RE: read it immediately
Title: Message Dude or dudette, Mucho gratitude for your email, my friend! You are now officially on my list of "People Who Are Okay By Me." I hope you've had a chance to check out my blog on the official "Megas XLR" site. That's where I give updates about my adventures with my best buddy Coop and his awesome giant robot, Megas. Too bad those evil Glorft aliens had to invade Earth and ruin all of our fun--but we're gonna show those guys who's boss! Hey, thanks again for writing, and don't miss new episodes of MEGAS XLR, Saturdays at 9 p.m. (e/p) in Toonami. Right on, Jamie
Re: Active directory alternatives for debian
-- Original Message -- hi. i am running an Active Directory(AD) in a winxp environment of 30 computers. i am looking to change the AD to a linux pc. is there an easy to use alternative with GUI (even with webmin). All we need is to have the computers authenticate to the server by username/password/local_domain. once the user is logged in, then the profile will have the thunderbird, user's files, user's network drive and a softphone profile (such as zoiper, 3cx, xlite, draytek). Hi If you can identify an easy/practical way of doing this I would be very interested to know how you manage it! Jamie
.xsession-errors query
Hi I wanted to ask a question about the file .xsession-errors, namely its contents. Inside this file in my home directory is see this: X Error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) 3 Major opcode: 19 Minor opcode: 0 Resource id: 0x228 X Error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) 3 Major opcode: 19 Minor opcode: 0 Resource id: 0x182 X Error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) 3 Major opcode: 19 Minor opcode: 0 Resource id: 0x1c8 X Error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) 3 Major opcode: 20 Minor opcode: 0 Resource id: 0x1c8 I don't know what this means and if it's something i should be worried about. I wondered if anyone could explain it to me and advise if there's anything i need to do to stop these error messages. Many thanks. Jamie -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: .xsession-errors query
[ Charset ISO-8859-1 converted... ] On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 10:48 PM, jamie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I wanted to ask a question about the file .xsession-errors, namely its contents. Inside this file in my home directory is see this: X Error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) 3 Major opcode: 19 Minor opcode: 0 Resource id: 0x228 X Error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) 3 Major opcode: 19 Minor opcode: 0 Resource id: 0x182 X Error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) 3 Major opcode: 19 Minor opcode: 0 Resource id: 0x1c8 X Error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) 3 Major opcode: 20 Minor opcode: 0 Resource id: 0x1c8 I don't know what this means and if it's something i should be worried about. I wondered if anyone could explain it to me and advise if there's anything i need to do to stop these error messages. Many thanks. Jamie Hey, I really wouldn't worry about those errors. Most likely cause is some minor program bugs, and thats the problem of individual application developers, in fact at a glance, they strike as the type of bugs that are so minor that nobody is going to bother fixing because its just not worth the effort. -- Jamie (p.s. I think the fact I got exactly same name as you may cause some confusion! In fact, reading you message rather caught me out, because you even seem to use the same posting format as me... ) Hi Jamie Thanks for putting my mind at rest. Just thought i should check it out, just in case. Jamie -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Terminals
Hi Firstly need to know the name of the feature that allows me to access /dev/tty0, /dev/tty1 etc and switch between them by press alt+F1, alt+F2 and so on. Secondly, how would I configure this feature, in particular I'd like to configure it to allow me to press probably alt+F7 and access a serial console at /dev/ttyS0, would need a baud rate of 9600 with common settings for everything else. Essentially this is so I can get to the CLI on a Cisco router when its console port is connected via serial port referenced by the device name /dev/ttyS0 just by pressing alt+F7, instead having to install a terminal program. I believe this can be done. Any help is much appreciated. Thanks, Jamie -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/128886445-1366197199-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-231209512-@b5.c4.bise7.blackberry
e1000e driver Network Card Detected Hardware Unit Hang
es and the network interface in this case eth1 becomes unstable and just stops responding now I can't have that because this computer is being used as a gateway. Usually what you have to do at that point is reboot the machine. uname -a Linux gateway 6.1.0-20-amd64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Debian 6.1.85-1 (2024-04-11) x86_64 GNU/Linux This is a gigabit network card as I said it is a built in NIC I believe it is an Intel NIC. ethtool --show-eee eth1 EEE settings for eth1: EEE status: enabled - inactive Tx LPI: 17 (us) Supported EEE link modes: 100baseT/Full 1000baseT/Full Advertised EEE link modes: 100baseT/Full 1000baseT/Full Link partner advertised EEE link modes: Not reported ethtool -g eth1 Ring parameters for eth1: Pre-set maximums: RX: 4096 RX Mini: n/a RX Jumbo: n/a TX: 4096 Current hardware settings: RX: 256 RX Mini: n/a RX Jumbo: n/a TX: 256 RX Buf Len: n/a CQE Size: n/a TX Push: off TCP data split: n/a lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 8th Gen Core Processor Host Bridge/DRAM Registers (rev 07) 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation CoffeeLake-S GT2 [UHD Graphics 630] 00:12.0 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH Thermal Controller (rev 10) 00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH USB 3.1 xHCI Host Controller (rev 10) 00:14.2 RAM memory: Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH Shared SRAM (rev 10) 00:14.3 Network controller: Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH CNVi WiFi (rev 10) 00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH HECI Controller (rev 10) 00:16.3 Serial controller: Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH Active Management Technology - SOL (rev 10) 00:17.0 RAID bus controller: Intel Corporation SATA Controller [RAID mode] (rev 10) 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH PCI Express Root Port #6 (rev f0) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Q370 Chipset LPC/eSPI Controller (rev 10) 00:1f.3 Audio device: Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH cAVS (rev 10) 00:1f.4 SMBus: Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH SMBus Controller (rev 10) 00:1f.5 Serial bus controller: Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH SPI Controller (rev 10) 00:1f.6 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation Ethernet Connection (7) I219-LM (rev 10) 01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 06) lspci -vn 00:1f.6 0200: 8086:15bb (rev 10) DeviceName: Onboard Lan Subsystem: 103c:83ed Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 123, IOMMU group 8 Memory at f118 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128K] Capabilities: [c8] Power Management version 3 Capabilities: [d0] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+ Kernel driver in use: e1000e Kernel modules: e1000e This seems to happen when you are actually pushing a bit of traffic though it not a lot but just even a little bit. It isn't network overload or anything I am barely doing anything really but it will do this. I have already tried the following ethtool -K eth1 tx off rx off ethtool -K eth1 tso off gso off ethtool -K eth1 gso off gro off tso off tx off rx off rxvlan off txvlan off sg off I have disabled all power management in the bios as well including the one for ASPM I added the following to grub pcie_aspm=off e1000e.SmartPowerDownEnable=0 This is in /etc/default/grub GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet pcie_aspm=off e1000e.SmartPowerDownEnable=0" Then I did an update-grub as well. None of this has worked in fixing this problem. I am still getting the same issue. Can you please fix this issue this is a really nasty problem with Debian 12 (Bookworm) I am seeing this being reported back in Kernel 5.3.x but i am not seeing any reports for 6.1.x about this issue. Debian Bug report logs - #945912 Kernel 5.3 e100e Detected Hardware Unit Hang https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=945912 To reproduce this I mean if you had the same type of computer with the same NIC in it. and installed Debian 12 it will happen. This should go to your kernel team I believe as this is an issue with the kernel driver module for this NIC. Any response should be done via email only on this bug please. Please reply back and confirm that you got this email and that you are looking into this problem please. Thank you, Jamie (she / her) -- This email message, including any attachments, is for the intended recipient(s) only and may contain information that is privileged, confidential and/or exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If you have received this message in error, or are obviously not one of the intended recipients, please immediately notify the sender by reply
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Hey debian-user-german-request You won't believe what I just heard. They said that there is over 81% of americans are coping with 0be sity. I was one of these people until I came across this site www.hbribe.org/n1/ All I did was fill out there 45 sec form and they got back to me within 3 days In May 2003, the United States charged Mr. Badawi and another man, Fahd al-Qusaa, in a 50-count indictment returned in New York. The indictment for their roles in the attack was brought after both escaped from a Yemeni jail and was intended in part to allow Interpol to issue a wanted notice, or red notice, authorizing their detention. Both men were recaptured. Just wanted you to give it a look, Neil Fuller -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
LSB init script virtual facility for name switch service resolution
Not sure where it's best to start this discussion, but here seems a good a place as any. In brief, I have all my account information in LDAP. Problem is, I have to manually add slapd into most of my init scripts to make sure the ordering is correct and that my accounts DB is up in time for starting the services. This then means merging in updates which gets *very* tiresome. The article http://wiki.debian.org/LSBInitScripts/#line-116 shows several virtual facility names, and I suspect something akin to $named would be desirable for all of the services that could provide backends for in nsswitch data, i.e. slapd - all scripts that run with their own user account could then depend on this facility. I propose something as suggested in the http://wiki.debian.org/LSBInitScripts/DebianVirtualFacilities article, e.g. 'x-nsswitch'. Thoughts? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/5044ee01.4090...@jamie-thompson.co.uk
Re: Poll - What Smartphone do you use?
On 2011-05-23 3:04 PM, green wrote: Scott Ferguson wrote at 2011-05-23 08:28 -0500: Camaleón wrote: And IMO, too useless/time consuming also. I want a phone not a game console :-) A computer with hardware I can't access is a computer I don't want. Right. Someone gave me a blackberry with GPS hardware... great, but apps can't use the GPS because of some stupid Verizon policy thing (although the phone is no longer on Verizon). So really some of these phones have issues even without trying to use FOSS on them. When teh Smartphone is a portable computer with an *open GSM stack* I'll be interested. Until then it's a dumbphone with a low-end processor sharing the battery. And the difference is game console versus actual *productivity*. Oh, the things I could do with a phone if I could run Debian on it...! I have a pair of Nokia N900s. Run Maemo 5 (Fremantle), which is based on Debian. It also has (though I don't use), a package called Easy Debian, which basically lets you run normal ARM Debian in a chroot. I love it to bits. Sadly, has a fair few closed components (both UI and deep in the cellular stack), and the next project version (Maemo 6 - Harmatten) is going to be the last Debian-based version, as the original plan was to merge Nolia's Maemo and Intel's Moblin into MeeGo, a combined project that adopted the Fedora-based Moblin's base system over Maemo's Debian-based one. :( I'm sure on this mailing list we all appreciate Apt over RPM ;) Anyway. Nokia's not been the best at supporting platform, but if you can get a cheap old N900 it's a great platform for mobile OSS dev, and has a great community over at talk.maemo.org. I suspect the device running Maemo 6 will be even better from the OSS point of view, as more of the stack is being opened as part of the migration to MeeGo. Very slowly though. - Jamie -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4de2ba1d.4000...@jamie-thompson.co.uk
Sourcing (very) cheap used InfiniBand hardware
Hi I want to obtain some InfiniBand hardware (switch, and PCI cards for about 4-10 PCs), not greatly fussed the age, speed or state of it, providing it works. This is for what is at the moment personal projects and experimenting. When I say cheap, I mean at most £400. Anyone know way I could manage to get hold of this? Jamie -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4d5e5e08.7020...@jatos.co.uk
Re: Immediate Payment To You !!!
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help!
How can I access my floppy and cd-rom drives? Also, how can I access my ms-dos partition on my hard drive? Thanks Jamie Taylor Pembroke College, Cambridge Tel: (01223) 314907 Received: (qmail 24985 invoked by uid 888); 6 Mar 1997 17:56:29 - Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: (qmail 24983 invoked from network); 6 Mar 1997 17:56:25 - Received: from speech.braille.uwo.ca (HELO braille) (129.100.109.30) by master.debian.org with SMTP; 6 Mar 1997 17:56:12 - Date: Thu, 6 Mar 1997 12:47:31 -0500 (EST) From: Paul McDermott [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: unsubscribe Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII unsubscribe
xload
Just a quick query regarding xload - when attempting to run xload, I get the error 'xload: can't load library 'libXaw.so.6''. This library exists in /usr/X11R6/lib and is a link to libXaw.so.6.1 (in the same directory), which also exists. Any idea?? Cheers Jamie Taylor Pembroke College, Cambridge Tel: (01223) 314907 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
RE: Install question
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 22, 1998 1:53 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Install question Hello! I have a friend that wants to install in his new 6GB HD Win98, WinNT and Linux. In which order must he do the process? I suppose that Win98 will try to own the whole computer when installing, and I don't know what kind of partitioning is the best. He will use System Commande r to select the OS to boot. Win 95/98 needs to be installed on the primary boot partition on drive 1. your freind would be best off partitioning the drive into three 2gig partitions, installing Win98 on the first, NT on the second and then repartition the third for Linux main/swap. He hasn't decided which distribution will use. If he gets a quick response from Debian people Don't know if I count as a Debian person, I've just started looking at it in the last couple of weeks after years of suffering with DOS/95/98/NT. Good Luck Jamie
Gnome 2.4: .Xresources not applied over SSH?
After Gnome 2.4 packages came into unstable, emacs windows that I opened on a remote machine via ssh -X no longer used the settings in my local .Xresources (setting Emacs.Background and Emacs.Foreground). It still works as expected locally. Is this a bug, in which case which package should it be filed with, or just me? Jamie -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Gnome 2.4: .Xresources not applied over SSH?
JG writes: However, according to that discussion all instances of Emacs should have the same behaviour. Check the Xproperties of the local and remote Emacs windows (using xprop and clicking on the window). Specifically check the property WM_CLASS(STRING) to see under which names the Xserver recognices the windows. Note that the case is significant, Emacs is not the same as emacs. The WM_CLASS(STRING) is the same for my local and remote emacs windows, but they do behave differently. However, I have deleted the unwanted Emacs.ad file in /usr/share/control-center-2.0/xrdb/ and my remote emacs window is coloured as intended. Thank you for your help. Jamie -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Printer filter for Lexmark 1020
Hi, Does anyone have a filter for this printer (Lexmark 1020)? The magicfilter package doesn't support it although I can get basic (mono/text) output using any of the deskjet filters. I know that this is a pretty cheap and nasty printer, but it serves my needs :^) Thanks for any help. Jamie Hart +---+ | Work:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Home:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | |Mobile:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | +---+
FUBARed my install, wont boot :(
I'll start by saying I'm new to debian, so please be gentle ;) After 5 or 6 attempts I finally managed to get Debian installed properly with a small range of packages. I then installed a whole host of packages thru dselect. One of which was ALSA (I thought it might help my sound problems, ie, lack-of). As a dependancy this seems to have installed a kernel image binary (kernel-image-2.4.16-686) during the installation it gave a message about modifying LILO, (I unfortunately skipped through this part and missed the warning message. Now when I rebooted my PC it wont boot and just gives a 'Kernel panic unable to mount root FS'. I have tried using my install CD to boot using the 'rescue' however I can't get it to work, I have tried 'rescue root=/dev/hda1', and 'rescbf24 root=/dev/hda1', but it is still unable to mount the root fs. I have even tried to pass a initrd parameter, but with no joy (I'm not sure as to what the path to a RAMDISK image should be?) How do I go about fixing this so I can boot Ta, Jamie BTW I installed using bf24. As I'm using a PC with swappable CD / floppy I was unable to create a rescue floppy :(. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ITS Internal Extension : 5806 Direct Dial: 0870 754 5806 ** E-mail Disclaimer ** This e-mail message is confidential and for use by the addressee only. If the message is received by anyone other than the addressee, please return the message to the sender by replying to it and then delete the message from your computer. Please note that any views, or opinions presented in this e-mail are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Benenden Healthcare Society Limited. The recipient should check this e-mail and any attachments for the presence of viruses. The Benenden Healthcare Society Limited accepts no liability for any damages caused by any virus transmitted by this email and its attachments. The Benenden Healthcare Society Limited is regulated by the Financial Services Authority (FSA) and is an Incorporated Friendly Society, registered under the Friendly Societies Act 1992. Registered No: 480F. The Benenden Healthcare Society Limited, Registered Office: Holgate Park Drive, York, YO26 4GG. Tel 0870 7545 700 Fax 0870 7545 821 www.benenden.org.uk. *** -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: huge log files
Hello, I'm sure you've fixed it long by now, but just to close the thread with a possible solution. If you've activated Bandwidth Monitoring in webmin, and your logs are getting filled with BANDWITH_IN: and BANDWIDTH_OUT: entries, check here: less /etc/shorewall/start Here, you may find: run_iptables -I INPUT -i eth0 -j LOG --log-prefix BANDWIDTH_IN: --log-level debug run_iptables -I FORWARD -i eth0 -j LOG --log-prefix BANDWIDTH_IN: --log-level debug run_iptables -I FORWARD -o eth0 -j LOG --log-prefix BANDWIDTH_OUT: --log-level debug run_iptables -I OUTPUT -o eth0 -j LOG --log-prefix BANDWIDTH_OUT: --log-level debug run_iptables -I INPUT -i eth0 -j LOG --log-prefix BANDWIDTH_IN: --log-level debug Simply comment these out, restart your firewall, and your huge logs should return to normal. Jamie -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: foxconn architecture
On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 8:16 PM, Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/05/08 14:01, Kelly Clowers wrote: On 3/5/08, Gregg Jansen van Vuren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, i am looking to install debian on a pc using a foxconn motherboard, i am not really sure what architecture setup i would choose from the debian packages, any hints? regards vurentjie It has nothing to do with the mb, what matters is the cpu. i686 is ok for all amd and intel chips newer than pentium II or Athlon. If you have a 64 bit chip (athlon 64 or core 2 (or some P4's)) you can use the amd64 arch, although 686 will also work. And the chipset. Don't forget the chipset! - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA The kniiife..., the kniiife... The life of the wife is ended by the knife. Stewie Griffin Eliza Pinchley -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHzv+PS9HxQb37XmcRAheMAJwLbLiLo1OeVCeEbKlxDhhvBUFofACdFC29 YQz/c6r1Pf0ATlsBxEjICUE= =CtWu -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] No, chipset has a nil effect. Archictecutre is entirely todo with the CPU. The OS architecture refers to the processor architecture that code has been compiled to run on. Anything chipset related is handled by hardware drivers and HAL (hardware abstraction layer). -- Jamie
Re: [OT] how to clean grime off old computer MB?
If you can get you hand on a compressor, that does the job damn well! On Sun, Mar 9, 2008 at 2:53 PM, Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/08/08 20:15, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Sat, Mar 08, 2008 at 09:02:20PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As an old timer I would suggest you try what we used to clean the contacts of connectors-an eraser. But its all over the whole motherboard. I'm wondering if its tobacco residue. I'd try rubbing alcohol. Maybe a computer shop or medical supply house will sell it in 95% or 99% concentration. That is, if it doesn't delaminate the mobo! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubbing_alcohol#Other_applications - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA The kniiife..., the kniiife... The life of the wife is ended by the kni-ife. Stewie Griffin Eliza Pinchley -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFH01LyS9HxQb37XmcRAgcvAKDlDfhtnbmDKHLq0nOjg4aeLWba5wCgiPVR himLFang223c0N8C4VKo7hQ= =5r4y -END PGP SIGNATURE- I agree with Ron (as I most always do). As an old time tron tech, alcohol was what we used to clean everything with. And what you don't get off will simply evaporate. Pretty good all purpose solvent that will not take off runs, dissolve the MB, etc. Just find an acid brush to paint and scrub with and all the gunk should also come up. -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Jamie
Winbind issue
Ok, I am currently try to set up winbind to let me login into my domain controller, which incidently is running Samba 3, and yes, I do know their are unix specific ways of doing this, however as I already have the Samba system in place (I have other Windows clients), I would prefer to just use that. Anyway when I run the following command: net join -S timmothy -U root I get the following error: Cannot join as standalone machine Any suggestions would be much appreciated. I might add, my computer is connected to a network, I have tested this. Jamie
hdparm
Hi, Where's the best place to put a call to hdparm so that it gets invoked upon booting? (would inserting it into an existing file in /etc/init.d be appropriate?) Thanks, Jamie
RE: soundblaster PCI 128 driver
Danny, I'm using a SoundBlaster PCI 128 with support for es1371 compiled into the kernel and it works fine. There appears to have been more than one release of this sound card, so you might want to try the es1371 if the es1370 doesn't work. Regards, Jamie MacIsaac -Original Message- From: Danny Lathouwers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 06 November 2000 10:02 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: soundblaster PCI 128 driver Dear community, I've got a soundblaster audio PCI 128 card. It should be supported but the names of the device drivers did not appear to include this particular name. I also reviewed this list and saw that people had used the es1370 or alsa driver. Perhaps someone can shed some light on what device driver to actually use. Thanks. --- Danny Lathouwers Interfaculty Reactor Institute Delft University of Technology Mekelweg 15, 2629 JB Delft The Netherlands Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +31 15 2781192 Fax: +31 15 2786422
Re: server side ftp
On Mon, 24 Feb 2003, Noll, Ralph wrote: i need ftp installed so i can ftp to the box any ideas Um, you could install an FTP server. What exactly are you asking? -j -- Jamie Lawrence[EMAIL PROTECTED] There are some good people in it, but the orchestra as a whole is equivalent to a gang bent on destruction. - John Cage -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: (OT) Virtual map in apache to another computer
On Sun, 02 Mar 2003, Willem-Jan Meijer wrote: Hello, A question about apache. I want to setup a virtual map on my server (192.168.0.1) wich is running apache. The map have to link to my winXP box wich contains my map with mp3's winXP computer's IP is 192.168.0.3. Is it possible to setup a directory wich contains the files from a map from another computer? If I'm following you correctly, you seem to want to serve material from one machine via apache on another. You'll need to export the content from the windows box - check out Samba for doing that. Alternately, you may be wanting to proxy connections to a web server on the windows machine. Check out mod_proxy. Hope this helps. -j -- Jamie Lawrence[EMAIL PROTECTED] Non-linear physics is like non-elephant biology. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: (OT) Virtual map in apache to another computer
On Sun, 02 Mar 2003, Willem-Jan Meijer wrote: Not really...it's not for internal use only. I've got a couple a hundred mp3 files and I want to share them with a friend of my who lives a few miles away. I can't put them in /var/www because my hard-disk is to small for all the files. So I want to setup a virtual map. I assume you are acting in accordance with your local laws. This is what I want: If my friend calls 62.163.158.122/music/ he has to open \\WILLEM-JAN\Documenten\Mijn muziek. It has to be possible, because I did it in Windows XP with IIS before. If you are running IIS on the win box, you can proxy it with mod_proxy through your apache server. I did an apt-cache search mod_proxy but I didn't saw it Dselect gave me the same result. I looked at www.apache.org but mod_proxy isn't here. It is usually distributed with the rest of Apache. For docs, see http://httpd.apache.org/docs/mod/mod_proxy.html . Alternately, as I mentioned, you can export your Windows directory (I'm not very familiar with XP; you'll have to figure that out for yourself), mount it on your Apache box using Samba/smbmount. After the XP permissions are correct, it will be something like mount -o username=user,password=pass -t smb //WILLEM-JAN/Documenten/Mijn Musziek /path/to/mount/point then create an alias in your Apache config, something like Alias /music /path/to/mount/point Good luck. -j -- Jamie Lawrence[EMAIL PROTECTED] Cross platform apps are like unisex underwear. - Unknown -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Patched sendmail? testing?
On Tue, 04 Mar 2003, Colin Watson wrote: On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 11:32:34AM -0500, stan wrote: On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 06:15:02AM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 08:37:02AM -0500, stan wrote: I did apt-get update and apt-get dist-upgrade on some of my machines running testing, and I was surprised to not [pull patched sendmail binaries, based upon the announcement of a vulnerability in it yesterday. Testing doesn't have security updates, and has never been advertised as having security updates. Are you volunteering? sigh Someone else running testing in a production environment. And my choices are? As I see them. 1. Run unstable, and have a broken system more often than not. 2. Run stable and have 1970's versions of software/ That's a hopeless exaggeration; I run stable happily on my home server. Anyway, if you run testing you need to manage the security yourself by backporting patches. I don't believe anyone will ever have told you otherwise. Just to join in... I'm typing this on a hopelessly crufty old IBM ThinkPad 570, running unstable. I happen to admin several machines running Stable, doing such things as application servers, database servers, development sandoxes, firewalls, and difficult-to-identify needed machines. Unstable is sometimes screwed up. Not for long, but it happens. My fonts under X are still fucked; when I have time, I'll make Gnome apps and mozilla happy. Stable environments are that. Security patches are there when needed. The latest version of YAWebSearchEnginePHP aren't. And I don't care that they aren't. For my desktop, Unstable is great. Sure, it is buggy sometimes. I've run Windows when it was buggy sometimes. For servers, Stable is great. I sometimes build daemons more current, and it still is a lot more pleasant than doing so under Solaris, AIX or, honestly, under FBSD (this from a serious FreeBSD fan.) If you broke your box running unstable, ask around and you can get answers to fix it. There's a reason why it is called unstable. Sorry, I'm in a bad mood. -j -- Jamie Lawrence[EMAIL PROTECTED] You're young, you're drunk, you're in bed, you have knives - shit happens. - Angelina Jolie -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [OT] Backup solutions
On Fri, 21 Mar 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Bob, Bob == Bob Paige [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Bob Opinions? I tried rdiff-backup. I uses rsync-like transfer method to minimize net load and diff-like store method to save incrementals. Diff method is extended even for binary file (that is rdiff algorithm). Just a random from-the-field report... I tried using rdiff-backup. It consistently choked after having several incremental backups. I don't know what the problem was - I'm not a python fan, and have a bad feeling about backup software that chokes, so I didn't persue it. If you use it, I recommend keeping a close eye on it. -j -- Jamie Lawrence[EMAIL PROTECTED] The greatest thing about hope is that it makes absolutely no difference. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [OT] Backup solutions - watching
On Fri, 21 Mar 2003, Alvin Oga wrote: On Fri, 21 Mar 2003, Jamie Lawrence wrote: If you use it, I recommend keeping a close eye on it. if you use any backup system ... - restore that backup data to a new disk regularly and see that all the files are there.. [...] Yes, certainly, if you rely on your backup, both test and verify. What I was getting at specifically was that after experimenting with rdiff-backup, I found it problematic. It very well could be that I did something stupid, or that the software sucks, or that my computer is punishing me for being a US aggressor. I dunno. I was merely interested in provoking due diligence for those who choose to employ that particular software. -j, who makes an effort to speak in more than ellipses. -- Jamie Lawrence[EMAIL PROTECTED] ... in making the freedom-for-safety swap, we haven't just dishonored the dead of 9/11. We've helped something else die too. - Nick Gillespie -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: My first question on Debian
On Wed, 28 May 2003, Bijan Soleymani wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I know there is Solaris on intel. I just doubt that it allows you to hot-swap IDE hard disks. I know of no Solaris X86 drivers for any of the hotswap IDE hardware. For that matter, does anyone make HS IDE gear anymore? I'm not sure there's much of a market for it - if you care about HS, you're generally going to want a more reliable storage subsystem. -j -- Jamie Lawrence[EMAIL PROTECTED] Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Can Debian install on Super Micro SuperServer 5013C-T
I would like to purchase the SuperServer 5013C-T from Super Micro. This comes with the following motherboard: Super P4SCE. Can Debian install on this hardware? If so, which version (or release)? Any help would be great. Thanks, Jamie.
installing debian on Super Micro SuperServer 5013C-T
I would like to purchase the SuperServer 5013C-T from Super Micro. This comes with the following motherboard: Super P4SCE. Can Debian install on this hardware? If so, which version (or release)? Thanks Jamie.
Re: nfs through dsl router
. This is *all* that is required. If you couldn't ssh to your work machine, then that would be different. You should be able to get away with not allowing in portmap, if you specify all the options needed to mount (in other words, mount doesn't need to query portmap). However, you may find that allowing your client access to tcp port 111 is easier (in this case, you will need to figure out a way to update the firewall-- a script every five minutes would not be bad). For now I just entered my current IP, which works fine. CLIENT CONFIGURATION 1. get server's ports no problem. here's the current output: matts-mac:~# rpcinfo -p 128.100.34.9 program vers proto port 102 tcp111 portmapper 102 udp111 portmapper 1000241 udp865 status 1000241 tcp868 status 132 udp 2049 nfs 132 tcp 2049 nfs 151 udp986 mountd 152 udp986 mountd 151 tcp989 mountd 152 tcp989 mountd 2. set up tunnel this usually works,with a command like this: ssh -f -c blowfish -L 2820:128.100.34.9:2049 -L 3047:128.100.34.9:989 -l matt 128.100.34.9 /bin/sleep 86400 This looks fine. 3. mount the nfs volume... ... this always fails catastrophically. In particular, I never seem to be able to open up the requisite ports on the client end. I suspect this has something to do with the home network. Now, on my router (an SMC Barricade, with a web-only interface) I don'th ave tons of options. I can forward individual port directly from the router to the home computer; or I can put the home computer in a DMZ. Will either of these strategies work? what further information can I provide to help with diagnosis? What mount command are you specifying? As far as the router, the client is making direct connections to the server over the ssh port, and the server is responding, shouldn't need to forward anything. You may find port forwarding tcp port 111 to your home machine is worthwhile. Your home machine should have portmap controlled in /etc/hosts.allw|deny and also with iptables/ipchains to only allow access from the server. I assume that you have nfs-common and portmap installed and running at home and have the necessary utilities to mount nfs volumes? Good luck. Jamie PS-- having said all of this, you might try a VPN solution. I use vtund and mount nfs volumes from remote laptops without issue. This way you set up the nfs server in the usual way, have your client VPN into the network, and you have access. Of course, this may be too much access from home-- just a thought. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
debain sendmail + mailscanner
Hi, I was wondering if anyone else is using this combination? I did look at it, but there seems to be quite an amount of antagonisim between the debian sendmail setup with the queue runner and mailscanner? Any advice on how to rearrange the init scripts would be appreciated. Regards, Jamie -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [OT] Port numbers
Port number list is available in /etc/services. doing a: $netstat -an | grep LISTEN should give you a list of services that are listening in certain ports Jamie - Original Message - From: Thomas J. Hamman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Debian-User debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Monday, July 09, 2001 4:39 PM Subject: [OT] Port numbers In what documentation/manpage/whatever can I find a list of ports and their numbers (like the ports for telnet, http, etc.)? And also I'd like to know how to see which ports my computer has open. -- Thomas J. Hamman Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. -Abraham Lincoln -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Locale not supported message...
Hi, I'm having a few problems with my X libraries - though first I'll say what I did... I've got an install of Debian 2.2r2 'potato', but because of my videocard I installed X 4.0.3 from tarballs... I realise now that this was probably a bad idea - and I'm working on fixing this from the testing distribution... I installed communicator smotif 476 using the debs and when I run it I get the following message... Locale 'C' not supported - is the $XNLSPATH variable set correctly? bus error or words to that effect I've scoured the internet for answers to this and discovered that it is far from rare but the solutions are many and varied. Many of them involve ripping netscape source which I don't particularly want to delve into... I get messages of the same ilk from gnome-chess, emacs, xdvi to name a few but they seem to run fine so far but I'm very keen to sort this out at source rather that do a hack on netscape. I would dearly like to understand what is actually happening as well - I am aware that locales are the syntax for error messages but beyond that I'm rather confused... Can anyone offer some advice on how to proceed other than do reinstalling - which I've tryed or am going to try. Cheers Jamie -- Jamie Wood Imperial College London SW7 2AZ 020 75895111 x58613 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.bigfoot.com/~a.j.wood --
Using apt
Hi - I'm a little confused by apt and wonder how I can best make use of it... Basically I can download packages for free from work and then bring them home on ZIP to my computer there. What is the best way of maintaining an archive on the computer that has all the deb files? I currently have a directory /usr/local/src/debs but I can't make an entry in /etc/apt/sources.list that will make dselect automatically see this directory as a source Any ideas would be appreciated. Cheers, Jamie -- Jamie Wood Imperial College London SW7 2AZ 020 75895111 x58613 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.bigfoot.com/~a.j.wood --
Re: Using apt
you have to make the directory structure (e.g. dist/potato/whatever..) Hi - Thanks for your reply - but do I need to create a Packages.gz file that seems implicit in the search? Is so how? If not thanks! I'll give it a try. Cheers Jamie -- Jamie Wood Imperial College London SW7 2AZ 020 75895111 x58613 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.bigfoot.com/~a.j.wood --
xlib6g
Hi, I'm desparately trying to solve my problems of locales that I have previously posted to this list. I'm currently assuming is due to me extracting XFree86 4.0.3 from tarballs rather than debs so I'm getting files from the testing distribution that make up 4.0.3 and installing them in the hope that it will restructure my Xlibs... okay. Problem. I'm trying to install Xlibs-4.0.3. But this conflicts with xlib6g and everything in X depends on this... how??? is there a replacement from xlib6g that doesn't conflict? OR shall I just overide and hope it works? Cheers Jamie -- Jamie Wood Imperial College London SW7 2AZ 020 75895111 x58613 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.bigfoot.com/~a.j.wood --
PPC Problems
I have a question regarding the installation of Linux on an Apple PowerBook running a G3. I read through the "Installing on a PowerPC" but did not find any information on how to make Linux the ONLY OS on the computer. I do not want OS9.x on it, I need Linux. I have had many problems with booting to a different OS. Once the boot disk is gone there is no way to get it back. I guess my question would be "How do I install Linux on a PowerBook G3 without having to dual boot?" I hope there is some good news for this.jml* ~(:up)Jamie's RefugeGet more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com
CVSup equiv. in debian
Hiya, Not sure if this is the right place to post this, but thought I would give it a shot :) I've been using FreeBSD for a few years now, and have heard great things about debian so I thought I would give it a try. Impressive btw :) One thing I miss is the cvsup utility in FreeBSD, where I could update the source and recompile the entire source tree. Is there an equivilant in debian, or am I being completly stupid and missed it somewhere? Thanks, Jamie
Re: Printing problems
hi theo. whats the permissions on /etc/printcap? -jamie
Re: broken man
Shouldn't 'man' be part of the base install? When I type man, the system doesnt find anything. i had this problem upgrading stable-testing man-db gets removed and you have to install it by hand afterwords. make sure you pay attention to what apt-get says its going to remove with you start a dist-upgrade. best, -jamie
Kernel problems
Ok, I'll start by saying that I adore the Debian Way(TM). However, I have a long-standing problem that is pretty much the only blight I can find with Mr Debian. My server PC is old. Really old. Cyrix M2 old. That said, it does the job until newer spare hardware becomes available. My first foray into Linux was Redhat 7.3, which in due course got upgraded to RH8. In that config the box ran for 9 months with the only downtime caused because I hit the plug with my foot :) I switched to Debian after I broke RPM so badly I couldn't install anything (they broke the pthread debugging symbols for libc, and I needed them urgentlyso I forced a newer fixed version that hosed RPM badly as it wasn't ABI-compatible(d'oh, you'd think RPM would be statically linked!) Thanks to ./ evangelising, APT was my future. My Debian install has been great, bar one thing. Roughly every two weeks, not quite clockwork, but close enough, I get a kernel panic. It's near always (IIRC) in an IRQ handler, generally network or disk related. The load on the machine isn't huge, so I doubt that's a problem. At first I suspected the RAM had gone bad, given the strange nature of the panics (always in different places), but I've swapped it countless times, and memcheck has always said the ram is fine. The first few times I scribbled down the panic data and tried various places to report it...but no-one seemed interested...so where do I go with this? I disabled a DSL module that tainted the kernel, thinking that would help me get some attention, but no, it still panics, and still no interest. Strangely enough, the write panic to swap code/patch doesn't seem to be in the stock kernels, so short of a serial terminal, there's no way other than manual transcription of getting the panic data (which scrolls a looong way) to those in a position to do something about it. Tweaks of this and that are all fine and well, but given the ~2 week gap it takes for the panic to manifest itself, I gave up on that avenue a long time ago as, well, the panics never stopped. These days I just reboot, let the quota checks go though their thing, and all is well for ~2 weeks. I can't help but feel this isn't the way it's supposed to be though. I was winning an uptime competition between a mate and his Win2K server before I installed Debian...now he's been up 3 years or so...and my record has been 35 days. It makes me sad, but still, there's not a chance in hell of running equivalent Windows services on the box, so I make do, knowing that it's still a better system as I can fix (and have several times) most of the other problems I get thanks to the open source nature of the project. - Jamie PS, for those interested, here's lspci's output: :00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 430VX - 82437VX TVX [Triton VX] (rev 02) :00:07.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82371SB PIIX3 ISA [Natoma/Triton II] (rev 01) :00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82371SB PIIX3 IDE [Natoma/Triton II] :00:07.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82371SB PIIX3 USB [Natoma/Triton II] (rev 01) :00:11.0 VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. 86c764/765 [Trio32/64/64V+] (rev 43) :00:12.0 System peripheral: Conexant ADSL AccessRunner PCI Arbitration Device (rev 01) :00:12.1 ATM network controller: Conexant AccessRunner PCI ADSL Interface Device (rev 01) :00:13.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10) :00:14.0 Ethernet controller: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip 21041 [Tulip Pass 3] (rev 21) signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Kernel problems
Whoops! My apologies, I left return receipt on. My bad. Oh well, at least its only me who gets to suffer the flood, not the list :) signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Kernel problems
If he hasn't rebooted his Win2k box in three years, he has some serious Security Issues!! There have been a huge number of security patches requiring reboot in the last three years Well, yeah. I thought of that after a few months of our little rivalry...and he replied that as it wasn't on the internet...it wasn't an issue. It's only running a small community radio station network with established staff anyway, so I think he'll be fine. I presume that you've tried using a different kernel to solve your problems? I started out on the 2.4 i386 kernels, then moved on the the 2.4 i586s, and am now on the 2.6 i586s. Panics with all, which suggested to me a hardware problem, but the whole rough two week thing, coupled with the 9 month previous uptime, and the IRQ handler part of things makes me think obscure kernel issue more. The most significant difference between the old setup and the current one is the increased number of uses I've managed as my experience grew. Among other things, I now run OpenLDAP with Samba on the box, and on a number of occasions (but far from the majority), performing a huge file operation (say, unzipping a 500mb zip over the network), causes the panic, but only when I'm due one ( 2 weeks). Works just fine the rest of the time. Maybe just coincidences, but that's pretty much the most I/O strain it ever gets put under. Stuff that just pushes the CPU to ~100% doesn't seem to be a problem. Also, seems my dates were off...our little compo started only 2 years ago, not 3 ;) One of the previous attempts to deal with this was here: http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=614 I've also taken the liberty of attaching the last dump I bothered transcribing. Given the prompt for me posting these messages was my most recent panic, it'll be ~2 weeks before I manage to get a more recent one. That said, the magic letters 'IRQ' are always present (IIRC) somewhere in the dump (or at least the bit of it visible on the terminal when I go have a look why things have stopped working...why doesn't it allow you to scroll backwards to get the lot :( ). ...though its just occurred to me, is it possible for the RAM to work fine for ~2 weeks, but then develop bit errors, thus passing the memtesting, but failing in extended normal use due to their age? Running memtest for 2 weeks to test that hypothesis seems a bit...excessive, as I really can't imagine that being the situation. ksymoops 2.4.9 on i486 2.6.8-2-386. Options used -V (default) -k /proc/kallsyms (specified) -l /proc/modules (default) -o /lib/modules/2.6.8-2-386/ (default) -m /boot/System.map-2.6.8-2-386 (default) Warning (read_ksyms): no kernel symbols in ksyms, is /proc/kallsyms a valid ksyms file? No modules in ksyms, skipping objects No ksyms, skipping lsmod CPU 0 EIP: 0060:[C01340F9] Not tainted Using defaults from ksymoops -t elf32-i386 -a i386 EFLAGS: 10002 (2.6.8-2-386) eax: c18cf000 ebx: c3ffa000 ecx: c3ffaae0 edx: ccee5000 esi: c3fff160 edi: 0028 ebp: 003c esp: c0d29f20 ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068 Stack: 003c c3fff160 c2914e20 c10a4000 c01341d4 c3fff160 c10a4010 003c c10a4000 c10a4010 c2914e20 0282 c013444c c3fff160 c10a4000 c2c1b608 c0347a48 000a c028b2f8 c0157788 c2914e20 c3700e70 c0125583 c2c1b65c Call trace: [c01341d4] cache_flusharray+0x5e/0x98 [c013444c] kfree+0x38/0x48 [c0157788] d_callback+0x18/0x29 [c0125583] rcv_do_batch+0xf/0x18 [c011c047] tasklet_action+0x3a/0x59 [c011be60] __do_softirq+0x34/0x73 [c011bec1] do_softirq+0x22/0x26 [c0107ee5] do_IRQ+0xe5/0xf9 [c010697c] common_interrupt+0x18/0x20 Code: 89 02 2b 4b 0c c7 03 00 01 10 00 c7 43 04 00 02 20 00 89 c8 EIP; c01340f9 free_block+3e/bb = eax; c18cf000 __crc_sysfs_create_file+2a20d2/300563 ebx; c3ffa000 __crc_elevator_init+200585/5cd96a ecx; c3ffaae0 __crc_elevator_init+201065/5cd96a edx; ccee5000 __crc_xfrm_ealg_get_byname+b10fa/52e343 esi; c3fff160 __crc_elevator_init+2056e5/5cd96a esp; c0d29f20 __crc_sysfs_remove_file+2ca163/3f4f00 Trace; c01341d4 cache_flusharray+5e/98 Trace; c013444c kfree+38/48 Trace; c0157788 d_callback+18/29 Trace; c0125583 rcu_do_batch+f/18 Trace; c011c047 tasklet_action+3a/59 Trace; c011be60 __do_softirq+34/73 Trace; c011bec1 do_softirq+22/26 Trace; c0107ee5 do_IRQ+e5/f9 Trace; c010697c common_interrupt+18/20 Code; c01340f9 free_block+3e/bb _EIP: Code; c01340f9 free_block+3e/bb = 0: 89 02 mov%eax,(%edx) = Code; c01340fb free_block+40/bb 2: 2b 4b 0c sub0xc(%ebx),%ecx Code; c01340fe free_block+43/bb 5: c7 03 00 01 10 00 movl $0x100100,(%ebx) Code; c0134104 free_block+49/bb b: c7 43 04 00 02 20 00 movl $0x200200,0x4(%ebx) Code; c013410b free_block+50/bb 12: 89 c8 mov%ecx,%eax Kernel Panic Fatal exception in interrupt 1 warning
Changelog access
Whilst packages.debian.org is down, is there any way to get a hold of the changelogs? All links seem to point back to packages.debian.org, which makes me nervous before upgrading packages where I don't know what the changes are... signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Changelog access
Alex Nordstrom wrote: http://pdo.debian.net/ Nope, already spotted that one as the url was given in the link on the packages.debian.org placeholder page. Case in point: http://pdo.debian.net/changelogs/pool/main/s/samba/samba_3.0.21a-4/changelog signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: samba/ldap/nss
Chris wrote: OK - I've decided to look into using a debian box as a PDC using a combination of samba and openldap (this is on sid). snip Yeah, I did this as well, though I stick to testing. Works nicely. 1) If users and groups are moved into ldap - what about aptitude installation of packages that add either a user or a group - will these auto-add into ldap or just into the /etc files? Nope, the packages only change the /etc files. It's up to you to keep the ldap in sync. In practice, these rarely change, but still, I'd prefer if they added users/groups/etc via changeable scripts that could modify ldap insteadbut, well, that itch doesn't warrant a scratch yet, at least for me. In my personal case I emptied out the system files to only include root as a backup measure...but on the next upgrade they all got put back in :) D'oh. 2) What about system users - I had thought only to insert real people - but - I see that the migration tools convert the whole file, root included. What is the recommended way here? I mean - I feel dodgy about only having root in ldap - what if slapd breaks - this is running on unstable after all. As I said above, I left root in the local passwd as a backup measure. If you have the ordering in nsswitch to consult ldap before files, you could even have different passwords for the local root backups for a little bit of extra peace of mind (and not needing to keep them in sync when you change your master root password regularly), but it probably doesn't warrant the hassle. Perhaps best not to have root in ldap at all...I only have it there so I can authenticate as root using samba and short-circuit the file permissions on occasion. 3) Groups - should I stick all groups in ldap (same as q 2 really this). I know that getent passwd | grep chris now shows 2 entries - so it is finding both ldap and /etc/passwd - so that's good :) Yup, getent will show both. Perhaps a way of configuring things not to do so, but it doesn't cause any problems that I'm aware of. Software just uses the first value found, and as the ordering is controllable via nsswitch, choose whatever you prefer. Oh - one other question - I had made a start on the smb stuff. One site I found suggested setting the passwd (smbpasswd -w) for the admin user. Now sudo requires two passwords to log in - any pointers for a debian specific howto for samba pdc would be nice :) I'm working thru the samba docs - but it doesn't quite seem to fit. That's a pam config setup issue I think, you need to look at setting the plugins to try the previous password before prompting again. My common-auth pam file has: authsufficient pam_ldap.so authrequiredpam_unix.so use_first_pass nullok_secure I got all those settings from the idealx docs, so you may just have to dig around a bit more for the others. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: samba/ldap/nss
Have you tested that the authentication for PAM is working correctly? Try logging in using whatever auth you are using for it and check it can read the entiries it needs. libnss-ldap and pam_ldap have different config files. Sounds like nss is working correctly (i.e. its showing both users), but the auth is failing for whatever reason. My files are: common-password: passwordsufficient pam_ldap.so ignore_unknown_user passwordrequiredpam_unix.so try_first_pass nullok obscure min=4 max=8 md5 common-auth: authsufficient pam_ldap.so authrequiredpam_unix.so use_first_pass nullok_secure common-account: account sufficient pam_ldap.so account requiredpam_unix.so use_first_pass common-session: session requiredpam_unix.so pam_ldap.conf: host 127.0.0.1 base ou=Accounts,dc=jamie-thompson,dc=co,dc=uk,dc=. ldap_version 3 binddn cn=pam,dc=jamie-thompson,dc=co,dc=uk,dc=. bindpw snip rootbinddn cn=admin,dc=jamie-thompson,dc=co,dc=uk,dc=. timelimit 30 bind_timelimit 30 idle_timelimit 3600 pam_password crypt libnss-ldap.conf: host 127.0.0.1 base dc=jamie-thompson,dc=co,dc=uk,dc=. ldap_version 3 binddn cn=nss,dc=jamie-thompson,dc=co,dc=uk,dc=. bindpw snip rootbinddn cn=admin,dc=jamie-thompson,dc=co,dc=uk,dc=. timelimit 60 bind_timelimit 60 bind_policy hard idle_timelimit 240 nss_base_passwd ou=Accounts,dc=jamie-thompson,dc=co,dc=uk,dc=. nss_base_shadow ou=Accounts,dc=jamie-thompson,dc=co,dc=uk,dc=. nss_base_group ou=Groups,dc=jamie-thompson,dc=co,dc=uk,dc=. #nss_base_hosts ou=Hosts,dc=jamie-thompson,dc=co,dc=uk,dc=. nss_base_services ou=Services,dc=jamie-thompson,dc=co,dc=uk,dc=. nss_base_networks ou=Networks,dc=jamie-thompson,dc=co,dc=uk,dc=. nss_base_protocols ou=Protocols,dc=jamie-thompson,dc=co,dc=uk,dc=. nss_base_rpcou=Rpc,dc=jamie-thompson,dc=co,dc=uk,dc=. nss_base_ethers ou=Ethers,dc=jamie-thompson,dc=co,dc=uk,dc=. nss_base_netmasks ou=Networks,dc=jamie-thompson,dc=co,dc=uk,dc=. nss_base_bootparams ou=Ethers,dc=jamie-thompson,dc=co,dc=uk,dc=. nss_base_aliasesou=Aliases,dc=jamie-thompson,dc=co,dc=uk,dc=. nss_base_netgroup ou=Netgroup,dc=jamie-thompson,dc=co,dc=uk,dc=. Obviously, I've trimmed these slightly, but hopefully that should help. I use a similar config on my workstations so that they authenticate/NSS via LDAP to the server. I suspect that although what I have works, it's not *quite* the correct way. For one thing, I never did get round to setting up TLS. Luckily, I trust my LAN for the time being :) signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: proftpd auth failing via libpam-ldap
Miro Dietiker, MD Systems wrote: Hello People I have a ProFTPD Version 1.2.10 on debian sarge (standard). After some days of runtime, proftpd hangs in a manner accepting connection and asking for user credentials, but always failing to authenticate. After a simple restart (/etc/init.d/proftpd restart), the application works again. In Background I use a standard /etc/pam.d/proftpd #%PAM-1.0 auth required pam_listfile.so item=user sense=deny file=/etc/ftpusers onerr=succeed @include common-auth @include common-account @include common-session Where commin-* uses libpam-ldap in a standard way. And nss is configured to read full user properties except password. This is the only service having such auth-locks and with ssh, login is never a problem (even if I didn't restart it for months). A short view in my logfiles: First before restarting the login failures as user admin.abc Feb 21 08:11:42 frankonia proftpd: (pam_unix) check pass; user unknown Feb 21 08:11:42 frankonia proftpd: (pam_unix) authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty= ruser= rhost=213.3.21.162 Feb 21 08:12:23 frankonia proftpd: (pam_unix) check pass; user unknown Feb 21 08:12:23 frankonia proftpd: (pam_unix) authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty= ruser= rhost=213.3.21.162 And right after the restart a successful login Feb 21 08:12:23 frankonia proftpd: (pam_unix) session opened for user admin.abc by (uid=0) Feb 21 08:12:23 frankonia proftpd[24398]: frankonia (X.X.X.X[x.x.x.x]) - USER admin.abc: Login successful. Feb 21 08:12:25 frankonia proftpd: (pam_unix) session closed for user admin.abc I then began restarting proftpd daily, but some days ago this effect already appeared 3 hours after restart. Any input to me for that case? Currently, proftpd is very unreliable for this production environment. I too have had recent problems with ProFTPD's LDAP module. I do not use FTP access too often, but a few weeks ago I discovered it wasn't working, it would connect and then immediately terminate the connection. When I looked at the logs it was dying on the LDAP lookup. I hadn't changed anything from a working config, so it must have been an update that did it. Anyway, the only way I could get it working again was to simply disable the LDAP options in the config file and rely on pam-ldap for my authentication. The net result was the same so I'm not too bothered, maybe that would work for you too if you're already using it? - Jamie signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
ISC Executable Statements Reference?
Hi. I'm looking at using dhcpd's events to update my ldap-based DNS, however I can find no documentation on the syntax of this scripting language other than the actual code itself (which as ever, is woefully lacking comments). It doesn't look too complicated if I have a few hours spare to work though it, but I was just wondering if anyone knew of any references or guides for it anywhere? From what I've gathered it doesn't seem to support executing external files, so that might put a bit of a dampner on the situation somewhat. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Kernel problems
Well, I had a better run with my current kernel, it ran for 26 days before things started going haywire this time. Instead of just panicking, instead I kept getting random process deaths, some swap-related errors, and a few oops', which I've attached for posterity. I eventually had to reboot manually as it decided it was out of memory despite having 200MB+ of swap free. I killed all processes to get back into the system and then went down to single user and back again, but portmap just wouldn't respond and thus I had to reboot. Here's one of the swap errors: swap_dup: Bad swap file entry 10013830 VM: killing process smbd swap_free: Bad swap file entry 10013830 ...and another... swapper: page allocation failure. order:1, mode:0x20 [__alloc_pages+847/952] __alloc_pages+0x34f/0x3b8 [kmem_getpages+42/136] kmem_getpages+0x2a/0x88 [cache_grow+120/368] cache_grow+0x78/0x170 [cache_alloc_refill+444/488] cache_alloc_refill+0x1bc/0x1e8 [pg0+73770987/1069900800] tcp_in_window+0x22b/0x4ec [ip_conntrack] [__kmalloc+102/112] __kmalloc+0x66/0x70 [pskb_expand_head+77/300] pskb_expand_head+0x4d/0x12c [skb_checksum_help+176/204] skb_checksum_help+0xb0/0xcc [pg0+73810190/1069900800] ip_nat_fn+0x10e/0x1c4 [iptable_nat] [pg0+73810728/1069900800] ip_nat_local_fn+0x4c/0x78 [iptable_nat] [dst_output+0/28] dst_output+0x0/0x1c [dst_output+0/28] dst_output+0x0/0x1c [nf_iterate+81/120] nf_iterate+0x51/0x78 [dst_output+0/28] dst_output+0x0/0x1c [dst_output+0/28] dst_output+0x0/0x1c [nf_hook_slow+62/184] nf_hook_slow+0x3e/0xb8 [dst_output+0/28] dst_output+0x0/0x1c [ip_queue_xmit+523/1156] ip_queue_xmit+0x20b/0x484 [dst_output+0/28] dst_output+0x0/0x1c [pg0+73170952/1069900800] uhci_destroy_urb_priv+0x9c/0x11c [uhci_hcd] [ip_local_deliver+63/532] ip_local_deliver+0x3f/0x214 [pg0+73170952/1069900800] uhci_destroy_urb_priv+0x9c/0x11c [uhci_hcd] [ip_local_deliver+183/532] ip_local_deliver+0xb7/0x214 [ip_rcv+780/1152] ip_rcv+0x30c/0x480 [tcp_cwnd_restart+31/244] tcp_cwnd_restart+0x1f/0xf4 [tcp_transmit_skb+912/2024] tcp_transmit_skb+0x390/0x7e8 [skb_clone+23/424] skb_clone+0x17/0x1a8 [tcp_write_wakeup+275/504] tcp_write_wakeup+0x113/0x1f8 [tcp_write_timer+0/172] tcp_write_timer+0x0/0xac [tcp_send_probe0+11/276] tcp_send_probe0+0xb/0x114 [tcp_write_timer+140/172] tcp_write_timer+0x8c/0xac [run_timer_softirq+182/372] run_timer_softirq+0xb6/0x174 [__do_softirq+63/144] __do_softirq+0x3f/0x90 [do_softirq+41/44] do_softirq+0x29/0x2c [do_IRQ+34/40] do_IRQ+0x22/0x28 [common_interrupt+26/32] common_interrupt+0x1a/0x20 [default_idle+0/44] default_idle+0x0/0x2c [default_idle+41/44] default_idle+0x29/0x2c [cpu_idle+16/72] cpu_idle+0x10/0x48 [start_kernel+344/424] start_kernel+0x158/0x1a8 ...and one of the out of memory errors: DMA free:448kB min:256kB low:320kB high:384kB active:0kB inactive:220kB present:16384kB pages_scanned:619 all_unreclaimable? no lowmem_reserve[]: 0 48 48 Normal free:952kB min:768kB low:960kB high:1152kB active:112kB inactive:192kB present:49152kB pages_scanned:181 all_unreclaimable? no lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 0 HighMem free:0kB min:128kB low:160kB high:192kB active:0kB inactive:0kB present:0kB pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? no lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 0 DMA: 0*4kB 4*8kB 16*16kB 3*32kB 1*64kB 0*128kB 0*256kB 0*512kB 0*1024kB 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 448kB Normal: 48*4kB 5*8kB 11*16kB 9*32kB 2*64kB 1*128kB 0*256kB 0*512kB 0*1024kB 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 952kB HighMem: empty Swap cache: add 27568130, delete 27566294, find 5306420/10672086, race 277+979 Free swap = 330788kB Total swap = 570488kB Out of Memory: Killed process 446 (ldapdns). Just in case someone can help me, I'll stick with this kernel as oopses are better than panics integrity-wise. - Jamie ksymoops 2.4.11 on i486 2.6.12-1-386. Options used -V (default) -K (specified) -L (specified) -O (specified) -m /boot/System.map-2.6.12-1-386 (specified) Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0010 c015e588 *pde = Oops: [#1] CPU:0 EIP:0060:[__d_path+80/296]Not tainted VLI EFLAGS: 00010292 (2.6.12-1-386) eax: c208dfe8 ebx: ecx: c208dfe8 edx: esi: c0ff4200 edi: c208dfe9 ebp: 080ff1e8 esp: c30fde84 ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068 Stack: 000a c208dfe9 0f09 c1270d14 c3ff4aa0 c0b495a0 c015e6aa c0e6d1ec c1270d14 c3ff4aa0 c208d0df 0f21 c208d0df 0070 c0164a50 c0e6d1ec c0ff4200 c208d0df 0f21 0078 Call Trace: Warning (Oops_read): Code line not seen, dumping what data is available eax; c208dfe8 pg0+1ce5fe8/3fc56400 ecx; c208dfe8 pg0+1ce5fe8/3fc56400 esi; c0ff4200 pg0+c4c200/3fc56400 edi; c208dfe9 pg0+1ce5fe9/3fc56400 esp; c30fde84 pg0+2d55e84/3fc56400 Code: 0c 74 0a f6 45 04 10 0f 85 b2 00 00 00 8b 44 24 0c 85 c0 0f 8e 99 00 00 00 8d 41 ff c6 41 ff 2f 39 6c 24 2c 74 59 90 8b 5c 24 28 39 6b 10
The hot potato of init script actions...
Hi, I'm well aware this is a hot potato of sorts, but has anything changed of late regarding the actions mandated in debian init scripts? There was mention of some changes being required for LSB compliance a while back, but nothing seems to have come of it. My particular need/desire is for the simple status action, that whilst useful in itself, my particular usage is so Samba can manage services via the MMC. As it stands I've just been adding the actions to the init scripts manually, but as with any custom patches they have to be merged in when the packages get updated. Not really that much of a chore, but still annoying. Anyway, do you think it's likely status is likely to start appearing in Debian packages or am I going to have to continue my manual patching for the foreseeable future? signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: ldap conversion strategy
John Smith wrote: Hi All, I'm in the process of designing a plan to move a lot of debian workstations (all with local users configured) to a ldap managed en- vironment and have some choices to make, some easy, some tough. Here one of the last category: In order to keep the users using applications they derive from their current local group memberships, I intend to recreate the local groups (luckily all according to the default Debian installer policy and uniquely identified by the same gid over all workstations) in the ldap tree. Should I create each and every group (audio with gid=29 for example) in the ldap tree with the same group id as locally defined? Will those two groups colide and if so, what is the best way to solve this collision? Sincerely, Jan. Moving it all to LDAP is exactly what I did, but the approach has a few problems. Basically, whilst it works just fine, any updates to the base packages will be applied to the local files, not the ldap directory. That means watching for updates and manually updating the ldap tree. Not a biggie, but still a pain. In order to reduce the potential for conflicts, I also disabled most of the local groups. Unfortunately, updates also re-enable these too. It would be nice to have the base packages call scripts for adding/removing the base users and groups that could be pointed at scripts or something similar that could be made to service LDAP, but that's not the way it currently works and I haven't the faintest idea how to go about actually making it, nor in fact, the time to do so either. Good luck, it does work well in the end. - Jamie signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: (OT) UK broadband with open port 25
Richard Lyons wrote: A quick OT: Anyone here found a UK broadband supplier (=2G) who can provide an open port 25? Freedom to Surf, Zen, and quite a few others do, I believe. - Jamie signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: unable to download dcc-client from apt
On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 09:11:19PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2008-09-14 20:53 +0200, Jamie Griffin wrote: I'm trying to install dcc-client using apt-get but apparently the package is not available. Yeah, it's been removed from unstable, testing and even stable. See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=464161 for reasons. Sven Fair enough, will do without it for now then. Cheers for the info. Jamie -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Postfix config question..
I am running a postfix smtp server. The school does not object to mail coming in directly but want all ougoing mail to go through the school mailserver. How do I configure to accomplish this? You need to set the variable 'relayhost = [nameofsmarthostserver.tld]' in you main.cf file. Then create the file /etc/postfix/sasl/sasl_passwd; so, `cd /etc/postfix/sasl` `touch sasl_passwd` inside that file specify the relayhost details again: [nameofsmarthostserver.tld] username:password obviously use your own login credentials for the remote server there. Once you have done that, 'postfix reload' and 'postfix check' to check for errors. HTH, Jamie -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Postfix config question..
On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 03:24:14PM -0700, Mike Bird wrote: On Mon September 22 2008 14:59:26 I Rattan wrote: I am running a postfix smtp server. The school does not object to mail coming in directly but want all ougoing mail to go through the school mailserver. How do I configure to accomplish this? In /etc/postfix/main.cf add: relayhost = school.mailserver.name you might need to include the square brackets around the server details, ie: relay = [school.mailserver.name] The square brackets disable the mx lookup in case some clever admin has configured an mx for whatever reason. Jamie -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Postfix config question..
On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 11:49:28PM +0100, Jamie Griffin wrote: On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 03:24:14PM -0700, Mike Bird wrote: On Mon September 22 2008 14:59:26 I Rattan wrote: I am running a postfix smtp server. The school does not object to mail coming in directly but want all ougoing mail to go through the school mailserver. How do I configure to accomplish this? In /etc/postfix/main.cf add: relayhost = school.mailserver.name you might need to include the square brackets around the server details, ie: relay = [school.mailserver.name] relayhost = [school.mailserver.name] just to correct that (sorry) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Postfix config question..]
From: Jamie Griffin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Andrei Popescu [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Postfix config question.. From what I recall it's also necessary to tell postfix to use SASL and where to look for those credentials: in main.cf: smtp_sasl_auth_enable = yes smtp_sasl_password_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/sasl/sasl_passwd and 'postmap /etc/postfix/sasl/sasl_passwd' yes, absolutely. Only needed if he needs to authenticate to the smarthost (most do), otherwise just setting the relayhost parameter should be ok. Jamie sorry for replying to you Andrei, should have posted back to the list. ooops ;0) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: procmail rule to filter debian-user
I need a rule to filter debian-user into a seperate maildir. I know there's the header: X-Maling-List: debian-user... :0 *^List-Id:*lists.debian.org /home/bijan/Maildir/.lists.debian/ should do it. If you set some variables at the top of your .procmailrc you can easily avoid writing out the full path of the Maildir in each recipe; for example: PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/games SHELL=/bin/bash MAILDIR=/home/bijan/Maildir/ DEFAULT=$MAILDIR/inbox/ You may have done that already, but just in case you had not. It can help when writing the recipes. So, with that in mind, the following should work equally as well: :0 *^List-Id:*lists.debian.org .lists.debian/ The lack of the second colon at the start of the recipe is important when using Maildir format - it prevents the locking feature of procmail which is generally used for mbox format. Also, as others have pointed, don't miss the trailing slash which tells procmail to create the mailbox in Maildir format. But, as recipes go these are really basic. Procmail is complex so it's worth spending some time reading up on it. HTH, Jamie -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Debian multi-domain authentication (using a LDAP backend)
Just throw-out for some thoughts I was musing on. In the windows world of old, you had your domains, each with a SID, and thus your users ended up with unique SIDs as the domain SID is prefixed to their user SIDs. Domain trust accounts could be established to enable users from other domains to authenticate to the local domain. All very easy to set up, though I've no idea how easy the arrangement is with the (to me) newer Active Directory way of doing things. Not really something I've played with thanks to Samba. I've also never fully had the *nix/Linux way of achieving the same things explained to me either, but I'm guessing it involves something else I've never really played with (i.e. NIS) in some way. My current single-domain setup has side-stepped the issue (aka. cheating) by using LDAP for SSO through the use of PAM modules and the like, so in effect just sharing the backend between my independent machines. I might look into having full OpenLDAP installations on the machines replicating the server to make things a bit more robust, as currently it all falls apart if the network and/or server go down. However, I planned on setting up a second domain at another site, and whilst I'd like them to be fairly separate entities, I planned on bridging them with a VPN and being able to access them as easily as if they were in a similar setup to the Windows trusted domain arrangement; in effect just splitting the overall network rather than having two disjoint ones, though both would need to be able to operate should the other be unavailable. This raises a number of questions for me though, as having separate Linux domains raises the prospect of UID clashes that you don't get with the Windows way of doing things (and in Windows you can specify the domain part for situations where the same username is in use in both domains), and I'm not sure of the best way to arrange my LDAP tree to support lookups across multiple subtrees. I guess I could just make sure whatever I was using to add users was operating in distinct UID/GID ranges to avoid clashes. I kind of imagine I'd have to set up global lists of references (i.e. for the users) at the new higher tier in the LDAP tree, as I'm not sure how I'd specify multiple valid subtrees in the filters otherwise. There's always the option of just doing a full subtree search of the top level, but I have my users OU sub-categorised into various mutually-exclusive categories currently...which I guess is a sign I should be perhaps figuring out how to make my client software play nicely with proper LDAP groups instead. Might have a play with simply searching the whole tree and see how things go...it does kinda seem the only way to go, but I can't for the life of me find anything that tells me how to specify a group in a LDAP search filter. Plenty MS-specific stuff using a memberof attribute, but that's not how anything I have works currently. *sigh* Anyway, any random thoughts would be greatly appreciated. - Jamie signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [OT] Linux on the London Tube?
If only it was a Linux ad! On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 7:26 PM, Paulo Brito paulorsbrito.lis...@gmail.comwrote: lol!! That's funny! 2009/2/17 Richard Lyons rich...@the-place.net I saw this ad on the tube recently, and was disappointed to find it wasn't inviting people to migrate from the dark side http://the-place.net/penguin/migrate.jpg But maybe we should... richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org -- Jamie
NFS Not mounting at boot
2008-11-23 16:41:28 status installed libgnomeprintui2.2-common 2.18.3-1 2008-11-23 16:41:28 status installed openoffice.org-base-core 1:2.4.1-12 2008-11-23 16:41:28 status installed python-libxml2 2.6.32.dfsg-5 2008-11-23 16:41:31 status installed tex-common 1.11.3 2008-11-23 16:41:32 status installed apt-utils 0.7.18 2008-11-23 16:41:32 status installed libsplashy1 0.3.10-2.1 2008-11-23 16:41:32 status installed wodim 9:1.1.9-1 2008-11-23 16:41:41 status installed ttf-opensymbol 1:2.4.1-12 2008-11-23 16:41:41 status installed liblockfile1 1.08-3 2008-11-23 16:41:41 status installed libpq5 8.3.5-1 2008-11-23 16:41:42 status installed samba 2:3.2.4-1 2008-11-23 16:41:42 status installed libsoup2.4-1 2.4.1-2 2008-11-23 16:41:42 status installed cpp-4.2 4.2.4-4 2008-11-23 16:41:42 status installed libc6-dev 2.7-16 2008-11-23 16:41:43 status installed libmysqlclient15off 5.0.51a-17 2008-11-23 16:41:43 status installed libgnomeprint2.2-0 2.18.5-1 2008-11-23 16:41:43 status installed libhal-storage1 0.5.11-6 2008-11-23 16:41:43 status installed libecal1.2-7 2.22.3-1.1 2008-11-23 16:41:43 status installed libebook1.2-9 2.22.3-1.1 2008-11-23 16:41:43 status installed gcc-4.2 4.2.4-4 2008-11-23 16:41:43 status installed libgnomeprintui2.2-0 2.18.3-1 2008-11-23 16:41:43 status installed pmount 0.9.18-2 2008-11-23 16:41:48 status installed hal 0.5.11-6 2008-11-23 16:41:48 status installed smbfs 2:3.2.4-1 2008-11-23 16:41:48 status installed libgcj8-1 4.2.4-4 2008-11-23 16:41:48 status installed libgcj8-1-awt 4.2.4-4 2008-11-23 16:41:52 status installed gpm 1.20.4-3 2008-11-23 16:41:53 status installed libisccc40 1:9.5.0.dfsg.P2-4 2008-11-23 16:41:53 status installed libdns43 1:9.5.0.dfsg.P2-4 2008-11-23 16:41:53 status installed comerr-dev 2.1-1.41.3-1 2008-11-23 16:41:53 status installed libgcj8-jar 4.2.4-4 2008-11-23 16:41:53 status installed libgnutls-dev 2.4.2-3 2008-11-23 16:41:53 status installed libisccfg40 1:9.5.0.dfsg.P2-4 2008-11-23 16:41:53 status installed libbind9-40 1:9.5.0.dfsg.P2-4 2008-11-23 16:41:53 status installed dnsutils 1:9.5.0.dfsg.P2-4 2008-11-23 16:41:53 status installed tasksel-data 2.77 2008-11-23 16:41:53 status installed openoffice.org-style-andromeda 1:2.4.1-12 2008-11-23 16:41:54 status installed openoffice.org-common 1:2.4.1-12 2008-11-23 16:41:54 status installed perl-modules 5.10.0-17 2008-11-23 16:41:54 status installed openoffice.org-java-common 1:2.4.1-12 2008-11-23 16:41:54 status installed tasksel 2.77 2008-11-23 16:41:55 status installed openoffice.org-core 1:2.4.1-12 2008-11-23 16:41:55 status installed openoffice.org-draw 1:2.4.1-12 2008-11-23 16:41:55 status installed openoffice.org-style-crystal 1:2.4.1-12 2008-11-23 16:41:55 status installed openoffice.org-calc 1:2.4.1-12 2008-11-23 16:41:55 status installed perl 5.10.0-17 2008-11-23 16:41:55 status installed openoffice.org-filter-binfilter 1:2.4.1-12 2008-11-23 16:41:55 status installed perl-doc 5.10.0-17 2008-11-23 16:41:55 status installed kernel-package 11.0011 2008-11-23 16:41:55 status installed openoffice.org-writer 1:2.4.1-12 2008-11-23 16:41:55 status installed python-uno 1:2.4.1-12 2008-11-23 16:41:56 status installed openoffice.org-emailmerge 1:2.4.1-12 2008-11-23 16:42:00 status installed texlive-base-bin 2007.dfsg.2-4 2008-11-23 16:42:00 status installed openoffice.org-impress 1:2.4.1-12 2008-11-23 16:42:00 status installed perl-suid 5.10.0-17 2008-11-23 16:42:00 status installed openoffice.org-math 1:2.4.1-12 2008-11-23 16:42:01 status installed menu 2.1.40 2008-11-23 16:42:01 status installed python-support 0.8.4 ...of which only portmap strikes me as point of interaction with NFS. Here's my boot log: Tue Nov 25 18:49:40 2008: Setting parameters of disc: (none). Tue Nov 25 18:49:40 2008: Setting the system clock. Tue Nov 25 18:49:40 2008: System Clock set to: Tue Nov 25 18:49:40 UTC 2008. Tue Nov 25 18:49:40 2008: Activating swap:swapon on /dev/sda6 Tue Nov 25 18:49:40 2008: . Tue Nov 25 18:49:40 2008: Will now check root file system:fsck 1.41.3 (12-Oct-2008) Tue Nov 25 18:49:40 2008: [/sbin/fsck.ext3 (1) -- /] fsck.ext3 -a -C0 /dev/sda3 Tue Nov 25 18:49:40 2008: /: clean, 126646/1966080 files, 2507707/3930696 blocks (check in 4 mounts) Tue Nov 25 18:49:40 2008: . Tue Nov 25 18:49:40 2008: Setting the system clock. Tue Nov 25 18:49:40 2008: System Clock set to: Tue Nov 25 18:49:41 UTC 2008. Tue Nov 25 18:49:41 2008: [Jamie Debug] Printing mtab mounts Tue Nov 25 18:49:41 2008: mount -f -t tmpfs -omode=0755,nosuid tmpfs /lib/init/rw Tue Nov 25 18:49:41 2008: mount -f -t proc -onodev,noexec,nosuid proc /proc Tue Nov 25 18:49:41 2008: mount -f -t sysfs -onodev,noexec,nosuid sysfs /sys Tue Nov 25 18:49:41 2008: mount -f -t usbfs procbususb /proc/bus/usb Tue Nov 25 18:49:41 2008: mount -f -t tmpfs -omode=0755 udev /dev Tue Nov 25 18:49:41 2008: mount -f -t tmpfs -onosuid,nodev tmpfs /dev/shm Tue Nov 25 18:49:41 2008: mount -f -t
Re: Phone lines network [is it possible ? ]
Yes it is possible, theres various devices on the market todo it. There is one big catch, you only usually get 10 meg links. Also the devices are hard to find, I know the one I got (which I am not using because it didn't work in the UK!), is 10 meg, but links to the computer via USB. Jamie On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 9:15 PM, Tzafrir Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 05:31:00PM -0400, carlos bogantes wrote: On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 2:31 PM, John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jabka Atu writes: but what about the people inside the building ? as all the lines are connected to the same switch. If they are all on the same line any two of them could communicate using two modems but you can't put more than two modems on a line. Check the Milkfish project, it may be what are you looking for! In what way? I looked at http://www.milkfish.org/ and all I see is a conventional VoIP router. It may have a FXS port or two (to connect a local analog phones) or an FXO port (to connect as a modem to the PSTN) but nothing there about networking over phone lines. -- Tzafrir Cohen | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il || a Mutt's [EMAIL PROTECTED] || best ICQ# 16849754 || friend -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Jamie -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Intel pro-wireless wlan not starting automatically
Hi everyone I'm using sidux nyx and have posted on the forum there but haven't had much response so i'm wondering if someone here might be able to help. I configured my wlan card this evening. Although, it needs to be activated manually each time i start up the machine. I'm using a Dell xps 1330 laptop with an intel pro-wireless networkcard. output from lspci: Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection (rev 02) I configured it using 'ceni' and followed the instructions from the sidux manual. I read the same problem in an earlier thread, using the same network card as me. The solution there seemed to be editing /etc/network/interfaces. I think i have the correct entries in the file and i'm now stuck. Heres the contents of /etc/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 allow-hotplug eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp allow-hotplug wlan0 iface wlan0 inet dhcp wireless-essid ** wireless-key *** Also, not sure if it's useful, but i did 'dmesg | grep wlan' which shows: ~$ dmesg | grep wlan ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready When i was using OpenSUSE, my wireless connection was configured using eth1, not wlan0 and the wifi light would come on. Should i try configuring eth1 rather than wlan0 and if so would you be able to explain how to do that. I'd be really grateful for some advice. Jamie -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Intel pro-wireless wlan not starting automatically (fwd)
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 11:48:12 +0100 (BST) From: jamie griffin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Intel pro-wireless wlan not starting automatically On Thu, 15 May 2008, Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote: allow-hotplug eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp allow-hotplug wlan0 iface wlan0 inet dhcp wireless-essid ** wireless-key *** Add the following line to the above for each interface you want to start on boot: auto interfacename for example, if you want to start wlan0 on boot, add auto wlan0 just above the allow-hotplug wlan0 HTH, M. Thanks Matthew. I will try that. I would like the option to switch between wireless and hardwired connections. It sounds as though that method doesn't give me that option? How can i get around that so i've got the flexibility to use either? When i had my wireless connection using eth1 on another distro, it wasn't necessary to configure anything. Thanks for your advice. Jamie -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Intel pro-wireless wlan not starting automatically
On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 03:45:39PM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: On Thu, 2008-05-15 at 11:13 +0100, jamie griffin wrote: Hi everyone I'm using sidux nyx and have posted on the forum there but haven't had much response so i'm wondering if someone here might be able to help. I configured my wlan card this evening. Although, it needs to be activated manually each time i start up the machine. I'm using a Dell xps 1330 laptop with an intel pro-wireless networkcard. output from lspci: Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection (rev 02) I'm not sure if this is the cause of your troubles, but you should be aware that there are problems getting this (and related) cards to work. See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=461924. Supposedly the 2.6.25 kernels in Debian have a fix (the problem may not have been in the microcode). However, I'm still having connection problems with a 4965 even after switching kernels. Ross Boylan Hi Ross I've managed to get it working. I re-ran ceni and selected wpa_supplicant and auto, rather than the default options wireless-tools and allow-hotplug. Of course, these options can be added to /etc/network/interfaces anyway, but i didn't have a need to do that - it just worked fine. Jamie -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: no sound on Toshiba Tecra T9100
On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 07:44:10PM +0200, Till Wimmer wrote: Hello all i installed Debian Lenny on a Toshiba T9100 laptop. Everything works fine except of the sound. All the alsa modules are loaded, the gnome volume panel is available etc. No error messages device busy or similar, just NO SOUND : Any idea on how to get sound out of my box? Thank you in advance - Till I had a similar problem and running alsaconf from a root shell did the trick. -- Jamie -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: .xsession-errors query
On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 10:48 PM, jamie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I wanted to ask a question about the file .xsession-errors, namely its contents. Inside this file in my home directory is see this: X Error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) 3 Major opcode: 19 Minor opcode: 0 Resource id: 0x228 X Error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) 3 Major opcode: 19 Minor opcode: 0 Resource id: 0x182 X Error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) 3 Major opcode: 19 Minor opcode: 0 Resource id: 0x1c8 X Error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) 3 Major opcode: 20 Minor opcode: 0 Resource id: 0x1c8 I don't know what this means and if it's something i should be worried about. I wondered if anyone could explain it to me and advise if there's anything i need to do to stop these error messages. Many thanks. Jamie -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hey, I really wouldn't worry about those errors. Most likely cause is some minor program bugs, and thats the problem of individual application developers, in fact at a glance, they strike as the type of bugs that are so minor that nobody is going to bother fixing because its just not worth the effort. -- Jamie (p.s. I think the fact I got exactly same name as you may cause some confusion! In fact, reading you message rather caught me out, because you even seem to use the same posting format as me... ) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
changing xterm colors
I've been trying to change the colors on my Xterm to have a black background and green text. As i want the settings changed globally, i've tried editing the file /etc/X11/app-defaults/XTerm-color which seemed to be what others had done on other lists, but this hasn't worked. I don't want to change it too much in case i screw it up completely. Does anyone know how i could do this? -- Jamie key 3AD8F62B -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: changing xterm colors
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 02:54:51PM +0200, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: You can edit a text file called .Xresources in your home directory (or create it if it does not exist). Put the following lines in the file: xterm*VT100*foreground: green xterm*VT100*background: black xterm*VT100*cursorColor: red (Well, that is if you want the cursor to be red.) Regards, Jan Thanks Jan I've tried that and it hasn't worked. Not sure what to try next - does anyone have any other ideas? Jamie -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: changing xterm colors
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 03:39:28PM -0500, cothrige wrote: Jan Willem Stumpel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jamie Griffin wrote: Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: You can edit a text file called .Xresources in your home directory (or create it if it does not exist). Put the following lines in the file: xterm*VT100*foreground: green xterm*VT100*background: black xterm*VT100*cursorColor: red I've tried that and it hasn't worked. Not sure what to try next - does anyone have any other ideas? This definitely *should* work. If it does not work something weird is the matter. Are you sure your terminal program is xterm? For instance, do you see the VT Fonts menu if you do a control-rightclick in the terminal window? Regards, Jan I missed some of this thread, so this may not be applicable in the above case for some reason. But, assuming that the desire is to change the values for any xterm, I have used one of the following formats in .Xresources or .Xdefaults, and one or the other has always worked: xterm*background: black or: XTerm.background: black Maybe this will help the OP. Patrick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] ok. Still no luck with any of the suggesstions made. It is definately an xterm - yes i do see the VT Fonts menu when i do a ctrl right-click. even when i do 'xtermset -fg green -bg black -cr blue' i get command not found. So far i've edited the file: /etc/X11/app-defaults/XTerm-color and created the files, as suggessted, ~/.Xdefaults and ~/.Xresources but nothing has had any effect. It's not a major issue but i am curious now and kinda would like to find out how to do this. Any other ideas guys? Jamie -- Jamie key 3AD8F62B -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: changing xterm colors [solved]
On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 12:32:29AM -, Cameron Hutchison wrote: Or it could be that the line: allow-user-resources is not no /etc/X11/Xsession.options. The .Xresources file will only be loaded if that option is present. To test if your .Xresources are working without logging out and back in, run: $ xrdb -load .Xresources and then start up an xterm. . Ok, i checked /etc/X11/Xsession.options and the line 'allow-user-resources' was there. I installed xtermset using apt which enabled me to change the colors from the command-line as suggested earlier, so that works :-) I have also specified the new settings in ~/.Xresources and ran 'xrdb -load .Xresources' as advised by Cameron and it has worked. Thanks very much to those who helped me. Jamie -- Jamie key 3AD8F62B -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: changing xterm colors [solved]
On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 12:44:49PM +0100, Jamie Griffin wrote: Ok, i checked /etc/X11/Xsession.options and the line 'allow-user-resources' was there. I installed xtermset using apt which enabled me to change the colors from the command-line as suggested earlier, so that works :-) I have also specified the new settings in ~/.Xresources and ran 'xrdb -load .Xresources' as advised by Cameron and it has worked. Thanks very much to those who helped me. Jamie -- whilst i've got this sorted, presumably there is a way to make these changes system-wide - how would i do that? -- Jamie key 3AD8F62B -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Running testing? -- read this.
Testing is the right choice for me, and if it no longer is I would move to another distro immediately. Etch doesn't even install on many recent machines. I too am just a regular user. I have been using sidux and found it to be sound os and have just put Debian testing on my laptop a few days ago. The stable version wouldn't install on my Dell xps at all but the testing release has installed perfectly. J -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Running testing? -- read this.
I'm sure there is some documentation i read on this, but as the testing release has been brought up, thought i'd take advantage of the knowledge from you guys who have been using it a lot. On sidux running Debian sid, it was recommended to do a 'apt-get dist-upgrade' regularly (ie, every few weeks). Is this the case with lenny/sid which is what i installed yesterday. If so, how frequently would you recommend i do this. And, should this be done using 'apt-get dist-upgrade' or are there other tools i can use. I only ask because sidux has 'smxi' which (i'm sure you know anyway) runs a script that makes the process, and troubleshooting, easier for users who aren't as experienced. Sorry for thread-jacking, but thought it was kinda relevant to the topic. Jamie -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Running testing? -- read this.
I don't know how you are running Sidux AND Debian Sid. Apologies, wan't too clear. The distro called sidux; its core system is Debian sid (as far as i understand) On Sid, I run apt-get upgrade about twice a week, read the output of apt-listbugs and then do the same for dist-upgrade. Will do. Actually, now the command should be aptitude update, aptitude safe-upgrade, aptitude full-update. ok. will use those commands if that's the safest option. I fully intend to read through the documentation first, i just wanted to get a bit of feed-back from guys like yourself. As you pointed out, there are differences in the Debian derivatives i've been using in the past. Now that i'm using Debian itself it's always good to get tips from those already using it. Thank you for such a full response. Been really helpful. Jamie someones idea of what Debian should be/act like mixed in with the Pure Debian config files and something does not play well with something else. All Linux distros will do what all other Linux distros can do. The question is HOW you get there, not IF. If you want Debian Sid, I suggest you run it. If you want FC9, run that. If you like Mepis, run that and do what they suggest to keep your system updated. If these Hybrid systems break, you will have to go to THEIR support pages for help, we will not know the answer. Even Ubuntu differs from Debian in significant ways (for example, there is no inittab, so don't ask US how to change default boot behavior in Ubuntu, ask Ubunutu) even though most of us will overlook the user who says I am running Ubuntu and I can't config NFS and attempt to assist him/her, we may not know how to fix that issue simply because it is not Debian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Fetchmail
# /etc/init.d/fetchmail restart Restarting mail retriever agent: fetchmailfetchmail: no mailservers have been specified. failed! Did you run it as root? and have you entered all the required info in /etc/fetchmailrc? Sorry, that took so long. :-( Had been busy. * Yes I run '/etc/init.d/fetchmail restart' as root and fetchmail daemon has been set to run by SysV-init scripts. * My /etc/fetchmailrc is empty * /home/[USER_ACCOUNT]/.fetchmailrc has: set postmaster [USER_ACCOUNT] set bouncemail set daemon 300 You should have the server information in /etc/fetchmailrc not ~/.fetchmailrc if you want to run the program as root. Jamie -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Fetchmail
On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 02:52:07PM +0300, Tero Mäntyvaara wrote: Isn't it possible to run fetchmail as root and then one process fetches the mail of all users with help of ~/.fetchmail? If no, is there any script that executes daemon automatically for every user that has .fetchmailrc? using individual user ~/.fetchmailrc files is probably a safer and preferred way to use fetchmail. Running it as root obviously brings risks which could potentially compromise the root account. Have you tried just changing the setting 'enable daemon=yes' in the file /etc/default/fetchmail and rebooting which should trigger the daemon anyway? Otherwise you could run a cron job to trigger the daemon and specify 'set daemon 300' for example in your ~/.fetchmailrc file. Jamie -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
selecting desktop when installing
Hi This is probably a very basic question but i'd appreciate any tips. I installed lenny recently and selected my iso image from here: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/i386/iso-cd/debian-testing-i386-kde-CD-1.iso I didn't have any problem installing it's just the desktop is gnome not kde. The same happened when i selected the iso below it in from the same mirror which is the xfce desktop. The installer didn't give an option to select which desktop environment i wanted, i just assumed it would be kde. What should i do to get the desktop environment i want? Jamie -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: selecting desktop when installing
On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 09:49:32PM -0400, Paul Cartwright wrote: On Wed June 18 2008, Jamie Griffin wrote: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/i386/iso-cd/debian-testing- i386-kde-CD-1.iso I didn't have any problem installing it's just the desktop is gnome not kde. The same happened when i selected the iso below it in from the same mirror which is the xfce desktop. when you are at the login screen, there are 2 options on the screen ( lower left?) one I think is session type. If you select that, is KDE an option?? Hi Paul thanks for replying! i did check that already but no, it's not showing there either. surely it must be an option i select or something else i need to do during the installation? Jamie -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
CUPS and Device Permissions
Hey. I've been trying to get the printer working on my parent's PC, which is now actually using their Debian install now that their XP install has died and I'm in no hurry to reinstall it. ;) Interesting issue though, namely, the printer device and cups. Basically, I have cups using the default users and groups, namely lp and lpadmin. The groups are all populated (over -populated for my testing, actually, but I digress), but it just doesn't work. The permissions on the device /dev/usb/lp0 are the default crw-rw root:lp, but even though I've dumped everyone I can think of into the lp group, it doesn't work unless I either give ownership to the lp user, or give everyone rw rights. The group side of things just doesn't seem to work at all. I've looked at the processes when printing, and AFAIK they seem correct ( daemon as root, children as lp). I've just modified the udev rule to set the user as lp to let them print, but I'd like to figure out why it's not working as expected. Any ideas? signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: CUPS and Device Permissions
Nathaniel Homier wrote: Is the printer known to work in Debian? Not directly, but it's a Canon IP4200, which has Linux drivers (abet RPMs which I've found repackaged (old) by a kind Japanese fellow, though I'm just using the Canon RPMs and alien for the time being). Few niggles aside, seems to work. What are you using to configure the printer, the gnome-printer menu item or 127.0.0.1:631. I started off using KDE's printer section in Control Center, but that was/is a bit flaky. I eventually got the printer added though. I find job manipulation and sending test jobs works best from localhost:631 though. Try to avoid using the gnome-printer-config because it is very buggy. Open up 127.0.0.1:631 and go to admin and add printer and it will walk you through a little wizard. When all is done it will ask for your username and password that you use for logging onto the computer, don't use root. If this don't work then add the user that your parents will be to lpadmin. How I did it was to go to gnome-user-groups menu item and select group tablpadminproperties buttonselect my name and click add. Now that you added the user try 127.0.0.1:631 again and it should accept your username and password. assuming the printer works in the first place under Linux. I have everyone in lpadmin and lp for testing, and they al seem to be able to use the localhost:632 tools, but I'll have another look at your steps to see if anything else happens when you follow them, thanks for your help! - Jamie signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [webmin-l] how to redirect a domain in virtualmin
Assuming you are running Virtalmin 3.78 or later, you can just select AAA.com from the left menu, go to Server Configuration - Website Redirects, and create a redirect from / to the URL http://BBB.com/index.php?lang=en . - Jamie On 29/Apr/2010 09:35 Jozsi Vadkan jozsi.avad...@gmail.com wrote .. The question is simple. The answer [is there any] isn't simple [it's not implemented in virtualmin yet?]. So: There are two domains: AAA.com and: BBB.com Ok! Both domains are on the Virtualmin server, Ok! The big question: How can I redirect AAA.com to: BBB.com/index.php?lang=en ? In the menu: Apache Servers - AAA.com - Aliases and Redirections - I fill the forms as the: http://doxfer.com/Webmin/ApacheWebserver says it would work - Save - Apply Changes - it doesn't work. Webmin version: 1.350 / Lenny So is there an offical howto/doc/anyTHING, that describes, how to redirect AAA.com to BBB.com/index.php?lang=en ??? Thank you. Sorry for posting to two mailing lists, but I just can't seem to find a working howto :O [I read about this problem in forums, others complain about it too!] -- - Forwarded by the Webmin mailing list at webadmin-l...@lists.sourceforge.net To remove yourself from this list, go to http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/webadmin-list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1272559683.19...@webmin.com
Network stalls
I'm experiencing a strange problem that I think my Debian server may be responsible for, but I've no idea how to troubleshoot it! For the last month or so, I've been experiencing stalls - all access to the internet stops for a minute or two. It happens frequently...but intermittently. I assumed it was due to my ISP being rubbish...but then I noticed that I couldn't access my DSL router's admin during these stalls either. Well, I decided to solve the mystery once and for all today, and I'm even more confused now! My setup is the rather conventional: LAN=Eth0 - Server - Eth1=Router=Internet The server is designated as the DMZ host on the router, and the server NATs everything going out. I found that when connected to the wireless router via wifi, internet access remained constant throughout the stalls (pinging a remote host). Pinging the same host from my server during the stalls was also fine. Pinging the server's eth1, the router, or the remote host from my workstation during a stall fails, but works otherwise. This leads me to suspect that something's amiss with the NAT process somehow. FWIW, both network cards on the server are gigabit, though the router only supports 100Mb. Driver-wise, eth0 is using e1000, and eth1 is using r8169. An alternative is that the problem lies with the routing between eth0 and eth1. On the off-chance, I've tried turning off auto-negotiation, I've tried updating the firmware on the router, and I've tried replacing the cables, all to no avail. I don't even know where to begin looking for info on what the problem is. Any ideas? - Jamie -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Network stalls
So, I've spent all weekend looking into this, and I'm still no closer to solving it. I've tried replacing the NICs, swapping the switches, removing the switches, isolating the machines, replacing the wiring, and logging the iptables traffic. That last one was quite interesting actually. I added log rules for ICMP traffic to the nat table's prerouting and postrouting chains, and the filter table's input, forward, and output chains. When an outage is occurring, pinging the internal NIC from my workstation shows up packets. Pinging the external NIC from my workstation doesn't show a thing. The packets don't even seem to be reaching the prerouting chain. Once the outage finishes, they start appearing as normal. The server is able to ping both it's interfaces at all times, as you'd expect. A laptop on the external network is able to ping the external NIC, (but obviously not the internal one). I get no reported dropped packets anywhere. I did notice some rx_crc_errors on the internal NIC (using ethtool), (which is why I tried replacing the wiring), but these don't seem to go up when the problem occurs (i.e. they didn't increment at all during outages) - I'm going to hazard that they're another issue entirely. ~1000 errors out of ~1 good receives doesn't suggest anything major :) NIC-wise, I tried swapping to both being r8169, and both being e1000. Identical results regardless of hardware involved. My next port of call I guess has to be trying older kernels and seeing if I get the same symptoms. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
XDMCP build
Hi Does anyone know a quick way I could a computer running a Linux build solely for the purpose of XDMCP? -- Jamie -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Flash card reader
At 02:27 AM 9/29/2004, you wrote: On Tuesday 28 September 2004 18:00, Luis Fernando Llana Díaz wrote: Hi all, I have de following flash card reader, does anybody know how to make it works? :00:10.1 FLASH memory: ENE Technology Inc CB710 Memory Card Reader Controller Subsystem: Asustek Computer, Inc.: Unknown device 1724 Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium TAbort- TAbort- MAbort- SERR- PERR- Interrupt: pin B routed to IRQ 19 Region 0: I/O ports at 8800 Capabilities: [a0] Power Management version 2 Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0+,D1+,D2+,D3hot+,D3cold-) Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME- Does /dev/sda (or /dev/sdb or something like that, if you have other USB drive-like devices) appear when you plug the card reader in? (In my experience you may have to wait a few minutes for the device to be created.) On my laptop, which is a Toshiba Satellite A35, my cardbus controller is from ENE Technology. Some memory card readers are connected to the cardbus, not by usb. It may help to read this article: http://tuxmobil.org/Mobile-Guide/mobile-guide-p2c2s1-card-reader.html HTH, Jamie pgps8F2Xiy2wy.pgp Description: PGP signature
Dual Screen Issue (Wheezy installed from debootscrap/using KDE system settings)
Hi I have just installed Debian using debootstrap, and install the `kde-standard` package. I am now trying to configure dual screens, from kde system settings, it detects my monitors no issue, but when I change and apply the dual screen configuration, it just resets to what it was beforehand. I am using an ATI Radeon. Not sure of the exact model. -- Jamie
C Developer community
Hey Does anyone know where there are some C development communities? Jamie
Re: So much for Skype.
On 2011-05-11 4:23 PM, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 5:17 PM, jeremy jozwik jerjoz.for...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 7:58 AM, Curt Howland howl...@priss.com wrote: So Skype has been bought by Microsoft. I expect the Linux version of Skype to be abolished in short order. Oh well, thus the fate of proprietary software. I'm sure St. Ignucious is shaking his head with the inevitability of it all. This aught to re-ignite the effort to develop the alternatives. And if it doesn't, that will say more than any success could. Curt- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/BANLkTi==+gKf0ju2rn60umie5+Uvi2m=y...@mail.gmail.com better download that latest linux version now. annoying, but it does work. Moving on to google talk... Wish I could get more to do so... The problem with social software is that you need to support the platforms non-technical users are using. That inevitably means Windows and Macs. Problem is, there are no Windows clients AFAIK with decent Jingle video support. Google, for some crazy reason, decided to put resources into making a plugin for GMail rather than adding it to their GTalk client software. Pidgin doesn't have video on Windows, and I've not found a decent SIP client yet, let alone a normal user with a SIP account to call them with. In an ideal world, I'd like to see ubiquitous Jingle support, and properly maintained XMPP transports for each proprietary network, with Jingle support added to those if possible. A ubiquitous free solution for NAT traversal would be nice too, so you get the same just works experience that Skype offers. - Jamie -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4dcaae4e.6040...@jamie-thompson.co.uk