also comment out the global SSLCertificateFile directive. Still any ideas? Thanks, Ralf -- Sign the EU petition against SPAM: L I N U X .~. http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: Apache-SSL: NameVirtualHosts: separate certificates?
On 28 Nov 2000 16:53:02 GMT, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ralf G. R. Bergs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to have different server certificates for all NameVirtualHosts running on my external IP. That is technically impossible. It can't be done. If you want multiple virtual hosts with SSL support, they need to be IP-based. I already suspected something like this, since after all SSL *is* an IP-based thing. Thanks for clarifying this. Ralf -- Sign the EU petition against SPAM: L I N U X .~. http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
apache-ssl vs. libapache-mod-ssl (was Re: Apache-SSL: NameVirtualHosts: separate certificates?
On Tue, 28 Nov 2000 18:08:43 +0100, Igor Mozetic wrote: [...] Install libapache-mod-ssl-doc - this contains very nice documentation. Thank you very much for pointing me at this package, and it's parent package libapache-mod-ssl which I was totally unware as of now, since I'm running apache-ssl. Can anyone comment on whether which package is recommend over the other one? Thanks, Ralf -- Sign the EU petition against SPAM: L I N U X .~. http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Kernel 2.4.0-test10: kernel: NET: n messages suppressed?
Hi there, today I noticed for the first time several of this messages in my syslog. Anyone know what this means? Obviously this is NOT something like Message repeated n times which is used by syslog to conserve space in the logs and make logs easier to read. Thanks, Ralf -- Sign the EU petition against SPAM: L I N U X .~. http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
XEmacs CPerl: DEL doesn't forward-delete?
Hi there, I'm having a hard time fighting with XEmacs and/or CPerl. For whatever reason the DEL key deletes backwords in XEmacs, but ONLY in CPerl mode. In the scratch buffer or in CC mode DEL works as expected. The same is true for XTerm windows (i.e. works as expected.) Option Delete Key Deletes Forward *is* active. Any ideas?! Thanks for your help. This is really driving me crazy!! Ralf
Re: getty, Id S respawning too fast
On Wed, 8 Nov 2000 10:26:10 +0100 (CET), Marcin Bie kowski wrote: Usage: /sbin/getty [-hiLmw] [-l login_program] [-t timeout] [-I initstring] [-H login_host] baud_rate,... line [termtype] or [-hiLmw] [-l login_program] [-t timeout] [-I initstring] [-H login_host] line baud_rate,... [termtype] --- this four lines repeated couple of times --- INIT: Id S respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes --- I know, that responsible for that is this line in /etc/inittab : S:12345:respawn:/sbin/getty ttyS1 As you see above the usage for the getty command is as follows: S:12345:respawn:/sbin/getty 19200 ttyS1 This should make getty happy and keep it from respawning. -- Sign the EU petition against SPAM: L I N U X .~. http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: HBCI and masquerading
On Sat, 4 Nov 2000 13:50:07 + (GMT), Timo Benk wrote: Does anybody know if HBCI works through a masquerading server? Sure. -- Sign the EU petition against SPAM: L I N U X .~. http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: lost all my mail
On Sat, 23 Sep 2000 09:20:52 -0700, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: Where are they? Here are the logs phantasy:/var/log/exim# tail -f mainlog 2000-09-23 08:38:02 11sE4d-0001Zv-00 Message is frozen You didn't lose them, but as the logfile clearly states they're frozen, meaning Exim wasn't able to deliver them to you locally. Fix your configuration and then thaw them or force a delivery (exim -qf). You can read the messages resp. their headers by exim -Mvb id resp. exim -Mvh id. The ids are the cryptic strings before the error message in the logfile. -- Sign the EU petition against SPAM: L I N U X .~. http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: md5sum from sources -linux-.
On Sun, 03 Sep 2000 06:01:14 -0400, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: Why don't we have it as a deb file? $ dpkg -S md5sum dpkg: /usr/bin/md5sum dpkg: /usr/share/man/ja/man1/md5sum.1.gz dpkg: /usr/share/man/man1/md5sum.1.gz So we DO have it as a deb file, it should already be present on your system since it's marked required?! Maybe you accidentially removed it, so try re- installing it... -- Sign the EU petition against SPAM: L I N U X .~. http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: VMware and bridged networking
On Fri, 11 Aug 2000 16:19:35 -0600 (MDT), Rick Macdonald wrote: [...] Are you using DHCP for your LAN, too? Or do you have dial-up networking only? This is an office LAN full of Win95/NT machines. So, my NT box uses DHCP, and now Linux under VMware does too. Hmmm, as I said I don't use DHCP. Maybe this is the problem? BTW, I've tried assigning the virtual eth adapter an IP address out of the same network as my LAN machines -- to no avail. I still can only communicate between the guest and host OS, but I can't access the LAN from my guest OS. :-((( Have you tried using an IP addr on the same subnet as NT's original IP? No, I didn't fiddle with it because I don't know exactly what's going on. What exactly is the purpose of the IP address that is assigned to the virtual ethernet adapter? Can I freely choose a different IP? The idea is that you don't have to go buy a second ethernet adapter. The end result is as if you had two cards with separate IP addrs plugged into the same net/hub. You need to set up the Linux side with default routes, etc, just as if it was a stand-alone box. Ok, I've tried to analyze the setup. The virtual ethernet adapter is probably just like an additional real ethernet adapter. Thus I have the following setup: LAN --+- | real eth adapter +-+-+ host OS | | +-+-+ | virt. eth adapter +-+-+ guest OS | | +---+ As I said communication between the host and guest OS does work -- I've already successfully FTPed between the two machines. For communication between the guest OS and the LAN to work the host OS must be performing proxy ARP for the guest OS. Otherwise the host OS would NOT accept packets with a target IP address other than it's own IP address (that belongs to the real eth adapter, that is.) Obviously there must be some problem, maybe with the proxy arping? Do you agree to this interpretation? What can I do to gain further insight about what's going wrong? Thanks, Ralf -- Sign the EU petition against SPAM: L I N U X .~. http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: VMware and bridged networking
On 12 Aug 2000 11:14:50 +0200, Ramin Motakef wrote: [...] is the routing on the host/guest machines correct? I'm pretty sure it IS correct. Example: LAN --+- 192.168.1.* | real eth adapter 192.168.1.1 +-+-+ host OS | | +-+-+192.168.2.1 | virt. eth adapter +-+-+192.168.2.2 guest OS | | +---+ On the Guest you need to set the default route to eth0: $ route add default eth0 This was the default after I had installed Debian, but it didn't work. So I tried something like route add default gw ipaddr, where ipaddr was the IP address of my host's real ethernet adapter (which I could already ping at that time) or the real gateway in my LAN. Anyway, for communicating with machines on my LAN I shouldn't need any default route, cause all machines are in the same subnet, and a route to this subnet thru the eth0 interface is created automagically by the kernel. On the LAN you have to tell the machines to route packets for 192.168.2.* through the host (Assuming they are Windows): C:\ route -p add 192.168.2.0 mask 255.255.255.0 192.168.1.1 This assumes that I put the guest OS into a different subnet from my LAN machines. Is this necessary, or why are you assuming this? If you use the same subnet for host/guest and lan, the host has to do bridging of IP-Packets between the two interfaces, i have no idea how to do this on NT. Do I understand you correctly that the approach of putting the guest VM into a different subnet and creating a proxy route entry(?) to this net is KNOWN/has been verified to work? Is there anyone here who got a setup similar to mine working? Thanks. -- Sign the EU petition against SPAM: L I N U X .~. http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
VMware and bridged networking
Hi there, is there anyone using VMware under NT 4.0? I've successfully installed Debian 2.1r4 as a guest OS under VMware running in NT 4.0. It was very easy, I didn't have ANY problems whatsoever. HOWEVER I can't get the networking stuff running. The AMC PCnet adapter is being found, I *can* ping the IP address of my real ethernet adapter (i.e. the IP address of the host OS,) I can ping the guest OS from the host OS, but I can't out of my box into the LAN. :-( In case it matters I'm using 192.168.0.* addresses for my LAN. Forwarding in NT is enabled. The VMware virtual ethernet adapter under NT has an IP address of 192.168.230.1. Is that ok? I'm not sure how the whole emulation thing works, so I don't understand how to fix my problems... Currently two services are running under NT: VMnet Bridge (for VMnet0) and VMnet DHCP Server. Do I really need the DHCP server? I normally don't use DHCP on my LAN, all IPs are assigned statically. Any hints? Anyone got that stuff working? Thanks, Ralf -- Sign the EU petition against SPAM: L I N U X .~. http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: VMware and bridged networking
On Fri, 11 Aug 2000 15:26:57 -0600 (MDT), Rick Macdonald wrote: [...] In case it matters I'm using 192.168.0.* addresses for my LAN. Forwarding in NT is enabled. The VMware virtual ethernet adapter under NT has an IP address of 192.168.230.1. Is that ok? I'm not sure how the whole emulation thing works, so I don't understand how to fix my problems... I used DHCP during the potato installation (after loading the kernel and drivers from the 5 floppy set). Then it immediately was able to finish the installation from the net. Are you using DHCP for your LAN, too? Or do you have dial-up networking only? Currently two services are running under NT: VMnet Bridge (for VMnet0) and VMnet DHCP Server. Do I really need the DHCP server? I normally don't use DHCP on my LAN, all IPs are assigned statically. Have you tried using an IP addr on the same subnet as NT's original IP? No, I didn't fiddle with it because I don't know exactly what's going on. What exactly is the purpose of the IP address that is assigned to the virtual ethernet adapter? Can I freely choose a different IP? Thanks, Ralf -- Sign the EU petition against SPAM: L I N U X .~. http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: Resizing /var ie. /dev/sda6
On Thu, 10 Aug 2000 15:47:15 +0800, Andrew McRobert wrote: Does anyone know of a tool that will let you resize an ext2 partition (I need to give more space to the /var filesystem) ... I guess I could use Partition Magic ... any other suggestions? The GNU Partition Editor (package parted.) -- Sign the EU petition against SPAM: L I N U X .~. http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
ALERT: Yesterday's mailx broken? (version 1:8.1.1-10.1.2)
[Package maintainer has been cc'ed.] Hi there, I got alarmed when I wouldn't receive any logcheck output anymore. When I found out the reason I was quite puzzled. This echo test | mail -s test root doesn't work anymore. Is there any other interpretation apart from calling the mail binary broken? I'm running Debian 2.2 frozen plus a few unstable packages. Thanks, Ralf -- Sign the EU petition against SPAM: L I N U X .~. http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: ALERT: Yesterday's mailx broken? (version 1:8.1.1-10.1.2)
On Wed, 9 Aug 2000 00:13:43 -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: [...] yes that version of mail was indeed broken, any time you piped anything into its standard input it would segfault (apparently). =20 the solution is quite simple: apt-get update apt-get install mailx which will upgrade to 1:8.1.1-10.1.3 which fixes the problem.=20 Thank you very much for this info. I should have tried that BEFORE I posted that message... :-) -- Sign the EU petition against SPAM: L I N U X .~. http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: pgp
On Wed, 9 Aug 2000 16:30:22 -0500 (CDT), Chris Nestrud wrote: Still, if a package was referred to, shouldn't one exist? Yup, you need to reference the non-US distribution. I get mine here: http://FTP.Uni-Erlangen.DE/pub/Linux/DEBIAN HTH, Ralf -- Sign the EU petition against SPAM: L I N U X .~. http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: t-dsl
On Mon, 31 Jul 2000 08:12:18 +0200, Robert Waldner wrote: On Sun, 30 Jul 2000 22:04:45 -0300, Linux Newbie writes: This may sound like a silly question, but what is the use/purpose of PPP over Ethernet? Why is it better than setting up a connection with ifconfig eth0? Afaik Deutsche Telekom uses PPPoE for authentication/billing purposes, so he may not have the choice... That's right, as do lots of ISP's around the world... -- Sign the EU petition against SPAM: L I N U X .~. http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: my mail daemon doesn't like recipient ?
On Tue, 25 Jul 2000 14:52:47 -0400, Richard E. Hawkins wrote: I assume I need to change *something* in my mail configuration . . . Use local_domains= in your exim.conf to tell Exim the names it should accept mail for, such as local_domains=hawkins.ds.psu.edu:fac13.ds.psu.edu HTH, Ralf -- Sign the EU petition against SPAM: L I N U X .~. http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
lp: driver loaded but no devices found
Hi, since a few days I'm running kernel 2.4.0test4. Before I used to run test1 and everything was fine. Now when I want to print I get lp: driver loaded but no devices found and lpq gives waiting for lp to become ready (offline ?) The printer IS of course ready, paper is available, etc. I'm running the parallel port driver as a module. These are the relevant parameters from my /etc/modutils directory: options parport_pc io=0x378,0x278 irq=7,5 options lp parport=0,1 I have two parallel ports, LPT1 (lp0) and LPT2 (lp1), with IRQs 7 and 5. On LPT1 (lp0) I have a DeskJet that I seldomly use, therefore it's switched off until I use it. On LPT2 (lp1) I have my LaserJet which IS found when the parport_pc module is loaded: parport0: PC-style at 0x378, irq 7 [PCSPP,EPP] parport0: cpp_daisy: aa5500ff(88) parport0: assign_addrs: aa5500ff(88) parport0: cpp_daisy: aa5500ff(88) parport0: assign_addrs: aa5500ff(88) parport1: PC-style at 0x278, irq 5 [PCSPP,TRISTATE,EPP] parport1: cpp_daisy: aa5500ff(98) parport1: assign_addrs: aa5500ff(98) parport1: Printer, Hewlett-Packard HP LaserJet 5MP lp: driver loaded but no devices found Any idea why I suddenly can't print anymore? I added the above line options lp parport=0,1 just now to make sure that an lp device is created for both parallel ports even tho there isn't a device on lp0 most of the time. Going back to test1 solved the problem, but this is no real solution. If there's a bug that crept into test4 it should be solved... Help?! Thanks, Ralf -- Sign the EU petition against SPAM: L I N U X .~. http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: lp: driver loaded but no devices found
On Mon, 24 Jul 2000 23:37:24 +1000 (EST), Richard Lindner wrote: [...] Any idea why I suddenly can't print anymore? I added the above line options lp parport=0,1 just now to make sure that an lp device is created for both parallel ports even tho there isn't a device on lp0 most of the time. [...] 2.4.0-test4 /is/ the bleeding edge of development kernels - and not No, the bleeding edge of devel kernels is the ac* patches. :-) recommended for normal use unless there's something there that you simply can't live without ... I simply can't live w/o running the latest, gratest kernel. ;-) Seriously, I thought since the test* kernels are already pretty(?) close to 2.4.0-release it would be a Good Thing(TM) to install one of them to be prepared for the things that are coming... I usually don't have a problem with running alpha kernels. As you can see from this case I'm pretty smart and blamed the kernel, not myself. :-) If things don't work I simply downgrade to the last version that DID work, or upgrade to the forthcoming version. I hope that the developers are aware of the problem... -- Sign the EU petition against SPAM: L I N U X .~. http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: lp: driver loaded but no devices found
On Mon, 24 Jul 2000 11:03:45 -0300, Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: Did you try 2.4.0test5-pre4? Is this a patch by Alan? Or where do you get these pre patches? Thanks, Ralf -- Sign the EU petition against SPAM: L I N U X .~. http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: Compiling Kernel with debian
On Tue, 18 Jul 2000 21:43:14 -0700, Jens Helweg wrote: dialog.h:29: curses.h: No such file or directory As the other folx already suggested, you need the NCurses development package. But you also need package bin86. This is used to assembler the boot sector code, IIRC. Make sure you got that installed, otherwise kernel compilation will fail again at a later stage. -- Sign the EU petition against SPAM: L I N U X .~. http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: SCSI tape errors
On Fri, 14 Jul 2000 13:34:13 +1200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i have set up a SCSI DAT tape onto debian slink with kernel 2.0.38 and nfs (no_root_squash) mounted an IBM AIX directory. I use a simple backup program which tars the files from the AIX directory onto tape. It works for a little while but i think it gets into trouble when it trys to proccess a large file (200MB). I started the backup at 9:30pm and it started having problems by 11pm. [...] tar: Read error on /dev/st0: Input/output error tar: Too many errors, quitting tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now I tried doing a tar listing of the tape this morning and it said the the start record was unable to be read. Is the read/write head clean? Is the tape ok, or has it worn out? Is your SCSI bus clean (i.e. properly terminated, cable within max. length, etc.)? Is the drive ok? Too many questions, but you need to answer them before we can help. -- Sign the EU petition against SPAM: L I N U X .~. http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: REPOST: ypserv consumes giant amounts of memory???
On Tue, 27 Jun 2000 15:41:04 -0500, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: Since I installed a NIS master server a few days ago my system often comes to a crawl by excessive memory use of the NIS server (ypserv.) I can (sort of) reproduce it by issuing ypwhich -m from the box itself or another machine in my LAN which is just a NIS client. Suddenly there are several copies of ypserv in the process list which consume ridiculous amounts of memory and cause the machine to start swapping excessively, bringing it to a crawl. I haven't seen this problem with NIS under debian before (I have set up an NIS server in debian as well as in SunOS 4.1.3). Is there perhaps something wrong with your data? I don't think so. The configuration of a NIS server is a rather trivial thing. I think both my configuration files and my maps are sane. And even if there WAS a problem within the files, ypserv shouldn't run amok, should it? I don't know why so many servers would be spawned. That's really weird so many ypserv's are being started. If you wanted you could run ypserv under strace perhaps to see what it's doing before it forks. Ok, this is something that I could at least *try*, altho I doubt that it will help Let's see, should I find the cause for my problem I will report them here. Of course further suggestions as to what the problem could be are still welcome up to this point. :-) -- Sign the EU petition against SPAM: L I N U X .~. http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: wu-ftpd (2000-06-23 security-fixed frozen version) constantly crashes
On Wed, 28 Jun 2000 14:56:39 -0500, Lee Revell wrote: my wu-ftpd is constantly crashing. :-( [...] Use ProFTPD. It has a MUCH better security record, is fast, That's true, but it *also* has its security leaks. lightweight, and configuration is a breeze if you have ever configured Apache. I made the switch several months ago and would never go back. I'm already running a server with ProFTPD, so I know it already. ProFTPD surely has its advantages over WU-FTPD, but I don't consider them that important that I absolutely *have* to switch. Anyway, I don't want to start a discussion on which is the best FTP server. It's just not my thing to evade problems as soon as I face them. Instead I'd like to cure them. So, is there anyone who can help me stopping these crashes? Thanks, Ralf -- Sign the EU petition against SPAM: L I N U X .~. http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
wu-ftpd (2000-06-23 security-fixed frozen version) constantly crashes
Hi there,
my wu-ftpd is constantly crashing. :-(
About half a dozen times per hour (sometimes even more often) I see lines in
syslog like the following, which indicate crashed instances:
wu-ftpd[28359]: exiting on signal 11: Segmentation fault
Before I upgraded from stable to frozen my FTP daemon (wu-ftpd-academ then)
was rock solid (I have FTP guests on my box 24 hours per day, from 10 users
max to 25 max.) Now I have the above errors.
When I learnt about the recently published buffer-overflow bug in wu-ftpd, I
thought this was the reason, so I immediately installed the fixed version
(2.6.0-5.1.) But to no avail, the crashes still occur. :-(((
I'm running wu-ftpd from xinetd as follows:
service ftp
{
socket_type = stream
protocol= tcp
wait= no
user= root
server = /usr/sbin/wu-ftpd
instances = 30
log_type= SYSLOG local6
log_on_failure += HOST
}
Any idea what's causing this? My system is completely frozen (i.e. Debian-
version-like :-)
Thanks,
Ralf
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REPOST: ypserv consumes giant amounts of memory???
COme on guys, isn't there anyone who can help me with this? I sort of feel like an idiot that I can't setup a simple NIS server... :-( ==BEGIN FORWARDED MESSAGE== From: Ralf G. R. Bergs [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Debian GNU/Linux User Mailing List debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2000 21:00:07 +0200 Subject: ypserv consumes giant amounts of memory??? Hi there, I'm running frozen, previously with kernel ver 2.3.99pre-7 and now 2.4test-1. Since I installed a NIS master server a few days ago my system often comes to a crawl by excessive memory use of the NIS server (ypserv.) I can (sort of) reproduce it by issuing ypwhich -m from the box itself or another machine in my LAN which is just a NIS client. Suddenly there are several copies of ypserv in the process list which consume ridiculous amounts of memory and cause the machine to start swapping excessively, bringing it to a crawl. Here are two top snapshots I was able to create: = 8x = PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT LIB %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND 376 root 17 0 9272 4996 132 D 0 9.1 12.9 0:01 ypserv 377 root 20 0 9280 4936 136 R 0 8.9 12.8 0:01 ypserv 373 root 13 0 1372 1372 700 R 0 8.8 3.5 0:13 top 375 root 14 0 9260 4224 132 D 0 8.1 10.9 0:01 ypserv 380 root 7 0 9324 3256 1072 R 0 7.2 8.4 0:01 ypserv 379 root 6 0 9296 5420 128 R 0 6.7 14.0 0:01 ypserv 378 root 5 0 9292 5604 156 R 0 6.6 14.5 0:01 ypserv 381 root 6 0 548 548 472 D 0 6.5 1.4 0:00 shutdown 2 root 8 0 00 0 SW 0 3.9 0.0 0:02 kswapd 160 root 1 0 232 160 104 S 0 0.7 0.4 0:00 ypbind 286 root 0 0 588 572 276 S 0 0.7 1.4 0:00 bash 355 root 0 0 380 12076 S 0 0.3 0.3 0:01 sshd 4 root 0 0 00 0 SW 0 0.1 0.0 0:00 kupdate 147 root 1 0 9476 3308 3192 S 0 0.1 8.6 0:00 ypserv 1 root 0 0 100 5240 S 0 0.0 0.1 0:03 init 3 root 0 0 00 0 SW 0 0.0 0.0 0:00 kflushd = 8x = 1:30pm up 9:24, 3 users, load average: 2.57, 1.31, 0.91 50 processes: 45 sleeping, 5 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped CPU states: 2.9% user, 43.9% system, 0.0% nice, 53.0% idle Mem: 38456K av, 29624K used, 8832K free, 0K shrd,148K buff Swap: 131064K av, 14108K used, 116956K free 1880K cached PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT LIB %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND 7706 root 14 0 8856 3072 152 D 0 4.8 7.9 0:00 ypserv 7711 root 13 0 8780 259640 R 0 4.4 6.7 0:00 ypserv 7708 root 11 0 8772 260844 D 0 4.3 6.7 0:00 ypserv 7710 root 12 0 8776 366848 R 0 4.3 9.5 0:00 ypserv 7709 root 11 0 8772 358848 R 0 4.2 9.3 0:00 ypserv 7707 root 16 0 8760 294436 R 0 4.1 7.6 0:00 ypserv 7704 root 12 0 1356 1356 700 R 0 2.4 3.5 0:05 top 7712 root 18 0 8856 1024 168 D 0 2.4 2.6 0:00 ypserv 150 root 8 0 8896 1244 280 S 0 1.6 3.2 0:22 ypserv 2 root 2 0 00 0 SW 0 0.8 0.0 2:59 kswapd 83 daemon 1 0 252 232 200 S 0 0.5 0.6 0:10 portmap 7653 root 1 0 392 160 100 S 0 0.2 0.4 0:02 sshd 1 root 0 0 100 5240 S 0 0.0 0.1 0:07 init 3 root 0 0 00 0 SW 0 0.0 0.0 0:00 kflushd 4 root 0 0 00 0 SW 0 0.0 0.0 0:02 kupdate 135 root 0 0 228 168 136 S 0 0.0 0.4 0:06 syslogd 137 root 0 0 660 168 140 S 0 0.0 0.4 0:01 klogd = 8x = I'm pretty sure my config is ok (I've set up NIS servers before, both under Linux and under Solaris.) Any idea what's going on and how I can debug the scenario? Thanks, Ralf ===END FORWARDED MESSAGE=== -- Sign the EU petition against SPAM: L I N U X .~. http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
ypserv consumes giant amounts of memory???
Hi there, I'm running frozen, previously with kernel ver 2.3.99pre-7 and now 2.4test-1. Since I installed a NIS master server a few days ago my system often comes to a crawl by excessive memory use of the NIS server (ypserv.) I can (sort of) reproduce it by issuing ypwhich -m from the box itself or another machine in my LAN which is just a NIS client. Suddenly there are several copies of ypserv in the process list which consume ridiculous amounts of memory and cause the machine to start swapping excessively, bringing it to a crawl. Here are two top snapshots I was able to create: = 8x = PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT LIB %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND 376 root 17 0 9272 4996 132 D 0 9.1 12.9 0:01 ypserv 377 root 20 0 9280 4936 136 R 0 8.9 12.8 0:01 ypserv 373 root 13 0 1372 1372 700 R 0 8.8 3.5 0:13 top 375 root 14 0 9260 4224 132 D 0 8.1 10.9 0:01 ypserv 380 root 7 0 9324 3256 1072 R 0 7.2 8.4 0:01 ypserv 379 root 6 0 9296 5420 128 R 0 6.7 14.0 0:01 ypserv 378 root 5 0 9292 5604 156 R 0 6.6 14.5 0:01 ypserv 381 root 6 0 548 548 472 D 0 6.5 1.4 0:00 shutdown 2 root 8 0 00 0 SW 0 3.9 0.0 0:02 kswapd 160 root 1 0 232 160 104 S 0 0.7 0.4 0:00 ypbind 286 root 0 0 588 572 276 S 0 0.7 1.4 0:00 bash 355 root 0 0 380 12076 S 0 0.3 0.3 0:01 sshd 4 root 0 0 00 0 SW 0 0.1 0.0 0:00 kupdate 147 root 1 0 9476 3308 3192 S 0 0.1 8.6 0:00 ypserv 1 root 0 0 100 5240 S 0 0.0 0.1 0:03 init 3 root 0 0 00 0 SW 0 0.0 0.0 0:00 kflushd = 8x = 1:30pm up 9:24, 3 users, load average: 2.57, 1.31, 0.91 50 processes: 45 sleeping, 5 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped CPU states: 2.9% user, 43.9% system, 0.0% nice, 53.0% idle Mem: 38456K av, 29624K used, 8832K free, 0K shrd,148K buff Swap: 131064K av, 14108K used, 116956K free 1880K cached PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT LIB %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND 7706 root 14 0 8856 3072 152 D 0 4.8 7.9 0:00 ypserv 7711 root 13 0 8780 259640 R 0 4.4 6.7 0:00 ypserv 7708 root 11 0 8772 260844 D 0 4.3 6.7 0:00 ypserv 7710 root 12 0 8776 366848 R 0 4.3 9.5 0:00 ypserv 7709 root 11 0 8772 358848 R 0 4.2 9.3 0:00 ypserv 7707 root 16 0 8760 294436 R 0 4.1 7.6 0:00 ypserv 7704 root 12 0 1356 1356 700 R 0 2.4 3.5 0:05 top 7712 root 18 0 8856 1024 168 D 0 2.4 2.6 0:00 ypserv 150 root 8 0 8896 1244 280 S 0 1.6 3.2 0:22 ypserv 2 root 2 0 00 0 SW 0 0.8 0.0 2:59 kswapd 83 daemon 1 0 252 232 200 S 0 0.5 0.6 0:10 portmap 7653 root 1 0 392 160 100 S 0 0.2 0.4 0:02 sshd 1 root 0 0 100 5240 S 0 0.0 0.1 0:07 init 3 root 0 0 00 0 SW 0 0.0 0.0 0:00 kflushd 4 root 0 0 00 0 SW 0 0.0 0.0 0:02 kupdate 135 root 0 0 228 168 136 S 0 0.0 0.4 0:06 syslogd 137 root 0 0 660 168 140 S 0 0.0 0.4 0:01 klogd = 8x = I'm pretty sure my config is ok (I've set up NIS servers before, both under Linux and under Solaris.) Any idea what's going on and how I can debug the scenario? Thanks, Ralf -- Sign the EU petition against SPAM: L I N U X .~. http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: Arbeitsspeicher nicht auf 100%
On Fri, 9 Jun 2000 20:27:26 +, Thomas Wild wrote: ich bin neu in der Liste und wende mich direkt mit einem Problem an Euch. Ok, first the preferred language in this list is English, not German. [Hier spricht man gemeinhin Englisch, nicht Deutsch.] Wenn ich den TOP-Befehl eingebe, zeigt er mir aber nur einen Memor von 64MB an. Wo bleiben die anderen 50% ? Oder muss man etwas umstellen ? Altho his machine has 128 megs of RAM, he can only see 64 megs. The solution is to include the following command in your lilo.conf and re- run lilo: append=mem=128M (note the capital M!) [Du musst den Befehl append=mem=128M in Deine lilo.conf eintragen und erneut lilo aufrufen.] -- Sign the EU petition against SPAM: L I N U X .~. http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: Where to place swap file according to FSSTND?
On Tue, 6 Jun 2000 18:14:01 -0700, Eric G . Miller wrote: On Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 09:04:44PM +0200, Ralf G. R. Bergs wrote: Hi there, I have only a small root FS (30 megs,) and I don't want a swap part'n (not very flexible,) therefore I use a swap file. Which is the proper place to place the swap file? Is it recommended to make a link to /dev/swap? I don't know about that. I just put an extra swapfile in /var/local/swapfile. I know how to create it, I just would like to know the proper place other than in /dev/swap in case my root directory is small. Thanks anyway for trying to help. -- Sign the EU petition against SPAM: L I N U X .~. http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
kmod: runaway modprobe loop assumed and stopped
Hi there, I just noticed this boot-time warning on a freshly-installed Debian 2.1r4 system, running kernel 2.3.99pre7. Any ideas what this means and how to fix it? Thanks, Ralf -- Sign the EU petition against SPAM: L I N U X .~. http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Where to place swap file according to FSSTND?
Hi there, I have only a small root FS (30 megs,) and I don't want a swap part'n (not very flexible,) therefore I use a swap file. Which is the proper place to place the swap file? Is it recommended to make a link to /dev/swap? Thanks, Ralf -- Sign the EU petition against SPAM: L I N U X .~. http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: TCP domain connection
On Sat, 3 Jun 2000 23:30:46 +0200 (CEST), Igor Mozetic wrote: As far as I understand, these are not DNS queries since they are UDP. If nameserver queries exceed the max UDP data length they are submitted using TCP. -- Sign the EU petition against SPAM: L I N U X .~. http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
How to rsh but keep original user's environment?
Hi there, by no means am I a shell guru, so I'm stuck with a (presumably) quite simple problem. I need to rsh into a different account on another local host, but keep my original environment. The user should NOT be prompted for a password (this is easy, using .rhost). The problem I'm facing is that on the remote machine I don't have my original environment but that of the remote user. Any idea how I can get around this? Thanks, Ralf -- Sign the EU petition against SPAM: L I N U X .~. http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
RE: Exim Subject rejection, (* **** ***)
On Thu, 04 May 2000 15:24:35 -0400 (EDT), Paul Kallstrom wrote: It looks like the only system filtering that is functional under exim, is sender based. Since I need to filter by subject, it looks like it's back to sendmail. WRONG!! = exim.conf == message_filter = /etc/exim.filter = exim.filter = # Exim filter if ($h_subject: is ILOVEYOU or $h_subject: is I LOVE YOU) and not error_mess age then fail text This message looks like a virus. endif === 8x 0 No need to use crappy Sendmail for this simple stuff. -- Sign the EU petition against SPAM: L I N U X .~. http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
